An occasional Newsletter from Preserved Stories.
Hal Roth of Brown University has shared a comment (please see below) regarding the previous version of the current post. He wrote: I am a co-author of the above study. The Press summary of the study is seriously erroneous and incredibly oversimplified. The Study did NOT conclude that men were not affected by studying mindfulness […]
A previous post is entitled: Message from Lakeshore Planning Council regarding air traffic noise in Markland Woods, Alderwood, and Long Branch I attended part of the April 19, 2017 Community Environment and Noise Advisory Committee (CENAC) meeting at the GTAA Administration Building at 3111 Convair Drive in Mississauga. The previous post (above) features key information […]
The Lakeshore Planning Council has on April 19, 2017 shared the following message: We signed in for the Community Environment and Noise Advisory Committee (CENAC) meeting this evening [April 19, 2017] and obtained the following information. (1) Use of the Pearson North/South runway, which has precipitated recent aircraft noise over Alderwood and Long Branch, is […]
When we speak of military leadership we are speaking of the management of organized violence. A random thought, that has occurred to me, concerns the inter-connectedness of all things. What follows are some additional, accumulated random thoughts. Vladimir Putin and Erving Goffman I have a keen interest in the discussion in Mr. Putin: Operative in […]
This post concerns three books: The Moth, First Edition (2014) Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (2015) Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, First U.S. Edition. (2016) Each of these books focuses – with a high level of skill and originality – on the context of people’s lives and formative experiences, and the context […]
I have an interest in learning about the First Nations history of Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey). The human story of the area, where I have lived for 20 years, began about 10,000 years ago when Palaeo-Indian nomadic hunters first arrived in Southern Ontario at the end of the last Ice Age. After the arrival […]
Updates Please refer to more recent posts: Message from Lakeshore Planning Council regarding air traffic noise in Markland Wood, Alderwood, and Long Branch MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Etobicoke Centre) spoke most eloquently at the April 19, 2017 GTAA Air Traffic Noise meeting A late-April 2017 CTV news report is entitled: “Runway construction at Pearson leads to […]
Update At the May 2, 2017 EYCC meeting – Intent to Designate the Vincent Massey School in Long Branch was DEFERRED for the second time – Intent to Designate the Blue Goose/Windsor House was ADOPTED The intent to designate the Blue Goose/Windsor House will now travel to full Toronto City Council on May 24, 2017 […]
In the course of my life, I have been inspired by decency, honesty, fairness, and genuine (as opposed to fake) justice. It’s been my observation that the pursuit of such qualities as decency, honesty, and so on, appeals to some more than to others. Thus I must say that I was very moved – tears […]