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Pope's Brazilian cousins lament his death

Pope John Paul II has a Brazilian cousin living in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He is João Woidyla, 83, and he came to Brazil in 1914, before John Paul II was born in March, 18, 1920.

According to the story told by local news agencies, the Pope's last name was Woidyla too, like João's. The Pope changed it to Wojtyła when he left Poland to avoid  political persecution. The grandfather of João Woidyla is José Woidyla, who was brother of Pope's grandfather. João's family discovered the relationship when Karol was elected Pope. The pope himself recognized the relationship and sent him a letter.

Pope John Paul II has other cousins in Brazil too: Isidoro, Alfreda, Genoveva (João's wife) and Bolessuaf.

Bolessuaf, 86, likes to read the card written in Polish that he received from his cousin, the Pope.

"A great man, who always fought for the good of the others", he adds.

João and his wife Genoveva met the pope John Paul II during his visit to Brazil in 1980.

The cousins got very sad when they heard that the Pope was gone. "To me, he seems to be a brother, more  than my own brother ", said Isidoro. João said about the Pope: "I think he did the work what should be done. I hope the next one works like him". He added: "It is like to lose a father, I am very sad".

According to Folha de São Paulo, Brazilian government invited João to take part in the funeral of the Pope. He declined saying that he is afraid of flying in airplanes.


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Angola: Marburg virus still spreading, 180 dead

April 9, 2005 Marburg virus is still spreading in Angola, and 180 are now dead, according to recent information from the World Health Organisation (WHO). The disease is similar to the Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever (EHF) virus in its symptoms, though less deadly and slower to spread — which has lead to more deaths overall. Because Marburg kills more slowly, a victim has more time to make contact with potential hosts.

The incurable, though not always fatal, disease is passed on by contact with bodily fluids, including spit and blood. Victims bleed to death.

As of yesterday, 205 cases had been identified, with at least 180 fatalities. The disease is now present in seven of Angola's provinces, the latest outbreak occurring in Zaire province with six cases. The proportion of deaths in this outbreak was unusually high.

According to the WHO, "The dramatic symptoms of Marburg haemorrhagic fever and its frequent fatality are resulting in a high level of fear, which is further aggravated by a lack of public understanding of the disease."

Mobile surveillance teams in Uige, where the majority of cases have been located, were unable to investigate several reported deaths, or to ensure the still-contagious bodies were appropriately dealt with, after transportation vehicles were attacked and damaged by local residents.

Said the WHO through a press release, "Because the disease has no cure, hospitalization is not associated with a favourable outcome, and confidence in the medical care system has been eroded.

"WHO is familiar with such reactions, which have been seen during previous outbreaks of the closely related Ebola haemorrhagic fever. Two medical anthropologists are already in Uige and will be joined shortly by experts in social mobilization from Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Mozambique. Public compliance with control measures is not expected to improve in the absence of intense campaigns to educate the public about the disease."

Provincial authorities were being engaged in an attempt to urgently find solutions.

WHO was appealing, via the United Nations (UN), for funding. The UN health body currently needs US$2.4 million to support the Ministry of Health, Angola.

Some 50 international experts were deployed in Angola, a country where 27 years of civil war has left health systems and staff unable to cope with a major epidemic, according to Mike Ryan, director of WHO's alert and response operations.

"The situation right now in Angola is not under control yet...This is still a health crisis at the national level and requires a profound commitment both from national authorities and the international community in order to contain this disease," he said.

Two deaths had been confirmed in Luanda, Angola's capital of 4 million, and six more cases were being investigated there.

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Bush EPA nominee abandons insecticide-on-children study after Senate hearing

April 9, 2005 Following a Senate hearing in which the Bush administration’s nominee for EPA administrator, Stephen Johnson, stoutly defended his plan to pay parents to document the effects on infants of insecticide use in the home, he reversed course and stopped the program.

Among the original requirements for the 60 families requested to be participants in the “Children’s Health Environmental Exposure Research Study” (CHEERS) study according to EPA were that they must:

This original version of the requirements can be viewed in the Internet Archive, a free online repository that creates copies of websites on a regular basis. The third requirement was reworded by November 2004, according to the Internet Archive: "Maintain your normal pesticide or non-pesticide use patterns for your household. We will not ask any parent to apply pesticides in their home to be a part of this study."
 * Live in Duval County, Florida
 * Be a parent of a child under the age of 13 months
 * Spray or apply or have pesticides sprayed or applied inside your home on a routine basis (You do not need to change your regular household routine for the study.)

