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There was a stoppage with10:01 left in the game and it was 1-0 rangers. I said "The rangers have a chance for a shut-out." A bunch of the fans turned their heads so fast they might need an adjustment before Christmas. A few of them also gave me the stink eye after the goal but I wasn't belligerent and just clapped (maybe a little too long) but there were no issues.

I'm at centre ice listening to some of the funniest people who think their talkin' hackey.

I like White Christmas and It's a Wonderful Life. The Alister Sim Christmas Carole was also a staple.

Second vote for navionics. I have it on my android. Best paid app that I've bought.

No show for Dion's wife this week on 24/7. But the bleep factor goes up for boh coaches and Babcock tosses the cameras out after the game against the Ducks. And I think we're missing out because the HBO show is 53 minutes without any commercials. Maybe it's the bleeps?

Made it to the airport by 10:30 yesterday. Flight out was on time and we were at our NYC hotel by 3pm. It's 12 degrees C. Now if I could get someone to shovel the drive before we get home...

Now my dinner sucks!!!

Still think diet pop is better for you? http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/geekquinox/ontario-grand-river-tests-highest-world-artificial-sweeteners-200300835.html Ontario’s Grand River tests highest in the world for artificial sweeteners A new study from Environment Canada and the University of Waterloo has revealed that as the Grand River meanders its way through southwestern Ontario towards Lake Erie, it accumulates enough artificial sweeteners along the way that the water it discharges into the lake every day is roughly the equivalent of between 80,000 and 190,000 cans of diet soda pop. According to the researchers, these "are the highest reported concentrations of these compounds in surface waters to date anywhere in the world." These artificial sweeteners aren't coming as discharge from bottling plants, though. They're coming directly from the people who drink it. This study, published in the online science journal PLOS ONE, points out that the chemicals used for artificial sweeteners — sucralose, cyclamate, saccharin and acesulfame — aren't processed by our bodies. They flow, unchanged, out of us, down the toilet and into water treatment plants. Even there, the chemicals usually make it through the treatment processes intact and get out into the river, where they persist in high concentrations despite the large volume of the water and all the biological processes that go on in the river. The Grand River watershed and study sampling sites.Acesulfame, which usually shows up as 'acesulfame potassium' on diet food and drink packaging, can be easily detected in samples, and according to the study, exists in concentrations "up to several orders of magnitude above the detection limit over a distance of 300 km." This means that as the water flows down the river, which is about 280 kilometres long, the increase in concentration of the acesulfame can be used to locate pollution sources. "Artificial sweeteners are an extremely powerful wastewater tracer, whether from wastewater effluent or from groundwater influenced by septic systems," study lead author John Spoelstra, who is a professor of biochemistry at the University of Waterloo and a groundwater quality researcher with Environment Canada, said in a statement. Also, since we don't feed artificially-sweetened food to animals, it can show the difference between human waste and agricultural waste in the rivers and groundwater. [ More Geekquinox: New species of horse discovered from 4.4-million-year-old fossils ] However, beyond those specific benefits, this is very likely a very bad thing for the river, for anything that lives in it, and even for us. There are plenty of studies out there now that argue the benefits and dangers of artificial sweeteners for us. The topic has been studied extensively, and continues to be studied. However, there is very little known about the environmental effects of these chemicals, or the chemicals they break down into (eventually). This study shows that since these chemicals persist in the water in high concentrations and for long distances away from the source, fish, plants and other organisms in the river experience long-term exposure. Given the concerns out there about what they might be doing to us, as we consume products made from them, an equal amount of concern should be shown for what these sweeteners might be doing after we're done with them. (Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons, Spoelstra/Schiff/Brown/PLOS ONE)

But it's a dry cold.

You make it too easy...

Anybody have tips on cleaning puke off of a kids car seat?

I would think at this point most of the major tv news would have it.

Not me. I just picked up a sick 20 month old early from daycare.

No big deal just went to work on a construction crane and then had a massive explosion and fire underneath me. I climbed out the end of the boom and waited for an hour while the flames went higher and then I was rescued by a helicopter. This was downtown Kingston today.

Minus 23 at 8:30 this morning and it only got up to minus 13 this afternoon. Lots of localized clouds over the open main lake. Hope the warm temps and rain forecast for later this week don't come around, although no matter the weather I won't be going out until after Christmas

I've never watched the series before. Does the narrator always read hockey clocks wrong? i.e. A goal was scored with 3: whatever left on the clock and the narration was that a goal was scored 3 minutes into the period.

Nice haul of fish there.

Your excitement is obvious.

24/7 starts tonight on sportsnet. Never watched the other ones (don't have HBO). I'll be interested to see what, and how much, real behind the scenes stuff they show us.

I'd want mine in a much larger font.

Hope your planned party is a blast. I'll be over next weekend in all my Christmas finery.

Another aspect to consider that I've noticed in my limited experience with my kids. It's not always a straight line from one experience to another. Introducing them to things at as young a age as possible is a good idea but don't be surprised if at some later age something that they were completely fascinated by now disgusts them.

Misfish made me a spud a few years back. I walk with that, and keep my significantly larger brother a loooooong way away from me.

Sure seems like they've worked out the kinks that they had last year… so far