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11 April 2005
Risk management
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"The [oil] industry is risk averse," [Premier Danny] Williams said. That's from a scrum the Premier gave on Sunday about the...
The truth is out there - if you want to accept it
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A rock-steady source of good information sent me some data on launches by the Space Transportation System (STS), otherwise known as the spac...
10 April 2005
Danger Danny Williams! Danger Danny Williams!
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Is anyone really surprised that Danny Williams has even more questions after getting a full briefing than he had when he first heard about ...
Double-plus good
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There is saying things in few words and then there is adding a bit of interpretation to the few words that the end result doesn't quite ...
And then another day brings the appearance of changes
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The launch of a US Air Force Titan 4B is being delayed owing to unspecified problems with ground equipment involved in loading the oxider, a...
09 April 2005
What a difference a few hours make - updated
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Hearing Premier Williams' scrum Friday on the Titan booster crisis made me want to take back the good things I posted about him earlier....
08 April 2005
The Missileer
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If you haven't heard enough about rockets, then I am here to feed your curiosity and hopefully, allay some of the anxiety that has seize...
Here's where the Nat Lamp went
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Meanwhile over at the National Post , the editors took complete leave of their senses and turned what was once a decent news rag into the Na...
Dear Premier Williams...
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if you are finding this whole Titan rocket thing a bit confusing owing to mixed messages, as CBC is reporting , then I have a simple piece o...
Getting it right and other Titan-ic issues
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Without making it a great saga, I posted comments this morning about the province's response to the Titan booster issue and specifically...
Massive Correction
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In the post "Speaking of badly briefed" I made some comments on the Premier and his scrum yesterday flowing from a VOCM story this...
You read it here, first - the Space version - revised
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As I told you yesterday , "Given the history of Titan 4B boosters, the repeated rescheduling of this mission and that the system is due...
Speaking of badly briefed... deleted
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This post is withdrawn.
07 April 2005
Re-entry debris footprints
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It seems that a number of government officials are holding to their concern about the prospect that the Titan 4B booster scheduled to carry ...
Look to the skys!
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A bizarre afternoon in Newfoundland and Labrador, what with the Premier calling a hasty news conference to talk about American missiles fall...
Explosive Ordnance Disposal
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EOD. Paul Wells has been waging a valiant, if seemingly futile campaign to diffuse the Gomery testimony story, criticize the media use of th...
Who'd waste the ammo?
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Bullets are expensive these days. That's why this little news story looks more like headline grabbing sensationalism than a serious dec...
Blarney and buds threaten province's future
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Blarney the Dinosaur from Up the Shore is at it again, according to a VOCM story posted this morning. This little news outlet deserves a...
06 April 2005
Talking like an oil techie
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Here are some links to sites that describe different types of crude oil. First, we have Platt's Oil Guide which gives a general descrip...
Hebron development in context (updated)
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There is plenty of rejoicing at the news today from the Hebron consortium that the partners are closer to filing a development application. ...
05 April 2005
The Indy and The Michener revisited
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The early morning -email included a note from a journalist whose reporting and judgment I respect. He advises that while the Micheners are i...
Public Masturbation Alert - Spindy Nominates Self for Award?
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Grab a copy of The Independent this week and you will see a front page story about the paper being nominated for a Michener Award for journ...
The -EST Premier
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Danny Williams is an EST guy. No, I don't mean a graduate of the 1970s sensitivity training program. I mean a guy for whom everything mu...
04 April 2005
Maybe thinking should at least give us pause
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While I have been very critical of the Independent in recent weeks, I will say that every now and then something appears which makes the pa...
General Bullshit - revised
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After reading this story and hearing the on-air version, I had to check the bio of one Gordon O'Connor, Conservative Party defence crit...
Blogs and real world information
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Two episodes over the weekend illustrated one of the conflicts between the land o' blogs on the Internet, sometimes called the blogosphe...
01 April 2005
What are they thinking? Are they thinking? They think?
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Enjoy this Sun story . Apparently, Stephen Harper has decided that public bluster is better than anything else when it comes to dealing wit...
Time for a New Approach
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Goldman Sachs yesterday - so it isn't an April Fools Day joke - reported crude prices may hit US$105 in the next few years with a poss...
I wish it was an April Fools' joke
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Mile One is a time machine for ancient entertainment. VOCM is reporting that country music singer George Jones is coming to Mile One to per...
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