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Thumbs Up to These Good People
Next time you see our good friends, that help keep us safe … Give them the thumbs up … let them know how much you appreciate them. That also includes our good friends in the O.P.P., Paramedics, School Crossing Guards and our Fire Fighters, to name a few. It’s the least we can do … [...]
GreenHeroes – Vandana Shiva
greenheroes.tvo.org Bringing change to food production around the world Based in Delhi, Vandana Shiva promotes the use of indigenous seeds and the diversification of crops. She discourages seeding genetically modified plants. Her work has advocated a major shift in the agricultural system and given her a huge fan base around the world. “The funny thing [...]
Universe might hold three times more stars than previously thought
A new study suggests that a specific kind of galaxy might hold 10 times more red dwarf stars than estimated. That would triple projections for the number of stars in the observable universe, with implications for explanations of how stars and galaxies form and evolve. It’s a cosmic embarrassment of riches – the universe appears [...]
Pearl Harbor, 69 years ago
Sixty-nine years ago, on December 7th, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack against the United States naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Over 350 Japanese aircraft attacked in two waves, strafing, dropping bombs and torpedoes. Four U.S. Navy battleships were sunk, four other battleships were damaged, and eight other ships were either [...]
Climate Change: Adapt or Die?
In the next decade, the effects of a rapidly warming climate could kill 5 million people—as many as live in Singapore or Finland. More than 99 percent of those deaths will likely occur in developing countries, and almost four-fifths are expected to happen in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. There could be as many as [...]
Blues icon Danny Brooks at Green Mango Tree Restaurant
Sunday December 12 Blues icon Danny Brooks At the Green Mango Tree Restaurant, 115 First St. Collingwood. 4 to 7 pm. Tickets $50.00 (Taxes and gratuity included) includes a special Green Mango Thai Dinner and the wonderful music of one of the premier artists in the Blues world. Tickets available at the Green Mango Tree [...]
BP to Challenge Government Estimates of Oil Spilled
BP intends to challenge official government estimates of how much oil leaked from its runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico, a move that could reduce its legal liability by billions of dollars, according to documents the company filed with the presidential commission investigating the spill. In August, federal scientists estimated that 4.9 million barrels of [...]
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