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Scuba divers clean up Sasamat Lake during"Splashfor Trash"weekend Bradley explained.

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF "This is just the tip of the iceberg - literally," Thomas emphasized.

As Biology students Alycia The crew of about 40 divers Bradley and Sneha Thomas spent Sunday morning combing discovered, while everything the water near White Pine Beach may seem calm and pristine on for trash. Visibility was poor, with the surface, it's what lies beneath divers having to feel for garbage. that's important.

They found a beach umbrella, The duo took part in an underwear, two right shoes, underwater clean up at Sasamat goggles, beer cans, coffee cups, Lake last month_ for the Splash multitudes of sunglasses, plenty for Trash Weekend. Thomas of fishing lines, plastic bags, and and Bradley were just two of much more. At the end of the day, the 33,000 scuba divers from 92 dozens of garbage bags were filled countries worldwide that took with trash found at the bottom of part in this massive clean up. The Sasamat. One team managed to fill divers pulled a mass of garbage 15 bags in just an hour. equivalent to 44 orca whales in The most disheartening things to find were items that the divers weight.

"People don't realize the knew were intentionally dumped.

"We found two-six bottles filled importance of cleaning under water because we don't see it," up and sealed so they would sink," Thomas sighed.

Thomas explained.

Despite the fact that alcohol The clean up at Sasamat Lake has been an ongoing project that is prohibited in GVRD parks, Langley Diving has taken on. "It the majority of what was found took them two years to clean out were alcohol containers. Thomas one little bay where we were," explained the harm this causes

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to local aquatic life, like catfish, which begin to live in the trash dumped in the water. "There are some creatures that can adapt, but most animals can't."

Trash in marine environments is a major problem worldwide.

Sadly, turtles have been known to die from eating plastic which they mistake for their food, jellyfish.In some parts of the world, sharks have been being poisoned by eating shoes. "People don't realize that even paper has ink," Bradley explained.

More groups are beginning to realize the harm that dumping brings to aquatic life and are organizing clean ups. However, education is key to keeping lakes, rivers and oceans clean. Most people don't realize that dropping even small garbage on land can lead to pollution in water. "TD Canada Trust does a shore clean up ... one of the biggest things they find is cigarette butts," Bradley explained. "Cigarettes are full of chemicals, which leach into the

ground."

The pair decided to take part in the Splash for Trash weekend after Thomas heard about it at her local dive shop. When Thomas · mentioned the weekend to Bradley, who she knew through their joint involvement in the Pre-Med Students' Association, she jumped at the chance. "It's definitely a way to give back. I wish they did it more," Bradley explained.

Both women are experienced divers. "We're hoping to start a scuba club up in the winter [semester]. We have some amazing dives in our area. Hopefully we can work with Langley Diving to get some discounts," Bradley laughed.

The dive has certainly left its mark on the two women. As Bradley explained, "It was a definite eye opener. If I ever see someone dump something into the water ..."

Let's just say Bradley won't be letting them walk away without their trash.

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Canada Should Be Cautious With Future US Trade Agreements JED MINOR GUESTEDITORIALIST This week we feature the second part of US Consul General Philip T. Chicola's interview with the Cascade. In part one Chicola expounded upon the possibility of expanding the scope of the North American Free Trade Agreement likening the situation to the European Union which began as a way to integrate Germany into the ture union would be largely domiEuropean economy but eventually nated by that government, thereby became the all encompassing po- undermining the national interlitical union it is today. ests of both Canada and Mexico.

There are many problems that Furthermore, it seems unwise to arise when trying to use the Euro- expand the scope of NAFTA seepean model to imagine a similarly ing as how it is completely ignored structured hypothetical North when it contradicts US interests.

American Union. First of all, the The tariff which the US Depart·European Union is comprised of . ment of Commerce put on softwood lumber from Canada in 2002 many economically important countries such as England, France, was judged to be too high by NAFGermany, Spain and Italy who TA in 2003. Nevertheless, the tariff exert more or less equal political was left in place until 2006 and is power at the bargaining table. still being debated by both counIn contrast, North America is tries. Perhaps we should be trying dominated politically and eco- to develop mechanisms to enforce nomically by the US, and any fu- the original NAFTA rather than

expa:1ding the scope of a treaty which has only been partially effective in the past Another concern is that certain vulnerable industries in Canada would eventually lose their protection under further revision of NAFTA. Milk production in BC , for example, is based on a quota system which allows family farms to stay competitive while milking smaller herds of cows. If the BC dairy market was opened up to US competition it would be summarily flooded by cheap American milk products from US factory farms and thousands of people in the Fraser Valley would lose their jobs.

Proponents of free market trade agreements say that Canada has nothing to fear from opening our markets because we are a hard working and intelligent people that should be able to compete with any country in the world on a level playing field. The problem with this argument is that the playing field is not level. No matter how hard working we Cana-

dians are we will never be able to compete with the sheer scale of US capital and economic enterprise.

Regardless of the competition Canadian companies present to our neighbors to the south, without some kind of government protection there is nothing to prevent the US companies from buying them out, or simply waiting them out in protracted trade battles like the Softwood Lumber dispute.

Canada is currently experiencing a downturn in our economy as a ·result of our close economic relationship to the US. As a result Canadian businesses are seeking new trade partners in Europe and Asia in order to diversify their export options and protect themselves from future downturns in the US economy. While the US will be our main trade partner for the foreseeable future it would be wise for Canada to exercise caution when opening up our markets further to US influence; as history has shown, we often have a lot more to lose than we have to gain.

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Invasive Plants: Your Unwanted Neighbour Re: Invasive in BC

Plant Species

When I ask people what they think are the most detrimental impacts to biodiversity the majority are sure to mention climate change and something related to development or construction. If mentioned at all, invasive plants are thought of as a secondary or minor threat in comparison. However, invasive plants- those nonnative plants that cause significant economic, environmental and social damage- are just as destructive and widespread. Not only do they out compete local flora but they can sicken livestock, increase soil-erosion potential, harbour pests and diseases, damage infrastructure and decrease the quality of recreational activities.

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rounding invasive plants is related to awareness. Most people do not know which plants are problem species let ·alone what impacts they have, or how to get rid

of them. That is why the Invasive Plant Council of British Columbia (IPCBC), in conjunction with the Fraser Valley Invasive Plant Council, is rolling out their 'Stop the Spread' campaign. You may have caught some of our media coverage surrounding the Giant Hogweed on BCTV and CTV recently.

Although the Giant Hogweed garnered so much attention due to its toxic sap which can result in sunlight-sensitive burns, there are over 20 other high-priority species within the Fraser Valley. Himalayan blackberry, butterfly bush, English ivy, Tansy ragwort and purple loosestrife are some of the more common invasives. In fact more than a few of these species can be found on campus.

Invasive plants have arrived, and continue to arrive, in the Fraser Valley via many path-

ways including: tag-alongs from immigrates or tourists, as garden escapees, from bird seed mixes, construction equipment, hay and wildflower mixes. IPCBC needs the cooperation of many different parties to stop the spread. We offer informational presentations for all age and interest groups, attend public events and organize community weed pulls FREE OF COST. If you are interested in any of our services contact me at: outreach9@invasiveplantcouncilbc. ca. For more information visit our website www.invasiveplantcouncilbc.ca or Facebook page- Fraser Valley Invasive Plant council.

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U.S. Consul GeneralTalks B.C.-WashingtonStateRelations Philip T. Chi~la InterviewPart 2 PAUL BRAMMER NEWS& OPINIONEDITOR One of the stereotypes about Canada that persists is that Canadians define themselves in part by distancing themselves from their neighbours south of the border. Canadian national identity and Canadian nationalism can appear to be synonymous with anti-Americanism. However, there is one uniquely-positioned person who believes that Canadian-American relations are much tighter than even the most optimistic statistics can prove.

Philip Chicola, U.S. Consul General in Vancouver, believes that the image of. Canadians who hate Americans is largely a myth.

"The relationships between Canadians and Americans are well ahead of government. As people, we understand each other a lot better than our governments .. .I have often suggested that, in most cases, government is more of an impediment than a help, and there are reasons for that - governments have to worry about national security; individuals don't. [Interpersonal links are] a lot more strong, a lot more viable and a lot more vibrant than government to government."

