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Life in a Small Town

Tumbler Ridge Panorama
A panoramic view of downtown Tumbler Ridge.

I know, I’ve been negligent in updating this blog! I can’t believe it’s been so long since my last post, and frankly, I’m a little embarrassed… But, let me try to explain.

For the past 9 months, I’ve resided in the small “frontier” town of Tumbler Ridge. Nestled in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies in the Murray River valley, Tumbler Ridge is like many small towns in Canada. It is quiet and peaceful, surrounded by mostly untouched wilderness (if you discount the coal mines, the occasional cleared area, and natural gas pipelines). Settled in 1981, Tumbler Ridge was a town built by coal companies to house a thousand (mostly single male) workers in a man camp, which eventually attracted a curious number of female hairdressers. Tumbler Ridge has since grown to become a respectable town complete with a quaint town hall, a golf course, and its own music festival. Every morning, workers donned in high-visibility clothing and carrying their lunch boxes gather at street intersections as they await the white bus that will take them to work in the coal mines. The town’s one and only tavern is also fondly named “The Coal Bin” and is located around the backside of the Tumbler Ridge Inn. Instead of a historical figure mounted on his trusted steed, you will find a large bucket from a coal excavator taking centre stage in the park across from the Town Hall.

Like many small frontier towns, Tumbler Ridge rides with the ever-fluctuating prices of natural resources. In late 2008, when over-inflated coal prices plummeted, mines closed down, workers were laid off, and the town stood nearly abandoned. In 2010, when coal prices recovered, mines re-opened and new mines were founded. It was also at this time that the Quality Wind Project commenced, bringing a diverse mix of workers from all over North America to a town that was suddenly struggling with lodging. In just a few short months, the town’s population doubled and every hotel was at maximum capacity. Houses, which previously sold for under $20,000 a few months earlier, were suddenly valued at over $300,000 as coal companies fought to find rooms for their employees.

While the town is endowed with the basic amenities one needs to survive, prices are inflated almost everywhere. The nearest town with a No Frills, Walmart, and Tim Hortons is Dawson Creek (approximately 140km away), famous for it’s “Mile Zero” monument for the Alaska Highway, where thousands of prospectors once passed through on their journey to their great gold-mining Meccas of Alaska and the Yukon. Grande Prairie, a booming town of 50,000 is located just across the BC/Alberta border directly east of Tumbler Ridge and is about a two-hour drive away (that is, if you are adventurous enough to navigate Northern BC’s network of unpaved resource roads). Located at the Western reach of the Oil Sands, it is truly the place to stock up on supplies and enjoy the finer comforts of modern society. At some of Grande Prairie’s many fine establishments, such as Starbucks, Costco and The Keg, the parking lots are packed with more Dodge Rams and Ford F150s than you will find at your neighbourhood dealer.

So what did I learn from my experience in Tumbler Ridge? First off, living in a small town constitutes that you plan ahead. When I flew into Grande Prairie after some days off work, I would immediately head to Costco where I would stock up on all the supplies I needed for the next month. When work is crazy, there is simply no time to afford a four-hour drive to pick up supplies. And if I do have a day off, the least thing I want to do is spend half my day driving just to buy groceries. While the majority of my time spent in Tumbler Ridge was during the spring, summer, and fall seasons, there were enough freak snowstorms to teach me that you can never take the weather for granted. A sudden squall can immobilize you in Tumbler Ridge for a day or more, as the only two paved roads out of town can take as many as 2 or 3 days to be fully ploughed. And if you do manage to slide and skid your way into Grande Prairie, you might just find that your flight home was cancelled. Already this fall, we have had two significant snowfalls and it’s only mid-October.

Bergeron Cliffs
A well-deserved view after climbing to the top of the Bergeron Cliffs.

It took me some time to get over the fact that I’ve been spoiled by a modern society for nearly my entire life, but once I accepted my fate, something curious happened. I suddenly enjoyed my 20-minute drive to work every morning in my Dodge Power Wagon as I beheld the views of mountains and wildlife in the early morning light. I embraced the proximity to nature and spent my free time bushwacking (exploring new roads and happening on unexpected surprises like a mother doe teaching her newborns to walk, or finding a spectacular vista). There are also a plethora of waterfalls to discover and riverbanks to wander. The local golf course, just a 2-minute drive from my house offers a bucket of balls at the driving range for $4, and an impressive community centre offers everything from an arena to an aquatics centre. I also capitalized on living in British Columbia by exploring Southern Alaska and the Canadian Rockies on two separate occasions. Skiing at Powder King, BC’s best kept secret, was truly a treat as you are guaranteed to find fresh powder there from early November until late April. With just four hours of darkness in the summer, many nights were spent around a campfire enjoying some cool brews, and the summer highlight was a terrific day spent heli-fishing at an otherwise inaccessible lake in the mountains.

My catch at Hook Lake
A fresh catch of Bull Trout at Hook Lake in Northern British Columbia! (Photo credit: Antonio Baldovino)

The most gratifying moments of my whole stay in Tumbler Ridge, however, were spent with the people of Tumbler Ridge, who were both welcoming and accepting. I’ll never forget my first weekend in Tumbler Ridge, which happened to be Easter. While most everyone from work managed to fly home to be with their families, I stayed, having just arrived in town. What I thought would be a morose and lonely weekend, became one that I now cherish the most. Ray and Josh, an amazing couple that truly embraced living in Tumbler Ridge, hooked me up with some avid powder seekers who were going skiing the following day. So, not knowing anyone in town, I immediately befriended Mark and James, two Brits who found a new home in the mountains of BC, and we were off to Powder King. On Sunday, Ray and Josh invited me to Easter dinner with their family, and I was simply blown away by their kindness after just meeting me a week prior. This good nature is shared by others in town as well! In fact, it was just last weekend that another family, whom I’d met at church, invited me to their Thanksgiving family dinner.

