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User:BenO

Details

 * Name: Ben O'Steen
 * Age: 25
 * Location: Oxford
 * Education: Oxford BA Graduate (UK)
 * Currently being paid to do: Write a self-teach computer training aids.

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Crosswords/2005/February/8

February 8, 2005

Quick crossword
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 * 1. International group of _____ nations (5)
 * 6. Request (5)
 * 9. Narcissism (7)
 * 10. Provide (5)
 * 11. Eskimo (5)
 * 12. In motion, transporting (7)
 * 14. Utensil; device (4)
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 * 23. Two-piece swimsuit (6)
 * 24. Use a computer keyboard (4)
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 * 28. Area ruled by emir (7)
 * 30. Effervescence (4)
 * 32. Web views (4)
 * 35. Shallow parallel cuts (7)
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 * 42. Instruments in orchestra (5)
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Answers tomorrow.
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 * 2. Movie (5)
 * 3. Salamander (4)
 * 4. Indian exercise and philosophy (4)
 * 5. Christmas tree decoration
 * 6. Leave out
 * 7. Bread predecessor (5)
 * 8. From the past (but often fashionable) (5)
 * 13. Italian pasta dish (7)
 * 15. Japanese folding paper art (7)
 * 16. _______-faire capitalism (7)
 * 17. Animal said to bury head in sand (7)
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 * 20. Astrological sign (5)
 * 21. Form of uncommon sport (7)
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Pirates killed 30 sailors in 2004

February 7, 2005 The International Maritime Bureau, an agency of the International Chamber of Commerce, has stated that 30 sailors were murdered by pirates during 2004. The Bureau's 2004 Annual Report on Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships shows that the number killed has increased from the 21 who died in 2003, according to data collected by the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

However, the total number of attacks has decreased--325 recorded attacks, down from 445 in 2003.

Indonesian waters are the most violent, with 93 incidents; one-quarter of the global total of attacks. Tugs and barges are common targets, with crew members often being kidnapped.

Nigeria has the most dangerous waters of any African country. In 2004, there were 28 attacks (down from 39), the third highest number of incidents in the world.

title: Pirates killed 30 sailors in 2004


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User:Somchai~enwikinews

My name Somchai

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User talk:Somchai~enwikinews

Welcome!
Welcome!

Glad to see you here, and editing.

Here are a few items I've found useful Getting started. The tutorial on writing an article has some great steps to follow, as well as some templates which will help simplify writing articles. The workspace is a great way to interest others in helping out on your article idea, or to find articles you can collaborate on. If you need help working with Wikinews, or have ideas to improve Wikinews, consider the Water cooler.

You can always contact me through my talk page. A nifty trick is use ~ to sign your message - 3 of them will be replaced with your username as a link, 4 will also put a time stamp to say when you signed it. And have fun! Glad to see you here, and not sweating to death in the beautiful weather... - Amgine 19:03, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Sawasdee krap khun Amgine, my english not good but I will try to help about my country Thailand Mr Somchai

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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.

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Talk:Shi'a leaders call for religious state

The Xinhua link is to a Middle East news summary that changes over time; the actual article is buried somewhere I couldn't easily find, and the cited commentary is gone from the linked page.

Lead story link
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EasyJet passenger figures rise almost 24%

February 7, 2005 London - Low-fares airline easyJet today announced that passenger figures for January rose to over 2.08m, a 23.8% rise on 2004. Load-factor dropped slightly to 76.4% whilst average yields only fell 2% between October and December. After what was expected to be a tough winter period for the airline industry--with the flamboyant Ryanair CEO Micheal O' Leary having stated in December that a "bloodbath" was to take place in the European aviation industry--the figures were better than expected.


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Ellen Macarthur sets round the world solo sailing record

February 7, 2005

British sailor Ellen MacArthur crossed the finish line today at 2229 UTC (and local time) to set a new world record for sailing solo around the world. Her 71 day, 14 hour, 18 minute, and 33 second voyage took her from the English Channel, south past the Cape of Good Hope, through the Southern Ocean, back past Cape Horn, and through the Atlantic. She shaved 32 hours off the previous record, set by Frenchman Francis Joyon in 2004.

On arrival in the English port of Falmouth, she was greeted by a crowd of thousands and full media array, the BBC extending its already considerable coverage, fronted by senior presenter Sian Williams - and told that on behalf Queen Elizabeth, she is to receive the award of Dame - and she also received the honorary title of Lieutenant Commander of the British Royal Naval Reserve.


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Cocaine smugglers robbed while fleeing authorities in Honduras

Cocaine smugglers were themselves robbed of an estimated 1,000 kilos of cocaine yesterday by local criminals while trying to flee Honduran authorities in the remote La Mosquita region of the country. The smugglers were taking the drug by speed boat from Colombia to the United States when they were spotted and pursued by members of the Honduran navy. In order to escape their pursuers, the bandits landed on the beach at Yahurabila and tried to make their way inland. Within minutes, they were held up by a group of local delinquents, who relieved the smugglers of their merchandise. Both the smugglers and the local criminals are still being sought by the Honduran authorities.


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for some reason cannot link to wikepedia World record??? --Squeakfox 23:30, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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Romania, 14th most attractive country for business relocation

February 8, 2005 Bucharest, Romania – According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, Romania was the 14th most preferred country in the world for foreign companies looking to relocate their activities. This confirms Romania's growing attractiveness for foreign investment.

The study examined the conditions in sixty countries, and took into account nine categories of indices: geographical proximity, political and security risks, economic stability, legislation, taxation, labour costs and skills level, and infrastructure. The scores given to the countries ranged from 1 to 10, 10 being the highest. The final composite score was calculated as a weighted average of the scores of the nine indicators. Some indicators, such as labour costs, had more weight than others.

Romania's final score was 7.08 points, edged out in Europe by only Bulgaria (7.08 points), Slovakia (7.12 points) and Czechia (7.26 points). Romania's strengths lay in the workforce cost category, where it received a score of 9.49, and in the geographical proximity chapter, where is received 8.35 points. It also scored well in the categories of economic stability and political and security risks, with 7.2 points each. The country's weaknesses were mainly in the infrastrucutre chapter, where it received just 4.6 points.

Romania is further expected to improve its score in the coming years, as the effects of its new 16% flat tax rate on personal income and corporate profit come into effect, and as the country joins the European Union in 2007.

The worldwide leader in attractiveness for business relocation was India, with 7.76 points, due mainly to very low labour costs, high skill levels and a stable legal system. India edged out China by a considerable margin, with China being ranked second, with 7.34 points. China lags behind India mainly due to its lack of a well-developed legislative system.

