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- Medicines to fight the rising malaria epidemic don't reach millions who need them because the money and the international commitment to supply the drugs are lacking, experts said at a conference here. |
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- Acties tegen het WEF in Warschau |
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half mile (Apr 30 2004 14:58 GMT) - half mile |
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- this is a hand full of some photoshop stuff I have played with over the years |
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- These Are Two Birds That I Am Currently Rehabbing At The Wildlife Rehab Center. Both Birds Had Injured Wings When They Were Brought To The Center. They Are Now Fully Healed And Will Soon Be Realeased Back To The Wild. Chukar Partridge And A Ring-Necked Pheasant |
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Frustration (Apr 30 2004 14:58 GMT) - *Mutter* Ok, one thing's for sure when I get settled I'm going to get broadband or a cable modem or something if it's at all possible. At home, all I have is dialup, and very slow dialup at that. I... |
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- Flyin' high free party! :DJs: Junoon vs. Fantasia (Black Light Peace, Graz) DJ Liquest (Couranderos, CH) DJ SenusHotline: |
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- A common way to cover the exposed edges of plywood in a woodworking project is with solid-wood edgebanding. The problem with this technique, however, is that it always requires some fussing around. You have to rip all the strips to a consistent thickness (which isn't as easy as it sounds). Then, you have to use a lot of clamps to glue the edgebanding in place properly. Even then, if the clamping pressure isn't distributed evenly, the edgebanding can end up with a slightly wavy surface. |
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- AP: Nancy vetoes 'Ronald Reagan University' Nancy Reagan is just saying no to the idea of a Ronald Reagan University in Colorado. Organizers wanted to name a proposed 10,000-student university after the former president, but his wife issued a statement... |
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- Q. Your book, THE SOUL OF MONEY, examines our relationship with money – how we earn it, how we use it, how we spend it, and how we give it away. Is money really that big of an issue for most people? LYNNE TWIST: We all have an identifiable, though largely unexamined relationship with money that shapes our experience of life and our deepest feelings about ourselves and others. |
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- Elaine Pagels writes: Sold on the black market through antiquities dealers in Cairo, the manuscripts soon attracted the attention of officials of the Egyptian government. Through circumstances of high drama, as we shall see, they bought one and confiscated ten and a half of the thirteen leather-bound books, called codices, and deposited them in the Coptic Museum in Cairo. But a large part of the thirteenth codex, containing five extraordinary texts, was smuggled out of Egypt and offered for sale in America. Word of this codex soon reached Professor Gilles Quispel, distinguished historian of religion at Utrecht, in the Netherlands. |
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- BBC Technology -- A system that projects light beams directly into the eye could change the way we see the world. US firm Microvision has developed a system that projects lasers onto the retina, allowing users to view images on top of their normal field of vision. It could allow surgeons to get a bird's eye view of the innards of a patient, offer military units in the field a view of the entire battlefield and provide mechanics with a simulation of the inside of a car's engine. The system uses tiny lasers, which scan their light onto the retina to produce the entire range of human vision, reported the journal of the Institute of the Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Spectrum. "I was amazed by what I saw," said Harry Goldstein, senior associate editor of IEEE Spectrum. |
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- BBC Science -- Scientists believe the humble garden vegetable spinach may provide a possible treatment for some forms of blindness. They are working on a technique to extract light-absorbing pigments from the vegetable, and add them to nerve cells in the retina. Tests suggest this can make the nerve cells fire when struck by light. The work, by Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Tennessee, is reported in New Scientist magazine. The researchers stress that the technique would restore only limited vision - for instance, people would still be colour blind. |
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- BBC Technology -- Fourteen years on and the Hubble Space Telescope continues to take images of the Universe that take the breath away. Its latest reveals unprecedented detail in the Bug Nebula, a huge mass of gas and dust which hides a hot, dying star. The Bug Nebula, or NGC 6302, is about 4,000 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Scorpius. Stars like our Sun shed their outer layers when they get old and in this case, the ejected material appears to have gone in two distinct directions. The nebula is said to have fascinating chemistry. |
