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Canada The Rafale has been amongst various aircraft proposed to meet Canada's need for a modern jet fighter to replace the aging McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). In July 2010, the Canadian government announced the replacement for the CF-18 was to be the F-35 Lightning II; Canada having been a partner in the Joint Strike Fighter Program from 1997 and a Tier 3 partner for the F-35 Lightning II since 2002.However, in December 2012, the Canadian government had announced that the purchase of the F-35 had been abandoned due to greatly escalating costs, and that a fresh procurement process would begin.  In January 2013, Dassault responded to an request for information from the Canadian government and announced its readiness to  enter a future competition for a future fighter  procurement. Various aircraft are to be considered to meet the requirement, including the F-35.

Everybody says you can't make money off small cars. Tough fuel economy regulations are forcing the issue for sure, but people are also finding out for themselves that small cars are comfortable and safe these days. And who doesn’t want to pay less for fuel? The 1-litre, 3 cylinder is the latest in the line of engines Ford calls EcoBoost. Direct fuel injection plus turbocharging gives a 30 per cent improvement in fuel economy and a 20 per cent reduction in CO2. That’s technology that is going to be available to everyone.” A recent test drive north of Los Angeles in a Ford Fiesta with that 1-litre, 3-cylinder motor. The engine is smaller than many motorcycle engines but it propelled the sub-compact Fiesta with ease. It even sounded good. To keep the engine noise down, they ran the bottom of the timing chain through an oil bath. They bolted on a turbo-charger, gave it direct gas injection and variable valve timing and came up with an engine that produces 126 horsepower and 148 lb-ft o

Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease ~Dr. Dwight Lundell We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact. While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common denominator -- inflammation in their arteries. The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation. Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent

  Climate Change   Let's see... the total amount of carbon dioxide in the entire atmosphere of Earth, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (the people who measure it), is 3,000 billion tons. In parts per million, it was about 316 in 1959 and 390 in 2011. So I'll divide 3,000 by 390. Now we know that one ppm represents 7.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide. OK, then, how much carbon dioxide do humans worldwide dump into the air yearly just from burning fossil fuel? In 2011,34.7 billion tons. Divide 34.7 billion by 7.7 billion, and we can see that we should expect the rise in carbon dioxide to be 4 ppm every year.Is it? Well, no. It is rising lately only about 2 ppm per year. Why? Earth's oceans have a huge capacity to absorb carbon dioxide from the air, and they continue to do so to our peril: Everyone must take part — government, industry and you. World governments must decide that we are going to remove enough carbon dioxide

Some bipartisan cooperation may finally be breaking out in the nation's contentious battle over health care overhaul. The Obama administration announced Thursday that four red states are on the list of those getting the initial go-ahead to build their own health insurance marketplaces. Open enrollment for millions of uninsured Americans is less than 10 months away. The GOP-led states — Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah — joined five others getting conditional approval from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Counting previous approvals, 17 states plus Washington, D.C., have been cleared to run their own insurance exchanges. Washington will set up the new insurance markets in states that don't want to participate. But at least nine other states are considering partnerships with the administration.