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Wikinews exclusive: 'speed not behind New Zealand's road toll'

January 30, 2007

Rachael Ford, co-ordinator for New Zealand's Candor Trust reveals in a Wikinews exclusive what Candor asserts is the hidden cause of deaths on New Zealand's roads.

Candor Trust is an organisation based in New Zealand that helps educate New Zealanders about the dangers of driving under the influence of drugs.

Candor Trust says that the message that "Speed kills" is the "number one road safety threat".

In 2000, the number of road accidents causing injuries was 7,447. Last year, this rose to 10,738 - the highest since 1995. Statistics provided by the Ministry of Transport show that in the same period, the number of hospitalisations too rose by about a quarter (25%), to 7,427.

Saying that the general level of safety on New Zealand's roads has "gone down the gurgler", According to the Trust, the "unjustified emphasis" on speed, which it says is far from the greatest factor in fatalities, only serves to distract from bigger issues."

Candor Trust urges a rethinking of the "Speed kills" message, pointing out that it does not predict that record numbers of hospitalisations accompanying the record numbers of speeding tickets issued.

The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) and Land Transport New Zealand (LTNZ) both say that a one percent decrease in the mean speed will cut the death toll by four percent and the injury rate by two percent.

Dr. Patrick Meffen has told transport officials from the Ministry of Transport that factors other than the drop in average speeds are responsible for the drop in the death toll.

Provisional figure for 2006 show a four percent decrease of the mean speed from 101 km/h to 97 km/h coinciding with an increase of people being seriously injured. The number went up by 330, a 15% increase from the 2000 figure of 2,243.

Candor Trust says that it is incredible that other agencies, including LTNZ, are continuing to spread the message that speed kills, even when an experiment to show what happened when users took party pills and then drove was stopped when no fatalities occurred, just concern over adverse effects.

Candor Trust said: "The survival of road users depends on the goodwill of planners who need to come clean and admit the 'reduced harm correlates to reduced average speeds' hypothesis is disproven in the present NZ context."

Ms Ford said: "It is not OK that the damning Breen report [a review of road safety to 2010 strategy] expressed concerns [that] our road safety policy is not sufficiently evidence based, and yet we carry on doing as we've always done." She said that because of this, the road victim disability services are overloaded and unable to meet the needs of the victims.

The speed theory is based on a formula called 'Ashtons formula'. Ashtons formula is based on demonstrated association, which is said to need the weakest scientific evidence, but Candor Trust says that it does not account for variables such as the vehicle standards.

Dr. Meffen told the LTNZ that it is not true if a crash occurred at 95 km/h and another at 105 km/h, the slower one would be more survivable. He said that the media releases are misleading people, making them believe in a false sense of security. "An important spin off from the misuse of these statistics has been the concept promoted by media of survivable accidents at or near open road speeds. In reality the chances of surviving around the open speed limit are low and purely random."

Candor Trust said: "Speed control must stop dominating policy - over limit speed is only present at 18% of fatal crashes. Safety has nothing to do with legality, and putting all our eggs in the speed basket as it's easily 'enforceable' has been a mistake." Over half of all fatal crashes the speed is under 60km/h, and fatal side-on crashes occur at speeds usually below 40 km/h.

In 2005 and partly 2006, $2,385,000 NZD was spent on advertising to prevent speeding, the majority of the advertising budget. Speeding teenagers, who are of the most concern, do not make up the bulk of the toll.

Candor Trust said the most important issue that could end up saving lives is the use of 1990-dated imports in cars that are being used by the under 25-year-olds on New Zealand roads, or as Candor Trust described the roads, "State Goat Tracks."

Candor Trust calls for an immediate review and reconstruction of how the police deals with crashes, and want information on inattention and drug intoxication to be collected following a crash. A police source told Candor Trust that there are often times when crash investigators argue with the police when the police try to tick the speed box, because they are "overly keen". Candor Trust want a better and more effective road safety policy, especially when it comes to speed.

Also in the latter half of this month, January, 19 fatal crashes occurred and 16 of those were the result of a centreline cross, which usually occur because a driver is fatigued or otherwise impaired, and they move the steering wheel; or "run off road events." Ministry of Transport statistics shows that a head-on collision in which one of the cars is travelling 80 km/h or more will most likely result in a fatality. Research conducted in America also showed that mobile phones are not a major cause of deaths when compared to other causes. In the 3 seconds before a crash, 80% of drivers are inattentive and local studies implicate fatigue or drug abuse as the main risk factors for that.


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Like it says in the first sentence, I was contacted by Racheal Ford, and I got the information from her via e-mail. --Nzgabriel | Talk 08:24, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Dr. Who
who is Dr. Meffen? why is his first name unknown when first mention, but is later given as "Patrick"? (have fixed the latter). — Doldrums(talk) 10:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

couple of things
— Doldrums(talk) 10:29, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) can we change some of the "Candor Trust says" to "Rachel Ford says"?
 * 2) "they tug steering wheel; or "run off road events."" is not very clear.
 * 3) "speed theory" and 'Ashtons formula' need to be defined.
 * 4) have removed "Perhaps the obvious causality is apparent but not real.", unclear what this means.

Meaning of this
Perhaps it is because I am not from NZ, but what does this sentence mean:

Candor Trust said the most important issue that could end up saving lives is the use of 1990 dated imports for the under 25-year-olds on the "State Goat Tracks."

 * Well it's not just you I couldn't make that one out either, it should change!--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:16, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I have fixed up what you have all said, hopefully (I couldn't participate in your discussion earlier, I just got up). But for the "can we change some of the "Candor Trust says" to "Rachel Ford says"?" question, I marked all the stuff that was not identifiable as a quote or marked that Rachael Ford said it as Candor Trust says. --Nzgabriel | Talk 19:51, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * If you need attention to this story, please send me an email and I will try to see what I can do for you. --Nzgabriel | Talk 19:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Philippine commission holds retired general responsible for killings

Title
"Philippine commission tags military in slays" is just wrong, I suspect that it should be something like "Philippine commission tags military in killings". If someoue could change this for me that would be great, as I can't log in from here :(

Thanks 212.85.28.67 09:57, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Apparently it's used in one of the sources as well.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 01:04, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


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Hewlett-Packard to expand partnership with SAP

January 30, 2007

This Monday Hewlett-Packard is to announce that it is expanding its partnership with SAP. The partnership will be working with NetWeaver around several new services. The company is also expected to mention about its new enterprise solutions that are currently in development.

Hewlett-Packard will offer its clients services for upgrading servers, storage and NetWeaver – SAP's application builder platform meant for integrating business processes throughout different systems. Among other services that the company is going to provide comprise assessment, governance and some architecture services for R3.

The manager of Worldwide Packaged Applications for Enterprise Applications Services at HP Services Consulting & Integration, Tim Treat, stated that the company first of all looks at servers, storage and management and only afterwards it makes a proposal regarding the things that are to be updated. He mentioned that when Hewlett-Packard will work on upgrading servers and management, it will turn its attention towards Intel.

