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Wikinews:2005/May/3

 * B.C. elections debate fiery but not conclusive
 * Apple updates iMac line
 * Worst floods in 20 years for Georgia
 * Canadian PM reaches an agreement with the New Democrat Party
 * World Press Freedom Day marked in Serbia and Montenegro
 * K'nesset Member Natan Sharansky resigns from coalition government to protest planned Gaza withdrawl
 * Robot goes to preschool
 * UBS sees net income jump 15 percent
 * Time Warner loses personal data on 600,000 employees
 * UK Staffordshire South 2005 election postponed
 * UK clothing firm to list on Icelandic Stock Exchange
 * 2005 Afghan opium harvest begins
 * Romanian officer injured while serving in Iraq
 * Nine thousand Romanian miners to be laid off in 2006
 * Franco-Belgian bank Dexia to extend into Southeastern Europe
 * Hungarian chemicals company wants to acquire Oltchim Romania
 * Left-side driving part of a planned Findlay, Ohio interchange reconfiguration
 * Finger found in frozen custard by North Carolina man
 * Issues of World Press Freedom Day raised in U.N., Africa
 * 'Family Guy' returns to US television, loses in ratings to 'Housewives'

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Issues of World Press Freedom Day raised in U.N., Africa

May 3, 2005

 * World Press Freedom Day
 * U.N. Webcast of the Launch
 * International Freedom of Expression eXchange

Press advocacy groups in Africa are beginning a new campaign to remove "insult laws" from the books that protect political figures from criticism. The laws, which are found to restrict freedom of expression to varying degrees of severity in 48 out of 53 African nations, result in the imprisonment of many political reporters for what they feel is necessary criticism of their governments.

The campaign was launched on Monday in Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia. The date was chosen so that the workshops would take place on World Press Freedom Day (Tuesday, May 3). In the nation of Zambia, to take one example, a three-year jail sentence is prescribed for a journalist who defames or ridicules the President or any other prince.

The laws are supposed to exist to protect the dignity and reputation of public figures. However, according to some critics, they are used to attack journalists who make personal references to some politicians, and those who allege misconduct or corruption by high public officials, such as heads of state or parliamentarians.

"We want to create awareness of these laws and lobby for their repeal in Africa," said research manager Kandji Kaitira of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA).

According to the Zimbabwe Daily News, a number of African media groups are taking part in the effort, including World Press Freedom Committee, the Southern African National Editors' Forum, the Southern African Editors' Forum, the Southern African Journalists' Association, Journalistes en Danger (JED) of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Organisations of the Media in Central Africa, the Media Foundation for West Africa and Media Rights Agenda in Nigeria.

Kenya in Africa, and some countries in South America, have already removed such laws from the books. However, in at least one European Union country, Poland, insulting a head of state remains a crime (see freedom of speech), though the January 5 2005 conviction of Jerzy Urban for having insulted the pope could in principle be overturned by the European Court of Human Rights.

Negativism in coverage of Africa
Last month, the result of an unusual study by 11 former African presidents was announced in a Johannesburg press conference. The former leaders stated that based on their review of certain American outlets for the past decade (1994-2004), coverage was found to be overwhelmingly negative, crisis-driven and dismissive of Africa's democratic progress. The result of this one-sidedness, they claim, actually becomes detrimental to further progress being made by Africa.

"Negative perceptions lead to negative outcomes — lower levels of aid and lower investments," said Joaquim Chissano, one-time president of Mozambique, who helped put an end to decades of civil war in his country.

The period was chosen because of a trend they saw toward democracy and free markets during that period in diverse nations. Chissano said, "Coverage of Africa... is, at best, dismissive of the continent's progress and potential... At worst, coverage disregards recent trends towards democratisation, betraying an almost contemptuous lack of interest in the potential and progress being achieved on the continent," he said.

The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and US News and World Report were reviewed in the study.

Ten stories the world should hear more about
To focus media awareness on World Press Freedom Day, the U.N. Department of Public Information (DPI) launched a new initiative it calls "Ten Stories the World Should Hear More About". These are items that in the strongly expressed opinion of the U.N. spokesman, are critical issues which are not receiving adequate attention by the major media, compared to other stories which are focused on almost exclusively, such as Iraq.

Some of the stories concern ongoing conflicts and humanitarian crises to which the U.N. is responding, while others concern underreported good news. For example:

"Five: Tajikistan, rising from the ashes of civil war. Again, you know, we often complain that while the cliche is that 'no news is good news',  when it comes to media and the U.N., 'good news is no news'.  Well, the fact is, here is a good news story, formidable challenges in the aftermath of a deadly civil war, and yet a country that is persisting on the road to peace and recovery — it hardly gets reported."

The spokesman concluded:

"Our staff and the public information staff of the various U.N. agencies are eager to work with you to raise the profile of these topics. We have summaries available of the story behind each of the ten issues on the list... All of them list contact points from whom you can seek further information.  We've also posted links to more information sources on our website to help you if the list inspires you.  And these are also links to the U.N. officers and agencies concerned with each issue. And if it piques your curiosity sufficiently, we're happy to help by arranging interviews.  The staff of DPI and those of other U.N. offices are committed to working with you to help raise the world's awareness of these and other stories that we believe the world needs to know more about.  I urge you to use the initiative as a resource, as you go about your tough job, the business of covering the news. After all you are one of the most, perhaps — we think — the most, important source of information about world events."

The stories are listed on the new Ten Stories space on the U.N. website.


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New Mars Orbiter arrives for launch

May 4, 2005

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the latest robotic spacecraft destined for Mars, arrived at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility on April 30 aboard a C-17 cargo plane and was delivered to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to begin processing. Launching is scheduled for August 10, 2005.

With a mission time line through 2010, the MRO will conduct studies of the Martian atmosphere, surface and subsurface in far greater detail than previous missions. Possible landing sites for future Mars landings will be evaluated and the orbiter will also act as a high-data-rate communications relay for surface missions.

"Great work by a talented team has brought Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to this milestone in our progress toward a successful mission," said Jim Graf of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) project manager for the mission.

Multiple mechanical assembly operations and electrical tests are scheduled to verify the craft's readiness for launch. A May test to verify communication abilities through NASA's Deep Space Network will be conducted and in June deployment of the high gain communications antenna will be tested. A deployment test is also scheduled for the Orbiter's large solar arrays.

The MRO will be filled with hydrazine fuel in July for its "Mars orbit insertion burn" which reduces the craft's velocity and places it in orbit about the red planet. July 26 will see the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter installed in an Atlas V rocket fairing for final assembly with the rocket on July 29.