Surprisingly, wealthy countries such as Japan, Norway and Denmark ranked very low, mainly due to their very high cost of labour.


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Romanian agricultural head sent to prison for corruption

Cicerone Măgerusan, the chairman of Romanian agricultural company Agromec, from the city of Târgu Mureş, was sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison for taking bribes of US$65,000. The anti-corruption court found him guilty of taking the bribes from a businessman in 2002 and 2003 in exchange for illegally handing over company shares. Măgerusan was investigated after the businessman informed prosecutors. He can now appeal the sentence only at the Supreme Court, the country's highest court.

The Cicerone Măgerusan case is seen as one of the first successes of a high-profile anti-corruption campaign that has started this year, due to the new Romanian president Traian Băsescu, who has promised to crack down on widespread corruption in the country. Măgerusan is one of the first prominent figures to be imprisoned.

While there remain other high-profile officials suspected of corruption, Romania has set a significant precedent in dealing with the corruption problem. Additionally, on Sunday, Traian Băsescu issued an ultimatum to police and prosecutors, giving them six months to prove that they are serious about fighting corruption.


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Production of GM soy crops surges in Romania

The average production of genetically-modified (GM) soy grew by 50 tonnes to 250 tonnes per square kilometre last year, said Constantin Sin from the Romanian Ministry of Agriculture. Soy is the only GM crop allowed in Romania for commercial purposes. Additionally, the area cultivated with the modified soy increased from 396 km² in 2003 to 581 km² in 2004. GM soy is mainly farmed in southeastern Romania, in the counties of Brăila, Călăraşi and Ialomiţa.

In 1996, the European Union endorsed the import of transgenic soy, and, in 2004, the green light was given for the sale of new genetically-modified products which were used for animal breeding. Globally, the largest producers of genetically-modified soy are the United States of America, Argentina and Brazil.


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I removed: "Due to pressure from the Executive, the Romanian Government and the European Union, more arrests for high-profile corruption are only to be expected." - is there any evidence for this? Maybe Romania isn't that corrupt and there won't be anymore arrests? Who else has been arrested or is it just one person so far? Dan100 (Talk) 07:02, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Crosswords/2005/February/9

February 9, 2005

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Talk:Romania, 14th most attractive country for business relocation

I question the neutrality of this article. Appearing on #14 on a list does not merit such prominent treatment. A neutral article would have to treat the countries appearing higher on the list more prominently than the ones appearing lower. While I appreciate the local stories from Romania, this one is written for a Romanian audience.--Eloquence 12:49, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree totally - if an article is warrented for this list, then the title should be Country x ranked best place to do [business]- in the World with the body of the article individually going through the top 5 or 10 and then a complete table at the end of the article. This is a blatently opinionated article. CGorman 21:49, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

New Article at: India tops list of top offshoring locations CGorman 22:35, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Hubble Space Telescope to be burnt up; Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter cancelled

February 8, 2005 The revolutionary space telescope that brought great images of space back down to Earth will lose out in NASA's budget reorganisation for 2006. While NASA's budget will increase by 2.6%, most of Hubble's $93 million in funding will be directed into bringing it safely to Earth. The big winners include the space shuttle program and the International Space Station, including the development of a new Shuttle replacement.

A planned fifth maintenance job on the space telescope was cancelled as a result of the Columbia disaster, and experts argue as to how long it can remain useful to scientists. It is expected to fail irreversibly by 2007 if vital work is not done.

Another project to bite the dust was the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO), which would have been the largest satellite ever sent to the outer solar system. It was to have featured a new form of nuclear reactor as propulsion, but instead NASA has allocated $320 million to developing nuclear technologies in space in a less aggressive, more stepped approach.

In a January 2004 speech, George W. Bush proposed a human return to the Moon and a first journey to Mars. This grand aim is behind the agency's new budget, with $6.8 billion (over one-third of the total) devoted to the ISS, Space Shuttle and space travel support.


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Attack of the clones...
This is a copy of my article 1 Cameron 16:57, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't call it a copy. Your article was based on an anon official; hardly the most trustworthy source. This article was written once the truth was known. Dan100 (Talk) 23:46, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Abbas, Sharon declare truce at Middle East summit

February 8, 2005 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palesinian President Mahmoud Abbas today declared an end to military and violent activities against each other. The two leaders made the expected announcement at a summit held at Shram el-Sheikh, Egypt, the first such meeting between the two sides in four years.

Prime Minister Sharon pledged to end military operations against Palestinians, and President Abbas similarly said that the Palestinians will likewise end "all acts of violence against Israelis....wherever they are". Both leaders expressed hope that the agreement will lead to long term peace in the long-running conflict. Prime Minister Sharon said that the agreement is part of the goal of "quiet, dignified and peaceful lives for all the nations in the Middle East". President Abbas said "the calm that is currently prevailing in our territories signals the start of a new era, the start of a hopeful peace." Both sides also confirmed their intent to create an independent Palestinian state. The talks became possible in the renewed optimism after the death of Yassir Arafat and the election of Abbas.

The agreement marks a profound change in Israeli-Palestinian relations, but the negotiated truce is a shaky peace. The ability of President Abbas to exert control over Palestinian militant groups is questionable, and thorny political issues remain for the Israelis if they begin to withdraw settlers from the occupied territories. There are signs that the Palestinian resistance groups are willing to participate in the cease-fire: the terrorist organisation, HAMAS released a statement in the hours before the summic stating that "was prepared to calm down resistance raids in the event the Zionist entity reciprocated," referring to Sharon's pledge to stop military activities, yet shortly after the summit a spokesman for the organization said it will not be bound by the cease-fire.

The agreement includes a pledge by Israel to release 900 Palestinian prisoners, to create join committees on prisoner release and the withdrawal of troops from Palestinian territories, and cooperation with Palestinian security forces in occupied areas.


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Microsoft to buy antivirus firm Sybari Software

February 8, 2005 Microsoft has announced that it plans to purchase antivirus firm Sybari Software in order to expand its market within the computer security market. The takeover comes after Microsoft purchased Romanian security firm GeCad in 2003 and two months after an announcement that it is to acquire anti-spyware vendor Giant-Company Software.

Sybari is a private company based in East Newport, New York that develops antivirus software which can be used with Microsoft's Exchange software, as well as with the Lotus Notes system.

This takeover is seen by analysts to be hostile move on Microsoft's part, as it places the software giant in direct competition with market leaders Symantec and McAfee. Sterling Auty, an analyst with JP Morgan, told Reuters that he estimated that Microsoft could be competing for up to five percent of Symantec's business and up to eight percent of McAfee's revenue.

Microsoft's shares rose $0.10 at midday to $26.26, while both McAfee and Symantec shares fell.


