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Friday September 3, 2010
Only 4 days left to see this film.
Rated: 14 Accompaniment (Coarse Language)
Runs: 92 minutes
Director: Jay Duplass/Mark Duplass
Country: US
Released: 2010
Starring: Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, John C. Reilly, Catherine Keener
Middle-aged romance can be a dicey prospect. And it gets more complicated when children are in the picture. But it gets more complex still if the child is actually 21, and creepily meddlesome... What makes this dark comedy work so well is the way in which directors Jay and Mark Duplass build an original story on a broad, even farcical, foundation and leaven it with nuance. It's an edgy, engrossing comedy... Amid the laughs, emotional truths loom large for each of its rather odd characters. The story centers on John, a sad sack whose ex-wife, Jamie, is soon to be remarried. John's life is a cringe-fest until he meets the warmhearted Molly.... Reilly and Tomei have credible chemistry, convincing us that these two damaged adults may actually have found their soul mates. But their romance runs into a rather sizable snag in the form of Molly's maladjusted son, Cyrus. Molly and Cyrus have an unusually close bond that gives new meaning to the term mollycoddled. A rivalry between Cyrus and John is hilarious... Hill plays a very different character from his usual harmless geeks in Get Him to the Greek or Superbad. He nails Cyrus' sense of menace laced with brattiness, making this his best and most complex performance... The Duplass brothers fuse comedy, tragedy and discomfort... Above all, it deftly captures the ambiguity and absurdity of human relationships... Cyrus is an off-kilter charmer. - Claudia Puig, The Washington Post. Painfully funny farce... one of the best and most surprising movies of the year. - Georgia Straight
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add to furl My home was newly built in 2002 and I assume that it has 100 amp service but I was wondering how I can tell?
I assumed that it was 100 amp as I thought that was standard but now I have heard that some are 200 amp.
It's a question for my home insurance policy....
I assumed that it was 100 amp as I thought that was standard but now I have heard that some are 200 amp.
It's a question for my home insurance policy....
Hits Meteghan, Nova Scotia 9 AM Saturday 112 mph (79 km/h) Powered by storm-tracking software from Stormpulse.com
part one is here. so, my two day Ph.D orientation was September 1st and 2nd. yesterday. the day before. i was not there. i’d been joking for awhile about the campus tour part of the orientation, since the campus is about as big as a minute and i’ve worked there for five years, in four [...]
Over the last few days, RCMP members from various districts in
partnership with members from Charlottetown, Summerside and Kensington
Police Services seized over 400 marijuana plants from various wooded
areas following aerial searches conducted over Prince Edward Island.
The "L" Division RCMP Drug Section, thanked the public for their support, and for providing tips
about marijuana grow-operations to the police. The RCMP say marijuana production
It’s true. A hurricane is coming and I’ve been unusually quiet. I’ll chalk it up to a very busy summer. I thought I would take some time and sift through all of the crazy news/rumours out there to give you...
Tokyo Sex Whale, photographed by Matt Miller in Paul 'Yogi' Granger's vintage van. From left, J.P. Sadek, Julia Loan and Granger. It was there, barely audible, though I knew that on the other side of the walls it was very loud. Tokyo Sex Whale...(read more)
Police received a report of a motor vehicle collision on Capital Drive. Upon police arrival, one of the vehicles had fled the scene. The matter is under investigation.
Police responded to a local grocery store for a report of shoplifting. Upon arrival, security had one 18 year old female, and one 17 year old female in custody for theft. This matter is under investigation.
Google celebrates the 2nd anniversary of its foray into the browser war with Release 6 of Chrome and increased market share At the relatively young age of two years old, Google can be plenty proud of it’s entrant in the Internet browser wars with Chrome. It is shipping release 6 and steadily gaining market share [...]
Latest prediction repeats 5 AM warning of hurricane force winds on trajectory for Moncton at 3 PM Powered by storm-tracking software from Stormpulse.com With Hurricane Earl bearing down on the Maritimes and PEI, many residents are getting ready. Surprisingly, the Digby Wharf Rats cycle festival with 80,000 in attendance many in tents is going forward. [...]
Latest prediction repeats 5 AM warning of hurricane force winds on trajectory for Moncton at 3 PM Powered by storm-tracking software from Stormpulse.com With Hurricane Earl bearing down on the Maritimes and PEI, many residents are getting ready. Surprisingly, the Digby Wharf Rats cycle festival with 80,000 in attendance many in tents is going forward. [...]
Tropical storm watches have been extended to Cape Breton and Iles-de-la-Madeleine as Hurricane Earl keeps its sights on the Maritimes.
RCMP believe a security tape shows a person who has intentionally set at least three fires in Montague in recent weeks.
Downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane Earl still packs winds of 105 miles an hour of 168 km/h In Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island last night there was a line up at Peake’s Quay as nervous boat owners trailered their boats and brought them ashore. The damage from Hurricane Juan, which was not predicted until too [...]
A fire yesterday forced tenants from a two-storey house in Borden-Carleton.
A 44 year old Charlottetown male was arrested and charged for Care & Control of a Motor Vehicle after being found passed out behind the wheel of his Motor Vehicle. He is set to appear in court in November to answer to the charge.
Persons in or near this area should be on the lookout for adverse weather conditions and take necessary safety precautions. Issued: 04:54 AM ADT Friday 03 September 2010
A 39-year-old Vernon River man was charged for failing a Breathalyzer early Friday morning. His blood alcohol content was more than one and a half times the legal limit. He will appear in Provincial Court in November.