One of the reasons for strong inter-personal links between the two North American nations is the historical trends of migration between the two countries, and the interwoven familial and fraternal bonds that cross the border. Chicola said that this symbiosis does not diminish over time, "Those links

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are not going to change, if anything, they become stronger ... My daughter, who is a twelfth-grade student in B.C., is going to have friends in Vancouver [who] will remain there regardless of where we live, and those friendships will endure beyond that and because of that, the relationship between the two states is pushed together, ..There is no anti-Canadianism in the U.S. and there is almost no anti-Americanism in Canada ... All the facts on the ground push the other way."

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One of the principal roles of Chicola's job as Consul General is to help to foster bonds between Canada and the U.S., and he believes that the interconnectedness of the provincial and state governments of B.C. and Washington state helps to solidify those good relations. Chicola said that those provincial-state relations are, by and-., large, trans-gpvernmental and trans-generational, "The relationship continues despite ...whatever party governs B.C., whatever party governs Washington State.

Students Petitionfor Later LibraryHours signatures; Gill hopes to obtain a minimum of ALEX WATKINS 1,500,which is nearly 12 per cent of the UFV stu-

NEWSWRITER Gagan Gill, a third year business administration student at UFV, knows as well as any the value of study for student success. As a member of a noisy, three-sibling household, she also knows the value of a quiet study area. That's why she's curtently circulating a petition for extended library hours and increased study space at UFV, one that is quickly finding a lot of support among the student and staff populations alike.

Gill was inspired to start the petition after an experience at the library several weeks ago. She was attempting to complete a paper on Friday night, when, as she stated, "the lights flicked on and off which signaled the two minute warning until the library is closed. It was just 6:00pm!"

Gill - who prefers to study on campus - attempted to find an alternative space. Her and her study partner tried using an empty classroom, but were asked to leave by a custodian because they posed "a risk of theft," even though the classroom did not contain any computers or televisions. The custodian suggested they use the Roadrunner Cafe, which remains open for study when the library is closed, but the pair found it difficult to focus on their work because of the "poor lighting ... uncomfortable patio furniture, wobbly tables, vacuums and other background noise in the area."

Gill drafted a petition, and after speaking with students, decided that what the majority would specifically like to see were extended library hours (particularly during exam time), more study space both within and apart from the library, upgraded study space in Building A and the free use of or designation of specific empty classrooms for study space.

Additionally, Gill suggested keeping the lights on in building G even after the library is closed, so that the study space in the area can still be utilized. Within the first four days of circulation, her petition had gathered over 600

dent population.

Gill researched library hours and study spaces at B.C. universities and found that - compared to many others - UFV's offerings simply don't stack up. For example, UFV's library is currently open until 10 p.m. Monday to Thursday, and until only 6 p.m. Friday to Sunday, while UBC's library is open until 2 a.m. daily. Additionally, during exam time, UBC has study areas that are accessible 24 hours a day.

She cited BCIT's groundbreaking extended hours pod (ehPod) project as a good example of what could be achieved with a little cooperation and ingenuity.

According to BCIT's website, "The ehPod ... was created in response to students' need for extended access to study space and computer facilities [and] includes 60 computer workstations and 11 group study rooms. Dtging the September and January terms, after the rest of the Library closes, the ehPod is open 24 hours a day, seven days a~eek."

The project was the first of its kind among BC libraries, and earned an Innovation Achievement Award in 2010 from the Canadian Technical and College Libraries branch of the Canadian Library Association.

Gill said that, although UFV is currently experiencing a strain on its budget due to over-enrollment, she is seeing a lot of support and feels positive about her chances of success.

"I feel optimistic about it. When I went to talk to SUS after [the] meeting [in which my issue was raised, I was told] that everybody really agreed with what I was saying. The issue is money, but... if there's additional study space, I don't see the harm in ... hiring ... a student [to supervise it] for $9 an hour."

Although Gill is currently receiving assistance from several UFV groups and associations, she encourages any students interested in helping to collect signatures to contact her at: Gagandeep.Gill2@student.ufv.ca

[The relationship is) not going to . local developments - you know, what is the government doing, change dramatically."

Chicola did, however, outline what is the reaction to HST." Aside from Chicola's individual some of the ongoing issues that B.C. and Washington state face duties, the U.S. Consulate in Vantogether. "There's a number of couver does have institutional issues: how to facilitate border interests in other areas. "There's enough non-governmental orgacrossings within the constraints that national security puts on both nizations or multi-party organizasides, for instance ...Building ad- tions that we are more members ditional infrastructure along the of than drivers of... Because of the border so that people have shorter proximity [to the States] there are waiting times and goods have tens of thousands [of] Americans shorter waiting times is very im- who live in B.C.... and we support those people with whatever they portant.

"Both the state and the prov- need," which generally involves ince have a lot of interest in do- issuing passports, dealing with ising away with as many of those sues of citizenship status, and so inconveniences as possible to fa- on.

"We have a large contingent at cilitate that kind of movement. I think both want investment and the airport that does pre-clearanctrade to take place ... the issues are es, so somebody travelling from co-operative in nature and there's B.C. to the U.S. by air can go to very few, if any, difficulties across Vancouver Airport and they clear the border ...You're always going to U.S. Immigration and Customs in have issues, you know ...Try taking Vancouver so when they get off B.C. wine to Ontario, see how well the plane .. .it would be the same as getting off the plane in Toronto; you do!"

Chicola explained how his job they walk right out, get their bags as U.S. Consul General fits into the and get on their way.

"And then we have a number of overall framework of U.S.-Canada relations, "We have a consulate U.S. law enforcementJiaisons that in Vancouver which has three or work with their Canadian counfour major responsibilities. Prob- terparts [in] coordinating various ably the foremost is to sort of show activities ... and, the border being the flag and let people know we're what it is, you need a lot of cohere, not leave it entirely up to operation."

Chicola dropped in at UFV on newscasters and bloggers to carry the message. That takes very dif- his way to Kamloops on an offiferent ways ... for instance, because cial visit, which included a meetof my job I'm very active in ...vari- ing with administrators from ous charities, the Opera the Sym- Thompson Rivers University and phony [Orchestra]. That's sort of a roundtable discussion with Kaone central job built around me. mloops business leaders.

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Area Man SIIlokesJoint in B ..C Legislature Abbotsford activist sparksupinCommons toprotest mariiuana laws ALEX WATKINS NEWSWRITER Politicians battling it out on Parliament Hill October 4 weren't the only ones blowing smoke - Samuel Mellace, of New Age Medical Solutions Inc., grabbed the public's attention that day by lighting and smoking a joint in the Public Gallery of the House of Commons, in protest of what he qmsiders unjust legislation surrounding the medical use of marijuana.

Though he was soon asked by a security guard to extinguish the joint and to leave the premises, no legal action was taken. Mellace - a registered medicinal marijuana · user - states that there are no restrictions on where he is allowed to consume his medication, as "anti-smoking bylaws... are pertaining to tobacco."

In part, Mellace's protest was meant to call attention to the problem of limitations on the forms of medical marijuana that may legally be used. Presently, medical marijuana may only be smoked; it is illegal to process it into creams or edible forms, such as THC butter. This means that people who are unable to smoke marijuana for example, lung cancer patients - cannot legally use it as medication.

In reference to the possible reasoning behind this legislation, Mellace speculated, "There's only one [logical reason) that I can think of [which is] that people will process the marijuana into hashish or oil, and [therefore] use an

That 'Was my cocktail for the day.

So over the course of time it dried out my liver. [And] anything over seven to ten day usage of Tylenol 3 ... OxyContins, any opiate derivative, you will become close to being dependent on that pill to get you through the day."

Mellace was also protesting Health Canada's current delays in processing applications for licenses to grow medical marijuana. It is suggested that applicants submit their paperwork eight weeks before their licenses are set to expire, yet, according to Mellace, "that process is taking six months or more." This means that individuals whose licenses expire in between harvesting periods are technically illegally in possession of marijuana.

