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Wikinews:Audio Wikinews/Transcripts/May 26, 2005

Audio Wikinews transcript – 2005 05 26 – 2300 UTC
As reported by Nicholas Gerda

May 26, 2005. This is Wikinews.

Lead Story
Amnesty International calls for Guantanamo shutdown In their annual report on human rights Amnesty International Secretary General, Irene Khan, said "Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time." In this 308-page report, they also called for the United States to shut down the Guantanamo prison. The report continues the critical analysis of the actions of the U.S. government, but criticism is sharper. The introduction to the report states "The 'war on terror' appeared more effective in eroding international human rights principles than in countering international 'terrorism'." In calling for changes from the U.S. government, especially regarding Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International's voice is joined with calls from both the International Red Cross (IRC) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The IRC has said it reported to the U.S. government detainee's reports of desecration of the Qu'ran. The ACLU's Freedom of Information Act requests turned up U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) reports which echo the IRC's concerns. The documents are purported to show a consistency with reports from detainees of abuse to their religious symbols, as well as reports of beatings and other interrogation methods. Amnesty International's Secretary General, in her introduction to the report, points to the United State's foreign and military policy as providing a justification for other governments to ignore human rights. "The USA, as the unrivalled political, military and economic hyper-power, sets the tone for governmental behaviour worldwide. When the most powerful country in the world thumbs its nose at the rule of law and human rights, it grants a licence to others to commit abuse with impunity," said Irene Khan. White House spokesman Scott McClellan responded saying the report's allegations were "ridiculous and unsupported by the facts. The United States is leading the way when it comes to protecting human rights and promoting human dignity. We have liberated 50 million people in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have worked to advance freedom and democracy in the world so that people are governed under a rule of law and that there are... protections in place for minority rights, that women's rights are advanced so that women can fully participate in societies where now they cannot", as well as supporting the fight against AIDS in Africa. About the allegations of abuse at Guantanamo, which McClellan has previously called isolated incidents, he said, "We hold people accountable when there is abuse. We take steps to prevent it from happening again, and we do so in a very public way for the world to see that we lead by example, and that we do have values that we hold very dearly and believe in."

Headlines
Power crisis in Moscow and central Russia largest ever recorded Yesterday, a huge power outage occurred in Moscow today. The failure in the accumulative power supply system in Mosenergo which occurred at 11:15 a.m. local time on Wednesday, led to a power outage in all areas of the city. Light was disconnected in apartment buildings. Some lines of the Moscow underground stopped for four hours. Trams and trolley buses, electric trains of the Moscow railway also stopped. Hundreds of people were trapped in apartment building lifts. In addition to lighting problems, the homeowners have also lost their water supply, as pumping stations in Mosvodokanal were disconnected because of the power failure. 15 big cities and five areas of Moscow suburbs, some areas of the Tula and Kaluga areas were left without electricity. At 12:00 noon, food shops in the affected areas started closing. In shops where sellers continued trading, huge queues accumulated. To avoid panic at train stations, workers with megaphones informed passengers of train movements. At train stations, reserve power supplies are being used. According to eyewitnesses, there was no electric lighting at many stations and in transitions between them. Escalators also did not work. This morning, trolley buses and trams still do not work in southern areas of Moscow. Despite repair work conducted all last night, it was impossible to power all trolleybus and tram lines. In total 8 tram and 25 trolleybus routes do not work. Buses will take over those routes. Besides this, in the south of Moscow there are still many disconnected apartment houses. All stations of the Moscow underground are working normally. All trains are running on schedule. The entrance to Moscow for supersize automobiles will be limited up to 14 o'clock in the afternoon. The limitation was put in place yesterday because of difficult road conditions in the city after the power failure.

Marshall Islands to request $3 billion more from U.S. for health effects of nuclear testing The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is petitioning for $3 billion in additional compensation from the U.S. government, after receiving $270 million in an agreement which expired in 2001. The U.S. government performed a series of 67 tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958. Fallout from the testing is claimed to have affected some of the island's near 60,000 inhabitants. "We're finding people on remote islands with high percentages of cancers," said RMI Foreign Minister Gerald Zackios. A report last year from the U.S. National Cancer Institute estimated that about 530 total cancers could appear, almost double the amount currently known. The U.S. government disagrees over which islands were affected by the testing. Also, U.S. agencies have concluded that there is no further legal requirement for compensation above what has already been provided, unless the situation changes substantially. The government of the Marshall Islands plans to "work tirelessly together to make certain that the nuclear issue is settled in a fair and just manner", said RMI President Kessai Note. Both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate plan to hold hearings on the claim as soon as May 25.

Democratic Republic of Congo adopts new constitution, plans elections The Democratic Republic of the Congo adopted a new constitution on May 13, and elections are being planned for the first time in more than 40 years. The Congo has been torn by five years of civil war. Peace was declared in 2003, but hunger and disease continue to trouble the country. The U.S. State Department praised recent political developments in the African nation. Spokesman Richard Boucher made a statement that the new constitution "establishes a balance of powers between the branches of government, ensures protection and development of minorities, and provides for a limit of two presidential terms. We note the flexibility shown by all members of the transitional Congolese government in reaching this agreement." Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht asked for civil calm as the difficult process of preparing for elections goes forward. The election has already been delayed by the government for several months, and further postponements are expected. Congo was once a Belgian colony, and the two governments are working together to prevent the outbreak of more rioting such as happened after the last election delay in January. Congolese President Joseph Kabila has requested military assistance from the European Union to help restrain and instruct the Congolese army and integrate it better with the government. The EU announced Monday that ten of its member nations plan to participate. This is the first such deal made by the EU.

Ebola outbreak in Congo Reuters reports that nine people have died from Ebola in the Republic of Congo this month. The outbreak is in the Cuvette-Ouest region near the Gabon border, where a previous outbreak had occurred in 2003. The government of Congo and the United Nations World Health Organization have announced a quarantine of the Etoumbi and Mbomo districts. They are monitoring 84 suspected cases in the two regions. Jean-Vivien Mombouli, advisor to the Congolese Ministry of Health, pointed out the individuals may not actually have the virus; only one confirmed case of Ebola has been diagnosed thus far. "We will wait for 21 days just to be sure then after that, if the person does not get sick, he is out of danger," Mr. Mombouli said of the patients. Ebola has a five to ten day incubation period. Neighbouring Uganda has stepped up its surveillance in response to the outbreak. No cure exists for Ebola, and between 50-90% of those who contract it die. Zaire/Congo has sustained the largest number, and most severe, outbreaks of the Ebola virus. Although no cure exists, work continues on a vaccine and it is in the human trial stages, as well as research into pharmaceutical treatments.

