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Gaming’s final frontier
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Capturing a
moment
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newsroom
for
journalism students
turns hobby into profession.
40th Year
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Conestoga College, Kitchener, Ont.
2008
in life.
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Post-grad
the workforce,
Are you ready
to
graduate but
aren't exactly sure of a career path? Or maybe you need some further skills
to top off
your diploma or
On
is
hosting
Post-Graduate Fair
the Waterloo
well as anyone already in the work-
first
From
Any
looking
force
campus. 5-7 p.m., program co-ordi-
engineering
and
their skills.
insight into their programs.
what
Paid Osborne,
Over 20 programs will be highlighted and light refreshments will
diret tor
of marketing
marketing, sales
digital
media, media
and teaching English as a sec-
ond language.
"We want
to
emphasize
that
open doors,” said •Osborne. at
it
like a tool belt.
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“Everything
The more
including
look
name,
tools
someone has in their tool belt, the more opportunity available tor that
need to promote the number of Conestoga's
person to get the job.” Osborne said advertisements
post-grad program offerings to the Paul Osborne, students,” said
Spoke, as well
"We
really see the
director of marketing. “Students are always looking to upgrade their education and these post-grad pro-
grams are a great way
to get that
extra edge."
Osborne said there is an increasing need for more specialization in
have been placed in as the four major surrounding universities and local newspapers.
“We're hoping
it
successful evening.
know
will I
he a really
really
what-to expect this
around.” he said. For more information, college's website.
first
don
t
time
visit
the
the
(are)
about to
Appeal.
Darfur
almost
all
are
Through
assured
that
the proceeds are directly
tunneled toward humanitarian aid
the
walk,
be thought-
provoking.” he said.
Tuckwood. who introduced
the
2005
notion of organizing a walk and then formed the Genocide in
Action Group a year later, said the event's former focus of raising aw areness and limiting donations
day of the walk only garnered $80 for aid in Darfur through High Nations United
to the
Commissioner for Refugees. “The following year, we realized spreading information alone was
strong security networks. “It is about the primary
-
basic
and constant.”
The walk,
efforts in Darfur.
at the uni-
be held
to
and student
file
“Our focus has humanitarian aid because the government of Sudan has destroyed
versity's ring road
thousands of villages and forced
tunity
their inhabitants into the desert in
donations and buy Darfur T-shirts. The event will also commence, at noon, with a speech from Debbie Sergeant Detective Bodkin, who investigated Darfur
changed
hopes they
(will)
die
there
to
of
and disease.” said
Tuckwood. The Sudanese' region of Darfur,
somewhat morbid
meant
for
university
event.
a
one-year specialization can really
raised
hunger,
s
distribu-
needs of the (refugees)." said Alexandra Lopoukhine. communications team leader at Oxfam Canada. “Every penny counts right now because the needs are there
Tuckwood,
of founder Genocide Action Group, hopes will evoke curiosity and support for the the
he served, in a trade-show format. Some of the presentations will
teacher, applied counselling, online
Christopher
emphasis on the
tion of basic supplies, lending psy
year for the $4,300 Canada Canadian Students last
region of Sudan since internal conflict arose there five years ago.
have occurred. The shocking number, coupled with the wrenching event name, are
a strong
walk (through pledges),” he The concept matured to.a campus and community-wide event which
Oxfam. donors
more than six people killed since an estimated 450,000 deaths
helps students narrow
the
chological support and maintaining
Oxfam
resent
media and languages will be on hand to answer questions and give
advanced police studies, early childhood education resource
in
pant in the fourth annual Footsteps of Death walk for Darfur will rep-
post-grad program
A
IT,
include
March 26
of
idea
before
fundraising
deference to the thousands of civilian lives claimed in the Darfur
In fact, the foot of every partici-
upgrade their
to
skills or further specialize.
nators from post-grad programs in health and community services,
business,
University of Waterloo
said.
ever
its
at
their skills,”
he
graduating student from university or college can attend, as
Conestoga
Wednesday,
College
Hundreds of students and mem-
post-grad program (fives more relevance to the students' knowledge, and helps nar-
"A
the
for Darfur said.
bers of various local action groups and the public will encircle the
really
had
and
pointless actively
skills.
row
degree.
