Has the history channel run out of history? They must have if they need to put CSI:NY on everyday.
I'm a new viewer to 24, I started watching it a few months ago on A&E and seen all but the 6th season, it's a good show but I have a few observations. The show is in real time, each episode represents 24 hours and each season has 24 episodes and represents one day so, now after watching 5 days worth of episodes, not once has Jack Bauer slept, ate, drank, peed, pooped, showered, shaved or brushed his teeth. I don't think I'd put that much responsibility on the guy, I'm surprised he's not suffering from dehydration and exhaustion.
CSI, I like the show but hate the arrogance. You are guilty until proven innocent on that show and they are never apologetic when they're wrong. Would a crime scene investigator really go after the bad guys or is it their job to find the clues only? If they are detectives as well then shouldn't they all be a CSI and if not, who processes the crime scenes for the cops? On Law and Order they call them CSU and they do call them in, the detectives don't process the crime scene.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Colony Collapse Disorder
Where have all the bees gone?
"Colony collapse disorder is the rapid loss of adult worker bees from the colony over a very short period of time". Commercial beekeepers would set their bees near a crop field as usual and come back in two or three weeks to find the hives bereft of foraging worker bees, with only the queen and the immature insects remaining. Whatever worker bees survived were often too weak to perform their tasks.
CNN - Mysterious honeybee killer could make dinner bland, USDA official: "This is the biggest general threat to our food supply"! Holy crap, is anyone paying attention? "The problem started in November and seems to have spread to 27 states, with similar collapses reported in Brazil, Canada and parts of Europe." I'm not sure about the one colony I know of here in Newfoundland, I could try and find out, I'm curious to know if we might be isolated enough for whatever it is that is causing this.
"Colony collapse disorder is the rapid loss of adult worker bees from the colony over a very short period of time". Commercial beekeepers would set their bees near a crop field as usual and come back in two or three weeks to find the hives bereft of foraging worker bees, with only the queen and the immature insects remaining. Whatever worker bees survived were often too weak to perform their tasks.
CNN - Mysterious honeybee killer could make dinner bland, USDA official: "This is the biggest general threat to our food supply"! Holy crap, is anyone paying attention? "The problem started in November and seems to have spread to 27 states, with similar collapses reported in Brazil, Canada and parts of Europe." I'm not sure about the one colony I know of here in Newfoundland, I could try and find out, I'm curious to know if we might be isolated enough for whatever it is that is causing this.
Friday, May 18, 2007
Our Planet
Read this , and then tell me you're not concerned.
The link above goes to a story on CNN's website regarding the planet's ability to absorb carbon dioxide, the term they use is 'carbon sink' and how, in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, this sink is full. If the sink can't absorb the carbon, it stays in the atmosphere causing the planet to warm, the greenhouse effect. This planet is warming faster than scientists originally thought, this new data expedites the necessity for change in a whole new way. Have you seen the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'? Ironically it was on tv last night, the same day this newest study was released, it's not far from the truth.
I don't know how anyone can not be very concerned given all of the new information, it's hard to believe there are still debunkers, it will probably take natural disasters on a scale the Human race has never seen to convince some of these idiots.
Scientists didn't expect to be able to detect this for another 50 years or so, this is big. This means all of their projecting has to be reworked, this will not be good, especially for coastal places like here. I'm on borrowed time already so chances are pretty good that I won't see the worst of it, I hope, and I have to admit at this point that I'm glad I never had any children, not with the world we've left them.
There is an urgency that isn't getting across to the general public, we really need to change our ways, now, today, not tomorrow or next year, if we don't how many years will there be left? How much suffering will there be along the way? Already the hurricane season started early and there have been many powerful tornadoes, some in places that rarely see that kind of intensity.
I have a friend who travels a lot in both hurricane areas as well as tornado alley, I worry now and have lectured her on being prepared for the worst. She listens to the radio now instead of cds when she travels now, in case there is a weather warning anywhere nearby, that makes me feel a little better.
I'm not looking forward to whats to come but I will do my part, however small it is, to try and stop it from happening.
The link above goes to a story on CNN's website regarding the planet's ability to absorb carbon dioxide, the term they use is 'carbon sink' and how, in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, this sink is full. If the sink can't absorb the carbon, it stays in the atmosphere causing the planet to warm, the greenhouse effect. This planet is warming faster than scientists originally thought, this new data expedites the necessity for change in a whole new way. Have you seen the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'? Ironically it was on tv last night, the same day this newest study was released, it's not far from the truth.
I don't know how anyone can not be very concerned given all of the new information, it's hard to believe there are still debunkers, it will probably take natural disasters on a scale the Human race has never seen to convince some of these idiots.
Scientists didn't expect to be able to detect this for another 50 years or so, this is big. This means all of their projecting has to be reworked, this will not be good, especially for coastal places like here. I'm on borrowed time already so chances are pretty good that I won't see the worst of it, I hope, and I have to admit at this point that I'm glad I never had any children, not with the world we've left them.
