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In this special edition of Security Wire Weekly, senior news writer Bill Brenner reviews his top interviews of 2006. Specific economic statistics in 2006 are as disconcerting as the overall picture as we head into 2007. World Cup Final – 2006-10-03 News just in from Dave Peel at the World Cup Final. Previous London, United Kingdom (2006).
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The vote was 55 percent to 45 percent opposed to the plan, and CMC afterward said they would pursue a new non-consolidated campus in nearby Breckenridge. As far as elected officials, young aide to U. Gibbs will follow local favorite son Gary Lindstrom, who announced the end of his lengthy public service career by not seeking re-election to the House seat. In local municipal elections in April, voters opted for change in a number of races. In Frisco, repercussions from the 2005 debate over bringing Home Depot to town were evident, as the top two vote-getters in the town council election were vocal opponents to the big box. Attorney Kent Willis and brewery owner Woody Van Gundy both won seats with the highest vote tallies, and restaurant owner Dan Fallon kept the seat he was appointed to in 2004. In Dillon, incumbent Mayor Barbara Davis easily won reelection, but voting for the third town council spot required a recount. A vote margin of a single vote held up as retired doctor Don Parsons won the seat over nonprofit director Lucinda Burns. The year at the resortsIn October, Vail Resorts reported a record year in terms of revenue as well as skier visits, and freshman CEO Rob Katz credited Breckenridge as being a top performer within the company. VR realized a 5.
And as always, the race to be the first resort to open was notable again this year. Perennial Opening Day race winner Loveland Ski Area could only sit idly by on the morning of October 12, as friendly competitor Arapahoe Basin turned its lifts a full nine days earlier than it ever had. It perhaps was appropriate this year, as The Legend celebrates its 60th year of operation this season.
But historically, the relative weight of the English Wikipedia is going down. The percentage of english Wikipedia articles seems to be roughly similar to the percentage of native english speakers on the Internet. One year ago they had 2,747,489 articles. With less than one thousand: Romansh state language in Switzerland. One year ago such Wikipedias had 74,392 articles. Of the 97 Wikipedias listed above, 1 has more than 1,5 million articles, 1 more than 500,000, 8 have more than 100,000, 27 more than 10,000, 35 more than 1,000, and 17 more than 100. One year ago 1 had more than 500,000, 6 more than 100,000, 20 more than 10,000, 31 more than 1,000, and 11 more than 100. The 7 wikipedias have 3,803 registered users, of which Esperanto alone has 2,662. Including these, planned languages on the Meta page have 84,213 articles. The 9 Wikipedias in historical or «dead» languages have 14,537 articles and 3,327 registered users. The borderline Wikipedia in Simple English , arguably a language without native speakers, has 13,124 articles and 7,195 users. Together, the 20 Wikipedias or online lexicons without native speakers registered on the Meta page have 111,874 articles. The 17 active wikipedias have 14,326 registered users, 7,113 excluding Simple English. The Japanese Wikibooks has reached 1,000 book modules. The Latin Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles. The Yoruba Wikipedia has reached 500 articles. The Zamboanga Chavacano Wikipedia has reached 100 articles. The Sicilian Wikipedia has reached 500 registered users. The Nahuatl Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles. The Malayalam Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users. The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles. The Amharic Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles, one day after reaching its 1,000th article. The Turkish Wiktionary has reached 60,000 entries. The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 25,000 registered users. The Amharic Wikipedia has become the fourth Semitic language to reach its 1000th article. The first was Hebrew, followed by Arabic and Maltese yesterday.
In 2004 he was charged with crimes committed against residents of Dujail in 1982, following a failed assassination attempt on his life. This included the murder of 148 people, torture of women and children and the illegal arrest of 399 others. She underwent surgery to replace her nose, mouth and chin, which had been mauled by her dog. Isabelle later bought another dog to help in her recovery after the surgery. Discover the ethics of this with our audio on Organ transplants. Italy won the tournament on 9th July 2006 after they defeated France 5—3 in a penalty shootout, when extra time had finished in a 1—1 draw. Germany defeated Portugal 3—1 to finish in third place. This made them the second most successful World Cup team ever. England has one of the worst record for penalty shoot-outs in international football competitions - could purposeful practise end this? Explore with our article Can you train for penalty shootouts? YouTube now has 1 billion unique users using the service every month.
