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... at the Oppenheimer ParK Committee meeting

Every day is a good day for revolution!

Welcome Back, Colleen Colleen Gorrie, our charming and vivacious volunteer coordinator, has returned to work. She has been absent for about four months due to orthopedic surgery. In her absence Lisa and Sindy kept up the traditions Carnegie is fa mous for.

As a very important volunteer program in a neighbourhood of low income persons and/or underemployed, many people benefit from belonging to a program that gives them access to re-education, practice in their fields of endeavour and the opportunity to fraternise and socialise.

We say the wheels of the Gods grind slowly. Colleen helps keep those wheels turning and for our benefit. Thanks Colleen, for your persistence in the face of chro nic pain and for returning with that fabulo us, sparkling smile!

W. Miles

FAT C!ATS Cats have it easy.

They don't have to bother abo ut taxes so that's one of the two big worries gone.

is coming to the Carnegie Centre Theatre

Monday, July 8 1:00 - 3:00 PM If you want to: • Learn a Rock Instrument • Si ng • Write Lyrics • Compose Songs or • Just Jam

Women Rock! has something for you!

Lunch & refreshments are included!

Limit of 10 people - sign up in 3rd floor Program Office.

Salon Shop presents

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Still, it wou ldn ' t surprise me to learn that fat cats are in favour of tax cuts even tho ugh they aren' t really affected.

Did Winston Smith have a cat?

He never wrote about it but that's not to say it wasn't there, a big fat cat always watching him and making secret reports about him.

Wasn't it a rat that got to Smith in the end?

Sounds like something a fat cat would do.

Rolf Auer

Local DTES artists celebrate Mad Pride 2013 Exhibit runs: June 14th- July 28th, 2013 Opening reception: Fri June 14th, 7- 1Opm gallerygachet a1te 88 east cordova street <!> ~~C::.:!'.' "· :;;-;;,~~7.~' ' vancouver ,_ .._.fl V6A1K2 :Leo~.~ ~ ' H::altl1 http://gachet.org lit,: 1-..: t .......... wed -sun,12-6pm .........., til ~ l\;1~:\

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Colleen's Corner VOLUNTEER Committee: Wednesday July 1Oth @ 4pm Classroom IT VOLUNTEER DINNER: Wednesday July 17th@ 4:30pm Theatre June Volunteer's of the Month Marie Lebel, Computer Lab Monitor Eileen Keenan, Baker Extraordinaire Congratulations and a huge thank you for a superb job in giving of yourselves to the community.

To all Carnegie Volunteers, You may not hear appreciation for your generosity of your time, skills, gifts and smiles often enough, but it is 'always' felt.

CARNEGIE POOL ROOM TEAM â&#x20AC;˘ We are looking for players to make up a new Carnegie Pool Room Team for an 8-Ball Competition against the Gathering Place.

This Team is open to all Carnegie members. Please come and help us reclaim our trophy from the Gathering Place, who proudly won our last 8-Ball Challenge. It's our tum Š Please see Brad in the Pool room to sign up.

BASEBALL GAME!! between Carnegie Comm unity Centre and Oppenheimer Park the 'Bear Pirates' .... LOOKING FOR A BASEBALL TEAM for fun in the sun. For all eager participants, PLEASE SIGN UP IN THE VOLUNTEER PROGRAM OFFICE. *The game will be Monday, July 8th, 2013, lpm at Oppenheimer Park. *'Carnegie Team' please meet Colleen at the Info Desk at 12:30. Lunch provided.

Of course we also need Cheerleaders, so those who love the game and would love to cheer our team on, you are more than welcome!

CULTUS LAKE CAMP Exciting announcement. Seniors Program/Volunteer Program Camp will be at Cultus Lake this year, Monday August 19 - Friday August 23, 20 13. Precamp sign up meeting date to be announced.

The last time we attend ed Cultus Lake Camp, if laughing were loonies, all who attended 'Camp Kooks' would be very rich indeed ..... we laughed from Monday clear through to Friday. At what? I can't remember. A ll I can remember is that everv-

thing seemed hilariously funny at the time.

5 For those of you who are history buffs, long before its recreational use by Chilliwack' s.European settlers, Cultus Lake served for centuries as a popular spot for spirit quests by the local Sto:lo First Nation.

So popular in fact, that by the 18th century, the lake's spiritual powers had diminished such that the Chinook word Cultus, ku/, meaning bad or worthless. was ascribed to it.

Cultus Lake Park was founded in 1924, with about 200 summer cottages being built on leased land along the western lakeshore by 1930. Until the 1950s, the increased traffic was handled by a one-lane road.

When Cultus Lake became a provincial park in the 1950s, the road developed into the present-day Columbia Valley Highway.

A PLACE TO BE MYSELF Deep concerns, fretting, not knowing where to turn, trying hard to find a place to unwind, to stop in my tracks- howevd briefly. I wonder where that place would be. I do not know as of yet.. I have not the slightest idea at this point in the ordeal. Recently I've thought maybe it is just a drug-free head spacethat notion could actually be the trick into finding tranqui-lity ... It could be so Multiple possibilities to explore, to find the answer, ultimately searching to find the truth. 'What's the point?' some may state to you. Just ignore them, because maybe they've given up .. thrown in the towel So what?! Let it be. Could be that they're set in their ways (in a rut) and yet okay with it. .. whatever, I've not yet found my g roove, not yet comfortable in my mindset, seeking equilibrium for body & soul but still out of tune with the ways of the real world as it is in this place & time.

