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Plague kills scores in Democratic Republic of Congo

February 20, 2005

An outbreak of pneumonic plague has killed 61 people as of February 15 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The deadly disease has struck in Ituri district, Oriental province, in the northern part of Congo. While 61 deaths have been confirmed, the total number of cases is not known.

Samples have been taken from 40 patients and sent to laboratories in Kinshasa for analysis. So far, all the victims have been suffering from pneumonic plague, with no cases of bubonic plague detected.

All the victims are workers at a diamond mine employing 7,000 people. The mine was re-opened on December 16 last year, and the first cases were reported four days later.

Teams from Médecins sans Frontières, WHO, Medair and the Ministry of Health have gone to the region to assess the situation, while a multi-disciplinary team flew to the area yesterday.

If access is possible, the team will assist in treatment, surveillance, and in the tracing of people who have possibly been exposed to the disease.

Pneumonic plague is a highly infectious disease which has caused many epidemics and pandemics in history. Pneumonic plague differs from bubonic as it specifically infects the lungs.

The infected lungs raise the possibility of person-to-person transmission through respiratory droplets. The incubation period for pneumonic plague is usually between two to four days, but can be as little as a few hours. The initial symptoms of headache, weakness, and coughing with hemoptysis are indistinguishable from other respiratory illnesses. Without diagnosis and treatment the infection can be fatal in one to six days; mortality in untreated cases may be as high as 95%. The disease can be effectively treated with antibiotics.

It is primarily a disease of rodents. Human infection most often occurs when a person is bitten by a flea that has previously fed on an infected rodent.

Globally, the World Health Organization reports 1,000 to 3,000 human cases of plague every year.


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User:Ral315

I'm a Wikinews administrator, but I do nearly all of my work at Wikipedia. I pop in rarely, but have been turned off by what I feel to be a counter-productive atmosphere at Wikinews that discourages new (and old) users from contributing or continuing to contribute. Until I feel comfortable writing here, you're unlikely to see me giving any significant effort at Wikinews.

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User talk:Ral315

Please provide sources for your images. It is against policy to upload public-domain images here, please use. Specificly refering to Image:Stanley Williams mugshot.jpg. Since this is not used and is against license policy, do you object to me deleting it? Thank you for uploading images, they make wikinews a prettier place. Bawolff ☺☻ 10:25, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

SotU
Virginia Governor Thomas Kaine will be making the Democrat's rebuttal to the SotU. --TUFKAAP 03:02, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Interviewing
I am new to the whole concept of interviewing people and reporting on Wikinews and have recently conducted two related interviews with people at the centre of MPAA launches seven lawsuits against torrent, ed2k and usenet sites. I think they will be of value to Wikinews, but am unsure of how to proceed. Any tips would be handy - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 02:54, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Admin
Congratulations, you are now an admin. Please review our policies before using your new powers, if you have not already done so. If you have any questions please feel free to ask me or any other admin.--Cspurrier 20:32, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, Congratulations Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 20:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Conversation: Why are you up MrM 's ass?
He deserved to be banned for a very long time a very long time ago. 1 hour doesn't cut it, buddy.

 * This got removed as vandalism, and it is, but I'll answer it anyway. MrM was blocked by Amgine, who was personally involved in the dispute.  I will not revert any block of MrM by an uninvolved admin, but the block made by Amgine was clearly not allowed under the blocking policy.  Ral315 23:46, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

You're hilarious. You get asked why your head is up someone's ass and you explain yourself. But I ask that people start to respect each other here and I get called a troll and you delete the text. Hahaha! Classic!

 * Indeed. I'm Classic.  Ral315 (talk) 03:54, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Protected your talk page
Howdy,

I've semi-protected your talk page as it seems to the target of much open proxy vandalism or something. I wouldn't leave it protected very long -- it will prevent new and IP editors from leaving you messages. --Chiacomo (talk) 03:48, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I've unprotected it...just let the IPs have their fun. Talking to you, trolls:  If you'd like to vandalize, you can try here as well.  Ral315 (talk) 03:54, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Just to clarify...I don't care if the text is deleted. But let them have a great time posting it, if they really have nothing better to do.  Ral315 (talk) 05:08, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Your request for arbitration
I've not yet voted on your RfAr as I'm not sure of the basis of the case. Is it your assertion that administrators violated the blocking policy? I understand that you're seeking clarification of policy. As the situation stands, I don't think any remedies would be helpful. It might be helpful for the ArbCom to attempt to clarify policy, but without an ongoing dispute, I'm not sure we should accept the request at all. Additionally, there have been recent changes to the blocking policy that thus far seem to be acceptable to the community. If these changes are ultimately accepted by the community, should the ArbCom accept this case? As Deprify has pointed out, MrM and Amgine, the apparent main actors in the wheel war, haven't expressed any interest in arbitration. Sorry if I'm rambling now, I'm a bit tired. If I can clarify my comments/questions here, please let me know. --Chiacomo (talk) 05:51, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

IWWC
I thought it started yesterday, oops :) - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 21:49, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I added my name to the judges list (I hope thats okay) Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 01:44, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

IWWC
I'm going to drop out of the IWWC, I have not got the time to write :) Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 02:34, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks re; NPOV tag
Ok, I disagree that a tag should be there with so little concrete justification, but thanks for the oversight. Neutralizer 13:40, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Rfda
This is a message to inform you that I have added every administrator to the Rfda section on WN:A. This is not personal and I feel as if the community, who did not have the option of voting for or against most of the administrators, should be able to choose who they want to be in charge. I also want to say that I value everyones work on this site and I know that everyone does their best. I hope that none of you will take this personally and I hope that all of us will continue to work together. Jason Safoutin 12:17, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Amgine vs. Jason
Thanks for looking into it, it looks a little delicate. Nyarlathotep 18:42, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

IWWC- and Elliot K
I know he withdrew himself from the contest, but since he came back, and had enough jokers to go through that period without going out of the contest, I think we should invite him back in. (Note: I havn't talked to him yet, I don't even know if he still wants to participate, but I want to make sure we're on the same page before saying anythin.) Bawolff ☺☻ 22:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Dispute Resolution
Hi, I've been on the boat and less than available for communications. I'm working my way through a very large stack of e-mails and other communiqué, and will get caught up with the dispute resolution as soon as I can. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 01:50, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

RE IWWC contest
Not objections from me :) Jason Safoutin 01:05, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
 * No objections here either, except we may need to set an end date on the thing - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 02:07, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

