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Hi Drog! - Amgine/talk 29 June 2005 00:55 (UTC)

Hello. - Drog 29 June 2005 01:43 (UTC)

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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 Sebino. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Sebino~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.

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New top-level domain names created

April 12, 2005

At the recently held 22nd ICANN International Conference in Mar del Plata, Argentina, the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), officially designated three new top level domain names: .jobs and .travel and .eu.

Tralliance will operate the new .travel domain and Employ Media will operate the .jobs. domain. Registration will start in a couple of months. Prices have yet to been determined.

.jobs was created for the use of personnel businesses, .travel for the travel industry, and .eu will be used by organizations based in the European Union.

ICANN has also entered into negotiations with registries for .cat, .post and .mobi domains.

The ICANN, established by the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1998, is a non-profit corporation responsible for the technical coordination of the Internet through the assignment of domain names and IP addresses.

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Cloned cattle's milk and meat seem safe, according to new study

April 12, 2005

A National Academy of Sciences report (.pdf) last year said that while the milk and meat from cloned animals would not likely make anyone sick, more research should be performed. Now, a new US-Japan study published in the April 11 online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that milk and meat from cloned cattle does indeed appear to meet industry standards and appears to be safe for human consumption.

As BBC News reports, the scientists, led by Professor Jerry Yang from the University of Connecticut, compared the produce from two beef and four dairy clones, all derived from a single Holstein dairy cow and a single Japanese black bull, with the produce from normal animals of similar age and breed.

The meat was analysed against more than 100 physiological, tissue and cellular components, while the milk was analysed for protein, fat and other variables. No significant differences between the produce of cloned and normal cattle were found. Higher levels of fat and fatty acids were found in the cloned cow meat, but they still fell within beef industry standards.

While the study showed the cloned produce to be within the range approved for human consumption, the scientists stressed that the research was still in its early stages. Their findings, they said, provide "guidelines" for further research with larger numbers of clones from different genetic backgrounds.

Cloning livestock may one day increase yields by copying those animals that are especially productive and especially resistant to disease.

"The milking production levels in the US are three to four times higher than levels in China; maybe even five times or more compared to cows in India and some other countries," Professor Jerry Yang told BBC News. "Therefore cloning could offer technology for duplicating superior farm animals. However, all the products from these cloned animals must be safe for human consumption. ...and it is a major issue for scientists to provide a scientific basis for the data and information to address this question."

As USA Today reports, there is currently no law governing the sale of meat or milk from the estimated 1,000 to 2,000 cloned farm animals in the USA. But since 2003, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked producers to voluntarily keep the meat and milk of these animals, and that of their offspring, out of the food supply.

Wired News reports that companies like ViaGen and Cyagra, which offer livestock-cloning services, have also been waiting for several years for a final say from the FDA.

"For the United States agricultural industry, (cloning) can reduce the number of cows necessary for milking," said Jerry Yang "They can have a pleasant environment and produce even more milk." He also said that cloning cattle from the United States, where genetic breeding is more advanced, could save developing countries 50 years of breeding.

The idea of cloning animals for human consumption is not without its critics. First, there are the welfare concerns, as most cloned animals do not make it to term before being born, and many of those that do are born deformed or prone to illness. The Humane Society of the United States has asked for a ban on milk and meat from clones for just this reason. Second, there is still the concern that healthy clones may have subtle defects that could make their food products unsafe to eat.

As the Washington Post reports, some critics are asking why it is necessary to clone cows that produce huge amounts of milk when surpluses, rather than shortages, are the main problem facing the U.S. dairy industry today.


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The following bit needs heavy editing:

 * The same surplus of milk was true back when Monsanto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto) introduced their genetically engineered recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_somatotropin) to the marketplace a couple of years ago. It is reported to have caused [1] (http://www.ejnet.org/bgh/nogood.html) caused all sorts of problems.

I'm not sure what the goal was, but clearly it was not objectively reporting the news, and much of it is not coherent english.

