Headlines

I spent a good part of the afternoon looking through the paper. It was Friday of Saturday when they have a big fat version. Monday's was about 4 pages by comparison. Anywhoooo, there were several really interesting articles in there.
One was about Edmonton's recycling set-up. They are building a $70 M "gasifier" to make the majority of the waste into gas or steam to create methanol, and eventually a more valuable ethanol. Which would be nice to see some of the corn crops go back to the food cycle rather than to ethanol...... but that's another story all together. Eventually the City of Edmonton will only send a few trucks to the landfill everyday. The only trouble is they're only using residential waste which only makes about 20% of all waste. But we must start somewhere.
Secondly, a story about a circle of ice forming at just the right temperature can make something similar to a crop-circle in the water. They found one of these in Mississauga last week on a pond. It's called a creek circle. I guess it's when some ice forms in the middle of the water, rather than the edges. The little ice shavings will gather together and kind of float there for a while making it look like a circle in the middle of the water. Pretty nice picture.
And finally one of the best headlines I've seen all year. I didn't think you could get away with such things these days, but it said; Two Wangs Make a Right for China.
It was from a curling tournament where two people by the name of Wang must have won their game or something. That is very clever.
Well, it's one thirty in the afternoon and I've finished my day at work already. Luckily it was a light one for me because it is a terribly cold -25 degrees. Brrrrr.