In Dillon, incumbent Mayor Barbara Davis easily won reelection, but voting for the third town council spot required a recount. A vote margin of a single vote held up as retired doctor Don Parsons won the seat over nonprofit director Lucinda Burns. The year at the resortsIn October, Vail Resorts reported a record year in terms of revenue as well as skier visits, and freshman CEO Rob Katz credited Breckenridge as being a top performer within the company. VR realized a 5. And as always, the race to be the first resort to open was notable again this year. Perennial Opening Day race winner Loveland Ski Area could only sit idly by on the morning of October 12, as friendly competitor Arapahoe Basin turned its lifts a full nine days earlier than it ever had. It perhaps was appropriate this year, as The Legend celebrates its 60th year of operation this season. Well, in the case of Copper Mountain resident Rainer Hertrich — the only human in recorded history to complete such a streak — he found a five-dollar bill. On the county and municipal level, programs were established to enable fire mitigation and fire prevention planning. Homeowners worked to clear dead and dying trees from their properties, and a widespread Community Wildfire Protection Plan took hold across the county. But the more we know about the pine beetle epidemic, the more nuance it seems is needed in the debate. While beetle-killed trees grow in numbers, a new argument about a consequent rise in fire danger arose. Water, or lack thereof, was less of an issue this year, as the hydrological year between 2005 and 2006 was one of the wettest on record.
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Following news of yet another reboot in the works, Annabel Nugent delves into the behind-the-scenes story of the 1999 cult classic – and how its ingenious and brazen marketing campaign could never happen today. Если не терпится поскорее начать читать новости на английском, а знаний не хватает, можно потренироваться в разделах News Review и Words in the News на BBC Learning English, где предлагаются короткие новостные заметки с несложными конструкциями и словарем. Владелец сайта предпочёл скрыть описание страницы. 21-year-old English actress Keira Knightley was named FHM's sexiest woman in 2006. Saturation, poor usability, and the difficulty to discern between correct and incorrect information about 2006 in England are often difficult to overcome.
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BBC Reuters Fifteen local employees of the French charity organisation Action Against Hunger are found dead in a town in northeastern Sri Lanka at the center of heavy fighting between Tamil rebels and government forces. Both sides have denied involvement in the killings. Chad had recognized the Republic of China Taiwan from 1997-2006. Chadian diplomats cited the prospects of greater financial investments and the PRC status in the United Nations Security Council as the principal factors motivating the diplomatic shift. Bloomberg 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict : Lebanon rejects a draft U.
July — European heat wave affects the UK. The 60,000-seat stadium is the largest club stadium to have been built in English football since Maine Road , which was home of Manchester City from 1923 to 2003. August 1 August — Steve McClaren is officially appointed as manager of the England national football team.
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Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly failed in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
This lecture commemorates the Brown v. Board of Education decision of the U. Tate, Ph.
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Channel reshuffle August 10th, 2006 News of a Freeview channel number reshuffle. Freeview radio station are reporting an EPG reshuffle, meaning their Freeview number goes from 2 to 3 digits — rumours are that all radio channels will be on the move to new numbers in mid-October 2006. The channel started in May 2003, and was on Freeview channel 106. More on this when we have it.
Russia officially recognized independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. India becomes the fourth nation to reach the moon. November 2008 Mumbai attacks, a series of ten coordinated terrorist attacks across Mumbai, India, killing 195 people and injuring 290 more. This mission will enable Hubble to last for approximately 5 to 10 years.
This mission will enable Hubble to last for approximately 5 to 10 years.
The 6-minute suborbital flight was the only flight of the Constellation program that was supposed to replace the Space Shuttle fleet in the next decade. Investigations into the accident are still ongoing. As of late February 2010, the death toll is expected to rise.
In case this is a new expression to you, a podcast is a downloadable audio file in MP3 format in the style of a mini radio programme. This can either be played on your desktop computer, or transferred to a portable MP3 file. See our BT Vision page for more. An amazing piece of kit. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have teamed up with probably the funniest chap around, Mr Karl Pilkington, to put together a series of podcasts. The first season were available on the Guardian Unlimited website. Just give it a listen and find out.