By HOLLY FEATHERSTONE
and a post-grad pro-
really caps off the students’
gram
money
raises
ever
is first By VANESSA BUTLER
Footsteps of Death walk
fair
thirst
since 2003. has been embroiled in what Oxfam recognizes as an crisis. humanitarian ongoing Thousands of ethnic civilians have
centre, taries.
will
documen-
feature
refreshments and an opporfor the public to make
on behalf of United Nations and Department State U.S. the Atrocities Documentation team. Kristin Biefer. president of the
killed,
displaced and forced
Genocide Action Group, hopes
into refugee
camps where humani-
the event will bolster the profile
been
tarian aid workers, by international incentive, have been deployed to
help save lives.
The Arab-dominated Sudanese government
has faced allegations
of the ongoing conflict.
"The more people about (the
crisis)
attention
will
of inciting atrocities against such ethnic civilians and the death toll
cial as
continues to grow. Oxfam. an organization dedicat-
now.”
ed to long-term dem with the International
aid relief, in tan-
UN
and
the
Red Cross, has placed
it
cians. (which)
Darfur
political
map
get
is
is
...
that
hear
the
more
from
politi-
especially cru-
not really on the in
Canada
right
For more information, visit or www.footstepsofdeath.com Genocide Action the e-mail Group at uwgag@hotmail.com.
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Festival By CHRISTOPHER MILLS
a sweet spot we were
and
dent,
serving
guides for other public Life
is
filled
with sweet things,
from out of town,”
‘‘It’s
a
which we honour
great opportunity to put something
with special days throughout the
back into the community.” is It always fun to see people
the sweetest of
We
year.
celebrate mothers, our
Christmas and the thing of all - maple
sweethearts,
returning to the
sweetest
grew up
in,
community they
says Klinck.
For the past 43 years, the Elmira Festival has been a
a great opportunity to
“It’s
put something back into
in southwestern Ontario, and as the 44th edition approaches on April 4 and 5. it doesn't appear that will be changing anytime
staple
the community.”
recognized
by
syrup festival
in
the world,
Elmira festival routinely draws tens of thousands of people into the rural community for a heaping helping of pancakes and that sweet condiment we've all come to love.
The
emphasize the idea of community, not just festival strives to
through the welcoming of so
people
from
all
corners
many
of the
world, but also through the more than 2,000 people their time
who
and services
to
reunions with people.
where
has been the maple syrup festi-
like
Asia because they heard
festival
toy
was involved in the very was a public school festival.
first
back
1965.
in
off on
the
show at 6 p.m., with a show beginning later, at 7 p.m.
collectibles
one
attended the
kicks
Friday night with an antiques and
five
He
some-
it."
first
years.
also spe-
have travelled from
The
Klinck
It's
when you hear about people
cial
make
committee for the past
val
there will be lots of friends
that,
about
treasurer of the
when
is
around." he says. “I’ve seen lots of
who
the
the neat things
you see people that perhaps grew up in the community come back after having been away for a length of time, and they visit with their friends. They know on a day like
volunteer
event run.
Stephen
"One of
There are also items available for
"I
I
purchase.
The trademark pancake breakfast
stu-
at the
“It's
not
community, but it's also a family thing. (The breakfast) is really great to showcase the community to all the visitors who come in. always enjoy frying pancakes and asking people where they came from and how many times they’ve been to the festival.” After all the pancakes have been consumed, the day is full of activifor
a
the event had grown,”
“Being
Klinck says. “That always kind of
that the
warms your
I’m
heart.”
For those like Klinck, who have been a part of the festival for so long,
it
has
become
an annual tradi-
tion.
part
something
that,
pleased
quite
known
of
community
is
known
for.
we
are
that
something like this," he says. “Bring friends, invite relatives and neighbours, and just come on out and enjoy the day.” for
visitors
can
to
take
part
in.
