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Talk:U.S. Navy finds soldier shot wounded Iraqi at Fallujah in self defense

Not published yet
This has great lead article possibility, but it is not ready for publication in current form.

 * Rewrite lead, support paragraphs.
 * format sources appropriately
 * expand if possible

- Amgine/talk 21:58, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Retitled
I moved the article, to make the title make clear that this is a case against only one soldier, it does not address any other allegations of similar behaviour in Fallujah (there have been many in the press).

New title: U.S. Navy rules soldier shot in self defense at Fallujah unarmed & wounded - Simeon 10:21, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

"fucking" quote
I don't like to see the word myself, but in the interests of accuracy, it should be used; especially since its not beinmg used gratuitously within the article. Also, I did read somewhere(policies?) that Wikinews is an "adult" publication. Paulrevere2005 16:52, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I think you mean a site for adults (an Adult site is quite something else). I have to agree with Paul on this one. For one, to think that people who read this haven't heared this word already and become accustomed to it, is to assume our readers have never seen another site but us. Second, he current form is rather embarassing, as even my 8 year old (Dutch) sister could tell you what is ment by f*****, so it doesn't really fulfill its purpose. Some people (including me) find it offensive, but they can simply skip that section. If we are going to remove explitives, we should create a more clear policy towards it, as I haven't read anything about censoring out obsenities either. -- Redge (Talk) 00:12, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I love this f***ing word. And people are prudes. They should get over it, and learn to tolerate other people's morals. But they won't apparently, so we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot to use it unb**ped because it may scare away less hardy readers. Then again, constantly censoring our stories for other people's morals is likely to scare away those readers who like credibility with their news. I wonder if we can do anything here that major commercial networks can't do?
 * Irony: news is full of murder, death, mayhem, disease, sex, slander, bigotry, hate and fear. And yet we can't report the words a soldier uses when he shoots someone. We report his gratuitous act of violence, but the word fuck is to be censored. Ahah.
 * I leave it to the author and subsequent readers to decide (which probably means articles end up censored), please don't set a policy on things like this, anyone. - Simeon 06:54, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I like the way Lyellin did it — using f****** on the first instance, then leaving the 2nd instanced fully spelled. Yep, that hardly forms policy! -Edbrown05 07:17, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Just for the Record Ed, that wasn't me.... I haven't edited this article. Lyellin 03:32, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I'd say put it there or don't. Don't be halfhearted about it. The guy said it, so if you put his exclamation here it should be complete. Anyway, this is not a site for US citizens only. Others are not as squeamish about this sort of language. One funny effect is that it really stands out now, with all the asterisks. Someone who just skims over the article will certainly not miss this! DirkvdM 15:43, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

It was I who edited out the expletives. I'm British. What more can I say? :) Dan100 (Talk) 15:49, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I forgot to add a smiley :). It is ironic, though, that there is a rather large concentration in the USA of both people who get upset about this sort of language and people who use it. Though the one might explain the other (one extreme usually evokes the other). DirkvdM 20:27, 2005 May 13 (UTC)

The open letter link is dead.

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User talk:207.200.116.197

I do sincerely apologize for that... all I saw was a huge blank when I loaded the edit and I mistakenly assumed you'd blanked the whole article. You have been unblocked, and feel free to abuse me publicly for being too quick on the blocking trigger. - Amgine/talk 23:28, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

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Labour to lead UK for third term The Labour Party led by Tony Blair has won a historic third term, with a reduced majority in Parliament. With a handful of seats left to declare, the Labour Party have reached the 324 seats required to form a majority government. Swings away from Labour to the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were expected, but opinion polls had predicted the Labour win. Labour recieved 39% of the popular vote, the Conservatives 30%, Liberal Democrats 22% and other candidates 9%. The new Parliament will convene on Monday.

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UK general election, 2005 The election in the United Kingdom has resulted in a Hung Parliament.

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UK general election, 2005 The Conservative Party led by Michael Howard have had a surprise win in the general election.

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Wikinews:2005/May/6

 * 68% of Dutch consider their government "Lap Dog" of United States
 * New York City Subway's skip-stop 9 service to make its last run May 27
 * Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity gets stuck in a small sand dune
 * Germany gives 16.7 million euro loan to Albania to improve its water supply
 * Mortgage advisers attempt to collect rent from neighbors after FBI raid in Union City, California
 * British Conservative leader Michael Howard to step down

 * Surprise win for RESPECT Party in UK 2005 General Election
 * Australian PM apologises for deportation of Australian
 * Romanian road traffic laws aligned to EU standards
 * Coffeeheaven to enter Romanian market
 * Sydney bus driver accused of kidnapping schoolchildren
 * Romanian tourism to be rebranded
 * India's NDA rejects PM's appeal to end boycott
 * Results of 2005 United Kingdom General Election
 * Yemen's first-ever feature film to be screened at Cannes Festival
 * U.S. Navy finds soldier shot wounded Iraqi at Fallujah in self defense

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Yemen's first-ever feature film to be screened at Cannes Festival

May 6, 2005

The first ever film to be shot in Yemen will be screened, but will not compete for prizes, at this year's international Cannes Film Festival. The 90-minute romantic drama by British-Yemeni film director, Bader Ben Hirsi, is titled A New Day in Old Sanaa'a.

"For the most people viewing this film, it will be the first time they ever see images of Yemen. The results will be a very positive message" which offers a "true and honest" portrait of life in Yemen, said a spokesman from the Yemeni Media Center in 2003, when the film was in the planning stage. The film will depict aspects that are "completely different from the negative image that most of the world has" of the Middle-Eastern Arab nation, said the spokesman.

, where the capital of Yemen has been relocated since 1962, is known for its Muslim university and many, as a center of Islamic culture. It was noted in medieval times as a beautiful and hospitable city, and was described by the 10th century Persian traveler as follows: "It is the city of Yemen — there not being found in the highland or the Tihama or the  a city greater, more populous or more prosperous, of more noble origin or more delicious food than it... with fine dwellings."

The leading actor is Nabil Saber of Old Sana'a, and his co-star is the actress and make-up artist Julia Towns of London. The pair found real-life romance and exchanged wedding vows last year in London, after bowing to tradition and obtaining agreement from both their families.

The film, co-produced by the Yemen Media Center and Felix Films of London, is not yet 100% complete due to funding shortfall. There is planned to be a low-key showing to introduce the film at the Marché du Film (Film Market) portion of the Cannes Festival, but it is not eligible to compete for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) due to its unfinished status. The official premiere is to be held this summer, with widespread promotion and showing in universities and art centers around the world.

Ben Hirsi commented on his film, "A New Day in Old Sana'a could be categorized as a romantic drama, showing a very real conflict between modern values and old, [but] is respectful of the strong morals of Yemen's Islamic society. It does not contain such cinematic norms as profanity, graphic violence or sexually explicit content... As is true in modern-day Sana'a, however, traditional practices and concepts are tackled and confronted — topics such as love, caste, Yemeni marriage customs and the wearing of the veil are addressed in detail, and the inner turmoil that results from changing social values in a modernizing society forms a central theme of the story."

This year's Cannes Festival
The (French: Festival de Cannes) is a highly prestigious event attended by numerous show business celebrities that takes place every year in the Cannes Palace in the seaside resort town of, in southern France, along the. This year's festival is scheduled from May 11 to 22.

Currently 26 films have been selected for competition, including a relatively large lineup of American films. "I saw a lot of very good American films and had to refuse ones I would have liked to include because we have to keep a balance in the selection," said Artistic Director Thierry Fremaux to the trade magazine . "American cinema has a lot of vitality right now, and I think we've picked a range of films that reflect its richness and diversity."

