Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones wins right to represent Canada at Sochi Olympics

[photo]By Judy Owen, CP:
WINNIPEG — Jennifer Jones had a group hug with her teammates Saturday night after finally earning the right to represent Canada at the Olympics in Sochi, Russia next year with an 8-4 victory over Sherry Middaugh in the Canadian Curling Trials final.
The Winnipeg skip has won four Canadian championships and gold at the 2008 worlds and bronze in 2010...Read here...

The Insatiable Traveler - photos are a worthy of a second look.

Susan Portnoy About this site:
I can never get enough when it comes to travel; I love the exploration, the adventure, and sharing my experiences through photography. Here you will find my images and stories, a few tips here and there, photographs that inspire me, a look back to past adventures, and my quest to rediscover the wonders of New York.

My last trip was to Kenya to photograph the great wildebeest migration. I'm slowly rolling out the stories and photos and I hope that you enjoy them. theinsatiabletraveler.com

No Joke: The Truth About Alcoholism

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No Joke: The Truth About Alcoholism from Bradley Bjornstad on Vimeo.

Featuring Robin Williams, Anthony Hopkins, Bill Cosby and Craig Ferguson.

Alcoholism is a wide spread issue. We all know someone who might be an alcoholic. We need to be alert and careful, because it's not just something celebrities have, anyone can.
Drink Responsibly.

The Twin Peaks Theme composed by Angelo Badalamenti

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The Twin Peaks Theme composed by Angelo Badalamenti
From the album, Twin Peaks [Original TV Soundtrack] 1990
Label WMG Warner Music Group

Friendly piglets paddling off coast Caribbean island [video]

Bay of pigs: The animals sun themselves on their very own Bahamian island (Picture: YouTube) metro.co.uk

Elvis Presley - "Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues"

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Mandela famously sang, “Kill the Whites."

[images - debbieschlussel.com] [Kasrils, the white man beside Mendela]

Ronnie Kasrils speaks out against Israel's apartheid policies, March 5, 2009.http://links.org.au/node/2795

The Songs they Sing about Killing Whites gnosticliberationfront.com/songs

One Christian is killed around every 11 minutes around the world.

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By: World Watch Monitor: The plight of Christians around the world was discussed in a three-hour debate at the Houses of Parliament in London yesterday.

Members of the House of Commons were told that the persecution of Christians is increasing, that one Christian is killed around every 11 minutes around the world, and that Christianity is the “most persecuted religion globally”.

A long list of countries in which life as a Christian is most difficult was discussed, including Syria, North Korea, Eritrea, Nigeria, Iraq and Egypt.

MP Jim Shannon said the persecution of Christians is “the biggest story in the world that has never been told”...Read here...

Twitter reacts to Nelson Mandela’s death

President of the African National Congress Nelson Mandela acknowledges cheers from the crowd as he prepares to unveil the ANC's official election platform in this Jan. 29, 1994 photo in Soweto. (AP/David Brauchli) salon.com

Tippy the fainting squirrel - MailOnline

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By Daily Mail Reporter
A squirrel who is apparently in the grip of a fainting fit has stolen the hearts - and piqued the curiosity - of internet users.
A minute-long clip shows a black squirrel standing and and nibbling a nut. It then suddenly freezes and falls to the ground for several seconds.

Then, just as inexplicably, the adorable rodent stands back up and starts chewing again, before again tipping over. And again. And again....dailymail.co.uk

Trudeau won't say if North Pole is Canadian or not

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http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/2893481495001

'Canada to claim North Pole'news.yahoo.com

Nick at the North Pole. Credit: Seaice.org.uk/  [photo]

Jacoby Ellsbury was never soft, but deal with Yankees proves he was a mercenary

Jacoby Ellsbury has a career .431 slugging percentage at the new Yankee Stadium.(Photo: Anthony Gruppuso Anthony Gruppuso-USA TODAY Sport) usatoday.com

Posted by Chad Finn:  There have been two longstanding narratives attached to Jacoby Ellsbury, the two-time Red Sox champion and filthy-rich new Yankee.
The first is that he is, to use a gentler synonym than you might hear on sports radio, soft.
That one is pure nonsense. Always has been.
Did he miss a lot of time with injuries? He sure did. He played just 18 games in 2010 after suffering multiple rib fractures in a collision with a brick-wall-on-wheels named Adrian Beltre, and the soft label was slapped on him after he took his time coming back after a misdiagnosis by team doctors.
I don't know how you fault anyone for being wary in that situation. If my doctor misdiagnosed anything, let alone a serious injury that could alter a career, reputation and earning power, he'd no longer be my doctor.
If Ellsbury held a grudge -- against the team, or those who yelped about his toughness -- who could blame him?
Two seasons later, he was limited to 73 games after the Rays' Reid Brignac dropped all of his 190 pounds on Ellsbury's shoulder during a hard slide at second base in the fourth inning of the seventh game of the season.
It was a brutal injury, another unavoidable blunt-force trauma that cost him a large part of a season. The injury would have put even the grubbiest of dirt dogs on the DL for multiple months. It was lousy luck, not a sign of fragility.
Funny how those who call him soft had little to say when he played this postseason with a swollen, purple-hued hand and on a foot that still wasn't fully healed from a late-season stress fracture.
His performance when he was healthy was anything but soft. Ellsbury habitually played his best in big moments, contributing in an essential way on two championship teams during his seven seasons in Boston...Read here...

France asks Bob Dylan to apologise in race-hate row

By Stephane Orjollet, Paris: The legendary singer has been charged with inciting hatred by Paris prosecutors after comments made to Rolling Stone magazine last year sparked a complaint from the Council of Croats in France (CRICCF).

“If you got a slave master or Klan in your blood, blacks can sense that. That stuff lingers to this day. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood,” Dylan was quoted as saying in the context of an answer about race relations in the US...Continue reading...

The Bosnia Crisis: Serbs, Croats and Muslims: who hates who and why: Tony Barber in Zagreb traces the ancient roots of a culture clash that has shattered what was Yugoslavia into warring pieces.

From TONY BARBER in Zagreb... Read here...

Statistics Canada confirms record Saskatchewan harvest

The StarPhoenix:

 

Saskatchewan farmers in 2013 produced the largest crop in the province’s history, according to Statistics Canada.

Photograph by: Richard Marjan , The StarPhoenix

Saskatchewan farmers have produced the largest crop in the province’s history, according to Statistics Canada.
The numbers even surpass the 2020 target set out in the provincial government’s Saskatchewan Plan for Growth, according to a government news release Wednesday.
The latest estimates from Statistics Canada put Saskatchewan’s 2013 crop at 38.4 million tonnes, exceeding the Growth Plan goal to increase crop production to 36.6 million tonnes by 2020.
“Saskatchewan producers deserve credit for the effort and dedication that went into this record-breaking crop,” Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart said in a statement.
“We set an ambitious goal for crop production and our producers proved they were up to the challenge.”
The 2013 crop is 40 per cent above 2012 production and 48 per cent above the 10-year average.
Saskatchewan’s canola crop is estimated to be the largest on record at 8.9 million tonnes, an increase of 37.5 per cent over 2012. Production levels for wheat, canola, peas, lentils, chickpeas, oats and flax are all estimated to be above the 10-year average.

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Zac Brown Band "Colder Weather"

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ZAC BROWN BAND - COLDER WEATHER (Official Music Video) from andy patch on Vimeo.