Just because it’s the middle of March doesn’t mean that winter is over, kids!
Just because it’s the middle of March doesn’t mean that winter is
over, kids! There was a 50 car pile-up on the 401 around Bellville
overnight and Nova Scotia has been shut down after they got their second
snowstorm in as many days.
Meanwhile, A Newfoundland woman and her two children who spent 21 hours in their truck stranded in a fierce blizzard are thanking rescuers who reached them on snowmobiles north of Burgeo on Monday evening.
Donna Warren said they huddled inside the vehicle as wind gusts reached up to 100 kilometres an hour.
“We kept the truck going every 15 minutes because, although we had lots of clothes and a few blankets, we were still cold,” she said Tuesday.
“We had some food and water but we were very worried so we couldn’t eat much. We couldn’t see anything except for whirling snow.”
Cellular and long-distance phone service to the region was knocked out. An RCMP officer and two ground search and rescue volunteers used snowmobiles to rescue Warren, her 22-year-old son Zachary and 12-year-old daughter Zoe.
Cpl. Dave Cooper said the family had been travelling from Corner Brook to Burgeo when their vehicle got stuck in a snowdrift as the storm raged late Sunday through Monday, dumping more than 30 centimetres of snow in some places.
Warren’s husband, who lives in Burgeo, called police to say he had last spoken with his family around 11 p.m. Sunday in a small area of cellphone coverage 31 kilometres north of Burgeo, Cooper said.
Otherwise, the 150-kilometre stretch of Route 480, known as the Burgeo highway, has little or no cellular service.
Police and staff with the provincial Department of Transportation had tried late Sunday and early Monday to locate Warren and her children. They were driven back by treacherous conditions and impassable snowdrifts, Cooper said.
By late Monday afternoon the weather cleared enough for the search party to try again. Snowmobiles were needed to reach the stranded truck. The passengers were then taken by sled back to the rescue vehicles and on to Burgeo. There were no injuries reported.
“We are so grateful,” Warren said.
Early Monday police also got a report that three men who had left Deer Lake at about 4 o’clock that morning for Burgeo had not reached the town, Cooper said.
RCMP officers along with transportation workers and Barachois ground search and rescue volunteers found their vehicle at about 7 p.m. Monday farther up Route 480 just north of Peter Strides, a popular summer cabin area.
Cooper said the men were in good condition and able to drive their vehicle to the Stephenville area.
Andrew Parsons, the provincial Liberal Opposition member for the district of Burgeo-La Poile, said the men work in Alberta and were trying to get home.
The incidents underscore the need for improved cellphone service, he said.
“The rescue was hampered by communications,” he said.
Darin King, the provincial minister responsible for fire and emergency services, said telecommunications is federal jurisdiction.
The province has written to the Industry Canada minister about how best to encourage more cellular access in remote areas, he said in a statement.
In the meantime, Cooper is asking drivers to heed severe weather warnings. An advisory issued Sunday had told drivers to stay off the Burgeo highway overnight as plows would be removed by 8 p.m., he said.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/newfoundland-family-rescued-after-storm-strands-them-for-21-hours-1.2284596
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Actor Paul Reubens, 62, was spotted filming Pee-wee’s Big Holiday in Palmdale, California, on Tuesday, dressed in the character’s distinctive red bow tie and too-small suit. And, though more than two decades have passed since Pee-wee’s Playhouse went off the air, Reubens looks just as gangly as ever.
He has also promised not to masturbate during the filming of the movie!
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In
case you haven’t heard about it yet, IKEA is cracking down on people
playing hide-and-seek in its stores. A growing movement in Europe has
adults organizing hide-and-seek events in several IKEA stores, but the
furniture retailer isn’t having it. An IKEA spokeswoman said the
practice is unsafe and could be a security risk. Thousands of people had
signed up to attend a multiple store event organized on Facebook. The
idea for the event came from a Belgian blogger who organized an event
with the blessing of IKEA, but subsequent events have gone on without
approval.
Read more: http://www.magic981.com/articles/weird-news-104673/ikea-bans-hideandseek-games-in-stores-13416465#ixzz3Uk5BPoBt
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Want to know why house prices in T.O. and Vancouver are so high?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/18/us-china-us-immigration-idUSKBN0ME0Z720150318?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
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Here’s a note for all the idiots who claim that evolution is just a “theory!”
