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Talk:China anti-textbook protests grow larger

April 2005
Here's an interesting editorial from Japan Today, about the Japanese being unsure what is going on:

I won't add it to the article, because it isn't news reporting, (it's only their opinion) but it's interesting to read some of the thinking from the Japan side of this conflict.

From the editorial: "nothing like this would be allowed without the implicit consent of the authorities". How interesting that the journalists talking to the BBC, speaking out from under a byline, are saying the same thing. — DV 00:44, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Category and link
edit protected Please add this article to Category:Guangzhou and change the link in the first paragraph to a local one. Green Giant (talk) 08:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Pi zero (talk) 00:27, 6 October 2015 (UTC)


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Wikinews:WikiBureau/Massachusetts

Wikinews Massachusetts portal – Massachusetts WikiBureau

Welcome to the Massachusetts page of Wikinews. If you would like to coordinate coverage of a story in Massachusetts, please contact me at my user page: Pingswept.

I'm particularly interested in recruiting photographers for the Boston Marathon, coming up on April 18. If you can send me some digital pictures of the event, I'd love to use them in an article.

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User talk:64.218.66.130

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

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! -- IlyaHaykinson 02:11, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

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EU accession treaty for Romania published on the Internet

April 11, 2005

Romania's Ministry of European Integration has made public the text of the European Union's Accession Treaty with Romania and Bulgaria, making it available on its website. The text of the treaty is available freely, in Romanian, at.

The Accession Treaty, which is due to be voted by the European Parliament on April 13 and signed on April 25, is the legal document facilitating Romania and Bulgaria's accession to the EU, which, according to the treaty, will take place on January 1, 2007.

The treaty's content has been posted online in order to inform Romanians of the costs, standards and responsibilities of European Union accession. The text was published after the European Commission asked for Romania and Bulgaria to better inform their citizens of what EU accession actually means. Bulgaria similarly made available the content of the treaty, in the Bulgarian language, in early April.

Once the Accession Treaty is signed, Romania and Bulgaria will have to withdraw from the Central European Free Trade Agreement, as they will be integrated into the EU-wide free trade area. Additionally, from April 25, the two countries will send observers to the European Parliament and will be able to participate in other European Union institutions and events as observers.

When the two countries join in 2007, the European Union will have 27 members in total and more than 480 million citizens. The timetable for accession, and the implementation of the treaty, however, will be in jeopardy if the European Parliament fails to approve the accession of the two countries on April 13, or if the two countries are deemed unprepared for accession by the European Commission, in which case the so-called safeguard clause will come into effect, postponing accession by one year.

Related news

 * European Commission approves the accession of Bulgaria and Romania, WikiNews, February 23, 2005


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Runners, fans prepare for 109th Boston Marathon

April 11, 2005 The 109th running of the world's oldest annual marathon, the Boston Marathon, will start in, Massachusetts, at noon on Monday, April 18, 2005. The marathon, one of the few marathons that requires entrants to run below certain times in another marathon to enter, is "tough for the runners" because of the late start time, the Monday start date, and the remote start location, according to Don Allison of Cool Running. Despite the entry requirements and hardships, the marathon is expected to draw over 20,000 runners, 500,000 spectators, and 1000 members of the press.

Race director Dave McGillivray told  that, "We're not the fastest course, we're not the biggest field, we're not the richest purse, but we're the most prestigious." The Globe notes that the is known for faster times, a purse 50% larger than Boston's, and a field twice as large. Still, in Boston the winning man and woman each receive $100,000 in prize money.

The Boston Marathon is known for the set of four hills that runners hit in, a suburb west of Boston. The fourth hill, known as Heartbreak Hill, occurs at the 21-mile mark.


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Wikinews:2005/April/11

 * Visiting students detained in Louisiana, USA, while photographing ExxonMobil chemical plant
 * 'Sahara' goes blockbuster on first weekend
 * NASA announces daily video feed for new Discovery mission
 * German Wikipedia DVD on P2P networks
 * German Wikipedia DVD sells out first 10,000-copy run
 * Sesame Street to promote healthy lifestyles
 * Las Vegas 'chili finger' woman has history of lawsuits
 * Arsenic and Thalidomide may be used to fight cancer
 * South African former apartheid party dissolves
 * Israeli president shakes hands with leaders of Syria, Iran at Pope's funeral
 * Romanian investor kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is safe
 * Romanian government to strengthen laws against tax evasion
 * EU accession treaty for Romania published on the Internet

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Romanian government to strengthen laws against tax evasion

April 11, 2005

The Romanian government has drafted legislation pertaining to tax evasion that makes it a criminal offence on the same level as crimes against individuals. Developed with the aid of Romania's business community, the new law is expected to reduce corruption and tax evasion. According to the new law, the maximum jail term for tax evasion will be boosted up to 20 years. This sentence, however, will only be passed in circumstances of large-scale fraud. For evasion of up to the equivalent of 10,000 euro, the punishment will be either a fine or up to 2 years in prison. For tax fraud of up to 500,000 euro, the term will be extended to 2-8 years in prison. It is only for those whose tax evasion exceeds 1 million euro that the jail term will range between 10 and 20 years.

In the same package of legislation, the government approved several changes to banckruptcy law, which makes it easier for businesses to file for bankruptcy. The new laws are expected to make Romania's business environment cleaner, resulting in more foreign investment, less corruption and more revenue for the government.

At the start of the year, the Romanian government introduced a new flat tax system for Romania, in which the tax rate is 19% for both personal income and corporate profit. This has led Romania to have one of the most liberal tax policies in Europe. The lower rate of tax has already reduced fiscal evasion to a significant extent because more people and businesses are encouraged to pay the tax. However, in order to further reduce the grey economy in Romania, advisers said at the start of the year that the government must also back this up with tougher legislation against tax evasion. Previously, Romania's tax evasion laws were fairly lax, leading to quite a significant extent of tax fraud. Now, with the new, highly-publicised tax evasion laws, it is expected that the risk of getting prosecuted for not paying an already-low tax rate will force many businesses out of the black market into the legal economy.


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Romanian investor kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is safe

April 11, 2005

A Romanian been found and declared safe, according to the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Romanian, which has as of yet only been identified by his last name, Dinca, had been kidnapped by soldiers dressed as civilians.

Dinca was the president of Mega Star Congo Company, a Romanian enterprise operating in the DRC. After his kidnapping, one of his employees said that his boss had been kidnapped by military subordinates of a Congolese general who had been watching and following Dinca for the previous two weeks. Other employees confirmed this, saying that Dinca had been watched by groups of soldiers in his home at Gombe. The Romanian Foreign Ministry said that the kidnapping has occurred due to a "private commercial dispute."

Le Phare, a Congolese newspaper, reported that, "This kidnapping, which undermines the actions of the head of state and members of the government members, raises a big question mark, both for the authorities and for the army commanders. If the insecurity is due to the soldiers, it is worrying that such a climate is maintained by superior officers and generals."

The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that they would continue to try and protect Romanian businessmen who invest in the DRC and prevent similar incidents in the future.


