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Canadian news doesn't interest Prime Minister, prefers to watch American

October 24, 2009

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper caused controversy this week after telling Toronto business leaders that he prefers to watch American news programmes instead of Canadian.

On Wednesday, he told the Canadian Chamber of Commerce Convention that he watched "mainly American news" and suggested it was his hobby "to watch politics elsewhere". The Toronto Star says his "words ring true" in light of the interviews he's given to American broadcasters like Fox News and CNN.

Three of Harper's cabinet members, Jim Flaherty, Peter Kent and Tony Clement, questioned the veracity of his statement, stating they "assume" he must digest some Canadian news issues. But Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said "I think the prime minister is too busy to sit there being vainglorious and watching himself on TV."

Political opponents were quick to draw attention to the admission by the Prime Minister, whom they claim has always had American interests at heart during his career.

The Star quoted NDP leader Jack Layton, stating "Perhaps if he watched Canadian news more often, he would understand the negative impact of his policies on Canadian families. And if he actually likes Fox News better than Canadian news, then Canadians ought to be concerned".

Liberal Bob Rae likewise pointed out that politicians "all have an obligation to know what's going on", and noted he found the admission "quite shocking".

A statement released by the Prime Minister's Office clarified that Harper watched hockey on national networks, but took his news from American networks.


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image is blurry and some people wont know who that is. Seabanks (talk) 14:40, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * added a caption Sherurcij 14:56, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

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I'd suggest we use either File:Stephen Harpers True Colours.png or File:Harper with American Flag.PNG for relevance to the article, rather than a standard biopic. Sherurcij 17:22, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I like File:Stephen Harpers True Colours.png. Not only is half the picture obscured by what seems to be a blurry flag, but Harper is barely recognisable. I can't see much more than his nose and forehead. File:Harper with American Flag.PNG is better, although I still think that the file photo i chose, File:Stephen Harper G8 2007.jpg,    is better. Tempodivalse  [talk]  17:23, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Updated to the one that makes neither of us happy ;) Sherurcij 17:31, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

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 * Fixed the NPOV bits, the antagonistic is in the source as I recall. Added wikilinking. That just leaves the quotebox issue, which it looks like somebody already handled (I actually believed the reverse) Sherurcij 00:32, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

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The title of the article should be shortened. Cirt (talk) 21:47, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Style formatting
Changed back to vertical infobox, and left-aligned image, with right-aligned quote. Looks much better this way, and should remain so. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 05:58, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Since all WMF projects except apparently WN, agree that images belong top-right, I have restored it to that way. If you don't like the look of the horizontal national template, change it and make it nicer - but don't remove it from articles to which it's been added. We have an image and a quotebox, both in a fairly short article...throwing in a national template that offers unrelated news from August about a model being murdered just clutters it - it can go at the bottom as a footer...most real news sites agree. Sherurcij 18:04, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Respectfully disagree. The horizontal infobox looks awfully out of place/awkward at the bottom of the page and makes things look disorganised, imho. There is nothing wrong with having images on the left side instead of the right. I'd say it's better to remove the quote box if things are getting too cluttered. I'll refrain from reverting because I don't want to start a revert war - and I've already undone this edit once - but I'd like some outside opinions on what to do. Tempodivalse [talk]  18:23, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Let editors who want to use vertical use vertical, and those who want to use horizontal use horizontal? For me it's not a straight issue, I prefer horizontal when there's an image, vertical when there's an image. Sherurcij 18:37, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Most WMF projects post an article that is built over time. News reports are a very diferant beast. I agree with sticking, say, WP images in top-right, but with WN I like the norm. But then, I would since I'm used to it. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 21:21, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Strongly agree with above comment by . Cirt (talk) 02:38, 25 October 2009 (UTC)


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Jet flies 150 miles past destination in US; pilots say they were distracted

October 23, 2009 The National Transportation Safety Board of the United States, Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are all probing an incident in which a Northwest Airlines jet flew 150 miles past its destination.

The Airbus A320 was traveling from San Diego International Airport, San Diego, California with 147 passengers when it ceased to respond to radio communications as it flew through an area of sky controlled from Denver at 5:56 p.m. yesterday. It was passed on to Minneapolis as non-responsive and subsequently overflew the airport without changing altitude from its 37,000 foot cruising height.

Various controllers tried to contact the plane, some sending text messages, and the Federal Aviation Administration asked Northwest to get their dispatcher to hail the aircraft, but to no avail. Communications were reestablished 16 minutes after the plane passed the airport at 8:14 p.m. when controllers asked two other Northwest planes to try talking to the unresponsive jet.

Authorities had been so concerned of a possible hijacking that fighter jets were put on standby in Madison, Wisconsin and the crew were ordered to perform a set of maneuvers to prove they were in control of their aircraft before turning round and flying the 150 mile return trip to their intended destination at Minneapolis, where they landed at around 9 p.m.

The FBI and airport police both interviewed the flight crew after landing and were told the crew lost awareness of their location during "a heated discussion over airline policy," according to the safety board, which is going to conduct its own interviews. The board has also recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, and both have been sent to Washington DC to be examined.

Authorities have indicated that they will also look into the possibility the crew had fallen asleep. Although rare, it is not unknown; last year a go! airliner flew 26 miles past its target airport in Hawaii before the crew woke up and made contact with controllers.


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title fix to destination then space then in Seabanks (talk) 15:57, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

The new title is problematic. Part of the investigation is looking at the possibility the pilots fell asleep; that is not forgetfulness. In fact, not knowing where you are and failure to respond is not forgetfulness either in the strictest sense of the word. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 16:20, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I changed it because I couldn't find "distracted" in any immediate sources; it may exist, but it doesn't seem readily apparent. Perhaps just "fail to land"? Sherurcij 16:30, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Both sources now on the article say so; the NTSB certainly use the exact word. What I'd really like is a title that makes note of the fact that this was a drama which unfolded over several hours. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 16:34, 23 October 2009 (UTC)


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Wikinews:Water cooler/policy/archives/2009/October

Single Source Imported Articles
The recent rash of imported articles from VoA and SETimes is annoying me. Both of those publications have their own internal biases, and therefore shouldn't be used as a single source for an article (mind you, their bias isn't nearly as strong as CNN, FOX, or Al Jazeera, but they still aren't fully NPoV).

Now I have no problem with us copy/pasting parts of their public domain articles into ours, but just because they are public domain doesn't mean we can simply bipass the single source rule. Part of the reason for that rule (beyond copyright issues) is so that we can eliminate article PoV as much as possible by balancing the PoV from multiple sources. Right now that isn't happening.

