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Noted stamp engraver Czeslaw Slania dies at 83

March 22, 2005 STOCKHOLM, Sweden. 21 March 2005

The Swedish Post Office announced the famous stamp engraver, Czeslaw Słania, died in the night of Thursday, 17 March.

Born in Czeladź, Poland in October 1921, he was trained at the Kraków School of Fine Arts from 1945. While still a student, he was hired by Poland's printing bureau and began a career as an engraver, producing his first postage stamp for Poland in 1951.

In 1956 Słania moved to Sweden, where three years later he began work for the Swedish Post Office and became their chief engraver. He produced over 1,000 stamps for Sweden and 28 other countries. His work is of such recognized quality and detail that he is one of the very few "household names" among philatelists. Some specialize in collecting his work alone. His 1,000th stamp was the magnificent "Great Deeds by Swedish Kings" by David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl in 2000, which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. He was also engaged in engraving banknotes for many countries, recent examples of his work including the Prime Ministerial portraits on the front of the new Canadian $5 and $100 bills.

Słania was active until the end of his life, delivering his last completed stamp that commemorated the 60th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly, in February 2005.


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American Thom Mayne snags Pritzker architecture prize

March 22, 2005

Longtime Los Angeles architect was awarded this year's. Established in 1979 to honor "consistent and significant contributions to humanity," the prize is considered by many to be the highest honor in the field. The award includes a bronze medallion and US$100,000. Mayne was the first American to receive it in 14 years; previous American recipients include (1991) and  (1989).

Mayne earned his architecture degree from the {{w|University of Southern California|University of Southern California]] in 1968. A few years later he founded his own architecture school, the {{w|Southern California Institute of Architecture|Southern California Institute of Architecture}}, which remains to this day. He then moved to Los Angeles, where in addition to running a firm, Morphosis, he teaches architecture at UCLA.

Mayne's earlier work, considered "angry" and "brooding", was outside of the architectural mainstream. His style was often called bold and audacious. This style has recently become more accepted, as Morphosis won contracts to design government buildings in California, Oregon, and Washington, DC. The firm also designed an Olympic village in {{w|Queens, New York|Queens}}, in preparation for the city's 2012 Olympics bid.

On receiving the prize, Mayne said, "This is such a big deal....it is not in my nature to think about being the one who prevails. For my whole life, I've always seen myself as an outsider."


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What are "alternative governments" mentioned in the 5th graph of the story? -edw 03:56, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I just clarified that and added a new source. VF 04:04, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you VF. -edw 04:18, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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I was just getting ready to move this story to the location you inserted it into. Thank you Arwel Parry. -edw 04:24, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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Volunteers endure bed-rest study

March 22, 2005 Volunteers began a 60 day bed-rest marathon on March 19 to study simulated weightlessness effects on women astronauts. The study, Women International Space Simulation for Exploration(WISE), is conducted at the MEDES Space Clinic in Toulouse, France.

The 12 women, selected from 1600 applicants hailing from France,Great Britain, Germany, Finland, The Netherlands, Poland and the Czech Republic began the study after a 20 day screening for baseline comparison data as the study progressed.

The women will conduct all activities from eating, bathing, and reading while lying in hospital beds tilted headfirst at a six degree angle. This particular position, called head-down tilt bed rest was determined from previous studies to remove the vertical load of gravity on the body, inducing changes similar to what astronauts in a genuine weightless environment experience.

Long term exposure to weightlessness creates a number of physiological and psychological problems in astronauts such as:
 * Reduced capacity for physical exertion
 * Muscle atrophy
 * Affects of confinement and isolation
 * Impaired circulatory function

A total of 24 women will participate in the study. A second group of 12 will join in September.

Three groups of eight women each will be studied over the course of the two campaigns of bed rest. One group will serve as a control, receiving no specific treatments, the second will exercise, while the third will receive nutritional supplements.

The study is designed to fill in gaps of knowledge on the differences between men and women during extended weightlessness. It also aims to develop countermeasures for reducing the debilitating effects of long spaceflights.

Participating agencies in the study include the European Space Agency, NASA, the French Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.

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India and Europe team up for moon mission

March 22, 2005 The European Space Agency (ESA) Council approved a cooperation agreement on March 17 between the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the ESA for India's Chandrayan-1 moon satellite mission. The Chandrayan-1 will be India's first moon mission attempt.

Europe will, under the agreement, provide and support three instruments for the lunar explorer: CIXS-2, Chandrayan-1 Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer; SARA; a Sub-keV Atom Reflecting Analyzer, and SIR-2, a Near-Infrared Spectrometer. Europe will support hardware for the HEX, High-Energy X-ray Spectrometer. Data from these instruments will be turned over to the ESA for distribution to ESA member states. These instruments are the same as the ones carried onboard ESA's SMART-1 moon exploration spacecraft.

ISRO plans to launch the half-ton Chandrayan sometime before 2008 for a two year mission to study the solar system and the Moon. The satellite will be boosted by India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.

The ISRO has been placing satellites in Earth orbit since 1975 and has developed its own launch vehicles and satellites for telecommunications and weather forecasting. A manned mission had been previously considered but was deemed too costly to carry through.


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Ourmedia.org project launched to provide global repository of "grassroots media"

March 22, 2005 Launched yesterday with funding for bandwidth and storage donated by Internet Archive, a new website called Ourmedia aspires to serve as a global repository for free content, which donors are encouraged to license for re-use by others.

Started by Internet Archive employee J.D. Lasica and Marc Canter, who founded Macromind, which became Macromedia, Ourmedia has a team of what Lasica refers to as "moderators" that will ensure that the site does not host pornography or copyrighted or defamatory materials. Their |"Site rules" note that the moderators will be the "sole arbiters" of what will be hosted on the site.

Lasica and Canter have been working on the site with a cadre of volunteers since they met at a Supernova conference 9 months ago, according to Lasica's blog. The site was started in the summer of 2004, and announced its official launch on March 21, 2005.

While the server initially hosting Ourmedia was not able to handle the load imposed when publicised on tech news sites such as Slashdot and BoingBoing (reported by ITConversations, among others), it has now been replaced and improved. According to a post on the Ourmedia blog, "The transition to a new dedicated server has been completed, the database configuration has been given an overhaul, and some of the code has been cleaned up."

The software running Ourmedia is an open source content management system called Bryght, described at Bryght.com as "the Drupal core set of modules plus a set of contributed Drupal modules." Ourmedia describes their system as being "alpha" quality; they note that because all of the media files on their site are being hosted by the Internet Archive, users will need to register with both sites with the same username and password until the registration systems are unified.


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Surfwax releases "quick index" to 600k Wikipedia terms

March 22, 2005

Surfwax, Inc., a metasearch engine and knowledge-tool provider announced its release of Wikiwax, a new portal for searching Wikipedia article titles. This is the latest addition to its offerings of narrowly focused search portals, such as its News Accumulator and ShopEasier shopping portal.

