Published on 31/12/2003
in sport.
Every member of England’s World Cup-winning rugby squad will receive awards with coach Clive Woodward leading the way in Queen Elizabeth’s New Year Honours List published on Wednesday.
Woodward gets a knighthood while captain Martin Johnson becomes a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
The annual list confers symbolic, traditional honours on nearly 1,000 Britons from the famous, great and good to little-known public servants.
Wilkinson becomes an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) as does forward Jason Leonard, who won a record 112th international cap in the tournament’s semi-final, and forwards coach Andy Robinson.
England’s win sparked an outpouring of national pride in a country all too accustomed to sporting failure in recent years.
All the other players and back room staff are awarded MBEs (Members of the Order of the British Empire). CBEs are senior to OBEs, which in turn rank higher than MBEs.
From Reuters.
Published on 31/12/2003
in news.
BRASILIA, Brazil, Dec 30 (Reuters) - A Brazilian judge
furious at U.S. plans to fingerprint and photograph Brazilians
entering the United States has ordered Brazil to do the same to
U.S. citizens, police said on Tuesday.
The order, set to go into effect on Jan. 1, came after a
government office filed a complaint in federal court over the
U.S. measure aimed at millions of foreign travelers.
“Unless the court order is contested in the justice system,
it will be complied with,” said a spokesman for Brazil’s
Federal Police, the agency overseeing immigration.
Starting Jan. 5, citizens of countries such as Brazil who
need a visa to enter the United States will be fingerprinted
and photographed when they pass through immigration at major
U.S. airports and seaports.
The procedure is meant to identify people who have violated
immigration controls, have a criminal record or belong to
groups the U.S. government lists as “terrorist” organizations.
The checks will not be carried out against citizens of 27
nations who do not need a visa to enter the United States.
“I consider the act absolutely brutal, threatening human
rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the
worst horrors committed by the Nazis,” said Federal Judge
Julier Sebastiao da Silva in the court order released on
Tuesday.
Brazil currently requires U.S. citizens to have a visa when
entering the country.
Published on 31/12/2003
in geekery.
Take your time and see if you can read each line aloud without a mistake. The average person can’t.
This is this cat
This is is cat
This is how cat
This is to cat
This is keep cat
This is a cat
This is retard cat
This is busy cat
This is for cat
This is forty cat
This is seconds cat
Tomorrow night I’m going to a formal dinner etc. for New Year’s Eve. I didn’t invite Doris, as it was all kinda sorted before we got together and she doesn’t have a dress. That and I’m not sure she’d be comfortable, slightly presumptuous of me I know.
Anyway, I thought she’d be out with her friends, but not many of them are going out, or are doing other things, so she’s asked me if she can come to my place and watch movies until I come home.
Jeeez.
Anyone here use the UK ISP Claranet?
I love emails.
Wow! It looks very Christmas.
Things are quiet around here especially my house. Too outskirt.
May be I have to go downtown to get the feeling of X’Mas : )
No fancy party this year??
Wanna see u and friends in a funny outfit ka’
Walk to the back of the new IFC mall. Go out of the door at the back, near City Super and Ben and Jerry’s. Inhale.
Freshly mowed lawn smell.
Lovely.
On your way back in, check out the carpets on the girl at Ben and Jerry’s.
Also lovely.
Go up to the info point in the IFC mall and ask them where the Kelvin Clutz shop is. Insist it’s called Kelvin Clutz when they suggest Calvin Klein.
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