Competition has
touch of local flavour
browse the outdoor
By JOSHUA KHAN
MegaMutts dog show and even
enter
committee
the
says Klinck.
how
veled at
pancakes
just about
Patrons
Elmira Maple Syrup Festival
Guinness as the largest maple
fried
mall, take a sugar bush tour, attend
treasurer,
Officially
first festival,”
ties
Stephen Klinek,
soon.
mother
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and we're very appreciative of all the visitors and volunteers,” Klinck
will be facing off in the
says.
“We
are grateful to sponsors
and people who come as vendors, and those who display things in the craft
show, the toy show, the mall.
Without
their
participation,
it
wouldn’t happen.”
chefs are up to the task as they
College
Inspired by the popular American and Japanese show. Iron Chef, the event management stuat the college decided to try something new when it comes to
dents
events.
involved
peting
in
the inaugural edition.
Herb Ainsworth and Eld.en Hoffer were the two men who laid the
In its first year, the
"It was always fun to talk to their wives about their husbands who envisioned a small, humble event to sell some maple syrup and promote the area, and how they always mar-
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Conestoga Challenge
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The panel of judges
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of Kitchener
But the
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of local celebrities
doesn’t stop there as the host for
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Commentary
— SPOKE, March 24, 2008
Facebook guidelines
needed Creating an online study group
may
not have been a
some Ryerson University students. Chris Avenir and some of his classmates by participating
ing
the
in
good idea
for
are being accused of cheat-
group named Dungeons/Mastering
Chemistry Solutions. This comes almost a year after Jason Jagpal, another student
at
Ryerson, was disqualified from the university’s board of governors election in April
2006 for writing on a fellow student’s Facebook mes-
sage board on voting day.
new
In the
case, a professor discovered the group
and complained
Beware of potholes. They have been known to swallow small bugs.
be allowed to input solutions to assignment
that the students shouldn’t
problems. The university agreed, and Avenir received an
F on
assign-
ments worth 10 per cent of his final grade and on a much more serious level, was charged with academic misconduct.
On March
18 he had to attend an expulsion hearing where
Welcome The end of
decided he wouldn’t be expelled, but he would receive a zero on the
in
February 2004, Facebook has been the most
many
friends, sharing photos
others use
up with
for catching
and music, sending out invitations for events
and much more.
The charge of academic misconduct was against Avenir because he was the administrator of the site. this
controversy has exposed
need to be drafted. Students need
to
Facebook guidelines know what is and isn’t acceptis
friend's walls,
be glued
students love Facebook.
They post messages on
their
check out pictures from a party the night before and can computer screen for countless hours. It might be even
to the
more addicting than Guitar Hero.
And
if
they use
become an Things
closing
it
to
study and learn,
all
the better. But obviously
it's
of privacy, false assumptions and ruined reputa-
from being a
part of
Facebook and,
for Avenir and his classmates, accusations of cheating as well.
Getting together after class, going over notes and asking each other questions to prepare for tomorrow morning's test is OK, as long as it’s not on Facebook, or so it seems. Maybe that’s a bit old school for some students or kind of like living in the past.
Hopefully academic institutions will draft policies that bring them into the 21st century,
and maybe even post them on Facebook.
That way both sides will
know what
is
and
isn’t acceptable.
going
one
where we’ll
at all,
much
we're going to get
to get, if
live
make can be coming months,
we’ll
In the
Opinion
if it’s
not
your ear constantly with admo-
grow
up. You'll hear
how
time to abandon any childish or
doing
lives is
with a smile or a child-
it
may
not be a popular attitude,
but the older
want is
to act.
more
get, the
I
As
younger
the years pile up,
I it
essential to face life with
So
.
on
to
enjoy ourselves are
as
many of us
into our
tell
joy
more - and simpler -
to
al.
things.
time to act maturely and profes-
main characters
behaviours. Characters like
that being professional
is
meas-
their
childish
attitudes
not a as
the
and
Doug
teenager.
Let things amaze you and
stir
you
And most
cessful jobs ilies
and support
their
fam-
while living lifestyles domi-
and socializing with friends.
