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	December 2004 in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Canada defeats Germany 9-0 in their third group match at the 2005 World Junior Championships in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
		Canada defeats Sweden 8-1 in their second game at the 2005 World Junior Championships in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
		Canada's first group match of the 2005 World Junior Championships is on Christmas Day against Slovakia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/December_2004_in_Canada

	December 2004 in science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The newly acquired data will be used to fine-tune the trajectory of the Huygens lander, scheduled for release on December 24.
		The International Society for Molecular and Cell Biology Protocols and Researches, Inc (ISMCBPR) announces that the Molecule of the Year 2004 is awarded to IAA-RP.
		Newly discovered observations from March 2004 rule out the possibility that asteroid 2004 MN will hit Earth in 2029.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/December_2004_in_science

	2004 Indian Ocean earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, was an undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC (07:58:53 local time) on December 26, 2004.
		The 2004 earthquake and tsunami seem to be the worst natural disaster since either the 1976 Tangshan earthquake or the 1970 Bhola cyclone, or could conceivably exceed both of these.
		Prior to 2004, the deadliest recorded tsunami was in 1782 when 40,000 people were killed by a tsunami in the South China Sea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake (6590 words)

	Canada Gazette
		Furthermore, Canada's international image relative to animal welfare may be enhanced as a result of improved enforcement and clear regulatory standards.
		There is a need for a common understanding of what is and what is not acceptable relative to the transportation of livestock that are at risk of exposure to undue suffering or injury because of poor health or physical conditions such as lameness and inability to rise.
		The purpose of the Health of Animals Act and Regulations is to prevent the introduction of animal diseases into Canada and to prevent the spread within Canada of diseases of animals that either affect human health or could have a significant economic effect on the Canadian livestock industry.
	canadagazette.gc.ca /partI/2004/20041218/html/regle3-e.html (6590 words)

	CBS News Soldier Seeks Asylum In Canada December 8, 2004 03:24:19
		Canada has declined Bush's request for troops in Iraq and the majority of its people are opposed to the war.
		Hinzman is among several young American soldiers seeking refugee status in Canada, hoping to capitalize on the country's opposition to President Bush's foreign policy.
		Some 30,000 to 50,000 Americans fled to Canada during the Vietnam War and were allowed to settle there.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/12/07/iraq/main659664.shtml (6590 words)

	Canada's Performance 2004 — A Significant Step Toward Developing a more Robust Aboriginal Report Card
		Canada is one of the few countries in the world to publish this kind of results-based report.
		Canada's Place in the World: total trade, perceptions of security, trust in international institutions, and official development assistance.
		Ottawa – The Honourable Reg Alcock, President of the Treasury Board, today tabled Canada's Performance 2004 in the House of Commons.
	www.tbs-sct.gc.ca /media/nr-cp/2004/1202_e.asp (6590 words)

	December 2004 Canada News
		With a December 12 submission deadline now upon them, both advocates and opponents of the proposal are ramping up their lobby efforts and landowners outside the present greenbelt boundaries may want to tune in to the action.
		Canada's potato production slipped only slightly this year despite the first decline in the area planted in 16 years, and the fact that farmers were unable to harvest 4,600 hectares, according to a recently released report from Statistics Canada.
		According to Statistics Canada, an unusually wet summer and warm harvest conditions in New Brunswick contributed to the abandonment of about 1,200 hectares, which was among the 4,600 hectares not harvested.
	www.propertynetwork.ca /News/E-Mail%20News/December%202004/DEc%202004.htm (6590 words)

	Government of Canada Proposes Amendments to Intellectual Property Rules for Pharmaceuticals
		In 2004, the European Union adopted new measures for data protection, settling upon a uniform 10-year market exclusivity period, with an additional one year in cases where a drug has been approved for a new use.
		In September 2004, First Ministers committed to improving access to safe and affordable drugs.
		Industry Canada and Health Canada, as the policymakers responsible for the PM(NOC) Regulations and the data protection provisions respectively, have examined the two regulatory instruments and concluded that certain improvements are needed.
	www.ic.gc.ca /cmb/welcomeic.nsf/ICPagesEPrint/85256A5D006B972085256F69004FF997 (6590 words)