In a small town, everyone plays an especially important role in the continued success of the community. From the diligent workers at the post office that receive truckloads of mail-order goods every day to the local newspaper editor who patiently listens to each excited resident that rushes into his office and divulges the latest breaking news story. No matter someone’s place in society, they are happy with who they are and where they live because it takes someone with a deep love of their surroundings to weather blizzards, extreme cold, and long drives into town.

Certainly, the most important lesson from Tumbler Ridge is that small gestures make all the difference, because when you’re in a remote town, nothing is ever taken for granted. The community spirit in Tumbler Ridge was often surprising and refreshing. I saw people rush to help in the aftermath of a potentially fatal car accident. I saw strangers help a struggling old man lift his new mattress from the Sears Catalogue Order Store onto his car and tie it down. More so than simply good spirit and kindness, residents of Tumbler Ridge realize that if something serious were to happen, they must help themselves. When a heli-logging chopper had engine trouble and started a wildfire in a field, it took the local fire department over half an hour to respond with nought but a pickup truck. It was a water truck from our construction site that extinguished the blaze. This is in no way a poor reflection on public authorities, it is simply a fact that small towns have limited resources and they do the best they can with what they can afford. As a team at the Quality Wind Project, many individuals brought forth initiatives to help the local community, and the response was always immediate and overwhelming. We raised money to replace the gymnasium floor of the local high school, we raised over $10,000 to help a family who’s son is diagnosed with terminal cancer, we collected enough food for the local food bank to fill an enclosed trailer, and we helped a local church repair an overhead door that was left broken and unused for over 3 years.

Leaving Tumbler Ridge is a little bittersweet for me. While I am excited to move on to my next project and spend time at home with my family, I had just started to feel like a member of the Tumbler Ridge community. I will always remember those who welcomed me in this town, and surely hope to visit again in the future!

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Do you want to be descended from a monkey?

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Several creationists (and other anti-evolution advocates) have raised the question (broadly speaking):[1]

Evolution says you are descended from a monkey. Do you want to be descended from a monkey?

There are numerous problems with this argument.

The obvious logical response is that truth has nothing to do whether you like it or not. The pleasantness of a fact, or lack thereof, does not detract from or add to its validity. However, for those looking for a more witty retort, a few are listed below:

  1. Do you want to be descended from a pile of dust, as the creation story in Genesis 2 claims? Since Creationists don't seem to mind being modified dirt, it's not clear why they have a problem with being modified primates, especially when said primates might just be modified dirt as well.
  2. Do you want to be descended from people who personally wrecked the entire Universe, as the Biblical creation story claims? Creationists pin the blame of The fall squarely on the shoulders of Humanity's legendary ancestors, Adam and Eve, and yet, somehow presume that these two troublemakers are more acceptable ancestors than monkeys.
  3. Science is not about what we want, it is about collecting, testing, and explaining data. Do you want deadly earthquakes to happen? Most people do not, but that does not prevent them from happening, nor should it prevent people from studying earthquakes.
  4. As the old truism goes, "We can pick our friends, but we can't pick our family." It would be very nice to be the son/daughter of (insert name of celebrity, potentate, pirate or historical figure), and it is undeniably true that we are relatives of (insert name of criminal, ne'er-do-well, potentate or historical figure) but, sadly, science is about what the evidence says about reality (in this case, the ancestry of humans), and not wishful thinking.
  5. First, evolutionary theory suggests that both Homo sapiens and "monkeys" descend from a common ancestor living 25 million years ago, during the Oligocene. Second, what may be particularly interesting, from recent molecular studies and other data, that common ancestor may have been more like us than like monkeys. Therefore, perhaps the more accurate question is whether monkeys would want to be descended from us!
  6. The classical response to this is the one supposedly given by Thomas Huxley to Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in the famous 1860 Oxford evolution debate: Huxley allegedly stated that he would not be ashamed to have a monkey for his ancestor, but he would be ashamed to be connected with a man who used his great gifts to obscure the truth.
  7. Do you like being related to Torquemada[2]?
  8. Would you rather be purposefully designed to be/look like a monkey? (Rather than the similarity being just a matter of purposeless physical laws, there is a Divine Reason for the similarity?)
  9. Being descended from monkey-like beings is extremely helpful as far as testing goes - countless medical, biological, and anthropological insights applicable to and improving the lives of humans have happened precisely because of this relationship. If we didn't have such a relationship, we'd either have to do such tests and experiments on humans or go without this knowledge. Do you want to be several decades behind the latest advances in vaccines? (Vaccine hysterics, don't answer that.)
  10. Biblical creationism maintains that the children of Adam and Eve must have procreated incestuously since there were no other people around. Do you want to be descended from incest? Even worse, since Eve is created from the body parts of Adam, do you want to be descended from masturbation?
  11. The only reason a "monkey" ancestor might seem so scandalous derives from the myths and tropes of Western culture, assigning a certain kind of ineffable unsavory quality to monkeys. Imagine if someone asked "do you want to be descended from dinosaurs" or "do you want to be descended from tigers?" - it'd get a less instinctively negative reaction than implying one's common ancestor was a cockroach or a slug - even though the outcome from the perspective of the anthropomorphic principleWikipedia's W.svg would be the same. Questions like this rather betray a narrow-minded cultural chauvinism.
  12. The similarity is obvious. That is what makes it so uncomfortable to have it pointed out. Like teenagers who don't like it pointed out how similar they are to their parents because they are like their parents.
  13. Do you want to be a degraded descendant of ancestors who were taller, longer-lived, and otherwise more perfect, as the Bible suggests, or would you rather be a new form of ape (longer-lived and much smarter than other apes)?
  14. "Evolution" itself doesn't "say" anything - it has no mouth or tongue. The body of evolutionary theory just provides a tool-set which may help scientists to explain certain facts or to address certain issues, such as (for example) perceived similarities between a monkey and an archbishop.

Fallacies contained in this argument[edit]

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

  1. "The central figure and the transitional period", Moon, Rev. Sun Myung. 1976 (7 Mar.).
  2. See the Wikipedia article on Tomás de Torquemada.


