The most important leadership lesson I learned from Sir Earnest Shackleton became his ability to keep his fists, heart and mind from becoming clenched tight. Why has Sir Earnest Shackleton been called the greatest leader the world has ever known? Authors of Shackleton’s Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer, Margot Morrell and Stephanie [...]
Concerned volunteers are now sending letters to key politicians to help save Ontario Place. Several months ago, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the closure of Ontario Place, which is a historical landmark. Plans are now under way to replace this public space with a privately run casino. Presently, a lot of concerned citizens are mobilizing to [...]
All of you, all of you, all of you: shut up, stop what you’re doing and listen to me! “Dan, have you gone insane?” No. Well, maybe. But you’re all looking at it all wrong. All of it! “What?” Computers; programming; everything! “You have gone insane!” No. Well, maybe. But I’m right, and that’s the [...]
Artist/Teacher Barbara Garro says, Seeing with an Artist’s Eyes, looks for the art beyond expectation, the invisible life in the visible. I intend to bless the world when I paint an image as well as to bring blessings to the image. Each framed painting becomes a child, a real, living breathing entity. Cézanne is quoted [...]
Another innocent is lost. Aliahna Lemmon went missing while being baby-sat, along with her two sisters, by neighbor and close family friend, Mike Plumadore. Aliahna was eventually found. Her little body was dismembered, her hand, feet, and head, the body parts that could identify an individual, found in Plumadore’s freezer. Other body parts were deposited into [...]
Have you ever thought about that exorbitant power bill you receive from your energy provider? What exactly are you paying for? We are all being browbeaten into reducing the amount of electricity we use in our homes, and yet the bills keep on rising – why? Couldn’t be mere greed on the part of our [...]
Further to my piece on bogus mission statements comes the equally bogus notion of your personal carbon footprint. Once well meaning, but sadly deluded scientists, had convinced their respective governments of their mistaken belief that somehow man was responsible for global warming, governments and big business immediately began devising ways of making money by praying [...]
With the end of the NASA shuttle programme, sadly we have seen the end of any serious manned space flights for many a year to come. In the meantime, private companies are being encouraged to plug the gap, while NASA’s astronauts are reduced to using Russian 1960′s technology to carry out crew changes and maintenance [...]
Certainly a game featuring a specific number of pieces, which move (although variously in their functions) in a limited number of ways, on a board of 64 squares only, must be finite in its possibilities of variation. The number of legal positions and of potential differently played games simply must be absolute and measurable. All [...]
Despite the countless fictional time travelling scenarios on offer these days and in the recent past via science fiction novels, short stories, along with film, radio and television like the excellent Dr Who series, are we meant to be able to travel in time? If it became possible in the future, how would time travel [...]