It is
As long
you how
tell
yourself.
and Ray Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond hold down suc-
how you accomplish
it.
conduct your-
them
up, and smile every chance you get.
nated by television, sports,
heart.
to
let
Heffernan on The King of Queens
ured by what you accomplish and
mind or
BE
let
to
do with
to
child and the open-mindedness of a
perhaps a family
is
how
but don’t
need
will
you what
that are chastised
nificant
many people fail to realize, and what many people won’t tell you,
leave
curiousity of a toddler, the joy of a
for
mortgage - there’s no escaping most of that. But what
move
feature
have a job, a sig-
a
I
Approach everything with
Most popular sitcoms
sionally. You'll
and
prepare to
chosen careers,
At times, you
someone
to carry yourself like a profession-
in
mean our
lose yourself.
self,
to
I’m
you with one piece of advice: don’t
the outlook of a child because the
moments
me
hearts need to.
like spirit. It
friends, just
changing, doesn’t
yourself or
you'll have plenty of
sitting
dynamic of our
Just because the
enable ourselves to find
other,
my
“too old for that stuff.”
fewer and fewer. That means we
is,
never want
because someone’s told
need
fact
are this
the expense of goofing off or
at
adolescent ways and be an adult;
it's
I
like
time
free
you get the job done in an efficient and respectable manner, there’s nothing stopping you from
and how
daunting.
happening already, people will be nitions to
my
spend
hanging out with
lot
Occasionally
these
games
characters
of
all,
don’t ever hold
back on your enjoyment for something just because of your age, or
because
you’re
afraid
someone
might look down on you. This don't
is
let
your
life
anyone
and yours alone;
else live
it
for you.
Spoke
welcome is
Spoke welcomes
to
far as
life
around and doing grown-up things
that
Questions about what job we’re
state of
Letters are
unknown
characters
should be role models.
Mills
of people - myself included - the prospect of entering the “real world” is a scary one.
For a
The
like invasion
Christopher
a departure from the famil-
working world.
the
is
issue.
tions are all issues that could arise
concerned,
That
in.
and outlook on
attitude
of classrooms and labs, and an
in it,
push the boundaries, but as
is
us, it’s the
and often comfortable confines
iar
that
able.
Let's face
is
entrance into the vast
But with the ability to create study groups and communicate back and forth with fellow students online, where do you draw the fine line when it comes to using Facebook for school purposes'? A student at San Diego State argues that a Facebook study group is no different than a group of classmates studying in a virtual study hall or dorm room or any other place students can congregate.
What
Graduation
means
popular social networking website in the world. Students and
last.
year
the school
upon us and for most of
assignment section of the course. Since launching back
to the real world
was
it
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Opinion
Respect By FRANCA MAIO
walked in, the person behind the desk told me they didn’t have my found sort of reservation, which odd. The other employee made a
People today are so consumed
own agenda that lose sight of who gets
with their
easy to
I
is
it
comment
hurt
my
or mistreated.
Some
people
feel
and appropriate
treat
to
when
another
change? When did someone say it was OK to yell at another human being and threaten to sue them because he or she did
is
it
OK
complete
1
there.
into their
my
I
that
travel,
I
to
it
I
stay
I
am
gets hot in
the car after awhile.
home, pro-
In
experience, the people
liiy
vide you with food and a roof over
who have money
your head and don't ask tor any money in exchange.
assume did not have enough money was completely dis-
Our
society today
is
so
For him
It
are too busy searching for greenpastures.
want, really
hotel
in
or
and we
what is good for us. A few months ago, nice
we need
what
unfortunate that
1
When
utive or
1
if
we work
we work
It
Lifestyle
The pressures of school can easily cause students to lose the balance between taking care of themselves and the need to put their best efforts into succeeding academically.