Wikiwax claims to index over 600,000 Wikipedia terms, and its list of titles was last updated sometime in March, 2005. Once you enter terms into the search field, a menu of matching titles is shown; selecting one of the titles takes you directly to its Wikipedia entry.

Wikiwax uses a Surfwax feature called LookAhead to suggest auto-completions of search terms as a user types them. It matches both articles whose titles start with the search terms, and articles containing those terms in that order. For example, a search for "Wales, Jimmy" would find the article "Jimmy Wales". A search for "The Earth" would also match "The Earth Stood Still, The Day". Surfwax offered visitors this manner of LookAhead auto-complete searching for over a year.

Other Surfwax projects include Nextaris, an all-in-one "information exchange" portal offering searching/uploading/sharing/publishing/social-networking, and search packages targeted to specific industries, such as the Surfwax Scholar portal offered to educational institutions.


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U.S. TV networks look to past for future programming

Four of six national television broadcast networks recently wooed potential advertisers for the 2005-2006 season with programming offerings in the new development phase. These included NBC, Fox, ABC and The WB. Two other networks, CBS and UPN, plan to preview their offerings March 24.

After four years of focusing on high-profile reality television, network executives are turning to the past for inspiration on scripted series. Some networks said they are "more consciously aggressive about developing shows" that recall such classics as Taxi and Barney Miller, Craig Erwich, a programming executive for Fox, told USA Today. In the same report, Kevin Reilly, NBC entertainment chief said, "I don't think the answer has to be that it's groundbreaking or something you've never seen before."

But at least one ad buyer had reservations about the rear-view mirror technique. "Every network seems to be looking back rather than forward for programming ideas. The reminiscence factor may be good if you are looking for an older audience, but it may not be a way to bring in the younger audiences," Laura Caraccioli-Davis, senior vice president and director of Starcom Entertainment told Mediaweek magazine.


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Ten dead on Minnesota Indian reservation after school shooting

March 22, 2005 A 17-year-old Minnesota student is believed to have shot his grandfather and grandmother, drove his grandfather's squad car to the high school, and shot a security guard, a teacher and five other classmates, later committing suicide. This happened at 3pm local time on Monday (2100 UTC), and as many as 14 others were injured before the rampage subsided.

One witness said of the gunman, he was "grinning and waving".

"I looked him in the eye and ran in the room, and that's when I hid," Sondra Hegstrom told The Pioneer of Bemidji. "You could hear a girl saying, 'No, Jeff, quit, quit. Leave me alone. What are you doing?"

Today's incident marks the highest death toll yet in US school shootings since the Columbine High School massacre in April 1999. There were 15 people shot in Jefferson County, near Littleton, Colorado, in the Columbine shooting.

Police are still investigating any possible motive.

"It will probably take us throughout the night to really put the whole picture together," said FBI spokesman Paul McCabe in a briefing to the press. "We do have evidence that we believe that the shooter is dead," he continued, "we believe he was acting alone."

Reporters were asked to leave the area, located on The Red Lake reservation, by tribal authorities.

"The events that took place today involving the shootings at the Red Lake High School make this one of the darkest and most painful occurrences in the history of our tribe," said Floyd Jourdain Jr., Chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians. The Indian band is made up of about 5,100 people, living on 825,000 acres of land in the northern part of the state.

Minnesota's last school shooting was in September 2003, when two students were fatally shot at Rocori High School. That incident had statewide implications, causing a hearing on expansion of tribal gaming in Minnesota to be canceled for the day.

"We ask Minnesotans to help comfort the families and friends of the victims who are suffering unimaginable pain by extending prayers and expressions of support," said a statement from Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.


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This isn't the first murder case I've reported on, so to avoid any trouble, I will start a poll to answer the nagging question left unanswered by this article:

Should the article provide the name of the alleged shooter, given that he is a minor?

The name has been published by other news outlets, but I don't want to put someone's undies in a bunch over human rights violations if there is a strong objection to publishing the name.

They could just go on another news site. The name is everywhere.

Support publishing the name:
 * 1) Support. — DV 06:07, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support - it is not our job to censor for readers. Further, many respectable newsources have already released it. --OldakQuill 19:33, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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 * The poor kid is dead. His father committed suicide a few years ago, and his mother is in a nursing home with brain damage from a car accident. The grandfather was fatally shot as well. Perhaps revealing the name is only piling on. — DV 06:07, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Wikinews is an international news outlet. The UK press has published the names of accused minors in other cases, so this isn't strictly an issue about the conventions of the American press. — DV 06:07, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * They could just go on another news site. The name is everywhere. 4.27.228.223 22:52, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

If there are no serious objections, I will add the name, but I thought it was prudent to ask beforehand. — DV 06:07, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 *  We were just discussing this. Frankly, I think the name should not be there until the kid is found guilty by coroner if not a court. But it is well known, and the Bemidji quote already has his first name. - Amgine 06:12, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, it's unlikely there will be a court case, given that most of the parties are dead. I can't remember a case of a coroner pronouncing the guilt or innocence of a subject - they usually restrict themselves to cause of death - which in this case is likely to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. If the court never gets a case, and the coroner only pronounces cause of death, it seems a bit of a catch-22 that we can never list the name, but I'm open-minded about it.

 * You never know where The Shadow lurks,

 * — DV 06:43, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * In this case I do not know who will be the determining officer (because it is on the reservation), but the coroner really is the person who would decide the cause of death for the group, and would probably name names in finding the cause of death if this were handled under the county jurisdiction. Weird, isn't it?
 * As for this article, I was just expression my personal opinion. - Amgine 06:49, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * It's not a big deal. If the alleged shooter had been caught alive, perhaps I would feel differently, but I will stay laid back on this one. — DV 06:54, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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One witness said the gunman was "grinning and waving". - I find the inclusion of this sentence highly questionable - it serves no purpose and simply appears sensationalist. Anyone have any views? --OldakQuill 19:33, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately, that's likely to be the only witness quote available for a while. The tribe has closed the reservation to all reporters. I, too, find the quote objectionable, but it is newsworthy. (the full quote has him grinning at a girl and waving the gun, then pointing it away from her to shoot another person.) - Amgine 23:25, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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Romanian Commercial Bank to launch smart cards in early April

March 22, 2005 Starting from April 4, the Romanian Commercial Bank (Banca Comercială Română, or BCR), the country's largest bank, will launch a smart card system for all its ATM network as well as its point-of-sale terminals in more than 5,000 stores across Romania. While the system will be enabled to work with these cards from April, the smart cards themselves will only be issued to account holders in the second half of the year.

Smart cards in a banking context are cards which contain information on a chip and can permit greater security and control of transactions. BCR is the first Romanian bank to use this technology.


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Romanian Visa card transactions increase by 60 percent in 2004

March 22, 2005 Total Romanian Visa card transactions rose by 60% in 2004 in comparison to 2003. They reached a value of US$2.8 billion. This was due to a 30% increase in the number of cards issued, as well as greater spending by Romanians. The results are based on both ATM transactions and purchases in various stores.

