vancouver courier january 12 2011

Cheryl RossiStaff writer

Tessa Schmidt knew she’d become a me-dia “poster child” for low-cost suites atthe Olympic Village.

The 19-year-old woman who has cere-bral palsy and gets around in a wheelchairmoved into her new home New YearsEve.

Schmidt moved from living with herparents on Vancouver Island, to GF Strong

Rehabilitation Centre for three months, tosix months of accommodation in a suitein an accessible building on Clark Drive.She needed to vacate that suite by the endof the year.

Schmidt heard of social housing at theOlympic Village at the start of Decem-ber, but was told there were no acces-sible suites. Two weeks later, B.C. Hous-ing called her back to say it had adaptedsuites available there.

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Dentist will walk three days in Iraq for orphansNaoibh O’ConnorStaff writer

A Vancouver dental surgeonheads to Iraq next week ona humanitarian mission toraise money for Iraqi or-phans.

Dr. Asif Tejani is a mem-ber of a six-person team,including four Canadiansand two Americans, whowill walk from Najaf toKarbala on behalf of ChildAid International, a non-profit founded in 2004.The walkathon is billed asa three-day, 90-kilometre“walk for life.”

Each year, a procession ofMuslims travel to Karbala,a Shiite holy site southwestof Baghdad. “We will beparticipating in part of this

walk, so we will be withmillions of others as theymake this journey. The onlydifference is, in additionto having the physical andspiritual dimension, therewill be a humanitariancomponent to it as well,”said Tejani, who hopes topersonally collect at least$20,000 for the orphans.The group’s collective goalis $100,000.

The federal governmenthas warned the group it’snot safe to travel to thetroubled region, but theteam isn’t dissuaded. “[Thegovernment has] stronglyurged us not to do some-thing like this. They un-derstand the drive behinda walk like this, but theycaution us, in very strong

words, not to undertakesuch an endeavor,” ex-plained Tejani, a staff den-tal surgeon at VancouverGeneral Hospital.

Tejani is familiar withthe region, having beeninvolved in humanitarianwork in both Iraq and Af-ghanistan, and he believesthe walk will create aware-ness about the plight ofIraqi orphans and the dif-ficulties they face.

“My interaction with Iraqstretches back to when itwas under embargo by theUN and people unnecessar-ily suffered. These people,who have lived throughdecades of a brutal dicta-torship under Saddam Hus-sein, followed by war,

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Asif Tejani will walk from Najaf to Karbala on behalf of Child Aid International, anon-profit charity.

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7 I Class Notes: getting testy BY NAOIBH O’CONNOR

The campaign by teachers and parents to withdraw students fromannual Foundations Skills Assessment tests gains momentum.

13 I Girl interconnected BY CHERYL ROSSI

The Vancouver author of a book about talking teenage girls throughrelationships joins with a U.S. psychologist to offer online advice.

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8 I Join the list BY SANDRA THOMAS

A December transplant surgery was a lifesaver for a woman waiting fora kidney. But hundreds more in B.C. await their chance at survival.

9 I Worked to death BY TOM SANDBORN

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Continued from page 1the crippling embargo, sanctions,and the senseless violence thatgoes on today—I feel they deserveattention,” he said.

The volunteers will walk about30 kilometres a day and stay withhosts or in camps along the way.Most of the trek will be throughurban centres, with some smallstretches through the countryside.

The exact route is being kept se-cret for security reasons.

“There is an element of riskinvolved—we do realize that.We understand the possibilityof kidnappings is lower, but be-cause there are lots of crowds inthese areas the chances of suicidebombs going off are supposedlyhigher. But, to be honest, the wayI look at it is the average Iraqi

lives through this sort of sense-less violence on a daily basis. SoI’m more concerned about themthat I would be about myself whowill only be there for 10 days,” Te-jani told the Courier.

He said his adventurous spiritand interest in charitable workdraws him to such regions andthat the people have taught himabout resilience and strength.

“I’m thrilled and electrifiedthat [the trip] has a humanitar-ian component in the sense thatfor every step I’ll take I hope, insome very small, insignificantway, to bring awareness towardsthe orphans of Iraq—many ofthem victims of the senselessviolence—and to raise funds forthem,” he said.

A donor is covering administra-

tive costs, so all contributions tothe walkathon go directly to theorphans, according to Tejani.

Tejani was born in Tanzania inEast Africa. The 40-year-old stud-ied in the United States, but madeVancouver home in 1997.

For information about the walk,see childaidinternational.org.

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Continued from page 1“Apparently I was quite high up on the

priority list and it’s quite obvious becauseI’m a young woman I’m totally their posterchild,” she said.

Schmidt moved in with her wheelchairs,a night table, a coffeemaker and a blender.A Vancouver Sun newspaper reader gaveher a bed after reading about her, and she’sfurnished her apartment with a table andchairs bought off Craigslist.

Her suite features a large storeroom with astacked washer and dryer, a bathroom withan accessible shower, a kitchen with openspace under the stove and sink so she canwheel in close, an accessible balcony anda long bedroom closet. But Schmidt saysshe knocked the closet doors off with herwheelchair within 12 hours of moving in.She’s also had the bathroom door removedbecause it swung in to the shower. She be-lieved if she fell, she would be trapped in-side.

Schmidt is getting extra homecare hoursto help with laundry until her stacked wash-er is moved. Most of the kitchen cupboardsare also too high. Schmidt said her previ-ous home was more accessible, but her newhome is closer to Granville Island and Sci-ence World, more convenient for transit andvisits from friends, who covet aspects of hernew digs. “It’s either this [storage room] or

the bed or the washer and dryer,” Schmidtsaid. “I don’t feel too bad.”

She calls Walter Hardwick Avenue atOlympic Village “Desolation Road” andwould love to see more younger peoplemove in to her building. She recognizes oth-er tenants from GF Strong but says they’reolder. Of the $375 shelter allowance shereceives from the provincial government,$320 goes to rent for her new one-bedroomadapted suite in the Olympic Village build-ing with the orange exterior accents. Includ-ing the shelter allowance, she receives $906in disability benefits a month.

Schmidt is completing her high school ed-ucation, plans to study recreational therapyat Langara College and get a job. Once sheearns more than $500 a month, her earn-ings eat into her disability benefits, so shefigures she’ll be able to live at the village forfour to five years.

Schmidt lives in one of 126 units acrossthree buildings at the Olympic Village to berented at below-market rates, some of themin a co-op. City council decided in April2010 that half of the 252 designated afford-able units would be rented at below marketrates and the other half at market rates, withpriority given to workers deemed essentialto the city, including police officers, teach-ers and nurses.

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On the LamI’m guessing the Yaletown resi-dents who didn’t want a com-munity garden in David Lam Parkwon’t be thrilled sections of thegreen space will be used for workspace during the construction of anew B.C. Hydro substation.

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Walk this wayOne of the biggest issues the 40-year-old Bloedel Conservatoryfaced up until about a year ago isthat many people in the city hadno idea it existed.

That was until the park boardthreatened to close it down lastyear for lack of funds. One of thereasons the conservatory madesuch little revenue in recent yearswas ongoing construction in andaround Queen Elizabeth Parkcombined with a lack of advertis-ing and programs at the conserva-tory.

Last year, the operation of theconservatory was handed over tothe non-profit group Friends ofthe Bloedel in partnership withthe VanDusen Botanical GardenAssociation. One of the promisesmade by the new operators of thedome was to organize programs,particularly for students and se-niors. And it looks like they’re liv-ing up to that promise. BeginningJan. 18, VanDusen’s educationdepartment offers two new series

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With the programming wellunderway it’s just a matter of,once again, ongoing constructionblocking off at least two entrancesto Queen Elizabeth Park.

