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India, China to jointly construct Buddhist temple in Henan Province

April 18, 2005

The governments of India and China have declared in an official memorandum on April 11 their intention to jointly construct an Indian-style Buddhist temple on the western side of the historic White Horse Temple, in Luoyang, Henan Province, China. The project is planned as part of an ongoing effort to increase the ties of friendship and shared culture between the two countries.

The memorandum came in a series of agreements between Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during Jiabao's state visit to India April 9-12 at Singh's invitation.

India is expected to provide the funding, architectural design, landscape planning, a Buddha idol and other materials for the completed temple. China is offering to provide official cooperation and permits, and facilitate the travel of Indian architects and other construction experts to the site. The temple is planned to be located on 2,667 square meters of land provided by the Chinese government.

White Horse Temple

The site of the newly announced temple is said to be in the International Garden of the White Horse Temple in Luoyang.

The White Horse Temple is a site of historic importance to Buddhism. Constructed almost 2,000 years ago in AD 68, the temple is the location first used to introduce Buddhism to China from India. Two Buddhist monks from India, Kasyapa Matanga and Dharmaranya, are said to have originally resided there.

Luoyang, Henan Province
Luoyang, one of China's seven ancient cities, is located in the central plain of China in the valley of the Yellow River. The Longmen Grottoes (or Longmen Caves), another historic site containing thousands of Buddhist sculptures, are located a few kilometers south of there.

Henan Province is located in east-central China, as shown in the above map. It is China's most populous province, with over 96 million residents, mostly Mandarin-speaking Han Chinese. According to Wikipedia, it is traditionally considered to be the source of Chinese civilization.

India-China relationship
Many aspects of the India-China relationship were discussed during the official visit. These include:

 * Discussions of military cooperation, including contacts and exchange of views of high level military officials, such as the current visit of Indian naval Vice Admiral Yashwant Prasad to China during April 11-19, and other naval activities such as the docking of ships. Both India and China are nuclear-armed nations.
 * Pushing forward toward mutual agreement on defining the geographical boundary between China and India, called the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The two countries have been unsuccessful in their attempts to resolve their dispute since the Sino-Indian border war of 1962, subsequent decades of military friction and official protests in the 1980s, and peacemaking efforts in the 1990s.
 * Trade and economic cooperation between the world's two most populous countries to be increased from the equivalent of US$13.6 billion last year to US$20 billion annually by 2008, and the two governments are studying the benefits of a possible India-China Regional Trade Agreement. China is said to be particularly strong in manufacturing, which complements India's growth in the IT software and services sector.
 * The Tibet Autonomous Region was again recognized to be part of Chinese territory by India, under its long-standing "One China" policy; and India's policy continues to be "that it [does] not allow Tibetans to engage in anti-China political activities in India". Since the Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959, India has played host to the exiled Tibetan government in the town of Dharmsala in the Himalayan Mountains.
 * Many areas of future exchange and reciprocity, including anti-terrorism, scientific exchange, academic, technological, financial, shipping, tourism, film-making, sports, water management, and shared oil and gas exploration in other countries. China is currently the world's third-largest oil consumer, behind only the US and Japan, and its appetite for oil is quickly growing.

Leaders of the two countries have declared 2006 to be the "year of India-China friendship" and will be undertaking other cultural exchanges in furtherance of what they call "principles of Panchsheel", or peaceful coexistence. Modern diplomatic relations between the two countries were established 55 years ago after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

India is also currently working on strengthening its relations with the United States, with a current visit to the US by Singh, and a planned visit to India in 2005 by President George W. Bush.

Press Releases

 * April 12, 2005: Visit of Vice Chief of Naval Staff of India to China - Press Release
 * April 11, 2005: Synopses of Agreements/MOUs/Memoranda - Visit of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to India, April 9-12, 2005
 * April 11, 2005: Joint Statement of the Republic of India and the People’s Republic of China

Related Stories

 * April 5, 2005: India-China border talks resume
 * April 4, 2005: India and China to discuss energy: cooperation or competition?
 * March 28, 2005: India may rise as regional power


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Manchester United 4-1 Newcastle United

April 17, 2005

Manchester United made it to the FA cup final after a 4-1 thrashing of Newcastle United at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff today.

Manchester United, the holders always dominated the game and it only took 19 minutes for Ruud van Nistelrooy to break the deadlock. It appeared that the referee Mike Reilly had awarded a penalty to the red devils, but it was a freekick Newcastle's way for Cristiano Ronaldo's dive. Paul Scholes added his name to the score sheet just before half-time with a header.

The game was effectively over when Van Nistelrooy scored another one on 58 minutes, a side-foot past Newcastle's 'keeper Shay Given. A minute later and Newcastle scored through Shola Ameobi, but all hopes of a Newcastle come back were quashed when Cristiano Ronaldo capitalised on van Nistelrooy's generosity to shoot home to make it 4-1 to the reds.

Manchester United will meet Arsenal in the FA Cup final in May.

Newcastle

 * Team: Given, Carr, Boumsong, Taylor, Babayaro (Andrew O'Brien 45), Milner (Kluivert 63), Faye (N'Zogbia 45), Butt, Robert, Ameobi, Shearer.
 * Subs Not Used: Harper, Ambrose.
 * Booked: Milner, Robert.
 * Goals: Ameobi 59.

Manchester United

 * Team: Howard, Gary Neville, Brown, Ferdinand, Heinze, Ronaldo (Smith 78), Keane, Scholes (Fletcher 78), Fortune, Rooney (Giggs 78), Van Nistelrooy.
 * Subs Not Used: Carroll, Silvestre.
 * Booked: Ronaldo, Brown, Heinze.
 * Goals: van Nistelrooy 19, Scholes 45, van Nistelrooy 58, Ronaldo 76.