 * Tghis article came from Submit a Story so im not 100% certain either... but i've made a stab at it. → CGorman (Talk)  21:42, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

This was my first story submitted here so I inadvertantly put it in Submit a Story first before realizing I could put it into the Developing Stories list myself, and there seemed to be no way to remove it from Submit a Story afterwards. As for the goal of the last 2 paragraphs, it was to discuss how this is the second use of high tech to create cows that produce higher than average milk, despite there being a surplus of milk and despite there being documented health risks associated with bovine growth hormone and the possiblity of health risks associated with cloning. So that much is objective, I think -- any scientist will admit to health risks with rBGH and cloning. Perhaps it was the last sentence you objected to? I'm sure I could have found links to scientists who support the view that rBGH was a solution in need of a problem, although that shouldn't be necessary since there is no question that we had a surplus of milk at the time rBGH was invented. And I quoted the Washington Post above as saying that some critics were questioning why we are pursuing cattle cloning at a time when we still have a surplus of milk. So I don't know... I can understand your objections, but I wonder if we're not being overly zealous in the level of objectivity required, as I can certainly see The New York Times or the Washington Post printing a similar level of substantiated opinion in their news stories. Oh well. --Drog 17:30, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Irish Enterprise Exchange Launched in Dublin

April 12, 2005

The Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) officially launched the new Irish Enterprise Exchange (IEX) this morning in Dublin, Ireland. The exchange is aimed at smaller firms seeking to raise capital without the hindrances and additional costs associated with a full listing on the main exchange.

At the moment eight companies are listed on the exchange - all having been previously quoted on the Exploration Securities Market (ESM) and the Developing Companies Market (DCM). However it is hoped that many small Irish firms listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in London will eventually pursue a dual listing with the IEX.

The rules for listing on the IEX are significantly looser than for a full listing - no trading record is required; no minimum number of shares must be in public hands; and in most cases prior shareholder approval is not needed for acquisitions or disposals. The main requirement for listing is that prospective firms must have a market capitalisation of more than €5 million.

The IEX has long been a major ambition for Irish Stock Exchange CEO Tom Healy and indeed the exchange as a whole.


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Eritrea plans to vaccinate 500,000 children

April 12, 2005

Eritrea officially launched a new national vaccination program yesterday to protect children against deadly polio.

Despite having no confirmed cases of polio since 1997, neighbouring countries such as Ethiopia and Sudan have had more recent cases. The program will take place in two rounds, the first of which runs from Monday till Wednesday this week and the second is planned for May 13-15..

UNICEF says that Africa accounts for 75 percent of polio cases reported worldwide so far in 2005. But efforts are being made to eradicate the potentially fatal virus. A total of 23 countries are currently planning to immunise up to 100 million children across the continent.


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Interesting new cancer detection method
Scientists have developed a new method for isolating individual cells and detecting if they're cancerous.

Using a gallium-aluminium-arsenide micro-sized laser, they illuminated individual cells. Based on the reflection that came back, they could figure out the location of each individual mitochondrion (a power-producing part cells). When cancer infects a cell, these mitochondria spread out from their original positions near the nucleus of the cell.

Based on the position of the mitochondria, it is possible to say if the cell is cancerous or not, and that is what this laser can do. Scientists hope to use the method during surgery to see if they have missed cancerous clumps, or even for early detection, as the laser can detect the signs of cancer long before symptoms.

This method promises to help during surgery, help with early detection of cancer, and much more.

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New hope for diabetics
A new medical treatment means that diabetics may not have to live with insulin shots all of their lives. Instead, their blood cells can be "reconfigured" to create insulin.

Scietists had earlier managed to create insulin-producing cells from human embryonic stem cells. While this works well, there is no way to obtain these cells from each patient specifically, so patients would be forced to stay on anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives while their immune system tries to attack the foreign cells.

So several scientists from the University of Kiel in Germany tried a new approach. They exposed human white blood cells to the same chemicals they used to make the embryonic stem cells create insulin. And it worked! The white blood cells now created insulin, and when injected into diabetic mice, it lowered the mice's blood sugar level to normal.

