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Pure profit motivation. Over-centralized food production, resulting potential for widespread cross contamination, the lack of public oversight, the corruption of officials, and the general lack of safety controls. Can anyone truly say they are suprised? Good thing OUR food supply isn't run by and overseen by the same people that... oh... wait a minute... Better save your seeds!

The straight sides of the northern polar hexagon are each about 13,800 kilometers long. The entire structure rotates with a period of 10h 39m 24s, the same period as that of the planet's radio emissions, which is assumed to be equal to the period of rotation of Saturn's interior. The hexagonal feature does not shift in longitude like the other clouds in the visible atmosphere. MOBE, please elaborate on your Cydonia wonderments...

Dave, Back in the day, somewhat like you described, I had dreams which terrified me to the point of insomnia. A friend gave me a copy of Carlos Castaneda's "The Art of Dreaming". The book helped me realize that I wasn't having nightmares at all. I was Lucid Dreaming. It helped me learn how to guide the course and outcome of the dreams. Nowadays, I quite enjoy Lucid Dreams when they happen. Wether my story helps or not in your case, I wish you good luck catching some quality ZZZZ soon!

NASA scientists say they've never seen anything like it on any other planet: The Cassini spacecraft has photographed a bizarre geometrical figure encircling Saturn's north pole: a hexagon. (look for the thin black line inside the ring of light blue aurora.) The hexagon is over two Earth-widths wide! Hi res images and more information are posted on a NASA website Are you ready for the Mothership Connection?

Saturday April 28th. Its only 144 flights of stairs. That's like, 1776 steps. No biggie. And its for a good cause: [color:green]WWF Canada. CN Tower Climb info and registration C'mon, even John Candy did it in Canadian Bacon!

[color:green]I read this on another website examining the budget's green car rebate incentive. Good intentions? Or strategic smoke and mirrors?: ----------------------------------------------------- Specifically I am looking at the Honda Civic Hybrid. Now the cost of the Hybrid (with no additional options) is as follows: 31492.50 total (includes taxes; freight; NO OPTIONS; etc) -2000.00 from the feds (straight up VEI rebate ) -2000.00 from the prov (sales tax rebate) ------------ $27492.50 plus financing costs etc; now I like the savings but the car is still out of my league right now. I was looking at fuel efficiency; the civic hybrid gets 4.5L/100km; I did the math and my 1995 Toyota Tercel (with 360,00km on it) gets 6.5L/100km (approx). Hyrbrid more efficient on gas by far (2.0L/100 Km) using 69.2% of the gas that my Tercel uses to go the same distance. So I can assume to re-coop some of the cost of the car in savings on gas (albeit much less then someone who switches from a ‘guzzler’) Note how fuel efficient my car is compared to other vehicles and it’s a 1995; the ‘Green Levy’ only starts at fuel inefficiencies over 13L/100km. That brings me to my point which is that the part of the budget that outlines the strategy to get 'older cars' off the road misses the mark. I would rather see my '95 Toyota Tercel on the road then say a 2007 Ford Crown Vic. Crown Vic gets 12.6L/100km – which is less fuel efficient then my Tercel; and would not be subject to the Green Levy despite the fact that it uses over twice the amount of gasoline to go the same distance. Then there is the question of emissions (I used www.terrapass.com to determine them) I punched in my car and driving habits and a Crown Vic with the same driving pattern and the emission results were as follows: 1995 Toyota Tercel 8158 lbs of CO2/year 2007 Crown Vic 13969 lbs of CO2/year The difference of 5811 lbs/year; I emit 58.5% of the emissions that the dude with the brand new Crown Vic does ... So why not offer me an incentive for keeping my more fuel efficient lower emitting vehicle? I would even take a tax break on its upkeep.

I will be there in snowboard boots!

Pics represented Australia, Brazil, Chile (yeah, Chile owns Easter Island), Ecuador (Galapagos) ...and then my foggy brain remembered a couple more bringing the list to... Afghanistan Argentina Aruba Andorra Antigua Australia Austria Bangladesh Bahamas Barbados Belgium Belize Bonaire Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands (is it a country of it's own?) Brunei Cambodia Canada Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador Egypt England Fiji France Germany Greece Guatemala Guelph Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy India Indonesia Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Kenya Laos Luxembourg Malaysia Mexico Monaco Montenegro Morocco Myanmar Netherlands Nepal New Zealand Nigeria Nicaragua Northern Ireland Norway Pakistan Panama Peru Portugal Romania Rwanda Saudi Arabia Scotland Singapore South Africa South Korea Spain St.Kitts/Nevis St. Vincent Switzerland Sweden Thailand Trinidad & Tobago Uruguay USA Vatican City Venezuala Vietnam Wales

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