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Two NATO soldiers captured in Afghanistan

 * I'm including this story (which was published over the weekend) so that I have a way to at least mention the wikileaks document dump. Hopefully by tomorrow, we will have that story ready to go for publication. Turtlestack (talk) 00:59, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Venezuelan army on high alert after Chávez cuts diplomatic ties with Colombia

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BP CEO Tony Hayward to resign, say analysts

 * This is a pretty big story, so I'll include this one too even though it was from over the weekend. Turtlestack (talk) 00:59, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Stampede at German music festival kills nineteen

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On this day in history

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Just before dawn on July 26, 1953, 102 Arizona state police officers and soldiers from the Arizona National Guard entered a polygamist Mormon fundamentalist community located in Short Creek, now known as Colorado City, Arizona.

Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle initially called the raid "a momentous police action against insurrection" and described the Mormon fundamentalists as participating in "the foulest conspiracy you could possibly imagine" that was designed to produce "white slaves." More than 100 reporters had been invited by Pyle to accompany the police to observe the raid. However, the raid and its tactics attracted mostly negative media attention.

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The community, which was composed of approximately 400 Mormon fundamentalists and led by Joseph White Musser, had been tipped off about the planned raid and were found singing hymns in a schoolhouse while the children played outside. The entire community was taken into custody, including 263 children. One hundred fifty of the children who were taken into custody were not permitted to return to their parents for more than two years, and some parents never regained custody of their children.

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In the same week that the Korean War ceasefire was achieved, the raid achieved notoriety in media across the United States, including articles in Time and Newsweek, with many media outlets describing the raid as "odious" or "un-American." One commentator has suggested that commentary of the raid was "probably the first time in history that American polygamists had received media coverage that was largely sympathetic.

One of the few media outlets to commend the raid was the Salt Lake City-based Deseret News, which was owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The News applauded the action as a needed response to prevent the fundamentalists from becoming "a cancer of a sort that is beyond hope of human repair." When the paper later editorialized its support for separating children from their polygamist parents, there was a backlash against the paper and the church by a number of Latter-day Saints, including Juanita Brooks, a Mormon historian and author, who complained that the church organ was approving of "such a basically cruel and wicked thing as the taking of little children from their mother." The Short Creek raid was the last action against polygamous Mormon fundamentalists that has been actively supported by the LDS Church.

One year later, in 1954, Governor Pyle lost his bid for re-election to Democratic candidate Ernest McFarland with Pyle blaming the fallout from the raid as having destroyed his political career and Joseph White Musser, leader of the Short Creek fundamentalists died causing a split between fundamentalists who believed he was a Mormon prophet and those who instead chose a new leader.

After the Short Creek raid, the fundamentalist Mormon polygamist colony at Short Creek eventually rejuvenated. In 1991, the Mormon fundamentalists formally established the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church).

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The members of the sect did not face any prosecutions for its polygamous behavior until the late 1990s, when isolated individuals began to be prosecuted. In 2006, FLDS Church leader Warren Jeffs was placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted List and was arrested and convicted in 2007 of being an accomplice to rape for performing a wedding between a 19-year-old man and his 14-year-old cousin.

On 3 April 2008, following allegations of physical and sexual abuse by an unidentified caller who claimed to be a 16-year-old girl, law enforcement officers raided a FLDS compound Jeffs had founded in Texas called the YFZ Ranch and authorities removed a total of 416 children. While former member of the FLDS Church, Carolyn Jessop, stated her opinion that the action in Texas was unlike the Short Creek raid, others, however, have drawn direct connections between the two events.

July 27, 2010

 * Busy news day - I assume nobody here plays Starcraft II? :) Turtlestack (talk) 02:56, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikileaks release Afghan "war logs" in co-operation with mainstream media

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One dead after motorcycle and car collision in Guernsey, Channel Islands

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On this day in history

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Ernest Gary Gygax, an American writer and game designer, best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson, was born in Chicago within a few blocks of Wrigley Field in 1938.

The son of Swiss immigrant and Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Ernst Gygax, Gary spent his early childhood in Chicago, but in 1946 after he was involved in a brawl with a large group of boys, his father decided to move the family to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where Gary's mother's family had settled in the early 19th century.

During his childhood and teen years, he developed a love of games and an appreciation for fantasy and science fiction literature which his father introduced to him through pulp novels. At the age of ten, he and his friends played the sort of games that eventually came to be called "live action role-playing games", with one of them acting as a referee. His interest in games, combined with an appreciation of history, eventually led Gygax to begin playing miniature war games in 1953, with his best friend Don Kaye.

By December 1958, the game Gettysburg from the Avalon Hill company had particularly captured Gygax's attention and he ordered from the company the first blank hexagon mapping sheets that were available, which he then employed to design his own games. He looked for innovative ways to generate random numbers, and used not only common, six-sided dice, but dice of all five platonic solid shapes, which he discovered in a school supply catalog.

Gygax soon became active in fandom and by 1965 he was active in the wargame hobby, and was writing many magazine articles on the subject.

During the 1960s, as Gygax was working as an insurance underwriter for the Firemen's Fund in Lake Geneva, in 1966, he co-founded the International Federation of Wargamers (IFW) with Bill Speer and Scott Duncan. The IFW, which was created by combining several preexisting wargaming clubs, aimed to promote interest in role-playing games, especially those set in the medieval period, and provided a forum for international wargamers.

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In 1968, Gygax rented Lake Geneva's vine-covered Horticultural Hall for $50 to hold the first Lake Geneva Convention, also known as the Gen Con gaming convention for short and in 1969 he met Dave Arneson, the future co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, at the second Gen Con.

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By 1970, Gary had left the insurance business and became a shoe repairman to make more time for pursuing his interest in game development and began working as editor-in-chief at Guidon Games, a publisher of wargames, for which he produced the board games Alexander the Great and Dunkirk in 1971.

That same year, his and Jeff Perren's Chainmail, a miniatures wargame that simulated medieval-era tactical combat was published and in 1972, he added a Fantasy Supplement to the rules. This supplement included warriors who were monsters of non-human races, drawn from the works of Tolkien and other sources. He also included rules for individual heroic characters, including wizards which included ten spells that could be used to affect a battle, including lightning bolts and fireballs.

