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Oak Bay Sea Rescue spokesman Kim Bentzon said it's not common for someone to survive for more than three hours in the water at this time of year. He said the water temperature is about 8 C and the air temperature had dropped to 2 C. \"It comes down to the temperature of the water and body mass as to how long a person can survive in the water,\" he said. \"It's also a case of mind over matter sometimes, driven by how much a person wants to live.\"

\"When that happens, quite often vessels that are moored or anchored in the bay, they're basically being pushed in the opposite direction, which can break their anchor loose.\" The rescuers received the first call just before 11 a.m. from the owner of a 35-foot sailboat, which had been moored to a section of dock in Oak Bay near Oak Bay Marina. The anchor had come loose and became tangled with that of another boat. The responders helped the boat's owner to get it loose and relocate the vessel to a firmer anchor point.

\"It's certainly nicer to be in the pool,\" station leader Kim Bentzon says with a grin. \"(The kayakers) will be on the water, they'll capsize their boats and search and rescue goes and rescues them,\" [Kelly Noel] says. \"It's good to see young people involved,\" he says. \"They'll be our future coxswains and board members.\"

\"When it's a decomposed body, it tends to be a bigger issue, so there's some things we learned from this.\" \"I don't think people join to be comfortable, that's part of the challenge,\" [Paul McDonnell] said. \"When the pager goes off the adrenalin goes. For me, it's a really big high. It's an exciting time to go out there and it's really rewarding to watch the crew learn and progress.\"

\"The fellows did not have (personal floatation devices) and that's certainly the first thing any boater should always have,\" [Kim Bentzon] said. \"For the one fellow who made it to the rock, that was great, but for the other fellow, not so.\" \"His buddy was washed up onto the rock. That's when the second man was last seen,\" [Dean Jantzen] said. \"It's tragic, they were just in sight of shore.\" \"In that area there is a lot of current all of the time,\" said Steve Hanna, deputy chief of the Saanich fire department, which also responded to the call. \"Whether the tide is strong that day - there is a strong current always.\"

There's no rule that you have to attend university as soon as you graduate from high school. In fact, according to Jay Pace, a former U.S. university administrator writing for Seventeen magazine, taking a year off can be a good step to \"avoid burnout and be more successful next year.\" If you're interested in travelling, there are several things you can do: Visit goabroad.com or teachcorps.com to check out teaching or studying experiences in other countries. Habitat.org is a good website to look at for humanitarian trips (things like building houses in poverty-stricken countries.) Plus, says Pace, the experience you gain can boost your application if you decide you do want to give university a shot. Says Koh Mcradu, a 19- year-old living in Victoria, \"taking a year off of university was a bit of a breather for me -- it gave me some time to figure out what I really wanted to do.\" So, if you're not sure yet, fear not. You've got the rest of your life to figure it out. Nobody initially feels ready, says Brianne Bentzon, a 19-year- old kinesiology student at the University of Calgary. \"The first week is both really exciting and a little lonely. It's nice to have that independence, but there are times when you really miss your family.\" If you know you won't be able to deal with the distance, think about applying to universities in your area. But if you're only a little unsure, the only thing you can do is put yourself out there and see. \"Residence is really good for that transition from dependence to independence,\" says Bentzon. \"You're constantly surrounded by people, so you're never alone unless you choose to be.\" Plus, she adds, \"they do all the cooking for you!\"

The 1958 Wind Quintet 5, Opus 116, and 1971 Sextet for Piano and Winds, Opus 278, are typical Bentzon compositions. The Quintet is dominated by slow-moving permutations of rudimentary elements that strike me as dull and lifeless; the brief faster sections are a little better. But considering what this medium is capable of-think of the wind quintet music of Nielsen, Hindemith, and Barber, for example-Bentzon's effort is nugatory.