Although Health Canada has cited a sudden increase in applications for the processing delays, Mellace believes that it is part of a larger problem d£ political interference. He feels that law-abiding citizens are being unfairly put in legal danger because of a lack of support within the government for such programs.

"I don't want to see anybody go to jail. . .it just doesn't make sense, especially iLyou've gone through all of the hurdles, the paperwork, finding a doctor to help you and sign your paperwork ... there's not much else one can do except follow the rule of law. And when the rule of law is perpetrated by political interference, then they ... coul_d almost be [construed] as obstructing justice."

alcohol to extract it. If you're using an alcohol. .. if you don't know what you're doing... you could blow up the house."

However, New Age Medical Solutions has devised a safe method for extracting cannabinoids without using alcohol. This method has allowed the company to devise a THC hand cream that could

potentially be used to treat arthritis pain, without causing a "high" in the user. Under current laws, New Age Medical may not legally sell this product.

Mellace feels that it is important for all individuals to be able to medicate with marijuana, as the extended use of alternatives such as opiates can lead to depen-

Bottled waterbanned atBishop's University

UofMresearchers developing fossil fuelalternative

Canada failsin U.N.Council bid

Canada seesbudgetsurplus in2015, butwarnsofrisks

Over thecourse ofonlyafewyears, com-based ethanol wentfrompossible environmental saviour to villain, leaving thequestion ofwhatwillreplace fossil fuelsunanswered. · University ofManitoba researchers Richard Sparling and David Levin aredeveloping asolution tothatproblem.

Sparling andLevin havebeen working forsixyears toimprove theproduction ofbiofuel, whichisfuel produced withbiomass rather thanoil.

'Whatwe're looking atiscalled consolidated bio-processing;'Sparling said.

"Itconsolidates all thedifferent steps ofbreaking downcellulose into onestep.

"Thebacteria break downcellulose intoitscomponentsugars, eatthose, andoneofthebyproducts of theirdigestion isethanol:' Theteamhasproven thatit ispossible toproduce ethanol inside bacteria, whichwasthefirstmajor breakthrough.

However, theteam's current method isnotcommercially viable.

Thebacteria taketoolong anddonotproduce enough ethanol atatime.

Sparling saidtheteamhasreceived aGenome Canada granttocontinue onthecurrent portion of theirproject until2013, atwhichpointthey"might have enough information andenough goodbacteria thatinthefive-year horizon fromthenthiscouldbe commercially viable:'

Canada suffered a humiliating defeatonTuesday whenit wasforced to withdraw fromtheracefor aseatontheprestigious U.N.Security Council, conceding victoryto Portugal intheannual election.

Inaddition to Portugal, the192-nation General Assembly elected Germany, India,SouthAfrica andColombia to two-year seats onthecouncil.

Canada hadbeenvyingwithGermany andPortugalforthetwoseatsintheirgeographic group butpulledoutwhenit became clearthatit lacked adequate support.

There arefiveveto-holding permanent members oftheSecurity Coµncil-theUnitedStates, Britain,France, Russia andChina, thevictorsofWorld WarTwo- and10temporary, elected members withoutvetoes.

Buttheelected members havesomepower because acouncil resolution needs ninevotes infavoraswellasnovetoes.

Several Western diplomats saidthepresence of IndiaandSouth Africaonthecouncil wouldcomplicate matters if Washington wereto pushfornewsanctions against Iraninthecoming twoyears.

Thefivenewlyelected nations will serve two-year termsbeginning inJanuary 2011andendingin December 2012.

Canada predicted onTuesday it will balance its budgetbythe2015-16 fiscalyear,afterposting a record deficitfor2009-10, butwarned thatthe shaky globalrecovery couldspillintoCanada and erodetaxrevenues.

Canada's federalbudgetdeficitforthe2009-10 fiscalyeartotaledC$55.6 billion($55.5billion), or3.6percentofthegross domestic product, exceeding expectations dueto special payments to twomajorprovinces, thefinance ministrysaid in itsannual fallupdate.

Thefederalgovernment hadforecast abudget shortfallofC$53.8 billion,or3.5percentof gross domestic product, asit poured cashinto infrastructure projects andoffered taxbreaks in aneffortto softentheimpactoftheglobal financial crisis.

Excluding federalassistance payments to Ontario andBritishColumbia related to theirdecision to blendprovincial andfederalsales taxes, Ottawa saidit wouldhavereported adeficitinthefiscal yearendedin March thatwasC$3.8 billionlower thanitsoriginalforecast.

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dency and damage to the body. He has personal experience with the problems posed by prescription medication: "I encountered my liver disorder due to the medications that I was taking ... [after] I was in [a] car accident; for close to four and a half years I 'Was taking 60 mg of Morphine, Percodan, Valium, Flexidol, anti-inflammatory.

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Groups demand UBC discloses animal-testing procedures StopUBC AnimalResearch Nowhassubmitted a lettercallingontheUniversity ofBritishColumbia to"fullydisclose information aboutitsanimal research program:' Theletter,signedby60animaladvocacy groups fromCanada, theUnitedStates andEurope, was sentto university president Stephen Toope on Oct.11.

"Wearetroubled theuniversity hasbeenlessthan forthcoming aboutitsresearch activities;' read theletter."UBC hasyetto provide publicinterest groups withanimalresearch protocols andhas twicedeniedrequests forinformation under provincial freedom ofinformation law:' Stopisadvocating thatUBC release information aboutanimaltestingdoneattheuniversity over thepast10years.

Thisincludes theguidelines UBC uses to ensure ethicaltreatment ofanimals, as wellasphotos andvideos ofexperiments.

Brian Vincent, spokesperson forStop,saidheisunhappy withtheuniversity's response to theircampaign.

"We've gotnothingbutpushbackfromUBC;' he said."Youwouldthinkthattheuniversity would wantto promote openness andtransparency.

Instead animalresearch ishiddenunderthisveil ofsecrecy:'

Bishop's University hasbecome thefirstuniversity in Quebec to banthesaleofsingle-use bottled wateroncampus.

Bottledwaterwasremoved fromvending machines atthesmalluniversity, justtwohours outside of Montreal, overthesummer.

Themoveappears to bepartofagrowing trend, withthesaleofwaterbottlesbanned atthe University ofWinnipeg, Memorial University in St.John's, Brandon University andtheUniversity ofOttawa.

TrentUniversity in Ontario hasalso announced plansto banbottledwateroncampus bynextfall.

Fourth-year studentKatrina Kroeze, who spearheaded theproject alongwithtwoother students throughtheschool's environmental club, saidshewasinspired bysimilarmoves atother universities.

Kroeze saidthatmajorissues withplasticbottles include theoilandwaterusedinthemanufacturingprocess.

"Twice asmuchwaterisusedto makeabottleof waterasisusedto fill theinsideofit;'shesaid.

Inaddition thereareissues withtransportation,withmanybottlesofwatertravelling long distances.

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BC Gov and MiningCompaniesAttacked for AgressiveInitiative ALEX WATKINS NEWSWRITER

The impending completion of a six-year pilot project that could seriously affect the future of British Columbia's landscape has environmentalists across the province concerned. The Aggregate Pilot Project, or APP, was initiated by the Minister of State for Mines in 2004, and was intended to investigate and make recommendations for changes to gravel mining under the Mines Act, which has increasingly proven to cause tensions between mining operations and local communities.

Specifically, tension has stemmed from the fact that the Mines Act currently overrides all other legislation, essentially leaving communities powerless to fight the will of mining companies. Because of. this, gravel pits have often been allowed to be situated in environmentally sensitive areas and next to residential neighborhoods.

According to Walter Neufeld - who manages a development company in BC and Alberta and is a strong APP critic - the Mines Act is more powerful than legislation relating to the "Environment, fisheries, forestry, [and the] community ... [so] there is nothing that a community can do to stand up to the Mines Act, including local bylaws. They override everything."

With the introduction of the Mines Act "there didn't seem to be any rules governing the permitting of gravel pits ... [and] conflicts._.. were exacerbated over the years until the government finally decided to reform the Mines Act through what they call the Aggregate Pilot Project," Neufeld said.