Because the white blood cells can be obtained from the patient themself, they should not be rejected by the immune system, meaning one shot could last many years without needing constant blood sugar testing and insulin injections.

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Homeopathy might actually work
Homeopathy has many skeptics in the scientific community. The idea that a medicine can be diluted so much and still have a healing effect is ridiculed by many, but supported by others.

So one woman set out to prove it wrong for once and for all. Madeleine Ennis decided to do her own test of homeopathy, completely independent of others. A histamine solution was diluted many times, and its effectiveness was then tested versus an undiluted solution.

In a surprising result, the homeopathic solution was just as effective as the real stuff. Madeleine Ennis isn't happy, especially after four labs all replicated the results, but she admits that it is possible that homeopathy is actually right. However, she would like others to help her in her investigation, as homeopathy is in violation of many laws of chemistry.

Homeopathy supposedly works because as the solution is diluted, the particles of the actual medication leave an "imprint" on the water molecules. To most, this seems ridiculous. And in clinical trials, homeopathy has proven no more effective than a placebo. But Ennis's tests show that something squirrely is going on. Keep watching to see what turns up.


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Rat—the Fighter Pilot
Now, you’re probably saying “What?” But seriously, rat bits can pilot an airplane—actually, an F-22 Raptor.

Scientists placed 25,000 rat neurons in a dish and inserted an electrode array connected to the simulator. The cells then receive electrical pulses which indicate the angle of the plane’s nose above or below the horizon. The neurons’ response controls the airplane.

At the start, the plane was zooming up and down. After a while, the rat brain managed to “learn” and began to pilot the airplane steadily.

Don’t worry; rats won’t be taking over the Air Force any time soon.

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Rat—the Linguist
That’s right. Rats can also, among their many talents, determine the difference between several languages.

Researchers trained rats to respond to Dutch or Japanese (some rats did one, the other rats did the other language) and then get a treat.

The rats were then separated into several groups, where they listened to the language either by a native speaker, a synthesized voice, both languages, or finally, either one backwards. The rats did not respond to the opposite language or either language backwards.

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Possible explanation for mass extinction--April 12th, 2005
Around 450 million years ago, some event caused around 60% of all marine life to suddenly die. Scientists had no idea what caused it, until now.

A new theory places a gamma-ray burst to blame. It says that a massive blast of gamma rays from a nearby star hit the Earth, and the radiation then killed much of the life. Animals deeper in the ocean would be safe, as the water would shield them from the worst of the burst.

Such a blast would be partially absorbed by Earth's magnetic field and ozone layer, but such a powerful explosion as that of a dying star would probably damage the ozone layer as well. The radiation would be powerful enough to break right through those protective barriers and still manage to kill most life.

The scary part of this theory is that the star which initiated the burst could be as far as 6,000 light-years away. Astronomers are observing far-away gamma-ray bursts occaisionally, and if one was close enough, we could suffer the same fate. We'd better be ready.

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Turkey Power
A new power plant in Minnesota aims to bring new meaning to the words "bio fuel."

The power plant will, seriously, run on turkey dung. Lots of turkey dung. Enough turkey dung to power 55,000 homes, and probably raise quite a stench.

There are already three plants of the type in England, but this is the first major plant in the USA.

Turkey dung is apparently much better than cow or pig dung, because it is drier. In burning the dung produces phosphorus and nitrogen, which is then used as fertilizer. It also does not emit any more waste than the dung would in naturally decaying.

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Missile defense failure
The US missile defense shield has failed in another critical test--the missile is nearly in service. Early this morning (December 15th), in the test range in Alaska, the target missile took off with instruments and a dummy warhead. The "interceptor" missile was to launch a few minutes later. But a few minutes before the planned launch, the missile experienced "an unknown anomaly" (government speak for "a problem) and automatically shut down, stopping the test.

