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NASA says Martian soil could sustain life

26 June 2008 The scientists behind the Mars Phoenix Lander project announced that the soil on Mars was more alkaline than expected and could sustain life.

Scientists at NASA or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration claimed that they were "flabbergasted" by their discovery on the possibility that life could grow on Martian soil. "It is the type of soil you would probably have in your back yard, you know, alkaline. You might be able to grow asparagus in it really well. ... It is very exciting for us," said Sam Kounaves, the lead wet chemist at NASA.

The project did not elaborate any further if there was indeed life on Mars, down to the microbe level and instead stated that their discovery was only preliminary and more analysis will be needed.

There was still no evidence in the soil that "would preclude life," and instead of an assumption of a toxic environment, Martian soil is actually, "very friendly." The discovery was made after the Mars Phoenix Lander scooped up Martian soil for analysis. The lander touched down on Mars on May 25, 2008 and has been conducting several survey projects.


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Mexican police official, bodyguard shot dead at restaurant

June 26, 2008 Gunmen today opened fire in a Mexico City restaurant, killing a top police official in charge of monitoring the country's illegal drug trade, as well as one of his bodyguards, Mexican officials said. The attack is the latest waged against authorities attempting to fight Mexico's powerful drug cartels.

Security officials in Mexico City say the attack occurred as Igor Labastida Calderón, commander of the federal police's Traffic and Contraband division, was eating lunch with one of his bodyguards, Jose Maria Ochoa. According to Minerva Amado, spokesperson for the attorney general's office, two unknown subjects got out of a black vehicle, entered the restaurant, and opened fire on Labastida Calderón.

Reports differ on who else was injured in the attack. Amado said two other bodyguards were injured and hospitalized, while Mexico City newspaper El Universal reports that three civilians were injured.

The motive for the attack remains unclear. No arrests have been made so far, as police continue to search for the assailants. Federal police have refused to comment.

President Felipe Calderón has sent over 20,000 troops throughout Mexico in an attempt to take back areas controlled by the country's drug cartels. Since Calderón took office in December 2006, more than 4,000 people have been killed by these drug cartels, allegedly including federal police chief Édgar Millán Gómez, whose May death was attributed to the Sinaloa Cartel.


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Talk:NASA says Martian soil could sustain life

"...their discovery could allow the growing of asparagus on Mars, just like in any ordinary backyard."

Not likely, much to cold on Mars. You'd need greenhouses and heaters probably. You most probably have to bring the water to the plants. The polar regions, where the ice is, are too cold to even late the Phoenix lander survive the winter.

I don't like news like that. Sounds nice and flashy and fails at the most basic of facts. :/ --boo (talk) 00:02, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

 * replaced with quote from Sam Kounaves. I hope that fixes it. Cheers, --SVTCobra 00:27, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Ah! Much better, I think. Thanks. --boo (talk) 00:57, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

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This is a mess. There are two distinctly separate stories in one article and absolutely nothing links them. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:53, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Moved second story to new article. Anonymous101 (talk) 20:07, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

THE STORY HAS SEVERAL ERRORS. BELOW IS A CORRECTED VERSION.

26 June 2008 The scientists behind the Mars Phoenix Lander project announced that the soil on Mars was more alkaline than expected and could sustain life.

Scientists at NASA or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration claimed that they were "flabbergasted" by their discovery on the possibility that life could grow on Martian soil. "It is the type of soil you would probably have in your back yard, you know, alkaline. You might be able to grow asparagus in it really well. ... It is very exciting for us," said Sam Kounaves, the lead wet chemist at NASA.

The project did not elaborate any further if there was indeed life on Mars, down to the microbe level and instead stated that their discovery was only preliminary and more analysis will be needed.

There was still no evidence in the soil that "would preclude life," and instead of an assumption of a toxic environment, Martian soil is actually, "very friendly." The discovery was made after the Mars Phoenix Lander scooped up Martian soil and placed it int the MECA Wet Chemistry Lab for analysis. A small lab-in-a-tea-cup that analyzes for solubles like sulfate, potassium, sodium, magnesium, etc. The lander touched down on Mars on May 25, 2008 and has been conducting several survey projects.

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Talk:Mugabe says he's open to talks with Zimbabwe opposition

Mugabe admits violence?
I tried to view all the listed sources, and admit that I did it quickly, but in which one exactly does "Mugabe also said that violence had been committed by his ZANU-PF party" come from? I must have missed it. I looked for it because it sounded unlikely. Cheers, --SVTCobra 00:53, 27 June 2008 (UTC)


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Talk:Mandela turns 90, world celebrities gather

Neutral? Single source?
Is this article really neutral, it seems to laud Nelson Mandela very one-sidedly. Seperatly, the article seems to have two sections, each of which seem to rely on a single source. --SVTCobra 01:36, 27 June 2008 (UTC)


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Excellent crafts from indigenous peoples showcased in Taipei, Taiwan

June 28, 2008 To promote the craft design of indigenous peoples in Taiwan, the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Executive Yuan, the show organizer, made an inception on crafts of indigenous peoples with the "2008 Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Craft Exhibition" in the Ketagalan Culture Center in Taipei, Taiwan.

As of the organizer, this exhibition was set to discover more excellent artisans from indigenous peoples and promote the excellent crafts of indigenous peoples in Taiwan to bring on the sustainability of the traditional indigenous tribes.

Crafts of indigenous peoples, with features on innovations, creations, and fashions, showed a varied culture different from the past. It symbolized the culture of indigenous peoples in Taiwan not to be very simple.

Crafts [of indigenous peoples] with innovations will not only demonstrate a great power of Taiwanese culture, but also bring on opportunities and profits for traditional indigenous tribes in the future.

Not only this show until June 29, but the 2008 Taiwan Designers' Week from tomorrow (June 28), in addition to 2008 Taipei In Style from July 10, will bring on the other opportunities for cultural, creative, and the fashion-related industries.


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Microsoft without Bill Gates at the helm

June 27, 2008 After 33 years of managing software giant Microsoft, founder Bill Gates will retire from day-to-day management today.

Gates will retain the title of Chairman but without executive functions and will only report for work once a week.

The man who took a gut feeling of seeing personal computers in every household, each requiring a stable operating system will now pursue philanthropic activities under the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Microsoft did not announce any major event to mark the day when its founder steps down but internal private activities were scheduled to take place at the company's headquarters at Redmond, Washington.

In the year 2000, the functions of being Chief Executive of Microsoft was turned over to long-time partner Steve Ballmer.

As Gates leaves day-to-day operations, two people will assume his two vital duties. Craig Mundie will handle the company's long-term planning while Ray Ozzie will handle the operations.

Gates will focus more on helping out in causes he chooses through his foundation that is endowed with $38.7 billion and will soon gain more funds with his personal wealth and an endowment from billionaire Warren Buffet.

Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975 which has since dominated the market for operating systems in personal computers. Gates managed close to 78,000 employees in 103 countries all over the world.

In recent months, Microsoft's dominance has been threatened by Google which dominates the on-line industry and has business models that will soon eat up into Microsoft's core software businesses.


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Comments:US will remove 'terror' tag on North Korea

North Korea and Iran
That means in George Bush terms there is only one "evil" nation left. Iran.

Is he setting the stage for the next president? eliminate one counry from the list making it all the more likely for action to be taken on the other one. Obama/mc cain wlll basically have tochoose between no war and war with iran rather than war with korea or war with iran or no war.

Since "No war" is only a slogan but not a true intention (even obama does not rule out war) of these politicians they are just setting the stage for whats to come. General Petrius is already set to head central command will oversee any action in Iran.

