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DC journalism students look at Durham College and UOIT, and beyond, by the numbers and with their cameras

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Moore fun at the GM Centre

Country singer Kip Moore got fans from all over to spend their 'beer money' at the GM Centre recently. The platinum singer-songwriter is travelling across North America on the Me and My Kind tour.

Latin flavour

UOIT student Gabriel Pizarro (left) teaches Vianney Nengue (right), the VP of college affairs, a few dance step during Latin night at E.P. Taylor's.

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Pub endures dry spell Campus pub hopes to get both its alcohol licence and regular business back soon Erin Williams The Chronicle

E.P. Taylor’s is a little quieter than usual lately. Students still come in to study or to relax after a long day of classes. They can grab a pop, coffee or food - but not a beer.

E.P. Taylor’s is under a change of management and with the changes to the name on the liquor licence comes a whole host of issues.

Meri Kim Oliver is vice-president of student affairs. She says the agency that oversees liquor licensing needs to be satisfied with the new operator and ensure that person has the necessary qualifications.

“They’ve identified another person who has those qualifications and that new person’s qualifications have been sent to the AGCO

for review. As soon as AGCO says whether or not that’s as acceptable person, then they are able to serve alcohol or not,” says Oliver.

The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) is responsible for administering the liquor licence. All licenses are issued to individuals, business partnerships or corporations, for operation at a specific location.

It’s unclear from the Student Association who is now in charge or who the person is under review for the license.

Ray Kahnert is a spokesperson with the AGCO. He says changing the name on a licence can be a long process if all of the qualifications are not met.

Meanwhile, many students are walking further south to St. Louis Wings on Simcoe Street to get a beer after classes.

Bethany Nickoes manages St. Louis pub. She says a dry campus pub has had an impact on their business.

“It does affect us because a lot of people who come in are bringing it up and telling us they come from E.P. Taylor’s or they usually go to E.P. Taylor’s but since they can’t drink there they come here to have drinks,” says Nickoes. “That’s how we found out was by word of mouth, from the students coming in.”

The Chronicle has made several requests to the Student Association for clarification. The SA says it

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E.P. Taylor’s has seen a change in environment since losing its licence to sell alcohol.

cannot comment at this time.

Meanwhile, Oliver says E.P. Taylor’s is still a busy place regardless of the lack of licence.

“Because they haven’t had an active licence right now, a lot of clubs and societies have been able

to book their functions there in the day time and they’ve actually been busy as a result. It’s actually had a different outcome then expected,” says Oliver. Oliver says this is not a case of any infractions or rules not being followed.

She expects the pub will be back up and running with a licence by next semester.

“It’s simply that there are very specific regulations and we have to follow those to ensure the licence is maintained,” she says.

Yes or no? Cellphones’ role in class remains a debate

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There is an ongoing wireless war about the use of cellphones in classes across Canada.

On one hand Shahnaz Khan, a Toronto teacher, has publicly asked parents for their permission to confiscate student’s cellphones.

Meanwhile, in Oshawa, many instructors at Durham College are incorporating the technology into their school content as a learning tool for education.

Virginia Harwood, is an awardwinning law professor in the school of Justice and Emergency Services at Durham College.

She uses Top Hart technology as part of her daily class. Top Hart is an app that can be used on a phone to respond to questions. It is a learner response system with many capabilities.

A professor can ask students questions and they can respond immediately using their cellphones.

“If I put up a question in a regular classroom, a student would have to put up their hands. In this case everyone can answer the question and know if they are actually understanding the material or not,” says Harwood.

This can also provide shy students with the opportunity to take part in activities without having to speak out loud in class.

“In a classroom of fifty students

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Virginia Harwood, law professor at Durham College, sits in her office using her cellphone.

I can’t always gauge if everyone is understanding the material immediately. Sometimes I have to wait until a test, this way if 60 per cent of the class gets that question incorrect I can go back immediately and ask the class to do an activity around it,” says Harwood of the advantage of Top Hart.

Durham College is not the only

school using cellphones. School Boards in Manitoba and the Durham Catholic District School Board integrated BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) into their school curriculum for educational purposes.

Students are allowed to use cellphones to have access to the tools and information necessary for

learning. The school boards say BYOD improves student success.

Gary Gannon, a Human Resource professor at Durham College, says the college encourages students to use cellphones if it’s a means for information.

For him the problem is when it becomes a distraction in the classroom.

“Personally I don’t have a problem with cellphones in the classroom, because at the college we now encourage people to utilize technology for learning,” says Gannon.

But teachers such as Shahnaz Khan say they can be a big distraction for students.

“It can be everything from not paying attention, just being really inattentive, and I find that particularly the kids who are vulnerable miss important information and are tuning out of class discussions,” she says.

Khan says the quality of the classroom experience is less.

The topic of technology has always been controversial. So students at Durham College were quick to give an input.

“I personally use my cellphone to take notes,” says engineering student Stephanie Manser.

Students such as Manser say their cellphones are important to their education, which includes note taking and finding information.

Virginia Harwood says cellphones can be used as learning tool rather than a distraction.

For Harwood it is all about making the technology educational.

“I think if we can harness the mobile device as a learning tool it will help us in terms of student learning,” she says.

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Mo is more this Movember If you see an increase in strange and spectacular moustaches in the coming weeks, rest easy.

November is known for the disappearing of leaves, the arrival of Christmas music and the growing out of facial hair.

It’s Movember.

Movember is a campaign centered around opening up talks about men’s health: something that hasn’t always been easily discussed.

Consider the fact that eleven Canadian men die of prostate cancer every day. Prostate cancer is the third leading cause of death from cancer in Canada and more deaths occur if the cancer goes undetected.

Early detection of prostate can-

cer alone can increase survival rate by 96 per cent.

Movember has been more effective than any other men’s health campaign in history. It was started by a couple of regular guys and caught on as a trend among men.

Given the success and money raised for prostate cancer, Movember has branched out to other health issues that men face, including testicular cancer and mental health.

The foundation became official in 2003, and has since evolved beyond moustaches. Movember has changed the face of men’s health by creating a generation of men who aren’t afraid to talk to their doctor.

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In 2003, Travis Garone and Luke Slattery met over a beer in Melbourne, Austrailia and discussed fashion trends that have come and gone. They wondered if they alone could bring back the moustache, if even just for a month.

They decided to convince others to spend the month of November growing out the best moustache they could. Thirty men took them up on the challenge.

That first year no profits were made. It was the following year, 2004, when enthusiasm for the stunt had grown so much they decided to start a charitable organization.

Together they formed a foun-

dation, but the question of where the money would go remained.

Prostate cancer has always been something guys didn’t discuss even though it killed so many.

Garone and Slattery approached the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA), who agreed any funds raised would be accepted. No official partnership was formed.

As of Nov. 1, 2016, the Movember foundation alone has raised over $300 million Canadian. In the spirit of opening up tough conversations for men, Movember has expanded its focus to include testicular cancer and mental health issues.

The campaign has also brought

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about a renaissance of facial hair fashion. Men spend the month trying to outgrow their friends and enter December with a ‘stache they can be proud of. Some keep it as a permanent staple of their manhood.

Guys, take this November and give growing your best Mo a try.

It’s time to put this stigma about health to rest.

Movember opens the discussion about prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health. If you can’t wear it on your sleeve, then wear it on your lip.

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Opinion Hey Apple, we want the jack back A classic phrase used by millennials when driving is “pass the aux cord.”

This simple phrase lets the person with the auxiliary cord know another person wants to play music through their phone. This is not usually an issue, since all smart phones have audio jacks. At least they used to.

The new iPhone7, released in September, has no audio jack.

This is a bad idea.

The new phone boasts two cameras that take a photo as one, a new and improved HD and a powerful new chip said to be the best in a smartphone yet, the cordless headphones come at an unreasonably

Frank Katradis high price.

Say goodbye to using other headphones. According to apple.com, if you want to hear music you have to pay $219.00 for AirPods: two cordless headphones to hear your music or talk handless. Now we can all look like the guy on his Bluetooth acting like he is busier than he already is.

Apple likes to think about innov-

ation, however, this is not innovation. This is about usability and customer satisfaction, and Apple is failing at satisfying their customers.

People do not want to pay extra money for a specific pair of headphones. There used to be freedom of choice. If people wanted to use Skullcandy headphones, they could. If people wanted to use Beats by Doctor Dre, they could.

If the person couldn’t afford expensive headphones, they could use a cheap dollar store pair. Now, if they want headphones, they must pay $219.00.

The AirPods are two small, cordless, separate headphones that you

could easily lose. If you do lose them, it will cost you $219.00 for your mistake.

The worst part is the AirPods aren’t even out yet. According to apple.com the AirPods weren’t available till mid-October. Now, it’s looking like they won’t come out till late October.