After performing all the upgrades, the company is going to offer its clientele a variety of services package options that are related to NetWeaver. The services offered by Hewlett-Packard will include: enabling the service, design and implementation, application development and management.

Tim Treat said that adaptive infrastructure is one of the company's new things that are to come. Recently the company's clients have put in place enough hardware capacity and infrastructure with the goal of supporting peak or quarter-end processes. However, a big amount of that capacity is unused till peak times. This is why Hewlett-Packard looks forward to bring solutions that are to allow users pay for the things they really use.

Treat also outlined the fact that, besides its new services, the company is to announce business-process consulting together with IDS Scheer - software and consulting company, which is one of the leading providers of Business Process Management and IT solutions.


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Greek actor Nikos Kourkoulos dies at 73

January 30, 2007

Athens, Greece - The famous Greek cinema and theatre actor, Nikos Kourkoulos died at the Ericos Dynan Hospital of Athens, after a long-standing fight with cancer.

Kourkoulos was the artistic director of the National Theatre of Greece since 1994. He died on Tuesday morning, according to doctor's announcement.

Nikos Kourkoulos played in several movies, both in Greece and abroad while he was nominated for Broadway's 1968 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor for the musical "Illya, Darling". He played along with Greece's most prominent actors and actresses including Melina Mercouri and Aliki Vougiouklaki.

Kourkoulos was married to the daughter of the Greek tycoon Yiannis Latsis, Marianna Latsis, and had 3 children.

Since the announcement of his death, most of the Greek television media host opinions from Greek celebrities who express their opinion for Kourkoulos' contribution to Greek cinema and modern theatre. His funeral is expected to take place at the Zografou cemetery of Athens.

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This is the major news-headlines in Greek electronic media today. Zorba 11:38, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


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Talk:Environmentalists: "Turn everything off!" on February 1st

Global?
According to the source lalliance.fr and wwf.fr it is not a global action but a french one. Obviously only Austrian oekonews.at (unknown to me) called it "Weltweite Aktion" (worldwide action). --88.76.218.240 12:30, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

 * You are right in the sense, that the action started in France (the UN IPCC, which will release the climate report is located in Paris). However, now many other organizations from other countries also support the idea. See e.g. www.umwelt.kommunikationssystem.de. --Roland

 * If nobody disagrees, I will change the text back to "global action". There are various environmental organizations from other countries than France, which have joined the call for action. It is definitely more than just a French initiative, as the article now suggests. --Roland 15:40, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I though the intro was indeed confusing, so I've made some changes.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


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T-Wolves extinguish Suns, end Phoenix streak

January 30, 2007

The Suns had been on fire for the entire month of January. Unfortunately for them, Kevin Garnett was holding the extinguisher when the Suns came into the Target Center on Monday night.

Garnett posted a double-double, scoring 44 points and snaring 11 rebounds, as the Minnesota Timberwolves defeated the Phoenix Suns 121-112. The loss prevented the Suns from posting a perfect record in the month of January, and ended the Suns' season-high 17-game winning streak.

The Suns had problems answering Garnett's scoring prowess, but it was the Minnesota defense that doomed the Suns, limiting them to 17 points in the final quarter after allowing 95 from Phoenix in the first three periods. Steve Nash had 20 points and 18 assists, but in the fourth quarter he was only able to score 3 points and provide one assist.

In the fourth quarter, it was simply the Kevin Garnett show.

Garnett scored 15 points in the fourth quarter, with 13 of those points coming in the final 6:20 of the period. "It's just about being a presence," Garnett said. "It's about making them have to deal with me. I will continue to take that approach." In addition to his 44-point night, Garnett helped his team by not turning the ball over at all during the game.

Such a performance was not the case for Steve Nash, who turned the ball over an uncharacteristic five times during the game. The Suns had 14 turnovers as a team. It was a case of Garnett and the Timberwolves taking full advantage of the mistakes the Suns made and turning it into an opportunity to win.

However, the loss certainly didn't leave the Suns or their coach, Mike D'Antoni, discouraged.

"We'll start another [streak]. This is fun."


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MySpace shares its database of sex offenders

January 30, 2007

MySpace, a popular Web network, has announced the decision to provide its database to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The database is comprised of about 50 U.S. state registries on convicted sex offenders. NCMEC hopes that its use of the national database as well as the support of authorities, MySpace and other on-line communities will contribute to the efficient work of the center.

At present time the data contained in the MySpace database is gathered by a number of state authorities. The site, in conjunction with Sentinel Tech Holdings Corp., a company involved into background verification, has amplified a technology that united all the registries. It is claimed that the technology will assist police in keeping track of about 600,000 convicted sex offenders.

MySpace and Sentinel Tech Holdings Corp. has been involved in developing the database since December, 2006. The database has been used for identifying, blocking or deleting the accounts of convicted sex offenders on the MySpace service. The database contains special software tools to match photos and allows authorities to cross-reference photos or characteristics of sex predators against registered offenders.

MySpace's provision of its database, however, has not proven sufficient for some critics of MySpace who allege that the network fails to protect minors from adult predators. A member of a coalition of prosecutors from 39 U.S. states, which is demanding MySpace verify the ages of all of its members, has stated that the provision of the database is not sufficient protection for minors using the website. The member threatened unspecified legal action if MySpace continues to refuse to verify its members' ages.


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White House refuses to release climate policy documents

January 30, 2007

The United States House held a hearing today on the accusation that the  had interfered with data regarding climate change in order "to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming." On January 23, 2007, Chairman (D) and  (R) had requested documents from the  but were denied access.

said that, "The committee isn't trying to obtain state secrets or documents that could affect our immediate national security. We are simply seeking answers to whether the White House's political staff is inappropriately censoring impartial government scientists.  We know that the White House possesses documents that contain evidence of an attempt by senior administration officials to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming and minimize the potential danger."

During the hearing, two private advocacy groups, one of which was the, also presented a survey to the panel that revealed that 279 scientists working for the government had been pressured into minimizing the threat of global warming in their reports. Almost half of the 279 said that they were told to delete any references to "global warming" or "climate change" in their reports. The scientists in the survey all worked for a wide array of government agencies: NASA, Environmental Protection Agency,, , , , and the.


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Talk:"Dr Dino" gets 10 years in prison after failure to pay taxes

I've grown to like the Dr Dino articles, since I see a link to the judgement source I'd like to ask if it is sufficiently based on the content of that to justify an OR tag? --Brian McNeil / talk 19:16, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

 * It's all based on the various news sources listed. C56C 03:26, 7 February 2007 (UTC)


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Senator Arlen Specter challenges President Bush

January 30, 2007 Arlen Specter, the Republican senator from Pennsylvania has directly challenged President George W. Bush in a showdown with Congress saying that Bush is "not the sole decision maker" in regards to sending over 21,500 troops to Iraq.

