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Is this a competition to see who can be the dumbest?

Fraternity has tons of notable alumni from senators to governors —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.100.141.62 (talk) 19:08, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I Believe the government should stop posing as students to make busts, more violence will excalade at the campus with stduents protecting themselves even stronger and organizing to a unbustable drug ring. At SDSU there is a need for drugs and the need will be once again replenished shortly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.20.145 (talk) 01:15, 8 February 2009 (UTC)


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If my country can invade another country for having a "dictator", then why can't we (America, or even the UN) invade Myanmar to help these people? I really can't imagine it would take more then 20,000 troops on the ground to dissolve the government and provide major relief services. It's now all too clear that their government is unwilling to help their people, even in the largest national disaster in at least 50 years. Isn't that the sign of a corrupt government? I'm sure Myanmar barely has a standing army any more; probably only a few hundred security forces spread throughout the capital and surrounding country. I wonder if their government officials have any justifiable reasons for denying international help?
 * Sorry. We've wasted too much effort on wild goose chases in deserts.  We're overextended and bankrupting ourselves at a ridiculous pace.  There's simply no more resources for further regime changes, no matter how noble the cause.  And your underestimation of the number of troops it would take to effect regime change in Burma is almost Perle-esque in scale.  It's a huge jungle - think Viet Nam.  And even if we could "dissolve" the government - without causing massive "collateral damage" (hate that term) ie civilian casualties, and believe me, the dictators will be hiding themselves behind innocent human shields - what happens after that?  We get another failed state dependant entirely on us for security and aid, and everyone in the world pissed at us all over again.  Sorry, not a good idea.
 * And no, its government has no justifiable reason. The government of Burma is a brutal military dictatorship that's out for all it can steal.  Their scumbaghood is widely established.  But where is the political and economic will to weaken their grip on power?  Even today, days after the reports of confirmed death tolls climbing over 20,000, I see very little reporting in U.S. media and very little interest by U.S. citizens.  Because it's all the way over there, you see.  Nargis has already killed well over 10x as many people as Katrina and is likely to kill and make homeless more than 10x that amount when the final tally is made.  Where is America's concern?  You tell me, I don't see it.  -- on WP as User:Kasreyn.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.105.204.85 (talk) 21:37, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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Search for Brazilian plane with four UK passengers called off after seven days

May 9, 2008

Search and rescue operations for a light aircraft that disappeared seven days ago in Brazil have ceased having failed to locate the plane. In addition to two local pilots the Cessna 310 was carrying four businessmen who were citizens of the United Kingdom.

Rescue teams utilising two air force helicopters and a fixed-wing aircraft, as well as several naval vessels, scoured an area of 3,475 square miles off the North-East of the country for the missing plane, which was chartered from Aero Star. Although the plane and its occupants remain missing, some floating personal possessions from those on board and several pieces of wreckage have been recovered.

The pilot and co-pilot have been identified as Clovis de Figueiredo e Silva and Leandro Oliveira Veloso respectively, and the passengers as Alan Kempson, Sean Woodhall, Ricky Every and Nigel Hodges. The businessmen were flying in connection to a propsed luxury housing development at the Bahia town of Ilheus, whose airport the plane had been a few kilometres away from and intending to land.

The four Britons, three of whom reside abroad, had initially attempted to hire a helicopter for the journey but were denied this due to weather conditions that were deemed to poor for rotorcraft operation. Their relatives have hired a boat with sonar equipment and intend to search deeper waters for the lost plane.


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Thabo Mbeki visits Zimbabwe amid rising violence

May 9, 2008

South African president Thabo Mbeki has arrived in Harare today to talk with Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe about the upcoming presidential run-off election. This comes amid claims that violence has risen in the country over the last few days.

The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights claim there has been a "dramatic escalation in incidents of organised violence and torture" after the recent elections with "more than 900" documented as injured. The organization said in a statement that "the level of brutality and callousness exhibited by the perpetrators is unprecedented and the vicious and cowardly attacks by so-called war veterans on women, children and the elderly shames the memory of all true heroes of the liberation struggle".

Mr. Mbeki is acting as a mediator for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and may have discussed elections and the recent crackdown on opposition by the Mugabe government, which has included the arrest of Davison Maruziva, editor of free newspaper The Standard, 22 deaths, the displacement of 40,000 opposition farming families and such a casualty influx into Harare hospitals that they are worried that plaster of Paris bandage supplies will soon be "exhausted".

Talks between the two leaders at State House lasted for more than three hours before Mbeki left for the South African embassy in Harare.

Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the largest opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), plans to announce whether he will stand for the run-off election in the South African city of Pretoria, where he is currently residing, tomorrow at 9:00 UTC.


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Hey Bawolff i know your probably very busy at the moment so please don't rush to answer this i just wanted to know if my articles are okay? ty --Newshybrid059 - (talk) 01:20, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
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Morgan Tsvangirai to compete in run-off

May 10, 2008

Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has said today that he will be standing for the presidential run-off election against incumbent Robert Mugabe.

"The MDC has decided that we will contest the run-off election," he told reporters at a conference in Pretoria, South Africa, where he has been staying for the last month. He said his supporters would feel "betrayed" if he didn't stand and that the people are "ready for the final round".

Despite the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's (ZEC) official declaration that Mr. Tsvangirai won 47.9% against Mr. Mugabe's 43.2% in the first round, the MDC claims that they won it outright, gaining over 50%. They are sure that Mugabe's Zanu-PF party have used the time since the first round to rig votes and intimidate the electorate.

The MDC has also called for "unfettered access of all international observers," eventhough Mr. Mugabe has imposed bans on journalists from outside Zimbabwe reporting within the country.

