August 29th,2008;It appears that
tropical storm Gustav is expected to make its way over to the coastland of the
U.S.A, by Monday. Likely hood it will become a Hurricane as it crosses the warm
Gulf waters. Gustav has already killed 67 people in Hispaniola, the Dominican
Republic, a West Indian island east of Cuba. At least 59 Haitians died from
floods, mudslides, and falling trees following Gustav's arrival on the island
Tuesday. Gustav is moving west and northward, but it is difficult to predict
just where Gustav will hit the U.S.A. coast. Gustav can make its landfall
anywhere from western Florida down to the central Texas coastline," Chris
Fogarty of the Canadian Hurricane Centre told CTV's Canada AM today. Texas and
Louisiana have put their national guards on standby. It was only three years ago
that Hurricane Katrina struck, and New Orleans officials said they might need to
evacuate residents ahead of Gustav's expected arrival, which could be by Monday.
The U.S. government stated that the salmonella outbreak which had sickened at
least 1,440 people appears to be over, but its ultimate source may never be
known, partly because of shortcomings in the nation's food safety system. The
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration
said they found strong evidence to implicate jalapeno and serrano peppers, which
were imported from Mexico. It was the largest outbreak of food borne illness in
decades. Investigators were unable to clear domestic and imported tomatoes, from
the ban. Here in Canada, we have our own problems with contaminated food
products. Given the recent outbreak of tainted meats infected with listeriosis
bacteria in Canada, it is giving Canadians great concern how safe our food
products really are in Canada. I recall that aside from meats, other foods like
fruits and vegetables, like tomatoes and spinach were found to be contaminated.
This gives little comfort to Canadians. While the president of Maple Leaf Foods,
Michael McCain, had taken full responsibility for the tainted ready-to-eat meat
products which were infected with listeria monocytogenes bacteria, which had
come out from his processing plant, somewhere along the line, the systems has
failed the Canadian public which has caused the death of 15 people. 12 people in
Ontario, one person in Saskatchewan, one person in B.C. and one person in
Quebec. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, there are 29 confirmed
cases of the outbreak strain in the country. The tainted meats were found in a
variety of ready-to-eat meat products. Now, Health Canada thinks that
hospitality and party trays, submarine sandwiches, cooked ham and salami
sandwiches which are sold in Sobeys, Foodland and IGA stores in Ontario may also
contain the listeria monocytogene bacteria. The best advice is to stay away from
ready-to-eat meat products of any kind which come from food processing plants
until a full inspection of those plants have been made. Now there is a
salmonellosis outbreak in Quebec which has killed one person and made 87 people
sick. This time the salmonellosis outbreak has been traced back to a cheese
factory located about 300 km south-east of Montreal. The province's Food and
Agriculture Department has issued recalls for cheese brands La Chaudiere and
Polo, which are the suspected sources of the new outbreak. This year we have see
a huge increase in tainted foods, compared to other years. Giving prompt alerts
will no doubt lessen the amount of people who will be effected by eating tainted
foods. I recall times when I had bought meats from supermarkets or had chicken
wings and burgers at take-outs which turned out to have been tainted with
salmonella. Given the amount of tainted food which is affecting Canadians, we
need to find better ways to combat this problem.
The sea floor off the B-C coast has been rocked by a series of earthquakes
this week. The recent quake of 5.8. magnitude struck about 157 kilometres west
of Port Hardy on northern Vancouver Island about 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time, but
there are no reports it was felt on land. The tremor follows two other quakes,
which occurred yesterday in the same area, both with magnitudes of around five,
and several other quakes earlier in the week. Garry Rogers of the Geological
Survey of Canada say the shaking is happening in an active geological region
that often produces swarms of quakes, although he calls this recent one, more
"vigorous" than in the past few years. He says there may be more earthquakes and
they could be slightly bigger, but they're nothing to be alarmed about, they're
too small to trigger a tsunami. Hope he is right, for the people on the west
coast. That is an area where the fault plates are moving apart from each other.
With good weather coming, I will be off camping again. Lately, we had been
having a lot of rain. Mostly the on and off type, throughout the week. I am told
that we can expect a good fall season. With the cooler weather coming on, there
will not be any more mosquitoes to pester our camping trips. What a blessing
that will be.