Thursday September 2, 2010
Teenagers. They’re a real mystery to Leila. Who’s to blame? Shaggy and his Mystery, Inc. van? The Archie comics she lugs around but can’t read yet, looking at the pictures and inventing her own stories? We biked around Victoria park today, and ended up watching a bunch of thirteen-year-olds ride their dirt bikes up and [...]
i walked out of the hospital today feeling almost – though not quite – as surreal as i had when i stumbled in two days ago. almost as surreal, because no matter how flattering, 38 year old women do not normally stay in the pediatrics ward, in rooms festooned with Cinderella stickers and Mickey mouse. [...]
On a day like today, the hottest day of the year, one ought to immediately head to the beach. Although it took some peer pressure, I was happy to do so by 2pm when the temperature was still rising. On the way to Basin Head my thermometre in my car read 35 degrees and when [...]
my daughter is getting married and though i have lived on the island for almost 20 years, i havent attended any weddings and so thought i would pose this question to the forum: Where is the best, most beautiful and/or fantastic place in Charlottetown to hold a wedding reception...not the most costly.. ![":D"]("{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" "\"Very")
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... Took a chance and went back this evening. The menu is congested and hard to read. Also their attempts at humor on the menu fall short. I played it safe and got a club sandwich with potato salad. Sandwich OK but I never want to see the potato salad again. It is sickening. The don't cut the potato up enough so you are eating large cubes of cold potato.
My friend had the usual, dependable snd filling fish and chips. Usually good and I have enjoyed it myself. Tonight it was greasy. He had to scrape the breading off.
I will be happy to never return....
My friend had the usual, dependable snd filling fish and chips. Usually good and I have enjoyed it myself. Tonight it was greasy. He had to scrape the breading off.
I will be happy to never return....
I currently live in Ontario. The weather here in the summer is so oppressive - I am finding the heat unbearable and the storms terrifying!
I see lots of discussions about moving to PEI but not many discussions about the weather.
I have been to PEI several times and loved it. When I was there one summer it was very hot and muggy, but not nearly as bad as it gets here in Ontario. There was also one impressive thunderstorm while I was visiting - it was scary but it didn't have the big black tornado forming clouds that we get here in the humid weather.
I've also heard that PEI gets tons and tons of snow in the winter. We get lots of snow in Ontario, so I'm wondering if it could possibly be any worse in PEI.
It can be scary contemplating a major move in your life - especially to a place where you have never lived before, only visited at the best time of year.
And how bad does the fog get?
I would really like to know these things as I am serious looking at booking a trip to PEI to search for a house to buy.
Also, is heating with wood a viable option for homes in PEI? From what I can see there aren't any big forests or woodlots in PEI like there are here in Ontario.
Sorry for posting 2 questions in one thread, but these things are really important to me and your honest answers will go a long way to encourage or discourage me from moving to the island....
I see lots of discussions about moving to PEI but not many discussions about the weather.
I have been to PEI several times and loved it. When I was there one summer it was very hot and muggy, but not nearly as bad as it gets here in Ontario. There was also one impressive thunderstorm while I was visiting - it was scary but it didn't have the big black tornado forming clouds that we get here in the humid weather.
I've also heard that PEI gets tons and tons of snow in the winter. We get lots of snow in Ontario, so I'm wondering if it could possibly be any worse in PEI.
It can be scary contemplating a major move in your life - especially to a place where you have never lived before, only visited at the best time of year.
And how bad does the fog get?
I would really like to know these things as I am serious looking at booking a trip to PEI to search for a house to buy.
Also, is heating with wood a viable option for homes in PEI? From what I can see there aren't any big forests or woodlots in PEI like there are here in Ontario.
Sorry for posting 2 questions in one thread, but these things are really important to me and your honest answers will go a long way to encourage or discourage me from moving to the island....
It's worth noting that AZT, the first commercially marketed drug to attack HIV, itself can trace its origins to research into cancer drugs, so this news item isn't that surprising.
It will be quite risky, though.
The 30-year-long search for a cure for AIDS, the world’s deadliest viral infection, may get a renewed boost from an unlikely source: a little-used Merck & Co. cancer drug.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill plan to test Merck’s drug, Zolinza, next year in about 20 people infected with HIV, the AIDS virus. The goal is to determine if Zolinza, or a medicine like it, can force HIV out of cells where it can reside, concealed from attack by potent antiviral treatments, said David Margolis, a professor of medicine who’s leading the research.
While AIDS drug cocktails can eliminate more than 99 percent of virus from an infected person, the treatment isn’t a cure because a remnant of the virus remains hidden in certain cells. For years, scientists have sought a simple way to drive the remaining virus into the bloodstream where the drugs can clear them from the body. Zolinza, approved in 2006 for use against a rare type of blood cancer, may work by blocking an enzyme that helps the virus avoid detection.
“It’s really all about trying to move the field ahead,” Margolis said in a telephone interview. “We don’t expect to cure anybody, but we expect to really show whether it can work the way we think it does in people -- or not.”
Zolinza earned Whitehouse Station, New Jersey-based Merck $15 million in 2008, the last year it disclosed sales of the drug, for treating a malignancy of white blood cells that affects the skin. In a laboratory test published last year, Margolis used the medicine to coax HIV out of hiding in cells taken from infected patients. Now he wants to replicate the result inside the body. Success would show he’s on the right track to finding a cure.
“There is a good chance that it will cause some activation of latently infected cells,” said Robert Siliciano, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore who first identified the cells in which HIV hides out, and isn’t involved in the Zolinza trial. “Nobody knows if it will work, but it’s important to try.”
It will be quite risky, though.