So here's what I propose:

Public domain sources should be treated just like any other source, with the exception that copyright issues are null and void. This means that while you can use, say, a VoA article in it's entirety (c/p), you have to include *more* than what is in the VoA article. You can use the VoA article as your base, but you have to add to it. I've seen Tempo doing this sometimes, but with the new bot it isn't happening. Gopher65talk 13:42, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

 * I agree that we should generally balance out biases in VOA articles, but if an article is NPOV by our standards to begin with, then i don't see a problem. I think we should deal with this issue on a case-by-case basis. Also, copy/pasted articles still have to be backed up by at least one other independent source, so it isn't exactly single source. Tempodivalse [talk]  14:16, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

 * I thought we had clearly agreed that import from a public domain source would never allow bypassing of the single source rule. I have commented here there and everywhere that special considerations be made for these sources, and an emphasis placed on their inherent biases. Such should influence the choice of sources used for verification, and require an active effort to counter the POV of the imported source within the article text. I've not the time to do this just now, and document it elsewhere. However here's a few thoughts.
 * Use of VOA now is selective. Someone picks an article and actively imports it. Their bias, plus the VOA bias. Less up-front, in-your-face emphasis on the bias of the source. Less scrutiny of work to counter the source bias.
 * Bot importation means all are imported. Specific templates (such as my extensive work on develop) can emphasise the bias and work required to counter it. I proposed project namespace pages on this elsewhere, and I see no reason why the importing bot could not put an additional boilerplate on an imported article's talk page.
 * Anyway, I'll just go back to looking at Project INDECT now. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:06, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Wikinews:Global rights usage

 * Global rights usage

I made this policy. Others feel free to discuss and/or change it. :) Cirt (talk) 04:43, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Looks good to me. Tempodivalse [talk]  13:33, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

 * I'd look again at the deleted contributions bit. But, the rest is good. --Brian McNeil / talk 14:09, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Looks good. Bawolff ☺☻ 16:46, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

 * The see also from Global sysops/Deleted contributions is to a section that doesn't exist; I noticed this because I was trying to go there in order to work out the intended meaning of the sentence "The English Wikinews has adopted a policy that certain types of deleted contributions that remain visible to administrators through Special:DeletedContributions." --Pi zero (talk) 22:36, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I created it - Criteria_for_deletion based on common practice. I'd appreciate if people looked over this new addition to make sure that its accurate. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:58, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Fair use - limitations
As most regular Wikinewsies will have noticed, I obtained a quite lengthy video on Project INDECT, and felt it was in the public interest to upload locally in it's entirety, and then embed in an article.

Nobody has actually challenged me on this, but under the current terms of WN:FU it should have been zapped on sight. How can we rework that page to allow video content like this; do we need to go back to the Foundation and say their criteria we have to work within are overly restrictive? --Brian McNeil / talk 17:17, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Simple. Wipe out the bit that says anything not on the whitelist is banned. You'd probably need to develop guidelines on how to handle a non-whitelist potential FU upload, but that's the way forward. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 17:57, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's probably the core of it. However, in what? five years on Wikinews, this is the only time I've seen a piece of video that I just had to use. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:18, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * People, listenin to the fair use policy - as if ;). How about adding another criteria. "Any media that could be justifiably argued as fair use, adds very significantly to the article in question, and is by its very nature imposible, and never will be possible, to be replaced by a free equivelent, may be uploaded." Bawolff ☺☻ 15:21, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
 * That sounds like a good idea, Bawolff. I'd support adding that to WN:FU. Tempodivalse [talk]  15:35, 24 October 2009 (UTC)


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Afghanistan prepares for presidential runoff election

October 26, 2009

Afghanistan is getting ready for a second-round presidential election between President Hamid Karzai and former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. The second round comes after the election commission nullified nearly one million votes cast in August's presidential polls. The investigation brought Mr. Karzai's vote count below 50 percent, enough to trigger a runoff. The United Nations has begun delivering ballots across Afghanistan to prepare for the November 7 runoff.

U.S. President Barack Obama has said that the runoff reflects the will of the Afghan people and he may withhold his decision on U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan until after the new polls. The remarks followed his meeting with U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, who has just returned from the Afghan capital, Kabul.

"I think you really want to know that this has worked and you want to know what kind of government is coming out of it," Obama said.

An analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, Haseeb Humayoon, believes Mr. Karzai may win again. "If we look at the numbers and how they have turned out, President Karzai has a much stronger base than Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and that may play a role in the second round as well," he explained.

But questions remain about the deals Mr. Karzai struck with local powers of remote Afghan regions to win their support.

"I think one has to look at that with a lot of caution, because while electorally those deals might have returns, in terms of government efficiency down the line they are questionable," Humayoon added.

However Rick Nelson at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. says it is wrong to look at the Afghan political landscape through a Western lens.

"President Karzai has been very aggressive in trying to cut deals and trying to build partnerships," he noted. "But given the circumstances in which he is trying to operate, if he can cut deals with rival factions and it results in a stable Afghanistan, that is something we may want to support."

Another scenario presented by some experts is one in which the August election runner up, Mr. Abdullah, wins this time around. Nelson says he may not belong to the Pashtun majority tribe, but he is not that different politically than Mr. Karzai.

"He is not a full Pashtun, he is a little bit Tajik as well, and that may change the dynamics with the United States," Mr. Nelson added. "But it probably is not going to change the overall U.S. policy too much."

There is also the chance that the two contenders will come up with some sort of an agreement to share power and avoid the runoff. While some analysts say this is unlikely, Nelson is optimistic.

"If there is a unity government in advance, it certainly puts the whole election legitimacy question aside, and will enable the United States and NATO to move forward in their partnership with Afghanistan," he said.

In Washington, U.S. officials have said a power-sharing arrangement between the two leaders would be totally up to the Afghans.


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Comments:New Nazi victims' monument opens in Berlin

what a crock...
What a crock of sh*t! what a waste of money? how about the allies pay for a monument dedicated to the 5 million eastern european refugees they handed over to the russians and ultimatley, their death after the yalta conference. not to mention the countless millions the russians murdered before during and after the war. oh yes of course! it was only the germans who murdered people. what a load of BS paul belfast


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Canada acquits man wrongly jailed for over a decade over teen girl's murder

October 23, 2009

Canadian authorities have dropped charges against 38-year-old Kyle Unger, who has served more than a decade in jail for a murder he did not commit. Hair from 16-year-old Brigitte Grenier's body was used to convict him and has since been linked to someone else.

The case began at a rock concert near Winnipeg on June 23, 1990. Grenier attended the concert but then failed to return home. Her naked body was recovered from a nearby creek the following day in the grounds of the Roseisle ski resort that hosted the event. She had been beaten and sexually assaulted.

Unger later confessed to an undercover police officer posing as a drug dealer, and was charged alongside Timothy Houlahan. Both were found guilty, with Unger's conviction helped by male hair recovered from the victim, which a forensics expert testified had come from the innocent man.

