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You can pick up a couple stories on the front page of The Economist.  Seems like one of their correspondents is actually in Lhasa, and hasn't been told to get out yet.

Hey Pallas, no one's got anything on the humvee, and I just don't know, so I guess since you're the last one to get something right, you better go next.

Laurier Coureur des bois or Voyageurs (not sure which one they're looking for) Silent Revolution Laurier I think was covered in Social Studies 10 or 11, Coureur des bois would be in Grade 9, Papineau again, grade 9 or 10.  Silent Revolution might not be covered.  Since the history portion of...

Sorry about that, must've missed the previous M3.

Well, I suppose it's your turn again.  Maybe I'll get an answer on the 'pipes' some other time :D

Okay, this is going to be a bit unusual (and probably contravening some of the game's rules), but I saw an acquaintence's photos and can't ID them, so I figured I'd post them here. Whoever ID's that should go next, but game aside, I'm also wondering if anyone knows what those 'pipes' on top...

Bernardini X1A2 from Brazil. An old M3 Stuart with a new turret and 90mm gun, although I'm not too sure if the one in the picture is the -A or the A-2

The RCMP has a lot of competition for candidates; at the SFU Career Days this year, in addition to the RCMP, the Vancouver, Abbotsford, Translink, and Lethbridge (Found that one a little odd) police forces had booths out.  The VPD folks mentioned they needed around 100 more officers in the next...

Hmm, whoops! But if you were asking us, wouldn't you put the survey in the thread so that you could see the forum-specific results?

No, the problem is that there are too many people in University that don't give two hoots about the Student Society, so they can get away with such crap. Combine the resulting low participation rate in student politics with the power that is actually allocated to the Student Society, and you...

You seem to have neglected to include the poll.  Luckily for you, making a forum poll is not one of the 25 skills  ;D

Speaking of the Student Society, the Simon Fraser one has never been able to meet quorum to change their own bylaws - including the one requiring a 500 student quorum.  Yes, they can't get and keep 500 students at the meeting long enough to do anything at a school with somewhere on the order of...

Ask to hold on to some of their new toys as collateral when you dole out the soft loans.   ;)  It's not unprecedented for military equipment to be used for payment; IIRC, that's the reason South Korea has Russian AFVs in the inventory.

Interesting.  I saw them perform at Abbotsford last weekend, and they were flying with his position empty, which understandable and a little jarring.

If they were convinced enough of their own salvation though, would they care?  Wouldn't that simply make them martyrs in the eyes of the rest of their organization?

I'll agree with that.  Singapore's justice system is known for being harsh, not corrupt.  And I don't get the planted drugs excuse - maybe if you want to frame somebody, but it seems an odd way of delivering valuable contraband given that the receiving party will need to know who the dupe is...

Hmm, a friend's boyfriend (Korean, coincidentially) was in Afghanistan with a Christian/church group a year or two ago teaching English.  I wonder if it might be the same or a similar organization.

Mind you, I think Singapore's idea of executing drug mules, while overly harsh, also provides distinct incentive to check your luggage carefully. From an Amnesty International report on Singapore from 2004.  It should probably be noted that both women were 18 when caught, not when executed...

That's the function button.  Certain compact keyboard layouts, especially on laptops, have fewer buttons than a normal keyboard, so they assign secondary (or tertiary, depending on how you want to view it) functions to certain keys.  The Fn key enables the alternate usage, changing, for example...

I wonder how much that has to do with having someone to hold responsible in case of defective products, as well as experiencing staff trained to serve customers. The thing about a large store is that they have a lot of, well, hostage capital.  The act of spending years and large sums of money...