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Cluster Douche
2008-09-02 06:44:00 Labor Day Blog of the Day Awards for Monday September 1, 2008A Labor Day Blog of the Day Award goes to Cluster DoucheTechnorati TagsLabor Day Labor Day Awards Labor Day Blogs Blog Award Blog Awards winner Bloggers Blogs Awards Blogging Bloggies Weblogs Weblog Award of the day Award web online nominations Internet Blog of the Day Awards Blog of the Day Award Blog of the Day BOTDA winners Weblog Award Weblog Awards blogspotBe sure to submit your nominations early.Thank you
Cluster Watches Earth's Leaky Atmosphere
2008-08-29 16:27:00 From ESA Top News: Oxygen is constantly leaking out of Earth's atmosphere and into space. Now, ESA's formation-flying quartet of satellites, Cluster, has discovered the physical mechanism that is driving the escape. It turns out that the Earth's own magnetic field is accelerating
Possible Bird Flu cluster in Indonesia has doctors worried
2008-08-08 06:46:00 Last week, another young man in Indonesia died of Bird flu. That makes over 100 deaths in that country alone. At the same time, isolated cases in various countries from VietNam to China have been reported in humans, and the diagnosis of various strains of bird flu in chickens or wild birds has been reported in ...
Cluster Bombs
2008-07-09 16:15:00 The selling of weapons by countries for profit means the cycle of endless warfare and violence will not stop. The Large economy countries such as The United States and Russia let greed stand in the way of peace. Profit by Government leads to social, political and economical injustices for all peoples who find themselves in the path of power hungry politicians. a. global warming will see reduced emissions by 2050. - to lateb. cluster bombs will be "better designed" by 2015. - now that makes me feel better.c. petroleum from corn uses more petroleum to grow the corn than what its worth. - senselessd. Tax breaks may be coming for having more children. - how about tax incentives for fewer children? and on and on it goes. BrianCopyright 2006. All Rights Reserved. Brian Morrison
Japanese taxpayers face heavy burden over cluster bomb ban
2008-06-10 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}"From the moment the Foreign Ministry cleared up the issue of how to deal with the United States, it stopped thinking about defense and became really cold toward us. All it was worried about was looking good," a high-ranking Defense Ministry official said, referring to the Foreign Ministry's lead in the Japanese government's approach to agreeing to a draft treaty banning cluster munitions.The Foreign Ministry and Prime Minister's Office focused all their attentions ...
US Refuses To Abandon Cluster Bombing
2008-06-08 09:29:00 The United States refuses to join with most nations of the world in placing a ban on the use of cluster bombs in warfare. Cluster munitions are air-dropped bombs or ground-fired artillery shells and rockets than contain dozens of hundreds of smaller submunitions, or “bomblets” that carpet a large areas with explosions when released. The ...
Cluster ban treaty: 'interoperability' in context
2008-06-03 16:11:00 There has been a lot of media coverage of last week's agreement in Dublin on a Cluster Munition Convention - a groundbreaking agreement that prohibits cluster munitions that "cause unacceptable harm to civilians".Some of this media coverage has been thoughtful, measured and insightful. Indeed, some journalists, especially a number from Japan (for instance, see here), have followed the Oslo and UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) processes closely for many months now and are well aware of their many nuances. Certain other media coverage has been less thoughtful, and sometimes even misguided.I guess this is to be expected when overworked journos are under pressure to produce copy quickly for the general public, which captures the Dublin negotiation's essential elements. But it's hard to communicate something accurately when you don't properly understand it, especially on the vexed issue of so-called interoperability (Article 21 on "relations with states not parties...
Cluster Bombs, Made in America
2008-06-01 19:02:00 Sudhan @19:00 CET Editorial The New York Times, June 1, 2008 On Friday, 111 nations, including major NATO allies, adopted a treaty that sets an eight-year deadline to eliminate stockpiles of cluster arms ? pernicious weapons that scatter thousands of small bombs across a wide area, where they pose a long-term deadly threat to innocents. The Bush administration ...