The ZEC has yet to announce when the run-off will take place, but Mr. Tsvangirai said it should take place by 23 May.

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Ex-head of Qantas freight operations in US jailed for price fixing

May 10, 2008 Bruce McCaffrey, who was formerly the vice-president in charge of freight operations in the United States for Australian flag carrier Qantas, has been sentenced to eight months imprisonment and fined US$21,000 by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) for his involvement in a major air cargo price fixing cartel.

McCaffrey is one of six past and present employees of the airline who have been charged over the arrangement, which is thought to have run for six years starting in 2000. He is also the first individual to be sentenced regarding the cartel. He, as well as Stephen Cleary, group general manager for freight in Sydney, Harold Pang, general manager for freight sales in Singapore, Peter Frampton, former group general manager for freight, John Cooper former general manager for freight sales and Desmond Church, a former freight employee, were all charged after being exempt from immunity granted in a plea bargain by Qantas in which the airline paid a US$61 million fine.

In Australia price fixing is not actually a criminal offense, so former head of freight Peter Frampton and three other staff members in Australia will not be extradited to face charges. Meanwhile, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is seeking admittances of guilt from airlines whose operations fall under its jurisdiction in exchange for lighter penalties. Qantas is amongst those airlines.

The cartel, which prevented competition in air freight shipments rates, is said to involve almost thirty airlines. As well as Qantas, Japan Airlines, British Airways, Korean Air and Lufthansa have all had their involvement confirmed. Whistleblower Lufthansa, a German airline, was granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for exposing the operation. In August, British Airways and Korean Air pled guilty to their involvement and received fines of US$300 million each. Last month Japan Airlines also admitted to their role and paid a US$110 million fine. Amongst the others alleged to be involved are Air New Zealand, Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific. Hundreds of Australian businesses are involved in a class action suit against these seven airlines for AU$200 million that they believe was unfairly charged to them as a result of criminal activity.

McCarthy, who ran Qantas's Australia-US cargo route for twenty years, entered a plea bargain with the authorities. Under the US Sherman Act he could have faced up to a US$1.06 million fine and up to 10 years imprisonment, but the DoJ says that the maximum fine could actually be double the gain from the offences committed or double the loss of those victimised if either were found to be higher than the normal maximum. According to the case, he was involved with "meetings, conversations and communications in the US and elsewhere to discuss the cargo rates to be charged on certain routes to and from the US".

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Ignored warnings 'worsened' situation in Myanmar

May 10, 2008 People studying the situation in Myanmar are claiming that an inadequate response of the government of Myanmar (formerly Burma) to scientists' warnings about the cyclone, coupled with large-scale destruction of protective mangroves along its coasts, aggravated the devastation wreaked by tropical Cyclone Nargis.

The cyclone has killed an estimated 22,980 people so far, with millions rendered homeless by the disaster, which struck the Irrawaddy Delta region of Myanmar last week (3 May).

Scientists at the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) in New Delhi, the World Meteorological Organisation's specialist centre for Asia, say they issued the first of the cyclone bulletins to Myanmar as early as 26 April.

Mrityunjay Mohapatra, director of IMD's cyclone-warning centre, told SciDev.Net that Myanmar was warned of the impending cyclone at least 48 hours in advance. But there was no acknowledgement from Myanmar's meteorological office, or any indication of a response.

Mohapatra says IMD's first warning bulletin, issued on 1 May, indicated the land area likely to be hit by the cyclone. It warned that a cyclone with wind speeds of 180 kilometres per hour would cross the southwest coast of Myanmar sometime between 8pm and midnight on the night of the 2 May.

IMD's bulletins contain information on the actual and predicted centre, intensity and movement of the cyclone, as well as sea conditions and maximum wind speeds around the cyclone centre.

Uma Charan Mohanty, from the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre in Thailand, said that, according to the World Meteorological Organisation's data, Asian cyclones are fewer and less intense than hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean or typhoons in the Pacific Ocean region, but they cause more death and destruction. In 2005, 25 hurricanes in the Atlantic caused 10 deaths, but cyclone Sidr, which hit Bangladesh in 2007, left 3,500 dead.

Mohanty says that the Atlantic coast has a good early-warning system and people have the means to drive to safer areas. In contrast, Asian coasts are densely populated, with many poor fishing and farming communities who cannot evacuate on their own, even if they have been warned.

News agencies quote Maung Swe, Myanmar's minister for relief and resettlement, who told a press conference (6 May) that most deaths were caused by a 3.5-metre-high storm surge — a wall of water that develops when cyclonic winds churn up sea water.

Mohanty says that 85 per cent of cyclone deaths are due to storm surges and that predictions of the size and location of such surges are critical in disaster forecasting.

Asian coasts are also becoming increasingly vulnerable because of the loss of protective mangrove forests that serve as windbreaks and limit damage by storm and tidal surges.

In a 2006 report, the International Union for Conservation of Nature said that areas in Sri Lanka with mangrove forests suffered less damage in the 2004 Asian tsunami, compared with regions where forests had been destroyed.

And in January 2008, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization warned that Asia is fast losing its coastal mangroves, with more than 1.9 million hectares being destroyed each year.

The organisation's report reviewed the world's mangroves between 1980 and 2005. It found that the mangrove forests around Myanmar's Irrawady Delta had degraded because of "overexploitation" and the conversion of land for rice fields — promoted by the government as a way to ensure self-sufficiency in food production.

Government officials in Myanmar have said that 22,464 people have been confirmed dead from Cyclone Nargis.

Only once rescue workers reached the hardest hit areas of the storm did they begin to realize the extent of damage that had occurred. At least 10,000 people died in one town alone, Bogalay in the Pyapon District of the country.

