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Advocacy groups complain about 4parents.gov sex-ed website

April 5, 2005 The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) has written a March 31 letter to Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). The letter presents a number of complaints about the new HHS website for parents, called 4parents.gov.

An additional 145 advocacy groups have signed on to the letter, including notable liberal groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Planned Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women (NOW).

Among the concerns expressed in the letter about the website:
 * It contains factual errors and outdated terminology.
 * It is politically biased, and only credits one non-governmental organization, the National Physicians Center for Family Resources (NPC), which the letter claims has "strong ties to right wing religious organizations like the California Family Council, Alabama Family Alliance, and Focus on the Family."
 * It introduces anti-abortion language, such as referring to the developing fetus as an "unborn child" and defining that pregnancy begins at fertilization, rather than at implantation, the definition previously accepted by the HHS.
 * It also "does not address the needs of many youth, including sexually active youth, youth who have been or are being sexually abused, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth."

SIECUS further requested that the site be "immediately taken down and that a formal review of its content and techniques for communication and behavioral learning be launched," in which SIECUS and its related associations would be assisting.

According to the 4parents.gov website, " 4Parents.gov is part of a new national public education campaign to provide parents with the information, tools and skills they need to help their teens make the healthiest choices." Whether this implies that other websites or educational materials will be released in the near future was not made clear.

The site appeared to particularly focus on parent-child communication and the delivery of sex-ed information to parents in order to support that cause. The stated goal of this campaign is improvement of public health through the reduction of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and other health-related issues that affect teens.


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Akayev signs resignation agreement

April 3, 2005 Deposed President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev said that he had signed his resignation in the Kyrgyz embassy in Moscow Sunday. He said an official resignation ceremony would take place Monday.

The signing of his document came after two and a half hours of talks with a delegation from the Kyrgyz parliament, including Speaker Omurbek Tekebayev. Akayev said a resignation document was drawn up during the meeting.

"We have approved a very good and historic document," Akayev said after signing his resignation. It will "pave the way for finding a way of out the political crisis that Kyrgyzstan has found itself in."

Tekebayev said the agreement "will ensure peace and legitimacy."

While full details of the document were not available, Akayev said Russia and Kazakhstan were listed as guarantors. Akayev also said that under the agreement, parliament would pass a resolution recognizing his privileges as a former head of state - namely, immunity from prosecution. He and his family are widely seen as corrupt in Kyrgyzstan.

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Lebanese-Syrian meetings reach full withdrawal accord

April 4, 2005

United Nations envoy Terje Roed-Larsen and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara announced Sunday at a joint news conference that Syria will withdraw all troops and foreign intelligence agents by the April 30 deadline. The withdrawal would precede the upcoming national elections scheduled for May, and would end 25 years of Syrian military occupation in Lebanon.

The news conference came after meetings in between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Lebanese army chief General Michel Suleiman that dealt with the withdrawal timetable. Roed-Larson said, "Syria has agreed that subject to the acceptance of the Lebanese authorities, a U.N. verification team will be dispatched to verify the [full withdrawal]."

The removal of Syrian military presence in Lebanon is a main sticking point of the anti-Syrian, or opposition group, objections towards forming a new government. After a February bombing assassination of the previous Lebanese Prime Minister, who was also anti-Syrian, he was succeeded by. Massive opposition group street protests forced the pro-Syrian Karami to resign, but a week later he was re-installed by President al-Assad to spear-head the new government's formation.

Mr. Karami has been unable to secure opposition group support for forming a new government. The Lebanese Parliament must act soon to form consensus in announcing new elections, or its legal mandate to do so will expire.


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NASA prepares to roll orbiter Discovery to launch pad

April 4, 2005 NASA has announced the planned rollout of the Shuttle Discovery from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. NASA is preparing the shuttle for its "Return to Flight" mission.

The rollout will take nearly 6 hours to cover the 4 mile stretch from the VAB to Launch Pad 39B and will begin at 12:01 a.m. EDT (04:01 UTC) on April 5. The fully assembled Space Shuttle Vehicle stack (orbiter, External Tank (ET) and twin Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs)) will be mounted on the Mobile Launcher Platform and delivered to the pad.

The Return to Flight mission is the 114th Space Shuttle flight, and the 31st flight of the orbiter Discovery.


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Hunter S. Thompson obituary spawns "murder" theory

April 4, 2005

Hunter Thompson, the author of "Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness", once discussed on radio the possibility that he would be murdered to shut him up — and that it would be made to look like a suicide.

Paul William Roberts, a friend of Thompson and a well known travel writer, in an obituary played on this possibility for dramatic effect. Roberts related the fact that Thompson was working on a story relating to the World Trade Center demolition, and did say he was going to be murdered, and that the murder would be identified as a suicide. Roberts says in the second paragraph that Thompson did, however, commit suicide, and was not murdered.

Two years ago in January 2003, Thompson actually did give an interview on KDNK radio (Colorado) where he made a suggestion that he may be murdered to shut him up.

"Bush is really the evil one here and it is more than just him. We are the Nazis in this game and I don't like it. I am embarrassed and I am pissed off. I mean to say something. I think a lot of people in this country agree with me...we'll see what happens to me if I get my head cut off next week -- it is always unknown or bushy-haired strangers who commit suicide right afterwards with no witnesses," the writer said.

More confusion has arisen after a quote from one of the police officers investigating the death scene. Deputy Ron Ryan said there was a spent shell casing, but there was no cartridge in the firing chamber, as there should have been under normal circumstances. Sheriff's officer DiSalvo confirmed this opinion; "I think a bullet from the magazine should have cycled into the chamber". This "single bullet" problem has led to speculation that Thompson was coerced into self-inflicting a gunshot wound, being given a gun with a single shot, perhaps accompanied by threats against his family.

Speculation arose that the gun used to kill Thompson could have been capable of a manual ammunition cycle, though as yet no support for this claim has been offered. DiSalvo said he hadn't checked the gun, but that the weapon could have been on a manual cycle that would have stopped the other cartridges from going into the chamber.

The spent slug was found in the stove's hood behind Hunter Thompson's body, investigators said.