The response comes after Bush declared that he is "the decision-maker" when it comes to war.

"I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility," said Specter.

The Senate Judiciary Committee began the groundwork today in order to block President Bush’s plan to send 21,500 more US troops to Iraq, or set limits on the war.

During the Congressional hearing today, attorneys told Senators that they do have the power to stop the sending of troops to Iraq and even to stop the war altogether.

"I think the constitutional scheme does give Congress broad authority to terminate a war," said one of those lawyers present during the hearing, Bradford Berenson.

"It is ultimately Congress that decides the size, scope and duration of the use of military force," said another attorney who was also present during the hearing, Walter Dellinger.

Not everyone agrees that Congress has the authority. University of Virginia School of Law teacher, Robert Turner says that "in the conduct of war, in the conduct of foreign affairs, the president is in fact the decider."


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Talk:Locals claim to have seen a UFO in Honolulu, Hawaii

Is this surely newsworthy? People saw something they didn't know what it was, what's the deal? These UFO-related news have been cropping up recently... Naphra 20:18, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


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Several dead after gas station explosion

January 31, 2007

Reports say that 4 people, including a paramedic and a retired firefighter have been killed after a gas station near Ghent, West Virginia in Raleigh County blew up. At least 9 others have been critically injured.

The explosion occurred at 10:50 a.m. [EST] at the Flat Top Little General Store, and fire officials say that the cause may have been from a nearby propane tank that was leaking. The gas station was completely wiped out. Officials say that a full investigation will be launched to determine exactly what caused the blast.

The company that stocks the tank with gas had sent out a representative, who officials believe was killed in the explosion.

Fire and rescue squads are continuing to search for victims.

Witnesses say that the explosion could be felt as far as 1 mile away. Ben Monast, who owns a ski shop about a mile away from the scene, said that he "thought we got struck by lightning. The whole building shook and the power went off."

An elementary school that is close to the scene was not damaged, but students were kept inside for safety purposes.


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User talk:Anonymous4~enwikinews

If you're just going to post your "Tim for President" stuff again I'll block all the accounts you've created. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:24, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

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

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Home of Stonehenge builders found

January 30, 2007

Scientists have uncovered the largest settlement in the United Kingdom at the  and believe that the village was inhabited by the people who built the  monument.

Scientists say that the village was built around 2,600 B.C., roughly when Stonehenge was believed to have been constructed, and housed over 100 people.

Inside the areas which would have been the interior of houses at the time, scientists also found outlines of what they think were beds and cupboards or dressers. Pieces of pottery and "filthy" rubbish around the site. Animal bones, arrowheads, stone tools and other relics were also discovered.

"We've never seen such quantities of pottery and animal bone and flint. In what were houses, we have excavated the outlines on the floors of box beds and wooden dressers or cupboards," said archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson.

So far, the dig has revealed at least 8 houses roughly 14-16 feet square, but scientists say that they think there may have been at least 25 altogether.

The site was likely to have been occupied only seasonally rather than year-round and evidence suggests that a lot of "partying" went on at the location.

"The animal bones are being thrown away half-eaten. It's what we call a feasting assemblage. This is where they went to party - you could say it was the first free festival. The rubbish isn't your average domestic debris. There's a lack of craft-working equipment for cleaning animal hides and no evidence for crop-processing," added Pearson.

The Durrington Walls are approximately 2 miles from the Stonehenge site.

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Turkish government proposes to outlaw LGBT websites

February 3, 2007

A proposal by the Turkish government to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey is threatening online gay rights in Turkey. If the proposal is accepted, Turkish websites through which the Turkish LGBT community socializes will be closed and prohibited. According to the press release by Lambda Istanbul, a Turkish LGBT organization, the words "Lesbian", "Gay", "Bisexual", "Transgender" (LGBT) and "Transsexual" are already banned from Turkish internet cafes.


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This is a placeholder-article. I contacted Lambdaistanbul (see article's sources), a Turkish GLBT organization, for more information so I can publish this. Towsonu2003 22:06, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Not publishing this yet because I think you'll deny it on the basis that

 * The single source is in Turkish
 * The single source is not a so-called neutral organization
 * Other than that, in case you'd want to publish this, until I get more information from the organization, the content of this article pretty much summarizes the content of the orgazniation's press release Towsonu2003 22:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I was just about to publish this until I read the talk page... good story! If the single source is a press release than it's logical that there aren't much other sources... I think the stories needs some background to the nature of the new proposition. Good story!--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 23:44, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I got no responses from the organization. Please publish if you think it's okay as it is now. I'll tag it so. Towsonu2003 19:54, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I have published the article. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  03:05, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * great thanks -PS. still no response from the organization (email still isn't the mode of conversation in Turkey though; they probably aren't looking at their emails at all) Towsonu2003 04:16, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Not a problem. This article would have been deleted (not by me, probably by some pro-deletionist) if it were not published by me. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  04:19, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Afaik, we have no policy against single source articles in another langauge, that would be silly, but obviously there are ways to make other editors feel like they know what is going on, such as translation links and what not, and this does make life simpler. Nyarlathotep 20:23, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Question
What is Lambda Istanbul? I think this needs explained. You might draw some background from Wikipedia if there are appropriate articles you could link to with wikipediapar or external links. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:34, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I was going to expand the article after getting a response from the organization but I got no reponse. So I'll leave this as it is now. The wikilink in the article to gay rights in turkey should give some insight to the user. As for the background, there is a pedophilia scare (something never happened in turkey before) and the government is using that to force censorship into our throats (just like any other government would do)... I can't include this to the article though, because I don't know of any media agency that was brave enough or intelligent enough to tell it as it is (corporations arent always the brightest bunch) Towsonu2003 19:54, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * You can quote some blog, just not your own (if you have one) and not excesively. Nyarlathotep 20:23, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Press release
Hint: Press releases are issued ;-) I figure telling you rather than fixing it might help you remember this odd difference that occurs in English. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:41, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * lol, thanks :) Towsonu2003 23:49, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

The press releases are to be issued on Feb 3rd - check with the external link please.


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 This is an archive of old talk page discussions! Do not add new comments to this page, please do so on my main talk page

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Zenit rocket explodes on launch pad

January 30, 2007

A unmanned Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket which was supposed to carry a satellite to an orbit around Earth, has exploded on its Ocean Odyssey launch pad, just seconds before it was scheduled to launch. The engine had just been started when the rocket appeared to fall downwards, and was engulfed in a fireball. The rocket's payload, the NSS-8 communications satellite, for SES New Skies, is believed to have been destroyed in the incident.

Sea Launch has confirmed that all launch personnel are safe. During launch operations, they routinely are aboard another ship, the Sea Launch Commander, located approximately three miles away. The extent of damage to the Odyssey platform is unclear at this stage.