A scientific theory is a specific type of theory used in the scientific method. The term “theory” can mean something different, depending on whom you ask.
“The way that scientists use the word ‘theory’ is a little different than how it is commonly used in the lay public,” said Jaime Tanner, a professor of biology at Marlboro College. “Most people use the word ‘theory’ to mean an idea or hunch that someone has, but in science the word ‘theory’ refers to the way that we interpret facts.”
Every scientific theory starts as a hypothesis. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a hypothesis is an idea that hasn’t been proven yet. If enough evidence accumulates to support a hypothesis, it moves to the next step — known as a theory — in the scientific method and becomes accepted as a valid explanation of a phenomenon.
Tanner further explained that a scientific theory is the framework for observations and facts. Theories may change, or the way that they are interpreted may change, but the facts themselves don’t change. Tanner likens theories to a basket in which scientists keep facts and observations that they find. The shape of that basket may change as the scientists learn more and include more facts. “For example, we have ample evidence of traits in populations becoming more or less common over time (evolution), so evolution is a fact but the overarching theories about evolution, the way that we think all of the facts go together might change as new observations of evolution are made,” Tanner told Live Science.
Theory basics
The University of California, Berkley defines a theory as “a broad, natural explanation for a wide range of phenomena. Theories are concise, coherent, systematic, predictive, and broadly applicable, often integrating and generalizing many hypotheses.”
Any scientific theory must be based on a careful and rational examination of the facts. Facts and theories are two different things. In the scientific method, there is a clear distinction between facts, which can be observed and/or measured, and theories, which are scientists’ explanations and interpretations of the facts.
An important part of scientific theory includes statements that have observational consequences. A good theory, like Newton’s theory of gravity, has unity, which means it consists of a limited number of problem-solving strategies that can be applied to a wide range of scientific circumstances. Another feature of a good theory is that it formed from a number of hypotheses that can be tested independently.
The evolution of a scientific theory
A scientific theory is not the end result of the scientific method; theories can be proven or rejected, just like hypotheses. Theories can be improved or modified as more information is gathered so that the accuracy of the prediction becomes greater over time.
Theories are foundations for furthering scientific knowledge and for putting the information gathered to practical use. Scientists use theories to develop inventions or find a cure for a disease.
Some believe that theories become laws, but theories and laws have separate and distinct roles in the scientific method. A law is a description of an observed phenomenon that hold true every time it is tested. It doesn’t explain why something is true; it just states that it is true. A theory, on the other hand, explains observations that are gathered during the scientific process. So, while law and theory are part of the scientific process, they are two very different aspects, according to the National Science Teachers Association
Actor Paul Reubens, 62, was spotted filming Pee-wee’s Big Holiday in
Palmdale, California, on Tuesday, dressed in the character’s distinctive
red bow tie and too-small suit. And, though more than two decades have
passed since Pee-wee’s Playhouse went off the air, Reubens looks just as
gangly as ever.
He has also promised not to masturbate during the filming of the movie!
———————————————————
In
case you haven’t heard about it yet, IKEA is cracking down on people
playing hide-and-seek in its stores. A growing movement in Europe has
adults organizing hide-and-seek events in several IKEA stores, but the
furniture retailer isn’t having it. An IKEA spokeswoman said the
practice is unsafe and could be a security risk. Thousands of people had
signed up to attend a multiple store event organized on Facebook. The
idea for the event came from a Belgian blogger who organized an event
with the blessing of IKEA, but subsequent events have gone on without
approval.
Read more: http://www.magic981.com/articles/weird-news-104673/ikea-bans-hideandseek-games-in-stores-13416465#ixzz3Uk5BPoBt
———————————————————-
Want to know why house prices in T.O. and Vancouver are so high?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/18/us-china-us-immigration-idUSKBN0ME0Z720150318?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
——————————————————
Here’s a note for all the idiots who claim that evolution is just a “theory!”
A scientific theory is a specific type of theory used in the scientific method. The term “theory” can mean something different, depending on whom you ask.
“The way that scientists use the word ‘theory’ is a little different than how it is commonly used in the lay public,” said Jaime Tanner, a professor of biology at Marlboro College. “Most people use the word ‘theory’ to mean an idea or hunch that someone has, but in science the word ‘theory’ refers to the way that we interpret facts.”
