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10 unforgettable sports brawls

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:57:32 GMT

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10 unforgettable sports brawls

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With the tumultuous relationship between the Red Sox and Rays being rekindled in the ALCS on Friday night, we thought we'd recall some of the most alarming moments in sports.

1. Nolan Ryan vs. Robin Ventura (Aug. 4, 1993)

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2. Pedro Martinez vs. Don Zimmer (Oct. 11, 2003)

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3. The Punch: Kermit Washington decks Rudy Tomjanovich (Dec. 9, 1977)

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4. World Junior Hockey Championships: Canada vs. Soviet Union (Jan. 5, 1987)

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5. The Malice at the Palace (Nov. 19, 2004)

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6. Detroit Red Wings vs. Colorado Avalanche (March 26, 1997)

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7. Boston Bruins vs. New York Rangers (Dec. 23, 1979)

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8. Miami vs. Florida International (Oct. 14, 2006)

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9. Detroit Shock vs. Los Angeles Sparks (July 22, 2008)

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10. Bristol Brawl: Kevin Harvick vs. Greg Biffle (Mar. 23, 2002)

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Morson Outfitters Blog

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:23:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Grassy Narrows Lodge American Plan Cottage and Tamarack Lodge Housekeeping Cabin by Morson Outfitters on Lake of The Woods, Ontario Canada.

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Welcome to the Morson Outfitters New Blog

Morson Outfitters

Grassy Narrows Lodge and Tamarack Lodge

Morson Outfitters has honoured our guests with our popular website for many years and we are looking forward to connecting to our guests with our new blog!

If you haven’t already, take a moment to enjoy some fantastic fishing pictures on our website!

www.morsonoutfitters.com

Tags: lake of the woods, fishing lodge, american plan, housekeeping cottage, grassy narrows, tamarack lodge, morson outfitters

Oscar the Grouch tapped as face of Waste Reduction Week

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:59:26 GMT

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Sep 18, 2008

Garbage-loving Oscar the Grouch tapped as face of waste reduction campaign

TORONTO — A beloved yet grumpy garbage lover has been tapped to be the familiar, furry face of a Canadian campaign to promote waste reduction.

Oscar the Grouch has been announced as the "spokes-Muppet" for Waste Reduction Week in Canada, which is slated to kick off next month.

St. Godard said part of the eighth annual event running Oct. 19-25 will focus on engaging post-secondary students who are the up-and-coming consumers, policymakers and business leaders, to think about consumption and waste generation and the environmental impact of those activities.

Tags: waste reduction, waste, environment, fullcircles, oscar

Big Surprise (not!): Harper Lied

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:13:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hopefully, this will continue the decline of the Conservatives in the polls before the election on the 14th, and maybe we can get a party with at least a small measure of sense back in control of Canada. The Liberals may suck hugely, but they're arms and elbows above the Conservatives.

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Harper recording in Cadman affair intact: expert

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's contention that a tape recording was doctored to implicate him in a bribery scandal involving the late MP Chuck Cadman was contradicted Friday by the very specialist Harper hired to analyze the tape.

Vancouver journalist Tom Zytaruk, author of a book on the life of the late MP Chuck Cadman. (Richard Lam /THE CANADIAN PRESS)

CTV.ca News Staff

A judge ordered an inspection of the tape after Harper launched a $3.5-million libel suit against the Liberal Party of Canada.

However, audio expert Bruce Koenig, a former FBI agent who was hired by the Harper team to check the tape, filed a report on Friday which contradicts Harper's court testimony and finds that the key section of the tape contains no splices, edits or alterations.

Connecticut Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:19:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is such great news. Little by little, the U.S. is beginning to catch up with Canada, and other countries who are finally realizing that in a democracy ALL men and women and equal. This should never be subject to social interpretation.

Clip Source: www.365gay.com

Connecticut) Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions through the courts.

The ruling comes just weeks before Californians go to the polls on a historic gay-marriage ballot question, the first time the issue will be put before voters.

Connecticut’s court ruled 4-3 that gay and lesbian couples cannot be denied the freedom to marry under the state constitution. It was a logical next step for a state that was the first to voluntarily pass laws affirming and protecting civil unions.

"Interpreting our state constitutional provisions in accordance with firmly established equal protection principles leads inevitably to the conclusion that gay persons are entitled to marry the otherwise qualified same sex partner of their choice," Justice Richard N. Palmer wrote in the majority opinion that overturned a lower court finding.

Tags: gay, homosexual, sa, me-sex marriage

Canada rated world's soundest bank system: survey

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:32:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Anyone know if US citizens can open bank accounts in Canada? What is the top banks in Canada anyway?

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Canada rated world's soundest bank system: survey

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Canada has the world's soundest banking system, closely followed by Sweden, Luxembourg and Australia, a survey by the World Economic Forum has found as financial crisis and bank failures shake world markets.

But Britain, which once ranked in the top five, has slipped to 44th place behind El Salvador and Peru, after a 50 billion pound ($86.5 billion) pledge this week by the government to bolster bank balance sheets.