This is the ninth launch failure of the Zenit rocket, and the third for a 3SL variant, operated by Sea Launch.

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Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission endorses Children's Song

January 30, 2007

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission in Washington, D.C. has endorsed singer Greg Cherone's children's song "A Man Named Abraham Lincoln". Released in anticipation of Lincoln's birthday, the song is intended to inspire children and adults to learn more about the sixteenth president. "Introducing Lincoln to any child is the reward in itself," says Boston singer-songwriter Cherone.

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission was established by Congress to plan a "fitting and proper" national celebration of the 16th president's 200th birthday in 2009. Its members, appointed by the president and congressional leaders, include political leaders, jurists, historians, and collectors. The Commission aims to renew Americans' appreciation of Lincoln's ideals of freedom, democracy, and equal opportunity, and to encourage all people to "live the legacy."


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Sweden to open embassy in Second Life

January 31, 2007

Sweden has plans to open a virtual embassy in Second Life, the virtual world home to thousands of netizens. Companies like Dell are already selling computers via the virtual world, but Sweden would become the first country to have a cyber-embassy in Second Life.

The embassy would not provide visa or perform diplomatic tasks, but would provide information on how and where to get these documents in the real world, as well as giving cultural and tourist information about the country. Visitors will also be able to chat with embassy personnel. A spokesperson explained that it would be an easy and cheap way to reach young people. The idea came from The Swedish Institute, an agency of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Sweden with providing information about Sweden as a key purpose.

The "House of Sweden" as it will be called, will be modelled on the new Swedish embassy in Washington with the same name. The opening is expected in a few weeks.

Second life has over 3 million registered accounts. On an average day, the maximum of people logged in at the same time peaks at 25,000. In September 2006, Second Life was reported to have a gross domestic product of $64 million. Some schools in the United States and Canada have virtual classrooms on the site. People like Ailin Graef a.k.a. Anshe Chung have developed virtual businesses in Second Life, and earn thousands of real dollars there.

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thanks for your story. In order to publish an original story you might need to explain on the article's talk page about your original reporting. This is explained in our policy Original reporting.

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I agree, and I believe you misinterpreted me. If you read the link provided, you will read that there are requirements to publish original stories. For example, if you say that the singer thinks introducing Lincoln to any child is the reward in itself, this could mean (a) that you interviewed him (b) that you've read this somewhere (c) ... We need to know what part of the story is original.

Every single piece of information on wikinews needs to be sources, if you want to publish something without mentioning sources in an appended section, people add the original-tag, and explain on the talk page what part is original. So please go to the article's talk page and explain what the nature is of your original reporting, or add sources. Then you can just change back what I've changed, and publish the story which I found very interesting.

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 01:23, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

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Dear James,

As you can read in our policy Original reporting, we need to have more detailed research notes. Could you provide some more evidence what you claim? For example a transcript of the interview, any related emails... details are explained in the Original reporting, please read it carefully.

I know it can be frustrated for new users on this website to try to get a story published, but as you can understand we need some verification because we cannot have anybody claiming anything.

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Thanks.

Faruhk 17:12, 2 February 2007 (UTC)James

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Replied there.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 18:35, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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Theirsishpianist, you should wiki-link your article.--SVTCobra 01:51, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


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Talk:Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission endorses Children's Song

Original reporting notes
The author left me a note on my talk page when I asked him, which is copied below.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 09:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

"I did interview Mr. Cherone over the telephone. The second paragraph in the story is the 'boiler plate' info that ABLC's publicity honcho David Early supplied. He didn't want a credit, but asked that it be included."Faruhk 01:32, 31 January 2007 (UTC)James


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January floods wreak havoc in Singapore

February 1, 2007

Floods during the month of January have devastated Singapore. A major flood occurred from January 11 to January 12, 2007, during which almost 24 cm of rain fell, resulting in a landslide. A second major flood recently occurred at Kota Tinggi, leaving 17 people and 12 monkeys dead. As of January 31, 30,000 people still reside in relief centers in Johor.

Almost 24 cm of rain fell in two days in northern Singapore, disrupting business operations in the area and triggering a landslide in Jalan Anak Bukit. The continuous rainfall, over 18 hours on Thursday, January 11 and Friday January 12, resulted in a landslide which caused the closure of a road that heads toward the Pan Island Expressway.

The MacRitchie Reservoir station recorded 216.7 millimeters of rainfall during the 24 hour period, accounting for 90 percent of the January average of 241 millimeters.

Recent flooding of the Johor river has caused vast destruction in Kota Tinggi. According to a Malaysian official, the flooding may be due to the land reclamation efforts made by Singapore. The reclamation project has reportedly narrowed the mouth of the Johor river, slowing the flow of water into the Johor Straits. About 100,000 people have been evacuated from their homes because of flooding during December and January.

In 2002, Singapore began land reclamation at the Johor Straits in an effort to reclaim Pulau Tekong. Malaysia opposed the project and sought international arbitration proceedings during October of 2003. Malaysia has reported that the project has hurt their interests by narrowing shipping lanes at the Johor Straits. Singapore expects the reclamation to be finished by 2010.

Malaysia has provided about US$430 million of aid by sheltering flood victims and rebuilding roads and schools. Flood water as high as four meters has caused 17 deaths and restricted access to many villages and towns.

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Hi, I'm en:User:Georgewilliamherbert. I mainly hang out over on en.wikipedia, but who knows.

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The end is nigh, if you have any pathetic activities that don't involve bans, I suggest you do them now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.199.133.47 (talk) 01:09, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

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New Zealand exam insulter revealed

January 31, 2007

The person who left rude remarks on at least five students' returned NCEA (National Certificate of Educational Achievement) exam papers has been identified as a temporary New Zealand Post worker, and ex-student of Cashmere High School, the same school the students went to.

The insulter said that the remarks, which one included a positive remark congratulating a merit, were meant to be joke on the students he knew at his old Christchurch-based school.

The comments he placed on different papers included "GOOD ONE DICK!!", "You useless sack of poo," and the positive comment was "NICE ONE MATE."

The former New Zealand Post employee was employed to process mail, but had left New Zealand Post about a week before the insulting comments were discovered.

Dave Turnbull, principal of Cashmere High School, said that it is regrettable and disappointing that an ex-student of Cashmere High School was the offender, "even if they thought it was a joke." "I am pleased the NZQA and NZ Post have pursued this issue and resolved it quickly. It was not a joke for the students concerned."

Peter Fenton, chief executive of the postal services, said that he does not see what is funny about the remarks. He has apologised to NZQA (New Zealand Qualifications Authority), the authority that manages NCEA; and will also send a letter apologising to the affected students.

Mr Fenton said that the damage the temporary worker has done to New Zealand Post's reputation is concerning.

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Militants to present evidence Malacanang sanctioned killings

January 31, 2007

Activist groups in the Philippines led by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance) or Bayan are set to submit "cabinet level documents" as evidence to international bodies purportedly showing that the office of the President, Malacañang sanctioned the series of extrajudicial killings in the country.