Every scientific theory starts as a hypothesis. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a hypothesis is an idea that hasn’t been proven yet. If enough evidence accumulates to support a hypothesis, it moves to the next step — known as a theory — in the scientific method and becomes accepted as a valid explanation of a phenomenon.
Tanner
further explained that a scientific theory is the framework for
observations and facts. Theories may change, or the way that they are
interpreted may change, but the facts themselves don’t change. Tanner
likens theories to a basket in which scientists keep facts and
observations that they find. The shape of that basket may change as the
scientists learn more and include more facts. “For example, we have
ample evidence of traits in populations becoming more or less common
over time (evolution), so evolution is a fact but the overarching
theories about evolution, the way that we think all of the facts go
together might change as new observations of evolution are made,” Tanner
told Live Science.
Theory basics
The University of California, Berkley defines a theory as “a broad, natural explanation for a wide range of phenomena. Theories are concise, coherent, systematic, predictive, and broadly applicable, often integrating and generalizing many hypotheses.”
Any scientific theory must be based on a careful and rational examination of the facts. Facts and theories are two different things. In the scientific method, there is a clear distinction between facts, which can be observed and/or measured, and theories, which are scientists’ explanations and interpretations of the facts.
An important part of scientific theory includes statements that have observational consequences. A good theory, like Newton’s theory of gravity, has unity, which means it consists of a limited number of problem-solving strategies that can be applied to a wide range of scientific circumstances. Another feature of a good theory is that it formed from a number of hypotheses that can be tested independently.
A scientific theory is not the end result of the scientific method;
theories can be proven or rejected, just like hypotheses. Theories can
be improved or modified as more information is gathered so that the
accuracy of the prediction becomes greater over time.
Theories are foundations for furthering scientific knowledge and for
putting the information gathered to practical use. Scientists use
theories to develop inventions or find a cure for a disease.
Some believe that theories become laws, but theories and laws have separate and distinct roles in the scientific method. A law is a description of an observed phenomenon that hold true every time it is tested. It doesn’t explain why something is true; it just states that it is true. A theory, on the other hand, explains observations that are gathered during the scientific process. So, while law and theory are part of the scientific process, they are two very different aspects, according to the National Science Teachers Association
Meanwhile, A Newfoundland woman and her two children who spent 21 hours in their truck stranded in a fierce blizzard are thanking rescuers who reached them on snowmobiles north of Burgeo on Monday evening.
Donna Warren said they huddled inside the vehicle as wind gusts reached up to 100 kilometres an hour.
“We kept the truck going every 15 minutes because, although we had lots of clothes and a few blankets, we were still cold,” she said Tuesday.
“We had some food and water but we were very worried so we couldn’t eat much. We couldn’t see anything except for whirling snow.”
Cellular and long-distance phone service to the region was knocked out. An RCMP officer and two ground search and rescue volunteers used snowmobiles to rescue Warren, her 22-year-old son Zachary and 12-year-old daughter Zoe.
Cpl. Dave Cooper said the family had been travelling from Corner Brook to Burgeo when their vehicle got stuck in a snowdrift as the storm raged late Sunday through Monday, dumping more than 30 centimetres of snow in some places.
Warren’s husband, who lives in Burgeo, called police to say he had last spoken with his family around 11 p.m. Sunday in a small area of cellphone coverage 31 kilometres north of Burgeo, Cooper said.
Otherwise, the 150-kilometre stretch of Route 480, known as the Burgeo highway, has little or no cellular service.
Police and staff with the provincial Department of Transportation had tried late Sunday and early Monday to locate Warren and her children. They were driven back by treacherous conditions and impassable snowdrifts, Cooper said.
By late Monday afternoon the weather cleared enough for the search party to try again. Snowmobiles were needed to reach the stranded truck. The passengers were then taken by sled back to the rescue vehicles and on to Burgeo. There were no injuries reported.
“We are so grateful,” Warren said.
Early Monday police also got a report that three men who had left Deer Lake at about 4 o’clock that morning for Burgeo had not reached the town, Cooper said.
RCMP officers along with transportation workers and Barachois ground search and rescue volunteers found their vehicle at about 7 p.m. Monday farther up Route 480 just north of Peter Strides, a popular summer cabin area.
Cooper said the men were in good condition and able to drive their vehicle to the Stephenville area.
Andrew Parsons, the provincial Liberal Opposition member for the district of Burgeo-La Poile, said the men work in Alberta and were trying to get home.
The incidents underscore the need for improved cellphone service, he said.
