SevenSeasJim

Breaking news: Nik Antropov injured himself in today's practice. He turned his ankle by just skating around - no one was near him according to Maurice. He's listed as day-to-day.

Now apparently it's 5-7 weeks.

One time driving up the 400 I almost went off the road because I was looking at this big flower wreath at the side of the road (it was huge).

I'm sure the Slip had something to do with this.

Last Updated: Friday, December 8, 2006 | 10:02 AM ET

CBC News

If you were down in a funk this fall, you shouldn't be surprised, Environment Canada says.

In the three-month stretch from September to November, Ontario recorded its gloomiest fall in 29 years, with a total of just 343 hours of sunlight instead of an average figure of 475 hours.

"We were robbed of about 130 hours of sunshine we would normally get in that period, so I can understand why people who suffer seasonal disorders would have been depressed," Environment Canada's senior climatologist Dave Phillips said. "They would have had a miserable season, and the fall really should be a glorious time."

This year was the third gloomiest fall since Toronto began recording the amount of sunshine back in 1957, edged out by a dismal 323 hours in the fall of 1977 and the gloomiest ever — 312 hours in 1970.

The lack of sunshine was due mostly to wet weather from September to November, Phillips said. Areas around southern Ontario and Toronto received 270 mm of rain compared with the average of 211 mm.

"In fact, 60 per cent of the days in that 91-day period [september to November] were wet as opposed to dry days, and that's really like hand in glove — you get less sunshine, and that's because hey, you're getting a little drizzle here, more rain there," Phillips said.

September logged 131 hours of sunlight compared with the normal 208 hours, October logged 140 hours instead of 173, and November had just 71 hours of sunshine during a month that normally delivers 94 hours.

"It's been so depressing that people are almost waiting for the winter to come, because at least in the winter when it's cold, at least it's sunny," Phillips said. But he also reminded people they won't be able to have it both ways in winter.

"You can't have it warm and sunny, so you'll have to pick your poison," he said.

Canada. East to West and all points in between.

Wow' date=' way to not answer the question. You should hang out with the people that answered, "home."[/quote']

I stick by my answer.

Canada. East to West and all points in between.

Driving home from the ultra classy dinner at Swiss Chalet (they actually used to look ike chalets remeber?)

Did you get the Festive Special?

P.S. Nice about the dog.

When do we begin???

Last Updated: Thursday, November 16, 2006 | 5:40 PM ET CBC News

Controlled pollution of the atmosphere could be a way to fight global warming, researchers say.

Nobel prize winner Paul Crutzen from Germany's Max Planck Institute for Chemistry raised the idea in a recent article in Climatic Change, which he wrote to try to get governments to take action on the problem.

He suggested introducing sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere using balloons or big guns. Sulphur dioxide reflects the sun's rays, which would help reduce the heating of the Earth.

The idea was picked up by U.S. government climatologist Tom Wigley, who wrote that Crutzen's idea would work .

Both scientists relied on evidence from the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. Debris containing sulphur from the eruption cooled the Earth by 0.5 degrees C for a year.

And a NASA research arm will be holding a workshop on the idea and other "methods to ameliorate the likelihood of progressively rising temperatures over the next decades" this weekend.

While Crutzen's idea may work, the sulphur dioxide will come back to Earth as acid rain, posing its own risks. And because the chemicals will come back to Earth, more pollutants would have to be released every year or so.

Crutzen said he's not enthusiatic about the idea, but if governments do not act to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, which contribute to global warming, "then in the end we have to do experiments like this."

The idea is circulating at the UN climate change conference at Nairobi, where the reaction ranged from caution to concern about side effects.

"Yes, by all means, do all the research," Indian climatologist Rajendra Pachauri, who heads the UN network on climate change, told the Associated Press.

The delegates at the conference are struggling to determine what to do after the Kyoto accord ends in 2012.

Crutzen shared the 1995 Nobel prize for chemistry for work on the ozone layer with two other scientists.

69.4% for moi

Love at the gym. Is there any better?

Lazlo definitely has hampsters.

I think an Orange Alert is coming :wink:

I do not like your sarcastic SVA Hall of Fame comment.

SVA? Sorry' date=' i'm drawing a blank on what that is. Help?

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It's his beloved Shaun Van Allen (one of the best D to ever tie up a pair of skates)

They do a wicked Christmas Eve in Sarajevo.

Rednecks are people too!

Could this mean a positive change for Hamilton?

The pollution will be gone by this time next week :wink:

Sounds like a mission

I've got a dimed sized one on my neck that I wish would fall off. It makes my "Italian Smoking Jacket" look terrible.