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Wikinews:Broadcast

Note: This project is currently inactive. see also: User:Mrmiscellanious/Sandbox/WNN/About, File:WNN-TV-BETA1.ogg, commons:Category:Wikinews TV pilot, and especially Video 2.0. Note: The Wikinews Report is still in pre-production, so please don't take anything here too seriously until you see the pilot episode. This page is a work-in-progress to establish a workflow process for the daily show that will be used once production of the show is approved by the community. If you want to collaborate on the Wikinews broadcast, our most urgent need is for more field reporters. Here are some pages to help you get started: If you can't afford a camera, you can still collaborate with us by helping to edit the daily scripts: Once each evening's master script is locked down, its text should be propagated to the teleprompter and crawl text. If you're really ambitious, you are welcome to join us as one of the anchors! Here is what you'll need to set up your studio: Finally, for those of you who want to get involved with post-production, your compute-cycles would be appreciated to help speed up the render of the daily show composite. Or, if you're a musician, you can also help by composing a better Wikinews theme song: To whet your appetite, here is the first minute of the pilot for the Wikinews video broadcast: And here are some recent pieces from Las Vegas about the Wendy's chili finger case:
 * About the Wikinews microphone flag
 * Studio and field microphones
 * Choosing a video camera
 * Master script
 * Teleprompter script
 * The crawl (text that scrolls along the bottom)
 * Selecting a green screen
 * Setting up a lighting system
 * The virtual set
 * The soundtrack
 * Windows Media (11MB/1444kb/s)
 * QuickTime MPEG4 (high quality 29MB)
 * QuickTime MPEG4 (low quality 6MB)
 * Ogg Theora
 * Commons - File:Wikinews11Apr2005 Demo.avi.ogg and File:Wikinews11Apr2005 Demo (high quality).ogg
 * Ayala is arrested, Part I. (Windows Media 13MB/1444kb/s)
 * File:WikinewsSpecialReportCCDC.ogg
 * File:WikinewsSpecialReportCCDC (web quality).ogg
 * Ayala is arrested, Part II. (Windows Media 11MB/1444kb/s)
 * File:WikinewsSpecialReportAyala.ogg
 * File:WikinewsSpecialReportAyala (web quality).ogg
 * Video from this projects successors are (mostly) available at commons:Category:Wikinews TV pilot

Elliot
Location: Southern California

AIM: CatchTheDumpling

Email: elliot.frahs@ocsarts.net

This project looks like an interesting opportunity and I am willing to compose a theme, work with any 3D graphics required and make custom transitions. I am very familiar with blender3D and Adobe After Effects.

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Talk:FDA recalls "Mama's" brand smoked salmon

Not that anyone cares, but I actually had some Nova Smoked Salmon that tasted kind of funny today... before seeing this story. Needless to say I quickly went to fish the food wrapper out of the trash after reading this article, in order to verify that (thankfully) it wasn't "Mama's" brand... -- IlyaHaykinson 05:38, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The case for fair use
If ever there was a serious reason for us to have a "fair use" image repository, this story is it.

It would be a public service for us to show an image of the product package, or perhaps the brand name, to our visitors.

But because we are bound to public domain images only, I can't just zip over to the Mama's brand web site and grab one, because it is "copyrighted".

I hope we get this issue resolved soon. We are shooting ourselves in the foot with a policy that prevents us from using the type of images that other news organizations use on a routine, everyday basis. — DV 07:39, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Here Here!! (Or "HooZaaah!" in Texan ;-)) --HiFlyer 14:25, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Eloquence has previously said that if we write up a good policy for fair use he will make it happen. -- IlyaHaykinson 15:32, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Arsenic and Thalidomide may be used to fight cancer

April 11, 2005

A gathering of more than a thousand medical researchers in, , has been told that and  — banned in the 1960s after being linked to gross birth abnormalities — held hope as a basis for new treatments, extending the lives of patients with an so-far incurable bone marrow cancer,.

Diagnosis of the disease has increased by 45% in Australia since 1992. It is the most lethal form of cancer, and the topic of discussion, at the 10th International Myeloma Workshop, continuing until the 16th of April.

The two treatments had advantages over existing treatments, including lessened side-effects, and reducing the need for chemo- and radiotherapy. They may also be usable to treat other illnesses. Both were still under test.

"The development of arsenic dates back many years when it was used for lowering the in patients, even at the turn of the century," Professor Miles Prince, of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, told  for the 10th International Myeloma Workshop.

"Subsequently [arsenic] was used in China since the 1960s for treating certain forms of Leukaemia," he said.

It could be used to induce the cell to "commit suicide".

"The side effects with Thalidomide are much less than with chemotherapy because it's not damaging innocent bystander cells - so you don't get low blood counts, you don't lose your hair, you don't get a sore mouth," he said.

"It was originally thought to work because [Thalidomide] blocks the blood vessel growth in, and that is still true, but the research that we've done has shown that one of its major causes of action is to stimulate [ ]  which are directly against the tumour, and these T-cells help patients with myeloma fight their disease," Professor Douglas Joshua, head of  at  in Sydney, told Australian radio.

"There's no doubt that with the new combinations of drugs - we've got Thalidomide, the sons of Thalidomide, Velcade and arsenic - we're adding years onto patient's lives and certainly it could add up to five years or more," according to Prof. Prince.


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Las Vegas 'chili finger' woman has history of lawsuits

April 11, 2005 Anna Ayala, the Las Vegas woman who claims to have found the notorious "chili finger" at a Wendy's outlet in San Jose, California, has filed lawsuits against other businesses, according to researchers at the Associated Press. Her previous court battles included the national El Pollo Loco chicken-chain, a previous employer, and even General Motors.

Ayala successfully won her suit for medical expenses against El Pollo Loco, after her daughter Genesis contracted salmonella poisoning from eating at the restaurant. However, Ayala lost another suit in 2000 claiming that a wheel fell off her car.

Ayala's original account of the incident spoke "emotionally and with disgust" to the San Jose Mercury News when she described it to the paper.

"Lies, lies, lies, that's all I am hearing. They should look at Wendy's. What are they hiding? Why are we being victimized again and again?" Ayala recently told The Associated Press. Ayala is now in her Las Vegas home, avoiding reporters.

"It doesn't prove anything," family spokesman Ken Bono told the San Francisco Chronicle. "My mom has 10 lawsuits. A lot of people have lawsuits. Why would she sue for money? She has plenty of money," he said.

Nick Muyo, a spokesman for the San Jose Police department, said not to expect new information in the case for at least a week.

"We just want to step back and take a deep breath," Muyo told Knight Ridder Newspapers. "From a law enforcement point of view, once you establish it is a human finger, you have to wonder is this a case of industrial accident or is this a case of unreported homicide," he said.

Las Vegas police searched Anna Ayala's home on Wednesday, retrieving a cooler and other effects from her home, such as a makeup case.

Aftermath
Despite the incident, which has dramatically reduced sales at Northern California Wendy's outlets, die-hard Wendy's fans are still turning up for lunch, even at the outlet where the finger was found, at 1405 Monterey Highway, just south of downtown San Jose.

"We've eaten here for years," a police officer told the San Francisco Chronicle under the condition that he remain anonymous. "They're very nice people. When we work Spartan Stadium, we always eat here," he said.

San Jose City Council candidate Andrew Diaz still eats the chili. And he witnessed the finger discovery.

"I walked away real slow," Diaz told the San Francisco Chronicle. "I didn't want any commotion," he said.


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Wikinews talk:Broadcast

Pre-Production To Do List

 * Update all uses of the Wikinews logo to the latest one installed by Eloquence.
 * Done. Create mic box with Wikinews logo for field reporters.
 * Done. Compress Wikinews theme songs to under 20MB and upload to Commons for contributors interested in audio/podcasting. (Other versions are welcome.)
 * Done. Set up studio with chromakey screen and lighting system.

To Do List for April 11, 2005

 * Done. Work up slate boards for each quote.
 * Done. Teleprompter script.
 * Done. Create main title boards for intro.
 * Create talking head PIP boxes.

Wow
Unbelieveable so far! → CGorman (Talk)  15:32, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Second that vote of confidence, DV! Amazing. We even have 'em talking over at #wikimedia. - Amgine 02:19, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Very nice indeed. Please keep it up - this is the kind of project that drives Wikinews forward.--Eloquence 04:09, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Fanstastic - and we've caught people's eyes on Wikipedia too. BTW failing the commons hosting video, wouldn't Ourmedia be a good place to host the files? Dan100 (Talk) 08:23, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Dan, the Ourmedia site is awesome for its free hosting, but they warn that it can take between a few minutes to a few hours for an uploaded video to appear, which would be deadly for a daily (someday morning, noon, and evening) news program, given that it will already take us a few hours to produce something on our own end.

 * I just tried this video uploaded at 9:10PM, and it still wasn't up as of 3:20AM, over six hours later.

