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  May 17 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years).
International Day Against Homophobia aka IDAHO - Observed annually since 2005 by members of the LGBT community and their allies worldwide and aimed at decreasing homophobia, May 17 was chosen as the day of the event because homosexuality was removed from the International Classification of Diseases of the WHO on May 17 1990.
May 16 - May 18 - April 17 - June 17 – listing of all days
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/May_17   (1405 words)

  
 May 17 - Norway's Constitution Day (Norway - the official site in the United States)
The May 17 celebrations vary from place to place, but usually follow a traditional pattern that makes this the highlight of the year for most Norwegian children.
May is the month when spring really blooms in Norway, and this influences the menu chosen for the day.
May 17th is also the day students in their last year of upper secondary school celebrate the end of 13 years of school, even though many still have to pass final exams.
www.norway.org /culture/heritage/nationalday.htm   (568 words)

  
 May 17, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guantánamo Bay Qur'an desecration allegations: The Bush Administration suggests that to undo "damage" caused by the story, Newsweek explain the process by which their story alleging Qu'ran desecration, which sparked riots leading to 17 deaths, came into being.
Survivors from Andijan who have crossed the border to Kyrgyzstan say that government troops opened fire without warning and that they were shelled in the Kyrgyzstan border crossing.
Opposition believes that as many as 745 may be dead.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/May_17,_2005   (481 words)

  
 Anderson's Syndrome: University of Utah News Release: May 17, 2001
May 17, 2001 -- Researchers have traced a rare disorder that causes muscle paralysis, heart arrhythmias and abnormal growth to mutations in a gene that encodes a pore-like ion channel that regulates the flow of potassium ions across cell membranes.
The number of diseases attributed to mutations in genes that encode ion channels is growing rapidly, according to Louis J. Ptácek, a neuro-geneticist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at the University of Utah.
In an article published in the May 18, 2001, issue of the journal Cell, a 22-member, international research team led by Ptácek and Ying-Hui Fu, Ph.D., also of the University of Utah, reported that mutations in the gene KCNJ2 cause Andersen's syndrome.
www.utah.edu /unews/releases/01/may/andersons.html   (1018 words)

  
 May 17 Agreement
The present Agreement may be modified amended or superseded by mutual agreement of the Parties.
Additional units equipped in accordance with the Appendix may be deployed in the Security Region for training purposes including the training of conscripts or in the case of operational emergency situations following coordination in accordance with procedures to be established by the Security Arrangements Committee.
It is understood that the Government of Lebanon may request appropriate action in the United Nations Security Council for one unit of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to be stationed in the Sidon area.
www.lebanese-forces.org /lebanon/agreements/may17.htm   (3023 words)

  
 Hit and Run
Comment by: independent worm at May 17, 2006 01:43 PM One possibility is that anti-smoking groups are lying to the public about the science in order to promote smoking bans.
Comment by: patrick at May 17, 2006 01:52 PM One possibility is that anti-smoking groups are lying to the public about the science in order to promote smoking bans.
Comment by: Pi Guy at May 17, 2006 02:28 PM This appears not to be simply an innocent misinterpretation of scientific evidence.
www.reason.com /hitandrun/2006/05/the_strategic_v.shtml   (1193 words)

  
 The Agonist: May 17 SARS Update
May 9: 149 probable cases, 13 deaths, 229 suspected cases.
NY Times, May 16: Taiwan's Health Minister accepts responsibility for poor handling of SARS and resigns.
As for the epidemic's lessons about transparency, and calls for truthfulness in reporting by the new leadership of President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, so far these seem to mean chiefly that the top leaders don't want to be lied to by their fearful subordinates.
www.agonist.org /archives/002462.html   (529 words)

  
 Obituaries: May 17, 2005
Memorials may be directed to the Heritage Community of Kalamazoo, 620 Phillips St., Kalamazoo, MI 49007; the Kalamazoo Audubon Society, P.O. Box 19333, Kalamazoo, MI 49019; or to the People's Church, 1758 N. 10th, Kalamazoo, MI 49009.
Her obituary may be found at www.gronerfuneralhome.com, where condolence messages may be left for the family.
Memorial contributions may be directed to the Salvation Army or to the Traverse City Senior Center.
www.record-eagle.com /2005/may/17obit.htm   (2637 words)

  
 Today in History: May 17
The Kentucky Derby, now run annually the first Saturday in May, is the oldest consecutively held thoroughbred horse race in America.
During May each year, Louisville hosts not only the Kentucky Derby but also an acclaimed horse show at the Kentucky State Fair.
May 17 is Norwegian Constitution Day, a commemoration of the adoption of Norway's constitution in 1814.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/may17.html   (992 words)