Unger, who had been imprisoned since being charged in 1991, was sentenced on February 29, 1992 to a minimum of 25 years imprisonment. The following year the Manitoba Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear it. In 1994 Houlahan's conviction was overturned and he was released on bail pending a retrial; the 21-year-old chose instead to take his own life.

In 2003 the area's Forensic Evidence Review Committee (FERC) began to look at cases involving hair samples. The next year authorities reported that they were able to relocate the hair used in the Grenier case, which they had previously believed to have been destroyed. Several months afterwards FERC said that the hair was not Unger's.

It would be another year before Justice Holly Beard ruled in November 2005 that Unger should be released while his case was reviewed. On November 24, 2005 he was set free after nearly 14 years wrongly imprisoned. The review was completed this year and in March the conviction was overturned. A retrial was ordered by Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson.

However, prosecutors today decided that a retrial was highly unlikely to result in a conviction owing to the fact that no physical evidence links Unger to the slaying. He was formally acquitted of first-degree murder today. Grenier's family have maintained that they believe in his guilt.

"It's the first day of the rest of my life, a new beginning," Unger said after leaving court today. He now lives in British Columbia. He said he was not angry over what happened to him, just upset. "When you feed off anger it just takes more from you. They already took my younger years away from me, why let them have my mind?" He says of his confession to the men he thought were gangsters that it was because he wanted to work for them: "When you're young, naive and desperate for money, they hold a lot of promises to you, so you say and do what you have to do to survive, just like in prison."

"Right now we are joyful that the man has an acquittal," said Unger's lawyer, Hersh Wolch. "This is a momentous day. The (justice) minister ... rarely sends the matter to a retrial. Rarely. Tell me of one. And then an acquittal? It's virtually unheard of. It is unheard of. So this is huge."

Manitoba's Attorney General Dave Chomiak says he will not be compensated despite his wrongful conviction because of his false confession. Prosecutor George Dangerfield, who convicted the pair in 1992, is having his cases reviewed owing to being involved in two previous separate miscarriages of justice — wrongful murder convictions against Thomas Sophonow and James Driskell.


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Comments:Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's murder rate becomes world's highest

Mayan and Aztec  DNA  ?
The Mexican murder rate, check the Mayan  and Aztec DNA of the  Drug Killers, do they have a Blood Lust to kill? No humanity to Human Beings, are they like the Nazi too ? Drug Killers have more than greed to make money. Drug Dealers have a lust for Human Blood, who are they Vampires?

I'm not a fan of militarism but this place needs martial law imposed on it because it is beyond uncivilized what is going on in there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.21.186 (talk) 21:06, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

How?
That sounds worse than a warzone. 107 women? 85 children? No one can justify the killing of children. They need a serious military intervention, or at least to move all the innocent women and children out of there. I'd also be very scared if I lived in El Paso, I hope they increase funding for the border patrols. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.215.59.233 (talk) 09:51, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Oh, my God!

-Amy


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Talk:Canada acquits man wrongly jailed for over a decade over teen girl's murder

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For the reasons I gave at Talk:Suicide bomb blast hits air force base in Pakistan, could we please restore the vertical sidebar? Horizontal sidebars just don't look as good, imho. Tempodivalse [talk]  00:34, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅. Agree with, horizontal sidebar just looks quite awkward. Vertical is much better. Cirt (talk) 06:02, 24 October 2009 (UTC)


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Talk:More than 300 arrested in over two days after US drug operation

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Is this the as-given VOA title? More than 300 arrested in over two days after US drug operation. It's painfully awkward. --Brian McNeil / talk 00:50, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
 * My thought precisely - but I'm reluctant to move a published article. (the first thing I would drop is the "over" two days - either its two days, or three ( or more) days). And probably either "two days" or "in/after US drug operation" would be fine, rather than both. Sean Heron (talk) 20:39, 24 October 2009 (UTC)


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User talk:Kjp993

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User talk:Dzinpa~enwikinews

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User talk:Prosfilaes

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jail, jailor
Preferred over gaol, gaoler which are historic terms in almost all uses. Note that in many regions youth cannot legally be "jailed", but are sentenced to detention in a youth detention centre.

jail sentences
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JavaScript
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Jerusalem
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Do not use the Wikipedia article about Jerusalem as a reference; like the city, it is currently dominated by a pro-Israeli POV.

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Roman font, lower case, but use cautiously. Jihad is a noun for the concept "struggle", which is not necessarily violence directed outward but also the personal internal struggle to live a holy life. At the same time, a fundamentalist view of Islam includes jihad both to protect the ummah (the world Islamic community) and to expand Islam.

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User talk:Christomax~enwikinews

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Comments:Big Ben dropped from ITV News at Ten opening sequence

Ridiculous. Big Ben is a symbol of the UK, not just London. I'm from the north of England and certainly don't have a problem with it, nor does anyone else I know. Anyway, I'm sure this "revamp" will just be another step in ITN's attempt to actually become The Day Today.

Also, this is funny: http://www.b3ta.com/board/9759106

-- the wub "?!"  11:06, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

 * That's an unbelievable silly idea. --213.155.231.26 (talk) 17:24, 24 October 2009 (UTC)


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Comments:70 killed after tanker explosion in Nigeria

I had release in another on-line Nigerian News site, about how my feonsei, Anne Cosgrove, was also in the serious accident. But, she was charged as a passener along with the driver of the car she was in,as being responsable. After much poltical endeavors, as to why chargeing an Amercan Citizen falsey, would be their own un-doing, I finally got an email from my feonsei.

Anne and a doctor treaing the minor injuries that Anne suffered as a result of the accident, veriied that the one who pressed bogus charges on her, dropped the charges,BUT still was chargeing the driver. However, since he isnt an American, then I leave that between the driver and thier attorney.

It was further ageed, that the one who droped the bogus charges, that shouldnt have been issued to start; replace, reimburse,or get my feonsei~new Plane Tickets, since they were at fault for causing her current plane tickets to expire. She was stuck in Nigeria, after an $80,000.00 USD~surgery. (as a result of a bad case, of Hepititus Disease)

She couldnt be allowd by the Nigerian Government to leave, until the bill was paid. I had contacted the sources I have, and long story short; the Amercan Embassy paid for all expenses, except $300.00. (I had to pay for that myself.) Embassy also paid for her tickets to fly back home, to USA; to join me in Yaka WA USA.

But the accident that caused a delay, and bogus charges that occured, thus caused the tickets to expire. Even if not charged, she could have recieved minor treatment, and made her flight on-time; with 1-2 minutes to spare.

Again, the settlement is; The guy who dropped the charges, will cover her fight expense back to Yakima, Washington USA, as per terms of OUR agreement. Furthermore, since Nigerain Courts still need her testimony in November, 2009 as a witness for some reason; it is also agreed, that since she is charged for being put up at hospital, till she can be given her documents and passort back, the $300.00 be split in half.

