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Scottish lawyer denies death of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi

October 21, 2009 A Scottish lawyer today denied reports that Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi had died, after it was reported on Sky News earlier today that "unidentified sources" had said that he was dead.

The reports came onto Sky News at around 16.00 BST today. The information could not be confirmed, and it was not immediately clear where Sky News had obtained their information. Megrahi is suffering from terminal prostate cancer. Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Justice Kenny MacAskill MSP decided on 20 August 2009 to grant Megrahi compassionate release from Greenock Prison in Glasgow, Scotland and to allow him to return to Libya, after medical advisers reported that he was likely to die in just three months.

On Wednesday, Megrahi's lawyer, Tony Kelly, responded to the claims made, saying that "it's absolutely untrue. He's definitely not dead. I'm not saying anything about his health condition other than the fact he is alive and breathing." He declined to release any information about Abdelbaset's current health condition. Following these comments, Sky News removed the information from their website.


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Demonstrators clash with police in Algeria after slum protest

October 22, 2009

Demonstrators and police clashed on Wednesday in, Algeria, after the residents of a slum district in the city took to the streets to demonstrate against housing and job shortages.

The protest, led by residents of the Diar Echams area of the Algerian capital, conflicted with security forces after starting a protest late on Wednesday. Police officials said at least eleven officers were injured in the violence, but they have not released a civilian casualty figure.

400 or so policemen, equipped with riot gear and an armoured vehicle, tried to break up the protests. Demonstrators hurled petrol bombs, stones, and other heavy objects at police.


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Hopes for treaty on climate begin to wither

October 26, 2009

International climate negotiations for a global climate treaty are not producing the required results in the given amount of time left before the Copenhagen conference in December, diminishing the hopes for a resolution at this conference.

Major polluters have already decided that the only way for a plan of this scale to take effect is to have steps towards the reduction of greenhouse gases instead of creating a plan which takes immediate effect and shuts down production facilities. Countries are likely to propose steps at the Copenhagen Meeting.

Yvo De Boer, a Dutch Diplomat, has been overseeing the proceedings so far. "There isn't sufficient time to get the whole thing done. But I hope it will go well beyond simply a declaration of principles. The form I would like it to take is the groundwork for a ratifiable agreement next year," commented Boer.

The 192 countries which make up the United Nations show the gaps in-between their ideas. Wealthier nations are planning to help poorer countries with enforcing climate laws and investing in newer technology. 16 of the largest polluters have already begun planning on aiding poorer countries.

Officials are attempting to narrow down issues which countries agree on, such as certain steps and the common goal to limit emissions. Negotiators plan to discuss how the treaty will be upheld at Copenhagen. Diplomats have raised the question of reliability, since most of the supporting countries have not enforced any binding climate legislation within their own countries. Until it is shown that all countries participating will uphold the treaty, nations are unwilling to enforce a treaty within their own country.

Although there are hopes of progress in Copenhagen, observes note that radical change is unlikely. "The most likely form any agreement will take will be a political declaration," said Nigel Purvis, State Department climate negotiator during the Clinton Administration and Bush administration.


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Satirical website criticizes Glenn Beck for 'hypocritical' attempts to silence free speech

October 22, 2009

In a court filing Tuesday in the ongoing case before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland, a satirical website which parodies American political commentator Glenn Beck argues Beck is attempting to silence free speech.

Florida resident Isaac Eiland-Hall created the website in September, and it asserts Beck uses questionable tactics "to spread lies and misinformation". The website is being represented in the case Beck v. Eiland-Hall by free speech lawyer Marc Randazza. Wikinews interviewed Randazza for the article "US free speech lawyer Marc Randazza discusses Glenn Beck parody", and previously reported on the case in an article earlier this month, "US free speech lawyer defends satire of Glenn Beck".

Eiland-Hall's website is located at the domain "www.GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlIn1990.com". Its premise is derived from a joke statement made by Gilbert Gottfried about fellow comedian Bob Saget. Users of the Internet discussion community Fark first applied the joke to Beck, and it then became popular on several social media sites. Eiland-Hall saw the discussion on Fark, and created a website about it. The website asserts it does not believe the rumors to be true, commenting, "[b]ut we think Glenn Beck definitely uses tactics like this to spread lies and misinformation." The website was created on September 1, and just two days later attorneys for Beck's company Mercury Radio Arts took action. Beck's lawyers sent letters to the domain name registrar where they referred to the domain name itself as "defamatory", but failed to get the site removed.

Beck filed a formal complaint with the Switzerland-based agency of the United Nations, WIPO, who operate under regulations laid out by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Beck asserts the website's usage is libelous, bad faith, and could befuddle potential consumers. Beck's complaint was filed under the process called the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. This policy allows trademark owners to begin an administrative action by complaining that a certain domain registration is in "bad faith". Beck argues the site should be shut down because it is an infringement upon his trademark in his own name, "Glenn Beck".

Eiland-Hall retained Randazza as his attorney after receiving threatening letters from legal representatives of Beck. On September 28, Randazza filed a response brief to WIPO, contending the site is "protected political speech", due to it's "satirical political humor". Randazza stated, "[e]ven an imbecile would look at this Web site and know that it’s a parody." Randazza's brief comments on Beck's style of reporting, and highlight a controversial statement made by him when interviewing a Muslim US Congressman. Beck said to Representative Keith Ellison, "I like Muslims, I've been to mosques. ... And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview because what I feel like saying is, sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies." According to the Citizen Media Law Project, the website's joke premise takes advantage of "a perceived similarity between Beck's rhetorical style and the Gottfried routine".

Randazza argues in the response filed on behalf of Eiland-Hall that Beck is using the process of the WIPO court to infringe the free speech rights of his client; "Beck is attempting to use this transnational body to circumvent and subvert the Respondent's [web site owner] constitutional rights [to freedom of speech]," he wrote. Randazza cites the U.S. Supreme Court case, Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, in arguing that Beck's attorneys advised him against filing legal action in a U.S. court because the website would likely be seen as a form of parody and due to the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, such legal action would not be successful.

On September 29, Randazza sent a request to Beck's representatives, asking that their client agree to stipulate to the United States Constitution, and especially to the First Amendment, during the case before the WIPO. In the request, Randazza quotes a statement from Beck himself about the usage of international law by United States citizens, Beck said, "[o]nce we sign our rights over to international law, the Constitution is officially dead." In an interview with Wikinews on Monday, Randazza stated that Beck had not replied to his request to stipulate to the U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment in the WIPO case.

On Tuesday, Randazza filed a surreply – a response document to an October 13 supplementary filing made by Beck in the case. Attorneys for Beck asserted in the supplementary filing that the joke made by the website is difficult to comprehend, and therefore the domain name is confusing. In Beck's supplementary filing, his lawyers argued, "While there is absolutely nothing humorous or amusing about the statement made by Respondent in his domain name that 'Glenn Beck Raped and Murdered a Young Girl in 1990,' the average Internet user finding the domain name GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlin1990.com ("Disputed Domain Name") in a search would have no reason not to believe that they will be directed to a website providing factual information (as opposed to protected criticism or similar protected speech) about Mr. Beck."

Randazza's surreply asserts, "An average Internet user might not 'get the joke'. In fact, the average Internet user does not understand any internet memes. That's the fun of a meme - it is an esoteric inside joke that will leave most people scratching their heads."