By: Suzie-Q
Cluster Munition Convention: "Disarmament as humanitarian action"
2008-05-30 15:34:00 Today, the new Cluster Munition Convention banning cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians was adopted by the Dublin Conference at around 10h10. There were no objections expressed from the floor.A great number of delegations spoke to welcome the new treaty, which will enter into force internationally six months after 30 states have ratified or acceded to it. Given the speed at which the 1997 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention entered into force internationally almost a decade ago and the energy and commitment expressed in the conference chamber today, this may not take long.The final version of the treaty in English, French and Spanish should be available on the Dublin Conference website shortly, in addition to the Conference's procedural report.A couple of points stood out from the plethora of closing statements. The Ambassador of France said the Dublin Conference had been the most successful diplomatic conference he had taken part of in his career. I suspect...
Japan balks at supporting international ban on cluster bombs
2008-05-30 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}Japan declined Thursday to say whether it will support an agreement reached in Dublin to totally ban existing models of cluster munitions."The matter is being discussed. I've not heard of the details," Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura told a news conference Thursday morning."As the prime minister desires, Japan will make an active contribution to forming a consensus," Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said on Wednesday before the agreement was r ...
No Surprise to any that Israel, U.S. opt out of cluster ban
2008-05-29 22:47:00 Israel, the United States and four other major military powers opted out of an international ban on cluster bombs. The Dublin agreement signed Wednesday banning the airborne weapons, which scatter bomblets over a wide area, garnered 111 signatories, including European Union nations. Human rights... Click on the headlines to read the full story!
The U.S. Is Right Not To Join Cluster Bomb Ban
2008-05-29 17:33:00 The United States, China, Russia, Israel, and a few others, are right not to join the 110 countries in signing the treaty to ban cluster munitions from the battlefield. Cluster Bombs are a potent weapon that the U.S. military should continue to use whenever necessary. Human rights organizations which are of course championing this ban are ...
By: The Hot Joints
Cluster Bombs
2008-05-29 06:26:00 More than 100 countries reached agreement Wednesday to ban cluster bombs, controversial weapons that human rights groups deplore but which the United States, which did not join the ban, calls an integral, legitimate part of its arsenal. read more
By: BuzzVines
111 Nations Agree to Cluster-Bomb Ban
2008-05-29 06:24:00 LONDON, May 28 -- More than 100 countries reached agreement Wednesday to ban cluster bombs, controversial weapons that human rights groups deplore but which the United States, which did not join the ban, calls an integral, legitimate part of its
By: Get rich
Help ban cluster bombs!
2008-05-27 13:10:00 I've just sent a message to government leaders urging a strong ban on cluster bombs. I hope you'll join me. Here's the link: http://www.avaaz.org/en/ban_clu-ster_munitions/99.php?cl_tf_sig-n=1 And here's more info from Avaaz.org: Final negotiations are underway right now... Click on the headlines to read the full story!
Instrument cluster failure causes fuse #29 to blow.
2008-05-26 19:19:00 My failure includes all the dash instruments (odometer, speedometer, gauges and such) and also causes my overdrive button to not work on the automatic gear shift handle. I can replace the fuse and it will work for a while. Can anyone shed some light...
By: Fixya.com
The Raw Story: US opposes cluster bomb ban, backs 'technological fixes'
2008-05-22 22:59:00 The United States on Wednesday opposed a worldwide ban on cluster bombs, calling instead for "technological fixes" that would make them safer. State Department expert Stephen Mull told reporters the United States is "deeply concerned" about the danger of such munitions, but said a ban like one... Click on the headlines to read the full story!
All eyes on Dublin to put cluster munitions beyond the Pale
2008-05-19 21:13:00 I found it a bit hard to concentrate in the office today, knowing that a two-week diplomatic conference with the aim of banning cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians was kicking off in Dublin.The conference is the culmination of the Oslo Process on cluster munitions that began relatively small with a conference in Oslo in February 2007 and has since grown in size and momentum through further global meetings in Lima, Vienna and Wellington to reach where it is today. More than 100 governments have sent plenipotentiaries to Dublin and the scene is now set for tough negotiations on what has the potential to be the most significant disarmament treaty in a decade.For those of us who can't be in Dublin, there are fortunately many good ways of keeping up to date with what is going on there. One, of course, is this blog. My colleague John Borrie is participating in the conference in Dublin and will be posting updates and analysis here during this week. I will be joi...
