2) "Variable or uneven in character or quality."
"After going 4-4 with a 4.28 ERA in 15 regular-season starts, the 23-year-old rookie right-hander has been dominant in the playoffs, giving up only two runs and eight hits over 11 1-3 innings in two outings. Jimenez has not earned a postseason decision, but kept the Rockies close enough to win both games."
Image of Center Fielder Coco Crisp from Randomography (no credit)
In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free.
The Times said the project had met expectations, drawing 227,000 paying subscribers — out of 787,000 over all — and generating about $10 million a year in revenue.
“But our projections for growth on that paid subscriber base were low, compared to the growth of online advertising,” said Vivian L. Schiller, senior vice president and general manager of the site, NYTimes.com.
"Indeed, an alternate-universe history is begging to be written, in which Bush Jr. and Osama are allied in a struggle against Progressia, a left-wing enclave north of the US border..."
"New Word: "Padumps" (Pronounced, Pa - Dumps) The thingy's that go in your ears with the I-Pod system, that 'dump' content into your ears, padumps.
Vicki-Lynn, Toronto, August 26, 2007"
[PDF] FSU’s new president—on the job
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat -view as HTML
degrees in computer science from. FSU and succeeded in their. careers. ..... “padump-padumps” and other sounds. imitating trombones and kettle drums. ...
www.fsu.edu/~fstime/FS-Times/febmar03.pdf - Similar pages
"Don't casually question Jim Croft
about the music of John Philip Sousa
(1854-1932) if you're expecting a quick,
easy answer of “yeah, he was OK when it
came to marches.”
Croft, a much-respected music professor
and the director of bands at Florida
State University, loves to talk about Sousa's
harmonic structure, “his judicious use of
contrast,” the “little hooks he throws in”
and the “diaphanous transparency and
dancelike quality” of certain marches.
If you'd like, he can sound out passages
of marches by sounding out the
music with lots of “hurrrrrumps” and
“padump-padumps” and other sounds
imitating trombones and kettle drums."
From Canada.com, the full article:
The Quebec provincial police acknowledged in a statement Thursday that their agents had infiltrated protesters demonstrating during the recent North American leaders summit in Montebello, Que. but denied that they acted as “agent provocateurs” to instigate violence.
“They had the mandate to spot and identify violent demonstrators to avoid the situation from getting out of hand,” the Surete du Quebec said in a statement. “The police officers were identified by demonstrators when they refused to throw projectiles.”
“At no time did the Surete du Quebec police officers act as agents provocateurs or committed criminal acts,” the statement adds.
A spokesperson for the police force refused to further comment on the statement.
Protesters have accused police of planting agents outside the Chateau Montebello to instigate violence during Monday’s demonstration.
A prominent labour official pointed Wednesday to video made available on YoutubeSurete du Quebec and RCMP riot squads.
The video shows the three black-clad bandana-wearing men being singled out by union organizers and the crowd. Other protesters started pointing at them and crying “police.”
One of the three men is seen shoving and swearing at Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union of Canada, who is angrily confronting the trio, demanding they put down the rocks, remove their bandanas, and identify themselves.
After being backed into a corner against a line of provincial police officers in riot gear, they try to force themselves through the police line and are arrested while the crowd cheers.
“People have the right to peacefully protest something they don’t like,” said ColesCharest.
“They think that they have the right to infiltrate us as they’ve done before. But to be packing large boulders, they were going to do something with those rocks and it wasn’t peaceful.”
© CanWest News Service 2007
"Korey Rowe, 24, a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq, was picked up by deputies at about 10:45 p.m. Monday, Otsego County Sheriff Richard Devlin Jr. said.
Rowe, along with Dylan Avery and Jason Bermas, are members of Louder Than Words, a production company that is working on a third edition of the movie "Loose Change," which contends the U.S. government was involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. That edition is intended to be a theatrical release."
(continue)
"In 1969, the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy held a hearing at which the physicist Robert Wilson was called to testify. Wilson, who had served as the chief of experimental nuclear physics for the Manhattan Project, was at that point the head of CERN’s main rival, Fermilab, and in charge of $250 million that Congress had recently allocated for the lab to build a new collider. Senator John Pastore, of Rhode Island, wanted to know the rationale behind a government expenditure of that size. Did the collider have anything to do with promoting “the security of the country”?:Wilson: No sir, I don’t believe so.
Pastore: Nothing at all?
Wilson: Nothing at all.
Pastore: It has no value in that respect?:
Wilson: It only has to do with the respect with which we regard one another, the dignity of men, our love of culture. . . . It has to do with are we good painters, good sculptors, great poets? I mean all the things we really venerate in our country and are patriotic about. . . . It has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to make it worth defending.