No objection, but let us set an end date. PVJ  (Talk) 04:13, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I dont know about the OR requirement, it is sometimes hard to get OR stuff, I dont know how hard it is for the other guys - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 10:54, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Sounds great. I did read that incorrectly - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 21:20, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I am considering dropping out of the contest due to the fact that the quality of my articles is dropping and I will soon have to start devoting more time to academic pursuits. Could you please inform me of what prize, if any, I will receive if I drop out at this stage and also how the said prize will be sent to me. PVJ [[Image:Flag of India.svg|25px]] (Talk) 16:52, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Perhaps, in the interest of bringing the contest to an end within a reasonable point of time, we could disallow the use of jokers, and make it a sort of sidden-death contet where if a competitor does not write the requisite number of articles on a given date, he is eliminiated? PVJ [[Image:Flag of India.svg|25px]] (Talk) 11:51, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think thats fair. We earned our jokers. If you want to drop out then I see no issue with that. I do however don't like rules being changed without a discussion between judges and all contestants. Since the rules state that the last 3 contestants that remain win...I would have no problem ending the contest if no one else does. I also don't mind continueing til last man/woman standing...but with the current rules...but thats just me. Jason Safoutin 12:14, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I have decided to drop out of the contest. Kindly do the needful. PVJ [[Image:Flag of India.svg|25px]] (Talk) 14:55, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

RE:IRC
Okay, thanks. Sorry about that, didn't know. Still learning :P Thunderhead (talk) 01:27, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Copyvio deletions
You're deleting to soon: most of them were nominated during the last 2 hours!!!--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 01:10, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Ok, just warning you, thought you didn't realise because it's already January 2nd were you are...--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 01:12, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

New Policy has users up in smoke
Hello. I am not sure if you check this page anymore, but I thought you might be interested as to what is going on here at Wikinews: Image use policy/New wikimedia policy action plan. I am outraged as well as others...do you have an opinion? DragonFire1024 09:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

RE Signpost
I answered some...I will answer more later...very bad day today :( DragonFire1024 12:04, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Re: Embargoed wiki
We aren't in a shortage of places to host the wiki - just doing it with the foundation seemed like the best plan. Looks like it's going to be harder than it's worth at the moment - with al those policies it's a wonder that anything ever gets done. Oh wait. --Skenmy(t•c•w) 18:02, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

FlaggedRevs
If you have not already seen this, please look, comment, and vote both here and on bugzilla. Further assistance such as contact information for Google would be a very useful detail to share and help in petitioning for a listing in their news index. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:00, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

You have been put up for desysoping due to inactivity
Hi Ral315, just as a heads-up, you have been put up for deadminship based on your recent inactivity. If you wish to comment on this, please leave a message here. Thanks, Tempodivalse [talk]  01:55, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Inactivity - Permissions removed
Since you were inactive on Wikinews, we removed your account bits (Administrator, Reviewer). If you become re-active and would like your bits back, simply ask as 'Crat. Thank you. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 18:15, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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Professional cyclist fired for breaking contract through anti-doping statements

February 21, 2005 Professional cyclist Matt Decanio was fired in January from the Ofoto/Sierra Nevada cycling team for breaking what the team spokesman Josh Kadis called "ground rules" about what materials Decanio would be permitted to post on his anti-doping website, according to a report by VeloNews. The websites at issue are Stolen Underground and Mattdecanio.com. Decanio's anti-doping stance started with his admission to the use of EPO in the summer of 2003 in preparation for the Housatonic Valley Classic in Connecticut, USA.


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User talk:69.14.58.129

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Talk:U.S. envoy selected as top intelligence officer

Negroponte and Bechtel
I removed an unsubstantiated assertion that Negroponte is a major shareholder in Bechtel. I couldn't find this in online sources. -- IlyaHaykinson 01:00, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Thirty hospitalised after Melbourne airport gas leak

February 21, 2005

Thirty-nine people have received treatment and 30 taken to hospital after a suspected at Melbourne's Tullamarine airport.

Passengers and employees in the terminal took ill early morning, reporting,  and difficulty breathing. Around 10 a.m. hundreds were evacuated from the terminal as a precaution.

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User:Julia~enwikinews

This article, as written, is an op/ed column. It does not address the five W's and H of news reporting (who, what, where, when, why, and how), and it presents an interpretation of the reported facts.

Regardless of whether or not the opinion/interpretation of the article is correct, presenting only the one viewpoint of any event or circumstance is failing to meet the Neutral Point of View standard.

I am personally not sure this particular story could be written in any way other than it currently is, which is why I left the message I did at User talk:144.134.237.63. If you log in and create a user account, I would be happy to move the article to your account and help you get it set up as a column article. - Amgine 23:43, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Amgine Thankyou for that. I have created an account Feb 21. Julia

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User talk:66.11.188.206

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User talk:67.83.155.3

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User talk:4.27.238.223

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Author Hunter S. Thompson found dead

February 21, 2005 American author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson found dead in his Aspen, Colorado home of an apparent suicide. His son, Juan Thompson, told the Associated Press that his 67-year-old father shot himself at the Aspen, Colorado residence.

"On Feb. 20, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson took his life with a gunshot to the head at his fortified compound in Woody Creek, Colorado. The family will shortly provide more information about memorial service and media contacts. Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said in a statement issued to Aspen Daily News. The death was confirmed by Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis.

Hunter S. Thompson was best known for his 1972 book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". He was recently married and had emotionally supported his friend John Kerry's candidacy.

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Talk:Author Hunter S. Thompson found dead

Read some interviews with this man. He stood in the way.

here's one: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.autos.sport.f1/msg/2674cdd8a14bde77

politics
AFAIK, there is currently no evidence that Thompson committed suicide because of his political views or his reaction to the American political scene. Therefore, the comparison with Vladimir Mayakovsky is unfounded, at least until there is actually some evidence that politics was involved (and if such evidence does exist, the story ought to link to it). The article ought to be about his death and his life — that's leave it at that. Therefore I have removed the comparison, as well as some material that was in a similar vein (Thompson's analysis of the 2004 campaign is not a "source"; similarly, the reference to his last book was a pretty clear political comment.) Neilc 12:00, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

How about this evidence that you have no right to remove anything here: vociferously better described his involvement. As far as you know is not as far as anyone does, remember that.

