Home » 2011 » September (Page 2)Posted by John Malloy on 09/18/2011
The Growing Gap Between the Rich and the Poor The full story is never on the front pages of our newspapers. You have to piece it together, but the evidence is everywhere — and it adds up to important and frightening news about how our social fabric is being pulled apart. This week a [...]
09/14/2011Read More
Scores of studies have been reported in the scientific literature confirming the advantages of mental imagery, or visualization, for performance enhancement. Olympians, mixed martial artists, and pros across all sports, use imagery to power their performance to higher levels. In fact, most athletes use mental imagery instinctively and spontaneously on and off the field. [...]
09/11/2011Read More
Jim Smith is now a retired NYPD officer, but on the morning of 9/11 he was an instructor of law at the police academy. His wife, Moira, was a patrol officer assigned to the Thirteenth Precinct on Twenty-first Street, around the corner from the academy, and she responded to the World Trade Center. [...]
09/07/2011Read More
Other experiments show similar oddities. Suppose you ask people to put various objects, such as an ashtray, a painting and a sink, into one of two categories: “home furnishings” and “furniture”. Next, you ask if these objects belong to the combined category “home furnishings or furniture”. Obviously, if “ashtray” or “painting” belongs [...]
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(Owen Sound, Tuesday, 6 September 2011) – Shane Jolley will launch his “Taking Responsibility” election campaign on Saturday September 10th, 2011, at his campaign office, 939 2nd Ave. E. Owen Sound, at 10AM. Shane will be making a statement about how “taking responsibility” means running a different kind of campaign that respects the integrity of [...]
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Saturday, 24 September 2011, 20:00 - 22:00 Juno Award winner and CBC radio announcer Molly Johnson has earned her reputation as one of Canada’s greatest voices. She has rocked standing-room only audiences in nightclubs and bars from coast-to-coast as a pop artist, and seduced the patrons of salons and lounges with her luscious interpretations of jazz and [...]
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Paul Stockton, the Pentagon’s point man for security in the homeland, plans for the kind of apocalyptic events that could forever change the lives of millions of Americans. Assistant Secretary of Defense Stockton, a lifelong academic who speaks passionate jargon, calls them “complex catastrophes” with “cascading effects,” and, like Sept. 11, 2001, [...]
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Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:00am – 4:00pm. Location: Collingwood Curling Club Join the 4th Annual Collingwood Chamber of Commerce Business Fair & Trade Show Collingwood Curling Club The Collingwood Chamber of Commerce Business Fair & Trade Show provides local businesses an opportunity to promote their products and services to other businesses and the [...]
09/07/2011Read More
By Chris Fell – MP Larry Miller joined members of Meaford council last Friday for a tour of two important businesses based in the Municipality of Meaford. Miller, four members of council and two senior members of the municipalitys staff were together on Friday morning for a tour of Freemans Farm located [...]
09/06/2011Read More
Beaver Valley Outreach needs your BID to help Support 20 Community Programs! Please join us for our 16th Annual Silent Auction at the Beaver Valley Community Centre on Friday October 7th from 10am to 8pm and Saturday October 8th from 10am to 4pm and make a BID for BVO! BIG TICKET ITEMS 1. One Year membership at the Georgian [...]
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Next up for the Centre is our big fund raiser of the year – Valdy in concert on September 17 at 8 p.m. Tickets have been selling well, specially since we discounted them until August 17. They will be $40 after that and we are expecting to sell out. So if you want to see [...]