Zolinza targets an enzyme called histone deacetylase, or HDAC, that helps HIV go to sleep in cells by interfering with its ability to replicate. By blocking HDAC, Zolinza would reactivate the virus, kickstarting reproduction.
From there, nature would take its course: HIV would exit and kill its host cell, and enter the bloodstream in search of new cells to infect. Anti-AIDS drugs would prevent it from doing so, and with nowhere left to go, the virus would die after several hours.
Margolis and his colleagues plan to give about 20 patients a few doses of Zolinza, then measure whether it’s had any effect on the amount of virus the immune cells are producing. That will tell them whether they’ve succeeded in disturbing the reservoir.
Zolinza, also known as SAHA, may not be suitable as a cure for AIDS because of its potential to cause genetic mutations that lead to cancer, Margolis said. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepts that risk when the drug is being used in patients who already have cancer. It probably won’t tolerate the risk for use in other diseases, Margolis said.
The FDA has approved the trial “because we will so severely limit the exposure to SAHA that the risk of inducing cancer is felt to be negligible, like getting on a plane and taking a flight to New York, or lying on the beach and getting a tan,” he said.
A motorcycle rally in Nova Scotia and an Acadian festival on P.E.I. are still slated to go ahead despite Hurricane Earl's approach.
It’s apparent from the book that Blair felt a kinship with his “friend” Chrétien, describing him in warm terms.
“He was a very wise, wily and experienced old bird, great at international meetings, where he could be counted on to talk sense and as Canadians often are, firm and dependable without being pushy,” Blair says.
“All in all, a good guy and a very tough political operator, not to be underestimated,” he says.
Blair was in Canada just as Britain was hit with an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease and credits Chrétien with immediately identifying it as a serious crisis.
“Watch that, young Tony, watch it very carefully. That’s trouble,” Blair recounts Chrétien as saying.
For all his effusive praise of Chretien, he is silent on Martin, suggesting that the personal tie to Canada had disappeared once Chrétien left office.
For all the flak he has taken at home for his perceived kowtowing to the foreign policy agenda of the United States, former British prime minister Tony Blair still thinks there could be no better partner with whom to have a “special relationship.”
This is an overarching theme of Mr. Blair’s newly published memoirs, and one he thinks governments in Canada and Britain alike should internalize as they seek to buttress their countries’ influence in a multipolar world.
“Canada has got to decide – in a world that is opening up, [with] power shifting to the East, where America is looking at its own alliances shifting – what its place is,” Mr. Blair confided in a far-ranging interview in Washington, where he is taking part in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
“You want to maximize the strengths of your relationships, so that in the evolving policy decisions that will determine the future – whether in trade, the economy or security – you’ve got a voice and a say that, looking ahead 20 or 30 years, is bigger than your size will permit you on your own.”
A low-flying police helicopter is patrolling the skies over Prince Edward Island this week on a seek-and-destroy mission to find drugs.
For this weeks post I have to share Kate and Gordie's amazing PEI waterfront house with you. I've been blogging on the planning and building aspect of their house since last December. I posted a couple of pictures of their almost finished livingroom, way back in May. Today I think we are ready for the reveal.
Meet Kate and Gordie. A very beautiful couple. Newlyweds building their first
Sometimes the animals have a great view.....if they'd only look up once in a while. Click to Play: Bill Staines - Home on the Range We love water views on An Island Walk.
The weather is the main topic of conversation around the Maritimes these days. Not only are we in the midst of an intense heat wave but we are expecting to be directly hit by Hurricane Earl on Saturday. I've had two days off this week and made it a point to enjoy the summer weather because with my intense work schedule these last few months, I had basically missed the season. Today I went to
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Jim Brown During the dinner hour Thursday O’Leary residents looking skyward saw a thick plume of white smoke that curled far into the horizon.
It was a fire at a Unionvale farmyard owned by Ewen Stetson.
The call came through to firefighters at approximately 11:40 am.
Throughout the early afternoon hours exhausted firefighters from four departments - O’Leary, Alberton, Tignish and West Point - battled searing heat that topped 32 C and a persistent fire lurking amongst hundreds of hay and straw bales that could not easily be extinguished.
All told more than 200 straw bales and about 40 to 50 bales of hay were destroyed, estimated Mr Stetson, who praised firefighters for their “more than excellent” response.
Fortunately, a barn filled with about 20 Holstein cattle was spared and so was Mr Stetson’s home, just a short distance away.
A model of Cheryl Pagurek's "Currents." A city committee has chosen Cheryl Pagurek as the artist to install her work in the Market Place Corridor, part of the extended Transitway in the city’s south west near Strandherd and Jockvale...(read more)
One of my favorite meals is a little something I’ve developed after enjoying it at a restaurant (every time I went there): lemon pepper chicken pizzas.
They’re delicious, not hard to make and oh-so-delicious.
They start with a head of roasted garlic.
Take a whole bulb of garlic, peel off most of the papery skin, slice off the [...]
[ October 2, 2010; 4:00 pm; ] Weekly Movie Night has come again :-)
~Bring in a favorite movie or choose from the movie selection at Teen Zone~
[ October 1, 2010; 4:00 pm; ] Have your voice heard at our TAG (Teen Advisory Group) Meeting... Share your ideas for the Charlottetown Teen Zone...
After...
Create your own activity and you have the floor :-)
[ September 30, 2010; 4:00 pm; ] Homework help with the afterschool program :-)
~Afterwards, let's get our hearts pumpin' at the GYM~
[ September 29, 2010; 4:00 pm; ] Have an idea for an activity? Well, today you're in charge!
