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Microsoft to establish its R&D center in Shanghai

February 1, 2007

Microsoft Corp. is establishing, in Shanghai, China, a center for research and development. The center will work on the company's MSN service. It will be Microsoft's first research and development center of this kind outside the U.S.

Microsoft decided to take this step because of several setbacks that occurred in its online services working in China. One of the company's setbacks concerns the resignation of Luo Chuan, who was Microsoft's top executive responsible for the Chinese Windows Live unit.

The company's new research and development center is to be established in Shanghai's Zizhu Science Park. At this location, where another giant, Intel Corp, already has its research office, Microsoft plans to develop Internet software.

The center is estimated to cost $ 20 million. It will have a special technical support team that will work on Microsoft's MSN Messenger. The company hopes to make its online communication tool popular among Chinese teenagers and young professionals.

Microsoft already has an R&D center in Beijing. However, the software giant lacks a facility to work with its well-known MSN service. Investing in its communication tool may strengthen the company's leading position on the Chinese market.

Setting up the MSN research and development center in Peoples Republic of China implies that Microsoft looks forward to taking advantage of the Chinese market, which represents a quite flexible environment. This statement was made by Doug Crets, who works at Media Partners Asia as a Hong-Kong-based analyst.


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Publication date for last Harry Potter book announced

February 2, 2007

J K Rowling, the author of the "Harry Potter" series, has revealed the release date of the seventh and final installment - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - July 21, 2007. Mary GrandPre, the illustrator of the first six books, will return to illustrate the new novel.

The book will be released worldwide at midnight by the publisher Scholastic. Huge crowds are expected around the world, and the book, since its first appearance on Amazon.co.uk, had risen to the number one sale for pre-orders. After the new book was announced, Amazon.com reported a surge of traffic occurred on their website. Amazon.com has called the novel "one of the most eagerly awaited books of all time".

J K Rowling recently wrote the following about her new book: "I'm now writing scenes that have been planned, in some cases, for a dozen years or even more, I don't think anyone who has not been in a similar situation can possibly know how this feels: I am alternately elated and overwrought. I both want, and don't want, to finish this book (don't worry, I will.)"


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Talk:U.S politician Joe Biden makes controversial remark about Indian-Americans

Regarding Senator Biden's Remark:

Other than the remark being thoughtless,insenitive, and ignorant what more can be said?

Well I'll tell you. Television is so predictable and unimaginative. Why is all the attention on the word "clean". The simple fact that our now enlightened senator even mentioned the fact that Senator Barack was intelligent and articulate is an insult and a slap in the face. Any average Joe would know that a Harvard law graduate would have a fairly good vocabulary with a pretty good idea of what the political climate consists of. Ya think!!!


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Ello ello, I saw you capiitalised Missing airplane may been found, and I undid that and made the title better as well. Now, to avoid you changing it and creating nasty edit wars I tend to be good at attracting (see my talk page) I'm going to go ahead and say: At WN, only first words and proper nouns are capitalised. Thanks for your time. Neebs 23:14, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Here's that policy, for reference. Style_guide Neebs 23:17, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * In regards to your comment about upstyle titles. we had a poll at the beginning to decide which type to use. the results were in favour of down-style. Note some other news sources also do that. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:31, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * It was when wikinews started (2, 3 years ago?, not sure). But actually concensuss wasn't exactly clear, so there may be room for another poll (I believe the most important thing is consistancy either way) anyways here it is: Capitalization poll . Bawolff ☺☻ 00:36, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, it ended on Jan 21, 2005, which was around 3 months after the project started. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:38, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
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Sony may cut PS3 prices

February 1, 2007

Technology giant Sony is reportedly looking into cutting prices on Playstation 3 gaming consoles.

Even though Sony loses about (U.S.) $200 for each unit sold, the company believes that selling units for less will increase sales of games and peripherals, which is apparently where the company makes the most profit. By reducing prices on Playstation 3 units, Sony's gaming division is looking to break even by 2008.

The report is not indicative that Sony will reduce the price of the console, only that it is looking into doing so.

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Hi, welcome to my user page. Maybe I'll update it sometime.

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Philippine commission...
While I realize that the article has since changed title numerous times, I must object to your calling the use of the word "slaying" "poor english." It is a gerund of the verb "slay" and is in no way inferior to the word "killing", itself just a gerund of "kill."—Kbolino 22:04, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Drem. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Drem~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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You have been blocked for 1 hour for vandalism. This article: Still no new school buses? is not news and is considered vandalism. Please do not recreate deleted articles. DragonFire1024 22:43, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

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British Columbia government gives Canadian sextuplets blood transfusions

February 2, 2007

Last Friday the British Columbia government gave blood transfusions for two of the four surviving premature babies in spite of the parents' beliefs. Two babies had died from being premature: one a couple days after it was born, the other a couple of weeks after.