Thin iceThe park board wants to remindresidents who want to ice skateto stick with indoor rinks andstay off frozen lakes and ponds incity parks. Some ice has formedon lakes and ponds due to coldweather, but it’s not thick enoughfor skating on.

According to parks staff, mostice is too thin to support peopleor even pets. Warmer tempera-tures, snow and rain in the fore-cast will add to the danger. Warn-ing signs are posted at traditionalskating locations, such as TroutLake, Beaver Lake and SutcliffePark near the entrance to Gran-ville Island, and park rangers andlifeguards are patrolling the areasreminding people to stay off theice.

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Testy subjectStudents have until Jan. 14 torequest exemptions for the con-troversial Foundation Skills As-sessment tests. Each year, Grade4 and 7 students’ knowledge ofreading comprehension, writ-ing and numeracy is assessedthrough the provincial exams,but critics, including the teach-ers’ union, consider them awaste of time. The results don’tcount toward report card marksor graduation requirements.

The Vancouver School Boardsent letters home to parents in-dicating families can decide iftheir children will take the tests.It also supports the District Par-ent Advisory Council position onthe issue.

“As a board, we respect theright and responsibility of par-ents and students to determinewhether or not the student’sparticipation in the FSA is in thebest interest of the student,” theletter, signed by board chair PattiBacchus, states.

It further says that principalsdetermine if students are excused

from one, two or all three FSAcomponents based on individualeducation plans and English as asecond language proficiency. Par-ents are advised in those cases.Parents can ask the principal toexcuse a student in the event ofa family emergency, a lengthyillness or other extenuating cir-cumstances.

The Vancouver ElementarySchool Teachers’ Association alsoasked teachers to send students

home with material on why itopposes the tests. “We hope thatthis will help teachers and freethem up to continue doing theirregular classroom work with stu-dents,” VESTA told its membersthrough its website.

The testing is scheduled forJan. 17 to Feb. 25. The examsmeasure skills students gain overseveral school years.

The campaign against FSAtests has proven successful in

Vancouver with 35 per cent ofstudents receiving exemptionsfrom writing the tests last year.“That total includes exemptionswe would have done for studentswith [English as a second lan-guage], as well as special needsstudents, so it’s the total popula-tion exemption against what ourtotal enrolment is in Grade 4 andGrade 7,” explained VSB spokes-man David Weir. “The figure hasbeen going up in recent years.”

Top honourDavid Livingstone elementary’sprincipal David Brook was namedone of Canada’s OutstandingPrincipals by the national edu-cational charitable organizationLearning Partnership. He earnedthe honour by “embracing newtechnology, encouraging teachercollaboration and professionaldevelopment and supporting stu-dent skills and creativity,” accord-ing to the VSB. Thirty-two princi-pals were recognized this year.

ClarificationIn my last Class Notes I men-tioned Anne Guthrie Warman isleaving her post as president ofthe Vancouver Secondary Teach-ers’ Association for a job with theB.C. Teachers’ Federation. A fewpoints of clarification: her workon “post and fill language” wasto create more mobility in theVancouver school district, not be-tween districts. “It simply meantthat it was easier for teachers tochange schools and it was some-thing that both the employer andteachers wanted in terms of ourpost and fill provisions. That waswhat we negotiated as a change,”she told the Courier.

The sentence “lobbying for classsize and class composition” shouldhave said “lobbying for class sizeand class composition limits.”

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During her hours-long ferry and bus trip to Van-couver from Nanaimo Dec. 3, former Vancouverresident Brenda Zakreski couldn’t help but tellcomplete strangers the reason for her journey.

“I told a few people that day,” said Zakreski,laughing during a phone interview with theCourier this week.

Zakreski has every reason to laugh. On Dec.4, the 58-year-old received a new kidney afterwaiting for almost eight years, during whichshe received dialysis four times a week.

Zakreski never dreamed her life would oneday be consumed by ill health. In 2001, Zakreskitook what she considered a dream job teachingin Singapore with a goal to make enough moneyto build a house on the small property she’d re-cently purchased in Hawaii. Zakreski had a life-long passion for travel and at the time her plansfor the future included living part-time at hertropical home, while teaching English as a sec-ond language in Asia for months at a time.

But those dreams were dashed when monthsafter arriving in Singapore, Zakreski becamegravely ill. She was convinced her sicknesswas due to cancer, but her doctor in Asia wasjust as convinced she’d developed gastritisdue to stress. Getting sicker and weaker bythe day, Zakreski returned to Vancouver. Im-mediately upon arrival, Zakreski headed fora medical clinic on Granville Street, where adoctor took blood samples. While waiting forthe results, Zakreski spent her time sleeping ata friend’s place, because she was incapable ofmoving. But then Zakreski received the phone

call that changed her life.“The doctor called and said, ‘You want to

get to a hospital right now,’” Zakreski recalls.Further tests confirmed Zakreski’s kidneys

were rapidly failing and by May 2003 were at50 per cent function. By then, Zakreski hadmoved to Vancouver Island to be near herbrother and in 2003 she began dialysis treat-ments in Nanaimo, where she eventually set-tled. And while dialysis helped keep Zakreskialive, it was also damaging her heart so justhow long she would live was questionable.

“I was on my last legs,” she says.But then out of the blue on Dec. 3, Zakreski

got the call she’d been waiting eight years forjust as she was heading for a dialysis treat-ment. Zakreski was on the 9 p.m. ferry thatsame day heading for St. Paul’s Hospital.

Zakreski says spending her Christmas holi-

days recovering from a kidney transplant wasthe best gift ever and she can’t thank the trans-plant team, including her specialized doctorsand nurses, enough.

Zakreski admits that before getting sick, shegave little thought to organ donation, but it’sfront and centre on her mind these days. She’swritten a letter to the donor’s family, thankingthem for their generous gift. According to therules of organ donation in B.C., Zakreski willnever know the name of the person whose kid-ney she has unless the donor’s family choosesto contact her. Zakreski would like to thankthe family in person, but in the meantime isdoing what she can to highlight the B.C. Trans-plant Society’s organ donation registry.

According to the society, B.C. has a chronicshortage of hearts, lungs, kidneys and liversfor transplant. Hundreds of B.C. residents arewaiting for organ transplants and hundredsmore are in line for a corneal transplant. Un-fortunately some organs that could be used fortransplant are lost because the family has noidea of their loved ones wishes.

As of Dec. 8, 2010 there were 377 B.C. resi-dents waiting for a transplant, of which 296were waiting for a kidney. The society notes asa result of the shortage of solid organs in B.C.,many people die while waiting for a transplant.Fortunately, Zakreski was not one of them.

For more information on organ donation or toverify if you are a donor, go to transplant.bc.ca.

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To the editor:Re: “Teachers’ union attacks merit-based

proposal,” Jan. 7.In my earlier years as an elementary and

secondary school student school, I dis-tinctly remember some of the teachers whowent out of their way to help every studentlearn as best they could. I also remembersome teachers who just didn’t care oneway or another, and some of them werejust plain mean.

I admit that the job of teaching childrenand adolescents is not an easy professionto be in, but like many other jobs why notreward those teachers who have made a

considerable effort to achieve success inthe classroom and allow them to sharetheir talents with other teachers in orderto improve the quality of the education forstudents?

For years, schools have rewarded topstudents and athletes with scholarshipsand awards which often motivates otherstudents to work harder, so I don’t seewhy the same incentives can’t be offeredto teachers who are helping students tobecome the independent and successfuladults of tomorrow.

