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>            *APCNews, the monthly newsletter of the
>       Association for Progressive Communications (APC)*
>                 - August 2005 No. 54 -
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> -- NEWS FROM THE MEMBERS --
> -- NEWS FROM APC --
> -- BUILDING CAPACITY & STRATEGIC USE OF ICTs --
> -- WOMEN & ICTs --
> -- ONLINE TOOLS & RESOURCES --
> -- COLLABORATING OPPORTUNITIES --
> -- IMPORTANT DATES --
> -- SITES OF INTEREST --
> -- WHERE IN THE WORLD IS APC THIS MONTH --
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>
> -- NEWS FROM THE MEMBERS --
>
> ESLARED, VENEZUELA: Latino networkers connect up at Venezuela
>
> Travelling down seven tracks, an estimated 220 participants from Latin
> America and the Caribbean take the fast-road to picking up essential
> tech skills that promise to make it easier for the region to communicate
> with less hiccups, and help build the much-needed not-for-profit
> networks and content-sharing links that serves the people of this
> continent. -- APCNews
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=526407
>
>
> BLUELINK, BULGARIA: "Modern information technology should ensure
> guarantee no harmful impact on users" says Bulgarian environmental network
>
> Convincing business and government to ensure that modern information and
> communication technologies have no harmful impacts on their users is
> proving to be a difficult job. Besides, in the global village,
> non-uniform standards and a lack of compatibility among various systems
> are blocking people and technologies from communicating freely and
> working effectively. --- – BlueLink
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=418563
>
>
> GREEN SPIDER, HUNGARY: Europe says 'no' to software patents for now,
> campaigning CSOs glad
>
> European parliament has reject the plan to allow software patents. This
> is being seen as providing a "breathing space for new initiatives based
> on all the knowledge gained during the last five years". – Green Spider
> Foundation
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=291531
>
>
> COMPUTER AID INTERNATIONAL, UK: New East Africa office for non-profit
> computer recyclers
>
> After providing over 50,000 high quality refurbished computers, the
> UK-based not-for-profit Computer Aid International has now put down
> roots in Africa by opening a permanent office in Nairobi. – Computer Aid
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=292096
>
>
> ITeM, URUGUAY: From pioneering data networks to 'WSIS Papers’
>
> APC's member in Uruguay the Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM) has been
> participating in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
> through its WSISPapers project. This project grew from the realization
> that in WSIS's first phase, many Southern government delegates faced
> severe roadblocks in negotiating effectively. They found grappling with
> certain information and communication technology issues a puzzle,
> largely due to the lack of specific information resources to support
> their positions. - ITeM
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=566994
>
>
> OPEN FORUM OF CAMBODIA, CAMBODIA: First large-scale website in Khmer
> focuses on community information
>
> Cambodia's Community Information Centre web portal --
> www.cambodiacic.org --is currently the only large web portal available
> in the Khmer language. Content is fed daily to this web portal, with an
> average of 15 articles coming in from media and non-media news sources.
> – Open Forum of Cambodia
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=292565
>
>
> SANGONeT, SOUTH AFRICA: Civil society reflect on coming November's summit
>
> When the world meets up at Tunisia, in coming November, during the World
> Summit on the Information Society, this meet signals global recognition
> that information and communication technologies can play a major role in
> social and economic development and contribute significantly towards
> poverty alleviation. South Africa's civil society takes a look at the
> focus and objectives of the WSIS. – SANGONeT
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=130441
>
>
> RITS, BRAZIL Update: When cyberspace goes to Amazonia...
>
> What happens when wireless, free software and the internet reaches the
> Amazon? APC's member in Brazil, RITS, gives an update of their wireless
> project in Pará, a territory covered mostly by jungle, and the Amazon
> Rainforest. - RITS
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=564968
>
>
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> -- NEWS FROM APC --
>
> The APC Betinho Prize 2005:  Community connectivity for economic
> development in Latin America and the Caribbean
>
> We are looking for ICT initiatives that:
> * make a positive economic contribution to the community
> * are driven and developed in Latin America and the Caribbean
> * can demonstrate a sustainable use of technology
> Find out more the APC Betinho Prize: http://www.apc.org/english/betinho/
>
>
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> -- ICT POLICY & INTERNET RIGHTS --
>
> NEWS: European win on software patents issue
>
> Free Software Foundation Europe says, "patents, copyrights and
> trademarks are designed to limit access and knowledge sharing. If
> applied wisely and with measure, they can foster creativity and
> innovation. If applied carelessly, they can kill both along with their
> potential benefit for society: progress. This holds true for any nation
> in this world, rich or poor, north or south”.