Until then I will just keep exploring the roads and laneways I travel on a daily basis until I finally find the exact one I desperately need and want, that I going to take me exactly where I want to go and need to be- my own personal place to rest in peace, forever, for eternity, at last.

ROBYN LIVINGSTONE.

Only in Canada I. Only in Canada ...... can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

2. Only in Canada ...... are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

3. Only in Canada ...... do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back to get prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

4 . Only in Canada ..... do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

5. Only in Canada ...... do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

6. Only in Canada...... do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

7. Only in Canada ...... do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we don't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

8. Only in Canada ...... do we buy hot dogs in packages of twelve and buns in packages of eight.

9. Only in Canada ..... do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well : 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning bloodsucking creatures'.

10. Only in Canada ..... .do they have drive-up A machines with Braille lettering.

On Life A lot of us spend our lives in pain But from our pain there is a lot to gain When we count it all joy to give birth to a boy And he returns that love again.

In our dear Eastside we see a lot of suffering But like Carnegie we can give buffering The a0 irls have rallied and learned from others And all our sisters are aiding our brothers When those we have loved have left and gone on We find we have strength to carry on.

Thank God aga in for o ur precious Carnegi e & The lives we have helped & the work we have done.

Welcome back Colleen and Sindy! We missed you both. Onward and upward everyone!

Joyce Morgan

YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM CANADA WHEN ...

I. You only know three spices: salt, pepper and ketchup.

2. You design your Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

3. Canadian Tire on any Saturday is busier than the toy stores at Christmas.

4. You've taken your kids trick-or-treating in a blizzard.

5. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled in with snow.

6. You th ink sexy lingerie is tube-socks and a flannel nightie with only 8 buttons.

7. The local paper covers national and international headlines on 2 pages, but requires 6 pages for hockey.

8. You know which leaves make good toilet paper.

9. You find -40C a little chilly.

I 0. The trunk of your car doubles as a deep freeze.

II. You attend a fo rmal event in your best clothes, your finest jewel lery and your Sorels.

12. You understand the Labatt's Blue commercials.

13. You perk up when you hear the theme from "Hockey Nigh< in Canada".

Found by Carl MacDonald

ue I used to live on Fraser Street many years agq. This was Sunday morning s9 I decided to go to service. It takes two buses to get to church. I noticed a Hindu man on the second bus who was very intoxicated. He got off at the next stop. .

He was very unsteady on his feet. I never nottced him walk by the bus window. The bus was going to go at any second so I screamed very loud! I told the bus driver there was a man there who just left.

The driver found him under the bus, right beside the wheels. The driver put him on the bus bench.

(People on the bus said I almost gave them a heart attack.)

With my quick thinking I did my good deed for the day. I saved a human life.

Marlene Wuttunee

A Talc of Two Economists; PartTwo - The Age of Friedman In the mid-1 970's another economist came along who became very popular with big business types and he loathed the policies of John Maynard Keynes.

Milton Friedman was born in 191 2 in Brooklyn, New York. In the 1960's he wrote a book called 'Capitalism and Freedom'.

Governments should stop sending money when there's an economic downturn, Friedman said. Socia l programs should be s lashed to the bone. Governments should stop funding welfare payments. unemployment insurance, medicare and old age pensions.

Friedman was what's called ' a monetarist' who urged governments to control the supply of money and so control recessions and joblessness.

He and his wife Rose Fried man, formerly Rose Director repeated these policies in their 1979 bestselling book called 'Free To Choose'.

In I 980 Ronald Reagan was elected president of the United States. His government carried out the Friedmans' policies, as did Margaret Thatcher's gov• ernment in Great Britain.

Reagan's Republican government fired striking air traffic contro llers, gave massive tax cuts to rich people, and slashed socia l programs for the poor.

- Reagan's government and big business then launched a massive anti-union campaign. Welfare recipients, Reagan told the American public, were just "welfare queens in designer jeans." In short they were jus t fraud artists who spent their wei fare cheques on expensive goods. They deserved no money from the government. So millions of Americans were cut off welfare, unemployment insurance, food stamps and disability allowances.

"It's morning in America," Reagan told the 1984 Republican convention. But it wasn't a beautiful time for the homeless in the U.S. of A. Because of cuts to social programs, the number of homeless in America soon soared to over 2 million people.

Reagan's policies and Friedman's theories soon came to Canada. In I 983 Friedman praised B.C. premier Bill Bennett when he threw out most of the social programs put in by Dave Barrett's N.D.P. government from 1972 to 1975. Then came the Reform Party in the late 1980's.

The Reform Party, said its first leader Preston Manning, just expressed "The common sense of the com-

!::. mon people." But the Reform Party supported all of ~' the Friedmans's policies. It wanted to wind down all of Canada's social programs. The Fraser Institute. set up in 1975 also supported the Friedmanite agenda.