Leslie Benisz,Vancouver

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LATEST STATS SHOW 174 WORK-RELATED FATALITIES

Negligent regulators, employersresponsible for workplace deathEvery year, far too many work-ers in Canada go to work andend up in an emergency wardor a morgue by the end of theday.The Duke of Wellington,England’s iconic general in theNapoleonic wars of the early19th century, called the lists ofdead and wounded compiledafter a battle the “butcher’sbill.” A memorial service heldJan. 7 downtown honouredsome of the Canadian work-ers who end up every year onCanada’s butcher’s bill. Theceremony not only allowedfamilies to mourn for their lostloved ones, it also provides anopportunity for us all to reflecton issues of workplace safetyand regulation, areas in whichCanada and B.C. continue tohave a less-than-stellar recordThirty years ago last week,Gunther Couvreux, Donald W.Davis, Yrjo Mitrunen and BrianStevenson had their morningcoffee, gathered up their workboots and hard hats and wentto work on the new Bentall IVbuilding downtown. Beforethe day was out, the concretefly form they were working oncame away from the towerstructure and plunged the fourworkers to their deaths morethan 30 floors below.This was not an isolatedincident then, and news ofworkplace deaths and injuriescontinue to be all too com-mon three decades later. Theissue of workplace casualtieswas ironically underscored lastyear, when the convention ofthe B.C. Federation of Labourin Vancouver coincided withtwo serious workplace acci-dents (both fatal falls) in oneday within blocks of the con-vention.The alarming injury and fatal-ity numbers that pile up everyyear suggest that governmentregulators and Canadian em-ployers are simply not doing agood enough job on workplacesafety, and that far too manyCanadian workers pay the priceof that neglect. According toWorkSafe B.C., in the 2009 re-porting period (which includesdeaths from 2009 reportedthrough February 2010) theagency registered 174 work-re-lated deaths in the province,down from 225 in the 2008reporting period.It seems likely that the re-duction in 2009 deaths is anartifact of that year’s econom-ic downturn rather than anymajor improvement in jobsitesafety. It is also worth notingthat over a third of the work-related deaths in 2009 are theresults of exposure to asbes-tos in past decades. Canadianworkers are no longer regularly

exposed to asbestos, but thefederal government (in anotherof the shameful decisions thathave been made so often inthe realm of worker health andsafety) continues to allow ex-ports of the killer substance tothe Third World.But shameful decisionshave been made closer tohome than Ottawa. Here inB.C., the past decade hasseen widespread and lethalcuts to enforcement and safetyinspections at worksites, anda provincial government thatis notably unwilling to act onspecific suggestions from cor-oner’s juries about how to pre-vent future deaths. To cite oneparticularly horrifying example,more than a year has passedsince a coroner’s jury weighedin with its report on the tragicdeaths of three farmworkersin 2007, killed when their em-ployer’s ill-maintained and im-properly inspected van rolledon a rain-swept highway.The jury made 18 recom-mendations about how thegovernment could preventrecurrence of this tragedy,none of which have been fullyimplemented, according to theB.C. Federation of Labour. So,we have no reason to believethat farmworkers will be anysafer during the next harvestseason than they were before2007’s tragic deaths, and noreal reason for confidence thatmore construction workersin Vancouver and across theprovince won’t die needlesslythis year in the same way thatGunther Couvreux, Donald W.Davis, Yrjo Mitrunen and BrianStevenson did in 1981.Human sacrifice, we like tothink, is a bloodstained mem-ory from the barbaric past,not an unchallenged elementin modern life. But so long asgovernments are able to justifycuts to safety inspections andproper training in the name ofeconomy or a balanced bud-get, we are making our ownsacrifices, spilling blood toprotect the bottom line. Let’stell our political masters it’stime to end on-the-job blood-shed.

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Cars cause school chaos, not bicycles

Fare enforcement won’t catch TransLink’s problems

To the editor:Re: “Bike route infrastruc-

ture causes school chaos,”Jan. 7.

Your headline writer gotit all wrong. It is not bikeroute infrastructure thatis causing school trafficchaos. Rather, as the ar-ticle clearly states, cars andSUVs struggle to pass oneanother alongside parkedcars. This sort of scene un-fortunately plays out twicedaily around most schoolsin Vancouver and its sub-urbs, not because of bikeinfrastructure, but becauseparents insist on drivingtheir children right up tothe front of their school andpicking them up there aswell—usually one child pervehicle. This behaviour isdangerous (and unhealthy)for the children as well asthe nerves of the drivers.It is also ecologically irre-sponsible behaviour.

Let’s put the responsibil-ity for school traffic conges-tion on the shoulders of the

driving parents where it be-longs, not on cyclists whoare doing the right thing bytravelling in an ecologicallysound way.

Franz Scherubl,Vancouver

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Why do adults drive chil-dren to and from school?We should be aiming tocreate a city environmentin which children can actu-ally get to school safely ontheir own. Single measuresapplied in isolation won’tachieve this. Everyoneneeds to aim for this goal,which would also makeVancouver a much morelivable, sustainable and en-joyable city.

Gary Woloski,Vancouver


Perhaps it’s time for theparent advisory council atthis school to educate par-ents about proper traffic eti-quette, to facilitate carpool-

ing, to encourage parentsto use alternative trans-portation (buses, bicyclesand feet) and to make theschool a better neighbourin its community.

Joseph Stemberger,Vancouver


Some parents do have alegitimate reason to drivetheir kids to school. Theylive a long way away. Okay,then why not park a blockor two from school andwalk your kids the rest ofthe way? And don’t blamecyclists for the bad behav-iour of motorists. That’sjust silly.

Jiri Hornburg,Vancouver


School zones have be-come among the worst traf-fic jams in the city. Bikesare part of the solution here.They are not the problem.

Ron van der Eerden,Vancouver

To the editor:Re: “New transit fare card may cost $170

million,” Dec. 29.So we are going to catch just about all

fare-evaders and annoying “goofs” whosteal rides on our transit system? But westill don’t have the transit line extended

eastward, no attendants on the platform(or in the cars), no generally accessible toi-lets, no improved access for those with mo-bility problems and small children. Folks, Ibelieve we’re being taken for a ride!

Gudrun Langolf,Vancouver

According to one reader, a recently proposed merit system rewarding exceptionalteachers would benefit students. photo Dan Toulgoet

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A panel of experts exploresthe evolving future of hu-man relationships with oth-er species such as horses,dogs, whales, and dolphins.Panelists include Dr. JasonCressey, an author andworld expert on whales anddolphins and Kathy Gib-son who brings a fresh andevolutionary approach todogs and humans living to-gether in her work as a dogand human trainer. EvelynMcKelvie rescued an ailingthoroughbred racehorsewho inspired her to becomea trained horse whisperer.The talk is Feb. 5, from 7to 9 p.m. at the Great Hall,Centre for Peace, at 16thand Burrard. Admission isby donation.

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UBC annual report notes shape-shifting intelligent architecture

Mechatronics may transform our public spacesCheryl RossiStaff writer

Envision a canopy thatsenses when it starts torain and rolls out to shelterpassersby.

That’s what a Univer-sity of B.C. student in theSchool of Architecture andLandscape Architecture didlast year when professorsAnnaLisa Meyboom andJerzy Wojtowicz chargedarchitecture and engineer-ing students with exploringhow “mechatronics” couldbenefit public spaces.

Mechatronics is a crossdiscipline that combineselectrical, mechanical, com-puter and control engineer-ing with systems design.

One student conceived anamphitheatre for GranvilleIsland that could physicallyadjust to become the acous-tic ideal for different perfor-mances. Another imaginedbenches that would appearas an area becomes busy.