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Dave Arneson, who had written the game Blackmoor, adopted these new fantasy rules into his game and while visiting Lake Geneva in 1972, he and Gygax immediately saw the potential of role-playing games. Gygax and Arneson collaborated on "The Fantasy Game", the role-playing game that later became Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). In 1973, Gygax quit his day job and attempted to publish the game through Avalon Hill, who turned down his offer.

So, together with Don Kaye as a partner, in 1973 he founded the publishing company Tactical Studies Rules (later known as TSR, Inc.) with an initial investment of $1000 each. However, this did not give them enough capital to publish the rules for Dungeons & Dragons and, worried that other companies would be able to publish similar projects first, the two convinced acquaintance Brian Blume to join TSR in 1974 as an equal one-third partner; this brought the financing that enabled them to publish Dungeons & Dragons.

Dungeons & Dragons was first released by TSR in January 1974 as a boxed set; a hand-assembled print run of 1,000 copies, put together by hand in Gygax's home, sold out in less than a year. That same year he also created the magazine The Strategic Review with himself as editor, which later became known as Dragon magazine.

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Then, sadly, in 1975, Don Kaye unexpectedly died of a heart attack in January at the age of 36. As Kaye had not made any specific provision in his will regarding his one-third share of the company, his share of TSR passed to his wife, a woman whom Gygax characterized as "less than personable" and who "dumped all the Tactical Studies Rules materials off on my front porch. It would have been impossible to manage a business with her involved as a partner."

However, two years later, in 1977, a new version of D&D, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D), was published. The Monster Manual, released later that year, became the first supplemental rule book of the new system, and many more followed over the next few years and by 1980 sales of the Dungeons & Dragons game reached $8.5 million.

Dungeons & Dragons reached mainstream notoriety when negative media attention focused on Dungeons & Dragons. In 1982, Patricia Pulling's son killed himself; blaming Dungeons & Dragons for his suicide, and Pulling formed an organization named B.A.D.D. (Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons) to attack the game and the company that produced it.

By 1984, Gygax discovered that TSR had run into serious financial difficulties and was $1.5 million in debt. In October 1985, TSR's Board of Directors removed Gygax as the company's President and Chairman of the Board. Sales of Dungeons & Dragons reached $29 million by 1985, but Gygax, seeing his future at TSR as untenable, left the company on December 31, 1985.

Gygax continued to write new books and games, and in the intervening 20 years, he became something of a cult, nerd hero, culminating in a famous episode of the Fox cartoon series Futurama in which he, Nichelle Nichols from the original Star Trek series, the famed physicist Stephen Hawking and US Vice President Al Gore each leant their voices as a team of "Vice Presidential Action Rangers", whose task is to protect the space-time continuum. In fact, Gary Gygax's appearance alongside Al Gore is something of an inside joke since Gore's wife, Tipper, hates Dungeons & Dragons and has been publicly critical of it.

A lifelong cigarette smoker, Gygax went into semi-retirement after suffering strokes on April 1 and May 4, 2004, and almost suffered a heart attack after receiving incorrect medication to prevent further strokes. In late 2005, he was diagnosed with an inoperable abdominal aortic aneurysm, yet despite his reduced workload, Gygax continued to be active in the gaming community.

Then on March 4, 2008, Gygax died at his home in Lake Geneva at age 69.

Gygax married his first wife, Mary Jo Gygax, in 1958. By 1961 they had two children who would later assist with play-testing Dungeons & Dragons. Three more children were to follow before the marriage ended in divorce in the early 1980s. On August 15, 1987, the same day as his parents' 50th wedding anniversary, he married his second wife, Gail Carpenter, and together they had his sixth and last child. By 2005, Gygax had seven grandchildren.

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Gygax's influence is still strongly felt across the gaming community as a whole. The popular online role playing game, World Of Warcraft, dedicated a patch to the franchise in his honor, numerous webcomics make reference to him and even faux-conservative Stephen Colbert, avid D&D gamer in his youth, dedicated the last part of the March 5, 2008 episode of The Colbert Report to Gygax.

Of his life and work, Gygax is quoted as saying "I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else."

On this day in history

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While it may be hard to believe now, the piece of music you are listening to had, for over 100 years, been largely ignored. Yet such was the fate of composer, priest, and famous virtuoso violinist Antonio Lucio Vivaldi.

Born in Venice on March 4, 1678, he was immediately baptized, possibly due to an earthquake that shook the city that same day and in the trauma of the quake, Vivaldi's mother, Camilla Calicchio, may have dedicated him to the priesthood either out of fear or due to his poor health.

And his health was problematic. His symptoms, "tightness of the chest", has been interpreted as a form of asthma, but this did not prevent him from learning to play the violin, composing or taking part in musical activities, although it did stop him from playing wind instruments.

His father, Giovanni Battista, a barber before becoming a professional violinist, taught Antonio to play the violin, and then toured Venice playing the violin with his young son.

In 1693, at the age of 15, he began studying to become a priest and was ordained in 1703, aged 25. He was soon nicknamed il Prete Rosso, "The Red Priest", because of his red hair, a family trait. However, not long after his ordination, in 1704, he was given a reprieve from celebrating the Holy Mass because of his ill health. Vivaldi only said mass as a priest a few times and though he appears to have withdrawn from priestly duties, he remained a priest.

In September 1703 at the age of 25, Vivaldi, who was regarded as an exceptional technical violinist, became the master of violin at one of the four, state run orphanages called the Devout Hospital of Mercy in Venice and over the next thirty years he composed most of his major works while working there.

Shortly after Vivaldi's appointment, the orphans began to gain appreciation and esteem abroad yet his relationship with the board of directors of the orphanage was often strained. Each year the board had to take a vote on whether to keep a teacher and the votes on Vivaldi was seldom unanimous. In 1709 the vote went 7 to 6 against him and he was dismissed. However, after a year as a freelance musician, he was recalled by the orphanage with a unanimous vote in 1711; clearly during his year's absence the board realized the importance of his role. He then became responsible for all of the musical activity of the institution and was promoted to maestro di' concerti (music director) in 1716.

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In early 18th century Venice, opera was the most popular musical entertainment and this proved profitable, if contentious, for Vivaldi as there were several theaters competing for the public's attention. In 1715, he pallned to put on an opera titled Arsilda Queen of Ponto but the state censor blocked the performance because the main character, Arsilda, falls in love with another woman, Lisea, who is pretending to be a man. However, Vivaldi got the censor to accept the opera the following year, and it was a resounding success.