In the federal election of 1993, the Reform Party won many seats in the House of Commons. The new Liberal government of Prime Minister Jean Chretien and his Finance Minister Paul Martin were scared of the rising power of the Reformers. So they carried out a Reform-type Friedmanite policy. They slashed social programs to the bone .. they cut transfer payments to the provinces by a whopping 40 per cent, and fired over 45,000 government workers Soon provincial governments s lashed their programs too. And so homeless people piled up in the streets and homeless shelters all across Canada.

"If you're looking for help you're on your own now," a progressive church activist told a Unitarian group in 2000. "Governments will no longer help.·· Then the Reform Party took over the Progressive Conservative Party. In 2006 with Stephen Harper at its helm, the Conservatives won the federal election.

The Age of Keynes was over. The Age of Milton Friedman was firmly entrenched in Canada.

By Dave Jaffe

DANGER

OPPORTUNITY

CRISIS

Ongoing HumlOl Stuff

The Community Arts Council of Vancouver is pleased to announce our call for applications to the Downtown Eastside Community Art Projects grant program.

Deadline for applications is Friday, August 15, 2013.

T he aim of this program is to facilitate communityled renewal through com muni ty arts.

We are inviting proposals for projects that will help to build bridges of understanding and s upport between people and gro ups within the Downtown Eastside community, and may also connect with people and gro ups throughout Vancouver.

Projects can be in one or more mediums, including (but not limited to): • Visual Arts (Drawing, Sculpture, Crafts, Set Design and Set Construction) • Performance Art I Acting • Writing • Film • Music and Voice • Sound and lighting • Digital I media communications I wil l be offering grant writing workshops throughout the month of July, and will post on our websi te once dates and locations are confirmed.

In the meantime, PDF copies of the program description, g uidelines and application fo rm are attached for your review. These ar e also available on o ur webs ite: www.cacv.ca If you have any questions, please email Lou-ann Nee!. Program Coordinator at

DTES.Arts.Grant@gmail.com Note - I am still in the process of setting up a phone number, so if you need to reach me by phone, you can leave a message at 604-682-00 I 0 Gilakas'la! Lou-ann

A taste of the M iddle East When: Every Monday from 6.00-7.30 p.m Where: Gathering P lace, Helmcken & Seymour St. Fac ilitator: Shahla Masoumnejad In this group we will be showing documentaries about the Middle East, with a particular focus on the rich culture of Iran. As such, the audience can be involved in a discussion regarding the culture of and life in the region, on topics including landscape, food, religious practices, history and traditional customs. Coffee and light s nacks will be included along with the occasional special treat.

Incredibly Close Reading, A loud!

When: Every second Saturday from 12-2 p.m. Next session is July 6 1h Where: Carnegie Centre- th ird floor Facilitator: Steve Wexler Participants jn th is study group are read ing Homer's Odyssey, a loud. Each week we will work through a new chapter, so you can jump in at any time. Reading aloud is a really interesting method of working through books that have a lot of meaning and concepts which people will have different interpretations of. Readings for this group will be handed out on the day ofthe group.

Saturday Night Documentaries When: Every Saturday from 6.00 p.m (except the first Saturday of each month) Where: Carnegie Centre Auditorium C urator: Colleen Carroll Facilitators: Georgina La Hue and Darren Pearson Humanities I 01 alumni have been hosting successful documentary viewings at the Carnegie Community Centre since 2006. The documentaries provoke thought, as information showcased is often not found in mainstream media. * Intake sessions for upcoming Humanities 101, 201 and Writing 101 will take place in August. See the August I, 2013 issue for dates, times & places.

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£arneeie Theatre workshop Just supposin' the Man walks up to you and sez ·'Here's my Glock and a dozen shells you got 24 hours to do whatever to whomever .. you got permission to waste whoever you want who'd you kill? some whinin' bastard? some rip-off who beat you once too often? some bully who needs to pay some dues? dozen shells well well well who'd you send straight to hell?

Sure are a whole lot of idiots out there or would you do the one thing solve all yer l' il problems and put the gun in your mouth and blow your brains out straight south? so soulja blue what wo uld you do?

Your pal from Hell Adolf Slimelicker

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Lionesses and Lions Rule and Die Those proud shimmering lionesses Conquer social worlds beyond come They marry life and run into ru le and empires They command this turgid putrid earth to the roots Those proud horny muscular young lions Run riot in business careers sports slaughterhouses And take over governments from juan peron to lichtenstein They breed stupid toys & glistening medals & pseudo-profits Young lionesses and lions meet mate procreate Resulting in world much better worse nirvana cursed And then WW1 devours itself WW2 devours much of earth And nuclear puke threatens to gobble and hobble all all What future for young lions, young lionesses?

Eva peron, brando, clift, dean martin, garland They all evaporate die and mulch into try And some still dream of "progress" in this planet sty

john alan douglas

Welcome and Abandon Hope all ye whO' Enter Welcome to the wedding feast The Lame The Halted The one-eyed, one horned ones Mounted and mountee Beavers, Polar bears Igloos and Maple Sugar Three thousand missing women Murdered, disappeared, raped, pressed into service

We can't celebrate...but we can remember.

