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Back in 2004, Harley Syyong was well on his way to becoming a dentist. But halfway through UBC, the dental school forced him to withdraw. The school had received the results from his blood tests — a standard procedure for students in the medical field. Syyong had Hepatitis B. “I was devastated and angry,” said the 31year-old. “I felt pretty misled. I had no idea I had it. I just felt unsupported. “There weren’t a lot of resources out there at the time.” Syyong still doesn’t know how he was infected. He was born in the Philippines before vaccinations were a common practice and believes he must have contracted it before his family moved to Richmond. “I grew up here. In Grade 6, I got all the shots that everyone gets,” said the Steveston secondary graduate. “But these vaccinations didn’t do anything for me. I already had it.” The BC/Yukon Canadian Liver Foundation is trying to raise awareness about liver diseases such as hepatitis and cancer. The foundation held a media conference on Tuesday to introduce its inaugural Stroll for Liver fundraiser — a 5K walk at Garry Point Park on Aug. 17. The province has the highest rate of hepatitis per capita in Canada, according to the foundation. “It’s the silent killer,” said Elena Murgoci, the regional director. “Hepatitis B and C can lay dormant for 20 to 30 years because the liver doesn’t have pain receptors. “Once symptoms start to show in mid-life,

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it can be too late. By then transplants are needed or cancer is present.” One in 10 Canadians have a form of liver disease like hepatitis — a number that might be increasing to one in seven, according to Murgoci. “People just aren’t paying attention, they don’t think the liver is an important organ,” she said. “You should be getting tested regularly.

Everything that’s consumed or put on your skin is filtered through your liver. We call it the environmental protection agency.” For Syyong, his diagnosis came as a shock to him. Since he felt perfectly fine and received vaccinations in school, he didn’t get regular blood tests. Once he saw a specialist to take care of his see Hep B page 4

Cab fears allayed as firm breaks into YVR market BY BENJAMIN YONG Special to the News

A bid by a cab company to get in on the lucrative YVR market has been tempered by the City of Richmond. Garden City Cabs applied to the Passenger Transportation Board of BC to add nine vehicles to its existing fleet of 30 in order to service the airport. Four of the additions would be conventional taxicabs, with the remaining five being accessible

vans that would serve YVR on a full-time basis — a region they’re prohibited from picking up passengers as per their current licensing agreement. The city expressed concerns about the rest of the city being under-serviced as a result and asked the company to take heed. The company’s part-owner, Paramjit Randhawa, addressed a council committee Wednesday, saying, he’s heard concerns from business owners and hotels. “They want us to pick up their

guests from the airport while their shuttles are not running,” said Randhawa. “Late night or early mornings. Without having access to pickup rides from the airport, we cannot serve them according to their needs.” The committee had issue with the wording of the application, which did not specifically state the airport-only restriction for the five accessible vehicles. This could potentially allow the company to allocate more of

its fleet to YVR impacting service levels in other areas in Richmond. Randhawa said that is not the company’s intent and they’re working with the Vancouver Airport Authority, which had requested more vans, capable of carrying up to six passengers and bags, to meet growing demands. “We are only saying five accessible vans to serve the needs of our local community and the business community in Richmond,” he added.

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Continued from page 3 meeting last week. “We have a doctor there as well, but physical health, he was still at a loss of we try to keep it informal so that people who to turn to for emotional and social can feel safe and ask questions,” he said. support. “A lot of people [at the meeting] were “People aren’t willing to talk about recently diagnosed and didn’t know what it because there’s a stigma attached,” he to expect.” said. The treatment of Hepatitis B depends “They think you’re doing drugs or on when the individual was diagnosed. things you shouldn’t be doing. So that Syyong’s body learned to co-exist with keeps discussion under wraps and leads the disease because of his young age. to this huge lack of If he hadn’t been awareness about liver tested, his system diseases.” wouldn’t have exhibited Like diseases such symptoms until mid-life as HIV or AIDS, there’s when extensive damage also a stigma about how would have already been hepatitis can be transdone. mitted. Besides his work But also, like those with the foundation, diseases, it can only Syyong now attends be passed on through medical school at UBC. an exchange of bodily Like Canadian denfluids. tal schools, there are “I knew about guidelines and policies the disease and had — Harley Syyong regarding his infection, been vaccinated,” which can affect what said Syyong’s wife type of medicine he can Christine, who is five practice. months pregnant. “So I “They look at how many viral parknew I would be perfectly fine. The baby ticles are in your blood,” he said. will too. We’ll have him vaccinated at “If there are a lot, obviously surgery is birth, which is standard procedure.” out of the question. But at first, the stigma concerned “That was the case with dental school Syyong. It wasn’t until 2009 he realized since you’re working in close quarters he needed to do something, that keeping with someone’s mouth, you need to be silent about his disease only fed into the careful. stigma. “I want to get into family practice. The He decided to volunteer for the family physician is the first point of conCanadian Liver Foundation. He organized a support group for peo- tact so it’s a good place to start raising awareness for diseases like this.” ple with Hepatitis B, which had its first

