Government is subsidizing preventable causes of the disease
The Green Party of PEI says “the recent front page headline “Finding a Cure” in the Guardian, about a biotechnology corporation’s quest to produce a marketable cure for Parkinson’s disease, is a sad and disturbing commentary on the state of health care in Prince Edward Island.”
An Island-based bioscience company is working on groundbreaking research in finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease and has received key support this week from the Michael J. Fox Foundation to help further its work.
Neurodyn Inc. has been studying the effects of the neuron-preserving protein Progranulin for a number of years now and through a series of tests on mice, has discovered that it can slow down the evolution of Parkinson’s. Charlottetown Guardian Continue reading →
Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 31 2009 with story from ComputerWorld
Microsoft released the final code RTM for Windows 7 to manufacturers like Dell, HP and Lenova less than a week ago and pirates have already cracked the activation code. Continue reading →
Perhaps not her best career move but what can you do when you are on the down slide
LeAnn Rimes and another woman's husband doing it on TV, only worth 4.5 million viewers
Story from CelebEdge
It’s the end of July on the East Coast and we’ve just strung together our first three hot days in a row. We are already whining about not sleeping at night. The dog days of August must be coming.
LeAnn Rimes is whining that the wife of her new lover is calling her a bitch for stealing her man, on an off the screen. Stealing husbands is old news, only now they talk about it on Twitter like ReAnn’s soon to be ex Dean Sherement. I wish I was following him for the breathless heart breakers.
My favourite quote of this tawdry and all to common affair – haven’t we all lost a partner to a has-been, child star, country singer – is Rimes who curiously invokes God himself. Continue reading →
Should we add this new collection of Dylan art and sketches?
The ultimate Bob Dylan collector may want to look at the new release of 8 new drawings in the Drawn Blank series.
At £1,250 each and £9,250 for the box set, they are definitely not for everyone who lives Like a Rolling Stone. The edition is limited to 295 copies.
It’s hard to figure a guy who shows up drunk and full of disdain for the establishment when he receives the Tom Paine award. When Princeton University gave Dylan an honorary degree in 1970 he could hardly “wait to get outta there alive” Continue reading →
$1 Billion is wasted annually on our national broadcaster who has lost touch with Canadians
Play The Hockey Song here
Anyone know the new theme song for Hockey Night in Canada? Exactly, no one knows it. Here’s the one we know but the CBC management lost the rights to use. Continue reading →
In a letter sent to merchants who use its Ecommerce Hosting services, the company said that someone illegally installed software on company servers used handle credit card transactions initiated by 573,928 people between March 12 and June 8, 2009. ComputerWorld
Criminals are believed to have left a Trojan on servers at Network Solutions, one of the largest web registration services, and stolen credit card information from more 4,000 of 10,000 merchant sites hosted by them.
Both Associated Press and the Canadian Press served the purpose of US and Canadian national reporting services for the small papers spread across the country who could not afford a Washington, Ottawa or Los Angeles office and reporter.
Small local newspapers joined AP and CP and got stories sent first by teletype and then by computer that could be used to fill the pages of local papers.
As niche coverage on the Internet moves forward at a rapid pace, do we really need bland coverage written to satisfy small regional papers. Who is going to wait for the endless chain of write, re-write that goes on in the print news business. By the time an AP or CP story gets to your local paper it can be three days old and not news anymore. Continue reading →
Stompin Tom Connors, left town on a rail but now the hero CTV photo
The puck went in and the home town wins on Charlottetown Sunday Night.
Stompin Tom Connors wowed his fans last night at the Charlottetown Civic Centre who lapped up every bit of honey and hockey puck he dished out. Too bad his sound crew didn’t have the basics of PA down. The sound was about the worst for a professional musician in years. Reports from Summerside echo bad sound reports.
No other singer has captured the hearts of Canadians like Stompin Tom with his love of us and Canada. He likes ordinary people all across our country and we love him for his ornery and independent spirit.
Charlottetown and Summerside are part of his 17 city summer 2009 tour that goes over to Newfoundland before it starts back up that New Brunswick line and parks at the terminal dock in Hamilton Ontario at the end of August. Continue reading →
Mission STS 109 dawn launch from Titusville, FL beach
Amateur footage just posted of the second last mission of Space Shuttle Columbia’s dawn launch
This footage was posted for the first time yesterday on LiveLeak and shows the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on March 1, 2002, 6:22 a.m. The video was taken on the beach at Titusville Florida.
Titusville is a small city on the inland water way and would be one of the closer spots to view, outside NASA’s perimeter. Cocoa Beach would be my first choice but Titusville does get a good view.
A city of 45,000, Titusville has a slightly lower income than average for a city its size and 46% higher crime rate than the average of US cities. When I visited there 10 years ago it seemed like a nice low cost town but looks can be deceiving.
Map of launch vacinity - Click for larger image
The official NASA video is obviously closer but the beach views are spectacular. People who have seen it express awe at the sight and sounds.
Columbia STS 109 was delayed until a weather window opened in March. The mission goals included maintenance of the Hubble telescope.
The 11-day mission rejuvenated the Hubble Space Telescope in a series of five spacewalks. After grasping the telescope and pulling it into the payload bay, the spacewalkers, assisted by Mission Specialist Nancy Jane Currie operating the shuttle’s robotic arm, installed new and improved equipment that gave the telescope more power, a new module to dispense the power, and a cameral able to see twice as much area, with more speed and clarity. They also installed an experimental cooling system in hope of restoring life to the Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer. Columbia performed perfectly.
The last mission of Columbia ended catastrophically when the Shuttle broke up at 12,500 miles an hour 207,000 feet above New Mexico. After a successful 15 day flight, protective heat tiles failed and heat buildup on the left wheel well spread quickly throughout the left wing. The resulting structural failure took about 6 minutes to engulf the wing and cause abnormal drag on the left side. NASA Control computers were monitoring the situation. It’s not clear if the crew knew their situation until the last minute. The Shuttle and the crew were lost.
Of your a space nut, NASA maintains a complete archive and allows downloading of videos, photographs and articles. It’s a great site to poke around and explore.
wowed his fans last night at the Charlottetown Civic Centre who lapped up every bit of honey and hockey puck he dished out. Too bad his sound crew didn’t have the basics of PA down. The sound was about the worst for a professional musician in years. Reports from Summerside echo bad sound reports.