 * The above uncredited remarks were posted by User:67.80.8.96. I can't actually claim to understand what he's trying to say above, mind you. Dan100 (Talk) 22:39, 22 Feb 2005 (UTC)

ok whatever. i felt i reached out and edited, using the term vociferous to describe the kerry support, and someone who knew even less than i did came along and changed it to active, because it sounded more journalistic. turns out i was as deluded as anyone, thinking either thompson shot himself despondently, or he was taken out by his enemies. not that i have ruled out the latter, but it is really seeming like he did it himself, and not despondently at all. i still think maybe they figured out how to make the lsd with a mind-controlling ingredient. anyway, sorry if i feel anger at times when confronted with other people's viewpoints, and i appreciate that there has generally been tolerance of mine here. i think the wikiness of wikis is better served by fierce editors, not fierce editing, but how very POV of me ;)

Great improvements!
I haven't had the chance to review the article closely, but this appears to be a massive improvement on the original theme, Paulrevere2005. I want to congratulate you on the effort you've put into this. - Amgine 17:31, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi Amgine. Help me understand this. Are you suggesting Paulrevere2005 is a good name for me? I like it by the way. What I don't understand is that you seem to be liking my input here, and disliking it in the power failure story. -anonymous user 67.80.8.96

 * I assumed you were User:Paulrevere2005 due to the articles Another author of “anti-bush” books dies of apparent suicide, Hunter Thompson on the radio; Jan.2003;“we'll see what happens to me if I get my head cut off ..commit suicide … with no witnesses." and Hunter Thompson on the radio; Jan.2003; “we'll see what happens to me if I …commit suicide … with no witnesses.", given in order of creation. The user was temporarily banned for repeatedly placing these on the main page after being warned against doing so, and so may have attempted to circumvent the ban using a different IP.
 * This article, Author Hunter S. Thompson found dead, is a marked improvement over the previous versions.
 * Your comments on the other discussion page will be addressed there. - Amgine 00:12, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Nope, he and I just have a compatible POV. I've been editing in a very minor way since I discovered this project and Wikipedia about 2 months ago. I believe the other user--myself as well--cares more about having/creating a forum for people and truth to get together, than about honoring--or exposing the murderers of--people that have tried to do this in the past. We both respect--I'm assuming a little here--the efforts of everyone from Mr. Wales on down (across?) in making this forum one that has respectability as well as freedom. Your guidance is appreciated, by me, anyway, in the past and future. I've used one or 2, tops, other IP's besides this one, and those in the very early days of my involvement, and tried to tie together my identity when I did. I guarantee no one will ever consider me a troll or vandal. I'm still trying to find a good name.

Washed up old sports writer
I seem to recall that decades ago Thompson said something along the lines of "If I ever end up a washed-up old sports writer, I'll kill myself". Does anyone else recall anything along these lines, or have a source on it? It's interesting granted as Thompson's only journalistic effort at the time of the suicide (Indeed, literally at the exact moment of it as well) was his online column for ESPN.com.


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Romania plans its next privatisation initiatives

February 21, 2005 The Romanian Government has made plans and identified its aims for the next privatisation program which will end in 2006. By the end of next year, the government hopes to sell all of its shares in Romtelecom, Romania's largest telecommunications company, which is currently owned by Greece's OTE but which the government maintains a 47% share in. The full privatisation will occur in two phases, with some of the government's existing shares being sold on the Bucharest Stock Exchange this year, and the remainder being sold in 2006.

By 2006, the government also wants to sell its share in Postelecom, another telecommunications operator, and complete the privatisation of the Radiocomunicaţii, the national radio communications company.

The Government also wantes to begin analysis and consulting into the privatisation of Poşta Română, or Romanian Post, the full privatisation of which is set to be completed by 2009 at the latest.

Romania has embarked on a quite comprehensive program of privatisation since 2000, having privatised a part of Romtelecom, as well as full privatisations of several energy distributors and the nation's largest banks, in addition to other smaller companies. However, these privatisations are dwarfed by that of Petrom, Romania's national oil company, which was bought by Austria's OMV in 2004 and is the largest Romanian privatisation ever.

The current Liberal-Democrat governing coalition in Romania has privatisation and economic liberalism as one of its main policies, having also introduced a 16% flat tax rate for personal income and corporate profits at the start of 2005.


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Bucharest boasts largest cinema complex in Southeastern Europe

February 21, 2005

The largest multiplex cinema complex in Southeastern Europe opened on Friday in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. The cinema is operated by Movieplex Italy and is located in the Plaza Romania shopping centre. Robert Longhi, the general manager of Movieplex, said that the value of the investment reached 4.7 million euro. It is estimated that, during the first year of activity, the cinema will attract one million customers.

Plaza Romania is one of the newest shopping centres in Bucharest, having opened in October 2004 after a 45 million euro investment by Anchor Group, a Turkish company, which also invested in the Bucharest Mall, another large shopping centre in the Romanian capital.


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New research reveals a more emotional and troubled President Abraham Lincoln

February 21, 2005

As the bicentennial anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's birth approaches in 2009, renewed interest is resulting in a new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois in the United States of America – the town he called home.

Romance
Extrapolating out of a long-neglected set of interviews conducted by William Herndon, Lincoln's partner in law for 16 years, scholars have found that Lincoln seemed to have a soft side. Within a few years of his arrival, Lincoln fell in love with a local tavern keeper's daughter – Ann Rutledge. Herndon was surprised to hear about her, but of 24 people Herndon interviewed to who knew Lincoln and Ann at the time, 22 said he courted her. But in August, Rutledge contracted typhoid fever and died.

From then on, Lincoln would resemble the stoic man celebrated today. However, he was not without depression upon the death of his lover. One witness remembered, "He made a remark one day when it was raining that he could not bear the idea of its raining on her grave." Lincoln's exceptional reaction, to the point that many worried that he would commit suicide, had more to do with his own past – the death of his mother when he was but nine years old.

Lincoln would court again, this time to Mary Todd. After a guilty one year and still no commitment, Lincoln wrote to James Speed, a friend with whom he lived for more than four years, that he was racked with the "never-absent idea that there is one still unhappy whom I have contributed to make so. That still kills my soul." Upon a hasty marriage, "the debilitating episodes of 'hypo'"—as Lincoln called his depressions—"did not recur," and henceforth, Lincoln was known for his resolution, a matter of necessity to actually initiate and carry out the Civil War, and to emancipate the slaves.

