week in review

When I read this post by JennyWenny  about her plans to participate in the Weekend to End Breast Cancer , I immediately wanted to share it with all of you in hopes that some of you would consider making a donation. Then I realsied that in my excitement, I forgot to "be the change" I was wanting to see. So I anted up and made a donation of my own to support this work.  I wonder who else will be inspired by this and who might slow things down and realise they want to make a contribution also?
 
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Viva la Resolution  is well underway, and you've still got time to enter the contest for a chance to win $1000. Will you share with us what you are working on for 2008?
 
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411 a thing of the past?
How many times have I been on my way somewhere and I thought I knew the address but I end up lost and going around in circles trying to find it? You may be better at writing down the coordinates of your destination before you leave the house, but I often 'wing it' sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. The times it hasn't, I have often wished I could just get someone to send me the info I need to my phone - and today I found out that wish has come true. Thanks to Google's new service (which they don't charge for) when I am lost or just looking for information while I am out and about, I can have the info I need sent to my phone. All I have to do is send a text message like Vancity Main Street to 466453 (which is “Google” spelled out in numbers) and they will text me back the info I am looking for. I just added 'Google' as a contact in my cell phone.
 
Enter what you want to find followed by a city and province, or a postal code.  For example: Vancity Vancouver, BC. Google will reply including multiple listings, with both phone numbers and addresses.
 
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events around town
 
Tuesday February 5th:
Global Warming: More than hot air? Dr. David Chapman, professor of geophysics at the University of Utah and renowned speaker on global warming, reviews the scientific evidence that climate change is caused by human activity. You should come to this talk if you want an interesting, accessible update on the causes of global warming, and a renewed sense of the urgent need for action. Bring along a friend who remains skeptical of the arguments, or who has never really understood what all the fuss was about.
 
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The 16th Annual Wellness Show
Friday, February 1, 2008 - Sunday, February 3, 2008
Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre
999 Canada Place
Need help finding balance in your life? The Wellness Show will focus on all aspects of health and vital living.  What to expect: Keynote speakers, demonstrations and special events reflecting the most up-to-date information on wellness and healthy living.

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Dinosaurs return to the earth in a live theatrical arena show, WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Live Experience, based on the award-winning BBC Television Series. In WALKING WITH DINOSAURS, fifteen roaring, snarling “live” dinosaurs mesmerize the audience – and are as awe-inspiring as when they first walked on earth.
 
This 90-minute show is now on a two-year North American arena tour and will perform eight performances at General Motors Place in Vancouver. 500,000 North Americans have already seen the production since it opened in July 2007.
 
Ten species are represented from the entire 200 million year reign of the dinosaurs. The show includes the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the terror of the ancient terrain, as well as the Plateosaurus and Liliensternus from the Triassic period, the Stegosaurus and Allosaurus from the Jurassic period and Torosaurus and Utahraptor from the awesome Cretaceous. The largest of them, the Brachiosaurus is 36 feet tall, and 56 feet from nose to tail. It took a team of 50 – including engineers, fabricators, skin makers, artists and painters, and animatronic experts – a year to build the original production.
 
The show depicts the dinosaurs’ evolution, complete with the climatic and tectonic changes that took place, which led to the demise of many species. With almost cinematic realism, WALKING WITH DINOSAURS has scenes of the interactions between dinosaurs, and the audience sees how carnivorous dinosaurs evolved to walk on two legs, and how the herbivores fended off their more agile predators.
 
you'll have to check in with ticketmaster for tix.