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Bat for Lashes plays the Bowery Ballroom: an Interview with Natasha Khan

September 28, 2007

Bat for Lashes is the doppelgänger band ego of one of the leading millennial lights in British music, Natasha Khan. Caroline Weeks, Abi Fry and Lizzy Carey comprise the aurora borealis that backs this haunting, shimmering zither and glockenspiel peacock, and the only complaint coming from the audience at the Bowery Ballroom last Tuesday was that they could not camp out all night underneath these celestial bodies.

We live in the age of the lazy tendency to categorize the work of one artist against another, and Khan has had endless exultations as the next Björk and Kate Bush; Sixousie Sioux, Stevie Nicks, Sinead O'Connor, the list goes on until it is almost meaningless as comparison does little justice to the sound and vision of the band. "I think Bat For Lashes are beyond a trend or fashion band," said Jefferson Hack, publisher of Dazed & Confused magazine. "[Khan] has an ancient power...she is in part shamanic." She describes her aesthetic as "powerful women with a cosmic edge" as seen in Jane Birkin, Nico and Cleopatra. And these women are being heard. "I love the harpsichord and the sexual ghost voices and bowed saws," said Radiohead's Thom Yorke of the track Horse and I. "This song seems to come from the world of Grimm's fairytales."

Bat's debut album, Fur And Gold, was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Prize, and they were seen as the dark horse favorite until it was announced Klaxons had won. Even Ladbrokes, the largest gambling company in the United Kingdom, had put their money on Bat for Lashes. "It was a surprise that Klaxons won," said Khan, "but I think everyone up for the award is brilliant and would have deserved to win."

Natasha recently spoke with David Shankbone about art, transvestism and drug use in the music business.

DS: Do you have any favorite books?
 * NK: [Laughs]  I'm not the best about finishing books.  What I usually do is I will get into a book for a period of time, and then I will dip into it and get the inspiration and transformation in my mind that I need, and then put it away and come back to it.  But I have a select rotation of cool books, like Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés and Little Birds by Anaïs Nin.  Recently, Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch.

'DS: Lynch just came out with a movie last year called Inland Empire''. I interviewed John Vanderslice last night at the Bowery Ballroom and he raved about it!'''
 * NK: I haven't seen it yet!

DS: Do you notice a difference between playing in front of British and American audiences?
 * NK: The U.S. audiences are much more full of expression and noises and jubilation.  They are like, "Welcome to New York, Baby!" "You're Awesome!" and stuff like that.  Whereas in England they tend to be a lot more reserved.  Well, the English are, but it is such a diverse culture you will get the Spanish and Italian gay guys at the front who are going crazy.  I definitely think in America they are much more open and there is more excitement, which is really cool.

DS: How many instruments do you play and, please, include the glockenspiel in that number.
 * NK: [Laughs] I think the number is limitless, hopefully.  I try my hand at anything I can contribute; I only just picked up the bass, really—

DS: --I have a great photo of you playing the bass.
 * NK: I don't think I'm very good...

DS: You look cool with it!
 * NK: [Laughs]  Fine.  The glockenspiel...piano, mainly, and also the harp.  Guitar, I like playing percussion and drumming.  I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds.  Through the magic medium of technology I can play all kinds of sounds, double bass and stuff.

DS: Do you design your own clothes?
 * NK: All four of us girls love vintage shopping and charity shops.  We don't have a stylist who tells us what to wear, it's all very much our own natural styles coming through.  And for me, personally, I like to wear jewelery.  On the night of the New York show that top I was wearing was made especially for me as a gift by these New York designers called Pepper + Pistol.  And there's also my boyfriend, who is an amazing musician—

'''DS: —that's Will Lemon from Moon and Moon, right? There is such good buzz about them here in New York.'''
 * NK: Yes!  They have an album coming out in February and it will fucking blow your mind!  I think you would love it, it's an incredible masterpiece.  It's really exciting, I'm hoping we can do a crazy double unfolding caravan show, the Bat for Lashes album and the new Moon and Moon album: that would be really theatrical and amazing!  Will prints a lot of my T-shirts because he does amazing tapestries and silkscreen printing on clothes.  When we play there's a velvety kind of tapestry on the keyboard table that he made.  So I wear a lot of his things, thrift store stuff, old bits of jewelry and antique pieces.

DS: You are often compared to Björk and Kate Bush; do those constant comparisons tend to bother you as an artist who is trying to define herself on her own terms?
 * NK: No, I mean, I guess that in the past it bothered me, but now I just feel really confident and sure that as time goes on my musical style and my writing is taking a pace of its own, and I think in time the music will speak for itself and people will see that I'm obviously doing something different.  Those women are fantastic, strong, risk-taking artists—

DS: —as are you—
 * NK: —thank you, and that's a great tradition to be part of, and when I look at artists like Björk and Kate Bush, I think of them as being like older sisters that have come before; they are kind of like an amazing support network that comes with me.

