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Question of the week

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Have you started thinking about getting a summer job yet

8-ball Pool Tournament 5 PM in the Gamesroom $2 Entry at the Biz Booth

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Concert for Honduras 9 PM in OBS $3 advance, $4 at the door

Daria Jelonek

Tickets and info at the Biz Booth

— “Nope because I already have a job, so during the summer I‘ll just be getting more hours in, but I do kind of want to get a different job where I work.“

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Kirk Clement — “Of course I plan on working throughout the summer.

I need to make like $5000 so I can pay for school next semester.”

Sherlock Holmes 8 PM in Oasis Free popcorn Info at the Biz Booth.

Dutch Games

& Orange Pub The drummer for Radio Silence bangs away on the skins during the disBAND audition tour finals for Fanshawe.

Radio Silence won the Fanshawe portion of the competition.

PHOTO: ANTHONY CHANG

A Noble chef in training Will Noble is in his first year of chef training. He says, “I am a chef to be and love sports. I want to go to Ireland or New Zealand and for the most part I am really RANDOM. P.S. rugby rules.

1. Why are you here?

Got bored online so I went here.

2. What was your life changing moment?

Ummmm when I got my first job as a line cook.

3. What music are you currently

— “A little, I‘m not really looking too hard right now.

I guess I‘d be fine with getting any job that pays really, but that’s something I‘ll think about more when the time comes.”

listening to?

I am random, if I told you... you won’t even know.

4. What is the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

With great power, comes great responsibility, even if it means giving up the things we love most.

5. Who is your role model?

Spiderman... or Jamie Oliver or Roger Mooking.

6. Where in the world have you traveled?

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10 Things I Know About You...

Mckenzie Agnew

Winnipeg... Chicago... Florida... and Quebec City.

7. What was your first job?

Paperboy and lawn care.

8. What would your last meal be?

Homemade pasta stuffed with goat cheese and spinach filling and goats milk cream sauce.

9. What makes you uneasy?

Failing school or sleeping in through my labs.

10. What is your passion?

Food, cooking and sports (mainly RUGBY).

Do you want Fanshawe to know 10 Things About you? Just head on over to fsu.ca and click on the Ten Things I Know About You link at the top.

Wednesday

First Run Film Hot Tub Time Machine $3.50 students $5 guests @ Rainbow Cinemas Tickets and info at the Biz Booth.

Kick Ass Country

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Thursday

Super Pub 9:30 PM in OBS and Forwell $3 advance, $4 at the door Tickets and info and the Biz Booth

Where can you advertise to sublet your apartment?

William Rose — “Well, luckily I don’t really have to think too hard about that one because I already work for the school as a custodian and I‘ll be working here during the summer.”

Tuesday

Free Oasis Movie

Jesse Minten — “Yes, actually because I‘m going to be done school after this, so I‘m going to be looking more for a career then a summer job. Hopefully I get something in marketing.”

Monday

Drop by the Welcome Kiosk with your answer. Five winners will be selected from correct entries and we’ll notify winners by email.

Will Noble loves his rugby.

KIOSK QUIZ

The Welcome Kiosk (between the Bookstore and the Library) is open all year between 8am and 4pm, Monday to Friday.

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NEWS

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Fanshawe students art show best yet JESSICA IRELAND INTERROBANG

An art show that started three years ago because students were being “assholes” is now turning out some of the best student work.

“I had a bit of a problem group…and I thought, ‘How can I make them grow-up?’ So I approached the Arts Project for a second year show,” explained Tony McAulay, fine arts coordinator.

This year’s exhibit, Standing Up with Earthly Delights, has been touted as one of the best.

“It’s probably the most effort I’ve ever seen in a student project,” said McAulay.

Those who came to the Arts Project to see it agreed.

“I thought it was a wonderful exhibit,” said John Young, operations manager for the Fanshawe Student Union. “The overall quality was one of the best exhibits I’ve seen.”

It was also one of the biggest exhibits – literally.

The students were asked to paint a life-size self-portrait, and given that one student was well over six feet tall, each canvas was six and half feet high by four feet wide – almost larger than life in some cases.

The project was to be based on Peter Blake’s self-portrait for 1961 – a pop artist who went on to do the Sergeant Pepper album cover. In the piece, Blake is standing holding a book in his right hand, clad in a denim jacket with band buttons and jeans, standing in front of a fence.

The students followed similar criteria. They were to paint themselves wearing whatever they want and hold a book. The setting would be the second year studio and there needed to be an object on the wall and on the ground, as well as a section from Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights but with a different colour scheme than the original artist’s.

The final creations revealed interesting results, said McAulay.

Many students opted not to hold a book like Blake, but instead held a skateboard, or an iPod, which was a popular choice. But jeans were still the main clothing choice, demonstrating the lasting popularity of the piece of clothing, while the rest of the portrait represented other trends in technology, interests and ultimately the personality of the painter.

The scene from Bosch’s painting also represented lasting “trends,” so to speak.

“Young people are still interested in horror and escapism,” said McAulay, referring to some of the paintings themes that are “still alive in today’s pop culture.” He’s seen it in everything from the continued popularity of horror movies and even students’ doodling of skulls and other macabre images, he added.

But what’s most apparent from the pieces is the amount of effort put into them, as a result of an “enormous amount of time,” said McAulay. Many students stayed in the studio until closing time at midnight and many even came in during their March breaks.

The detailed self-portraits provided a glimpse into who the students are.

“When you’re looking at paintings, there’s something happening between you and the painting,” said McAuley. “A bit of electricity. You’re looking at the illusion of a human being, a flat representation.”

“You’re looking into that person’s eyes, what kind of shoes they’re wearing…you starting piecing it together and you start analyzing the personality and how you relate to them even though you’ve never met them.”

Jessica Conlon took home the first prize at the exhibit.

While the self-portraits have been taken down, the graduate exhibition is coming up at the Arts Project from April 14 to 24 with the opening reception on April 17 at 7 p.m. There will also be a fine arts open house in the studios on campus on Thursday, April 29 and Saturday, May 1.

Stabbing on Thurman Circle still under investigation JESSICA IRELAND INTERROBANG

On Saturday, March 20, London Police Services were called to Thurman Circle at 2:30 a.m. where they found a 20-yearold female with non-life threatening stab wounds to her lower back and a 19-year-old female who had been pepper-sprayed.

The third female in the party of three was unharmed.

The victims had been at the corner of Thurman Circle at Farnsborough Crescent when they were approached by two unknown males and a female.

The 20-year-old who sustained stab wounds said she had been punched and kneed by the men, then punched by the female – but is unsure of who stabbed her, said Const. Amy Philipo, media relations officer.

The two victims remain

unidentified as of press time.

“We will not be identifying whether or not they are students anywhere,” said Philipo. “Their safety is paramount in not identifying them.”

There is still an ongoing investigation into the details of the attack; however, London Police Services will not be moving up their start date for Project LEARN because of it, said Philipo. Project LEARN is still expected to begin at the end of the school year.

Anyone with information in regards to this attack are asked to contact London Police Services at 519-661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS. One of the males is described as being 5’11, with light brown hair wearing a t-shirt and jeans and the female at long curly brown hair.

Jessica Conlon admires her self portrait during the second year art show called Standing Up with Earthly Delights at the Arts Project in London. Conlon took home first prize.

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Writing an effective resume to land you that perfect job CAREER CORNER Susan Coyne Career Services Consultant Fanshawe Career Services

Most job seekers appreciate that one of the most important tools required in the job search is the resume and covering letter. First impressions are lasting ones so your resume needs to stand out favourably. Much like writing an advertisement to sell something on EBay, your resume needs to be written effectively to promote your product to prospective employers.

Highlight your skills, education and abilities as they relate to each job you are applying for…even if it means more work for you in the long run by having to rewrite your resume each time. We’ve learned over the years that you can’t please everyone all of the time, and this can be especially true with regards to writing a resume. What constitutes a good resume is often subjective based on the reader’s expe-

rience with reviewing resumes, job requirements and personal preference. And, while your resume won’t get you a job, it should get you that interview.

Here are some tips on writing your resume: 1. Ensure that your resume is well organized, easy to read, factual, honest and positive.

2. Keep your resume to two pages. Any longer and it becomes work to read it. A one page resume may not provide enough detail to arouse interest.

3. It should be to the point (you do not have to use complete sentences). Use descriptive verbs to describe your achievements, skills, responsibilities and activities.

4. Proof read and spell check your resume. It should be error free!

Getting Started: Start by creating a list of information about you. Many of the following headings will be appropriate.

• Name: If you call yourself Andy Scott, fine. If you are Andrew Scott, use that. Above all

just be consistent.

• Address & Telephone: Make sure all the information about your postal address is correct – don’t forget your postal code. Include all of your numbers (voice, fax, cellular) as well as the correct area code.

• Email Address: Here’s where you may need to reconsider that interesting college email address bigdaddy@hotmail.com or sexychick21@gmail.com. Employers will identify with you for all the wrong reasons if you don’t. Be professional and create an email address that has some elements of your name in it.

• Education: Start with your most recent education and work backwards. List college/university, high school, with diplomas or degrees granted, (or year expected), with the cities, provinces, years attended and years of graduation. It may also be useful to an employer if you mention relevant courses that you have completed.

• Skills or Qualifications: Summarize the job specific skills you have to demonstrate to the

employer. Include the skills that are relevant to the position you are applying for. Transferable skills are subjective, so if you include them mention where and how you developed them.

• Employment History: Again start with your most recent experience and work backwards. Include employer/company name, with the city, province, the years and months, your job title, a brief description of your duties and responsibilities, and mention any special projects or initiatives that you completed.

• Volunteer Work or Community Service: List the names of organizations you volunteered with, include the years, any elected position you may have held, and a brief description of your responsibilities.

• Awards and Achievements: List any special awards from work, scholastic achievements or community activities.

• Hobbies and Interests/ Memberships: Mention your sparetime activities. Include a list of memberships in professional

organizations with their full name rather than just acronyms or abbreviations.

• References: Few employers check references prior to an interview so you aren’t obliged to include references on your resume.

Instead, have a separate page with your complete contact information on the top. List only appropriate references and make sure you contact each of them for permission before you list them. Confirm with them the proper spelling of their name, title or position, company, address, and telephone number.

Following any interview make sure to call your references to advise they may be contacted.

Need help writing your resume or cover letter? Why not drop by the Career Services office located in Room D1063. Career Services staff are available to assist you on an individual basis. Visit the office in the office to arrange an appointment with the consultant responsible for your program or call 51452-4294. For Fanshawe student job listings visit www.fanshawec.ca/careerservices

Celebrating religion

Eastertide: the Easter season around the world KATE SLADE INTERROBANG

Easter is an important time of recognition and celebration in many different religions. Around the world, people observe this holiday in various forms and on a range of dates as well. Due to the differences in the Western calendar used by the Catholic and Protestant Churches and the Eastern Orthodox calendar, the celebrations are often marked separately.

This year, in 2010, the calendars will align and Easter will be recognized on the same date, April 4.

This is quite unusual since the two branches of Christianity have very different methods for calculating the correct date for Easter. There are only a few years each century when the Easter dates match like this so Easter is certainly extra special this year.

If you’ve grown up celebrating Easter with your family, your experiences can vary quite a bit. You may have fasted for Lent, attended mass and confessed your sins. Or you may have woken up to a new bike, a stuffed rabbit and a basket of chocolate.

Either way, you may need a refresher on the reason we celebrate Easter each year. Why is this time in history significant? What faiths come together to recognize this occasion? How’s it celebrated around the world? It depends on whom you ask.

According to Christian scripture, on the third day after his crucifixion, Jesus was resurrected from the dead. Christians celebrate his resurrection on Easter Sunday. The

New Testament teaches that the resurrection of Jesus is a foundation of the Christian faith. Easter also marks the end of Lent, a period of preparation for commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus that begins on Ash Wednesday.

Lent is a time of prayer, penitence and self-denial that lasts for approximately 40 days (it varies depending on denomination).

Traditionally, people who are observing Lent will “give up” a favourite treat or sin (like eating chocolate or smoking cigarettes) during this time to represent their strength against temptation. This period is meant to represent the time that Jesus spent in the wilderness, prior to starting his public ministry. In this time he is believed to have endured the temptation of Satan.

The week leading up to Easter is known as Holy Week and it is recognized as a very special time for Christians. The Sunday before Easter is called Palm Sunday and the three days leading up to Easter Sunday are Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday.

These three days are sometimes referred to as the Easter Triduum, which is Latin for “Three Days.”

It is taught that on Good Friday, Jesus was crucified and his body was taken down from the cross and laid to rest in a cave. A large rock was placed at the entrance to the cave to stop anyone from trying to steal his body. On the following Sunday, it is believed that some women visited the grave and found that the large stone had been

moved and the tomb was empty!

Later that day, Jesus was seen alive and his followers realized that God had raised Jesus from the dead.

Though Easter is a Christian celebration, its practices embody many pre-Christian traditions.

Scholars believe that the name Easter actually comes from the Anglo-Saxon name of the Teutonic goddess of spring and fertility Eastre. Her festival was celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox and included egg painting and the image of an Easter rabbit, which is often used as a symbol of fertility.

Even the theme of resurrection precedes the crucifixion of Christ.

A Greek legend tells of the return of Persephone, daughter of Demeter, goddess of the Earth who returned from the underworld to the light of day. Her return is said to symbolize the resurrection of life in the spring after the desolation of winter.

Easter is also linked to the Jewish celebration of Passover.

The two holidays share symbolism and occur at a similar time of year.

This year, Passover begins on March 26 and will continue until April 6. The first two days of Passover are observed as nonworking holidays observed with prayer and time with family.

During the following four days, referred to as Chol Hamoed, work is allowed but with limitations. The final two days are again non-working days. In recognizing Passover, it is important to know that the Jewish calendar recognizes holidays as beginning at sundown the night before the date. This means

“Come Home” Celebrate Mass During Holy Week

Tuesday March 30, 2010 12pm – 12:50pm 3rd floor “M” Atrium with Fanshawe Chaplain Ron Trojack

that Passover actually begins on March 25 at sundown. Observances of holidays conclude at nightfall.

Passover recognizes the legend of Exodus; the heartbreaking story of the Ten Plagues. The story tells of Ten Plagues, each inflicted by God upon the Egyptian people to force the Pharaoh to free his Hebrew slaves. It took Ten Plagues, each increasingly horrible and destructive before he released the Hebrew people. The plagues were all horrendous, but the final one was set to kill all of the firstborn in all of Egypt. The Plague reached the Pharaoh’s firstborn as well as many children and adults living in the villages and even firstborn animals.

The Hebrews were told to mark

their doorposts with the blood of a spring lamb and upon seeing the blood the Lord would pass over their houses. It is believed, that the Hebrews fled so quickly when the Pharaoh finally freed them that they could not wait for their bread to rise. In remembrance, for the extent of Passover no leavened bread is eaten. This time is often called “The Festival of Unleavened Bread.” Matzo, bread that is flat and unrisen is the primary emblem of the holiday.

Spring is a time of change, uncovering of the Earth after a cold winter. Replenishment and a rebirth of the land we live on. It is beautiful how so many faiths parallel this renewal.

