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en | 61791 | 1250249 | "2011-06-25T00:31:50Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61791 | 2007 CAA Tournament | {{4RoundBracket-Byes
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>Friday, March 2
| RD2='''Quarterfinals'''<br/>Saturday, March 3
| RD3='''Semifinals'''<br/>Sunday, March 4
| RD4='''Final'''<br/>Monday, March 5
| group1=
| group2=
| RD1-seed01=
| RD1-team01=
| RD1-score01=
| RD1-seed02=
| RD1-team02=
| RD1-score02=
| RD1-seed03=8
| RD1-team03=William & Mary
| RD1-score03=68
| RD1-seed04=9
| RD1-team04='''Georgia State'''
| RD1-score04=70
| RD1-seed05=
| RD1-team05=
| RD1-score05=
| RD1-seed06=
| RD1-team06=
| RD1-score06=
| RD1-seed07=5
| RD1-team07='''Northeastern'''
| RD1-score07=77
| RD1-seed08=12
| RD1-team08=Delaware
| RD1-score08=67
| RD1-seed09=
| RD1-team09=
| RD1-score09=
| RD1-seed10=
| RD1-team10=
| RD1-score10=
| RD1-seed11=7
| RD1-team11='''Towson'''
| RD1-score11=67
| RD1-seed12=10
| RD1-team12=UNC-Wilmington
| RD1-score12=52
| RD1-seed13=
| RD1-team13=
| RD1-score13=
| RD1-seed14=
| RD1-team14=
| RD1-score14=
| RD1-seed15=6
| RD1-team15='''George Mason'''
| RD1-score15=73
| RD1-seed16=11
| RD1-team16=James Madison
| RD1-score16=62
| RD2-seed01=1
| RD2-team01='''Virginia Commonwealth'''
| RD2-score01=73
| RD2-seed02=9
| RD2-team02=Georgia State
| RD2-score02=60
| RD2-seed03=4
| RD2-team03='''Drexel'''
| RD2-score03=64
| RD2-seed04=5
| RD2-team04=Northeastern
| RD2-score04=50
| RD2-seed05=2
| RD2-team05='''Old Dominion'''
| RD2-score05=58
| RD2-seed06=7
| RD2-team06=Towson
| RD2-score06=55
| RD2-seed07=3
| RD2-team07=Hofstra
| RD2-score07=61
| RD2-seed08=6
| RD2-team08='''George Mason'''
| RD2-score08=64
| RD3-seed01=1
| RD3-team01='''Virginia Commonwealth'''
| RD3-score01=63
| RD3-seed02=4
| RD3-team02=Drexel
| RD3-score02=56
| RD3-seed03=2
| RD3-team03=Old Dominion
| RD3-score03=63
| RD3-seed04=6
| RD3-team04='''George Mason'''
| RD3-score04=79
| RD4-seed01=1
| RD4-team01='''Virginia Commonwealth'''
| RD4-score01=65
| RD4-seed02=6
| RD4-team02=George Mason
| RD4-score02=59
}}
<small>All games held at [[w:Richmond Coliseum|Richmond Coliseum]], Richmond, VA
[[Category:No publish]] | All games held at Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, VA | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 61792 | 1250250 | "2011-06-25T00:32:03Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61792 | 2007 C-USA Tournament | {{4RoundBracket-Byes
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>Wednesday, March 7
| RD2='''Quarterfinals'''<br/>Thursday, March 8
| RD3='''Semifinals'''<br/>Friday, March 9
| RD4='''Final'''<br/>Saturday, March 10
| group1=
| group2=
| RD1-seed01=
| RD1-team01=
| RD1-score01=
| RD1-seed02=
| RD1-team02=
| RD1-score02=
| RD1-seed03=8
| RD1-team03='''Marshall'''
| RD1-score03=53
| RD1-seed04=9
| RD1-team04=UA-Birmingham
| RD1-score04=52
| RD1-seed05=
| RD1-team05=
| RD1-score05=
| RD1-seed06=
| RD1-team06=
| RD1-score06=
| RD1-seed07=5
| RD1-team07='''Tulsa'''
| RD1-score07=65
| RD1-seed08=12
| RD1-team08=East Carolina
| RD1-score08=50
| RD1-seed09=
| RD1-team09=
| RD1-score09=
| RD1-seed10=
| RD1-team10=
| RD1-score10=
| RD1-seed11=7
| RD1-team11='''Rice'''
| RD1-score11=77
| RD1-seed12=10
| RD1-team12=UT-El Paso
| RD1-score12=74
| RD1-seed13=
| RD1-team13=
| RD1-score13=
| RD1-seed14=
| RD1-team14=
| RD1-score14=
| RD1-seed15=6
| RD1-team15='''Southern Mississippi'''
| RD1-score15=59
| RD1-seed16=11
| RD1-team16=Southern Methodist
| RD1-score16=52
| RD2-seed01=1
| RD2-team01='''Memphis'''
| RD2-score01=92
| RD2-seed02=8
| RD2-team02=Marshall
| RD2-score02=71
| RD2-seed03=4
| RD2-team03='''Tulane'''
| RD2-score03=58
| RD2-seed04=5
| RD2-team04=Tulsa
| RD2-score04=56
| RD2-seed05=2
| RD2-team05=Central Florida
| RD2-score05=51
| RD2-seed06=7
| RD2-team06='''Rice'''
| RD2-score06=53
| RD2-seed07=3
| RD2-team07='''Houston'''
| RD2-score07=62
| RD2-seed08=6
| RD2-team08=Southern Mississippi
| RD2-score08=59
| RD3-seed01=1
| RD3-team01='''Memphis'''
| RD3-score01=71
| RD3-seed02=4
| RD3-team02=Tulane
| RD3-score02=49
| RD3-seed03=7
| RD3-team03=Rice
| RD3-score03=62
| RD3-seed04=3
| RD3-team04='''Houston'''
| RD3-score04=77
| RD4-seed01=1
| RD4-team01='''Memphis'''
| RD4-score01=71
| RD4-seed02=3
| RD4-team02=Houston
| RD4-score02=59
}}
<small>All games held at [[w:FedExForum|FedExForum]], Memphis, TN
[[Category:No publish]] | All games held at FedExForum, Memphis, TN | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 61793 | 1250251 | "2011-06-25T00:32:19Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61793 | 2007 Horizon League Tournament | {{4RoundBracket-Byes
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>Tuesday, February 27
| RD2='''Second Round'''<br/>Friday, March 2
| RD3='''Semifinals'''<br/>Saturday, March 3
| RD4='''Final'''<br/>Tuesday, March 6
| group1=
| group2=
| RD1-seed01=
| RD1-team01=
| RD1-score01=
| RD1-seed02=
| RD1-team02=
| RD1-score02=
| RD1-seed03=
| RD1-team03=
| RD1-score03=
| RD1-seed04=
| RD1-team04=
| RD1-score04=
| RD1-seed05=4
| RD1-team05='''UW-Green Bay'''
| RD1-score05=78
| RD1-seed06=9
| RD1-team06=Cleveland State
| RD1-score06=59
| RD1-seed07=5
| RD1-team07='''Youngstown State'''
| RD1-score07=82
| RD1-seed08=8
| RD1-team08=Detroit
| RD1-score08=80
| RD1-seed09=
| RD1-team09=
| RD1-score09=
| RD1-seed10=
| RD1-team10=
| RD1-score10=
| RD1-seed11=
| RD1-team11=
| RD1-score11=
| RD1-seed12=
| RD1-team12=
| RD1-score12=
| RD1-seed13=
| RD1-team13=
| RD1-score13=
| RD1-seed14=
| RD1-team14=
| RD1-score14=
| RD1-seed15=6
| RD1-team15='''UIC'''
| RD1-score15=83
| RD1-seed16=7
| RD1-team16=Milwaukee
| RD1-score16=77
| RD2-seed01=1
| RD2-team01='''Wright State'''
| RD2-score01=
| RD2-seed02=
| RD2-team02=(Bye)
| RD2-score02=
| RD2-seed03=4
| RD2-team03='''UW-Green Bay'''
| RD2-score03=72
| RD2-seed04=5
| RD2-team04=Youngstown State
| RD2-score04=55
| RD2-seed05=2
| RD2-team05='''Butler'''
| RD2-score05=
| RD2-seed06=
| RD2-team06=(Bye)
| RD2-score06=
| RD2-seed07=3
| RD2-team07='''Loyola (Chicago)'''
| RD2-score07=66
| RD2-seed08=6
| RD2-team08=UIC
| RD2-score08=62
| RD3-seed01=1
| RD3-team01='''Wright State'''
| RD3-score01=57
| RD3-seed02=4
| RD3-team02=UW-Green Bay
| RD3-score02=51
| RD3-seed03=2
| RD3-team03='''Butler'''
| RD3-score03=67
| RD3-seed04=3
| RD3-team04=Loyola (Chicago)
| RD3-score04=66
| RD4-seed01=1
| RD4-team01='''Wright State'''
| RD4-score01=60
| RD4-seed02=2
| RD4-team02=Butler
| RD4-score02=55
}}
<small>First round games at campus sites of higher seeds<br/>
Second round, semifinals, and final at [[w:Nutter Center|Nutter Center]], Fairborn, OH
[[Category:No publish]] | First round games at campus sites of higher seeds
Second round, semifinals, and final at Nutter Center, Fairborn, OH | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 61794 | 1250252 | "2011-06-25T00:32:33Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61794 | 2007 MAAC Tournament | {{4RoundBracket-Byes
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>Friday, March 2
| RD2='''Quarterfinals'''<br/>Saturday, March 3
| RD3='''Semifinals'''<br/>Sunday, March 4
| RD4='''Final'''<br/>Monday, March 5
| group1=
| group2=
| RD1-seed01=
| RD1-team01=
| RD1-score01=
| RD1-seed02=
| RD1-team02=
| RD1-score02=
| RD1-seed03=8
| RD1-team03='''Canisius'''
| RD1-score03=62
| RD1-seed04=9
| RD1-team04=St. Peter's
| RD1-score04=48
| RD1-seed05=
| RD1-team05=
| RD1-score05=
| RD1-seed06=
| RD1-team06=
| RD1-score06=
| RD1-seed07=
| RD1-team07=
| RD1-score07=
| RD1-seed08=
| RD1-team08=
| RD1-score08=
| RD1-seed09=
| RD1-team09=
| RD1-score09=
| RD1-seed10=
| RD1-team10=
| RD1-score10=
| RD1-seed11=7
| RD1-team11='''Rider'''
| RD1-score11=77
| RD1-seed12=10
| RD1-team12=Iona
| RD1-score12=62
| RD1-seed13=
| RD1-team13=
| RD1-score13=
| RD1-seed14=
| RD1-team14=
| RD1-score14=
| RD1-seed15=
| RD1-team15=
| RD1-score15=
| RD1-seed16=
| RD1-team16=
| RD1-score16=
| RD2-seed01=1
| RD2-team01='''Marist'''
| RD2-score01=87
| RD2-seed02=8
| RD2-team02=Canisius
| RD2-score02=63
| RD2-seed03=4
| RD2-team03='''Siena'''
| RD2-score03=75
| RD2-seed04=5
| RD2-team04=Manhattan
| RD2-score04=72
| RD2-seed05=2
| RD2-team05='''Niagara'''
| RD2-score05=77
| RD2-seed06=7
| RD2-team06=Rider
| RD2-score06=52
| RD2-seed07=3
| RD2-team07='''Loyola (Maryland)'''
| RD2-score07=76
| RD2-seed08=6
| RD2-team08=Fairfield
| RD2-score08=72
| RD3-seed01=1
| RD3-team01=Marist
| RD3-score01=78
| RD3-seed02=4
| RD3-team02='''Siena'''
| RD3-score02=86
| RD3-seed03=2
| RD3-team03='''Niagara'''
| RD3-score03=89
| RD3-seed04=3
| RD3-team04=Loyola (Maryland)
| RD3-score04=79
| RD4-seed01=4
| RD4-team01=Siena
| RD4-score01=79
| RD4-seed02=2
| RD4-team02='''Niagara'''
| RD4-score02=83
}}
<small>All games held at [[w:Arena at Harbor Yard|Arena at Harbor Yard]], Bridgeport, CT
[[Category:No publish]] | All games held at Arena at Harbor Yard, Bridgeport, CT | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 61795 | 1250253 | "2011-06-25T00:32:47Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61795 | 2007 MAC Tournament | {{4RoundBracket-Byes
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>Wednesday, March 7
| RD2='''Quarterfinals'''<br/>Thursday, March 8
| RD3='''Semifinals'''<br/>Friday, March 9
| RD4='''Final'''<br/>Saturday, March 10
| group1=
| group2=
| RD1-seed01=
| RD1-team01=
| RD1-score01=
| RD1-seed02=
| RD1-team02=
| RD1-score02=
| RD1-seed03=8
| RD1-team03='''Eastern Michigan'''
| RD1-score03=51
| RD1-seed04=9
| RD1-team04=Ball State
| RD1-score04=48
| RD1-seed05=
| RD1-team05=
| RD1-score05=
| RD1-seed06=
| RD1-team06=
| RD1-score06=
| RD1-seed07=5
| RD1-team07='''Ohio'''
| RD1-score07=69
| RD1-seed08=12
| RD1-team08=Bowling Green
| RD1-score08=59
| RD1-seed09=
| RD1-team09=
| RD1-score09=
| RD1-seed10=
| RD1-team10=
| RD1-score10=
| RD1-seed11=7
| RD1-team11='''Central Michigan'''
| RD1-score11=80
| RD1-seed12=10
| RD1-team12=Buffalo
| RD1-score12=74
| RD1-seed13=
| RD1-team13=
| RD1-score13=
| RD1-seed14=
| RD1-team14=
| RD1-score14=
| RD1-seed15=6
| RD1-team15='''Western Michigan'''
| RD1-score15=67
| RD1-seed16=11
| RD1-team16=Northern Illinois
| RD1-score16=62
| RD2-seed01=1
| RD2-team01='''Toledo'''
| RD2-score01=62
| RD2-seed02=8
| RD2-team02=Eastern Michigan
| RD2-score02=54
| RD2-seed03=4
| RD2-team03='''Miami (Ohio)'''
| RD2-score03=70
| RD2-seed04=5
| RD2-team04=Ohio
| RD2-score04=51
| RD2-seed05=2
| RD2-team05='''Akron'''
| RD2-score05=82
| RD2-seed06=7
| RD2-team06=Central Michigan
| RD2-score06=53
| RD2-seed07=3
| RD2-team07='''Kent State'''
| RD2-score07=75
| RD2-seed08=6
| RD2-team08=Western Michigan
| RD2-score08=66
| RD3-seed01=1
| RD3-team01=Toledo
| RD3-score01=53
| RD3-seed02=4
| RD3-team02='''Miami (Ohio)'''
| RD3-score02=58
| RD3-seed03=2
| RD3-team03='''Akron'''
| RD3-score03=61
| RD3-seed04=3
| RD3-team04=Kent State
| RD3-score04=54
| RD4-seed01=4
| RD4-team01='''Miami (Ohio)'''
| RD4-score01=53
| RD4-seed02=2
| RD4-team02=Akron
| RD4-score02=52
}}
<small>First round games held at campus sites of higher seeds<br/>
Quarterfinals, semifinals, and final held at [[w:Quicken Loans Arena|Quicken Loans Arena]], Cleveland, OH
[[Category:No publish]] | First round games held at campus sites of higher seeds
Quarterfinals, semifinals, and final held at Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 61796 | 1250254 | "2011-06-25T00:36:08Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61796 | 2007 Mid-Con Tournament | {{3RoundBracket
| RD1='''Quarterfinals'''<br/>Saturday, March 3/Sunday, March 4
| RD2='''Semifinals'''<br/>Monday, March 5
| RD3='''Final'''<br/>Tuesday, March 6
| group1=
| group2=
| score-width=2em
| team-width=12em
| RD1-seed1=1
| RD1-team1='''Oral Roberts'''
| RD1-score1=79
| RD1-seed2=8
| RD1-team2=Centenary
| RD1-score2=59
| RD1-seed3=4
| RD1-team3='''IUPUI'''
| RD1-score3=70
| RD1-seed4=5
| RD1-team4=Southern Utah
| RD1-score4=59
| RD1-seed5=2
| RD1-team5='''Oakland (Michigan)'''
| RD1-score5=74
| RD1-seed6=7
| RD1-team6=Western Illinois
| RD1-score6=57
| RD1-seed7=3
| RD1-team7=Valparaiso
| RD1-score7=76
| RD1-seed8=6
| RD1-team8='''UM-Kansas City'''
| RD1-score8=84
| RD2-seed1=1
| RD2-team1='''Oral Roberts'''
| RD2-score1=75
| RD2-seed2=4
| RD2-team2=IUPUI
| RD2-score2=55
| RD2-seed3=2
| RD2-team3='''Oakland (Michigan)'''
| RD2-score3=83
| RD2-seed4=6
| RD2-team4=UM-Kansas City
| RD2-score4=79
| RD3-seed1=1
| RD3-team1='''Oral Roberts'''
| RD3-score1=71
| RD3-seed2=2
| RD3-team2=Oakland (Michigan)
| RD3-score2=67
}}
<small>All games held at [[w:John Q. Hammons Arena|John Q. Hammons Arena]], Tulsa, OK
[[Category:No publish]] | All games held at John Q. Hammons Arena, Tulsa, OK | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 61797 | 1250255 | "2011-06-25T00:36:38Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61797 | 2007 MEAC Tournament | {{4RoundBracket-Byes
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>Tuesday, March 6/Wednesday, March 7
| RD2='''Quarterfinals'''<br/>Wednesday, March 7/Thursday, March 8
| RD3='''Semifinals'''<br/>Friday, March 9
| RD4='''Final'''<br/>Saturday, March 10
| group1=
| group2=
| RD1-seed01=
| RD1-team01=
| RD1-score01=
| RD1-seed02=
| RD1-team02=
| RD1-score02=
| RD1-seed03=8
| RD1-team03='''Coppin State'''
| RD1-score03=56
| RD1-seed04=9
| RD1-team04=Bethune-Cookman
| RD1-score04=44
| RD1-seed05=
| RD1-team05=
| RD1-score05=
| RD1-seed06=
| RD1-team06=
| RD1-score06=
| RD1-seed07=
| RD1-team07=
| RD1-score07=
| RD1-seed08=
| RD1-team08=
| RD1-score08=
| RD1-seed09=
| RD1-team09=
| RD1-score09=
| RD1-seed10=
| RD1-team10=
| RD1-score10=
| RD1-seed11=7
| RD1-team11='''Hampton'''
| RD1-score11=76
| RD1-seed12=10
| RD1-team12=Howard
| RD1-score12=61
| RD1-seed13=
| RD1-team13=
| RD1-score13=
| RD1-seed14=
| RD1-team14=
| RD1-score14=
| RD1-seed15=6
| RD1-team15='''Norfolk State'''
| RD1-score15=81
| RD1-seed16=11
| RD1-team16=UM-Eastern Shore
| RD1-score16=70
| RD2-seed01=1
| RD2-team01='''Delaware State'''
| RD2-score01=68
| RD2-seed02=8
| RD2-team02=Coppin State
| RD2-score02=49
| RD2-seed03=4
| RD2-team03=South Carolina State
| RD2-score03=64
| RD2-seed04=5
| RD2-team04='''Morgan State'''
| RD2-score04=66*
| RD2-seed05=2
| RD2-team05='''Florida A&M'''
| RD2-score05=61
| RD2-seed06=7
| RD2-team06=Hampton
| RD2-score06=58
| RD2-seed07=3
| RD2-team07='''North Carolina A&T'''
| RD2-score07=81
| RD2-seed08=6
| RD2-team08=Norfolk State
| RD2-score08=66
| RD3-seed01=1
| RD3-team01='''Delaware State'''
| RD3-score01=56
| RD3-seed02=5
| RD3-team02=Morgan State
| RD3-score02=53*
| RD3-seed03=2
| RD3-team03='''Florida A&M'''
| RD3-score03=74
| RD3-seed04=3
| RD3-team04=North Carolina A&T
| RD3-score04=66
| RD4-seed01=1
| RD4-team01=Delaware State
| RD4-score01=56
| RD4-seed02=2
| RD4-team02='''Florida A&M'''
| RD4-score02=58
}}
<small>All games held at [[w:RBC Center|RBC Center]], Raleigh, NC<br/>* - Overtime</small>
[[Category:No publish]] | All games held at RBC Center, Raleigh, NC* - Overtime | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 61798 | 1250258 | "2011-06-25T00:37:59Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61798 | 2007 MWC Tournament | {{4RoundBracket-Byes
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>Tuesday, March 6
| RD2='''Quarterfinals'''<br/>Thursday, March 8
| RD3='''Semifinals'''<br/>Friday, March 9
| RD4='''Final'''<br/>Saturday, March 10
| group1=
| group2=
| RD1-seed01=
| RD1-team01=
| RD1-score01=
| RD1-seed02=
| RD1-team02=
| RD1-score02=
| RD1-seed03=8
| RD1-team03='''Texas Christian'''
| RD1-score03=62
| RD1-seed04=9
| RD1-team04=New Mexico
| RD1-score04=54
| RD1-seed05=
| RD1-team05=
| RD1-score05=
| RD1-seed06=
| RD1-team06=
| RD1-score06=
| RD1-seed07=
| RD1-team07=
| RD1-score07=
| RD1-seed08=
| RD1-team08=
| RD1-score08=
| RD1-seed09=
| RD1-team09=
| RD1-score09=
| RD1-seed10=
| RD1-team10=
| RD1-score10=
| RD1-seed11=
| RD1-team11=
| RD1-score11=
| RD1-seed12=
| RD1-team12=
| RD1-score12=
| RD1-seed13=
| RD1-team13=
| RD1-score13=
| RD1-seed14=
| RD1-team14=
| RD1-score14=
| RD1-seed15=
| RD1-team15=
| RD1-score15=
| RD1-seed16=
| RD1-team16=
| RD1-score16=
| RD2-seed01=1
| RD2-team01='''Brigham Young'''
| RD2-score01=77
| RD2-seed02=8
| RD2-team02=Texas Christian
| RD2-score02=64
| RD2-seed03=4
| RD2-team03=Air Force
| RD2-score03=62
| RD2-seed04=5
| RD2-team04='''Wyoming'''
| RD2-score04=67
| RD2-seed05=2
| RD2-team05='''UN-Las Vegas'''
| RD2-score05=80
| RD2-seed06=7
| RD2-team06=Utah
| RD2-score06=54
| RD2-seed07=3
| RD2-team07=San Diego State
| RD2-score07=64
| RD2-seed08=6
| RD2-team08='''Colorado State'''
| RD2-score08=69
| RD3-seed01=1
| RD3-team01='''Brigham Young'''
| RD3-score01=96
| RD3-seed02=5
| RD3-team02=Wyoming
| RD3-score02=84
| RD3-seed03=2
| RD3-team03='''UN-Las Vegas'''
| RD3-score03=88
| RD3-seed04=6
| RD3-team04=Colorado State
| RD3-score04=72
| RD4-seed01=1
| RD4-team01=Brigham Young
| RD4-score01=70
| RD4-seed02=2
| RD4-team02='''UN-Las Vegas'''
| RD4-score02=78
}}
<small>All games held at [[w:Thomas and Mack Center|Thomas and Mack Center]], Las Vegas, NV
[[Category:No publish]] | All games held at Thomas and Mack Center, Las Vegas, NV | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 61799 | 1250259 | "2011-06-25T00:38:29Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61799 | 2007 NEC Tournament | {{3RoundBracket
| RD1='''Quarterfinals'''<br/>Thursday, March 1
| RD2='''Semifinals'''<br/>Sunday, March 4
| RD3='''Final'''<br/>Wednesday, March 7
| group1=
| group2=
| score-width=2em
| team-width=13em
| RD1-seed1=1
| RD1-team1='''Central Connecticut State'''
| RD1-score1=79
| RD1-seed2=8
| RD1-team2=St. Francis (NY)
| RD1-score2=61
| RD1-seed3=4
| RD1-team3=Robert Morris
| RD1-score3=61
| RD1-seed4=5
| RD1-team4='''Mount St. Mary's'''
| RD1-score4=78
| RD1-seed5=2
| RD1-team5='''Sacred Heart'''
| RD1-score5=100
| RD1-seed6=7
| RD1-team6=Wagner
| RD1-score6=68
| RD1-seed7=3
| RD1-team7='''Quinnipiac'''
| RD1-score7=78
| RD1-seed8=6
| RD1-team8=Fairleigh Dickinson
| RD1-score8=77
| RD2-seed1=1
| RD2-team1='''Central Connecticut State'''
| RD2-score1=74
| RD2-seed2=4
| RD2-team2=Mount St. Mary's
| RD2-score2=68
| RD2-seed3=2
| RD2-team3='''Sacred Heart'''
| RD2-score3=83
| RD2-seed4=3
| RD2-team4=Quinnipiac
| RD2-score4=69
| RD3-seed1=1
| RD3-team1='''Central Connecticut State'''
| RD3-score1=74
| RD3-seed2=2
| RD3-team2=Sacred Heart
| RD3-score2=70
}}
<small>All games held at campus sites of higher seeds</small>
[[Category:No publish]] | All games held at campus sites of higher seeds | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 61800 | 1250261 | "2011-06-25T00:39:31Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61800 | 2007 Pac-10 Tournament | {{4RoundBracket-Byes
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>Wednesday, March 7
| RD2='''Quarterfinals'''<br/>Thursday, March 8
| RD3='''Semifinals'''<br/>Friday, March 9
| RD4='''Final'''<br/>Saturday, March 10
| group1=
| group2=
| RD1-seed01=
| RD1-team01=
| RD1-score01=
| RD1-seed02=
| RD1-team02=
| RD1-score02=
| RD1-seed03=8
| RD1-team03='''California'''
| RD1-score03=70
| RD1-seed04=9
| RD1-team04=Oregon State
| RD1-score04=51
| RD1-seed05=
| RD1-team05=
| RD1-score05=
| RD1-seed06=
| RD1-team06=
| RD1-score06=
| RD1-seed07=
| RD1-team07=
| RD1-score07=
| RD1-seed08=
| RD1-team08=
| RD1-score08=
| RD1-seed09=
| RD1-team09=
| RD1-score09=
| RD1-seed10=
| RD1-team10=
| RD1-score10=
| RD1-seed11=7
| RD1-team11='''Washington'''
| RD1-score11=59
| RD1-seed12=10
| RD1-team12=Arizona State
| RD1-score12=51
| RD1-seed13=
| RD1-team13=
| RD1-score13=
| RD1-seed14=
| RD1-team14=
| RD1-score14=
| RD1-seed15=
| RD1-team15=
| RD1-score15=
| RD1-seed16=
| RD1-team16=
| RD1-score16=
| RD2-seed01=1
| RD2-team01=UC-Los Angeles
| RD2-score01=69
| RD2-seed02=8
| RD2-team02='''California'''
| RD2-score02=76*
| RD2-seed03=4
| RD2-team03='''Oregon'''
| RD2-score03=69
| RD2-seed04=5
| RD2-team04=Arizona
| RD2-score04=50
| RD2-seed05=2
| RD2-team05='''Washington State'''
| RD2-score05=74
| RD2-seed06=7
| RD2-team06=Washington
| RD2-score06=64
| RD2-seed07=3
| RD2-team07='''Southern California'''
| RD2-score07=83
| RD2-seed08=6
| RD2-team08=Stanford
| RD2-score08=79*
| RD3-seed01=8
| RD3-team01=California
| RD3-score01=63
| RD3-seed02=4
| RD3-team02='''Oregon'''
| RD3-score02=81
| RD3-seed03=2
| RD3-team03=Washington State
| RD3-score03=61
| RD3-seed04=3
| RD3-team04='''Southern California'''
| RD3-score04=70
| RD4-seed01=4
| RD4-team01='''Oregon'''
| RD4-score01=81
| RD4-seed02=3
| RD4-team02=Southern California
| RD4-score02=57
}}
<small>All games held at [[w:Staples Center|Staples Center]], Los Angeles, CA<br/>* - Overtime</small>
[[Category:No publish]] | All games held at Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA* - Overtime | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 61801 | 1250263 | "2011-06-25T00:40:15Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61801 | 2007 Patriot League Tournament | {{3RoundBracket
| RD1='''Quarterfinals'''<br/>Wednesday, February 28
| RD2='''Semifinals'''<br/>Sunday, March 4
| RD3='''Final'''<br/>Friday, March 9
| group1=
| group2=
| score-width=2em
| team-width=12em
| RD1-seed1=1
| RD1-team1='''Holy Cross'''
| RD1-score1=83
| RD1-seed2=8
| RD1-team2=Lafayette
| RD1-score2=53
| RD1-seed3=4
| RD1-team3='''American'''
| RD1-score3=59
| RD1-seed4=5
| RD1-team4=Colgate
| RD1-score4=44
| RD1-seed5=2
| RD1-team5='''Bucknell'''
| RD1-score5=62
| RD1-seed6=7
| RD1-team6=Navy
| RD1-score6=43
| RD1-seed7=3
| RD1-team7=Lehigh
| RD1-score7=46
| RD1-seed8=6
| RD1-team8='''Army'''
| RD1-score8=47
| RD2-seed1=1
| RD2-team1='''Holy Cross'''
| RD2-score1=55
| RD2-seed2=4
| RD2-team2=American
| RD2-score2=53
| RD2-seed3=2
| RD2-team3='''Bucknell'''
| RD2-score3=68
| RD2-seed4=6
| RD2-team4=Army
| RD2-score4=47
| RD3-seed1=1
| RD3-team1='''Holy Cross'''
| RD3-score1=74
| RD3-seed2=2
| RD3-team2=Bucknell
| RD3-score2=66
}}
<small>All games held at campus sites of higher seeds</small>
[[Category:No publish]] | All games held at campus sites of higher seeds | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 61802 | 1250264 | "2011-06-25T00:41:25Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61802 | 2007 SEC Tournament | {{4RoundBracket-Byes