August 31st,2008;It appears that
buses and cars are cramming the freeways leading out of New Orleans as the
approach of hurricane Gustav. China was hit with a 6.1 magnitude earthquake
which killed at least 22 people and injured hundreds of people. China's official
put the death toll at 25. While most of the dead were in Sichuan province, five
deaths were also reported in the neighbouring province of Yunnan. The death toll
could increase once rescue crews reach the earthquake zone. There are concerns
people may still be buried in the rubble of destroyed buildings. News reports
indicated that at least 1,400 homes had collapsed in two towns in the country's
southwestern region. The monsoon season in South Asia is creating devastating
flood conditions. In India's Bihar state, officials described the situation as
the worst flooding in 50 years. The death toll in Bihar has reached 90, with
five more drowning deaths reported overnight. A lot of people are being
displaced from their homes. Officials say at least three million people have
been displaced, a figure that could rise as heavy rains continues. To me, this
is a clear sign of an angry GOD. I am not the least bit surprised, with all the
"religious" perversity and hypocrisy that is going on. Here in my neck of the
woods, the sun shines. After all the rain we had this summer, it's nice to see
the sun all day long. I'm getting my camping gear and canoe ready and hit the
trail while I can. The weather forecast calls for sunny weather for the next few
days.
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September 4th, 2008; Well, A
cold front is moving into our area which is going to bring more rain. This is
the effect coming from Gustav. So that ends my camping for a while. I do not
want to spend the next three days and nights in a 7X9 foot tent with a big soggy
dog. I hardly call that fun. I see in the news that three more Canadian soldiers
were killed in Afghanistan. They had nearly finished their tour of duty when
they were killed during a fatal ambush in Afghanistan's volatile Zhari district
on Wednesday morning. They were on patrol in a light armoured vehicle (LAV) when
they came under attack. Five soldiers were also wounded in that attack. One
soldier is in critical condition. The soldiers were from the Princess Patricia's
Canadian Light Infantry. Wonder how many soldiers need to die before Harper
say's enough, and bring our people back home from this untenable war.
For a guy who has been threatening to force an election so many times, I find
it curious that Liberal Leader Stephane Dion is now complaining that Harper had
decided to call for an election. In Dion's Liberal campaign, he is offering
hundreds of millions for farmers, fishermen and truckers as an additional part
of his contentious 'Green Shift' plan. He claims that the plan will "reconcile
the economy with the environment." Dion said that a Liberal government would set
aside $400 million over four years in emission-reduction credits for the primary
industries under his environmental plan. He hopes to get the money from emission
taxes. While people in the southern U.S.A. are heading back to Florida, after
fleeing hurricane Gustav. Now tropical storm Hanna is heading for their coast.
That shows how stupid some people can be. Tropical storm Hanna had drenched
flood-plagued Haiti on Wednesday, adding to the miseries of a country that has
lost more than 100 lives to mudslides and flooding since mid-August. The storm
is still expected to change course, sweeping across the Bahamas on Thursday and
then start climbing along the U.S. coastline by the weekend, according to the
U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. Forecasters say there is a chance it
could bring tropical storm force winds to New York City. Eight deaths in the
U.S. have already been attributed to Gustav. Tropical storm Hanna, still poses a
hurricane threat to the U.S. Southeast Coast. In the meantime, tropical storm
Ike, which has strengthened into a hurricane in the open Atlantic Ocean into a
category four storm, moving west at 28kmph with wind speeds of up to 215kmph. It
is heading westward and is expected to hit Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina and Virgina as it travels up the coastline.
I see that Sarah Palin is now being accused of having been a member of the
Alaskan Independence Party. Members of the Alaskan Independence Party claims
that Sarah Palin was a party member. Though the McCain Camp and the Alaska
division of elections deny the charge. Lynette Clark, the chairman of the
Alaskan Independence Party told ABC News on Monday that Palin and her husband
Todd, were members in 1994, even attending the 1994 statewide convention in
Wasilla. Clark was AIP secretary at the time. A day after ABC News requested a
response from Palin as to whether she was ever a member of the AIP, McCain
campain spokesperson Brian Rogers told ABC News that Clark's allegations are
false. The McCain campaign asserted that Palin was never a member of the AIP.
Gail Fenumiai, director of the Alaska Division of Elections, tells ABC News that
regardless of the impression given to members of the Alaskan Independence Party,
"Gov. Sarah Palin first registered to vote in the state in May 1982 as a
Republican, and she has not changed her party affiliate with the Division of
Elections since that time. Lynette Clark, the chairman of the Alaskan
Independence Party told ABC News that she had been mistaken about Sarah Palin
being a member of the Alaskan Independence Party.