DS: I'd imagine it's preferable to be considered the next Björk or Kate Bush instead of the next Britney.
 * NK: [Laughs] Totally! Exactly! I mean, could you imagine—oh, no I'm not going to try to offend anyone now!  [Laughs]  Let's leave it there.

'''DS: Does music feed your artwork, or does you artwork feed your music more? Or is the relationship completely symbiotic?'''
 * NK: I think it's pretty back-and-forth. I think when I have blocks in either of those area, I tend to emphasize the other.  If I'm finding it really difficult to write something I know that I need to go investigate it in a more visual way, and I'll start to gather images and take photographs and make notes and make collages and start looking to photographers and filmmakers to give me a more grounded sense of the place that I'm writing about, whether it's in my imagination or in the characters.   Whenever I'm writing music it's a very visual place in my mind.  It has a location full of characters and colors and landscapes, so those two things really compliment each other, and they help the other one to blossom and support the other.  They are like brother and sister.

DS: When you are composing music, do you see notes and words as colors and images in your mind, and then you put those down on paper?
 * NK: Yes.  When I'm writing songs, especially lately because I think the next album has a fairly strong concept behind it and I'm writing the songs, really imagining them, so I'm very immersed into the concept of the album and the story that is there through the album.  It's the same as when I'm playing live, I will imagine I see a forest of pine trees and sky all around me and the audience, and it really helps me.  Or I'll just imagine midnight blue and emerald green, those kind of Eighties colors, and they help me.

DS: Is it always pine trees that you see?
 * NK: Yes, pine trees and sky, I guess.

DS: What things in nature inspire you?
 * NK: I feel drained thematically if I'm in the city too long.  I think that when I'm in nature—for example, I went to Big Sur last year on a road trip and just looking up and seeing dark shadows of trees and starry skies really gets me and makes me feel happy.  I would sit right by the sea, and any time I have been a bit stuck I will go for a long walk along the ocean and it's just really good to see vast horizons, I think, and epic, huge, all-encompassing visions of nature really humble you and give you a good sense of perspective and the fact that you are just a small particle of energy that is vibrating along with everything else.  That really helps.

DS: Are there man-made things that inspire you?
 * NK: Things that are more cultural, like open air cinemas, old Peruvian flats and the Chelsea Hotel.  Funny old drag queen karaoke bars...

'''DS: I photographed some of the famous drag queens here in New York. They are just such great creatures to photograph; they will do just about anything for the camera. I photographed a famous drag queen named Miss Understood who is the emcee at a drag queen restaurant here named Lucky Cheng's. We were out in front of Lucky Cheng's taking photographs and a bus was coming down First Avenue, and I said, "Go out and stop that bus!" and she did! It's an amazing shot.
 * NK: Oh. My. God.

DS: If you go on her Wikipedia article it's there.
 * NK: That's so cool. I'm really getting into that whole psychedelic sixties and seventies Paris Is Burning and Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis.  Things like The Cockettes.  There seems to be a bit of a revolution coming through that kind of psychedelic drag queen theater.

'''DS: There are just so few areas left where there is natural edge and art that is not contrived. It's taking a contrived thing like changing your gender, but in the backdrop of how that is still so socially unacceptable.'''
 * NK: Yeah, the theatrics and creativity that go into that really get me. I'm thinking about The Fisher King...do you know that drag queen in The Fisher King?  There's this really bad and amazing drag queen guy in it who is so vulnerable and sensitive.  He sings these amazing songs but he has this really terrible drug problem, I think, or maybe it's a drink problem.  It's so bordering on the line between fabulous and those people you see who are so in love with the idea of beauty and elevation and the glitz and the glamor of love and beauty, but then there's this really dark, tragic side.  It's presented together in this confusing and bewildering way, and it always just gets to me.  I find it really intriguing.

DS: How are you received in the Pakistani community?
 * NK: [Laughs]  I have absolutely no idea!  You should probably ask another question, because I have no idea.  I don't have contact with that side of my family anymore.

'''DS: When you see artists like Pete Doherty or Amy Winehouse out on these suicidal binges of drug use, what do you think as a musician? What do you get from what you see them go through in their personal lives and with their music?'''
 * NK: It's difficult.  The drugs thing was never important to me, it was the music and expression and the way he delivered his music, and I think there's a strange kind of romantic delusion in the media, and the music media especially, where they are obsessed with people who have terrible drug problems.  I think that's always been the way, though, since Billie Holiday.  The thing that I'm questioning now is that it seems now the celebrity angle means that the lifestyle takes over from the actual music.  In the past people who had musical genius, unfortunately their personal lives came into play, but maybe that added a level of romance, which I think is pretty uncool, but, whatever.  I think that as long as the lifestyle doesn't precede the talent and the music, that's okay, but it always feels uncomfortable for me when people's music goes really far and if you took away the hysteria and propaganda of it, would the music still stand up?  That's my question. Just for me, I'm just glad I don't do heavy drugs and I don't have that kind of problem, thank God.  I feel that's a responsibility you have, to present that there's a power in integrity and strength and in the lifestyle that comes from self-love and assuredness and positivity.  I think there's a real big place for that, but it doesn't really get as much of that "Rock n' Roll" play or whatever.

