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] | 2016-08-31T00:58:01 | null | 2016-08-30T09:09:19 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.merrittherald.com%2Fletter-editor-b-c-seniors-need-support%2F.json | http://www.merrittherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/letter-150x150.jpg | en | null | LETTER TO THE EDITOR: B.C. seniors need support | null | null | www.merrittherald.com | Editor;
This Labour Day, members of the Hospital Employees’ Union are joining Canadians across the country in celebrating the contributions working people make towards building a healthier, fairer, more equitable society.
But as we enjoy the holiday with family and friends, let’s remember the hard-won accomplishments our seniors have made and how they have improved our workplaces and communities throughout their lives.
We owe the generations that preceded us a great deal of gratitude.
Medicare, pensions, unemployment insurance and quality education for our children are all part of an outstanding legacy that our parents and grandparents established for the benefit of us all.
And along with programs like these, they fought over many decades to improve wages and working conditions that help keep workers safer on the job, support families, and strengthen local economies.
Their desire to build a better society for future generations, and their achievements, have helped create a society where we are better able to care for one another.
Today’s seniors were looking out for us. Now we need to look out for them.
We are deeply concerned that understaffing in our care homes is eroding the quality and level of care our seniors need and deserve.
A report from B.C.’s Seniors Advocate reveals four out of five care homes in B.C. don’t receive enough funding to meet even the government’s own minimal staffing guidelines. By its very nature, good quality care is dependent on having enough trained and experienced staff to provide that care.
Without enough staff, workers are stretched to the limit, seniors are left waiting, and families worry their loved ones will not get the care they need.
Please join our call at carecantwait.ca to improve the staffing and caring conditions in B.C.’s residential care homes.
Our seniors deserve better. Because when it comes to meeting their needs in our busy residential nursing homes, care can’t wait.
Jennifer Whiteside
Hospital Employees’ Union secretary-business manager
New Westminster, B.C. | http://www.merrittherald.com/letter-editor-b-c-seniors-need-support/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.merrittherald.com/c6c1e920e8df7ad218cc9a466fe58f02974f623247bb55a75ccc7829d1cd06a4.json |
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Norman Lindley’s family and friends have watched for two years as the longtime Upper Nicola Indian Band cowboy battled cancer while working to cover the costs of his treatment.
But as the costs of treatment and transport continued to rise, Lindley’s family realized that it was time to put out the call for support to the community that he had been born and raised in.
“He’s been making do all this time, always going back and forth to the hospitals between Kamloops and Kelowna,” explained Sharon Lindley, who together with Norman, raised five boys; Dion, Oliver, David, Trevor and Daniel, who passed away in 1996. “Financially [the treatment] became a burden,” she added.
Together with her daughter-in-law Danielle Jack, Sharon is organizing a fundraising effort on behalf of Norm. On Wednesday evening (Aug. 31), the pair have organized a dinner and loonie auction at the Merritt Civic Centre for 5:30 p.m.
Already, the organizers have been floored with the extent of the response — not just locally, but from connections Norm made all over Canada and the United States throughout his time as a cowboy in the Nicola Valley. Now a 64-year-old, Norman Lindley is a well-known name in the ranching and rodeo circuits in the Nicola Valley, said Sharon.
“He was just in his teens when he started competing in all the rodeo events,” she said. “He continued like that well into the ‘80s.”
“I think he’s just amazed at the number of people, not only from the Nicola Valley, but from Alberta, or up north. His cowboy friends are saying ‘I’ll be there,’” added Sharon.
Norm will also be in attendance at this weekend’s ranch rodeo in Collettville — not one to take a break, Lindley will be bringing eight horses to the rodeo.
“If anyone wants to visit with him, give him support or just see his horses buck, they should come down to the ranch rodeo,” said Danielle.
In addition to the fundraiser dinner on Aug. 31, Danielle is selling hoodies adorned with a silhouette of a cowboy for $60, with the proceeds from the sales also going towards covering the costs of Norm’s treatment.
For more information on the fundraiser, or to order a hoodie, contact Danielle Jack at 250-315-7669, or via email at daniellejack88@gmail.com. | http://www.merrittherald.com/upper-nicola-cowboy-in-need-of-support/ | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.merrittherald.com/5d8957daedbaa8d0d3499669082fe5525541d08128880dad3edb0bba5a908176.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T22:58:07 | null | 2016-08-30T09:17:51 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.merrittherald.com%2Fjob-action-postponed-postal-workers-negotiate%2F.json | http://www.merrittherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Post-Office_web-150x150.jpg | en | null | Job action postponed while postal workers negotiate | null | null | www.merrittherald.com | The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) and Canada Post continued talks to negotiate a new contract for Canada Post employees through the weekend and into the work week, as a looming 72-hour strike notice from the union was extended until Tuesday (Aug. 31), and then again until Wednesday.
The CUPW was in a legal strike position at their original deadline on 12:01 a.m. on Monday morning, but chose to issue two 24-hour postponements in order to continue talks with a special government appointed mediator.
A press release from the CUPW on Tuesday noted that negotiations on the weekend failed to produce a new agreement between the Crown corporation and the union.
The job action proposed by the union would not involve a country-wide strike at this point, but would take the form of refusal of overtime for workers in rolling shifts across the country.
“Our action will cause little to no disruption for the public. We’ll still be delivering mail every day,” explained Mike Palecek, national president of the CUPW in a press release on Sunday evening.
The push from the union comes as their three-month window for job action began to close after receiving a strike mandate from membership earlier this summer.
If the union did not issue notification regarding job action by the end of the strike mandate window (Aug. 25), the union would have to seek another strike mandate from their membership — a process which could be costly for the union, a spokesperson for CUPW explained to the Herald. | http://www.merrittherald.com/job-action-postponed-postal-workers-negotiate/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.merrittherald.com/b262fdf8e87059554ab06453c1b37456a8cc7ffc4bad1fab633514c6f6c2cca2.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:57:02 | null | 2012-08-27T17:20:54 | TORONTO -- They're often the butt of ribald jokes or the subject of such motherly advice as 'Don't sit on cold cement, you'll get piles." But for anyone who suffers from hemorrhoids, there is nothing funny about having the condition or the embarrassment it can cause. | http%3A%2F%2Fo.canada.com%2Fhealth-2%2Fwhether-called-hemorrhoids-or-piles-those-afflicted-say-theyre-no-laughing-matter%2Fcomment-page-1.json | http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/15edae77ebfa450ee5bb897103fdef31?s=200&ts=1472216221 | en | null | Whether called hemorrhoids or piles, those afflicted say they’re no laughing matter | null | null | o.canada.com | TORONTO — They’re often the butt of ribald jokes or the subject of such motherly advice as ‘Don’t sit on cold cement, you’ll get piles.”
But for anyone who suffers from hemorrhoids, there is nothing funny about having the condition or the embarrassment it can cause.
Hemorrhoids — derived from the Greek word haimorrhois, meaning “liable to discharge blood” — are clumps of tissue containing veins and tiny arteries that have become swollen and inflamed.
They can be either internal, located inside the rectum, or external, developing under the skin around the anus and often large enough to hang down.
“Internal hemorrhoids are not usually painful,” says Dr. Iain Cleator, whose Vancouver clinic specializes in their treatment. “But they’re often associated with other conditions, and the commonest condition is a thing called a fissure.”
A fissure is a tear in the lining of the anal canal, which can be further opened up by the passage of stool during a bowel movement. “And that becomes painful and bleeds and itches,” Cleator explains.
“When hemorrhoids themselves are painful, it’s when they get blood clots in them, which is relatively rare.”
Hemorrhoids may result from straining during bowel movements or from increased pressure on blood vessels, during pregnancy for instance. There is often a genetic component, as the occurrence of hemorrhoids tends to run in families.
A severe case can have profound effects on a person’s day-to-day life, Cleator suggests.
“First of all, there’s something sticking out all the time. Secondly it rubs, thirdly you can be bleeding into your underwear or through your trousers or whatever, and that can be very distressing. And, of course, you can also get leakage of stool and mucus.”
Katherine, who’s in her mid-40s, has been suffering from both internal and external hemorrhoids for more than a decade.
Her first inkling there was something wrong came when she noticed she was experiencing pain “down there.” Her doctor told her she had hemorrhoids and referred her to a specialist.
But it wasn’t until she discovered “bright red” blood during a prolonged bowel movement that she realized just what the presence of these small grape-like clusters could mean.
“I was freaked out. I totally freaked out. I didn’t know what the heck it was,” recalls Katherine, who asked that her full name not be used.
A friend drove her to the hospital emergency department, where doctors said her hemorrhoids had become thrombosed, or full of blood, and had burst. Since then, she always wears a panty liner or pad, just in case.
Katherine believes her hemorrhoids are the result of stress and are exacerbated by another stress-related condition called irritable bowel syndrome, which is often marked by alternating episodes of constipation and diarrhea.
“When I do have a really bad episode, where I’m on the toilet constantly and I’m there for longer periods of time, when all the external ones do come out, then it’s hard to sit, walk, lie — anything,” she says. “Everything is difficult, that’s how painful they are.
“So if you can imagine, it’s like little grapes that are sticking out all on top of each other. Yucky.”
Katherine’s case is hardly rare. Between 60 and 70 per cent of Canadians will develop hemorrhoids at some point in their lifetime, and at least half of people over age 50 are affected by the cushion-like growths.
“It’s very, very common,” says Cleator. “It’s mostly due to our diet in North America, which is processed food, which has had the soluble fibre removed from it and salt and sugar substituted.”
In Africa, for example, hemorrhoids are virtually unheard of among people who eat traditional high-fibre foods, he says, although that is beginning to change as more Africans adopt a western diet.
Certain lifestyle factors and activities can contribute to the development of hemorrhoids or make them worse, says Cleator. “Anything that increases intra-abdominal pressure: it could be obesity, it could be pregnancy, it could be weightlifting, it could be riding a bicycle, it could be playing golf.”
And men and women are equally affected, Cleator says.
“The common perception is, of course, that women get it more commonly as a result of pregnancy, but in fact that’s not true. What happens is they get it earlier as a result of pregnancy. So they get it three or four years younger than they would normally get it.”
For some people, hemorrhoids produce only mild discomfort and can be treated with over-the-counter ointments, suppositories or pads that contain such ingredients as witch hazel or hydrocortisone, which can relieve pain and itching.
But if hemorrhoids persistently bleed or are painful, they may need to be removed.
Blood loss “can be huge” in some patients,” says Cleator. “We’ve seen people that have needed to be transfused, just simply from bleeding from their hemorrhoids or fissures.
“Usually the large bleeds are more from the fissures than the hemorrhoids, but it can be from either. But you can lose quite a lot of blood from hemorrhoids on their own.”
Cleator specializes in what’s called rubber band ligation, in which tiny rubber bands are tightened around the base of an internal hemorrhoid to cut off its circulation. Within a week or so, the hemorrhoid withers and falls off.
Some doctors opt for injecting a chemical solution into the hemorrhoid to shrink it, although that procedure is considered less effective than rubber banding; coagulation therapy uses infrared light, laser or heat to shrivel small internal hemorrhoids, but it has a higher rate of recurrence than banding.
Hemorrhoids can also be surgically removed using a variety of techniques, but the procedure carries the highest rate of complications, including urinary tract infections and temporary difficulty emptying the bladder.
Eric, a patient in his early 40s who asked that his real name not be used, had been plagued by hemorrhoids for years, but was too embarrassed to see a doctor and suffered in silence.
“At the beginning of this year, it was getting worse … There was a lot of blood, for a couple of days, so I thought it was about time to see a doctor.”
Eric was referred to Cleator, who performed rubber band ligation to get rid of his internal hemorrhoids, one at a time in appointments about a month apart. He is scheduled to have the third and final one tied off this week.
“I didn’t feel anything,” he says. “The whole treatment took about 10 or 20 seconds. It was surprising.”
For Katherine, dealing with the condition hasn’t been so simple. She is among the roughly eight per cent of people whose hemorrhoids recur, despite treatment.
“I’m constantly getting them,” she says. “We band them, I get rid of them, and I then get them again.”
One thing Cleator stresses is that patients need to consume a high-fibre diet to prevent hemorrhoids developing in the first place — and especially to stop them recurring. Women should be ingesting 25 grams of soluble fibre per day, while men need 35 grams. North Americans average only about 10 to 12 grams daily, he says.
“So it’s very important to increase the amount of fibre in your diet.” | http://o.canada.com/health-2/whether-called-hemorrhoids-or-piles-those-afflicted-say-theyre-no-laughing-matter/comment-page-1 | en | 2012-08-27T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/a5ca74e0463bae0c48c454a1e2311ae5342214f4a36ddabc77ec736ff78059d0.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:56:35 | null | 2014-09-04T18:47:32 | WASHINGTON – The world’s virgin forests are being lost at an increasing rate and the largest portion of the degradation is in Canada, according to a new report. No longer is Brazil the main villain in the struggle to stop forest destruction. | http%3A%2F%2Fo.canada.com%2Fnews%2Fcanada-leads-world-in-forest-decline-report-says%2Fcomment-page-1.json | http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/2014/09/boreal-forest-1.jpg | en | null | Canada leads world in forest decline, report says | null | null | o.canada.com | WASHINGTON – The world’s virgin forests are being lost at an increasing rate and the largest portion of the degradation is in Canada, according to a new report.
No longer is Brazil the main villain in the struggle to stop forest destruction.
“Canada is the number one in the world for the total area of the loss of intact forest landscapes since 2000,” Peter Lee, of Forest Watch Canada, said in an interview.
He said the main drivers are fires, logging and energy and industrial development.
“There is no political will at federal or provincial levels for conserving primary forests,” he said. “Most logging done in Canada is still to this day done in virgin forests.”
Using satellite technology, scientists from the University of Maryland, Greenpeace, Global Forest Watch and the World Resources Institute have tracked changes in the earth’s forest coverage. The scientists discovered that the pace of decline is accelerating with more than 104 million hectares – about 8.1 per cent of global undisturbed forests — lost from 2000 to 2013.
If this rate of degradation continues, “business as usual will lead to destruction of most remaining intact forests this century,” Dr. Nigel Sizer, director of the forest program at the World Resources Institute, said.
Computer graphics (www.globalforestwatch.org) based on satellite imagery show huge degradation of Canada’s boreal forest from the Maritimes to Alberta with little compensatory gain. The boreal forests of Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta appear to have been hit particularly hard by wild fires and resource exploitation.
The imagery shows the boreal forest in the area of the oil sands between Fort McMurray and Lake Athabasca has been almost totally devastated. Parks such as Alberta’s Wood Buffalo, Ontario’s Algonquin Park and the Assinica nature reserve in Quebec have not been spared.
The northern boreal forest belt that runs primarily through Canada and Russia plus Brazil’s Amazon represent 65 per cent of the world’s remaining virgin forest. Some 47 per cent of the global degradation has occurred in the boreal forest and 25 per cent in the Amazon, the report states.
“These last forest frontiers play a critical role in sustaining rich biodiversity, maintaining climate and weather stability as well as air and water quality, and supporting the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities,” the report states.
Fires have historically been a natural source of regeneration in the boreal forest. But Lee blames climate change for the recent increase, pace and intensity of forest fires in Canada.
“Independent data verifies this massive increase in forest fires,” he said.
The increase in temperatures in the north is much higher than the global average, he noted. “You are getting these huge fires which are truly degrading and no longer a part, in many cases, of the natural historic functioning of fires in boreal forests,” he said. “They are now transforming many of these northern boreal forests into shrub lands.”
Scientists have predicted that warmer temperatures will move the tree line north. “But due to the increase in fires the tree line may actually be moving south,” Lee said
The report notes that the continued decline of virgin forests “intensifies climate change through greenhouse gas emissions and loss of valuable forest carbon stores and sinks.”
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] | 2016-08-26T13:07:51 | null | 2013-04-25T17:41:08 | Even though fans are still upset months later over the ending of Mass Effect's initial trilogy, Walter's still seems to be under the impression that it was only a vocal minority that was upset with Mass Effect 3's controversial ending. | http%3A%2F%2Fo.canada.com%2Ftechnology%2Fgaming%2Fmass-effect-3s-lead-writer-still-thinks-only-a-vocal-minority-was-upset-over-the-games-ending%2Fcomment-page-1.json | http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/2013/04/masseffect.jpg?w=1200 | en | null | Mass Effect 3’s lead writer still thinks only a “vocal minority” was upset over the game’s ending | null | null | o.canada.com | During a Q&A session after the Canadian Video Game Awards, the Mass Effect series’ lead writer, Mac Walter’s spoke about Mass Effect 3’s controversial ending.
It’s been months since the controversy initially blew up and it seems like Walter’s has had some time to think about the situation. Despite the fan backlash, Mass Effect 3 won best RPG at the Video Game Awards and console game of the year at the Canadian Video Game Awards.
“I would say it’s vindication because, I was at Fan Expo in Vancouver today and I’ve been to several expos since the ending, by and large, the fans that talked to me are people that either enjoyed the ending or are not necessarily that unhappy with the ending at all,” said Walter’s during the Q&A.
Even though fans are still upset months later over the ending of Mass Effect’s initial trilogy, Walter’s still seems to be under the impression that only a vocal minority was upset with Mass Effect 3’s controversial ending.
“There is a vocal minority and we did want to see what we could do to help that but at the same time I think we also did what we thought was best for the series,” said Walters.
He also feels Mass Effect 3’s Citadel downloadable content (DLC) and extended ending DLC helped appease hardcore fans of the series who were still be upset over how the franchise ended.
“When you take it as a whole now and you look at the Citadel (DLC), in there as well you have those fond farewells and those moments people want. They fit much better into the game than they would have if we tried to put them into the end of Mass Effect 3.
Towards the end of the Q&A he back-pedaled a little bit, stating that winning the award for best console game wasn’t really vindication after all.
“I wouldn’t call it vindication, I guess, but it’s great that people are recognizing it despite that (all of the controversy).”
During the Q&A Walters also said he’s currently working on writing Mass Effect 4 and another undisclosed Bioware title.
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In the case of one recent study, it may be a good tool to ferret out time travellers from the future, if they exist at all. The study, out last month by Michigan Technological University researchers, is currently in pre-publication on the physics arXiv database. The study took a serious look for users with “prescient knowledge of future events,” as researchers data-mined the Internet and social media to search for evidence of time travellers from the future.
It’s a favorite topic of science fiction lore, from H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine to Doctor Who to the Back to the Future movie franchise. But if travel back in time is possible, then where are they? The dilemma poses a question similar to Fermi’s Paradox, which grapples with the dearth of alien civilizations. Is time travel into the past to witness historical events big business for tourism in the future? Or is it simply not possible?
To answer the question, researchers in the study decided to comb the archives of search engines such as Yahoo! And Google as well as social media sites such as Google+, Facebook and Twitter for users displaying prescient knowledge of future events.
To narrow in on any would-be time travellers, researchers decided to focus on two recent historical events: the 2013 selection of Pope Francis, and the recent passage of Comet ISON through the inner solar system. Twitter was deemed especially appropriate for the study, as users frequently utilize “hashtags” to signal each other across the electronic din of other conversations. Thus, searches for “ISON” might turn up false positives such as “ison,” which is also the Finnish word for “great,” but the use of the #cometison hashtag before the comets’ discovery in late 2012 could indicate prescient knowledge of a specific event. This would also be true for the use of #popefrancis before 2013, as he was the first Pope to take that name.
Not surprisingly, no time travellers were uncovered by the study, tweeting or otherwise. The study also scoured searches of NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day database maintained by the Goddard Space Flight Center, which stretches all the way back to the early days of the Internet in 1995. It’s also worth noting that APOD stopped using the “?” prefix on searches after April 2009, and potentially prescient searches after this date may have been missed in the study.
Interestingly, time travellers were even actively invited (!) by researchers to journey back into the past and demonstrate their authenticity by tweeting either “#ICanChangeThePast2” or “#ICannotChangeThePast2”. The results would possibly reveal whether we live in a fixed history universe, where time travellers could not impact outcomes— say the old paradox of becoming your own grandparent —or a fluid universe, where time is continually branching off into multiple possibilities.
Researchers note in the paper that Twitter has a distinct advantage in the study as tweets are public and discoverable simply by an active search online. E-mail correspondence was also looked at, as they afford a certain amount of privacy that may be preferred by time travelers, as well as the ease of setting up a temporary and anonymous account.
