Canadian YA science fiction series

In the late 1990s there was a Canadian series of sci-fi stories for teens. "Series" is not exactly the right word because there were many different authors and none of the stories were related. It was just a collection of slim books, usually with a dark photo of an object (sneaker, wires) on the cover, with the title in white. ALL of the stories were set in Canada. I am scrambling some stories ...

Twilight Star To Play Varg Vikernes In Black Metal Movie

... Soderlind’s book of the same name, the film depicts true events and revolves around the black metal sub-culture that spawned a wave of murders and church arsons across Norway in the early 1990s. Making his English-language debut with “Lords Of Chaos” will be hot Japanese director Sion Sono. Stuart Pollok of Los Angeles-based Saltire Entertainment, Ko Mori of Eleven Arts and Oh Jungwan of ...

buildin' a ger

... wood for the lattice of the walls. Maybe. So I'd like to chat Yurts etc with others who are experienced in these things. Item the second I was in the SCA in Boston in the early 1990s. We are interested in continuing in the arts, sciences and skills that promote self-sufficiency but not in the politics, etc or fancy dress. Husband in particular is highly allergic to quasi-noble hierarchy. So I ...

Drop That Burger

... global-warming case against animal farming. Matthew Herper, 11.12.09, 12:20 PM EST Patrick O. Brown, a Stanford University biochemist, has changed science twice by giving stuff away. In the early 1990s Brown invented the DNA microarray, a tool that measures how cells make use of their DNA; he then showed researchers how to make their own, transforming genetic research. In 2000 he was one of ...

One giant scar on mankind

... one major category in the crime statistics that keeps going up, not down. ''Compared with crimes such as robbery, there has been a sustained increase in the recorded rates of sexual assault during the 1990s which has continued into the mid-2000s,'' says Dr Anne Cossins of the University of NSW, an expert on sexual crimes against women and girls. ''A major contributor to this increase has been a ...

Friday, November 20, 2009 News Update

..., helped the Taliban leaders move from Quetta, where they were exposed to attacks by unmanned U.S. drones. The development reinforces suspicions that the ISI, which helped create the Taliban in the 1990s to expand Pakistani influence in Afghanistan, is working against U.S. interests in Afghanistan as the Obama administration prepares to send more U.S. troops to fight there. Bruce Riedel, a CIA...

Mets hire Manuel pal

...of confidence on the eve of free agency yesterday by hiring his longtime friend Dave Jauss as bench coach. Jauss, whose relationship with Manuel dates to their time in the Expos' system in the early 1990s, was tabbed over Bob Melvin and Eric Wedge. Jauss replaces the fired Sandy Alomar Sr. The selection of Jauss, 52, is significant because Melvin and Wedge are recent major-league managers and ...

... component... I learned to sew and embroider from my mum, and also had lessons at school. I still have the mat I made when I was about 9, stitched on yellow binca. I started seriously stitching in the early 1990s, when I bought a cross stitch kit for my sister's birthday - it was of Piglet, from Winnie the Pooh . Piglet was my sister's nickname at the time. When I told my ma, she was doubtful ...

stopped by to post update

... it seems, needs to be un-fixed if this is what fixing it did) finally, i sent the req in this week to have the last typewriter in the library hauled off... should be gone next week... 1990s, here we come!! WROTE NOTHING today except renovation proposals, order reqs, invoices, call numbers, etc... really need tomorrow's write-in, have huge plot bunny with teeth dug into my ankle... knew he was ...

Meeting notes: November 19th, 2009

... a video cabinet. I have ordered this month’s movies: “Transformers 2,” the new “Star Trek,” and the 1989 “Batman” movie. Historian’s Report: A cautionary tale… The Night Crew. Back in the late 1990s (I believe it was 1997), there were a group of Forumites who liked to hang out in the lounge late into the night blasting music (among other things). This caused a lot of disruption for the AMS grad ...