And this sudden peace with korea This will only make Iran seem more stubborn and make it easier to sell the war to the american people.

But who gains from all this? prices of oil goes up. oil companies make money. enrgy traders make money. Iran's govt makes more money while the country still has to import petrol for cars.

Food prices keep going up. While it does not hurt those who pursue these wars as much it hurts those who already hurt. I rfer to the 100 million hungry or 860 million malnourished. That is the true cost of the wars. Not just the 3000/4000 american soldiers or the 60,000 or 600,000 iraqis? Who really knows how many died?

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Terror tags are in short supply as President Bush annonces stripping N korea of terror tag. I am sue he intends to stick a second one or Iran. Just in case one is not visible enough.

Obama you have Coffee with the leaders of N Korea now. No not Iran not until bush and his cronies have milked all the oil money out of Iran like they have from Iraq through "nation building" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rayoflight (talk • contribs) 03:34, 27 June 2008 (UTC)


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Obama gives check to Clinton campaign

June 27, 2008

The process of reconciliation and unifying the Democratic party started at the ballroom of the Mayflower hotel in Washington, DC with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and his wife both individually issuing a check amounting to $2,300 to the Hillary Clinton for President committee.

New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton introduced to her fund contributors Illinois Senator Barack Obama as the first step of unifying the two sides who quite recently bitterly fought over winning the Democratic party's nomination.

Hillary Clinton appealed to her supporters to help Barack Obama and pledged that she will personally help in defeating the presidential plans of Republican presumptive Presidential candidate, Arizona senator John McCain.

Mrs. Clinton asked for nothing in exchange for her support of Obama, but Obama instead countered with a gesture of contributing to Mrs. Clinton campaign that is now burdened by debt. Obama signaled his own contributors to help Clinton pay off the debt incurred by her campaign.

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Comments:NASA says Martian soil could sustain life

so while 100 million starve and 860 live under malnourishment we spend trillions on wars and space programs.

ofcousre ther is the the qid to the poor but it is not in trilliions..it is just in millions. a few dollars a ahead. one nights dinner for two at a fancy manhattan restaurant restaurant. I sound cynical but have you ever wondered if there is so much money for so many thngs why is there still poverty?
 * Maybe solving poverty through governmental means isn't the answer? Also, cool thing on the soil.  Fephisto (talk) 15:17, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Personally I think too much money is spent on trivial carnal pleasures. More money needs to be devoted to the sciences, especially space exploration.  To me, little is more amazing than the cosmos and the wonders just beyond our reach.  Knowledge is awesome. --96.252.61.169 08:55, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * O.k., then go ahead. But I don't see why one needs to rob from others via government to achieve this goal.  Fephisto (talk) 19:53, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


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Indonesian military plane disappears

June 27, 2008 A Casa-212 aircraft owned by the Indonesian air force disappeared while on a flight from the capital to Bogor in West Java Friday morning.

The plane was carrying 12 Indonesian military personnel and 6 civilians including a British, Singaporean and Indian national.

The plane was tasked to test a new digital camera designed to conduct aerial mapping and topography.

The aircraft was last sighted on radar in the Salak moutain region on the main island of Java, 90 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of the Indonesian capital.

The Indonesian military has deployed a search and rescue team in the area.

Authorities fear that the aircraft crashed in a densely forested area making any rescue difficult.

Air Force spokesman Chaeruddin Ray said the region was covered in thick fog and in a rough terrain.

Three planes and forty people were deployed into the region to look for the downed plane.

Indonesia has been plagued with several plane accidents resulting in a ban on the entry of Indonesian airlines into European airports. This is the second incident in Indonesian aviation involving a Casa-212. In January of 2008, a similar plane model owned by a private company also crashed.

The Casa-212 is a design by Spanish avionics company, a turbo-prop plane designed for a short take-off and landing.

The Spanish company licensed an Indonesian avionics firm to assemble and manufacture this aircraft.

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Proton rocket launches Prognoz satellite

June 27, 2008 At 23:59 GMT yesterday, a Russian Proton rocket, with a Block DM-3 upper stage, launched from Site 81/24 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, placing a Prognoz satellite for the Russian Ministry of Defence into a geosynchronous orbit. Prognoz satellites are used for missile detection, as a defence against nuclear attacks.

The Proton-K configuration was used for this launch. The Proton-K, also known as the Proton 8K72K, is an old configuration, which is out of production. It is believed that three more Proton-K rockets are in storage. The modernised Proton-M, which will replace it, has been in use for commercial launches for several years, and made its first military launch last December.

This is the first launch of a Proton since a failure in March, which left the AMC-14 satellite stranded in a useless orbit. The Briz-M upper stage, whose malfunction resulted in the launch failure, was not used in today's launch, with an older Block DM stage being flown instead. The Briz-M has been cleared for return to flight, and was not used on this mission due to payload requirements, rather than reliability concerns. AMC-14 has now been sold to a new company, and is now in the process of raising itself into a geosynchronous orbit, where it will operate in a limited capacity for a fraction of its planned lifetime.

The launch is the 33rd of 2008, and the 335th flight of a Proton rocket. The next Proton launch is currently planned for July, when a Proton-M with a Block DM-2 upper stage will launch three GLONASS navigation satellites.


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Talk:Proton rocket launches Prognoz satellite

Prognoz satellite
I noticed that the Prognoz satellite Wikipedia article does not exist. Sounds like an interesting topic for somebody knowledgeable to create at least a stub for. Is there an English-language source that describes this type of satellite and outlines its function? CosineKitty (talk) 11:09, 27 June 2008 (UTC)


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North Korea destroys nuclear cooling tower

June 27, 2008

A producer reported that the North Korean authorities did indeed destroy the cooling tower of the  and admitted on global television that they did extract  in the said facility to build nuclear weapons.

Five television networks from countries party to the six-nation talks that constructively engaged North Korea to disengage in its nuclear weapons program were invited into the country to cover and televise the destruction of the cooling towers.

Specialists in nuclear science confirmed that the implosion of the cooling tower will prevent North Korean from processing plutonium for about a year. It will take at least twelve months to rebuild the cooling tower if the North Koreans intend to pursue its nuclear weapons building program.

The destruction of the cooling tower is seen as a gesture of the leadership to finally comply to pressures coming from the West, particularly the United States for the communist run government to end pursuing its nuclear weapons program.

The facilities at Yongbyong was shuttered July of last year as part of talks with dialog partners; China, Japan, South Korea,, and the United States.

The cooling tower is approximately 20 meters in height and has been in operation since March 2003 until July of last year. The destruction of the tower is viewed as a symbolic gesture since the entire facility has been scheduled for scrapping.

On Thursday, North Korea turned over to China a 60-page document confirming the country's capability to control the power of plutonium since the program was started in 1986.

In the said document, Pyongyang confirmed that their research resulted in the extraction of 40 of enriched plutonium, enough to produce at least seven nuclear warheads.

An actual accounting of North Korea's possession of live nuke weapons was not included in the report presented to China and remains as a speculation.

Also missing were reports and confirmation of North Korea's assistance to in the later's own nuclear weapons program as well as reports of Pyongyang's uranium enrichment program.


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Comments:Liverpool One retail development opens

Liverpool One? Fantastic - but could spell the death of other parts of the City Centre.
I have walked around the first phase of Liverpool One, which looks very impressive. I could see a lot of work continuing on phase two which is due to be released in September.

The only worry / concern I do have is that this development will suck all the trade away from the Lime Street / Bold Street / Renshaw Street area - leading to loads of shut up shops, dereliction and general neglect as the focus is so heavily on that area of the city centre.