I agreed to a 1/2 at 2 payments, of 150.00, while they cover the other half, at $150.00. Once she is done giving testimony, her documents and Pasport, are said to be returned to her then, not before; as she will be on the way by, NO LATER THAN December 15th, 2009. That is when I meet her about 2 days later, at Yakima, WA USA Airport. So, I promised as part of the agreement, to posting a retraction; with update on an American Citizens status; my feonsei, Anne Cosgrove.

I look forward to the verified news of the hearing, and of Anne's documents and Passport being released back to her. When Anne returns, we intend to be married. May my love and thoughts be with her, till then...


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User talk:AquaTeen13

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I had started the article Miramax shut down by Disney. However, I need a little work on it. How does it get into the Newsroom?

Hellooo?!? Isn't anyone going to help?

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User talk:Earlytoday

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User:AquaTeen13

Username: AquaTeen13

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I'm into a lot of stuff. For example, I like to read books. I also like going on the computer to do stuff, including looking up stuff at Wikipedia. That's why I created an account. I also like debating about issues so my talk is the plce you want to go to next

I'm into writing entertainment articles

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User talk:Hassan amam

Welcome
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User talk:REUTERS

Tempodivalse [talk]  14:31, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

I've had to block this account; please create a new one. I don't think it is appropriate for you to use the name of a competing news agency as your username. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 14:40, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

 * No one ever said you were an open proxy. Please see WN:U for the reason for your block. If you want me to change your username to something other than another news organization, please say so here. Thanks. Bawolff ☺☻ 15:15, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

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Russian passenger airliner makes safe landing in Moscow after concerns of gear damage

October 25, 2009 A Russian passenger airliner safely landed at the Vnukovo airport in Moscow on Saturday, after concerns that its landing gear might have been damaged.

The plane, an Airbus A330 with 267 passengers aboard, had departed from Vladivostok, en route to Moscow. Shortly after takeoff, pieces of landing gear were discovered on the runway, which were "most likely from that particular airplane," according to an Emergency Ministry spokesman.

It was decided to continue to Moscow instead of returning to Vladivostok to land, since the latter option would require the plane to burn or dump off excess fuel before preparing to make an emergency landing.

Oleg Pesko, the chief of the Vnukovo airport press center, said that the Airbus made a safe non-emergency landing at the airport just before 11.00 UTC. He said that the emergency services of the airport had been placed on alert before the landing, and that the Vladivostok Avia airline, which operated the jet, would conduct an investigation into whether the tyres were indeed damaged.

"It's still unknown whether the problem was with this Airbus or not. The airline will find out after a special examination," he said.

Passengers on board the flight said that they were not aware of any problems while en route. "The flight went smoothly, there was nothing unusual. We were only told where we were and what temperature it was outside," one passenger said, as quoted by the NTV news agency.


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Note to the reviewer
Just a note to whoever is going to be reviewing this, for ease of verifying: Everything can be verified by the two English language sources, except for the last paragraph, which is backed by the third-to-last paragraph in the Russian-language source. Tempodivalse [talk]  14:36, 24 October 2009 (UTC)


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Comments:Canadian news doesn't interest Prime Minister, prefers to watch American

Lol. At least Harper watches good ole' hockeu night in Canada....Bawolff ☺☻ 15:06, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Completely Expected
This is totally expected from Canada's G. W. Bush. Only difference between him and Bush is that he's still in power...for now... 99.236.129.191 (talk) 23:22, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

It's True
If the Prime Minister likes to watch Fox news, then it is true that Canadians ought to be worried. Fox news is (as recently stated by presidential media representatives) a propaganda arm of the U.S.'s republican party. News or information comes second on that station. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.168.79.214 (talk) 22:32, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Prime Minister Harper prefers to watch American news rather than Canadian.
I can certainly relate to Stephen Harper's preference for American news, as our Canadian Media is so left wing it is disgusting. If Canadian Media would report in a non partisan manner, they would regain my own interest and that of the majority of Canadians who after all, voted for the PC Party led by Stephen Harper. 108.60.191.125 (talk) 17:39, 20 October 2013 (UTC)


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Zimbabwean police raid MDC party's offices

October 26, 2009 According to the Zimbabwean finance minister, a building belonging to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party was raided by police on Friday. The police had reportedly been searching for weapons.

The MDC secretary-general, Tendai Biti, said that the house, located in a suburb of Zimbabwe's capital Harare, was "ransacked" by several dozen armed policemen after dark on Friday. One of the rooms in the building had been searched, and police confiscated what Biti called "valuable party documents".

The secretary-general accused President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party of being behind the raid, wanting the country's unity government to fail, describing it as "provocation". "They are behind this attack. Our decision of pulling out of the inclusive government infuriated ZANU-PF and this is the price we now pay for that decision," he said.

The police have not yet released a statement regarding the raid.

Tsvangirai and his MDC party had pulled out of the coalition government last week, accusing Mugabe’s party of not complying with the unity government deal made last year, and oppressing opponents. Mugabe, however, dismissed the boycott, calling it a “non-event”, and said that his party would not alter its plans or agree to the MDC's demands.


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Niger’s ruling party wins majority in parliament after elections

October 25, 2009 According to Niger’s election commission, President 's party won a large majority in the after recent elections held on Tuesday.

76 of 113 total seats were taken by Tandja's party, and a further 21 seats were taken by smaller parties supportive of the president. Twelve independents also received seats in the parliament. Opposition parties boycotted the ballot after Tandja altered the constitution to allow him to extend his time in office past the limit of ten years, and seek a third term.

Reports of turnout varied widely, indicating that between 18% and 80% of people voted. Turnout in rural areas was reported to have been higher, while fewer voters cast their ballots in Niger's capital.

The elections, however, have been condemned by some in the international community. The polls were organised despite pressure for them to be postponed. Several days ago, the ECOWAS trade bloc suspended Niger when it refused to heed calls to postpone the ballot, and said it would not recognise the election’s results. The country’s Foreign Minister Aichatou Mindaoudou responded to ECOWAS’ decision, saying that the bloc didn’t understand Niger’s political dynamics. Niger has asked for the bloc to reconsider the suspension.


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Comments:More than 300 arrested in over two days after US drug operation

¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Thousands of people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico in recent years.?????????????????

Recommended reading
Christopher Blatchford - "The Black Hand" History of the Mexican Mafia's beginnings in Southern California as well as their later rival formed in Arizona. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.167.63.60 (talk) 21:43, 26 October 2009 (UTC)


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User talk:Tranvanhoang

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User:Horologium

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Please contact me on my talk page there; I do not check my talk page here.