Happy Spring!

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OPINION

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR fsuletters@fanshawec.ca

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What is it about self-sacrifice?

FAITH MEETS LIFE MICHAEL VEENEMA

In the movie, Seven Pounds, a blind pianist, a woman with a failing heart, and an abused single mother are trapped. Ben Thomas (Will Smith) is trapped in his own guilt. A question has arisen in his mind. Can an act of self-sacrifice give him and these others that he befriends a breakthrough?

From Lord of the Rings to Shrek and a whole lot of what’s come before, between and after them, the theme of self-sacrifice is front and centre. Why is that? What is it about self-sacrifice that makes it a favourite theme for novelists and scriptwriters?

I think the answer to this question has to take into account the story that will be retold a gazillion times in the week ahead, the week of Good Friday and Easter. It’s the story of the death of Jesus of Nazareth and his resurrection that followed. Jesus has to be the most influential figure in the history of the Western world, and he is either becoming, or may still become that for other parts of the planet. At the centre of his story is his self-sacrifice.

His self-sacrifice also provided a breakthrough for a double juggernaut that seemed to have no solution in his day. First, there was the juggernaut to which the Jewish faith had come. In Jesus’ time the Jerusalem temple along with its interpretation of the Old Testament Laws of Moses shaped the lives of the Jewish people among whom Jesus had been born and grown up. However, this established and complex religious tradition increasingly alienated the very people it was meant to serve. The endless religious regulations crushed the people. Further, the leaders of the Temple-Law tradition had become enmeshed in the machinery of the political oppressors of the people, the Romans.

The second juggernaut was that the Jewish faith was serving almost no one outside of its own ethnic boundaries. The Jewish people and faith had their roots in the life of Abraham. God had come to him and said to him that he and his children were to be a blessing to all the people groups (“nations,” etc.) of the world. At the time of Jesus, this program of bringing the blessing

of God to all people was all but completely stalled.

How did Jesus’ death provide a breakthrough to these dilemmas? First, his death exposed the bankruptcy of the keepers of the Temple-Law tradition. All through the four accounts of the life of Jesus one read of the plot of these “righteous” leaders to murder Jesus. In the end, their efforts paid off. Judas agreed to betray Jesus and become wealthy in the process. The Temple authorities bribed him.

Second, with the strangle hold of the Jewish authorities weakened, the way was open for a new (Jewish at first, but not for long) community to arise that was truly inclusive all ethnicities and spread the blessing of God through the world. This is the beginning of the Christian church, which has become the largest movement on the planet in the past 2,000 years.

It is perhaps not difficult for most readers to buy into the scenario I have just described. The harder thing for many of us is to come to terms with the immediate sequel to the death of Jesus, which I have just skipped over. It comes between his death and the rise of those early Christian communities.

Is it believable? I think it is, although this belief may come easier to those who, like myself, grew up hearing it at home, church and school. What about for others? My answer would be three fold. First, read the accounts. They are not long. In fact, all the couple of dozen or so documents left by the friends of Jesus and their immediate followers are not difficult to find and read. They are collected into what is known as the New Testament (the last third of the Christian Bible).

Second, one can consider that the story of the self-sacrifice of Jesus would have remained an obscure narrative if it were not that hundreds of people of that time had seen him alive after his death. Again, accounts of these appearances are found in the New Testament collected works.

Third, the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection have the power to illicit hope for all people. If new life can come out of death through an act of God, then perhaps this God can help you and me. Perhaps each of us can follow the path of Jesus out of death. And in the meantime, our own lives, lived often in the midst of violence and hopelessness, can be marked by acts of compassion and hope.

Everyone looks IVANA PELISEK ipelisek@fanshawec.ca

Everyday hundreds of students, faculty and staff scroll the halls of Fanshawe.

Some are eager to get to class. Some simply want to socialize. And then there are those individuals who just stand there staring aimlessly at anyone who happens to be walking by.

Shifty eyes of those who may feel like no one is watching can now clearly understand they are indeed mistaken. Ladies, do you ever find yourself wandering the halls to hear the occasional whisper? A whistle perhaps?

And all this attention aimed strictly in your direction.

Well, very bluntly put, gentlemen we can in fact hear and see you, and no, you are not invisible to us in any way, shape or form.

See fellas, the truth is, females have this fantastic ability to be able to read between the lines and yes, we do happen to hear everything you mutter to your buddies even with out seeming like we do.

I can understand the occasional glance that screams, “I am just too shy to say hello but thought I would look in your direction regardless” is not common enough. The boys at Fanshawe however deem it appropriate to glare and comment at anything in a skirt.

The other day I was out at my favourite coffee shop right here on campus when I over heard a few young men commenting on

a number of girls that were simply walking by.

I have, in a brief moment, learned what they would like to do to each girl, how her ass just fit her pants so perfectly and let’s not leave the girls hanging shall we?

No comment necessary on the twins.

Truth is, some comments are really not all that called for. Women want to be able to know they have what it takes to turn any man’s head; but not be continually glared at as sexual objects and nothing more meaningful.

So boys, the next time you wish to make a comment about a woman’s ass, chest or any other sexual female part, try to be more discreet voicing your opinions and act like gentlemen should act.

FSU Publications Office SC1012 www.fsu.ca/interrobang/ Publications Manager & Editor John Said jsaid@fanshawec.ca • 519.453.3720 ext. 224

Staff Reporter Ivana Pelisek ipelisek@fanshawec.ca • 519.453.3720 ext.247

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Graphic Design Darby Mousseau dmousseau@fanshawec.ca • 519.453.3720 ext.229

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR fsuletters@fanshawec.ca

It’s in the clothes we wear, and the cars we drive CALL ME OLD-FASHIONED BUT...

Rose Cora Perry www.rosecoraperry.com

While I’m no Aimee Brothman (our very own resident fashionista; for those of you who don’t follow her weekly style guide, you should!), I would like to think that I keep a pretty good pulse on what’s in “vogue.” Though I love my leather and denim, there’s a reason as to why designers consistently look to the past for inspiration, and why “retro,” as it were, has never gone out of style. Most trends have and will continue to be revived because they’re distinct, original and timeless in their constitution; rarely can the same be said about purely modern “crazes.” Design-wise, things of the past had a lot more “personality.” Not only that, they were also far more durable.

Perhaps an example would prove illustrative: I’ve got this horribly ugly bright neon orange hairdryer quite literally from the 1970s (it was my ma’s) manufactured by Gillette. One of my girlfriends, on the other hand, insists on always acquiring the newest beauty technology. So the other day she picked herself up a brand new, supposedly “high quality” hairdryer. Within a week, it stopped working and she had to get into this big song and dance with the manager at the store in order to try and get a refund, or exchange it for one of equal value.

Funnily enough, this friend of mine, on several occasions, has flat-out refused to use my hairdryer on her locks, and in fact, makes fun of it quite regularly. Ah, but you see, it may be ugly, but guess what? It works! It has worked for 30 plus years, and with any luck, it’ll work for 30 more, and that my friends, is this week’s thought provoking topic: how and why is it that we live in a world that supposedly is geared towards making things bigger, better, more efficient, more convenient and yet our products constantly break down, are recalled and are NEVER easily repaired?! In fact, many a time, I’ve been told straight-up by sales associates it would be cheaper for me to just buy a new one.

But I, unlike many, don’t want to contribute to this idea of “consumption as

waste.” I want to wear my jeans until the threads quite literally tear away from their seams and cannot be sewn back into place. I want to easily be able to acquire necessary upgrades for my computer, without having to purchase an entirely new machine. I want to know that when a company says it’s recycling, it ACTUALLY IS. Why you ask?

Because what few people are aware of is our waste – North America’s and the rest of the Western world’s – ends up in third world countries where migrant workers, not protected by the same rights we are, tear apart our items bare-handed in order to salvage whatever they can to make a quick buck. The consequence? Rampant outbreaks in disease resulting from exposure to toxic metals and chemicals that we put into our devices and other wastes in order to improve so-called “efficiency.”

The point is I want QUALITY, I want DURABILITY, and I want VALUE. Not only that, I want something to be more than just a commodity to me – I want aesthetic appeal. I want my possessions to speak to who I am, as a person. Come on you’re going tell me a 2010 Honda Civic is a hotter looking car than a ’77 Trans Am Firebird?

No, I didn’t think so. Quite the same logic can be applied to something as basic as the difference in design between a modern day baby stroller and a 1950s perambulator.

Design was once about craftsmanship: making something truly unique, and priceless. Moreover said tasks were labour-intensive, and accordingly, products were built to “stand the test of time.” Contemporaneously, while we make wild claims that things are better – that society has “progressed” – I wonder, can you give me any logical reason as to why my 1970s hairdryer still rocks it like it’s no one’s business, but my girlfriend’s was pooched after just a few uses? I assure you it has NOTHING to do with how we care for our possessions, as for that matter, I’m rough on everything I love. Further, I’ve got thicker hair than her!

I don’t know, maybe it just comes down to the simple fact that people don’t take pride in their work anymore – the poor quality speaks for itself. But that would lead to a whole discussion on Marxist’s definition of “worker and workplace alienation;” something, unfortunately, we don’t have time for.

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The real trouble with billionaires MATT FARRELL, SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE & LIBERAL STUDIES

Renowned author Linda McQuaig paid a visit to Fanshawe last week to deliver her compelling lecture The Trouble with Billionaires. McQuaig offered a scathing indictment of corporate tycoons citing the growing income gap in North America as a cause for alarm. The rich are indeed getting richer while the middle class and poor are not sharing in the wealth. To borrow an analogy from economics: the pie may be getting larger but everyone’s slice is not growing equally.

McQuaig’s presentation chided a few uber-rich entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates.

She proceeded to explain how Gates had built a billion dollar empire by making a small update to an existing invention. After all, the Microsoft operating systems were just marginal improvements on technologies that had already been refined. Other people did the heavy lifting while Gates reaped the rewards. McQuaig suggests that Gates shouldn’t be entitled to all of the financial rewards. Since society had accumulated the knowledge for Gates, perhaps society should harvest some returns; maybe in the form of taxes.

By any definition Gates is exceptionally wealthy, and few would argue that point; the dispute is over the amount. Does he deserve his billions? I would argue yes. His innovations in operating systems and web browsing technology have made people exponentially more productive than they ever imagined.

The applications for communications have linked and empowered people across the globe. This “marginal” innovation has likely created billions if not trillions of dollars worth of cumulative value for society. In that context, Gates’ returns seem quite modest.

Consider an analogy for illustration. Tom Brady and Peyton Manning are two of the finest quarterbacks in professional football.

Few others can match the contributions they have made to the quarterback position, and they both get paid quite handsomely for their efforts. The forward pass that they execute so prolifically was not always part of the game. It has been slowly (at first) incorporated into the game of football, gradually becoming more significant over time. It developed and evolved thanks to the efforts of many contributors.

Since the forward pass wasn’t really their invention, should Brady and Manning be

entitled to their enormous salaries?

Generations of skilled quarterbacks and coaches helped contribute to their development, so shouldn’t they be forced to compensate society in some manner?

While Brady and Manning didn’t invent the forward pass, they are able to apply it to their craft better than any of their contemporaries. That deserves a reward. Marginal innovations are the essence of all innovations, and when they produce value for society, the innovators should be entitled to the rewards. In this sense I have no quibble with the accumulation of substantial wealth.

The real problem with billionaires however, is how they use their wealth and power to prevent others from sharing in the success.

Innovators routinely deter others from making use of their innovations. Gates’ wealth is entrenched within our legal system’s intellectual property laws. By patenting different “software recipes” he can prevent others from making use of them – essentially limiting the potential for new innovation.

This is the real trouble with billionaires.

To (fittingly) borrow another analogy: they scramble up the ladder of knowledge that society has created. Upon reaching the top they promptly turn around and kick it away from others who are attempting to climb up.

It is the equivalent of Manning saying, “I’ve perfected the forward pass and thus no one else should be able to use it or any other quarterbacking techniques that I use.”

This excessive protection of intellectual property lies at the heart of the problem.

Apple and Microsoft for example, each own thousands of patents that are nothing more than ideas. When potential competitors sprout up with similar ideas, they will promptly be dragged into court for copyright infringement. Both firms are ruthless litigators. As luck would have it, Microsoft is currently suing Apple claiming that the searchable music-sorting software in the iPod is actually a Microsoft idea. Microsoft didn’t invent the iPod, why should they be compensated?

Gates and other super rich leaders of industry rely on the accumulated body of societal knowledge to drive their innovations, yet vigorously defend the use of those ideas from others. They deny other inventors the same opportunity and thus deprive society of potentially limitless possibilities. Do I resent billionaires? Maybe a little. But not for being wealthy. I resent them for being hypocritical.

Real life decisions for life after college LIFE’S LIKE THAT DANIELLE BARDAWILL

The end of the school year is fast approaching and this article is tailored towards those who are graduating. But wherever you are in your educational career, everyone should pay attention to this information because at some point everyone will need to be thinking about what to do after graduation. The sooner one evaluates their thoughts, ideas and plans, the better.

Knowing what to do and how to do it ahead of time helps you succeed in the “real world.”

What I’m about to let you in on will hopefully help you when the time comes to lay down your plastic cups and ping pong balls and dive into life after college.

1. Be open to making new friends: The reality is when graduation finally arrives, most people will part ways in order to pursue life past the college doors. That being said, be prepared that even the closest pals may and often do lose touch with one another

while developing their “real world lives.”

I’m not saying you’ll never see or talk to your college buddies again, but I am saying it’s good to be prepared and to meet new people and form new friendships. If you choose to continue to stay in your safe college circle, your new “real world life” could end up leaving you socially disappointed.

2. Kiss the luxury of the class schedule goodbye: Time and time again I hear the stories and excuses for why you couldn’t make it to class. Don’t get me wrong there are many legitimate reasons for not making it in; however, in your new “real world life,” not being a morning person or being too hungover is not one of them. This problem may not apply to everyone, but for those who sometimes find it easier to hit the snooze, I suggest practicing getting up and making it to classes on time. No excuses. Sometimes having that option of whether or not to attend class because of minor repercussions can work against us.

3. Remember to continue setting goals: Just because you’ve achieved your goal to graduate college, university or both, doesn’t mean you should stop now. Setting goals professionally speaking or personally is a great way to keep yourself motivated.

Remember every goal you set, whether big, like owning your own house, or small like finally learning how to cook, plays a significant factor in your life.

4. Don’t dream too high too fast: Often a lot of new graduates receive a rude awakening about the early stages of their new “real world life.” Remember chances are your golden job isn’t going to be served to you or even available right out of college.

Despite your newfound education and co-op experiences, be prepared for an entry level job in your newfound career. This isn’t always a bad thing. True, the pay might not be what you feel it should initially be, but the overall job experience and wisdom from more seasoned employees can be priceless.

5. Remember clothes in college don’t always cut it in the workforce: Be ready to either tone it down – no skanky bar clothes – or pick it up – sweatpants are not acceptable office wear – when it comes to the work force. “Real world” clothing can be expensive, and the best advice I can give you is start saving for your professional wardrobe anywhere from the beginning of your last college year to your last college semester.

