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Wikinews Shorts: March 2, 2007
Jul 13

A compilation of brief news reports for Friday, March 2, 2007.

United States fast-food chain Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits has filed a $20 million dollar lawsuit against competitor Church’s Chicken.

Popeyes Chicken says fast-food chain Church’s Chicken was trying to steal customers.

AFC owned both companies for 12 years, till it sold Church’s in 2004. AFC claims that Church bought all 10 Popeyes restaurants owned by franchisee CVI. Popeyes Chicken says the sale of the 10 restaurants violated its franchise agreement with CVI.

The sudden buy-out in December 2006 led the restaurants to close in early January 2007.

“What Church’s chose to do, I do believe, was not honest competition,” said Ken Keymer, CEO of AFC Enterprises Inc., the parent company of Popeyes.

Church’s spokesperson chose not to comment on the issue.

Sources

  • Kyle Arnold. “Popeyes file suit over Churchs’ buyout” — The Monitor, March 1, 2007
  • Associated Press. “Popeyes Chicken sues Church’s Chicken” — BusinessWeek, February 28, 2007

The national body for scientific research in Australia, the CSIRO has announced that 93 species of shrubs and small trees of the w:genus Dryandra have been been merged into the genus Banksia in the series Dryandra. This increased the number of Banksia species from 80 to 173.

The plants are endemic to the southwestern corner of Western Australia and the former genus was named in honour of the Swedish botanist Jonas C. Dryander.

Sources

  • A.Mast and K.Thiele. “The transfer of Dryandra R.Br. to Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae)” — CSIRO, February 26, 2007
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Exquisite And Affordable Discount Hotels With Other Inn Options In The Downtown Milan’s Tourist District Jul 13

Exquisite and Affordable Discount Hotels with other Inn Options in the Downtown Milan’s Tourist District

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A Record of Luxury with The Grand Hotel et de Milan

The Grand Hotel et de Milan is considered as the oldest hotel in Milan, which once housed important figures such as Giuseppe Verdi for more than 20 years. The hotel is an old classical structure with parquet flooring, period furniture and elegant artwork. The rooms which range from the 72 standard rooms and 23 suites all have spacious marble bathrooms. The Grand Hotel also has apartments to choose from for those planning on extended stays in Milan. There are two in-house restaurants and a bar, idyllic for an after-theatre nightcap, a business lunch or a leisurely lunch alone. There s Gerry s Bar, Don Carlos Restaurant and the Caruso Restaurant. The latter gives off an amazing view of the city and Piazza Croce Rossa. Whereas the Don Carlos Restaurant is homage to traditional Italian dishes and the artworks of Giuseppe Verdi who stayed in this hotel for more than 20 years, evidence that the Grand Hotel is truly a remarkable accommodation for past and present guests.

Ease and Romance at the Gran Duca di York Hotel

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Considered by many as a historical hotel, this structure was once a prominent face in the 18th century, and now has been added with necessary touches of modernity to make this a relaxing accommodation that it is today. The Gran Duca di York is just a walk away from the many popular shopping districts in the area, as well as important historical sites such as the Duomo and Castelo Sforxa. Choose from the standard rooms to the more superior rooms and the special room as well. All of them will offer a phone for free direct local calls, a bathroom, a satellite channel television, a mini bar, a hairdryer and air-conditioning. The only special room in the building has special access to the loggia and the beautiful views of the city. The Gran Duca also serves complimentary light breakfast of pastries, yoghurts, cakes, juices and other breakfast meals included in the room rates, plus free soda and campari in the mini bar, refilled daily. The hotel s most important asset though is its ability to bring in certain quietness even if it s found in the middle of a bustling city such as Milan.