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Tiny planet discovered in mini solar system

February 8, 2005 Alex Wolszczan of Penn State and Maciej Konacki of Caltech announced the discovery of the smallest planet detected outside our solar system. The new body is located in the same planetary system where Wolszczan found the very first extrasolar planets in 1992.

The planet, approximately one-fifth the mass of Pluto, orbits the pulsar PSR B1257+12, 1500 light years from Earth. "Despite the extreme conditions that must have existed at the time these planets were forming, nature has managed to create a planetary system that looks like a scaled-down copy of our own inner solar system," Wolszczan said.

Three terrestrial planets discovered earlier occupy orbits similar in proportion to the orbits of Mercury, Venus, and Earth. The new fourth planet is in an orbit six times larger than the third planet's position, corresponding to our own asteroid belt.

"Surprisingly, the planetary system around this pulsar resembles our own solar system more than any extrasolar planetary system discovered around a Sun-like star," Konacki said.

"Because our observations practically rule out a possible presence of an even more distant, massive planet or planets around the pulsar, it is quite possible that the tiny fourth planet is the largest member of a cloud of interplanetary debris at the outer edge of the pulsar's planetary system, a remnant of the original protoplanetary disk that created the three inner planets," Wolszczan explained.

Since the original discovery of planets in 1992, Wolszczan and colleagues, using the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, ". . . feel now, with this discovery, that the basic inventory of this planetary system has been completed."


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India tops list of top offshoring locations

February 8, 2005 London - India has placed first in the Economist Magazine's list of the top offshoring locations in the world. The list, compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, measured the attractiveness of 60 countries as destinations for offshoring, scoring each country on nine criteria commonly used by companies when deciding where to locate offshore. The list was compiled as part of the Economist CEO Briefing 2005. India came out first with a overall score of 7.76, followed by China with 7.34 and the Czech Republic with 7.26. The list was dominated by Eastern European and South East Asian countries. The top developed country was Canada with 7.23, ranking 6th overall.

The top fifteen were as follows:

1st - India with 7.76 points 2nd - China - with 7.34 points 3rd - Czech Republic - with 7.26 points 4th - Singapore - with 7.25 points 5th - Poland - with 7.24 points 6th - Canada - 7.23 points 7th - Hong Kong - 7.19 points 8th - Hungary - 7.17 points 9th - Philippines - 7.17 points 10th - Thailand - 7.16 points 11th - Malaysia - 7.13 points 12th - Slovakia - 7.12 points 13th - Bulgaria - 7.09 points 14th - Romania - 7.08 points 15th - Chile - 7.08 points


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See Romania, 14th most attractive country for business relocation for the orginal article. CGorman 22:35, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

In response to these comments:

I question the neutrality of this article. Appearing on #14 on a list does not merit such prominent treatment. A neutral article would have to treat the countries appearing higher on the list more prominently than the ones appearing lower. While I appreciate the local stories from Romania, this one is written for a Romanian audience.--Eloquence 12:49, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree totally - if an article is warrented for this list, then the title should be Country x ranked best place to do business in the World with the body of the article individually going through the top 5 or 10 and then a complete table at the end of the article. This is a blatently opinionated article. CGorman 21:49, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, excuse me, but if you find that my articles are so opinionated, then instead of deleting perfectly factual and useful information, try to match it. It is no way correct or even for the benefit of Wikinews for you to delete information just because it gives to much attention to "a country that is ranked 14th". What you are doing is, in the interest of making the article seem less opinionated, you are making it less informative. All the information about Romania is now gone, which would've been useful to have. Eloquence, you said, "this one is written for a Romanian audience" - so what? Now, by deleting all the Romania information, it is of no relevance at all to the Romanian audience, when we could've made it relevant to both a non-Romanian and a Romanian audience. Therefore, Wikinews is at a loss of one audience - the Romanian audience, if you want it in more theoretical terms. The problem with some people here is that, instead of working harder to "challenge the competition", if you like, are cutting down those subjects which feature too prominently. You seem to have this grudge that just because in recent times Romania is being featured prominently on Wikinews, we should stop featuring it that importantly in order to maintain a "balance". What in fact should happen is you should work harder to produce articles about other countries to counter the "opinionated" lean towards Romania. I don't disagree with your move to the India title, just to the fact that you removed my contribution. Basically, you deleted my article! My contribution chose to feature Romania, it is my country and I invested time to contribute to that article, which just got deleted (or "redirected"). It is not OK to simply delete that. To put it more bluntly (and I don't want to seem arrogant here), I am the author, therefore I decide what goes in the article. As long as its NPOV and factual, there's nothing wrong with that. If you want to balance out something, then create a new article, with the India title which features a table and writes mainly about India, and leave the Romania article where it is. We could even have a series of articles, a bit like case studies. They do that in a lot of newspapers, sort of like a report in global offshoring.

 * Yes, you may say, Wikinews is becoming Romania-centric. So what? Is there a problem with that? Wikipedia is European-centric and US-centric while it doesn't feature, say, Africa, a lot. That's fair, only because Africans don't contribute to the encyclopedia. There are a lot of people, however, who contribute African content to the Wikipedia. Instead of deleting European articles about the intricacies of certain German villages and articles about Swedish supermarkets, they add articles about African subjects while leaving the European ones there. In that case, there is a gain. By deleting the European articles, in this analogy, there would be a loss. However, you done just that with my article. So, please, in the future, unless there is good reason - as in, lack of NPOV, inaccuracy, etc, please don't delete my contributions just because they feature Romania. Instead, write a new, general article or include the Romania part as a subsection. Thanks, Ronline 05:31, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Didn't they also buy RAV ? 68.39.174.205 23:17, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * If you have a source, edit the article :) Dan100 (Talk) 10:00, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Danish Elections have endorsed the current Centre-Right Coalition

February 9, 2005 Copenhagen – The Danish people have voted to keep the current centre-right political coalition of the Venstre (The Liberal Party), Det Konservative Folkeparti (Conservative People's Party) and the Dansk Folkeparti (Danish People's Party). Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's Liberal Party retained the largest number of seats in parliament. The governing coalition between the Liberals and Conservative People's Party remained intact. They will likely be supported largely by the Danish People's Party, which gained 2 seats. The Radikale Venstre (Radical Left) party gained the most seats of any party, although it remains outside the governing group of parties. The election marked the second time in a row that the Social Democrats were not the largest party in the parliament, a change from most of the 20th century. The party lost 5 seats and leader Mogens Lykketoft resigned immediately after the election.

Venstre, the liberal party of the prime minister, campaigned on their municipal restructuring plan, as well as a continuation of the "tax-freeze" and tight immigration requirements. They also promised to see 60,000 jobs created during a second term.