Remember your newfound paycheque may not sustain you AND your new “real life”

wardrobe right off the bat.

6. Moving back in with mom and dad isn’t ALWAYS a bad idea: As much as this reality isn’t exactly appealing, it may be necessary for some. If and when you’re faced with this as a last option because you have to pay off debt or it’s just cheaper, make sure you clearly establish boundaries. When heading back home, talk to your parents about how much you’ve grown and matured over the years you’ve been at school. Don’t just talk about your independence, show it.

Don’t give them something to complain about. If moving back with mom and dad is not an option, make sure you have your living situation worked out long before you walk out those college doors for the last time. Ask yourself where will you live? Will you live with someone or fly solo? Will you rent or buy?

All I’m asking you is to consider some preparation as you near the end of your college life. Real life comes with many difficulties that are out of your control, don’t let the things you can prepare for be your downfall.

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Boom boom tunes B.A.L.L.S. TIM HANDELMAN

Bitching about Life in London and Society is a weekly column that attempts to delve into the smaller irritations in our society.

Remember those dances that you might have participated in at a wedding, or graduation, or bar mitzvah? That dance where participants form two lines, one facing the other. All the guys stand in one line and all the gals stand in the other. The couple at the far end of the line are instructed to dance between the lines, twirl, bump hips and do that John Travolta disco arm in the air pointing thing and then attempt to do the splits as the people forming the aisle shuffle, gyrate and clap. Remember that? It was usually followed up by a rousing Hokey Pokey, where it ends with Grandma having her garter pulled off. Did we go to the same dance?

Those times sucked, but we did what we did by choice. Kind of.

Now we find the same awkward setup in the halls of our college and abroad: people milling about on both sides of the hall, looking cool and slowly head bobbing to Ludacris, or Three 6 Mafia, or Dexys Midnight Runners, and you are forced to walk through their midst’s. Instead of the splits and that Saturday Night Fever finger grinder, you try your best not to walk to the beat of the music. Some sort of stuffy, antidance shuffle that feels both awkward and oddly alluring at the same time. I wonder if there is a word for that?

That is where is starts.

I have decided on three of the main irritations caused by the imposition of music: those that BOOM BOOM BOOM out of their cars, the drunk roommate that comes home after the bar and cranks the tunes, and the all purpose bad choice in music guy, you know the one, that guy that tucks in his sweater and swears that Poland is the home of rock and roll.

I have reconsidered, and will focus on the two main irritations caused by the imposition of music.

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM: Hear me? Do you hear me? Do you notice me? I exist, right? I offend you, right?

Therefore I Am. You can feel the BOOM BOOM BOOMer a block before they pull up beside you. It starts with a slight tickle at the base of your spine and ends with a white-knuckled apprehension that one would feel if a bunch of bats just swooped into your car. You hazard a glance through his smoky tinted window to see a slow head bob, sunglasses and a selfsatisfied smirk that comes and goes with the slow sway of a pair of garters hanging from his mirror. I wonder if Grandma misses those?

One may conclude that the automobile, and the ensuing BOOM BOOM BOOM is an extension of the addled driver. This is a fine line though: who hasn’t cranked the tunes in their car? I experimented with this last week:

I was driving with my 13-year-old daughter and decided to crank whatever song came on the radio next. I happened to be listening to CBC, so my experiment might have been flawed from the beginning. The song that came on was a rousing, boppy African tune that repeated the chorus, “Happy, Happy Africa.” Instead of projecting angst and a bass induced apprehension, I got smiles and a very embarrassed 13-year-old. Cranking happy music didn’t evoke the same trepidation it seems. So wherein lays the angst? I think it resides in the persona of the individual. The negative energy, the droopy pants, fake gold necklace, engraved haircut and tiny designer sneakers.

One may draw the conclusion that when one does not have a firm grip on a healthy self-identity, one forges an identity and sense of belonging by shocking and assaulting acceptable social standards. I ruminated on this in my article on those that take up two seats on a busy bus a few issues back.

The Music Cranker: Do you have a tall skinny roommate with long black hair that looks like Kim Mitchell of old? Does he drink Export by the case, quote Monty Python and smoke pouched tobacco ‘cause it’s “cheaper?” Does he stumble his way home at 3 a.m. after mumbling away the night in a loud bar? You know those guys: you are in a bar where all you can hear are your own thoughts - barely, and your buddy is animatedly engaged in a discussion with you about something? Probably politics or religion, “Um, I can’t hear you,” you think to yourself, “but something is pissing you off! And please stop spitting on me.”

It doesn’t matter if it’s a Saturday night, or a Monday, they come home, roll a smoke and CRANK the tunes. There could be 20 people in the room, or just you in bed sleeping, no matter. WHAM, the windows rattle, your heart slips into that, “Oh man, here we go again” mode, and the night turns to day.

The kind of loud that even earplugs or pillows over the head can’t dissipate. The kind of loud that becomes you.

This roommate is generally a happy guy by nature, a hard worker, and friendly. These guys should come with a label, “Instant asshole, please add booze.”

As opposed to the projected angst of the BOOM BOOM BOOMer, these guys are just thoughtless, absorbed in the frustrations of a grumpy binge, a grumpy life and a lack of self-worth. A person that seethes inside like an Alka Seltzer waiting for a glass of liquid.

My Take: Who hasn’t cranked the tunes? Or gone to a club or concert? Sometimes one just needs to be inundated with a sensory overload. It makes us smile, it makes us dance, it makes us forget.

Perhaps, for most of us, music is not used as an extension of ourselves, but as a companion to who we already are. We, perhaps, are more comfortable with ourselves, and don’t need this metaphorical suit of armor.

Well, not as often anyway.

Conclusion: Never trust a guy that tucks in his sweater.

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Second Careers is a joke Dear Editor: I am in the gas tech program at the Woodstock Campus. I have completed and passed gas tech 3 and now I’m in gas tech 2.

After talking to fellow students, they and I believe that Fanshawe is a joke in their material. Everyone has also said they would not recommend Fanshawe to anyone, myself included.

It has nothing to do with the professors, they do

a great job, and they can only work with the material they have. We feel it’s the administration that treat us like secondhand students (low class) because we are not full-time students!

Fanshawe is probably great if you’re full-time but not if you’re part-time.

Just a few words of opinion from the low class guys at Woodstock.

W. Hoggarth

TAKE THE POWER BACK DARIUS MIRSHAHI darius_mirshahi@hotmail.com

As young people, we already know we’re screwed. We’ve been robbed of a future by our elders who consumed it. The last few generations have taken every resource imaginable and extracted it at an ever-increasing rate. Blind to the world around them they planned our obsolescence like the products they designed for the dump. Now everything is unbalanced and we’re coming to a tipping point.

We already see the consequences everywhere. Depression economics, ecological catastrophes, violent and oppressive social relations. Their poisons have logically spread beyond our rivers and land into our bodies and minds. It’s in the air we breathe, it’s broadcast on the airwaves, it’s all pervasive, and always present. They dug us into a coffin and we must escape it. This will be no small task. It demands the radical re-organization of humanity and a total re-evaluation of our relationship with our ecological support systems.

What we know is this: There’s no future on this path and we’re speeding to the finish line. These are desparate times, the very survival of life on this planet, including our own, lies in the balance of the decisions we make now. Everything will flow from here.

The damage is done, the climate is not only changing, it has changed. We already live in an ecological catastrophe. But this only means that we must fight harder to save the small pockets of vibrant ecosystems that still exist. There are fools among us that still wish to pillage what little remains and it’s up to us to stop them. We cannot count on governments to do this work for us either. They have never worked for us, and have always paved the way for corporate exploitation of the Earth’s resources.

Politicians are bought and paid for by those who fund their campaigns. Clear-cutters, mining companies, and developers own the Canadian economy and by extension our politicians, who gladly rubber-stamp their ecocidal projects. The most important thing we can do now is directly confront the forces of industrial expansion by intervening as individuals and communities of resistance. We must create conflict with these forces every time they attempt to replace a forest with new suburban sprawl, every time they attempt to rob our mother and turn her into commodities, and every time they attempt to expand the roads and highways to facilitate larger distribution of their products.

But even this is not enough, we must dismantle the system of industrial capitalism

not merely contain it. We need to reverse the process not just stall its expansion.

We need to develop sustainable alternatives to everything we have come to take for granted in our culture. We need to realize our way of life is incompatible with life itself.

We need to decontaminate our soil water and air, because even if we drastically decreased emissions we would still be breathing in toxins and living on a toxic planet. We need to dismantle the power grid, stop all mass production of energy and transition into more resilient community-controlled autonomous energy production. We need to abolish patent-laws that protect intellectual property and liberate the knowledge of sustainable alternatives. Corporations have been keeping us dependent on their inefficient and dirty technologies for decades through copyright laws.

We need to challenge the forces of social control that exist to keep us passively marching towards the nightmare they are steadily building for us on this planet. We need to reject their products, and make their entire industrial system collapse before there is a total ecological collapse and mass extinction. Species extinction is currently accelerating on this planet due to our culture of consumerism and the economic domination of this planet. The oceans have massive dead zones, most rivers have become undrinkable from dams and industrial runoff, and we live in concrete jungles, saturated in smog, where we slave away to meet our basic needs.

Another way of life is possible and necessary. We can radically change this world for the better, all we need to do is start acting on our desires and putting our ideas into practice. We can start liberating our lives, communities, and bioregions from the tyranny of the market. We can challenge the authority of governments and reclaim local autonomy.

We can defend the ecosystems that are still intact while re-wilding areas that have been devastated. We can tear up parking lots, detoxify soil, and create community gardens. We can occupy and take over the existing infrastructure and run it collectively while reconnecting it to our environment by collecting rainwater, building rooftop gardens, and ripping out lawns to allow diverse plant and animal life to flourish.

We can start in the here and now. We do not need to wait for action from the powers that be. We must take action and be the power for change ourselves. The fate of the world is in our hands. We can either create resilient communities capable of surviving the collapse, defending and regenerating our ecosystems, or we can continue down the suicidal path of industrial expansion and consumer culture. It’s time to get off the fence and stand up against those who have sold out the future.

disBAND turns out to be a flop Dear Editor: Greetings Fanshawe! This past week on Thursday, March 18 and Friday, March 19 a battle of the bands took place in Forwell Hall.

The top four bands moved on to finals on Monday, March 22 with the real MuchMusic disBAND judges judging the competition.

I attended both Thursday and Friday night and I was once again reminded of the sad state music is in these days. There were four judges present, all looking like depressed metal heads, which they must have been because all four bands that moved on didn’t show much emotion or more importantly, any originality.

Apparently the last band to play Friday night even had one of the judges in the band. Not surprisingly that mediocre band played Monday because they were voted first place.

The worst part about this competition was there were a few bands to stand out and above.

The one I’m thinking about more than any other was a reggae/rock band called High Tides.

These guys were the most original by a long shot. They had two quality singers where no

other bands did, had the best solos, and were the only band to use a lyrical harmony. Everyone in the place knew these guys were going to be tough to beat, and they were. Unfortunately these guys didn’t advance.

On their marking sheets they received comments like, “I don’t buy your dreadlocks” while the lead singer has had them for four years now.

That’s commitment and very insulting if you ask me. Another comment was, “The drummer was too energetic.” I would love to see these judges tell something like that to Travis Barker because that’s who this drummer reminds me of. “The bassist’s style doesn’t fit.” He was dressed like everyone else in the band only difference is he wasn’t white. I would put up any amount of money that if the four MuchMusic judges that were there for the finals Monday had seen High Tides they would have put them through to the next round no questions asked.

If you watch disBAND get ready for some crappy music this season, you’re in for a treat, at least from Fanshawe’s entries anyways.

Concerned Fan

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The fine art of air guitar needs practice BOBBYISMS BOBBY FOLEY

I write about random things a lot.

I write a lot about random things. I suppose it’s due to my being surrounded by music all my life, but I really grew up to be a big music nerd. I’m not alone, though — Alan Cross is one. Brian Eno is another. And now, with everyone else, we can list Amanda Griffiths, from North Wales.

Griffiths (a dance teacher), like myself, is clearly one of those types that wrote music into every school assignment she could, just to be able to read and write about music. I know this because she is working towards something completely unheard of, a goal that will break down the walls of music and structure itself... a PhD in Air Guitar.

It began as a paper on female behaviour, and specifically, a study on the factors that compel men to behave in immature or ridiculous ways. It is Griffiths feeling that the solution could lie in our chemical make-up, a particular neurotrans-

mitter that causes our urges to react in physical ways to all the different stimuli around us.

She has been interviewing individuals from both sexes, and plans to take up the “complex arguments of French post-structuralist theorists such as Michel Foucault and Marxists such as Roland Bathes.”

Which all sounds fine to me, but I have to say that I personally have been into leading my life down interesting paths for a number of years already in my lifetime — and though I don’t have a fancy degree to support my claim, I think you’ll find that a hands-on approach to learning makes me the leading authority on air guitarist for miles around.

Because I believe in sharing and giving, I’m going to host through the rest of this column like a personal letter on how to improve your air guitar playing. Like any other technical school or private lesson program, consider this lesson to be our first, a taste of what lies in store for you in your potential career as an air guitarist, or even an air soloist.

Perhaps the largest mistake that I see most people these days is hand placement; you’re not holding an air baseball bat, so spread your hands out and don’t make this same

mistake — it could mean all the difference when the time comes to play your first air gig, as it were.

The second largest mistake I find that I see a lot is that of air picking techniques. Based purely on observation, I can tell you that most people seem to be employing the air pick — that little piece of plastic plectra that gets used to pluck out your current solos and chords.

But believe me when I say that you’re limiting your technique in a lot of ways, and you may just be doomed to air music shops in the future, no air career under your belt, desperately trying to impress teenagers with your air rendition of air Smells Like Teen Spirit. No no, instead put some time into air practicing to play with only your fingers — it looks cooler, your air technique will flourish, and frankly, it leaves to open to air slide into some insanely cool looking air solo.

That’s all I have for you this time, best of luck to you in air guitar and all your personal favourite activities. I would be happy to arrange to provide further lessons to really hone your air guitar prowess, if you’re air interested.

Otherwise, though, I’m out of words.

Cancer Bats gaining cross country exposure T.K. DALLMAN INTERROBANG

“We try to make ourselves as accessible as we are, because when you’re playing to a big dark arena, you don’t know if anyone gives a shit,” says Liam Cormier, lead singer of punk-metal-hardcore outfit Cancer Bats. He spoke to me from Lethbridge, Alberta, where his band was performing on tour with Billy Talent, Alexisonfire and Against Me! “You can see the 500 kids in front of you, but you can’t see anyone else, and it’s like, when we go out to our merch afterwards and hang out, there are all these kids going, ‘Holy fuck, I didn’t know metal like this existed in Canada!’”

The tour will wind up in Southern Ontario later this month, with a stop at the John Labatt Centre on March 27. And though London is far from uncharted territory for the Cancer Bats, the guys are excited to play for such a big audience.

