Posted in brandy, Church, Global Warming, Mining history, opera, tagged easter, euridice, eurydike, Global Warming, gluck, lower seymour conservation area, opera, orfeo, orpeus on March 31, 2013 | 2 Comments »
On the mines of South Africa, a long time ago, Easter was a special occasion. It was the end of summer and the beginning of autumn; it was a long weekend when even the miners did not work; it was a family time; and we went to Church to pray for lives lost and redeemed. For through the year, there were always deaths and distress. After Lent, this seemed an appropriate time to reminisce. (more…)
Posted in About the news, Church, Law (Mining), tagged Canada, CIDA, petition, united church on March 22, 2013 | 3 Comments »
Would you sign the following petition to your local Canadian Member of Parliament? The petition urges the Canadian Federal government to pass legislation that would: (more…)
Posted in Church, opera, tagged allah, holy trinity, iolanta, opera, russia, stalin, tchaikovsky on February 18, 2013 | 3 Comments »
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The early operas told the tales of the gods and heroes: Jove, Juno, Apollo, Aeneas, and the whole pantheon of Greeks and Romans who made the world what it was then and, in so many ways, still is today. Then opera emerged from the Church music of Italy and we hear references to God, and all his glory. (more…)
Posted in California, Church, opera, tagged california african american museum, cirque du soleil, coriolanus, shuttle on December 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A cornucopia of impressions as I look back on the past two days. The overall impression is crowds; the crowds of greater Los Angeles and Orange County in the days of a week of holidays; and the crowds of thirty-million people in a relatively small area. I almost long for the smallness & loneliness of Vancouver. (more…)
Posted in brandy, Church, Human relations and mining, tagged battle royale, Cuba, hunger games, mining, syria on April 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »
An occasional piece on the trashy movies I like to watch. Over the weekend I watched two movies that must be the precursors to the Hunger Games (a popular book trilogy and now a new movie for those not in the know.) The movies I watched come in a fancy “book” format containing four DVDs. The first is the director’s cut of Battle Royal, a brutal Japanese movie from about 2000. It tells the story, apparently derived from a Japanese book, of a class of highschool freshmen taken to a deserted island and made to fight each other to the death. The third DVD is the sequel: Battle Royale II: Requiem, an even more brutal movie of another class taken to the same island and forced to fight to the death. (more…)
Posted in Church, consulting, environmental, Latin America, tagged dicitae labdeae, filthy english, Guatemala, hunger games, irrumator on October 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
No blog postings this past week. I have instead taken four long flights and three days of hard work at a new mine in Guatemala. On the plane, I read many books; on the site, I met many fine miners; on the site, I saw fabulous geology; on paper, we sketched designs for things that will take years to build and last thereafter for centuries. Two of the books I finished on the planes are: (1) Filthy English, The How, Why,When and What of Everyday Swearing; and (2) The Hunger Games. (more…)
Posted in About the news, blogs, British Columbia, Church, Global Warming, Investing & Finance, tagged ehtics, Gold, mining, Oil sands, responsible mining, sustainable on July 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
One of the privileges of being Canadian and American is that we can ask the question: What is ethical mining? Forget those trite old questions about sustainable mining and responsible mining! One of the privileges of being South African and a blogger is that we can answer the question: What is ethical mining? (more…)
Posted in Church, tagged Diamond, Gold, India, religion, temple, treasure on July 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We all like to celebrate the value of mining. We all like to praise the benefits of mining and enjoy the good life it brings. I remind myself of the pleasure of the beauty of diamonds as I walk the halls of a northern diamond mine. I remind myself of the warm feeling of possession as I struggle the issue of the stability of a tailings impoundment at a new silver mine. Yet sometimes, I pause and wonder if mining is truly a source of the good life, or merely another in a string of human activities aimed at bragging and getting and exercising power. Maybe we do need mined products to buy the insurance of a good life after death by donating to the church or temple. (more…)
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, British Columbia, Church, Human relations and mining, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Oil sands, tagged Anglican, Australia, BC Mining Week, Bishop, Fort McMurray, penhorwood, tom morgan on May 9, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Sunday night looking to Monday and a day on the oil sands mines. Flew from rainy Vancouver to sunny Fort McMurray. Tomorrow we will deal with issues of surface water management and the failure of sand berms inundated by ponded water. A salutary lesson in the need for proactive and conservative planning before starting construction. (more…)
Posted in Church, opera, tagged easter, stabat mater. rossini. pergolesi on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Obama is being criticized for not “sufficiently celebrating Easter.” With Easter Monday almost safely over, let me comment on his in-actions and my actions over Easter. (more…)
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