In Randazza's conclusion to the Eiland-Hall surreply, he called Beck "the butt" of a joke he apparently does not understand. Randazza wrote that Beck "should be deeply ashamed" for devaluing the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

"Glenn Beck is the butt of a viral joke. He may not get the joke, but this does not make the joke likely to confuse or subject the domain name to transfer under the UDRP. Glenn Beck’s failure to understand these basic principles of law does not make the joke any less humorous, and does not make him any less of the butt. The First Amendment protects Respondent’s right to make Glenn Beck the butt, and his hypocritical attempts to squelch legitimate free speech criticism do nothing to portray himself in a more flattering light. Because his arguments do not satisfy Section 4(a) of the Policy, his request should be denied. Because he has attempted to silence a critic by circumventing (and thereby devaluing) the First Amendment -- which he publicly (and in this proceeding) claims to love -- he should be deeply ashamed."

Commentators likened the legal conflict between Beck and the site to the Streisand effect, a phenomenon where an individual's attempt to censor material on the Internet in turn proves to make the material itself more public.


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Colombian drug lord receives 45-year jail sentence in US

October 22, 2009A US federal judge in Miami, Florida handed down a 45-year jail sentence to Diego Montoya, aged 48, two months after he pleaded guilty to murder, drug trafficking and racketeering charges. At the proceedings, Montoya apologised for his past actions, saying he hoped his sentence would bring a measure of relief to victims and their families.

"I am really repentant of my actions. I hope my sentence will bring some measure of peace to the victims and their families," he said.

Montoya had been charged with heading the Norte Valle cartel, which rose to become Colombia's most powerful cocaine cartel after the demise of the Medellin and Cali cartels in the mid-1990s.

It is not yet known where Montaya will serve his sentence. However, William Clay, Montaya's attorney, requested that the location be near Miami.

Federal officials said that the cartel supplied 60% of all Colombian cocaine transported to the US at its peak. Montoya, also known as Don Diego, was arrested in 2007 and extradited to the US last year. He was once on the FBI's top-ten most-wanted list, alongside al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Last April, a US district judge in Florida sentenced Montoya's younger brother, Eugenio, to thirty years in prison on charges including conspiracy to import cocaine and obstruction of justice. The US government said that the Norte Valle cartel used "violence and murder" to prevent people from passing information to law enforcement officials and to "instill fear."


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i think he should put 2 life

You've got to be kidding me!!
''SO, THIS MAN IS SUPPOSEDLY LINKED TO AL-QAEDA??

.....and after all of that.....they gave him BAIL???

WTF?

Homeland Security.....Non-Existent!

Our government is a complete JOKE!'' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.121.128.36 (talk) 04:07, 7 January 2010 (UTC)


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Right-wing whiners
The problem with these fascists, is that they think that democracy only works one way.

They spent almost ten years trying to start World War III, they made and approved fascist manifestos (Patriot Act, Homeland Security), they kidnapped and tortured innocent people and imprisoned them in concentration camps (Guantanamo Bay), but lo and behold, now they're the saviors, the liberators and the democrats.

Fascist mascots like this Glenn Beck guy are the perfect example of this. They can say and do everything, BUT THE OTHERS CAN'T. If they do, they get a lawsuit from THE BEST lawyers around. Fascists will always be fascists, no matter the paint on them.

Yeah Mr. Glenn Beck... Please save americans from the evil, socialist black guy.

I still find it funny that...
1. One who harps on and on about American soverignty (or maybe I'm thinking of the slightly less crazy Ron Paul) is using a UN agency for legal action and support. What about American legal agencies, huh?

2. No one is invesigating Bob Sagat for raping and killing a young girl in 1990. Gottfried is a lone wolf in this noble cause.—66.110.233.67 (talk) 06:55, 23 October 2009 (UTC)


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Shelling in Somalia's capital kills twenty

October 22, 2009 According to medical workers and witnesses, at least 20 people, including many civilians, have been killed in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu after one of the heaviest battles between Islamist militants and government forces in weeks.

Ali Muse, the head of Mogadishu's ambulance services, said at least 58 other people were wounded. Other reports put the number of injured as high as 70.

Witnesses say the shelling began on Thursday at the city's international airport, as President Sharif Shekh Ahmed was heading to Uganda for an African Union meeting on refugees and internally displaced people.

The witnesses said that insurgents shot mortars at the airport and airplane and African Union peacekeepers returned fire. They say the busy Bakara market was also struck hard by mortar shells. Witnesses saw the dead bodies of at least six civilians there. The president was not hurt in the attack.

“As the Somali president flew out to Kampala for a meeting of African presidents, Islamist insurgents began shelling the airport,” said a spokesman for the presidency in an interview, Abdulkadir Mohamed Osman. “Peacekeepers responded.”

Vice chairman of the Elman Peace and Human Rights Organization in Mogadishu Ali Yasin Gedi said that "insurgents fired mortar bombs at the plane carrying President Ahmed, and then AMISOM [the African Union Mission to Somalia] responded with shells. That is how the problem started."

A paramedic working for the Lifeline Africa and Nationlink Ambulance Services, Ali Muse Sheikh, reported that around sixty people were hurt by the clashes. “It is one of the worst events I have ever seen. We don’t have enough ambulances or private vehicles to collect the casualties. The number of casualties is increasing minute-by-minute,” he said in a telephone interview.

A shopkeeper in the Bakara market described his experiences to the Reuters news agency. "They were taking cover in a concrete building, but such big shells can penetrate the strongest house. We can't go out to count how many more are dead. Bombs are raining on us," said Farah Olow.

Since the first 1,500 peacekeepers from Uganda arrived in Mogadishu more than two years ago, AMISOM troops have been frequently attacked by Islamist insurgents seeking to overthrow the Somali government. In February, eleven peacekeepers from Burundi were killed by a suicide car bomber. Another seventeen peacekeepers, including the Burundian deputy force commander, were killed last month in twin suicide car bombings at the AMISOM base.

Al-Shabab, a group the United States and other Western countries believe is al-Qaeda's proxy in the Horn of Africa, took responsibility for both of those attacks.

Somalia has not had an effective stable government since 1991, when Siad Barre's government was overthrown by warlords who soon started fighting amongst themselves. The resulting violence has displaced over 1.5 million people, and killed 19,000 civilians since early 2007. The Al-Shabab group and its allies control a large portion of southern Somalia after a nearly three-year war against the Western-backed Somali government.


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Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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India's ruling Congress party leads in three key state polls

October 22, 2009 India's ruling Congress Party-led alliance scored victories in elections held in three states to choose local governments. The results will boost the Congress Party, as it re-emerges as the country's major political force. The results from the elections, which were held last week, began to come in on Thursday.

The party and its allies scored clear wins in two states: the western state of Maharashtra and the northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state. In the northern Haryana state, it emerged as the largest party, but failed to secure a majority. The largest and most influential of these states is Maharashtra state, an industrialized region which is home to India's financial capital, Mumbai.

"The government has worked in the last five years, and I feel that is the reason why we have been able to achieve this success," said Ashok Chavan, the state's Chief Minister. "People have shown confidence, placing us in a position to form a government."

The Congress and its ally are currently ahead in 145 out of 288 seats in the Maharashtra state. If they manage to obtain those seats, it would enable them create a government without the help of other parties.

According to election commission figures, the main opposition alliance, consisting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena, were leading in around ninety seats in the Maharashtra state.

This is the second time this year that the Congress Party has emerged victorious in key polls. Five months ago, the party scored a victory in national elections over the BJP.

Thursday's results have widely been seen as another major vote of confidence for the party, and its national leadership. Political analysts have suggested that this will help the national government, as it presses ahead with its policies, which include economic reforms.

Professor of History at Delhi University and political analyst Mahesh Rangarajan said that the Congress Party's winning streak showed its reemergence as a major political force. "It is continuing to retain its hold on large and very popular states, so it is in the process of re-emerging as the pivot of the Indian political system," he said.