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>Thursday, March 8
| RD2='''Quarterfinals'''<br/>Friday, March 9
| RD3='''Semifinals'''<br/>Saturday, March 10
| RD4='''Final'''<br/>Sunday, March 11
| group1=
| group2=
| RD1-seed01=
| RD1-team01=
| RD1-score01=
| RD1-seed02=
| RD1-team02=
| RD1-score02=
| RD1-seed03=E4
| RD1-team03='''Kentucky'''
| RD1-score03=79
| RD1-seed04=W5
| RD1-team04=Alabama
| RD1-score04=67
| RD1-seed05=
| RD1-team05=
| RD1-score05=
| RD1-seed06=
| RD1-team06=
| RD1-score06=
| RD1-seed07=W3
| RD1-team07='''Arkansas'''
| RD1-score07=82
| RD1-seed08=E6
| RD1-team08=South Carolina
| RD1-score08=52
| RD1-seed09=
| RD1-team09=
| RD1-score09=
| RD1-seed10=
| RD1-team10=
| RD1-score10=
| RD1-seed11=W4
| RD1-team11=Auburn
| RD1-score11=65
| RD1-seed12=E5
| RD1-team12='''Georgia'''
| RD1-score12=80
| RD1-seed13=
| RD1-team13=
| RD1-score13=
| RD1-seed14=
| RD1-team14=
| RD1-score14=
| RD1-seed15=E3
| RD1-team15=Tennessee
| RD1-score15=67
| RD1-seed16=W6
| RD1-team16='''Louisiana State'''
| RD1-score16=76*
| RD2-seed01=W1
| RD2-team01='''Mississippi State'''
| RD2-score01=84
| RD2-seed02=E4
| RD2-team02=Kentucky
| RD2-score02=82*
| RD2-seed03=E2
| RD2-team03=Vanderbilt
| RD2-score03=71
| RD2-seed04=W3
| RD2-team04='''Arkansas'''
| RD2-score04=72
| RD2-seed05=E1
| RD2-team05='''Florida'''
| RD2-score05=74
| RD2-seed06=E5
| RD2-team06=Georgia
| RD2-score06=57
| RD2-seed07=W2
| RD2-team07='''Mississippi'''
| RD2-score07=80
| RD2-seed08=W6
| RD2-team08=Louisiana State
| RD2-score08=60
| RD3-seed01=W1
| RD3-team01=Mississippi State
| RD3-score01=72
| RD3-seed02=W3
| RD3-team02='''Arkansas'''
| RD3-score02=81
| RD3-seed03=E1
| RD3-team03='''Florida'''
| RD3-score03=80
| RD3-seed04=W2
| RD3-team04=Mississippi
| RD3-score04=59
| RD4-seed01=W3
| RD4-team01=Arkansas
| RD4-score01=56
| RD4-seed02=E1
| RD4-team02='''Florida'''
| RD4-score02=77
}}
<small>All games held at [[w:Georgia Dome|Georgia Dome]], Atlanta, GA<br/>* - Overtime</small>
[[Category:No publish]] | All games held at Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA* - Overtime | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 61803 | 1250266 | "2011-06-25T00:42:52Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61803 | 2007 Southland Tournament | {{3RoundBracket
| RD1='''Quarterfinals'''<br/>Thursday, March 8
| RD2='''Semifinals'''<br/>Friday, March 9
| RD3='''Final'''<br/>Sunday, March 11
| group1=
| group2=
| score-width=2em
| team-width=14em
| RD1-seed1=1
| RD1-team1='''Texas A&M-Corpus Christi'''
| RD1-score1=80
| RD1-seed2=8
| RD1-team2=Southeastern Louisiana
| RD1-score2=72
| RD1-seed3=4
| RD1-team3='''McNeese State'''
| RD1-score3=77
| RD1-seed4=5
| RD1-team4=UT-Arlington
| RD1-score4=76
| RD1-seed5=2
| RD1-team5=Sam Houston State
| RD1-score5=98
| RD1-seed6=7
| RD1-team6='''Lamar'''
| RD1-score6=99
| RD1-seed7=3
| RD1-team7='''Northwestern State'''
| RD1-score7=85
| RD1-seed8=6
| RD1-team8=Stephen F. Austin
| RD1-score8=76
| RD2-seed1=1
| RD2-team1='''Texas A&M-Corpus Christi'''
| RD2-score1=87
| RD2-seed2=4
| RD2-team2=McNeese State
| RD2-score2=66
| RD2-seed3=7
| RD2-team3=Lamar
| RD2-score3=65
| RD2-seed4=3
| RD2-team4='''Northwestern State'''
| RD2-score4=78
| RD3-seed1=1
| RD3-team1='''Texas A&M-Corpus Christi'''
| RD3-score1=81
| RD3-seed2=3
| RD3-team2=Northwestern State
| RD3-score2=78
}}
<small>All games held at [[w:Campbell Center|Campbell Center]], Houston, TX
[[Category:No publish]] | All games held at Campbell Center, Houston, TX | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 61805 | 1250268 | "2011-06-25T00:44:27Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61805 | 2007 Sun Belt Tournament | {{4RoundBracket-Byes
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>Wednesday, February 28
| RD2='''Quarterfinals'''<br/>Sunday, March 4
| RD3='''Semifinals'''<br/>Monday, March 5
| RD4='''Final'''<br/>Tuesday, March 6
| group1=
| group2=
| RD1-seed01=
| RD1-team01=
| RD1-score01=
| RD1-seed02=
| RD1-team02=
| RD1-score02=
| RD1-seed03=8
| RD1-team03=Troy State
| RD1-score03=64
| RD1-seed04=9
| RD1-team04='''Middle Tennessee State'''
| RD1-score04=72
| RD1-seed05=4
| RD1-team05='''UL-Monroe'''
| RD1-score05=83
| RD1-seed06=13
| RD1-team06=Denver
| RD1-score06=67
| RD1-seed07=5
| RD1-team07='''North Texas'''
| RD1-score07=93
| RD1-seed08=12
| RD1-team08=UL-Lafayette
| RD1-score08=78
| RD1-seed09=
| RD1-team09=
| RD1-score09=
| RD1-seed10=
| RD1-team10=
| RD1-score10=
| RD1-seed11=7
| RD1-team11='''New Orleans'''
| RD1-score11=77
| RD1-seed12=10
| RD1-team12=UA-Little Rock
| RD1-score12=70
| RD1-seed13=
| RD1-team13=
| RD1-score13=
| RD1-seed14=
| RD1-team14=
| RD1-score14=
| RD1-seed15=6
| RD1-team15='''Florida Atlantic'''
| RD1-score15=91
| RD1-seed16=11
| RD1-team16=Florida International
| RD1-score16=88<nowiki>*</nowiki>
| RD2-seed01=1
| RD2-team01=South Alabama
| RD2-score01=60
| RD2-seed02=9
| RD2-team02='''Middle Tennessee State'''
| RD2-score02=63<nowiki>*</nowiki>
| RD2-seed03=4
| RD2-team03=UL-Monroe
| RD2-score03=71
| RD2-seed04=5
| RD2-team04='''North Texas'''
| RD2-score04=77<nowiki>*</nowiki>
| RD2-seed05=2
| RD2-team05='''Arkansas State'''
| RD2-score05=81
| RD2-seed06=7
| RD2-team06=New Orleans
| RD2-score06=74
| RD2-seed07=3
| RD2-team07='''Western Kentucky'''
| RD2-score07=86
| RD2-seed08=6
| RD2-team08=Florida Atlantic
| RD2-score08=81
| RD3-seed01=9
| RD3-team01=Middle Tennessee State
| RD3-score01=52
| RD3-seed02=5
| RD3-team02='''North Texas'''
| RD3-score02=59
| RD3-seed03=2
| RD3-team03='''Arkansas State'''
| RD3-score03=80
| RD3-seed04=3
| RD3-team04=Western Kentucky
| RD3-score04=73
| RD4-seed01=5
| RD4-team01='''North Texas'''
| RD4-score01=83
| RD4-seed02=2
| RD4-team02=Arkansas State
| RD4-score02=75
}}
<small>First round games at campus sites of higher seeds<br/>
Quarterfinals, semifinals, and final at [[w:Cajundome|Cajundome]], Lafayette, LA
[[Category:No publish]] | First round games at campus sites of higher seeds
Quarterfinals, semifinals, and final at Cajundome, Lafayette, LA | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 61806 | 1250271 | "2011-06-25T00:45:35Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61806 | 2007 WCC Tournament | {{4RoundBracket-Byes
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>Friday, March 2
| RD2='''Second Round'''<br/>Saturday, March 3
| RD3='''Semifinals'''<br/>Sunday, March 4
| RD4='''Final'''<br/>Monday, March 5
| group1=
| group2=
| RD1-seed01=
| RD1-team01=
| RD1-score01=
| RD1-seed02=
| RD1-team02=
| RD1-score02=
| RD1-seed03=
| RD1-team03=
| RD1-score03=
| RD1-seed04=
| RD1-team04=
| RD1-score04=
| RD1-seed05=
| RD1-team05=
| RD1-score05=
| RD1-seed06=
| RD1-team06=
| RD1-score06=
| RD1-seed07=5
| RD1-team07='''San Diego'''
| RD1-score07=95
| RD1-seed08=8
| RD1-team08=Pepperdine
| RD1-score08=82
| RD1-seed09=
| RD1-team09=
| RD1-score09=
| RD1-seed10=
| RD1-team10=
| RD1-score10=
| RD1-seed11=
| RD1-team11=
| RD1-score11=
| RD1-seed12=
| RD1-team12=
| RD1-score12=
| RD1-seed13=
| RD1-team13=
| RD1-score13=
| RD1-seed14=
| RD1-team14=
| RD1-score14=
| RD1-seed15=6
| RD1-team15=Loyola Marymount
| RD1-score15=41
| RD1-seed16=7
| RD1-team16='''Portland'''
| RD1-score16=55
| RD2-seed01=1
| RD2-team01='''Gonzaga'''
| RD2-score01=
| RD2-seed02=
| RD2-team02=(Bye)
| RD2-score02=
| RD2-seed03=4
| RD2-team03=San Francisco
| RD2-score03=75
| RD2-seed04=5
| RD2-team04='''San Diego'''
| RD2-score04=77
| RD2-seed05=2
| RD2-team05='''Santa Clara'''
| RD2-score05=
| RD2-seed06=
| RD2-team06=(Bye)
| RD2-score06=
| RD2-seed07=3
| RD2-team07='''St. Mary's'''
| RD2-score07=87
| RD2-seed08=7
| RD2-team08=Portland
| RD2-score08=47
| RD3-seed01=1
| RD3-team01='''Gonzaga'''
| RD3-score01=88
| RD3-seed02=5
| RD3-team02=San Diego
| RD3-score02=70
| RD3-seed03=2
| RD3-team03='''Santa Clara'''
| RD3-score03=63
| RD3-seed04=3
| RD3-team04=St. Mary's
| RD3-score04=47
| RD4-seed01=1
| RD4-team01='''Gonzaga'''
| RD4-score01=77
| RD4-seed02=2
| RD4-team02=Santa Clara
| RD4-score02=68
}}
<small>All games held at [[w:Chiles Center|Chiles Center]], Portland, OR
[[Category:No publish]] | All games held at Chiles Center, Portland, OR | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 61807 | 1250272 | "2011-06-25T00:45:55Z" | 2,011 | 6 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=61807 | 2007 WAC Tournament | {{4RoundBracket-Byes
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>Tuesday, March 6
| RD2='''Quarterfinals'''<br/>Thursday, March 8
| RD3='''Semifinals'''<br/>Friday, March 9
| RD4='''Final'''<br/>Saturday, March 10
| group1=
| group2=
| RD1-seed01=
| RD1-team01=
| RD1-score01=
| RD1-seed02=
| RD1-team02=
| RD1-score02=
| RD1-seed03=8
| RD1-team03=San Jose State
| RD1-score03=49
| RD1-seed04=9
| RD1-team04='''Idaho'''
| RD1-score04=50
| RD1-seed05=
| RD1-team05=
| RD1-score05=
| RD1-seed06=
| RD1-team06=
| RD1-score06=
| RD1-seed07=
| RD1-team07=
| RD1-score07=
| RD1-seed08=
| RD1-team08=
| RD1-score08=
| RD1-seed09=
| RD1-team09=
| RD1-score09=
| RD1-seed10=
| RD1-team10=
| RD1-score10=
| RD1-seed11=
| RD1-team11=
| RD1-score11=
| RD1-seed12=
| RD1-team12=
| RD1-score12=
| RD1-seed13=
| RD1-team13=
| RD1-score13=
| RD1-seed14=
| RD1-team14=
| RD1-score14=
| RD1-seed15=
| RD1-team15=
| RD1-score15=
| RD1-seed16=
| RD1-team16=
| RD1-score16=
| RD2-seed01=1
| RD2-team01='''Nevada'''
| RD2-score01=88
| RD2-seed02=9
| RD2-team02=Idaho
| RD2-score02=56
| RD2-seed03=4
| RD2-team03='''Utah State'''
| RD2-score03=73
| RD2-seed04=5
| RD2-team04=Hawaii
| RD2-score04=70
| RD2-seed05=2
| RD2-team05='''New Mexico State'''
| RD2-score05=77
| RD2-seed06=7
| RD2-team06=Louisiana Tech
| RD2-score06=70
| RD2-seed07=3
| RD2-team07=Fresno State
| RD2-score07=73
| RD2-seed08=6
| RD2-team08='''Boise State'''
| RD2-score08=77
| RD3-seed01=1
| RD3-team01=Nevada
| RD3-score01=77
| RD3-seed02=4
| RD3-team02='''Utah State'''
| RD3-score02=79
| RD3-seed03=2
| RD3-team03='''New Mexico State'''
| RD3-score03=88
| RD3-seed04=6
| RD3-team04=Boise State
| RD3-score04=69
| RD4-seed01=4
| RD4-team01=Utah State
| RD4-score01=70
| RD4-seed02=2
| RD4-team02='''New Mexico State'''
| RD4-score02=72
}}
<small>First round game held at campus site of higher seed<br/>
Quarterfinals, semifinals, and final held at [[w:Pan American Center|Pan American Center]], Las Cruces, NM
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== Midwest Regional - [[w:St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis, Missouri]] ==
{{16TeamBracket
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>March 15/16
| RD2='''Second Round'''<br/>March 17/18
| RD3='''Regional Semifinals'''<br/>March 23
| RD4='''Regional Final'''<br/>March 25
| group1=[[w:New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans, LA]] - March 16/18
| group2=[[w:Buffalo, New York|Buffalo, NY]] - March 15/17
| group3=[[w:Chicago, Illinois|Chicago, IL]] - March 16/18
| group4=[[w:Spokane, Washington|Spokane, WA]] - March 16/18
| group5=[[w:Edward Jones Dome|Edward Jones Dome]] - [[w:St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis, MO]]
| RD1-seed01=1
| RD1-team01='''[[Florida]]''' (29-5)
| RD1-score01=112
| RD1-seed02=16
| RD1-team02=Jackson State (21-13)
| RD1-score02=69
| RD1-seed03=8
| RD1-team03=[[Arizona]] (20-10)
| RD1-score03=63
| RD1-seed04=9
| RD1-team04='''[[w:Purdue|Purdue]]''' (21-11)
| RD1-score04=72
| RD1-seed05=4
| RD1-team05='''[[Maryland]]''' (24-8)
| RD1-score05=82
| RD1-seed06=13
| RD1-team06=[[w:Davidson|Davidson]] (29-4)
| RD1-score06=70
| RD1-seed07=5
| RD1-team07='''Butler''' (27-6)
| RD1-score07=57
| RD1-seed08=12
| RD1-team08=Old Dominion (24-8)
| RD1-score08=46
| RD1-seed09=2
| RD1-team09='''Wisconsin''' (29-5)
| RD1-score09=76
| RD1-seed10=15
| RD1-team10=TAMU-Corpus Christi (26-6)
| RD1-score10=63
| RD1-seed11=7
| RD1-team11='''UN-Las Vegas''' (28-6)
| RD1-score11=67
| RD1-seed12=10
| RD1-team12=Georgia Tech (20-11)
| RD1-score12=63
| RD1-seed13=3
| RD1-team13='''Oregon''' (26-7)
| RD1-score13=58
| RD1-seed14=14
| RD1-team14=Miami University (Ohio) (18-14)
| RD1-score14=56
| RD1-seed15=6
| RD1-team15=Notre Dame (24-7)
| RD1-score15=64
| RD1-seed16=11
| RD1-team16='''Winthrop''' (28-4)
| RD1-score16=74
| RD2-seed01=1
| RD2-team01='''Florida''' (29-5)
| RD2-score01=74
| RD2-seed02=9
| RD2-team02=Purdue (21-11)
| RD2-score02=67
| RD2-seed03=4
| RD2-team03=Maryland (24-8)
| RD2-score03=59
| RD2-seed04=5
| RD2-team04='''Butler''' (27-6)
| RD2-score04=62
| RD2-seed05=7
| RD2-team05='''UN-Las Vegas''' (28-6)
| RD2-score05=74
| RD2-seed06=2
| RD2-team06=Wisconsin (29-5)
| RD2-score06=68
| RD2-seed07=3
| RD2-team07='''Oregon''' (26-7)
| RD2-score07=75
| RD2-seed08=11
| RD2-team08=Winthrop (28-4)
| RD2-score08=61
| RD3-seed01=1
| RD3-team01='''Florida (29-5)'''
| RD3-score01=65
| RD3-seed02=5
| RD3-team02=Butler (27-6)
| RD3-score02=57
| RD3-seed03=7
| RD3-team03=UN-Las Vegas (28-6)
| RD3-score03=72
| RD3-seed04=3
| RD3-team04='''Oregon (26-7)'''
| RD3-score04=76
| RD4-seed01=1
| RD4-team01='''Florida (29-5)'''
| RD4-score01=85
| RD4-seed02=3
| RD4-team02=Oregon (26-7)
| RD4-score02=77
}}
== West Regional - [[w:San Jose, California|San Jose, California]] ==
{{16TeamBracket
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>March 15/16
| RD2='''Second Round'''<br/>March 17/18
| RD3='''Regional Semfinals'''<br/>March 22
| RD4='''Regional Final'''<br/>March 24
| group1=[[w:Chicago, Illinois|Chicago, IL]] - March 16/18
| group2=[[w:Columbus, Ohio|Columbus, OH]] - March 16/18
| group3=[[w:Sacramento, California|Sacramento, CA]] - March 15/17
| group4=[[w:Buffalo, New York|Buffalo, NY]] - March 15/17
| group5=[[w:HP Pavilion|HP Pavilion]] - [[w:San Jose, California|San Jose, CA]]
| RD1-seed01=1
| RD1-team01='''Kansas''' (30-4)
| RD1-score01=107
| RD1-seed02=16
| RD1-team02=Niagara (23-11)
| RD1-score02=67
| RD1-seed03=8
| RD1-team03='''Kentucky''' (21-11)
| RD1-score03=67
| RD1-seed04=9
| RD1-team04=Villanova (22-10)
| RD1-score04=58
| RD1-seed05=4
| RD1-team05='''Southern Illinois''' (27-6)
| RD1-score05=61
| RD1-seed06=13
| RD1-team06=Holy Cross (25-8)
| RD1-score06=51
| RD1-seed07=5
| RD1-team07='''Virginia Tech''' (21-11)
| RD1-score07=54
| RD1-seed08=12
| RD1-team08=Illinois (23-11)
| RD1-score08=52
| RD1-seed09=2
| RD1-team09='''UC-Los Angeles''' (26-5)
| RD1-score09=70
| RD1-seed10=15
| RD1-team10=Weber State (20-11)
| RD1-score10=42
| RD1-seed11=7
| RD1-team11='''Indiana''' (20-10)
| RD1-score11=70
| RD1-seed12=10
| RD1-team12=Gonzaga (23-10)
| RD1-score12=57
| RD1-seed13=3
| RD1-team13='''Pittsburgh''' (27-7)
| RD1-score13=79
| RD1-seed14=14
| RD1-team14=Wright State (23-9)
| RD1-score14=58
| RD1-seed15=6
| RD1-team15=Duke (22-10)
| RD1-score15=77
| RD1-seed16=11
| RD1-team16='''Virginia Commonwealth''' (27-6)
| RD1-score16=79
| RD2-seed01=1
| RD2-team01='''Kansas''' (30-4)
| RD2-score01=88
| RD2-seed02=8
| RD2-team02=Kentucky (21-11)
| RD2-score02=76
| RD2-seed03=5
| RD2-team03=Virginia Tech (21-11)
| RD2-score03=48
| RD2-seed04=4
| RD2-team04='''Southern Illinois''' (27-6)
| RD2-score04=63
| RD2-seed05=2
| RD2-team05='''UC-Los Angeles''' (27-5)
| RD2-score05=54
| RD2-seed06=7
| RD2-team06=Indiana (21-10)
| RD2-score06=49
| RD2-seed07=3
| RD2-team07='''Pittsburgh''' (28-7)
| RD2-score07=84
| RD2-seed08=11
| RD2-team08=Virginia Commonwealth (28-6)
| RD2-score08=79
| RD3-seed01=1
| RD3-team01='''Kansas (30-4)'''
| RD3-score01=61
| RD3-seed02=4
| RD3-team02=Southern Illinois (27-6)
| RD3-score02=58
| RD3-seed03=2
| RD3-team03='''UC-Los Angeles (27-5)'''
| RD3-score03=64
| RD3-seed04=3
| RD3-team04=Pittsburgh (28-7)
| RD3-score04=55
| RD4-seed01=1
| RD4-team01=Kansas (30-4)
| RD4-score01=55
| RD4-seed02=2
| RD4-team02='''UC-Los Angeles (27-5)'''
| RD4-score02=68
}}
<small>Opening Round game: Niagara 77, Florida A&M 69 (March 13, 2007 @ [[w:Dayton, Ohio|Dayton, OH]])</small>
== East Regional - [[w:East Rutherford, New Jersey|East Rutherford, New Jersey]] ==
{{16TeamBracket
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>March 15/16
| RD2='''Second Round'''<br/>March 17/18
| RD3='''Regional Semifinals'''<br/>March 23
| RD4='''Regional Final'''<br/>March 25
| group1=[[w:Winston-Salem, North Carolina|Winston-Salem, NC]] - March 15/17
| group2=[[w:Spokane, Washington|Spokane, WA]] - March 16/18
| group3=[[w:Winston-Salem, North Carolina|Winston-Salem, NC]] - March 15/17
| group4=[[w:Sacramento, California|Sacramento, CA]] - March 15/17
| group5=[[w:Continental Airlines Arena|Continental Airlines Arena]] - [[w:East Rutherford, New Jersey|East Rutherford, NJ]]
| RD1-seed01=1
| RD1-team01='''North Carolina''' (28-6)
| RD1-score01=86
| RD1-seed02=16
| RD1-team02=Eastern Kentucky (21-11)
| RD1-score02=65
| RD1-seed03=8
| RD1-team03=Marquette (24-9)
| RD1-score03=49
| RD1-seed04=9
| RD1-team04='''Michigan State''' (22-11)
| RD1-score04=61
| RD1-seed05=4
| RD1-team05='''Texas''' (24-9)
| RD1-score05=79
| RD1-seed06=13
| RD1-team06=New Mexico State (25-8)
| RD1-score06=67
| RD1-seed07=5
| RD1-team07='''Southern California''' (23-11)
| RD1-score07=77
| RD1-seed08=12
| RD1-team08=Arkansas (21-13)
| RD1-score08=60
| RD1-seed09=2
| RD1-team09='''Georgetown''' (26-6)
| RD1-score09=80
| RD1-seed10=15
| RD1-team10=Belmont (23-9)
| RD1-score10=55
| RD1-seed11=7
| RD1-team11='''Boston College''' (20-11)
| RD1-score11=84
| RD1-seed12=10
| RD1-team12=Texas Tech (21-12)
| RD1-score12=75
| RD1-seed13=3
| RD1-team13='''Washington State''' (25-7)
| RD1-score13=70
| RD1-seed14=14
| RD1-team14=Oral Roberts (23-10)
| RD1-score14=54
| RD1-seed15=6
| RD1-team15='''Vanderbilt''' (20-11)
| RD1-score15=77
| RD1-seed16=11
| RD1-team16=George Washington (23-8)
| RD1-score16=44
| RD2-seed01=1
| RD2-team01='''North Carolina''' (29-6)
| RD2-score01=81
| RD2-seed02=9
| RD2-team02=Michigan State (23-11)
| RD2-score02=67
| RD2-seed03=5
| RD2-team03='''Southern California''' (23-11)
| RD2-score03=87
| RD2-seed04=4
| RD2-team04=Texas (24-9)
| RD2-score04=68
| RD2-seed05=2
| RD2-team05='''Georgetown''' (27-6)
| RD2-score05=62
| RD2-seed06=7
| RD2-team06=Boston College (21-11)
| RD2-score06=55
| RD2-seed07=3
| RD2-team07=Washington State (26-7)
| RD2-score07=74
| RD2-seed08=6
| RD2-team08='''Vanderbilt''' (21-11)
| RD2-score08=78
| RD3-seed01=1
| RD3-team01='''North Carolina''' (29-6)
| RD3-score01=74
| RD3-seed02=5
| RD3-team02=Southern California (23-11)
| RD3-score02=64
| RD3-seed03=2
| RD3-team03='''Georgetown''' (27-6)
| RD3-score03=66
| RD3-seed04=6
| RD3-team04=Vanderbilt (20-11)
| RD3-score04=65
| RD4-seed01=1
| RD4-team01=North Carolina (29-6)
| RD4-score01=84
| RD4-seed02=2
| RD4-team02='''Georgetown''' (27-6)
| RD4-score02=96
}}
== South Regional - [[w:San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio, Texas]] ==
{{16TeamBracket
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>March 15/16
| RD2='''Second Round'''<br/>March 17/18
| RD3='''Regional Semifinals'''<br/>March 22
| RD4='''Regional Final'''<br/>March 24
| group1=[[w:Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington, KY]] - March 15/17
| group2=[[w:Columbus, Ohio|Columbus, OH]] - March 16/18
| group3=[[w:New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans, LA]] - March 16/18
| group4=[[w:Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington, KY]] - March 15/17
| group5=[[w:Alamodome|Alamodome]] - [[w:San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio, TX]]
| RD1-seed01=1
| RD1-team01='''Ohio State''' (30-3)
| RD1-score01=78
| RD1-seed02=16
| RD1-team02=Central Connecticut State (22-11)
| RD1-score02=57
| RD1-seed03=8
| RD1-team03=Brigham Young (25-8)
| RD1-score03=77
| RD1-seed04=9
| RD1-team04='''Xavier''' (24-8)
| RD1-score04=79
| RD1-seed05=4
| RD1-team05='''Virginia''' (20-10)
| RD1-score05=84
| RD1-seed06=13
| RD1-team06=Albany (23-9)
| RD1-score06=57
| RD1-seed07=5
| RD1-team07='''Tennessee''' (22-10)
| RD1-score07=121
| RD1-seed08=12
| RD1-team08=Long Beach State (24-7)
| RD1-score08=86
| RD1-seed09=2
| RD1-team09='''Memphis''' (30-3)
| RD1-score09=73
| RD1-seed10=15
| RD1-team10=North Texas (23-10)
| RD1-score10=58
| RD1-seed11=7
| RD1-team11='''Nevada''' (28-4)
| RD1-score11=77
| RD1-seed12=10
| RD1-team12=Creighton (22-10)
| RD1-score12=71
| RD1-seed13=3
| RD1-team13='''Texas A&M''' (25-6)
| RD1-score13=68
| RD1-seed14=14
| RD1-team14=Pennsylvania (22-8)
| RD1-score14=52
| RD1-seed15=6
| RD1-team15='''Louisville''' (23-9)
| RD1-score15=78
| RD1-seed16=11
| RD1-team16=Stanford (18-12)
| RD1-score16=58
| RD2-seed01=1
| RD2-team01='''Ohio State''' (31-3)
| RD2-score01=78
| RD2-seed02=9
| RD2-team02=Xavier (25-8)
| RD2-score02=71
| RD2-seed03=5
| RD2-team03='''Tennessee''' (22-10)
| RD2-score03=77
| RD2-seed04=4
| RD2-team04=Virginia
| RD2-score04=74
| RD2-seed05=2
| RD2-team05='''Memphis''' (30-3)
| RD2-score05=78
| RD2-seed06=7
| RD2-team06=Nevada (28-4)
| RD2-score06=62
| RD2-seed07=3
| RD2-team07='''Texas A&M''' (26-6)
| RD2-score07=72
| RD2-seed08=6
| RD2-team08=Louisville (24-9)
| RD2-score08=69
| RD3-seed01=1
| RD3-team01='''Ohio State (31-3)'''
| RD3-score01=85
| RD3-seed02=5
| RD3-team02=Tennessee (22-10)
| RD3-score02=84
| RD3-seed03=2
| RD3-team03='''Memphis (30-3)'''
| RD3-score03=65
| RD3-seed04=3
| RD3-team04=Texas A&M (26-6)
| RD3-score04=64
| RD4-seed01=1
| RD4-team01='''Ohio State (31-3)'''
| RD4-score01=92
| RD4-seed02=2
| RD4-team02=Memphis (30-3)
| RD4-score02=76
}}
== Final Four - [[w:Georgia Dome|Georgia Dome]], [[w:Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta, Georgia]] ==
{{4TeamBracket | RD1=National Semifinals<br/>March 31
| RD2=National Championship<br/>April 2
| RD1-seed1=W2
| RD1-team1= UC-Los Angeles (27-5)
| RD1-score1=66
| RD1-seed2=MW1
| RD1-team2= '''Florida''' (29-5)
| RD1-score2=76
| RD1-seed3=S1
| RD1-team3= '''Ohio State''' (31-3)
| RD1-score3=67
| RD1-seed4=E2
| RD1-team4= Georgetown (27-6)
| RD1-score4=60
| RD2-seed1=MW1
| RD2-team1= '''Florida''' (29-5)
| RD2-score1=84
| RD2-seed2=S1
| RD2-team2= Ohio State (31-3)
| RD2-score2=75
}}
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[[Category:Virginia Commonwealth University]] | These are the complete brackets for the 2007 NCAA Men's Division I National Basketball Tournament. All games are played at neutral sites. The higher-seeded team is designated the home team on the scoreboard and in the official scorebook, and will wear white jerseys on the court for the game.
