And why not, the men’s hockey team defeating arch rivals, the USA in an overtime nail biter is the epitome of Canadian spirit! With one sharp-angled goal, Sidney Crosby became an instant folk hero in Canadian history.

It would seem that the Canadian response was infectious to all that came in contact with us too!

“We were taken aback,” said Rene Smith-Valade, spokesperson for the Vancouver Organizing Committee, who regularly admitted to officials’ underestimation of the volume, intensity and frequency of passion expressed by our local crowd.

Most impressed were the athletes.

“These were fantastic Games in a beautiful setting run by a really proud city,” said Billy Demong, the U.S. gold medal winner in Nordic combined. “In a little way, it was sort of a North American Olympics. The Canadian fans were wonderful, and there were so many enthusiastic fans from the States. Canadians and Americans were rooting for each others’ teams.”

So let’s hope that we have showed our best, most patriotic side to the world so that they know we aren’t the push-overs some might want to believe.

The real mark however will be how we handle the Olympic hangover that is most assuredly to come. Build for years, host for weeks, compete for seconds, coexist with the legacy -positive or negative -for decades. When a city hosts the Olympics, it signs up to live with an inheritance that lingers many times longer than the Games last in the first place. B.C. has built venues and transportation infrastructure that will last 60 years or more (as IOC president Jacques Rogge said); the question is whether the price was worth it. Vancouver taxpayers take to the starting line already $1-billion behind thanks to cost overruns and the effects of the recession on one project alone, the Olympic Village in the False Creek area. The final cost of the 2010 Games will be difficult to tally in the short term.

The 2010 Olympics have meant a lot of things to a lot of people. I believe more mixed feelings are to come. Stay tuned as things unfold…

By Will Roberts – What’s Hot Magazine

Name:  Emily Parsons
Birthdate:  September 22, 1991
Born in:  Burnaby, BC
Hair Color:  Blonde
Eye Color:  Blue

HEY! As you all know my name is Emily. I grew up in Brookswood,BC – Hollaaa! :p and graduated in 2009 from Brookswood Secondary. I have blonde
hair, blue eyes, and stand at a towering 5’4. ha!

I have not currently figured out what career I would like to go back to school for, but am hoping taking some time off will lead me in the right direction and give me some ideas.

My goals are to eventually travel around the world. I  love travelling whether it be going to a different city  or a different country, I pretty much just like to be active and doing something at all times.

I don’t study any particular religion but I do believe everything happens for a reason and everything eventually always comes together – What doesn’t kill ya only makes you stronger. I have realized over the years that my friends are amazing and always seem to know what’s best in a bad situation.

My favourite music to listen to is rap/gangsta music and country when I’m sad or in a bad mood, which of course is very rare…

My favourite wild animal is the tiger and my favourite pet animal is a dog. I have a black lab named Rueben who use to be way cuter but I still love him.

My favourite two shows are Desperate Housewives and Entourage. My favourite hobby is shopping, I love shopping! You can never have too much clothes, shoes or purses!

I met Michael through Tara in 2009. I am so glad to of met such an amazing person. He is an awesome guy who has helped me out of some stickyyyy situations and always seems to put a smile on my face even when I am having the worst day.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups blue (Navajo) cornmeal,
(regular cornmeal can be substituted).
2 1/2 cups milk
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tbls baking powder
1 tsp salt
2/3 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 Fresh Jalapeño Pepper cut into rings
(seeds removed)
1.    Heat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). In a small bowl, combine cornmeal and milk; let stand for 5     minutes. Grease a 9×13 inch baking pan.
2.    In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Mix in the cornmeal mixture, eggs
and oil until smooth. Pour batter into prepared pan add jalapeño rings evenly op top of loaf.
3.    Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the corn
bread comes out clean.

Recipes by Faith

Okay, we’re not sure what they’re saying, but I think we get the jist! Check out the video with the SugarGirls that Swiss TV did while visiting the 2010 Winter Games!

(Rough translation)

The Olympic venue Whistler (Alpine skiing, cross country, ski jumping and more) is known for its two mountains, “Whistler” and “Blackcomb”. But nearly 10,000 people and astonish the thousands of tourists not bad, as they may admire the famous ski area suddenly eight new, very hot mountains.

In the spontaneous formation of mountains is not due to plate tectonic processes, but at a meeting of a special kind Blick.ch take the girls on “Hot Magazine” from Vancouver, enjoy the beautiful weather of recent days in the permissive clothes on the Medal Plaza.

The attractive appearance of the girls provides almost as much attention as a medal ceremony of the Swiss athletes before the House of Switzerland. Hardly posing Emily, Carley, Liz and Holly at the Medal Plaza, forming a large (male) human grape.