DS: Is it difficult to come to the United States to play considering all the wars we start?
 * NK: As an English person I feel equally as responsible for that kind of shit.  I think it is a collective consciousness that allows violence and those kinds of things to continue, and I think that our governments should be ashamed of themselves.  But at the same time, it's a responsibility of all of our countries, no matter where you are in the world to promote  a peaceful lifestyle and not to consciously allow these conflicts to continue.  At the same time, I find it difficult to judge because I think that the world is full of shades of light and dark, from spectrums of pure light and pure darkness, and that's the way human nature and nature itself has always been.  It's difficult, but it's just a process, and it's the big creature that's the world; humankind is a big creature that is learning all the time.  And we have to go through these processes of learning to see what is right.


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Canada posts record $14 billion budget surplus

September 27, 2007

Canada has a budget surplus of CA$13.8 billion for the 2006–2007 fiscal year, totaling 1% of Canada's gross domestic product (GDP), Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced today. The record surplus was boosted by revenue from government corporations to $14.2 billion, far exceeding the government's projections of $9.2 billion and surpassing the record set by the previous year's $13.2 billion surplus.

By federal law, all surplus must be used to pay down Canada's debt, and is not available for spending. $90 billion in debt payments over the last ten years have reduced its debt to $467 billion or 32.3% of national GDP, its lowest level in a quarter century. The announced debt payment is the largest in Canadian history.

The payment also reduced Canada's annual interest payments by $725 million, which the government pledged to pass on to taxpayers through tax returns and reduced income taxes. The Conservative's "Tax Back Guarantee", proposed in the March budget, promises that money saved on interest payments will be deducted from Canadians' taxes. The Globe and Mail predicts the tax returns will be 30–40 dollars per taxpayer.

Canada has posted ten consecutive budget surpluses in the last decade. The Canadian economy, the 8th largest in the world, has benefited from rising global demand for its export commodities, particularly oil and copper, as well as record corporate profits. This surplus was further increased by a $700 million drop from expected government spending.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper cautioned that the Canadian economy is still facing "tough times" in its forestry, manufacturing, and some export industries. Critics point out that the Conservative government had said Canadians were overtaxed when they took office, and had vowed to eliminate "surplus surprises".


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Media reports: arrest warrant issued for Jackie Selebi, President of Interpol

September 27, 2007

According to a report released by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), a warrant has been issued by the South African National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), which operates separately from the police, for the arrest of Jackie Selebi national commissioner of the South African police and president of Interpol. Recent media coverage of the murder of Brett Kebble have raised questions of the close friendship between Jackie Selebi and Glenn Agliotti. Agliotti was later arrested in connection with the murder of Brett Kebble.

Agliotti is alleged to have strong links with organized crime and racketeering.


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Jewelry courier robbed in Washington; three men arrested

September 27, 2007 Three American men were arrested after they robbed a jewelry courier at gunpoint today. The robbery was made at a McDonalds restaurant in Factoria, Washington at approximately 9:40 a.m.

The men drove away but the courier was lucky enough to provide a description of the white van and the robbers, who were pursued by local police towards Interstate 90 in Snoqualmie, Washington, east of Factoria, where the van was stopped. The three men were arrested and the van was searched by a K-9 unit.

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2007 Rugby World Cup: Georgia claim first World Cup victory

September 28, 2007 Georgia won their first ever match in a World Cup with a 30-0 victory over Namibia on Wednesday. Romania came from behind to defeat Portugal 14-10, while Samoa won 25-21 despite a late fightback from the United States. Japan scored a last minute try to draw 12-12 with Canada.

Japan took an early lead when Kosuke Endo scored a try in the only score of the first half. Pat Riordan and D T H van der Merwe both scored in the second half as Canada led 12-5. However Koji Taira scored for Japan in injury time and Shotaro Onishi added the conversion to tie the match 12-12. Both sides are eliminated from Pool B. Australia have qualified for the quarter-finals, while Wales and Fiji face each other for second place.

In Pool C, World Cup debutants Portugal led Romania 7-0 at half time thanks to a try from Joaquim Ferreira. Marius Tincu scored for Romania with less than twenty minutes left to level the scores, before Goncalo Malheiro kicked Portugal back into the lead with a penalty. Florin Corodeanu however won the match for Romania with a 72nd minute try. Neither side can qualify from the pool, but Portugal pick up a bonus point while Romania move on to five points behind Italy, who must play Scotland to decide second place as New Zealand have won the pool.