According to Visa, purchases with Visa cards almost doubled to $164.4 million. The number of people in Romania who pay with Visa cards rose by 130%, reaching 3.3 million customers. The most popular cards were Visa Gold, with nearly 800,000 cards issued in 2004, and Visa Electron, with more than 600,000 cards issued.

Visa cards are an increasingly popular way of consumer spending in Romania and, by the end of 2004, they were accepted at 15,727 locations across the country, an increase of 17.7% in comparison to 2003.


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Romanian mobile phone giant Connex to launch 3G network

March 22, 2005 Romanian mobile telephony giant Connex, recently bought by Vodafone, announced the company is planning to introduce 3G services and video telephony. Romanian cities effected by the change are: Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timişoara, Braşov, Constanţa, Ploieşti, Craiova and Iaşi. The only 3G-enabled model currently sold by Connex is the Nokia 6630.

Ken Campbell, chief marketing officer of Connex, said he expects the 3G introduction to be successful, given the Romanian interest in video telephony services. Connex's 3G technology will also provide a permanent connection to the Internet, access to multimedia content, live video streaming and video conferencing. The network also provides mobile broadband speeds of up to 384 kbps.

Connex is currently the second-largest mobile telephony company in Romania, with nearly five million customers. It is one of Romanian's best recognised companies.


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Romanian defense minister to visit Bulgaria

March 22, 2005 The Romanian defence minister Teodor Atanasiu will start a two-day tour of Bulgaria today by visiting the country's main air-force base at Graf Ignatievo. Atanasiu will meet with Bulgarian prime minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha and defence minister Nikolay Svinarov. The theme of the visit is the deepening of bilaterial military co-operation between the two neighbouring countries.

Romania and Bulgaria both joined NATO in 2004. They are also expected to host US military bases in the near future as the USA wishes to move its European troops from Germany into Southeastern Europe. The deepening of military ties between the countries is expected to increase their strategic military position in the world. Both Romania and Bulgaria were major participants in the US-led invasion of Iraq and the resulting peacekeeping efforts. Romania currently supplies one of the world's largest contingents of troops in Iraq, with nearly 1000 people.


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Internet through electrical power network introduced in Bucharest

March 22, 2005 Between 10 to 15 of Bucharest's 61 Unirii Boulevard residents will be able to connect to the Internet through their power lines. Starting from May of this year, a trial was organised by Electrica Muntenia Sud, the electricity company of Bucharest and Southern Romania.

The technology, known as Power Line Communications (PLC), enables the transmission of broadband Internet and fixed line telephony data through the existing electrical power network. The technology, in use by 13,000 people in 30 countries throughout the world, is considered very advantageous due to its high speeds and low cost. It uses infrastructure that is already available in most people's homes.

Once the Unirii Boulevard trial concludes, and if it is successful, Electrica Muntenia Sud will roll-out the PLC Internet plan to the mass market. It is expected to be embraced by Romanians because its data transfer speed of 5Mps is available for a monthly subscription fee of less than 15 euro.

Bucharest is the first city in Southeastern Europe to trial such innovative technology.


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I'm not sure I understand the point of these drive-by "disputed" tags.

If critics are too busy to pitch in and help improve the article themselves, then at a minimum, I hope it wouldn't be too much to ask for specific objections on the talk page so that others can attempt to address the concerns.

Simply labeling the article "disputed" and then running off and leaving us to wonder what is wrong serves no purpose. — DV 09:58, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I visited this page earlier and made edits to remove content that I considered, without mentioning, were mildly Point-Of-View. -edw 19:53, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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EU looks set to continue arms embargo on China

March 22, 2005

The EU is likely to delay the end of its arms embargo on China until next year, European diplomats said. The delay is a response to legislation passed in China earlier this month, authorising the use of military force against Taiwan if it attempts to officially secede from the mainland.

The EU came under intense pressure from the United States to not lift the embargo imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, when the Chinese government suppressed pro-democracy demonstrators. The US Congress threatened that it would retaliate against the EU if it lifted the arms embargo, by blocking the approval of technology transfer licenses.

The EU has made clear the delay is only temporary, and their commitment from last December to lift the embargo still stood.

European Commission spokeswoman Emma Udwin added, "The timescale is completely open, no deadline. [The] Luxembourg presidency said in January that they wanted to lift the embargo within their presidency, but there is no obligation to do that."

China defended its anti-secession law and responded to the ban by saying, "The EU ban on arms sales to China is political discrimination against China and out of keeping with the times," Liu Jianchao, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman told a news conference.

"We hope the EU will make the political decision to lift the ban as soon as possible," Liu continued. "It's unreasonable to link China pushing the EU to lift the arms embargo and China passing the anti-secession law," he said.

On Sunday, British foreign secretary Jack Straw in a British television interview commented that lifting the arms embargo was "more difficult rather than less difficult," and that China's anti-secession law towards Taiwan created "a difficult political environment."

However, diplomats have told Le Monde that the UK was lobbying for a push-back of the decision to 2006, particularly among various EU countries more focuses on human rights issues.

The UK continues to support ending the embargo in principle, and Prime Minister Blair has envisioned a successful decision by the summer. While Britain is sensitive to American pressure, it nonetheless wants to assure a positive road leading up to its assuming of EU presidency duties on July 1.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice characterized Mr. Straw's remarks as "sobering comments" during her stay in Beijing on Monday.

"After all, it is American forces here in the Pacific that have played the role of security guarantor," she said.


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Wow. This is a surprising story. I had thought the EU was going to tell Bush to piss off and begin arms sales to China fairly soon.

The EU is leaving a lot of money on the table by foregoing these sales and continuing the embargo.

Perhaps China's timing wasn't so good in announcing the anti-secession law last week?

I'm looking forward to reading more about this story.

— DV 10:58, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * By the way, this report has some interesting tidbits about this story:

 * EU delays lifting China arms embargo

lol, that was the first source i found, great minds think alike i guess :P The bellman 11:14, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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I notice after editing the embargo story that it does not automatically update the content on the Main Page. hmmmm.... -edw 17:02, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, it's synched now. — DV 17:06, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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FARC and Brazilian Workers' Party:the general didn't tell the truth, says former Abin superior to Veja

The Head Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet of Brazil, General Jorge Felix, and the director-general of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin), Mauro Marcelo de Lima e Silva, testifying before a commission of deputies and senators, said documents may be incorrect. They maintain the Brazilian magazine Veja, in its article "FARC's tentacles in Brazil", should not be used.

This weekend, Veja presented testimonies by people who allegedly worked on Abin's FARC-PT investigation. These contradict the explanations that General Felix gave to the commission.

The Veja's story
Last week, the magazine Veja reported that the Workers' Party (PT)  received 5 million dollars to be used for the political campaign of candidates in 2002 from the Colombian Communist armed group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP). The news appeared on by Brazilian television chanells Globo and Record.

Veja said that it used as its sources the documents from Abin and the allegations of Abin's employees. The Head Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet of Brazil's General Jorge Felix, and the director-general of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin), Mauro Marcelo de Lima e Silva, said that the  documents were not reliable.

