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Controversial Queensland Premier of 19 years dies at 94

April 23, 2005Queensland Australia's Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen, a controversial figure who served as the State's Premier for 19 years and reigned over the government that later became the subject of the Fitzgerald Inquiry, has died in hospital at Kingaroy, aged 94.

"By any measurement, Sir Joh was an exceptional state builder who will be remembered for consistently placing Queensland first," said the Australian Governor General, Major General Jeffery, in a statement.

Australian Prime Minister, John Howard: "He was certainly a strong political figure and I extend my condolences to his wife and his family."

But not all voices were sympathetic, prominent Queensland Aboriginal activist Sam Watson for example: "Aboriginal people will always remember him as a racist, a thug and a dictator."

Having suffered severe ill-health for some weeks, and declining health for years, Sir Joh passed away at around 6pm AEST. He was surrounded by his family, who had been summoned yesterday by Lady Flo, his wife and one-time Senator, for final goodbyes.

Phrases such as "Don't you worry about that" and "Goodness gracious me" were like trademarks to the maverick leader.

Known simply as 'Joh' to many, he would famously describe press conferences as 'feeding the chooks'. Today Kingaroy locals taunted waiting press with cries from "You're chooks, you're chooks, ha ha" to "Go home, ya vultures", and some obscenities, reported the Courier-Mail of Brisbane.

His fall from power at the end of the 80s was surrounded in controversy, with the state embroiled in corruption findings going to the level of his deputies, and Bjelke Petersen's claims of ignorance coming under challenge with charges of perjury. The case was never heard due to a controversial hung jury: the foreman of the jury, Luke Shaw, had been an office-bearer of the Young Nationals — an arm of Bjelke Petersen's National Party — as well as a member of a group calling themselves 'Friends of Joh'.

Having had his start in life as a peanut farmer in remote Kingaroy, the former Premier was fit up until the very end, but palsy was paralyzing his muscles and organs, to which he eventually succumbed.

"Throughout his life Sir Joh combined enormous energy, vision and an immense capacity for hard work, most especially during his 19-year term as Premier of Queensland," the Governor General said.

"What looked to us to be huge risks at the time turned out to be nation building," said Bob Katter, a former minister of Joh's Government, who credited Sir Joh with starting the Queensland coal, aluminum and tourism industries.

He is also remembered for dismantling many of the State's unions, and for a somewhat totalitarian and heavy handed style of keeping control.

Under Joh, street protests were banned and Special Branch monitored extensively those the authoritarian leader saw as subversives, measures prompting Queenslander, Australian Civil Liberties Council, Terry O'Gorman, to comment Sir Joh was "the most appalling premier Queensland has ever had in terms of civil liberties and human rights".

Joh was also influential in the famous case of the Dismissal by the Governor General of then-Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, in 1975.

In his last years as Premier, he had taken his cause to the nation's capital, with the "Joh for PM" campaign. But this distraction has been credited with the downfall of his government, with corruption investigations at last being conducted by his stand-in, Bill Gunn.

The body of Sir Joh, who was of Lutheran faith, is to be buried at Bethany, the family property near Kingaroy.

Unsolicited quotes from ordinary Australians, many ex-Queenslanders seeking refuge in southern states, on hearing the news:

"Outrageous bastard! Oh God! That was polite!" — "Karen"

"Guilty as Hell. And that's where he is now." — "Michael"

"Yay! Good riddence to bad rubbish" — "Liza"

"The dictator is gone our time 2 sing" — "John. H."

"Yeah he took a while — about 90 f*cking years overdue!" — "Hose Man"

"The pope an joh at least somethin going right" — "Helen"

"Corrupt f*cking sh*teating Bible-bashing f*ckw*t is dead. And thank f*ck. I haven't been so happy since September 11!" — "Greg"

"I don't drink but I'll be having a red whilst dancing on his grave." — "Cellest"

"Ding dong the d*ck is dead!" — anon.

"Yeahhh!!! Fucking finally" — "Leo"

"It's a great day today the Rednecks are silent a great victory has been won" — "Zenner"


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Romania will do everything possible to spare journalists kidnapped in Iraq

April 23, 2005

The president of Romania, Traian Băsescu, said on Friday that his country will do everything possible in order to free the three Romanian journalists kidnapped in Iraq a few weeks ago, after Islamic militants released a video threatening to kill them.

Al-Jazeera reported a few days earlier that the Iraqi militants would kill the journalists unless the Romanian government withdraws its troops from the country within four days. With 850 troops, Romania has one of the largest contingents in Iraq. In January this year, after President Băsescu was elected, he pledged to send more peacekeeping troops in Iraq.

On Friday evening, the colleagues and relatives of the journalists gathered in front of the Cotroceni Palace, Băsescu's residence, to call for their release. After learning of the released tape, Băsescu returned from the GUUAM summit in Chişinău, Republic of Moldova, where he was an observer, to Bucharest, where he called for a meeting with the relevant departments to discuss the issue.

The families of the journalists were also invited to Cotroceni, and sympathy was expressed for them. The President told them that, "The state institutions are doing everything we can [to save the three journalists]."

Reporter Marie-Jeanne Ion, from Prima TV, and cameraman Sorin Dumitru Miscoci and reporter Ovidiu Ohanesian, from newspaper România Liberă, were kidnapped in Baghdad on March 28, one day after President Băsescu made an unexpected visit to Iraq to announce a supplement of troops.

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Hi Oscar!

Thanks for stopping by and expressing an interest to help out with music for Wikinews.

Rather than trying to write music for specific headlines, it might be more practical to compose theme songs that we can re-use for each broad category of news.

I propose we develop themes for "general news" (really busy arpeggios?) "weather" (perhaps a bit more relaxed or cheerful?), and "breaking news" (more urgent and ominous?). Later on perhaps something more rock-n-rollish for sports if we ever get more of that type of coverage.

I have been playing around with these themes over the weekend, so I will post links to some of my own compositions on the soundtrack subpage of the Wikinews:Broadcast page, but I encourage you to do the same once you have a chance to develop some of your own compositions.

If we end up with multiple versions of the various category theme songs, rather than a vote to choose the best ones, perhaps we can rotate different versions of the songs to provide a bit more variety? I'm open to ideas.

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Sir John Mills dies at 97

April 23, 2005

Sir John Mills, Academy Award winner, BAFTA Fellow, and Disney Legend, has died, aged 97, at his home in Denham, Buckinghamshire after a short illness.

A funeral service for family and friends is scheduled to be held at St Mary's Church in Denham on Wednesday April 27.

Tributes
Various people have paid tribute to Sir John Mills and his 73 years as an actor in separate interviews with BBC News:
 * The actor Corin Redgrave called Sir John Mills a "great character actor", and described him as "a modest man who disguised his contribution".
 * Fellow actor and long-time friend Lord Attenborough described Sir John Mills as "a hero of mine" who was "admired both by the general public and by the profession".
 * Actor and producer Bryan Forbes commended Sir John Mills' "extraordinary courage" at never retiring, and remarked upon his humour saying "I had some of my best laughs with Johnnie".

