Hi.
I am a journalist writing for Our Times magazine and in researching my current article, I came across the Digby News & Views blog. My topic is Nova Scotian call centres, including what people who worked at the Cornwallis Convergys location are planning to do now that it is closing.
Would you be able to share my contact information with any individuals you think might be interested in being interviewed for the magazine? Or if you are aware of anyone whom I could contact directly, I would appreciate it if you could share their contact information with me; this might be someone who has previously been a spokesperson or leader in the Convergys call centre, who wouldn't mind talking about their experiences.
I can be reached by phone at (902) 865-6762 (Lr. Sackville, N.S.) or (preferably) by e-mail at mkeith71@gmail.com . The article is 100% about the concerns and future prospects for the workers in Nova Scotia call centres, not the company, and I am able to conduct any interviews by phone or e-mail. Here is a link which shows a sample of my previous writing for Our Times and details about the publication itself:
http://www.ourtimes.ca/Features/article_109.php
Thanks for your help--I hope to hear from you or a former Convergys employee soon. Have a good day.
Sincerely,
Melissa Keith
Lr. Sackville, N.S.
(902) 865-6762
mkeith71@gmail.com
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Eagle Watching
Does anyone in Digby/Annapolis area want to go eagle watching? Kathleen's Shuttle and Tours is providing you the opportunity to observe these magnificent creatures as they feed in an event established by the local valley farmers and community. There will be a community breakfast near the site, the cost of which Kathleen will pay for any passengers. In the hall at the event there will be displays about the birds which you will be likely to see, with photos and information about them. Bring your binocs and/or camera! Dress warmly for winter weather. Tour fee: $45. each. includes breakfast!
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Community Pot Luck Supper
Digby Neck Community Pot Luck Supper
6 p.m. Wednesday January 26, 2011
Rossway United Baptist Church
Please bring your favourite dish to share and enjoy a delicious meal and conversation in warm fellowship with friends. If you don't have time to prepare something come anyway. There is always plenty of good food. Invite your neighbours.
Everyone is welcome.
6 p.m. Wednesday January 26, 2011
Rossway United Baptist Church
Please bring your favourite dish to share and enjoy a delicious meal and conversation in warm fellowship with friends. If you don't have time to prepare something come anyway. There is always plenty of good food. Invite your neighbours.
Everyone is welcome.
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Sunday, January 16, 2011
What is Consensus Politics?
This is a method where the ruling party uses a system of asking the various sides in an argument to put forward their own ideas and then trying for find a CONSENSUS, which is a agreement that all parties can AGREE with. By getting all sides to contribute their own ideas, the final agreement is built with input from all sides of the question, rather than one group over-ruling all the others, with their power.
Consensus is a hall mark of a mature nation's ability to make good laws with agreement from all sides of the political spectrum.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_meant_by_the_term_politics_of_consensus#ixzz1BEHIPcMR
Consensus is a hall mark of a mature nation's ability to make good laws with agreement from all sides of the political spectrum.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_meant_by_the_term_politics_of_consensus#ixzz1BEHIPcMR
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Friday, January 14, 2011
NS Power and Expenditure Plan
Take note: there is a hearing on this. See if you can attend, if interested
Nova Scotia Power Inc. - 2011 Annual Capital Expenditure Plan ("ACE Plan") - P-128.11 / Matter No. M03810
Receipt is acknowledged of your email regarding a recent article in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald.
Enclosed, for your information, are copies of the Notice of Hearing and Order setting the timetable for this proceeding.
Documents filed in this matter can be accessed through the Board's website as follows:
Go to: www.nsuarb.ca
Click on Evidence
Click on Search by Matter
Matter ID: Type in M03810
Click on Find Records
If you have any problems accessing these documents, please do not hesitate to contact the Board.
Yours truly,
Nancy McNeil
Regulatory Affairs Officer/Clerk
Nova Scotia Power Inc. - 2011 Annual Capital Expenditure Plan ("ACE Plan") - P-128.11 / Matter No. M03810
Receipt is acknowledged of your email regarding a recent article in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald.
Enclosed, for your information, are copies of the Notice of Hearing and Order setting the timetable for this proceeding.
Documents filed in this matter can be accessed through the Board's website as follows:
Go to: www.nsuarb.ca
Click on Evidence
Click on Search by Matter
Matter ID: Type in M03810
Click on Find Records
If you have any problems accessing these documents, please do not hesitate to contact the Board.
Yours truly,
Nancy McNeil
Regulatory Affairs Officer/Clerk
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Yarmouth and Ferry Service
NS: A ferry will sink without federal funding, insists Pink
By Tina Comeau, Transcontinental Media
Source: The Vanguard, January 14, 2011
[YARMOUTH, NS] — As people dream of a return of ferry service for Yarmouth, a councillor with the town of Yarmouth says people in government are dreaming if they think a service can operate without some form of government subsidy.
And Martin Pink says despite all of the talk and the effort, with no ferry for another year Yarmouth finds itself in the same boat today that it was in a year ago.
At council’s January 13 meeting, Pink passed a motion calling on the mayors and wardens of southwestern Nova Scotia to get together as a group and call for a meeting with MPs Peter MacKay and Greg Kerr, and perhaps even Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to discuss the dire need for ferry service, and to discuss the federal government coming to the plate with federal funding to help with the operation of a ferry.
The motion was approved by council.
