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First only was visible, but as the complete page wad loaded, the template is working fine! acagastya 17:02, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
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Do we really need the images?
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It will consume lesser data to load (useful for those using cellular data) and serve the same function. I forgot one more point I thought about it, but it is light weight. acagastya 11:11, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

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 * We can do things differently from other projects; I was just noting there is some merit in uniformity.
 * Is this the mobile view that's so slow? Is it possible to not load the image in mobile view, while still loading it in desktop view?
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PNG --> SVG
editprotected I suggest to replace by. Thomas Linard (talk) 21:15, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * These are 40px rather than 30px. ✅. --Pi zero (talk) 21:26, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
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On the campaign trail in the USA, September 2016

October 21, 2016

The following is the fifth edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month's biggest stories.

In this month's edition on the campaign trail: an arrest warrant is issued for the Green Party presidential and vice presidential nominees; the "Birther King" opens up about Donald Trump's changing view on President Obama's place of birth; and Wikinews interviews a write-in presidential candidate hoping to run the "most libertarian" campaign in history.

Summary
As the campaign entered September, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton held a 4.9% advantage over Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, 46.8% to 41.9% in the head-to-head average. In a four way race, Clinton's lead over Trump shrank to 3.9%, 42.0% to 38.1% with Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson at 7.6% and Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein at 3.2%. Despite his absence from most polls, independent presidential candidate received national coverage. In early September, he received the endorsement of former U.S.  who previously represented Washington as Republican. According to a campaign spokesman, McMullin's goal was to win his home state of Utah. A UtahPolicy.com poll in the state released September 12 showed McMullin at 9%, in fourth place behind Trump, Clinton, and Johnson, who himself was four points ahead of McMullin. Johnson received extensive coverage in the early part of the month for failing to recognize the critical Syrian city of when asked about it during an MSNBC interview. He was later lampooned for sticking his tongue out at a reporter during an interview and for being unable to recall the name of a world leader he admired. Nevertheless, Johnson obtained unprecedented endorsements from the ', ', the ', the ', and the . Other publications also took unprecedented steps. Traditional Republican-backing  endorsed Clinton. , which had not previously endorsed a candidate for office, asked voters not to vote for Trump. Although Trump did not receive any major newspaper endorsements, he received the backing of the, the nation's largest police union, and touted endorsements from 88 retired generals. On September 2, the released a report on Clinton's use of a private server for official e-mails. Among the revelations was that Clinton could not recall intelligence briefings during her time as due to a concussion. Questions about Clinton's health were brought to the forefront after two coughing spells. The first occurred during a speech in. While recovering, she explained, "Every time I think about Trump I get allergic". Shortly thereafter, during a press conference aboard an airplane, while discussing Trump's connection to Russian Vladimir Putin, Clinton began coughing profusely once again, asking a staffer for water. Trump's relation to Putin was reexamined on September 7 when both candidates attended a "Commander-in-Chief" forum broadcast on and hosted by. Lauer interviewed each candidate separately for 30 minutes with a focus on the military. Regarding Putin, Trump commented "if he says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him." He called Putin more of a leader than President Barack Obama, under whose leadership, Trump claimed, "the generals have been reduced to rubble." Lauer's performance in the forum was panned in The New York Times and other media for his purported leniency on Trump, lack of knowledge, and stricter treatment of Clinton, with whom he heavily discussed the e-mail scandal. Trump's running mate agreed with Trump's assessment of Putin, claiming it "inarguable" that Putin "has been a stronger leader in his country" than President Obama has been in the United States. Broadcast icon interviewed Trump on the Russia-owned  (RT) network. The Trump campaign later claimed it did not know the interview would air on RT. For Clinton, two major developments in early to mid-September threatened to change the course of the election. First, video surfaced of a Clinton fundraiser in which she referred to half of Trump supporters as a "basket of deplorables," describing them as "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it." She described some of these individuals as "irredeemable." The remarks led to denunciations from both Clinton supporters and opponents. Those who felt the comments applied to them, turned "deplorables" into a. Trump argued the comments showed Clinton's "true feelings" of "bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans." Clinton later expressed regret over the comments, calling them "wrong" and "grossly generalistic." Next, while attending a ceremony commemorating the 15 year anniversary of the, with Trump in attendance as well, Clinton left early. Video from citizen journalist Zdenek Gazda showed Clinton collapse while approaching her campaign van. She was transported to the apartment of her daughter. Two hours later she emerged from the apartment to greet supporters. The campaign initially claimed the episode was the result of overheating. However, it later revealed that Clinton had been diagnosed with. The Washington Post, among other publications, criticized the campaign for its handling of the situation. As Clinton took a few days off the campaign trail to recover, Trump contrasted his health during an appearance on . Host reviewed a one-page record of a recent Trump physical and declared Trump to be in good health. During the appearance, Trump also discussed his new proposal, previously laid out with daughter, for changes to unemployment policy, guaranteeing "six weeks of paid maternity leave." With the first presidential debate in mind, Trump reportedly planned to prepare as he did for the primary debates, which he claimed to have not prepared for at all. 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney called for the inclusion of Johnson and running mate in the debate. Trump rebuffed the call, saying the debate should only feature the two candidates with a chance to win the election, meaning the exclusion of Johnson, who qualified for all ballots in September, and Stein, who had qualified for 44 state ballots plus the District of Columbia. Eventually, the officially announced Johnson and Stein both failed to meet the 15% polling threshold and so would not participate. This came as former 2016 Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders urged progressives not to vote third party, as a  poll released September 14 showed Johnson moving into second place among  at 29%, slightly behind Clinton at 31% and slightly ahead of Trump at 26%. Johnson secured the endorsement of former Congressman. In the political squabbling ahead of the debate, the Clinton campaign continued to attack Trump for refusing to release his past tax records. Trump argued he would not release the records while still undergoing an IRS audit. Pence, however, did release his own personal tax records. Trump argued the media was the only group interested in his tax records. His son generated controversy when he described the media as "warming up the gas chambers" for his father. The Trump campaign later clarified he was not referring to gas chambers. Trump raised the issue of gun control, provocatively arguing that Clinton's bodyguards be disarmed to "see what happens to her." Clinton's running mate called the remarks an "incitement to violence." Next, after Clinton attacked Trump for his part in of President Obama, Trump issued a press release confirming his belief that President Obama was born in the United States. He claimed Clinton had started the birther movement in 2008, but Trump, by compelling Obama to release his long-form birth certificate in 2011, had ended it. This came as the presidential approval rating for Obama reached 58%, his highest since 2009. A release of former Secretary of State Colin Powell's hacked e-mails showed Powell calling the birther movement "racist" and referring to Trump as a "national disgrace" and "international pariah." Powell's e-mails also cast Clinton negatively, saying she did not look healthy and claiming her husband was "still dicking bimbos at home." Former Secretary of Defense himself weighed in on the presidential race, calling Clinton "flawed" but describing Trump as "beyond repair" and "unfit" for the presidency. According to , Gates and Powell's ex-boss, former President George H. W. Bush, planned to cast his vote for Clinton. Trump obtained unlikely support of his own when former rival Ted Cruz endorsed his candidacy just ahead of the first debate. For debate prep, Clinton participated in mock debates for four days prior while Trump did very little preparation, setting aside the last day to discuss ideas with his team. The New York Times summed up Clinton's goal at the debate as unnerving Trump and catching him in a lie. It described Trump's goal as sticking to his instincts. As the September 26 presidential debate approached, in a move meant to rattle Trump, Clinton invited supporter and billionaire to attend the debate. In response, Trump threatened to invite, an alleged ex-mistress of Bill Clinton. Pence later clarified Flowers would not attend the debate. Cuban, on the other hand, did attend. Overall during the debate, which of NBC moderated, by website 's count, Trump interrupted Clinton three times, with 24 "fleeting" interjections; Clinton did not interrupt Trump at all, but had five "fleeting" interjections. Notably, Trump attacked Clinton repeatedly for being in power for "30 years" and yet not fulfilling any of her policy goals. For example, he accused Clinton of "fighting ISIS [her] entire adult life." Clinton, on the other hand, accused Trump of making false statements and called on "fact checkers" to "get to work." She jokingly said "I have a feeling by the end of this debate I'll be blamed for everything," to which Trump interjected "Why not?" When the tax issue was raised, Trump argued he would release his records once Clinton "releases her 33,000 e-mails that have been deleted." Clinton discussed decades-old tax records from Trump, showing he had not paid any federal income taxes. Trump responded, "That makes me smart." After Trump attacked Clinton's decision for taking time off the campaign trail prior to the debate, Clinton observed "I think Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. And, yes, I did. And you know what else I prepared for? I prepared to be president." At the conclusion, Clinton mentioned, a former whom Trump allegedly referred to as "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeping." Trump countered he was going to bring up something "extremely rough" about Clinton but restrained himself. This was later said to be about Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs, which Trump said he did not raise due to the presence of Clinton's daughter Chelsea, a friend of Trump's daughter. After the debate, Trump took the extraordinary step of entering the media. Analysts largely agreed Clinton won the debate. 16 out of 22 participants in pollster 's focus group came to that conclusion, as did 18 of 20 participants in a CNN focus group. 's post debate instant poll showed Clinton winning the debate 51% to 40%. CNN's poll showed a 62% to 27% margin for Clinton. Trump's sniffing during the debate led former Vermont governor to suggest Trump was using. The next day, Trump blamed the sniffing on a defective microphone. While appearing on, he also addressed Machado, calling her the "worst" Miss Universe and arguing "she gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem." Afterwards, Trump launched a 3 a.m. attack on Machado, labeling her "disgusting" and asking his readers to "check out [her] sex tape." Clinton described the tweets as "unhinged, even for him." Trump argued "at least you know I will be there, awake, to answer the call!" Former Republican Senator closed out the month with an endorsement of Clinton. In the RealClearPolitics average, Clinton led Trump 47.5% to 44.4% in the head-to-head, a margin of 3.1%. In the four-way race, Clinton's lead fell to 2.9%, 43.8% to 40.9%, with Johnson at 7.3% and Stein at 2.4%.