Att: 69,280 Ref: M Riley (W Yorkshire).

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This is "Middle East Weather" ,but the southern portion of the Middle East is missing.( I choose to remain anonymous.)

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User talk:62.252.192.6

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Russian Soyuz docks with International Space Station for crew change

April 17, 2005

Successful docking
Crewmembers opened hatches between the International Space Station and the newly arrived Soyuz capsule at 12:45 a.m. EDT Sunday to begin almost eight days of joint operations. Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and Astronaut John Phillips docked with the orbiting laboratory at 10:20 p.m. EDT Saturday.

European Space Agency’s Astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy was the third passenger in the Soyuz and he will fly home after 8 days of experiments in the Space Station’s test facility. Going home with him will be two Russian Cosmonauts, Commander Leroy Chiao and Cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, who have been on the Station since October. They will provide the new crew with extensive handover briefings as well as training them on the Station’s robotic Canadarm2.

They will leave the Station April 24 in the Soyuz that brought them to the orbiting laboratory. Their landing is scheduled for 6:08 p.m. EDT that day in Kazakhstan.

Highlights of the new Expedition 11 International Space Station crew's mission include welcoming the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery on its STS-114 mission, the first Shuttle flight since the Columbia accident. Discovery crewmembers will conduct three spacewalks at the Station, deliver several tons of equipment and supplies and return to Earth with equipment and scientific experiments and trash from the Station.

About the Space Station

 * Weight: 404,069 pounds
 * Habitable Volume: 15,000 cubic feet
 * Dimensions:
 * Width Across Solar Arrays: 240 feet
 * Length: 146 feet from Destiny Lab to Zvezda;
 * 171 feet with a Progress docked
 * Height: 90 feet


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Wikinews:DynamicPageList

MediaWiki wiki has a page about this at: Extension:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)

DynamicPageList (DPL) is a Mediawiki extension developed for use on Wikinews (see e.g. 2006/August/14), but can be installed on any wiki. Its name was officially changed to the Intersection extension to avoid confusion with a similar but different DynamicPageList extension. However, it is still generally referred to as DynamicPageList. It works also on Meta, Wikibooks, and several other wikimedia wikis (not wikipedia). It allows wiki users to create a list of pages that are listed in a set of categories. An enhanced versions of the extension has been developed, mw:Extension:DynamicPageList (third-party), but it is not yet available on Wikinews, and is unlikely to be any time soon (however it is super-awesome!).

The dynamic page list is in Git at. To install it, put the file in your  directory, and add   to your LocalSettings.php file.

Using DynamicPageList
The Dynamic Page List (DPL) is a Manual:Extensions. To use it, use the following XML-like syntax on your wiki page:

 ...parameters...

The output of this would be something like:

 * Page 1
 * Page 2

where the list of pages being output, as well as the order and display mode of the list are set by the parameters specified.

The following lists parameters and their effects

category
Purpose:

DPL produces a list of all pages in the intersection of the specified categories (the pages which are in all of the listed categories).

Syntax:

Example:

 category=Africa category=Politics and conflicts

This list will output pages that have both the and  listed.

Notes:

At least one category parameter is required. There is a maximum number of category parameters allowed by the extension, configurable at installation time (see top of the extension file). You may use any magic word (variable) like July, 29, 2024, etc in the category names. You can even use templates if you wish. Even templates with parameters. (For example, see Portal:Random). However, if you want to make a transcludable DPL with parameters (aka ), you must use   syntax.

notcategory
Purpose:

Restricts the list of pages specified above to those not in a particular category.

Syntax:

Example:

 category=Africa notcategory=Zimbabwe

This list will output pages that have but do not have  listed.

Notes: You may use magic words like July, 29, 2024 etc in the category name.

namespace
Purpose:

Restricts the list of pages specified above to those in a particular namespace.

Syntax:

The namespaceid may be any positive integer or zero, assuming it represents a valid namespace in the system. The zero namespace is the main article namespace.

Instead of the number, you may also specify a name, for example Talk or Template or User_talk. Any invalid name is equivalent to the main article namespace.

Example:

 category=Policy namespace=Wikinews

This list will output pages that are in the Wikinews namespace and belong to.

redirects
Purpose:

Controls the inclusion or exclusion of redirect pages in lists.

Example:

criteria can be one of:
 * exclude — excludes redirect pages from lists — (default)
 * include — allows redirect pages to appear in lists
 * only — lists only redirect pages in lists

Example:

 category=Africa redirects=include

This list will content pages and redirect pages tagged with.

count
Purpose:

Restricts the number of results that are shown.

Example:

Example:

 category=Africa count=2

This list will output the two most recent pages that have.

Notes:

There is a maximum allowed number of results, controlled by a setting in the extension.

shownamespace
Purpose:

Specify whether to display the namespace names of the pages (default=true).

With the code

instead of e.g. Template:Stub the listing would simply be Stub.

Example:

 category=Africa namespace=Talk shownamespace=false

This list will output all Talk pages in, listed without the Talk: prepended to page names.

addfirstcategorydate
Purpose:

Shows the date the article got added to the first listed include category.

Example:

If omitted, the default is false.