The project involved the formation of a board of "some elected individuals of electoral areas and the gravel industry and the mines ministry." The APP was to gather relevant data and draft a list of r-ecommendations to be presented to the board, at which time the board was to decide whether or not to implemeht the APP's recommendations.

However, research conducted by the Area C Environmental Steward Society (ACESS) discovered "that the gravel industry's agenda had been published prior to the APP being initiated and that agenda is almost verbatim in that project." In fact, many believe that the final document drafted by the APP doesn't address the community conflicts it was meant to solve in the first place.

Neufeld pointed out the problem of giving the community such a comparatively short time to consider a proposal that has been years in the making. "The gravel industry [and] the Ministry of Mines sat together for six years to bring this product, this document to fruition. They're giving local communities two hours to respond to it, and the communities

are not being properly advised."

ACESS asked that all residents in the Fraser Valley Regional District be notified of the APP public information meetings, be supplied with background information and be notified of the importance of attending. ACESS suggested that this be achieved via mail-outs. The request was rejected, and the APP cited the costliness of distributing the approximately - 14,000 mailouts as the reason. Instead, the meetings were advertised in local newspapers.

It has been suggested that the input of the public does not actually need to be given any consideration. In fact, according to Neuield, the Minister of Mines "mocked" the request for a guarantee "that the public input be used to amend and remedy the flaws in the APP...

he said by law they have to have these public input sessions [but] they're not required by law to take any of the input from those public meetings seriously, and they're not required to put into practice any of the input at all." The APP presentation plan lists no further steps to be taken after the public consultation has taken place.

Neufeld emphasized the importance of the APP's decision because "the Minister of Mines is on record that he wants to roll this initiative across B.C. if it's accepted." He explained: "We worry about the possibility that it will be accepted and implemented as is. It does have some positive features, but unless they fix some of the faults in it, it's going to be a real problem. The inheritors of that problem [are going to be] young

people."

Neufeld believes that all individuals should be concerned about the outcome of this project, regardless of whether or not they currently live in areas that are directly affected by it. "This is a resculpting of our landscape. You will see less .. .local farming, you will see less pristine landscapes in environmentally sensitive areas.

They're working, with the APP, they're working to industrialize many of these corridors where you and your friends go swimming and fishing and hiking and biking .. .it's a downward spiral."

Neufeld encouraged anyone interested in getting involved in his cause to contact him at by email at highview@telusplanet.net.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22nd, 2010

Democracy is a lie And Thats Why I Don't Core JACK BROWNing (which may be the case) or beDISTRIBUTION SPECIALISTcause young people are watching porn and playing violent video There is a constant lament in the ~games where their parents merely media. It asks, with varying de- engaged in copious amount of grees of earnestness, why young free love and narcotics usage. No, people and students aren't more I think it has to do with our own politically engaged or aware. Our experiences as young people. Our parents and grand-parents often experiences of our society, its ingrandly declare that they had to stitutions, and the deceitful myths fight for our democracyin some bat- which we have had inculcated into tle or another, that young people our forms of life since our earliest these days have become decadent age. or entitled and so don't truly apAs a young person growing up preciate our system of governance in Canada, I was constantly told and the luxuries and freedoms it that we are a democracy- that we affords. These sorts of grandiose are a free people, that we govern statements and the constant que- ourselves while those poor sops rying of the media that go along over in North Korea live under a with them would be quaint if they totalitarian regime where they weren't both superficial and dan- have no say in governance and gerously ignorant. even require "papers" to travel to The philosophical underpinthe next town. I dutifully took the nings of our society provide many equivalent of a civics class, learnarguments which proclaim the ing the names of all of the Prime maximization of liberty as the ~inisters (in reverse chronologiultimate purpose and end of the cal order! Harper, Martin, Chrestate; to leave aside grand pro- tien, Campbell, Mulroney ...). I nouncements upon the nature of learned about voting, and how our the good and just life beyond what system of representative liberalis strictly necessary for a function- capitalist democracy works. ing and productive polity. In such But never once in my time in an environment, we as free indi- grade school did I ever have any say in the governance of the instividuals ought to be able to pursue tution to which I was subordinatwhatever it is we find fulfillment in doing. And of course, as a self- ed. I never got to vote which teachgoverning people, we ought to be ers would be hired or what we not only willing but quite interest- would study. I never got to detered in determining our own com- mine how long recess should be or munities' or countries' affairs. which colour construction paper We all know that the reality we should use. When I brought up is far from this ideal. But it is not this fact with my principal, I was because young people are more politely informed that as a minor interested in shopping than vot- - a child, in the eyes of the law -

I simply did not know what was good for me, so why should I expect to have a say?

Coming to university I expected things to be different. Indeed, bucking the trend of student apathy, I got actively involved in student politics. I ran, and won, in two separate elections for the student union and even served as the titular president for a year. But the sorts of choices I got to make were very much the sort I was being freely given at grade school. Pencil crayons over wax crayons, money for the board game club over parties at Casey's.

What if our democracy was a lie? What if we are simply told that we are self governing, but in fact we, as young citizens, actually have no say in the governance of our communities and our country? I don't think this proposition is at all radical. On the contrary, I think it quite accurately reflects our collective experiences.

Are we to truly expect that if all other areas of our lives, throughout every stage of our development, are undemocratic - that do not give us the ability to be self directed, autonomous individuals that we will suddenly spring into fully active and engaged citizens?

That voting every four years will be a panacea for a lifetime of obeying commands?

I do not think so.

Young people today are not engaged in our democracy because we are not democratic citizens. But even if we were, what is there for us to participate in?

Tammy Q. What is your major?

A. I'm in the Business Administration program.

Q. If you were to study abroad, where would you go?

A. I'm thinking London. I've heard about a lot of good schools there.

Q. Who would play you in the movie of your life?

• A. I like Cameron Diaz as an actress. I like Reece Witherspoon.

Q. Which superpower would you have and why?

A. The power to go in the past. ..cause whatever you do in your past matters.

Q. Who is your favourite Sesame Street character?

A. The Cookie Monster. He's so cute.

Ben Q. What is your major?

A. I'm in Computer Sciences.

Q. If you were to study abroad, where would you go?

A. I don't know, I've never thought about it...California.

Q. Which superpower would you have and why?

A. Super-strength.

Q. Who is your favourite Sesame Street character?

A. I'd have to say Grover. Super Grover, to be specific.

Q.What do you like about UFV? A. It's where I live, that's about it.

Q. What can UFV improve on?

A. I haven't really checked out the competition, so I don't know.

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Q. What is your major?

A. Psychology.

Q. If you were to study abroad, where would you go?

A. I would go to Austria, I think, 'cause I've been there before.

Q. What like about UFV? A. I like the smaller class sizes, I like how accessible people are when you need help.

Q. Who would play you in the movie of your life?

A.Meg Ryan.

Q. Which superpower would you have and why?

A. Maybe the ability ...to see what [people] are actually thinking.

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Just a few short weeks ago, there was a pro-life rally in Langley Township. I've never been a fan of the terms "Pro-life" or "Prochoice," because they seem to set both sides of this debate so far against each other that no middle ground will ever be achieved.

While all the "A woman's choice" and "Choose life... your mother did" rhetoric seems almost laughable (I'll explain that in a few paragraphs, so bear with me), both these sides have some good points.

If they could just settle down and stop trying to lobby the government and the public in opposite directions, they'd probably be able to achieve some "pro-baby" legislation that would work to the betterment of women and children.

There are two extremes to this argument: a mother should never have an abortion, even when her life is in danger; or, a mother should be able to have an abortion right up until the moment she gives birth. I doubt many reasonable people would choose either side of this argument. In fact, as many polls have shown, most people fall somewhere in between.

Despite a fairly Catholic upbringing, I've never been able to bring myself over to the pro-life side. Why? It's really very simple: abortions will happen, whether they're legal or not. Were they to be outlawed in Canada and the United States, women that are wealthy - or have a decent sized credit limit or some money in their savings account - would travel to countries where abortions are legal to receive the service. The only women affected by abortions being banned would be poor women - the women who can least afford to raise a child (or the rather ugly option that is politely referred to as "the knitting needle"). With so little support offered to the poorest women in this country, this is a recipe for disaster.