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Just wondering, who calls it adscam? I live in Canada and have never heard that name applied to it, However its a good name, but just wondering where it came from. Bawolff 16:14, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Immigration and asylum turn voters off UK Tories

April 23, 2005

Opinion polls are showing that the Conservative Party's tough stance on immigration in the UK general election is turning more voters away than it is winning.

The policies of tighter border control and quotas on asylum seekers are part of the big five promises in the Conservative manifesto and have featured prominently in the party's advertising campaign and party election broadcasts.

The policy has increasingly been an embarrassment for the Tories, however, since a Guardian/ICM opinion poll last week showed that floating voters and those on the liberal side of the party were being put off by the policy, and that only 8% of voters consider immigration a significant problem.

This was followed by the revelation that tighter border control would apply only to the country's largest air and sea ports.

The Tories' Australian election strategist, Lynton Crosby, is widely credited with having prompted the unpopular policy, so similar to that used to swing voters by previous employer the Australian Liberal Party in a recent Australian election. The tactic, harping on supposed xenophobia of the average voter, has been called 'Dog Whistle' politics.

Intellectual debate was completely bypassed in the Australian election, when Labor, the major opposition party, failed to tackle the subject through rational debate, but instead competed with the government, scrambling to tackle the supposed external threat.


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Talk:Results of 2005 United Kingdom General Election

How you can help on election day

 * If any constituences declare before 23:00 UTC (midnight local time), add them to the table of such constituencies.
 * Copy & paste the appropriate text from the list below, adding the word "gain", "lose", or "hold" between the parentheses, into the gain/lose/hold tables when a constituency declares its results. (Please use section editing.) As you do so:
 * Keep the table of totals up-to-date. (Increment each total as you go along. Don't paste in the totals from a source.  Different sources will have different totals, because they aren't synchronized with one another.  It is best, for the sake of self-consistency alone, if our totals reflect what our gain/lose/hold tables say.)
 * Watch interviews, speeches, and public statements. A set of quotations from prominent political figures helps to make this more than a bare set of statistics.  Aim for the same format as used at Pope John Paul II dies, including citing the interviewer if it is an interview.
 * Watch the reactions of the stock markets and of other countries.

Party entries for copying and pasting
These are common combinations. The replace both results columns: These replace the "results not in" text and go between the || delimiters:
 * style="background:red; color:yellow;"|Labour ||style="background:blue; color:white;"|Conservative
 * style="background:red; color:yellow;"|Labour ||style="background:gold"|Liberal Democrat
 * style="background:blue; color:white;"|Conservative ||style="background:red; color:yellow;"|Labour
 * style="background:blue; color:white;"|Conservative ||style="background:gold"|Liberal Democrat
 * style="background:gold"|Liberal Democrat ||style="background:red; color:yellow;"|Labour
 * style="background:gold"|Liberal Democrat ||style="background:blue; color:white;"|Conservative
 * style="background:white"|Speaker
 * style="background:red; color:yellow;"|Labour
 * style="background:blue; color:white;"|Conservative
 * style="background:gold"|Liberal Democrat
 * style="background:yellow"|SNP
 * style="background:lime"|Sinn F&eacute;in
 * style="background:green"|Plaid Cymru
 * style="background:yellowgreen"|Green Party of England and Wales
 * style="background:yellowgreen"|Scottish Green Party
 * style="background:tomato"|Scottish Socialist Party
 * style="background:chocolate"|DUP
 * style="background:orangered"|RESPECT The Unity Coalition
 * style="background:springgreen"|SDLP
 * style="background:deepskyblue"|UUP
 * style="background:magenta"|UKIP
 * style="background:purple"|Veritas
 * style="background:white"|Independent

How you can help before election day

 * Find and upload public domain images of Michael Howard and Charles Kennedy, and adjust the image names here accordingly.

Results

 * Actually, I was going to address both of these very things this afternoon, because there is still much preparatory work to be done here that you can help with, but was sidetracked by an obituary. Here goes. Uncle G 18:09, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

In the results, will we just be putting the party name, the party and candidate, or having something like "Conservatives hold Dorset North", "Lib Dems gain Dorset West" etc? Steinsky 16:30, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I was thinking along the lines of a table such as the following (wins and losses here are to demonstrate the possible combinations):

 * So that we have consistent colour and formatting I was thinking that we should set up a palette of boilerplate entries for all of the parties, either here or in an HTML comment, that editors can quickly copy & paste into the appropriate rows as each result is announced. (I don't think that we need go as far as having templates.) Uncle G 18:09, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I quite like the idea of templates. It would make the table much quicker to fill in if it were just a case of typing, etc. (I'll make templates if people like the idea.) However, if someone makes a quick-reference table of the wikimarkup that'll do the same job, so one can copy & paste it as needed, that'll be almost as good. Dan100 (Talk) 23:13, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Copy and paste is better than two-letter templates that are country-specific (and, for some of these political parties, no doubt election-specific). I've started a pallette off below.  Please pick some colours for the remaining parties, and adjust the colours in the party results table in the article to match. Uncle G 04:29, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Labour loses to third place seems stylistically poor to me, though I'm not sure what would be better. I'm not sure exactly what it means for Labour to lose to third place; perhaps that they came below the third place candidate (ie fourth)?  Which is clearly not what is intended by the statement... Roybadami 01:28, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * How about Labour loss; drops to third place? Not wonderful, I'll admit... Roybadami 01:32, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It's reasonable. Uncle G 04:31, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, the prepared story has notes like Election of Charles Kennedy, Liberal Democrat leader which makes it sound like he's already been elected... I'd prefer Charles Kennedy, Liberal Democrat leader, standing for re-election though that may be getting a bit long... Roybadami 15:46, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Or maybe just Constituency of Charles Kennedy, Liberal Democrat Leader Roybadami 15:55, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * You're right. I like the second of your suggestions better.  Be bold. Uncle G 21:03, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, in the totals table it appears that the re-election of the speaker is a forgone conclusion. Whilst it probably is a forgone conclusion, I don't think the 1 in the second column should be filled in until the results from Glasgow North East are actually in... Roybadami 17:26, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * It would probably be a newsworthy event, rating an article in its own right (which would be linked to from the notes column), if the Speaker were defeated. You're right again.  Be bold. Uncle G 21:03, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, you should decide now how the Glasgow North East result will appear in the results table, and perhaps add it to the example results table above. Assuming he is re-elected, will you show it as a Labour (hold) or as Speaker (hold)?  Will it be red? or white? Roybadami 17:35, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * To amplify, being an ex-Labour speaker, the BBC list him as Labour, and colour him red. I'm not necessarily arguing this is the right thing to do, though... See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/703.stm Roybadami 17:38, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * There's an argument that if he has "Speaker" as the party affiliation listed on the ballot paper itself, then that's what we should put, and the seat should be "Speaker (hold)". This is supported by the 2001 election results information from the UK Parliament, which lists Glasgow Springburn as "Speaker (gain) from Labour" and West Bromwich West as "Labour (gain) from Speaker".  These are also how Wikipedia lists those two results. Uncle G 21:03, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yep, agreed. Speaker gain et al seem bizarre though. Which begs the more important question: are you planning to report gains and losses relative to the situation after the 2001 election or relative to the situation immeidately prior to dissolution?  Which is the norm?  The latter seems superficially more natural to me, but by the look of it the results you are quoting must be relative to previous election, and I don't really know what normal practice is when reporting gains and losses.  Whichever you choose, you should probably make sure it's clearly stated in the To do to ensure consistency.  In any case (hold) is redundant, since only the existing speaker can ever be re-elected... Roybadami 23:31, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * To be honest, I don't know. And it's up to us to choose (this being a collaborative work, after all ☺).  Wikipedia treats by-elections separately in its election results lists, so from the Wikipedia perspective the gain/lose/hold is relative to the previous result table, and thus relative to the immediately previous incumbent at dissolution.  My first thought is to be consistent with Wikipedia.  Uncle G 09:28, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

suggestion for colours...
The party colour-space can get a bit crowded, and most parties have more than one colour associated with them.