	Year 2004 News Archive: December
		December 29, 2004: Believe the Hype, or Be Left Behind - Carnegie Mellon's Frank Demmler says that older executives have a bias against technology, and it's up to CIOs to recognize this and adjust their messages to the board accordingly.
		December 1 - 7, 2004: Reflections on the Limits of Artificial Intelligence - Nature is very simple and efficient in everything she makes.
		December 10, 2004: Where Science, Fiction Meet - A Seattle museum is Paul Allen's homage to a genre that evolved from 'pulp' into literature, and influenced real discovery along the way.
	www.aaai.org /AITopics/html/archvE12.html (6590 words)

	Earth Science: December 2004
		This blog is being created to give students a way to give feedback and input on the topics of Earth Science that are being studied in class.
	earthsphere.blogspot.com /2004_12_01_earthsphere_archive.html (6590 words)

	Citizen Science Projects: December 2004 Archives
		I was lucky to participate in the Point Reyes Christmas Bird count; if you've ever wondered what it's like to do the count, you can read all about it here.
		The Christmas Bird Count is one of the oldest and largest citizen science projects ever.
		There is also a BBC News article about the report and a Slashdot discussion.
	www.citizensci.com /archives/2004/12 (6590 words)

	Schmidt Science Page
		Science, like social studies is done twice a week and is also woven in during reading and writing times.
	www.usd376.com /gs/staff/schmidtj/December%2004/science.htm (6590 words)

	APA's Science Policy Insider News - December 2004
		It was there on December 12 that Director of Science Policy Geoff Mumford spent a lovely Sunday afternoon as the guest of Dr. Susan Brandon, OSTP AD for Social, Behavioral and Educational Sciences, eyeing some impressive old growth forest (indoors no less) adorned with enough lighting to challenge the East Coast power grid.
		In early December, DHS provided data for the most recent round of awards announced in a DHS press release on November 15.
		Science Policy staff serve in a liaison role between DHS University Program staff and the student community to promote dissemination of program materials and encourage students to apply to the program.
	www.apa.org /ppo/spin/1204.html (6590 words)

	Science Task Year 2004 - Connections December 2004
		Science Task Year 2004 - Connections December 2004
		Powell joined the PECF in May of 2004 with the goals of assisting in protein expression while evaluating and developing novel approaches for the expression of those proteins found to be recalcitrant to traditional expression methods.
		This year, Dr. DeRose has written a manuscript on the solution structure determination of the HOT (homolog of theta) protein, which will be published in Structure this December.
	www.niehs.nih.gov /Connections/2004/12/sci.htm (6590 words)

	Online NewsHour: Science Editor Reviews Year's Highlights -- December 29, 2004
		JEFFREY BROWN: It's the time of year for top ten lists and Science magazine has just weighed in with its choices of the breakthroughs and big stories in the world of science.
		Science magazine's editor in chief recounts the year's highlights in the science field, from the Mars rovers finding proof that the Red Planet was once drenched, to the discovery of small human remains only thousands of years old.
		JEFFREY BROWN: I know that every list is going to be somewhat subjective, but I understand that your staff had little problem this year deciding on the top science story.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/science/july-dec04/year_12-23.html (6590 words)

	Science Functional Genomics Weblog: New in Science: 3 December 2004
		Science Functional Genomics Weblog: New in Science: 3 December 2004
		While outlining many concrete steps that can be taken (without overhauling the entire clinical trial enterprise) to improve the public trust in clinical trials, the December 3 editorial, "Clinical Trials and Public Trust," does not touch upon a critical safeguard involving the researchers themselves.
		" dc:identifier="http://sciencemag.blogs.com/sfgblog/2004/12/new_in_iscience.html" dc:description="Just posted on www.sciencemag.org: -From Ogawa et al.: Harmful bacteria disguise their identity by coating telltale surface proteins with other proteins, thereby escaping digestion by the cells they invade (on Science Express).
	sciencemag.blogs.com /sfgblog/2004/12/new_in_iscience.html (6590 words)