According to the above document, the area of Jacksonville/Duval County was chosen for reasons of existing year-round high usage of pesticides and other household chemicals within the home, as well as relevant data from existing prior studies. The study involved researchers visiting the home of participants, parents videotaping their children's activities with a supplied camcorder, children wearing a small "activity sensor", and parents collecting food and urine samples for detailed analysis of the effects of chemical exposure to common commercially available chemicals, primarily pesticides, on which "current information... is very limited".

Selection for the study began in fall 2004. As incentives for their participation in the planned two-year study, parents were to be given $970, a t-shirt, and other gifts, and would have kept the video camera at its conclusion.

Senate opposition
Complaining that the study was necessary, Johnson yielded to two Democratic Senators who had threatened to block him, using all means available, from officially taking the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency, of which he is the acting head. The block on his nomination was lifted afterwards although some Democratic Senators would not say how they would vote on the final nomination.

Under his guidance, the EPA agreed to accept $2 million for the controversial $9 million CHEERS study from an industry trade group, the American Chemistry Council, which represents the chemical insecticide manufacturers. The study was to be conducted with the cooperation of the Duval County Health Department, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based in Atlanta.

Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Bill Nelson, (D-FLA), demanded the cancellation of the study as proof of Johnson’s acknowledgement of what she called a "gross error in judgment".

“The CHEERS program was a reprehensible idea that never should have made it out of the boardroom, and I am just happy that it was stopped before any children were put in harms way," Boxer said. She added that testing on humans should not be a part of any United States environmental policy.

"I am very pleased that Mr. Johnson has recognized the gross error in judgment the EPA made when they concocted this immoral program to test pesticides on children," Boxer said.

EPA review
Work on the study was halted last November by Johnson while an independent review of the study's design was conducted at his request. Part of the reason for the study's current cancellation was what the EPA in its press release has termed "mischaracterization" of the nature of the study as though children were being deliberately sprayed with pesticides.

Johnson defended his approach, "I have concluded that the study cannot go forward, regardless of the outcome of the independent review. EPA must conduct quality, credible research in an atmosphere absent of gross misrepresentation and controversy. I am committed to ensuring that EPA's research is based on sound science with the highest ethical standards."

In November 2004, William Farland, an administrator with the EPA's research department, told The Oregonian, "There's no suggestion that we are asking them to use pesticides. We simply want them to continue to carry out their day-to-day activities."


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Who's the richest entertainer in Australia? The Wiggles of course!

April 9, 2005 The top money grossing entertainers in Australia in 2005 were not Kylie Minogue, Nicole Kidman, or Russell Crowe. In fact, it was four tot-time entertainers, the Wiggles, with their preference for bright colours and sing-along dance numbers. Their earnings level was estimated at AU$45 million over the last year by Australian publication Business Review Weekly (BRW), in its yearly who's-who ranking of the nation's top 50 entertainment earners.

"They got into the market early, they took time to understand their audience, not only children but the parents who pay for everything," BRW managing editor Tony Featherstone, said.

Though almost doubling her earnings from the previous year, Nicole Kidman only made second place, at AU$40m. And Crowe came in third, at "only" AU$27m. Fourth place was long-time heavy metal favourites, AC/DC, whose estimated income was AU$18m.

Another children's entertainment band, Hi-5 came in sixth with $15m, after Naomi Watts.


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Talk:Bush EPA nominee abandons insecticide-on-children study after Senate hearing

Thanks for reporting this story, Alan.

And thank goodness Boxer and Nelson put a stop to this.

What was the EPA smoking?

I thought the EPA was supposed to be protecting us. Why worry about terrorists using chemical weapons on us, when our own regulatory agencies are paying people to use them on their children? — DV 06:00, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * DV I thought I was "seeing things" and someone must be wrong when I first started this story. Then it dawned on me: Human life only matters to these politicians if it can be manipulated at the ballot box. That's why they used one of the poorest districts in America to fashion a study like this. And most major branded news didn't even start to light up with the indignation they used for Clinton's member. Really Nazi-like and horrific --HiFlyer 14:13, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

DouglasGreen: I noticed a change in the "Requirements" section. The requirements were stated on the NYTimes article quite plainly. If there are further elaborations, they should come further down the page, IMO. --HiFlyer 14:50, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure about the requirements. I've seen at least 3 conflicting versions.
 * The EPA News Release dated October 12, 2004, states, "60 children, ages 0 to 3 years".
 * The New York Times story, which doesn't make sense to me, states 'having a baby under 3 months old or 9 to 12 months old, and "spraying pesticides inside your home routinely."' It doesn't make sense because of the discontinuous age requirements... why split the middle?  Also, the "spraying pesticides inside your home routinely" claim contradicts other claims made by the EPA elsewhere, which states that both pesticide-using and non-pesticide using homes would be considered.
 * The EPA in its FAQ states "Be a parent of a child under the age of 13 months". That was the version I went with since it was the most elaborated with detail and up-to-date.  Also, I question the wisdom of relying on the New York Times reading of a pamphlet to which we do not have access... the quote is not even properly attributed to the times.  Perhaps we should contact the EPA for clarification?  The Oct 12 press release has Ann Brown as the contact at brown.ann.NOSPAM@epa.gov.