Though amusing, this was also the largest serious study yet of its kind carried out. Stephen Hawking invited time travellers to visit him in the past in July 2012, though none showed up. An MIT grad student held a similar “time traveler convention” in May 2005 after the fact, which turned up naught.
Certainly, Einstein has shown that forward travel through time is possible via time dilation as you approach the speed of light. And although faster than light travel — and backwards time travel —has been theorized, light speed in our universe isn’t just a good idea, “it’s the law,” and a barrier though which none shall pass.
Perhaps, for whatever reason, a sort of “temporal prime directive” exists, and time travellers are either unwilling or unable to reveal themselves. Or perhaps they’re not “twitter savvy,” or the events searched for held little interest or enduring impact on history. Do YOU remember who was Pope a century ago? “Black Swan” type events, such as 9/11, the assassination of President Kennedy and the Challenger disaster had a lasting historical resonance and would be ideal test subjects… but of course, Twitter and social media had yet to come to pass during said events. Perhaps the 2011 Arab Spring or the Tsunami that struck northern Japan in March 11th would’ve also made ideal search queries.
Or perhaps time travelling into the past simply isn’t possible. Urban legends and old 1920’s videos purporting to show time travellers using mobile phones notwithstanding, no compelling proof of time travel exists. And here it is 2014, just one year away from the flying skateboards of 2015 promised to us in Back to the Future II… but the study was an interesting thought experiment nonetheless, any time travellers reading this take note! | http://o.canada.com/news/internet-based-study-shows-no-evidence-of-time-travelling-visitors/comment-page-1 | en | 2014-01-02T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/b33d45e5218b8f28367c9fad675426c196db2854f60c7a23a85e6f653100eea5.json |
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Russians have considered drinking part of their culture for over a millennium. In 986, Grand Prince Vladimir chose Christianity as the official religion of Kievan Rus because, unlike Islam, it accepted the consumption of alcohol – a decisive move that foreshadowed a nation of drinkers. Over time the distilling process improved, and the first refined vodka was introduced in the 1400s. Vodka became a staple of Russian culture, and with it carried many norms and customs.
A guest who refused to drink with their host was seen as offensive and refusing their hospitality – and when a bottle was opened, it was customary to finish it. Like modern day frat houses, Russian men who could drink the strongest alcohol also inspired the most respect, while a low tolerance for the hard stuff garnered ridicule and accusations of unmanliness.
As documented in Kate Transchel’s 2006 book Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, Russians have been aware of this national propensity for drink for many years and have lamented it for almost as long.
Speaking at the 1912 All-Russian Congress on the Struggle Against Alcoholism, an unidentified speaker highlighted how enmeshed alcohol was in the culture:
“When the Russian is born, when he marries or dies, when he goes to court or is reconciled, when he makes a new acquaintance or parts from an old friend, when he negotiates a purchase or sale, realizes a profit or suffers a loss – every activity is copiously baptized with vodka. … The Russian spends his entire life from cradle to grave, bathing and swimming in this drunken sea.”
While swimming in a drunken sea may be overstating the case a bit, vodka is certainly ever-present in Russian history, occasionally even serving as a currency for peasants in rural areas. A defendant could buy off judges and village elders for more lenient sentences, and in many cases workers in the service sector would refuse cash payments for their time, demanding compensation in vodka. This feudal practice persisted in the Soviet Union with cases of repairmen, plumbers and electricians demanding Stolichnaya instead of rubles.
The path for the Soviet Union itself was built on vodka. At the beginning of the First World War, Tsar Nicholas II prohibited the production and consumption of alcohol in order to mobilize his population for total war, but the act resulted in the loss of a third of the government’s revenue and caused an economic crisis – which opened the gates for Vladimir Lenin’s revolution.
With the Bolsheviks in power, heavy drinking took on a new role – it became a way to overcome distrust in a police state where anyone could be secretly working for the government. Getting a new acquaintance drunk out of their minds was a way to disarm them and get to know the real person.
Drinking intensified under Stalinism as peasants from the rural areas moved into cities for work — and with nothing to do in their leisure time, they drank. It wasn’t uncommon for factory workers to be inebriated 24 hours a day.
In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to curb drinking with a number of reforms, including reducing the supply of vodka, increasing its price, and prosecuting people who showed up to work inebriated. This was well intentioned, but like other attempts at prohibition, it did more harm than good. People turned instead to drugs and unregulated alcohols like cologne, antiseptics, and samogon — a homemade concoction made by distilling anything from sugar, window-cleaners, and even stolen aircraft de-icing fluids. As can be expected with de-icing fluid, drinkers of the poison would often hallucinate, go blind, or die. The anti-alcohol campaign was officially abandoned in 1988.
Even Vladimir Putin, who usually doesn’t take no for an answer, has struggled on this front. Before the 2000 election, Putin vowed to impose a minimum price for vodka but was forced to abandon the unpopular proposal in the face of widespread opposition. It took another decade before he felt confident enough to raise prices, although officially the measure is meant to combat counterfeit alcohol.
Today, the average Russian adult drinks 20 litres of vodka a year, according to researchers, while the average Brit drinks just 3 litres of spirits. The researchers found that prolonged habits of excessive drinking are directly linked to 35 per cent of deaths of men under the age of 55 – a number five per cent higher than it was in the USSR. Some studies push that number to 40 per cent when considering the other unregulated alcohols mentioned earlier.
Drinking has been a way of life for Russians for over a thousand years, and it is used to celebrate and enjoy every occasion – even the most mundane. So here’s a toast to Sochi: another reason for Russians – and the world – to get hammered.
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My favourite is the the cat that falls asleep in the glass. | http://o.canada.com/uncategorized/watch-these-cats-fall-asleep-in-hilarious-ways/comment-page-1 | en | 2013-05-25T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/79ab1f7d429cac3477f0acd7edc17ac81d9e2caeec4abc7a9d620dbebbcde23b.json |
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Rockstar hasn’t even confirmed that the game will make its way to PCs, although it’s expected it will at some point in the future. A Toronto resident even put together a petition a few weeks ago, lobbying Rockstar to bring the game to the PC platform.
According to WCCFTech, several of its readers downloaded the game, only to receive a variety of system crippling viruses, malware and spyware.
Downloading the 18 GB file gives users a virus filled “setup.exe” file. A quick Google search for “GTA 5 PC download” results in this torrent making it to the top of your search results.
Perhaps people should opt to not steal the game and just wait for Rockstar to release the official PC version we all know is coming at some point in the next few months. Some reports indicate that the PC version of GTA V could drop at some point in the first quarter of 2014. | http://o.canada.com/technology/gaming/gta-v-fake-pc-version-torrent-is-giving-downloaders-viruses/comment-page-1 | en | 2013-10-23T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/83c68fc4bcadddfd9c111df82afc6c9ccdebd64259931c23d21885499d6016b3.json |
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PERTH, Australia — Planes and ships hunting for the missing Malaysian jetliner zeroed in on a targeted patch of the Indian Ocean on Thursday, after a navy ship picked up underwater signals that are consistent with a plane’s black box.
Thursday’s search zone was the smallest yet in the month-long search for Flight 370 — 57,923 square kilometres of ocean — and comes a day after the Australian official in charge of the search expressed hope that crews were closing in on the “final resting place” of the vanished jet.
Angus Houston, who is co-ordinating the search off Australia’s west coast, said Wednesday that equipment on the Australian vessel Ocean Shield had picked up two sounds from deep below the surface on Tuesday, and an analysis of two other sounds detected in the same general area on Saturday showed they were consistent with a plane’s flight recorders, or “black boxes.”
“I’m now optimistic that we will find the aircraft, or what is left of the aircraft, in the not-too-distant future,” Houston said Wednesday.
No further sounds had been picked up overnight, Houston’s search co-ordination centre said Thursday. But the Ocean Shield was continuing its hunt, slowly dragging a U.S. navy pinger locator through the ocean’s depths, hoping to find the signal again and get a more specific fix on its location.
Meanwhile, 14 planes and 13 ships were looking for floating debris across the search zone, which extends from 2,280 kilometres northwest of Perth, and China’s Haixun 01 was using underwater acoustic equipment to search for signals in an area several hundred miles south of the Ocean Shield. A “large number of objects” had been spotted by searchers combing the area on Wednesday, but the few that had been retrieved by search vessels were not believed to be related to the missing plane, the co-ordination centre said.
Search crews have already looked in the area they were criss-crossing on Thursday, but were moving in tighter patterns, now that the search zone has been narrowed to about a quarter the size it was a few days ago, Houston said.
Finding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders soon is important because their locator beacons have a battery life of about a month, and Tuesday marked one month since Flight 370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing with 239 people aboard.
If the batteries fail before the recorders are located, finding them in such deep water — about 4,500 metres — would be difficult, if not impossible.
“I believe we are searching in the right area, but we need to visually identify aircraft wreckage before we can confirm with certainty that this is the final resting place of MH370,” Houston said. “For the sake of the 239 families, this is absolutely imperative.”
The hope expressed by Houston on Wednesday contrasted with the frustrating search for the Boeing 777, which disappeared shortly after takeoff in one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history. The plane veered off-course for an unknown reason, with officials saying that satellite data indicates it went down in the southern Indian Ocean. The black boxes could help solve that mystery.
The signals detected 1,645 kilometres northwest of Perth by the Ocean Shield are the strongest indication yet that the plane crashed and is now at the bottom of the ocean in the area where the search is now focused.
A data analysis of the signals heard Saturday determined they were distinct, man-made and pulsed consistently, Houston said.
“They believe the signals to be consistent with the specification and description of a flight data recorder,” he said.
To assist the Ocean Shield, the Australian navy dropped buoys by parachute in a pattern near where the signals were last heard.
Royal Australian navy Commodore Peter Leavy said each buoy will dangle a hydrophone listening device about 300 metres below the surface. The hope, he said, is the buoys will help better pinpoint the signals.
Houston acknowledged searchers were running out of time, noting the last two signals were weaker and briefer than the first pair heard Saturday, suggesting the batteries are failing.
“So we need to, as we say in Australia, ‘make hay while the sun shines,’ ” Houston said.
The weakening of the signals also could indicate the device was farther away, U.S. navy Capt. Mark Matthews said. Temperature, water pressure or the saltiness of the sea could also be factors.
Leavy said thick silt on the ocean floor also could distort the sounds and may hide wreckage from the eventual visual search.
Houston said a decision had not yet been made on how long to use the towed ping locator while knowing the beacons’ batteries will likely fail soon, saying only that a decision to deploy an unmanned submarine in the search was “not far away.”
When the ping locator’s use is exhausted, the sub will be sent to create a sonar map of a potential debris field on the seabed. The Bluefin 21 sub takes six times longer to cover the same area as the ping locator.
Matthews said the detections indicate the beacon is within about a 20-kilometre radius, equal to a 1,300-square-kilometre chunk of the ocean floor — an area the size of Los Angeles.
It would take the sub about six weeks to two months to canvass an area that big, which is why the ping locator is still being used to hone in on a more precise location, Matthews said.
The audio search was narrowed to its current position after engineers predicted a flight path by analyzing signals between the plane and a satellite and investigators used radar data to determine the plane’s speed and where it may have run out of fuel.
Houston noted that all four of the pings detected since Saturday were near the site of a final, partial “handshake” signal revealed earlier in the investigation. | http://o.canada.com/news/more-underwatemore-pings-raise-hope-wreckage-of-flight-370-will-be-found-as-search-area-narrows/comment-page-1 | en | 2014-04-10T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/d74cba8004ba1fedffc2e81a285fe0121150614ee77fc8b0aa66197fce5657d4.json |
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But where did the reports that adult videos would be incorporated into Xbox 360 originate?
YouPorn, a website that streams pornography, spun this news with an announcement that its content would now be Xbox-ready.
“Gamers and free porn lovers around the world rejoice! Thanks at long last to the introduction of Internet Explorer for XBox, you can now tap in to and stream all your favorite free YouPorn videos right from your [Xbox]. Whether you’re pwning n00bs in CoD: Modern Warfare 3, annihilating Bullymong in Borderlands 2, or taking the Saints deep in Madden NFL 13, you’re never more than a few simple controller clicks away from being face deep in hot free porn.”
Despite the implication, all of this “hot free porn” will not require a dedicated app. Rather, the Internet Explorer browser will be added to the game console as part of this fall’s dashboard update.
However, YouPorn’s post did force Microsoft to issue a statement of its own:
“To be clear, we are adding Internet Explorer to Xbox Live, not specific adult content providers like YouPorn or any other specific website content. Additionally, we give members and parents the option to turn this feature on or off for their accounts. Access to Internet Explorer for all Child accounts is blocked by default.”
So, I guess people are going to have stick to playing with their existing joysticks.
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That’s what Roman Romanenko says as he organizes the occupation of this eastern Ukraine city’s seat of government, which he and hundreds like him seized to protest the new leadership in Kyiv. Clad in fatigues and a blue beret, the 35- year-old former paratrooper says he quit his coal-mining job to come here.
“My miner’s soul told me to be here,” said Romanenko. “Those people in Kyiv spat on us. They think Ukraine is only western Ukraine and are ruling as they please.”
Romanenko and his fellow activists, entrenched in the building where ousted president Viktor Yanukovych once ruled as governor, are demanding a vote on greater autonomy, joining similar movements in other heavily Russian-speaking cities in the country’s east. Outside is a scene reminiscent of Kyiv’s Independence Square, or Maidan, before rallies for closer ties with Europe turned deadly in February, leading to Yanukovych’s downfall and Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
While the eastern uprising looks and feels like Maidan, the roles have been reversed, with support coming from the east instead of the west as former Cold War rivals trade accusations of secret plots to spark unrest. Russia, with 40,000 troops across the border, said attempts by federal Ukrainian forces to quell the demonstrations threaten to lead to civil war.
Like Maidan, there are barricades of tires and wire in Donetsk, as is the smoke from wood-burning stoves and the bustle of bat-wielding men in balaclavas and homemade riot gear. Their arsenal of bricks and Molotov cocktails, also the same, is growing. There are groups of women, too, only here they say: “Ukraine is the victim of U.S. and EU aggression.”
Romanenko, elected commander of the camp by the council of protesters, dismisses speculation Russia is behind the uprising, as it was in Crimea when President Vladimir Putin sent thousands of soldiers to augment the troops already stationed at Russia’s Black Sea Fleet there.
“We just want the right to hold a referendum on federalization, so we can decide our own fate,” Romanenko says. “Why are extremists allowed to seize buildings in Kyiv, but we can’t do the same here? I don’t belong to any party, just to the national patriotic movement.”
Similar protests and calls to boycott the May 25 presidential election have sprouted up throughout the country’s industrial heartland, which relies on trade with Russia and fears of the competition European Union membership would bring. While the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk have 28 per cent of Ukraine’s 45 million people, they account for almost half of industrial output.
Russia has imposed bans or delayed shipments of Ukrainian exports several times in the past year to punish the government for pushing ahead with plans to sign an EU trade accord instead of joining Putin’s trade bloc. Yanukovych backed out at the last minute, opting instead for a $15 billion bailout from Putin, which was rescinded after his ally’s ouster.
Ukraine’s economy, which has endured two contractions since 2008, is headed to a third recession this year, according to the U.S.-and EU-backed government, which expects gross domestic product to shrink three per cent. With currency reserves depleted and the hryvnya at a record low, officials are pushing for final approval of an International Monetary Fund loan that will unlock $27 billion in international financing over two years.
Andriy, 40, said he and his friends decided to join the occupation in Donetsk to maintain order and “prevent actions by provocateurs.”
“We crave stability,” said Andriy, who declined to give his last name or occupation for fear of reprisal. “Yanukovych was corrupt, but he was the legally elected president and we need him to restore stability. For now, we’re getting paid on time, but we’re sure that will end soon. That’s why we need the referendum on greater autonomy.”
Though chants of “Russia, Russia” are common at the camp, Andriy, like Romanenko, said he doesn’t want to join the Russian Federation, he just wants to be less dependent on Kyiv.
That’s a view shared by most people in the Donetsk region, according the local Institute of Social Research and Political Analyses. Sixty-six per cent of the region’s population wants Ukraine to remain united, the research group said, citing a poll of 500 people conducted March 26-29. The results have a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.
One of those is Olha, a 36-year-old lawyer who volunteered for nursing duties at what is now the headquarters of the protest movement in Donetsk.
“I will stay here until we win, until he have a referendum on federalization,” Olha said, declining to give her last name. “My father is Russian, I’m for Russians, for Slavs, but federalization is enough for me. Who knows how Russians would treat us if we join? I don’t want to be a third-class citizen.” | http://o.canada.com/news/ukraine-miners-take-to-donetsk-streets-in-uprising-that-mimics-kyiv-protests/comment-page-1 | en | 2014-04-10T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/7f26fb4ac81a91604e67bb4661cc4d9b273f97b05877640f75abea1d80df14ff.json |
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So why so blue, little buddy?
Check out these images taken in Sydney, Australia Oct. 22 — where Pattinson appeared (miserable) while shilling Breaking Dawn – Part 2 at a photo call and fan event for the upcoming movie.
What’s giving RPattz a case of the sads?
We have a few theories. Vote for your favourite in the poll below: | http://o.canada.com/entertainment/10-photos-of-robert-pattinson-looking-miserable/comment-page-1 | en | 2012-10-23T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/018e83513f6c1630d245502a0efd1f247b68b5d2d6920bba50a926ed3f951740.json |
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Now that the UFC has boots on the ground in Puerto Rico and in Mexico, the company is hoping the the Latin American version… | http://o.canada.com/discussions/mma-crossfire-jon-jones-looking-to-wrestle-respect-away-from-chael-sonnen-at-ufc-159/comment-page-1 | en | 2013-04-25T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/9546aa8b041af8913514c70a521c517839878c2a0b102a7c064456c5d130cfa4.json |
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Adrià recently toured North America in support of the seven-volume elBulli 2005-2011 (Phaidon, 2014). The first six volumes comprise the complete catalogue of the final years of the restaurant – described as “its most fertile and prolific period.” Every single dish that was served at elBulli from 2005 to 2011 is included, accompanied by photographs, recipes, finishing and presentation instructions, cutlery requirements and details on how to eat each dish. Colour-coded by season, the recipes follow the elBulli coursing sequence: cocktails, snacks, tapas, pre-desserts, desserts and the signature morphings.
As Adrià explains in a Toronto interview (translated by Sofia Perez), “The catalogue is the umbilical cord [between restaurant and foundation]. It’s 10,000 pages if we add them all up. It has taken us 14 years to put together these books; 2000 until now. It’s been a tool that allows us to [undertake] this whole process. It would be unthinkable to do it without these books.” The seventh volume, entitled Evolutionary Analysis, offers an in-depth look at the creative process and growth of elBulli during the restaurant’s last six seasons, covering organization, philosophy, products, technology, elaborations, and style and characteristics.
Created in 1998, elBullitaller, or the workshop, was integral to the restaurant’s creative output; 100 new dishes were developed there each year. The workshop archives – meticulously kept – enabled authors Adrià, Juli Soler and Albert Adrià to take an unprecedented look at elBulli’s approach in Evolutionary Analysis. Adrià is recognized internationally for his indelible mark on modern gastronomy, with the emphasis often placed on innovations such as spherification, foams and deconstruction, all of which he pioneered.
Of the emphasis that has been placed on his revolutionary use of technology, Adrià says with a laugh, “People say that the food at elBulli was very technological; people were completely wrong because they didn’t even know what technology was.” He explains that tools such as the siphon (used to make culinary foams) and sous vide improve the process but stresses that humanity has always used tools in this way, regardless of field. “You can decide whether to use it or not but this is less important than what people opine,” he says, adding that when looking at the history of elBulli, the use of technology and the emotional response they strove for were considered to be two different endeavours.
When it comes to describing the cuisine of elBulli, molecular cuisine is the most commonly used term, although there are others. “There’s been confusion here: modernist, molecular, vanguard, techno-emotional…,” Adrià says. “For me, it’s logical to say techno-emotional because the person who created this name, [Pau Arenós], is the person who was with us in Spain when we were creating this type of food. The logical thing is to use what someone from there came up with. We’ll see what happens in 10 years though. If we continue this way, then we could say that it is a type of cuisine that had many different names,” he laughs.