Meyboom has designedan untended robotic bridge

for beneath Burrard StreetBridge that could opento sailboats and providesmooth sailing for cyclists.

Shape-shifting spaces orintelligent architecture isfeatured as one of nine ad-vances that could transformour world in UBC’s fifth an-nual report on the next bigthing.

Local experts foresee mu-nicipal robotic workers thatcould crawl into and finddefects in sewers and watermains, buildings that couldhelp restore the environ-ment, new tools to makesense of social media for anew age of journalism anda range of medical and dis-order detection advances.One expert has updated aprevious prediction aboutprescription pets—in whicha physician prescribes get-ting an animal for thera-py—and another about thepossibility of imminentlydiscovering another planetcapable of life.

Architecture students areexploring how they could

improve the lives of peopleinhabiting extended health-care facilities.

Graduate student Jor-dan Beggs made a modelof a protective railing thatcould rise when residentsapproached the edge ofa walkway to help themsafely get outside. Systemscould also track locationsof residents who have Al-zheimer’s disease.

Last year students ex-plored building facades thatcould respond to weatherand light.

In Paris, there’s a build-ing that responds to lightwith a shutter-like exteriorskin while Danish architec-ture firm BIG has proposed

a responsive way-findingsystem for streets.

Possibilities include build-ings, outdoor spaces andfeatures that could respondto stimuli such as motion,light, time of day or head orhand movements for thosewith limited ability to oth-erwise communicate.

Meyboom and Wojtowiczhave collaborated with engi-neering physics and mechan-ical and electrical engineersfor three years, exploringpossible applications. It’s afield many are interested in,she says, but few study.

“The technology requiredis not new, it’s quite acces-sible, but it is just not ap-plied to the spaces we use,”Meyboom said. “The ques-tion is what might you dowith it, and then why mightyou do something withit. Because we can do theJames Bond kind of switchthe environment becauseit looks good, but in archi-tecture we tend to look atthings that have more of aconsequence culturally andsocially.”

She sees a future in me-chatronics being used in con-

tested public spaces, such ashow to mediate roads forcyclists and drivers, and toimprove safety, save moneyor inspire delight.

Meyboom expects to seemore buildings and spaces—including responsive ele-ments—in the next 10 yearswith art installations evolv-ing before architecture,gradually increasing publicconfidence in shape-shift-ing systems.

“It will require mainte-nance, more like a car thana like a building,” she said.

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Intersection SafetyCamera (ISC)program’splan to equip, by early2011, 140 intersectionsin the BC lower main-land with new digitalcameras. The imagesthe new cameras collectof red-light-runners willbe downloaded remote-ly and the resulting tick-ets will be mailed outalmost immediately.

Although all 140 locations can operatesimultaneously, the intention is to be selective.Activated locations may differ for morning andafternoon rush hours, for example, dependingon which locations can be expected to producegreater impact.

This $20 million upgrade is not intended tobe a ‘cash cow’. Despite more than quadruplingthe number of cameras—under the currentprogram 30 cameras are rotated through 120locations— ticket fines are projected to increasefrom $3 million a year in ticket fines to only$4.4 million a year.

Safety is the main consideration, not ticketrevenue, said Nicolas Jimenez, head of roadsafety for ICBC: “If this program were reallyabout generating money, we would place cam-eras at intersections with the highest crash vol-umes and red-light running violations.… [But]we’re not doing that. The new locations arebased on where intersection crashes are mostlikely to cause severe injury or death.”

Some Road Rules readers have expresseddismay at the expense of the new additionalcameras, and are not persuaded that the programisn’t intended to be a ‘cash cow’. They havesuggested other ways of dealing with the prob-lem of red light running. “Stop issuing driverslicenses to young teens” wrote one of our read-ers, an interesting comment coming as it didjust when a BC liberal leadership candidate was

suggesting that thevoting age should belowered to 16 yearsto correspond withthe qualifying agefor driving, militaryenlistment, and trialin adult court.

Although no sta-tistics were citedshowing young teensas more likely thandrivers in other agegroups to run redlights, the general

crash, fatality and injury statistics for 16 to 19year olds— and especially for males in this agegroup—and despite improving trends broughtabout by graduated licensing programs andbetter driving training—still point to teenageinexperience and recklessness as ongoing sig-nificant causes of driving risk.

The recent holiday season brought to mind a‘tried and true’ method of intersection controlthat while not inexpensive, can both prevent andcure a host of problems from red light runningto gridlock. We sing the praises of whoever hadthe foresight to hire manual traffic controllers atlower mainland shopping malls and busy mainintersections to deal with the demands of theseason. We were reminded of how well trained,decisive, and commanding manual traffic con-trollers can, to quote a traffic control lessonguide, “promote the safe, rapid and efficientmovement of personnel and vehicle traffic.

You Tube has a great collection of ‘”dancingtraffic cop”’ videos from all over the world thatinspire on many levels. Watching the videos,you might almost forget that manually directingtraffic is tough and risky work.

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Mother of teenaged daughter penned a girl’s guide to boyfriends

Concerned mom helps launch teen advice websiteCheryl RossiStaff writer

Kaycee Jane thought she’dnipped any dating problemsin the bud when she toldher teenaged daughter thatshe wasn’t allowed to havea boyfriend. Instead, herdaughter hooked up with aguy Jane said didn’t respecther child.

Jane, a single Kerrisdaleparent and telecommunica-tions executive who’d beenbusy flying to Toronto forwork, realized she neededto focus on preparing herdaughter for healthy datingrelationships. “I was awareof the research that existedthen that unhealthy rela-tionship today [lead to] un-healthy relationship in thefuture,” she said.

Jane quit her job and re-turned to university to com-plete her executive master’sin business administration.She started sliding “love let-ters” under her daughter’sbedroom door. She wroteabout paying attentionto whether her boyfriendasked her to do things thatwould meet his needs, orpressured her or demandedthat she did them.

Jane wrote letters fortwo years to her daugh-ter, who she didn’t want

to name, while consultinghigh school counsellors andparents about teen relation-ships. She rolled those let-ters into a book Frog orPrince? A Smart Girls Guideto Boyfriends that took herfive years to write and thatshe self-published in 2008.

The 49-year-old motheralso teamed up with Dr. Ju-lius Licata, a psychologistand director of the Pennsyl-vania-based website Teen-Central.net. It allows teensto anonymously submitquestions that are answeredby trained counsellors andthen checked by master’s-level clinicians or psycholo-gists within 24 hours.

ParentCentral.net, whichwill launch in the thirdweek of January, will offerthe same service to parents.Jane helped create podcastson topics including talkingabout sex and dating violencefor both sites. She says Licataclaims TeenCentral gets twomillion hits a month.

A young women’s groupat the University of Idahohas started an organizationon healthy relationshipsand used Frog or Prince? assource material, Jane says.A young woman in Torontohas started writing abouther search for a healthyrelationship on a blog in-

spired by Frog or Prince?Jane says parents should

recognize dictatorial par-enting alienates teens. Shepromotes open conversa-tions between teens andparents where each takesturns talking and listeningwithout judgment. “If wehear someone bring up a

really good point, we ad-just our perspective whensomebody raises it,” Janesaid. “Can you do that withyour daughter? This is criti-cal because if we can dothat with our daughter, thenour daughter can do thatwith her boyfriend. What’sreally important is we can

develop healthier relation-ships with our daughters bydeveloping and practicingthese skills that our daugh-ters need to build healthyrelationships.”