Obviously this concerns me as I am based within Grand Central Hall - http://www.grandcentralhall.co.uk - which as people may have read, is the new home for small traders who were moved from the Quiggins building on School Lane / Peters Lane at the outset of the development.

It is a noticable concern amongst many of my fellow stall-holders within the building that much emphasis is upon big brand name stores - and the little shops that are local entrepreneurs and many of whom employ local people are being overshadowed and overlooked in favour of 'big business' by our very own City Council.

Surely - as well as encouraging the development of these projects, we should also encourage the independant local stores and maintain the diversity of choice that Liverpool is so famous for worldwide?

Hopefully when the Central Village project gets underway come 2010 it should balance out the Liverpool One project. Further hope is that this end of the city centre isn't a derelict wasteground at that point.

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BBC spends £3.4m on sell-off

June 27, 2008 Newspaper The Guardian reports today that the sale of the BBC subsidiary BBC Resources Ltd., has cost £3.4m in consultancy fees — over £1m more than the £2.3m trading profit the commercial division is estimated to have made for the last financial year. Details of the failed privatisation were released by the BBC following a freedom of information request, and prior to publication of its annual report on July 8.

Fourteen months after advisers were appointed to try to sell BBC Resources Ltd., only one of the three main business units has been sold — its Outside Broadcast division to Satellite Information Services Limited (SIS), for an estimated £20m. On March 7, 2008 it was also announced that the studios operation would remain in BBC ownership and in early June, the fate of the third business was put on hold with the BBC stating that "like Studios, Post Production will remain within BBC Resources, which will continue to operate as a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC."

BBC Resources Ltd. made an operating profit of £6.1m for 2005-06, down from £7.4m the year before, with the BBC accounting for 83.3% of its turnover, down from 87.4% for 2004-05. Last year's published figure for 2006-07 was £5.2 million — with BBC business at 80% of turnover.

BECTU Assistant General Secretary Luke Crawley is quoted as saying: "It's fairly outrageous that around half the profit of the company [announced last year] has been spent trying to sell it. It's an inordinate amount of money. The BBC was promised big returns if it sold BBC Resources but it's only managed to sell outside broadcasts and we do not know how much it made out of that. We think the £3.4m is a poor investment."

Background to the Resources sale
The Resources business-to-business unit was formed in 1998 to operate television studios, post-production and outside broadcast facilities for its parent share-holding company, the BBC. It does not own any studios or premises, its assets being staff and equipment.

BBC Resources was the first of the BBC's commercial divisions to be set up as a limited company and the last to be sold, the BBC having previously divested itself of BBC Technology and BBC Broadcast, although BBC Enterprises — now known as BBC Worldwide — remained in-house.

It had been intended to float Resources back in 2005, but this was postponed for two years following strike action and ACAS talks in June 2005 — the BBC giving an undertaking that there would be no preparations made to sell the company until January 2007, and no sale allowed before July 2007.

Advertised for sale on August 16, 2007 in the Financial Times, The Times and Broadcast, the disposal — led by Ernst & Young — invited expressions of interest for the whole division or for each of its three operations separately.

On October 18, 2007, Director General Mark Thompson confirmed that Television Centre, the home of BBC Studios and Post Production, would be sold "by the end the financial year 2012/13" with a BBC spokeswoman adding that "this is a full scale disposal of BBC Television Centre and we won't be leasing it back".

On April 1, 2008, BBC Outside Broadcasts was transferred into SIS ownership.

BBC Costume and Wigs
This was the second largest collection of its kind in the UK, after the leading suppliers Angels The Costumiers. It was not included in the privatisation, and in early October 2007 it was announced that the business was to close within six months and the entire stock sold as a complete collection.

BBC Costume and Wigs (part of BBC Studios) ceased trading on February 14, 2008 after failed attempts to sell this business unit as a going concern with a BBC spokeswoman saying that "the arrangements [the corporation] was pursuing have not worked out and BBC Resources is currently inviting interested parties to consider making an offer to purchase."

On March 30 the costume collection — consisting of over 1 million items — was sold to Angels and the collection of wigs and hairpieces was sold separately to The Wig Store (a management buy-out put together by Philippa Devon and Alan Godleman).

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Could someone add an update please to something I'm writing: Thanks...Zir (talk) 13:01, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
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2008 III IDEAS Show to showcase achievements of Internet industry in Taiwan

June 27, 2008 To showcase achievements of Taiwan's Internet industry, the Institute of Information Industry of Taiwan (III) held the 2008 IDEAS Show this Wednesday June 25. The IDEAS Show is similar from the DEMO, an Internet investment trade show in United States since 2006. The IDEAS show is not just an industry show but an investment demonstration from the Internet industry, we [the III] hope more talents can be developed and discovered in this Web 2.0 era in conjunction with innovation economy.

Chris Shipley, Producer of DEMO Conference, was invited to make a speech in the opening keynote. She mentioned about evolutions and transformations of the Internet, especially on business models and change of leaders. Her words mostly echoed some theories proposed during the 2008 Google Developer Day in China by Kai-Fu Lee, Founding Chairman of Google China.

In this exhibition, thirty websites from mobile networking, Web 2.0, social networks, application services, and hardware integrations were showcased there. The website evaluation from professional judges was also held during the showcase to encourage excellent websites promoted into the world.


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User talk:Playstation3

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Former Polish Foreign Minister discusses anti-missile shield in Washington, DC

June 27, 2008 A former Polish Foreign Affairs Minister and the current Secretary of State at the President's Chancellery, Anna Fotyga, is reported to have flown to the United States with a "secret mission" regarding the "last chance" negotiations about the location of the anti-missile shield in Poland.

According to Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Fotyga's trip hasn't been acknowledged by either the Prime Minister's Office, or the Foreign Affairs Ministry, who are responsible for the negotiations. Wyborcza also claims that this misunderstanding — according to an anonymous expert on European affairs in Washington — might introduce chaos in the talks. The daily writes that the Polish Foreign Affairs Ministry has made it clear to the Americans that Minister Fotyga does not hold any authority on this trip.

Polish President Lech Kaczyński is enthusiastic about the anti-missile shield in Poland; he has supported the initiative—along with the former cabinet of his twin brother Jarosław Kaczyński—many times in the past. However, the PM's Donald Tusk government is more skeptic; the current Foreign Affairs Minister Radosław Sikorski with the PM himself have told the press that the acceptance of locating the shield in Poland "has to pay off".

In return for locating the shield in Poland, the Polish government wants Washington to equip Polish Armed Forces with the Patriot PAC-3, THAAD and AMRAAM air-defence missile systems.

According to the spokesman of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Piotr Paczkowski, the Ministry had been informed about the Anna Fotyga's visit in the US and found it unadvisable. "The President's Chancellary did inform us about Ms Fotyga's trip. However, we cannot say they did negotiatie it with us," Paczkowski said on Thursday. Radosław Sikorski told reporters that the Polish authorities "could use a greater dose of coordination, especially at such a delicate moment in Polish-American negotiations."

On the other hand, the President's Chancellary Minister Maciej Łopiński said that "Minister Fotyga hasn't travelled to the US to negotiate about the shield, but to meet with some American diplomats. The shield was just one of the topics." The Minister has also confirmed once more that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been informed about the trip. "The President has made the decision on Friday and the Foreign Affairs Ministry has been informed on Friday as well," he said.

The vice-Secretary of State at the President's Chancellary, Robert Draba, has stated that "the President by no means interfere in the negotiations and he doesn't want to do so." He told the press that the information about President wanting to do harm to the negotiations are not true and that taking a double position on negotiations is out of the question. "The President has the right to be informed by the American side."