Sexuality
In a his book, The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln (ISBN 0743266390) (published posthumously), published last month, the late psychologist C.A. Tripp asserts that Abraham Lincoln was "predominately homosexual". Most historians, however, disagree, pointing out that Tripp is applying 20th century social mores to a 19th century context. They have noted that many men slept in beds together in the 19th century, and that Tripp is wrong when he states that Speed is the only one to whom Lincoln signed letters "Yours forever" – he signed notes to at least a dozen other people this exact way. Historian David Herbert Donald writes, "I simply cannot believe that, if the early relationship between Joshua Speed and Lincoln had been sexual, the president of the United States would so freely and publicly speak of it."

Early Politics
In his 20s and 30s, Lincoln was more subversive than people acknowledge. As a member of the Whig Party, he published anonymous letters in local newspapers deriding his party's political opponents, the Democrats. This practice was not uncommon at the time, but Burlingame, a historian who is writing a four-volume biography of Lincoln, has come across more than 200 such letters he believes were penned by Lincoln. During the presidential elections of 1836 and 1840, he accused the Democratic candidate, Martin Van Buren, of supporting black suffrage—what he seemed to suggest as an unforgivable sin.

However, through writing a mockery of the Democratic state auditor, James Shields, for being, "a fool as well as a liar," being challenged to a duel by Shields, and the two men barely being persuaded by their seconds to call it off, "Lincoln may, for the first time, have understood 'honor' and honorable behavior as all-important, as necessary, as a matter of life and death," writes Wilson.

Four years after his squabble with Shields, Lincoln was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. However, his 1846 two-year term was uneventful—he passed no bills and his only notable speech criticized the ongoing Mexican War, making him seem disloyal at home. Upon the elections of 1848 he merely went back home and got to work in his law practice. He was incredibly successful – he probably handled over 5,100 cases over his career – and earned perhaps twice the money historians previously thought. His supporters made him out a simple backwoods man, but Cullom Davis, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois–Sprinfield, commented that, "by the mid-1850s, you'd have to say he was enjoying an upper-middle-class lifestyle."

Again, he was a heroic man who would not only take clients whose cases he philosophically agreed with, Lincoln represented all people across all spectrums – from murderers to adulterers, farmers to doctors. In 1847, Lincoln even defended a Kentucky slave owner who wanted to keep some slaves in Illinois, where slavery was illegal. Lincoln lost.

Fortunately, Lincoln's large law practice gave him national recognition, and when push came to shove, despite being moralistically human, Lincoln tackled, head-on, the most vexing issue of at least one and one-half decades. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, which created future states such that voters could decide for themselves whether slaves would be allowed in their area, completely undermining the Missouri Compromise, gave Lincoln the inspiration he needed, along with an enduring and haunting image of shackled slaves on the Ohio River, "like so many fish upon a trot-line."

And so Lincoln leapt into the fray, denouncing slavery, although he undoubtedly found its guarantee entwined in the Constitution. Abraham Lincoln, however, would once again show his capacity to rise and meet the challenge; before leaving Illinois for the White House, he told a group of journalists, "Well, boys, your troubles are over now; mine have just begun."


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Crosswords/2005/February/22

February 22, 2005

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 * 10. Test (4)
 * 11. African country (7)
 * 13. One member of the Baltic states (6)
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 * 20. Inquisitiveness (9)
 * 21. Grow from seed (9)
 * 22. Window element (5)
 * 26. Recycle old ideas uncreatively (6)
 * 30. Solo section near end of work (7)
 * 31. Drop your accomplice in it (slang) (4)
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 * 3. Apprentice, trainee (6)
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 * 7. Place in a direction (6)
 * 8. Indian dress (4)
 * 12. Relating to water (7)
 * 14. Amidst surrounded (5)
 * 15. There you are! (Fr.) (5)
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Talk:New research reveals a more emotional and troubled President Abraham Lincoln

February 2005
US News & World Report appears to have republished the source for this article.

The same piece appeared earlier on February 14, 2005, on a site called "Ocnus.Net". — DV 08:33, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

ISBN magic link
editprotected This page uses an ISBN magic link, a feature which is likely to be replaced sometime soon per the RFC on Mediawiki. In the Sexuality section, please enclose the word ISBN, and the number immediately after it, inside the ISBN template e.g., which should have no outward effect but ensures that the link to Special:BookSources is maintained when the magic link is deprecated. Cheers. Green Giant (talk) 16:59, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
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Five hundred Palestinian prisoners released by Israel

February 21, 2005

As part of the confidence-building measures in the newly agreed ceasefire being brokered by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Israel has released 500 Palestinian prisoners into Palestine.

The release is the largest mass release of Palestinian prisoners for nearly a decade, since the release of 800 prisoners in 1996, and comes within a package of measures agreed by the Palestinian and Israeli governments at the Egyptian resort of Sharm-el-Sheik.

"Releasing prisoners is a very good step," said Jibril Rajoub, the Palestinian security chief.

Abbas and the Palestinian Authority expressed disappointment that Sharon has refused to release larger numbers of the more than 8,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons. Israel has promised to release an additional 400 prisoners in the coming months, with the names to be determined by a joint Palestinian-Israeli committee.

Israel is very concerned that the former prisoners not jeopardize the peace initiatives, and has required each to sign a pledge not to return to violence.

The Israeli cabinet approved Sharon's plan to withdraw from Gaza and the evacuation of Settlers from the West Bank on Monday, Feb. 21.


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User:Väsk

My name is Väsk. I'm sysop on all the Swedish Wikimedia-projects and Wikimedia Commons and bureaucrat on Swedish Wikinews.

I'm interested in contributing to Wikinews, but since the Swedish Wikinews is practically asleep, it isn't really that fun to have a news site "on your own". However, I hope to contribute a little to the English Wikinews in the upcoming time, mostly concerning Swedish topics, Television and other things I'm interested in.

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University of Southern California spit test predicts cavities

A simple saliva test can predict whether children will get cavities, how many cavities they will get and which teeth are most vulnerable.

Developed by researchers at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the test quantifies the genetic component of tooth decay, spotting the risk when something can be done about it.

"When we apply this to young children, it allows us to predict what might be their future caries history—the number of cavities that they'll get by, say, their late 20s or early 30s," says researcher Paul Denny.

Called the Caries Assessment and Risk Evaluation (CARE) test, the test measures the relative proportions in saliva of different types of sugar chains called oligosaccharides. The same sugar chains are present on tooth surfaces.

