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- Boys and girls soccer standings and statistics. |
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- Argentina 24, Romania 0 (latest) |
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- An AP Article reports Even as they push to repeal parts of the USA Patriot Act, Democratic senators agreed with Justice Department prosecutors Tuesday that many critics of the anti-terrorist law don't understand what it does. Bill Aims to Curb Patriot Act Powers explains The Security and Freedom Ensured Act of 2003 (SAFE Act). |
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- Game theory is invaluable to the design of P2P systems A Game theoretic framework for incentives in P2P systems The abtract: Peer-To-Peer (P2P) networks are self-organizing, distributed systems, with no centralized authority or infrastructure. Because of the voluntary participation, the availability of resources in a P2P system can be highly variable and unpredictable. In this paper, we use ideas from Game Theory to study the interaction of strategic and rational peers, and propose a differential service-based incentive scheme to improve the system's performance. |
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- Horloge ! dieu sinistre, effrayant, impassible, Dont le doigt nous menace et nous dit : "Souviens-toi !" Les vibrantes Douleurs dans ton coeur plein d'effroi Se planteront bientt comme dans une cible ; Le plaisir vaporeux fuira vers l'horizon Ainsi qu'une sylphide au fond de la coulisse ; |
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- Activists in New Jersey are demanding the removal of a state official because he made snide comments about a town... |
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- Where and when area high school sports teams will compete today and yesterday's results. |
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- CMU reports: Jamaica has awarded Jimmy Cliff the Order of Merit award, one of Jamaica's highest honours, for his work... |
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- Washington Post: "Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases in flag-draped caskets. To this problem, the Bush administration has found a simple solution: |
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- Bush expected to praise nation's anti-terror efforts |
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- State aid, endowments, fund raising are declining, College Board reports |
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- Doctors here less adept at interpreting, study says |
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- RAWA-CIA? - indymedia.org:8080 |
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- Macromedia is to acquire eHelp. Read the news about the same on macromedia's site or on ehelp's section.... |
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- Caucasian Club founder decides to leave school: Oakley freshman decides to transfer, cites harassment On one level, it is understandable that when white students see other students celebrating their cultures and participating in activities that recognize their backgrounds, like Cinco de Mayo or the Chinese New Year's Parade, those students... |
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- Stargate SG-1 Season 4 just came out (well, a few weeks ago). It's nice to see it all without commercials. They should come out with everything on DVD without commercials. |
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- Lessons in the Fine Art of College Admissions. When you're a bright and hard-working student in a top suburban district, how do you you stand out among all those deciles of A's? By Michael Winerip. [New York Times: Education] |
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- Nathan it's a fair point. I'm assuming Servlets are allowed based on Domino Developer supporting them, that might not be a common thing. I guess the only way to know is ask.Can anyone who has a hoste... |
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- Panel told Nevada’s rural mental health services lagging Reno Gazette-Journal story - "A state panel was told Tuesday mental health professionals almost are nonexistent in outlying areas of Nevada and other states, leading to numerous problems — including high suicide rates — for people who can’t get needed counseling. |
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- Panel told Nevada’s rural mental health services lagging Reno Gazette-Journal story - "A state panel was told Tuesday mental health professionals almost are nonexistent in outlying areas of Nevada and other states, leading to numerous problems — including high suicide rates — for people who can’t get needed counseling. |
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- Produktion von Weihnachtsmnnern luft auf Hochtouren |
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- Meet Olan Soule (1909-94). His face is one of those which pops up in hundreds of movies. |
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- This sweet little village, dating back to 1230, has a crooked watchtower that can be seen from afar. There is... |
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- Troy, over at the Security Blog, has posted a short presentation (PowerPoint) which discusses one of the more prevalent forms of email-based identity theft.... |
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- Troy, over at the Security Blog, has posted a short presentation (PowerPoint) which discusses one of the more prevalent forms of email-based identity theft.... |
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AIDS gig on (Oct 22 2003 11:54 GMT) - That gig in South Africa to raise awareness of the AIDS crisis there is back on. The event, a key... |
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- Newsday: "I'm profoundly uncomfortable with that wing of the Democratic Party that seems to be taking glee in the difficulties in Iraq - that seems more interested in saying, "I told you so," than in recognizing that the deed has been done and succeeding in Iraq is in all our interests. The cut-and-run Democrats are wrong.The Democratic Party is committing political suicide if it allows its peace wing to dictate its foreign policy. Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor, has jumped to the first tier of candidates on his anti-war platform. |
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- Inquiry and new legislation needed for mental health (New Zealand) Press release at Scoop.com - "The report into the case of a mental health patient who killed his father after Counties Manukau Health failed to provide him with adequate care, shows why we need a nationwide inquiry into why mental health services keep failing, says National Health Spokesperson Dr Lynda Scott..." |
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- Nathan Newman: "As many as one in five of the 2.1 million Americans in jail are seriously mentally ill, according to a new study by Human Rights Watch." But the most dangerous criminally unsane are to be found in the White House nowadays. |
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- Alicia writes: "The French site Tom Felton Online has a video of Tom and Emma [Watson] at the Disney Awards. The speech, and an interview after the show." Please try not to bring down their server. |
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- SIXERS NOTES - If the Sixers, who have the smallest starting lineup in the NBA, don't rebound the basketball, it makes starting the up-tempo offense that Randy Ayers wants to implement much more difficult. |
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- (US) Alcohol and drug tests of the crew came back negative, and some investigators have speculated that Smith's blood-pressure medication may have been to blame for his loss of consciousness. [$drug_related(50%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $illegal_drugs(50%), $drugs(90%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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- (South Africa) The distribution of the test for tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) means 30 laboratories will be able to test for the latest sophisticated doping device as anti-drugs crusaders step up the fight against cheats. The straight dope on THG [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(50%), $drugs(95%), $prohibition(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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- I know what you all really want to hear about from me anyway: you want to hear about my home decor. Well, I finally found the cheap black plastic wastecan and black rug for the bathroom. On my second trip... |
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- Carl Stalling’s cartoon scores for Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes were voted among "The 100 Most Important Musical Works Of The 20th Century," according to a survey of 14,000 National Public Radio Listeners. That’s All Folks! is the essential cartoon soundtrack for fans of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and friends, as well as a monument to the musical king of toonland, Carl Stalling. Two CDs with over 200 songs, including the never-released music from What’s Opera, Doc? in its entirety. |
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