World: Dublin Conference Aiming At Landmark Treaty On Cluster Bombs - Radio
2008-05-19 14:23:00 Javno.hrWorld: Dublin Conference Aiming At Landmark Treaty On Cluster BombsRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiber-ty, Czech Republic - 48 minutes agoThe last time the world saw a similar effort it led to the 1997 international ban on antipersonnel landmines. Now, campaigners hope cluster munitions, too, ...Video: Global move to ban cluster bombs - 19 May 2008 AlJazeeraEnglishall 205 news articles
World: Dublin Conference Aiming At Landmark Treaty On Cluster Bombs - Radio
2008-05-19 14:23:00 TopNewsWorld: Dublin Conference Aiming At Landmark Treaty On Cluster BombsRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiber-ty, Czech Republic - 6 hours agoThe last time the world saw a similar effort it led to the 1997 international ban on antipersonnel landmines. Now, campaigners hope cluster munitions, too, ...Video: Global move to ban cluster bombs - 19 May 2008 AlJazeeraEnglishIreland rallies world's diplomats to seek ban on cluster bombs International Herald Tribuneall 254 news articles
EIRCA Ltd expands hosting cluster to add third datacenter, experiences reco
2008-05-09 00:23:00 The company has expanded their Geographically Clustered Services core feature to a third datacenter in Washington D.C.
Pain and depression are known as a symptom cluster-Part I
2008-04-20 20:03:00 Many depression patients suffer from chronic pain. Many chronic pain patients are depressed. Pain often is seen concurrently with depression and fatigue such that the 3 are referred to as a symptom cluster. According to Bill H. McCarberg, MD, Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California, San Diego, and Founder, Chronic Pain Management Program, Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, CaliforniaAnxiety and insomnia are seen with chronic pain. Depression, anxiety, and insomnia are also seen with substance abuse in the chronic pain patient. substance abuse is a diagnosis and not a symptom and has a whole variety of symptoms that come along with it; for example, inappropriate drug-taking behavior. But if you're just looking for a symptom complex associated with chronic pain, then anxiety and insomnia would be very prominent. If you have fatigue, the fatigue relates to the pain itself, so you can have fatigue without insomnia and you can have fatigue related to the insomnia.Sleep...
Global Day of Action on cluster munitions tomorrow
2008-04-18 09:51:00 Over the last week, the Disarmament Insight blog has focused on ongoing efforts in the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) to devise a response to the humanitarian impacts of cluster munitions. The elephant in the room at the CCW's expert meeting in Geneva last week, of course, was the Dublin Conference. This negotiating conference, to be held from 19 to 30 May, is anticipated to be the culmination of the Oslo Process's efforts to complete a humanitarian treaty on cluster munitions.And there is certainly plenty activity occurring in support of the Dublin Conference. A fortnight ago, African states met near the Victoria Falls in Zambia, and agreed the Livingstone Declaration on cluster munitions, which we understand was endorsed there by Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo (Republic of), Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ghana, Guinea Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar...
Link Cluster Building Ideas
2008-04-15 20:51:00 Courtney Tuttle recently posted an article about Link Clusters. I thought I'd add to this discussion by writing an article about the link cluster building methods I'm using and some things I'm experimenting with right now.
By: OpTempo
Rumah Baru Di Cluster Exclusive (IDR 1,346,000,000)
2008-04-15 09:15:00 Rumah baru dua lantai di cluster exclusive di Pondok Bambu Jakarta Timur. Luas tanah 210 m2, luas bangunan 250 m2. Dengan 4 kamar tidur.
