Serving up Hugh since 1994.
Another marketing slogan you can sink your teeth into. “meat you can see is meat you can eat.” I was always trained that you needed to measure the internal temperature of meat before you eat it. Unless it is referring to something else. They spice it up with some Latin “Vidi Vici Vora” may be more appropriate.
Oddly placed advertisements at the back of a Mall on Kipling in Toronto.
Congresswoman Giffords has survived. We are all thankful of this miracle. Unfortunately for the Democrats she has sustained a significant enough brain injury that she will only be able to sit in Congress as a Tea Party Member.
When I was training in Vancouver one of my teachers was shot and wounded by a sniper that hid in the bushes near his home. When I was training in Hamilton another one of my teachers was shot and wounded by a sniper.
Yesterday a young, moderate, democratic congresswoman from Arizona had a bullet shot through her head by a clearly despondent and widely read young man that lives in her home state. Congresswoman Giffords was literally targeted by Sarah Palin and the Teabagging party because the congresswoman supported health care reform. Take a look at the image below. Congresswoman Giffords’ riding (district #8) was targeted with the site of a gun in the picture below.
Many people considered the choice of a rifle scope cross hair to identify politicians those who are supportive of health care reform a bad choice that could lead to violence. Since the shooting of congresswoman Giffords the Palin site has taken the advertisement down.
A common definition of terrorism is :
“the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature.”
Since Ms. Palin’s office was publicly and officially advised of how dangerous the advertisement could be (even by Ms. Giffords herself) is there not a component of culpability in this terrorist act?
Movember’s less famous cousin, Govember, is there for all those men and women who look like cereal killers when they “grow a mo.” Also while Movember is limited to the prostate gland lodged deep in the pelvis of men, Govember is dedicated to the entire penis. Go Govember.
I for one am looking forward to removing this itchy ferret from my face.
I was very excited when Hamilton was announced as the venue for the Athletics (track and field) portion of the Pan American Games. Many years ago I represented Canada at the Pan Am Juniors in Barquisimeto Venezuela. I recently volunteered for the entire month of February at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver (most of the pictures in the right column are from that trip). I was amazed that Hamilton had scored something so near and dear to my heart. I began taking Spanish lessons right away, with the goal of volunteering for Pan Am athletics in 2015.
The stadium was always supposed to be in the west harbour. It was written in the Toronto Pan Am bid book well before 2010. The “location beside the railway tracks” has been publicly labelled as stadium territory a long ways back. In a tragic turn of events the stadium location became bogged down in local politics and Hamilton missed the deadline set by the Toronto (official host city), and lost the crown jewel of the Pan Am games. It is unimaginable. It now appears that the stadium itself is in jeopardy as the Feds and Queen’s park will not fund a tenant-less stadium. The Tiger Cats have made it clear that they will not be going to a stadium in the west harbour. It makes sense because cats don’t really like water. City council promptly voted for the harbour site, and now the Ti Cats are planning to leave Hamilton. The stadium plan will leave with them.
I will declare that I have a potential conflict of interest here. My family owns three properties on Dundurn street within walking distance of the my proposed stadium. One of those properties is The Staircase Cafe Theatre. The Tiger Cats play a sport called Canadian Football. A few Canadians watch this sport, but no one plays it recreationally. The ten home games each season will make no difference to The Staircase. If we were to fill The Staircase every Ti Cat game, that would be a mere ten times per year. There are 355 other days of the year to lose money.
The city has wanted to put a stadium where the rail yard is for a long time. Those hopes were dashed when CN sold the yards to someone other than the city. So now the city has to make do with a stadium beside the railway tracks for a long time. The cities choice is a 40 acre parcel of land close to the harbour, but it is really beside a busy train yard. Resident’s private homes will need to be expropriated. Commercial property will need to be purchased. Some dirty land will be reclaimed. The closest proposed light rail stop may be as far as one kilometer away. Buses can go there for sure. Go transit cannot have a stop at this location. There is NO parking. The benefits and drawbacks have been discussed ad nauseum. The key point is that the Tiger Cats won’t go there, and therefore higher levels of government will not fund this location.
The only potential tenant for the proposed stadium plays in the 80 year old Ivor Wynne Stadium. Ivor Wynne is quite ironically a Commonwealth games legacy stadium. Ivor Wynne is on the bus route and proposed light rail line, has NO parking, and is no where near a GO transit line. The only tenant is losing money hand over fist at this location (or is it because no one plays or watches Canadian Football?). The city funds this location to the tune of at least $120000 per Tiger Cats game. Meow.
Let’s put the stadium on Kay Drage Park. This park is a parcel of land laying between the 403 Highway and the rail way tracks. Kay Drage Park hosts a wooded lot for transients at one end and some soccer fields (more than a million Canadians play soccer regularly) at the other end. Move the sports fields to the proposed West Harbour Stadium location. There is about 30 acres available to work with. The parcel of land is long and somewhat narrow. It just depends whether you like it long and narrow or short and wide. Design it to look like the nearby Gothic basilica and call it The Cathedral. Here are some of the perks:
This will be a true legacy stadium. With a GO station and plenty of parking the location will be used every day of the year, instead a of a mere ten times per year by an arcane sports franchise that may not survive the rise of the MLS.
P.S. I am not a Bob Young basher at all. I am a happy Linux user and am forever grateful for what Mr. Young and Red Hat Linux have done for the open source community.
Can’t really add anything to this. Everyone is going to know where that bed is supposed to be.
Just returned from a lovely visit with Peter Jonasson, the tallest man I love, from Hamilton. Peter is up at Whistler with the Olympic Broadcast Service delivering the wonderful images you are seeing at the winter Olympics. He put me up in his hotel so I could check out the Whistler Polyclinic. Spent time just walking around the village having a fun time soaking in all the fun.
This is a shot inside the Whistler Polyclinic Mobile Medical Unit (MMU). It is essentially a pop out ICU trauma unit that drives around on a transport truck. There is also an operating room.