The American films announced to be in this year's competition include:
 * Broken Flowers, by Jim Jarmusch
 * Last Days, by Gus Van Sant
 * Manderlay, by Lars von Trier
 * Sin City, by Frank Miller, Robert Rodríguez
 * The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, by Tommy Lee Jones, who is making his directorial debut.


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Reactions to Apple's OS X Tiger

May 7, 2005

In chatrooms and on bulletin boards, Macintosh users and the Macintosh-curious are buzzing about Tiger, the newest version of Apple Computer's Mac OS X, version 10.4. The open-source kernel, or base of the system, "Darwin", plus all the features of Apple's proprietary Quartz user interface features, software, and system utilities have passed through their next phase of upgrading and scrutiny, and have been shipping for more than a week now.

Apple reports that Tiger, the code name for this release, includes over 200 new features and new versions of application software such as e-mail client Mail, web browser Safari, and multi-person audio/video/text messaging client iChat. Entirely new features have also been rolled out in this release:
 * Spotlight integrates search in the core of the OS, and utilizes meta-data in its algorithm.
 * Dashboard provides a sandbox for widgets, handy mini-applicatios like a calculator, sticky notes, and a dictionary, made available at the stroke of a key.
 * Automator, a graphical scripting interface that enables non-programmers to automate repetitive tasks.

One user of the new operating system made this comment:

Industry analysts have pointed to both the advances and the failures of the new version already. Many of the bigger technology advances have gained high praise, but, they point out, Microsoft Longhorn is also expected to have many of these advantages when it is released, expected in late 2006. And inter-operability, long a strength of Macintosh to work with other operating systems and networks, has had a few bugs—such as reports of issues with Server Message Block (SMB) and Active Directory. Another issue for some is the fact that Cisco System's VPN does not work with Tiger. Cisco has promised a compatible release before the end of the month.

The biggest technology breakthrough is Spotlight. Using meta-data, searches are fast and easy and very thorough, and the results of the search can be used over and over again and will automatically update and change as you use your system. Search queries on a user's data can be saved as "Smart folders" without ever moving files on the hard drive, so you can collect all your photos, receipts, and webpages about your summer vacation, for example, while still keeping things ordered on your hard drive. According to a review by PC World, this alone is worth the US$129.

Still, even Macintosh support sites such as Mac News suggest waiting for the first "point" release (10.4.1) before jumping in, which is expected in late May. Apple Computer has been on a semi-regular release pattern since moving to Mac OS X, with four versions released in 5 years. This constant development program has occasionally been accused of being aimed at forcing users to constantly pay out for expensive new software, but the returns of regular releases have been quick bug fixes and leading edge technology.

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Surprise win for RESPECT Party in UK 2005 General Election

May 6, 2005

In a victory that has come as a surprise to commentators, George Galloway, candidate for the RESPECT The Unity Coalition party, has won the election in Bethnal Green and Bow in the UK general election, 2005 with a majority of just 823. The seat had been held by Oona King, and with a majority of 10,057 in the United Kingdom general election, 2001, it had been considered to be a safe Labour Party seat.

RESPECT also took second place in East Ham and West Ham, pushing the Conservative Party into third place in both constituencies, and in Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath, pushing the Liberal Democrats into third place.

In an interview with BBC News, Tony Banks stated his belief that the large Muslim population in the constituency had voted against Oona King "because she is a black woman" and that he believed that George Galloway would have seen a far different result if he had "come to West Ham". (In West Ham, Lyn Brown later beat the RESPECT candidate, Lindsey German.)


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Romanian tourism to be rebranded

May 6, 2005

Romania's National Authority for Tourism (ANT) announced that they would promote tourism in Romania through a new branding strategy, in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development. The director of ANT, Marius Critonescu, said that the branding exercise will be "a significant component of the Romania's development as a new tourist destination of international level." He also added that the development of an integrated brand for Romanian tourism will promote a more positive image for the country, thereby increasing the number of tourists and investors. In recent times, there has been quite a lot of investment in "national branding", especially in the field of tourism, as most marketing experts believe that branding for a product or a country is theoretically the same thing, and that the same strategies and approach should be used for both.

Concerning the Romanian tourism rebranding, international tourism and marketing expert James MacGregor stated that, "We have to touch the hearts and souls of the contemporary tourists who no longer travel for a simple beach or ski track. They want to live a self-knowledge experience that is truly uplifting and will leave unforgettable memories. The brand must show them not what they will see or do as tourists but what they will feel when visiting Romania."

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Coffeeheaven to enter Romanian market

May 6, 2005

Polish coffee house chain Coffeeheaven has stated that it will enter the Romanian market this year, with the first of its coffee houses set to open in Bucharest. Concerning the company's structure in Romania, Coffeeheaven's executive director, Richard Worthington, said, "We've decided to work with a local partner and we'll establish a joint venture in Romania. The investments will be covered by both parts in equal shares. We don't work in a franchise system." Coffeeheaven also said that they would not open stores in shopping malls, but rather in the city centre or in main pedestrian streets.

Coffeeheaven, based in Warsaw, and opening its first store in 2000, is one of the largest coffee house chains in Central Europe and its surrounds. It currently has 28 outlets in Poland, 7 in Latvia (trading under the brand name Coffee Nation) and 3 in the Czech Republic.

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Sydney bus driver accused of kidnapping schoolchildren

May 6, 2005 A Sydney bus driver dropped off a group of Mater Maria Catholic College school children at a Brookvale bus depot on Thursday, rather than following the normal route near their homes. The Rail, Tram and Bus Union said the incident occurred because the children were misbehaving and racially taunting the driver for a second day in a row. Parents of some of the Warriewood children have conceded that this did occur.

Some parents accused the driver of kidnapping their children, and asked police to press charges. The New South Wales State Government asked to see the CCTV footage, which does not include audio, as part of an inquiry into the incident.

Transport Minister John Watkins dismissed this as an overreaction. "To call it kidnapping or criminal behaviour is right over the top," he said.

The union intends to support the driver, saying that he acted responsibly under the circumstances, and the children were safe at all times.

The opposition transport spokesman Peter Debnam has said that this is not an isolated incident, especially in rural areas, and accused Premier Bob Carr of spinelessness for not supporting bus drivers.


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Romanian road traffic laws aligned to EU standards

May 6, 2005

Romania's new road traffic laws have been approved by the Senate, with the laws being in accordance with European Union legislation and updating a previous law from 1999. Romania is currently going through the process of aligning its legislation with EU standards, as it is set to become a member of the European Union on January 1, 2007. The Senate approved the law with several amendments from the original draft drawn up by the government and approved by the Chamber of Deputies.

The new traffic laws include many important changes. Firstly, car drivers with a concentration of 0.80 grams or more of alcohol per litre of blood can receive penalties of between one to five years in jail. In the case of public transport drivers, the punishment can increase to seven years in jail. Additionally, constructions of any kind will be banned on sidewalks, and traders will not be allowed on roads and parking lots.

Another important change is that pedestrians injured while crossing the street in an unauthorised manner, such as at a red light, will "bear full responsibility" for their actions, according to the law.

Before being implemented, the law must be approved by the President, Traian Băsescu.


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Australian PM apologises for deportation of Australian

May 6, 2005

 * Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has made a qualified apology to an Australian citizen who was deported to the Philippines in 2001. The woman, who was born in the Philippines, is yet to be located.