Students from around the world, including Canadians, are going to the North Pole to see the effects of Global warming. They are going when the Ice Pack has receeded at its lowest level, before it starts to expand during its normal cycle of shrinking and expanding.
I had downloaded this photo from the NASA satellite to show the amount of ice is at the North Pole during September 1st, 2008, which is now at its lowest level before it begins to expand once again. This is the type of deceptive manner which the U.N. and the European Union use in order to promote their "Global Warming" stance, which by the way, had co-sponsored these students study, in order for the students to strongly support the Kyoto Protocol. There is a 144-page report, which is due to be officially released soon, which is claiming the accelerated warming of the globe, which it blames mostly on the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by the industrial age. They claim that the Arctic "is now experiencing the most rapid and severe climate change on Earth," according to the report. The European Union (EU), some of whose member states who strongly supports the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse emissions, while President George W. Bush has rejected the accord. His Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, has called for the U.S. to rejoin negotiations on the treaty's terms. But recent dramatic changes in climate change, the melting of sea ice, warmer ocean, green fields in place of icy wilderness, etc - might not all be directly related to man-made greenhouse emissions that is causing global warming. The change in the climate could be triggered by circulation changes in the oceans and atmosphere.
Study shows that the North Pole Once Was Tropical
Researchers say 55 Million years ago, the North Pole had a climate like
Miami. According to a team of NASA scientists, decade-long variations in ocean
circulation, known as the Arctic Oscillation, have an effect on the oceans'
salinity. A very salty sea is heavier and circulates differently than a less
salty one, the team says. This can affect the temperature of the water in the
region and thus the local climate. North Pole's ancient past holds lessons for
future global warming. Detailed information on greenhouse gasses and a
subtropical heat wave at the North Pole 55 million years ago is providing
information about the Earth's past as well as a portent for its future,
according to reports in the June 1 issue of Nature. An expedition to the Artic
Ocean in 2004 by a team of scientists aboard a fleet of icebreakers collected
samples by drilling into the floor of the ocean. The project was part of an
international research effort, the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, which
explores the Earth's history and structure as recorded in seafloor sediments and
rocks. "Remains of ancient plant and animal life found in cylindrical core
samples from the ocean floor have given us critical new information about the
history of the Arctic Ocean and surrounding region," said Mark Pagani, assistant
professor of geology and geophysics at Yale and a co-author on the study. During
the warmest time interval, the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), sea
surface temperatures at the North Pole reached as high as 23 ºC, or around 73
ºF. Then I have heard from other scientists and people who claim that we are
heading towards a cooling cycle. It seems that either nobody has a handle as to
what is really going on with this whole cycle the planet Earth is going through,
or that people can't agree on what is happening. So this climate change debate
continues.
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September 7th, 2008; Well, we
are heading for a fall election now that our Prime Minister Stephen Harper met
with Governor General Michaelle Jean this morning and asked her to dissolve
Parliament. Canadians will go to the polls on Oct. 14. In my opinion, Stephen
Harper needs to re-think his stance on Afghanistan, which most Canadians are
against our troops being there. Harper also would do well if he dropped, rolled
back some of those taxes on tobacco products which amount to nothing less than
gouging the smoking public. He can also drop and roll-back those unfair
regulations against people and business owners who use tobacco products. Most of
those unfair regulations governments have imposed upon the people who enjoy
smoking a cigarette, or a cigar or pipe have been unduly harassed by those
Anti-smoking morons ever since they started their campaign against using tobacco
products, which stem from people with their perverted, apostate, pagan Christian
religion. He needs to realize that about 5.3 million people, who are voters, use
tobacco products. That should be wake up call to those politicians who are
running in this election. According to CTUMS on their national survey, over
one-fifth (about 5.3 million people) of the population in Canada smoked either
daily or occasionally in 2007, the same rate as in 2005. Rates remained highest
among adults aged 20 and over. One-third of men in this age group smoke, as do
one-quarter of women. Despite all the taxes and unfair regulations placed upon
people who use tobacco products, Stats Canada also show there was no decrease in
people who smoke between the years 2005 to 2007. We now know and are aware that
the outlandish claims made by those Anti-smoking groups who have blamed every
repertory ailment and cancers on smoking and second-hand smoke from tobacco
users, have been greatly exaggerated and proven for the most part, to be false.
