Mood:  bright

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Millions of girls and women worldwide are subjected to violence, exploitation and abuse - and millions more live without adequate protection.

How women saved the city

http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/S/spain_women.html

 "...if our histories are to be believed...."

 

In the days between the Civil War and World War I, women rarely worked outside the home, rarely went to college, and, if our histories are to be believed, rarely put their mark on the urban spaces unfolding around them.

 

CAN ADA 'Life on the streets kills women': YWCA

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/11/25/16313596.html

Posted by mach1231 at 1:07 PM PST

Updated: Friday, November 26, 2010 1:24 PM PST

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Mood:  accident prone

....

Just in case you ever  appear on Jeopardy and are given an answer in search of a 64,000  question...

This is the world's largest city not situated on a river, lake, or coastline.(  Hint: aka as Jozi, or-,..eGoli)

...

and that's your answer. If you're into even more trivial pursuit , you may also want to know that according to a recent US study, firefighting is the worlds most stressful job and career.

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And ooooooooops this just in.(wait theres more:)

Looks like this exceedingly beautiful ballerina will have to be giving us a status update soon...

Austria: ballerina fired from Vienna State Opera

 

 I have already sent her a message congratulating her on kicking the stuffy opera in the chops and moving onto bigger and better things...

kidding...aren't I?

I wonder if she was fired like this though.

 'nother photo of the beautiful ballerina.

Posted by mach1231 at 2:09 PM PDT

Updated: Friday, October 8, 2010 6:45 PM PDT

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Mood:  incredulous

Friend of mine on Facebook posted a story on a NASA event recently

 http://public.web.cern.ch/public/

and because it might be considered the result of the largest international collaboration for a single experiment in space, the group represents 56 institutes from 16 different countries..

I'd wondered about the extent of Canadian involvement.

Well the Canadian designed space arm, from years and years ago-,.. be the extent of our involvement?

So while I did not see our countrys name on this list.

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I did find a press release from our own Canadian Space Agency announcing that our own man Chris Hadfield ( first Canadian to walk in space) will be the first Canadian Commander of the International Space Station (ISS).

Now I have learned through Wiki that :

"Chris Hadfield was the Director of Operations for NASA at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia from 2001 until 2003. Some of his duties included coordination and direction of all International Space Station crew activities in Russia, oversight of training and crew support staff, as well as policy negotiation with the Russian Space Program and other International Partners. He also trained and became fully qualified to be a flight engineer cosmonaut in the Soyuz TMA spacecraft, and to perform spacewalks in the Russian Orlan spacesuit."

But is, or did he really want to get launched into space in one of these?

http://youtu.be/Hl9u-h_btBo

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Scary.

Posted by mach1231 at 12:43 PM PDT

Updated: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 12:56 PM PDT

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