Which brings me to why all the "A woman's choice!" and "Choose life... your Il)Other did" rhetoric

is so laughable. To think that any woman wants to choose an abortion is ridiculous. It's quite hard to imagine that any reasonable woman plans to get pregnant, and then have the pregnancy terminated.

It's the hormonal equivalent of a rollercoaster. Accidents are what lead to abortions, not plans in your day timer. And the line "Having sex was not accidental" is a rather cheap counterargument, and usually comes along with the abstinence as birth control spiel.

Allow me to rant about abstinence as the ultimate birth control for a moment. It's nice to thfok that the only thing teenagers should be taught is "Don't have sex," but it's not going to work. Teaching kids about condoms will not encourage them to have sex before they're ready. Young people have been having sex before they were "ready" long before sex-ed entered the classroom. .

A quick glance through history reveals that rushed marriages have been· happening for centuries. Even amongst the puritans, babies were born just a few months after their parents' marriage. Teaching teenagers about birth control will keep them from having unwanted babies - even after they're married. And for those that don't really care about waiting until marriage, well, condoms help keep the herpes from spreading, and they help keep the unwanted pregnancies (or abortions) from happening.

Of course, since we're talking about preventing abortions here, we could just tell everyone to have same-sex relationships until they're ready to breed. Abortions would become a thing of the past

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- but I have the feeling that would work about as well as teaching everyone to wait until they're married.

Not that many mothers think of giving birth as breeding. Each and every one of my single-mom pals adore their children and couldn't imagine life without them. Too bad all fathers don't feel the same way. It's very easy to get around paying child support; all it takes it a job that pays cash. If these women didn't have supportive families, they'd be,forced to live off student loans or government handouts that barely cover the basics. And don't forget that many families are not supportive of their pregnant, unwed daughters. There is a certain amount of shame associated with giving birth to a bastard.

But that tends to get forgotten in the pro-life/pro-choice debate.

What matters is the actual act of abortiol). itself, and not what causes it. Really, showing posters of aborted foetuses is not going to change any expectant mother's mind. It just seems to be guilting mothers into giving birth.

Abortion needs. to be available, but rare. And the way to make that happen is to offer pregnant women that can't raise their children actual choices - not abortion or adoption. There need to be programs that offer expectant mothers actual help and not just the bare necessities. And for thpse few women that still won't have a baby despite the financial, emotional and all-around feel good support that is offered to them, there need to be safe and legal abortions. Otherwise, we go back to the knitting needle.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It seems simple enough doesn't it? The golden rule is found in the Bible, as well as in the teaching of many other world religions, but should we still follow it today? After all in North America we live in a society mostly devoid of religion. Humanists may argue that rather than being an external edict, the golden rule is in fact an evolutionary part of what makes us human; that treating our fellow human well is simply a matter of self interest, especially when that fellow human could potentially help you in the future. · While this does sound appealing, does a morality that evolved when people were living in small isolated groups still apply when we are living in a globalized world? What reason do I really have to help a starving child in Africa when that child is highly unlikely to help me in the future?

People would like to believe that human society requires the golden rule in order to function but there are many examples in history that show otherwise.

The Roman Empire was one of the most powerful in history. In addition to refining the Greek concept of democracy, they furthered science and philosophical thought while ruling over one third of the known world.

The Roman Empire was also largely powered by slave labour.

While we champion their accomplishments as a society we tend to ignore the colossal cruelty upon which Roman society was based.

Would the Coliseum or the many other Roman archaeological treasures scattered throughout Europe exist without the backbreaking slave labour that built them?

Probably not. Roman society seemed to function just fine without the golden rule, or maybe they just modified it to their own uses.

One of the leading political thinkers of their time was a man called Cicero. Cicero was a law-

yer and orator who campaigned tirelessly against the possibility that Rome would become a dictatorship. In his mind, the highest form of government was democracy, or the rule of the people, but those who could vote at that time included only a few men from the wealthy families that formed Rome's political elite. Cicero argued that if "the mob," or people in general, were to have their say , there would be chaos. Clearly they had an idea of democracy far different than that of today.

Judeo-Christian principals still have influence on our attitudes, despite the fact that we are a modern secular society, and people still seem to think that the golden rule is a good idea. Our society is built largely on the wage-slave labour of foreign workers, however, and we would not be able to maintain our North-American lifestyles without it.

It appears that we only tend to apply the golden rule within our own perceived communities like the Romans of old. Living in a globalized world, however, demands a wider application of this principal. I believe that people are intrinsically good and do want to do right by their fellow humans, but without a concerted effort we tend to fall into the status quo, and the status quo is now, and has always been, the opposite of the golden rule.

Christianityhelps shape Western individualism Nobel-winner Liu Xiaobo's fight is against Chinese government, history MICHAEL VEENEMAnese students gathered to rally for

INTERROBANG democratic change in China. The rally ended in bloodshed when LONDON, Ont. (CUP) - Liu the government ordered tanks to Xiaobo has a favourite book. It is move against the students.

The Castle by Franz Kafka, the tale Liu, who was a professor at the of one man's struggle against a till).e, helped to lead that student faceless and brutal bureaucracy. protest.

The faceless and brutal bureauIn the days that followed a van cracy the Nobel Laureate faces is crashed into him and he was arthe Chinese government and its rested, jailed and forced to sign a machinery. ' "letter of repentance." That was 20 Unfortunately, dictatorial bu- months of jail time. Later the aureaucracies are not faceless. They thorities imprisoned him for six are full of the faces of masters and months and then for three years. sub-servants who generate poliCurrently he is at the beginning cies and apply procedures. Man- of 11 more years of prison. His aged by, and filled with, humans crime this time is his involvement who are by no means faceless, in Charter 08. The Charter calls bureaucracies can generate evil for freedom of expression, elecand good according to the imagi- tion of government officials and nations of those at the top and the a judiciary that is independent of care or passive acquiescence of government regulation - all very those in the lower echelons. standard in our part of the world, Lui has been in trouble with the but considered a threat by the govChinese government since at least ernment of China.

1989.That was the year of TiananThe Chinese have a long past men Square. Thousands of Chi- that does not share some of the

the British Empire, for example, key features of Western history that have given rise to many per- came about directly because of the sonal freedoms and democracy. I political activism of evangelical Christians led by William Wilberdon't mean to disparage Chinese history; it is filled with impresforce. They regarded slavery as a sive events such as the discovery great evil that destroyed its Afriof gunpowder centuries before it can victims. made its way to Europe.

The absence of such thinking parts However, the emphasis in the in the non-Christianized West on human rights is not some- of the planet - such as where Isthing that is easily come by in Chi- -lam reigns or where nationalistic myths such as the one that used na. It took key events over a period of historical development. to fuel Japanese pride before the Both personal freedom and de- Second World War - makes it difmocracy have roots in a high view ficult for the authorities in those of the individual person. That parts of the world to allow much high view itself can be traced to freedom to individuals, courts, the thought of the two most obvi- businesses, churches and student ous branches of Christianity in the groups.

West: Catholicism and ProtestantThus, for example, the Chinese authorities and the Saudi governism.

Both of those see human per- ment would rather crush a few sonhood as a reflection of God. individuals than risk the chaos of If the individual is a reflection of individual choices with respect to God, it follows easily that every politics in China and religion in human being has dignity and has Saudi Arabia.

In Western countries for the the right to be treated respectfully. The nullifying of slavery in past 200 years, cultural leaders

have been questioning, and at times attacking, a Christian understanding of life. The effects of this are obvious. Whereas in earlier times it was rare to find someone who did not believe in the Christian god, today it is of course extremely easy to find agnostics, atheists and all manners of personal spirituality.

The rise of all of that is understandable, especially when you consider, for example, the sexual abuses and the abuses of authority in the Catholic Church over-the years.

However, we need to be cautious about, as the saying goes, throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Perhaps we can drain off the dirtied bathwater more carefully and keep the baby after all. If so, we will have a better chance of preserving and growing the human rights and dignities we have come to love here in Canada and throughout the Christianityinfluenced West.

