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Summit County fishing report: Ice fishing is still the best catching option
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This time of year, open-water fishing is limited primarily to tailwater fisheries and lower sections of the Colorado and Roaring Fork rivers. Tailwaters are your best bet and fairly consistent fisheries with midges and either nymphs or dries when cloudy. It's best to fish during the week to avoid the crowds.
There are plenty of options, but ice fishing offers your best chance for a great day of catching. Nearby Dillon Reservoir has been fishing slow. A better choice is downstream at Green Mountain Reservoir, where fishing has been fair for rainbows in shallow water. A wide variety of small ice jigs are working. Lake trout move from deeper water, where they are most often fished, to shallow areas to feed. Use one rod for lake trout and another for rainbows and browns.
Williams Fork Reservoir has a good foot of ice and is producing a fair number of small lake trout in the 16- to 22-inch class. Fishing pressure has been light.
Reports indicate that lake trout have been caught from 10 feet of water to 50 feet or deeper. Interestingly, the same can be said for the rainbows, although they typically run higher in the water column.
Concentrate your lake efforts near the bottom with slightly larger jigs — up to 3 inches. For the rainbows, work smaller jigs from the ice down one reel crank at a time.
The better action has been occurring in the afternoons.
Now that Granby has a good ice cap, we're seeing a lot more fishing pressure on the reservoir with snowmobiles and ATVs being able to move around freely. Just be aware that there is a lot of slush, which can make travel difficult. Most reports are for lake trout — nothing large, most less than 24 inches — using standard fare. Jigs and sucker meat are used by most.
South Park waters remain very popular. Antero Reservoir continues to produce fish. Working shallow waters, less than 10 feet, is a good tactic. Jigging spoons, such as Kastmasters, have been working. Other good choices are small tube jigs in the 1- to 2-inch class; white and pink have been effective.
There was a tournament at Elevenmile recently, so it might be good to give this one a rest. Same can be said for Tarryall. While tournaments are great fun, they can make catching a bit more challenging for a little while. If you have a snowmobile, consider running up the hill to Jefferson. Fishing has been good for lake trout, and there's almost no pressure.
Dave Coulson is the Colorado state editor for http://www.fishexplorer.com. He contributes a weekly fishing report to the Summit Daily News.
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Ishraj Rasode dances up and almost immediately starts telling me the history of Eric Anderson's log cabin that sits on the grounds of the thoroughly modern Surrey Museum in Cloverdale.
The cabin is the oldest existing building in Surrey. An early settler, Anderson went to sea on a whaling ship as a boy of 11, leaving behind his family. It's a fact that seven-year-old Ishraj can't quite fathom any more than she can imagine living with five others in the one-room cabin.
The cabin is fitting start to our walk because Cloverdale's preserved links to the past are one reason her mother, Surrey Councillor Barinder Rasode, is moving here with her three children.
"It's still a small community even though it's in a large city," says Barinder. "It's overflowing with heritage. But intermingled are South Asian shops and services ... It represents Surrey to me."
Despite its distinct character and being bordered on three sides by property protected by the Agricultural Land Reserve, Cloverdale is one of the city's fastest growing town centres after years of having been bypassed by developers.
What that's meant is that Cloverdale's main street just a two-minute walk from the museum is like a movie set with its heritage buildings, locally owned stores and restaurants.
It's so quintessentially small-town that it ought to be called Main Street instead of 176th Street. And if it seems familiar, it's because for a decade Cloverdale doubled as Clark Kent's hometown in the television series Smallville. (Folks at the Chamber of Commerce office say half a dozen people a week still come here just to see it.) Dann's Electric, for example, has been operating here since 1932. There's a 1958 television set in the window. Inside, there are stereos in cabinets as well as flatscreen TVs and a whole wall of plugs and other bits.
By the door, a couple of sets of rabbit ears are for sale – surprising, since I keep seeing ads telling people that after Aug. 31 they'll be obsolete.
"Don't believe everything you read," 87-year-old Allan Dann tells me. "You'll still be able to use them if you get little box."
Dann's father, Ernie, started the business in 1921 and moved to this spot in 1932. It was built by the Royal Bank and during Prohibition, it was the first liquor store once you crossed the border. Dann remembers Americans lining up outside.
He shows me the original bank vault, tells me about King George officially opening the highway and about being a volunteer ticket-taker 65 years ago at the first Cloverdale Rodeo.
"We still think of this as a small town," says Dann, who lives on the same street that he grew up on. "But I think it's better now because it's bigger and there are a lot more activities."
When he was a young man, Dann paid five cents to take the streetcar to Langley. Soon, he'll see both streetcars and interurban railcars running again as part of the city's revitalization plans.
The restored Streetcar 30 (renamed Clover Belle) will run up 176th Street to the Cloverdale Fairgrounds, while a refurbished interurban railcar will run from the new car barn at the foot of 176th Street to Sullivan along the Fraser Valley spur line.
Down the street from Dann's Electric is the art deco Clova Theatre, which was built in 1947. For $8, you can watch two feature films during the week and, to save trees and minimize waste, patrons are advised to bring their own containers for pop and popcorn.
Further up the street, old shops are being refurbished and finding new life as specialty clothing boutiques and interior design stores.