Georgia comfortably defeated Namibia 30-0 to record their first ever victory in any World Cup appearance. Merab Kvirikashvili opened the scoring with two penalties while Akvsenti Giorgadze scored the first try just before half time bringing the score to 13-0. Another penalty from Kvirikashvili and two late tries from Irakli Machkhaneli and Davit Kacharava completed the victory for Georgia. Namibia are eliminated from Pool D, having lost all their matches. Georgia are fourth in the group with five points, behind Ireland on nine.

In Pool A, Samoa won their first match of their World Cup with a 25-21 victory over the United States. Lome Fa'atau and Alesana Tuilagi scored tries for Samoa as they raced to an early lead. Mike Hercus scored a penalty for the Americans, but just before half time Kane Thompson scored Samoa's third try bringing the score to 22-3 at the interval. A late fightback from the United States, with tries from Takudzwa Ngwenya and Louis Stanfill, was not enough to win the match but earned them a bonus point. Both Samoa and the USA are eliminated from Pool A. South Africa are top of the group, while England play Tonga for second place.


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Anglican Church of Australia approves female bishops

September 28, 2007

The Anglican Church in Australia has cleared the way for women to become diocesan bishops. In a majority decision the Anglican Church’s highest legal authority, the Appellate Tribunal, found that there was nothing in the Church Constitution to prevent a female priest from being consecrated as a Bishop. The decision means there could be female Bishops as early as next year. The Church has permitted female priests for more than a decade.

Sydney Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen opposed the decision. "While I respect the judicial procedures which have led to this result I am disappointed that the matter has now been resolved in this way," Dr Jensen said. "Those who are opposed to this development base their objection on conscientious grounds as a matter of biblical principle."


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Movie 'The Assassination of Jesse James' leaked on the internet

September 28, 2007 Movieforumz.com, a website that allows users to display links to movies you "can watch for free online" has leaked The Assassination of Jesse James, an upcoming movie to be released in theaters on October 10. The movie can be seen in six parts, all of which link to an online video hosting website called Veoh, similar to YouTube. Both websites run on videos uploaded by their users, and do not condone the uploading of copyrighted material.

The movie was recorded by someone attending what appears to be a special screening of the film and can be downloaded free of charge, twelve days before its release into theaters.

Directed by Andrew Dominik, the movie is about an outlaw named Robert Ford, a man who decided to join the James-Younger Gang which was the gang of Jesse James, an American outlaw, in the 1800s. The movie is based on the novel of the same name, written by the novelist Ron Hansen.

Brad Pitt stars as James, and Casey Affleck co-stars as Ford.


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Moved page to User talk:Anglertony/Heavygear fishing
I moved your fishing page to the more appropriate space, because your artcile is not a news article. Please see the below message on how to edit wikinews. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 06:52, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Movie 'The Assassination of Jesse James' leaked on the internet

OR
Worth a shot, although I doubt this will get published...I watched all the links only a few minutes into each. This site, Veoh, delete videos like YouTube...if it plays its there. If it does not play, its gone. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 06:48, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * oh and if it does get published, we need to move quick because if the links no longer work, then we have no story really. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 06:55, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Ping
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At least 9 protesters killed, 11 wounded in Myanmar

September 28, 2007

According to Burma's government, the military has killed at least nine protesters and wounded 42 others in their second day crackdown on peaceful demonstrations that have been taking place for nearly almost a month. At least one monk is rumored to have been killed and a 50-year-old Japanese journalist was also killed.

Witnesses on scene claim that troops fired into the crowd of 10,000 "pro-democracy" protesters with automatic weapons in an attempt to break up the crowds. The military sent troops through the city street warning protesters that they would use deadly force if they did not stop their demonstrations.

Some media agencies in the area claim that the protesters are to blame for the violence, accusing them of "intimidating" the military, and injuring at least 31 troops.

On September 27, at least 200 monks were arrested in Myanmar during night-time raids on monasteries not long before sunrise. 100 of those monks were taken by security forces when they raided a monastery at Ngwe Kyaryan.

The protests in Burma began last month after the military abruptly raised fuel prices by 100 percent. They have since expanded into countrywide demonstrations against 45 uninterrupted years of military rule.


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Trust formed to protect New Zealand's free speech

September 28, 2007

The Free Speech Coalition was launched today in New Zealand due to the "grave threat" on New Zealand's free speech the Electoral Finance Bill has, according to co-founder, Cameron Slater, who spoke to Wikinews.

David Farrar, author of Kiwiblog; Cameron Slater, author of Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog; and Bernard Darton, leader of political party, Libertarianz, compose The Free Speech Coalition trust set up to educate the "woefully informed" New Zealand public and campaign against the "draconian aspects" of the Bill.