"I am very sorry if anything unfair has happened in relation to that and on the face of it that does appear to be the case," Mr Howard said.

The woman had come into contact with New South Wales police after a car accident. Speaking but little English, she was then sent to the Philippines consulate in Brisbane, Queensland. She was then deported by immigration officials, in 2001. In 2003 they became aware that she was listed in Queensland as a missing person.

A marriage to an Australian man had broken down, and the lady was believed to be suffering from a mental illness. According to the National Survey of Mental Health and Well Being (1997), one in five Australian adults meet at least one criteria for mental disorder.

Parallels have been drawn between this incident and the case of Cornelia Rau, an Australian citizen who spent 10 months in immigration detention, including 3 months in solitary confinement at Baxter Detention Centre, before her identity was revealed.

The Department of Immigration Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA), responsible for both cases, has left unanswered a question raised in Parliament in February, concerning the number who had been wrongfully detained within its system of mandatory detention. The answer was due on April 8, according to Greens Senator Kerry Nettle.

DIMIA indicated in February last year, that over the previous year (2003—2004), 33 people who were lawfully in Australia, had been detained and then released.


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Hey! Thanks!
Thanks for cleaning up after that spammer yesterday... much appreciated! - Amgine/talk 15:08, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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User:Divol

hi,
 * I am an admin here.
 * Feel free to contact me if you need help or if something is to be mended.
 * I am also a member of the french wikimédia chapter,
 * I am member of UNICNAM,
 * and founder member of montpel-libre, an organization created in order to promote free OS and software.

 * pre-preamble : my sense of humor is sometime ... humorless.
 * preamble : for english speaking people, here some lecture about France and french people. If not all truth but it's very funny when wrong ! understandfrance

 * i am mainly active on fr.wikinews

 * Profile in French but ask for english counterpart

 * 1) I am married, 2 kids (and the mother :)
 * 2) I am  living near Montpellier

 * ... may I tell : I write a lousy english (sorry mama ...)

Jacques Divol

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=Less available= For different cause, i am less present here.

 * One is, i am currently founding my own little firm based in south France (no, no not that South, the other : Montpellier. (software porting, modernizing, adapting or even new software making...)

 * any language (even fortran) any os (even "choose your's here) running.

 * see you !

 * jacques divol Olilog Conseil - site web not open.

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 * archives User_talk:Divol/archive1•User_talk:Divol/archive2

Often i am looking for

 * MessagePad Newton 130, 2000, 2100.

if needed feel free to use my mail
to check article on France or questions.

Adminship thanks
Hi there! I'd like to thank you for your support to become an admin, it's greatly appreciated! -- Zanimum 14:28, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

post-publish edits
hi, the information added may be correct, but we really should not be updating articles so long after publishing. — Doldrums(talk) 20:30, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * i don't think that wrongness correction have timestamp. As long, it don't change the article meaning of course!! :). Jacques Divol 08:31, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

User talk:TownCrier:TownCrier
I deleted User talk:TownCrier:TownCrier. There is no such user. But, there is a User talk:TownCrier :) — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  21:20, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * it's ok, i used TownCrier shortcut to create new message but the url was wrong, i corrected the url --Jacques Divol 21:33, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Huh?
I experimented with the sandbox! You left a warning on my talk page. That's weird- please reply. Thanks, 68.110.148.20 19:25, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Many IP's that test on pages get that warning. Your edits to the sandbox were not vandalism, imo. Happy editing :) — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  19:41, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * you already got the answer, (thx fellowwikinews) sorry if i disturb you Jacques Divol 21:00, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Translation Enlistment
Hey, thought you might be interested in translation Wikinews interviews Florance Devouard, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation since Florance is from France. Thunderhead - (talk) Congrajulations to Kat! 09:30, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * yes, thanks, i missed the announce of the interview, otherwise i'ld add some questions to Florence, i think it's in progress or i'ld translate it soon. again thx Jacques Divol 10:55, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! Wishing you all the best for the forthcoming year. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:24, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Hégésippe
Please talk to Hégésippe and encourage him to stay... it appears I accidentally scared him away with my unrefined fr-1 skills. I did not want to hurt him, I only wanted to try to speak in his native language. I don't want him to leave because I'm a poser francophone. ★ MESSED ROCKER ★  08:30, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Grondin
Je viens de mettre quatre paragraphes sur le dictionnaire pour Grondin et je n'en reproduis qu'un ici mais ej evux d'abord dire qu'uatant que ej suis ciontyent que mon reportage original sur la bravitude soit passé ici sur le wikinews en glais, autant le second m'a déplu car on y fait croire qu'Anthère a répondi à Poibre d'Arvor sur TF1 alor qu'elle n('était me^me aps au courant quand l'interview comme new chair a été réalisé

Grâce à des témoignages notamment celui d'Alvaaro, me voilà, comme tu l'avais souhaité, à présent mis à la poorte de wikipédia (en + de mon bannissement sur wikinews) et même si la durée n'est aps infinie, cela ne me alisse guère envie de dire vraoiment là-bas ce que je pense car ma marge de manoeuvre est devenues tellemnt étroite que n'importe quoi sera à nouveau le préétrtexte de m' bannitr pour bien pus longtemps.

Nous n'aurons plus que très arrement l'occasion ne dous croiser ; je tiens à te dire que je regrette vraioment que eds personnes comme toi aient dui mal à trouver du boulot. Autrefois l'honnêteté payait mieux... Nos divertgenecs n'onbt jamais porté uque sur ce que nosu estimiàons le mieux pour wikinws... où il n'y a plus guère qu'à sauver els meubles. Dommage donc que celui qui réussint de nos jouurs le mlieux dans la vie soit une personens comme Faager... ou sa réincarnation...

Enfin, je viendrai assez peu souvent sur wikienws en aglais --- déjà il faut avoirq uelque chos à dire ;-))) --- et j'imagien quetoi aussi tu a s du soyffrir du décalage horaire' qui fait que les dernières heuers avant l'édition PDF se apssent alors que els européens dorment. Brilbot (et non pas briling par pitié) aka 82.224.88.52 20 janvier 2007 à 08:41 (UTC)

 * Cinq mois après, tes brêves apparitions sur WN/fr (le wikinews français) me comfirment que tu continues à fond dans le travail que tu t'étais trouvé.

 * J'en suis d'autant plus heureux pour toi que tu aurais très mal vécu l'agonie de ce WN/fr ; quand je pense )-: que je ne te reprochais guère en décembre que des broutilles par rapport à ce que c'est devenu.

 * Ainsi, à la une aujourd'hui de WN/fr, un article où des paragraphes entiers ont été pompés ; en effet, si tu cop'colles ceci : Le premier scandale dans lequel était impliqué M. Matsuoka concernait la gestion de son appartement de fonction de parlementaire, pour lequel il avait déclaré des dépenses de fonctionnement s'élevant à 28 millions de yens (soit environ 176 000 euros ou 236 000 dollars américains), alors même que ce logement était mis gracieusement à sa disposition.

 * Si tu cop'colles donc tout cela sur le moteur de recherche de Google actualités en français tu trouveras, comme de plus en plus souvent sur WN /fr, le même texte mot à mot... à moins de rêver ;-))) que ce soient les médias qui recopient à chaque fois le WN/fr.