You got to service Somebodies Vigilance, justice, meted out by Brothers, sistahs, nieces Big Daddy sleepin on da porch The girls tiptoe Raining? 路 lt pouring!

Wilhelmina

DON'T SEPARATE,MY SISTERS â&#x20AC;˘ We came as one that day We gathered to mourn her We kindred sisters and gentle men Family and friends, crying softly to the winds To ask why, Why another passing of one so young?

Her spirit had been shattered, SPLIT Strewn to different paths by a savage encounter with a night hawk.

We came together that day To make it right To make it whole To begin the healing.

Cedar bows placed gently Wherever she had been found We followed the scent of sweetgra~s and sage, And the prayers of the Medicine Mother.

On l y the sounds of tears breaking through the procession.

What right have you to separate my sisters?

You talked of calling upon the warriors, to take control.

What of the Warrior Women?

My sisters of shades, We lifegivers.

Did you not know?

We had trudged these paths before TOO MANY TIMES. In rain and cold,in heated debate with politicians and media.

WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH. Enough violence Enough beatings Enough stabbings brain tortured to inevitable death.

We marched in the streets With placards. We shouted. !,ole screamed.

NO MORE . NO MORE. Then, we were brought together again.

Some did not know her.

It did not matter.

Yet we grieved for ANOTHER sister taken from us.

What right have you to coral us by our colors?

I prayed you would not speak those words.

What right have you to put an invisible wedge between us?

ARE YOU NOT OUR SISTER ALSO?

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RAPE VICTIH' S FEAR:

I don't know who Dusty is - but her article ln the last issue strongly suggests that all women live in constant terror of men. It ' s hard fo r me to believe this, since I never met a woman who was actually like that.

Dusty doesn't say this directly - but says that an -annamed woman who was brutally raped believes it. I can accept that such a woman might believe this but the writer goes on to reinforce her idea \o/ith images that portray men as violent perverts •. . as i f masculinity itself consisted of nothing more t han a gang of sadistic killers waiting for its next female victim .

She recounts the nightmarish story of a violent rape which took place in a parking lot in broad daylight but was not reported to police & therefore not investigated . No one can deny that such things do happen - but does t his mean any woman is liable to be attacked by any man at any time?

The woman is unnamed, the location, time & date of the attack are unknO\m ... in fact it appears as if no one knows anything about this terrible crime except the writer, the unnamed female victim & her unknown male attacker . .. . The details that are given, ho\o~ever, describe vividly this unknO\m \o~oman' s fear, anger, revulsion & traumatic shock \vhich , under the circumstances described, would elicit compassion from any human being, male or female .

Dusty says this horrible experience caused the woman to believe that .. "Homen in every country have to live with fear twenty-four hours out of twenty-four, & no female is safe, ever, including the one month-old baby in her crib & the ninety year- old woman in the nursi ng home"

Considering the brutality thls woman has experienced, it's not surprising she would think this .•. but is it a fact? As I say, I've never met a woman who seemed to spend every waking minute of her life in a constant state of fear •.. but Dusty says \vomen "in every country" (this seems to include every female on the planet) "have to" live in fear twenty-four hours a day ... not only that, but she includes all female babys & everybody's "Granny" in this constant fear of sexual attack. She says t hey "have to" do this because of men. That's a little bit difficult to accept .

Haybe I ' m reacting this \o~ay because I was born male- through no fault of .my own, I hope -.,maybe if I was a woman I would be able to accept what Dusty says •. that I "have to" spend every moment of my life in constant fear of men.

If the situation is as bad as Dusty says it is , we should all be doing something to make men less violent, & to help women defend themselves ... is Dusty doing anything to help men become more gentle, intelligent & caring? She quotes her unknown rape victim as saying: "Hen are unlike other animals, in that the males of other species do not kill their females."

(No mention of those females who eat males alive after having sex with them)

. . . is Dusty helping women to defend themselves against rape? The constant of fear s he seems to recommend would eventually result in suicide or insanity. Does Dusty really love women & hate men? •.. or is she working against both sexes?

At the end of her article she offers a guilty prayer that some other vlOman b r.~ raped instead of her, as if violent rape \o~as the unavoidable result of statistics ~ dO\.m by social \vorkers & police departments. If we follow this kind of thin-

king, it's easy to spiral down into the On Sunday s psychic torture chambers that exist in In the flameto ss everyone's paranoid imagination. ~-le can all get dmvn in the mud & tear each other of sunset t he shore to pieces - but nobody tvants to live that catches fire way - nobody can live that way. and the s un blind s itse l f So how can men & women learn to love, with found beaut y respect, trust & communicate honestly tvith of its mm r e flection; each other? Certai~ly not through the fear and the burning water lay s & hatred Dusty emphasizes •.. in fact, the hardly respiring , solution to rape & violence lies in the opposite direction . Fear & hatred may be a aware natural reaction to violence, but if mainthis fiery moment tained as a "defense", as Dusty seems to will pass and her nature recommend, it can only add ~ fear, will grow dark again. hatred & violence to our lives.