Arrest warrant out for Green Party nominees
While most coverage of third party candidates in September centered around the gaffes of Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson, Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein received coverage over a protest she and running mate participated in, leading to a warrant for their arrests in North Dakota. According to a witness affidavit, on the morning of September 6, authorities in, North Dakota were alerted to protests at the site of construction of the , a proposed 1,000 -long pipeline slated to carry about a half million of  from oil-rich North Dakota to Illinois. The pipeline is controversial due to its planned construction route under the, disturbing sacred burial grounds and potentially contaminating the water supply. Protests have been ongoing since April and the project has become the subject of litigation, though it has been largely ignored in the presidential election. During the September 6 protest, demonstrators allegedly spray-painted graffiti on bulldozers, cut wires, flattened tires, and soiled gas tanks. After video surfaced of Baraka spray-painting "decolonization" and Stein spray-painting "I approve this message" on bulldozers, the authorities had requisite probable cause to tie the vandalism directly to Stein and Baraka. In an arrest warrant issued on September 7, officials charged both Stein and Baraka with criminal trespass and criminal mischief, Class B.

After learning of the arrest warrant, in a statement released on their campaign website, Stein and Baraka called on the authorities to pursue the "real vandalism" committed by the pipe constructors, whom they accused of "bulldozing [...] sacred burial sites and [...] unleashing [...] vicious attack dogs." Stein told the Chicago Tribune she planned to turn herself over to Morton County officials at some point, but as of the end of September, she had not. Her list of scheduled campaign events for the remainder of October does not bring her to North Dakota or anywhere near. Donnell Hushka of the told Wikinews that because the charge is only a misdemeanor, authorities cannot execute the warrant outside the state of North Dakota. The maximum penalty for a Class B misdemeanor in North Dakota is 30 days in jail and a fine of 1,000.

This would not be the first time Stein has had a run-in with the law. During her 2012 presidential campaign, Stein was arrested on three different occasions,  most notably for trespassing at the presidential debate for which she did not qualify. This cycle, Stein attempted to attend the September 26 presidential debate at, but was escorted off campus before she could be arrested.

On the same day the arrest warrant was issued, Stein's petition to appear on the ballot in North Dakota was deemed valid. It is one of the 44 states, plus the District of Columbia, where she will appear on the general election ballot.

Wikinews contacted the Stein campaign about this report but did not receive a response.

'Birther King' reacts to Trump's change of heart
After attacks from Hillary Clinton painting Donald Trump as a racist conspiracy theorist for his role in the birther movement, Donald Trump disavowed the movement on September 16, asserting "President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period." Through a press release, the campaign connected the origins of the birther movement to Clinton's against then-Senator Obama for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. However, the rumors actually go back to Obama's against former ambassador. At the time, Andy Martin, a perennial candidate for political office and vexatious litigant, sent out a press release questioning Obama's background. In the years that followed, rumors spread across the Internet, morphing into the theory that Obama was actually born in Kenya, which peaked during the. Trump reignited the controversy in 2011, while considering a run for president. Increased interest resulted in Obama's release of his long-form birth certificate in 2011, but Trump, who ended up not running for another four years, continued to question its authenticity — that is, until now. With Trump's change of heart, Wikinews sought out Martin, the man who refers to himself as the "Birther King" and "founder" of the birther movement. The origins of the birther movement are somewhat murky. According to The New York Times, Martin is "widely credited" with starting the "whisper campaign" that morphed into the movement, beginning with an August 2004 press release on claiming Obama was a secret. Although, Martin recalls, he never espoused the Kenyan birth theory, he sued for the release of the long form certificate in in 2008. After which, "crazies took over the movement and proposed increasingly irrational and unfounded claims Obama was born in Kenya."