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   Welcome to my blog! I'll be posting thoughts about art, photos, happenings, and other things that strike me--and hopefully my readers--as interesting. And please visit my website by clicking the link to the right--thanks!

   Also please check out my second blog, The Painting Archives to see older (pre-2004) paintings for sale.

Sunday, May 09, 2010
  thoughts on imagery

An e-pen pal, Nancy Green, has started a new blog that's off to a very good start, with--among other topics--ruminations about moving away from representational landscape images into abstraction. In most recent post, she links to some earlier blog posts of mine about the topic, which made me realize how back and forth I have been over the years in my inclusion of identifiable imagery.

For the past few years, my work has been mostly color fields with subtle variations. Now I find things once again moving toward bolder activation of the surface, which sometimes includes recognizable imagery. For example, lately I've been playing a lot with lines--made with brushes, paint sticks, scratching sticks and solvents. Making lines seems to trigger an impulse to draw "things." These tend to be botanical in flavor--grasses, twigs, flowers--with some geometric references to buildings, stairs, and ladders. Sometimes, though I just "scribble," and make gestural lines that resemble handwriting, plus some simple shapes and curves.

When imagery does appear, I would say it grows out of the painting process in the same way that other elements do, like color and texture, or non-representational lines. In each case, I try to find what the painting needs as it evolves, rather than beginning with a plan to include (or avoid) an image.

Right now in my studio are quite a few paintings with (for me) bold lines, some of which are suggestive of imagery such as trees and other plants. I've been enjoying painting them, but I'm not sure if they are what I want...questions present themselves about the amount of attention that the eye and mind give to identifiable objects.

The painting above is actually from a few months ago, and more subtle than the very latest paintings. (The ones I'm not showing. Yet.) This one is Winter Garden, 30"x34".
Your post on subject matter/ content may raise questions about artist & audience, also.
What do you want to convey?
What path do you want your viewers to travel?
What path are you really traveling?

But of course, in the end, you're the boss.
Follow your heart, instinct, and judgment.
The right choice is the one you want to take.
Very true...though it is an intuitive journey, self reflection and self-critiquing, and the responses of others all have their place.

Subtle, evocative, open-ended, layered...all of these are qualities I value in my work and seek to express, and it's not that any of them either necessarily include--or rule out--referential imagery. My questions are perhaps more formal, having to do with balance and composition--getting bolder elements to work well with the most subtle areas. So far I am pleased and intrigued but am giving it all a little time to see how the new work holds up--setting something aside for awhile usually helps me see it more clearly.
In an earlier post somewhere, you talked about abstraction as requiring the viewer to form his/her own interpretation and meaning of a piece (sorry for the poor paraphrasing), which seems to fit here with concern about having identifiable objects in a painting. Does one decide beforehand whether a particular piece is "about" a certain thing, or does one decide that it will not be about any definable thing? It seems that the moment a significant mark or an image is included, the artist is trying to impose a certain meaning.

I'm caught here, myself. As I explore abstraction further, I find myself questioning how much I want to define for the viewer what I see, and how much I want to leave ambiguous -- or, as you more eloquently put it, subtle, evocative, open-ended, layered. Do I want to say, "this is a cliff", or do I just create what to me evokes a cliff, or do I ignore any reference to anything?
For myself, the painting process provides a very fluid path, ever-changing. Something emerges from the paint that I work with, in a visual, not literal way--as in "this line/color/texture is working." Perhaps the line or shape also resembles a thing. Perhaps I even intentionally drew the thing. But what I prefer is to keep it in the context of an abstract element...I think the reference will not be over-bearing as long as it fits within the overall abstract feeling of the work.

I guess--if the intention of the work is to make an identifiable image, the image will tend to dominate. If it emerges unbidden or intuitively, it is part of the flow.

I see my my paintings as being primarily visual experience, evocative but not assigned a meaning. Although as a group or body of work there are definitely themes and ideas that refer to nature and natural processes. I don't feel any necessity within any particular, individual painting to define its meaning, but am aware of overall influences and inspirations.

Re: your questions about the cliff--the book I wrote about my time in Catalonia talks about the way abstract imagery grew intuitively or subliminally out of the experience. It was interesting to me that I could walk around, soak things up, and then have them come through in the work without conscious direction, but by following a feeling or sense of the surroundings. Gravitating towards certain colors, textures or forms without consciously setting out to do so.

It is helpful to think and write about this so thank you for keeping the conversation going. I think my own answers are becoming more clear in the process. Maybe not so to anyone else though--it's a hard thing to pin down!
one more thought--I've often said that the challenge for an abstract artist is to develop an abstract language that is personal and expressive, and communicates something of feeling, memory, idea or mood to the viewer. It strikes me that the "words" in that vocabulary can be purely abstract (if this really exists...the human tendency is to read imagery everywhere) or they can be referential, or a combination. There is no need to choose, it's all up for grabs, but it is the manner in which they are presented that creates the abstraction of the work.
Thanks for the reference to your book about your time at CAN. Reading it helped clarify my thoughts. This is such a different approach. Rather than decide, "I'm going to paint that mountain", you set out some paint and begin to fill your support. What emerges, as I understand it, is an intuitive expression of mood and experiences, backed up by an ongoing development of your abstract language. Thus the goal is not to portray any "thing" but instead to provide a visual experience.

You do mention above your attention to formal elements such as balance and composition, so there must be some criteria that you apply beyond just the intuitive. Is this part of the language? Can we talk more about this aspect?
Well, a language it has structure, logic, patterns etc. that could be analogous to the formal elements in art. I think of the process as a back and forth or balance between the intuitive/spontaneous and the thoughtful/analytical. But the analysis for me comes after the intuitive phase--not before as in a plan. When I have put down some paint, I ask what works, what do I want to keep, what to edit out (and there is always a lot of editing out.)
Is this one single panel, or two put together?
thank you Jala, that is 2 put together.
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Are You a Good Listener?