After the scheduled launch, the MRO will spend seven months cruising to Mars and another six months aerobraking after orbital insertion. A variety of scientific instruments on board will be used to search for geological evidence of past seas, ancient shorelines. The craft was built near Denver by Lockheed Martin Space Systems which also supplies the Atlas V launch vehicle.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission is managed by JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems is the prime contractor for the project. International Launch Services, a Lockheed Martin joint venture, and Lockheed Martin Space Systems are providing launch services for the mission.

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Finger found in frozen custard by North Carolina man

May 3, 2005

In an eerie echo of the Wendy's chili finger case, a man found a severed finger tip in his frozen custard on Monday in North Carolina, USA. However, unlike the Wendy's case, agriculture and labor officials have confirmed with Craig Thomas, the owner of Kohl's Frozen Custard, that an employee had lost the finger tip while working with the custard dispensing machine at the location.

"I thought it was candy because they put candy in your ice cream ... to make it a treat," Clarence Stowers told Wilmington WWAY TV. Stowers continued, "OK, well, I'll just put it in my mouth and get the ice cream off of it and see what it is."

The Kohl's Frozen Custard outlet is located on South College Road in Wilmington, North Carolina.

"We are still trying to ascertain what exactly happened," owner Thomas told WRAL Raleigh-Durham. "But in the seconds that it took for the accident to happen, and for (the employee) to tell the manager that it happened, a pint was being scooped out," he said.

"I'm sick at my stomach, I just can't get that taste out of my mouth," Stowers told WECT TV6 in Wilmington. Stowers is keeping the finger tip in his freezer and said he plans to hire a lawyer.

This is the second time that an employee has lost a finger tip at Kohl's Frozen Custard. Former employee William Franklin lost a finger tip last summer, but an investigation by the Department of Labor placed the blame on Franklin for that incident.

Kohl's Frozen Custard was permitted to re-open after state inspectors monitored the disassembly and sterilization of the custard dispensing machine.


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Left-side driving part of a planned Findlay, Ohio interchange reconfiguration

May 3, 2005 The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) has announced plans to rebuild the interchange of Interstate 75 (I-75) and U.S. Highway 224 (US 224) in northwestern Findlay, Ohio, signed as exit 159 on I-75. Plans for the interchange, a standard diamond interchange that also carries State Highway 15 on the west and south approaches, include reversing the flow of traffic on the bridge over I-75, in what is known as a "diverging diamond interchange".

Such an interchange does not exist in the United States; ODOT based the plan on an interchange in Versailles, France of the same design, introduced to them by a report in a trade magazine. Instead of the standard approach, widening the four-lane bridge to add turn lanes, traffic flow will be reversed between the two sets of ramps, with traffic signals controlling the flow. The only conflicts will be between the two directions of US 224; all turns to and from the ramps will be free-flowing. Traffic will be guided by barriers and islands, preventing errors in movement. As it eliminates left turns across traffic, the accident rate at the interchange is expected to be cut in half. The plan will also be cheaper than a rebuild of the bridge, and will be able to carry more traffic.

Left-hand driving is very rare in the United States, but a few freeway-to-freeway interchanges incorporate it. In those cases, rather than being traffic-light controlled, the crossings between opposite directions are separated by bridges. Another related case is the Single Point Urban Interchange, in which opposing streams of left-turning traffic pass each other on the left.

The bridge, built in 1956, currently carries about 20,000 vehicles per day. The land west of the interchange, across from downtown Findlay, is being rapidly developed, and plans for the area include a Wal-Mart.

Mayor Tony Iriti of Findlay thinks "it's a great idea. It's amazing to me that this has never been done before. We'll be written up in all those magazines nobody wants to read." Hancock County officials are similarly enthusiastic.

The decision on whether to build the interchange will not be made until late summer.


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Hungarian chemicals company wants to acquire Oltchim Romania

May 3, 2005

Hungarian chemicals company BorsodChem has said that it wants to extend its production capacity, and that it will make an offer for the acquisition of Oltchim, a Romanian state-owned company based in Râmnicu Vâlcea, which generated an income of over 400 million euro in 2004.

The executive director of BorsodChem, Laszlo Kovacs, said, "If the new Romanian government privatizes Oltchim in 2006 we will make a single offer bearing in mind the presence of the Romanian company on the Mediterranean states market."

Kovacs also said that BorsodChem would also be interested in other companies in the region, such as the Polish company Zachem, but said that they will not make an offer because the economic situation of that firm [Zachem] has not improved.

BorsodChem is one of the largest chemical companies in Hungary, with a net profit of 2 billion euro in the first quarter of 2005.


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Franco-Belgian bank Dexia to extend into Southeastern Europe

May 3, 2005

The Franco-Belgian bank Dexia has stated that it intends to extend into, especially Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey. Axel Miller, Dexia's operations director, said the bank is interested in taking over some banking units in these countries in order to develop its network.

Dexia already has a subsidiary in Slovakia, which will be used as a base for further extension in the region. The Franco-Belgian bank has already organised a team of experts who work in Poland to submit a request for a banking license in Romania.

Bulgaria and Romania signed their Accession Treaties for the European Union in April 25, and are set to join the EU in January 1, 2007. This, along with economic factors, such as a more liberal fiscal policy in Romania, have given rise to a sharp increase in foreign investment in the past few years. Turkey, which is a European Union candidate country but which has not yet started accession negotiations, has recently opened up to foreign investment due to its stabilising economy and well as its large market.


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Nine thousand Romanian miners to be laid off in 2006

May 3, 2005 Approximately 9,000 Romanian miners will be made redundant in 2006, slightly more than the 7,000 which are expected to be laid off this year. This comes as part of a government program for 2005-2008 which seeks to maximise efficiency in Romania's mining industry, as well as reduce the number of mines and quarries in the country, while progressively bringing down the number of workers in this industry. As agreed with the European Union as part of accession negotiations, Romania must cease to provide major state aid to mining companies after 2007, when the country will become a member of the EU. Until then, it must gradually reduce subsidies to state-owned mining companies, in order to comply with European Union competition law.

Romania's mining industry currently employs 47,000 people, quite significantly less than the 175,000 it employed in 1997, before restructuring took place. A major reform in the industry took place between 1997-2000. This time around, from 2004 onwards, restructuring is expected to be more gradual. Out of the workers who have been laid off from 1997 onwards, around 100,000 have accepted voluntary redundancy, while 8,000 have retired and 12,000 have found other jobs in the private sector. By 2010, the government expects that more than 340 mining units will be closed throughout the country.

