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7 Butty Place
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 2R5
www.quaker.ca/hamilton
quakers@hwcn.org
Telephone: 905.523.8383
October 23 Ruth and Reuven
October 30 Don & Harriet
Nov 6 Helen B
Nov 13 Dick
Nov 29 Carol Leigh
Nov 27 Mona
Sybil Grace
sybilgrace ( at) ncf (dot) ca
The draft of the 2005-6 HMM Directory is posted on the bulletin board. Please check your name, phone number, address and email information. The draft is prepared for printing so you may have to search for your entry. The draft will be on the bulletin board until Sunday October 23. Due to the requirements of the new Privacy Act we need your permission to include names and contact information in the Directory. To facilitate this process please tick off your name etc when you have checked the information or corrected it, or crossed out your entry if you do not wish to be included in the Directory.
Coming up in November is a workshop that will answer your questions, satisfy your curiosity, pique your interest, and give you a few hours of well-spent time with other Friends! Well, we hope it will do all that - and if it does, what more could you ask? Because of the slightly different clerking arrangement we're trying in Hamilton Meeting for a year (one Clerk of the Meeting for continuity, contact, and all the little day-to-day tasks, and a different Clerk for the Month for each business meeting), we've felt a need for a workshop to help Friends understand the job of clerking better and realize that it's not all that scarey. As Ministry and Counsel began planning this workshop, we realized that the conduct of business meetings depends as much on the care, understanding, and attitude of all the Friends attending as it does on the Clerk. So we decided that rather than a workshop just on clerking, we need a workshop on attending and being part of business meeting, whatever your role.
Business Meetings at Canadian Yearly Meeting sessions this past August were often wonderful experiences of the divine, both in each other and all around and through us. This is how Meetings for Worship for Business can be! Mark your calendars now for Saturday, November 12, 9:30 - 2:00 when (we hope) we'll ALL get together to learn how to have Meetings for Business that are effective, worshipful, efficient, and enjoyable. We'll meet through the morning under the guidance of a number of experienced presiding clerks, enjoy a lunch which will be provided, and have time to talk it all over in a social setting. Plan to come!
Hamilton Meeting's library has the following new titles for your enjoyment. All new titles are put on the display bottom shelf. I look forward to suggestions for additions to our holdings. If you read one of our books, would you consider writing a 100 word book review for this newsletter? Can you donate a book? The website has a list of the core Quaker books we are looking to add, also in the Reference binder on the library table.
How's your current events reading list these days? Has energy supply been on your mind? If you're like most people, it wasn't an issue until Hurricanes Katrina and Rita burst the bubble. Apparently these storms caused 95% of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and 65% of Natural Gas to be shut in, not available until massive repairs to the drilling platforms and pipelines is completed. We're not hearing in the mainstream press that this means that 20% of US refining capacity is off line.
But "peak oil" has been around longer than that. Basically it is the predicted period when oil production per capita levels off and starts declining, worldwide. Some knowledgeable people are convinced we are there now. This is a significant development in the history of mankind, after only 150 years of the age of Oil, we are heading into the backside of the curve where oil (and all that we produce from it, not just energy) is declining in supply. We citizens dare not think of the potential consequences of this on lifestyle and standards of living this winter, else we contract a serious migraine. But if you are intrepid, point your browser to the Canadian Association of the Club of Rome for this link: www.cacor.ca/Proceed-Sep%2005.pdf.
If that is too much for the moment, here are some juicy morsels from the latest issue of Proceedings, published by CACOR.
Proceedings will include quotes of writers and other persons which are considered to be of significance to the human predicament and the health and survival of our planetary ecosystem.
Circumstances seem to me as dangerous and intractable as any I can remember. .... What really concerns me is that there seems to be so little willingness or capacity to do anything about it.
Paul Volcker, Former US Federal Reserve Board Chairman
April 16, 2005
To me, a hope is that we are going to hit Peak Oil when oil resources begin to decline. ... and some geologists say we already hit it last year. The business community is now starting to take this very seriously. The impact of fossil fuel depletion is going to create enormous suffering, no doubt about it.