Appreciating Design Innovation at the The Gray Milano

This hotel is at the center of the action in Milan with major historical sites such as the Duomo, Vittorio Emanuele Gallery, La Scalla Theatre and many of the great shopping areas just a few blocks away. This accommodation plays between classic and modern designs with an Art Deco influence and clean contemporary lines that accent its striking colors. The whole hotel can be considered a design gallery from its famous 5-star restaurant to the ebony chairs in its rooms. Speaking of its restaurant, this magnificent contribution to the dining world is a great reason to stay here. The Le Noir Restaurant and the GBar is a sumptuous display of illuminated tables paired with an almost all-black interior along with contemporary Mediterranean cooking. The rooms themselves are elegantly decorated, customized from each other and tied together by plasma TVS, suspended beds, Turkish baths and nice Travertine bathrooms with silk, animal prints, glass and ebony as materials of choice. The hotel is really one huge eye candy, and will continue to be for decades afterwards.

The Vibrant Hotel Pierre Milano

This beautiful hotel is serving the best of Milan s old and new structures coupled with its own modern amenities found at the center of the city with some of the most elegant buildings as its neighbors. The hotel gives its guests complimentary access to wireless internet connection in all of its rooms and public areas. The rooms themselves, all 51 of them, have electronic safes, a satellite television, a telephone, maid maintenance service twice daily and a telephone, along with a living room with sofa and desk for its suites. The rooms are decorated in antique furnishings with rich tapestry. Its in-house restaurant, the Petit Pierre, is a dedication to fine Italian and Mediterranean cuisine. The Pierre Milano has a lobby lounge which serves up fine vintage wines and cocktails, making it the ideal place for short meetings in the middle of the city. One can book online now through their official website.

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Wikinews international report: “Anonymous” holds anti-Scientology protests worldwide
Jul 10

Sunday, February 10, 2008

The Internet group Project Chanology today held protests critical of the Church of Scientology. The protests marked what would have been the 49th birthday of Lisa McPherson, who is claimed to be a victim of the Church of Scientology’s practices. Lisa died in 1995 during a running of what Scientologists refer to as an Introspection Rundown, a procedure intended to help Church members deal with a psychotic or deeply traumatic event.

Protests were planned throughout the day in 14 countries and over 50 different cities. The estimation of total protesters world wide for Feb. 10, 2008 is 9,250 people.

Wikinews had correspondents at a number of protest locations to report on the events. This article was updated throughout the day with reports from around the globe.

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Day 1 report of Wikimania 2006
Jul 09
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Sunday, August 6, 2006

Wikimania 2006 is the second annual Wikimedia conference. Hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it began August 4 and will run until August 6.

Wikimania began with a keynote presentation from Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Wales played a short portion of a clip from a recent episode of U.S. television program The Colbert Report discussing Wikipedia. In the clip, Colbert says that “any website that has a longer entry on truthiness than Lutheranism has got its priorities straight.” His keynote continued by re-emphasising Wikimedia’s mission, as stated by Wales in a Slashdot interview: “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing”.

Wales stated that Wikipedia is “not as good as Britannica — yet”. Additionally, he also stated that in the coming year, Wikipedia will be making “a turn towards quality”. “We have always had this goal, but we all know we’re not there yet – in the coming years one of the themes is going to be a turn towards quality.” said Wales.

He then introduced Brad Patrick, the general counsel and recently-appointed interim CEO of Wikimedia. Patrick said he found Wikimedia after reading Wales’ list Ten Things That Will Be Free on Lawrence Lessig‘s blog. After discovering the Wikimedia Foundation, Patrick emailed Wales about meeting for lunch. He had lunch with Wales a few months later and was hired as general counsel shortly after.

Wales went on to describe Wikia, the company he co-founded with Angela Beesley. He announced that Wikia has received venture capital, allowing them to hire full-time engineers to work on the MediaWiki software. He emphasized that Wikia, has “a total commitment to free knowledge and respect for communities.”

Later, Wales announced that the One Laptop Per Child project will be including Wikipedia as the first element in the content repository. He also announced that the board has approved Wikiversity as “a center for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities”. Wikiversity will “create and host a range of free-content multilingual learning materials for all age groups in all languages”. It will be launched soon with a three language, six month, beta trial period.