By the way, I strongly disagree with your comments above about the nature of this controversy. In my opinion, it is Barbara Boxer and Co. who are "smoking things". The nature of this study is to research the impact of current, already high pesticide and household chemical use in the Jacksonville area, which being an extremely rainy and muggy area is full of pests. The alternative to observing and documenting the effects of such usage is simply to ignore it, ignore its effects on children, and go on pretending nothing is happening. DouglasGreen 15:09, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi DouglasGreen: Every article is derived from our sources which we place at the bottom of a page, i.e., The NYT. Clearly, every author and editor doesn't annotate every single sentence, especially when you can source as strongly as I have with this article. Additionally, although you have thanked the NYT for their informatiion rather cryptically, you haven't provided a source for your responses, or the three 'conflicting' versions.

 * Yeah, I hear what you're saying and you've got a point. I added hyperlinks to the conflicting sources, all interestingly derived from the EPA.  In a case of conflicting claims like this, it probably is more important to be careful about sources.  Either the EPA is: 1) Being dishonest and making different claims to different audiences, which is a subject for scrutiny all by itself, or 2) They were clarifying that even young children could be involved because otherwise people would assume differently, or 3) The different sources resulting from changing goals of the research over time.  I'm not sure which...

Before the entire article begins to be watered down with flak, it would be wise to list the sources, such as the FAQ you mentioned. Frankly I'm convinced the new administrator only quit this study, over his own objections to quitting, because people knew what it was about, not because of Ms. Boxer's strong argument that testing on children is wrong. I think that testing on children is probably a bi-partisan wrong thing to do, eh? Now, I knew of a Dr. Mengele who did quite a bit of it. --HiFlyer 15:40, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

While we're on the subject of spamming our government officials with e-mail :), a suggestion occurred to me for Wikinews. We could: 1. Create a "reporting@wikinews.org" e-mail address. 2. Also create a process by which e-mail inquiries can be collaboratively written then submitted to a process by which they are sent and the replies publicly posted.

That would accomplish a couple of objectives: 1. Streamline the contact process so 100 overzealous wikinewsies don't bombard somebody with similar questions. 2. Create a legitimacy of accreditation that would accompany an inquiry and thus be more likely to be accorded a response. DouglasGreen 15:43, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I think any agency should be able to deal with all of their email. A hundred additional pieces is a drop in the bucket to most of them, DouglasGreen. They work for us.

 * Additionally I did go to your linked EPA site and will put it on the bottom of the page as an External site. With that I think the article is fine as you have finished it, OK? --HiFlyer 15:51, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * It looks OK to me. Thank you all for your article-writing activities and this discussion.  I still think a "reporting@wikinews.org" e-mail is a good idea.  If a hundred e-mails is a drop in the bucket for them, an official, accredited, unbiased Wikinews e-mail would get their attention and not be ignored.  Isn't that important, too? DouglasGreen 15:55, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

DouglasGreen, we're all on the same team, even though sometimes it gets a little dicey ;-) .. If you can get a consensus to provide such an email collection zone, I would prefer if we put our own email letters that we get back from those places in it and let every one compare results. But anything is fine as long as it gives a good picture of the news. And thank you for all your good work. --HiFlyer 16:01, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It seems to me that articles like this one call for a project much like FactCheck.org to review and disect obvious political noise like the quotes in this article. Disclosure: I'm a democrat... however, I'm not a democrat that automatically attempts to demonize everything that a republican administration does. In this case, saying that anyone was performing human testing on children is clearly a ploy to direct public outrage at the current administration. There are pesticides used in homes with children. This is something the EPA should investigate. Ajs 19:16, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * The EPA admitted that they were offering the financial incentive of $970, along with a camcorder, for participation in this study. How many poor families would have started spraying insecticide in their home for this type of compensation?

 * Offering incentives to use harmful chemical agents around children is abhorrent, no matter what one's political affiliation may be.

 * Instead of studying the harmful effects of such products, the EPA should be advocating for laws to restrict sales of these products to qualified professionals who are tested and certified to ensure the proper application of insecticides in a manner that is not harmful to human life (if such a thing is even possible).

