Month: August 2005
Saturday, August 27
7:00AM; Ran 21 KM in 2h 40m at the Beaches
Thursday, August 25
6:15AM: Ran 11 km in 88 minutes
Tuesday, August 23
6:25am: ran the hills (7x) in the cemetery, time: 50 minutes.
Saturday, August 20
7am
Ran 19km in 2h 24 minutes:
Edwards Gardens, Lawrence Ave east to Victoria Park,
North to Shepherd,
West to Bayview,
South to Post,
Return to Edward’s Gardens
Thursday, August 18
6:45am, ran 10k+ in 77 minutes
(we always run 10 minutes and walk 1)
Tuesday, August 16
7pm, hill training at Sherwood park (5x) 45 minutes
English can be strange!
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tlotl mses and you can sitll raed it wiuthot porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe, and the biran fguiers it out aynawy. WOW! Thuohgt you wulod lkie tihs one.
Saturday, August 13
7am, ran 16km in 1 hour 55 mins, at The Beaches
Thursday, August 11
6:30am, ran 8km in 60 minutes
Tuesday, August 9
Hill training at Sherwood Park, 7:30pm 45 minutes
The Idea of a Local Economy
by Wendell Berry, www.oriononline.org
LET US BEGIN BY ASSUMING what appears to be true: that the so-called “environmental crisis” is now pretty well established as a fact of our age. The problems of pollution, species extinction, loss of wilderness, loss of farmland, loss of topsoil may still be ignored or scoffed at, but they are not denied. Concern for these problems has acquired a certain standing, a measure of discussability, in the media and in some scientific, academic, and religious institutions.
This is good, of course; obviously, we can¹t hope to solve these problems without an increase of public awareness and concern. But in an age burdened with “publicity,” we have to be aware also that as issues rise into popularity they rise also into the danger of oversimplification. To speak of this danger is especially necessary in confronting the destructiveness of our relationship to nature, which is the result, in the Þrst place, of gross oversimplification.
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Into Grim Air (Comment to Author)
From: Ron Foreman [ron@ronforeman.com]
Sent: August 7, 2005 2:59 PM
To: ‘ibrown@globeandmail.com’
Cc: Barbara Foreman (light.wave@shaw.ca)
Subject: Aug 6 – July 1970 Air Canada crash
Hi Ian,
I enjoyed your article “Into Grim Air” but I think the crash occurred on a Sunday not a Monday.
I was living in Montreal and my sister was flying to British Columbia (where she has been ever since.) At the time a ticket to Vancouver allowed you to embark from either Montreal or Toronto so when she was offered a lift to Toronto a few days before with friends she took it. However she forgot her ticket at home and asked me to go to the airport and make arrangements to replace it. I was at the Air Canada ticket counter in Dorval airport on that beautiful sunny Sunday morning, July 5, 1970. I assume that I was surrounded by the passengers and crew who boarded that flight.
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Into Grim Air
Despite this week’s close call at the Toronto airport, statistics confirm that flying is the safest form of travel. But try telling that to your irrational mind.
By IAN BROWN
Saturday, August 6, 2005, The Toronto Globe and Mail, Updated at 10:00 AM EDT
No casualties. That was a good breath out, when the news came two hours after the Air France Airbus A-340 slid off the runway in Toronto this week — though it must have been terrifying to be in that plane, the smoke, the fire, the pushing, the non-opening slides under the emergency doors, the slides you seldom think about even during the safety presentation at the beginning of the flight.
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Troubled youth find an open ear online
By JILL MAHONEY
Monday, August 1, 2005 Updated at 9:18 AM EDT
From Monday’s Globe and Mail
A closeted teenage bisexual, EmotionalRollerCoaster is clearly tormented. Not only does he “sometimez” hate himself, he despises gays.
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Saturday, August 6
7am: ran 13 km in 96 minutes
Thursday, August 4
6:30am: ran 10 km in 70 minutes
Fossil fuels
I’ve just finished reading “The Long Emergency” by James Howard Kunstler. Thanks to Tim Schlitzer for recommending it. It has changed the way I view the world. I used to think our very comfortable standard of living (when compared to our ancestors and most of our contemporaries) was based on the efforts and achievements of our predecessors, the result of linear human progress which would continue well into the future barring nuclear war or environmental degradation. This gave me hope that humans would overcome the challenges of war, terrorism, climate change, etc.
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Tuesday, August 2
7:30pm: Ran almost 6km in 38 minutes at North Toronto School track
Saturday, July 30
9am: ran 18 km in 144 minutes from Davis Lake to Kinmount and back