Ice racing - Minden, Ontario, 2010

Haliburton Highlands – Maple Lake Short Term Weather Forecast 2.06.10 (below)

Weekend Weather - Short Term, Haliburton, Ontario 02.06.10

The weather for West Guilford/Haliburton Highlands Saturday morning will be mainly sunny with a temperature of 0°F. By Saturday afternoon expect sunny skies and temperatures to rise to 15°F. Saturday evening will be clear with a temperature of 8°F and overnight Saturday expect a low temp of 2°F.

include cloudy periods and a few flurries with a low temperature of 0°F.

Scattered flurries continue through Sunday morning and afternoon with a high temperature of 18°F.

Sunday evening temperatures begin the downward slide to 13°F and variable cloudiness. Overnight will be mainly clear with a low temperature of -2°F.

Haliburton Highlands – Maple Lake Long Term Weather 02.07–02.12.09 (below)

Sunday will be a mainly sunny day with a high temperature of 13°F and a low of 2°F.

Looking at the traditional workweek on Monday you can again look forward to a bright, sunny day with a high of 18°F and a low temperature of 4°F.

Tuesday continues the sunny skies trend with a high temperature of 20°F.  The low temperature overnight will be 0°F.

Wednesday brings scattered flurries and a high of 18°F.  The overnight low will again be 0°F.

Thursday, the sunny skies return with a high temperature of 17°F.  The low will be 4°F.

Friday will again be mainly sunny with a high of 18°F and an overnight low of 4°F.

There will be no significant snowfall for the entire week.

Make it a good one!

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Cryo-Cell International. All opinions are 100% mine.

If you have been considering banking your newborn’s umbilical cord blood I think that some recent very unfortunate events in the world and how Cryo-Cell is responding to them may hold great interest for you.

Cord blood, or umbilical cord blood, is blood that remains in the umbilical cord and placenta at the time of birth. In years past it was standard practice to dispose of them following delivery. However scientific research discovered that cord blood is a rich source of stem cells making umbilical cord blood a usable substitute to bone marrow in thousands of successful transplants. Cells taken from your newborn are a perfect match for your child throughout his or her entire life!

As you probably know, our neighbour Haiti, which geographically is part of North America and only one hour away from the United States by air, experienced a devastating earthquake in January 2010. The city of Port-au-Prince was nearly leveled with tens of thousands dying and injured. They need help now in rebuilding and resuming a semblance of a normal life again but children are especially vulnerable in the meantime.

If you have been seriously thinking about storing your baby’s cord blood this may help in that decision.

February is the shortest month of the year so time is short for you, throughout the month of February to make a difference in the lives of Haiti’s children as Cryo-Cell will donate $25 to the “Save the Children: Haiti Relief Fund” when you enroll now .

It’s smart when making a not-insignificant choice like this to do your homework–to find out all you can– before making this choice. It may help to know that Cryo-Cell is at the forefront of the cord blood banking industry having worked with tens of thousands of clients and most importantly in my opinion, Cryo-Cell has more accreditation than any other private cord blood bank, anywhere.

Were you aware that thousands of umbilical cord blood stem cell transplants have occurred worldwide in an effort to combat over 75 different diseases? And here is something that astonished me: Cord blood stem cells are 100% match for the infant donor and 1 in 4 match his or her sibling!

Marshall McLuhan

When: February 4, 2010
6:30pm (1.5 hours)

No Admission Fee!

NEW documentary released in 2007.

Directed by Kevin McMahon. Performance artist Laurie Anderson narrates this documentary filmed to explore the life and career of Marshall McLuhan while exploring just how the famed educator, philosopher, and scholar’s innovative 20th Century ideas hold up in the years after the millennial turnover.

Minden Hills Cultural Centre
Contact: Laurie Carmount
Tel: 705-286-3763
Email:

gallery@mindenhills.cawww.mindenculturalcentre.ca

Read on for a good sample of “McLuhanisms” for a bit of insight into a man whose ideas were far, far ahead of his time and whose sense of humour helped him make his message more accessible to the masses.