Boys must be taught that gentleness does not cancel out manhood. Girls must be taught that femininity is not being a cute victim.

I But we are fighting a losing battle ag~ I feel ainst our mm goverrunent s & businessmen I am alive when we try to destroy the images they use I live for now ~ to manipulate us ... Rambo is a hero to them I can plan for tomorrm-1 .. he's the homicidal maniac the system uses to terrorize its citizens into subI am now with God always mission. Barbie is the blonde babydoll I am a living book of forever that sells cars, beer & cosmetics for them. I am a thought •in the Lord God \fuat tvould the economic & latv enforceI am with God and that is forever, amen ment systems di without their sexual sterI see all the glory tha t is life eotypes? The killer male & his female sexI feel all the l ove that's here slave are the psychological pillar s of I sense all the life around me society ... gigantic archetypes that reinI can hear God's Voice force the worst in us. \fuy are we surrounI am alive now ded by these influences 24 hours a day?

I am here Because they are sponsored & paid for by I am large corporations which have a vested inI terest in our emotional confusion .

Rape, violence & degradation are not caused by sexual differences; they are the secretly agreed-upon values of sick minds, & we are not born with sick minds but inherit the sickness fr om a society designed to pass it on from one generation to another.

Can we re - design our society to produce gentle, caring males & proud, intelligent females?

•.. I hope so .

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(d.886). Scotus's chronicle of the popes listed her:"A.D.854, Lotharii 14, Joanna, of Myths a 1voman, succeeded Leo & reigned 2 years, 5 months & 4 days." De Gemblours's chroniand Secrets cle said, "It is reported that this John was a female, 路 & that she conceived by one Joan of Arc Barbara Walker of her servants . The Pope, becoming preg"Joan of the Bow" - Joan the Huntress nant , gave birth to a child, wherefor some also called La Pucelle, "the Maid " , a trado not number her among the Pontiffs." d itional tit l e of a priestess in t he fairy Thomas de Elmham's official list of the religion . Joan herself stat ed that she re- popes said :" A.D.SSS, Joanne5. This one ceived her mission "at the tree of the doesn't count; she was a woman."

Fairy-ladies, " a centre of the Dianic cult Papal historian & Vatican librarian Plaat Domremy. In 1429, ecclesiastical judges tina wrote in The Lives of the Popes that examined her & announ ced t h at holy angels Joan was English, that she knew more of the scriptures than any man, & that she had appointed her to save France. Later the Bishop of Beauvais reversed this de~i颅 was elected pope by disguising herself in sion . In 1431, aged only 19, she was burn- men's clothes &making herself a 'monk' noted for scholarship. Her deception was ed as a witch at Rauen , wearing a placard revealed when her labour pains came on her that said:"Rel apsed, Heretic, Apostate, Idolator." Eccl e siastical authorities nev- & she died in a street betwee=t the Lateran &St.Clement's church . She was dragged iner did explain the nature of her 'idols' . to the street &stoned to death &buried The executioner pretended to find her heart unburned in the ashe s, to s ell it there in an unmarked grave. Martin Polonu$ for a holy relic. said the street was ever afterwards avoid ed by papal processions, "out of detestaFor 500 years Joan remained a popular heroine until she was canonized by Pope t ion for what happened there. Nor on that Benedict XV i n 1920 . To the church of h er account is she placed in the catalogue of own time t his woul d have been unthinkab l e. Hol y Pontiffs, not only on account of her "The Church , j ealous of her pagan aut hori- sex, but also because of the horribleness of t he circumstances." ty over pagan soldiers (& jealous too of her success- based popularity with the Joan (or John) was the only pope ever masses) needed no urg~ng by the English to I stricken from papal records, although her see Joan as 'dispensable '. It was the pontificate was better documented than Church which tri~d &condemned her; the many others, especially the popes before Church which regarded her - rightly, of the 4th or 5th centuries, many of whom had no contemporary documentation at all course - as an enemy; &the Church was glad to get rid of her." Iron i cally, the but were mere names inserted into later same church that pronounced Joan a witch & chronicles to create an illusion of unhad her killed, now claims her as a saint. broken succession.

The official story now is that there Joan, Pope was an "antipope " named John, enthroned by popular demand against the will of the Catholic scholars now deny that t here clergy & soon overthr01m. But church hiswas ever a female pope, but the legend of Pope Joan persists. Even the church accep- torians were 5Cldom trustworthy. In 1886, ted Joan ' s pontificate as historical fact, Emmanuel Royidi5 published Joan's biography, Papissa Joanna, stating i n his intra up to the beginning of the 17th century. duct ion:"Every sentence in my book &alHer portrait appeared in a row of papal busts in Siena Cathedral , labelled Joannes most every phra5e is ba5ed on the testimVIII, femina ex Anglia: John VIII, an Eng- ony of contemporary authors ." The church lishl.,roman. immediately banned his book & excommunicPope Joan was first mentioned by her ated him. contemporary, Ananstasius the Librarian

The Woman's Encyclopedia

From -the LibrarY Following is my last list of book reviews for a few new and interesting looking books we have recently received at the Carnegie Library. I'll be leaving here and returning to my usual job in the Vancouver Public Library. Stephanie will be returning soon to Carnegie. I've enjoyed being here very much! Thanks.