This means people who already have the iPhone7 can’t listen to music unless they are connected to Bluetooth. Now it’s official, we’re that “busy” guy on their Bluetooth.

With previous models, the iPhone came with a set of headphones.

The iPhone7 costs $1,029.00 or $1,559.00 depending on how many

gigabytes you buy. Add another $219.00 to hear your music.

Many Android phones range from $500 to $600, and they have the same features and come with headphones. If cost dictates, Android wins. However, Androids aren’t iPhones.

AirPods are easy to lose, and not compatible with many devices, making the iPhone7 not compatible with many devices, especially those that require an audio jack.

This is a major step down for Apple.

The future seems rather pricey thanks to these jack apples, or should they be called jack-less.

To help rape victims, let’s focus on the victim Even though it’s always in the news, rape is difficult to talk about. According to the Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario, half of all people in Ontario who are victims of sexual assaults are between the ages of 15 and 24. According to the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network (RAINN), 70 per cent of rape victims suffer moderate or severe distress and 33 per cent of women who survive a rape contemplate suicide. Seeing realistic examples of sexual assault in visual media can teach people about resources. It can also serve to validate victim’s experiences. Incorporating rape into a story can be beneficial to viewers, but only if done right.

The way rape is portrayed in the media is poorly done. Instead of looking at how a rape victim copes and recovers from sexual assault, often the story shifts towards other characters. When stories about rape focus on the survivor,

Kayano Waite and spend time with them during their recovery, it makes for a more rewarding viewing experience.

While big screen works like The Birth of a Nation uses rape as a dramatic tool to poor effect. Other media such as Netflix original Jessica Jones and ABC network’s American Crime TV series are able to get to the heart of the issue by having a first-person perspective.

The film The Birth of a Nation uses the rape of main character Nat Turner’s wife as the motivation for Turner to lead a slave rebellion.

The film also includes a second rape of another slave, which leads to her husband helping Nat with the slave rebellion. Both of these

scenes focus on the men’s reaction to these women being assaulted.

While one of the women voices her pain over her assault, she is not given as much screen time as either of the two men. The problem with this is that it takes the abuse of female characters to make the male lead react to them. This becomes the main catalyst of conflict with the slaves and their owners.

What’s also troubling about the film is even though it’s based on an actual person, the film’s writer and main actor, Nate Parker, inserted a rape that has not been historically documented. What this means is that the rapes in the story are there solely for plot convenience.

Not out of necessity. Not out of history, as with the main plot points and themes.

Other stories, like Netflix’s Jessica Jones, have been able to incorporate rape and expand on it in interesting ways.

The original Netflix series focuses on superhero Jessica Jones, a woman traumatized by an abusive relationship. Jessica was raped and controlled by show’s villain.

Though the show takes place in a superhero world, we see Jessica struggle in her daily life with depression and severe stress. Even though she is a superhero.

While still in a relationship with her abuser, Jessica is suicidal. By the end of the story, she is able to confront her abuser and grow.

While her story shows a more surreal take on a rape story, others are just as effective by looking at rape through a realistic lens.

In ABC’s American Crime, main character Taylor is a male high school student who claims to have been raped by a male classmate.

The show succeeds in its portrayal of rape and the culture surrounding it due to how the characters react to the assault. The show explains

how a rape kit is used and reveals how uncomfortable adults are talking about rape, especially one that includes minors. American Crime also shows how people of varying ages, races, and sexual identities believe it’s impossible for a man to be raped.

Media has the power to expand people’s views on important issues in society. But if writers are going to use rape in their stories, they need to avoid exploiting it. Nat’s does not need a rape to motivate him to freedom. To add a rape benefits no one in the story if unexplored.

A character like Jessica Jones shows how trauma can stay with a victim long after assault despite superhero strength. A story like Taylor’s shows the result of questioning the truthfulness of an assault.

A lot of truths can be fully realized in media when the focus is on the right character – the one fully affected by the issue.

Trudeau one year later: Please get moving, Justin

A little over a year ago, a wave of red swept the country. Justin Trudeau and his Liberals triumphed over Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. Despite conservative cries of “he’s just not ready”, the general consensus was Canadians wanted change and felt it would happen under Trudeau’s governance.

Canada allowed itself to fall in love with its new leader, for a short period of time. The honeymoon is now over.

Promises are partly how elections are won and Justin Trudeau’s campaign was full of them. Trudeau made promises he has yet to fulfill.

Granted, it takes time to implement ideas and strategies, but many Canadians see their PM as a man who spends a lot of time travelling and

Tommy Morais attending public events, and not enough running the country.

One only need look at the Prime Minister’s Twitter account to notice the numerous places he visits: Washington, China and Ukraine among others.

In between travels, Trudeau has made assisted death legal, brought 31, 000 Syrian refugees to Canada and raised taxes for the rich to ease the burden on the middle-class and low-income families.

A significant change to govern-

ment has been the creation of an equal gender cabinet. Trudeau’s 31-member cabinet is comprised of 16 men and 15 women.

When pressed by the media about the equality in his cabinet, Trudeau said, “It’s 2015.”

Some changes by the Trudeau administration haven’t been positive, however.

For instance, senior citizens have seen their pensions cut, making it more difficult for them to get by.

Many promises have yet to be fulfilled, such as the legalization of marijuana and changes to the veteran charter.

The PM has been criticized for spending large sums of money, which from day one he made clear would happen. He has spent $69

million for First Nations mental health issues here, $64.5 million for future humanitarian crises there.

It all adds up quickly. We have yet to see results on the infrastructure and job front.

During the 2015 campaign, Trudeau announced he was going to create jobs and infrastructure to boost the country’s economy by creating a deficit. And create a deficit he did. As expressed during the campaign, Trudeau and his Liberals aren’t expecting the budget to be balanced until 2019-2020.

Nonetheless, in the public’s eye, the PM is certainly personable. He isn’t afraid to embrace traditions and heritage, even when they’re not his own. Trudeau has taken part in pride parades, prayed with

Muslims in mosques and worn aboriginal regalia when he met with First Nations.

“Sunny ways my friends,” said Trudeau upon being elected Canada’s new PM. “Sunny ways.” The clouds have set in.

While competent on the surface, the Trudeau government has so far lacked production. It’s too early to tell how effective Trudeau has been or will be. Seeds have been planted, money has been spent and ideas have been thrown around. But Trudeau would be well-advised to put in a little more work at home and spend a little less time on the international scene.

Oh and Justin, please be mindful of where the nation’s money goes.

Thanks.

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Using technology in classrooms to enhance learning This is one in a series of conversations with faculty experts at UOIT and Durham College Jenn Amaro The Chronicle

The digital craze in today’s society is almost unavoidable. Dr. Janette Hughes has been working for UOIT since 2006, researching how this advancement can be integrated into schools to help students learn and gain the skills necessary to succeed.

Tell us what you do and how you do it.

I am a Canada Research Chair in Technology and Pedagogy. I work in the Faculty of Education which means I can focus more on my research which looks at how can we use new technology and digital tools in schools. Mainly I work in K-12 education and am looking for new ways to use technology to enhance student learning.

What makes your topic of research relevant?

We live in a digital age and we need to understand how to use technologies, but we don’t want to just be users or consumers of technology we also want to be producers. Students in grades K to 12 need the skills to be successful, not just in school but in life and their future employment.

Can you tell us of your roots and how you ultimately arrived in Oshawa?

Well, I was born in England.

We moved to Canada when I was very young. I grew up from about grade three until I moved away for university in Oshawa. I went to Queen’s University and studied concurrent education. I did a degree in English literature and history and did my education degree after that. I taught at Donevan Collegiate Institute, where I was a student. When Sinclair opened in Whitby I moved there as an assistant head of English. Then in 2000 we moved to London because my husband was taking a job there and I started working at Western University, which spiked my desire to work in the university environment. I decided to pursue a PhD and graduated (with) that in 2006 and got hired here.

It was really important to me to come back to Oshawa because I have roots here and I thought it was really amazing to have a university in this part of Ontario because I think it’s something that the community really needs.

How and when did you get interested in this area of expertise?

As a classroom teacher I noticed how engaged my students were when they were using technology.

I wanted to know if it moved be-

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Dr. Janette Hughes standing in front of the 3D printer in one of the workshop rooms at UOIT.

yond just being a novelty. It can be used to enhance their thinking, collaboration and communication.

tomorrow then I’m still contributing and it still makes me feel good that I can do that.

Through all of that who inspired you along the way?

What is the most important thing in this field you think people should know?

My children and my students. I became a teacher because of my grade eleven English teacher, but in terms of who inspires my work it’s the kids that I work with in the classrooms and the students at UOIT, as well. At first I thought I would really miss making a difference in the lives of those students from K-12, but I find that if I can work with these teacher candidates and prepare them to be teachers of

One of the most important things to me as a researcher is to ensure that all learners have access to this kind of technology.