IF IT WORKS, IT’S OBSOLETE

-Marshall McLuhanisms-

The story of modern America begins With the discovery of the white man by
The Indians.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public
incredulity.

Whereas convictions depend on speed-ups, justice requires delay.

The nature of people demands that most of them be engaged in the most
frivolous possible activities—like making money.

With telephone and TV it is not so much the message as the sender that is
“sent.”

Money is the poor man’s credit card.

We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into
the future.

Spaceship earth is still operated by railway conductors, just as NASA is
managed by men with Newtonian goals.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

You mean my whole fallacy’s wrong?

Mud sometimes gives the illusion of depth.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones?

The trouble with a cheap, specialized education is that you never stop paying for it.

People don’t actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath.

The road is our major architectural form.

Today each of us lives several hundred years in a decade.

Today the business of business is becoming the constant invention of new business.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

News, far more than art, is artifact.

When you are on the phone or on the air, you have no body.

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

All advertising advertises advertising.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

“Camp” is popular because it gives people a sense of reality to see a replay of their lives.

This information is top security. When you have read it, destroy yourself.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

One of the nicest things about being big is the luxury of thinking little.

Politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s questions.

The missing link created far more interest than all the chains and explanations of being.

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

When a thing is current, it creates currency.

Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.

Men on frontiers, whether of time or space, abandon their previous identities. Neighborhood gives identity. Frontiers snatch it away.

The future of the book is the blurb. (Just as the future of news was the sound bite.–Cyn)

The ignorance of how to use new knowledge stockpiles exponentially.

A road is a flattened-out wheel, rolled up in the belly of an airplane.

At the speed of light, policies and political parties yield place to charismatic images.

“I may be wrong, but I’m never in doubt.”

—Copyright © 1986, McLuhan Associates, Ltd.

Wolf Hollow

Ron Lawrence was well known for his work rehabilitating wild wolves. In this new exhibition, Wolf Hollow, named after the private wildlife sanctuary in Gooderham that Lawrence established with wife Sharon in Gooderham, ON, you can be a part of the experiences of Ron and Sharon Lawrence’s restoration of health and returning to the wild of wolves, bears, porcupines, skunks, owls, and other animals that took refuge at Wolf Hollow, discovering dramatic true stories of trauma, recovery and freedom.

This exhibition will be on display from January 14 through August 28.

For more info:

R.D. Lawrence Place, Minden Hills Cultural Centre
176 Bobcaygeon Road Minden
Contact: Sheryl Loucks
Tel: 705-286-2298
Email: rdlawrenceplace@mindenhills.ca

rdlawrenceplace@mindenhills.ca

Haliburton, Ontario - 1.30.10

Weather Forecast Haliburton Highlands 1.30.10 - 1.31.10

Haliburton Highlands – Maple Lake Short Term Weather Forecast 1.30-31.10 (above)

The weather for West Guilford/Haliburton Highlands overnight tonight – Saturday- will include cloudy periods and a few flurries with a low temperature of  2°F.

Scattered flurries continue through Sunday morning and afternoon with a high temperature of 18°F.

Sunday evening temperatures begin the downward slide to 13°F and variable cloudiness.  Overnight will be mainly clear with a low temperature of -2°F.

Long Term weather Forecast Haliburton Highlands - 02.01.- 02.06.10

Haliburton Highlands – Maple Lake Long Term Weather 02.01-17 -02.06.09

A few flurries are expected for the beginning of the traditional workweek on Monday along with high temperatures of 17°F. Overnight lows will be about -4°F.

Tuesday will  be a sunny day with a daytime high of only 6°F. Overnight temperatures are expected to be -9°F.

Wednesday, expect another sunny day  and a high of 13°F. Overnight temperatures are expected to dip down to – 4°F.

Look for cloudy periods on Thursday and temperatures climbing to a high of 27°F .  Nighttime temperatures should again be  -4°F.

