I had an opportunity to speak as a panel at City Hospital yesterday to a room of social workers on the cost of homelessness. The Star Phoenix did cover a bit of what I talked about in today's paper: "Implementing a plan with the idea that 'everything starts with housing' is among the initiatives different organizations are taking to combat the growing problem of homelessness in Saskatoon."

Some time ago, Haikasoru's Yukikaze came out in its English-language glory. Picking up a book all about aerial dogfighters shooting random alien menace was probably not the most natural thing for me to do -- I'm a far cry from a military otaku -- but it felt like the right thing to do.

One fact I've often repeated when giving lectures and in conversation with friends is that I've managed to detect, track and stop some 700 plagiarists of my work, all within the last 7 years or so. That's an average pace of about 2 per week.

If you want to see some great racing, the various Touring Car series are a good place to start. Though they're not big in America, they are in Europe, and Chevrolet isn't missing out on the action.

I haven't written much lately because every time I sit down at my keyboard, I want to write about Haiti. I want to write about terrible injustice. And I want to write about the appalling difference I see between main stream media depictions and fresher, more local sources.

When anyone thinks of betting on a horse race the first thing that comes into mind is placing a bet at the race track on the day, possibly even just a few moments, before a race begins. Of course today, with all our modern technology, we can place bets on horse races without ever leaving our armchairs by using one of the numerous websites offering horse race bets. However, before placing that horse race bet you really ought to consider just what exactly are your horse race betting options in the USA?

I had handled hundreds of complaints, both large and small in scale. On my investigative team, I was considered adept at civilian interviews, especially those involving "walk-in" complainants like Ms. Brillant. We often got people like Ms. Brillant at the agency, people who might have had emotional or psychological conditions, homeless people, and others who relayed fantastic incidents like her.

The first stop on the tour was at the Korean DMZ. On the tour, we got to do a variety of things such as go deep underground into a tunnel constructed by the North, peer into the city of Kaesung through binoculars and go to the demarcation line. At the demarcation line, we had the good fortune of being the background for a several North Korean soldiers' pictures. Interestingly enough, a day or two later we saw the video footage of that incident taking place on the news.

We have all been told repeatedly, in a message that takes many forms, and is regularly reinforced by crime fiction and cop shows on TV, that fingerprints are unique -- that the presence of a fingerprint someplace that matches Mr. X is irrefutable proof that Mr. X was there. It is rare that we ask ourselves why we are so sure. It should be evident, as a matter of principle, that we really cannot make the statement that fingerprints are unique with any existing, or even imaginable, scientific justification.

The LiveScience Web site has an interesting article about a new volunteer effort, called the Quake Catcher Network, that employs ordinary laptop computers to gather data on earthquakes. The program takes advantage of the fact that many newer laptops have built-in accelerometers, designed to allow the machine's hard disk to be shut off if the laptop is dropped.

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