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CBC News – Winnipeg Police Cadets
Great idea ! Cadets get their feet wet with experience and it frees up regular members to put their efforts towards more important things. Best of all the regular Police staff are more likely let’s hope to be less tired(a little bit more NRGY) and make more meaningful contributions by being more alert and clear…
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CBC National News – OPP response to Idle No More protests
Despite Superior Court opinions, I support the OPP’s way of doing things. As long as it’s peaceful demonstrations to voice expressions of Rights & Freedoms, then peaceful counter-measures are approiate. OPP is right that no injured or lost Life is better. It is a reasonable course of action and logical way to proceed regardless of…
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Ben-Hur – What a great Classic !
Absolutely Magnificent Movie. Everything about it is pure delight to all of the senses by the intensity of raw emotions. After all these years, I’m still drawn into it as if really there. For whatever it’s worth to MGM Studios – thanks
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BBC News – Is graphene really a wonder-material?
Is graphene really a wonder-material? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21014297 Once someone puts the 2 + 2 = 5 together, wait where this will go ! Think hard now…. 🙂
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BBC News – Plant-powered planes show promise
HYPERDRIVE| 15 January 2013 Plant-powered planes show promise http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130115-plant-powered-planes-show-promise As long as Biofuels comes from waste garbage and is not explicitly grown for this purpose, I see no problems with it. I was amazed a week ago to find out that out of 4 billion tons of food grown annually on a global basis, we…
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USA Today – Ford drops a new F-150 pickup on Detroit
Ford drops a new F-150 pickup on Detroit http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2013/01/15/ford-f-150/1835535/ Very nice on the outside Ford. I’m sold on the design. Let’s see all the goodies on the inside asap. Congrats.
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The Star – How a lawyer from Canada became a leading critic of U.S. national security policies
How a lawyer from Canada became a leading critic of U.S. national security policies http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1315060–how-a-lawyer-from-canada-became-a-leading-critic-of-u-s-national-security-policies Here’s another Aaron Swartz with moral convictions, compass and direction and strong voice to say it like it is. Freedoms cost – and yes even if we agree to disagree at least it’s on the table and the debate about…
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Montreal Gazette – Cirque du Soleil Restructuring Sparks Layoff Rumours
Cirque du Soleil Restructuring Sparks Layoff Rumours http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2013/01/14/cirque-du-soleil-restructuring-sparks-layoff-rumours/ At the risk of repeating myself once again too many times – they would have better success setting up in Ottawa. One way or another the Circus will be coming to Ottawa – so might as well make it that one, cause my version is going to…
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Financial Post – Apple slips under US$500, stock trading at ‘critical level’
Apple slips under US$500, stock trading at ‘critical level’ http://business.financialpost.com/2013/01/15/apple-slips-under-us500-stock-trading-at-critical-level/ Stop your whinning please ! Too much hormones of the wrong kind. Just because I dumped iTunes from my Windows laptop and I don’t buy all things Apple doesn’t make it a sell proposition. Yeah, Steve Jobs is gone, get over it. As brilliant as…
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CNN – How Aaron Swartz helped build the Internet
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/15/tech/web/aaron-swartz-internet/index.html?hpt=hp_c1 …”(He) engineered his own dismissal and got cashed out, and then became a full-time, uncompromising, reckless and delightful s***-disturber,” wrote BoingBoing’s Cory Doctorow, a friend of Swartz’s, in a tribute.”…. If nothing else in the world, we need shit disturbers. They are the sounding alarms of all things gone off the rails when we…