"Everybody uses my research as a takeoff point," Martin told The Times in 2008, "and exaggerate them to suit their own fantasies."

Martin first spoke to Wikinews in August 2011 when he was running for the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nomination. In the interview, Martin expressed his belief, based on a research trip to Hawaii, that Obama's real father was not Kenyan economist but Hawaii-based journalist and labor activist. This theory has not caught on as persistently among birthers as the Kenyan birth. Martin discussed Trump during the interview, describing him as "not serious" and saying his foray into presidential politics and the birther movement looked like a "charade." Martin's opinion of Trump seems to have since changed in five years. After Martin launched another run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, he soon began praising Trump and using his campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" on press releases. He entered the primary this year and received about 200 votes (0.07%), the highest among lesser-known candidates and more even than former  governor  who was still in the race at the time. Months later, Martin officially endorsed Trump for president.

As for Trump's change of heart, Martin says by "clos[ing] the book" Trump handled criticism from Clinton about birtherism well. He says Clinton's attacks are "desperate and counterproductive" and argues the issue is "almost certainly going to boomerang on Clinton." Although he disputes Trump's claim the Clinton campaign actually started the birther movement, he says the Clinton campaign "clearly tried in 2008 to fuel the Birther controversy by trying to focus media attention on Obama's place of birth."

Martin sent out a press release on September 18 promoting what he called the "last birther news conference." Despite his desire to put the issue to rest, Martin sees it as unlikely, arguing that Obama and Clinton continue to add "new fuel to the fire."

"Obama fed the Birther movement because he has shamelessly use[d] Birther catnip to irritate and frustrate the right", says Martin, but "Obama and Clinton have been grievously wrong in believing the Birther controversy helps them. It harmed Obama, and it has harmed the nation, and it will not help Clinton during the presidential election."

Wikinews interviews libertarian write-in candidate
On September 29, writer and former 2016 Libertarian Party (LP) presidential candidate, the newly-elected chair of the (LPNH), announced the creation of a write-in campaign for president across several states. In a press release, he stated three goals for his run: "(1) to run the most libertarian presidential campaign in history; (2) to proclaim the ideas of liberty as boldly and as often as possible; and (3) to give as many people as possible the opportunity to vote for an actual libertarian in November." Wikinews reached out to Perry to discuss the campaign. During his run for the Libertarian nomination, Perry notably refused to file with the Federal Election Commission, claiming it lacked authority, and said he would only take donations in the form of precious metals or like. He selected Muslim libertarian Will Coley as his running mate. At the, Perry received 6.8% on the first ballot and 5.6% on the second ballot, fourth place each time. After being eliminated, Perry delivered a boisterous concession speech in which he warned the party about following the path of the in accepting public campaign financing. He did not endorse the Johnson–Weld ticket.

Libertarians like Perry have expressed displeasure in Johnson–Weld, arguing the ticket has sacrificed principles for mainstream acceptance, such as supporting restrictions on the, new taxes, and limits on freedom of association. Moreover, Johnson suffered a series of gaffes in September, failing to recognize the name of the Syrian city of Aleppo, sticking his tongue out at a reporter, and not being able to remember the name of a foreign leader he admired. Nevertheless, in the polls he has fared well for a Libertarian candidate, consistently polling higher than the one percent he received as the party's nominee in 2012.

In his write-in campaign, Perry plans to be certified as a write-in candidate in nine states plus the District of Columbia. In an additional eight states, all write-in votes are considered valid. According to Perry's calculations, this potentially provides him access to 114 electoral votes.

With Wikinews, Perry discusses his reasons for running, his impact on the election, and how he plans to spread his message.

What convinced you to begin a write-in campaign for president?
 * Perry: As I mentioned in the Press Release announcing the write-in campaign: The Johnson campaign's [...] numerous instances of the Libertarian Party Presidential ticket running in opposition to the LP Platform, including supporting limitations of the Second Amendment rights of people on secret lists, new forms of taxation, and statements against freedom of association. Also, the failure of the LNC [Libertarian National Committee] to take action in accordance with the bylaws to either censure or remove the candidates for running in opposition to the bylaws, and the failure of the LNC to take action against Weld for donating to the GOP [Grand Old Party — i.e., Republican] opponent of the LPNH's Gubernatorial candidate.

What impact do you hope to have on the election?
 * Perry: This question presumes that the purpose of my campaign is to affect the results of this election. My goal is to show people that Johnson and Weld are running in opposition to the LP Platform, and that there are people who put principle over party. As I said during the months leading up to the LP National Convention, when I joined the LP in 1999, it was proudly billed as the "Party of Principle" and I want to make the LP the Party of Principle again, not the Party of watering-down the message.

What is the primary focus of your campaign and what are you doing to get the message out?
 * Perry: For the answer to the first part of this question, see [the previous answer]. This is as grassroots as grassroots can get. I'm not spending money on the write-in campaign, though I am accepting media interviews. Otherwise my focus is on building LPNH and trying to get some pro-liberty legislation introduced in the NH Legislature.


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Reporter notes

 * Summary
 * All unsourced statements are sourced to Politics1
 * Politics1 doc has been sent to scoop

 * Arrest warrant out for Green Party nominees
 * Correspondence with Donnell Hushka and pdf of the criminal complaint forwarded to scoop

 * 'Birther King' reacts to Trump's change of heart
 * Some info here comes from Politics1
 * Andy Martin quotes extracted from three e-mail press releases, - "Boomerang", "Last Birther News Conference" and "Endorsement". All have been forwarded to scoop.

 * Wikinews interviews libertarian write-in candidate
 * Correspondence with Darryl Perry forwarded to scoop.--William S. Saturn (talk) 22:27, 17 October 2016 (UTC)


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Nobel Prize in Literature Committee abandons efforts to contact Bob Dylan
Hi. There was a difficulty early in reviewing this article; see my review comments.

Interesting story; I hope we can get the problems sorted out in time to publish it (there is a deadline, for publishing news; see WN:Freshness). --Pi zero (talk) 11:49, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

 * Published. Congrats!  See review comments, and .  --Pi zero (talk) 01:14, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

California releases search warrant for Wells Fargo bank on identity theft
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Nobel Prize in Literature Committee abandons efforts to contact Bob Dylan

October 20, 2016

On Monday,, permanent secretary of the at the , publicly announced during a radio program on  in  the committee, unable to reach  directly about winning the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, had abandoned its efforts to reach him. Danius said,

Numerous news outlets reported Dylan remained silent about the prize at recent concerts in the, but several speculated the artist was offering a response by renditions of certain songs, such as "" and "Why Try to Change Me Now."