But Cloverdale isn't all cowboys and old stuff.
A third of its population is under 19 – it's the highest percentage of any urban centre in Canada and attributed to Cloverdale being affordable.
That's something Rasode says the city wants to protect.
Unlike some municipalities, Surrey and its mayor, Dianne Watts (who's also lives in Cloverdale), are not at all reluctant to assume responsibility for housing, homelessness and building urban infrastructure whether its at the new downtown centre or the six town centres (including Cloverdale).
To stimulate redevelopment, the city's development corporation has been buying up derelict land and decrepit buildings and forming partnerships with private developers to replace them.
Cloverdale's West Village project downtown will incorporate a new legion, retail, commercial and 440 resident units as well as a plaza that will link it to 176th Street.
Nearby, a new homeless shelter is being planned by city's Homeless Housing Fund and will be built next to the animal shelter that's already being built.
Why? Because Rasode says one barrier to people going to homeless shelters is that they can't take pets. This way, both the people and the pets can be safely housed close to each other. The reciprocal benefit is that homeless people will be welcomed as volunteers at the animal shelter.
"We're conscious of a mix of affordable housing, multi-family, seniors and high-end housing. It's important that we have that mix."
Equally important is ensuring ethnic diversity.
"We don't want to be like England with divisions based on ethnicity," says Rasode, a first-generation Canadian. "It's about inclusion and Surrey is a testing ground for that."
Unlike when her father – a turbaned Sikh arrived from India, she says, so many services are available in Punjabi that some immigrants – especially older people – don't learn to speak English.
"You need commonality and that commonality is the language. Without it, there are even language gaps with their own children."
As we walk up 176th, the changes are reflected in the retail shops. Malary's is a destination women's boutique specializing in local designers that, attracts clients from all over Metro. Nearby is La Belle Vie, a home décor store that wouldn't be out of place in Vancouver's Gastown or South Main.
Population growth is driving Cloverdale's changes. But what's informing the transformation is the desire of Cloverdale's residents – old and young – to respect and preserve this community's history.
At Ishraj's insistence, we finish our walk with lunch at The Vault in – yes – the old bank vault at the back of the restaurant. It's painted bright orange. The heavy steel door is propped open and an escape hatch cut into the thick wall that's big enough that, in a pinch, Ishraj could scramble through.
NEXT WEEK: Next Saturday's neighbourhood walk is along a section of North Shore's Spirit Trail with Sheryl Fisher, a member of Squamish Nation who talks about the significance of the land and sea to her, her family and her people.
But if you'd like to take a similar guided walk on Sunday, Aug. 28, North Vancouver Museum's first nations curator Tracy Williams is leading one that will focus on traditional food gathering, preparation and preservation. For information and registration, call 604-990-3700 ext. 8016.

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2019 Oakfield Labor Daze
Oakfield at Triangle Park in the center of Oakfield on Saturday, August 31st to Monday, September 2nd. This celebration is a family-oriented festival with many fun-filled, alcohol-free events.
As you are aware, local community gatherings and carnivals are disappearing due to restrictive laws, lack of funding, and difficulty maintaining a volunteer base. The Oakfield Betterment Committee is dedicated to making sure that our local event continues to be a tradition for our town. In fact, we are proud of the fact that we are expanding the celebration as well as the volunteer base. The 2019 celebration will consist of first-rate live entertainment, children's activities, car show, parade, fireworks, arts & crafts vendors, and food vendors.
Non-profit groups from Oakfield and surrounding areas are invited to operate food and beverage stands and various games other fundraisers at the event free of charge, making this celebration an important part of our local nonprofit organizations' fundraising.FINAL SPONSOR PRINT (1)
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**Special thanks to both the Village and the Town of Oakfield and all of the officials who helped make Labor Daze in Triangle Park a reality**


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Editor's note: This story ran first in the Cape Cod Times
Editor's note: This story ran first in the Cape Cod Times
KENNEBUNKPORT — The snow is a bit deeper and the temperatures a bit colder, but in other ways Maine winters are much like winters on Cape Cod.
Tourists are fewer and farther between. Locals reclaim the snowy streets and their favorite bar stools. Friendly conversation is easier and the nonstop hubbub of the summer is over.
In the village of Cape Porpoise, the low talk at the start of a new year includes questions and speculation about what happened to two out-of-staters — including one from Cape Cod — who are believed dead after mysteriously disappearing last month from the quaint coastal community.
Prescott Wright, 23, of Barnstable, Mass., and Zachary Wells, 21, of Burlington, Vt., were "boat school" students who attended The Landing School in nearby Arundel. They were known in passing by many locals and better by some others.
The men were last seen in the early morning of Dec. 20 during a small pre-holiday gathering at a home on Mills Road, a stone's throw from the center of Cape Porpoise. Life jackets, jeans, a jacket, a sweatshirt and footwear were found Dec. 24 on nearby Savin Bush Island, a ledge of rocks that barely stays above water at high tide just northwest of its larger, more prominent neighbor, Goat Island. Police say at least one of the items found on the island has been connected to one of the men. No other sign or clue related to their disappearance has been uncovered despite an extensive search on land and at sea.