I think the tables would be easier to read, and nicer if we did something like this:

Note that this also makes the Conservative vote easy to read; black-on-blue is not a good contrast.

If there is support for this, I can write a Perl program to put in the colors automatically without too many problems.

81.5.150.113 11:51, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I do like the white foreground for Conservative results. Changing the foregrounds is fine by me.  I'm hesitant at changing the backgrounds, though.  There aren't any clashes in background colours in our table.  (The two greens are both Green parties.)  Legibility of black text against a background is an issue.  Colour clashes amongst the parties isn't. Uncle G 12:10, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Another example, a bit of a better one this time:

Ths is currently:

A agree that the backgrounds are fine as they are, but changing the foreground makes it much easier to tell Labour from Respect at a glance (On my monitor at least)

81.5.150.113 12:14, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * "Perl program"! Search and replace in a text editor.  ☺ Uncle G 12:30, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah, 'tis the same! ☺ I was thinking if I put a quick script up, it could be reused in future (it'd only be about 3 lines of code). If we'd have planned it in advance, all the colours could have been put in in this way, with users hand-typing the party name and the colours added en-masses when the table is full. Maybe next election... 81.5.150.113 12:38, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * That presupposes that all editors will agree on what the party names in fact are. ☺  (I took advantage of search and replace to fix some disagreements when I changed the colours.) Uncle G 13:03, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, as with Tories, Plaid is usually white text on dark green. This is easier to read than black on dark green so I'll change in the article. 81.5.150.113 12:42, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

By region
You may want to break out results into regional sections, which would be under constant development during the returns phase of the election. Also possible would be separate articles for regions, with Steinsky's Election article serving as project central with links to all the various articles?

I would love to see contributors covering local results, personally. - Amgine 17:04, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Lol. I have visions of me at the Reading counts now. But I expect I'll be watching at home, tucked up in my bed :) Dan100 (Talk) 23:10, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, I had already mentioned breaking the list up into regions "in another place". It will make editors' lives easier, because they will be able to section-edit the table, and it will make readers' lives easier, because they will be able to locate their own constituency somewhat more easily.  You'll notice that I had already set up the regions as sub-headings, beneath the table, even before I put the table in.  What is required is for some editors to move the rows from the single table at the top into the various regional tables beneath (retaining alphabetical/numerical order within each table).  I'm hoping that some motivated UK editors will sit down and do this. Uncle G 18:09, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't think that we need separate articles for regions. It's not a separate news story in each region (although it might be a separate news story in an individual constituency if something extraordinary happens, such as a party leader being defeated, in which case we simply hyperlink from the "Notes" column to another news article covering that particular story).  Sub-pages might be an idea, but I don't think that the article is really long enough to warrant that if we stick with just the parties and the gains/losses/holds.  We could expand things to the level of the individual counts for each candidate, which would warrant separate articles, but (1) that's a lot of editing to be doing on the actual election day, and (2) I suspect that Wikipedia will be doing that. Uncle G 18:09, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * There are ways and there are ways. For example, you could link to something like
 * Region A
 * Region B
 * Or transclude the separate articles
 * Region A
 * Region B
 * Or get really wild like that floater box to the right. - Amgine 23:59, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * There really won't be that level of news for individual regions. Regions are effectively just arbitrary lists of constituencies to make navigation easier, nothing more.  The news that people will be interested in will fall into one of three classes:
 * "Who won in my constituency?" — This will be covered by the gain/lose/hold tables.
 * "Who won overall?" — This will be covered by the party totals table.
 * "What are the detailed results in constituency X?" — This is too ambitious for the timescale that Wikinews works at. Wikipedia has attempted to have exact per-candidate voting tallies for each constituency, and the wiki process hasn't yet managed to cover all results from the 2001 General Election.  We at Wikinews want our news article up as the results are coming in, not 4 years later.
 * I really think that splitting things up will only be necessary if we are really worried about edit conflicts. Given section editing, the splitting of the table into regions (which I've made a start on), and the rate at which results are likely to arrive, I think that edit conflicts will not be a significant problem. Uncle G 03:29, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * "What are the detailed results in constituency X?" — This is too ambitious for the timescale that Wikinews works at. Wikipedia has attempted to have exact per-candidate voting tallies for each constituency, and the wiki process hasn't yet managed to cover all results from the 2001 General Election.  We at Wikinews want our news article up as the results are coming in, not 4 years later.
 * I really think that splitting things up will only be necessary if we are really worried about edit conflicts. Given section editing, the splitting of the table into regions (which I've made a start on), and the rate at which results are likely to arrive, I think that edit conflicts will not be a significant problem. Uncle G 03:29, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Do it live?
I'll be up that night (I live in the UK), so might fill the table in as we go (that's a lot of work though...). However we could first publish the story with a title like "Results come in for 2005 United Kingdom General Election", then move it to "Results of" when all/enough seats are in.