The B.C. government applied Section 30 of the B.C. Child, Family and Community Service Act in an attempt to save the babies born in Vancouver, British Columbia. The decision was only made public yesterday.

If doctors feel that the infants are in immediate need, they may ask for intervention.

The parents, who are unnamed due to a court order, are Jehovah's Witnesses who object to blood transfusions on religious grounds. When asked by Canadian reporters why they are against blood transfusions, a spokesman for the Jehovah's Witnesses cited a Bible passage:

"And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people," Leviticus 17:10-14.

The parents have accused the B.C. government of violating their children. They have asked the court to block future transfusions.

B.C. premier Gordon Campbell said yesterday, "We act, I think, with the children's best interest in mind, and we will continue to do that,"

The father of the sextuplets said in a court affidavit, "(My wife) and I could not bear to be at the hospital while they were violating our little girl,"; "We took our immense sadness and grief and tried to console each other in private."

The babies were back in the parents' custody since the transfusions were finished.


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US minimum wage moves to Congressional negotiations

February 1, 2007

The United States Senate has approved a bill that will increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25 [USD] over a period of two years. If passed and signed into law, this will mark the first time the minimum wage has been increased in 10 years. The measure will also decrease the amount of taxes that small businesses pay by about 8.3 billion dollars, which will balance out the cost to raise the minimum wage.

"[This is] a victory for the American people. Passing this wage hike represents a small but necessary step to help lift America's working poor out of the ditches of poverty and onto the road toward economic prosperity" said Edward Kennedy (D) the representative of the state of Massachusetts.

The measure passed with 94 votes. Three votes were cast against the bill.

Despite the approval, the full House of Representatives and the full Senate must agree on the measure before the bill is to be signed into law by president George W. Bush.

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Davao City, Philippines militant leaders declare victory

February 2, 2007

Davao City militant leaders known as Davao 8 announced last Monday, January 29, their vindication from the rebellion charges thrown against them March last year as police officers release a notarized apology and retraction letter last week.

In a press conference headed by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) Southern Mindanao, the militants are glad with what they described as a "tactical victory of the street parliamentarians in the struggle for justice and in the assertion of the rights and welfare of the ordinary Filipinos."

Last year, eight local progressive leaders were linked to rebellion charges filed against Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Joel Virador in the heat of the crackdown against progressive groups during the pronouncement of the State of National Emergency or Presidential Proclamation 1017.

In reaction to the accusations, Davao 8 filed before the People's Law Enforcement Board an administrative case against two (2) Criminal Investigation and Detention Group Region 11 (CIDG-11) operatives April 6 last year.

BAYAN secretary general Ariel B. Casilao, Bayan Muna party-list regional coordinator Jeppie Ramada, Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Urban Poor Union, KADAMAY) Davao City chairperson Editha Duterte, Samahan ng mga Maralitang Kababaihang Nagkakaisa (United Urban Poor Women, SAMAKANA) Davao City Chapter chairperson Corazon Espinoza, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (Peasant Movement of the Philippines, KMP) regional chairperson Antonio Flores and then Anakbayan (Youth of the Nation) leader Lorie Ann A. Cascaro filed affidavit-complaints attached with a copy of the false and perjured affidavit of Police Officer 3 Franco Duca and Chief Investigator 2 Rex Rodriguez both officers of the CIDG-11, Camp Leonor, San Pedro St., Davao City for their false, baseless and malicious accusation hurled against the eight leaders of progressive organizations in Davao City.

The said police officers of the CIDG submitted an apology and retraction letter duly notarized to the accused progressive leaders and the case was amicably settled.

Casilao said that the result of the case is a tactical victory for progressive organizations in the city. "Our vindication proves that what we fight for are the legitimate demands and causes of the people," he added.

He cited this as proof that the police and the military are crafting charges against them to discredit their organizations despite the continuing crackdown against progressive militant leaders across the country.

"All they could produce are fabricated cases against us to blind the people from the truth. They continue to discredit us, tag us terrorists, when the real terrorists are being coddled in Malacañang, with its fascist, anti-people and pro-US policies," Casilao said.

Arroyo uses "communist fronts" tag for the first time
In her speech Wednesday, Arroyo said there was a discrepancy with the figures presented by PNP Task Force Usig and the "front organizations of the communists". She was referring to the statistics on extrajudicial killings which spurred international outcry.

Arroyo's latest statement angered militant group Bayan declaring Thursday they will not cooperate in any Malacanang-initiated investigation into extrajudicial killings after President Arroyo uses "legal communist fronts" tag for the first time.