Wales described a project called Wikiwyg: a WYSIWYG editor for the wiki. Wikiwyg is an attempt to make the wiki easier to edit. “An intelligence test by making it hard to edit, just does not work,” noted Wales. While the release date is uncertain both Wikia and Socialtext are devoting full-time engineers to the project.

Wales emphasized the need to focus on quality. He also briefly discussed the commitment in the German Wikipedia to rolling out a stable version. He stated that if we do not have it rolled out by next year’s keynote “we are making a big mistake”.

Wales finished his keynote by giving an update on his Ten Things That Will Be Free and proposing “that the foundation seek funding to hire community coordinator and recruiters for important languages where we currently do poorly”.

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Other notable speakers included Ward Cunningham, Lawrence Lessig, Eben Moglen and many members of the Wikimedia communities.

The day wrapped up with a poster reception and a party celebrating Wikia’s 250,000 articles and Wikia’s founders Angela Beesley and Jimmy Wales birthdays.

Archived copies of many of the presentations are available on the Wikimania wiki.

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18-year-old charged for Thanksgiving lesbian assault
Jul 08

Monday, November 26, 2012

An 18-year-old man, Travis Hawkins Jr., was charged yesterday by police in Mobile County, Alabama, for allegedly beating a woman who is romantically involved with his sister. Hawkins was bailed following a charge for second-degree assault.

Mallory Owens, 23, the victim of the attack, is in the USA Medical Center in Mobile, recovering from the injuries. Owens has had to have facial reconstructive surgery and had a broken nose from the assault during Thanksgiving. Owens’ family have told reporters they believe it to be a hate crime and called for the prosecutors to upgrade the charges against Hawkins.

The father of the arrested man, Travis Hawkins Sr., has said they have hired a lawyer for his son, Hawkins Jr.

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What Is A Microcontroller Jul 01