This is one of many times this month the attempted test was aborted, other times due to weather or other mechanical failures. It is also the first time the missile was flying with the intended booster rocket (in earlier tests a substitute was used).

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New hope for patients with brain tumors
A new drug has been proved to double the median survival rate of brain cancer patients. The problem is, brain cancer is different from other cancerss: tiny tentacles of cancerous cells spread through the brain, making physical removal impossible. Normal drugs cannot eliminate the tumor easily, and there aren't many other options.

That's where IL-3 comes in. IL-3 is a new drug which kills the cells quickly and without harming normal, unharmed cells. IL-3 is admitted into the cells via receptors which are typically only on immune system cells, and not on any brain cells. Then the drug destroys the cancerous cell, quickly and easily removing the tumor.

Because IL-3 is too large to get to the brain through the blood, it is pumped into the patients brains via catheter (ouch). The patients are awake, and can walk around with the drug on an IV stand.

Studies show that the drug doubles the median survival rate to about 44 weeks, and 35% of patients had their tumours reduce in size or disappear completely. Several are still living, three years later.

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Clouds on Mars!
Yes, that's right. The Mars rover Opportunity has snapped some amazing pictures of what appear to be Martian cirrus clouds, and it's not seeing hallucinations. Scientists theorize that these clouds are only produced when Mars is at its farthest point from the Sun, when it receives much less sunlight. The clouds are believed to be made of, yes, frozen water. Martian wind is moving them along at a nice speed of 20 miles per hour.

This comes along the same time that Spirit found some interesting rocks on Mars. A mineral called [w:goethite|goethite]] (never before found on Mars) was in one rock, and another had an amazing chemical structure.

Those rovers have certainly turned up more than we thought they would.

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US trade deficit soars to new high of US$61.04 billion

April 12, 2005 The U.S. Commerce Department released new figures on Tuesday, showing an imbalance of US$61.04 billion as of February. The figure was up 4.3 percent from the US$58.5 billion deficit last January.

"While we imported the necessities, we didn't sell a lot to the rest of the world," Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors told Bloomberg. "As for the Fed, this report would likely mean more measured rate hikes," he said.

"We are sucking in more products faster than we can sell abroad. It will reduce GDP growth a bit, but not a lot," David Berson, the chief economist for Fannie Mae told Reuters.

The trade deficit has been aggravated by high oil prices and a surge of textile imports after the lifting of quotas on January 1. Oil prices have been close to record levels recently, but light sweet crude fell $1.85 to US$51.86 on Tuesday, after the International Energy Agency issued a prediction that interest rates and fuel costs would slow down demand for oil.

The new trade figures temporarily forced the dollar down against the yen and the euro. But later in the trading day, the dollar recovered lost ground as traders waited for a statement about the U.S. Federal Reserve meeting last March.


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Liberal Democrat Party pauses to welcome Donald James Kennedy

April 12, 2005

One week into campaigning in the United Kingdom general election, the leader of the Liberal Democratic party, Charles Kennedy, has become a father.

Kennedy's wife, Sarah, was taken to St Thomas' Hospital, London, yesterday, and Kennedy abandoned the election tour on the first day out to join her. Donald James Kennedy was born just after midnight.

"Everything went tremendously smoothly," Kennedy explained to reporters. "This new Donald James Kennedy who becomes the latest addition to the clan is our pride and joy."


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Britney Spears announces she is pregnant

April 13, 2005 Following weeks of speculation in some media quarters, it has been announced that Britney Spears, 23, is pregnant. In a posting on her Web site, Spears announced that she and husband, Kevin Federline, 27, were expecting their first child together. Her publicist, Sonia Muckle, confirmed the singer's pregnancy Tuesday but gave no further information.

"The time has finally come to share our wonderful news that we are expecting our first child together. There are reports that I was in the hospital this weekend," read a statement allegedly written by Spears.

Federline has two children with his ex-girlfriend, actress Shar Jackson. He met Spears last year when he was a backup dancer on her tour and his girlfriend was pregnant with their son.