Regardless of the singer/songwriter's reticence about the prize, Danius stated,

On Tuesday, reported the Nobel award was recognized in a post on Dylan's official  page.


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Resubmission for review of article
Pi zero:

Thank you very much for your detailed comments and instructions. I tried to address the issues you mentioned and resubmitted my article for re-review.

However, please note I was unable to figure out how to revise the working title so the code was inserted into the article itself.

Leftcoastbanana (talk) 22:19, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

 * Atm your account is less than four days old, so the wiki software doesn't allow you to move/rename articles, which is how you change the headline. Once the wiki software gives you that right, on the control bar at the top of the page, on the right, there's a drop-down menu that should have "move" (or maybe "rename" on it.  --Pi zero (talk) 22:34, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

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California releases search warrant for Wells Fargo bank on identity theft

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The Department of Justice on Wednesday released the warrant and affidavit of a criminal investigation of the  bank. The State of California served the warrant on October 5 to search the San Francisco headquarters of Wells Fargo for felonious activities related to.

The warrant said property to be seized at the bank's San Francisco headquarters was related to the unauthorized creation of accounts by Wells Fargo employees including the names of individuals for the accounts; account information and fees; the names of employees and their managers who created accounts without the consent of the Wells Fargo customers in question; and all communications including emails referencing the unauthorised accounts.

California Attorney General 's criminal probe is part of an increasing list of officials nationwide questioning the business practices of Wells Fargo such as California State Treasurer who announced a one-year suspension of State investment with the bank on September 28;  State Treasurer  followed suit with a year-long ban on October 3; and  United States   of,  of , and  of , who wrote to the U.S. Security Exchanges Commission (SEC) suggesting investigation on September 29.


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Hoklaing Chhun (born Septemner, 22 1988) is business man in Cambodia. He is running a pawn shop which provide cash in exchange for valuable assets and he make profit by collect interest. Hoklaing start his carrier since early 2015 with the help of his wife's family.

Early life
Hoklaing was born in 1988 to a family with five other siblings. He started his early education at the age of 5 in a local primary school. 6 years later he moved to the capital to continue his secondary and high school. Hoklaing finished his high school in 2005 and spent another 4 years to graduate from Royal University of Phnom Penh. he majored in English Literature.

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Thought
I notice the current event is still at the end of the lede rather than the beginning. I s'pose I should have been clearer on that point in my review comment. It is perhaps just about possible for a reviewer to carefully rearrange the lede to fix this, if they minimize the change and there's nothing else major wrong with the article; I'd hoped to encourage a change to that during revision, which would have avoided the reviewer having to decide whether and how they could do it. --Pi zero (talk) 23:42, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Wells Fargo Logo
I resubmitted another revision, but I'm not sure it will pass. I found a logo for Wells Fargo, but wasn't sure where to insert it into the draft. I'm leaving a link to Wikimedia Commons in case a reviewer wants to add it if the draft passes review. Thank you.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wells_Fargo_Bank.svg

--Leftcoastbanana (talk) 09:38, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

Post-review pass: Too late to add edits to article according to Archive Convention Policy?
An open thanks to @Pi zero for the in-depth editing of the article and patience regarding any mistakes I've made as a Wikinews newbie.

Question in response to your latest comments: Is it too late for me to add to the article in order to strengthen it with details you suggested in your comments e.g. "alleged crimes; scale; and recent resignation? I would like to consider adding them to the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs using the sources I already provided.

--Leftcoastbanana (talk) 23:15, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

 * Too late for this article, yes. One thing about news: it keeps moving.  One snapshot in time after another; we do our very best with each article in a short time, and then it's time for another story, another snapshot.  Whatever does and doesn't work about one article, we apply to later articles. It is possible to write follow-up articles.  A new focal event is needed, of course; but material from earlier articles can be pulled in, without having to alter anything for copyright/plagiary concerns as long as the earlier article is listed as Related news.  This is, I gather, a standard technique for professional journalists, who might write a single feature article in a week by starting with small items and snowballing.  --Pi zero (talk) 01:44, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Category to add
editprotected Add the Kamala Harris category to this article. --Woko Sapien (talk) 20:37, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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October 22, 2016

Mohammed Rashid Saeed-Alim, a failed English suicide bomber better known by his birth name Nicky Reilly, has died while serving a life sentence. He was 30. Originally from, Alim in  in 2008 when he was 22. He used glass bottles filled with nails,, and but one went off prematurely as he prepared them in the restaurant's bathroom.

Alim was hospitalised with facial wounds that required skin grafts, then prosecuted for the bombing. He admitted attempted murder and later that year and was sentenced to life with a minimum term of eighteen years. He had considered alternative targets including a police station.

Alim had a mental age of around ten. He also had and his mother said he had been manipulated by others. Police said at the time he discussed his plans online and they suspected Pakistani individuals to be responsible for his radicalisation following conversion to Islam. Alim himself left a note in his bedroom saying amongst other things he had not been manipulated. His mother pursued a complaint against police in 2010 over claims he had told people of his plans to perform a bombing but police allegedly ignored this. His body was found on Wednesday at. said there were "no suspicious circumstances" while the Prison Service simply noted the will carry out a routine investigation.  reported unconfirmed claims Alim was found hanged.

Alim served most of his sentence at. This July he was sentenced for an attack on Broadmoor nurses with an accomplice. The pair used mugs and snapped DVDs as weapons after a change to rules on group Muslim prayers. One of the victims was Muslim.

Last year Kazi Islam, 19, was sentenced to eight years after being convicted of trying to pressure an autistic man into building a pipe bomb. Islam said he was inspired by Alim's case.


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Talk:Failed UK suicide bomber Mohamed Saeed-Alim aka Nicky Reilly dies

Sourcing assistance
There's a lot of sources used but much of them only relate to small elements.
 * July 13 source is only for paragraph 6
 * May 29, 2015 is only for paragraph 7
 * The 2010 source is only for the final sentence of paragraph 4
 * The oldest two related articles predate PR. The newest one is used for very little. It will be of help to verify paragraph 4
 * "better known by his birth name" just check any of the sources, our own past coverage, Wikipedia... In my view, if he wants to change name, he can. The main reason it's ignored is because he's an otherwise unsympathetic character to the media and general public.