"Overall, this does indicate the secular shift of the voters towards the Congress as a party that can combine stability with inclusive growth. That trend which was clear in the recent general elections continues in the winter of 2009."

After dominating Indian politics for decades, the Congress Party began to decline in the mid-1990's as the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party rose to power. However, the BJP's series of losses in recent elections have considerably weakened it.


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Apertus
Public Foundation.

http://apertus.hu

Project Manager: [mailto:nagy.zoltan@apertus.hu Zoltán NAGY]

Apertus Public Foundation for Open Training and Distance Learning • Founded by the Hungarian Government • For the financial, information technological and methodological support of programs in open training and distance learning • For managing projects in the field of education, open distance vocational training and education related software development.

In the last two years the total amount of the projects – managed by Apertus - was more than 10.000.000 Euro. • relevant experience in content and software development • digital laboratory experiments in the field of education including higher education and vocational training

Péter Szabó – President of the Public Foundation László NAGY – project coordinator, area: WP9 Miklós MÓD – project coordinator, area: financial reports Zoltán NAGY – project management

Main goal is to make schools more safe for the students • Participating WP1 - Intelligent Monitoring and Automatic Detection of Threats WP5 - Search Engine for Fast Detection of Person and Documents Based on Watermarking and Agent Technology WP6 - Interactive Multimedia Applications Portal for Intelligent Observation System

Coordinating WP9 - Dissemination

GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Gdansk University of Technology Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics Multimedia Systems Department ul. Narutowicza 11/12 80-952 Gdansk, POLAND +48 58 347 13 01 www.multimed.org

Areas of research Digital signal processing Image & video processing Intelligent computing methods Microprocessor system design Acoustic measurements Telemedicine Multimedia communications Studio Technology & Sound reinforcement

Research group Andrzej Czyżewski, Prof., D.Sc., Eng.   Head of the Multimedia Systems Department Piotr Szczuko, Ph.D., Eng.   Project Lead at GUT Expertise: Image analysis Andrzej Ciarkowski, Andrzej Ciarkowski, M.Sc, Eng.   Technical Lead at GUT Expertise: Communications, System Design Grzegorz Szwoch, Ph.D., Eng.   Expertise: Video analysis

Research group Paweł Żwan, Ph.D., Eng.   Expertise: Audio analysis Piotr Dalka, M.Sc, Eng.   Expertise: Video analysis Józef Kotus, Ph.D., Eng.   Expertise: Monitoring station design Maciej Szczodrak, M.Sc, Eng.   Expertise: Supercomputing applications Damian Ellwart, M.Sc, Eng.   Expertise: Audio analysis Maciej Chyliński, M.Sc, Eng.   Expertise: Database design

Goals in INDECT Development of multimedia surveillance techniques, including: Automated video analysis algorithms (object tracking   & classification, event detection) Advanced audio surveillance (security-related sound   event detection, sound source localization) Combined analysis of multimedia data from multiple sources Collecting and presentation of surveillance and telemetric data (RFID, GPS...)

INNOTEC DATA GMBH & CO. KG
InnoTec DATA GmbH & Co. KG • 1991 founded • 44 Employers • Business field CCTV • Business field Telematic solutions • Business field Dock & Yard Management Systems

GTS-Nano – smallest GPS/GSM tracking device worldwide Highlights •GPS SuperSense -158 db           •roaming automaisation •Quad Band – GSM Modul            •geo fencing •1,6 MB internal memory           •I/O`s, 1X RS232 •intelligent Powermanagement      •shocksenor •embedded Sim
 * http://www.innotec-data.de

IP GRENOBLE (ENSIMAG)
Grenoble Institute of Technology LIG - Grenoble Informatics Laboratory Networks and Multimedia Group Andrzej Duda duda@imag.fr           http://duda.imag.fr

Group objectives Network protocols and communication applications Advances in networking next-generation Internet (IPv6, QoS, advanced routing, mobility) wireless networks (802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, sensor networks, mesh networks) P2P networks traffic analysis, malware, botnets

Goals in INDECT Leader of WP3 Main interest in WP3 surveillance and monitoring of Internet ressources and services monitoring of P2P networks detection and containment of botnets traffic analysis techniques monitoring of wireless networks monitoring underground markets

MSWIA – GENERAL HEADQUARTERS OF POLICE (POLISH POLICE)
NATIONAL POLICE HEADQUARTERS Polish Police - uniformed and armed force, which main goal is to serve and proctect the people, and to maintain public order and security.

NATIONAL POLICE HEADQUARTERS The basic police activities: - the protection of people`s health and life, the protection of property, the protection of public safety and order, -creating and organizing "community policing" and crime prevention activities, - detecting crimes and misdemeanors, arresting people who commited crimes, -the control of regulations, regarding public life and public spaces, - the cooperation with police forces from other countries and international organizations.

NATIONAL POLICE HEADQUARTERS http://www.policja.pl/

MOVIQUITY
Involvement in INDECT In most of the WPs. Mainly in WP2 and WP6. Total effort: 59 PM By our Development Department. Wide expertise in R+D national & European projects (FP5, FP6, Eureka initiative). Bringing knowledge in the areas of: Mobile and wireless technologies Semantic web services Geo-localization Location and tracking of Mobile Object Trust, security and privacy Identity Management Context awareness Personalization, usability etc.   User interfaces for mobile applications and mobile devices Implementation, integration and interoperability

Goals & Expected Outcomes As SME, Moviquity will have strong interest in prototyping as well as further exploitation of results and their commercialisation: Open new market opportunities both into national and international scopes. Improve security and intelligent surveillance methods into application technologies fostering commercial & business services. Integrate those innovative tools generated into the project in our know-how. European R&D projects results.

Thanks for your attention! gmm@moviquity.com Gema Maestro Molina Phone: +34 91 431 98 59 C/Isabel Colbrand 10, Planta 5a Oficina 150 Poligono Industrial de Fuencarral 28050 Madrid

PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 * PSI Transcom GmbH

PSI Group - segments and target markets Energy Management 34 years in the market. Utilities (electricity, gas, oil, water) Control systems, operation and Energy transport and distribution service management, simulation, Retail sale and trading network utilisation, trading/sales Production Management 39 years in the market. Mechanical and plant engineering Production planning, process      Automotive and automotive parts control systems, ERP, SCM,        Metals (steel and aluminium) warehouse and transport logistics Logistics, airports 25 years in the market. Telecommunications Infrastructure Management Telco infrastructure management, Public transport and railways operation control and telematics, Homeland security disaster prevention and safety

PSI Transcom GmbH – Safety Innovative command and control systems on       real-time monitoring of networks Quality and quantity of measured data, e.g.: • Water gauges or soil data • meteorological data • ... • Information and alarming while reaching critical values Our Command and Control Systems are noted for high economic efficiency and reliability.