The official Abin version can be seen on its website. The agency stores and archives all data collected by the intelligence service, including data that do not fulfill all Abin's criteria for consistency and accuracy. Every kind of document remains in Abin archive so it can be re-evaluated in the future. According to General Felix, Abin archives may contain data that are not relevant, tendentious or completely untrue. The documents mentioned by Veja are this sort of data.

According to Brazilian Federal Senate's website, General Félix told "the documents  were archived because they don't deserve credit, and they don't present any proof related to the allegations contained therein".

The general said: "Of course Abin monitores all FARC activities, it is part of its job; however, in this specific case, there is no sustainable argument, and there is any credibility. Therefore, the papers are archived."

On 21 March Veja published another article named: "They know everything about it", contradicting Abin. The article stated that two people -- a alleged spy who was in a meeting where a supposed donation by the FARC member father Medina took place, and his former Abin superior, Colonel Eduardo Adolfo Ferreira -- had said that the documents were not merely information ignored by the agency, due to a lack of evidence, as the General Félix argued.

Veja's wrote that the documents that mentioned the alleged FARC-PT relationship were considered very important by  Abin. Veja's story told the documents were archived and the investigations into their contents ceased after the victory of the Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).

Veja has since claimed to have interviewed the Albin spy again, whose identity the magazine chooses not to reveal, since he is allegedly still active.

According to the spy, he infiltrated the labour union movement twenty years ago. His colleagues were PT members and Communists and his task was informing the intelligence agency about the Brazilian labor movement.

According to Veja, the spy says that he came upon the FARC case accidentally. It happened when leftists invited him to be part of a pro-FARC committee, in defense of the Colombian guerrillas. The spy claims to have agreed and he began to frequent the meetings, which were almost always secret.

Veja says that, on April 13, 2002, the spy took part of a meeting together with other  leftists, in Coração Vermelho (Red Heart) hacienda, near  Brasilia. Veja reports that the spy heard father Olivério Medina, representative of the FARC, announcing that he would donate 5 million dollars for the campaign of the Brazilian president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva in 2002.

Furthermore, according to Veja, the Abin's spy said: " Immediately I left the meeting, on April 13 and met my Abin contact, near a highway close to the Coração Vermelho hacienda. There, inside the car, I wrote the my dispatches about FARC money going to the PT. I had listened the story for the first time. Father Olivério Medina was quite happy."

The Brazilian magazine continues reporting the alleged spy story:

''On April 22, I listened again to this story. It was during a meeting in a labour union. One of the friends of the FARC, a Chilean militant, said that they were 5 million dollars and that the money had been already distributed for the PT.''

The Abin found the history so important that my contact, colonel Eduardo Adolfo Ferreira, invited me to dinner (...)

''My stories are based on the facts that I see and hear. I do not know if the money was delivered. I know that, among FARC's friends, this matter was treated responsibly and secretly. The money would come from Trinidad and Tobago to 300 PT businessmen, who would distribute it for the party's committees. Moreover, I wrote this in the reports that I delivered to the colonel.''

Veja claims to have interviewed Colonel Eduardo Adolfo Ferreira who was Abin's employee for seven years and who allegedly coordinated the investigation on the relations between the FARC and the Workers' Party (PT).

Colonel Eduardo Adolfo Ferreira, aged 49, worked for Abin during seven years. He left his job in 2003 because of alleged differences related to the way the investigations were being carried out after the victory of Workers' Party (PT) in 2002 campaign. The colonel works for the Military Police in  the Federal District at present time.

Veja said that the colonel told there are at least two dozen reports describing  the PT-FARC relationships in Abin. Colonel Ferreira says that the document 0095/3100 mentioned by Veja last week is not even the most important one.

Veja said that Colonel Ferreira told  the documents were not archived by Abin because they were  dubious. The colonel said that the documents that describe the relations between PT and FARC were taken very seriously by Abin.

According to Veja, Colonel Ferreira said that in order to avoid the unathourized release of information, the reports were written inside the intelligence director José Milton Campana's office at that time. Campana got a promotion to Abin assistant-director by the current PT government.

Inside Campana's office, other people were in direct contact with the papers: an analyst and an adviser.

According to Veja, the colonel said: "We finished three reports on the case". The colonel said that Abin, with the help of the Federal Police, had traced part of the money that might have come from FARC to PT. There were three payment authorisations, for 1 million dollars each, with indications that they were part of the FARC's money. The colonel said: "we cannot affirm that it was the guerrillas' money for sure. There were indications. Strong indications, but the investigation stopped after the PT won the elections and I left Abin."

The magazine Veja emphasized that it is not deliberately accusing  the Workers'  Party (PT). The magazine warns that some politicians can try to obtain political advantages with  the news.

Brazilian Senator Demóstenes Torres (PFL) said: " If  both declarations are true, they  reveal that  Abin appeared to the  Congress commission  and it concealed the truth of the parliament's members. It is serious." The senator told he will ask an secret audience to hear the Abin's spy and the Colonel Eduardo Adolfo Ferreira.

General Jorge Felix refused to comment the case explaining that everything were already had been told to the deputies and senators commission.

Veja's last article:"They know everything about it" was not covered by most part of Brazilian newspapers. However it appeared on television and on some journalist's blogs.

It is known that the FARC and PT politics have met since 1990. Many of these meetings occurred during the enconteurs of the Foro de São Paulo.

The peace talks between Colombia and the FARC guerrilla started in 1998, during government of the  Colombian President Andres Pastrana Arango.

The FARC had sent a letter to the XI Foro de São Paulo meeting congratulating Lula  Da Silva for  his victory  in  2002 elections (Farc felicitam Brasil pela vitória de Lula - O Estado de São Paulo).

In a interview to Valquíria Rey, from BBC, in March 6, 2003 FARC commander Pastor Alape praised the independent stance of the Brazil. He told he didn't think that Brazilian government would sign any statement including FARC on the list of international terrorist organizations. If the Brazilian government considered the FARC as a terrorist group, all FARC members could be arrested inside Brazilian territory.

Some analysts say that the Communist Colombian guerrilla aims to extend its influence throughout other countries in Latin America.,

Modifications in Abin
After the PT candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva assumed the government the most visible change was the association of Abin with the Cuban service of intelligence.

Abin signed at least an agreement of cooperation with the Cuban service of intelligence. The Abin general-director  Mauro Marcelo de  Lima e Silva  was in Havana, in  February,  this year,  discussing  an agreement  between Abin  and the Cuban service of intelligence,  the Dirección General de Inteligência (DGI). , ,

The Brazilian government denied  his agents would be  trained  in Cuba. The government affirmed that it was only an  mere  bilateral cooperation agreement to resolve problems related to the terrorism and the traffic of weapons.