That should simplify review. BRS (Talk)   (Contribs) 16:43, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Really wonder when did he die
Can anyone mention in the lede when did the failed suicide bomber die. 157.49.59.118 (talk) 01:38, 25 October 2016 (UTC)


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Judge jails 'monstrous' London serial killer Stephen Port

November 27, 2016 More than a year after he was first charged, a judge on Friday sentenced London serial killer Stephen Port to for four murders and a host of poisoning and sexual offences, calling him "wicked and monstrous". Port was convicted of the murders on Wednesday.

Chef Port, 41, was first charged on October 18 last year and made his first court appearance the following day. He initially faced four counts of murder and four of "administering a poison with intent to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm". Two days later a provisional trial date was set in April but Port did not end up entering his pleas of not guilty until July 25.

Delays were caused by post-charge investigations. By then Port was also facing the remaining charges; six more of administering a poison, seven of rape, and four of. These charges involved eight additional [alleged] victims. The poisoning charges were changed to "administering a substance with intent to stupefy / overpower to allow sexual activity" by the time of the trial.

The case revolved around allegations Port drugged, raped, and murdered men at his London flat. The prosecution told jurors Port's modus operandi was to arrange to meet gay men via and other gay dating sites, then administer sometimes-lethal overdoses of recreational drug.

Three of the deaths occurred in 2014. Anthony Patrick Walgate, 23, was found dead on June 19, 2014 in Cooke Street. Port lived in Cooke Street. The other three victims were found in the vicinity of St. Margaret's Church on North Street. Gabriel Kovari, 22, was discovered dead on August 28, 2014. Daniel Whitworth, 21, was found dead the following month on September 20, 2014. Fourth victim Jack Taylor, 25, was found a year later on September 14, 2015.

The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) concerning what police called "potential vulnerabilities in [our response] to the four deaths." Police only linked the deaths less than a week before Port's arrest.

Detectives released security footage of Taylor's movements, with an officer telling the press "the man captured on may well be the last person to talk to Jack." Shortly after Port was charged police again appealed for anybody with knowledge of him "no matter how insignificant" to come forward in what local press called a "highly unusual" move.

The ten male jurors and two women were warned at the opening of the trial to face potentially graphic evidence in "a cool, dispassionate and analytical manner" by Jonathan Rees QC, prosecuting. He told the court Port satisfied his "appetite for penetrating drugged young men". The case was tried before Mr Justice Openshaw, who sentenced Port on Friday, at the Old Bailey, a famous London courthouse. Port was represented by David Etherington QC.

CCTV of Port and Taylor at Barking Train Station featured in the trial. After exchanging Grindr messages the duo agreed a meet for September 13, 2014; the day prior to Taylor's body being found. The meeting was set for 3:00 at the station; Port is seen walking to the scene while Taylor arrives in a taxi. By 7:20 Port had blocked Taylor's Grindr account and later that day deleted his own account.

A rubbish collector found Taylor's body, propped up and with his clothing ridden up as if he had been dragged. A bottle and bag of drugs were on his body, as was a syringe.

Port contacted Walgate on website Sleepyboys. Walgate worked as a prostitute and had notified a friend of the planned night "in case I get killed". Port left the corpse outside his flat before phoning. Initially he denied knowing Walgate but later told police Walgate took drugs voluntarily while alone in the flat. Port, who said he "panicked" after returning from work to find Walgate dying, was imprisoned for eight months and released on licence after three in 2015 for lying in the investigation.

The prosecution told jurors Walgate was too cautious to consume drugs and it must have been Port who slipped him GHB, which led to death. Port's 999 call was played to jurors; he hangs up early after saying he has to go to his parked car and the operator calls back to ask further questions. In the call Port says the man has apparently collapsed, is possibly drunk, and is a stranger to him.

Port was to tell police he slapped the man's face and heard a "gurgling noise" in response, but a statement from the first paramedic on-scene stated the body was already cold when help arrived. After being alerted to the death by the ambulance service police tracked down Port. Pathologist Olaf Biedrzycki testified at the trial that Walgate's death was due to GHB overdose, his underwear was both inside out and back to front, his fly was down, and there were fourteen injuries to the body. Port's police statement was that he had also propped the man into a sitting position, which was how paramedics found him. He said after ending the call he went to sleep rather than waiting for the ambulance. Walgate's top was raised suggesting dragging of the body, and there were drugs in a holdall beside the body. After the trial the reported a nearby CCTV camera was not working.

The bodies of both Kovari and Whitworth were found in the same spot as each other in St Margaret's churchyard, about 500 (1600 ) from Port's home, within a month of each other. Both were found by Barbara Denham who testified she walked her dog at least once a day through the area. Like Walgate, both men were found sitting. Like Walgate, a bottle of GHB was with Whitworth's body. Both of their clothing had again ridden up suggesting dragging. Whitworth was on a blue sheet; Port's semen was on the sheet, which had come from his flat.

Whitworth's body bore an apparent suicide note in which he seemed to blame himself for Kovari's death, saying he had injected Kovari with GHB. The note said he could not confess to police for fear of his family seeing him going to prison. The note said "please do not blame the guy I was with last night, we only had sex and then I left, he knows nothing of what I have done."

Rees told jurors an expert in handwriting analysis had ruled out Whitworth as the author and found it to be written by Port in what Rees called a "wicked" bid to frame Whitworth. Rees also said Port's DNA was on the bottle of drugs on Whitworth's corpse. Police initially accepted the note as genuine and did not investigate further; no effort was made to find who "the guy I was with last night" might be. The note was written on paper traced to Port's flat, and in a plastic sleeve also traced to the flat.

Rees said the man was Port, the two having met via Fitlads, and that "cruel and manipulative" Port deleted his Fitlads account shortly after the meet. Rees also said Kovari told friends he had found a flat in the Barking area of London five days before he was found dead, alleging this was Port's flat. Port's defence was Whitworth had dictated the note to him.

Whitworth's boyfriend, Ricky Waumsley, told the court Whitworth's behaviour was inconsistent with guilty or suicidal thoughts. Waumsley also testified Port had never to his knowledge taken recreational drugs aside from experimenting with cannabis during a holiday in Amsterdam.

Katie Impey, a friend of Whitworth, said the deceased's mother committed suicide and thereafter Whitworth viewed taking one's own life as "the most selfish thing anyone could ever do, and you should never do it, so I know he didn't kill himself." Impey also spoke of the final conversation she had with her friend in which he spoke of a new romantic interest called Gab. "He was really excited. He said 'I've met someone, he's really artsy, he's really cute, I don't know how I'm going to tell Ricky'."

The trial featured five months of content from a Facebook account named Jon Luck. Port's computer was used to access the account, and Port admitted he was the user. The account was used to exchange messages with Kovari's boyfriend Thierry Amodio, with Port pretending to be a Californian student who knew Kovari.