RD1-seed01=1
RD1-team01='Florida' (29-5)
RD1-score01=112
RD1-seed02=16
RD1-team02=Jackson State (21-13)
RD1-score02=69
RD1-seed03=8
RD1-team03=Arizona (20-10)
RD1-score03=63
RD1-seed04=9
RD1-team04='Purdue' (21-11)
RD1-score04=72
RD1-seed05=4
RD1-team05='Maryland' (24-8)
RD1-score05=82
RD1-seed06=13
RD1-team06=Davidson (29-4)
RD1-score06=70
RD1-seed07=5
RD1-team07='Butler' (27-6)
RD1-score07=57
RD1-seed08=12
RD1-team08=Old Dominion (24-8)
RD1-score08=46
RD1-seed09=2
RD1-team09='Wisconsin' (29-5)
RD1-score09=76
RD1-seed10=15
RD1-team10=TAMU-Corpus Christi (26-6)
RD1-score10=63
RD1-seed11=7
RD1-team11='UN-Las Vegas' (28-6)
RD1-score11=67
RD1-seed12=10
RD1-team12=Georgia Tech (20-11)
RD1-score12=63
RD1-seed13=3
RD1-team13='Oregon' (26-7)
RD1-score13=58
RD1-seed14=14
RD1-team14=Miami University (Ohio) (18-14)
RD1-score14=56
RD1-seed15=6
RD1-team15=Notre Dame (24-7)
RD1-score15=64
RD1-seed16=11
RD1-team16='Winthrop' (28-4)
RD1-score16=74
RD2-seed01=1
RD2-team01='Florida' (29-5)
RD2-score01=74
RD2-seed02=9
RD2-team02=Purdue (21-11)
RD2-score02=67
RD2-seed03=4
RD2-team03=Maryland (24-8)
RD2-score03=59
RD2-seed04=5
RD2-team04='Butler' (27-6)
RD2-score04=62
RD2-seed05=7
RD2-team05='UN-Las Vegas' (28-6)
RD2-score05=74
RD2-seed06=2
RD2-team06=Wisconsin (29-5)
RD2-score06=68
RD2-seed07=3
RD2-team07='Oregon' (26-7)
RD2-score07=75
RD2-seed08=11
RD2-team08=Winthrop (28-4)
RD2-score08=61
RD3-seed01=1
RD3-team01='Florida (29-5)'
RD3-score01=65
RD3-seed02=5
RD3-team02=Butler (27-6)
RD3-score02=57
RD3-seed03=7
RD3-team03=UN-Las Vegas (28-6)
RD3-score03=72
RD3-seed04=3
RD3-team04='Oregon (26-7)'
RD3-score04=76
RD4-seed01=1
RD4-team01='Florida (29-5)'
RD4-score01=85
RD4-seed02=3
RD4-team02=Oregon (26-7)
RD4-score02=77
}}
RD1-seed01=1
RD1-team01='Kansas' (30-4)
RD1-score01=107
RD1-seed02=16
RD1-team02=Niagara (23-11)
RD1-score02=67
RD1-seed03=8
RD1-team03='Kentucky' (21-11)
RD1-score03=67
RD1-seed04=9
RD1-team04=Villanova (22-10)
RD1-score04=58
RD1-seed05=4
RD1-team05='Southern Illinois' (27-6)
RD1-score05=61
RD1-seed06=13
RD1-team06=Holy Cross (25-8)
RD1-score06=51
RD1-seed07=5
RD1-team07='Virginia Tech' (21-11)
RD1-score07=54
RD1-seed08=12
RD1-team08=Illinois (23-11)
RD1-score08=52
RD1-seed09=2
RD1-team09='UC-Los Angeles' (26-5)
RD1-score09=70
RD1-seed10=15
RD1-team10=Weber State (20-11)
RD1-score10=42
RD1-seed11=7
RD1-team11='Indiana' (20-10)
RD1-score11=70
RD1-seed12=10
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RD1-score12=57
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RD1-score13=79
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RD1-score14=58
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RD2-score03=48
RD2-seed04=4
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RD3-score02=58
RD3-seed03=2
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RD3-seed04=3
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RD3-score04=55
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RD4-score01=55
RD4-seed02=2
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Opening Round game: Niagara 77, Florida A&M 69 (March 13, 2007 @ Dayton, OH)
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RD1-team01='North Carolina' (28-6)
RD1-score01=86
RD1-seed02=16
RD1-team02=Eastern Kentucky (21-11)
RD1-score02=65
RD1-seed03=8
RD1-team03=Marquette (24-9)
RD1-score03=49
RD1-seed04=9
RD1-team04='Michigan State' (22-11)
RD1-score04=61
RD1-seed05=4
RD1-team05='Texas' (24-9)
RD1-score05=79
RD1-seed06=13
RD1-team06=New Mexico State (25-8)
RD1-score06=67
RD1-seed07=5
RD1-team07='Southern California' (23-11)
RD1-score07=77
RD1-seed08=12
RD1-team08=Arkansas (21-13)
RD1-score08=60
RD1-seed09=2
RD1-team09='Georgetown' (26-6)
RD1-score09=80
RD1-seed10=15
RD1-team10=Belmont (23-9)
RD1-score10=55
RD1-seed11=7
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RD1-score11=84
RD1-seed12=10
RD1-team12=Texas Tech (21-12)
RD1-score12=75
RD1-seed13=3
RD1-team13='Washington State' (25-7)
RD1-score13=70
RD1-seed14=14
RD1-team14=Oral Roberts (23-10)
RD1-score14=54
RD1-seed15=6
RD1-team15='Vanderbilt' (20-11)
RD1-score15=77
RD1-seed16=11
RD1-team16=George Washington (23-8)
RD1-score16=44
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RD2-score01=81
RD2-seed02=9
RD2-team02=Michigan State (23-11)
RD2-score02=67
RD2-seed03=5
RD2-team03='Southern California' (23-11)
RD2-score03=87
RD2-seed04=4
RD2-team04=Texas (24-9)
RD2-score04=68
RD2-seed05=2
RD2-team05='Georgetown' (27-6)
RD2-score05=62
RD2-seed06=7
RD2-team06=Boston College (21-11)
RD2-score06=55
RD2-seed07=3
RD2-team07=Washington State (26-7)
RD2-score07=74
RD2-seed08=6
RD2-team08='Vanderbilt' (21-11)
RD2-score08=78
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RD3-team01='North Carolina' (29-6)
RD3-score01=74
RD3-seed02=5
RD3-team02=Southern California (23-11)
RD3-score02=64
RD3-seed03=2
RD3-team03='Georgetown' (27-6)
RD3-score03=66
RD3-seed04=6
RD3-team04=Vanderbilt (20-11)
RD3-score04=65
RD4-seed01=1
RD4-team01=North Carolina (29-6)
RD4-score01=84
RD4-seed02=2
RD4-team02='Georgetown' (27-6)
RD4-score02=96
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RD1-seed01=1
RD1-team01='Ohio State' (30-3)
RD1-score01=78
RD1-seed02=16
RD1-team02=Central Connecticut State (22-11)
RD1-score02=57
RD1-seed03=8
RD1-team03=Brigham Young (25-8)
RD1-score03=77
RD1-seed04=9
RD1-team04='Xavier' (24-8)
RD1-score04=79
RD1-seed05=4
RD1-team05='Virginia' (20-10)
RD1-score05=84
RD1-seed06=13
RD1-team06=Albany (23-9)
RD1-score06=57
RD1-seed07=5
RD1-team07='Tennessee' (22-10)
RD1-score07=121
RD1-seed08=12
RD1-team08=Long Beach State (24-7)
RD1-score08=86
RD1-seed09=2
RD1-team09='Memphis' (30-3)
RD1-score09=73
RD1-seed10=15
RD1-team10=North Texas (23-10)
RD1-score10=58
RD1-seed11=7
RD1-team11='Nevada' (28-4)
RD1-score11=77
RD1-seed12=10
RD1-team12=Creighton (22-10)
RD1-score12=71
RD1-seed13=3
RD1-team13='Texas A&M' (25-6)
RD1-score13=68
RD1-seed14=14
RD1-team14=Pennsylvania (22-8)
RD1-score14=52
RD1-seed15=6
RD1-team15='Louisville' (23-9)
RD1-score15=78
RD1-seed16=11
RD1-team16=Stanford (18-12)
RD1-score16=58
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RD2-score01=78
RD2-seed02=9
RD2-team02=Xavier (25-8)
RD2-score02=71
RD2-seed03=5
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RD2-score03=77
RD2-seed04=4
RD2-team04=Virginia
RD2-score04=74
RD2-seed05=2
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RD2-score05=78
RD2-seed06=7
RD2-team06=Nevada (28-4)
RD2-score06=62
RD2-seed07=3
RD2-team07='Texas A&M' (26-6)
RD2-score07=72
RD2-seed08=6
RD2-team08=Louisville (24-9)
RD2-score08=69
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RD3-score01=85
RD3-seed02=5
RD3-team02=Tennessee (22-10)
RD3-score02=84
RD3-seed03=2
RD3-team03='Memphis (30-3)'
RD3-score03=65
RD3-seed04=3
RD3-team04=Texas A&M (26-6)
RD3-score04=64
RD4-seed01=1
RD4-team01='Ohio State (31-3)'
RD4-score01=92
RD4-seed02=2
RD4-team02=Memphis (30-3)
RD4-score02=76
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RD1-score3=67
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RD1-score4=60
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en | 62413 | 388205 | "2007-03-16T15:46:41Z" | 2,007 | 3 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=62413 | 2007 National Invitation Tournament Brackets | These are the complete brackets for the 2007 Men's National Invitation Tournament. Games of the first three rounds are played at campus sites; the home team is indicated in italics. The NIT semifinals and final are played at [[w:Madison Square Garden|Madison Square Garden]] in [[w:New York City, New York|New York City, NY]].
== North Regional ==
{{3RoundBracket
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>March 13/14, 2007
| RD2='''Regional Semifinals'''<br/>March 15/17, 2007
| RD3='''Regional Final'''<br/>TBA
| group1=
| group2=
| score-width=2em
| team-width=15em
| RD1-seed1=1
| RD1-team1='''''Mississippi State''''' (18-12)
| RD1-score1=82
| RD1-seed2=8
| RD1-team2=Mississippi Valley State (18-14)
| RD1-score2=63
| RD1-seed3=4
| RD1-team3='''''Bradley''''' (21-12)
| RD1-score3=90
| RD1-seed4=5
| RD1-team4=Providence (18-12)
| RD1-score4=78*
| RD1-seed5=2
| RD1-team5='''''Florida State''''' (20-12)
| RD1-score5=77
| RD1-seed6=7
| RD1-team6=Toledo (19-12)
| RD1-score6=61
| RD1-seed7=3
| RD1-team7='''''Michigan''''' (21-12)
| RD1-score7=68
| RD1-seed8=6
| RD1-team8=Utah State (23-10)
| RD1-score8=58
| RD2-seed1=1
| RD2-team1=''Mississippi State'' (19-13)
| RD2-score1=
| RD2-seed2=4
| RD2-team2=Bradley (22-12)
| RD2-score2=
| RD2-seed3=2
| RD2-team3='''''Florida State''''' (21-12)
| RD2-score3=87
| RD2-seed4=3
| RD2-team4=Michigan (22-12)
| RD2-score4=66
| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=
| RD3-score1=
| RD3-seed2=2
| RD3-team2=Florida State (22-12)
| RD3-score2=
}}
<small>* - Overtime</small>
== East Regional ==
{{3RoundBracket
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>March 13, 2007
| RD2='''Regional Semifinals'''<br/>March 15/16, 2007
| RD3='''Regional Final'''<br/>TBA
| group1=
| group2=
| score-width=2em
| team-width=14em
| RD1-seed1=1
| RD1-team1='''''West Virginia''''' (22-9)
| RD1-score1=74
| RD1-seed2=8
| RD1-team2=Delaware State (21-11)
| RD1-score2=50
| RD1-seed3=4
| RD1-team3='''''Massachusetts''''' (23-8)
| RD1-score3=89
| RD1-seed4=5
| RD1-team4=Alabama (20-11)
| RD1-score4=87*
| RD1-seed5=2
| RD1-team5=''Oklahoma State'' (22-11)
| RD1-score5=64
| RD1-seed6=7
| RD1-team6='''Marist''' (24-8)
| RD1-score6=67
| RD1-seed7=3
| RD1-team7=''Drexel'' (23-8)
| RD1-score7=56
| RD1-seed8=6
| RD1-team8='''North Carolina State''' (18-15)
| RD1-score8=63
| RD2-seed1=1
| RD2-team1='''''West Virginia''''' (23-9)
| RD2-score1=90
| RD2-seed2=4
| RD2-team2=Massachusetts (24-8)
| RD2-score2=77
| RD2-seed3=7
| RD2-team3=Marist (25-8)
| RD2-score3=
| RD2-seed4=6
| RD2-team4=''North Carolina State'' (19-15)
| RD2-score4=
| RD3-seed1=1
| RD3-team1=''West Virginia'' (24-9)
| RD3-score1=
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=
| RD3-score2=
}}
<small>* - Overtime</small>
== West Regional ==
{{3RoundBracket
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>March 14, 2007
| RD2='''Regional Semifinals'''<br/>March 19, 2007
| RD3='''Regional Final'''<br/>TBA
| group1=
| group2=
| score-width=2em
| team-width=13em
| RD1-seed1=1
| RD1-team1='''''Air Force''''' (23-8)
| RD1-score1=75
| RD1-seed2=8
| RD1-team2=Austin Peay (21-11)
| RD1-score2=51
| RD1-seed3=4
| RD1-team3='''''Georgia''''' (18-13)
| RD1-score3=88
| RD1-seed4=5
| RD1-team4=Fresno State (22-9)
| RD1-score4=78
| RD1-seed5=2
| RD1-team5='''''Kansas State''''' (22-10)
| RD1-score5=59
| RD1-seed6=7
| RD1-team6=Vermont (25-6)
| RD1-score6=57
| RD1-seed7=3
| RD1-team7='''''DePaul''''' (18-13)
| RD1-score7=78
| RD1-seed8=6
| RD1-team8=Hofstra (22-9)
| RD1-score8=71
| RD2-seed1=1
| RD2-team1=''Air Force'' (24-8)
| RD2-score1=
| RD2-seed2=4
| RD2-team2=Georgia (19-13)
| RD2-score2=
| RD2-seed3=2
| RD2-team3=''Kansas State'' (23-10)
| RD2-score3=
| RD2-seed4=3
| RD2-team4=DePaul (19-13)
| RD2-score4=
| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=
| RD3-score1=
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=
| RD3-score2=
}}
== South Regional ==
{{3RoundBracket
| RD1='''First Round'''<br/>March 14, 2007
| RD2='''Regional Semifinals'''<br/>March 19, 2007
| RD3='''Regional Final'''<br/>TBA
| group1=
| group2=
| score-width=2em
| team-width=13em
| RD1-seed1=1
| RD1-team1='''''Clemson''''' (21-10)
| RD1-score1=64
| RD1-seed2=8
| RD1-team2=East Tennessee State (24-9)
| RD1-score2=57
| RD1-seed3=4
| RD1-team3='''''Mississippi''''' (20-11)
| RD1-score3=73
| RD1-seed4=5
| RD1-team4=Appalachian State (25-7)
| RD1-score4=59
| RD1-seed5=2
| RD1-team5='''''Syracuse''''' (22-10)
| RD1-score5=79
| RD1-seed6=7
| RD1-team6=South Alabama (20-11)
| RD1-score6=73
| RD1-seed7=3
| RD1-team7=''Missouri State'' (22-10)
| RD1-score7=70
| RD1-seed8=6
| RD1-team8='''San Diego State''' (21-10)
| RD1-score8=74
| RD2-seed1=1
| RD2-team1=''Clemson'' (22-10)
| RD2-score1=
| RD2-seed2=4
| RD2-team2=Mississippi (21-11)
| RD2-score2=
| RD2-seed3=2
| RD2-team3=''Syracuse'' (23-10)
| RD2-score3=
| RD2-seed4=6
| RD2-team4=San Diego State (22-10)
| RD2-score4=
| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=
| RD3-score1=
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=
| RD3-score2=
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[[Category:No publish]] | These are the complete brackets for the 2007 Men's National Invitation Tournament. Games of the first three rounds are played at campus sites; the home team is indicated in italics. The NIT semifinals and final are played at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY.
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RD1-score6=61
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RD1-seed8=6
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RD1-score8=58
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RD3-team1=
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* - Overtime
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team-width=14em
RD1-seed1=1
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RD1-score1=74
RD1-seed2=8
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RD1-score2=50
RD1-seed3=4
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RD1-seed4=5
RD1-team4=Alabama (20-11)
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RD1-team5=Oklahoma State (22-11)
RD1-score5=64
RD1-seed6=7
RD1-team6='Marist' (24-8)
RD1-score6=67
RD1-seed7=3
RD1-team7=Drexel (23-8)
RD1-score7=56
RD1-seed8=6
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RD1-score8=63
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RD2-score3=
RD2-seed4=6
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RD3-score1=
RD3-seed2=
RD3-team2=
RD3-score2=
}}
* - Overtime
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team-width=13em
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RD1-seed2=8
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RD1-score2=51
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RD1-seed4=5
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RD1-score4=78
RD1-seed5=2
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RD1-score5=59
RD1-seed6=7
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RD1-score6=57
RD1-seed7=3
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RD1-score7=78
RD1-seed8=6
RD1-team8=Hofstra (22-9)
RD1-score8=71
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RD2-score1=
RD2-seed2=4
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RD2-score2=
RD2-seed3=2
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RD2-score3=
RD2-seed4=3
RD2-team4=DePaul (19-13)
RD2-score4=
RD3-seed1=
RD3-team1=
RD3-score1=
RD3-seed2=
RD3-team2=
RD3-score2=
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team-width=13em
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RD1-score2=57
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The Pashtun people are or were renowned for their hospitality. Many westerners commented on it. Some with suspicion NOT willing to believe some people so poor could be so generous. It was almost a character flaw. One could travel with out fear of personal danger as long as you followed local protocols. (I would urge you to read Kiplings "East is East & West is West." one more time, know this time that it is written about the Pashtun people.)
That was the sort of mind set among the people. An ageless paradigm of self satisfaction: This is enshrined in the code of the Pashtuns way of life (see James Spain "The Way of the Pathans") - called Pashtunwali- in Pashto hospitality is referred to as "maelmastiya".
The Islamic radicalism is in reality nothing but the Taliban movement. As I said earlier not all Pashtuns are Taliban (obviously) but most Taliban are Pashtun. Of these most belong to the [[w:Federally Administered Tribal Areas|FATA]]. Of these, most were affected by their cousins from Afghanistan coming over. Mingled with them were Arab-Afghans. Uzbeks and some Tajiks and even Chechens. Some of these married within the tribes and formed a bond with the locals. Marriage bonds go back in history. Again remember the mindset of the people here. Always keep that in mind. To them the scripture in the written word of God, and that includes the Old Testament (called Torat (Torah) and (Injeel = Bible less St. Pauls contributions).
This Talibanization shows itself in the content of the Friday sermons at the mosque. Now it shows in the popularity of growing beards, especially since the [[w:Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal|MMA]] - the coalition of religious political party's - won power. More recently in their showdown with the Pakistan army in N and S Waziristan - where according to my sources, people prefer going to the Taliban for justice rather than the older system of Maliks and Political Agents. The latter are known as corrupt. In Pakistan in general people are sick of the amount of corruption.
And now in [[w:Bannu|Bannu]], from where hails the Chief Minister of the NWFP, Mr Durrani, is in Taliban control in the sense that there is a parallel government that they have established and which is functioning quite well and is popular among the people.
'''Justice in tribal areas of Pakistan has been handled by elders, following a mixture of tribal tradition and Islamic law. Would you say that Taliban influence has caused a stricter intrepretation of Islamic law in the NWFP?
Yes. The Maliks, or tribal elders who consider themselves quite conservatively religious, even so had a laid back attitude towards enforcement of religious doctrine. That is where the difference comes. My opinion is that this is the reason that the Maliks supported the government of Pakistan in South Waziristan, which has recently been in the news having kicked out the militant Uzbek who came as guests in the post-soviet era and started mischief of their own but am not sure what their agenda was to begin with, and I myself have questions about their presence as to why they were not reported earlier, since reporting the presence of any foreigner(s) in the FATA is job one of the Pakistani Political Agents (PA). Why is the presence of the Uzbeks and the Chechen in the area just coming to light? Remember there are seven of these PA's - one for each FATA. The Taliban emulated the Saudi system of having a department concerned with citizens’ morals, even the name is the same, the department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, and this department has – as in Saudi Arabia, an enforcement police, called mutawwa'in, a morals law-enforcement agency.
'''Has there been a shift from tribal elders to clerics, as the main interpreters of law?'''
Yes there has been a movement in that direction but it has started a power struggle between the clerics who traditionally have been at the lowest strata of the social structure, to now when they have seen a bigger role for themselves first from the Taliban in Afghanistan – but also the government of the MMA in the NWFP who are nothing more than glorified clerics themselves, only a little smarter in exploiting religion politically, and the MMA is largely non-Pashtun which is a source of discontent in that they stand in the way of Pashtun nationalism, such as it is, because it only rears its head when non-Pashtuns start to usurp power over what the Pashtun consider their turf.
'''The deal made between Pakistani central government and the North and South Waziristan provinces, where tribal leadership was given the pivotal role in dealing with militants and the Taliban, has been criticized as a failure. What caused an initiative by tribal authority to fail?'''
First off, I don't agree with the premise of the question, that the "deal" is a "failure" - for the following reasons:
#In the first place the Pakistan army (govt - same difference) did not have many options. This was the least worst option they had.
#And most importantly, I have said this before, this area is literally in a time warp - which means they proceed at (what seems to us in the west) a glacial pace. I will give an example from the folklore:<blockquote>''The story goes that a Pashtun had to repay (badal) an enemy for a crime against his family and he waited patiently for 20 years (some say 50 years), after this time, he exacted his revenge - but soon after was depressed because he wondered "Did I act too hastily?"''</Blockquote>So one part of Pashtunwali is to "pay back" - (Badal: literally to exchange) which most people translate as revenge. Yes that is the form that is most visible, but badal is also played out in the exchange of gifts at wedding and other celebrations, and in the exchange of favors like in politics. The rules can be arcane, unwritten and hard to follow -- who did what to whom, when, and so on, and what is the proper recompense -- this same give and take would occur in a peace process pursued by the Tribal Maliks, who rule by consensus (see Olaf Caroe) and there is no actual leader in the western sense, because all the Maliks, in fact all the others are de facto, so many co-equals (The Way of the Pathans/ People of the Khyber - James Spain pp 129 on.) - it is a mind set, a paradigm foreign to the uninitiated, as is the concept of consensual gay sex to the Wazir in Waziristan.
#I wish someone would read the history of this area, it would help in dealing with our expectations and possibly much more. For instance there are two major tribe in N and S Waziristan, the Wazir, and the Mahsud - in the news you hear about the sub tribes; The most famour character of North Waziristan, the equivalent of a Jesse James, was leader called the "Faqir of Ippi" - he died in 1960, the Pakistan govt never was able to capture him, even though he set up a govt of Independent Pashtunistan in cahoots with Kabul. The great uprising of India of 1897 had its roots in Waziristan, as did the Treaty of Razmak. Of all the Pashtun, the Wazir are the most independent minded and the least to be cowed by military action.
#So what options did Pakistan have, more military action? It had already lost hundred of their "privates" in action. Allow the US forces to come in, as a matter of fact the ISAF do cross into the Pakistani territory, we just don't know how deep they go -- the rules of engagement, as I understand them are, that if they (the US Army of Marines) are in "hot pursuit" then they cross into Pakistan. In reality they do it more often then that, just that there is no proof of it, who will report it, the Wazir? Or the Pakistan army?
#The last part of your question, there are many assumptions, all wrong. The initiative was not from the tribals. There is no single authority amongst the tribal, they would convene a Jirga and decide on a course of action, such as this, to my knowledge no such jirga was called. To save face the Pakistan government might claim it was a tribal initiative, but it seems highly unlikely. The Pak troop's casualties were so high, and there was talk of hostages being held as well -- I tend to believe, that the Governor of the NWFP initiated the talks and the agreement, because he sure as hell is taking all the heat for its "failure".
#That brings me to the last issue, the agreement has not failed, because it has not been given enough time, in Wazir time reference, not American time presidential election cycle controlled. I do not have a crystal ball, but if I did, I would see NATO troops in Afghanistan long after Iraq is over. Afghanistan can be a success ONLY if we accept one thing, the time warp these people live in -- by my reckoning its still 1700 CE over there.
'''If the Talibanization of Pakistan is partly due to a perception of corruption among the older system of Maliks and Political Agents, and Musharraf has critics lining up, who can the U.S. turn to in dispensing with $10 billion in aid monies?'''
Talibanization has nothing to do with your premise there. Zilch. Nada. The corruption is in the [[w:Inter-Services Intelligence|ISI]], the Pak army and the Pak system of Political Agents (PA) assigned to these tribal zones ([[w:Federally Administered Tribal Areas|FATA]] & PATA). These PA have budgets that are much like the [[w:Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] in that they are a single line item in the national budget, there is no accountability of where or how the PA spends the money. If one followed the IRS rules and looked at the lifestyles of the PA and compared them with their income, you would soon understand what was going on. Musharraf critics are a larger issue. For eons, Republicans have coddled Pakistan with the belief that "as long as they are pro America" - democracy in Pakistan will come in due course. Democrats have, I think, insisted Democracy first, and then we can discuss the other issues later. For example, pre 9/11, compare how Carter's administration treated Gen Zia and how Reagan's administration treated him.
The Talibanization of Pakistan has more to do with graduates of "[[w:Raiwind|Raiwind]]" a place near Lahore where the "Tablighi Jamaat" conducts brainwashing camps. It was graduates of this place, in my opinion, that are responsible for Britain's [[w:7 July 2005 London bombings|7/7 attacks]] as an example. For the Talibanization of the FATA, see [[w:Ahmed Rashid|Ahmed Rashid's]] classic study on the subject wrt to Afghanistan but applicable to Pashtuns in the NWFP equally, in a sense.
Corruption amongst the Maliks is self limiting because of the egalitarian society they live & because of Pashtunwali (see Charles Lindholm, Oxford press).
Who can the US turn to? This is a tough one. The Pakistani national psyche has not progressed the way the Indians have. There are still very much remnants of the Raj visible and present and invisible but Pakistani behavior gives it away - in the way they treat household help, in the way company bosses treat their employees, in the way the government officers often act above the law. For example the NWFP is supposed to be dry - yet the governemt employees consume copious amounts of liquor. There are some that even moonshine at home. (I have pictures I could share taken at "dance" party, more like a stag party.)
I think this last question is best answered in who has been reliable in the past, and assume the past to be an indicator of future behavior.
We know the Pak army will siphon large amounts towards its Nuclear program and the upkeep of its generals.
We know that Nawaz Sharif left the national treasury almost bankrupt when Musharraf took over.
We know that Benazir husband took 10% of all government deals. I believe he has an Interpol warrant for his arrest, although I can't vouch for it, it does come out in the news, even though it's puzzling why Interpol has trouble executing the warrant. Now I hear they are withdrawn. <!--http://www.dawn.com/2007/04/08/top3.htm-->
So who does that leave?
The next generation of Politicians who are not beholden to anyone.
In my opinion, the US should insist on the scheduled elections but accede to some genuine Pakistani concerns:
Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto ought to be ineligible to run, BUT other members of the respective party PML (N) and PPP (B) can do so.
Prohibit allocation of emblems to the religious party which they can & have misused.
For example in the last election they asked for and got the symbol of a book, they then went on to advertise the symbol represented the Qur'an and a vote for the book was a vote for the Qur'an - not the candidate but the Qur'an. Well the ploy worked only too well. Imagine a similar vote here where a vote is asked for as a vote for the Bible! You can imagine the results.
'''What is your take on the Musharraf suspending the judge [[Protests in Pakistan as Chief Justice appears before judges' panel|Iftikhar Chaudhry]]?'''
My take:
I believe, and this is widely held belief, that Musharraf has no constituency of his own for his power base. He wanted legitimization from the Supreme Court, and from Mr Choudhry as Chief Justice (their system is not like ours) would not give it.
So Musharraf has had to hang on to his Army Chief of Staff position to get his power from the Army. If some one else were Chief of Staff, that person could refuse to support Musharraf.
The Justice favorable to the general is Justice Iqbal, who was not the next in line for Chief Justice. The next in line is a Hindu. That presented problems of its own for Musharraf. So when the Hindu judge went for a trip to India, Iqbal became the "available" senior most Supreme Court judge, and hence the haste and lack of decorum with which Justice Chaudhry was removed.
Now we have to wait for the other shoe to fall --- will Iqbal issue a Judicial ruling which would make it easy for Musharraf to stay on as Chief of Staff - in the meantime, the US has asked him to relinquish this army position.
Needless to say, it was very badly handled, high handed, and the TV was present -- the country saw what was being done to the highest member of the court of law, and in their mind, as in mine, the law in Pakistan was being manhandled, handcuffed and sent off packing to jail, so to speak. Something we long suspected, but was confirmed on TV and in the Newspapers. Overseas organizations taking up Chaudhry's cause, might lead one to belive that Musharraf's days are numbered, and they would be wrong, because America needs Musharraf - for the time being, anyway - because Iraq has scared America, just as in the post Vietnam era, there is now a fear regarding Muslim countries - the fear of the alternative, will democracy in Muslim country give us more of Ahmedinejad or Al-Maliki, or can we find some Hamid Karzais'? We just don't know.
'''Can you tell us what the prevailing sentiment in the region regarding the Pakistani government effort in the provinces and the international effort in Afghanistan to combat Taliban and affiliated militants?'''
In my dealings and inquires, ''one'' thing stood out like a sore thumb - the conspiracy theories vis-à-vis anything having to do with America. I mentioned to one of my close friends that events that were previously ascribed as acts of God were now considered acts of the [[w:Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. Some even believed that the Earthquake in the northern areas was because of some sort of underground secret "bomb" used by the CIA. Lack of evidence is further proof that the CIA did it. I was flabbergasted, and started to give this kind of thinking as an example in speaking to "educated" Pakistani's - and among these, those that did agree that the earthquake was NOT the work of the CIA, they would start giving other examples, notably the Blow up of the plane carrying Zia ul Haq an ex President of Pakistan, in which the US Ambassador also perished. When I would point this out, the response would be that that is the sort of thing they do to take away suspicion from themselves.
In a nutshell, the impression I came away with is, there is NO war of civilizations going on, what is going on is a war between literacy and illiteracy. I use the latter term in the widest connotation.
Pakistan government efforts: While on the one hand people would decry that the government is not doing enough, in the same breath they would state the government is a puppet of the US and only does what the US tells it to do. In this sense there is very little awareness among the people about what the Pakistani army is doing in the FATA or for that matter in [[w:Balochistan (Pakistan)|Balochistan]]. The local newspapers are censored, and if not censored they do not allocate much space to the topics. "Dawn," which is the highest circulation English language paper, carries more stories about the US than about the local stories, that might appear say in "Newsweek."
The international effort in Afghanistan is not considered international at all, only American. You could speak till you are blue in the face, and you would not change anyone's mind. In my case they would simply turn quiet, not wishing to offend a "guest" (see Pashtunwali).
It is commonly agreed that some thing has to be done to curb the religious extremism that has taken root here, while historically these people (Pashtun) are a moderate people (see Olaf Caroe "The Pathans"). In fact some of the reasons the extremism has crept in is that many of the cultural practices were not in accordance with Saudi based "Salafiism" more popularly known as Wahabism. But Mr Wahab dates to the period of Lawrence of Arabia - Salafism dates further back, and is one of the six or seven schools of "Fiqh" or jurisprudence, but the latter fiqh has morphed into a cult like sect.
Taliban are not visible in the areas I visited, but the militants handiwork clearly is - as elsewhere, the common criminals are taking advantage of this situation, and crime is up significantly. One new crime is Cell phone "snatching" - it's easy and nobody wants to pursue it. If some one is using a Razr phone, he can expect to be hit soon, if he uses it in public. So people have two cell phone (Called mobiles here) one fancy to show off, one for use in public places.
In so far as "foreign" militants are captured and identified, that is to say non-Pashtun (including non Afghan Pashtun or Pak Pashtun) - then the people are obviously in agreement with the government that these people don't belong here and need to go.
The problem is this:
The foreigners are usually in the FATA and have been there since the Soviet war times. Many of them have taken local wives and now have a family. The local have accepted them into their family. Now for the Pak govt to ask them to kick them out, the locals are thinking what am I doing to my grandchildren's father, etc. Again the edicts of Pashtunwali also play a role.
'''What kind of support is there in the area for the positions advocated by the Taliban on matters such as Sharia law, women's education, role in public affairs, its proscriptions on entertainment such as movies, music ..etc?'''
In the areas that I visited and the people that I spoke to, which by definition is a very non-random sample, the people are TOTALLY opposed to the Taliban. I do have one nephew who seems to have come under the influence of the Salafi's but that is a different story. I can address that separately and you can decide if it belongs with this story - not my nephew's story but the way the Salafi's have woven themselves into this area --- which is historically a "Hanafi" fiqh area, which is much more moderate. Like I said this may be tangential to the main story.
In general, people will say Yes we are Muslim and we are for the Sharia, but in general most people do not know what that entails.
In their mind it entails a more just system, a less corrupt government.
But if you ask them if they want a system like the Taliban the answer is an unequivocal NO.
Women's education is quite the norm in the non FATA parts of the NWFP. When I visited the earthquake area which is also mostly in the NWFP, (I have photo's and video) the girl schools were some of the first to spring up. I remember being pleasantly surprised by this at the time.
As far as a role in Public, it gets complicated. Women are in general expected to be docile and compliant, and the same expectation foloows through into Public affairs. But this point of view is not limited to the NWFP - it is the same all over Pakistan, excluding the large cities of Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad etc. yet still applicable to Peshawar.
In Peshawar you do get to see more girls getting jobs as tellers in a bank and some other non traditional jobs, whereas previously the only jobs were either teachers to young kids, teachers to older girls, nurses and doctors - for the most part.
Movies in the NWFP in the Theaters are for the lower socio economic men only. The reason is other than Talibanization. The easy availability of pirated, good quality DVD's of Indian and Hollywood movies (From China thru the land route over the Karakorum Highway) - it cost Rs120 ($2/-) for the whole family to watch a movie in the comfort of their home. Travelling to a theater might cost that much in gas. The inconvience. The crowds. The men gawking at the women and last but definitely not least, some bombs exploding in the theater some years back, put a comllete stop to the middle class from going out to see movies.
Paashtuns love music. So even though I hear that some bus drivers have been fined for playing their cassettes, I doubt this is going to stop them from playing their music. Some thing far worse has to happen - I think the drivers may start carrying guns and having it out with who ever is tring to stop them from their favorite music.
What is not being reported and what the Taliban could do effectively is to cut up cable tv cables. Most cable companies string their cable ABOVE ground to save cost and take it along the electric poles, below the electricity wires. Since these are exposed there have been many (several) instances of the cables being cut up. Luckiliy there is no market for coaxial cable, or more cable would be lost to druggies doing the cutting. The latter is a serious problem that you don't hear about. One person that I knew told me that he was building his house and had poured conrete and reinforcements for the pillars. The next day he found the reinforcement bars to have been cut up flush with the ground slab leaving him to figure out how to do the rebar of the rest of the pillar.
'''To what degree does this support stem from fear and intimidation?'''
The Taliban are Pashtun, and the populace is Pashtun. The Pashtun do not scare easy. They are not intimidated easily. They might comply for the moment and then come back with a vengeance, so to speak. The women folk are more susceptible to intimidation, as was evidenced by the closure of the schools, because the mothers decided that they were not going to take a chance that their kids might get injured.
'''How about the "political positions" of the insurgent movement - resistance to foreign troops, and the [[w:Hamid Karzai|Karzai]] government? Is there a separatist or nationalist component to the movement?'''
Karzai is not popular among the Pashtun's who are loyal to Pakistan in the NWFP, those are the one I met mostly. They think that Karzai is opportunistic in that he is fleecing the government of the US whereas he himself is little more than the mayor of Kabul. They point to his American bodyguards as proof that he is disliked by his own people, that the moment the American leave Karzai is a dead man.
I can not speak to the separatist movement. I have seen no evidence of it. There is widespread resentment that the Federal government refuses to give a name to the province, a name of the people's liking - there have been recently articles in Dawn about this, I will try and find them for you.
Nationalism is alive and well on the other hand, all over Pakistan - in all its four provinces. Everybody hates the Punjabi's - almost to the man.
It is my opinion that were it not for US aid, Pakistan will go the route of Yugoslavia. With lots of bloodshed.
Resistance to foreign troops is like the national pastime among the Pashtun. Even today they collect in the evenings and will tell tales, vastly glorified of the way their grandfather fought against the British.