Thompson died February 20. The county coroner ruled that Thompson's death was a suicide on February 21.

Other friends were not surprised at his death. "I wasn't surprised," said George Stranahan, a former owner of the Woody Creek Tavern, a favourite haunt of Thompson. "I never expected Hunter to die in a hospital bed with tubes coming out of him."

Neighbours have said how his broken leg had prevented him from leaving his house as often as he had liked to.

One neighbour and long-standing friend, Mike Cleverly, said Thompson was clearly hobbled by the broken leg. "Medically speaking, he's had a rotten year."


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Wikinews:2005/April/4

 * Lebanese-Syrian meetings reach full withdrawal accord
 * Al Gore-owned cable news channel to relaunch August 1 with viewer-created content
 * Legendary Canadian football coach Frank Clair has died
 * Royal wedding delayed as Prince plans for Pope's funeral
 * Terri Schiavo cremated
 * MPAA's Valenti signs Betamax tapes for EFF protesters as Grokster case continues in US Supreme Court
 * India and China to discuss energy: cooperation or competition?
 * Voyager space probes face shutdown
 * Talks held to avert Nigerian oil production strike
 * Desmond Tutu calls for election of African pope
 * US blocks use of mapping technology in China
 * Hunter S. Thompson obituary spawns "murder" theory
 * 13 pilot whales returning to sea, off Western Australia
 * HBO plans expansion of TV channels in Asia
 * Venezuela buys more weapons, now from Spain
 * NASA prepares to roll orbiter Discovery to launch pad
 * Funeral of Pope John Paul II will be Friday 8 April at 10.00

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Venezuela buys more weapons, now from Spain

April 4, 2005 The Spanish government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has reached an agreement with Venezuela for the sale of 10 C-295 medium transport military airplanes, two CN-235 Persuader maritime vigilance airplanes, and eleven ships, eight of them exclusively for military use.

The total value of the sales is about 1,3 billion euros. The agreement represents the biggest military sale ever made by Spain.

Several political and Spanish newspapers criticized Zapatero's decision. Mariano Rajoy, PP party leader, labeled the decision "a monstrous mistake". The Spanish newspaper Diario de Sevilla editorialized that "the destination of the weapon bought legally on the international market should not fraudulently go to armed, terrorist, and paramilitary groups, etc, that could use them unduly."

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said that "the weapons are not instruments of war but instruments of peace". According to Chávez, the ships will be used to step up Venezuela's coastal patrols against the drug trade.


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Talk:Hunter S. Thompson obituary spawns "murder" theory

Where is the source for the quote contained in the second paragraph? -edw 02:03, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Where is the source indicting HST said his murder would be made to look like a suicide? -edw 02:37, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sorry; the url is really long(see below) so I showed the actual newspaper source; Its in the Globe and Mail Source that is shown "They're gonna make it look like suicide," he said. NOTE; must copy and paste url; can't click on it

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v4/sub/MarketingPage?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2FArticleNews%2FTPStory%2FLAC%2F20050226%2FHUNTER26%2FFocus%2F%3Fquery%3DHUNTER%2BTHOMPSON&ord=1112582568961&brand=theglobeandmail&force_login=true

Alexander Pope in a prose convertible By PAUL WILLIAM ROBERTS Globe and Mail Saturday, February 26, 2005, Page F9 Paulrevere2005 02:49, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to bed so hopefully its ok to remove the tag. If this was anymore straight from the cited sources, I'd be getting a copyvio tag; but feel free to put the tag back. Paulrevere2005 02:56, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * ok; I figured out how to get the sources listed properly. I know this is uncomfortable information but please read the source info before registering disputes. I have not put in the inflammatory stuff like the son being allowed to contaminate the crime scene and the fact it doesn't appear that even a ballistics check of the bullet was done(Rocky Mountain News said investigating officer didn't even check the gun); much less a CSI type crime scene investigation.nor was the interviews with his friends included who all,without exception, thought the timing and method of his "suicide" was incredible..so,all in all, I think this article is well toned down to just the basic,core facts. Paulrevere2005 11:12, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * If these 'inflammatory stuff' are fact, then they are ALL YOU HAVE so far. The initial quote from Roberts is clearly in Roberts imagination. You deliberately removed my information concerning that. You deliberately quote him out of context.

 * Congrats on digging deeper; good work. I should have read the www.parapolitics.info you linked to but it just looked like a blog. It would've helped had you mentioned the entire Roberts article was there.

 * You removed the qualifying information concerning the supposed problem with the round .. a solution is proposed in the very next two paragraphs of the story about the event

 * this wasn't a "solution" but an unchecked theory + the revelation that he didn't even bother to check the gun (which could've easily proved his theory or not) which seemed to only add to the POV that the investigation was sophmorish.I didn't want to be pushing the "crappy investigation" POV.

 * If there is a story here, it is only that a widespread consipiracy theory is developing on the internet with little or no evidence apart from the fact that Thompson was working on a 9/11 conspiracy book, that he died of a headshot, and that this has happened to others, plus any inconsistencies you can find with the procedure that found he died of suicide - but so far you have not actually given any of those.

 * what is it with this presspeople's addiction to the word "conspiracy?"..it doesn't fit here either...conspiracy among whom?..all we know is he was writing a book about how the wtc collapsed. Also, there is not enough info to produce inconsistencies regarding how he died.There was no CSI type of crime scene forensics, and there is no evidence there was even a ballistics check on the bullet to see if it came from Hunter's gun.We do know the son was allowed to contaminate the crime scene and says he was firing off a shotgun to salute his father's suicide.