Port, via the Jon Luck account, told Amodio he spent two days with Kovari and that Kovari attended a drugs-fueled orgy with a man named Dan. Amodio was seeking information on his partner's death; Port wrote "I hope he wasn't murdered or anything like that as that would be awful." After Amodio assured him this was unlikely Port replied "Thanks god for that I would hate anyone who could hurt him".

Around the time of Whitworth's death Port informed Amodio he had discovered Dan and Kovari had attended a party where young men were raped whilst drugged. Posing as Luck he said he had "been expecting [police] to come to my door any second cuss of my DNA and my messages on [Kovari's] phone." When Amodio told Port he'd been visited by police probing Whitworth's death Port replied "OMG your joking[...] please don't let them arrest me."

Port would also press Amodio for information on police investigations and suggested Dan had accidentally killed Kovari with an overdose and then "did same to himself" because he "could not live with the guilt", an apparent reference to Daniel Whitworth's death. Amodio tried to get "Jon Luck" to contact police but this was never successful. Port told a neighbour Kovari died of infection in Spain after travelling to join somebody Kovari had met online.

Kovari had in fact moved from Spain to London, having been living with his Spanish boyfriend Thierry Amodio. After initially failing to find a place to live Kovari met John Pape. Pape allowed Kovari to stay with him, which he did for several weeks before securing a rented room with Port in the Barking area of London. Turning down an offer to stay longer, Kovari moved in with Port on August 23, 2014.

The same day Kovari sent another friend a map showing Port's Cooke St home as his new abode. The next day Port invited friend and neighbour Ryan Edwards to meet Kovari. On August 25 Kovari texted Edwards "Stephen is not a nice person". The same day Kovari messaged the friend he sent the map to, saying "I'm fine." Pape texted Kovari on August 26, asking "Hey, hows it going in Barking?" There was no reply. A text from Edwards to Port the same day asked "How is Gabriel?" Port responded Kovari had already moved out to live with "some soldier guy he had been chatting to online" in the area. The body was found two days later. The corpse was clad in sunglasses and Kovari's possessions were in two bags beside him.

The first alleged victim to give evidence, a nineteen-year-old student when he encountered Port, told jurors he met Port via Grindr and accepted a glass of wine at Port's flat. After noticing a bitter taste and sludge at the bottom of the glass, the complainant said he felt ill and upon sipping a second drink containing vodka he "felt so dizzy. I was ricocheting off the walls. The room was tilting."

The man told the court he fell asleep and awoke naked on his front with Port raping him, describing himself as "half asleep, half aware of what was happening" before passing out again. He said he left the flat after coming round in the morning, still feeling the effects. The witness claimed that while he was considering having sex with Port when he arrived he did not at any stage consent.

The next alleged victim to give evidence, also a student, told the court he met Port via Fitlads. The witness said they met at Port's flat on several occasions. He said he declined alcohol because he was Muslim but on his fourth visit he accepted a glass of coke. He said swallowing it caused an instant burning sensation like acid, but Port pled ignorance and they met a fifth time. On that occasion Port gave the man what he said was '', and a massage, according to the witness.

The witness said he fell asleep and on waking was given a glass of what Port claimed was water, which instantly knocked him out. "The next thing I remember I was on the floor screaming and shouting. It was like I was going mad." The witness claimed he was naked and confused, not even recalling his own name.

Port drove the man to nearby Barking Rail Station. The victim was "screaming and shouting" and described Port "kind of dragging me along and holding me up." Police and ambulance attended, with Constable Alesha Owers testifying Port seemed "worried and jittery" and accepted he had taken. Port claimed the man had turned up at his door and Port was helping him get home.

The witness did not give a statement to police, telling the trial he did not want his family to discover the encounters and simply wished to be home. He says on arriving he telephoned Port. "I was shouting at him: 'What did you give me? What the hell did you give me, because it certainly wasn't poppers?'[...] I got the impression it was a normal thing what happened to me."

The witness added he had one final meeting with Port at the accused's flat. Port, he claimed, apologised to him but still did not say what substance was involved.

A transgender man in his early twenties told the court he met Port via Facebook and they met for sex because the witness was angry his boyfriend had cheated on him. The man said after consensual sex and drinking he passed out and Port filmed himself raping the complainant. The witness claimed Port showed off the video the following morning: "I just thought he was disgusting and vile. He thought it was fine. He thought it was funny." The witness told the court he "felt angry because you don’t carry on having sex with someone when they pass out. I said, 'you’re disgusting.'"

Another man, now 24, told the court he met Port via Gaydar when he was 16 and grew close to Port as the man had few friends. He said Port pressured him into taking and he passed out, wakening to find himself on his back with his legs over Port's shoulders and Port raping him. He said he returned a week later, at which time Port again gave him mephedrone and raped him, as well as non-consensually injecting drugs into him. He told the court Port was "god in his flat", someone "you did not argue with". He told the Old Bailey "I didn't feel like I was being treated like a person."

The court was played six homemade sex tapes from Port's phone, with police and prosecutors alleging they showed Port raping an unconscious 24-year-old man. The six were amongst over 80 sex tapes in total Port had made involving himself. The alleged victim testified that while he and Port had consensual sex and sniffed poppers after meeting via Manhunt he did not consent to any activity in the videos.

At least three other men can be seen or heard in the videos. Port sniffs a bottle in one video and tells an unidentified man "you fuck him". In another an unidentified voice says "I’ll leave you guys to carry on, I have got work in the morning." Port then says to a second man "Shall we do more stuff?" "Yeah babe" comes the reply.

Two of the rape charges are sample counts relating to the videos. Sample counts are a method by which prosecutors can try multiple similar crimes based on a single count. Port routinely browsed the Internet for rape-themed pornography.

Stephen Port's own sister, Sharon Port, was a prosecution witness. She spoke of a conversation with her brother — who smiled when she entered court to testify against him — the day before Slovakian national Kovari's body was found. Speaking quietly, she said she had rung him and found him "very distressed"; he said there was a corpse in his flat.

Sharon Port testified that the conversation left her with the understanding the pair had been doing drugs together and Kovari expired. She said she urged Stephen Port to alert the police; the following day, she drove from her home to visit him after he became unresponsive to messages. She described her brother as quiet, and saying he had been released on police bail to return in a month or two.

Kovari's body was found that day. Sharon Port said Stephen didn't mention the incident again at the time.

After Rees finished, defence lawyer Etherington questioned her further. During this she added that in March 2015, when he was imprisoned for lies to police after the first death, Stephen told her that the conversation had not referred to a body at all. Instead, he was talking about another man altogether.

