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Iran warns against Israeli invasion

April 19, 2009Iran has warned Israel that an invasion of its country will be met with strong defense. The response follows a report by the The London Times that the Israeli military was prepared to strike Iranian nuclear facilities and the order to strike could come within days.

"Iran's military mechanism is comprised of both defensive and deterrent plans. The truth is that Iranian armed forces are perfectly capable to trounce invaders in the event of an onslaught against the country," said Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, the commander of Iran's ground force to Hamshahri, an Iranian newspaper.

On April 18, The Times quoted unnamed Israeli defense officials as saying "if its forces were given the green light they could strike at Iran in a matter of days, even hours." The Times goes on to quote the official as saying that Israeli forces are "making preparations on every level for this eventuality." Israeli forces are awaiting for the final go ahead order from the newly formed government.

The Times states that Israel will launch an air assault, initially bombing over a dozen targets which would include all known Iranian nuclear facilities such as Natanz, Iran's largest nuclear facility.

The talk of possible war between the two nations came just before Iran's scheduled military parade on Saturday. The parade was to show the public the latest military equipment for its naval, ground and air forces.

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Talk:Mountaineers 'Climb Up' for AIDS funding

Hi. My name is Jim Luce and I write for the Huffington Post. The copyright belongs to me, except that my lawyer has advised me to add: I, Jim Luce, contribute the above article to the public domain.

I would would like to learn how I can also contribute my work to Wikipedia?

For example, see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-luce/mountaineers-climb-up-so_b_186976.html

(Orignally added to the article page by USER: Jimluce and moved by Calebrw (talk))

 * Some cleanup done, will try to do more. —Calebrw (talk) 22:26, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Done a bit more, but still needs work in accordance with WN:SG. Calebrw (talk) 23:18, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 * And how are we supposed to know this person is who they say they are? DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 23:22, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Dragon Fire - although I am new to Wiki, I can tell you about myself. My name is Jim Luce. I write for the Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost/jim-luce) where I write on "Thought Leaders and Global Citizens."
 * I have a freelance contract with the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/giving/12essay.html?ex=1352523600&en=4376f3fa6bc6c863&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink).
 * I have a significant presence on LinkedIn and Facebook and a small following on Twitter. My personal website is www.jimluce.com.
 * I am the Founder & C.E.O. of ORPHANS INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE (www.oiww.org) ("Raising Global Citizens on Three Continents"), associated with the U.N. Dept. of Public Information.
 * I am a Managing Director of LUCETEC, a division of Elite Group International (www.lucetec.com)("Technology with a Conscience").
 * I am president & C.E.O. of the JAMES J.D. LUCE FOUNDATION (www.lucefoundation.org)("Funding an End to Orphanages, Globally"). I hope this helps introduce myself.
 * Jason, both Brian and I have been in contact with Jim via e-mail. —Calebrw (talk) 00:18, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok then :) DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 01:53, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Review?
This article has come along way. I hope the reviewer does a really thorough review of this article. Also, remember to update the date to the 21st. Looks like Brian did that.

I would like to see Jim's comments on how it looks, but that is obviously not necessary for publication. I hope this is the first in a long line of collaboration between Wikinews and Jim and perhaps the Huffington Post in general. —Calebrw (talk) 17:32, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

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"newly formed government"? They just had an election, but their government has been in place for like 60 years.

Israeli is not going to invade...It's going to bomb the shit out of them.--66.229.26.39 22:51, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

What does it give to the israeli military, to agress a country that isn't thretening anyone. No country has the right to attack an other country because of fear. If the Israeli government believes that the Iranian government could be dangerous for them, then they should defend themselves, instead of attacking out of paranoia. This has already been seen 8 years ago, when an other freedom-protecting country reached out to attack Iraq.

Anyways, keep on rolling, have fun, and maybe try to enjoy life instead of trying to defend unnatural political privileges obtained through unfair means, and preserved for unethical reasons.

And we are allresponsible for our own actions, no matter who gave the order.

I just hope that the Israeli military will do what is right for the long term, instead of following orders that do not serve the purpose of life.

Wait and see I guess...

Great, this is just what we need to start another war. With the way different countries are allying themselves this could be a repeat of the assassination of Ferdinand. Same old shit, I guess.--72.209.8.195 00:38, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

You can't defend against a nuclear warhead well, once it's there. The only good defense against that sort of thing is to prevent your adversary from having nukes in the first place. Israel understands this, and they had already used that approach with Osirak reactor in Iraq... looks like now it's Iran's turn. And for good, too - let Mahmud spew his bile, so long as he doesn't have claws...

Haha, that is ridiculous - Israel is not going to invade, haha. I guess Russia will invade the U.S. next? What they will do is to employ the London Times in their scare tactics against Iran. --80.161.138.249 07:21, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Death to Israel
Death to Israel! Coward will never feel safe.

 * Which asylum did you escape from? -99.247.82.251 18:52, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

 * An Iranian one, obviously. 131.107.0.74 19:27, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Cute
Both like TOM and JERRY........ No winner but both loose

Another war?
If war is on the horizon then, let there be no misunderstanding that many will die and the war will not be exclusive to the midlle easter region. The first strike will open doors of hostility all across the globe and many will seek to enter, exploit, or even create thier own conflict. This possibility will not oppose death to many millions of inocent civilians. If that is the case I will hope my country intervenes and shows that this type of conflict that is between two nuclear prepared countries, will only cause death and sadness, May we hope that war does not happen on the predicted scale or even at all.


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British author J. G. Ballard dead at 78

April 20, 2009

British author James Graham Ballard, known as J. G. Ballard has died at the age of 78. Ballard died on Sunday after a long battle with prostate cancer.

According to a spokesperson, Ballard had been sick "for several years" and that it was "with great sadness" to have to make the announcement of his death. He died at the home of his long-time partner.

Ballard is best known for writing the novels Crash in 1973 and Empire of the Sun in 1984 which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Both books went on to be major motion pictures.

"He was a colonial figure in some senses. He had grown up in Shanghai and had very good manners. He was very generous and polite and it took a long while before he would do anything that wasn’t very controlled," said friend and author Iain Sinclair to The Times.

Ballard was born in Shanghai, China in the Shanghai International Settlement in 1930. When he was 12, he and his family were forced to live in a camp run by Japanese forces during World War II. Ballard says that he won't say happy things about his experience in the camp, but also no unpleasant ones either. In an interview with BBC News, Ballard said "I remember a lot of the casual brutality and beatings-up that went on, but at the same time we children were playing a hundred and one games all the time."

In 1946 he moved to the UK with his sister and mother where he began to write. Twenty years later, in the 1960's, he employed himself as a full time writer. He produced his first novel in 1961 titled The Wind from Nowhere and The Drowned World just a year later.

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US Marine arrested at Logan International Airport for possessing bomb making material

April 20, 2009

Justin Reed, 22, a Corporal in the United States Marine Corps, has been arrested at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts after security personnel found a gun along with bomb-making material inside his checked-in luggage.

According to Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Reed had traveled on a flight from Las Vegas, Nevada and was on a layover before he continued on to Charlotte, North Carolina. The discovery was made after his luggage was mistakenly routed to the baggage claim instead of his plane to N.C.

Inside his checked-in luggage, authorities found a semi-automatic handgun, a loaded magazine with extra ammunition, a hand grenade fuse assembly, bomb-making materials which included military fuses, electronic boxes and switches, and model rocket engines. The TSA says that passengers are allowed to have a firearm in their checked baggage, so long as it is declared at the gate before checking it in, which Reed failed to do.

Reed was arrested for possession of an infernal machine and possession of a concealed weapon in a secure area of an airport, says the Boston Globe. He is being held on US$50,000 bail and will be in court on Tuesday. It is not yet known why Reed was in possession of the items and an investigation is ongoing.