 * It's not as if there are widespread, recurring outbreaks of malaria or other tropical diseases in Florida, which could justify the tradeoff between the effects of such diseases and the use of poisonous agents to combat them. Is there any evidence to suggest that pests in Florida are anything other than a mere nuisance? — DV 19:48, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * An ethically designed study would prevent this by surveying the homes before offering the incentives, and then directly offering them to those homes which are using them. Is there any evidence this has been done?--Eloquence 21:22, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Billboards ran a 1-800 number and people were told to call and get info on participating in the study. This may be the poorest county in Florida and $1,000 and a video camera--and a tee shirt--were offered to participants, as the story says. Could sound like a lot of money to very poor people. No other survey of participants has been reported. Truly outrageous no matter what political club you are in, huh? And the kind of reporting that Wikians find important...I certainly do. --HiFlyer 21:33, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Which source does the information that billboards were used to advertise the study come from?

 * I think we should work more in this article and make it a really comprehensive report on the issue. It could become an example of the level of collaborative research we can do on Wikinews. So please get back to me ASAP re: the source for this (note that it would be helpful if you would be on IRC when at all available for questions).

 * One thing I just found out, which I added to the article, is that the website description for the CHEERS study was changed without notice by November 2004. Apparently this was in response to the outbreak of the controversy last fall. My intution tells me that even the sentence "(You do not need to change your regular household routine for the study.)" in the first version of the website I could obtain was tacked on later, since it doesn't make any sense in context and looks out of place. Unfortunately, the Internet Archive doesn't have any earlier version of the page.

 * Another thing is that there is definitely a contradiction between that website and the actual "peer reviewed study design" it links to. The website looks like an advertisement for people to become participants (with a number to call), while the study design requires EPA recruiters to meet people, and to determine eligibility in a follow-up visit. This still has some potential for abuse, but obviously much less so than an open recruiting process.

 * Again, the more evidence we can find for what has actually happened here, the better. Let's try to be as unbiased as possible and get to the core of the matter.--Eloquence 21:57, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Editorial with additional information
Absent answers to the above, this editorial criticizes the original proposed study design. It seems to be all in all on solid footing, factually speaking, but would still have to be checked by someone and incorporated into the article in attributed form.--Eloquence 22:21, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I am looking for a sound file from a radio program I heard during the week. That would be a wonderful link...give me a little time to put this together--I think it's great that we get behind this effort to find out the unbelievable facts behind this most disgusting story. --HiFlyer 22:45, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ok I posted the link to the soundtrack. I can try to cut the report out, but I'm unsure about hosting it on Commons...I have to find out if it is free...unless someone knows? --HiFlyer 23:10, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Subheads and more info
OK, I balanced the article out by providing subheads for the Senate opposition and the EPA review, with another statement from the EPA about the study from back in 2004, and the official cancellation notice from the EPA web site.

I couldn't find out how the study was advertised online, but I'm listening to the RM sound track now. Thanks for the link, Alan. — DV 23:28, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I just listened to the Free Speech radio show segment about the EPA, and apparently there was an 1-800 number, (they dialed it on the show to prove that it existed), but the number now announces that the study is canceled.

 * I can't find info about how that number was publicized.

 * Alan, if you can point to any sources for that aspect of the story, it would strengthen its impact. Specifically, what is the source for the assertion that the 1-800 number was advertised on billboards? — DV 23:36, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * DV it was another radio report that spoke of the billboards. But you will notice that I don't have that relationship on the story for the reason you state...I am trying to find that story since it will be another part of the total picture. I remember thinking how obstruse! Reaching these folks that maybe didn't have a phone by using a billboard and an 800-number! But this is Saturday night and I have to spend some time with my family. I'll see you all again in the morning. I trust my fellow Wikians to present the full picture (as ugly as that may be.) --HiFlyer 23:48, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Well, the radio segment claims that the toll-free number could be used to sign up for the study, which would be a significant revelation and contradicts the peer reviewed study design. I've contacted the author of the segment, and hopefully they will get back to me with more info. Alan, please do try to track down the billboard statement. If we can get this all properly sourced, I see no reason not to make the story a lead (and perhaps put it under a new title).--Eloquence 01:00, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Eloquence, I have not been able to source the bit about the billboards yet. I think the story stands on its own legs without that bit, no? It should be a lead item IMO...after all the work we all have done on it. --HiFlyer 16:42, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Direct quote

 * What I inserted was a direct quote as well, Eloquence. See the new external link for verification (PEER). Additionally, I originally placed the information in the block quote, and have some familiarity with it.

