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Saturday, December 18, 2004 Ensign Front Page Volume
8, No. 108
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The monster- Saturday
December 18, 2004
by :Ttimothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Thursday
afternoon the G5 arrived and for the rest of the day and Friday it was time to transfer
data and install applications. Saturday is the first full day of operations and it
has been interesting. 8 inches wide, 18 inches deep, 21 inches tall and weighing
in at several tonnes this is the biggest computer I have ever seen but its bigness
is not physical, this thing is a weapon.
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 Ultra
violet photography- Saturday
December 18, 2004
images by : Ken Jones
Regina : Remarkable image taken with a convention camera using film sensitive to
ultra violet (black light).
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| 1400 Saturday - Ceiling and visibility unlimited, -26º, wind
2 knots at 050º, altimeter 30.62 WeatherLog |
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Go to the WebCam page
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Today In Ensign
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Timothy W. Shire - the monster
Ken Jones - Ultra
violet photography
Timothy W. Shire - Centre piece
Sunday in Ensign
Timothy W. Shire - Trojans lose #6
Ron Thornton - redefining Christmas
Mario deSantis - Bushcomics
Timothy W. Shire - Stone Geese
Timothy W. Shire - Northwest skating rink |
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Today in Ensign years past
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- 1 year ago today, story 2, story 3,
- story 4 and story 5
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- 2 years ago today, story 2 and story 3
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- 3 years ago today, story 2, story 3,
- story 4 and story 5
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- 4 years ago today, story 2 and story 3
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- 5 years ago today, story 2 and story 3
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Tim's Tip of the Day
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 Here's a tip that can save you a lot
of cleaning. To prevent your Christmas tree from dropping its needles, don't put
your tree up until Christmas time. |
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Kevin's
find of the day
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 From rags to
riches to rags Jason Warick of Saskatchewan
News Network gives us an lengthy interview with Jeff Clark of Moose Jaw a potash
miner who won the 6/49 not just once but twice and is now flat broke. |
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Ensign Notes
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.Happenings In Tisdale:
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Saturday December 18
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10:00 - 4:00 Tisdale Mall, Pictures with Santa and mall market
8:00 Trojans vs Moose Jaw Warriors |
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Sunday December 19
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2:00 Trojans vs Moose Jaw Warriors
Tisdale homes will have their Christmas lights on |
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Tuesday December 21
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12:00 - 1:00 Town Square, Elementary School caroling
6:30 beginning at Kin Hall Sparkle tour |
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 Centre Piece- Saturday
December 18, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Weekes : Pauline
Lindenbach of Weekes puts these marvels together year round but these Christmas arrangements
are really special.
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 In
your face- Wednesday
December 15, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : The
reliability of voice over IP (telephone on the Internet) has come of age with AOL's
messenger and Apple's iChat. Years ago we tried the idea out but now it is
a practical everyday means of communication and it just makes sense to move to the
next level with a dedicated web cam for that purpose.
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- On
its way! Corporate-controlled, profit-maximizing, farmer-restricting system
 Tuesday
December 15, 2004
by: Joyce Neufeld
Waldeck : The
major varietys of wheat and barley were developed by government researchers and university
programmes but in the last three decades government has decided to turn over the
agricultural industry to the massive corporations. Now they will call the shots at
$15 an acre in perpetuity.
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 Trojans
do Charity breakfast- Tuesday
December 14, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale :
Saturday morning the whole Tisdale Trojan team were on hand at the Beeland Co-op
cafeteria serving pancakes and sausage to a full house as part of their annual charity
work in their community.
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 Bush evoking
World War II- Tuesday
December 14, 2004
by : David Orchard
Borden : Mr.
Orchard explains the complete silliness of the American president's reference to
Mackenzie Kings statements during World War II. It make us all shudder to realise
the remarkable lack of awareness that is so much a part of the leader of the the
world's most aggressive and heavily armed nation.
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- CIA Documents Cast New Light on Washington's Role in Venezuela
 Tuesday
December 14, 2004
by : Mark Weisbrot
Washington ;
This story is one of those confirmations of what most non-Americans expected, In
fact for the past five decades this is the standard behaviour of the United States
of America, its only a surprise to its citizens.
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 The Greenwater
Report- Tuesday
December 14, 2004
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : The ice fishing season may have begun and there is enough snow at
the park for some snow mobiling. Jenny is taking part in the Breast Cancer snowmobile
marathon ride and you can pitch into that project.
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 House
Cleaning- Thursday
December 9, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Yesterday
was the last day of this house's life as it was destroyed today. One was crunched
Saturday and another will be dust tomorrow as lots are cleared to make way for new
houses in established neighbourhoods.
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 Nuclear
Power is not safe, it is not clean, it is not economical- Thursday
December 9, 2004
by : Mario deSantis
Prince Albert
: Emotions run very high about this topic but we need to step back from the noise
and check the facts. The proponents of this industry gloss over the glaring and utterly
overwhelming dangers of the past, all of which avoided the ultimate disaste,r which
is not just possible, but is inevitable.
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 A
New Dawn for the Uranium Business in Saskatchewan:
Don Ching, President and CEO of Cogema Resources- Wednesday
December 8, 2004
by : Mario deSantis
Prince Albert
: Saskatoon lawyer, Don Ching moves from the Saskatchewan Crown corporation, SaskTel,
to become the CEO of a French government operation Cogema, one of the large uranium
mining companies in the province.
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 The Greenwater
Report- Tuesday
December 7, 2004
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Gerald brings us up to date on the silence of winter on the Park and
a few of his expeditions to Saskatoon and Archerwill. We get an update on the lake's
ice conditions and three amazing images of Saskatchewan elevators when they were
actually operational.
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 The
other side of the Elmasry Affair- Tuesday
December 7, 2004
by : Marjaleena Repo
Saskatoon : A Toronto "Christian" talk show host set up a controversial
debate that allowed the reasonable and anti-violent leader of Canada's Islamic Congress
to explain why Palastinian terrorism takes the form it does then was castigated for
his explanation.
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 Beardy's
Blackhawks defeated by Trojans 5 to 1- Friday
December 3, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Tisdale
Trojans are now firming in control of second place in the "AAA" midget
league in Saskatchewan as they delivered a solid win to their faithful fans Thursday
night at the RECPlex.
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 Next
Year- Thursday
December 2, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : With
the arrival of winter the crop year of 2004 is now behind us and there is no other
course of action than to consider the prospects for the coming year. Worthless crops
remain in the fields and worthless grain in storage while even more worthless cattle
continue to eat up abundant feed that even though cheap, will not yield and a net
return.
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 Its
here again- Tuesday
November 30, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Alas
its time once more to shovel off the drive way, clear the sidewalk, make sure the
shovel is in the trunk of the car and put that extra set of keys in your pocket so
you can get in when you luck the keys inside with it running.
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 The Greenwater
Report- Tuesday
November 30, 2004
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Last week Gerald told us how people were interested in buying pictures
of elevators so this week his report is accompanied by four super elevator pictures.
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Bottom Of The Page Picture
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RECPlex lobby, Thursday morning.
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