Voyager 1 enters heliosheath at edge of solar system The Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977 to explore the planets, is now agreed by scientists to have entered the heliosheath at the edge of the solar system 8.7 billion miles (14 billion kilometers) from the Sun. In a few years, Voyager 1 is expected to become the first man-made object to cross into interstellar space. "Voyager has entered the final lap on its race to the edge of interstellar space, as it begins exploring the solar system's final frontier," said Dr. Edward Stone, Voyager project scientist at the California Institute of Technology. As long ago as 2003, scientists thought Voyager 1 was entering the termination shock region of the solar system, but there was some dispute. The termination shock is the area preceding the heliosheath, where the electrically charged solar wind is slowed and concentrated by contact with interstellar gas. The heliosheath is considered the outer edge of our solar system. Around it is the heliopause, a cosmic bubble where the pressure of solar wind and interstellar wind is in balance. The solar system as a whole is in orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. As it plows through clouds of interstellar gas and dust, a bow shock forms ahead of it, which has been compared to the turbulence a ship creates as it sails through ocean currents. Voyager 1 is still operational and sending back reams of scientific data. Already notable for more than 27 years of successful operation, Voyager 1 is projected to continue operating on its plutonium power source possibly until the year 2020. Voyager 2, its companion probe launched the same year, has visited more planets than any other spacecraft. It too is eventually expected to exit the solar system at a more downward angle, but is currently only 80% as far from the sun as Voyager 1. The Voyagers are not only gathering data about the cosmos, they are sending the greetings of the human world out to it. Each Voyager contains what is known as the "Golden Record", which is an audio recording on a 12-inch gold plated copper disc. The discs contain samples of nature sounds, spoken greetings in 55 human languages, and musical compositions. The collection of samples was supervised by astronomer Carl Sagan, and is intended to convey the hopefulness of life on Earth for possible discovery by alien races or retrieval by some advanced human civilization.

Wikipedia Current Events

 * Voyager 1, the most distant man-made object, has entered the heliosheath and is on the verge of leaving the solar system and entering the interstellar medium.
 * The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, the world's longest oil pipeline, is opened in Baku, Azerbaijan.
 * At Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadyumu in Istanbul, Liverpool F.C. defeat A.C. Milan 3-2 in a penalty shootout to win their first UEFA Champions League football title since 1984.
 * Nambaryn Enkhbayar of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party is elected President of Mongolia.
 * Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany announces early federal elections to be held later this year, after his Social Democrats lose the state election in North Rhine-Westphalia to the Christian Democrats, ending 39 years in government.

Today in History provided by Wikipedia
May 26' is Independence Day in Guyana and Georgia. Today is also the Feast of Corpus Christi in Catholic and some Western Christian traditions, and Mother's Day in Poland.

 * 1805 - Napoléon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy in Milan with the Iron Crown of Lombardy.
 * 1896 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average was first published by Charles Dow as a stock market index.
 * 1918 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia was proclaimed.
 * 1972 – Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow, concluding SALT I.
 * 1986 – The European Community adopted the European flag.

Today's fact provided by Wikipedia
Soccer player Antonín Panenka famously scored the winning penalty for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 European Championship final against West Germany by chipping the ball.

Thank you for joining us for today's segment. Join us again tomorrow for more headlines, news, facts, and anniversaries; and next week will have our very first Special Report.

I'm Nicholas Gerda.

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Bastique, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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 * Damn Craig beat me to it! Welcome to wikinews Bastique; I've seen you work so hard at wikipedia... so im looking forward to your efforts here! If you want any help, just ask me (or Amgine). → CGorman (Talk)  14:23, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Accreditation
Congratulations, you are now an accredited Wikinews user. If you have any questions let me know.--Cspurrier 01:03, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations!
Your RfA has passed with unanimous support. You now have the adminmobile. Oh, and the tools that go along with it. Thunderhead 11:41, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Remember, TINC, nor is there an admin mobile (per ruling of the Wikinews Cabal, last meeting 13:07 UTC, August 9, 2008 — burger king). Bawolff ☺☻ 12:11, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

California WikiBureau
Hello Bastique! Are you from California? You should join the newly revived WikiBureau California! What is the Bureau for? It is there to help bring editors together to work together on writing similar articles. I hope you'll stop by, take a look around, and hopefully sign up (It costs nothing, just put your name down on the page). Thanks! The Wikinewsies of California -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 05:49, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

question
will all articles need the date in the title now? 72.87.59.221 02:02, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * See my edit summaries on the move. If we want to have articles spidered on Google news, yes, or we have to find another way.  I'm just proposing this temporarily... Cary Bass (talk) 02:04, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * No...this is just a test. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 02:04, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ok thanks for the clearing up. --72.87.59.221 02:05, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Bass. I am doing a survey of wikinewies. Would you like to help me answer several questions? Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ffgao9 (talk • contribs) 18:53, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Decline of image deletion request: new section
Hi Bastique! I wonder if you would be kind enough to explain the reason for declining my image deletion request of the G8 logo for Gleneagles 2005 please? After reviewing the templates on the page, i concluded that as it still hadn't got a fair usage rationale, despite one being requested, it was, as per the 3rd template down, eligible for speedy deletion. This is the text I based that assumption on:

"This non-free image is claimed to be used under fair use but has no explanation on why it is permitted under our fair use policy. Non-free images are not permitted on Wikimedia Foundation projects without fair use rationales. Please supply a detailed rationale for each use of this image in all of the articles that it is used in, and remove this template when that has been done. Images without valid rationales are eligible for speedy deletion."

Could you please explain the correct procedure (which I thought I had followed)? I would appreciate it! Cheers! Iceflow (talk) 01:01, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Post-election spam
Thank you for supporting me for adminship. :) I'll try to make you glad you did it.  So here's a Nadezhda "Harry S. Truman" Durova campaign song.  All the best, Durova (talk) 00:30, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for archiving
Thanks for tackling the the archiving backlog. However, I wouldn't have let a sentence that started "On the opposite way of two weekends" go by. What does that even mean? (from 2007 Taipei IT Month exposed problems on traffic jams). Even the title is bad English. Cheers, --SVTCobra 03:04, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * The issue is that it was already published that way. Please feel free to correct it! Cary Bass (talk) 03:05, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, but then we might as well let a bot do the archiving, which incidentally has been suggested numerous times and always rejected. Have you talked to Brianmc about this? He pretty much wrote WN:ARCHIVE. Cheers,--SVTCobra 03:17, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Thousands protest PM Harper in Toronto
Wow, that's quite interesting, that a former CBCer is now a contributor to Wikinews. Did you get in contact with her thru Sue, or did she email it to OTRS? Quite curious about this good news. -- Zanimum (talk) 18:21, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

 * I met her at a conference Networked Politics recently and talked Wikinews up. I wanted to show her how we are doing with citizen journalism.  Let's hope that she (or her compatriots) decide to continue to use us!  (We had a lot of hits with this article, incidentally :) )  Cary Bass (talk) 04:19, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Very cool. It would be good if word spread among the journo community. --  Zanimum (talk) 17:05, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks and Best of Luck this 2009
User:Florentino Florotalk has given you a Wiki Dwarf red buckeye "good luck"! "Good Luck" promotes WikiLuck and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLuck by giving someone else a Good Luck, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy Lunar New Year, January 26! Spread the goodness of New Year Lucks by adding this Dwarf Luck to their talk page with a friendly message. --Florentino Floro (talk) 06:38, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Paranoia on safety vis-a-vis dire attempts on Obama

 * Thanks, Sir. I deeply understand that too many sources do have review disadvantages for the Wiki peer reviewer. But, I just want to be sure, that, a particular important fact or detail has back up. This article is not a legal but motoring news article and is highly technical. In the past, when I had created articles on disasters and accidents, I could'nt find just 2 or 3 articles which contain all critical facts. So, I had to have tons of sources. Further, in one or 2 difficult articles I wrote, an editor marked these as Failed and I asked for another review after putting updated back-ups. Talk:Cadillac unveils Obama's 'Beast', the 2009 Presidential State Car
 * So, sir, this is the marked difference between my Wiki created news articles and ordinary news reports we find in Google or BBC: my created article is SYNTHESIS of almost all past and updated reports, such that the reader will find all chunks like in a delicious hamburger. I know that Wiki editors might have some fear seeing tons of sources, but it is good for reliability. The reader must be safe with sure sources. And thanks for the comment; please feel free to delete, revise, modify etc. this, due to our COLLABORATION, I just being the CREATOR. A final WARNING though: PARANOIA - this truck car which is ASTEROID free, is built due to DIRE PROPHECIES about OBAMA's not finishing his term. Remember 2 articles in Wikipedia about 2 assassination attempts on Obama plus many DIRE omen. So, I want this article to be PARANOID too like in the car with sure sources. Just sayin. This car is eerie.--Florentino Floro (talk) 06:38, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Reporter ID stuff
Can you take a look at this, and give a non-official-but-from-someone-in-the-know response/comments? --Brian McNeil / talk 07:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

oversight (again?
If you have a spare minute, could you please talk at look at this. I am just wondering if you have any feedback, and your views. Thanks :) Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 03:51, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