Anna Fotyga has been on her few-days-trip in the United States since Tuesday.


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US claims to have killed al-Qaida in Iraq leader

June 27, 2008

The United States claim to have killed the head of al-Qaida in Iraq along with two other insurgents in a Tuesday gun battle in Mosul. The man, who an official military statement identified only by his nickname of 'Abu Khalaf', was described by US forces as the "emir" of terror in Mosul, al-Qaida's last Iraqi stronghold.

The statement identified one of the others by the nickname of 'Abu Khalud' and said he was a Syrian, while the third was said to be an unnamed woman shot while attempting to detonate an explosive belt attached to a killed colleague.

The States also claim that Khalaf had been one of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's deputies. Al-Zarqawi, the former leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed by a US air strike in 2006 in Diyala.

Khalaf is said by the US military to have arranged many attacks in Iraq. All three militants were shot during a raid on a building by US forces. The move is part of an effort to drive al-Qaida from Mosul. The programme began last month.


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Asteroid slammed into Mars' northern hemisphere

June 27, 2008 An asteroid the size of Pluto that slammed into the Northern hemisphere of Mars created the Borealis basin, based on the latest survey of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Global Surveyor.

The report released by the magazine Nature explains the 1984 observation of the unusual shape of Mars terrain in the northern hemisphere against the southern hemisphere.

An asteroid with a body of 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) smashed into the planet some 3.9 billion years ago, creating the vast Borealis basin (measuring 8,500km [5,300 miles] by 10,600km [6,600 miles] across), which occupies nearly 40 per cent of the Martian surface.

The new data has convinced a lot of scientists, but the theory will need further proof before being accepted by the wider scientific community.


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Talk:Asteroid slammed into Mars' northern hemisphere

Maybe a hint in the title about when the blast happened? A couple of billion years ago doesn't exactly qualify as news and I read it as something that happened just yesterday. If you add a time indicator it refers to the human discovery of the fact, which is news. --83.89.0.118 22:23, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I know we'd have noticed it earlier if this was the case, but the way the beginning of the article was written, I thought this was recent. I'll edit it a little to make that clearer. 207.210.147.33 14:44, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

The article's headline still sounds like it just happened. I support changing it to sound more in the past.76.104.254.127 22:44, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

El Reg
Just a point to note, but the way The Register treats the Wikimedia foundation leaves me feeling we shouldn't use them as a source when there are alternatives. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:18, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Suggesting something like, "Mars northern hemisphere result of ancient asteroid slam", "Mars hit by dwarf planet billions of years ago", "Mars hit by huge asteroid long ago", whatever. Just make it sound less recent. Samy Merchi (talk) 16:59, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


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Comments:Senator David Vitter to earmark $100,000 for creationist group

No. How does giving money to a creationist organization "...develop a plan to promote better science education"?

Perhaps once Creationism is backed by mountains of empirical evidence, establishes hypotheses, or even maintains any kind of peer reviewed model of the early earth that is even remotely feasible, as well as completely refutes evolutionary theory, maybe it could be taught in schools.

Evolution is observed, makes meaningful predictions, has mountains of evidence supporting it, and has a peer reviewed model that has developed and withstood scrutiny for about 150 years. That's why it's taught in schools, and creationism is not. "teach both sides of the controversey"? There is no controversey in the scientific community. Hard evidence does that to conflict.

No, empirical means observable. Unless you can give eyewitness testimony of the creation of all things, you cannot empirically say evolution was involved in creation. Now, this is not to say that species do not evolve in traits over time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.68.82.39 (talk) 15:28, 9 August 2008 (UTC)


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Clinton and Obama call for unity in Democratic Party

June 27, 2008 Setting aside their bitter rivalry for the Democratic nomination for President, New York senator Hillary Clinton and Illinois senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate went up on stage together to with a theme of "unity". The joint meeting was a presentation to party supporters in a small town called Unity in New Hampshire.

Thousands of supporters from both camps gathered together, cheering both candidates as the two complimented each other and acted like team mates.

Clinton described their rivalry as standing "toe-to-toe," and now they stand, "shoulder-to-shoulder." The former First Lady also appealed to her supporters who might switch to Republican candidate John McCain to stay on and support Obama and the party's bid to re-gain control of the White House.

Clinton rallied the Democrats to form, "an unstoppable force for change we can all believe in."

For the part of Obama, he described Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton as pillars of the party and both as a team are needed to bring back unity in the party and in the United States.


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Prime Minister of Thailand survives no-confidence vote

June 27, 2008

Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and his cabinet survived a bitter no-confidence vote called by fellow members of parliament. The opposition called for a no confidence vote over allegations of economic mismanagement, and Samaks's alleged disregard for Thai sovereignty. The final vote saw 280 votes against the motion, and 162 cast as no-confidence.

Sharply criticism was levelled at the Minister of Commerce due to the sharp increase in prices of rice in the country; this despite the fact Thailand is a leading exporter of rice. Prices of fuel have inflicted a crippling blow to the Thai economy, something which is also blamed on Samak's leadership.

The opposition, supported by thousands of street protesters, slammed the PM's decision to enter into an early agreement with neighbour Cambodia over an ancient temple. Protesters claimed that Samak gave up a portion of Thai land with historical significance.

Another severely criticized cabinet minister was Finance Minister Surapong Subewonglee. He denied reports that there will be a cabinet reshuffle even after their administration survived the parliamentary challenge.

Protesters who started to camp outside Government House, the official residence of the Thai Prime Minister pledged to remain and will press on for Mr. Samak's resignation.

Samak was elected last December 2007 after months of a political transition from a coup that removed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Protesters accused Mr. Samak of interfering in the investigation involving Thaksin's corruption and abuse of power.


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Comments:BBC spends £3.4m on sell-off

Yet again, there's the confusion with the possessive "its". This line should read, "...for its parent share-holding company."

The Resources business-to-business unit was formed in 1998 to operate television studios, post-production and outside broadcast facilities for it's parent share-holding company, the BBC. It does not own any studios or premises, its assets being equipment and staff.
 * sofixit --Brian McNeil / talk 23:49, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

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The North Pole may possibly be ice free by summer

June 28, 2008

The National Snow and Ice Data Center based in Boulder, Colorado said that there will be a 50% chance that the already thin ice on the North Pole will melt away this September as a result of the on-going global warming.

The center's senior researcher Mark Serreze said that in September of 2007, ice on the north pole retreated to record levels, opening the Northwest Passage for the first time in shipping history.

Serreze added that every year, ice in the North pole has been thinning year after year. The scenario where the pole will be ice free will depend on this year's weather and climatic conditions.

The center observed that the last year's weather conditions in the north were sufficient to clear the lanes of the Northwest passage and for this year, the situation will be depending on what the weather will be.

He also assured the public that the lack of ice in that region should not concern everyone since it won't be bringing any immediate consequences. He said, "the North Pole is just another point in the globe, but it does have this symbolic meaning. There's supposed to be ice at the North Pole. The fact that we may not have any by the end of this summer could be quite a symbolic change."

The scenario of an ice-less Arctic has been seen as far back as five years ago but the rate of melting was not expected to happen in a matter of five years.

Serreze also corrected those saying that the melting of Arctic ice is just part of a "historic cycle."

He adds that as far back as 30 years ago, their earliest climate models have suggested that the very first sign of an impact from global warming would have been the melting of Arctic ice.

Their studies also reveal that the ice could return given conditions wherein the planet will cool down.