BTW anyone else interested in doing it 'live'? Results will be coming in from around midnight here, so that's 5am EST. We'd probably need to co-ordinate to avoid duplicating work and edit conflicts. TBH I doubt anyone will be checking here for election latest, but that table will need filling in some time... Dan100 (Talk) 23:08, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Err, that's 7 p.m. EST ! -- Arwel 02:21, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I expect to spend much the night online watching as well... moral support and all that. We could coordinate using IRC, or other tools. - Amgine 03:36, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * My view is that this article should be published (with the initial sections HTML commented out and a short placeholder introduction) at the moment that the polls close, with a neutral title; and then when victory is mathematically certain, the appropriate introduction uncommented and the article renamed to the appropriate headline. Uncle G 03:45, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I would've been willing to do it live, but I'm hoping to be down at the Newbury count. -- Joolz 11:04, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * FYI, a few of us over at Wikipedia are doing some groundwork over the next fortnight so we are ready to post full results up, it's best if I give you the link so you can read the conversation: wikipedia:Wikipedia talk:UK Wikipedians' notice board. I would probably stay up until 2ish, and do the any outstanding results in the morning. A few others would probably help over there as well. GregRobson 16:31, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Dumb question from a rather occaisional wikipedian, on the off chance that I feel like making an edit or two (eg to add my consituencies results, if I notice they're not there yet)... What happens if two people edit an article simultaneously?  The the second editor simply overwrite the first editors edits, or is the wiki clever enough to compain? Roybadami 23:37, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * You'll see an edit conflict warning. Section editing alleviates this to some degree, since it speeds up page loading when editing.  You've prompted me to add the notices that I've been meaning to add for some while. Uncle G 04:31, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks Roybadami 17:07, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * It's worth noting that even if you're editing different sections of the same page, you'll still get an edit conflict. Dan100 (Talk) 17:10, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I have a recollection of that not happening to me, once. In any case, though, section editing is still a way of reducing edit conflicts, for the simple reason that it makes it that much quicker to load and to save the page (since the entire page content doesn't have to be transferred and rendered), and thus reduces the window during which conflict can occur. Uncle G 02:03, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * When both editors are editing sections, and the sections are different, there will be no edit conflict. If either are editing the whole article, there will always be an edit conflict. So, always edit at the smallest section level when possible to avoid conflicts. - Amgine/talk 03:08, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * There are three four things that can be done without waiting for any results:
 * moving the page to Results of 2005 United Kingdom General Election
 * listing Results of 2005 United Kingdom General Election on Developing Stories
 * removing the "prepared story" template
 * adding   to United Kingdom general election, 2005
 * Anyone willing to be around at precisely 21:00 UTC? Uncle G 10:26, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll be around. Do I just remove the 'prepared story' notice template? --Cavrdg 19:09, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * It seems safe to do the move now, ahead of time, so I have. The rest is as above, and as detailed at Story preparation.  I'll be back in a few hours. Uncle G 19:26, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

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I'd like to encourage editors to use IRC to coordinate their updates to the election articles. Wikinews has a couple of channels, and can create a temporary one for this event. #wikinews (international channel) and #wikinews-en (english edition) are available. - Amgine/talk 20:35, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

 * See #wikinews-election. → CGorman (Talk)  21:47, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

is this news or statistics?
statistics... lost --> Edbrown05 06:00, 6 May 2005 (UTC) <-- there

 * check out this statistic out for this recent encyclopedia-like reporting. Yahhh, like Wikinews wants to be an encyclopedia. -Edbrown05 06:37, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Column width
Any objections to setting column widths by percentage?

ie:

South East London
I think this looks a lot neater than having each table with different widths for the various columns. 81.5.150.113 12:56, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * One tiny point: 24 + 24 + 24 + 24 + 5 = 101. ☺ Uncle G 13:43, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * 'Tis the same! THe bowsers treat this as a weighting anyway (we could have it set to 200% per column if we really wanted) 81.5.150.113 17:00, 6 May 2005 (UTC) Still, think I'll make it 24+24+24+24+4 (=100) 81.5.150.113 17:00, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Table not correctly terminated...
editprotected The first table in the section "the race to declare" the first table doesn't seem to be correctly terminated?ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:41, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ •–• 17:43, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


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France still a hot topic on college campuses

April 21, 2005

On Monday residents of an apartment building just outside of Paris discovered a World War II bomb lodged in their chimney. Officials were able to defuse the device, reports All Headline News. However, there are other remnants of the World Wars that have been much more difficult for the French to defuse.

The prevalence of anti-French sentiments reached a frenzied zenith prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. While it seemed that the storm had calmed recently, this week's release of Richard Chesnoff's latest book, The Arrogance of the French: Why They Can't Stand Us--and Why the Feeling Is Mutual, reminds us that this issue is not going away anytime soon. While there have been fewer sightings of "liberty toast" in recent months, from discussions with students in both the U.S. and France, this reporter found that America's perception of the French remains a hot topic of discussion on college campuses.

Bryan Doeg, a military science student at the University of Central Florida, outlined the two prevailing thoughts that are the basis for many of these anti-French sentiments.

"Most of my fellow students feel that the French are politically and militarily weak," said Doeg. "And their people are stuck up."

Doeg believes that he and his classmates are not without reason for their perceptions about the French.

"They are weak because of France's decline in power over the last century and it's defeats against the Germans and Algerians," Doeg said. "And most of my experiences regarding their arrogance comes from soldiers who visited France and were treated like untouchables by the locals."

Southwest Missouri State (SMS) finance major, Fabian Florant, got straight to the point when discussing Doeg's first assumption that the French are weak.

"Americans hate the French with a passion because of World War I and II," Florant said.

However some students pointed to France's involvement in the American Revolution, questioning how long America's memory really is.

Jessica Morgan, an SMS English major, said that this and other examples have shown that France is far from being weak.

"They stood up against Hitler when he was in his prime for months before he occupied their country," Morgan said. The fact that by the time we got there, the Germans were a heck of a lot weaker than they were when the French had to face them doesn't seem to register."

Morgan emphasized that France's refusal to support U.S. war efforts is a resounding display of strength.

"It's somewhat ironic that we call them weak," Morgan said. "They stood up to the U.S. as well, daring the disapproval of the U.S. ... and all we can do is throw childish insults back at them."

Lysiane Lavorel, a native of France and college student studying English there, offered a tongue-in-cheek response to France's supposed weakness while making reference to the 1996 film Independence Day.

"As for the French being weak, it's true that in comparison with the strong and good Americans preventing aliens from invading the Earth, we are more than weak," Lavorel said. "It's true that we don't have any real impact on the world, and I find it much more comfortable that way ... I wouldn't want to feel responsible for a war, for example."

Doeg's second assumption is that the French are arrogant, and Lavorel agrees again.

"Yes of course, I think we French are very arrogant," Lavorel said.

Lavorel went on to explain her definition of French arrogance.

"It's quite hard for us to see how people [Americans] seem to be so easily manipulated by government, big firms or media," Lavorel said. "Because for most French, we have learned to become skeptical, doubtful and to make our own opinion on things. This appears to be very arrogant, doesn't it?"

However, she pointed out that this is especially true of Parisians, from which she says many of American's perceptions about the French are based.

"Even in France, they [Parisians] are said to be arrogant," Lavorel said. "They are said to consider France as only composed of Paris, and provincial people are just hillbillies."

An American student at a California university, who asked to remain anonymous to prevent the damage of his reputation among colleagues, said that he would describe 90 percent of the Parisians he has met as being arrogant.

"In an academic setting, this arrogance is particularly frustrating," the source said. "Often the Parisians I know belittle other people when they understand a complicated concept better than another person.

"On one occasion, a Parisian made a fool out of a good friend of mine," the source said. "My friend asked him how to model the eigenfunction of a microdisk resonator with  finite-differences time-domain. He said 'everyone knows you can derive these fields analytically."

The source said that he is not perpetuating these stereotypes and that his preconceived notions do not alter how he perceives these interactions.

"Often I'll hear someone say something like, 'Oh and be careful when you meet him--he's French," the source said. "But you know, 99 percent of the time, all of the stereotypes prove to be perfectly true and the warning is useful."

SMS media student Lydia Mann, who visited France for two weeks recently and has hosted two French foreign exchange students, said that these perceptions are based upon cultural differences.

"Americans, I think, misunderstand their culture which leads to their actions," Mann said. "They make a point to make themselves individualistic, which people find rude."

SMS English major Christin Green agrees and believes that this entire discussion that attempts to blanket such a large group of people is ridiculous.