Example:

 category=Kenya category=Tanzania addfirstcategorydate=true

gives:

<DynamicPageList> category=Kenya category=Tanzania addfirstcategorydate=true </DynamicPageList> (apparently the lower bound is 2 July 2005)

This list will output a list of pages belonging to, prepending each result with "DD Month YYYY: " (formatted according to your local mediawiki date display preferences).

mode
Purpose:

To control the output of the DPL: with bullets, numbers, or nothing in front.

Syntax:

modename can be one of:
 * unordered — outputs an unordered list — HTML tag "ul" — (default)
 * ordered — outputs an ordered list — HTML tag "ol"
 * none — outputs a list using newlines and HTML tags "br" to separate each item

Example:

<DynamicPageList> category=Africa mode=ordered </DynamicPageList>

This list will output pages that have shown in an <ol>...</ol> list.

suppresserrors
Purpose:

Allows warnings about empty lists to be suppressed.

Example:

If omitted, the default is false.

Example:

<DynamicPageList> category=Nonexistent suppresserrors=true </DynamicPageList>

This list will output no pages since the category is non-existent, but will not show a warning saying the list is empty.

Error messages are controllable via:
 * mediawiki:intersection_noincludecats
 * mediawiki:intersection_toofewcats
 * mediawiki:intersection_toomanycats
 * mediawiki:intersection_noresults

Originally this parameter was used very heavily throughout Wikinews, as the error message for no articles was very cryptic and ugly. Now we have changed the error message to be more friendly, so the use of this paramter is not as important anymore. Nonetheless, it is still commonly used.

showcurid
Purpose:

Link includes unique page id (needed for some web spiders, links directly to a page even if it moved titles, or the title specified is incorrect ). This is specifically used by the google news spider, which needs a unique identifier for each page in the url. This does not change appearance, just the link url.

Example:

If omitted, the default is false.

Example:

<DynamicPageList> category=Published showcurid=true </DynamicPageList>

Example:

If Post-probe, problematic peanut paste products pulled was on the page list. Without the parameter, it would link to http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Post-probe,_problematic_peanut_paste_products_pulled. However, with the parameter it links to http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Post-probe,_problematic_peanut_paste_products_pulled?curid=120194.

googlehack
Like curid, except uses the parameter dpl_id instead of curid. Curid sometimes triggers the no robots flag.

FlaggedRevisions
Purpose to control inclusion of pages marked sighted/stable/quality

stablepages
filter can be:
 * exclude — excludes stable pages from lists — (default if invalid argument given)
 * include — allows stable pages to appear in lists (default)
 * only — lists only stable pages in lists

qualitypages
filter can be:
 * exclude — excludes quality pages from lists — (default if invalid argument given)
 * include — allows quality pages to appear in lists (default)
 * only — lists only quality pages in lists

ordermethod
Purpose:

Determines what date is used for ordering the list.

method can be one of:
 * categoryadd — outputs list based on most recent addition to the first category — (default)
 * lastedit — outputs list based on most recent edit to the pages

Example:

<DynamicPageList> category=Africa ordermethod=lastedit addfirstcategorydate=true count=3 </DynamicPageList>

gives

<DynamicPageList> category=Africa ordermethod=lastedit addfirstcategorydate=true count=3 </DynamicPageList> Note that sorting order is by last edit (or, in the case of a category, apparently by last edit of a page in that category), with most recently edited pages at the top, while the display date is that of addition to the category Africa.

whereas

<DynamicPageList> category=Africa ordermethod=addcategory addfirstcategorydate=true count=3 </DynamicPageList>

gives

<DynamicPageList> category=Africa ordermethod=addcategory addfirstcategorydate=true count=3 </DynamicPageList>

order
Purpose:

Controls the sort direction of the list.

Example:

orderdirection can be one of:
 * descending — outputs list from most recent to least recent — (default)
 * ascending — outputs list from least recent to most recent

Example:

<DynamicPageList> category=Africa order=ascending </DynamicPageList>

This list will output pages that have shown ordered from oldest to newest.

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Papal conclave attracting more bets than the Oscars

April 17, 2005 The Irish bookmaker, Paddy Power, has described this weeks conclave in the Vatican as "getting to be a bigger non-sporting betting event than the Oscars Hollywood movie awards."

The bookmaker has been taking bets all week on who will be the next Pope, with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger the 3-1 favourite. Second favorite was a Frenchman; Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger. The betting firm revealed that one customer has placed €1,000 (US$1,287) on the former Jew.

In third place is a 78 year old Italian, Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini. Like the late Pope John Paul II, Martini has Parkinson's disease and is quite conservative. He was also a close confidante of John Paul II who debated with the theologian on Church dogma.


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Kenyan aviation union threatens government with strike

April 17, 2005

The Aviation and Allied Workers' Union in Nairobi, Kenya, has threatened to suspend operations in 48 hours at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport if the government does not accede to its requests, the East African Standard reported on April 18.

The minister of Labour, Newton Kulundu, "declared the strike illegal and warned that such action would lead to serious consequences," said the Standard. A representative of the union, Jimi Masege, said that the airline was ignoring an order from the registrar of trade unions to collect money from airport workers and give it to the union, Nairobi's Daily Nation said.

Kulundu called on the union to respect the April 14 ruling of what the Nation called an "industrial relations officer," which required the union to refrain from striking. The Standard noted that there was some dispute as to whether the AAWU was properly registered with the government. According to the Daily Nation, Kulundu recommended that the dispute be handled by the state Industrial Court if an agreement could not be reached.

While some airline operations on April 18 have been disrupted due to bad weather, the union is not planning to strike until Wednesday, April 20.