A penny for your thoughts
Okay, not really, but I am requesting your participation in the following Water Cooler Discussion: OR and Broadcast report. The discussion involves the need for specific policy concerning how Original Reporting relates to information recieved from a broadcast report of an event. This can include both news-style reports and non-news reports, such as a sporting event. Thanks and again, please share your thoughts on this so we can get as many people involved as possible, especially since this relates to an important topic such as OR. —Calebrw (talk) 05:10, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

FAC nom
I have nominated an article you significantly contributed to, Over 100 people protest exclusion of gender identity protection in ENDA outside HRC dinner, for Featured Article consideration. Please see WN:FAC. Cirt (talk) 23:16, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Your support for my RFA
I would like to thank you for supporting my successful RFA and for your confidence in me. I look forward to serving further the English Wikinews community in this new capacity. I shall take the new tasks required of an administrator on board step by step and will make the utmost effort to fulfil the role to the best of my abilities. Kind regards Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 12:44, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

OR opportunity at UC Berkeley
Hi Bastique, I am pinging you and Shakataganai about an interesting health/human rights interview opportunity today or tomorrow in the Bay area. A user registered today to post a press release, and in conversation on their talk page, offered interviews with his colleagues. Follow up at Request an interview as you wish. --InfantGorilla (talk) 17:42, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Ouch, sorry I missed this, but it's always better to EmailUser me or leave a message on my meta talk page! Cary Bass (talk) 22:43, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Question for a Wikinews Administrator
Dear Bastique: I know that you're an admin on WP, so I figure you can route this correctly to someone at WMF. If you look carefully at this site, I believe they are using the Wikinews mark next to the words "Special Report." Even though I know it's ad-spam, and came up on my machine quite unexpectedly, if I were Wikinews, I'd want to know about this because unauthorize use of the mark could dilute it. Best regards, Saebvn. Please, if additional information is needed, contact me at my WP:EN talk page, user name "Saebvn." Thanks. Saebvn (talk) 19:13, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Interesting. This warrants investigation. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 19:16, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Shaka, light a fire under whoever is replacing Herr Godwin; they've still done sweet FA about wikinews.com. With no registered challenge the marque is worthless and anyone can abuse it. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:22, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I've already emailed legal. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 19:32, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I totally need to set Wikinews up to email me. Cary Bass (talk) 01:39, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Still around??
You still around these parts? --Bddpaux (talk) 01:36, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Not really. --Cary Bass (talk) 01:38, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

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Inactive Policy
Per the proposed inactive policy, yopur account has been nominated to have its privileges reduced. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:19, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
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 * Per this version of WN:RfP, you may review the public announcement of this change. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:53, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

 * Formalities... Cary Bass (talk) 18:49, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Sure. :-)  --Pi zero (talk) 19:13, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Being bothered by User:Pi zero
He is bothering me with rubbish each edit. He is never contributing. He deletes articles comments sites here, although the article is existing. Articles under development are clean up articles. I might not write about RB Leipzig. My started articles have interest and he says that other archived articles are which from amateur clubs, university clubs or something else. He wants to rename my name here and is not rename me. My articles are written after the style such as about other proven football match reports. He is psychic unable to name reasons. Please remove him from the board! He neither productive nor socially competent or educated, for a globally representative on public free sites. --Nikebrand (talk) 21:40, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

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Armagh man charged with 1998 bombing murders

May 26, 2005

A man from Jonesborough in south County Armagh, Northern Ireland, was charged today with the murder of 29 people who died in the 1998 Omagh bombing, which injured in excess of 300 additional people.

Sean Hoey, 35, appeared at the Craigavon Magistrates Court, saying nothing. His solicitor said his client strongly denies the charges, and that there is no evidence against him to support the charges. Hoey, who was also charged with 23 explosives offenses and conspiracy to murder security force members, was remanded to custody in Maghaberry Prison and is scheduled to appear, via video link from prison, before the Belfast magistrates on May 31.


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Talk:Controversial Judge Priscilla Owen approved for seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court

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Schapelle Corby found guilty, sentenced to 20 years

May 27, 2005 Schapelle Corby was today found guilty by an Indonesian court for the importation of 4 kilograms of marijuana to Bali. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The verdict was handed down by three judges amidst tight security at the Denpasar District Court.

The verdict was read in Indonesian and relayed to Corby via her translator. The court erupted as the outcome became clear. Her family and supporters screamed at the judge, and said that justice had not been done. "Scheppelle is innocent!" one supporter said.

Her lawyer reported before the verdict was handed down that she was terrified. "She's probably the worst I've ever seen her," he said.

After the verdict she stopped briefly to hug her family before being loaded into a van and driven away.

Corby was arrested at Denpasar Airport last October. On her trip to Bali, she flew from Brisbane to Sydney and then changed planes. Her defense centered around the claim that Australian airport baggage handlers placed the drugs in her bodyboard bag as part of a drug smuggling ring. It was claimed that the drugs were being smuggled from Brisbane to Sydney, but for some reason were not removed before her luggage was transferred to the Indonesian flight.

After a lengthy trial that attracted much media attention in Australia, prosecutors called for the judges to hand down a life sentence.

Hundreds of supporters and friends gathered at Tugun Surf-Lifesaving Club on the Gold Coast to watch the verdict and show their support.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard said that he felt for Corby but that Australians had to trust the Indonesian justice system. "We have to respect the justice system of other countries," he said.

The judge said she had until next Wednesday to appeal.


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Talk:Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs gives opening keynote to WWDC 2005

Goal
Are you aiming for something similar to this? Uncle G 12:17, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Image
Are you planning on taking a photograph? Even this sort of picture would be better than nothing. Uncle G 12:17, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I see that the answer is "yes". ☺ Uncle G 00:59, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Useful stuff

 * Steve Jobs' keynote from WWDC 2004
 * Steve Jobs' keynote from Macworld San Francisco 2005

IBM
What's happened to that company? They had it all and ... punted -Edbrown05 01:14, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

is that some ice i see in hell
we find out who deep throat is, debian sarge is released, and now this. Yikes.

Does anyone else use the PPCs other than apple and all three consonls (Xbox 360, N revolution, PS3)? Does IBM use it in some of thier servers and supercomputers and the like? ~The bellman | Smile 03:37, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

According to the POWER Wikipedia page, IBM has used the PowerPC in (some of?) their RS/6000 workstations and AS/400 minicomputers. But (it seems) their use has since been replaced by the POWER 4 and 5 CPU's. So no, IBM no longer uses their PowerPC CPU's themselves. But the POWER and PowerPC architectures are still closely related. And the PPC remains popular in the embedded market, although it's the Motorola/Freescale parts that are used there. It is odd that Apple is switching away from PPC just when the three next-gen consoles are switching to it. There's going to be an awful lot of interest in the PPC and related technologies (Altivec, Cell, etc) over the next several years. Apple is going to miss out on it all. Imroy 19:06, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Note on the report
Can you insert some note about the first hand report, here (in talk page) or on the note page? Just to tell how the reporting work. AnyFile 11:33, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Sure. NGerda 14:43, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Original reporting
NGerda attended the keynote speech of WWDC 2005 for Wikinews, via a Press Relations representative from Apple. While the wireless internet connection was on while I was waiting outside of the hall before the event, I was unable to provide a live report because the keynote hall didn't have any reception. I had access to the front rows of the press seats (which are in the front), where I was able to take pictures and write the story in a word processor on my computer before eventually finding a strain of wireless bandwidth after the event to upload the story to Wikinews.