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Obviously planted by Barack Obama to further the "all soldiers are terrorists" chant he and his followers have been drumming. It's all leading to a complete disbandment of the US military. 206.74.5.136 03:00, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Cool story bro.
 * Hahaha, I didn't even know there was such a chant until you mentioned it. Perhaps you are part of the conspiracy too? Hahaha, some people are so totally retarded that they should have a bullet in their head. --80.161.138.249 08:28, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Like, say, THE TROOPS?!?! 206.74.5.136 12:26, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

The TSA not doing a very good job, huh? Imagine that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.56.233.233 (talk • contribs) 12:44, 20 April 2009
 * Well, he failed to declare that he had firearms, so, it is sort of his fault.--Unionhawk (talk) 15:21, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

My take on this
''' FULL DISCLOSURE: Aside from my contributions here on Wikinews, I am also a part-time TSA screener at Boston Logan. ''' I'd like to say, good job for us here, say thanks to the AM crew next door at Terminal B in the US Airways checked baggage area. As for McCarran... I can't speak for them. It was failure on their part.

And no, I highly doubt this was some Obama ploy to frame soldiers as extremists. I think it was just an unlucky Marine who didn't know the rules and regulations. --Patrick M (TUFKAAP) (talk) 16:46, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

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Hi. Please note, we are not encyclopedia. Your article Is Kluj a polish name? is not really news, so it was deleted. Thanks for your understanding. Perhaps you were looking for wikipedia. Bawolff ☺☻ 04:08, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

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Date announced for by-election to replace former New Zealand PM Clark

April 20, 2009

The government has announced 13 June as the date for the upcoming Mount Albert by-election.

The by-election has been caused by former Prime Minister Helen Clark's departure to head the United Nations Development Program. While it is considered to be a safe Labour seat, the by-election is expected to be heavily contested.

Candidates must be nominated by 19 May.

Nominations for the Labour Party close on Wednesday. So far four candidates have put their names forward: Auckland city councillor Glenda Fryer, former candidate Hamish McCracken, University of Auckland political studies lecturer Meg Bates and employment lawyer Helen White. List MP Phil Twyford, widely expected to succeed Ms Clark, has not put his name forward.

The National Party has narrowed its possible candidates down to two: list MP Melissa Lee or unsuccessful 2008 candidate Ravi Musuku. The decision will be made at a party meeting on 4 May.

The Greens and ACT New Zealand will both contest the by-election, but have yet to select candidates.


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CanJet Flight 918 hijacked

April 20, 2009 CanJet Flight 918 was hijacked on 19 April 2009, at approximately 22:30 local time at Sangster International Airport, Montego Bay, Jamaica.

The hijacking was executed by a single armed gunman, who later released all of the passengers and two of the crew, keeping six crew members hostage, according to a press statement by CanJet.

The man broke through security and boarded before the plane was scheduled to leave. There are contradictory statements on the number of passengers on board when the man forced his way onto the plane. According to the BBC, there were more than 150, while CBC states that "Most of the (...) passengers had not yet boarded the flight". The hijacker apparently demanded passage to Cuba.

The plane was stormed by Jamaican police in the morning of the 20th of April, who succeeded in taking the hijacker into custody and freeing the captives.

The flight had started from Halifax International Airport, in Nova Scotia, Canada, at 7:15pm local time. It was stopping in Montego Bay and was scheduled to continue to Santa Clara in Cuba. The airplane in use is a Boeing 737-800.

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Now wouldn't it be nice if our licence allowed taking material from Wikipedia - which might come a step closer soon! Huzzah! Sean Heron (talk) 12:49, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * What do you mean? The text is different. The sources are the same though. Considering that I wrote some of the Wikipedia article, I should know that the text is different. 70.29.213.241 12:58, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

What I meant is that it would be nice if we could just copy the text from the Wikipedia article, and work from that. I guess it was not very related to working on the article, so somewhat ill placed here, sorry. I've asked some questions on your talk page, by the way. Regards Sean Heron (talk) 13:26, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I was away editting at Wikipedia, the article about the hijacking. 70.29.213.241 15:27, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Hate to break it to you guys, the wikipedia licesne change does not bring us any closer. (in fact it is unlikley that it will ever become close enough, as the copyright scheme wikipedia uses is fundamentally different (think bsd vs gpl) from ours. This is not neccesarily a bad thing, as we have different needs that 'pedia. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:03, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Unused sources

Review
I started wanting to review the article - but have now reworked it a good bit. So I won't be doing the final review, as I'm no longer an "uninvolved" editor. However I'll share what I thought the review passed on - please note I've addressed the "failed" point, and am now of the opinion that the article should pass it's review.

OR?
The article has been tagged with original, but I don't see any reporting notes on this page. tempo divalse  15:14, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

 * I, as the initial author, didn't do any original reporting. 70.29.213.241 15:27, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry - my bad. Perhaps I'm mistaken with the policy, but for some of the stuff I checked (and made changes to where necessary), I was referring to the CanJet press release. My understanding is that inserting information from press releases is viewed as original reporting (and yes, I'll happily admit it is very minimal here, and I could take the information from elsewhere just as easily). I'm happy with removing the original template again, I just assumed it needed to be placed. Sean Heron (talk) 16:19, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Review #2

 * This article really wasn't ready for publishing. No infobox, insufficient links, Wikipedia box not at the sources section, sources used incorrect date format. Van der Hoorn (talk) 18:36, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Wow - I'm certainly happy you polished up the article like that, and I agree it'd be preferable for that to happen before publishing. But none of those points (and not all of them together either) would for me merit a failed article review. Style for me refers to the style of the articles text - not the frills, though I'm happy to admit the visual representation is important as well.

 * My impression is that we're already being pretty thorough with article reviews (which is a good thing), but this does mean that its taking a while till articles get published (which is regretable) - I don't think setting a perfectionist benchmark makes sense in that situation, (as long as the non-perfectionist one doesn't tarnish our journalistic integrity). Regards - Sean Heron (talk) 01:24, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I tend to agree with Sean - infobox and the rest is very important, and should definitly be included as needed, but i don't think its a reason to stop an article getting out the door. (unless its heidious). Bawolff ☺☻ 02:03, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree, too: as long as article content is good (NPOV, style, etc.), then there is no reason not to pass the review -- formatting, unless it looks truly horrendous, is of a secondary concern, and in most cases, can easily be fixed in a few seconds by the article's reviewer. tempo divalse  02:07, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

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Hey, nice start on the Highjacking article. Shame really we can't copy paste from Wikipedia and work from their - but I saw that you contributed their, so you can certainly copy any of the stuff you wrote here. Good luck with the article and happy editing! Sean Heron (talk) 12:53, 20 April 2009 (UTC) P.S. if you have any questions, feel free to ask

 * It wasn't copypasted, it was written anew. 70.29.213.241 15:25, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

You misunderstand me - I realise you are adhering to the licence terms and wrote the article anew - and good of you! I just meant to say I think it's a shame we mustn't copy and paste from the Pedia, as I think it would make our lives easier. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Sean Heron (talk) 16:24, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

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Father accused of trying to sell daughter, child star of 'Slumdog Millionaire'

April 20, 2009 Rafiq Qureshi, the father of Rubina Ali, a child star of the Academy Award winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, has been accused of trying to sell his daughter. Qureshi was brought in for questioning by Indian police after a British news agency made accusations that he tried to sell his daughter. Ali played the character Latika.

Ali was the youngest actress in the movie, only 9 years old. She currently resides in a very poor area of Mumbai with her step-mother, father, and brother. Funds have been set up for Ali's education and the local government has agreed to give housing to the children in the family.

News of the World says the alleged sale came to light during a sting operation performed by the news agency. They allege that Qureshi tried to sell his daughter for US$290,000 (£200,000) to his brother-in-law Rajan More.