They had maintained that people who smoke costs our health-care system $170
million a year, when in fact, what illness was always blamed on tobacco
products, is actually due to industrial and transportation emissions (gas and
diesel fuels) which is the cause of the high levels of smog and has cost our
health-care system $170 million a year. Stephen Harper should give serious
consideration during this election campaign on these issues in order to boost
his ratings. As far as those other candidates are concerned, I am not impressed
with their platform. The party standings in the 308-seat House of Commons are as
follows: Conservatives have 127 seats, Liberals have 95 seats, Bloc Quebecois
have 48 seats, NDP have 30 seats, Independents have 4 seats, 4 seats are vacant.
Regardless who people will vote for, between all of the political parties that
are in this election, they all adhere to and represent the U.N., the New World
Order. Just like the elections in the U.S.A.
World energy system is high on content of carbon and radioactivity according
to Mario Arrastía, a Cuban specialist in Science, Technology and the
Environment, who is also a member of the Group of Renewable Energy of the Center
for Information Management and Energy Development. Arrastía maintains that the
energy system in the world today, is characterized by being carriers that are
concentrated, exhaustible and with a high content of carbon and radioactivity.
Experts in the field noted that the high level of environmental contamination,
is produced mainly from the use of fossil fuels. This information has been
greatly silenced by countries who are involved in the production of fossil fules
in oil, natral gas and low grade coal.
I find it interesting that Posada Carriles, who was a former CIA agent, lives
in Miami and some of his crimes include masterminding the mid-air bombing of a
Cubana airliner in 1976 that killed all 73 people onboard, a series of bomb
attacks against Cuban hotels and restaurants in the late 1990s and an
assassination attempt against Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Panama in 2000.
According to Granma news daily, Zelaya said that eight days after he was
sworn-in as Honduran President in January 2006, the then US ambassador in
Tegucigalpa, Charles Ford, asked his government to grant political asylum to
Posada Carriles. In this regard and according to an interview published by the
Honduran radio station HRN, Zelaya revealed: “I told him that it was impossible
to grant a visa and political asylum to Posada Carriles because he was accused
of terrorist crimes and they (the United States) defend this kind of terrorism;
they defend it and I am sure of that.”
Hurricane Ike has slammed into the Turks and Caicos Islands last night. Ikeis
as an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center
reported. Ike is packing winds of 215 km/h as the large eye of the hurricane
moved over the low-lying islands. Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 75
kilometres from the centre. The storm has affected the southeastern Bahamas
early this morning. The Bahamas has expanded its hurricane warning to its
central islands, including Cat Island, the Exumas, Long Island, Rum Cay and San
Salvador. Cuba has issued a hurricane warning for the provinces of Guantanamo,
Santiago de Cuba, Holguin, Las Tunnas and Granma. South Florida and the Florida
Keys were advised to closely monitor the storm's progress. Forecasters said Ike
has taken a turn to the southwest that could send it over the Florida Keys by
Tuesday and then into the Gulf of Mexico. Ike is expected to produce storm surge
flooding up to six metres above normal tide levels, with large and dangerous
waves battering coasts, the centre said. Large swells generated by the hurricane
will affect parts of the southeast U.S. coast and the oil rigs over the next
couple of days, with the danger of life-threatening rip currents, it said. You
can expect oil prices to surge upwards again.
According to the news media, a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan has killed
a Canadian soldier nearing the end of his second rotation. Seven Canadian
soldiers were also wounded in that attack in Kandahar province's Panjwaii
district. Sgt. Scott Shipway, an infantryman with the 2nd battalion of the
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, died less than a week before he was
set to go home. Two suicide bombers had detonated their explosives inside the
main police station in Kandahar city early this morning, killing at least two
police officers and wounding 37 people. Among the wounded is police commander
Gen. Abdul Raziq. Those hurt include 29 officers and eight civilians. A
spokesman for the governor, Najib Pervaiz, said several of the wounded were in
critical condition. Canadian and Afghan soldiers surrounded the station shortly
after the explosions. So far,97 of our Canadian soldiers have lost their lives
in Afghanistan, which is a Muslim country. A religion which wants to defeat all
other religions. The bombing comes three months after a Taliban attack on the
city's prison, which allowed almost 900 prisoners to escape. Remember that?