INDECT - People involved Dr. Haluk Şarlan Project manager Patrick Hasenfuß PSI Transcom Project coordination

PSI-Goals in INDECT Prototyping an integrated command and control system to serve the requirements of police duties Demonstrating the possibilities of an Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system by implementing the INDECT research-results Exploitation of results and their commercialization New partners in Europe New customers in Europe Building up new PSI know-how about requirements of police duties

Contact Patrick Hasenfuß Dircksenstraße 42-44 D-10178 Berlin (Mitte) Telefon: +49/711/781935-271 Telefax: +49/711/781935-225 E-Mail: phasenfuss@psi.de

Police Service of Northern Ireland
ACC Drew Harris Supt. Gerry Murray D/C/Insp. Zulema Rosborough

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POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
INDECT – Cracow, January 22-23, 2009 Poznan University of Technology Chair of IT Security Janusz Stokłosa - head Krzysztof Bucholc Krzysztof Chmiel Anna Grocholewska-Czuryło Ewa Idzikowska Izabela Janicka-Lipska Michał Apolinarski Przemysław Rodwald – cooperation

Research activity • Design of cryptographic primitives – Boolean functions – S-boxes – P-boxes • Design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms: – Block ciphers – Stream ciphers – Hash functions

Goals in Indect Task 8.2 Cryptographic algorithms for efficient security of data flow in information system) Design of • New block cipher • New stream cipher • New hash function

PUT-ICIE/CDT in WP6 (INDECT Portal) • This group belongs to Institute of Control and Information Engineering (ICIE) – also part of Centre of Excellence in Telematics (CDT) • Key PUT-ICIE/CDT experts • Prof. Czeslaw Jedrzejek: the coordinator of CDT, very rich experience in EU             projects (ITTI leader in Daidalos and Mobilfuture leader in Daidalos II, PUT leader in              FP6 TANGO), one of the key authors of the INDECT proposal, main focus in              INDECT on ontologies and ontology-based reasoning for crisis management • Dr Andrzej Szwabe: experience in several EU projects (PUT leader in FP7             OPNEX), architect of a commercial MoFu IVAS platform awarded by Polish Science Foundation, in INDECT focus on INDECT IVAS and collaborative content filtering – Conducted research on ontologies, reasoning, semantic and relationship- mining tools for Polish Police and prosecutors within Polish Security Platform • Conceptual co-leadership of WP6 – PUT-ICIE/CDT has 50 PMs in WP6, all other partners together have 72 PMs – PUT-ICIE/CDT has provided the initial proposal of the WP6 architecture • Main goals of PUT in WP6: – Providing a INDECT-dedicated open-source version of the personalized multi- access IVAS platform (IVVR+Web+RTSP) – Integration of INDECT_IVAS with PUT’s ontology-based reasoning engine and other semantic and relationship-mining subsystems of WP6 Portal

UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID
INDECT 13- UC3M University Carlos III of Madrid David Larrabeiti (coord.) (dlarra@it.uc3m.es) Manuel Urueña (muruenya@it.uc3m.es) Affiliation: Advanced Switching and Communication Systems (adscom) Dept. of Telematics Engineering University Carlos III of Madrid Area of research: Telematics: Networking & telecommunications Multimedia networked applications

Research Group & expertise (I) Adscom Research group members participating in INDECT Dr. David Larrabeiti (Full professor) – coordinator Dr. Manuel Urueña (Associate professor) – technical director Dr. Ricardo Romeral (Associate professor) Dr. David García (Visiting professor) Eng. Isaac Seoane (Research Assistant) Eng. Angel Cuevas (Research Assistant) Applic. Applic. Applic. Expertise Brodband Networking                                             timers Execution                                      Router packet Environment                                     view parsing NICE, BTI, e-Photon/ONe, BONE packet AA Manager dispatcher loader Programmable networks                              terminator GCAP, Opium, AURAS                      Execution RAP Environment                   Rxr       Txr client Deep packet inspection                              OS                                                                                RIPLEY SABA                                                                                SNMP RAP Agent server Router Homeland security & ad-hoc nets                                                        APFE or                                                                     kernel Improvisa, T2C2 Departament of Telematics Engineering
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UC3M Goals in INDECT (1/2) Lead WP8: Security and Privacy Management T8.1 Design a Framework for secure information transfer and storage in  INDECT Preserve privacy and civil liberties. Design procedures to monitor access to confidential information. Benchmarking of technological solutions T8.4 Design of a federated identity model specifically tailored to support the coordination of different security forces. T8.5 Security and authentication of  mobile ad-hoc terminals at the network layer Challenge: persistent authentication and identity management in a mobile environment and become a self- organising ad-hoc network where they may lose contact with authentication and identity management servers.

UC3M Goals in INDECT (2/2) WP3: ..Criminal Activity Detection.. 1. Monitor Internet traffic by means of Deep Packet Inspection techniques to identify criminal behaviour Design of a continuous, automatic monitoring tool Collect & analyse information about users in search of activity linked to criminal behaviour 2. Support Tracking and Recording of suspicious flows Deal with direct serverless transfer of criminal information

UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL
University of Wuppertal Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Tibken University of Wuppertal Faculty of Electrical, Information and Media Engineering (Dean) Chair of Automatic Control (Head) Area of Research Image Processing Automotive Control Theory Optimization Modelling of Agent Systems

University of Wuppertal Description of Research Group 1 Professor 1 Assistant Professor 6 PhD Students 20 Bachelor and Master Students 3 Staff 2 N.N. financed by INDECT Expertise 140 scientific publications Cooperation with DELPHI, Daimler, Bosch, Vorwerk Fast Optimization Algorithms Fast Object Recognition Algorithms Dynamic Modelling of Agents

Goals in INDECT Lead Beneficiary for WP5 Search Engine for Fast Detection of Persons and Documents Based on   Watermarking and Agent Technology Responsible for Task 5.3 Enterprise Agent Search Service

UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Department of Computer Science University of York Dr Suresh Manandhar Artificial Intelligence Research group

University of York Ranked ~8th in UK Ranked ~80th worldwide Dept. Computer Science Rated highest 5* in recent Official Rankings 40 Full Time academics | 100 PhDs | 50 Research Assistants Research Groups: Artificial Intelligence, High Integrity Systems, Programming Languages, Computer Vision, Neural Nets, Enterprise Systems, Quantum and non-standard Computing Suresh Manandhar - Leader WP4 Area of Research • Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics • Machine Learning Other topics in Artificial Intelligence Research Group • Constraint Solving • Multi-agent systems and artificial evolution • AI for games

Expertise Dr Suresh Manandhar has a broad interest in natural language processing. Currently supervises 10 PhD students. Research in the following Topics: Named-entity recognition Question-answering systems Word-sense induction and disambiguation Dialogue systems Computational Logics for NLP Computational Semantics Grammar formalisms - HPSG, CCG, Lambek Calculus Unsupervised learning and minimally supervised learning of NLP Grammar Learning Speech recognition

Goals in Indect High Level Goals Learning of relationships between individuals and organisations Search for highly specific information in the Web Behavioural profiling of individuals Sentiment Analysis Detecting Suspicious Websites Further Information: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/aig/projects/indect/

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA

 * VSB – Technical University of Ostrava. Czech Republic

Area of research Management of telecommunication networks Dimensioning and optimization of networks Networks using light Light beam as a medium for data transfer Optical fiber for intelligent networks, optical fiber sensors VoIP – Voice over IP Security of computer networks Electronics, fault tolerant systems

Research group and main interest Employees of Department of Telecommunications, young people, who finished Ph.D. study Dissertation theme - Optimizing of media access mechanism in wireless technologies 2 of us are lecturers of Cisco Academy Ph.D. students Our main interest is security of networks and application of the Internet Protocol version 6

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KOŠICE
INDECT Participant name: Technical University of Košice (TUKE) www.tuke.sk Participant number: 18 Responsible person: Ľubomír Doboš lubomir.dobos@tuke.sk

Technical University of Košice Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Department of Electronics and Multimedia Communications Laboratory of Multimedia Technologies Mobile group        Speech group              Security group Ľubomír Doboš       Jozef Juhár               Dušan Levický Ján Papaj           Anton Čižmár              Radovan Ridzoň Matuš Pleva         Stanislav Ondaš +PhD students       +PhD students             +PhD students 2x full professors, SUM: 2x associate professors, 2x assistent professors 2x researchers 6xPhD students