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 * Romanian mining industry to receive 115 million euro in state aid, WikiNews, April 29, 2005


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Romanian officer injured while serving in Iraq

May 3, 2005

A Romanian student officer on mission in Iraq, Major Robertino Ciobanu, was wounded on Sunday by a bullet fired unintentionally by a colleague from the multinational force in the country. The injury took place in front of the Presidential Palace of Baghdad.

The officer's colleague accidentally fired on him while unloading weapons, a standard procedure for military personnel when they are returning from patrol missions. Ciobanu was wounded in the leg, but after being treated at hospital, he was declared out of danger.

Major Ciobanu is currently involved in training new Iraqi security personnel. Romania has one of the largest contingents in Iraq, with 830 soldiers. At the end of March, three Romanian journalists were kidnapped in Iraq, with the kidnappers later demanding that Romania pull its troops out of the country or else the journalists would be killed.

Related stories

 * Romanian government asks kidnappers to release female journalist, WikiNews, April 30, 2005
 * Execution deadline for kidnapped journalists expires, WikiNews, April 27, 2005
 * Thousands of Romanians rally for release of kidnapped journalists, WikiNews, April 26, 2005
 * Romanian PM says his country won't give in to terrorist demands, WikiNews, April 25, 2005
 * Romanian reporters call for release of hostages in Iraq, WikiNews, April 24, 2005
 * Romania will do everything possible to spare journalists kidnapped in Iraq, WikiNews, April 23, 2005
 * Three Romanian journalists abducted in Iraq, WikiNews, March 30, 2005


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2005 Afghan opium harvest begins

May 3, 2005 Most heroin sold in Europe comes from Afghanistan's poppies. This past week, the 2005 opium harvest was in full view and going full speed in Afghanistan. The cultivators gathering resin from the crop are operating even near the main road through Kandahar and the farmers are out gathering resin from opium poppies in full view.

Last year 80% of the world's opium came from Afghanistan and production is up over 239% since 2003, according to U.S. government estimates. Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of illegal drugs.

In ads, the White House sent out the message that "drugs fund terrorists". Doug Wankel, a former U.S. (DEA) official, says the opium industry is "financing terrorism. It's financing subversive activities. It's financing warlordism... And if it's a threat to the government of Afghanistan, it's a direct threat to the national security interests of the United States."

"The Bush administration has decided not to destroy the opium crop in Afghanistan," stated a U.S. intelligence official returning from Afghanistan in relation to the 60% smaller 2002 crop. The source, who requested that he not be identified, noted "U.S. forces could destroy the crops using aerial spraying techniques, but no such actions are planned."

U.S. plans to spray the crops were canceled at the request of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has called for or "holy war", but is concerned that aerial spraying could be harmful to the health of Afghan villagers. The U.S. claims that the spraying would be safe, but is granting Karzai's request.

Karzai has indicated that he may change his mind if other U.S. strategies fail to halt the opium. Congress budgeted $774 million for anti-drug operations in Afghanistan just this year.

Estimating the value of the crop
The CIA reports in From Flowers to Heroin that it takes 10 kg of opium to make 1 kg of 90% pure heroin. The CIA states that impurities are introduced into the processed heroin before it hits the street, making the purity of the end consumer product about 40%. That implies that 10 kg of opium makes about 2.25 kg of 40% pure heroin.

The Guardian reports that the 2002 opium harvest was 3400 metric tons. Using the conversion supplied by the CIA, 2002's 3400 opium harvest could be converted into 765 metric tons of heroin. According to the International Narcotics Control Board, the 2003 opium harvest was 3600 metric tons. Using the estimated 239% increase of the present harvast over 2003, it means that the 2005 harvest is about 8600 metric tons.

The 2002 street price of heroin in the UK was about 60 £ per GRAM, or (assuming the present 1.89 USD to 1 £ exchange) 113.40 USD per GRAM. As the supply goes up the price will come down some, so for this calculation only the 2002 figures will be used. If all the opium harvest is converted into heroin and all of it is sold at the UK street price, the total street value of the harvest is 86.7 billion USD. (765 metric tons x 1000 kg/metric ton x 1000 grams/kg x 113.4 USD/gram = about 86.7 billion USD.) To the extent the 2002 numbers are valid today, the street value of the 2005 harvest should be roughly twice the street value of the 2002 harvest, about 173 billion USD.

To put these numbers in perspective, the total market capitalization of Ford, General Motors and Daimler Chrysler combined is about 76 billion USD. The total market capitalization of Toyota and Honda combined is about 167 billion USD.

No Statement by the Financial Action Task Force
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) was formed to promote harmonization of international antimoney laundering (AML) laws. Despite the fact that tens of billions of USDs are generated from the Afgan opium harvest alone, the FATF has not added Afghanistan to its blacklist of uncooperative nations. One has to wonder, therefore, what the poppy farmers are doing with their share of the money that escapes the notice of the banking system and the FATF.

No Statement by the Financial Action Task Force

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Have been looking for official explanations as to "why" there is no aerial spraying going on (like there is in Columbia)..no luck yet Paulrevere2005 13:34, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

also, a good photo of the opium harvest would be nice Paulrevere2005 13:43, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I found a good source of information in an AP article from January, so I added some information to the end of the article. Just wait until we get some Afghan correspondents, then I'm sure we can get all the opium photos we could ever want. :-) DouglasGreen 17:39, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

story has more historical flow now. Paulrevere2005 23:01, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Great work DG. Now we can see why no spraying is going on;

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- Opium production growing right under the noses of "war on drugs" and little is done because if it was, what else would the Afghan farmer grow? -Edbrown05 18:00, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

- Maybe I am mistaken on the purpose of the talk pages but shouldn't the talk be about revisions and the like? Also should the comments have a NPOV like the article?Tardigrade 05:40, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
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- Correction: While I agree with the conclusions made I need to correct one statement made in the article: "In terms of national Gross Domestic Product, 86.7 billion USD is more than the GDP of the 39 largest nations - and this is just opium." According to recent Worldbank statistics this amount of revenue is less than the GDP of the 39th "richest" country, the Czech Republic, and more than the GDP of the 40th "richest" country, which is Venezuela. What the author probably meant is that if all the money generated by Afghanistan's Opium/Heroin production would flow back into that country, Afghanistan would be "richer" than Venezuela, the oil-giant of the Americas! From another perspective, the amount of 86 billion USD is more than the combined GDP of the 60 poorest nations on earth. --ShalomSalaam 23:36, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

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But sometimes users submit an article from somewhere else, not realizing that Wikinews cannot keep copy-and-paste versions of articles which are published elsewhere under a restrictive copyright. An article created in this way is a copyright violation, and Wikinews policy is to erase these even if they are excellent article ideas.

