Ya say you didn’t hear about it? Well, In an event that was
overlooked by virtually every single newspaper, radio station and T.V.
crew in the entire western world, President Gjorge Ivanov was in
Hamilton to meet mayor Bob Bratina.
The day before, he appeared before a small crowd of Macedonian-Canadians in the Toronto-area municipality of Markham to inaugurate some new streets.
The Macedonian International News Agency chronicled the excitement!
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Now I’m not technically a Christian because I don’t believe Jesus came back from the dead, (When you’re dead, you’re DEAD!) but I can tell you one of the big differences between Christianity and Islam …………This was a headline in the National Post this morning.
Opinion: Revenge has no part in Christian response to Boston bombings!
Meanwhile, I read in Al Jazera that some Islamic group wants someone killed simply because they have been INSULTED!
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A
magazine executive and a female photographer have been charged by
police investigating the publication of topless pictures of the Duchess
of Cambridge in France last year.
We here at the Perspective Research Department, and the Naked News, have been trying for days to get a hold of copies of these photo’s so that you, dear readers, can judge for yourself as to whether they would be appropriate or not.
We will let you know the minute something develops!
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An employee accused of stealing $10,000-worth of chicken wings from a meat and poultry company in Connecticut has been arrested.
Police say he doesn’t have a leg to stand on!
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The world’s largest automaker worries the world has too many cars.
That’s the only conclusion to draw from the latest concept car unveiled today by Toyota in Paris. Dubbed the ME.WE, and designed in a partnership with French architect/inventor Jean-Marie Massaud, Toyota calls the car an “anti-excess vehicle,” designed to tread lightly on the environment with every touch of its electric-powered wheels. Toyota says the ME.WE suggests the future of transportation, which may make the present seem like a gilded age.
As described by Massaud, the idea behind the ME.WE was to build a vehicle that met as many of its owners’ demands as possible without swaddling them in two tons of steel, leather and carbon dioxide that took more from the environment that it could ever replace. “For me, the car is symbolic of an age in which there is a plethora of things, in which everything is opulence,” Massaud says. “We realize we are living outside of our real needs.”
From that point, Toyota and Massaud designed an aluminium minicar frame with wildly adaptable shapes; it can transform into a pickup or convertible, and all of its windows, including the windshield, can be lowered for air flow. Power comes from lithium-ion batteries in the floor turning four electric motors in each wheel hub, giving it a modicum of four-wheel-drive off-road capability. By using bamboo for the floor and roof, and recycled polypropylene plastic for the body panels, the ME.WE weighs only 1,653 lbs.
Inside, there are two futon-like bench seats and a bamboo dash with a
single small screen and phone port. The rear bench can come out for
hauling cargo or use as a picnic seat; the entire car can be cleaned
inside and out with a hose. And as Toyota’s own renderings show, the
stubby ME.WE’s plastic panels that double as crash padding lend
themselves to a Philippe Stark-with-Play-doh sculpting.
Officially Toyota does not recognize the irony of a company that sells 9 million new cars a year around the world, including its fair share of leather-lined opulence barges, suggesting that what the planet needs now is vehicles built from environmental guilt. But Toyota’s correct that many modern cars offer more space, power and gadgets than many people ever use, and that even aside from environmental motivations there’s latent demand for functional, efficient but unfussy transportation. If Toyota thinks the ME.WE can help the Earth and not just its corporate conscience, it should build more than just one.
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What a MacDonald’s hamburger looks like after 14 years! (David Whipple bought his meal in 1999 and forgot he had it in a bag at the back of his truck.)
The day before, he appeared before a small crowd of Macedonian-Canadians in the Toronto-area municipality of Markham to inaugurate some new streets.
The Macedonian International News Agency chronicled the excitement!
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Now I’m not technically a Christian because I don’t believe Jesus came back from the dead, (When you’re dead, you’re DEAD!) but I can tell you one of the big differences between Christianity and Islam …………This was a headline in the National Post this morning.
Opinion: Revenge has no part in Christian response to Boston bombings!
Meanwhile, I read in Al Jazera that some Islamic group wants someone killed simply because they have been INSULTED!
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A
magazine executive and a female photographer have been charged by
police investigating the publication of topless pictures of the Duchess
of Cambridge in France last year.We here at the Perspective Research Department, and the Naked News, have been trying for days to get a hold of copies of these photo’s so that you, dear readers, can judge for yourself as to whether they would be appropriate or not.
We will let you know the minute something develops!
————————————————————
An employee accused of stealing $10,000-worth of chicken wings from a meat and poultry company in Connecticut has been arrested.
Police say he doesn’t have a leg to stand on!
—————————————————–
The world’s largest automaker worries the world has too many cars.
That’s the only conclusion to draw from the latest concept car unveiled today by Toyota in Paris. Dubbed the ME.WE, and designed in a partnership with French architect/inventor Jean-Marie Massaud, Toyota calls the car an “anti-excess vehicle,” designed to tread lightly on the environment with every touch of its electric-powered wheels. Toyota says the ME.WE suggests the future of transportation, which may make the present seem like a gilded age.
As described by Massaud, the idea behind the ME.WE was to build a vehicle that met as many of its owners’ demands as possible without swaddling them in two tons of steel, leather and carbon dioxide that took more from the environment that it could ever replace. “For me, the car is symbolic of an age in which there is a plethora of things, in which everything is opulence,” Massaud says. “We realize we are living outside of our real needs.”
From that point, Toyota and Massaud designed an aluminium minicar frame with wildly adaptable shapes; it can transform into a pickup or convertible, and all of its windows, including the windshield, can be lowered for air flow. Power comes from lithium-ion batteries in the floor turning four electric motors in each wheel hub, giving it a modicum of four-wheel-drive off-road capability. By using bamboo for the floor and roof, and recycled polypropylene plastic for the body panels, the ME.WE weighs only 1,653 lbs.
Officially Toyota does not recognize the irony of a company that sells 9 million new cars a year around the world, including its fair share of leather-lined opulence barges, suggesting that what the planet needs now is vehicles built from environmental guilt. But Toyota’s correct that many modern cars offer more space, power and gadgets than many people ever use, and that even aside from environmental motivations there’s latent demand for functional, efficient but unfussy transportation. If Toyota thinks the ME.WE can help the Earth and not just its corporate conscience, it should build more than just one.
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What a MacDonald’s hamburger looks like after 14 years! (David Whipple bought his meal in 1999 and forgot he had it in a bag at the back of his truck.)
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