"I couldn't say for sure," lobster fisherman John Daggett said last week during a chilly interview on the Cape Porpoise pier about what he thought happened to the two young sailors.
The fisherman, who was among many who searched for the missing men in the surrounding waters, said nobody could fault the Maine Marine Patrol for lack of trying.
"They don't give up," he said as the agency's plane buzzed overhead with pilot Steve Ingram scanning the water below for any sign of Wright or Wells.
Wright had a sailboat on somebody else's mooring in the harbor until about two or three weeks before he and Wells disappeared, Kennebunkport Harbormaster Lee McCurdy said.
He told Wright he couldn't keep it there for long, McCurdy said, adding that he helped Wright take down the boat's mast before later pulling the boat from the water.
Standing on the pier with Goat Island about a half-mile in the distance, McCurdy and Daggett said the weather was bad the night Wright and Wells disappeared and no time to be out on the water.
"We've had several storms," Daggett said. "Every one has been pretty good."
Searching for answers
Goat Island lighthouse keeper Scott Dombrowski said he was wakened by the sound of a Coast Guard helicopter searching the area early on the Saturday after Wells and Wright disappeared.
"As soon as we found out what had occurred, we headed out and started to search for Prescott and Zach," he said.
Fishermen, police and locals spent the next several days combing the surrounding islands looking for them, Dombrowski said, adding that it was a "monumental effort."
"What I would speculate is that they were in kayaks as opposed to a boat," he said.
Although no boats or kayaks were reported missing, masons working on Goat Island reported seeing what appeared to be a kayak across the mouth of the harbor on Folly Island the morning of Dec. 20, Dombrowski said.
Police say no kayaks or other vessels have been recovered in connection with the search.
It's possible Wright and Wells got into trouble on the water but made it to Savin Bush Island, Dombrowski said.
Once they made it there they might have shed their clothes to eliminate weight or because of the effects of hypothermia, Dombrowski said, adding that the water temperature at the time was 37 degrees Fahrenheit.
It would have been a roughly 200-foot swim from the rocks to Goat Island where the lighthouse has heat, food and water, Dombrowski said.
"It certainly would have been our wish that they made it there," he said.
Instead they may have been overcome during the attempted swim and swept out to sea, Dombrowski said.
"When the water flushes out of there it goes out with a vigor," he said of the harbor.
High tide on the morning of Dec. 20 was 4:41 a.m. and low tide was 10:55 a.m., according to www.maineboats.com. Sunrise was shortly after 7 a.m.
By Dec. 22 the Coast Guard had provided local police with a computer-generated map of a search area for Wright and Wells, which ran from Cape Porpoise to Cape Neddick near York, Kennebunkport Police Chief Craig Sanford said during an interview at the police station, less than a mile from where Wells and Wright were last seen.
"That's over 30 miles along the shore," he said about the search area.
Side-scan sonar, which creates images of the sea floor, was used in the harbor and around Goat Island. The sonar revealed some small boats underwater but divers determined the boats had been there long before Dec. 20, Sanford said.
There were only about five people at the gathering where Wright and Wells were last seen, he said, adding that everyone involved has been extremely cooperative.
Families worried from start
Police were concerned immediately after the men were reported missing, Sanford said.
Their families were expecting them for the holidays, they left cellphones behind, and there was no indication a crime had been committed, he said.
"When we started to look at this, it was very strange," he said.
Witnesses told police they thought the men were intoxicated, but there was nothing unusual about young men having a few drinks, Sanford said.
Police even served a search warrant on Wells' car just in case but found nothing that could help, he said.
If they did take kayaks or some other boat on the water, there is no indication where they would have acquired the vessel or vessels, Sanford said.
Two kayaks at the house where they were staying were accounted for, and no other boats have been reported missing, he said.
"There are summer residents who have all kinds of boats," he said, adding that Wright and Wells could have used one of these.
Sanford said he has been updating the missing men's families as needed.
"I can only imagine their grief being a parent," said Sanford, who is the father of three sons between 19 and 23 years old.
Locals who knew Wright described him as friendly, outgoing and passionate about the water.
Wright had already graduated from the marine systems program at the The Landing School and was back to study yacht design after a year away.
"He was a big personality who just everybody liked," school President Robert DeColfmacker said.
DeColfmacker said he planned to hold an "all hands" meeting to discuss the deaths of Wright and Wells with the school's 70 students on Thursday, the first day back to school after the holidays.
Despite not being native to the area, Wright made an impression on many of the people who spoke to the Times for this story.
"Prescott was a hoot," said Bree Frederick, a bartender at the Ramp, a small restaurant on the Cape Porpoise pier filled with an impressive array of signed sports and political memorabilia. "He always was the life of the party."
Everything seemed fine when Wright was last in the restaurant with his father the Saturday before he disappeared, Frederick said.
The Ramp's owner and chef Peter Morency, who previously worked at several restaurants on Cape Cod and who drew inspiration from the wood-lined interior of the former Moors Restaurant in Provincetown to decorate the Ramp, said Wright loved boat building and had a lot of friends.
"For him, it was all about the water," Morency said.
