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Scientists grow bigger, better diamonds - LiveScience- msnbc.com

he captain of a Continental Airlines flight has died while flying the plane from Brussels to New York.The plane is expected to make an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport shortly. The plane's first officer is in control of the flight, according to a Federal Aviation...

The CF-105 Avro Arrow is certainly history but most everyone has heard of that aircraft. There was another Canadian aircraft that almost made it back in the fifties that almost no one has heard about. The CF-103 was designed to be transonic but it never saw production. CF-103 Avro The C-103...

I generally use a little hand vaccuum on my computer about once every six weeks or so. We've had construction crews and heavy equipment on our street for about a month. The weather has been warm and dry and there is a coating of fine dust on everything. That should have been a hint for me at...

I just re-read Ian Fleming's story,"Quantum of Solace". I got the book from the library because I had just seen the movie of the same name and wondered where the movie plot came from. It sure as hell didn't come from Ian Fleming's story. I don't mean the movie differed in details from the...

About thirty years ago a friend who had been on an extended vacation in Europe, brought me back what appeared to be a truly unique set of chessmen. They were epoxy replicas of chess pieces found buried in a sand dune in 1831 on the Scottish isle of Lewis. My wife and I just spent a couple...

This is not exactly up to the minute news. Eris was discovered a few years ago but it has had a couple name changes that might have blurred the story a bit. I didn't pay too much attention at the time but in my mind, the news is that Eris is bigger than Pluto...

Canadian company aquires Opel from GM. Canada will have a national auto maker now that Magna International Inc. has won the bidding to take over Adam Opel AG. “We want to build Opel cars in Canada,” Magna chairman Frank Stronach said late Friday from Vienna as he awaited confirmation that...

Well, at least compared with what we've been having it is a heat wave of sorts. According to the weatherman, the temperature will get to at least 25C(77F) today and up to 27C(about 81F) later in the week. I love it.

The following is a link to a list of just the ten worst killers. There are others. Canada's Top 10 Serial Killers

Little girl's abductors charged with murder. A man and a woman from Woodstock, Ont., have been charged in the abduction and killing of eight-year-old Tori Stafford. Michael Thomas C.S. Rafferty, 28, and Terri-Lynne McClintic, 18, were taken into custody on Tuesday night. They made brief...

Here is an interesting take on how the world works.....Or doesn't work...:roll: YouTube - Story of Stuff, Full Version; How Things Work, About Stuff

We've just had a topic about Yorkshire Pudding. What about the beef roast to go with it. My favorite roast is the standing rib roast, or prime rib. My butcher now asks $11.99 per pound for a prime rib. If we have the whole family to dinner, we are looking at a five ribber. About seven...

Yorkshire pudding is to roast beef and gravy, as bacon is to eggs. Over the years I've made Yorkshire pudding that turned out like little, floury hockey pucks. On the rare occasion the Yorkshire pudding turned out right, I didn't know why it did. The following recipe is guaranteed to give...

Canada plays Hungary at 1:30 Pacific Time. Should be a fairly easy game for Canada, but we'll see. Game will be on TSN.

A good number of Canadians don't know about Dr. Norman Bethune. In China and Spain they have built statues and parks and buildings in memory of this man. The following link has more information: globeandmail.com: Remember Bethune? Apparently not

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitanoagain repeats that 9/11 terrorists entered the U.S. from Canada. This is who they put in charge of Homeland Security? God help us.:roll:

Scientist Hawking 'ill' in hospital: university 2 hours ago LONDON (AFP) — Scientist Stephen Hawking, the author of "A Brief History Of Time", is "very ill" in hospital, Cambridge University said Monday. Hawking, 67, has achieved international fame despite being wheelchair-bound because of...

This lady brought a tear to my eye as she wowed judges and the audience with her performance: 47-Year-Old Susan Boyle Wows The Judges On Britain’s Got Talent - SeanPAune.com Use the link rather than the arrow.

I ran across this site a few months back. It is interesting to compare the military strength of different countries. Some countries are stronger than you expect while others are weaker. World Military Strength Comparison