"I want to learn about them with an open mind and a fresh perspective, unpolluted by bias or preconceived ideas," Green said. "It is not my place to judge or make assumptions about an entire people. There are bad people everywhere. There are good people everywhere. Stereotypes ruin this foundation and build another one that is much more destructive."


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Let him know I am an Independant author/researcher

Story about evolution of his priorities in light of evolving public concerns

Ask if it is ok that every aspect of this story will be "on the record" and will be published in the public domain.

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Conversational openers
"I really appreciate the way you are raising awareness about the Bush administration's proposed $82 billion dollar budget for 2005 to maintain the US presence in Iraq, especially your efforts to create awareness for Americans that our government leaders have no timeline for exiting Iraq, nor any rigorous guidelines on the building of only temporary buildings and military structures."

"But, I'm going to ask you the most difficult questions I can. I want to give a neutral approach to your personal record on Iraq policy as the executive director of MoveOn PAC, because I personally care about the issue so much.

Info links

 * http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0908362.html

Eli's Stance on "Corporate Rights"
In 2000, Chomsky gave a speech where he challenged "trade rights" and stated that, "trade has no value itself," and also said that trade only has, "value if it increases human welfare." In your thesis, The Argument from Silence, completed in the same year, you ended with the statement that corporations are able to destroy communities and economies, pollute the environment, and kill people without legal sanction. And then you stated that corporations, "cannot, cannot be stopped" and that the Supreme Court case of Santa Clara must be revisited. Do you still hold this view?

Political Kuhnian paradigm shifts in the last 5 years
Also in your 2000 thesis, you discussed "kuhnian paradigm shifts of political prioritisation." What have been the major paradigm shifts within politics in the last 5 years since you have been executive director of Moveon PAC, and do you believe that since the election, there has been a priority shift within Moveon from forign policy to national politics?

The Victimisation of Moveon
During the last election, Colorado Secretary of State responded to complaints from Colorado Republicans that Moveon workers were involved in allegedly improper activities. You denied these allegations as "scurrilous" and "false" to ABC News and stated that these allegations could be an attempt to victimise Moveon in the future. In retrospect, did the Colorado Secretary of State's response to remind all counties of the state law barring any election-related activity within 100 feet of any voting location victimise Moveon's goals or activities?

Abandonment of Iraq
Two months ago the Berkeley Beacon noted that although no formal poll had been taken in a year, Moveon has not chosen the withdrawal of troops in Iraq as a major issue. You were quoted in this article as saying that this was because Moveon members were largely divided on when to leave Iraq, although 83% of Iraqis are opposed to the US occupation.

However, just two years ago, you stated that more than 90% of your membership has grown, "solely through our work on Iraq."

Why did such a change occur? Would you say that this is a paradigm shift of society or an ideological shift for Moveon?

Misinformation
Last year, Moveon solicited ads from the public to criticise the president, and then chose two that compared Bush to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. David Keating, the executive director of the Club for Growth went on record saying that the contest was another attempt by Moveon.org to misinform the public, and that "Moveon has already been branded ... as running misleading ads about Social Security, so I wouldn't trust anything that they put up on the issue as being accurate or fair." In addition to the recent disputes regarding the factual accuracy of Moveon statements by Factcheck.org, are future plans for advertising or information dissemination going to reflect a new methodology?

In closing
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American who owns BenedictXVI.com wants "one of those hats"

April 23, 2005

Rogers Cadenhead, the American owner of BenedictXVI.com, has made a few requests in his blog. Mr. Cadenhead registered the valuable domain on April 1 along with ClementXV.com, InnocentXIV.com, LeoXIV.com, PaulVII.com and PiusXIII.com; all in anticipation of the recent Papal conclave 2005.

After Cardinal Ratzinger's election as Pope Benedict XVI, international media swooped on the domain speculating that it may be owned by a pornographer or casino company. However amid the wild speculation, Mr. Cadenhead dismissed these and promised not to sell the domain to any such enterprises.

However today in a humorous manner the prolific computer guide writer posted on his blog a few requests, namely:

 * 1) Three days, two nights at the Vatican hotel they built for the conclave
 * 2) One of those hats
 * 3) Complete absolution, no questions asked, for the third week of March 1987
 * 4) A back-cover blurb from the Pope for the next edition of Movable Type 3 Bible Desktop Edition. But only if he uses the book to create his own weblog, and
 * 5) World peace.

However he was keen to stress that the requests are not demands and the whole thing was written in a witty humorous manner.


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Man injured by flying sausage

April 20, 2005

A 46-year-old motorist from South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, England was hit by a frozen sausage on his way home. The projecticle flew through his open car window and broke his nose. When the Essex Ambulance Service arrived he had lost a large amount of blood, but he appears to now be recovering.

An ambulance service official says the 46-year-old man suffered a broken nose and lost a lot of blood.

The spokesman say it must have been an incredibly lucky, or unlucky, shot - to get the sausage through a moving car window. Police are now investigating the case of the flying sausage.

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VoIP penetrates emergency calling infrastructure

April 23, 2005 Leading VoIP provider Vonage negotiated access to the Qwest Communications emergency calling infrastructure, allowing Vonage customers in 14 states the ability to connect directly to emergency dispatchers by dialing 911.

With the exception of Rhode Island, VoIP's 911 callers were delivered to the administrative offices of a public-safety answering point, instead of connecting directly to a standard 911 dispatcher. The resulting time delay was a consequence of the phone provider's refusal to give VoIP providers access to the 911 infrastructure. Vonage Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Citron in a recent letter to Qwest Chairman and CEO Richard Notebaert, wrote "I applaud you [Qwest] for your willingness to put the health and safety of Americans before short-term competitive considerations."

“With the access that Qwest has agreed to provide, Vonage will be able to route emergency service calls placed by its customers directly to public-safety operators, which will help save lives and safeguard property" Citron said.

Verizon agreed to begin a trial in New York City soon, and BellSouth also started "making some movement" on the issue, according to Vonage.

Vonage claims "that SBC has agreed to begin discussions on working cooperatively to improve 911 offerings available to customers using VoIP." Vonage attorney William Wilhelm, in a letter to the FCC, "noted its concern that SBC has already provided 911 interconnection access to its unregulated VoIP affiliate.”


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I don't think they were errors so much as just British vs American spellings. I have no idea which is which (nor do I care), but in actual articles you perhaps should know that normally we just leave spellings as the original author wrote them. BTW I hope you found the Writing an article page helpful, if you have any comments on it let me know on my talk page :) Dan100 (Talk) 22:08, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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Dermot Mannion becomes new Aer Lingus CEO

April 23, 2005

Dermot Mannion has been named the new Chief Executive of Ireland's national carrier, Aer Lingus. Mr. Mannion, 47, will take up the post in August 2005.

Aer Lingus almost went bankrupt in 2002, but a major cost-cutting effort by former CEO Willie Walshe lead to a dramatic turnaround in the airline's fortunes, posting its largest ever profit in 2004. However, Willie Walshe left after a dispute with the government over privatization. He has since landed the top job at British Airways.