 * There is also the question of reliability. When it first launched, the video on the Ourmedia site wasn't accessible the couple of times I tried it. I just tried some videos again with a 75% success rate. One of the four videos I tried simply never loaded (however it didn't time out, so perhaps it would have started if I had waited long enough.)

 * On the Ourmedia site they say, "Soon that waiting period should be reduced considerably", so who knows what the future holds? Maybe Ourmedia is where it's at?

 * Back here on Wikinews, I'm still wrestling with whether a daily show is practical or if we'll have to settle for a weekly show to get started, so maybe the delay on Ourmedia won't be so bad if we end up with a weekly show to start with.

 * The bottom line is that there is no substitute for hosting the videos under Wikimedia's control, so I continue to be optimistic that the Commons will eventually host video. Using a third-party provider is only necessary to get the job done for now, but it really ought to be temporary. If it's not temporary, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

 * I've been working on a new Wikinews theme song this weekend. I have to confess that I have been procrastinating on shooting the pilot until the Ayala chili finger case comes to San Jose. If that doesn't happen by next week, I will endeavor to get into some contentious city council meetings, or obtain video from other newsworthy events, as I'm just as eager to get the show going as everyone else is. I've got the pre- and post-production issues covered, but we must have enough video each week to be serious about producing a regular show, so that's been the main holdup. A Wikinews TV show would be boring if the video is simply various shots of some fat guy in a rumpled suit reading the news - no matter how slick the post-production or how cool the virtual set may be. The bare minimum requirement I have set for the show is that there has to be video from the scene of at least one story to make all of this effort worthwhile. If I can find a more telegenic anchorperson, all the better.

 * Once the Wikimedia administration is confronted with a pilot and a queue of shows produced and ready to upload, the policy for Commons hosting of video will be updated to reflect that new reality or they will tell us to go elsewhere.

 * Thanks for pointing out Ourmedia - I will continue to check them out as a backup plan. — DV 10:53, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

 * World, behold the power of Wikinews. I can't believe we went from text-only to audio AND video in a matter of days. I'm betting this time next year, I'll be relaxing on the couch, watching the wikinews report on TV. -- Redge (Talk) 21:56, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Codecs vs licensing
My own research into codec licensing issues recently gave me a firm belief that MPEG4 is not in fact free, even if encoded using free software such as divx/xvid. The mpeg consortium license based on what quantity of stream you deliver, which is why these folks can release 'free' encoders/decoders, compared with mpeg2 where the license was for the sw, both encode and decode i think. mpeg1 is not really suitable for streaming i suspect, but is at least free if using the right sw - some people own patents i think, but historically have never persued them. I am not too confident the same will happen with respect to mpeg4 if significant amount of content is streamed ...

Please tell me I'm wrong! ;) As well as Ogg Theora that DV has already looked at, the BBC's codec, 'dirac' i think, may be another worth looking at, I'm not sure its status. Even either of these may at some point come under patent litigation, I have heard from people working in the field. The patents that have been awarded on media compression are apparently very broad in some cases, or perhaps it is that the field allows only narrow scope. - Simeon 08:10, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I can't offer any legal advice. Please check out the MPEGLA or Via sites for details about MPEG4 licensing for commercial use, if that is your concern.

 * Apple's new H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10) codec is built in to QuickTime 7 for free, and is being touted as a worldwide standard under ITU-T Rec. H.264 and ISO/IEC 14496-10. I anticipate that many thousands of QuickTime 7 users will be encoding their videos and posting them on the internet with no legal problems whatsoever. Perhaps that isn't good enough for Wikimedia, so I hope they will get some legal advice on this matter.

 * It would be great if Ogg Theora makes more progress in the coming months, but Apple's implementation of MPEG4 Part 10 and Microsoft's Windows Media format are the only practical formats that we can expect a large part of our audience to have installed on their systems.

 * It's nice to have Ogg Theora as an archival format for the long term, but as long as it is the only acceptable format that can be posted on Commons (so far, I can't even post Ogg Theora because of the byte size limits), I will continue to host externally for the time being, which makes the licensing question a moot point for now. — DV 10:06, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Willing reporter
Really cool project. May I suggest for the first little bit, it is a bi-weekly broadcast, then weekly, then twice weekly. We don't want to over-exert ourselves. I'm ready to commit to doing at least one Toronto-based piece each week during August 2005 to April 2006 (when I'm at school), presuming time permits. Can on-site stories be filed without the reporter being on camera? -- user:zanimum
 * Standing off camera shouldn't be a problem. Do you have a DV camera (miniDV tape would be great for the quality) or something that outputs MPEGs or AVIs files? — DV 05:11, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * My college has a bunch of video cameras, and there's never any trouble getting them. I don't know what exact type they are, but they are digital and have tapes about 2 inches by 4 inches, and half an inch thick, by my memory. I have access to iMovie and Windows Movie Maker, and know how to use both properly. They've also got lighting systems and some sort of solid mikes. --  user:zanimum

Fair use okay? Pretty please?
I know that fair use is a no-go for Wikinews. Can we make fair use okay for Wikinews Broadcast, provided that we get permission from the copyright holder, or get the content off a press website. Of course no Reuters, AP, despite the infinite people on Wikipedia itself who I've tried to convince aren't okay to use. PR material is made for this sort of stuff, I can't see any complaints as long as we credit it all on-screen. -- user:zanimum

Seeking syndication?
Should we actively seek broadcasters once the pilot is done? I'm sure many local television stations the world over, especially community cable providers, would love to have a daily news show for free or for a small monthly donation. -- user:zanimum

Good night
I've decided to pursue this project on another site. I left an explanation on my user page. — DV 03:53, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Groundwork
Wow, I'm really impressed with what David Vasquez has done at demonstrating the feasibility of doing video news. Hopefully others will take up the task and push the idea forward, I think it has a *lot* of merit.

Some thoughts...

It seems that having on-the-scene footage is a requirement. For a distributed project this could be a problem in that the news reporters may be working on stories in places far from where they're located. However, I think this can be addressed fairly easily by having people collect stock footage in places they're located. For instance, take a camera downtown and film your city hall, major corporation headquarters, universities, common tourist sites, and other such places where news might occur. Clip those into individual pieces and upload them to the stock footage repository. Then some day when a reporter is working on a story in your city, they will have those clips to build from. Once the main city is covered, do the same for the suburbs and other towns in the region.

Similarly, stock footage will be needed of various other things that commonly appear in the news like forests, building construction, marching armies, power plants, locals going about their daily business, hospitals, gas stations, etc. Stock footage in foreign locations are obviously especially important, and will help make up for our lack of on-the-ground people in those locations at the time of the news event. Perhaps donations could be used to subsidize camera rentals for reporters visiting or living in third world countries.

The above approach also lends itself to the video camera problem: Rather than each person having to buy (or be granted) a camera, it could simply be rented for the weekend in order to collect the stock footage. Or, someone who is a frequent traveller (i.e., for work), could buy a camera and do the stock footage collection as they go.

There may also be standard things that someone could just film routinely. For instance, filming the price of gas at a station on your way to work every day (for stories about rising/falling gas prices). Or if you have a relative in public service (fire fighters, police, emergency techs, politicians, nurses, etc.) perhaps you could interview them weekly about any big stories that happened they were involved with.

I think that since it'll be a bit of work to get this started, and thus since there won't be that many broadcasts to begin with, the initial stories should focus on general stories that will remain relevant for months. This way, the work invested will pay off longer into the future. It would probably also make sense to focus on news items that won't already be heavily covered by other news organizations. For instance, original reporting items, local stories, interviews, special interest things, and stories about long term issues. Stuff that could sit on the wikinews site and remain relevant for a long time.

BryceHarrington 18:57, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Talked a bit with Amgine about this. Certainly there would be a whole host of technical issues to sort out in order to do stock footage. Some thoughts:

Storage. Media files take up a lot of space, and random raw stock feeds would probably chew up even more. However, storing lots of big files is something the open source community has sorted out quite well. I think there are enough solutions available, even beyond mediawiki, that this would be a fairly pedestrian issue to sort out. Similarly for webcasting, I bet.

