Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC) Sites of Interest:
CBC Radio's Index
CBC's Hockey Night in Canada It may not be cerebral and artsie, but it is part of "Canadian Culture". Check out all the scores and schedules and, love 'em or hate 'em, Don Cherry on the "Coach's Corner" in online streaming video. Great site for ex-pats far from home!!!
CBC Radio's IDEAS IDEAS, hosted by Paul Kennedy, is CBC Radio's premier program of contemporary thought, with an audience of approximately 350,000 listeners and is broadcast Monday through Friday from 9 to 10 pm. IDEAS is eclectic in form and content. We cover social issues, culture and the arts, geopolitics, history, biography, science and technology, and the humanities.
CBC Radios' This Morning CBC Radio One's >This Morning, hosted by Shelagh Rogers and Michael Enright is a program about Canada. It is a program that tells the stories of extraordinary Canadians who are making a difference and ordinary Canadians with extraordinary tales to tell. It is a program about Canada - all of its regions, its colours, its voices.
CBC Radios' Basic Black Journalist, author, and humourist Arthur Black drives this two hour adventure, featuring people with unusual occupations, bizarre passions, and arcane obsessions.
International Standards Organization 9000 Group Home Page The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some 130 countries, one from each country. ISO is a non-governmental organization established in 1947. The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity. ISO's work results in international agreements which are published as International Standards.
Quality - Engineer On A Disk Quality tools for engineering applications defined. A useful, text heavy site from Hugh Jack of the Pandos School of Engineering, Grand Valley State University (GVSU)- Grand Rapids, MI(unofficial site)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the lead U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system. JPL spacecraft have visited all known planets except Pluto (a Pluto mission is currently under study for the early part of the next decade). In addition to its work for NASA, JPL conducts tasks for a variety of other federal agencies.
My Own Experience with Laser Eye Surgery Laser Assisted In-situ Keratomileusis (LASIK). Performed on August 21, 1998. More references and links on this page. Even some photos of the actual procedure (not mine, someone elses).....