Asked to explain how their work, supported by public funds, contributes to the public good, particle physicists often cite Wilson, or offer some variation on his non-answer answer: the search for knowledge cannot be justified on other grounds; its value, like the particles under study, is irreducible."
“..the Soviet war in Afghanistan has often been referred to as the equivalent of the United States' Vietnam War.”
"The NATO mission in Afghanistan is being undermined by its members' failure to provide adequate troops and serious strategic mistakes, a British parliamentary committee said in a report Wednesday.
Echoing concerns expressed by senior British military figures in recent weeks, the legislators warned that the entire Afghan campaign is at risk if leading NATO countries continue to refuse to deploy additional personnel.
Lawmakers also criticized the pace of work to combat the opium trade in Afghanistan and said NATO was failing to communicate its successes to ordinary Afghans, handing the propaganda initiative to the Taliban."
(continue)
(my emphasis)
"Inge's remarks reflect the fears of serving generals that the government is so overwhelmed by Iraq that it is in danger of losing sight of the threat of failure in Afghanistan. One source, who is familiar with the fears of the senior officers, told The Observer: 'If you talk privately to the generals they are very very worried. You heard it in Inge's speech. Inge said we are failing and remember Inge speaks for the generals.'
Inge made a point in the Lords of endorsing a speech by Lord Ashdown, the former Liberal Democrat leader, who painted a bleak picture during the debate. Ashdown told The Observer that Afghanistan presented a graver threat than Iraq.
'The consequences of failure in Afghanistan are far greater than in Iraq,' he said. 'If we fail in Afghanistan then Pakistan goes down. The security problems for Britain would be massively multiplied. I think you could not then stop a widening regional war that would start off in warlordism but it would become essentially a war in the end between Sunni and Shia right across the Middle East.'
'Mao Zedong used to refer to the First and Second World Wars as the European civil wars. You can have a regional civil war. That is what you might begin to see. It will be catastrophic for Nato. The damage done to Nato in Afghanistan would be as great as the damage done to the UN in Bosnia. That could have a severe impact on the Atlantic relationship and maybe even damage the American security guarantee for Europe.'
Ashdown said two mistakes were being made: a lack of a co-ordinated military command because of the multinational 'hearts and minds' Nato campaign and the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom offensive campaign against the Taliban. There was also insufficient civic support on, for example, providing clean water.
Ashdown warned: 'Unless we put this right, unless we have a unitary system of command, we are going to lose. The battle for this is the battle of public opinion. The polls are slipping. Once they go on the slide it is almost impossible to win it back. You can only do it with the support of the local population."
(continue)
(paraphrasing)
"..the Toronto Blue Jays were either winning or tied going into the seventh, eighth or ninth in every game against the New York Yankees, and ended up losing 3 of 4."
"State media announced yesterday that Zheng Xiaoyu - former director of the State Food and Drug Administration - has been executed less than two months after being sentenced."
Pork barrel spending has shot up recently, with a stunning rise in the number of "earmarks" -- special provisions in spending bills which go to pet projects -- from almost none in the 1980s to over 13,000 last year.
Simply stated, our representatives sell earmarks to favored constituents in return for money and other forms of support. Disgraced Congressman Jack Cunnigham had a price list, written on offical stationary. Jack Abramoff called Congress a "favor factory" because of the way the earmarks have been used.
From: Boeing 787 Dreamliner Home
(Boeing 787 unveiling, from News.com.au)"The 787 will be the first large commercial airliner built mostly from light, sturdy composite materials instead of aluminum, making the plane more fuel-efficient and less expensive to maintain. Not only that but the manufacturing process is revolutionary.
Boeing has lined up a vast network of suppliers around the globe that are manufacturing large pieces of the 787, which are then flown on a superfreighter to the final assembly plant in Everett, north of Seattle, where the plane is essentially snapped together."
"Southern Afghanistan has seen fierce fighting in recent weeks. More than 2,900 people - mostly militants - have been killed in insurgency-related violence in Afghanistan this year, according to an Associated Press tally of numbers provided by Western and Afghan officials.
Of the 102 foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year, 46 were Americans, 18 Britons and 22 Canadians.
Also in the south, militants battled Afghan and US-led coalition troops in separate clashes that left 20 militants and one policeman dead, officials said.
Militants attacked at least three police checkpoints in Ghazni province on Tuesday, and ensuing gun battles left 13 militants and one officer dead, said. General Ali Shah Ahmadzai, the provincial police chief.
In Zabul province, Afghan and US-led coalition forces clashed with suspected Taliban militants on Tuesday in Shahjoy district, leaving seven militants dead and six others wounded, said Ali Kheil, a spokesman for the province's governor."