Cautious steps around cluster bombs
2008-04-11 15:02:00 Today the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW)'s group of governmental experts wrapped up its second session of work for 2008. Scheduled as the only major multilateral meeting on cluster munitions between the Wellington Conference and culminating negotiations of the Oslo Process on a cluster munition treaty in Dublin in May, this week's CCW shindig was, in effect, also an informal on-the-margins Dublin preparatory meeting. So it's worth briefly taking stock of where things are on international efforts to address the humanitarian effects of cluster munitions.Readers may be aware that last November the CCW managed to agree on a mandate to "negotiate a proposal" on cluster munitions with several weeks of work in 2008 to elaborate exactly what this would entail. It's fair to say that the CCW achieved its mandate because of the momentum the Oslo Process was generating outside it (see previous posts to see how this unfolded). The irony of this is not lost on those invol...
Landmines and Cluster Bombs
2008-04-11 11:45:00 Mashal was six years old when he and his family returned home to Kabul, Afghanistan after the war in 2001. Like many children do, Mashal was playing outside of his home when his mother heard a loud explosion. He screamed once and then became quiet. His right leg had been completely blown off.1 Landmines kill nearly ...
By: Trying to Follow
IBM Hydro-cluster supercomputer
2008-04-09 21:51:00 IBM Hydro-cluster supercomputer (09/Abr/2008) IBM está trabajando en nuevas formas de enfriar supercomputadores, utilizando agua tan cerca como sea posible de los chips para extraer de ellos el calor.
Israel?s technology cluster Land of milk and start-ups - Economist
2008-04-05 13:49:00 Israel's technology cluster Land of milk and start-upsEconomist, UK-0;- Mar 19, 2008Israel also ...
By: Israel-Times.com
Star cluster takes name from Egyptian queen
2008-04-04 20:03:00 While virtually all of the constellations are named for mythological people, beasts and inanimate objects, Berenice's Hair (known as Coma Berenices) is actually associated with a real person.
Cluster Munition Fact Sheet: A view from the field
2008-03-26 09:00:00 Last week, we posted on the blog a U.S. public document on ?Putting the impact of cluster munitions in context with the effects of all explosive remnants of war? issued on 15 February. In this blog post, Andy Smith offers a view from the field.It?s always good to know what the official U.S. Department of State attitude is on a given subject. That said, a recent "Fact sheet" or ?White Paper? seems to me, as a professional in demining, to present only one side of a polemic. The timing of its release seemed clearly intended to counter the Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions.Having just updated the Database of Demining Accidents, I have found time to respond to several of the points in the U.S. ?Fact sheet??"...For example, there are practically no United States-produced landmines being found by de-miners anywhere in the world today."This is simply not true. U.S. mines are being cleared in large numbers today. For example, the minefield on the border between Syria and Jordan has ...
Israel?s technology cluster Land of milk and start-ups - Economist
2008-03-22 08:53:00 Israel's technology cluster Land of milk and start-upsEconomist, UK-0;- Mar ...
By: Israel-Times.com
Cluster Munitions: Putting impacts (and policies) in context
2008-03-19 11:41:00 On 15 February 2008, the American Department of State distributed a White Paper entitled 'Putting the Impact of Cluster Munitions in Context with the Effects of All Explosive Remnants of War'. In some respects, this document elaborated on U.S. statements in the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) process in June and November 2007.The U.S. document raised many issues, and represented a view contrasting with those of some others on effectively addressing the humanitarian impacts of cluster munitions. We're aware that it's generated considerable discussion, both publicly and in humanitarian demining and arms control circles. To that end, we wanted to bring the U.S. White Paper to the attention of our readers and, in the spirit of constructive debate, to invite your comments. We've reproduced the White Paper text (which is in the public domain) in its entirety below for your reference. Where the original text indicated web-links, we've activated these as hyperlinks...
Cluster on drivers side not working
2008-03-16 23:15:00 The cluster on the drivers side is not working, the back window has gone down & we cant get it back up, we have checked that the power lock switch is off, we have even had the RAC out but no joy, please can you help?