Tags: us, banking, canada, bank ratings, canadian

Economic New World Order Emerges from Crisis

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:44:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Taxpayers lose as governments nationalize and intervene in banks to prevent collapse. This seems all too convenient an arrangement. They have always wanted a economic new world order and now, they say, is the time to do it. This financial crisis and the reaction of governments will go down as a major historical event that changed the world.

Meanwhile, while the financial sectors are in throws, gas prices for consumers are dropping and there is still credit and loans to be obtained at good interest rates despite all their propaganda to scare up support for these interventions by governments.

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New World Order: Global co-operation, nationalisation and state intervention - all in one day

IT WAS a day of desperate global action, unprecedented in both scale and cost, intended to stymie the international devastation being wrought by the financial crisis.

As the London stock market steeled itself to open again following days of vicious battering, Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, rose to stake the future of the country and the Cabinet on an audacious £500 billion banking bail-out.

Central banks across Europe, the US, Canada and China also reduced interest rates in an emergency move.

"The international banks concluded there is a major international banking crisis. Banks were collapsing in Europe, as well as the United States.

Following the announcements, Mr Brown spoke by phone to the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, as well as the EC president, José Manuel Barroso.

Tags: global financial crisis, banks, new world order

World finance chiefs heading for Washington for crunch talks

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:33:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.breitbart.com

World finance chiefs heading for Washington for crunch talks

The Group of Seven meeting will bring together finance ministers and central bankers on Friday from the United States, Germany, Japan, France, Britain, Italy and Canada for some collective-thinking on the credit crunch and crashing stocks.

They are to be joined by counterparts from emerging markets including Brazil, Russia, India and China for an impromptu gathering of the expanded so-called G20 group.

The United States finds itself in a rare position of weakness, facing many allies that have been highly critical of its economic policy and regulatory system blamed for the problems.

The gathering will be closely watched by investors, who are eager to see solutions and cross-border action by the world's leading powers to help a return to normal lending practices and calm stock markets.

Tags: finance, world, global economy, emergency meeting

Freakiest (Lab) Animals

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:23:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The last one is Humanzee: It reads "Ok, so this one doesn't actually exist." But could have...
The one I find most intriguing is The spider/goats:
A private biotechnology company in Canada has managed to breed goats whose milk contains spider silk, the same things the eight-legged insects use to make webs and considered one of the strongest fibers occurring in nature. The silk is compatible with the human body and can be used to repair tissues and create replacement ligaments. No word on whether the goats are able to climb buildings or rescue damsels-in-distress.

About the smart mice: Scientists managed to implant a few of the little rodents with human brain cells amounting to about one percent of their total grey matter. The same group has plans to produce mice with one hundred percent human brain cells, which they have permission to do unless the mice start exhibiting human traits. What, like banding together to escape?

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Green Ham and Eggs

Not since the 1980s have we seen this much fluorescence on one creature. Born in the lab of National Taiwan University, these phosphorescent porkers are green from the inside out--heart, ham and all.

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Rats from Mice

planted stem cells that produce rat sperm into the testicles of mice, where they grew into viable sperm and were collected to fertilize rat eggs. Surrogate rat mums later bore healthy pups.

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Wholphins

Shunning the lab and reportedly spotted doing their freaky thing out in the wild, whale-dolphin hybrids (get it? Wholphins?) are nevertheless extremely rare and prove that love, or mating at least, knows no species.

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The Mouse with Three Ears

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Spider-Goat

biotechnology company in Canada has managed to breed goats whose milk contains spider silk, the same things the eight-legged insects use to make webs and considered one of the strongest fibers occurring in nature.

can be used to repair tissues

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The Smartest Mouse on Earth

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Humans in Sheep's Clothing

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Swine and Man

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Zonkeys

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US schools still on top worldwide

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:35:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And to keep it that way we need a government committed to education and science.

Technology is the way of the future more than ever.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Of the top 100 institutions 17 are from the UK, two fewer than in 2007, compared with 37 US universities.

New entrants in the top 200 include: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Stony Brook University (USA), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), VU University Amsterdam (Netherlands), University of Lausanne (Switzerland), Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), Universität Frankfurt am Main (Germany), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), Brandeis University (USA), Pohang University of Science and Technology (South Korea), Technische Universität Berlin (Germany), University of Bern (Switzerland), Dalhousie University (Canada), University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and University of Athens (Greece).

Thirteen of those in the top 100 were strong on technology

"People with strong numerical and problem-solving skills seem to be appreciated by employers."

Such institutions

seemed

to be

becoming

important in many regions of the world

How long does it take for water to pass through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:25:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If a drop of water could talk, what a story it would tell.

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How long does it take for water to pass through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean?

If a drop of water could talk, what a story it would tell.

