Philip-Jon Haarsma /ˈhɑrzmɑː/, more commonly known as PJ Haarsma, is a Canadian born science fiction author best known for his creation of the Rings of Orbis universe, which encompasses The Softwire series of books. Haarsma created a free, online role-playing game, also called the Rings of Orbis, set in the same universe. Both the book-series and the game target young, often reluctant readers in an attempt to encourage them by rewarding them for reading.
Haarsma developed a school presentation program in which he discusses The Softwire books,astronomy, and other science fiction and science fact topics. He is also one of the co-founders of Kids Need to Read, a United States Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) tax exempt public charity that purchases books to donate to underfunded schools and libraries.
Personal life[edit source | edit]Philip-Jon Haarsma was born on June 5, 1964, in Georgetown, Ontario. Though he was named after his grandfathers, Philip and Jon, he went simply by "Jon" while growing up. Later, while attending McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree, he began to use his initials, "PJ", and his books are published under the name "PJ Haarsma".
After he moved to the United States in 1989, Haarsma worked as a fashion and commercial photographer in New York City and Miami. He received many photography awards, including an honorable mention at the Cannes Lion Awards in 1996. Haarsma owned a small production company called Redbear Films, Inc. The company produced one movie (Devious Beings, 2002) and several corporate ads for clients such as Hewlett Packard and Nokia. For 15 years, Redbear Films focused on the production of advertisements.
Haarsma lives in Los Angeles with his wife, sci-fi fantasy artist Marisa Grieco, and their daughter Skylar.
John Martin Cummins (born March 12, 1942) is a Canadian politician. He is currently the leader of theBritish Columbia Conservative Party. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding ofDelta—Richmond East in British Columbia.
Born in Georgetown, Ontario, he was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1993 election, as aReform Party member. He was re-elected in 1997, 2000 (as a member of the Canadian Alliance), 2004,2006, and 2008 (as a Conservative).
Education[edit source | edit]Cummins obtained a bachelor’s degree from the University of Western Ontario where he attendedKing's University College and a master’s degree from the University of British Columbia.
Before politics[edit source | edit]Before entering politics, Cummins worked in the pulp and paper industry in Ontario, the oil fields ofAlberta and on the construction of the Bennett hydroelectric dam in Northern BC. He taught school in the Northwest Territories and in the Peace River district of Northern Alberta, then spent fifteen years teaching in Delta, British Columbia. Cummins is also a commercial fisherman; he owned and operated commercial fishing boats in BC for over 20 years.
Politics[edit source | edit]As a Member of Parliament, Cummins served twice as party critic for Fisheries and Oceans, in addition to his work on various other House of Commons and Joint Committees.
On October 19, 2010, Bill Tieleman wrote about John Cummins convention speech where Tieleman writes that "the BC Conservatives are going to target not only disgruntled BC Liberal voters but also the NDP's traditional support bases".
On March 12, 2011, Cummins announced that he would not be seeking re-election in the federal election held on May 2, 2011. On March 29, 2011, Cummins announced he would seek the leadership of the British Columbia Conservative Party, and was acclaimed leader at the party's convention on May 28, 2011.
On November 28, 2011, Cummins recommended that a review of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in BC, including whether a provincial police force should be considered. This was announced following a review from Brian Peckford.
Karl Clark (20 October 1888—1966) was a chemist and oil sand researcher. He is best known for perfecting a process that uses hot water to separate oil from tar sands.
Clark earned Bachelor and Master’s degree from McMaster University before obtaining a Doctorate in Chemistry from the University of Illinois. He then became a Professor at the University of Alberta. In 1925, while working for the Alberta Research Council, he discovered the hot water oil separation process, which he patented in 1929. Today essentially the same method is used for obtaining crude oil from Alberta's oilsands in Fort McMurray.
William Wesley 'Bill' Hiltz (2 November 1873 - 26 February 1936) was Mayor of Toronto from January 1924 – January 1925. During his term, he introduced time clocks for Toronto city workers. He had a son and grandson, with the same names.
Hiltz and his son Bill were the superintendents at Danforth Methodist Church where they presided over the largest Methodist Sunday School in Canada.