The United Nations has reported that one million people are homeless, or in need of help in some other way.


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id vote for him

Good job, Morgan
Finally, someone does the right thing. Too many times opposition parties in less-than-democratic states will boycott elections merely on the grounds of "they can't win". Someone is finally going to fight in the face of somebody who has shamelessly rigged elections for decades. Kitch - (talk) 15:27, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * You don't think Mugabe's going to shamelessly rig this one too? Harris Morgan - (talk) 15:31, 10 May 2008 (UTC).
 * Its clearly going to be rigged but Tsvangirai might as well try. User:Anonymous101  15:43, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * There is no shame in trying and failing. Nobody is going to believe a Mugabe victory is anything other than the result of intimidation and ballot-stuffing. It really is time for the big black man with the Adolf moustache to start talking to people about how he can get out of office without being lynched or slung in jail. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:53, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, there's no doubt he will. But boycotting it because of it is playing right into his hands. --Kitch - (talk) 19:34, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Let the Good Guy win!
I really hope he kicks Mugabe out. Fephisto - (talk) 21:25, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

News on Zimbabwe
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2007/08 Bundesliga: MSV Duisburg vs. Bayern Munich

May 12, 2008

Bayern Munich's win over MSV Duisburg condemned Duisburg to second division football next term.

Bayern Munich took a 3-0 lead after 20 minutes, an Andreas Ottl goal along with quick-fire Lukas Podolski brace ensuring the champions had a comfortable ride through to half time.

However, the match took a sudden and dramatic twist in the ten minutes following the restart as Mihai Tararache and Markus Daun scored to hauled the Duisburg right back into the game, and an upset briefly appeared a possibility. However, Bayern Munich would go onto a comfortable win.


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I feel like these Brits are going to be on that Discovery Channel show about survivors in a few years, or at least one of them is. The search teams probably came within a few feet of finding them or something.

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Scotland's Grangemouth oil refinery catches fire

May 10, 2008 Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland has seen a fire, which has since been extinguished. The facility was operating at 80% of its 200,000 barrel per day capacity after operations were shut down for a two-day strike last month.

A spokesman for Ineos, who operate the site, said that it was expected that the fire would delay the restoration of full operations at the plant. According to a spokesman from the Central Scotland Fire and Rescue Service said it is believed that the fire began after oil spilt from the hydrocracker onto hot pipework. The hydrocracker is used to break down thicker hydrocarbons into lighter variants, and in this way produces products such as diesel and aviation fuel. The fire was on the diesel line.

The plant, which is located on the Firth of Forth, was previously expected to be running at full capacity by May 18. The fire, which the Ineos spokesman described as a "very small incident", started at 2:10am and was extinguished by 5:00am.

Ineos, who purchased the site from BP in 2005, are investigating.


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Tornadoes in central US kill nearly two dozen people

May 11, 2008 At least 23 people have been killed in late afternoon in broad daylight, with dark (very dark) clouds tornadoes that ripped through the central United States on Saturday May 10 with over 150 reported injured and at least three people are missing. Tornadoes hit towns on the Missouri and Oklahoma borders which caused significant damage. Several watches and warnings for storms and tornadoes remain today. At 4:11 a.m. on Sunday, nearly the entire states of Georgia and Alabama were encompassed with tornado watches and severe thunderstorm warnings.

In, Oklahoma where the tornado is reported to have started, 7 were killed, including an infant. The tornado then traveled across state lines to Missouri where 14 were killed near and then into Georgia where two people were killed. Officials state the death toll is likely to climb.

"It’s a bad deal. There are maybe 150 badly damaged homes on south side of town," said Picher's town attorney, Erick Johnson. More than two dozen streets in Picher are described as being wiped out. Oklahoma's governor has ordered the national guard to the area to help in aiding those hit by the storms.

"[Our] thoughts and prayers are with the people of Picher and all of the other Oklahoma communities," said Henry in a statement to the press, who also plans to visit the areas hardest hit on Sunday. Buildings have been destroyed and people have been reported to be trapped in debris from tornadoes that touched down. Trees were thrown from yards and cars were overturned. Tornadoes were also reported in Arkansas and in Oklahoma, one tornado left more than 15 miles of destruction with some places seeing a path over a half mile wide. Rescue efforts are hampered by the darkness, making it difficult for rescuers to find people who are trapped.

"It's hard to do in the dark. They're going over the hard-hit area and turning over everything and looking," said Susie Stonner, a spokeswoman for SEMA.

At last count, 34 tornadoes were reported in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, but reports say that some eyewitness accounts were of the same tornadoes. At 02:48 (UTC) on Sunday morning, for the  showed very strong storms in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri and Mississippi.


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Fighting continues in Tripoli, Lebanon

May 11, 2008 Over thirty people have died as a result of several days of fighting in Lebanon, with the latest violence having occurred in the Lebanese city of Tripoli. The violence is the result of conflict between Hezbollah and supporters of the. Over the past four days, there has also been violence in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, although most of the violence has now left that city. A BBC reporter noted that machine guns and rocket propelled grenades were being used.

Approximately 7000 people have now evacuated from the scene of the violence, although the level of violence has decreased after the Lebanese government announced that it would retract two decisions which have proven to be controversial with supporters of Hezbollah.

According to , Hezbollah currently has control of a large amount of Beirut. A TV station that supported the Lebanese government is no longer broadcasting as a result of these recent incidents.

The United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice commented on these latest incidents. She said that she was "deeply concerned" by the current situation in Lebanon. She also stated that, in her opinion, Hezbollah should stop "undermining the legitimate authority of the Lebanese government."

 also reported on the incident. It reported that the Lebanese government was struggling to bring an end to the violence.

