Yet another poll about Muslims in the USA, with some postive and other disturbing results.

(32% believe American Muslims are less loyal to the U.S.) But close to half (46%) of Americans say this country allows too many immigrants to come here from Muslim countries.

A solid majority of Americans (63%) believe most Muslims in this country do not condone violence, and 40% tend to believe the Qur'an itself does not condone violence (28% feel it does). But 41% of Americans feel Muslim culture glorifies suicide.

A survey by IT World Canada reveals that employers are seeking experienced workers over new graduates.

In the survey, 61% expect to hire this year. Staffing in 2007 is up 12% for IT workers. The number of IT employees on payrolls is expected to increase by 2%. 68% of new hires are expected to have 10 years or more experience in other companies.Average total compensation increase across the IT industry is 4.1% from 2006 to 2007.

The changes in global weather have been more frequent and more marked around the world.

British Columbia had record all time high temperatures in seven locations, including 39.9C in Lillooet, BC.

See the CBC article. 

More Canadian cities are rolling out free wireless internet access.

Ottawa ON, Fredricton NB, and Whistler, BC have all rolled out free wireless.

However, the largest to date has been in Regina, SK, according to this CBC article.

This cost C$1.3 million upfront capital cost, with a running cost of $340,000 per year.

Another form of scam preys on the desire of many people in the third world to immigrate. The United States has a Diversity Visa lottery program (USA DV Lottery) to encourage people underrepresented countries to immigrate.

The following fake email impersonates US officials and claims that the recipient won in the lottery and asks for fees via Western Union.

Here is the text of the email scam:

Contrary to all what Dries has been saying, the webmaster is not dead! It is alive and well, and here is the video to prove it!

A 37-year old man was jogging in Vancouver, B.C. while having an iPod strapped to his bidy and the speakers in his ears. When an adjacent tree was struck by lightening, the lightening jumped and struck him.

The result was disastrous. Not only was the man thrown off 2.4 meters from the tree, but he suffered ruptured ear drums, dislocated jaws, and first and second degree burns on his chest, where the iPod was strapped. The burns were up his ear channel as well. His feet had burns and his sneakers were blown up as the electric shock exited his body to the ground.

On May 15, 2007, there were tornadoes in Southern Ontario.

Yesterday, June 8, 2007, Environment Canada issued torando warnings for the areas around Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, and Wellington county.

Indeed, two probable tornadoes were reported. Environment Canada is investigating, specially the Mildmay area south of Walkerton.

When studying history, we often look for literature, archeology, events, and the like. Seldom do we consider food and recipes to be a topic of history.

However, there are several sites that have recipes from olden days. Some of them have a nice collection of recipes from Islamic countries, most notably Iraq and Andalusia.

These recipes go back all the way to the 10th century, when Baghdad was the seat of the Islamic Caliphate, in the Golden Age of Islam in the East. The Andalusian recipes go further into the 15th century, just before the fall of Granada.