> http://fsfeurope.org/projects/wipo/statement-20050721.en.html
>
>
> NEWSLETTER: Chakula focuses on WIPO and the 'Development Agenda'
>
> Issues highlighted in the latest Chakula newsletter from APC’s Africa
> ICT policy monitor, dated July 2005, focus on the World Intellectual
> Property Organisation and its 'Development Agenda'. Chakula traces the
> background to calls for reforms at WIPO, outlines the key issues of the
> proposal for the establishment of a development agenda for the
> organisation, and the developments so far after a series of meetings
> this year. Chakula is the Swahili word for 'food'. This Africa Policy
> Monitor newsletter got its name to reflect its intended nature as a
> "form of nourishment" for organizations working in the field of ICTs for
> development in Africa. - Chakula Newsletter
> http://africa.rights.apc.org/en-chakula.shtml?x=578861
> APC’s Africa ICT policy monitor: http://africa.rights.apc.org
>
>
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> -- BUILDING CAPACITY & STRATEGIC USE OF ICTs --
>
> WIRELESS NETWORKING IN SOUTHERN AFRICA THIS SEPTEMBER
>
> APC has announced its mid-September 2005 Southern African regional
> training workship that aims to develop technical skills in wireless
> networking, and "lay the foundation" for a community of like-minded
> practitioners to share knowledge, skills and experiences. Wireless
> technologies offer the less affluent parts of the globe an important
> low-cost, versatile alternative for communications. Read the
> announcement of the event. -- APC
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=291802
> More about APC’s wireless work: http://www.apc.org/wireless/
>
>
> FREE SOFTWARE TOOL: ActionApps 2.8.1 released
>
> ActionApps is a set of collaborative web publishing tools for
> not-for-profit organisation. It offer a low cost solution for content
> sharing that both increases the functionality of not-for-profit and NGO
> websites and facilitates the creation of portals sites, improving the
> visibility of civil society information. They are driven by free/open
> source software (FOSS).
>
> You can download it from Sourceforge
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/apc-aa/
> or use CVS access http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=6341 For an
> upgrade, run the sql_update.php3 script, which upgrades database to
> latest version.
> More about ActionApps: http://www.apc.org/english/press/primers
> See a long list of new features at:
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/apc-aa/apc-aa/CHANGES?view=markup
>
> See how ActionApps can help your group publish better and faster online.
> Learn about, or join, the free software project behind ActionApps.
> http://www.apc.org/actionapps/index.htm
>
> For a comprehensive FAQ on ActionApps see http://actionapps.org/faq/
>
>
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> -- WOMEN & ICTs --
>
> OPINION from Rio: After sessions ending at 4 am, do gender issues count?
>
> The belief that technology is gender-neutral is still rife. At Rio's
> recent regional World Summit on the Information Society meet, this point
> was driven home once more says Dafne Plou of the Latin American branch
> of the APC Women’s Networking Support Programme. Representatives of
> international organisations, financing institutions, and government
> representatives too simply overlook gender concerns in ICTs (information
> and communication technologies). – Dafne Sabanes Plou, APC WNSP
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=564578
>
>
> This month, APCNews begins to feature news articles written for
> GenderIT.org a new ICT policy and gender portal supported by the APC
> women’s programme. Contributing journalists are based in Africa, Latin
> America, Central and Eastern Europe and Asia.
>
> GenderIT.org Special: Gender and ICT policies: time to reorder forces,
> understand what's happening
>
> Magaly Pazello is the only Brazilian feminist who is been active in the
> World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process since its
> inception. A member of the WSIS Gender Caucus, she is also a member of
> of the DAWN network (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era).