One of the things we focus on is how do we make [these resources] available to those who live in low socio-economic areas where there’s not as many resources or money to buy the equipment.

Right now one of the things

we’re investigating is how can we sometimes unplug activities so they still teach computational thinking or digital literacy but can be done on a lower budget. But how can we facilitate getting the resources allocated to the places that they need to be so that all students can experience this kind of learning?

What is your favourite part of this research?

I love working with the kids. I love seeing the enthusiasm of the teacher candidates. They want to be teachers because they’re passionate about students, and about learning themselves. They are so

inspired to go out there and work with students so I love that.

What is the toughest challenge that you have faced in this research?

One of the things of working with cutting edge technologies is they work beautifully in your lab, but then moving them to a school you run into problems with the internet for example. So it’s a frustration but you always find ways around. You need to be able to problem solve and trouble shoot.

This interview was edited for style, length and clarity.

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War game draws vets’ ire James Bauman The Chronicle

A recently released world war-related video game that is expected to sell 15 million units, has drawn the ire of some veterans and their families.

Veterans are raising concerns about the developer and publisher of the game – called Battlefield 1 - profiting from the experiences of veterans.

Set during the First World War, Battlefield 1 is a first person shooter, developed by DICE, a Swedish video game company and is published by Electronic Arts. During the official release weekend of Oct. 21 – Oct. 23, there were 749,189 players in game during peak hours across PC, PlayStation 4, and XBOX One.

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Release copy of Battlefield 1.

The use of war in popular forms of entertainment has existed almost as long as the formats, but to veterans and their families the commercialization and glamourization of war in the entertainment industry draws strong emotions.

“I don’t think they should be profiting off of it… they glamourize a lot of it, to make people believe that war is glamourous, while it certainly isn’t,” said Arthur Boon, formerly of the Perth Regiment and the 19th Canadian Army Field Regiment. “I was there from D-Day to VE-Day, I was wounded twice, and there is no glamour to it… it shouldn’t be done that way, I believe in having documentaries that tell what the war is all about.”

Lorraine Longley, whose second husband John Longley served at Camp X in Oshawa during the Second World War, echoed a similar sentiment.

“I don’t agree with that at all (using war as subject matter) profiting off of our soldiers who gave their lives, who were mortally wounded, coming back without legs and arms. I just don’t agree with it at all,” said Longley.

Battlefield 1 engages players by having them take on the roles of six soldiers all fighting during the conflict under the command of different nation states that were involved in the First World War. A Royal Flying Corps fighter pilot, an ANZAC runner, and a Bedouin warrior under the command of Lawrence of Arabia are just some of the roles players can take on.

Boon believes that the portrayal of war in books and films is also inaccurate when compared to the realities faced by the men who enlisted and served during both World Wars.

“Some of our top writers weren’t born while the war was on, they have followed along and made money off of war. They go and get stories from generals and from the high command. They don’t tell it like it is on the ground. The way (war) happens is when the private soldier… is out there on the ground fighting that war. He knows what it’s all about,” said Boon.

Battlefield 1 was released exactly three weeks before Remembrance Day. This Remembrance Day will mark the 97th consecutive Nov. 11 in which residents of the Commonwealth of Nations will pause, reflect, and remember.

The game is a strong reminder of the First World War for a new generation that may be unfamiliar with that war. But to veterans such as Boon, there is no reminder needed.

“My father served in World War One, one of my uncles served there and was killed at Vimy Ridge, my grandfather also served there, and I served over in Europe, and I also had four uncles who served down in Italy during the Second World War with the First Regiment, and one in the air force. So our entire family was involved in both of those wars.

So I remember both of them (the First and Second World Wars),” said Boon.

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British serviceman, John Longley, served at Camp X.

Second World War spy camp lives on in Whitby Rebecca Calzavara The Chronicle

Some Durham College students are getting the opportunity to learn and be part of a significant part of this area’s history.

Students in the heritage program have been involved in restoring the last remaining building from Camp X, located on the Oshawa-Whitby border by Lake Ontario, which was a training camp for spies during the Second World War. Lynn Philip Hodgson, who helped instigate local interest in Camp X, is working on a project with Durham College’s heritage program run by Ali Taileb.

“Not too many people know its history,” Hodgson said about Camp X. Taileb was contacted by the Town of Whitby asking him what he could do in assisting with their project of making the remains a museum. The Ontario Regiment Museum wants to take the remaining Camp X building and relocate it near the museum on Oshawa airport property.

Taileb teaches the course of restoration and renovation of historical buildings at Durham.

“It’s a real situation, they wanted to create a Camp X museum” Taileb said, “and the students are involved in the design of the Camp X museum.”

The students went to the mu-

Photograph by Ali Taileb

Photograph by Rebecca Calzavara

Before: Durham College view a model of the Camp X base.

After: the last remaining building of Camp X.

seum and got some background on the camp and got to take a look at what the project was about. The students looked into the archives so they can restore the existing interior of the building.

According to Taileb, this was a great way to get students in that program to use the skills they are learning in the classroom into the real world.

“This site has a lot to offer in terms of being a historic war” Taileb said, “and it also fits very well with the course.”

Camp X was built in 1941 and

agents who were training.

According to Hodgson, the last remaining Camp X building was bought and saved by a woman named Muriel H. Sissons. Sissons was a cat lover and the dean of the Ontario Ladies College (now Trafalgar Castle School).

She bought it for one dollar and approached the Ontario Humane Society to see if they would use it to house cats.

The building was then moved to the Whitby Animal Shelter on Thickson Road but was never used to house cats. It was used as cold

was a training camp for spies to go to Germany to fight against Germans in the Second World War. The camp opened on Dec 6, 1941 and operated from 1941 to 1945.

A lot of important people have travelled through and attended Camp X, including Sir Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond.

According to a Heritage Evaluation Report created by Martindale Planning Services of Camp X, the only remaining Camp X building is a portion of one of the two ‘H’ shaped dormitories to house the

storage and for holding dog food and equipment. After a few years the building was no longer used and was boarded up.

For 40 years they have been trying to create a museum using the last remains of the camp explained Hodgson.

Taileb explained that many people are not familiar with Camp X or what it is. When people find out about it they get excited and then start asking questions about the camp.

“We can’t forget the past,” Taileb said.

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Going global is a priority for DC Durham group discusses Peru trip

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Travis Fortnum, a second-year Durham College (DC) web and print journalism student, describes his recent trip to Trujillo, Peru as “literally life changing.”

DC’s Peru project was the school’s first international opportunity for students to go to another country through their program. In this case the opportunity was only offered to students in the journalism streams, video production and the culinary school.

Through a two–year partnership that Durham has with Centro Experimental de Formación Profesional, a technical and vocational college in Trujillo, an opportunity presented itself.

After a four-week application and interviewing process that Fortnum describes as “stressful”, three Durham students - Fortnum, Vik Panjawani and Kyle Rist - from the three different programs were chosen to go to Peru. They left Sept. 26 and returned Oct. 3.

According to Danielle Harder, journalism professor at DC, the purpose of the trip was to “enhance the Peruvian school’s culinary management program through the expertise and curriculum of faculty from DC’s Centre for Food.”

While in Peru, Rist shared some Canadian recipes with his new Peruvian colleagues and brought some Peruvian recipes back with him. Fortnum and Panjawani worked together as journalist and videographer to document the experience.

According to Katie Boone, Durham’s manager of international projects and partnerships, the project was funded by the government of Canada, facilitated through Colleges and Institutes Canada and is part of its Education for Employment project.

The focus of the project is to link graduate skill sets with industry de-

mand and to make sure students are students and a DC student gets the graduating with skills employers opportunity to go to visit the other want and need. The whole project institution for a year. ends next March.

With the new department in Boone believes international opportunities, “build an incredible self-awareness when you are thrown into another culture, another community, with different expectations, different perceptions on who you are both from outsiders and from yourself that I think is a really great learning opportunity.”

Boone isn’t the only administrator who believes in the importance of cultural opportunities.

Elaine Popp, Durham’s vice-president academic (VPA), says one of her main roles as VPA is internationalization. Popp would like students to have opportunities to travel, study and learn abroad.

Popp believes students who graduate from the programs at DC should have great cultural awareness, acceptance of different cultures and cultural diversities.

According to Popp, our society is very interconnected and it’s quite often that companies communicate with other countries on a daily basis.

“India’s not that far away anymore,” says Popp.

According to Popp, DC implemented the International Education office last year. Previously, the International office looked at getting international students to come and study at DC. The ‘rebranded’ International Education office also looks at ways for students and faculty to go abroad and find ways to have global experiences at home for students.

Popp says “it is now a priority having international opportunities for our students and our faculty. It is now recognized as being a priority, so it’s going to be given attention and focus. It’s not something that will happen ‘boom’ overnight but we’ll work towards it and work towards providing more opportunities for these trips.”

