You know they talk about fast guns many years ago but this fellow here is pretty good himself he is suppose to be the fastest gun alive and once you watch the video you will see for yourself that he is pretty good.  Click Link Below to view

http://www.wimp.com/fastestgunman/

Well since my son works there in North Bay on Base at NORADm I figured I should put this write up about NORAD tracking Santa this Christmas  Also click the link in the below article as it will take you to the official site of where NORAD is doing its tracking.  So here it is.  Enjoy and Merry Christmas.

As Christmas gets closer, the Canadian NORAD Region has put the finishing touches on plans to track and escort Santa Claus when he visits Canada, and has selected four CF-18 fighter pilots who will act as Santa’s official escorts.

425 Tactical Fighter Squadron Commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Sylvain Ménard, and Major Eric Haas, an exchange officer from the United States Air Force, will launch from 3 Wing Bagotville, Que., to welcome Santa as the sleigh approaches Canadian airspace. 409 Squadron Commander, Lt.-Col. Eric Kenny, and Captain Chad Ireland of 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alta., will take over the escort duties as Santa makes his way into Western Canada.

Special NORAD SantaCams, positioned around the world, will take photos and video of Santa and his sleigh as he journeys around the world. The SantaCams instantly download the photo and video imagery so that it may be viewed by children worldwide on the NORAD Tracks Santa website, www.noradsanta.org, on December 24. All of this information will be available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Chinese.

The Canadian Air Defence Sector Operations Centre at 22 Wing in North Bay, Ont., will alert NORAD when their radar and satellite systems detect Santa approaching North America. Two CF-18 Hornet fighter jets from 3 Wing will welcome Santa as he enters Canadian airspace off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. As Santa flies across Canada from east to west, two CF-18 Hornets from 4 Wing will escort through Canadian airspace so that he may safely conduct his Christmas voyage.

On December 24, children can also receive updates on Santa’s Christmas Eve journey by calling the traditional “NORAD Tracks Santa” telephone hotline at 1-877-HI NORAD, or by emailing NORAD at [email protected]. Last year, the NORAD Tracks Santa website received over 13 million unique visitors from 231 countries and territories around the world. On Christmas Eve alone, NORAD “Santa Trackers” answered more than 74,000 telephone calls and answered 3,500 emails over a 25 hour period ….

Kind of interesting of how folks like to make an extra dollar these days.  Take A Look.  Kind of makes you want to be a touch more on the ball before doing things that others ask of you.

This long distance phone scam causes consumers to inadvertently incur high charges on their phone bills. Consumers usually receive a message telling them to call a phone number with an 809, 284, 649, or 876 area code in order to collect a prize, find out information about a sick relative, etc. The caller assumes the number is a typical three-digit U.S. area code; however, the caller is actually connected to a phone number outside the United States, often in Canada or the Caribbean, and charged international call rates. Unfortunately, consumers don’t find out that they have been charged higher international call rates until they receive their bill.  The Amounts are quite high one should remember, more than what most can really afford.

AT&T recommends the following tips to help avoid the 809 area code scam:

• Return calls to familiar numbers only. As a general rule, return calls from numbers that contain familiar or recognizable area codes. You may call your directory assistance or long distance operator to check the area code location.
• Carefully read your telephone bill. Make sure that you only receive charges from your provider of choice. Ensure you thoroughly understand charges listed on your phone bill, have chosen to do business with all of the listed providers billing for those charges and have authorized additional fees invoiced. If your local service provider has changed, you will receive a final bill from the former provider and a notice of service disconnection.

If you believe that you have been scammed:

• Contact the carrier with whom the charge originated, whose name and toll-free telephone number should be printed on the same bill page as the charge in question. Often, the problem can be resolved with a single phone call.
• If the carrier with whom the charge originated does not agree to resolve the problem, contact AT&T. AT&T will work with you and the carrier to help remove fraudulent charges from the phone bill.

Might not hurt to check your cupboards in case you have a jar or two stuck away.  For us my wife does all ours up fresh from our garden.  One way of making sure what you are eating is safe to eat.  With Precautions of course.  Just another reason that come spring you get to planning out a good size vegetable garden.  I have a spot around forty feet by thirty feet and it supplies all our needs and then some.

OTTAWA—The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has expanded a warning about a number of Barrie Bros. vegetable soups.
The agency says they may contaminated with a bacteria that could cause botulism, a life-threatening illness.
These Barrie Bros. Local Food Company 1892 vegetable soup products, sold in a 744 mL Mason glass jar with a metal lid, are affected by this alert.
These products do not have a lot code or a Best Before date.
Fresh asparagus soup, fresh cauliflower soup, butternut squash soup sweet potato and red pepper soup and potato and leek soup.
The list also includes Jeff Suddaby’s gourmet pumpkin and sweet potato soup and gourmet vegetable barley soup.
There have been no reported illnesses linked to these productsm which have been distributed in Ontario.
Food contaminated with Clostridium botulinum toxin may not look or smell spoiled.