Mr. Mannion, an accountant, has extensive experience of aviation, having worked for the Dubai based airline Emirates since 1995. There he worked as Finance Director and later President of Group Support Services. He originally comes from County Sligo and is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin.


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Widespread insurgencies in Iraq

April 23, 2005

Insurgents in Iraq struck across numerous regions using suicide car bombings, planted bombs and mortars, aiming at American and Iraqi soldiers alike, and taking a civilian toll as well. There are 19 reported dead and over 3 dozen wounded.

A total of 10 bombs were reported, one of them near Abu Ghraib prison, where the photos of abused inmates were taken. While Baghdad was hit the hardest, hostilities were widespread.

Thus far, there is no single group responsible Saturday's following attacks:
 * 9 Iraqi soldiers killed in suicide car bombing west of Baghdad
 * 20 Guardsmen wounded at Abu Ghraib on Saturday car bombing of National Guard convoy
 * 1 Iraqi killed, 10 wounded in suicide bombing attack on a US convoy near Baghdad airport
 * 1 Iraqi woman killed, 7 men wounded in separate Baghdad bombing
 * 1 Guardsman killed, two wounded by roadside bomb at Yusufiya
 * 1 Marine killed in Al Haswah by roadside bomb
 * 1 AP camera man killed by gunfire in Mosul
 * 2 suicide car bombers wound 7 Iraqi police officers in southern city of Basra
 * 2 truck drivers killed in separate incidents near oil refinery town of Beiji
 * 7 injured in mortar attack at Iraqi military base in southern Baghdad
 * 1 US soldier killed in bomb explosion beside convoy west of Baghdad
 * 2 Marines killed by roadside bomb near Ar Ramadi
 * 2 civilians killed by roadside bombs in Al Baquba

On the day previous to Saturday, these attacks occurred:
 * 11 Iraqi killed, 20 wounded from car bomb at Shia mosque in eastern Baghdad
 * 6 detained in connection with shooting down commercial helicopter the killed 6 Americans

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Judges rule patrons may sue nude bars for lap-dance overcharges

April 23, 2005 A three-judge Texas Court of Appeals ruling will allow men who were overcharged at nudie clubs to sue for refunds and damages.

The two plaintiffs, Paul Brian Meekey and Michael Fulmer, had their cases heard because they were charged more than a regular lap dance fee when they used a credit card, typically $25 for a $20 dance.

"Texas law is pretty clear that you cannot charge someone extra for using a credit card," said Sandra Krider, an attorney for the patrons. "The fact that they are strip clubs shouldn't mean they get away with it."

A lawyer for the businesses, Rick's Cabaret and the Men's Club, argued a case based on the type of employment the ladies agreed to perform.

“Since the dancers are independent contractors and not employees of the club, the clubs are not the ones selling the dances," said attorney Albert Van Huff.

But the men’s attorneys said the win could potentially become a class-action suit with many hundreds of men claiming their day in court. That could present a problem for other patrons who may not want their name and their use of a credit card at a nudie bar released in court transcripts.

"They are going to want the (strip) clubs' credit card companies to give them the names of all the different people who have charged dances there," said Van Huff.

The 14th Court of Appeals, a Texas court with headquarters in Houston, had reversed a ruling of a lower trial judge that this case should be heard before the state Finance Commission instead of in a judicial proceeding. The case was sent back to be tried again.


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Should 'Insurgents' have a capital 'I'? I can't decide. Dan100 (Talk) 22:45, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC) --- No, I don't think so. Not much of a proper noun, eh? Axe the capital! StevenRayOrr.com 22:48, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC) (I'm slowly getting this thing. :)
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Serb General Pavkovic to Surrender to Hague

April 25, 2005 General Nebojsa Pavkovic, a commander during the 1998-1999 Kosovo conflict, is set to turn himself over to the UN Tribunal in The Hague. During the conflict thousands of ethnic Albanians were slaughtered by the Serbian Armed Forces. In a statement provided by the Serbian Government, Pavkovic plans to fly to the International Criminal Tribunal Monday to face charges. His choice to surrender is apparently voluntary.

On April 12, a EU report recommended a start in talks for the eventual membership of Serbia into the union by forming a Stabilisation and Association Agreement. But EU ministers would back the proposal only if the key fugitive Pavkovic surrendered.

He would be the 12th war crimes suspect to go to The Hague this year.


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Wikinews talk:Dispute resolution

Forgetting disputes
In the spirit of ForgiveAndForget, I'd like to propose that we blank old disputes if the two parties agree. This would help us to focus on working together again. (The history would still be preserved in case anyone needs to look it up.) I would also strongly recommend that private mediation is used whenever possible -- the more publicly a dispute is carried out, the more ugly it is likely to get, because people feel like their words are being judged by the community as a whole. Thoughts?--Eloquence 23:22, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Personally it doesn't bother me, but I do see the merit in blanking. Dan100 (Talk) 23:29, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Gathering consensus to make this policy
Voice your opinion!

Support

 * 1) --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 12:44, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2)   Thunderhead  ►  19:42, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments
There have been no reactions, so I suppose there is a silent agreement.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:15, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

My edits to this page, Oct 3
My apologies for those edits - having issues with the ways Brian was showing this page on talk pages, and linked through incorrectly. Everything should be fixed now. Lyellin 19:15, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Dispute archiving
Can we archive the Brian McNeil / Matisse dispute somewhere, or at least remove it from the policy page? Microchip08 (talk) 08:51, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Done (without the fancy linking and templating stuff.) -  Amgine | t 19:30, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Refining step three
Maybe we could specify the template to be Helpme, and delete the link to WN:MA as the target is historical. - Xbspiro (talk) 03:37, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * This sounds plausible, so I've attempted to implement something of the sort. --Pi zero (talk) 04:07, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

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NYSE to merge with Archipelago; NASDAQ to buy Instinet

April 24, 2005

(NYSE) announced last Wednesday that it has agreed definitively to merge with Chicago-based Archipelago Exchange (ArcaEx) and form a new publicly traded, for-profit company known as NYSE Group. This announcement was followed two days later by, which independently announced a definitive agreement to purchase Instinet Group.

Archipelago and Instinet are innovative e-trading (electronic trading) companies, and formerly were the two largest American rivals to NYSE and NASDAQ, in recent years taking increasingly large portions of their market share. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other regulatory agencies still have to review and approve the transactions, particularly with respect to US securities law and antitrust law, in order to ensure that the marketplace remains lawful and competitive.

Other pending issues for NASDAQ include obtaining the approval of Instinet shareholders, as well as customary closing conditions. NYSE must obtain the approval of its members and Archipelago shareholders.

These changes, a reaction to increased e-trading competition and a changed regulatory environment, will result in NASDAQ and NYSE trading each other's shares and attempting to grab market share, which many hope will drive down transaction costs and ultimately benefit consumers. However, at least one commentator, Dan Ackman writing in Forbes, has noted that the trading commission at the NYSE currently averages less than a nickel (US$0.05) per share, and was less enthusiastic about potential efficiency gains from electronic trading at the exchange.

The transactions are also intended to make the two leading American stock exchanges more globally competitive with such exchanges as the, the , the , and the located in Sydney.