The Electoral Finance Bill will mean, among many other "draconian" restrictions, registered third parties campaigning against politically held viewpoints are limited to spending NZ$60,000 for 11 months in an election year. The $60,000 limit is about the cost of two full page newspapers ads, according to Slater. The Bill is currently before the Justice and Electoral Select Committee, which will consider the huge amount of public submissions received, possible amendments and whether or not it should proceed in the House.

Slater believes that Labour, Greens, New Zealand First, and United Future will recommend that minor alterations are made to the Bill while proceeding through the House, "and all the others recommending the Bill be Killed."

As well as The Free Speech Coalition supporting the Bill being withdrawn, so does the Human Rights Commission, and the New Zealand Law Society. The Law Society has said, "The Bill has serious defects, which mean it will not achieve its stated aims. Moreover, it is likely to curtail the legitimate expression of opinions while failing to curb (and potentially even incentivising) clandestine conduct in relation to the electoral process. The bill as a whole represents a backward step in the integrity of democracy in New Zealand."

"seriously flawed and does not achieve its stated aims while effectively regulating and in fact stopping free speech in New Zealand for one third of electoral cycle," was how Slater described the Electoral Finance Bill, which is expected to become law on January 1, 2008.

Slater says that the only way this Bill could work is to be withdrawn, as amendments could not save it, "For one it doesn't even cover anonymous donations which Labour wailed on about ad infinitum." He also criticises the amount of input the public has had into this Bill, with the only input being the public submissions to the Select Committee. "This is a substantial change to the Electoral Act the very basis of our democracy and there has been little or no input from the public nor has there been any public consultation."

"The real danger is that Labour tries to pass this under urgency with no more public consultation," Slater warns.

The interview finished with Cameron Slater simply stating, "Kill The Bill."


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NPOV
Wikinews should not be asking questions like DS: Is it difficult to come to the United States to play considering all the wars we start? That is a violation of NPOV. --SVTCobra 09:55, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * NPOV is inapplicable in an interview - we can ask any question we would like. And that's your opinion it's a violation, regardless.  Is your argument this:  "The implication is that it would be difficult to come to the United States because war is bad, and he is implying people don't like war, and that a country that has started two wars might not be liked by an artist who talks about peace!  This is a violation of NPOV!"  Please... This isn't an encyclopedia, it's an interview.  --David Shankbone 11:46, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * You need to ask such questions in a less leading manner like: WN: Have the recent wars influenced your decision to come to the United States? "considering all the we wars we start" why not ask "considering Bush is the devil and Hitler incarnate". You cannot ask any question you like if you are going to make POV statements in them. I don't know where you got that idea. --SVTCobra 12:27, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * That's preposterous. Under that theory, this question would have been problematic: "You are often compared to Björk and Kate Bush; do those constant comparisons tend to bother you as an artist who is trying to define herself on her own terms?"  If anyone takes time to research an interviewee, they walk in knowing certain things about that person, and they gear their questions in that way so that we don't reinvent the wheel in every interview and ask the same boring, staid questions when we have new ones that build on earlier interviews or statements of the subject.  --David Shankbone 12:52, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * This question was ok because you correctly attributed the opinion to others. --SVTCobra 13:14, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * What does knowing something about the interviewee have to do with stating all the wars we start? Is it that you know she talks about peace and you hoped you could get her to say something controversial if you asked a leading question? But if you want to look at the rest of your article your opening paragraph is a veritable love-fest and not exactly neutral either.--SVTCobra 13:02, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * It's an interview, not a news article. And finding a criticism of this band was virtually impossible, and unnecessary.  You are confusing writing a news piece culled from sources or reporting on a happening with sitting down with a person and discussing their work, where NPOV does not come into play.  --David Shankbone 13:08, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * And you are confusing an interview with pulpit from which you can espouse you own personal political views. You don't get to hide from NPOV behind an interview. All I am saying is phrase your questions neutrally. The interviewee on the other hand can say whatever she/he feels like. --SVTCobra 13:14, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, I think I see your point. It wasn't meant in a pulpit sort of way.  The publicist had come on the line to end the interview, and I was one question over my limit when she tried to cut it off, so it was inartfully worded.  I see your point.  --David Shankbone 13:53, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Good subject
I'd just like to note, "wow". This lady was the second lead story in the local alt entertainment paper, I'm amazed to see her in here too. -- Zanimum 19:43, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * And I must say "wow". Dav is a lucky chap. 8) — Nearly Headless Nick  {C} 11:46, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

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'their their' => [sic] should be added I guess; or the quote is incorrect in which case there should be only one 'their'. Van der Hoorn (talk) 13:37, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

 * [[Image:Yes_check.svg|16px]] Done — It really depends on the interview. This guy often does his interview live, so his errors are usually caused during transcription of the audio. When it is a text based interview it would need a [sic], cause then it would be the person themselves making the error, not us. Gopher65talk 02:41, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


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User talk:Parthiseo~enwikinews

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Comments:At least 9 protesters killed, 11 wounded in Myanmar

The country is called Myanmar. Only the two most arrogant nations in the world have ignored this.