Everyone wants to be remembered photo shoot, which get four girls on her best smile and shine with the sun around the bet. Blick.ch it wants to know more and ask the photo-models, what they find to be particularly sexy – the pert reply: “My eyes.”

But who has got eyes in his head white, mainly with what immense feminine charms the ladies, the male audience. In the video goodbye to Emily by the way, very sweet Blick.ch users not to miss it!

The free market. Everyone has heard of the free market, but do they have any idea what it really is? Do they have any idea of the amazing wealth generating ability of the unfettered free market? Probably not, who cares? Well, it’s nearly dead, choked to death by the merciless encroachment of suffocating bureaucratic regulation introduced by the ever expanding, all controlling, wealth destroying socialist behemoth that is consuming the world.

The international bankers who create the money out of nothing and own all the governments, media and industry love socialism for it is the ultimate system of control. They hate the free market and the wealth and independence it creates. It’s very sad, but right before our eyes we are witnessing the destruction of the free market and our independence, our national sovereignty is being given away with every new bill passed (just read the small print). It is so incredible; it’s happening so fast and so few seem to notice what is going on.

Our small independent businesses are being squeezed so hard by stifling regulation and merciless competition from the slave labour Chinese manufacturers. They call it free trade, but there is nothing free about competing with manufacturers who employ slaves.

Even our ability to grow our own food is well on the way to being destroyed. Forget all the propaganda from government about all the programs to help farmers. Encouraging them to get further into debt will be the final nail in the coffin. Premises identification legislation, registration of seed and all the other interference will do nothing other than hasten the collapse of our food production capabilities.

The promotion of genetically modified crops is such insanity, there is mounting evidence that it is actually poisoning our food supply. To read Jeffrey Smith’s very thoroughly researched book: “Seeds of Deception” is most depressing. If we wish to maintain our health, we can no longer eat anything made with canola, soy or corn as all these crops are now predominantly genetically modified. What little testing that has been carried out on animal’s shows that these crops are no longer safe to eat. There are no warning labels on foodstuffs that are genetically modified, so the general public are no better than lab rats in a giant experiment.

The cattle producers are in deep trouble. With all the regulations, there are so few packing plants that the market is essentially manipulated and the price paid to the farmers is insufficient for them to cover their costs and it is only a matter of time before there is a collapse in beef production. The pork market has already hit the wall and countless pork producers are out of business. It’s much the same situation for sheep producers and nothing is done to improve the situation. If the plan is to destroy food production to bring about shortages in ‘the land of plenty’ then the present strategy is brilliant because that is what we are going to get.

The free market will bring an abundance of goods at the cheapest possible price, but the free market is gone. The system we now have more closely resembles ‘corporate fascism’ rather than a free market. It will result in shortages and high prices after enough farmers are driven out of business. Big multi- national corporations will take their place and the consumer will pay dearly for what they have to offer.

by Suzanne Morphet 5 May 2009

At first, I wondered why an international panel of judges chose an Inuit-inspired symbol to represent the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. After all, the stylized stone-pile is borrowed from the inuksuk first built by the Aboriginal people of the Arctic—a long way from the west coast or anywhere else in British Columbia.

Then Norman Hallendy, the Ontario-based author of Inuksuit—Silent Messengers of the Arctic and Tukiliit, helped me to see that the inuksuk—that is, one or more stones in any configuration—is, in fact, a perfect symbol for the Olympics.

He explained that, like the Olympic Games themselves, inuksuit (plural of inuksuk) are ancient. Some could have been erected 3,000 years ago—around the time of the first Olympics. They’re enduring. Not even the Arctic wind knocks them down (though polar bears occasionally manage). They’re meaningful: some are navigational aids; some indicate food caches; still others are objects of veneration. They connect us to our past. They generate excitement and awe. And people travel to see them.

If you’re keen to see the real thing, head north—way north. Inuksuit are the Easter Island statues of the Arctic—and almost as remote. It takes almost a full four hours to fly from Montréal, QC to Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut. From there, fly to:

• Cape Dorset: Continueby boatto Inuksuk Point where a spectacular display of over 100 inuksuit appear to march down the hillside.
• Kimmirut: Caribou hunters built inuksuit on hilltops and at the river to frame good fishing spots.
• Qikiqtarjuaq: The self-proclaimed “iceberg capital of the world,” where a single inuksuk watches over the town from a hilltop.

Or, you could start in Winnipeg, MB and fly to:

Rankin Inlet: It’s not old and it’s not free-standing, but this inuksuk is the biggest in Nunavut—over four m (13 ft) high.
Read more on inuksuit.

Here she is in her first music video “With A Childs Heart”. Post-Cosby, pre-Disney; Skyline signed her to her first recording contract!

Check out this special talent!