	World Watch - December 19, 2004 - What Bush's Big Science Project Ought to Be - The Ornery American
		Groundbreaking science, therefore, always happens on the fringes, between disciplines, outside the establishment, and that means it is either funded by eccentrics or is done on the cheap, at a theoretical level.
		Above all, science is a way of thinking, an approach to knowledge that thrives in a climate of freedom and dies whenever ideological purity is insisted on.
		Harvesting geothermal energy is really a matter of engineering as much as science, and that means that dumping money into research in that area has a high likelihood of yielding results in the long run.
	www.ornery.org /essays/warwatch/2004-12-19-1.html (6590 words)

	2004 State Science Fair Press
		This designation, the Scholar of Distinction in Science, is given to high school students who have exceeded the requirements for graduation standards in the sciences.
		From approximately 2,500 participants, about 350 are selected to present their projects at the Minnesota Academy of Science State Fair which is held each Spring.
		The Minnesota Academy of Science will coordinate the placement of two students in a college/ university near their homes during the summer.
	www.mnacadsci.org /PressReleases/2004-2005.htm (6590 words)

	Speedysnail · Archives for December 2004
		The beauty of the original was that you weren’t always sure whether you were watching a tale of madness, of parallel worlds, or what; now it’s just a straight science fiction movie.
		I guess it’s the fitting choice in a “best of 2004” list.
		Choosing a favourite out of his books is hard: for a long while Frost on My Moustache looked like the front-runner, but I think it has to be his newest, Spanish Steps, for being the story of more than Moore alone.
	speedysnail.com /2004/12/index.html (6590 words)

	University Affairs - Prime Minister creates Academies of Science
		It brings together three existing academies: the Royal Society of Canada (also known as the Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities); the Canadian Academy of Engineering; and the Canadian Institute of Academic Medicine (soon to be renamed the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences).
		When Arthur Carty was named National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister last spring, he showed interest in the proposal, meeting with the three founding academies and other interested parties.
		For universities, one of the more interesting revelations in Prime Minister Paul Martin’s reply to the Speech from the Throne was his announcement of a new independent agency, the Canadian Academies of Science, with funding of $35 million over the next 10 years.
	www.universityaffairs.ca /issues/2004/december/academies_science_01.html (6590 words)

	Questioning Accepted Science: December 2004
		Although he was not specifically addressing the field of science, this passage lends itself to the ideas which I advocate.
		Today science is rapidly accelerating in complexity but what is dogmatically accepted is not always true.
		I say apparent because this is still a relatively undeveloped science.
	qascience.blogspot.com /2004_12_01_qascience_archive.html (6590 words)

	Venus Transit 2004 - Welcome
		October 29, 2004 : The full report on the determination of the distance from the Earth to the Sun (the Astronomical Unit) by means of observations of the Venus Transit on June 8, 2004, by more than 2500 groups of observers participating in the VT-2004 Observing Campaign, will appear here on Tuesday, November 2, 2004.
		September 20, 2004 : The deadline for receiving entries to our Video Contest has passed and we are happy to report that many videos entered the contest.
		It is for this reason, and on the background of the invaluable experience gained during the present year, that the organisers of the VT-2004 public education programme have decided to prepare for another "round" in 2012.
	www.vt-2004.org (6590 words)

	Online NewsHour: Science
		December 25, 2002 -- How We See Tom Bearden reports on the work of Dr. Dale Purves, who believes that vision is a learned experience and that observers see what a visual scene typically signified in the past, rather than what it actually is in the present.
		June 3, 2004 -- Pigs and Politics A group of 60 prominent American scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, recently wrote a report accusing the Bush administration of "misrepresenting and suppressing scientific knowledge for political purposes." Jeffrey Kaye looks at how this debate is taking shape on industrial hog farms.
		Then, Jim Devine, a senior science advisor to the director of the U.S. Geological Survey, and Gail Neudorf, the deputy emergency director at CARE, a global humanitarian group, discuss how the disaster came to be and what is being done in its wake.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/science/science.html (6590 words)