 * À l'époque, j'avais été blessé à l'idée que mes créations y disparaissent quand la Foundation leur réservera le sort de wikiquote... à présent, cela m'est devenu indifférent.... si cela les amuse tous les trois de se saborder et tout wikinews avec eux... 82.224.88.52 06:25, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

 * salut, j'ai vérifié, effectivement on retrouve le texte sur www.lemali.fr/ et www.alactu.com mais et c'est bien dans les deux cas wikinews est cité avec retour vers l'article original. c'est bien non ?

Jacques Divol

Thank u friend...
Ill try with cultural news, books, films, and so on.--Uma 19:50, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * ok, but always neutral ! Jacques Divol

Portal:Football
Just to say, my main aim is to get the football portal up and running! Celticfan383 20:54, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

German author Artur Balder releases historical fantasy novel set in medieval England
[Copied from Brianmc's talk page… ;-)]

Hi! We have got a similar problem in the German Wikinews. I deleted the (English) article because it reads almost exactly the same as its source (Reason: URV = copy vio). I tried to explain to the author that he should sent an email to the OTRS to ensure that it was not a copyright violation. --Angela H. 13:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC) ok, i rode your text :) Jacques Divol 13:53, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi Wikipedia Star
My name is Ferran Bono. Im journalist. REALLY JOURNALIST. YOU CAN SEE IT ON THE WEB. I work for El Pais, and I thought it was here a place for collaboration, but these is the right place for the opposite. My first purpose are cultural news. The new about Balder had a reference, but no one is able to help saying wich is the level of rewrite of the new, and instead of that you delete the information. Its absolutly absurd. Stop to built problems and built Wikinews.--Uma 14:28, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

More explanations
Well, as I was saying, I think that some users of Wikinews, and who work on other Wikinews proyect, are acting as if the proyect belonged to themselves. They call as SPAM, the FREE AND CORRECT EDITING OF WELL REFERENCED INFORMATION AND NEWS. My real name is Ferran bono, am REALLY JOURNALIST, from the spanish newsletter El Pais, and I want to colaborate with german, english, spanis, catalanish Wikinews proyect, and I will require your help if such kind of people continuos critizing my texts and initiatives simply because they consider themselves the STARS of Wikipedia. Of course, I need some help, but I WILL NOT ACCEPT COMENTARIES AS SUCH OF DIVOL, THAT THE INFORMATION, WELL REFERENCED AND CREDITED, IS SIMPLE """SPAM""". I dont write spam. And other side there is a strong pression from news wich arrive from english or USA world: Wikipedia and Wikinews are a proyect without frontiers, so I WILL TRANSLATE THE NEWS I CONSIDER RIGHT INTO MORE THAN ONE LANGUAGE. And Im interested on cultural news. ANd: and want to become a CREDITED WIKIPEDIA JOURNALIST. hHOW? Thank u. Ill be for example at the Book Fair of London and of Frankfurt next month, and I want to publish original interviews nd matherial about. Maybe be we, YOU and ME, can collaborate. Team. Thanks.--Uma 14:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Please to meet you Ferran, but understand that Wikinews have rules : one of these rules is : Do not submit copyrighted work without permission(as is it writen on ALL edit page). the other is NPOV : Neutrality of Point of View.
 * The article here was a direct copy of the work on another news site, we checked it, ans we do not found Copyright notice, so this work is protected by default and should be rewrited. You copy 2 times the same  article without reason. Someone deleted it as we detected the same problem for the Spanish edition, copypvio and someone for the German.
 * With the multiplicity of CopyRight Violation, the Unique way to protect Wikinews is to : rewrite or delete. Another admin choose to delete, i choose the copyvio template.

 * About the level of rewrite : Wikinews is not a place for rewrite but to do original work. But if you ask : As long a phrase can be found into another work using, for example, a search engine, this phrase must be rewrited. I know that real journalist don't mind to re-use word to word work of other journalists but Wikinews thinks it's bad (it's life).

 * If you have questions, feel free to ask us, Wikinews have specific rules that even a real reality journalist never follow. Yes, it's a place a cooperation, but we all need some time to understand how to cooperate (i am involved since 2005).
 * please take time to read others articles, to read our guides.
 * every one is welcome here. Jacques Divol

Thank u
thank u for the answering. Ill try to prepare cultural news in the terms of Wikipedia. Im translating one into english, deutsch and spanish, may be you can help me with it to translate into french, a language that I dont write. And another question: if I prepare first hand news from Frankfurt Book fair 2007, how can I indicate sources for that kind of articles, if they are entirely of my own, like for example interviews?? --Ferran Bono 18:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Again, you're welcome, even if i am a bit hard sometime. But as admin, we must, sometime again, act urgently. But remember even admin action could be reverted by other admins.
 * off course, if i have time (and if i like your news ;), i could translate in French (or others people from the french wikinews team.

 * About first hand, off course it's possible. But one little advise : you could begin by writing normal article about mainstream news, it's the first step, so we could help you to understand Wikinews way of life ! It's a way for us to know you.
 * When you write your first hand article, you must have your press release, notes, photos, recording available for an admin to check your data (normal, think, no?). For an event like the Frankfurt Book fair 2007 it's not a real problem as we could have information from other sources. It's more complex for very specific event no-one know. Jacques Divol 19:12, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Somebody (obviously) liked the layout of my user page…
Hi, a bit astonished on what kinds of discussions may happen when trying to explain that copyright violations are not allowed I saw that the user (Ferran Bono) still seemed to like the layout of my user page. Tsstss… ;-) --Angela H. 16:38, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * (^-^), there"s strange people anywhere. Jacques Divol 07:50, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

RfA vote reverted
Divol, I don't think it's appropriate to vote on an RfA that has been long closed. Within 24 hours, perhaps, but after that it's misleading. So I reverted your vote. I hope you don't mind. irid t i [mailto:ironiridis@gmail.com e] 06:11, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * no problem, i do not see any mark showing the RfA was closed, sorry for the mistake Jacques Divol 09:45, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Citizen Journalism: All The News That's Fit To Blog
My article is under the suspicion of copyright violation, however, the source which you indicate it to be infringing on is in fact something I wrote. As I am the copyright holder of the externally linked text, how exactly do I indicate that on the article's talk page? Sarabg 15:23, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * express it into the collaboration page of your article. Wikinews is for Original article mainly. The main problem with your article : it's already on a copyrighted website : it could arise numerous problem : you'ld avoid copy/paste your article on multiple website, it's not the good way. Jacques Divol 16:44, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Go see your own User talk:Sarabg collaboration page. User:Stevenfruitsmaak has requested that you send an e-mail to prove that you are the original writer on Huliq. --SVTCobra 17:44, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Inform print edition
An old inform Print Edition was here--User:Anonymous101 09:51, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

--User:Anonymous101 09:50, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

My RfA
I dunno if you do RfA thanks here, or if it's just a Wikipedia thing. If not, I reckon the trend needs broken. Many thanks for participating in my RfA, which was successful. Unfortunatly, I can't use the excuse of testing my shiny new buttons to see what they do as I have them on Wikipedia ;). So, I guess that rules out any rogue-adminish behaivour ;-). Seriously, though, cheers, and see you around on-wiki! Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 15:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Bot to copy fr.WN to fr.WP
I think you just need to ask here, and I think Millosh will be picking this up to try and implement on pl.WP too. Then there's de.WP.