The evidence is to be presented to the Permanent People's Tribunal and the United Nations Special Rapporteurs, which is scheduled to visit the country this year.

In a press statement, Bayan expressed disappointment with the report of the Melo Commission saying that "the report merely tells us what we already know, and that the report stops short of finding the roots of the extra-judicial killings."

"Everyone knows that Palparan is involved in the killings," said Bayan secretary general Renato Reyes Jr., asking that "why is it that after Palparan retired [in September 2006], the killings continued?"

Reyes concluded that "this only shows that the killings go beyond Palparan. We have repeatedly said that there is a national policy involved which sanctions the assassination of activists. The Melo Commission seems to have conveniently ignored this reality and has limited its report to Palparan's responsibility and shielded the administration from any culpability."

The documents, Reyes said, detail a "step-by-step matrix" on how to "neutralize" legal organizations. He added that the document was presented to the Arroyo Cabinet.

Meanwhile, the group challenged Malacañang to abide by the fact-finding commission's recommendation to file charges against retired Major General Jovito Palparan and other military field commanders for their involvement in the killings.

He also said President Arroyo, as commander-in-chief, should "take responsibility for the killings."

Human rights group Karapatan recorded more than 700 leftist activists, farmers, community organizers and journalists killed since Mrs. Arroyo came to power in 2001.

The latest victim, Dominador L. De Luna, 51, an employee of the National Food Authority (NFA) in Samar, was gunned down just when the necrological mass for Jose Maria Cui, a professor at University of Eastern Philippines who was shot in front of his students, was being held last January 29.

International pressure imperative
Dita Indah Sari, head of the National Front for the Indonesian Labor Struggle and 2001 recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for emerging leadership, yesterday said the Philippine government should implement the recommendation of the Melo Commission to hold top generals responsible for the assassination of hundreds of leftist activists.

Just like in Indonesia, the Philippine government, according to her, seemed afraid to take its military brass to account on the basis of command responsibility. She said international pressure was imperative at this point to move concerned governments to make appropriate moves regarding human rights cases based on recommendations by a fact-finding body.

"The international pressure will humiliate the government," Sari added.

Making one general accountable would not solve the extrajudicial killings in the country, according to America Vera-Zavala of Sweden's Left International Forum.

"I'm quite sure this extreme [number] of people killed is not due to one single general. It would be a unique country if only one general is responsible for all this," she said.

Vera-Zavala said the European Union was aware of the series of killings in the country and was continuing to monitor the matter.

Arroyo to seek Europe help
In a related report, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo yesterday said she would ask the European Union to assist in the commission's work, declaring that she had "no tolerance for human rights violations."

She issued a statement containing detailed instructions after meeting with retired Supreme Court Justice Jose Melo in Malacañang. The instructions were not clear though on how she intended to address the latter's recommendation to hold Palparan accountable for the killings.

Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said [Palparan] could be brought to court if indeed there is evidence.

"But since he is already retired, we cannot take him under our jurisdiction," Esperon added.

Militant lawmaker suspects whitewash
"The Melo Commission failed in its public vow to get to the bottom of the killings: its report, based on Justice Melo's statement to the media, is indicative of a whitewash," Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Satur Ocampo said in reaction to Melo's statements.

He disclosed plans of filing a case against retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan with the International Criminal Court, "for command responsibility under international humanitarian law."

"Melo is silent on GMA's (President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's) role. The killings go on even with Palparan out, so what has [the commission] accomplished?" Ocampo said in a phone interview.

In a text message, Rep. Teodoro Casiño, also of Bayan Muna, said "the report merely scratches the surface and tells us what we already know."

He said the Melo Commission missed the whole point because "the institution of policies on counterinsurgency like Oplan Bantay Laya are crucial in allowing the likes of Palparan to wreak terror on a national scale."

Anakpawis party-list Rep. Rafael Mariano said the Melo Commission had "consciously avoided the responsibility of the President, the Cabinet Oversight Committee on Internal Security and the counterinsurgency program Oplan Bantay Laya in its report."

"Like we said before, the Melo Commission is a whitewashing machine," he said.

Mariano also said "the killings of activists was integral to the Arroyo administration's counterinsurgency policy," predicting that "the killings won't stop as long as the mastermind is not punished."

His colleague in Anakpawis, Rep. Crispin Beltran, who is still detained for rebellion charges, saw in the Melo report a move to make it "appear that it was a mere matter of negligence of command that set off the spate of extrajudicial killings."

Ocampo emphasized their "demand that Malacañang immediately make public the full 89-page report for scrutiny by all parties, including the media."

"[The Melo Commission] must adhere to established UN protocols and Amnesty International's recommendations on such an independent commission."


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Petrol pricing in Bathurst, NSW reduced for only seven days

January 31, 2007

The petrol price reductions seen across most of Australia have been short-lived for those living in the regional New South Wales city of Bathurst. An investigation by Wikinews has discovered retailers in Bathurst were late to lower petrol pricing and have been amongst the first to increase them.

Following a threat by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to publically shame fuel retailers and oil companies, most fuel outlets across Australia reduced prices by 5 to 10 cents per litre. The ACCC argued that the wholesale cost of petrol was around 10 cents per litre higher than the Singapore market, which Australia benchmarks itself against.

On January 24, the price of Unleaded fuel in Bathurst dropped only 2 cents from 119.9 cents to 117.9 cents. Today, Coles Express on Durham Street has increased the price of their unleaded fuel to the previous level of 119.9 cents.

Wikinews has discovered in its investigations that the price of unleaded petrol at sites in the Blue Mountains and Sydney's Inner-West have either stabilised or reduced by a further 1 to 2 cents following the initial mid-January price cuts.

Unleaded petrol 93 km from Bathurst at Medlow Bath was a whopping 12 cents per litre cheaper, at 107.7 cents. Fuel in Sydney's Inner-West was only 2 cents per litre less than Medlow Bath, despite being a similar distance apart. Curiously, the price of fuel in Medlow Bath has been stable, while the price in Sydney's Inner-West has actually dropped by 1 to 2 cents.


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Original Reporting
This article was originally going to discuss the price disparity between Bathurst and the Blue Mountains, hence the age of some of the images, but has turned into a separate story.

The original reporting has involved travelling to Medlow Bath and Croydon to record petrol prices on my camera and to contact the sites surveyed to find out their current prices. Medlow Bath United remains at 107.7, while Croydon's Ampol has dropped to 105.5 while the average in the Inner-West is around 104.9 cpl - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 11:32, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


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India wins the cricket series against West Indies by 3-1

January 31, 2007

has won the 4-match Pepsi cricket series against by 3-1 today in.

