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Voice in the Wilderness: Gulf of Mexico? Try 'Gulf of America' Lets Be Fair to Mexico, and Cuba

State Rep of Mississippi want to claim the Gulf of Mexico.

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Wonderful "Picture of the Day" of a Greenland Shark | Tiny Blurb REALLY Worth Reading

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Fungus Sweeps Across The U.S., Killing Bats

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Ten Dirtiest Hotel Rooms of the World. Rated by Travelers,Videos « Ramanan50's Blog

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Breaking News New Brazilian Blowout ZERO

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Monster winter storm takes aim at one-third of US

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8 years in, 'Wicked' breaks its box-office record

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The kids get greased – Phantogram live @ Il Motore in Montreal

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Triceratops' Relatives Unearthed | Fossils of Two New Species Discovered in Utah

September 22nd, 2010
11:45 PM ET

Scientists find new dinosaurs related to Triceratops

Utahceratops gettyi was found in Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Fossils of two new species of horned dinosaurs closely related to the Triceratops have been discovered in southern Utah, scientists revealed Wednesday.

The discovery of the new plant-eating species, which are believed to have areas known today as the western United States during the Late Cretaceous Period, was announced Wednesday in the online open-access journal PLoS ONE, produced by the Public Library of Science.

The bigger of the two new dinosaurs, with a skull about 7 feet long, is Utahceratops gettyi, whose name combines the state of origin with ceratops, Greek for “horned face.” The second part of the name honors Mike Getty, paleontology collections manager at the Utah Museum of Natural History and the discoverer of this animal.

Kosmoceratops richardsoni

With 31 skull "ornamentations," including 15 horns, Kosmoceratops richardsoni takes its name from the Latin word for "ornate." Its horns - located over the nose, atop each eye, at the tip of each cheek bone, and ten across the rear margin of the bony frill—make it the most ornate-headed dinosaur known. The latter part of the name honors Scott Richardson, the volunteer who discovered two skulls of this animal.

The newly discovered dinosaurs were inhabitants of the “lost continent” of Laramidia, the western portion of North America that formed when a shallow sea flooded the central region, isolating the eastern and western portions of the continent for millions of years during the Late Cretaceous Period.

Utahceratops and Kosmoceratops are the two latest species to be unearthed in Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which is proving to be a "treasure trove" for palenotologists in the new millenium, Mark Loewenof the Utah Museum of Natural History said.

Most of the dinosaurs that fill the North America's museums come from Alberta, Canada, but with most of the region thoroughly picked over, more and more new discoveries are coming out of southern North America.

"Every dinosaur we're finding is related to others we've already seen but a completely new species," said Loewen, a paleontologist who participated in the study. "We have to change our views on why they were living in the same time slice, but completely different from those living in Canada."September 22nd, 2010 11:45 PM ET Scientists find new dinosaurs related to... more

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Money to be made from pot busts

When news of a police raid on a “large” and “sophisticated” marijuana grow operations hits the paper, as is often the case in the Shuswap, one question people seem to ask regularly is, “what do they do with the stuff?”

Despite the illegality of it all, this question is most often delivered with a wink-wink-nudge-nudge gesture. The truth, however, is pretty dry. Typically, marijuana obtained by authorities from such raids is eventually destroyed – incinerated to be exact. This answer might rekindle that cheeky thought process. Or it may elicit a more dour, thoughtful response such as, “Wow, what a waste.”

Now, before heading to your computer to start typing that letter to the editor questioning how we could condone the production and sale of weed, dig this – the federal government already does and, not surprisingly, it’s a mighty lucrative endeavour.

Health Canada recently signed a contract with Prairie Plant Systems of Saskatoon worth $17 million to produce medical marijuana. Currently, the company is scrambling to hire new staff and expand its secret growing facility in order to handle the contract.

There was, no doubt, a lot of paperwork and handshaking for Prairie Plant Systems to get that deal with the government, let alone to become the only federally licensed medical marijuana producer in Canada. But clearly, or at least one would hope, that if the feds are willing to pony up millions of taxpayer dollars for the deal, there is indeed money to be made in the medical marijuana industry.

Meanwhile, millions more taxpayer dollars are going towards police investigations of marijuana grow operations, the raids and other related costs. All the while, irritation is growing across the country among local governments, who have no choice but to pay taxpayer dollars for escalating RCMP policing costs with no input or accountability.

Local governments, it seems, have no money to burn, yet authorities are doing just that.

Why shouldn’t we see some financial gain from this war on drugs? Our foray into the medical marijuana gig shows we can have it both ways. And the fact we’ve been profiteering from the sales of cigarettes and booze for ages helps to lessen the sting of hypocrisy.

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Former smugglers now legit at medical pot convention

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Vancouver 2010: Google changes doodle for Winter Olympics opening ceremony

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Former Mexican Official Urges Legalizing Marijuana

The United States and Mexico should both legalize marijuana in an attempt to break the... more

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Snow and record-freezing weather blankets Europe, North America and Asia

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Canadian PM Harper Accused of Shutting Down Torture Probe

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Sex, Lies And Asperger

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Alberta Health Services to borrow $220M

Alberta Health Services is borrowing $220 million from the Royal Bank to help ease a... more

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Canadian Senate Committee Passes Bill C-15

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Cannabis, Tobacco and Alcohol Use - Comparing risks of harm and costs to society

Health-related costs per user are eight times higher for drinkers than they are for those who use cannabis, and are more than 40 times higher for tobacco smokers, according to a report published in the British Columbia Mental Health and Addictions Journal.

According to the report, “In terms of [health-related] costs per user: tobacco-related health costs are over $800 per user, alcohol-related health costs are much lower at $165 per user, and cannabis-related health costs are the lowest at $20 per user.”

The review, authored by researchers from the Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia at the University of Victoria and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse at the University of Ottawa, stated: “Alcohol is used by a very large number of people with the vast majority of these using in low- or moderate-risk ways. Conversely, cannabis and tobacco are used by far fewer people. The majority of cannabis use is low- and moderate-risk, however, while the majority of tobacco is high-risk.”

The study reported that social costs applicable to marijuana are primarily “enforcement-related.”

The authors concluded: “The harms, risks and social costs of alcohol, cannabis and tobacco vary greatly. A lot has to do with how the substances are handled legally. Alcohol and tobacco are legal substances, which explains their low enforcement costs relative to cannabis. On the other hand, the health costs per user of tobacco and alcohol are much higher than for cannabis. This may indicate that cannabis use involves fewer health risks than alcohol or tobacco.

“These variations in risk, harms and cost need to be taken into account as we think about further efforts to deal with the use of these three substances. … Efforts to reduce social costs related to cannabis, for example, will likely involve shifting its legal status by decriminalizing casual use, to reduce the high enforcement costs. Such a shift may be warranted given the apparent lower health risk associated with most cannabis use.”

According to a recent Rasmussen national poll of 1,000 likely voters, Americans believe by more than two to one that alcohol is “more dangerous” than marijuana.

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Journalist murders in Mexico hit new record

According to a tally by El Universal, the country’s top-selling newspaper, 12... more

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