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Talk:Bobby Fischer sues US Government from new Icelandic home

What was going on there? Three times I tried to edit this story and the save was rejected... -edw 05:21, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't know. I didn't see anything happening which might have suggested a problem either. - Amgine 05:22, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia search engine
Wouldn't a nice gadget tool for the writer be, where after writing a story, a button could be pressed to compare reporting content to Wekipedia content and offer the writer the option of including the association? Oh my, programing five-o what am I doing next next year? -edw 06:10, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Statute of limitations?
What's the statute of limitations say on a crime like this? Is there a possibility Fischer could just wait this out? Anybody know, or have links to a source where we could find out? - McCart42 22:59, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Stanford women's basketball knocks three-time champion Connecticut out of NCAA tournament

March 28, 2005 The Stanford Cardinal defeated the reigning champion Connecticut Huskies 76-59 in the third round of the women's NCAA basketball tournament. The game was played in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. The Cardinal were led by Pac-10 Freshman and Player of the Year Candice Wiggins with 21 points and Susan King Borchardt with 16 points, including 4 of 5 shooting from 3 point range.

The Cardinal jumped to an early 12-6 lead with strong play from Alaskan senior Azella Perryman, but the Huskies fought back to lead by 6 at halftime. The Huskies sank a 3 point shot with 4 seconds left in the first half to double their lead from 3 to 6.

Stanford started the second half with a 6-0 run against the Huskies, tying the game at 33. Strong play by the Cardinal led to a 64-53 lead with 3:27 remaining. In the waning minutes of the game, the Huskies attempted desperate three-point shots, including one successful attempt by senior Ashley Battle, and fouled Stanford players until the end. With 24 seconds left and down by 15, the Huskies stopped fouling Stanford. Susan King Borchardt put in one last layup with 6 seconds remaining, which produced a "smirk" from Stanford head coach Tara Vanderveer, according to KZSU radio broadcaster Danial Novinson.


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Talk:India may rise as regional power

This needs a lot more, please! 70.57.139.181 07:07, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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China and Taiwan react to "326" rally

March 28, 2005 Chinese media and former ROC President and spiritual leader of the pro-independence TSU Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) responded on Monday to the massive rally held Saturday in Taipei.

In mainland China, the China Daily published an editorial under the headline, "March sets stage for secessionist scheming" in which it labeled the rally as "secessionist scheming" and a "misuse of people power".

China Daily said of President Chen that, "his participation in the protest added to his record as a man of bad faith. Only one month ago, Chen solemnly pledged to develop cross-Straits relations during his meeting with PFP chairman James Soong. Unfortunately he has failed to honour his word."

In Taiwan, former President Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) asked for the ROC government to follow up on the large turnout with concrete measures.

The Taipei Times quoted Lee, "The March 26 march ended perfectly, yet it wasn't just the close of a political carnival." Lee continued, "It was a new starting point for consolidating people's identification with Taiwan and declaring the Taiwanese people's strong will to defend their right of self-determination." "That 1 million Taiwanese people came out was a display of the mainstream of Taiwanese public opinion, and officials should respond to that with practical actions and policies," Lee told a symposium. "Otherwise the march will just have been emotional venting, which won't solve the current [cross-strait] problems."

Lee made his remarks at the Taiwan Advocates symposium.

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IRS goes after eBay sellers

As the April 15 deadline for U.S. private citizens to file their 2004 income tax returns draws near, the government is reminding sellers on eBay that they may have to report any proceeds from sales on the auction site as taxable income.

This could be a surprise to some of the 135 million registered eBay users who consider trading on San Jose-based auction site to be a non-taxable hobby. Complicating matters, eBay says it doesn't report individual sales figures to the government – users are responsible to report any profits on their own tax returns.

The amount of money traveling through eBay is big business. $33.8 billion worth of merchandise was sold on the site in 2004, up from $5.2 billion in 2000.

Although eBay pays taxes on its share of the sales (5.25 percent cut from each transaction as of Feb. 18), the IRS fears some small businesses are using the site to dodge tax responsibility. Adding to the confusion, some sellers may legally be a taxable business without realizing it.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has a nine-point checklist it uses to determine whether or not a money-making activity is legally a business, which means money made is taxable, or a simple hobby – where it is not taxable. The IRS can consider a person to be a legal "business" even though they never incorporated or claimed to be one.

