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Canada vaults to second place in proven oil reserves with demonstration of < $15 per barrel production from tar sands. One quarter of Canada's daily production is now provided by oil from mining western tar sands.

The cashless economy is fast approaching. More than half of all North American consumer payments are now made by debit and credit cards.

Lance Armstrong and the US Postal Team wins the Tour de France cycle race for the sixth consecutive time.

Cosmologists are re-writing our understanding of the universe based on observations from a solar satellite. All matter and energy that we are made of or can measure accounts for 4% of the universe. The rest is dark matter (23%) and dark energy (73%) which mankind has yet to experience.

Glass cockpit flight displays for both new and used recreational aircraft become available from several suppliers. The application of glass cockpit instrumentation in recreational aircraft was pioneered by Avidyne in 2003 for the Cirrus aircraft.

The International Atomic Energy Agency issues code of conduct for research reactors. The code establishes 'best practice' guidelines for design, licensing, construction, operation, and decommissiong.

Bert Rutan's Scaled Composites successfully completes two flights within two weeks to the edge of space with a single spacecraft capable of carrying three people to win the Ansari X-prize. Pilots Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie become the first civilian pilots to soar to the edge of space, experience weightlessness and glide to an airport landing.

Crew Systems Solutions undertakes review of the potential impacts on workplace cognitive performance of shift worker food preferences and eating behaviours.

Two papers discussing a comparison of monitoring displays in nuclear and aviation practice, and lessons learned from the Columbia space shuttle accident were presented at the annual Canadian Nuclear Society conference.

Two seminars on control room operating resources and practices were provided to Canadian Nuclear Society chapter meetings at Chalk River in April and Sheridan Park in July.

Two papers concerning definition of future control room information needs and validation experience and ongoing challenges were presented at the American Nuclear Society topical meeting on plant instrumentation and interface technologies in September at Columbus, Ohio.

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