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Stand Up for Mental Health SOPHIE ISBISTER STAFF WRITER You Can't Make Jokes About Suicide "Well yes I can," says Randy Goodchild. "I have at least 10 minutes until these pills kick in."

Randy Goodchild suffers from depression and cognitive distortions, but when you experience the side-splitting laughter that Goodchild and his fellow "crazy comedians" garner by getting on stage, you're tempted to think that comedy is something worth suffering for.

Over half of people suffering with mental illness do not seek help. The I Stand Up for Mental Health Campus Days National Campaign was started to bring attention and awareness about the effects of stand up comedy as a form of therapy that doubles as a way to entertain and educate the public. The University of the Fraser Valley's President Mark Evered was proud to introduce the afternoon of comedy in the Lecture Theatre on Tuesday, October 12, announcing his intentions to fight against stigma and discrimination. "Students need to care for their minds the way they care for their bodies - and not be embarrassed to seek help," says Evered in a related press release. "Together we can change public attitudes -and provide strong support for people living with mental illness."

Stand Up for Mental Health is a

program that does exactly this, by putting power (and microphones) in the hands of people with firsthand experience.

You would .think that people will mental illness -are the· least likely to perform ~tan:d up c6medy at campuses across Canada; ·But,

as Stand up for Mental Health's founder David Granirer has been known to say, you have to be nuts to do stand up comedy anyway.

The comedy-as-therapy workshops were founded in 2004 in Vancouver, by counselor, author and "crazy person" comedian

Granirer. From its beginnings at Langara College, Stand Up for Mental Health took off and now runs comedy clinics nationwide.

Granirer is the author of the book The Happy Neurotic,and he suffers from depression.

A common theme among Granirer and the six other performers was self medication, and specifically, marijuana use.

Granirer, acting as an MC to introduce each comic, kicked off the show by talking about the popular issue of legalization, making jabs at the rules that would come - with the freedom: "What do you mean my marijuana cafe has to be a smoke free environment?"

Granirer wrapped up quickly after introducing himself and his organization and gave the stage to Al Hassam, who claimed that St John's Wort sounds more like an SID you catch in Newfoundland than a natural remedy for depression.

After Hassam was David Slaughter, who started off with jokes about his gruesome sounding last name, and asserted that as a schizophrenic he should be allowed to serve on a jury because he was "more than capable of being 12 Angry Men." Comedians Suzie Vega, Randy Goodchild, Dave Kenett and Dallas DeLuca also performed, with an emphasis on jokes about depression, medication, stigma, and family relationships. Wry, sarcastic and

ELOW THE VIOLET HART $EXPERT Of all the fantasies, bondage arguably has one of the most diverse and, surprisingly, largest followings. Although many may associate bondage with BDSM, it is very commonly used in even the most conventional of sex lives. Why? It is because the fantasy of submission and dominance is, essentially, the groundwork for all sexual fantasy. This can be sorted out pretty easily into the "top-bottom" phenomena; generally, if you prefer top, you're dominant, and if you prefer bottom, you're submissive.

However, just because nearly everyone enjoys sexual play of submission/domination, does ·not mean everyone enjoys the painful and even violent extremities of BDSM. Light bondage isimmensely popular, usually involving sex toy classics such as handcuffs and blindfolds. It can be a lot of fun to stimulate the restrained person, especially using ticklers, vibrators, and, of course, your tongue.

Usually the person in restraints enjoys the feeling of helplessness

and being forced to experience sexual pleasure, while the dominant may enjoy the feeling of control as well as gratification from causing intense pleasure to his or her partner. Needless to say, a certain measure of trust is necessary for enacting this type of fantasy (not a highly suggested first date

manoeuvre), but its widespread appeal (no pun intended) makes this a fun and easy fantasy to try out.

While most people in the West use bondage to create the effect of immobility, the Japanese art of Kinbaku (known more often as Shibari in the West) is another

type of bondage that focuses more on the effect of the tied rope. In Kinbaku/Shibari, long lengths of rope are wound and tied into quite intricate and decorative looking patterns, sometimes used on the entire body or just specific areas, such as the arms. It is the strain and pressure of the ropes, espe-

sickeningly funny, the show rarely took a sad turn. The pride and confidence shown by the comics was commendable, but that didn't stop the audience from treating them like real comedians. There were groaners, jokes that got less laughs than others, but overall the show was full of quality quips about what these folks know best: being nuts.

At the end of the show, Granirer took the mic again, finishing off on a more serious note: society needs to be more open and accepting about mental illness. One in five Canadians will personally deal with mental illness at some point in their life. People need to feel safe to be open about their mental health at school, in the workplace and within all institutions. The shame associated with mental illness needs to be abolished, and a national discussion on mental illness needs to begin. UFV is proud to be a part of starting that discus-' sion. By taking p;art in Stand up for Mental Health's Campus Days Campaign, we got the ball rolling at our school. Everyone in attendance on Tuesday walked away with changed opinions and a few funny jokes rolling around in their heads.

To learn more about SMH Campus Days, visit www.standupformentalhealth.com, and stay tuned for information about SMH classes coming to UFV's Continuing Education in January.

LT dally on the breasts and genitals, that are the primary sources of pleasure.

Obviously, as a major component of BDSM, bondage can also take much more extreme. forms.

Aside from tying up a partner into painful positions, or inflicting pain while they are restrained, BDSM also has some pretty unique. techniques and accessories. Take, for instance, the monoglove, a type of armbinder that forces the hands behind the back into a single, tight-laced glove; or the St. Andrew's cross, an x-shaped cross attached to a wall to which a person is bound spread-eagle fashion.

Of course, this type of play can be dangerous and requires some safety practices, such as shifting positions at least once every hour to prevent circulation problems and the use of safety words. In fact, most cities have BDSM associations that put on workshops to show safe techniques. So if you're thinking about stepping up your bondage play, you may want to check these out or visit a website before you go home and dislocate your partner's shoulder!

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"Love in the Pneumatic Tube Era" by Jessica Grant

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h Canada, you have such quirky writers. And Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow is just the place to find many of them.

When I came across this little gem, it seemed almost too good to be true. Original short stories by Douglas Coupland, Jessica Grant, Yann Martel and Annabel Lyon all crammed into one collection? Oh, pinch me! But, there it was, rounded out by writers like Heather O'Neill, Lee Henderson and oh so many more.

So, once I stopped drooling long enough to open the cover, I was greeted by 23 short stories about the future. And not the depressing, dystopian 1984 future (although apocalypses and allaround depressing futures are aplenty here); no, this collection, explains ed:ltor Zsuzsi Gartner in the introduction, is fun. A warning: if you're not a fan of "cartoon characters" (as some stuck-up readers refer to Coupland's characters), you should probably pass on this collection; I acknowledge that not everyone drools over punny short fiction.

Since the only thing that seems to hold these stories together is the "What if?" idea, and since this is my review, I'll do a brief review of three stories from the collection.

Grant's recent novel, Come Thou Tortoise, was punny. Her short story, Love in the Pneumatic Tube Era, holds onto that same tone. The two lovers in her story work at Jiffy Lubes across the country. They were lovers as teenagers, but got separated as adults. Since travel has become ridiculously expensive, and the characters are separated by a continent, they keep in touch through messages shipped through , pneumatic tubes, and written on Jiffy Lube papers.

The beauty of Grant's writing is in her word play. With all seriousness, she writes "We gallop like the letter L," when describing the characters relationship. When reading her work, you can't help but imagine a wide-eyed Grant reading to you. But that's part of her charm.

"Survivor" byDouglasCoupland

The Dream Life of Toasters by Heather O'Neill Androids are such lonely creatures. There are stories abound about robots wanting emotions (or a heart), but this is a story about an android that actually experiences emotions.

Android 4F6 falls in love and gives birth. And she doesn't quite know what to do about it.

While the prose feels almost robotic, it's the little touches in description that make the story so endearing. Androids, unlike humans, don't wonder about their origins; they have the original grant application from 2015 requesting funding for robotics research.