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Heavy 7.0 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia

October 25, 2009

A heavy earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck deep underwater off the eastern shores of Indonesia on Saturday, officials said.

According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake's epicentre was located 365 kilometers into the Banda Sea, southeast of Ambon Island in the Maluku Islands.

Many people rushed to higher ground following the earthquake, fearing that a tsunami was generated, but the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said the quake was too deep below the surface to cause any waves. A tsunami alert was initially issued by Indonesia, but it was soon lifted.

The earthquake comes as Indonesia is still recovering from a powerful tremor that struck the area last month, which killed over a thousand people in western Sumatra.


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Obama declares swine flu emergency in US

October 25, 2009 US president Barack Obama declared a swine flu emergency in the country on Saturday, according to a statement released by the White House.

Obama signed a declaration late on Friday, authorising health secretary Kathleen Sebelius to bypass some federal rules, in order to let health officials respond more efficiently to the outbreak of the H1N1 virus. The move is aimed at making it less difficult for people affected by the virus to seek treatment, and allow medical providers to give it immediately, bypassing potential hurdles such as health privacy regulations.

"As a nation, we have prepared at all levels of government, and as individuals and communities, taking unprecedented steps to counter the emerging pandemic," the president wrote in the declaration.

Swine flu has now been circulated in 46 of the 50 US states, and has resulted in at least 411 confirmed deaths since the end of August. Production of antiviral vaccines has been slower than initially predicted, and it is likely that the US government's targets for delivery won't be met by drug makers, according to Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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User:U7a

U7A means the United States of America. The land of freedom.  Hi, my name is Alexander Kalinins (or somebody uses Kalinin) Lazarewicz. Originally from Latvia and i have two citizenships but still cannot get a latvian passport. As for patriots of a bornland it is seriously. I have close connections with Germans and at the moment stay in Russia. Also i have other ideas that was not posted here but know who knows it from me. Just waiting to see any hint after ill post it on the board. * banking machine with german accent (11.2007) * new age of retail trade with finnish accent (06.2008)

iq+imagination is a nice mix! Here are the links to the pages created by me.

* WiFi universal card (2004 year) * New diplomacy (short version) 2004 year * Stimulation package (2005 year) * Maximum effect retailing (2004 year) * Mind's reader (editor?) 2004 year * Satellite navigation (1994 year) * Cash registrator (2002-2003 year) * New keys (2004 year)

U7a, Alexander Kalinins Lazars son, 8 street 17, Ul Yanovka (or Sablino), Saint-Petersburg, Russia 00:13, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

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At least 25 dead after train crash in Egypt

October 25, 2009 A train crash in Egypt killed at least 25 people on Saturday, officials said. Varying reports gave the number of injured between 24 and 55. Police officials have warned, however, that the true death toll might be much higher.

The incident occurred in the village of Guerzah, near the city of Giza. Two passengers trains were travelling in the same direction on the same track, when the one in front made an unexpected stop, reportedly after driving over a cow. The train behind it, however, continued cruising at a normal speed until running into the back of the stopped train.

A security official said to the Agence France-Presse news agency that "the trains were travelling on the same track. One ran into the other as they headed towards Upper Egypt."

Tens of ambulances were dispatched to the scene of the accident. A crane was even used by rescue teams to lift a crushed wagon to try and find bodies underneath it.

Railway accidents along Egypt's busy networks are not infrequent. At least twenty people were killed when a bus was hit by a train in northwestern Egypt in July of last year. In August 2006, 58 died and over a hundred were wounded after a train slammed into another one on the tracks. The country's worst rail disaster, however, was in February 2002, when at least 361 were killed after a passenger set fire to a moving train while using a stove.


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User talk:Marine rebel

Welcome
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Wikinews:Dynamic quiz/quiz/2009/44

Welcome to the Wikinews World News Quiz, giving you a chance to test your knowledge on this week's news.

Last Updated: October 25, 2009

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User talk:Pathosvandaı

Welcome
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User:Bawolff/sandbox/wiktLookupDevelopment.js

/*****************

If you wish to use this elsewhere, please do not copy it, but instead hotlink it. This is still undergoing active development, and you will miss out if you just statically copy it. To hotlink, copy only the following line:

mw.loader.load('http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-dictionaryLookupHover.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

See http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/WN:WiktLookup#Wiktionary_lookup_gadget_.28Hover_box_variety.29 for details on this script, and how to use it on your own site.

Note this script can take a number of parameters. Parameters are stored in the wiktLookup object. Generally its a good idea to set parameters before the onload event is fired (some parameters it matters, others it doesn't). An example of parameters would be using the following js code (don't feel like you have to set all of them. they all have defaults. this is just an example):

if (!window.wiktLookup) wiktLookup = {}; wiktLookup.count = 1; //number of defn to return. wiktLookup.showWord = bold; // to show what word we're looking up. one of bold, none, link wiktLookup.noRedir = false;// true to stop magic (not mediawiki)-redirection. unrecomended wiktLookup.audio = true;// true, false, autoplay. NOT IMPLEMENTED wiktLookup.width = 500; // width of box. make sure number not string. in units of pixels. wiktLookup.height = 400; //- height of box wiktLookup.key = 'w';// - ctrl+shift+key makes box popup (should be lowercase. default is 'l') wiktLookup.reverseShift = false; // - if set, requires shift+double click to lookup a word. wiktLookup.mode = context; // - context, bottom. default to context. to display as tooltip, or at bottom wiktLookup.definitionBegin = 'Definition ('; // - for i18n. in english it is 'Definition ('. used in mode='bottom' wiktLookup.definitionEnd = '):'; // - for i18n. in English it is '):' used in bottom mode wiktLookup.hideText = 'hide'; //- for i18n. in English it is 'hide'. used in bottom mode.

/*** This is the development version of the gadget js.***/ /* Stolen from fr wikinews, and than subsequently heavily modified by Bawolff. This script is based on the french one created by en:wiktionary:User:Bequw and en:wiktionary:User:Conrad.Irwin. The bottom mode is heavily based on work done by fr:wikt:user:Darkdadaah.

Special thanks for wikinews:User:Amgine, fr:Wikinews:User:Otourly, fr:wikinews:user:Sniff, fr:Wikinews:User:JackPotte, en:wikibooks:user:TestPilot, and many others for support and assistance.

The current version of this is maintained by Bawolff. please don't hesitate to contact me (bawolff - http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/user_talk:Bawolff ) if you have any issues, comments, bugs, need help, or whatever.