"On Sunday, Rubina's mother Khurshid complained to us that her ex-husband was trying to sell her daughter, saying she saw some reports on television to that effect," said deputy Indian police commissioner, Nisar Tamboli to Reuters. Police say he tried to sell Ali to his brother-in-law because the family was not happy with the amount of money Ali was getting from her role in the film. More says Ali is not happy with living with her father.

"I have to consider what's best for me, my family and Rubina's future. We've got nothing out of this film," said Qureshi as alleged by News of the World who also alleges that Ali's brother Mohiuddin was in on the plan.

The family denies any wrongdoing and denies they tried to sell Ali.

"We never thought that we would have to face this. We are poor people, for us, our children are everything. Why would we give her away like that?," said Moinuddin Qureshi, the uncle of Ali.

Authorities are continuing to investigate the incident.


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Comments:Pirate attack on Norwegian ship foiled by NATO forces

So Canada has no piracy on the high seas law?!?!?

NATO is supposed to be there supporting International Law but the Canuks will not do anything unless their national law is violated!?!?!

If that’s the case tell them to go home, they are worse than not being there at all!!!!!

Slap on the wrist, “now you be good boys, and don’t pirate anymore ships.”

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My attempts to upload photos and then link them has failed... :-(  Sorry!  - Jim

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Scientist Stephen Hawking rushed to hospital in ambulance

April 20, 2009 Scientist Stephen Hawking, 67, has been taken to a hospital in an ambulance after falling very ill, reports.

According to a physicist at in the United Kingdom, "Professor Hawking is very ill" and had been rushed to  in  to undergo tests.

His condition is not yet known, but according to the University, Hawking has been ill with a chest infection for a few weeks. On April 6, he cancelled an appearance at due to his illness. Hawking also suffers from severe.

"He [Hawking] is undergoing tests. He has been unwell for a couple of weeks," said the university in a statement. In a later statement, the University stated that Hawking was resting comfortably "but will be kept in hospital overnight" for observation.

head Peter Haynes offered his sympathy saying, "Professor Hawking is a remarkable colleague. We all hope he will be amongst us again soon." Hawking has worked in the same department as Haynes for over 30 years.


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Category request
editprotected Following this discussion with user:Brian McNeil, would someone mind adding Category:University of Cambridge? Bencherlite (talk) 20:45, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

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Hi - I'm Becksguy. Almost all my contributions, such as they are, are on the English Wikipedia, with the same user name.

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Poor boy, his so dumb for going on that plane anywase. But I hope him good luck. And your family. The name is 0075, I am an undercover agent. I am good at diskising. No one can catch me. LOusers. Remember your dealing with GM 0075. GOT THAT BUTTS!!! I thought so,'' I murmured. And I chuklied. Like a kangareoo. My dream is to be an actress. I wright storied, My ID is female dog, got hom,esters. Now I must go later.


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I think it needs pictures —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pippinbeauty (talk • contribs) 22:31, 20 April 2009
 * agreed.--Unionhawk (talk) 23:00, 20 April 2009 (UTC)


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Coleman appeals Franken victory in Minnesota Senate race

April 21, 2009

Norm Coleman filed an appeal with the Minnesota Supreme Court challenging opponent Al Franken's court victory last week which gave Franken a 312-vote lead in the disputed 2008 Minnesota United States Senate election, reports the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

The basis for Coleman's appeal has yet to be given and will be included in a legal brief to be filed by the Coleman campaign later this week.

Jim Langdon, lawyer for the Coleman campaign, said that the oral arguments in the court could begin in anywhere from "two weeks to two months", adding more time to a process which has continued since a razor-thin difference between the two candidates' vote totals triggered an automatic recount in November 2008. The Supreme Court is not required to hear oral arguments and it is possible they could refuse to hear the case.

A spokesperson for the Franken campaign says that Coleman is up to the "same old, same old."

"Sometimes you come up on the short end of a close and bitter election. But at some point, you have to accept the reality for what it is," said Marc Elias, one of Franken's lawyers.

The Coleman campaign argues that 4,400 ballots from Coleman-leaning districts have improperly not been counted, while some undetermined number of ballots (perhaps contributing up to 100 of Franken's 312-vote margin) were accidentally double-counted. Coleman also argues that 132 ballots from the Dinkytown neighborhood of Minneapolis should not have been counted, since the envelope containing them was lost or stolen after the machine count and before the recount. The Franken campaign, meanwhile, supports the previous three-judge panel (from a Democrat, a Republican, and an Independent) unanimous ruling giving Franken victory.

The Franken campaign, anticipating a final victory and certification by the Minnesota Secretary of State, has begun hiring a staff for Franken's senatorial office. Franken's spokespeople say he is going to start by hiring Alana Peterson, a former state director for Representative Jim Oberstar, as state director.


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Very bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- Children have rights too.They can't just SELL her! --218.186.10.246 (talk) 07:45, 11 June 2009 (UTC)


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Our best wishes go out to the remarkable man and hopefully he will continue to use his amazing mind to contribute to the scientific community
 * Amen to that. Voice of All (talk) 02:00, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

just to ask..
Rumors are that Hawking was about to announce something just before he was forced to hospital. Anyone has any idea what it would be?

 * I think he secretly made his mini particle-accelerator and found the higgs! Expect nothing less of Mr. Hawking! :D Thymo (talk) 16:05, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Iam sorry for him.I believe he will recover soon and once again announce the best scientisi of the world.

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Hope for a Genius!
Stephen Hawking's work in science will always be remembered by future generations, no matter the outcome of his current hospitalization. I do hope the best for him and his family, along with his colleagues in the Astrophysics field.

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please update some-- did he live? this is a year old, yet says "his condition is not yet known". —174.97.197.53 (talk) 20:14, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

 * This is a snapshot in time, of what was known on that day last year. See WN:ARCHIVE. And yes he did live - good ole Hawking's a tough old bugger. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 20:35, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

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I want to know what is wrong with the cripple. Fail. —67.158.64.29 (talk) 21:19, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

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u can do better —59.94.76.177 (talk) 15:10, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:Russia ends "counterterrorism operation" in Chechnya

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A "counter terrorism operation" is what Russia calls it. There are certainly more views on the operations in Chechnya. While we can use "counter terrorism operation" we should also say what Chechnya called it. --SVTCobra 00:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Do you have any suggestions? It seems hard to find a "general" Chechen expression for it, because there are lots of "official statements" of the local president (and probably somewhere not so obvious inofficial ones by (some) Chechen inhabitants). --Angela H. (talk) 08:57, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Well, Wikipedia calls it the Second Chechen War and also mentions it as the War in the North Caucasus. --SVTCobra 10:43, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Maybe, it's because of the more or less strict rule in de.wn that I thought one should not "quote" Wikipedia. I can, of course, use Wikipedia as a source for background information. --Angela H. (talk) 12:58, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Using a term from Wikipedia such as "Second Chechen War" is not quoting Wikipedia. The reason for the ban on copying from Wikipedia on both en.wn and de.wn is because of incompatible licenses. --SVTCobra 17:11, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

 * No, as a regular contributor to de.wn I know the reason on de.wn is not only the incompatible licenses, but also that articles in de.wp do not require to be fully sourced. At least this has been used in thousands of discussions over there.
 * Well, one could also write "second Chechen war", but I have not found that term it anywhere else in the news headlines. --Angela H. (talk) 17:15, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

 * If you think that it is better, maybe you can move it again. --Angela H. (talk) 17:16, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

 * BTW: The "Second Chechen War" is mentioned also in the last paragraph (although not exactly with this wording, since the word "war" occurs already in the sentence before it), where the last sentence indicates that there the Russian operation in Chechnya can also be seen as such. --Angela H. (talk) 09:53, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

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Modern technology maps new sections of the Great Wall of China

April 21, 2009 Using infrared laser rangefinders and global positioning system modern technology, a survey released that the Ming Dynasty section of the Great Wall of China is, some longer than previous estimates. Historical accounts put the wall's length around, however it was not actually physically measured. The actual constructed wall measurements come to. The remaining of the defensive wall system are trenches, hills and rivers according to the survey project which traversed mountains and deserts.