Popp explains the trips may be short, come in the form of internships, or field placement opportunities. She explains some trips may even be exchanges - programs where Durham partners with another institution in another country and DC accepts one of their

place, within the next five years DC will be looking at a different sort of program. According to Popp, the perfect example is a program

where students focus and learn about global events and also get opportunities to go to these global events.

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and the turnout was tremendous.

Steeles Avenue was backed up with cars waiting to turn in and parallel parking happening along side streets.

Police had to escort drivers in and out of the parking lot, according to Lilian Igel, the manager at Whitta-

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Izabella, Antonia and Liliana Torcivia holding their pumpkins in the pumpkin patch.

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them in the pumpkin patch when they were really little,” she said.

Antonio Torcivia, one of the four children in the family, says his favourite part is the animals.

The four children, amongst the dozens of children and families, searched the pumpkin patch on the way out of Pumpkinland, for their perfectly round and orange traditional Halloween decoration.

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Despite lower temperatures, Whittamore’s Farm in Markham was still filled with children jumping on bouncing castles, swinging on the swings, and of course, picking their pumpkin.

Parents were bundled in coats, scarves and mittens on Oct. 23 to hide from piercing winds, but the laughter and the fun their children were having in all the activities during the Pumpkinkand festivities made the cold weather tolerable for them.

The Whittamore’s Farm, just north of Rouge Park, has been in the Whittamore family since 1804, and has become a traditional attraction for many families every year.

With a 50-foot turbo slide, bouncing castles and jumping pillows, a corn maze, farm animals and wagon rides, families have been returning every year to join in all the fun activities before they proudly pick their yearly pumpkin.

The mother of the Torcivia family has been coming since she was a kid and has always brought her own kids to the Pumpkinland festival. “I loved taking photos of

It’s a great family farm.

Elsewhere on the property, Lisa and Sandy Behrend watched their daughter, Lexi, play in the Sand Toylot.

The family hasn’t been to the farm in quite a few years but were glad to return.

“It would be nice if it wasn’t’ so cold though,” Lisa laughed with her hand tightly bundled in her pockets.

But the weather was not going to stop the family from enjoying all the fun the Whittamore’s farm has to offer.

The weather the previous weekend was completely opposite, with above seasonal temperatures

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The turnout was incredible in early October, but despite the cold weather, Igel says families are still making their way into the farm.

Igel has been working for the farm for 24 years and says it’s a fun place to work. “It’s a great family

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farm. The Whittamores are great people to work for, the staff is great, I’m very lucky with my staff. The nice thing about working here are the families. The families come in with smiles on their faces and that’s all the gratification you need,” says Igel.

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Locals run for special needs children Everyone gets together on a cause like that. view.

Santos has also started a blog, www.jessicarachele.com.

She has written about her ex-

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Run Ajax had its annual 5K run on Sept. 25.

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Several mini obstacles are spread across a large soccer field. Volunteers spread out layers of medals on a table near a large finish line.

A stream of mostly blue-shirted runners prepare themselves to start their morning marathons.

They are here for the annual Run Ajax event.

More than $40,000 was raised for Grandview Children’s Centre, according to the agency’s executive director Bridgitte Tschinkel.

The money raised will go towards the nearly 26,000 children in Durham on Grandview’s waitlist.

Grandview is a not-for-profit

pediatric treatment and rehabilitation centre with locations in Whitby, Port Perry, and most recently Ajax.

Grandview offers many services, including speech-language pathology, audiology assessments among others.

Zoey Virrey, 2, was born with cerebral palsy and was referred to Grandview by Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto earlier this year.

She has received both occupational therapy and physiotherapy at Grandview.

She ran in the 1K children’s event earlier that day. Zoey had several relatives there alongside her, many of them wearing #TEAMZOEY superhero T-shirts to support her.

This was Zoey’s and her parents’, Jessica Santos and Ajay Virrey, first year at Run Ajax. Both hope to return every year to support Grand-

periences finding out about Zoey’s diagnosis and her progress with Grandview so far.

Ajax mayor Steve Parish was also in attendance. He says events like these are beneficial to the community.

“They bring people together over a common cause, about helping kids who have particular medical issues, everybody sympathizes with that,” he says. “Everyone gets together on a cause like that.”

Santos and Virrey hope to make their #TEAMZOEY group bigger in the coming years to support Zoey and to thank Grandview.

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Oshawa is making a name for itself in the arts and culture communities.

That’s the message Oshawa mayor John Henry delivered at the 2016 Cultural Summit, an annual event organized by the City of Oshawa to provide updates regarding the city’s activities regarding arts, culture, and heritage in the past year.

“Oshawa has been in the shadow of Toronto for so long,” Henry said, noting 2016 has been a year of achievements for the city.

Among the highlights, according to the 2016 Cultural Summit achievements and highlights guide: • More than 6,000 attendees for the 2016 Peony Festival, an event where 300 to 400 different types of peonies were displayed, along with live music, food, and gardening seminars.

• More than 1,400 people attended Concerts in the Park, a free outdoor concert at Memorial Park, in which 14 bands performed.

• There were also seven local organizations that partnered with the city for Culture Squared, an event that hosts an artists marketplace

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Oshawa Civic Band sets the mood with upbeat jazz to start off the cultural summit.

at Civic Square for individuals and enthusiasts interested in arts, culture, and heritage. This year’s partners were Oshawa Museum, Oshawa Public Libraries, LivingRoom Community Art Studio, Ontario Regiment Museum, Oshawa

Senior Citizens Centre, Oshawa Little Theatre, and Oshawa Art Association.

“We work with so many local organizations, almost too many to even speak about,” said Catherine Richards, Manager of Culture and

Central Recreation Services.

Culture Squared also had more than 30 performers, musicians, and bands this year, with 90 per cent being local groups.

This year there were more than 40 festivals and events held across the city. Eight city-run events included Oshawa Celebrates, Peony Festival, Canada Day, Culture Square, Concerts in the Park, Tree Lighting, Deck the Halls, and Doors Open.

Nineteen sites participated in the 2016 Doors Open event, including three new ones, which were Pine Ridge Model Train Club, Lakeridge Health Oshawa LHEARN Centre, and Science and spectacle – Walking Tour through Alexandra Park.

Oshawa showed its support for art by displaying four new public art pieces, one community mural at Civic Square, and three pianos - at City Hall, Northview Community Centre, and South Oshawa Community Centre.

Yolanda Beasley, an Oshawa resident who directed and acted in her own movie filmed in Oshawa, also screened her film’s trailer for the first time during the Cultural Summit.

“The (Oshawa) city has definitely helped me a lot in my journey,” said Beasley.

Durham College’s faculty of Media, Art and Design also teamed up with Cultural Collaborations for Civic Square collaboration, Arts Resource Centre (ARC) Window Installation, and a Civic Square Banner partnership with RMG. DC students and the city engaged the community to design and select a mural which is now located at Civic Square. Students will also be creating artwork to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, and the artwork will be installed on the ARC windows next year May. There will also be an installation of five ‘Culture Lives Here’ banners, which lead up to Civic Square and RMG. The presentation also included a brief list of priorities that will be focused on in 2017. According to Richards, the collaboration with Durham College, 150th Anniversary of Canada, public art community, event planning guide, partnership development, and the collaboration with the cultural leadership council are some activities that will be worked on next year.

'It's like a nightmare version' of a city like Oshawa Oshawa author comes back to the city for cultural summit Sharena Clendening The Chronicle

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Author Andrew F. Sullivan.

An author’s job is to make people care about the words that have been written.

That was the message Oshawa author Andrew F. Sullivan brought to the city’s Cultural Summit held at the Arts Resource Centre Oct. 19.

The City of Oshawa holds the event annually to update people on the status of arts and cultural events in the community.

As part of the summit, Sullivan

spoke to some city staff, along with officials from UOIT and Durham College and Oshawa residents about his book, called ‘Waste’.

“The first rule is that nobody cares, and you have to make them care, and it is up to you to make your work valuable to other people,” says Sullivan, 29, about the process of writing.

Sullivan says the book is about a broke down industrial city in 1989, in the middle of a downfall.

He says it is not specifically about here, but is a “shadow” of a city like Oshawa.

“It’s not really about Oshawa, it’s like a nightmare version, a lithium, nightmare version of a city of this size in a post-industrial sort of landscape and it takes place in the 80’s,” he says.

Sullivan says writers tend to write about what they know and he knows Oshawa because he grew up here, attending Father Francis Mahoney elementary school and St. Stephen’s Secondary School in Bowmanville until he moved away to London, Ont. to attend Western University in 2005.

Sullivan started writing at a

young age but later in life he says writing became more than just a hobby.

Currently, he has two other books that are written and awaiting publication and is about to start work on a third.

In addition to his written work, Sullivan works at an urban design company in Toronto.