Two former partners of Port testified early in the trial. Both said the accused wore a wig to help him feel confident about his appearance, and one further said both would watch 'twink' porn together. In the gay community, slender young men are sometimes referred to as twinks. The man also testified Port "never tried any sexual acts I wasn’t happy with." The court also heard Port was a prostitute and sometimes wore the wig to meet men. Port was said to have called Kovari his "new Slovakian twink flatmate" who was "quite cute, tall and skinny" to friends.

Port's sister, during her evidence, spoke of a bullied, quiet schoolboy who revealed his sexuality at 26. She said their mother did not approve. She also testified she was wholly unaware of Port's drug use until the August 2014 phone call and even after did not know which substances were involved.

Port gave evidence in his own defence. Starting on October 27 he spoke of his version of the deaths. He started with the death of Walgate, confirming he offered the student 800 to spend the night with him. Port claimed Walgate visited the bathroom during sex, returning "high and very rampant." Port testified he was unaware what Walgate had taken but spoke of his own experiences with GHB, which he said "could knock you out" before reawakening aroused. Port said he used it to have "hyper high" sex and in one relationship it was normal for him to have sex with his partner while the latter was unconscious through GHB use.

Port claimed Walgate became unwell and slept at the flat; Port went to work that morning and returned to find the deceased still there and woke that night to discover the "very rigid" body. Port said he "just panicked" when he carried Walgate's corpse outside to call an ambulance, lying about the circumstances because he was "in shock".

The next day Port confirmed Kovari shared his flat and said the pair went to a party to take drugs and have sex. He said his "friend" Kovari left early with 'Dan'. Port testified he realised weeks later Dan was Daniel Whitworth, whom he had met online. He spoke of Kovari and Whitworth having sex at the party with several onlookers but said he would not be able to find where the party was held and did not know who lived there. He said Kovari and Whitworth went to his flat "to get a bit more privacy".

Rees asserted Port was "caught out" in a lie. The prosecution claimed Whitworth could be placed in a pub elsewhere when the alleged party happened and Rees said Port's account amounted to the pair getting "coy and bashful" after public sex. Rees asked Port to explain Whitworth's presence "in two places at once". "I've no idea. I just know it was as I remember it," said Port.

Port said Whitworth later recounted to him a story in which Whitworth and Kovari had sex at St Margaret's. After both passed out, Whitworth claimed he was unable to rouse Kovari and could not revive him.

"He said he panicked. He was going to call an ambulance but did not know what to do, so he left him." Port said he reassured a worried and guilt-ridden Whitworth and urged him to go to police. Port and Whitworth had sex with drugs at Whitworth's suggestion, Port said, before Whitworth dictated the suicide note.

"I thought it was just the [drugs] talking and he was just getting his emotions out of his system," Port told jurors. "I didn't believe he was actually going to do it. I would have stopped him. I would have done anything to prevent him doing it." Port said he added the line reading "please do not blame the guy I was with last night."

Rees accused Port of manipulating evidence, saying he left a hoodie belonging to Kovari on Whitworth's body alongside a bottle of GHB. Port countered he only agreed to write the suicide note because Whitworth promised sex in exchange for it. Port testified they did not in fact have sex because Whitworth gave him a drink laced with GHB, causing Port to fall unconscious.

"You are not suggesting he may have drugged you Mr Port?" asked Rees. "You are not suggesting he may have taken advantage of you whilst you were drugged?" Port confirmed this was possible, leading to Rees asking "Why did you raise the suggestion this young man may have raped or sexually assaulted you? Against this dead boy?" Port answered "I wouldn't have minded if he did."

"Come on, Mr Port!" Rees retaliated. "That's not true, is it? You '' other people, they don't top you. So you would have minded if he raped you whilst you were unconscious." Port's response was "It's just a shame we didn't get to do more together." Rees later said "You just cannot bring yourself to accept the truth of what is going here. To the families. Lie after lie, that's what's being played out here in this court."

He also recounted his time with Taylor. The pair met on Grindr and Port testified Taylor accepted a suggestion to get "mega high", before the two left for "fresh air" and had "rampant" sex at St Margaret's. Port described this in detail: "I realised our height difference was quite significant[...] It was a bit of a struggle at first, I had to hold him around the chest. Then we just had sex like that for two hours."

Port testified he suggested going back to the flat; "He said, 'I'm going to sit down here for a bit, I’m feeling tired.'" Port said he left around 2:30 in the morning and never saw Taylor again but he was "very much alive" at this point. He testified he left as he had a new job to go to the next day and did not expect anything further as Taylor "was not happy being gay." Port spoke of his previous accounts to police, especially his denials of knowing Taylor and Kovari while being uncertain if he knew Whitworth. He said "The truth sounded like a lie, so I lied to make it sound like the truth." Under cross-examination from Rees, he also admitted his version was hard to accept and appeared as if he was a "determined liar to save your own skin".

"The essence of it is, you like playing God and manipulating and controlling young men", Rees told him in front of jurors. "The key to this case is you like penetrating young men who are unconscious. That is at the heart of this case, isn't it? You try to manipulate the evidence to fit the facts as you know them to be and you have done this throughout this case."

Rees asked "Do you agree it is never too late to tell the truth? Do you agree it would be a good thing for the families of the four dead men to learn the truth about what happened to them?" Port responded "of course." After agreeing all four deceased met similar deaths shortly after being in his company, Port was asked "I know it’s very late in the day, Mr Port, would you care to change any part of your account you have given to the jury?" "No," he replied.

The jury began deliberations on Monday last week, deliberating for over 28 hours. They faced a question of intent. The prosecution had to prove intent to cause very serious harm for a murder conviction. The prosecution case was Port administered GHB in a bid to cause comas, and Walgate's death at least was likely unexpected. The jury had to decide if a coma met the test; if not, they could convict on alternative charges of manslaughter. The jury unanimously convicted Port of three murders, and by an 11–1 majority of Walgate's murder.

Port was simultaneously convicted of most other charges and on Wednesday Mr Justice Openshaw informed jurors a 10–2 verdict would be acceptable for the remaining counts. Port was ultimately convicted of all charges against six surviving victims. He was also convicted of offences against a seventh but acquitted of raping him. The jury acquitted him of two rapes relating to an eighth man.

During Port's trial one of his drug dealers, Peter Hirons, 48, separately pleaded guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court to supplying ̺, crystal meth, mephedrone,, , and GBL, the last being metabolised into GHB when ingested. He also admitted possessing £6,060 of drug-dealing proceeds. He was jailed for two and a half years. Gerald Matovu appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday, charged with supplying Port with mephedrone and GHB.

Lead investigator DCI Tim Duffield called Port "one of the most dangerous individuals I've encountered". Victims' relatives clapped, cheered, and yelled as Port was sentenced.

