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1ajs · #1 Posted **Jul 23, 2009, 4:39 AM**

so am i th only one to chuckle at that pic? i still get a laugh outa the killerpeg thing

sledhead35 · #2 Posted **Jul 23, 2009, 2:59 PM**

haha its a pretty good one. actually i got stabbed a couple years back walking home from crosby stills nash young concert. some dude literaly ran into the convenience store we were in with scissors, got me in the ribs and ran out. cops were there in a bit. asked me if i was ok then left. couldnt be bothered with some measly stabbing when there are people speeding lol.

1ajs · #3 Posted **Jul 29, 2009, 7:24 AM**

hahaha i got to see dead dogs play!!!

DowntownWpg · #4 Posted **Jul 31, 2009, 6:12 PM**

Neat stuff... sounds quite interesting really and hoping that it works out. Would be good for the university and bio-tech in our city and province:

Race on in the Prairies to solve isotope shortage

Acsion Industries, University of Winnipeg say their cheap solution could be running in three years

Patrick White

Winnipeg — From Friday's Globe and Mail Thursday, Jul. 30, 2009 08:46PM EDT

Manitoba has joined Saskatchewan in the race to fill the vacuum left by the federal government's decision to get out of the isotope supply business.

Ottawa made the decision in June to divorce itself from the deteriorating Chalk River nuclear facility, where continuing problems have resulted in long diagnostic waits for thousands of international cancer patients.

The modest Manitoba initiative pales compared to Saskatchewan's plans to build a whole new reactor, but the smaller operation could be up and running inside three years, with little regulatory hassle, and for the bargain-basement price of $35-million.

“Some of the bigger reactor projects are genuinely sound scientifically, but the budgets are anywhere from $500-million to $1.5-billion,” said David Walker, chairman of Acsion Industries, a company teaming up with the University of Winnipeg in the initiative.

“We're sort of the David versus Goliath option, the Prairie boys. But I don't think you'll find another expression of interest that combines so clearly a health-care focus and a low cost. We'll have to be taken seriously.”

Friday marks the federal government's deadline for new isotope suppliers to put forward their cases. While previously announced bids propose using nuclear reactors to churn out medical isotopes, critical tools used to detect cancer and heart illnesses, the University of Winnipeg submission offers something completely different.

Under the proposal, researchers would shore up the country's isotope stocks using a Manitoba-based particle accelerator rather than a nuclear reactor.

Unlike a reactor, a particle accelerator does not produce nuclear waste and would not be subject to the same stringent rules that make reactor construction a decade-long process.

“It's a completely different technology,” said Jeff Martin, a University of Winnipeg physicist. “The regulatory process is much simpler, and for good reason. For instance, you can shut an accelerator off. With a reactor, that's tricky.”

To carry out the proposal, the university has launched the Prairie Isotope Production Enterprise (PIPE), a not-for-profit partnership that includes Acsion, the province, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and other nuclear and radioisotope companies.

The team would start by producing isotopes at an Acsion-run particle accelerator located at the decommissioned Whiteshell Laboratories nuclear facility in Pinawa, Man. The accelerator would spray molybdenum metal with electricity, producing molybdenum-99. Further chemical processing then creates technetium-99, the isotope used in a wide variety of diagnostic testing.

If the Pinawa site proves the process can work, the university will locate a new accelerator in downtown Winnipeg dedicated to supplying Canadian demand.

“It's well-suited to the Canadian side of the issue,” said Acsion president Chris Saunders. “The whole focus for PIPE is to serve Canadian patients. We're not looking to export radioisotopes.”The researchers started looking into the isotope conundrum in 2007 when the Chalk River facility shut down for a full month, putting a pinch on world supplies.

With Chalk River currently under repairs for a leaky reservoir, medical isotope prices have skyrocketed. The price of a bone scan has soared as much as 50 per cent since May.

Tightening supplies have prompted the U.S. to develop its own solution to the problem. Earlier this week, a blue-ribbon coalition of nuclear medicine groups urged the U.S. government to invest in its own isotope facilities rather than relying on Europe, South Africa and Canada.

While the Manitoba solution isn't intended to solve international supply issues, the technology could be exported.

“Once you get it working here,” said Randy Kobes, associate dean of science at the university, “you can franchise it.”