 * And now I will D/L two image files that may prove helpful. At which point I leave this project to pursue my 2 stories for the day ;-) --HiFlyer 18:57, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Mozilla Foundation prepares third Firefox security update

April 9, 2005

The Mozilla Foundation is in the final stages of preparing the third security update to the popular free Internet browser Firefox.

This update will fix a security issue highlighted by Internet security firm Secunia which allows remote users to read the memory of a computer running earlier versions of Firefox. Information such as the websites the user has recently visited or their e-mail addresses can easily be recovered.

Users can visit the Secunia website and use a test page to see if they are vulnerable and to study the kind of information that the flaw discloses. Secunia currently recommends disabling Javascript in the browser as a short-term measure against the bug.

The release will also fix some bugs discovered in version 1.0.2 and a selection of other security issues.

The third release, to be known as 1.0.3, comes hot on the heels of 1.0.2, released on March 23. As before, users will need to download and install the entire 4.7MB program from mozilla.org, rather than download a Microsoft-style patch. Mozilla is working on an update system that will make updating via smaller patches possible in the future.

This release has had a difficult birth, with initial versions preventing many popular Extensions (user-installed sub-programs that enhance the capabilities of the browser) from operating. Mozilla developers have worked hard on the issue and are now confident that they have plugged security holes in a way which will not cause inconvenience to users.


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Shouldn't there be a Wiki page for the Mozilla Foundation???

Using asa's blog as a source
First: You shouldn't do it.

Second: Link to a dynamic page, and state 'various posts'. Ok, that really helps the reader look into this in a few months when the dynamic page is so changed that it's unknown what esactly the source is. Perhaps link to each post in a line (such as [1] [2] [3])? --Tom 01:00, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I think it is unreasonable to ask a news website not to link to a public website, blog or otherwise. I agree that "various posts" and "various dates" is no good, and I'd be happy to link to the same information somewhere else out of courtesy to Asa. (Just so we're clear, I haven't edited this article or its sources at all. I'll see if I can add a more pleasing link to the article.) Pingswept 02:27, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, I added a more targeted link. I found the same story on Mozillazine, but it had less detail, so I am linking to Asa's blog instead. Note that we are not doing what Rafael complains about in his comments to Asa's post-- taking Asa's comments out of context. When the reader clicks on the link, they see Asa's blog, not a quote taken out of context. Pingswept 02:42, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Wladimir Klitschko unifies IBF, WBO heavyweight titles
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We haven't seen you in some time now. How're things with you?--Bddpaux (talk) 15:58, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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User talk:207.200.116.200

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What is the porpouse of the last part of the code . ? Is it only a shortcut to going to this template? Is it useful? AnyFile 12:49, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Change Wording?
Should "by someone" be in there? Sounds weird. I thought "This article is currently undergoing a major edit" was just fine. Jason Safoutin 14:11, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * The idea was to have some default text, should the added parameter not be used. It sounds fine to me, did you have something else in mind? Perhaps, "by another editor"? StrangerInParadise 18:30, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

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Time Warner/Comcast bid to snap up Adelphia cable service

April 9, 2005

A bid topping $17.7 billion was jointly proffered by Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corporation on Thursday to buy beleaguered Adelphia Communications Corporation in an industry consolidation move. Adelphia is the fifth largest cable service provider in the United States with nearly 5 million subscribers.

The market-share grabbing bid trumps the previous Cablevision offer of $16.5 billion. The bid is under scrutiny by the presiding judge over the Adelphia’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, and must also be approved by the company’s creditors owed in the range of $20 million.

The acquisition race to gain dominance in the cable service provider market is driven by the high cost of installation and maintenance of cable lines. Fiber optic networks deliver traditional entertainment programming over a cable wire and is becoming increasingly popular for broadband internet content. The growing trust and recognition of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) suggests phone service subscribers will eventually migrate to cable voice communication as opposed to keeping with traditional copper land lines. Telephone company operators are scrambling to keep up.

The largest percentage of the bid would be put up by Time Warner (TW), who could gain by getting subscribers from the valuable Los Angeles market currently owned by Comcast and Adelphia. TW can also simultaneously divest itself of a stake owned by Comcast in TW by making a tax-free swap using some of the newly garnered Adelphia subscribers.

While the consolidation would likely get a look by the government with an eye towards a growing monopoly in the market, it would doubtfully be blocked considering the existence of competing technologies. Competition exists in the form of still numerous television by airwaves usage, satellite providers, radio content companies, and telecom providers.

Adelphia suffered a corporate scandal in 1992 with similarities to the WorldCom fall. Members of the Rigas family, founders of the company, were alleged to have siphoned off millions of dollars and hidden $2.3 billion leading to the bankruptcy filing. John Rigas and son Timothy were convicted July of 2004 and await sentencing.