Police were criticised early in the case after the LGBT website Pink News revealed a friend of Kovari had contacted them after the death. Pink News in turn contacted the Metropolitan Police but received assurances police did not view the death as suspicious. The revelations coincided with the police appeal following Port's initial charges. "This appeal should have been made in June and August last year after the first two killings", said human rights activist Peter Tatchell at the time. "If the police had done that, the killer may have been caught and some of these men might still be alive."

Following murder convictions it was revealed Taylor's family triggered the homicide investigation themselves after pressuring police. Taylor's relatives have indicated they intend to sue the police. The IPCC probe is examining possible failings by seventeen officers. In July the IPCC appealed for anybody who raised concerns with police prior to the launch of the murder investigation to contact them, and revealed they had met with London's LGBT community.

On Wednesday the IPCC reiterated its call for witnesses, revealing seven Metropolitan Police officers had been informed they faced gross misconduct probes and ten more faced less-serious misconduct probes. Officers under investigation rank from constable to inspector. British Transport Police are not under investigation.

IPCC Commissioner Cindy Butts said "It is important we establish whether the police response to the deaths of all four men was thorough and appropriate in the circumstances, including whether discrimination played any part in actions and decisions[...] our investigators are continuing to work hard to scrutinise the police response to the tragic deaths of these four young men." Tatchell accused police of "class, gender and sexuality bias" and called the verdict "no compensation for the loss of four young gay men who had their lives, hopes and dreams cut short." "If four young well-off women had been murdered in Mayfair, I believe the police would have made a public appeal much sooner and mounted a far more comprehensive investigation", he said on Wednesday. Tatchell said police could have prevented some murders; Taylor's family agreed. "We do believe Jack would still be here if they had done their job" they said. "The police should be held accountable for Jack's death. We do understand it's not them who took Jack's life, but Stephen Port would have been stopped."

"This has been an incredibly detailed and wide-ranging inquiry with detectives not only investigating these crimes but providing full support to all the families and victims" said Stuart Cundy, a Metropolitan Police Commander. "Throughout this case we have worked very closely with the LGBT community" he added. Cundy claimed none of the surviving victims had been in touch with police prior to Port facing murder charges.

A Metropolitan Police statement said the force takes "Offences against members of the LGBT community[...] extremely seriously." The force said it had 900 hate crimes investigators in addition to 150 specialist LGBT officers.

Cundy however acknowledged "potential missed opportunities" to catch Port. He said he has written to the deceaseds' families, apologising. "I have offered to meet them if they would like to do so, both now and at the conclusion of the IPCC investigation." He said police were co-operating with the IPCC probe.

When Port was arrested for perverting the course of justice police seized his laptop, but did not examine it. Detectives took advice from homicide specialists but a murder investigation was not launched and Port was released on bail while the Crown Prosecution Service considered charging him. Port murdered Kovari and Whitworth while on bail.

Port's laptop, when eventually examined, showed Port first looked at Walgate's escorting ad on June 13, 2014. On the same day he also sought out gay rape pornography. Searches included "sleeping boy", "unconscious boys", "drugged and raped", "taking date rape drug", "gay teen knocked out raped" and "guy raped and tortured young nude boy". Friends of Walgate pressed police to examine the laptop, with one alleging police told her it was too expensive.

Amodio emailed a detective about the Jon Luck communications. Over several exchanges the detective asked Amodio to get Luck to contact him, but police did not take it upon themselves to trace Luck. Had they done so they would have found Port. Amodio also linked the deaths of Kovari and Whitworth to the earlier death of Walgate, but the detective told him the first death was "nothing about Gabriel or Daniel."

Whitworth's death also caused his friends to press police for further action, but police again did not treat the death as suspicious despite seeking advice from homicide specialists. Port's DNA was on the blanket with Whitworth's body; police already had his DNA from arresting Port during the Walgate investigation. Police did not trace his movements or investigate the man referred to in the apparent suicide note.

DCI Tony Kirk said to press the two deaths were "unusual and slightly confusing" but not murders. A pathologist found Whitworth had "bruising below both arms in the armpit regions which is unlikely to have been caused accidentally and may have resulted from manual handling of the deceased, most likely prior to death." At inquest coroner Nadia Persaud recorded open verdicts and advised police to perform additional forensic tests, but this was not done.

Port was finally caught after Taylor's murder when the victim's older sisters linked his death to the other three. While pressing police to take action, they learned of CCTV showing Taylor and an unidentified person. Taylor's sisters convinced police to release the footage in a bid to trace the man; when this was done, another officer recognised Port from the footage. He was arrested and the case became a murder probe.

Police are re-examining a further 58 fatal GHB overdoses from June 2011 to October 2015. "We can't rule out the fact there may be other victims out there who suffered at Port's hands and have yet to come forward," Cundy said. "We would appeal for them to contact us as soon as possible."


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On Friday, a network of diverse -connected devices targeted the domain registration service provider. It took down Dyn clients, including several popular websites such as, , , , ', and '.

The attack involved targeting Dyn's servers with a large volume of requests, rendering it incapable of serving replies to legitimate requests — a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack. Users' browsers and other clients sent requests to Dyn to resolve the respective web sites' domain names to an IP, but did not get a reply within the time required.

The first attack started at about 7am local time and was resolved in two hours. A second attack started at mid-day, and a third attack started at about 4pm local time. Tens of millions of malicious request sources were observed, interfering with legitimate Dyn traffic.

The reports noted the malicious devices included internet-connected devices — not only servers and desktops, but also s,, s — referred to as the.

On Friday evening Dyn said a security company and a cloud services provider Akamai identified symptoms of malware  participating in the attacks. The malware infects the devices by brute forcing their passwords. This strategy may work as a consequence of users' negligence towards password security of stationary devices, which the users do not directly interact with in their everyday life while leaving them exposed to the Internet.

Matthew Prince, the CEO of an Internet infrastructure company said it's a known issue, "There's nothing really new about [this type of DDoS attack]. We've seen them for at least the last three years, they tend to be difficult to stop".

Public release of Mirai source code was announced at Hackforums on September 30.

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Neymar signs contract extension with Barça till 2021

October 24, 2016

On Friday, Catalonian football club FC Barcelona announced Brazilian forward Neymar signed a five-year contract extension, which runs through June 2021. Barcelona announced Neymar would be signing a contract extension in July, but Neymar was not physically present at their offices to sign at the time.

Neymar joined the Blaugrana in summer 2013 from and since then has featured in 151 games for the Catalonian club. Neymar has won nine trophies with Barça — two La Liga titles, two s and, and one each of UEFA Champions League, , and FIFA scoring over 90 goals.

Per the contract extension, Neymar's buyout clause is €200 million at the end of the current season which would rise to €250million by the third season.

After signing the contract extension, Neymar said,.


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