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Wikinews:2005/April/18

 * Virgin billionaire suggests hybrids to save MG Rover
 * Armstrong announces retirement from professional cycling
 * Survivors gather to remember 1906 San Francisco quake
 * Adobe to Purchase Macromedia for $3.4 Billion
 * Five anti-hail centres to be set up in Romania
 * Romanian government to sell 10 percent of its shares in Romgaz
 * India, China to jointly construct Buddhist temple in Henan Province
 * Movie industry looks toward bitTorrent as possible video distribution method

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Talk:British National Fingerprint Database begins without parliamentary consultation

Dammit, how can we stop this and other big brother initiatives?

Well, everyone can mention bomb or some other horrible event, time, and place. What´s going to happen? Is the goverment going to track everyone like they´re a terrorist? I think this method would prove the system useless!

As they say, Its time to leave the country... EAi2k 15:14, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * National ID cards have already appeared in several countries. They won't necessarily use them to track everybody (they don't even have enough money to try) but probably just use it to prevent fraud and so on. I hope. Cap'n Refsmmat 22:36, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Wikinews:Original reporting contest May 2005

The Wikinews Original Reporting contest of May 2005 is a competition among Wikinews authors which aims to increase the incidence of Original reporting articles on the site, and to allow contributors to learn how to solicit quotes from people connected to the news.

The contest opens on Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 00:00 UTC. The rules are simple:

 * 1) A contestant may enter at any time before the contest is over.
 * 2) A contest entry is an article started by the participant, containing one or more quotes from at least one person.
 * The person whose quote is used may be part of the story, or a specialist commenting on the story.
 * The quote must be obtained by the participant, and may be obtained in person, by telephone, by email, or some other method of person-to-person communication
 * All quotes must have proper documentation on the Notes page for the article. If obtained via email then the notes page must contain a transcript of the email. If taken in person or via telephone, the notes page must contain the reporter's notes with shorthand, longhand or a close paraphrase of the original quote. Alternately, recordings of the conversations may be uploaded to the Commons in .ogg format. Inability to properly encode and upload audio files will not disqualify a participant if corrected within 2 days of the article's creation.

 * 1) The articles should strive to follow conventions. Articles which the community decides to delete cannot be counted.
 * 2) The contest ends after 1 month. The winner is the participant who submitted the most stories meeting the above criteria. If no participant has submitted at least 5 such stories, the contest automatically gets extended for 1 more month.
 * 3) There is an ever-growing pool of prizes and money contributed. The winner takes all the prizes.

Pre-registration (i.e. intent to compete)
Anyone can enter at any time, so this list is just advisory.

 * I'm in. — DV 06:37, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Area man enters writing contest. I am so fully in it is not even funny. Pingswept 21:13, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Judges
''Judges may not formally compete. I'd appreciate at least two more judges.''
 * IlyaHaykinson 09:22, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I would be honored to help judge -- HiFlyer 05:33, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)--Update...I will be unable to commit the time necessary to participate. --HiFlyer 20:31, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * NGerda

Prizes

 * I will send US$25 via check, money order or paypal to the winner. IlyaHaykinson 09:22, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Romanian government to sell 10 percent of its shares in Romgaz

April 18, 2005

The Romanian Minster for Economy and Commerce, Codruţ Sereş, announced on Friday that his ministry intends to sell 10% of its shares in the state-owned natural gas distributor, Romgaz, this year. The Ministry is still deciding whether to transfer the stock to financial investors or whether to list it on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

Romgaz is one of the largest state-owned companies in Romania falling under the ownership of the Ministry of Economy and Commerce. In 2005, the company is expected to have an estimated turnover of 648 million euro.

Romgaz is the latest Romanian energy company where plans have been announced for privatisation. Last year, the privatisation of natural gas distributors Distrigaz Sud and Distrigaz Nord was proposed, and is expected to be fully completed by the end of this month. Last year, Romanian oil giant Petrom was privatised, in the country's largest ever privatisation, and this year the Electrica Group of electricity distributors was sold off to various financial investors.


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Five anti-hail centres to be set up in Romania

April 18, 2005

As part of the National Anti-Hail Program, five centres that will help in hail protection and launch anti-hail missiles if necessary will be built in Prahova, Iaşi, Vrancea, Timiş and Mureş counties. The centre in Prahova county, just west of Bucharest, is almost finalised and may even be put into operation in this year's winter.

The National Anti-Hail Program was launched in 2000 and is due to be finalised in 2014. It seeks to better protect those areas of the country that are most affected by hail. The project needs investment of 10.9 million new lei (3 million euro), half of which have already been allocated, according to the project's co-ordinator, Stancu Samoila.


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Talk:Five anti-hail centres to be set up in Romania

My god, this isnt a hoax (not that Ronline is the type to write hoaxes). A quick search on google shows that anti-hail missiles really do exist. Who woulda thunk it, ey? ~The bellman | Smile 12:18, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we oughta make a wikipedia entry for it, so people'll believe it and have a some background info. I don't think there's much objection this article be included in Wackynews? -- Redge (Talk) 12:35, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Aren't there any anti-hail missiles in Australia!? There was a big hail storm over there a few years ago! In Sydney! But yeah, you're right, it does sound strange at first, so it's a good candidate for Wackynews, I suppose. Although it is a pretty serious problem... the government supposedly considers a big enough threat that it's willing to spend 3 million euro on it and fire these odd missiles in the skies. And there should be a Wikipedia article on it, though I have no idea how they work. Cheers, Ronline 13:13, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC) (And you thought I was making a hoax! It would've been better to have this on April Fools Day as the lead article, with a picture of a real missile ;)

Good!
I wish I would have found this story. I was sure it was a prank. Who would spend millions of dollars fighting HAIL?!? It must be a serious problem! In USA elBushko would call it the War on Hail ;-)) --HiFlyer 17:31, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Prahova county is North of Bucharest, not West.