Here's a shirt for Carrie

From Urbandictionary.com

[color:red]Dingo

An older male who hits on or dates younger women.

(Male version of a Cougar)

Looks like Stacey hooked her self up with a Dingo.

Reading Marge's review the other day got me thinking of how Cougar's make the world go around. I mean with all the negative events happening these days you can always turn to a cougar to make yourself feel better.

So lets hear a 'Hell Ya' for Cougars.

Does anybody know what the male version of a Cougar is?

This is going back....

The Things You Said - Depeche Mode

Estranged - Guns & Roses

I watched the original and the remake of Dawn of the Dead. As a kid I always thought it would be cool to live in a mall.

Fortune Magazine) -

The supply of oil is not limitless but apparently the current generation of Americans is all too willing to exhaust it by buying more vehicle than they need and letting their children and grandchildren fend for themselves.

and this is surprising how? :crazy:

ps' date=' us Canucks aint all that much better :mad:

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Oh not surprising, just another example.

Fortune Magazine) -- Who can remember all the way back to last summer, when we had daylight saving time, baseball, and $3 a gallon gasoline prices?

Not American car buyers, apparently, and you can see the evidence in the results of October auto sales.

Sales of big pickup trucks and SUVs went through the roof - doubling from the year before in some cases. Sales of small, fuel efficient cars, meanwhile, remained stagnant. It is as if all that moaning and groaning about price gouging by oil companies never happened.

Actually, it is worse than that. American consumers have reinforced all the stereotypes they are labeled with: short attention spans, lack of social consciousness and thinking with their wallets.

Does anyone seriously believe that having once spiked up to $3 with very little provocation, gasoline prices won't do it again? Have they forgotten about the ongoing instability in the Middle East, where most of our oil comes from? And have they stopped caring about traffic density, scarce resources or global warming? And if they haven't, why aren't they exercising better sense in their vehicle preferences?

Homegrowns

General Motors' (Charts) customers get the ostrich award for sticking their heads in the sand. They drove up sales of hulking Chevy Tahoes and Suburbans, and Cadillac Escalade in October to double and triple the rates of a year ago. At the same time, they walked away from economical Chevy Aveos and Cobalts, sending sales of those vehicles down 31 percent and 43 percent respectively. "GM's truck business was boosted by lower fuel prices," sales and marketing boss Mark LaNeve explains. Apparently so.

One bright spot; sales of the fuel-gulping Hummer were about flat compared with a year ago. Perhaps consumers have tired of cartoonish macho design.

Over at Ford (Charts) and Chrysler, results were about the same. Sales of the new Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator both shot up more than 40 percent. Both are handsome vehicles greatly improved in their ride and handling from previous versions, but does how many people really need all that metal to drive to the 7-11?

Over at Chrysler, sales of Jeeps - known for their go-anywhere capabilities but not their fuel economy - shot up 29 percent, with the biggest and thirstiest, the Commander, shooting off dealer lots at the rate of more than 8,000 a month.

Import buyers demonstrated a little more common sense. They tend to be self-selected Blue Staters anyway, who are attracted to import brands because of their lighter weight and more fuel efficient engines. The gap between them and domestic buyers is widening.

Imports

Toyota (Charts) reported its best ever October, with overall sales up 13.6 percent. Its hybrids suffered because lower gas prices make the premium price harder to justify. Prius, the hybrid flagship, saw its sales fall 8.6 percent, though to a still healthy 8,733 for the month. Meanwhile, the RAV4, a crossover SUV that is downright stingy in fuel usage compared with a traditional truck-based SUV, sold 11,154 copies in October, nearly beating out the old-style Ford Explorer, once the leader in the field.

Honda (Charts) did Toyota one better. It moved 20,413 CR-V crossover SUVs during the month, an increase of nearly 96 percent, handily outpacing Explorer. Honda likes to brag that it has the best overall fuel economy of any U.S. brand, and its customers responded. They bought 21,343 small Civics during October, including 2,288 Civic Hybrids.

These kind of sales fluctuations drive product planners crazy. As they sketch out new models for the 2010 model year and beyond, do they add more big V-8s based on the latest sales data? Or do they assume that either gas prices will carom up again, or buyers will stop getting more vehicle than they need, and concentrate on doing more for list.

The sociologists have an simpler time of it. As Americans flock back to their old buying habits, it is all too easy to lump excessive fuel consumption in with other bad habits involving overindulgence: over eating, over spending and over television watching.

The supply of oil is not limitless but apparently the current generation of Americans is all too willing to exhaust it by buying more vehicle than they need and letting their children and grandchildren fend for themselves.