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If Port Metro Vancouver is to purchase land, it should be appropriately zoned land, said City of Richmond Coun. Linda Barnes at Wednesday’s planning meeting. City councillors approved a motion to once again request Port Metro Vancouver agree to not expand or operate on lands in the Agricultural Land

Reserve, something that is not expressed in the port’s latest phase three draft of their land use plan. “I believe they should be including, purchases of appropriately zoned lands as they become available adjacent or close to existing port lands,” said Barnes. “And they’re not, they’re purchasing agricultural lands because they’re cheaper.” Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie had a slight-

ly different point of view, saying “I think we should just concentrate on agricultural lands. They’ll do what they’re going to do.” In the spirit of brevity, Coun. Harold Steves suggested pointing out individual sites to protect. “There’s the Gilmore Farm, the Rabbit River Farm and two or three others. Gilmore Farm they have refused to recognize that permanently as agriculture. Rabbit River Farm they put down as undetermined,” said Steves. “Could we not specifically name the properties and say we want to see those listed as agriculture?” Steves, a longtime farmland advocate, has been vocal about the port’s expansion plans since it purchased Gilmore, a 200-acre farm in East Richmond, in 2009.

Students: Upset, say they would’ve shared their garlic Continued from page 5 her students, she said they were “really upset,” and one of the students asked “who’s going to eat all that garlic?” The 6,7 and 8-year-olds came up with creative ways to catch the thief, and one of the suggestions was to write a letter to the thief. “Everyone should know that stealing is very bad! If someone wanted some of our garlic, we could have shared some if they had asked. We’d like to know who stole our garlic and why,” it said in one of the paragraphs. In the three years that Spul’u’kwuks has been growing their own food, normally a few garlic plants — which can fetch several dollars per pound at an organic grocer — are kept, dried, and replanted for the following year’s crop. “I’m thinking I’m not going to grow garlic next year. This is what people want, and they will come back and look for it.” This incident follows a string of recent thefts from community gardens, parks, farms and backyards including Paulik Park in central Richmond, the Sharing Farm at Terra Nova and W&A farms. If you see any suspicious activity in farmer’s fields, community gardens and parks, call Richmond RCMP at 604-278-1212.

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his week we saw a shuffling of the federal cabinet. It was more a game of musical chairs than a real changing of the guard. More newsworthy however, was some of the apparently required reading for new federal ministers. Several news outlets reported the Prime Minister’s Office also asked staff to include lists of “friends and enemy stakeholders” in the new ministers’ summer reading lists. This is troubling for a number of reasons. This is the same PMO that has become embroiled in constant scandal and turned into a full-time campaign machine that operates year-round at taxpayers’ expense on deeply partisan projects. Dividing Canadians into “friends and enemies” indicates a level of government paranoia not seen since McCarthyism. It also implies our federal government is no longer working for all Canadians, only for those whose ideological positions match those of the governing party. By using the divisive term “enemy,” the government is leaving itself open to accusations that it is also actively working against some Canadians. It showcases an “us versus them” mentality. So who is on the list? Other than a vague description that it may include environmental groups, non-profits, and civic and industry associations that disagree with the federal Conservatives, we have no clue. That too is a problem. As much as this makes the ruling Conservatives look bad, this is also the stuff that drives cynicism, turns off voters and erodes Canadians’ faith in the institution of government.