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WE Day draws thousands of youth to make a difference Barbara Howe The Chronicle

There were never any tickets for sale for one of the hottest events in Toronto.

Nevertheless, 20,000 students and educators from more than 1,000 schools across Ontario packed the Air Canada Centre (ACC) with enough energy to raise the roof at the ninth annual WE Day celebration Oct 19.

WE Day is the culmination of the WE Movement which is a family of charitable and social enterprise organizations. Their goal is to empower young people to make a difference both at home and around the world.

An ocean of students surged into the ACC to experience the

‘greatest classroom in the world’ at a full-day live event. A series of world-renowned speakers and performers including Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip, Margaret Trudeau, the mother of Canada’s prime minister, and astronaut Chris Hadfield took turns to inspire the young crowd.

“You can’t buy a ticket to WE Day. It’s a movement. When we come together, we create massive change,” said Craig Kielburger, as he pranced around the stage alongside his elder brother, Marc.

The brothers co-founded the family of organizations in 1996 when Craig was 12-years-old.

The younger Kielburger was inspired to be an advocate for change after he read a newspaper article about another 12-year-old,

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Thousands of students descended on the Air Canada Centre to celebrate WE Day. The annual event brings together performers and speakers to inspire and empower youth to make a difference around the world.

Iqbal Masih from Pakistan. Masih was murdered for speaking out against child slavery. Kielburger took the newspaper to his Grade 7 classmates the next day and started a group to try and make a difference.

Since 2007 youth involved in the WE Schools program have raised more than $62 million for

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CFL legend Michael "Pinball" Clemons and mother Anna Marie Bryant rally the WE Day crowd.

more than 2,500 local and global organizations. They have also volunteered 19.9 million hours and collected 7.6 million pounds of food for those in need.

Students in the schools involved in the program earn the right to attend the event by taking action in one local and one global cause.

Twin sisters Nivaal and Maryam Rehman, Grade 10 activists from Sinclair High School in Whitby, filmed the event for their own YouTube Channel, The World with MNR. The girls said they hope to raise awareness for issues such as gender equality, girls’ education and environmental sustainability.

“It’s extremely inspirational, there’s lots of positive energy,” the girls said in unison about the event at the lunchtime break.

The twins were born in Pakistan and moved to Canada in 2006. They were inspired to become activists when their grandmother donated land in her village to build a girls’ school there to give girls the same opportunities as boys.

Since then, the two 15-yearolds have continued to be involved in community and environmental issues in Canada, Pakistan and around the world. They participated in the WE campaigns, WE are Silent and WE Scare Hunger.

In 2015 the sisters were awarded the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award for their work in global and local communities.

Tragically Hip front man, Gord Downie drove all night from Ottawa to perform at the event.

His latest album, Secret Path was inspired by the plight of the indigenous communities in the residential school system, particularly 12-year-old Chanie Wenjack.

The stadium heard the story of Wenjack who escaped the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ont. in 1966. Last weekend marked the 50th anniversary of his death. The young audience watched in quiet reverence during Downie’s emotional performance of The Stanger.

Downie, who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer earlier this year, illustrated Wenjack’s final ordeal; a walk down a frozen railway track after he escaped from the school. Downie ended the song collapsed and crumpled at the front of the stage.

Other speakers and performers energized the crowd throughout the day. High school student, swimmer and Olympic gold medalist, Penny Oleksiak spoke about the importance of motivation and dedication in achieving dreams.

Margaret Trudeau, the mother of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, spoke of her struggles with mental health.

WE Day has more stops scheduled this fall throughout Canada and next spring venues will include stops in the U.S. and London, U.K.

After approximately five months of work, collaborating with other school employees as well as writers, multimedia specialists and designers, the site is up and running and ready for students, staff and visitors to use.

It is also very easy to operate for everyone. Users click on the location that they wish to go to and there is information on that location and a navigation tool.

The navigation allows the users to enter their start location and their destination and the map will assist on their journey to get there

with the quickest route possible. It will show the estimated amount of time to walk there and the distance.

The destinations include each building on campus, foods services, study areas, and transit stops.

Icons for each location make it quick and easy to find exactly what the user is looking for without needing to know the name of each place.

The maps are available on the Durham College website, the information kiosk in the Gordon Willey building, and on the mobile app for Durham College.

Interactive maps help DC, UOIT students navigate around campus Jenn Amaro The Chronicle

Getting lost in the long, twisty, turning hallways is a common fear for many students at Durham College.

It can take a while into the semester before a pattern develops for first years to learn the easiest route to each class.

Kierra Knight, who was visiting the school for the first time, said it did not take long for her to get lost.

“I couldn’t find the Tim Hortons,

and had to ask many people along the way how to get there. At least everyone was really nice and helpful,” she said.

Even past first year, trying to find something at an unheard of section at Durham College, the fear resurrects about getting lost.

Thankfully, Durham College has launched new interactive maps online. The maps allow users to easily navigate around the Whitby and Oshawa campus, with details about every major space in the buildings.

They were made available just in time for the start of the 2016 school

year.

The development of the interactive maps was led by James Myers, a 2015 graduate from Durham College. Myers is a junior web developer, and works with the Communications and Marketing department at Durham College.

Myers understands that it is important for students to get to class quickly. “When I was a student at Durham College I spent a lot of time rushing around between classes and I wanted to make it easier for students to get where they need to go,” said Myers.

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How to maintain a work-life balance Abbygail Donneral

Special to the Chronicle

“Oh, no! I have three assignments, two tests, a meeting, chapter readings and I have to work this week!

How will I even begin to do it?”

This is a common question most students have when faced with a large workload, including myself.

However, almost always I make it through and succeed in what I am aiming to accomplish.

For students going to school, balancing assignments, work, and a healthy lifestyle isn’t easy. Personally, I am in a condensed program, that allows little time to work due to the course load, but I have ensured that I made the time in my schedule (during my breaks) to work as a Career Development Student Assistant work study position. There are several things that I often follow that allow me to maintain work-life balance: 1. Get Organized The first thing that I do is keep a schedule. Every year I maintain a dry erase calendar, and a planner.

The calendar is on the wall by my door, so this way I can see it every morning before I leave. This calendar is colour coded by class. On it, I outline all my assignments, tests, and anything else that I have to do in that month. In the planner, I do the same thing, and every time I receive a new assignment or get

notified of a test I add it into the calendar.

2. Breathe The second thing that I do is taking the time to stop and breathe in between completing tasks. In order to be successful and not as stressed you need to take these moments just to take a breath and re-evaluate.

During an especially busy day, I will always set aside the time to go to a quiet place, stop, breathe, and re-start.

3. Talk with family and friends The final thing that I do to maintain the balance is that I make sure I put time aside in my week to com-

municate with my family. I don’t live at home so being away from my family is hard. I take the time to call them when I not so busy.

It helps to give me a boost to get through my week, no matter how busy it is.

Just remember to stay organized and breathe!

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For additional tips and resources on how to maintain a healthy work-life balance, please be sure to visit your career office; the Career Development office at Durham College or the Student Life Career Centre at UOIT. This column is courtesy of the UOIT Student Life Career Centre.

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Canadian icon Lee Aaron on music longevity Tommy Morais The Chronicle

Her Bodyrock album went platinum in Canada. At just 22 she toured Europe opening for Bon Jovi. She’s known as the Metal Queen— a play on her album of the same name— a title she still carries more than 30 years after the record’s release.

These days the 54-year old Lee Aaron, juggles motherhood with life on the road.

Born Karen Lynn Greening, Aaron is currently touring in support of her latest studio album Fire & Gasoline. The new effort is her 11 career studio album and Tomboy is her first single in 20 years.

The average mother might be grocery shopping on a Friday night, but Aaron sings her heart out onstage on top of her motherly duties.

“What I’ve been doing is targeted pockets of dates rather than doing a full-cross Canada tour. I’m sort of breaking up the touring,” she says. “My husband is also a musician, it makes it easier to understand [for our two children].”

For Aaron, touring is different now than it was in the 1980s.

“The music industry is not what it used to be. It’s not the days of record companies putting $50,000 in tour support. When you go out you have to figure it out and make it financially viable.”

She remembers her early days, touring with Bon Jovi in Europe during the spring of 1985.

“I knew we had made it when we came back to these same places and we were now headlining,” With success came pressure from record labels for more of the same.

“There would be a hit song by a new artist and the record label would say you have to write something like that.”

Aaron and her band decided to forgo record company demands and made the album they felt they should make instead. The resulting work, 1989’s Bodyrock, was a commercial success.

“Of course when you have success everyone takes credit afterwards,” she admits.

In the early 1990s the musical landscape shifted and Aaron, like many musicians at the time, felt the repercussions.

“In pop-culture, grunge hit like a tsunami and it pretty much annihilated the careers of everybody that was doing classic melodic rock,” she explains. “I’m not the only person who felt a victim of that. I continued on.”