By: Fixya.com
From Welly to Dublin: cluster munition conference a success
2008-02-22 05:30:00 This week, 122 states met as part of the Oslo Process in Wellington, New Zealand, for a conference on addressing the humanitarian impacts of cluster munitions. The meeting, which concluded today, was widely hailed as a success. 72 countries present spoke up to explicitly endorse the Wellington Conference Declaration, with other states certain to follow in the weeks and months before Dublin.Wellington represents a crucial stage in the Oslo Process. Over the last year a 'core group' of countries (Austria, the Holy See, Mexico, Ireland New Zealand, Norway and Peru) has managed the process of developing a discussion text, which has become a "Draft Cluster Munitions Convention". That document was the focus of this week's talks. The hope was that, at the end of the meeting, states would associate themselves with the "Wellington Declaration", which a government must do if it wants to be admitted to formal negotiations in Ireland in the second half of May. Attached to the Declaration wou...
Cluster munitions: breaching the firewall?
2008-02-21 11:49:00 This week I've been reporting on the Wellington Conference on cluster munitions, as regular readers of this blog no doubt know. Many of the discussions at the Conference, both in plenary and in accompanying informal consultations on tricky issues like defining unacceptable cluster munitions and military inter-operability, are highly technical. To the uninitiated these talks are a morass of acronyms and legal or diplomatic-speak. And, as the (incomplete) timeline I prepared above shows, there have been many written proposals and other documents circulated.Tomorrow, New Zealand as Chair of the Conference will try to bring it to a successful conclusion, in readiness for formal negotiations on the draft Convention in Dublin, Ireland, in the second half of May. This, as I'll explain, will be a delicate task.The Oslo core-group of countries are seeking to take a leaf out of the Ottawa Process toward a treaty banning anti-personnel mines more than a decade ago. Way back then, a conferenc...
Cluster Munitions: Just a quickie ...
2008-02-20 11:58:00 It's well after midnight here New Zealand time, so this blog is just a brief one to outline some of what happened today at the Wellington Conference on cluster munitions, which is part of the Oslo Process.Today, in the plenary, there were sessions on mine clearance in the morning and victim assistance in the afternoon. As worthy and substantive as these issues were, I spent the day with many others in a smaller side chamber (well, upstairs in the Wellington Town Hall, actually) attending informal consultations on Article 2 of the draft Convention text.I'm not going to outline blow-by-blow what happened. But in the morning there were discussions under the direction of the Conference chair, Ambassador Don Mackay of New Zealand, on further possible exemptions to the definition of prohibited cluster munitions based on the text in Article 2(c). (You can find all of the conference documents, including the Wellington text, at the conference website here.)Although exploring potential base...
Cluster Bombs and Doing The Right Thing
2008-02-20 03:42:00 The conventional wisdom in this campaign has been that Obama and Clinton agree on most issues. While there are certainly areas of agreement, I’ve noted many significant differences in the past which have affected my decision as to who to support. One of these areas of difference is the topic of an international conference with ...
By: Liberal Values
Cluster munitions: Down to the nitty gritty
2008-02-19 11:28:00 Today's discussions at the Wellington Conference on cluster munitions - part of the Oslo Process to negotiate a treaty to address the humanitarian impacts of cluster munitions - got down to the nitty gritty on two key issues: definitions and military inter-operability.Informal consultations commencing at 8a.m. this morning tackled inter-operability: how and whether the prospective treaty on cluster munitions will set rules for military joint-operations between countries with differing legal obligations. In plain language, this is about what the obligations will be for member states working in military alliances with non-members - including questions of state and individual criminal liability if non-member states use cluster munitions in those operations. It also potentially applies to multinational interventions such as UN peace keeping or enforcement operations.It is fair to say that while these consultations (which resumed at the end of the afternoon for a while, after the confer...