Bring your ideas and you take the floor :-)
[ September 28, 2010; 4:00 pm; ] It's that time again :-) Lets help out the kids at the afterschool program... give them a hand with their homework... be the mentor they may need
Afterwards, join us for our Free Glow Bowling
4:30pm-5:30pm
Iron Knitter 2: Mad Knitting has begun... after a slight delay in the clue-solving (thank you Team Canada for being smarter than I and figuring it out in time!) my socks are cast on, and the ribbing is mostly complete. 90% of the knitters who complete this design will progress on to round 2, so I have to knit quickly, but really don't need to kill myself at it for this round. I have no problems churning out a pair of socks in a weekend, and the deadline for this round is Sept 17th.
I decided to challenge myself a little here - I'm working this pair 2-at-a-time on circulars - my first time using this technique. I hear that it's a great way to work a pair of socks quickly, especially since there is less counting and record-keeping. Because both socks are worked at the same time, when you complete a section (ribbing, leg, heels, toes) you are completely done of that section. I've caught myself counting the rows of 2x2 ribbing several times already... but it doesn't Matter how many rows of ribbing I do now as long as it reaches the 2 inches mark! Freeing isn't it?
The pattern itself ("Out of Town in London Fog" by Helen Waittes) is a specially designed pattern for Iron Knitter and is named for one of the companies that employs the advertising company of Sterling Cooper Draper Price in the AMC show Mad Men. Helen knit her test socks in a lovely grey smoke color (presumably the color of the London fog itself? though in the show, one Brit Character admits that there really is NO fog in London to be spoken of) but I decided I'd like to be different. And since the pattern is named for a fictitious meterological phenomenon - I decided to name mine after a fictitious mythological creature... the Loch Ness Monster. (Yarn: Knit Picks Stroll Kettle Dyed in "Spruce")
Loch Ness Socks... Cuffs - Knit 2-at-a-time on Circs!
[ September 25, 2010; 4:00 pm; ] :-) Our weekly Movie Night is here again :-)
As always, bring in a movie of your choice or choose from the selection at the Teen Zone
[ September 24, 2010; 4:00 pm; ] A follow up discussion of our chat with Alana from AIDS PEI... didn't get your questions answered? ... have more questions?.... feel free to bring them today :-)
[ September 23, 2010; 4:00 pm; ] Lets help out the kids at the afterschool program by helping them with their homework :-)
[ September 22, 2010; 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm. ] HIV and STI's .... you have questions, we have an expert! Come sit in on our chat with Alana from Aids PEI... you never know, you might be surprised at what you can learn
4:30pm-5:30pm
A former Islander who designs online gambling software says P.E.I. shouldn't get into internet gambling.
[ September 21, 2010; 3:00 pm; ] So, we have an afterschool program upstairs and its a great opportunity to be a positive role model for someone else :-) Let's give these kids a hand with their homework and help put a smile on their face
Join us for Free Glow Bowling afterwards
4:30-5:30
[ September 18, 2010; 3:00 pm; ] Once again, its time for our weekly MOVIE NIGHT... as always, feel free to bring your own movies in, and bring along a friend :-)
[ September 14, 2010 3:00 pm to September 17, 2010 3:00 pm. ] Thats right, a WEEK LONG Soccer Tournament! Bring a friend to join in the fun
[ September 11, 2010; 3:00 pm; ] Join us for our weekly Movie Night :-)
Feel free to bring in some of your own movies or choose from our selection at the Teen Zone
[ September 10, 2010; 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Let's keep your body moving and stay fit... join us at the gym!
3:00pm-4:00pm
Support for Catalan separatism--of Catalonia, not of the wider Catalanophone world including the Spanish regions of Valencia and the Balearic Islands, or the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales--seems to be growing, as Paddy Wadworth wrote in his Foreign Policy article "Madrid's Nightmare".
Economic reasons--specifically, resentment of the Spanish government's transfer of income from Catalonia to the poorer regions of Spain, and the belief that if Catalonia was fiscally independent, at least, it wouldn't have to implement the austerity programs demanded for Spain--also play a role in boosting support for independence. In fact, various polls do seem to suggest that support for Catalonian independence has been growing the past few years. All this may well, as suggested at Geocurrents, lead to electoral breakthroughs for separatist Republican Left of Catalonia in the next elections.
Symbolism matters in federal, multinational states. Events in the past decade seem to have reinforced Catalonia's alienation from the rest of Spain, for reasons as various as the tensions with the Aznar government earlier in this decade and the recent attacks on Catalonia for its ban on bullfighting. While noting that Catalonia's separatists would certainly see advantages for themselves if their region became an independent state and observing that I don't think Catalonia needs to be independent, that there's a contradiction between Catalonia's survival and Catalonia's inclusion within Spain. If the mass of Catalonians are convinced that there is a contradiction, then much becomes possible.
Zapatero had rashly promised to accept whatever changes the Catalan parliament made to its existing autonomy statute, so long as they stayed within the current constitution. But the most radical changes were watered down by the Madrid parliament, though it did approve Catalonia's desired affirmation of its "preferred" status of the Catalan language, and its full control of over its judiciary. Most significantly, it accepted Catalonia's status as a "nation" in its own right, though it shifted this provision from the main statute to the preface.
But in early July, the Spanish Constitutional Court, responding to a petition organized by the opposition conservative People's Party (PP), ruled that some of the changes violated the constitution and avowed that only it only recognizes "one nation, Spain," dashing Catalan hopes. Popular support for the PP petition campaign revealed that Spanish nationalism, dormant since the dictatorship, remains a key force in Spanish politics.