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September 8th, 2008; Slight
rain this morning after having rained most of the day yesterday. Update on the
hurricane's that is causing a lot of flooding and damage, let alone killing
people as it passes over the Carribean Islands. According to the U.S. national
hurricane center in Miami, Hanna's storm core had hit land near the North and
South Carolina border. The storm slowed down somewhat when it made landfall, but
still had winds of about 95 kilometres per hour. As Hanna moved up along
Canada's East Coast, Hanna had drenched P.E.I., Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Hanna is now located on the North-eastern coast of Nfld. The national hurricane
center says that Hurricane Ike has lost most of its steam and has weakened to a
category 2 storm. It is expected that Ike will weaken to a tropical storm as it
moves right over Cuba. Ike has a maximum sustained wind of around 169 km/h,
moving west at 24 km/h. After Ike has passed over Cuba and heads for open water,
it is expected to strengthen to a category 3 hurricane as it makes its way into
the gulf coast of Texas where the oil platforms are located.
Julienne Stroeve, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre in
Colorado are warning that the Arctic ice sheet which has melted this summer, is
not coming back. With several weeks left in the melt season, 2008 could still
surpass September 2007 for the lowest amount of sea ice since satellite
measurements were first taken in 1979. At last measure on Aug. 26, Arctic sea
ice coverage was at 5.26 million square kilometers, a decline of 2.06 million
square kilometres from the beginning of August. In September of last year, a
record low was recorded, with 5.69 million square kilometres of sea ice
recorded. It's not a benchmark that Stroeve is proud of, but she's also not
surprised by the chilling picture the numbers provide. "I guess the main thing
people should understand is this is just a continuation of that long term
downward trend. I think whether or not we break the record it's just the
continuation of what we've been seeing since 2002, where every year we're losing
ice and we're not recovering at all," she said. Much of the ice coverage in the
Arctic normally melts each summer and reforms in winter. However, Stroeve said
more and more of that ice is being lost to the sea, and failing to reform in
winter.
Well, as I look out my window, I see people wearing their winter coats as
they are walking by. This is only the beginning of September, and people are
already wearing winter coats. What do that tell any sensible person? We will see
if the Ice Sheet will not rebound back to its near normal level later on in
Febuary. I will compare the Ice Sheet level during the month of Sept. (which is
now at its lowest point) and see what it is like in Febuary. I will post the
NASA photo's of the Ice Sheet and see if the scientists are correct in what they
are claiming. Personally, I suspect that those scientist are full of hot air,
but we will see.
During this election, I would remind people who use tobacco products that it
was every one of these political parties who are running in this election who
had a hand in raising the taxes on tobacco products which amount to gouging the
smoking public. Every one of these political parties had a hand in imposing
unfair regulations against people and business owners who use tobacco products.
Might I remind people who enjoy smoking a cigarette, a cigar or smoke their
pipe, that they make up over one-fifth (about 5.3 million people) of the
population in Canada. That is a very conservative figure, which I suspect far
exceeds that number. That is nothing to sneeze at or to ignore. Now is the time
that we need to stand up and make ourselves heard during this election campaign.
Let these politicians know that we are fed-up of being unduly harassed by them
and those Anti-smoking moron groups. As I have pointed out, their unfounded,
outlandish, exaggerated claims have been proven for the most part, to be false.
Their claims have little legitimacy . Let these politicians know that as a
tobacco user, you want those taxes rolled back to a reasonable level and that
you want those unfair regulations which had been imposed against people and
business owners who use tobacco products to be struck down from mandatory
imposition. We have as much rights to smoke our cigarettes, cigar or pipe, as
those who choose not to smoke. Don't forget, the vast majority of the people who
fought in the two world wars to protect our rights and freedoms where people who
smoked cigarettes, cigars or a pipe. Least we forget!
Here is a breakdown on who uses health care services the most, in Canada for
the year 2007. Here is the percentage of people who have: Chronic Emphysema
\ Asthma, ( which the vast majority of these people are non-Smokers)
Diabetes, Cancer, Stroke Arthritis/Rheumatism Back problems
(non-arthritic) High blood pressure Cataracts Smoking\Tocacco Users
As the pie chart shows, the greatest users of our Health care system and who
takes a big chunk of the medical expesses and hospitalization, are used mostly
by non-smokers who suffer from Asthma, Diabetes or Cancer. Only a small
percentage of these diseases were the direct cause of smoking tobacco products.