David Suzuki, April 23, 2005
So its very probable that the world is peaking in oil about now. .... The
world in general, and the US in particular, has pretty much blown 25 years of time that we had, but no longer have, for preparation for the necessary transition.
Roscoe Bartlett, Maryland Republican Representative,
May 4, 2005
The first half of the age of oil closes. It lasted 150 years and saw the
rapid expansion of industry, transport, trade, agriculture and financial
capital, allowing the population to expand six-fold. The second half of the age of oil now dawns, and will be marked by the decline of oil and all that depends upon it, including financial capital. It heralds the collapse of the present Financial System, and related political structures, speaking of a second great depression.
Dr. Colin Campbell, geologist, consultant to major oil companies
and governments, and founder of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas
May 5, 2005
Peak oil is starting to become conventional wisdom.
Edward Schreyer, Former Governor General of Canada
May 5, 2005
Peak oil is real and we are on the Peak now.
Al Gore, Former US Vice President
June 5, 2005
A joint Gettysburg College and community effort is under way to aid tsunami victims. The goal is to raise $15,000 to purchase and outfit boats for four fishing families in the hard-hit Trincomalee district of Sri Lanka, where more than 1,000 died and some 37,000 families were displaced.
The "One Boat at a Time" effort is being undertaken in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Trincomalee. Seventeen-foot fiberglass boats with 20-horsepower engines and nets and hooks will go to one Hindu, one Buddhist, one Muslim and one Christian family.
A public event -- featuring talks by philosophy and peace studies Prof. Rajmohan Ramanathapillai, whose hometown is Trincomalee, and environmental studies Prof. Sarah Principato, who will discuss the science of tsunamis -- is planned Jan. 20 at 11:30 a.m. in the Ballroom of the College Union Building on West Lincoln Avenue. Admission is free, but donations to aid victims are encouraged. A simple meal will be served.
The boats are an excellent form of aid because fishing is the basis of the local economy and a major source of food for residents, said Ramanathapillai, who learned days after the tsunami waves struck that members of his family were unhurt, though a friend's family lost 17 members. One of Ramanathapillai's relatives was celebrating her birthday in a temple on high ground when the first wave struck. Another interrupted a phone conversation with Ramanathapillai, saying he had to run because another wave was coming.
"Such small-scale projects as One Boat at a Time will give a personal face for students who hope to make a small, concrete change in the lives of suffering and distant families," Ramanathapillai said. "One Boat at a Time will complement giving to world relief organizations by stressing direct personal action on behalf of individual families, and the hope embodied in rebuilding," philosophy Prof. Lisa Portmess said. "Such action will model for students forms of involvement that deepen cultural understanding and responsiveness, and open up the possibilities of cultural exchange and reciprocal learning."
Peacemaker Awards for 2005 will be given to Herman Stuempfle and Rajmohan Ramanathapillai. The ceremony will be held on Monday, April 18, at 7 p.m., in the Eisenhower Room at the Adams County Library in Gettysburg. All are invited. Refreshments will be served.
This year the Board of the Interfaith Center has decided to bestow both a Lifetime Achievement Award and an award for an achievement during the past year. Herman Stuempfle, former President of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary and a founding member of the Gettysburg Martin Luther King Celebration Committee and the Adams County Human Relations Council, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Raj Ramanathapillai will receive the Peacemaker Award for his work in organizing the "One Boat at a Time" tsunami relief effort, described elsewhere in this issue.
The Peacemaker Awards are given annually to local residents who have made a distinguished contribution to the promotion of peace and justice. Each consists of a plaque and a donation of $150 worth of books in the recipient^Òs name to the Adams County Library.
(Source: http://www.icpj-gettysburg.org/newsletter/April%202005/peacemaker.htm )
All of us, as members of YSHYM, are responsible to help put on the day's program. Dawn, Jesse, and I are organizing, and we've selected Communication and Community as our theme, but we need:
This event is not just the responsibility of the few Friends who have offered to organize. Please let Dawn, Jesse, or me know if you can help. Thanks a bunch!
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