His progressive operatic style caused him some trouble with more conservative musicians, like Benedetto Marcello, a magistrate and amateur musician who wrote a pamphlet denouncing him and his operas. The pamphlet, The fashionable theater, attacks Vivaldi though without mentioning him directly.

Though only around 50 operas are known to exist, Vivaldi makes mention of him writing 94 and though he certainly composed many operas in his time, he never reached the prominence of other great composers, as evidenced by his inability to keep a production running for any period of time in any major opera house.

Then, around 1718, Vivaldi was offered a new prestigious position as Maestro di Cappella of the court of the prince Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt, governor of Mantua. While he continued to write operas during this period, one of which he performed before the new Pope Benedict XIII, it was during this time that he wrote the Four Seasons, the famous four violin concertos depicting scenes appropriate for each season and probably inspired by the countryside around Mantua.

The concertos were a revolution in musical conception: in them Vivaldi represented flowing creeks, singing birds (of different species, each specifically characterized), barking dogs, buzzing mosquitoes, crying shepherds, storms, drunken dancers, silent nights, hunting parties from both the hunters' and the prey's point of view, frozen landscapes, children ice-skating, and warming winter fires. Each concerto is associated with a sonnet, possibly also by Vivaldi, describing the scenes depicted in the music. They were published as the first four concertos in a collection of twelve in Amsterdam by Le Cène in 1725.

During his time in Mantua, Vivaldi became acquainted with an aspiring young singer Anna Tessieri Giro who was to become his student, protégée, and favorite prima donna. Anna, along with her older half-sister Paolina, became part of Vivaldi's entourage and regularly accompanied him on his many travels. There was speculation about the nature of Vivaldi's and Giro's relationship, but no evidence to indicate anything beyond friendship and professional collaboration and he adamantly denied any romantic relationship in a letter to his patron dated November 16, 1737.

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During the height of his career, Vivaldi received commissions from European nobility and royalty. In 1728, Vivaldi met Emperor Charles VI who admired the music of the Red Priest so much that he is said to have spoken more with the composer during their one meeting than he spoke to his ministers in over two years. Charles even granted Vivaldi the title of knight, a gold medal and an invitation to Vienna.

However, like many composers of the time, the final years of Vivaldi's life found him in financial difficulties. His compositions were no longer held in such high esteem as they once were in Venice as changing musical tastes quickly made them outmoded. In response, Vivaldi chose to sell off sizeable numbers of his manuscripts at paltry prices to finance his migration to Vienna. The reasons for Vivaldi's departure from Venice are unclear, but it seems likely that, after the success of his meeting with Emperor Charles VI, he wished to take up the position of a composer in the imperial court.

Shortly after Vivaldi's arrival in Vienna, en route to which he may have stopped in Graz to see Anna Giromay, Charles VI died, a stroke of bad luck that left the composer without royal protection or a steady source of income. Not long after the emperor, on the night between July 27 and 28, 1741, while staying in a house owned by the widow of a Viennese saddlemaker, Vivaldi died of an "internal infection". On July 28 he was buried in a simple grave at the Hospital Burial Ground in Vienna.

Interestingly, Vivaldi's funeral took place at St. Stephen's Cathedral, where one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the classical period and the "Father of the Symphony and String Quartet", a young Joseph Haydn, was then a choir boy.

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Only three portraits of Vivaldi are known to survive: an engraving, an ink sketch and an oil painting, the later giving us possibly the most accurate picture for it shows Vivaldi's red hair under his blond wig.

Vivaldi's music was innovative. He brightened the formal and rhythmic structure of the concerto, in which he looked for harmonic contrasts and innovative melodies and themes and many of his compositions are flamboyantly, almost playfully, exuberant.

Johann Sebastian Bach was deeply influenced by Vivaldi's concertos and arias and Bach transcribed six of Vivaldi's concerti but after the Baroque period, Vivaldi's published concerti went relatively unknown, and largely ignored, including The Four Seasons. Though his body of work includes over 500 instrumental concertos, sacred choral works and at least 50 operas, it would not be until the early 20th century that his work would be rediscovered.

In fact, it was an act of forgery which shed light onto the forgotten works of the composer when Fritz Kreisler composed a Vivaldi-styled concerto and tried to pass it off as an original Vivaldi work. This impelled the French scholar Marc Pincherle to begin an academic study of Vivaldi's oeuvre. Many Vivaldi manuscripts were rediscovered, and were acquired by the National University of Turin Library with generous sponsorship of Turinese businessmen Roberto Foa and Filippo Giordano.

In 1926, in a monastery in Piedmont, researchers discovered 14 folios of Vivaldi's work, previously thought lost during the Napoleonic wars. Though some volumes in the numbered set were missing, they turned up in the collections of the descendants of the Grand Duke Durazzo who had acquired the monastery complex in the 18th century. The volumes contained 300 concertos, 19 operas and over 100 vocal-instrumental works.

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The resurrection of Vivaldi's unpublished works in the 20th century is mostly due to the efforts of Alfredo Casella, who in 1939 organised the historic Vivaldi Week, in which the rediscovered Gloria and l'Olimpiade were first revived. Since World War II, Vivaldi's compositions have enjoyed wide success. In 1947, the Venetian businessman Antonio Fanna founded the Italian Institute of Antonio Vivaldi having the purpose of promoting Vivaldi's music and publishing new editions of his works. Unlike many of his contemporaries, whose music is rarely heard outside an academic or special-interest context, Vivaldi is popular among modern audiences.

Rediscoveries of works by Vivaldi are from as recent as 2006 when the lost 1730 opera Argippo was found by conductor and harpsichordist Ondrej Macek and Vivaldi scholar Michael Talbot has said of Vivaldi's Nisi Dominus, which was rediscovered in 2005, to be "arguably the best nonoperatic work from Vivaldi's pen to come to light since... the 1920s"

The first recording of The Four Seasons is a matter of some dispute. There is a recording of one made by the violinist Alfredo Campoli taken from a French radio broadcast from early in 1939 and the first proper electrical recording was made in 1942 by Bernardino Molinari, and though his adaptation is somewhat different from what we have come expect from modern performances it is clearly recognizable.

