The Varley Trail

Mojo on the Varley Trail

Mojo on the Varley Trail, March 2011

Saturday Autumn Run

Hozumi, Kelly, Jeremy and I frolick around on the Seymour Trails. Baden-Powell, Bridle Path, Old Buck, Neds, Homestead and Varley. Total time about 3:15.

The Lynn Valley Suspension Bridge - Vancouver, Canada

Hiking at the Wapiti

Grande Prairie, Ab just south of town. We went for a hike and had some fun.

Enjoy

32 Library Lane, Unionville - Home For Sale

32 Library Lane, Unionville - Home For Sale - The MAC Team - Asking $1,925,000 CDN
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Ambleside VIEW home!

1370 Queens Avenue, West Vancouver
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556 Ballantree Road, West Vancouver - 180-Degree View!

556 Ballantree Road, West Vancouver - 180-Degree View!

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Sechelt Electric Vehicle Festival 2015 Sunshine Coast BC

Over 350 people attended 1st Annual Sechelt Electric Vehicle Festival 2015 during National Drive Electric Week on the beautiful Sunshine Coast BC Canada. Presented by JJ Premier Events. Hosted by SSC Properties Video produced by Duane Burnett

LGBT themes in science fiction and fantasy | Wikipedia audio article

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00:03:06 1 Critical analysis
00:07:15 2 Literature
00:07:24 2.1 Proto-SF
00:09:18 2.2 The pulp era (1920–30s)
00:11:31 2.3 The Golden Age (1940–50s)
00:14:42 2.4 The New Wave era (1960–70s)
00:23:59 2.5 Modern SF (post New Wave)
00:30:17 2.6 21st century
00:35:50 3 Comics and manga
00:37:18 3.1 Marvel
00:39:23 3.2 DC
00:43:20 3.3 Manga
00:45:27 4 Film and television
00:46:03 4.1 Film
00:49:58 4.2 Television
00:58:54 4.3 Slash fiction
01:01:53 5 Reaction of the speculative fiction community
01:05:04 6 LGBT speculative fiction awards
01:06:56 7 See also
01:07:05 8 Footnotes



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SUMMARY
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LGBT themes in speculative fiction include lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) themes in science fiction, fantasy, horror fiction and related genres. Such elements may include an LGBT character as the protagonist or a major character, or explorations of sexuality or gender that deviate from the hetero-normative.
Science fiction and fantasy have traditionally been puritanical genres aimed at a male readership, and can be more restricted than non-genre literature by their conventions of characterisation and the effect that these conventions have on depictions of sexuality and gender. However, speculative fiction also gives authors and readers the freedom to imagine societies that are different from real-life cultures. This freedom makes speculative fiction a useful means of examining sexual bias, by forcing the reader to reconsider his or her heteronormative cultural assumptions. It has also been claimed by critics such as Nicola Griffith that LGBT readers identify strongly with the mutants, aliens, and other outsider characters found in speculative fiction.
Before the 1960s, explicit sexuality of any kind was rare in speculative fiction, as the editors who controlled what was published attempted to protect their perceived key market of adolescent male readers. As the readership broadened, it became possible to include characters who were undisguised homosexuals, though these tended to be villains, and lesbians remained almost entirely unrepresented. In the 1960s, science fiction and fantasy began to reflect the changes prompted by the civil rights movement and the emergence of a counterculture. New wave and feminist science fiction authors realised cultures in which homosexuality, bisexuality and a variety of gender models were the norm, and in which sympathetic depictions of alternative sexuality were commonplace.
From the 1980s onwards, homosexuality gained much wider mainstream acceptance, and was often incorporated into otherwise conventional speculative fiction stories. Works emerged that went beyond simple representation of homosexuality to explorations of specific issues relevant to the LGBT community. This development was helped by the growing number of openly gay or lesbian authors and their early acceptance by speculative fiction fandom. Specialist gay publishing presses and a number of awards recognising LGBT achievements in the genre emerged, and by the twenty-first century blatant homophobia was no longer considered acceptable by most readers of speculative fiction. There was a concurrent increase in representation of homosexuality within non-literary forms of speculative fiction. The inclusion of LGBT themes in comic books, television and film continues to attract media attention and controversy, while the perceived lack of sufficient representation, along with unrealistic depictions, provokes criticism from LGBT sources.

We Run Mas: One Year On

One year of trail runs with my running group, We Run Mas. In just one year, we've gone from running 10k road races to four of us taking on ultramarathons!

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LGBT themes in speculative fiction | Wikipedia audio article

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00:04:13 1 Critical analysis
00:09:42 2 Literature
00:09:52 2.1 Proto-SF
00:12:19 2.2 The pulp era (1920–30s)
00:15:13 2.3 The Golden Age (1940–50s)
00:19:21 2.4 The New Wave era (1960–70s)
00:31:43 2.5 Modern SF (post New Wave)
00:40:04 2.6 21st century
00:47:29 3 Comics and manga
00:49:25 3.1 Marvel
00:52:07 3.2 DC
00:57:22 3.3 Manga
01:00:06 4 Film and television
01:00:50 4.1 Film
01:06:05 4.2 Television
01:18:03 4.3 Slash fiction
01:21:58 5 Reaction of the speculative fiction community
01:26:10 6 LGBT speculative fiction awards
01:28:39 7 See also
01:28:49 8 Footnotes



Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.

Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain

Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.

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Speaking Rate: 0.7098936556755305
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-A


I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates


SUMMARY
=======
LGBT themes in speculative fiction refer to the incorporation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) themes into science fiction, fantasy, horror fiction and related genres. Such elements may include an LGBT character as the protagonist or a major character, or explorations of sexuality or gender that deviate from the hetero-normative.
Science fiction and fantasy have traditionally been puritanical genres aimed at a male readership, and can be more restricted than non-genre literature by their conventions of characterisation and the effect that these conventions have on depictions of sexuality and gender. However, speculative fiction also gives authors and readers the freedom to imagine societies that are different from real-life cultures. This freedom makes speculative fiction a useful means of examining sexual bias, by forcing the reader to reconsider his or her heteronormative cultural assumptions. It has also been claimed by critics such as Nicola Griffith that LGBT readers identify strongly with the mutants, aliens, and other outsider characters found in speculative fiction.
Before the 1960s, explicit sexuality of any kind was rare in speculative fiction, as the editors who controlled what was published attempted to protect their perceived key market of adolescent male readers. As the readership broadened, it became possible to include characters who were undisguised homosexuals, though these tended to be villains, and lesbians remained almost entirely unrepresented. In the 1960s, science fiction and fantasy began to reflect the changes prompted by the civil rights movement and the emergence of a counterculture. New wave and feminist science fiction authors realised cultures in which homosexuality, bisexuality and a variety of gender models were the norm, and in which sympathetic depictions of alternative sexuality were commonplace.
From the 1980s onwards, homosexuality gained much wider mainstream acceptance, and was often incorporated into otherwise conventional speculative fiction stories. Works emerged that went beyond simple representation of homosexuality to explorations of specific issues relevant to the LGBT community. This development was helped by the growing number of openly gay or lesbian authors and their early acceptance by speculative fiction fandom. Specialist gay publishing presses and a number of awards recognising LGBT achievements in the genre emerged, and by the twenty-first century blatant homophobia was no longer considered acceptable by most readers of speculative fiction. There was a concurrent increase in representation of homosexuality within non-literary forms of speculative fiction. The inclusion of LGBT themes in comic books, television and film continues to attract media attention and controversy, while the perceived lack of sufficient representation, along with unrealistic depictions, provokes criticism from LGBT sources.

History of electricity | Wikipedia audio article

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00:00:51 1 Ancient and classical history
00:05:16 2 Middle Ages and the Renaissance
00:07:14 3 17th Century
00:11:40 4 18th century
00:11:50 4.1 Improving the electric machine
00:13:31 4.2 Electrics and non-electrics
00:14:41 4.3 Vitreous and resinous
00:16:05 4.4 Leyden jar
00:20:01 4.5 Late 18th century
00:33:31 5 19th century
00:33:41 5.1 Early 19th century
00:44:56 5.2 Faraday and Henry
00:52:48 5.3 Middle 19th century
01:03:14 5.4 Maxwell
01:10:35 5.5 End of the 19th century
01:19:07 5.6 Second Industrial Revolution
01:23:24 6 20th century
01:25:58 6.1 Lorentz and Poincaré
01:30:26 6.2 Einstein's iAnnus Mirabilis/i
01:33:14 6.3 Mid-20th century
01:42:11 6.4 Parity violation
01:43:24 6.5 Electroweak theory
01:46:15 7 21st century
01:46:25 7.1 Electromagnetic technologies
01:47:07 7.1.1 Magnetic resonance
01:47:51 7.1.2 Wireless electricity
01:49:06 7.2 Unified theories
01:50:01 7.3 Open problems
01:51:09 8 See also



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- improves your listening skills
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- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain

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The history of electromagnetic theory begins with ancient measures to understand atmospheric electricity, in particular lightning. People then had little understanding of electricity, and were unable to explain the phenomena. Scientific understanding into the nature of electricity grew throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the work of researchers such as Ampère, Coulomb, Faraday and Maxwell.
In the 19th century it had become clear that electricity and magnetism were related, and their theories were unified: wherever charges are in motion electric current results, and magnetism is due to electric current. The source for electric field is electric charge, whereas that for magnetic field is electric current (charges in motion).

Casablanca (film)

Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and based on Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's un-produced stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's. The film stars Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid; and features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, love and virtue. He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her Czech Resistance leader husband escape the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.

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'What I Wouldn't Do' - Ted Harrison School #CBCMusicClass

Ted Harrison School is a middle school in the North-East community of Taradale within the city of Calgary. Our school is a multi-cultural mosaic with cultures from all around the world. Our Timber Singers choral group has changed throughout the years, with students from all different grade levels getting involved. This year, students from Grades 5, 6 and 7 make up our group. We have once again had a blast learning some fun Canadian content. Thank you CBC for organizing this awesome opportunity for music students across the country!

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