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Gordon Brown's troubled first year

June 27, 2008

A year since taking up residence at No. 10 Downing street, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Labour Party is already in trouble after losing a local election, finishing fifth after previously win-less political parties and popularity rating at an all time low.

Health Minister Ben Bradshaw described the party's loss to the British National Party and to the Greens as a, "terrible loss" and blamed the economic conditions such as rising food and fuel costs as factors that dampens the Labour Party's appeal with the public.

Conservative Party leader David Cameron countered Bradshaw's opinion by saying, Mr. Brown was to blame for the economic distress. Cameroon cited the Prime Minister's ten years of handling the economy as minister prior to assuming office when Tony Blair stepped down last year.

The by-elections in Henley were won by Tory John Howell with a majority of over 10,000 votes, defeating by a large margin the Liberal Democrats who were presumed to have a close edge of beating both Conservatives and Labour. Labour threw in their support with Richard McKenzie who only garnered 3% of the votes behind the BNP and Greens.

Henley called for an election when its representative Boris Johnson was elected Lord Mayor of the City of London.

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Divers safe from pesticide from MV Princess of the Stars

June 27, 2008

Divers from the Philippine Coast Guard and Navy were given a clean bill of health from any effects from the toxic waters surrounding the sunken passenger ferry, MV Princess of the Stars off the coast of Romblon province.

Fifty six diving personnel tasked to retrieve bodies of passengers trapped inside the ferry will undergo more tests on Saturday for any ill effects from pesticides that are suspected to have leaked in the cargo hold of the ferry.

Retrieval operations for the bodies of passengers were suspended on Friday when the cargo manifest of the ship showed large quantities of a highly toxic pesticide called endosulfan.

Authorities feared that the pesticides could have contaminated the waters around the sunken ferry and could prove fatal to the diving crew.

Divers started to complain on Thursday of experiencing skin irritation after surfacing.

The Philippines government slammed the ferry's owners for not immediately divulging the contents of the ferry's cargo hold and threatened to add other possible criminal charges against the owners.

Environment officials are concerned that the pesticide could cause a severe damage to the delicate aquatic environment around Romblon province.


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Michael Geheren Journalist
Hello My Name is Michael Geheren and this is my User Page for Wikinews. I write for Scholastic News and KV Chronicles. I am an experienced writer covering the presidential election. I have interviewed Senator John McCain and many Olympic Athletes.

My Bio on Scholastic News Age 12, Illinois

Favorite Subject: Language Arts

Favorite Book: Almost all books

Favorite Music: Any kind of music besides country and rap

Extracurricular Activities: School Band (percussion), Student Council, school newspaper, city newspaper, KV Chronicles, school yearbook

Hobbies: Writing, designing web pages, fixing computers

Michael is most interested in becoming a journalist when he is older.

In his spare time, Michael likes to write, draw, and read.

As a Scholastic Kid Reporter, Michael wants to learn ways to interview better, write better, and experience what a real journalist goes through. Michael is very excited to be on the front lines of the 2008 presidential election. He says that he "wish[es] he could vote right now." Michael is very interested in politics and feels that being a Kid Reporter will be a highlight in his life. He feels that kids should be interested in the election because they too will be voting one day and it is important to know who the president of their country will be.

I have been interviewed on WMAQ-TV here it is: |Michael Geheren on NBC 5 News Chicago

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Comments:The North Pole may possibly be ice free by summer

Global warming is the biggest fad ever. 199.227.204.3 04:07, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Wouldn't it be cool if someone could build a machine that extracts carbon dioxide from the air, and breaks it down into oxygen and carbon? The oxygen could be released, the carbon used for industry. Someday in the sci-fi future, maybe it will happen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.216.129.67 (talk) 16:17, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * This would require considerable investment in renewable energy sources for a start. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:45, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

199.227.204.3 is a jerk :0 --76.111.34.255 00:21, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

They are already here. They are called plants —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xcraner (talk • contribs) 00:29, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Strange
I thought that the North Pole was already ice free? I chgecked up my atlas, the north pole wasn't there! 220.255.4.134 01:54, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

MAN BEAR PIG!
I'm super cereal about this. Man bear pig is behind this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.183.106.150 (talk) 01:20, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Hogwash!! Come Autumn, there will be plenty of ice in the Arctic. Once this cycle of global warming is over, the ice will return. The cycle we are in now is hundreds of years old. -bwolper-

An opportunity
I read by 2012 solar energy will decrease. As far as I know, this can help to reduce Global Warming effects. We cannot deny anymore Global Warming. In January, it snowed in Veracruz (a tropical land) and Puebla, places where had never snowed before. We've been hit by the strongest hurricanes ever. A few hours ago, it was pouring with rain in my town, a few minutes after the sun was shining. Et cetera. What I'm saying is will we still be able to revert the warming process now? --Fluence, 7 July 2008, 23:18 (UTC-5) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.137.180.244 (talk) 04:18, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Well it didn't happen, did it?
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Guatemalan minister killed in helicopter crash

June 28, 2008

Vinicio Gómez, the Guatemalan Interior Minister and Édgar Hernández Umaña, the deputy Interior Minister, were yesterday killed in a helicopter crash, according to government officials. The helicopter lost contact at 19:08 UTC yesterday, and as a result, this is believed to be the time that the accident occurred.

A spokesperson for the Guatemalan government said that the accident was caused by bad weather. They also stated, one their official website, that the incident occurred at a point 42 miles away from La Aurora International Airport, the country's major international airport.

A spokesperson for the Guatemalan government highlighted the official response to the events. "The government is distraught and regrets the death of a key minister, who had done good work in a few months in office," he said.

"The Mexican government is already lending its support. It has put a plane at the president's disposal to take him from Villahermosa to Guatemala tomorrow," continued Fernando Barrillas, the spokesperson.


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Jason Bootie

 * Date request was made: 3-13-08
 * Position: Campaign Manager
 * Organization: John Bootie 08
 * Web: http://www.JohnBootie08.com
 * Email address: Bootiecampaign@yahoo.com
 * Phone number: 717-808-2360

Statement
Hello my name is Jason Bootie I would like to bring to your attention the stance of an Unknown and Grass roots Independent Candidate for the 2008 Presidency!! Now yes it looks and seems impossible and you may be thinking WHY bother. Well John Bootie "AMERICAS CANDIDATE" is tired of hearing everyone complain but yet they continue to just sit around and not do a thing. Well John has decide to take a stand and do something. We know the outcome of him ending up in the Oval Office in Jan. 09' is very bleak, but he has given god the reigns to this Campaign and says this is God's campaign and the outcome will be what is meant to be.

Mr. Bootie is an Ultra Conservative and abortion is a big subject for him. I'm just trying to get ALL of his views out into the public the best possible way. The MSM won't give us the time of day, so I personally email groups to let them see for themselves what "AMERICAS CANDIDATE" has to say!! We hope you agree with what Mr. Bootie says and if you do like his views and agree with them, just tell a friend or two, and have them take a look also.

John doesn't want a vote from someone until they have looked over his website and platform and can honestly tell themselves they like and believe what John Bootie has to say. He wants folks to research all the candidates and to vote for the one they agree and can trust the best.

John has done dozens of interviews and you won't hear him hesitate to say the same thing every interview. Can anyone guess why that is exactly? Well let me explain that John is in this for you the little guy, because he is a little guy just like you and I. He does not tell one group or radio host ONE thing and then turn around and tell another group something totally opposite. He will OWE NO ONE when he gets elected into office, except for THE AMERICAN PEOPLE who voted him in to SERVE them and our Great Nation.