“The rescue was hampered by communications,” he said.
Darin King, the provincial minister responsible for fire and emergency services, said telecommunications is federal jurisdiction.
The province has written to the Industry Canada minister about how best to encourage more cellular access in remote areas, he said in a statement.
In the meantime, Cooper is asking drivers to heed severe weather warnings. An advisory issued Sunday had told drivers to stay off the Burgeo highway overnight as plows would be removed by 8 p.m., he said.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/newfoundland-family-rescued-after-storm-strands-them-for-21-hours-1.2284596
————————————————–
Actor Paul Reubens, 62, was spotted filming Pee-wee’s Big Holiday in Palmdale, California, on Tuesday, dressed in the character’s distinctive red bow tie and too-small suit. And, though more than two decades have passed since Pee-wee’s Playhouse went off the air, Reubens looks just as gangly as ever.
He has also promised not to masturbate during the filming of the movie!
———————————————————
In
case you haven’t heard about it yet, IKEA is cracking down on people
playing hide-and-seek in its stores. A growing movement in Europe has
adults organizing hide-and-seek events in several IKEA stores, but the
furniture retailer isn’t having it. An IKEA spokeswoman said the
practice is unsafe and could be a security risk. Thousands of people had
signed up to attend a multiple store event organized on Facebook. The
idea for the event came from a Belgian blogger who organized an event
with the blessing of IKEA, but subsequent events have gone on without
approval.Read more: http://www.magic981.com/articles/weird-news-104673/ikea-bans-hideandseek-games-in-stores-13416465#ixzz3Uk5BPoBt
———————————————————-
Want to know why house prices in T.O. and Vancouver are so high?
Mainland Chinese account for over 80 percent of
people awaiting visas that bestow citizenship in return for investment,
showed findings by real estate services firm Savills Studley, who said
the trend is pushing up demand for commercial property.
A rising number of Chinese are applying for visas, where non-citizens put at least $500,000 into a business. as they seek to park their wealth offshore – in part to escape the impact of an anti-corruption drive at home.
A rising number of Chinese are applying for visas, where non-citizens put at least $500,000 into a business. as they seek to park their wealth offshore – in part to escape the impact of an anti-corruption drive at home.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/18/us-china-us-immigration-idUSKBN0ME0Z720150318?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
——————————————————
Here’s a note for all the idiots who claim that evolution is just a “theory!”
A scientific theory is a specific type of theory used in the scientific method. The term “theory” can mean something different, depending on whom you ask.
“The way that scientists use the word ‘theory’ is a little different than how it is commonly used in the lay public,” said Jaime Tanner, a professor of biology at Marlboro College. “Most people use the word ‘theory’ to mean an idea or hunch that someone has, but in science the word ‘theory’ refers to the way that we interpret facts.”
Every scientific theory starts as a hypothesis. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a hypothesis is an idea that hasn’t been proven yet. If enough evidence accumulates to support a hypothesis, it moves to the next step — known as a theory — in the scientific method and becomes accepted as a valid explanation of a phenomenon.
Tanner further explained that a scientific theory is the framework for observations and facts. Theories may change, or the way that they are interpreted may change, but the facts themselves don’t change. Tanner likens theories to a basket in which scientists keep facts and observations that they find. The shape of that basket may change as the scientists learn more and include more facts. “For example, we have ample evidence of traits in populations becoming more or less common over time (evolution), so evolution is a fact but the overarching theories about evolution, the way that we think all of the facts go together might change as new observations of evolution are made,” Tanner told Live Science.
Theory basics
The University of California, Berkley defines a theory as “a broad, natural explanation for a wide range of phenomena. Theories are concise, coherent, systematic, predictive, and broadly applicable, often integrating and generalizing many hypotheses.”
Any scientific theory must be based on a careful and rational examination of the facts. Facts and theories are two different things. In the scientific method, there is a clear distinction between facts, which can be observed and/or measured, and theories, which are scientists’ explanations and interpretations of the facts.
An important part of scientific theory includes statements that have observational consequences. A good theory, like Newton’s theory of gravity, has unity, which means it consists of a limited number of problem-solving strategies that can be applied to a wide range of scientific circumstances. Another feature of a good theory is that it formed from a number of hypotheses that can be tested independently.
The evolution of a scientific theory
A scientific theory is not the end result of the scientific method; theories can be proven or rejected, just like hypotheses. Theories can be improved or modified as more information is gathered so that the accuracy of the prediction becomes greater over time.