The largest opposition party, the Socialdemokraterne (Social Democrats) led by Mogens Lykketoft focused on employment, which they claim has decreased under the current government.

The Dansk Folkeparti, who support the Venstre-Conservative coalition, criticized the "tax-freeze" but agreed, conditionally, to support it for another parliamentary term. They also wanted increasingly tough immigration restrictions.

Results
Going into the election, the governing coalition had 94 of the 175 seats up for election. (Danish overseas territories designate four additional representatives).

PRELIMINARY NATIONAL SUMMARY ================================================================================ Votes and seats are compared with those won at the elections of November 2001

Party                                     Votes   %     Change   Seats   Change Centre-Democrats (CD)                    33,611   01.0  -00.8      -      00 Danish People's Party (DF)              444,257   13.2  +01.2     24     +02 Unity List-The Red Greens (ERG)         113,687   03.4  +01.0      6     +02 Conservative People's Party (KF)        345,104   10.3  +01.2     19     +03 Christian People's Party (KrF)           57,815   01.7  -00.6      -     -04 Radical Left (RV)                       307,306   09.2  +04.0     16     +07 Social Democracy in Denmark (SD)        867,857   25.9  -03.2     47     -05 Socialist People's Party (SF)           201,224   06.0  -00.4     11     -01 Left, Liberal Party of Denmark (VDLP)   974,700   29.1  -02.1     52     -04 Others                                    8,672   00.3             - Total                                 3,354,233                  175


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'''NEWS UPDATE: Romania comes third in Eurovision Song Contest 2005!! That's the best result for us ever, a big thank you and congratulations to Luminiţa Anghel and Sistem for a great show!'''

I'm Ronline from Romania. The most covered non-English-speaking country on Wikinews!

I currently live in Bucharest, the world's most eclectic city, though I'm originally from Transylvania.

Where I edit

 * Over here: the English Wikinews
 * The Romanian Wikipedia (less now, since others have taken on the job. I'm still an admin there, though)
 * The Romanian Wikinews (yes, trying to revive it, it jumped a few places last week from second-last almost to middle-rank)
 * The English Wikipedia - Romanian-related edits
 * Minor edits to other Wikimedia and Wikitravel projects

Quotes of the moment

 * Bill Clinton on Romania: "Find Europe's future here" ([1])
 * Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, said the news offerings are also dependent on the writers. "We've got five [stories], and two of them are about Romania," he told Wired News, making the point that this is not your father's news Web site. Go to WikiNews.
 * "Tuesday's lineup, for example, included a story about a discount retailer's plans to open stores in southern Romania along with a piece about the new pope." - from Wired News
 * Romania. Real people. Real passion.

Wikinews coverage stats

This gives a snapshot as of 22 May 2005 as to which countries Wikinews reported most on, as judged by the number of articles in each country category. Top countries are shown.

 * United States of America: 439 - now I realise we are too US-centric
 * UK: 142
 * 1) Romania: 105 - most covered non-English-speaking country
 * 2) Iraq: 82 (in grey because most of the news is US-war-related)
 * Australia: 75
 * Brazil: 71
 * China: 66
 * Ireland: 51
 * Canada: 47
 * India: 30
 * Israel: 30
 * Japan: 29
 * Italy: 27
 * Vatican City: 27
 * France: 23
 * Indonesia: 22
 * New Zealand: 22
 * Russia: 21
 * Taiwan: 20
 * Lebanon: 19
 * Colombia: 17
 * Cuba: 17
 * Spain: 16
 * Netherlands: 16
 * Kyrgyzstan: 15
 * Iran: 14
 * Venezuela: 11
 * Sweden: 11
 * Syria: 10
 * North Korea: 10
 * Sudan: 10
 * Serbia and Montenegro: 9
 * Switzerland: 9
 * Ukraine: 8
 * Kenya: 8
 * Afghanistan: 8
 * Poland: 8
 * Norway: 7
 * Finland: 6
 * Bulgaria: 5
 * Portugal: 5
 * Iceland: 5
 * South Africa: 5
 * Zimbabwe: 5
 * Rwanda: 5
 * Ethiopia: 5
 * Nigeria: 3
 * Turkey: 3
 * Estonia: 3
 * Croatia: 3
 * Denmark: 3
 * Georgia: 3
 * Belgium: 3
 * Uganda: 3
 * Hungary: 2
 * Moldova: 2
 * Monaco: 2
 * Democratic Republic of the Congo: 2
 * Greece: 2
 * Mozambique: 2
 * Latvia: 1
 * Czech Republic: 1
 * Macedonia: 1
 * Albania: 1
 * Austria: 1
 * Cyprus: 1
 * Lithuania: 1
 * Malta: 1
 * Ghana: 1

(Last full update, 10th June 05') So, Romania is the most covered non-English-speaking country! And third overall! Quite an achievement ;-)

Personal viewpoints
A list of my personal beliefs or viewpoints (if you like, biases), so that you know if I'm making any POV edits and you can correct them to make Wikinews more NPOV:

 * I believe strongly in civil liberties, including the right to abortion, same-sex marriage, euthanasia, divorce, etc. Therefore, I am also against government intervention in the social sphere.
 * My political viewpoints are generally social liberal - while I believe in the free market, privatisation and flat tax for practical reasons, I also believe in support for universal health and education, etc.
 * I am strongly against conservatism in a socio-political sense.
 * I am atheist and think that the world should become much more secular and religiously-neutral.
 * I believe in the advances of science, as well as its theories.
 * I believe in tolerance and open-mindnedness, as well as a positive attitude about life.
 * I am also a firm believer in equality and therefore support correct, non-discriminatory terminology.
 * I am a strong believer in European integration, especially the European Union. That does not mean I am not patriotic, in fact quite the opposite. I think loving your own country and loving Europe go hand in hand.
 * The two European countries that inspire me most are Estonia and Ireland. I have great respect for Estonia's struggle against Russian domination, as well as for its transformation into a technologically-advanced, open economy. I also admire Ireland's Celtic Tiger era and how it transformed itself into one of Europe's wealthiest countries with sound economic and political policy.
 * I am very strongly anti-smoking.
 * I believe in public transport over personal cars, as well as in the general environmental cause.
 * I support the current governing party in Romania, the Liberal-Democrat Justice and Truth alliance. However, unlike many Liberal supporters, I am not strongly against the Social Democrat Party, which I believe did a good job in government in 2000-2004.
 * In the European Parliament I am a supporter of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

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February 10, 2005

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Brazil dismisses English language skills on Diplomatic career admission

The Brazilian Ministry of External Relations decided to remove the English language knowledge section from qualifying tests required by the Brazilian school of diplomats, the Rio Branco Institute. The decision proved controversial among Brazilians.