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Talk:German Wikipedia DVD sells out first 10,000-copy run

This should be put up as a full article now (<-- unsigned comment by 209.148.141.17)

 * Uhm, no, not yet. This is single-sourced article, and reads like a press release in its current state. I will look through the history and see if it can be alternately sourced. But thanks for bringing it to my attention. - Amgine 15:54, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * How is it possible for a company to commercialize everyone's work on Wikipedia in this manner? Can anyone resell this DVD from their own web site?

 * This article is nothing more than a press release that is pushing a product. If I compile a CD with Wikinews articles on it, can I put a press release up on Wikinews hawking my product as well? If not, then why is the German company Directmedia Publishing getting special treatment? They aren't yet another little-publicized venture to make money on the side run by Wales or Angela are they?

 * Directmedia Publishing has had a full day of free advertising by virtue of appearing under Developing stories on the front page. The distinction between whether this is a "full article" under Latest news, or a "developing article" that is not ready for prime time, is easily lost on our readers.

 * As a constructive suggestion, I propose that future "press release" articles not be allowed to sit on Developing stories, lest it serve as a convenient loop hole for anyone to push their products until someone gets around to rewriting it.

 * If another company is doing the same thing, and the two products can be compared and contrasted, then this story will be news. Or if some noteworthy commentator can be found who thinks this is a bad idea, then this story would be news. A press release isn't news. — DV 05:15, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Which is exactly why the 'INDEX' box should be considered for movement to the 'Developing stories' location. -edw 05:46, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Drug-resistant infections on the rise in American hospitals

April 9, 2005

A rise in flesh-eating staph infections has worried doctors about the possible spread of drug resistant bacteria.

Staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as staph, is a bacteria that commonly causes skin infections in otherwise healthy people. However, as a persistent threat in hospitals, it tends to infect patients who are already sick and whose systems are vulnerable due to IV lines that pierce the skin. Doctors have already battled for years against drug-resistant strains of the bacteria, but the struggle has generally been confined to hospitals.

Now, however, Methicillin Resistant Staph Aureus (MRSA) has been spreading in communities outside hospitals. Cases have multiplied by 25 times since 1998 at the University of Chicago. A Los Angeles hospital documented 14 cases of the flesh-eating infection, where patients required substantial time in intensive care and surgery. The infections are particularly problematic because nearly a quarter of people who get a staph infection require hospitalization.

Staph infections are spread much like other diseases, with crowded conditions, poor hygiene, and skin-to-skin contact most frequently to blame. At higher risk are prison inmates, homeless people, military personnel, and families with kids in day care. Athletes also have a higher risk, because sweating makes it easier for bacteria to infect the skin.


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Talk:Who's the richest entertainer in Australia? The Wiggles of course!

I spell checked and corrected earnt one time, and now it comes back two times? Heh! Earnt ain't a woid. Not even in the 1913 Websters! The past tense of the verb to earn is EARNED. ROFL!! --HiFlyer 17:26, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Alan, the usage of the word "earnt" is an interesting question.

 * According to The Oxford Guide to English Usage, "A number of verbs vary in their past tense and past participle between a regular form and a form with -t":

 * burn — burnt
 * dream — dreamt
 * kneel — knelt
 * leap — leapt
 * learn — learnt
 * smell — smelt
 * spell — spelt
 * spoil — spoilt

 * However, for "earnt" Oxford notes, "Earn is regular. There is no form earnt."

 * A subscription to the online Oxford dictionary goes for $275 a year, so I searched for "perfect passive participles" in Google to find this excerpt from the Oxford reference.

 * Despite Oxford's statement, and the omission of the word "earnt" from more than 900 online dictionary sources (I often use these to verify alternative British spellings), Google displays 67,000 usages of the word "earnt" online, so "earnt" appears to be a form of popular British slang.

 * Perhaps a reader with access to other authoritative reference works can better explain the usage of "earnt". — DV 18:58, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Pardon me whilst I sneeze. aChew! lol -edw 19:10, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I just checked the full OED on the usage of "earn". I can't find any reference there to "earnt". Indeed, as early as 1687 the form "earned" was being used. Though that doesn't preclude modern, regional usage. -- IlyaHaykinson 20:13, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Does Wikinews prefer the slang usage, even if it is hardly used at all?
 * --HiFlyer 20:43, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, Simeon changed it back to "earned". I'm glad someone knew what to do! — DV 04:32, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Correction
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Changing High five (disambiguation) to Hi-5 (Australian group). SatDis (talk) 02:02, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Done. [24Cr][talk] 10:14, 31 May 2024 (UTC)


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Hard drive technology breaks storage density record

April 10, 2005 Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the San Jose, California-based joint venture of Japanese storage vendor Hitachi and U.S. technology giant IBM, has set a new record for storage density at 230 gigabits per square inch (Gb/in2). The company has developed technology to implement a recording method known as perpendicular recording, which allowed the increase in density above the current ~130 Gb/in2 limit.