  
 CORN Newsletter: 2005-12, May 9, 2005 May 17, 2005 May 17, 2005
My counterpart at Purdue, Dr. Bob Nielsen, commented in his most recent newsletter article (May 8, 2005) that he had visited a number of fields in east central Indiana Friday afternoon that had not yet emerged even though the calendar was approaching three weeks since they had been planted.
May be due to planter malfunction, bird or rodent damage.
May be due to soil moisture and temperature variability within the seed zone.
agcrops.osu.edu /story.php?setissueID=82&storyID=452   (1181 words)

  
 "Idol" Voting Slammed - May 17, 2004 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
May 17, 2004, 4:35 PM PT When it comes to American Idol fans, middle-aged housewives with limited patience are no match for so-called "power dialers" and cell-phone-equipped text messagers.
The piece comes less than a week after Idol's latest voting controversy, in which polished wedding-band belter La Toya London was bounced from the show with three weeks to go, having failed to secure enough votes to place her ahead of the shakier likes of Hawaiian teen Jasmine Trias.
In a telephone press conference with reporters Friday, the poised London conceded that something as old-fashioned as personality, or lack of apparent one, may have been the reason she was sent packing.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,14123,00.html   (788 words)

  
 Daily Press Briefing -- May 17
A registered U.S. exporter may be use this spare parts license exemption up to 24 times a year.
You know, it may not be required Vienna Convention, but this is something the Government of Lebanon has asked for.
He is then going to go to Bangkok, May 22nd to May 23rd to talk about the U.S. ASEAN dialog.
www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/dpb/2006/66408.htm   (8126 words)

  
 *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Book of Days | May 17 | Rogation Monday Antikythera mechanism Professor ...
May 16 for the meaning of the Rogation Days), the town of Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire, England, had a festival called the ‘Bezant’.
This holiday commemorates the May 17, 1968, amendments to the constitution of this tiny Pacific nation, which established a republic with a parliamentary system of government.
Pascal Baylon (1540 - May 17, 1592) was a Spanish friar and is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, a mystic and contemplative who had frequent ecstatic visions.
www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/may17.html   (2284 words)

  
 City Week Listings (May 11 - May 17, 1995)
Opening May 17 and continuing through May 20: The 42nd annual Tucson Press Club Gridiron Show, Full Frontal Newt-ity, a production that promises to be a raucous, ribald, rollicking musical revue of the year's news and newsmakers.
May 13 only: Over 60 elementary, middle and secondary school students from the Wildcat Art enrichment program will exhibit their works from 10:30 a.m.
On display are 185 military, commercial and civilian aircraft, including a full-scale mock-up of the Kitty Hawk, a presidential plane used by news media and JFK during the 1960s, numerous photos, air and space uniforms and memorabilia.
www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/05-11-95/citylist.htm   (7923 words)

  
 Patterns from Nowhere: Science News Online, May 17, 2003
In high-latitude regions, where the ground may thaw only a few times each year, sorted patterned ground may take centuries to arise, according to the model.
Although temperatures along the cracks may never rise above freezing, the ice begins to sublimate, or move directly from solid form to a vapor.
Samples of gases trapped in layers of precipitation that fell 3 million to 4 million years ago, if they still exist and can be recovered from the glacier, could give scientists insight into what Earth's atmosphere was like at a time when the planet's climate was around 3°C warmer than it is today.
www.sciencenews.org /20030517/bob10.asp   (2503 words)

  
 May 17 Institute
We may have a big pot and we may have a lot of states, but we need the right message.
Ralph Reed may have thought that he won by using the rebel flag in South Carolina and Georgia, but we can take those states if we go back and convince those individuals that we're strong on our military, we're strong on foreign policy -- and that we also provide jobs and hope and opportunity.
Some of this may be uncomfortably true, but the contrast caricatures both sides, and poisons the debate.
www.socialdemocrats.org /May17InstituteTranscript.html   (22859 words)

  
 BW Online | May 17, 2002 | Stephen Wolfram's Simple Science
No doubt his most controversial notion is the radical claim that most of what happens in nature, from the way leaves flutter in the breeze to the thought patterns of our brains, may spring from the same computational processes.
He says his theory may even supplant today's physics; because it doesn't require calculus, it will attract smart researchers who don't want to learn advanced math.
But by challenging scientific orthodoxy, Wolfram may force scientists to explore new avenues in their quest for knowledge.
www.businessweek.com /technology/content/may2002/tc20020516_7010.htm   (2202 words)

  
 Daily Press Briefing for May 17 -- Transcript
As I think, some of you may remember about a month ago at the NATO meetings in Lithuania, Kosovo was a subject of discussion for the Secretary, with NATO Secretary General and with many of the members of NATO that she met there, as well as in the larger North Atlantic Council meetings.
I'd merely remind you of one thing and that's what the Counselor of the Department Philip Zelikow said on May 12th, "that there is a legal determination that will have to be made by the Department of Homeland Security, it will be made on the basis of the evidence available to that Department.
During the hearings in the Congress for the U.S.-Turkish relations of May 11th, the basic argument expressed by all panelists was that that the U.S.-Turkish relationship is problematic so the U.S. must find ways for appeasement of the Turks and win back the Turkish public opinion at the political cost, however, of Cyprus.
www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/dpb/2005/46408.htm   (6545 words)