Subsequent recordings of The Four Seasons, of which more than 300 exist, have sold tens of millions of copies, making Vivaldi one of the most popular and well known of the great composers. If he were alive today, he would be a very wealthy man from the royalties alone, though one might also like to imagine a modern Vivaldi still teaching at an orphanage in Italy, instructing the youth and inspiring them with some of the most beautiful music that has ever been written.

July 29, 2010
Hopefully I will have enough time to finish today's show, but I have to be to work in a few hours so we'll see how it goes. Turtlestack (talk) 00:56, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Gibraltar police investigate suspicious death

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On this day in history

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In 1967, during the Vietnam war, the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal had been launching air strikes against North Vietnam from the Gulf of Tonkin. For four days, 150 missions had been flown off her flight deck until on the morning of July 29, while preparations for the second strike of the day were being made, an unguided 5 inch "Zuni" rocket located in a rocket pod under the wing of a F4 Phantom fighter jet was accidentally fired due to an electrical power surge during the switch from external power to internal power.

The rocket then flew across the flight deck, striking a wing-mounted external fuel tank on another plane which was awaiting launch. Though it is still unclear exactly which plane the rocket hit, one of the planes directly involved was being piloted by a young LCDR named John McCain, the now well known US Senator from Arizona and 2008 Presidential Candidate.

What happened next was a series of cascading disasters, many of which were preventable, but due to lack of training, poor equipment maintenance and confusion, would become one of the worst accidents in US Naval history, an incident still used in US Navy training schools today.

When the Zuni rocket hit the external fuel tank of the waiting aircraft, the warhead's safety mechanism prevented it from detonating, but the impact tore the tank off the wing and ignited the resulting spray of escaping JP-5 fuel, causing an instantaneous conflagration. Other external fuel tanks overheated and ruptured, releasing more jet fuel to feed the flames which spread along the flight deck, leaving pilots in their aircraft with the options of being incinerated in their cockpits or running through the flames to escape.

At the time, because of a shortage of 1,000 lb bombs, the older style Composition B bombs had been loaded from the ammunition ship USS Diamond Head, instead of newer Composition H6 which capable of withstanding higher temperatures. One pilot, LCDR Fred White, leaped from his burning aircraft but was killed instantly (along with many firefighters) by the cooking off of the first bomb. LCDR Herbert A. Hope jumped out of the cockpit of his aircraft between explosions, rolled off the flight deck and into the starboard man-overboard net. He then made his way down below to the hangar deck, and took command of a firefighting team. McCain escaped by climbing out of the cockpit, walking down the nose and jumping off the refueling probe.

The fire team's chief, Gerald Farrier (without benefit of protective clothing) immediately smothered two of the 1,000 lb bombs which lay in the burning fuel with a PKP fire extinguisher, a dry chemical fire suppression agent, in an effort to knock down the fuel fire long enough to allow the pilots to escape.

According to their training, the fire team normally had almost three minutes to reduce the temperature of the bombs to a safe level, but the chief did not realize the older Composition B bombs were already critically close to cooking-off until one split open. The chief, knowing a lethal explosion was imminent, shouted for the fire team to withdraw but the bomb exploded seconds later - only one and a half minutes after the start of the fire.

The detonation destroyed McCain's aircraft (along with its remaining fuel and armament), blew a crater in the armored flight deck, and sprayed the deck and crew with shrapnel and burning jet fuel. It killed the on-deck firefighting contingent, with the exception of three men who survived with critical injuries. Two bomb-laden aircraft which were in line ahead of McCain's were riddled with shrapnel and engulfed in the flaming jet fuel still spreading over the deck, causing more bombs to detonate and more fuel to spill.

Nine bomb explosions occurred on the flight deck, eight caused by the Composition B bombs and the ninth occurred as a sympathetic detonation, a detonation of an explosive charge by a nearby explosion, between an old bomb and a newer H6 bomb. The explosions tore large holes in the armored flight deck, causing flaming jet fuel to drain into the interior of the ship, including the living quarters directly underneath the flight deck, and the below-decks aircraft hangar.

Sailors and Marines finally controlled the flight deck fires within about two hours, and continued to clear smoke and to cool hot steel on the 02 and 03 levels until all fires were under control by 1:42pm. They finally declared the fire defeated at 4:00am the next morning, due to additional flare-ups. Throughout the day the ship’s medical staff worked in dangerous conditions to assist their comrades including HM2 Paul Streetman, one of 38 corpsmen assigned to the carrier, who spent over 11 hours on the mangled flight deck tending to his shipmates.

In all, the fire left 134 crewmen dead and 161 more injured. Many planes and armament were jettisoned to prevent them from catching fire or exploding. Twenty-one aircraft also sustained enough damage from fire, explosions and salt water to be stricken from naval inventory.

Though there were many firefighting tools available on Forrestal, including emergency respirators, the general crew were not trained in their use and either failed to use them correctly or did not coordinate their efforts correctly. For example, there were damage control teams spraying foam on the deck to contain the flames, which was the correct procedure, yet crewmen on the other side of the deck sprayed seawater, washing away the foam and worsening the situation by washing burning fuel through the hole in the flight deck into the decks below; burning fuel is not easily extinguished and can in fact be spread by water. Due to the first bomb blast killing nearly all of the specially trained firefighters on the ship, the remaining crew, who had no formal firefighting training, had to improvise.

The Navy still commonly refers to the fire aboard Forrestal, and the lessons learned, when teaching damage control and ammunition safety. A large portion of basic training is dedicated to firefighting and prevention tactics and every US Navy sailor is considered a firefighter first, a job your host once had when he served in the US Navy 25 years after the USS Forrestal, or Forrest Fire, incident.

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July 30, 2010

 * Again, like yesterday, I don't know if I can get this done before I have to go to work, but we'll see. Turtlestack (talk) 00:33, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

 * After editing the script together, I had to make a few alterations, combinations and cut one story, the Apple story. Sorry to do that, but it's rare I cut anything. However, I will mention the article in the outro by stating "To receive the latest news, including full coverage of Apple's release of the new Magic Trackpad and updates for the iMacs and Mac Pros, please visit wikinews.org, presenting up-to-date, relevant, newsworthy and entertaining content without bias." Turtlestack (talk) 01:01, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

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Raging Southern California wildfires force mandatory evacuation orders; 3 fatal air crashes occur in the United States; a French woman admits to killing her eight infants and, in history, Jimmy Hoffa disappears without a trace.