Images
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 * I have been away for a while but one task I want to resume is fixing the image problems on articles, particularly in relation to images moving to Commons or being deleted at Commons. In this article there are two missing images that were deleted some years ago on Commons, for lack of source and/or quality. I've reviewed them and agree the image quality is not that great but they are very usable for the relatively small size in this article (and the fact that there is no reason to not accept that User:NGerda didn't take them). Additionally, the fact Steve Jobs is no longer with us makes it unlikely So, to avoid further complications, I have uploaded both of them here and suggest that the following replacements be made:
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 * Green Giant (talk) 20:00, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
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User talk:68.163.216.31

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Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called GATXER. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name GATXER~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Renamed
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User talk:66.90.174.97

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User talk:24.83.81.9

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Thank you for the contribution to "US use of phosphor in Iraq might be a warcrime" It is much better now. International 05:33, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

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Saudi Arabia's King Fahd admitted to hospital

May 27, 2005 King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has been admitted to a hospital in Riyadh for testing. Unofficial sources say that the King, who has been ill since 1995, might have "water in his lungs", possibly indicating pneumonia. Crown Prince Abdullah has performed most of the duties of the aging monarch in recent years, and is a very likely candidate for succession of the throne should King Fahd succumb to his illness.


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Mothers, teachers concerned about leukemia deaths at California elementary school

May 28, 2005 State Senator, school officials, and environmental professionals met with Kennedy Elementary School parents in a town-hall style meeting in Santa Ana Thursday evening. The parents aired their concerns over health issues at schools and workplaces, including a rash of cases in the student population, and began a dialogue they have been working toward for years.

Representatives of Markland Manufacturing and of AQMD also spoke at the meeting, explaining their positions. The outcome of the meeting was that Senator Dunn and members of the community will tour the Markland facility and meet with county officials, and another public meeting will be held in a couple of weeks.

Town hall meeting called in response to concerns
Concerned parents and teachers gathered at Kennedy Elementary School in Santa Ana, California for the 6:30 p.m. meeting hosted by California State Senator Joe Dunn. Principal Felix Mendoza, Donald Markland - President of Markland Manufacturing, members of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), and representatives from the Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD), Orange County Water District (OCWD), California Safe Schools, and California Environmental Rights Alliance participated in the meeting. Senator Dunn organized the meeting to address concerns of teachers who work at, and parents whose children attend both Kennedy and nearby Franklin Elementary School.

Five boys attending Franklin were diagnosed with the same type of leukemia in Spring 2002, raising the initial concerns. Attempts to gain an investigation from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) into possible causes were not successful as the case cluster, though intense, still fell into the range of natural chance.

During the corresponding time period, in December of 2002, the Orange County Sanitation Department had cited and fined Markland Manufacturing, a business located directly across the street from Kennedy Elementary, $21,000, a second time, for illegally dumping, , , and into city sewers. These toxic substances have a range of health risks from carcinogenic to reduced IQ and increase in fatality risk. Markland Manufacturing is a steel plating company located directly across the street from Kennedy Elementary School.

Recently, Markland applied for a permit from the AQMD to expand its facilities. Whenever a company changes equipment, and those changes affect air quality, the AQMD must issue a notice to all residents in the affected area. In response, parents called Senator Dunn's office voicing their concerns, and Dunn organized a town hall meeting to address the issues. He invited experts in air, water, and sewage to address the community. "Leukemia is an air quality issue," said Dunn.

Meeting report in detail
Senator Dunn began the meeting by thanking everyone at Kennedy Elementary School, Principal Felix Mendoza, and the Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD). He then introduced the first three members of the panel: Parents Gloria Maldonado and Socorro Molina, and teacher Tammy Sanchez.

"I was concerned about the permit," said 10-year resident and Kennedy parent Gloria Maldonado. "I contacted the school administration, and I was ignored. Where is our city council?"

Next to speak was Franklin parent Socorro Molina. Her son Steven was diagnosed with in May of 2002, along with four others at Franklin, and she wants an investigation. She says apartment kids are suffering from leukemia and dying.

Tammy Sanchez is a teacher at Franklin, and several of her students have been diagnosed with leukemia. She noted that all of the children who were diagnosed leukemia lived in front of Franklin Elementary. She went to the school nurse, and together they wrote a letter to the CDC asking for an investigation. They responded by saying that the cases were "within the range". "That's hard to believe," said Sanchez. She then turned to the Leukemia Society, and they too turned her down. In April of 2004, one of her students, Reynaldo, passed away due to leukemia. That summer, another boy at Franklin died from leukemia. "They all lived in apartments," she said. She kept searching, and in November of last year, another student at Franklin, Manuel, passed away. On January 2 this year, two twins that were going to attend Franklin died from acute lymphocytic leukemia. In February, a student at nearby Santa Ana High School died from leukemia. This weekend, a teacher from Franklin died of lung cancer. "I don't know what it is, but something isn't right in this area. There is clearly something amiss here," said Sanchez.

Senator Dunn then allowed Markland Manufacturing President Don Markland to respond to what the parents and teacher said. He responded, "[Before moving to our current location], I met with the City Council and the School Board; I went above and beyond what is called for." He said that the city told him that his business would be assisting in city beautification. When confronted about whether his business was responsible for the health issues, he said, "I'm not really a technical person. I hire assistants."

Next, Senator Dunn introduced members of the AQMD: Anupom Ganguli, Carol Coy, Jill Whynot; and other experts: Ron Wildermuth, Communications Director, Orange County Water District; Kelly Christensen, Source Control Supervisor, Orange County Sanitation District; and Joseph K. Lyou, Executive Director of California Safe Schools.

First to speak was Anupom Ganguli. "All residents deserve to live and work in a safe, clean environment," Anupom said. He said that "75% of air pollution comes from the burning of diesel fuels. Air quality is a major health issue, of particular concern is children." He went on to say, "Teens in highly polluted areas are five times more likely to have lung problems than teens not in polluted areas."

The next AQMD representative to speak was Carol Coy. "Any business that has a machine that emits or causes air pollution requires a permit... Markland is a plating company, which deals with liquid metals; more specifically, chrome... When the chemicals evaporate, onsite machines refine as much air pollution as possible. Markland is getting a permit to modify a piece of equipment, and a public notice is required for all pollutant increases," she said. Markland received three emissions violations from AQMD. "They're in good shape," said Coy.

The final speaker from AQMD was Jill Whynot. Jill clarified that "AQMD has no authority over land use". Therefore, placement of manufacturing industries next to residences (as has happened with Markland Manufacturing) is left to the authority of county and city council.

Next to speak was Joseph K. Lyou, Executive Director of California Environmental Rights Alliance. "What we're concerned about is false negatives," he said. "Our focus should be how we can reduce emissions and pollution in our communities." Robina Suwol, Executive Director of California Safe Schools, noted that "the standards are based upon a 160 pound male," not on children who are a fraction of the weight and size.