The effect of sugar chains on teeth's resistance to disease is analogous to the effect of "good" and "bad" cholesterol on blood vessels. "Good" sugar chains tend to repel bacteria that cause cavities while "bad" allow bacteria to bond to teeth and start the decay process. Unlike cholesterol, however, sugar chain makeup in humans is 100% genetically determined.

Denny and colleagues have found that the sugar chain makeup in saliva can predict a child's future cavity history to plus or minus one cavity with greater than 98% confidence.

The findings suggest that in developed areas of the modern era genes play a more significant role in tooth decay than in former times or third world nations where gross malnutrition and negligent oral hygiene held the greatest impact on dental health.


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Kashmir avalanches kill at least 100

February 21, 2005

Avalanches following the worst snow in two decades have killed over 100 people south of Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir, with many more still missing and remote areas still isolated. Forty-five tourists have been rescued, and the death toll is expected to rise as rescuers--including a large number of Indian troops--deal with the 4.5 metres of snow that have fallen since last Friday.

The crisis has cut off electricity in Srinagar for three days and is not affecting the water supplies. There are queues for cooking gas, and helicopters have been bringing in additional supplies.

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User talk:82.161.134.21

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User talk:80.219.18.26

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User talk:140.180.0.40

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User talk:203.110.145.15

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User talk:Teeks99

Hey, let me know what you think about whatever :-)

Just hit the + next to the edito button at the top of the page.

Pope story
I see your preparing to write the Pope dies story. I have the story already created at User:CGorman/Sandbox - when the Vatican or BBC/Reuters announce he is actually dead please insert the date & time and publish - we will be the 1st news group to break this story (besides our source)! → CGorman (Talk)  22:35, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah I say your story a few minutes ago. I've put notices on about 12 user talk pages linking to my story (like I did on your talk page). So since everybody will be looking at my Sandbox for the story when the announcement breaks, your better off merging your content into my sandbox than going it alone. Hard luck, must have taken you quite a while to write. → CGorman (Talk)  23:04, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikinews:Story preparation
Seeing how well preparations have gone for the Pope story, i've created Story preparation. Instead of users preparing stories on their own computers and saving them on their own hard drives, they can place them here to allow other writers to add to them before the event. This will help eliminate duel coverage of the same story - Teeks99 had spent some time yesterday evening writing a Pope story - but did'nt load it onto wikinews resulting in his version being made redundent. Hopefully by allowing users to collaborate on a story from an earlier date, our article quality will be dramatically improved. → CGorman (Talk)  15:13, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Categories
This message is being given to several people, so please forgive the formality.

I've created a list of categories that must be included in ALL articles to ensure the DPL system works correctly. Adding the revlevent categories from this list will ensure complete site-wide relevent article listing. It is located at User:CGorman/Categories and you can easily cut & paste out of it. I urge frequent writers to bookmark this page to help save themselves time with categorization. Thanks for your attention. → CGorman (Talk)  19:40, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:134.219.128.125

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User talk:Simon~enwikinews

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Science, technology and health content
I was just going through Recent Changes and spotted your user page edit. Im delighted to see a professional journalist interested in taking part in Wikinews! Its fantastic! Anyways you proably are aware of the Science and technology and Health pages. So if you happen to write any relevent articles, it would be a great help if you post them there when you publish your article. Feel free to make it a Major Story on these pages if you think it warrents such status or if the current leads are getting old.

If you are ever looking for a picture, pop over to Wikicommons and have a look around... althought it is hard to find exact photos (like a picture of a Cat-Scan machine, Nokia 3310, Dell Dimension XPS etc.) you will proably be able to get generally pictures (e.g. the UN flag for an african famine story; or a major landmark to indicate a city... like Conference on XYZ takes place in Paris).' You are particularly lucky, as you probably will write a few astronomy articles; many of NASA's pictures are copyright free so you can load them onto Wikicommons and use them in your articles.

I notice you are use to working with online media, so I presume you will get use to wiki tags quite quickly, so heres a few useful ones:

 * - used at top of article, writen in form of February 25, 2005.
 * - added for sources, just fill in the gaps (the author is not compulsory, most major online sources such as the BBC don't tell you who wrote what.)
 * - to link to wikipedia just add a w:.
 * - adding an image is fairly straight forward.

Anyways, if you ever need help with anything, just ask and i'll try to help; im on the Welcommitte and Im the newest Administrater. Good luck - and welcome to wikinews! CGorman 20:45, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Tlroche~enwikinews

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Your account will be renamed
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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 Tlroche. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Tlroche~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:36, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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Spain says Yes to EU constitution

February 21, 2005 Spain today became the first European Union member to ratify the new by a. With a vote of 77%, the Yes camp, lead by Prime Minister, was the winner. Speaking about the result he said, "Today has been a great day for all Europeans". The No campaigners, who achieved 17% of the vote, were eager to point out the low turnout of 42%.

With the referendum, one in three Spaniards gave a yes vote. This is in stark contrast to the 90% of the Spanish Parliament that voted yes for the Constitution.

Despite the apparent enthusiasm by Spaniards for the new constitution, a recent government poll indicated only one in ten actually knew anything about its contents.

The official campaign was mainly dedicated to ask for the yes vote, without explaining the contents of the text. Very popular faces of singers and footballers were used for this campaign.

Although a Yes vote is a welcome start for the constitution - which must be ratified by all 25 member states by November 2006 - Spain was seen by many political commentators as an easy win. It is expected that of the twenty-five countries, Britain is the most likely to vote No.

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User talk:70.50.76.154

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6.4 magnitude earthquake hits Iran

February 22, 2005 An earthquake with a hit Iran yesterday. The earthquake was centered around the southeastern town of Zarand, about 440 miles away from the capital, Tehran. Early reports indicate at least 40 villages with a combined population of 30,000 people have been damaged, with 420 deaths and slightly less than a thousand injured.

Earthquakes are nothing new to Iran, with killing 31,000 people in December 2003. Heavy rain and bad visibility have made early relief efforts difficult; despite this some 1,500 members of the Iranian Red Crescent have begun organising camps for the newly homeless.

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Canada's next ambassador to U.S. instigates outrage over missile defense

February 22, 2005

OTTAWA - Frank McKenna, Canada's next Ambassador to the U.S., announced Canada's partnership in the U.S.A.'s continental missile shield program. "We are part of it now," he said at a press conference in Ottawa.

Prime Minister Paul Martin has said there is no deadline, that Canada has not made a decision and will not until the matter has been debated, and Defense Minister Bill Graham agrees: "Canada's position is not a done deal."

