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- Discontent with the leader of Britain's main opposition Conservative Party simmered Tuesday as more exasperated lawmakers demanded a vote on whether he is fit to lead the fractured party. |
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- Oct. 27 -- A Skyline Ranch Country Club home estimated to be worth over $1M burned to the ground. Its owner is out of town, but a neighbor gives his account. |
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- Oct. 27 - San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy spoke briefly about fires raging around San Diego County Monday. |
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- Oct. 27 - Among the many fires burning around San Diego county Monday, a brush fire near the little known town of Riverview threatened to engulf homes. |
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- Oct. 27 - Many were evacuated from Descanso as flames scorched trees and homes in the area. |
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- Oct. 27 - Here is raw video of one of the wildfires in Southern California illuminating the pre-dawn sky early Monday. |
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- Oct. 27 - The massive wildfires raging in Southern California are being blamed for 13 deaths and have destroyed more than 800 homes. |
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- Another thought... I browsed around in Radio.root and looked at the 'inetd' table, in the '10', '15' and '21' tables, each of which had several entries, all of which seem to show the same information, especially the 'whatwentwrong' message, which says: "Can't read stream because TCP/IP error code 10022 - Invalid argument." and 'whatWereWeDoing' message, which says: |
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- Some have suggested that something fishy is going on with the White House webserver, and the "robots.txt" file it uses to discourage automated web crawlers from visiting portions of the site. The Democratic National Committee sees devious historical revisionism, naturally. Further wild speculation is available at Dan Gillmor's eJournal, especially in the comments. But I'm pretty sure that this just a clumsy mistake, or misguided reaction to some haywire crawler, rather than any intentional manipulation. |
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- Well, I'm over at Knapp and Geoff's right now, using Knapp's computer (mmm, fast Internet...) and watching TV. Knapp was flipping throught the channels and... |
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- Someone needs to tell Shrub that it's NOT Opposite Day in Baghdad: Bush Says Attacks Are A Sign of U.S. Progress That may be the single most Orwellian headline I've ever seen in my life. Actually, I think only Lewis... |
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- A storm system will soak the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and the northern half of the central states Tuesday, while high pressure keeps much of the West and the southern half of the central states dry. |
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ToolKit (Oct 28 2003 06:07 GMT) - What are the most useful items in your tool kit for working with twiki? nix Mac Windows WinCvsGettingStarted cvs in all its complex glory, on windows http://www ... |
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- "Japan has lost contact with the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-2 (Adeos-2), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced Oct. 25. The Earth observing satellite, which was launched in December, failed to make a scheduled data transmission Oct. 25 and engineers subsequently discovered that the craft had turned off all of its observation equipment to minimize power use, JAXA reported. It was later discovered that the spacecraft’s solar panels were producing only 1 kilowatt of power, rather than the normal 6 kilowatts. |
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- Para los que nos cansamos de ver puros Toyota Corolla y Corona por nuestras calles. |
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- "President Bush yesterday put the best face on a new surge of violence in Iraq as his top defense aides huddled to discuss additional ways of thwarting the anti-American rebellion there before it becomes more widespread. The president, speaking after attacks on police stations and a Red Cross facility in Iraq killed at least 35 people, said such attacks should be seen as a sign of progress..." (10/28/03) |
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- "Independent voters, who some say are key to President Bush's re-election hopes next year, are losing confidence in his leadership in Iraq as attacks there continue, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll has found. In the poll, 39% of independents approve of the way the Bush administration has handled things in Iraq since Bush declared an end to major combat six months ago; 57% of independents disapprove." (10/27/03) |
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- "The body of a 7-year-old boy found in a box in a Newark basement nearly a year ago prompted a shake-up at New Jersey's child welfare agency. The agency reviewed all open cases, hired 366 more employees and received $30 million in emergency aid. Despite those changes, four adopted boys — one of them 19 — were found earlier this month malnourished and weighing less than 50 pounds each." (10/27/03) |
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- "Twelve states and several Northeast cities sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to try to block the Bush administration’s changes to the Clean Air Act. EPA’s new rule makes it easier to upgrade utilities, refineries and other industrial facilities without installing additional pollution controls. The rule, which was proposed last December and signed by EPA’s administrator in August, was made final on Monday." (10/27/03) |
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- "Pentagon sources say two Americans civilians -- identified as U.S. State Department contract workers -- were killed in a raid against suspected Taliban and al Qaeda forces Saturday southwest of the Afghan border town of Shkin. The sources said Monday that the two were State Department contract workers, but a State Department official said it had no information on any of its contractors being killed..." (10/27/03) |
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- Its fall, its fall, there are pumpkins all around. Yellow and Orange, green ones too, what is one to... |