/*global wgUserLanguage, wgContentLanguage, window, hookEvent, addOnloadHook, XSLTProcessor*/ /*jslint browser: true, undef: true, nomen: true, eqeqeq: true, bitwise: true, newcap: true, immed: true, maxerr: 80 */

/*members TEXT_NODE, addEventListener, appendChild, attachEvent, body, border, charAt, clientWidth, clientX, clientY, cloneContents, cloneRange, collapse, createElement, createRange, data, detach, display, documentElement, en, endContainer, endOffset, event, expand, findWord, firstChild, focus, fr, fra, frc, fre, getElementById, getInnerWidth, getRangeAt, getScrollX, getScrollY, getSelection, height, id, innerWidth, left, length, lookupWord, match, nl, nodeType, ondblclick, open, pageXOffset, pageYOffset, position, preferLang, preventDefault, rangeOffset, rangeParent, rangeToWord, readyState, replace, returnValue, scrollLeft, scrollTop, selection, setEnd, setStart, setup, shiftKey, split, src, startContainer, startOffset, stopPropagation, stripAfterDash, style, substring, text, toString, top, useNewWindow, validLangs, wgUserLanguage, width, wiktDomain, wiktLookup, zIndex, audio, count, toUpperCase, audio, noRedir

//set wiktLookup.useNewWindow to true to force new window. if (!window.wiktLookup) var wiktLookup = {}; wiktLookup.key = wiktLookup.key ? wiktLookup.key : 'l'; /* Options: count - numb results to return showWord - bold, none, link noRedir - true to stop redirection audio - true, false, autoplay width - width of box height - height of box key - ctrl+shift+key makes box popup (should be lowercase) reverseShift - if set, requires shift+double click to lookup a word. mode - context, bottom. default to context definitionBegin - for i18n. in english it is 'Definition (' definitionEnd - for i18n. in English it is '):' hideText - for i18n. in English it is 'hide';

wiktLookup.validLangs = {en: "en", fr: "fr", frc: "fr", fra: "fr", fre: "fr", nl: "nl", es: 'es', it: 'it', ja: 'ja'}; wiktLookup.wiktDomain = 'en'; //default wiktLookup.stripAfterDash = /-.*$/; if (wiktLookup.validLangs[wgUserLanguage]) { wiktLookup.wiktDomain = wiktLookup.validLangs[wgUserLanguage]; } else if (wiktLookup.validLangs[wgUserLanguage.replace(wiktLookup.stripAfterDash)]) { wiktLookup.wiktDomain = wiktLookup.validLangs[wgUserLanguage.replace(wiktLookup.stripAfterDash)]; } else if (wiktLookup.validLangs[wgContentLanguage]) { wiktLookup.wiktDomain = wiktLookup.validLangs[wgContentLanguage]; } else if (wiktLookup.validLangs[wgContentLanguage.replace(wiktLookup.stripAfterDash)]) { wiktLookup.wiktDomain = wiktLookup.validLangs[wgContentLanguage.replace(wiktLookup.stripAfterDash)]; }

if (!wiktLookup.preferLang) wiktLookup.preferLang = (window.wgContentLanguage ? wgContentLanguage : wiktLookup.wiktDomain );

wiktLookup.getOptions = function { var opt = ''; if (wiktLookup.count) opt += '&count=' + wiktLookup.count; if (wiktLookup.showWord) opt += '&showWord=' + wiktLookup.showWord; if (wiktLookup.audio) opt += '&audio=' + wiktLookup.audio; if (wiktLookup.noRedir) opt += '&rd=500';

return opt; }

wiktLookup.rangeToWord = function (selection) { //includes apostraphes //fixme: if at begin of container. var finalText = selection.toString; try { var expandWord = /['\-]/ //list of chars that are not actual word boundries. var range = selection.getRangeAt(0); var rangeBefore = range.cloneRange; if (rangeBefore.startOffset !== 0 ) { rangeBefore.setStart(rangeBefore.startContainer, rangeBefore.startOffset - 1); var textNode = rangeBefore.cloneContents.firstChild; if (textNode.nodeType === 3 && expandWord.test(textNode.data.charAt(0))) { for (var i = 0; i < 30 /*to stop run-away*/; i++) { rangeBefore.setStart(rangeBefore.startContainer, rangeBefore.startOffset - 1); textNode = rangeBefore.cloneContents.firstChild; if ((textNode.nodeType !== 3) || (textNode.nodeType === 3 && textNode.data.match(/^\s/))) { rangeBefore.setStart(rangeBefore.startContainer, rangeBefore.startOffset + 1); finalText = rangeBefore.toString; rangeBefore.detach; range.detach; return finalText; }         else if (rangeBefore.startOffset === 0) { //at the end of the range. this might add periods, which are stripped later. finalText = rangeBefore.toString; rangeBefore.detach; range.detach; return finalText; }       }      }    }    rangeBefore.detach; //done with it. var rangeAfter = range.cloneRange; rangeAfter.setEnd(rangeAfter.endContainer, rangeAfter.endOffset + 1); var textNode = rangeAfter.cloneContents.firstChild; //double var... if (textNode.nodeType === 3 && expandWord.test(textNode.data.charAt(textNode.data.length - 1))) { for (var i = 0; i < 30 /*to stop run-away*/; i++) { rangeAfter.setEnd(rangeAfter.endContainer, rangeAfter.endOffset + 1); textNode = rangeAfter.cloneContents.firstChild; if ((textNode.nodeType !== 3) || (textNode.nodeType === 3 && textNode.data.match(/\s$/))) { rangeAfter.setEnd(rangeAfter.endContainer, rangeAfter.endOffset - 1); finalText = rangeAfter.toString; rangeAfter.detach; range.detach; return finalText; } else if (rangeAfter.endOffset - rangeAfter.endContainer.data.length === 0) { // this assumes this is a text node... this might add periods, which are stripped later. finalText = rangeAfter.toString; rangeAfter.detach; range.detach; return finalText; }     }    }    rangeAfter.detach; //no match, and done with this range. } catch (e) { if (window.range) {range.detach;} return finalText; } return finalText; }

wiktLookup.findWord = function (e) { if (!e) {e = window.event;} if (e.shiftKey && e.type === 'dblclick' && !wiktLookup.reverseShift) { return true; //don't do anything if shift is pressed down. for compat with other things. } if (!e.shiftKey && e.type === 'dblclick' && wiktLookup.reverseShift) { return true; //if reverse shift is on, require shift key for double click. } var clientX, clientY, coordsAbs, langOverride; if (e.clientX) {//this implies has Y as well clientX = e.clientX; clientY = e.clientY; } // stolen from http://www.codetoad.com/javascript_get_selected_text.asp var text; if (window.getSelection) { text = wiktLookup.rangeToWord(window.getSelection); if (!clientX) { try { //mostly for from keyboard requests var parent = window.getSelection.anchorNode.parentNode; clientX = parent.offsetLeft + 7*window.getSelection.anchorOffset; //this is very rough clientY = parent.offsetTop + parent.offsetHeight; //at bottom of elm coordsAbs = true; while (parent = parent.offsetParent) { clientX += parent.offsetLeft; clientY += parent.offsetTop; }    } catch (e) {} }   try { //figure out what language the current node is. var cur = window.getSelection.anchorNode.parentNode; for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) { if (cur.lang) { langOverride = cur.lang.replace(wiktLookup.stripAfterDash); break; } else { if (cur.parentNode) {cur = cur.parentNode;} else {break;} }     }    }    catch (e) { /*ignore error*/ } } else if (document.getSelection) { text = wiktLookup.rangeToWord(document.getSelection); }

if (!clientX) { clientX = 400; clientY = 200; //good as numbers as any... }

if (text && text.length < 32) { //If we have the text. we be done. return wiktLookup.lookupWord(text, clientX, clientY, coordsAbs, langOverride); }