Organizing. Initially, there wouldn't be a large amount of footage, so locating the right bit would probably not be too hard. However, over time as the collection builds, it would become difficult and time consuming to search through. The Open Clip Art Library faced a similar problem, except with SVG's instead of MPEG/OGG's. Here's the approach we took:

BryceHarrington 20:16, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Most important: make it really easy for people to submit stuff
 * 2) Ensure that the licensing considerations are clear at time of upload.
 * 3) ALWAYS collect metadata with every file.  For SVG we actually embed RDF into the file itself, with the author, title, and keywords.  OGG may also allow for RDF tagging; if not, just create a .rdf file to sit beside the ogg.
 * 4) Hierarchies are of only limited usefulness for locating files.  Search-by-keyword is better.
 * 5) Provide a step-by-step guide for how to do it.  E.g., what equipment to use, what file formats are preferred, how to upload the files, etc.

HotBoxes
News broadcasts will often pop up static graphics with a logo or symbol to help identify the news story. The Open Clip Art Project has a page for requesting clipart http://www.openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ClipartRequests that might be useful for gaining this type of stuff. This project is the descendant of the SVG World Flags project, and maintains that flag collection; I know wikinews has made good use of this flag repository in the past, so if you need new/updated flags, post requests of those there too. BryceHarrington 20:16, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Virtual Studio Software?
I see that DV did his anchor work from a virtual set - a brilliant idea, since it allows the professional look to be done in software. However, I suspect the software used is proprietary.

How could a similar approach be done using existing open source tools? Is Blender able to do something like this? If there are no such tools, could something be easily cobbled together? BryceHarrington 20:16, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Current TV
I'd like to help with this. I also think we should contact Current TV about possible syndication. Andrevan 20:18, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

The project I believe is currently in limbo, but yes, I think current is a great idea! --TUFKAAP 05:23, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Links to videos
The links to the videos are not working :(

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Wikinews:Broadcast/Crawl for April 11, 2005

+ Anti-Japan protests spread to more Chinese cities; Anti-Japan protests continued for a second day in China on Sunday, as an estimated three thousand protesters marched on the Japanese consulate in Guangzhou + Thousands march on Baghdad; Tens of thousands of protesters waving national flags marched in Baghdad, Iraq earlier today on the anniversary of the toppling of Saddam Hussein + Panic in Sumatra; People living on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have fled their homes after an earthquake of magnitude of 6.7 hit the area earlier Sunday. + Las Vegas 'chili finger' woman has history of lawsuits; Anna Ayala, the Las Vegas woman who claims to have found the internationally-renowned "chili finger" at a Wendy's outlet in San Jose, California, has a history of filing lawsuits against other businesses + Israeli president shakes hands with leaders of Syria, Iran at Pope's funeral + FDA recalls "Mama's" brand smoked salmon; threat of contamination with Listeria monocytogenes + Romanian investor kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is safe; Dinca had been kidnapped by soldiers dressed as civilians + South African former apartheid party dissolves +  Arsenic and Thalidomide may be used to fight cancer; hope as a basis for new treatments, extending the lives of patients with an so-far incurable bone marrow cancer, multiple myeloma + EU accession treaty for Romania published on the Internet + Scientists proudly display oldest crystal on Earth; tiny piece of rock 4.4 billion years old + Wikinews, a free-content news source. visit us online at http://www.wikinews.org


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Sesame Street to promote healthy lifestyles

April 11, 2005 has recently decided it was time their was sent on a diet. Sesame Street's cookie-loving icon developed a sudden interest in vegetables, as part of PBS's drive to instill a healthy lifestyle in children.

The blue furry monster's makeover comes as part of a larger plan, introducing additional characters as well. Intended new cast members include talking eggplants and carrots, among others.

According to the Sesame Street Muppet Bios, "This season, Cookie Monster learns a lot about health and nutrition. Hoots the Owl explains in a song that 'A Cookie is a Sometimes Food,' and he joins in a rap song, 'Healthy Food'."

Every other day, health will be the focus of the shows. In addition, every other day there will be segments dealing with health/nutrition. There will be a "Health Moment" at the top of every show featuring special guests, celebrities and Sesame Street characters.

The producers of the show insist that they are not asking small children to go on a diet.

"We would never use the word 'diet' with pre-schoolers," a spokeswoman told .


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User:Hooloovoo~enwikinews

Wo0t!

Hi there, I'm Hooloovoo. Thusfar I've focused on Wikipedia (mainly the English one, but more recently the Dutch one as well) and Wikiquote, and I thought it about time to do some homesteading here as well ;)

ttfn, Hooloo

List of articles I've started

 * April 12, 2005: KLM flight to Mexico sent back by U.S. Homeland Security, inquiry follows
 * April 10, 2005: Sesame Street's Cookie Monster sent on a diet, which was later renamed to Sesame Street to promote healthy lifestyles

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Talk:Scientists proudly display oldest crystal on Earth

So which date is right? 2001 or 1984? Ajs 14:31, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) Excellent catch, Ajs! Ii regret my editing error --HiFlyer 15:15, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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German Wikipedia DVD on P2P networks

April 11, 2005 The German Wikipedia DVD is a popular item on European FTP sites.

The DVD project with Directmedia publishing GmbH was built from the March 3, 2005 database archive, and has been packaged as ISO image files to be made available online. When the news was reported @ heise online, FTP requests to the University of Erlangen quickly overloaded the 622mbit connection server. The average load is still above 482.39 compared to 20 before the announcement.

In the afternoon, the FTP server Belnet joined in also hosting these files which can also be downloaded by using the peer-to-peer file transfer software Bittorrent.

The DVD image is 2.7 Gigabytes in size, and includes browsing software for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The download is large, but is also available from DirectMedia for about €10 on DVD - although their initial printing of 10,000 sold out within 3 days.

Stimulated by the success of this DVD project, several English news services have raised the question of when an English DVD of Wikipedia will be available.

Related News

 * Deutsche Wikipedia-DVD im Netz 11.4.2005

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Wikinews:Debates

Wikinews Debates are experimental real-time chats which will be transcribed and edited on the wiki. The goal is to present a spectrum of opinions on any topic in the current events without violating the neutral point of view.

Debaters can be Wikinews editors, but also politicians, celebrities, or experts on any given subject.

Propose new debate topics below.

BitKeeper vs. free software
Relates to Bitmover ends free Bitkeeper, replacement sought for managing Linux kernel code.

Support debate

 * 1) Eloquence 19:28, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) - a good, harmless enough starting topic for this feature
 * 2) me at work 19:48, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) - I think this would be interesting

Possible guest debaters

 * 1) Richard Stallman
 * 2) Linus Torvalds (pretty unlikely)
 * 3) Someone from OSDL (more likely)
 * 4) Lead kernel developer(s) - Alan Cox, Rusty Russell, etc.

Editors who take positions

 * 1) Eloquence - support the FSF/RMS stance
 * 2) Tom - support the FSF/RMS stance

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Wikinews:Broadcast/Teleprompter for April 11, 2005

This evening, a special report from San Jose, California about new developments in the Wendy's chili finger case...

Anti-Japan protests spread to more Chinese cities...

Thousands march on Baghdad in anniversary protest...

Panic in Sumatra after a new earthquake...

Good evening. For Wikinews, David Vasquez reporting.

Tonight we bring you a special report from San Jose, California following up on the mysterious chili finger which a Las Vegas woman claims she found in her chili here in San Jose.

But first the latest news...

Anti-Japan protests continued for a second day in China on Sunday, as an estimated three thousand protesters marched on the Japanese consulate in Guangzhou. Thousands of protesters also marched in Shenzhen, throwing objects at Japanese businesses.

The protesters repeated their demands for a boycott of Japanese goods, to block Japan from obtaining a seat on the U.N. Security Council, and for Japan to change textbooks which they say whitewash Japan's war atrocities. Protesters burned Japanese flags while singing and shouting anti-Japanese slogans. They also carried anti-Japanese signs along with Chinese flags.

In Tokyo, Japan formally summoned Wang Yi, China's ambassador to Japan, concerning China's actions on Sunday.