In Evolutionary Analysis, the authors describe the sixth sense, or emotional reaction, as one of the key aspects of elBulli’s cuisine; “the intellectual, non-culinary element.” When designing dishes, Adrià explains that it wasn’t always easy to anticipate emotional reactions due to the cultural component. “If I deconstruct a tortilla de patatas [Spanish omelette] and if we have a Canadian gentleman come, and he doesn’t know the original recipe, there’s no provocation there,” he says. “But for a Spaniard yes because it’s something that they know. If I served rabbit brains, I knew it would be provocative. We wanted you to reflect on what was being served.”
He continues, offering the example of a preparation consisting of water and hazelnut oil that they experimented with during the winter of 2008-09. “We’d put a plum tart next to it; people would say, ‘Water with oil?’ and we knew that it was a shock to people. We wanted to make people reflect on the magic of the texture of oil, and that you never notice it when you eat it in a sauce; you don’t really appreciate the texture. But if you put it on your lips and you feel it, it’s magical and you’re eating oil; people don’t normally do that. We knew more or less when we wanted to provoke and when we didn’t. Sometimes we didn’t want to provoke; we just wanted to move people, or [evoke] a memory of the past.”
Adrià expresses the opinion that the Evolutionary Analysis is the most important volume in the set. “It explains the things that are hard to see. That’s what we want people to reflect on. Nobody really speaks about, if I haven’t explained it to them, the importance of Japan from 2003 to 2011 at elBulli – especially from 2005 to 2011. No one talks about that. Molecular cooking is what they talk about or spherification. That’s the problem with elBulli; every year we changed. It was chaos,” he adds with a laugh.
On their first trip to Japan, in 2002, the elBulli team discovered obulato (in addition to a host of other Japanese products) – a fine, edible sheet, which is used to encase medicine. In 2004, they used obulato to make the dish ‘Transparent empanadilla with redcurrant and eucalyptus,’ and then as a new type of pasta in 2009’s ‘Vanishing ravioli’ (to name just two applications). Playing on the properties of obulato – it vanishes when moistened – diners were instructed to dip the ravioli, using their fingers, into a green pine cone infusion. The optimum dip was three seconds, and the ravioli had to be eaten immediately after dipping. A second too long and the wrapper would disappear before their eyes, leaving the filling behind.
The connection with Japan offered many influences by way of unique products and techniques, but that wasn’t all. Following the visit in 2002, the authors write in the Evolutionary Analysis, “It could be said that the spirit of Japan took hold of us, and that if we were to this point intimately Catalan or Spanish, we were now also a little Japanese. The soul of Japan was entering elBulli.”
“For me, Japan was soul more than the products,” Adrià says. “The products were important and allowed you to do things you hadn’t done, or new techniques, or new tools, or new elaborations but the important thing was the soul. I’m very pragmatic as you can see, and this part is not at all pragmatic from Japan; very emotional, moving, we loved it; it was fantastic. It was a balance between pragmatism and this part.”
It was this “poetic sentiment” inspired by Japan, as well as a return to the regional cuisine of the Mediterranean, that the authors see as defining elBulli in the final years. However, it was the technique-concept search – “in which techniques and concepts are the driving force for creativity” – that resulted in the most imitated aspects of elBulli’s style (spherification, foams, hot jellies etc.). When asked about his preferred techniques or products, Adrià says with a laugh, “There are a lot. That’s what was wonderful about the magic of elBulli; the amazing amount of techniques and new products that we created; elaborations. Obulato – it’s magic. Creativity is not always about doing complex things; it’s to see things that others don’t see.”
elBulli at a glance
Location: Cala Montjoi, Ap. 30, 17480 Roses, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Foundation website: elbulli.com
Meaning: ‘Bulli’ is a colloquial term for French bulldog
Stats: During elBulli’s last six seasons it received more than two million reservation requests each year, and served dinner to just 8,000
Innovations (selected):
Culinary foams – created in 1994 at elBulli using siphons to combine various ingredients with air. Dishes include: 1188 Mango-puzzle with frozen elderflower wedge and coconut foam; 1155 Stewed walnuts with daisy buds, beurre noisette air-foam and mint aroma
– created in 1994 at elBulli using siphons to combine various ingredients with air. Dishes include: 1188 Mango-puzzle with frozen elderflower wedge and coconut foam; 1155 Stewed walnuts with daisy buds, beurre noisette air-foam and mint aroma Freeze-drying – commercially produced freeze-dried products were used at elBulli prior to 2004. In 2005, they took the process in-house. Dishes include: 1093 White sangria in suspension; 1134 Carrot-LYO foam with hazelnut foam-air and Córdoba spices
– commercially produced freeze-dried products were used at elBulli prior to 2004. In 2005, they took the process in-house. Dishes include: 1093 White sangria in suspension; 1134 Carrot-LYO foam with hazelnut foam-air and Córdoba spices Spherification – the process turns liquefied food into spheres, resembling caviar, with a liquid centre. Dishes include: 1262 In-situ spherification of a cucumber soup; 1278 Bread soup with pepper dulse and spherical-I mini-yolks
– the process turns liquefied food into spheres, resembling caviar, with a liquid centre. Dishes include: 1262 In-situ spherification of a cucumber soup; 1278 Bread soup with pepper dulse and spherical-I mini-yolks Deconstruction – in elBulli 2005-2011, the authors write: “elBulli cuisine, particularly in the final years, was not deconstructed cuisine.” However, Adrià is credited with its emergence in the early 90s. Deconstructed dishes contain the original flavours of a referenced dish, although the form and physical presentation are quite different. Dishes include: 1484 Carbonara; 1466 Cherries in kirsch
Alumni (selected):
Notable dates:
1961 – Dr. Hans and Marketta Schilling open elBulli, first as a mini golf course and then a beach bar
1975 – elBulli was awarded its first Michelin star for Jean-Louis Neichel’s nouvelle cuisine
1981 – Juli Soler joins the staff, taking over the management of elBulli
1984 – Ferran Adrià joins the staff as chef de partie and becomes joint chef de cuisine (head chef) the same year
1985 – Albert Adrià joins the staff as an apprentice (Albert will eventually become creative director – he left elBulli in 2008)
1987 – Ferran Adrià becomes sole chef de cuisine; elBulli closes for the winter for the first time, which becomes an annual tradition
1990 – Second Michelin star is awarded, for the second time
1997 – Third Michelin star is awarded
1998 – Creation of elBullitaller (the workshop)
2002 – Elimination of the à la carte menu (tasting menu only); named ‘Best restaurant in the world’ by The Restaurant Magazine
2006-2009 – Named ‘Best restaurant in the world’ by The Restaurant Magazine each year, for a record of five times total
2010 – Ferran Adrià named ‘Best chef of the decade’ by The Restaurant Magazine
2011 – elBullirestaurant closes on July 30; transition to elBullifoundation begins
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President Luis Guillermo Solis said at the flag ceremony that human rights would be a priority during his administration.
Solis said the rainbow flag was hoisted as part of “the world’s day to fight against sexual orientation discrimination.”
A group of about 20 people protested outside the presidential residence, saying Solis also should have celebrated “the world’s day for agriculture” and “family day,” holidays that have taken place since he took office last week.
Lawyer and gay rights activist Yahin Castrillo said raising the gay pride flag is a nice gesture but that more should be done to have the rights of gay people recognized in the Central American country. Castrillo has tried since 2003 to have unions between same-sex couples legally recognized in Costa Rica. | http://o.canada.com/news/costa-rican-president-luis-guillermo-solis-raises-gay-pride-flag-at-residence/comment-page-1 | en | 2014-05-17T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/e1d6385ce4aa37fd12517e6e405cc5fc3e575d5780335ba283f863b8bdf75fc3.json |
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But the change also meant that Canada’s crime fighters had to come up with a new method for lifting fingerprints off of them since the traditional “wet chemistry” method used on the old paper bills no longer worked on the new ones.
A team of RCMP forensic scientists has now developed a protocol using some nifty gadgets that have shown promise for detecting fingerprints off cold-case exhibits that may have been in storage for years.
“We have full confidence that when high-profile cases are coming to our forensic identification sections, we know what the best approach will be,” said Della Wilkinson, a research scientist with the RCMP’s Integrated Forensic Identification Services in Ottawa.
The need to lift fingerprints off of money happens in all sorts of investigations, from residential break-ins to drug investigations to kidnappings involving ransoms, Wilkinson said. “Who’s handled that (money) becomes very key in tying people to the event,” she said.
In the old days of paper money, investigators would dip the bill in a chemical solution. That would cause a reaction with sweat and oil residue from the finger, allowing investigators to visualize the print wearing special goggles and using blue-green lights in a dark room.
When RCMP forensic scientists heard that the Bank of Canada was going to begin rolling out new polymer bills, they knew that this method wouldn’t work on the new bills.
They started consulting with their counterparts in Australia, which had introduced polymer bills years earlier, and also worked out a deal with the Bank of Canada to start doing tests on the new polymer bills before they went into circulation.
“We were very lucky to be loaned banknotes from the Bank of Canada for this research,” Wilkinson said. “It allowed us to be ready by the time the notes were turning up at crime scenes.”
The recommended RCMP protocol for detecting fingerprints on polymer banknotes was adopted this year and published in the Journal of Forensic Identification by Wilkinson and colleague Rolanda Lam.
The protocol recommends that investigators start with the most accessible method — the cyanoacrylate fuming method, also known as the superglue method.
The polymer bill is placed inside an airtight chamber. The humidity level is raised to about 80 per cent.
Superglue is heated, transforming it from a liquid to a vapour. A fan distributes the vapour throughout the chamber and when it comes into contact with fingerprint residue, it causes a chemical reaction, making the print more visible.
But there is a limitation with this method. Fingerprints can be detected easily only on the transparent parts of the banknotes. It is harder to visualize them on the opaque, or ink-covered, parts of the bill.
In this instance, investigators are told to then try another method: vacuum metal deposition, or VMD.
Again, the bill is placed inside a special chamber. Minute gold filings are vaporized, coating everything inside the chamber. The gold is absorbed into the fats and oils of the fingerprint.
Then vaporized zinc, which features a reflective surface, is introduced. It sticks to the gold and nothing else, thus helping to visualize the fingerprint.
Currently, the RCMP only has one older-generation VMD chamber located in Ottawa, but the introduction of polymer banknotes has prompted the agency to look into acquiring three new machines from a U.K. company for its detachments in Surrey, B.C., Newmarket, Ont., and Montreal, Wilkinson said.
They aren’t cheap — costing about $350,000 each. But in a report this past June to Surrey City Council touting the benefits of VMD technology, Chief Supt. Bill Fordy said it was the “most sensitive technology for obtaining fingerprints on solid (non-porous) objects presently available in forensic science.”
It can be used to find prints on plastic packaging, plastic bottles, glass, tight-weave fabrics, firearms, glossy paper or magazines, Fordy said. The technology was even able to turn up a fingerprint from an exhibit in a 17-year-old homicide in Alberta.
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Canadian researchers investigated “the entourage effect” to determine whether a VIP’s experience of status changes in the presence of accompanying guests. Although reward-sharing should weaken the sense of being special, as it reduces exclusivity, a variety of lab and field experiments reveal the opposite is actually true.
Across five studies with nearly 900 people, VIPs felt higher levels of status when they could share their preferential treatment with friends – and this occurred even when it meant sacrificing the elite nature of the rewards.
“What we found most interesting was not just that people wanted to bring guests, but that they were willing to trade off scarcity of rewards in order to do so,” said study co-author Brent McFerran, who has joint appointments at Simon Fraser University and the University of Michigan.
“People are willing to trade rare rewards for more common ones, if they get to share these experiences with their friends.”
Using such real-world settings as a luxury suite at a football game, as well as imagined scenarios such as a VIP dinner with “a political figure of your choice,” the researchers uncovered a number of important findings about the effect of a posse.
First, that VIPs feel enhanced status when they can share their rewards with friends. Second, that the heightened sense of importance isn’t a function of not wanting to be alone, of bestowing a gift or of creating a sense of indebtedness in others. And third, that the effect persists even when the addition of an entourage dilutes VIP treatment.
Co-author Jennifer Argo, a professor of marketing at the University of Alberta, said the guiding factor in all this is connection.
“You’re the hub of a network when you’re a VIP and bring people with you,” said Argo. “It’s that sense of social connection that magnifies the amount of status you feel.”
There are, however, a few limitations: the posse has to be accompanying you (that is, giving away your VIP passes doesn’t confer the same boost); the people sharing the perks with you can’t themselves be VIPs; preferential treatment needs to be involved (the social connection of the entourage alone isn’t enough); and that there’s a limit to how large the posse can get before the VIP halo loses lustre.
The study, to appear in the Journal of Consumer Research, has vast implications for consumer loyalty programs, in which billions are invested by companies each year to appease top spenders. This bears out further in a sister project by Argo in which the guests of VIPs demonstrated some surprising behaviours.
“We find (VIPs’ guests) feel even more status that the actual VIP, and that they use fewer of the amenities associated with preferential treatment,” said Argo. “So they’re cheaper and they feel more status – and they’re more willing to spread positive word of mouth than the VIPs.”
The message to airport lounges and swanky hoteliers is clear: the barbarians are at the gate, and you just might want to let a few in.
mharris@postmedia.com
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So much has changed for women in those intervening years — 80 per cent of Canadians at one point lived in a province with a female premier — but so much has stayed the same. On Tuesday, the same women-hating rage that fueled Lepine’s murderous rampage reared its ugly head again, this time in an email blast to Utah State University. It promised “the deadliest school shooting in American history” if they didn’t cancel a talk from culture and video-game critic Anita Sarkeesian. Sarkeesian is a vocal feminist and vlogger and only cancelled the show after local police refused a request to pat down all entrants for weapons.
The letter distributed to the university community also praises Lepine as a “hero to men everywhere for standing up to the toxic influence of feminism on Western masculinity.”
And that is where the author’s apparent submersion in the online “men’s rights” subculture becomes apparent. As one blogger highlighted, “toxic influence of feminism” is a very specific phrase associated with the dregs of men’s rights activism.
Almost all men’s rights activists abhor violence. Many of them do raise legitimate beefs, including family courts’ institutional bias against men, boys’ trouble in public schools, high rates of suicides among men and media mockery of female on male rape. But “men’s rights” activists are, by and large, a thinly veiled (and perhaps subconscious) misogyny rebelling against women’s increased power in Western society.
Just like Marc Lepine. Just like the author of the Utah letter who wrote, “We live in a nation of emasculated cowards too afraid to challenge the vile, misandrist harpies who seem to destroy them.”
Misandry — discrimination against men — is the rallying cry of men’s rights activists and the online posting boards, whether on reddit, 4Chan or some even more tucked away corners of the internet.
Whenever the dots are connected between violence against women, like Elliott Rodger and the Isla Vista rampage last spring, and men’s rights movements, proponents are quick to say they’re all being “painted with the same brush.”
Every year, when Canadians remember December 6, 1989, with a white ribbon and pledge to end violence against women, they repeat the mantra: Don’t blame all men, don’t say we’re all monsters. Reddit’s men’s rights page lights up with criticism that Lepine was mentally ill and it was not really about women.
Except it totally was about women.
And for the few rational men’s rights advocates who want, for example, to reform custody laws, it is as unfair to be painted with the same brush as the misogynist elements as it is to imply all men are monsters in waiting.
But what Lepine, Elliott and the yet-unnamed author of the letter to Utah State have in common is this: They all blamed feminism for their ills. They all turned to violence to silence women. They all used the language of male entitlement to dictate women’s behaviour.
And while Lepine acted in the days before online posting boards, two of them found ways to fuel their fire in those dark corners of the web, and inspiration in Lepine’s decades-old acts. Who knows how many others are lurking, already angry, already disenfranchised, and taking their cues from the kinds of websites that promote “Mark Lepine is a feminist hero” or worthy of his own ribbon campaign.
It’s not just the overt praise of Lepine that’s a problem, either. Many men’s rights activists decry his horrors, but in the same breath imply women somehow prodded it, or the annual memorials are somehow misandrist.
It’s that kind of twisted logic that could pull in a troubled young man and lead him to a violent end, or inspire him to tell Sarkeesian she is “going to die screaming” because she is “everything that is wrong with the feminist woman.”
Because his sentiments, so easily confirmed online, are everything that is wrong with the men’s rights man.
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] | 2016-08-26T20:48:33 | null | 2012-10-20T11:00:06 | Stephen Harper tightened his own belt this week, voluntarily — and quietly — accepting a pension cut that will likely cost him more than a million dollars. The prime minister doesn’t need our sympathy. | http%3A%2F%2Fo.canada.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fharper-sets-an-example-by-slashing-his-own-pension%2Fcomment-page-1.json | http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/2014/10/harper-prime-minister-stephen-harper-answers-a-question-duri.jpg | en | null | Maher: Stephen Harper sets an example by slashing his own pension | null | null | o.canada.com | Stephen Harper tightened his own belt this week, voluntarily — and quietly — accepting a pension cut that will likely cost him more than a million dollars.
The prime minister doesn’t need our sympathy. He’ll still have a very comfortable pension, but he deserves credit for showing leadership and finally scraping some of the gold off of MPs’ gilded pension plan.MPs passed a bill on Friday that will see all of them start to pay more for their own retirements, ending a system where they paid just $11,000 a year and could look forward to an average pension of $54,693 a year beginning at age 55.
MPs qualify to collect after just six years of service, which means that Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre qualified for a pension at age 31.For every dollar that MPs or senators contribute to their pension, taxpayers pony up $23.30, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which has been pushing this issue for decades.In changes that will be phased in, to spare the cohort now warming the chairs in the House of Commons, MPs will contribute $39,000 a year to their pensions, and they won’t be able to collect until they turn 65.Harper, who did not need to do this, took a look at his own entitlements and decided to put another hole in the belt.
Until the bill passed, retired prime ministers received 66 per cent of their prime ministerial salary — $104,000 a year — on top of their MP salary.
Harper, who makes $157,731 as an MP plus his $157,731 prime ministerial stipend, will now receive three per cent of his prime ministerial salary per year of service.
If he serves until after the next election, in 2015, he’ll get about $47,000 a year in pension, $57,000 less than he would have received under the old system.
Depending on when he leaves office, and how long he lives, Harper’s pension decision will cost him $1.5 million to $2 million. Harper is quietly setting a good example, and deserves a bit of credit.
He also deserves credit for agreeing to split the pension measures off from the enormous budget omnibus bill.
It had looked like the Tories were planning to keep the measure in the bill, which the opposition is pretty much duty-bound to vote against, so that the Tories could complain theatrically that Liberal and NDP MPs refused to vote to cut their own pensions.
Instead, when Liberal interim leader Bob Rae asked Harper during question period on Thursday to split the bill, Harper said he would take it under advisement.
On Friday, the government decided to slice the measure off the budget bill and pass it. The NDP hemmed and hawed, and said that it really should go to committee for study, likely because they aren’t keen to give the government a fig leaf for cuts to public servants’ pensions, but they quickly realized they couldn’t be seen to vote against this, and got in line.
It is about time.
MPs make $157,731 a year, which for most of them is the biggest salary they will make in their lives. While a handful of business people and big shot lawyers do take pay cuts to serve in Parliament, when you consider all the benefits and free stuff they get, the number who really lose out by entering politics is vanishingly small.
We would be cutting off our noses to spite our faces if we make it an unappealing job. It’s a tough life, full of rubber chicken, long airplane rides, ridiculous talking points and the risk of public indignity on a scale most of us couldn’t endure.
But it was a bit too rich, so the changes are good, and it was good to see the prime minister co-operate with opposition MPs to get this done.
Harper often mistakes his opponents for blood enemies, sending his legions out to attack them with asinine and insulting talking points, unnecessarily reducing the level of debate.
And the budget omnibus bill is too big — 450 pages! — to allow for proper debate of the many laws it changes.
It guts the Navigable Waters Act, for instance, removing federal protection from a huge number of lakes and rivers, handing responsibility to municipalities that may be too tempted to pave lakes when a big box retailer moves to town.
The Conservatives say other acts will still protect those bodies of water, and they may be right. That’s the kind of thing we would find out in a proper debate at the environment committee, after hearing from witnesses, rather than a rushed session at finance committee.
It is good to reduce the pensions of MPs, but bad to prevent them from earning their pay by giving our laws the debate they need.
smaher@postmedia.com | http://o.canada.com/news/national/harper-sets-an-example-by-slashing-his-own-pension/comment-page-1 | en | 2012-10-20T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/b12e9852e64f9d60ae01a32eaca28b8a1e5ce9d588c39fb14bff5af83b3d8337.json |
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I’ve just returned from a very different kind of Danube river cruise: Viking River Cruises‘ 10-night Passage to Eastern Europe. One of Viking’s most immersive European itineraries, it begins with a one-night stay in Bucharest, Romania and includes a two-night hotel stay in Budapest, Hungary. In between is an eight-day river cruise aboard one of the line’s sparkling new Viking Longships.