Prior to becoming mayor, Hiltz was Chairman of the Toronto Board of Education. He changed the spelling of his name from "S" to "Z" for personal reasons soon before becoming Mayor.
He began his career as a high school teacher transitioning to a building contractor, real estate developer and politician. During this transition, he had been known to take his students out to the construction sites to dig foundations by shovel. It was the time before the proliferation of digging machinery. He accumulated real estate properties to the extent that he became the second highest taxpayer in Toronto metro. The highest taxpayer Timothy Eaton, the founder of Eaton Department Stores, and the two were friends.
Originally from Georgetown, Ontario, Mayor Hiltz died in 1936 at age 63.
Hiltz descended from the Hilts families that immigrated to the new world around 1710 presumably from the Palatinate region of Germany because of the wars and famine. The family farmed in theMohawk Valley in western New York on the Burnetsfield Patent. During the American Revolution in 1779, Joseph Hilts was brought as a small child by his grandfather, Joseph Petrie, who was forced to flee to the Niagara Region, Clinton and Louth Twp. of Ontario, Canada. In Ontario, Joseph Hilts' sons, received land grants in Esquesing and Erin Townships (between Brampton and Guelph) with Esquesing Township (mostly called Halton Hills now and some of Milton) going to William Hilts. But, his son, Edward Thompson Hilts settled in Erin Township where his son mayor William W. Hiltz was born, homesteaded, and raised. But, William W. Hiltz spent most of his adult life near his wife's parents near Grimsby, Ontario (east of Hamilton).
William McDonough Kelly, CLJ (born July 21, 1925) is a political strategist and retired CanadianSenator.
Kelly was a civil engineer by training and a consultant in the energy industry by profession. Politically he was a member of the Big Blue Machine, a group of advisers, organizers and strategists aroundOntario Premier Bill Davis and the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the 1970s and 1980s.
He was appointed to the Senate in 1982 by Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. At the time, the Liberals had been in power for almost all of the previous twenty years resulting in a steady decline in the number of Tory senators. Trudeau adopted a policy of replacing retiring Progressive Conservative Senators with other Progressive Conservatives in order to ensure the opposition caucus was large enough to be functional. The Leader of the Official Opposition would submit a short list of names from which the Prime Minister would choose an appointee for a vacant Tory Senate seat. Several senior Red Tories such as Joe Clark's chief of staff, Peter Harder as well as Norman Atkins, Hugh Segaland Davis himself lobbied Clark to include Kelly on the short list and lobbied the Prime Minister's Officeto choose Kelly from the list.
As a Senator, Kelly served variously as caucus chairman and whip and served on various Senate committees, most notably as Chair of the Special Senate Committee on Security and Intelligence and the Special Senate Committee on Terrorism and the Public Safety. In the 1990s Kelly served as rapporteur and delegate on the second committee to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Vienna. His Senate tenure was also notable for his having introduced a procedural intervention that succeeded in putting an end to the filibuster and the passing of the GST (Goods and Services Tax) bill in late 1990s. On his mandatory retirement from the Senate in 2000, Senate colleagues of both parties in the Senate lauded his distaste for partisanship and gentlemanly attributes.
Kelly has also served as a director of the Council on Drug Abuse, chairman of the Board of Governors atRyerson Polytechnic University and co-chairman of a 1984 task force on Crown corporations. He also served for a period as Chairman of the Board of Rothmans Benson & Hedges Inc.
He has been director of numerous national and international companies and financial institutions and has been governor of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and a commander of the Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem.
During World War II, Kelly served as a lieutenant, of the Second Field Engineer Regiment.
Wes McCauley (born January 11, 1972 in Georgetown, Ontario) is a National Hockey League referee, who wears uniform number 4. He is the son of the late John McCauley, a former NHL referee
He was selected to work in the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals.
Christian Bök (born August 10, 1966 in Toronto, Canada) is an experimental Canadian poet. He is the author of Eunoia, which won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, and which has been said to be "Canada's best-selling poetry book ever."
Life and work[edit source | editbeta]He was born "Christian Book", but changed his last name "to avoid unseemly confusion with the Bible."