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 * Conservative Party launches manifesto

 * Police investigate new lead in 'Chili Finger' case; Ayala abandons lawsuit
 * Torvalds codes temporary replacement for Bitkeeper
 * New Zealand Cricket under pressure to stop Zimbabwe tour
 * Tory candidate in election gaffe
 * Blair launches third and final manifesto
 * Unions ballot to "shut down the BBC"
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 * Survey finds Spam tolerance growing
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 * Romania to adopt euro between 2012 and 2014
 * TAROM cancels all Bucharest-Arad flights
 * New industrial area to be created in Arad county, Romania
 * Four Romanian ambassadors recalled
 * IBM and National Geographic to launch DNA database project
 * Death toll mounts in Nepal civil conflict
 * Britney Spears announces she is pregnant
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NZ Prime Minister in mid-air emergency

April 13, 2005

New Zealand's Prime Minister, Helen Clark, was injured in a mid-air incident involving a Piper Aztec light aircraft above the Kapiti Coast around 9am local time.

Preliminary reports suggest the cabin door popped open during extreme turbulence, which also caused a minor injury to the PM's elbow. Two police officers on board held the door closed while the plane made an emergency landing at Paraparaumu Airport, near Wellington.

"I had two New Zealand police with me who acted very, very quickly to grab the door and the two police officers were strong enough to hold the door right through the landing," Ms. Clark said

The Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) will be investigating.

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IBM and National Geographic to launch DNA database project

April 13, 2005

Genetics researchers announced today that they will beginning a five-year plan to create a map of human migrations based on DNA mapping. The "Genographic Project" will be funded by the Waitt Family Foundation, IBM Corporation, and the National Geographic Society, and plans to collect 100,000 samples of DNA from people all over the world in order to sequence how related to each other they are.

Details on data collection have not yet been specified, but there are implications that some of the data will come from field work among indigenous groups, and that other individuals may purchase kits to submit their own DNA in order to learn about their own genes.

The project has drawn immediate comparison with the failed Human Genome Diversity Project from the 1990s, which ended after controversy over the patenting of the DNA of indigenous peoples. The Genographic Project leaders say that they will make the information from their project public and will not patent genes. Whether or not researchers using the data will be subject to licensing guidelines, or whether they can patent their own discoveries using the data, remains to be answered.

In the last decade, the role of IBM tabulating machines in the Holocaust has been explored and criticized by a number of historians, and National Geographic has often been a target of critical theorists who have seen it as often representing the "gaze" of imperialism and Orientalism.

Previous genetic mapping projects which focused on specific ethnic groups have met with continuous controversy, with allusions often made to the projects of racial anthropometry of the early 20th century which served as the "scientific" backbone to scientific racism and eugenics legislation. Though the Genographic Project participants have tried to emphasize that their project will be to look at the "similarities" between different groups of people rather than the "differences," it seems likely to remain a controversial issue.


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The following statement was emailed to Pingswept on April 12, 2005, by Steve Case, one of the professors present at the incident. I have not found it reproduced anywhere else on the web.

Dear Friends,

I have had many calls and letters from friends across the country asking what they can do to help me. 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.

Now that I am retired, my schedule is less complicated. There was more than ample time last week, and the weather was so pleasant, for me to finally pay some attention to those weeds that have waved at me every time I took the little dogs for a walk. If nothing else, this yard work has given me time to relax and think a bit.

No, I would not want to return to my work in the Attorney General’s Office. There are probably many people, both within the agency, other agencies, and in some of the business community who celebrated upon hearing of my departure. What they failed to consider is how this new condition has freed me from the restrictions of my former job. I have always tempered my comments about things like environmental problems and social injustices because I served in the Department of Justice. Now I will have more freedom to say what I think rather than what might be more appropriate as a representative of an elected official.

If you want to write to General Foti then please feel free to do so. Officials should hear from the public. You might also consider writing a letter to the Editor of The Advocate in Baton Rouge, the Times Picayune in New Orleans, or your local paper if you do not live in either of those cities. If your letter makes the paper, then you will help to educate many thousands of readers.