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The Editor, Recently Richmond has a new bus in town, and it is called the “Sixty-Foot Pilot Bus.” These buses recently arrived last month and are replacing majority of the old buses on the 403 route. With the new revolutionary buses, No.3 Road has a rising star as it catches attention all around town. However, as a person who takes transit daily, I cannot help to notice that the pilot buses are replacing the wrong route. Why? The new buses are never full and there is always space. Secondly, it is because there are other bus routes that are actually in need of these buses, such as 410 and 401. These two buses are famous for their line-ups outside of Richmond Centre Mall (beside Shoppers). At every five to 10 minutes, during the day and especially rush hour, there is always a line up for these buses. Sometimes rush hours are so hectic, that the 410 ultimately comes every three to five minutes, which is the fastest wait time I’ve seen. With all that in mind, the pilot buses sure make Richmond look great, but TransLink should take into consideration what essential routes are in desperate need for these buses. Queena Zeng Richmond

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Read about your next summer blockbuster I hate all these summer movies. They’re so samey, so repetitive, so much like last summer’s, and the summer before that. I’ve got a great idea for a summer movie, one that will shake up the tired clichés of the megaplex, and really get people excited about film again. Ready? Here we go! So there’s this young boy, or maybe a young girl, I haven’t decided, and he (definitely he) grows up on a farm in Kansas with loving parents, until they’re horribly killed by aliens while she’s out hoeing the beet field. Our protagonist (eh, maybe it’s a girl) grows up in the alien-fighting underground, battling the sinister forces of the Sinistaar (that’s the aliens) with a rag-tag group of misfits, including his former high school pottery instructor, a cardcounter from Las Vegas, an autistic savant NBA player, and their pet sheep. They’re driven underground by the Sinistaar, where the mole people rescue them, but the mole people don’t want to fight the aliens, even though their giant digging machines and radar-targeted spud guns could change the course of the war. The protagonist (a guy?) saves a baby mole-person from a rampaging mutant carrot, and with the aid of a rousing speech, the mole people are at last convinced to help. They tunnel back to the surface and are greeted by

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Danny Devito (playing himself) who is now the leader of the resistance. The protagonist challenges the alien leader, Leedaar, to single combat, but Danny Devito knocks him out and takes his place. Amazingly, Danny Devito beats the aliens in a no-holds barred jai alai tournament for the fate of the world. This scene will need plenty of dramatic slomo. Sadly, the pet sheep is killed by an errant ball. The protagonist sheds a single tear. Danny Devito is declared president of Earth, and integrates the mole people into the economy, getting them jobs at Costco. Protagonist (a girl, I’m sure this time) heads home to Kansas to take up a quiet life of farming, when she’s suddenly run off the road by a mysterious cloaked figure in a beet truck. One by one, the beetscented masked figure begins killing her friends using methods that are certainly ironic, but only marginally practical. This culminates in the scene in which the guidance counsellor is ripped apart by two giant robots representing alternative career paths, in flower arranging or forensic

accounting. Finally the hero unmasks the beet-truckdriving serial killer, only to see the face of his (yes, it’s a guy) father! Then he pulls that mask off to reveal the vile metal countenance of a Sinistaar revengebot! Then he smashes that and finds it’s piloted by the son of the mutant carrot. Then he eats the carrot. Tired out from all of this, our hero attends a movie. It’s Hamlet, shown in its entirety, except that the play within the play has been replaced by a performance of Last Year at Marienbad, performed by six-year-olds, in Flemish, with no subtitles. The entire movie plays during this movie, complete with the sound of the theatre patrons near the protagonist, and the loud guy whose cellphone rings during the grave digger scene, and he has a long conversation with his friends about which steak house they want to meet at, while people try to shush him. Finally, the hero decides she wants to settle down, and she meets a nice guy but they have a misunderstanding about a canoe and a can of Nutella, and finally it’s all sorted out, but when they kiss she looks shocked, and pulls off his mask, and it’s a revengebot again, and she beats it to death with the hoe she was using in the beet field when her parents died. Fin. Matthew Claxton reports for the Langley Advance.