In other parts of the NWFP, like Charsadda and Mardan where Abdul Ghaffar Khan (the frontier Gandhi) was popular you have old "khudai khidmatgars" telling their stories of how they kicked out the British.
The only thing that Unites the Pashtun, are foreign troops on their soil. Other than that "Pashtun Unity" is almost an oxymoron.
'''What do you think the U.S., the international community and Pakistan should do to ease the problems in the region?'''
In my opinion, based on my conversations with individuals in positions to know these things, plus a little bit of plain common sense, plus knowing the history of the people and of the area: The ONE thing that will NOT work is direct military action. We know this from history. We know that the Pashtuns love to fight. We know that the Talibanization has brought the Jihadi's into the picture, who like nothing better than to be martyred. So we need to keep this in mind, of what NOT to do. Having said that, what I am going to say next may appear like a paradox.
Because the Pashtun do not like to deal with what they believe are wus or weak people, we do need to have a strong PRESENCE there, and a strong "show of force" - invite a "Jirga" to like a demonstration of what the US air force is capable of doing - just to show them, - the reason is that their paradigm is the 14th century, if you simply told them that we can do this to you, they will simply think you are lying, because that is what they do, they lie to show off.
But if you drop a daisy cutter and tell them before hand what it is capable of, or a stealth bomber, these technologies are outsides their mind-set; we have to get them to believe that we have these capabilities, like the Drone. Or spy satellites.
From this position of strength, and always reminding them that we are raring to use our forces in that like them we also love to shoot our guns at every opportunity, but then not actually do it ( in this sense we had achieved all out objectives with Saddam prior to invading Iraq IMHO invading Iraq was redundant) - so the next step would be:
#Education
#Development meaning providing a means of livelihood so they do not have to become military mercenaries to make a living.
#Gradually replacing their madrassas with our own madrassas, except in the latter, the Mullah is an educated individual who knows comparative religion, and they teach other subjects including Biology, anthropology, measuring the age of the earth by carbon dating etc. and astronomy to learn the age of the Universe, black holes, quasars Relativity concepts, quantum mechanic concepts (not the mathematics, the simple concepts behind them, and how these ideas are behind some of today's everyday electronic devices)
#Leisure activity, starting with traditional leisure activity, i.e. not TV and cable and Internet, but ultimately making these available
#Introduce these "NEW" technologies through a religious mode. Transmit a Qur'anic recital competition to begin with, as an example instead of beginning with MTV.
#Making water available. Drinking water is an everyday necessity, for cooking etc, and not available in most of the FATA.
#Food grain. Wheat flour etc, keep the prices the same as in Peshawar - these people are not traders, they are easily exploited, and like porn they couldn't tell you what exploitation is, but they can tell you when they see it.
'''What makes the North-West Frontier Province competent to administer any monies?'''
This is the central question. Much like California has taken a separate initiative on stem cell research – as an analogy – the NWFP is central to the war on terror, not Pakistan.
The NWFP was central to the fight and aid to the Afghans during the Soviet occupation, not Pakistan.
This small distinction is lost on Washington, and it is the main reason, in my opinion, why so much of the Aid was "lost in transit was because the Punjabi army officers could not bring themselves to dispense such large sums to an ethnic group which it considers anti-Pakistani (You would have to read the history of the Indian partition, in particular that the NWFP was a “Indian Congress Party” controlled province where as the "Muslim League" of Jinnah was trying to show the Brits that all the area was FOR the creation of Pakistan).
All the FATA is contiguous to the NWFP. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda are holed up somewhere either in the FATA, or across the Durand Line in Afghanistan, the Durand Line has never been recognized by the locals as an international boundary. Even today, the Pashtun travel from Peshawar to Kabul by road with out a passport or visa, and it has been like that for eons.
(Especially for the nomadic Pashtun tribe of Ghilzai’s who travel by caravan and conduct trade.)
The present governor of the NWFP belongs to the Orakzai tribe (he spells his name Aorakzai) and it is my opinion that that he was picked partly because he belongs to one of the FATA as well as he is a retired General of the Pak Army.
The Frontier Constabulary (FC) is a force which primarily recruits from the FATA. All or most of its forces are from the various tribes. In the eyes of the tribes this is a bona fide force and service with the FC is considered an honorable thing. The US has already allocated some funds for increasing recruitment, but far less than what it would take to counter the Taliban and far less than what the economic need is. [The US] spends a thousand times more on a battalions sent to monitor activity over there. Plus why endanger the lives of our troops and spread our forces thin when a more effective job can be done by the FC. The FC has over history shown that they will attack and use force against the tribes that create trouble. There have been no instances of insubordination or mutiny.
Even the US Embassy is protected by a contingent of the FC! That goes to show their trustworthiness & discipline.
My second proposal is that there is a common phenomenon for Pashtun men to go to the Gulf States for jobs.
The "tribal" Pashtuns ( All Pashtuns are tribal, in that Pashtun form the largest tribal society in the world in terms of numbers) wrt the FATA are not educated or trained and hence not employable right now. I propose that we fund directly the Director of Emigrants (Mr Azhar Arbab) in Islamabad to set up training facilities in Concrete laying, iron work, pipe work, welding etc, which would then qualify these tribesmen to obtain jobs in the Gulf. As such we would remove them from the scene altogether. They would not be available in the labor pool to the Taliban or anyone else. I might add here, that a number of these individuals have very high innate intelligence, which is one reason they make formidable foes.
Now the central reason why the NWFP ought to do this is because they are themselves most affected by the scourge of Talibanization. They are highly motivated in carrying out these policies because it is to their own benefit.
One has to be convinced on this last point, and for that I urge you research the sentiments amongst the people of the province, such as I am willing to provide, and which you can corroborate from other sources as well.
For instance, after Malik Saad was murdered, there were people, whom I heard myself, that expressed the feeling (admittedly stunned with grief) "If this is Islam then fuck such Islam" (I paraphrase, obviously, the Pashto is not directly translatable) – moreover, Mr Saad’s posters are competing with Osama’s in the Bazaar’s as a spontaneous gesture from the public. We can’t afford to let this good-will to be lost.
'''An ''Associated Press'' report on ''MSNBC'' dated March 15, 2007 and headlined "Arrest of al-Qaida’s 'best' reflects changing role" stated, ''"A senior Western diplomat in Islamabad, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the Taliban resurgence had not necessarily led to the re-emergence of al-Qaida training camps in Pakistan - a key U.S. ally in the war on terror - but had "created the environment for whatever is left of al-Qaida to feel more comfortable."'' What does that mean?'''
A senior western diplomat usually means a Political Officer in the US Embassy, which most people know is a CIA agent, OR it could be some other Embassy official -
First there is a big difference between Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Al Qaeda is mostly composed of Arabs, they do not trust any one else. While they might use others as couriers or in lowly position as servants, for second rate Al Qaeda officials, the Top guys ONLY deal with Arabs and are served by Arabs.
The Taliban are mostly Pashtun tribesmen. Mostly they are graduates of madrassa's.
Mostly illiterate by any world standards. The better educated among them will know how to speak a few words of English, such as their Information minister. There might be one or two notable exception of which I am not aware, I had heard Yale had admitted a Taliban, but never followed up on the story.
However while Al Qaeda does not trust the Taliban, the Taliban look up to Al Qaeda top leadership. We saw this situation in Iraq where initially Al Zarqawi had no direct link with Qaeda but was keen to form one. It would be conjecture on my part to state that in the end he did indeed succeed in forming that connection. In the press at least that impression was prevalent.
So the lines of interest proceed ONE way, like one way traffic. Extremist want to be affiliated with Qaeda, IMHO, while the latter does not, again, in my opinion want to - so as to maintain its hideout.
Now we come to the statement below:
The Taliban resurgence is not connected directly to the Qaeda.
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(al in Arabic = the; Qaeda means the base, or the foundation e.g. in kg school here you are asked "did you learn your "abc's" - in the Muslim world one is asked in an equivalent kg "did you learn your qaeda"?)
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The Qaeda supply lines are hampered, new recruits would have to be Arabs, and they would have to travel a long way through tight Pakistani security to reach here, or suffer hardship over a long and arduous land route through Balochistan and the Tribal area's - NOT all of which are accommodating.
So as is becoming clear, Qaeda is having trouble replacing people they loose meaning those that were captured or died. They only trust Arabs, and that also a certain type of Arabs, (not all Arabs are the same, not all Arabic is the same - for example they would never trust a Syrian, in fact Qaeda folks consider Syrian brand of Islam an apostasy - but that is another story).
Okay so now we can understand the statement, that whatever remains of the Qaeda, are not in a position to set up training camps, since they are in a survival mode. The Taliban resurgence helps them get a little warm and fuzzy in this survival mode, since they feel a little bit more secure with their partners-in-arms doing some evil stuff, blowing up people and causing mayhem.
'''How many men does the FC field currently?'''
The FC currently has about 23000 men in total.
'''How much do they get paid?'''
They are paid the equivalent of $60 per month per person -Pak Rupees 3665, where Rs61= $1.
They do have some fringe benefits but life is very spartan for these soldiers.
What the US could get in return is a huge bang for a buck, no pun intended.
I think we ought to double the number of these soldiers with one proviso that the FC maintains its high standards of recruits.
Compare this with our costs in the War against Terror; just Halliburton’s bills will have you reeling. I think that it would be foolish, NOT to do this.
Again to reinforce the reasons:
The Frontier Constabulary is an Institution with a long and glorious history within the Frontier Province.
The recruits come strictly from the tribes of the various FATA and so they are very familiar with the people, the bad guys the terrain etc.
They speak the Pashto dialect of the locals. The Pashto language has many dialects, and you can tell where someone is from based on which dialect he speaks. So if you do not speak the correct dialect, you are immediately identified as an outsider. This is one reason why these tribes are impossible to penetrate, there are other reasons as well, that are beyond the scope of the current discussion.
'''How can the FC help prevent attacks like the suicide bombing attempt on [[w:Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao|Sherpao]] in Charsadda last weekend?'''
In essence your question is how can ''anyone'' prevent a suicide attack?
And frankly if I knew the answer to that I think the US military - and several other groups - would be knocking on my door. I think the Israeli Army has had the most experience with this sort of thing. The suicide bombing as a tactical weapon was invented by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, and even today in terms of statistics they use it in far greater numbers.
So to summarize neither the FC nor anyone else can prevent a suicide bombing. We could attempt to improve our intelligence to find out about an imminent attack, but so far these have not been very successful in Pakistan.
In the Lal Masjid Case the government avoided a suicide killing by negotiating with those two Mullah brothers - but I don't know if that counts. But it does make for an interesting story. Both Washington, DC and Islamabad now have Madams threatening to publish the list of their clients unless they are given protection. Who would have thunk?
Going back to your question:
In my opinion what ought to be done is to make a '''Policy''' change, and address the issues that are producing these suicide bombers, that is the only way to stop this phenomenon.
In this part of the world this is relatively new because prior to 9/11, suicide bombing was unheard of. Moreover it is not the FC's job to provide security to the Minister of the Interior, that is the job of the Police force, because this Ministry is equivalent to the Department of Homeland Security.
You don't expect Border patrol to provide body guard duty to the Secretary of the department of Homeland Security.
I am making these analogies so the American readers would relate to what is happening, and understand the difference in nomenclature.--[[User:RHakeem|RHakeem]] 20:13, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
[[Category:No publish]] | 'What is the current situation in the NWFP?'
The Pashtun people are or were renowned for their hospitality. Many westerners commented on it. Some with suspicion NOT willing to believe some people so poor could be so generous. It was almost a character flaw. One could travel with out fear of personal danger as long as you followed local protocols. (I would urge you to read Kiplings "East is East & West is West." one more time, know this time that it is written about the Pashtun people.)
That was the sort of mind set among the people. An ageless paradigm of self satisfaction: This is enshrined in the code of the Pashtuns way of life (see James Spain "The Way of the Pathans") - called Pashtunwali- in Pashto hospitality is referred to as "maelmastiya".
The Islamic radicalism is in reality nothing but the Taliban movement. As I said earlier not all Pashtuns are Taliban (obviously) but most Taliban are Pashtun. Of these most belong to the FATA. Of these, most were affected by their cousins from Afghanistan coming over. Mingled with them were Arab-Afghans. Uzbeks and some Tajiks and even Chechens. Some of these married within the tribes and formed a bond with the locals. Marriage bonds go back in history. Again remember the mindset of the people here. Always keep that in mind. To them the scripture in the written word of God, and that includes the Old Testament (called Torat (Torah) and (Injeel = Bible less St. Pauls contributions).
This Talibanization shows itself in the content of the Friday sermons at the mosque. Now it shows in the popularity of growing beards, especially since the MMA - the coalition of religious political party's - won power. More recently in their showdown with the Pakistan army in N and S Waziristan - where according to my sources, people prefer going to the Taliban for justice rather than the older system of Maliks and Political Agents. The latter are known as corrupt. In Pakistan in general people are sick of the amount of corruption.
And now in Bannu, from where hails the Chief Minister of the NWFP, Mr Durrani, is in Taliban control in the sense that there is a parallel government that they have established and which is functioning quite well and is popular among the people.
'Justice in tribal areas of Pakistan has been handled by elders, following a mixture of tribal tradition and Islamic law. Would you say that Taliban influence has caused a stricter intrepretation of Islamic law in the NWFP?
Yes. The Maliks, or tribal elders who consider themselves quite conservatively religious, even so had a laid back attitude towards enforcement of religious doctrine. That is where the difference comes. My opinion is that this is the reason that the Maliks supported the government of Pakistan in South Waziristan, which has recently been in the news having kicked out the militant Uzbek who came as guests in the post-soviet era and started mischief of their own but am not sure what their agenda was to begin with, and I myself have questions about their presence as to why they were not reported earlier, since reporting the presence of any foreigner(s) in the FATA is job one of the Pakistani Political Agents (PA). Why is the presence of the Uzbeks and the Chechen in the area just coming to light? Remember there are seven of these PA's - one for each FATA. The Taliban emulated the Saudi system of having a department concerned with citizens’ morals, even the name is the same, the department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, and this department has – as in Saudi Arabia, an enforcement police, called mutawwa'in, a morals law-enforcement agency.
'Has there been a shift from tribal elders to clerics, as the main interpreters of law?'
Yes there has been a movement in that direction but it has started a power struggle between the clerics who traditionally have been at the lowest strata of the social structure, to now when they have seen a bigger role for themselves first from the Taliban in Afghanistan – but also the government of the MMA in the NWFP who are nothing more than glorified clerics themselves, only a little smarter in exploiting religion politically, and the MMA is largely non-Pashtun which is a source of discontent in that they stand in the way of Pashtun nationalism, such as it is, because it only rears its head when non-Pashtuns start to usurp power over what the Pashtun consider their turf.
'The deal made between Pakistani central government and the North and South Waziristan provinces, where tribal leadership was given the pivotal role in dealing with militants and the Taliban, has been criticized as a failure. What caused an initiative by tribal authority to fail?'
First off, I don't agree with the premise of the question, that the "deal" is a "failure" - for the following reasons:
#In the first place the Pakistan army (govt - same difference) did not have many options. This was the least worst option they had.
#And most importantly, I have said this before, this area is literally in a time warp - which means they proceed at (what seems to us in the west) a glacial pace. I will give an example from the folklore:The story goes that a Pashtun had to repay (badal) an enemy for a crime against his family and he waited patiently for 20 years (some say 50 years), after this time, he exacted his revenge - but soon after was depressed because he wondered "Did I act too hastily?"So one part of Pashtunwali is to "pay back" - (Badal: literally to exchange) which most people translate as revenge. Yes that is the form that is most visible, but badal is also played out in the exchange of gifts at wedding and other celebrations, and in the exchange of favors like in politics. The rules can be arcane, unwritten and hard to follow -- who did what to whom, when, and so on, and what is the proper recompense -- this same give and take would occur in a peace process pursued by the Tribal Maliks, who rule by consensus (see Olaf Caroe) and there is no actual leader in the western sense, because all the Maliks, in fact all the others are de facto, so many co-equals (The Way of the Pathans/ People of the Khyber - James Spain pp 129 on.) - it is a mind set, a paradigm foreign to the uninitiated, as is the concept of consensual gay sex to the Wazir in Waziristan.
#I wish someone would read the history of this area, it would help in dealing with our expectations and possibly much more. For instance there are two major tribe in N and S Waziristan, the Wazir, and the Mahsud - in the news you hear about the sub tribes; The most famour character of North Waziristan, the equivalent of a Jesse James, was leader called the "Faqir of Ippi" - he died in 1960, the Pakistan govt never was able to capture him, even though he set up a govt of Independent Pashtunistan in cahoots with Kabul. The great uprising of India of 1897 had its roots in Waziristan, as did the Treaty of Razmak. Of all the Pashtun, the Wazir are the most independent minded and the least to be cowed by military action.
#So what options did Pakistan have, more military action? It had already lost hundred of their "privates" in action. Allow the US forces to come in, as a matter of fact the ISAF do cross into the Pakistani territory, we just don't know how deep they go -- the rules of engagement, as I understand them are, that if they (the US Army of Marines) are in "hot pursuit" then they cross into Pakistan. In reality they do it more often then that, just that there is no proof of it, who will report it, the Wazir? Or the Pakistan army?
#The last part of your question, there are many assumptions, all wrong. The initiative was not from the tribals. There is no single authority amongst the tribal, they would convene a Jirga and decide on a course of action, such as this, to my knowledge no such jirga was called. To save face the Pakistan government might claim it was a tribal initiative, but it seems highly unlikely. The Pak troop's casualties were so high, and there was talk of hostages being held as well -- I tend to believe, that the Governor of the NWFP initiated the talks and the agreement, because he sure as hell is taking all the heat for its "failure".
#That brings me to the last issue, the agreement has not failed, because it has not been given enough time, in Wazir time reference, not American time presidential election cycle controlled. I do not have a crystal ball, but if I did, I would see NATO troops in Afghanistan long after Iraq is over. Afghanistan can be a success ONLY if we accept one thing, the time warp these people live in -- by my reckoning its still 1700 CE over there.
'If the Talibanization of Pakistan is partly due to a perception of corruption among the older system of Maliks and Political Agents, and Musharraf has critics lining up, who can the U.S. turn to in dispensing with $10 billion in aid monies?'
Talibanization has nothing to do with your premise there. Zilch. Nada. The corruption is in the ISI, the Pak army and the Pak system of Political Agents (PA) assigned to these tribal zones (FATA & PATA). These PA have budgets that are much like the CIA in that they are a single line item in the national budget, there is no accountability of where or how the PA spends the money. If one followed the IRS rules and looked at the lifestyles of the PA and compared them with their income, you would soon understand what was going on. Musharraf critics are a larger issue. For eons, Republicans have coddled Pakistan with the belief that "as long as they are pro America" - democracy in Pakistan will come in due course. Democrats have, I think, insisted Democracy first, and then we can discuss the other issues later. For example, pre 9/11, compare how Carter's administration treated Gen Zia and how Reagan's administration treated him.
The Talibanization of Pakistan has more to do with graduates of "Raiwind" a place near Lahore where the "Tablighi Jamaat" conducts brainwashing camps. It was graduates of this place, in my opinion, that are responsible for Britain's 7/7 attacks as an example. For the Talibanization of the FATA, see Ahmed Rashid's classic study on the subject wrt to Afghanistan but applicable to Pashtuns in the NWFP equally, in a sense.
Corruption amongst the Maliks is self limiting because of the egalitarian society they live & because of Pashtunwali (see Charles Lindholm, Oxford press).
Who can the US turn to? This is a tough one. The Pakistani national psyche has not progressed the way the Indians have. There are still very much remnants of the Raj visible and present and invisible but Pakistani behavior gives it away - in the way they treat household help, in the way company bosses treat their employees, in the way the government officers often act above the law. For example the NWFP is supposed to be dry - yet the governemt employees consume copious amounts of liquor. There are some that even moonshine at home. (I have pictures I could share taken at "dance" party, more like a stag party.)
I think this last question is best answered in who has been reliable in the past, and assume the past to be an indicator of future behavior.
We know the Pak army will siphon large amounts towards its Nuclear program and the upkeep of its generals.
We know that Nawaz Sharif left the national treasury almost bankrupt when Musharraf took over.
We know that Benazir husband took 10% of all government deals. I believe he has an Interpol warrant for his arrest, although I can't vouch for it, it does come out in the news, even though it's puzzling why Interpol has trouble executing the warrant. Now I hear they are withdrawn.
So who does that leave?
The next generation of Politicians who are not beholden to anyone.
In my opinion, the US should insist on the scheduled elections but accede to some genuine Pakistani concerns:
Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto ought to be ineligible to run, BUT other members of the respective party PML (N) and PPP (B) can do so.
Prohibit allocation of emblems to the religious party which they can & have misused.
For example in the last election they asked for and got the symbol of a book, they then went on to advertise the symbol represented the Qur'an and a vote for the book was a vote for the Qur'an - not the candidate but the Qur'an. Well the ploy worked only too well. Imagine a similar vote here where a vote is asked for as a vote for the Bible! You can imagine the results.
'What is your take on the Musharraf suspending the judge Iftikhar Chaudhry?'
My take:
I believe, and this is widely held belief, that Musharraf has no constituency of his own for his power base. He wanted legitimization from the Supreme Court, and from Mr Choudhry as Chief Justice (their system is not like ours) would not give it.
So Musharraf has had to hang on to his Army Chief of Staff position to get his power from the Army. If some one else were Chief of Staff, that person could refuse to support Musharraf.
The Justice favorable to the general is Justice Iqbal, who was not the next in line for Chief Justice. The next in line is a Hindu. That presented problems of its own for Musharraf. So when the Hindu judge went for a trip to India, Iqbal became the "available" senior most Supreme Court judge, and hence the haste and lack of decorum with which Justice Chaudhry was removed.
Now we have to wait for the other shoe to fall --- will Iqbal issue a Judicial ruling which would make it easy for Musharraf to stay on as Chief of Staff - in the meantime, the US has asked him to relinquish this army position.
Needless to say, it was very badly handled, high handed, and the TV was present -- the country saw what was being done to the highest member of the court of law, and in their mind, as in mine, the law in Pakistan was being manhandled, handcuffed and sent off packing to jail, so to speak. Something we long suspected, but was confirmed on TV and in the Newspapers. Overseas organizations taking up Chaudhry's cause, might lead one to belive that Musharraf's days are numbered, and they would be wrong, because America needs Musharraf - for the time being, anyway - because Iraq has scared America, just as in the post Vietnam era, there is now a fear regarding Muslim countries - the fear of the alternative, will democracy in Muslim country give us more of Ahmedinejad or Al-Maliki, or can we find some Hamid Karzais'? We just don't know.
'Can you tell us what the prevailing sentiment in the region regarding the Pakistani government effort in the provinces and the international effort in Afghanistan to combat Taliban and affiliated militants?'
In my dealings and inquires, one thing stood out like a sore thumb - the conspiracy theories vis-à-vis anything having to do with America. I mentioned to one of my close friends that events that were previously ascribed as acts of God were now considered acts of the CIA. Some even believed that the Earthquake in the northern areas was because of some sort of underground secret "bomb" used by the CIA. Lack of evidence is further proof that the CIA did it. I was flabbergasted, and started to give this kind of thinking as an example in speaking to "educated" Pakistani's - and among these, those that did agree that the earthquake was NOT the work of the CIA, they would start giving other examples, notably the Blow up of the plane carrying Zia ul Haq an ex President of Pakistan, in which the US Ambassador also perished. When I would point this out, the response would be that that is the sort of thing they do to take away suspicion from themselves.
In a nutshell, the impression I came away with is, there is NO war of civilizations going on, what is going on is a war between literacy and illiteracy. I use the latter term in the widest connotation.
Pakistan government efforts: While on the one hand people would decry that the government is not doing enough, in the same breath they would state the government is a puppet of the US and only does what the US tells it to do. In this sense there is very little awareness among the people about what the Pakistani army is doing in the FATA or for that matter in Balochistan. The local newspapers are censored, and if not censored they do not allocate much space to the topics. "Dawn," which is the highest circulation English language paper, carries more stories about the US than about the local stories, that might appear say in "Newsweek."
The international effort in Afghanistan is not considered international at all, only American. You could speak till you are blue in the face, and you would not change anyone's mind. In my case they would simply turn quiet, not wishing to offend a "guest" (see Pashtunwali).
It is commonly agreed that some thing has to be done to curb the religious extremism that has taken root here, while historically these people (Pashtun) are a moderate people (see Olaf Caroe "The Pathans"). In fact some of the reasons the extremism has crept in is that many of the cultural practices were not in accordance with Saudi based "Salafiism" more popularly known as Wahabism. But Mr Wahab dates to the period of Lawrence of Arabia - Salafism dates further back, and is one of the six or seven schools of "Fiqh" or jurisprudence, but the latter fiqh has morphed into a cult like sect.
Taliban are not visible in the areas I visited, but the militants handiwork clearly is - as elsewhere, the common criminals are taking advantage of this situation, and crime is up significantly. One new crime is Cell phone "snatching" - it's easy and nobody wants to pursue it. If some one is using a Razr phone, he can expect to be hit soon, if he uses it in public. So people have two cell phone (Called mobiles here) one fancy to show off, one for use in public places.
In so far as "foreign" militants are captured and identified, that is to say non-Pashtun (including non Afghan Pashtun or Pak Pashtun) - then the people are obviously in agreement with the government that these people don't belong here and need to go.
The problem is this:
The foreigners are usually in the FATA and have been there since the Soviet war times. Many of them have taken local wives and now have a family. The local have accepted them into their family. Now for the Pak govt to ask them to kick them out, the locals are thinking what am I doing to my grandchildren's father, etc. Again the edicts of Pashtunwali also play a role.
'What kind of support is there in the area for the positions advocated by the Taliban on matters such as Sharia law, women's education, role in public affairs, its proscriptions on entertainment such as movies, music ..etc?'
In the areas that I visited and the people that I spoke to, which by definition is a very non-random sample, the people are TOTALLY opposed to the Taliban. I do have one nephew who seems to have come under the influence of the Salafi's but that is a different story. I can address that separately and you can decide if it belongs with this story - not my nephew's story but the way the Salafi's have woven themselves into this area --- which is historically a "Hanafi" fiqh area, which is much more moderate. Like I said this may be tangential to the main story.
In general, people will say Yes we are Muslim and we are for the Sharia, but in general most people do not know what that entails.
In their mind it entails a more just system, a less corrupt government.
But if you ask them if they want a system like the Taliban the answer is an unequivocal NO.
Women's education is quite the norm in the non FATA parts of the NWFP. When I visited the earthquake area which is also mostly in the NWFP, (I have photo's and video) the girl schools were some of the first to spring up. I remember being pleasantly surprised by this at the time.
As far as a role in Public, it gets complicated. Women are in general expected to be docile and compliant, and the same expectation foloows through into Public affairs. But this point of view is not limited to the NWFP - it is the same all over Pakistan, excluding the large cities of Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad etc. yet still applicable to Peshawar.
In Peshawar you do get to see more girls getting jobs as tellers in a bank and some other non traditional jobs, whereas previously the only jobs were either teachers to young kids, teachers to older girls, nurses and doctors - for the most part.
Movies in the NWFP in the Theaters are for the lower socio economic men only. The reason is other than Talibanization. The easy availability of pirated, good quality DVD's of Indian and Hollywood movies (From China thru the land route over the Karakorum Highway) - it cost Rs120 ($2/-) for the whole family to watch a movie in the comfort of their home. Travelling to a theater might cost that much in gas. The inconvience. The crowds. The men gawking at the women and last but definitely not least, some bombs exploding in the theater some years back, put a comllete stop to the middle class from going out to see movies.
Paashtuns love music. So even though I hear that some bus drivers have been fined for playing their cassettes, I doubt this is going to stop them from playing their music. Some thing far worse has to happen - I think the drivers may start carrying guns and having it out with who ever is tring to stop them from their favorite music.
What is not being reported and what the Taliban could do effectively is to cut up cable tv cables. Most cable companies string their cable ABOVE ground to save cost and take it along the electric poles, below the electricity wires. Since these are exposed there have been many (several) instances of the cables being cut up. Luckiliy there is no market for coaxial cable, or more cable would be lost to druggies doing the cutting. The latter is a serious problem that you don't hear about. One person that I knew told me that he was building his house and had poured conrete and reinforcements for the pillars. The next day he found the reinforcement bars to have been cut up flush with the ground slab leaving him to figure out how to do the rebar of the rest of the pillar.
'To what degree does this support stem from fear and intimidation?'
The Taliban are Pashtun, and the populace is Pashtun. The Pashtun do not scare easy. They are not intimidated easily. They might comply for the moment and then come back with a vengeance, so to speak. The women folk are more susceptible to intimidation, as was evidenced by the closure of the schools, because the mothers decided that they were not going to take a chance that their kids might get injured.
'How about the "political positions" of the insurgent movement - resistance to foreign troops, and the Karzai government? Is there a separatist or nationalist component to the movement?'
Karzai is not popular among the Pashtun's who are loyal to Pakistan in the NWFP, those are the one I met mostly. They think that Karzai is opportunistic in that he is fleecing the government of the US whereas he himself is little more than the mayor of Kabul. They point to his American bodyguards as proof that he is disliked by his own people, that the moment the American leave Karzai is a dead man.
I can not speak to the separatist movement. I have seen no evidence of it. There is widespread resentment that the Federal government refuses to give a name to the province, a name of the people's liking - there have been recently articles in Dawn about this, I will try and find them for you.
Nationalism is alive and well on the other hand, all over Pakistan - in all its four provinces. Everybody hates the Punjabi's - almost to the man.
It is my opinion that were it not for US aid, Pakistan will go the route of Yugoslavia. With lots of bloodshed.
Resistance to foreign troops is like the national pastime among the Pashtun. Even today they collect in the evenings and will tell tales, vastly glorified of the way their grandfather fought against the British.
In other parts of the NWFP, like Charsadda and Mardan where Abdul Ghaffar Khan (the frontier Gandhi) was popular you have old "khudai khidmatgars" telling their stories of how they kicked out the British.
The only thing that Unites the Pashtun, are foreign troops on their soil. Other than that "Pashtun Unity" is almost an oxymoron.
'What do you think the U.S., the international community and Pakistan should do to ease the problems in the region?'
In my opinion, based on my conversations with individuals in positions to know these things, plus a little bit of plain common sense, plus knowing the history of the people and of the area: The ONE thing that will NOT work is direct military action. We know this from history. We know that the Pashtuns love to fight. We know that the Talibanization has brought the Jihadi's into the picture, who like nothing better than to be martyred. So we need to keep this in mind, of what NOT to do. Having said that, what I am going to say next may appear like a paradox.
Because the Pashtun do not like to deal with what they believe are wus or weak people, we do need to have a strong PRESENCE there, and a strong "show of force" - invite a "Jirga" to like a demonstration of what the US air force is capable of doing - just to show them, - the reason is that their paradigm is the 14th century, if you simply told them that we can do this to you, they will simply think you are lying, because that is what they do, they lie to show off.
But if you drop a daisy cutter and tell them before hand what it is capable of, or a stealth bomber, these technologies are outsides their mind-set; we have to get them to believe that we have these capabilities, like the Drone. Or spy satellites.
From this position of strength, and always reminding them that we are raring to use our forces in that like them we also love to shoot our guns at every opportunity, but then not actually do it ( in this sense we had achieved all out objectives with Saddam prior to invading Iraq IMHO invading Iraq was redundant) - so the next step would be:
#Education
#Development meaning providing a means of livelihood so they do not have to become military mercenaries to make a living.
#Gradually replacing their madrassas with our own madrassas, except in the latter, the Mullah is an educated individual who knows comparative religion, and they teach other subjects including Biology, anthropology, measuring the age of the earth by carbon dating etc. and astronomy to learn the age of the Universe, black holes, quasars Relativity concepts, quantum mechanic concepts (not the mathematics, the simple concepts behind them, and how these ideas are behind some of today's everyday electronic devices)
#Leisure activity, starting with traditional leisure activity, i.e. not TV and cable and Internet, but ultimately making these available
#Introduce these "NEW" technologies through a religious mode. Transmit a Qur'anic recital competition to begin with, as an example instead of beginning with MTV.
#Making water available. Drinking water is an everyday necessity, for cooking etc, and not available in most of the FATA.
