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“Dedicated to Excellence” Vol. 13, Issue 152 November 2012
jsuganob photo —Nov. 15, 2012
Charlotte
jsuganob photo —Nov. 22, 2012
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Inside this issue:
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RECIPE: Perfect Sesame Chicken
Everything I know
I learned from Noah Ark
1. Don’t miss the boat
2. Remember that we
are all in the same boat.
3. Plan ahead. It wasn't raining
when Noah built the Ark.
4. Stay fit. When you are 600 years
old, someone may ask you to do
something really big!
5. Don’t listen to critics; just get on
with the job that needs to be
done.
6. Build your future on high ground.
7. For safety’s sake, travel in pairs.
8. Speed isn’t always an advan-
tage. The snails were on board
with the cheetahs.
9. When you’re stressed, float a
while.
10. Remember, the Ark was built by
amateur: Titanic by profession-
als.
11. No matter the storm. God always
has a rainbow waiting.
—submitted by Loy Lai
Templeton Stroke Recovery.
Most of the important things in the
world have been accomplished by
people who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at
all.—Dale Carnegie
ENCOURAGEMENTS
Ingredients: 2 tbsp ........... All-purpose flour 2 tbsp ........... Cornstarch 1/4 tsp .......... Baking soda 1/4 tsp .......... Baking powder 2 tbsp ........... Low-sodium soy sauce 1 tbsp ........... Dry sherry 2 tbsp ........... Water 1 tsp ............. Vegetable oil 1 lb ............... Skinless, boneless chicken breast meat, cubed 2 tbsp ........... Distilled white vinegar 2 tbsp ........... Dark soy sauce 2 tbsp ........... Sesame oil 1 glove ......... Garlic 1/4 cup ......... Cornstarch 1 quart olive oil for frying the chicken 2 tbsp ........... toasted sesame seeds Directions: 1.Sift flour, 2 tbsp. cornstarch, baking
soda & baking powder into a bowl. Pour in low-sodium soy sauce, sherry, 2 tbsp. water, vegetable oil & a dash of sesame oil; stir until smooth. Stir in chicken until coated with the batter, then cover & refrigerate for 20 minutes.
2.Meanwhile, bring chicken broth, vine-gar, dark soy sauce, sesame oil & garlic to a boil in a saucepan over high heat. Dissolve 1/4 cup cornstarch into 1/2 cup of water & stir into boiling sauce. Simmer until the sauce thickens & turns clear, about 2 minutes. Reduce heat to low & keep sauce warm.
3.Heat olive oil in a deep fryer or large saucepan to a temperature of 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
4.Drop in the battered chicken pieces, a few at a time, & fry until they turn golden brown & float to the top of the oil, 3 to 4 minutes. Drain on a paper towel lined plate. To serve, place fried chicken pieces onto a serving platter & pour the hot sauce overtop. Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds to garnish.
5.Serve six. Enjoy!...............................
“There’s life after stroke”
Templeton Newsletter
Mailing Address:
204– 2929 Nootka Street,
Vancouver, BC V5M 4K4 Canada
Published every month, if possible. Contributions are always welcome. The articles should be in, not later than day 25th day of every month.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in Stroke Recoverer’s Review newsletter: articles, submissions and spotlights are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of Templeton Stroke Recovery or the editor of Stroke Recoverer’s Review. Editor reserves the right at any time to make changes as it deems necessary. It is the purpose of this periodical to share a variety of viewpoints mostly from stroke
survivors.
November 2012 Contributors: Loy Lai
Ollie Stogrin
Deb Chow Jim Walmsley Werner Stephan Jose Suganob
Production of SRR:
Jose Suganob
Email: [email protected]
Printing Pick-up Person:
Ollie Stogrin
Recipe...Perfect Sesame Chicken 3
Encouragements 3
Last Month’s Happening 4
BLAST...Jim Ijoke... 5
Jose Notes...Ben S. Confession 6
Chocolate 7
QUOTE
Almost the end of the
year, again wonder-
ing where has the
2012 year gone?
We had our Xmas
party dinner on Dec. 1. Wonder-
ful to see so many members,
their families and friends. One
time a year get-together. We
also had new people attending
which was very nice. Unfortu-
nately this year, we didn’t come
up with a skit. Seems we all had
so much going this year and it
does take time to arrange, so
we had to skip it this year.