In addition to the 36 deaths from the violence, over ten dozen people have been wounded, some seriously, by the attacks.

On Friday, a US government spokesperson discussed the ongoing situation. He said:

The United States is deeply concerned about the ongoing violence in Lebanon. We condemn the use of force by illegitimate armed groups and call upon all parties to respect the rule of law. Backed by Syria and Iran, Hezbollah and its allies are killing and injuring fellow citizens, undermining the legitimate authority of the Lebanese Government and the institutions of the Lebanese state. Seeking to protect their state within a state, Hezbollah has exploited its allies and demonstrated its contempt for its fellow Lebanese. No one has the right to deprive Lebanese citizens of their political and economic freedom, their right to move freely within their country, or their sense of safety and security.

Prime Minster of Lebanon Fouad Siniora also commented on the incidents. He demanded that Hezbollah "remove its fighters from the streets… and respect government institutions."

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User:EzMaTezPez~enwikinews

Why, hello. Fancy meeting you here, on my little corner of WikiNews. I'm EzMaTezPez. Actually my real name is Ezra, but thats besides the point. If you are reading this, then its either for one of 2 reasons;

A) You read one of my comments, and were infuriated by the sheer left wing craziness of it.

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Thats cool man, your entitled to your opinion.

Don't leave posts calling me a "douche" (especially don't if you cannot spell douche, douche) or a "Vaj" or anything else, 'cause thats just square, man. Nobody likes a square.

So, don't be a square.

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I think it's a new government rather than the new one.
 * Be bold and change it. Fephisto - (talk) 21:43, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, you should probably post stuff like this in 'collaboration'. Fephisto - (talk) 21:44, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * It should be neither a nor the. I have renamed accordingly. --SVTCobra 22:00, 11 May 2008 (UTC)


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Thanks for adding to this site. For what Wikinews is all about, see Introduction. To contact "one of the newspapers of America", please go to their websites and find the 'Contact Us' link. Wikinews, as explained by that link, is not a published newspaper, but rather a collaborative news website written by people like you and I. I hope you decide to contribute to our website. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 13:33, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

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Galatasaray clinch 17th Turkish title

May 11, 2008

After the final match of the season, Galatasaray became the champions of Turkish Super League with 79 points in 34 games, six points ahead of rivals Besiktas and Fenerbahce.

The 50th season of the top-flight football league in Turkey ended Saturday as Galatasaray and Fenerbahce qualify for next season's Champions League, third-place Beşiktaş J.K. and Federation Cup winner Kayserispor qualify for the UEFA Cup. There was disappointment for Sivasspor, who came fourth by having same points with Besiktas but less goal average.

Galatasaray trainer Cevat Guler stated that, "There may have been times in recent weeks when the fans didn't think we would be champions... but we are delighted and thank everyone for their support."

The Istanbul-based club started season with German coach Karl-Heinz Feldkamp, who resigned at the start of April, citing differences with the management. Galatasaray were two points behind Fenerbahçe when Cevat Guler took over in a caretaker role. Also, the team hit by number of injuries, including two key foreign players of this season - Linderoth and Lincoln. However they accomplished five victories in last five games of season and clinched the 17th title for Galatasaray S.K.

After the match, thousands of Turks of all ages rallied at Istanbul's central Taksim Square to celebrate with fireworks, flags and slogans, singing the club anthems. Similar celebrations took place in big cities like Ankara and İzmir in the huge outdoor parties, organized on the spot, letting them join their voice with millions of fans around the country celebrating the 17th title of the club.

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Felipe Massa wins 2008 Turkish Grand Prix

May 11, 2008

Ferrari driver Felipe Massa for the third consecutive year won from pole the FIA Formula One 2008 Petrol Ofisi Turkish Grand Prix at Istanbul Racing Circuit, Istanbul, Turkey. Massa was also 2007 and 2006 year winner.

McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton came second after overtook his teammate Heikki Kovalainen on start. Kovalainen later suffered a rear tire puncture from Kimi Räikkönen and dropped to the back while on a pit-stop.

Massa's Ferrari teammate, driver Kimi Räikkönen, ran third. This leaves Räikkönen lead in the championship with 35 points, ahead of Massa, Hamilton and Kubica. Ferrari heads over both BMW Sauber and McLaren.

In other related news this week, Super Aguri-Honda withdrew from the Formula-1 after participatng in four races this season. The team principal Aguri Suzuki claimed in the press release it all started when SS United Group defaulted it's payment previous years and the absence of support from Honda. The team was put into external administration. Thus the race featured only 10 teams and 20 cars for the first time since the 2005 Chinese Grand Prix.

Also in the news, Honda’s Rubens Barrichello, who finished 14th in this race, is now the most experienced Formula One driver of all time surpassing the record of 256 Grands Prix held by Riccardo Patrese since 1993. For this occasion, his car and the helmet design included the "257" marking for this race.


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Talk:US denies arrest of al-Masri, al-Qaeda in Iraq leader

"neither coalition forces nor Iraqi security forces detained, killed, or raped Abu Ayyub al-Masri. This guy had a similar name."

Raped? Is this some sort of vandalism, intended to insinuate that the Iraqi forces detained, killed and raped this guy?

Anyway, this is the second false alarm in a week or so. The previous one was with a top Baath badguy, the one with the red hair.