None of us need to be reminded that active listening is absolutely essential to better communication. But the unfortunate fact is that very few people have truly mastered the complicated skill of listening. It requires practice and patience.

Our sector is filled with intelligent, well-intentioned and hard-working people. But poor listening habits can derail even the most educated, most committed and even most visionary leaders. Better listening can make or break major gifts, large grants, sponsorships, and even whole careers. Remember that we probably have two ears and one mouth for a reason.

Something about the recent, disastrous wrangling on the debt ceiling and spending cuts in Washington makes one wonder whether anyone in public life is listening to anyone else. Once again, too much emphasis has been placed on outbound communication (were we really supposed to take those simultaneous “dueling press conferences” seriously?).

Meanwhile, there is so much emphasis in nonprofit professional development on public speaking and being persuasive, it is easy to forget that your best strategy is listening rather than talking. When you are meeting with a foundation person, corporate decision-maker, or donor, always let them talk first so that you know what they’re interested in. The same is true with interviewing new board members–don’t talk to them about the organization first, but ask about their backgrounds, interests, and passions. People love to talk about themselves . . . so let them.

“Good listening skills will get you farther than all of your most interesting experiences and stories ever will,” writes Cecelia Cooper on Here’s a checklist worth considering:

  1. Listen for what a person is feeling, not just what they’re saying. See if you can hear the unspoken fears, concerns, or aspirations. Try to enter the speaker’s world for a few minutes.
  2. Give your undivided attention. Most interruptions can be controlled, and if they can’t, find a better place to have your conversation.
  3. Encourage the speaker with both verbal         (“I see,” Go on,” “Uh-huh,” “I understand”) and nonverbal cues (facing the person directly, making appropriate eye contact, and nodding).
  4. Our minds work faster than another person can speak. (This phenomenon is true for nearly everyone–sorry, this doesn’t make you gifted!) Stay in the moment. Do not let your mind wander toward you what you are going to say next.
  5. Resist the temptation to “hijack” a story and make it yours. There is a false empathy in saying, “I know how you feel.” In fact, you likely do not–and besides, the story isn’t about you. Meanwhile, avoid joining a one-up-manship where people start competing for the floor or the best example.
  6. Hold your body still, controlling your hands and limbs from needless movement. Being still will help you focus your attention and slow down your racing mind. Stay in the moment of listening instead of moving on to developing your response.
  7. Practice not forming opinions or making a judgment while a person is speaking. Recognize–and work to set aside–your own emotions and biases. Give the speaker sufficient time to explain his or her point of view.
  8. Resist imagining a “quick fix.” If there were an easy answer, the speaker would likely already know it. Besides, you are being asked to listen. Brainstorming solutions together might be appropriate later.
  9. Don’t minimize what the speaker is saying or seems to be feeling. You may mean to sound comforting with a response such as, “You shouldn’t worry about things like that,” but it may come across as if you are dismissing their response.
  10. Finally, notice how often you give unsolicited advice. It so often sounds like criticism. Your counsel may be sought, but wait to be asked.

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  1. Antoinette Stillwell
    August 04, 2011

    Your advice is just what I needed to start my day!

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Christmas Story

For John, BLUFA nation of immigrants.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

Here is a feel good piece for Christmas, about a young boy, Bishoy, asking his parents to take him to see Santa at the Mall.  Bishop is living with his parents in the United States in asylum from persecution in Egypt, where there is no Santa in Malls, or anywhere.  Bishoy and his parents are Coptic Christians, which make up 10% of the population in Egypt.  According to the article in the Tampa Bay Times, some 100,000 Copts have fled Egypt and 40,000 have sought and received asylum in the United States.

Funny about the flight from Egypt.  On Sunday, the 29th, we will celebrate at Mass the Holy Family, to include the Flight into Egypt.  How times have changed.

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Sunday, 26 August 2012

TVNZ interview with John Pilger

Must-see interview with John Pilger

In this interview with Mark Sainsbury of Radio New Zealand the interviewer is forced to listen while John Pilger dissects the whole case against Julian Assange and once again makes the case that journalists are not doing their jobs.

For the interview GO HERE

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Assange dead or alive? UK wants arrest 'under all circumstances'

Ecuador has scored another point in its diplomatic row with Britain over granting asylum to Julian Assange. 34-member bloc of American nations has declared 'solidarity and support' for the country - condemning the UK's earlier threats to storm its embassy in London to get to the whistleblower. Laura Smith's in Britain - a brings us the details.

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  1. dead or alive?
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The rapper Proof, Eminem’s friend and rap-battle mentor, started the group around 1995; the idea was to create a free-floating group of all-star rappers, the Detroit version of the Wu-Tang Clan. The name stood for both Detroit Twelve and Dirty Dozen. The MCs thought the group would have a Western theme, like a gang of outlaw horsemen–but when they rented The Dirty Dozen, they found it was actually a World War II movie. Effectively doubling the group’s six rappers into a dozen, Proof decided everyone in D12 should have a doppelganger identity. He said, “The whole thing in D12 was to have a personality where you would just say anything. You just didn’t give a fuck. Your persona was almost like a mask to hide behind, know what I’m sayin’?” Eminem was the last one to come up with that mask, but it proved to be worth the wait. In 1997, sitting on the toilet–no, really–he invented the nihilistic Slim Shady identity. “Em took Slim Shady and he ran with it,” Proof said. “He took it way more serious than all of us, that motherfucker.”

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 It’s back to school time and the scramble to find healthy unprocessed snacks can be frustrating.  With many protein and granola bars containing refined sugars and a long list of processed and questionable ingredients, these homemade bars are both adult and kid approved.  They are protein packed, delicious and a perfect any time snack.  Proof that “unrefined can taste so fine”…….and even great!   Enjoy!