India won the match by a huge difference of 160 runs. India made 341 runs in 50 overs by losing 3 wickets. Sachin Tendulkar completed his 41st century in only 76 balls. Mahendra Singh Dhoni made 40 runs in just 20 balls, hitting 1 four and 3 sixes.

West Indies played under pressure and lost their wickets in regular intervals. The highest-run partnership of the West Indian innings was of 65 runs between Samuels and Ramdin. The team were all out on 181 runs in 41.4 overs. Agarkar and Kumble took 2 wickets each.

Player of the match as well as player of the series, Sachin Tendulkar, performed well. He made his 41st ODI century which is the highest by any player in the One-Day international. He made 191 runs (avg 63.66) and took 3 wickets (avg 37.33) in 4 matches in the series.


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Prestigious 2007 design award given to TAG Heuer

January 31, 2007

Officials from TAG Heuer have announced that the company received the iF product design award, which was given away by the jury from the International Forum Design. TAG Heuer received the award for its concept watch, called Monaco Calibre 360 (Linear Second) Concept Chronograph.

The jury that gives away the iF product design awards each year consists of leading design experts from all over the world gathered in one place. The iF awards are presented in Hanover, Germany, at the International Forum Design Hannover GMBH. There are a number of fields and disciplines which have their own awards.

TAG Heuer's Monaco Calibre 360 LS Concept Chronograph has won the award in the Leisure/Lifestyle category. The timepiece was chosen from over 2,200 watches from 35 countries. This prestigious award was given to the company for the second time in two years. Last year the winner in the same category was TAG Heuer's Professional Golf Watch, designed together with Tiger Woods.

This year's winning timepiece from TAG Heuer has a mechanical movement, which represents the first in the history of watchmaking to reach a precision of 1/100th of a second. The watch itself is to be seen at the iF design exhibition 2007, held in Hanover, from March 15 till August.


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Bingo spam
I've deleted "Web publishers are set to make huge profits online with the new affiliate program launched by Crazy Vegas Bingo", as it was spam, and I'm blocking the contributor. As anyone can publish anything instantly here, so we occasionally end up with junk like that. Thanks for your patience. -- Zanimum 16:18, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

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Confirmed bird flu death in Nigeria

January 31, 2007

A woman, one of three people who recently died of flu like symptoms, in Lagos, Nigeria, has tested positive for the H5N1 strain of Avian influenza.

It is the first bird flu in Nigeria since the strain arrived in Nigeria a year ago. H5N1 was confirmed in blood samples tested in Rome and London from the three recent deaths.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations stated that while the threat from avian flu has decreased from last year, there still remains flare-ups around the world, urging countries to "remain vigilant and fully cooperate with international organizations".

Avian influenza
Bird flu is spread by wild birds for whom the virus is a stomach disease and, generally, not fatal.

Although the disease has killed 164 people, it has only been out of 269 cases, this gives the disease around a 60% fatality rate compared to the 1918 'Spanish flu' pandemic which had a mortality rate of around 5%.

Structure
The outer coat of the virus particle is characterised by two types of glyco-proteins, neurominidase and haemagglutinin, both of which interact with sialic acid. Haemagglutinin has sixteen forms, H1 to H16, and binds to sialic acid on the target cell, facilitating the entry of the virus.

Neurominidase is found in nine forms, N1 to N9, this protein allows the progeny viri to escape the infected cell by cleaving sialic acid.

Anti-viral drugs
The two main drugs against bird flu currently on the market, Tamiflu® and Relenza®, both target the sialic acid binding pocket of neurominidase. Neither of these drugs will cure the disease, but will stop its spread through the body. As such they have to be administered within 48 hours of symptoms appearing. In all 9 sub types of neurominidase, the structure of the target area for the drugs is the same. There is also a flu vaccine but the current flu vaccine does not protect against H5N1.

Catching the disease
Human to human transmission is very rare, at the moment bird flu can only be caught from prolonged exposure to infected birds, specifically their droppings from which the bird flu virus has been crystallized and parts of the structure solved.

Unlike diseases such as smallpox and measles, for which their are effectively protecting vaccines, the flu virus constantly mutates. Each year the virus is slightly different from the last, this is the genetic drift of the virus - small point mutations on the surface, causing an evasion of our immune system. Many of the problems arise when there is a major shift of the surface proteins, for instance when a different subtype appears, such as H5.

There are three strains of human influenza circulating around the globe; H1N1 first isolated in 1933, H2N2 first isolated in 1957 and H3N2 first isolated in 1968. Other than humans; pigs, seals and horses have various strains of influenza, however only wild birds have all the known subtypes of haemagglutinin and neurominidase. Of the 144 combinations of N(1-9) and H(1-16) we have had three.

External references

 * Structure of catalytic sites in influenza neurominidase, Colman, Varghese, Laver Nature; 303 41-44 (1983)
 * Relenza: 'Rational design of potent sialidase-based inhibitors of influenza virus replication' Itzstein et al, Nature 363 (1993)
 * Tamiflu: 'Influenza neurominidase inhibitors possessing a novel hydrophobic interaction in the enzyme active site: Design, synthesis and structural analysis of carbocyclic sialic acid analogues with potent anti-influenza activity' Kim et al, J.Am.Chem Soc 119 681-690 (1997)
 * Controlling influenza by inhibiting the virus's neurominidase' Garman and Laver, Current Drug Targets 2004, 5, 119-136

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Please note I have alerted people on the Wikipedia talk page that the death toll count is inaccurate by 1. I'll update the infobox when they update their article, and hopefully the map too. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Doesn't the death toll, we go by com from the WHO? DragonFire1024 17:18, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, which is now updated to 164. The corresponding section of the Wikipedia article isn't, and they don't have Nigeria in the table so it isn't a straightforward update to fix it there.  Just give it an hour or two until someone who has the page on their watchlist sees my comment over there. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I have a suspicion the total death toll should be +1, I did an update on the table and didn't see Nigeria among the listed countries. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:05, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I've taken a closer look at this, the 164 figure is from 2 days ago, the Nigeria case seems to be new and not yet included in any of the stats released by WHO. That would mean the total death toll should be 165. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:47, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Encyclopedic structure
Although this article is extensive, I think that it sounds very encyclopedic (doesn't sound like a news article). It seems like the "Avian influenza" section is lengthy and some information is unnecessary. I think that it could be summed up better. Tell me what everyone else thinks. TheVault 23:23, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * From time to time people do a "brain dump" into a news article and you end up with a lot of encyclopedic information. Done well it informs the public, and I thought this wasn't to bad an attempt at that. If you want to cut parts from it you can, that's what wiki is for. I'm not too sure where you'd start on condensing stuff, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to want to do so. --Brian McNeil / talk 23:37, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


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Steel Industry: Tata buys Corus

January 31, 2007

India's steelmaker Tata Steel, of the Tata Group, buys Anglo-Dutch steel giant Corus Group for £6.7 billion ($12 billion), making it the world's fifth largest steel manufacturer. 70-year-old Tata group Chairman Ratan Tata, from one of India's best-known business families, won the race against Benjamin Steinbruch, 52, a famous Brazilian executive who is the chief and main owner of Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN). Tata paid investors 608 pence a share, whereas the Brazilians final offer in an auction by the U.K.'s Takeover Panel was 603 pence.

