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  August 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
August 6, 2004 - A United Nations report that blames the government of Sudan for crimes against humanity in Darfur is released.
August 16, 2003 - Severe flooding in the village of Boscastle in Cornwall.
August 31, 2004 - A woman commits a suicide attack near a subway station in northern Moscow, Russia, killing at least 10 people and injuring at least 50.
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 Blog 702: August 2004
During August of last year, we promulgated a proposed model local rule to govern motion practice involving the admissibility of expert testimony.
Courtesy of Dedman, we've posted a new Texas decision affirming the exclusion of rebuttal testimony from a treating physician as a sanction for failure to comply with disclosure requirements.
Courtesy of Petit, we've posted a new Illinois decision reversing the admission of hypnotically enhanced eyewitness testimony in a murder trial, and also reversing the exclusion of the defense expert who opined that hypnotically enhanced memories are unreliable.
www.daubertontheweb.com /2004_08_01_archive.html   (2201 words)

  
 Russian aircraft bombings of August 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Russian aircraft bombings of August 2004 was a terrorist attack on two domestic Russian passenger aircraft at around 23:00 on August 24, 2004.
The debris of the aircraft was found on the morning of August 25, 2004 9 km from village Glubokoye, Rostov Oblast in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky Raion.
Itar-Tass news agency reported on August 30, 2004, "without a shadow of a doubt", the FSB security service said that "both airplanes were blown up as a result of a terrorist attack".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russian_aircraft_bombings_of_August_2004   (866 words)

  
 Welcome to 201k.com - A Commonwealth Perspective.: August 2004
After the initial report -- which had half the citizens of the Northeast, and all the the national media types -- jumping, it came out that the information was years old and that there had been no "specific threat".
Of course, even the fact that a terrorist may have looked at this file as recently as January 2004, if in fact one did, is an uncomfortable thought.
Oh hey, that reminds us: the other day we were talking to a prosecutor, and he told us that if it wasn't for judges and juries he could convict a lot more criminals, and keep the streets a lot safer.
www.pookastew.com /k123/2004_08_01_archive.html   (5320 words)

  
 Newmark's Door: August 2004 Archives
August 27, 2004 in Current Affairs, Economics
But now the Gramscian monopoly is crumbling, and they cannot see how they are themselves largely to blame for their own discrediting.
August 25, 2004 in Current Affairs, Weblogs
newmarksdoor.typepad.com /mainblog/2004/08/index.html   (3672 words)

  
 Ginn Weblog: August 2004 Archives
Dissent, comments that "When the International Criminal Court announced in January 2004 that its landmark first investigation would be into the brutal war in Northern Uganda, the statement was met with widespread and passionate condemnation from within the East African country..."
After a discussion of the factors influencing the situation, Branch concludes that, "...when international prosecution is not in solidarity with local demands, then the idea that any part of humanity is entitled to punish those guilty of "crimes against humanity" necessarily entails a rejection of others' autonomy and self-determination.
In the August 12, 2004 issue of the New York Review of Books, John Ryle provides an analysis of the U.S. response to the impending crisis in Sudan as well as its success in promoting a preliminary peace agreement in the South betweent he government and the rebels.
blogs.fletcher.tufts.edu /ginnblog/archives/2004_08.html   (961 words)

  
 westcoastmusic: August 2004
On August 26, 2004, world-renowned singer, actress, and songwriter Laura Branigan passed away at her East Quogue, New York residence of a brain aneurysm.
Laura was currently at work performing concerts at various venues, as well as continuing to record her album of new material, and it was with great expectation and anticipation that fans everywhere were awaiting its release.
In 2004, Jackson Brwowne was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and released "The Very Best of Jackson Browne," featuring 32 songs that span his entire career.
noted.blogs.com /westcoastmusic/2004/08   (9507 words)

  
 NickQueen.com » 2004 » August
Written on August 31st, 2004 in Uncategorized by nicolasqueen
Written on August 30th, 2004 in Uncategorized by nicolasqueen
So shocked by the reaction, the taller of the two daughters tried to ’shhhhhh’ her peers to no avail.
www.nickqueen.com /?m=200408   (530 words)

  
 Netcraft: August 2004 Archives
The Senate's computers have previously been criticized for lax security that allowed Republican political operatives to obtain confidential Democratic memos, which were then leaked to the press.
In the August 2004 survey we received responses from 53,341,867 sites, a gain of more than 1.2 million sites from July.
The August increased marked the sixth time in the past year that the survey has shown a monthly gain exceeding 1 million sites.
news.netcraft.com /archives/2004/08/index.html   (3601 words)

  
 GamersCircle :: August :: 2004
That means that each dungeon will be ‘instanced’ for each party, and won’t be populated by other groups of people trying to accomplish the same goals at the same time.” This we have to see.
His goal is to simply survive and to rescue a female reporter who had tagged along on the trip but was kidnapped by mercenaries who protect a laboratory hidden somewhere on the island.
In case you don't have a FilePlanet pay account, word on World of WarCraft.com is that they lifted the subscriber only restriction and are accepting normal applications.
www.gamerscircle.net /index.php?m=200408   (1807 words)