According to Woodbury, New York-based accountant Bart Fooden in an Associated Press interview, the IRS looks for such things as evidence that the auction seller depends on the eBay sales income to pay for activities other than maintaining the hobby, acts in a businesslike manner when selling on auctions or puts enough time and effort into the eBay activities that there is an obvious intent to make a profit.

But Fooden said in the same interview casual users probably have nothing to worry about. Those cleaning out closets or the garage and selling off junk for less than the original price paid are not turning a profit, so that money is not considered income and is not taxable.

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First bird flu case reported in North Korea

March 28, 2005 North Korea's official news agency,, reported an outbreak of bird flu in the capital of Pyongyang. KCNA reported three separate outbreaks at poultry farms in the capital, and said hundreds of thousands of chickens have been culled in an attempt to stop the spread of the disease.

Radio Pyongyang said, "countermeasures are underway to prevent an epidemic and stem the spread to other poultry farms". Experts warned that a bird flu epidemic in North Korea would deprive the population of its main source of protein.

Kim Yong-Taek of the Korea Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said, "Upon its outbreak on those farms the committee lost no time to take emergency measures and meticulously organised veterinary and anti-epizootic work to prevent its spread to other poultry farms."

According to the state-run media, there have been no human fatalities from this outbreak.


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 * Thanks for the welcome - this was my first edit on WikiNews, although I'm a very frequent editor (and an admin) at Wikipedia (where I use the name "Grutness"). To be honest I doubt I'll be reporting much to WikiNews simply because I am so busy at Wikipedia - just seemed surprising that this story wasn't anywhere to be seen here. I may be back sporadically, but one wiki is probably enough for me! :)

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Note re edits from this anon address
It seems that other users use this same anonymous address. Please note that since March 2005 all edits I have made to wikinews have been with my username, rather than as an anon. Grutness 12:15, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Edits of 8 Feb 06
This account was blocked by Amgine on account of "Do not change links." I was merely replacing PNG images with SVGs from Commons. I contribute as commons:en:User:Greentubing and w:en:User:Greentubing but have no WN account yet.

Re vandalism: My userpage has been vandalised in the past and I know what harm vandalism does. My edits were not vandalism, and it would be nice to know hy WN does not use SVG...

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Crowded House drummer found dead

March 28, 2005

, drummer for the popular 1980s band, was found dead in a Melbourne park Saturday.

An ambulance service spokeswoman told the Sydney Morning Herald that ambulance officers arrived at Park on Saturday afternoon. They reported Hester had "attempted suicide" and suffered "strangulation". The 46-year-old-father-of-two was last seen walking his two dogs in the popular suburban park near his home on Friday evening.

Hester had a history with bouts of, but seemed to be coping well following eight years of. Friends told the , however, that he suffered a recent turmoil in his love life. Firstly, there was the end of his romance with long-time partner and mother of his two daughters, and then a parting last December with New Zealand singer Kashan, whom he planned to wed in May. There appeared to be no indication he was distressed when he left the house to walk his dogs.

Hester, from Melbourne, Australia, was a founding member of the internationally popular group Crowded House. Previously, he was in the band with Crowded House leader  during the early 1980s. He quit Crowded House in 1994, two years before the band broke up, and became a television personality in Australia with his own prime-time show, then working mostly as a freelance drummer [e.g. for Tarmac Adam]. He had his own music chat show, Hessie's Shed, on in the late 1990s, and also had a recurring role as Paul the Cook on the children's program . He also hosted the successful Australian  music channel ''s ' series.

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Magnitude 8.7 earthquake hits Northern Sumatra, Indonesia

March 28, 2005 A magnitude 8.7 earthquake has been reported in northern Sumatra, Indonesia by the U.S. Geological Survey (originally an 8.2 magnitude at 2:37 ET (7:37 GMT) the USGS reclassified it to an 8.7 magnitude). Government spokesman Agus Mendrova reported more than 290 deaths on the island of Nias. Hundreds of others were reported trapped in collapsed buildings, including structures weakened by the December 26th earthquake.

A destructive wave was intially feared and many nations issued tsunami warnings. After the quake a USGS instrument near the Cocos Islands recorded a tsunami type wave which the USGS classified as "small." Tsunami warnings were later withdrawn.