 * It was vandalism, since fixed. --SVTCobra 18:22, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

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editprotected Please remove the deleted image, thanks.  — fetch · comms  00:56, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

 * Why? I don't see how it fits in with the archiving policy.Abu Ayyub al-Masri 1.jpgAbu Ayyub al-Masri 2.jpg
 * Would it be better to

 * 1) leave the redlink as a historical record, or
 * 2) link to another image, such as File:Abu Ayyub al-Masri 1.jpg?
 * --InfantGorilla (talk) 19:22, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

 * Changing an image or adding one is changing or adding content, and hence prohibited under WN:ARCHIVE as a content edit. Where there is a redlink, however, then the content has already been changed and the image removed by another project in circumstances beyond our control. Removing the redlink itself doesn't change content since the content is the image, and is already removed. Therefore, removing redlinks to deleted images is permitted under WN:ARCHIVE. Will be ✅ in a mo. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 16:06, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

I disagree (in general) with that interpretation of WN:ARCHIVE. The spirit of the policy is to change an article as little as possible. As long as the red link exists, the image, or an equivalent one might be restored (at Commons or at Wikinews). Once the redlink has gone, no-one will know there is anything missing (without a cumbersome search of history.) If the image is an important part of the story, the redlink text and caption often give some residual information to the reader.

Isn't this why we don't allow Commons Delinker to run here?

--InfantGorilla (talk) 16:19, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

 * CommonsDelinker ripped things out of templates where they can be replaced. Likewise for articles within the 24-hour rule. We do allow it to run, by the way. We just refuse to let it hide behind the bot flag or have Editor status.

 * When some random reader comes along, all they see is a formatting mess. It doesn't help them. If you really want to have some kind of indication up, I won't oppose bringing in a boilerplate image that says 'this image has been removed' and adding that in instead. I wouldn't be entirely happy either, but I won't be actively against such a move. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 16:24, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't think a deleted image should remain there, as it provides no real benefit other than saying "Hey, we used to have a cool pic here, but it got deleted", which is not very professional to me. I think it would be nice if a replacement was used, but I don't think it's overly important.  — fetch · comms  01:46, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I like to regard professionalism for an archivist as more about accuracy than looking tidy. I don't see a formatting mess: I see a frame with red text in it. --InfantGorilla (talk) 16:13, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

 * If you're a random reader who doesn't understand what a box with red text is, then that very much is a formatting mess. I've offered an alternative to ouright removal that I'd buy into, so yu can hve your historical accuracy without bamboozling readers. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 16:27, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * That seems good enough. Or we can discuss a change to the archiving policy at the water cooler to see if consensus is that images can be replaced, left, etc. or what.  — fetch · comms  21:20, 26 August 2010 (UTC)


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I think it should be the last mission of the space shuttle because they should move on to constillation.Save the Humans - (talk) 19:07, 11 May 2008 (UTC)


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Comments:Ex-head of Qantas freight operations in US jailed for price fixing

Anytime I hear anything about price fixing, I am reminded of the following story:

Three men are in prison, and decide to tell the others what they're in for.

The first man says, "I charged higher than everyone, and got put in for price gouging."

The second man says, "I outbid and charged lower than everyone else, and got put in for predatory pricing."

The third man says, "I paid the same as everyone else, and got put in for price fixing."

Besides, the pressure to break quotas in such a scheme.....Fephisto - (talk) 21:22, 11 May 2008 (UTC)


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Comments:Myanmar criticised for hampering aid; UN resumes relief efforts

When was the point when our civilization became so dependent on these governmental agencies? When Chicago burned down or San Francisco was quaked over, the people got together to rebuild, profit incentive or not. Katrina, and now probably Myanmar will be the new examples of 'government-assistance'. Governments are simply not competent enough. The public sector can't calculate. Fephisto - (talk) 21:39, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree 100%. By the way, the point when our civilization became so dependent on these governmental agencies was when government blocked everything else from be successful. Anonymous101  16:51, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

To put it in perspective, the whole country was hurt by this cyclone. It's a much higher magnitude than anything that's happened in the US, and they don't have the means to take care of it themselves. - 207.54.204.19 14:45, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Get the world together on it like with all the private contributions after the Indonesian tsunamis. Fephisto (talk) 19:41, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


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Ben Folds performs at Western Connecticut State University

May 12, 2008 Friday, May 9, played at  (WCSU) in, Connecticut, United States. Wikinews was there for the concert.

Billed as the main event for WCSU's annual "West Fest", the concert took place in the Feldman Arena, which is part of the on the western campus of the university.

The opening act for Folds was, who by all accounts is on her first tour. Nunes gained attention on YouTube and got featured on the front page for her quirky, self-recorded performances.

Nunes is a graduate of, New York and is now a college. Nunes performed a half-hour set of songs, about half of which were of her own composition and the rest of other artists. During the first half of her set she played the and thereafter the.

Despite Nunes' well-received set, it was clear that the crowd was there to see Ben Folds perform. The American singer-songwriter and former frontman of the musical group is widely acclaimed for his prowess as a, songwriter and performer. Ben Folds performed unaccompanied, aside from "tambourine man", a stage hand who appeared briefly during three songs. Folds told the audience that he had been nervous as this was his first solo performance in "a while."

During the 100 minute concert, Ben Folds played many of his hits, including "", "Annie Waits", "" and "Zak and Sara".

Folds also played a couple of songs that he said he wrote during a contract dispute with a record company. He wrote the songs because they were "mandatory" in his contract. According to Folds, he asked how many songs he had to write to get out of his contract. They told him, he had to write 4.6 songs to complete his obligation. Thusly, one of the songs was called, "One Down And 3.6 to Go".

Near the end of the set, Ben Folds stood on his piano and directed the crowd as a choir. The audience was eager to participate in this experiment, which consisted of humming in different notes, and seemed to enjoy it. Folds seemed quite earnest in his appreciation of the audience's efforts.

After the set ended, the enthusiastic crowd of mostly WCSU students started to call out for Folds to reappear. He duly acquiesced and performed a few more songs before the crowd would go home.