Workers' Party defense
The Workers' Party (PT) released  an official statement signed by the National President  José Genoino repudiating the magazine's article  and denying all presented facts. Part of the note tells:
 * The party neither supports, in the neighboring country, any solution for the long situation of belligerence lived by  Colombians who are not based on a democratic agreement, pacific and constitutional. The PT has historical position against the terrorism of State or armed groups. In addiction, there are several evidences  that  the PT politics  is marked by  respect to the self-determination of  peoples and the sovereignty of nations, by a politic of not mediation in  internal subjects of each country from any origin. Therefore, we would not accept,  in any  hypothesis, that our political life  suffered the interference from foreign governments  or  groups of any origin.

The note says that the article is irresponsible,  that  it comments on facts  without any sustentable evidence. It still says that  the magazine denies  itself when later in the text it affirms that it  did not find  any solid indication  to proof  that  5 million dollars were really sent to PT by  the FARC.

Another note from the Workers' Party (PT), of February 16, 2002 called "The truth about Colombia and the FARC - and  PT" tries to clarify the relationship between  the party and  the FARC. A portion of this note says that:
 * The Workers' Party doesn't have any  ties  with the Revolutionary Armed forces of Colombia (FARC). Together with  hundred of  left-wing  parties and movements  in Latin America (among  PT,  PSB,  PPS and the Brazilian PDT),  the FARC is part of Foro de  São Paulo. In this Forum, coexist organizations of quite distinguished political and  ideological profile. The  Chilean  Socialistic Party of  President Ricardo Lagos, for example, took part of some meetings. All these organizations are not joined by any organic bond, since the Forum is, exactly, a forum of debate, and not a structure of political international coordination. In past, nevertheless, there were leaders' contacts between   FARC  and  Brazilian politicians.

The leader of the government Deputy Aloizio Mercadante (PT) said: "If this donation existed, which I do not believe, it was not done to   PT, but   to individuals who are alleged connected to the party.  Case  they were  identified and they  were part of  the party, they would  be forced to leave."

The deputy Paulo Rocha (PT) said that the magazine does not have any proof that  the money transference from FARC  for  PT occurred. "The magazine admits by itself that that there are no documents verifying any insinuation of this nature", he adds.

Deputy Paulo Rocha also says that the meetings between FARC delegates with Brazilian politicians were part of a FARC attempt   of establishing a diplomatic representation in Brazil, which did not happened. So, according to the deputy, there were meetings between the father Olivério Medina, who worked as FARC ambassador, with parliamentarians of diverse parties. The deputy said: "Meetings can have happened, but there is no political and financial relation with the PT." For the deputy there are no reasons to create a congress investigation commission,  as  suggested by  oppostion parties.

The Senator Cristovam Buarque(PT) said that the case was a "sad episode, because it affected a party's credibility without anybody seeing any proof." In his opinion the case repercussion was positive "because it demonstrated that Brazil is a country capable of placing the head of its intelligence agency before the entire press and all the members of Congress and exit calmly, without a dent to its credibility."

According to the Abin directors General Jorge Armando Félix and Mauro Marcelo de Lima e Silva there is no solid evidences relating finantial help from FARC to PT. Because of that, there is no reason to start a new investigation and the case must remain archived.

The Veja admitted in its article that it is possible that the FARC delegate father Medina did not said the true when he told the FARC would donate 5 million dollars to PT campaign in Coração Vermelho hacienda. Also the magazine admitted that it cannot proof the donation occurred and it says that it is possible that the Abin documents are untrue. The magazine Veja said it didn't involve the Workers' Party, as an organization, in the case.

The National Secretary of International Relations for Workers'Party (PT), Paulo Ferreira, says that the Central Bank records show that no money entered in Brazil from Trynidad and Tobago during 2002 and 2003.

The leftist Antônio Carlos Viana told to the Brazilian newspaper Correio Braziliense that during the encounter between  FARC and PT members in Coração Vermelho hacienda there weren't any discussion about money. He said:"We believe that the path to peace in Colombia is people and Brazilian government recognizing the FARC. However we can't take any responsibility by the FARC's actions and we deny categorically any discussion about money to electoral purposes in Brazil." According to an article in PCdoB website: "none of the participants of the enconteur in Coração Vermelho hacienda says that father Olivério Medina offered money to PT".

The President of PT in Santa Catarina Milton Mendes says:"(...)I am perplex and honestly convinced that the article is shameful, irresponsible and a pamphlet.". He criticizes Veja because the magazine said no proofs were found related to the money donation.

Accusations against PT can be used by the political opposition in negative propaganda.

The Congress Commission which heard the Abin's directors considered the case closed on alleged FARC donation to PT.

Some Brazilian comments
Some opinion excerpts from the O Estado de São Paulo Forum:

Magazines and newspapers must be careful with explosive news ''I am not PT sympathizant and I have already criticized some points about the party and the government(...) There is no saint in any political party, neither in the several religions, neither in the Church. However, I can't believe that someone inside PT, after I have some knowledge about its leaders, might have received any contribution from the FARC (...) Fake dossiers have already been created relating the PSDB with foreign bank accounts and these news were denied later. The FARC donation is a campaign gossip which is already began by PT unfortunately.''  —  Antonio Carlos Rocha da Silva / São Paulo

Possibilities ''The news published in Veja magazine, March 13, this year, is really daring. Saying that the PT received money from the FARC is serious and grave. If the magazine published the story, there must be, at least, some kind of information.(...)The Workers'Party members deny the fact, with no exception. But you must remember that most of them have belonged to armed groups during the militar regime.(..)If the PT did not prosecute the magazine, the doubt can cause some harm.(...)'' — Jorge Cortás Sader Filho / Niterói

New story, old subject ''The FARC/PT connection is older thant the Bible draft. In 2002 a deputy tryed to create a CPI [Congress Commission of Investigation] to investigate the donation, however he didn't get enough signatures. (...)If the article is lying, the PT have to proof and expose the magazine, then prosecute it.(...) The worst blind person is who doesn't want to see. This kind of person, the fanatic voter, is not helping in nothing Brazil.'' — Sonia / Rio de Janeiro

Chronology

 * 12-16 March: The magazine Veja  publishes a story saying  that the  FARC  member father Olivério Medina said during a  meeting in Brasilia with members of the left  that he would donate 5 million dollars for the political campaign of  left parties. The magazine says that Abin's documents described the meeting and the money transference from FARC for the Workers Party (PT),  the Brazilian ruling  party.

 * 12 March: Brazilian television reports  the fact.

 * 13 March: The Workers' Party (PT) denies any  financial help from  FARC. The party admitts that some politics had met  FARC members, but these meetings were legal and only can  only be characterized as normal  political enconteurs.

 * 17 March: Commission of deputies and senators hear the explanations of the persons in charge for Abin, the  general Jorge Félix and Mauro Marcelo de Lima e Silva.  They express  the documents used by the magazine Veja are not reliable and cannot be used.

 * 18 March: Remote chances for more deep investigation  after the explanations of the Abin's chiefs.

 * 21-23 March:  The magazine Veja publishes new reportage.  The magazine presents the  spy and his former superior,  the  Colonel Eduardo Adolfo Ferreira,  testimonies. According to the magazine. They say that the Abin found that the documents were important and reliable. The colonel said that after Lula's victory, the investigations on the FARC changed.