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- (US) "They were born with drug addiction and eating disorders. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(85%), $propaganda_theme1(85%), $propaganda_theme2(60%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) Roberts signed with the Raptors on Sept. 30, almost four years after he was kicked out of the NBA for failing a drug test. The 33-year-old hasn't played in the NBA since 1999 when the league suspended him, citing use of an amphetamine-based drug. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(80%), $gateway(80%), $propaganda_theme4(80%), $propaganda_theme6(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $stimulant(100%), $amphetamines(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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- (US) Russell's first suspension came in 2001 when he missed four games for failing to comply with the NFL's drug policy. While suspended, Russell was charged with drugging a woman with the "date-rape drug" GHB and videotaping two friends raping her. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme5(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $drug_policy(100%), $hallucinogen(100%), $MDMA(60%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) A man who police say bought $25000 of marijuana from an undercover detective was arraigned in Waltham District Court yesterday. An investigation conducted by the Middlesex Drug Task Force.[$drug_related(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $cannabis(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- (US) Through a Safe and Drug Free Schools grant, 40 Remington students, identified as leaders by staff members, will participate in discussions, role-playing and other creative exercises focusing on the damaging impact of bullying. [$drug_related(55%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(55%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $propaganda_theme7(55%), $drugs(90%), $prohibition(55%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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ReadmeFirst (Oct 28 2003 06:05 GMT) - Table of Contents TOC Introduction The Codev web is the place where discussion is held on the development of TWiki. Everybody who is interested in contributing to ... |
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- Is there any one who can give some idea about the behavior of Session variable? Please have a look at the following code: protected System. |
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- FLORIDA Christians at work. Praise The LORD! Hallelujah! This vegetable woman be alive yet! Just stick the tube back in her. |
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- Myth, Reality and Incestuous Amplification <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com: |
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- http://www. nytimes. com/2003/10/26/politics/26RELI html?pagewanted=2& |
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- Defending Your Faith Today's Internet for Christians newsletter includes this article as an introduction to an excerpt of R. C. Sproul's book, Defending Your Faith. ARE YOU EQUIPPED TO DEFEND YOUR FAITH? October 27, 2003 -- If you're a Christian, chances are you know whatyou believe--and you've found meaning and truth in those beliefs. |
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- THE United States has begun providing military assistance to the UgandanPeople Defence Forces (UPDF) in a bid to stamp out Joseph Kony's LordsResistance Army (LRA) rebels. |
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- When the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell arrived at the JomoKenyatta International Airport on October 22, the US security personnel tookcharge of the airport in a manner suggesting that the Kenyan security systemwas not competent to deal with the situation. |
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- Canada signed an agreement with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) today committing just over $10 million for African water and sanitation efforts. |
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- Angola's ruling MPLA party miltants living in the Canadian cities ofMontereal, Toronto and Hamilton met over the weekend in Ottawa to analysematters concerning the growth and reinforcement of party's structures. |
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- The itinerant left Nigeria in 1961 to study in London. He was among thefirst batch of young Nigerian students to leave Nigeria after politicalindependence in October 1960 to study overseas and acquire the best ofwestern educational tradition for their new country. |
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- Human capital flight from Africa is accelerating. According to theInternational Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the UN EconomicCommission for Africa, an estimated 1,800 Africans a year left the continentfrom 1960 to 1975. The pace quickened to 4,444 a year from 1975 to1984. Since 1990 more than 20,000 people leave the continent annually. TheUN's Africa Recovery journal recently noted that half the doctors in theSaskatchewan province of Canada were foreign-trained - with 20% from SouthAfrica. |
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- FOLLOWING MORE THAN 15 years of strains in bilateral relations betweenLiberia and the United States, the Transitional Government of Liberia led bybusinessman Charles Gyude Bryant has opened what he termed as a "newbeginning and a new chapter" in restoring the "good old days" both Countrieshad enjoyed. |
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- Defending champions, Rodgers Rop and Joyce Chepchumba will defend theirtitles in the New York City Marathon on Sunday. |
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- Moving U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to and fro costs goodmoney. It's worth it. His is probably the only bearable sound in PresidentGeorge W. |
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- The Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo hasasked Christians to pray for the church in the USA and Canada wherehomosexuality is acceptable as normal and holy. |
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- A Canadian firm that is set to mine titanium ore at the Coast has saidit will meet environmental standards set by the Government. |
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- Since 1985, Judith A. Byfield, Associate Professor at the Department ofHistory, Dartmounth College in New Hampshire, United States of America(USA), has been making regular visits to Nigeria. |
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