Opposition parties expressed a range of responses on this hotly contested topic. Bloc Québécois MP Michel Gauthier charged "They don't want to tell the population that we've got our arm in the wringer of the washing machine and it's sucking us in."

Stephen Harper, leader of the Conservative Party and a long-time proponent of the missile shield program, was angered by the Liberal Party's failure to live up to its promise to bring the issue up in parliament before any decisionmaking. "How could this prime minister secretly make this decision, so clearly breaking every commitment he's made to this house and to Canadians?"

The Canadian public is adamantly opposed to the missile defense, as they have shown in several polls. Martin's own party is on record opposing the installation of U.S. missiles in space or Canadian territory, so there were outcries from within the Liberal Party as well as from the opposition.

Recent tests of the missile defense have failed, on February 14, 2005 and December 15, 2004. The next most recent test was more than two years earlier.


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Australian government commits more troops to Iraq

February 23, 2005

Australian prime minister John Howard has admitted this week's decision to commit an additional 450 troops to Iraq is a policy backflip.

During the 2004 election campaign Mr Howard indicated that there would be no major increase in the number of Australian troops in Iraq. However yesteday's announcement is set to more than double the number of Australian troops on the ground in Iraq.

Mr Howard justified the reversal of policy as being in the "broader interests of democracy in the Middle East". He also explained that the decision came in response to requests from British and Japanese leaders.

The commitment of extra troops comes as a result of the Dutch government's decision to withdraw 1400 soldiers from Iraq, in response to political pressure in Holland.

The Australians will be deployed to the Iraqi province of Al Muthanna to provide military support for Japanese engineers working on reconstruction projects.


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Are they SURE that it was an earthquake and not a test blast? Iran Does have the bomb after all!

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Crosswords/2005/February/23

February 23, 2005

Competition: See tomorrow's crossword for details.

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 * 6. Measure of intensity, complexity (5)
 * 9. In no particular gear (7)
 * 10. Sleeping quarters (7)
 * 11. Gauge weight by lifting (4)
 * 12. Present for consideration (5)
 * 13. Cloth covering face (4)
 * 16. Digitally edit picture (8)
 * 17. Type of wine (6)
 * 19. Instructions for creating food (6)
 * 21. Lost city (8)
 * 24. Contest (4)
 * 25. Bread is made from this (5)
 * 26. Seats of a church (4)
 * 30. Ramen (7)
 * 31. Shellfish (7)
 * 32. Additional edition (5)
 * 33. Poisonous mushroom (9)
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 * 1. Mollusc with large shell (5)
 * 2. Underground water source (7)
 * 3. Stop vehicle (4)
 * 4. Common household fish (8)
 * 5. Badge (6)
 * 6. Boy, man (slang) (4)
 * 7. Explorer (7)
 * 8. K2 is part of these (9)
 * 14. Fruit used to make wine (5)
 * 15. Used to make flour (5)
 * 16. Self-important pride (9)
 * 18. Wounds akin to Jesus Christ's (8)
 * 20. Organic waste as fertilizer (7)
 * 22. Wavering tone, esp on strings (7)
 * 23. Constricting undergarment (6)
 * 27. Split word into basic parts (5)
 * 28. Dog pest (4)
 * 29. Large fish
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European Commission approves the accession of Bulgaria and Romania

February 23, 2005

The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, has publically-approved the accession of candidate countries Bulgaria and Romania, which are set to join the EU on January 1, 2007. The approval comes after Bulgaria and Romania completed accession negotiations in June and December respectively, and the text for the Accession Treaty was completed earlier this month.

The next step before accession will be the approval of the Accession Treaty by the on April 13, before the document is expected to be signed on April 25.

, the European Commissioner for Enlargement, who is from Finland, said that the EC's approval marks a new stage in the relations between the EU and the two candidate countries, and gives a clear message that the Commission welcomes Bulgaria and Romania into the European family.

However, Rehn also said that the two countries have a lot left to be done until their accession in less than two years. The release states that, "The Commission will continue to carefully monitor whether the two countries respect their engagements and obligations until accession and will support the two with all the instruments at its disposal."

Another important mention was that of the safeguard clause, which means that if any of the two countries do not meet their reform fulfillments and there are serious problems with their progress respecting their obligations, the EU can postpone accession by one year, to 2008.

The Romanian prime minister,, responded to the approval by saying that, "The EC approval for the Accession Treaty confirms Romania is fulfilling its commitments and that the country is on schedule with the integration process."


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Romanian leu continues to surge

February 23, 2005 The leu, Romania's national currency, continues to appreciate against the euro and the US dollar after it reached high levels a few days ago. Yesterday, one euro could be bought for just 35,844 lei, down from 36,133 lei two days ago. These rates are also significantly stronger from the period in mid-2004 when the euro was worth more than 40,000 lei. Last week, the leu reached such a high rate against the euro that the National Bank of Romania had to intervene and restore the exchange rate back to around 37,000 lei per euro. The leu's growth also had an impact on global exchange rates, weakening the US dollar worldwide by 1%.

The National Bank, however, is hesitant to intervene in the marketplace once again due to the positive effects of the leu's appreciation on importers, who can now get products for lower prices, and for consumers, who now have higher purchasing power for imported goods. Romanians are also pleased that their currency, which has faced long periods of fairly sharp depreciation in the 1990s due to high inflation, is finally picking up again and strengthening against other currencies.

The leu's appreciation, however, isn't all positive, because it is putting a great deal of pressure on exporters. Other countries are finding Romanian exports more expensive, and therefore less competitive, due to the leu's appreciation, and this could widen the already large account deficit in the country.

Analysts predict, however, that the leu's surge cannot be stopped and it will continue strengthening against the euro, reaching a rate of 34,000 lei for one euro in the next week.

The current leu will be replaced in July 2005 with the New Leu (RON), with 10,000 old lei = 1 New Leu. The revaluation is expected to prepare Romania for adoption of the euro in 2012. Starting from next month, all Romanian prices must be shown in both the old currency and the new currency. The National Bank of Romania has said that it expects the exchange rate between the New Leu and the euro to hover at around 3.5 RON = 1 euro when the RON is introduced.

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User:Seabhcan~enwikinews

I am also Seabhcan on en.wikipedia.