"Her pronouncement shows the government's official attitude towards legal activist organizations. She herself has encouraged the killings of activists just by referring to them as communist fronts," Reyes said.

In a press statement, Bayan secretary general Renato Reyes Jr. said "Mrs. Arroyo's pronouncement of a new investigation is meant to appease the growing outrage of the international community. However, the truth remains that the Arroyo administration has masterminded and encouraged the killings on a nationwide scale."

"Arroyo wants us to cooperate yet in the same breath she calls us front organizations of communists. How can you cooperate with that?" he added.

Reyes vowed their group "can never cooperate with murderers nor with a government that has sanctioned death squads."


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Smoking in public places banned in France

February 2, 2007 The French government has banned the smoking of cigarettes in all public places. The ban includes no smoking in hospitals, airports, schools, places of employment and any public area that is "closed or covered." Eleven months from now, the ban will include restaurants and cafes.

Some members of France's Parliament are surprised to see how quick the ban was enacted.

"Nobody, not even I, thought a year-and-a-half ago that France would abandon tobacco so fast," said member of Parliament (MP) and an advocate of the prohibiting of smoking, Yves Bur.

Police and other law enforcement agents are required to fine anyone who violates the ban. Fines for smoking in banned areas could be as much as $88.00 [USD]. Employers who do not enforce the smoking ban could be fined at least $174.00 [USD].

At least 15 million people who live in France smoke cigarettes, but a poll conducted by the French government had shown that 76% of the country's population was in favor of the ban. 74% of the population also backs the restaurant and cafe ban to take place in one year.


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Two Prime Ministers banned from Fiji

February 2, 2007 The Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand, John Howard and Helen Clark, have been banned from travelling to Fiji following the discovery of Ms Clark's and Mr Howard's names on an immigration list by Fiji Television.

The Immigration Department list bans people from entering Fiji, and bans some people from leaving Fiji. The list also contains the names of civil and political activists, businessmen, politicians, and trade union officials.

Ms Clark says that self-appointed Fijian Prime Minister Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama is only digging himself a bigger hole and that it would be unwise to listen to anything that Mr Bainimarama had to say.

Mr Bainimarama said that if he can't visit their countries, then they shouldn't be allowed to visit his country.

Both Australia and New Zealand had already put a ban in place preventing high ranking politicians and officials from entering either country because of their disapproval of the recent Fijian coup which Mr Bainimarama led. The two countries have also imposed other sanctions.

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Turner Broadcasting apologizes for Boston scare

February 2, 2007

An advertising campaign for shows on Adult Swim, a programming block on Cartoon Network, which is owned by Turner Broadcasting, gave local and federal law-enforcement a scare when devices were discovered on eight different bridges and roads. The U.S. city of Boston was snarled in traffic jams January 31 as police investigated devices with flashing lights representing a cartoon character were placed around bridges and other areas throughout the city.

Different governmental agencies were brought in to help deal with the problem, which was later found to be no threat, as described by Boston Police Department spokesperson Eddy Chrispin. A bomb squad was deployed under supervision of the FBI, Boston police, the US Coast Guard, and different federal agencies. The advertising campaign, for the widely popular program Aqua Teen Hunger Force, featuring characters from that series, was in place for two to three weeks in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and many other major US cities.

Two people have been arrested for alleged participation in this incident. Turner Broadcasting Systems hired New York marketing firm Interference Inc. which in turn hired individuals in the various cities to place the devices promoting the cartoon's fifth season, scheduled for a February 23 premiere. Road and rail traffic was disrupted by police as they investigated and removed the devices.

The mostly flat devices resemble two-foot-square Lite-Brites with batteries attached to the bottom and visible wires.

G4TV has dubbed the incident "Aquagate" on its broadcast of Attack of the Show segment The Feed.

It is not known why the devices took police several weeks to notice, nor why the devices were believed to be dangerous.


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Sony Ericsson to produce low-cost mobile phones in India

February 2, 2007

Sony Ericsson announced on Wednesday that it will produce low-cost mobile handsets featuring color screens and music capability in India. The company has reached agreements with Singapore and Taiwan based companies, Flextronics and Foxconn to manufacture the phones.

Sony Ericsson said that besides competitive prices, Sony Ericsson mobile phones will provide customized features, including local content and a customized keypad for the Indian market, in a press statement.

The company achieved success and became the fourth biggest cell phone producer in the world with premium phones that included such features like Cybershot digital cameras and Walkman music players. The analysts say that if the company looks forward to become number three producer of mobile phones it needs to focus on low cost phones. Providing mobile phones for customers with lower income is a strategy that analysts consider to be quite useful for Sony Ericsson.