Hundreds attended a memorial service for Wright on Jan. 5 at the Unitarian Church of Barnstable. A service for Wells was scheduled for the same day and time in Vermont.


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To act or not to act? Europe may be doomed either way, since apparently investors not only do not have faith in officials to take decisive action on the debt crisis but also do not seem to believe that a bold solution proposed by some can work—because it does not go far enough. Consumer sentiment fell in June throughout Europe as unemployment in Germany rose. And in England, Barclays settled with investigators over charges that it took part in a Libor-fixing scheme.
Bloomberg reported Thursday that a proposed banking union to be discussed at an EU summit meeting Thursday and Friday is regarded by investors to be a failure in the making unless it also incorporates shared liabilities. The 27 EU leaders plan to discuss over the next two days methods to coordinate bank oversight, unite national deposit guarantees and blend crisis management powers as they seek to head off further escalation of the debt crisis.
However, investors, who already have demonstrated that they have little faith in the ability of leaders to take solid action, aren't having any. "Talk about a banking union is too premature," Guy de Blonay said in the report. De Blonay, a London-based fund manager at Jupiter Fund Management, which oversees about $37.5 billion, was quoted saying, "Europe hasn't taken steps to restoring an orderly sovereign debt market. You need economies to borrow at a decent rate."
Currently Spain and Italy are caught between needing money to fund their governments and soaring yields on sovereign bonds. Cyprus, already struggling with the handicap of its close economic ties to Greece, on Monday requested its own bailout from the eurozone.
One strategy that is on the table is a shared Eurpean deposit guarantee program. Political leaders want to prevent another instance of deposit flight, such as occurred in Greece, because if depositors pull their money from a country's banks that country must turn to the European Central Bank (ECB) for funding.
However, while individual banks, central banks and governments could contribute the money for a joint guarantee plan, only a "full backup from the ECB would make an EU insurance scheme credible," Mediobanca analysts Antonio Guglielmi and Alain Tchibozo, said to clients in a June 25 note.
Daniel Zuberbuehler, former vice chairman of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority and now a financial services consultant at KPMG in Zurich, questioned in the Bloomberg report whether such a plan would work. "The question around a banking union is, are the funds there to make good on the promises?" he was quoted asking. "It's an issue of credibility. Who pays and is the system capable of footing the bill?"
He added that a banking union "only makes sense if you have a paymaster agreement. Only after you have a fiscal union and more harmonization in Europe does it work." The U.K. has already opted out of participating in any such plan, according to Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, who said in a BBC interview on June 7 that the country would not join any eurozone banking union and that he would look for means to ensure that the single market operates throughout the EU. That led Zuberbuehler to comment, "From a global perspective, if a banking union were to be limited to the eurozone, without the U.K., it would be a parochial aspiration."
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has repeatedly voiced her opposition to any shared plan, and as a result has become increasingly estranged from many eurozone leaders. France, Spain and Italy in particular have united against her position, pressuring her to consider closer fiscal union strategies at the G20 summit meeting 10 days ago.
Only three hours after Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain asked for help for his country at the meeting, Merkel denounced strategies such as "eurobonds, euro bills and European deposit insurance with joint liability and much more" as "economically wrong and counterproductive" and, further, against the German constitution.
In a speech before German lawmakers in Berlin on Wednesday, Merkel said, referring to the EU summit Thursday and Friday, "I fear that at the summit there will be much too much talk about mutual liability and far too little about improved oversight and structural measures. Oversight and liability have to go hand in hand. There can only be joint liability when adequate oversight is ensured."
Germany is beginning to feel the toll of the crisis that has been grinding down its eurozone neighbors for some time, as unemployment rose to a seasonally adjusted 2.88 million, an increase of 7,000. That wasn't the only gloomy news in Europe. The European Commission (EC) said Thursday that an index of executive and consumer sentiment in the eurozone fell to 89.9 from a revised 90.5 in May, the lowest it has been since October 2009.
The EC also said that an index of European manufacturer confidence dropped to a negative 12.7 from a negative 11.4 in May—its lowest level since February 2010. A services confidence indicator also fell, reaching a negative 7.4 from a negative 5.2, and consumers dropped right along with them; a consumer sentiment index went to negative 19.8 from a negative 19.3. "The crisis continues to dominate everything," Gerd Hassel, an economist at BHF Bank in Frankfurt, said in the report before the release of the data. "I fear that confidence will continue to decline over the coming months."
England had its own woes to deal with as Barclays settled with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. Justice Department and the U.K. Financial Services Authority for a record $451 million over charges that it, among more than a dozen banks, engaged in manipulating the Libor rate.
According to documents released by the agencies, Barclays traders and their counterparts in at least four other banks routinely collaborated on moving interest rate benchmarks that included Libor and Euribor. The aim was to profit on derivatives that the banks held.
"It's going to put a great deal of pressure on the other banks to settle because somebody has set a precedent," said Jerry W. Markham, a law professor at Florida International University and a former chief counsel in the CFTC's enforcement division, who was quoted in the report.
Barclays has agreed to pay $160 million to the Justice Department, $200 million to the CFTC and 59.5 million pounds ($91 million) to the FSA; the latter two are the biggest fines in the history of those agencies. Regulators are still investigating, and among the banks targeted by the investigations are Citigroup, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, UBS, ICAP, Lloyds Banking Group and Deutsche Bank.