In Brazil, those interested in following a diplomatic career first must study at the Brazilian school of diplomats: the Rio Branco Institute (IRBr).

After having passed the Rio Branco Institute's (IRBr) entrance examination, the student becomes a Third Secretary. The career path then continues to Second Secretary, First Secretary, Counselor, Second Class Minister, and First Class Minister or Ambassador.

The candidate must fulfill the following requirements before signing up for the entrance examination to IRBr: be Brazilian by birth, have a clean criminal record, be up-to-date with military and electoral obligations, and have concluded a full undergraduate course recognized by the Ministry of Education before the date of inscription.

The course of study is 2 years long. In the first year, the student has lectures in International Public Law, Economics, Brazilian Foreign Policy, History of International Relations, Theory of International Relations and Brazilian Readings, Diplomatic Language, English, French, and Spanish. For every three class hours on concepts, there is one lecture, seminar, workshop or debate guided by an expert in the field.

In the second year, the student develops his diplomatic professional skills. He works as a trainee in different units of the government and at Brazilian embassies and consulates in South America and Mexico.

The following written tests are part of the entrance examination: Portuguese, English, French and Spanish languages; History, Geography, Brazilian and International Law, Brazilian and International Economy, and International Politics. Also, the following oral tests are required: International Politics, English, and Portuguese language.

Until 2004, the English language tests could eliminate a candidate. However, on December 7, 2004, the Brazilian Minister of External Relations Celso Amorim changed the entrance examination rules. Failing the English test no longer removes the student from the program.

The following tests can still remove a person from the program: Portuguese language, History, and Geography.

The Minister Celso Amorim explained his decision: "This is a democratic decision. I would rather have a diplomat who knows Portuguese and Brazilian History well than another one who knows English well".

However, the decision proposed by the Ministry of External Relations caused some controversy.

The Senator and former diplomat Arthur Virgílio(PSDB) sent a letter to Minister Celso Amorim protesting against the change in the entrance examination to IRBr. He said that the minister's decision is nonsense, a symbolic protest against the USA. The decision minimizes the importance of English in the world. According to him, the government is being underhanded. "The question is not to love or to hate the United States, but to recognize their enormous weight, until bothering, in the world-wide scenario," he added.

The journalist and high critic of the government and the Workers' Party (PT), Percival Puggina, said: "On March 18, 2004, during a opening speech of a popular restaurant of Coca-Cola in Belo Horizonte, President Lula said: 'I spent much time in my life thinking that if you wanted to be anti-American you should not drink Coca-Cola. Later, I got more mature and realized that there is nothing better than waking up at night and finding a Coca-Cola in the refrigerator.' However, Lula’s anti-Americanism which still remains is more naive than not drinking Coca-Cola. The Ministry of External Relations under the rule of Celso Amorim gives us a clue when it eliminates the English knowledge skills as a requisite to the entrance at the Rio Branco Institute. I assume that this is a kick in both Bush’s groin and in Blair’s ankle. Camões is thankful, but he excuses the courtesy."

In an interview with the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo, the Minister Celso Amorim told:”It should be explained that the English language was not removed from the examination, and it will not stop being obligatory; it will just not remove students anymore. Brazilian diplomats will still have to know English as well as other languages too. What the Itamaraty (the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations) decided was to take for itself the costs of the necessary complementation so that the diplomat has the domain of the language.” Amorim also added: ”There are many people who I knew during my life with all the requisites to be diplomats, but who had difficulty to pass in an examination of eliminatory English.”

According to Amorim, the English language elimination test favors the children of diplomats. Ricardo Neiva Tavares, spokesman of the Itamaraty, says that with the changes candidates of all regions of the country can compete evenly to enter the diplomatic career.

The former chancellor Celso Lafer criticized the decision: "Portuguese is not the language used in international communication." According to him, the change in the admission examination is a false idea of democratization.

Cristovam Buarque professor of University of Brasilia, senator (PT) and former minister of Education during Lula’s government said: “The knowledge of foreign languages, especially of English, is absolutely necessary to the diplomat. But this knowledge little says about the potential of creativity, knowledge, and ability of a youth who intends to enter the diplomatic course. Henry Kissinger, for example, would have been disapproved of in our course of diplomacy, since he still speaks with a German accent.”


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User:Trödel

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User talk:61.196.0.212

Welcome
Welcome!

Glad to see you here, and editing.

Here are a few items I've found useful Getting started. The tutorial on writing an article has some great steps to follow, as well as some templates which will help simplify writing articles. The workspace is a great way to interest others in helping out on your article idea, or to find articles you can collaborate on. If you need help working with Wikinews, or have ideas to improve Wikinews, consider the Water cooler.

You can always contact me through my talk page. A nifty trick is use NaodW29-nowiki3c83775013c4df3200000001 to sign your message - 3 of them will be replaced with your username as a link, 4 will also put a time stamp to say when you signed it. And have fun!

About your edit, however... That's a great addition, and we appreciate it! but could you create a new article for it, perhaps titled Livedoor purchases 35% stake in NBS? (you can start the article just by clicking on that link). Then you can add a link to it from the Asia page, by including the text Livedoor purchases 35% stake in NBS in the list of articles there.

Thanks again, and Welcome! - Amgine 17:24, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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FARC surround Colombian town

The community of the town of Condoto, 600km of Bogota, in the region of, has been surrounded by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia for a week. The rebel army is interfering with the movement of people, food, and medicine to the city. According to the Government of Chocó Secretary Fredy Lloreda the action is apparently in retaliation for recent operations performed by government forces against the rebels.

The FARC are a Marxist revolutionary group with about 12,000 members which originated from the Colombian Communist Party of the 1960s. The FARC's main stated objective is the creation of a Communist government in Colombia.

According to the Colombian government, the US FBI, and Interpol, the majority of the FARC's recent funding has come from kidnapping, extortion, hijacking, and illegal trade in cocaine.

The FARC are considered a terrorist group by the governments of Colombia and the United States, a Colombian ally in the fight against the FARC. The FARC are a member of the and are opposed to the influence of the government of the United States in South America.

External link

 * FARC-EP website

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Star ousted from galaxy by black hole

February 9, 2005

A close encounter with the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way has set a star on a one way trip into intergalactic space. The star, detected at the MMT Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, is zipping outward at a speed of 1.5 million miles per hour. Rocketing along at twice the galactic escape velocity, the Milky Way's gravitational attraction doesn't have the holding power to keep the star from disappearing into the emptiness between galaxies.