School,
jobs,
part-time
does
as a top exec-
as a produce clerk.
and
family
relationships
all
make
demands on us which can cause stress and stress-related illnesses. But there are ways to maintain our health and keep an equilibrium between competing demands on our time and energy. Scheduling in time for self-care may mean reserving several hours a week for a fitness activity we enjoy. We need friends we can talk to about personal matters and daily life, and people to just "hang out" with and do something purely for fun. We need
live in a
deserve respect.
all
not matter
stayed at a
Toronto.
we
society
Sometimes what we isn't
is
where some people put others into classes and if you don’t lit that class, you are treated differently. At the end of the day we are all human. We all eat the same, drink the same, watch television the same way
world owes us and we are going to collect. We have lost sight of all the good currently in our lives because
we
it.
I
respectful and rude.
consumed
with “me.” Most of us believe the
er
don’t flaunt
to
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person poorly.
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to feel comfortable
in
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— SPOKE, March 24, 2008
Modding
...
the future of gaming?
By WEI-LON LEE
Despite being a popular online
movement among gamers, modifying computer game software, otherwise known as “modding,”
is still
rather stigma-
tized by the general public as well
as game-developing com-
panies, says Clint Hall, a veter-
an modder known as Wrath
of
Achilles.
If
modding
company's bottom line, the work that modders are doing is
the
the final frontier of
is
gaming, then Clint Hall is going where no modder has gone before. For those of us who are techno-
"modding” is the shorthand for modifying or making modifications to existing computer games, and according to logically challenged,
Hall,
represents the future of the
it
gaining industry.
Top
left
and right: An unmodimodel from the game
fied ship
Star Trek:
Armada 2 versus
same model
with
added
the
high-
“What modding is really about is improving existing games, either graphically, audibly or just adding more functionality to the game,” said the 25-year-old north
resolution textures.
London
actually helping to boost sales long
he
For the Trek enthusiasts,
scene depicting the famous battle of Wolf 359 from this is the
the popular
TV
series Star
Trek: the next generation.
Bottom: The
same
depiction of
Wrath of Achilles as he is more famously known, is one of the most well-known veteran modders in the online community. "It’s the online gaming and modding community that is keeping some very old games alive,” he Hall, or
said,
adding that without the input
Armada
the battle of Wolf 359, but on a
of websites like
modified version of the game.
games such as Starcraft or World of Warcraft would have been long
2
files,
a
Armada
2
is
a
liv-
slope,
publicly
are
some companies that pubdenounce modding, but are
licly
actually supportive of
behind the
it
scene,” he said.
But that
is
it
surprising to hear
still
people
believe the online
still
modding community
is
a sort of
subversive, counter-culture move-
ment, said Hall.
"People think that we’re one of these types that want to bring
down we have some
Microsoft or that
of political message,” he said. “But the only motivation we have is a passion for gaming, to make games as good as they can be.” sort
for violating intellectual prop-
erty rights?
“That’s not really an issue
Originally released in early 2002,
said
there are
ing testament to that.
(Photos by Wei-Lon Lee)
slippery
supportive of modding, while others shun it completely. And then
As Star Trek:
of a
bit
Goodman. "Some developers
dead.
And
has been released,"
said.
relationship the However, between the online modding community and game publishers is still
resident in a telephone interview. Left:
game
after the
modding community,”
in the
Jan
said
PC-based Star Trek-inspired game has become one of the most heavily modified games in the online community, said Hall. “Star Trek Armada 2 files is probably one of the most comprehensive websites for downloading
forums of Armada 2 files. “People here explicitly know that any work, any graphical additions or model additions made to the
Armada
game
the
2 modifications,” he said.
Eighteen-year-old Joel
Goodman
agrees.
Schotteldreier from Rheine, west
Germany, who
known
still
online
the
made from
their
work,” he said. fairly
new, so a
lot
of the
works we do still haven't been accepted by the general public or the game and software developers,” he said.