Submitted by: Matthew Reynolds

Every single of these systems will use a microcontroller as their primary control unit: Auto lock remote important fob. Television Remote control. Security technique. Electronic safe. Vehicle anti lock braking system. Satelite decoder. DVD player. Toaster. A microcontroller is an all in a single electronic integrated circuit with constructed in processor memory and peripherals that is also re-programmable.You may not be able to recognize the microcontroller as for price savings its cheaper to build an ASIC (Application Distinct Integrated Circuit). This is a custom made chip developed only for the product or service which is mass developed in milliions producing the cost of the device significantly cheaper than employing an personal microcontroller.Nonetheless each and every technique is based mostly on a microcontroller.Electronic Circuit design has progressed from specific transistors which are based on silicon to placing hundreds and then hundreds of thousands of transistors on a single silicon wafer. The transistors, organized in the correct configuration, carry out distinct capabilities such as time delays, boolean logic, memory and so forth.7400 series logicEven now obtainable right now are the older 74 series devices. These are ICs encased in plastic with connection pins on the outdoors and every one particular performs a various effectively defined operate.By grouping these gadgets collectively you can make up circuits by connecting the pins of the unit to pins of other devices. About 20 many years ago this was the only way of creating digital electronic methods and you would normally have racks of circuit boards every with 50 of these units wired up.More transistorsOf program the drawback of these racks of circuit boards is that once you have developed the boardyou can not change it so you had to be absolutely certain that the style was perfect. If it was not then you had to start about – and for a complicated technique that means shelling out cash on a new circuit board and shelling out time re-creating it.With the advance of manufacturing techniques a lot more transistors can be set on the silicon wafer – and if you can get far more transistors on a wafer there are two rewards. Increased functionalty. Greater speed. Scaled-down transistors implies more compact bodily problems (capacitance slows down a devcie – so a smaller sized unit has less) and they also use less existing. Less latest indicates much less electrical power and significantly less energy implies a lot less heat and much less warmth signifies that the gadget can run quicker.Given enough transistors you can design a circuit (or Integrated Circuit – ICs) to complete nearly any perform you can feel and making use of a unique type of transistor (flash memory) indicates that the device can shop details for decades – this memory is also re-programmable.ProcessorThe following stage in development was producing the processor which is a specialised circuit in which the purpose of the unit is not set at all. As an alternative the system is able of executing different functions when it is presented different inputs and not only that – it has a modest sum of ram inside of employed for internal temporary storage (registers) – and this lets it don’t forget a sequence of activities.When you mix this device with two types external memory (other ICs) you can make a method that can comply with a defined sequence of activities. By reading through instructions from the memory (ROM) the processor is aware of what it should be undertaking as its up coming celebration sequence and it can retailer information in exterior RAM memory. ROM – Go through Only Memory (permament) RAM – Random entry memory (temporary – when power goes information is lost). In addition the processor can go through the state of input pins and set the state of output pins so it can react to the outdoors entire world e.g. flip on a light or read a essential press.You can see in which this is heading – it can be a device that has re-programmable memory and has a lot of of the constructing blocks (7400 series) even though now drastically refined and adapted within the unit – it is the microcontroller. Microcontrollers A microcontroller is a specialized integrated circuit which brings together a processor and external memory inside the silicon wafer itself. You now have a customizable unit that you can alter its function just by re-programming it.In addition as microcontrollers have been refiined you will discover gadgets that have many other peripherals inside them. Wherever once you had to acquire a UART IC (an RS232 communication system – to discuss to a Computer) and area it on the processor bus in addition to the RAM and the ROM this unit is now component of the microcontroller alone.Here are the internal peripherals of the 16F88 a contemporary PIC microcontroller – this is just an illustration there are several far more microcontroller producers e.g. Atmel, Motorola, Zilog. RAM 386 Bytes. ROM 4096 words. EEPROM 256 Bytes. I/O sixteen pins. Internal oscillator. Timer one. Timer two. Timer three. USART. SSP – Synchronous Serial port I2C, SPI protocols. CCP – Capture Assess PWM. Analogue comparator one. Analogue comparator two. ADC multiplexed inputs from seven pins. This an eighteen pin IC which is as huge as some of the authentic 7400 devices but it can do much a lot more that individuals single chips. For instance you can make the adhering to sorts of assignments using it: Universal Infrared decoder/encoder. Ultrasonic tape measure. Frequency counter. Metal detector. Be aware: All of these jobs can be created making use of the exact same system due to the fact you can re-plan the microcontroller to do a distinct career.You can discover far more data right here: microcontroller information and how to develop a internet site that gets the click.

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Ford, Fiat to produce small cars together
Jul 01

Friday, September 9, 2005

Italian-based Fiat Auto SPA and US-based Ford Motor Co. announced they signed an agreement to cooperate in designing two small car models. This came only seven months after General Motors severed their relationship with Fiat.

Both companies plan to work together on a new version of the popular Fiat Cinquecento and on a replacement for the Ford Ka, both to be based on the Fiat Panda platform.

The cooperation can help reduce the companies’ small car production costs and ease financial difficulties they are facing. Ford is struggling with high labor and health care costs, while Fiat suffers from its unprofitable Italian plants.

After the deal was announced, shares of Fiat rose $0.06 to $9.44, while Ford gained $0.06 to $9.95 on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

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Teräsbetoni frontman J. Ahola on representing Finland at Eurovision 2008 & more
Jun 30

Sunday, April 13, 2008

This article is a featured article. It is considered one of the best works of the Wikinews community. See Wikinews:Featured articles for more information.

Teräsbetoni means “steel-reinforced concrete”, and is also the name of a Finnish heavy metal band formed in 2002. Their music, which centres on an honourable warrior lifestyle or on metal itself, quickly became popular in 2003 on the Internet, resulting in a petition by fans being sent to several record labels demanding a recording deal. In late 2004 the band signed to Warner Music Finland, and the following year debut single Taivas lyö tulta rose to number one in the Finnish charts, and debut album Metallitotuus hit number two and went platinum, and has now sold about 47,000 copies.

