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Canadian astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason to retire

Canadian astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason is leaving the Canadian Space Agency in June after almost 25 years as an astronaut.Canadian astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason is leaving the Canadian Space Agency in June after almost 25 years as an astronaut.

Original Canadian astronaut Tryggvason calls it quits after 25 years

MONTREAL - One of Canada's original six astronauts is calling it quits after almost 25 years in the space business.

Original Canadian Astronaut Tryggvason Calls It Quits After 25 Years

MONTREAL - One of Canada's original six astronauts is calling it quits after almost 25 years in the space business.

Original Canadian astronaut retires after 25 years

MONTREAL -- One of Canada's original six astronauts is calling it quits after almost 25 years in the space business.

Canadian astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason to retire after almost 25 years

MONTREAL - One of Canada's original six astronauts is calling it quits after almost 25 years in the space business.

Original Canadian astronaut Tryggvason retires

MONTREAL–One of Canada's original six astronauts is calling it quits after almost 25 years in the space business.

Vancouver Museum Reopens After Theft

VANCOUVER—The University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology reopened Monday after the theft Saturday of a dozen works by the late Canadian artist Bill Reid, reports the New York Times via the Canadian press. Museum authorities and Reid's widow, Martine, expressed concern that the works, which are mostly made from gold, would be melted down. “These pieces are Canadian treasures and belong to the Canadian people,� Jim Storie, the chairman of the Bill Reid Trust, said in a statement. “They’re all priceless.� Reid, who helped popularize native Canadian art, appears on the country's $20 bill.

Early Review Calls New Indiana Jones Film Dreadful

bowman9991 writes "Hope this one isn't true! An early negative review calls the upcoming "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" movie predictable, lacking in tension, and a fan's worst nightmare. SFFMedia believes this new Indiana Jones movie could create a similar reaction a lot of people experienced after watching the first of the last three Star Wars movies, 'The Phantom Menace': you wait for years and years, the anticipation building, and then it's so awful it taints your view of the original movies. Of course George Lucas was involved with Star Wars too." The SFFMedia piece refers to this review on Ain't it Cool News. The trailer I saw (before Iron Man) actually looked great to me, so I'm taking this with a grain of salt.

DNA Frees Man After 27 Years

A Dallas, TX man was freed from prison after spending 27 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. James Lee Woodward was released on April 29 after he was cleared of the 1980 murder of his girlfriend with the help of the Innocence Project.

Woman back in jail after 32 years on run

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A woman who spent 32 years on the run after breaking out of prison in 1976 is back behind bars after being arrested in California, authorities said on Wednesday.

Long-lost Vivaldi opera staged in Prague after more than 270 years

Argippo, an opera by the famous Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, was last heard in the early 1730s. It disappeared just a couple of years after its premiere and was believed to have been lost forever. Until, that is, a determined Czech musician discovered the piece in a sheaf of anonymous scores in a collection in the Bavarian town of Regensburg. Last Saturday the lost Vivaldi opera was performed for the first time in over 270 years in the grand setting of the Spanish Hall at Prague Castle. The man who found it - conductor and harpsichordist Ondřej Macek – was also in charge of its direction.

Astronaut search

(CBC) - When the Canadian Space Agency first put out a call for applications for the job of astronaut 25 years ago, Steve MacLean was not waiting on the first day with his resume. In fact, he didn't even know about it.

Canadian Consumer Groups Release Copyright White Paper

Ottawa, Ontario - Members of a large coalition of Canadian consumer advocates released an open letter today to Canada’s ministers responsible for Canadian copyright policy. This letter is concerning a White Paper on Canadian Consumer Copyright policy the groups have published. White Paper participants include Option consommateurs, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), and the grassroots digital activism organization, Online Rights Canada.

After Google calls Facebook's bluff, Zuckerberg says "let's see if there's a way to make it work" [data portability]

After Google calls Facebook’s bluff, Zuckerberg says “let’s see if there’s a way to make it work� [data portability]

The 25-Year-Old BSD Bug

sproketboy writes with news that a developer named Marc Balmer has recently fixed a bug in a bit of BSD code which is roughly 25 years old. In addition to the OSnews summary, you can read Balmer's comments and a technical description of the bug. "This code will not work as expected when seeking to the second entry of a block where the first has been deleted: seekdir() calls readdir() which happily skips the first entry (it has inode set to zero), and advance to the second entry. When the user now calls readdir() to read the directory entry to which he just seekdir()ed, he does not get the second entry but the third. Much to my surprise I not only found this problem in all other BSDs or BSD derived systems like Mac OS X, but also in very old BSD versions.

Author Faces Canadian Tribunal For Hate Speech

An anonymous reader writes "A Seattle Times editorial notes that the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal will put author Mark Steyn on trial for his book 'America Alone,' which has angered Muslims in Canada. Steyn is a columnist for the Canadian magazine Maclean's. According to the editorial, British Columbia bans all words and images 'likely to expose a person... to hatred or contempt because of race, religion, age, disability, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.' Steyn is unapologetic, and is advertising his book as a 'Canadian Hate Crime' and daring the tribunal to 'pronounce him bad.'" The Canadian tabloid the National Post has coverage of what it calls "a media storm."

After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released

evanbd writes "After over 3 years of work, the Freenet Project has announced the release of Freenet 0.7. 'Freenet is software designed to allow the free exchange of information over the Internet without fear of censorship, or reprisal. To achieve this Freenet makes it very difficult for adversaries to reveal the identity, either of the person publishing, or downloading content' ... 'The journey towards Freenet 0.7 began in 2005 with the realization that some of Freenet's most vulnerable users needed to hide the fact that they were using Freenet, not just what they were doing with it. The result of this realization was a ground-up redesign and rewrite of Freenet, adding a "darknet" capability, allowing users to limit who their Freenet software would communicate with to trusted friends.

After years of delays, parts of NJ State Museum reopening

TRENTON, N.J. - The New Jersey State museum is reopening this weekend after four years of renovations.

Astronaut back home after mission

Korea's first astronaut, Yi So-yeon, returned home yesterday after a 10-day mission at the International Space Station and recuperation in Russia.

25 Years Old and an Offshore IT Manager

dcblogs writes "The Chinese outsourcing market, at $1.7 billion last year, is growing at 38% a year, according to research by the Everest Group. This is creating opportunities for Westerners who want to go to China, learn the language, and help these Chinese offshore companies reach overseas markets. There are job opportunities for people with management experience or who are young and willing to gamble. Here's the story of one 25-year-old who started learning Mandarin on his plane ride over to China, three years ago, and is now an international development manager for an IT offshoring firm."

After 150 Years, Cricket Wins Recognition in Canada

Toronto, Jun 21: Propelled by the enthusiasm of hundreds of thousands of recent immigrants, cricket has finally come of age in Canada -- about 150 years after it was once regarded as the country's National sport.

Canadian Space Agency/CANCELLED: Astronaut Recruitment Opens

Please note that the information session on the astronaut recruitment campaign set to be held at The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on Thursday May 22nd at 10:10 am is cancelled.

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