http://www.jccc.on.ca/calendar/view_entry.php?id=290&date=20090530
A special thanks to my reader “Nobi” for letting me know about this.
Saturday May 30, 2009 is the 100th birthday of the great clarinetist Benny Goodman.
On that day Gene Dinovi will present the Benny Goodman Centennial Orchestra playing selections from “The Sound of Music”and Goodman favourites, including Let’s Dance, Memories of You, Don’t be that [...]
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“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” — Winston Churchill (from a House of Commons speech on Nov. 11, 1947)
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/massey.html
The 2008 Massey Lecture – Payback by Margaret Atwood is available for listening via streaming.
Atwood deals with the moral and social aspects of debt and finance. This timely lecture series is both thought provoking and insightful.
Interesting Quote:
(From Lecture 3)
“Put a miller, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag, and shake them, the first that [...]
PDF Version: AncientInjustice.pdf
Growing up, my Jewish education consisted of an after school program (‘cheider’ to the Yiddish inclined) while I attended public school by day. On my walk to Hebrew School I would often try to marry the two bodies of knowledge from the two respective school systems. A happy romance occurred around 1987 between [...]
“Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.” – Marshall McLuhan
(From “Take Today: The Executive as Dropout (1972)”, page 92.)