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Richmond’s City Centre currently has twice Steveston’s population and is growing 4,000 people annually. Minoru Park is now busy most of the time and with the downtown population set to double in the next few decades, another large space is needed to satisfy the future passive park, recreation and conservation needs of central Richmond and all Richmond residents. The 136-acre Garden City Lands are much larger than Minoru Park so they can satisfy urban large park needs, and the transition to a more rural park and community garden park, and as gateway to the relatively undisturbed 136 acre adjoining National Defense lands and 201 acre Richmond Nature Park. Both Stanley Park and Central Park are renowned because they offer something for everyone, from sports to recreation to arts and culture to beautiful calm quiet places to walk or meet people. These parks took many diverse groups of people’s efforts to evolve into great parks for both residents and visitors. We should also take our time and enlist the widest community input possible in planning for the Garden City Lands future. Peter Mitchell Richmond

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Immigrant colours cast reflection on soccer field Annual festival serves as signpost of new Canadian cultures BY A LAN C AMPBELL

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f there’s one sporting language on the planet that communicate across all continents, it’s soccer. And in late 1970s and early ‘80s, if a Stats-Can type wished to gauge predominant ethnicities inhabiting B.C., all he or she should have done was take in some of the action at the Nations Cup. Their snapshot of living images being projected brightly onto the soccer fields and bleachers, however, might have surprised in its nature of being almost exclusively of European colour. The flags of Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales, Italy, Germany, Poland and Greece represented the heavily-beaten paths from where in the world newcomers flocked to the region; families kicking off new lives on Canada’s west coast. As the decades rolled on, however, the colours on those flags have become more rich and varied in origin, a signpost perhaps of new waves that have lapped in from around the globe. The name India, for example, first appeared on

the Nations Cup roll of honour in 1986 when Binder Braich received the men’s open MVP award — the first time a non-European team or player was recognized. India was to go on and break 15 years of Euro domination in the tournament when they lifted the cup in 1994. But during the Nations Cup’s relatively short life, there have been many more nations emerging from the community, including China, Fiji and the Caribbean in the late ‘80s and, more recently, Iran and this year, Saudi Arabia. “Although I was very young, I do remember (the men’s open) being just eight teams; very European,” recalled Nations Cup president Jeff Wilson, a Scot by heritage. “But now we have Scan page an amazing collection to see from all over the world, Nations Cup history including China, Saudi Arabia and Iran. “I think what you see on the field here at the Nations Cup is very much representative of the community out there and a reflection of how it’s changing all the time.” George Roberts — a longtime Nations Cup committee member until this year, who’s never missed a tournament — can recall when just about every player on the field had an accent to match the jersey they so proudly sported. “Most of he players and the supporters spoke with their native accents,” said Roberts. “And if the players didn’t, you could be pretty sure their mothers and fathers did.” Nowadays, it’s only the newer participants to the Nations Cup that can truly speak, without putting on an accent, in their mother tongue. “I guess, as the European immigration influx slowed down, more of the original teams are having to go further down the generations to field a team,” said Roberts, of the Nations Cup honour system in terms of coun-

try of origin and how difficult it’s become to pull together a team of true Scots, English or Irish. All in all, soccer seems to bring out the best in how people express their national pride and it can only be good for the continuing success and longevity of the Nations Cup. “I think it’s great for the tournament, it adds more diversity every year and adds to the international flavour,” said Wilson.

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Surrounded by a gaggle of vendors, Jeff Wilson fields questions about overnight security, concession spots and beer gardens. There’s not a ball or flag in sight and it’s a full seven days before the first whistle is blown, but tournament president Wilson is very much in Nations Cup mode. When the thousands of players and fans swarm through the Hugh Boyd complex this weekend, they’ll have scant sense of the forethought and eagle-eyed attention to detail that’s been poured into the soccer show that is the 34th Nations Cup. Hosted almost twice as many times

as the actual FIFA World Cup, the annual feast of the beautiful game is served up over just one night and two days every third weekend in July. Planning for the 2013 Nations Cup, however, got underway as early as two weeks after Germany swigged champagne as 2012 men’s open victors. “We get together for a bit of a debriefing, just to get a sense of what worked and didn’t work and what we might change,” said Wilson, who took over as president in 2008 after the loss to cancer of one of the Nations Cup’s founding fathers, Geoff Penniston. “After that, we usually wait until maybe November to really start planning for the next year. see On-call page 13

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The influx of cultures into B.C. from around the world has been reflected in the countries competing in the Nations Cup, such as India, top, China, above, and more recently, Iran, left.

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Nations Cup president Jeff Wilson will muster his troops in two weeks’ time to start arranging the 2014 tournament.