“We’re definitely going down awesome on this tour, and I think it’s because we’ve put in so many miles in Canada and we’ve played so many places before that we have at least a following that we’ve built up ourselves as well. But ... [there are] all these Alexis[onfire] fans, and to a certain degree, Billy Talent fans, [that we] still want to win over, because, for tons of these kids, [it’s] the first concert they’ve ever been to.”

The Cancer Bats have also been excited to be playing new material from their forthcoming album, Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones, slated for an April 13 release date.

“For me, [the album] was done in October,” said Cormier, “and now we’ve gotta sit around and wait and we can’t even play [most of] the songs live, ‘cause it’s like, you know when you go see a band

and they’re so hyped on their new record and all they do is play new songs and you’re like, ‘That kind of sucks?’ So we’re playing a song here and there, but now that it’s a month away, all I want is for this record to be out so we can start playing new songs and hear what kids think.”

The band will no doubt be playing their new single a cover of the Beastie Boys 1994 hit Sabotage.

Originally recorded as a b-side, the record label liked the Cancer Bats aggressive, screaming version so much they insisted it not only be included on the album, but that they release it, with a video and everything, “to fill in the gap between when we finish the record to when it comes out,” said Cormier.

And though some have expressed concern of the Cancer Bats becoming another Alien Ant Farm, whose cover version of Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal became their biggest, and only hit, Cormier isn’t particularly worried. “We have so many other music videos, too, that if kids are going to find out about us through Sabotage, they’ll go on YouTube and see the Hail Destroyer video,

the Pneumonia Hawk video, the Luscifer’s Rocking Chair video, you know what I mean?”

On top of that, Cormier insists that the band’s new written material is their strongest yet, as it welcomes bassist Jaye Schwarzer, who joined the band in 2007, to have full creative input in the songwriting process.

“This is the record we’re most proud of. We’ve developed into a bit of a heavier band, but it’s also allowed us to try different things.

It’s not just brutally heavy from start to finish, it’s also looking at taking away stuff or adding more dynamics to make the songs punch more. I think with [2008’s] Hail, Destroyer we were just trying to write the most balls out songs we could, whereas, with this album we were like, ‘Maybe let’s try just bass on the verse and then when the guitars kick in for the chorus it’s just this huge monster.’”

And while the Bats are sure to come back soon after Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones’ release to headline smaller clubs, it’s well worth the trek to check them out at the John Labatt Centre, March 27.

Tickets are $49.25/$41.25, available at www.londonesc.com

Cancer Bats will be in London on March 27.

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Triplight’s debut Radio Silence triumphs at Fanshawe disBAND audition tour stop simply Sophisticated IVANA PELISEK INTERROBANG

Triplight’s debut album Sophisticated is making big waves for three young men out of Forest Lambton Secondary School.

The trio wrote their first single while in grade 10. Fast forward a few short years later, numerous practices in the basement, and they have released their first full-length debut album. “We played a ton of shows to promote it (CD) and basically tried to make us go viral over the web and basically anywhere we could,� said Gavin Van Wolde, band member and child youth worker student at Fanshawe College.

Coming out of the small town of Forest, Ontario, the trio has already had their fair share of appearances to promote their talents.

Triplight’s Van Wolde (bass/backing vocals) and Dalton Pettit (drums) have been playing together since they were in grade seven. They met Luke Teeple (guitar/vocals) while in their first year of high school.

Their songs portray a mature, symbolic feel relevant for a broad audience.

“I think our lyrics are really clever. Luke also always puts his input in and by then the song is complete. Having our songs labeled as mature for our age is a great title to have but I don’t strive for that. I strive for those clever lyrics that people take interest in and think about and find comfort in,� said Van Wolde.

Being really great friends with your band mates can have its bad days but there are also perks to the job, admitted Van Wolde. “You’re bound to run into some conflicts, you just can’t let it get in the way of what’s really important and we’ve done a great job at doing that. I feel really lucky to be able to have that,� said Van Wolde.

Sophisticated is a 12-song, all original album and was released June 30, 2009.

Triplight played The Spoke at the University of Western Ontario Friday March 26.

If you want to know more about the band feel free to check them out at www.triplightband.com.

Sophisticated by Triplight was recorded and produced by Glen Teeple at The Music Room near Arkona, Ontario.

Getting into groove metal

NICOLE COLLINS nicolejcollins@gmail.com

This past Thursday March 18, Friday, March 19, and Monday, March 22, 2010 was the disBAND audition tour held in Forwell Hall.

Six bands each on Thursday and Friday and then four finalists performed on Monday in front of MuchMusic judges for the chance at $500 and a trip to the semi-finals and a chance at being on the show disBAND as well as a few other prizes.

The local judges for the first two rounds were: Brandon Eedy, manager of bands like Baptized in Blood; Alicks Girowski, music and promotions director at CHRWradio.com; RJ Beaumont, former Fanshawe facilities coordinator and current Consetoga facilities coordinator; and last but not least Matt Grady, Fanshawe College music industry arts graduate and engineer at EMAC Studios in London.

In round one and round two, each band performed three songs and the best two of each night moved forward onto round three with the judges from MuchMusic.

Round 1 – Thursday Bands that performed were: Attison, Illegal, Triplight, Silverthorne and Flashback.

Round 2 – Friday

on for them and felt really tight.

Lots of energy, great vocals and a good package overall.

Band 4 – Silverthorne, with their own army of screaming girls for the lead singer/guitar player.

The fans even had homemade tshirts. They were by far the heaviest band with the lead vocals being in my opinion the strongest and the most versatile out of all the bands.

After the Judges deliberated and Giddings gave out some swag, they announced the winner as‌. drum roll please‌. Radio Silence!

Radio Silence were ecstatic when I caught up with them. They had a few interviews to get through that night with the MuchMusic judges and the other media at Fanshawe. I asked them how they thought they had stacked up compared to the others in the contest and they just couldn’t believe it and were pretty much floating on air in disbelief. I asked them what they would want Fanshawe to know about them and they said, “Know Radio Silence, just know us!� They thought for sure that it was a joke and another band had won. Good for them it was no joke.

Congratulations Radio Silence!

Check them out at myspace.com/radiosilencemusic and they said if you want to send them naked pictures send it to radiosilencemusic@live.com. Also check out more on muchmusic.com for more details on the disBAND audition tour and news about the show and other details.

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Over the decades rock has evolved in such a variety of directions that it has split into derivative genres. Some of the music got heavy, dark, distorted and eventually ended up being characterized as metal. A different group of artists went uptempo, simple, and loud, and became punk. Punk drew on its cousin, metal, and grew into hardcore punk, which eventually dropped the foreplay and bore a love-child in the form of thrash metal.

Thrash metal has grown up a little, and shirking the hyphenated prefixes of neo- or post- has become groove metal. Avoiding an extreme in either direction, groove metal is often mid-tempo, though frequently punctuated by quicker sections. Riffs retain the heaviness and distortion of traditional metal, but add a steady syncopation that defines the â&#x20AC;&#x153;groove.â&#x20AC;?

The bass guitar is typically distorted and amplified, its entire range boosted heavily alongside the treble to create a mid-scooped feel, and the drums use a doublekick with a frequency that qualifies as characteristic. Rhythm is stressed not only in guitars and drums but in vocals as well, with the flow and texture ranking as high in importance as tone and strength.

Early members of the genre took their influences from thrash metal bands such as Megadeth, blues metal groups such Black Sabbath, and hardcore punk rockers such as

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Bands that performed were: 8 Degrees Below, Flightcase, High Tides, Arms and Waves and Radio Silence.

Round 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Monday Hosted by MuchMusic VJ Jesse Giddings and judges: Chase Parsons (Chris Smith Management); Katie Clark (Underground Operations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Management); Mark Spicoluk (Universal Music, A&R); and Colin Lewis (The Agency Group).

Right from the start Giddings let the first band do their set before announcing the prize the four finalists were eager to compete for. The finalist was rewarded with $500 and a chance to perform at the semi-finals, as well as an opportunity to be on the show disBand among a few other prizes. Also all four bands were to play a threesong set just like the previous nights, only between sets, the judges would be giving their feedback.

Band 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Attison â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Alt Rock that came complete with their own banner in the middle of the MuchMusic banners and their own army, yes army of screaming fans and supporters!

Band 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Arms & Waves â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Progressive Rock at its best. Good thing I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a judge, as I happen to know these guys and know how talented they are. They played the same set again and honestly their vocals on the second two songs were not up to par that night.

Band 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Radio Silence â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Had their good rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll vibe going

Black Flag to create a unique mixing pot of sound that is worthy of its own distinct genre within the overarching style of metal.

Five Finger Death Punch: With a name that gives a nod in the direction of classic Kung Fu movies, one canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but move to a beat that is steady and firm, with a feeling and flow characteristic of groove metal. For a good example check out White Knuckles from their 2007 album From the Way of the Fist.

Lamb of God: With six studio albums, three DVDs, and a Grammy nomination under their belt, Lamb of God have achieved great success in their 16 years as a band. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also had ample time to refine their sound, the fruits of which can be heard on Fake Messiah from their most recent album, Wrath, released in 2009 Cavalera Conspiracy: A relative newcomer, having only formed in 2007, Cavalera Conspiracy has already garnered much well-deserved hype. Their sole studio album, Inflikted, also marked the first time the Calavera brothers had recorded together in the dozen years since Sepulturaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Roots album in 1996. The album featured eleven tracks, but also included In Conspiracy, one of two bonus tracks.

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Fanshawe College students study abroad IVANA PELISEK INTERROBANG

Through the Fanshawe College Students Exchange Program, two students will be able to travel abroad.

For the fifth time Fanshawe will be sending two students to travel to Ibaraki Christian University in Japan.

Ibaraki is located in the northeastern part of the Kanto Plains and is within 120 km of Tokyo, on the Pacific coast.

The four-week exchange will leave the students with a greater appreciation for another culture while broadening their horizons.

“Students will be exposed to the Japanese culture,” said Kim Rowe, international student adviser at Fanshawe College.

Shortly before departure, the students will be given a brief orientation as to what is expected when arriving in Japan, explained Rowe.

The purpose of this opportunity is to promote a clear understanding

and provide a deeper sense of friendship between countries, the institution and students of Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology and Ibaraki Christian University (www.icc.ac.jp) Interested students should provide the following if interested in this opportunity: Students will be selected based on the quality of their submitted paper (1000-1500 words, onesided, double spaced, 10 point Arial font). An interview may also be requested. The essay topic must be chosen from the following list: • How do you identify yourself as a Canadian?

• How would you represent Fanshawe College in this type of cultural exchange?

• How would this cultural experience impact your future goals?

• The selection will be final.

Ibaraki Christian university was established 35 years ago based on Christian principles and presently excels in the fields of education,

social welfare through their living and learning experiences. Chosen students will have the opportunity to learn basic Japanese, intercultural communication and related activities and seminars.

Students will come home with a passion for learning, added Rowe. “(Students) can’t wait to go again.”

Students are advised to submit their papers via email to Maria Carvajal Sarria, at mcarvajalsarria@fanshawec.ca (with a paper copy to Fanshawe’s International Office, E2025) before 4:30 p.m. on Monday April 5, 2010.

Upon return of the trip, the students are required to deliver a PowerPoint presentation, 20 minutes in length to the academic management group on what knowledge they have gained while abroad.

Fanshawe College will help offset some of the cost for the exchange, by providing the students with airfare / health insurance (approx. $1,500-$2,000 Canadian).

Celebrity Candy

Celebrity buzz ... in the news BRIANNA GARE INTERROBANG

Here’s what happened in La-La land this week…

Michelle “Bombshell” McGee • She JUST won an Oscar and it is sadly tainted with the rumours swirling around her husband Jesse James’s infidelity. In response to the allegations, Bullock has cancelled two movie premier appearances, causing Warner Bros. to issue the statement, “Sandra Bullock would not be traveling abroad due to unforeseen reasons.”

The reason would be Michelle “Bombshell” McGee. Google her name, judge for yourself if she adequately fits the description of “bombshell.” Many stories are surfacing in the media, such as Michelle’s ex-husband Ronald Shane Modica, claiming she had an obsession over James during their marriage. Saying he once walked into the salon she owned, to find their wedding photo with his face covered by a photo of James’.

Another is that Michelle proposed that James financially backed her business investment - a strip/nightclub. Sigh, it all sounds too sketchy for the classiness of Bullock, but did you expect the media who dubbed her the new “Hollywood Sweetheart” to let her stay on that pedestal for long?

• Madonna’s latest film directing

attempt has yet to receive support from the Queen of England, however, it has received the support of actor Ewan McGregor. McGregor will play Edward VIII who in 1936, stepped down from the throne to marry an American commoner and divorcee. Madonna, who is also writing the film with Alec Keshishian, contacted the Queen of England, requesting to shoot some scenes within the palace walls in an effort to keep the film’s realism. So far, that request has been denied, as the seventy-plus year situation is still considered a family shame.

My question is how can they be embarrassed about that, when their royal family tree hardly branches.

Marrying an American at least spread the blue blood around. The film W.E. is expected in theatres next year.

• Let’s hope work-a-holic Mariah Carey doesn’t have another breakdown! Mimi’s new remix album, Angels Advocate has been cancelled one month before it’s scheduled release date. This is also after a previous disappointing release of a studio album last year that was initially pushed back twice. According to her “people,” there is no reason why the album was cancelled, but some tracks will be released as singles. Her rep says that Carey, “…is in the stages of constructing a brand new album, which may even be another Christmas album…it’s a creative process that cannot be rushed.”

Maybe her hubby Nick Cannon can help get her album off the ground.

• Kate Gosselin! She won’t go away. Dancing With The Stars debuted this week with quite a few changes. Season 10 will have a new co-host, former contestant Brooke Burke. Performers are now showcased in the audience during the show instead of being tucked away backstage. Also, who couldn’t resist “theme nights?” These exciting segments will include feature dances from famous movies or a whole night dedicated to songs by Paul McCartney for example.

Celebs this year include Nicole Scherzinger, from The Pussycat

Dolls, Pamela Anderson, Shannen Doherty from 90210, The Bachelor Jake Pavelka, Chad Ochocinco, the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver, Aiden Turner of All My Children, Buzz Aldrin who almost took the first-step on the moon, Olympic gold medal winner for figure skating, Evan Lysacck, Erin Andrews from ESPN, Niecy Nash from Reno 911 and yes, sigh, Kate Gosselin. Thank goodness for her hair extensions. Can you imagine that previous spiky-do in those lovely ball gowns?

YouTube Wants YOU! IS THIS IT ADDIE SORRELL addie.sorrell@gmail.com

I wish I could take advantage of this; sadly no one wants to watch some girl sit in her room and play Bond tunes on a bass clarinet... in Canada.

YouTube is giving musicians a break and spreading the love. You may be familiar with the partner program – it’s reserved for channels with high ratings, lots of views and frequent content. I would say high quality, but I’ve seen some of the partnered channels and it makes me wonder how I’m not getting paid to burp the alphabet. But by becoming a partner, you get paid for uploading your YouTube content, whatever it may be. You can quit your day job and live the dream of making videos in your basement - almost as sweet as being a video game champion in Korea... life’s rough sometimes, I know.