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Comments:Movie 'The Assassination of Jesse James' leaked on the internet

Why is this in Wikinews? It's thinly veiled piracy.

 * It's definitely worth mentioning as entertainment news. However I don't think mentioning veoh promotes piracy.
 * Veoh does not promote it the same way YouTube doesn't. The users upload and its up to Veoh to delete the videos. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 09:18, 29 September 2007 (UTC)


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Got to love Libertarianism! Contralya 13:50, 28 September 2007 (UTC)


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Comments:John Howard announces $560 million for medical research

This feeds the thought that surpluses will only make governments spend more. Fephisto 15:15, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

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medical research —119.95.237.196 (talk) 03:34, 26 July 2010 (UTC)


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Comments:Students pass out forcing Michigan school to evacuate

Any update on the cause of the illness? Fephisto 15:17, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

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I'm glad I wasn't there! But, are authorities sure they didn't cause themselves to faint? One of my friends knows how. Mutton333 21:33, 16 October 2007 (UTC)


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Hate Crime victim finds assailant on Facebook

September 28, 2007

A Washington, D.C. student of Georgetown University has been arrested on suspicion of a hate crime, in which he allegedly beat up another man because the victim was gay. News reports confirm that the victim - who also goes to the same school - recognized the alleged assailant, because of his profile and photos on Facebook.

Washington DC Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier announced yesterday that Philip Cooney had been arrested after a warrant was issued for the September 9 attack, which occurred in the 1400 block of 36th Street NW (Between O and P Streets, NW). The victim was allegedly attacked by a group of males yelling homophobic slurs. "He made it a point to etch the suspect's face in his mind and remember him," Police Lt. Alberto Jova said. "Because of that he was able to give a very positive identification." The victim in this case suffered a broken thumb and cuts and bruises to his face.

The victim suspected his attacker was also a student at Georgetown, and did extensive examination of information available on Facebook, a popular web site used by students to socialize online.

Cooney could not be reached for comment, and will be arraigned in D.C. Superior Court today. A friend of the alleged assailant was shocked at the allegations and said he is "one of the nicest and most gentle people that we know at this school."

The attack is considered unrelated to two other hate crimes which occurred this month in the Northwest quadrant of the city.


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Canadian woman marries New Zealand man on radio show

September 28, 2007 An Oakville, Ontario woman married a man on New Zealand radio station The Edge after winning reality show Three Strangers and a Wedding.

Chantelle Swanson, 26, had only talked to Paul Court, her husband and who is a 29-year-old horse driver, through the telephone.

Invercargill Mayor and marriage celebrant Tim Shadbolt conducted the ceremony.

"They're great, and I know they will stand by me even if my family won't. It's about him and I, making it work," Swanson said.

Swanson had met with all three families of the three "groom's" prior to making her final decision for who to marry. One was eliminated in an earlier episode leaving Court and 29-year-old Dave Logan, a courier company team leader from Christchurch. They were waiting at Floating Pavilion in Auckland's Viaduct Harbour yesterday, when Swanson chose Court as her husband.

Swanson had moved to New Zealand three years ago to study to become a teacher. She now teaches at a middle school in Auckland.

Swanson's parents, who live in a mansion in Oakville and whose mother is a business executive, told the Toronto Star that they are disappointed towards their daughter entering the reality show.

"Yes, she did tell us she was doing this," her mother Ginny Swanson told the newspaper. "Of course I'm upset...Other than that, I don't really want to talk about it."

"Chantelle is nothing short of stunning and I am very, very lucky," Court said.

Swanson and Court will honeymoon at the Edgewater Resort in Rarotonga.

The competition started just seven weeks ago. Over 100 wannabe brides sign up every year in hopes of becoming the next winner.

Swanson is the third person to win the show. The other two winners from the first and second seasons are Zane Nichol and Paula Stockwell, and Steve Veix and Kersha. The first couple were married in 1999 and have two sons. The second were married in 2003 and have one son, and will be having a second.

The show is second in the "Strangers and a Wedding" series following Australias Two Strangers and a Wedding.

There are similar competitions in the United States and Ireland.

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Nightwish release 'Dark Passion Play', most expensive album in Finnish history

September 28, 2007

Symphonic power metal band Nightwish have released Dark Passion Play, the album with the highest production costs in the history of the band's native Finland. When drummer Jukka Nevalainen was asked the overall cost of the new album, he was quoted as saying “Roughly half a million... We don’t know the exact sum down to the euros and cents as yet.”