The quake occurred at 11:09 ET (16:09 GMT), and is considered a "great" earthquake, the largest of seven grades. This earthquake is also classified as a "shallow" earthquake, occurring within the top 50 kilometres of the Earth's crust. Shallow earthquakes are more likely to cause a tsunami, because as the lower within the surface the earthquake occurs, the less warping of the ocean floor occurs. This earthquake was a thrust quake; the December 26th Indian Ocean quake was considered a megathrust quake.

The U.S. Geological Survey originally estimated the magnitude at 8.2, but Japan's Meteorological Agency measured the quake at magnitude 8.5 and the U.S. Geological Survey later raised its estimate to 8.7. In comparison, last December's earthquake was measured at 8.1 initially by the USGS, before finally being placed within the 9.1 to 9.3 range by scientists in February 2005.

At 16:29 UTC, an informational Tsunami Bulletin Number 001 was released by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, stating that there is no threat to Pacific coastlines, but warning of the possibility of destructive tsunamis on waters near the earthquake's origin.

There have been numerous reports of persons who have felt the earthquake fleeing their homes to higher ground, and Sri Lanka was under an evacuation order. Residents of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, one of the cities most devastated by the December tsunami, also fled. Since the December 26th earthquake relatively minor tremors have been common however this was reported to be more intense and long-lasting than any aftershock.

Thailand, which was criticized for its failure to alert citizens to tsunami dangers after last December's earthquake, warned about the possibility that a tsunami might hit that nation's southern provinces.


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Space station crew perform successful spacewalk

March 28, 2005

Commander Leroy Chiao (U.S.A.) and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov (Russia), suited in Russian Orlan spacesuits, left the International Space Station on a 4.5 hour long spacewalk to install antennas for the European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), inspect and photograph other exterior equipment and launched the Nanosatellite mini-satellite. This is the last scheduled walk for the Expedition 10 crew.

At 06:25 UTC, the two astronauts left the station from the Pirs DC1 docking compartment/airlock and proceeded to install the last three of six space-to-space communication antennas for the ATV's rendezvous and docking with the ISS next year.

Sharipov next deployed the foot long, 11 pound Russian Nanosatellite, tossing it into space by hand. The object of the experiment is to develop small satellite control techniques, monitor satellite operations and develop new attitude system sensors. Russian ground crews reported good signal reception from the satellite two hours after its release.

The two astronauts next proceeded to the aft end of the Zvezda service module. A Global Positioning System (GPS) antenna and necessary cabling for the ATV was installed and the men worked their way back to the airlock.

The station maintained its attitude, despite the loss of a gyroscope earlier in the space station mission, until the end of the spacewalk. Chiao and Sharipov reported being a safe distance from the attitude adjustment thrusters. Russian ground control activated the jets and normal attitude of the station was regained.

They returned to the airlock at 1055 UTC, completing the mission an hour earlier than scheduled.

Chiao and Sharipov arrived on the station October 16, 2004. They are scheduled to return to Earth on April 25, 2005. This marks Sharipov's second walk in space and Chiao's sixth.


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Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Renamed
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Talk:Magnitude 8.7 earthquake hits Northern Sumatra, Indonesia

I pinged this a few minutes ago. Continued pinging makes the headline show up twice on the RSS feed list of headlines. I refreshed my RSS feed, but did not see the Quake headline yet. -edw 18:17, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * here is the [ping] record. -edw 18:21, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It's now reported as 8.7. We need to think about moving the article headline to reflect this, although this may not be the final magnitude estimate either. 207.115.73.50 19:55, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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It may be better to retire an outdated story when an major update happens (like an upgrade in the intensity) - and start a fresh story - readers who read the old version are less-likely to re-link to the same location looking for updates. They will be looking for a new story. -- Davodd | Talk 20:23, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

A 10cm tsunami? Is that the right scale? --203.134.13.194 15:48, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, the cited articles state that it wasn't much of a tsunami. We get bigger waves in Santa Cruz. — DV 17:29, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The News is now saying this has killed 1,000. There was a local Tsunumi of 11 feet...This was reported out of Tai News/Sky news.

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Tsunami fears rise after latest Indonesian temblor

March 28, 2005

After a magnitude 8.7 earthquake rocked late Monday, local populations were reminded of the devastating, that killed 273,000 people as they scoured the shores and seaside areas of countries exposed to the , although three hours later with only one small tsunami observed the threat had passed.