"We formally demanded China’s apology and compensation," said Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura.

He also said that Wang Yi replied "No" when asked for an apology.

While not agreeing to issue a formal apology through diplomatic channels, Wang claimed that China did not approve of the violent aspects of the protests.

"The (Chinese) government does not agree with extreme action," Yi said.

Back in Beijing, the People's Daily reported that Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang deflected blame away from China for the recent downturn in Sino-Japanese relations.

"Japan must adopt an earnest attitude and appropriate ways to deal with major principled issues concerning the feelings of the Chinese people," Qin said.

"The Japanese have to do more things conducive to enhancing mutual trust and maintaining the relations between the two countries, rather than doing the reverse," Qin Gang said.

In other news, back in Iraq...

Tens of thousands of protesters waving national flags marched in Baghdad, Iraq earlier today on the anniversary of the toppling of Saddam Hussein.

Central Baghdad shut down ahead of the march and Iraqi security searched most protesters before entering the city. US and other peace-keeping forces remained out of sight. The march, sponsored by the cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, passed with no notable violence or arrests, and the crowd was dispersed by early evening.

There were simultaneously another 5000 protesters who marched in Ramadi, a city west of Baghdad.

Calling for the withdrawal of occupation forces, protesters aped the televised images of occupation forces by knocking down their own effigies of George Bush, Tony Blair and Saddam himself. The effigies were clothed in red — a symbolism they have been marked for death.

Iraqi Ali Feleih Hassan told the Associated Press, "No one accepts this. I want them out. They have been here for two years, and now they have to set a timetable for their withdrawal."

The US has been unable to set a timetable and is determined to stay until they believe the country is secure. Muqtada al-Sadr, an opposition negotiator, ultimately ended an uprising after signing a peace agreement with US forces last August.

Finally, in Sumatra... People living on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have fled their homes after an earthquake of magnitude 6.7 hit the area earlier Sunday. Although the quake was not powerful enough to cause a tsunami, the event sparked fears of a repeat of the December 26 magnitude 9.3 earthquake in which around 300,000 people died. Today's tremor struck 70 miles southwest of Padang, a city in western Sumatra, yet no damage has been reported so far.

And now, we turn to a special report from San Jose, California about new developments in the Wendy's chili finger case...

And that's all for this broadcast of the Wikinews Report. Good night.


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User talk:130.15.162.101

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User talk:Mathias Schindler

Welcome
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Article Order
You were wondering do new articles go to the top or the bottom? just to clarify it for you; newest are listed at the top. → CGorman (Talk)  20:36, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:198.22.236.230

Welcome
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User talk:165.115.60.135

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User talk:81.196.240.75

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User talk:Mark Lewis~enwikinews

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:21, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Millsdavid

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User talk:MathieuMa

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NASA announces daily video feed for new Discovery mission

April 11, 2005

NASA has announced a special daily video feed of its two upcoming missions. One of the Space Shuttle Discovery. The coverage, which began earlier on Monday on the program, "The STS-114 Return to Flight Gallery," will air daily at 1 to 3 p.m. EDT featuring video related to the launch of the Discovery.

The second mission is Expedition 10. This will send replacement Russians to the ICC--International Space Station--crew.

Commander Sergei Krikalev and Flight Engineer and NASA Station Science Officer John Phillips, the crew of Expedition 11, are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 8:46 p.m. EDT, April 14.

European Space Agency (ESA) Astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy will be joining them aboard their Soyuz spacecraft. Vittori is flying to the Station for eight days of scientific research under a commercial agreement between ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency.

The new video feed is expected to include a rotation of video items including full length interviews with each of the orbiter Discovery’s crew members.

The STS-114 crew includes Commander Eileen Collins, Pilot Jim Kelly, Mission Specialists Soichi Noguchi, Steve Robinson, Andy Thomas, Wendy Lawrence and Charlie Camarda. This will be the first mission flown since the Colombia accident in February 2003.

The mission will link Discovery to the International Space Station in the first of two test flights to verify new inspection and repair techniques. It will also resupply the ISS with necessities.

In addition to the NASA TV channel, the programs will air on NASA’s Internet service, http://www.nasa.gov/ntv, and be available on other uplink facilities.

Shuttle Discovery has a possible launch window from May 15 to June 3, this year.


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Category talk:Google

These should also be in this category but can't be because they're protected: Angela 21:29, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Google launches Video Search
 * Linux fifth most searched tech word on Google in 2004
 * Google plans free Internet phone service

 * Fixed. -- IlyaHaykinson 21:38, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:141.153.140.76

Welcome
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Wikinews:Country of the Week/Results log

Total articles so far as a result of Country of the Week: 28

Week 12: Antarctica (0)

 * None

Week 11: Fiji (3)

 * Fiji "running out of patience" with Vanuatu over ban on Fijian biscuits
 * Fiji's War of the Ribbons
 * Fiji girls missing; feared dead

Week 10: Belarus (2)
The two articles were submitted a bit late, but I hope nobody will complain too much ;)

 * 28th June: Lukashenko accuses foreign donators of ideological expansion
 * 28th June: Norway and Denmark conducting observation flights over Belarus and Russia

Week 9: Rwanda (11)
Note: Due to overwelling support for Rwanda (4 votes) and a special circumstance (Clare's trip to Rwanda), Rwanda was COTW for two weeks.

Rwanda has been our most successful COTW so far, with 11 articles written.

 * 18th June: Hotel Rwanda hero tours USA
 * 18th June: Youth forum to submit suggestions to UN
 * 16th June: World Bank president addresses global youth forum on genocide
 * 14th June: UN reports Rwandan refugees repatriated by force
 * 14th June: Aid group 'denied access' to Rwandan refugee camp in Burundi
 * 14th June: UNHCR criticises Rwanda's and Burundi's decision to re-label refugees as illegal immigrants
 * 11th June: G8 finance ministers agree deal to relieve debts of 18 nations Countries include Rwanda
 * 9th June: Thousands of Rwandan refugees living in overcrowded Burundi transit centre
 * 8th June: 30 travellers from Rwanda die in Ugandan bus crash
 * 8th June: Rwandan genocide investigations to be completed by end of July
 * 8th June: Half of Ugandan Presidential convoy blocked at Uganda-Rwanda border

Week 8: Papua New Guinea (0)

 * None

Week 7: Luxembourg (0)

 * None

Week 6: Moldova (2)

 * May 10: Soviet rockets on sale in Moldovan breakoff region
 * May 9: Moldovan Prosecutor General’s Office finishes investigation regarding Valeriu Pasat

Week 5: Switzerland (5)

 * May 5th: Former Russian nuclear energy minister arrested by Swiss authorities on the behalf of the US
 * May 3rd: UBS sees net income jump 15 percent
 * May 2nd: Swiss cement company Holcim Ltd sees net profits jump 67%
 * May 1st: Swiss finish drilling world's longest overland tunnel
 * May 1st: May Day protests occur throughout Switzerland

Week 4: Bhutan (2)

 * April 26: India appoints new envoy to Bhutan
 * April 29: INTOSAI meets in Paro, Bhutan

Week 3: Norway (3)

 * April 22: Work begins on world's longest underwater pipeline
 * April 20: Norwegian whaling season starts with highest quota in a decade
 * April 20: New version of Opera web browser released Opera is headquartered in Oslo, Norway

Week 2: Eritrea (1)

 * April 12: Eritrea plans to vaccinate 500,000 children

Week 1: Nigeria (4)

 * April 6: Nigeria destroys illegal small arms
 * April 4: Talks held to avert Nigerian oil production strike
 * April 4: Desmond Tutu calls for election of African pope
 * April 3: Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for African Pope


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'Sahara' opens as top film in U.S., Canada

April 11, 2005 Moviegoers who pushed it to No. 1 with a reported $18.1 million take for the weekend ending April 10 at the U.S. and Canadian box office welcomed the premiere of the movie Sahara, starring Matthew McConaughey and Penélope Cruz. Still, the total was $10 million less than Sin City, the top film of the previous week, made in its debut.