It’s been a hectic year and we
all have only so much energy to
give plus one year older. We
are so lucky to still have a lot of
helpers for our Xmas dinner.
Key looks after the raffle prizes
all year long, and this year,
Wilma (Helen’s daughter-in-law)
wrapped almost all the gifts
a 15-hour job. Key also looks
after all our HandyDART arrange
-ments. Our members like Loy,
Jeanie, Joann (a 10 year volunteer)
for our special events, comes faith
-fully every to help out. Both
two days before Christmas
dinner, our members, Loy,
Jeanie and volunteer Olga
were kitchen helpers and
supporters this year. This year,
we had Trevor as the main
cook’s helper, has good set of
muscles, for all the heavy lifting
and he is a very organized
volunteer. There is, also, Key’s
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LAST MONTH’S HAPPENING —by Ollie Stogrin, Templeton Stroke Recovery
family that helps every year, sons
Brad and Bryan, her brother, Tak
and grandchildren. It’s almost an
‘Akeroyd’ Xmas party. Karen Bur-
chak, another yearly volunteer. So
many people want to help out for
this fundraising Christmas dinner.
Debbie that keeps all the Xmas
records that we can look back
at if needed. She is our BLAST
organizer for Easter Camp. Hope-
fully, there will be full house
for Easter Camp 2013. So many
people helping to make stroke
recovery possible for the camp
and for all the events: BLAST
Easter Camp, Strides for Stroke
Walkathon, Templeton Annual pic-
nic and Christmas Dinner. Again,
Debbie donated meat pies for
lunch which is a nice change from
our soup and sandwich menu.
Diane S. hasn’t been around for a
while because she a had a fall
and finally came. We are happy
that she is on the mend, arriving
never empty-handed, it seems,
without goodies. This time with
yummy cookies. Thank you, Diane!
We were happy to see you, even
without the cookies.
Our Coordinator, Shaz took a trip
to Ontario. We had Katelyn come
and work in her place. Thank you,
Katelyn. We missed you at the
Xmas dinner.
Helen Low (another former volunteer)
came by for a visit. It’s wonderful
to see our former volunteers that
drop by to see us. Our Janine
(Gina) came for Xmas dinner. She
was another former volunteer that
helped us for 3 years and now
has graduated and is nursing
at Vancouver General Hospital.
It is nice to be remembered.
We will be having a Xmas lunch
for our members before we close
Dec. 22 for Xmas season and
re-open for the new year 2013 on
January 12, 2013.
We wish you all a very happy
holidays (Xmas to some) or what
ever holiday you celebrate. Make
it a happy one and a healthy one,
until next month, enjoy every
moment.
— by Ollie Stogrin
Templeton Stroke Recovery
PERFECT CHRISTMAS
PERFECT CHRISTMAS
My idea of a perfect Christmas is to spend it with you
In a party or dinner for two Anywhere would do
Celebrating the yuletide seasons Always lights up our lives
Simple pleasures are made special too When they’re shared with you.
Looking through some old photographs
Faces and friends we’ll always remember Watching busy shoppers rushing about
In the cool breeze of December Sparkling lights all over town
Children’s carols in the air By the Christmas tree
A shower of stardust on your hair
I can’t think of a better Christmas Than my wish coming true
And my wish is that you’d let me spend My whole life with you
“There’s life after stroke”
The magic of Christmas never ends
and
greatest of gifts are family and
friends.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
2013!!!
Smilebox Templeton’s
Christmas Dinner 2012 go to:
www.templetonstrokerecovery.com
WHEN GRANDMA GOES TO
COURT
Lawyers should never ask
a Mississippi grandma a
question if they are not
prepared for the answer.
In a trial, a Southern small-town
prosecuting attorney called his first
witness, a grandmotherly woman to
the stands. He approached her and
asked, “Mrs. Jones, do you now
me?”
She responded, “Why, yes, I do
know you since you were a boy,
and frankly, you’ve been a big
disappointment to me. You lie, you
cheat on your wife, and you
manipulate people and talk about
them behind their backs. You think
you’re a big shot when you haven’t
the brains to realize you’ll never
amount to anything more than a
two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know
you.”
The lawyer was stunned. Not
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knowing what else to do, he
pointed across the room and
asked, “Mrs. Jones, do you know
the defense attorney?”