Still, according to reports, thousands of coastal residents near the Indian Ocean were evacuating to higher ground for the night in case the experts were wrong. Reports also say authorities urged islanders near the coast to move at least two kilometres inland.

"It looks like many people have left the coasts. I don’t know exactly how many people but they are moving away from the sea shores to the interior areas," Dr. Unni Krishnan, coordinator for relief agency Action Aid said in an interview with a reporter from The Scotsman.

Minutes after data from the earthquake started coming in, half-way around the world from Sumatra, an emergency response center kicked into action. The (PTWC) in  issued a tsunami alert - advising "immediate action" and evacuation procedures were advised for some coastal areas.

"Authorities in those regions should be aware of this possibility and take immediate action. This action should include evacuation of coasts within 1,000 kilometers of the epicenter and close monitoring to determine the need for evacuation further away," the PTWC alert said.

The PTWC said they did detect a small tsunami that stuck the south of the quake's epicenter. However the PTWC went on to say that if no tsunami activity was observed within three hours of the 4.10pm UTC quake, there was no further danger. That time has passed.

A spokesman for the in an interview with the AFP said when such a large quake strikes, the  sends out e-mails, faxes and telephone messages to nearby agencies warning them of possible aftershocks, or likely tsunami activity.


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Britain's Howard-Flight controversy continues

March 29, 2005

At a news conference intended to be on the Conservatives' childcare policies, Michael Howard's decision to sack Conservative MP Howard Flight has continued to dominate as the ex-Tory deputy chairman's expulsion from the party was the subject of every question.

The affair began when the MP for Arundel and South Downs was recorded as saying that the conservatives' spending cuts of £35bn would 'only be the start' under a Tory Government. This issue has been of particular significance in the run-up to the expected General election on May 5th.

Mr. Flight has resisted his removal from the candidate list, insisting it is the prerogative of the local party members only and not head office. He has taken legal advice as to summoning an emergency general meeting of Arundel and South Downs Conservative Association.

Howard Flight has insisted that he would not stand as an independent candidate.

External link

 * Howard Flight at They Work For You.


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Freak wave drags funeral party out to sea

March 28, 2005

Two brothers were swept away and a woman was pulled to safety on Sunday after a wave, said to be 5-6 metres (17-20 feet) high, washed over their funeral service in Spain’s Canary Islands.

The massive wave struck while a party of 15 was spreading the ashes of a 16 year old boy in the sea, according to Manuel Sosa, one of the rescuers. The boy’s father, age 36, and a paternal uncle, age 23, were swept away and are presumed dead. The mother, age 34, was caught in the wave, but rescued.

The tragedy occurred near the village of Arucas on Gran Canaria Island.


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Foreign governments move to aid earthquake region

March 28, 2005

After facing criticism for being slow to act and initially giving too little after the December 26 Indonesian earthquake and tsunami, the United States government was quick to act when a massive earthquake hit Indonesia again March 28. U.S. State Department Adam Ereli said under orders of President George W. Bush, American embassy officials have been in contact with both Indonesia officials and the International Red Cross to coordinate international relief efforts and other foreign aid.

The two former U.S. presidents, Bill Clinton and the current president's father, George H.W. Bush, already are heading up U.S. aid efforts in the region as the result of the last major temblor. "We still have people over there assisting from the first one, and they will be our first line of defense, once we know what kind of damage there is," Pat McCrummen, spokesman for the American Red Cross told the Associated Press.

Although relief officials have been in contact with various governments, no specific pledge amount has been announced (as of 20:51, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)).


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Talk:Tsunami fears rise after latest Indonesian temblor

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 002 PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS ISSUED AT 1841Z 28 MAR 2005

THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE PACIFIC BASIN EXCEPT ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.

... TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN ...

THIS MESSAGE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. THERE IS NO TSUNAMI WARNING OR WATCH IN EFFECT.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 1610Z 28 MAR 2005 COORDINATES -  2.3 NORTH   97.1 EAST LOCATION   -  NORTHERN SUMATERA  INDONESIA MAGNITUDE  -  8.5

EVALUATION

THIS EARTHQUAKE IS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE PACIFIC. NO TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS TO COASTLINES IN THE PACIFIC. NOTE: THERE HAS BEEN NO MAJOR TSUNAMI OBSERVED NEAR THE EPICENTER.

