ENERGY EXPERT SAYS STOP MUSKRAT FALLS

An expert independent energy and environmental adviser who  as been a media commentator for 20 years and a lecturer in energy studies at University of Toronto is urging the Provincial Government to back away from the current Muskrat Falls development proposal.

Tom Adams, the former Executive Director of Energy Probe, has posted an open letter to electricity consumers in Newfoundland and Labrador urging them to do what they can to to stop the Muskrat Fall power development.

He argues that Nalcor is vastly overstating the usable output from Muskrat Falls that the grid will be able to accept. He says that by overstating the benefits of Muskrat Falls, the utility is understating the rate impact.

It is a technical piece, and I have not really had an opportunity to digest it, but folks might want to give it some consideration in an attempt to inform the on-going debate.

 A few years ago he spoke with CBC Radio in New Brunswick saying that  than Premier Williams was recycling an old proposal at a particular inopportune moment, in relation to promoting electricity from Labrador for the New England Market. He suggested NL bury the hatchet with Quebec and concentrate on concentrate on interprovincial cooperation and solving electricity problems locally.

One might argue that an arrangement with Emera that takes Holyrood offline meets part of that objective. It is hard to bury the hatchet when Quebec refused to address the heinous Churchill Falls contract and continues to prevent us from transmitting the amount of  electricity needed to make the Lower Churchill Project work, through the province.

Adams has made presentations to Legislative Committees in Ontario and New Brunswick, academic, regulatory and trade conferences, the Atomic Energy Control Board, and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

VAGINA MONOLOGUES

What ever turns your crank, I suppose!

Vivid Video porn magnate Steve Hirsch offered an Australian women a million dollars to star in one of his films.  In the letter, Hirsch writes, "You are obviously an extraordinary woman and I would like to make you an offer to star in an upcoming Vivid production. We would pay you up to $1 million for your services."

She turned him down flat.

27-year-old Hazel Jones has a condition called "uterus didelphis" which means she has two fully developed Vaginas.  Jones learned of her condition after a guy she date told her she was "different down there" and a gynecologist confirmed--she had to lose her virginity twice.

H ealth expert Dr Dawn Harper the condition of developing two uterus’ is not so rare, the rare part is that she has two vaginas to go with them.  She realized she was having problems when she hit puberty and started menstruating.

“That wasn’t fun. I used to suffer from horrendous cramps and my periods could be very heavy. I now know that my periods were worse because I have two wombs,” Hazel explained.  It wasn’t nice. I had friends and I tried explaining to them I was having problems and they had no idea what I was doing wrong. I always noticed there was this thing there.”

She could get pregnant twice, and at two different times!

That sure would make for a confusing night after a few drinks downtown.  She might have turned down the porn industry but she could still turn to acting, she could do the vagina monologues in stereo!

KEEPING ABREAST OF DAVROS FORUM

Do you really want to see the provincial House of Assembly re-open?

How about borrowing a page from a group of Ukrainian Protesters who traveled to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum.

The trio took of their tops in sub zero temperatures and tried to climb a fence in an attempt to call attention to the needs of the worlds poor.

I am sure they were not trying to promote themselves :)

They were taken to a police station and informed that they were not permitted to demonstrate in the heavily guarded town.

They are part of a group called Feman, which is popular in the Ukraine, where they protest the oppression of political opposition.

 They were joined by demonstrators from the Occupy movement who are camped in igloos calling for more help for the needy.

There is commitment for yea!



Policy makers from Hong Kong to Canada used the last full day of the World Economic Forum to push euro-region counterparts to boost their bailout cashpile to protect Italy and Spain. Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney estimated the European crisis will subtract 1 percentage point from global growth by the end of 2012 “and that’s in a world where this crisis is contained.”

Global finance chiefs warned no economy is safe from Europe's debt crisis, adding urgency to their calls for its governments to deliver a swift resolution.

MICKEY BUCKS

Last week there a number of stories about mice and rats finding there way into schools, colleges, university and businesses in the city. CBC Radio interviewed an exterminator who indicated that calls for his services were way up this winter.

Late last fall, the Swiss Chalet on Kenmount Road was closed by public health officials because of the presence of unacceptable levels of rodent poop. The owners suggested that work on the Team Gushue by-pass was disturbing their natural habitat.

Well, the problem is not isolated to our little rock in the North Atlantic. Across the pond in Sweeden, a man found a mouse in an ATM!

Gholam Hafezi  was taking out some cash when he noticed a cord jamming the ATM slot. He thought somebody may be trying to do something illegal, so he tried to pull the cord. He then realized it was a mouse tail.


He ran to the supermarket's customer service people and asked for help. They told him that the ATM was not their responsibility but the guys in charge of the shopping carts offered their help. One of them was finally able to take out the whole mouse: "he took out the mouse. His head was intact although a little bit bloody. Then I got my receipt."

Apparently the ATM was supposed to go to Disney!

THE RIGHT STUFF

Speaking of Lego, did you hear about the two Toronto teens that launched a Lego Man 14 miles above sea level!

Matthew Ho and Asad Muhammad attached him to a weather balloon that soared about three times higher than your typical commercial airliner.

The 97-minute flight came down softly by parachute 100 kilometers away, where they tracked it down by GPS.

The pair of future aeronautical engineers recorded the entire flight.  

The best part: their video of Lego man glued to a gangplank above planet Earth, the New York Daily News reports.