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  3. Re: Humphrey and the Dumptrucks.
    It’s got that cool relaxed 70’s easy going style. I can still smell the odour of indoor-outdoor brown and yellow carpets soaked with beer, mixed in with 200 Export-As, all burning at the same time. The Harwood in Moose Jaw was our favorite watering hole.
    What ruined it was the damned breath analyzer. Today, I’m OK with no booze. As for the Harwood, it’s now the Mineral Spa.

  5. Motorists are being fined for leaving their diesel engines running, in a move aimed at cutting pollution.
    A council has begun issuing on-the-spot £20 penalties for drivers who fail to turn their engines off when stationary, leading to claims it is introducing a ‘stealth tax’.
    Others are likely to follow suit in order to meet European environmental targets.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2715200/20-fine-leaving-diesel-engine-running-On-spot-fines-drivers-cut-pollution.html

  6. An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa is moving faster than efforts to control the disease, the head of the World Health Organization warned… “Over the last weeks, there has been a significant surge in the epidemic – the number of cases has increased dramatically in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and the disease has spread to many more villages and towns,” the organization said in a statement. “After a lull in new cases in Guinea, there has been a resurgence in infections and deaths in the past week.”
    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ebola-moving-faster-efforts-control-disease-west-africa-135218286.html

  7. Gregory AKA “Chuckles” for his crack-head (stoned) display on the Don Imus show may fit into CNN, but will anyone @ CNN fit into the FOX empire (Fox buying CNN for .01 per $ ). An MSNBC swap for Candy Crawly (reptile) seems possible. Who cares if they shuffle
    losers. Watching CNN or MSNBC is like the movie “Ground Hog day” nothing changes.. Same folks, Same opinions

  8. Getting shitfaced with the boys at the annual Ag Bag Drag in Sakabush with H & the Dumps playing was a fond if foggy memory.

  9. An event from my murky past was to open for Humphrey and the Dumptrucks at a coffee house called The Donovan in Saskatoon. They were not famous yet (otherwise we would never have gotten the opportunity to open for them). I remember the candles in Chianti bottles with the wax artistically draped over the straw baskets. I felt so folkie up on the stage with my badly tuned guitar, my badly ironed hair, and my string of love beads. Ah…memories.

  10. “rare live video from 1972” WTF that’s a TK42 color camera in CFQC-Saskatoon Studio B… recorded to video tape.
    I think I actually remember that recording session. They had their own quasi Professional Audio mixer (HiZ) that had to be matched to the NAB (flat to 15HZ)recording standard. NOT

  14. Should We Return The Nutrients In Our Pee Back To The Farm?
    Let me guess how you feel about your urine: Get that smelly stuff away from me as fast as possible?
    A small group of environmentalists in Vermont isn’t as squeamish. Instead of flushing their pee down the drain, they’re collecting it with special toilets that separate No. 1 and No. 2.
    Then they’re pooling the urine of the 170 volunteers in the pilot project (a quart or so, per person, daily) and eventually giving it to a farmer, who’s putting it on her hay fields in place of synthetic fertilizer. The goal is to collect 6,000 gallons this year.
    http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/07/31/336564120/should-we-return-the-nutrients-in-our-pee-back-to-the-farm?

  15. The happiness of over 18,000 people worldwide has been predicted by a mathematical equation developed by researchers at UCL, with results showing that moment-to-moment happiness reflects not just how well things are going, but whether things are going better than expected.
    The new equation accurately predicts exactly how happy people will say they are from moment to moment based on recent events, such as the rewards they receive and the expectations they have during a decision-making task. Scientists found that overall wealth accumulated during the experiment was not a good predictor of happiness. Instead, moment-to-moment happiness depended on the recent history of rewards and expectations. These expectations depended, for example, on whether the available options could lead to good or bad outcomes.
    The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigated the relationship between happiness and reward, and the neural processes that lead to feelings that are central to our conscious experience, such as happiness.
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140804151413.htm

  16. Yes they are and it may cost them an election.
    A “drug free” Canada, yeah right, do they intend to shut down all those “drug” stores?

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