Speaking at a press conference in Chennai, the president of Sony Ericsson, Miles Flint, said that manufacturing in India will result in improved cost efficiencies and enable the company to provide attractive cell phones at competitive prices.

A Japanese-Swedish joint venture, Sony Ericsson surpassed the third largest mobile phone maker Samsung in terms of revenue in the fourth quarter, through sales of its upmarket line of phones.


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Comedian Al Franken to run for US Senate

February 2, 2007

Al Franken, a comedian, is going to run for Senator in 2008 for the state of Minnesota according to an unnamed official currently serving in the state, media reports say.

According to the unnamed official, Franken said that he is planning to run for the senate in 2008 during a conversation.

The director of Franken's Midwest Values Political Action Committee has refused to comment on the reports, and Franken has made no official announcement himself.

Earlier this week, Franken announced on his Air America Radio show that he will no longer be hosting the show, but also said that he would make a decision about the senate race in the near future.


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--Markie 16:19, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Well since The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures is the offcial bible that Jehovah's Witnesses use, it should be considered that most likely Mark Ruge and the watchtower.org would be quoting from the New World translation. That is why I considered it more Factually accurate to change the quote to original text from the translation that the group would have been using. Also it is unclear what exact page Mark Ruge directed the reporters to but on the Watchtower.org, the offcial site of Jehovah's Witnesses, but on the issue of blood there is this article http://www.watchtower.org/e/hb/index.htm?article=article_07.htm and if you scroll down some it eventually quotes the scripture in question and uses the same text I used.--Darthbudge

 * Right well i looked at the first news source and on the second page here it shows the original text before you changed.  You may be correct with your changes but as the other quoted news sources have used the pre-change quote then that is the one that should be used in my opinion.  Also you are more likely to get a response if you leave your response on my talk page.  It can be found be cliking on my name and then on the discussion tab.  Thanks --Markie 17:19, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Is there any possibility of the original notes or any other sources that are different to the Canada.com report that i could see??--Markie 20:14, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I have not found any other news sources that quote it but it says clearly in the Canada.com source it says that Mark Ruge directed the reporters to the Jehovah's Witnesses website watchtower.org. And the link I posted above clearly quotes the scripture in the same manner that I did. I view this to higher source because this is the site that the reporters should have been quoting from because that is where they were directed and shown the scripture.--Darthbudge 20:42, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

IMO, the bible reading from watchtower.org should be used in this article. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  02:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

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My name is Josh and I live in Texas. I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses and have an affinity for technology.

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Current time: Monday, July 29, 2024, (UTC)

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I'm a 31-year-old only-child, Community Social Psychology graduate student, from Massachusetts, United States.

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User talk:Azathar

Hi

For placing a date in your user page you may like to use the following code as the code you are using creates links as well. The code i would advise you to use would be placing 5 tildes instead, ie which gives the following result. 17:32, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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Greek government faces censure motion by opposition

February 2, 2007

The Greek government faces a censure motion filed by opposition party which doubts the governmental program and demands parliamentary elections. As PASOK party leader, George Papandreou stated today at the ,

the Greek people expected to see meritocracy and transparency being enhanced"; and he continued saying "the Government of New Democracy demonstrated no signs of compunction, failing the citizens and the youth. They lied before the elections and they keep lying today.

Mr. Papandreou condemned government and Prime Minister personally, as being responsible for poor governmental performance in economy and public sector. In her speech, the leader of the (KKE),  expressed the opinion that the whole discussion will end in political deadlock and blamed the two major parties for "hypocrisy".

The Greek Parliament decided to host a three-day discussion between the parties which will end on Sunday with a vote of all the 300 members. In their first speeches today, PASOK MPs including as well as opposition's parliamentary representative, MP Charis Kastanidis, attacked the government and asked for immediate elections. In his response today at the parliament,, blamed PASOK for its past years of governance and stated that elections will not take place until the end of government's job. The New Democracy party was elected in government in 2004 after 11 years of continuing PASOK governance.


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Tornado kills 19 in Florida

February 3, 2007 At least 19 people have been killed in central Florida in the city of Lady Lake and Paisley after severe storms and a tornado ripped through the cities in the middle of the night. Eleven of those killed were in Paisley and three were in Lady Lake.

The death toll is expected to rise as rescue crews resume tomorrow morning.

Volusia, Sumter, Lake and Seminole counties have all been declared a state of an emergency as dozens of houses, mobile homes and a church were destroyed. Clothes and furniture are scattered around the wrecked houses and pieces of trees are scattered about. Cars are reported to have been turned over or thrown around in the air.