After getting on the beautiful, 190-guest Viking Embla just outside of Bucharest, we sailed for the Bulgarian towns of Russe and Vidin; Belgrade, Serbia; Osijek, Croatia; and Kalocsa, Hungary before arriving in one of my favourite cities in Europe — Budapest.
We also spent a day of scenic cruising through a stretch of the Danube known as the Iron Gates. With temperatures soaring above 35 C, cold drinks on the Sun Deck were a must as we sailed through this mountainous, narrow passage that in many ways is almost reminiscent of Alaska’s Inside Passage — with less trees, of course.
Viking is all about immersive, authentic experiences ashore, and this itinerary really gave the company latitude to go all-out. In each port of call, Viking includes one or two complimentary shore excursions, supplemented by a small list of optional (and additional fee) tours.
Our first included tour was an all-day exploration of Bucharest that included a visit to the massive Palace of Parliament (the largest civilian building in the world), lunch at a local restaurant, and time to explore the quaint Peasant’s Museum that highlights historical life in rural Romania.
Unlike the modernized Western Danube, this is Europe at its most raw. From war-torn Osijek — which still bears the scars of the hard-fought battle for Croatian independence that began in 1991 — to Bulgaria — the poorest member of the European Union — the ports of call on Viking’s Passage to Eastern Europe itinerary bring to life the events that we’ve all heard about, but rarely understand.
In Osijek, Viking pulls out all the stops with a half-day tour that includes small-group invitations to have coffee and cake with a local family at their home. These Home Hosted Visits are, in my opinion, one of Viking’s best and most authentic shore offerings. We were welcomed with coffee, cake, and plenty of Croatian slivovitz, a plum brandy that’s sure to hit the throttle on your afternoon.
The other sleeper hit of this trip: Belgrade, Serbia. As fascinating as Budapest or Vienna, Belgrade is an incredible city filled with kind and generous people. I oriented myself with Viking’s City Tour (included) that struck a great balance between guided events and free time. I also took part in the line’s optional Behind the Scenes at the Serbian Opera tour which, for €39 per person, showcased Serbia’s vibrant, and affordable, arts scene. Front-row tickets for local performances start at just €6.
Of course, when I wasn’t ashore, I was very happy to be onboard Viking Embla, one of Viking’s first Longships built back in 2012.
After four years of service, she still sparkles, with brand-new carpeting throughout that only serves to highlight how well these Scandinavian-inspired ships have aged.
Onboard, you’ll find river view, French Balcony, and full step-out balcony staterooms, along with a huge assortment of suites and mini-suites. My full balcony, Category B stateroom was perfect for a week, with plenty of storage space, heated bathroom floors and anti-fog mirrors, comfortable beds, and new Freyja toiletries.
I half-joke that Viking’s Longships are my home-away-from-home.
While there are some great river cruise ships out there from a wide assortment of lines, Viking’s open, airy vessels keep me coming back for more. The same could be said of the line’s helpful and friendly staff members, and of the onboard cuisine, which offers a mix of local European specialities, Scandinavian delights (try the evening Smorgasbord on the Aquavit Terrace), and North American favourites.
If you’ve got more time, Viking also offers this journey as part of a longer, 23-day European Sojourn voyage that sails all the way to Amsterdam or reverse.
Happy cruising. | http://o.canada.com/travel/ports-and-bows/vikings-passage-to-eastern-europe-river-cruise-is-a-real-winner/comment-page-1 | en | 2016-08-05T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/dcecce05097b929106527f299d60c2e04b52ffa2ee08a5326af4cd8140c4c186.json |
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It’s equally both the best and worst game in the long-running series.
Unity’s best feature is arguably the ability to free-run down the side of buildings by holding down the “B” button and the right trigger. In previous Assassin’s Creed games, climbing up objects might have been an easy task, but navigating down them certainly wasn’t. I often ended up landing on top of a group of enemies I was stalking by accident.
Assassin’s Creed Unity solves that issue with this new control mechanic.
Stealth, a feature that almost feels like it was dropped from recent entries in the series like Assassin’s Creed III and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, also finally makes sense in Assassin’s Creed Unity. Players no longer auto-crouch when entering bushes or other objects that can be used as cover. Instead all you need to do is press in the left trigger and Arno Dorian, Unity’s main character, crouches whenever you want him to.
The game also adds a cover system that’s not unlike Splinter Cell: Blacklist’s. This is a feature the series has been sorely missing for years. Despite having the word Assassin in its title, Assassin’s Creed titles haven’t felt very stealthy lately – this is another issue Unity fixes.
The game’s Paris French Revolution setting is also a great backdrop for an Assassin’s Creed game. Ubisoft has created a living, breathing virtual Paris filled with load-time free indoor areas to explore, a first for the franchise, and incredibly detailed architecture. Hundreds and in some cases thousands of non-player characters can be frequently seen on-screen at once.
The citizens of Ubisoft’s virtual Paris also react to whatever the player is doing in realistic ways. If you fire your rifle enemies will scatter. If you engage in a sword fight in the middle of a crowded square the people also cower and run away in fear, just as you would expect them to in the real world.
The textures of character clothing and other minor graphical details in Unity are some of the best I’ve ever seen in a video game, surpassing even superb looking games like Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. When it comes to plot, Unity’s story is also refreshingly simple. It follows the journey of Arno, an adopted orphan who’s new father holds a senior position in the Templar Order.
Arno’s father is killed and on his quest for revenge he joins the order of the Assassins. An interesting love triangle between a Templar named Elise De LaSerre, the biological daughter of the same Templar Grandmaster who adopted Arno (kind of weird right?) also unfolds.
Perhaps most importantly, Unity’s story largely ignores the convoluted Abstergo industry’s present-day tie-ins that have plagued most entries in the Assassin’s Creed franchise. The game’s combat system is also a big improvement over past Assassin’s Creed games. Arno can’t take down countless characters in quick succession. And enemy attacks, especially when they come from rifles, will kill you in just a few hits. Parrying is also timing-based and upgrading weapons, armour and abilities, a feature new to the franchise, has a significant effect on how Arno controls and also how you’re able to tackle missions.
So far this review probably seems extremely positive given the warning I started it with. This is because Assassin’s Creed Unity really does get a number of things right. Now here’s the many things it does wrong.
At times Unity looks breathtaking. Ubisoft’s Paris is one of the most impressive world’s created so far on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. But it also looks horrible. Graphical glitches, strange-looking character hair and cutscenes almost feel as if they weren’t finished. These issues pulled me out of the game’s experience and at times were so bad I couldn’t help but laugh.
Frame rate issues also plague most of the game and while these problems typically don’t make Unity unplayable, most gamers will likely expect more out of a full-priced big budget video game, especially from a studio like Ubisoft. Also, during certain sections of the game, like when I was inside the Notre-Dame Cathedral for example, the game’s frame rate issues became so severe that I couldn’t progress past that particular sequence, although it’s important to point out situations like this occurred rarely (in order to fix the problem I left the cathedral and then reentered).
In terms of actual missions, Ubisoft’s attempt at adopting a Shadow of Mordor-like open-ended progression structure largely works during earlier sections of Assassin’s Creed Unity. But the repetitive nature of missions starts to become boring towards the second half of the game.
Sure, I could have taken a different approach to many of these levels, but I found jumping in, guns blazing and with my sword stabbing every enemy in sight, to frequently be the most efficient course of action, especially if I had a few extra medicine bottles in my inventory. My attempts to approach levels stealthily with smoke bombs and stun grenades almost always failed, although the indicators Ubisoft has added to Unity in order to let the player know they’re hidden or being pursued by enemies, are great and a feature the series really needed.
The game’s co-op missions, one of my most anticipated features in Unity, also felt uninspired. They often ended up devolving into mad-dashes between my co-operative partners and myself in order to reach our intended target. Perhaps they would work better if you were playing with a close friend and coordinating your assault via voice chat.
Assassin’s Creed Unity is a polarizing game. It’s equally both one of the best titles in the Assassin’s Creed franchise and also one of the worst. This is likely because it is the first Assassin’s Creed game Ubisoft is releasing on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
This means the developer has to build a brand new game engine from scratch to power Unity’s massive world. Previous entries in the Assassin’s Creed franchise were all built on the same game engine, giving Ubisoft years to polish out glitches and issues. This is a problem many Xbox One and PlayStation 4 games are suffering from.
The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 version of NHL 15’s lack of features is a perfect example of this issues many current-generation games are suffering from.
Ultimately Assassin’s Creed Unity doesn’t offer up an entirely bad experience, especially if you’re able to look past its glaring technical issues (Ubisoft does have plans to release an update set to fix some of the games problems).
Assassin’s Creed Unity
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Platform: Xbox One, PS4, PC
Release Date: November 11th, 2014 7/10
It gets a number of things right and those who have been fans of the franchise for years will find a lot to like about Unity. But Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag’s naval combat felt like the future of the franchise and a much-needed new direction for the series.
When it comes to Unity, despite its changes to the typical Assassin’s Creed formula, the game largely feels like the same title fans have been playing for years, only unfinished. Hopefully now that Ubisoft Montreal has built a new current-generation engine for the game the next Assassin’s Creed title is a more polished experience.
For this review I played the Xbox One version of Assassin’s Creed Unity.
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Did you know that Nintendo only ever sold about 100,000 Power Gloves? Or, that Nintendo still holds 75 per cent of the portable video game market?
Maybe you’re interested in the fact that more U.S. households own a Wii than a cat.
The statistic that really shocked me is the fact that Nintendo’s last-generation handheld, the DS, is in second place as the best-selling console of all time. It’s behind the juggernaut that was the PlayStation 2 but only by about a million units.
So, if you think Nintendo is irrelevant, think again. This infographic would certainly indicate otherwise.
Twitter: @Patrick_ORourke. Read my author profile on Google+. | http://o.canada.com/technology/gaming/check-out-this-amazing-nintendo-infographic/comment-page-1 | en | 2012-12-12T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/ec31df2268b257a5b64ca3effbeefe455a5da53c04444f832d2a8447e509fe91.json |
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As many an eclipse chaser is well aware, remote and windswept parts of the planet often seem to favor total solar eclipses, with Antarctica and Outer Mongolia getting more than their fair share. Or at least, it seems that way.
But in just over three years time on August 21st, 2017, the contiguous United States will experience its first total solar eclipse since 1979, and the small town of Hopkinsville Kentucky and neighboring towns are already preparing for the spectacle.
Amazingly, the Hopkinsville tourist bureau has been laying plans now leading up to the 2017 eclipse for over a decade. The town of Hopkinsville lies very near the point of maximum eclipse and the town has been taking queries from eclipse chasers who have already taken up a good portion of the 600 hotel rooms from the two hotels in town that have already been released for the 2017 event.
To this end, Cheryl Cook, Executive Director of the Hopkinsville-Christian County Convention & Visitors Bureau has already made contingencies and preparations for marking off viewing areas. And preparations are also in the works for curious summer campers that are also sure to descend on the 100 kilometre plus wide path of totality. Heck, there’s already a T-shirt!:
To be sure, millions of U.S. and Canadian citizens live within driving range of the event, which will be sure to enter the realm of general interest come the summer of 2014.
Hopkinsville and the southwestern Kentucky region is also ideal as it’s a short rental drive from the main connector airport of Nashville in Tennessee which also lies in the path, a good strategy for mobility if the weather on eclipse day proves to be dicey.
And if you ask anyone that’s been bitten by the “eclipse bug,” they are sure to tell you that a partial solar eclipse — annulars included — just aren’t the same… and don’t even think about comparing a lunar eclipse! The maximum duration for totality during the 2017 event is 2 minutes 40 seconds, which will be experienced from a line running roughly from Carbondale Illinois to Hopkinsville Kentucky along the eclipse centerline.
Hopkinsville Kentucky also has another interesting claim to fame: it was the site of the famous Kelly-Hopkinsville UFO encounter of 1955. We interviewed Geraldine Sutton Stith, the author of Alien Legacy and the daughter of Elmer Sutton who was part of an overnight shootout with mysterious visitors back in 1955. But the irony is, the event also happened on August 21st! In fact, the town has hosted its annual Kelly Green Men Days every August over the past few years, as a sort of Roswell redux. It could be a truly strange and unique spectacle in 2017 as umbraphiles, UFO aficionados and the curious stand side-by-side in the path of totality…
And farther down the road, a great place to witness the 2017 eclipse out in nature is the Golden Pond Observatory situated on the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area that straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee border. With a 40 foot planetarium dome and an adjacent observatory built in 1985 that is equipped with a modern 16” reflecting telescope, Golden Pond will be a great and secluded site to witness the 2017 event come eclipse day. And the planetarium is one of the few that still does a live star show!
But don’t delay… the nearby Light House Landing Resort and Marina with its 24 lodges will be open for 2017 reservations in 2016 (and they’re already taking calls…)
Clouded out? Hang out in Paducah, Kentucky just up the road along the shores of the Ohio River for oh, say, seven years, and you’ll get to witness another total solar eclipse in 2024!
It’s strange but true that after a 35 year “eclipse drought” for the U.S., the Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri tri-state region will experience two total solar eclipses in the span of seven years. Hey, we’ve already staked out some property for possible use as the great legendary “Big House” eclipse crash pad…
Be sure not to miss one of nature’s grandest shows. | http://o.canada.com/news/small-towns-in-kentucky-prepare-for-a-big-eclipse/comment-page-1 | en | 2014-06-25T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/5d42f49ff1baa2b50d4c619f023f8432d7292680806a41536124b78b9bda1051.json |
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The homegrown medical drama ended its third season with an explosion that killed fan-favourite character Dr. Joel Goran (Daniel Gillies), who was working in the field. Meanwhile, Dr. Alex Reid (Erica Durance) had a baby, making for some truly life-and-death storytelling.
Saving Hope returns this Thursday with its Season 4 premiere, titled Sympathy for the Devil. Durance, a Calgary native, was on hand to talk about what’s ahead at Hope Zion Hospital.
Q What was your reaction to the season finale, with Joel dying that way?
A Just like anything, you just try to roll with it and keep going. Accept the way they want the show to go, and accept the story arcs of all the characters. But that was a bit shocking.
Q How did you deal with being pregnant in real life last season, while playing a pregnant woman on the show?
A If you’re going to play somebody pregnant, it’s helpful to be pregnant. It’s kind of seamless that way. But it was an exhausting year. I’ve never been so tired in my life. It’s something that I wanted to do for my real life, and they were gracious enough on the show to let that be a part of the story.
A Yeah, it’s Alex coming back from maternity leave and all the things that you deal with as a woman coming back. Her job has been replaced and she’s trying to find her footing again. Dealing with that, dealing with the guilt of leaving the child at home, wanting to be at home with a child. And I’m dealing with that as a person too.
But it’s going to be the first time that the audience actually gets to see Charlie (Michael Shanks) and Alex in real time, in a real relationship, having been in a good place for a while. And then dealing with the aftermath of Joel’s death, and there’s all sorts of stuff that comes up from that other (supernatural) world.
Q Max Bennett is joining the show as Dr. Patrick Curtis, and Travis Milne has a four-episode arc. Who else is new this season?
A People are going to love them. There’s Kim Shaw’s character (Dr. Cassie Williams) — she’s just this amazing, fun, quirky doctor. A great new personality to have in there.
A Depends on what day you talk to me. Definitely that’s something I’d like to explore, whether that ends up being in this venue, or another one. It’s just another aspect to further enlighten yourself and be in control of the story.
Q People also know you as Lois Lane in Smallville. What do you think of doing a cameo in the new Supergirl series on CBS?
A That would be really, really fun. My communication is always open with those guys. If something comes along that we both agree would be fun and appropriate, then I would love to work with them again. You just never know.
Saving Hope’s Season 4 debuts Sept. 24, CTV | http://o.canada.com/entertainment/television/saving-hopes-erica-durance-teases-season-4/comment-page-1 | en | 2015-09-23T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/1f63605ade2ef1aff301c95a40c44a9de8b4cfb05dde7855d6d19376ec8e93a5.json |
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“Instead of spending a load of money on a music video,” he says, “we decided to make it ourselves while we were on tour and give the money we saved to Comic Relief.”
Fair enough — and besides, it doesn’t take much to please a true Directioner.
All you need is:
A dorky dance routine, the One Direction trademark.
Shots of Niall in the shower.
And the tub.
And maybe one of Zayn lolling in bed, PJs not required.
Harry Styles all but served up on a plate.
Niall walking Louis like a dog.
And, if you promise to sign autographs for every member of parliament’s tween-aged niece, a very special cameo from Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron. (Tweens follow politics, you know; social studies class requirements and all that. Quiet listening to Take Me Home is probably an excellent study aid.)
Watch the video below, and expect more DIY-style footage of 1D in your future since the boy band is currently working on a documentary with Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock. As the group’s Niall Horan told UK paper The Independent at Wednesday’s BRIT Awards, Spurlock’s cameras are following 1D everywhere — in case those tubby time shots didn’t already clue you into the following: these guys lost any sense of privacy years ago.
“Spurlock’s here himself,” Horan told the paper at the BRITs. “We’re shooting the movie now … it’s actually just been in the toilet with us — no lie. It’s going to be very access all areas.”
The One Direction movie is expected to arrive in August. | http://o.canada.com/entertainment/music/one-way-or-another-youre-going-to-watch-this-one-direction-video/comment-page-1 | en | 2013-02-21T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/8c6713d978d03b5ad47dc5d635a527cd04c061e8a44723291590bcb3cf36f33f.json |
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“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan sang. But these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop culture offerings is just what we need. With that in mind, here is what’s on the radar screen in TV, music and film for the coming week.
MOVIES
Big releases on Aug. 12: Sausage Party; Pete’s Dragon.
Big picture: Yup. It’s come to this. Animators have projected human faces and voices onto everything from animals and cars to planes and toys — even freakin’ emotions. What else was left other than talking deli meat? Grocery-store goodies get the anthropomorphic treatment in this adult cartoon. “We’re chosen!” cheer the deli meat, buns and produce before one sausage learns the terrible truth: they’re all on the menu. This oddity is from the comic talents behind Superbad and Pineapple Express (Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg). In fact, Rogen voices the hero of the tale, Frank the sausage, while Kristen Wig voices his love interest, the hotdog bun Brenda. Sigh. (That faint sound you just heard? That’s the sound of Walt Disney weeping from beyond the grave.)
Speaking of, Pete’s Dragon remakes the 1977 Disney classic. Robert Redford plays an old timer who tells kids stories about a fierce forest dragon; his daughter Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) thinks he is full of it until she meets a mysterious boy who claims to live in the woods with a dragon named Elliot. I’m hoping Game of Thrones’ Daenerys Targaryen shows up before this thing gets too sappy; she can use her dragons to burn down Silicon Valley and “free” the human slaves addicted to Pokémon Go.
Forecast: With deli meat conquered, what’s left for animators? Next up I expect a heartfelt Pixar film about talking vacuum cleaners enslaved by their human overlords. But my entertainment vote will always be parked with dragons over talking hotdogs. Hollywood did get one thing right this week; there was no hybrid opportunity. I suspect a film titled Pete’s Dragon: Sausage Party would not have performed well at the box office.
TV
Big events: The Get Down (Aug. 12, Netflix); Geeking Out (Aug. 14, AMC).
Big picture: It’s like Moulin Rouge meets Saturday Night Fever meets Glee meets A Bronx Tale. (I know. I’m scared, too). Baz Luhrmann’s flashy new Netflix musical-drama follows a ragtag crew of South Bronx teens in 1970s New York City. Watch — and listen — to the dawn of hip hop, punk and disco. Hey, at least Luhrmann made this miniseries instead of a sequel to Australia.
Meanwhile, the geeks have now taken over late night TV, too. Director Kevin Smith (Clerks) co-hosts a new, eight-part talk show for fanboys and fangirls. It will serve up a mishmash of pop culture interviews, clips, host banter and out-of-studio segments. (Geeking Out sounds like EVERY other talk show with celebrity guests. After all, the only acting roles left these days are based on comic books.)