Can you think offhand who we have that is a good candidate to do Welcome from Wikipedia? I've less than 500 edits on WP so would not be a good person to write this. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:30, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

 * i think i have less edits than you on wikipedia ! Jacques Divol 16:45, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

 * i checked the fr.wikinews community. They don't want to, how to say... They don't want problems with Wikipedia community, so it's a too early "revolution" for the french WP.
 * i tried ... thanks anyway Jacques Divol 07:03, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Story preparation/Wikinews interviews Mark Bunker, producer of anti-Scientology website 'XenuTV'
Please check, I did not remove your question, I just moved it up a bit and edited it for clarity. Cirt 14:47, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * ok, sorry, i did not see the move. thanks for the fixes :) Jacques Divol 14:49, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

about 42 killed in tornados across southern U.S. : This number'ld change all time
To put a number of casuality into a title, is not a good idea. This number'ld change all time ... Not so accurate in fact :) Jacques Divol 16:30, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * OK --Anonymous101 16:32, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!
Gracias WikiBlue - (talk) 19:38, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews Editorials
Hello. You asked to be included on the discussion about Wikinews Editorials. I have begun such discussion here: Please feel free to comment. --David Shankbone - (talk) 16:34, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

My RFA
I am, once again, putting myself up for Rfa. I would appriciate it if you could stop by My RFA and vote. Wheter support or oppose I would appriciate your vote to avoid another situation of having too few votes.-Ryan524 (talk) 23:18, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

FlaggedRevs
If you have not already seen this, please look, comment, and vote both here and on bugzilla. Further assistance such as contact information for Google would be a very useful detail to share and help in petitioning for a listing in their news index. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:01, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

University protests
Hi, Divol. There are lot's of protests in France and Spain at the moment against reforms of the educational system. I saw you enlisted as a translator for Spanish. Just yesterday, in Barcelona, police forces attacked pacific protestors. I think it would be worth to give this more attention. I leave you links to a video and the wikinews article in Spanish. I hope you can contribute to writing an article on the English wikipedia. 161.116.222.195 10:09, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I wasn't online, sorry ... Jacques Divol (talk) 12:48, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

A penny for your thoughts
Okay, not really, but I am requesting your participation in the following Water Cooler Discussion: OR and Broadcast report. The discussion involves the need for specific policy concerning how Original Reporting relates to information recieved from a broadcast report of an event. This can include both news-style reports and non-news reports, such as a sporting event. Thanks and again, please share your thoughts on this so we can get as many people involved as possible, especially since this relates to an important topic such as OR. —Calebrw (talk) 05:18, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Accreditation requests
I have replied to your comment re my request. It appears we simply had a misunderstanding! Computerjoe (talk) 17:32, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

privs
'''Note! Your privileges on English Wikinews have been reduced.'''
 * Under the Privilege expiry policy (enacted October 13, 2012) the rights held by your user account have been reduced due to inactivity, or lack of privilege use.

 * Point 4 of the Privilege expiry policy provides for fast-tracking reacquisition of privileges. We all understand that real-life commitments can severely curtail the level of commitment you can give to Wikinews; the privilege reduction is in no way intended as a reflection on your past work, or to imply you are unwelcome. The aim in curtailing privileges is to address security risks, and concern that a long period of inactivity means you may not be up-to-date with current policy and practices.

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Inactive Policy
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Privileges
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 * Per this version of WN:RfP, you may review the public announcement of this change. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:57, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

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Talk:Reactions to Apple's OS X Tiger

Mind the gap
The proper title for Apple's operating system is OS *(space)* X. The title of this article should be changed.

You know work goes into creating these news stories. To some, they believe the work is for their critical target practice.

One or some lazy and inconsiderate soul(s) come along and butcher stuff. When a person is motivated tear down, it's a shame they show no effort to re-build. The attitude is, "Let me go bang on a story to suit my world-view." Then they walk away.

Why can't we tolerate others' point-of-views? To say something is 'not news' when something is happening is insane. It's all news. Some happened to be aware of the Apple OS release, others not.

So what if Apple gets some free publicity, that's not the point. But for the IRC snippent to be removed, judged "meaningless to readers" when it formed the headline, was to remove solid first-hand reporting. Further, after moving the story to a new headline, the RSS and 2nd lead headlines are out of sync and left unchanged! What kind of crap is that? -Edbrown05 17:45, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * The original title was not npov. Further, IRC is meaningless to most people. Sometimes editors seem to think everyone who reads this site are techno-geeks - well, they're not. IRC? Amgine? Whu? Dan100 (Talk) 20:21, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I think you're not being fair here, Dan100. The fact that some people don't use IRC has nothing to do woth it. The snippit was simply part of an original interview with someone who has seen the OS already, and whether this is done by IRC, IM or snailmail even is irrelevant. -- Redge (Talk) 20:28, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

I don't think the fact that Tiger has been on sale for just over a week warrants a news story. Its release probably did, but that's been and gone.

Perhaps there is some angle here we could develop into a news story (bearing in mind that we don't do reviews)? If someone could find some first-week sales figures, that would be great to run with (eg "Apple's Tiger sells 10,000 copies in first week"). Dan100 (Talk) 10:27, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I was trying to show the reactions to it after briefly explaining what it was. Is the title POV? Probably. Is it funny? I think so. Virtually everyone reading this will be using either Windows, Mac, or Linux so I don't think it is a bad type of advertising, as people must inherently already have one of these. Alex Krupp 18:05, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I only added the notnews tag, not the clean-up one :). That said, the title isn't really acceptable as it is, but then neither is the article. Dan100 (Talk) 18:37, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Dan100: This article certainly is news - A current event, international interest, etc. However, the article as is is a review of the product; we don't currently have policy to cover reviews. This would be a good candidate to create that policy. So I'm going to rewrite it.
 * FWIW, i've sat through 'news' stories on the local channel in Raleigh, NC that 'reported' how sales increasaed at a certain area Papa John's on rainy days. This is infinitely more newsworthy.  If the IRC snippet is a bother to people, perhaps it could be reworded as "one user commented online, '.......'"  --Morbid-o 13:38, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, and the title? it really was a quote from IRC. - Amgine/talk 20:53, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Judging by the recent discussion on the water cooler, I think we've formed a policy against reviews. Dan100 (Talk)
 * If I want to read how great the apple OS is I'll go to the apple official site. This shouldn't be counted as news, no software details should be in the news! We have Neowin and Slashdot for that! Keep the news articles to a quality and type that would appear on a news program such as BBC, SBS or ABC, or in a major newspaper. I come to Wiki for unbiased news, I don't want to be confronted with propaganda.
 * I'm sorry that you feel you can blank articles arbitrarily. If you dispute the content of an article, try editing the article, or adding a dispute tag, or request the article be deleted. However, vandalism such as page blanking will get you blocked. And your opinion is much more likely to be listened to or heard if you login to an account, after your 24 hour ban is over with. - Amgine/talk 02:57, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I feel the article as it is now is not POV based. Advantages and drawbacks to the new version are discussed alike. As for the not news: I think we need to lighten up on this. If we're a few days late reporting an event, that does not make the event unnewsworthy or a follow up article automatically inferior. Let's just look at this article without labeling not news or NPoV and re-asses whether we want to keep it. -- Redge (Talk) 20:28, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Of course;this kind of news IS advertisement

 * as It's free, and soon it will be worst.

 * anyway, here a less entousiastic version :

 * title : Apple Computer Inc. releases Mac OS X 10.4-Tiger.