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Talk:FARC and Brazilian Workers' Party:the general didn't tell the truth, says former Abin superior to Veja

Please translate your whole story, i saw them on es and pt, and they looked great. The bellman 11:38, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

NPOV, cleanup
First off, let me say that I find such articles to be wonderful additions to Wikinews -- it is a pleasure to have a well-researched, through digest of an article here, not just a half-ripped wire story. Please keep up the good work -- your contributions are extremely welcome here.

That being said, there are some serious stylistic and grammatical issues in this article. I've fixed the first half, but I don't have time to do the whole thing tonight. Also, this article seems rather anti-PT. This is a problem. This article needs to have a much more balanced tone, and cover what other observers think, not just what Verja thinks. This article has great potential, but it needs a good bit of work with its style (English usage is a big problem) and its biases. Let's work together on it to make it great, and to the author, keep up the good work; just keep the npov in mind:) --141.225.252.167 03:53, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * First you must identify the problems. Just saying:"It is biased" does not help. How can we correct the problems if we dont know them? Please, at least, give some clues, suggestions, anything. --Carlosar 10:17, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I have changed somethings. I hope it is better now. --Carlosar 17:07, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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User:The bellman/Writing Contest

March

 * 21: Kofi Annan unveils UN reform plan
 * 22: EU looks set to continue arms embargo on China
 * 23: Chess legend avoids 10 year prison term
 * 24: Arab summit comes to an end
 * 25: UN Security Council approves peacekeepers for Sudan
 * 26: Protests continue at Baxter detention centre
 * 27: Chinese government to safeguard old Beijing
 * 28: First bird flu case in North Korea
 * 29: Australians more concerned by global warming than terrorism, says Lowy report
 * 30: New Zealand praised by NATO Secretary General
 * 31: Pressure building on Myanmar to decline ASEAN chair

April

 * 01: Bus drivers to strike in Auckland
 * 02: Australian Treasurer told to 'try harder on welfare'
 * 03: Names of Australians killed in helicopter crash released
 * 04: Desmond Tutu calls for election of African pope
 * 05: Arinze and Tettamanzi equal favorites as new Pope
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First ill start by (hopefully) speaking for everyone on wikinews by thanking you both for your contributions to helping to build the world's greatest news service. It seems that DV's complaints against Dan100 are less about style less than substance; by this i mean that DV is complaining about the way that Dan100 goes about doing things rather than the things he does. Now the process of mediation requires compromise by both sides, and for compromise to work each party needs to understand the other's position, so ill try and help here; starting with DVs complaints

 * Misleading characterization of his edits
 * Removed one of Paulrevere2005's edits with the comment "rv vandalism".

I think that the mischaracterisation of his edit was a misunderstanding. From what i can see he believed (rightly or wrongly) that Pr's request for deleation was not releated to the article's content, but was part of a vendetta against him. Vandalism was perhaps the incorrect word to use, but not too far off (if we look at the edit as part of a vendetta - just to make it clear, it doesnt matter if it was or not, just that Dan thought it was). Deleating the comment however, seems against the spirit of the wiki, however i think Dan learnt from this, since (as far as i am aware) he hasn't deleated a comment by another user again. Dan, do you agree that other users comments should not be deleated? if so can we put this matter to rest?

 * Deleting rather than fixing
 * Deletion requests (http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews%3ADeletion_requests&diff=0&oldid=39854)
 * Frivolous deletion request for Time for North Americans to spring ahead one hour!
 * Frivolous deletion request for Flora springing into Spring in Mid-Atlantic coastal region, USA

From the comments left by Dan (sorry if im misrepresenting you anywhere - please correct me if i am) he considered these articles to be 'soft news', which they are. Dan didnt believe soft news was appropriate for wikinews. By the reaction on deleation requests, it seems most contributors believe soft news fits into our mission, however there were a couple of dissenters (other than dan). So this has set a precedent about community opinion. Dan are you willing to accept that community opinion is in favour of most weather releated articles? if so it would seem that listing similar articles in the future for deleation would not gain anything, so are you willing to only try to push for the removal of soft news from wikinews on talk pages, rather than listing them for deleation?

 * Deleted a map, calling it "crazy"

The adjective 'crazy' wasnt entirely misplaced, considering the size of the pic. Obviously the size of the pic was a mistake by the origanal editor. Now by removing the pic Dan improved the article, by adding it back in DV improved it even more. This is a nice display of the power of the wiki really. Dan did not add anything to the article - even though it would have been very easy indeed to have written thumb - but he did polish the article and make it better. Copyproofing is an important part of wikinews.

 * Lack of edit summaries
 * Deleted a byline with no edit summary, while not inserting the location somewhere else.
 * Insulting remark about Beijing

This has now been overtaken by policy. Bylines are no longer used.

 * Derides the work of others
 * Derides another contributor's article as a "joke"
 * Refuses to apologize

Firstly just an offtopic question to Dan - why are there inverted commas around Autumn? Now, if i understand this correctly, Dan said "This is getting beyond a joke" which, certainly where i come from (Australia, which tends to have similar coloquial english to certain british dialects), has a different meaning to actually calling something a joke. I would characterise it as a statement of exasperation at the second bit of soft news with in a few days. Dan, i dont think sees that he has done anything wrong, and so his reluctance to apoligise seems understandalbe. The question really is if Alan J Franklin feels he is owed an apology. I've asked him on his talk page. We'll see what happens.

 * Quick to judge
 * Asks that Amgine administrative privileges be revoked for a simple mistake.

Indeed, yet him and Amgine still seem to get on well. DV is not the first one to not that Dan is quick to judge. Would you agree with this crtisism dan?

 * Does not seek consensus for policy or guideline changes.

Personaly, im confused. Dan what say you to [User:Uncle G|Uncle G]]'s comments on the reporter tools talk page? We do have a policy of 'be bold' but we also have a policy that reverting is bad

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Texas baby removed from life support against mother's wishes

March 22, 2005 Sun Hudson, a six-month old Texas baby died last week when health care providers at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas removed his life support system over the objections of his mother. The action was authorized under the 1999 Futile Care Law which was signed into law by then-Gov. George W. Bush.

Under the Texas Futile Care Law, health care workers are allowed to remove expensive life support for terminally ill patients if the patient or family is unable to pay the medical bills.

Sun Hudson's mother is dealing with the aftermath of that law. "This hospital was considered a miracle hospital. When it came to my son, they gave up in six months," Wanda Hudson told reporters how she was forced to give up medical control of her son. "I talked to him, I told him that I loved him. Inside of me, my son is still alive."

The hospital had blocked the media from the child, despite mother's invitation to see the baby. "I wanted y'all to see my son for yourself. So you could see he was actually moving around. He was conscious," she said.

The event stirred national attention as it sparked comparisons to the Terri Schiavo case in Florida. A victim of severe, and otherwise terminal brain damage, Terri Schiavo's future is locked in a legal battle between her husband who wants to remove life support and her parents, who cite religious reasons for keeping their daughter alive.