Cluster Edge
2008-02-18 22:17:00 Cluster Edge Genre : Action - Adventure - Drama - Fantasy - Science-Fiction Length : 25 Episodes Year : 2005 Download Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Cluster munitions: the Wellington Conference begins
2008-02-18 11:29:00 Today, the Wellington Conference on addressing the humanitarian impacts of cluster munitions commenced - the last milestone on the way to negotiations on a treaty in Dublin in May as the culmination of the so-called Oslo Process we've followed over the last year on this blog.Many delegates arrived this morning at the Wellington Town Hall jet-lagged but wired awake with coffee, having arrived from all over the world over the weekend. They were eased into their first of five days of work with a traditional Maori welcome called a Powhiri by a group representing the local Te Atiawa tribe. (The Te Atiawa, lacking a Maori word for cluster munition, simply decided to refer to the weapon as "taniwha", their word for monster.)Wellington represents a crucial stage in the Oslo Process. Over the last year a 'core group' of countries (Austria, the Holy See, Mexico, Ireland New Zealand, Norway and Peru) has managed the process of developing a discussion text which has become a "Draft Cluster M...
Review: Hosting Cluster
2008-02-13 17:45:00 Existen una cantidad considerable de empresas que ofertan servicios de hosting pero la mayoría de usuarios poco o nada entienden del tema a no ser que cuenten con un personal idóneo para evaluar requerimientos de hosting y una serie de características que necesitamos para poder alojar nuestros proyectos en Internet, pues bien La Primera Telecomunicación ...
The Google Cluster Architecture
2008-02-10 12:09:00 Few Web services require as much computation per request as search engines.On average, a single query on Google reads hundreds of megabytes of data and consumes tens of billions of CPU cyclesHere is an intreseting PDF document which explain how Google Cluster Architecture works.
By: Google Station
Honey Bunches of Oats 2.00 coupon Real Chocolate Cluster
2008-02-08 00:22:00 I want it to be mailed to me Thank youYour request has been processed by Coupons, Inc. Your coupon will be mailed to the address provided. T...
Cluster munition resources online
2008-02-07 10:39:00 2008 is shaping up to be the international year of the cluster munition. There are not one but two multilateral process underway to try to address the weapon's humanitarian effects. There is work to "negotiate a proposal" on cluster munitions in the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). And there is a free-standing "Oslo Process" that emerged early in 2007 following the Norwegian Foreign Minister's decision to host an international conference in Norway's capital to kick-start efforts to ban cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians.Over the past year, Disarmament Insight has provided commentary on both processes, and will continue to do so in 2008. Many people have inquired with us about online resources on cluster munitions, and so we offer some suggestions below.To search our blog for commentary on cluster munitions, the easiest method is to use the search box at right, or click on a relevant word in the word cloud below it. Useful key words or...
Virtual Dedicated Hosting Cluster Service
2008-02-02 02:50:00 Cartika Hosting, a business Web hosting provider, revealed it has introduced the Web hosting... Build your website in 2 hours. Visit http://www.lunarpages.com/id/we-bsbesthost
Virtual Dedicated Hosting Cluster Service
2008-02-02 02:50:00 Cartika Hosting, a business Web hosting provider, revealed it has introduced the Web hosting... Build your website in 2 hours. Visit http://www.lunarpages.com/id/we-bsbesthost
Linux Enterprise Cluster: Build a Highly Available Cluster with Commodity H
2008-02-01 04:02:00 Linux Enterprise Cluster: Build a Highly Available Cluster with Commodity Hardware and Free Software (Paperback)By Karl Kopper Buy new: $36.4639 utilised and new from $25.49 Customer Rating: First tagged “linux” by Walter F. Croft ...
Galaxy cluster emitting X-rays might be a giant particle accelerator
2008-01-25 13:08:00 European Space Agency’s orbiting gamma-ray observatory, Integral, has made the first unmistakable discovery of highly energetic X-rays coming from a galaxy cluster, which seems like a giant particle accelerator. According to ESA, the X-rays are originating from the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster. Because, the X-rays detected are too energetic to originate from inactive hot gas inside the galaxy cluster, scientists suggest that giant shockwaves must be rippling through the gas. This has turned the galaxy cluster into a giant particle accelerator. Four years ago, data from the Italian/ Dutch BeppoSAX satellite showed a possible extra component of high-energy X-rays, but in a different cluster, the Coma cluster. "Two groups analysed the data. One group saw the component but the other did not," said Dominique Eckert, Integral Science Data Centre (ISDC), University of Geneva, Switzerland. This prompted Eckert and colleagues fro...
By: B4U India
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