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Brown, Hallie Q.
Following closely the ties of blood are those of friendship and association. Involuntarily one gives a warmer clasp of the hand to a person coming from his section of the country or state, and the fellow-feeling is still more intensified when one hails from the same city or town. Mary Burnett and the writer were from the little educational village of Oberlin, Ohio, in the northern part of the state near the city of Cleveland. After early child-hood we passed out of the lives of each other. My family moved to Washington, D. C., while she continued to live in Oberlin, graduating from the college at an early age. Later she went to Little Rock, Arkansas, where she made a most acceptable teacher for several years, until she married William H. Talbert and located in the city of Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Talbert possessed a kind, thoughtful, generous nature. She did not hesitate to do the smallest deed to the humblest person in any possible way. For if one does not possess these qualities in the small things in life she can never fully expand to the greater ones. Her personality was most charming, her smile an object of beauty. She possessed a ready and versatile tongue and pen. A letter from her was almost equal to a face to face conversation. She was at once graceful and gracious. By her ability, her oratory and her pleasing personality, she held the undivided attention of an audience when she appeared as a speaker. In 1916 she was elected President of the National Association of Colored Women which post she held for four consecutive years. During the first two years of
When peace was declared she at once began working for the passage of the Dyer Anti-lynching bill. To this she gave the vitality that may have cause the undermining of her health. She realized her physical condition but was willing to lay down her life, not only to perpetuate the deeds of Frederick Douglass and other leading characters for the inspiration of our youth but her large sympathy extended to the unprotected and the unfortunate in all avenues of life. The awarding of the Spingarn medal was the stamp of approval which was bestowed on this fearless leader for what she had so nobly accomplished.
The writer's association with Mrs. Talbert in the
Her going has left a void which is felt by her numberless associates and friends. Those who admired and loved her are legion. "Our ways are not God's ways," or Mary Burnett Talbert would still be among us performing her own invaluable service. "She cannot come to us, but we can go to her." Her spirit can be with us, inspiring to grater things. In that spirit of love, consecration and ambition, we can commemorate her memory in no better manner than to complete the work that she has already carried to so great a state of advancement.
The Douglass Home, with her plans carried out, will then be a monument, as she had intended it should be, to men and women of mark who have gone before her. Let us join hands with renewed vigor and inspiration to carry on her work.


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New Years Day means it's the time to start afresh, and that includes in the kitchen. You'll most likely start your day (read: 4pm, Jan 1) with something to curb your horrendous hangover — so please share what that recipe might be, bonus points for creative names like "Grandma Pappy's Head Hurt No No Cream Souffle". Also, can I get that recipe?
And then, once the hangover is at bay, what's next on your plate? I personally will be eating all the collards (dollars) and black eyes peas (cents) that I can stuff down my gullet (good thing I'm fat!) because mama needs some cha-ching in 2013 (rhyme?). Hoppin John, here I come!
And, of course, plenty of champagne with everything because hair of the beast, drunk all day, honorary Sunday, etc. Happy New Year!!
[photo courtesy of the extremely delicious Isa Chandra Moskowitz and the ever tasty PPK]


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Sugar Shout Out For July 1, 2012
Sugar Shout Out: Fourth of July Movie Guide
- Fourth of July movie guide — what to see and who to bring!
- Whip up a red, white, and blue flag cake
- Learn how to do a Dutch braid
- Magic Mike strippers and other sexy stars dish about nudity
- Throw a great Fourth of July-themed birthday party
- See the chic street styles catching Fab's eye
- Inspirational sources for creating your ideal wedding
- Which July movies are you excited to see?
- Who to reach out to if your medical claim gets denied
- Try best moves for a hotel room workout
- Summer dangers for your feline friends
- Get crafty with online sewing and crafting classes
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A Vancouver couple has endowed a $1-million prize to be awarded each year to projects benefiting the people and the environment of the Canadian Arctic.
The Arctic Inspiration prize will be awarded for the first time next month in Vancouver at the ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting, an annual gathering of about 2,000 academics and researchers as well as representatives of government, business and non-profit organizations.
Iranian-born Sima Sharifi and Swiss-born Arnold Witzig used part of the proceeds of the 1998 sale of Witzig's engineering firm IE Engineering Group to found the non-profit S. and A. Inspiration Foundation in 2008. The sum, which they will not disclose, is sufficient to fund the annual $1-million prize.
After meeting online and falling in love with each other and Canada, the pair travelled extensively in the Canadian North, but also visited and contributed to charitable projects in Latin America and Africa.
"Our experience abroad helped us shift our focus into Canada itself," Witzig told The Vancouver Sun in an email interview. "We could now clearly see that our aboriginal people are confronting and struggling with many issues similar to those we experienced in the developing countries."
Accelerating climate change and industrialization in the Arctic adds urgency to the foundation's mission.
The prize will be awarded to between one and five projects each year, with an emphasis on team-based solutions to social, environmental and political problems that create "true collaborations" with the aboriginal people of the Arctic.