#Food grain. Wheat flour etc, keep the prices the same as in Peshawar - these people are not traders, they are easily exploited, and like porn they couldn't tell you what exploitation is, but they can tell you when they see it.
'What makes the North-West Frontier Province competent to administer any monies?'
This is the central question. Much like California has taken a separate initiative on stem cell research – as an analogy – the NWFP is central to the war on terror, not Pakistan.
The NWFP was central to the fight and aid to the Afghans during the Soviet occupation, not Pakistan.
This small distinction is lost on Washington, and it is the main reason, in my opinion, why so much of the Aid was "lost in transit was because the Punjabi army officers could not bring themselves to dispense such large sums to an ethnic group which it considers anti-Pakistani (You would have to read the history of the Indian partition, in particular that the NWFP was a “Indian Congress Party” controlled province where as the "Muslim League" of Jinnah was trying to show the Brits that all the area was FOR the creation of Pakistan).
All the FATA is contiguous to the NWFP. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda are holed up somewhere either in the FATA, or across the Durand Line in Afghanistan, the Durand Line has never been recognized by the locals as an international boundary. Even today, the Pashtun travel from Peshawar to Kabul by road with out a passport or visa, and it has been like that for eons.
(Especially for the nomadic Pashtun tribe of Ghilzai’s who travel by caravan and conduct trade.)
The present governor of the NWFP belongs to the Orakzai tribe (he spells his name Aorakzai) and it is my opinion that that he was picked partly because he belongs to one of the FATA as well as he is a retired General of the Pak Army.
The Frontier Constabulary (FC) is a force which primarily recruits from the FATA. All or most of its forces are from the various tribes. In the eyes of the tribes this is a bona fide force and service with the FC is considered an honorable thing. The US has already allocated some funds for increasing recruitment, but far less than what it would take to counter the Taliban and far less than what the economic need is. The US spends a thousand times more on a battalions sent to monitor activity over there. Plus why endanger the lives of our troops and spread our forces thin when a more effective job can be done by the FC. The FC has over history shown that they will attack and use force against the tribes that create trouble. There have been no instances of insubordination or mutiny.
Even the US Embassy is protected by a contingent of the FC! That goes to show their trustworthiness & discipline.
My second proposal is that there is a common phenomenon for Pashtun men to go to the Gulf States for jobs.
The "tribal" Pashtuns ( All Pashtuns are tribal, in that Pashtun form the largest tribal society in the world in terms of numbers) wrt the FATA are not educated or trained and hence not employable right now. I propose that we fund directly the Director of Emigrants (Mr Azhar Arbab) in Islamabad to set up training facilities in Concrete laying, iron work, pipe work, welding etc, which would then qualify these tribesmen to obtain jobs in the Gulf. As such we would remove them from the scene altogether. They would not be available in the labor pool to the Taliban or anyone else. I might add here, that a number of these individuals have very high innate intelligence, which is one reason they make formidable foes.
Now the central reason why the NWFP ought to do this is because they are themselves most affected by the scourge of Talibanization. They are highly motivated in carrying out these policies because it is to their own benefit.
One has to be convinced on this last point, and for that I urge you research the sentiments amongst the people of the province, such as I am willing to provide, and which you can corroborate from other sources as well.
For instance, after Malik Saad was murdered, there were people, whom I heard myself, that expressed the feeling (admittedly stunned with grief) "If this is Islam then fuck such Islam" (I paraphrase, obviously, the Pashto is not directly translatable) – moreover, Mr Saad’s posters are competing with Osama’s in the Bazaar’s as a spontaneous gesture from the public. We can’t afford to let this good-will to be lost.
'An Associated Press report on MSNBC dated March 15, 2007 and headlined "Arrest of al-Qaida’s 'best' reflects changing role" stated, "A senior Western diplomat in Islamabad, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the Taliban resurgence had not necessarily led to the re-emergence of al-Qaida training camps in Pakistan - a key U.S. ally in the war on terror - but had "created the environment for whatever is left of al-Qaida to feel more comfortable." What does that mean?'
A senior western diplomat usually means a Political Officer in the US Embassy, which most people know is a CIA agent, OR it could be some other Embassy official -
First there is a big difference between Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Al Qaeda is mostly composed of Arabs, they do not trust any one else. While they might use others as couriers or in lowly position as servants, for second rate Al Qaeda officials, the Top guys ONLY deal with Arabs and are served by Arabs.
The Taliban are mostly Pashtun tribesmen. Mostly they are graduates of madrassa's.
Mostly illiterate by any world standards. The better educated among them will know how to speak a few words of English, such as their Information minister. There might be one or two notable exception of which I am not aware, I had heard Yale had admitted a Taliban, but never followed up on the story.
However while Al Qaeda does not trust the Taliban, the Taliban look up to Al Qaeda top leadership. We saw this situation in Iraq where initially Al Zarqawi had no direct link with Qaeda but was keen to form one. It would be conjecture on my part to state that in the end he did indeed succeed in forming that connection. In the press at least that impression was prevalent.
So the lines of interest proceed ONE way, like one way traffic. Extremist want to be affiliated with Qaeda, IMHO, while the latter does not, again, in my opinion want to - so as to maintain its hideout.
Now we come to the statement below:
The Taliban resurgence is not connected directly to the Qaeda.
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(al in Arabic = the; Qaeda means the base, or the foundation e.g. in kg school here you are asked "did you learn your "abc's" - in the Muslim world one is asked in an equivalent kg "did you learn your qaeda"?)
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The Qaeda supply lines are hampered, new recruits would have to be Arabs, and they would have to travel a long way through tight Pakistani security to reach here, or suffer hardship over a long and arduous land route through Balochistan and the Tribal area's - NOT all of which are accommodating.
So as is becoming clear, Qaeda is having trouble replacing people they loose meaning those that were captured or died. They only trust Arabs, and that also a certain type of Arabs, (not all Arabs are the same, not all Arabic is the same - for example they would never trust a Syrian, in fact Qaeda folks consider Syrian brand of Islam an apostasy - but that is another story).
Okay so now we can understand the statement, that whatever remains of the Qaeda, are not in a position to set up training camps, since they are in a survival mode. The Taliban resurgence helps them get a little warm and fuzzy in this survival mode, since they feel a little bit more secure with their partners-in-arms doing some evil stuff, blowing up people and causing mayhem.
'How many men does the FC field currently?'
The FC currently has about 23000 men in total.
'How much do they get paid?'
They are paid the equivalent of $60 per month per person -Pak Rupees 3665, where Rs61= $1.
They do have some fringe benefits but life is very spartan for these soldiers.
What the US could get in return is a huge bang for a buck, no pun intended.
I think we ought to double the number of these soldiers with one proviso that the FC maintains its high standards of recruits.
Compare this with our costs in the War against Terror; just Halliburton’s bills will have you reeling. I think that it would be foolish, NOT to do this.
Again to reinforce the reasons:
The Frontier Constabulary is an Institution with a long and glorious history within the Frontier Province.
The recruits come strictly from the tribes of the various FATA and so they are very familiar with the people, the bad guys the terrain etc.
They speak the Pashto dialect of the locals. The Pashto language has many dialects, and you can tell where someone is from based on which dialect he speaks. So if you do not speak the correct dialect, you are immediately identified as an outsider. This is one reason why these tribes are impossible to penetrate, there are other reasons as well, that are beyond the scope of the current discussion.
'How can the FC help prevent attacks like the suicide bombing attempt on Sherpao in Charsadda last weekend?'
In essence your question is how can anyone prevent a suicide attack?
And frankly if I knew the answer to that I think the US military - and several other groups - would be knocking on my door. I think the Israeli Army has had the most experience with this sort of thing. The suicide bombing as a tactical weapon was invented by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, and even today in terms of statistics they use it in far greater numbers.
So to summarize neither the FC nor anyone else can prevent a suicide bombing. We could attempt to improve our intelligence to find out about an imminent attack, but so far these have not been very successful in Pakistan.
In the Lal Masjid Case the government avoided a suicide killing by negotiating with those two Mullah brothers - but I don't know if that counts. But it does make for an interesting story. Both Washington, DC and Islamabad now have Madams threatening to publish the list of their clients unless they are given protection. Who would have thunk?
Going back to your question:
In my opinion what ought to be done is to make a 'Policy' change, and address the issues that are producing these suicide bombers, that is the only way to stop this phenomenon.
In this part of the world this is relatively new because prior to 9/11, suicide bombing was unheard of. Moreover it is not the FC's job to provide security to the Minister of the Interior, that is the job of the Police force, because this Ministry is equivalent to the Department of Homeland Security.
You don't expect Border patrol to provide body guard duty to the Secretary of the department of Homeland Security.
I am making these analogies so the American readers would relate to what is happening, and understand the difference in nomenclature.--RHakeem 20:13, 3 May 2007 (UTC) | [
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===Malaysian prime minister to get married===
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[[Malaysia]]n [[w:Prime Minister of Malaysia|Prime Minister]] [[w:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi|Abdullah Ahmad Badawi]] will be married to Jeanne Abdullah in a private ceremony on Saturday. Premier Abdullah, 61, has been a widower since October 2005, when his wife of 40 years, [[w:Endon Mahmood|Endon Mahmood]], died of [[w:Breast cancer|breast cancer]].
Jeanne, 53, is a hotel management professional who has served as a supervisor at [[w:Seri Perdana|Seri Perdana]], the prime minister's official residence in [[w:Putrajaya|Putrajaya]].
'''Sources'''
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===Trains delayed by sabotage in south Thailand===
[[Image:Thailand deep south named.png|thumb|Map of the mainly-Muslim provinces where there is unrest|right|160px]]
Train service in [[w:Southern Thailand|south Thailand]] is suspended until Friday, while [[w:State Railway of Thailand|State Railway of Thailand]] officials inspect tracks after sabotage was discovered on Wednesday in [[w:Yala Province|Yala]].
Two days earlier, a passenger train bound for [[w:Pattani Province|Pattani]] derailed after tracks were removed by [[:Category:South Thailand insurgency|suspected Muslim insurgents]]. Twenty people were hurt in the wreck.
Also on Wednesday, a Muslim man was fatally shot in [[w:Narathiwat Province|Narathiwat]], and a school was burned in Yala.
'''Sources'''
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===Malaysia reports new bird-flu outbreak===
[[Image:Hahn portrait.jpg|right|160px|thumb|An Asian rooster.]]
One year after declaring itself free of the virus, a new outbreak of the deadly [[w:H5N1|H5N1]] strain of [[avian flu]] was reported on Wednesday in [[Malaysia]], among poultry in Sungei Buluh, a village in [[w:Selangor|Selangor]] state.
"We will cull birds within a one kilometer radius from the index cases," Kamarudin Mohammed Isa of the Department of Veterinary Services, was quoted as saying by [[w:Agence France-Presse|Agence France-Presse]]. Authorities expected kill about 2,000 chickens.
Malaysia's last outbreak of bird flu was in early 2006. No human cases were reported, and the nation declared itself bird-flu free last June. In March this year, Malaysia imposed a crackdown on poultry smuggling, after bird flu was reported in neighboring countries.
'''Sources'''
*{{source|url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/280592/1/.html
|title=Bird flu detected, culling begins
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===Two Indonesian planes make emergency landings===
[[Image:Garuda Denpasar.jpg|thumb|right|160px|A Garuda Indonesia 737.]]
Two planes from two [[Indonesia]]n airlines had to make emergency landings on Wednesday.
In one incident, a [[w:Garuda Indonesia|Gardua Indonesia]] [[w:Boeing 737|Boeing 737-400]] was forced to make an emergency landing after a leaking rubber seal on a cargo door resulted in a drop in cabin pressure. The flight was bound for [[w:Batam|Batam]] from [[w:Jakarta|Jakarta]], but had to land in [[w:Palembang|Palembang]], [[w:South Sumatra|South Sumatra]].
Another 737, flown by [[w:Batavia Air|Batavia Air]], returned to [[w:Semarang|Semarang]], 30 minutes into its flight to Jakarta, because of engine trouble.
No injuries were reported in either incident.
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Two days earlier, a passenger train bound for Pattani derailed after tracks were removed by suspected Muslim insurgents. Twenty people were hurt in the wreck.
Also on Wednesday, a Muslim man was fatally shot in Narathiwat, and a school was burned in Yala.
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"We will cull birds within a one kilometer radius from the index cases," Kamarudin Mohammed Isa of the Department of Veterinary Services, was quoted as saying by Agence France-Presse. Authorities expected kill about 2,000 chickens.
Malaysia's last outbreak of bird flu was in early 2006. No human cases were reported, and the nation declared itself bird-flu free last June. In March this year, Malaysia imposed a crackdown on poultry smuggling, after bird flu was reported in neighboring countries.
'Sources'
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In one incident, a Gardua Indonesia Boeing 737-400 was forced to make an emergency landing after a leaking rubber seal on a cargo door resulted in a drop in cabin pressure. The flight was bound for Batam from Jakarta, but had to land in Palembang, South Sumatra.
Another 737, flown by Batavia Air, returned to Semarang, 30 minutes into its flight to Jakarta, because of engine trouble.
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W
D
L
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1
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2
0
1
1
2
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2
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==Interviews==
===Algoma-Manitoulin===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Family Coalition Party candidate Ray Scott, Algoma-Manitoulin]]
===Ajax-Pickering===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green Party candidate Cecile Willert, Ajax—Pickering]]
===Beaches-East York===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Family Coalition Party candidate Joel Kidd, Beaches-East York]]
===Bramalea-Gore-Malton===
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green candidate Bruce Haines, Bramalea-Gore-Malton]]
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with NDP candidate Glenn Crowe, Bramalea-Gore-Malton]],
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Progressive Conservative candidate Pam Hundal, Bramalea—Gore—Malton]]
===Brant===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Progressive Conservative candidate Dan McCreary, Brant]]
===Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with NDP candidate Paul Johnstone, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound]]
===Carleton—Mississippi Mills===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green Party candidate John Ogilvie, Carleton—Mississippi Mills]]
===Chatham—Kent—Essex===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Family Coalition Party candidate Mark Morin, Chatham—Kent—Essex]]
===Don Valley East===
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Freedom Party candidate Wayne Simmons, Don Valley East]]
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Family Coalition Party candidate Daniel Kidd, Don Valley West]]
===Durham===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Progressive Conservative candidate John O'Toole, Durham]]
===Essex===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Libertarian candidate Aaron Parent, Essex]]
===Hamilton Centre===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green candidate Peter Ormond, Hamilton Centre]]
===Hamilton East===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Family Coalition Party candidate Bob Innes, Hamilton East]]
===Kenora—Rainy River===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Progressive Conservative candidate Penny Lucas, Kenora—Rainy River]]
===Kitchener Centre===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Family Coalition Party candidate Bill Bernhardt, Kitchener Centre]]
===Kitchener-Conestoga===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Libertarian candidate Larry Stevens, Kitchener-Conestoga]]
===Lambton—Kent—Middlesex===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Family Coalition Party candidate Bill McMaster, Lambton—Kent—Middlesex]]
===London-Fanshawe===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Progressive Conservative candidate Jim Chapman, London-Fanshawe]]
===London North Centre===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green Party candidate Brett McKenzie, London North Centre]]
===Nepean-Carleton===
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Family Coalition Party candidate Suzanne Fortin, Nepean-Carleton]]
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green Party candidate Gordon Kubanek, Nepean Carleton]]
===Newmarket-Aurora===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Family Coalition Party candidate Tad Brudzinski, Newmarket-Aurora]]
===Oakville===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green candidate Marion Schaffer, Oakville]]
===Ottawa Centre===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Communist Party candidate Stuart Ryan, Ottawa Centre]]
===Ottawa-Orleans===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Freedom Party candidate David McGruer, Ottawa-Orleans]]
===Ottawa West-Nepean===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green candidate Martin Hyde, Ottawa West-Nepean]]
===Oxford===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Liberal candidate Brian Jackson, Oxford]]
===Parkdale-High Park===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Libertarian candidate Zork Hun, Parkdale-High Park]]
===Peterborough===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green Party candidate Miriam Stucky, Peterborough]]
===Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with NDP candidate Felicite Stairs, Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke]]
===Scarborough-Rouge River===
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Libertarian candidate Alan Mercer, Scarborough—Rouge River]]
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with NDP candidate Sheila White, Scarborough-Rouge River]]
===St. Paul's===
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Family Coalition Party candidate Blaise Thompson, St. Paul's]]
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with independent candidate Charles de Kerckhove, St. Paul's]]
===Sudbury===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Family Coalition Party candidate Carita Murphy-Marketos, Sudbury]]
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[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green Party candidate Lloyd Helferty, Thornhill]]
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[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Communist Party candidate Johan Boyden, Toronto Centre]]
===Toronto—Danforth===
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Libertarian candidate Mark Scott, Toronto—Danforth]]
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Communist Party candidate Shona Bracken, Toronto Danforth]]
===Thunder Bay-Atikokan===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green candidate Russ Aegard, Thunder Bay-Atikokan]]
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*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Liberal candidate Kate Holloway, Trinity-Spadina]]
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Progessive Conservative candidate Tyler Currie, Trinity-Spadina]]
===Vaughan===
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green Party candidate Russell Korus, Vaughan]]
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with NDP candidate Rick Morelli, Vaughan]]
===Welland===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green candidate Mark Grenier, Welland]]
===Willowdale===
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green Party candidate Torbjorn Zetterlund, Willowdale]]
*[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Family Coalition Party candidate Kirsten Monster, Willowdale]]
===Windsor-Tecumseh===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green candidate Andrew McAvoy, Windsor-Tecumseh]]
===Whitby-Oshawa===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green candidate Doug Anderson, Whitby-Oshawa]]
===York Centre===
[[Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green candidate Marija Minic, York Centre]]
===Other election coverage===
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*[[Burlington, Markham, and York South-Weston election results]]
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en | 89172 | 547670 | "2008-01-08T22:21:32Z" | 2,008 | 1 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=89172 | Lemoine Suggests: investigations from a Wikimedia Foundation news leak/Email Sue Gardner Jan 5, 2008 4:15 AM | From: Sue Gardner <edited>
Date: Jan 5, 2008 4:15 AM
Subject: Thanks re Wikipedia meeting, & next steps
To: Jonathan Schwartz <edited>, Greg Papadopoulos <edited>
Cc: Roger McNamee <edited>, Erik Möller <edited>
Hi Jonathan & Greg,
This is just a quick note to say thanks so much for meeting with Roger,
Erik & me in December. We really appreciate it - hope you both had good
holidays afterwards.
In the meeting, we talked about the possibility of Sun making a major
contribution to Wikimedia's hosting, so that you could reinforce your
position as open source leaders by association with us in your
marketing. We think this makes sense, and would love to make it work.
Next steps. Erik will pull together a wishlist, which we will send to
you by the end of January – let's say January 28. The list will likely
come in two versions: one focusing on our immediate needs and our
preferences in terms of hardware and software, and one laying out a
"Wikimedia runs on Sun" scenario in which we fully switch over, with
your help, to an integrated Sun environment. They will target different
scales, let's say about $1M in hardware vs. $5M in
hardware/software/support.
Please let us know if any of this is contrary to what you remember, or
if you want us to refine/revise anything. Otherwise, you'll hear from us
in about three weeks.
Thanks,
Sue
Attachments:
Wikimedia_Past_Present_and_Future.pdf (this is the presentation we gave
at the meeting)
[[Category:No publish]] | From: Sue Gardner
Date: Jan 5, 2008 4:15 AM
Subject: Thanks re Wikipedia meeting, & next steps
To: Jonathan Schwartz , Greg Papadopoulos
Cc: Roger McNamee , Erik Möller
Hi Jonathan & Greg,
This is just a quick note to say thanks so much for meeting with Roger,
Erik & me in December. We really appreciate it - hope you both had good
holidays afterwards.
In the meeting, we talked about the possibility of Sun making a major
contribution to Wikimedia's hosting, so that you could reinforce your
position as open source leaders by association with us in your
marketing. We think this makes sense, and would love to make it work.
Next steps. Erik will pull together a wishlist, which we will send to
you by the end of January – let's say January 28. The list will likely
come in two versions: one focusing on our immediate needs and our
preferences in terms of hardware and software, and one laying out a
"Wikimedia runs on Sun" scenario in which we fully switch over, with
your help, to an integrated Sun environment. They will target different
scales, let's say about $1M in hardware vs. $5M in
hardware/software/support.
Please let us know if any of this is contrary to what you remember, or
if you want us to refine/revise anything. Otherwise, you'll hear from us
in about three weeks.
Thanks,
Sue
Attachments:
Wikimedia_Past_Present_and_Future.pdf (this is the presentation we gave
at the meeting) | [
"No publish"
] | [] | enwikinews-20240201-pages-articles.xml |
en | 89173 | 547669 | "2008-01-08T22:21:05Z" | 2,008 | 1 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=89173 | Lemoine Suggests: investigations from a Wikimedia Foundation news leak/Email Sue Gardner January 7, 2008 7:53:44 PM PST | From: Sue Gardner <edited>Amgine wrote:
I figure this will be easiest if we remain on a single e-mail thread then.
Sure, that's fine. So I will keep it all here.
I've been collecting documentation regarding the Wikimedia Foundation's recent fundraising efforts for a news article on Wikinews (No doubt, Sue, Erik has informed you I left the project, as well as curtailed my volunteer involvement with WMF, upon his election to the Board of Trustees. For your benefit, Erik, I am tentatively doing some minor editing and rc-patrol on en.wn) I believe I have a reasonably complete picture of preliminary results.
Great: let me know if you have any questions or need anything confirmed. You can also, obviously, feel free to speak with Erik. Please be aware also that the "Contributions summary" page isn't necessarily the full picture: it doesn't include all donations sources. So if you want to use totals for your story, you should confirm them with me or Erik to ensure they're complete.
But I do have a number of questions based on what I've learned.
1. A $250k donation, earmarked for hardware. I would appreciate knowing who made the donation, when, and (if possible) why. I'd love to know if the WMF has determined how this donation will be used.
The 250K is coming from a recently-established private foundation that has educational goals similar to ours: they admire what we're doing and want to support us, so they phoned the office and offered to make a contribution. (I'm not sure if it matters for your story, but the 250K is actually unrelated to the online fundraiser, and is not included in the fundraiser totals. Also, it may be worth noting that we have not received the money yet. This is totally fine: these things always take a while.)
After that call, I consulted with the tech team, and we decided to use the money to buy core database servers in our Florida cluster. We had intended to buy the servers anyway: this donation will simply cover most/all of the cost.
I am happy to tell you the basic story, but I don't want to publicly give the name of the organization that's offering us the money: I don't have their permission to do that. They might be fine with it: who knows. I just am not comfortable making that decision for them.
2. A $500k donation. I would appreciate knowing who made the donation, when, and (if possible) why. I'd also like to know if there were any restrictions placed on this donation, like the previous one was dedicated to hardware purchases.
You may already know that our default position is to give donors anonymity unless they specifically say it's okay to use their names. Lots of donors, particularly those who are giving large amounts, prefer to remain anonymous, and I think it's only fair to respect that. In this instance, I don't have permission to give the donor's name: sorry.
I do not know specifically why this donor made the contribution: clearly they wanted to support our work, but I don't know anything more specific than that. And no, there were no restrictions put on the donation.
3. A presentation was made to Sun Microsystems by yourselves, plus Roger McNamee in December. This presentation was at least partially created on November 20th and 21st, and has a large amount of information in it regarding recent past, present, and near-term financial, technical, and traffic. I have at least several questions regarding this presentation, including:
3.a When did the meeting with Sun Microsystems take place, and with whom did you meet?
3.b Assuming the donations proposals are eventually worked out and all parties are able to reach agreement, will the WMF move to a proprietary server network?
3.c One of the technical advances discussed in the proposal is collaborative video. Researching this I discovered a mediawiki site within Kaltura which seemed to be very closely related. Is this connection correct?
In general, I don't want to have a conversation with the media (even friendly media!) about meetings we have with other organizations, until and unless there is something worth talking about. We have lots of provisional conversations with lots of different organizations and people, which don't necessarily imply anything about future plans or possibilities. So as a general practice, I would never comment on a specific meeting or presentation.
Beyond that, as I'm sure you know, the Wikimedia Foundation is committed to running on an infrastructure powered by open source and open standards. We have no plans to change that.
Amgine, let me know if there's any more information I can give you. I'm going to be away from the computer for a couple of hours; back later tonight and obviously tomorrow as well.
Thanks for your interest, and best regards.
Sue
I should very much like to know answers to these and other questions, and will be in irc://freenode.net/Wikinews-en for some hours yet this evening if that would speed the process.
Best regards,
Amgine
On 7-Jan-08, at 4:11 PM, Sue Gardner wrote:
Hi Amgine,
I'd be happy to talk with Wikinews about the fundraiser - although it would be great if you could wait a few days; we are collating all the donations right now, and don't yet have final totals. I'm CCing Erik so he can jump in & say when we will.
Do you want to do it by e-mail? If so, I can start answering questions now, and fill in the blanks when I get the last bits of info.
Let me know what you think - thanks,
Sue
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Ticket#2008010610008625] Interview with Sue Gardner
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:21:24 +0000
From: Wikimedia press team <press@wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia
To: Sue Gardner <edited>
forwarded from OTRS by Angela
---- Forwarded message from Amgine <amgine@saewyc.net> ---
From: Amgine <edited>
To: press@wikimedia.org
Subject: Interview with Sue Gardner
Date: 2008-01-06 23:55:49
Hi!
This is Amgine at en.Wikinews. I'm working on a story involving the Wikimedia Foundation, especially covering the recently ended Fundraiser drive. I'm looking for the opportunity to interview Sue Gardner, hopefully in the early part of this week. I can be reached most easily by cell phone, <edited>, or home phone <edited>, or IRC (check irc://freenode.net/Wikinews-en). I will happily call anywhere for the chance to conduct the interview, or any other venue which would be most convenient.
Best regards,
Amgine
---- End forwarded message ---
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [Ticket#2008010610008625] Interview with Sue Gardner]
Date: January 7, 2008 7:53:44 PM PST
To: Amgine <edited>
Cc: Erik <edited>
[[Category:No publish]] | From: Sue Gardner Amgine wrote:
I figure this will be easiest if we remain on a single e-mail thread then.
Sure, that's fine. So I will keep it all here.
I've been collecting documentation regarding the Wikimedia Foundation's recent fundraising efforts for a news article on Wikinews (No doubt, Sue, Erik has informed you I left the project, as well as curtailed my volunteer involvement with WMF, upon his election to the Board of Trustees. For your benefit, Erik, I am tentatively doing some minor editing and rc-patrol on en.wn) I believe I have a reasonably complete picture of preliminary results.
Great: let me know if you have any questions or need anything confirmed. You can also, obviously, feel free to speak with Erik. Please be aware also that the "Contributions summary" page isn't necessarily the full picture: it doesn't include all donations sources. So if you want to use totals for your story, you should confirm them with me or Erik to ensure they're complete.
But I do have a number of questions based on what I've learned.
1. A $250k donation, earmarked for hardware. I would appreciate knowing who made the donation, when, and (if possible) why. I'd love to know if the WMF has determined how this donation will be used.
The 250K is coming from a recently-established private foundation that has educational goals similar to ours: they admire what we're doing and want to support us, so they phoned the office and offered to make a contribution. (I'm not sure if it matters for your story, but the 250K is actually unrelated to the online fundraiser, and is not included in the fundraiser totals. Also, it may be worth noting that we have not received the money yet. This is totally fine: these things always take a while.)
After that call, I consulted with the tech team, and we decided to use the money to buy core database servers in our Florida cluster. We had intended to buy the servers anyway: this donation will simply cover most/all of the cost.
I am happy to tell you the basic story, but I don't want to publicly give the name of the organization that's offering us the money: I don't have their permission to do that. They might be fine with it: who knows. I just am not comfortable making that decision for them.
2. A $500k donation. I would appreciate knowing who made the donation, when, and (if possible) why. I'd also like to know if there were any restrictions placed on this donation, like the previous one was dedicated to hardware purchases.
You may already know that our default position is to give donors anonymity unless they specifically say it's okay to use their names. Lots of donors, particularly those who are giving large amounts, prefer to remain anonymous, and I think it's only fair to respect that. In this instance, I don't have permission to give the donor's sorry.
I do not know specifically why this donor made the contribution: clearly they wanted to support our work, but I don't know anything more specific than that. And no, there were no restrictions put on the donation.
3. A presentation was made to Sun Microsystems by yourselves, plus Roger McNamee in December. This presentation was at least partially created on November 20th and 21st, and has a large amount of information in it regarding recent past, present, and near-term financial, technical, and traffic. I have at least several questions regarding this presentation, including:
3.a When did the meeting with Sun Microsystems take place, and with whom did you meet?
3.b Assuming the donations proposals are eventually worked out and all parties are able to reach agreement, will the WMF move to a proprietary server network?
3.c One of the technical advances discussed in the proposal is collaborative video. Researching this I discovered a mediawiki site within Kaltura which seemed to be very closely related. Is this connection correct?
In general, I don't want to have a conversation with the media (even friendly media!) about meetings we have with other organizations, until and unless there is something worth talking about. We have lots of provisional conversations with lots of different organizations and people, which don't necessarily imply anything about future plans or possibilities. So as a general practice, I would never comment on a specific meeting or presentation.
Beyond that, as I'm sure you know, the Wikimedia Foundation is committed to running on an infrastructure powered by open source and open standards. We have no plans to change that.
Amgine, let me know if there's any more information I can give you. I'm going to be away from the computer for a couple of hours; back later tonight and obviously tomorrow as well.
Thanks for your interest, and best regards.
Sue
I should very much like to know answers to these and other questions, and will be in irc://freenode.net/Wikinews-en for some hours yet this evening if that would speed the process.
Best regards,
Amgine
On 7-Jan-08, at 4:11 PM, Sue Gardner wrote:
Hi Amgine,
I'd be happy to talk with Wikinews about the fundraiser - although it would be great if you could wait a few days; we are collating all the donations right now, and don't yet have final totals. I'm CCing Erik so he can jump in & say when we will.
Do you want to do it by e-mail? If so, I can start answering questions now, and fill in the blanks when I get the last bits of info.
Let me know what you think - thanks,
Sue
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Ticket#2008010610008625 Interview with Sue Gardner
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:21:24 +0000
From: Wikimedia press team
Organization: Wikimedia
To: Sue Gardner
forwarded from OTRS by Angela
---- Forwarded message from Amgine ---
From: Amgine
To: press@wikimedia.org
Subject: Interview with Sue Gardner
Date: 2008-01-06 23:55:49
Hi!
This is Amgine at en.Wikinews. I'm working on a story involving the Wikimedia Foundation, especially covering the recently ended Fundraiser drive. I'm looking for the opportunity to interview Sue Gardner, hopefully in the early part of this week. I can be reached most easily by cell phone, , or home phone , or IRC (check irc://freenode.net/Wikinews-en). I will happily call anywhere for the chance to conduct the interview, or any other venue which would be most convenient.
Best regards,
Amgine
---- End forwarded message ---
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Ticket#2008010610008625 Interview with Sue Gardner
Date: January 7, 2008 7:53:44 PM PST
To: Amgine
Cc: Erik | [
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__NOTOC__
This is a page for organizing worldwide coverage of the 'Anonymous' protests against the [[w:Church of Scientology|Church of Scientology]] on '''March 15, 2008'''. I would like to hear from those who plan to cover other locations and countries (USA, Canada, Europe, etc) also! These are the ''primary'' cities of interest for Anonymous.
'''Under NO circumstances are any Wikinews reporters, or not, to step on the property of ANY Church of Scientology. By doing so, press or not, if unwelcome, they can have you arrested for trespassing.'''
'''If you can cover a location - add yourself! We need coverage for anything that is listed as Vacant, as well as many people on every location - 5 sets of pictures is much better than none!''' So just because the spot has one or more users in it, does not mean you can't still add yourself. The more reporters the better.
There are least numerous protests planned worldwide. [http://www.partyvan.info/index.php/Project_Chanology/Target_IRL/Scheduled_Protests_and_Raids Click here to see the entire list and if you are in or near any of these areas], please add your name and relevant information below.
Protests start at 11:00 a.m. (YOUR Local time) on March 15.
Please click [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Wikinews_Protest_coverage_guide.pdf here] to download a pdf guide for Wikinewsies covering the protests. It provides a summary of our policies relevant to the protest, with extra information added to increase relevance to Wikinewsies covering the protest.
'''Reporters'''
'''Photographers:'''
* Obtain photographs of the protests
* Other useful information (Journalist role)
''Remember: We need free license images - upload them to Commons!''