THERE WAS HOWEVER A SMALL TSUNAMI OBSERVED ON THE COCOS TIDE GAGE. WARNING... THIS EARTHQUAKE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GENERATE A WIDELY DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI IN THE OCEAN OR SEAS NEAR THE EARTHQUAKE. AUTHORITIES IN THOSE REGIONS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS POSSIBILITY AND TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION. THIS ACTION SHOULD INCLUDE EVACUATION OF COASTS WITHIN A THOUSAND KILOMETERS OF THE EPICENTER AND CLOSE MONITORING TO DETERMINE THE NEED FOR EVACUATION FURTHER AWAY. THIS CENTER DOES NOT HAVE SEA LEVEL GAUGES OUTSIDE THE PACIFIC SO WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DETECT OR MEASURE A TSUNAMI IF ONE WAS GENERATED. AUTHORITIES CAN ASSUME THE DANGER HAS PASSED IF NO       TSUNAMI WAVES ARE OBSERVED IN THE REGION NEAR THE EPICENTER WITHIN THREE HOURS OF THE EARTHQUAKE.

THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.

THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE BULLETINS FOR ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.

Reproduced from the PTWC - messages update as and when new info is broadcast. Dan100 (Talk) 21:12, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Temblor
BTW, any particular reason why this article was written using the Spanish for earthquake? Dan100 (Talk) 21:22, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * temblor is a word in English; like many other words, it was borrowed originally from another language. -- IlyaHaykinson 21:30, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * It's understandable that someone from the UK - where earthquakes are exceedingly rare - is unfamiliar with a common secondary English term for them. I had the same thoughts as Dan100 when I moved to shakey California from stable Indiana in 1997. -- Davodd | Talk 21:57, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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Ireland's smoking ban a success after first year

March 28, 2005

Tomorrow will be an historic day in the Republic of Ireland. It will be exactly one year since the initial introduction of the once controversial. The ban, introduced on March 29 2004, made Ireland the first country in world to completely ban smoking in all workplaces.

The idea was initially met with much skepticism by the Irish who traditionally had a worldwide image as a land of drinkers and smokers. However despite this early uncertainty, the ban has been a huge success. Cigarettes sales have fallen by as much as 60% in, with the country's biggest tobacco brand, , reporting an overall drop in sales of 7.5%.

The  announced earlier this month that over 7,000 had given up smoking in the past twelve months. A survey by the showed 82% supported the ban. Anti-smoking lobby groups such as ASH had been calling for a ban for many years prior to the Government's initiative.

On 3 December 2003, New Zealand passed the which lead it to become the second nation to impose a total ban. Its ban came into effect nine months after Ireland's, on 10 December 2004. In January of this year Italy also introduced a ban. Sweden intends to go smoke free in June of this year and in Scotland, the hopes to have a ban in effect by early 2006.


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Thanks, all. --Alan J. Franklin 22:32, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC) PS...metres or meters is correct spelling. (Whichever sugars your donut :-)


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New Kygryz parliament backs Bakiyev, lower house of former parliament steps down

March 28, 2005 The newly elected and protested Kyrgyz parliament today voted to back opposition leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev as prime minister, as the reconvening former parliament had done days before. The lower house of the former parliament also formally stepped down, although the upper house has not done so yet.

Deposed president Askar Akayev issued a statement from Russia in response, accusing the new leaders of disgracing the country and ruining the economy.

In response to the endorsement, Bakiyev issued a statement acknowledging the newly elected parliament as the legitimate one.

"I can be reproached for saying earlier that the February and March polls were not legitimate. I said so. But in this parliament we have questions to only 15 to 20 constituencies, no one is saying that all deputies have to go," Bakiyev explained.

Speaker of the outgoing lower chamber of the former parliament, Ishenbai Kadyrbekov, said that the decision was "a political, not a legislative decision, made for the sake of stabilizing the situation. ...If needed, the Legislative Assembly may convene again."

Despite the situation, Omurbek Tekebayev, newly elected speaker of the new parliament, told Kyrgyz television that Akayev was still legally the president of the country and should return, if only to complete a formal resignation. "New presidential elections can only be called after talks with Akayev, otherwise it will be another anticonstitutional move," he said.