 * You give us a source which requires $$$ to read - and then only quote the publicly displayed 'taster' first paragraph, which I have explained, does NOT reflect the remaining content of the story. Do you have a second source where Roberts actually claims that the first paragraph of his article was fact, and not fiction? It is very clear from the story that he accepts the ruling of suicide, in fact he makes it seem that suicide is how he expected Thompson to go out. - Simeon 03:28, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * You are 100% correct about this.My mistake, I didn't want to pay for the whole story and I didn't find the blog that you did; again, congrats on good work. Paulrevere2005 13:28, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * OK Paul, my comments above seem harsh because I assumed you'd read the story from the Globe and Mail. Correct attribution solves problems like this - ie don't attribute to a source if all you've read of the source is a teaser page, attribute instead to the source you read that said that the teaser was correct ... I assume there was one. The result would look like crap, 'so-and-so-1 said that so-and-so-2 said' but at least would be accurate, and can then be followed up by someone to check if so-and-so-1 was even correct about so-and-so-2's statement, even if we can't check the truth of so-and-so-2.

 * Really we should always check sources, perhaps in a case where you can't and it seems important but questionable, the questionable stuff should be discussed on the talk page not in the article. Personally I don't really care either way if its all made clear, correct attributions, mention that you can't check it or whatever. Being wiki, its possible to say something and have someone else follow up. But we need to communicate for this to happen.

 * And re the gun quote, we are pretty much compelled to give the benefit of the doubt, including assuming that police do their job without malice. I know that sounds wrong, skepticism is good, but we can't just report that people are committing crimes without evidence - and altering or withholding evidence is a crime last time I checked. So the guy didn't check the gun properly, that is all we can say. His oversight was understandable and minor, if I understand correctly (I don't handle guns). There is a viable explanation that him messing up in a very slight way accounts for the discrepancy he reported, so explain it that way.

 * If the rest of the report is correct, ie that the family were at home in other sections of the house/property at the time, it probably accounts for the police being fairly lax in investigating. They tend not to investigate any more than need be. Sure, we can question how rigorous it was, but they were there and we weren't. Without some source saying that there are problems with the investigation, for us to second-guess is an opinion, not a reporting of fact, which is what news reporting is about. If there is such a source, and they're credible, then report them, and leave it at that. But don't leave out important facts in that case. I hope that helps you understand my comments, I was getting a bit exasperated and cynical, probably not very polite. - Simeon 13:27, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Coroner
I changed the bit about the coroner to state that the coroner "ruled" instead of "determined" that Thompson's death was a suicide, to clarify that it was the coroner's professional opinion, and not a detemination of fact.

Also, it would be nice to add a "See also" or "Related stories" section to cite the previous Wikinews obit for Thompson. I'll look for it and add it if someone else doesn't do so first. — DV 12:59, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I followed up and added the original obituary piece about Thompson in the "Related story" section. — DV 15:04, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Beyond fair use?
I'm concerned about pasting the entire text of the "Alexander Pope in a prose convertible" article, by Paul Roberts. Posting the entire article seems to go beyond fair use. Would anyone mind if we moved that to another page and linked to it instead? — DV 15:03, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't think moving it is an option. "Fair use" means using small portions and small portions isn't well-defined.  The entire article is definitely not fair use and should be cut with only a link.  And considering that link only goes to a pay-per-view site I'm not sure about that.  Globe and Mail want money for that article and moving it off to a separate page isn't the solution.  I've been thinking about this aspect for a few hours now since I saw that article attached to the story.  Here's a website explaining aspects of fair use.
 * http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html

 * From what I garner so far, even the older versions would have to be edited to remove all traces of the article. vlsimpson 15:58, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * If they choose to sue, direct them to me if you like:

 * Simeon Scott
 * PO Box 1152
 * Murwillumbah
 * NSW 2484
 * Australia

 * What they have done is so beyond 'news' that the publicity of a suit against us would hurt them badly, imho. And provide us a lot of traffic that I bet they don't want to give us.

 * And what we have done by providing the text is no more than is needed to clarify what they have done, which is news worthy, and this is a news site. In my country I have the right to republish what I need to to tell the news, and I am qualified and experienced enough to assert that I needed to publish their story to tell the story, and dispell the myth. And personally, I believe republishing the text was the only ethical choice I had, so sue me.

 * Personally, I believe the same level of protection exist in the country where I believe the servers are kept, the US, though the details of the protections differ.

 * What they have done amounts to this: create the widely-held belief of a story which did not exist. Then charge people money to verify to their own satisfaction that in fact the story does not exist. And they have done nothing as far as I can tell, to dispell the misunderstanding which has developed among readers.

 * With this story they are not selling access to news, they are selling access to verify that given reputed news does not exist. This is immoral, and unethical. And they are very unlikely to encourage that to be widely-known by suing us, in what would be a case that could be argued well in my non-lawyer opinion.

 * The technical method by which their teaser paragraph system works is irrelevent - if they argued that the first par is lifted automatically by a web server, not a human, then it's up to their editors to ensure that the first par of each story does not present a misleading picture of the full article, as this one did.

 * Even if they did decide to assert that we were infringing, the first step is a take-down notice afaik, and usually if that is complied with, then no further action is taken, afaik. Not that I personally advocate complying if they did.

 * I am confident that we would be protected under Fair Use/Fair dealing because there are flexible protections for telling of news, which exist for just this sort of case.

 * Other considerations are whether we make profit (we don't - I don't) and whether we harm their profit. It is hard to argue that by writing a story linking to their site, we have diminished their profit. To make such an argument, they would have to explain how their story was hooking a great many readers, and tell people just how much money they made from this. Information which I am pretty skeptical that they would want in the public domain.

 * I'm happy enough that the full text is there in our history, and not in the main article text. There are strong arguments in my opinion that it needs to be viewed by our editors (ie us and anyone else who wants to edit) in order for anyone to understand the story well enough to work on it.

 * And in fact, even if my quote of their full text was permanently visible in the main article, I would stand in court and swear that our story has if anything increased the number of people purchasing the story from them even with the full text, since there are those who would like to check that we have quoted the site correctly. And I suspect web server logs would prove this increased traffic coming from our site.

 * The only harm that we are likely to make to their profit would come about not as a result of our reducing traffic to this article, but by the reduction of their reputation as a news source - a matter outside the realm of copyright, and purely of their own making.

 * I would find it particularly unethical to be driving paying traffic to their site as the only option to verify the story. This is called, rock and a hard place - unethical to wholesale quote copyrighted material, unethical to assist with duping masses of people just in order for someone else to make some money. I know which choice of action I prefer.