3 cups of rolled oats (not quick cooking) (i use GF Bob’s Red Mill)

3 cups of GF Brown Rice Crisps cereal

4 Tablespoons (1/4 cup) of Earth Balance spread

1/2 cup pure maple syrup

1 cup of unsalted crunchy almond butter (can substitute sun butter  made from sunflower seeds if allergic to nuts or a different nut butter if allergic to almonds)

1 cup (measured after mashing) of Medjool dates

1/4 cup chia seeds

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 Tablespoon pure vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon sea salt

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees.   Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Spread out the rolled oats and toast them in the oven fora out 5 minutes, shaking the pan once.  This will add great flavor verses skipping this step, which is fine if you are in a rush! After oats smell and look toasty, remove the cookie sheet from oven and let cool.

In a small pot, combine the earth balance and maple syrup and crunchy unsalted almond butter and heat until it thickens.  Keep an eye on this and stir frequently.   While this is happening, soak the dates in warm water.   About 14 large dates.   After a minute they should be soft.  Discard the soaking water.  Take the pits out and any hard stems off.  In a small bowl mash the dates.  Hand mashing them works best.  This should measure to about one packed measuring cup’s worth, more or less.

Next mix this ball of mashed dates into the now simmering mixture of earth balance and maple syrup in the pot on the stove.   Add the Tablespoon of vanilla into this mixture too.  Stir it all together until the mixture is well combined.  Remove pot from stove top and let cool for a few minutes.

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Three new species of Tetracanthella (Collembola, Isotomidae) from western Europe

en Zoosystema 27 (1) - Pages 85-93

Published on 31 March 2005

Three new species of Tetracanthella Schött, 1891 (Collembola, Isotomidae) are described in this paper: T. bichaeta n. sp. from Swiss Alps, T. corsica n. sp. from Corsica and T. fusca n. sp. from French Pyrenees. T. bichaeta n. sp. is characterised by a tergite macrochaetotaxy formula 2,2/2,2,2 and the presence of two dorsal clavate tenent hairs on tibiotarsi of first pair of legs; this unique combination of characters questions the validity of the current delimitation between pilosa- and cassagnaui-groups in the genus. T. corsica n. sp. belongs to the wahlgreni-group, where it is isolated by a combination of chaetotaxic characters and by the remarkable shape of the papillae of its outer anal spines. T. fusca n. sp. of the pilosa-group is closely related to T. similis Deharveng, 1987 described from Alpes-Maritimes (SE France), from which it differs by shorter tergite s-chaetae and smaller dorsal plates on Abd. IV.

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Friday, August 26, 2016

The Lansdowne Letters: Cursed

I remember when my father's Lansdowne Letter written on January 17, 1961 arrived.
It contained two of my father's Indian stories that had such a powerful impact on me.

His Indian stories had already propelled
idealistic me to act,
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Dad's letter described two incidents that I have never forgotten,
although I find that my perspective has changed from that of my ten-year old self.

On Tuesday, January 17, 1961
My father wrote to his extended family:

Hi There Again:
Today was just trouble from the word go.
As you can see, I can’t even type right,
why, it got so bad after a while,
that I figured what else can happen?

This question was answered for me before the end of the day,
when an old Indian woman put a curse on me.

I had cuffed her grandson on the ear in school,
so she came down with someone who could speak
both Indian and English and proceeded to put this curse on me.

Oh, it wasn’t one of their more serious curses,
just one that was calculated to cause me considerable inconvenience.

I am supposed
to get quite sick
for a couple of days
and not be able to eat,
or get out of bed,
or anything like this.

Dad's Bed in His Two-Room Shack
Photo by Donald MacBeath
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The amazing part of the whole thing is that
they put a lot of faith in curses and all such jazz.
Apparently anyone can put a curse on anyone else.
But the older you are,
the more potent your curses are supposed to be.
This old gal was no spring chicken, I can assure you.

It will be interesting to see just how powerful her cursing powers are.
If she really has the touch, I should learn it from her, and go visit S/L Lewis, shouldn’t I?

My Father's Classroom
Lansdowne House, Northern Ontario, 1960
Photo by Donald MacBeath
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This reminds me of something I was reading
in the medical records over at the nursing station the other day.

I was helping Mike type up some of his records,
and I came across the case history of a woman who was mentally deranged,
or as the Indians put it, possessed of a Wintigo.

This is how they proceeded to treat the poor woman.
They cut a hole three feet square in the floor of the shack where they lived,
and then they dug a hole of the same dimensions under the shack
to a depth sufficient just to bring her head just above the floor of the shack,
and they put the poor creature in the hole
and there she stayed for over three years
coming up only to answer the call of nature.

Apparently the calls of nature that she answered
when she was out of the hole were many and varied,
for the record states that during the period
that she spent in the hole, she bore two children.
She finally died of T.B.

This sounds like something that you would hear about during the Middle Ages,
but it happened in Canada, in the early forties or late thirties,
just about the beginning of the war.

A Mother and Child Under Happier Circumstances
Lansdowne House, Northern Ontario, 1960
Photo by Donald MacBeath
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As I started to say, this has been one hell of a day.
I came to school this morning to find both stoves out.
It was 33 below when I went to school this morning.

After I got the stoves lit, I went down to the water hole;
and, in the process, I managed to drive my ice pick
right through the ice and straight down to the bottom of the lake.
I had to buy a new one with my own money,
and they cost $7.50 each.

After I got the hole opened, I managed to spill
half a bucket of real cold lake water down inside my right overshoe.
After this, one of the kids spilled ink down my shirtfront,
and I ripped my pants on a packing case.
And all this before dinner yet!!!

I can’t remember just what happened to me after dinner,
other than the curse being put upon me,
but I had my moments in the afternoon also.

Well, I must sign off now and get to bed.
Bye now,
Love, Don.

Lansdowne House
Members of the Fort Hope Band watching a floatplane arrive
at the dock at Lansdowne house at Treaty Time, June 1956.

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When I was ten, the things that struck me about the cursing incident
were how funny it was that my father had been cursed
and wondering if the curse would work on him.