Another problem which sometimes comes up is press releases: Press releases are sometimes excellent sources, but they do not qualify as unbiased news articles so they can't be published as they are. Two key things to remember about press releases is that they're usually written to represent the viewpoint of an involved party (Thus likely running foul of our Neutral Point of View policy). And second, they are generally covered by copyright which can conflict with our open editing approach.

A better way to get an article on an exciting subject published here is to write an original article following the guidelines described in writing an article, or to write a brief explanation of the subject and include the url address of articles or websites to use as sources. If you are part of the story that the article is about, you may also wish to consider requesting an interview rather than writing the article yourself.

Thanks again! --Cspurrier 15:36, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:24.103.82.101

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User talk:Actorschecklist

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Hey checklist!
That's a whopping checklist! It doesn't read very well though. Are you drafting a story with it? Or is the current form how you think it should be presented? -Edbrown05 4 July 2005 03:26 (UTC)
 * I have raised concerns at your article over its validity as a news story and over whether or not it's a press release. NGerda July 4, 2005 08:37 (UTC)

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UK clothing firm to list on Icelandic Stock Exchange

May 3, 2005

Mosaic Fashions, a UK clothing firm, is set to make history as it becomes the first foreign company to list on the Iceland Stock Exchange (ISE).

Mosaic, which owns the clothing brands Oasis, Karen Millen, Coast and Whistles, operates 600 stores and is majority owned by retail investment group Baugur. Mosaic employs approximately 5,400 staff throughout the UK and Ireland.

The exchange was founded in 1985 and has since grown to encompass 34 firms with a combined value of over US$21bn (€16.3bn; GBP11.1bn).


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Wikinews:Submit a story/Submission log/Archive1

March 31

 * The consequences of the Schiavo case - removed cut & paste press release

March 30

 * Poll: Iran not a nuclear threat - removed, cut and paste from CNN.com
 * Romanian journalists kidnapped in Iraq -Used
 * thehopetrust - contacted, unverifiable
 * eLearning Challenges Survey - deleted, wikispam not article or press release

March 29

 * Johnnie Cochran Dies & Johnny Cochran Dead at 67 - Used

March 28, 2005

 * Quake hits off Indonesia - Used
 * Crowded House drummer dies - Used
 * Disney Goes On A Witch Hunt - Unverifiable
 * Israeli parliament rejects disengagement referendum - Used

March 27, 2005

 * Five wounded in Lebanon blast - Used
 * Sehwag dominates, but India trails - Used
 * Church Report Finds Rumsfeld, Bush Ordered Torture - Possible hoax.
 * Global Study: Top 10 Most Confusing (yet widely used) High Tech Buzzwords - Used
 * Israel and Palestine united in music - Developing
 * Noted stamp engraver Czeslaw Slania dies at 83 - Used
 * New Zealand Labour Party announces list - Used
 * Sri Lanka accept “one China” policy - Used
 * White Whale - Developing
 * Eight killed in church serial murder/suicide - Used
 * Pakistan admits scientist sold centrifuges to Iran - Used

March 23, 2005

 * New Speed Camera on A14 - serious POV and poorly sourced.
 * Noted stamp engraver Czeslaw Slania dies at 83 - duplicated submission (removed one copy of two).
 * Water day - no article, no source.
 * Pot Club Goes to City Council, Santa Rosa, California - no article, no source.
 * Paris Hiltons Phone Book Hacked Off Of Her Side Kick - not news, no article just cut and past list.
 * Prince Says "Au Revoir" To Australia - no source, seriously out of date.
 * All is set for Elections in Malta - no source.

March 19, 2005

 * Tongan election - no content just source, moved to requested articles.
 * Plot to kidnap David Letterman's son - no sources.
 * Anti-war march in London Used

March 17, 2005

 * McCartney campaign changing minds about IRA Used.

March 15, 2005

 * To A New Generation of Spiritual Entrepreneurs, the Multi-Billionaires of the Future - spam/advertisment.

March 13, 2005

 * Surf Junky SCAM - personal rant, sources were the same article posted in a fourm.
 * Defendant shoots Judge, 3 others at Atlanta courthouse - Used.

March 11, 2005

 * Judge threatened Michael Jackson with jail - Used

March 10, 2005

 * United Nations calls for a ban on human clothing - Used

March 7, 2005
Bolivian president resigns amid protests - This is a direct cut and paste from CNN.com. Destroyed.

March 5, 2005

 * Freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena Shot By Americans - added to talk page of already existing article on the same event.

March 4, 2005

 * The Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena released - Used
 * Original complaint adressed to Supreme Court in the interest of peace for humanity - Appears to be a letter from a lawyer, not a news story.
 * Liberalization of trade in oils and fats with Romania and Bulgaria in sight - Copyvio dispute, no action in several days
 * Speech on receiving the Wadden Forum's final report - Copyvio dispute, no action in several days
 * Star Trek fans contribute $3,000,000 to TrekUnited - Used, but not sure about large quote used with "permission from the author"
 * DPRK's Stand on Six-party Talks Reclarified - No sources, loaded with opinions. Could be resurrected if someone wanted to do the work.

March 3, 2005

 * Pedestrian killed on I-70 - local news, no sources or follow up details.

March 2, 2005

 * Bush/Putin summit - just a request
 * Gmail down - it isn't/wasn't

March 1, 2005

 * Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 Released - Used
 * CLIMATE CHANGE - AUSTRALIAN MEDIA GROUNDSWELL - Opinion, not news, no links
 * Montserrat Refugees Risk Deportation from United States - Used
 * Can polarity rebirth regulation? - Opinion, not news.
 * Pope John Paul II goes back to hospital - Used

February 25, 2005

 * Princeton student - Local news, no links, no follow ups
 * Hunter S. Thompson - See Template:Editor tasks articles under dispute
 * Dublin Airport quarantine - Wish I'd seen this earlier, no longer current
 * Australian tennis website - No link, no followup
 * Tourists at Ft.Lauderdale airport - No links, patent nonsense
 * Tsunami Disaster - Excellent concept for a 3-month investigative report on an expense account.
 * Pak Test team - what is this about?
 * Presidents in Indian Ocean region - no longer news
 * Portugal PM - no context, no one willing to write

February 15, 2005
Kyoto Protocol to come into effect Wednesday - copy vio straight from source :( Dan100 (Talk) 23:43, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

February 14, 2005

 * Great Grey Owls Appearing Just North of Toronto - non-news Dan100 (Talk) 01:38, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

February 13, 2005

 * ABC program on UFOs - advert Dan100 (Talk) 09:31, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Aiding our enemies may be an intended consequence - opinion piece; not suitable for Wikinews Dan100 (Talk) 21:09, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

February 10, 2005

 * All clear in the solar pathways - joke Dan100 (Talk) 21:55, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Canadian PM reaches an agreement with the New Democrat Party

May 3, 2005

The Canadian government may not have to enter a new election process as predicted earlier last week. Recently, Paul Martin, the current Prime Minister of Canada, made a plea on national television that a re-election ought to be delayed until a report concerning use of government monies was produced and published. A deal between the governing Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party (NDP) may avoid an election process in the near future.