She again replied, “Why, yes,
I do. I’ve known Mr. Bradley since
he was a youngster, too. He’s
lazy, bigoted, and he has a
drinking problem. He can’t build a
normal relationship with anyone
and his law practice is one of the
worst in the entire state. Not
mention he cheated on his wife
with three different women. One
of them was your wife. Yes,
I know him.”
The defense attorney nearly died.
The judge asked both counselors
to approach the bench and, in a
very quiet voice said, “If either of
you idiots ask her if she know me,
I’ll send you both to the
electric chair.”
—ijoke submitted by Jim Walmsley
Delta Stroke Recovery
JIMY IJOKES... BLAST - Easter Long Weekend 2013
BLAST
(Building Life After Stroke Together)
March 29 to April 1, 2013 Good Friday to Easter Monday - 3 nights/4 days
All inclusive. Charter pick up from
Lower Mainland including ferry terminals
Only $225
Give the gift of BLISS (Better Life In Stroke Survival)
Gift Certificates are available or maybe some-
one will give it to you.
For more information:
Please go to website: TurtleTalk.ca
\We already have 36 registered campers: 28 stroke survivors, 6 caregivers, 2 friends as of
Dec 1, 2012
Easter 2013 will be a
BLAST
BASIC INTERNET SKILLS
For senior citizens, learning com-
puters and basic internet skills is
not only for accessing information.
It is the tool now for keeping in
touch with family members. I won’t
even go into the health benefits
that could come from nimble fingers
on the keyboard, or playing senility
staving games. The lists goes on.
In fact, what holds true for those
the right side of the age divide is
also true for senior citizens when it
comes to internet and basic com-
puter skills.
Many of the elderly fear the com-
puter (fear of the unknown) but
basic computer skills are very
easy to learn—more so today
when everything is designed to be
user-friendly and visually accessi-
ble. So let’s head out and attend
classes that teach basic internet
and computer skills. Surf the
Internet!
HandyDART
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Coca-Cola invented Santa Claus
is an urban myth…
The modern version of Santa
Claus was not created by Cola
Cola. Haddon Sundblom illustra-
tions were based upon what had
already become the standard
image of Santa as noted in a New
York Times article published, from
four years before the appearance
of Sundblom’s first Santa-based
Coca-Cola advertisements.
Illustrations of lavishly bearded
Santa (and his predecessors),
showing figures clothed in red
suits (and hats) with white fur trim-
mings, held together with broad
black belts, were also common
long before Coca-Cola’s first
Santa Claus ad appeared in The
Saturday Evening Post.
All this isn’t to say that Coca-Cola
didn’t have anything to do with
cementing the modern image of
Santa Claus in the public con-
sciousness. In an era before the
advent of television, before color
motion pictures became common,
Coca-Cola’s Santa Claus adver-
tisement displays were for many
Americans their primary exposure
to the modern image of Santa
Claus.
BEN STEIN CONFESSION:
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary:
Ben Stein confession:
I am Jew, and every single one my
ancestors was Jewish. And, it does
not me even a little bit when people
call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled
trees, Christmas trees…I don’t feel
threatened. I don’t discriminated
against. That’s what they are,
Christmas tree.
It doesn’t bother me a bit when
people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to
me. I don’t think they are slighting
me or getting ready to put me in a
ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It
shows that we are all brothers and
sisters celebrating this happy time
of the year. It doesn’t bother me at
all that there is a manger scene on
display at a key intersection near
my beach house in Malibu. If people
want a crèche, it’s just as fine with
me as is the Menorah a few hundred
yards away.
I don’t like getting pushed around
for being a Jew, and I don’t think
Christ ians like gett ing pushed
around for being Christians. I think
people who believe in God are sick
and tired of getting pushed around,
period. I have no idea where the
concept came from, that America
is an explicitly atheist country.
I can’t find it in the Constitution and
I don’t like it being shoved down
my throat.
Or, maybe I can put it another way:
where did the idea come from that
we should worship celebrities and
we aren’t allowed to worship God
as we understand Him? I guess
that’s a sign that I’m getting old,
too. But there are a lot of us who
are wonder ing where these
celebrities came from and where
the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we
send to one another for a laugh,
this is a little different: This is not
to be a joke; it’s not funny, it’s
intended to get you thinking.