She soldiered on, but the waves just kept coming.

“I showed up one day in Vancouver and these banker boxes were on my doorstep. I discovered I was almost half a million dollars in debt that I wasn’t aware of and I had to declare bankruptcy in 1996.”

Although she is best known for anthems like Metal Queen, Hands On and Watcha Do To My Body, Aaron experimented with jazz and blues following her bankruptcy.

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Lee Aaron is currently on tour promoting her new Fire & Gasoline album.

“I went to my roots and started singing jazz and blues never expecting that to be successful.”

A second career was not an option.

“I can’t ever remember not thinking I was going to be a singer; I always knew what my passion was.”

The singer was recently inducted into Brampton’s Walk of Fame.

“I think in a weird way it meant more to my parents,” she says of the induction.

“All those years of screwing up and piano lessons...they invested in me. It’s really more of a payoff for them.”

To Lee Aaron, it represents more than just another award.

“At home I have Toronto Music Awards and a Canadian Music

Publisher Association songwriter award, this one has the significance of a lifetime award achievement”.

Judging by her youthful appearance, you’d never know she’s been in the music business for more than three decades.

“I resist the temptation of feeling old, I probably would feel [age] if I wasn’t continuing to be an artist and doing records,” she laughs.

contract to World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in the past. However, he is arguably best known for a promo turning the NWA championship into the ECW championship in 1994.

Douglas took on Jake O’Reilly and hometown hero Cody Deaner in the main event.

Deaner, who has found success in TNA and now Global Force Wrestling (GFW), has the moniker “King of the ‘Shwa.” He is a fan-favourite, and received a warm welcome from the rowdy crowd.

Other combatants, including Buck Gunderson, Phil Atlas, Kat Von Heez and Cat Power also wrestled at Rocktoberfest.

WWE Hall of Famer “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan was scheduled to appear at the event, but was unable to attend.

Roddy Untereinter, a long-time supporter of PWE and attendee at Rocktoberfest, says he likes PWE because it has something big-time

promotions don’t have: a good roster.

“I like PWE because it has the best talent,” Untereinter says. “My favourite wrestler is Rage.”

According to PWE founder and owner Sean “Dr. Mask” Morley, without dedicated fans like Untereinter, the company would not be where it is today.

“The fans have supported me very much, through every up and down,” he says. “I appreciate them and wrestling is all about the fans.”

“I had an event here, I don’t know how many years ago, I think it was a fundraiser for Parkinson’s, which my mom had. We had a problem with the ropes where they were all breaking, it was a horrible night, but the fans came back.”

He says Rocktoberfest is a big event for him and PWE, but every show is just a promotion for the next.

PWE returns to the Royal Canadian Legion Hall for November Bash ‘16 on Nov. 26.

Rocktoberfest a slobber-knocker for Oshawa fans Hometown wrasslin’ show a hit Tyler Hodgkinson The Chronicle

As the crowd roars and heavymetal music pumps through monitors, three quick dings of a bell signify the battle of titans at an independent wrestling show.

This was the scene at Rocktoberfest, a card full of body-thumping bouts put on by Oshawa-based promotion Pro Wrestling Eclipse (PWE). The event, which took place at the Royal Canadian Legion Hall, attracted an audience of about 100.

International wrestlers like former Total Nonstop Action (TNA) star Johnny Devine and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) legend Shane Douglas headlined

Photograph by Tyler Hodgkinson

Cody Deaner (left) and Shane Douglas in the main event. the talent. Devine has wrestled at multiple events for the promotion, but it was the first time Douglas stepped foot into the PWE ring.

He says he would love to return to Oshawa.

“If my agents can make sure my schedule allows for it, I want to be back in November,” he proclaims to the packed house.

Douglas has been in the business since the early 80s, and been under

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A fan of the book Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Kaylee McMann (left) standing in front of the movie poster and reading the book.

Miss Peregrine novel stands above movie Film adaptation doesn’t live up to the hype Dean Daley The Chronicle

If you haven’t read the book “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”, then the movie might have been good. But if you did read the novel then the movie is a letdown.

Both novel and film are focused on the lives of peculiar children.

What makes these children so peculiar are their special abilities. The children’s abilities include super strength, the ability to create fire and levitate. Both novel and movie are set in the present and during World War II, with the inclusion of a time loop, which allows certain peculiars to take a day and restart it over and over again. In both film and novel, the time loop day happens during World War II. Both stories also feature themes related to the holocaust. Like the Jews in World War II, the peculiar children are being hunted. Furthermore, the book and film have the same villainous characters: the hollowgast and the wights. Hollowgasts and wights were once peculiars, turned into monsters by an experiment. To regain their human form, hollowgasts eat peculiars then they become wights. Hollowgast seems to be a play on words with holo-

caust as wights is with white.

While the book and movie have quite a few similarities, there are also many differences; the biggest difference is the way the children find out the wights are Nazis in the book. This was left out of the movie.

When comparing the book to the movie, it becomes apparent the movie version of “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” does not have the level of detail or the hard hitting plot points the novel had. The novel explores emotional ties between characters, while the movie shows brief connections. The novel showed internal struggles that Jacob, the main character, had to face throughout the story; however, the movie lacked most of the internal strife present in the novel.

The movie and novel had different climaxes. The movie’s climax was purely for cinematic drama, while the book builds on crucial plot points and heartfelt moments.

The book’s climax also leads to a sequel. The movie’s does not.

The cinematic version of “Miss Peregrine’s Home” showed a glimmer of the emotional and psychological ties displayed throughout the book. In the movie, Abe, Jacob’s grandfather, tells bedtime stories about his stay at Miss Peregrine’s home. After Jacob finds his grandfather dead in the woods, Jacob needs therapy to deal with his loss. Another watered down relationship in the movie is between Abe and Emma, one of the children at Miss Peregrine’s Home. Abe’s relationship with Emma seems very shallow and one-sided in the movie but not in the book.

In the novel, there is a deep rela-

tionship not just between Abe and Emma but also between Abe and Jacob.

The first chapter in the novel builds on pictures and stories shared between Abe and Jacob.

Jacob is confused by the stories of real life monsters. Jacob comes to believe Abe created monsters out of Nazis because they killed his family. The novel also shows the deep pain Jacob felt when his grandfather died and how it affected him mentally. Jacob went to a psychiatrist for several months and had vivid nightmares of the night Abe died. This shows the profound attachment he had to his grandfather. The novel also reveals the relationship of two lovers, separated from one another because of the war. Even though Abe and Emma loved each other he decided to join the war. Abe and Emma sent letters to one another constantly and when the war was over Abe promised Emma he would find them a new home to live in North America.

Throughout the years the letters became less frequent. Finally, Abe sent Emma a letter with a picture of him holding a baby: his baby.

The picture broke Emma’s heart.

Abe and Emma’s relationship was well developed in the novel.

However, Jacob’s internal struggle was not developed in the film.

In the movie, Jacob’s inner demons seem to be hidden and not important. His main issues are trying to understand what happened to his grandfather and what his grandfather said with his dying last words. Jacob also barely struggles with whether to stay with the peculiar children or return home at the end of the movie.

In the novel though, Jacob struggles with his thoughts, with his love of Emma, and with his dreams about the night his grandfather died. Jacob was seeing the monster and his grandfather in dreams for months while seeing his psychiatrist. Lastly, Jacob struggles with whether or not he should stay with the peculiars or if he should go back home. He realizes he didn’t have much to go back to, and the peculiars needed his help. So he stayed.

If you read the novel then the movie is a letdown.

Not only were Jacob’s struggles done in more detail in the novel than the film but the climax also had more detail.

The climax in the movie and the novel both feature hollowgasts and wights. The movie had many wights and hollowgasts fighting against the children while Miss Peregrine, the peculiar who protects them, was locked away. The Baron, the villain of the movie, used his team of hollowgast and wights to attack Jacob and the peculiar children, who end up defeating the wights and hollowgasts and their leader. This victory is the

climax of the movie. The movie climax also added a very random love interest between two peculiars.

This side story was unnecessary, and did nothing for the plot.

The novel of “Miss Peregrine’s Home” has a very different climax.

The children are put against the one wight who had been Jacob’s psychiatrist and the one hollowgast who killed Abe. The children manage to defeat the hollowgast, but the wight pulls a gun on the children and steals Miss Peregrine and one of her friends.

Afterwards the wight shoots Millard, one of the peculiar children.

Nearing the end of the climax a fight between Emma, Jacob and the wight occurs.

The fight ends with Jacob killing the wight. Then he and Emma jump off the lighthouse they were fighting on. They survive the jump and a Uboat arrives. They then realize some Nazis are wights. This establishes Nazis as monsters for peculiars and Jewish people further cementing the underlining theme of WWII and the holocaust in the story.