Now, if you’re a musician, you don’t even have to fulfill those guidelines. This is called “Musicians Wanted,” and it works like any other partnership - you get paid for the number of hits on your material, and your ratings (I’ve always wondered why on partnered vlogs they’d still be asking for five star ratings). Now you have no excuse... if you’re in the U.S.A. of course. It’s rumoured to go global pretty soon, but in the mean time, polish up your music videos (not just an mp3 over a still frame).

This is almost revolutionary though, because while technology has expanded our musical horizons more than ever, it has also often been blamed for music not being as accessible - if you’re searching

for a small band it can be nearly impossible to root through everything out there. Plus, how can you make money to support your album recordings and touring costs? YouTube and Google are the two largest online methods of finding music now, so it seems only appropriate they should be helping out struggling musicians everywhere - or even if you’re not struggling - OK Go is the biggest face of this movement, advertising in a new video where they meet with the heads of their new label to find out how to make money via their “500-billion” YouTube hits - they have no record label at the moment, so they’ve used their dogs as substitutes.

And because we can’t be too exclusive, and YouTube IS known for it’s videos, they also came out with “Filmmakers Wanted” back in January. This process basically rents out films on YouTube for a fee, and the filmmaker gets that money, which in turn is cycled to make more, or to improve, films. Visit youtube.com/filmmakerswanted.

Whether you’re well known (like OK Go) or you’re lesser known (like Pomplamoose), any musician should look to take advantage of this opportunity. To watch the OK GO video and learn more, go to youtube.com/musicianswanted If you want to see some examples of quality partner channels, music or not, search for: pomplamoosemusic jackcontemusic communitychannel sxephil If you want to see some examples of partnered channels that I don’t understand, try SHAYTARDS... the guy just films his family everyday and has one of the most popular channels on YouTube. What’s the most popular? Some Swedish chick who does half naked workout videos. Duh.

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Students gather outside D and A building where a barbecue was set up in order to grab a cheap bite.

ON campus

students enjoying campus life

After a long day all you want to do is sleep even if it is at school.

Colin Lewis, Mark Spicoluk, Katie Clark and Chase Parsons were at Fanshawe to judge the bands that played during the disBand finals.

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One of the fan favourites Attison, got the crowd jumping as they managed to make it to the disBand finals.

Radical Arts was the title of the events that went on in H gallery throughout the week as they had live music playing, documentaries runnings, some food set up, and of course the art.

Real life emergency scenarios are often put together to train paramedic students to better prepare them as future first responders.

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Immoral or amoral?

INTERWEBOLOGY AMY PLACHTA

Technology is cold. It is ones and zeros, facts and data. Context is irrelevant and softening the blow is the job of the user. Facebook had no opinion on how Angela and Maryanne Vourlis felt when they woke up on their 20th birthday and learned of their brother Bobby’s death the night before from their Facebook feed. Nor did it care that it had been used by Candace Bridger to publicize semi-nude photos of a former friend after a falling out. Twitter was little more than a medium for stirring animosity between Jameg Blake and Kwame Dancy hours before the former shot the latter in the neck, killing him.

The medium may not always be the message, but sometimes it is an all too honest mirror.

During the 2010 Olympics, Canadians used Google to find out about the opening ceremonies and the men’s hockey final above all else. Koreans focused their searches on the women’s figure skating events. Americans, however, used Google to search for videos of luger Nodar Kumaritashvili’s death more than any other event.

This kind of morbid curiosity is not an isolated event. Just a few weeks later Google searches peaked for “killer whale kills trainer footage.” In fact, interest was so disturbingly high that some sites were set up purporting to host the footage but were instead built to disseminate malware (or, for the less vindictive, a Rickroll) to the offending computers.

There are still some services out there seeking to use the Internet for good. Police officers in Indiana used a fugitive’s love of World of Warcraft to track his IP and apprehend him after he’d fled to Canada.

Ottawa-area Crime Stoppers have turned to social networking to get more tips from a younger demographic that may not watch the evening news. County Vehicular Crimes Prosecutor Warren Diepraam of Montgomery County, Texas, used the threat of public humiliation by tweeting DUI offenders’ names to deter drunk drivers over the holiday season.

But even in social justice Newton’s Third Law still holds, as drivers across North America have started tweeting police checkpoints to help seasonal revelers evade detection. Brit Craig Lynch used Facebook photos and status updates to taunt Scotland Yard after he escaped from a minimum security prison in Suffolk last December. He was eventually caught, but not until he gained 40,000 fans and four months of freedom.

Facebook scams are also being leveraged by both sides. At the worst end of the spectrum, McAfee sent out warnings earlier this month after users received emails telling them their Facebook passwords had been reset and needed to be re-entered at a linked site.

That same week Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief spokesman and communications director Dimitri Soudas blushed when his security was compromised by a mischievous Quebec television

show. The show made a fake account under the name Christopher David Meer (a person of interest in two 2007 Alberta arson cases) and sent out friend requests. A number of high profile users friended the account, though Soudas soon deleted his account entirely when he realized he had exposed photos of himself, his family, his friends, and his home to a scam.

This tendency to friend strangers was illustrated last fall when the inquisitive IT security firm Sophos created two accounts using madeup names (anagrams for “false identity” and “stolen identity,” in fact) and profile pictures of a duck and a pair of cats. Each account proceeded to friend 100 people at random. Ninety-five people friended one of the two accounts, and one even received eight friend invitations from total strangers.

On the somewhat questionable side of good, police officers are using this naive openness in their investigations. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and MySpace are all used during investigations, and not just superficially to trawl for public information. Sometimes fake accounts are created and friend requests sent out in the hopes of accessing private information as well, and with moderate success.

Of course, one needn’t always dig all that deep. This week two Americans came under investigation by the Secret Service after tweeting that President Obama ought to be assassinated. This incident raised the question of what was worse: people not having enough sense to smokescreen their criminal intentions, or not having enough sense to know that even insincere death threats against the president of the United States would be taken seriously.

Some question the morality of the content the Internet provides, and are quick to censor, filter, and block at will. But perhaps the problem isn’t the dissemination of knowledge, but rather the character of the people doing the dissemination.

Laurel Lunnen along with husband Mat in the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Joseph’s Hospital watch over daughter Story. The Futuristic: A Wearable Art Fashion Show chose Itsy, an organization providing financial support to families of premature babies as its charity to support.

Fashion show chooses Itsy JESSICA IRELAND INTERROBANG

This semester’s fashion merchandising wearable art fashion show has chosen a charity that’s close to home for one Fanshawe staff member.

The Futuristic: A Wearable Art Fashion Show has chosen Itsy to be its charity for the show on Thursday, April 1. Itsy is a grassroots organization that provides financial relief for families of premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Joseph’s Hospital.

It was started by Laurel Lunnen, an administrative assistant in the department of fine arts, media and design, whose own daughter, Story, was born 15 weeks premature and weighed merely one pound, 12 ounces.

Lunnen and her husband, Mat, were in the hospital for four months keeping watch of their daughter’s delicate health, and while they are “average financially,” with her husband having to take time off work, constant meals out, and other factors like hospital parking – it was a strain, she said.

“It really is a crisis situation,” she said.

About 700 babies are born pre-

maturely a year at St. Joseph’s, and two years ago, Lunnen and her husband decided they needed to help the families of these children after being thrust into that world themselves.

Given that they had a good idea of what these families need, they raise money and purchase everything from gas to grocery cards, help with parking and any other unexpected costs for such families.

But it’s more than just giving them a gift certificate for one night out, Itsy’s focus is helping as many families as they can in a big way and being part of the Futuristic show is a great way to keep doing so, said Lunnen.

“We’re really honoured to have been chosen by the fashion merchandise students,” she said.

“We’re really impressed by how they’re incorporating Itsy into the show, how they haven’t forgotten about it.”

Besides providing money for this local cause, the Futuristic show is a night of forward-thinking fashion using recycled and reused materials from aluminum foil to

bubble wrap to duct tape and more.

“The thinking is really outside of the box and (the students) use materials you wouldn’t see in conventional fashion shows,” said Katie Fyfe, merchandise coordinator for the show.

There are over 60 garments, all with a funky futuristic theme – expect to see a lot of blacks, silvers and bright neons.

“It’s the creative and artistic sides (of the students) – outlandish.

It’s definitely not your ready-towear (fashion),” said Fyfe.

The annual show is put on by second year fashion merchandise students, and is open to design students as well.

Futuristic: A Wearable Art Fashion Show is on Thursday, April 1 at the London Music Hall.

Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 and are available at the Biz Booth or in M3010. Contact Kim Ismail at 519-452-4227 for ticket information.

For more information on Itsy – visit: www.itsy.ca.

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Man humour fills She’s Out Of My League KATHRYN FUDURICH INTERROBANG

She’s Out Of My League (2010) A typical storyline, boy meets girl, loses girl and you know the rest. She’s Out Of My League is a quirky comedy about the average Joe who meets a girl he’d never dream to have a chance with. The humour is definitely directed toward men though I found myself laughing out loud at parts. The plot is just like all the other movies Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), left, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) in the closing moments of New Moon.

New Moon a must have for DVD collection MADDIE MICELI INTERROBANG

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) If you’re like me you’ve been waiting for the The Twilight Saga: New Moon DVD to hit store shelves since the movie came to an end in theatres. So to no one’s surprise I rushed out to get my copy as soon as it was released.

If you’ve been living under a rock for the past two years this cultural phenomenon that has set women’s hearts a flutter is the brainchild of author Stephanie Meyer. While it’s true the The Twilight Saga is geared to the female persuasion due to its forbidden romances in a Romeo and Juliet updated kind of way, only with humans, vampires and werewolves as central plot figures, I think men can find much to like about the series.

If you missed the theatre screenings of New Moon, the second installment of the series picks up where the previous Twilight left off: Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) walking around the sun starved Pacific Northwest, professing their everlasting love to one another. Things get a little crazy because it’s Bella’s birthday and she will technically be one year older than Edward. This causes Bella to have anxiety about being a “cougar” as she ages and Edward remains handsomely young. Trouble soon follows when at a birthday celebration with the vampire Cullen clan when Bella exposes the family to a paper cut, causing some of the Cullens to lose their self-control. It did make me wonder though that most of these Cullen “kids” go to school where you’d think on occasion they may be exposed to blood, but I digress.

The incident seems to trigger the departure of the Cullens from Forks, and a rather nasty break-up, that leaves Bella having nightmares, and rather sullen. Bella soon finds that exposing herself to high risks evokes images of Edward, who in a creepy mirage kind of way tries to discourage her from taking risks.

The highlight of the flick of course is watching the budding friendship between Bella and Jacob

Black (Taylor Lautner)… a soon to be werewolf. The timing of this, of course, couldn’t have been worse because as soon as Jacob was about to get the “friendship” he really wants with Bella, he gets the fever that turns him into a werewolf and he must put his desires on the backburner. We then find out that the werewolves in Forks are there to protect the humans from the bloodsuckers that from time to time wander into the area. A highlight of the flick is that Jacob and his werewolf buddies spend a considerable amount of screen time bare-chested in knee length shorts, and boy, is he ripped. These aren’t your grandfather’s Lon Chaney Jr. typical werewolf characters.

And while most people sympathize with Edward, I just can’t get past the white pasty face and thought of cold hands touching me.

No, I like my men a little hairy and warm like Jacob.

Things get a little crazy at the end when Edward thinks Bella has died and he’s off to Italy to have himself killed by the ruling vampires. Needless to say Bella rushes to Italy to save the day, and the romance is soon restored. We’re left with the lasting image of Bella loving two men but choosing Edward… and having her dream of becoming a vampire in the future agreed to by the Cullen clan.

On the two disc DVD release of New Moon, you can enjoy a behind-the-scenes documentary that takes you all around the landscapes, showing the making of the movie, the development of the characters’ wardrobe and other insights into the movie. There’s a six-part making of that helps generate a greater insight into the movie. There’s also a commentary provided by director Chris Weitz and editor Peter Lambert, guiding viewers through the production process. If you like the soundtrack you can soak up music videos by Death Cab for Cutie, Anya Marina and Mute Math, plus special Twilight-inspired band-rehearsal footage of Muse. The highlights of these special features though for me is being able to see the actors out of character on set and discussing their roles and the impact the series has had on them.

If you’re a fan of Twilight I suggest you go out and pick up the DVD if you haven’t already, you won’t be disappointed.

about the good guy that hot girls don’t usually go for coming out on top.

In all honesty Jay Baruchel as the lead character Kirk kept me interested. He was very believable in this role and had everyone rooting for him. As for the rest of the cast I can’t say they were too impressive. Outside of Kirk’s group of weird guy friends, the characters were pretty shallow and only good for a few one-liners.

In the beginning it’s obvious that Kirk is heartbroken over his exgirlfriend Marnie (Lindsay Sloane). He comes up with a plan to get her back and unexpectedly meets and helps out the beautiful

event planner Molly (Alice Eve) when she loses her iPhone at the airport. It is through this accidental run-in that Molly sets up a dinner date to thank the airport worker for returning her iPhone.

From here the whirlwind relationship begins. Every day is a struggle for Kirk as he tries to understand why Molly is interested in him at all. The negativity from his friends and family is no help, and neither are the frequent run-ins with Molly’s “hot” exes. For anyone who enjoys “guy humour” comedies this is perfect. She’s Out Of My League is a light and fluffy story about believing in yourself and finding your own happiness.

Austin’s film career is anything but Stone Cold ALLEN GAYNOR INTERROBANG

After a hugely successful career that saw him become perhaps the biggest box office draw in the history of professional wrestling, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin has now embarked on a different path – that of a movie star. His latest film Damage arrived on Blu-ray and DVD this past Tuesday (see review next week).

The Interrobang was lucky enough to grab an exclusive interview with Austin during a whirlwind day of publicity on the day of the film’s release.

Damage sees Austin’s starring as John Brickner, who like Austin’s WWE persona, is a bit of an antihero. “He’s done some bad things, and he gets drawn into some more bad things, in order to do some good,” explained Austin. Brickner, an ex-con, gets embroiled in the world of underground fighting to raise money in order to help someone who he has wronged in the past.

The role sees Austin embarking in similar physicality to that which he was accustomed to in the WWE. Asked whether he was involved in the fight choreography himself, Austin said, “I put my two cents in every once in a while,” but offered praise and most of the credit to fight choreographer Steve McMichael. Austin was not the only one in the cast to come from a physically demanding sport, as Austin noted, “Most of the other guys are MMA fighters, not from the UFC, but from other leagues.”

While most of Austin’s work thus far has been in the action genre, Austin did exhibit great comedic ability at times in his WWE tenure, and would consider doing some other types of films.

“I would be interested in branching out,” said Austin, “but you’ve got to run before you can walk.”

Austin went on to say that he only has four or five films under his belt so far, and he is still learning. “I didn’t come from a Shakespearean theatre background. I was on the road every night as part of the wrestling business.”

When asked about making the transition from the wrestling industry to feature films, and who he feels has done a good or not so good job, Austin remained humble, and didn’t bad mouth anyone’s acting ability or film choices.