Michael Schiavo, husband of Terri Schiavo, was asked about the Hudson situation on the March 21 edition of CNN's Larry King Live. When King asked how Mr. Schiavo felt when he learned that President Bush had signed such a law in Texas while he was governor, Schiavo was at a loss of words.

But Schiavo's lawyer did respond, saying, "Obviously, there's a tremendous amount of hypocrisy there ... it would lead one to believe that a lot of this was politically motivated, and I think that's what the American people have concluded." Schiavo's lawyer echoed the sentiments of Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, a Democrat, who raised the "hypocrisy" question when she first mentioned the 1999 Texas law issue on the House floor last week.

Over the weekend, President Bush signed a special federal law that moved jurisdiction of the Schiavo case out of the state of Florida and into the U.S. federal court system after Florida courts ruled that Michael Schiavo had the right to remove Terri's life support, which includes a feeding tube and intravenous liquids.

After signing the Schiavo Law Sunday, President Bush said, "It is wisest to always err on the side of life."


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Large creature loose in London suburb

March 22, 2005 Police organized a search in the Sydenham Park area of south-east London after a local, Anthony Holder, was attacked by a 6ft long black animal while looking for his kitten in his back yard that borders a woodland.

Holder said the animal pounced, knocked him to the ground, and then he was "in its claws for about 30 seconds. Its teeth were out and I tried to defend myself and eventually I got the thing off my body." Holder was scratched all over his body and suffered swelling and bruising to his hand and the back of his head. He called the police at about 2:15 am while the animal sat in the garden next door.

While Holder was being treated by paramedics, the Metropolitan Police conducted a search of the area. A citizen and a police officer saw the creature, believed by some to be a panther. Another officer also believed he saw the animal and reports it as approximately the size of a Labrador Retriever. The neighbourhood is being patrolled by an armed police response vehicle staffed by officers equipped with rifles and Taser stun guns.

Scotland Yard is currently seeking specialist advice from experts from the RSPCA and London Zoo. A spokeswoman said: "We are trying to establish exactly where the animal may have come from. In the meantime we are asking the public to be vigilant. If anyone does see the animal, do not approach it but dial 9-9-9 immediately."

People are also being advised to keep pets indoors.

Sightings of big cats have increased in recent years. The notion of a large predator in London was initially dismissed by scientists, but evidence from footprints and droppings has led to other conclusions. The British Big Cat Society estimates 50 to 100 are currently loose across England. Livestock has supposedly been attacked a number of times. Farmers near Burford in Oxfordshire have offered a £5,000 reward for the capture of a large black creature suspected of killing livestock in the area. However, there have been virtually no human encounters.

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Mother of another Brazilian soccer player kidnapped

The mother of Brazilian soccer player Rogério has been kidnapped. According to Brazilian Sports website Gazeta Esportiva, the kidnapping occurred the night of Monday, March 21, in Campinas, 83,5 km (51.88 miles) of São Paulo.

Police did not release further details. According to recent reports, three armed men kidnapped Inês Fidélis Régis, the mother of Rogério, who plays in Sporting Clube de Portugal.

This is the fourth kidnapping of a soccer player's mother in the last four months. On February 23, Ilma de Castro Libânio, 51, the mother of the Brazilian soccer player Edinaldo Batista Libânio, 25, known as Grafite, was kidnapped.

On November 6, 2004, the mother of Robson dos Santos, or Robinho, was kidnapped. On March 11, the mother of Brazilian soccer player Luis Fabiano was kidnapped by criminals, also in Campinas. The mother of Fabiano is still missing. The other hostages were released and are well.


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User:Cjc244~enwikinews

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Hi! I'm Madd4Max (Real name James P.) and brand new to the wikinews community, though I've been working at Wikipedia for a while. Madd4Max 17:10, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Hi! I'm Madd4Max (Real name James P.) and brand new to the wikinews community, though I've been working at Wikipedia for a while. :)

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Talk:Ourmedia.org project launched to provide global repository of "grassroots media"

This story should perhaps contain a link within it to direct the interested reader to its home page. -edw 17:37, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Isn't this just a press release
We really shouldn't just re-release press releases almost verbatiem; this article needs to go back to the article workspace and be improved. We need to actually release only higher-quality articles. --141.225.252.167 23:37, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I wrote this article. I agree that it sucks in its current form, but it is not a press release reproduced "verbatiem." I did not read the Ourmedia press release before I wrote it; in fact, the Ourmedia site was down when I wrote the article, so I couldn't even get their press release. Remember that if you don't like it, you can always fix it. Sorry if I sound a bit irked, but I don't like seeing my work being called a recycled press release. Pingswept 02:49, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:American Thom Mayne snags Pritzker architecture prize

The firm also built an Olympic Village in Queens, NY, in preparation for their 2012 Olympics bid. - should this be "the firm also designed..."? Architects usually design, not build, structures. - McCart42 18:22, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, especially since it has not been built yet. :-) (BTW, architects do build scale models). -- Davodd | Talk 19:10, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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HSH Prince Rainier III of Monaco is in Intensive care

March 22, 2005 Monte-Carlo - The monarch of the principality of Monaco is in serious condition. He is hospitalised with a relapse of a lung infection and in intensive care at the Centre Cardio-Thoracique de Monaco, according to the royal Monegasque household.

This is not the first time that the 81-year-old Prince Rainier III has been in hospital. He previously was hospitalised on the 26th of October 2004 and the 8th of March 2005.

Prince Rainier is famed for being the husband of the late Princess Grace (Grace Kelly), and for investing in business at a famous gambling centre. He has been on the throne since 1949, making him one of the longest reigning monachs in Europe.


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User:OldakQuill

I am primarily a Wikipedia contributor though this is closely followed by Wikimedia Commons (which I helped to establish), and am administrator on both. I do not currently envision writing articles for this project though I will assist it by adding snippets of information, correcting spelling and grammar, and pursuing the NPOV principle. I believe in strong interproject ties and integration with as little segregation as possible.

You may find more information about me on my English Wikipedia profile.

Creations
Despite earlier (2 hours ago) stating I wouldn't be writing articles, I appear to have slipped. Here are those I have started and developed to a reasonable length:
 * Creationist sentiments affect Imax business strategy

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Talk:Large creature loose in London suburb

Do we have any people in London? Perhaps someone could try and interview this Holder type, or get pictures of the area? -- Redge (Talk) 20:02, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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Hello, my name is Philip and I live in Cambridge, England. I have lived in St. Helier, Jersey and Norwich and have visited Mikkeli & Helsinki, Finland and Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Talk:Texas baby removed from life support against mother's wishes

oh my... -edw 20:59, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This appears be a political travesty. -edw 21:38, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * heh, yes it does....--69.143.104.10 23:32, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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I'm new here so I'm still getting my footing, but I believe that Wikinews has the potential to become to Google News what Wikipedia is to Google's web search and I'm glad to help.