I would also be glad to hear from you.

Hopefully, I will be able to continue my work of helping people to try and solve their environmental, political, and social justice issues. I still serve on the board of directors of some local, regional, and national organizations that deal with helping people. I will let you know whenever I find a new job.

Good luck to you, and please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any assistance to you. My thanks to all of you for your friendship and support.

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Four Romanian ambassadors recalled

April 13, 2005

Romanian President Traian Băsescu signed an order yesterday recalling Romania's ambassadors to three European Union countries - Austria, Lithuania and Greece, as well as Croatia. The Romanian embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania, is also accredited to represent Romania's interests in Latvia.

All five of the recalled ambassadors were appointed by the previous administration, under President Ion Illiescu. The recall is part of an ongoing process of replacing Romanian ambassadors abroad, with the present government planning to recall nearly all diplomats appointed by the previous administration.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu, said that the recall was not based on political criteria, or as a way of politically undermining the choices of the previous administration, but rather on the efficiency of the diplomats as well as their age, seeing as many of them are past retirement age.

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New industrial area to be created in Arad county, Romania

April 13, 2005 The local government of Arad County in western Romania today launched a project calling for the creation of a new industrial area in the commune of Zimandul Nou. They have already allocated 0.3 km² for this project, with more land being expected to be allocated for the industrial precinct.

The president of Arad Couty Council, Iosif Matula, says that the labour force in the area is qualified in industrial occupations, especially in the fields of textiles, furniture, electronics and tools industries. The site also already has all the necessary infrastructure, such as gas, access to sewage and a water purifying facility.

The industrial area will be located on the outskirts of the Zimandul Nou commune, which is a fairly small, rural town. The proposed Zimandul Nou industrial area is one of the latest development projects by the Arad County Council, which has, since a few years ago, embarked on a fairly wide-ranging project of attracting foreign investment and developing further industry in rural areas.

The county capital, Arad, with a population of nearly 190,000, is one of Romania's largest industrial centres and is a major centre for foreign investment, but the county council would like to see more industry heading to the rural areas. The Zimandul Nou precinct will be the eighth industrial zone in a formerly-rural area in the county. The other seven areas have already attracted combined foreign investments of over 120 million euro.


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Torvalds codes temporary replacement for Bitkeeper

April 13, 2005

In the wake of Bitmover CEO Larry McVoy's decision to end the free distribution of the Linux version of the source code management system Bitkeeper, Linux founder Linus Torvalds has written a program called "git" to access the Linux source code repositories, Torvalds wrote in a post to the Linux kernel mailing list. The program, resting at version 0.04 as of April 13, is, according to Torvalds's README file: "a stupid (but extremely fast) directory content manager. It doesn't do a whole lot, but what it _does_ do is track directory contents efficiently."

When Bitmover changed its licensing scheme, Torvalds wrote that he was looking into using Monotone; he added that he did not want to use Subversion (SVN). According to Kerneltrap.org, on April 7, Torvalds noted, "I detest the centralized SCM model, but if push comes to shove, and we just _can't_ get a reasonable parallell [sic] merge thing going in the short timeframe (ie month or two), I'll use something like SVN on a trusted site with just a few committers . . ."

While Torvalds characterized Monotone as slow, he was hopeful that it could be sped up. He anticipated using the pre-Bitkeeper system of "people email patches to Linus" until the 2.6.12 kernel is released in the next month or so.


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India-China border-treaty hoped to improve ties, facilitate trade

April 13, 2005 India and China have settled long-time border disputes, and with freed up cross-border traffic look to creating what would be the largest trading bloc in the world, between the two most populous nations on the planet. During a recent visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to the Indian capital of, a border was finally agreed on paper.

"India and China can together reshape the world order," Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday.

"China has a large manufacturing base. I believe it is the world's factory. And India with its development in software and other areas, I feel, is the world's office. What I am suggesting is to bring together the factory and the office," Chinese Ambassador to India, Sun Yuxi, had said ahead of the visit.