// seems to work somewhat on moz. Hopefully moz will be picked up above. So this shouldn't be neccesary. if (e.rangeParent && e.rangeParent.nodeType === document.TEXT_NODE) { //mozilla part var rangeOffset = e.rangeOffset; var my_rangestr = e.rangeParent.data; //the event is dynamic!

// which word the rangeOffset is in   var wordlist1 = my_rangestr.substring(0, rangeOffset).split(/\s+/); var wordlist2 = my_rangestr.substring(rangeOffset, my_rangestr.length).split(/\s+/);

if (my_rangestr.length > 0) { wiktLookup.lookupWord(wordlist1[wordlist1.length - 1]+wordlist2[0], clientX, clientY, coordsAbs, langOverride); }   e.preventDefault; e.stopPropagation; } //IE specific stuff. Try this as a last resort. else { try { if (document.readyState !== "complete") return false; //IE var my_range = document.selection.createRange; my_range.collapse; my_range.expand("word");

wiktLookup.lookupWord(my_range.text, clientX, clientY, coordsAbs, langOverride);; e.returnValue = false; return false; } catch (err) { /*ignore*/ } } } wiktLookup.getScrollX = function  { //standard if (window.pageXOffset !== undefined) { return window.pageXOffset; } //IE 6 in standards mode if (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.scrollLeft !== undefined) { return document.documentElement.scrollLeft; } //other IE if (document.body && document.body.scrollLeft !== undefined) { return document.body.scrollLeft; } return 0; //default } wiktLookup.getScrollY = function { //standard if (window.pageYOffset !== undefined) { return window.pageYOffset; } //IE 6 in standards mode if (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.scrollTop !== undefined) { return document.documentElement.scrollTop; } //other IE if (document.body && document.body.scrollTop !== undefined) { return document.body.scrollTop; } return 0; } wiktLookup.getInnerWidth = function { //standard if (window.innerWidth !== undefined) { return window.innerWidth; } //IE 6 in standards mode if (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientWidth !== undefined) { return document.documentElement.clientWidth; } //other IE if (document.body && document.body.clientWidth !== undefined) { return document.body.clientWidth; } return 0; } wiktLookup.lookupWord = function(word, x, y, absCoords,langOveride) { if (!word.match(/(?:^[\wa-zA-Zа-яА-Яà-žÀ-ŽΑ-ῥԱ-ևぁ-ヶ促-杁ㄱ-하ⁿßſ]|[\wa-zA-Zа-яА-Яà-žÀ-ŽΑ-ῥԱ-ևぁ-ヶ促-杁ㄱ-하ⁿßſ]\s?$)/)) { //this regex doesn't work if word starts or ends with accents. //is this regex even needed? var word2 = word.match(/\b(?:[\S]|(?!\.\s)\.)*\b/); //strip quotation marks } var s = word2 ? word2[0] : word //if regex failed, fall back to word if (!s) {return false;} // test if null or empty. s = encodeURIComponent(s);

if (!wiktLookup.supported) { //This includes IE, which doesn't recognize the mime type mediawiki uses. // in future this could put the window where user clicked. var newwin = window.open('http://' + wiktLookup.wiktDomain + '.wiktionary.org/wiki/' + s + '?uselang=' + wiktLookup.preferLang,'temp','height=450,width=800,location,menubar,toolbar,status,resizable,scrollbars'); if (newwin) { newwin.focus; }     return true; }

var frame = document.getElementById('dict-popup-frame'); frame.src = 'about:blank'; //don't display old results. frame.style.display = 'block'; frame.src = 'http://' + wiktLookup.wiktDomain + '.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=parse&redirects&prop=text&format=xml&xslt=MediaWiki:extractFirst.xsl&page=' + s + '&lang=' + (langOveride ? langOveride : wiktLookup.preferLang) + wiktLookup.getOptions; var left, top; if (!absCoords) { var left = x + wiktLookup.getScrollX; if (left + (wiktLookup.width ? wiktLookup.width : 420) > wiktLookup.getInnerWidth && left - (wiktLookup.width ? wiktLookup.width : 420) > 0) { left -= (wiktLookup.width ? wiktLookup.width  : 420); }     top = (y + wiktLookup.getScrollY + 10); }   else { top = y + 10; left = x;   } frame.style.top = top +'px'; frame.style.left= left +'px'; document.getElementById('dict-popup-container').style.display = 'block'; }

wiktLookup.setup = function { if (document.addEventListener) { document.addEventListener("dblclick", wiktLookup.findWord, true); //capture } else if (document.attachEvent) { document.attachEvent("ondblclick", wiktLookup.findWord); } else { document.ondblclick = wiktLookup.findWord; }

hookEvent('keypress', function(event) {  if (!event) event = window.event;  if (!(event.ctrlKey && event.shiftKey)) return true;  var key = (event.charCode ? event.charCode : event.keyCode);

if (key && (String.fromCharCode(key) === wiktLookup.key || String.fromCharCode(key) === wiktLookup.key.toUpperCase)) { wiktLookup.findWord(event); if (event.preventDefault) event.preventDefault; return false; } return true; }); } wiktLookup.supported = function { if (navigator && navigator.userAgent && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') !== -1 && navigator.productSub  && navigator.productSub <= 20090823 && navigator.productSub > 2000000) {  //old moz has broken support for html entities.  //FIXME: figure out exact date when gecko was fixed.  return false; }

if (wiktLookup.useNewWindow) return false; if (window.XSLTProcessor) return true; //note: IE doesn't have this. return false; }

$(wiktLookup.setup);