Laboratory of Multimedia Technologies Research profile (1) Mobile systems and services        (http://mobiltel.tuke.sk/): Connection admission control models and algorithms for cellular and noncellular mobile systems Mobile location algorithms for cellular and noncellular mobile communication systems QoS and security based routing protocols for Mobile Ad-Hoc network Speech technologies for human-to-computer speech communication (http://irkr.tuke.sk/): automatic speech recognition text-to-speech synthesis stochastic acoustic and language modeling acoustic and text corpora for training dialogue modeling and management natural language processing

Laboratory of Multimedia Technologies Research profile (2) Multimedia Content Security Robust digital image watermarking in transformation domain Digital watermarking in video Digital Image Steganography

Laboratory of Multimedia Technologies Running Research Projects 1. Pervasive Mobile & Ambient Wireless Communications, COST 2100, 2007-2011 2. Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication, COST 2102, 2007-2011 3. VOTS2: Voice Operated Telecommunication Systems and Services, AV-4-0006-07, 2007- 2009 4. ARTAR : Automated analysis, recognition and transcription of audio recordings, AV-4- 2016-08, 2008-2010 5. SPEETIS: Speech Technologies for Advanced Telecommunication and Information Services in Slovak Language, APVV-0369-07, 2008-2010 6. Security in Multimedia Communication, VEGA, 2007-2009

TUKE goals in INDECT TUKE participate in majority WP’s. (Except WP4 and WP8). More significant participation in: WP1: Intelligent Monitoring and Automatic Detection of Threats WP2: Identification and Observation of Mobile Objects in Urban Environment WP3: Extraction of Information for Crime Prevention WP7: Biometrics and Intelligent Methods for Extraction and Supplying Security Information

X-ART PRO DIVISION G.M.B.H.
Company background • founded in 1992 / private owned Ltd. • distributor of digital audio and video production tools • (David, Digidesign, Omneon,...) with more than 3000 customers • Integrator for more than 30 radio and television stations • with over 1500 seats of digital production systems • hundreds of journalist use the tools that we supplied day by day for their production of news, features, trailer,...... • European competence center for Autonomy/Virage rich media and data mining solutions • Our competence is the big understanding of IT based AV workflow processes combined with data mining issues Clients include •  NSA Romania, Associated Press, France 24,TU Delft, Ministry of Defense Morocco, Red Bull, Eduhi,Telekom Austria -aon-digital.tv, IVS - different customers (VideoServiceProvider), ORF – austrian public broadcaster, Tchibo,, BKF, Styria – Radio network, ORF – digital tv and radio network, BMW - Video Indexing solution, Swisscom – Video indexing solution, EADS – Video Indexing solution, BBC, NDR, Krone Hit, UPC, etc.

XPS-X-Art Processing Server • A freely configurable and powerful workflow-engine • A suite of different dockable modules needed for controlling individual processes • Different upload technologies allow content providers to comfortably supply their assets

Live cases! • Aon.tv: www.aon.tv • Eduhi tv: http://edumediacenter.schule.at/ • http://tv.schule.at • http://estream.schule.at • Landtag Kärnten/Tirol: http://vss.ivs.tv:81/vss-bin/vss_SR/LRT_Videoarchiv/website?query=* • http://vss.ivs.tv:81/vss-bin/vss_SR/Kaerntner_Landtag/kltag • Deutsche Wochenschau: http://vss.ivs.tv:81/vss-bin/vss_SR/Deutsche_Wochenschau/Pilotprojekt

andreas.pongratz@x-art.at • +43-3357-43801

FACHHOCHSCHULE TECHNIKUM WIEN
University of Applied Sciences Fachhochschule Technikum Wien > Technology is so exciting.

Fachhochschule Technikum Wien (FHTW) University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien • Founded in 1994 • Austria‘s first University of Applied Sciences implementing the Bachelor- /Master system • Currently 11 Bachelor and 16 Master Programs • About 2000 graduates and 2600 students • Approximately 450 full- and part-time staff

Degree Programs (Bachelor, Master) 26 Fulltime & parttime programs in the fields: • Electronics • Computer science • Biomedical engineering • Mechatronics

Dipl.-Ing. Christian Kollmitzer Vice-rector of the university of applied sciences Teaching activity: Electronics, Media Technology, Audio- & Video-technology, Image Processing Research areas: Computer Vision Water level measurement with cameras Robocup Vision System Distance Learning

AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Electronics AGH University of Science and Technology Presented by prof. Andrzej R. Pach Head Department of Telecommunications

The Faculty • Research in information technologies on  very high level • Attractive educational offer in IT

Departments involed in INDECT • Department of Telecommunications • Department of Computer Science • Department of Automatics • Department of Electronics

Our experience in FP projects • DAIDALOS and DAIDALOS II (Designing  Advanced Network Interfaces for the Delivery   and Administration of Location Independent   Optimised Personal Services) IPs, 6th FP, 2003 – 2006, 2006‐2009 • NOBEL and NOBEL 2 (Next Generation Optical  Network for Broadband in Europe) IPs, 6th FP, 2003 – 2006, 2006‐2008.

Our experience in FP projects, cont. • CARMEN (Carrier Grade Mesh Networks) STREP, 7th FP, 2008‐2010 • SMOTHIT (Simple Economic Management  Approaches of Overlay Traffic in   Heterogeneous Internet Topologies) STREP, 7th FP, 2008‐2010 • NI2S3 (Net‐centric Information & Integration  Services for Security Systems) STREP 7th FP, 2009‐2010

Our experience, another example • MEDUSA (Multi Sensor Data Fusion Grid for  Urban Situational Awareness) JIF‐FP project supported by the European Defense Agency, 2009‐2010 The scope of the MEDUSA project is the study, development and demonstration of a multi‐sensor data fusion grid to improve situational awareness and command and control in the context of force protection in the urban environment

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Project participants: Participant No. Participant organisation name          Short Name Country 1 AGH – University of Science and Technology           AGH     Poland 2 Apertus                                            APERTUS Hungary 3 Bundeskriminalamt (German Police)                 BKA        Germany 4 University of Applied Science Sankt. Pölten         FH-SP   Austria 5 Gdansk University of Technology                      GUT     Poland 6 InnoTec DATA GmbH & Co. KG                      INNOTEC      Germany 7 IP Grenoble (Ensimag)                               IPNG     France 8 General Headquarters of Police (Polish Police)       GHP     Poland 9 Moviquity                                      MOVIQUITY     Spain 10 Products and Systems of Information Technology      PSI     Germany 11 Police Service of Northern Ireland                  PSNI    United Kingdom 12 Poznan University of Technology                     PUT     Poland 13 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid                    UC3M    Spain 14 Technical University of Sofia                       TUSOFIA Bulgaria 15 University of Wuppertal                             UNIWUP Germany 16 University of York                                  UNIYORK Great Britain 17 Technical University of Ostrava                     VSB     Czech Republic 18 Technical University of Kosice                      TUKE    Slovakia 19 X-Art Pro Division G.m.b.H.                         X-ART   Austria


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US Defense Secretary Gates to seek extra aid for Afghanistan

October 22, 2009 🇺🇸 US Defense Secretary Robert Gates flew to Slovakia on Wednesday, to ask NATO defense ministers to help the United States respond to the request for more resources made by the US and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal.

Gates told reporters on his aircraft that he believed it makes sense to have these talks now, because he said the effort to stabilize and develop Afghanistan is a NATO mission, not just one for the US.

"This is an alliance issue and my view all along has been we ought to do this in a way that if General McChrystal has an additional set of needs, it should not be looked upon as exclusively the responsibility of the United States to respond," the defense secretary remarked.