Yet the court decision provoked what were probably the biggest demonstrations in Barcelona since the transition to democracy. Around a million people took to the streets to protest in favor of increased self-determination for the Catalan nation. They were led by José Montilla, leader of the PSC, the Catalan chapter of Zapatero's party, who described the decision of Spain's highest court as "offensive." The tone of the march suggests that many Catalans who would have been content with even the watered-down statute are now shifting towards demands for complete independence. Montilla was repeatedly abused by pro-independence demonstrators, who appear increasingly to reflect the popular mood.
Economic reasons--specifically, resentment of the Spanish government's transfer of income from Catalonia to the poorer regions of Spain, and the belief that if Catalonia was fiscally independent, at least, it wouldn't have to implement the austerity programs demanded for Spain--also play a role in boosting support for independence. In fact, various polls do seem to suggest that support for Catalonian independence has been growing the past few years. All this may well, as suggested at Geocurrents, lead to electoral breakthroughs for separatist Republican Left of Catalonia in the next elections.
Symbolism matters in federal, multinational states. Events in the past decade seem to have reinforced Catalonia's alienation from the rest of Spain, for reasons as various as the tensions with the Aznar government earlier in this decade and the recent attacks on Catalonia for its ban on bullfighting. While noting that Catalonia's separatists would certainly see advantages for themselves if their region became an independent state and observing that I don't think Catalonia needs to be independent, that there's a contradiction between Catalonia's survival and Catalonia's inclusion within Spain. If the mass of Catalonians are convinced that there is a contradiction, then much becomes possible.
Storm Pulse has an interactive and predictive visual model of Hurricane Earl We might be headed for the “Big One” on the Eastern Seaboard with Hurricane Earl. The media are obsessing over it and so is Twitter. Here is a cool interactive map of the storm. Powered by storm-tracking software from Stormpulse.com StormPulse is based [...]
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dewline that I've learned that Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield will be commanding the International Space Station in 2013.
dewline that I've learned that Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield will be commanding the International Space Station in 2013.Hadfield will launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft late in 2012, Gary Goodyear, minister of state for science and technology, told a news conference Thursday in Longueuil, Que. The exact date of the launch has not been set, but it will likely be in either late November or early December.
In March 2013, Hadfield will take command for the second half of the six-month mission, overseeing the work of five other astronauts.
"To be trusted on their lives … is a tremendous honour that all of us share," he said, calling the opportunity extremely challenging, exciting and rewarding.
It will be his third journey into space.
The Ontario native, who was born in Sarnia and raised in Milton, will co-pilot the Soyuz rocket en route to the space station.
[. . .]
Veteran test pilot Hadfield's first mission in space was in 1995, when he became the only Canadian astronaut to board the Russian space station Mir.
On his second mission, in 2001, he attached Canadarm 2 to the International Space Station (ISS) during the first-ever spacewalk by a Canadian.
2010-09-02 The City of Charlottetown is ramping up preparations for Hurricane Earl and is asking residents to do the same.
A Top 40 hit when it was released by the Passions, a British group, in 1981, "I'm in Love with a German Film Star", British artist Sam Taylor-Wood decided to record a cover version in 2008. Produced by the Pet shop Boys, the single hit the top of the British dance charts in November 2008.
The song was as much about the performance as anything else. The video's arresting, Taylor-Wood dressed as Marlene Dietrich--top hat, men's suit, long cigarette holder--and holding her legs-crossed position for the length of the black-and-white video, the smoke swirling upwards from the cigarette the only sign that time is passing. Several remixes are out there, but I strongly prefer British expatriate producer Mark Reeder's dreamy Rundfunk remix.
"Rundfunk is "Broadcasting" as in "broadcasting network" (compare Westdeutscher Rundfunk), and the song with its video seems--to me, at least--to be very German, very "European" in the sense of being complex and somehow at once other and accessible. Je l'aime beaucoup.
The song was as much about the performance as anything else. The video's arresting, Taylor-Wood dressed as Marlene Dietrich--top hat, men's suit, long cigarette holder--and holding her legs-crossed position for the length of the black-and-white video, the smoke swirling upwards from the cigarette the only sign that time is passing. Several remixes are out there, but I strongly prefer British expatriate producer Mark Reeder's dreamy Rundfunk remix.
"Rundfunk is "Broadcasting" as in "broadcasting network" (compare Westdeutscher Rundfunk), and the song with its video seems--to me, at least--to be very German, very "European" in the sense of being complex and somehow at once other and accessible. Je l'aime beaucoup.
The Canadian Hurricane Centre issues a hurricane watch for four Nova Scotia counties and expands its tropical storm watch to include large sections of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
The PEI Humane Society located at 309 Sherwood Rd, Charlottetown, will be closed on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010 due to hot weather conditions.
Uigg, PEI native Travis McIsaac was named team captain by the PEI Rocket earlier today. Jonathan Bonneau (20), Matthew Hobbs (19) and newcomer Philippe Paradis (19) were named Assistant Captains for the 2010-2011 season....
It is a really great honour to be named Captain of the Rocket said McIsaac. Coming back to PEI for my 20-year old season is very exciting and I cant wait to get the season started, he added.
Head Coach Eric Lavigne added that Travis was a natural selection for Captain. He leads by example, both on and off the ice. He is a great example for our young players and will be a great asset to the organization this season.
The Rocket will hit the ice for an exhibition game against the Saint John Sea Dogs on Thursday evening at 7:00 PM at the Charlottetown Civic Centre. Tickets are $5 for season ticket holders and $7 for non-season ticket holders. All seating is general admission and tickets can be purchased in advance at the Rocket office or CCC box office. Tickets will also be available at the gate, but fans are urged to purchase tickets in advance to avoid any lineups at the door.