  
 The Commons Blog: August 2004 Archives
The Sept/Oct 2004 issue of Sierra continues the green attack on the General Mining Law of 1872, as part of the Kedwards attack on the Bush environmental record.
In the meantime, the rest of us can get on with working out ways to extract the massive remaining reserves of oil in a cost/effective manner while developing new energy technologies without being told which ones are best by government.
Residents of a tiny former gold mining town of La Grange, who have fought for three years to protect their water rights held since the goldrush, are bracing for a hike that could exceed a hundredfold.
commonsblog.org /archives/2004_08.php   (9633 words)

  
 Cynical-C Blog: August 2004 Archives
And the winner of the 2004 Darwin Award is...
Road Trip chronicled the European tour of the Minnesota Orchestra (Feb 9-16, 2004) through the eyes of one of the orchestra's violists - Sam Bergman.
By introducing a link to the ATHENS 2004 official Website on your site you are agreeing to comply with the ATHENS 2004 Website General Terms and Conditions.
www.cynical-c.com /archives/2004_08.html   (6909 words)

  
 Cox & Forkum: August 2004 Archives
On Sunday, August 15, a 16-year-old girl in the town of Neka, northern Iran, was executed.
UPDATE August 30: This cartoon appeared in the Sunday, August 29th edition of The Washington Times.
The officials said the aim would be to halt the flow of men, weapons and ammunition, as well as food and other supplies, into the militia-controlled area around the mosque, and to prevent any fighters from leaving until they have surrendered their weapons.
www.coxandforkum.com /archives/2004_08.html   (7613 words)

  
 ETVoice - August 2004
October 2004 - A tentative meeting of the ETV Air Pollution Control Technology Center Stakeholder Advisory Committee is planned for October 2004, in Research Triangle Park, NC.
October/November 2004 - A tentative meeting of the ETV Advanced Monitoring Systems Center Water Stakeholder Group is planned for October/November 2004, in Denver/Colorado Springs, CO. Meeting dates and additional details are to be determined.
September 12-15, 2004 - The 2004 American Public Works Association (APWA) International Public Works Congress and Exposition will be held September 12-15, in Atlanta, GA. The 150 educational sessions at the congress are presented bye3 public works professionals and are designed to offer participants a forum for information exchange, problem solving, and networking.
www.epa.gov /etv/etvoice/04-08.html   (1334 words)

  
 QandO: August 2004 Archives
In fiscal 2000, the surplus was $236 billion; for fiscal 2004, the Congressional Budget Office projects a $422 billion deficit.
The well-coordinated attack has produced a media tempest, but this is August, the doldrums between conventions, and we can't yet know how much real damage may be done.
And as we speak, a 2004 election plotline is developing among those who wish to see George W. Bush defeated.
www.qando.net /archives/2004_08.htm   (11737 words)

  
 Scenic Nursery | Gardening Blog: August 2004 Archives
Standard in the fall vegetable garden are all the vegetables related to cabbage.
this is one of the most dependable fall vegatables and late August and september through October is the time to get them in.
Cabbage is also seccessful here A little more difficult are those Brussels sprouts that mothers everwhere try to get their kids to eat.
www.scenicnursery.com /archives/2004_08.html   (936 words)

  
 stone: August 2004 Archives
In May, 2004, the phone I bought in 2002 was ruined in a boating "incident." I called Verizon, and was told that I was eligible for an upgrade.
I went to the local Verizon store, and found that I was not going to be cut any deal based on my time as a devoted customer, and would have to pay the same entry level price for a new phone as any new customer would.
When I demanded that Verizon produce evidence of this agreement, I was told that the agreement was oral, and that they had sent a confirmation package to me in the mail.
www.cenedella.com /stone/archives/2004/08   (7006 words)

  
 beSpacific: August 2004 Archives
August 24, 2004: Text of Letter from Congressman Conyers and Senator Leahy to AG Ashcroft Concerning Efforts to Destroy Public Documents.
The different standards applied to the dissemination of court filings and to the disclosure of financial data on judges is a topic of interest to legal researchers.
August 15, 2004, Washington Post, Bush Forces a Shift In Regulatory Thrust (first of three part article): "The analysis, combined with the more detailed look at specific regulatory decisions, shows how an administration can employ this subtle aspect of presidential power to implement far-reaching policy changes."
www.bespacific.com /mt/archives/2004_08.html   (7121 words)

  
 Cartoon Brew: August 2004 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Originally expected to debut August 20th on Spike TV, the date came to pass with nary a sight of the cat-and-dog duo.
Los Angeles: Sunday August 15, 2004, Los Angeles Comic Book & Science Fiction Convention at the Shrine Auditorium Expo Center, in collaboration with Cartoonmogul.com, will present a new brand of independent animation festival: a 2-hour program with online animators from across the US and from as far away as the Netherlands.
London: August 24-29 The London Animation Festival will be running a Spumco/John K retrospective; and tributes to Prtitt Parn, Phil Mulloy, Estonian animation and other rarely shown eye candy.
www.cartoonbrew.com /archives/2004_08.html   (12538 words)