These are the new titles in the g lass book case -they can be reserved for you by any staff:

Animal: the bloody rise and fall ofthe mob 's most feared assassin (Casey Sherman, 2013).

This crime story is about a killer who was so brutal he was feared by bosses in La Cosa Nostra. Unable to keep the ' Animal' on a leash, the italian mob betrayed him to the FBl. Joe 'the Animal' Barboza was such a coveted prize for a couple of FB I agents, his protection and information became more import-ant than the integrity of the FB I Witness Protection Program, and the American Criminal Justice system.

Five Ring Circus: myths and realities of the Olympic games (Christopher Shaw, 2008).

Although this edition is new to this library, this book was originally published before Vancouver won its bid for the 20 I0 Olympic Games. Shaw's cautionary tale is meant for the common citizens of Vancouverthose he fe lt were being conned by the corporate media and political machines that promoted the benefits of Vancouver hosting the Olympics and becoming a 'World Class City.' In opposition to the bid, Shaw documents the history of how Vancouver won the 20 I 0 Games, who was involved, and what the real motives were. His book predicts the burden (economic) the Games would create on Vancouver taxpayers, predicated by corporate and government speculation in land development, and the lingering impact the Games would have o n the poor and home less in Vancouver.

He Moved a Mountain: the life of Frank Calder and tile Nisga'a land claims accord (Joan Harper).

Born in the Naas Valley, Frank Calder's father ins isted his son was to be educated to, "move the mountain," that was between the Nisga'a and their land claims. After attend ing residential school, graduating from UBC, and being aBC MLA for 26

years, he achieved his destiny. In 1998, he participated in the historic successful Nisga路a land claim settlement. Although he received many honours in his lifetime he cherished the title, "Chief of Chiefs." given him by his community.

Liquor, Lust and the Law: the story of Vancouver's legendary penthouse nightclub (Aaron Chapman).

This book is about the history of the legendary Penthouse and the Italian immigrant family who have owned it since it opened its' doors on Seymour St. in 1947. Including recently found photographs, documents, and untold stories, Danny Ph illiponi describes some of the ways the local nig ht club and strip joint has changed and survived the Vancouver night club scene over the past seventy decades. Flirting with nostalgia, scandal, social standards, and the criminal e.lement, Philliponi 's story is fu ll of interesting stones of th~ many celebrities and those who have performed, lived, and worked in this establishment over the years.

Standing Up With Ga 'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and tile politics of memory, cllurch, and custom (Leslie Robertson with Kwagul Gixsam Clan, 2012).

This ~ook challenges the dominant historical representattons recorded about Jane Constance Cook a Kwakwaka'wakw leader, activist, and strong ad'vocate fo r women and chi ldren. Co-written by many of her descendants, Jane Constance Cook, is portrayed through memory and reinterp retation as a powerful c ul tural mediator in the history ofNorthwest Coast native studies. A must read for specialists and scho lars of Native, women's, and anthropological studies, this book uses oral history and archival documentahistion. as an lens for understanding and redressina 0 toncal narrative.

White Out: the secret life of heroin (Michael W. C lune, 20 13).

This memoir records the author's descent into heroin and recovery through detox, treatment, and a relltrn to his fa mily home. He descri bes his add iction as one in which, whenever he saw his drug of choice it was as if for the fi rst time- he experienced a 'white out' of memory surrounding his previous experiences with it. Calling his addiction a 'memory disease', his book celebrates the, 'recovery machine,' that helped to fade the power of the 'white out. ' Submitted by Joanne, Librarian

HYMN FACTORY Insensitive celebrities and others born without a soul are this planet's equivalent of so so cruel is that cancer, they make us sick the longer better than quick if o ur skyyard had a concentration camp Earth would be the answer. You pump out eleventeen Ji ves there is no love you just push and shove for unknown and ~nsane reasons you demand to be needed, like paintmg your walls Plague Black now that really suits you please feel free never to come back hit thy road forever now beat it!

Wheelchairs going up in price while self-made gods give themselves raises my my how nice obsolete goes the word accountability, little girls are dressed up as whores little boys are being prepared for the next set of wars then when things go wrong it's everyone else's responsibility. Way too many things wrong so few are right then again I'm left (sinister) ~ande~ 100 years ago or more I'd simply be killed, hke bemg trampled by a herd of turtles or being ca~ght smuggling Muslim Barbie Dolls or being l. shtpwrecked on an island full of empty people myself and a crane for the skyscraper they've told me to build, just too many problems my faith in mankindness is li ke the moratorium at the North Pole it reminds us of the South one will have to go: Send a ll murderers and politicians to the frozen fro ntier it's about time we made them disappear into Mother Nature's nearest overflow, I hear the Welsh hymn the band on th Titanic played I hear things like that every night & day today we'd have awards for the Best (worst) Catastrophe, Most Stylishly-Clad Slave, cowardice has always been one of our strengths we shed kindness like the Prosecution shreds the defence the near empty moon sheds light the climate that cooked 8 billion souls , the factory where I learned most of all second-handed what there was or is left even vultures left it abandoned so many inconsistencies as yet again the air force landscaping company redecorates the land below. any and all structures are used for psychological autopsies who'd have guessed funeral gift cards with extra points would be so popular with all the mortal copies gods bless the older models, When all is th is and this be all be wary of every s ingle star upon reflection you'd wish you had worn those thermonuclear goggles... or would you?

