What is the truth?

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This award winning documentary reveals Canada's darkest secret - the deliberate extermination of indigenous (Native American) peoples and the theft of their land under the guise of religion. This never before told history as seen through the eyes of this former minister (Kevin Annett) who blew the whistle on his own church, after he learned of thousands of murders in its Indian Residential Schools.

First-hand testimonies from residential school survivors are interwoven with Kevin Annett's own story of how he faced firing, de-frocking, and the loss of his family, reputation and livelihood as a result of his efforts to help survivors and bring out the truth of the residential schools.

Best Director Award at the 2006 New York Independent Film and Video Festival, and Best International Documentary at the 2006 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival

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IF you don't like reading then just watch the 3 min youtube clip







The world turned upside down Dyer, Mick - Oxford Cartographers, 2005

Tile Hobo-Dyer Equal Area Projection

All printed world maps we see show a distortion of the true shape and size of the earth. This is not a deliberate plot on behalf of the map-makers, but stems from the impossibility of representing a spherical surface on a flat piece of paper. You need only peel an orange and try to flatten it to verify the principle - the peel will not lie flat without being broken into small pieces.

Cartographers have long sought solutions to this problem. The way that the globe is transferred to paper is called a projection. In the 16th century. the mapmaker Gerardus Mercator (1512-94) developed the Mercator Projection which sought to preserve fidelity of direction for navigators so that bearings taken from the map would be correct compass bearings on a journey. Unfortunately the result exaggerates scale so much that high latitudes become far too large. China. for example, appears much smaller than Greenland. whereas in reality it is 4½ times larger.

It soon becomes clear that whatever principle is used. the preservation of all the qualities on the globe - fidelity of area, distance, direction, and shape, cannot all be achieved on a world projection. Most projections are a compromise, where none of the qualities is totally preserved but a balance is struck.

The process of globalisation encourages us to focus on faraway parts of the world that were once considered unimportant. In order to gain a balanced appreciation of all regions, a new projection has been developed which preserves the property of equal area, that is, all countries are the correct size in relation to one another. This is the Hobo-Dyer Projection. It is still based on a cylinder, but in such a way that shapes are fairly correct up to about 45 degrees. At higher latitudes, the shapes are progressively flattened to compensate for the fact that the lines of longitude do not come to a point at the poles. Another equal area projection, called the Peters Projection, uses a similar principle but shape is less consistent in lower latitudes. Other commonly used projections, such as the Robinson Projection, usually fail to preserve equality of area, shape, angle or distance but offer a compromise between these properties.

The Hobo-Dyer Projection allows the display of geographic data, whether topographic or thematic. without scale bias in any region. The loss of true shape polewards of about 45 degrees is a small price to pay for the preservation of equal area.

via: Norman B. Leventhal Map Center

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less is more

Today at work one of my coworker (over 50 years old) came by and started telling this dick long story that i actually thought was important to share.. well at least it helped me understanding more
about time and money and the way we use it he said... bla bla bla ... who cares... what is important that i actually did start this same change last year

I have lived my life the way i wanted it.... but always been assfair about everything
I have tried to get/collect/build/earn more and more for each year that have passed...

Last year i started this new asslifestyle that have actually made my life so much better!

LESS IS MORE

I managed to hit the gym 5 times a week, played in the basketball league, playing many hours video games, my usual father and husband duties, shit load of series and movies every day
and if i got 5 hour sleep then i was happy this is of course after a full time job and not to forget to run my businesses other places
And the last 3 years before 2013 i was building this house that we live in now and have been dreaming to build for a long time

2013 is gone and my life is getting better and better

What was the point of all that hard work? Well it was waste of time COS i never had the time to really live... SO let start asking for less and living for more

After owning 4 businesses, 3 apartments (1 of them a 5 start penthouse), two houses, and shit load of land in 4 different countries I STOPPED

Today i have only 1 house. I train maybe 2-3 times a week. Quit basketball. Everything else is sold.
We always keep saying "i don't have time for more".. i want to have "i have more time for less"

BTW 50% of my collection is gone and somehow i am even more in love with my collection then before not to mention selling most of my graded collection has been wonderful

Some of you may say SO WHAT! keep your asslife to yourself... but i hope at least one of you understand that you don't need more stuff and money to be happier...

there is lots of wisdom in my assideology so lets ass while we still can

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very nice story Lef, I could not agree with you more my friend
P.s i hope you bought your kids a pet by now

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i found a solution C

my kids are getting pets only when they are on vacation
so now they have dog and rabbits and monkey and cats in different countries