Yet it wasn't until Lars Seeberg, secretary general of the eight- month festival planned for [Hans Christian Andersen]'s bicentenary in Denmark next year, approached [Robert Lepage] with the idea of taking the author as inspiration for a solo show that he began to feel the connection. Familiar only, as most of us are, with the better-known fairy tales, he began to delve deeper into Andersen's enormous oeuvre - his tales for adults, his prose arabesques, his travel sketches - and discovered the hook he was looking for. Like Andersen himself, the central character of the tale The Dryad, a female spirit who inhabits a tree, was drawn towards the Paris world exhibition, opened by Napoleon in 1867. \"And 1867,\" says Lepage, \"was the birth of Canada. And exactly 100 years later, in Montreal, was the world exhibition for my generation.\" Which might sound merely cute until you sit in on the lavish two- hour prize-giving ceremony in Andersen's home city of Odense, some 100 miles east of Copenhagen, and hear the heartfelt speeches of the new Hans Christian Andersen ambassadors - several culturally inclined individuals from around the world, chosen to spread the word about the author in their countries - and watch as an honorary HCA award is bestowed on a smiling Queen Margrethe of Denmark, as well as on an Italian translator and a Brazilian professor of literature. All three are being rewarded for their work in bringing Andersen to a wider audience - the queen, a recognised painter and costume designer, for her work on stage versions of Andersen's tales. After their speeches, and some Andersen-themed musical interludes, comes Lepage's moment - and his E50,000 prize cheque. It's most likely to be on its stage that most of next year's Andersen-themed productions will appear. The US choreographer John Neumeier's ballet of The Little Mermaid will open in April; The Secret Arias, a new chamber opera by Elvis Costello, will explore Andersen's infatuation with the Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind. Along with Lepage, Arc Dance Company, the Australian Ballet and the Spanish company Teatro de los Sentidos, headed by the Colombian director Enrique Vargas, are scheduled to visit as part of the Andersen celebrations.

Dawson was the daughter of Robert Dawson, a wealthy merchant who owned the building Bentzon worked in, according to [David Conradsen], who researched the family. The Dawsons were a Quaker family active in the abolitionist movement. [Rebecca Dawson] may have chosen Bentzon because of his heritage, but it is not known whether Philadelphians were aware of his racial background. Conradsen had called a California dealer several years ago, looking for a Bentzon piece. The dealer basically told him he was dreaming - they were much too rare. But last March, this teapot turned up at small auction in North Carolina and that dealer purchased it. He remembered Conradsen's call and contacted him. PHOTO; Color PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ST. LOUIS ART MUSEUM (1) This silver teapot by [Peter Bentzon] is on display in a new American decorative arts gallery at the St. Louis Art Museum. Rebecca Dawson of Philadelphia probably commissioned the teapot as a gift to \"MC,\" who is believed to have been her cousin. (2) Rare teapot made around 1817 by Peter Bentzon, a silversmith of African descent, is acquired for new American decorative arts gallery here.

Niels Viggo Bentzon, who has died aged 80, was a prodigiously gifted poet, painter, pianist, critic and teacher and the composer of over 1,000 musical works. Bentzon was the youngest and most mercurial member of the triumvirate of composers (with Vagn Holmboe and Herman D Koppel) that dominated Danish music in the two decades following the second world war. Bentzon composed music in every known classical form, including four operas (one left unfinished in 1970), 24 symphonies, a Sinfonia da camera and a large number of other orchestral works, including the magnificent Symphonic Variations (1953). He wrote over two dozen concertos, including eight for his own instrument, the piano, five for violin, three for cello, and others for standard orchestral instruments, even accordion ensemble. Bentzon was born into a highly cultured and musical family in Copenhagen, and one of his cousins was the noted composer Jorgen Bentzon. In 1938, after studies in jazz piano with Leo Mathiesen, Bentzon entered the Copenhagen conservatory studying piano and organ, graduating in 1942 with the conservatory's highest marks. From 1945- 49 he taught piano and theory at the Aarhus conservatory, and from 1950 taught composition at the Copenhagen conservatory.