Time for a 2012 Tune-up? Barbara Garro

Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc., said, Our only cleverness was in the perception of what was happening, and in being quick enough to take advantage of it.   Seriously into 2012, have you thought of giving your leadership a mental tuneup? What am I talking about? Give your whole year so far a going [...]

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1. 2012: Keeping the Backside In the Chair
2. Saving Ontario Place
3. Arts Funding Revisited – The Pitch
4. Transcendental Meditation

Dreams Jack Eason

Ever had a dream that woke you up frustrated and angry? I did the other night. In my dream I was standing inside my favourite bookshop back in Hamilton, the city I lived  in for forty two years in New Zealand. I could clearly see the whole interior. The shop in question was long and [...]

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1. Latin Dreams
2. Getting Too Darned Big
3. With the Passing of Time
4. Lucy! You Got Some ‘Splainin To Do!

Heard from Jack Recently? Jack Eason

In this day and age the vast majority of the Western world uses the internet on a daily basis. We all do it. We keep in touch with one another electronically. There was a time when we used to physically visit each other, sit down face to face over a cup of tea or coffee, [...]

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1. Friends, Oh Really?
2. Interview with Author Jack Eason
3. England’s Lost Tradition
4. Paying Lip Service

A Most Unlikely Hero Alan Place

The summers of 1975-77 will be remembered by myself and older fans of the willow (cricket) as the days when a bespectacled 34 year old Northamptonshire batsman stood tall against what was probably the best bowling attacks in the world of cricket since the days of Wes Hall, Charlie Griffiths, Ray Lindwall & Kieth Miller. [...]

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1. Paying Lip Service
2. England’s Lost Tradition
3. England – The Not So Caring Society in the 21st Century
4. Did You Forget?

To Have, Or Not To Have, That Is The Question Jack Eason

A few days ago, I was chatting to a dear friend of mine who lives on the opposite side of the world from myself. During our discussion he mentioned that he was looking for another job. When I asked why, he said his current employer was not paying him enough. I wished him luck in [...]

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1. A Question Of Packaging
2. It Begs The Question…
3. To Kindle, Or Not To Kindle, That Is The Question
4. Dreams

Arts Funding Revisited – The Pitch authorpaulcollins

The old arts funding model in Canada must change because it only benefits those who are connected.   The government should not fund the author, musician, or filmmaker. The the rules are rewritten, the government can actually save money and stimulate an industry, or the economy itself. How? In the past Oprah, or Simon, would [...]

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1. Saving Ontario Place
2. Time for a 2012 Tune-up?
3. RIM Bashing
4. Slippery Grease Or Slippery Greece

Friends, Oh Really? Jack Eason

Unless you have been living in a remote cave somewhere on your own, divorced from the world of the internet and therefore unaware of the phenomena of online friends, the whole concept probably baffles you as much as it does me. Many of the social media sites, particularly Facebook, actively encourage you to collect friends [...]

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1. Virtual Friendship or Noble Friends On Facebook
2. Heard from Jack Recently?
3. Seeking Friends
4. Get Your Friends to Respect and Appreciate You

Easter 1966 Alan Place

In the bye-gone era, when footballers were local players and the £1 million tag was never heard of. Yes, you read that right. Here is a short story to demonstrate how pampered today’s players are in comparison. Back in those days, players travelled in the team coach, a few lucky ones had private cars. There [...]

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1. Elasticated Easter Eggs
2. High School Football and One More $ Please!
3. An Easter Tale – The Women at the Empty Tomb
4. Another Tragedy @ Notre Dame

Judith Polgar: Queen among the Kings Andrew J. Sacks

When Vera Menchik dominated women’s chess in the late 1920s and through the ‘30s, she was thought to be almost a type of chess anomaly that could never be repeated.  So strong a player she was that she was invited to and participated in a number of Grandmaster men’s tournaments, scoring respectably.  Her dominance of [...]

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Can We Really Afford Politicians Anymore? Jack Eason

What is it with this latest crop of politicians? What part of the fact that a growing section of society simply cannot cope financially any more, don’t they seem to get? Do they even care? In this so-called United Kingdom of ours, more and more people are now classified as living in ‘fuel poverty’. We’re [...]

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1. The End is Nigh!
2. Slippery Grease Or Slippery Greece
3. A European Conundrum
4. Saving Ontario Place

A Question for Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich authorpaulcollins

I would like to ask Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich a question. Up until now, the Republican Party has talked about fighting the deficit without tax increases.  Since 2008, they have also fought US health reform while the rest of us in world actually have a free universal healthcare system which is not the best, but [...]

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1. To Kindle, Or Not To Kindle, That Is The Question
2. A Question Of Packaging
3. It Begs The Question…
4. To Have, Or Not To Have, That Is The Question

With the Passing of Time Jack Eason

There once was a time in the western world when the older generation was cared for, cherished; looked to for guidance and advice. No more it seems! In a hundred years from now, who will remember you or me? The simple answer to that question is – probably no one. Does it really matter? No [...]

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1. How I Know It Is Time To Go Back To Work
2. Adoption: It’s About Time!
3. The Curse of Time
4. Time for a 2012 Tune-up?