"Our priority today is search and rescue," said Gov. of Florida, Charlie Crist. Rescuers are still looking through the wreckage to find survivors of those who might have been killed.

A spokeman for the emergency response team of Lake county, Chris Patton calls the damage "devastating" and worse than "hurricanes in 2004."

"We have complete devastation of homes, of businesses, religious institutions. It was unlike even perhaps the hurricanes of 2004 when we had minor roof damage, screen damage, pool damage. This is way far more devastating," said Patton.

The storms hit at about 3:15 [EST] a.m. on Friday morning. At least 20,000-30,000 people are without power.

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YouTube to remove 100,000 videos

February 2, 2007 Yesterday, YouTube was told by Viacom Inc. to remove over 100,000 video clips thought to possibly feature content produced by Viacom owned companies after the two failed to reach an agreement for revenue sharing. Viacom said its content posted without permission on YouTube generate about 1.2 billion video streams, based on a study from an outside consultant.

Viacom owns popular American companies such as MTV, Black Entertainment Television (BET) and Nickelodeon.

Many users on YouTube upload copyrighted videos without permission everyday, sometimes unknowingly.

"YouTube and Google retain all of the revenue generated from this practice, without extending fair compensation to the people who have expended all of the effort and cost to create it," said Viacom in a statement.

"It's unfortunate that Viacom will no longer be able to benefit from YouTube's passionate audience which has helped to promote many of Viacom's shows," a YouTube spokesperson said. "We will continue to work with content partners large and small to provide them with a platform to promote their content and engage and grow their audiences."

Companies such as CBS have reached deals with YouTube over using their content.

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Woman found guilty of plotting to sell Coke documents to Pepsi

February 2, 2007 After deliberating for 11 hours a jury found Joya Williams, now former Executive Administrative Assistant for Coca-Cola Inc., guilty of plotting to steal Coke's secrets to sell them to Pepsi Inc.

Williams, 41, took confidential documents and unreleased samples of products to Ibrahim Dimson and Edmund Duhaney in an attempt to sell the items to Pepsi for about US$1.5 million. Dimson and Duhaney also pleaded guilty.

Williams claimed in court that even though she brought the documents and unreleased samples to her home, Dimson and Duhaney went into her home and took them. Duhaney denied the statement and said Williams gave the documents and unreleased samples to them.

In May 2006, Coca-Cola received a letter from the Purchase, New York based company Pepsi stating that a person had offered to sell samples and other confidential information regarding Coke products to Pepsi.

The former secretary could face up to 10 years in prison.


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Locals claim to have witnessed multiple UFOs over north London

February 2, 2007 At 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, 10-15 UFOs were spotted over north London in the inner-city district of Islington. The Islington police said they started receiving phone calls only minutes after the objects started appearing.

34 year-old market stall trader Alix McAlister, who witnessed the objects, said that, "I just picked up my son from nursery in Bredgar Road. I had just come out of the door when I noticed what was going on in the sky. There were a group of them - 10 to 15 of them moving together. My first impression was that they reminded me of a squadron of aeroplanes in formation. But they didn't have a proper formation and they were all moving at the same speed.  I thought for a while that something was happening in the centre of London. Bombs and planes crossed my mind. But I realised very quickly that they didn't look like any aircraft I'd seen before.  They were coming from the north and moving south. And then they kind of stopped and they were hovering. There was no sound. They seemed to fade away and I saw more coming and then they stopped. It lasted about 10 minutes."

The Contact International UFO Research organization was informed about the event by the Islington police and one of the witnesses. A spokesmen for the organization said that the witness had told them, "He told me he was picking his daughter up from school and he saw many people looking up in the air. Traffic had stopped and people were staring. He said he saw between 12 and 15 orange lights travelling across the sky. Then they would stop and then they went upwards."


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Insurgents shoot down U.S. helicopter near Baghdad

February 2, 2007 A United States Apache military helicopter has been shot down in Baghdad, Iraq says a military spokesman.

Reports say that the chopper went down near the U.S. air base, Taji, located just north of downtown Baghdad.

"I can confirm that we are looking into reports that a helicopter went down north of Baghdad," said Lt. Col. Josslyn Aberle, a spokeswoman for the U.S. military.

At least 2 soldiers were on board the aircraft, but their condition is not known.

Witnesses near the scene and police say that at least 2 Apaches were flying together when insurgents began to shoot at the choppers, shooting one of them down and hitting the other, but the helicopter still managed to fly away. The helicopters were believed to have been escorting a U.S. military convoy on the ground when shots were fired.