NYSE Group

The NYSE-Archipelago merger would result in some of the most sweeping changes in the 212-year history of the NYSE. The NYSE, which has always been a not-for-profit company, would for the first time incorporate and itself be a publicly-traded company, in what is potentially a large stock offering. However, the regulatory functions of the NYSE would continue to be conducted independently by a private not-for-profit organization.

NYSE is merging with Archipelago in a "stock for membership" deal, in which NYSE members are to receive cash and 70% of newly issued stock, and Archipelago's shareholders would receive 30% of the new stock, forming a new holding company known as the NYSE Group. The merger is expected to be completed by either the fourth quarter of 2005 or the first quarter of 2006.

"This strategic move is courageous, almost unbelievable, but this is going to make the New York Stock Exchange in my opinion a potentially giant publicly traded company. The main reason is they've got brand, they've got companies, they've got liquidity [and] with Archipelago they have electronic global access," said Harold Bradley of to .

NYSE has traditionally used the "open cry auction" system where buyers and sellers gather in a boisterous trading floor to shout "buy" and "sell" orders. It has been slow to adapt to new technology, still manually punching in 90% of its orders.

However, Last November NYSE introduced a new, faster Java-based trading system for its floor exchange that is currently in the process of phased roll-out. NYSE TradeWorks, a management system for stock orders, was developed in a first-of-kind partnership with external company IBM, using J2EE open systems, custom-built Linux-based workstations and servers running IBM's , and a  database on the back end running on an IBM. NYSE, which does most of its IT development internally, announced that they do not plan to combine their IT department with Archipelago's.

The future of the traditional floor trading system remains uncertain. Some commentators believe it provides a necessary antidote to the occasionally chaotic instability of electronic trading, while others believe that future trends toward electronic trading would provide advantages of speed and fluidity of trade, and make the old-fashioned system of floor trading redundant and obsolete. Roger Burkhardt, Chief Technology Officer of NYSE, told Computerworld last December that the merger will attempt a "hybrid" trading model where both human and computer trading are coordinated side-by-side, which in its scope is a difficult and unprecedented task.

Current owners of seats in the exchange have expressed concerns over how the new merger will affect them. The seats, which confer the right to trade on the floor and are typically leased to traders under the current system, will likely be bought back by the NYSE Group from the individual owners. The exact system of how traders will lease access to the trading floor from the new company has yet to be worked out.

Also of concern to owners is the reported plans for a "stock lockup" (preventing selling of portions of stock in the new NYSE Group by the new stock recipients) for the next three to five years. However, their inability to immediately profit from sale of their newly issued stock would be compensated by the price they receive for their seat, or perhaps by a separate stock issuance.

The NYSE has been subject to complaints in recent years, concerning:
 * former chairman and his nearly US$140 million compensation package, thought to be excessive.
 * advantages held by floor traders which are perceived to be unfair by the general public.
 * conversely, a lack of attention to the needs of floor traders.
 * various regulatory actions including an indictment against 15 current and former traders earlier this month on charges of improper trading.

However, most of the participants in the merger expressed confidence in taking advantage of historic opportunities. “This combination will be good for investors and for America. It will create a strong, dynamic and innovative enterprise capable of meeting the demands of investors and issuers throughout the world in the decades ahead,” said John A. Thain, CEO of the NYSE. “As we look to the future and to the challenge of competing globally in a high-speed electronically connected world, it is clear that we must do more. This transaction will mean we will be more diversified and transparent, and better able to compete, grow and serve our customers."

NASDAQ

NASDAQ, formerly an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, was founded in 1971 as the world's first electronic stock market, and by some measures is now the world's largest exchange. Its purchase of Instinet Group, although it followed the NYSE merger announcement by only two days, was actually pursued independently for as long as six months and is set to continue regardless of the NYSE outcome. The sale is expected to be completed by the end of this year.

NASDAQ's planned acquisition, Instinet Group, will be split along the lines of its separate divisions for sale in a cash transaction (figures are approximate):
 * Instinet, an institutional broker with about 1,500 customers and worldwide access to more than 30 securities markets, will be sold to private equity group Silver Lake Partners for US$207.5 million. The transaction will mostly be financed in convertible notes from NASDAQ issued to Silver Lake as well as Hellman & Friedman, who is the largest shareholder in NASDAQ.
 * Lynch, Jones, and Ryan (LJR), provider of commission rebate services and subsidiary of Instinet which they acquired in 2000, would be sold to the Bank of New York for US$174 million.
 * INET, the electronic marketplace and former competitor to NASDAQ with more than 800 broker-dealer customers involving access to about 25% of NASDAQ equities trading, would be sold to NASDAQ for US$934.5 million, in a transaction to be partly financed by the issuance of US$750 million in six-year corporate bonds; NASDAQ expects the deal to become profitable to its shareholders within a year.

Instinet stockholders would receive about US$1.88 billion in cash total, including the above amounts as well as US$562 million from INET's available cash. Of this amount, about US$1 billion would go to Reuters, a shareholder of 62% of the company's stock, which is getting rid of Instinet to focus on its core areas of providing news and financial data. NASDAQ president and CEO Bob Greifeld, said, “This transaction will allow NASDAQ to compete more effectively with other U.S. and international market centers by making our technological platform more competitive, which will result in greater cost efficiencies and improved quality of execution in our market — qualities that today’s individual and institutional investors demand. NASDAQ will continue to innovate and will also have the ability to tap new opportunities in other asset classes.”

He continued, “Regulation NMS has defined the new competitive landscape by calling for all market centers to be mutually accessible. With this move we maintain our status as the low cost provider and at the same time provide increased order interaction for both NASDAQ and exchange listed securities. We also believe this further enhances our ability to attract new listings. We want to thank all of our partners for their combined efforts on this transaction."

Press releases

 * April 23, 2005: Instinet Institutional Broker to be Independent Firm; Silver Lake Partners Joins with Instinet Management
 * April 22, 2005: NASDAQ to Acquire Instinet
 * April 20, 2005: New York Stock Exchange and Archipelago Exchange Agree to Merge — NYSE Group, Inc. Will Become a Publicly Held Company
 * April 20, 2005: Statement by John A. Thain, CEO, New York Stock Exchange, Inc. On Agreement to Merge NYSE and Archipelago
 * April 20, 2005: Statement of Jerry Putnam, Chairman and CEO, Archipelago Holdings Inc. On Agreement to Merge NYSE and Archipelago
 * February 24, 2000: Instinet Acquires Lynch, Jones & Ryan


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 * Bush nomination to UN post faces bi-partisan problems
 * Barry Prime changes mind about Swim Ireland
 * British government considering new nuclear power stations
 * 5-year-old girl arrested and handcuffed by Florida police
 * Romanian reporters call for release of hostages in Iraq
 * NYSE to merge with Archipelago; NASDAQ to buy Instinet

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Talk:Controversial Queensland Premier of 19 years dies at 94

And the world rejoices ~The bellman | Smile  04:26, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Unsolicited quotes
Unsolicited quotes from ordinary Australians, many ex-Queenslanders seeking refuge in southern states, on hearing the news:

"Outrageous bastard! Oh God! That was polite!" — "Karen"

"Guilty as Hell. And that's where he is now." — "Michael"

"Yay! Good riddence to bad rubbish" — "Liza"

"The dictator is gone our time 2 sing" — "John. H."