> In the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Preparatory Conference,
> held in June 2005 in Rio de Janeiro, Graciela Selaimen interviewed
> Magaly Pazello, speaking about the participation of Latin American women
> in the WSIS process, urgency to address the gender perspective in the
> information society, her expectations about the Tunis WSIS Summit and
> other themes. – GenderIT.org
> http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?w=a&x=91448
>
> GenderIT.org Special: WSIS Rio regional meet - Very few doors open for
> the gender perspective
>
> No participation of civil society as observers in the governmental
> delegations' meetings; no gender working group in the final regional
> action plan for the information society (ELac 2007); almost no women,
> black people or indigenous people as panelists. Although the Rio WSIS
> Regional Meeting opened two slots for civil society statements in the
> plenary and produced documents which were fairly positively received by
> NGOs and social movements, there was a step back regarding women's
> participation in the regional action plan. – GenderIT.org
> http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?w=a&x=91427
>
>
> GenderIT.org Special: Women, Gender and Media - Issues and concerns
>
> When I was a trainer at a media and gender workshop in 2002, the only
> male participant there confessed, “Our organisation is not prioritising
> gender actually. We are more concerned about other issues – issues which
> are political”. This statement reveals much about the stand that most
> media institutions take on gender. – GenderIT.org
> http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?w=a&x=91365
>
>
> GENDER-RELATED THEMES: Choike.org has these gender-related discussions
> in its recent newsletter: WSIS follow-up: Role of civil society
> contested, activists locked out of next meetings [1], WSIS-Gender Caucus
> e-discussion: Gender issues in the Tunis Phase [2] and Gender and ICT
> Issues at Women's World Congress [3].
>
> [1] http://www.choike.org/cgi-bin/choike/nuevo_eng/jump_inf.cgi?ID=3149
> [2] http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/3160.html
> [3] http://www.choike.org/cgi-bin/choike/nuevo_eng/jump_inf.cgi?ID=3150
>
>
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>
> -- ONLINE TOOLS & RESOURCES --
>
> NEW WIRELESS SITE IN SPANISH: Wireless Technologies for Development has
> just got a new focus online -- and that too in the planet's third most
> widely spoken language, Spanish -- with the launch of an information
> portal, WiLAC, that focuses exclusively on this theme. It is designed to
> support individuals, organisations, municipalities and businesses
> currently implementing community wireless connectivity projects, or
> those about to launch on this road.  http://www.wilac.net
>
> A STARTER KIT... FROM eRIDERS: APC member Ungana-Afrika -- also part of
> the eRider network -- is using and promoting the recently-out eRider
> starter kit. Executive director Toni Eliasz points to this resource that
> has been created by Teresa Crawford and the Tactical Technology
> Collective with the support of the global eRider community,. The starter
> kit is designed to help organizations understand, design, implement,
> maintain and sustain an eRider
> project or program. Its focus is on "NGO-centered technology".
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=528579
>
> TELECENTRES, A MODEL FOR SOCIAL APPROPRIATION OF ICTs: An indepth study
> on telecentres from Choike, portal developed by APC member in Uruguay,
> the Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM).
> http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/3084.html
>
> ITRAINONLINE RESOURCES: ITrainonline a site for sharing internet
> resources, has beefed up what's available on its site. ItrainOnline
> offers a single source on the web with a selection of the best and most
> relevant computer and Internet training resources for development and
> social change. Apart from the main sites in English, Spanish and French,
> ItrainOnline contains a small selection of resources in other languages.
>
> Resources recently added include tips on document management, setting up
> folders and naming files for multimedia and web page projects,
> organising your PC files, tips to manage your files better, optimising
> PDF files, getting your videos out to your online audience, RSS for
> non-profits, and more http://www.itrainonline.org
>
> EARNING DONATIONS ONLINE: Lincproject.org's Accepting Donations Online
> guide:
> http://www.lincproject.org/toolkit/techtips/tt_onlinedonation_072005.shtml
>
> TECH SKILLS FOR EDUCATORS: Teresa Crawford <teresa at speakeasy.net> points
> to this article, "Technology Skills All Educators Should Have".  The
> article includes links to resources to help folks get these skills.
> Here are 20 basic technology skills that all educators should now have:
> http://thejournal.com/magazine/vault/articleprintversion.cfm?aid=5387
>
> ENERGY RESOURCES TOOLKIT: The Energy Solutions Toolkit for ICT Projects
> is designed to help ICT program managers, decision-makers and
> entrepreneurs select the most cost-effective mix of ICT and energy
> systems for projects in off-grid and poorly electrified areas. The
> toolkit is still a prototype.
> http://www.dot-com-alliance.org/Toolkit.htm
>
> TAKING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO AGRICULTURE IN THE FIELD: ICT Update is
> a bimonthly web magazine with an accompanying  printed bulletin and an
> email newsletter. It is published by the Technical Centre for
> Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA). http://ictupdate.cta.int
>
>
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> -- COLLABORATING OPPORTUNITIES --
>
> ONLINE PETITION CALLS ON THAILAND'S SHIN CORP TO DROP LIBEL SUIT
>
> What happens when popular media takes on the political class? In
> Thailand, it resulted in a $10 million civil suit, and a criminal libel
> suit, slapped on the young campaigner who leads that country's campaign
> for popular media reform. You can add your voice to an online campaign
> gaining momentum and drawing support from some prominent global
campaigners.