Medical helicopter crashes in Tucson, Arizona, kills all on board, C-17 crashes near air force base in Alaska

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Up to 140 feared dead as boat sinks in DR Congo

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On this day in history

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Born February 14, 1913, James Riddle Hoffa, better known simple as Jimmy Hoffa, disappeared on this day in 1975.

Hoffa was born in Brazil, Indiana; his father, a coal miner, died in 1920 when Hoffa was seven years old and so the family moved to Detroit in 1924, where Hoffa was raised and lived the rest of his life. Hoffa left school when he was still a teenager at 14, and began working as a full-time manual laborer to help support his family.

While working at a grocery chain he and his fellow employees were displeased with working conditions as the chain paid substandard wages and offered minimal job security and so they tried to organize a union to better their lot. Although Hoffa was young, his bravery and approachability in this role impressed his fellow workers, and he rose to a leadership position. By 1932, after being dismissed from the grocery chain—in part because of his union activities—Hoffa joined and became involved with Local 299 of the truck driving and warehousemen Union, known as the Teamsters, in Detroit.

Although he never actually worked as a truck driver, he became president of Local 299 in December 1946. Through his tactic of using "quickie strikes", secondary boycotts, and other means of leveraging union strength at one company, to then move to organize workers, he copuld win contract demands at other companies.

He then rose to lead the combined group of Detroit-area locals shortly afterwards, and advanced to become head of the Michigan Teamsters groups sometime later. During this time, Hoffa obtained a deferment from military service in World War II, by successfully making a case for his union leadership skills being of more value to the nation, by keeping freight running smoothly to assist the war effort.

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The Teamsters union, founded in 1899, had only 75,000 members in 1933. As a result of Hoffa's work with other union leaders to consolidate local union trucker groups into regional sections and then into one gigantic national body — work that Hoffa ultimately completed over a period of two decades — membership grew to 170,000 members by 1936. Three years later, there were 420,000; and the number grew steadily during World War II and through the post-war boom to top a million members by 1951.

By 1952, Hoffa rose to national vice-president of the Teamsters' IBT union, which was on its way to becoming the largest and most powerful single union in the United States. To gain this position, Hoffa quelled an internal revolt against incoming president Dave Beck, by securing the Midwest's support for Beck during an IBT convention in Los Angeles.

In 1955, the IBT moved its headquarters from Indianapolis to Washington, DC, taking over a large office building in the US capital and with an increased staff with many lawyers hired to assist with contract negotiations.

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When, in 1957 when he had taken over the presidency of the Teamsters, his predecessor, former president Dave Beck was under indictment on fraud charges and appeared before the John Little McClellan-led US Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor or Management Field in March 1957. Beck took the Fifth Amendment, which protects a defendant from being a witness against himself, 140 times in response to questions.

Following Hoffa's re-election as president in 1961, he worked to expand the union. In 1964, he succeeded in bringing virtually all over-the-road truck drivers in North America under a single national master-freight agreement. He then tried to bring the airline workers and other transport employees into the union, but with limited success. During this period, Hoffa was facing immense personal strain as he was under investigation, on trial, launching appeals of convictions, or imprisoned for virtually all of the 1960s.

In 1964, Hoffa was convicted in Chattanooga, Tennessee, of attempted bribery of a grand juror, and was sentenced to eight years. Hoffa was also convicted of fraud later that same year for improper use of the Teamsters' pension fund, in a trial held in Chicago. He received a five-year sentence to run consecutively to his bribery sentence.

Heoffa began serving his sentences in March 1967 at the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. Just before he entered prison, Hoffa appointed Frank Fitzsimmons as acting Teamsters president. Fitzsimmons was a Hoffa loyalist, fellow Detroit resident, and a longtime member of Teamsters Local 299 in Detroit, and owed his own high position in large part to Hoffa's influence. Despite this, Fitzsimmons distanced himself from Hoffa's influence and control after 1967, much to Hoffa's displeasure. Fitzsimmons also decentralized power somewhat within the Teamsters' union administration structure. During the Hoffa era, Hoffa had kept most power in his own hands.

But then on December 23, 1971, less than five years into his 13-year sentence, Hoffa was released from the Lewisburg, Pennsylvania prison, when President Richard Nixon commuted his sentence to time served. The IBT had endorsed Richard Nixon, the Republican Party's candidate, in his presidential re-election bid in 1972; in prior elections, the IBT union had supported Democratic Party nominees. Suspicions were soon raised of a deal for Hoffa's release being connected with the IBT's support of Nixon in 1972.

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While glad to regain his freedom, Hoffa was displeased with the condition imposed on his release by President Nixon that restricted Hoffa from participating in union activities until 1980. Hoffa was planning to sue to invalidate the non-participation restriction, in order to reassert his power over the Teamsters; but he faced immense resistance to this course of action from many quarters, and had lost much of his earlier support, even in the Detroit area. As a result, he intended to begin his comeback at the local level, with Local 299 in Detroit, where he retained some influence.

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Then at, or sometime after, 2:45 pm on July 30, 1975, from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, a suburb of Detroit, Hoffa disappeared. It was believed that he was to have been meeting with two Mafia leaders — Anthony Giacolone from Detroit, and Anthony Provenzano from New Jersey, but during the ensuing FBI investigation, Giacolone and Provenzano were each found not to have been in the vicinity of the restaurant that afternoon, and each of them denied that they had scheduled any meeting with Hoffa.

Although not claiming to conclusively establish the specifics of his disappearance, a 56-page report the FBI prepared indicates that law enforcement's belief is that Hoffa was murdered at the behest of organized crime figures who deemed his efforts to regain power within the Teamsters to be a threat to their control of the union's pension fund.

Following Nixon's resignation as president in disgrace over the Watergate scandal in August, 1974, Nixon avoided public life for over a year; his first public event was a charity fundraising golf tournament in California on October 9, 1975, at the La Costa Resort and Spa, which was heavily attended by Teamsters' leaders and associates, including IBT President Frank Fitzsimmons and mobster and IBT leading official Allen Dorfman; Hoffa had disappeared only ten weeks earlier.


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Australian rules football: 2010 Gippsland Football League round 15 - Leongatha v Traralgon

July 26, 2010

For the second time this season, defeated Gippsland Football League heavyweights. Playing at home, they went on to win by sixteen points.