He began writing seriously in his early twenties, while earning his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Carleton University in Ottawa. He returned to Toronto in the early 1990s to study for a Ph.D. in English literature at York University, where he encountered a burgeoning literary community that included Steve McCaffery, Christopher Dewdney, and Darren Wershler-Henry. As of 2005 he teaches at the University of Calgary.
In 1994, Bök published Crystallography, " "a pataphysical encyclopaedia that misreads the language of poetics through the conceits of geology." The Village Voice said of it: "Bök's concise reflections on mirrors, fractals, stones, and ice diabolically change the way you think about language — his, yours — so that what begins as description suddenly seems indistinguishable from the thing itself."[1]Crystallography was reissued in 2003,[1] and was nominated for a Gerald Lampert Award.
Bök is a sound poet and has performed an extremely condensed version of the "Ursonate" by Kurt Schwitters https://artsy.net/artist/kurt-schwitters .He has created conceptual art, making artist's books from Rubik's Cubes and Lego bricks. He has also worked in science-fiction television by constructing artistic languages for Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley's Amazon.
Eunoia[edit source | editbeta]Bök is most famous for Eunoia (2001), a book which took him seven years to write.[1] Eunoia consists of univocalics: The book uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters. In the book's main part, each chapter used just a single vowel, producing sentences such as this: “Enfettered, these sentences repress free speech.”[3] Bök believes "his book proves that each vowel has its own personality, and demonstrates the flexibility of the English language."[4] In preparation for the project, Bök read the dictionary a total of five times, compiling an exhaustive list of vocabulary; Bök aimed to use almost all of these words during his work.
Edited by Darren Wershler-Henry and published by Coach House Books, in 2001, Eunoia won the 2002 Griffin and sold 20,000 copies.[5] Canongate published "Eunoia" in Britain in Oct. 2008.[6] The book was also a bestseller there, reaching #8 on the Top 10 bestselling charts for the year.[5]
The Xenotext experiment[edit source | editbeta]On April 4, 2011 Bök announced a significant break-through in his 9-year project to engineer "a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem".[7][8] On the previous day (April 3) Bök said he
"received confirmation from the laboratory at the University of Calgary that my poetic cipher, gene X-P13, has in fact caused E. coli to fluoresce red in our test-runs—meaning that, when implanted in the genome of this bacterium, my poem (which begins “any style of life/ is prim…”) does in fact cause the bacterium to write, in response, its own poem (which begins “the faery is rosy/ of glow…”)."[9]
The project has continued for over a decade at a cost exceeding $110,000 and he hopes to finish the project in 2014.[10]
Jason Dickinson (born July 4, 1995) is a Canadian ice hockey player. He is currently playing in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) with the Guelph Storm. Dickinson was selected by the Dallas Stars in the 1st round (29th overall) of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.
Dickinson is rated as a top prospect who fulfilled the expectation to be a first round selection at the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.[1][2] Dickinson joined the Guelph Storm of the Ontario Hockey League for the 2011–12 OHL season and was recognized for his stand-out play when he was named to the OHL Second All-Rookie Team.[3] The following season he was invited to take part in the CHL Top Prospects Game, and was then selected to play with the gold medal winning Canadian squad at the 2013 IIHF World U18 Championships.[4]
Dan Dunleavy a Canadian sportscaster for Sportsnet 590 The Fan, TSN Radio 1050 and Rogers Sportsnet.
Dan Dunleavy joined the Buffalo Sabres of the NHL in the summer of 2013. Dunleavy will share play by play duties with Sabres Hall of famer Rick Jeanneret until 2016. Once Jeanneret retires, Dunleavy will become the Buffalo Sabres full time play by play voice in 2016
For two seasons, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, Dan Dunleavy was the radio play by play voice for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League. Dan is still the voice of Toronto FC of Major League Soccer on Sportsnet TV, as well as Sportsnet 590 The Fan and TSN Radio 1050, both of which share the radio broadcast rights for TFC and TML.
He previously called the World Junior Hockey Championships and the World Hockey Championships on the Fan Radio Network.