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Original reporting notes
I attended this concert. As far as "notes" besides the crappy mobile phone picture, I can, upon demand, provide the ticket-stub (and somewhere on my phone there is an audio sample of Ben Folds performing).

Regarding the details of how the concert went, it relies mostly on memory, but I consulted external sources (all listed) for spelling of names, songs, titles, etc. --SVTCobra 23:29, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Oh, yeah, the whole background stuff on the opening act is from the listed sources. It was not dissemiated during the show. But I found and viewed her YouTube stuff before reading that and it was also before the concert. --SVTCobra 23:59, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Relevance/Significance?
Is this really relevant and significant? I'm curious to know what was particularly newsworthy about this concert? Jade Knight - (talk) 03:13, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree; I saw Ben Folds performs at Western Connecticut State... in my Wikinews RSS feed and assumed the ellipsis led to "tragic fire" or something else remotely newsworthy. --192.5.109.49 03:30, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Have you read a newspaper? They report on local events all the time. Let me ask this, what would make it not news? (besides 192.5.109.49's desire to see everyone perish in an inferno) --SVTCobra 13:06, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

 * There are almost always concerts, and a lot of them are played at colleges. Successful concerts are the status quo, and therefore do not qualify as news. Rekov (talk) 13:26, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

 * This is not Wikipedia and these notions of notability do not exist here. This is news. The question shouldn't be why is this article here, rather the question should be why aren't there more articles like it. If everyone reported on local concerts etc., Wikinews would have a very nice culture and entertainment section. --SVTCobra 14:32, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hundreds (perhaps thousands) of similar concerts take place every day. What makes this event (local or not) significant?  Wikinews is relevant.  If the article isn't relevant, or if it's not news, then it doesn't belong here at Wikinews.  There's nothing wrong with local news, so long as it clearly demonstrates how it is relevant/newsworthy.  Jade Knight (talk) 07:16, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

 * How is it not relevant? I am sure the residents of Danbury would find it newsworthy. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people are killed every day. Would you argue that an article about a murder is not relevant?
 * And oh look ... some opera singers are rehearsing, that surely happens a lot and all over the place ... still The New York Times wrote about it ... why would they do that, it can't possibly be news. --SVTCobra 22:14, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * This is a perfect example: Ben Folds: raucous rock piano and wry introspection, The Seattle Times, April 25, 2008. Cynthia Mitchell writes about a Ben Folds concert at University of Puget Sound, and she didn't even see it yet. Mitchell is a journalism professor at Central Washington University. She worked for 14 years as a reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Wall Street Journal. Mitchell must not know what news is either. --SVTCobra 22:37, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

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editprotected Please disambiguate "New York" to "New York" in the description of Nunes. Heavy Water (talk) 23:01, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ --SVTCobra 21:35, 30 December 2023 (UTC)


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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! Daniel (talk) 23:48, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Kristen Cornett
The article Kristen Cornett is not news. If you persist in recreating it, it will be considered vandalism and you could be blocked from editing. --SVTCobra 00:17, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

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{In which California city did a pipe bomb explode outside a courthouse this week? - San Francisco + San Diego - Los Angeles - San Jose
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{The official search for a plane carrying two Brazilians and four UK citizens was called off after 7 days. What model plane were they flying? + Cessna 310 - Eclipse 500 - Cirrus SR20 - Piper Cherokee
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{This week, the price of crude oil reached record prices. Which of the following is believed to have been a major contributor to this? - Low OECD commercial oil stocks. - A fire in a Scotland oil refinery. - A large drop in U.S. crude inventories. + The weak U.S. dollar.
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{For how many consecutive days did a Brette Favre fan wear his No. 4 jersey? - 2,815 - 2,506 + 1,581 - 1,461
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{Which of the following statements about the 2008 Formula One Turkish Grand Prix is not true? + Felipe Massa's win puts him in the lead in the championship. - Ferrari currently holds the lead over BMW Sauber and McLaren Mercedes in the championship. - Rubens Barichello became the most experienced Formula One driver of all time. - Felipe Massa won for the third year in a row.
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{Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar (also known as Burma) this week. According to Uma Charan Mohanty, from the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, which of the following statements is true? - Asian cyclones are more intense than hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. - Coastal villages in Asia can be easily evacuated given several days' warning. + Most deaths due to cyclones are due to 'storm surges' caused when the cyclone churns up sea water. - Cyclone Sidr, which hit Bangladesh in 2007, caused more than 5,000 deaths.
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{In recent U.S. Democratic Party Presidential primaries, which of the following outcomes occurred? + Hillary Clinton won Indiana, while Barack Obama won North Carolina - Clinton took both North Carolina and Indiana - Clinton won North Carolina, and Obama won Indiana - Obama took both North Carolina and Indiana
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{An ex-employee of which airline was sentenced this week for his involvement in a price-fixing scheme? - Virgin Atlantic - United Airlines - Singapore Airlines + Qantas
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Large earthquake hits central China

May 12, 2008 According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) a magnitude 7.92 earthquake has struck eastern Sichuan Province in China. The USGS first reported the quake to be a magnitude 7.8 which hit at 6:28:00 UTC. Officials say that at least 10,000 may have been killed and local reports indicate over 10,000 injured.

At least 107 people, some of them school children, were killed when two schools collapsed. It is reported that 900 students remain trapped in the rubble. Two people were killed after a water tower fell over. According to the USGS, damage is expected to be "very heavy" and that "some reports of damage have been received. Felt widely throughout China." Officials now fear landslides and mudslides. "The epicenter of today's quake was shallow, which means it released more destructive energy. We have to guard against mudslides and collapsing buildings," said China Seismology Bureau scientist, Zhang Guomin.