The project would fit squarely into university president Lloyd Axworthy's broader vision of creating a health sciences research hub in downtown Winnipeg that incorporates the Health Sciences Centre, the National Research Council and the National Microbiology Laboratory.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1236966/

1ajs · #5 Posted **Jul 31, 2009, 6:21 PM**

so the pie got bigger

1ajs · #6 Posted **Aug 3, 2009, 5:11 AM**

ooo

Lancaster bomber to touch down in city

Aviation museum to host tours of iconic craft

By: Kevin Rollason
27/07/2009 1:00 AM | Comments: 1

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The aircraft that helped the Allies win the Second World War is flying to Winnipeg.A Lancaster bomber -- one of only two in the world still flying -- will land at Winnipeg's Richardson International airport on Aug. 3, and taxi over to the Western Canada Aviation Museum for two days of tours and display.
"I am extremely excited," said Shirley Render, the museum's executive director.
"It's incredible that it's one of two that's all that's left of the planes flying. Even though we produced them in Canada, we don't keep our history."
Render said the aircraft, owned by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum near Hamilton, Ont., will be available for viewing on Aug. 3 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., and Aug. 4 from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. It is scheduled to take off from Winnipeg on Aug. 5 at 11 a.m.
Admission to see the four-engine plane is $10 for adults, $25 for a family with up to three children, and $5 for museum members and for seniors and children.
The last time the Lancaster flew to Winnipeg was 1990.
The Lancaster, built by Victory Aircraft in Ontario, was one of more than 7,300 Lancasters produced in Canada and Britain. The planes were flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force from 1942 to 1963.
The aircraft was known as the Dam Buster in the 1943 raids on Germany's Ruhr Valley dams. In total, Lancasters flew 156,000 missions and dropped more than 600,000 tons of bombs between 1942 and 1945.
More than 3,200 Lancasters were destroyed during the war.
With a crew of seven, the plane had machine guns in three turrets, and could hold 6,300 kilograms of bombs or with modifications a 9,979-kg Grand Slam bomb.
The Lancaster is also the same type of bomber in which Winnipegger Andrew Mynarski earned a Victoria Cross for trying to rescue a trapped rear gunner.
"So many young people don't have any idea of what the plane looked like in World War Two," Render said.
"They'll be able to see how narrow the fuselage was. Once you see where Andrew Mynarski walked back to try to free the gunner in the rear, you'll understand the conditions he was in.
"It really is a step back into history," Render said.
Robin Hill, of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, said the museum's flying Lancaster never saw service in the war.
Hill said the plane was built in 1945, and then spent years serving as a search and rescue aircraft in Newfoundland. The aircraft was restored and began flying again in 1988, after spending years serving as a display outside an Ontario Royal Canadian Legion branch.
"It has now flown longer with the museum than it did when it was with the air force," she said.
Hill said this plane is dedicated in memory of Mynarski and is painted in the same colours as the aircraft in which Mynarski flew.
Mynarski, who was honoured posthumously with the Victoria Cross, died in June 1944, after trying in vain to free a trapped rear gunner on a Lancaster before it crashed.
The gunner survived after being thrown from the plane when it crashed, but Mynarski, who parachuted out of the plane with his clothes on fire, died from his burns.
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1ajs · #7 Posted **Aug 5, 2009, 4:05 AM**

so theres a french restaurant at 188 princess http://mirlycourtois.ca

1ajs · #8 Posted **Aug 5, 2009, 9:04 PM**

Police walk in on armed robbery

By: Staff Writer
5/08/2009 2:34 PM | Comments: 0

WINNIPEG - Winnipeg Police officers were at the right place at the right time walking into an inner-city convenience store last night, police say.
Armed with a eight-inch kitchen knife, Kingsley McDonald was in the William Avenue store at 8:30 p.m. in the middle of robbing the 37-year-old female clerk. As she opened the register and handed the money over, two officers entered the store, police said.
McDonald, 29, was arrested and charged with robbery with a weapon. McDonald was also wanted on a Canada-wide warrant. The clerk was not injured.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bre...-52538027.html

1ajs · #9 Posted **Aug 5, 2009, 9:09 PM**

Ukrainian Labour Temple declared national historic site

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 | 2:48 PM CT Comments2 Recommend2

CBC News

The Ukrainian Labour Temple in Winnipeg's North End was designated a National Historic Site of Canada on Wednesday. (Heritage Winnipeg)The Ukrainian Labour Temple, once raided by federal authorities during the 1919 Winnipeg general strike, has been designated a National Historic Site of Canada.
Jim Prentice, minister responsible for Parks Canada, made the announcement Wednesday on the recommendation of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
"The designation of the Ukrainian Labour Temple not only recognizes the architectural significance of the building but also the important role it played in the social and cultural activities of Ukrainian Canadians," he said in a written statement.
"This commemoration will help to ensure that this site and its association with pivotal events in Canada's history will be remembered and appreciated by generations to come," added Vic Toews, president of the treasury board and regional minister for the province of Manitoba.
Constructed in 1918-19 in Winnipeg's North End, it is the first and largest Ukrainian Labor Temple in Canada, according to Heritage Winnipeg.