In 2010, Dunleavy called his first NHL game for the Buffalo Sabres who were playing in Anaheim, substituting for the vacationing Rick Jeanneret; Dunleavy called his first NHL TV game for The Sabres on MSG TV in Ottawa in January 2011. Dunleavy will also serve the same role between 2013 and 2016 before taking over Jeanneret's position permanently.
In 2010, Dan also called his first Olympic hockey games, including the men's bronze medal game and the women's gold medal game at Canada Hockey Place (GM Place) in Vancouver. Dunleavy was the host for every Team Canada game on the FAN radio Network. Dan has also called Canadian Hockey League, American Hockey League, and National Lacrosse League games on Rogers Sportsnet. Dunleavy has also been the radio play by play voice for the Toronto Rock in addition to briefly serving as their public address announcer during their home games. He also served as the public address announcer at the home games for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. Dunleavy served as the TV play by play voice of the Toronto Lynx of USL Soccer. Dunleavy was The Fan 590's Summer Olympics reporter since the 2000 Olympics, having traveled to Sydney, Australia and Athens, Greece. In 2010, Dunleavy worked the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver with The FAN radio network. Dan has also served as a part-time host for Sportsnet's FIS World Cup Skiing coverage. Dunleavy's work includes being the play by play announcer for Rogers TV's coverage of the Men's Ontario Curling Championships. TSC Stores Tankard.[1] on The Fan 590. After over ten years as the sports anchor on Sportsnet Radio's Prime Time Sports, In September 2010, Dunleavy began his stint as a regular contributor as the sports anchor on the FAN 590's new morning show.[2]
Dunleavy was born in Toronto and grew up in Georgetown, Ontario. His radio career started in Welland, Ontario in 1985, followed by a move to DC 103.5 in Orangeville in 1987. He joined the Fan 590 in 1993.
Ian Troop, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of TO2015 which oversees the preparation and execution of the 2015 Pan American Games and 2015 Parapan American Games. Prior to his appointment as the CEO of TO2015, Troop was President of ConAgra Foods, and a vice president at Procter & Gamble.[2]
Troop also served on the Advisory Board of the National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA). In 2006 and 2007 the National Post named Troop, one of Canada's top CEO's of the future.[3]
In 1981 Troop graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University with a BBA. While in university Troop was an all-star football player and was inducted in the Laurier hall of fame in 1978. Troop was drafted by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League in 1981.[4]
Haarsma developed a school presentation program in which he discusses The Softwire books,astronomy, and other science fiction and science fact topics. He is also one of the co-founders of Kids Need to Read, a United States Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) tax exempt public charity that purchases books to donate to underfunded schools and libraries.
Personal life[edit source | edit]Philip-Jon Haarsma was born on June 5, 1964, in Georgetown, Ontario. Though he was named after his grandfathers, Philip and Jon, he went simply by "Jon" while growing up. Later, while attending McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree, he began to use his initials, "PJ", and his books are published under the name "PJ Haarsma".
After he moved to the United States in 1989, Haarsma worked as a fashion and commercial photographer in New York City and Miami. He received many photography awards, including an honorable mention at the Cannes Lion Awards in 1996. Haarsma owned a small production company called Redbear Films, Inc. The company produced one movie (Devious Beings, 2002) and several corporate ads for clients such as Hewlett Packard and Nokia. For 15 years, Redbear Films focused on the production of advertisements.
Haarsma lives in Los Angeles with his wife, sci-fi fantasy artist Marisa Grieco, and their daughter Skylar.
John Martin Cummins (born March 12, 1942) is a Canadian politician. He is currently the leader of theBritish Columbia Conservative Party. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding ofDelta—Richmond East in British Columbia.
Born in Georgetown, Ontario, he was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1993 election, as aReform Party member. He was re-elected in 1997, 2000 (as a member of the Canadian Alliance), 2004,2006, and 2008 (as a Conservative).
Education[edit source | edit]Cummins obtained a bachelor’s degree from the University of Western Ontario where he attendedKing's University College and a master’s degree from the University of British Columbia.
