Brockville, The Little Engine that Could

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Brockville is a small town that is trying to grow into a medium sized city. To kick start the economy of the town, the town councillors attracted names like Wallmart, The Real Canadian Superstore, Starbucks, Future Shop, Reitmans, and other big names.





Over the last five years, I have seen empty spaces gradually get built over. Most of it uptown. Downtown is like a ghost town, business's come and they go. Storefronts are empty, and there is no place to go. Right now, there is only one grocery store, and a couple of pharmacies.

Encouragingly, there is a big multimillion dollar project happening, right now, called the Tall Ships. The town expects it to attract tourists, and help rejuvenate the downtown area.

We'll see. It is half completed now, and hopefully it encourages, continued growth in the downtown area.

Tall ships is a condo development on the Brockville Waterfront. On the main level there will be a 15,000-square-foot aquarium, a fresh water diving information centre, with a special mooring for tall ships.



The project will be built by Thomas Fuller Construction at a cost of 60 million dollars, and named The Maritime Discovery Centre.

Over the years, Brockville has experienced several plant closings, and the exodus of many downtown business, leaving residents with nowhere to do their shopping.

Using the proximity to Highway 401, and the cities parkway and waterfront, the town has been able to make a small turnaround.

Business's are coming into Brockville again; however, it is still stealing from the downtown area. Most of the business's that have opened in the last five years has been uptown, not downtown.

Hopefully, after the completion of the Tall Ships building, more business will open up downtown. What Brockville needs to do downtown is to encourage, building owners to lower their rents for their storefronts, and add more parking spaces.

Unless Brockville does more to keep business downtown, it will fizzle and die.

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Are we Alone? The Answer is Comming

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Are we alone? Scientists will soon have an answer, as technology advances, and changes in the universe occur.

Hundreds of planets are being discovered. Within our planet there are 8 planets that orbit the sun. Outside our solar system there are many other planets, scientists are just now becoming aware of. Since 1995 more than 500 planets have been found orbiting other stars.

One of the technologies responsible for assisting with the search for new planets is the Hubble space satellite.



In 2008, the Hubble space telescope hit its 100 000 orbit milestone. After being serviced in 1993, the telescope was restored to its intended quality. This opened the door to the universe for Nasa scientists.

It can take pictures that no other telescope in the world can. The telescope is not the first telescope in the world, but it is the largest and most accurate.



A mission launched in 2009, by Nasa to search for planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets , recently paid off. The mission uses data analyzed, through the help of over 40 000 internet users, and planet enthusiasts, collected from NASA'S Kepler mission.



Two potential exoplanets were discovered by the community of internet users, according to a study, published September 22nd, 2011, in the Monthly Notices by the Royal Astronomical Society. For further information, see Amateur Scientists Join the Hunt for New Planets.

According to new research a planet 4 times larger than the earth is orbiting, just outside our solar system. It has been dubbed Planet X.

According to reports, it is said to be 40 times further than Pluto, with winters that last for a hundred years. There are claims that the planets orbit is causing catastrophic events on earth. For more information on Planet X, and how it affects us, visit, Planet X .

New discoveries are being made all the time, due to technology, technological advances, or changes happening within the solar system.

Whatever discoveries are made, we need to let the scientists at NASA time to work them out. Nothing is fact, unless it can be proven. They will not release anything to the public domain, unless they can prove it.

Random reports from people who may have seen or heard something, is nothing to get excited about, unless it can be backed up by solid evidence, and an official report from NASA.

If there is a major planetary event, an official broadcast will be put out, and action will be taken. In the United States, the television broadcasts will be taken off the air, and a message from the president of the United States will be aired. Other leaders will follow suit.

We can only trust that the scientists and government will work together to ensure our safety.

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What's Happiness?

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Whats happiness? I don't know. Happiness means different things to different people. We all define what it means to be happy in our own way. There is no clear definition.

I don't understand what it is anymore to be happy. Too many things in my life have not gone the way I wanted.

Tomorrow is my anniversary, and my better half is in hospital. Three months ago, she nearly died from an infection. It will be another couple of months before she is out.

I am working as a cleaner in a factory, and I am barely making enough hours to get by. I am always trying to catch up with time. I wake up and it is gone, like the mist on a cloudy day.

I used to be making good money, until my job was outsourced. My significant other and I took vacations every year. We always went someplace different, and now were just getting by.

Looking back, I was happy back then, but now, nothing makes sense anymore.

Happiness is relative to the way we feel about things. It is relative to our expectations, and to what we want.

Its a very complicated thing to consider. Happiness is a state of mind. Nobody can tell you how to be happy. It is something you must find within yourself. Only you can define happiness.



As per the official definition of happiness; it can be defined as a mental or emotional state of well being, and can be characterized as positive, or pleasant emotions ranging from being content to an intense feeling of joy.

Happiness means different things to different people. For some people it is finding success in their career, or being healthy, and having a good relationship.

Finding happiness is up to you. Some people view it as a personal choice, and that you can control it, whatever your life circumstances are.



I don't take that view. I feel that it is something always just out of my reach; however, I am starting to understand, how I can make changes to bring it closer. Its something I need to work on. Being happy, that is.

Maybe, I am just happy, being unhappy. When your happy being unhappy, you really can't call yourself happy. Why does one want to be happy? Maybe because it just feels better. You decide for yourself, what it means to be happy. I don't know weather I am happy or unhappy. I don't know why I wrote this stupid blog. I guess I needed to express myself. The truth is I am happy for somethings in my life, but not others.