  
 August 2004
August 21st, 2004 has been deemed National Homeless Animals Day and is sponsored by the International Society for Animal Rights in Pennsylvania.
On Sunday August 8, 2004 The Anguilla Animal Rescue Foundation was presented with a check in the amount of US$1000 by Vice President and General Manager of MasterCard for the Caribbean and Central America, Sergio Estevez to support the organization's 2004 spay/neuter programs.
The goal of the program is to provide surgeries to 300 animals including both cats and dogs this year.
www.aarf.ai /august_2004.htm   (2089 words)

  
 AUGUST 2004
Unfortunately, but perhaps understandably, I couldn't attend all the performances, and missed the Ensemble Intercontemporain performing new works by Aperghis and Murail (as well as Berio's "Laborintus II") and a very rare performance of Charles Ives' Fourth Symphony in Philharmonic Hall, played by the SWR Orchestra conducted by Sylvain Cambreling.
In summary, the most interesting elements of this CD are the opening two tracks on tabletop guitar, which suggest that Gburek has much to contribute to the most advanced currents of contemporary improvised music.
The Rasp and Hasp material is carefully interleaved and the album well structured to pivot around a central wistful multitracked solo vocal from Gilbert, "Servile Smile".
www.paristransatlantic.com /magazine/monthly2004/08aug_text.html   (10867 words)

  
 Cassel: Civil Liberties Watch - August 2004 Archives
Also see the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, authored by Thomas Jefferson, for the same purpose, and a follow-up Kentucky Resolution of 1799 adopted by the Kentucky Legislature a year later in 1799.
These were men who were not a threat to the U.S., who were not anti-American, who never took up arms against any one, but who, it is true, were sympathetic to the Muslim cause.
One of the men who pled not guilty had been in Saudi Arabia at the same time that Abu Ali was “detained.” He was extradited to the United States, and Judge Brinkema found him not guilty.
blogs.citypages.com /ecassel/2004/08/index.asp   (4805 words)

  
 seattlepi.com Buzzworthy: August 2004 Archives
Given that NBC's corporate-climbing contest, "The Apprentice," is a hit show, maybe it's not such a stretch to imagine that a lot of people would want to win a "business professional action figure" modeled after them.
Though 2004 is a dozen years later and some of the names of the players have changed, much of the game being played remains the same today.
Phishing scams have also shown an alarming jump -- from virtually nil last August to an average of 250,000 messages a month during the first six months of 2004.
blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com /buzz/archives/2004_08.html   (9918 words)

  
 Palabris: August 2004 Archives
According to an NYPD guidebook printed for the convention and obtained by Newsday, cops assigned to convention duty are likely to have their hands full with strident protest groups that don't have permits to march and generally don't play by the rules.
The 35-page booklet, "Legal guidelines for the Republican National Convention," was printed to let cops know what to expect when the protest groups that police generally call anarchists roll into town the last week of August, police sources say.
So, in his defense, the Billionaires for Bush are declaring August 14th "Defend Dick Cheney Day", a National Day of Action.
www.palabris.com /archives/2004_08.html   (2306 words)

  
 August 2004
The background to their case is that on the 17th September 2002, Martin and Mark were arrested on the Omeath Road, Newry, and charged, several days later with possession of explosives with intent.
Based on revelations made in a UTV insight broadcast on the 23rd of February 2004 the case is now under investigation.
It is important to note that a forensic report dated 25th April 2003 but only received by his defense team on the 14th June 2004, confirms that Kevin Byrne’s DNA was discovered on the front of the other improvised explosive device.
www.irishfreedomcommittee.net /NEWS/august_2004.htm   (10221 words)

  
 Dominion Weblog: August 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
by Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti Thursday, Aug. 19, 2004 at 9:14 PM "In the early hours of August 17, a sham trial in Port-au-Prince acquitted notorious Haitian rights abusers Jackson Joanis and Jodel Chamblain of the 1993 murder of businessman Antoine Izmery.
Neither the judiciary nor the prosecution made even the minimum effort required by law to pursue this important case.
- As we approach the 2004 elections, the number and frequency of terror alerts keeps growing, to the point that they collapse in the graphic.
dominionpaper.ca /weblog/2004/08/index.html   (3285 words)

  
 EFF: DeepLinks
On August 5, 2004, 40 State Attorneys General wrote an open letter to P2P United, an industry group that represents many of the major peer-to-peer software vendors, such as Grokster, Morpheus, and eDonkey.
In the letter, the AGs accuse the companies and their technology of illegal and unethical practices -- specifically, of contributing to the dissemination of child pornography, copyright infringement, spyware, and viruses.
The VOIP Regulatory Freedom Act of 2004 would have kept the FCC from regulating VoIP, among other things.
www.eff.org /deeplinks/archives/2004_08.php   (5787 words)

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