Before politics[edit source | edit]Before entering politics, Cummins worked in the pulp and paper industry in Ontario, the oil fields ofAlberta and on the construction of the Bennett hydroelectric dam in Northern BC. He taught school in the Northwest Territories and in the Peace River district of Northern Alberta, then spent fifteen years teaching in Delta, British Columbia. Cummins is also a commercial fisherman; he owned and operated commercial fishing boats in BC for over 20 years.
Politics[edit source | edit]As a Member of Parliament, Cummins served twice as party critic for Fisheries and Oceans, in addition to his work on various other House of Commons and Joint Committees.
On October 19, 2010, Bill Tieleman wrote about John Cummins convention speech where Tieleman writes that "the BC Conservatives are going to target not only disgruntled BC Liberal voters but also the NDP's traditional support bases".
On March 12, 2011, Cummins announced that he would not be seeking re-election in the federal election held on May 2, 2011. On March 29, 2011, Cummins announced he would seek the leadership of the British Columbia Conservative Party, and was acclaimed leader at the party's convention on May 28, 2011.
On November 28, 2011, Cummins recommended that a review of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in BC, including whether a provincial police force should be considered. This was announced following a review from Brian Peckford.
Karl Clark (20 October 1888—1966) was a chemist and oil sand researcher. He is best known for perfecting a process that uses hot water to separate oil from tar sands.
Clark earned Bachelor and Master’s degree from McMaster University before obtaining a Doctorate in Chemistry from the University of Illinois. He then became a Professor at the University of Alberta. In 1925, while working for the Alberta Research Council, he discovered the hot water oil separation process, which he patented in 1929. Today essentially the same method is used for obtaining crude oil from Alberta's oilsands in Fort McMurray.
William Wesley 'Bill' Hiltz (2 November 1873 - 26 February 1936) was Mayor of Toronto from January 1924 – January 1925. During his term, he introduced time clocks for Toronto city workers. He had a son and grandson, with the same names.
Hiltz and his son Bill were the superintendents at Danforth Methodist Church where they presided over the largest Methodist Sunday School in Canada.
Prior to becoming mayor, Hiltz was Chairman of the Toronto Board of Education. He changed the spelling of his name from "S" to "Z" for personal reasons soon before becoming Mayor.
He began his career as a high school teacher transitioning to a building contractor, real estate developer and politician. During this transition, he had been known to take his students out to the construction sites to dig foundations by shovel. It was the time before the proliferation of digging machinery. He accumulated real estate properties to the extent that he became the second highest taxpayer in Toronto metro. The highest taxpayer Timothy Eaton, the founder of Eaton Department Stores, and the two were friends.
Originally from Georgetown, Ontario, Mayor Hiltz died in 1936 at age 63.
Hiltz descended from the Hilts families that immigrated to the new world around 1710 presumably from the Palatinate region of Germany because of the wars and famine. The family farmed in theMohawk Valley in western New York on the Burnetsfield Patent. During the American Revolution in 1779, Joseph Hilts was brought as a small child by his grandfather, Joseph Petrie, who was forced to flee to the Niagara Region, Clinton and Louth Twp. of Ontario, Canada. In Ontario, Joseph Hilts' sons, received land grants in Esquesing and Erin Townships (between Brampton and Guelph) with Esquesing Township (mostly called Halton Hills now and some of Milton) going to William Hilts. But, his son, Edward Thompson Hilts settled in Erin Township where his son mayor William W. Hiltz was born, homesteaded, and raised. But, William W. Hiltz spent most of his adult life near his wife's parents near Grimsby, Ontario (east of Hamilton).
William McDonough Kelly, CLJ (born July 21, 1925) is a political strategist and retired CanadianSenator.
Kelly was a civil engineer by training and a consultant in the energy industry by profession. Politically he was a member of the Big Blue Machine, a group of advisers, organizers and strategists aroundOntario Premier Bill Davis and the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the 1970s and 1980s.
He was appointed to the Senate in 1982 by Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. At the time, the Liberals had been in power for almost all of the previous twenty years resulting in a steady decline in the number of Tory senators. Trudeau adopted a policy of replacing retiring Progressive Conservative Senators with other Progressive Conservatives in order to ensure the opposition caucus was large enough to be functional. The Leader of the Official Opposition would submit a short list of names from which the Prime Minister would choose an appointee for a vacant Tory Senate seat. Several senior Red Tories such as Joe Clark's chief of staff, Peter Harder as well as Norman Atkins, Hugh Segaland Davis himself lobbied Clark to include Kelly on the short list and lobbied the Prime Minister's Officeto choose Kelly from the list.