'I believe that proclaiming the Winnipeg Ukrainian Labour Temple a national historic site also quite rightly pays tribute to the founding members.'—Myron Shatulsky, Ukrainian Labour Temple Foundation

Built primarily by volunteer labour and financed by donations, the temple was a focus for Ukrainian culture and political activism. The Ukrainian Labor News and other Ukrainian language publications were prepared and distributed from there.
As a rallying centre for the trade union movement, it was raided in 1919 by authorities searching for evidence of alleged sedition and conspiracy.
The temple, designated a provincial heritage site in 1995, remains the only surviving labour hall in Winnipeg associated with the turbulent events of the general strike. It also remains the national headquarters for the Workers Benevolent Association, which was established at the temple in 1922.
"I believe that proclaiming the Winnipeg Ukrainian Labour Temple a national historic site also quite rightly pays tribute to the founding members," said Myron Shatulsky, a council member with the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians and the chair of the board of directors of the Ukrainian Labour Temple Foundation.
"These socialist-minded Ukrainian immigrants, some of whom had yet to receive their naturalization papers, and facing the possibility of arrest and deportation, sought and established a path along which they could achieve a better life for themselves, their children, their descendants, and for all Canadians.
"It is truly a historic event."

1ajs · #10 Posted **Aug 6, 2009, 6:26 PM**

Winnipeg Free Press - ONLINE EDITION
Wall Street Journal says Winnipeg skate park rules

By: Staff Writer
6/08/2009 8:16 AM | Comments: 14

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Colin Lambert warms up at The Forks Plaza Skatepark in this file photo. (WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES)

WINNIPEG - The accolades just keep on rolling in for the Plaza skateboarding park at The Forks.

The Wall Street Journal has included it as one of America’s best, recently running down the top 14 parks in a story.

Winnipeg’s is the only Canadian site on the list.

In 2007, just a year after it opened, skateboarding icon Tony Hawk included Winnipeg’s Plaza at The Forks in his new Secret Skatepark Tour 3 DVD. Hawk said the park was "everything it’s cracked up to be" when he visited Winnipeg and described the bowl as "super fun" in the DVD’s video.

The $2.5 million project earned Wall Street Journal props for including more than just ramps. The story said that Winnipeg’s park offers replicas of ledges, rails and planter boxes, many of the objects found on private property that skaters prefer to ride on.

Top park on the WSJ’s list was in Portland, Ore.

UrbanPlannerr · #11 Posted **Aug 11, 2009, 6:15 AM**

Quote:

Winnipeg’s is the only Canadian site on the list.

In 2007, just a year after it opened, skateboarding icon Tony Hawk included Winnipeg’s Plaza at The Forks in his new Secret Skatepark Tour 3 DVD. Hawk said the park was "everything it’s cracked up to be" when he visited Winnipeg and described the bowl as "super fun" in the DVD’s video.

These types of stories make me happy

1ajs · #12 Posted **Aug 11, 2009, 10:24 AM**

anyone fallowing the Dursban use that the city is useing to fight dutch elm disease

wags_in_the_peg · #13 Posted **Aug 11, 2009, 12:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by 1ajs

anyone fallowing the Dursban use that the city is useing to fight dutch elm disease

I have Elm trees on my blvd and have 2 small kids and a dog, so i'm a little worried anytime chemicals are sprayed. I haven't used chemicals on my lawn or garden for 4 yrs now. HOWEVER, they are manuall sparying the bottom 24 inches of the trees and you literally have to EAT the bark to be injured. the chemicals are NOT being sprayed airbourne. So, NO I don't have concerns. If you gonna eat the bark off my trees you'll probably die from the dog urine on there.

if the CITY didn't do this, folks would be screaming that we aren't doing anything to combat the bug infestation.

1ajs · #14 Posted **Aug 11, 2009, 5:29 PM**

true just its a prity narly chemical the ppe needed for it is needed or u run extream high chance of killing urself. but still sometimes these narly chemicals are the only thing that works.