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We’re waiting on a baby to arrive in our house.  And with four little ones already under-foot, you can imagine the complications that arise.  I try to do “just a little project” so I can stay busy and not lose my mind.  Then the kids act like… kids.  I get tired quicker than I planned, suddenly

Transportation safety officials are investigating whether a pilot was relying too heavily on his GPS device moments before his plane crashed off B.C's Sunshine Coast Sunday morning, killing himself and six other passengers

A day after announcing their support for OpenID, Google has decided to back off on the requirement that relying parties first get approval from Google to accept OpenIDs originating from Gmail. Google says the reason they’re lifting the requirement is that more sites than they could handle applied for API access.

More often than not, the phrase “frivolous lawsuit” is somewhat redundant. Such is the case with San Antonio-based fuel refiner Tesoro, which has filed a lawsuit in California to block a regulation that would boost ethanol consumption in the state by 2010.

Some senior Liberals question why Dion is relying on people who lost the last election. Moreover, they question the Martin team's expertise on debates, given that Martin never particularly shone during debates in 2004 or 2006

Last year the infamous U.S. News and World Report college rankings, as well as other similar rankings, had prompted Al Bloom and many other college presidents to publish an official statement of disapproval. Yet another set of rankings has been published, and Swarthmore lands near the top again: but this time, for different reasons.

Reuters has posted a story this morning in which they report that Brazil has hired lawyers to look into the current US import tariff against Brazilian ethanol. “Brazil’s Sugar Cane Industry Association hired lawyers to study the compatibility between the U.S. tariff and WTO rules.

(This was published Friday, August 31, 2008 in The Ethanol Monitor) As I reviewed the volumes of information we have gathered over the past 18 months, I couldn’t help but wonder how the ethanol industry survived the massive campaign against it and I can only conclude that strong political support has managed to beat back challenge after challenge designed to undermine and slow its evolution.

Bill Dunphy thinks he has some answers to that question. Bill is a Senior reporter for a Canadian newspaper called the Hamilton Spectator. and he’s been looking at the way the media reacted to an explosion at a propane plant in Toronto, His blog post - Propane depot explosions expose shortcomings

The crushing pain of the dissolution of a family unit is one of life’s inexplicable mysteries. I don’t think it can be fathomed until experienced first-hand: like labor, like the vice-grip horror of the loss of hope.