sorry peter

this post is to a guy named peter i totally toled peter that toronto would go all the way well hey i guess i was wrong and for that i say sorry to the guy named peter.

The inferno that brought down the World Trade Center towers was equal in power to a nuclear reaction, says the Canadian scientist at the centre of the collapse investigation.

Dr. Venkatesh Kodur was the only non-American on the team of engineers studying how the impact of two passenger airliners caused the collapse of the towers.

"The building would have stood up if it was just the impact of the plane, if there were no fires," said Kodur. "It was the fire which finally brought it down."

Kodur is a National Research Council scientist and structural engineer studying fire's effects on materials and buildings. The Ottawa-based scientist told his story to engineers last night at the Westin Hotel.

About half the support columns in each tower were crippled by the impact of each of the planes - both of which then exploded when their fuel ignited, said Kodur.

"We are talking about huge amounts of fire. Never before has a building collapsed just because of fire."

Exploding jet fuel created a massive inferno which shot through the interior of each tower, said Kodur.

"It set a lot of floors on fire at the same time."

With temperatures nearing 1,100 C, the remaining structural support columns began to fail. But engineers had never before seen so swift a collapse, said Kodur.

"The thing was, the energy produced in these fires was equal to that produced in a nuclear power plant."

No engineering solution could proof buildings against an airplane collision, said Kodur.

One lesson learned, however, has been to consider moving fire escape stairways to outside corners of the building, he said

Allez Senegal


With a team drawn from the French league, World Cup newcomer Senegal stunned the world champion in the opening game of the 2002 World Cup finals. Papa Bouba Diop scored the only goal of the game after South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi jointly opened proceedings in Seoul

Toronto all the way

ok well im a canadian so of course im chering for the mapleleafs to win, and people who think detriot will win is crazy and dont know anything about hockey, yes thats including you peter.

G-8 summit

canada's government (liberal) is considering using new powers it has seized in the name of the war on terrorism to impede and suppress protests against next July’s G-8 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta.Under Bill C-42, legislation now before Canada’s parliament, the Defence Minister will gain the power to proclaim any part of Canada—land, water or air space—a “military security zone.” Although Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Justice Minister Anne McClellan have repeatedly insisted that the anti-terrorist legislation the Liberals have introduced since September 11 does not threaten dissent, protests and civil disobedience, Defence Minister Art Eggleton has conceded that the government could place the summit venue and surrounding area under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Armed Forces. The military would then be empowered to remove or prevent anyone from entering the “military security zone” who did not have state authorization to be there.Last July, Chrétien announced the G-8 leaders will next convene in Kananaskis, a small village in a Rocky Mountain provincial park of the same name. Government spokesmen readily admitted that this remote locale was chosen to insulate the summit from the mass protests that have disrupted recent international gatherings of government leaders, such as the 1999 World Trade Organization conference in Seattle and last year’s Summit of the Americas and Genoa G-8 summit.

While happy to just be back in the lineup, Toronto's Mats Sundin is more concerned with helping his team beat the Carolina Hurricanes.
Exactly how the Toronto captain will do that is the biggest question heading into Tuesday night's Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals series at the Air Canada Centre
Sundin returned from a 12-game layoff due to a broken bone in his left wrist in Game 2. Toronto lost the game, 2-1, in overtime to send the best-of-seven series back to Toronto tied at one game apiece.Toronto coach Pat Quinn admitted Monday he had trouble finding a place to fit in Sundin, as well as three other injured players -- Darcy Tucker, Tie Domi and defenseman Jyrki Lumme – in Game 2. His team had won three-straight games in convincing fashion before Sunday.

Sundin started the game on a fourth-line with Tucker and Domi. As the game progressed, Sundin was moved around a bit, but Toronto's top lines stayed together for the most part.the absence of Sundin, the unheralded McCauley moved up to center a line featuring wingers Gary Roberts and Jonas Hoglund. That line has carried Toronto for close to a month. McCauley, who scored the tying goal in Game 2, has 15 points. Roberts has a career-best 19 points, including seven goals. Hoglund, who scored the game-winner in Game 1 against Carolina, has four goals and 10 points.

topic change

the only canadian team left in the 2002 playoffs are the toronto mapleleafs, so i have decided to change my topic my blogg will now include baseball,basketball(the rest of the playoffs), and golf.

whats going on in calgary

yesterday in calgary people were diging up over 40cm of the white stuff we call snow. this was the biggest dump calgary has had since 1981 when calagry got hit with 48.4 cm of snow. this snow storm has caused a fataility, a calgary man died from a heart attack while shoviling his drive way, there was also injury's caused by car accidents. in almost one day galgary experianced 40cm of snow and is expecting 8cm more which equals 48cm of snow.The single-day downfall is nearly four times the monthly average for precipitation for May -- 10.2 cm. Most charter, private, and rural schools were shut down but Calgary public and Catholic facilities stayed open. Paramedics tended to three patients who suffered heart attacks while shoveling snow.

have you ever wonderd where your puppy ran off too well i have the answer for you

words

Pez

Pez is a type of candy that was invented back in 1927 by a guy named Eduard Haas. What dose pez mean? well pez is the abbreviation of the german word peppermint.then came the pez dispenser which was created in 1950, in 1952 character heads where desind also with fruity flavoured candy to the pez dispenser. the frist reason the pez was created was to help adult's smoking problems. pez dispenser have also showed up in many movies such as "the client" also "stand by me". now pez has created there own character heads such as Pez-A-SAURS which is there newest creation.

Klez

Elkern is a low-polymorphic cavity infector with network spreading capabilities. The virus first appeared on 25th-26th of October 2001. When we originally got the sample of Klez worm, we found out that it dropped this virus to a system. The virus then lived its own life not dependant on the worm. It should be noted that the virus doesn't work on any operating system except Windows 98 because of a serious bug in its code. Due to some blind luck the virus also works on Windows 2000.

The virus consists of 4 main parts - initial decryptor, startup code, the API table and the main code. When the virus code gets control, the initial decryptor which is low-polymorphic, decrypts the startup code code and passes control to it. The virus then locates KERNEL32.DLL library by scanning Windows memory and gets API addresses of 27 Windows functions. The virus then allocates a block of memory for itself and copies its body in several parts there

Frazz Bryson Elementary's janitor is the most respected educator in the school. Every kid's pal and peer, Frazz exudes a love of learning that's contagious. The principal wants to be just like him. The other teachers want to learn from him. The students can't get enough of him. A Renaissance man, friend, role model and so much more, Frazz makes learning fun for everyone.

top 10 things to say to Scare People In the Computer Room

Log on, wait a sec, then get a frightened look on your face and scream "Oh my God! They've found me!" and bolt.
Laugh uncontrollably for about 3 minutes & then suddenly stop and look suspiciously at everyone who looks at you.
When your computer is turned off, complain to the monitor on duty that you can't get the thing to work. After he/she's turned it on, wait 5 minutes,turn it off again, & repeat the process for a good half hour.
Type frantically, often stopping to look at the person next to you evilly.
Before anyone else is in the lab, connect each computer to different screen than the one it's set up with.
Write a program that plays the "Smurfs" theme song and play it at the highest volume possible over & over again.
Work normally for a while. Suddenly look amazingly startled by something on the screen and crawl underneath the desk.
Ask the person next to you if they know how to tap into top-secret Pentagon files.
Use Interactive Send to make passes at people you don't know.
Make a small ritual sacrifice to the computer before you turn it on.

have you ever wondered what it would look like to microwave a light bulb well check this out


this is what it looks like when a Christmas tree ornament is put in the microwave