Jane tells teen girls theyneed to work to understandwhat’s important to them,what they like and dislike. “To

respect ourselves, we have tomeet our needs,” she said.“…Of course that’s going tochange as we learn and grow,but we have to all start some-where… We have to be ableto stand up [for ourselves]and that’s tough, but to re-spect ourselves, we will.”

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To help guide her teenaged daughter, Kaycee Jane wroteher love letters that she compiled into a book called Frog orPrince? A Smart Girls Guide to Boyfriends. photo Dan Toulgoet

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When Vancouver’s Arts Club Theatre Company considered shifting toenergy-efficient lighting, it faced a common hurdle. While efficient lightingwill save money every month on your electricity bill, the bulbs do have ahigher sticker price than old-fashioned incandescents.

Kate Bethell, Rentals Manager at the Arts Club was ready for a big act,“We replaced 230 light bulbs on the Stanley’s marquee. And the sign is on24 hours a day.”

To help with the cost, the Arts Club qualified for a rebate of $4,600 throughthe Product Incentive Program. Bethell said that made the differencebetween doing the project—or not. “We might have done it eventually butit’s a big expense the first time you do it. The incentive definitely was themain reason we could do the switch.”

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Compile top 10 list of significant personal events from last year

No resolutions? Try making yourself and others happierA fresh new year brings toour lives a new start… orat least a new calendar. Areyou starting this year as afresh start, brimming withoptimism and energy, or iseverything pretty much thesame, the new year lookinglike the old year?

Like the rest of the world,my family is divided into

those who always makenew year’s resolutions andthose who resolve to makeno resolutions whatsoever.If my kids don’t come upwith their own resolutionsfor self-improvement, I offerthem a menu of choices.

I am thankful that mywife doesn’t offer me amenu for personal change…

or at least a special one justfor the new year.

The act of making a reso-lution demonstrates recog-nition that we can improveour lives and that we haveboth the power and theresponsibility to changeour behaviour. It requiresa dose of optimism. Youdon’t have to be dissatisfied

with your life to see howyou can make it better.

Some people don’t makeresolutions because theyare perfectly content withtheir lives and with them-selves. Others don’t makeresolutions because they’veseen a few dozen new yearscome and go without anyresolutions sticking.

Before any of us resolvesnot to make any positivechanges in our lives, let’stake a moment to compileour personal top 10 list forthe past year. We’re nottalking about your favouritemovies, shows, websites,YouTube videos or singers.

What were the significantpersonal events of youryear?

What was the goofiestthing you did last year? Ifit was goofy funny, did youhave fun and share a goodlaugh? Do you have some-thing even goofier plannedfor the new year? If it wasgoofy stupid, did you learnyour lesson or are you go-ing to be a goof again?

If you can’t rememberdoing anything goofy at all,you may be taking yourselffar too seriously, like Don-ald Duck.

A similar question: What

was your biggest mistake?You’re allowed more thanone. What did you learnabout yourself, about oth-ers or life? In order to learnand to grow, we have tomake some mistakes. If youdidn’t make any mistakesand if you never fall, youmight consider trying newthings and pushing the en-velope.

What was your greatestsuccess? When I look backat each year, I don’t mea-sure success by awards, ac-colades, money or clothes.I find more gratifying andsoul-sustaining my successat helping push others upbe they patients, family,friends or anyone else I canhelp to achieve their per-sonal potentials.

Who did you help thisyear? What great and smallacts of kindness did youperform? What was thekindest thing you did forsomeone else?

What were your happiestmoments? Was it somethingyou did, something you ac-complished or some placeyou went? Or was it justspending time with some-one you love?

Think about what bringsyou happiness; resolve todo more of it. Think abouthow you can help otherstoday; resolve to look forthese opportunities and toseize them. Look at whoyou love and what youvalue above all else, andresolve to devote your timeand energy to them.

Dr. Davidicus Wong isa physician at PrimeCareMedical. His Healthwisecolumn appears regularly inthis paper and his internetradio show, Positive Poten-tial Medicine can be heardon pwrnradio.com.

Local surgeon awarded Order of CanadaVancouver-based surgeon Dr. Robert Taylor was one of54 Canadians awarded the Order of Canada Dec. 30 byGovernor General David Johnston. The physician receivedthe country’s highest civilian honour for improving surgi-cal care in underserved populations. Taylor is a CanadianNetwork for International Surgery’s surgical associate,whose involvement with CNIS dates back to 1998 when hespearheaded the introduction of Essential Surgical Skillsinto Malawi. His role within CNIS has also involved teach-ing surgical skills courses in other countries, developingcurriculum, and raising awareness within Canada of theglobal burden of surgical-care. Taylor is the director of theBranch for International Surgery at the University of BritishColumbia, as well as the founding chairman of the Inter-national Surgery Committee of the Canadian Associationof General Surgeons. CNIS has chosen a “train-the-train-er” approach for its work in African countries. Canadiansurgeons and obstetricians volunteer to share their skillswith African colleagues who then teach medical studentsin their home country. Over 15,000 African health practi-tioners have been taught by CNIS.

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One of these is a new cher-ry tomato “Mountain Magic”from Veseys (veseys.com),which is said to have resis-tance to late blight and firmtexture for long storage. Manycherry tomatoes have a smalldegree of tolerance, but sofar the only small tomato I’vefound with marked resistanceis the tiny currant tomato Ly-copersicon pimpinellifolium,listed this year by Richters(richters.com)

Seed of the large-fruited“Legend” F1 hybrid is avail-able from T&M (thomp-sonmorgan.ca). This one hadremarkable blight-resistancewhen I grew it. The fruitsweren’t that tasty in my view,but the plant stood into earlyNovember and the fruit, storedinside, kept to January.

Green beans or runners areamong the most productivevegetables one can plant andsome bean pods are now fatterand/or stringless. Two oval-round listings from damseeds.com are the 25-centimetre-long green bean “Neckargko-nigin” and the yellow version“Neckargold.” Dam Seeds alsooffer a deep purple oval-roundpole bean “Blauhilde,” whichturns green when cooked.

Among runner beans, I’vebeen very happy with thestringless, smooth-skinned,red-flowered “Butler” fromchilternseeds.co.uk. A similarwhite-flowered, stringless run-ner “Moonlight” is availablefrom T&M.

Every colour and type inregular pole beans can also befound in compact ones. Pro-ductive bush beans include“Rodcor” and “Royal Burgun-dy,” both from Dam Seeds.There’s also a dwarf red-and-white flowered runner bean“Hestia” from T&M.

But for container growersthat hope for larger crops, I

recommend planting polebeans if you can handle trel-lising them or using poles tohelp them climb.

With container vegetables,cylindrical beets—such as“Cylindra” (13 cm), or Rodina(15-20 cm) from Veseys or thenew “Taunus” (15-17 cm)—are useful and easy to slice.These are available at domin-ion-seed-house.com.

With carrots I see that Ve-seys is offering “Resistafly.”This type of carrot has reducedmy carrot fly infestations con-siderably, but didn’t eliminatethem. Scattering leftover seedin the garlic bed resulted incleaner carrots and fewer dis-appearances through slugs.The AAS winner Purple HazeHybrid with its dappled pur-ple/orange skin is listed every-where. With its 20-cm lengthand longer storage potential,it’s a good choice, especially inbalcony containers undiscov-ered by carrot rust flies.

There’s a beautiful look-ing squash collection fromVeseys called Wild Bunch.The types resemble TurksTurban, Blue Hubbard, theheritage Triamble, Buttercup,Kabocha and more. Veyseysalso lists the delectable Heartof Gold—a productive acornsquash with green and creamstripes just the right size fora two-person meal.

People interested in heir-loom vegetables should checkout Richters.com. Offeringsinclude the delicious andproductive yellow Lemon Cu-cumber (which doesn’t keeplong once cut) and the hardyRed Russian kale.