The final speaker was Ron Wildermuth, Communications Director of the Orange County Water District. He said, "Your water meets all standards, or it doesn't get served."

Dunn then opened the floor to public comments.

Socorro Molina, in response to Markland's comments, exclaimed, "Why in front of the school? Why near children?" Jill Whynot of AQMD responded by saying, "We have a proposed rule that will be voted on in a few months that would allow us to tell a business to not locate in a certain area."

Victoria Zaragoza, a resident of nearby Minnie Street, lashed, "I am outrage that there are so many pollutants. You [AQMD] don't test the air, you just test the companies.  Between late 2001 and early 2002, 19 women living at the Williams Street apartment complex were diagnosed with cancer.  We have high levels of lead.  Our children have asthma and lung problems.  It's not the norm.  I want that to be clear.  You have not answered our questions, you just talked around them.  We take this seriously.  It's our lives."

A mother of a 6 year-old at Franklin told the panel that her daughter is having nosebleeds constantly. "She has eight nosebleeds per month." When she went to her local doctor, she was told that the bleeding was caused by allergies. "I had to pay for a private doctor to tell me it was the school's environment," she said.

Another mother voiced concerns about her child: "My daughter had . Next to where I live, there is a shop where they paint cars and cut metal, and it all blows toward me.  When I called the city of Santa Ana, they told me to move.  [This] city does not consider the Hispanics.  I ended up calling the police.  [When they arrived], they said 'is it life or death, because otherwise we are going to leave'.  I want you [AQMD] to pay attention to not only to large businesses, but to the small stuff."

Lazara Bustos, a parent of three children, with one attending Franklin, had this to say: "Since I learned about the sick kids at Franklin, I've been concerned. I want an investigation of all businesses in Santa Ana.  I went all the way to Sacramento and told them about all of the sick kids in the hospitals- too many sick kids.  I gathered 200 signatures from parents to get inspections.  We don't know if [the inspections] will happen." She continued, "The city slaps us with fines, when the rich businessmen exploit our workers with very low wages. They are becoming rich at the expense of the poor." She was told that leukemia was caused by nutrition problems.

Maria Parada's son Diego was diagnosed with leukemia in 2002. "He's fighting really hard. I thank God he's still alive." She began to cry. "I am really scared for all the other mothers going through this." About her son, she said, "I don't know if he's going to make it".

When asked about the citations given to Markland, the company's legal counselor, Steve Ellis, said that they "were just allegations". He claims that "some things" got into the sewers, and that it happened "over a year ago". Tammy Sanchez noted that Markland was fined in December 2002 for "illegal disposal of nickel, copper, lead, and arsenic into sewers". The Markland lawyer's response was "Is it currently happening, no. The sewers at Markland are more than 12 feet below the ground, not endangering residents." Don Markland then called up his Technical Consultant, who stated: "Employees were doing this independent of Markland administration".

Senator Dunn wrapped up by saying: "Even if Markland is fully compliant, there is still something amiss here". Dunn promised to have an open meeting with city and school officials. He will tour the Markland facility with members of the community, and meet with county officials to find out what is causing the health issues. Dunn also promised to hold another town hall meeting in a couple of weeks.

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Arial photo of Markland Manufacturing plant (to the north), and Kennedy Elementary (to the south). Notice the large black spot on Markland's roof.


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How tall is tallest? Chinese researchers measure tallest mountain

May 27, 2005 Mount Qomolangma, known in the west as Mount Everest, may be taller than ever, and a group of 24 Chinese researchers have scaled the peak and made observations they hope will document its current height.

In 1975 the peak was surveyed at a height of 8 848 metres, in line with previous calculations, but a U.S. survey team in 1999 measured it at 8 850m. The growth to some extent fits current theories regarding the geology of the region, a region with crustal upthrust. The growth may also be due in part to rapid glacier retreat on the peak's slopes, and the mountain springing back as the weight of snow melts and runs off.

At the same time, recent theories suggest the mountain is also shrinking. The peak may be getting smaller from subsidence as it reaches extreme heights, and again the glaciers and snow help to stabilize and expand the mountain itself.

There is some disagreement regarding the methods of measurement used previously, so the researchers spent an hour at the summit taking measurements using radar, satellite, and other methods on 6 points. The average of the measurements will be used to make the official Chinese measurement, which remains at 8 848. Results of the expedition are expected to be available in August.

A previous measurement team from Italy also used the radar methodology in 2004, but their results have not yet been published.

The mountain straddles the border between Tibet and Nepal, and is known by several names. In Chinese, 珠穆朗瑪峰 (pinyin: Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng); Tibetan Qomolangma ("Mother of the Universe"); in Nepal Sagarmatha ("Forehead of the Sky"); and in English named after Sir George Everest.


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Corruption endangers Brazilian government

Denunciations of political corruption threaten the Brazilian government. The most recent case involves a deputy of the political party PTB (who supports the government of the Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) in a scandal of the services of post office.

Lula's government representatives said that they will investigate all the denunciations and affirmed that the government is a victim of political enemies.

Post office scandal
Deputy Roberto Jefferson (PTB-RJ) is accused of directing a corrupt scheme that involves the Brazilian postal service.

The case began after Veja, a magazine, made known a 110 minute video tape recording which shows former Post Office Chief Maurício Marinho during a supposed bribe negotiation with a businessman.

In the tape, Marinho receives and puts in his pocket R$3,000 (about 1,259 USD) in cash. He insinuates that the scheme is commanded by deputy Roberto Jefferson. The recording was aired by the major Brazilian television stations.

A group of deputies mobilized to create a special investigation congress commission  in order to investigate the denunciations. The Brazilian government tried to prevent the creation of the Congress' special commission convincing some deputies not to endorse the Congress investigations commission creation, however it failed. Now the government is trying to control how the special commissions works.

Bingo's scandal
Waldomiro Diniz, former adviser to the government of President Lula, is accused of negotiating with "bicheiros" (illegal gambling enterprises), traffic of influences and extortions of money for  Workers' Party (PT) electoral campaigns. The case was known in 2004 after a businessman revealed a tape exposing Diniz. The Brazilian magazine Epoca published a history on the case in February, 2004.

The recorded audio tape by the businessman Carlos Augusto Ramos, known as Carlinhos Cachoeira,  shows  him supposedly being extorted by Waldomiro Diniz. The tape's authenticity has been verified by experts and it was aired by the major Brazilian television stations.

Waldomiro was an adviser of the Ministry of Civilian Household, directed by the Minister José Dirceu, and president of Loterj (which administers the lotteries of the state of the Rio de Janeiro) from February, 2001 until December, 2002.

Mystery in mayor's death
The ophthalmologist João Francisco Daniel, brother of the murdered Mayor Celso Daniel (PT) from Santo André, metropolitan area of São Paulo, said that the crime had political reasons.

According to him, some mayor's advisers were receiving bribes from businessman. The bribes were allegedly used to collect founds for the Worker's Party and for self-enrichment.

The Mayor Celso Daniel has been murdered in 2002 and until now the case has not been totally solved. At least six witnesses died in suspicious situations.

The Minister Romero Jucá
The Social Security Minister Romero Jucá has been accused of having  offered seven non-existent farms as guarantee for a financing from the Banco of Amazonia, among other denunciations of misuse of public loans. The minister attributes the accusations to political adversaries.

English

Portuguese

Denuncias de corrupción política amenazan al gobierno de Lula Denúncias de corrupção política ameaçam o Brasil


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Talk:Secret Downing Street Memo leaked

From Wikipedia
I'm probably going to disappoint you, but I will be removing many of the Wikipedia links when you're done editing... Wikinews articles are focused on the specific story, and are linked only where specifically relevant to the story.

