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Golf 2010
Paul Summerville • December 30, 2010

My 2010 golf season has come to conclusion with my handicap settling at 8.

Without a doubt this was the most enjoyable golf season I have had since I took up the game in the summer of 1995, then mostly to ensure high ratings in the annual polls of Bay Street analysts.

I wanted to share some of my thoughts about what I learned about golf this season.

Picture by Simon W.

What I learned this year falls into four categories: how to enjoy the game; how to play the game; how to get better scores, and the importance of putting out.

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If speaking the truth is offensive, so let us offend
Lauryn Oates • July 19, 2010

From my article today in Butterflies & Wheels, responding to the op-ed by Aruna Papp, author of the recently released “Culturally-driven violence against women: A growing problem in Canada’s immigrant communities” and to the 2007 honour killing of Aqsa Parvez in Mississauga, Ontario.

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Remembering Japanese Kanji (1)
Paul Summerville • November 7, 2009

After struggling mightly for 6 months trying to learn Japanese kanji (the Japanese system of writing based on borrowed or modified Chinese characters) I happened to bump into a fellow student on a bus ride. I had never worked harder with less success, he had never worked harder with more. Needing about 1,500 characters to read a book I had mastered about 250 characters and found it more difficult to add characters while he had mastered over 1,000 and was finding it easier to add more.

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Rod Carley - Winning Competition Lecture - Adapting Shakespeare Within a Modern Canadian Context
Paul Summerville • November 4, 2009

http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?video?BL_Lecture_20090411_838235_RCarley

Really enjoyable lecture about how Shakespeare fit his stories to fit the times and invites the audience to keep the tradition going in Canada. Worth a watch if only to enjoy the enthusiasm Professor Carely has for his topic.

 

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