Richters also lists thedrought-resistant, mat-form-ing New Zealand spinach,which holds up in cooking

better than standard spinach.It also has buttercrunch lettuceand the cultivated dandelion,which is bitter but succulentand very rich in iron.

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Apparently, when test subjects viewed animage of a 30-year-old, they routinely estimatedhis age to be much younger if they had previouslyviewed the faces of older people. Conversely, amiddle-aged person appeared substantially olderto the test subjects if they had previously beenviewing the images of younger people.

Based on our limited grasp of science, K&K isgoing to boldly assume that the same findingsapply to other characteristics—for instance,hanging out with people larger than you will makeyou look slimmer than you really are, drinkingwith alcoholics will make you appear to be less ofan alcoholic, and limiting your circle of friends to

people who are really dumb will make you seemvastly more intelligent. Which is why you will findus only hanging out with dumb, overweight, elderlyalcoholics and, presumably, getting it on like crazy.

In other, not-quite-as-important scientificresearch news, there’s still no cure for cancer.

Hardy har harEver since we ditched our rugby pants anddiscovered the chic freedom of buttless jeans (asseen in the 1981 Ryan O’Neal comedy So Fine),the style mavens at K&K have been down withfashion. So naturally our peacock eye shadowperked up this week when we read about a SaltLake City-based ad and design group’s attemptsto make the world “less sucky.”

According to its website, Super Top Secret willsend people one of its “crazy awesome” T-shirtsfor free if in return they receive a T-shirt from EdHardy, Affliction, Monarchy or a similar “offensivelybedazzled man blouse,” which the company willthen give to a homeless person and post picturesof where the sparkly garment ends up.

“It’s a win win situation,” says the website.“You get some rad new gear and at the same

time help bring this gaudy, glittery, gold-flakedtrend down to its base function as a shirt.”

So please give. Those interested in making theworld a better place should go to wearetopsecret.com/giving back. Your children and your children’schrome-covered robot children will thank you.

Woo the dayFresh on the heels of receiving the Pamela Martinbump, B.C. Liberal leader hopeful Christy Clark isramping up her campaign—or woo offensive, aswe like to call it—with the recent announcementthat if elected she intends to create a new holidayin the province, declaring the third Monday inFebruary “Family Day.” What fun.

Clark pointed out that families in B.C. go 111days, from New Year’s to Easter, without a statholiday. “One of the keys to stronger families ishaving quality time together,” she said.

And she’s right—because as we all know, in aprovince with the highest child poverty rate andthe lowest minimum wage in the country underthe Liberals watch, what families really really wantmost of all is a day off. Oh yeah, and a pony. Maybethat will be Clark’s next campaign announcement.

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2. Scenes of candy apples, a woman in a bathtub and a flour-dustedkitchen counter are brought to life in Transparencies, a series of 13 newpaintings by Vancouver artist Ann Goldberg at the Winsor Gallery (3025Granville St.). The exhibit runs until Feb. 5 with an opening reception Jan.13, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. More info at winsorgallery.com.

3. Sonny Moore a.k.a. Skrillex, is the former frontman of California screamooutfit From First to Last turned DJ who, according to his publicist, is “killingit” with his distinct blend of electro and dubstep, which is set to devastateimpressionable eardrums at UBC’s Pit Pub Jan. 13. Expendable Youth opens.

4. Harnessing the rootsy raggedness of Neil Young and soaring vocals ofbrothers of the beard Fleet Foxes, Vancouver folk rock act Red Cedarcelebrates the release of its latest reverb drenched offering Enter the SunGods Jan. 13 at the Biltmore. Adelaide and Lord Beginner open. Tickets atZulu and Red Cat Records, or online at ticketweb.ca.

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Paltrow’s country trip paved with schmaltz

You’ve got to hand it to Renaissance galGwyneth Paltrow: She blogs (on her life-style website Goop), she cooks (on herTV show Spain… On The Road Again)and she sings, in her new movie and ina recent episode of Glee. Could a stint onDancing With The Stars be next?

Oh, and she acts, too. (She wonan Oscar a few years back for Shake-speare in Love.)

But this time around, everyone is a-twitter about whether Paltrow has thevocal chops to play a country croon-er fallen on hard times in CountryStrong. We already suspected Paltrowcould carry a tune. For late fatherBruce Paltrow’s film Duets, she sang“Cruisin’”—a duet with Huey Lewisthat can still be heard occasionally onlite-rock stations. And she’s marriedto Coldplay crooner Chris Martin afterall, so morning shower singing com-petitions must be fierce.

Sure, anyone can sound like LorettaLynn with studio magicians at the helm,but Paltrow had the moxie to back it up

with a live performance with Vince Gillat the Country Music Awards in No-vember, to mostly positive acclaim.

So she can hit the notes, but whatabout the film?

Paltrow plays Kelly Canter, a burned-out country singer sent to rehab aftertoo many alcohol binges and onstagemeltdowns. While in therapy she meetsBeau (Garrett Hedlund), a hunky janitorwho plays a mean gee-tar on the side.Too bad Kelly is married to her roman-tically stunted manager James (real-lifecountry singer Tim McGraw).

James arrives too soon to spring Kellyfrom rehab for a three-date tour, all thebetter to promote perky up-and-comerChiles Stanton (Gossip Girl’s LeightonMeester). The quintessential under-study, Chiles has done her time on thebeauty-pageant circuit and is ready forher close-up. In the best All About Evetradition, she is all sweetness and lightuntil it’s time to pounce.

Seeing what’s really behind Chiles’big break, Kelly demands that Beaualso be given a shot in the spotlight,creating a romantic powder keg that’sready to bust. Of course, it’s only timebefore Kelly has a Texas-sized melt-down, just as Chiles’ and Beau’s ca-

reers are on the upswing.The film is not unlike a visit to the

U.S. Cracker Barrel restaurant chain:down-home comfort served with aside of schmaltz. With a few notablescene exceptions, the characters inCountry Strong like to borrow theirdialogue from their love-gone-wrongsongs. Writer/director Shana Festeknew what she was getting into withthe material: “There’s a fragile linebetween melodrama and drama,” Fes-te has said, “and the only thing thathelps you steer clear of melodrama isworking with good actors.”

McGraw (who does not sing) isbankable as the stalwart James.Meester, who has an album of herown in the works, is suitably an-noying as the younger woman. ButPaltrow and Hedlund (also onscreenright now in Tron: Legacy) make gooduse of their screentime, and give usa glimpse of what the film could be,with less obvious machinations.

It’s no Coal Miner’s Daughter, butif you don’t mind your drama servedwith giant stars and stripes a-flyin’,Country Strong is just strong enoughto pass muster.

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Museum of Vancouver outfitted with giant orange emblem of the West Coast

SweaterLodge designers out to fleece museum-goers

Bill Pechet and Stephanie Robbslipped off their shoes at the Muse-um of Vancouver Monday morning.Sharply clad in grey and black, bothartist/curators strolled past seven-foot stacked bottles of carbonatedspring water and reclined beneathan orange fleece jacket that’s 18times human scale and suspended,like a model airplane, with the helpof carabiners, or hooks used insports such as climbing.

Its tag reads “SweaterLodge, XL,Made in/fabriqué au Canada.”

The pair hopes visitors toSweaterLodge Unlatched similar-ly will lie on the floor and baskin the warm glow while listeningto soothing New Age soundtracksof dolphins, whales and crystalgongs during its exhibition at themuseum, Jan. 13 until May 1.