On average, a drop of water which finds its way into Lake Superior from runoff or rainfall takes more than two centuries to travel through the Great Lakes system and along the St. Lawrence River to the ocean, says Environment Canada. To be precise, water which entered Superior in 1794 - the year the reign of terror came to an end in France following the French revolution - didn't make it to the Atlantic until 1998.

The travelling time is based on retention times, or how long, on average, it takes for each of the lakes to replace its water with new water.

To get a grip on this theory, think of each of the lakes as a 10-gallon bathtub with the drain slightly open and the tap running slowly. If one gallon of water flows in and another out every minute, after 10 minutes you

Tags: canadian trivia

Cuba's contribution to public health

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:39:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If Cuba can do this, why can't the USA and Canada?

Clip Source: story.brazilsun.com

Cuba breaks national record with 200,000 medical students
Brazil Sun
Thursday 9th October, 2008
(IANS)

Cuba broke its record for domestic and foreign students studying medical sciences in the communist island country, with a total of 200,000 this year, the Communist Party daily Granma reported citing public health ministry sources.

Close to 23,000 of the students are foreigners, most of them coming from developing countries, Granma said, claiming that this is a result of the Cuban government's 'traditional policy of internationalistic solidarity.'

Cuba holds its free health system as a flagship government programme. At Cuban universities medical sciences include medicine, stomatology (study of mouth and its diseases), nursing, health technology and health psychology.

Cuba has four medical science institutes, 24 schools of medicine, four of stomatology and four devoted to nursing and technology, Granma said. More than 26,000 people teach medical science courses on the island.

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Change you can believe in - change for the worse

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:33:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Do you like paying taxes, then watch government become bigger and more incompetent? Do you like discovering your family doesn't have enough income and start looking for a second job, only to find there are none? Do you really want a health care system like Canada's (ask any Canadian what they think of their health care - they wait over a year for an MRI, for example..) Did you like Carter's sky high inflation with a downward spiraling productivity? Then you will LOVE the change Obama brings you.

Clip Source: washingtontimes.com

Instead, he rides a populist wave of economic pessimism and panic that appears ready to buy his "change you can believe in" mantra, despite an economic plan few voters understand.

At that plan's core is a raft of draconian tax increases on critical components of the nation's economy - tax increases that have been an integral part of his party's "grow the government" prescriptions for decades.

University of Maryland economist Peter Morici, a sharp critic of the Bush administration's economic policies, says about Mr. Obama's plan: "Obama's tax and redistribute policies will not resurrect jobs, wages or the price of stocks in American retirement accounts. ... Obama's policies may make economic conditions worse,"

Barack Obama thinks raising taxes to enrich government is the answer to all our troubles when it will only weaken a severely anemic, overtaxed economy desperately in need of capital and tax relief.

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Brits, U.S. Inject Capital. Save Banks. Start Socialism.

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:21:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Following the lead of the Aussie's (not mentioned in article), The British government this morning pledged to "injected capital," -- hundred of billions of pounds -- to rescue its banking system.

U.S. Treasury Secretary says he has "broad powers," to do the same.

I think this is a good idea. It sure is a better idea than buying stinking unsecured debt that may never be repaid, that is if I understand the term "injecting capital," correctly (which I think I do but it would help if these guys spoke English).

Why have they come up with what sounds like, at least, a reasonable plan?

I don't know...maybe it's the intense scrutiny they are under...i.e., "oversight," actually helps.

Of course there is some irony in this due to the fact that government buying ownership (buying stocks) in private companies is a cornerstone idea of socialism.

And this idea comes from the ultimate capitalist who oppose government intervention in any way.

I find this very interesting.

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Treasury says has power to inject bank capital

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Wednesday a recently approved financial bailout bill gives him wide authority to inject capital into the banking system and would not rule out having Treasury take an ownership position in banks if necessary.

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Paulson calls for global action

(02:05) Report

Oct 8 - As Treasury Secretary Paulson prepares to host the G7, he is calling for intensified global cooperation to stabilize financial markets.

Paulson recited the numerous measures that members of the G7 -- the U.S., Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan -- and others have taken to try to halt plunging stock prices and rebuild confidence, but said more was needed.

Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

Coming up next:

Two unrealistic economic plans?

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NASA Chief Thanks Obama for Helping With Soyuz Waiver

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:21:40 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Mike Griffin credited Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama for spurring Congress to action on legislation allowing the U.S. space agency to buy the Russian Soyuz flights its needs to send astronauts to the international space station beyond 2011.

"I am deeply grateful to you, personally, for your leadership in supporting the difficult, but important, decision to extend NASA's waiver to the Iran, Syria, North Korea Non-proliferation Act to allow the U.S. purchase of Russian Soyuz spacecraft after 2011," Griffin said in an Oct. 2 letter to Obama. "This authority will allow the United States to continue transporting our astronauts to the international space station (ISS), honoring America's commitment to provide transportation for crewmembers from Europe, Canada, and Japan and to ensure that 'lifeboats' are available at ISS in case of emergencies.

The availability of this critical service from our Russian partners is vital

to the United States

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