A very, very dark place’: Hospitals brace for crisis-care mode with too many patients, not enough staff Ken AlltuckerUSA TODAY0:190:49https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.427.1_en.html#goog_1634236857 COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations are at record levels, and the rising case toll from Americans’ holiday travel has created an unprecedented surge with no relief in sight. The problem is especially ominous in the nation’s intensive care units – specializedContinue reading “Don’t play with fire or you might get burnt; Revenge of American Thanksgiving (USA Today)”
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
“The Plague” by Albert Camus: Passage for Reflection: The Fight Against the Plague
” Fledging moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow down to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be putContinue reading ““The Plague” by Albert Camus: Passage for Reflection: The Fight Against the Plague”
Passage for contemplation: Albert Camus: “The Plague”: Pleasure in the Peril!
“In the early days, when they thought that this epidemic was much like the other epidemics, religion held its ground, But, once these people realized their instant peril, they gave their thoughts to pleasure. And all the hideous fears which stamp their faces in the daytime are transformed in the fiery, dusty nightfall into aContinue reading “Passage for contemplation: Albert Camus: “The Plague”: Pleasure in the Peril!”
Albert Camus “The Plague”: The Inevitably of Plagues
“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world: yet somehow we find it hard to believe in the ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history. Yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.” Albert CamusContinue reading “Albert Camus “The Plague”: The Inevitably of Plagues”
“The Plague” by Albert Camus: Passage for Contemplation; The Quiet Before the Plague
“The Plague” (La Peste) is a fictional work dealing with a plague in Oran, Algeria. It was first published by Camus (1913-1960) in 1947. In the following passage before the plague hits he described the nature of Oran which might very well be Toronto or New York. “Perhaps the easiest way of making a town’sContinue reading ““The Plague” by Albert Camus: Passage for Contemplation; The Quiet Before the Plague”
“Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International”: A Serialized Novel By Robert K. Stephen: Chapter 1
CHAPTER 1 A little about myself I suppose the veracity of this book will no doubt be filtered through some psychological analysis of the author. So that is why he was so bitter, angry, frustrated, insightful, mad or immature! Let me give you some fodder which might afford you an opportunity to better understand meContinue reading ““Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International”: A Serialized Novel By Robert K. Stephen: Chapter 1″
Dipping into Dalva at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario: Double Douro Product
It is not easy to dip below $14.95 for Liquor Control Board of Ontario Vintage releases. For example, there are only three in the December 12th Vintages release. In this case from the Douro we have both a red and a white Dalva. Let us start with the red 2017 Dalva. In colour black cherryContinue reading “Dipping into Dalva at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario: Double Douro Product”
“Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International” : A Serialized Novel By Robert K. Stephen
Introduction I suppose your first couple of questions might be why did I write this book and what am I attempting to accomplish by so doing? Fair questions to ask. I suppose you want to know my name. It is Tony Hornet. Initially we should try and define exactly what type of corporation Up UpContinue reading ““Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International” : A Serialized Novel By Robert K. Stephen”
LBV not LBJ!
I remember attending Port Wine Day in Porto a few years ago and A Parisian marketing guru I was sitting next to on the media bus said to me that Port is a luxury product at a bargain price. One may debate if Vintage Ports are available at bargain prices but Late Bottled Vintage PortContinue reading “LBV not LBJ!”
Mr. Soul”: Before Oprah, Whoopi and Arsenio there was Mr. Soul
“ It has been 52 years since the anniversary of the first broadcast of “Soul” which was initially funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation that aired from a New York public broadcasting television station and ran from 1968-1973 nationally in the United States. “Soul” was produced and hosted by Ellis Haizlip known asContinue reading “Mr. Soul”: Before Oprah, Whoopi and Arsenio there was Mr. Soul”
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