The band, who sing exclusively in Finnish, have just released their third album, Myrskyntuoja. The lead single on this album is Missä miehet ratsastaa, which Teräsbetoni decided to enter in the Finnish selections for the 2008 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, where it was selected to go on to the semi-final in Belgrade, Serbia as Finland’s representative this year. Although Finland has seen limited success in the contest, their only victory was with a comparable group. In 2006 hard rock band Lordi – whose monster costumes and pyrotechnic displays are famed – achieved a record 292 points in the final with Hard Rock Hallelujah.

Teräsbetoni’s frontman, vocalist and bass guitarist Jarkko Ahola’s fame extends beyond the band he heads. He also features in Finnish symphonic power metal cover supergroup Northern Kings, alongside Marco Hietala of Nightwish and Tarot, Tony Kakko of Sonata Arctica and Juha-Pekka Leppäluoto of Charon.

Wikinews was able to conduct an exclusive interview with Jarkko Ahola to discuss these various achievements. This interview is now published below for the first time.

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UK drivers urged not to panic buy during delivery strikes
Jun 27

Friday, June 13, 2008

British drivers have been urged not to panic buy fuel because of the 4-day walkout by delivery drivers working for companies delivering to Shell petrol stations. The 600 workers have walked out over pay disagreements, wanting an increase to their current pay of £36,500, however their union Unite turned down a last-minute offer of £41,500.

Hoyer UK, which employs tanker drivers for Shell, said, “We extended our offer to the very limits that our business could sustain.” However Unite said in a press release that, “this dispute could have been resolved if Shell had advanced a fraction of the billions of pounds in profit they make every month”, continuing to say, “one of the world’s richest companies is prepared to play Pontius Pilate and see the British public inconvenienced rather than settle this dispute for a sum smaller than the chairman’s pay increase last year”

Shell admitted that the walkout could leave some of its 1,000 forecourts without fuel, but the UK Petrol Industry Association, which represent oil refiners, said that forecourts would have around 4 days of supply, maintaining usual stocking levels. Shell also commented that the strike impact would be “significant”, as the company runs around 1 in 10 of all petrol stations in the UK.

British Business Secretary, John Hutton, said that “the strike, which will have a disproportionate effect on people in Britain, cannot be justified,” and urged both sides to resume negotiations in order to settle the dispute. “We have been working closely with industry to put in place detailed contingency plans to reduce as far as possible the disruption for the driving public,” he added. Unite’s press release also confirms that “provision has been made for fire, police and the emergency services.”

Tanker drivers on strike have set up picket lines at many of Shell’s UK refineries, including those in Stanlow, Avonmouth, Plymouth, Pembroke, Cardiff, Kingsbury, Basildon, Grangemouth, Aberdeen, Inverness, Jarrow and Luton Airport.

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Making A Choice Of Home Theatre Systems Jun 27

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In most scenarios, you decide to upgrade your television to one of the newer wide screen models. However, after a couple of months with it you find that the sound is not as satisfactory as the visual experience you have when you are watching your movies, DVDs or simply playing a video game. Thus comes the need to look at Home Theater Systems that will complement your entertainment experience. So how does one go about selecting home theater systems that would be right for their needs? Here are several things that you could consider when you go out shopping for this system.

The first thing that you need to establish is the type of surround sound that you want for your home or Car Audio. You could opt for three general types. The first is the 5.1 system. This is considered the best when it comes to entertainment purists. The sound is excellent. In addition to this, it also comes with a dedicated sub-woofer. However, this system tends to be quite bulky and thus will take up more space than you surround sound. This system comes with two side speakers as well a sub-woofer. It mainly relies on software to give you the illusion of great sound. This is a great option for people who want great sound but also want to save on space, as the system is not bulky. The last option to contemplate would be a sound bar. This unit is quite compact and largely relies on software for effective sound effects.

The next thing that you would have to consider when it comes to picking out home theater systems would be the power. The best method of establishing how powerful you would want the unit to be would be by analyzing the room that it is going to be used. The bigger the space available, the more powerful a surround sound system you would need.

Before you purchase one of these systems, you have to take a good look at the connectors that come with it. Visit the store The Stereoshop Inc.