If you missed out — note that Series 2 is available now direct from www. Film 4 to go free February 25th, 2006 Film 4 to go free on Freeview by the end of 2006. Now delayed — expected 2006-7.
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Give Pluto the attention it deserves by checking out this article What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us? At the time of the initial search, a child witness reported seeing her being dragged into a white minibus by two men, although Kampusch said there was no accomplice. Discover how the limitations of the human brain and eyewitness testimony can lead to major miscarriages of justice with our free course Forensic Psychology. Sacha Baron Cohen played the title character, Borat Sagdiyev, a made up reporter from Kazakhstan travelling throughout the USA recording real altercations with Americans. Controversy went hand-in-hand with the film two years prior to its release, and after its release.
Even cast members criticised it and some sued the creators. It was banned in nearly all Arab countries except Lebanon and was frowned upon in Russia. On 30 December 2006, the first day of Eid-ul-Adha, Saddam was hanged. Mobile phones captured the execution and the video was leaked to the media and posted on the Internet within hours, becoming the subject controversy across the globe.
Prior to his execution he was captured by Americans in 2003 after they invaded Iraq. In 2004 he was charged with crimes committed against residents of Dujail in 1982, following a failed assassination attempt on his life.
Steven Pinker Psychologist, Harvard University, author of The Blank Slate In 16th-century Paris, a popular form of entertainment was cat-burning, in which a cat hoisted on a stage was slowly lowered into a fire. As horrific as present-day events are, such sadism would be unthinkable today in most of the world. This is just one example of the most important and under appreciated trend in the history of our species: the decline of violence. My optimism lies in the hope that the decline of force over the centuries is a real phenomenon, that it is the product of systematic forces that will continue to operate, and that we can identify those forces and perhaps concentrate and bottle them.
Simon Baron-Cohen Director of the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge I remain optimistic that for a good proportion of them [people with autism], it has never been a better time to have autism.
Police blame Kurdish rebels. Russia officially recognized independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. India becomes the fourth nation to reach the moon. November 2008 Mumbai attacks, a series of ten coordinated terrorist attacks across Mumbai, India, killing 195 people and injuring 290 more.
We began our conversation for Traces with this new appointment. A conversation with the Custodian of the Holy Land.
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The new MRF just might make it easier for a countywide curbside recycling program to take shape in 2007.***So there you have it – the news year that was 2006. IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English, was written by Brianna Blake. Index - Headlines - Global - Comment - Global connections - feeds - Img13713 Village pump. The earth moved, winds blew, fires burned and rains failed as climate change fears, worsening drought and raging bushfires scorched Australia during 2006. Eriksson, 57, has been in charge of the England team for five years and, as a Swede, is the first non-English manager of the England team.[1]. RT is the first Russian 24/7 English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news.
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Stories, on the other hand, grow downwards, seeking the cultural nutrients in the soil. When David Edgar, chairing a session on theatre and censorship, asked the Northern Irish playwright Gary Mitchell whether he spoke for the Protestant community in North Belfast, Mitchell replied pugnaciously that he spoke only for himself. Mitchell knows all too well what it means to be accused of representing a community. He calmly described the intimidation that he and his family have received at the hands of loyalist paramilitaries who object to his portrayals of their culture. Her play Bells, staged last year at the Birmingham Rep, explores the world of the mujra: so-called dancing clubs prevalent throughout South Asia and now common in Britain. As a young girl, Whittaker-Khan watched candy-coated Bollywood representations of the mujra, and wanted to be a courtesan when she grew up.
These include 9 state language Wikipedias with 83,328 articles, up from 39,690 one year ago. Of these, 5 major Wikipedias are Indonesian with 47,748 articles, Thai with 17,853, Malay with 16,592, Vietnamese with 13,027 and Tagalog with 5,856.
They are Tetum , Khmer , Burmese and Lao. One year ago, the total article count was 46,996. The 4 biggest Wikipedias are Georgian , with 13,494 articles, Uzbek with 5,305, Azeri with 4,213 and Tajik with 4,018. One passed 10,000 articles for the first time this year. One year ago, no Wikipedia from these countries had more than 5,000 articles. The total article count was 7,064. Indian subcontinent Wikipedias took great strides forwards in 2006: 22 Indian subcontinent Wikipedias of the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives have 78,890 articles and 8,528 registered users.
