Don't call it a comeback, as my friend LL Cool J says, I've been here for years. I just haven't been posting Burning Ears for a while, because it's been crazy busy around The Coast office. However, news that Iranians are scared of a Halifax disease ship made me realize this town needs the Ears, so hopefully this will be the first post of a much more regular schedule. Come back tomorrow to see how these hopes are panning out. And find out more about the viral vessel after the jump.
CONFINED TO CABIN
from Tehran, Iran
This weekend a cruise ship docked in Halifax, but some of the 1,800 passengers weren't allowed to get off the boat because they probably have norovirus. As the Iranian site Press TV reports:
More than a dozen passengers aboard a cruise ship which temporarily docked at Halifax, were "strongly suspected" to be infected with norovirus, a highly contagious infection, typically transmitted from person to person.If this is noteworthy in Iran, where you'd think they've got plenty of local problems to get concerned about, there's definitely a lesson here for Halifax — or any other place that cares about how it's portrayed to potential tourists around the world. When a floating infectious disease clinic shows up, tell it the city's closed.The company that owns Aurora, P&O Cruises, claimed "unwell passengers are asked to comply with the doctor's instructions and isolate themselves in their stateroom until non-contagious. They are also asked not to proceed ashore." (story here)
HOT WHEELS
from Vancouver
A blogger at the Diabetic Round Table was on-hand to see a group of bike riders arrive on the west coast.
Today I watched the H2V Team arrive in Vancouver,B.C.So far they raised $ 726,000.00 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation during their 6000-kilometers (4000 miles) trip from Halifax,Nova Scotia to Vancouver, B.C.They bicycled the nine-day cross-country relay ride along the Trans Canada Highway. (story here)Yeah, these freaks biked from Halifax to BC in NINE DAYS. That's too fast to make fun of.
COMING ATTRACTIONS
from Singapore
Andreas Schlegel, a German artist who's now teaching at Singapore's Lassalle-Sia College of Arts, posted on his blog about an upcoming workshop called Expanding Bodies.
expanded bodies will take place in halifax, nova scotia, october 1-7. Metabolism, in living systems, has two aspects: anabolism (which means building up), and catabolism (or breaking down). These processes, part of all living systems, carry a particular resonance with respect to present-day concerns about sustainable environments.Expect Halifax's artspeak quotient to spike that week.The metabolic network will serve as a playground to explore the potentials of sensors and actuators hooked up to a responsive architecture. workshop leaders are Philip Beesley, Carole Collet,Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Rachel Wingfield and Mathias Gmachl of loop.ph (story here)
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