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		<title>Oil Sands Facts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a good link to some facts about oil sands operations and their real impact on the environment.  Please read.  And avoid the over-hyped nonsense about the oil sands bringing doom to our world&#8230;
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		<title>Bad Science in major Science Publications</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I&#8217;ve stumbled onto a few bad science columns and articles in major science publications, Discover and Scientific American.
To start, Lawrence Krauss, a respectable physicist, starts delving into ocean chemistry and climate when he brings forth the notion that increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere will decrease the pH of the ocean, making it acidic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A waste of government science grants?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know who funded this science, but it was described in the latest issue of Discover magazine:
The first published national study of injuries related to table saws reports that these devices account for about 31,500 injuries per year, 97% percent of the victims are male and most injuries are due to &#8220;contact with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alice in Wonderland</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/580</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just returned from seeing Tim Burton&#8217;s new movie, and I must say it was quite good.  Strange, as befits both Lewis Carroll&#8217;s creation and Tim Burton&#8217;s practice.  Only one disappointment.  When the closing credits ran, there was a modern, pop song, whereas most of the movie had more classical music.  If he wanted a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owning the podium</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/576</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While this issue has been hashed over a lot, I felt it was necessary to put in my view.
The Own the Podium program has been a huge success, with Canada winning more gold medals than any other country has ever won at the Winter Olympics.  While we didn&#8217;t win the most total medals (the USA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shipstone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, 60 Minutes reported on Bloom Energy and their BloomBox technology.  You can read a transcript of the story here.   Bloom appears to have developed a reasonably priced fuel cell technology.
My thought on this was that if they can sell me one for cheap (like less than the $3000 quoted in the story) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiscal Sustainability means LOWER SPENDING</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/570</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Parliamentary Budget Office published a Fiscal Sustainability report, that lays out the reality that anyone with a little knowledge of math has known for a long time.  The problem is that there are many in Ottawa and the media who think that Kevin Page&#8217;s preferred solution, higher taxes, is the right one. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Avoiding Bubbles</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/568</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The federal Finance Minister, Jim Flaherty, today released revised rules for mortgages to try to avert a housing bubble.  His mechanism is to make it more difficult for people to buy houses without taking more equity and to make it so that borrowers need to meet a higher bar of being able to pay back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Investment in the Oil Sands</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/565</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been a few stories in the news lately concerning the Alberta Oil Sands and the various moves toward or away from this resource.  A couple of interesting stories:
Canada looks to China to exploit oil sands rejected by US
BP risks investor outrage at ‘dirty’ oil deal
Chinese, Korean and Japanese firms have been interested in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking beyond the US Market</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/563</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Simpson, writing in the Globe and Mail, sometimes surprises me.  He hits the nail on the head that Canadian businesses need to look beyond the US market and find more customers overseas &#8211; even if that is hard.
Mr. Simpson wrote a good book review a couple of years ago, on the same subject.  But [...]]]></description>
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