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Yes, Coupland has written another apocalyptic story. But unlike Girlfriend in a Coma, there are no depressing, mystical ties to something bigger than humanity. This story is simple: a rather unlikable cameraman is filming Survivor. The world ends. Nobody knows why, although there is a rather eerie scene where a destroyed tanker floats by.

Coupland uses his typical wry wit with this story. The protagonist is a booze-driven horndog and has nothing but disdain for the contestants on the show. And he seems rather unconcerned with what happened to the world. All he's concerned with is sur-viving.

Vancouver Antiquarian Book Fair CHELSEA THORNTONand The Knife of Dreams by Robert

a dreamt-of copy of Hesse's SidSTAFFWRITER Jordan. dhartha when you have to contend There was a little bit of some- with jostling crowds cramped into ·This past weekend, October 15 thing for every taste, although overly small booths (the event atand 16, Vancouver hosted its not necessarily every budget. The tracted a surprisingly large crowd) Antiquarian Book Fair for the first price tags on some of the books and shelves that were often neiwere startling, reaching into the ther alphabetized nor categorized. time since 19~0.For its triumphant return, the fair was staged in the three and four thousand-dollar The fair was about more than basement of the Vancouver Public range. One book was rumored to old books; it also showcased old Library. The fair showcased over be selling for $10,000, although photographs, posters, advertise30 booksellers from across Cana- I never came across it. And that ments, and event listings. The da; although many were lo- _ vender from Montreal had cal, some came from as far brought along a small samaway as Winnipeg, Toronto pling of her collection of and Montreal, and the lone Vanity Fair caricatures, datAmerican representative ing back to the eighteenth · had traveled from Califorcentury. The magazine used nia. It's hard to imagine to be a weekly newspaper, and each edition would covering those kinds of disinclude a sketch of one of tances while lugging a minthe week's newsmakers. A iature bookstore. Amongst the more local representasmall poster advertising tives was Brian Murdoch, a reading by Charles Bukowski, circa 1968, arrested from Murdoch's Bookshoppe in Mission. my attention - somehow In principle, the fair ~ piece of 8xll inch paper sounded like a lit lover's was worth $250! dream - two large rooms Overall, the Vancouver packed full of first editions, Antiquarian Book Fair was rare copies, ancient texts exactly what you would and autographed books expect it to be: a bunch of essentially, a book nerd's book lovers milling around paradise. To a certain destalls filled with books both gree, the fair did fulfill the ordinary and exceptional. fantasy. I did manage to find some is where one of the major weak- For a book lover with deep pockincredible books: The Works of nesses of the fair arose: it was im- ets it would provide the perfect Chaucer from 1704, leather bound possible to know what each seller opportunity to find a few signifibeauties with pages that felt ready had available without slowly pe- cant additions to your library. For to crumble in your hands, a travel rusing through every book at ev- a student on a shoestring budget, ery booth. The fair would have - the five-dollar admission seems journal from the early seventeenth century, second printings of Ker- been much more accessible if a a fair price to pay for a fair that doubles as a book museum - you ouac's On the Road and Dharma catalogue of the sellers' merchanBums, as well as signed copies of dise had been made available. It don't have to buy the books to apis incredibly difficult to search for preciate them.

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render," sings Stuart Murdoch on the infectious album-opener "I Didn't See It Coming," succinctly summing up the mood shared

by Belle & Sebastian's recent sequence of pop-inspired LPs. On Belle & Sebastian Write About Love, the celebrated Scottish septet follow-up their most vigorous pop record, The Life Pursuit, by picking up where they left off nearly four years ago, albeit on a considerably mellower note.

The Life Pursuit producer Tony Hoffer returns for his second outing with the band, once again delivering a clean, full-bodied, 60'sinspired sound that is well-suited to the material, highlighting Belle & Sebastian's warm, melodic bass lines in particular.

Although Write About Love is more subdued than its predecessor, often trading in the fuzz bass for more introspective fare reminiscent of mid-90's Belle & Sebastian, band leader Stuart Murdoch & Co. seem more self-assured as can be seen in Mick Cooke's complicated arrangements and the band's ambitious song writing. Yet this newfound confidence does not always work to the band's advantage.

While many standout Life Pursuit tracks such as "White Collar Boy" and "Blues are Still Blue" achieved a delicate balance between Belle & Sebastian's undeniable pop instincts and tougher instrumentation, the latter half of that equation is noticeably missing on Write About Love. The results can be somewhat mixed.

Lead guitarist Stevie Jackson's frenetic, bubblegum composition "I'm Not Living in the Real World" fights a losing battle with the band's tween-pop sensibilities thanks in no part to its irritating flute overdub and hyperactive backing vocals. It is a track that is ultimately more cloying than clever or charming, which is a shame considering its remarkably strong chorus progression.

That said, the on]y other truly

weak spot on the record comes in the form of Norah Jones' questionable guest vocal on "Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John." Here, Jones' signature smoky vocals are completely underwhelming, turning a promising slow-burner of a torch song into an overlong sleeper.

All things considered, these few missteps can be overlooked on an album that usually hits the mark, delivering a collection of

mostly satisfying pop excursions filtered through Belle & Sebastian's uniquely intimate ensemble approach.

Highlights include "Write About Love," an expertly-crafted, hookheavy rumination on creativity worthy of The Left Banke and "Come On Sister" which hinges on the extensive use of analog synthesizers.

Elsewhere, Belle & Sebastian's indebtedness to classic UK indie acts shines through on "Sunday's Pretty Icons," an elegant singalong whose minorfilled chord progression echoes the jangle-guitar of early Morrissey solo records like Viva Hate.

The . seemingly effortless' brilliance of songs like "I Didn't See It Coming," "I Want the World to Stop" and the title track make the relatively minor failures of 'Tm Not Living in the Real World" and "Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John" particularly frustrating because they remind the listener of just how good Belle & Sebastian can be.

While Write About Love does not reach the same heights of pop perfection as The Life Pursuit or break much new ground for the band, it is hard to be too unforgiving of such a thoroughly listenable record, though it may prove to be more of a stop-gap between great albums for Belle & Sebastian.

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Punk music not over the hill D.O.A frontman proves thatpunkisn'tdead,justaged JOSH PARSONS THESILHOUETTE HAMILTON, Ont. (CUP) Anyone who is willing to suggest that punk is dead certainly hasn't been checking the concert listings this past year.

Most Canadian cities have seen the likes of iconic punk figureheads such as Johnny Rotten and Iggy Pop in the past few months, both with positive critical reception. So maybe punk is aged, but certainly not dead.

I was only further convinced of this when I had the opportunity to interview Joey "Shithead" - Keithley, the infamous frontman of Canada's most prized punk rock pioneers, D.O.A. If there is anything I learned from my conversation with Keithley, it is. that Vancouver's D.O.A are living proof that the punk rock ethic refuses to burn out. In fact, 30 years of nearly nonstop touring seems to have not phased the band at all.

"I think our focus is very sharp, you know, we pick out a plan and stick with it," said Keithley.

Their current tour had them in . five different Canadian provinces within a month.

D.O.A are Canada's seasoned veterans of punk rock who have toured the world and played over

3,000 concerts since 1978. Their release, Hardcore '81 is understood as the first reference to the punk sound as hardcore.

"When we came up with that term, because D.O.A were the first to use that kind of jargon on an album, hardcore was always referred to as hardcore pornography," Keithley explained. "It was the west coast sound . . . no frills, straightforward, hit-you-in-thehead punk rock."

D.O.A's 14th studio album, landed /in stores and online on May 1 and Keithley was confident with the overall sound.

"I think it's a good album, but you know, I think every artist

dent political activism. Over the decades, Keithley has been conscious to align himself with a variety of causes.

"We've done all sorts of things like benefits for people in prison, rape relief, Oxfam and tons of environmental issues," he said.

"Lately we've been working on a track for a compilation album with David Suzuki."

Keithley also manages Sudden Death Records, his own independent fabel, and says he launched it out of necessity.