The Gippsland Football League, officially the Gippsland League, is the only major Australian rules football competition in the region according to the.

Scores are quoted as goals-behinds (total); or goals, behinds. Goals are worth six points, behinds worth one.

Leongatha lead at every change, first by 31 points, then 25 points and 51 points. They kicked five goals, two behinds to a single behind in the first quarter; one goal one hind to two goals, one behind in the second; and four goals, three behinds to one behind in the third.

The final quarter saw Traralgon fight back and come within three goals of taking an unlikely victory. They managed to kick seven goals to Leongatha's, one goal, one behind to end the day losing by 16 points, 11–7 (73) to 9–3 (57).

Around the grounds, kicked three more behinds than the aggregate of the match described above as they defeated Sale in  20–13 (133) to 17–8 (110), an inaccurate  defeated a dismal Warragul in  13–26 (104) to 1–3 (9) and  traveled to  to defeat the hosts 17–13 (115) to 11–17 (83).


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Leongatha  Traralgon First 1/4     5-2         0-1 Second 1/4    1-1         2-1 (6-3)      (2-2) Third 1/4      4-3         0-1 (10-6)      (2-3) Fourth 1/4     1-1         7-0 Final score  11-7         9-3

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 * Sale 17-8 (110) lost to drouin 20-13 (133)
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I, Drew Smith, witnessed this event first hand. I was on my way home from four-wheeling at Kaeana Point when I saw smoke billowing up over the mountains. Not wanting to miss an opportunity I pulled out my iPhone and began taking pictures of the fire. Unfortunately I was in the seat opposite the fire, so the driver, and parts of the vehicle are present in most of the pictures. I witnessed Fire Trucks, a truck that had a giant water tank on it, and a helicopter with a water bucket. If anyone has any questions you can e-mail me or ask me on this talk page or my user talk page.
 * Can you provide the other photos fo verification --RockerballAustralia c 06:14, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

The pic used for the article was taken through the roof of the jeep. Part of the jeep was still in the picture, at the bottom, so I cropped it off. Drew R. Smith (talk) 06:49, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Flames are visible in number 3 at full size, and fire trucks are visible in 6 at full size. I had already put the phone away when we passed the helicopter on the ground with its bucket behind it about half a mile from the fire, pilot outside of the helicopter. We also passed a truck fill up a giant steel tank at a fire hydrant about a mile from the fire (that was the closest one to the fire). Drew R. Smith (talk) 06:52, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

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British snooker player Alex Higgins found dead at age 61

July 26, 2010

Snooker player, nicknamed "Hurricane", was found dead in his apartment in Donegall Road, , Northern Ireland on Saturday. He was aged 61 and had been suffering from since 1997.

Born in Belfast on March 18, 1949, Higgins became the champion of the at the age of 23 in 1972. He reached the same achievement again in 1982. Higgins' final title victory was in the in 1989.

During 1986, he received a fine and was banned from five tournaments after headbutting a director of a tournament. He was also banned from playing for one year in 1990 after threatening to have, another snooker player, shot.

Recently, Higgins lost all his teeth as the result of having treatment for his cancer. In May 2010, a charity dinner took place in, that raised approximately 20,000 (30,997, 23,859, 34,363, 31,961) so as to allow surgery for new teeth for him to occur. However, Higgins was considered to be too unhealthy to have the surgery in,.

Dennis Taylor, now a snooker commentator at the, stated that "[t]here was just something about the way he played the game — there was a little bit of in there. I don't think you'll ever see a player in the game of snooker like the great Alex Higgins."

Philip Studd, another commentator of snooker for the BBC, has described the late snooker player as being "snooker's original troubled genius" and that Higgins was "[c]harismatic, flash, fast, unpredictable, combustible — you just couldn't take your eyes off the 'Hurricane'." Studd continued to explain that "[w]hile he could never match the consistency of or, Higgins on his day was the greatest of them all. He touched the heights in 1982 when he won his second world title. He pipped  to the final thanks to a break still widely regarded as the finest ever made. His tears of triumph after beating  — wife and baby in arms — remains one of snooker's most iconic moments. Without Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins snooker would never have become one of the most popular television sports in the 1980s and beyond."


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Hey, thanks for your efforts. :) Unfortunately, I've failed the review of C-17 Crashes near Air Force Base in Alaska. Please have a read of my comments on the talk page and see what you can to improve the article. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts?   02:10, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
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BP CEO Tony Hayward to resign, say analysts

July 25, 2010

Chief Executive is negotiating the terms of his departure and will stand down from the company; effectively taking responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the, according to journalists. The New York Times cites an anonymous source "close to the board", and the BBC's business editor makes a similar analysis. It is expected that President and CEO of the company's Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, a Mississippi native, member of the Board of Directors, and most senior American executive of BP, will replace Tony Hayward as Chief Executive.

A report by the BBC World Service said a BP press release asserted that, "[Hayward] has the full confidence of the Board." The resignation, and change of leadership, at the multinational UK-based oil firm are expected to be discussed by the company's Board of Directors on Monday, and will potentially be ratified as early as Tuesday.

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Stampede at German music festival kills nineteen

July 25, 2010A stampede at the entrance of a German music festival, the, today killed nineteen people and injured around a hundred more.

The incident apparently took place due to overcrowding at the entrance to the grounds of the event, located in, Germany, which more than a million people were reported to have attended. Despite warnings by police of overcrowding, more people tried to enter the grounds. There is speculation that the panic may have begun when people fell after trying to cross a barrier, and subsequently spread.

Witness Udo Sandhoefer said that people "climbed up the walls and tried somehow to get into the grounds from the side, and the people in the crowd that moved up simply ran over those who were lying on the ground."

Emergency responders apparently encountered difficulties in reaching those in need of assistance due to the number of people in the area. Officials also decided not to evacuate the grounds of the event, citing concerns that a larger panic would be sparked if more people knew of the deaths.

A woman attending the event said that "[t]here were piles of injured on the ground, some being resuscitated, others dead and covered with sheets. It was way too full in the afternoon, everybody wanted to get in."

A statement from president said that "[i]t is terrible that such a catastrophe brought death, suffering and pain to a peaceful festival full of happy young people from many countries."

The mayor of Duisburg, Adolf Sauerland, said that security measures at the event were sufficient, and that an investigation into the incident was already under way.