Also, generally speaking Wikinews does not publish Wikipedia articles; even WP articles which are investigative reporting and not encyclopedic such as this one. This article looks good to me, and I have spoken with others in the Wikimedia Foundation about this edition, and the consensus seems to be that this is a reasonable exception, but the Wikinews community may have different opinions and I do not know what will happen with this copy/paste.

But I really appreciate the work you're doing on the article. - Amgine/talk 23:24, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. And thanks for the info. I'll keep that in mind. Also, I'm used to writing for Wikipedia, obviously, so I may write in a structure/organization more fit for an encyclopedia than news. Any tips in this regard are appreciated. :-) Kevin Baastalk 04:24, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and I don't mind about the links to Wikipedia. Kevin Baastalk 04:25, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Typo
editprotected "Condoleeza" => "Condoleezza" (3 times) Van der Hoorn (talk) 14:48, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

 * ✅ ♪Tempo di Valse ♪ 22:33, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

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User talk:Kevin Baas

About the memo article
I left a comment on the talk page Talk:Secret Downing Street Memo leaked. I'm hopeful that your work will salvage the article, but I wanted you to know that copy/paste from Wikipedia is generally not looked well upon in part because Wikinews is under a Public Domain licensure, while Wikipedia is under GFDL. - Amgine/talk 23:32, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, not really. Both the CC and GFDL require that derivative articles use a compatible licensure, and PD is not compatible that way. And, of course, you can't speak for any other editors. Basically, it's not a problem in this single instance. But if a lot of people copied the current events articles from Wikipedia to Wikinews then it could be a problem. That's why it isn't looked at too highly; we don't want it to become our habit.

 * On the other hand, if you'd like to build all your fabulous investigative reporting here, Wikipedia can copy it from us! - Amgine/talk 04:27, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Nice job
Good job on the French story - I was delighted that my template got used; the story preparation process worked very well. However one small thing to remember in future - when an event happens that we have prepared for on the preparation page (such as the actual results coming out) you should click the move page icon rather than simply creating the new article by cut and paste. So in future you should move Wikinews:Story preparation/France [says no to EU Constitution to France says no to EU Constitution. → CGorman (Talk)  14:00, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

An important detail
The two articles need new leads.

What the lead needs to do is compress, into one or two sentences, Who did what which makes this *current* news. This is a major inconvenience, I know, but as they stand at the moment they don't address why this is news *now*. You may want to check inverted pyramid on WP for help on this. - Amgine/talk 17:59, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Very Impressed
Kevin, Once I read your "We the People" comments (e.g."We ARE the People!) That is an advantage that no other medium can provide; that is our unique and defining virtue.")on your user page I immediately formed the opinion below which is today stronger than ever that;

Wikinews desperately needs you.

I am very impressed with your contributions to both stories and organization. I am worried that as so often happens in any enterprise, the fast rising stars "burn out" and become no more than a shooting star with little lasting impact. This usually happens when the fantastic energy level of the newcomer bangs up against the slower moving structure of the collective organization.

Which is why I say "Wikinews desperately needs you, now and in the future."

I urge you to just relax with this platform a bit, slow down, and just concentrate on the stories for awhile; which are, after all, the product.

As long as the structure allows good and interesting stories to go forward; even in a rough form; that is the most important thing in my opinion; at least for the time being. For example, "Secret Downing Street Memo leaked" article which you worked on, is a great article in my opinion.

The other thing which is just my own opinion is that our readers may largely consist of people who are looking for substance rather than style or literary qualities and that today wikinews is the best place to find substance...and the small % of readers who are going to be turned off by the odd grammatical or style error can go back to the NY Times. We'll keep the other 98% OF "THE PEOPLE"...we'll be the people's news source.

But as I say,

Kevin Baas, Wikinews needs you. Please be sure to manage your involvement in such a way where you don't burn out.Paulrevere2005 15:54, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You have my respect
I want to say I have the utmost respect for you. You have done a good job on designing your workflow proposal and have stuck to your guns on the matter on the Water cooler in a cool, calm manner. I'm also very impressed that you invited the community to make input. I was a total idiot, frankly, to fly off the handle when I first commented (as a result of your invite). I know that I'd have been quite upset if I'd have been in your shoes. So, again, sorry! Dan100 (Talk) 22:49, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Modification of Stage tags
I took the liberty of modifying the stage tags, and I hope no one has any objections to them now. NGerda 19:30, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Cool. Kevin Baastalk 19:36, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)

Dutch
Kevin Baas, that´s a Dutch name, isn´t is? -- Redge (Talk) 12:37, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yep. Kevin Baastalk 14:52, 2005 Jun 6 (UTC)

Template:Torture infobox
Kevin, I've edited this template, and also proposed some more changes on the talk page. Please take a look. - Borofkin 00:56, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Research
Hi Kevin,

thanks for the link, this is a good starting point for further research. You're very focused on DPL; Gabriel Wicke's RSS extension is far more advanced, but is currently a bit buggy. I hope Gabriel will fix it, he developed it under contract for Kennisnet but now seems to have lost interest in it (perhaps they paid him already); a general problem with paid development.--Eloquence

 * This is the first time i've herd of Gabriel's RSS extension. I'm assuming it's linked into categories?  I'm interested in knowing more about it. Kevin Baastalk 03:30, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)

Yes, it works with categories. First, you can get a feed for a single category like this:

http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Published&feed=rss

Secondly, you can embed the latest news from a category or several categories like this:

Published limit=5 datelevel=4

It's possible to combine categories with a logical OR, but not with a logical AND. The main bug is that changing any category in an article resets the timestamp of all categories. Gabriel fixed this, but Brion reverted it because it caused other problems. It's now fixed again in 1.5, but the whole extension only works with 1.4.--Eloquence 20:47, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * this same timestamp fix may be useful for the DPLs: someone on watercoolor/proposals complained that the order jumps around everytime someone edits a page in the category. Kevin Baastalk 05:17, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)

Hey Kevin... there's vandalism afoot. Any chance you could keep an eye on Recent Changes and revert anything untoward if you see it? - Borofkin 08:06, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

np. Kevin Baastalk 08:10, 2005 Jun 10 (UTC)

Kevin; Where are you? Downing St. Memo story is getting more powerful.
I miss your work. Paulrevere2005 12:55, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Check this out please
check these out

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050618/ap_on_bi_ge/credit_cards_breach_26

versus

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050618/ap_on_bi_ge/credit_cards_breach

The top is the earlier story on yahoo news; the lower is the later one TO WHICH PEOPLE ARE REDIRECTED IF THEY CLICK ON EARLIER STORY LINKS, JUST AS WITH THE TOP SOURCE ON SATURDAY'S WIKI ARTCLE ABOUT THIS EVENT!

IMO we are witnissing a very primitive attempt at an important cover-up. The first AP story said that CardSystems' Friday statement was

"vetted by the FBI". "The company said it was told by the FBI not to release any information to the public; its statement Friday had been vetted by the agency."

The FBI vetted statement is the very statement that said the FBI told them not to advise the public about the cards being compromised.

Now unless we believe that Cardsystems is so stupid and reckless as to falsely accuse the FBI of putting customers' accounts at risk AND THEN to lie and say the FBI vetted the statement making that accusation; then this recent story is simply a lie and a cover-up..which I think it obviously is.