	Science stuff: December 2004
		That will prove that science is the only means to knowledge." This answer is a bit more complete, but still unsatisfactory.
		Now, I'm not about to deny that the laws of math and logic are valid; however, my point is that one cannot use science to prove their validity.
		What's more, if someone is to claim that science is the ONLY way through which knowledge can be truly obtained, then one must test ALL possible methods under ALL possible circumstances.
	science-stuff.blogspot.com /2004_12_01_science-stuff_archive.html (6590 words)

	Science Wow: Sunday, December 26, 2004
		www.sciencewow.com Science Wow 12 : "Grad Schools - Computer Science Programs Directory of Computer Science graduate and post-graduate school programs, including contact information, program descriptions and links to leading programs world wide.
		Science Wow : "We search the internet to find you the best online since related sites available.
		Our goal is to help you to locate science related information on subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, maths, geology and astronomy to help you enrich your knowledge.
	sciencewow.blogspot.com /2004_12_26_sciencewow_archive.html (6590 words)

	Screenshots...: December 2004 Archives
		Via Bloomberg, as at December 27, 2004 15:49 EST (Dec 28 04:49hr Malaysia Time), the United Nations said 24 countries have joined "an enormous relief effort" following a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunamis and flooding that killed more than 23,000 and destroyed towns from Thailand to India.
		December 27, Jan Egeland, the United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief commented that Western countries were "stingy" with aid to the Boxing Day earthquake and tsunamis victims across Asia.
		In 2004, the U.S. supplied $2.4 billion in food, cash and humanitarian relief, or 40 percent of all relief aid provided in the world, he said.
	www.jeffooi.com /archives/2004/12/index.php (9503 words)

	Press Release December 2004 City of Diboll
		AUSTIN - (December 15, 2004) - The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) today approved financial assistance in the amount of $1,500,000 from the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) to the City of Diboll (City) to finance improvements to the water system utilizing the pre-design funding commitment option.
		The TWDB is the state agency charged with collecting and disseminating water-related data, assisting with regional planning and preparing the State Water Plan for the development of the state’s water resources, and administering cost-effective financial programs for the construction of water supply, wastewater treatment, flood control and agricultural water conservation projects.
		The City plans to construct five new water wells and approximately 52,000 feet of 6 through 12 inch water transmission lines and a new 1.5 million gallon ground storage tank.
	www.twdb.state.tx.us /publications/press_releases/2004PressReleases/121504Diboll.asp (163 words)

	The Great Earthquake and Tsunami of 26 December 2004 in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean - Prelimiminary Report by Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis
		The epicenter of the 26 December 2004 earthquake was near the triple point junction of three tectonic plates where major earthquakes and tsunamis have occurred in the past.
		The region where the great earthquake occurred on 26 December 2004, marks the seismic boundary formed by the movement of the Indo-Australian plate as it collides with the Burma subplate, which is part of the Eurasian plate.
		In fact, the 26 December 2004 earthquake occurred along the section that did not rupture during the 1861 earthquake.
	www.drgeorgepc.com /Tsunami2004Indonesia.html (6065 words)

	The Wire - December 2004 Canada Site
		International Cooperation Minister Aileen Carroll has announced that Canada will provide up to 500 election observers to support the second presidential runoff elections that will be held on 26 December 2004 in Ukraine.
		Lawrence O'Brien, Member of Parliament (Liberal Party of Canada) for the Labrador electoral district, died on 16 December 2004.
		Citizenship and Immigration Minister Judy Sgro has announced the coming into force of the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States as of 29 December 2004.
	canada.gc.ca /wire/2004/12/index_e.html (6065 words)

	The Militant - December 28, 2004 -- Refugees in Canada protest deportations
		The Militant - December 28, 2004 -- Refugees in Canada protest deportations
		MONTREAL—Despite sub-freezing temperatures and freezing rain, some 18 people, in their majority Punjabi-speaking refugees from India, held a campout and rotating hunger strike December 7-10 in front of the downtown office of the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) of Canada.
		The main purpose of the action, organized to coincide with International Human Rights Day, was to expose the unjust practices of the IRB and to protest the potential deportation of hundreds of refugee claimants in the coming months.
	www.themilitant.com /2004/6848/684812.html (6065 words)

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