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Adobe to Purchase Macromedia for $3.4 Billion

April 18, 2005 Adobe Systems, Inc. announced today that they will acquire Macromedia, Inc. for an estimated $3.4 billion in stock. Bruce Chizen, the chief executive officer of Adobe said that "Customers are calling for integrated software solutions that enable them to create, manage and deliver a wide range of compelling content and applications -- from documents and images to audio and video. By combining our powerful development, authoring and collaboration software -- along with the complementary functionality of PDF and Flash -- Adobe has the opportunity to bring this vision to life with an industry-defining technology platform."

The acquisition is expected to close in the fall, subject to approval by the stockholders of both companies and regulatory approvals. Under the terms of the agreement holders of Macromedia stock will receive 0.69 shares of Adobe stock for every share of Macromedia stock. Macromedia stockholders are expected to own approximately 18 percent of the combined company.

The two companies have in the past been rivals and some of their products compete in similar niches. For example, both Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks are graphics editing programs, and both Adobe GoLive and Macromedia Dreamweaver are webpage design applications.

In the combined company, the current CEO of Adobe, Chizen will continue as CEO. Stephen Elop, president and CEO of Macromedia, will become president of worldwide field operations. The combined company will keep the name "Adobe", and will focus on integration and growth.

Additional details are available from Adobe Investor Relations.

External link

 * Adobe Investor Relations

Adobe compra a Macromedia Macromedia acquistata da Adobe Adobe wykupiło Macromedia za ponad 3 miliardy dolarów Adobe vai adquirir a Macromedia por 3,4 bilhões de dólares


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Massachusetts man arrested on charge of murdering Christa Worthington after three year investigation

April 19, 2005 Christopher McCowen, a 33-year-old garbage collector, has been arrested and charged with first degree murder, aggravated rape, and armed assault. Christa Worthington, a United States fashion writer, was found stabbed to death three years ago on January 6, 2002, in her home in Truro, Massachusetts. Her 2-year old daughter, found with her, was unharmed.

The Truro police had already attempted a mass DNA test of all male residents of the town, on the third anniversary of the murder three months before, prompting an outcry from the ACLU. McCowen himself had in fact already provided a DNA sample to the police prior to the mass testing, in March 2004.


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Talk:Internet censorship study group reports on China

Media control in China

Media control in other countries

 * Many of the control techniques described in the document Media control in China above, are not unique to China. In fact many remind me of the types of control which rumours claimed existed where I grew up in Queensland, Australia, during 'the Joh years' of 197x - 1987 — in particular the phrase allegedly used by government forces when paying a visit to a publisher to quieten them down: 'saying hello'.

 * The example is a good case study — not because the censorship was worse than anywhere else, that sort of thing is difficult to evaluate — but because the system of government did at last fall, and open enquiry could reveal much of its inner workings.

 * The author of this article was a key figure in exposing the Joh era corruption, which thrived under his totalitarian control.

 * The totalitarian control is better described here, such as outlawing political rallies. The rest of the site provides more historical context.

 * Candid history of the State of Queensland, perhaps indicating motivations for the development of efficient censorship there.

 * Defamation in Australia. One way censorship can thrive in 'open' democracy. Once the reporters decide not to write the story in the first place, has censorship reached perfection? (known as self-censorship)

 * Is the following article an example of censorship? Or an example of the type of event which embodies the best argument to support censorship (by those who would argue for censorship over education and dialogue)?

 * How can the remote reader decide? Is the report of 20 dead a further attempt at inflaming dissent, for motives unspecified? If the alleged letter had never been published, would harmony be undisturbed? Seems to me that education, discussion, and a culture of skepticism and patience are better than a culture of intolerance and stifled expression.

 * Is it achievable, or do we end up with the worst of both worlds, free expression and reactionary violence? Surely this is because people are educated to believe in the authority of the media, that if something is published it is truthful, since all non-truthful writings are censored ... so censorship encourages the problem that it aims to avoid.

 * I see Wikinews and citizen journalism as an experiment in which people may explore the process of content creation, and see the diversity of views, and I hope the result is to break down the myth of the authority of the media. - Simeon 15:59, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I think I agree with your main thesis that censorship is generally ill-advised. I don't understand a few of the tings you say though.  You mention the "worst of both worlds", and then mention free expression as part of that.  Do you feel that free expression is undesirable? - RPDillon

 * Hmm .. I meant the bad things that may come with free expression, as illustrated in the version of the story of the Iranian protest if we are to believe the Iranian government's version of it, where people have supposedly taken advantage of free expression to incite reactionary violence. It's a question, rhetorical, is that what we get with free expression? Inciting of hatred, and people following when incited. I don't have the answers, I accept the argument that this could be what would happen under free expression, since I have never experienced a culture which has mandated free expression, whether the mandate equates with reality or not. - Simeon 11:04, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Just below that, you again mention that "all non-truthful writings are censored", which is patently false. - RPDillon

 * I agree (that it is false). It is a supposition I am arguing against. The supposition "that if something is published it is truthful, since all non-truthful writings are censored". It is patently false, when examined, but I believe it is a belief that our culture tries to reinforce to some degree, in our education systems, in 'authoritative' media of all forms. Not always, not in every case, but often enough for it to hurt. - Simeon 11:06, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I think the only way we can even begin to approximate truth-in-media is to make everything the media.