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BP has denied this, according to BBC news... -- 90.194.170.164 (talk) 14:07, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

As I read it, BP denied that the Board had taken a decision.

The NYT seems pretty sure of its anonymous source(s), enough to say "expected". However, the BBC put its headlines in quotation marks.

Does our future tense headline and story express sufficient uncertainty about the expectation? I don't think so, and I will offer an alternative for review.

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Mr Hayward is a fine man and was spoken to as if he was a nobody by Senators if thats what one would call them who were not fit to sit in the same room as him. This is not about money he was the only one who had integrity.

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 * This review is utterly unacceptable. I don't give a rat's ass which language version it is translated from; the source article is single source, so would never have been published here in the first place. In all likelihood, I caught this fast enough to unpublish before GNews caught it. Are you trying to get us sued by a major news organisation? --Brian McNeil / talk 21:15, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Not single source AFAIS, it points out it is a translation from a Spanish Wikinews article, that I don't think is false. Diego Grez return fire 21:19, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * This isn't a single source article, it's a translation of the Spanish one, which is a copy of an article that is licensed so it can be copied outright, plus it has the AFP source. That's two. C628 (talk) 21:48, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I looked at the Spanish one; it is single source. That it says, "oh, here's a msm source to back me up" does not overcome that requirement. There are very good reasons why single source, even if CC-licensed, is something that should not be accepted. It goes beyond mere copyright, and into appropriate due-diligence. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:24, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I get annoyed because we're going over the same ground again, and again, and again. This article did not use appropriate templates, it did not use appropriate section names, it was copied from an article on another language which is single source as, supposedly, a verbatim copy of something freely licensed. Synthesis is not just about avoiding copyright violation, it is about avoiding a built-in or inherent bias of a source which might freely license for political reasons – like Voice of America. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:41, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The Spanish article is not single source. It was "based on" this article, with a backup link provided to AFP. Tempodivalse [talk]  23:04, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * IMHO, to justify the publication of this article, at least an attribution should be made to that 20 minutes site. Kayau (talk · contribs) 02:26, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I have done so, adding our normal source template to make it clearer. Brian if you have a problem with the practices of the Spanish Wikinews, take it up over there. the wub "?!"  09:09, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

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 * "Colombia released documents showing the active presence of FARC on Venezuelan territory at the Washington headquarters of the OAS, demanding a special inquiry to investigate the matter."

This passage presents Colombia's official position as indisputable fact, with no mention whatsoever of Venezuela's vehement denial or counteraccusations. This is misleading and strikes me as a serious, if subtle breach of NPOV policy. HaroldWilson'sWar (talk) 19:14, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Good call; although the documents do show the presence, etc., it relies on the assumption Colombia is a trusted source. I added the word allegedly to the sentence, showing we do not assume the documents are factual. -  Amgine | t 19:18, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Which in journalism, of course, is a ludicrous assumption to make . Imagine if an article presented U.S. Secratary of State Colin Powell's 2003 Iraq WMD accusations at the UN in the same manner. It would be a mark of sloppy journalism at best, and U.S. state department propaganda at worst, especially considering that the documents and photos Powell presented were later confirmed to have been fabricated. Information from neither Colombia nor Venezuela should be treated as factual or "trusted" sources, However both natons' official positions should be represented fairly and accurately. HaroldWilson'sWar (talk) 19:48, 26 July 2010 (UTC)


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Open Rights Group holds first conference in London

July 25, 2010 London — The, a pressure group pursuing reform of law in the United Kingdom, held its first "ORGCon" yesterday at. Approximately 100 delegates took part in six hours of panel discussions and workshops on a wide range of topics in intellectual property, discussing such subjects as "How To Talk To Your " and "ACTA: A Shady Business", in what ORG billed as a "crash course in digital rights" designed to inspire campaigning on intellectual property issues.

, a fiction author and digital rights activist, led the keynote panel discussion "Thriving in the Real Digital Economy", which opened the conference. Doctorow called for a "reframing" of the digital rights slogan "information wants to be free". "The most important thing" about digital rights, he noted, "has nothing to do with art. We are refitting the information network with lots of control." (DRM) technologies, Doctorow warns, build in limitations on how consumers exchange information and "abuse the market". John Buckman of followed up Doctorow's comments, noting that DRM is "unsustainable" but that the public needed to "pressure companies into" open-source solutions.

A keynote speech by compared the current age to the age just before application of the theories of  and other early capitalist economists began breaking down the entrenched monopolies of. Boyle called on the audience to come up with a "jaw droppingly simple" idea for a reformed copyright system; he gave his speech in front of a projection of the as audience members commented on his words.

Boyle, like most of the conference, took a pro-reform but anti-piracy position, saying "It is a tragedy that an entire generation has lost the notion that breaking the law is wrong". While several members of the, wearing matching t-shirts, attended the conference and held a during the last session, none spoke in the keynote sessions either as panelists or in the discussions.

Among the many workshops which comprised the last three hours of the day, Open Rights Group held a session on student groups and committed itself to establishing Open Rights Group Youth societies at universities across the United Kingdom. Young activists, such as Wikipedian Jdforrester, also dominated the "Your Shout" session in which any and all delegates could give three-minute speeches on any intellectual property subject which interested them.

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I attended ORGCon in my press capacity, identifying myself as a Wikinews editor at all times. Some of my notes are handwritten and the digital ones are a bit garbled -- my battery died early on in the day. I've refreshed my memory at one or two points by reading back the Twitter feed with hashtag #orgcon from the day of the conference. I attended the keynote sessions, "Your Shout", the "Student Groups" workshop, "Open BBC", "Web-blocking" and "ACTA: A Shady Business". --81.100.247.174 (talk) 23:15, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Claiming this article and these notes. --Killing Vector (talk) 23:16, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

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As I recall, we're talking about an accredited reporter here. "Killing Vector" as an image credit just looks unprofessional. What is wrong with an unlinked-from real name? I know not everyone is as foolhardy as myself, and prepared to put their real name on stuff. --Brian McNeil / talk 05:12, 27 July 2010 (UTC)


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New Jersey governor calls television show "Jersey Shore" negative

July 27, 2010 , governor of the US state of New Jersey, complained on 's Sunday morning talk show ' that TV series ' promotes a negative image of the state.