Forecast: My crystal ball is foggy on these two. What I can tell you is I would have rather seen Luhrmann create a musical about comic book geeks — mainly to witness the epic ballad, Living in My Parents Basement, Eating Doritos, and Reading Spider-Man While Daydreaming About Kissing an Elven Princess.
MUSIC
Big releases on Aug. 12: Blind Pilot (And Then Like Lions); The Pack A.D. (Positive Thinking).
Big picture: Blind Pilot is this year’s The Lumineers or Mumford & Sons. The only difference? The versatile Oregon group’s songs don’t ALL sound the same. Meanwhile, Vancouver rockers The Pack A.D. aim to leave the rest of the pack behind. My prediction? The nihilistic, hard rockers’ positive thinking will get results, and a Polaris Prize nomination.
Forecast: Blind Pilot deserves to be at the top of the folk-rock ladder. Meanwhile, the Pack A.D. will inspire other Canadian bands to create their own “wishful thinking” albums. I expect a new Nickelback album titled My Hair Isn’t Greasy & My Songs Aren’t Misogynistic, Shallow Drivel.
Honourable mention: Brendan Canning (Home Wreaking Years). A new album from any member of Toronto’s Broken Social Scene is reason to unite lovers of good music. And this one features guest appearances from BSS members like Sam Goldberg and Justin Peroff, along with Liam O’Neil (The Stills). Given the title, I assume the whole album is an ode to Kristen Stewart. | http://o.canada.com/entertainment/pop-forecast-for-aug-8-sausage-party-the-get-down-and-more/comment-page-1 | en | 2016-08-08T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/f95dfa3636cea10dc048d08bde6b68e05b7f6d88a9bbc7a0a811c97dc132a59d.json |
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Hair products with the name ‘Keratin’ in them may cause consumers confusion because, when they initially entered the market a few years ago, the word carried a negative connotation. Originally keratin was associated with a type of salon treatment that semi-permanently straightened hair and had a potentially damaging effect over the longer term. However, it wasn’t the keratin that damaged hair, it was the extreme heat styling that did (and colour, and pollution, and poor diet).
Keratin is actually the name of the most prominent protein in each strand of your hair. When keratin is damaged or depleted, you see in the form of split ends and breakage – the magnified image of hair you often see in hair commercials, where the surface of a strand lifts like shingles, is the result of a loss in keratin. Rather than employing a band-aid solution to temporarily smooth the damage, cosmetic companies are focusing on repairing from within by adding keratin to shampoos, conditioners and styling products.
Fortunately, this fix is affordable and comes in a range of options. We’ve selected three products that use keratin to repair hair to its strongest state.
1. JOICO INSTANT REFRESH Dry Shampoo
This dry shampoo contains a collection of scientifically-produced peptide amino acids that replicate those inherent in the construction of your hair. Keratin is made of numerous peptide amino acids so, by adding them back by way of this dry shampoo, you can feed your hair the meal it needs to return to good health.
Even better, by using a dry shampoo in replacement of your third shampoo in a week, you save your strands from the heat styling that regularly follows a shower.
We think: Using dry shampoo is great for two reasons – adding texture, and cleansing without wetting your hair – and one infused with strengthening peptides is the icing on the cake.
Price: $19.95 at salons that carry JOICO products
2. Bain de Terre Keratin Phyto-Protein Shampoo
This all-natural shampoo uses wheat, corn and soy proteins to pump strength back into keratin, and ultimately your hair, while you shower.
Using it regularly will help build your mane’s strength naturally and, because it doesn’t contain any sulfates, won’t compromise colour.
We think: Sulfate-free shampoo is an absolute must for women and men concerned about thinning hair. We trust that wheat, corn and soy proteins can strengthen our hair just fine, though the effects aren’t always as “in your face” as those of a synthetic protein may be.
Price: $12.75 at health food stores and baindeterre.ca
3. Pantene Expert Collections Advanced Keratin Repair Split End Fuser
For hair with noticeable split ends and surface damage, this daily treatment promises to deliver keratin to the rescue. By depositing polymers (read: synthetic proteins) into hair at the cellular level, this treatment works to reinforce strength from the inside out.
Daily use on wet or dry hair will return smoothness to the end of your strands, and help to maintain colour and shine.
We think: It works really well, actually. Having taken this product for a test drive, we can attest that our split ends evened out and felt significantly smoother after only one treatment.
Price: $15.99 at drugstores | http://o.canada.com/life/fashion-beauty/beauty-x-3-keratin-hair-products/comment-page-1 | en | 2013-03-15T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/ce4d5e2e67582ce9d6b60bb4ece32cd1e79e51293ec400dacf206236e981df3c.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:58:19 | null | 2013-11-02T21:38:16 | NASA captured a strange image of a regular interesting looking nebula of stars. | http%3A%2F%2Fo.canada.com%2Fnews%2Fcackling-witch-nebula-discovered-by-nasa%2Fcomment-page-1.json | http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/2013/11/witch.jpg | en | null | ‘Cackling Witch’ nebula discovered by NASA | null | null | o.canada.com | NASA captured a strange image of a really interesting looking nebula of stars.
The image shows a cloud of gas and dust that seems to resemble a cackling witch’s head.
Maybe it’s aliens celebrating Halloween?
“A witch appears to be screaming out into space,” writes NASA on its website. “The Witch Head nebula is estimated to be hundreds of light-years away in the Orion constellation, just off the famous hunter’s knee.”
According to NASA, the nebula is lit up by massive stars and dust, causing it to glow with infrared light.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:01:16 | null | 2013-10-11T18:37:24 | Canada has refused to fund aid projects that help women obtain abortions | http%3A%2F%2Fo.canada.com%2Fnews%2Fstatus-of-women-minister-leitch-defends-lack-of-abortion-funding%2Fcomment-page-1.json | http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/2013/10/kellieleitch_212487400-e1381516509698.jpg?w=1200 | en | null | Status of Women Minister Leitch defends lack of abortion funding | null | null | o.canada.com | OTTAWA — Status of Women Minister Kellie Leitch is blasting the “abhorrent” practices of rape as a weapon of war and the forced marriage of young children in the developing world.
But she’s defending Canada’s refusal to fund any aid projects that might help the victims of such barbaric practices obtain abortions.
Leitch, who was at the United Nations on Friday to celebrate the UN’s International Day of the Girl, told The Canadian Press that Canada needs to target its aid efforts and has chosen to focus on pre- and post-partum maternal and child health.
As a pediatric surgeon, she said she’s confident Canada has chosen to target its aid where it will do the most good.
“We have to pick a targeted area, where we’re going to be able to have an impact,” Leitch said in a phone interview from New York.
“As a physician, I’m very confident in saying that we have chosen the right one, that pre- and post-partum care is the place where we’ll have the most meaningful impact to save the lives of children and their mothers.”
She noted that childbirth is one of the leading causes of death among young women between the ages of 15 and 19 and blamed that largely on the appalling conditions in which they’re frequently forced to give birth.
Leitch estimated that Canada’s focus on ensuring women have a clean and safe environment in which to give birth has so far saved the lives of more than 64,000 mothers and as many as 1.3 million children under the age of five.
“These are very, very meaningful numbers.”
She did not directly respond when asked repeatedly why the government refuses to consider abortion as an option for pre-partum care in the case of child brides or rape victims.
Even some anti-abortion activists and religious groups are prepared to make exceptions for victims of rape and incest or when the mother’s life is in serious jeopardy.
In a speech to the UN General Assembly, the text of which was provided in Ottawa, Leitch boasted that Canada “does not shy away from tough conversations” about the need to empower women and to eliminate violence against them.
She decried the fact that an estimated one in three girls in the developing world is married before the age of 18, some forced into marriage at as young as nine years of age.
“This practice denies girls’ rights, disrupts their education and severely jeopardizes their health,” she said.
“Our government is standing up for these girls, even when it’s not always popular or expedient to do so.”
Canada is “equally committed” to preventing sexual and gender-based violence in conflict zones, she said, calling it “a violation of the rights of both women and girls and a barrier to peace and development.”
Prime Minister Stephen Harper made child and maternal health his signature priority when he hosted the 2010 G8 summit in Muskoka. At that time, he announced $3 billion in aid, none of which was to go to groups that provided abortion or abortion referral services.
At the UN last week, Harper announced $200 million in support of various projects to improve the health of mothers and children and to bolster immunization campaigns. | http://o.canada.com/news/status-of-women-minister-leitch-defends-lack-of-abortion-funding/comment-page-1 | en | 2013-10-11T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/9ed593f87f609d3060ca20d16e05d0730d27ad42ad1c9da3fca9204e4226be53.json |
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A new study has found that a feeling of “personally experiencing” global warming heightens people’s perception of risks related to the environmental phenomenon – and particularly those risks germane to where they live. Changes to the seasons, unusual weather, water levels, snowfall patterns and shifts related to plants and animals were among the most common signs cited by lay people.
“The Holy Grail is figuring out how to get the public engaged on this issue. The problem is that the typical output of climate studies is statistical information that’s impenetrable to most people,” said Karen Akerlof, the study’s lead author. “If you can help people feel they’ve actually experienced what’s happening, they may be able to better acknowledge the risks.”
Using population survey and climatic data from a county in Michigan, researchers found 27 per cent of people felt they had personally experienced global warming, which refers to the long-term rise in the earth’s average temperature (“climate change” includes global warming and everything else affected by increasing greenhouse gasses). This is on par with a nationally representative U.S. study, fielded in 2010, in which 30 per cent of respondents felt similarly.
This feeling of having a firsthand account of global warming was so meaningful, it positively predicted concern for local risks related to climate change: think forest fires, drought, changes to animal and plant species, and public health.
“People actually believing they’ve experienced climate change can explain their perception of risks related to climate change, above and beyond how they feel about national climate policies or their political affiliation,” said Akerlof, a researcher with the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University in Virginia.
Unfortunately for climatologists, the study – to appear in the journal Global Environmental Change – paints a grim picture. Seventy-three per cent of people either weren’t sure if they had experienced global warming or said they hadn’t, echoing the 2010 survey in which 70 per cent of respondents nationwide claimed no personal experience with the phenomenon (“don’t know” wasn’t an option).
“It’s obviously tough,” said Akerlof. “You’ve got to talk about local climate change impacts in order for people to connect with what’s happening.”
The most frequently described experiences of global warming were changes in seasons (36 per cent), weather (25 per cent), lake levels (24 per cent), changes in plant and animal species (20 per cent) and snowfall (19 per cent). Notably, most of these perceived signals were indeed borne out of regional climatic records.
Environment Canada’s senior climatologist, however, said the fact remains that most people can’t discern weather from climate.
“(Scientists) use millions of measurements that, over long periods of time, can be pieced together to say, ‘My gosh, the world has warmed up by three-quarters of a degree over the last 150 years.’ The average person couldn’t sense that if they walked outside,” said David Phillips. “After a bout of extreme summer weather, Canadians clearly believe it came from tailpipes and smokestacks. But if we go through a tough winter that’s cold and snowy, we’re more likely to hear that climate change is a lot of hot air.”
John Smol, Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change, said the good news – at least in the context of this study – is that the symptoms of climate change are visible to anyone who really looks.
“We’ve been monitoring some Arctic ponds for almost 30 years and they’ve completely evaporated away. So I’ve seen the effects right before my eyes,” said Smol, a professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. “Now we need to turn the perception of this problem into action, because action has been glacially slow – though there’s nothing slow about the glaciers right now.”
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Four stars out of five
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp
Directed by: Thomas Vinterberg
Running time: 116 minutes
Parental guidance: simulated sexual content
In Danish with English subtitles
“From the mouths of babes…”
It’s a sentence fragment from the Bible pulled into popular parlance, but one that few religious scholars can agree on.
Every translation of Matthew 21:16 is slightly different, offering a slightly different hue to the supposed meaning of the passage that explores the consequences of Jesus’s cleansing of the temple.
After all, the ruling establishment was pretty angry at the longhaired rebel in sandals who preached about the importance of peace above profit; he was threatening the status quo.
“See what you’ve done?” they said to him in reproach for making the children cry.
“Yea,” said Jesus (in the King James version). “Have ye never read ‘Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise.’ ”
Depending on how you read it, and which translation you happen to read, and how much Bible study you’ve ever done, the whole exchange can be interpreted differently because in the end the children’s honest wails are being interpreted through adult eyes.
The priests said the crying was an indictment of Jesus’s riotous and disrespectful action. Jesus said the children’s crying was all part of the great plan. It was a standoff without any resolution beyond an exchange of rhetoric, yet one that current idiom has translated, loosely, as “from the mouths of babes comes… truth.”
Though all the preceding scripture may seem tangential in regards to a movie review about Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt, a thriller that won its star Mads Mikkelsen the best acting award at Cannes last year, it’s highly relevant to the themes at hand because the whole tale pivots on the words of a young girl.
Little Klara (Annika Wedderkopp) is an adorable kid who doesn’t like stepping on the cracks and often gets lost in her small Danish hamlet. When we first meet her, she’s lingering alone in the middle of town looking like a looming tragedy.
A few seconds later, we’re introduced to Lucas (Mikkelsen), a school teacher who recently lost his job but now works at the local kindergarten to make ends meet.
Lucas sees Klara in the street, realizes she is lost, and offers to take her home.
Nothing happens, but in these first few strokes of narrative, Vinterberg successfully primes every parent’s protective pump because in this day and age, a child standing alone is immediately perceived as a potential victim.
It’s such a no-brainer that we don’t even ask why. Yet, in the carefully painted minutiae of this understated Danish drama, Vinterberg forces us to get past the sad acceptance and question the bigger picture — Biblical implications, and all.
He does this through character, and juxtaposing various brands of victim and martyr against the other. On one hand, we have Klara, a cute little girl in blond braids and handknit sweaters who suggests Lucas has crossed the line between kids and grown-ups by showing her his genitals.
On the other, we have Lucas, an adult male who just lost his job, got divorced and is becoming estranged from his teenage son.
There is nothing more disempowering than being accused of something you did not do.
When Klara makes these allegations shortly after her teenage brother shows her a pornographic image in passing, Lucas suddenly becomes the target of the whole community.
Even his best friend Theo throws a few punches at him, saying his little girl never lies.
The Christ-like Lucas professes his innocence, but the town is hysterical and begins a campaign of psychological and physical violence to drive him out of town.
For a while, though the film goes out of its way to show us Lucas’s innocence, we still have a certain amount of doubt — because films can lie for the sake of a good plot twist, too.
Yet, sooner than later, we’re absolutely certain Lucas did nothing — and that’s when his whole world starts to collapse one piece at a time as Vinterberg slowly closes the vise.
For the viewer, it’s an excruciating denouement because there is nothing more disempowering than being accused of something you did not do. Moreover, to see your friends and family turn against you is a pain that is practically indescribable.
Lucas is at his absolute nadir when he decides to make one last stand, and look his best friend in the eye. He puts on his Sunday best, walks into the evening snow, and heads off to church. Fittingly, it’s Christmas Eve.
Vinterberg cunningly weaves every fibre of Biblical content with the everyday so that we’re never fully aware of the story’s deeper origin and get lost in the squirming, scandalous detail where we see self-righteous parents issuing judgment, addled little narrators trying to tell the expected story and oblivious older brothers seeking vengeance for a lie they were complicit in creating.
Why do we see children as potential victims? In Vinterberg’s reading, it’s because their innocence makes us see the evil within us, and we hate it so much, we look for a symbol to crucify without once acknowledging our own participation in the drafting of the grand tableau.
If we attack the individual instead of the belief system, the status quo is safe. Vinterberg’s greatest accomplishment is the way he quietly hands us each a stone and lets us feel the weight and texture of its deadly capacity before hurling it into the face of an innocent.
A subtle piece of moral drama crowned by a truly beautiful performance from Mikkelsen, The Hunt puts every one of us in the crosshairs.
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Across three studies, a University of Toronto scholar found that profile photos in which both partners were pictured – termed “dyadic” – were actually reliable predictors of happiness. In fact, for each unit-increase in relationship satisfaction, people were twice as likely to post such a photo.
Researchers say the implication is that Facebook can be used as a kind of virtual measuring stick for couples’ wellbeing. They also note that their findings contradict previous beliefs that the social site is merely a fantasy version of people’s lives.
“This contributes to a growing body of research showing that people’s offline lives really are being fairly accurately reflected on Facebook,” says Amy Muise, the study’s co-author.
“We know from other research that couples who are closer and more interconnected use words like ‘we’ and ‘us’ more. Posting a dyadic profile picture appears to be a modern-day expression of that.”
The new research draws on three experiments using nearly 400 men and women who were either married or dating. The methodologies included a two-week daily diary study as well as a long-term study in which couples’ Facebook activities and relationship satisfaction were measured at different points over the course of a year.
Taken together, the experiments revealed that individuals who posted dyadic profile pictures were more likely to report relationship satisfaction, and a feeling of closeness to their partner, than individuals who didn’t.
Furthermore, on days when people felt particularly pleased with their pairing, they were more likely to post relationship-relevant statuses and photos. These findings held true even when controlling for potentially confounding factors.
“It makes sense that someone who’s happier with their life would post these kinds of pictures to show off their relationship,” says Muise. “But general life satisfaction and personality traits couldn’t account for our findings.”
Importantly, the study doesn’t suggest that non-dyadic pictures mean a couple is unhappy. In the long-term study, for instance, only about one-quarter of photos at each checkpoint pictured both partners – which would leave an awful lot of miserable people.
What it does demonstrate is the first empirical evidence that the frequency of dyadic images on Facebook is related to how happy both partners are in the relationship, and how close a bond they feel to each other. A follow-up study will examine other people’s reactions to these “merged identities” on Facebook.
“If people are obsessively posting about their relationship, it could have negative consequences. People might see them as trying too hard or covering up – or might just be annoyed by it,” says Muise, who will attempt to determine where that line is drawn.
Her current paper appears in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. It is co-authored by the U of T’s Emily Impett, as well as Claremont Graduate University’s Matt Dubin and the University of California’s Laura Saslow.
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Martin Laurendeau disputed the premise of the question. “It’s not about whether he can go to the next level,” he said, listing off Raonic’s accomplishments this season: semifinals at Wimbledon, the quarters at Roland Garros. Now, a second-week loss at the U.S. Open.
He said the five-set loss that ended past 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning, in which Raonic had a 2-1 lead in sets but couldn’t push the nimble Nishikori to even a break point in either of the final two sets, was understandable given the quality of his 10th-seeded opponent.
“He’s still climbing, he’s still learning,” Laurendeau said. “Milos hasn’t gone backward at all.” The tough loss, the captain said, will become “part of his bag of experience, which is going to pay off one day. That’s how you learn to be a champion.”
Laurendeau finished the point by emphasizing how Raonic will be the team leader for Canada in the Davis Cup tie against Colombia this month in Halifax.
Well, yes.
That Raonic is poised to be the team leader at the Davis Cup was never in doubt, even if he had crashed out of the action at Flushing Meadows in straight sets. Or chosen not to show up at all. No offence to Vasek Pospisil, Frank Dancevic or Daniel Nestor, but Raonic’s position as the pre-eminent Canadian is assured: becoming the first Canadian to reach a Grand Slam semi in the Open era will do that for you (he’s also ranked sixth in the world, 40 spots ahead of Pospisil).
But Raonic has been the best Canadian for a while now. The question of his ceiling remains. Before the tournament in New York started, John McEnroe said that Raonic was “obviously” the most likely candidate among the younger ATP stars to jump forward and join the group of veterans — Novak Djokovic, Rafa Nadal, Roger Federer — who seem to pass major championships back and forth like the gravy boat at dinner. It was a reasonable prediction. If Raonic and his thundering serve could go deep on the slow surface in Paris, it wasn’t a stretch to imagine him going deeper on the hard court in the season’s final major.
Instead, he scuffled. The bomb sights on his howitzer were off, leading to a first-serve percentage of 55 per cent, well short of his tournament high of 67 per cent. That was particularly problematic against a returner like Nishikori, who is quick enough when healthy to cut balls off and be aggressive in points.
“His foot speed was the most probably difficult part,” a pooped Raonic said after the match, at an hour when even Manhattan bars are starting to send people home. “He was taking the ball very early, controlling the centre of the court. He was keeping himself in a lot of situations where someone (else) might be out of position.”
Indeed, IBM data collected at the U.S. Open show Nishikori as the second-most efficient player on the men’s side in terms of movement, behind only Federer. Nishikori runs an average of 49 feet per point, while Raonic has averaged 58 feet. Over five sets, and in extreme heat, that extra nine feet adds up, which might explain why Raonic sagged as the Monday night match turned to Tuesday.