So please take only a few minutes and see how you feel about Mr. Bootie. If you have a minute here or there take a few to pass along Mr. Bootie's name so that others can see if they like him or dislike him. Thanks for your time and consideration.

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 * I poked around at the Federal Election Commission website, but came up empty. Is John Bootie registered for the election? --SVTCobra 23:54, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Red x.svg|15px]] Archived Request as no one interested in carrying out interview Anonymous101 (talk) 10:37, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Unless anyone objects or starts carrying out the interview, I will archive this request tomorrow Anonymous101  17:18, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Taco Fleur

 * Date request was made: Monday, 17 March 2008
 * Position: Director
 * Organisation: clickfind
 * Web: www.clickfind.com.au
 * Email address: taco.fleur@clickfind.com.au
 * Phone number: 1300 859 179

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Unless anyone objects or starts carrying out the interview, I will archive this request tomorrow Anonymous101  17:18, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Internet-based businesses are abundant. What is compelling about ClickFind and its business model? In other words, could you expand on the "statement" beyond the linked article? --SVTCobra 23:54, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Red x.svg|15px]] Archived Request as no one interested in carrying out interview Anonymous101 (talk) 10:37, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Brisbane Biz draws Yellow Blood and Google Gold Rush
Brisbane based Clickfind.com.au has launched a competitive attack on the established Yellow Pages Online & Microsoft’s Mylocal business models offering advertising-free directory listings that help secure top Google rankings for Australian business owners. According to a recent AC Nielsen survey, internet shoppers are up 40% over the last two years to 875 million people worldwide, of which 85% have searched, shopped, and completed a purchase online. Taco Fleur, founder of Clickfind.com.au says, ''“these trends are forcing many business owners to review their directory spend, demand more web site traffic and get assistance in improving their search engine rankings on sites like Google & Yahoo which are crucial to getting sales online. Search engines like Google have hundreds of formula and criteria that decide site rankings and business owners are telling us it’s a nightmare to understand. They would rather use a simple online directory listing to ensure they improve their web site search engine rankings and sales”''. Older business directories such as D-Look, Mylocal, True Local, and Yellow Pages all offer the ability to pay per listing in their directory and most supplement their revenues with banner advertising. Fleur says, “I talk to many business owners who realise how important the internet is and pay good money to list in these in directories, only to find that a banner advertisement from a competitor is appearing right next to their listing without ever being told this may occur. They are rightly furious.”

Clickfind.com.au has ignored this model in favour of no banner ads, lower listing rates, more space for client product and service descriptions, and a specialist technical team dedicated to improving the major search engine rankings for clients. Clickfind.com.au believes this type of service and speed is key in securing the long term listing relationships that help increase client’s web traffic and deliver sales. Since the major site launch 90 days ago Clickfind is indexing thousands of pages in Google every week and has been rushed by Australian businesses looking to list immediately.

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Unless anyone objects or starts carrying out the interview, I will archive this request tomorrow Anonymous101  17:18, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Red x.svg|15px]] Archived Request as no one interested in carrying out interview Anonymous101 (talk) 10:37, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Giuseppe Quinn

 * Date request was made: 3/21/08
 * Position: President/Director
 * Organisation: Santa Fe Macintosh User Group
 * Web: www.santafemug.org
 * Email address: dogen@santafemug.org
 * Phone number: 505-670-2134

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - 2nd Annual Short Movie Festival May 1st, 2008

"Best of the Festival" is going to win a moviemaker’s dream software bundle!

Event: May 1st, 2008 Submission Deadlines: Physical - Postmarked no later than April 16th, 2008 Digital - Uploaded no later than April 21st, 2008

Any movie 5 minutes and under, any genre, any topic, but no commercials, industrials, or explicit adult content. Movies do NOT have to be made on Apple Macintosh computers or any specific software.

Visit http://www.santafemug.org/film_fest/2008_film_festival.html for Guidelines and entry form.

"Best of the Festival" Award - Apple Final Cut Studio 2($1299), Toon Boom Studio 4($329), Toon Boom Storyboard($249)

Gold Award - Final Cut Express 4 ($199), Apple iPod Nano($150), iDive ($79)

Silver Award - BannerZest Pro($129), $50.00 Apple iTunes Gift Card, VideoPier ($49), PulpMotion($49)

Audience Choice Award - Apple iPod Touch($259)

That's a total of $2871.00 in prizes!!! Thank to www.apple.com, www.aquefadas.com and www.freeverse.com for their generosity!

A selection of the best movies submitted will also be screened at "New Mexico Film Industry Party" in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

SFMUG SMF08 just became the most rewarding festival for short movies in New Mexico, if not the country. So, tell anyone that might be interested. Pass this information on to schools and students. Alert the press! Get the word out anyway you can!

Now, once more with feeling,

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Unless anyone objects or starts carrying out the interview, I will archive this request tomorrow Anonymous101  17:18, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

 * [[Image:Red x.svg|15px]] Archived Request as no one interested in carrying out interview Anonymous101 (talk) 10:37, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

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UEFA president Platini confirms Euro 2012 to be hosted in Poland and Ukraine

June 28, 2008 The president  has confirmed once more the  to be hosted in Poland and Ukraine.

Speaking on a press conference in Vienna, Platini denied the rumours of the Italian press saying the championships are to be held in Italy and France instead of Poland and Ukraine. 'There is no back-up plan. We have not had any second thoughts, or other thoughts and we respect our decision to go to Poland and Ukraine. The only thing that will make me decide not to go is if there are no stadiums in the capitals of and. If there are no stadiums, there will be no tournament', he said. Asked if he really is disappointed about the preparations to the championships and the rumoured plans of moving Euro to Italy, he replied he has no information on that subject.

He has also added that UEFA is thinking about moving the championships to August instead of June. The footballers would have relaxed on their summer holidays, there would be less injuries and the level of the game would be higher. 'It is very hard because of the calendar of the European football leagues, the World Cup qualifying, and the calendar of and the. We would have to come to an agreement with the clubs', he said.

He didn't count out the possibility of having 24 teams in the Euros. 'Although the level of these championships is perfect, I think that such teams as, , , , and could bring in lots to the Euros'.

The UEFA has also revealed that the final decision is to be made at an executive meeting in in late September this year.


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Bobby Charlton launches anti-landmine campaign

June 28, 2008 Football legend Sir Bobby Charlton has launched a new campaign he calls "There Must be a Better Way" to find a faster method to clear anti-personnel landmines. The initiative which comes under his "Laureus Sport for Good Foundation" and involves physicists, mathematicians and electronic engineers from the University of Manchester and Lancaster University. In addition the Mines Advisory Group, a mine clearance charity, and the security systems company Rapiscan are involved.

Charlton first became interested in the problem of clearing anti-personnel landmines while visiting Bosnia on a Laureus funded Spirit of Soccer camp. He was appalled by the injuries he saw, especially to children, caused by abandoned anti-personnel mines. Later his visited Cambodia where there are estimated to be four to six million mines. Charlton was told it would take 100 years to clear the mines.

On the way back to Manchester, passing through airport metal detectors, he thought that surely there must be a better way to detect landmines than the laborious method he had seen using only a metal detector and a bayonet. As the mines are made mainly of plastic and have only a small amount of metal every piece of metal including shrapnel must be investigated to see if it is a mine.

He contacted Rapiscan and through them the University of Manchester to see if there was anyone who could help. The University has a number of scientists and engineers with relevant experience, including a project EMBody to develop the next generation walk through metal detector, in collaboration with Rapiscan and Manchester Airport, and work on a scanning metal detector used to image steel reinforcing bars in concrete.