The 3 biggest Wikipedias are Telugu , with 26,114 articles, Bengali with 12,790 and Bishnupriya Manipuri with 11,760. During 2006 those two Wikipedias grew rapidly to Hindi 4,616 articles and Urdu 3,934. One year ago the article counts were 1,092 and 638. In addition to the 3 that passed 10,000 articles, 7 have passed 1,000 and 8 passed 100. One year ago, no Wikipedia from the subcontinent had more than 2,300 articles. The total article count was 10,507. American language Wikipedias advance in 2006: 16 American language Wikipedias for the first time together passed 10,000 articles.
Today they have 11,234 articles and 1,839 registered users. This includes 3 American languages of European origin with 8,271 articles and 373 registered users. The greatest American language Wikipedia is Haitian with 7,038 articles. Other european origin languages are Pennsylvania German with 1,185 articles and Papiamentu. Native American language Wikipedias include 10 in American Indian languages with 2,835 articles and 1,139 registered users, and 3 in Inuit languages with 128 articles and 327 users. The 3 Inuit languages are Inuktitut , Greenlandic and Inupiak. In addition to the 4 that have passed 1,000 articles, 2 have passed 100.
One year ago no American language Wikipedia had passed 300 articles, 2 had passed 100, and the total article count for all was 768. African Wikipedias make great progress in 2006: For the first time, African language Wikipedias had more than 10,000 articles. As of today, 38 african language Wikipedias have 14,163 articles and 4,784 registered users.
One passed 10,000 articles for the first time this year.
One year ago, no Wikipedia from these countries had more than 5,000 articles. The total article count was 7,064. Indian subcontinent Wikipedias took great strides forwards in 2006: 22 Indian subcontinent Wikipedias of the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives have 78,890 articles and 8,528 registered users. The 3 biggest Wikipedias are Telugu , with 26,114 articles, Bengali with 12,790 and Bishnupriya Manipuri with 11,760.
During 2006 those two Wikipedias grew rapidly to Hindi 4,616 articles and Urdu 3,934. One year ago the article counts were 1,092 and 638. In addition to the 3 that passed 10,000 articles, 7 have passed 1,000 and 8 passed 100. One year ago, no Wikipedia from the subcontinent had more than 2,300 articles.
The total article count was 10,507. American language Wikipedias advance in 2006: 16 American language Wikipedias for the first time together passed 10,000 articles. Today they have 11,234 articles and 1,839 registered users. This includes 3 American languages of European origin with 8,271 articles and 373 registered users.
The greatest American language Wikipedia is Haitian with 7,038 articles. Other european origin languages are Pennsylvania German with 1,185 articles and Papiamentu. Native American language Wikipedias include 10 in American Indian languages with 2,835 articles and 1,139 registered users, and 3 in Inuit languages with 128 articles and 327 users. The 3 Inuit languages are Inuktitut , Greenlandic and Inupiak.
In addition to the 4 that have passed 1,000 articles, 2 have passed 100. One year ago no American language Wikipedia had passed 300 articles, 2 had passed 100, and the total article count for all was 768. African Wikipedias make great progress in 2006: For the first time, African language Wikipedias had more than 10,000 articles. As of today, 38 african language Wikipedias have 14,163 articles and 4,784 registered users.
The greatest of these is in Afrikaans , a language of European colonial origin, that has 6,177 articles and 1,315 registered users. However, for the first time, the 37 Wikipedias in languages of African origin are bigger together, with 7,986 articles and 3,479 registered users. In addition to the 2 that have passed 1,000, 7 have passed 100 articles. One year ago none had passed 500 and 4 had passed 100.
The Wikipedia of the most widespread language in Africa, Arabic , has 21,177 articles and 44,655 registered users.
Chad had recognized the Republic of China Taiwan from 1997-2006. Chadian diplomats cited the prospects of greater financial investments and the PRC status in the United Nations Security Council as the principal factors motivating the diplomatic shift. Bloomberg 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict : Lebanon rejects a draft U. European countries attacked Kosovo and killed ten thousand civilians. Ten thousand!