![]() “That is still a ways away though, so that could change. “I don't think anyone's going to be complaining except if your lawns and gardens are looking thirsty and then you're looking for rain that looks to be coming on Monday and Tuesday,” CP24 Meteorologist Bill Coulter said on Monday. The nights will also remain relatively mild, with overnight lows of 15 C to 17 C throughout the week. ![]() The temperatures are well above the average daytime high for this time of year, which is just 21 C. Get the latest local updates right to your inbox.Download our app to get local alerts on your device.It is going to be a scorcher of a week in Toronto with some of the hottest temperatures the city has seen so far in 2023.Įnvironment Canada says that Toronto will see daytime highs of between 26 C and 29 C for the next seven days, with sunny skies in the forecast and little to no chance of rain. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He broke into nearby cottages for food, clothing, reading material, and other provisions, taking only what he needed but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries. ![]() Living in a tent even through brutal winters, he had survived by his wits and courage, developing ingenious ways to store edibles and water, and to avoid freezing to death. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing food. A New York Times bestseller In 1986, a shy and intelligent twenty-year-old named Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the forest. ![]() Summary: Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality-not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own. ![]() ![]() "4/4… This series makes a perfect choice for budding graphic novel enthusiasts… stock up on multiple copies of this one. ![]() great addiction to start for your kids." - Huffington Post Canada "This graphic novel is a ton of fun for younger kids, with under-the-sea creatures who turn into superheroes. A super addition to graphic novel collections." - Starred Review, School Library Journal and the funny story will snare a range of readers. ![]() "The laughs are mighty, but even mightier is Narwhal’s anything-is-possible attitude and deep reserves of heart." - Starred Review, Publishers Weekly ![]() Super Narwhal and Jelly Jolt (A Narwhal and Jelly Book #2)Ī Huffington Post Canada Selection: "Great Books for Kids in Summer 2017"Īn Amazon "Best Children's Books of 2017" PickĪ School Library Journal Best Book of the Year (2017) ![]() ![]() On Confucius' birthday anniversary, there will be many activities for commemorating Confucius in Confucian Temples all over China. Sacrifice activity is a reverent and memorial action toward great or beloved people who are deceased. Confucius was both an itinerant teacher and an official. Courts and rulers employed traveling teachers to teach or be officials. Making a mistake might mean their deaths or the destruction of their kingdom, so there was a demand for knowledge, political strategies, and power. They sought for knowledge about how best to rule their kingdoms and survive in the dangerous times. The kings and rulers battled for survival and dominance in the region, and they wanted to know what to do. Dozens of regions of their empire transformed to be independent kingdoms and tried to conquer each other. He tried to teach ancient truth in a time of political confusion and crisis as the Zhou Dynasty was falling from power. The rulers and subjects of the various regions sought for knowledge and power in uncertain times. ![]() Confucius was born in an era of philosophical creativity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone speaks formally and wears a corset, and sex is referred to in only the most elliptical fashion. The society they describe looks remarkably different from our own (if only at first glance), and even farther from contemporary pop culture. ![]() Apparently classic novels, particularly classic 19th-century novels, are boring to today’s audiences. I think it’s because there’s a widespread misapprehension, both in Hollywood and among those of us who consume its products, that it’s nigh on impossible to make an exciting film adaptation of a classic novel. So why is Vinterberg’s Far From the Madding crowd frustratingly mediocre? He is an excellent director of actors, capable of efficiently capturing the psychological complexity of characters and their relationships - which should make him the perfect interpreter for Hardy, whose detailed internal portraiture is the centerpiece of his work. ![]() And it’s directed by Thomas Vinterberg, a Danish filmmaker best known for two movies that examine child sexual abuse from very different, equally unflinching perspectives: 1998’s The Celebration, which kicked off the Dogme 95 movement, and 2013’s The Hunt, which was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. It’s only the third film adaptation of the classic Thomas Hardy novel - and the first since John Schlesinger’s in 1967, though there was also a TV movie in 1998 - and its cast includes such promising names as Carey Mulligan and Michael Sheen. Far From the Madding Crowd, in theaters Friday, appears to have plenty going for it. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also has tousled curls and smiles so sweetly that a loyal guard is swayed and does as Damen asks. I DON’T KNOW IF YOU HEARD ME PROPERLY BUT DAMIANOS KING OF AKIELOS HAS A DIMPLE IN HIS LEFT CHEEK AND THIS IS IMPORTANT INFORMATION. There’s just something so surreal reading about Damen and Laurent from someone else’s eyes: in Charls we find out that Damen has a dimple in his left cheek. But, I still pre-ordered the story and set my alarm for 2 am so I could read it the second it downloaded on my kindle. I didn’t really see the point of it and, to be honest, I really just wanted to read more about Damen and Laurent being in love. ![]() So when I found out that the third CP story was set from the perspective of Charls, I was a quite irked. This is less of a review, and more of a general freaking-out over the perfection of this story. I’m dead, I’ve died, I’ve gone to heaven – the third short story in the collection of Captive Prince short stories was a tiny little masterpiece that I will remember forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jim has devoted much of his time to helping non-profit charities and has extensive experience in public outreach and fundraising. He was a director of Androscoggin Bank and the chairman of Head Invest investment management until retiring last year. Works as a structural and civil engineer involved in real estate development. Jim Platz is Chairman of the Board of Directors and has served as a member of the board since the inception of Patient Airlift Services. His interests are flying, most sports and he is conversational in Spanish and French. ![]() Our superb pilots and staff are second to none.” Joe and his wife Christine have been married over thirty years and have three grown children. When asked about his participation in PALS, Joe says unequivocally “There is no other volunteer pilot organization that can match our transparency, efficacy, and passion to help those in need. As the founding Chairman, Joe was instrumental in the origination of PALS and is a superlative role model to other PALS pilots, having flown over 1,000 PALS passenger missions. He is the past President of the Pilatus Owners and Pilots Association. He has made numerous appearances on PALS behalf to business groups, local organizations, and media outlets. Joe has been volunteer flying for over 20 years and has devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to public outreach and hosted fundraising events. ![]() Joe Howley has served as President of the Board of Directors at Patient Airlift Services since 2014 and previously served as Chairman of the Board from 2010-2014. ![]() ![]() It seemed like dangerous stuff, in that it might actually work. ![]() (The cube represents the woman’s ego or something-so if it’s big, it means she’s self-confident if it’s transparent as opposed to opaque that means she’s open as opposed to guarded if it’s pink that means she’s bright and energetic … basic non-falsifiable horoscope-type material she can read herself into and then find you perceptive.) It was basically a way to harness people’s love of talking about themselves in order to score. student named Jon had mentioned The Game, and was demonstrating how it worked by means of “The Cube” routine, where you ask a woman to imagine a box standing in the desert, and you tell her about herself based on how she describes it. ![]() ![]() When Neil Strauss’s blockbuster book about pickup artistry came out a decade ago, I was a Midwestern ingenue in New York City, and I read it mostly as a defensive measure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unknown to us, in her ground-breaking book, Caliban and The Witch, Silvia Federici argues that the witch hunts of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries served to create and enforce a newly established role in society for women, who were consigned to unpaid reproductive labour to satisfy the needs of an ascendant capitalist order. As ambitious teen girls wary of how we were perceived in the adult world, we sought solace in the idea that we could harness a secret and subversive power to change things. After school we concocted potions, conducted rituals and created secret languages. For a time we believed in magic. In high school, like many young women, my friends and I developed a fascination with witches. Years before we knew what feminism was, a sense of foreboding had developed among us, about our place in the world and our power relative to adults and to our male peers. ![]() ![]() The two stayed in touch after the shoot wrapped and LeDuff reached out every now and again for career advice. So when Bourdain’s CNN travel show “Parts Unknown” came to town that year, LeDuff played local guide, taking the crew to a home-style barbecue on the east side and tagging along with the Detroit Fire Department.Īnthony Bourdain loved Detroit, called it beautiful and magnificentĪnthony Bourdain dishes on Trump, Detroit, terrible food in 2016 And Tony – as everyone called him – was a fan of LeDuff’s 2013 book on the Motor City’s decline, “Detroit: An American Autopsy.” Bourdain’s mother, Gladys, was his copy editor during the Detroit journalist’s stint at the New York Times. LeDuff said he’d gotten to know the late chef, writer and TV star over the years. “He had a real love for the city and its people.” ![]() “Detroit should know it lost a true friend,” LeDuff said of the cultural icon who was found dead Friday of an apparent suicide in France at 61. Charlie LeDuff woke up in Denver Friday morning to the news that his friend and onetime collaborator Anthony Bourdain was gone. ![]() |