Sandstorms buried some sections of the wall, and these hills of dirt and sand may erode completely in 20 years. The new technologies helped to discover some of these wall areas which were buried.

The Great Wall of China was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987. In 2005, a conservation project began to preserve the Great Wall. The last two years involved mapping and surveying by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, and will see completion in another 18 months. So far only the portion of the wall built during the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644 AD) has been measured, and the remaining sections constructed in the Qin Dynasty (221 - 206 BC) and Han Dynasty (206 BC - 9 AD) have yet to be investigated. Besides discovering hitherto unknown sections of the Great Wall, researchers analysed its construction and the challenges presented to preserve it. Many areas of the wall have undergone restoration processes since 1949.

The wall was constructed of packed earth in places, however the majority was brick and stone construction. Sandstorms, extreme weather, highway construction, commercial expansion, and tourism are the main threats to the Great Wall of China.


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Northern Cyprus opposition party wins elections

April 21, 2009

The Turkish Cypriot's right-wing National Unity Party (UBP), has won the republic's elections on Sunday in a landslide, according to provisional results released by officials. With all votes having been counted, the UBP won 44.06% of all votes, garnering it a majority in Northern Cyprus' 50-seat parliament by provisional accounts.

Incumbent Republican Turkish Party (CTP), an ally of the Turkish Cypriot's leader Mehmet Ali Talat, received the second most votes, taking 29% of the ballot.

Election authorities estimated that voter turnout at the polls was about 81.3%. Around 162,000 people were eligible to vote.

The Turkish Cypriot government is only officially recognized by Turkey. Cyprus has been divided for 35 years after Turkey invaded the island in 1974, following a coup by a group of people supporting reunification with Greece.


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Comments:India announces Lok Sabha elections for 2009

Sena-NCP boys spar in Turbhe
23 volunteers arrested on saturday night following a fight over a hoarding in the area Raina Assainar. Vashi Over 23 volunteers of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Shiv Sena were arrested following a scuffle over a hoarding at Turbhe Naka on Saturday night. Amrut Medkar, an NCP leader who has an office at Hanuman Nagar learned that some party workers of Shiv Sena were taking photographs of their hoardings. Medkar along with his men went to question Shiv Sena leader Ganesh Koli about the same. The argument led to a fight between both the parties. Later both the parties lodged complaints with Turbhe Police Station blaming each other for initiating the fight and injuring respective party workers. Medkar lodged complaint against Koli and his 40 party workers while Koli lodged complaint against Medkar and his 23 men. Acting on the complaint lodged, Turbhe police arrested eight workers of Shiv Sena and 15 workers of NCP. In the complaint lodged by the Sena, they blamed that the NCP men injured Koli grievously. At the same, NCP claimed that Sainiks wounded NCP workers Shanu Damble and Vijay Dalvi. The arrested were presented before the court on Sunday and are now out on bail, confirmed a police official from Turbhe Police Station. Meanwhile, with the Lok Sabha election nearing, the Navi Mumbai Police have increased the bandobast in city. The city has got two platoons of SRP (State Reserve Police) and one platoon of CRP (Central Reserve Police) along with 600 home guards which include 500 men and 100 women. According the circular passed by the Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Ramrao Wagh, no strikes and andolans can be carried out by anyone in city premises till the elections are over.

RPI (Ektavadi) extends Support to Sanjeev Naik.
RPI’s Ektavadi party has announced its support to Thane Loksabha constituency candidate Dr Sanjeev Naik. Despite 22 candidates from the RPI contesting for the Loksabha polls from several regions, the party has extended its support to UPA candidate Dr Sanjeev Naik in Thane. RPI Ektavadi Director Gangaram Indise informed that in order to restrict the growth of religiously inspired powers and form an association, the party is supporting the UPA candidate Dr. Sanjeev Naik. The party is hoping that their candidate will resolve issues concerning the minority and backward classes like the implementation of atrocity law, shelter to slum dwellers residing on forest land and others. http://navimumbai-sanjeevjinaik.blogspot.comhttp://www.sanjeevgnaik.com/index.html

THE GANESH NAIK WILL MAGIC WORK FOR HIS SON’S VICTORY IN THANE LOK SABHA ELECTIONS 2009……….
For a leader who proved his magic in the 2004 assembly elections’ record victory, today NCP Navi Mumbai Supremo Ganesh Naik is perhaps fighting one of the biggest battles of his political career. Our weekend exclusive today tries to find the answer to the question “Will the Ganesh Naik magic work for his son Dr. Sanjeev Naik’s victory in the Thane Lok Sabha Elections 2009?”

We are with Sanjeev Naik: Keralites.
Hundreds of Members of the Malayalee community in the satellite city, led by some of their prominent opinion leaders, marched in a rally from Mahape. The all-Malayalee rally voiced its support for the NCP candidate Sanjeev Naik and urged the members of the community residing in the nodes of Ghansoli, koparkhiarane and Vashi to follow suit and ensure that they turn out to vote for Naik. “We, as a community, are voicing our support for an educated, sincere candidate to represent the educated people of Navi Mumbai in the Parliament,” said Damodaran. http://navimumbai-sanjeevjinaik.blogspot.comhttp://www.sanjeevgnaik.com/index.html

Sanjeev Naik’s 5-Point plan for the Future City.
Congress-NCP candidate from Thane constituency Dr Sanjeev Naik recently launched his official website http://www.sanjeevgnaik.com/ in a bid to have more interpersonal interaction with the citizen. The five pointers announced on the occasion attempt to cover all major grievances faced by the public. This includes solving water crisis, providing healthy living, addressing traffic concerns, controlling pollution and rehabilitation of slums. Accordingly, the candidate intends to bring excess water from Morbe Dam to Thane in future to bridge the water requirement.He assures to start with water transport, monorail in the constituency. Installation of sewerage treatment plants in the constituency and planting more trees to protect the environment have also been mentioned in the pointers.

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Talk:Coleman appeals Franken victory in Minnesota Senate race

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There's an error here. Your reporter seems to have conflated two separate issues. The 132 votes from Dinkytown were counted once, then placed in an envelope marked 1/5, which was lost or stolen. Coleman is not alleging otherwise. He is asking that these votes not be counted, although there was no indication of any problem with the machine count. No one took this part of Coleman's case seriously. Coleman is also claiming an ill-defined number of votes were double-counted due to failure to properly label duplicates. It is widely accepted that this happened in some cases, and that Franken probably gained from it. However the net Franken gain is probably well under 100 votes, not enough to make a difference.


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Coleman stop crying about yourself and think of the people that are suppose to be represented by the winner of this election. You have tried every stone walling tactic you can and the backing of the GOP is just as bad. Man up and take defeat like a man.

Flabby baby.

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San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom to run for governor of California

April 21, 2009

The mayor of, California, , has announced via that he will be running for the state's governor in the. He will be in the running to replace California's current governor,.

"It's official- running for Gov of CA. Wanted you to be the first to know. Need your help," said Newsom on his official Twitter profile. Newsom also posted a video on his campaign website which was launched earlier this morning.

"I hope that you will join our campaign that has set out to change California, because I know we can do better. We can't afford to keep returning to the same old, tired ideas and expect a different result," says Newsom in his campaign video.

Newsom promises more, local economic stimulus and. His video doesn't mention anything about, but Newsom is an active opponent of , California's ban on same-sex marriages.

Newsom has been San Francisco's mayor since 2003 and was re-elected in 2007.


