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Thursday, January 24, 2008


 

Get out the rubber boots

 

While us southerners are all safe in the grips of an icy blast of winter weather, the National Centre for Scientific Research, based in Paris, has some troublesome findings on the polar front, saying, "The Arctic ice cap has shrunk by an area twice the size of France's land mass over the last two years."

Research director and coordinator of the European scientific mission Damocles, Jean-Claude Gascard said in a Wednesday press conference:

Melting could result in the loss of another million in one (2008) summer... Summer 2007 was marked by a major retreat in the ice-cap, one we were not anticipating... The rate of decline is also two or three times faster than (observed) beforehand."
He added, "Over the last 20 years, 40 percent of the ice-cap has melted with the average thickness halved from three to 1.5 metres."

EXTRA: The results of the 2008 Environmental Performance Index, compiled by Yale and Columbia Universities, has been released. To spoil the surprise, Canada ranks 12th, behind Iceland and ahead of Germany.

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My first blog initially began as the Kyungnam Journal in April of 2001, six months after I first landed in South Korea to teach English. Upon moving to Seoul in January of 2002, it became the Kyungnam to Kyunggi Journal (K2K) and upon returning to Canada and the establishment of Latenight.ca, it's been archived here for posterity. 

I hope you enjoy the photos and anecdotes of my time working in hagwons as an EFL instructor in the South Korean cities of Changwon and Seoul.  I especially hope that prospective English teachers heading overseas can benefit from this journal.

A few updates may still materialize however, as Korea retains its connection to me through memory, habit and, now, matrimony.

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My first Latenight blog was begun in March of 2004, when I repatriated to my hometown of Miramichi, NB.

Some of the posts are a bit sparse of concrete personal information, compared to my other blogs.  At the time, I'd begun a small publishing company and most of my life was consumed by that, while the competitive nature of my business situation demanded I keep my work-related posts a bit vague.

Nonetheless, even after moving away (again), it is still my hometown and I hope to continue to contribute posts from time to time.  Miramichi is a town in transition and deserves a blog of its own, so while I am not presently residing in the city, perhaps I can still cast my gaze back home periodically.

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Halifax was my home for a time when I was a child.  It's the city of my alma mater, Dalhousie. It's also where I've spent the bulk of my working life in the publishing industry.

I returned to Halifax, the City of Trees, in September of 2005.  By then a seasoned blogger, I set up the Latenight Halifax section of this site then and retrofitted the other blogs to match.

This blog covers my life in Halifax through writeups and photos, and also the steps leading up to myr marriage in June of 2007. 

We eventually decided not to settle here though, despite the years I've enjoyed in Halifax, and as of June 2008, we followed the ol' Maritime tradition and left to hang our hats in Toronto.

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