On Friday, expect a sunny day with a high temperature of 27°F.  The low on Friday night is expected to be 13F°.

Scattered flurries are predicted for Saturday with a high of 29F°. Saturday’s low is expected to be 13°F.

Have a great week!

Enjoy the webcam photos taken today, 01.30.10. Be sure to click them for full size.

Haliburton - 01.24.10

Sunday 01.24.10 - Monday 01.25.10 - Haliburton Highlands Weather

Short Term Weather Forecast – Maple Lake Ontario – Haliburton Highlands – 01.24-25.10

The weather forecast for West Guilford/Haliburton Highlands for Sunday overnight calls for continued rain with a low temperature of 45°F. Rain continues Monday morning with temps continuing at 45°F; expect afternoon light rain and 37°F . Monday evening brings scattered flurries  with a temperature of  27°F.

Monday overnight will be rainy and 43°F.

Haliburton Highlands Long Term Weather Forecast through 1.31.10

Tuesday expect scattered flurries with a high of  32°F  and a low overnight of 9°F.

Wednesday there will be variable cloudiness a high of 22°F and a low overnight of 2°F.

Thursday calls for scattered flurries with a high of 24°F. the low will be 8°F.

Friday brings a sunny day at last with a high temperature of 8°F and a low overnight of minus 2°F.

Saturday, expect scattered flurries with a high temperature of 15°F.  The low on Saturday will be 0°F.

As both the weekend and the month come to a close on Sunday, Jan 31, expect a few flurries, a high of 20°F and a low temperature of 13°F.

Have a great week!

Webcam Photos 1.24.10 – Southern Ontario

Robbie Burns - national poet of Scotland

Whether you’re Scottish or not, it’s always fun to celebrate Robbie Burns Day on January 25th. The day is to celebrate the life and death of Robert Burns, the national poet of Scotland who wrote such ditties as Auld Lang Syne and Comin’ Thro’ the Rye, the poem which is said to have inspired J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. He is also known for drinking a lot and womanizing even more, and by the time he died at the ripe old age of 37 in 1796, he had fathered nine children.

While there are no formal rules that dictate how you should celebrate Robbie Burns day, the three staples include whisky, poetry, and everyone’s favourite dish — haggis. Haggis is made by combining a sheep’s heart, liver, and lungs with onions, oatmeal, and mutton fat, stuffing it into a sheep’s stomach, and boiling it in stock. The presentation of the dish at the Burns suppers is a dramatic one at that, and often includes a Highland piper leading a parade of chefs with the haggis, and the recital of Burns’ poem Address to the Haggis. The haggis is then slashed open with a sword and a splash of whisky is poured over top. Yum!

Burns suppers can take place any time around the poet’s birthday on January 25th. If you want to bring out your inner Scot be sure to attend Robbie Burns Night!

Haggis

Robbie Burns Night

Sat. Jan 23 2010
7pm start $12.00 entry — buffet and show

Come out and enjoy a wonderful evening of Highland Dancing preformed by the Mansfield School of Dance and the magnificent sounds of the Haliburton Highlanders Pipes and Drums.

Burns Suppers have been part of Scottish culture for about 200 years as a means of commemorating our best loved bard. And when Burns immortalized haggis in verse he created a central link that is maintained to this day. The ritual was started by close friends of Burns a few years after his death in 1796 as a tribute to his memory. The basic format for the evening has remained unchanged since that time and begins when the chairman invites the company to receive the haggis.

Haliburton Legion
Contact: Visitor Info Centre: 705-286-1777 or 1-800-461-7677
Email: tourism@county.haliburton.on.ca

This post is non-paid, in support of the Haliburton Highlands community.

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Allison Maslan, author of “Blast Off!”. All opinions are 100% mine.