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I hope he wins. I don't think that Arnold has the best political/economic background for being a governor. I think Newsom has proven his ability to lead in San Fran. —Calebrw (talk) 17:35, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

An interesting position as many in SF have a rather dim view of him. He seems far more concerned with personal initiatives that tend to go nowhere and are often strongly opposed (but pushed forward nonetheless), showy public statements that tend not to have much real effect, and rarely listening to his constituents. Aside from people voting against him due to his position on Prop 8 and LA voters perhaps being more likely to vote for their own mayor (who is rumored to be running) I think SF is probably going to be one of the places where he'll face the most criticism due to his poor local record. 67.169.74.129 11:07, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

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 * Not sure actually...could not find a reference to it. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 18:50, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Opinion on the story!? Bah, I have no opinion, I have a FACT: Newsom is NOT running against Arnold, as Arnie is termed out for the 2010 elections. He will be faring against heavy weights such as Brown where according to all major polls including the Rasmussen's conducted in January and March of 2009 currently indicate his polarized views will force his defeat in the primaries, before he even has the potential in the general election.

Tell Gordon Getty & the J.P. Getty Trust to pay their overdue $6,440,000 bill at MACDONALD BANK … I earned the Getty Oil Company shareholders Four Billion Bucks … On the Reserve acquisition; the way they treat me … it really sucks! As the Getty inheritors bask in glee; All I asked for was that they look after me. Four billion dollars they earned on Reserve … My fee I surely deserve. It turns out J.P. Getty may have been a Nazi; His family even goes back to Germany …. With Hitler, GÖring & Goebbels he did stand; While trying to undermine the American land! For paintings & artifacts he did receive; With his oil he was able to deceive? Hoover & the FBI & Roosevelt they knew … That J.P. Getty & espionage he drew! Many a young lad and Jew did die As planes dropped bombs from the sky. For years while Getty sat in Berlin He may have committed many a sin. The ashes and smoke from the chimneys it rose While old man Getty sat cozy … he chose. With artwork held tightly under his arm Still dripping in blood … as the real owner met harm. Into the ovens & on meat-hooks, bullets between the eyes … Listen very carefully you can still hear their cries! While the Gettys sit in England; at their estate at Wormsley; And Gordon sings in San Francisco … With his 727 in tow; The Getty museum sits atop Malibu; While the corpses of World War 2 scream … “J.P. Getty … We know you!”

Beware which fake out is sent to California's Governor's Mansion
Check out: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/10/MNDS102IIM.DTL

Supervisor A Peskin: Gavin Newsom runs San Francisco the way the premier of China runs his country - secrecy, lies, misinformation, lack of transparency and manipulating the populace," Peskin said. "He did it so China can report they had a great torch run."

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At least 24 dead in clashes in central Kenya

April 25, 2009 Clashes between members of the Mungiki sect and the residents of a Karatina village in Nyeri District killed at least 24 people in the African country Kenya on Tuesday. A further four people have been seriously injured and have been hospitalised after the incident. 37 people have been arrested by the police, who also seized weapons such as axes, clubs, and machetes.

The deputy police spokesman, Charles Owino, stated that the attacks occurred at night, after locals of the village attacked members of the Mungiki sect, claiming that the latter had been extorting money from them.

Witness reports say that a gang of young men with crude weapons conducted the killings between midnight and 2 a.m. in the Gathaithi-Kiangumara and Kiaruhiu villages.

Police say that the Mungiki is a sort of mafia, involved in kidnapping, murder, and extortion, amongst other activities. The sect says it has two million members in Kenya, and supports a return to tribal customs and traditions.


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Earth Day 2009 celebrated around the globe

April 22, 2009

Today is the 39th observance of Earth Day in the northern hemisphere. Earth day is celebrated in Autumn on November 30 in the southern hemisphere. Senator Gaylord Nelson initiated the first Earth Day in April 1970 in the United States, and it is now celebrated by over 1 billion people in over 170 countries worldwide. Earth Day is the biggest environmental event which addresses issues and educates people on environmental awareness on a global scale.

This year, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will beam high-definition images to the NASA website and television. By doing so, NASA hopes to increase appreciation of global climate issues. There will also be a Washington exhibit relating to environmental issues viewed from space as well.

At the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center activities will focus on their slogan for Earth Day 2009, "Just One Drop ... PRICELESS" and will demonstrate how the Environmental Control Life Support System operates as used on the International Space Staton (ISS).

Amongst the many festivals, WorldFest is a solar powered music celebration held in Los Angeles, California. Buenos Aires will also feature its second Earth Day event featuring a music festival as well.

"We are in a new era of energy innovation," said Daniel Yergin at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) forum. Lithium-ion batteries are providing electric storage solutions for electric cars such as the Chevrolet Volt and the Dodge Circuit EV. Algae fuel is a new form of biofuel, but is still under development.

"Energy Smackdown" was a competitive household activity which compared energy usage between 60 separate households across three cities in or near Boston. The various competitors came up with a variety of innovative methods to cut their carbon footprint, installing solar electric panels, geothermal heat pumps, wind turbines, and using a caulking gun to seal the home from drafts.

"In the average home, 75 percent of the electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off." is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) estimate.

Miami is installing a smart grid which will use individual household smart meters to allow energy consumers know via a web site, their exact home energy usage. "To me these are prudent and smart investments that will easily pay for themselves. It will show the nation how to address environmental, energy, and economic challenges all at the same time." said Miami mayor Manny Diaz.

Cal Dooley, CEO of the American Chemistry Council ACC, says the plastic bag industry is prepared to spend US$50 million to revamp their manufacturing facilities and will collect 470 million pounds of recycled plastic every year to make plastic bags of 40% recycled content. The ACC is providing a donation to the Keep America Beautiful environmental organisation, both of whom endorse this new project. The Earth Day Network (EDN) and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) would like to see an end to the use of plastic bags, however. "We don't want people to use disposable bags. We want people to use reusable bags," says Darby Hoover of the NRDC.

Calgary researchers will begin field surveys to help save the "Northern Leopard Frog (Rana Pipiens). "Northern Leopard Frogs are threatened in Alberta, but endangered in British Columbia," said Dr. Des Smith, Primary Investigator and Research Scientist with the Calgary Zoo's Centre for Conservation Research. "It is essential to develop new monitoring techniques for Northern Leopard" said Breana McKnight, Field Team Leader and Endangered Species Researcher.

The traditional Earth day ceremony of planting trees is garnering further attention in Japan as Koichi Nakatani, the nation's Tree Planting Father travels from Hokkaido to Okinawa.

Students can take part in an Earth Day photo contest sponsored by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies which will feature images and scientific student research for the environmental change depicted in each photo submitted.

“Earth Day should be about teaching about the environment every day,” said Sean Mille director of education for EDN, “We emphasize taking action for your classroom, school, district or community." 25,000 schools across America made use of the environmental curriculum developed by the National Civic Education Project, the Green Schools Campaign and the Educator’s Network. Lesson plans are broad and varied and may focus on water pollution, recycling, composting, using chemistry to convert cafeteria left-overs into biodiesel or ethanol fuel or converting go-carts to operate on biodiesel or ethanol fuels in shop class.


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Discovery of smallest exoplanet yields 'extraordinary' find

April 21, 2009 Scientists have made two major discoveries in the search for other Earth-like planets. British astronomers say they have discovered the smallest known Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a living star called Gliese 581 e and also discovered that a nearby planet called Gliese 581 d, discovered in 2007, is in the much sought after 'habitable zone'. Astronomers also believe there is a possibility that 581 d could have liquid oceans on its surface, calling the find "extraordinary." "The Holy Grail of current exoplanet research is the detection of a rocky, Earth-like planet in the 'habitable zone'," said astrophysicist at Switzerland's Geneva University, Michel Mayor.

Astronomers say 581 e is 20.5 light years away from Earth and that it's roughly 1.9 times larger than Earth, making it the smallest exoplanet discovered to date. It was found using the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS). It orbits too close to its parent star, Gliese 581, which would make it too hot, unable to support life as we know it. It takes just over 3 days for it to orbit the star.

Exoplanet 581 d, however, is another story. Astronomers say this makes it possible to not only support life, but have liquid water in the forms of oceans. 581 d is approximately 7.7 times larger than Earth. Astronomers originally thought it was too cold to have liquid water thus would not be able to host Earth-like life.