There is an urgency that isn't getting across to the general public, we really need to change our ways, now, today, not tomorrow or next year, if we don't how many years will there be left? How much suffering will there be along the way? Already the hurricane season started early and there have been many powerful tornadoes, some in places that rarely see that kind of intensity.
I have a friend who travels a lot in both hurricane areas as well as tornado alley, I worry now and have lectured her on being prepared for the worst. She listens to the radio now instead of cds when she travels now, in case there is a weather warning anywhere nearby, that makes me feel a little better.
I'm not looking forward to whats to come but I will do my part, however small it is, to try and stop it from happening.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Goodbye Brandon
I've lived most of my life in Vancouver and the surrounding areas, you get used to the sound of sirens, it's either that or they'll drive you nuts. When I hear a siren here in Lawn, my first thought is 'was there a game today?', after a winning soccer game is about the only time you hear one, thankfully. I had a bad feeling yesterday when I heard the siren, I turned down the volume on the tv so I could try and place where it was, it was heading farther away so I assumed it was on it's way to the hospital and hoped that whoever it was was going to be okay. That was all, I went back to the show I was watching, ignoring that bad feeling.
After making my morning coffee I logged on to VOCM's website as I do every morning only to be greeted with the headline 'Teen Killed in Accident', I read the entry,
A single vehicle accident has claimed the life of a 14-year old boy from Lawn. Burin Peninsula RCMP say 4 other young people in the vehicle are listed in serious condition. The boy was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital in St.Lawrence. The collision occurred on Route 220 at the entrance to Lawn, just before 5pm last evening when the car left the road and landed on its roof.
I'm floored, tears start to flow and I don't even know who it was, I don't have to know, this is a small town, everyone knows everyone. Do I want to know? I regain my composure, the initial shock is wearing off, I realize I need to know, I start making note of who I see outside, school is out today, no surprise. This is not going to work I realize, I need to know who it was so I called my neighbour. It was Brandon. My heart sinks.
So young, so tragic. Brandon was a very sweet young man, he had a big heart, always had a smile and if I needed anything he was right there, nothing expected in return. Brandon brought over my little kitty when I adopted her from a neighbour a couple of years ago, he really liked her and she really liked him. He was gentle with her, Brandon had a quiet nature.
Brandon was from Marystown, he had just moved back here again to live with his mother not long ago. His mother had married a fellow from here, he has an older brother, I can't even imagine what they are going through.
I think of Jessica, another 14 year old we lost suddenly last year, she had walking pneumonia, within 24 hours of feeling ill she was dead. It wasn't that long ago, not even a year yet. This is a lot heartache for our little town, too much pain for the kids to have to go through.
The other four kids injured in this accident are all in serious but stable condition and are expected to pull through. Thank Goodness! They were wearing their seat belts, Brandon wasn't. Brandon should have known better, he knew about what happened to me and that I wouldn't be alive today if I had not been wearing mine.
Brandon, you will be missed.
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I have since learned that Brandon was in fact wearing his seatbelt, I'm not sure if they all were but I know he was.
Brandon was buried on Monday past, May 14th, Jessica's birthday. The two will forever be linked.
After making my morning coffee I logged on to VOCM's website as I do every morning only to be greeted with the headline 'Teen Killed in Accident', I read the entry,
A single vehicle accident has claimed the life of a 14-year old boy from Lawn. Burin Peninsula RCMP say 4 other young people in the vehicle are listed in serious condition. The boy was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital in St.Lawrence. The collision occurred on Route 220 at the entrance to Lawn, just before 5pm last evening when the car left the road and landed on its roof.
I'm floored, tears start to flow and I don't even know who it was, I don't have to know, this is a small town, everyone knows everyone. Do I want to know? I regain my composure, the initial shock is wearing off, I realize I need to know, I start making note of who I see outside, school is out today, no surprise. This is not going to work I realize, I need to know who it was so I called my neighbour. It was Brandon. My heart sinks.
So young, so tragic. Brandon was a very sweet young man, he had a big heart, always had a smile and if I needed anything he was right there, nothing expected in return. Brandon brought over my little kitty when I adopted her from a neighbour a couple of years ago, he really liked her and she really liked him. He was gentle with her, Brandon had a quiet nature.
Brandon was from Marystown, he had just moved back here again to live with his mother not long ago. His mother had married a fellow from here, he has an older brother, I can't even imagine what they are going through.
I think of Jessica, another 14 year old we lost suddenly last year, she had walking pneumonia, within 24 hours of feeling ill she was dead. It wasn't that long ago, not even a year yet. This is a lot heartache for our little town, too much pain for the kids to have to go through.
The other four kids injured in this accident are all in serious but stable condition and are expected to pull through. Thank Goodness! They were wearing their seat belts, Brandon wasn't. Brandon should have known better, he knew about what happened to me and that I wouldn't be alive today if I had not been wearing mine.
Brandon, you will be missed.
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I have since learned that Brandon was in fact wearing his seatbelt, I'm not sure if they all were but I know he was.
Brandon was buried on Monday past, May 14th, Jessica's birthday. The two will forever be linked.
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