Goodman, who
is
more fondly
recognized as Joelteon7, is the main website administrator at
Armada
2
a website that fea-
files,
downloadable additions the game.
tures free to
in
has to be free, that no money
or profit can be
“The online modding community is
more commonly
is
TParis
as
Many
people
still
“modding” games considered
is
think illegal
cheating,
that
or
is
said
Goodmam "There
is
The
agreement between some game developers and the modding community that allow gamers to modify games, because far from hurting
8-year-old staff
their original
would be
member
work
fur-
actually
for money, they
in direct violation
right laws, since
own
of copy-
Paramount Studios
the rights to anything
related to Star Trek, so a portion of
the
go
money to
they
make would have
Paramount
to
as royalty fees.
“If they don't pay Paramount, then Paramount can press charges under
international
copyright laws,” he
said.
But since nothing
like
that has
ever happened to any of the website’s
actually an unwritten
1
ther explains that if anyone ever sold
he
members, Schotteldreier
isn't
too worried about
"People know “Besides, this
is
people frown on anyways.”
better,”
said
it.
he said.
a free community, that kind of stuff -
y
Feature
Museum By WEI-LON LEE Think video games are only for so, says
department
offers glimpse into
Sarah Cook from the of recreation and
leisure studies at the University of
in,
“There are many real-life appliof video games,” said Cook. For example, the faculty of
on recent consoles such as Sega Genesis, Nintendo
the
GameCube and
Xbox 360. gems such as Magnavox Odyssey gaming
UW
is
the
the
real
console from the 1970s and even the
N64 and
Playstation consoles
are oddly locked
away
display
in
cases.
currently researching the possible
“Many of
the pieces in our col-
use of the Nintendo Wii’s remote
lection arc one-of-a-kind, discon-
motion-sensing technology to help
tinued machines which were given
with physical therapy.
to us
The department of recreation also looking
is
the possible use of video
ing
gam-
enhance the health and
to
games’ past
the tour also allows visitors
However, the
cations
at
— Page 7
to play
Waterloo.
and leisure studies
2008
For those feeling nostalgia kicking
applied health sciences at
24,
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prepubescent teens?
Not
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well-being of people through the use of leisure activities, said
Cook. "So video games aren't just for screwing up your eyes,” she
by anonymous donors,” said
Cook. Since the museum is maintained mostly by graduate students from the department of recreation and leisure studies
and
funded
by
tially
it
is
Ministry of Tourism, the
on a
is
tight
only par-
Ontario
the
museum
budget most of the
time, she said.
joked.
Besides showcasing the history
you want to know more about video games, computer games or just games in general, you should head to the Elliott Avedon Museum & Archive of Games located inside the Burt Matthews Hall, where you will find an authentic Atari 2600 gaming system as well as the best-selling home computer of all time, the If
Commodore
64. recent console sys-
more
Other,
tems are also on display, such as
of video games, the
museum
explains the origins of video as
well
as
also
games
hand-held electronic
games.
The on-campus charge and
from Jan.
museum
is
is
15
exhibit
open to
is
free of
to the public
April
open Monday
15.
to
The
Friday
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information or to book an individual or group tour, call 519-888-4424 or e-mail musin-
(Photo by Wei-Lon Lee) applications exist for video games, says Sarah Cook from the department of recreation and leisure studies at the University of Waterloo. An exhibit is currently on display at the Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games chronicling the evolution of both video games and computer
fo@healthy.uwaterloo.ca.
games. Other
Many
real-life
portable, hand-held electronic
games
are also on display.
(Photo by Wei-Lon Lee)
Remember
this?
The
and was responsible cept which
Jl 1
|
was
later
Atari
2600 was released
in
October 1977
for popularizing the plug-in cartridge
used
in
both Nintendo and
con-
Sega systems.
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1 ||
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1
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(Photo by Wei-Lon Lee)
The Magnavox Odyssey was
the world's
first
video
game
console.
designed by Ralph Baer, it was released in the fall of 1972 and predates the Atari Pong home consoles by several years. First
e
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Libra September 23 October 22
BY ELIZABETH BATE It
Be
willing to listen to others, and
keep an open mind. This is the key to overcoming obstacles.
Close your mouth and open your ears in an effort to under-
was important makers all the same.