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=545972
>
> E-DEBATE ON ISSUES OF 'INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS' IN AFRICA
>
> What are the critical issues around intellectual property rights (IPR)
> for Africa? How does one understand the context of the existing legal
> processes and tools? Can Africa discuss alternatives to the current
> situation? And, can all concerned build collaboration among themselves?
> For a month between late June and August 2005, an e-debate gets underway
> over these key issues.
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=528890
>
> TAKE ON DEVELOPMENT AGENDA, NGOs URGE WIPO
>
> Non-governmental organisations from across the globe have supported a
> proposal from the Group of Friends of Development (FoD) for a
> development agenda at the World Intellectual Property Organization
> (WIPO)." Some 99 organisations (at the time of writing) have supported
> the demand.
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=417066
>
> OPENING, PART-TIME USER SUPPORT POSITION IN LONDON
>
> APC member GreenNet, a workers' collective, with a horizontal management
> structure, has
> an opening for a part-time user support position. Location in Central
> London/Old Street. Interviews from August 15 to 19, 2005. Start date
> September 2005. Salary: £24,000 per annum pro rata Leave: 28 days per
> annum pro rata. Part-time (2-3 days a week): 9.30am-5.30pm. Deadline for
> applications: 5th August 2005. Contact Anna Feldman anna at gn.apc.org.
>
> DISCUSSION FORUM ON GENDER PERSPECTIVES IN THE WSIS
>
> The WSIS Gender Caucus is organizing an email-based discussion forum on
> identifying and integrating gender perspectives into the WSIS
> deliberations at PrepCom3 in September and the Tunis Summit in November.
> It will be underway July 25 to August 13 2005, and look at four critical
> areas -- Internet Governance, Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and
> WSIS, Funding and Financing Mechanisms for ICTD, and Implementation and
> Follow-up of WSIS. To join, send a blank email to
> mailadmin at genderwsis.org You will automatically be subscribed to the
> four discussion lists running concurrently (one for each theme). More
> information at http://www.genderwsis.org
>
> NEW ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PUBLICATION: COMMUNICATION IN MOVEMENTS
>
> This new publication from the Agencia Latinoamericana de Información
> (ALAI), examines the complex relations between social movements and
> communication. It studies the experience of organizations such as the
> Landless Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil, the rural organizations
> ANAMURI of Chile and ATC of Nicaragua, the indigenous organization
> CONAIE of Ecuador, among others, and deals with issues such as the
> challenges and difficulties of appropriating ICTs, the repercussions in
> organizational terms, for processing information and for training; the
> positions movements adopt towards the media, building their own mediaand
> the foray into cyberspace.
> http://www.alainet.org/publica/comm_mov/en/
>
> TRACK ON ICT AT UK DEVELOPMENT STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
>
> A track on 'Information, Technology and Development' will be held within
> the 2005 UK Development Studies Association conference. LSE's Prof.
> Robin Mansell and Prof. Lynn Mytelka from UNU-Maastricht will be
> participating, along with track sessions during every day of the
> conference incorporating 24 papers from international speakers.
> http://www.devstud.org.uk/conference.htm
>
> UNESCO PLANS A READER ON FOSS
>
> Gearing up for the LACFREE 2005 Conference to be held in Recife, Brazil
> from September 28 to October 1, 2005, UNESCO plans to publish a Reader
> on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and its relevance for
> development (to be translated in Portuguese and Spanish).
> http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft
>
>
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>
> -- IMPORTANT DATES --
>
> SEPTEMBER 10, 2005: A grassroots global marketing campaign to promote
> free and open source software. Anyone can join in, with their own plans.
> The more diverse the better. See http://www.softwarefreedomday.org
>
> SEPTEMBER 18, 2005: World Summit Youth Award is an international
> competition for youth-led (under 27 years of age) projects that bridge
> the content gap in the emerging Information Society. WSYA categories are
> Development, Creativity & Culture and Community Engagement and the
> online application process at www.youthaward.org is open until midnight
> GMT on September 18, 2005. Online application form at
> http://www.youthaward.org/apply
>
> SEPTEMBER 28-29, 2005:  'Top Ten Who Are Changing The World of Internet
> & Politics' to be announced in a competition sponsored by PoliticsOnline
> and the 6th annual E-Democracy Worldwide Forum, at Issy-les-Moulineaux,
> (Paris, France). The competition works according to an online voting
> structure.