 * - Simeon 07:02, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * After this experience, I will never use a pay-per-view article as a source again and I wonder whether there should be a general ban or discouragement on using pay-per-view articles as sources? Paulrevere2005 19:39, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, in my opinion only, it's not a question of the source of the source so to speak, but its usefulness to other editors. I'm not willing to fork out money to read something to double check material someone posts here on wikinews.  I wouldn't ban it but I wouldn't encourage it either. My main point in my above comment was directed at its final use.  No matter how you attribute the source or what the intention, you just can't post the whole thing.  I could go on a didactic screed regarding copyright and all but no one wants that I'm sure. 8-]  Plus I'm no expert on it.  I know just enough to make me paranoid about what sources I utilize to produce my stuff.  vlsimpson 21:26, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I have run up against the decision to pursue a source of information for a price. I have chosen not to. The only reason I chose not to was out of being cheap and also thinking the truth can and ultimately and will be revealed without an expenditure. I do believe, as this is a public domain, that contibutions should be based on information content that is free. Afterall, our reporting is free. -edw 07:32, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Stale sources
These cite links used in this wikinews article are now stale, here are archive links:
 * abcnews only page 1 of 2 cached
 * parapolitics

Some of the rest are also stale, but I am too lazy to dig them all up. -84.223.78.86 17:37, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Typo
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'a a' => 'a' Van der Hoorn (talk) 19:17, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Done — Gopher65talk 01:56, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


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Talk:Web site claims Abu Ghraib attack for Al Quaida

Seems odd to me Al Qaeda, or any insurgency, would want to claim reponsibility for an attack that injured 12 detainees at Abu Ghraib. Would not the salvation of those very prisoners be part of the aim for the attack? -edw 02:26, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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India and China to discuss energy: cooperation or competition?

April 4, 2005

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits India this week, appearing on the forefront of a dialogue soon opening between the two most populous nations in the world. It is likely the two nations will engage in a growing race to gain access to energy resources they need for their soaring economic expansion.

The premier was received by Tata Consulatncy Services CEO Mr. Ramadorai during his visit to Bangalore. He then visited the TCS Global Development Center for General Motors(GM). The CEO of TCS was quoted saying "Premier Wen's visit is a significant milestone that has added a further impetus to our presence in China".

Both countries seek to secure oil from multiple locales around the globe where most Western nations cannot compete, including Sudan and Myanmar. China also is courting support from Venezuela, currently one of the largest suppliers of oil to the US. If successful, Chinese and Indian demand has the potential to create increasing difficulties for the US to fulfill its energy needs from traditional sources.

China and India, whose relations are sometimes troubled by border disputes, are warming up to each other. Analysts suggest that an agreement reached during the dialogues could preempt competition and conflict over oil in the future.

India and China are partners in Sudan's Greater Nile Project, but cooperation between the two may not come easily. Indian industry may seek to shy away from extending assistance to a nation some view as an economic rival during the ascendancy of the subcontinent's GNP.

These events come at a time when the United States recently announced its intention to help India, a past rival of China, become a "superpower." India has also been planning military expansion and modernization.


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India-China border talks resume

April 5, 2005

Longstanding border issues will be on the top of the agenda at an upcoming meeting between Chinese premier Wen Jiabao and top India leaders as Wen visit New Delhi this week.

Despite past military conflict, Wen has declared his intention that disputes will not stand in the way of cooperation.

Among the other issues to be discussed are energy cooperation, which many analysts, however, feel may not be as easy to attain as some hope, given the economic competition between the two rising giants.

These events come at a time when the United States has recently announced its intention to help India, a past rival of China, become a "superpower." India has also been planning military expansion/modernization.

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MPAA's Valenti signs Betamax tapes for EFF protesters as Grokster case continues in US Supreme Court

April 4, 2005 As the case between film studio and file-sharing software firm  continues in the US Supreme Court, protesters from the  (EFF) adopted a novel tactic. EFF Staff Technologist Seth Schoen arrived at the courthouse with several. As, until recently the president of the (MPAA), arrived, EFF Media Coordinator Annalee Newitz asked Valenti to sign one of the tapes; Valenti complied with her request.

In testimony before the in 1982, Valenti sided with an effort to outlaw  early video cassette recorder standard, Betamax. The Valenti testimony included the oft-quoted phrase, "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."

The case now before the Supreme Court, MGM v. Grokster, has some similarities to the Betamax case of 1982. Both disputes concern new technologies used for copying media — exclusively video in the earlier Betamax case, all-digital media in the current case of Grokster. There are dissimilarities as well. A recent statement from spokesperson and professional singer, Sheryl Crow, points out that with Betamax technology, "a second copy turned out to be of measurably inferior quality," while with Grokster, "one could possibly distribute millions of perfectly reproduced copies." Crow also quotes an expurgated version of the copyright clause of the US Constitution,

"To promote the progress of...useful arts by securing ... to authors [sic] the exclusive right to their respective writings ..."

The original text reads:

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"


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HBO plans expansion of TV channels in Asia

April 4, 2005 U.S. media giant Time Warner plans to increase the international reach of its HBO television empire with an expansion of television offerings in Asia. The channels will be available via both wired cable services and by satellite, which is more popular in Asia than it is in the United States.

"Cable operators throughout Asia are preparing to dramatically expand channel capacity on many of their systems through digital technology," Jonathan Spink, CEO of HBO Asia said in a World Screen News report. He said HBO plans to be one of the first programmers to take advantage of increased channel capacity.

The first new channel HBO plans to launch in Asia is HBO Signature, which is targeted to women. It is planned to debut in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau and Sri Lanka by the end of the year. According to reports, HBO already has struck deals for carriage in all of those countries except Macau.

In addition to programming HBO Signature to women, the company said it plans on two other genre-based channels, but did not disclose what niches they would market toward. A clue could be to look to the U.S. where HBO's niche channels include HBO Family for children-friendly programming and the self-explanatory HBO Comedy channel. Like the parent HBO Asia channel, along with limited original programming, the new genre channels are expected to offer top Hollywood fare dubbed into local languages.