Now what impacts me is my father writing,
"I had cuffed her grandson on the ear in school."

If I had ever physically hit a child in my twenty-five years
of teaching in an elementary school, I'd probably have lost my job.
But at the time my father wrote this letter,
corporal punishment was practiced, not only in the North,
but throughout all of Canada.

I have a vivid memory of eight-year old me
standing at the front of my one-room school
in Margaretsville, Nova Scotia.

I see the white faces of my kindergarten through grade six classmates
as my teacher strapped me with a leather strap:
three forceful smacks on each of my outstretched palms.
For passing a note.

My Siblings and I in Margaretsville, 1959
Donnie, Barbie, Me with Bertie, Gretchen (Our Dachshund), and Roy
Photo Likely by Donald MacBeath
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I remember the pain, the humiliation, and my fervent wish
that my parents wouldn't find out.
I had always been told that if I got in trouble at school,
I'd be in far worse trouble when I got home.
I also remember clenching my jaws and refusing to cry,
even though my eyes filled with tears.

Of course, my getting strapped in school was all over that tiny fishing village in no time.
Odd thing was, I didn't get into worse trouble at home.
My parents told me never to get caught passing another note,
or I would be in worse trouble at home.

Now I read my father's sentence with the knowledge of the horrific treatment
of Indigenous children throughout the Canadian North.
My strapping doesn't begin to compare
to what generations of them endured over many years.

I, in no way, condone my father's cuffing any child in any school;
but I will say, that as a teacher, my father usually managed
his students with rapport, humor and fairness.
It was rare for him to physically discipline students
whether as a teacher or as a principal.

The Anglican Church Mission School at Fort Hope, 1910
Ojibway children are still taught their own language by the English missionaries.

Note:  By using this photo, I am not implying that abuse was occurring in this instance.

As for the second incident, I have never been able to erase
the image of that poor woman stuck in a hole for the last three years of her life.
I was shocked as a ten-year old, but I am less shocked now.

I have come to realize that people everywhere in place and time
have grossly misunderstood and mistreated the mentally ill.

I will end with a question my father asked over fifty years ago
regarding the incident described in his January 17th letter:

"The whole event, including the birth of the two children
is recorded in detail at the nursing station at Lansdowne House,
and was confirmed to me by the resident priest.
What has never been explained to my satisfaction though is this:
If there was a nurse and if there was a priest at Lansdowne House,
why was this situation allowed to persist?"

Till next time ~
Fundy Blue

Bay of Fundy out of Westport, Brier Island
© M. Louise (MacBeath) Barbour/Fundy Blue
All Rights Reserved

1.   Mike Flaherty:
      Mike was the nurse at the nursing station in Lansdowne House,
      and he provided basic medical services for the White and Ojibway people
      who lived in the community.

2.  Wintigo:
      I am using my father's spelling, which is one of the many variations of this word.
      Wintigos occur throughout Anishinabe legends and mythology.  They are depicted in different
      ways:  as man-eating giants or as people possessed by a Wintigo for committing sins such as
      selfishness, gluttony, or cannibalism.  A wintigo's appearance is that of a huge ice-coated monster.
      Typically, the only escape for a person possessed by a wintigo was death.

Ojibway Cosmos

3.   33 Below:  -33º F. = -36.1º C.
4.  My Father's Question:
     Source:  The Northern School Teacher (an unpublished handbook written by my father)

5.  Resident Priest:
     It was Father Ouimet who confirmed for my father that this incident had occurred as described
     in the nursing station records.  What is not clear is whether or not Father Ouimet was the
     resident priest at the Roman Catholic Mission when the woman was confined to the hole.

For Map Lovers Like Me:
Location of Neskantaga (Lansdowne House)
Human Rights Watch Report on the Safe Water Crisis
in First Nations Communities in Ontario

  1. Louise, I love all your photos! Especially the one when you were 10 years old...beautiful! Yes, I remember corporal punishment in schools in the 1960's when I was a little girl. A teacher could spank a child who misbehaved, and never hesitated to do so. Thank you so much for sharing. It goes to show that we have come a long way since then...some of the progress is very good, some not so good, but a long has changed. Hugs to you, my cherished friend.

    1. Thank you, dear Linda! Often, finding images to illustrate these northern posts is time consuming ~ but then you know all about that because of the videos and inspirational images you post on your uplifting blog. I had teachers who spanked students in front of the class in school. Never happened to me, thank goodness! I'd much rather be strapped, because at least you summon a little dignity. We have come a long way, and it is for the better! Have a great Friday!!! Sending you lots of hugs and love!

  2. Like Linda, I enjoyed very much seeing this outstanding photo of you at 10!!
    Oh my, I would have had the same reactions about these 2 incredible stories that happened to your dad.
    But putting a living being in a whole for the last 3 years of her life is just too much to envisage. My God!
    You should put all this stuff in a book, not just on your blog!!
    You really are the only person I read through... when I have time to visit of course!!
    Dear Louise, keep well and warm hugs :)

    1. Hi, Noushka! It always brightens my day to hear from you! I am, albeit slowly, working on a book about all of this. It's slow going and these posts keep me grounded and moving forward. Thanks you for the kind comment about reading my blog. It lifted my spirits way up! Have a lovely weekend, my special friend ~ I hope you get some good time among your beloved birds! Sending you lots of love and hugs!

  3. How terrible to be stuck in that hole, insane or not. And that she had two children means someone took advantage of her.
    Teachers were allowed to spank us when I was in school. I sometimes think they should still be allowed.

    1. Hi, Alex! I can't imagine enduring a situation like that Ojibway woman experienced. I assumed that it was her husband that fathered her children; but now you've given me something worse to ponder.

      And yes, I admit, there are moments in teaching when I've thought that a swift smack on the butt might be effective in handling someone misbehaving. However, that is always a fleeting reaction; I remember only too well times I was cracked with a ruler and that one time being strapped. I think there are much more effective ways of dealing with misbehavior.

