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Red Lace
Bear with me for a moment, I'm not being flippant. Who here is aware that breast cancer exists? A show of hands. Okay, that's pretty much everyone, over 16. Who thinks we should raise awareness about breast cancer? Hands again. Of course, that's pretty much everyone. Who thinks that by posting the colour of your…
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Prizes and surprises
I meant to get a post up yesterday on prizes for the Nunies, but life intruded. It turned into one of those days that kept having different things popping up, intruding on my best laid plans. It was the kind of day that saw me do my morning Yoga at 11:30 last night. It wasn't,…
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2009 Nunies – Nomination Round
Yes, its that time again, Nunavut's premiere (well okay, only) blogging awards – The Nunies. There is no change in the format this year. There are three categories: Best BlogBest New BlogBest Post Any blog eligible to join the Nunavut Blogs! blogging roll is eligible for a nomination in any category. Essentially the eligibility is…
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Airborne
The shadow from the flash spoils a bit of the effect, but you get the general idea.
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Arctic Bay Christmas Bird Count, the fourth annual one.
I had high hopes for this years Christmas Bird Count, hopes that included a record three species. The count pretty much guarantees Ravens, plus I had a pretty good area to look for Ptarmigan this year. But the most tantalizing prospect was a raptor (likely Gyrfalcon) had been spotted here a couple of weeks ago.…
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They start… tomorrow
Just a quick heads up. Nominations for The 2009 Nunies, start here and at Nunavut Blogs! Monday, the 4th of January. Be there, or be a rhombus.
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Resolve
We're now a couple of days into 2010, and traditionally this is the time for reflection and resolutions. Really it is an arbitrary moment in time that we decide to honour this way, but we are a species that likes clean, arbitrary divisions. Species continue to confound our attempts to define them exactly, trying to…
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Fortune favours the prepared
I've written in the past on the traditions at New Years here, so I won't go into a lot of detail. The Reader's Digest version is: Games; Church Service ending at midnight; countdown to midnight, followed by a lot of handshaking and tears; fireworks and/or guns being fired by the Rangers; a parade of snowmobiles…
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Shaken
Yesterday was another difficult day for my "other" family, the police family that will always be a part of me. Erik Czapnik, at 51 years old the same age as me, a member of the Ottawa Police Service, was stabbed to death yesterday morning at 5:30 am. He was doing one of those routine tasks,…
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Facinicus chasdickensii
Its a wonder how organisms travel around the world. The world is a much smaller place these days, and goods and consequently organisms travel far and wide, ending up places we never imagined. The other day I felt a strange sensation, the sort you get after you've been hiking during tick season, whether you have…
