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"Chinese companies turning focus to conventional oil assets"

By Rob Winters - Published on Sunday, 11 September 2011 17:50

"NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE - The Globe and Mail

After pouring billions of dollars into Canada’s most difficult energy resources, Chinese companies are now turning their attention to the bedrock oil and gas fields that have long sustained the country’s oil patch.

The fourth-ranked Chinese state-owned oil firm, Sinochem, is actively looking for conventional oil and gas assets, Li Pilong, assistant president of Sinochem Group, told a Calgary conference Thursday.

If Sinochem follows through, it will be the fifth major Chinese firm to buy Canadian energy resources. But unlike previous Chinese buyers, which have spent $10-billion in the past two years to snap up assets across Western Canada, Sinochem has no interest in either the oil sands or the huge natural gas shale reserves of northeastern British Columbia."

"Three-year-old Kienan Hebert found safe, returned by suspect: police"

By Rob Winters - Published on Sunday, 11 September 2011 17:39

"SPARWOOD, B.C. - The stealthy abduction of a three-year-old boy from his bed in Sparwood, B.C., and his subsequent undetected return to the home under the cover of darkness has many in this peaceful mountain community fearfully looking over their shoulders.

Police received an anonymous 911 call around 3 a.m. local time Sunday morning and were told where to find little Kienan Hebert. The most troubling thing was that the caller, believed to be convicted sex offender Randall Hopley, 46, told police they could find Kienan in his own home.

SPARWOOD, B.C. - The stealthy abduction of a three-year-old boy from his bed in Sparwood, B.C., and his subsequent undetected return to the home under the cover of darkness has many in this peaceful mountain community fearfully looking over their shoulders.

"North Dakota’s Economic “Miracle”—It’s Not Oil"

By Rob Winters - Published on Friday, 02 September 2011 06:15

"Forget the Texas Miracle. Let’s instead take a look at North Dakota, which has the lowest unemployment rate and the fastest job growth rate in the country.

According to new data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today, North Dakota had an unemployment rate of just 3.3 percent in July—that’s just over a third of the national rate (9.1 percent), and about a quarter of the rate of the state with the highest joblessness (Nevada, at 12.9 percent).

North Dakota has had the lowest unemployment in the country (or was tied for the lowest unemployment rate in the country) every single month since July 2008."

"Scientists discover why coffee rings form, and how to prevent them"

By Rob Winters - Published on Friday, 02 September 2011 06:12

"Coffee rings are unfortunate byproducts of a beautiful morning beverage. You can always put a coaster over them, but that wouldn’t change the fact that the ring is still a stain on your tabletop. A team of scientists led by Peter Yunker at the University of Pennsylvania got down to the nitty gritty to understand why these terrible rings form.

Coffee is part grind part water. At the microscopic level, a drop of coffee is replete with spherical particles swimming around in the water. When the drop dries, the spherical particles clump together, push outward, and the water then evaporates. It is this cohesive nature of the spherical particles that causes the ring formation."

"UK stem cell stroke trial passes first safety test"

By Rob Winters - Published on Friday, 02 September 2011 06:03

"The world's first clinical trial of brain stem cells to treat strokes is set to move to its next phase.

An independent assessment of the first three patients to have had stem cells injected into their brain at Glasgow's Southern General Hospital has concluded it has had no adverse effect.

The assessment paves the way for the therapy to be tested on more patients to find a new treatment for stroke."

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