Major additions are : -...
 * Last week the Cupertino's firm release it's last operating system called Tiger (10.4). Apple announced more than 200 new features from developper to end-user usage:
 * Dashboard : a reborn of the famous Control Panels used into macOs9 and older OSs. The big difference is :  anyone could write one as it's html and script based.
 * Spotlight : enhancing the system seaching capabilities with the use metadata from unix terminal to high level applications.
 * Xgrid : in order to facilitate grid-computing (a kind of shared computing well known by Seti@home fanatics,...).
 * Xcode 2 : new free tools set for developpers including graphic data modeling (UML tasty)
 * mainly all basics applications send with the system included new features. Safari goes to RSS for example (Microsoft stops porting Internet Explorer on MacOs)

Jacques Divol 13:38, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Rewrite and moved
I've rewritten the article, added sources. The original author has purchased and reviewed the software personally. The factual statements are sourced, so far as I can tell. Please review and list any extant issues. - Amgine/talk 22:28, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Jonathan Alter did an OS article in the periscope section of the May 2 issue of Newsweek talking about the Mac and Windows releases. -Edbrown05 02:40, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Page blanked by User:60.240.170.238
What the history tab for this story now notes as User:60.240.170.238 who blanked the story, was at the of the blanking occurrence going by the handle known as User:Azkabar.

I tried, but couldn't roll back the vandalism. How the user names changed is unknown to me. -Edbrown05 00:11, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

 * With a big revert like that, select the previous version from history, click the edit tab, add an edit summary (such as "revert page blank vandalism") and save.
 * The IP presumably logged in after blanking the page to delete the entry in the archives. - Amgine/talk 00:14, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Record of 2nd blanking of this story by instance of IP User:60.240.168.11 -Edbrown05 05:37, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Yes
Yes I did. I was trying to get rid of non-news, not vandalise the site. I should also add that I didn't reply as to my reasons earlier because quite frankly I couldn't figure out how. Wikipedia is kinda wierd in terms of finding out how to do stuff. - Azkabaz

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Talk:Mortgage advisers attempt to collect rent from neighbors after FBI raid in Union City, California

Interesting
Very interesting story. The fact the FBI apparantly didn't charge anyone with fraud may mean this company's activity is not easily proven to be illegal; also the letter seems to indicate they used their technique to take possession of the building their offices are in. Some US property law is extremely weird. In some states if someone pays the taxes for 20 years they own the property.In Oregon some counties issue tax bills on properties that don't exist yet(are just lines in a developer's proposal)Then,after the proposal is abandoned or rejected, the tax bills still exist indefinitely(believe it or not). Con-men buy the right to pay the taxes and turn around and sell the non-existant properties on a "buyer beware" basis;using the tax bills as "proof" the property is real.In Florida,when an "alien" sells property,the real estate agent(and/or title lawyer) is supposed to hold onto 10% of the sale price for the IRS...and nobody tells the alien this is going to happen when he first buys the property.

Wow, this is a very interesting story. Paulrevere2005 11:13, 6 May 2005 (UTC)


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British Conservative leader Michael Howard to step down

May 6, 2005

Speaking in Putney, London, where the Conservative candidate won the seat from Labour, Michael Howard has announced that he will not fight in the next General Election.

The Conservative leader stated that he would be 67 or 68 by the time of the next election, an age he believed to be too old to lead a party into power. Therefore, he would be making way for a successor so he or she can be well-established before the next election.

Howard stated that he would first reform the selection process for a new party leader before resigning, to avoid long debates about the party's leadership.

He added that the Conservative party could "hold its head high", after gaining thirty seats in the General Election.

Many of the Tory party members and journalists gathered at Putney expressed their surprise at his decision.


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Talk:British Conservative leader Michael Howard to step down

I watched his speech live on BBC TV and typed this has he spoke Dan100 (Talk) 11:39, 6 May 2005 (UTC)


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Category talk:Original reporting

This category should be sorted by date of appearance, and if not possible, then there should be a list listing all the original reporting. 24.201.116.26 12:02, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Sadly it's not possible to sort categories by date (and boy have we tried!). The Category page is a complete list of original stories though. Dan100 (Talk) 12:16, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Let's not forget DPL that some of our contributors have worked so hard on. I'll see if I can get it in. -- Redge (Talk) 12:20, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

I put together an RSS feed of the "Original Reporting" section. The feed is available at http://www.inic.org/wikinews.xml I also added an external link to the feed on the top of the Original_reporting page. If you do not have an RSS reader, you can view a web based version of the feed at Wikinews Original Reporting RSS Feed Please let me know what you think. I will try to update it daily. Inic 04:24, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Link to the German version
There is a problem. I can't fix it. --House1630 (talk) 01:56, 13 January 2013 (UTC) - ups - this was strange - but the problem is solved. --House1630 (talk) 02:00, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I think I sited it. --LauraHale (talk) 09:12, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

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Germany gives 16.7 million euro loan to Albania to improve its water supply

May 6, 2005

Germany will lend Albania €16.7 million (USD21.5 million) as part of a loan in order to help the country improve its water supply networks in two southeastern towns, Pogradec and Korca. The deal was signed last Tuesday between the Albanian Finance Ministry and Germany's government-owned KfW Bank.

Germany has been one of the most significant donors to Albania since the fall of Communism. In total, it has contributed more than €326 million to the country's development, while investing €135 million in its water supply and urban canals. 80% of this has been given through grants.


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Talk:Chili Finger Incident

So whatever happened to this woman? After Woman arrested in Wendy's chili finger case and larcenous mobile home sale we've had no word. Has she made bail? -- Redge (Talk) 14:41, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Updated. — DV 12:22, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

;-) -- Redge (Talk) 17:24, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

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"it's own" => "its own" Van der Hoorn (talk) 22:51, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

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Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity gets stuck in a small sand dune

May 6, 2005

The Mars Rover, better known as , is stuck in a sand dune about 30 centimeters tall in. The Rover had just discovered a pair of tiny craters when its six wheels got stuck in the dune and the Rover stopped dead.

Opportunity ground control is now taking its time getting Opportunity free. They also want to discover what is so different about this soil so that this kind of event may be avoided in the future.

"A note to all you Opportunity fans: Get used to the current scenery, because we’re going to be here awhile," Steve Squyres, lead scientist on the Rover team at Cornell University in, New York wrote in his blog. "We are very optimistic that we’ll be able to get out of here, but we’re really going to take our time doing it." Squyres also noted: "We've gotten dug in before and gotten out just fine, so this isn't cause for immediate concern."

Opportunity is one of two rovers (along with its twin Spirit, which landed on Mars on 3 January 2004) designed to explore the surface of Mars and radio back data to Earth. Squyres promises to keep the public updated of any changes through his blog.


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Real cool with the animated.gif use Redge! -Edbrown05 18:23, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't thank me, thank the guy who made it and uploaded it to commons. I just found it. -- Redge (Talk) 00:03, 7 May 2005 (UTC)


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68% of Dutch consider their government "Lap Dog" of United States

May 6, 2005

According to an TNS NIPO survey published today, a 68% majority of the Dutch agrees with the position that the Balkenende government is behaving itself as the "lap dog" ("schoothondje") of the United States.

The survey also stated 79% find that US President Bush overly pressures other countries to become and stay allies to the US. Over 70% agreed Europe should attempt to counterbalance the US, while 56% of the participants in the survey agree that Bush is a danger for world peace.

The survey was released the night before a Bush visit to the Netherlands.


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United States begins testing equipment for demolition of a major VX nerve gas stockpile

May 7, 2005

Testing began on a chemical reactor at the Newport Chemical Depot near Terre Haute, Indiana on Friday morning. If successful, the reactor will be put to use destroying the large VX nerve gas stockpiles stored at the facility over the course of the next two years. After the disposal project experienced several delays, the facility announced it would begin pumping VX into a completed disposal unit for testing. The unit consists of a chemical reactor in which the VX will be mixed with water and sodium hydroxide, heated to 194°F while mixed with paddles. The resulting chemical, called hydrolysate, is chemically similar to commercial drain cleaners and has similar properties. If the test is successfully completed, the unit will continue processing the VX until the entire stockpile has been neutralized, a process projected to take two years. Administrators expect to complete testing on May 10, 2005.