$(function {  if (!wiktLookup.definitionBegin) wiktLookup.definitionBegin = 'Definition ('; if (!wiktLookup.definitionEnd) wiktLookup.definitionEnd = '):'; if (!wiktLookup.hideText) wiktLookup.hideText = 'hide';

var div = document.createElement('div'); div.id = 'dict-popup-container'; var frame = document.createElement('iframe'); frame.style.border = 'none'; if (wiktLookup.mode !== 'bottom') frame.style.position = 'absolute'; frame.style.display = 'none'; frame.style.zIndex = '102'; if (wiktLookup.mode === 'bottom') { frame.style.width = '98%'; } else { frame.style.width = (wiktLookup.width ? wiktLookup.width + 'px' : '420px'); //default 300 if unset } frame.style.height = (wiktLookup.height ? wiktLookup.height + 'px' : '180px'); //default 150 if unset. frame.id = 'dict-popup-frame'; frame.src = 'about:blank';

if (wiktLookup.mode === 'bottom') { div.style.padding = '0.3em'; div.style.display = 'none'; div.style.position = 'fixed'; div.style.margin = '0'; div.style.bottom = '0'; div.style.zIndex = '50'; div.style.background = 'url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wiktionary-logo.svg/840px-Wiktionary-logo.svg.png) white no-repeat 30%'; div.style.borderTop = 'solid thin black'; div.style.width = '100%';

div.appendChild(document.createTextNode(wiktLookup.definitionBegin)); var link = document.createElement('a'); link.href = '#'; link.onclick = wiktLookup.hide; link.appendChild(document.createTextNode(wiktLookup.hideText)); div.appendChild(link); div.appendChild(document.createTextNode(wiktLookup.definitionEnd)); } div.appendChild(frame); document.body.appendChild(div);

});

wiktLookup.hide = function { try { var frame = document.getElementById('dict-popup-frame'); if (frame.src !== 'about:blank') frame.src = 'about:blank'; //transparent frame.style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('dict-popup-container').style.display = 'none'; } catch(e) {/*ignore*/ } } hookEvent('click', wiktLookup.hide);


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MediaWiki:WiktionaryLookup-external.js

/***********

NOTE: If this script is loaded after the page loads, use http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/MediaWiki:WiktionaryLookup-external-bookmarklet.js instead.

This script is for external sites (blogs) to add the wiktionary look up gadget.

Add

To the head (FIXME: that url should probably have a s-maxage param)...

- This script implements the following functions/variables normally provided by the mediawiki environment: wgUserLanguage, wgContentLanguage, hookEvent.

This script than loads the main script.

if (!window.wgContentLanguage) { var wgContentLanguage; if (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.lang) { wgContentLanguage = document.documentElement.lang; } /** body not loaded yet else if (document.body && document.body.lang) { wgContentLanguage = document.body.lang; } else { //default to english. wgContentLanguage = "en"; } } if (!window.wgUserLanguage) { var wgUserLanguage = wgContentLanguage; }

/********** The following are adapted from mediawiki's wikibits.js. See http://mediawiki.org. As such they are under the GPL function hookEvent(attach, handler) { if (window.addEventListener) { document.addEventListener(attach, handler, false); } else if (window.attachEvent) { document.attachEvent("on" + attach, handler); } }

//This is assumed to be called well the document is loading. //this is temp url for testing. document.write(" ");

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Comments:Addan495

Somalia_news-Addan[[File:]]
Years of fighting between rival warlords and an inability to deal with famine and disease have led to the deaths of up to one million people. Comprised of a former British protectorate and an Italian colony, Somalia was created in 1960 when the two territories merged. Since then its development has been slow. Relations with neighbours have been soured by its territorial claims on Somali-inhabited areas of Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti. Years of fighting between rival warlords and an inability to deal with famine and disease have led to the deaths of up to one million people.

how to watch movie for free from wikimovie

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British pilot dies in plane crash; nine passengers survive

October 25, 2009

A British pilot has died in a plane crash in the Caribbean Sea but managed to help save the lives of the nine passengers on the plane. Robert Mansell, aged 32, was a pilot who lived in the village of Knowle in the West Midlands of England. He had previously worked with Windward Islands Airways but was flying planes for Divi Divi Air at the time of his death.

At 0930 local time, Mansell was flying with his nine passengers between the Caribbean islands of Curaçao and Bonaire when the right engine of his Britten-Norman Islander light aircraft failed. At this time the height above sea level was roughly 3,500 feet. The pilot made a mayday call. It has emerged that the last words that he said on the transmission were: "I’ve lost control of one of my engines…so long." The aircraft then crashed into the Caribbean Sea.

The passengers — seven of them local, two of them tourists from the Netherlands — managed to escape from the plane and were rescued by services in the area. The impact of the crash caused the pilot and several passengers to lose consciousness, however the passengers managed to recover and escape, suffering only minor head injuries.

Two passengers tried to rescue the pilot as the plane was beginning to sink and Robert was still unconscious. However, the crash had damaged the safety harness attached to the pilot, and the passengers were unable to free him. They were left with no choice but to escape through the plane door when they noticed that it was beginning to sink. The body of Mansell has yet to be found but the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has now confirmed that he died on Wednesday, with a spokesperson for them saying: "We are aware of the death of a British national in a plane crash near Curaçao."

"He's a hero," said Simon Janzen from Divi Divi Air. "All the passengers survived and he is the only one missing. If he wasn't a good pilot, he couldn't have ditched it so everyone could be saved. Other pilots wouldn't have known what to do but he landed the aircraft so that everyone could get out safely."

Robert Mansell's father Roger expressed his disapproval. "I am furious," commented Roger. "If you have nine people on board and a plane is overloaded and a problem develops, it becomes much harder to fix." Roger said that Robert had repeatedly explained to him problems about overloading, as the weight of the luggage and the passengers was not checked properly. Roger continued: "He was a wonderful son and a hero. Quite how he managed to bring the plane down in the water like that without it breaking apart is beyond me. It is a miracle that the passengers survived."

In response to the allegations made, Germaine Richie who is the owner of Divi Divi Air, made a comment saying: "We reject any allegations that we are overloading planes and putting safety at risk."


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Comments:CNN hires three conservative commentators

you are already conservative enough....not much to watch on CNN as it is..very biased Larry, Sunja, are gteat, but not a positive trend...all there is on t.v. is radical right. WHY would you hire these three angry not very bright people....all they do is argue to argue. I watch MSNBC - what a joy to watch a bright positive person like Keith Oberman or some of other evening anchors. They think things through and appear brilliant compared to Glen Beck, and others who dont know what "Seeing the core of an issue" means. We have little hope for a loving and kind society with these ungodly antagonistic people who profess to be religious.

Faux News already yells for the Right we need blanced News not Rightwing loons.


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User talk:Poco a poco

Welcome
Tempodivalse [talk]  13:27, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

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User talk:Heba9

Welcome
Tempodivalse [talk]  13:28, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

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Comments:Heavy 7.0 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia

Hur hur hur.

It's sad to see all of this happening right now. But really, why do these natural disasters start happening after the presidential election? InaWarMinister (talk) 13:32, 25 October 2009 (UTC)


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User talk:InaWarMinister

Welcome
Tempodivalse [talk]  13:31, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

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