"We have never before seen a star moving fast enough to completely escape the confines of our galaxy," Warren Brown of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) said. "We're tempted to call it the outcast star because it was forcefully tossed from its home. Only the powerful gravity of a very massive black hole could propel a star with enough force to exit our galaxy." Using measurements of the star's line-of-sight velocity, the scientists have concluded the star, cataloged as SDSS J090745.0+24507, is moving almost directly away from galactic center. Composition and age of the star also provide evidence of the star's origin and ultimate fate. "Because this is a metal-rich star, we believe that it recently came from a star-forming region like that in the galactic center," said Brown. Less than 80 million years were needed for the star to reach its current location, which is consistent with its estimated age. Margaret J. Geller, Michael J. Kurtz and Scott J. Kenyon, along with Brown, will publish their find in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal.

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where scientists study the origin, evolution and ultimate fate of the universe.

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Baugur makes a US$1,8 billion bid for Somerfield

February 9, 2005

London/Reykjavík – The Icelandic retail and investment company Baugur is making a bid for the British supermarket chain Somerfield of £1 billion, 120 billion ISK, or US$1,8 billion. The supermarket chain has 700 Somerfield supermarkets and 500 Kwik Save discount foodstores across the United Kingdom. Baugur already owns the Iceland supermarket in the UK and Ireland, Bónus and Hagkaup supermarkets in Iceland, and other retailers in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, United Kingdom, Sweden & Denmark.


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Carly Fiorina ousted from HP

February 9, 2005 New York - Carly Fiorina was ousted by the board of directors of HP yesterday, much to the delight of Wall Street. Ms Fiorina's resignation was the result of a disagreement with the board over the future of the company. Often cited as America's most powerful businesswoman, Ms Fiorina presided over the multi-billion dollar merger between Hewlett Packard and Compaq Computers in 2002.

The move comes after several months of intense speculation about her future with the company. Having promised billions in annual savings to the company from the 2002 merger, the combined company failed to keep pace with competitors such as Dell, or to deliver any significant increases in profits, particularly in the personal computer market. A recent investigation by Fortune magazine highlighted the fact that the firm's highly profitable printer business supported the lower-margin computer business.

After the announcement, HP shares surged 10% on Wall Street against a generally poor performance by the major indices.

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Talk:FARC surround Colombian town

(...)in recent years the majority of its funding has come from kidnapping...

or

(...)in recent years the majority of their funding has come from kidnapping...  ?

FARC = the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (plural)

So I think we should write their instead of  its. Am I correct? I would like to see the explanation of someone.
 * IMO it should be singular as FARC is a collective term and there is only one FARC. Laura Thomson 18:01, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

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Hamas dampens Palestinian-Israeli truce

February 9, 2005

Following the much hailed truce between the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority, the most powerful armed group in Palestine has declared that the conference in Sharm el-Sheikh has changed nothing.

Hamas said that although the Palestinian leaders had announced a truce, the organisation was not bound to it. The group also said in a statement that it should have been consulted first, a view shared by another militant group - Islamic Jihad.

Both groups have largely observed an unofficial ceasefire for the past three weeks, having reached an understanding with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas that would enable him to negotiate with Israel in an environment of relative calm.

The groups appear to have come to an agreement that they should continue to observe a month's calm, as agreed with Abbas in late January. Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri told Aljazeera that Hamas leaders would be seeking a meeting with Abbas within the next few days to discuss the summit. Masri, however, said that the Sharm el-Sheikh talks had been "disappointing," as the agreement did not represent many of the Palestinian groups.

Khadir Habib, a spokesman for Islamic Jihad, said, "Islamic Jihad has endorsed a one-month period of quiet and we will respect it", indicating that some Palestinian groups may be willing to withdraw from violence in order to give the new peace process time to develop, however, some violence and hostility have greeted the new ceasefire, with gunfire from an Israeli settlement which has reportedly critically injured a 22-year-old Palestinian man. The Israeli army said it is to check the report.

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FBI Investigates 250 thousand poisoned U.S. dollars

February 9, 2005 The has taken over a case covering several cities. Police found $250,000 in sealed bags, intercepted between, and Northeast. State troopers counting the cash became ill, and one was hospitalized. The cash is believed to be drug money.

Sources told CBS 3 tests on the cash counter revealed the presence of a toxin derived from the bacteria staphylococcus. There is speculation the contamination may have been deliberate to prevent the money being tampered with in transit.

FBI Spokesperson Jerri Williams said, “This is under investigation and we have no information to provide to the public at this time."

A warning has been issued recommending that officers should take extra precaution and wear protective masks when handling suspected drug money.


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Israel-Palestine ceasefire begins with violence

February 9, 2005

Minor violent incidents and claims of Lebanese sabotage marked an unsteady start today for the Israeli-Palestinian truce, already threatened after militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad announced that they were not bound by the agreement.

Two Israeli motorists escaped uninjured in the West Bank today after coming under fire from Palestinian gunmen.

Elsewhere, Hamas militant Hassan Alami was found dead in the Khan Younis camp of Southern Gaza, killed while carrying out activities for the group. Although Hamas refused to be bound by the agreement signed yesterday in Sharm el-Sheik, it has promised to keep quiet at the request of Mahmoud Abbas.

Another Palestinian man is in a critical condition after being shot in the chest. The man, from the Rafah refugee camp, was shot near the Israeli settlement of Atzmona. The Israeli army, which has a garrison in Atzmona, is looking into the incident.

Meanwhile, Ramallah has accused Lebanese rebel group Hezbollah of attempting to sabotage the fragile peace agreement in the Middle East. The group, backed by Syria and Iran, are attempting to recruit Palestinian militants to engage in attacks of Israeli targets, claim Palestinian spokesmen. The charges mirror those made recently by Israel, which has long accused Hezbollah of bankrolling Palestinian violence in the region.

Hezbollah denies the charges, and claims to be honouring the ceasefire agreed yesterday. However, Palestinian officials claim to have intercepted bank records and email communications that prove that the guerilla group is recruiting militants in the West Bank. Abbas is shying away from any confrontation with the group at the moment, but has sent an envoy to Beirut to persuade Hezbollah to desist from its aggressive activities.

Despite the setbacks, Israel has begun to lift restrictions of travel and issue permits to 1000 Palestinians to work in Israel, as part of Tuesday's deal. Sharon has agreed to travel to Ramallah to continue talks toward peace in the region.


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Explosion in Madrid; Basque separatists blamed

February 10, 2005

At 8:30 am UTC yesterday a car bomb exploded in downtown Madrid, Spain, near the city's main convention center. The explosion occurred shortly before King Juan Carlos and Mexican President Vicente Fox, were due to open the ARCO art fair.