The quake's epicenter was located in the Aba prefecture, 90 kilometers (55 miles) west, northwest of Chengdu, Sichuan, China and was recorded at a depth of 10 k.m. (6.2 miles). At least 11,000 people reside in the area, and because of poor communications due to the quake, the total extent of the damage is not known.

Several counties have been hit hard, including Beichuan, in which 80% of the buildings have been reported to have collapsed. Deaths from this area have not been accurately accounted for yet. In another county, already 3,000-5,000 are reported to have died, with a further 10,000 injured.

The quake could be felt as far away as Bangkok, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Shanghai and Beijing. At least 13 large aftershocks with a magnitude ranging from 4.9 to 6.0 have been recorded.

This is the largest earthquake to strike the region in almost 60 years. The deadliest quake in China's history was of magnitude 7.8, striking Tangshan in 1976. Approximately 250,000 people were killed.

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Talk:Large earthquake hits central China

I think someone from Wikinews might want to re-read this news article! How does something like this actually get posted on Wikinews Main Page?

Not good my friends!

Retrieved from "http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Comments:Large_earthquake_hits_central_China"

 * It's called vandalism, maybe you've heard of it? It was fixed with minutes. --SVTCobra 14:13, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

source or external link?
what is the difference between sources and external links?

all sources are external links, and the external links (in this case) also provide information that is referenced in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.9.100.205 (talk) 18:23, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Interwiki
Please add " Trzęsienie ziemi uderzyło w centralne Chiny ", thx ;-) Krzysiu Jarzyna (talk) 13:27, 19 May 2008 (UTC)


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User talk:Obscene username3

Hello and a piece of advice
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Comments:Ben Folds performs at Western Connecticut State University

Was something newsworthy about this concert? Having been a longtime fan of Ben Folds, it is nothing new that he would perform for a university. He has been doing so ever since he went solo, and probably even before. If there was nothing newsworthy about the concert, then why make it news?

This article reads like a submission to a neighborhood or university publication, where a popular performing artist coming to town might be news. While this sort of news reporting is fine for a college publication, in an online forum it will only clog the boards for the rest of us (imagine the clutter if even half the colleges in this country posted one article of local news a week to wikinews!) Wikinews is a global forum and the interests of the global community should be considered before posting.

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User:Thane Eichenauer

Thane Eichenauer is a man from Phoenix, Arizona, united States, Earth with an interest in producing useful and accurate articles which others may find useful to read. I enjoy following judicial news both within and without 'government' as well as reading US Supreme Court court cases.

I have been a Wikipedia user for more than a year and enjoy reading the TROLL section of the Wikipedia Signpost.

If I accomplish 1% of what John Stossel has then I will be very happy.

Note to self: Don't ask wrestlers if "professional" wrestling is fake.

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UK opposition leader calls for Burma aid to be dispatched by air if access for aid workers does not improve

May 12, 2008

David Cameron, the leader of the main UK opposition party, the Conservative Party, has said that aid to Burma should be dispatched by air if the Burmese government does not improve access to the country for aid workers.

David Cameron said this in a statement, which was released today. Below is part of the statement:

If the Burmese government does not agree to the distribution of aid on the scale required, then the case for unilateral delivery of aid by the international community will only grow stronger. There was general frustration at what the United Nations itself can or would do. Again, as time runs out for the people of the Irrawaddy Delta, and as a fresh storm approaches the area this week, the case for the United Nations invoking the 'responsibility to protect' - which could trigger action by the rest of the international community - grows stronger too. The argument against this is that China - and Russia - would be bound to block it. But the Chinese have a choice: either they put effective pressure on the regime to save lives, in which case aid will get through - or not, in which case the argument for invoking the UN's 'responsibility to protect' will get stronger still.

However David Miliband, British Foreign Secretary and Labour Party member, told the BBC's Politics Show yesterday that air delivery is "not a very effective way of delivering aid" and that "humanitarian experts and aid workers who make all the difference on the ground are clear that that is very much the third, fourth, fifth or even sixth best solution."

Nick Clegg, leader of Britain's second largest opposition party, the Liberal Democrats, took Cameron's side however, saying that the international community ought to support direct aid-dropping "to show that we mean business".

22,464 people have been confirmed dead from Cyclone Nargis, with the majority of the casualties having taken place in Burma. Only once rescue workers reached the hardest hit areas of the storm did they begin to realize the extent of damage that had occurred. At least 10,000 people died in one town alone, Bogalay in the Pyapon District of the country.

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What do you want to know? Bawolff ☺☻ 22:10, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * While it depends on what type of rss feed you want. Most query pages are automatic (pages like special:newpages, etc). The history tab on all pages also automatrically have an rss feed. For our main feed (and our category feeds, although for cats you can do something with special:recentchangeslinked), we have a feed on an external site (updated by bot). and then attach it by javascript (this could be done somewhere in php as well):

document.write(''); in mediawiki:common.js. (note: if you do that from an onoad event you have to do it slighty differently). You can also just create an rss feed by hand on some wikipage (say foo.rss) and serve as http://example.com/w/index.php?tite=Foo.rss&action=raw&ctype=application/rss+xml (for it to serve as the correct mimetype you have to edit a line in one of the php files to add application/rss+xml, I've heard that might possibly open you up to xss though. It will work correctly without the right mimetype in some readers, but no garuntees). Lastly, the easiest way, and probaby best is to install an extension like mw:Extension:WikiArticleFeeds. Hope that helps. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:33, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

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

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

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

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Renamed
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British Airways Flight 38 suffered low fuel pressure; investigation continues

May 12, 2008 The investigation into the crash of a British Airways Boeing 777 (B777) written off on January 17 after landing short of the runway at London's Heathrow International Airport has been updated. The crash of Flight 38 injured one passenger seriously and 12 others on board, including four crew members, as well as being the first hull loss of a B777.