The goal of the prize and the criteria for selection are in every way a reflection of Sharifi and Witzig themselves.
A student democracy activist in her home country, Sharifi was forced to leave Iran in fear of her life after the Islamic revolution and entered Canada as a political refugee. She is now a permanent resident.
Living first in Montreal, Sharifi came to Vancouver to complete her PhD and fell in love with its "natural, cultural and human beauty."
Witzig was enjoying a period of travel after leaving his business at the age of 50. In 18 years as a CEO, Witzig had created a multinational firm that traded on its ability to pull together diverse specialists to pursue complex projects with technical, environmental and social goals.
He came to Vancouver from Alaska in 1999 to meet Sharifi after they struck up a relationship online and was in thrall to the proximity of the ocean and the mountains. He became a Canadian citizen in 2009.
Witzig and Sharifi consider Canada to be the world's only "true multicultural country."
"The prize is neither for only science nor only action," said Sharifi. "The goal is to link the two elements."
According to Witzig: "The prize encourages teamwork among diverse groups: making the group work together, bridging cultural misunderstandings or mistrust, hence, producing mutual acceptance. For example, northerners would work together with southerners, science with industry, and communities with governments, or all of them. True diverse teams who strive to realize sustainable projects with comprehensive goals, respecting the needs of the communities and the environment."
An 11-member selection panel will consider applicants and award the Arctic Inspiration Prize. The panel includes Witzig himself and a diverse group of artists, industrialists, academics, activists and former government officials, including journalist Peter Mansbridge, former governor general Michaëlle Jean, former Yukon commissioner Geraldine Van Bibber, Baffinland Iron Mines CEO Tom Paddon, Juno Award-winning Inuk singer Susan Aglukark and Inuit activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier.


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Through centuries of oppression women have come to internalize feelings of inferiority to the point where it becomes perfectly natural to allow a man to dictate our bodily functions. Almost convincing ourselves we aren't smart enough to make our own choices about what is best for our sexuality, our bodies and our minds. Let's dare teach our daughters their value in society by helping them reclaim their bodies for themselves. Recognizing that their inner strength is more powerful than a society of men who need to oppress in order to feel success. Helping our daughters gain their self-worth by giving them the tools to rise above the self-limiting comfort zone that has been imposed on them is our duty as mothers. Let's give them the courage to take back what is rightfully theirs.
We each have a story. We each have a voice. And although our stories are unique, our desires are the same. We all want to smile with our entire body. Using my personal journey,let's start a forum where we can all meet to raise awareness - about ourselves as individuals and as a society. Bringing light to our world and creating a safe place for each of us to connect. "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."~ Marcel Proust.
Monday, March 5, 2012
The Feminine Spring: Birth of a New Woman
Through centuries of oppression women have come to internalize feelings of inferiority to the point where it becomes perfectly natural to allow a man to dictate our bodily functions. Almost convincing ourselves we aren't smart enough to make our own choices about what is best for our sexuality, our bodies and our minds. Let's dare teach our daughters their value in society by helping them reclaim their bodies for themselves. Recognizing that their inner strength is more powerful than a society of men who need to oppress in order to feel success. Helping our daughters gain their self-worth by giving them the tools to rise above the self-limiting comfort zone that has been imposed on them is our duty as mothers. Let's give them the courage to take back what is rightfully theirs.
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- Nightbrngr said...
It seems to me that you are more than correct. Women as a whole have lost confidence in their own worth. I am a man, and I even see it. There is a sad truth though. Women control the world.
The sad part is they control it thru man's quest for sex not their own worth.Almost everything a man does is geared toward sex and the ability to get it. It is a form of primal conquest with us.
Yet even the women who understand this fact do not see their worth beyond that. Not only that but on a whole, we as a people view women as less.
It just is not true. I know women in every walk of life.From those that drive trucks OTR, to prostitutes, to fighters and computer geniuses. There is nothing that can be done by man that cannot be done by women. I have 1 daughter and 1 on the way. By the time she is 10, she will be able to fight for herself against man or woman.I teach her to rely on herself.
That does not mean she can not also use the weapons given to her at birth.I am a man and I know, we as a whole are morons in a lot of ways. Most of us see a woman we consider pretty and lose forty points of IQ. Some primal part taps in and we go 'Duh'.
Sidetracked a bit but my point is that women can and should stand as equals to men.They are no better and no worse. Chivalry is not dead but the coddling is no longer needed.There are women that have run for president,shot off into space, and broken up bar fights...Isn't it time they gained the respect and weight of worth they are due?If not what is the purpose of all the sacrifice given to make them equals in name?
We respect Rosa Parks, and Mother Teresa, as well as many others.It is time to respect them as a whole and as equals.Those that cannot need to think back on the women in their life and ask themselves if those glorious women are weak.
- March 5, 2012 at 5:47 PM
- Mi4-Ohio said...