      I really enjoyed your piece on alternate worlds. I forgot to say in my comment that Tolkien wrote a famous essay ("On Fairy-Stories") about creating secondary worlds, which he termed Sub-creation. He considered this the highest form of art because humans were sub-creating as the Creator created. It's one of the definitive works on fantasy as a genre. The essay is long and not the easiest reading, but it is thought provoking and has a serious tie-in to Christianity. You might find it interesting if you ever have some really spare time! LOL

  4. Oh yes, how our values and mores have changed in 50 years! That's a good thing.

    1. It is a good thing, Debra! I wouldn't want to go back to those times for anything! I've finished Kinew's book, "The Reason I Walk." He refers to the sweat lodge a number of times, but he refers to the sundance ceremony more. Both are important to Anishinabe spiritual beliefs. Have a great weekend!

  5. Still amazes me how umm crazy people could be with all the curse hocus pocus. Years in a hole would be awful. Does sound like something out of the middle ages. Like the whole, "if you float your a witch and get burned at the stake, if you sink and drown your not a witch." Umm yeah, that's productive.

    1. Thank goodness we're are slowly climbing out of the primordial slime as a species! I'd rather drown than burn at a stake. Talk about a no win, horrendous situation! I'm afraid that mankind is becoming more inventive in torture today, and that is not a good thing! At least we have people fighting for human rights on a global scale. Have a great weekend, my friend!

  6. Oh were things different when we were in school, eh Louise?
    And when you father was teaching, things were different then as well.
    My first 'strap' was when I was was 7 and in grade two. My friend and I, along with both the girls school and the boys school, were at benediction in church after lunch.....something struck us funny and we couldn't control our laughing is our lives depended on it!
    OUCH! Did that strap hurt! Especially as it reached up onto my wrist. Left a lasting impression on me.
    You have hit a number of important points here....punishment in schools back then, mental illness, and responsibility of the church and state. I must say that the 'white' culture wasn't much better in it's treatment of those poor souls with mental illness.
    Another 'letter' packed with food for thought, Louise.

    1. Oh Lord, you have my sympathy, Jim! I can remember laughing like that! I used to sing in the choir at the Wolfville Baptist Church when Professor Gmeiner was the choir director and organist. I could see the whole congregations, and sometimes those giggle fits would kick in. I'd bite my tongue and cheeks, dig my nails into my arm, anything to try and stifle those giggles! Yup, that strap did reach up to the wrist! I'm so glad that those days are behind us now!

      Yes, the treatment of mental illness by the medical profession wasn't much better then: electrical shocks, lobotomies, mental asylums. Of course now we're more humane. We toss the mentally ill out onto the street to become homeless and panhandle ~ while saving taxes and excoriating them at the same time!!!! Makes me proud to have "evolved."

      "Food for thought" is my favorite diet, Jim! Have a great weekend, my friend!

  7. Mental illness, sometimes now as then, the great unknown. Now with tablets, capsules, and more, all the health professionals will hope to treat and cure, and if not, to keep in institutions, or if perhaps maybe somewhat well enough, let the patients into the community, where they flounder and struggle.A little authority goes a long way, far too far , in my opinion, and every person is entitled to fair and honest treatment. Maybe for those years, that lady had many frequent toilet trips, maybe overnight sometimes, and I hope this was true.Be in good spirits, Louise, lately I try and ignore anything that will be stressful or upset me, and although my little bit will never ever make the whole world a safe place, that tiny bit of understanding and generosity might help. This week it was giving some golden daffs to friends. Greetings from a very windy place down here.

    1. Hi Jean! How lovely that you are brightening the world by giving golden daffies to friends. They've always been special flowers to my mother and me, because when I was born, Dad gave Mom a bunch of daffodils.

      I'm a big believer in the cumulative power of lots of regular people doing their bit to spread a little understanding and generosity. I would always tell myself to "make their day" when I was teaching. So whenever I was going down the hall and met kiddos from any grade or class I tried to make them smile. I had particular fun with the kindies. And I always had a ready hug or more hugs for any kiddo who wanted one. Don't underestimate the value of what you see as a "tiny bit!" It snowballs when others pass on that tiny bit. I feel the same way about my recycling effort! Haha!

      I hope my blog isn't stressing or upsetting you too much! I know the last few posts have had some rough content. But I need to tell this story! Thank you for your kind and thoughtful comment! Hang on tight and don't blow away! Sending you a big hug!

  8. Thanks goodness things have changed in schools over the years. When I was an elementary school child, it was still going on. I never got into enough trouble to get 'the strap' or 'the ruler' but other kids I know did. And it was horrifying. We still have a long way to go with the mentally ill. They are still suffering abuse and mistreatment. We must work harder to change things.

    Another wonderful post, Louise! I so enjoy these. Thanks for sharing them!

    1. Thanks, Martha! You're right on both counts. Thank goodness strapping is gone from most schools, and yes, we really must work harder to change things for people who are mentally ill.

  9. Interesting stories but also disturbing.

    1. These events were disturbing to me as a child, and they still disturb me today. Often I think that Canada's Aboriginals are America's Blacks. We have so far to go to understand the people we share the Earth with.

  10. I never was strapped in school but I distinctly remember a teacher who carried a ruler with her on her treck around the classroom and used it to smack hands that weren't holding a pencil correctly. I'm sure your father only used physical force (and not much of it) when it was necessary. Even when I was teaching spankings by the principal was still carried on.

    1. That's what my teacher in a Roman Catholic school used to do when I was in Grade 1 in Atholville, New Brunswick. As a teacher of cursive, I have to grit my teeth when I see someone holding his or her pencil incorrectly and trying to write in some awful and inefficient way. LOL Now the elementary schools are no longer teaching cursive. It went the way of spankings, but unlike spanking, that was not a a good thing. Have a great weekend, Peggy!

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Bare Bones Development: Pivoted!

As you can see from the video I have done a major overhaul of the project and have also added a game time UI element as well as both a main menu and game over scene, which shows the total score of the level you just completed.