Doctors and specialist in science now realize that toxic fumes which cause smog
is the major factor for Chronic Emphysema \ Asthma, some Cancer and maby even
Diabetes. Yet smokers have been blamed for all of those health issues listed
above by those Anti-smoking groups, which was instigated and pushed mainly by
those Fundamentalist Protestant lying wonders! Lets put the blame where it
really belongs for a change. Politicians should give serious consideration
during this election campaign on the unfair tobacco taxes and regulations that
were imposed upon tobacco users. There are at least 5.3 million people who smoke
in Canada, and every one of them are voters. Politicians would do well to keep
that in mind.
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Sept. 10th, 2008; This morning
is sunny but quite chilly. Seems that the fall weather is early this year. I am
thinking of getting my winter clothes out of storage and keep them handy where I
can reach for them if I need to. I see in the news that medical researchers have
found out that people's genetic variations, along with having a strong lung
cancer family history, will lead to a five times increased risk of developing
the disease, a new study suggests. In fact, people who have a family history of
lung cancer and two copies of the genetic variations have between a 5.7 and
7.2-fold increased risk of developing lung cancer. The research was conducted by
scientists at Washington University School of Medicine and other American and
British institutions. The findings are published in the Journal of the National
Cancer Institute. For their study, the researchers compared the DNA of 194
people with familial lung cancer (which occurs in three or more direct blood
relatives) to that of 219 patients with no history of lung cancer.
Medical researchers are also advising heart-disease patients that they should
limit their time outdoors if they live in a highly polluted city, new research
suggests, as microscopic air pollution particles may lead to decreased heart
function. Researchers in Boston, Mass., found that pollution particles impair
the heart's signalling pathways, which may lead to inadequate blood flow to the
heart and inflammation of the heart muscle. The findings are published in
Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers studied 48
people who had been hospitalized for heart-disease symptoms or heart attack and
monitored their hearts' electrical impulses with a 24-hour monitoring device.
They then compared the results to air pollution measures taken at a Harvard
School of Public Health monitoring site. The pollution measures were taken an
average of 18 kilometres from the patients' homes. The findings showed that an
increase in fine particles of air pollution was associated with the decreased
ability of the heart to send electrical signals. Get the full story on these
issues at CTV
News. Now we are getting some honest medical research that is not catering
to those Anti-Smoking Morons.
I read in the news that scientists have successfully completed their first
major tests on that "big bang machine", which isthe world's largest particle
collider. They send beams of protons in both directions around a 27-kilometre
tunnel. When the protons collide, scientists are hoping to re-create the Big
Bang and find out what happens immediately after. When the scientists sent beams
of protons in both directions around a 27-kilometre tunnel, it showed up as two
white dots on a computer screen which gave scientists confirmation that protons
(subatomic particles) had travelled the full length of the US$3.8 billion Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) after a series of trial runs on Wednesday. "There it is,"
project leader Lyn Evans said Wednesday after the first of two tests was
completed along the Swiss-French border. Scientists are hoping experiments from
the European-based project will eventually help them re-create what happened
immediately after the Big Bang. "When the universe started, everything was a lot
closer together, everything was lot a hotter, and that's when those sorts of
(particle) collisions were taking place. So we're recreating that era of time
and the fundamental properties of matter, the laws of nature are most easily
observed in that way," said Ivan Semeniuk, the U.S. Bureau Chief of the New
Scientist magazine, told CTV's Canada AM from Boston. Three of the 30 Israeli
professors, students and technicians who have taken part in preparations for the
historic launch of the gargantuan particle accelerator known as the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) project, are already at the European Organization for Nuclear
Research (CERN) site spanning the Swiss and French borders. The three Israeli
professors are Prof. Giora Mikenberg of the Weizmann Institute of Science in
Rehovot, Prof. Erez Etzion of Tel Aviv University and Prof. Shlomit Tarem of the
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. They are participating in one of the
greatest collaborative efforts ever attempted in the physical sciences - the
result of more than a decade of work and $14 billion - which includes over 6,500
scientists from over 80 countries, and half of the world's particle physics
researchers. This is only the beginning, said Sofer. "We all want as many
collisions as possible. It certainly won't destroy all of Geneva," as some
laymen mistakenly believe , having even gone, unsuccessfully, to an
international court to prevent it. "The experiment is just like turning on a new
light so there will be more light. The project won't do anything that doesn't
occur in nature every day, as there is natural cosmic energy. It is safe. The
theory is that the universe has other dimensions, and this - among other things
- will show whether it is so." Once they start to collide the protons to
re-create the Big Bang, it probably won't turn out to be like making a black
hole that will start a chain reaction and cause the swallowing up of planet
earth. This is the world's largest ever experiment, which will likely take human
knowledge towards a giant leap forward.