Forty-three persons were hurt, including 6 police officers. Reuters reports 24 were taken to the hospital, though none were seriously injured. The Juan Carlos I Convention Center suffered major damage to its facade from the blast.

Explosives experts estimated the size of the bomb between 20 and 30 kg (44-66 lb) of explosive material, according to Spain's Interior Minister José Antonio Alonso. The blast is the most serious explosion in Spain since the March 11, 2004 al-Qaeda train bombings. It coincides with a police crack-down on the Basque separatist group ETA in the lead up to the Basque regional elections in April.

The Basque newspaper Gara received a warning from a caller claiming to be with the separatist group ETA half an hour before the blast, announcing that a car bomb would explode soon after.

ETA grew out of a call for action against Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. A Basque nationalist movement, ETA grew into a guerrilla force which, to date, is responsible for killing more than 800 people.

The goals of ETA are to force the creation of an independent Basque nation, including both the French and Spanish Basque regions. Initially, under the Franco dictatorship and during the transition periods following his death, ETA enjoyed widespread support in the Basque communities. With the increasing radicalism and violence of their methods, this popularity has waned, and organizations such as Gesto por la Paz (the Association for Peace in the Basque Country) now hold silent protests after ETA acts of terrorism.


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Talk:Brazil dismisses English language skills on Diplomatic career admission

Hihi. I did my best to move the article closer to standard English. Please correct me if I'm changing the meaning of the article.


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User talk:67.52.43.250

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

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! -- IlyaHaykinson 02:52, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:66.92.223.132

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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! -- IlyaHaykinson 02:53, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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Kobe commemorates earthquake victims

January 17, 2005. Several commemoration ceremonies were recently held for victims of the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995, mainly in Kansai region. The municipality of Kobe and supporting organisations held one such ceremony in the early morning of January 17. It was the biggest ceremony held that day. Over 5,000 people gathered in the East Playground in the center of city. Participants included surviving citizens and volunteers from around the whole country who had helped out. At 5:43 a.m., just 10 years after the earthquake first occurred, people lit candles in honor of the 6,433 victims. The victims included 133 people who died in the aftermath of the disaster, due to physical or mental difficulties caused by the heavy changes in their life.

The earthquake centered around Awaji Island, near the city of Kobe. It measured 7.3 on the Richter Scale, the biggest quake to hit Japan since World War II. Though a great earthquake could theoretically occur in any part of Japan, and scientists had warned of the possibility of earthquakes in the Kansai region, citizens and local government tended to be unaware of this possibility 10 years ago. The death and destruction caused by the quake gave a serious shock to the city's residents. One story of the Kobe city hall was totally destroyed, and a part of Meishin Highway between Nagoya and Kobe was ripped apart; a bus barely avoided falling from the broken highway. Engineers buttressed vulnerable city structures throughout Japan after the earthquake. Research revealed that architecture designed under national earthquake-proof standards had survived the earthquake. Many old buildings were rebuilt, reconstructed, or given structual support. Vulnerable city infrastructure was also attended to; in some areas water and fuel supply had been disrupted for over two months. Many municipalities reviewed their standards for civil engineering design.

The earthquake also revealed systematic vulnerability within the Japanese government. The prime minister at that time, Tomiichi Murayama, first learned of the earthquake from a TV news program two hours later, and not from a government report. He called his secretary, who also knew nothing of it. The government improved these weaknesses, and in the case of the Chuetsu Earthquake in October 2004, the prime minister's office was able to quickly deal with the accident.

After the earthquake, many people spent days in shelters. 104,900 houses were completely destroyed, and 144,256 only partly desroyed. The Hyogo prefecture and municipalities provided temporary shelters, called Kasetsujutaku. Such temporary houses had remained since 2000. Since those houses were provided to individuals and not to communities, many people found they were no longer with their familiar neighbors after moving. This caused serious problems among people, especially the elderly. Since 2000, around 200 people have died alone in such temporary houses, to be found only days later; this was considered a serious social problem. A word was even coined for this situation, Kodokushi (meaning "death in solitude" in Japanese), but some say no effective solution has yet been offered.

The earthquake has also had a bright side. Before the earthquake, it was not popular to participate voluntarily in social activities in Japan. The earthquake moved many people to join such activities. Since it was close to the end of the Japanese schoolyear, many students could stay in the affected area for long days. And it has been not easy to have a vacation for Japanese workers, as many people took vacations from their company and went to the affected area to help out. This was not just a temporary movement, but influenced people to consider such social engagement as a regular activity (one can see a similar influcence in the case of the Chuetsu Earthquake).

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Pagina Aphaeae (Selidas Britomarteos)

I'm active on mainly Japanese projects and meta. Your message on my talk on Japanese Wikinews will be appliciated.

Wikinews and I
First let me confess that I am one of the party who opposed the new project at the vote 2004. I felt then the stated mission of Wikinews is so noble and respectable as to attract many good and sincere people, but thought its achivement would be hard, specially to keep quality and neutrality. Even now, my idea is not so different from then, except the difficulties of pursuing neutrality; Wikiquote is developing a nice system to review article development, and it helps to prevent strong POV articles to be issued to some extent. However, other aspects of quality control, like avoiding copyvio, I culculate their difficulities still high.

Generally I would like to work with good fellows, and enjoy developing and helping any respectable aims on a good faith, I have therefore a strong interest to help developing all the Wikimedia projects as far as I can. I have been working on Wikimedia Quarto, the official newsletter of Wikimedia Foundation, and sometimes organized translations related to Foudnation, including Quarto, Wikimania website, Yahoo! press release on April and Election notice 2005. All of them were really exciting experiences. I am honoured to have been invited to those tiny but informative projects and appreciate all my collegues on those project. It was really a pleasure to work with such good fellows. On Wikinews, I am grateful to three Wikinewsies, Tomos, Eloquence and Amgine, who helped Wikimedia Quarto editing. Your future contributions will be also appreciated, please feel free to contact Quarto stuffs, if you would like to write something on Wikimedia Quarto.

I am also interested in spreading knowledge, but my interest is generally on humanities, and I am pretty far from the journalistic topics. Sometimes I would like the others to know some specific topic mainly due to my concern to humanities, but I am principally no person of journalism. So it is not a surprise I was not so much involved into this project, I have been however involved into this project, when some Japanese Wikimedians began to attempt a new language edition launching.

By incident, now I am one of Japanese Wikinews admin team. Adminship there is temporally granted to me and I am not sure if I am the right stuff, I enjoy however (surprisingly!) my activities on Wikinews, and now it is the project I spent the longest time in a day on over 300 Wikimedia projects. I would like to try all my best to develop both project and community. All your help to enhance the youngest sibling (as of yet) will be appreciated.