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Former Haitian Prime Minister Neptune reported close to death

May 4, 2005

Former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune has been weakened by a hunger strike and is believed to be in critical condition. He has refused medical care unless all charges against him have been dropped.

The secretary of the Dominican Armed Forces, Gen. Sigfrido Pared Perez, is reported by the Associated Press as saying Mr. Neptune would be flown to the Dominican Republic on Monday, and immediately to a hospital in Santo Domingo, the capital, but this plan was rejected by Mr. Neptune.

The former Prime Minister has been held for 10 months under house arrest without being charged with any crime. Lawyer Mario Joseph claims Haitian law requires that an accused be brought before a judge within 48 hours of arrest.

The Haitian interim government of Prime Minister Gerard Latortue accuse Mr. Neptune of coordinating the killing of Aristide supporters in St. Marc during the rebellion.


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Raymond N. Rogers, chemist who studied the Shroud of Turin, dies at age 77

Raymond N. Rogers, retired chemist who pioneered in the use of thermal analysis to characterize explosives, died on March 8, 2005 at the age of 77 after a long illness.

Rogers was born July 21, 1927 in Albuquerque NM, but his family soon moved to California to find work. When his father died in an industrial accident on young Rogers' thirteenth birthday, he and his mother were left in Bakersfield with no means of support in the depression years. Rogers took on a number of odd jobs to bring in money: playing the horn in a dance band, ushering at the local theater, and working in a print shop.

In 1945 he enlisted in the U.S Navy and served as a radar technician during World War II. Thanks to the GI bill, Rogers was able to complete his education at the University of Arizona, majoring in chemistry. Upon graduation in 1948 his first job was with the Arizona Agricultural Experimental Station. There he built a thermal analysis instrument to study soils, and this experience brought him to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in late 1951.

At LANL Rogers became a group leader of an explosives research-and-development group and was elected Laboratory Fellow in 1981. He later worked for the International Technology division, retiring in 1988. He served on the Department of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board from 1987 until 1992 with the equivalent rank of Lt. General, receiving their Distinguished Service Award. He received other awards and recognitions from LANL and professional organizations.

Although much of Rogers' research at LANL had military applications including the characterization of exotic explosives for munitions, he was always concerned with explosives safety and chemical hazards. One of his published research results has been incorporated into a standard method for the screening of reactive materials (ASTM method E698). Today this method is used worldwide to obtain reaction rate constants for energetic materials, a necessary first step in avoiding thermal explosions.

Until he retired Rogers was an editor for the two scientific journals, Thermochimica Acta and the Journal of Energetic Materials, and throughout his career he participated in conferences and symposia related to his chosen field. His ground-breaking work in thermal analysis—particularly differential scanning calorimetry—demonstrated the effectiveness of these techniques for characterizing energetic materials with only a few milligrams of sample. A relevant list of Rogers' scientific publications can be found on the Web (Explosives Science).

Rogers was also an accomplished amateur archaeologist who did research on the chemistry of deposits and artifacts of interest in archaeology and geochronology. In 1978 he was invited to become Director of Chemical Research for the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), whose primary goal was to determine the scientific properties of the image on the Shroud of Turin, and what might have caused it. The shroud was a linen fabric purported to be the burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth.

For many people the shroud study proved disappointing when the initial carbon dating results placed the production of the fabric at between 1260 and 1390 AD, indicating that the shroud was a fake. However, about a year before his death Rogers found evidence that challenged the carbon-14 dating results. Although weakened by illness, he performed forensic work (Thermochimica Acta 425 (2005), 189-194) revealing that the material used in the carbon dating was not sampled from the original fabric, but from a part of the shroud that had been rewoven in medieval times. Rogers' work also indicated that the original shroud was much older than the age determined through carbon-14 analysis; but the question remains open as to whether it was in fact the burial cloth of the historic Jesus.

After retiring from LANL Rogers continued to work on the Shroud project, and with his wife Joan he also found time to enjoy hiking in the great outdoors as well as to train dogs for search and rescue operations. He is survived by his wife Joan; daughter Amy Canzona and her husband Tony; step-daughters Dawn Janney and Lauren McGavran and her husband Harry; grandson Kenneth; great-grandson Mark; cousin Bob and other family members; many very special friends; and coonhound Clancy.


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Worst floods in 20 years for Georgia

May 4, 2005 A shipment of humanitarian aid from the Italian government was delivered to Tbilisi, the capital of flood ravaged Georgia on Tuesday. Norway and the United States sent tents, clothes, food and generators for electricity. German and Latvian aid is expected soon. In the eastern region of Kakheti, several villages of the Lagodekhi district were flooded after the Kabali river burst its bank Tuesday night. No casualties were reported. Torrential rains lasting nearly a week combined with snow-melt to create in the worst floods in 20 years in the Caucasus republic. A third of the country is effected, mostly in the western portion, with damage reported to buildings, homes and many roads. Over 1000 people were forced to evacuate. Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli called for an assessment of the flood and mudslide damages. Amendments to the 2005 budget are foreseen in the range of 20 million Lari to cover disaster relief efforts.

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Talk:Raymond N. Rogers, chemist who studied the Shroud of Turin, dies at age 77

This looks like it could be good but it needs sources. It was submited to the SAS page --Cspurrier 15:52, 3 May 2005 (UTC)


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Time Warner loses personal data on 600,000 employees

May 3, 2005

Time Warner Inc announced that they are unable to locate a container holding 40 backup tapes. These tapes contain personal information on 600,000 current and former employees back to 1986. This information includes details on dependents and beneficiaries, in addition to Social Security numbers. Customers were not affected, Time Warner said.