Gates said that since the NATO summit last spring he has seen "more energy and more commitment" among NATO nations to doing what is necessary to succeed in Afghanistan. He described current consultations with NATO allies as "intense." General McChrystal says the allied effort could fail to prevent a militant takeover in Afghanistan unless he is given more resources. In a secret request, he is believed to be asking for 40,000 or more additional troops, on top of 68,000 U.S. and nearly 40,000 coalition troops already there. President Barack Obama is expected to decide on any additional US deployment soon.

Gates added that he wanted his NATO counterparts to consider what additional commitments they can also make to help reverse gains made by the Taliban and similar groups in recent years.

"My hope is that we can have a serious discussion about how things have changed in Afghanistan since last spring, and a way forward in which the alliance can share these responsibilities and work with the Afghan government to move the situation in a more positive direction," he said.

But the secretary noted that all contributions to the Afghanistan effort do not have to be military. He said he headed for Bratislava with a "menu of options" for allies to consider, and that much of the capability General McChrystal wanted is not controversial, such as civilian assistance, training, and financing for development projects.

Speaking early on Thursday during a visit to South Korea, Gates also welcomed the decision to hold a runoff to decide the Afghan presidential election, saying all nations involved have an interest in a smooth process to provide the winning candidate with as much legitimacy as possible.

"I think virtually all of the nations that increased their troop presence to provide security for the elections in August have kept those forces there and so are in a position to try and, along with their Afghan Army and police counterparts, provide as good a security as possible for the [runoff] elections," he said.

Gates, however, noted that will not end problems of corruption and weak governance in Afghanistan. He said the international community will still have much work to do with any new government in Kabul to provide the kind of stability, security and services that will have a chance of convincing the Afghan people to support the government, rather than the militants of the Taliban and al-Qaida.


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British soldier dies in Afghanistan, UK death toll rises to 222

October 22, 2009

A British soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, taking the number of British deaths there since 2001 to 222.

He was a member of the Royal Military Police, and was killed while on foot patrol in the Helmand province, close to the Gereshk district in Southern Afghanistan. The cause of death has been reported to be an explosion, but the source is unclear.

"It is my sad duty to confirm the death of a soldier, a Royal Military Policeman, in an explosion earlier today in Helmand Province," Lieutenant Colonel David Wakefield said of the incident. " He died doing his duty and we will remember him."

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Red Cross member abducted in Darfur, Sudan

October 22, 2009The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said one of its staff members has been kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region. In a statement, the ICRC said that Gauthier Lefevre, a French national, was abducted Thursday near the town of Al Geneina in West Darfur.

It added that Lefevre was traveling in one of two clearly marked Red Cross vehicles when unidentified kidnappers seized him around midday local time. The ICRC said the man "was returning with other ICRC staff to El-Geneina after completing a field trip north of the town to help local communities upgrade their water supply systems." It also said that "he was travelling in one of two clearly marked ICRC vehicles when he was seized a few kilometres [miles] from the town."

The agency said it is working with local authorities to secure the man's release.

Foreign aid groups have faced increased hostility in Darfur since the indicted Sudan's President  earlier this year for alleged war crimes.

Two workers for the Irish aid group GOAL were kidnapped in July and spent three months in captivity before being released last Sunday. Two civilian employees of the joint United Nations–African Union mission in Darfur still remain captive after being kidnapped in August.


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Panama-flagged ship hijacked off Somali coast by pirates

October 22, 2009 Suspected Somali pirates have hijacked the MV Al Khaliq, a Panama-flagged ship, off the eastern coast of Africa on Thursday. International maritime officials said the ship was seized about 330 kilometers west of the Seychelles islands.

Officials reported that the ship is carrying 26 crew members — 24 Indians and two Burmese. The Al Khaliq is the fourth ship Somali pirates have hijacked this month, and the third in the past week.

"The MV Al Khaliq, a Panamanian-flagged bulk carrier, has been hijacked early this morning off Somalia," said a spokeswoman for the NATO's antipiracy mission in the UK. "There were 26 crew on board, 24 of whom are Indian and two Burmese."

The mission confirmed that the ship had been hijacked. "Within the last hour, an EU NAVFOR maritime patrol aircraft has confirmed the hijack of MV Al Khaliq, [with] six pirates on board and two attack skiffs in tow," it said. "The mother skiff [of the pirates] has already been taken on board with a crane."

The European Union's anti-piracy mission reported that crew members radioed for help before losing contact. An EU aircraft that flew over the scene reported seeing six pirates on board and the Al Khaliq towing two pirate skiffs. NATO's nearest defence ship was located about eight hours away from the Al Khaliq when it was overtaken by the pirates.

The EU and NATO also said that pirates released open fire on another ship, the Italian-flagged MV Jolly Rosso, off the coast of Kenya on the same day. That ship, however, managed to escape by increasing its throttles to eighteen knots, a spokeswoman for the antipiracy mission said.

"The ship took appropriate evasive action, managed to evade the attack and is proceeding on her voyage. There were no casualties," read a statement by the mission.

Somali pirates have hijacked dozens of ships over the last two years, taking in tens of millions of dollars in ransom money. The pirates are believed to be holding seven ships in all. A new report on the pirates suggests that current international strategies to stop the hijackings are not effective.

The report, put out by the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, said the international naval patrols off Somalia's coast are expensive, and that the pirates can evade the patrols or escape to shore. It also noted that efforts to combat piracy by strengthening Somalia's Western-backed government are limited, because the pirates come from specific regions and clans, far away from the capital.

The researchers, however, said that there are centers of power close to the pirate bases, and that these can be allies in fighting piracy. The researchers say that to effectively combat piracy, the international community needs to support these local structures.


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This page is kinda blank
No one needs help! -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 20:46, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Live chat?
Added header. Den dodge  T\C (en.wp) 20:57, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Hello?

this is a live chat right?

bye. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.116.126.84 (talk)
 * No. For live chats, see WN:IRC. Den dodge  T\C (en.wp) 20:57, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

My Contributions are Srin in color!
When I looked at my contributions after doing the following edits, [],[],the edits were in creamish pink colour. (I am sorry, I am poor in describing colors, therefore, the following box: Srin ). And above the edit diff, it is written "[draft revision]" while in others it is not written. Can somebody explain me what the idea behind the above is? Thank you in advance, Srin  ivas  15:24, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * That means your edits have to be reviewed by a trusted user before they appear to non-registered users or are picked up by Google News, just like the way articles have to be reviewed before they appear on the Main Page. Den dodge  T\C 16:16, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Deleting Pages ; Editor Status
I would like to know two things: Srin ivas  11:19, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) What are the qualifications to get the editor's status?
 * 2) How do I mark my own user pages for deletion under CSD U1. (I hope there are CSDs in enWN)?
 * Responses:
 * There are no official "minimums" one needs to meet in order to gain editor status, however, in my experience, there are two things you need to have to be successful: 1.) a fairly thorough knowledge the style guide (demonstrated by having created several good articles) and 2.) having the trust of the community not to abuse the tool.
 * If you want a page in your userspace to be deleted, simply tag them with and they'll get deleted under speedy deletion rules.
 * Hope I helped. Cheers, Tempodivalse [talk]  14:03, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Article ratings
I see we have a thing for readers to rate articles at the bottom of the page, based on reliability, completeness, neutrality and presentation. But are these ratings then available to view anywhere? I certainly can't find them. And do they get used much? the wub "?!"  10:03, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
 * They are accessible somewhere (I can't remember where). This is part of FlaggedRevisions, and for here on Wikinews I remember being told that the only page a decent number of ratings were entered for was the main page. Just have to hope that changes. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:53, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
 * For specific page: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikinews/en/w/index.php?title=Special:RatingHistory&target=Main_Page (change target to whatever page you want. Its also in the toolbox of most main namespace pages). For highly rated pages: Special:RatedPages. Cheers. Bawolff ☺☻ 15:42, 24 October 2009 (UTC)


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Vandagard aspires to be a newshound.