Half of this cost was incurred in London, United Kingdom, over an expensive eight days at the Abbey Road Studios, during which time the London Session Orchestra, the Metro Voices Choir, a gospel choir, and two Irish musicians recorded their parts at the studio. The rest was spent during the ten months between September 2006 and June this year, when the band were recording the rest of the album in Finland.

The album is the sixth full-length studio album by the band, and sports some impressive figures, boasting the contributions of almost 130 different musicians and requiring a total of almost 250 separate recording tracks. Nightwish is paying for the album via the company Scene Nation, who are entirely owned by Nightwish, and have sold the license for it to Nuclear Blast Records.

The album is the first to feature new vocalist Anette Olzon, who earlier this year replaced Tarja Turunen, the latter having departed the band in 2005.

The album went platinum (sold more than 30,000 copies) within hours of its Finnish release date of September 26, with 42,000 copies sold.

Nightwish are currently rehearsing for a world tour to promote the album.


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Shouldn't it be noted that Halo 3 also costs several times what a movie ticket does? If we're looking at the number sold instead of the money, it's below quite a few other launches. 142.68.197.58 19:21, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

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Japanese journalist shot and killed in Myanmar

September 28, 2007

Kenji Nagai, 50, a Japanese video journalist shot dead in Myanmar (Burma) this Thursday, is alleged to have been shot intentionally, a report says. On Friday Japanese television station Fuji TV aired a film in which Nagai had been shown. In that film, VOA reports Nagai was "thrown to the ground by a soldier and shot at close range." Tokyo based Yomiuri Shimbun reports the anonymous local testimonies of that incident: Nagai was shot from a near distance while he filmed the anti-government demonstration. The local testimonials state that military and polices aimed at many citizens with cameras.

After being informed of the death of Nagai, the Japanese government demanded that the Burmese government investigate the death and punish the killer, Yomiuri reports.

APF, the Tokyo based news agency for which Nagai worked, reports that Reporters Without Borders, the Paris based non-profit, issued a protest against the Burmese government in response to his death. According to APF, RWB states Burmese government disturbs communications in several ways, including disturbance of cellular connection and blocking of blogs. According to Jiji, a Tokyo based newswire, RWB also requested Japanese government sanction of Myanmar.

Also, European Committee spokesperson accused the Burmese military government of being responsible for Nagai's death as well as all other violence in Burma. European Committee expresses their concern of the Burmese government attitude toward foreign press.


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This is mentioned in At least 9 protesters killed, 11 wounded in Burma...merge? After discussion, I forgot it was rumored the Japanese journalist was killed. I see no reason for merge. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 20:46, 28 September 2007 (UTC)


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Insurgent commander Abu al-Tunisi declared dead in airstrike - one year after first report of death

September 28, 2007 The United States announced today that an airstrike against a house in Yusufiyah, Iraq on Tuesday completed its mission, killing insurgent commander Abu Usama al-Tunisi and two others. The airstrike, by an F-16 carrying two 500 lb bombs, came hours after a tip that al-Tunisi would be holding a meeting that day.

However, al-Tunisi had been reported dead more than a year ago.

The Tunisian militant had come to American attention during the Second Battle of Fallujah in November 2004, and had overseen anti-aircraft missions and participated in the 2005 attack against Abu Ghraib. His death was reported by Abu al-Zarqawi's army on May 20, 2006 in an al-Hesbah communique later translated and released by FBI Terrorism consultant Evan Kohlmann. He was reportedly killed after a US helicopter attack in Yusufiyah killed him and four other insurgents.

Following this week's bombing, Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson addressed a press conference at the Pentagon stating that the death of al-Tunisi would "fracture" the Sunni insurgency within the country - claiming that the man was "one of the most senior leaders" and "part of the inner leadership circle". His name did not appear on the Iraqi Government's list of 41 Most Wanted.

Anderson also stated that al-Tunisi's group, the Aisha Battalion of anti-aircraft operations, was responsible for the kidnappings and deaths of US soldiers in June of 2006, a month after he was reported killed. While the Army could not confirm which soldiers Anderson was referencing, a June 16 kidnapping led to the death of Spc. David J. Babineau, Pfc. Kristian Menchaca and Pfc. Thomas Tucker who were guarding a bridge into Baghdad.

al-Tunisi was said to be a potential replacement for al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Hamza al-Muhajir who was killed by tribesmen in May of this year. Multinational Force Iraq spokesman Maj. Winfield Danielson stated that “This is one more al-Qaeda in Iraq criminal who will never kill another innocent civilian,” although all of al-Tunisi's known targets were American soldiers, not Iraqi civilians.

While the military stated that they had "definitively identified" the body as being al-Tunisi, they refused to elaborate on their methods of verification - stating only that two captured Iraqis told them that it was al-Tunisi. Although a letter found inside the house referred to being "desperate" and being unable to travel outside the city - it was unsigned, and the only evidence that it was written by al-Tunisi was that it "was with his belongings".