In light of recent events...terrorist
attacks, school shootings, etc,
I think it started when Madeleine
Murray O’Hare (she was mur-
dered, her body found a few
years ago) complained she didn’t
want prayer in our school, and
we said OK. Then someone said
you better not read the Bible in
school. The Bible says thou shalt
not kill; thou shalt not steal, and
love your neighbor as yourself.
And, we said okay.
Then, Dr. Benjamin Spock said
we shouldn’t spank our children
when they misbehave, because
their little personalities would be
warped and we might damage
their self-esteem (Dr. Spock’s
son committed suicide). We said
an expert should know what he’s
talk ing about. And, we said
okay…
Now, we’re asking ourselves why
our children have no conscience,
why they don’t know right from
wrong, and why it doesn’t them
to kill strangers, their classmates
and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long
and hard enough, we can figure it
out. I think, it has a great deal to
do with WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.’
—Ben Stein
—submitted by Ollie Stogrin
Templeton Stroke Recovery
JOSE’s NOTES Urban Myth
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CHOCOLATE —Werner Stephan, North Shore Stroke Recovery Center - West Vancouver Group
A popular urban myth is that in
1928, Coca-Cola invented
Santa Claus. What fuels this
myth is that his red coat
matches perfectly the Coca-
Cola livery.
The truth is that while early
Santa Claus often wore green,
Santa Claus in red was estab-
lished by the 1860s, long
before Coca-Cola was invented.
In 2007, a UK study
suggested that eating
dark chocolate was
more rewarding than
passionate kissing
and that same 50% of women
reportedly c laim to prefer
chocolate to sex, although this
response may depend on the
attributes of the interviewer.
Chocolate has become the
most popular flavor of foods in
all the world. Gifts of chocolate
molded into different shapes
have become tradit ional on
certain holidays, such as Christ-
mas. Santa Claus, made of
chocolate, has even become
one of the symbols of Christmas
Chocolate is also used in cold
and hot beverages to produce
chocolate milk and hot choco-
late.
Speak ing for myself, I am
very fond of its taste and
succumb easily to the tempta-
tion of a chocolate bar. Like it is
said: Don’t resist temptation,
it might not come again! I don’t
think that this saying conforms to
church teachings or the spirit of
Christmas.
Several types of chocolate
can be found, among them dark
chocolate, milk chocolate, un-
sweetened chocolate and many
more varieties. White Chocolate
does not contains any cocoa sol-
ids, only cocoa butter, sugar and
milk solids. Because of this, many
countries do not consider white
chocolate as chocolate at all. The
other types of chocolate differ mostly
in the amount of cocoa solids which
can range from 30% to 90%.
In my opinion, any amount of cocoa
solids over 75% makes chocolate
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Trying to move the conversation
along, I asked what else would
like Santa to bring him.
He promptly replied, “Another
train.”
Merry Christmas
&
Happy New Year 2013!
“There’s life after stroke”
SANTA and the TRAIN SET
too bitter to truly enjoy it. In some
mass-produced varieties, cocoa
solids can be as low as 7%. The
fat, normally contained in cocoa,
are replaced by artificial oils
and sweeteners. Artificial flavoring
supplies taste. Some people count
dark chocolate among the health
foods because it is said by some
to limit the risk of heart attacks.
Good luck! Weight gain, and all its
negative effects, are not considered
in this opinion. Never mind, I love
high quality chocolate! I do not
want to go into the details of
chocolate making. Each chocolate
maker has variations, not only
in the process, but also in the
ingredients. They are trade
secrets and I do not want to know
some of them. I, also, do not want
to get into the history of chocolate
from its Mayan origins in Central
America, to the Spaniards, to
other European variations, most
say improvements, including me.
—by Werner Stephan
West Vancouver Group North Shore Stroke Recovery Center
Santa Claus made of chocolate
Cocoa fruit pods in various stages of ripening
Mayan symbol of cocoa
Types of Chocolate
While working in a store as Santa
Claus, I had lots of boys ask me
for an electric train set. “If you get
your train,” I would tell each one,
“You know, your dad is going to
want to play with it, too. Is that
okay?”
The usual answer was a quick
yes, but after I asked one boy this
question, he became very quiet.
THE URBAN MYTH Santa Claus and Coca-Cola