The agreement is the first official document for the 3,500 km disputed border between the two countries, in more than 20 years. The dispute erupted into war in 1962, followed by a 14 years freeze in diplomatic relations.

China would give up claims on 90,000 square kilometers to the North-East of India, formally recognising as parts of India, — a  kingdom that merged with India in 1975 — and  — an area in  which China had repeatedly claimed.

India would be formally recognising Tibet as a part of China, giving up, uninhabited land on the plateau that  seized from the Indian states of  in 1962. India agreed also "not to allow Tibetans to engage in anti-China political activities on its soil", according to a report in The Economic Times of India.

A new cross-border trade route would be allowed through, in Sikkim, and significant road work was to facilitate higher traffic, at least on the Chinese side.

Eleven guiding principles and political parameters for resolving the disagreement, were put forth in the document, including a commitment to enhance bilateral trade from the present 13.6 billion to US$30 billion by 2010 — trade which only a decade ago was worth just US$1 billion.

"This matter tells us that as long as the two sides bear sincerity, and patience, the border between China and India will become a bridge linking the friendship of the two sides," Wen said of the document he signed with Singh.

"A growing and stable China is in the interest of India. Similarly, a growing and stable India is in the interest of China," the Chinese Premier said.

"It shows a lot of give and take on both sides," said National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan, India's special representative for the border talks.

The treaty "respect[s the] status quo, and is tantamount to accepting the Line of Actual Control as the border between the two countries," said Swaran Singh, a China expert at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

"The next two years are very crucial to determine how much the two sides put the guiding principles into practice for the actual demarcation of the frontier," he cautioned.

Feasibility of a China-India Free Trade Agreement would be examined — with China eager, but India tentative.


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TAROM cancels all Bucharest-Arad flights

April 13, 2005 Romania's national airline, TAROM, has announced that, from May 15 this year, all of its flights from Bucharest, the Romanian capital, to Arad, a city in the country's west, will be cancelled, due to lack of financial viability and an increase in competition. The reason for the cancellation is mainly due to the planned inauguration on May 16 of a Bucharest-Arad flight operated by the private airline Carpatair, Romania's second-largest airline.

Carpatair has grown very quicly in the past two years, adding several new destinations, both in Romania and abroad. Also, it has taken away many of TAROM's customers on international routes because it provides direct connections from Transylvanian cities such as Arad and Timişoara to German and Italian cities, saving customers the task of changing flights at Bucharest. Also, although Carpatair started out as a Transylvanian airline, it now also flies to destinations in Romania's east, and is expected to open up new routes via Bucharest, in a further attempt to compete with TAROM and win more market share.

In 2004, TAROM was Romania's largest airline, carrying approximately 940,000 passengers. Carpatair came in at second, carrying approximately 271,000 passengers.


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Romania to adopt euro between 2012 and 2014

April 13, 2005 Mugur Isărescu, the governor of the (BNR) predicted yesterday that Romania would adopt the  sometime between 2012 and 2014, possibly joining the  as early as 2010.

In July 2004, Romania will revalue its currency, the, so that 10,000 old lei will equal 1 new leu, with 1 euro being equal to approximately 3.6 new lei. Dual pricing, in both the old leu and the new leu, has already been introduced from March 2005. The transition to the new leu is expected to stabilise the Romanian currency and prepare the country for euro adoption.

After Isărescu's declaration, many people commented that they were surprised by how late the target date for euro adoption had been set, being 7-9 years away. However, Isărescu responded by stating that the new Central European members of the, which joined in 2004, have not yet joined the euro, and that countries such as the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary are only expected to adopt the currency between 2008-2010, 4-6 years after accession. In Romania's case, the adoption will take place 5–7 years after accession in 2007.