"I saw smoke coming out of the tail. The chopper was swinging around before it hit the ground one kilometer away from me and I heard a big explosion," said local farmer, Hashim Assafi who also said that he had to find shelter as shots were fired in the direction of the helicopters.

In a statement posted on an Al-Qaeda in Iraq website, insurgents claim responsibility for shooting down the helicopter.

"We say to the enemies of God that the sky of the Islamic state of Iraq is forbidden just like its land," said the statement.

This is the fourth helicopter operated by the U.S. military to crash or be shot down in two weeks.


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Talk:British Columbia government gives Canadian sextuplets blood transfusions

The passage from the bible seems to prohibit vampirism / cannibalism. If taken figuratively it more likely prohibits the consumption of meat (animal flesh). Are there better examples from the bible to reinforce the blood transfusion restriction? 151.191.175.195 20:03, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Jehovah's Witnesses#Blood. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  21:02, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Bible reading
"When asked why the sect refuses blood transfusions, spokesman Mark Ruge directed reporters to the Jehovah's Witnesses website. On it, the group cites Bible passages to back up their belief, from Canada.com."

The bible reading from watchtower.org should be used in this article. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  21:08, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Other Bible passage
The command to Noah included human blood. Poeple today think in technicalities. It doesn't mention transfusions but that is hardly the point. The Noah command specifically does state that the blood of anything is to be poured out because God is asking it back. Blood plays a central role on the symbolism of the Bible as well. All the sacrifices of the Mosaic law were unable to provide relief from sin but Jesus' shed blood was. God has made blood off limits for us to use. George m 22:43, 24 February 2007 (UTC)


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Moved comment you made to commons commons:Image talk:AQHF LED in Cambridge.jpg. (that image is hosted at commons, which is a separate project from wikinews. ) Bawolff ☺☻ 22:00, 2 February 2007 (UTC) - Welcome!

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Bird Flu confirmed in 1,000 UK turkeys

February 3, 2007

1,000 turkeys in the United Kingdom have been confirmed by UK government officials as dying of a strain of avian flu and a further 1,600 have died since the infection was initially reported. The birds, believed to be from a Bernard Matthews owned farm in Suffolk fell ill and died this week after contracting the H5 strain of the flu. It is likely that all other poultry on the farm will be culled.

The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs confirmed on Saturday (3rd February 2006), that the turkeys had contracted the H5N1 strain of the virus. (See H5N1 hits Britain). The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs were told of the turkeys condition on Thursday (1st February 2007) and instantaneously ordered restrictions to be placed on the farm. The department were swift in carrying out a full investigation and sent samples to be tested at facilities in Weybridge.

This report comes less than a year after a mass culling of 50,000 birds in Norfolk after an outbreak of the H7 strain.

For the protection directives in place on the infected area, see H5N1 hits Britain.

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Shrinking Cities debuts in Detroit, Michigan /kajs

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"Shrinking Cities" debuts in Detroit, Michigan

February 3, 2007 The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Cranbrook Art Museum debut Shrinking Cities. The project, which examines urban decline in cities across the globe is sponsored by Germany's Federal Cultural Foundation.

Shrinking Cities includes contributions from more than 200 artists, architects, researchers, filmmakers, journalists, culture experts, and sociologists aimed not only at showing the effects of this global phenomenon but also exploring how to deal with it.

The project, which began in 2002, involves local teams from four cities: Detroit, USA, Manchester/Liverpool, Britain, Ivanavo, Russia and Halle/Leipzig, Germany. The teams examined the negatives and the positives of urban decline. Along with the exhibit contribution of the team and international idea competition was launched.

Shrinking Cities premiered in Berlin in 2004 and later traveled to Halle and Leipzig Germany. In Detroit it will run from 3 February until 1 April. Cranbrook Art Museum and the newly founded Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit will cohost the exhibit, with buses running in between the two.


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The Shrinking Cities part of the title is supposed to be italicized.--Elatanatari 03:52, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Using foo does not work for some strange reason... — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  04:01, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * its a title. title are not supposed to be formated (according to mediawiki. in plain html, you can format headers to your hearts content) Bawolff ☺☻ 04:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Also if you were allowed to format titles, it'd cause all forms of badness when linking. Bawolff ☺☻ 23:50, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Categories
There's something screwy with the categories on this. If I remember correctly you should have depreciated categories instead of redirects. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:22, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Category addition request
editprotected Please add Category:Architecture. Also the second wikilink needs to be fixed. Thanks. --—Elekhh (talk) 01:21, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Yes_check.svg|link=|alt=|16px]] Done --InfantGorilla (talk) 07:33, 30 August 2010 (UTC)


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Seriously, if I seen an advertisment with flashing lights representing a cartoon character, I would not think it's a bomb. That's just plain crazy. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  04:38, 3 February 2007 (UTC)


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Assassin of Turkish-Armenian journalist 'treated as national hero'

February 3, 2007

According to news reports from Turkey, a number of the members of the Turkish security forces, though unofficially, are treating Ogün Samast, the assassin of Hrant Dink as if he were a national hero.

