Soccer Day in Canada is soon on June 20.
Soccer (or football if you are from outside of North America) is big in Canada. Many boys and girls of course play it. I played as a kid until my late teens. I’ll be in Calgary and maybe I’ll try to find a good game to watch with Camera and biggest lens in hand.
A small cup of Turkish Coffee hits the spot.
This is cool from NPR Science Friday. What can I say? I like science.
And in case you are interested in sports.
The “Sister’s Prom†has become an annual event among Toronto’s Muslim community, and is also a symbol of the balance that defines the lives of modern young women like Ms. Hindy, born and raised in Canada, faithful to Islam. They have ambitions to be doctors, engineers and community leaders, while embracing the rules placed upon them by their religion – no dating, for instance. At school, they may sit apart from the boys, but they still giggle at Zac Efron on the movie screen and sing along to Three Days Grace in their bedrooms. And, like any teenage girl graduating from high school, they just want to dance at their prom.
From The Globe and Mail – Salma’s Prom Night.
I don’t know if I posted it way back in 2006. I’ve regenerated it with better quality.
I’ve always said that you never see an airline commercial on TV showing the coach section!
What’s interesting is that the seat squeeze means discount airlines now offer more generous seat-pitch then their competitors. You get at least 34 inches of space in each row of a JetBlue A320, including the seat (the seat pitch, in industry parlance). At Southwest, seat pitch is 32-33 inches in 737s. But at American, United, Delta, Continental and others, seat-pitch is standardizing down at 31 inches in domestic coac
From The Consumerist