Although there are a few people he certainly could have named – like that guy who starred in Mr. Nanny and Santa With Muscles, what was his name again? Austin didn’t have anything negative to say about anyone, and said he hasn’t actually seen too many of his former peers

work in films. He did however mention wrestling legend “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, who has had a 20 plus years in showbiz.

When asked if he sees any current stars in the WWE or TNA who could make a similar leap to the world of motion pictures, Austin stressed, as he did throughout the interview, that the wrestling business does not prepare you for films.

“When I was in the wrestling business I had to perform for the person in the worst seat in the house, row 100,” explained Austin, in comparison to the more intimate surroundings of a film set, where the camera is his audience. He went onto explain that charisma in wrestling alone won’t help you in movies, as you have to go from character to character, film to film.

One of the things Austin was most famous for during his wrestling career was his postmatch beer bashes where he would down a few “Steveweisers” thrown into the ring from the crowd. I asked him about what his beer of choice is these days.

“I don’t drink much beer… if I’m in the States I’ll maybe drink a Corona with a lime in it, but I’m more into red wine these days,” said Austin. I asked him if he ever bashed two wine bottles together and chugged them down in trade-

mark “Stone Cold” fashion – “No, I haven’t tried that yet,” replied Austin. That’s probably for the best.

If Austin were to share a beer (or wine) with anyone in the movie business though, a couple of silver screen legends would be his choice.

“He’s gone now, but my all-time favourite is John Wayne,” said Austin with clear admiration. He also noted that he was a big fan of Clint Eastwood.

While most people probably don’t picture Steve Austin sitting in front of a computer tweeting, that’s exactly what Austin has been up to these days.

“I never saw myself as a Twitter type of person either,” said Austin, “but it’s a grass roots way to get out there and promote my films.” Austin noted that he currently has an official website in development, but for now the way fans can keep in touch with him is through his Twitter page www.twitter.com/steveaustinBSR Catch Austin in Damage, now available on Blu-ray or DVD. You can also see him in theatres this summer as one of the stars of the blockbuster The Expendables, alongside Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke and Arnold Schwarzenegger, among others.

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Hot as fire JESSICA IRELAND INTERROBANG

Steve Beecroft breathes fire in front of an awestruck audience.

PHOTO: JESSICA IRELAND

You’ve got two balls of fire swinging around you, on a chain that you control – but momentum is also a part of this game – plus you’re legally blind.

This is what Londoner Bryson Ingram does for fun. Ingram is a fire spinner.

While his vision impairment doesn’t hinder his spinning that much during the day, nighttime events mean extra safety precautions from roping himself off from the crowd as it gets more difficult to perceive how close they really are to the spinning poi – the chains with a ball attached to their end, which are lit on fire.

Ingram and his friends were at the Children’s Museum over March break entertaining kids and adults with their performance art.

The audience sat rapt with attention over the swirling fireballs, as Ingram and fellow spinner, Heather Hargraves, moved around the roped off area with calculated dances.

But while it seems choreographed, a lot of it is just being in the moment because that’s what keeps you safe, said Ingram, a massage therapist by day.

“When performing, you think as little as possible or you’ll hit yourself in the head,” he said. “It’s a practice in the now.”

Ingram has never been burned

extensively, although he has hit himself with the lit ball and even did so during the daytime performance. The audience, who audibly cringed in response, heard the quick skin singe but Ingram was otherwise unscathed.

He learned fire spinning from a friend, and picked it up rather quickly having an extensive knowledge of weapon work from being involved in martial arts.

Hargraves, who has been spinning for four years, taught herself through Youtube after seeing it in Costa Rica.

“It just focuses you,” she said of the practice. “The growl of the fire focuses you.”

Also in the mix was Steve “Draco” Beecroft, founder and owner of the Spiritual Martial Arts Centre, a fire-breather who started eight years ago after a family friend came back from Scotland.

While he’s not technically “breathing” fire, it’s dangerous enough. The fuel he keeps in his mouth is extremely toxic if ingested, and if conditions aren’t right he can get flashback in the face – which happened three years ago, burning off his eyebrows.

The community of fire spinners might seem crazy, but they’re basically like any other artists, said Ingram. They have to respect their tools of the trade, or else they’ll get burned – literally.

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The skinny on models and breaking the size 0 standard AIMEE BROTHMAN FASHION WRITER

This season, it’s the bucklestrapped Gucci platforms that have me in a fashion mania. But year after year, Natasha’s lush wavy hair, and Daria’s gorgeous glowing tan continue to really “get” me.

Beauty is “season-less,” and although some designers take a more “avant-garde” route (the late and great Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, and John Galliano all come to mind), most models are enviable…to say the very least.

Creatures of couture, models are not only considered by many to be the most beautiful people on the planet, they are also often clad in the “crème de la crème” when it comes to designer offerings, which works to only further enhance their eminence. Not only are these girls (and I say girls intentionally - most models are hardly grown women) exceedingly attractive and welldressed, they seem to live “la dolce vita.”

Getting paid upwards of $10,000 or €10, 000 per booking, travelling the world to saunter down runways, do spreads, and launch brands constitutes “the model life:” who wouldn’t want to be the next Gisele?! Don’t get me wrong, models work very hard, have to take criticism (and often flat-out viciousness) very well, not to mention put in looooong hours, but all jobs have some setbacks that must be taken with the good right?

Mysterious and stunning, and frankly, a little awe-inspiring, up until three days ago, these were my beliefs about the girls who show us “what’s what” each season. That was until I read the diary of 22 year old Dutch model, Kim Noorda; a jaw-dropping piece published on Vogue.com. But before I divulge the highlights of the article, allow me to clear something up: everyone knows models are flagrantly skinny, and a sample size 0 is the “industry standard” (Note: a women’s size 0 equals a 23’’ waist – the average for an eight year old girl). How models achieve these absurd measurements has been a hot topic for quite some time now, and although there have been recent regulation changes and talk of modifying this “sample size,” skeletal figures still rule the catwalk.

Noorda, who “learned to eat a little less” after becoming a runway model at 18, entered a rehab clinic for women with eating disorders last January, yet remained a fixture in the industry. Regaling her struggle between being “normal” (eating lunch with friends and visiting museums) versus being a model (presumably not eating and going to bookings), her diary entries were not intended to preach nor bash, but rather enlighten, and most importantly, allow her to get it all out.

Back in the early 90s and dictated by the grunge movement, plaid flannel shirts, Doc Martens, messy hair, and smudged eyeliner were the height of popularity. Kate Moss, the poster child of this movement on the runway, sported the “heroin chic” look, and an emaciated frame to go with it.

In an interview, Moss once men-

tioned being shocked by the frailness of her reflection when catching a glimpse of herself in the mirror upon emerging from a bubble bath, chalking her svelte frame up to simply, “not having time to eat.”

Always full of controversy and scandal, Moss has dated a drugaddled rock star, been tangled up in cocaine possession charges, and even mentioned last year that her words to live by are: “nothing tastes as good as being thin feels,” causing an uproar in the industry.

In the past two decades, while the grunge trend has come, gone, and since reappeared, permanently disappearing are models’ bodies.

Some models are yes, naturally quite thin, others, however, suffer greatly for their physiques, realizing they would not get booked otherwise.

This past season, long time Canadian “It girl” Coco Rocha threw in the towel, informing the press she quit because she was hungry and worried about doing permanent damage to her body.

Australian supermodel Gemma Ward decided to have a bite before formally resigning, but after being ripped to shreds, a few seasons ago, for looking “much healthier” on Chanel’s runway, she altogether vanished.

“The model as celebrity trend” has also become more apparent, with names like Adriana Lima and Elle McPherson becoming as recognized as Jennifer Aniston or Madonna. Further, the modelbased TV program, America’s Next Top Model, was (and continues to be) such a smash that Canada, Australia and Germany have followed suit in creating their own wannabe model makeover shows.

Twenty-two year old Dutch model Kim Noorda entered a rehab clinic for women with eating disorders in January after learning to eat a little less when she became a runway model at the age of 18.

The public seems to be fascinated with the “glamorous” life of models, but whether they are so slim because it is what society expects them to look like, OR because it’s they who dictate to us what a model should look like, is a thought I often ponder.

Extreme skinniness, however, is not merely limited to the runway.

Hollywood starlets covet the 0 waistline as much as it’s the models’ job to fit that size, but the “skinny craze” goes far beyond the rich and famous. Diet and weight loss pills, along with all kinds of contraptions and inventions meant to be swallowed, slathered or ingested otherwise, flood the market in the Western world. “Dietfriendly” food is a whole other topic, as the amount of products meant to entice the hungry dieter in search of a smaller dress size, is too astonishing. While certainly related to our obesity epidemic, this food

and body fixation of ours, both on and off the runway, does cause serious stress.

Brazenly breaking the rules, Glamour magazine printed a photo last year of size 12 model, Lizzie Miller. Sitting on a table in her underwear, armed with perfect skin, perfect hair, a gorgeous smile, and a bit of a belly pooch, this was a groundbreaking move, and both the fashion world and public alike, went ballistic. Creating more fervent “googling” and “buzz” than some of our world’s biggest issues, for the most part, Glamour was praised for depicting a “normal” woman, and giving the public a much needed sense of relation.

While it’s been a slow process, other publications are beginning to use plus-sized models as well, and some designers have even started to book sizes in the 2’s and 4’s. The future is looking a bit healthier, after all.

Wintour clearly inspiration behind film ALYSSA PAGEOT FASHION WRITER

I’m a little embarrassed to admit this, but for the first time this weekend I watched the movie The Devil Wears Prada. Yes, I know it’s one of the most famous fashion movies out there and shame on me for not renting it sooner, but I’m just really bad with movies like that. There are so many blockbuster hits I’ve never seen. For example, I just watched Scarface for the first time about a month ago. Anyways, I’m glad I waited until now to watch it; I know a lot more about fashion now than I did in 2006, when the flick came outand I feel a lot more able to critique it.

I think it is obvious that the character Miranda Priestly is based on, at least loosely, is editor-in-chief at Vogue Anna Wintour. The book The Devil Wears Prada was published in 2003 by Lauren Weisberger; a former personal assistant to Wintour. Weisberger however denies that the character is based on Wintour, and rather states that Miranda was concocted from experiences her and her friends have had in previous jobs.

Still, her stint at Vogue must have evoked something for her to write

the best-selling novel. There are a million questions I’d love to ask any former assistant to Wintour, but my goodness; I have to wonder what Weisberger specifically went through while working at Vogue to get the urge to write a book on a legendary fashion icon like Wintour.

I don’t know if Anne Hathaway’s character - Andy Sachs, was supposed to be based on Weisberger or not - but my first criticism must be that I find it highly unlikely that in the real world someone like Sachs, with no knowledge of the fashion world, would be hired as Wintour’s assistant. I don’t care how “unexpected” this editor-in-chief is fabled to be; not having read a single issue of a magazine you strive to work for would make you downright laughable.

Something I find quite humorous about the film is the number of designers and personnel in the fashion world that did not want to be a part of the movie for fear of displeasing Wintour. Doesn’t this reinforce the whole concept in the movie about the fear she evokes into people? The exceptions were scarce. Valentino and Gisele Bundchen were the most famous.

I’m not a big Meryl Streep fan as is. She does a decent job, but I somehow didn’t believe her to be that fashion guru she was supposed to portray. I do like the fact that they did not try to copy Wintour’s

physical image. The typical bob haircut and sunglasses, but rather gave Streep her own identifiable look. Again, people involved in production as well as Weisberger won’t admit there is any correlation to Miranda and Wintour, but I know that art imitates life and there was no coincidence to the way magazines were spread out on Miranda’s desk, or her request for steak at lunch, and especially the strikingly similar office design; down to the octagonal mirror on the wall, exactly like Wintour’s real office at Vogue.

Some praise I will give the film is that the wardrobe was dead on, and the amount of money put into the costume design was just phenomenal. Streep was indeed dressed in quite a bit of Prada, in particular her shoes, but also lots of Donna Karan, and Michaele Vollbracht for Bill Blass, delivering us the perfect rich and classy woman. It certainly made for a glamorous movie to watch.

I don’t think the film should be overly analyzed anyways, because as costume designer Patricia Field stated: “If they want a documentary, they can watch the History Channel.” When it comes down to it, the movie does what it’s supposed to, it entertains us, and as Wintour stated herself about the film: “Anything that makes fashion entertaining and glamorous and interesting is wonderful for our industry. So I was 100 per cent

behind it.” I sincerely hope even those who know little about fashion learned a little more after watching this movie, and maybe it’s given Vogue that extra expo-

sure so that when I mention Wintour’s name around certain people, I won’t have to bury my head in disbelief when nobody knows who she is.

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To shack up or not, European dreaming, and dealing with depression LOVE LOLA LOLA I. LOVE lolaletters@live.ca

Dear Lola, My girlfriend is pushing for us to get an apartment together over the summer and then into school next year. I’m not convinced this is a good idea. I like my space, and I like to be by myself sometimes. I always thought that moving in together was the last step before marriage and I’m really not thinking about that yet. Does that sound stupid? My buddies are all shacking up with their girlfriends, but I really care about this girl and don’t want to rush things and have it blow up in my face.

Old Fashioned Man Dear Old Fashioned, There are many things that were at one time considered the height of class and prestige when selecting a mate; debutant balls, Ivy League education and of course, abstinence before marriage. Though some items and events have faded from pop culture or been chased out by feminist bra-burners, a few nuggets of respectful, wisdom still remain acceptable and attractive to those seeking a companion. I like to think of guys like you as ‘classic’ rather than old-fashioned. Living together has become the modern equivalent of “going steady.”

Rather than representing a serious step towards home ownership and marital bliss, it’s now a Facebook-ready status symbol that’s basically used to signal that you’re taken. For now.

I’m going to make a brash assumption that you haven’t been holding your virginity hostage for all these years, but you are guided by a present, if not sluggish, moral compass that is urging you to be selective and responsible when choosing a roommate this year. What do I say? Listen to the little voice that’s telling you to slowly back away from this situation.

The biggest mistake young folks make when choosing to sign away a year of their lives on a rental agreement is making the choice based on money or convenience. People get so giddy about saving a few bucks or getting laid every night that they gloss over the dirty, sad reality of

waking up next to the same person every morning. Oh, and don’t fool yourself; no one gets laid every night!

In your case, you have the added barrier of an honest moral and ethical dilemma that’s holding you back from taking this plunge into co-habitual chaos.

It’s so refreshing to hear from someone who is thinking ahead, to his future wife and family and trying to make decisions that won’t screw it all up. Trust your gut; let your buddies rack up roomies like notches on a bedpost. When you finally do decide to settle down, you’ll be in it for life.

Good Luck.

Dear Lola, My boyfriend thinks we should go backpacking through Europe for a month this summer.

Financially I can’t do it. I need to work to pay my bills and cover school next year. He’s being stubborn to the point where he’s hinted that he might ditch me for the summer to go sow some wild European-oats. I know, he’s probably not worth my time if that’s the way he feels, but I think this is just a stupid boy tantrum tactic to get his own way. Any ideas on how I should handle it?