Bv ROBERT McGILLIVRAY

A Heartwarming Story from the Heart of the City I was having a late breakfast at the Carnegie Cafe an excellent scone with jam & butter, coffee with cream and an orange.

1 tripped off to the too to wash my hands. When I returned I discovered tht someone had placed a small attractive tropical plant on my table. l scanned the room for some clue to the culprit. l was not rewarded in .my search; however the next table held two greyhatred men deep in conversation. One was a man ~ho'd ph_Ysically assaulted me at the Dugout DropIn some hme ago. The other was a younger man with wavy g rey hair, like an old-fashioned judge or a prophet from Judea. I obviously approac hed the latter.

The older bearded guy jumped up. "Stay away from me," he yelled. I had not even been able to pose my question. " Is the plant on my table from you?"

Because of some man having a seizure at the security desk, all personnel were busy with police, fire & ~mbulance .. Rosa, our charming manager, appeared mstead. A real hands-on girl! She personally poured oil on the waters os dissension and also found a temporary home for my ho9meless plant. 'Ray for Rosa !

So ends my heartwarming story about the homeless plant and th~ Carnegie Cafe & Key Club. B seeing U Your Queen of the Dispossessed a.k.a. Wilhelmina Mary

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lonesome monsters tom my 15 years old dumped cold in July at a greyhound statio by his father who handed him 60 dollars and said "make it on your own, kid!" so far tommy's made it to a government residence jammed with junkies winos hookers thieves killing time tommy's fat and retarded, always asking questions "where ya goin? what ya doin? can l go? what's the weather tomorrow?" we tell him "snow" tommy says "I don't have a coat! are ya.sure it's gonna snow?" "tommy" said the drunk we dragged from the path of a semi -truck "if you had a fuckin brain in your head you'd know it doesn't snow in the s ummer for fuck's sake!" but the staffs cal led a meeting to straighten us out the heavy metal kid shoves tommy and says to a supervisor "I wanna throw a tlashbomb in your face!" a young dopefiend says "don't ever call me a fag again!" to a tattooed teenage prostitute who asks the boy for a light he holds the burning match against her breast he laughs when she screams and says to him "if only you didn't love me so much you wouldn't bother me!" the ex-con ex-hockey player is showing-off stabbing his nerve-dead leg with a lit cigarette an old rummy tells tommy his dad "oughta be shot with a ball of his own shit!" but compassion is scarce like the table scraps fed to the household pet swimming a lone in the diningroom fishbowl a piranha Bud Osbor

Public Access AED now at Carnegie!

I am pleased to announce that there is now a publ ic access Automatic External Defibri llator (AED) at Carnegie Community Centre. It' s located in a marked cabinet on the wall at the Information Desk. The AED is a portable device that automatically diagnoses potentially 1ife threatening conditions that could lead to cardiac arrest. If such conditions are detected, the AED will administer a " shock" (defibrillation) that re-establishes effective heart rhythm.

This AED is 1 of 38 that the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Fire and Rescue have now installed in City facilities. AEDs were firs t placed in C ity faci lities courtesy of the "Gianfranco Giammaria Memorial Society", which was established fo llowing the sudden death of 35 year old Gianfranco G iammaria due to Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome (SADS).

It is believed that had an AED been availab le at the facility where he passed, he could have been saved.

The Society's mandate is to raise funds to provide grants for the purchase and installation of AEDs in recreational and community fac ilities. To date, they have purchased and installed 64 AEDs in recreational facilities througho ut the Lower Mai nland, 2 1 of which are in Vancouver.

AEDs are safe and easy-to-use devices that require no first-aid training to operate and only administer a "shock" when needed to correct the heart's rhythm.

Cardiac arrest can happen to anyone, anywhere, and immediate medical response is an important factor for survival. A person's chance of surviving cardiac arrest decreases by up to 10% each minute before defibrillation is received. By having AEDs accessible, city employees and members of the public can potentially save lives by providing treatment in the vital window of time immediatel y following cardiac arrest.

Please feel free to stop by the Information Desk at Carnegie and familiarize yo urse lf with the location of the AED. The Security and Information T eam will be happy to answer any questions you have.

Ethel Whitty, Director Skip, Securi ty Carnegie Community Centre {who put it in Skip's pudgy little hands to deliver]

On July 20, 1969, as commander of the Apollo 11 lunar module, Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the moon.

His first words after stepping on the moon, "that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," were televised to earth and heard by millions.* But just before he re-entered the Lander, he made the eniamatic remark *"Good luck, Mr. Gorsky."

0 Many people at NASA thought it was a casual remark concerning some rival Soviet cosmonaut.

However, upon checking, there was no Gorsky in either the Russian or American space programs.