Opposition leaders have offered Akayev immunity and said that he would not be impeached or otherwise prosecuted if he returned to the country.

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Hi, I'm grutness - a frequent contributor to Wikipedia, making one of my rare forays here. I'm more likely to see any messages you leave if you leave them over at my Wikipedia page.

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Past Jackson abuse claims to be used in court

March 29, 2005

In what trial watchers say is a blow to Michael Jackson's defense, Judge Rodney Melville ruled Monday to allow the use of past allegations of child molestation in the trial. The decision was reached in deliberations done in the jury's absence. The ruling means that prosecution, led by District Attorney Tom Sneddon, can introduce what it says are 5 cases of prior molestation.

The prosecution, which originally submitted 10 cases to the deliberations, was ruled able to proceed with 5 due to a 1995 law passed in California. The law, aiming specifically at child molestation and domestic violence cases, is unlike other cases where the prior criminal conduct of the defendant is not permissable in court.

The ruling will allow testimony in cases arising from over 10 years ago. Allegations involving the behavior of Jackson, now aged 46, with boys 10 to 13 years old at the time will be presented. So far, only one boy has agreed to testify. In the other 4 cases, third party witnesses or family members, are planned.

Jackson's defense attorney, Thomas Mesereau jr. worked to have the cases excluded during deliberations. Noting that Macaulay Culkin, of the movie "Home Alone" fame and once frequent visitor of the Jackson's Neverland ranch, in an interview with Larry King has previously and publicly stated "Nothing happened."

Mesereau promised to make a "mini-case" out of each of the new allegations, which could drag the trial on indefinitely. The AP reports him saying, "You can't stop the defense from putting on a full-blown defense and I mean just that."

In 1993, a molestation charge was settled out-of-court for $26m by Jordan Chandler, ending his accusations against Jackson. His mother plans to testify in this trial.

The Defence's argument
Defence attorney Thomas Mesereau jr.: "[This evidence would] easily reduce the burden of proof and the presumption of innocence and render an unfair trial."

The Defense have claimed that some of the boys listed would testify to Jackson's innocence and that they are based on third party claims, many of which are after Michael Jackson's money. "How can you just allow a parade of third-party characters to come in without any victims?"

The Prosecution's argument
Santa Barbara County District Attorney Thomas Sneddon has claimed these other cases will show behavior that is "very similar, if not identical" to that which is claimed by Gavin Arvizo.

Michael Jackson has said "None of these stories are true. They are totally fabricated. It's very sad, it's very, very painful. I pray a lot. That's how I deal with it, and I'm a strong person. I'm a warrior, and I know what is inside of me. I'm a fighter, but it's very painful at the end of the day. I'm still human, you know. I'm still a human being, so it does hurt very, very, very much."

Michael Jackson continues to deny 10 counts of abuse and false imprisonment.


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Irish scientists had predicted further Sumatran earthquake

March 30, 2005 Irish researchers predicted two weeks ago that there would be further earthquakes in the same region as the massive Boxing Day 2004 quake.

On Monday night a massive 8.7 scale earthquake hit the island of Sumatra.

On March 17, researchers at University of Ulster, Coleraine in northern Ireland published a report in the scientific journal Nature that showed stress was building on the fault near Sumatra and that the risk of a second powerful earthquake was increasing.

The researchers said in the report that in subduction zones, a pair of massive earthquakes relatively close together is not uncommon. The last such incident was 1999 in Duzce, Turkey where a 7.4 magnitude quake was followed by a 7.1 magnitude quake three months later.

In the Nature report, the researchers pointed to evidence suggesting that stresses in the fault near northern Sumatra were significantly higher than those of the 1999 Turkey rupture. The quake that eventually did strike Sumatra was exponentially more massive than the 7.0 to 7.5 magnitude quake the researches suggested in Nature. But it still was less powerful than the December 2004 quake and did not result in any life-threatening tsunami.


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Another arrest in Minnesota school shooting

March 28, 2005

News spread in the Red Lake community today as funerals for Jeff Weise and three of the nine victims were held that another student was arrested in connection with the school shootings of March 21. Authorities said little officially beyond confirming today's arrest. However, a source with knowledge of the investigation told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that it was Louis Jourdain, 16-year old son of Red Lake Tribal Chairman Floyd Jourdain. It is not known at this time what charges will be laid or what led authorities to the boy but juvenile proceedings have begun in federal court.