'''Videographers:'''
* Obtain video reports of the protests
* Possibly "field reporter" sections (this is <Nickname / Real name> at <location>, for Wikinews Video)
''Technical: All videos must be in Ogg Theora. Conversion from MPEG (and pretty much any other format) is possible by using [http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/ ffmpeg2theora]. It will not be possible to add video any later than 24 hours after the event - so quick turnarounds are needed!''
'''Interviewers:'''
* Obtain photographs of the protests (optional)
* Text, audio or video based interviews
* Other useful information (Journalist role)
''Remember: We need free license images - upload them to Commons!''
''You are welcome to report on the events even if you do not have a working camera although some other proof of your claims will be required.''
==Reporters==
==== Belgium ====
When I find out where the protest is - presumably at the CoS European HQ again I will be there. StevenFruitsmaak may join me. --[[User:Brianmc|''Brian McNeil'']] / <sup>[[User talk:Brianmc|''talk'']]</sup> 18:34, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
*I'll probably be able to join you. --[[User:Stevenfruitsmaak|Steven Fruitsmaak]] <small>([[User_talk:Stevenfruitsmaak|Reply]])</small> 18:39, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
::And, per what the people on irc.partyvan.org have said, we'll get cake. :-P --[[User:Brianmc|''Brian McNeil'']] / <sup>[[User talk:Brianmc|''talk'']]</sup> 22:55, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
::http://anonymousbelgium.jottit.com/ - <s>protest is at European HQ, Wetstraat Bxl. --[[User:Brianmc|''Brian McNeil'']] / <sup>[[User talk:Brianmc|''talk'']]</sup> 23:01, 5 March 2008 (UTC)</s>
:::I am corrected by the above link - they're protesting at the Brussels stock exchange! Better known as the Beurse (sp?). This is in the heart of the city and will get them a far higher visibility than the previous protest. Unfortunately, I'm now in a 50/50% can/can't go situation due to other commitments on the 15th. I may be able to turn up for the first hour then have to head home to deal with family things. --[[User:Brianmc|''Brian McNeil'']] / <sup>[[User talk:Brianmc|''talk'']]</sup> 17:16, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
=== Canada ===
====Ontario====
*[[Commons:User:Editor at Large|Editor at Large]] - will cover protests in '''Ottawa''' [http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~qxi/ottawalulz/index.php?title=Operation_Party_Hard], I'm finally back in the city. D80 + telephoto lens, should be able to get some good shots.
===UK===
====Edinburgh====
*[[User:Meekel|Meekel]] - Will have my camera with me this time too.
====London====
*[[User:Adambro|Adambro]] - ([[User talk:Adambro|talk]]) - Nothing in the calendar to stop my attending as of yet.
*[[User:Skenmy|Skenmy]] + assistant - we wil be covering two events on that day (Anon protests at both locations and an Anti-War march)
====Manchester====
*[[User:Anonymous101|Anonymous101]] - My camera has just broken so I may not be able to photograph the event - but I'll still report on the event and interview protesters. (Or the repair might be complete by Saturday). Update - My camera is not repaired. No photographs by me :(
''Please add your location''
===USA===
'''''Add your state and city here.'''''
====Boston, Massachusetts====
I'll be there, but won't be able to make it till around 2pm. Protest might have thinned out a bit by then, we'll see what happens. I'll bring my camera and notepad, also leave messages on the voicemail. --[[User:TUFKAAP|TUFKAAP]] - ([[User talk:TUFKAAP|talk]]) 17:10, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
====New York====
Either [[w:Buffalo, New York|Buffalo, New York]] or [[New York, New York|New York City]]. Have a camera, notepad(s), recorder etc... ''[[User:DragonFire1024|DragonFire1024]]'' ('''[[User talk:DragonFire1024|Talk to the Dragon]]''') 19:20, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
====Phoenix, Arizona====
I'm planning to cover it again. Photos + short description. [[User:Bjweeks|Bjweeks]] - ([[User talk:Bjweeks|talk]]) 21:01, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
==== Seattle, WA ====
With Digital Camera and notepad, no live posts, but should shortly thereafter --[[User:Roninbk|RoninBK]] - ([[User talk:Roninbk|talk]]) 14:21, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
===Other Countries===
Please add your country to the list
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[[Category:No publish]] | __NOTOC__
This is a page for organizing worldwide coverage of the 'Anonymous' protests against the Church of Scientology on 'March 15, 2008'. I would like to hear from those who plan to cover other locations and countries (USA, Canada, Europe, etc) also! These are the primary cities of interest for Anonymous.
'Under NO circumstances are any Wikinews reporters, or not, to step on the property of ANY Church of Scientology. By doing so, press or not, if unwelcome, they can have you arrested for trespassing.'
'If you can cover a location - add yourself! We need coverage for anything that is listed as Vacant, as well as many people on every location - 5 sets of pictures is much better than none!' So just because the spot has one or more users in it, does not mean you can't still add yourself. The more reporters the better.
There are least numerous protests planned worldwide. Click here to see the entire list and if you are in or near any of these areas, please add your name and relevant information below.
Protests start at 11:00 a.m. (YOUR Local time) on March 15.
Please click here to download a pdf guide for Wikinewsies covering the protests. It provides a summary of our policies relevant to the protest, with extra information added to increase relevance to Wikinewsies covering the protest.
'Reporters'
'Photographers:'
* Obtain photographs of the protests
* Other useful information (Journalist role)
Remember: We need free license images - upload them to Commons!
'Videographers:'
* Obtain video reports of the protests
* Possibly "field reporter" sections (this is at , for Wikinews Video)
Technical: All videos must be in Ogg Theora. Conversion from MPEG (and pretty much any other format) is possible by using ffmpeg2theora. It will not be possible to add video any later than 24 hours after the event - so quick turnarounds are needed!
'Interviewers:'
* Obtain photographs of the protests (optional)
* Text, audio or video based interviews
* Other useful information (Journalist role)
Remember: We need free license images - upload them to Commons!
You are welcome to report on the events even if you do not have a working camera although some other proof of your claims will be required.
Please add your location
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en | 103397 | 4467224 | "2019-02-27T22:15:53Z" | 2,019 | 2 | null | 0 | 0 | http://en.wikinews.org/?curid=103397 | Wikinews interviews Jim Babka, chair of Libertarian organization Downsize DC | {{Date|April 3, 2008}}{{USA}}A reporter from ''[[w:Wikinews|Wikinews]]'' recently interviewed [[w:Jim Babka|Jim Babka]], chair of Libertarian organization [[w:Downsize DC|Downsize DC]]. The organization claims to have arranged for 22,158 people to send a message regarding the "American Freedom Agenda Act" proposed by [[Ron Paul]], in addition to supporting many other laws. The full text of the interview can be found below.
==Interview==
{{WNI response|Wikinews}}'''What is Downsize DC?'''
:'''Jim Babka''': DownsizeDC.org is an organization that makes it easy for every day citizens, with jobs and busy lives, to express their wishes to their two Senators and Representative. It's free and quite easy to use. The DownsizeDC.org system combines education, recruitment, and activism into one simple, seamless process. And once someone sends a message, they begin receiving our free email newsletter, or as we prefer to describe it, they become part of the Downsize DC Army. Voltaire said, "God tends to be on the side of the bigger battalions." And we're looking to build the Downsize DC Army so large that Congress cannot afford to ignore us – so big that we can get our message of small, Constitutionally-limited government out everywhere
{{WNI response|WN}}'''Why do you believe the federal government has grown too large?'''
:'''JB''': Big government at all levels steals about half of everything Americans earn. We don't believe politicians know best how to spend your money or run your life. We want you to be able to keep what you earn; to spend, to save, to invest, and to give away as you see fit.
:We recognize that big government really doesn't work well. Big government has damaged education and health care. It has made us more vulnerable to terrorism while trading away our liberty. It has served the interests of large corporate conglomerates at the expense of individuals. We want to make better education and health care more readily available to you. We want you to live in safety and keep your civil liberties. We want to put an end to corporate welfare.
:The Constitution is our guide, and it limits the powers of the federal government. We want the Constitution restored. We believe that we must Downsize DC so that we can have greater peace and human progress.
{{WNI response|WN}}'''If you could change one aspect of government what would it be and why?'''
:'''JB''': What a terrible question to ask someone like me! It would've been much easier to ask me what parts of government I would like to keep.
:But seriously, if you're going to put a gun to my head like that I would say real legislative reform. Each year and every crisis, government will grow. The legislative rules are written so that the results are virtually guaranteed – more expensive and intrusive government. The incentives in the current legislative environment are all wrong.
:One way we can really address this is through a series of laws, and perhaps, one day, constitutional amendments, which would truly limit Congress in their ability to spend, create and maintain programs, and pass new laws and regulations.
:Congress doesn't read their bills and they frequently pass these long un-read bills with little or no time to review them. We have proposed the Read the Bills Act to remedy that problem. The Read the Bills Act has the added benefit of requiring Congress to post their bills online for reporters, watchdog groups, and every day citizens to be able to read for seven days before the final vote.
:Because we realized that to get around the Read the Bills Act, Congress might cheat, abbreviate their proposals, and just delegate the nitty-gritty details into the hands of unelected bureaucrats who aren't accountable to the people, we proposed the Write the Laws Act. An elected Congress should sweat the details and then be accountable to their constituents.
:Congress also violates the rules of your high school government class, where you were told it took a majority to pass a law. Congress simply combines bad proposals that wouldn't stand on their own, like the Real ID Act (which should be repealed), into bills that are certain to pass, such as a troop appropriation bill. To deal with that problem we presented the One Subject at a Time Act.
:And in the future, we'll call for government to follow it's [''sic''] own accounting and reporting rules for the private sector, ala Sarbanes-Oxley, and a sunset provision requiring all taxes and programs to come up for a vote for re-authorization, with the requirement that they too be read, in full.
:And it's funny because once I get away from the professional, political culture – "the beltway crowd" – and being talking to the Americans that pay the bills – the people in "flyover country" – I find that it doesn't matter what political party people come from. Nearly everyone I meet thinks Congress should be required to read their bills and post them online for seven days, pass bills one subject at a time, and be required to conduct periodic review so that some government programs that don't work get shut down. These proposals are… transpartisan.
{{WNI response|WN}}'''Many people consider organizations like yours to be ultra conservative. Would you agree with this judgement. If not, why not?'''
:'''JB''': I don't even know what that means. It sounds a bit pejorative. I wouldn't agree with that judgment, but I'd want to know what the definition of conservative is.
:In our era, those wearing the appellation "conservative" have, by their actions, if not their rhetoric, defined conservative as… large deficit spending: "monopoly money" policies; corporate welfare alliances; first amendment restrictions; greatly diminished civil liberties in the face of a boogey-man threat; an unconstitutional, unified executive theory; the leap into unconstitutional, pre-emptive wars, also based on boogey-man threats; and an empire. I could go on and on. But if that's all "conservative," then we'd want nothing to do with it.
:In addition, we've had some very successful alliances with groups who would never describe themselves as conservative. Take, for example, the ACLU. We've worked with them on three issues in just the last 16 months. But we've worked with, quite literally, dozens of liberal or progressive groups, on a variety of issues. We've opposed: The War in Iraq; the potential attack of Iran; the Patriot Act; the attempts to get around FISA Courts and spy on Americans; tribunals, secret evidence, and the death of habeas corpus; FCC censorship; the Real ID Act; and the Patriot Act. We've supported improved whistleblower protections, greater government transparency, 9/11 accountability, closing the Drug Czar's office, and ending the war on medical marijuana users. And we've done all of this with groups who weren't the least bit conservative.
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[[Category:Constitution of the United States]] | A reporter from Wikinews recently interviewed Jim Babka, chair of Libertarian organization Downsize DC. The organization claims to have arranged for 22,158 people to send a message regarding the "American Freedom Agenda Act" proposed by Ron Paul, in addition to supporting many other laws. The full text of the interview can be found below.
:'Jim Babka': DownsizeDC.org is an organization that makes it easy for every day citizens, with jobs and busy lives, to express their wishes to their two Senators and Representative. It's free and quite easy to use. The DownsizeDC.org system combines education, recruitment, and activism into one simple, seamless process. And once someone sends a message, they begin receiving our free email newsletter, or as we prefer to describe it, they become part of the Downsize DC Army. Voltaire said, "God tends to be on the side of the bigger battalions." And we're looking to build the Downsize DC Army so large that Congress cannot afford to ignore us – so big that we can get our message of small, Constitutionally-limited government out everywhere
'Why do you believe the federal government has grown too large?'
:'JB': Big government at all levels steals about half of everything Americans earn. We don't believe politicians know best how to spend your money or run your life. We want you to be able to keep what you earn; to spend, to save, to invest, and to give away as you see fit.
:We recognize that big government really doesn't work well. Big government has damaged education and health care. It has made us more vulnerable to terrorism while trading away our liberty. It has served the interests of large corporate conglomerates at the expense of individuals. We want to make better education and health care more readily available to you. We want you to live in safety and keep your civil liberties. We want to put an end to corporate welfare.
:The Constitution is our guide, and it limits the powers of the federal government. We want the Constitution restored. We believe that we must Downsize DC so that we can have greater peace and human progress.
'If you could change one aspect of government what would it be and why?'
:'JB': What a terrible question to ask someone like me! It would've been much easier to ask me what parts of government I would like to keep.
:But seriously, if you're going to put a gun to my head like that I would say real legislative reform. Each year and every crisis, government will grow. The legislative rules are written so that the results are virtually guaranteed – more expensive and intrusive government. The incentives in the current legislative environment are all wrong.
:One way we can really address this is through a series of laws, and perhaps, one day, constitutional amendments, which would truly limit Congress in their ability to spend, create and maintain programs, and pass new laws and regulations.
:Congress doesn't read their bills and they frequently pass these long un-read bills with little or no time to review them. We have proposed the Read the Bills Act to remedy that problem. The Read the Bills Act has the added benefit of requiring Congress to post their bills online for reporters, watchdog groups, and every day citizens to be able to read for seven days before the final vote.
:Because we realized that to get around the Read the Bills Act, Congress might cheat, abbreviate their proposals, and just delegate the nitty-gritty details into the hands of unelected bureaucrats who aren't accountable to the people, we proposed the Write the Laws Act. An elected Congress should sweat the details and then be accountable to their constituents.
:Congress also violates the rules of your high school government class, where you were told it took a majority to pass a law. Congress simply combines bad proposals that wouldn't stand on their own, like the Real ID Act (which should be repealed), into bills that are certain to pass, such as a troop appropriation bill. To deal with that problem we presented the One Subject at a Time Act.
:And in the future, we'll call for government to follow it's sic own accounting and reporting rules for the private sector, ala Sarbanes-Oxley, and a sunset provision requiring all taxes and programs to come up for a vote for re-authorization, with the requirement that they too be read, in full.
:And it's funny because once I get away from the professional, political culture – "the beltway crowd" – and being talking to the Americans that pay the bills – the people in "flyover country" – I find that it doesn't matter what political party people come from. Nearly everyone I meet thinks Congress should be required to read their bills and post them online for seven days, pass bills one subject at a time, and be required to conduct periodic review so that some government programs that don't work get shut down. These proposals are… transpartisan.
'Many people consider organizations like yours to be ultra conservative. Would you agree with this judgement. If not, why not?'
:'JB': I don't even know what that means. It sounds a bit pejorative. I wouldn't agree with that judgment, but I'd want to know what the definition of conservative is.
:In our era, those wearing the appellation "conservative" have, by their actions, if not their rhetoric, defined conservative as… large deficit spending: "monopoly money" policies; corporate welfare alliances; first amendment restrictions; greatly diminished civil liberties in the face of a boogey-man threat; an unconstitutional, unified executive theory; the leap into unconstitutional, pre-emptive wars, also based on boogey-man threats; and an empire. I could go on and on. But if that's all "conservative," then we'd want nothing to do with it.
:In addition, we've had some very successful alliances with groups who would never describe themselves as conservative. Take, for example, the ACLU. We've worked with them on three issues in just the last 16 months. But we've worked with, quite literally, dozens of liberal or progressive groups, on a variety of issues. We've opposed: The War in Iraq; the potential attack of Iran; the Patriot Act; the attempts to get around FISA Courts and spy on Americans; tribunals, secret evidence, and the death of habeas corpus; FCC censorship; the Real ID Act; and the Patriot Act. We've supported improved whistleblower protections, greater government transparency, 9/11 accountability, closing the Drug Czar's office, and ending the war on medical marijuana users. And we've done all of this with groups who weren't the least bit conservative. | [
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[[Image:Eric Bogosian by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|350px|[[w:Eric Bogosian|Eric Bogosian]] at the 2007 [[w:Tribeca Film Festival|Tribeca Film Festival]].<br><sup>photo: [[User:David Shankbone|David Shankbone]].</sup>]]Eric Bogosian is one of America's great multi-dimensional talents. "There's sort of three different careers, and any one of them could exist by itself, on its own two feet. There was that solo stuff, and then I started writing plays in the late seventies." Although his work has spanned genres, most readers will recognize Bogosian for his acting, which has included a memorable performance in [[w:Woody Allen|Woody Allen]]'s ''[[w:Deconstructing Harry|Deconstructing Harry]]'' to co-writing and starring in the [[w:Oliver Stone|Oliver Stone]] movie ''[[w:Talk Radio (film)|Talk Radio]]'' (based upon his [[w:Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prize]]-nominated [[w:Talk Radio (play)|play]]) to playing the bad guy in ''[[w:Under Siege 2|Under Siege 2]]'' to his current role in ''[[w:Law & Order: Criminal Intent|Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]'' as [[w:Danny Ross|Captain Danny Ross]]. They may not know, however, that he had collaborated with [[w:Frank Zappa|Frank Zappa]] on a album, worked with [[w:Sonic Youth|Sonic Youth]], and was a voice on [[w:Mike Judge|Mike Judge]]'s ''[[w:Beavis & Butthead Do America|Beavis & Butthead Do America]]''. He started one of New York City's largest dance companies, The Kitchen, which is still in existence. He starred alongside [[w:Val Kilmer|Val Kilmer]] in ''[[w:Wonderland (film)|Wonderland]]'' and his play ''[[w:Talk Radio (play)|Talk Radio]]'' was recently revived on Broadway with [[w:Liev Schreiber|Liev Schreiber]] in the role Bogosian wrote and made famous.
Currently at work on his third novel, tentatively titled ''The Artist'', Bogosian spoke with [[User:David Shankbone|David Shankbone]] about the craft of writing and his life as a creative.
== Bogosian's view of his work ==
'''David Shankbone: Which role are you most proud of?
:'''Eric Bogosian:''' The ''Talk Radio'' role was pretty significant, I mean, that film is still out there. And it continues to draw attention to itself. I pretty much starred in three movies; ''Talk Radio'', ''Under Siege 2'', and a film called ''[[w:Wonderland (film)|Wonderland]]'' with [[w:Val Kilmer|Val Kilmer]] that I did a few years ago, in which I played a--anyway, you can look it up on [[w:IMDB|IMDB]]. But it's, um--that was a pretty insane role.
'''DS: What kind of roles do you typically go for?
:'''EB:''' Well, I'll play anything if I like the role, if I like the writing; if I think that the character has a real agenda, is an interesting character. I avoid what I think of as "furniture roles,"--I don't care how large or small the role is. For instance, my part in the [[w:Woody Allen|Woody Allen]] movie ''[[w:Deconstructing Harry|Deconstructing Harry]]'' on the page is a small role. It's only a few pages long. But it's a great character, and it's a memorable character.
'''DS: And it's Woody Allen.
:'''EB:''' And it's Woody Allen, yeah. I'm three of the voices on Beavis & Butthead Do America. I have had this really exciting time of being working with [[w:Taylor Hackford|Taylor Hackford]] and Woody Allen and [[w:Robert Altman|Robert Altman]] and [[w:Paul Shrader|Paul Schrader]]. But also, [[w:Mike Judge|Mike Judge]], [[w:Frank Zappa|Frank Zappa]], [[w:Sonic Youth|Sonic Youth]]... These are wide-ranging in the different kinds of things I've worked on. Those are some of the more prominent things. That play in 1994 was a big deal; the film that came out of it is a big deal. Around 2000 I started doing the books, and now I'm on my third novel. That's sort of the overview of the whole thing, at least from my perspective.
'''DS: If you could only choose one of these careers, what would you most want to go with?
:'''EB:''' In temperament, I'm best suited to the writing, but it isn't what I enjoy the most. I mean, I really enjoy acting, because it's a lot of fun. But there's a certain self-involvement that's required with acting, and a certain thick skin that I just don't have. I'm much more a writer, because I can have a homebody quality, and I can be in the house; I can be away from people. I have sort of a problem in that I like people a lot, and I really hate people, and so it's kind of difficult to decide where I'm at on any given day.
== How Bogosian approaches his writing ==
'''DS: When you tackled your first novel, was there ever a time when you were like, 'I don't even know how people get an entire novel out of their heads,' and you had to actually sit down and plot it? How did you approach your first novel?
:'''EB:''' Well, my first prose book wasn't a novel; it's a [[w:Novella|novella]] called, ''Notes from the Underground''. The way I did that--and this is a long time ago--I wrote it by creating diary entries and just filling them in every day. So every day, I would give myself the assignment of writing a diary entry for this character. And I'd say that that's pretty much the easiest way to sit down and write a book, because you say to yourself every day, "I'm going to write one of these things," and one day it'll be long, and another day it'll be short. I eventually found out what that character was about. My current book I'm writing now is also written in journal entry form, although in a much more complex way. When I sat down to write ''Mall'', which was really my first novel, I wrote it by understanding that I'm not the most sophisticated prose writer. I had been writing a lot of screenplays and even some television, so I had learned a lot about how to tell a story. I decided to create a very clear spine on which to hang a lot of things, a very clear arc. That arc was kind of a thriller. ''Mall'' is about a guy who's a disgruntled employee and he goes to a shopping mall to shoot the place up. And it was just kind of strange, because since I've written this book this keeps happening! This happened a few days ago.
'''DS: I saw that.
:'''EB:''' What the book's really about is people who are there at the mall at the time. There's some kids in the food court; there's a woman shopping; and there's another guy shopping for something else. A security guard. All these people get pulled into what happens, and that affects them. That system of writing a story--it's a pinwheel narrative, which has become very popular in movies these days, where you go from character to character to character; all the stories are happening at the same time--that was a great way for me to focus on what I do best, which is to sit with each character, but at the same time have a very clear story. The reason that I went into the prose book world was the nature of audiences. I mainly had written theater, and that audience is such a narrow bandwidth of people, as in those who actually go to the theater at this point. You know demographics and age and so forth, I--they don't actually really reflect even my tastes. Because it's generally theater's for sort of an upper middle class--
'''DS: Do you have an audience in mind when you write?
:'''EB:''' I think of people like myself; people who like the kind of movies I like, the kind of people who read the kind of books I read and listen to my kind of music. contemporary, you know, just like what somebody who maybe is in their thirties might be going to see or something, because it's got more energy and action and--that's the kind of stuff I like. I like louder, stronger, more edgy kind of stuff. That doesn't exist in the theater for the most part, I think because of [[w:Amazon.com|Amazon]].
'''DS: Do you think the audience is shrinking for that sort of narrative?
:'''EB:''' No, with the advent of online bookstores the audience exploded about ten years ago. All of a sudden there were audiences for books that weren't upper middle class audiences, but a younger audience that wanted to read more edgy stuff. And you saw the rise of [Dave] [[w:Dave Eggers|Eggers]] and [[w:David Foster Wallace|David Foster Wallace]]; really interesting writers suddenly came to the fore and I thought to myself, ''I can write a book and find an audience--they can be out there anywhere.'' They can be in [[w:Alberta, Canada|Alberta, Canada]], and they can get my book. But if I write a play--the play world is just a really different world. I discovered that when I wrote a book, that the book world is very crowded. And in fact, I'm already a member of the very-hard-to-get-into theater world, so I have a greater edge; I have a greater sort of built-in advantage when I work in the theater, because I'm a bona fide theater guy. You can walk into any bookstore, and you will see in terms of literary fiction that there's going to be twenty new titles every two weeks. They're going to be there for a few weeks, and then they're going to be gone and there will be twenty more titles. And every once in a while, one breaks out, but they're all competing with each other.
'''DS: How do you break your novel out? How do you get it to stand apart?
:'''EB:''' I can't think about it that way. It's very simple: All I do is write. The way that I go about doing my work is very simple. Imagine that somebody told you that some book was great, or a movie was great, or a play was great, but they didn't tell you anything about it. You're on your way there to see it or hear it or read it, and in your mind, you're already imagining what it's going to be like. That's what I write. I write the stuff that I wish were up there because I'm so often disappointed. I'm just trying to write the thing that would make me happy, you know, as if it was an audience of a hundred thousand of me out there, what they want to read. That isn't necessarily what everybody does. Although I think any successful writer has to be enthusiastic about their own writing. But you might be writing in terms of, "Oh this is going to be my big blockbuster novel" or something.
'''DS: Or if you have a particular point that you want to make. Some sort of allegory or some sort of commentary on society.
:'''EB:''' Well, my stuff reflects the way that I think and exist. It's a little philosophical, but it's a little punk as well because I really believe in having a sense of humor about the world, even though it doesn't reflect in the way I talk. I just think that humor in people and philosophy is what it's all about. I push the envelope a little bit. It just has to be entertaining, and entertaining can be whatever holds an audience. And that might be ideas, or it might be sex or it might be terrific writing--obviously, I want my writing to be able to hold up when you read it.
== How Bogosian works himself into his writing ==
'''DS: Would you describe yourself as an experience junkie?
:'''EB:''' An experience junkie?
'''DS: Yeah.
:'''EB:''' [''Laughs''] Uh, well, I think I always did think of myself that way, but I know there's so many things that I actually don't know anything about. I'm typical of the suburban know-it-alls that showed up in the cities twenty years ago and think of themselves as sort of on the edge, but really are so typical, it's embarrassing. I went to college and I did [[w:Drugs|drugs]] and I lived in the city, so big deal. Me and ninety million other people did the same thing. It isn't like I climbed [[w:Mount Everest|Mount Everest]] or I fought in a war or did anything genuinely interesting. As fiction moves more and more toward this first-person type of fiction, then it becomes this competition of who's had the most exciting life or did the most exciting things. And for me, that's not where literature comes from.
'''DS: Would you say it comes from emotion and character?
:'''EB:''' Yeah--how well you can convey to the audience your point of view. You could be living in a box, but if you can really convey it well then it makes for exciting reading. But, you know, you have to be [[w:Marcel Proust|Proust]] to do that.
'''DS: Do you draw any inspiration from the current political climate, either in the country or in the world?
:'''EB:''' Politically, I'm an activist, but my work is always about sort of the attitude that underlies it all. I rarely deal with topical stuff. It feels topical, but it isn't. I mean, ''Talk Radio'' kind of surprised people, because they revived it last year, twenty years after it had been written, and it felt fresh. But that's because I don't really write about topical stuff; I write about American attitudes, American values, my values, my attitudes. And to the degree that anybody sees things the way I see things, they can relate. But I'm not going to set out and say, "Okay, now what can I write about [[w:George Bush|George Bush]] today?" I just think there's enough people writing blogs about that.
'''DS: Do you think narrative is one of the more challenging aspects of writing?
:'''EB:''' Telling a good story is a dying art. Not just in fiction, but in book writing, where you're given a little bit of a leeway because it's the nature of fiction; you can meander a little bit. But in films and in plays, it's hard to know how to tell a good story. It's sort of one those basic things you have to know how to do before you even sit down to write. You're juggling a lot of balls if you want to a good literary writer. Obviously, you have to have control of the prose itself, the rhetoric of the whole thing, the way you put it forth. Then there's the storytelling. Then it's like who cares that you have something to say unless you have a good reason to say it?
'''DS: Do you ever ask yourself that question about your writing?
:'''EB:''' Like a lot of artists, I started out with a particularly strong point of view, coming from where I was coming from, wherever that might be. Like a suburban kid moving into the city or whatever you want to say I was twenty years ago. But I became successful, and then I found it more and more interesting to write about those things that are part of my successful life, which actually are less and less interesting for an audience to read about. So I mean--you know what I'm saying?
'''DS: But do you ever ask yourself that question when you're writing, "Who cares?"
:'''EB:''' [''Laughs''] Well, yeah. I mean, to some degree, you have to wonder, "Who cares?" But you have to figure that there's gonna be people out there who share your experience. When writing prose you must come to terms with the fact that Oprah is the queen of the prose world right now, because women are the people who buy most literary fiction. I'm a guy in his fifties. The experience of a guy in his fifties is not that interesting to women and there aren't that many men in their fifties reading serious fiction at this point. So you do kind of box yourself into a corner. But what can I do about that? I can only write about what I can write about. There are wonderful writers out there who are mature men writing wonderful books: [[w:Ian McEwan|McEwan]] or Roth or whoever you want to point your finger at. It's just that that whole serious fiction world has its own problems. That's what the online bookseller started to change.
== The future of the narrative ==
'''DS: When you look at the arc of [[w:American culture|American culture]], in your experience, where do you see it heading?
:'''EB:''' Well, technology is what makes all things change. If there were never any changes in technology, I’m sure everything would reach a sort of stasis, and we'd just live the same way all the time. So, as technology changes, it's going to feed int--all of a sudden, there'll be some breakthrough thing that no one will suspect. I mean, when Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere with ''[[w:Pulp Fiction|Pulp Fiction]]'', it was because of what he had accumulated as a video store guy. I know right now, my son is on the computer every night watching endless [[w:YouTube|YouTube]] videos, and he's making videos himself, and he's got the TV set on and the music on at the same time. Maybe something's going to come out of that.
'''DS: Something that's not apparent.
:'''EB:''' Somebody, somewhere, all of a sudden, all these elements will fuse, and there will be this new thing.
'''DS: I [[John Reed on Orwell, God, self-destruction and the future of writing|interviewed a novelist named John Reed]], who wrote this book called ''[[w:Snowball's Chance|Snowball's Chance]]'' that was kind of a rip on [[w:George Orwell|Orwell]]. We were talking about how limited the current narrative is--at least in the United States, where it's sin, suffer and redemption. John said he could foresee at some point these multidimensional narratives almost on a Biblical level come to fruition. Where you have various dimensions, and where it goes from the Internet to magazines to television and it ends up spanning different mediums. It's an interesting idea, and when you really think about it you can see it starting to happen. It's not being done quite yet, but you could envision it.
:'''EB:''' I think I agree with that. And I think that a parallel thing that's going on right now that's invisible to the culture as a whole is that we're moving toward a more medieval way of looking at things. Narratives are moving toward not only pinwheel narratives, but more tapestry-like narratives. Like ''[[w:The Lord of the Rings|The Lord of the Rings]]'', where you don't really feature a psychological character. If you look at the movies that were the [[w:1960s in film|big hits of the sixties]], when I was coming up, you've got these troubled guys that are in the center of the movie. A guy like [[w:Steve McQueen|Steve McQueen]], [[w:Dustin Hoffman|Dustin Hoffman]] in ''[[w:Midnight Cowboy|Midnight Cowboy]]'' or ''[[w:The Graduate|The Graduate]]''; ''[[w:Easy Rider|Easy Rider]]'', or [[w:Jack Nicholson|Jack Nicholson]] in ''[[w:Five Easy Pieces|Five Easy Pieces]]''. Then the literature of the time, same thing. Some central male character who has a lot on his mind and is upset about the ways things are going for him in the world, and he's sort of slogging through. My kids find stuff like that intensely boring. They just aren't interested in psychological characters anymore. Maybe it's because they're kids, but you've got to give them credit. I was reading [[w:Hermann Hesse|Hermann Hesse]] when I was their age. What their taste and what I think the culture as a whole is going toward, is more medieval. When I say medieval, I mean lots of characters that all have [[w:archetype|archetypal]] qualities to them; we don't really know what's going on inside their head; they're just kind of all acting and reacting to each other. You look at the movies that become popular now, even going back to ''Pulp Fiction'' or anything like that, it's, "Who cares about the central, troubled guy?" No one cares anymore; it's old-fashioned. Let's look at lots of people doing lots of things to each other over this span of time, and that's why the movie industry runs into all these problems, because the guys that are greenlighting all the caca that run. They remember the movies that they really liked a lot, and they try and make a movie like that, and they just don't--
'''DS: But update it.
:'''EB:''' Nobody cares anymore.