Techworld claims there is a race between Hitachi and Toshiba for who will get the first drives to market which use the technology. According to Hitachi, they expect, "to ship [their] first perpendicular recording product in 2005 on a 2.5-inch hard drive". Toshiba is also planning to ship a drive in 2005 that uses perpendicular recording.

According to Techworld, Toshiba will ship an 80 GB, 1.8" drive in 2005. Toshiba's 1.8" drives are used in portable electronic devices such as Apple's iPod, which is currently available in sizes 60 GB and smaller.

While all commercially available hard drives to date use longitudinal recording, perpendicular recording has roots in research done in academic circles over 100 years ago.

Hitachi Tech has produced a Flash animation that explains the rudiments of perpendicular recording in a music-video style.

Inspired by the 1970s Schoolhouse Rock series of educational animation shorts, the flash movie features whimsical moments with data bits and disk platters that speak and sing (not possible with today's technology), it also contains realistic details. Of no importance to the viewer, but perhaps of interest to some, the animation shows Texas Instruments' UC5608DWP chips visible briefly in the background. While TI's UC5608DWP 18-line SCSI terminator chips have been made obsolete by the new UCC5618, the chips are indeed designed for use in hard drives.


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BTW, edbrown05, I'm that anonymous IP there... strange network here, losing my cookies.` - Amgine 17:31, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Toronto prepares for Monday transit strike

April 9, 2005The Toronto Transit Commission is expected to strike Monday. The TTC workers union, the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113, rejected a deal offered by TTC management. They last went on strike in 1999. The average daily ridership exceeds 1.3 million passengers.

The city of Toronto has prepared to help deal with the forecasted traffic congestion by opening up free parking for car-pools at 14 city-owned community centres, banning parking on some city streets, and opening up some bus-only lanes to car-pools.

The initial deal, which was rejected, offered a 2% wage increase over five years. With a huge turnout the union-members voted against accepting the offer with a 99% majority according to a press release by the union. The union rejected the latest offer Friday reported to be a three-year contract with raises of 2.75 percent in the first year, three percent in the second and 3.25 percent in the third.


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U.S. Postal rate increase proposed

April 9, 2005 The U.S. Postal Service has filed a request with the independent Postal Rate Commission seeking a 2-cent increase in first-class mail. Other types of mail would probably increase as well, with the proposed higher rates taking effect early next year.

First class mail would go from 37 cents to 39 cents; postcards from 23 cents to 24 cents.

The Postal Service blamed the proposed increase on a 2003 law requiring the agency to place $3.1 billion annually in an escrow account. They said they would withdraw the rate request if Congress changes the law.

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Talk:Future British monarch Prince Charles marries Camilla Parker Bowles

Are we sure he is the "Future British monarch" or shall we let Fate decide that, naming him instead the heir apparent or pretender to the throne or whatever.


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Chinese rioters storm Japanese embassy in Beijing

April 9, 2005 As many as a thousand rioters attempted to storm the Japanese embassy in Beijing late Saturday, shouting "Boycott Japan!" and "Japanese pig come out!", throwing rocks and smashing guardhouse windows. Protesters proclaimed, "Chinese people shouldn't protect Japanese," at the 500-odd riot-police who had arrived to guard the compound, wire agencies reported.

The Japanese Government had been criticised earlier this week for approving a controversial history textbook that protesters, as well as many in China and Korea, say whitewashes Japan's wartime atrocities against China. Japan's ambassador to Beijing defended the textbooks, adding that they were produced by private companies and not the Japanese government.

The Chinese People's Daily provided a report about the events which led up to the riot. The report cited the protesters' demands to "safeguard [the] Diaoyu Islands"; "smash Japan's daydream" of seeking a permanent seat on the UN Security Council; and boycott Japanese-made products.

Between six- and twenty-thousand had turned out for a peaceful, legal anti-Japanese rally earlier in the day, prior to the emergence of the full-scale riot.

"Our generation believes that China must stand up for its rights and stop being soft on Japan," Li Jiangchuan, a college student told The New York Times. "Japan should stop lying about history and tell the truth," he said.