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User:Simon Shek

I am Simon Shek, a boy come from Hong Kong, China. I am not edit here for a long time, because I will have HKCEE in 2006. You would leave a message in my Wikipedia user talk page. Don't feel miss me. Hope you all enjoy editing wiki. :-)

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Talk:David Beckham's new son, Cruz is born

Who the BEEP cares?


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Crosswords/2005/February/24

February 24, 2005

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 * 10. Device for examining waveforms (12)
 * 12. Belief that you yourself can only exist (9)
 * 14. Common name for function generating numbers from 1 to X (4)
 * 18. Book of Changes (1,5)
 * 19. Free as in speech (Lat.) (6)
 * 21. Source of inspiration (4)
 * 23. Daily publication (9)
 * 24. Illustration accompanying title page (12)
 * 29. Expression of clumsiness (4)
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 * 2. Sequence of steps constituting an operation (10)
 * 3. An inverse trigonometric function (9)
 * 4. Tapered standing stone (7)
 * 5. City describing peace plan for Palestine
 * 6. Mineral often used powdered (4)
 * 7. Ring (4)
 * 11. Publicly declare someone as LGBT without their consent (3)
 * 13. Morpheine is a derivative of this drug (5)
 * 15. Extraordinary (10)
 * 16. Passageway (5)
 * 17. Bar and restaurant (9)
 * 20. Japanese deep-fry dish (7)
 * 22. Alien spacecraft (3)
 * 25. Precipitation (4)
 * 26. Salamander (4)
 * 27. Irritating sensation (4)
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Dark matter galaxy discovered

February 23, 2005 Astronomers claim they have discovered the first galaxy made entirely of dark matter.

The galaxy was found 50 million light years away using the University of Manchester's Lovell Telescope in Cheshire and confirmed with the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico.

While it contains mass that rotates like a normal galaxy, it contains no stars. Rather, it appears to entirely comprise dark matter, mysterious matter that differs greatly from the normal (baryonic) matter with which we're familiar.

The discovery came from a five-year project to study the distribution of hydrogen atoms throughout the Universe. Hydrogen gas releases radiation that can be detected by radio telescopes.

In the cluster of galaxies known as Virgo, an international team from the UK, France, Italy and Australia led by researchers at Cardiff University found hydrogen atoms amounting to 100 million times the mass of the Sun.

They have named the find VIRGOHI21.

The find is considered incredibly important because cosmological models suggest that dark matter is five times more abundant than baryonic matter in the Universe yet is difficult to study from Earth because of the planet's proximity to the Sun.

"The Universe has all sorts of secrets still to reveal to us, but this shows that we are beginning to understand how to look at it in the right way," says Jon Davies of Cardiff. "It's a really exciting discovery."

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Effort on to eradicate Polio from Asia in 2005

February 23, 2005

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has announced its goal to eradicate Polio from Asia in 2005.

The 16 year old private-public project aims to add Poliomyelitis to the list of childhood diseases which have been eliminated. The World Health Organization, Rotary International, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and UNICEF are leading the Initiative and coordinating a series of overlapping immunization campaigns in the region.

In 2004 Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan cut their number of Polio cases by 45%. In 2005 the goal is to cut the number of cases by 100%.

The three countries are the last in Asia to have endemic polio, and the disease is confined to a small number of regions within the country. Only 186 cases were reported in 2004, down from 336 the previous year.


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Mysterious power failure takes down Wikipedia, Wikinews

February 23, 2005 On Monday, at 10.14 pm UTC, the Wikimedia server cluster experienced a total power failure, taking down Wikipedia, Wikinews, and all other Wikimedia websites.

The servers are housed in a colocation facility (colo) in Tampa, Florida, USA. They occupy two racks, with each rack receiving electricity from two independent supplies. However, both supplies have circuit-breakers in them, and both opened at the same time, leading to a total power failure. All computers immediately went down. It's normal for fire safety regulations to prohibit uninterruptible power supplies in colos, with the colo providing its own UPS and generator instead. The circuit breakers were on the computer side of this emergency power system, so none of the computers continued to receive power to survive the breaker trip or shut down safely.

The actual reason why the circuit breakers tripped is currently unknown.

When power was restored, it was discovered that most of the MySQL databases that store the data which makes up Wikipedia et al had been corrupted. The main database and the four slaves had all damaged the data on their hard disk drives beyond the ability of the auto-correction to repair. Only one copy survived safely, on a machine that is used for report generation and maintenance tasks, which remained 31 hours backlogged while catching up after an unusually heavy update load during the previous week.

Volunteer Wikimedia engineers worked through the night rebuilding the databases from the sole good copy onto the other servers. The Wikipedia database is over 180Gb in size, making the copying process last 1.5 - 2 hours for every server it was performed upon.

Regular back-ups of the database of Wikipedia projects are maintained - the encyclopedia in its entirety was not at risk. The last database download was made on February 9; all edits since then could only have been laboriously rebuilt from logs and recovered from the damaged database requiring much more time and effort.

Limited read-only service was established late Tuesday afternoon, with editing becoming possible 24 hours after the power failure. Final repairs continue now, as well as upgrades to prevent similar issues in the future. Server-intensive features, such as categories and 'watchlists' that display recent changes to selected articles to registered users, remain disabled to ease the load on the recovering systems.

The process which led to the damage originated with the operating system, disk controllers, or hard drives failing to flush the data correctly.

If the power to a database server is cut mid-write, the database may be corrupted and unreadable, however the operating system, hardware, and software are designed to make this very unlikely. In a previous incident in 2004 power was also lost to a server but the database was undamaged.

To avoid such damage, each database server saves a copy of an edit to be applied to the database on a separate storage system before making the actual update to the database itself. This so-called 'write-ahead logging' should ensure that in the event of a system crash, the database can be rebuilt from a 'last-good' state by replaying the edits saved in the log.

Earlier this year popular blogging site LiveJournal suffered a similar power failure when another customer at their colocation facility pressed an Emergency Power Off button, intended for use only by firefighters. The company suffered database corruption similar to that seen at Wikimedia.

LiveJournal are now fitting UPS to their servers to ensure that they have time to shut down safely in the event of a power failure. Wikimedia was said to be investigating the possibility of fitting similar equipment at the time of this failure.

Several pundits have suggested that the use of another database, such as the proprietary database Oracle or the free PostgreSQL, would have avoided the database corruption seen at the server cluster. A post-mortem of the incident show the failure was in the operating system, or the hardware, or some combination of the two. LiveJournal, which also uses MySQL, reported similar database corruption after their power cut.