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Big Ben dropped from ITV News at Ten opening sequence

October 22, 2009

ITV have dropped images of the face of Big Ben from the title sequence of ITV’s News at Ten. ITN announced that the images were being removed as the show begins a revamp. The change comes as the company wants to engage with viewers who live outside of London where Big Ben is situated. The changes will be made on November 2 of this year.

The bongs that come from the clock's bell will however remain as part of a new soundtrack. The ITV news returned in 2001 at the new time of 10:30 pm but was later changed back to its original timeslot of 10:00 pm in 2008. The original ITV News at 10 was dropped in 1999 after 32 years on air.

Current anchors Mark Austin and Julie Etchingham will remain as the show's presenters after the revamp.


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Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's murder rate becomes world's highest

October 22, 2009 The murder rate in, Mexico has become the highest in the world. There were an average of seven killings every day for the past twelve months in the city, which is currently in the midst of a clash between two powerful drug cartels.

The majority of the 1,986 murders this year remain unsolved, and most involve drug gang members who have come from elsewhere to fight for control of the drug smuggling route into neighbouring El Paso, Texas, as well as the lucrative local trade in drugs. There is a jump of 815 murders from last year.

107 women, 85 children, and 49 police officers are among the dead and many people have met particularly violent ends. One man was tethered between two trucks and ripped apart; others have been decapitated or dismembered. The violence results from a turf war between rivals Juarez cartel and Sinaloa cartel, the latter being run by the most wanted man in the country,.

In late 2006 authorities launched a crackdown on Mexican drugs cartels, with Ciudad Juarez receiving 45,000 troops during that time. However, this has failed to prevent the gangs battling to control the cocaine-smuggling trade run from the city.


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Prior highest murder rate?
What was the previous highest-rated city? 76.232.66.140 (talk) 19:41, 2 November 2009 (UTC)


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Official: Military aircraft crashes in Afghanistan

October 23, 2009 A senior Afghan intelligence official has reported that a military aircraft crashed in the country's northern region on Thursday.

Provincial intelligence chief Abdul Majid Azimi said that the aircraft went down in the mountains of Afghanistan's Baghlan province. He added it was not immediately known if the aircraft involved is a helicopter or a plane or to whom it belonged. Mohammad Asif Qazizada, the district governor of the Khinjan district, told the Agence France-Presse news agency: "a military aircraft has crashed in the Basgah area on the peak of the Salang mountains, between northern and southern Salang. It is not known at this stage to whom the aircraft belongs, exactly what type of aircraft it is, if there were any passengers and who they were."

A spokesman for NATO's international coalition in Afghanistan said there were no immediate reports of a crash involving any of its aircraft.

"We are investigating reports of a military aircraft crash in Salang. We cannot confirm anything at this stage. We are investigating," said General Murad Ali Murad, an army corps commander.


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6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Afghanistan, Pakistan

October 23, 2009

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan along the border with Pakistan early on Friday, the US Geological Survey reported.

The tremors, which started at 00.21 local time (19.51 UTC), were felt in the capitals of both countries. There were no immediate reports of deaths or destruction from the earthquakes.

A reporter for the Al Jazeera news agency said that the initial earthquake lasted for several seconds, and was followed by a heavy aftershock.

In October 2005, a heavy 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck northwestern Pakistan, displacing over three million people and killing almost 75,000. A 6.9 magnitude tremor in 1998 killed over 50,000 and caused flooding and mudslides.


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Thanks!
Thank you for your productive and helpful edits on Wikinews. We really appreciate what you've done. Wikinews needs more good editors like yourself; please consider getting an account! We'd be very happy to have you. Tempodivalse [talk]  23:35, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

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More than 300 arrested in over two days after US drug operation

October 23, 2009 The US Justice Department said on Thursday more than 300 people have been arrested in the United States over the past two days, as part of a massive operation targeting the La Familia Mexican drug cartel.

Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters on Thursday that the recent arrests are part of a 44-month, multi-agency law enforcement investigation known as Project Coronado. Holder called the operation the largest coordinated US law enforcement operation ever undertaken against a Mexican drug cartel. He added that the reach of the cartel stretches well into the US.

"This operation has dealt a significant blow to La Familia's supply chain of illegal drugs, weapons, and cash flowing between Mexico and the United States," said Holder.

According to Holder, the authorities seized 109 vehicles, 144 weapons, an unconfirmed quantity of methamphetamine, 137 pounds (62 kilograms) of cocaine, 967 pounds (439 kilograms) of marijuana, and US$3.4 million in cash after the raids. "These are drugs that were headed for our streets, and weapons that often were headed for the streets of Mexico," noted Holder.

The Attorney General described the cartel as the "most violent" of the Mexico drug cartels.

Thousands of people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico in recent years.


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Ethiopia appeals for food aid for over 6 million

October 23, 2009 The government of Ethiopia has appealed the international community for food aid for 6.2 million people that it says are in danger of starvation.

Mitiku Kassa, the Ethiopian State Minister for Agriculture, said that the country needs about 159,000 tonnes of food aid, worth US$121 million, between now and the end of the year.

"[Since] January, the country continues to face several humanitarian challenges in food and livelihood security, health, nutrition, and in water and sanitation," he said to donors. Kassa added that close to 80,000 children younger than five years old were affected by acute malnutrition.

This comes after a lengthy drought hit the region, also affecting the neighbouring countries of Kenya and Somalia. Droughts in Ethiopia can bring about especially disastrous effects, as the economy is dependent mainly on agriculture, and over four fifths of the population lives off the land.


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Kenya government reform record to be reviewed by AU experts

October 23, 2009

Kenya has agreed to be reviewed by a team of African Union (AU) experts in November to assess the country's political reform record. The review is to be conducted by the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).

The review, which was sanctioned by the African Union Heads of States, will determine the Kenyan unity government's performance since it was created last year, following a disputed election and resulting violence.

APRM Prime Minister Wycliffe Oparanya launched the preparatory activities for the assessment on Thursday. “The exercise will have particular emphasis on the institutions and stakeholders charged with carrying out the envisaged reforms,” Oparanya said.

The Lead Panelist for the APRM for Kenya, Graca Machel, will lead the review team. The assessment is scheduled to be conducted between November 16 and 20.

This comes several weeks after former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan encouraged the Kenyan government to speed up its reforms.

The APRM was created in 2003, and Kenya was one of the first ten African countries to acede to it. Under the review, which is voluntary, countries evaluate themselves, before a team of AU experts carry out an independent review. Results of the assessment are given to a Heads of State and Governments summit.


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Comments:Windows 7 gets 'early release' in China; software pirates beat Microsoft to the punch

Why would anyone buy Windows, when Microsoft reserves the right to exclude lawful owners from their own software? Do you want to check with Microsoft every single time you need to install your copy of Windows. Microsoft has no respect for their customers; I won't be buying windows 7.

What a f**k news article. It seems Wikinews is supporting copyright violence.--219.234.81.119 (talk) 06:33, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

China steals all the time
China steal U.S technologies all the time —Preceding unsigned comment added by Earlytoday (talk • contribs) 09:08, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

I've noticed that the majority prefers Mac OS. I don't really mind that. But somebody should put a stop to the piracy! Who knows what kind of spyware is on that program? --AquaTeen13 (talk) 13:14, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

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hi biuotafel —41.232.73.236 (talk) 08:57, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Comments from feedback form - "windows7 are good fetures but ..."
windows7 are good fetures but it not properly well working & difficult to installation —117.200.176.203 (talk) 03:10, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

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Comments:Human remains found at World Trade Center

The term "Humanoid remains" bothers me. As far as I am aware, only humans and maybe some local wildlife or pets died there. So unless there were aliens or chimpanzees or chupacabras or bigfoot, the only humanoid things would have been human. The use of humanoid infers the possibility of non-human, humanoid remains.