For instance, after being taken into custody, Samast was filmed shoulder to shoulder with the Turkish police, in front of a Turkish flag and a quote from Turkey's founder Atatürk: "The nation's land is sacred. It cannot be left to fate."

On January 24th, Ogün Samast was transferred to the Bayrampaşa prison, Istanbul's largest prison. Before the transfer, inmates from a section of the prison were temporarily moved to another section, which, as a result, housed more than 100 inmates, 80 more than its maximum capacity. Then, the now-vacant section, often subject to inmates' complaints regarding bedbugs, was cleaned and disinfected. Finally, the walls were painted, a brand new cotton bed was put in, and red carpet was laid out on the floors of the section.

When Samast was brought to the Bayrampaşa Prison, inmates witnessed that he was welcomed with cheers and applause by the jail management, soldiers, and the guards. Witnesses also report that Samast was given two guards to serve him. He ate kebab, a luxury food compared to the food given to other inmates.

After four days, Samast was transferred to the Kandıra F-type Prison.

Ultra-nationalist elements of the Turkish society seem to have penetrated into the Turkish security forces. These events resulted major Turkish newspapers such as Sabah, Radikal, and Vatan to accuse the Turkish security forces and the Turkish state of supporting, endorsing, and cooperating with the killers of the journalist.

A 52 year old Turkish-Armenian journalist, Hrant Dink was assassinated in front of the Agos newspaper office, at the Istanbul district of Osmanbey, where he worked as the editor and a journalist. Dink, a brave journalist who was not afraid to discuss one of Turkey's most controversial issues, clearly called what happened to Armenians in 1915 when the land was being governed by the Ottoman Empire the Armenian Genocide.

Following her father's assassination, Dink's daughter, referring to the fascist obsession with pure blood, said: They shot my father. Is their blood purer now? They were afraid to face him, they shot him in the back.

Large numbers of people marched protesting the killing of Hrant Dink on the day of his funeral, carrying placards that read "We are all Armenian" and "We are all Hrant Dink".


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Renaming
Just to provide a reference point: User_talk:Doldrums, in case discussion is needed :) PS. Although it's in the user's talk page, we should probably discuss it here so s/he's not disturbed needlessly Towsonu2003 07:01, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * it's just that i think "Assassinated Turkish-Armenian journalist" is too long for the title, any other suggestions for shortening it a little? feel free to revert the renaming if u feel very strongly against it. a more important issue is to attribute the statements in the article to whoever has made these claims, this is especially important as we are relying on a single source. — Doldrums(talk) 07:12, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * What about now? I'll go to sleep, so if not ok, you can just rv it :) Towsonu2003 07:53, 3 February 2007 (UTC)


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Request
please do not place a pic of his assassin to this page. It would be disrespectful to show him side by side with that human-like being -thank a lot :) Towsonu2003 07:32, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. it would be entirely inappropriate to put a picture of his assinator on this page. Bawolff ☺☻ 07:34, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

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I'm not sure. Here is the problem:
 * I couldn't get rid of the cat "Strange and unusual templates" (that's why I played around with cats that much)
 * Some Hrant Dink news items now appear here: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Strange_and_unusual_templates

Does anyone know what to do? Thanks a lot Towsonu2003 07:41, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * That was my fault. I accidentally put category:Strange and unusual templates in the section of the wide pict template that gets transcluded. sorry. (its fixed now) Bawolff ☺☻ 07:48, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

by date of publish
uhm, how do you put a section that sorts all items by date? if you have any pointers... thanks again :) Towsonu2003 07:45, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I can do that. See WN:DPL. You can also use template:DPL ( Hrant Dink ) Bawolff ☺☻ 07:48, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

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User:ScottMorrison~enwikinews

I'm ScottMorrison on wikipedia, and my home page is at http://tqft.net/

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Hello. I see your from wikipedia, so your proablly familiar with the maingist of most this stuff (The biggest difference between us and 'pedia, is that we're more strict with some types of images, use a different sourcing system, and generally less beurocratic), but I'll give you the welcome template anyways. Bawolff ☺☻ 08:42, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

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The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

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H5N1 hits Britain

February 3, 2007

H5N1, the deadly strain of bird flu that has already claimed many lives in Asia, was confirmed this morning as the strain that killed 2,600 turkeys on a farm in Suffolk. The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), conducted further tests to determine the strain after it was found that most of the turkeys on a Bernard Matthews farm showed signs of illness and tested positive for avian flu in preliminary tests.