"Every Chinese feels anger at the way Japan ignores its own history and tries to occupy China's sovereign territory," Li Hongbo, 19, student at Tsinghua University, told The New York Times. China and Japan have recently disputed ownership of the string of tiny Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea, which have natural gas reserves.

According to New York Times' reporter Joseph Kahn in Beijing, "Subsequent gatherings at the Japanese ambassador's residence and the Japanese Embassy appeared to have been organized without official approval and were considerably more tense, with the police closing off many roads and busing in reinforcements to maintain order."

Participants in demonstrations also attacked the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi branch and a Japanese restaurant whose waitresses wear kimonos, reported Reuters. Thousands also threw stones at the home of the Japanese ambassador to China, Koreshige Anami, according to the Kyodo News agency.

Japan formally protested the event with the Chinese diplomatic mission in Tokyo. Chinese diplomats expressed regret that the protest had gotten out of hand.

"The fact that people took actions such as throwing rocks at the ambassador's residence as well as the embassy is not something that the Chinese government can accept," Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Qiao Zonghuai was quoted as saying.

"Representing the government, I offer my heartfelt sympathy and express my regret" he said.

"Some people in Beijing organised a demonstration themselves in protest against the wrong attitude and practice Japan had taken recently on the issue of its history of aggression," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Qin Gang was quoted as saying.

"The Chinese government demanded the demonstrators to keep calm and sane, give voice to their attitude in a lawful and orderly way, and not to engage in excessive action," he said.

However, the BBC reported that the authorities had signaled "tacit acceptance, if not approval" by allowing Saturday's protest to happen in the first place.

Reporting of at least the initial larger rally by Chinese government-operated media outlets such as People's Daily quoted above, was 'rare', according to a number of sources. As explained by Japanese Kyodo News, "China's state media seldom reports on protest rallies inside China."

Reports indicate that the initial protest was organised substantially by communication over the internet, including email, bulletin boards, and instant messaging.

The demonstrations have been attributed a number of records for size-in-recent-years, including "largest to be held in the capital since a massive outpouring [of] anti-American sentiment in 1999, after the United States bombed China's embassy in Belgrade during the war against Serbia"; ; "the biggest protest against foreigners since [the same event]" ; "one of the largest protest events authorized by the Chinese government in years" ; and "the largest anti-Japanese demonstration in Beijing since the two countries normalized diplomatic ties in 1972".

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Gaza cease fire rocked by latest killing of youths

April 9, 2005

The two month old truce between Israel and the Palestinians is still intact after three teenagers were shot down earlier today while trying to smuggle firearms through the Egyptian border. Palestinians claim they saw the children attempting to fetch a football that had landed in a no-go zone near a refugee camp, in southern Gaza. Israeli army sources say the youths entered a forbidden area heavily guarded by Israeli forces near the border with Egypt. The teenagers were fired upon by soldiers after they ignored warning shots.

Militants responded by firing mortar shells at Jewish settlements in Gaza, although no one was injured.

The level of violence in the Gaza region had dropped significantly since the cease fire was agreed upon by both sides of the conflict. Islamic Jihad chief Mohammed al-Hindi said today: "So far, the Palestinian factions have not declared an end to the calm... but they are studying the issue anew because of continued Zionist aggression." Saeed Siyam, a Hamas leader in Gaza, told the Associated Press: "The Palestinian people cannot stay silent in the face of this crime and it cannot pass without punishment."

"These kids were not playing soccer," said an anonymous Israeli army commander today. "You don't get there by accident."


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Thousands march on Baghdad in anniversary protest

April 10, 2005

Tens of thousands of protesters waving national flags marched in Baghdad, Iraq on Saturday, the anniversary of the toppling of Saddam Hussein. Chanting "No, no to the occupiers," they massed at Firdos Square on the site where Hussein’s statue was pulled down two years ago today.

Central Baghdad shut down ahead of the march and Iraqi security searched most protesters before entering the city. US and other peace-keeping forces remained out of sight. The march, sponsored by the cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, passed with no notable violence or arrests, and the crowd was dispersed by early evening.

There were simultaneously another 5000 protesters who marched in Ramadi, a city west of Baghdad.

Calling for the withdrawal of occupation forces, protesters aped the televised images of occupation forces by knocking down their own effigies of George Bush, Tony Blair and Saddam himself. The effigies were clothed in red — a symbolism they have been marked for death.

Iraqi Ali Feleih Hassan told the Associated Press, "No one accepts this. I want them out. They have been here for two years, and now they have to set a timetable for their withdrawal."

The US has been unable to set a timetable and is determined to stay until they believe the country is secure. Muqtada al-Sadr, an opposition negotiator, ultimately ended an uprising after signing a peace agreement with US forces last August.


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