This link []shows that some of the links to the original AP story titled "40M Credit Card Accounts Could Be Affected" have been redirected to the later AP story titled "MasterCard: 68,000 Customers at High Risk". The later story reassures customers and has an FBI spokeswoman contradicting Friday's statement by cardsystems. The FBI spokes person even says the information should have been released;

The new version says;

"CardSystems' chief financial officer, Michael A. Brady, said Friday that his company was "blindsided" by the MasterCard release, adding that his company was told by the FBI not to release any information to the public.

Antle(FBI SPOKESPERSON) said MasterCard was obliged to its customers to release the information and was not told by the FBI to keep the security breach private.

McCarley said the FBI did ask CardSystems to not release details that might compromise the investigation - but she denied that the FBI had asked the company to not disclose that the intrusion occurred.

"I'm not sure where they got that impression," she said, adding that it was important for the public to be warned so card holders can be more careful while checking their statements."

The new version leaves out the reference to the Friday statement by CardSystems having been vetted by the FBI.

I think that the FBI actually broke some laws when they told CardSystems not to tell the public about the compromising of the cards; ESPECIALLY some European laws (lots of those cards are likely owned by Europeans) and now the FBI is shitting all over themselves trying to cover it up.

I think there is 1 hell of a story waiting here about this "cover up" and I think the people at Cardsystems might be willing to be interviwed about this. Paulrevere2005 05:00, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

DynamicPageList update
Thanks for the nice ideas. Just wanted to let you know that the DPL has been updated. See DynamicPageList for documentation. -- IlyaHaykinson 27 June 2005 05:01 (UTC)

Proposed workspace - I like!
I think the workspace you've been working on is a huge improvement. But the discussion bit seems to have disappeared. Can I submit my support for it in any way? ClareWhite 29 June 2005 12:12 (UTC)

Tags
I love the work you've done on our article tags, they're fanstastic! Dan100 (Talk) 2 July 2005 17:15 (UTC)

Nice Job! It's so much more pleasing now. Thank you so much! --RossKoepke 2 July 2005 20:32 (UTC)

Karl Rove
I see you are setting up a story with the latest breaking on the Rove story. Do you think the Karl Rove named as source of Plame leak story I worked on last nite should go headlined with a brief reprt before the 'Background' section? Or should we perhaps merge them for one longer story? -Edbrown05 3 July 2005 15:00 (UTC)
 * Thought you may have missed it in the list. I must go now, so I leave it to you. Frankly, I need a break from the issue after working with it last nite! Best Regards. -Edbrown05 3 July 2005 15:05 (UTC)

Re:translation review
You wrote:But some of the information was ambiguous to me... Take a look at the article now: New denunciations of Brazilian deputy and evidence make things difficult for Lula. Is it clear now or is it still ambiguous? Explain it to me. --Carlosar 4 July 2005 01:02 (UTC) I have added another source (in English) from Reuters. Maybe that can help.

You wrote: Also, one can't say objectively that that is the reason its directors resigned, this needs to be attributed to a source.
 * President Lula said that the enterprise should be investigated and because of him the directors resigned. Did you understand? Could you add this information? Thanks.--Carlosar 4 July 2005 03:13 (UTC)

HTML comments in Template:New page
Hi,

I think we should try to avoid too many instructions within the new page template. HTML comments of the type "cite sources below", right above a section entitled "sources", might just cause additional confusing. Also keep in mind that we have Template:New article intro, which is shown above the edit box. I think we should try to give a concise explanation there, rather than clutter up the edit box with instructions.

Here's an idea, for example: An image that shows the contents of the edit box, with numbers on it labeling the main elements. A thumbnail of this image could be in the intro, with a link to a detailex explanation.--Eloquence 5 July 2005 01:28 (UTC)

Category:Religion in Canadian MP crosses from Conservative to Liberal party
What was the reasoning behind adding Category:Religion in Canadian MP crosses from Conservative to Liberal party (a 1½ month-old story) which has nothing to do with religion as far as I can see? The move was clearly about the budget vote and, tangentially, Stronach's inability to get along with Harper. Double Blue  (Talk) 5 July 2005 23:42 (UTC)

 * Thank you for your response. I have been watching Wikinews for only brief moments per day for the last month or two and had not noticed the addition of the "church and state" issue section. Your reasoning for adding old stories to it is sensible.
 * I don't agree with this particular story, however, as I certainly don't see any religious aspect to it. All the other stories matching politics and conflicts and religion look reasonable. Since you don't object and I stand against including the Stronach story, I will remove Cat:Religion.
 * Cheers, Double  Blue  (Talk) 6 July 2005 15:55 (UTC)

Amendment
Hey, not to be a jerk, but in the July 15, 2005 Karl Rove story, it's "amendment", not "ammendment". I fixed it but it was a repeated mistake so I figured I'd leave you a message. - McCart42 (talk) 17:04, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

Valerie Plame was a covert CIA agent, GOP rejects bill
Hi Kevin Bass! First off, I owe you an apology for putting in and later removing an inflamatory remark**on the discusion page -Edbrown05 18:46, 15 July 2005 (UTC)**. I was diligently working on the Wilson fire Rove story when I took a break and scanned your story. Be aware that at that point in time I believed the work I was doing was already pretty far behind the Breaking news point. Then I suddenly saw in your story, "George W. Bush refused to reaffirm his pledge to fire... " and I freaked out!! Thinking I missed something.

My only objection without having read any further into the existing story except to know that you reverted my edit is this: I find the quote very. Bush simply refuses to comment when there is an on an ongoing investigation. If you read the MediaWatch source you may find it interesting.

I was fascinated with the ammendment part of the story. That is why I enjoy this site so much, I probably never would have known. Thanks!

I'd like to speak with you again on this after I read the rest of the story. Please respond here when you are ready, I will respond. -Edbrown05 17:55, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunately I have to leave pretty soon to catch a bus. Kevin Baastalk 18:00, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

I just looked at your article, and a related one. I see you're covering this too. Nice.

The top new part about rove testifying is from the journal sentinel article. rove, expectedly enough, was rather circumlocutory in his testimony, but he makes clear that he knew plame was a cia agent before talking with cooper, and does not make clear whether or not he knew this before novak told him.

I've been adding this to the bush adminstration handling of pre-war intelligence category, and including the tag to news related to the Yellowcake forgery. The category is used in an issue dpl i made on the politics and conflicts page. I encourage you to use the cat and infobox on related stories. If you get your article done sone, I'd suggest publishing it, then unpublishing mine and republishing mine, to keep them in chrono orderr in the dpl's. Kevin Baastalk 18:07, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I examine your story to see what you mean about categories, but I am pretty dumb on these DPL things. I may have to have you do it if I get anywhere with the stuff I got up there. Can you help me with it. IRC maybe. Please reply one way or another here so we can keep this in one place. -Edbrown05 18:18, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * just put at the top, and  at the bottom. Kevin Baastalk 22:16, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Plame story redirects
Maybe you were busy ATT, but you left the redirects to the story a complete mess. Sinreg, Stevertigo 00:22, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Waxman
Hey Kevin, as I'm sure you noticed, the story is drawing fire. I didn't add anything to the Rep. Waxman stuff, but I believe it needs context and explanation. What is he? I assume democrat. I don't get a hit at Wikipedia cuz I don't know his full name. Let's get a wiki posted up in the first sentence.

I'll work on the rest but please do assist there with anything you got. -Edbrown05 18:55, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Let's discuss here :)

 * Glad you got on that! -Edbrown05 17:22, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Abuse of Admin powers
Hello. After having read your posts on the Watercooler, may I suggest a few things?
 * Admin abuse is a serious offense. If you believe that an admin is abusing his or her powers, it may be more effective to address this issue on the Administrators page, since more admins read changes to that page more often than they read the Watercooler. There you can:
 * under the Admin action required portion, ask for an admin action to be reverted by another admin.
 * start a Requests for de-adminship vote to remove the person's admin status.