As a further precaution, 159,000 turkeys from the same farm will be culled.

The European Council issued a directive stating that a protection zone (a zone where all birds are to be kept indoors and biologically tested for the flu) should be set up on a 3 km radius from the infected farm. They also ordered a 10 km radius "surveillance" zone whereby the sale of birds at markets is banned, water used by domestic and wild birds is to be kept separate, pedestrian movement is limited, an increased awareness of the symptoms of affected birds and birds are not to be transported unless being transported to slaughter.

Officials are confident that the outbreak has been contained but ask people to be vigilant.

Help lines
Suffolk County Council also set up a helpline for people with queries or if they find birds showing signs of malaise: 08456 032 814.

Defra has also made general advice on avian-flu available on its helpline: Defra Helpline - 08459 33 55 77

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Four alarm fire in Old City, Philadelphia

February 8, 2007

Fire destroyed a building that hosted the Five Spot night club in Philadelphia’s historic Old City section. No one was injured in the blaze,

Firefighters battled for two hours to control the flames and people were evacuated from nearly buildings. Reports indicate that at least one wall inside the group of buildings that make the Five Spot collapsed, causing major structural damage. The fire was contained to three buildings, authorities say.

The Five Spot brought an eclectic mix to Philadelphia’s Old City section where the business had thrived for 11 years.

During an interview the owner said, "It was just time. We were looking to sell ... to somebody who would carry on the tradition."

Lovett Hines, a longtime guru of the Philadelphia Jazz music scene said the club was a creative caldron of sorts for the neo-jazz genre. Cohen of Gloucester City said, “It was heart-wrenching; A lot of us were in tears.”


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Four alarm fire in Old City, Philadelphia
Wikinews strongly encourages original reporting. Since you are an eyewitness it is not that hard to write this story. Just write about what happend and include pictures(if that is possible), etc. Then, it will be published in no time! — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  04:01, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Four alarm fire in Old City, Philadelphia

I am the original poster. I have cited no sources at this time as I can find none yet. I live in a building attached to the fire scene. As a result, you can consider this an "eyewitness account." There are scores of police, fire department, and helicopters here now. Fire hoses are running through the streets, resulting in their closure. 69.139.75.80 16:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you posted this, but we need much more detail then what's currently being provided in the article. Bawolff ☺☻ 05:29, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikinews strongly encourages original reporting. Since you are an eyewitness it is not that hard to write this story. Just write about what happend and include pictures(if that is possible), etc. Then, it will be published in no time! — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  03:59, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Questions

 * 1) Last sentence doesn't read right and needs a he/she somewhere when attributing the owner's statement.
 * 2) Is "Old City" an appropriate description of the location? I ask because of Camel Case. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I added a link to Wikipedia to help provide additonal information on Old City, Philadelphia. I think this will be OK. TheVault 01:17, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Old article?
This articles sources are from Feb. 3. Would it be appropate to publish this 5 days later? I'm not sure if we do that on WN. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  23:08, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Its okay (mostly because of original reporting). Weather to have the publish date on that date or before is another matter. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:02, 9 February 2007 (UTC)


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It was high time to do something as the situation was getting out of hand in France. Let's just hope that legislators will follow up and make sure the law is enforced.


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Iraqi suicide bomber kills 121, injures over 200 others

February 3, 2007 Conflicting media reports say that at least 128 people have been killed and over 220, possibly over 350, were injured in Baghdad, Iraq after a truck packed with at least a ton of explosives blew up inside the Sadriyah market.

Officials say that the death toll will likely climb, and officials for the Iraqi Health Ministry say that 105 have been killed and over 330 injured.

The truck was supposed to be delivering food, oil and flour to the market when the driver detonated the explosives.

"It was a suicide attacker who entered the market at a time when it was packed with people. There are still bodies under the rubble," said head of the Interior Ministry explosives department, Major General Jihad al-Jabiri.

"It was a strong blow. A car exploded. I fell on the ground," said a young man with a bandaged head who was in the explosion.

Victims were trapped under piles of rubble, and the surrounding area was completely destroyed. At least 10 buildings have been leveled as a result of the blast.

No claim of responsibility for the blast has been made.

A curfew has been issued for the surrounding area which is set to expire at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday. All roads leading into and out of the area have been shut down.

This is the biggest attack to take place since November 23, 2006 when at least 215 people were killed when insurgents attacked a Sadr City Shiite slum.

CNN had recently confirmed that 373 people were injured, along with 128 (currently) killed.