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Thursday, July 23, 2009
We are glowing
Looks like when we say that: "You face is glowing", we are not too far from the truth. Some scientist from Japan recorded light 1000 times less intense than the one we can see using special cameras.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Kelly Hildebrandt marries Kelly Hildebrandt
Kelly Hildebrandt is marrying Kelly Hildebrandt this fall. That's what happens when you search your own name on Facebook and your soulmate pops up.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Boy, 3, safe after 12k toy truck river ride
VANCOUVER – A 3-year-old boy was unhurt and apparently unfazed after he floated 12 kilometres down a British Columbia river riding atop his toy truck, police said yesterday.
Demetrius Jones was camping with his family at a popular park near Fort St. John in northeastern British Columbia on Sunday when he wandered off unnoticed and somehow entered the nearby Peace River, RCMP said.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Halifax man turns broken guitar into YouTube hit
When Halifax's Dave Carroll got off his United Airlines flight last spring and discovered his $3,500 custom-made guitar was severely damaged – allegedly by overzealous luggage handlers – at first he was mad. When the airline's customer service team gave him the run-around and refused to address his complaints to his satisfaction, he was incensed. But in typically Canadian fashion, the songwriter decided to be the nice guy, shrug off his anger, and instead wrote a song about his experience. As of Wednesday evening, that song, "United Breaks Guitars," was the most popular music video on YouTube with about 150,000 views, and to his shock, his phone rang and rang and rang all day, with calls from across the continent.
MICHAEL OLIVEIRA
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The power of prayer
In a small town, a person decided to open up his Bar business, which was right opposite to a Temple. The Temple & its congregation started a campaign to block the Bar from opening with petitions and prayed daily against his business.
Work progressed. However, when it was almost complete and was about to open a few days later, a strong lightning struck the Bar and it was burnt to the ground.
The temple folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, till the Bar owner sued the Temple authorities on the grounds that the Temple through its congregation and prayers was ultimately responsible for the demise of his bar shop, either through direct or indirect actions or means.
In its reply to the court, the temple staff and devotes denied all responsibility or any connection that their prayers were reasons to the bar shop's demise.
As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the paperwork at the hearing and commented: "I don't know how I'm going to decide this case, but it appears from the paperwork, we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer and we have an entire temple and its devotees that doesn't."