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating and has not found any evidence that the tapes have been misused. This loss affects most of the 85,000 current employees. The tapes were lost by Iron Mountain Inc., a data storage company, which routinely handles off-site data storage for Time Warner and many other Fortune 500 companies. Time Warner has said that the tapes would require expensive equipment to read them, and that they were encrypted.


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User talk:144.92.115.102

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Major hunt on for pub robbers in Irish Midlands

May 3, 2005

A major Garda hunt has begun in the Irish Midlands for four armed robbers who held up a pub at gunpoint on Monday morning. The pub, Paddy Ryans, is located in Horseleap, County Westmeath.

Paddy Ryans, a family pub, was robbed by the four men at 2am on Monday morning as staff were cleaning up and preparing to close for the night. Early reports indicate that the raiders escaped in a dark saloon car and spoke with Dublin accents.

Horseleap is a small village of a few hundred located about 20km south of Mullingar.


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User:VoltairePl~enwikinews

See w:en:User:VoltairePl VoltairePl 17:21, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Aerik

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Your account will be renamed
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 Aerik. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Aerik~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.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:12, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:213.42.2.11

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Talk:Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie in theaters

The movie is not showing in Japan, and I suspect it is also not showing in a lot of other non-English speaking markets. I'm not sure how the news item should be best worded, but the current terminology rubs me the wrong way, especially given that wikinews is tied to no one nationality. -- Oarih 18:27, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * This was something I thought about when writing the article. I was unable to think up a good way of disusing it. Part of the problem is that it is an event that applies for the majority of English speaking countries (The moive is out in US, Canada, UK, Australia and maybe more). --Cspurrier 19:49, 3 May 2005 (UTC)


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UBS sees net income jump 15 percent

May 3, 2005

Swiss banking giant UBS today reported better than expected first-quarter results - but warned investors that full year results could be hit by weaker investment banking revenues.

First-quarter net profit stood at 2.625bn Swiss francs (US$2.19bn; €1.7bn) up 15% from last year's 2.28bn Swiss francs. Assets under management grew to 2.36 trillion Swiss francs (US$1.97 trillion; €1.53 trillion); an increase of 21.2bn Swiss francs on last year.

Despite the solid performance, CFO Clive Standish told the media "Clearly we have seen a slowing of the markets over the quarter, particularly in March... There is a perceptible slowdown in markets as we speak." Reacting to the pessimism, UBS shares dropped 1.5%.

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Apple updates iMac line

May 4, 2005

Apple Computer updated its professional desktop line, the PowerMac, just last week. This week they follow with an update to its consumer line, the iMac.

The new iMacs include the latest version of the Mac OS, the Mac OS X Tiger that was also released last week.

The newest machines include a choice of a 1.8GHz G5 or a 2.0GHz G5 processor. A 160GB hard drive is standard on the lower two models and a 250GB drive on the top-end model. All three models will have 512MB of RAM and feature an ATI Radeon graphics chip with 128MB of video memory. The new iMacs start at $1,299USD with a 17-inch LCD, 1.8GHz G5 CPU, 512MB of DDR RAM, and a 160GB Serial ATA hard drive.

Apple also updated its eMac line of computers targeted at the education market. The two new systems both have a 1.42GHz PowerPC G4 and start at $799USD.

From Apple's PR site:

 * Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X operating system, and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital music revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online music store.

Shares of Apple Computer (AAPL) closed at $37.15 Wednesday, up $0.94.

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Robot goes to preschool

May 3, 2005

Qrio, a humanoid robot developed by Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratories, has been "attending" a nursery school in California since March. Qrio is taken to the school in San Diego every day, and spends time playing with ten children under the age of two. A researcher is on-hand to observe and document the interactions that take place.

The children were apprehensive about the robot at first, but have grown to accept it, and will help it up when it falls. "The children think of Qrio as a feeble younger brother", according to researcher Fumihide Tanaka.

Sony's aim in this endeavor is to work on developing a robot that can "live in harmony with humans in the future". The data gathered thus far have helped the researchers gain a better understanding of how robots should act around humans, in particular that balancing timely responses and unexpected movements are of integral importance.

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World Press Freedom Day marked in Serbia and Montenegro

May 3, 2005

Belgrade Media Center, Independent Union of Journalists of Serbia and Independent Media Union "Independence" called all media to interrupt their program for five minutes at 11:55 to mark World Press Freedom Day. Most of the media also read an announcement requesting that the murderers of journalists in Serbia and Montenegro are brought to justice. Four cases of murders of journalists still remain unresolved:

 * Dada Vujasinović, a "Duga" journalist was found dead in her apartment in Belgrade on April 8, 1994. Preliminary investigation characterized this case as suicide, but Vujasinović's family hired a group of forensics who found samples of blood of two different people on a chair where she was found. The District Court renewed the case in 1998, but results were never made public. The case was renewed again in 2002, with no results.
 * Slavko Ćuruvija, the owner of "Dnevni telegraf" (The Daily Telegraph) and magazine "Evropljanin" (The European) was shot in front of his apartment in Belgrade on April 11, 1999, during the NATO bombing. Official investigation yielded no results. After the change of government in 2000, a document "Ćuran Dossier" appeared in public, revealing that Ćuruvija was followed by the State Security Agency.
 * Milan Pantić, a journalist from Jagodina, was killed on March 7, 2005. The minister of police, Dragan Jočić, said that he was killed due to "circumstances" and that "there was no intent to kill him."
 * Duško Jovanović, an editor of "Dan," (The Day) was killed in front of his office in Podgorica on May 28, 2004. A car from which he was shot was found later, but the identity of his murderers is still unknown.

Serbian journalists also asked for the Radio Frequency Statute to take effect, as well as creating a government agency for telecommunication and abolishing jail sentences for slander.

Independent Union of Journalists of Montenegro asked for solidarity in the fight for media freedom. Representatives of journalist associations in Kosovo said that only certain journalists have freedom of expression, but that there is no mechanism to protect investigative reporting. Around one hundred journalists protested in front of the Kosovo Assembly building.


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Wikinews:Technical solutions/DynamicPageList

DynamicPageList (DPL) is a Mediawiki extension which allows for the creation of lists of links to articles based on categories, with the most recently edited articles are on top. A list may be created where article must be a part of multiple categories in order to be found, for example a list of all articles about Africa and Sports would find the following:

 category=Africa category=Sports count=5

How to use it
With the extension properly installed (as it is on the Wikinews projects), there are two parameters, categories and count.

category=Category to search for
 * Category
 * Very simply, you list the names of the categories you plan to search for. There are both minimum and maximum number of categories you may currently search for. The current maximum is set at 3 by default, and the minimum is 1. To search for more than one category, list each on a new line.

