AlterNet: War on Iraq: AWOL Soldiers Get Cold Shoulder from Canada

Also, search Google News for “AWOL Canada”

I agree!

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We get a long weekend. Saturday, January 20 is a holiday for Islamic New Year. It is year 1428 AH.

Years are counted since the Hijrah, which is when the Prophet Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Madinah (approximately July 622 A.D.). See this for more details.

I am looking forward to this feature. Hopefully it posts clean HTML!

I recall reading this article a while back. Very interesting how concerted, targeted marketing can change the world, and what we thing is culturally important. Kind of like the Big Mac, Nike and Coke taking over the world.

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?

My iPod nano play/pause button isn’t working well if at all. It should still be under warranty. If not I’ll fix it myself and add a new battery. The old version Nanos are going cheap anyhow, perhaps it will be easier to have two??

iPod nano : Page 4

Really dumb. The radio station will be sued bigtime!

• Woman, 28, dies of water intoxication, assistant coroner says
• Radio contest required drinking large amounts, not voiding
• Victim was trying to win video game console for her children

Woman drinks so much water she dies - CNN.com

Click on the small image to open up a larger one.

The Daily Stary December 26, 2006

Article
Water Requirement of Palm Varies with age
by Dr. Mohammed Abdulsalam of Kuwait University

they did a study and noted that more water is needed with age and size, That is obvious. WHat is interesting is that one year old palm tree needs one litre per day in December and 12 litres per day in July. ANd for a ten year old tree it is 25 and 212. They say the trees roots can reach doewn as far as 70 metres underground. There are lots of palm trees , so that’s a lot of water and they say every year more are planted. The also said that the average date production is 300 kg per year per tree.

Click on this link to open a page with a Flash window that you can zoom in and out of plus pan around by clicking and draggin on the image. Cool.