According to the controversial plan, the finished waste product would be shipped to New Jersey for final reprocessing. The inert chemical would then be emptied into the Delaware River where natural attenuation would occur.

Residents near the proposed river disposal site in New Jersey oppose this idea. The contractor for the final component of this disposal would be the DuPont Corporation.

Background on Newport Chemical Depot (NCD)
NCD is a bulk chemical storage and destruction facility in west central Indiana, thirty miles north of Terre Haute. Originally founded during World War II to produce RDX, a conventional explosive, it later became a site for chemical weapons manufacturing during the Cold War. It is now used to securely store and gradually neutralize part of the US stockpile of VX.

VX was manufactured by the U.S. in the 1950s and 60's as a deterrent to possible Soviet Union use. It was never deployed, and the manufacture was halted in 1969 after an order signed by then-president Richard Nixon.

In 1999, the Army announced it awarded a disposal contract to Parsons Infrastructure & Technology, Inc., a business unit of Parsons Corporation. Some 220 civilian Parsons employees work at the facility, which is supervised by an Army officer reporting to the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, and a board of civilian government overseers called the Indiana Citizens' Advisory Commission, some of whose members are appointed by the state governor.

Security at the facility is controversial. A private security service, supplemented by a complement of Indiana National Guard soldiers, guarded the facility until April 14, 2005, when the soldiers were withdrawn. An Indianapolis television station has questioned security measures in some of its special reports.


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Ok. First of all there is no such thing as VX Nerve Gas..It is VX Nerve AGENT it is not a gas it is a liquid. Also, Newport Chemical Depot's abbreviation is NECD not just NCD

Paddles
What are "paddles"(obviously, in the context of the article)? Superm401 23:54, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Wow, I'm stupid. Disregard the previous comment. Superm401 23:55, 7 May 2005 (UTC)


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New York City Subway's skip-stop 9 service to make its last run May 27

May 6, 2005 On Friday, May 27, 2005, 9 trains on the New York City Subway will make their final run, ending rush-hour skip-stop service on the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line north of 137th Street-City College. During rush hours, the 9 is a skip-stop supplement to the 1, running the same route but skipping some stops in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. At the same time, the 1 skips other stops, which are only served by the 9 at rush hours; some stops are served by all trains. This service pattern results in slightly faster trains, but longer waits for those going to or from skipped stations.

9 service was started on December 12, 1988, at first running during rush hours and middays. In the mid-1990s, midday 9 service was dropped.

The J-Z skip-stop services on the BMT Jamaica Line will not be affected, as many passengers ride straight through the skip-stop portion, making the faster service more worthwhile.


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Wikinews:2005/May/7

 * Reactions to Apple's OS X Tiger
 * North Carolina church kicks out Democrats
 * Chili finger suspect arrives in San Jose, California for trial
 * 20-horse field for Derby dash
 * Kentucky Derby field chart
 * United States begins testing equipment for demolition of a major VX nerve gas stockpile
 * Muslim opens first Arab Holocaust museum in Nazareth
 * CARTOSAT-I and HAMSAT satellites launched precisely by PSLV-C6, will have longer life

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Muslim opens first Arab Holocaust museum in Nazareth

May 7, 2005

The museum's owner Khaleed Mahameed, a 43-year old lawyer, husband, and father of two, said that he learned about the holocaust during his time at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He spent about 20,000 shekels (US$4,500) of his own money in order to create the museum, despite the alienation of his own brother, the rejection of the Arab news media, and a public that is slow to accept his ideas.

Mahameed purchased about 80 photographs from the more well-known museum at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, site of Israel's national memorial to the Shoah (holocaust), located on the Har Hazikaron (Mount of Remembrance). The newly enlarged Israeli museum at Yad Vashem, opened March 15 with the attendance of President Moshe Katsav, replaced what was the world's first holocaust museum, established in 1972.

As part of his effort to educate Palestinians, Mahameed has printed 2,000 booklets in Arabic describing photographs of Nazi horrors, offered stipends to Arab students of the subject, and started a new museum website (Alkaritha.org) with some translations offered in English, Arabic, and Hebrew.

Mahameed believes contributions such as his are necessary to the Mideast peace effort. Said Mahameed:

"Understanding this and the fact that personal security is perhaps the major concern of Jews in Israel and elsewhere, as a direct outcome of the Holocaust and the feelings of persecution, is extremely important.

"If we, as Arabs, can dissipate these concerns and show understanding over what happened it will help create the climate for real dialogue in which Israeli Jews and especially decision-makers will be able to have a greater understanding of the suffering of Arab citizens and the Palestinians.

"This, in turn, would hopefully lead towards a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and an end to discriminatory policies towards Arab citizens and the acceptance that they deserve equal rights."

Mahameed is not without his critics, not only among Arabs who say that Mahameed should do more to draw attention to the situation of present-day Palestinians, but also representatives of the Israel office of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL), who have stated without visiting the museum that they consider some of the attitudes expressed on Mahameed's website to be anti-Semitic.

According to an ADL press release dated March 20:

"The establishment of the first Holocaust museum for the Arabic-speaking public can be an important first step in educating the Arab world on the unique horrors of the destruction of European Jewry.

"Particularly now, at a time when Holocaust denial is rife both within and outside of the Arab world, the attempt to teach young Arabs about the Holocaust and to learn moral and ethical lessons from it is a worthy pursuit.

"If however, the Arab Institute for Holocaust Research and Education is, as noted on its Web site, ideologically grounded in the belief that it was the Palestinian people who paid the price for European guilt over the Holocaust by imposing what they believe is an illegitimate Jewish state in the heart of the Arab world then the institute will merely propagate the classic anti-Israel use of the Holocaust and promote anti-Semitism."

Friday was Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, a day of solemn reflection on the loss of 5 to 7 million Jewish lives due to unprovoked Nazi aggression in World War II. Images, films and documentaries of the Holocaust are typically broadcast throughout the Israeli news media on that day, deeply affecting the survivors and their children.

However, these images do not typically reach a Palestinian audience, according to museum visitor Mufeed Khattib last month. "Perhaps I didn't see it well because it was on Israeli TV," he said. "But this affects me. It is different for me that an Arab man did this."


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20-horse field for Derby dash

May 7, 2005

The 131st run for the roses in Louisville, KY is set for Saturday at Churchill Downs. Post time is 6:04pm EDT under what should be partly sunny skies and a fast track. The 20-horse field contains 10 strong contenders in what promises to be a fast pace out front in the Kentucky Derby.

Trainer Nick Zito, the 2-time derby winner boasts 5 stable horses running the race, and has the odds-on favorite Bellamy Road. The George Steinbrenner owned horse won convincingly in 4 of its last 5 trips. At its #16 post position, it will have to get out quickly, or be on the outside going into the first turn where it would have to fight for position. Given the early starting speed of Spanish Chestnut, it seems unlikely that any horse will easily set the pace.

Showing strong closing in its last 4 races is Bandini, ridden by top New York jockey John Velazquez, a 6-time Breeder's Cup winner. If this horse can hold onto the pace, watch for him at the finish line.

