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Christmas can be a difficult time for some people, a seasonal reminder of dearly loved ones now departed or of hard financial circumstances. In tonight’s sweet but somewhat melancholy Christmas song, the singer, struggling to keep real-world trouble and loss at bay, consoles her younger sister with such promises as her heart can provide, and tries to reassure herself, too, that persevering kinship and love will rise to the spirit of the season and somehow hold the day. From the 1944 film Meet Me In St. Louis, here’s Judy Garland’s touching performance of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.
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  2. Here is an interesting article from my local newspaper in Owen Sound Ontario
    Coyote concerns on the rise
    by Denis Langlois, Sun Times Staff
    Dec.18/2010
    *Tony Veroni’s petite, rambunctious Jack Russell terrier didnt stand a chance.
    The 3yr old scrapper, named Sadie, was fatally attacked last month by a coyote within minutes of being let outside in the Brooke area of Georgian Bluffs
    “I just heard this horrific, god-awful sound from hell, It was hideous,” Veroni said Thursday
    *The chilling sound prompted him to rush outside, with a high-p ow e re d flashlight, to try to scare away whatever predator lurked in the darkness. He said as he approached he saw a coyote “sauntering” away from his injured dog
    It is also polarizing a highly political debate on permitting an open bounty on the wild canines.
    *On one side are people who see the coyote as an overpopulated predatory nuisance that is threatening livestock, pets and people. On the other are those who believe coyotes are simply misunderstood and most often only drawn to farms by bait piles or deadstock.
    *Bounty opponents say a paid kill would not control coyote numbers, as the animals are highly adaptable and will produce more pups to compensate for a loss in numbers. They say only some specialized, coyotes attack livestock, while others only eat natural prey.
    *Recent attacks on Canadians has fueled the pro-bounty movement.
    *Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Murdoch plans to circulate a petition in the new year to call on the province to approve a “straight” bounty on coyotes.
    more….
    http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2896457
    *** The Brooke area is within Owen Sound’s boundaries & The bordering Twsp. And is 5min from where i live
    Owen Sound is next to Georgian Bay & has a Pop of 23,000, But the surrounding subdivision’s outside the city limits would bring it to 33,000 or more.

  3. bryanr, the coyote bounty seems to be working well in Saskatchewan. The incidents of confrontation are down considerably and for my interest, especially around my yard.

  5. AGW Progress Report: The fear, the fear, from the left-socialists. They are sniffing something out.
    What could that be? Here are clues:
    “The conditions are likely to make this the coldest December on record, with a current average temperature of minus 0.7C, five degrees under the long-term average.”
    “Louise Ellman, Labour chair of the Commons transport select committee, said it was no longer sufficient for ministers to brush away criticism by saying the severe conditions were exceptional.
    “This is now the third bad winter in a row. We need to establish whether we think there may be a change of weather patterns and if so respond accordingly,” she said. “We should be able to respond to these events better.” Ellman said her committee would investigate what had gone wrong. “Clearly it is something we will have to look into.””
    “UK snow: Britain in gridlock as big freeze brings Christmas travel misery
    • Passengers angry as BA cancels all short-haul flights
    • December set to be coldest on record, says Met Office”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/18/uk-snow-travel-disruption-christmas

  8. “For example, Windows XP, Vista and Microsoft Office were developed in _______. So were the first firewalls, the first wireless LAN, voice mail, cell phones (including the multi-jacketed Modu cell phone, which has entered the Guinness Book of Records, and has brought user functionality to a new level unmatched anywhere in the world), TV Remote Control, Google’s new super-search algorithm Orion (in fact, Google runs on ________ search algorithms), the Mobile Internet, Intel microchips and Pentium microprocessors, an advanced electric car network, a model to the world, using “green electricity” to be operational by next year, superior anti-terrorist screening techniques, drip irrigation, state-of-the-art solar power plants, water technology programs and reverse osmosis desalination plants to which half of Europe is indebted, the miracle drug Copaxone which treats multiple sclerosis, the world’s tiniest medical video camera to be used for disposable endoscopes, coronary stents, surgical lasers, transcutaneous pain relievers, new autoclave designs to fight AIDS, the ExAblate 2000 system for combating fibroid tumors, a rasagiline inhibitor of Parkinson’s marketed as Azilect, the chemotherapy agent Doxil that treats leukemia and Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a medication known as Exelon that reduces symptoms of Alzheimer’s, the new biomarker placental protein 13 (PP13), a pre-diagnostic for severe fetal diseases—I have barely skimmed the surface.”

    The Canary in the Gold Mine     – David Solway.
    I’M IN SHOCK: Listening to CBC2 radio, Jon Kimura Parker, just after playing a movement from a Beethoven piano concerto, said, gulp, MERRY CHRISTMAS. On C.B.C.!!! I shall tune in next Saturday to see if he still has the gig.

  10. Good to be back on the best blog online. When your hard drive crashes, you learn your a web addict quick!!!

  13. AGW Prog …. we fold …
    Ich Bin Ein Kaput.
    …-
    “How Germany’s weather team views the “hottest year ever””
    “Speculation Alert: “New Little Ice Age Cannot Be Ruled Out”
    Wednesday, 15 December 2010 09:16 Rickmer Flor, wetter.info”
    “Everybody is talking about global warming – but in Germany and also in many other countries around the world people are currently fighting with the adversities of extreme cold. And indeed: “The year 2010 will be the coldest for ten years in Germany,” said Thomas Globig from the weather service Meteo Media talking to wetter.info . And it might even get worse: “It is quite possible that we are at the beginning of a Little Ice Age,” the meteorologist said. Even the Arctic ice could spread further to the south.
    It is already clear: the average temperatures in Germany this year (8.1 degrees Celsius) were 0.2 degrees below the long term measured average of 8.3 degrees. “I fear we will end up still significantly lower by the end of the year”, said Globig. The long-term average is actually the average of all German stations from 1961 to 1990.
    Coldest December in 100 years
    In Berlin, there was an absolute cold record in early December, “For 100 years it had not been as cold as in the first decade of December,” said Globig. This also applied to other regions. But why is it so cold just now? Might it have anything to do with climate change? “I’m very sceptical”, replied Globig. A few years ago when we had a period of mild winters many climate scientists warned that winter sport in Germany’s low mountain ranges would soon no longer be possible anymore because of global warming. “Now they are saying: the cold winters are a consequence of global warming – a questionable implication,” according to Globig.
    “Unbelievable amounts of snow” in Berlin (AW note: 800 flights grounded in EU)
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    Globig appeals to our long-term memory – and recalls a prolonged period of extremely cold and snowy winter in the 1960s and 1970s. Half a meter of snow fell in Berlin in early March 1970, in Potsdam even 70 centimetres. “From today’s perspective, these amounts were unbelievable.””
    […]
    “Spread of the Arctic ice?
    “I think it is even conceivable that the Arctic ice spreads significantly in the years to come,” said Globig. The impact of solar activity on climate has been criminally underestimated for a long time.
    The last two weeks have been the coldest in England since the second-to-last solar minimum, many hundreds of years ago. “What actually will happen depends on the next five to ten years,” believes Globig. But one thing now appears to be very likely for the weather expert, “We will have to abandon some climate forecasts. “
    Wetter T-Online, 14 December 2010 (translation by Philipp Mueller)”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/18/how-germanys-weather-team-views-the-hottest-year-ever/#more-29647

  15. My latest gadget is a rice cooker. Roger Ebert has a neat book out about rice cookers — which claims will cook anything. I’ll bet those soups would work in a rice cooker.

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