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 * This is the maximum number of articles to returen from a search. There is a default maximum of 50; most cases a number from 3-10 is probably appropriate.

 * Example:

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History
The extension grew out of a need to automate the Wikinews main page (which has not yet been implemented.) That need led to a feature request, and IlyaHaykinson (goaded by Amgine) was able to build an initial script to meet the need.

The script is still being developed, but improvements have not yet been implemented.


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Wikinews:Technical solutions

Some issues on Wikinews are solved by technical solutions, such as adding functionality to the Mediawiki software or finding programs editors may use to accomplish tasks. Here are a few topics, and solutions, found or created by Wikinewies.

Automating article lists with the latest articles

 * DynamicPageList
 * Dynamic Page List sorts out the most recently edited articles based on categories which you define.

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Talk:Apple updates iMac line

This article sounds an awful lot like a press release masquerading as news. Should advertisments be acceptable as Wikinews articles?

 * Press releases are not published on Wikinews. On the other hand, reporting on such a product line upgrade is difficult without making comparisons or POV reviewer's opinions, which is also not done on Wikinews. If you have some ideas for how to improve the article, I suggest you go ahead and implement them.. - Amgine/ talk

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Turbolinux adopted by China's largest bank

May 4, 2005

The Turbolinux operating system, a variety of GNU/Linux free/open source software, has been chosen as the in-house server software for the front-end banking operations of China's largest bank, replacing SCO Unix. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) announced the migration on Thursday, April 28.

The announcement is significant in terms of the sheer size of the bank. "This is the biggest Linux implementation in China," said General Manager Claude Zhou of Turbolinux China. The ICBC serves more than 108 million customers and manages their combined assets of US$640 billion (5.3 trillion renminbi). Its 390,000 employees are scattered across 20,000 branch offices throughout China. The planned deployment will be undertaken in steps and is estimated to take three years.

Zhou described the reasons for the planned migration as the stability and security of Linux. Nielse Jiang, an analyst at IDC, also attributed the switch to insufficient support by the SCO Group. "In China, SCO Unix offers very weak support for customers; they have so few employees," Jiang said.

ICBC selected Turbolinux over its various competitors, including Microsoft Corporation, in part because of its need to maintain its custom-written Unix-based software. The increasing scalability and stability of Linux also were factors in the decision.

Turbolinux has been China's number one source of Linux for the past 4 years. In 2004, Turbolinux held 62.0% of the Chinese server market, and also had 24.9% desktop market share, a much larger portion of desktop share than GNU/Linux holds in the United States.

Turbolinux is an Asian-Pacific distribution of Linux with its corporate headquarters located in Tokyo, Japan, and offices in China and the United States. Turbolinux claims that its "Turbolinux 7 Server was the first-ever to conform to Internationalization standards to help simplify development of applications that require multiple language support — a critical requirement for software distributed globally," and supports the use of its software in the Japanese and Chinese languages.

Turbolinux was also used as the operating system of choice for China's recent supercomputer, the Dawning 4000A. With its unveiling on November 15, 2004, China became the third country, after the U.S. and Japan, to surpass the 10 teraflops level of performance in a single machine. The computer, located in Shanghai Supercomputing Center, contains 2,560 64-bit Opteron processors from AMD, each running at 2.2 GHz, and at its introduction was the 10th fastest computer in the world.

Turbolinux is being spread throughout China, both throughout government and the business sector, in key areas such as transportation and telecommunications. In December 2004, ZTE Corporation, the largest telecommunications manufacturer in China, partnered with Hewlett-Packard and Turbolinux to bring the benefits of GNU/Linux software to that industry.

The other three largest banks in China have either already announced plans for major migrations to GNU/Linux servers running various distributions, or are expected to do so later this year.


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Wikinews:2005/May/4

 * Partizan increases its lead
 * Italian biggest win at Italian Lottery Superenalotto
 * Twelve more moons of Saturn discovered
 * Serbia - Pahomije's case moved to Nis
 * New York City Subway N service to be restored to Coney Island May 29, via the Sea Beach Line
 * Boston's Faneuil Hall selects 2005 performers
 * Former Haitian Prime Minister Neptune reported close to death
 * Saskatchewan man escapes black bear attack
 * Charity haircuts and collaborative art at spring festival in Cambridge, Massachusetts
 * Tito remembered 25 years after his death
 * U.S. newspaper circulation continues 20-year slide
 * New Mars Orbiter arrives for launch
 * Romanian student wins NASA Space Settlement Design Contest
 * Constanţa shipyard revenues increase by 63.5 percent in 2004
 * Refurbished cafeteria opens in Romanian parliament
 * Romanian media workers ask Iraqi ambassador for help regarding kidnapped journalists
 * Romanian presidential advisor resigns
 * Turbolinux adopted by China's largest bank

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Romanian presidential advisor resigns

May 4, 2005

Romania's presidential advisor for foreign policy, Andrei Pleşu, resigned yesterday from his position. The resignation was signed by President, with the 56-year-old Pleşu saying that he is withdrawing from his position due to health problems. A press release by the presidency said that, until a new advisor is named, Anca Ilinoiu will act in the position of Pleşu.

Andrei Pleşu became the presidential advisor when Băsescu was, in December 2004. The advisor had been complaining about his health problems for a while, but was asked by Băsescu to remain in office until a replacement can be found.

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Romanian media workers ask Iraqi ambassador for help regarding kidnapped journalists

May 5, 2005

A Romanian media workers' union has asked the Iraqi ambassador in Bucharest, Adel Murad Ali Murad, to help with the safe release of the three Romanian journalists kidnapped in Iraq in late March. The journalists wrote to the ambassador saying, "We are convinced that the authorities in your country [Iraq] are doing everything possible to resolve the situation. Yet we are obliged to transmit our desire and hopes that efforts will be intensified."

The fate of the journalists in the past few days has been quite underreported in the Romanian media, as the deadline for their killing has passed yet President Traian Băsescu said this Monday that he knows "for certain" the three are alive. The terrorists which kidnapped them aired a tape on Al-Jazeera, on April 23, that they would kill the journalists by April 27 if Romania does not withdraw its 860 troops from Iraq. Romania declined to withdraw the troops, and it seems the terrorists did not enforce their deadline.

