(MBB Radio) – The SpenserNation which is a series of children’s books by Author Melanie Brooks was selected as a Pepsi Refresh Project finalist with voting happening this month and ending on Jan. 31, 2011. Vote Here, and you can vote up to 10 times a day. A quote from a release states “The series is up for the $250,000 category giving SpenserNation much opportunity to help feed those less fortunate. Feel free to share this link with family, friends, and co-workers to vote for SpenserNation, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your support to feed hungry children throughout America.”...more…
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SpenserNation Series selected as a Pepsi Refresh Finalist
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
United States Senate moves on food safety bill…finally
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010THE HILL – Almost a year to the day after a unanimous committee vote, a long-stalled bill to promote food safety is poised for Senate passage within a week. The bill by Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) passed the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on Nov. 18, 2009, with a 16-0 bipartisan vote. It had already passed the House in July 2009 on a 283-142 vote. But it was then forced onto the Senate’s back burner while the upper…more…
Carniverous ‘monster’ fish had fist-sized teeth
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010(DISCOVERY NEWS & MSNBC) – The world’s largest lungfish tooth was recently unveiled at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa. The tooth belonged to a carnivorous “monster” of a fish that…more…