In the end, this realisation of the fact that even at its own sport – one at which it has long been king – Canada can lose with the worst of them, speaks to another, more muted Canadian trait: that of humility.
Perhaps in light of this realisation, the report also includes a few words about "Methods that aim to deliberately alter the climate system to counter climate change, termed geoengineering .As our geoengineering correspondent writes in his blog, Heliophage, "the inclusion of this quite anodyne paragraph seems to have significance, at least for some people".
I saw how same-sex relationships were as complicated, messy, and real as the heterosexual pairings you normally saw on TV and in films; and this realisation paved a road to better places I never knew existed.
There is a kind of redemption in this, in the realisation of our human frailty.
When Cathal returns to a weeping statue of the Virgin that he had previously mocked, "He knelt, and asked for nothing". There is a kind of redemption in this, in the realisation of our human frailty.
This realisation started in my teenage years, when staff in the medical institutions I found myself in bullied their young charges to toughen up, insisting we would never have sex.
In this specific realisation, the packet loss threshold is imposed at 10%% and the optimal inferred time window is 5 ms. It is important to notice that, because of the time varying nature of the channel, the measured loss can oscillate even if the time windows' sampling is kept constant.
The frisson of this realisation comes in part from seeing that you have not, until now, understood the significance of what was there in plain sight.
In a people-powered NHS, this realisation is further enhanced by recognising that the people we serve are not passively in receipt of services.