Meanwhile, Romanian authorities have been trying to secure the release of the journalists. Foreign Minister Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu visited Damascus, Syria, last week, where he discussed the situation.

Many Romanian media workers remembered the fate of the three journalists as part of World Press Freedom Day, which occurred yesterday.


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Refurbished cafeteria opens in Romanian parliament

May 4, 2005

A new, refurbished cafeteria at the Romanian Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest has opened for the use of parliamentarians. The new cafeteria, which has mahogany furniture and leather draped armchairs, was officially opened yesterday, and is situated at the entrance to the Senate headquarters in the Palace of the Parliament.

Members of Parliament said they were not satisfied with the former cafeteria in the Palace, saying that it didn't have proper tables and chairs to sit on. Many parliamentarians expressed their satisfaction at the opening of the refurbished dining venue, saying that they can now drink a cup of coffee "in a civilised manner" before sessions.

Bucharest's Palace of the Parliament (Palatul Parlamentului in Romanian) is the largest building in Europe and the third largest building in the world, with an area of approximately 350,000 m². It contains both houses of the Romanian Parliament (the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate), as well as the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC). It is also frequently used as a function centre.


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Constanţa shipyard revenues increase by 63.5 percent in 2004

May 4, 2005 Constanţa Shipyard (SNC) registered total revenues of €38.4 million in 2004, 63.5% higher than in 2003. The shipyard also had a net profit of €1.7 million, which was assigned to reserves linked to fiscal facilities, as well as to the coverage of the previous years' losses and the legal reserve.

Constanţa Shipyard, located in the Romanian port of Constanţa, on the Black Sea coast, is the largest shipyard in Romania. The shipyard was privatised in April 2002, when Resource International, a company based in the Marshall Islands, bought stocks in it worth US$17.4 million, from the Romanian government. The other shareholders in the company are Histria Shipmanagement SRL (Constanţa), Technical Shiprepairs and Maintenance SRL (Constanţa).


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Romanian student wins NASA Space Settlement Design Contest

May 4, 2005

Horia Teodorescu, a student in 10th grade at Costache Negruzzi College in Iaşi, northeastern Romania, won the annual worldwide NASA Space Settlement Design Contest. The contest is sponsored by the Fundamental Space Biology Program of the United States' space agency, NASA. The task of the contest is for students to develop designs for a permanent orbital space colony. For his design, Teodorescu was awarded a visit to a NASA base in the USA.

Concerning the contest, Teodorescu said, "I designed a space colony which is called 'Temis', a personification of the Greek goddess of wisdom. The project is made up of four parts." He said that the development of the space colony in his design has two phases - "Firstly, there is the construction period, in which the Moon is used as a base for extracting and processing materials. This would last about one year. After that, there would be a period of 4-5 years, in which the population of the colony would reach 10,000." In 15 years, Teodorescu projects in his design that the population would reach 100,000, and reach the stage where the colony would be able to sustain itself and to start developing its own economic, social and educational systems.

During the design's conception, Teodorescu was aided by his teachers, Adrian Koriloff, Margareta Constantinescu, Nicolae Hirtan and Lucia Miron, as well as his father Horia Neculai Teodorescu, who is a professor at the Iaşi University. Teodorescu also participated in the same contest in 2004, where he received second place. The first prize was also obtained by Romanians, more precisely a group of students from Constanţa.

The Costache Negruzzi College, founded in 1895, is, with over 1500 students, the largest secondary education facility in Iaşi, a city of 320,000 people.


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User:Patrick Bernier

Well... I don't actually contribute much to Wikinews, but I do read from times to times. You're more likely to see me on Wikipedia.

That is, when I'm not so-damned-busy ^_^ !

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U.S. newspaper circulation continues 20-year slide

May 4, 2005

Circulation figures dropped an average 1.9% among 814 U.S. newspapers according to research by the Newspaper Association of America industry group. The drop, which continues a 20-year declining trend, is one of the worst 6 month slips since a 1984 circulation peak.

Factors such as cable TV and the Internet are named as challengers in the competition for reader attention. Also contributing are scandal-driven changes in the way circulation is calculated. Concerns over the credibility of circulation figures given by some newspapers have gripped the industry and caused 3 of the top-twenty papers to have their figures excluded from the report [see below]. A paper’s circulation is the key figure looked at by advertisers when making spending decisions.

Posting slight increases were two rare circulation gainers USA Today and The New York Times. Many papers said drops were partly due to intentional distribution cuts, such as to hotels and schools for example. Another cause was that circulation drives were less successful due to the US National do-not-call registry hampering telemarketer ability to contact potential subscribers.

 * USA TOP 20 PAPERS
 * Average daily circulation of the nation's 20 biggest newspapers for the six months ended March 31, as reported Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The percentage changes are from the comparable year-ago period.
 * 1. USA Today, 2,281,831, up 0.05%
 * 2. Wall Street Journal, 2,070,498, down 0.8%
 * 3. New York Times, 1,136,433, up 0.2%
 * 4. Los Angeles Times, 907,997, down 6.5% (a)
 * 5. Washington Post, 751,871, down 2.7%
 * 6. New York Daily News, 735,536, down 1.5%
 * 7. New York Post, 678,086, up 0.01%
 * 8. Chicago Tribune, 573,744, down 6.6%
 * 9. Houston Chronicle, 527,744, down 3.9% (a)
 * 10. San Francisco Chronicle, 468,739, down 6.1% (a)
 * 11. Arizona Republic, 452,016, down 3.2% (a)
 * 12. Boston Globe, 434,330, down 3.9%
 * 13. Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., 394,767, down 1.6%
 * 14. Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 391,373, down 2.4%
 * 15. Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St. Paul, 378,316, up 0.33% (a)
 * 16. Philadelphia Inquirer, 364,974, down 3% (a)
 * 17. Plain Dealer, Cleveland, 348,416, down 5.2% (a)
 * 18. Detroit Free Press, 347,447, down 2.0%
 * 19. St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, 337,515, down 3.2% (a)
 * 20. The Oregonian, Portland, 335,980, down 1.8%
 * Newsday of New York's Long Island; the Dallas Morning News; the Chicago Sun-Times and Hoy, a Spanish-language newspaper in New York, were not allowed to include their circulation figures as a penalty for misstating figures in the past. The first three were among the top 20 a year ago.
 * (a) Includes Saturday circulation.
 * Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations (reported by Chicago Sun-Times)


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If you have a pseudonym at Wikipedia, it's worth creating the same pseudonym here. Uncle G 11:03, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

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