'''DS: --that this narrative is currently not popular.
:'''EB:''' But those movies don't--they don't swing, you know? Then ''[[w:Ocean's Eleven|Ocean's Eleven]]'' ends up being the kind of movie that will kick it a little bit better. That's why there is so much action and comedy: people don't care about the psychological character. And when you start throwing out that psychological character, which is really what has ruled since Shakespeare. The 1950s are the ultimate psychological characters; [[w:Marlon Brando|Brando]] and all these really troubled guys. You know, it's all done. It's done. It's finished; it's old-fashioned.
'''DS: Nobody wants to find out why a person's troubled anymore?
:'''EB:''' No.
'''DS: They just want to see what the effects are and how things resolve?
:'''EB:''' Yeah, and tell a good story, and have lots of different things going on between different kinds of armies, like ''[[w:300 (film)|300]]'' or whoever they are--talk about medieval, ''300'' is ''before'' medieval. I think you'll see more stuff like that. It isn't entirely to my taste, but the funny thing is, when I see all that kind of material, and then I go back and I look at the kinds of the things that have always attracted me, I realize that it's really the same story over and over and over again. Some troubled white male and his dick, and he's trying to figure out what the fuck is going on in this life--I mean, this is [[w:Philip Roth|Philip Roth]]. It gets you to the Philip Roth novels that he's been currently writing, which are--
'''DS: Which are critically acclaimed but not commercially successful.
:'''EB:''' Yeah, and they're also complete dead ends. I mean, they're the most fucking depressing things--I mean if you're a Philip Roth fan like me, and you've been reading them for years, it's okay. You get it. This guy is in his seventies, he's wearing a diaper, he can't get it up anymore . . . .
'''DS: [''Laughs'']
:'''EB:''' You know, but how is it--how would anybody else be into that kind of shit? It's so uninteresting.
'''DS: Well, it's been seen so many times that everyone knows where it's going; it gets to the point where you're like, okay, what is this? "Dejected Man"? Is this, "World Didn't Turn Out The Way You Thought It Would Man"?
:'''EB:''' Yeah.
'''DS: In the end, the stories become uninteresting because you know it's going to be either a, b, c, or d that makes the conflict. Which is it going to be? People tend to like to read things because they want their interest grabbed. They don't want to read a book like when they watch a horror movie, knowing what is right around the corner.
:'''EB:''' Yeah.
'''DS: How is that person going to die? You know they're going to die. Are they going to be slashed across the throat? are they going to have a sword plunging through their stomach? are they going to be shot in the face?
:'''EB:''' Yeah.
'''DS: You know when you watch a horror movie the person's going to die; it's just a question of how.
:'''EB:''' Yeah.
'''DS: When you take that to a literary level, it starts becoming too formulaic, and people don't care how.
:'''EB:''' Yeah, well that--and also, it reflects sort of where people are at in their lives, and so, you know, romances will perennially be interesting to people because most people that are really actively looking for movies and books are in their twenties and thirties, and they're--that's what their life is all about. But I want to say one other thing, which I--I actually ran a symposium at the Public Library a couple of years ago, which nobody seemed to find very important, but I really think is important, which is: If you really want to look for the new literature, you got to look at graphic novels, which are wildly popular. Just look at them, look at the way they're structured--
'''DS: Yeah.
:'''EB:''' --and look at the way they tell the story: you're completely outside Psychological Character-land. [[w:Neil Gaiman|Neil Gaiman]] is the king of that world as well as a number of other guys, and then they're making movies based on that stuff.
'''DS: ''[[w:30 Days of Night (film)|30 Days of Night]]'' is a good example of that, too, where you did have a central character, but you didn't really go into the psychology of anything. It was based on a [[w:30 Days of Night|graphic novel]]. It's vampires in [[w:Barrow, Alaska|Barrow, Alaska]]. You don't go into the vampires at all.
:'''EB:''' No?
'''DS: One of the criticisms that somebody told me was that they really didn't go into the vampires. You had these creatures show up; they wanted to kill. They were interesting, but you didn't go into what motivated them--it became more about survival. You had all of these different scenarios and how people's lives affected how they reacted to this sudden threat that had entered their town.
:'''EB:''' Right.
'''DS: It was sort kind of a [[w:Pinwheel narrative|pinwheel narrative]], but you didn't get into, "What's driving them? What can stop them?"
:'''EB:''' Yeah, that's our little symposium on the future of narrative.
== Collaborations with Steven Spielberg and Frank Zappa ==
'''DS: What is something you notice missing from your Wikipedia article?
:'''EB:''' There are two items that are interesting that aren't on my Wikipedia article. I don't know how big that page has to be, but I made an album with [[w:Frank Zappa|Frank Zappa]] in 1986.
'''DS: What's it called?
:'''EB:''' It's called ''Blood on the Canvas''. I also co-created a TV series with Spielberg in 1996 that ran for two years on ABC called High Incident.
'''DS: How do you come across these projects?
:'''EB:''' They get in touch with me. There were times when I was sort of an interesting person and I'd get a call from somebody who's working with Frank Zappa and ask me if I would like to meet with him? Very often I'll meet with somebody and there's really nowhere to go with it, or you can't really figure out how to make it happen and it would be great if it did, but--it doesn't. But in the case of Zappa, I mean he's one of my greatest heroes; I would do whatever he wanted to do, and that's what we ended up doing.
'''DS: When you say, "were a more interesting person," who was that person?
:'''EB:''' I was more of interest to the general public, probably because ''Talk Radio'' had just come out and right around that time, there were these hit shows and so forth happening on theater; it was like I could do no wrong. I was younger. I mean, it's like twenty years ago now, almost. You just get the kind of Powers That Be out there going, "Hmmm, who's this guy? Let's do something with him." That's usually what happens; working with Frank was a thrill. Getting pulled into a TV series, I mean it was interesting to be around Spielberg a little bit, but really, you're working for a huge entity, and I just don't do that. I am not that interested in that. I make my own stuff. And so sometimes you get pulled in with a big celebrity producer-creator, and it's suddenly their show, and it's not your show. It's not as exciting as you might think it could be.
'''DS: It's not as much of a collaboration as it is you're working on their project?
:'''EB:''' Yeah. It's always balance. I mean certainly the Woody Allen movie, in which I didn't really have a huge role in it, but how could I not? You know, to be on set with Woody and even working for a few days, it was fun to say, "Oh, this is what it's like"--you know look at the way he works. "This is how he makes his decisions in a scene." And say with [[w:Robert Altman|Altman]] and other people I've worked with, it's like, "This is fascinating!" I made a picture with [[w:Atom Egoyan|Atom Egoyan]] in Canada. Adam's a terrific and exciting director to work around, so that was great. But at the end of the day, you got to say to yourself, I mean, if you're really a maker of things, which I guess I am, then ask, "What am I making? Why am I making it? Where am I going with this?" And then I have this urge to continually put my point of view out there. At the end of the day you'll say, "Why did he even bother doing all this anyway, because there's ninety million books out there, and who needs one more?" But that's the artistic urge.
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[[Category:Theatre]] | Eric Bogosian at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.photo: David Shankbone.Eric Bogosian is one of America's great multi-dimensional talents. "There's sort of three different careers, and any one of them could exist by itself, on its own two feet. There was that solo stuff, and then I started writing plays in the late seventies." Although his work has spanned genres, most readers will recognize Bogosian for his acting, which has included a memorable performance in Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry to co-writing and starring in the Oliver Stone movie Talk Radio (based upon his Pulitzer Prize-nominated play) to playing the bad guy in Under Siege 2 to his current role in Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Captain Danny Ross. They may not know, however, that he had collaborated with Frank Zappa on a album, worked with Sonic Youth, and was a voice on Mike Judge's Beavis & Butthead Do America. He started one of New York City's largest dance companies, The Kitchen, which is still in existence. He starred alongside Val Kilmer in Wonderland and his play Talk Radio was recently revived on Broadway with Liev Schreiber in the role Bogosian wrote and made famous.
Currently at work on his third novel, tentatively titled The Artist, Bogosian spoke with David Shankbone about the craft of writing and his life as a creative.
:'Eric Bogosian:' The Talk Radio role was pretty significant, I mean, that film is still out there. And it continues to draw attention to itself. I pretty much starred in three movies; Talk Radio, Under Siege 2, and a film called Wonderland with Val Kilmer that I did a few years ago, in which I played a--anyway, you can look it up on IMDB. But it's, um--that was a pretty insane role.
'DS: What kind of roles do you typically go for?
:'EB:' Well, I'll play anything if I like the role, if I like the writing; if I think that the character has a real agenda, is an interesting character. I avoid what I think of as "furniture roles,"--I don't care how large or small the role is. For instance, my part in the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry on the page is a small role. It's only a few pages long. But it's a great character, and it's a memorable character.
'DS: And it's Woody Allen.
:'EB:' And it's Woody Allen, yeah. I'm three of the voices on Beavis & Butthead Do America. I have had this really exciting time of being working with Taylor Hackford and Woody Allen and Robert Altman and Paul Schrader. But also, Mike Judge, Frank Zappa, Sonic Youth... These are wide-ranging in the different kinds of things I've worked on. Those are some of the more prominent things. That play in 1994 was a big deal; the film that came out of it is a big deal. Around 2000 I started doing the books, and now I'm on my third novel. That's sort of the overview of the whole thing, at least from my perspective.
'DS: If you could only choose one of these careers, what would you most want to go with?
:'EB:' In temperament, I'm best suited to the writing, but it isn't what I enjoy the most. I mean, I really enjoy acting, because it's a lot of fun. But there's a certain self-involvement that's required with acting, and a certain thick skin that I just don't have. I'm much more a writer, because I can have a homebody quality, and I can be in the house; I can be away from people. I have sort of a problem in that I like people a lot, and I really hate people, and so it's kind of difficult to decide where I'm at on any given day.
:'EB:' Well, my first prose book wasn't a novel; it's a novella called, Notes from the Underground. The way I did that--and this is a long time ago--I wrote it by creating diary entries and just filling them in every day. So every day, I would give myself the assignment of writing a diary entry for this character. And I'd say that that's pretty much the easiest way to sit down and write a book, because you say to yourself every day, "I'm going to write one of these things," and one day it'll be long, and another day it'll be short. I eventually found out what that character was about. My current book I'm writing now is also written in journal entry form, although in a much more complex way. When I sat down to write Mall, which was really my first novel, I wrote it by understanding that I'm not the most sophisticated prose writer. I had been writing a lot of screenplays and even some television, so I had learned a lot about how to tell a story. I decided to create a very clear spine on which to hang a lot of things, a very clear arc. That arc was kind of a thriller. Mall is about a guy who's a disgruntled employee and he goes to a shopping mall to shoot the place up. And it was just kind of strange, because since I've written this book this keeps happening! This happened a few days ago.
'DS: I saw that.
:'EB:' What the book's really about is people who are there at the mall at the time. There's some kids in the food court; there's a woman shopping; and there's another guy shopping for something else. A security guard. All these people get pulled into what happens, and that affects them. That system of writing a story--it's a pinwheel narrative, which has become very popular in movies these days, where you go from character to character to character; all the stories are happening at the same time--that was a great way for me to focus on what I do best, which is to sit with each character, but at the same time have a very clear story. The reason that I went into the prose book world was the nature of audiences. I mainly had written theater, and that audience is such a narrow bandwidth of people, as in those who actually go to the theater at this point. You know demographics and age and so forth, I--they don't actually really reflect even my tastes. Because it's generally theater's for sort of an upper middle class--
'DS: Do you have an audience in mind when you write?
:'EB:' I think of people like myself; people who like the kind of movies I like, the kind of people who read the kind of books I read and listen to my kind of music. contemporary, you know, just like what somebody who maybe is in their thirties might be going to see or something, because it's got more energy and action and--that's the kind of stuff I like. I like louder, stronger, more edgy kind of stuff. That doesn't exist in the theater for the most part, I think because of Amazon.
'DS: Do you think the audience is shrinking for that sort of narrative?
:'EB:' No, with the advent of online bookstores the audience exploded about ten years ago. All of a sudden there were audiences for books that weren't upper middle class audiences, but a younger audience that wanted to read more edgy stuff. And you saw the rise of Dave Eggers and David Foster Wallace; really interesting writers suddenly came to the fore and I thought to myself, I can write a book and find an audience--they can be out there anywhere. They can be in Alberta, Canada, and they can get my book. But if I write a play--the play world is just a really different world. I discovered that when I wrote a book, that the book world is very crowded. And in fact, I'm already a member of the very-hard-to-get-into theater world, so I have a greater edge; I have a greater sort of built-in advantage when I work in the theater, because I'm a bona fide theater guy. You can walk into any bookstore, and you will see in terms of literary fiction that there's going to be twenty new titles every two weeks. They're going to be there for a few weeks, and then they're going to be gone and there will be twenty more titles. And every once in a while, one breaks out, but they're all competing with each other.
'DS: How do you break your novel out? How do you get it to stand apart?
:'EB:' I can't think about it that way. It's very simple: All I do is write. The way that I go about doing my work is very simple. Imagine that somebody told you that some book was great, or a movie was great, or a play was great, but they didn't tell you anything about it. You're on your way there to see it or hear it or read it, and in your mind, you're already imagining what it's going to be like. That's what I write. I write the stuff that I wish were up there because I'm so often disappointed. I'm just trying to write the thing that would make me happy, you know, as if it was an audience of a hundred thousand of me out there, what they want to read. That isn't necessarily what everybody does. Although I think any successful writer has to be enthusiastic about their own writing. But you might be writing in terms of, "Oh this is going to be my big blockbuster novel" or something.
'DS: Or if you have a particular point that you want to make. Some sort of allegory or some sort of commentary on society.
:'EB:' Well, my stuff reflects the way that I think and exist. It's a little philosophical, but it's a little punk as well because I really believe in having a sense of humor about the world, even though it doesn't reflect in the way I talk. I just think that humor in people and philosophy is what it's all about. I push the envelope a little bit. It just has to be entertaining, and entertaining can be whatever holds an audience. And that might be ideas, or it might be sex or it might be terrific writing--obviously, I want my writing to be able to hold up when you read it.
:'EB:' An experience junkie?
'DS: Yeah.
:'EB:' Laughs Uh, well, I think I always did think of myself that way, but I know there's so many things that I actually don't know anything about. I'm typical of the suburban know-it-alls that showed up in the cities twenty years ago and think of themselves as sort of on the edge, but really are so typical, it's embarrassing. I went to college and I did drugs and I lived in the city, so big deal. Me and ninety million other people did the same thing. It isn't like I climbed Mount Everest or I fought in a war or did anything genuinely interesting. As fiction moves more and more toward this first-person type of fiction, then it becomes this competition of who's had the most exciting life or did the most exciting things. And for me, that's not where literature comes from.
'DS: Would you say it comes from emotion and character?
:'EB:' Yeah--how well you can convey to the audience your point of view. You could be living in a box, but if you can really convey it well then it makes for exciting reading. But, you know, you have to be Proust to do that.
'DS: Do you draw any inspiration from the current political climate, either in the country or in the world?
:'EB:' Politically, I'm an activist, but my work is always about sort of the attitude that underlies it all. I rarely deal with topical stuff. It feels topical, but it isn't. I mean, Talk Radio kind of surprised people, because they revived it last year, twenty years after it had been written, and it felt fresh. But that's because I don't really write about topical stuff; I write about American attitudes, American values, my values, my attitudes. And to the degree that anybody sees things the way I see things, they can relate. But I'm not going to set out and say, "Okay, now what can I write about George Bush today?" I just think there's enough people writing blogs about that.
'DS: Do you think narrative is one of the more challenging aspects of writing?
:'EB:' Telling a good story is a dying art. Not just in fiction, but in book writing, where you're given a little bit of a leeway because it's the nature of fiction; you can meander a little bit. But in films and in plays, it's hard to know how to tell a good story. It's sort of one those basic things you have to know how to do before you even sit down to write. You're juggling a lot of balls if you want to a good literary writer. Obviously, you have to have control of the prose itself, the rhetoric of the whole thing, the way you put it forth. Then there's the storytelling. Then it's like who cares that you have something to say unless you have a good reason to say it?
'DS: Do you ever ask yourself that question about your writing?
:'EB:' Like a lot of artists, I started out with a particularly strong point of view, coming from where I was coming from, wherever that might be. Like a suburban kid moving into the city or whatever you want to say I was twenty years ago. But I became successful, and then I found it more and more interesting to write about those things that are part of my successful life, which actually are less and less interesting for an audience to read about. So I mean--you know what I'm saying?
'DS: But do you ever ask yourself that question when you're writing, "Who cares?"
:'EB:' Laughs Well, yeah. I mean, to some degree, you have to wonder, "Who cares?" But you have to figure that there's gonna be people out there who share your experience. When writing prose you must come to terms with the fact that Oprah is the queen of the prose world right now, because women are the people who buy most literary fiction. I'm a guy in his fifties. The experience of a guy in his fifties is not that interesting to women and there aren't that many men in their fifties reading serious fiction at this point. So you do kind of box yourself into a corner. But what can I do about that? I can only write about what I can write about. There are wonderful writers out there who are mature men writing wonderful books: McEwan or Roth or whoever you want to point your finger at. It's just that that whole serious fiction world has its own problems. That's what the online bookseller started to change.
:'EB:' Well, technology is what makes all things change. If there were never any changes in technology, I’m sure everything would reach a sort of stasis, and we'd just live the same way all the time. So, as technology changes, it's going to feed int--all of a sudden, there'll be some breakthrough thing that no one will suspect. I mean, when Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere with Pulp Fiction, it was because of what he had accumulated as a video store guy. I know right now, my son is on the computer every night watching endless YouTube videos, and he's making videos himself, and he's got the TV set on and the music on at the same time. Maybe something's going to come out of that.
'DS: Something that's not apparent.
:'EB:' Somebody, somewhere, all of a sudden, all these elements will fuse, and there will be this new thing.
'DS: I interviewed a novelist named John Reed, who wrote this book called Snowball's Chance that was kind of a rip on Orwell. We were talking about how limited the current narrative is--at least in the United States, where it's sin, suffer and redemption. John said he could foresee at some point these multidimensional narratives almost on a Biblical level come to fruition. Where you have various dimensions, and where it goes from the Internet to magazines to television and it ends up spanning different mediums. It's an interesting idea, and when you really think about it you can see it starting to happen. It's not being done quite yet, but you could envision it.
:'EB:' I think I agree with that. And I think that a parallel thing that's going on right now that's invisible to the culture as a whole is that we're moving toward a more medieval way of looking at things. Narratives are moving toward not only pinwheel narratives, but more tapestry-like narratives. Like The Lord of the Rings, where you don't really feature a psychological character. If you look at the movies that were the big hits of the sixties, when I was coming up, you've got these troubled guys that are in the center of the movie. A guy like Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy or The Graduate; Easy Rider, or Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces. Then the literature of the time, same thing. Some central male character who has a lot on his mind and is upset about the ways things are going for him in the world, and he's sort of slogging through. My kids find stuff like that intensely boring. They just aren't interested in psychological characters anymore. Maybe it's because they're kids, but you've got to give them credit. I was reading Hermann Hesse when I was their age. What their taste and what I think the culture as a whole is going toward, is more medieval. When I say medieval, I mean lots of characters that all have archetypal qualities to them; we don't really know what's going on inside their head; they're just kind of all acting and reacting to each other. You look at the movies that become popular now, even going back to Pulp Fiction or anything like that, it's, "Who cares about the central, troubled guy?" No one cares anymore; it's old-fashioned. Let's look at lots of people doing lots of things to each other over this span of time, and that's why the movie industry runs into all these problems, because the guys that are greenlighting all the caca that run. They remember the movies that they really liked a lot, and they try and make a movie like that, and they just don't--
'DS: But update it.
:'EB:' Nobody cares anymore.
'DS: --that this narrative is currently not popular.
:'EB:' But those movies don't--they don't swing, you know? Then Ocean's Eleven ends up being the kind of movie that will kick it a little bit better. That's why there is so much action and comedy: people don't care about the psychological character. And when you start throwing out that psychological character, which is really what has ruled since Shakespeare. The 1950s are the ultimate psychological characters; Brando and all these really troubled guys. You know, it's all done. It's done. It's finished; it's old-fashioned.
'DS: Nobody wants to find out why a person's troubled anymore?
:'EB:' No.
'DS: They just want to see what the effects are and how things resolve?
:'EB:' Yeah, and tell a good story, and have lots of different things going on between different kinds of armies, like 300 or whoever they are--talk about medieval, 300 is before medieval. I think you'll see more stuff like that. It isn't entirely to my taste, but the funny thing is, when I see all that kind of material, and then I go back and I look at the kinds of the things that have always attracted me, I realize that it's really the same story over and over and over again. Some troubled white male and his dick, and he's trying to figure out what the fuck is going on in this life--I mean, this is Philip Roth. It gets you to the Philip Roth novels that he's been currently writing, which are--
'DS: Which are critically acclaimed but not commercially successful.
:'EB:' Yeah, and they're also complete dead ends. I mean, they're the most fucking depressing things--I mean if you're a Philip Roth fan like me, and you've been reading them for years, it's okay. You get it. This guy is in his seventies, he's wearing a diaper, he can't get it up anymore . . . .
'DS: Laughs
:'EB:' You know, but how is it--how would anybody else be into that kind of shit? It's so uninteresting.
'DS: Well, it's been seen so many times that everyone knows where it's going; it gets to the point where you're like, okay, what is this? "Dejected Man"? Is this, "World Didn't Turn Out The Way You Thought It Would Man"?
:'EB:' Yeah.
'DS: In the end, the stories become uninteresting because you know it's going to be either a, b, c, or d that makes the conflict. Which is it going to be? People tend to like to read things because they want their interest grabbed. They don't want to read a book like when they watch a horror movie, knowing what is right around the corner.
:'EB:' Yeah.
'DS: How is that person going to die? You know they're going to die. Are they going to be slashed across the throat? are they going to have a sword plunging through their stomach? are they going to be shot in the face?
:'EB:' Yeah.
'DS: You know when you watch a horror movie the person's going to die; it's just a question of how.
:'EB:' Yeah.
'DS: When you take that to a literary level, it starts becoming too formulaic, and people don't care how.
:'EB:' Yeah, well that--and also, it reflects sort of where people are at in their lives, and so, you know, romances will perennially be interesting to people because most people that are really actively looking for movies and books are in their twenties and thirties, and they're--that's what their life is all about. But I want to say one other thing, which I--I actually ran a symposium at the Public Library a couple of years ago, which nobody seemed to find very important, but I really think is important, which is: If you really want to look for the new literature, you got to look at graphic novels, which are wildly popular. Just look at them, look at the way they're structured--
'DS: Yeah.
:'EB:' --and look at the way they tell the story: you're completely outside Psychological Character-land. Neil Gaiman is the king of that world as well as a number of other guys, and then they're making movies based on that stuff.
'DS: 30 Days of Night is a good example of that, too, where you did have a central character, but you didn't really go into the psychology of anything. It was based on a graphic novel. It's vampires in Barrow, Alaska. You don't go into the vampires at all.
:'EB:' No?
'DS: One of the criticisms that somebody told me was that they really didn't go into the vampires. You had these creatures show up; they wanted to kill. They were interesting, but you didn't go into what motivated them--it became more about survival. You had all of these different scenarios and how people's lives affected how they reacted to this sudden threat that had entered their town.
:'EB:' Right.
'DS: It was sort kind of a pinwheel narrative, but you didn't get into, "What's driving them? What can stop them?"
:'EB:' Yeah, that's our little symposium on the future of narrative.
:'EB:' There are two items that are interesting that aren't on my Wikipedia article. I don't know how big that page has to be, but I made an album with Frank Zappa in 1986.
'DS: What's it called?
:'EB:' It's called Blood on the Canvas. I also co-created a TV series with Spielberg in 1996 that ran for two years on ABC called High Incident.
'DS: How do you come across these projects?
:'EB:' They get in touch with me. There were times when I was sort of an interesting person and I'd get a call from somebody who's working with Frank Zappa and ask me if I would like to meet with him? Very often I'll meet with somebody and there's really nowhere to go with it, or you can't really figure out how to make it happen and it would be great if it did, but--it doesn't. But in the case of Zappa, I mean he's one of my greatest heroes; I would do whatever he wanted to do, and that's what we ended up doing.
'DS: When you say, "were a more interesting person," who was that person?
:'EB:' I was more of interest to the general public, probably because Talk Radio had just come out and right around that time, there were these hit shows and so forth happening on theater; it was like I could do no wrong. I was younger. I mean, it's like twenty years ago now, almost. You just get the kind of Powers That Be out there going, "Hmmm, who's this guy? Let's do something with him." That's usually what happens; working with Frank was a thrill. Getting pulled into a TV series, I mean it was interesting to be around Spielberg a little bit, but really, you're working for a huge entity, and I just don't do that. I am not that interested in that. I make my own stuff. And so sometimes you get pulled in with a big celebrity producer-creator, and it's suddenly their show, and it's not your show. It's not as exciting as you might think it could be.
'DS: It's not as much of a collaboration as it is you're working on their project?
:'EB:' Yeah. It's always balance. I mean certainly the Woody Allen movie, in which I didn't really have a huge role in it, but how could I not? You know, to be on set with Woody and even working for a few days, it was fun to say, "Oh, this is what it's like"--you know look at the way he works. "This is how he makes his decisions in a scene." And say with Altman and other people I've worked with, it's like, "This is fascinating!" I made a picture with Atom Egoyan in Canada. Adam's a terrific and exciting director to work around, so that was great. But at the end of the day, you got to say to yourself, I mean, if you're really a maker of things, which I guess I am, then ask, "What am I making? Why am I making it? Where am I going with this?" And then I have this urge to continually put my point of view out there. At the end of the day you'll say, "Why did he even bother doing all this anyway, because there's ninety million books out there, and who needs one more?" But that's the artistic urge. | [
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The president of the [[w:Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries|Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries]] (OPEC) [[w:Chakib Khelil|Chakib Khelil]] predicts that prices of world crude oil could reach the [[w:United States dollar|US$]]150 to $170 range per barrel before this year's summer ends.
In an interview on the French news channel [[w:France24|France24]], Khelil who is also [[Algeria]]'s energy minister, also stated that prices won't reach $200 per barrel when asked as to how far would prices would go up.
During the interview, Khelil said that prices would depend on how far the United States puts pressure on oil producer [[Iran]], over its nuclear program and on the stability of the [[w:Euro|euro]], Europe's currency.
In a transcript of the France24 interview, the OPEC President said, "I think that the devaluation of the dollar against the euro, if everything goes as I think it will, will be of the order of perhaps 1-2 percent and this will probably generate an $8 rise in the price of oil," he said.
The OPEC president blamed the weakness of the U.S. dollar as the main reason for the current prices of oil.
Khelil was also quoted saying, "You can see it, every time there is a strengthening of the dollar, there's a drop in prices."
Come September, Khelil said that the thirteen member countries of OPEC will review its hands off policy on the sky rocketing prices of world crude oil.
Western nations has been pressuring OPEC to increase oil production to halt the soaring oil prices.
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The president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Chakib Khelil predicts that prices of world crude oil could reach the US$150 to $170 range per barrel before this year's summer ends.
In an interview on the French news channel France24, Khelil who is also Algeria's energy minister, also stated that prices won't reach $200 per barrel when asked as to how far would prices would go up.
During the interview, Khelil said that prices would depend on how far the United States puts pressure on oil producer Iran, over its nuclear program and on the stability of the euro, Europe's currency.
In a transcript of the France24 interview, the OPEC President said, "I think that the devaluation of the dollar against the euro, if everything goes as I think it will, will be of the order of perhaps 1-2 percent and this will probably generate an $8 rise in the price of oil," he said.
The OPEC president blamed the weakness of the U.S. dollar as the main reason for the current prices of oil.
Khelil was also quoted saying, "You can see it, every time there is a strengthening of the dollar, there's a drop in prices."
Come September, Khelil said that the thirteen member countries of OPEC will review its hands off policy on the sky rocketing prices of world crude oil.
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Fulfilling a pledge of fairness, [[United States]] president [[George W. Bush]] announced Thursday that the United States will soon remove [[North Korea]] from a list of countries seen as 'sponsoring [[w:terrorism|terrorism]]' in the world.
The announcement was made as a 'reward' to North Korea for turning over all documents related to its controversial [[w:Nuclear program of North Korea|nuclear program]]. [[w:Pyongyang|Pyongyang]] turned over to [[China]] documents related to its [[w:plutonium|plutonium]] core and waste activities.
Pyongyang finally turned over documents and plans of its [[w:Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center|nuclear enrichment facilities]] in [[w:Yongbyong|Yongbyong]].
North Korean state television also announced that the state will televise the demolition of the cooling tower of the Yongbyong nuclear facilities on Friday.
Mr. Bush called the North Korean action as a positive step with no illusions. He also said that the act truly pleased him and it's just the first step towards repairing North Korea's relation and status with the world community.
[[Image:George W. Bush speaks at Coast Guard commencement.jpg|thumb|left|180px|United States President George W. Bush]]
The president added that in response to the act, he will lift the trade sanctions under the [[w:Trading With the Enemy Act|Trading With the Enemy Act]]. The [[w:White House|White House]] will also inform the [[w:United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] that in 45 days, the [[w:State Department|State Department]] will remove North Korea from a list of nations that sponsor terrorism.
The United States reminded North Korea that it still has some requirements to complete in order for the country to be completely removed from its diplomatic and economic isolation. Pyongyang still remains obliged to answer questions such as the degree of its uranium enrichment and proliferation that possibly benefited [[Syria]].
The United Nations sanction sponsored by the United States issued on February 13, 2007 also demanded for a complete accounting of the alleged half a dozen units of nuclear bombs, the real number and its actual location.
U.S. National Security Adviser [[w:Stephen Hadley|Stephen Hadley]] downplayed any heightened expectations from North Korea and branded the latest act as a mere "stepping stone." Hadley warned that the process remains delicate and there will still be "definite consequences," if North Korea fails to fulfill its end of the bargain.
Meanwhile, [[Japan]] expressed 'unease' over the decision of the United States to remove North Korea from the 'terror' list, claiming that there is still a need to resolve issues about the kidnapping of Japanese nationals by agents of Pyongyang.
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Fulfilling a pledge of fairness, United States president George W. Bush announced Thursday that the United States will soon remove North Korea from a list of countries seen as 'sponsoring terrorism' in the world.
The announcement was made as a 'reward' to North Korea for turning over all documents related to its controversial nuclear program. Pyongyang turned over to China documents related to its plutonium core and waste activities.
Pyongyang finally turned over documents and plans of its nuclear enrichment facilities in Yongbyong.
North Korean state television also announced that the state will televise the demolition of the cooling tower of the Yongbyong nuclear facilities on Friday.
Mr. Bush called the North Korean action as a positive step with no illusions. He also said that the act truly pleased him and it's just the first step towards repairing North Korea's relation and status with the world community.
United States President George W. Bush
The president added that in response to the act, he will lift the trade sanctions under the Trading With the Enemy Act. The White House will also inform the U.S. Congress that in 45 days, the State Department will remove North Korea from a list of nations that sponsor terrorism.
The United States reminded North Korea that it still has some requirements to complete in order for the country to be completely removed from its diplomatic and economic isolation. Pyongyang still remains obliged to answer questions such as the degree of its uranium enrichment and proliferation that possibly benefited Syria.
The United Nations sanction sponsored by the United States issued on February 13, 2007 also demanded for a complete accounting of the alleged half a dozen units of nuclear bombs, the real number and its actual location.
U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley downplayed any heightened expectations from North Korea and branded the latest act as a mere "stepping stone." Hadley warned that the process remains delicate and there will still be "definite consequences," if North Korea fails to fulfill its end of the bargain.
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{{CDNinterview | party=Liberal | name=Dr. [[w:Eric Hoskins|Eric Hoskins]] | riding=Haldimand—Norfolk}}<!--Please leave this template as is, do not make it "subst:", as I need to keep the option open of updating the text in hundreds of interviews at once.-->
==Interview==
'''Why are you running for political office, why at the federal level, why this party, and why in this riding?'''
: I am running for political office because I feel that it is time to change the way we do politics at the federal level. We need a bold, courageous vision for the future of our country, one that rises above party politics and speaks to all Canadians.
: I am running in Haldimand-Norfolk because my family's roots in this riding go back five generations and nearly 150 years. I grew up here, and continue to call Simcoe my home. I have spent the last twenty years giving a voice to people, families and communities facing challenges, helping them take hold of opportunities and grow strong.