While the movie and the book have a similar theme and setting of WWII, the movie would have been better if given a different name.

The movie lacked significant plot points and development the novel had. The novel showed character attachments, internal struggle, and a heartfelt climax.

If you’ve read the novel “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” by Ransom Riggs don’t bother with the movie. If you haven’t read the book and don’t plan on it, then give Tim Burton’s adaptation a try.

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Celebrating 20 years of Pokemon Tyler Searle The Chronicle

From handheld games to android phones, you’ll find people playing and connecting over Pokémon. It has been that way for 20 years.

The successful role-playing game about capturing monsters to use in battle has gone on to become a $46 million franchise. The success of Pokémon can be attributed to good marketing, strong game design, and the existence of the Pokémon anime.

“Most people didn’t know about it [Pokémon] until they saw the TV show, then they went out and bought a Game Boy,” said Becca LeClerc, the assistant manager at EB Games, Whitby North.

For their 20th anniversary, the Pokémon Company has gone full force in marketing to old and younger fans. From branching off into new games, airing new seasons of the anime, and making new plushies and trading cards, there seems to be something for everyone.

“It’s not just a handheld RPG (role playing game),” said LeClerc.

“It can be a fighting game, it can be a photography game, it can be many things not just associated to Pokémon.”

On Nov. 18, Pokémon Sun and Moon, will be available for purchase. Fans were able to get a taste of the new games through a demo released on Oct 18. These games

Photograph by Tyler Searle

A collection of Pokemon games and memorabilia from over the last few years.

will be bringing several changes to the formula, including getting rid of the long running gym-systems that serve as the game’s boss battles.

“It breathes a bit of fresh air into the franchise,” said LeClerc.

Though the games have only begun to branch outside of their traditional RPG formula, 2016 has seen the franchise experiment with a variety of games outside of handheld.

Crown Lands bring new flare to Oshawa Alex Debets

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When Cody Bowles and Kevin Comeau started bonding over their mutual interest in legendary Canadian rock band Rush just over two years ago, a new band, and a critical partnership was born.

They call themselves Crown Lands. They actually met at a tryout for another band, and after jamming for two-and-a-half years, the group has returned from one of their most ambitious tours to date.

It was a tour that saw the Oshawa duo playing 14 shows in 17 days, covering much of the Canadian east coast.

Their first EP, Mantra, has a nostalgic sound, a sound that should be familiar to fans of Led Zeppelin or Rush, the influences are clear. “Mantra comes from many different places,” Bowles explained. Comeau added: “Yeah it’s like Zeppelin, Rush.”

The duo is working on a new

EP, with a new, fuller, sound. “The new stuff I’m incorporating more keyboards, and just a bit more bass and different sounds. Just trying to fill out the low end. Just trying to change,” said Comeau. Bowles said the duo added the new sound “because it’s always healthy to change.”

The band is not saying much about the unannounced EP, but they have confirmed it will be recorded at the Chalet Studio in Uxbridge. Chalet Studio was also responsible for recording Roll the Bones by Rush.

No formal release date has been set for this yet unnamed project, but the band expects it to be done by next summer.

Photograph by Alex Debets

The group Crown Lands, Cody Bowles (left) and Kevin Comeau, mesh together elements of blues and psychedelia.

“I think that one of the best things about Pokémon is its ability to expand,” said John Goodwin, a professor and program coordinator of video game development at Durham College. “Pokémon Go was immensely successful, even though it wasn’t made by Nintendo or the Pokémon company.”

Released in July, Pokémon Go is a game for Android and iPhone developed by Niantic that allow players to catch Pokémon while

walking utilizing augmented reality (AR).

“There’s something insidiously cool to take Pokémon and use it to introduce players to AR,” said Goodwin. “Pokémon Go brought attention to the franchise. It did exactly what Nintendo needed it to do.”

Alongside Pokémon Go, the Pokémon company also released Pokken Tournament in July. The game, which was made with the

help of Bandi Namco Entertainment, places classic Pokémon characters into a fighting game similar to the Tekken series. It is a game that Pokémon fans had been curious about ever since seeing Pikachu among the roster of Nintendo’s fighting game, Super Smash Brothers.

“That [Pokken] would have been much more of a risk if they’d never tested the formula,” said Goodwin. “Nintendo is very good at marrying different franchises.”

In March 2017, Nintendo will release its newest mobile console, the Nintendo Switch. Many Pokémon fans are hoping that, with its ability to be played at home or on the go, they will finally get a console Pokémon game.

“From a technology standpoint, the franchise has long legs,” said Goodwin. “Because it is the second most lucrative franchise owned by Nintendo, it’s a flag ship.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a new Pokémon game were to come out for the Nintendo Switch.”

The strength of Pokémon has always been its ability to bring people together. By trading with other players to collect all 721 Pokémon, a strong community has formed that has remained standing these 20 years.

“I see the franchise as being valuable because there are so many people connected to it,” said Goodwin. “It ‘sambassador for new technologies and innovations.”

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Oshawa arts community bands together Members of Spoken Weird share at open mic night run by EPEC Jessica Stoiku The Chronicle

Through open mic performances, members of Oshawa’s arts community were able to experience “a love and a connection that is overwhelming.”

That’s the opinion of Cora Reid, host of the open mic event and founder of EPEC (Experience Pure Energy Connections), who says she made those connections with artists, including members of Spoken Weird, at The Living Room Com-

“A lot of the stories I just came in for really…connected with me,” says Heather Ballantyne, guest to The LivingRoom. “I have been a nomad my whole life. I have never come across this space where there is so much acceptance and love and understanding and [a] genuine feeling of community,” she says.

Kathleen Finely shared The Goose Story by Dr. Harry Clarke Noyes. Finely connected the story of teamwork and belonging to the dynamics of The LivingRoom.

I have never come across this space where there is so much acceptance. munity Art Studio last month.

The small studio in downtown Oshawa was filled with a couple dozen poets, musicians, storytellers and members of the community.

Throughout the evening performers shared their personal stories and struggles through song and poetry to a room of complete strangers. Despite the different walks of life stepping through the door, the room held a sense of unity and belonging.

Sid MacIsaac, founder of the spoken word poetry group Spoken Weird in Oshawa, became addicted to the adrenaline of performing his poetry.

“It’s like dancing with just your chest and just your heart. I feel so anxious when I’m up there. I hate that I love to do this,” he says.

Through Spoken Weird, MacIsaac hopes to provide an outlet for those to express their hardships.

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A guest to The LivingRoom paints live as fellow community members perform.

“This says so much to me about what this space is, about the community that it offers all of us,” she says.

“I always wanted to fly with the flock. I was always falling to earth.

[I] wanted to be found…to be guided. All I ever wanted was to be in the group. So I’m here in this space, and maybe I will find it.”

Reid believes the world would not thrive without artists.

“We’re world changers, we’re the ones that…are able to express what people are afraid to say, afraid to feel and afraid to think,” she says.

“When you embrace that, you realize how special and unique you really are.”

Witnessing the raw performances brought tears to Reid’s eyes.

“I didn’t intend to be emotional.

Every person’s story has touched me on a level…I just thought I was the only one,” says Reid, her voice

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Cora Reid singing along with guests to Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds. cracking.

Reid used to go through life thinking she was the only one to have ever felt abused, mistreated and marginalized. The connection she felt to each performer was unreal.

“Here’s a group of artists,

beautiful people, that have all been through the same thing. I’m feeling you on such a level that it’s overwhelming, and I’m feeling a love and a connection that is overwhelming,” says Reid.

Reid hopes to see the art community having a greater impact in

Durham Region.

Reid wants to show “the politicians…the police officers… the teachers that this is what it’s all about. It’s about being inclusive; it’s about accepting people. There’s a lot our community can learn from this.”

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'Bigs' bode well for Lords

Christopher Jones The Chronicle

The Durham Lords men’s volleyball team is confident, talented and ready to win.

Their drive and passion could be seen in the way they played when they hosted the Adidas Cup Oct. 7-8. They didn’t win – Fleming claimed the title with a win over Algonquin – but the Lords did post a record of 4-1-2.

With an emphasis on defence, the Lords held their own against strong teams, such as Algonquin and Conestoga, and even beat the winner of the tournament, the Fleming Knights, to start day one of the round robin.

On the second day the Lords won their first game against Cambrian, but were unable to carry that success forward, tying Conestoga and losing to Algonquin.

While the Lords didn’t win, the team showed a lot of promise for the season to come. Head coach George Matsusaki and fifth year players, Braydon Rodgers and Mike Harper, all emphasized the importance of defence. The three of them believe their ability to defend will serve Durham well this season.

Before the tournament, Matsusaki was confident in his team despite the fact they had lost an exhibition game to the Mohawk Mountaineers in three straight sets.

“The defence aspect of our game is in pretty good shape, and yeah, for this time in the season we’re in pretty good shape,” he said.