Research shows that girls confidence peaks between age 8 and 12. My guess is the decline is directly related to how they relate to their bodies and how society imposes it's standards upon those bodies. Confidence is something that is practiced. When head and heart are connected with what you stand for then you become like a tree, deeply rooted and adaptable, able to take a strong wind without being knocked down. I have two daughters(6 and 4) and I see that they are far more connected to themselves than I have been the last 15 years. Their arrival revealed my disconnect and it ignited my commitment to become the parent and advocate I longed to be for them. Through my journey I have come to see that the social norms and historical forces (described by Staci Haines and gen5) have far greater influence on my girls development than i do even though I am in their intimate netowrk, that is terrifying. I agree that Rush moments deserve gratitude because it brings social norms to the surface and forces us to examine what we are not only complacent in but also complicit in when it comes to how women are generally portrayed (see Missrepresentation movie). As a collective we choose, through our actions and interactions, between our words and silence to provide a structure that supports the diminishment, disempowerment and oppression of the feminine. The thing is with social norms is that they are practically invisible. Like water is to a fish, it just is. Until we choose to make it something else. But we need to that together.
Great article, keep up the good work
- March 5, 2012 at 7:55 PM
- Judy said...
Recently I heard the comment that nations and societies are less violent and less oppressed when women are empowered...either in the areas of self determination or political...Look it up...
- March 6, 2012 at 5:50 AM
- rbachelette said...
I am a 26 year old female, raised by a single mother, both of us college educated. She taught me to have a voice and to assert myself in the face of conflict. This sentiment has allowed me overcome oppression throughtout my life. More recently, my boyfriend of a year and a half has struggled greatly to reassure himself of the gender roles in our relationship. He is a philosophy major and almost double majored in feminism studies, and yet he is so torn by the societal pressure to control and dominate because of his gender that he views my ability to be rathional and assertive as manipulative and vicous. We struggle with this notion due to the fact that it is so immensely contradictory to the person he believes himself to be on a concious level. These archaic feelings of dominance and control are so insidious that he himself is unaware of his resentment of me until we sit down and have a rational, calm conversation, which then furthers his feelings of the gender roles be reversed because I am able to communicate with him on a level that he feels is masculine. Does being a woman and being femine mean that I have to scream and cry and be overtly emotional in order for me to fullfill my place in society? To what extent to I as a woman have to live the stereotypical gender role for him to feel secure?
He is also 26 years old, he is highly intelligent and is a person of strong emotion. He cries when he is sad and happy. I love this about him, but I never realized that as a woman men expect us to be more emotional and irrational than they are in order to fullfill our gender roles. If men deisre to control our minds and our bodies to such an extreme what is left to call our own?
- March 6, 2012 at 1:23 PM
- Mi4-Ohio said...
Eve Ensler's inner girl Ted Talk is a must see.
As well as her discussion about owner ship of our bodies. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-10/eve-ensler-talks-to-lateline/3824446
This conversation is so needed. rbachelette i loved reading your post.
- March 6, 2012 at 6:49 PM
- Christine said...
I have been reading far too much on this topic from the church's point of view in an attempt to try to understand both sides of this issue and I am finding so much of it frustrating and disheartening. So I would like to sincerely thank you for this heartfelt and uplifting article. I am a (rather lapsed) Catholic and I am so tired of all the spouting of doctrine insisting that the use of contraception is harmful - to the body, to marriages, to family, & to society - and that we as women should not even want the right to have some control over our fertility. This article has reminded me that I am not crazy and that these types of restrictions would indeed oppress women. Many articles I have seen have suggested just the opposite, that it is birth control that oppresses women and I just can't wrap my head around that. So again, thank you.
- March 6, 2012 at 7:19 PM
I was 34yrs old when I had my one and only child. I made the conscious decision not to have a child until I felt ready to do so. I avoided pregnancy with birth control. I was married at the time of my daughters birth. She was not an unplanned pregnancy. Therefore, I resent remarks that make it appear that the only reason I was taking birth control is because I wanted to have all the unwed sex I wanted without getting knocked up. I had a very hard pregnancy. High risk due to blood pressure and swelling so sever I could only wear flip flops, which was fun considering I had her during the winter. It ended in me having an emergency c-section. Since her birth 5 yrs ago I have suffered severly from fibroid tumors and excessive bleeding. It is now controlled by birth control that has help to shrink the tumors, eliminate my mentrual cycle, and kept me from developing cancer on my uterus that has showed displasia ever since. I have to have a DNC and scope of my uterus every hear to insure that cancer has not developed. I choose not to get pregnant again due to the difficulties I experienced and the possible life threatening difficulties I could experience in the future. My only other option is a hysterectomy which they are trying to avoid as I am under 40yrs old. By the way, that to is a form of birth control, isnt it. Again, I choose. No one chooses for me. It is my life to save and my quality of life to have.
- March 7, 2012 at 7:29 AM
- Valerie Vendrame said...
Thank you for all your brilliant responses! I've enjoyed reading them and look forward to reading more. It excites me to know that women everywhere are becoming more enthusiastic about owning their power and their bodies. Handing ourselves over to men has been the norm for far too long - we don't even recognize it when it happens. Thank You for the video Mi4-Ohia - it ended with me in tears! So SPOT on!