On June 12th a demonstration was arranged at a disused quarry where Sir Bobby and the Professors of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Physics were shown the power of explosives. This included a demonstration where an explosive charge of about 50g of high explosive, about the same amount as a medium sized landmine, was placed under a sand-filled Wellington boot. The charge was detonated with a resounding bang that echoed around the quarry. The boot was projected tens of metres in the air. And when examined the toe had been cut off and the rubber shredded. The shock wave from the explosives thumped the chests of the scientists even at a safe distance. One commented that there was no chance of using delicate instrumentation anywhere near a possible explosion and they had to seek simple solutions.

"Last time I saw a boot fly through the air like that it was against Bolton" said Charlton, but there was a sombre but excited mood as the scientists headed back to the University, buzzing with ideas.


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Montel Williams Show breached standards with 'psychic' Sylvia Browne

June 28, 2008

This week the United Kingdom's Ofcom ruled that ITV2 "breached standards" with a repeat of The Montel Williams Show in which Pam and Craig Akers asked "psychic" Sylvia Browne where their son, Shawn Hornbeck, was. Browne told the Akers their son was dead and his body "was in a wooded area near two boulders," but he was later found alive in January 2007.

As a result, Browne and Montel Williams not only received heavy criticism for the failed prediction, but the airing of the show in the U.K. concerned "breaching rule 2.1 of the Broadcasting Code, which relates to protecting viewers against offensive material." The program distributors removed the episode from their stock and apologized for any offense to the public.

Ofcom also concluded "that a demonstration of the paranormal in this case could result in participants acting on information that could be harmful to them and the Hornbecks could have stopped searching for their child, for example."


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Talk:Bobby Charlton launches anti-landmine campaign

While most of the story is corroborated by Alison Kervin's story in the Telegraph, and the Video on Telegraph TV a few of the details are taken from my own notes during the event including

 * One commented that there was no chance of using delicate instrumentation anywhere near a possible explosion and they had to seek simple solutions.
 * The force of the explosion and the mood of the group. Billlion (talk) 19:50, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The explicit connection with EMbody

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 * ❌ I don't see any mention of Manchester United in the article. Tempodivalse [talk]  01:02, 21 May 2009 (UTC)


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Jindal signs Intelligent Design law

June 28, 2008

Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal signed a controversial bill hailed by intelligent design supporters, such as the Discovery Institute, and Louisiana Family Forum, a creationist group. Critics of the bill, including several major science organizations, say it allows for the teaching of "creationism" in public schools.

The law, Louisiana Science Education Act, allows teachers to use "supplemental materials" when discussing evolution, but it does not state what the materials would be.

Citing the 1987 Supreme Court ruling in Edwards v. Aguillard, "Louisiana has a long and unfortunate history of trying to substitute dogma for science in classrooms," said Reverend Barry W. Lynn, an executive director for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. In addition, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Center for Science Education, and the Louisiana Coalition for Science opposed the bill arguing it would cause detriment to students' education by letting in unapproved curriculum.

According to Reuters, Jindal's office declined to comment on Friday.

Similar Academic Freedom bills have been promoted by the Discovery Institute in other states, but so far they have failed.

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I wish I could find the median GPA/SAT scores of graduates from this "school" on the spot so I can contrast it against the rest of Georgia. Anyways, I went to a couple of classes (2 math and chemistry) affiliated with Konos, and I didn't do too bad. I am well on my way to get an A.S. in Information Technology. (Would continue to get a Bachelor's if it where not for my accumulated tax-payer subsidized debt. Maybe later... with cash.)

Bottom line point being: those who question those who religiously hold to randomness are by no means held back when it comes to education. QUINTIX (talk) 03:07, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


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Wikinews:Contributor Recruitment

Welcome to Wikinews, the Free news source you can write.

Introduction
If you did not already know, Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and a sibling of the well-known Wikipedia project. Just like Wikipedia, anyone with Internet access can contribute to Wikinews. In fact, many of Wikinews' regular contributors will tell you it is easier to work on this project than on Wikipedia.

The bread-and-butter of Wikinews content is the synthesis article; this is a news article written from several independent sources, in your own words, and complying with the WMF-wide Neutral Point Of View policy. Anyone can do this, just pick the latest piece of news that caught your eye, check it is not already covered, find another source or two to read, and create an article in your own words. This is recommended as a way of starting your involvement with the project; one of the people who watches recent changes should spot your contributions and you will get the hello template on your user page. This links to the key policies you should spend some time getting to know. None of the regular contributors will expect you to read all the linked to essays, articles, and policies but, please do check out citing sources, and if you do not have experience on another WMF project, the neutral point of view policy. If your contributions stick to these then you can likely put the publish template at the bottom of your article once you have written up two or three paragraphs. This puts it on the Main Page, everybody looking at Wikinews will see it; congratulations! You are now a citizen journalist.

In stark contrast to Wikipedia, Wikinews allows original research, this can be quite a complicated issue so it is given its own section later in this document. In summary, if you are covering a news story you can email or phone involved parties for quotes and comments and include them in your article; the template Original is used to indicate this and you must detail what research you did on the articles talk/collaboration page.

That is really all you need to get started, there is a form on the Main Page to start an article - or the one in the following section, as is said on most WMF projects, Be Bold!.

Get started!
 Anyone, including you, can write for Wikinews! Just type a title in the box below, click "Create article", and start writing:

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A problem with most wiki projects is retaining contributors and getting them involved in some of the other aspects of keeping a project running. With Wikinews being a fast-paced project, sometimes things get tagged or unpublished and the original contributor may not understand why. So, for established contributors, share the knowledge you have learned working on the project; try to avoid tag-and-dash, put more detail than the tags permit on the article talk page, or user talk page, and if a new contributor ignores/removes tags warn them about the three revert rule before they get close to it. If you are also an administrator, remember the guidelines for WN:3RR violation specify blocks of up to 24 hours for a first offence - not an automatic 24 hours block.

If you are a new contributor and your first article has been tagged for cleanup or something like that and you do not understand why, then take it up with the person who tagged it. If this is not immediately apparent then click on the "history" tab at the top of the web page. If the provided list does not make it clear who objected, then fall back to asking for help on the article's talk page (this is labelled "collaboration").

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There is an essay on the Water Cooler about this page, and the goals it aims to serve. I have written up an introduction and would like suggestions on other items that should be covered within the page. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:36, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

 * There are two steps that need to be covered in a recruitment drive - the first is getting people to come here (and contribute), the second is getting them to stay. This page seems to be mainly aimed at the first, but if people come here, try to write an article, get pissed off for whatever reason (probably because they don't fully understand how Wikinews works in some way) and leave, Wikinews doesn't stand much to gain from it. I think it would be worthwhile writing up a couple of basic tutorials (e.g. "How do I write a basic article?" "How do I contact people?") and including them in welcome messages. I'll put my hand up for helping with these. Chris Mann (Say hi!|Stalk me!) 04:21, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
 * After Wikimania I will put up the full text of my presentation and the slides for it. I'm not so sure how I am going to deal with the video, the last rendered version was 1.3Gb which is well above upload limits. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:49, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I started an article here for the first time on Dec 31. I put a lot of work into finding various sources to get a better picture of the story, and did my best to put it in the right place.  Then I had to go out of town for some family stuff.  (Note that this was over the holidays.)  Apparently I didn't format the sources correctly or it wasn't in the right place or something, so you guys decided to delete it as being "abandoned," whatever the heck that means.  That doesn't seem very collaborative to me.  Am I pissed off?  Not really.  But on the other hand, it doesn't seem like a very good use of the hours I spent putting the article together and I won't bother doing it a second time. 68.251.43.220 07:18, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I think this comment shows how the best thing we can do to get contributors is to make sure there edits do not seem wasted. 99% of people are not going to make a publishable article the first time. If it gets deleted without feedback, they aren't going to come back. Bawolff ☺☻ 06:25, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

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Cargo plane crash in Sudan leaves seven dead with one survivor

June 29, 2008 An  has crashed North of  capital, Sudan. Seven crewmembers were killed but an eighth escaped injury.