"It is very exciting that such a promising candidate for an Earthlike planet has been found so close to us. It means there are likely to be many more when we search further," added Mayor.


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making it the smallest exoplanet discovered to date
This is wrong, the third exoplanet ever discovered is smaller than this planet. PSR B1257+12 A 76.66.196.218 06:42, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Checking the page you reference, and that of the newly discovered planet, it seems some sort of qualifier as to the type of sun the planet orbits would fix this (the one you point to orbits a pulsar). Any suggestions? I'm loathe to use "normal star", would "orbiting a star similar to our own" fix it? --Brian McNeil / talk 07:30, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The problem is it doesn't orbit a sun-like star, it orbits a red-dwarf, which isn't very sun like at all. I suppose you could say orbiting a non-pulsar star? As pulsars are dead stars, I suppose you could say "living star" or "live star". 76.66.196.218 03:41, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I went with the "living star" change" - won't mean much to a lot of people, but more technically correct. --Brian McNeil / talk 05:51, 24 April 2009 (UTC)


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Wikinews needs science reporters who can spot details like "located approximately 6.2 ± 0.1 parsecs from its star" being ludicrous - that would place the planet somewhere around 20 light-years from it. This would, however, be approximately the distance of the planet from our star as listed in the source articles - David Gerard (talk) 22:23, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
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i think its kool they are findind more planets ...but are they going to them to chexk them out
i think its kool they are finding more planets ...but are they going to them to check them out.. we need to go out there to see if there is life or if thier is anything we can use for technology

making it the smallest exoplanet discovered to date
This is wrong, the third exoplanet ever discovered is smaller than this planet. PSR B1257+12 A 76.66.196.218 06:42, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

What Makes A Planet An Earth Counterpart
What Makes A Planet An Earth Counterpart

A. "Smallest exoplanet yet is found" http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/43038/title/Smallest_exoplanet_yet_is_found Finding a planet just under twice Earth's size puts astronomers closer to discovering an Earth counterpart.

B. What is "an Earth counterpart"?

An "Earth counterpart" may be either a still "pre-lifed" or an already "bio-sphered" planet.

The features that would render a pre-lifed planet a pre-lifed Earth counterpart would include the environmental and compositional parameters of the 4.6 BYA Earth.

The features that would render a bio-sphered planet a bio-sphered Earth counterpart would include a bio-sphere comprising the Planet's primal organisms, its genes, and the chemical constituents of their evolved organisms, where:

Organism = a self-replicable temporary constrained-energy genetic system that supports and maintains a planet's biosphere by maintenance of its genes.

Dov Henis (comments from the 22nd century) "Life's Manifest" http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page#578

There are msny planets tha can sustain human life within introstellar not counting extrostellar systems. Would humans even consider that other life forms exist interstellar much less outerstellar. out of many One —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.192.189.190 (talk) 11:00, 2 June 2009 (UTC)


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User talk:68.81.95.145

 * Waiting for a proxy check to determine whether or not this is a proxy. tempo divalse  23:33, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

- I'm going to assume good faith and unblock you. (Worst case senario is if you are an open proxy is you just get reblocked). Cheers. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:40, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

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Arctic Fox  Monday 29 July 2024

Me in real life
My name is Elliott Rhodes and I'm studying BTEC National IT level 3 course at Darlington College. I hope to go on and do further work in IT within networking but i am still in my first year at college, I was born and raised in England.

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Welcome
--Brian McNeil / talk 11:29, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

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Template:User committed identity/doc

This template gives you a way to later prove that you are the person who was in control of your account on the day this template was placed. This is done by putting a code (called a "hash") on your user page so that, in the event that your account is compromised, you can convince someone else that you are really the person behind your username.

Why?
The intended use of this template is to help in the hopefully unlikely event that your account is compromised. If you published your real-life identity, then that identity could be used to reestablish contact with you if your account were compromised; keep in mind, in this scenario contact could not be established with you through your account, since it may be under the control of someone else. However, many Wikipedia users do not disclose their real-life identities, or disclose little enough of them that it may be difficult to establish their identity.

This is not a replacement for having a strong password, nor for registering an email address for your account. You should still do everything you can to prevent your account being compromised, including using a strong password and remembering to log yourself out when using a computer others may have access to. If you have one, it may also be helpful to post your PGP public key. But even with the best of precautions, your account could become compromised, for instance, via a trojan horse or a brute-force attack on your password. This is intended to be a last resort.

How
The idea is to use cryptographic hashes; you choose a secret string known only to yourself, put it through a one-way hash function, and publish the result somewhere. As the result is a hash, nobody can easily work backwards from the hash to the secret string; hence, if you give the secret string to someone and they hash it and the hash turns out to be the same as the one published, it is very strong evidence that the person giving the secret string is the same person who originally published the hash. An attacker compromising an account presumably would not know the secret string.

Syntax

Italicized text should be replaced with appropriate input, or its parameter should be removed. Parameters are represented by 'parameter= value ", and separated by vertical bars |. If your hash is "ef7c4c55a176bd20ed558aaefde21c4803080195" using SHA-1, and you want a light orange box with a black border, use the following code
 * Replace "hash" with the hash produced from your secret string. The implicit name of this parameter is "1" (see numeric parameters).
 * The "hash function used" parameter, if not included, defaults to SHA-512. (This hash function is recommended.)
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Choosing a good secret string

 * 1) Your secret string should not be easy to guess. If you haven't openly declared your real-life identity on Wikipedia, then any string specifying your real-life identity is a good secret string. If you have openly declared who you are, your secret string should specify more information that wouldn't be easy to guess. If your string is easy to guess, then the fact that you know the string may not be very persuasive. For example, a string of 'joe' will be way less convincing than 'My name is Joe Schmoe, and I can be contacted at: joe@schmoe.com'
 * 2) Your secret string should specify enough of your identity that, if the string were revealed, you could unambiguously prove you match that identity. For instance, your secret string could include a telephone number or email address at which you can be reached.
 * 3) Try not to choose a secret string that represents your identity that could go completely out of date. So, for instance, it may be bad to choose a string that specifies only your telephone number as your number might change.
 * 4) If you want to change your secret string, do so, but keep track of all your old secret strings. It is best to reveal all of them if you ever want to confirm your identity, as this will establish that you are the same person who used your account from the first moment the committed identity was published.
 * 5) Your secret string should not be short: at least 15 characters. A dedicated attacker could, by brute force, try strings until they find your secret string, but if your string is long enough, that attack would take too long to be practical. If your string is 15 characters long, there are around 1027 strings of that length, or an octillion (and that's just counting alphanumeric strings with spaces).
 * 6) Your secret string should not only contain an email address, name or phone number, but should contain hard to guess components. "jsmith@hotmail.com" for example may be vulnerable to both dictionary attacks and the database of email addresses from hotmail leaking, enabling attackers to check 'only' those hundred million names against all published hashed identities, which is computationally much easier than the above would indicate.

Getting the hash
Be sure to note the exact string you enter into the form, in case you need to use it later. It is important that this string be both easily remembered exactly by you and hard to guess by any intruder - if an intruder knows the secret string, then this is useless. One's username is public and guessable; one's password is not a good choice either, as in the event of a compromised account, the password may have been guessed.

On unixlike systems the,  ,  ,  ,  , and   programs are provided in the GNU Core Utilities. Windows users may use one of the methods mentioned below, or those who have PowerShell installed can generate a hash using the following command. Provide your secret phrase in the location indicated:

It is recommended that SHA-512 be used, as recent cryptographic research has cast doubt on the longterm viability of using SHA-1. The template defaults to SHA-512 if the hash function parameter is omitted. For security, you should only use locally executed programs, or client-side javascript, to create your hash. Examples of such hash calculators include jsSHA and HashCalc 2.01.

