According to the Charlotte Observer… As head of the Boone-based Samaritan’s Purse, Graham earned more last year than any other leader of an international relief agency based in the United States. That includes eight with larger budgets, according to data compiled by Guidestar, a group that monitors nonprofits. Graham, 57, and his two boards of [...]
October, 2009:
Seizure
Today’s events started innocently enough yesterday. I was planning to stock up some office supplies at the Front Desk at the Centre and was going through the Staples/Corporate Express catalog. I made my notes and realized that instead of making our Exec Assistant’s life miserable, I would just run to Office Depot and get them [...]
How different are dog fighting and professional football?
Malcolm Gladwell asks some uncomfortable questions about America’s Game. At the core of the C.T.E. research is a critical question: is the kind of injury being uncovered by McKee and Omalu incidental to the game of football or inherent in it? Part of what makes dogfighting so repulsive is the understanding that violence and injury [...]
Nomadic Dwellings
Folie/Culture presents: Nomadic Dwellings Performances throughout Saskatoon: October 20th to 23rd, 2009 Opening with artists in attendance: October 23rd at 7pm Quebec-based activist art group Folie/Culture, presents the architectural project Nomadic Dwellings in Saskatoon beginning October 20th, 2009. Began in 2007, the project calls on architects and artists to conceive nomadic dwellings for itinerants. The [...]
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Barack Obama becomes third sitting president to win the Nobel Peace Prize Stalin’s grandson sues Russian newspaper to protect dictator’s reputation :: You know, because Joesph Stalin had such a stellar reputation to begin with. How the Oakland Raiders are ruining JaMarcus Russell and how JaMarcus Russell is ruining himself :: Last weekend, CBS analyst [...]
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Bureaucrats objected to the “Canada’s Action Plan” advertising as being partisan :: The Privy Council Office, the non-partisan bureaucratic arm of the Prime Minister’s Office, has never been comfortable administering the website for the Economic Action Plan — and informed Harper of its misgivings at the time of last January’s federal budget. Don Martin does [...]
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How to get in touch with terrorist groups and buy al Qaeda-related coffee mugs. Explaining why others will benefit more if we stay in Afghanistan and eventually succeed. Unbeknownst to 85 percent of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge trials have begun. Wendy wants me to build this bed. I am not so convinced. I am digging these [...]
It’s alive
I am not sure what happened but I accidently let JordonCooper.com expire. I went to immediately renew it but somehow I ended up purchasing jordoncooper.org and never did renew jordoncooper.com. Today I realized what happened and now I have two domain names. I am trying to decide if I should just have jordoncooper.org redirect to [...]
Email Newsletter
For years I ran an e-mail newsletter as a part of this website. Over the years the need for some semi-private forms of communication decreased but lately I have realized there are some things I would like to talk about that don’t need to be a part of the Google Collective. If you are interested [...]
Here Comes the Irish
I saw this today and thought it was spectacular. Not only because I am a Notre Dame football fan but because I loved the video production. There was only a couple of cameras used and while the audio capture is tremendous, I was wondering why more churches, seminaries, and colleges aren’t using YouTube more to [...]
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Wendy posted our 2009 Summer Playlist just in time for snow to fall on Saskatoon (probably tonight) The death of the intellectual generalist :: The question is whether their loss has affected the course of human thought. Polymaths possess something that monomaths do not. Time and again, innovations come from a fresh eye or from [...]