Sahara is described as an adventure movie with plenty of fun. McConaughey plays a tanned and fit traveler searching for a long lost U.S. Civil War battleship, filled with gold coins, and finds love in the process. Sin City, starring Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba, dropped to second place but was still doing well with a $14.1 million dollar sophomore weekend. Filling out the top shows: Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, which falls from #5 to #7 with more than $4.1 million "The Pacifier," which drops from #6 to #8 with more than $3 million; The Ring Two,  from #7 to #9 with $2.9 million; and "The Upside of Anger," from #8 to #10 with $2.6 million.

Ticket sales at all box offices showed a decline from last year for the same weekend.


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Tom DeLay raises Republican hackles as ethics charges dominate news

April 12, 2005 As Tom DeLay's (Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas), alleged ethical lapses began to dominate American political news stories and the Sunday talk shows, have led some Republican members of the Majority Leader’s own party to question the reasoning for his refusal to account for his actions or resign.

Last year, in a glimpse of problems yet to surface, the Republican head of the U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, or "House Ethics Committee", presided over three admonitions that included offering to endorse the candidacy of a political lawmaker’s son in exchange for votes on legislation. The ethics complaints were originally filed by Democratic Rep. Chris Bell of Texas on June 15, 2004, and began to heat up in the months prior to last year's elections.

A Texas grand jury is taking a hard look at Delay’s fund raising practices, and has already indicted three of his close associates. Last week the Washington Post reported that Mr. DeLay took a trip to Moscow in 1997, financed by lobbyists of the Russian Government.

Delay’s representative, Dan Allen, told reporters "Congressman DeLay's effective leadership to build and strengthen the House majority is exactly the reason he is being targeted by liberal groups funded by George Soros."

But Christopher Shays, a Republican from Connecticut, a Republican moderate, told the Associated Press that DeLay’s "conduct is hurting the Republican Party" and "hurting any Republican who is up for re-election [in 2006]."

The news agency reported that DeLay would look forward to meeting the charges with the ethics committee in a sit-down and blamed all of his problems on House Democrats.

Senator Chris Dodd, a Democrat from Connecticut, advised his Republican colleagues strongly to “Be careful about how closely you embrace Mr. DeLay, as long as he's there, he's going to become a pretty good target." His remarks were nationally televised on ABC TV.

Those Republicans working with the Majority Leader said his ethics are only a problem to Democrats trying to regain power in the House. But the Ethics Committee’s membership is equally divided between Republicans and Democrats.

Other Republicans are starting to get jittery about their reelection hopes if DeLay is allowed to retain power.

"Tom's conduct is hurting the Republican Party, is hurting this Republican majority and it is hurting any Republican who is up for re-election," Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., told the Associated Press after making similar comments at community meetings in his home district this weekend.

He told reporters he thinks DeLay should step down.

The third-ranking Republican in the Senate, Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, said DeLay needs to “clear the air.” But he thinks everything done by DeLay was “according to the law.”

"I think he has to come forward and lay out what he did and why he did it and let the people then judge for themselves," he said on ABC's This Week, a Sunday political talk program. "Now you may not like some of the things he's done, that’s for the people of his district to decide, whether they want to approve that kind of behavior."

Santorum faces reelection in 2006.

State and Federal investigations of Tom DeLay
DeLay is under investigation by the Travis County (Texas) district attorney, Democrat Ronnie Earle, who has already indicted three members of DeLay's organization, Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee (TRMPAC), on charges of money laundering and accepting illegal campaign contributions.

DeLay and his associates are alleged to have created a front group to launder money obtained through this illegal method. The District attorney believes he is enforcing the law enacted by the Texas lawmakers.

DeLay and his supporters contended that this investigation and the indictments were politically motivated maneuvers by the Democratic Travis County, Texas District Attorney Ronnie Earle. Earle has been characterized as a controversial and colorful political figure with a history of pursuing unconventional indictments against elected officials including Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. However, his record shows that he has indicted more Democrats than Republicans.

Federal investigators are probing a lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, another DeLay associate, for bilking millions of dollars from Native American casino operators for promises of congressional action to support their businesses. Abramoff and others may have underwritten overseas travel for the Majority Leader, which is a violation of law.

Reactions to intervention in Terri Schiavo case
DeLay has taken on the nation’s independent judiciary, particularly those who disagreed with him on the reinsertion of the feeding tube for Terri Schiavo, a brain damaged Florida woman who died on March 31. Reports that he pulled the life support from his own father, when he was fatally injured in the 1980’s, didn’t deter him.

"The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior," DeLay said of the judges.

Asked what his associates think of DeLay’s latest slew of bad news, spokesman Dan Allen replied, "Members were very supportive through the week last week and going into the weekend."

The Bush administration said that DeLay has not become the political liability that Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, became in 2002.

Loyalty has a price
Both Chris Shays and Joel Hefley, a Republican from Colorado, the past chairman of the House ethics committee who sanctioned DeLay three times, have signed a resolution, crafted by Democrats, that would end some of the rules changes that their own party pushed through to help DeLay only three months ago. DeLay voted for the changes to cover his actions as well.

Hefley said "A lot of folks mention quietly that they are concerned about it. On the other hand, you have a lot of members standing up and pledging their undying support for Mr. DeLay,"

Eleven years after the Republicans swept power in the Congress from the Democrats, they seem more intent on protecting DeLay than keeping the “Contract with America,” according to critics. They say “that is the corrupting influence of power.”

DeWayne Wickham of USA Today asks, “How will voters respond to this breach of the Contract?” The next federal elections will take place in November of 2006.


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Visiting students detained in Louisiana, USA, while photographing ExxonMobil chemical plant

April 11, 2005 A group of 13 students from Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, New Hampshire, USA, were detained by security officers as they photographed an ExxonMobil chemical plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The students were accompanied by two professors and an officer from the Louisiana Attorney General's office. The officer, Willie Fontenot, was subsequently asked to resign from his position at the Attorney General's office.

Mr. Fontenot has issued a response, provided to Wikinews reporter Pingswept by Steve Case, a professor present at the incident. Fontenot writes, "Last week, I was asked by Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr. to either retire or run the risk of being fired. No specifics were given to me explaining this decision by the AG. I have always understood that, as an unclassified civil servant, I served at the pleasure of the AG and that I could be dismissed at any time and for no reason. Because of my age, health issues, and investment of twenty-seven years in the state system, I decided early retirement was the best option for me."

The full text of Fontenot's statement is reproduced here.

According to a press release from Antioch, the group was initially detained by two off-duty police officers who were under the employ of ExxonMobil but dressed in their police uniforms. The officers were shortly joined by two other security officers who were employed by ExxonMobil. When asked what reports the officers intended to file, "the off-duty sheriff's department officer refused to answer, and instead responded aggressively that he was going to call in 'homeland security' people who would detain the group into the night," said the press release. In the end, the group was detained for "more than an hour."

One of the professors, Abigail Abrash Walton told the Keene Sentinel that one of the officers, "aggressively told us that he’d be calling in the Homeland Security people, whatever that meant, and to expect to be with them all night."

The Keene Sentinel reports that the students were visiting the area because, "Exxon was said to be buying up houses and paying to relocate their owners for various reasons, including that people were allegedly getting sick because of pollution." The other course instructor, Steve Chase, was quoted in the Sentinel as saying that, "Our objection was not that police officers or even corporate security guards would stop and ask us what we were doing. That seemed totally fair. But lies were told, threats were made and the idea was to intimidate."

The Sentinel noted that an ExxonMobil spokesperson, Stephanie Cargile, stated that, “We believe our ExxonMobil Security personnel and the off-duty East Baton Rouge Sheriff police officers acted professionally and cordially to Mr. Fontenot and the Antioch students.” The venue in which the statement was made was not mentioned by the Sentinel; thus far, the report has not been corroborated by Wikinews.