 * Wikimedia is a good example of this concept, and its name is no coincidence. Sure, each page, taken individually, can be editted to contain information that isn't factual.  But, like the internet, when taken as a whole, a Wiki tends to provide accurate information exactly because it isn't censored by some central authority, and isn't exclusive in it's membership.  So it is with the Internet at large.

 * I think you'll find that anywhere censorship takes place, there is more inaccurate infromation than you would find otherwise. Truth is distorted as much by lack of information as by too much (inaccurate) information, and China understands this.  This phenomenon is also prevalent in media; the lack of regular people being able to speak out allows for distortions.  But Wikis, blogging, and the internet in general are allowing truth to be found more often for more people. - RPDillon

 * I agree with the idea of trying this :) I agree that wikinews should be like this, and I hope that others will examine our policy of protecting pages after some period of time, since I think that prevents this discourse that you mention.

 * However, I am not yet sure whether this would solve the problem. Can people discuss at a rate that is fast enough? If someone proposes something false, which sweeps a number of people, and some of them react in a genuine way, but a way which would be wrong under correct information, can the correct information be disseminated fast enough to avert tragedy? I assume not always possible.
 * On the balance, would a system of this type, with today's technology be better than the semi-censored systems we have now? Hmm .. maybe, maybe not. I see a disproportionate ability for some to censor and other not to, in today's world. But would it be better than a rationally designed system of protection for some types of information? I am not sure. My mind is open.
 * Do you count a doctors protection of his files from scrutiny by unauthorised people as censorship? Or if some unauthorised person scrutinises then publishes, by intrigue, is it correct to censor that publication? It is always an argument of some good weighed against some bad.
 * The world is not binary, black and white (black and white do not exist as absolutes that we can experience, for example). There is no 'no censorship'. There is only working to make the censorship that exists, better. - Simeon 11:14, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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109th Boston marathon takes place

Catherine Ndereba won her fourth Boston marathon yesterday, making her the first woman to do so. The Kenyan trailed for the first 20 miles of the race, before passing Elfenesh Alemu at the top of Heartbreak Hill in Newton. Though the 26.2 mile race takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, it has been dominated by Kenyan and Ethiopian runners for approximately the last ten years. Emily Levan of Wiscasset, Maine, was the first American woman to finish, placing twelfth in 2:43:14. Levan was also 12th in the 2003 Boston Marathon.

Ethiopian Hailu Negussie won the men's race in 2:11:45. American Alan Culpepper placed fourth, the highest an American has placed in the Boston marathon since 1987, when Dave Gordon did the same.

Ernst Van Dyk won the men's wheelchair race for the fifth year in a row. The women's wheelchair race was won by Cheri Blauwet, who also won the event in 2004.

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Survivors gather to remember 1906 San Francisco quake

April 18, 2005 Monday marks the 99th anniversary of the "Great San Francisco Earthquake" of 1906. Survivors are becoming harder to find, but about a half-dozen of them gathered at Lotta's Fountain for a wreath-laying ceremony. Lotta's Fountain was the spot used after the earthquake as a collection point for information about victims, both family and friends.

Organizers of today’s event believe they can bring about 60 survivors to next year's centennial.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has agreed to change the original statistics of the quake, an estimate of 478 deaths. In time for the centennial, the officially reported number will be revised to account for the some 3 to 6 thousand people who died.


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Minneapolis Highway 169 Causes Much Pain And Suffering, 1 Construction Worker Dead in Accident
Sorry I missed you on IRC. I'm not up to a review tonight (certainly not if there's anything about the review requiring particularly careful thought); I left a comment on the article talk page. In addition to a (potentially, pretty simple) rearrangement of the order in which things are said, the headline should also be shorter, using downstyle capitalization (like a sentence, rather than like a title), and should be more objective ("causes much pain and suffering" is subjective). I cannot, of course, speak atm to the copyright and verification criteria. --Pi zero (talk) 03:30, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
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German Cardinal Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI

April 19, 2005

White smoke appeared today at 5.50 p.m. local time over the Sistine Chapel in Rome - the first sign that a new Pope had been elected by the Conclave of Cardinals. A few minutes later, the bells of St. Peter's Basilica began ringing, confirming the election. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger had been selected as the successor to Pope John Paul II as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, and will be known as Pope Benedict XVI.

The conclave of 115 cardinals started the process of electing a new Pope on Monday, April 18. However, it has taken two days for the required two thirds majority to be reached.

The new Pope appeared to the public within an hour of the first announcement. He appeared on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and delivered a short address to the crowd in Italian. Tens of thousands of people were in St Peter's Square to observe the results of the election.

The election of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger follows the death of Pope John Paul II on April 2.

Biography
Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger (born April 16, 1927) is pope of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1981 Cardinal Ratzinger was appointed prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly known as the Office of the Holy Inquisition) by Pope John Paul II, made a Cardinal Bishop of the episcopal see of Velletri-Segni in 1993, and was elected Dean of the College of Cardinals in 2002, becoming titular bishop of Ostia. He was one of the most influential men in the Vatican and a close associate of the late Pope John Paul II. He presided over the funeral of John Paul II and also presided over the Conclave in 2005. During the sede vacante, he was the highest-ranking official in the Catholic Church.

On January 2, 2005, Time quoted unnamed Vatican sources as saying that Ratzinger was a front runner to succeed John Paul II should the Pope die or become too ill to continue as Pontiff. His see, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia, has traditionally been an antechamber to the Papal seat.

