The Canadian Forces are feeling the strain of their ISAF responsibilities and need another operational pause to set things right: OTTAWA — Canada's army, strained by the military mission in Afghanistan, may need a one-year operational pause to regroup and rebuild when troops withdraw in 2011, ...

Widely Acclaimed Hip-Hop Science Education Concert to Reach Over 17,000 Students during 10-Week Tour MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) today announced the spring 2009 tour of their award-wi...

Boingboing's current guestblogger Paul Spinrad is currently Projects Editor for MAKE magazine. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Wendy, their two children Clara and Simon, and their cats Ron and Nancy.  In this post I asked boingboing readers what mini-essays by me they would want to read...

Importance Of SEO Makes Front Page Of Los Angeles Times | SearchEngineLand "What a nice surprise to see on the front page of the Los Angeles Times today a story that features how important SEO is to web sites." (tags: searchengineland seo search latimes) Why Do Lawyers From Utah Hate Searc...

It’s not as easy as it seems sometimes. My R44, parked on the side lawn at the Lake Pateros Inn in Washington State. Sadly, heat from my engine browned the grass. One of the benefits of operating a helicopter is that you can land it almost anywhere. One of the drawbacks of this, however, is th...

www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm  T HE SIGNEE'S NAMES CAN BE FOUND ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER SOME TEXT FROM ABOVE LINK Political leaders gathered in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997 to consider a world treaty restricting human production of "greenhouse gases," chiefly...

1590 Tycho Brahe discovers a comet in the constellation Pisces. 1616 Copernican theory is declared “false and erroneous” in a decree written by Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, and issued by the Catholic Church in Rome. Further, no person was to be permitted to hold or teach the theory that t...

Ranken Technical College is pleased to announce that it has selected Stan Shoun, Vice President of Workforce Development and Continuing Education for Central Virginia Community College, as its new president. Shoun brings a background of military service, a degree in aeronautical engineering and a lo...

Here is your single's love horoscopefor Friday, February 27: Between your potent personality and effective energy, everything will fall into place for you. But someone's jealous of what you have and will try to subvert your paradigm. Keep this in mind as you go through the day -- you know who it is ...

Today is Hinamatsuri, the Japanese Doll Festival, which is a holiday for girls. 1863 United States President Abraham Lincoln approves an Act of Congress (12 Stat. L. 806) which charters The National Academy of Sciences. The Act stipulates that the Academy will “whenever called upon by any depa...