Fans are also reminded that the Rocket team will be officially announced on Friday at noon as part of the 2nd Annual Street Hockey Festival. Grafton Street between University Avenue and Prince Street will be the location for the announcement. The Sherwood Peewee AAA Falcons will also be hosting a BBQ as part of the event, so fans are welcome to drop by. All proceeds from the Street Hockey Festival and the BBQ will assist the SPRMHA Peewee AAA Falcons who will be traveling to the Quebec Peewee International Minor Hockey tournament this winter.
To find our identity is the most powerful urge that we have. Most of us find it in a Tribe. Yes even today. Teens are perhaps the most tribal of all humans. They claim individuality but dress, do their hair,...
Include Persons With Disabilities in Planning and Implementation Human Rights Watch – Governments meeting at the United Nations this week to discuss implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) should focus on effective strategies and good practices that benefit persons with disabilities, Human Rights Watch said today. The convention went [...]
Hurricane Earl continues its course towards the Maritimes. The Category 4 system is currently about 660 kilometres south of Cape Hatteras, N.C., packing maximum sustained winds of 230 km/h. Environment Canada stated Thursday morning that Earl has a 20% probability of remaining a Category 4 Hurricane when it reaches the Maritimes this weekend. (Hurricane Juan in 2003 was a Category 2 Hurricane).
North Carolina and Virginia have both declared a state of emergency in advance of the hurricane. A tropical storm warning has been issued for the coast of Long Island, N.Y. and a hurricane watch was issued for parts of Massachusetts. A hurricane warning was already in place for the North Carolina coast.
Earl is expected to touch down on the U.S. mainland around midnight Thursday near Cape Hatteras. It is expected to bring wind gusts of up to 160 km/h along with several feet of storm surge.
Steve Jobs does his best act as huckster and traveling salesman Yesterday Apple CEO Steve Jobs did a live announcement of Apple’s new or improved products for the fall. Some of his claims were so preposterous it’s hard to take him with more than a grain of salt. The show had plenty of wow’s, ooh’s [...]
The Zhong Hua Men Archway, its construction announced in November 2008 and officially completed on the 12th of September in 2009, greets visitors passing east along Gerrard to the struggling neighbourhood of East Chinatown, located at the intersection of Gerrard and Broadview.
Joce , from User Men , by Tony Fouhse at La Petite Mort Gallery. For several years Tony Fouhse has been photographing crack addicts in the Byward Market, and one side of that project goes up at Friday, Sept. 3, 7 to 10 p.m., at La Petite Mort Gallery...(read more)
Clever new attacks simulate emails with moderate level of important information but no alarming key phrases People started getting phony emails this week that attempt to establish contact through benign messages. The older scams promise millions of dollars in lost money, sex, dates, or jobs. This new round of phishing is different: the messages are [...]
Montague might have a serial arsonist in its midst, RCMP say.
Islanders continue to keep a nervous eye on Hurricane Earl.
Artists Benjamin Rodger and Genevieve Thauvette during Portraits of Bluesfest 2, at Cube Gallery. (Photo by Peter Simpson, Ottawa Citizen) The Portraits of Bluesfest 2 charity auction went last week, and it raised $7,000 for Blues in the Schools. The...(read more)
Inspections of Iowa poultry farms linked to the salmonella outbreak have prompted headlines about infestations with maggots and rodents. But the larger truth is: industrial agriculture is itself unhealthy. Repeated studies have found that cramming hens into small cages results...
Barack Obama yesterday declared an emergency as states along the eastern seaboard of the US prepared evacuation plans to be put in to operation if hurricane Earl moves inland instead of glancing the shoreline. The US president authorised the US...
The town of Stratford is paying for an in-depth study into what sending its sewage to Charlottetown would mean for the capital city.
A serious motor vehicle accident closed Brackley Point Road in Charlottetown for two hours Wednesday.
At 8:57 pm on September 1st Police responded to a shoplifting complaint at Zellers mall located at 670 University Avenue. Security reported a female left the store with stolen merchandise from various stores. Security lost sight of the female as she enter the walking trail that is located east of the mall. Police searched surrounding area of the trail. As result a 31 year old female was located by Police and arrested for Theft under $5000. All the stolen merchandise was recovered.
Police are investigating a reported theft of PEI license plate NT 738 that occurred between August 30th, at 8:00pm and September 1st at 6:40pm. The vehicle was parked at Fitzroy Parkade located at 130 Fitzroy Street. The subject(s) also cut a hole in the soft top roof of the vehicle to gain entry into the vehicle. If you have any information regarding this file please contact Charlottetown Police or Crime Stoppers.
Wednesday September 1, 2010
Do you know where your food comes from? On September 2nd Maritimers are asked to only eat Atlantic produced products that day and beyond. With the rising awareness of ethical eating, consumers are choosing to shop closer to home. Locally grown produce is often more nutritious while producing a smaller carbon footprint.
Co-op Atlantic is organizing local events to help celebrate this special dietary day. Members of the public can enjoy samples of Atlantic produced products at the Charlottetown location on Walker Drive. Follow the Eat Atlantic Challenge on facebook wall to find out more details and to make your dietary pledge.
I signed the pledge, and here’s my PEI produced meal plan for today:
Breakfast: 2 PEI free range eggs + 1 local bakery whole wheat bread, PEI roasted coffee with honey drop
Snack: handpicked PEI apple + slice of Cows creamery cheddar cheese
Lunch: garden veggie stir fry with oishi sauce and uncle’s homegrown chicken
Snack: fresh fruit smoothie with Island berries and Purity dairy skim milk
Supper: PEI lobster, corn on the cob, garden fresh yellow beans, new PEI potatoes
Local eating just makes sense. It’s easy to do and often more affordable. Planning your meals a day in advance can help you stay on track. To find out more about local eating or where to buy food, read the 100 mile diet.