The tip was confirmed by a local Iraqi arrested near the site of the house just before the bombing, which killed three. Military press releases reported that al-Tunisi's body had been "definitively" identified and that his handwriting was evident on papers inside the bombed house.

Kohlmann said the contradiction raised "some pretty serious questions", and that any claims that al-Tunisi could have faked his own death to deceive US military intelligence would be "virtually unprecedented" behaviour for the insurgents.

In May, the US military was forced to admit that Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner's announcement declaring the death of al-Qaeda in Iraq lieutenant Kamal Jalil Uthman was incorrect after the San Francisco Examiner pointed out that the army had already reported Uthman killed a year earlier, in a document entitled "Tearing Down al Qaeda".


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I've eMailed Kohlmann for comment on the story, awaiting. Sherurcij 21:13, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Got comment, awaiting permission to quote. Sherurcij 02:00, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Have permission. Sherurcij 03:04, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Also recieved answers to six questions posed to MNF. Incorporated into article. Sherurcij 18:52, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Air Combat Command is reporting the death as being of Abu Nasr al-Tunisi, could be an important distinction and Anderson just identified the wrong man - leading to this mess. Sherurcij 21:34, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * In February 2002, the FBI listed an Abu Nasr al-Tunisi as possibly being involved in a plot against US interests in Yemen.
 * Definitely an error by ACC, since Anderson's Question/Answer period mentioned al-Tunisi leading the Aisha Brigade/Battalion anti-aircraft operations - exact same as the al-Tunisi who was reported killed last year. Sherurcij 02:00, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

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Why the hell is this article in the public domain? --Nzgabriel | Talk 00:44, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Because the author (myself) releases all their work into the public domain, to quote User:DragonFire1024 "It is allowed, but not encouraged". Sherurcij 01:15, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
 * You have a problem, DragonFire1024 added about 4k to this, and he doesn't release work as PD. --Brian McNeil / talk 11:45, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
 * a) As per the template, by editing he agreed his edits were in the public domain, by not removing the template and stating otherwise
 * b) I know the instant "omg, I can trap him" is to add some small detail and thus make it CC-BY...but I can always just reword your information and poof, once more PD. I don't try to make CC-BY articles PD, don't try to make PD articles CC-BY
 * c) He only added a source to the story, he added nothing to the story itself. Sources can't be licensed or copyrighted, and the template is clear that the story is public domain. THus there is no problem. Sherurcij 18:30, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The great big problem you're overlooking is the majority of the community doesn't want PD. This was decided a long time ago, so if you want PD you are on your own and I - personally - will edit nothing which I see that template on. If there are issues I will tag, but no content as I want Wikinews credited. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:39, 29 September 2007 (UTC)


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Why exactly is this a 'Canadian' story when it happened just as much to a New Zealander and in New Zealand? 125.237.34.57 21:23, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
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German man arrested for selling screws worth $155,000

September 30, 2007 An assembly man in Berlin, Germany stole one million screws from his co-workers and auctioned them over the internet. He was arrested at his apartment on Wednesday.

For two years, the 33-year-old stole up to 7,000 screws per day and hid them in a hiding place. Today he has 1.1 million screws that are valued at 110,000 euros (US$155,000).

"In the end, it became obvious that screws were being sold for much less than they usually cost," said police spokesperson for the Würzburg police. The man's name has not been released and he is in custody awaiting charges.


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2007 Rugby World Cup: England 36 - 20 Tonga

September 29, 2007

In Pool A of the 2007 Rugby World Cup, defending champions England secured qualification for the quarter final stage of the tournament with a 36-20 victory over Tonga at Parc des Princes, Paris, France.

Pierre Hola scored a penalty to give Tonga an early 3-0 lead, but Jonny Wilkinson equalised soon afterwards. Sukanaivalu Hufanga restored Tonga's lead with a 17th minute try. At the interval England led 19-10 after Paul Sackey scored two tries and Jonny Wilkinson added another penalty and a drop goal.

Tries from Mathew Tait and Andy Farrell and another Johnny Wilkinson drop goal completed a comfortable win for England, while Hale T Pole scored a late consolation try for Tonga.

England finish second in the pool with fourteen points, behind South Africa who top the group with one game left to play. Tonga are eliminated from the tournament but qualify automatically for the 2011 World Cup by finishing third in the group. England will play Australia in the quarter finals in a repeat of the 2003 final.


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Talk:Bomb-like device attached to Florida bank teller amid robbery

error needs correcting
The video linked from the first reference shows 2 police officers removed the device by hand before it was given to the robot to destroy. Dan Oetting 00:15, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
 * ✅ - good observation. Cheers, Jcart1534 00:28, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

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A similar incident several years ago  Dan Oetting 00:32, 29 September 2007 (UTC)