“It was quite tiring,” Raonic said. “It was a combination of fatigue, pain in some ways, and just not feeling like I would expect or hope to feel that late in a match.”
It’s also true that Nishikori had missed the last two tournaments with a toe injury, while Raonic had a busy summer on the hard courts. The Japanese player was undoubtedly the fresher of the two.
Still, with a shot at his third straight quarter-finals in a major on the line and facing an opponent who was neutralizing his best weapon, Raonic had a chance for a signature win. If he is going to be another Andy Murray — a big server with enough game to hang around in majors consistently, and win them occasionally — then these are the types of matches that Raonic needs to put away.
Even he acknowledged that his big 2014 could have been something more.
“I got to play pretty much three slams, I would say, and I think it’s much better than I have ever done before,” he said Tuesday morning. “One goal we set out was to make at least semifinals of a slam this year when we sat down at the beginning of December and talked. So I got that aspect. So those things are very positive. But then at the same time, when you’re in that position, there’s not really that much satisfaction from it.”
So, yes, his ceiling remains. He has time yet to smash through it. | http://o.canada.com/sports/tennis/jury-remains-out-on-milos-raonics-ability-to-reach-next-level/comment-page-1 | en | 2014-09-02T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/e3edc37a6ad7091fa65efb89ecd0ec1319cdd15d2131dcd061003c891ce81ab2.json |
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“If those things aren’t in your heart, why are they coming out of your mouth with such frequency?” asked CBC’s Dwight Drummond.
“I think that goes along with having this disease. It’s a chronic medical condition that I’ve never understood,” replied Ford, adding that all he could do is apologize.
But it’s clear that those things are very much in his heart and that apologizing doesn’t cut it when his bigoted ideas bleed into how he conducts himself as mayor. While it’s true that for the 10 days Ford has been back at City Hall, he hasn’t outright called someone a homophobic slur, he’s still intent on taking a stand (or a seat) against anything positive for the Toronto’s LGBTQ+ community.
During a city council session on Wednesday, councillors rose to applaud the staff who made the recent WorldPride festival possible. The 1o-day event brought tens of thousands of people to the city from around the world, but as the chamber erupted in applause, Ford remained firmly glued to his seat and did not offer his congratulations.
A few moments later, the chamber rose again to applaud Coun. Kristyn Wong-Tam, the city’s only openly-gay councillor for her work on WorldPride, including a Grand Pride wedding that saw 110 LGBTQ+ couples wed. Again, Ford remained in place, his hands only moving to take a sip of water.
Rob Ford sits while councillors stand & applaud World Pride http://t.co/Wpl3R5wSCh #TOpoli pic.twitter.com/KzUWbVtUtw — Don Peat (@reporterdonpeat) July 9, 2014
In Ford’s grand history of snubbing LGBTQ+ people and issues — including reportedly calling Justin Trudeau a homophobic slur, avoiding the annual Pride celebrations and demanding a rainbow flag at City Hall be removed — it’s easy to write his refusal to stand as another example of him simply being a jerk. But imagine if this were any other workplace where the lone gay employee, while speaking about an LGBTQ+ event, is snubbed by the highest-paid person in the room.
It’s ludicrous.
Ford is entitled to his own feelings about the LGBTQ+ community, no matter how offensive they are. But the fact that he brings his bigotry to his job as the head of Canada’s largest city is why apologizing for some drunken slurs is not enough.
On Tuesday, Ford delayed a council motion asking city staff to look into the possibility of designating 25 per cent of the beds in a shelter for LGBTQ+youth. A city study found that one in five homeless youth identify as LGBTQ+.
Ford has not said why he delayed the motion, but earlier this year at an early mayoral debate in the city’s east end, he displayed a profound ignorance of the unique issues facing homeless LGBTQ+ youth. An audience member asked the candidates how they plan to address the needs of transgender and gay youth and Ford replied that all youth in need should be treated the same, regardless of anything else.
A study from a University of Toronto researcher found that these youth frequently face abuse in shelters and that because of this, many LGBTQ+ youth choose to remain on the street. The study also found that shelter workers are not adequately trained to identify and address homophobic and transphobic abuse. The motion would have also introduced training to address this shortfall.
On Wednesday, Coun. Wong-Tam asked if Ford would release the motion on simply studying the question. Ford refused.
Rob Ford is now releasing holds on items related to waste diversion and an expropriation. Refused to do so for LGBT youth shelter. — Jackson Proskow (@JProskowGlobal) July 9, 2014
It’s true that Ford will fight tooth and nail on any spending he deems unnecessary, whether that’s $12,000 pink umbrellas for an urban beach or a street beautification project (unfunded subways are just fine though, apparently).
But it was also at that mayoral debate that Ford finally showed his true colours. For years, Ford has said he skips the annual Toronto Pride events due to family obligations. This time, he laid it all out.
“I’m not going to go to the Pride parade. I’ve never gone to a Pride parade,” said Ford.
“I’m not going to change the way I am.”
That much has been made clear. | http://o.canada.com/news/surprise-rehab-did-not-cure-rob-fords-homophobia/comment-page-1 | en | 2014-07-09T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/3bb555762343d35d32e58b19dc058fe63608403964c0c8820e0ecbe74f3a587d.json |
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1. CALLS AND DATA
Is your phone sim-unlocked?
“Sim-unlocked” means a phone that is not locked to a single carrier. When you buy your phone from a phone carrier (Rogers, Bell, Telus, etc), it is locked to the carrier you bought it from. This means that you couldn’t put a Rogers simcard in a Telus phone.
The CRTC’s new rules include a provision that says that phone carriers have to help you unlock your phone if you’ve been their customer for at least six months. This means that, by simply calling the technical support line of your carrier, in exchange for a small fee, you’ll be free to put the simcard of your choice in your phone.
When you’ve sim-unlocked your phone, you can go to the office of the carrier of your choice at your destination and buy a prepaid simcard with call and data options. 95% of carriers on the planet offer prepaid solutions that are cheaper than the ones in Canada, let alone the roaming options of the Canadian carriers.
That means that you’ll have data on-the-go and you’ll be able to call with your phone. Your GPS will work at its full capacity and you’ll be able to use all the features your phone provides.
Tip: download a stats app (Android: DroidStats, iPhone: DataWiz). These apps count your minutes and data, so you know how much you’ve spent and how much is left. That way, you won’t be caught trying to find where to buy refills without the help of your phone!
Tip: If you’re not sure if your phone model is compatible with the carriers abroad, go to gsmarena.com and search for the model number of your phone. Then print this page and show it to the salesperson of the carrier at your destination.
Tip: Many carriers have booths at the airport. Also, in some countries, it’s possible to buy simcards in vending machines.
2. MUSIC
You probably know already that you can listen to music with your smartphone. Load up before you go, and the long waiting times at the airport or in the bus won’t seem so long anymore!
Tip: Buy yourself a good set of earphones. They’re worth it! I personally prefer in-ear buds with good noise-cancelling features.
3. VIDEOS
Google Play and Apple Store both have a large selection of the latest movies and your favourite TV shows that you can download straight on your phone to watch later. They’re ideal when you want a long flight to go by smoothly!
Tip: many websites allow you to download movies and TV series and might be better options if you know how to upload them on your device.
4. MAPS AND GPS
The days of the paper map are long gone.
(The following might seem like a long Google Maps ad, but I’m not getting a penny from them. This is how I actually feel about this app.)
Google Maps is available on both iPhone and Android and is, to my personal liking, the most powerful app ever produced. Need to know how to get from point A to point B while on foot? Ask Google Maps and use the walking directions. Rented a car and want to know the best way to get to the golf course? Ask Google Maps and use the navigation option. Finished your 18-holes and need to fill up your tank? Type “petrol stations” in Google Maps and let it show you the way. Lost in the jungle and want to know where to go? There’s a compass in the phone and Google Maps will point you towards the right direction. You’re in London – or Tokyo, or New York or even Quebec City – and want to go to the museum with public transit? Enter the name of the museum, select directions, then use the public transit option, and you’ll get to our destination without any fuss – prices, schedules, directions from stop to stop, everything is included. Visiting a country where there are no addresses? Push and hold the place you want to go, Google Maps will identify it as a “dropped pin” and give you directions to get there. Hungry? Type in “restaurants” and see all the surrounding restaurants with descriptions, opening hours and reviews from other Google+ users. Can’t find the exact location you’re looking for? Type it in Google Maps and use Google StreetView to navigate your way towards your destination!
Tip: Want to save on data? Use the hotel’s WiFi to download maps. Open Google Maps, zoom out to include the city you want to use, and type in “ok maps” in the search bar. Google Maps will download the map so you can use it offline.
Tip: Some countries, like Cuba and Myanmar, don’t even have a cellular data infrastructure. But don’t worry. Use the last tip to download the map of your location and turn on the GPS on your phone. GPS location doesn’t need data to work (though it makes it much faster), you simply need to turn it on and Google will find you on the map you’ve downloaded. It’ll then use the compass that’s in the phone to point you in the right direction.
5. BOOKS
If it’s true for music and movies it’s true for books: no need to bring the heavy paper version with you anymore. Download them on your phone!
Tip: While electronic books on smartphones are great when travelling, they can be tiring on the eyes. Try some of the many apps that are available for you to read the books you download. They have different display options and some might be more comfortable for your eye than others.
6. TRANSLATOR AND DICTIONARY
When I first travelled to Osaka, Japan, I wandered the streets by myself at night. I wanted to have a beer and chat with someone, but felt a bit shy. I sat down at the bar of a small izakaya, ordered a beer and a few barbecued skewers of meat and looked around. Next to me sat a woman with a few empty plates and a glass of beer in front of her; she was chatting with the cook on the other side of the bar. She looked at me and said hi, then proposed a toast. I don’t speak a word of Japanese; her English was very bad. I took out my phone, selected the voice recognition option in Google Translate, and asked it to translate to Japanese. Then I downloaded the text-to-speech extension. I would speak a phrase in English, then push the button, and it’d repeat it in Japanese. We spent the next few hours chatting using Google Translate. I made a friend for life.
Tip: You need data for Google Translate to work, however some offline dictionaries can be downloaded if you don’t have WiFi or data available.
Tip: Once again, Google Translate isn’t the only option. Try a few apps and see if they work for you!
7. BOOK FLIGHTS, TRAINS, BUSES AND HOTEL ROOMS
Today, 95% of things that need to be booked can be done so online. A lot of businesses have even shut down their call centres and refuse bookings anywhere but online. And finding an internet café can be a hassle. Even worse: business centres in hotels charge crazy rates. Booking everything from your smartphone is the easiest way to go.
Tip: Your favourite booking websites might have apps and widgets available. Look for them in your favourite app store!
Tip: In order to book more efficiently, look for content aggregators. Content aggregators look on many websites at once to find the best price possible.
8. FIND RESTAURANTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
As mentioned above, Google Maps is a great tool to find restaurants, entertainment and things to do but other apps can be useful as well. Case in point: the TripAdvisor apps. TripAdvisor has city guides that are 100% offline, meaning that if you don’t have 3G data on your phone, you can still use the app and all the features in it. Just look for TripAdvisor in Google Play or Apple Store and the names of the cities available will appear.
9. KEEP UP (AND SHOW OFF)
Having a smartphone – with calling and data! – is like having a computer in your pocket. With your phone, you can keep up with local and international news, you can see what your friends are up to back home, you can upload awesome pictures on your Instagram account, you can show off your adventurous prowess on Facebook, you can follow the local trends of your current location on Twitter and you can Skype with your relatives whenever you feel like it!
Tip: The best part about staying connected is that you can simply turn it off whenever you feel like going off the grid.
10. ACCESSORIES
There are many accessories that can help you use your cell phone on the road. Here are a few:
– Most phone chargers are equipped with a transformer which means that any power source will charge your phone. However you’ll need to carry an adapter for the power outlets for your destination(s). Buy yourself an international power adapter with a USB outlet (here’s an example). That way you’ll only have to carry the USB cable of your phone.
– Using your phone all day can kill your battery in a flash. Get yourself a phone that has a removable battery and buy back-up batteries. Then, buy yourself an external charger. That way you’ll be able to charge all of your batteries at once.
– If your phone’s battery cannot be removed, get yourself an external battery pack – or two!
– If your phone has an SDCard slot, buy yourself a 64GB or 128GB card, they’re relatively cheap. You’ll have all the space you need to store your music, videos and books. (Make sure it’s compatible with your phone first.)
Tip: You probably noticed, but I have a phone that has both an SDCard slot and a removable battery. I’m not saying that it’s the best way to go, but … it’s definitely the best way to go!
What are the reasons you travel with a smartphone? Let us know in the comments. | http://o.canada.com/news/ten-reasons-why-your-smartphone-is-the-most-important-thing-for-your-travels-except-for-your-passport/comment-page-1 | en | 2014-03-28T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/57c4390c1a1b57f3b2334c428005027a2b9c8a1681b9df588c2647816069b09e.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:54:41 | null | 2014-01-03T16:19:26 | Bo Horvat 'rock solid' for Canada | http%3A%2F%2Fo.canada.com%2Fsports%2Fbo-horvat-rock-solid-for-canada%2Fcomment-page-1.json | http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/2014/01/horvat.jpg | en | null | Bo Horvat ‘rock solid’ for Canada | null | null | o.canada.com | MALMO, Sweden – Vancouver Canucks legend-turned-executive Stan Smyl knows what he’s going to see from Bo Horvat every time he watches him play.
In Smyl’s mind, Horvat is as consistent as they come.
“If you can bring that night after night, you’re going to be a solid, solid NHL player,” said Smyl, the Canucks senior adviser and director of player development, in a phone interview about the team’s first-round pick last June.
“That’s what Bo does. It’s both ends of the rink.”
That’s what Bo is doing for Team Canada at the world junior championship.
Horvat has three points in five games heading into Saturday’s semifinal against Finland.
But it’s the intangible skills he provides that have critical to Canada’s success.
He’s taken 42 faceoffs and won 60.87 per cent of them, leading his team in both categories.
He’s one of Team Canada’s more reliable penalty killers as evidenced by his shot block late in the third period of their quarter-final victory over Switzerland on Thursday.
Sutter called him “rock solid” after the game.
“He’s been that way for the most part for the whole tournament. He’s just a real steadying guy,” Sutter said. “He doesn’t get the recognition he does because he’s such a solid, two-way guy.
“A lot of times everybody looks at the offensive side of it and they don’t see the details in the game that are important for teams to have success.”
Horvat started the tournament as arguably Canada’s top centre, playing on a line with Connor McDavid and Sam Reinhart.
He was shuffled to a line with Reinhart and captain Scott Laughton before the last preliminary round game against the United States, taking on a more defensive role in the process.
“We have lots of guys that can put up points here,” said Horvat, normally a centreman for the OHL’s London Knights. “For me, I’m not too worried about the points.
“I want to do whatever it takes to help me team win, whether that’s blocking shots or winning faceoffs.”
Horvat was preached the importance of playing defensively by his father, Tim, who played Jr. B hockey and also had a brief cup of coffee with the Knights before playing professionally in Europe.
Tim was a winger, but he convinced his son to play centre and taught him how to take draws and be defensively aware.
“I think it started ever since I was little actually. I’ve always had a two-way game,” Horvat said.
Horvat added that the key to his consistency is playing within his means.
“I just try not to do more than I’m capable of,” he said. “I’m not trying to go out there and put up five points every game.”
Horvat certainly is not without offensive credentials though.
He was the OHL’s playoff MVP last season as he led the post-season in goal scoring.
None was bigger than his winning goal with less than a second left in Game 7 of the OHL final.
“It’s always brought up around London,” said Horvat, who’s from nearby Rodney. “It was definitely the biggest goal I’ve ever scored in my career so far. I’m sure it’ll be talked about for a long time.”
He’d love to score another big goal like that for Canada.
If he doesn’t, he’ll make sure to bring something else to the table.
Horvat earned high praise for his defensive skills in the OHL last season.
He won the Western Conference coaches’ awards for best faceoff man and top shot blocker.
And, as Smyl has noted, Horvat does it all night after night.
“That’s something that might go unnoticed at the start,” Smyl said. “Once you see him play, he really grows on you.”
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Just 44, Lisa was diagnosed last year with frontotemporal dementia, a form of dementia that accounts for as much as 50 per cent of cases in people under 65.
“When she’s been out with us and I drop her back off, it’s the longest walk in the world,” said Dineen, speaking to reporters at a press conference Tuesday called by NDP MP Claude Gravelle.
Dineen said he was sharing his young family’s painful story in a bid to highlight the need for a national strategy to address a projected doubling of dementia cases in Canada by 2031.
Dementia is front and centre on the international stage as health ministers and experts from G8 countries, including Health Minister Rona Ambrose, meet in London, England Wednesday to discuss the impending health-care crisis.
On Tuesday a House of Commons finance committee recommended in a report that “the federal government move expeditiously on the creation and implementation” of a national plan to deal with the disease, but Ambrose was mum on the subject. She was, however, expected to speak on the topic from London Wednesday.
Meanwhile critics were quick to point out Canada is one of the only countries at the summit table without a comprehensive national strategy. Gravelle said he hoped the international attention would rally support for his private-member bill C-356, drafted in 2011 which calls for a five-point federal dementia plan.
Gravelle said Ottawa should take a leadership role by co-ordinating research, early diagnosis and prevention efforts with provinces and territories, as well as boosting training and support for health-care professionals and family caregivers.
“We need to keep people in their homes for as long as possible,” Gravelle said.
The Canadian Medical Association echoed the call.
CMA president-elect Dr. Chris Simpson said Canada has no time to waste in formulating a plan, considering dementia cases are expected to hit 1.4 million by 2031, up from 750,000 today.
While the human toll of dementia is terrible and heart wrenching, Simpson said the financial toll could also cripple the Canadian health-care system if not properly managed.
Dementia already costs Canadians $33 billion annually, he said. By 2040, some estimates put the cost at nearly $300 billion per year.
“Which is more than the total amount we spend on health care in Canada right now.”
The CMA has asked the federal government for $25 million over five years to put together a plan, according to a House of Commons finance committee report.
Simpson recognized that establishing a national plan for Canada would be a challenge because health care falls under provincial jurisdiction. Still, he said, the federal government could play a role in ensuring minimum standards and best practices are shared between the provinces and territories so that “we’re not reinventing the wheel 13 times.”
“It’s really leadership, I think, that we need. That’s where the federal government can help,” Simpson said.
In a written statement Tuesday, Ambrose touted Canada’s reputation as a leader in Alzheimer’s and dementia research.
Since 2006, the federal government has contributed more than $860 million to neurological research and $100 million to the research of brain disorders, including dementia, and is considered a world leader in research, her statement said.
Dr. Alain Beaudet, president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, said Canada should continue to focus on its role as part of an international consortium of countries collaborating on dementia research and prevention.
“It’s an area that for the country has been a priority for many years,” he said from London, where he was attending the summit with Ambrose.
Though research is only one part of the national plan dementia advocates are hoping for, Beaudet said it is the key to improving standards of care and reducing the burden on families. In addition to better treatment and prevention, research advances in information technology could lead to sophisticated monitoring systems and housing environments that will allow dementia patients to remain in their homes longer.
But the very fact that the issue is on the radar of G8 countries should be encouraging in itself, he said.
“The best way to tackle this problem is by working together.”
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As kitchen wisdom goes, I often think the best tricks are the simplest. One-pan cooking, for example. The ability to cook an entire meal on a single rimmed sheet pan — an act that leaves you with nothing but that one pan to clean when dinner’s over — to me is nothing short of magic.
And the secret to making it work really is just a matter of organizing the order in which each ingredient lands on the baking sheet to ensure each gets neither too little nor too much time in the oven. And this recipe for baked steelhead trout with asparagus and potatoes will show you just how easy that is.
We start by seasoning all the parts individually at the beginning of the cooking process, not the end. If you wait until the end, the salt won’t do its job, which isn’t only to contribute saltiness, but to enhance the flavour of the ingredient to which it’s added. In practice, salt doesn’t so much amplify flavour as tamp down bitterness, thus allowing a food’s other flavours — notably its sweetness or sourness — to shine.
First in the oven is the asparagus so that it can be properly cooked and lightly browned all by itself and without crowding. Any time you want to brown a vegetable in the oven, you must make sure to spread it out across the pan in a single layer. Then the asparagus takes a break and the potatoes go in. Finally the fish comes into play. Lay it right on top of the now-browned potatoes and bake it until tender on the oven’s middle shelf.