As a Senator, Kelly served variously as caucus chairman and whip and served on various Senate committees, most notably as Chair of the Special Senate Committee on Security and Intelligence and the Special Senate Committee on Terrorism and the Public Safety. In the 1990s Kelly served as rapporteur and delegate on the second committee to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Vienna. His Senate tenure was also notable for his having introduced a procedural intervention that succeeded in putting an end to the filibuster and the passing of the GST (Goods and Services Tax) bill in late 1990s. On his mandatory retirement from the Senate in 2000, Senate colleagues of both parties in the Senate lauded his distaste for partisanship and gentlemanly attributes.
Kelly has also served as a director of the Council on Drug Abuse, chairman of the Board of Governors atRyerson Polytechnic University and co-chairman of a 1984 task force on Crown corporations. He also served for a period as Chairman of the Board of Rothmans Benson & Hedges Inc.
He has been director of numerous national and international companies and financial institutions and has been governor of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and a commander of the Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem.
During World War II, Kelly served as a lieutenant, of the Second Field Engineer Regiment.
Wes McCauley (born January 11, 1972 in Georgetown, Ontario) is a National Hockey League referee, who wears uniform number 4. He is the son of the late John McCauley, a former NHL referee
He was selected to work in the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals.
Christian Bök (born August 10, 1966 in Toronto, Canada) is an experimental Canadian poet. He is the author of Eunoia, which won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, and which has been said to be "Canada's best-selling poetry book ever."
Life and work[edit source | editbeta]He was born "Christian Book", but changed his last name "to avoid unseemly confusion with the Bible."
He began writing seriously in his early twenties, while earning his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Carleton University in Ottawa. He returned to Toronto in the early 1990s to study for a Ph.D. in English literature at York University, where he encountered a burgeoning literary community that included Steve McCaffery, Christopher Dewdney, and Darren Wershler-Henry. As of 2005 he teaches at the University of Calgary.
In 1994, Bök published Crystallography, " "a pataphysical encyclopaedia that misreads the language of poetics through the conceits of geology." The Village Voice said of it: "Bök's concise reflections on mirrors, fractals, stones, and ice diabolically change the way you think about language — his, yours — so that what begins as description suddenly seems indistinguishable from the thing itself."[1]Crystallography was reissued in 2003,[1] and was nominated for a Gerald Lampert Award.
Bök is a sound poet and has performed an extremely condensed version of the "Ursonate" by Kurt Schwitters https://artsy.net/artist/kurt-schwitters .He has created conceptual art, making artist's books from Rubik's Cubes and Lego bricks. He has also worked in science-fiction television by constructing artistic languages for Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley's Amazon.
Eunoia[edit source | editbeta]Bök is most famous for Eunoia (2001), a book which took him seven years to write.[1] Eunoia consists of univocalics: The book uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters. In the book's main part, each chapter used just a single vowel, producing sentences such as this: “Enfettered, these sentences repress free speech.”[3] Bök believes "his book proves that each vowel has its own personality, and demonstrates the flexibility of the English language."[4] In preparation for the project, Bök read the dictionary a total of five times, compiling an exhaustive list of vocabulary; Bök aimed to use almost all of these words during his work.
Edited by Darren Wershler-Henry and published by Coach House Books, in 2001, Eunoia won the 2002 Griffin and sold 20,000 copies.[5] Canongate published "Eunoia" in Britain in Oct. 2008.[6] The book was also a bestseller there, reaching #8 on the Top 10 bestselling charts for the year.[5]
The Xenotext experiment[edit source | editbeta]On April 4, 2011 Bök announced a significant break-through in his 9-year project to engineer "a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem".[7][8] On the previous day (April 3) Bök said he
"received confirmation from the laboratory at the University of Calgary that my poetic cipher, gene X-P13, has in fact caused E. coli to fluoresce red in our test-runs—meaning that, when implanted in the genome of this bacterium, my poem (which begins “any style of life/ is prim…”) does in fact cause the bacterium to write, in response, its own poem (which begins “the faery is rosy/ of glow…”)."[9]
The project has continued for over a decade at a cost exceeding $110,000 and he hopes to finish the project in 2014.[10]
Jason Dickinson (born July 4, 1995) is a Canadian ice hockey player. He is currently playing in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) with the Guelph Storm. Dickinson was selected by the Dallas Stars in the 1st round (29th overall) of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.