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- BBC Science -- Human-like species migrating out of their African homeland had mastered the use of fire up to 790,000 years ago, the journal Science reports. The evidence, from northern Israel, suggests species such as Homo erectus may have been surprisingly sophisticated in their behaviour. The find links earlier evidence of controlled fire from Africa with later discoveries in Eurasia, scientists say. The researchers say that a wildfire is unlikely to be the cause. Researchers from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan excavated a waterlogged site at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov. |
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- Vendredi, à Saint-Martin-la-Garenne, près du port de l’Ilon, un homme de 36 ans a disparu en tentant de sauver de la noyade le fils d’un de ses amis. Son corps n’avait toujours pas été retrouvé mardi midi. L’enfant de quatre ans n’a pas survécu. |
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- Onze fermetures d’ores et déjà définitives et seize conditionnelles : au total 27 classes des écoles primaires et maternelles du Mantois et du Val-de-Seine sont menacées de disparaître. Même si cette diminution correspond à une baisse prévisible des effectifs, la carte scolaire fait grincer quelques dents. |
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- La réaction ne s’est pas fait attendre. Deux mois après la signature de deux arrêtés préfectoraux du 24 février 2004 autorisant la société SITA Ile-de-France à exploiter une carrière de sablon et un centre de stockage de déchets ultimes sur le territoire de Brueil-en-Vexin, élus et associations viennent de déposer un recours devant le tribunal administratif. |
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- L'écluse du Canal de Carillon se situe dans l'axe de navigation Montréal-Ottawa-Kingston et fut inauguré en 1833. Elle permet de contourner les rapides du Long-Sault sur la rivière des Outaouais. Il n'y a qu'une écluse et cela permet aux embarcations de franchir une ... |
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- The San Mateo County Times, 27 Apr 2004 |
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- The Concord Journal, 29 Apr 2004 |
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- The Daily Illini, 29 Apr 2004 |
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- North County Times, 27 Apr 2004 |
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- The Times-Picayune, 29 Apr 2004 |
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- Daily Herald, 28 Apr 2004 |
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- San Jose Mercury News, 29 Apr 2004 |
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- HTML Editor extensions for MovableType... |
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- This sucks. I didn't realize today was his last show.... |
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- ...sind für mich Menschen, die ohne Rücksicht auf andere immer nur nehmen, nehmen, nehmen und dann die Arroganz besitzen, einen verächtlich anzusehen, weil man sie mal dran erinnert, dass sie vielleicht auch mal geben könnten. |
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- I was just thinking about how much I miss London, and now I have a good reason to hop a plane.A gung-ho President Bush and a sanctimonious Prime Minster Tony Blair have made their singalong debut on the London stage this week -- in a musical satire about the U.S.-led war in Iraq."Follow My Leader" at London's Hampstead Theater is unlikely to be music to their ears though: |
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Spellbound (Apr 30 2004 14:56 GMT) - The God and Goddess have again postponed my big Lotto payday, upping the jackpot forecast by my Magic Chinese Fortune Cookie to the $40 million offered in this Saturday's drawing. Apparently S/he ignored my numbers Wednesday night to give me the opportunity to stumble across this informative exchange yesterday between... |
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- Took it from Jazznote's blog, I had to post it for myself here cos i think its beautiful!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Be very careful if you make a woman cry, because God counts... |
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- Don't trip over anything as you walk into the mists of history! The Herald's story notes that Speaker gets tepid adieu from House.The Plant City Republican's mercurial rule -- his my-way-or-the-highway style of leadership -- appears to have alienated some of the very people who anointed him leader. No Democrats chipped in to purchase the gifts, and, several legislators suggested, very few Republicans ponied up cash for Byrd's parting gifts, either.The Palm Beach Post account sees the same lack of enthusiasm -- In a sign of a brutal session that has left bruised feelings, House leaders had trouble passing the hat for traditional going-away presents for Speaker Johnnie Byrd. |
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