Having practiced as a Marriage and Family Therapist, I know the importance of harnessing your thoughts to improve your feelings–which is the path to real behavioural change. Allison Maslan, in her new book Blast Off! has a way of telling you, no actually talking to you, about this process in a way that is both easy to comprehend and then to set forth to put into practice.
Her book is a step-by-step program for achieving life’s most challenging and important goals whether they concern career, relationships, health, or time off–and the one that seems to dog most everyone–financial stability and security.
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Allison’s book “Blast Off” is conversational, practical and motivational. She takes her reader from self-doubting to self-empowering through clear writing, clear examples and her own compelling story.

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The price of the Blast Off! book is listed at only $24.00 but sometimes priced quite a bit less. As an example, Blast Off! The Surefire Success Plan to Launch Your Dreams into Reality is now available on Amazon.com. In fact, I just checked and if you take a good look you can find it for around $15 or should, if that particular copy has sold, if you check over a few days. A really great price on a book with some really strong, sound points on finally having the life that you’ve craved and that you are now ready to go forth and take hold of.

In addition to being available at Amazon, Blast Off! The Surefire Success Plan to Launch Your Dreams into Reality, can be found at both Borders and Barnes and Noble websites. You can find it elsewhere too as Blast Off! will also be available in all other major bookstores.

As you might know I’m a Canadian national residing in the United States. I’ve done so for a very long time and so am familiar with American’s idea of  ‘extreme’ sports. In my mind it is a given that the Canadians–just take a look at a map of Canada to know why I say this–are a hardy lot. Could the Canadian view of what constitutes an extreme sport be slightly different than their southern counterparts?

Reading about some of the winter fun times that folks in one of the mildest areas of Canada (Southern Ontario) take part in–in this case car racing on ICE reminds me that Canadians have no need to prove how hardy they are. Good times people, good times.

Ice racing

Car Racing on Ice
January 23-24 2010
Ice Racing started in Ontario more than forty years ago, and it continues to thrive as an inexpensive, fun part of the Ontario motorsport scene. The events were originally held on frozen lakes and rivers – and some still are – but in the late seventies, the Ontario championships moved to more permanent facilities at the fairgrounds in Minden, Ontario. The track is laid out, then repeatedly coated with water until a thick layer of ice is built up between the snowbanks that delineate the course. The ice race season starts in mid January and runs until early March, usually consisting of six two-day events.

Learn more about this Truly Canadian Motorsport!
Minden Fairgrounds Minden
Contact: Info Centre Tel: 705-286-1777

Chicopee Ski and Summer Resort, Ontario - 01.18.10

Short Term Weather Haliburton Highlands 1.16-17.10

Haliburton Highlands – Maple Lake Short Term Weather Forecast 1.16-17.10 (above)

Weekend (above) and Long Term Weather Forecast – 01.18 – 01.23.09 (below) – Haliburton Highlands – Maple Lake, Ontario

The weather for West Guilford/Haliburton Highlands tonight – Saturday- will include variable cloudiness and a temperature of 20°F.

The forecast for Saturday overnight calls for a temperature of 17°F with cloudy skies interspersed with clear breaks.

It will be cloudy again with sunny breaks Sunday morning with a high of 22°F.  Sunday afternoon continues with variable cloudiness and a high of 29°F.  Overnight will be mainly cloudy with a temperature of 24°F.

Long Term Haliburton Highlands Weather 01.19.10 - 01.23.10

Haliburton Highlands – Maple Lake Long Term Weather 01.16-17 -01.23.09

Variable cloudiness is expected for the beginning of the traditional workweek on Monday. High temperatures of 32°F are expected. Overnight lows will be about 20°F.

Tuesday will  have scattered flurries with a daytime high of 29°F. Overnight temperatures are expected to be 17°F.

Wednesday, expect scattered flurries  and a high of 27°F. Overnight temperatures are expected to reach 15°F.

Thursday, expect light rain as the temperatures climb to a high of 39°F.  Nighttime temperatures should be about 29°F.

On Friday, expect a sunny day with a high temperature of 36°F.  The low on Friday night is expected to be 20F°.

Expect another sunny day on Saturday and a high of 26F°. Saturday’s low is expected to be 17°F.

Have a great week!