How do you know when the fish is done? When a knife slides in with little resistance, the fish is good to go.
Butter and herbs are this recipe’s crowning touch. The hot fish melts the butter, creating a kind of instant sauce. Simple, right? Delicious, too. And just one pan to clean up. Now that’s my kind of meal.
BAKED STEELHEAD TROUT WITH ASPARAGUS, POTATOES AND HERBS
Start to finish: 50 minutes (30 minutes active)
Servings: 4
1 1/2 bunches asparagus (about 1 1/2 pounds), tough ends discarded and stems peeled if thicker than 1/3 inch
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
Salt and ground black pepper
1 1/4 pounds Yukon Gold or large boiling potatoes, sliced crosswise 1/4 inch thick (leave the skins on)
1 1/2 pounds skinned steelhead trout, divided into 4 portions
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into thin slices
1/4 cup chopped fresh herbs, such as dill, chives, tarragon, basil or a mix
Heat the oven to 450 F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil.
On the prepared baking sheet, toss the asparagus with 2 teaspoons of the oil and a generous pinch each of salt and pepper. Spread the asparagus in an even layer.
Bake on the oven’s top rack until starting to brown and are crisp-tender, about 7 minutes for thicker asparagus, 3 minutes for thin asparagus. Transfer to a plate and set aside.
On the baking sheet, toss the potatoes with another 2 teaspoons of the oil and a generous pinch each of salt and pepper. Spread the potatoes in an even layer.
Bake on the oven’s top rack until barely golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven and reduce the temperature to 400 F.
Arrange the fish pieces in one layer on top of the potatoes, sprinkle them with the lemon juice, drizzle with the remaining 2 teaspoons of oil, then season with salt and pepper. Set the pan on the oven’s middle shelf and bake for 5 minutes. Add the asparagus to the sheet pan and bake another 2 to 3 minutes, or until the fish is just cooked through.
Transfer the fish to 4 serving plates and top each portion with a few slices of butter. Transfer a quarter of the potatoes and asparagus to each of the plates, then sprinkle the herbs over each serving.
Nutrition information per serving: 470 calories; 220 calories from fat (47 per cent of total calories); 24 g fat (7 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 100 mg cholesterol; 30 g carbohydrate; 6 g fibre; 6 g sugar; 36 g protein; 430 mg sodium. | http://o.canada.com/life/food/kitchenwise-recipe-for-baked-steelhead-trout-with-asparagus-potatoes-and-herbs/comment-page-1 | en | 2015-04-18T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/296eee4703dd2f1c267b896d66724595f0f645bbd8e92635c0c2fe48313ca1b6.json |
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“We have indeed discovered a particle consistent with the Higgs boson,” John Womersley, head of a British public research body, told journalists and scientists in London on Wednesday.
“These results mark a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the fundamental laws that govern the universe.”
Joe Incandela, spokesman for one of the two teams hunting for the Higgs particle told an audience at CERN near Geneva: “This is a preliminary result, but we think it’s very strong and very solid.”
CERN’s director general Rolph Heuer said: “As a layman, I would say I think we have it.”
Addressing the scientists assembled in the CERN auditorium, Heuer asked: “Would you agree?” They burst into applause.
Peter Higgs, the 83-year-old British physicist who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson in the 1960s, was at CERN to welcome the news. Clearly overwhelmed, his eyes brimming, he told the symposium: “It is an incredible thing that it has happened in my lifetime.”
Universal theory
The Higgs theory explains how particles clumped together to form stars, planets and life itself.
Without the Higgs particle, the particles that make up the universe would have remained like a soup, the theory goes.
It is the last undiscovered piece of the Standard Model that describes the fundamental make-up of the universe. The model is for physicists what the theory of evolution is for biologists.
What scientists do not yet know from the latest findings is whether the particle they have discovered is the Higgs boson as described by the Standard Model. It could also be a variant of the Higgs idea or an entirely new subatomic particle that could force a rethink on the fundamental structure of matter.
The last two possibilities are, in scientific terms, the most exciting.
Packed audiences of particle physicists, journalists, students and even politicians filled conference rooms in Geneva and London to hear the announcement.
Despite the excitement, physicists cautioned that there was still much to learn.
“We still much we don’t know about particles – this is only the beginning of a new journey. We have closed one chapter and opened another,” Peter Knight of Britain’s Institute of Physics told Reuters.
Oliver Buchmueller, a senior physicist on one of the research teams, told Reuters: “If I were a betting man, I would bet that it is the Higgs.
“But we can’t yet say that definitely yet. It is very much a smoking duck that walks and quacks like the Higgs. But we now have to open it up and look inside before we can say that it is indeed the Higgs.”
Higgs called it a great achievement for the Large Hadron Collider, the 27-km (17-mile) long particle accelerator built in a tunnel underneath the French-Swiss border where experiments to search for the Higgs boson have taken place.
In a statement, he added: “I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.”
– Chris Wickham and Rosalba O’Brien, Reuters | http://o.canada.com/technology/higgs-boson-scientists-find-new-particle-probably-the-higgs/comment-page-1 | en | 2012-07-04T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/d5fe0dc9d4eaa2698edf90d4330907b1db7ba458bb3cb3496afa7e83aa6ac4ba.json |
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Carbonation occurs naturally during the fermentation process. If you add yeast (and some kinds of bacteria) to a sugary liquid and leave it for a while, you will have created a fizzy beverage. This can be accomplished by adding commercial yeast, as in the soda recipes below, or by a process called wild fermentation, which relies on naturally occurring yeast and bacteria in the air, and on the fruit or vegetables you’re using.
Rebekka Hutton, owner of Alchemy Pickle Company in Toronto, favours wild fermentation and uses either an organic ginger starter, a.k.a. ginger bug, or whey (from yogurt) when making her natural sodas. She demonstrates how to make an apricot basil soda in the video above. Hutton uses organic Ontario produce, and soda flavours vary according to available products. “Sodas are really interesting because you can make almost anything into a soda,” she says in an interview. “We can just do a one-off batch with whatever is really seasonal. We can experiment with savoury flavours, with interesting combinations of things and introduce new herbs and new fruits to people.”
Classic sodas such as ginger beer, savoury sodas like sweet pea and mint, and cedar lemon, and fruit sodas such as peach jalapeño, and Saskatoon berry and shiso (a Japanese herb), are available at Toronto-area retailers and farmers’ markets. To Hutton, the appeal of natural sodas over commercial ones reflects her approach to food in general. “If it’s made by someone you know and trust or if you make it at home yourself, you can control everything that goes into it,” she says. “Our natural sodas, like all of our products, are made with really amazing ingredients. So you don’t have any preservatives or chemicals or artificial sweeteners in the sodas. It’s usually just fruit and ginger and organic cane sugar.”
For those new to home brewing and/or fermentation, sodas are a fitting gateway project. “There’s little risk in making a soda. You put some ginger, sugar and fruit together, wait a couple days and if you’re lucky it will be carbonated and a tasty probiotic drink for you,” Hutton says. “Worst case scenario it doesn’t quite work; you don’t have the proportions right and you try again.” Emma Christensen, California-based author of True Brews (Ten Speed Press, 2013), points out that the barrier to entry is very low with sodas. If you have a plastic pop bottle, you’re set. “You don’t necessarily have to go out and get really fancy with your bottles,” she says. “In fact, I recommend that beginners start with a recycled soda bottle, just for the simple reason that it’s really easy to tell when that soda is carbonated just by pressing on the side of the bottle. It will be soft at first and then it will slowly inflate as the soda carbonates, and then it will be rock solid when it’s ready to open up.”
Hutton refers to self-described “fermentation revivalist” and author Sandor Katz’s use of at least one plastic bottle – as an indicator – when making natural sodas. “[Katz] has talked to a lot of fermenters and many people have had issues with exploding bottles. Obviously that’s a dangerous situation we don’t want to create,” she says. “So being careful and aware of the power of CO2, not to scare people but you do need to be aware that that is a potential possibility.”
Another good reason to make soda in plastic bottles, especially when you’re starting out, is so you can open the bottles very slowly, gradually releasing the pressure. “The trickiest thing with homemade sodas tends to be the carbonation. Not so much getting it to carbonate but having it carbonate really fast and then gushing on you or geysering when you go to open the bottle,” Christensen says. “If it’s in a glass bottle, whether it has a flip-top, soda cap or a crown top soda cap, you have to open it all at once so it’s harder to control that pressure release.” You can of course transfer your soda into pretty bottles for serving, but Christensen recommends storing any leftover soda in the original plastic bottle.
Don’t let potential geysering dissuade you; sodas are easy to make and versatile. “If you take fresh fruit at the top of the season, whatever is in season, whatever looks the best, whatever looks juicy and bright and vibrant and beautiful, that’s going to make an amazing soda that you’re just going to love,” Christensen says. “I think there’s a lot of fear that it’s not going to work or that leaving something on your counter for a couple of days you’re going to make everyone in your family sick but this is a proven method,” Hutton says. “For thousands of years people have been doing this, so I would go in confidence.”
Wild fermentation or commercial yeast?
Christensen’s recipes for Watermelon-Mint Soda and Grape Soda below rely on the inclusion of Champagne yeast, rather than a wild fermentation process. “I like Champagne yeast for soda pops because it has a super clean flavour. If you think about the flavour of Champagne, it’s really crisp. Some of that comes over into the soda pop too,” Christensen says. “It just has a clean, not yeasty at all flavour and the bubbles are nice and fizzy and bright.” When it comes to choosing between commercial yeast or wild fermentation, both Christensen and Hutton agree that it comes down to predictability, both in the fermentation process and flavour.
Essentially, with commercial yeast you know what you’re going to get, and wild fermentation is more of a wild card. “I’m really interested in wild fermentation because it’s using the natural system that’s been in place for all of life,” Hutton says. “By setting it up with the right proportion of sugar and fruit, it’s always kind of a surprise what you’re going to get but because you’re building on a natural system, it’s just more appealing.” And as Christensen puts it, the fun of wild fermentation is precisely because you don’t know what you’re going to get, saying, “Sometimes people really get into that. I really get into it too. It’s super fun but you have to be up for a little bit more of a risk.”
If you’re a beginner and you’d like to try wild fermentation, Christensen recommends starting with kombucha (fermented tea) or kefir (fermented milk), both of which have a particular flavour. But the decision really comes down to what kind of culinary adventure you’re in the mood for: an expected outcome or uncertain adventure.
Recipes
Excerpted from True Brews by Emma Christensen Copyright © 2013 by Emma Christensen. Excerpted by permission of Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company. All rights reserved.
Watermelon-Mint Soda
Makes about 8 cups
(Enough to fill a 2-liter plastic soda bottle)
Watermelon and mint are total best friends forever. They don’t seem like they should go together, what with watermelon’s sweet sugary charms and mint’s tendency toward sharpness. But somehow they make it work. Besides tasting fantastic together, is there anything prettier than flecks of green mint floating in bubbly pink soda?
4 pounds seeded and cubed watermelon (11 to 12 cups, from a 6-pound watermelon)
1⁄2 cup packed fresh mint leaves
1⁄2 cup freshly squeezed lime juice (from about 4 limes), plus more if needed
1 cup water, plus more to fill the bottles
9 tablespoons / 4 ounces white granulated sugar, plus more if needed
Pinch of salt
1⁄8 teaspoon dry Champagne yeast
1. Combine the watermelon, mint leaves, and lime juice in a large bowl.
2. Bring the water to a boil in a small saucepan on the stove top or in the microwave. Remove from the heat. Add the sugar and salt, stir to dissolve, and pour over the watermelon. Let this stand for 10 minutes to macerate the fruit.
3. Working in batches, puree the watermelon and mint with their liquid in a food processor or blender. Strain the puree into a bowl, collecting as much juice as possible without forcing any solids through the strainer.
4. Pour the juice into a clean 2-liter bottle using a funnel. Top off the bottle with water, leaving at least 1 inch of headspace. Give it a taste and add more lime juice or sugar, if desired. The extra sugar will dissolve on its own.
5. Add the yeast. Screw on the cap and shake the bottle to dissolve and distribute the yeast. Let the bottle sit at room temperature out of direct sunlight until carbonated, typically 12 to 48 hours, depending on the temperature of the room. Check the bottle periodically; when it feels rock solid with very little give, it’s ready.
6. Refrigerate overnight or for up to 2 weeks. Open very slowly over a sink to release the pressure gradually and avoid bubble-ups.
Grape Soda
Makes about 8 cups
(Enough to fill a 2-liter plastic soda bottle)
I’ll never forget the first time I casually popped a Concord grape in my mouth while wandering through a California farmers’ market. I may have gasped. I definitely swooned. If you’ve never had one, a Concord grape tastes like childhood: sugary grape soda, grape jelly sandwiches, grape popsicles—the purest, most authentic grape you can imagine. It’s worth seeking out real Concord grapes or 100 per cent Concord grape juice for this recipe. For a lighter Champagne like soda, try making it with red or green table grapes.
4 pounds Concord grapes, or 6 cups Concord grape juice
1⁄2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (from 3 to 4 lemons), plus more if needed
1 cup water, plus more to fill the bottles
14 tablespoons / 6 ounces white granulated sugar, plus more if needed
Pinch of salt
1⁄8 teaspoon dry Champagne yeast
1. Pulse the grapes a few times in a food processor or blender to break them into big chunks. Don’t bother removing the grape seeds. Combine the fruit with the lemon juice in a large bowl.
2. Bring the water to a boil in a small saucepan on the stove top or in the microwave. Remove from the heat. Add the sugar and salt, stir to dissolve, and pour over the grapes. Let this stand for 10 minutes to macerate the fruit. If using grape juice, simply combine it with the lemon juice, water, sugar and salt and skip to the bottling step.
3. Working in batches, puree the grapes with their liquid in a food processor or blender. Strain the puree into a bowl, collecting as much juice as possible without forcing any solids through the strainer.
4. Pour the juice into the clean 2-liter bottle using the funnel. Top off the bottle with water, leaving at least 1 inch of headspace. Give it a taste and add more lemon juice or sugar, if desired. The extra sugar will dissolve on its own.
5. Add the yeast. Screw on the cap and shake the bottle to dissolve and distribute the yeast. Let the bottle sit at room temperature out of direct sunlight until carbonated, typically 12 to 48 hours, depending on the temperature of the room. Check the bottle periodically; when it feels rock solid with very little give, it’s ready.
6. Refrigerate overnight or for up to 2 weeks. Open very slowly over a sink to release the pressure gradually and avoid bubble-ups. | http://o.canada.com/life/food/how-to-make-natural-soda-pop-at-home/comment-page-1 | en | 2014-08-25T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/1d3a50b56bf79a3b8f6b54519eeee733ab41b745853d5afa8d4d586f8c6f427f.json |
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The vast wetland region in northern Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba has “passed a tipping point, the pace and magnitude of which is exceptional even by Arctic standards,” the team led by Queen’s University concludes in a study published Tuesday.
The repercussions are of “global significance, influencing the huge store of carbon in the region’s extensive peatlands, the world’s southern-most polar bear population that depends upon Hudson Bay sea ice and permafrost for survival, and native communities who rely on this landscape for sustenance,” says the report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, an international biological journal.
The scientists have documented shifts in ecosystems in the lowland lakes that point to “unprecedented ecological change in the region,” co-author John Smol, an environmental scientist at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., said in an interview with Postmedia News on Tuesday.
“We see step-wise, threshold type changes in the Hudson Bay area starting in the 1990s that are clearly linked to climate change,” said Smol. The federal government awarded Smol Canada’s top science prize, the Herzberg Gold Medal, in 2004.
“We have entered a new ecological state,” says Smol.
The Hudson Bay Lowlands have been one of the world’s most southerly “Arctic refugia” thanks to the cooling effect of Hudson Bay, which is covered in ice most of the year.
The Hudson Bay region has experienced little biological change for hundreds of years, say the researchers, who studied the algae fossilized in sediments in four lakes in the region, which provide a record of past ecosystems.
But they say sediments laid down on the lake bottoms after the mid-1990s show “striking biological changes have occurred in the region’s freshwater ecosystems.”
They report a “compelling” synchrony between the shifts seen in the type of algae growing in the lakes and the increase in temperature in the region.
The study says the change is “unprecedented in the past approximately 1500 years,” based on analysis of sediments in the region.
Smol says there plenty of other signs of the remarkable shift underway in the region, including the fish kills caused by heat stress, dropping water levels, and three weeks less ice cover on Hudson Bay than there was prior to 1995.
“This is unprecedented,” Smol says of the changes. “We are entering new ecological states and we are not really prepared.”
While the impacts will most directly be felt by the native people and birds, bears and other wildlife in the region, Smol says changes in the lowlands could have international implications if the region’s extensive peatlands begin to release their vast store of carbon, which could accelerate climate change.
“The ramifications are global,” says Smol. “It is very bad news.”
mmunro@postmedia.com
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By Dave Stubbs
MONTREAL – They were at Gordie Howe’s Bell Centre table on Thursday night from the lobster martini until well past le temple au chocolat, a queue that stretched for three hours and at least a few thousand calories.
It’s been like this for half a century. The admirers of the man called Mr. Hockey never leave his side, arriving for an autograph or to put a hand almost meekly on his famously sloped shoulder for a photo, tongue-tied in this moment of magic.
Gordie Howe, who turned 79 yesterday, now works a room by having the room come to him. On Thursday, his first trip to Montreal since the May 2000 funeral of his great rival, Maurice (Rocket) Richard, he was a brilliant star in a glittering Bell Centre galaxy.
Howe was among the 1,000 on hand for the tribute to Jean Béliveau, a spectacular gala that raised more than $1 million for children’s hospitals in Quebec.
On this night, the procession to Howe stretched from his table, set over a faceoff circle, out past the blue line. From the corner of his right eye, he could see the head-table guest of honour, properly seated at centre ice, their lives still only a few strides apart on a covered sheet of ice.
We are spoiled in Montreal, the grand Béliveau moving easily and elegantly among us. We often hear his silky baritone and feel his warm handshake. We recognize his gait, slowed not by his 75 years but by the countless people who stop him for a word.
Surely it’s like this in Detroit for Howe, a folksy product of the Canadian prairies who moved to the big city to find bigger fame.
But the appeal of Béliveau and Howe is not contained by any city limit. They are icons no matter where they go, hockey pioneers revered as much off the ice as they were on it, perhaps more.
One Hall of Famer after another walked into a Bell Centre interview room before the gala — Toronto goaler Johnny Bower; Canadiens centre Henri Richard and the team’s Big Three defencemen Larry Robinson, Serge Savard and Guy Lapointe; and Rangers goalie Eddie Giacomin.
Then Howe turned the corner and simply took the breath out of everyone. His gnarled right paw swallowed every hand it shook, the left tip of his bowtie dipping not unlike the way he would drop a shoulder to shrug off a check.
Howe and Béliveau go back to the autumn of 1950, when the former was a blossoming, 22-year-old right-winger with the Detroit Red Wings and the latter still just a dream for the Canadiens, filling the newly rebuilt Colisée as a teenage centreman for the junior-league Quebec Citadelles and senior Aces.
“I had the good fortune to first meet John in Quebec City,” Howe recalled of their first encounter, an exhibition game between the Red Wings and the Aces. “We talked a little bit. I looked at him, saw some of the moves he made in practice.
“We went into the room between periods and somebody said: ‘Someone stay close to that guy, he’ll kill us.’
“Later I said: ‘John’s going to be unbelievable.’ I’d have been a heck of a scout. We were all in agreement in the bus that night — that kid’s going to be a star, and he didn’t disappoint any of us.”
Howe’s one question had been about the boiling point of Béliveau’s blood.
“I wondered whether John was mean enough to be a hockey player. What if I run him?” he said. “Well, I gave him a little run, and he just smiled. I said: ‘Yeah, he’s OK,’ and that’s the only time I ever tested him.
“I admire John not just because of his great, great ability as a hockey player, but for his demeanour in public. He’s a complete gentleman. He came out to Saskatoon for a parade long ago, and four of my sisters came home 15 minutes after meeting him and said: ‘We used to be Detroit fans.’
“The respect I have for this man is unreal, and it started the first time I ever saw him up in Quebec City. If you think he’s a good hockey player, as a gentleman he’s even better.”