Dickinson is rated as a top prospect who fulfilled the expectation to be a first round selection at the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.[1][2] Dickinson joined the Guelph Storm of the Ontario Hockey League for the 2011–12 OHL season and was recognized for his stand-out play when he was named to the OHL Second All-Rookie Team.[3] The following season he was invited to take part in the CHL Top Prospects Game, and was then selected to play with the gold medal winning Canadian squad at the 2013 IIHF World U18 Championships.[4]
Dan Dunleavy a Canadian sportscaster for Sportsnet 590 The Fan, TSN Radio 1050 and Rogers Sportsnet.
Dan Dunleavy joined the Buffalo Sabres of the NHL in the summer of 2013. Dunleavy will share play by play duties with Sabres Hall of famer Rick Jeanneret until 2016. Once Jeanneret retires, Dunleavy will become the Buffalo Sabres full time play by play voice in 2016
For two seasons, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, Dan Dunleavy was the radio play by play voice for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League. Dan is still the voice of Toronto FC of Major League Soccer on Sportsnet TV, as well as Sportsnet 590 The Fan and TSN Radio 1050, both of which share the radio broadcast rights for TFC and TML.
He previously called the World Junior Hockey Championships and the World Hockey Championships on the Fan Radio Network.
In 2010, Dunleavy called his first NHL game for the Buffalo Sabres who were playing in Anaheim, substituting for the vacationing Rick Jeanneret; Dunleavy called his first NHL TV game for The Sabres on MSG TV in Ottawa in January 2011. Dunleavy will also serve the same role between 2013 and 2016 before taking over Jeanneret's position permanently.
In 2010, Dan also called his first Olympic hockey games, including the men's bronze medal game and the women's gold medal game at Canada Hockey Place (GM Place) in Vancouver. Dunleavy was the host for every Team Canada game on the FAN radio Network. Dan has also called Canadian Hockey League, American Hockey League, and National Lacrosse League games on Rogers Sportsnet. Dunleavy has also been the radio play by play voice for the Toronto Rock in addition to briefly serving as their public address announcer during their home games. He also served as the public address announcer at the home games for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. Dunleavy served as the TV play by play voice of the Toronto Lynx of USL Soccer. Dunleavy was The Fan 590's Summer Olympics reporter since the 2000 Olympics, having traveled to Sydney, Australia and Athens, Greece. In 2010, Dunleavy worked the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver with The FAN radio network. Dan has also served as a part-time host for Sportsnet's FIS World Cup Skiing coverage. Dunleavy's work includes being the play by play announcer for Rogers TV's coverage of the Men's Ontario Curling Championships. TSC Stores Tankard.[1] on The Fan 590. After over ten years as the sports anchor on Sportsnet Radio's Prime Time Sports, In September 2010, Dunleavy began his stint as a regular contributor as the sports anchor on the FAN 590's new morning show.[2]
Dunleavy was born in Toronto and grew up in Georgetown, Ontario. His radio career started in Welland, Ontario in 1985, followed by a move to DC 103.5 in Orangeville in 1987. He joined the Fan 590 in 1993.
Ian Troop, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of TO2015 which oversees the preparation and execution of the 2015 Pan American Games and 2015 Parapan American Games. Prior to his appointment as the CEO of TO2015, Troop was President of ConAgra Foods, and a vice president at Procter & Gamble.[2]
Troop also served on the Advisory Board of the National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA). In 2006 and 2007 the National Post named Troop, one of Canada's top CEO's of the future.[3]
In 1981 Troop graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University with a BBA. While in university Troop was an all-star football player and was inducted in the Laurier hall of fame in 1978. Troop was drafted by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League in 1981.[4]