Last Tuesday, investigators had said that Weise had acted alone and his motives were unknown though he suffered from depression and expressed interest in Nazism.


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Pope obituary draft
A draft obituary is being worked on; you may wish to give it a looksee? - Amgine 02:12, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * OK.Veritos 02:09, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Rewrite
absolutely terrific rewrite, I can gather info in a hurry, takes a pro to package it.Kyle Andrew Brown 22:03, 12 September 2005 (UTC) No problem. Ver Veritos

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 * Laura Bush takes a quick trip to Afghanistan
 * Canadian Football League to test Atlantic expansion with exhibition game
 * California State University, Chico fraternity suspended for making frat house porno flick
 * American Christian TV evangelist Jerry Falwell hospitalized in critical condition
 * Lorry drops thirteen tonnes of fish in British town
 * Past Jackson abuse claims to be used in court
 * US Transportation Security Administration "made inaccurate statements" about passenger privacy, says Department of Homeland Security report
 * Sudan preemptively rejects Security Council resolution on war crimes extradition
 * Japan asks "Where's the beef?"
 * Sleepiness: A yawning chasm for working Americans
 * Upper house of former Kyrgyz parliament steps down, Bakiyev pledges to fight corruption
 * Australians more concerned by global warming than terrorism, says Lowy report
 * Israeli parliament rejects disengagement referendum
 * Congressional dems visit to Iraq encourages support of Bush $81B "reconstruction" plan
 * Surgeons reattach boy's three severed limbs
 * Britain's Howard-Flight controversy continues

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 * A 9-year, $1.35B Human Cancer Genome Project is proposed. Proponents include Eric S. Lander of Cambridge, MA's Broad Institute.  Opponsnets include Craig Venter.  the project would sequence the DNA of thousands of tumor samples, looking for relevant mutations.
 * The first phase of the US Army's Future Combat Systems project is projected to cost $150B, plus an additional $25B for related communications infrastructure, Army officials said Saturday. Congress is now questioning the need for such a complex and expensive program.
 * A group of US financiers agreed to buy technology provider SunGard Data Systems for $11.3B, according to executives involved. This is the largest leveraged buyout since RJR Nabisco was bought in 1989 by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, and the largest ever involving the collaboration of more than one firm.
 * A recently proposed plan to divert water from the Sao Francisco River basin in Brazil to the more arid parts of the country's interior has met with resistance. Environmental and business interests both oppose the plan.
 * Cairo police struggle against pro-democracy rallies today as thousands of protesters gathered to demand political reform and free presidential elections. The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition group, had planned a demonstration in front of the Parliament building.  Police turned out to keep protesters away from the building, but rallies were held in two other locations in the city.
 * In anticipation of a Security Council vote on trying alleged Darfur war criminals at the International Criminal Court, Sudan announced today it would reject any UN resolution that required war crimes suspects to be tried abroad. Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said, "Any resolution that is going to include the taking of a Sudanese -- whether he is a rebvel or government official -- outside the Sudan: we are totally against it."  In contrast, some rebel groups are in favor of the resolution.  Tajeddin Nyam, of the rebel group "Justice and Equality of Movement," said he thought the resolution would contirbute to peace.  The draft resolution before the UNSC was drafted by the French delegation, and is expected to be voted on this week.
 * Mexico triumphed over the US in a World Cup qualifying match, witha 2-1 victory.
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 * Callaghan, 93: elder Labor Party statesman, 3 yrs as PM
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User talk:Veritos/Old Stuff

This is the stuff for which I no longer have any use. So I've archived it to clear up space for things that do matter.

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U.S. Supreme Court hears MGM v. Grokster

March 31, 2005

Oral arguments in the landmark case of MGM v. Grokster legal battle were heard before the Supreme Court of the United States March 29. In the case, 28 entertainment companies have joined together to sue, maker of Morpheus software, and Grokster.

A final ruling is expected on the case within a few months. The issue heard before the court was an appeal of prior decisions made since 2001 at the U.S. district court level and from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Both of those decisions were in favor of Grokster's right to market its P2P software.

P2P stands for peer-to-peer software, which uses the Internet as a medium for millions of users to distribute digital content, such as music, movies, books, and software, among themselves. By far the majority of the content distributed through this method is without the permission of the copyright holder.