 * Disputes with admins. Being human, Wikinews admins will make mistakes. It may be more fruitful if you use their User talk:Xxxxx page to address an issue before going to the community for resolution. This may:
 * allow an admin to justify his or her actions, citing wikiproject policy.
 * additionally it may provide a more speedy resolution to your problem, and/or;
 * avoid hurting feelings/causing unneeded animosity in the community, and/or;
 * show the community that you took a constructive or collaborative approach to resolve an issue before resulting to a more drastic action. It may improve your credibility among folks who don't know know you well by helping you not appear to be rash in your actions if and when you ask the community for disciplinary action.

Other than that, thanks for volunteering to make sure all administrators do follow the rules and do not abuse their powers. -- Davodd | Talk 15:56, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Story...
LMAO! This is hilarious! article start. But....that's really not publishable you know... :-P -- 16:14, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

....Damn. The mainstream media is undescribable sometimes. Honestly. " Angelina Jolie forces breakup, steals Bradd Pitt! " :-( But hey I did wake up to a good laugh this morning from you, makes my day a lot better, thanks. :) -- 16:18, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Iraqi constitution story
Hi Kevin. I know that story changes gears at least three times. What's the worst point going on in that. It was moved to the Lead while I was buzy and preoccupied, so I'm afraid that it's been left it alone. -Edbrown05 04:13, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Abuse of Admin Powers
you did it again! Kevin Baastalk 23:26, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * You are going to have to be more specific and less vague. If I made a mistake, I can;t fix it because I have no idea what you are talking about. -- Davodd | Talk 01:35, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * If you are referring to my deletion of a story you started on August 14 that I deleted on August 16 called "RNC pays legal bills for officials pleading guilty to election fraud in GOP's favor," then it's deletion was justified as more than one news day passed between creation and deletion. It had no reportage content at all. It was merely a list of external links. Please read What Wikinews is not - #3: ...Wikinews is [not] ... a repository of links. You may also want to read Wikinews:Speedy deletion guide #4: Very short articles with no context qualify for speedy deletion. If you think the story is a valid article, I suggest you re-start it and put fingers to keyboard and actually write content for it instead of posting an article that merely directs reader off the WN site. -- Davodd | Talk 02:02, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

 * ya, i got to work too, so when i find something good, i'll get back to it, but if someone else takes a grab at it, that's what wikis are for. if it is sitting there too long, that's what "abandoned articles" are for, and i'd have no problem if you listed it on there. At the same time, i'd have no problem if someone (besides you) listed it for speedy deletion, and hence you deleted it. howvere, lacking an article sitting as an abandoned article for a reasonable duration, or it being listed on speedy deletion, there is no justification.  And btw, this is a story like the downing street memo, in that we can sit on it for a month and it will still be "breaking news" when it's published.  thanks to the liberal media. Kevin Baastalk 04:00, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Wikinews articles - unlike Wikipedia - are not "works in progress." For stories which may take more than a few hours to write to completion, feel free to write them in a user subpage, such as: User:Kevin_Baas/New Article. Then upon completetion, you can simply RENAME the subpage to a new headline when it is ready for publishing. This should solve two issues you may be having: 1. Empty articles being deleted by admins, and 2. Allow you adequate time to work on a complex story without fear of other people coming in an mucking up the process. -- Davodd | Talk 19:20, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

 * How about I do what you suggested, except I do it in a shared workspace, such that everyone can help write the article? Otherwise, i'd have to go around leaving notes on everyone's user talk pages about where the article is, and everyone else would have to do the same.  I think the same could be accomplished if we had some sort of central category for these things, oh wait, we do! Kevin Baastalk 00:12, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Try putting the   tag on it. This will flag it as a slowly-developing story and list it on the public Workspace as such. -- Davodd | Talk 00:31, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah - I made it. It is obvious from our conversation that there needs to be a category between developing and prepared story. ;-)-- Davodd | Talk 02:08, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

College article
I replied to your comment here: College article. --Christopherlin 20:43, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Heads up
re; the info-box you worked on. Neutralizer 04:00, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

 * You might want to take a look at the current version of the infobox and pending discussion. I seem to have problems conveying my point of view. Howeve, maybe that does not match the original intention of the infobox or the reasons to get it undeleted. Input and feedback is appreciated. --vonbergm 05:53, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Template:Politics and conflicts:Ongoing events
Are you committing to maintaining this template? -  Amgine | talk 22:18, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Page ratings
I just saw the to-do list on your user page. Page ratings have now been implemented, so that can be crossed off your list:). Gopher65talk 13:46, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * And yes, I realize you haven't edited since 2005. But meh, letting you know can't hurt. Gopher65talk 13:47, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

title: User talk:Kevin Baas


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Mount Diablo buckwheat rediscovered in California

June 1, 2005 The University of California, Berkeley announced that one of its graduate students, Michael Park, rediscovered on May 24 the Mount Diablo buckwheat, a plant not sighted since 1936 and believed to have been extinct. Found nearly 30 miles east of San Francisco, Park [aged 35] identified the small pink flowering plant said to resemble baby's breath during a routine visit to the mountain. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in integrative biology.

The significance of the find drew comparisons to the recent discovery of the Ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas earlier this year in April. The exact location of the flowering plant is, for now, being kept secret. Several botanists have confirmed it along with the nearly dozen or so other plants.

The property is being preserved by the Save Mount Diablo conservation group operating in the Mount Diablo State Park.


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User:Borofkin/Friend of asylum seeker acuses DIMIA of harrassment/Notes

The following email was sent from Jamal Daoud to the RACNSW public mailing list. An archive is available here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RACNSW/

 * ''Hi Everyone
 * ''After the media highlight of the plight of the palestinian refugee who tried to commit suicide on Wednesday, I was harrased by the minister's office through third party to stop talking to the media about this issue. Mohamed was harrased for speaking to SBS radio- arabic program and appearantly was threatened of bad consequences on his case if he will do this again or if I will do it.
 * ''It is the time you all put a pressure on this fascict government, who appearantly does not believe in free speech nor in the importance of the media. Please write to the minister asking her why someone must spend 5 years behind bars for no reason with committing no crime, except of believing that Australia is a democracy, a signatory of Geneva Convention of 1951 to protect the human rights of the refugees.
 * ''As Mohamed said in his interview with SBS "why should I spend 5 years behind bars? even criminal who killed someone will not have such harsh sentence".
 * ''Please act now by sparing 2 minutes to send a short email to the minister to support Mohamed Ali to gain freedom.
 * ''The minister's email is : minister@immi.gov.au
 * ''Thanks for your support.
 * ''Jamalb Daoud


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Talk:Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi reported "wounded"

Maybe there are some academic journo types here who are experts in this stuff, but this headline should probably be putting 'wounded' in, well, quotes. If you don't, aren't you claiming that wikinews or its wire sources has directly established that al-Zarqawi is wounded?

 * heh, well thank you for taking my hyper-sensitivity serious. But I think the quotes are not necessary now since you've inserted 'reported'. The BBC, for example, is quite found of stating a headline as a fact "Zaqawi 'wounded'" This keeps headlines short! The single quotes make it clear it is a quote.
 * At this point, I like the single quotes, but a second move will break the forwards and I haven't had a chance yet to fix the links, and it is not specifically harmful to leave as is, so I will. If you log in, you can move the article to a more appropriate title if you'd like. - Amgine/talk 05:21, 28 May 2005 (UTC)