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A style guide can, and should, cover the tiny details of a text publication, in an attempt to maintain a uniform set of methods and as a way to avoid disputes. But a style guide is always a guide - not a straitjacket.

A style guide includes rules, and special exceptions to rules, and niggling details as they are to be done in a specific context. For example, on Wikinews it is preferred to use the hyphen, -, rather than the n-dash (–) or the m-dash (—). The others aren't wrong, nor are they right, it's just that here it is preferable to use the normal hyphen. Solecisms, textual faux pas, common mis-spellings, misuses, and misconceptions might all be highlighted with the preferred method of handling, spelling, or avoiding problems in writing.

This particular collection is Amgine's Personal Style Guide Details - in no way is it complete, nor is it in any way related to policy on Wikinews. It may be useful for some editors, even hoped to be, but it is not presented with any claims for either usefulness or accuracy, and any browsing of it may be harmful to your physical, mental, or economic health (nor are the possible harms limited to those.)

So, use or not at your own risk.

Additional resources

 * BBC Radio News Style Guide | BBC Academy: Style Guide
 * Economist Style Guide 2017-10-09 Archive.org
 * Guardian style guide
 * Voice of America Stylebook - 2010, PDF
 * AP Stylebook
 * Archive.org search results (Many editions in various media.)
 * Purdue OWL - (Online Writing Lab, AP Style basics - not the complete guide.)
 * AP Stylebook official, pay site.
 * The New York Times Stylebook (not found yet, but also see https://open.nytimes.com/)
 * New York Times Manual of Style and Usage on Worldcat
 * Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides | U of Iowa: Journalism and Mass Communication Resources
 * Guide to punctuation
 * The Slot: A spot for copy editors - Old skool great - that is, the content is gold. But, you may have a hard time figuring out why it is insanely good.
 * A guide to copy-editing everything - basic, but useful.
 * Radical Copyeditor blog. Language is not neutral. Some useful advice about how to work to make language less biased/harmful.

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Suicide bomb blast hits air force base in Pakistan

October 23, 2009

A suicide bomber attacked the Chaklala airbase in the Punjab province of northern Pakistan this morning, killing at least four civilians and two air force personnel at a security checkpoint.

The blast took place in Kamra, approximately 50 km (30 mi) away from Islamabad, near Rawalpindi and the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC). The attacker had apparently hoped to enter the airbase, but detonated his explosives while at the checkpoint when officers suggested they wanted to search his clothing.

With some outlets reporting as many as eight deaths, between nine and thirteen people were believed wounded, although their identities haven't been disclosed, said Fakhar Sultan, District Police chief.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani condemned the suicide attack, and repeated that his government would not waver from its goal to "root out terrorism".

This was the second time that Kamra was targeted, the first being in December 2007. International groups have suggested that Pakistan may keep its nuclear-armed aircraft at the base.


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Welcome
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Thanks!
Thank you for your productive and helpful edits on Wikinews. We really appreciate what you've done. Wikinews needs more good editors like yourself; please consider getting an account! We'd be very happy to have you. Den dodge  T\C 11:53, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

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Image Description
I don't want to be so picky and a pest but the image's description just says the air force base really think it should be changed to something more accurate. 72.73.90.252 (talk) 12:27, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Published as Breaking News?
At the newsroom it still shows up as a high priority review just letting ya know probably will get published soon anyway. 72.73.90.252 (talk) 12:43, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Horizontal sidebar
Regarding : Can we please return the vertical sidebar? I think the horizontal infobox looks bad on this article. I won't revert because i already undid this edit once before, and don't want to edit war, but i'd like some second opinions. Tempodivalse [talk]  18:08, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The vertical sidebar is best for articles that don't have accompanying images; but with an image, it forces us to sacrifice professional standards and bump the image awkwardly to the left. If we have an image, it's better to use the horizontal sidebar. Sherurcij 18:21, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * What's wrong with having the image on the left side of the article? It's not a wide picture, so it doesn't squeeze the text or anything. Tempodivalse [talk]  18:34, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * News sites, unless they whore out to advertisers, use the top-right of an article for photographs; we should do the same. English style dictate that readers move their eyes from left to right over a story, and while they will automatically stop if a line truncates early on the right side, they should not have to search for the beginning of text by scanning from the left until they find words. *shrugs* Sherurcij 18:36, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * ? How hard could it be to find the beginning of the next line when reading an article? I've never had any trouble with that, and it never bothered me or anything. Imho, any benefit with the horizontal infobox you describe is outweighed by (what I think, anyway) is its rather untidy/eyesore appearance at the bottom of the page. I think vertical sidebars make things look much more organised/tidy than do horizontal ones. Tempodivalse [talk]  18:53, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Agree with . The predominant style on Wikinews is the vertical sidebar, not horizontal, and it works much better on articles. The image fits perfectly actually. Cirt (talk) 21:53, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Bomber's body
I removed the bit saying the suicide bomber's body was blasted into pieces...that is true to all suicide bombings. Sherurcij 18:21, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

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editprotected Category:Rawalpindi, Category:Punjab, Pakistan (✅ --Brian McNeil / talk 18:10, 24 November 2009 (UTC)


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User:Brian McNeil/Project INDECT/Crypto

Kick off: New crypto for INDECT
Apparent intention is to deliver the final working INDECT system in such a way that it is cryptographically secure. Access to 'content' in the database is to be secured even when sent to mobile devices such as PDAs. Due to integration with CCTV footage it is possible video would have to be streamed to such devices over an encrypted connection.

Janusz Stokłosa of the Poznan University of Technology is the Chair of IT Security. In the January 22 - 23 Project INDECT kick-off meeting in Cracow his team was presented; Krzysztof Bucholc, Krzysztof Chmiel, Anna Grocholewska-Czuryło, Ewa Idzikowska, Izabela Janicka-Lipska, Michał Apolinarski, and Przemysław Rodwald who is responsible for coordinating with other project participants. Their activities in Project INDECT are intended to design a new block cipher, stream cipher, and hash function.

 * Are these respected and credible cryptographers?

 * Is 'inventing' brand-new crypto for INDECT a good idea?

Steganography in INDECT?

 * Why is this mentioned as part of INDECT?

From the Technical University of Košice (TUKE), the Laboratory of Multimedia Technologies presents itself as expert in "Multimedia Content Security", with focus on talking points including "watermarking in video" and "Image Steganography". Various other departments from TUKE are also involved with INDECT, their specialities being in speech recognition, automatic transcription, 'pervasive' mobile/wireless networks, and the Quality of Service and security requirements where access must be provided over an ad-hoc, or "mesh" network.

 * Why would significant effort be invested in areas like steganography and digital watermarking?

 * If one were to suppose this is for the security of content delivered over their crime fighting network, possibly to pinpoint leaks, how realistically do watermarks and 'hidden messages' survive transition to a medium like YouTube? Does this cast a 'chilling' shadow on would-be whistleblowers?

 * Assuming, as academic research, the results from this work are released publicly, what are some of the alternative uses, who profits the most from deploying any technology developments?

 * oj@alternet.org

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Welcome
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Please don't create inappropriate pages. See Introduction to learn how to constructively contribute to this project. Thanks. Tempodivalse [talk]  14:07, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Please don't create bad pages. You could be blocked from editing if you do it again. Tempodivalse [talk]  14:10, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

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Welcome
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