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Sept. 12th, 2008; Well, We
never got the heavy rainfall or thunder storm last night or this morning that
was supposed to have come our way. The trip for the residents at Temiskaming
Lodge to take them to the Fall Fair in New Liskeard this morning had been
canceled due to the weather report of thatexpected thunder storm. What we got
instead was light drizzle throughout the noght and morning. I see that the oil
producers and refineries have found another lame excuse to hike the price of
gasoline/ The price for gasoline at stations throughout Ontario went up by about
13 cents last night at midnight to more than $1.36 - $1.40 a liter. Similar
increases in the price for gasoline will no doubt go up all across Canada later
in the day. Refineries like Exxon Mobil Corp., Valero Energy Corp., Sonoco,
Phillips and Marathon Oil Co., are among the companies who had halted operations
at refineries on the Texas coast because of hurricane Ike, which is heading
towards the gulf coast of Texas. The refineries affected by the hurricane
account for only about one-fifth of the total USA refining capacity. The rest of
the oil refineries, including our own in Canada, are not affected by the
hurricane. So why the sudden gas spike? Especially when the price of crude oil
has dropped dramatically over the course of the last couple months, but prices
at the pumps had not dropped at the same rate. Ever notice how fast the price of
gasoline and diesel raises, but don't drop at the same rate. There is no doubt
that the oil producers are making record profits off on this latest excuse. I do
not buy their excuses or reasons which account for gasoline prices to jump up
suddenly. These people control the supply and artificially slow down refinery
production to create an artificial heavy demand. Oil producers are doing
everything they can to keep prices up to make bigger profits which amount to
nothing less than gouging the public! NDP Leader Jack Layton has come out with
his big plan and promised to beef up monitoring fuel prices. What good is just
monitoring fuel prices? Jack Layton needs to have a better plan to do something
about these skyrocketing fuel prices.
As for that fellow, Jim Davis, who made that statement that all the soldiers
who had died fighting in Afghanistan, would have died in vain if our Canadian
troops pull out from Afghanistan by 201. Davis had said that when Conservative
Leader Stephen Harper stated that he will pull out our Canadian troops from
Afghanistan by 2011. Jim Davis, is the father of Cpl. Paul Davis who had died in
Afghanistan when his light armoured vehicle had rolled over during a patrol in
Kandahar in March 2006. This was not some new revelation that Conservative
Leader Stephen Harper had made, because that plan to pull out our Canadian
troops from Afghanistan by 2011 was made some time ago. Jim Davis must have
forgotten that the commitment to pull out our Canadian troops from Afghanistan
by 2011 had been scheduled years ago. As for our troops having died in vain,
well guess what Mr. Jim Davis, our troops had died in vain in this whole
Afghanistan offensive which was instigated by US president George W. Bush after
Muslims had struck the Twin Towers buildings in New York city and the Pentagon
with hijacked airliners. Yes, on October 7, 2001 America retaliated for the
September 11 attacks upon American soil, and upon his orders, the United States
military had begun strikes against al-Qa'eda terrorist training camps and
military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Bush also vowed
that he would capture Osama bin Laden. These carefully targeted actions were
designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations and
to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime. After George Bush had
his military bomb the hell out of the Teleban camps, and had let Osama bin Laden
slip away and escape, they should had left Afghanistan and be done with that
Muslim country. We all know how phony George W. Bush's " War on Terrorism", is
by now. After all, the Bushes are great friends with the Muslim Saudi Arabia
family with their mutual oil businesses. As far as I am concerned, we had no
need to have been involved with this whole Afghan war in the first place. I have
no doubt that Jim Davis was playing politics and used his son's death as a cheap
shot to attack Stephen Harper and the Conservative party. How is it that Jim
Davis did not speak out on this issue when Liberal Leader Stephane Dion had
stated that he was in favor of pulling out our Canadian troops from Afghanistan
by 2011? Our Canadian troops have been involved in Afghanistan for at least
seven years now, and it is high time that the Muslim Afghans start taking full
responsibility for their own security.
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