  
 WTC Environmental Monitoring: May 17, 2002
Air Sampling for VOC's - Sampling for volatile organic compounds (VOC's) was conducted on May 16 in the direct area of the excavation at ground zero.
All samples taken on May 16 at EPA's Wash Tent (West and Murray Streets), Austin Tobin Plaza, and the North Tower and South Tower excavation areas showed no detectable levels of VOC's.
Samples were also collected on April 25 at P.S. 199 and on May 3 at I.S. 154 and P.S. None showed exceedances of the AHERA re-entry standard.
www.epa.gov /wtc/summaries/epa-osha051702.htm   (603 words)

  
 CNRFC - Storm Summaries - May 17-19, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The month of May 2005 has become the wettest May on record according to the statistics kept by the DWR.
By this time, the models correctly indicated that the focus of the main event of May 17-19 would shift back to the north and target the major reservoirs of northern California with moderate to heavy precipitation and high snow levels.
This rise on the river was quite impressive as the stage of near 3 feet and 7,000 cfs earlier in the week jumped quickly to 14 feet and almost 87,000 cfs.
www.cnrfc.noaa.gov /may2005storms.php   (2040 words)

  
 hiway17: News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Curtis Reliford, 50, is a man whose mission sprang from his inner voice, he says, and that voice led him from Santa Cruz to hurricane-devastated Louisiana three times and counting.
Exposure to some of these pollutants and their byproducts may exceed regulatory guidelines when used repeatedly or in small, poorly ventilated rooms, researchers at the University of California-Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory concluded after a four-year study.
And in the meantime, consider alternate means of getting there or consider staying closer to home and planning your required trips carefully to minimize costs.
www.hiway17.com   (1479 words)

  
 Chat Transcript: Spokesman-Review investigation of Jim West
We learned from the victims of priest abuse that the victims may feel too ashamed and/or afraid to report the crime in a "timely" manner, or they may even have supressed it as too horrible to deal with.
I'm sure you can appreciate that connecting those incidents to this story may or may not be appropriate unless the connection is strong and verifiable.
"Isis," 17, is a meth and marijuana addict who has a history or running away from a home in which she is a victim of domestic violence.
www.spokesmanreview.com /chat/transcript.asp?id=64   (6791 words)

  
 Gore Stumps for "Tomorrow" - May 17, 2004 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
May 17, 2004, 5:30 PM PT It's the most surprising plot twist of The Day After Tomorrow: Rupert Murdoch working together with Al Gore.
To be accurate, Murdoch and Gore aren't technically working together, but they are working toward the same end: The conservative media mogul's selling a movie, and the liberal former vice president's helping him selling it.
Schurman said Fox has been notified of its plans, and its representatives invited to a May 24 so-called town hall rally in New York City featuring Gore and environmentalist Bobby Kennedy Jr.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,14124,00.html   (701 words)

  
 eBay - may 17, Magazine Back Issues, Comics items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Saturday Review May 17 1969 WALLACE ROBERTS JOHN W LYON
Saturday Review May 17 1975 EDMUND WILSON ROBERT COWLEY
Eddie Arcaro May 17 1948 Time Magazine No mailing label
search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=may+17&newu=1&krd=1   (524 words)

  
 CBS News | What Bush Knew Before Sept. 11 | May 17, 2002 18:14:01
According to Fleischer, after the information was presented to President Bush in August, the administration put domestic agencies on alert in the summer, just months before the Sept. 11 attacks.
That alert was not announced publicly but Fleischer suggested it may have prompted the hijackers to change their tactics.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/05/16/attack/main509294.shtml   (1184 words)

  
 Marketplace for Tuesday, May 17, 2005
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marketplace.publicradio.org /shows/2005/05/17/pm.html   (245 words)

  
 Letter of Findings 0487, May 17, 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A Memorandum of Committee Meeting dated March 17, 1995, indicates an IEP meeting was held and the further provision of (*REDACTION*) was discussed.
By notice dated May 22, 1995, the parent was invited to attend an IEP meeting on June 6, 1995.
Technical assistance may be provided direcfly by OSE staff or the OSE may refer the district to other person(s) to obtain the requested technical assistance (e.g.
www.wvu.edu /~law/cle/edlaw/LOF0487.HTM   (2656 words)

  
 Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium : Monday, May 17, 2004 - Posts
I went to look at my schedule, and found out that either nobody had requested a meeting with me, or I couldn't get to my meeting requests.
Cyrus is one of the devs on the editor/intellisense/refactoring team (we call it the IDE team, which is the totally wrong name to use with customers) got his blog set up last Friday, and has already written 29 posts.
I got an email today from the owner of all the MSDN columns, telling me that if I wasn't able to produce a column every other month, my column would be put on probation, and then cancelled.
blogs.msdn.com /ericgu/archive/2004/5/17.aspx   (227 words)

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