The song contains what Jennings considers one of Ligthtfoot’s best lyrics: “You can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train.” On such days, he is said to have gone to the airport to watch the planes take off. Lightfoot studied jazz composition at a college in Los Angeles, CA., but often felt homesick for Orillia, Ont. In 1964, Lightfoot wrote “ Early Morning Rain” – a song that remains one of his top hits to this day. Lightfoot’s biographer, Nicholas Jennings, chose five of the musician’s songs and told CTV News Toronto about their histories. “The world has lost one of its most profound voices, but his songs will play on and his soul will always be found at Massey Hall,” Kumagai said. He made more than 170 appearances at the historic Toronto venue. He penned more than 500 of them, each one telling an honest story, both personal and universal, paired with the “chime of his twelve-string guitar and the iconic timbre of his voice,” Jesse Kumagai, President and Chief Executive Officer of Massey Hall, told CTV News Toronto. Gordon Lightfoot’s prolific songs are likened to anthems in Canada.
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These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age. Einstein was a rebel and nonconformist from boyhood days, and these character traits drove both his life and his science. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.īased on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk-a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate-became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. Ice Massacre is told from the first person perspective of Meela, a strong but conflicted young woman determined to do her duty and fight for her people. When they find each other again in the midst of battle, they must each decide what is right, what is wrong, and who they truly owe their loyalty to. As they grow up to be warriors in the never-ending battle, they learn the hate and fear of their species, but they are never quite able to forget the love they felt for each other as children. When their relationship is discovered, they are torn apart, each believing the other betrayed their friendship. Two girls, a human named Meela and a mermaid named Lysithea, secretly befriend each other despite the blind hate that exists between their peoples. Most years, the ship does not return, the warriors lost to the sea demons they so desperately need to defeat. The supernatural twist adds an element that makes the story fresh and thoroughly entertaining.Įach year, the people of Eriana Kwai send a ship of highly trained warriors to kill as many mermaids as they can. The story revolves around classic themes of friendship and loyalty juxtaposed against ignorance and fear, and the book is thought provoking and intelligent. Ice Massacre is an engaging fantasy novel about the human inhabitants of a small island and their ongoing battle with the merpeople who live in the arctic waters surrounding them. Finalist, Young Adult Fiction (Children's)įrom page one, this story transports its audience into the dark waters of the Atlantic with its engaging, conflicted main characters. 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Another fantastic account by Walter Isaacson of science achievement that surpasses the appeal of science fiction. Along with this exciting recount of the CRISPR revelation, the reader is challenged to consider the moral issues raised by this new opportunity to manipulate genetic factors and how it can and will be used. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, written by historian and journalist Walter Isaacson, is a profile of 2020. And while science researchers thrive on curiosity, they also require the human applause through recognition and awards. Through interviews with Nobel coawardee Emmanuelle Charpentier, and other biologists such as James Watson, Eric Lander, George Church, Feng Zhang….and so many others Isaacson shows how both cooperation and competition are integral elements of scientific research. Starting with Nobel awardee Jennifer Doudna, the author probes her background and training, trying to identify the essence of her scientific talent. It is the engrossing recount of the many global scientists who participated in the development of the CRISPR device which is the key to manipulating the genetic nucleic acids. Short chapters illustrated with photos of the scientists or topics discussed comfortably convey the reader into the fantasy world of science. Walter Isaacson is a master storyteller, a talent he so remarkable displays in this story of the conception, birth, and progression of the CRISPR phenomenon. (Please let us know if you see this).Ģ) Do NOT dox anyone or post any of their personal information.ģ) Do NOT ridicule or shame anyone for their gender/sex or sexual orientation. 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Building once more on the core works of The Rational Male(R) by Rollo Tomassi, Positive Masculinity is a supplemental reading in a series designed to give men, not a prescription, but actionable information to build better lives for themselves based on realistic and objective intersexual dynamics between men and women. No Personal Information / No Doxxing / No Involuntary Pornography Building once more on the core works of The Rational Male(R) by Rollo Tomassi, Positive Masculinity is a supplemental reading in a series designed to give men, not a prescription, but actionable information to build better lives for themselves based on realistic and objective intersexual dynamics between men and women.Rational and pragmatic, the book outlines four key themes: Red Pill. 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