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That's a great picture... --HiFlyer 05:01, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

DouglasGreen, I don't know where the "colorful and controversial" part of Ronnie Earles came from, do you? I propose to let it stay as long as we agree that it is a characterization Mr Delay & Co use when discussing Earles. BTW, he is the congressperson for the district in Texas in which I live. I know Tom Delay. I could call him on the phone and plan to do so in the near future for some live quotes. --HiFlyer 14:19, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It came from Wikipedia; as a Wikijournalist, I am biased to think that it is an impartial source :-). To see the original source of those words, see article about Tom DeLay.  It is not a characterization by Mr. DeLay.  Here is what he said, according to Multinational Monitor

In a replay of the Hutchison showdown, Republicans are accusing Earle of conducting a "partisan witch hunt." Denouncing the "runaway district attorney" in a February news conference, DeLay said Earle has "a long history of being vindictive and partisan."

"Being called partisan and vindictive by Tom DeLay," Earle told the Houston Chronicle, "is like being called ugly by a frog."

Speaking personally Mr. Earle does not seem to be excessively partisan, and his character does not really seem to be an issue for me, although I cannot say the same for all those who are jumping on the DeLay ethics bandwagon. However it is easy to make the "colorful" and "controversial" charges stick on Earle, given comments like these (colorful) and also his once bringing charges against Republican Sen. Hutchison (controversial), which did not stick apparently on technical grounds. DouglasGreen 17:15, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hiya DouglasGreen. What DeLay did in Texas, and what the colorful-noncolorful DA is taking his arse to the hopper for is illegal. I could show you lots of cites on that, since of course, it is illegal. But then again, I am inclined to say you do nice work generally and I'm just not in a colorful mood. But I can assure you and all listeners, in Texas, IT IS ILLEGAL!! ;-)) --HiFlyer 00:11, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Hey i changed the first line to "member of parliment", but i dont think that is the correct jargon, so could an american fix it. And just remember that you have to say sho this guy is and what country the news is about, cause we dont all live in the US. Also, i dont know if this meets the guideline that a lead article should have international relevence. ~The bellman | Smile 02:13, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I changed his title from "member of parliament" to "member of US house of representatives" Vash The Stampede 02:45, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * prefers "congress critter", personally... - Amgine 02:47, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Child killed by family dog

April 12, 2005

In what authorities call a terrible tragedy, a four-year-old boy was killed Sunday afternoon by the family dog. The Orange County, Virginia USA boy was playing in his back yard while their dog, a Rottweiler-German Shepherd mix, was chained to a stake.

The parents of the boy were home when the mauling occurred, but there were no direct eye witnesses to the attack that took place in the Placid Pines mobile home park. County Sheriff C.G. Feldman said, "We'll probably never know what provoked the attack.” he told the Associated Press, “The boy had grown up with the dog."

A CBS6 broadcast said investigators saw no signs of parental negligence, and the boy was their only child. No charges against the parents were filed. The dog was euthanised Monday.

Sheriff Feldman stressed there were no similarities or connection with an earlier case of an elderly woman killed in an attack by 3 pit bulls in the nearby county of Spotsylvania just over a month ago.

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Australian Immigration denies issuing banned drug

The Australian Department of Immigration (DIMIA) today denied issuing a banned drug to immigration detainees, either in Australia or on Nauru. But the Asylum Seeker Resource Center (ASRC) said in a press release yesterday that a woman detained here was administered the drug, until advocates called the Minister's office recently to have it stopped.

"It took a phone call to the Minister's office to stop the administration of [Vioxx]," says Pamela Curr of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) "Inadequate care for asylum seekers is so normalised in the detention centres that the doctors contracted by the detention system continued to administer a banned drug."

Dr Graham, a US whistleblower influential in getting the drug banned, has described that the painkiller and anti-arthritic Vioxx, banned on September 30, caused up to 160,000 heart attacks and strokes, and 27,785 deaths from heart ailments from 1999 to 2003.

DIMIA this afternoon repeated its claims published in this morning's Age, that the drug has not been prescribed in its detention system since sometime before the ban was even made, and "no detainees at Nauru were taking the medication".

According to DIMIA, the drug was withdrawn from use at Nauru last September, and doctors at other detention centers around Australia were directed on October 1 to stop prescribing Vioxx. All stockpiles of the Vioxx had been destroyed when it was withdrawn.

The ASRC says the International Organisation of Migration (IOM), who "run the camps under orders and with funding from DIMIA", made the same claim in January 2005. Refugee advocates had emailed the IOM, believing at the time that Vioxx was still being prescribed.


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Australian man arrested at U.S. Capitol building

April 12, 2005 A 33-year old visitor to the United States, named Wen Hao Zhao from Sydney, Australia, was arrested at the Capitol building on Monday, after he was observed by police standing in a "statue-like pose" and carrying two suitcases.

When confronted by officers of the United States Capitol Police (USCP) who were called to the scene at 12:45 p.m. EST, he is reported to have been unresponsive to questioning. "He only would say at first that he wanted to speak to President Bush," according to USCP Chief Terrance W. Gainer. Some reports suggest that the man was limited or unresponsive in his use of English.

The West Lawn area next to the Capitol building and an adjacent part of 1st Street was evacuated and tourists were briefly prevented from entering the building on the possibility that the suitcases may have contained a bomb.

Authorities X-rayed the bags and examined them for over 3 hours. One bag was found to contain only clothing. The other bag, which apparently was thought to contain wiring which might belong to an explosive device, was destroyed on-site with a water cannon; after which, the bag was found to have contained only common items such as a CD player, batteries, and a watch.

Zhao was arrested at 1:45 p.m. EST without resistance on charges of disorderly conduct; other more serious charges could be filed. However, Allen Doody of U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has indicated plans to deport Zhao back to Australia within a few days without charges. "We do not plan to charge him," Doody said.

Zhao is dual-nationality Chinese-Australian, who entered the US legally on his Australian passport less than a week ago.


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Wikinews:2005/April/12

 * Liberal Democrat Party pauses to welcome Donald James Kennedy
 * Labour attack Tory economic policy
 * US trade deficit soars to new high of US$61.04 billion
 * Australian man arrested at U.S. Capitol building
 * Eritrea plans to vaccinate 500,000 children
 * Irish Enterprise Exchange Launched in Dublin
 * Cloned cattle's milk and meat seem safe, according to new study
 * New top level domain names created
 * Tom DeLay raises Republican hackles as ethics charges dominate news
 * KLM flight to Mexico sent back by U.S. Homeland Security, inquiry follows
 * Australian Immigration denies issuing banned drug
 * Child killed by family dog

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Original reporting notes
I have removed the information from this Page. I made a mistake in interviewing a source, forgetfully omitting to explain that I would quote was I was told. As a result, I published the source's personal opinions as if they were intended as statements of fact, and made on behalf of an organisation.

The source has asked not to be quoted or named, and so I have removed all statements attributed to that source from the story.

Please do not propogate information concerning this source, if you have read the information prior to its removal.

The ASRC press release mentioned in the story is published, below, under terms of Fair Dealing / Fair Use. The copyright of the press release remains the property of its owner, not Wikinews. It is republished here so that Wikinews readers can verify that the story does indeed portray the ASRC statements accurately, and amend the story as necessary.

This is deemed necessary for Wikinews to portray the news events associated with this press release. I am not a lawyer, and this is my personal opinion. Wikinews is published on principals of openness, and has no permanent editorial staff or hierarchy. The press release was sent to a public mailing list, but the mailing list has no public archive.

The DIMIA release is now available from their website, and so I removed that as well.

Simeon 06:57, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Press release from ASRC

URGENT – DIMIA MUST STOP VIOXX ON NAURU

MEDIA RELEASE EMBARGOED UNTIL 6am 12/04/05

The Immigration Department is putting asylum seeker’s lives at risk with the continued use of the drug, Vioxx. This drug was banned world wide, in October 2004, because of reports linking it to heart attacks, high blood pressure and death. Emails were sent to the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) in January 2005 when advocates realised that asylum seekers on Nauru were still being given this dangerous drug. IOM run the camps under orders and with funding from DIMIA.

IOM told refugee advocates in January that they had removed Vioxx from the shelves and that no detainees on Nauru would be given these drugs.