However it is important to note that Ratzinger's election to the Papal office was by no means certain. In conclaves men who are considered papabile often are not elected to office. At times men considered certain to win the election did not win. This is expressed in the saying, "He who enters the conclave as Pope leaves as a Cardinal."

Ratzinger was considered to be Pope John Paul II's "right hand man" and also one of his closest friends and confidants, and during the Pope's final illness, he carried out many of the Pope's functions as leader of the Catholic Church.

Ratzinger has repeatedly stated he would like to retire to a Bavarian village and dedicate himself to writing books, but more recently, he told friends he was ready to "accept any charge God placed on him." After the death of John Paul II on April 2, 2005 Ratzinger ceased functioning as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Ratzinger speaks ten languages and has received seven honorary doctorate degrees. He is an accomplished pianist with a preference for Mozart.

Ratzinger was a member of the Hitler Youth during his teenage years, as was required by German law at the time. His father was very strongly anti-Nazi, and Ratzinger himself later deserted the German army.

He is the eighth German pope.

In April, 2005, he was identified as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine.


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Armstrong announces retirement from professional cycling

April 18, 2005

At a press conference Monday, Lance Armstrong announced his intention to retire from professional cycling after going for his 7th Tour de France title in July 2005.

"Ultimately, athletes have to retire," said the 33 year-old American. "The body doesn't just keep going and going."

Speculation on the retirement of the six-time Tour de France winner had been growing in recent months. The Texan had hinted at wanting to spend more time with his children and his cancer charity, the Lance Armstrong Foundation. There was talk he may marry his well-known girlfriend, rock-star singer Sheryl Crow.

Armstrong battled with testicular cancer in 1996 before coming back to win the 1999 edition of the legendary French race. He went on to win the next five Tours de France and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest riders in the history of the sport.

Asked about his chances for Tour success, he expressed hope tempered with praise for his opponents. "Can I win this year? I'm not sure, but I'll try... This will be a different year for the Tour with Jan Ullrich looking better and a host of young riders coming up," he said.

Should Armstrong follow through with his plans, he will begin his final race in the United States tomorrow at the first stage of the Tour de Georgia. He has successfully used the springtime race in the past as a tune-up to the Tour de France in the summer. The contract with his new team sponsor, the Discovery Channel, obligates him to compete in one more Tour de France.


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Many thanks to CGorman who wrote the first drafts of this article using Story preparation.

Readers and editors alike may be interested to know that we beat BBC News Online, Reuters and AP to the news. Only CNN, as far as I know, was quicker.

Interestingly, the first media correspondent in the world to recognize the election of a new Pope had occured was Christian Franklin on BBC Radio 5 Live. He happened to be broadcasting live from St Peters Square when the smoke emerged and correctly inferred at once that the smoke had to indicate the election of a new Pope - if the ballot had been inconclusive, the papers would have been kept until the 7pm vote was over and both sets of papers burnt together. Dan100 (Talk) 18:10, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Someone removed the space before the archival template — It's causing a big ugly grey box to appear. 68.39.174.238 09:40, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
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I added it Sept. 2, 2005. Somehow we missed it yea we sure did. --  user fire chief ghana bithc == Fire in minnesota, flinthills oil refinery 2008/febuary 3rd ? ==

Does anyone have information on what happened or who was killed in the fire if anyone?I need to know if there was a man with name of derek jeter killed! Thank You Very Much for any help you can provide us with.Please feel free to e-mail me at joshnewmand198936@hotmail.com place ==

The artical: "29 March 2008: Australia grants temporary asylum to 12 Commonwealth Games athletes" is in the wrong region. Should it not be in a other region?

== South African miners' jack off eachother Should be listed for today, 4/12: allAfrica, BBC, Herald Tribune. 212.179.71.70 09:07, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

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Virgin billionaire suggests hybrids to save MG Rover

April 18, 2005

Sir Richard Branson, successful British entrepreneur, better known as the founder of the Virgin brand, has made a suggestion to the next British chancellor to both save MG Rover, the largest independent manufacturer of cars in England until it collapsed this spring, and help with rapidly rising oil demand. He wants the British government to give subsidies to the fallen car-maker so that it can be the first European producer of hybrid cars.


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 * North Korea shuts down its main nuclear reactor
 * New mass grave discovered in Kosovo
 * Barry Prime becomes Swim Ireland's new National Performance Director
 * Associated Press changes online fee structure to meet Internet demands
 * Afghan coalition forces repel Taliban ambush: 8 killed, 16 captured
 * 109th Boston marathon takes place
 * British retailer Littlewoods plans to axe 3,200 jobs
 * German Cardinal Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI
 * Simon's Rock College tests Alan Turing theories with 'Imitation Game' experiment
 * Teen tram thief may yet work as tram driver
 * Elwood Norris receives 2005 Lemelson-MIT Prize for invention
 * MiniMax Discount to open inaugural stores in southern Romania
 * Romanian Ministry of Communications and IT discusses future objectives
 * Thermoelectric plants in Arad, Romania to be modernised
 * Ukrainian president to visit Romania
 * Angolan Marburg virus still threat
 * Man arrested on charge of murdering Christa Worthington

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Angolan Marburg virus still threat

April 19, 2005

Fearing that burial rites might be the cause of more cases of the Marburg virus, WHO spokesman Dave Daigle says the transmission cycle has not yet been broken. Cases of persons fallen ill by the virus outside the province of Uige are reportedly connected to visits to that region.

The burial custom there for most families includes the preparation of the body, and kissing and embracing the deceased. The epidemic spreads through contact with body fluids.