My concerns on Wikinews

 * Neutrality and accuracy - as same as on other projects.
 * Geographical balance of topics - to introduce East Asian topics to English edition and non EA topics to Japanese edition.
 * Coordination between each language projects, specially Japanese version and others.
 * Coordination between other projects - between Wikipedia and Commons in particular.

title: User:Aphaia


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$158 billion missing in U.S. Medicare drug benefit cost estimate

February 10, 2005 U.S. Medicare drug benefit cost estimates rise to $558 billion in latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates.

The CBO estimated that the Medicare Modernization Act, "would result in additional direct spending of about $395 billion over the 2004-2013 period." The estimate included $552 billion mandatory spending for Medicare Part D, offset by savings of $13 billion from changes to Parts A and B, and "estimated savings of $145 billion in Medicaid and other federal programs because the Part D benefit would reduce spending in those federal programs."

Although the projections only slightly modified the net costs, from $552 billion to $558 billion, the $158 billion in offset from previous estimates were completely removed with a limited justification. "The estimated savings to Medicaid and other federal programs are incorporated in our baseline projections and are not separately identifiable," the CBO said.

The $552 billion dollar figure is missing from the November 2003 estimates, with a total cost for 2004-2013 presented as single line item of $410 billion as "Prescription Drug Benefit (Title I)." Over the same period the current estimate, which is categorized differently, lists the total costs for the "Benefits and Mandatory Administrative Costs" as $779 billion, with Part D. Premiums and payments by States reducing the number by $221 billion to $558 billion.

The report presented two tables: one justifying the prior $395 billion figure, including itemizations for "Savings to Medicaid and Other Federal Programs" totaling $145 billion and "Other Spending Effects" totaling $13 billion, and another presenting the current estimate, which only listed "Savings to Medicaid and Other Federal Programs" and "Other Spending Effects"as being "Not Separately Identifiable."

"This just brings us back to the Bush administration's credibility gap," Rep. Charles Rangel of New York told the L.A. Times. Medicare is overseen by the House Ways and Means Committee, and Rep. Rangels is the senior Democrat on the committee. "How can we trust them on Social Security when they did not play straight with the facts on Medicare?" he said.

Dr. Mark B. McClellan, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, disagreed, saying "there has been no significant change in the cost of the drug benefit" for the years 2006 - 2015 despite the numbers he brought forward having a cost of $1.2 trillion dollars. He points to a difference in years covered by his estimates as the reason, and that the numbers represented "gross costs" and did not reflect premiums paid by Medicare beneficiaries, compulsory contributions by states or savings to the Medicaid program.


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Togo's new leader promises elections, but doesn't say when

February 10, 2005 The new leader of Togo, the late president Gnassingbé Eyadéma's son, Faure Gnassingbé, pledged to hold "free and transparent elections which reflect the will of the people" as soon as possible, though he did not mention a specific timeframe, nor did he address international criticism of his ascession to power.

Togolese politics have become a subject of criticism by the African Union, the European Union and the United Nations after the death of Eyadéma late last week. Eyadéma was Africa's longest-ruling leader whose 38-year rule was marked by government-sponsored violence and the stifling of political expression.

The Constitution of Togo was amended to permit Eyadéma to retain power, to allow more than two five-year terms in office, and to lower the minimum age for a president from 45 to 35. The latter move was seen as a way to allow the succession of the presidency to Eyadéma's son, then only 35 years old.

When Eyadéma died on Saturday of a heart attack, the country's Constitution called for power to be transferred to the head of the national assembly. Instead, Faure Gnassingbé assumed power and the Constitution was amended to allow this, causing criticism from foreign commentators.

Faure Gnassingbé also promised reforms, and an open dialog with the opposition parties. However, with the opposition leader out of the country since an assassination attempt in 1992, and the presidential term not set to expire until 2008, it is not clear how much change these promises will bring in the near future.


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Google releases test of mapping service

February 10, 2005 Google Inc. on Tuesday rolled out a test version of its mapping service — a type of service long offered by its rivals Yahoo and Microsoft. The web site, http://maps.google.com, is designed to let users display maps of locations around the United States and Canada, find businesses near those locations, and generate driving directions between locations.

Unlike the competitors' offerings, Google's mapping system shows bigger maps and does not require a reload of the web page when a user pans or zooms the map. The site uses the Google Local search to incorporate local businesses onto the map. Google uses mapping data from TeleAtlas and Navteq, according to information shown on the mapping site.

title: Google releases test of mapping service


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North Korea declares it has nuclear weapons; cancels talks

The state-run has released a statement from the North Korean Foreign Ministry cancelling the ongoing six-party talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapon development programs. The statement also declared for the first time that North Korea has nuclear arms, announcing that it plans to "bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal".

The statement declared, "We had already taken the resolute action of pulling out of the and have manufactured nuclear arms for self-defense to cope with the Bush administration's evermore undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the  [North Korean government]."

"Nuclear weapons will remain [a] nuclear deterrent for self-defense under any circumstances," said the ministry. "The present reality proves that only powerful strength can protect justice and truth."

Previously, on February 4, the state-run carried a reaction to the inauguration speech of  President : "In his inauguration speech, Bush trumpeted that 'fire of freedom will reach dark corners of the world.' This is nothing but a plot to engulf the whole world in a sea of war flames and rule it by imposing a freedom based on power."

Technical experts and politicians have advised though that this announcement might still need to be taken with suspicion, however, as North Korea has made large announcements before making large demands many times in the past as a form of bluffing. Because they have never shown any outside experts concrete proof of their having successfully extracted the from their reactors, nor that they have managed to perform the complicated chemistry and engineering necessary to develop a prototype, and have not performed the requisite first , their nuclear status, though declared, is being viewed as somewhat ambiguous. It is also unknown whether their purported nuclear weapons are sophisticated enough to fit onto their missiles, a complicated task to achieve without testing or outside assistance.

New evidence of nuclear sales
A week earlier, new information about North Korean sales of nuclear materials had come out - including allegations that they had provided uranium to Libya's now-defunct nuclear program.

In the following days, President Bush's public rhetoric with respect to North Korea seemed to have softened, and his administration sent a new envoy to the, , and governments to discuss pressuring North Korea to give up its nuclear arms development. The envoy, Michael Green (an Asia expert on the ), was sent to meet with Chinese president Hu Jintao with a letter from President Bush "written to underscore the greatly heightened urgency" of the situation. Green also met with South Korean President and Japanese Prime Minister.

South Korean foreign minister visits the US
This week, the Yonhap news agency reported (via AFP) that South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon was also travelling to, to talk with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other US officials about North Korea's nuclear weapons program.