“In some ways the design chal-lenge for this mounting was ifwe would be able to transform ablack box space into having qua-si-sacred overtones to it,” Robbsaid. “Something as ridiculous asa giant sweater becomes some-thing that’s kind of meditative.”

It only makes sense, saysPechet, since the namesake ofSweaterLodge is sweat lodges.

Robb says the bottled water is,in part, about ablution.

“Every culture has a traditionof cleansing yourself before youwalk into a sacred space,” Pechet

added. “…In our culture of massconsumption [we’ve chosen] bot-tled water.”

Visitors can also duck into amassive sleeve that hangs to thefloor, creating a vaguely teepee-like structure, and note how thelight shining through the largegrommets casts pairs of “eyes” onthe fabric.

“They are very much like thelittle eyes peering out at nightaround the campfire, the wildlifelooking in,” Robb said.

Museum-goers can then passmore pop bottles, a reminder of

the 3,150 recycled two-litre con-tainers that went into manufac-turing the Polartec 200 fleece thatmeasures 87 feet sleeve to sleeve,and enter the adjacent gallery.There, they can check out a mod-el of the project, learn about theproject’s evolution and watch awhimsical film that mixes scenesof the city shot from the revolvingrestaurant atop the Empire Land-mark hotel on Robson Street withimages of an inflated toy orca,water bottles and animated jelly-fish. Visitors can leave with justunder a square metre of fleece to

fashion, then photograph, theirown fuzzy creation and shareit on the Museum of VancouverMOV Flickr group.

SweaterLodge first appearedin the Canadian pavilion at theVenice Biennale of Architecture in2006. It’s being remounted for thefirst time in Canada at the Muse-um of Vancouver.

The principals behind Pechetand Robb Art and Architecturewanted to create something em-blematic of Vancouver and West-ern Canada when they conceivedSweaterLodge. They say the exhib-

it is meant to encapsulate both adeep love of nature and the urbanculture of mass consumption.

Robb and Pechet believe thecolossal fleece zip-up, completewith reflective tape and long greyVelcro tabs, is just as relevant to-day as when they envisioned it inlate 2004.

Before and during the Olympics,Vancouver passed through a pe-riod of boosterism, Pechet says.

“The whole city now is in astate of reflection,” he said. “Theway we’re presenting [Sweater-Lodge] now is more reflective.”

Pechet adds the massive boltsof orange fleece fabric in the sec-ond room, pieces of which will bedistributed, represent the future.

The future so far, as evidencedby handiwork already fashionedfrom less than a metre of fabric,includes water pipe cozies, a snugmouse and insulated mouse pad,and a fleece umbrella.

Robb says the low-tech empha-sis in the second room is aboutmaking things—taking high-techarchitecture down to its roots.

Pechet hopes SweaterLodge willeventually be hung at the airport.

The opening party for Sweater-Lodge Unlatched starts at 7 p.m. to-night, with special events happen-ing on the first Thursday eveningof each month. On Feb. 3, there’sa curator’s talk and tour on themaking of SweaterLodge. March3, the artists will be interviewedabout the project. Veda Hille willpresent “Lullabies for Grown-Ups”beneath the gently billowing fabricApril 7. For more information, seemuseumofvancouver.ca.

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Oui wee! A sparkly DJ Leanne helped New Year’sEve revellers get their groove on at Paris Lounge’sFrench kiss party.

Barkeep Jay Jones is among the final four competingin Lauren Mote’s cocktail and food pairing competitionheld every Wednesday this January at The Refinery.

Hoping for a prosperous 2011, principal Louis Dionand managing director Ania Morton will launch theiriVegas.com gaming and entertainment site this week.

Ryan Stone delivered a final run-through for mediabefore he heads to Lyon, France to compete in thedemanding culinary competition the Bocuse d’Or.

Newly opened Italian hot spot, Q4 al centro fronted byGM Albert Chee and executive chef Bradford Ellis, is sureto be popular among Dine Out Vancouver participants.

Opus Hotel’s Chella Levesque, flanked by RocksGlassConcepts Anthony Pratt and Peter Girges, ushered in2011 at their High Roller New Year’s Eve romp.

Vancouver International Writers Festival GM CamillaTibbs and her main squeeze, director RichardColeman, toasted the New Year at the Opus Hotel.

Raising awareness and funds for HIV/AIDS relief,Theatre Cares director Louis-Marie Bournival presenteda cheque to AIDS Vancouver’s Brian Chittock.

Style and stagger: New Year’s Eve was celebrated with abang around town. High rollers gathered at John Evan’s OpusHotel and 100 Days Restaurant for an evening of glitz, glamand much toasting. The champagne flowed at the wildly hap-pening Open Bar bash. Revellers at Paris Lounge ushered inthe New Year with a French kiss. Social kingpins Craig Stoweand Jamie Goehring joined forces with title sponsor Moët andChandon to create the ultimate New Year’s Eve celebrations.Care giver: Since 1991, Theatre Cares, a volunteer-basednon-profit organization that unites the generous spirit ofVancouver’s performing arts community with its support-ers, raises awareness and funds for HIV/AIDS relief. Havinglost a partner and many colleagues in the profession to AIDS,longtime Arts Club stage manager and Theatre Cares directorLouis-Marie Bournival doled out $32,000 at a recent recep-tion to AIDS Vancouver, B.C. Persons With AIDS, the Actors’Fund of Canada and the Stephen Lewis Foundation.Dine and Dash: Now in its ninth year, Dine Out Vancouverhas grown from 57 restaurants in 2003 to the largest diningevent of its kind in Canada. This year, a record 215 restaurantsare involved, dishing up $18, $28 and $38 menus from Jan. 24to Feb. 6. Make your reservations now. For a full list of partici-pating restaurants and hotels, go to tourismvancouver.com.Hear Fred Monday morning on CBC Radio One’s The EarlyEdition AM690 and 88.1FM; email Fred at [email protected]; follow Fred on Twitter: @FredAboutTown.


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John Oliver secondary team unites students of all backgrounds

Basketball courts inclusionMegan StewartStaff writer

At the annual Joker Classic, a senior bas-ketball tournament hosted in Decemberat John Oliver high school, the half-timeentertainment was multilingual and with-out a lick of English-language Top 40.

Bhangra dance music blared fromspeakers. In the bleachers, a studentcheering for the visiting BurnabySouth Rebels hummed in tune to Pun-jabi hip-hop as his friends used thevulgar language of teenaged boys todescribe the game.

The Rebels had 20 points on the hometeam Jokers, but the spread didn’t ac-count for the resolve of the losing team.They held the margin at 20 and didn’t letup. Talk to the players dressed in Oliver’spurple, white and red and they’ll tell youthey’re not a hotshot team.

The Jokers likely won’t reach the pro-vincials in March or even the regionalqualifier, but for the boys on the basket-ball team, wearing their school colours onthe court pulls them together when thecolour divide in the school’s hallways cankeep them apart.

“There are cliques,” said Harjit Dhan-da, the team’s talented centre who hasa cool-as-ice shot from deep. “You’ll seegroups on either side of the hallway andyou’ll see only brown guys on one side ofthe hall.”

The divisions of language, religion andculture can segregate and alienate stu-dents from one another but the players onthe team show how disparate groups canpull together.

“I joke that their first language is bas-ketball,” said head coach John Pavao,who has coached a handful of the seniorplayers since they were in Grade 8. “Peo-ple don’t feel threatened walking downour hallways. It’s not a racial issue butif you were to pop in at lunch time, youwon’t see a bunch of kids mingling.”

