“The Ministry of Defense requests that civilians do not comply with the orders of the army or police on nightly patrols unless they are accompanied by coalition forces working in that area.”
On Saturday, April 1st, 2006 Help Build Hope will join forces with Habitat for Humanity & Crossroads Missions to launch a project to frame 20 homes for the hurricane victims in one day. Approximately 1,200 volunteers from the tri-state will come together in the parking lot of Eastside Christian Church in Milford and begin the process of restoring hope for an entire community. The completed walls will then be sent to the Gulf Coast and be completed by Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans.There's a PayPal link on the page - you can drop them a couple of bucks, buy a board or two. Or even three.
Some say Cladophora's resurgence is a nuisance algal bloom, not a harmful algal bloom...And in other microbial news...
Police confiscated two computer hard drives, one installed recently, from Huff's North Seattle apartment, but computer viruses have prevented police from retrieving data, said Capt. Tag Gleason, head of the violent-crimes unit.Huh?
Currently, most Indiana computer users set their PCs to a special “Indiana East” setting -- Eastern time that doesn't spring forward every April. Starting this April, however, they'll change their PCs to Eastern Daylight Time. The few who observe Central time set their computers to Central, and will also make the switch.Most of Indiana is on Eastern time in the winter, except for a little corner of it just south of Chicago that's on Central. But in the summer all hell breaks lose. Or broke, is it turns out. Because this year will be different. This year they'll observe a state-wide DST, whereas in the past it's been a sort of local option thing.
Yes, you can lead a dull life in Paris [too] like anywhere else in the world. One of my favorite activities is going to the nearby park and observing the ducks there. I like watching them hop out of a pond quacking in a small group, cross the park alley and then plunge into another pond (there are four ponds in this park).This from a correspondent to the Dull Men's Club, which we have added to our YAME blogroll. That's the list of other sites over there on the right. The club, not the correspondent. Is what we added.
Now the residents of this far-flung village have become, in one sense, among the most watched people in the land, with — as former Mayor Freeman Roberts puts it — “one camera for every 30 residents.”
“You better smile. You're on camera,” says Roberts, 64, a barge captain. Roberts himself isn't smiling as he points out a single camera on the side of a building. The camera is aimed toward an alley.A fishing town on Nushagak Bay, Dillingham is ice-bound half the year. “I don't think we have to worry about Osama bin Laden,” Roberts says. But Police Chief Richard Thompson disagrees, insists terrorists could “backdoor it,” next thing you know, “phoooom.” And anyway it's only 800 miles from Russia, Dillingham is, Thompson points out. And only 1,200 miles from Seattle. So just do the math.
Meanwhile high school wrestling coach Johnny Johnson takes the American way out: “If you're not doing anything wrong, what does it matter?”
Turn your head a little to the right, Johnny. I think we're getting your bad side here.
The thesis was expounded in a highly controversial article for Prospect magazine by Alison Wolf, a professor at Kings College London and author of Does Education Matter? She argues that the meteoric rise of this new generation of 'go-getting women' who want high-powered, well-paid jobs has dire consequences for society. Wolf says it has diverted the most talented away from the caring professions such as teaching, stopped them volunteering, is in danger of ending the notion of 'female altruism', has turned many women off having children - and has effectively killed off feminism.
Beane ordered two Whopper Jr.s and two Rodeo cheeseburgers when he pulled up to the drive-through window last Tuesday.
Already, the roof is leaky, the steel beams holding it together have corroded, and chunks of concrete have rained down on the roadway...Detours and complications. Get used to it.
'We're going to do everything we can to make this as painless as possible, but there will be detours and complications,“ said Karl Haglund, a regional planner for the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Amid fears of Axis sabotage, the city's Office of Civilian Defense was created in 1941 under Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia. By the 1950's, magazines were trying to predict what would happen if, say, a 20-megaton bomb were dropped on Manhattan.Back half a century ago and more, in those halcyon pre-911 days when, according to Dubya's somewhat blurry understanding of history we thought the oceans would protect us, while New York City officials were proposing building a bomb shelter under the flower beds in front of the New York Public Library, someone stashed a supply of “water drums, medical supplies, gauze bandages and bitter-tasting ration crackers” under the Brooklyn Bridge's main entrance ramp in lower Manhattan (which would make it an easy walk, by the way, from the World Trade Center site). Which was recently discovered. The cache, that is, not the bridge. The bridge, as far as I know, has been pretty much right there all along.
Owner Jiri Plevka said: “Beer can treat a range of conditions, particularly skin conditions, and the health centre should appeal to men who are put off by 'posh' traditional spas.And there is no evidence, sniffs Oxford American by the way, ”to support the folk etymology that posh is formed from the initials of port out starboard home.“ Which I mention here as evidence. And also, incidentally, to propagate the folk etymology for which there is none. If you see what I mean.
Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us.Global warming? Oh that unexpectedly. Right.
“It was a zombie party. People had a lot of make-up on,” Mr Kerlikowske said. “There was fake blood squirted, and people were made-up to look as if they were dead.”A participant shoots eight, six die. Not counting himself.
HANOVER -- In the marble halls of the State House, the consensus among lawmakers is clear: Massachusetts should raise the age at which a teenager can get a drivers' license from 16 1/2 to 17 1/2. They say drivers under 17 1/2 are unready for the dangers of the road.Of course the plan is heartily opposed by (are you ready for this?) kids, including one Andrew who wants to “experience the open road.” And Rachel, who doesn't want to ride with her “psycho cousins” any more. And the usual suspects.
Already, many stores and malls across the U.S. are preparing for seasonal events, with some refraining from usage of terms like “the Easter Bunny,” opting instead for more generic terms like “Spring Bunny,” or other names avoiding the name “Easter.”A war on Easter! Just like the good old days. Errrr, months. I'm still suffering PHSD from Christmas. And I skipped Valentine's Day. Not that CVS did - they spent a couple of months on it. Seems like every holiday takes a couple of months now, even New Year's Day by the time they finish playing all the bowl games.