Compromised identities
In case your account is compromised, to make use of your committed identity to someone and prove you are the same person who originally controlled the account, give a trusted user the exact secret string you originally entered into the box. They can then compute the appropriate hash of that same string and verify that it is the same result and that you are who you say you are.

Once you've established your identity, and set up a new account or regained control of the original account, you'll probably want to create a new hash as now someone (possibly multiple someones depending on who and how you told the secret string to) else knows the secret string.

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User talk:Trafford09

Help request
helpme I'd like to edit a page, but http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Lead_article_4&action=edit tells me I'm not allowed. How could I go about getting permission please? Trafford09 (talk) 11:53, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * This is an automatic protection, you can't get permission per-se, it is given automatically once your account is around a week old. You can use editprotected in the interim to propose a change. By the way, here's our welcome template - take a look at some of the links in it.

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Font size
Hi Brian. Thx for the Welcome template. Firstly, I must say: that template is far better than many I've seen in Wikipedia (where I've done a fair amount of editing). Secondly, is it worth considering making font size bigger in the Welcome template? i realise this may mean expanding the template box, but there seems to be scope for that. It's just that the font used is quite a bit smaller than the default Wikinews script, as I'm sure you can detect. Best regards, Trafford09 (talk) 12:36, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd be happy with something between current size and default(this), not sure of the changes required. This was building on top of others' work. --Brian McNeil / talk 13:03, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah - ok then - just a thought. Anyway, you'll be pleased I plan to show it to friends on wikipedia, as a good example.  Cheers, Trafford09 (talk) 13:07, 22 April 2009 (UTC).
 * I just accidentally got logged out, and happened to view that template in monobook (the default), where the font-size is much smaller (relative to modern skin), and i tend to agree with you. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:33, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Strange - today, the font size looks fine - just the same as in the rest of my Talk page. Ah well :) Trafford09 (talk) 10:11, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * That's because the template was changed from small text to standard size. tempo divalse  14:07, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Templates
Replied is what i think you are looking for. (I redirected talkback as i think lots of people know that name). Our template namespace is a tad bit disorganized (however, user:Van der Hoorn is making great strides on improving it). Template messages is the official page, but it tends to be out of date. Category:Wikinews templates is much more up to date. (thanks to Van der Hoorn's hard work). There is also an automated list here and the template namespace can be searched as a whole from special:search (check template ns, and uncheck the others). Hope that helps. Cheers, and welcome to wikinews. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:33, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

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Tonga renews emergency regulations

April 22, 2009

The Tongan government has extended the state of emergency in the capital, Nukuʻalofa, for another month.

The move has been criticised as unnecessary by the chairman of the Tonga Civil Society Forum, Drew Havea. He says that life is now back to normal in the capital, and blames a group of Nukuʻalofa businessmen for the rollover.

"We are not sure why they are taking that particular action because we don’t see any issue but that’s their right. If they want to petition for rolling over these emergency regulations, there’s not much we can do, on our part," he said.

The emergency regulations were originally put in place two and a half years ago, as a response to the 2006 Nuku'alofa riots, and have been renewed monthly ever since. They give police wide powers to search, detain and arrest people without warrant within Nukuʻalofa's CBD in order to protect public safety.

Central Nukuʻalofa was severely damaged by pro-democracy riots on November 17, 2006.

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 * Sure thing, I'll have a look at your article when I get a chance (I'm a bit busy right now). Welcome again! tempo divalse  17:42, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, I looked over your article 21 polo ponies die at US Open. It's not bad at all, but it needs to be expanded to at least three decent-sized paragraphs before it can be published. If you can't add any more info to the story, I would recommend moving it to the shorts pages. If you need any help, please don't hesitate to ask me at my talk page. Cheers. tempo divalse  20:09, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

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User talk:NorwegianBlue

Welcome to my talk page
I have an account here because I've created a unified login, allowing me to use a single login across the majority of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects. If you want to get in touch, please contact me on the English wikipedia. --NorwegianBluetalk 17:52, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Welcome
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I have an account here because I've created a unified login, allowing me to use a single login across the majority of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects. If you want to get in touch, please contact me on the English wikipedia. --NorwegianBluetalk 17:54, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

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Comments:Modern technology maps new sections of the Great Wall of China

New Regime Same Paradigm
It's amazing that 2200+ years later the human condition is such that we have yet to evolve as group beyond the mentality which finds the need to build walls against each other. When will we as a species stop abiding by this innate mentality to forcibly segregate? I'm sure the public outlook of the current US Southern border fence would be much different if we weren't so driven to divide, especially to the point of investing million upon millions of dollar or yuan in the preservation/restoration of this relic of the past. I'm not against culture or heritage but we have to let things go to move on. I guess that bone head Garth was right when he said "we fear change". What happened to the brief spark that resulted in tearing down the Berlin Wall? What that wall represented was a manification of this behavior of forced segregation. Does it really have to get that bad before we desire to make a change? Can we not use hindsight to provide ourselves with greater foresight? Will we never be more than bickering ants with thumbs? If we don't socially evolve to one species we will never evolve to one planet. Baby steps people, we can do it but that doesn't mean we will do it.This is wierd/dumb whoever wrote it is dumbest in the whole world and it's not true.


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Talk:Earth Day 2009 celebrated around the globe

New Category
Please add Category:Earth Day to this article. Thank you. Evrik (talk) 21:52, 22 April 2024 (UTC)


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Darling announces UK budget for 2009

April 23, 2009 The United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, yesterday announced the 2009 budget. The budget is an annual audit of the nation's finances, and decides what should be done with taxpayers' money.

The chancellor fell under scorn for his GDP growth forecasts, which are considered to be too optimistic in predicting that Britain will bounce back from its weakest economic performance since the end of the second world war. Darling forecast GDP growth of 3.5% in 2011, even after he was made to downgrade his predictions. He expects a record expansion of 1.25% next year, but chief UK economist Howard Archer disagrees, calling Darling's predictions "mildly optimistic in the near term and much more optimistic in the long term."

His plans for savers and pensioners, however, were commended by many, though was also criticised by a large portion of the populace. In the budget, Darling increased the amount that savers can put into an Individual Savings Account (ISA) from £7,200 to £10,200, of which £5,100 can be saved in cash. These increased limits will be available only to people aged over 50 from 6 October this year, and will not be available to everyone until 6 April next year. A number of financial experts described the move as being "too little, too late", and Rumina Hassam, of price comparison website uSwitch.com, said: "The government's decision to increase the cash ISA limit by £1,500 to £5,100 for the over 50's is a just another kick in the teeth for the majority of savers as they will have to wait even longer to benefit. There is no doubt that savers have been sacrificed as a result of the plummeting base rate, bringing savings rates to an all time low."

Departmental expenditure limits
The tables below show the government's plans for spending between now and 2011, although the 2010 budget may change these plans.

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Comments:21 polo ponies die at US Open

"A report of three similar deaths has emerged in Uruguay, involving horses in training for the Panamericano de Endurance that were given BIODYL."

Where was this information obtained?

 * Here, supposedly. http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1120804 It is in Spanish. --SVTCobra 00:59, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

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Comments:Earth Day 2009 celebrated around the globe

Earth Day 2009: our long global cow flatulence nightmare is over.

See

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/earth-day-2009/

Blog whore. 68.210.66.31 16:32, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

The Green Movement is Nuts
There was recently a study that obese people were contributing to global warming because they are more likely to drive and they eat more.

Going green is good, but it's just getting ridiculous.--Unionhawk (talk) 18:08, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * We need more pedestrian ways in U.S. cities, not only car ways. --Diamondland (talk) 11:11, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

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Comments:Major explosion at Mt. Redoubt volcano in Alaska

I blame Sarah Palin. Oh, and she's also responsible for Global Warming. :-P --Brian McNeil / talk 10:38, 23 April 2009 (UTC)


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ANC leads in South Africa vote

April 25, 2009 Early results show the African National Congress holding a commanding lead in South Africa's general election.

