Mood:  caffeinated

NEWS FLASH : CANADA DUE TO GET NEW WIRELESS CARRIER! 

The Toronto-based company has received most of its funding from Naguib Sawiris, the billionaire head of Egyptian telecommunications company Orascom, and is now qualified from Industry Canada to legally operate in Canada, going against a previous CRTC ruling.

Of course, not everyone agrees its a good idea.

"If Wind is Canadian, then so was King Tut,...when you have no effective opposition party, you can make the rules you want."- Michael Hennessy, head of regulatory affairs for Telus, on his Twitter page.

Hence recent bond issues from the Big 3 recently. (Heck I'll buy some:)

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Competition is healthy, and when youre anti-competetive, well you got a real problem.

Globalive says wireless network launch imminent

Upstart wireless company Globalive said it could launch its Wind cellphone network "as early as Monday" in Toronto and Calgary after the federal government .....

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"....a shameful first in Canadian labour history."

Sigh. My old hometown, while personally speaking such a a photo may wistfully bring up memories...the photo speaks volumes about the resourcefullness and heart of the people who choose to live there...ignoring some of the so-called comforts city people are apt to insulate themselves in...people from Prince George have genuine character.

More than 150 workers and community supporters  protesting a  Bill being tabled which strips ambulance paramedics of a right to strike while they were voting on an offer from the government..

These first responders and part-time paramedics make less money than coffee shop workers...

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B.C. paramedics warn ongoing labour dispute could impact service during Olympics

"People obviously need to be worried about whether or not an ambulance is going to be there"

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ikcJ0b8Mel-NDqARGQ_XOJEIcPdA

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A new study in the journal Sleep shows that sleep deprivation causes some people to shift from a more automatic, implicit process of information categorization (information-integration) to a more controlled, explicit process (rule-based). This use of rule-based strategies in a task in which information-integration strategies are optimal can lead to potentially devastating errors when quick and accurate categorization is fundamental to survival.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091101132535.htm

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So....how about those air pilots who merely made the news (which news btw?) by the mere equivalant of sneezing (in comparison to the bloated headlines from wanna be/wanna be reality tv stars spinning and making up sordid runaway balloon tales)

Pilots used laptop computers while straying off course

I also found on story that suggests covering up their actions with a laptop tale because maybe they were sleeping.

So now No box cutters on flights . no aerols or hair gels...and for you pilots who need to be alert like hawks while flying a coupla gagillion tons of tin and fuel in the air...no laptops.

Posted by mach1231 at 4:34 PM PDT

Updated: Friday, 6 November 2009 11:42 AM PST

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Mood:  cheeky

Dint ch'ya?

This has got to be the most stupidest story ever to mind boggling/ly snap peoples minds from a far distant alternate reality back to tv-land since a news journalist laden spacepod called CNN landed in Baghdad in 91

you know the one: the infamous notorious: "balloon hoax"!

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I think the sherrif who is the real hero of the story(loL)  sums the entire episode up best.

Sheriff in balloon saga doesn't shy from soapbox

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 October is National Women in Business Month

A 2006 study by the American Council on Education found that 58 percent of graduate students in the US last year were women — in other words, nearly double …

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...  women have consistently accounted for around 30 percent of all PhD students in economics.

 

Googling and skating around the big information \pool/\pond/ known as the Internet (Info-highway? Web? since when?:)

to confirm some "information"

...I was both taken aback and pleasant surprised to learn that , indeed, for the first time in its history, a Nobel Prize for economics has indeed been awarded to (gasp) a woman .

Turns out to be a shared award of distinction.

See also

Nobel Prize winner's theory shows where Boeing went wrong with its 787

Past winner's

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/11/world/AP-EU-Nobel-Economics-List.html

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But of three U.S. scientists who discovered key aspects of how cells and animals age and how cancer cells become immortal who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, two were women and one was Elizabeth Blackburn of UC San Francisco.

All three had received the proverbial call in the middle of the night informing them of their award win.

Blackburn joked at a news conference how she had gone through no fewer than five stages of happiness when the phone rang.

"I went through 'Where's the phone?'; to disbelief; to dazed; to 'I think it is sinking in now'; to 'I am just so happy.' "

The trio's discoveries "have added a new dimension to our understanding of the cell, shed light on disease mechanisms, and stimulated the development of potential new therapies," according to the Nobel citation.

PS Blackburn was fired in 2004 by President George W. Bush from his council on bioethics for her criticism of his restrictive policy on embryonic stem cell research.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-sci-nobel6-2009oct06,0,3987516.story

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I found this interesting:

The first IPO underwriting that Lehman Brothers managed took place in 1899.

International Steam Pump Company.

But interestingly to me

"In March 1934 the United States Commerce Department demanded a complete reorganisation of [l--i--nk] ^(one) (the) Export Steamship Corporation, (the first step being the resignation of Henry Herbermann from the presidency) and

A year later, the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, builders of the FOUR ACES and holders of a controlling interest in the Company, sold this interest to a syndicate which included Lehman Brothers and Thomas L. Chadbourne.  And finally, a new company,American Export Lines Inc. was formed in August 1936 .."

 http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/americanexport.htm

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Only because Wiki or Harvards online archives don't include it.

The company's World Trade Center offices were destroyed in the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Is it the same Lehman Brothers? Could it be any other?

Posted by mach1231 at 4:34 PM PDT

Updated: Saturday, 10 October 2009 4:51 PM PDT

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So, seriously, I  opened up to the business section of my news paper today and thought : had an editorial fiasco had taken place ?

Had the news editor  finally snapped and gone mad?

Did the news about faultering news paper industry

finally drive him around the bend? 

 Or did he mistakenly misplace his copy of the funnies section and put it in the business category?

HSBC CHAIRMAN Stephen Green yesterday said that the entire banking sector “owes the real world an apology”.

 http://www.cityam.com/news-and-analysis/t11u8z3evf.html

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Read it and weep. 

notably un-notable:

In 2008, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) "reported that eighty-three of the top publicly held US companies have operations in tax havens like the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and the Virgin Islands. AIG, Bank of America, Citigroup, and 11 others got government bailouts. In addition, Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) helped wealthy clients "cheat the IRS out of over $20 billion in recent years, according to the Department of Justice."

Posted by mach1231 at 6:15 PM PDT

Updated: Thursday, 8 October 2009 12:01 PM PDT

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OK Mr.RYP formerly of Edmonton,Alberta,Canada...

...you may not consider very much about your public image persona as viewed through the lens of the Internet screen monitor...

...and as much as you would like to 'lol' at suggestions for improving the state of your board in regards to all web users privacy rights (some; but,-.. not all: is the answer you will give) and being free from intimidation,threats and harrasement as well as abuse...

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Heres a story for you to digest and take home to your thinly disguised innards..

We're tired of seeing your rib cage when you post on-line, so at least put on a t-shirt..

or, guess what else you can do with the pages from your book.

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Slowly but surely...like a slowly churling steam train amassing speed from a dead stop position...

Here comes the Truth and Reconciliation

Commission for Canada! 

http://www.anglicanjournal.com/issues/2009/135/sept/07/article/trc-commissioners-face-daunting-task/?cHash=a2dcb570ff

You know-,...after the first one was derailed. Which can only serve to further agitate the swirls of specualtion: why werent the original commissioners getting along and why did all 3 resign?

Posted by mach1231 at 5:25 PM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, 1 September 2009 5:40 PM PDT

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Mood:  accident prone

Do it your self terrorism, self - taught. Start out with an attitude...

American forged own path into Al Qaeda

Posted by mach1231 at 8:31 PM PDT

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