Prompted by a feature in The New York Times on, one of the stars of the MTV show, interviewer Jake Tapper asked the governor whether he thought the series was positive or negative for the state. Christie unequivocally answered that the show was "negative for New Jersey... It takes a bunch of New Yorkers, drops them on the Jersey Shore, and tries to make America feel like this is New Jersey". He concluded, "I can tell people: they want to know what New Jersey really is? I welcome them to come to New Jersey any time."

In a wide-ranging interview the governor also faced questions about local and national politics, including New Jersey's 11 billion budget deficit. Specifically, he was challenged over his plans to not pay $3 billion into public pension funds, payments described by the interviewer as a "legal obligation". He said that he "wasn't going to put $3 billion into a failing pension system" and that there would be further reforms of pensions and health benefits.

Christie was further questioned over his ongoing conflicts with teachers unions. He responded that "we can't have one sector of our society sheltered from the ravages of the recession, at the cost to people who have been hurt by the recession the most", citing the example of construction unions in New Jersey currently suffering unemployment between 35 and 50%.


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BP's trying to avoid death by public relations, and given how lazy news outlets can be, Tony Hayward ends up being responsible for everything. He'll get a ton of money just to resign and the company might not explode. It's a great trade, but then when you're in a position like his you didn't necessarily work for the money in the first place. He'll just have slightly more free time now.


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I don't think his conduct has been ideal over the last few months. After all, if you're going to take on personal responsibility for something like that, you need to have some clue on how to deal with the press. That said, I can't help but feel that he's been made a scapegoat.


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The real article should focus on this :

"The ten minute interview also included questions about local politics, including New Jersey's US$11 billion budget deficit. Specifically he was asked about a US$3 billion cut in public pension funds. He said that he “wasn’t going to put $3 billion into a failing system”."

not the soap opera drama show. Perhaps referring to this television series as an anecdote would be a more reasonable approach. Putting the financial difficulties and the role government must play to fix these issues of the state into context would be valid, but this (as it is now) hardly seems newsworthy since it really is just a piece about the opinion a political figure has about a mildly popular television series. Turtlestack (talk) 00:47, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Much, much more interesting. But, the lede is a hook to draw in readers. --Brian McNeil / talk 00:50, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree that it's a good hook, no doubt about it, but two of the three paragraphs focus on the negative image of Jersey from the show, not the real issue of economic hardship. Granted, Jersey has a bad reputation in the US (especially when you ask the rest of us from back east), and this show does a disservice to the residents of the state who are not "Guidos", however, this article seems to just focus on this image disparity and does not dig too deep. It's really all hook and no fish. Turtlestack (talk) 00:54, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm certainly not opposed to it being labelled develop, with points of improvement. The stereotypes put forward in such "soap opera dioramas" are invariably a reflection of a far more cruel reality; one where, as you say, the Governor is reinforcing the downward spiral that led to the stereotype. --Brian McNeil / talk 01:00, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree. The information about the show should be included in the article because A) it's a good hook and B) it speaks to a larger issue within the state and makes a good juxtaposition between a soap opera "reality" against the difficult economic reality of many people in Jersey as well as the reality of a difficult and contentious political reality. Further development should be the way to go here, in my opinion. Turtlestack (talk) 01:06, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I hunted down a video of the interview itself, and hopefully added a little more meat to the article from it. the wub "?!"  21:01, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

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 * Good catch on the quote, I've corrected it from the video (it's at 9:35 if anyone wants to check). The focus on the comments about the show is deliberate, that's the bit of this interview that has attracted wider attention in the media, even if it was just intended as a lighthearted bit at the end. And we could hardly use the current headline if the article didn't specifically talk about it. But see the discussion above, it makes a good "hook" to bring people to the article, and we can then give them a bit of information about the more serious issues in the interview. I don't think we should be quoting vast swathes of it though. the wub "?!"  22:23, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I think it's worth including more of the real political stuff and a bit lees of the "New Jersey Governor takes cheap shot at popular culture", but that's just my opinion (not wearing my reviewer hat). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts?   01:05, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I've put it back for review. The thing that people are interested in is the comments about "Jersey Shore", sad though that is, so that's the focus. The rest of the interview was just a pretty standard political interview, nothing new or ground-breaking seems to have been revealed by it, and it's not really newsworthy in itself. Without the Jersey Shore comments, I doubt it would have even gotten any write-ups. This isn't an article I would have chosen to write, but it should be moderately interesting to some people and it would be sad to see the work on it go to waste. the wub "?!"  10:05, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

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This article is shaping up well, however, the lede, as enticing as it is, goes nowhere - it just kinda falls out halfway through the article which then becomes about the troubles the governor is having. I think if we can find a way to tie the hook back into the ending somehow while at the same time making it relevant to what the governor is talking about, then this story should be good to publish. Turtlestack (talk) 10:06, 27 July 2010 (UTC)


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watching BBC news 24 and Sky news, will try and find in print the opinions of their talking heads.KTo288 (talk) 11:52, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

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It deserves a lot more, if someone can manage it.

--InfantGorilla (talk) 16:24, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree. This is a big story - maybe too big for just a few people to really come to grips with since there are 90000 documents and a lot of pissed of government officials. Turtlestack (talk) 18:49, 27 July 2010 (UTC)


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Thread:Comments:Hong Kong teenager murders mother and sister/Comments from feedback form - "I would prefer to read such st..."/reply (3)

Oh Sure. Blame it on the Metal.


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Thread:Comments:Beleagured BP CEO Tony Hayward to step down/not surprising/reply (5)

Is someone 'taking responsibility' really what we need? Is that productive? How much will this change in leadership disrupt the organization of the company? How will this affect cleanup efforts? Is this act just a burnt effigy?

Personally I feel like this is just an attempt at spin, to change the focus of public scrutiny and opinion.


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Sweden, Australia, Britain and the United States and Canada (whether military staff or civilian experts) according to Wikipedia.


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User talk:Scott2010~enwikinews

Your account will be renamed
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User:1234r00t

I mainly work at en.wikipedia but have decided to broaden my horizons by coming over here.  Mr. R00t   Talk  00:11, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

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Thread:Comments:Beleagured BP CEO Tony Hayward to step down/not surprising/reply (6)

Yes, spin is exactly what it is. Of course that's what it is. It will have little to no actual impact on Tony Hayward, BP, or the environment. It will still be a largely successful attempt at spin.