This is the largest expansion of HBO Asia, which has been operating in Asia since 1992 and serves 25 countries, since the launch of Cinemax Asia in 1996.


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UK Prime Minister sets 2005 General Election date

April 5, 2005 The United Kingdom Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Tony Blair PC MP, at 09:00 UTC today formally requested the Queen to dissolve Parliament on April 11, thereby confirming May 5 to be the date for the next General Election.

Mr Blair had delayed the formal request for the dissolution of Parliament for 1 day, as a mark of respect for Pope John Paul II, who died on Saturday April 2. All political parties had suspended campaiging for two days; and Mr Blair and other politicians had been attending services to mourn the death of the Pope.

Timetable for the dissolution of Parliament
The wedding of His Royal Highness Prince Charles had previously been scheduled for Friday April 8, and hence Members of Parliament (Lords and Commons) would have not sat on that day and would have stopped sitting on Thursday April 7. However, because of that subsequently being the date set for the funeral of Pope John Paul II, the wedding has been postponed to Saturday April 9.

Members of Parliament (Lords and Commons) will thus stop sitting on Friday April 8. This leaves just four days for all remaining legislation to be passed. It is expected that some government bills will be simply dropped, to be reintroduced in the next Parliament if the Labour Party wins the General Election.

The last Prime Minister's Question Time in the House of Commons is scheduled to be tomorrow, Wednesday April 6 at 11:00 UTC.

After the election, the new Parliament is scheduled to be summoned on Wednesday May 11. Its first business will be the election of the Speaker and the swearing-in of members. The State Opening of Parliament is scheduled to then be on Tuesday May 17.

General Election campaigns start
The calling of the General Election marks the formal beginning of the general election campaigns by the U.K. political parties, although in practice all three major parties have been actively campaigining for several weeks. The Conservative Party election slogan "Are you thinking what we're thinking?" was, for example, used by the party leader Michael Howard in his response to the Budget report on March 16, 2005 and was launched by the Scottish Conservatives on March 10.


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Wikinews talk:Story preparation

This page seems to duplicate the function of the Template:Developing_stories template? I have explained how Devloping stories and flag can be used to get the functionality that I think this page is intended for, in Writing_an_article. - Simeon 04:57, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Did you not spot the big black lettering at the top of the page? This is for stories that haven't happened yet, and cannot be mentioned as developing stories (which are, after all, listed on the front page). The  flag — not a particularly useful flag in my view, by the way — is nothing whatever to do with what this page is for. Uncle G 05:34, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The top story is ready for publishing!(I choose to remain anonymous.) 03:35, 5 Apr 2005
 * No it wasn't. Please prepare stories in the story preparation area.  That includes giving them datelines. Uncle G 08:48, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sections
I just added new sections to this page, so I "completly" reorganized it. Please consider diffinf it with the previous version, and tell me if it improved or not. I think this helps those, who come here just to check if someone already started an article, as well as those, who want to browse this list. --Szajd 07:30, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

It might have changed a little bit Danedold (talk) 20:15, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

date handling
can the on story prep. articles be removed, or replaced with something that doesn't create this bad cat: Category:Month Day, Year. Doldrums 14:28, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Death
> We also have prewritten obituaries to enable a quick reaction when notable persons pass away. While it may appear tasteless it too is common practice in the news media

That something is common practice doesn't mean it's good. --JopV (talk) 21:58, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

 * That something is common practice doesn't mean it's good, but it does mean it's not unusual. In this case, whether or not it's unusual does have some bearing on whether or not it's tasteless.

 * However, in recent years we haven't been particularly successful with the prepared-story approach anyway. --Pi zero (talk) 22:13, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I'd add that we have all prepared stuff tagged to make sure Google and other search sites doesn't index them. They're kept internal. BRS  (Talk)   (Contribs) 23:22, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

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13 pilot whales returning to sea, off Western Australia

April 4, 2005 Rescuers were today sending a pod of 13 pilot whales back into the ocean at Geographe Bay, near to Busselton, south of Perth, in Western Australia. Six additional members of the pod had died during the stranding, including at least one calf. More than 300 people were watching as the whales set out to sea following a 30 hour rescue effort.

The whales had become stranded early yesterday. Several power boats and a spotter plane were escorting the surviving whales towards Cape Naturalist, in an operation expected to take several hours.

Western Australian State Government Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) officers feared that the whales could become stranded again.

One CALM officer, Neil Taylor, told ABC News dozens of his colleagues and community volunteers had helped the whales survive throughout the night.

"The vet has checked them all and given them some antibiotics yesterday, last thing before dark," he had told the Australian national broadcaster.

"I think the plan is that the vet will be there again [today] and will give them some vitamins to kick them along before they actually take their swim out to sea."


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instruments of peace??????? how can guns ever be an instrument of peace? ~The bellman | Smile 05:23, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Maiyo and Romanova triumph in Charleston's Cooper River Bridge Run

The 28th Cooper River Bridge Run and Walk, a yearly event including the third-largest 10k race in the United States, was held Saturday across Charleston's Silas N. Pearman Bridge spanning the Cooper River.

Linus Maiyo of Kenya, 22, and Olga Romanova of Russia, 24, won the men's and woman's races, respectively. Maiyo finished in 29:30 and Romanova in 34:04. Runners were treated to the "second worst weather" in the history of the race, according to race organizers. It rained for the first hour of the race and the first few minutes of the walk. The morning saw winds of up to 25 miles per hour with temperatures around 65°F.

Before race organizers closed registration early, over 42,000 people signed up for this year's event, vastly more than the record of 30,000 registrants set just last year. Participants represent all fifty states and many countries. The race's popularity has steadily increased since its inception in 1978.

This may be the last year the race is held on the Pearman Bridge; future races will be held on the new Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge scheduled to open this summer. The Charleston Running Club, which helped start the Cooper River Bridge Run, plans a Burn the Bridges run over the old bridges after traffic moves to the new bridge.

Workers on the Ravenel Bridge cheered the runners and walkers as they passed.


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Category talk:The Vatican

The Vatican should not be a subcategory of Italy. It is an indipendent state!!!