The
hosted
Multicultural Film Festival,
by
the
Multicultural
Cinema Club ran City Hall March The festival, now I
showcased artists
October 23
Mif
November
-
2
to local film-
it
stand others. Your empathy will
Scorpio
locally
wasn't the Cannes film festival,
but
enable your relationships to grow to a deeper level.
4
at
in its
free, public
in
Kitchener's
1-15. third year,
of
local
viewings
in
make time
but
may
be
at the
for yourself.
You
centre of a storm.
smell the coffee
-
perhaps with a
special loved one.
fH m
°“
so
films
entered
group
not-for-profit
— -7"
21
the
year's entries.
growing.
"This specific festival is unique because of its local focus," he says. The only requirement to enter a
one entry and the head of Ed Video,
was
that
filmmaker be
its
Elisa
a
Crosland, the director of
production
studio
for
hire
in
Guelph, says she’s excited seeing
own
key to your success
information coming your way. This is not a good time to make
will be the this
week.
unique because
wm
Cancer June 22
-
if
Cg'
July 22
\
is
its
local focus.”
Majdi Baa-Motor, lot a!'filmmaker
After each
asked
viewers on their resulting in awards
screening, to
favourite films, in
vote
four categories.
A/am Fouk
Aladeh, the founder and director of the cinema club, was given two awards, best documentary and best social justice for
documentary on
his
Red Button made by Angus
R.
best feature film award.
The directors of each of the recognized films received a plaque donated by local store Ten Thousand Villages. For most viewers
Vjp
of
McLellan and Sleeping Dogs made by Terrance Odette was given the
life-altering decisions.
fgSyl
choice
Best short film was awarded to
and
beliefs,
carefully evaluate the barrage of
people’s
Toronto’s Casey House, called Legacy of the Heart.
November 22 December 21
Challenge your
to
the
“This specific festival
were
Sagittarius
see both sides of an issue. This
local
in
addition to this year's fes-
was
viewing never exceeded 70
Even so, these numbers were up from previous years giving local filmmakers hope that interest is
film
interest
awards.
the
Your dual nature allows you
11
houses the cinema club as well as
people.
thrilled with this
an
take
A new tival
film,
j Kf
— Page
films.
other local groups, the turnout for
Majdi Bou-Motor, a filmmaker with the cinema club and the at
was
people
that
the council chambers.
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Wednesday
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after
night's showing. "It's
nice to see local film's and people
supporting the arts scene."
You're so quiet sometimes peo-
your exceptional leadership abilities. Take the reins - now's your time to shine. ple don't notice
Don't believe everything you
and don't participate in gosYour friends are more importhan you realize.
Preparations are already under(Photo by Elizabeth Bate)
hear, sip.
tant
Azam Fouk Aladeh and
Local directors
Elisa Crosland
viewers enter Kitchener City Hall council chambers
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By KERRY REED
Sure, your partner isn't perfect.
at
Neither are you. Get your head out
Imagine a bank robbery where were the most innocent
The
ground before being judgmental of
involves
others.
tion, a sex
Pisces
If*?
February 1
A/'
1
9
Bank
The
movie
murder,
police
March 20
1971
British
Baker
desire? goals
if
they are.
one task
You
really
can't reach your you don't know what Focus your energies on
at
and It
is
it
is
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a time.
is
a must-
a version of a
vault
Street,
cleanout on
London.
The
Moore, Dave Shilling played by Daniel Mays and Martine Love played by Saffron Burrows
—
rent an old
roller-
They burrow under
is
correct, the plot quickly
intro-
duces different layers of characters. At the bottom is a gang of fasci-
Jennifer Sprach
is
a third-year
nating bottom-dwellers
who work
off of a hot tip about a large bank
journalism student holding in the
palm of her hand.
fate
system being disarmed for a few days. Jason Statham (Terry Leather) and his band of friends Kev in Swain played by Stephen Campbell vault's security
—
to
the
it
at
first
intertwine
that happens all uncovered secrets
found in the security boxes. actionfast-moving, This packed movie will have you tuned in the entire time, wanting more and wondering what will
happen
next.
store
the store
and
millions and millions of pounds,
jewels
and
various
top
secret
incriminating effects from the safety boxes.