But it is still unclear whether the party has met its goal of the two-thirds majority in Parliament required to amend the constitution.

With half of the vote counted, the ANC has 66% of the vote. Its nearest rival, the Democratic Alliance, has 16%, while ANC splinter-group the Congress of the People trails with 8%.

The results will see ANC leader Jacob Zuma elected as President of South Africa when the National Assembly reconvenes in May. Provincial elections are also being held, and the ANC looks likely to lose power in the province of Western Cape to the Democratic Alliance. This will be the first time an opposition party has won control of a provincial parliament since the end of apartheid.

The election campaign has focused on crime, poverty, and the suitability of Zuma to be President. Zuma was acquitted of rape in 2006, and corruption charges against him were withdrawn shortly before the election after prosecutors found the charges had been politically motivated.

During the campign, opposition leader Helen Zille warned that Zuma's election would turn South Africa into a "failed state".

Turnout has been high, with long lines of voters queuing to cast their ballot in South Africa's fourth election since the end of apartheid. The election has generally been peaceful and with few irregularities, though a COPE official was shot dead in his home and one election official has been arrested for attempting to stuff a ballot box with ballots marked for the Inkatha Freedom Party.

400 representatives will be elected by proportional representation, half from national and half from provincial lists. Forty parties are contesting the elections, and 23 million South Africans are registered to vote.

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US interrogation techniques received early approval, report suggests

April 23, 2009 🇺🇸Yesterday, the United States Senate Armed Services Committee released a report containing previously-unreleased memos which conclude that CIA and Department of Defense officials were already exploring the use of "enhanced interrogation" techniques in early 2002, eight months before Justice Department lawyers approved their use. Also released yesterday was a report by the Senate Intelligence Committee confirming that Bush administration officials, including Condoleeza Rice and John Ashcroft, had backed such tactics in secret meetings through June 2002. In the days following Rice's approval, the Justice Department had given the legal rationale for the use of waterboarding against Abu Zubaydah.

The Armed Service Committee report also indicates that Pentagon officials consulted with the military's Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA) as early as December 2001. Many of the techniques were reverse-engineered from the JPRA's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) program, which trains personnel to resist interrogation by enemies who use tactics banned by the Geneva Conventions.

The reports undermine claims made by several Bush-era officials that the leaked events of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay were the result of "bad apples" from the bottom of both the CIA and the Pentagon's command structure. Says Carl Levin, chair of the intelligence committee: "The paper trail on abuse leads to top civilian leaders, and our report connects the dots."


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I think this needs more context - does someone want to provide it? --IdiotSavant (talk) 13:04, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:Darling announces UK budget for 2009

Linked now. Dendodge (talk) 16:46, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Please add Category:Alistair Darling. -- Rayboy8 ( my talk ) ( my contributions ) 19:01, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
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Four bombings over two days leave more than 130 dead in Iraq

April 24, 2009

Four bombings in two days have left over 130 dead in Iraq, with at least as many injured. Al Jazeera reports that at least 60 were killed in the two explosions at a tomb in Baghdad today. Unlike yesterday's attacks, one of which was also in Baghdad, today's attacks happened in rapid succession.

Two gates of the Shia tomb were targeted shortly before the Friday prayer - a time at which it would be crowded. The BBC states the suicide bombers were two women.

According to police reports yesterday, at least 76 people were killed in the two separate suicide bombings that happened Thursday. A further 63 people were reported injured that day. Five children were among the casualties.

48 people were killed by a suicide bomber in a restaurant in the northeastern Iraqi town of Baquba. The other blast had occurred in Baghdad, when a suicide bomber detonated a belt full of explosives near a group of police officers giving supplies to Iraqis displaced by sectarian violence.

"It is a suicide bomber. Obviously that has the fingerprints of al-Qaeda," said a Baghdad security spokesman, Major-General Qassim Moussawi, commenting yesterdays attack.

Abdulnasir al-Muntasirbillah, the governor of Diyala, condemned the attacks. "Words can't express it. It is a dirty, cowardly terrorist act," he said yesterday.

Issam Salim, a witness to Thursday's Baghdad attack, described his experiences to the Associated Press: "I turned around as I fell to the ground and saw a big fire break out with black smoke. Women and children are crying from pain beside me in the hospital. Some of them suffered burns."


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Polar bears deliver environmental petition to Premier of British Columbia

April 26, 2009 On Thursday in Canada, the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC) and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee delivered petitions with over 10,000 signatorys to the Premier of British Columbia's office. The petitions ask that the government cancel the Gateway Program's highway expansions components and invest more in transit instead. The Gateway Program is a transportation infrastructure project that includes over 260 km of new highway lanes.

Over a dozen activists rallied outside the office in downtown Vancouver including two dressed as polar bears. The premier's office initially declined to accept the invitations. After the activists attempted to enter the nearby convention centre where the premier was speaking, staff working with the Premier agreed to accept the petitions.

"Translink is currently exhausting its capital reserves just to keep existing service going," said Karen Wristen, Executive Director of SPEC. "At this rate, they will be broke in two years. We simply can't afford both freeway expansion and transit development: we have to solve the transit crisis first."

"It will be virtually impossible to reach BC's commitments to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) if Gateway is allowed to proceed. Gateway is not just an irresponsible plan, it's immoral," said Ben West, the Wilderness Committee's Healthy Communities Campaigner. The government calculates that greenhouse gas emissions will increase by over 170,000 tonnes per year from the Gateway program.

Premier Gordon Campbell has not yet responded directly to the petition. In recent interviews he has defended the Gateway Program.

"I understand that some people will disagree with it," Premier Campbell said of Gateway on April 6 to The Georgia Straight. "But it's many, many things that are happening at once to make the region more livable, to reduce our impact and our greenhouse-gas impact, and to invest in public transit. And I think that when you take all those things together—as we move to California tailpipe emissions and those other initiatives—I think you will see actually a reduction in greenhouse gases."


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Talk:Polar bears deliver environmental petition to Premier of British Columbia

I am the copyright holder of the text at: rbaxter.blogspot.com It is also Creative Commons licensed.

 * Can you link to the license statement? I looked at the blogspot entry and didn't see any copyright notices. --SVTCobra 23:57, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I found it here in the right hand side.

All text is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License unless otherwise specified. --SVTCobra 00:01, 24 April 2009 (UTC) Ach, sorry for tagging it with copyvio. I didn't see any copyright notices on the blog page, so I automatically assumed it was copyrighted. My apologies! I'll try to look more carefully in the future. tempo divalse  00:09, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

 * - actually I just had that fixed on that blog page - I thought it was there but wasn'tB5baxter (talk) 00:23, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

My concerns with this is that "Rob's Ramblings" cannot be considered a reliable source. (Sorry, Rob). Is this original reporting? As in, you obtained the quotes directly? If you wrote your piece based on other sources, they must be listed in the sources for this article. --SVTCobra 00:26, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree. I tried looking for a mention of this story on both the Vancouver Sun and the Georgia Straight, but found nothing. Looking at your blog post, it seems you were there, and in which case you need to add notes, called "OR notes" in a new section on this page. Take a look at WN:OR for Wikinews' policy on original reporting. If you did any of your reporting by email, please forward a copy of any emails to scoop [at] wikinewsie [dot] org. Emails sent there will be reviewed by an Accredited Reporter (See WN:CV for a list of accredited reporters) and an accredited reporter will note on the talk page that they reviewed the email and found to be either accurate or inacurrate. Right now I would fail this story based soley on verifiability, but if you add OR notes or a source, it is an easy pass. Thanks, Calebrw (talk) 05:02, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Wacky news?
Does this qualify for Wackynews for the Polar bear bit? I kind of think so, but I might be alone on this. Calebrw (talk) 05:05, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Either way it needs a review. --216.75.93.110 21:25, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Review
--Brian McNeil / talk 07:35, 26 April 2009 (UTC)