>
http://www.politicsonline.com/content/main/specialreports/2005/top10_2005/vote.asp
>
> SEPTEMBER 2005: ORBICOM, the International Network of UNESCO Chairs in
> Communications announces, that it will release a new report on measuring
> the 'infostate' of 192 countries in the world in September 2005.
> Infostate is an aggregated index of information networks, education and
> skills, and uptake and intensity of the use of ICT.
> http://www.orbicom.uqam.ca/
>
> OCTOBER 15, 2005: Deadline for abstracts for the First International
> Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
> (ICTD) bringing together researchers in both the social and technical
> sciences, with anticipated representation from anthropology, sociology,
> economics, political science, computer science, electrical engineering,
> industrial design, and so on.
> http://sims.berkeley.edu/events/ictd2006/
>
>
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>
> -- SITES OF INTEREST --
>
> TUNISIA'S RECORD ON FREE EXPRESSION QUESTIONED: International free
> expression groups in mid-July launched a new website detailing the state
> of free expression in Tunisia and challenged the government to end
> internet blocking in the lead-up to the November 2005 World Summit on
> the Information Society (WSIS).  The Tunisia Monitoring Group (TMG), a
> coalition of 13 organisations belonging to the International Freedom of
> Expression eXchange (IFEX), says Tunisia should show its commitment to
> upholding the principles of freedom of expression by ceasing the
> practice of blocking news and information websites that are critical of
> the Tunisian government. The TMG website is available in English
> http://campaigns.ifex.org/tmg and in French
> http://campaigns.ifex.org/tmg/fr_index.html
>
> SOFTWARE FOR THE NON-PROFIT SECTOR: The Social Source Foundation (SSF)
> is a non-profit organization that exists to create open source,
> mission-focused technology for the non-profit and NGO sector. SSF is
> creating and distributing an internationalized, open-source platform for
> nonprofits, offering an online donor database integrated with online
> engagement tools (email and advocacy). CiviCRM 1.0 Beta is a demo of the
> software is available at http://www.openngo.org/
> Download the feature overview: http://makeashorterlink.com/?S1F64216B
> Detailed list of features: http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2073216B
> CiviCRM 1.0 Beta demo (English or Polish) http://www.openngo.org
>
> SHARING E-BOOKS, ACROSS THE GLOBE: Prof Michael Hart <hart at pglaf.org>
> has announced that Project Gutenberg, a venture to make copyright-free
> e-books available to all, has completed 34 years. Says Hart: "If our
> average eBook has reached only 1% of the world population of
> 6,451,809,157 that would be 16,621 x 64,518,092 = 1.07 Trillion."
> Project Gutenberg has just officially launched its new companion,
> Project Gutenberg of Europe. Project Gutenberg of Canada is beginning:
> pgcanada at lists.pglaf.org Mailing list at:
> http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/pgcanada Project Gutenberg efforts
> are also starting to get on track in Portugal and The Philippines. In
> addition, this project is also working on The Million Dollar DVD of
> which the current prototype contains nearly 26,000 eBooks, and is about
> 3/4 full. They hope to put perhaps 40,000 eBooks on one single-sided
> single-layered DVD that they can encourage people to copy onto $1 blanks.
>
>
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>
> -- WHERE IN THE WORLD IS APC THIS MONTH --
>
> You can meet up with APC and/or APC WNSP (APC women's programme)
> representatives at the events below during June 2005. Write to
> events at apc.org to obtain contact information. See you there!
>
> Aug 1-4: Johannesburg (South Africa)
> APC Management Meeting
>
> Aug 4-8: Frankfurt (Germany)
> The first Wikimedia Foundation international conference
> http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
>
> Aug 6-8: Pretoria (South Africa)
> Pre-workshop trainers' meeting for APC Southern African Regional
> Training Workshop 'Community Wireless Connectivity for Africa
> http://www.apc.org/wireless/
>
> Aug 24-26: Capetown (South Africa)
> Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) 2005
> http://www.cirn2005.org/
>
> August: Guayaquil (Ecuador)
> Infodesarrollo ICT Policy Workshop
>
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> APCNews, in English, and APCNoticias, in Spanish, are distributed
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> ICTs for social justice and sustainable development since 1990.
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>
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>
> [ENDNOTE: This issue is dated August 2005. Unlike earlier,
> APCNews/APCNoticias will be dated with the current month, not the past.
> In view of this, there will be no issue dated July 2005. The previous
> issue was cover-dated June 2005. Apart from a change in the date, the
> continuity of  the issues carries on.]
>
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