A new report released today by international scientists for the United Nations warns that the world is using up its natural resources too quickly and that approximately two-thirds of the earth’s ecosystems are in danger of being destroyed.
The report said that 15 of the world’s 24 major ecosystems were in decline and that unless something was done to reverse this trend, the situation will get much worse over the next half century.
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A weblog, Web log or simply a blog, contains periodic posts on a common webpage. Often, the word blog is used to describe an online diary or journal. The weblog format of an online diary makes it possible for users without much experience to create, format, and post entries with ease. People write of their day-to-day experiences, complaints, poems, prose, and more, often allowing others to contribute, fulfilling to a certain extent the original view of the World Wide Web as a collaborative medium.
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Yesterday I met a journalist named Sarah Evans, 23. She is an intern at the Town Crier group of local newspapers. She is writing an article about my new venture, Family Memories. We met at the Indigo Book Store Starbucks at Yonge and Eglinton here in Toronto. Sarah used a tape recorder to record our interview.
What is terrific about Sarah is that she has had Cerebral Palsy since she was a year old. She can only get around in a wheel chair and has difficulty moving her hands and speaking. She gets around on Wheel Trans, the Toronto Transit Commission’s service for the disabled. It’s an excellent service but she must book it 24 hours in advance.
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Today we landed our second client, the Moir family of Lindsay, Minden, and Toronto, Ontario.
Their Family Memories’ website will be at www.moir.ca.
They are especially interested in Family Memories’ video interviews with the senior members of the family.
We have had our family website up for several weeks now, www.theforemans.ca. My family have asked that it be private so it is accessible only to family members. We are now 33 descendants of my monther and late father. The latest was born yesterday.
My 18 year old niece living in Victoria, BC posted to our main blog about her University of Victoria courses and mused about her career choices. This prompted us to create a Career Blog and to ask the older cousins, in their 30’s, to write about their careers as lawyers, accountants, entrepreneurs, business people, etc to help the younger ones with their career choices.
-It gives me a deep comforting sense that all things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
-Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
-Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
-Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
-We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
-People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
-No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
-The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
-I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble…. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shove of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of the honest worker.
-I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
More Favourite Quotations
The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.
Fred Alan Wolf
More Favourite Quotations
Stop listening to everything your parents say unless they are very wise.
Stop listening to commercial messages.
Stop emulating celebrities unless they are very wise.
Start listening to your own heart and soul.
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My nephew Rob Sage, 16, asked me several questions for a school assignment about entrepreneurs.
Hey Rob,
Great questions!
Here are my answers:
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Today I am 60. What have I learned about life?
Despite the progress I’ve made I have much more work to do, a lifetime at least, just to try to reach the same understanding as some of the brightest who have gone before me.
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Communication is the key to understanding and language is the key to communication.
Without a common language it is very difficult to communicate.
Without communication there is no understanding.
Without understanding there is suspicion.
Suspicion leads to distrust.
Distrust leads to hatred.
Hatred leads to violence.
Violence leads to suffering and death.
Suffering and death lead to revenge.
Revenge leads to more suffering and death and a continuous cycle of violence.
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Last Thursday evening I attended the launch of the St. Chrisopher House Community Learning Network (CLN) website, St. Christopher House There were about 100 people and a live weblink to a U of T Professor who was in England.
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Lunch with son Ken in Toronto
We landed our first client yesterday. Not surprisingly it’s my own family. What better place to start? We are assembling the contents and will be publishing next week. We will keep you posted.
Hello Everyone,
I founded Family Memories to help families use the Internet to preserve family history, maintain strong family ties, and improve communications between family members who live far apart.
The Internet is a wonderful tool for decreasing distance. Families are able to almost replicate the way life was generations ago when most family members lived within easy visiting distance.
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A Tribute to Jean’s Marines (Slideshow)
Toronto
Rick Jackson’s Surprise Party Aug 14, 2005
Gay Pride Parade
Charles Knox Brown 1927-2005
Dyke March
Black Watch Annual Christmas Luncheon
After Dark
Internet Technology Meetup May 11, 2005
Springtime
Ontario Prayer Breakfast May 4, 2005
Little Redstone Lake
Montreal, April, 2005
The Thousand Islands
The Simpsons & Vaughans, April 2005
The Marginal Way
The Two Bettys in Cuba
Maine
Bev’s Birthday
British Columbia
My Birthday February 2005
Mount Royal
Cross Country Skiing in Lindsay
Flowers
The Morrissey’s
Westmount Park
The Berys
Other
Christmas Eve in Rosedale
James Fukuhara
Sivananda Yoga Centre
St. Christopher House Volunteer Meeting
Scotia Bankers
Harbour Cruise
Generations
The Moirs
St. Christopher House Community Sweep
The Foremans at Gananoque
Catherine Goodfellow / Darryl Lunn Wedding
St. Christopher House "Pictures for Life"
The Simpsons at Little Redstone Lake
The Goodfellows at Gananoque
The Bell Walk for Kids
Family & Friends in Toronto
The Foremans & Friends over the years
France
British Columbia
The Whiff of Grape
Posters
Grand-Mère
The Gignacs
The Montreal Triathlon
Halloween Party
Dick Bourne’s Free Lunch
The Royal Montreal Golf Club
Cross country skiing at Val Morin
A Robin Leach-style house tour starring Owen and including singing, guitar playing & dancing. (Audio & Video, very little editing needed or done).
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