: Now I want to stand up for Haldimand-Norfolk in Ottawa and represent its priorities. We need leadership in Haldimand-Norfolk that works for all citizens, finding common ground and seizing every opportunity for advancement of our families, communities and our economy.
'''Previous to this campaign, have you been politically involved? How will you apply your previous work/volunteer/life experience to serving your constituents?'''
: Political involvement has been an important part of my professional career. After completing my studies at McMaster and Oxford universities I found myself drawn to humanitarian work as a doctor in some of the world's most troubled war zones. Upon returning to Canada I spent three years in federal government as the Senior Advisor to Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy. I now practice medicine and serve as President of War Child, a leading Canadian charity helping children in war zones. I have spent the last twenty years advocating for people, families and communities. This experience has prepared me to give a voice to the people of Haldimand-Norfolk in Ottawa.
'''As you campaign around your riding, it's likely that some issues are mentioned more often by voters, than other issues. What would you say are the three hottest topics this election, in your riding? What would you and your party do to address these issues?'''
: In Haldimand-Norfolk, the three hottest topics in this election are the impasse over land claims in Caledonia, the state of agriculture and food policy, and health care.
: '''Land Claims'''
: I will make the impasse in Caledonia a cabinet priority. This dispute is a federal problem that requires a federal response. Negotiations must happen with frequency, and I will ensure that interim targets are established and met within a timeline. I will do more to ensure this dispute is resolved, and ensure that the Federal, Provincial and local governments work together with Police Services to resolve this impasse in a timely manner.
: '''Agriculture and Food Policy'''
: We need a food policy that puts Canadian farmers first. I will fight for a national food strategy that prioritizes Canadian farming by promoting local agriculture, food safety and food security. Canadians should be encouraged to buy local food stuffs, however, we have to ensure they are protected from food-born illnesses. The government must do more to support farmers and to keep our food supply safe.
: I believe in the wheat board and support supply management. Farm programs should be simplified and made transparent. The Conservative government has marginalized the farming communities it claims to represent. We need concrete support for our farmers and a real solution for tobacco producers, not more politics and posturing.
: '''Health Care'''
: Families in Haldimand-Norfolk deserve quality health care. As a medical doctor, I understand the challenges facing our communities, including a lack of physicians, long wait times and spiraling drug costs. The size of your bank account should not be the determinant of the quality of care you receive. We will continue to fight to ensure that the future of health care does not follow this course. Our health care system should remain publicly-funded and properly funded.
: All patients have a fundamental right to receive access to timely care for necessary medical services. It is unacceptable that too many Canadians are without a family physician. Wait times in emergency rooms or for important diagnoses are too long because there aren't enough nurses or other medical professionals to keep up with the increasing needs. With an aging population we need a plan to ensure greater access to health care professionals. I will work hard to attract new doctors and bring better health services to our communities. I will support the Liberal Doctors and Nurses Fund, which will invest $420 million to ensure all Canadians have access to a medical professional. I will also work to ensure that the goals of the National Pharmaceuticals Strategy are achieved, namely catastrophic drug coverage.
{{original}} {{interview}}
'''Are there any misconceptions about you, your leader, or your party and platform?'''
: I think there are several misconceptions about Stéphane Dion. He is a strong, thoughtful leader who is genuine in his desire to serve the best interests of Canadians. Throughout the Liberal leadership campaign, his integrity was never questioned.
: This is a man who stood up to Lucien Bouchard during the height of the separatist debate in Quebec. He took criticism because of his stance in his home province, yet he continued to fight for national unity. This strong vision of Canada remains evident today; his innovative ideas promise to deliver prosperity to Canadians.
: The Green Shift plan is poorly understood. This marriage of the economy to the environment is an innovative step that will provide Canada with the opportunity to reinvigorate the economy and resume its place as a global leader in fighting climate change effectively.
: The Green Shift is designed to tax less the things we want more of (like income, investment, and jobs), and tax more the things we want less of (like pollution and greenhouse gas emissions). It is revenue neutral; the Auditor General will certify that every dollar collected from the carbon tax will be returned to Canadians. I support the Green Shift, and I support Stéphane Dion.
'''There are more ways than ever to get your message out, from the traditional campaign fliers and lawn signs, to new media like websites, Facebook, and YouTube. The tried-and-true routes get the message out to the masses much easier, but digital alternatives are much more measurable in how many are seeing or interacting with your campaign. What seems to be the most effective, from your experience?'''
: New media like websites and Facebook are very effective at getting out the message to the masses. They allow candidates to explain their position on numerous issues and also provide a venue to explain policy options. While these applications are useful, going out and talking to voters remains may favourite way to campaign and spread my message. Nothing is more effective than discussing the issues with voters and answering their questions in person.
==External links==
* [http://www.erichoskins.ca/ Official campaign site]
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{{archive}} | : I am running in Haldimand-Norfolk because my family's roots in this riding go back five generations and nearly 150 years. I grew up here, and continue to call Simcoe my home. I have spent the last twenty years giving a voice to people, families and communities facing challenges, helping them take hold of opportunities and grow strong.
: Now I want to stand up for Haldimand-Norfolk in Ottawa and represent its priorities. We need leadership in Haldimand-Norfolk that works for all citizens, finding common ground and seizing every opportunity for advancement of our families, communities and our economy.
'Previous to this campaign, have you been politically involved? How will you apply your previous work/volunteer/life experience to serving your constituents?'
: Political involvement has been an important part of my professional career. After completing my studies at McMaster and Oxford universities I found myself drawn to humanitarian work as a doctor in some of the world's most troubled war zones. Upon returning to Canada I spent three years in federal government as the Senior Advisor to Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy. I now practice medicine and serve as President of War Child, a leading Canadian charity helping children in war zones. I have spent the last twenty years advocating for people, families and communities. This experience has prepared me to give a voice to the people of Haldimand-Norfolk in Ottawa.
'As you campaign around your riding, it's likely that some issues are mentioned more often by voters, than other issues. What would you say are the three hottest topics this election, in your riding? What would you and your party do to address these issues?'
: In Haldimand-Norfolk, the three hottest topics in this election are the impasse over land claims in Caledonia, the state of agriculture and food policy, and health care.
: 'Land Claims'
: I will make the impasse in Caledonia a cabinet priority. This dispute is a federal problem that requires a federal response. Negotiations must happen with frequency, and I will ensure that interim targets are established and met within a timeline. I will do more to ensure this dispute is resolved, and ensure that the Federal, Provincial and local governments work together with Police Services to resolve this impasse in a timely manner.
: 'Agriculture and Food Policy'
: We need a food policy that puts Canadian farmers first. I will fight for a national food strategy that prioritizes Canadian farming by promoting local agriculture, food safety and food security. Canadians should be encouraged to buy local food stuffs, however, we have to ensure they are protected from food-born illnesses. The government must do more to support farmers and to keep our food supply safe.
: I believe in the wheat board and support supply management. Farm programs should be simplified and made transparent. The Conservative government has marginalized the farming communities it claims to represent. We need concrete support for our farmers and a real solution for tobacco producers, not more politics and posturing.
: 'Health Care'
: Families in Haldimand-Norfolk deserve quality health care. As a medical doctor, I understand the challenges facing our communities, including a lack of physicians, long wait times and spiraling drug costs. The size of your bank account should not be the determinant of the quality of care you receive. We will continue to fight to ensure that the future of health care does not follow this course. Our health care system should remain publicly-funded and properly funded.
: All patients have a fundamental right to receive access to timely care for necessary medical services. It is unacceptable that too many Canadians are without a family physician. Wait times in emergency rooms or for important diagnoses are too long because there aren't enough nurses or other medical professionals to keep up with the increasing needs. With an aging population we need a plan to ensure greater access to health care professionals. I will work hard to attract new doctors and bring better health services to our communities. I will support the Liberal Doctors and Nurses Fund, which will invest $420 million to ensure all Canadians have access to a medical professional. I will also work to ensure that the goals of the National Pharmaceuticals Strategy are achieved, namely catastrophic drug coverage.
'Are there any misconceptions about you, your leader, or your party and platform?'
: I think there are several misconceptions about Stéphane Dion. He is a strong, thoughtful leader who is genuine in his desire to serve the best interests of Canadians. Throughout the Liberal leadership campaign, his integrity was never questioned.
: This is a man who stood up to Lucien Bouchard during the height of the separatist debate in Quebec. He took criticism because of his stance in his home province, yet he continued to fight for national unity. This strong vision of Canada remains evident today; his innovative ideas promise to deliver prosperity to Canadians.
: The Green Shift plan is poorly understood. This marriage of the economy to the environment is an innovative step that will provide Canada with the opportunity to reinvigorate the economy and resume its place as a global leader in fighting climate change effectively.
: The Green Shift is designed to tax less the things we want more of (like income, investment, and jobs), and tax more the things we want less of (like pollution and greenhouse gas emissions). It is revenue neutral; the Auditor General will certify that every dollar collected from the carbon tax will be returned to Canadians. I support the Green Shift, and I support Stéphane Dion.
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{{date|28 September 2008}}
In Vancouver-Kingsway, [[w:David Emerson|David Emerson]]'s old [[w:Riding (country_subdivision)|riding]], the Conservatives aren't considered to really be in the running; the real competition is between the [[w:Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]'s Wendy Yuan and the [[w:New Democratic Party|NDP]]'s Don Davies with Green's darkhorse candidate presumed to be not in the front.
The history of the riding can, in some measure, be read in the parties fielding candidates; in addition to the four national parties there are contestants from Libertarian, Communist, and Marxist-Leninist parties. The rich diversity of the riding has less than half of all households reporting English as the first language at home.
Emerson cited this diversity after announcing he would not be running for a third term. "The reality is, Kingsway was an eminently winnable seat," said the Conservative Minister. "Not because I'm a hugely popular fellow in Kingsway, but because of vote splits and the way the first-past-the-post system works."
Key in those vote splits are issues dividing the Liberal and NDP candidates. Naturalized Canadian Yuan points to her immigrant history, giving her an empathy with the immigrant and ethnic neighborhoods of the riding. “I came with limited means but through hard work, I got recognized and became a successful businesswoman. I understand what immigrants have to go through to reach what they want.”
“I really respect and appreciate and like the multicultural fabric of our riding,” says her NDP opponent Davies. “That’s why I live in Kingsway. I’m the only candidate who lives here with roots here.” The Teamster's lawyer is originally from Edmonton, but has been living in Vancouver environs since 1991.
The Conservative party candidate Salomon Rayek is not responding to press inquiries from several sources, and is cited as an example of a long-shot candidate - a candidate with little likelihood of being elected yet represents the party anyway.
Doug Warkentin, the Green Party candidate, ran for Member of Legislative Assembly in BC's 2005 elections in the Vancouver-Langara provincial electoral district, coming in third to the Liberal's Carol Taylor. He's lived for the past three years in the riding, an engineer and small business owner who has a history of community involvement across south Vancouver. "I see the neighbourhoods in and around Kingsway as a great place to build on the natural vibrancy of the small business sector as a backbone for ethnically and economically diverse communities."
Matt Kadioglu of the Libertarians is a relative newcomer with one previous campaign, while Donna Petersen (Marxist-Leninist) and Kimball Cariou (Communist) each have four previous contests according to [http://www.punditsguide.ca/candidate_e.php?candidate=586 Pundits Guide].
The stage for this fight was set in 2006, when newly-elected Liberal Dave Emerson crossed the floor and directly into the Conservative Cabinet, first as Minister of International Trade then as Minister of Foreign Affairs following the resignation of Maxime Bernier. His defection stirred a firestorm of controversy locally in the staunchly left-leaning riding, which had elected a Progressive Conservative candidate exactly once since it's creation in 1953 - during the 1958 Diefenbaker landslide.
In 2004 then-Prime Minister Paul Martin parachuted Emerson in, displacing the brewing contest between incumbent Liberal Sophia Leung and Ms Yuan. Emerson won the riding against Ian Waddell, the NDP candidate who had represented the riding from 1979-1988, and again by a wider margin in 2006 when other Liberals fell as victims of the Sponsorship Scandal.
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* {{source|url=http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=b78877d4-912e-42fd-9aba-d10be1a9efa8
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The history of the riding can, in some measure, be read in the parties fielding candidates; in addition to the four national parties there are contestants from Libertarian, Communist, and Marxist-Leninist parties. The rich diversity of the riding has less than half of all households reporting English as the first language at home.
Emerson cited this diversity after announcing he would not be running for a third term. "The reality is, Kingsway was an eminently winnable seat," said the Conservative Minister. "Not because I'm a hugely popular fellow in Kingsway, but because of vote splits and the way the first-past-the-post system works."
Key in those vote splits are issues dividing the Liberal and NDP candidates. Naturalized Canadian Yuan points to her immigrant history, giving her an empathy with the immigrant and ethnic neighborhoods of the riding. “I came with limited means but through hard work, I got recognized and became a successful businesswoman. I understand what immigrants have to go through to reach what they want.”
“I really respect and appreciate and like the multicultural fabric of our riding,” says her NDP opponent Davies. “That’s why I live in Kingsway. I’m the only candidate who lives here with roots here.” The Teamster's lawyer is originally from Edmonton, but has been living in Vancouver environs since 1991.
The Conservative party candidate Salomon Rayek is not responding to press inquiries from several sources, and is cited as an example of a long-shot candidate - a candidate with little likelihood of being elected yet represents the party anyway.
Doug Warkentin, the Green Party candidate, ran for Member of Legislative Assembly in BC's 2005 elections in the Vancouver-Langara provincial electoral district, coming in third to the Liberal's Carol Taylor. He's lived for the past three years in the riding, an engineer and small business owner who has a history of community involvement across south Vancouver. "I see the neighbourhoods in and around Kingsway as a great place to build on the natural vibrancy of the small business sector as a backbone for ethnically and economically diverse communities."
Matt Kadioglu of the Libertarians is a relative newcomer with one previous campaign, while Donna Petersen (Marxist-Leninist) and Kimball Cariou (Communist) each have four previous contests according to Pundits Guide.
The stage for this fight was set in 2006, when newly-elected Liberal Dave Emerson crossed the floor and directly into the Conservative Cabinet, first as Minister of International Trade then as Minister of Foreign Affairs following the resignation of Maxime Bernier. His defection stirred a firestorm of controversy locally in the staunchly left-leaning riding, which had elected a Progressive Conservative candidate exactly once since it's creation in 1953 - during the 1958 Diefenbaker landslide.
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{{Date|October 24th, 2008}}
On August 21, the [[Poland|Polish]] weekly ''[[w:Przekrój|Przekrój]]'' published an advertisement for Dan-Mark exercise books, bearing the logo of [[w:pl:4fun.tv|4fun.tv]], a Polish music/interactive TV station. Part of the advertisement contained a definition of the word "exercise book". The wording looked familiar, and ''[[w:Wikinews|Wikinews]]'' consulted ''[[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]'', the collaborative online encyclopedia.
Upon seeing the ''Wikipedia'' definition, it appeared that the entry quoted in the promotional material was identical to the initial two paragraphs of the relevant ''Wikipedia'' entry.
Freelance reporters for the Polish ''Wikinews'' decided to find out the reason for such a similarity and whether either of the texts (the advertisement's or Wikipedia's) might be a case of [[w:Copyright|copyright]] violation.
The reporters contacted a Jarosław Janas, Creative Director of ''4fun.tv.'', where the ad appeared. His reply included the following claim:
{{cquote|The text of the definition has been taken from an encyclopedic publication which is older than 50 years and therefore not subject to copyright protection. The fact of coincidental similarity cannot be considered equal to plagiarism, because as we all know Wikipedia is a place which publishes texts and definitions that have already existed in different forms in other publications released before.}}
Copyright on text does not last for fifty years as claimed by Janas, but for 70 years after the death of the author.
To investigate the authenticity of the above claims, ''Wikinews'' asked the main author of the two paragraphs in question, Wikipedian [[w:pl:Wikipedysta:Julo|Julo]], about the sources used to write the entry. He confirmed that he had written the text in question, and not copied it from an encyclopedic publication as claimed by Jana.
It is therefore impossible that both Julo and the people responsible for the exercise book advertisement have used the same uncopyrighted encyclopedia, thus coincidentally creating identical texts. The reporters also noted that the first draft of the introduction to the article was written by [[:w:pl:user:WaldemarWolskiHuta|WaldemarWolskiHuta]] (February 2006). Afterward the text had undergone some modifications by Julo (September 2006), as well as [[:w:pl:user:Picus viridis|Picus viridis]] and [[:w:pl:user:Beno|Beno]] (March 2008). However, the text presented in the press promotional material, which - according to 4fun.tv - came from an old-print encyclopedia is identical to the Wikipedia entry after the changes mentioned above had been made. Julo added that he was still alive, together with the other authors of the article in question who constituted the group of the copyright co-holders. This naturally led to a conclusion that neither 50 nor 70 years could have passed since their death. He left 4fun.tv's actions with a comment that although the contents he and the other Wikimedians had made public and free, they are far from making them available in any "free style", but under a specified license.
In follow up messages to Jarosław Janas, Wikinews reporters confronted the creative director over his seemingly inaccurate claims.
Wikinews was told in a reply that 4fun.tv would ignore the claims unless they see permission from the author of the original content to investigate this story. They were also informed that further e-mails without any ''specifics'' sent by the reporter would be qualified as spam. 4fun.tv's creative director further added that he found the reporter's picture on the Internet and asked how the person would feel if this picture was to appear on billboards or press releases that advertised the TV station.
[[Image:Copyright.svg|100px|right|The copyright symbol]]
Wikipedia does allow copying of its content under certain conditions. The encyclopedia's content is released under the [[w:en:GFDL|GNU Free Documentation License]], which means that it can be copied, modified, and used commercially and non-commercially - under the conditions that the license's text is included with the copied content and the five main authors are mentioned. If a part of the article is used, like in the example quoted in this news story, a "right to quote", recognized by Polish law, may be used. In such a case it suffices to mention the source of the text (Polish Wikipedia) and the author of the excerpt. 4fun.tv met none of these conditions, meaning that copyright has been violated.
Over a year ago Polish Wikinews reported on [[:pl:Czy na pewno wiemy, jak korzystać ze zdjęć na wolnych licencjach?|a similar problem, regarding the use of free-licensed photographs]]. Since that time such "borrowings" have become less frequent, however photos are still being used in discordance with the license. Journalists have gotten used to citing sources, e.g. Wikipedia, although licensing conditions require attributing the actual author, not the source. So instead of attributing John Doe for his contribution, agencies like Polska Agencja Prasowa (''Polish Press Agency'') are attributing the source, Wikipedia.
In early September 2008 a similar situation occurred in relation to the Polish edition of [[w:en:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]. [[w:en:Gazeta Wyborcza|Gazeta Wyborcza]], a Polish daily, published an IKEA advertisement, on the opening page of which an almost word-for-word Wiktionary entry was placed; additionally the advertisement used the characteristic MediaWiki layout. The reference to the external source used was missing.
In April 2008, an example of an Australian professor was cited; the scientist, in a reply to a news story, quoted a Wikipedia definition almost word-for-word. The same professor condemned the use of Wikipedia in his previous press appearances.
In 2005 Wikipedia material was discovered in the German weekly magazine [[w:en:Der Spiegel|Der Spiegel]], which acknowledged its fault and published appropriate apologies in place of the article in the online edition.
[[w:Frontline (magazine) | ''Frontline'']] magazine in 2007 was found using an image from Wikipedia without proper credit. When pointed out the magazine acknowledged the failing and a correction was promptly given in the subsequent issue.
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*{{source|url=http://wikislownik.blogspot.com/2008/09/wikisownik-pomysem-na-reklam.html|title=violation of Wiktionary's copyrights|author=|pub=|date=}}
* [[Wikinews investigates claim McCain plagiarized speech from Wikipedia]],
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* [[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-03-14/In the news#German magazine plagiarizes from Wikipedia|Wikipedia Signpost]]
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{{archive}} | A scanned "Przekrój" magazine page containing the advertisement, with the definition of an "exercise book"
On August 21, the Polish weekly Przekrój published an advertisement for Dan-Mark exercise books, bearing the logo of 4fun.tv, a Polish music/interactive TV station. Part of the advertisement contained a definition of the word "exercise book". The wording looked familiar, and Wikinews consulted Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia.
Upon seeing the Wikipedia definition, it appeared that the entry quoted in the promotional material was identical to the initial two paragraphs of the relevant Wikipedia entry.
Freelance reporters for the Polish Wikinews decided to find out the reason for such a similarity and whether either of the texts (the advertisement's or Wikipedia's) might be a case of copyright violation.
The reporters contacted a Jarosław Janas, Creative Director of 4fun.tv., where the ad appeared. His reply included the following claim:
Copyright on text does not last for fifty years as claimed by Janas, but for 70 years after the death of the author.
To investigate the authenticity of the above claims, Wikinews asked the main author of the two paragraphs in question, Wikipedian Julo, about the sources used to write the entry. He confirmed that he had written the text in question, and not copied it from an encyclopedic publication as claimed by Jana.
It is therefore impossible that both Julo and the people responsible for the exercise book advertisement have used the same uncopyrighted encyclopedia, thus coincidentally creating identical texts. The reporters also noted that the first draft of the introduction to the article was written by WaldemarWolskiHuta (February 2006). Afterward the text had undergone some modifications by Julo (September 2006), as well as Picus viridis and Beno (March 2008). However, the text presented in the press promotional material, which - according to 4fun.tv - came from an old-print encyclopedia is identical to the Wikipedia entry after the changes mentioned above had been made. Julo added that he was still alive, together with the other authors of the article in question who constituted the group of the copyright co-holders. This naturally led to a conclusion that neither 50 nor 70 years could have passed since their death. He left 4fun.tv's actions with a comment that although the contents he and the other Wikimedians had made public and free, they are far from making them available in any "free style", but under a specified license.
In follow up messages to Jarosław Janas, Wikinews reporters confronted the creative director over his seemingly inaccurate claims.
Wikinews was told in a reply that 4fun.tv would ignore the claims unless they see permission from the author of the original content to investigate this story. They were also informed that further e-mails without any specifics sent by the reporter would be qualified as spam. 4fun.tv's creative director further added that he found the reporter's picture on the Internet and asked how the person would feel if this picture was to appear on billboards or press releases that advertised the TV station.
The copyright symbol
Wikipedia does allow copying of its content under certain conditions. The encyclopedia's content is released under the GNU Free Documentation License, which means that it can be copied, modified, and used commercially and non-commercially - under the conditions that the license's text is included with the copied content and the five main authors are mentioned. If a part of the article is used, like in the example quoted in this news story, a "right to quote", recognized by Polish law, may be used. In such a case it suffices to mention the source of the text (Polish Wikipedia) and the author of the excerpt. 4fun.tv met none of these conditions, meaning that copyright has been violated.
Over a year ago Polish Wikinews reported on a similar problem, regarding the use of free-licensed photographs. Since that time such "borrowings" have become less frequent, however photos are still being used in discordance with the license. Journalists have gotten used to citing sources, e.g. Wikipedia, although licensing conditions require attributing the actual author, not the source. So instead of attributing John Doe for his contribution, agencies like Polska Agencja Prasowa (Polish Press Agency) are attributing the source, Wikipedia.
In early September 2008 a similar situation occurred in relation to the Polish edition of Wiktionary. Gazeta Wyborcza, a Polish daily, published an IKEA advertisement, on the opening page of which an almost word-for-word Wiktionary entry was placed; additionally the advertisement used the characteristic MediaWiki layout. The reference to the external source used was missing.
In April 2008, an example of an Australian professor was cited; the scientist, in a reply to a news story, quoted a Wikipedia definition almost word-for-word. The same professor condemned the use of Wikipedia in his previous press appearances.
In 2005 Wikipedia material was discovered in the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel, which acknowledged its fault and published appropriate apologies in place of the article in the online edition.
Frontline magazine in 2007 was found using an image from Wikipedia without proper credit. When pointed out the magazine acknowledged the failing and a correction was promptly given in the subsequent issue.
* English Wikipedia contributors' rights and obligations
* Wikimedia Polska Association: We do not have anything in common with the publication of Polish Wikipedia on DVD, January 11th, 2006
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<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 13, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-02-14</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 14, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-02-15</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 15, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-02-16</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 16, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-02-17</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 17, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-02-18</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 18, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-02-19</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 19, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-02-20</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 20, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-02-21</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 21, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-02-22</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 22, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-02-23</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 23, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-02-24</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 24, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-02-25</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 25, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-02-26</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 26, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-02-27</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 27, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-02-28</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=February 28, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
==March==
<table><tr style='color:#963'><td width='80'>date</td><td>news</td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-01</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 1, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-02</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 2, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-03</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 3, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-04</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 4, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-05</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 5, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-06</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 6, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-07</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 7, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-08</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 8, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-09</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 9, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-10</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 10, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-11</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 11, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-12</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 12, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-13</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 13, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-14</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 14, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-15</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 15, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-16</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 16, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-17</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 17, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-18</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 18, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-19</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 19, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-20</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 20, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-21</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 21, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-22</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 22, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-23</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 23, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-24</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 24, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-25</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 25, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-26</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 26, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-27</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 27, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-28</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 28, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-29</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 29, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-30</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 30, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-03-31</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=March 31, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
==April==
<table><tr style='color:#963'><td width='80'>date</td><td>news</td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-01</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 1, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-02</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 2, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-03</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 3, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-04</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 4, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-05</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 5, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-06</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 6, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-07</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 7, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-08</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 8, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-09</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 9, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-10</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 10, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-11</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 11, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-12</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 12, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-13</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 13, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-14</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 14, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-15</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 15, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-16</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 16, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-17</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 17, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-18</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 18, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-19</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 19, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-20</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 20, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-21</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 21, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-22</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 22, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-23</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 23, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-24</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 24, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-25</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 25, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-26</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 26, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-27</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 27, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-28</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 28, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-29</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 29, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-04-30</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=April 30, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
==May==
<table><tr style='color:#963'><td width='80'>date</td><td>news</td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-01</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 1, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-02</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 2, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-03</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 3, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-04</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 4, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-05</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 5, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-06</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 6, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-07</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 7, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-08</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 8, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-09</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 9, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-10</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 10, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-11</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 11, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-12</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 12, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-13</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 13, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-14</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 14, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-15</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 15, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-16</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 16, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-17</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 17, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-18</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 18, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-19</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 19, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-20</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 20, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-21</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 21, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-22</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 22, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-23</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 23, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-24</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 24, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-25</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 25, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-26</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 26, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-27</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 27, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-28</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 28, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-29</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 29, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-30</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 30, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-05-31</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=May 31, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
==June==
<table><tr style='color:#963'><td width='80'>date</td><td>news</td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-01</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 1, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-02</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 2, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-03</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 3, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-04</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 4, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-05</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 5, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-06</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 6, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-07</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 7, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-08</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 8, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-09</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 9, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-10</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 10, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-11</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 11, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-12</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 12, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-13</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 13, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-14</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 14, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-15</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 15, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-16</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 16, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-17</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 17, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-18</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 18, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-19</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 19, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-20</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 20, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-21</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 21, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-22</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 22, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-23</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 23, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-24</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 24, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-25</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 25, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-26</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 26, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-27</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 27, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-28</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 28, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-29</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 29, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-06-30</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=June 30, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
==July==
<table><tr style='color:#963'><td width='80'>date</td><td>news</td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-01</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 1, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-02</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 2, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-03</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 3, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-04</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 4, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-05</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 5, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-06</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 6, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-07</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 7, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-08</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 8, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-09</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 9, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-10</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 10, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-11</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 11, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-12</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 12, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-13</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 13, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-14</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 14, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-15</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 15, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-16</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 16, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-17</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 17, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-18</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 18, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-19</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 19, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-20</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 20, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-21</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 21, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-22</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 22, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-23</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 23, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-24</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 24, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-25</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 25, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-26</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 26, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-27</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 27, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-28</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 28, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-29</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 29, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-30</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 30, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-07-31</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=July 31, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
==August==
<table><tr style='color:#963'><td width='80'>date</td><td>news</td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-01</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 1, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-02</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 2, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-03</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 3, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-04</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 4, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-05</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 5, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-06</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 6, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-07</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 7, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-08</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 8, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-09</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 9, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-10</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 10, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-11</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 11, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-12</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 12, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-13</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 13, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-14</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 14, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-15</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 15, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-16</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 16, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-17</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 17, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-18</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 18, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-19</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 19, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-20</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 20, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-21</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 21, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-22</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 22, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-23</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 23, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-24</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 24, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-25</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 25, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-26</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 26, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-27</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 27, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-28</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 28, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-29</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 29, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-30</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 30, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-08-31</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=August 31, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
==September==
<table><tr style='color:#963'><td width='80'>date</td><td>news</td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-01</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 1, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-02</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 2, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-03</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 3, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-04</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 4, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-05</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 5, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-06</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 6, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-07</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 7, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-08</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 8, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-09</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 9, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-10</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 10, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-11</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 11, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-12</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 12, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-13</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 13, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-14</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 14, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-15</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 15, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-16</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 16, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-17</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 17, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-18</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 18, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-19</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 19, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-20</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 20, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-21</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 21, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-22</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 22, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-23</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 23, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-24</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 24, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-25</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 25, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-26</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 26, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-27</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 27, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-28</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 28, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-29</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 29, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-09-30</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=September 30, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
==October==
<table><tr style='color:#963'><td width='80'>date</td><td>news</td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-01</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 1, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-02</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 2, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-03</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 3, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-04</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 4, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-05</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 5, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-06</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 6, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-07</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 7, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-08</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 8, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-09</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 9, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-10</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 10, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-11</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 11, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-12</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 12, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-13</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 13, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-14</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 14, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-15</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 15, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-16</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 16, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-17</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 17, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-18</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 18, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-19</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 19, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-20</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 20, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-21</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 21, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-22</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 22, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-23</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 23, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-24</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 24, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-25</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 25, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-26</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 26, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-27</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 27, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-28</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 28, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-29</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 29, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-30</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 30, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-10-31</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=October 31, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
==November==
<table><tr style='color:#963'><td width='80'>date</td><td>news</td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-01</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 1, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-02</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 2, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-03</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 3, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-04</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 4, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-05</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 5, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-06</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 6, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-07</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 7, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-08</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 8, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-09</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 9, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-10</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 10, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-11</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 11, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-12</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 12, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-13</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 13, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-14</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 14, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-15</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 15, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-16</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 16, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-17</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 17, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-18</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 18, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-19</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 19, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-20</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 20, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-21</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 21, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-22</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 22, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-23</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 23, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-24</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 24, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-25</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 25, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-26</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 26, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-27</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 27, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-28</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 28, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-29</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 29, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-11-30</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=November 30, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
==December==
<table><tr style='color:#963'><td width='80'>date</td><td>news</td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-12-01</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=December 1, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-12-02</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=December 2, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-12-03</td>
<td>
<DynamicPageList>
category=December 3, 2009
category=Published
category=Australia
notcategory=Disputed
suppresserrors=true
</DynamicPageList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top'>2009-12-04</td>
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===Swine flu reaches Southeast Asia===
Two travelers returning from [[Mexico]] to [[Thailand]] tested positive for the H1N1 {{w|swine influenza}} on Tuesday. According to Thailand's health minister, this marks the first case of Southeast Asia.
On Wednesday, [[China|Chinese]] Ministry of Health officials reported a man had the disease. Currently, the officials are searching for people the man may have come into contact with.
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===Pope visits the Middle East===
The pope's recent visit to the [[Middle East]] was expected to meet political "minefields", according to the [[New York Times]].
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The pope was speaking about the Palestinian housing, and how there are refugee camps.
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After the {{w|Craigslist controversies and illegal activities by users|controversy}} over the "Erotic Services" section on {{w|Craigslist}}, the Web service will require manual posting and a $5 - $10 [[USD]] fee.
Craigslist will delete the "Erotic Services" section to replace it with "Adult Services."
Attorney General [[Richard Blumenthal]] of [[Connecticut]] claims that state investigators will monitor the section as well for extra insurance.
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===California governor proposes more cuts===
[[California]] governor [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] proposed budget cuts and layoffs for California yesterday.
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===Nintendo DS sales hit one million===
{{w|Nintendo DS}} sales hit one million units last April. However, even with Nintendo's moderate success with their DS gaming system, all video game sales have declined 17%.
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Eight-time gold medalist {{w|Michael Phelps}}, in a recent conference Thursday, told reporters he will enter a swimming competition today.
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