Yarmouth town councillor Martin Pink says the mayors and wardens of this part of the province need to press the federal government for ferry funding. — Tina Comeau photo
Pink said he feels the buck has been passed around too much between the provincial and federal government when it comes to restoring ferry service in Yarmouth. He noted that the provincial government says it will provide financial assistance — although never again a yearly subsidy — for a service that can be proven to be financially viable on its own.
“If we think that some ferry operator out there, is going to come forward, in this economic climate . . . with a financially economically, feasible operation with a little seed money from the province and make a great success of it, I think we’re in dreamland,” he said.
Pink feels this means that the area has to ask the federal government to step up because the province, he said, is broke.
“We need a subsidy. We need funding from the federal level of government,” he said.
Pink said a report funded by area chambers and prepared by Spencer Economic Consulting shows that there was money to be made for the economy – but it wasn’t made because there was no ferry.
Pink believes the only level of government that can help in any meaningful way is the federal government. He said an operator might feel they are better positioned to operate a ferry service if they know the federal government is going to have money available. And as the economy improves, maybe in years to come the assistance can be phased out said Pink.
“But if we get nothing here we’re going to be in the same situation 12 months from now as we are right now, except we’re going to have a lot of tourist-based operations close down.”
By Tina Comeau, Transcontinental Media
Source: The Vanguard, January 14, 2011
[YARMOUTH, NS] — As people dream of a return of ferry service for Yarmouth, a councillor with the town of Yarmouth says people in government are dreaming if they think a service can operate without some form of government subsidy.
And Martin Pink says despite all of the talk and the effort, with no ferry for another year Yarmouth finds itself in the same boat today that it was in a year ago.
At council’s January 13 meeting, Pink passed a motion calling on the mayors and wardens of southwestern Nova Scotia to get together as a group and call for a meeting with MPs Peter MacKay and Greg Kerr, and perhaps even Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to discuss the dire need for ferry service, and to discuss the federal government coming to the plate with federal funding to help with the operation of a ferry.
The motion was approved by council.
Yarmouth town councillor Martin Pink says the mayors and wardens of this part of the province need to press the federal government for ferry funding. — Tina Comeau photo
Pink said he feels the buck has been passed around too much between the provincial and federal government when it comes to restoring ferry service in Yarmouth. He noted that the provincial government says it will provide financial assistance — although never again a yearly subsidy — for a service that can be proven to be financially viable on its own.
“If we think that some ferry operator out there, is going to come forward, in this economic climate . . . with a financially economically, feasible operation with a little seed money from the province and make a great success of it, I think we’re in dreamland,” he said.
Pink feels this means that the area has to ask the federal government to step up because the province, he said, is broke.
“We need a subsidy. We need funding from the federal level of government,” he said.
Pink said a report funded by area chambers and prepared by Spencer Economic Consulting shows that there was money to be made for the economy – but it wasn’t made because there was no ferry.
Pink believes the only level of government that can help in any meaningful way is the federal government. He said an operator might feel they are better positioned to operate a ferry service if they know the federal government is going to have money available. And as the economy improves, maybe in years to come the assistance can be phased out said Pink.
“But if we get nothing here we’re going to be in the same situation 12 months from now as we are right now, except we’re going to have a lot of tourist-based operations close down.”
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Sunday, January 9, 2011
A Canadian and the Mona Lisa
'Mysterious, hidden literary references' found in the Mona Lisa
By ANI | ANI – Fri, 7 Jan 1:20 AM ESTWashington, Jan 7 (ANI): A professor from the Queen's University has stumbled upon literary references in Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
He believes that the work of art incorporates images inspired by the literary works of Roman poet Horace and Florentine poet Petrarch, a technique called 'invention'.
"The composition of the Mona Lisa is striking. Why does Leonardo have an attractive woman sitting on a balcony, while in the background there is an entirely different world that is vast and barren?" asks Ross Kilpatrick.
According to Kilpatrick, the painting alludes to Horace's Ode 1. 22 and two sonnets by Petrarch, all of which celebrate a devotion to a smiling young woman, with vows to love and follow the woman anywhere in the world, from damp mountains to arid deserts - the regions portrayed in the background of Mona Lisa.
He also reveals that da Vinci was aware of the poets and their works and the bridge seen in the background of the Mona Lisa has been identified as the same one from Petrarch's hometown of Arezzo.
"The Mona Lisa was made at a time when great literature was well known. It was quoted, referenced and celebrated," Kilpatrick added.
His findings have now been published in the Italian journal MEDICEA. (ANI)
By ANI | ANI – Fri, 7 Jan 1:20 AM ESTWashington, Jan 7 (ANI): A professor from the Queen's University has stumbled upon literary references in Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
He believes that the work of art incorporates images inspired by the literary works of Roman poet Horace and Florentine poet Petrarch, a technique called 'invention'.
"The composition of the Mona Lisa is striking. Why does Leonardo have an attractive woman sitting on a balcony, while in the background there is an entirely different world that is vast and barren?" asks Ross Kilpatrick.
According to Kilpatrick, the painting alludes to Horace's Ode 1. 22 and two sonnets by Petrarch, all of which celebrate a devotion to a smiling young woman, with vows to love and follow the woman anywhere in the world, from damp mountains to arid deserts - the regions portrayed in the background of Mona Lisa.
He also reveals that da Vinci was aware of the poets and their works and the bridge seen in the background of the Mona Lisa has been identified as the same one from Petrarch's hometown of Arezzo.
"The Mona Lisa was made at a time when great literature was well known. It was quoted, referenced and celebrated," Kilpatrick added.
His findings have now been published in the Italian journal MEDICEA. (ANI)
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