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THE LIFE FLIGHT RESCUE HELICOPTER at cruising speed uses 300 litres of fuel an hour. It costs $138 for the fuel for a straight forward rescue trip to the South Wairarapa. Mitre 10 is a major sponsor of the Life Flight Trust.
AUCKLAND has less tree cover than Jacarta, Seoul or Shanghai and has higher levels of TPM2.5, two toxic compounds emitted by combustion engines. These compounds are absorbed by the lungs into the bloodstream to
’affect respiratory and cardiovascular systems and the central nervous system.
‘BLESSED IS the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact’ – George Elliot
FORMER NEW YORK Mayor Michael Bloomberg has put $ 756 million (NZ) into an effort to bypass the Federal Government and combat climate change. ”We are in a race against time with climate change. Mother Nature is not waiting on our political calendar and neither can we” he said.
INFLATION SEEMS to be alive and well. The Reserve Bank Inflation Index show that a basket of everyday goods costing $100 in the year 2000 now costs $149.00
THE CRUISE SHIP Harmony of the seas was launched last year. It is sixteen stories high and carries 6,780 passengers and a crew of 2,100. It burns cheap low sulphur fuel which is 100 times more emission than more expensive road diesel. Twenty six million people went on a ship cruise last year.
YOU CAN HAVE friends or you can correct people’s grammar’ – Mary Norris
New Yorker copy editor.
A INFORMATION COMPANY Britain Thinks examination of the Nation’s confidence levels and views uncovered a deep pessimism and extraordinary distrust of politicians. 74% of those surveyed said that they did not trust the political system of considered it fit for purpose. 72% considered that politicians were not interested in the people’s wishes. Only 21% said they would have faith in the next Prime Minister.
‘THE RADIOACTIVE decay of xenon-124 has been observed. With a half-life of a trillion times the age of the universe, it makes watching paint dry an extreme sport.’ – from ‘the New scientist’
‘WHEN I PICK out a bottle of wine , I like to look at the label, check the origin, note the year and then buy whatever is under $15 and has a nice picture on it’. musician Brad Walsh
The deadline for the August Star is Wednesday 31st July
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