The Wikimedia foundation only allows the use of free software on its systems, and future versions of the Mediawiki software will support the PostgreSQL database.

Users are reminded that during times of system failure or excessive demand, they can still search Wikipedia using Google. The articles may be viewed using Google's cache.


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Illegal dye found in British food

February 23, 2005

London, Dublin - The illegal food dye Sudan Red 1, derived from chillies and banned in the EU since 2003, due to an associated risk of cancer has been found in several hundred products on European shelves. Products containing the illegal ingredient range from crisps, pizzas, casseroles and various chicken products to dozens of seasonings and sauces. The Italian food authorities found the illegal dye over routine checks, and thus alerted the British and subsequently the Irish authorities.

The dye found its way into the European food supply as a primary ingredient in a batch of Crosse and Blackwell Worcester Sauce ingredient manufactured in Britain by Premier Foods, which was then used in all of the affected food products. As a result of the find over 400 products have been withdrawn in the UK and Ireland. The financial cost of recalling all the affected products in Britain alone is expected to top £100m, €145m.

Despite the recall many industry experts are trying to calm the public. One common analogy in use is, "Just like one cigarette is unlikely to cause cancer on its own, one meal containing Sudan Red is also unlikely to cause cancer." The problem is, if people regularly consume the dye, then the risk of cancer is greatly increased.

Which products are affected
Several lists have been published by the UK and Irish food standard authorities. All products on the following lists contain the dye and should either be thrown out or returned to the shop where purchased:

 * Food Safety Authority of Ireland - List of Irish Products affected, February 21, 2005
 * UK Food Standards Agency - List of UK Products affected, February 23, 2005

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Feverfew compound gets at leukemia roots

February 23, 2005 A compound in the common daisy-like plant feverfew kills human leukemia stem cells and could form the basis for newer, more effective drugs for the disease.

American researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York say that it could take months to develop a useable drug from the compound, parthenolide.

However, they are working to do so with chemists at the University of Kentucky who have identified a water-soluble molecule with the same properties. The US National Cancer Institute has also accepted the work into its rapid access program, which aims to speed experimental drugs into human clinical trials.

"This research is a very important step in setting the stage for future development of a new therapy for leukemia," says Rochester researcher Craig Jordan. "We have proof that we can kill leukemia stem cells with this type of agent, and that is good news."

Parthenolide appears to target the roots of myeloid leukemia, stem cells, while current treatments including the relatively new drug Gleevec don't. So, "You're pulling the weed without getting to the root," says Jordan.

Used for centuries to fight fevers, inflammation and arthritis, feverfew earned interest from the Rochester researchers after other scientists showed that it could prevent skin cancer in animal models.

So the researchers investigated how a concentrated form of the plant component parthenolide would affect leukemia cells and normal cells.

Comparing the impact of parthenolide to the common chemotherapy drug cytarabine, they found that parthenolide selectively killed leukemia cells while sparing normal cells better.

While the findings suggest that parthenolide is a good starting point for new drugs, people with leukemia aren't being encouraged to take high doses of feverfew as they could not take enough of the remedy to halt the disease.

The research is reported in the journal Blood.


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User talk:213.202.176.126

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

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! CGorman 20:14, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:213.162.108.112

Welcome
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Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! CGorman 20:15, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:70.23.1.243

Welcome
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Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! CGorman 20:15, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:SonicR~enwikinews

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

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de.wikinews
I'm trying to find someone from de.wikinews to speak with, to get to know what is happening on the various different wikinews sites. Is there any chance I could talk with you, or could you connect me with someone from de.wikinews? - Amgine 18:25, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

A blog entry...
http://neu-in-unten-links.blogspot.com/2005/05/nazi-demo-in-jena-am-11-juni.html

I would love to have the original article translated for en. Do you think you could find the link for me? - Amgine/talk 21:08, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Let me try to translate the article from de. But I'll need some time because it is not the shortest one. SonicR 17:56, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Article does not consider recent developments. The article is about a meeting of european neonazis in Jena/Germany in June. Several groups, including conservative politicians and far-left antifashist-groups, have organized protests against the neonazi-demonstation. Now the neonazi-demonstration has been forbidden by the city. SonicR 12:42, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
for the heads-up. He's been blocked. Got to figure out how to move my user page back now :) Dan100 (Talk) 09:30, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Excellent job fighting Pooberz! I know it's not easy to hold up a fight when a vandal isn't around (I do it all of the time), but you succeeded! Congratulations! NGerda 16:28, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

Got him, thanks! I probably never would've seen him, so thanks for the alert Dan100 (Talk) 18:56, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

This morning's vandal
Thanks for fighting the vandal, as ever. (We could probably get you sysopped so you can do blocks and rollbacks yourself, if you want).

I've restored your user pages, and taken the liberty of protecting them against against future moves. (If you want me to undo this, just say!).

BTW can you post a note on my talk page next time you see an attack? Sad to say but I'm usually on wikinew at this time every day :-). I must say I only noticed when the vandal himself left a message on my talk page, lol!

If you want to get in touch about any of the above, just drop me a note on my talk page. Dan100 (Talk) 09:30, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see you did leave a note - could I ask to put it in a new comment at the bottom of the page though? It's easier for me to see then! Dan100 (Talk) 09:38, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Protection against page move is allright. Thanks for quick action. I will follow your advice concerning your talk page in the future. --SonicR 10:24, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Vote
Yep, you're allowed to vote - and my thanks for the vote of confidence. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:13, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes
There is currently no consensus on a userbox policy, though we're working toward one.

The Babel system in my user space is there because it works without using templates, and without using categories. User:Amgine/Userbox guideline draft is a draft policy taking into account discussions on the Water cooler and the ArbCom decisions on both en.Wikinews and en.Wikipedia. There are also other draft proposals.

When a policy is agreed upon it is likely these templates will be moved someplace more formal. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 21:54, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, I understand. Thanks for the explanation. --SonicR 21:57, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Ticker
Yep, quite possible to implement there. If there is community consensus there, I can register and put the code in my userspace, and give the code to be included in the Common.js file. It's already on the french wikinews, and it only needs some minor translation. TheFearow | userpage|contribs 22:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiBureau Germany
Would you like to join WikiBureau Germany? Kingjeff - (talk) 15:58, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:31, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:37, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:172.212.202.108

Welcome
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User talk:172.212.131.238

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

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! CGorman 20:16, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

title: User talk:172.212.131.238