The deal triples Tata Steel's capacity to almost 28 million tons a year. Tata: "This is the first step in showing that Indian industry can step outside its shores into an international market place as a global player."

Corus, which was created from the merger of British Steel and Hoogovens, currently employs 47,300 people worldwide. Last year the company was the ninth-largest steel maker worldwide.

The takeover may start a round of consolidation in the fragmented steel sector.

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Man arrested after attempting to break into Prince Charles's home

January 31, 2007 Police were called to the, the home belonging to Prince Charles and his wife , on Tuesday night after police received a call that there was an intruder on the property.

"He was detained within the grounds and did not gain access to any buildings," said a spokesperson for the police, Tony Rymer.

A spokesperson for the estate refused to comment to the media calling it "a matter for the police" and that any comments on the intrusion should be given through them.

According to a Gloucester Police spokeswoman, a man from Bristol, England was arrested after wielding a pitchfork around the property. The name of the 55-year-old has not been released, but police charged him with trespassing. He was later released after posting bail.

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Edited for organization, grammar and readability. StockGear 21:07, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Not a problem. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  21:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


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'Bridezilla' YouTube video: many debate legitimacy

January 31, 2007 A new video on popular internet video site YouTube has raised a question: Is it fake or real?

The movie entitled Bride Has Massive Hair Wig Out that was released on the 18th of January shows a woman who is going to get married within hours, but instead she cuts off all her hair.

First, the woman, named Jodie, who has just got her hair done at the hairdressers', comes back to a hotel room where three bridesmaids are doing last-minute preparations. She runs in and falls to the ground screaming that her hair is ugly. They try to comfort her, but that isn't enough for the so called "Bridezilla": she cuts off her hair with a pair of scissors while the bridesmaids watch, taping it all on video camera.

The video, which is still on the main page of YouTube, has been watched over 2 million times. The person who posted the video, wigoutgirl, claims to be 25 and from Canada. It is speculated that the video was shot in a Toronto, Ontario hotel room.

Some YouTube users are saying that it is fake, some say it's real.

Poster was a student at Toronto's Ryerson University
On February 1, 2007, the original poster, wigoutgirl, removed the video from YouTube. She is a student at Ryerson University in Toronto. The 22-year-old, Jodi Behan, did cut her hair. The video was filmed by Ingrid Hass, a Ryerson University graduate.

They did it to promote their acting skills.

"I mean, there's going to be lots of different things you're going to have to do for acting parts so why hold out?" said Jodi Behan. "We're all actors so we're really excited for all the opportunities for everyone."


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'''I, FellowWikiNews, the creator of this article is apologizing for giving Wikinews bad publicity. I read it in the news paper and thought that it was an interesting story to report on. But, I forgot that Wikinews is not like the mainstream media. Now everyone is complaining on the talk page and I feel really bad about it. Please delete this article before someone else sees it. Thank you all. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  22:12, 1 February 2007 (UTC)'''

 * You weren't the only person who made a mistake, many, including myself, failed to fix the mistake when we could have, see: . Bill3 16:24, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

hi...i am new to this discussion but i think that Bill3 was the one who really screwed up.

Not news
I just watched a significant portion of this video, it ain't news. It's domestic drama --Brian McNeil / talk 21:53, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I've got to agree with you, Brian. --Thunderhead - (talk) 22:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * This story was reported by two major news sources in Canada. How could this be not news?? Bambi II Only on Disney DVD is not news, not this. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  01:38, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * This is the first time i come on wikinews; im usually on wikipedia. It's pretty sad to see this as a news story and on the front page. (70.120.219.68 03:14, 1 February 2007 (UTC))
 * Was this really, FWN? Hmm, I suppose if it's reported by the mainstream media it has some importance, due to popularity. I mean, America's reported some pretty strange stuff too... --Thunderhead - (talk) 03:54, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Um, I'm going to have to say I don't think it's news. If it's even remotely news worthy, it certainly isn't newsworthy enough to be on the main page.  Poorly filmed & possibly fake youtube drama is not front page news... 67.180.28.194 03:59, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Given the popularity mentioned, I like it, as long as it doesn't end up on one of the lead spots. Not everything should be serious Towsonu2003 04:34, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * It may have been mentioned by a couple major news sources, but that doesn't mean much. Instead of copying them on something so trivial, why not have a report on something significant like the AUs promise of a surge in peacekeepers in Somalia? Or better yet, report on something that the media isn't covering much. At least for the main page the articles should be something more than human interest, and not particularly interesting at that,.
 * "How could this be not news??" Wikinews doesn't have to follow the same standards for news as everyone else, we can actually have higher standars. Wikinews should not rely on yellow press tactics. In my opinion, discussion about a YouTube video is nothing to fuss about. I might add that I smell the slight stench of using Wikinews for promotion in the air... Naphra 07:04, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I smell a slight problem with how to relegate a story like this when competition for space on the MainPage becomes more intense. -Edbrown05 07:34, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * We're not there yet, and when we get to the point where we have to choose articles to list on mainpage, i guess we'll do something like the process for Featured article on WP(albeit a much faster one).
 * regarding this article, i don't see a great deal to worry ourselves about, . this is news if the 2 million (or whatever) views is a big number. if not, this is not particularly notable, but i don't have a big problem with it being reported on. for one thing, going by number of comments, this has attracted more interest than say, this. a part of news is to report on what interests people.
 * i don't think it's much of an advertisement either - it is written using independent sources, written by an editor of good standing who doesn't appear to be connected with the video (izzatso? :).
 * if people don't want to read about this, they're free not to. if people want to read article about more important things, they're free to contribute such articles. when those articles turn up in large numbers, we'll see how we can give them more priority than the latest youtube video. until then, i would like us all to... ummm, Write, and let write. — Doldrums(talk) 07:49, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Why is this here?
I thought that the mission of Wikinews, much like that of the Wikipedia, was to improve the quality of news beyond that of conventional media. This type of story does not belong on Wikinews, let alone the front page.
 * All articles on Wikinews go on the front page. There are currently some talks of using Category:Local only but, (IMHO) it's a bad idea that wont work for Wikinews. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  03:47, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

How does one remove this crap?
What tag has to be added to get this off the news page? Bill3 15:19, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

"Don't label or personally attack people or their edits. Terms like "racist," "sexist" or even "poorly written" make people defensive. This makes it hard to discuss articles productively, from WN:E"