The next movie version
women's apparel
like
the characters
right into the bank's vault, looting
the story. the
all
almost adjacent to the bank.
“walkie-talkie
Whether or not
does not seem
relates
all
robbery" was hushed up by the UK government and they banned the media from reporting on it. No one was ever arrested for this robbery, and it has taken over 30 years to tell labelled
you
movie takes you on a
and everything
Job
corrup-
scandal and links to the
The Bank Job -
It
but
Directed by Roger Donaldson,
Virgo
that
fiim-making@the-
each other.
people involved.
of the clouds and your feet on the
August 23 September 22 it
the
the thieves
based on true events. see movie.
is
coaster ride as events loop around
British royal family,
What
Club,
workingcentre.org
won two awards.
-
February 18
you at breakneck speed. Be aware that everything coming your way now is a growth opportunity, whether the outcome is sood or bad. Events are rushing
January 20
ugust
Legacy
fes-
Cinema
or the Multicultural
tival
Walkie-talkie thieves never caught
Aquarius
e;
film
for next year's festival.
For more information on the
for the third
annual Multicultural Film Festival, March 12. Aladeh’s of the Heart,
watch
way
X
level involves
Michael
played by Peter de Jersey, a pimp
and a drug dealer operating alongside a very angry so-called Soho pom king. Lew Vogel played byDavid Suchet.
On
the top of the ladder pulling
the strings ty serv ices
is
the corrupted securi-
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Feature
— SPOKE, March 24, 2008
Kitchener photographer’s work takes him around the world By MARCIA LOVE After getting his the
age of
first
“I
camera
at
Michael Messner
14,
decided to turn his hobby into a
“We do
begin (an assignment) with the
end in sight, visualizing the outcome. Sometimes I'll come up with something I wouldn’t have thought
pictures
of.”
tinually
He
career.
said he has
had some memo-
weddings,
ments
and frightening encounters
“I
haven't used film* for seven
with animals while working.
years.
Artistic Photography, out of their
was taking pictures in the Yukon once when a grizzly bear came out of the woods right in
digital,
and
options.
It's
at photography Conestoga and has been a photographer for over 40 years.
He
took
“I like
taking pictures that
front of me.
of
Germany, Hawaii and
Canada. Messner’s appeared
photography the
in
Owl Magazine, Magazine, Hallmark calendars, travel magazines and on postcards. The most challenging part of the job for him is finding the decisive American
instant
to
capture
an
Messner
image.
offers these tips to
(Photo by Marcia Love)
make
the subject.
Canada and around
got out of there.”
2.
busiest time of the year for Messners’ business is during' the summer and Christmas. “It’s a slower time right now
sive
studio, Artistic
.
Wait
moment
Use a
high
to take
shutter
because
speed for hand-held shots. 4. Ensure there is enough good lighting.
do any
can’t
aerial
snow
5.
the world.
a shot.
enough
3.
we
cameras in his Kitchener Photography. His work has taken him across of his
for the precise, deci-
the
(landscape) photos until the
However, Messner said this is also the-most rewarding part of being a
learning
Michael Messner holds one
knocked him down.
The
has
Scientific
me more
gives
constant
PHOTO TIPS
“(The magician) rushed over to sure I was OK. I got up and
across
all
it
a
aspiring photographers: 1 Get as close as possible to
the animal
Ireland,
including
Alaska,
get better results with
got a great headshot
1
it.”
another occasion, Messner said he climbed into a cage with a magician's cougar in St. Jacobs and
people smile," Messner said. His work has taken him to many different parts of the world,
now
1
process.”
On
make
improve-
changing with
in technology.
rable
Kitchener home.
baby
be able to
to
do anything that comes along.” Messner said the business is con-
Messner and his wife Mary operphotography studio. their ate
"I
portraits,
— you have
Interact with the subject.
goes away,” Messner said. He said because of the way the photography business is, photogra-
Whether it means making them laugh or putting them at
phers have to be diversified to do
to get the
is necessary emotion you want.
ease, do what
well.
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