 * I'm wondering, should it be a subcategory of christiananity, as it is a christian state (I think)? Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 22:44, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * [added indent to make less confusing]IMO, subcategory of Category:Europe as it is in fact an independent state and subcategory of Category:Christianity because of its religious significance. --Deprifry|+T+ 22:52, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * That sounds like a good idea. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 22:55, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * But what about Italy? acagastya 11:40, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

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Gmail 1st Birthday; Storage capacity increased to 2GB

April 2, 2005

NB: this subject is also covered in Google doubles Gmail storage, adds text formatting

Gmail was yesterday officially 1 year old. After last years announcement of Gmail from Google, which was nicely timed for April fools day. This years Gmail bombshell is that there will be a possibility for infinite storage with Google already moving stroage up to 2GB thats what some paid services offer. Rumours do exsist that you can already fill your Gmail account to more than 100% (105% for example) which is not confirmed in anyway. However could be entirely possible as filling Gmail is proving for me and many others to be difficult. There are reports on slashdot of nice new features on Gmail such as coloured text, a full list can be found on Gmail's help pages.

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Funeral of Pope John Paul II will be Friday 8 April at 10.00

April 4, 2005

The funeral of Pope John Paul II is due to take place on Friday 8 April at 10 a.m. local time, on the steps of.

At 5 p.m. Monday, his corpse was moved to the basilica, which was then opened for the public to pay homage to the dead Pope. The basilica will remain open almost around the clock tonight, and possibly throughout the week, closing only between 2 and 5 a.m.

After the funeral ceremony on Friday, his corpse will be buried in the Grotte Vaticane below St Peter's, the final resting place of many previous Popes. This decision came from the absence of a decision of the Pope in merit, in which case the tradition is followed.

The date was revealed at 1:15 p.m. today at a press conference held in Vatican City. Vatican city times are two hours ahead of GMT.


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User:Dan100/My contributions

Articles I have started and published. Does not include articles initiated by others that I've edited or expanded.

 * Total: 135
 * Stories January through June 2005
 * July 2005
 * August 4: Stranded Russian minisub under tow
 * August 8: Space Shuttle Discovery landing cancelled for today
 * August 15: Coroner makes first post mortems of Athens airliner crash; text message was a hoax
 * August 18: Israeli troops remove protesters from Gaza synagogue
 * August 22: Last Gaza settlement cleared, West Bank towns prepare to resist
 * August 23: Lance Armstrong denies EPO doping claim
 * August 23: UK guinea pig farm to close after owner's family grave robbed
 * August 23: Israel completes Gaza strip, West Bank pull-outs
 * August 25: Americans are getting fatter, not-for-profit's report finds
 * August 26: World Health Organization declares tuberculosis emergency in Africa
 * August 29: Hurricane Katrina causes upwards of $12bn of damage; oil prices surge
 * August 30: At least 55 killed by Hurricane Katrina; serious flooding across affected region
 * August 31: Several hundred killed after stampede in Baghdad

2006

 * March 31: Death toll of Bahrain tourist boat capsizing rises to 57
 * April 11: Straw and Bush respond to Iran situation
 * September 19: Tanks heading for central Bangkok

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Time conversion
Is it OK to remove NASA prepares to roll orbiter Discovery to launch pad from ongoing disputes now that I have explained the time conversion on the article's talk page?

If you find an error in the calculations, please let me know.

I added the "EDT" notation to the 12:01 time just to make it crystal clear that "12:01 EDT" is the time provided in the media release. — DV 14:27, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I triple-checked this, and found that the time provided was not 24-hour time, but 12-hour time, 12:01 a.m.. I fixed the article to provide the time as "04:01 UTC".

 * Thanks for being a stickler for details. I wouldn't want anyone to wake up to watch this event 12 hours after it was already over with! — DV 14:37, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Air allarm
I removed your headline because of the spelling error, and lack of any story (after 10 mins) which would support it being real. --Tom 21:31, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Farmers block main road in South Italy
Hi AnyFile....

I've added the sources tag to this article because the three sources cited contain broken links. If you want to remove the sources tag please find some online sources (or original reporting) for the information contained in the article. If no sources are found this article will eventually be deleted. - Borofkin 04:27, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

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US blocks use of mapping technology in China

April 4, 2005 The United States has blocked the use of its advanced technology for mapping mineral deposits in China, according to Australian mining operation BHP Billiton (BHP).

"They can dictate where we can and can't use it," a BHP spokeswoman said.

The Australian first reported the decision last week, after Clinton Dines, the chief of BHP's Chinese operations, told analysts about the U.S. Navy's decision. BHP confirmed this story to The New York Times in Melbourne last Friday.

The U.S. maintains a list of munitions which are prohibited from being exported to China. Pentagon spokewoman Lt. Col. Tracy O'Grady-Walsh confirmed that the Falcon system was on the list of prohibited munitions and that it could not be exported for use in China without a waiver from the President. The ban has been in place since the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989.

The Falcon system, used by BHP under a special license from the U.S. Navy, is based upon American nuclear-submarine technology. Technically described as an "airborne gravity gradiometer", the Falcon system has been adapted by BHP to explore for a broad range of minerals underground. BHP has used the system since 2000. At the time, a BHP executive described the system as "the holy grail of the exploration industry."

BHP earns 10 percent of its revenue from sales to China.


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Desmond Tutu calls for election of African pope

NB this story is also covered in the article Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for African Pope.

April 4, 2005 Retired Anglican Arch-Bishop Desmond Tutu has called for the Catholic church to appoint an African as new pope. "We hope the cardinals when they meet will follow the first non-Italian pope by electing the first African pope," said Tutu on SABC TV at a press conference in his Cape Town home.

Nigeria's Cardinal Francis Arinze, currently number four in the church hierarchy, is seen as the best hope for a pope from the third world. If Arinze is elected he will become the first African pope since Gelasius I in 496 AD.

"There should be democracy in the Catholic Church. Europeans should allow an African to become the next pope," said 21 year old Nigerian student, Ifeoma Ezinwa, at the Saint Monica Catholic Church in Igbogbo, Lagos. "The church is growing in Africa. If Arinze gets to that position, he would work for its faster growth," she continued.