Theories are foundations for furthering scientific knowledge and for putting the information gathered to practical use. Scientists use theories to develop inventions or find a cure for a disease.
Some believe that theories become laws, but theories and laws have separate and distinct roles in the scientific method. A law is a description of an observed phenomenon that hold true every time it is tested. It doesn’t explain why something is true; it just states that it is true. A theory, on the other hand, explains observations that are gathered during the scientific process. So, while law and theory are part of the scientific process, they are two very different aspects, according to the National Science Teachers Association
————————————————–
He has also promised not to masturbate during the filming of the movie!
———————————————————
In
case you haven’t heard about it yet, IKEA is cracking down on people
playing hide-and-seek in its stores. A growing movement in Europe has
adults organizing hide-and-seek events in several IKEA stores, but the
furniture retailer isn’t having it. An IKEA spokeswoman said the
practice is unsafe and could be a security risk. Thousands of people had
signed up to attend a multiple store event organized on Facebook. The
idea for the event came from a Belgian blogger who organized an event
with the blessing of IKEA, but subsequent events have gone on without
approval.———————————————————-
Want to know why house prices in T.O. and Vancouver are so high?
Mainland Chinese account for over 80 percent of
people awaiting visas that bestow citizenship in return for investment,
showed findings by real estate services firm Savills Studley, who said
the trend is pushing up demand for commercial property.
A rising number of Chinese are applying for visas, where non-citizens put at least $500,000 into a business. as they seek to park their wealth offshore – in part to escape the impact of an anti-corruption drive at home.
A rising number of Chinese are applying for visas, where non-citizens put at least $500,000 into a business. as they seek to park their wealth offshore – in part to escape the impact of an anti-corruption drive at home.
——————————————————
Here’s a note for all the idiots who claim that evolution is just a “theory!”
A scientific theory is a specific type of theory used in the scientific method. The term “theory” can mean something different, depending on whom you ask.
“The way that scientists use the word ‘theory’ is a little different than how it is commonly used in the lay public,” said Jaime Tanner, a professor of biology at Marlboro College. “Most people use the word ‘theory’ to mean an idea or hunch that someone has, but in science the word ‘theory’ refers to the way that we interpret facts.”
Every scientific theory starts as a hypothesis. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a hypothesis is an idea that hasn’t been proven yet. If enough evidence accumulates to support a hypothesis, it moves to the next step — known as a theory — in the scientific method and becomes accepted as a valid explanation of a phenomenon.
Tanner
further explained that a scientific theory is the framework for
observations and facts. Theories may change, or the way that they are
interpreted may change, but the facts themselves don’t change. Tanner
likens theories to a basket in which scientists keep facts and
observations that they find. The shape of that basket may change as the
scientists learn more and include more facts. “For example, we have
ample evidence of traits in populations becoming more or less common
over time (evolution), so evolution is a fact but the overarching
theories about evolution, the way that we think all of the facts go
together might change as new observations of evolution are made,” Tanner
told Live Science.The University of California, Berkley defines a theory as “a broad, natural explanation for a wide range of phenomena. Theories are concise, coherent, systematic, predictive, and broadly applicable, often integrating and generalizing many hypotheses.”
Any scientific theory must be based on a careful and rational examination of the facts. Facts and theories are two different things. In the scientific method, there is a clear distinction between facts, which can be observed and/or measured, and theories, which are scientists’ explanations and interpretations of the facts.
An important part of scientific theory includes statements that have observational consequences. A good theory, like Newton’s theory of gravity, has unity, which means it consists of a limited number of problem-solving strategies that can be applied to a wide range of scientific circumstances. Another feature of a good theory is that it formed from a number of hypotheses that can be tested independently.
The evolution of a scientific theory
A scientific theory is not the end result of the scientific method;
theories can be proven or rejected, just like hypotheses. Theories can
be improved or modified as more information is gathered so that the
accuracy of the prediction becomes greater over time.Some believe that theories become laws, but theories and laws have separate and distinct roles in the scientific method. A law is a description of an observed phenomenon that hold true every time it is tested. It doesn’t explain why something is true; it just states that it is true. A theory, on the other hand, explains observations that are gathered during the scientific process. So, while law and theory are part of the scientific process, they are two very different aspects, according to the National Science Teachers Association
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