Sun Peaks Mountain Man Blues: Wednesday, February 19th

Barricades of ideas are worth more than barricades of stones. -José Martí, revolutionary and poet (1853-1895)

P, thanks for organizing the bridge game last night. It was good of Clarissa to join/put up with us.

I would like to ride today maybe starting mid morning? Let me know what works for you -- if at all.

Ray, Pat & I have agreed to meet at the Totem pole at Kits point at 11:00. If that does not work for you let me know. G

OK, George. Just spoke with Pat and we are going to start off a bit earlier - PG Rd at 10.

Ray

Okay, see you there. G

 

P, this is Ed copied above G W Yes I can play...not sure when but I'm interested.

Hi Trev!

See you at Domestic Departures at 14:12 or ten minutes or so after plane lands. Cheers, Patrizzio!

Thanks Pat - just finished tidying the unit etc and will watch the hockey till the Shuttle comes. See you in a few hours. Trevor 

Stats for today's ride: 

75.09 km over 3:47'51, AVG 19.7 km/h 

Met lads at mcDonald and Point Grey and then headed out to UBC. Then to Crown and back via Musqueam to Wesbrook Village. Robo Man took off for home via 16th and Whirlygig and I made our way back via Spanish Banks. Stats for ride, 75.09 km over 3:47'51, AVG 19.7 km/h, as I did an extended dipsy-doodle, left-hand turn only this time, around Stanley Park/Prospect Point Loop.

Home just in time to collect Trevor at YVR. After I had collected the Aussie Skier I took my Trek into Westpoint and was pleased as punch to have a new back fender and cable adjustment courtesy of the gang there! back home to attend out Strata's AGM. Typical meeting but I nominated Coriandre fro council and she was elected! Back to our place to have our new neighbours for a drink befre we enjoyed a simply fabulous meal of coq au vin and curried cauliflower by Cora Lee. Great, great evening and then I showed Trevor my pictures of Neffiès before we said goodnight. 

I was to up and away by 7:15 am next morning so I wished Trev safe travels as he said he was planning to sleep in. He felt he could only stay overnight as he had to return home to face all sorts of problems that had occurred while he was away. Tina had managed fairly well but he sensed she was feeling the need for support, not only on the house and the damage from burst pipes and the flooding of the living room from torrential rains, but also with respect to ailing/aging parents on both sides.

Saturday March 15 it is. Let's say 6:30. Glad this came together quickly.
Looking forward to it. Best Wishes....Paul & Joan 

 What can we bring? A cat? ;) Daphne

Let us bring dessert! and of course some wine! Best Corinne & Patrick 

P, thanks for the ride today. It was great to have Ray back on the saddle. The figure skater/teacher choreographer at Therah is Ron Vincent just in case Sarge knows the name. We are playing a Sunday noon match so will be driving from the club. You are of course welcome to join us going either way. W 
Hi Pat, A friend posted this on FaceBook. Jack O'Dell is the guy that you know, right? This event is on Friday. Sara
 

A benefit for the Downtown Eastside Elder's Resource Sanctuary. St. Andrew's Wesley Church, Burrard and Nelson, Vancouver, BC

Featuring very special guest: Jack O'Dell (associate of the late Martin Luther King) with:
Angela Macdougall, Beverly Jacobs, Brandy Kane, Candus Churchill, Constance Barnes, Harsha Wahlia, Leon Bibb, Robert Nahanee and Tom Pickett

Musical Performances - songs of the Civil Rights Movement by:
Dalannah Gail Bowen, Joani Bye, Marcus Mosely, Will Sanders and Michael Creber

Tickets are $10.00 in advance at ticketstonight.ca $10 at the door

The File Folder – Short Film about Aging Out

Irina Sedunova‘s short film about youth aging out of care in Canada was completed in spring 2013 as a component of her Master’s degree in Journalism at the University of British Columbia (UBC). It will be will be screened in Toronto on September 14th during the Community Film Festival.

Chloe Alexis Dunn via Aunt Leah's Independent Lifeskills Society
This is a great look into what the experience of some youth in care who have aged out go through. It is under 13 minutes, you have time to watch it! I know you do!!! thanks

Obituary:

Erich Wolfgang Vogt passed away on February 19 after a short illness. He lived a long and eventful life shaped by his sense of wonder and enormous vitality. He had a profound influence on his five children, 16 grandchildren, thousands of students and countless colleagues. He will be greatly missed. 