The Eat Atlantic website hosts a kids club, which includes healthy inspired projects for kids and parents. Learn more about nutrition and how your food is grown on this interactive website. As a parent, it’s your responsibility to be a healthy food role model for your children. Openly discuss nutrition with them and take family outings to local farms.
How do you plan on enjoying Eat Atlantic day? Hopefully with lots of food 
It’s been really interesting to me to watch how Tanya Davis‘ video “How to be Alone” has become a Youtube.com sensation. I watched Tanya and Patrick Ledwell perform in Victoria-by-the-Sea in July, in their “New, New Potato Time Review” and thoroughly enjoyed their show.
I twittered about it… how I laughed so hard that my stomach [...]
Police responded to a two vehicle collision on Brackley Point Road shortly after 3:00pm Wednesday. Both Island EMS and the Charlottetown Fire Services responded to the scene. All three people, both drivers and one passenger, were transported to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for treatment. The extent of the injuries in unknown at this time and the cause of the collision is still under investigation. Anyone who witnessed the collision is asked to contact Police.
Carla Bruni has been controversial, but this controversy is rather much.
The Iranian government may have distanced itself, but as Iranian-Canadian and former political prisoner writes at the Huffington Post, that's not a very convincing lie.
Me? I think that if she's a whore for condemning this atrocity, then she should be proud to be a whore; clearly, being a whore is the right thing to do. In the meantime, below's the video for the title track of her debut album, Quelqu'un ma dit. I like.
A “hardline” newspaper in Iran branded Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a prostitute who deserved to die for expressing support for an Iranian woman on death row, according to CNN.
The prostitute reference apparently is an allusion to Bruni’s active social life before marrying President Sarkozy in 2008. Bruni is a former supermodel and considered one of the most beautiful women in the world.
The Kayhan newspaper denounced Bruni after she posted a letter on her website expressing solidarity with the woman who is scheduled to be stoned to death by the Iranian regime for committing adultery. Bruni among many others in the international community is calling for clemency for the woman.
The French Foreign Ministry said the newspaper’s comments were unacceptable, and even Iranian officials at least publicly have backed away from the state-run newspaper’s editorial.
The Iranian government may have distanced itself, but as Iranian-Canadian and former political prisoner writes at the Huffington Post, that's not a very convincing lie.
Of course, as expected, the Iranian foreign ministry tried to do some damage control by announcing that Iranian media should refrain from insulting foreign leaders and dignitaries. However, the Iranian foreign-ministry spokesperson conveniently forgot to mention that the editor-in-chief of Kayhan newspaper has been appointed by Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader and is very much inline with the Iranian government.
Iranian authorities have a habit of trying to distract the world from the terrible disregard for human rights in their country, and the attack on Bruni is another example of that policy. In addition, for more than thirty years, Iranian authorities have interfered with all the aspects of the lives of Iranians, from their bedrooms to the streets. Iranians cannot wear what they want and cannot say what they think. Women cannot sleep with whom they wish and cannot date the person of their choice. Iranians are warned not to dance or sing and not to read Western novels. The comments in Kayhan directly reflect this way of thought: it is the government that decides how people behave in private and in public -- and if citizens don't follow these extreme, intrusive rules, they would deserve to die. As simple as that.
Me? I think that if she's a whore for condemning this atrocity, then she should be proud to be a whore; clearly, being a whore is the right thing to do. In the meantime, below's the video for the title track of her debut album, Quelqu'un ma dit. I like.
After receiving information from an off duty Police Officer, Charlottetown Police arrested Daniel Ivan GALLANT Wednesday afternoon. A warrant had been issued for his arrest on Monday. GALLANT will appear Provincial Court in the near future to answer to multiple charges.
Yesterday the baby was curious. Today we have a parent taking a look at the photographer. I'm going no closer. Click to Play: Pierce Pettis - pastures of Plenty We see moms and kids and they see us on An Island Walk.
Charlottetown shattered its record high temperature for Sept. 1 on Wednesday with a temperature of 30 C.
Rogers usage limits are similar to those offered by most large Canadian internet service providers. Bell, for example, offers 25 GB on its Performance service and 75 GB on its Fibe 16 plan. The offerings are minuscule, compared with what...
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Jim Brown Carol Evans has had more laid-back birthdays.
How many Islanders would even think of walking close to 40 km on their 60th birthday? How about walking along the Confederation Trail from one tip of the Island to the other, for eight days straight?
Ms Evans finished the gruelling journey she started in Elmira Aug. 25 on Wednesday at 3:30 pm at the Bicentennial Park, in Tignish.
At the barrier gate, marking the end of her “Hike for Health” campaign to raise funds for a new echocardiogram machine for Prince County Hospital,
all she could say was, “We did it,” followed by, “I’m not doing this again.”
Well-wishers cheered Ms Evans to the finish, offering hugs “Happy Birthday” greetings. Several were friends and family members who had accompanied her for varying stretches of her journey.
Five major school construction projects worth $14-million are ready for Prince Edward Island students.
Just wondering where some of the best spots to go on the island are....
The tragedy of most kids at school is that over time they get disengaged and discouraged. On PEI we start with the challenge of about 30% of the kids are already struggling. At about grade 8, we see at a...
Innovation and Advanced Learning Minister Allan Campbell says he has covered the Prince Edward Island with slow speed networking With great fanfare, Innovation Minister Allan Campbell declares PEI is ready to join the broadband world of hi-speed internet. P.E.I. entirely covered by broadband network headlines the Charlottetown Guardian without a clue what they are talking [...]