The latest word from the United Kingdom's Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is that both engines had low fuel pressure in their high pressure (HP) fuel inlets, leading to the failure of both engines. Having departed from Beijing, China the aircraft was on final approach for landing at Heathrow when the thrust on the engines first reduced and became unresponsive, then ceased completely. The copilot, who was flying the aircraft at the time, received significant media praise for gliding the aircraft past housing and airport barriers to crash land the airliner onto the grass at the runway threshold, likely saving the 136 passengers and 16 crew from death or further injury as well as preventing potential ground casualties. The landing gear collapsed and the airframe, wings and engines were significantly damaged.

Each HP inlet also exhibited "unusual and fresh cavitation damage to the outlet ports consistent with operation at low inlet pressure", according to the AAIB's latest report on investigatory progress, which also states engine failure was definitely caused by low pressure and that the autothrottle had opened up appropriate valves fully in an effort to increase fuel flow, but to no avail. The report indicates the investigation has also considered an area of unusually cold air over Russia which the B777 passed through at 40,000 feet on its journey. Between the Ural mountain range and East Scandinavia the air was found to have been as low as -76°C. The AAIB has ruled out fuel turning to ice as the fuel temperature never fell below -34°C. This is compared to an average freezing temperature of -47°C for jet fuel and test showing the fuel in the B777's tanks needed cooled to at least -57°C before it froze. Floating ice particles had previously been suggested as a possible causal factor.

However, it has been suggested outside of the investigation that although the fuel did not freeze, it could have become unusually thickened, restricting its flow through the HP inlets, although the temperatures did remain within what are currently considered safe levels. Another possible explanation was that the fuel was contaminated or of inferior quality, but the AAIB has ruled this out. Also disproved are suggestions that the plane suffered a bird strike or that it was disrupted by electromagnetic interference from jamming devices set up to protect a motorcade carrying Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The report says that there was also no evidence to suggest any control systems failed, that the aircraft encountered a wake vortex or that there was core engine icing or other evidence that the engines suffered core lock. There was no damage to the fuel systems excluding that caused by the low pressure and no blockages, therefore it is suspected that fuel flow was restricted.

The investigation has also begun analysing previous flights on comparable aircraft in a large sample of flights. Thus far, no parameters present on Flight 38 have been found that differ significantly from anything previously encountered. The purpose is primarily to identify potentially troublesome combinations of unusual operational parameters.

The report concludes by stating that interested parties to the investigation, specifically the Federal Aviation Administration, the European Aviation Safety Agency, the Civil Aviation Authority and British Airways are being kept fully informed of the investigation's progress.

Although this shows some progress, according to David Learmount, operations and safety editor at periodical industry magazine Flight International, “This report takes us absolutely nowhere, I think they still have no idea.”

The B777 has never had any other hull losses or any fatal accidents and is considered to have one of the world's safest commercial airliners. According to one spokesman for British Airways “It has one of the best safety records of any commercial aircraft. At no stage since the accident has the AAIB, Boeing or Rolls Royce advised against the continued operation of the Boeing 777.”

The engines underwent analysis at manufacturer Rolls-Royce's facility in Derby, while airframer Boeing is studying the fuel systems in the United States. Rolls Royce's engine test bed was modified to replicate control inputs from aircraft control systems, and Boeing are working at replicating the cold conditions experienced over Eastern Europe. The investigation is ongoing.


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useless and badly written ... delete it!

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Polish humanitarian Irena Sendler dies at age 98

May 12, 2008

Irena Sendler, a Polish humanitarian who saved the lives of 2,500 Jewish people during World War II, died on May 12 in a Warsaw hospital. She was 98.

In 1942, when the Germans began liquidating the Warsaw Ghetto, Sendler, who had been active in the Żegota underground organisation dedicated to helping Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, smuggled children out by drugging them and placing them in body bags as typhoid fever victims. She then placed them with Polish families and in convents, hiding their records in jars so they could have their identities re-established after the war.

She was arrested by the Gestapo Gestapo in 1943 and sentenced to death after being tortured in Warsaw's Pawiak prison. Her colleagues from Żegota saved her by bribing her German captors before the planned execution.

Born on February 15, 1910 in Otwock, Poland, Selndler had been a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize, and had been recognised by Israel’s Yad Vashem institute as one of the Righteous Among the Nations for her work.

In 2007, she was honoured by the National Assembly for organising the "rescue of the most defenceless victims of the Nazi ideology: the Jewish children."


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Comments:Tornadoes in central US kill nearly two dozen people

Very Shocking Tradgey
This is very said and shocking why this had to happen.Prbably people worked hard to do all the things in the neighborhood and then their lives and towns were destroyed!!!

Obviously the local residents had aroused some kind of divine wrath. Perhaps the child, too, was a heretic?

/sarcasm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.163.16.203 (talk) 07:36, 26 May 2008 (UTC)


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Republic of Molossia announces new customs station

May 12, 2008 On May 11, President Kevin Baugh of the Republic of Molossia, a micronation located near Dayton, Nevada, inaugurated his country's first ever customs station near the border with the United States, in the capital city of Espera.

It was built after Baugh noticed that the tiny nation had no welcoming spot for its visitors. Though the station is unmanned as of now, there are plans for a customs officer to be stationed there in the near future. A sign asks that foreigners leave their pocket change as an entry fee.

Several items are banned in Molossia, including firearms, tobacco and incandescent light bulbs. The customs station was designed to ensure that these are not illegally brought into the country from the United States.