“As much as I’ve talked about him through the years, I’ve never had anyone say a darned thing bad about him. We didn’t play on the same team, but I consider John my friend. And that makes me a better man.” – Howe on Béliveau, March 2007
Many historians consider Howe the greatest player of all time, notwithstanding the obscene statistics of Wayne Gretzky. Born in Floral, Sask., and raised in Saskatoon, the legendary forward played an unprecedented 26 NHL seasons, from 1946-80, scoring 801 goals with 1,049 assists in 1,767 regular-season games while winning four Stanley Cups with Detroit.
Twenty-three times he was an all-star; six times each he was the NHL’s leading scorer and its most valuable player.
Against the Canadiens on April 11, 1980, nine years after Béliveau had retired, Howe became the oldest man — 52 years and 10 days — to play an NHL game, his Hartford Whalers losing 4-3 to the Canadiens.
Both men believe they made each other better players, the comparisons constantly drawn between two strong, dominant athletes during the glory days of the six-team NHL.
Howe was so powerful, Béliveau wrote in his autobiography, that “trying to strong-arm Gordie off the puck in a corner was akin to wrestling with a telephone pole.”
“Gordie’s being here on Thursday showed how much he’s done during his life outside the game,” Béliveau said yesterday morning, his voice still thin from overuse at the gala.
“On the ice, he could do everything and make it look so easy. I always had so much respect for the fact he could do anything. There’s no doubt I’m very happy to have played my 18 years when Gordie was there.”
They fought hard, but within the rules during a time of bitter rivalries, when teams met each other 14 or more times per season. Neither recalls ever dropping the gloves against the other.
It was the late Rocket Richard, a fellow right-winger, that lore has Howe detesting.
“There was no dislike,” Howe said. “I respected him. I’d watch every move he made, if it could benefit my hockey. …
“They always thought there was bad blood because I hit him once coming across the line and he spun like a rocket and fell down. He wasn’t hurt that much and I started to laugh. But the laughter stopped when there were eight guys on me.
“I felt sorry for the Rocket. I never felt he enjoyed the game. If he wasn’t having a good night, he’d just as soon explode. That fellow didn’t know when to stop, did he? But I admired him.”
So much so that Howe named his dog for Richard. Surely the four-legged Rocket is a ferocious, brooding beast?
Howe leans in close.
“A toy poodle,” he whispered, his playfulness worn in a grin.
Howe’s evening in Montreal was a wonderful tonic in a life that recently has known profound sadness.
He has suffered great physical discomfort over the years, a human wrecking ball who racked up 1,685 career penalty minutes. Howe’s injuries read like an emergency-ward shopping list. In no particular order:
Fractured skull, severe concussion, nose broken a dozen times, broken cheekbone, fingers, wrist, ribs, foot, toe (by a Bobby Hull slap shot), collarbone (which went undiagnosed for a full season), carpal tunnel surgery, torn knee ligaments (both joints since replaced), scratched eyeball, a hernia and 500-plus stitches in his face.
But this all has paled compared with the emotional pain endured since 2002 when Colleen, his wife of more than five decades, was diagnosed with Pick’s disease, an incurable neurological illness causing dementia.
Today, the woman who built an empire built on the Howe name — a brand, really — seldom recognizes anyone. Caregivers and 30-year-old grandson Travis have lessened the load on Gordie. But there is no salve for the scars on his heart as he sees to every need in Colleen’s silent world.
(Colleen Howe would lose her battle with Pick’s on March 6, 2009.)
Thursday’s gala gave Howe a night out to renew a unique friendship. Béliveau joyfully recalls having attended Howe’s charity golf tournament years ago, and sleeping at his host’s home after a past-midnight reminiscence beneath the stars.
“John was an entertaining, unselfish, tremendous player with the ability to set up goals at will,” Howe said.
“As much as I’ve talked about him through the years, I’ve never had anyone say a darned thing bad about him. We didn’t play on the same team, but I consider John my friend. And that makes me a better man.” | http://o.canada.com/feed/ | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/27efeb159c727d47e9012ce4ed99086b06ba0853a83d580039fa34c8b31bdada.json |
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The notorious actor is coming to the aid of the embattled Toronto mayor, offering his assistance in the wake of Ford’s own admission of using crack cocaine during his mayorship.
Sheen posted an open letter on his Twitter account, offering a “steady hand and compassionate heart” to Ford as he goes through the hardship of having the media demand real answers to reasonable questions.
He wrote:
dear Mayor Rob Ford,
the only truth or correct reporting in today’s
repulsive story regarding
my alleged comments about you,
is the accurate spelling of your great city.
your personal life is and never would be,
any of my business.
I’m sorry for any grief this may have caused.
if I can be of any assistance
in any capacity in this
media cesspool,
please accept the noble offer of my steady
hand and compassionate heart.
respectfully,
charlie sheen.
Sheen was inspired to write the letter after a satirical article appeared on the website The Daily Current suggesting Sheen was calling for Ford’s resignation.
“There was this one time in Vegas when I took four Victoria’s Secret models and did one gram off each of their bodies within like 45 minutes. I declared myself King of Vegas and decided to remodel my hotel room with my bare hands to resemble King Louis XIV’s bedroom at Versailles. Knocked down two entire walls, and later had four knuckle surgeries. Still wasn’t as high as Rob Ford,” the article quoted Sheen as saying to french newspaper La Presse while in Toronto to film the fictitious Scary Movie 6.
According to the website, the article has been shared on social media over four thousand times because there is nothing beyond the scope of human imagination that could surprise the public about the drunk driver/crack smoker/binge drinker/homophobe/racist/alleged Oxycontin user/mayor of North America’s fourth largest city.
As well as a love of crack, Sheen and Ford share a passion for denying they need help, staggering around the streets of Toronto, and the Maple Leafs.
Also, milk: | http://o.canada.com/entertainment/charlie-sheen-pens-open-letter-to-rob-ford-please-accept-the-noble-offer-of-my-steady-hand-and-compassionate-heart/comment-page-1 | en | 2013-11-14T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/15a98ee10e95cde76a52cadb71a296c41e63107a649ac3a0d1a03798835d812f.json |
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TORONTO — An elementary teacher’s local at a school board in the Guelph area is strictly limiting its members’ school activities as the union steps up its battle with the Liberal government.
An Elementary Teacher’s Federation of Ontario strike protocol notice sent to teachers at the Upper Grand District School Board in the Guelph area outlines 13 restrictions.
They include avoiding extra-curricular activities such as after-school holiday musicals, not participating in field trips and other measures set to kick in Monday morning.
An ETFO spokeswoman declined to say whether the same steps will be taken at elementary schools across the province.
The ETFO notice says teachers who don’t follow the strike actions could face a fine of $500 per day, publication of their name in a union publication and a suspension of union services.
The union will be in a legal strike position as of Dec. 10 and has said it will give parents 72-hour notice before teachers walk off the job.
Meanwhile, it was revealed Sunday that the Ontario Secondary School Teacher’s Federation has scrapped its tentative agreement with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and that teachers will begin administrative action Monday.
Teachers are being told to not attend meetings, administer standardized tests or meet with parents after school.
OSSTF spokeswoman Lori Foote said the tentative agreement was scrapped due to “ministerial intervention.”
A spokesman for Education Minister Laurel Broten wasn’t immediately available.
The OSSTF cut off contract talks last week after teachers rejected local agreements with two school boards. It has also suspended ratification votes for any other tentative agreements until further notice.
The union is set to reveal its next actions at a Monday news conference.
The Liberal government has the power to impose new collective agreements and prohibit certain strike actions, but Broten hasn’t said whether she’ll take those steps.
Tory education critic Lisa MacLeod said Broten needs to issue a ministerial order stopping the work-to-rule actions by elementary teachers.
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The Glee actress sat down with Marie Claire Mexico for a one-on-one interview and photo-shoot, for which her late boyfriend was on set.
Michele told the magazine, “It’s more interesting having a relationship with someone you work with because we get more attention because we play boyfriend and girlfriend on the show and we are also in real life,” she told the magazine (via Popsugar). “But he is the best person I know, he has made my life so incredible, and I am so thankful for him and not only to have him as a partner but also as a co-worker.”
“It is important to have someone that supports you and encourage you, someone that makes you feel that you are unstoppable, that you can do anything in the world because you have him,” she added.
During the shoot Michele Tweeted about Monteith saying, “Today’s healthy lunch! #Tofu #Greens #MyboyfriendsEatingpizza #yum lol,” added a photo of her lunch on break. “What an awesome shoot today!”
“Such a pleasure gracing the cover of one of my fav mags! So excited for you guys to see! Xo.”
The editor in chief, Ariadne Grant told Us Weekly that Monteith showed up “in great spirits” and that the pair were nothing less than nice. Adding that they were “obviously happy and in love. We are very disrupted by the unfortunate and untimely events. Our thoughts are with Lea.” | http://o.canada.com/entertainment/lea-michele-gives-heartbreaking-interview-before-cory-monteiths-death/comment-page-1 | en | 2013-07-24T00:00:00 | o.canada.com/be6def762f5c32496c5ff28856680c200a7b3261ddb4ac15990adbf399cae09a.json |
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1:43 What are your favorite carnival games at the fair in Lynden?
2:19 Watch an explanation of opiate overdose drug naloxone at Whatcom County Health Department | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article98488992.html | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.bellinghamherald.com/72c3b2262580b4224f2ab52474c6ee6ca4fa3e813ee3e5e6b3c43cf9ecbe97f8.json |
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2:27 Dave Barry discovers something other than fish in the ocean off Rio
1:27 Kaine taunts Trump on tax returns - Election Rewind
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2:58 RNC highlights: Ted Cruz draws boos while Mike Pence accepts VP nomination
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0:39 Meridian football should be entertaining in 2016
1:16 Lummi ready to make another run at state title in 2016
0:55 Hungry Lynden football team to get defensive in 2016
1:12 Ferndale brings good team speed into first season in Wesco
1:38 Watch highlights from The Color Run 5K in Bellingham
1:15 Mount Baker seeking fifth straight trip to 1A quarterfinals in 2016
1:11 Squalcum football looking for big things in 2016
0:38 Sehome football prepares for 2016
3:11 Seahawks coach Pete Carroll on who will and won't play Thursday vs. Vikings | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/sports/article98756017.html | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.bellinghamherald.com/d980903679fce43dfcba428c27e70f75004a7b51632b988f8290dc7c1a8fcf68.json |
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0:29 Firefighters pull 8 kittens from Sacramento storm drain
0:49 Man uses suction cups to climb Trump Tower in New York
0:37 Bear takes a swim at in a home's pool
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2:58 RNC highlights: Ted Cruz draws boos while Mike Pence accepts VP nomination
2:29 What's actually going to happen at the Republican National Convention? | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article98034362.html | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.bellinghamherald.com/99a52e2f5d09c2c6189819ff8aaac4f1746c6d3045b7bb83254d3a135936e2f3.json |
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2:27 Dave Barry discovers something other than fish in the ocean off Rio
1:27 Kaine taunts Trump on tax returns - Election Rewind
5:51 Hillary Clinton formally accepts historic nomination for president
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2:13 Watch timelapse as Donald Trump accepts the Republican presidential nomination
2:58 RNC highlights: Ted Cruz draws boos while Mike Pence accepts VP nomination
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0:55 Hungry Lynden football team to get defensive in 2016
1:12 Ferndale brings good team speed into first season in Wesco
1:38 Watch highlights from The Color Run 5K in Bellingham
1:15 Mount Baker seeking fifth straight trip to 1A quarterfinals in 2016
1:11 Squalcum football looking for big things in 2016
0:38 Sehome football prepares for 2016
3:11 Seahawks coach Pete Carroll on who will and won't play Thursday vs. Vikings
2:40 Richard Sherman: I've seen Earl Thomas beat up Chuck Norris
2:54 Mariners honor Ken Griffey Jr., immortalize his No. 24 | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/sports/article98404117.html | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.bellinghamherald.com/6293090c39fb7834dd17689f3e974b6ffdacd6c36343333435239e505ed7600d.json |
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"Teresa Cerojano",
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] | 2016-08-31T10:47:15 | null | 2016-08-31T03:22:00 | Lawyers for victims of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos's regime said Wednesday that the late leader was a despot and oppressor unfit for a hero's burial, as they argued at a hearing on petitions against President Rodrigo Duterte's directive to have Marcos buried at a heroes' cemetery. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bellinghamherald.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Fworld%2Farticle98978312.html.json | http://www.mcclatchy-wires.com/wire_photos/m4amyx/picture98985562/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/Philippines%20Marcos%20Burial.JPEG | en | null | Philippine court hears petitions against Marcos hero burial | null | null | www.bellinghamherald.com | Lawyers for victims of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos's regime said Wednesday that the late leader was a despot and oppressor unfit for a hero's burial, as they argued at a hearing on petitions against President Rodrigo Duterte's directive to have Marcos buried at a heroes' cemetery. | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article98978312.html | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.bellinghamherald.com/a399a7ea49c133dce4e170c68a02eab13c24f7e9ab199cad9d00adbb4998d53e.json |
[
"Lauren Kramer",
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] | 2016-08-26T14:46:04 | null | 2016-08-26T06:00:00 | Those exquisite fall days of sunshine and earthy colors are a great opportunity to head outdoors and expose your family to a good hike. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bellinghamherald.com%2Fliving%2Ffamily%2Farticle95202137.html.json | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/living/family/ws1lqo/picture95202127/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/Silver%20Lake | en | null | Where will your family head into the woods? | null | null | www.bellinghamherald.com | 1:29 Bellingham kids show their stuff at Children's Craft Fair Pause
1:51 North Carolina quintuplets turning 18 despite doctors warning parents they may not survive
1:19 Explore historical Semiahmoo Spit
0:56 Discover the tide flats at Birch Bay
1:05 Here are some parents' rules for social media use
0:41 Splash into summer at Birch Bay Waterslides
2:09 Video: How to find a good book for your kids
0:57 Fire crews battle wildfire near Sumas in north Whatcom County
1:16 Lummi ready to make another run at state title in 2016
0:55 Hungry Lynden football team to get defensive in 2016 | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/living/family/article95202137.html | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.bellinghamherald.com/be5dbb9e760e8389fae0978eafec4bf7728768ff48efee2e20ebb5ecec2e0c0f.json |
[
"Karen Peterson"
] | 2016-08-29T22:46:45 | null | 2016-08-29T15:08:00 | Historic pauper cemetery in South Tacoma rediscovered by local funeral director. More than 1,600 people were buried there. Information about them is now posted on genealogy website. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bellinghamherald.com%2Fnews%2Fstate%2Fwashington%2Farticle98695192.html.json | http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/karen-peterson/ja6xe8-paupers-key-frame.jpg/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/pauper's%20key%20frame.jpg | en | null | 1,600 stories buried in forgotten Tacoma pauper cemetery | null | null | www.bellinghamherald.com | 1:52 Tacoma-born movie producer discusses shooting teen thriller in his hometown Pause
3:00 Meet Chinook the new sea lion at Point Defiance Zoo Aquarium
0:33 New at the zoo: Nigerian Dwarf goats at Point Defiance
3:51 Harnessing the power of water to turn it into electricity
1:10 Raccoon cam: Spying on the masked bandits of the animal world
0:34 Northern lights flood northwest sky with bright green aurora borealis
1:32 Talking horses with trainer Candi Tollett
1:39 Alternatives to smoking advocate talks about Washington's new vaping regulations
1:54 Video: Tacoma-area chainsaw sculptor travels the world
5:23 Video: National Guard fights First Creek wildfire near Chelan
0:31 Video: Watch Motel 6 explosion in Bremerton | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/state/washington/article98695192.html | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.bellinghamherald.com/ed76eaa36eeab03d50a4cf242755f9fa5ff99414aca228d8d9b07df6d25c0c52.json |
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"Gene Johnson",
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] | 2016-08-29T00:46:51 | null | 2016-08-27T13:57:00 | Hunting and fishing licenses are on sale again in Washington state, after someone hacked or attempted to hack into an outside vendor's system, exposing several million records containing the personal information of hunters and anglers throughout the Northwest. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bellinghamherald.com%2Fnews%2Fbusiness%2Farticle98346262.html.json | http://www.mcclatchy-wires.com/wire_photos/7wsntb/picture98188237/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/Fish%20and%20Game%20Computer%20Breach.JPEG | en | null | Hunting, fishing licenses on sale again in Washington | null | null | www.bellinghamherald.com | Hunting and fishing licenses are on sale again in Washington state, after someone hacked or attempted to hack into an outside vendor's system, exposing several million records containing the personal information of hunters and anglers throughout the Northwest. | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/business/article98346262.html | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.bellinghamherald.com/5dd045e7bc69bb34abc327d3aee2269355dee88093b3780bb4a3ca50db35df7e.json |
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"The Bellingham Herald"
] | 2016-08-30T18:46:51 | null | 2016-08-30T10:54:00 | Here’s a list from the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office of the people booked into Whatcom County Jail from Bellingham, Ferndale, Lynden and other areas. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bellinghamherald.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fcrime%2Farticle98820982.html.json | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/static/images/bellinghamherald/facebook.jpg | en | null | Whatcom County Jail report for Aug. 28 | null | null | www.bellinghamherald.com | Here’s a list from the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office of the people booked into Whatcom County Jail from Bellingham, Ferndale, Lynden and other areas. | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/crime/article98820982.html | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.bellinghamherald.com/c67dd017a38c1a11e0e8d2e51751d0c2b533684a02483e752e67b8c662c92d39.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-28T10:46:21 | null | 2016-08-28T03:31:00 | Police and airline officials say two United Airlines pilots have been arrested for suspected intoxication before they were to fly 141 passengers from Scotland to the United States. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bellinghamherald.com%2Fnews%2Fbusiness%2Fnational-business%2Farticle98433477.html.json | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/static/images/bellinghamherald/facebook.jpg | en | null | 2 United pilots suspected of being drunk arrested in Glasgow | null | null | www.bellinghamherald.com | Police and airline officials say two United Airlines pilots have been arrested for suspected intoxication before they were to fly 141 passengers from Scotland to the United States. | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/business/national-business/article98433477.html | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.bellinghamherald.com/92d8ab98eafe59929a07d1996d44598bb77f77c22538350034f5db4123766eb5.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-27T10:46:30 | null | 2016-08-27T03:06:00 | A former top civil servant says a British exit from the European Union is not inevitable, although voters backed that course in a June referendum. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bellinghamherald.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Fworld%2Farticle98310892.html.json | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/static/images/bellinghamherald/facebook.jpg | en | null | Ex-civil service chief: British exit from EU not inevitable | null | null | www.bellinghamherald.com | A former top civil servant says a British exit from the European Union is not inevitable, although voters backed that course in a June referendum. | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article98310892.html | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.bellinghamherald.com/02c35cd79bbd2153ff3c1599c57301b2b592f754c3a720cf737d045a3fdb5b0e.json |
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0:51 Bellingham's Lighthouse Mission will open new shelter
1:32 Consumers outraged over EpiPen pricing
0:39 Meridian football should be entertaining in 2016
2:13 Happy 100th birthday to the National Park Service
0:57 Fire crews battle wildfire near Sumas in north Whatcom County
2:59 White House weighs in on EpiPen pricing
1:16 Lummi ready to make another run at state title in 2016
1:39 Watch students return to the newly built Happy Valley Elementary School in Bellingham
0:55 Hungry Lynden football team to get defensive in 2016 | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article98762582.html | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.bellinghamherald.com/ac72ea42d050ca79694296d6a77535a788c054fa0e99f9fe7b2d85fe962c2880.json |
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"Audrey Mcavoy",
"Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-27T02:46:18 | null | 2016-08-26T19:02:00 | The U.S. Marine Corps' new commander for the Pacific said Friday he aims to advance his predecessor's work helping allies and partners develop their skills storming beaches and moving forces ashore. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bellinghamherald.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Fnational%2Farticle98039502.html.json | http://www.mcclatchy-wires.com/wire_photos/vvb51d/picture98237737/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/Marines%20New%20Commander.JPEG | en | null | New Pacific Marine leader vows to keep up work with allies | null | null | www.bellinghamherald.com | The U.S. Marine Corps' new commander for the Pacific said Friday he aims to advance his predecessor's work helping allies and partners develop their skills storming beaches and moving forces ashore. | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article98039502.html | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.bellinghamherald.com/21a461ff3465fb66c6f6361a8fd25091c1cc00521f55c4fe854c130317d834cf.json |
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