The aircraft, owned and operated by, had departed at 5:55 am (0255 GMT) and was an hour and ten minutes into its flight towards. Juba is the capital of Southern Sudan.

(CAA) spokesman Abdel Hafiz spoke with AFP, and told them "One person survived out of eight. His name is Mohamed Hamza, a Sudanese. Two Sudanese were among the dead (as were) four from Ukraine and one from Armenia," he said, adding "A thunderstorm hit the plane, as the survivor said, one of the crew. This apparently is the cause. The survivor is not injured but was taken to hospital (as a precaution)."

Those killed were removed from the wreckage and flown back to a Khartoum morgue.

The (SMC), which is thought to be tied to the intelligence services, said the aircraft had returned to Sudan recently after major maintenance work in the United Arab Emirates. The SMC also agreed with he nationalities of the deceased, adding that one of the Sudanese was the pilot-in-command.

It said the surviving air operations officer had said the plane was struck twice by lightning. It also said the plane had been talking to in Khartoum at the time to request permission to reduce altitude to avoid the worst of the storm.

Major General Abdubaker Jafar, manager of the CAA, was quoted by the SMC as praising the quick emergency response, which was conducted with three helicopters owned by local companies.


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Mugabe claims 'sweeping victory' of Zimbawe election

June 29, 2008 Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president who has recently been widely criticized by world leaders, has claimed the current results show that he will have a 'sweeping victory' in the unopposed presidential run-off elections.

Mugabe announced his victory on one of the state run television networks. "The returns show that we are winning convincingly, that we have won in all the 26 constituencies in Harare, an MDC stronghold where we won in only one constituency in March," he said.

Robert Mugabe was recently under a large amount of pressure to postpone the election after the main opposition candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, pulled out due to fears of violence. For example, Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations yesterday called for the election to be postponed. He said that he "strongly supports the statement of the Chairman of SADC (Southern African Development Community) that conditions do not exist for a run-off election to be held at this time and that they should be postponed."


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Boxing: Pacquiao downs Diaz in nine rounds

June 29, 2008

Former United States Olympian boxer David Díaz surrendered his title as World Boxing Council Lightweight champion to Filipino, Emmanuel "The Pacman" Pacquiao in the ninth round.

Two minutes, twenty four seconds into the ninth round, Pacquiao knocked down Diaz to become the first Asian in boxing history to win four different titles.

Prior to winning the WBC Lightweight title, Pacquiao who hails from General Santos City in the Philippines was WBC super featherweight and flyweight champs and also holds the IBF super bantamweight crown, simultaneously holding the title of the super featherweight for Ring Magazine.

Way before the prized fight happened at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, Pacquiao's chances of trumping Diaz was high, out classing Diaz.

Pacquiao was aggressive at the very beginning showing off how his right hand has improved.

Pulling a lefty on Diaz on Round 4, bruising and later causing the Mexican-American's nose bridge to bleed. During Round 6, referee Vic Drakulich paused the fight to have Diaz's bleeding nose checked.

Diaz was heard saying in his corner that, his (Pacquiao) punches were "too fast."

Seeing that Diaz was not letting up, Pacquiao delivered punishing blows in succeeding rounds and a one-two punch hurled Diaz down to the canvass, ending the match in favor of a victorious Filipino.

The Filipino boxer's record now stands at 47-3-2 with thirty six victories was won as a knockout while Diaz now has his second career-loss in his 34 win record.

Pundits added a new title to Pacquiao, after grabbing titles from four Mexican fighters, he is now being called, "The Mexi-cutioner."

Future plans
Pacquiao was interviewed after the match and asked about his plans, saying it will all depend on his manager's decision.

Staying at the 135 pound class is still unsure but he is willing to go higher if warranted.

Bob Arum, promoter of the figth said they will want Pacquiao to stay top form.

Arum, boss of Top Rank Boxing showed off the strict regimen he and trainer Freddie Roach implemented. Arum says that there will be serious training in Los Angeles instead of going back to the Philippines. He also said, "No fight, no training in the Philippines anymore. Look at the shape he's in, look at the punches he threw."

Arum and Roach were also concerned over Pacquiao's focus. The Filipino boxer has been busy with other activities that inhibits the Filipino boxer from concentrating on training.

Pacquiao while holding boxing titles ran for a congressional seat last May 2004 and lost. Pacquiao also hosts a weekly television show.


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2008 Taiwan Designers' Week shows potential of innovations

June 30, 2008 Vastly different from the YODEX, mainly focused on students' designs, the 2008 2nd Taiwan Designers' Week, a collective show organized by Taiwan Designers' Web for industrial designs and individual design studios, took place at the Xinyi Public Assembly Hall, formally known as "Si-Si Nan Cun (in Chinese: 四四南村)" and entitled the theme of "Design & Beyond". This professional exhibition featured topical designs including "Play with the Eating Culture", "Wall", "The Story of Paper-Cutting", "Basket", "Between On and Off", "50 Pleasures in the Study - Dian Shin Refreshment 2008", "Reincarnation", and "NoName Design", at Xinyi Public Assembly Hall; "City Yeast 2008･Balcony Project" at Xue Xue Institute from June 26th to July 8th; "Having A Perfect Life Is Easy" at Taipei Artist Village from June 27th to July 7th. In addition, The XRANGE Studio also created a giant floating cloud at Central Square of Xinyi Public Assembly Hall.

Innovative designs in this exhibition showcased different topical elements on environment, modern lifestyle, current incident, and subculture. Those reflect the achievements by professional designers in Taiwan as Taiwan's designs were affirmed in several international design competitions including G-mark, Red Dot, and iF.

After this exhibition, Taiwan Design Center, the show co-organizer, scheduled several upcoming competitions and shows from this August to October including "Taiwan Design Expo", "Taiwan Design Award", "Taiwan International Design Competition", and "Creative Taiwan".


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Comments:Mugabe claims 'sweeping victory' of Zimbawe election

Winning doesn't really mean much when you attack the opposition to the extent that they withdraw. --82.32.51.150 17:42, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Surprise...surprise...surprise... 74.15.7.115 04:03, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree!--jonesey (talk) 09:44, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

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Why cant the world leaders help the people of Zimbabwe? Is this the way the civilised world  going to keep a blind eye on the Zimbabwe problems? This is very sad indeed particularly that the rule of the much advocated democracy is not being respected. Shame on Mbeki for rallying behind Bob all along and also the advocators of the concept for failing to protect it. Mugabe is a shameless idiot, a creature not worthy living.

SADC Presidents will leave to regret for not finding a sound solution to the problem and most particularly if they legitimise him as an elected President.

Concerned SADC citizen Egypt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.219.37.86 (talk) 11:59, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

We're next
As a South African I find our government tacit support for this dictator very unsettling. The chilling statements made by leaders of our governing parties' "Youth League" to the effect that they will kill for Zuma is a clear indication that we will very likely be following the same path soon.


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'''This IP address is used by User:Anonymous101 when he is not logged in. It does, however sometimes change (every few months) and it may be reassigned to a new owner ''' No longer my IP address. Anonymous101talk 19:53, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

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