Over the years, many people questioned Armstrong as to what the - 'Good luck, Mr. Gorsky' statement meant, but Armstrong always just smiled.

On July 5, 1995, in Tampa Bay, Florida, while answering questions following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26-year-old question about Mr Gorsky to Armstrong.

This time he finally responded. Because Mr. Gorsky had died, Neil Armstrong felt he could now answer the question.

Here is the answer to "Who was Mr. Gorsky?": in 1938, when he was a kid in a small mid-western town, he was playing baseball with a friend in the backyard. His friend hit the ball, which landed in his neighbour's yard by their bedroom window.

His neighbours were Mr. and Mrs. Gorsky. As he leaned down to pick up the ball, young Armstrong heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky, "Sex! You want sex?! You'll get sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!"

It broke the place up.

Neil Armstrong's family confirmed this is a true stOty.

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-{ You lifted my conscience above the flood of innocence that was hidden deep under my guiltiness built up by my faults and the filthiness that had blackened my world as it sh3ttered my independence then corrupted any inner strength that 1 foolishly believed would be safe my finger tips were slipping from the edge of my sanity as happiness stared into my eyes and laughed at me wh isphed to my heart that I'm unworthy my eyes were blind to the realization that my determination was breaking following a path of no limitation my soul was left vulnerable to all evi Is creations I cried out r prayed then an angel from above heard my hearts cry for salvation her wings opened as she took hold of my soul and lifted it up and away from the dark world she took my heart into her hands filled it with faith and unbreakable strength to break free from evils embrace then she spread her wings and was gone but in her place was a light that shone up to the heavens where I belong.

Sarah Foisy

Depression There may be something new here, but most of us who are depressed have likely already thought 'Yeah right. ' Everyone's is different. My older brother is a near-genius (or was at one time- we send each other a few lines ofgruff ' n bluff now and then) and he is cynical about what he calls " dubious diagnoses" and how much of what is called or lumped together under the umbrella of depression is the normal human condition with a fancy pharmaceutical moniker to sell incredibly expensive and equally dubious medications for the lifetime of each sufferer.

The cat almost got out of the bag with a news story sandwiched in with ki llings in Iraq (or was it Israel), the latest black hole for tax dollars (sponsorship, gun registry, Star Wars, NAFTA lawsuits, ... ) and the collapse of some multi-billion dollar industry (or company) and the 4-5 minute commercial ' breaks' about how the top I0 anti-depressant drugs on the market are linked with increases in suicide as those on higher and higher doses get more and more despondent over time and pissed off that the seemjng miracle of one or another didn't drag them out of their hole - real or imagined.

I find it hard to believe that the vast majority of people will sell their mothers for a buck, but it always seems that those with great wealth or power (or who seem to have a decided edge in those terms and " not fair" springs automatically from those having to balance) epitomize sleaze or immorality or just sky-licking greed.

Hindsight - or jingo-analysis- connects the dots but . Consider how it seems so obvious that the leveling of the World Trade Centre in New York was precisely what was needed by the ultra-right in the States to get their Patriot Act passed, to limit or cut back on civil liberties, to target and now arrest without even needing a disclosable reason anyone anywhere who may be a threat to the (their) peace; how obvious it is that the 'war on terror' legislation in place here in Canada can now be used to jail any dissidents or even peaceful people who support or give money to anyone or anyth ing that the government deems a threat; how simple it all becomes ifyoujust narrow and narrow your world to exclude wondering about how bad it is or will become and just let 路' Big Brother" do his thing - as long as WWE and sports and reality (sic) shows and sex, music and drugs are enough for a full life ...

But then it opens like a fist into a hand- keeping everything clenched is tiring and limits what you can do with what you have and are. I've been the subject of dubious analyses- both for depression and by those who suggest not printing anything I've written until said depression is tamed ... The email saga in the last issue between Charles "Carlos" Herbst and l got hi s knickers in a knot over being outed as a blank- and he thereupon wrote a letter to the Director here demanding that "this idiot, this moron, this so-called editor" be castigated(rated?) for printing what he wrote. But then l'mjust another " lowlife" Depression seems to be telling yourself that there's nothing good or worth doing - and believing thisso maybe that's getting old too. Move on ... !

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Workplace Essential Skills trai ning Vancouver Commun ity College is pleased to offer free Workplace Essential Skills training to Carnegie's volunteers and employees. With a flexible training schedule and lessons designed to develop skills that are useful in any workplace, this program has proven to be popular with patiicipants and employers alike.

Every participant who completes the program receives a Statement of Completion from VCC and a $250.00 training stipend.

Extra benefit: Participants receive YCC Student Numbers which give them access to VCC's Library and Learning Centre until the end of the term.

The Workplace Essential Skills are: • Thinking; Reading; Writing; Numeracy • Document Use; Computer use • Oral communication • Working with others; Continuo us learn ing Participants will focus on those skills that they most need in their workplaces. The training itself is delivered at VCC's downtown campus.

To be eligible, you must be emp loyed by or volunteering-with a non-profit/social enterprise. Interested volunteers and employees can contact the Carnegie Centre Volunteer Program office fo r more info.