For today's 1 ¼ mile race, Jeremy Rose on Afleet Alex looks dangerous, where both horse and jockey are experienced. But it was Wilko who prevailed in their meeting at the Breeders' Cup Juvenile last October.

A Chicago Tribune computer analysis predicts a win for High Fly, based on its “lack of flaws”. In that prediction they note criteria on which it was calculated, but nothing accounts for the race day excitement of roaring crowds in these 3-year-old thoroughbreds.

Last year the jammed Churchill Downs drew 140,000 people on a rainy Saturday to watch Smarty Jones win. The Derby run is the first leg in USA horse racing's Triple Crown. The last horse to win the triple crown was Affirmed in 1978.

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British supermarket Tesco wants to start a film downloading service

May 8, 2005

The world's third largest supermarket chain, Tesco of Britain, announced intentions to start a film downloading service on the back of its successful music download service in the United Kingdom.

Tesco takes a 10% share in the UK music download market, even though they are a late comer.

The reason for the service is that Britain is one of the largest illegal downloaders of film and television programmes in the world, with many TV shows copied to PCs as soon as they are shown in the United States. Copies of The Simpsons, The O.C., Desperate Housewives and even Lost which is not available yet in the UK are found on p2p servers like Kazaa and BitTorrent.

This is not the first company who has decided to start a film download service. The entertainment giant Sony has asked for such a service, plus the music downloader Wippet has already decided to introduce film downloading in the UK.


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I'm a fifth-generation Oregonian, although I've lived in Nebraska and now am in Tennessee; I'm planning on moving west, going back to Oregon someday. I moved to Tennessee because the love of my life lives here and we were married Halloween 2004. I'm a Deist and a Libertarian; Andrea is pagan and a retired police officer. She has Lupus and has been dealing with it for the last six years.

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UUP leader loses seat in 2005 UK General Election

May 8, 2005

In a surprise result, the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, David Trimble, has lost his seat in the UK general election. Beaten with a margin of over 5,000 votes by his opponent David Simpson of the Democratic Unionist Party, Trimble resigned.

Upper Bann was one of four seats lost by the UUP lost in the 2005 General Election, the others being Lagan Valley, South Antrim, and East Antrim. Its one remaining UK Parliament member is Sylvia Hermon, representing North Down.

David Simpson of the DUP said that his victory in Upper Bann "sends out a very, very clear signal that push-over unionism has gone forever".


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Chili finger suspect arrives in San Jose, California for trial

Anna Ayala, the Las Vegas woman who claims she found a finger in a bowl of chili at a local Wendy's outlet, arrived in San Jose, California on Friday. Ayala was booked into the Santa Clara County jail awaiting arraignment next week. She faces multiple charges of attempted grand theft, for the finger incident, and grand theft, for an unrelated case.

San Jose law enforcement officials picked up Ayala from the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas at about 6:00 a.m. local time on Friday, and transported her to San Jose, arriving at 1:30 p.m local time.

"Obviously, we can't discuss the logistics as to how she was brought here but she was brought in and booked into the Santa Clara County jail without incident," San Jose Policy Officer Enrique Garcia told Knight Ridder.

Arraignment next week
Ayala will likely be arraigned on Monday or Tuesday at the Santa Clara County Superior Court, according to Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney David Boyd.

"We can now move forward," Boyd told the San Francisco Chronicle. "We are ready to go on all our cases. We don’t just go arrest people for fun."

"I’m very happy about the fact that she's back," Ayala's attorney Rick Ehler told the San Francisco Chronicle. "It gives us the opportunity to look at the discovery material the prosecution is compelled to provide us and now we can move forward to prove her innocence."

"The press has treated this like she's Hannibal Lecter in `Silence of the Lambs," Ayala's sister, Mary, told Knight Ridder on Friday. "She's a normal human being who's innocent," Ayala's sister said. "I just want to know what the evidence is. What could it be? She's innocent."

Ayala's sister asked for support from the public next week, and has purchased T-shirts with the words "We Support Anna Ayala".

Ayala's bail stands at US$500,000. She could be sentenced to serve up to seven years in jail if she is found guilty of faking the chili finger incident.


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I used the byline template because I'm filing this story from San Jose.

I'm still working on which jail Ayala's being held in. I'm trying to find out if she's being held in the main jail, located on Hedding in downtown San Jose, or if they took her to the Elmwood woman's unit in Milpitas.

I'll shoot photos of both sites to play it safe, they're both within fifteen minutes of my location. — DV 11:08, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I just confirmed she's being held at the main jail over on Hedding. Here's a link with more info about the facility. — DV 11:59, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Allegations of black magic and witchcraft?
The San Francisco Chronicle is running a story with allegations which Ayala's attorney calls "just too frickin' weird":

In this story, Susana Plascencia, who is the ex-wife of Ayala's husband, describes a struggle with Ayala after she tracked down her ex-husband for child support payments, and found him living with Ayala, which led to a troubling discovery which has left Plascencia fearful of Ayala:

"'(Susana Plascencia) said Ayala had some sort of 'black magic' shrine set up in a room of the cottage'"

I'm not sure whether to add this angle to the story - I have to agree with Ayala's attorney that this bizarre accusation is "weird". — DV 11:48, 7 May 2005 (UTC)


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New Zealand recalls squid boats

May 8, 2005

In order to save the lives of seabirds, the government of New Zealand has ordered the recall from sub-Antarctic waters of the entire fleet of New Zealand's 35 squid fishing boats. Once at port, the boats are to take on independent observers to ensure that they follow codes of practice. Violators of the new rules face a fine of up to NZ$100,000.

Fisheries Minister David Benson-Pope said that "blatant bad behaviour" on the part of the boats, flouting a voluntary code of practice set up a year ago, demanded immediate action.

An Air Force aeroplane was sent on a tour of inspection last month. Benson-Pope reported that observations from the inspection revealed that, contrary to the agreed code of practice:

 * 46% of the fishing fleet were not using equipment to scare sea birds away from vessels, with a further 8% only using it intermittently.
 * 30% of the fishing fleet were discharging offal (which attracts seabirds) while trawling or hauling nets, with a further 25% doing so intermittently.
 * Only 30% of the fishing fleet actually complied with both mitigation and offal management requirements.

Mr Benson-Pope referred to a voluntary code of practice adopted in the tuna fishing industry which he said had reduced death of seabirds by 95%.

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CARTOSAT-I and HAMSAT satellites launched precisely by PSLV-C6, will have longer life

May 7, 2005

India's recently launched satellites, the 1560 kg Indian Remote Sensing satellite, CARTOSAT-1 for stereoscopic cartographic applications and 42.5 kg HAMSAT will have a longer life as per the Project Director, PSLV, N Narayana Murthy.

Murthy told reporters that the additional fuel in the satellites for putting them into the right orbit can now be utilized for orbit maintenance maneuvers. This is due to their precise injection into the orbit by the PSLV-C6 Launcher.

PSLV-C6 was launched by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on May 5, 2005 10:15 IST (May 05, 04:45 UT). PSLV-C6 placed both the satellites in polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) at an altitude of 632 x 621 km with an inclination of 97.8 deg with respect to the equator. The solar panels of CARTOSAT-1 were deployed soon after its injection into orbit.

CARTOSAT-1 is the eleventh satellite in the Indian remote sensing satellite series and is intended for cartographic applications. It carries two panchromatic cameras that take black-and-white stereoscopic pictures in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

HAMSAT is a Micro-satellite for providing satellite based Amateur Radio services to the Indian as well as International community of Amateur Radio Operators (HAM).


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