Matsusaki said while the team

wanted to do well in the Adidas Cup, they were going to treat it as more of a pre-season warmup.

“I expect that when all is said and done, we’ll be battling for the top two spots, top three spots.”

We have some new, big recruits coming in, and it seems like the guys are meshing.

Matsusaki showed a lot of confidence in his players, and when fifth year players, Braydon Rodgers and Mike Harper were asked about the upcoming season, they returned the same level of confidence.

On what’s different this year from last year, when Durham finished tied for first with a 16-4 record in the East, but ultimately failed to maintain that pace in the playoffs, Rodgers pointed to additional size and teamwork.

“We have some new, big recruits coming in, and it seems like the guys are meshing more this year than they were last year to start off,”

Durham players gather between serves at the Adidas Cup.

he said.

Harper pointed to the old but accurate sporting cliché about the importance of defence.

“I believe our team brings more of a defensive aspect that we’ve been lacking the last four years I’ve been here,” he said. “We still have the offensive power, but defense is

what wins you championships in every sport.”

With a newfound emphasis on defence, Durham team seems confident and ready to go for the 20162017 season.

The confidence that they’ve shown both on and off the court is astounding; with players like

Photograph by Michael Welsh

Jordan McFarlane showing an unbridled passion that can only help his team’s confidence.

The team’s first regular season game took place against the Canadore Panthers Oct. 23, where they won in five sets. Their next is on Nov. 3 against the Georgian Grizzlies in Barrie, Ont.

Durham Lords women dominate Algonquin Thunder Joshua Nelson The Chronicle

The Durham Lords women’s basketball team cruised to a win over the Algonquin Thunder in their home opener.

The Lords won 75-59 over the Thunder, Oct. 21.

The Thunder, traditionally a strong team in the OCAA, jumped out to a 14-10 lead, but Durham dominated from that point on.

Heather LaFontaine, Durham’s head coach, was ecstatic after the win.

“That’s Algonquin! Algonquin has typically been the number one team in the east for years, and I think we handled them very well tonight, like that wasn’t a fluke win…we handled them right across the board, so it was huge for us,” said LaFontaine.

The Lords battled back after the first quarter, led by Brittany Walters, who scored 10 points in the quarter and pulled the Lords ahead 31 - 25.

But, in the second half, it was all Lindsey Panchan who accumulated 15 of her 23 points in those two quarters alone.

Panchan has high hopes for Dur-

Photograph by Joshua Nelson

Durham's Brittany Walters (left) battles for control of the ball against an Algonquin player. ham after the decisive win.

“I am expecting our team to make it to the OCAA (Ontario Colleges Athletic Association), to become number one in the east,

I am expecting us to really just buckle down and have extreme focus on our offensive sets,” said Panchan.

Panchan, a back-to-back CCAA

(Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association) all-Canadian awards winner.

She has personal goals she would like to achieve in her final year

competing with the Lords. “(My) personal goals this year are to be a little bit more fit, pick up on my strength and conditioning and be a little bit more versatile, and get to the hoop, I was relying a lot on my jump shot,” said Panchan.

Panchan’s personal goals also involve motivating her team and fellow teammates.

“Personally I’m expecting just to keep lifting the team up, keep helping the team, working with my teammates, passing the ball when there’s an open player,” said Panchan. The Lords’ win confirmed the high hope the team had of improving defence from last year.

“We worked really hard this past pre-season…we stayed determined, we came in with a goal of how we were going to play defence,” said Dakota Kirby, a Durham guard.

The coach agreed with Kirby.

“We’re playing better defence, there’s no comparison between the defence we are playing now and the defence we played last year, it’s a whole other team,” said LaFontaine.

The Lords hope to use this win as a stepping-stone for moving forward to becoming number one in the east.

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Coffey supports good cause Nicole O’Brien

The Chronicle Have you ever wanted the chance to play alongside some of National Hockey League’s biggest legends to hit the ice? What if you could have that chance and raise money for a great cause?

Easter Seals, a charitable organization that assists children and adults with disabilities and special needs has teamed up with the NHL for five years now to make this very dream come true.

One of their most popular fundraisers are the celebrity hockey classic series that occur in six cities across Ontario.

Paul Coffey is huge. I was nervous to just be in his presence.

Paul Coffey lends his name to his own series for Easter Seals in Vaughan, Ont. Coffey is ranked as the second best defencemen of all

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Paul Coffey (fourth from the left) gathers with participants at the Easter Seals hockey classic.

time and played for teams such as Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penquins and the Boston Bruins.

“They asked me four years ago to chair this event,” said Coffey. “I say every year and it’s true, I said sure I’ll do it for a year and now it’s our fourth year.”

Coffey kicked off the tournament

with the annual Captain’s Breakfast in early October. This year J.D. Smith & Sons, a competing team in the November tournament, hosted the breakfast at its Vaughan warehouse.

Captains from each of the competing teams gathered to pick up their tournament jersey and have

the chance to meet Coffey himself.

A select few J.D. Smith employees were also invited to the breakfast.

Terry O’Brien, a trucker and self-proclaimed hockey super fan, was one of those lucky employees.

“Paul Coffey is huge,” said the 49-year-old driver. “I was nervous to just be in his presence.”

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In these series tournaments, each team raises a minimum of $300 per player to qualify to play. Each team gets to draft a confirmed NHL player for their team. Past players have included Wendal Clarke, Eric Lindros, and Rick Natress.

Last year, the Paul Coffey series raised around two hundred thousand dollars.

Myke said the goal this year will be well above that.

“Everybody has a great time and a lot of fun,” she said. “And a lot of dollars are raised.”

All tournament proceeds go towards Easter Seals. The charity provides financial assistance to help purchase essential mobility equipment such as wheelchairs, ramps and lifts.

Easter Seals also owns and operates a summer camp for children with disabilities.

Easter Seals holds many special fundraisers in an effort to raise money for their very understaffed charity.

“We are only 47 full-time staff all across Ontario, and we are less than 3 per cent administration management fee,” said Charlene Myke, development manager.

“That includes our CEO, our services, our camps, our IT and our communications.”

She says it is a once in a lifetime opportunity for hockey fans while supporting a great cause.

To find out more about the Easter Seals’ hockey classic, go to their website EasterSeals.org.

Teenager races to NASCAR title in Peterborough Tyler McMurter The Chronicle

The 2016 NASCAR Pinty’s Series season wrapped up in early September in Peterborough. Cayden Lapcevich ends the year with a second-place finish and becomes the youngest NASCAR champion in history.

The 16-year-old son of former NASCAR racer Jeff Lapcevich won three races, earned nine Top5 finishes, and finished inside the Top-10 in all 12 races.

Lapcevich finished third or better in all seven events held on oval tracks. It was a year drivers dream about.

The number 76 team clinched the championship after finishing third in the second-last race.

While title contenders like Alex Tagliani and Andrew Ranger had trouble at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Lapcevich salvaged a podium finish.

The two biggest concerns in the final race for him were taking it easy and not damaging the race car.

Photograph by Tyler McMurter

Drivers speed by at the Kawartha Speedway as part of the Nascar Pinty series.

“Today, we were just going to be conservative and not push ourselves too hard,” Lapcevich says.

“You know, just make everything right. I think that’s what we did. We came out with a clean race car. No

damage. We could go race again tomorrow if we wanted.”

The Lapcevich family has been a racing family for generations. They did not plan to fund Cayden and run the full 2016 season. Having

no primary sponsor for the entire season made it difficult to travel the country and race. After a few Top5 finishes, they decided to pursue the championship.

The 54-point difference between

Games in your backyard

Men’s Basketball: Nov. 3, Durham vs. Georgian, 8 p.m., Campus Recreation and Wellness Centre (CRWC) Nov. 5, Durham vs. Canadore, 6 p.m., CRWC Women’s Basketball: Nov. 3, Durham vs.

Georgian, 6 p.m., CRWC

Men’s Badminton: Nov. 6, IUCC Ridgeback, CRWC Women’s Badminton: Nov. 6, IUCC Ridgeback, CRWC

Cayden Lapcevich and secondplace Andrew Ranger is the largest spread since 2011.

While some careers are just beginning, for Jason Hathaway, his career came to an end at Kawartha Speedway.

Hathaway told media that 2016 will be his final full-time season and the Kawartha 250 might be his final race.

Hathaway shocked the racing community by winning the event.

It’s his ninth NASCAR Pinty’s Series win.

After the race, Hathaway told us what his future plans are.

“I’m probably going to build a late model and run a few races,” Hathaway says.

“I may come back and run a few of these, maybe just at CTMP. Maybe not. We’re going to buy a boat as a family. We’re going to celebrate and have fun at the beach next year. For sure.”

For more information about your favourite NASCAR Pinty’s Series drivers, visit http://hometracks. nascar.com/series/pintys-series.

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