Centripetal Force

This is a compendium of quotes and observations to share with you. Look for geopolitics, China, the environment and oh yes, sports, to rear their ugly heads here. It takes a tug from the centre to capture the multitude of goings on around the globe.

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Friend-Shoring

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English remains the lingua franca of the world for a number of reasons, not least its willingness to dynamically keep on adding contrived wo...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Col. John McCrae's Tomb, Wimereux, France

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Remembrance Day Commemoration in Niagara on the Lake, 2022

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Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Bethune Parallels With Ukraine

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Europe has seen no conflict like that in Ukraine in 80 years, harkening back to World War II. Sure enough in the interim there have been t...
Thursday, March 04, 2021

Spike Proteins

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 Traditional vaccines are produced from actual viruses grown most often in chicken eggs. Viruses are then weakened or killed and injected di...

Messenger RNA

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 Messenger RNA  Developments in science which came to fruition in 2020 have brought a revolution to medicine. 2020 will be looked upon as ...
Friday, December 04, 2020

Anna Karenina

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Here is a literary book review of the Leo Tolstoy classic Anna Karenina. This review is short and sweet but hopefully to the point. To s...
Monday, October 19, 2020

5. PARS

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As the team bus swung onto the by-pass in distinguished East End Dunfermline on the way to Glasgow, the driver simultaneously turned on th...
Friday, October 09, 2020

6. Bearsden

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  Meanwhile back at the ranch, well the suburb of north Glasgow in which Tiny resided at any rate, summer was advancing. He had departed Dep...

7. Frothy's

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  Frothy’s Tea and Biscuits hadn’t witnessed such a rambunctious clientele since the Boat Race in the spring. On that occasion the annex wit...

8. Jinky

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It came about like this and it is a convoluted thread, don’t change the channel. Jinky was living in a beautifully landscaped property in ...

9. The Aces

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It came to Lilliput while she was in the chiropodist’s clinic. Arsenal at tea the previous evening had expressed his disappointment caused...
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Colin Old
For the first few years of life I scampered around "The Rock", aka Newfoundland and within a stone's throw of the most easterly tip of North America. Then it was off to the British Isles for an education with subsequent stops in France and even China for six months. Currently I call the cottage country north of Toronto home. I have retired from working at Bethune Memorial House National Historic Site of Canada. Our old visitor centre (demolished in July 2011) was once the residence of the most penalized player in the National Hockey League, Howie Young. Put em up there young whippersnapper and let an old dog teach you new tricks!
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