The Mortgage Protector is the result of being in the Life Insurance business since 1996. My very first policy was to a young family who had taken out a mortgage insurance product through the bank – and they asked me what the difference was. I told them honestly that I didn’t know – but I [...]
By Isaac Asimov -
What is intelligence, anyway?
When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me.
(It [...]
Keeley says ” GO Canada GO “
Special thanks to the RCMP ( Canada’s Finest ) for this special photo opportunity with the Olympic Torch Relay Team at Blue Mountain. Also special thanks to the Olympic Torch Relay Team for the Olympic Pin. Keeley was thrilled, which makes her Dad very happy.
From Athens to Blue Mountain, on its way to Vancouver!
Live a unique moment in our lifetime as the Olympic Torch Relay passes through Blue Mountain Resort on December 29th, 2009.The Olympic Flame will then continue its journey, visiting 1037 Canadian communities and places of interest before reaching Vancouver, host city of the 2010 Olympic Winter [...]
Go Canada Go
DECEMBER 29, 2009 – 7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.
Followed by BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS (by donation)
(Pancake Breakfast)
Meaford Arena
followed by free skate
Olympic Torches – $2.00
Let’s welcome our Olympic entourage by
Lining Sykes Street with the glow of the Olympic Torches
Available for purchase at:
Chamber of Commerce, Municipality Office
Foodland, Muxlow [...]
Once again, The Times Magazine looks back on the past year from our favored perch: ideas. Like a magpie building its nest, we have hunted eclectically, though not without discrimination, for noteworthy notions of 2009 — the twigs and sticks and shiny paper scraps of human ingenuity, which, when collected and woven together, form a [...]
In late October 2007, as the financial markets were starting to come unglued, a Goldman Sachs trader, Jonathan M. Egol, received very good news. At 37, he was named a managing director at the firm.
Mr. Egol, a Princeton graduate, had risen to prominence inside the bank by creating mortgage-related securities, named Abacus, that were at [...]
January 16, 2010
One of rock’n’roll’s greatest pioneers was Roy Orbison. Not many people can make claim to a tribute to such a magnificent songwriter, and musician. It takes a very gifted person to re-create the mystical, emotional, almost hypnotic presence that was Roy Orbison’s. Over the span of the past ten years, the name Mike [...]
by Michelle Goldberg -
The late Oral Roberts did as much to shape modern Christianity as any preacher. Michelle Goldberg on how he married God and mammon—and the disciples who carry on his “prosperity gospel” today.
In her deliciously scabrous book Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, Barbara Ehrenreich [...]
Step up and fill the gap this season. The Daily Beast finds 20 last minute ways to give back, from donating your frequent flier miles to helping teachers buy classroom supplies.
1. Answer a Child’s Letter to Santa
How it works: If you’re too old to write wishful letters to Santa Claus but miss taking part in [...]
Former staffers of lawmakers from Harry Reid to Mitch McConnell push clients’ agenda
WASHINGTON – David Nexon had a big problem. An early version of national health care legislation contained a $40 billion tax aimed squarely at members of the medical device trade association he represents.
When Senate Democrats unveiled their bill in mid-November, Nexon’s handiwork was [...]
For people whose lives were wrecked last year by Cyclone Nargis, it can take a long time to pick up the pieces and start looking to the future. But 20-year-old Aye Aye Thin has managed. She’s driving her community’s recovery forward by helping rebuild a key road. Watch video
YANGON – The village where Aye Aye [...]
WFP’s SAFE stove project sets out primarily to reduce the amount of time women in two African countries spend looking for firewood and hence to reduce the chance that they will be attacked or raped. At the same time, the project will also offer a concrete way of protecting the environment from desertification.
Focus on Uganda
Women [...]
We are as much a resource for teachers as we are an outlet for teachers to make change in the world. Through the collective power of this very passionate group of professionals, we teachers are positively changing the lives of students–not just students in our own classrooms, but around the world.
As a teacher-run organization, we mandate [...]
Danish police made around 250 arrests in Copenhagen Wednesday morning as an organized demonstration against the U.N. climate talks converged on the Bella Center ahead of crucial negotiations at the COP15 summit.
Kristina Larsen, a spokeswoman for Climate Justice Action (CJA) — the group organizing the protest — told CNN that police have used pepper spray [...]