However Steve Uwagba, a Nigerian accountant, thought that "International politics in the church may not allow him to get the papal seat. The odds of international politics and conspiracy against Africa weigh heavily against him."

Africa mourns
Tutu also added that "We know that [the pope] was a champion for world peace. And more than any other pope [he] went around the world galvanizing the faithful who turned out in droves to meet him. We also want to pay tribute to him for his concern for the unity of humankind. He was the first Pope, I think, to gather together ... leaders of other Christian denominations, calling them to prayer for the world,"

The archbishop of Cape Town Njongonkulu Ndungane - Tutu's successor - offered his condolences to the world's catholics. "Our sincerest condolences go out to Catholics worldwide on the death of their great leader. We thank God for his ministry and that he has now been relieved from pain,"

Father Stephen Chukwu of St Augustine's church in Ikorodu on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria said to a congregation of three thousand, "The whole world is standing still. People are held spellbound because the mighty has fallen. The whole church mourns because a leader and a revolutionary has gone," he told the crowd, many of whom wept and sobbed.

"Who would ever believe that a pope could come from outside Rome? He was an ideal man and he led an ideal life. He held tenaciously to the teachings of the Apostles. He was against killing and abortion," he declared. He was not a friend of the wealthy or the mighty. He was a friend of those in the gutters. He preached and fought for democracy.

After mass Mary Okoli, a 42 year old teacher said "My hope and prayer is that we get an African, especially a Nigerian, to replace him and continue his good work," "We are particularly grateful for the attention he paid to Africa and the developing world during his papacy. His concern for the poor marked him as a truly caring leader and we share the grief and loss of the Catholic Church at his passing. We also pray for the Catholic Church as it contemplates the election of the next Vicar of Christ," he said in a statement.


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Talk:NASA prepares to roll orbiter Discovery to launch pad

Check time conversion. If I am correct at 12:01 a.m. EDT is not 16:01 UTC AnyFile 13:55, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * What is your basis for such an assertion?

 * Let me walk you through the calculation so you can verify this for yourself:

 * Now that DST is in effect, I am located in the Pacific Daylight Savings Time Zone. We are at UTC -7 when DST is in effect.

 * EDT (Eastern Daylight Savings Time) is three hours ahead of PDT. Therefore, they are at UTC -4 when DST is in effect.

 * 12 + 4 = 16. Therefore 12:01 EDT time is the equivalent of 16:01 UTC.

 * Please let me know if you find a problem in my calculations.

 * Thank goodness the recent story on Daylight Savings Time didn't get deleted, or I wouldn't have studied this subject in such detail. :) — DV 14:19, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC) (found problem below)

 * Now I see the problem. That time wasn't 24 hour time, it is 12:01 a.m., so it's really 04:01 UTC. I made the correction.

 * Also here's the article from Wikipedia on EDT to support this. — DV 14:32, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, you caught the time but I'm surprised nobody noticed that the first and second paragraphs were referring to two entirely different stages in assembling and moving the shuttlecraft to its final destination. vlsimpson 14:47, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for that...I will fix it --HiFlyer 15:12, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Didn't he already fix it? For my own part, I need to stop using 24-hour time for everything. I keep forgetting that a.m./p.m. thing. :) — DV 15:15, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes DV it was fixed. And UTC is always 24 hour time. I was wrong on that too. Two strikes!?! eeeeeeeyaaa!!! --HiFlyer 15:17, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Eastern Daylight time to UTC and back conversion page --HiFlyer 15:19, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Voyager space probes face shutdown

April 4, 2005

Interplanetary space probes Voyager 1 and 2, after traveling 28 years and 14 billion kilometers to the edge of the solar system and the threshold of interstellar space, face a possible shutdown in October of this year.

NASA's Earth-Sun System division, which runs the program, amongst others, has had to cut its budget for next year from 74 million to 53 million dollars, calling for some project abandonments. The cuts for Voyager and other missions are planned to help fund President George W. Bush's "Vision for Space Exploration", his plan to return to the moon and a manned mission to Mars.

According to the Washington Post, Dick Fisher, NASA's deputy director for the Earth-Sun division, said the agency based its cuts on a "senior review" by outside experts, giving Voyager a low priority among the division's 13 "extended" missions.

It costs NASA $4.2 million a year to run the Voyager science programs which have an expected operating lifetime to the year 2020. Both spacecraft function well and continue to return valuable scientific data. Most recently, information about massive solar flares that occurred in 2003 and the resulting shock waves that traveled through the solar system were detected by Voyager 2 in April of 2004.

"There are no other plans to reach the edge of the solar system," said Stamatios Krimigis, on board the Voyager mission since before the launch in 1977. "Now we're getting all this new information, and here comes NASA saying, 'We want to pull the plug.' "

Other missions possibly affected by the budget cuts include: Ulysses, to study the sun; Geotail, Wind, and Polar studying effects of solar events on Earth; Fast Auroral SnapshoT (FAST), studying Earth's aurora and the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE), studying solar atmosphere and magnetic fields.

No final decisions have been made as of yet but are expected to come sometime this month, possibly by April 15. Edward Stone of the California Institute of Technology told Nature magazine: "We are currently developing a plan for shutdown."

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Talks held to avert Nigerian oil production strike

April 4, 2005

Talks are being held between Nigerian unions and the country's government ahead of possible strikes next week. Earlier talks last week ended with no agreement.

The unions have called for three-day warning strikes over issues of job cuts and welfare. Although common, such short strikes tend to have little effect on oil producers as they can often manage to maintain production for short periods with non-union staff.

However there exists the possibility of supply interruptions from the world's eighth largest producer of oil if the union's fears are not dealt with and more strikes take place.

"Today's meeting is crucial," said the deputy of the Pengassan union Babatunde Ogun. "We will focus on Conoil and Belpop. If these issues can be resolved today, then things will be much easier," he continued, referring to the two state-owned companies at the centre of the dispute.