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My compliments to the developers of DynamicPageList! This seems to work fine. Are there any faults on this page I missed, or is it as perfect as it seems? -- Redge (Talk) 09:49, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Bush's purchase land in Paraguay
I recently was sent this information by a friend and went to Google for a fact checker and ended up here. Does anybody know anything about this. Bush Sr. bought 175,000 acres of property in Paraguay inside a large fresh water reserve. The reason being is because Paraguay protects war criminals. Is this true.Boneyfriend 18:28, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

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European Parliament approves accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the EU

April 13, 2005

The has today approved the signing of the Accession Treaties of Romania and Bulgaria, effectively endorsing their accession to the European Union. The parliament voted on the Romanian Accession Treaty with 497 positive votes, 93 negative votes and 71 abstentions. Bulgaria received a slightly more positive message, with 522 votes in favour of its Accession Treaty, 70 negative votes and 69 abstentions.

After this vote, which was legally-binding, the two countries will sign their Accession Treaties on April 25, when they will move from being candidate countries to accession countries - that is, from April 25, the two countries will send observers to the European Parliament and will receive larger amounts of pre-accession funding.

Positive effects
The approval of the Accession Treaty is a very positive signal for Romania and Bulgaria, confirming their progress towards EU accession until this stage. Both countries started negotiations with the EU in 2000, and completed them in 2004.

The approval of the Treaty is expected to encourage greater foreign investment to the two countries. Already, the fact that they were EU candidate countries has made them more competitive than their neighbours. For example, Romania received $5.5 billion of foreign investment in 2004, triple the amount received in 2003. Bulgaria also attracted $2.54 billion, the highest per-capita amount in the region. Stocks have also risen, with the Bucharest-based BET10 exchange rising 84% in the last 12 months, and Sofia's Sofix rising 69%.

Also, the countries will benefit from a greater role within the European Union. They will send observers to the European Parliament from April 25, which will be able to take place in debates, even though they will not have voting power. Also, the countries will receive more funding between 2005 and 2007.

A long way to go

This step was one of the largest hurdles that the two countries faced before accession in 2007. Once the Accession Treaty has been signed, the only way that accession can be postponed is through the implementation of a safeguard clause by the European Commission, which can take place if either of the two countries are unprepared for joining the EU in key areas or have major problems with the last phases of accession.

However, despite the positive effects of the Accession Treaty vote, Romania and Bulgaria still have a significant amount of work to do in order to be fully prepared to join the EU in 2007. The establishment of an independent judiciary is a major issue in both countries, as is corruption. Additionally, the European Parliament has notified Bulgaria that it must deal with in a more dynamic manner. In the case of Romania, the EU has said that more progress must be made in bringing competition law up to EU standards, as well as protecting the and reducing state aid to loss-making industries such as the steel sector.

, the European Commissioner for Enlargement, said that "These countries still have a lot to do. They have criteria to fulfill so the safeguard clause doesn't kick in." If the safeguard clause is implemented, accession will be postponed until 2008. However, in the case of Bulgaria, the safeguard clause can only be implemented if all 25 member states vote unanimously on it. In the case of Romania, only a majority vote is needed.

In either case, analysts are predicting that both countries would have to face very major problems in key areas for the safeguard clause to go into effect.

Related news

 * EU accession treaty for Romania published on the Internet, WikiNews, April 11, 2005
 * European Commission approves the accession of Bulgaria and Romania, WikiNews, February 23, 2005


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Survey finds Spam tolerance growing

April 13, 2005 A survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 28% of users with a personal email account say they receive more spam than they used to, while 22% say the amount has decreased.

53% of the users surveyed said that spam has made them trust e-mail less; this is down from 62% last year. 22% (down from 29% last year) report that they use e-mail less because of spam.

Spam however is becoming more accepted. 77% of users last year reported spam has made being online unpleasant, this year the number falls to 67%. Users also reported that pornographic spam is down.

In contrast, “phishing” (email fraudulently requesting personal financial information) is up. 35% of users say they have received a phishing attempt, and 2% have provided the requested information to phishers.

The Pew Internet & American Life Project is a non-profit research centre that produces reports that study the social effects of the Internet.

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