Grounded in Canada Dear Grounded, Honestly, I’d let him go. I’d encourage him actually. Either he’ll come back refreshed from a great vacation or return reeking of cheap German cologne and carrying a potent cross-continental venereal disease. Either way, I certainly do not suggest that you be anywhere near baggage claims or waiting to pick him up with balloons and a “Welcome Home” sign. Don’t greet him, don’t email him, don’t text him. If he leaves in a huff, or a flurry of veiled threats about hostel hookups PLEASE ditch him before he boards that plane to Loserville.

Good boyfriends don’t threaten to cheat and real men don’t throw tantrums.

Please, spend your summer making some dough and find yourself a new boyfriend.

Good Luck.

Dear Lola, I’m embarrassed to even be writing this letter, but I can’t ask any of my friends. I’ve been dating this guy for about six months.

Things between us are great; he’s very honest and respectful and treats me very well. The problem is, recently, he’s begun to take anti-depressants and his doctor

believes that he is suffering from major depression. I guess this is something that runs in his family.

He’s so sweet to me, but I’m worried about getting too involved with this. What’s the best way to handle this?

Crossroads Dear Crossroads, It takes guts to admit that you’re uncomfortable dealing with other people’s problems. It may sound selfish, but I think you’re right to hesitate before jumping in for the long haul if you’re not ready to handle the responsibility.

Depression is very common and comes in many forms. Your boyfriend could be suffering from an anxiety disorder, panic attacks or possibly something as serious as bipolar. Only time will be able to determine the extent of his mood disorder and only his doctor can assist him in finding treatment through medication and counselling. The limitations and questions surrounding someone’s depression can be frustrating to both the patient, and the family and friends who try to support them.

Aside from the medical treatments or questionable longevity of your boyfriend’s depression, you may also need to consider his symptoms. Men and women handle depression in very different ways. While women are more emotional (crying, yelling etc.), men are more active and are more likely to show symptoms through anger, promiscuity and self-medicating with drugs and alcohol.

You’re right to want to consider these cautions when you’re only six months into a relationship with this guy. It may sound selfish, and truthfully it kind of is, but sometimes you need to put yourself first. If you don’t think that you’re cut out to handle this guy’s needs, then you both may be better off if you walk away sooner rather than later.

He deserves someone who can support and encourage him. And so do you.

Good Luck.

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Horrible Heartburn Food For Thought SHARLA PAINO greener.beans@gmail.com

Some say, “When it rains, it pours,” and when it comes to stress life can seem a bit like a monsoon.

With exams just around the bend, family issues, social pressures and workload, stress can seem to pile up and bury the unsuspecting.

Stress can affect us in many ways; tension headaches, binge eating, not eating, sleep deprivation and indigestion. These symptoms can be aggravating and distracting, which is especially inconvenient when you have a lot on your plate.

One of the more annoying aggravations is heartburn, and I was ever so lucky to have a bout of it this month.

Heartburn, despite its name, doesn’t really have anything to do with someone’s heart. In actuality, heartburn is more associated with the stomach and esophagus. To digest food, the stomach produces acid to help break down the food into a more useful form for your body. Heartburn happens when the valve that connects your esophagus to your stomach isn’t working and doesn’t completely shut, therefore allowing acid to travel up your esophagus and sometimes into your throat. Your esophagus and throat doesn’t have the same pro-

tective lining that your stomach does, and the acid burns and damages the tissue, causing a deep burning pain. This damage can become very serious if not treated properly, so it’s best to let your doctor know if symptoms continue over a period of time.

Diet can help to remedy the acid produced by the stomach. It’s a common myth that milk will help the pain, and it will. However this remedy is temporary, and the fat and protein in the milk will cause greater upset and more acid.

Bland, un-spiced foods are key to avoiding heartburn. Deep fried foods and food high in fat can cause your stomach to produce more acid as it tries to break down the fat as you digest, so it’s best to try and avoid these foods when experiencing heartburn. Also, eating small and frequent meals throughout the day instead of a couple of large meals will help.

This makes it easier for your body to digest the food you consume and requires less acid and less pressure on your stomach. It’s important to make sure you eat your meals at least two hours before you sleep so you give you body time to digest properly.

Having a regular diet routine that consists of healthy foods from all food groups will not only help to prevent heartburn but will also help to reduce the stress by giving you the energy required to deal with all the problems and tasks thrown your way.

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Aries (March 21 - April 19) It’s hard to be yourself, but the alternative is even worse. Your month begins with a request that you establish proof of ownership or authenticity. If you rush into this, you could end up looking bad.

Taurus (April 20 - May 20) Taurus is confident and curious.

You’re just about ready for a good weekend, especially if loved ones will be included. You’re also happily involved in activities, so there’s no need to watch the clock.

Gemini (May 21 - June 20) You may be drawn into the mess that you hoped to avoid.

Preconceived ideas block the transmission of something completely new and different.

Cooperate with others, even if it slows you down.

Cancer (June 21 - July 22) Be selective about the people to whom you open your heart. Once you find the right group, though, let it all hang out. To Cancer, cleanliness is a good indicator of perfection.

Leo (July 23 - August 22) Praise others for their good points and turn a blind eye to their weaknesses. The only pressure here is from your own expectations. Set aside a project that you can’t hope to finish before next week.

Virgo (August 23 - Sept. 22) Those who need to know will probably end up on your doorstep.

You get someone started, but there’s too much on your mind for extended hand-holding. Leave a clear trail for others to follow.

Libra (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) You’re entitled to your opinion, but nobody needs your permission.

Instead of taking initiative, Libra does his or her best work enabling others. Decorate your space with mementos of your good deeds.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) It’s hard to tell whether to keep a secret or spring a surprise.

Sealed lips keep delicious information from escaping too soon.

The new month unites a group that has too much in common to stay scattered.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) You feel unworthy of someone’s trust. If you’re operating at maximum capacity, just say so.

Reorganize your system or your time management style before taking on additional burdens.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) Trouble never comes when Capricorn gets there first. You feel both invincible and cheerful. The strength of your reputation cleans out a faraway pocket of resistance.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) Do things a little differently this week. Peer under the carpet to see what’s there and who might have swept it out of sight. Aquarius is moved by a sudden passion for justice and order.

Pisces (Feb. 18 - March 20) Pisces is unusually observant. If you like what you see, all’s right with the world. Problems lead to an extra round of analysis.

Separate priorities from preferences. You have only so much time to spend on this.

1. Only about one ninth of the mass of an iceberg is visible above the water. Nearly all its bulk remains hidden beneath the surface.

2. There are no cemeteries in San Fransisco, CA. 3. The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years 4. The state of Florida is bigger than England.

5. New York City was briefly the U.S. capital from 1789 to 1790 6. The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.

7. There are more stars than all

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Daily Sudoku: Mon 8-Jan-2007

1. Parrot 6. Wing-like 10. Result of an allergy?

14. Capital of Guam 15. Foundation 16. Can do 17. Story of obscure origin and with little or no supporting evidence (2 words) 19. Fill to bursting 20. Meadowland 21. Dart 22. Imagine 24. Vendors 26. Apartment ad abbreviation 27. Miner's goal 28. Cuts into three parts 32. Capital of Egypt 35. Large web-footed bird 36. Highly rated 37. Recognitions 41. For 42. Tints 43. Regions 44. Finch, e.g.

47. Pair of actors 48. Inclined plane 49. Thickest 53. Echo repeatedly (informal) 56. Require 57. Washroom (informal) 58. Healing plant 59. Rearranging 62. Small toboggan-like sled 63. Gaelic language 64. Blood vessel networks 65. Moose relatives 66. Alliaceous plant 67. Commercial ventures (informal)

Down 1. Tears and mutilates 2. Concur 3. Secret conspiracy 4. Literary gossip 5. Langur 6. Deep chasm 7. Thin flat strip of wood

of the grains of sand on earth 8. In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

9. In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there’s a creepy spot called the “Zone of Silence.” You can’t pick up clear TV or radio signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the sky.

10. A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh 100 million tonnes.

11. On the Richter scale 1.0 is the equivalent to a construction blast and 5.0 is the equivalent to the Nagasaki bomb. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, that killed thousands, measured a whopping 9.3.

12. Thailand used to be called Siam.

13. The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavor space shuttle from Sept 12-20, 1992.

14. Pakistan has the world’s largest canal based irrigation system.

15. Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.

16. St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man named Pierre “Pig’s Eye” Parrant who set up the first business there.

17. Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.

18. The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof. Also the redwoods extremely high water content reduces the tree's susceptibility to fire.

19. When the volcano Krakatoa off the Java islands exploded in 1883, it was so loud that it woke some people up in South Australia.

8. Type of tree 9. Dwelling 10. Flower cluster 11. ___-cadabra 12. Louvre 13. Blood component 18. Female horse 23. Physicians (abbr.)

25. Desolate 26. Small nails 28. Rough-surfaced woollen cloth 29. Walking stick 30. Goodbye (informal) 31. Be impudent 32. Head coverings 33. Freestyle skiing event 34. Small computer graphic 35. Drink noisily

38. Small curlew 39. Talks in a dreamy or rambling manner 40. Cupid, to the Greeks 45. Mediterranean Island dweller 46. Tavern counter 47. Act 49. Masculine name 50. Privileged group 51. Relating to sound waves 52. Roman loose-fitting garments 53. Grape pulp 54. Hebrew month 55. Afrikaner people 56. Olfactory organ 60. Bard's before 61. Textile fabric Solution on page 20

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BEST IN LATE NIGHT COMIC RELIEF THE TONIGHT SHOW with Jay Leno

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Healthcare reform was passed, which means Americans can get the same healthcare that members of Congress get, which is great. Now if only we could get the free travel, envelopes full of cash, and the “Get Out of Jail Free” cards.

President Obama signed the landmark healthcare reform bill into law, or as Obama calls it, the “Rush Limbaugh Deportation Act.” A lot of right-wingers are very upset because they believe this healthcare bill will cost a lot of money. They should just pretend it’s another unnecessary war.

I have a way to pay for healthcare. A cuss jar for Joe Biden, every time he says the F-word, he has to put a dollar in it.

President Obama won a great legislative victory last night with healthcare for all Americans, or as Republicans are calling it, “Armageddon.”

Buzz Aldrin, who will appear on Dancing With the Stars, is 80 years old. How crazy would it be if one of the first men to walk on the moon was killed in a dancing accident?

Republicans are not happy about the healthcare bill passing. Sen. John McCain called the process the “most unsavory Chicago sausage-making” that he has seen in all his years. First of all, there is nothing unsavory about Chicago sausage.

A new Harris Poll reveals that 24 per cent of Republicans believe Obama is the antichrist.

There’s a new technique that lets doctors perform kidney transplants in 45 minutes. Because when you’re getting a kidney transplant, your main concern is always “How long is this gonna take? Can you do it in less than an hour?”

Last night, Tiger Woods appeared in two separate interviews on the Golf Channel and ESPN. And in true Tiger fashion, he made sure neither one knew about the other.

A girl in New York whose parents were on Wife Swap is suing the show for 100 million dollars for making her look like a spoiled brat.

Note to girl: guess what else makes you look like a spoiled brat? Being 15 and suing for a hundred million dollars.

You can tell it’s Spring at CBS when the birds start building their nests in Andy Rooney’s eyebrows.

What does healthcare reform really mean? If you listen to the left, it means free vegan candy for every man, woman, and unicorn in America. If you listen to the right, it means we’ve been enslaved by socialist overlords and apple pie is now illegal.

It was announced today that pigeons will be getting their own reality TV show. Well, finally!

The show will be on Animal Planet and Mike Tyson will host it. Mike Tyson collects pigeons the way Fabio collects my fan mail.

Tiger Woods announced he will play at the Masters. He will be playing with a little bit of a handicap because his wife still has his 3-iron.

History was made yesterday in Washington, D.C. Congress actually worked on a Sunday.

A lot of people were unhappy about healthcare reform. Americans must love paying sky-high medical bills.

A lot of people are unhappy about healthcare reform. Personally, I loved paying huge premiums and driving to Canada to buy cheap drugs.

The 2010 Census is coming up. There are some changes this year. Under gender, you can choose between male, female, or Gaga.

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UNBOUND FASHION SHOW: Mark your calendars, fashion lovers!

Once again, students in their final year of the Fashion Design program at Fanshawe College, are ready to sign off in style at their annual UNBOUND fashion show. Twenty students will debut their final collections at this high profile event on April 16, 2010. The show at Museum London will feature a meet and greet with industry professionals and a dazzling runway show. Please join us at 7 p.m. for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres followed by a show that is guaranteed to wow and impress over 300 guests. Tickets go on sale at the Grand Theatre Box Office on Monday, February 15, 2010. Order by telephone 519-6728800 or online at www.grandtheatre.com. For more info call Fanshawe College 519-452-4227 or visit www.fanshawec.ca/unbound.

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Gillet has deep soccer roots Natinal bronze medal MATT GAUTHIER INTERROBANG

The soccer season never ends for Emily Gillet. Between outdoor soccer in the fall and indoor in the winter, Gillet, when not in a classroom, is in the net. The London native enjoys playing between the posts.

“I play a lot of sports, soccer is one on the side, but a better question is why did I become a goalie?” she said. “At 13 I became lazy and the least running position is goalie.”

Gillet has a long soccer background, going back some 19 years including club play with the St. Thomas Soccer Club’s women’s premier team. What does she want to do with her future? Well, she wants to be a police officer.

“I was in the United States before I came here, and I am going back to Western to finish my last year of my criminology BA next year.”

Gillet shared that soccer has not always been fun and games and it has been tough to keep going.

“My teammates keep me going.

Being a goalie you’re the only one in your position, if I quit or I don’t want to do it I am letting down my team. I want the team to succeed so

if the goalie lacks, the team starts to lack. I don’t quit, I stick with it until the end. If I am lacking motivation I have great teammates that support me. As a goalie if I let in a goal I feel like crap, so I have great people who support me and bring me up when I am down,” she said.

“I do get tired of playing soccer.

It’s frustrating because being a goalie you are only playing one side of the field. You don’t move and you’re not running around. It’s frustrating not helping the other side of the field. In the other sports I play I can help out the defence and the offence. There was a point where it was work and not fun. You got to have the right coaching staff and the right teammates that will keep it from being work. I played in the States my first year, and I didn’t want to play anymore because I lost the fun. If you can’t find fun in the sport you shouldn’t play it anymore.”

Most athletes are very superstitious, some pregame rituals ranging anywhere from not washing a piece of clothing you feel is lucky, or listening to the same song every warm up. For Gillet her pregame rituals include listening to her psych-up music on her iPod, giving

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Emily Gillet two squirts of water to each goalie glove, and then doing her warm up routine with the other goalie.

Whether or not this helped earn the women’s soccer team at Fanshawe a silver medal at nationals, and to also be the first OCAA team to ever reach the national finals does not matter. What does matter is that the chemistry of the team is what brought the girls together.

“My favourite thing is the team camaraderie; it’s always nice to play a game you love, especially with the people you like playing with; especially at Fanshawe because we have a great team.”

Serve, set and spike for Parkinson’s ALEXANDER TYML PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS STUDENT

Take off your shoes and hit the sand with the second annual Parkinson’s Spike Drive co-ed volleyball tournament on April 3 benefiting Parkinson Society Southwestern Ontario. This charity fundraiser event will be at Spike’s Indoor Beach Volleyball located at 120 Weston Street, London; which offers real sand volleyball courts to prepare for the summer months.