"Yeah he took a while — about 90 f*cking years overdue!" — "Hose Man"

"The pope an joh at least somethin going right" — "Helen"

"Corrupt f*cking sh*teating Bible-bashing f*ckw*t is dead. And thank f*ck. I haven't been so happy since September 11!" — "Greg"

"I don't drink but I'll be having a red whilst dancing on his grave." — "Cellest"

"Ding dong the d*ck is dead!" — anon.

"Yeahhh!!! Fucking finally" — "Leo"

"It's a great day today the Rednecks are silent a great victory has been won" — "Zenner"

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Talk:Google translates Gmail to 12 languages, asks for volunteers to target 144 more

They now have gmail in all scandinavian languages except Norwegian, there is no reason for this discrimination towards the norwegian people we have started a petition to get gmail translated into norwegian, please if you agree with that norwegian should be in norwegian or you feel sympathetic towards us for this discrimination then please sign this petition

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Talk:Elite Boston Marathon runner Emily Levan discusses life and running

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Talk:Moussaoui pleads guilty to conspiracy in 9/11 attacks

Please add this article to Category:9/11. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 15:23, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
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Romanian reporters call for release of hostages in Iraq

April 24, 2005

Romanian reporters gathered in central Bucharest Saturday calling for the release of three colleagues kidnapped by Iraqi militants late last month. One of the abducted journalists was from Prima TV, and two were from the newspaper. In a tape released Friday by the kidnappers, they said if the Romanian government does not pull all its troops out of Iraq, the journalists will be killed. With 860 troops in Iraq, Romania currently has one of the largest coalition contingents there.

The reporters stopped short of calling for the removal of troops from Iraq, but said they would continue protesting until the journalists are released. Prima TV's Cristina Topescu said, "We will stay here until they are released. I am trying to be optimistic, but I am scared because of those images. However, I keep hoping."

Romanian President said after the release of the tape that he would do everything possible to save the lives of the journalists, even though he has been criticised by many Romanians for not doing enough. Earlier in the year, Băsescu said that he would like to send more troops to Iraq, potentially making Romania the fourth-largest partner in the Coalition.

Opinion polls conducted in Romania show that only 45% of the population support the maintenance of troops in Iraq. Several political parties have also called for the removal of the troops, particularly the social liberal and the right-wing.

Representatives of Romania's small Arab community also campaigned for the release of the journalists, holding banners showing pictures of the three with the word "Freedom" written in, and. Samir Zanun, the leader of the community in Romania, said "We are asking for their unconditional release and safe return home."

also condemned the kidnapping, saying "By demanding the withdrawal of Romania's troops from Iraq, kidnappers are once again putting journalists at the centre of an unbearable act of blackmail."

Related news

 * Romania will do everything possible to spare journalists kidnapped in Iraq, WikiNews, April 23, 2005
 * Three Romanian journalists abducted in Iraq, WikiNews, March 30, 2005


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Talk:Romanian reporters call for release of hostages in Iraq

You mean to say, Ronline, with the American troop presence of plus 100,000, that the Romanian's 830 troops is .... what? -Edbrown05 06:49, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Romania's 830 troops actually make it one of the biggest participators in the coalition - it is I think ranked 7th at the moment, but by the end of the year it could be 4th, as it sends more troops (up to 1000) and other countries retreat. Ronline 07:02, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * And what happened to the Iraqi-American translator reportedly abducted too with the Romania journalists? Or is this lost in your neck of the woods. -Edbrown05 07:23, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I didn't include references to him because, frankly, he isn't important to be mentioned here. There's a full article linked from this article which gives full details about the kidnapping. This is just meant to be an update to highlight reporters calling for the release of other reporters. It shouldn't be cluttered with additional information. Ronline 10:00, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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5-year-old girl handcuffed by Florida police

April 24, 2005

, Florida police were taped on video handcuffing a five-year-old kindergarten student who had earlier torn papers off a bulletin board and punched an assistant principal. The camera happened to be filming on March 14 as part of a classroom self-improvement exercise at Fairmount Park Elementary. Video of the event has been released by a lawyer for the child's mother.

The little girl had already calmed down from her tantrum by the time of arrival of the police, but they cuffed her anyway. Police had been called when a phone call to mother Inga Akins, had led teachers to believe that it would take an hour for Ms Akins to arrive and take the girl away.

The video reportedly shows three officers pin the passive girl's arms behind her back and put on handcuffs, as she screams, "No!"

Attorney for the mother, John Trevena, called the incident "incomprehensible". He provided the tape to the media this week, after obtaining it from police.

"The image itself will be seared into people's minds when you have three police officers bending a child over a table and forcibly handcuffing her," said Mr Trevena.

Police planned to investigate the incident and make public the findings in around two weeks.


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Talk:Immigration and asylum turn voters off UK Tories

Original reporting notes
I don't have time to find hard sources, but my summing up of the Australian election should be uncontroversial to anyone familiar with it.

By all means, hunt down a reference or quote, and remove my OR. - Simeon 08:06, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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British government considering new nuclear power stations

April 24, 2005

Advisers to British Prime Minister Tony Blair are suggesting that constructing new nuclear power stations would be the best way to meet the country's targets on reducing emissions of gases responsible for global warming.

The government has a near-term target of cutting emissions below 1997 levels by 20%, and a more ambitious target of a 60% cut by 2050. Critics of nuclear power say that it will not be able to help meet the 2010 target due to the length of time needed to plan, construct and commission such power plants. However backers say nuclear power will help meet the 60% cut by 2050 target.

Sir David King, Chief Scientific Advisor to the government, is a supporter of nuclear power believing that it is the best way to tackle global warming.

The chairman of British Nuclear Fuels, a company that operates several British nuclear reactors, said that he expects Tony Blair to make an announcement of new power stations within weeks of the May 5 general election if he is re-elected.

Another primary supporter of nuclear power is the ex-BBC Director General Lord Birt, who has been advising 10 Downing Street on various issues by providing 'blue-sky' thinking without payment, as part of the Strategy Unit. He is said to be preparing a report that will say nuclear energy provides an opportunity to reduce dependence on Middle Eastern oil supplies (although very little oil is burnt for electricity production in the UK).

While it is believed that senior Cabinet members would not oppose a plan for new nuclear power stations if Tony Blair proposed it, the Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett and Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt both oppose nuclear power.

New reactors would probably be sited next to existing reactors to limit public opposition.

Nuclear power currently provides 22% of the UK's electricity needs. The UK has 31 operating reactors at 14 power plants, but by 2015 all but three stations will have been shut down. The last nuclear reactor to open was Sizewell B on the North Sea coast in 1995. The 1,188MW station was a large reason why the UK met its carbon dioxide emissions reduction target in the 1990s. British nuclear power stations have created 2,000 cubic metres of nuclear waste. There are currently no plans for the long-term storage of the waste.

By comparison, just over 3% of Britain's electricity comes from renewable energy. France met 78% of its electricity needs in 2002 using nuclear power.


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