This project has gone through a major pivot and at this point is headed in the direction of a hack-n-slash/dungeon crawler. I think it fits better for what I envision for the final product and will fit nicely in that genre because of the elements I would like to add.

At this time the graphics are just a place-holder but have added a better sense of what the environment will look like.

The weapon render path, the weapon “blast” muzzle bug, has remained in the game but will be the focus of my next update along with adding melee weapons, since it will be hack and slash, or some sort of hybrid.

Bare Bones: Secondary Weapon

It has been a while since my last update but now it is time for me to unveil what I have been doing with my week of code cleanup and dismantling.

I was able to create a basic weapon inventory script that currently has two weapons in it and uses a boolean variable to tell the script when the player is holding either the handgun or the shotgun. Before posting this video I was working on implementing buttons on screen to deal with this effect but I decided to post what I had to show I did not abandon this project.

One thing that still concerns me is the fact that the line renderer I have attached to both weapons does not fire every time I click the mouse button down as it should. When you watch the video you can see that sometimes there are “blasts” from the muzzle of the weapon and sometimes there are not. For now, this is the furthest thing on my list to fix but it is something that I can’t ignore either.

Bare Bones: Weapon System Update Bug

Progression has been slow since I ran into a weapon system snag. When I tried to add new weapons such as a shotgun or knife I realized that my code was too sloppy. When I updated my code and added a new rate of fire ability, a bug occurred (though I think I know what it is.) I thought it was pretty humorous so I decided to make a video of it, a new video should be updated shortly with the system actually working.

Bare Bones: Random Loot Drops/Camera Update

I have made a lot of progress on the game so far. The first thing I did was add a script that follows the player and also opened up the area so there is space to walk. Next I added a new enemy type that gives more points when destroyed. After some thought I decided the next course I should take is ammo and health drops.

The random loot drop script works with two different “if” statements that first ask the question of if loot will drop (60% chance) and if it does will decide which piece of loot will drop between the ammo and the health. The health drop has a 40% chance of dropping and the ammo has a 60% chance.

Next up on my list to do will be a new weapon type and also ammo clips so that the player has to reload, thus adding more challenge to the game. From there I am setting my sights on a menu system.

Game Competition: Game Name Game

I entered a game competition known as Game Name Game. The point of the competition was to pick two words and create a concept of the game. I chose the words Laser and Cowboy, unfortunately I did not win. There were many very talented artists and designers that submitted fantastic concepts that were far above this concept which was done in a little under 3 hours. I may not have won but one of the judges gave me the “I Was Expecting A Firefly Clone” Award 🙂

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Bare Bones – Ammo Pickup

Next on the list after giving myself an ammo limit was to create an ammo pickup so I could replenish what I used. I think it has come together quite nicely. Basically when the player steps into the pink ammo blob it will run a script that calculates how much ammo the player currently has and adds 30 to it. I think next on my list will be ammo drops from enemies or even starting to figure out the menu systems and a way to die and restart the game.

*Side Note* I got caught up in the moment and tried to get away from the bad guys in the video, it actually worked! After escaping I remembered I didn’t give myself a chance to get any more ammo so I just made myself get obliterated by the wall, I will avenge myself in the future.

Bare Bones – Ammo Remaining Text

Next up on my agenda was to come up with a way to limit the amount of ammo the player has and a visual way for the player to track how much they have remaining. I basically wrapped the “if” statement that instantiates the bullet with another “if” statement that checks to make sure the player doesn’t have 0 (zero) ammo and if they do then no bullets will ever be created because of the else clause. In the future I will add ammo drops and the ability to reload but for now I am good with the one amount of ammo.

Bare Bones: Top-down Survival Shooter – Visible Health

I quickly put together a visible health system so the player could see how much health they have remaining. It will definitely change throughout this build but I think hearts has that certain retro flare to them.

Bare Bones: Top-down Survival Shooter – Walls

After a few hours of research I found out how to implement pathfinding for the enemies. I added a wall to see if the enemies would go around it, the results were much better than I expected.

Bare Bones: Top-down Survival Shooter Entry #1

Work had began on a new project that is a top-down survival shooter. The project is in the bare bones framework stage but I thought uploading the progress of the game would be  good thing. Here is a short clip of The damage system being implemented and tinkered with.


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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Morning Charts 01/13/2015 SPX /es

It's been a while since I have given a quarterly earnings primer/rant. It's been a while cause I figured you know the drill and really don't need to hear it for the 23rd time from me. This from ZH highlights my basic rant perfectly -

"Alcoa did what it always does following the now traditional several weeks of guidedowns heading into the earnings release that until recently used to kick off the earnings season for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (at least until Alcoa was unceremoniously kicked out): it beat, and beat significantly, with Wall Street expecting $0.27 in Q4 EPS, Alcoa reported a whopping $0.33, a material beat to expectations."

It's the same quarter after quarter, guide down and down and down into QE where there is never any penalty for doing so in an an always rising market, lower the hurdle where the beat becomes simple or excitingly extravagant in AA's case this quarter. Then add the GAAP crookedness they started allowing after the crash in '09 and you get an earnings season full of (only positive but not real) surprises.

Ya think that's bad, the banks take this strategy and add two or three more twists to the trickeration just to make things even more interesting. (Try this flashback on for size.)

I hate TA and calling the market for the next month. Unpredictable is the best word I can think of, at least till AAPL announces (which can hold up a complete index simply on speculation no matter how bad the numbers are for the rest). How do you handicap something like AA or the thousands of similar stories to come? A beat for the CNBS talking heads to tout to the sheeple, but when the veil is pulled back you get this really nasty look at reality. But when in the last 5 years has reality mattered?

On to the lie-

Monthly SPX - Take a step back and really look at the big picture. This is the edge of the cliff. With my weekly chart having blown through all the TA signals for a top (to which it timed a rather large fall that really should have been it) - this is all there is left.

More to come below.

Have a good day.

GL and GB!

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