Dhanda is part of the dominant contin-gent of Indo-Canadian kids who make up40 per cent of students enrolled at JohnOliver, which draws most of its studentsfrom the south Vancouver neighbour-hood of Sunset, where the most commonmother tongue, Punjabi, is spoken by onein four people. Census data shows thenumber of Tagalog speakers is steadilygrowing, from 3.4 per cent in 1996 tonearly six per cent a decade later.

Five different languages are spokenamong the Joker team, and not all playersspeak English fluently. Directions fromthe coach are repeated or translated forthe Tagalog-speaking Filipino studentswho Pavao calls the Manila All Stars.

In recent decades, Indo-Canadian, Fili-pino and Vietnamese gang-related skir-mishes on the East Side and South Van-

couver led to violence, including assault,theft and murder. Teenagers at the highschool were not immune.

Puneet Aujla bounced from Winder-mere and David Thompson before land-ing at John Oliver at 41st Avenue and Fra-ser part way through the fall semester. Aquick ball handler and one of the Jokers’strongest players, Aujla was dropped fromteams and expelled from schools becauseof truancy, theft, drugs and repeat run-inswith the law.

Pavao wasn’t going to let him play. Herelented and now identifies leadershipcharacteristics in Aujla, who is enrolledin John Oliver’s respected Take a Hikeprogram. “He works with the less skilledplayers. He’s becoming a leader.”

To the north of John Oliver at CharlesTupper high school, the coach of the Ti-gers says the athletes on his senior boysbasketball team benefit in the same wayas the Jokers.

“It’s a matter of giving them an outlet,”

said Jeff Gourley, a violence preventionprogram director who coaches the team,lives blocks from the school and describesTupper as a safe school where studentsare productive in the arts, math and sport.“When kids hang out, trouble happensbecause they’re hanging out, they’re notdoing something.”

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Bindy Johal, a notorious gang leaderwho was murdered on the dance floor ofthe Palladium nightclub in 1998, attendedTupper. “But so did the police chief,” saidGourley, saying positive examples existin graduates such as Jim Chu. “If peoplecould understand that schools are not justabout the three Rs. It’s a sad case when agym sits empty.”

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The weighty maple leafCommentators called it a “golden collapse,”some an inspired comeback and still othersbemoaned the flagrant displays of emotionby both teams following the World Juniorsgold medal game Jan. 5 and Russia’s 5-3come-from-behind win over the Canadians.

Facebook statuses across Canada collec-tively asked, “WTF?”

Canada took a three-goal lead after twoperiods, keeping the Russians scoreless.Then, Russia scored five unanswered goalsin 15 minutes to snatch the gold medalaway from the Canadians in the third pe-riod. Credit to the Russians, who ralliedagainst the Finns and then the Swedes toreach the final in the first place.

The Russian celebration saw themscreaming at and shaking every camerain sight and then delayed their departurefrom the U.S. because disorderly and alleg-edly drunken behaviour had them tossedfrom their morning flight.

Their celebration hurt the pride of manyCanadians, but the jubilant reaction of theteenagers was entirely human, says J.S.

Russell, a philosophy instructor at LangaraCollege and the editor of the Journal of thePhilosophy of Sport.

“I don’t see that so much as an issue ofsportsmanship,” he said. “You might thinkof it as an obligation that the Russians hadto the tournament or the organizers tomaintain certain standards of conduct. Ifthere is a failure here, it’s probably on thepart of the coaches not to intervene.”

Up three goals after 40 minutes, surelythe Canadians were imagining their ownvictory skate around the HSBC Arena inBuffalo, filled with enough Canadian fansto qualify as home ice.

Such a celebration might have been simi-larly criticized, but many Canadians saw awin as pre-ordained. Remember, these areplayers who were reminded each time theyset foot in their borrowed locker room ofmultiple five-year winning streaks and the15 championships won since 1982—that’sa gold medal nearly once every two years.

Teammates signed pseudo contracts ac-knowledging they “accept our identity”as Canadian hockey players. Former starswere listed beside the jersey number theyonce wore, including Wayne Gretzky, Sid-ney Crosby and Doug Gilmour, all of whomwore No. 9.

Imagine the weight of wearing that ma-ple leaf.

Although this year Team Canada didn’thave the depth of talent to be considered a

favourite, the deep-pocketed and borderlinejingoistic (reminiscent of American-like pa-triotism) coverage from TSN played the ju-nior athletes as national heroes—which, tomany, they are.

Canadians are known for feverishly stak-ing our self-worth to the performance ofour national men’s and junior hockey suc-cess. It’s also a money-making venture aslong as Canada goes far.

More than 14 million viewers tuned inacross the country (and at Sussex Drive)and no less pressure was shouldered bythese Canadian teens.

So when they lost—collapsed, sure—andlost in unimaginable fashion to the Rus-sians, they were thrown into a stunned

state of shock. Team captain Ryan Ellis re-fused to wear his silver medal.

One Toronto Star columnist summed itup this way: “‘Hangdog’ is not the rightword to describe the look of the team. ‘In-need-of-24-hour-monitoring’ better cap-tured it.’”

So what about the Canadian’s dejectedbehaviour? Should fans be appalled at theirlack of humility and graciousness?

Not so fast, says Russell. “To get the bestperformance out of athletes, often it’s nec-essary for them to have the most single-minded devotion on winning. When peo-ple criticize them for the disappointmentand emotional reactions […], there is a bitof a conflict here. We want our athletes toperform at the very highest level and oftenthings come with that that are not neces-sarily the most admirable things.

“What I’m actually suggesting is gra-ciousness and even sometimes sportsman-ship may not always be consistent with thehighest level of performance. You have toremember that competition is doing yourlevel best to be better than other people.”

In the spirit of achieving your level best—your highest potential—and trouncing therest, there’s another catchphrase setting thestage for next year’s World Juniors.

Brace yourselves, boys, your fans arecalling for redemption.

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Fun By The NumbersLike puzzles?

Then you'll love Sudoku.This mind-bending puzzle

will have you hookedfrom the moment yousquare off, so sharpen

your pencil and putyour Sudoku savvy

to the test!

Here's How It Works:Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken into nine 3x3boxes. To solve a Sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill eachrow, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row,column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numberswill appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes.The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!

SUDOKU

ACROSS

1. Vessel or duct2. “Operator” singer Jim3. Subsequent RXreplacement4. Flat-topped hills5. Settled down6. ____ Alto, California city7. Tubes for passing food8. An abundance ofresources9. Neither black or white11. Yemen capital13. Pegs16. Irish, English or Gordon18. Converging to a

common center20. Comes upon21. A male sheep28. More becoming29. Models of excellence30. Flat-toppedinflorescence31. Costing nothing34. Marked for certain death35. 17th Greek letter37. Photons, pions, alphaparticles38. Amount that can be held40. Light greenish blue41. Toadfrog

42. 18th Hebrew letter (var.)43. Young whale44. Forearm bone45. Moldavian capital1565-185949. Radioactivity unit

1. Superseded by DVD4. Earth chart7. Energy unit10. Greek god of war12. Ardour14. Title of respect15. Couches17. Barn storage tower18. Cape near Lisbon19. Motion picture science22. Fills with high spirits23. 18th Hebrew letter

24. At an advanced time25. Missing soldiers26. And, Latin27. Silver28. Gentlemen30. Tangelo fruit32. Actor ___ Harris33. Mister34. Adult Bambi36. Small cake leavenedwith yeast39. Largest city in NE

41. Quick reply43. Local dialect expressions46. Friends (French)47. ____ Bator, Mongolia48. __ __, so good50. Side sheltered from thewind51. Village in Estonia52. Genus beroe class53. 32nd president’s initials54. Furnish with help55. Guided a tour

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B.C.SpartanApples$129

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