“In the past three weeks a woman transferred from Nauru to Australia for medical care was found to be still taking VIOXX. She was given the drug in the Maribyrnong Detention Centre. ‘It took a phone call to the Ministers office to stop the administration of this drug.” says Pamela Curr of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) “Inadequate care for asylum seekers is so normalised in the detention centres that the doctors contracted by the detention system continued to administer a banned drug.”

“We know that asylum seekers on Nauru are still being given Vioxx”, says Curr of the ASRC Melbourne. “This is the second time they have been asked to stop this dangerous practice.”

Standards of medical care on Nauru have been an on-going problem with the unexplained death in September 2003 of Mohammed Sarwar,  a previously healthy 26 year old Afghan refugee from the Tampa. At the time DIMIA said that he died of natural causes, although it did not release the details of a post-mortem. “It is a nonsense to claim that any 26 year old dies from natural causes, “ says Curr. ” The treatment of people in detention is secretive with lawyers forced to resort to legal proceedings to access medical records for asylum seekers.”

The Australian government strictly controls all access to detainees on Nauru including medical and legal. In January 2004 the Australian government pressured Nauru’s government to block Australian doctors visiting asylum seekers in the Australian-financed detention camp on the remote Pacific Island.


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KLM flight to Mexico sent back by U.S. Homeland Security, inquiry follows

April 12, 2005 Everything seemed alright on 747 flight KL685 en-route to Mexico, Friday, April 8 — until the captain hailed U.S. flight control for permission to pass over U.S. airspace and permission was denied. Little did he know, the names of two passengers on board had been linked by Mexican authorities to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security watchlist, who then contacted U.S. authorities.

Attempts were made to divert and have the passengers disembark in, but ultimately this failed — and left without an alternative route, the plane was forced to return to its port of origin, Amsterdam — in the Netherlands.

Flight KL685 carried 287 passengers and 15 horses, all of whom had to put up with a day's delay, and among the passengers, Frederic Hennekens, a lawyer from. Hennekens later made an appearance on the Dutch behind-the-news television show NOVA, offering his personal experience on the matter.
 * "Just before the plane took off I saw the enter, and a bit later arrest one man. Later I heard from a  journalist that someone else had been apprehended at the gates." #1

The KLM at first denied this had happened, but later affirmed this when journalists pressed the matter at Hennekens' request.

Hennekens said the flight went well initially, they were ahead of schedule by an hour at the time the captain announced that entry to U.S. airspace had been denied. No reason was given to the pilots, and as a consequence the passengers were left in the dark as well, being told only that they had to turn back to Amsterdam.

Three officials in all — including one of the cockpit crew and a ticketing officer upon return — told Hennekens that the passenger list given to the U.S. authorities had been checked too late. This is in contrast to KLM's official response Monday, April 11.
 * "According to the treaty between Europe and the United States only passengers 'to and from' the US are subject to checks. If that also applies to planes passing over U.S. soil is a matter of interpretation." #1
 * "KLM did not give passenger details to the U.S. authorities, but did to the Mexican authorities. How the Americans got hold of that list, is unclear."

NOVA's correspondent Twan Huys reported from New York, having spoken with the. He said that according to the department the first warning that something was wrong with the plane did not originate with the pilots or the KLM, it came from the Mexican officials, per the U.S.-Mexican treaty on passenger lists. According to the report the department also said that the KLM is aware of this "passengers watchlist" or "no-fly list", and blame the airline for not checking the list properly at Schiphol Airport.

The two people on the list who were denied entry were not apprehended on their return to Europe in either the United Kingdom or The Netherlands. The Dutch government said that these people were not on the European version of the "no-fly list," and as such were left alone. Inquiries are presently being held by both Dutch and American governments, trying to ascertain where communication broke down, and how to avoid situations like this in the future.


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Talk:NASA announces daily video feed for new Discovery mission

This is not two missions of the Shuttle Discovery. This is so so wrong. Please read the information before changing important facts of an article. These are two totally different missions, and the article is about the TV coverage.

--HiFlyer 14:51, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I will accept the blame for writing an article that incorporated two events. I won't do that again. It probably confused many people. Maybe it can stay like it is already... --HiFlyer 15:09, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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I read Just before the plane took off I saw the Mareschaussee enter, I think it should be Just after the plane landed I saw the Mareschaussee enter, AnyFile 16:04, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, it is correct as is. They boarded the plane just before departure from Schiphol. :) --Hooloovoo 16:16, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll clarify it if you want. How about "Just before departure (from Amsterdam) I saw the Mareschaussee enter, and a bit later (disembarked after the) arresting one man. Later I heard from a Telegraaf journalist that someone else had been apprehended at the gates." #1

Regarding the recent edits by 63.130.194.200
The POV you pointed out was not my (author's) POV, it was a reworked statement by the Belgian passenger. Also, the caption you edited is now misleading. The image does contain a 737 (as per the image name), not a 747 as per the article. Hooloovoo 23:04, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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My page. Hope to add some news stories soon.

Breaking news: Lewis "Scooter" Libby indicted on five charges

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What is the copyright status of quotes in news articles on other servers?
What is the copyright status of quotes in news articles on other servers? I`d say, as what a person says can`t hardly be copyrighted by a news agency, unless in an exclusive interview of course, copying such quotes litterately shouldn`t be a problem, but I`m not that familiar with copyright law. Anyone here who is? -- Redge (Talk) 19:42, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC) "We don't know what to do," Sam Sellers said after he and coworkers lost their Krispy Kreme jobs. Some correct ways to use the exclusive quote and avoid copyvio: -- Davodd | Talk 23:40, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * If the original statement is made in a public forum, it is public domain. A good clue to this is when the quote is printed word-for-word in multiple, unrelated newspapers. For exclusive stories, this is different. Let's say you read a report in the New York Blade that reads the following way:
 * 1) (Cite the source): "We don't know what to do," former Krispy Kreme employee, Sam Sellers told the New York Blade.
 * 2) (Paraphrase): The layoffs left some workers questioning the future.
 * 3) (Paraphrase variation): In a New York Blade inverview, former employee Sam Sellers said workers didn't know what to do.

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Please provide URL for the original "Talk" page for Earth story
I see that a nice new headline has been provided for the ecology story. I was wondering where the talk page that was attached to the original story might be found, davidood?

I would not imagine it was deleted since that is against wiki policy. --Alan J. Franklin 19:33, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * BTW...I had added some comments to the Talk page this morning, just before the title of the article was changed because you were afraid the earth was alive...heh. I would like to keep the whole record with all of my Wiki stuff. --Alan J. Franklin 20:34, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't see this earlier, Alan. I will find that url in just a second. - Amgine 20:37, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * There appears to have been a database gork during the move; all of the edits were there in the history, but only the move message was left visible. I've restored it for the moment, but it's pretty acrimonious in there. Might be better to revert it to the broken version and let the article continue to develop. - Amgine 20:48, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Amgine, I don't see it yet. Acrimonious or not, I would doubt that anyone can simply make a decision to delete a page without some sort of agreement. Anyway, I would like the page restored. Thank you. PS...we're all grown ups...it's not too acrimonious. It's just sticking by the rules of the WIKI --Alan J. Franklin 20:52, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * You'll probably need to purge you browser's cache. On Mozilla this is ctrl-R or alt-R (or cmd-R on Mac). I'll add a purge button to the page, too. This link should bring you to the right page, and here's the dif showing what I did to restore the page. - Amgine 21:01, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey all. There was a submit upload error dump this morning when I was trying to explain the article move. I must have mistakenly overwritten the entire page when I attempted to recover the upload after the screen dump. Sorry for any inconvenience. Lucklily with wiki nothing is ever permanent and all past versions are saved forever in one form or another - allowing for easy recovery. ;-) -- Davodd | Talk 21:10, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Let's just forget about it, eh Davodd...Amgine? It's sort of like yesterday's news and I would like to write something for today before it's time to go to sleep again ;-) --Alan J. Franklin 21:40, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)