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Jonathan Charlton The areas of Victoria Cross, Montague, Dover, Scotchfort and Lorne Valley lost power for about 10 minutes early this afternoon.
Kim Griffin of Maritime Electric said the outage was neither caused by heat nor by the grid being overloaded. Instead, the company suspects something came in contact with transmission lines somewhere in the area. Inspectors are currently searching for the cause.
Uigg, PEI native Travis McIsaac was named team captain by the PEI Rocket earlier today. Jonathan Bonneau (20), Matthew Hobbs (19) and newcomer Philippe Paradis (19) were named
We don’t need to exploit prostitutes to have sex – but we do need equality in society for the myths to be debunked By Naomi Jacobs, The Telegraph.co.uk – The Telegraph picked a particularly shrewd moment to pry into disabled people’s care plans, seeing as we are currently are the disproportionate target of a cost-cutting [...]
UPDATE 93.7 F. or 34.3 C. on my back deck – 30 C. at the weather office The weather network says it feels like 40 C. or 104 F. We’re not used to this. September 1st and it’s hotter than hell in the Iraq desert on the cool shores of Northumberland Strait. It’s 34 C. [...]
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A Charlottetown man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for not paying two years of income taxes.
On Friday evening and Saturday morning and afternoon, October 8 and 9, 2010 at the Charlottetown Curling Club, the PEI Curling Association will be holding a weekend Adult Skills Development/High Performance Camp, open to all male and female curling teams, individuals and coaches from intermediate to advanced level.
The cost is $160.00 per team including coach or $40.00 [...]
Has anybody done this recently, we're looking at taking I-95 down to I-90 and coming back into Canada via buffalo. I know there are some tolls on the route but I'm having trouble figuring out how much they will cost me for this trip....
Well, we have had the first Superviosr's Network meeting and I hope that everyone enjoyed it. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss challenges, successes and ideas to enhance quality pra
Hurricane Earl is forecast to hit Atlantic Canada this weekend and is already causing cancellations.
The Canadian government will not fund a clinical trial of the so-called liberation therapy for multiple sclerosis at this time, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq says.
2010-09-01 The Canadian Senior Men's Fast pitch Championships being played in Charlottetown now kicks off several months of high-profile sporting events in the capital.
Offer extended to September 8th in Canada for only $2,500 a $1,500 saving Update September 1, 2010 - Roland extends the offer to September 8th The joke “Only in Canada you say” seems to be true in this under-promoted special from Roland Canada on their flag-ship digital recording workstation (DAW). This limited quantity special is [...]
The P.E.I. government says it may need to do more to resolve confusion over the official route of the Trans-Canada Highway in Charlottetown.
Rare and previously unreleased concert at Brandeis University will make 3rd disc when purchased from Amazon.com Rolling Stone has announced that The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9) will include a 3rd disc with seven songs from a 1963 concert. Songs on the disc are: Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance; Talkin’ [...]
But I bet if you charged 30 cents per kilowatt hour for power in coal-burning states like Wyoming and West Virginia, they, too, could cap their emissions, and without having to install a single wind turbine. The other reason commonly...
2010-09-01 The Charlottetown Fire Department wants you to get one. They've spent the summer knocking on almost 1,000 doors in the capital to make sure each household has one or more of the life-saving devices.
The Martimes remains in the path of Hurricane Earl, and could see it's effects as early as Saturday morning. The latest forecast from the Canadian Hurricane Centre says hurricane Earl continues on its projected track and is likely to affect Atlantic Canada by this weekend.
The centre says it's still too early to issue warnings or discuss potential effects in Atlantic Canada because the hurricane is still too far away.
The centre says Earl is expected to continue its northwestward track before heading more towards the north.
There continues to be a wide-range of predictions of where the storm could potentially make landfall, from Maine in the west to as far east as Newfoundland.
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David MacDonald A litany of topics were covered on Tuesday night as the five candidates for the Progressive Conservative Party of PEI took part in a town hall forum in Pooles Corner.
The topics of discussion included economic and rural development issues, and the candidates, including Olive Crane, Peter Llewellyn, Jamie Ballem, Jamie Fox and Fred McCardle, were asked questions on various issues including tourism, the Wood Islands/Caribou ferry, the Ghiz government’s early years initiative, electricity prices, agriculture and much more.
The Panache brand has branched out into new territory with a small modeling agency. To help the models get their books started they hired me to do a creative shoot of my choosing. I was excited for the opportunity to shoot outside of my usual aesthetic and do something fun, the following images were inspired by a broken down circus…
Thanks to all the wonderful models for a great shoot and thanks to my good friend Jesse who was nice enough to give up her afternoon while she was in town visiting to assist me!
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Should Premier Ghiz’s buddy be managing the largest hospital on PEI without the credentials Video copyright CBC News When you watch the CBC video of QEH Executive Director Rick Adams, it’s hard not to cringe. He gratuitously notes he has only been at the hospital for two years as if to wash his hands of [...]
Innovation P.E.I. and Bell Aliant committed over $330,000 Tuesday to six rural companies developing new information technology.
Justice and Public Safety Minister Doug W. Currie is reminding
Islanders that Gift Card legislation passed this spring comes into
effect today, September 1. The Gift Cards Act prohibits expiry dates and
Arcade Fire’s video The Wilderness Downtown uses HTML 5 to include your home in the action Arcade Fire have produced an innovative rock video for their song The Wilderness Downtown that puts your home and your street right into the video. It is awesome. Because it uses HTML 5, it works best in Google Chrome [...]