"All stored science and engineering data are recovered regularly with a success rate of nearly 100% across the constellation. The THEMIS ground systems continue to function very well."
Stage 1: Injection or “Coast” Phase
2/15/07 - 9/15/07
Right after launch all spacecraft are lined up in the same orbit with a 15.4 Re apogee.Stage 2: Orbit Placement Phase
9/15/07 - 12/15/07
The orbit placement phase is also called “Dawn phase” because the apogee of the orbits are on the dawn side of the magnetosphere. Probe 1 apogee is at 30 Re, Probe 2 at 20 Re, Probes 3 and 4 at 12 Re, and Probe 5 at 10 Re.Stage 3: Tail Science Phase
12/15/07 – 4/15/08
In the tail science phase the apogee of the orbits are in the magnetotail. Probe 1 apogee is at 30 Re, Probe 2 at 20 Re, Probes 3 and 4 at 12 Re, and Probe 5 at 10 Re.
(scroll down untill you see this icon :)
"The IMAGE mission was designed as a two-year mission but has exceeded all its scientific goals and has produced a fire hose of stunning images of the previously invisible region of space in the inner magnetosphere."(to get us hover cars)
The CIA has released "the Family Jewels," agents' reports on 25 years of illegal activities ending in 1974. CIA Director, General Michael Hayden, says it reveals "a very different time and a very different agency." How different is the CIA now, with Dick Cheney holding the intelligence portfolio for President Bush?
Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said Sunday that a court should decide whether the vice president belongs to the executive or legislative branch. "The vice president needs to make a decision," he said.
Lea Anne McBride, a Cheney spokeswoman, said Emanuel is the one who has to decide. "He can either deal with the serious issues facing our country or create more partisan politics," she said.
|
| Web | Results 1 - 10 of about 185,000 for tornado elie manitoba. (0.09 seconds) |
News results for tornado elie manitoba- View today's top stories | |
 | Violent tornado spares town's residents - Globe and Mail - 21 hours ago |
| F4 Tornado Hits Elie Manitoba. Images from CTV.ca Photo Gallery Saturday June 23,2007 Photo: Sara Tkachyk Photo: Sara Tkachyk Photo: Sara Tkachyk ... filter--blog.blogspot.com/2007/ |
| A tornado touches down near Elie, Manitoba on Friday. At least four homes were destroyed and several others damaged after a tornado hit the small town west ... www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/ |
| A damaged flour mill and a truck are shown in Elie, Manitoba after reports of ... Hudek said the Elie tornado will be especially memorable for one group. ... www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/ |
| elie manitoba tornado | |||
 | 7 | 8.54% | tornado elie manitoba |
| 6 | 7.32% | f4 tornado manitoba |
| 4 | 4.88% | tornado in elie manitoba |
| 4 | 4.88% | tornado in elie |
| 3 | 3.66% | tornado elie mb |
| 3 | 3.66% | tornado and elie and manitoba and june and 2007 |
| 3 | 3.66% | elie manitoba |
| 3 | 3.66% | elie mb. tornado |
| 2 | 2.44% | tornado in elie, manitoba |
| 2 | 2.44% | f4 tornado in manitoba |
| 2 | 2.44% | tornado hits manitoba |
| 1 | 1.22% | tornadoes in elie, manitoba |
| 1 | 1.22% | elie tornado photos |
| 1 | 1.22% | elie, manitoba tornado |
| 1 | 1.22% | tornado elie, mb |
| 1 | 1.22% | manitoba f4 tornado |
| 1 | 1.22% | tornadoes i |
| 1 | 1.22% | elie mb tornado photos |
| 1 | 1.22% | elie manito |
| 1 | 1.22% | elie manitoba, tornado, 2007 |
| 1 | 1.22% | tornado, elie,mb |
| 1 | 1.22% | tornadoe in elie manitoba |
| 1 | 1.22% | tornadoes in elie mb pictures |
| 1 | 1.22% | tornadoes in |
| 1 | 1.22% | elie f 4 |
| 1 | 1.22% | elie f4 tornado |
| 1 | 1.22% | tornadoes in elie mb |
| 1 | 1.22% | elie f4 |
| 1 | 1.22% | elie, manitoba, tornado |
| 1 | 1.22% | tornadoes in elie manitoba |
| 1 | 1.22% | tornado in elie mb. |
| 1 | 1.22% | tornadoes from elie |
| 1 | 1.22% | tornado photo elie mb |
| 1 | 1.22% | tornadoes elie manitoba |
| 1 | 1.22% | tornado in elie mb |
| 1 | 1.22% | tornado and elie |
| 1 | 1.22% | manitoba tornado photos |