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Soft-flicks, flares welcome birth of a ‘Nation’ Memories stirred from Cup’s first ever MVP, Golden Boot, of Scotland’s magical 8-in-a-row run and George Best cameo

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Faces from the Nations Cup through the years include Ireland (1987), top, the famous Scotland team of 1985, above, and, clockwise from left, Colin Miller, George ‘Belfast Boy’ Best, Depeche Mode and Ally McCoist.

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he year, 1979; the month, July. Soft-flick hairdos and flared jeans were all the rage for women AND men. The first ever Sony Walkman went on sale in Japan, Los Angeles passed its gay and lesbian civil rights bill and Iraqi president Hasan al-Bakr resigned and his vice-president stepped in — one Saddam Hussein. In B.C., the dawn broke on a tournament that would morph into a celebration of immigrant nations, earning the winner inter-cultural bragging rights for the entire year. With few suitable facilities in Richmond, the first ever Nations Cup was being staged in Strathcona Park, Vancouver and was being hosted by the Richmond Olympic Soccer Club, for no reason other than to raise funds for the season ahead. The late Geoff Penniston, whose name now adorns the men’s open trophy, was the driving force behind the inaugural Nations Cup. One man with fond memories of the competition’s birth, Canadian-born German Andy Meyer, can recall that first ever Cup clearly — not least because, at the tender age of 17, he was the tournament’s first ever MVP and Golden Boot recipient. Meyer was fresh out of high school and his dad, Berlin-born Henry, was a member of the Olympic Soccer Club. “I guess that’s how I got into it. John Klein was the

Continued from page 12 “It seems like a long way away for that, but things like budgets, city planning and corporate support need to be taken care of early on. “Basically, we have to have our ducks in a row before (the organizing committee) start having monthly meetings around spring time.”

coach of the German team,” said Meyer, now 51, who was presented in 1999 with a Germany jersey by the Nations Cup organizers to mark the tournament’s 20th anniversary. “The one thing I do remember from that tournament was playing against guys who played Scan page in the NASL. to see “Everything I touched that weekNations Cup end went in the net, it was just one of schedule those things.” With no tournament in 1980, no one seems sure why, it returned in 1981, firmly planting its roots in Richmond at Minoru and, again, it was Germany who retained the Cup. “It was super, super hot in ’81,” said Meyer, who, at 50, actually turned out for the German over-30 team last year. “We played the Italians in the final and we were huge underdogs, up against the likes of the Lenarduzzis and other big names. “No one gave us a chance, but we scored three in the first 15 minutes and hung on.” The Lenarduzzis aside, the Nations Cup turf has been graced by a plethora of stars in the twilight of their careers or in retirement from the professional game; such as George Best (Ireland), Colin Miller (Canada), Ally McCoist (Scotland) and David Xuasa (Italy). Even British band Depeche Mode, a big deal in the ’80s, sampled some Nations Cup action one year while see Stars page 14

Wilson admits pulling everything together every year is a lot of work; but very rewarding when it all comes off on the third weekend of every July. And this year, he’s been ably assisted by three new bodies and minds on the committee, after the departure of long-standing stalwarts Doug Wooton, George Roberts and Eileen Campbell.

“Those guys have been amazing, but there are limited human resources and many things need a lot of manpower, so it’s exciting to have new people come on board,” added Wilson. “With the ‘beauty’ of technology, we’re pretty much on this for six weeks or so before the tournament, with emails and such going back and forth all day every day.”

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Land of the dead flourishes with life in Australia BY CHRIS MCBEATH Special to the News

Why the indigenous people called this island Karta, or Land of the Dead, remains a mystery because Kangaroo Island, located south-west of Adelaide, is one of Australia’s hottest destinations for scenic and wildlife encounters. Measuring only 155 by 55 kilometres, more than one third of the island is dedicated to conservation. You’ll see kangaroos and Tammer wallabies, koala bears and possoms, fur seals lolling about on amazing beaches, and prickly, long-snouted echidas scurrying beneath gi-normous rock formations. Even bees get top billing, since this is home to the last remaining pure strain of liguera bee in the world. My favourites, however, are the fairy penguins whose cliffside “condos” are built into rocky nooks and crannies. Every night, when parents return from a full day of foraging in the sea, the colony pulsates with excited youngsters squawking their relief to be found again, let alone fed. It’s with a pinch of Ozzie sass, though, that Kangaroo Island is billed as Australia’s Galapagos because nestled beside the “bushland authentica” lie picturesque townships, farms, vineyards and homesteads that serve the island’s 4,500 permanent residents as well as some 190,000 visitors a year. Traveling here takes a little planning since the island has no public transit or official taxi system, and few car agencies allow their vehicles to leave the mainland. Your best bet is to book a tour with Sealink Travel — the same folks who run the ferry service, or fly here and hook up with an on-island guide. See-it-yourself cyclists, campers and hikers are welcome, but a local guide really makes the difference between a good experience and a terrific one. For all the stellar landscapes, three star attractions are the island’s raison d’etre: Roo’s Rule: True to its namesake, mobs of western gray kangaroos abound — through tall grasses, across plains of meadow, and in between yaccas the size of small cottages. Unlike much of Australia where farmers regard them as a nuisance to crops, here kangaroos are welcome to thrive.