But my question is WHY have we for so long suppressed the girl gene? What's the core fear? We're taught to believe that emotions are bad, vulnerability is dangerous, and women are weak. There was a time when women were praised, admired and looked up to. BEFORE monotheistic religion, many of the most powerful gods were labeled female. Does the power of our sexuality strike fear in the hearts of men? So much so that they feel the need to own it? The oppression of women will cause the demise of the human species - to evolve we must reclaim ourselves. IT starts with us, teaching the next generation. We CAN NOT let them fall victim to such reasoning.
- March 7, 2012 at 8:03 AM
- Ilona said...
I had my first child as a teen mom when i was 19. After the birth of my son i went on birth control so I could focus on raising my one child and give him everything he deserves. I want more kids one day but in order to properly shape and mold one solid human is so much work and requires serious dedication. Not that i judge people with many children i just respect them. Thank you for the amazing blog.
- March 7, 2012 at 8:34 AM
- Susan Sheppard said...
Men do not control women. Women truly have the power in relationship. They just need to own that power. Women are completely capable of accomplishing anything that a man can accomplish. The masculine energy has since the beginning of our world taken issue with that fact. Women have been dominated and controlled by masculine energy since the caveman days.
It is true that men are collectively stronger physically than women. Women however, have great pain tolerance, stamina, and equal brain power. They have physical strength commensurate to their size. The underhanded truth is that women control men in one very powerful way. Women control access to their body and men are very driven by sex. Ultimately this aspect of control that women have determines the viability of the human race.
Without a woman's permission to touch, caress, or enter her body, man cannot complete the sex act nor procreate himself. A male society would compel extinction without women. This one fact infuriates men so much that they strive to control women in every other possible way. These are primal urges that will persist in all cultures to various degrees.
It is possible for men and women to congenially, lovingly and passionately coexist in a society. That strategy involves appreciation and acknowledgement and gratitude for the differences between men and women by both men and women. Such a society will be better off and synergistically more powerful and accomplished. If only everyone could rid themselves of their preconceived notions about who they are, the world would be a better place.
- March 7, 2012 at 9:45 AM
I just got around to reading this, and once again, you did not disappoint. Brilliant blog, my dear. You are an amazing and talented writer and your girls are so lucky to have such an intelligent, articulate and strong role model! You rock, mama! Xoxo
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The 2008 Morenci graduate scored 25 points for the Home team in the annual Lenawee County All-Star game for recent graduates.
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Bovee notched nine points by intermission, then added 16 in the second half to keep the Home team on top. He connected on his final eight shots of the game.
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Illustration Friday: Rain
I drew this sketch of a little girl holding out her hand to capture the first raindrop of a storm several months ago. What a coincidence that this week's theme for Illustration Friday is Rain, huh? Nice. I didn't have to think too hard on the concept, however, I did have a dickens of a time trying to find the right color scheme. I went through several iterations, from green, blue, red, etc. At first I had her in mostly blue hues with a greenish background. But I realized that I use green and ochre way too much. I wanted to use colors that I normally wouldn't use. Peach seemed peachy keen to me.
Well, here ya go. What do you think?
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Very cool interpretation of the theme!! Love the style and humor in this illo!! :)ReplyDelete
I like it! The little girl looks so happy! May I ask what media you used?ReplyDelete
hey I just read your comment on my blog.ReplyDelete
I like this image a lot.
I saw the Cocoa Puffs commercial you did-- very nice.
I like her, too. Very cute!ReplyDelete
That's great. I love her socks.ReplyDelete
Well, I think you've chosen the right colour for this. cute!ReplyDelete
this is a cute one!ReplyDelete
this is a fun illo and ur peachy keen colors work well tooReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 27, 2006 4:42 PM
I just can't get over your style--it's so endearing and unique. I love this one...so sweet and simple. Nice work!ReplyDelete
Great style, and character. The colors work perfectly.ReplyDelete
wonderful and amazing as always!!ReplyDelete
Very cool. I love the whole look of this drawing.ReplyDelete
beauytfull, beauytfull, beauytfull style !!!!ReplyDelete
I like it !!!!ReplyDelete
one of your best !ReplyDelete
very nice. I like her pose and that you chose an un-rainy palette in the end. It makes me think of a few drops of rain in the desert.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2006 8:04 AM
I love that you didn't use blue. She's great.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2006 12:46 PM
love the retro stylings you've used here. i dig the rosey cheeks.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 29, 2006 8:53 AM
I love that I was able to recognize your style from the thumbnail on IF before I even saw your name. The color balance is really great in the piece.ReplyDelete
She's great! First connection that popped into my brain was the cat from "Put Me in the Zoo". Awesome.ReplyDelete
I love this. xxooReplyDelete
i think it's greatReplyDelete


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Bjork says vocal cord surgery is a success
LONDON -- Icelandic singer Bjork says she has had successful surgery to remove a vocal cord polyp.
The eccentric 47-year-old singer says on her official website that she had been trying to tackle the problem with exercises and diets since doctors first discovered the polyp, a benign growth on either one or both of the vocal cords, several years ago.
Bjork said that she decided to undergo laser surgery and it has worked, though she had to stay quiet for three weeks.
She wrote: "Surgery rocks! ... It's been very satisfying to sing all them clear notes again."
The singer apologized for cancelling various shows earlier this year, and that she looked forward to singing for her fans next year.
Last year Adele had minor surgery to remove a benign polyp.