While in London on late Sunday the Nigerian Presidential Petroleum Advisor Edmund Daukoru said he was hopeful the state and the unions could reach a deal.


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Royal wedding delayed as Prince plans for Pope's funeral

April 4, 2005

The wedding of Britain’s Prince Charles to was postponed by one day to allow Prince Charles to represent the Royals at Friday's funeral of Pope John Paul II. The Royal's wedding will now be celebrated on Saturday, April 9.

The Prince cut short his Swiss skiing holiday and returned to London today. He will make travel arrangements for his trip to The Vatican on Friday, and attend a memorial service for the pope at London's this afternoon. Mrs. Parker Bowles will accompany him today, according to his Clarence House office.

Parker Bowles will not be joining Prince Charles for the Pope's funeral. However, Prime Minister Tony Blair and the, , will be in attendance.

The change in wedding plans threw Windsor businesses in disarray, where hotels had taken bookings for Friday wedding parties. The owner of a crafts center there, Kashmir Dhillon, had to order fresh tea towels with the April 9 date. "We will be the only ones with the 9th on it if it goes ahead," she said.

A series of postponements have hampered the Prince's and Parker Bowles' wedding arrangements. Initially they were planning to use Windsor Castle, but were unable since it was not licensed for civil ceremonies. After it moved to a more meager town hall setting, the Queen decided not to attend, immediately generating rumors of a royal snub.

The Queen will still attend the blessing ceremony at afterwards.

There also was debate over what name Parker Bowles would take should her husband become King. Prince Charles liked "princess consort," but the government says she must be called "queen," whether she uses the title or not.

Final arrangements for the wedding will be announced soon, according to the prince's spokesperson.

Prince Charles divorced his first wife, in 1996, a year before she died in an automobile accident in Paris.


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Legendary Canadian football coach Frank Clair has died

April 4, 2005

, the (CFL) coach and architect of the powerhouse  of the 1960s and 70s died Sunday at the age of 87 in, ,.

Nicknamed "The Professor" for his skills at recognising talent, teaching the game, and ability to get the most from players, Clair first came to Canada to coach the in 1950 and ended his first CFL year with a  championship; repeating with the Argos in 1952. He left the Argonauts following a salary dispute and ended up in Ottawa in 1956 where he took on the daunting task of reviving the Rough Riders team which were poorly run and disorganised. He led the team to an incredible 14 consecutive seasons of playoff appearances and three Grey Cups.

He retired from coaching following the 1969 Grey Cup to take over the position. At that time, Clair led the CFL in seasons coached (19), regular-season victories (147), playoff seasons (17), consecutive playoff seasons (14), playoff victories (22), Grey Cup appearances (six) and Grey Cup victories (five). His winning ways continued as GM when Ottawa won the 1973 and 1976 Grey Cups. Nevertheless, he was let go in 1978 and Ottawa has not won a Grey Cup since.

According to the Ottawa Sun, former sports editor Jane O'Hara described Clair as a no-nonsense, to-the-point, type of gentleman who was short on smiles, but always seen coaching his team wearing a snap-brim fedora and standing poker-faced and erect on the sidelines.

He was inducted into the in 1981 as a builder and the Ottawa stadium  was renamed in his honour in 1993.


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Talk:MPAA's Valenti signs Betamax tapes for EFF protesters as Grokster case continues in US Supreme Court

So the point of this article is to relate that Jack Valenti autographed a Betamax tape? You gotta hand it to those EFF guys for their sense of irony! Also, in paragraph three, the article misrepresents Ms. Crow's intent. In the statement referenced, she states, "...[with a VCR] no one could possibly distribute millions of perfectly reproduced copies to all those who wished to have a copy." The intent is not about making a copy but about the distribution without compensation of the artist. This article is rife with bias.
 * I encourage you to improve the article so that it is not biased, rather than just complaining. Pingswept 23:35, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Terri Schiavo cremated

April 4, 2005 lawyer informed the media that Terri Schiavo's body was cremated last Saturday at 9 a.m. on April 2nd at the National Cremation Society in Florida.

A complete was done prior to the cremation to dispel any beliefs that the cremation was done to hide anything about Schiavo's condition. According to the district medical examiner's office in Largo, full results of the autopsy will not be ready for several weeks.

Terri Schiavo's parents, the Schindlers, requested an independent expert to observe the operation, but the request was denied by medical examiners.

Both sides of Terri Schiavo's family plan to have separate funerals. Mr. Schiavo apparently plans to bury Terri's remains in Pennsylvania, while the Schindlers are planning a funeral mass tomorrow at the Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in, Florida.

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Portal talk:Indiana

Hello?
Is anyone still working on this project at all? If so, I'm from Muncie and I'd love to help out. --Martin Osterman 19:36, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * If you're still around, so am I. I'm the guy who initially set all this up so many months ago. Kurt Weber 00:49, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

I'm in Greencastle (in school at DePauw) RideDPU 8 July 2005 23:22 (UTC)

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Talk:Talks held to avert Nigerian oil production strike

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Nice cleanup, EdB... --HiFlyer 21:15, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC) First para now has too many sentences and sounds staccato. I like more 'flow' in paras, if you know what I mean. So I will change that.

Other than that I like your changes to active voice, etc. --HiFlyer 21:38, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Mon, 4 Apr 2005 10:25:05 UTC WikiRSS Patrons of the Big Time restaurant chain, a fierce competitor with the Mighty Joe's restaurant chain, were surprised to learn that Big Time has chosen to beat Mighty Joe's two-for-one special with a      three-for-one special of their own, every day of the week. Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:57:00 UTC http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=User:David_Vasquez/SampleStory2&oldid=40267

SampleStory http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:David_Vasquez/SampleStory Patrons of the Mighty Joe's restaurant chain were surprised to learn that Friday's two-for-one special had been extended to every day of the week. Wikinews visited a local Mighty Joe's outlet to find a line extending out the front door for two blocks. Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:55:00 UTC http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=User:David_Vasquez/SampleStory&oldid=40268

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User:Colm

Hello! I think Wikinews is a really exciting project, and I'm very much looking forward to being involved.

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