CMS: Content Management System
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When starting out as a Web Designer, there’s a point where you feel like you’re finally getting the hang of creating some slick HTML pages with valid CSS layouts, and the learning curve on creating professional looking web graphics is getting shorter too, and you’re even picking up some Javascript and PHP along the way! However … even after all this work to get your web pages looking good while maintaining proper web standards and cross-browser compatibility, now the client wants the ability to edit their own pages because the content changes regularly. Not only that, but they’ve also decided they want their website to be able to do a bunch of other stuff (Store, Blog, User Submitted Content) especially since they’ve noticed other websites doing lots of really cool stuff!

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Would you be alarmed to know that Greenland and Antarctica are melting ? If not you should be. More intense Heatwaves, Hurricanes, Drought and Wildfires will soon be the order of the day as the result of Global Warming (rise in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere and oceans due to increased amounts of Carbon Dioxide and other Greenhouse Gases which trap solar heat), and unfortunately, time is no longer on our side.

To be more blunt, the Canadian and U.S. governments have to cut the crap and do what’s in the best interest of our planet and future generations instead of protecting the interests of Big Business.

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Were these average people unwittingly transformed into heroes once they realized what their hijackers intended to do ? We’ll never know for sure .. all we do know is that the passengers and crew of United flight 93 were indeed unfortunate victims of an insane and cowardly act on Sept. 11th, 2001.

We’re all familiar with the horrific events of that day, tragedy that touched all of us and would forever be burned into the collective conciousness of a nation and the entire world. It was also inevitable that Hollywood would one day slither in and wreak their own brand of injustice on the memory of those events, cashing in (ka-ching) as it so often does with overwrought melodrama masquerading as introspective and thought provoking protrayals of real human stories.

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You’ll usually see a lot of cars in the parking lot on weekends, but don’t panic. Those are all the people going up to Chester Lake, which has become very popular and one of the busiest next to Galatea and Ribbon Creek. It’s a nice Lake with pretty good fishing (once boasting the record catch for a Dolly Varden) but isn’t nearly as nice a destination as lesser known Headwall Lakes. Oddly enough, the Kananaskis Country Recreational Map I had didn’t even have a trail marked for Headwall, which might help explain why it doesn’t get as crowded as it’s neighbor. Headwall has small cutthroat for some moderate fishing, but it’s worth going just for the diverse terrain and stunning landscape. Most of the people you encounter are hiking, but if you take a bike you can save an hour or more each way on those long logging roads, and the adrenaline rush on the way down is a great way to end your trip.

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