 * Please note that calling this article crap is a violation of WN:E. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  03:39, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Public apology
''I, FellowWikiNews, the creator of this article is apologizing for giving Wikinews bad publicity. I read it in the news paper and thought that it was an interesting story to report on. But, I forgot that Wikinews is not like the mainstream media. Now everyone is complaining on the talk page and I feel really bad about it. Please delete this article before someone else sees it. Thank you all. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  22:12, 1 February 2007 (UTC)''

Straw poll
Not that it's binding or anything, but vote below:

Delete

 * Yup--Brian McNeil / talk 22:24, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * It ain't that bad, FWN! Think of how many articles I've had deleted. I do have to vote Delete though. --Thunderhead - (talk) 03:38, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Not sufficiently newsworthy. Delete. Naphra 07:27, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep

 * Strong keep. Using the tag moves the story to the Region and Topic categories listed at the bottom of the article. (The 'Local only' tag has some problems because it was developed long before things like the 'Latest news' sections on Category and Portal pages. For more on that, see  and) -Edbrown05 05:50, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Also see talk:DragonFire1024 here and talk:Bawolff here. -Edbrown05 06:00, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Keep wikinews dosnt always need to report on war, etc. i found this article quite interesting.

Bridezilla video a fake
The person who faked this is a student at Ryerson University in Toronto. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  01:19, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Where we all went wrong
Ok, I've gotten rid of the article by adding a tag. The author express regret, so that's old news too. The important thing IMO is that all of us who complained about this article are the ones that screwed up because we talked about it instead of removing it. Probably the worst idea was the straw poll. A straw poll takes too long. Stories are only displayed for 3 days, and probably only read in the first day that they are online. After 1 day, the damage is done and removing the article won't undo it. After half a day, half the damage is already done, etc.

So next time, when we see a (truly) rubbish article, add the, and the other tags available can be seen here: Article_development. Bill3 16:21, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Please use WN:E when commenting. Using "when we see a (truly) rubbish article" is violating civility policies. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  20:35, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I wasn't referring to any particular article when I wrote "(truly) rubbish", I was talking about in future, and I added "truly" because we should set the bar pretty high for non-discussed removal. BTW, you're sig is pretty obnoxious.  It was hard to find the right place to write my reply because the html of your sig takes up more space than this conversation does!  Something to think about when discussing etiquette. Bill3 22:00, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Bill3, you did not remove the article. You only added the tag on it. BTW, the title of this comment should be: Where I went wrong. — F  e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  20:42, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I messed up, and I came back a day later and found that a bunch of people had done the exact same thing. I, and they, messed up.  I got the article off the front page.  If wikinews is too complicated that someone with helpful motives can't easily help, it needs rethinking.  BTW, when doing the searching required to find out about notnews, I ended up in out of date documentation.  The docs tell me I should use the tag "developing", but when I add that tag, I get a warning. Bill3 22:00, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

 * That's because you are not active on Wikinews. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  22:47, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Notwithstanding, the docs not being updated in a while is not a good thing. I should add that to my list of things to do (eventually). However I fail to understand who what when where why and specificly how you got a warning about developing tag. It is currently an optional tag, but it's use is still fully allowed. (However it should not be used with the publish tag at the same time. I would be surprised if the instructions didn't state that). Bawolff ☺☻ 03:25, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, it seems pretty obvious that you can't use the develop template with the publish template, lol. Also, I think the article is fine now after I fixed it. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  03:36, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Outlets covering

 * Tonight Show (wanted to cover, but girls deny show since only two allowed on)
 * Good Morning America
 * Today Show
 * CityNews
 * Toronto Star
 * CTV
 * CBC
 * National Post
 * Global National

Mabie we should do a whole re-write of this article and add in the new info? — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  21:11, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

This is news
As per this and this edit this article is news. Please do not re-add the notnews tag as there are plenty of sources. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  23:58, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

needs attention
i still haven't seen a good reason why this shld not be covered on Wikinews. it is fairly obvious to me that this is News. it is also sourced, that too from independent and mainstream news sources. it is written neutrally. further, Wikinews shld not be playing tag wars days after an article is published - especially when the tags are not merited based on our policies and guidelines. retracting an article (or even worse, "disappearing" a published article by deleting) it is a very big deal and shld not be undertaken simply because some people don't particularly care for what is reported. i would urge people to revert this article back to its published state and report the new developments in a new article. currently, this article is dated Jan 31, and reports what happened on Feb. 2. — Doldrums(talk) 05:04, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Should we bump the date? — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  05:07, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * i don't like the idea of bumping dates a couple of days after publication - the basic idea is that if wikinews articles are to serve as a historical record, they shld be preserved as they were on publication. from a cursory look at the article, i think the update is big enough for a new article (or atleast a mention on Shorts). i 'd prefer that alternative. — Doldrums(talk) 05:15, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok. That sounds fine to me :) — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  18:14, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, there's always the dreaded correction template. --Thunderhead - (talk) 01:27, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

.gif image to .svg
editprotected Proposal: Change link - to
 * Reason: .SVG file can be scaled and is of better quality than its .GIF counterpart. Cflm001 (talk) 08:46, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Cheers, Van der Hoorn (talk) 01:37, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Why this should have been fine to be on wikinews
Anything and everything that hits the airwaves in any form should be captured on wikinews for this reason. WikiANYthing is supposed to carry with it a trust that the info contained within is factual. So, even if Bridezilla makes it to the news, or some pop star gets arrested, it should be here if someone wants to write it, as there will be countless people who will keep it fact-checked and edit it appropriately, and that is the service wikinews offers:

To have the SOLE place to go to find the FACTUAL and ONLY factual data on any an every piece of news that hits the airwaves.

One might be surprised how knowing the true facts about the latest celebrity drunken foray might assist in a more worthwhile endeavor. Without wikinews, some things would go one and on believed to be factual only because it slipped under the radar.. wikinews should be the site that catches everything.


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US Singer Brandy involved in fatal car crash; sued for $50 million

February 1, 2007

American singer, Brandy Norwood, known for her role as a judge on America's Got Talent amongst other roles, has been sued for US$50 million by the family of a woman who was killed in a car crash.

California Highway Patrol (CHP) said that Brandy, 27, should be charged with a misdemeanor count of vehicular manslaughter for being part of the fatal car crash that killed Awatef Aboudihaj, 38.

Aboudihaj's family lawsuit accuses Noorwood, known as Brandy, of "reckless driving".

Brandy, in a Land Rover SUV on December 30, 2006, bumped into the Toyota which had Awatef Aboudihaj in it. The Toyota slammed into another vehicle and slid on the freeway's center divider. Aboudihaj was sent to Providence Holy Cross Medical Centre but died the next evening.

"The accident was a terrible tragedy, and Brandy's heart goes out to Awatef Aboudihaj's family," spokeswoman, Kelly Mullens, said in a statement. "But for legal reasons we cannot comment on this lawsuit."

If Brandy is charged, she could face one year in jail and a $1,000 fine.


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Category:February 1, 2007

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title: Category:February 1, 2007