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A kangaroo grazes on the island, while the koala stays in the trees (photo by South Australia Tourism Commission). Their survival as a species, however, is more attributable to a kangaroo’s unique ability to control their procreation through times of severe climatic conditions such as drought. When resources are plentiful, a female usually mothers three offspring at any given time: one in the pouch, a joey by her side and a developing embryo which may, as the environment dictates, be either “held” for up to 12 months or aborted all together. Even the males have been biologically wired for survival because until there has been enough rain to produce a large quantity of green vegetation, they will not even produce

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sperm. Charismatic Koalas: Once hunted to near extinction, and still a vulnerable population on the mainland, Kangaroo Island is a protected koala Eden. Indeed, the progeny that has descended from the 18 bears that were introduced to the island in the 1920s, have swelled so dramatically that today, the bears are literally eating their way out of home and haven. With every adult koala eating up to 1.5kg of leaves a day (multiplied by 27,000 koalas), that’s a resource of 30 tons of leaves a day that must be replenished. Ten years ago, when plans to cull became overly controversial, they were quickly abandoned. Instead, approximately 10,000 animals were sterilized and 3,800 relocated to the mainland. Sealsscapes: Seal Bay is the only place in Australia where you can walk on the beach that is usually strewn with hundreds of endangered Australian sea lions. Most are exhausted after three to five days at sea; others are raising young pups; and still more are posturing the maleness over their harems of disinterested mates. There’s something magical about sharing the sand with these resting creatures that are unafraid to pose for your camera. Still more seals haul themselves up the slippery granite slopes near Admiral’s Arch where the pull-back of crashing waves make every flippered step a struggle. Often it’s only by luck that a seal gets tossed onto an inhospitable craggy ledge, out of reach of the water’s treacherous drag. Travel Writers’Tales is an independent newspaper syndicate that offers professionally written travel articles to newspaper editors and publishers. To check out more, visit www. travelwriterstales.com.

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This is by no means a comprehensive analysis, nor is it set in stone; some simple tweaks can absolutely change the effects some of these types of exercises have.What I’ve done is give you a basic overview so that you can start to understand what effects different exercises have on our bodies. Relating to topics from the chart, here are some important facts to take note of: • By far the most important component of weight control is your diet. As the saying goes,“you can not out-train a lousy diet.” • When done correctly, interval training (see HIIT training for more information) has fantastic training effects. However, it is extremely strenuous, and due to the amount of recovery time needed, it should be limited to 1-2x per week—and only for those who already have a solid exercise foundation. • Although you burn more calories during cardio exercise then you do during weight training, increasing muscle mass (weight training) increases your metabolism tremendously, resulting in more effective weight control. • Weight training should not, in any capacity, be limited to males. It has incredible advantages for both males and females alike (more on this topic coming soon). • Aside from general endurance, basic cardio exercise has little impact on performance. • Yoga has a positive effect on performance because it teaches you how to control movement and gain mobility through the important regions of your body (hips, t-spine, and shoulders). When you start to move more effectively, optimal technique and muscle recruitment follows. • For about 98 percent of the population, all exercise should be supplemented with mobility exercises. So back to my original question: What are your goals? For the majority of the population, your goals will likely be a combination of two or more of the aforementioned training types. For example: If your intent is to make the Grade 12 basketball team this year, try some combination of interval training, weight training, and yoga. If you are getting older and want to improve your heart and general mobility and movement, try doing some yoga, cardio, and weights. And despite everything I have said, the absolute most important thing is that you just do something – exercise is not meant to be a stressful event. Remember, anything is better then nothing.

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