Erich was born on November 12, 1929 in the small Mennonite community of Steinbach, Manitoba. A store-keeper’s son and one of six brothers, he knew at an early age that education was the key to his future. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Manitoba (B.Sc. 1951) and his doctorate at Princeton University in 1955. He had the good fortune to be working in nuclear physics during a period when the field was flourishing. Many of the giants of 20th century physics were his mentors and colleagues. From 1956-65, Erich was on the staff of the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory and was closely involved in the creation of the CANDU reactor. In 1965, he started teaching at the University of British Columbia. He was a gifted and caring teacher. He gave his last lecture in 2009 at the age of 80. 

Erich was a founder and one of the prime movers behind TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1974 for his role in this project. From 1975 to 1981, he was a Vice President at U.B.C. and from 1981 until his retirement in 1994, he was the Director of TRIUMF. He received many awards and honourary degrees during his lifetime and served on science advisory panels at Los Alamos, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Rice University and universities in Germany and Switzerland. He was co-editor of “Advances in Nuclear Physics” from 1968 to 2004. His personal life was equally full. In 1952, he married Barbara Mary Greenfield who shared his life, nurtured his family and tempered his excesses and eccentricities until her death in 2006. 

He is mourned by his five children and their spouses: Susan (Joel), Lisa (Chris), David (Tracy), Jonathan (Eleanor) and Robert (Brenda) and his 16 grandchildren: Samuel; Madeleine, Patrick, Gabrielle, Charlotte and Peter; Megan (Hamish), Eric, Kennedy and Brianna; Naomi and Deborah; Parker, Nicolas, Matthew and Alexander, his surviving brother, Peter (Linda), his brother-in-law, Oliver (Elaine) and a wide circle of friends and former students in the U.S., England, Australia, Japan, Israel, Switzerland and many other countries. The world was a place of wonder for him and the pursuit of knowledge and experiences was essential to a life well-lived. He taught his children and grandchildren to love books, nature, music, birds, languages, travel, gardening, story-telling, history and the special places of Pacific Rim National Park on Vancouver Island, where the family vacationed every summer and the mountains of B.C. 

He was not, however, a straight-laced academic. He had a low German sense of humour and a pronounced competitive streak. He grew tons of tomatoes every summer and baked dozens of fruitcakes and made sure that everyone knew the latest count. He frequently embarrassed his children with his lack of inhibition in public. He was a very intelligent man who retained a school-boy exuberance into old age. He lived a fortunate life.

A Celebration of Erich's life will be held March 8, 2014 from 2-4 p.m. at the U.B.C. Sage Bistro. Memorial donations to the Erich Vogt First Year Student Research Experience Fund  

                    Erich Vogt's life and his ties to UBC

Erich W Vogt, the Canadian nuclear physicist and UBC professor who helped found Canada's national nuclear and particle physics lab and Science World BC, passed away on February 19, 2014.
 

He was the recipient of the Order of Canada, the Order of British Columbia, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

"As one of the pioneering founders of the lab, Erich was a huge part of the TRIUMF family as well as that of UBC and the broader physics community around the world," said Jim Hanlon, head of TRIUMF’s Business and Administration Division, in a statement.

"He contributed to each and every person he met with warmth, advice, and a wry joke or story that put everything into perspective. I expect that many people will be affected by this loss and will want to pause and reflect on the ways that Erich touched their lives."

Vogt was born in Steinbach, Manitoba on November 12, 1929 and received academic degrees at the University of Manitoba and Princeton University. From 1956 to 1965, he was on the staff of the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory as a theoretical physicist where he published a large number of papers on nuclear reactions and was heavily involved in the creation of the first CANDU reactors for Canada.

In 1965, Vogt became a professor at the University of British Columbia, and was a founder and one of the prime movers behind the TRIUMF project -- Canada's National Meson Sciences Research Facility located on the University’s Vancouver campus. 

From 1975 until 1981, he served as Vice President, Faculty and Student Affairs at UBC. In 2006 he was appointed to the Order of British Columbia and in the same year received the UBC Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Teaching. He continued to teach first year physics until his 80th birthday in 2009, and in 45 years taught more than 5,000 students.
Vogt was president of the Canadian Association of Physicists from 1970 to 71, earning the 1988 CAP Medal for Achievement in Physics. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1977, the Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Medal, and the Queen Elizabeth Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002 and the Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. In 1978, Vogt was appointed as the first Chairman of the Science Council of British Columbia, a position which he held until 1980. 

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