The death toll so far, stands at 235 in the epidemic. The Ebola-like fever cannot be treated with any known drugs. The best protection is wearing masks and gloves when in contact with a carrier.

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Elwood Norris receives 2005 Lemelson-MIT Prize for invention

April 19, 2005

MIT has announced that Elwood "Woody" Norris, inventor of potentially revolutionary technologies of Hypersonic Sound beams and AirScooter flying vehicles, will receive this year's Lemelson-MIT prize for invention this Friday, April 22. The prize comes with an award of US$500,000, making it the largest single award for invention given in the United States.

Hypersonic Sound beams
HyperSonic Sound, or HSS®, has been called by MIT "the first big improvement in acoustics since the loudspeaker was invented 80 years ago". It represents a new way to focus audio in beams, rather like light is focused.

HSS works because sound of sufficiently high frequency above human hearing does not normally spread out like audible frequency waves. These waves can be projected onto specific individuals, causing them to hear a sound that appears to be emanating from themselves, while others around them hear nothing.

Potential benefits could include the reduction of noise pollution in public places. Announcements, instructions, and advertisements could be aimed at individuals, not disturbing their neighbors. People in the same room could all listen to different music without the use of headphones.

Crank up the volume, and HSS could also be useful to military or law enforcement agencies. HSS beams can be focused up to 500 yards away, transmitting warnings or temporarily stunning and disabling a person with non-lethal force.

AirScooter flying vehicles
The AirScooter™ is a flying, helicopter-like personal vehicle that is planned to be made available for sale later this year. The price is estimated to be less than US$50,000.

Weighing less than 300 pounds and able to carry a load of an additional 350 pounds, the AirScooter runs on ordinary gasoline rather than expensive airplane fuel, and is able to travel about 2 hours at 55 m.p.h. on a 5-gallon tank, at heights up to 10,000 feet above sea level. Its ultralight weight means that no pilot license is required to fly one.

The light weight is made possible by the production of a new AeroTwin 4-stroke engine specifically for the AirScooter, designed by motorcycle racing engine specialists at Pearson Motor Co of New Zealand. Stability is provided by two rotors both set on a single shaft, which turn in opposite directions, eliminating the need for a tail rotor.

The craft is steered using only the hands on a motorcycle-like handlebar. Throttle up to gain altitude, turn left or right to rotate, and move the bars like a joystick to steer in different directions, including reverse.

Pictures and video of the new craft are available from the AirScooter.com website.

Woody Norris
Norris is a self-educated, independent inventor with boundless curiosity who never made it out of the 3rd grade in traditional schooling. He has been developing inventions for more than 30 years, particularly in audio technology, since taking apart his family's radio at the age of 8. He is 63 years old and has 11 children.

Part of the reason Norris was selected for the prize is his commitment to inspiring others. “There are classes to inventing. It isn't limited to science and technology. Writers, actors, cooks and artists are all inventors,” Norris says. “People need to be encouraged to go out there and pursue the fields that will help them create the wonderful things they are capable of achieving.”

Norris plans to use the prize money to establish a foundation to help other struggling, independent inventors like himself.

Press Releases

 * April 18, 2005: Inventor Wins $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Revolutionizing Acoustics


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Simon's Rock College tests Alan Turing theories with 'Imitation Game' experiment

April 19, 2005 On Saturday April 16, students at in, Massachusetts and Dr. Richard Wallace of the  for their first time tested Alan Turing's thought-experiment. The Imitation Game, based on the original Turing model for testing the ability of humans to recognize artificial intelligence (AI), was carried out with nearly eighty human and AI participants.

The 'Original Imitation Game' is described in Turing's 1950. A popularized version now dubbed the "" involves a judge knowingly interviewing a software program and a human person during a computer chat, and then trying to discern which is which. The Turing Test has been conducted many times as Artificial Intelligence programs developed. However, no study was ever published following the guidelines of the original thought-experiment itself.

The Imitation Game involved playing a "gender guessing game", wherein two human subjects, a male and a female, communicate via computer chat to the judge. Both the male and the female would try to convince the judge that s/he is female. Turing's original question was, if a gender guessing game were done with two humans, and then with an AI replacing the male, would the judge be more accurate in guessing who the real female was?

Three students at Simon's Rock — Cameo Wood, Melissa Leventhal, and Allyson Sgro — wrote a grant to support the experiment, and shepherded the proposal through the Human Research Review Committee under the oversight of Professor Anne O'Dwyer. The experiment was funded by the departments of Natural Science and the department of Social Science at the college.

The experiment utilized a program called A.L.I.C.E., which is designed to hold one end of an interactive conversation. The program was provided by the ALICE Artificial Intelligence Foundation. Dr. Richard Wallace was on hand during the experiment to troubleshoot the AI robot, later gave a lecture about on The Anatomy of A.L.I.C.E. and blogged the event.

Six human subjects from Simon's Rock composed the human players in the game; the judges were recruited from various non-technical internet communities. Roughly eighty individuals participated in the experiment, which required the organizers to maintain strict secrecy about the experiment until it was concluded. All subjects who participated in the experiment were required to be over 18, not affiliated with the college, and were not allowed any foreknowledge of the use of AI in the experiment. Roughly 70 interviews were conducted over a three hour period last Saturday, via, a messaging tool that allows individuals to write to one another online.

The research team at Simon's Rock has started to analyze the data they acquired during the experiment and will be writing a paper for publication in the coming months. Inquiries regarding the experiment may be directed to researcher@theguessinggame.net.


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Thanks for the Armstrong article, interesting stuff Dan100 (Talk) 05:44, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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