Morpheus is one of the most-popular peer-to-peer software products worldwide. StreamCast also operates MusicCity.com. Lawyers from the EFF Foundation (www.eff.org) are serving as defense counsel in the case.

The result of this case could determine the ultimate fate of P2P software in the U.S., whether it is legal for software companies to produce and sell software that, in the opinion of some, facilitates profit illegally from the trade in copyrighted materials. However, even if illegal in America, such software might still be widely available from international hosts due to technological limitations of enforcing such a ruling. The companies behind this effort are aiming to hold technological innovators legally responsible for infringing uses of their technology.

"About 36 million Americans — or 27 percent of internet users—say they download either music or video files and about half of them have found ways outside of traditional peer-to-peer networks or paid online services to swap their files". As a measure of public opinion on the issue, they stated, "49% of all Americans and 53% of internet users believe that the firms that own and operate file-sharing networks should be deemed responsible for the pirating of music and movie files," according to Pew Internet & American Life Project in their most recent survey,

The landmark ' decision of 1984 (') is the most relevant U.S. in this matter (note: the precedent Betamax case supports the legality of P2P netowrks). A decision in the case could either affirm Betamax, or overturn it. This is the case that essentially created the VCR market in America for distributing movies at home, and so in this modern technologically updated version, there are billions of dollars in future revenues now at stake.


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Surgeons reattach boy's three severed limbs

March 29, 2005 A team of Australian surgeons yesterday reattached both hands and one foot to 10-year-old Perth boy, Terry Vo, after a brick wall which collapsed during a game of basketball fell on him, severing the limbs. The wall gave way while Terry performed a slam-dunk, during a game at a friend's birthday party.

The boy was today awake and smiling, still in some pain but in good spirits and expected to make a full recovery, according to plastic surgeon, Mr Robert Love.

"What we have is parts that are very much alive so the reattached limbs are certainly pink, well perfused and are indeed moving," Mr Love told reporters today.

"The fact that he is moving his fingers, and of course when he wakes up he will move both fingers and toes, is not a surprise," Mr Love had said yesterday.

"The question is more the sensory return that he will get in the hand itself and the fine movements he will have in the fingers and the toes, and that will come with time, hopefully. We will assess that over the next 18 months to two years.

"I'm sure that he'll enjoy a game of basketball in the future."

The weight and force of the collapse, and the sharp brick edges, resulted in the three limbs being cut through about 7cm above the wrists and ankle.

Terry's father Tan said of his only child, the injuries were terrible, "I was scared to look at him, a horrible thing."

The hands and foot were placed in an ice-filled Esky and rushed to hospital with the boy, where three teams of medical experts were assembled, and he was given a blood transfusion after experiencing massive blood loss. Eight hours of complex micro-surgery on Saturday night were followed by a further two hours of skin grafts yesterday.

"What he will lose because it was such a large zone of traumatised skin and muscle and so on, he will lose some of the skin so he'll certainly require lots of further surgery regardless of whether the skin survives," said Mr Love said today.

The boy was kept unconscious under anaesthetic between the two procedures. In an interview yesterday, Mr Love explained why:

"He could have actually been woken up the next day. Because we were intending to take him back to theatre for a second look, to look at the traumatised skin flaps, to close more of his wounds and to do split skin grafting, it was felt the best thing to do would be to keep him stable and to keep him anaesthetised."

Professor Wayne Morrison, director of the respected Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery and head of plastic and hand surgery at Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital, said he believed the operation to be a world first.


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Note that surgeons are correctly referred to as Mr, not Dr, here in Australia, although I doubt he minds either way. This means most of the reports are misapellating (?!) when they refer to Dr Love, but I guess it sounds sexier. (He's got the cure you're thinking o-o-of, right?) Simeon 03:52, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Where did this take place?
It's a great article, but I had a hard time telling where the event took place. This is why, IMO we should probably use the template instead of the XXXtemplate since it tells the reader as they start reading WHERE the event happened. -- Davodd | Talk 05:22, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * We should just edit articles more carefully. The 'dateline' (date and location) is used in journalism specifically to highlight where the journalist who filed the story is. I don't know how much of the general public knows that but it's certainly how it's used on all other news sources. Dan100 (Talk) 20:39, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)