 * Yup, I dropped out of the contest, I just need a break.. Best of luck to the people still in it, I'll probably be back eventually.

Log of writing contest contributions
April 3
 * Akayev signs resignation agreement

April 2
 * Abbas orders more security reforms, hundreds of security officers to be forced to retire

April 1
 * Abbas fires security chiefs for failure to curb lawlessness

March 31
 * EU, Canada impose duties on some US goods in retaliation for Byrd Amendment
 * Palestinian security chief quits, says too little is being done to curb lawlessness

March 30
 * New York Times finds flight logs that back Canadian's claim of kidnapping by US government
 * Akayev willing to resign as president of Kyrgyzstan

March 29
 * Upper house of former Kyrgyz parliament steps down, Bakiyev pledges to fight corruption

March 28
 * New Kygryz parliament backs Bakiyev, lower house of former parliament steps down

March 27
 * Kulov declares newly elected parliament legitimate, Kyrgyz parliamentary conflict deepens

March 26
 * Multiple parliaments meet in Kyrgyzstan, legitimacy uncertain
 * Police, militia confront looters in Bishkek, leaders say city now calm
 * U.S. unveils plans to help India become a "major world power"
 * U.S. willing to sell F-16s to Pakistan, India

March 25
 * Five dead, over 200 injured as looting continues in Bishkek

March 24
 * Akayev flees Kyrgyzstan as protesters seize control of Bishkek

March 23
 * Iraqi, American forces raid insurgent training camp, killing 85
 * Bush, Martin, Fox hold summit, sign SPP accord
 * New Kyrgz interior minister says force may be used, riot police clash with protesters in Bishkek

March 22
 * Explosion near Beirut kills three, injures five
 * Kyrgyz government declares elections valid, refuses to declare state of emergency as opposition cements control of the south

March 21
 * Kyrgyz president orders election probe as protesters seize control of second city
 * Violent protests break out in Kyrgyzstan over allegedly rigged parliamentary elections

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Creationist sentiments affect Imax business strategy

March 22, 2005 Imax cinemas in several southern US states have begun to refuse screening of films that deal with evolution and the big bang, fearing they will drive away customers. This step follows pressure from customers claiming such films are blasphemous to the Christian religion and are counter to biblical teachings which fundamentalists take to be the literal word of God.

Some of the affected cinemas are located in science museums often visited by families. Carol Murray, the marketing director of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History in Texas, commented that trial customers complained, "I really hate it when the theory of evolution is presented as fact," a view reflected by several others. Conversely, a producer of an Imax film entitled Volcanoes of the Deep Sea, James Cameron, said that he was "surprised and somewhat offended" at some of the reactions.

Films suppressed by this controversy include Cosmic Voyage (which deals with the big bang), Galapagos (dealing with the development of evolutionary theory by Darwin) and Volcanoes of the Deep Sea (about deep-sea thermophiles).

Although this move only affects about a dozen Southern US cinemas, it has proved significant due to the manner in which Imax operates. Imax presentations are filmed and projected using specialized equipment in specially adapted theatres. Imax films also have tight production and marketing budgets. At any one time, an Imax film may be shown at only two dozen locations. As such, profits may be significantly reduced if just a few locations refuse to show a given film, swaying producers to avoid producing films on contentious subjects which may be construed by Christian fundamentalists as blasphemous.


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US interest rates rise to 2.75%

March 22, 2005 The U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) today raised interest rates by 0.25 of a percentage point to 2.75 percent. The increase in the federal funds rate, the interest that banks charge each other, is seen as an anti-inflationary measure and was widely expected by the financial community.

It is the seventh time the Fed has raised interest rates since June 2004 when rates stood at just 1 percent -- a 46-year low.

The U.S. economy has been gaining strength since the economic downturn in 2001 and 2002. The rebound was largely fueled by historically low interest rates which enabled consumers to borrow much more money than they would have otherwise -- thus boosting personal consumption.

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Train derailed by collision with semi in Saskatchewan, Canada

March 22, 2005 Twenty-four cars of a west-bound Canada Pacific train were thrown from the tracks after the train collided with a semi tractor-trailer in poor weather and visibility near Regina, Saskatchewan around 11 a.m. Tuesday morning. The driver was rushed to hospital.

The accident took place on a level section of Highway 46 just north of Highway 1, about 25 kilometres east of Regina. The RCMP spokesperson reported the crossing is marked with lights, but weather may have played a role.

"Road conditions were wet and sloppy and it's foggy," RCMP Cpl. Brian Jones said to the CBC. The bad weather, including a heavy overnight snowfall, may have contributed to the accident.

Most of the 93 cars in the train were empty bulk transit cars, used for moving agricultural products such as grains. The RCMP report that neither train or truck were transporting any hazardous materials.


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what?! the interst held by myself in this interest story is interestly zero. -edw 22:27, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Cases similar to Schiavo's

 * Yes, "Cases similar to Schiavo's often have very different outcomes" is a great idea because it could be there are a number of extremely interesting situations. Thanks, Paulrevere2005 11:24, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:David Suzuki to Visit University of Toronto

I removed the Speedy delete tag from this article since it is not selling a product. It is more of a community calendar-type of event article, which has a long history of being news, as these news stories show. -- Davodd | Talk 00:09, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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Kyrgyz government declares elections valid, refuses to declare state of emergency as opposition cements control of the south

March 23, 2005 Kyrgyz authorities declared 71 of the 75 seats elected to parliament valid on Tuesday as the opposition cemented control and attempted to maintain order of the country's south, including the cities of Jalal-Abad and Osh, by holding joint patrols with local policeman.

President Askar Akayev, saying protests against him were part of an attempted coup, claimed "criminal elements connected to the drug mafia" were behind the activities, and "the opposition is directed and funded from outside."

However, the president ruled out declaring a state of emergency, saying he was "fully committed to not taking such measures."

Bazambai Solpuyev, a leader of the opposition, claimed that joint public safety patrols has been set up with local police, and this claim was confimed by a spokesman for the Kyrgyz interior ministry.

Anvar Artykov, head of the opposition-backed Osh provisional authority, declared that president Akayev’s authority was no longer being recognized in the region in a statement broadcast on a local television station.

Prominent opposition figure Roza Otunbayeva claimed that "people’s power" provisional authorities controlled five of the eight districts of Jalal-Abad Province, all but one district of Osh Province, four districts in Talas Province, and one in Naryn.

Law-enforcement bodies in the regions have transferred their allegiance to the provisional authorities, although some policemen were not reporting for work. According to reports, relative calm prevailed throughout opposition-controlled regions.

"We are moving towards control over half the country," Otunbayeva said. "The next goal will be [the capital of] Bishkek."


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I was surprised by how the 'mainstream media' outlets were barely or not at all covering the opposition's perspective and details of their control of the south, I was lucky to find that last source - VF 01:37, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * great work VF, these articles on the election are starting to show what good things we can achieve. Now if only we had a couple of reporters on the ground... The bellman 01:58, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)