Last year, corporate communications and public relations students at Fanshawe College, founded the Parkinson’s Spike Drive tournament while doing their placement at PSSO. These students also start-

ed the initiative Peeps for Parkinson’s, a campaign to get more youth involved and aware of Parkinson’s through events such as this one. This year’s dedicated Peeps for Parkinson’s co-op students are continuing this tournament and are hoping for a successful one again.

“This event promises to be a fun night for participants who love the game as well as like supporting a worthy cause,” said Joshua Boyce, one of the coordinators of Peeps for Parkinson’s.

Participating players can choose to play in either the Competitive 4’s AB division (minimum 1 female per team) or the Social 6’s C division (minimum 2 females

per team). The cost is $25 per player; and the first and second place teams in each division will win a prize. The deadline for teams to register and pay is Wednesday, March. All funds raised will go to local client services for those living with Parkinson’s and their caregivers.

For more information contact Shelley Ralf, Coordinator of Special Events, at 519-652-9074 Ext 23 or shelley.ralf@parkinsonsociety.ca; or contact the student Coordinators of Peeps for Parkinson’s at peeps@parkinsonsociety.ca. Also, check PSSO out on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/Parkinso n.Society.Southwestern.Ontario.

The Fanshawe Falcons national medal dreams went up in smoke despite a determined effort and strong team play.

The Falcons participated in the 2010 Canadian Colleges Athletic Association tournament after earning silver at the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association and entered the championships as the eighth place seed at the five-day tournament at Calgary’s SAIT Polytechnic.

The Falcons started the tourney against the number one ranked team in the country, the UNBC Timberwolves and nearly pulled off a monumental upset. The Falcons led by as many as 17 points in the second half before UNBC caught fire and were able to overtake the Falcons for what would seem a spirit crushing 76-71 loss.

Despite the loss, the Falcons were able to dust themselves off, regroup and refocus their energies and worked their way into the bronze medal game and a date with Ontario Rival Humber College.

The quirks of tournament scheduling however seemed to conspire against the Falcons making their improbable run for a medal even more difficult.

Four hours before the bronze medal game against Humber, the Falcons outlasted the Chaplain College Cavaliers of St-Lambert, Quebec in a 91-88 double overtime win to earn a shot at the bronze medal.

It was the Humber Hawks, who were seeded second at this tournament who walked away with their first CCAA medal since 2003. The Hawks defeated the Falcons 72-66.

“What the hell. They won it, no issues, no excuses,” said Fanshawe head coach Glenn Johnston, short-

Fanshawe came up just short in their quest for a medal at nationals against Ontario rival Humber. ly after the loss. “But a lot of my guys deserved the Iron Man award.

They were playing hurt. And they sure as hell don’t owe me anything.

They gave me everything they had.”

Getting only a brief rest between games “definitely had an effect” on the team, said Falcons co-captain Bryan Kamerman. Regardless “at the end of the day…you do what you need to do…and we left the tournament with no regrets. The tournament overall went pretty well. We didn’t have too many expectations going in, we did however want to come home with a medal.”

Kamerman will not be graduating and not returning next season, yet had some encouraging words for future players.

“Make sure you’re always at practice, and rely on your teammates a lot and make sure they’re all there. It’s really a team effort,” he said.

Notes: Fanshawe’s Will Bradbury was named a first team tournament all-star, while Pat Wright was named a second team all-star.

In 1981 Fanshawe earned their last CCAA medal when the Falcons won their second of two straight national championships.

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get MMA legalized in the province. Despite the obvious economic impact, the great deal of attention that would be paid to Toronto and the fact that it would be the biggest UFC event in history, they seem to think that MMA being legalized is a non-issue at this point and are pushing it under the carpet.

Of course being a huge fan, I am against what they are doing, it seems arrogant to the sport and to a point they are just uneducated on what MMA is all about.

Until the day that the Ontario government smartens up their act regarding this issue the push will keep coming, and there won’t be any quit in these MMA fans. Like the fighters they cheer for the hardcore fans of the sport have no quit in their fight, they truly know what the province is missing out on and how it would be such a benefit to not only the province but to the fans who would have their passions filled for a sport that they love.

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With the growth of the UFC and mixed martial arts across North America, and now the world, one key element is missing in the overall battle to get MMA recognized as a sport that is respected and not looked down upon. That is getting legalized in the province of Ontario.

In the past week the UFC has made media promotion stops in Toronto, the biggest city and undoubtedly the first choice for a city if the UFC was ever allowed to host an event in this province.

Thousands of people flooded the Eaton Centre to meet UFC president Dana White, as well as UFC fighters Sam Stout and Krystof Soszynski. The amount of support shown in this minor event in Toronto was astonishing. For hours on end people showed up to meet these two fighters, who despite being good fighters, aren’t even title holders or that close to it really. That right there says something

about the growth and development of the sport, and just how much staying power it really has in Toronto and Ontario.

Could you just imagine the 50,000-plus Rogers Centre being filled with fight fans? The tourism it would create in Toronto in this ever “struggling economy.” In the two UFC events held in Montreal they went on record as the two biggest days for retail sales in the city, and were regarded as some of the biggest successes for UFC events.

The major problem with why there hasn’t been an event in Toronto or anywhere else in Ontario yet is it’s simply illegal.

Section 83 of the criminal code prohibits MMA in any form and its not sanctioned by the Ontario Athletic Commission. It seems like some great hurdles to overcome, but it continues to be the same people who are holding back any amendments to this law. Premier Dalton McGuinty and athletic commissioner Ken Hyashi both have remained against the push to

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San Diego’s Shawne Merriman could find himself with a new NFL home for 2010.

Trades winds ablowing NFL CZAR JUSTIN VANDERZWAN

Since the beginning of the 2010 NFL offseason, there has been a new trend sweeping the league.

This trend is trading veteran players. Teams all over the league are scrambling to rid themselves of huge contracts as we head for an uncapped season. And why are all these veterans getting traded? I think teams are finally realizing (outside Washington and Chicago) that champions are built through the draft, not free agency.

So, in almost every trade to happen thus far, the veteran player in question has been traded for draft picks, whether in the upcoming draft, or even in next year’s draft as well.

Let’s take a look at some of the trades that have happened: - Arizona Cardinals trade WR Anquan Boldin to the Baltimore Ravens: This trade is significant for both teams. For Arizona, they gain a third round draft pick, and have youngsters Steve Breaston and Early Doucet move up the depth chart. For the Ravens, they get another outside threat for young quarterback Joe Flacco.

Paired with Derrick Mason, Boldin should do some real damage.

- New York Jets trade SS Kerry Rhodes to the Cardinals: The day after sending Boldin out of town, the Cards brought in the veteran safety Rhodes from the Jets.

Rhodes fell out of favour with Rex Ryan and the Jets’ coaching staff, but should be an immediate starter in Arizona.

- Cleveland Browns trade QB Brady Quinn to the Denver Broncos: The Browns entered the offseason with questions at QB. Incumbents Derek Anderson and Quinn have since been ejected, and they are in the same situation.

Quinn goes to Denver for fullback Peyton Hillis and a sixth round pick. Neither team really wins this trade, but if Quinn can finally show some skills, the Broncos will eventually get the better of this deal.

- San Diego Chargers trade CB Antonio Cromartie to the Jets: Perhaps the most unexpected trade thus far, the Bolts unloaded former Pro Bowl player Antonio Cromartie to the Jets for a conditional 2011 draft choice. Cromartie will become the starter opposite All-Pro Darrelle Revis, and make the Jets defence that much scarier this year.

The future should hold a number of trades as well. Due to the uncapped season and the fall of the collective bargaining agreement, many players that would be been unrestricted free agents are now

restricted, and basically stuck with their current teams. This will open up more trade talks. Here are a few players that are now restricted free agents that could be on the move soon.

- Denver Broncos WR Brandon Marshall: It has been no secret that Marshall is unhappy. He continued to play at a high level in 2009, and should attract a fairly high draft pick in a trade. The Seattle Seahawks are one team who appear to be interested, and would likely have to give up a first or second round pick for the enigmatic receiver.

- San Diego Chargers LB Shawne Merriman: Merriman hasn’t been the same since missing almost all of the 2008 season with a knee injury. While Shawne can still be “Lights Out” when he wants to be, it may be for another team in 2010. Again, the Chargers would likely seek a second or third round pick for Merriman’s services, but they wouldn’t hesitate to pull the trigger if the right deal came across.

So, as you can see, a new trend is popping up in the league. Next week, I will take a look at how all 32 NFL teams stack up, in the Fanshawe edition of the NFL Czar’s Power Rankings.

For more from the NFL Czar, check out his blog at jvzsblog.blogspot.com

Not too late to bone up FUN AND FITNESS RICK MELO melo_rick@hotmail.com

The human skeletal system is more complicated than most think.

As we grow over the course of a lifetime, our bones, much like the rest of our bodies go through several ups and downs. Our bones consist of osteoblasts and osteoclasts. They team up to enforce resorption and remodelling of our skeletons. Think of the clasts as a wrecking crew whose job is to take out pieces from a cement sidewalk.

Now think of the blasts as the fixup crew who lay down freshly paved cement to strengthen and solidify that sidewalk. In essence, our skeletal systems go through a self-recycling phase for our entire lives. In actuality, our bones have even more in common with cement than you might think. Cement as you know is dynamic, meaning its constantly in motion even though its generally termed static or still.

Due to the processes mentioned

above, our bones are also dynamic in nature.

However, this constant remodelling cannot continue proficiently without one very important factor – YOU! Believe it or not, our bones contain 99 per cent of the body’s calcium. That staggering number alone goes to show how important the nutrient is for everyone’s daily intake. Unfortunately many people don’t meet the daily recommended calcium intake, especially females who tend to avoid milk and other fatty products high in calcium. These people often avoid many of these products for weight management purposes, but they will undoubtedly find themselves fighting a different uphill battle altogether.

Childhood provides the greatest window of opportunity. It is during these young years that the human body is most sensitive to exercise and diet for increasing bone mineral density. Research has even proven this by which a group of older female tennis players who started at the same time as younger female tennis players failed to make the same improvements in

bone mineral density. However, even peak bone mass attained in adulthood is 30 to 40 per cent lower in women than men putting them at higher risk.

Regardless of gender, as we all age, our skeletal system’s resorption gradually exceeds it’s remodelling. It is a natural process, unless the progression goes too far resulting in osteoporosis leaving one at high risk for fractures.

However, we can all combat and slow this process down with weight bearing exercise, calcium, vitamin D, and an overall balanced diet. Take special note of the weight bearing requirement.

Walking and other forms of mild exercise are in their own rights effective forms of exercise but they are not effective for improving bone mineral density. There needs to be a higher demand such as a safely tailored resistance training program. We may have missed our golden childhood opportunity at this point but it doesn’t mean we can’t make significant gains at this point. In the end, our bones serve us on a use it or lose it basis. The choice is all yours.

Before we get into details about the 2010 Toyota 4Runner, we should look into the year Toyota has had so far.

2010 will be remembered as the year Toyota would most want to forget. First came news about problems with accelerator pedals in most of the cars in their line-up.

This unintended acceleration had sadly claimed a few lives, and Toyota had to go into investigating the issue and having a massive recall.

Then a few weeks later, a recall was issued regarding the brakes on the Toyota Prius and the Lexus HS250h. This was followed by a front drive shaft issue with the Tacoma pick-up truck, and most recently another recall was added for the Corolla (the best selling car ever made) regarding an issue with its steering.

So things are not looking good for Toyota and it seems the troubles are very far from over. Despite the financial stress these recalls will have on the company, the damage to its once bullet-proof reliability reputation will take much longer to recover from.

Personally, I think Toyota will come out of this mess just fine, because if you ask most Toyota owners, they will tell you that they are quite happy with their cars and have not had any issues with them.

I have been testing Toyota and Lexus products for five years, and not once did any of their cars ever have any sort of technical or mechanical issue, but for years I have had one huge issue with their products.

My issue is from a lack of excitement they offer. A few years ago, Toyota decided that its line-up could do without any sports cars, so they killed the Supra and then the Celica. The MR2 also has been resigned to the history books.

Instead, they focused on boring family cars (like the Camry and Corolla) and larger trucks and SUV’s (Tundra, Sequoia, etc.).

While these vehicles are well made and well equipped, they are not what anyone would call, fun.

They had become appliances with wheels, built to do a job and nothing more.

The one exception however is the FJ Cruiser. This cartoonish styled SUV not only makes you smile when you look at it or step inside, it is actually a joy to drive, because it makes you feel like you’re a kid again.

This brings us neatly back to today’s topic of discussion, the new 4Runner. You see, the 4Runner shares the same engine and transmission that you’ll find in the FJ Cruiser, so you’d think this would be just as much fun to drive.

Sadly no. As far as driving is concerned, the 4Runner can be described in just one word, “meh!”

From the very moment you put it into drive it feels like farm machinery. First you’ll notice how loud it is as you pull away, and not the nice kind of loud either. Then

there is the acceleration, or the lack of it. Taking the first off ramp onto the highway, it felt like the vehicle was stuck in low-range. Even a heavy foot on the throttle made little difference to its progress. This is particularly surprising because its not like this vehicle has a weak engine. It has a 4.0-litre, six-cylinder engine that produces 270 hp and 278 lb/ft of torque.

It’s mated to a five-speed automatic gearbox, which should do the job just fine to haul this 16-ft truck, but due to its heft, performance is the last thing its capable of delivering on.

The same goes for on the road handling. Putting it through corners is like asking an elephant to perform figure skating, it’s not going to do very well.

The soft suspension with hard dampers and its unwilling chassis are just not up to the task of making this SUV perform through the corners. The vague steering didn’t help matters either.

Couple that with very hard, quite uncomfortable seats, and things certainly don’t look very promising for the new 4Runner.

So as a driving tool, it falls flat on its rather flat face. But it does have its plus points too. First of is its size. It is huge, both inside and out. So no matter where you’re seated or what you’re carrying, you’ll find plenty of space. Then there is the electric window in the rear tailgate (a trademark for the 4Runner) that is a very neat feature to have. And then, most surprisingly, is its fuel-economy. I thought this vehicle would be a massive gas-guzzler, but it’s not. I averaged 12.6-litres/100km, which is quite good. I don’t know how it achieved that, but it did, so kudos to Toyota on that.

Plus I am sure that on the offroad track, it would do very well.

So if you live in the city, avoid the 4Runner like the plague, but if you live out in farm country, this might just be the truck for you.

Prices start at $36,800, which is not bad, however my test vehicle for some reason was worth just over $45,000.

So here is my advice. Don’t worry about the recall woes Toyota is going through right now, I am sure only a very minor percentage of vehicles actually had any fault with them, so you can buy one with confidence. Also, if you live in the city and need a large family hauler, you really should take a long hard look at the Toyota Sienna minivan, which is quite good.

But unless you live out in the country or are a huge off-roading enthusiast, it’s best to avoid the 4Runner.

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