"We started out in 1978 and we didn't have a label. We speculated amongst the three of us . . . and said, 'Everybody hates us, we'll who comes out with a new album never get a deal and we'll never thinks 'this is my best album ever,' get anywhere unless we do it ourand that's just not possible." selves.' It was the classic DIY." Written in only three weeks, the Sudden Death Records currentalbum stays true to D.0.A's home- ly has over 80 releases. grown hardcore sound while also Asked if he prefers one Canadicommentip.g on contemporary so- an city to another, Keithley finds cial issues. the band's fans to be pretty consis"Politically, it's sharp too, the tent in each province they play. album is kind of a philosophical "I know people get the imprescall to arms," said Keithley. sion that Toronto is really standWith songs that focus on topics offish, but that is not the case ... such as religion, the RCMP and those aren't the type of people living in a car, D.O.A. proves that that D.O.A [attracts]," he said. "We their new material is just as "un- draw curiosity seekers, political abashed, loud and obnoxious" as types and our own share of thrill ever. seekers and drunks."

But D.O.A's music has also }?eO.O.A is currently on a crossCOJ:?esynonymous with their ar- country tour.

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PAUL FALARDEAU TronLegacyTheme ARTS& LIFEEDITOR

You'reTooCool TheZolas This instantly catchy track sounds like it fits right into the tradition of bands like Cold War Kids, The New Pornographers and Modest Mouse. It's built for in car sing-a-longs and beachside hand waves. I suppose you'll only be able to do the former for a while.

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There it is: the name of the track you've heard in the background of umpteen million things and couldn't get out of your head go youtube it and se~ if you're thinking about what I am). The high pitch singing is a bit abrasive, so I don't recommend this song for chronic headache sufferers, but boy does the song redeem itself with that nifty synth riff. I don't recommend songs based on synth riffs often, so you know this is a good'un.

The first new material from Daft Punk since 2005 is to be released by Walt Disney Records (whose other acts include Hannah Montana). The new tracks, which comprise the soundtrack to the Tron sequel, are classic Daft Punk. Amidst the buzzy beats, the French duo fit seamlessly into today's electronic scene and show why they trailblazed the genre.

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From the 2009 album on which the Black Keys collaborate with several renowned rappers, this is a standout. The Keys provide some wicked organ-driven beats, and Dan Auerbach teams with Nicole Wray to crank out a soulful chorus between verses powerfully rapped

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t may surprise some of you to learn that I am a studious student type at this learning place. I started out as a Major in Gangster Rap Studies, but the department head said that I'm such a bad-arse gangster rudeboy that I was making everyone else look bad, so I stepped aside and took up a degree in History.

In the coursr of my History degree, I've learnt lots of interesting things - for example, in one of our classes we just learned that Jesus was black. And here I was, imagining some skinny white guy trying to convince a bunch of swarthy Arabs that he was the son of dog. Sorry, God. But I digress - in fact, I don't digress. Well, I do, but consciously.

I rarely digress accidentally, but instead take you on these twisty, windy turns to nowhere on porpoise. And purpose.

And it's all because I need to fill my word count. It's terrible, isn't it?

But it is what it is - I need cocaine.

Sweet, sweet cocaine. And the only way to get my (sweet, sweet) cocaine is to turn this mangled, squishy brain into thoughts I can think onto paper, so you can take those thoughts and mash them into your eyes. From there you will squeeze those eye-words into your brain, where you can find some room for them right next to that porno you filed away for the next long night alone.

Anyway, I should probably get to my point; Lord knows I should have a point. Our fledgling generation is, occupying a very strange space in time. We're a generation which has been promised the world - we've got all the shiny gadgets and doohickeys we want,

our education systems allow us to get degrees (which will mean nothing because every single other person in the world has a degree now), and we've got the keys to the future locked up in our brains like some torture scene in one of the Saw movies. In short, we've got it made.

Only we haven't. We're curiously suspended in time, rocking back and forth on our haunches, the ghost outside of the shell. We're out getting our educations, planning for our careers, our trophy husbands/wives, our snivelling, little, shit children and the looming possibility of global meltdown for a whole host of reasons. Fossil fuel, anyone? Do help yourself.

You know why we're sus-

pended in time? The bloody babyboomers. Yeah, those guys. They came along, right after World War Two, and proceeded to stink up the place: they catalysed groundbreaking social changes which we take for semi-granted; they were the vanguard of the new world after the horrors of two devastating conflicts in one generation; they saw rock and roll, Kennedy (including his brains all over Dealey Plaza), the fall of the Soviet Union, etc, etc. They've been through all this, but somehow it doesn't matter to us young 'uns. We just want a freaking job.

None of us can get any good jobs because those bloody baby boomers are taking up all the workplace. Our entire generation

is like buzzards circling round the body of a wandering vagrant who refuses to keel over and die. Every time he keels to one side we prepare ourselves to peck at his eyes and eat his distended belly, but the bastard always rights himself and totters on, uncomprehending of the starving animals hovering over his bonce. Until then, we just have to keep circling, and some of us are getting bloody hungry up here.

Once the baby boomers do start retiring in large numbers, there's going to be one hell of a void in the job market, and hopefully us young whippersnappers can peck at some eyeballs and fight over tasty entrails. It's going to be an interesting time, undoubtedly- all

of us pissing and moaning about having no jobs are suddenly going to be faced with a yawning chasm in the workplace which we're going to have to fill Once presented with that which we've moaned and moaned about, how will we handle it?

Will the Prime Minister of our generation appoint a Minister of Skinny Jeans? Will we substitute the United Nations councils for Facebook pages? "OMFG, genocide in Rwanda. Totally not LMFAO", "Trade sanctions against N Korea -:-the U.S. likes this", "Great Britain has joined the group 'let's bomb the life out of another Arab country,' started by Halliburton."

What will be the major technological innovation of our generation? An iPhone application which is another iPhone - the iParadox?

You know what, those jammybastard baby boomers will probably find the Fountain of Eternal Youth the day before we all get those sweet jobs, and they'll hang on to them for eternity. We'll be forced to take up jobs chewing pieces of broken glass for the entertainment of our newly immortal masters, before they cast us out of society altogether like common circus freaks.

Our only option will be armed insurrection. However, we'd be crap at violent revolution - our frontline troops would be texting every five minutes and uploading photographs of slain enemies to our friends, "WL, this guy has 2 kidz @ home! Long w8 4 daddy!"

In the process of updating our status ("Corey is pinned down by heavy machine-gun fire") we'd get our bastard heads blown off ("Corey is newly deceased - 17 people -, like this") and the baby boomers would finally and literally fulfil their alliterative title.

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Movie Review Never LetMeGo SOPHIE ISBISTER STAFFWRITER

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based on the novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro, is a British dystopian drama-romance directed by Mark Romanek, a prolific music video director who took a turn to feature films with 2002's One Hour Photo.Never Let Me Go employs the same sparse cinematography as Romanek's other film, but that's where the similarities end. The film enjoys nuanced performances from Kiera Knightly, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield and had its Canadian premier at the Toronto Film Festival.

Never Let Me Go is not your usual dystopia. There are no explosions, no Cormac McCartheyesque nuclear winters and bleak surrounds. The only indication that things may be awry for characters Kathy (Mulligan), Ruth (Knightley) and Tommy (Garfield) is the tone set by the muted blue, green and grey colours that populate this devastatingly beautiful film.

Initially, we meet the main character Kathy H as an adult, but through her narration we are taken into the past, into her memories. The first half of the film surrounds the characters as children (played by brilliantly-casted child actors who could conceivably grow up to be Mulligan, KnightJey and Garfield impersonators), _ living in rural boarding school Hailsham, in the English countryside. The children sing in unison, never go outside the boundaries of the property, and in addition to learning their three r's, they roleplay interactions that would take place in the outside world instead of actually participating in them.

Through heavy-handed devices, the viewer quickly learns that Hailsham students are "special."

They are living, breathing organ factories, cloned from the otherwise invisible "dregs of society" (prostitutes, vagrants) for the purpose of giving organs as "donations" in their adult lives. For the rich who can afford this- luxury, the future painted by the film seems appealing: no cancer, no illness and life expectancies that soar above a hundred years.

Instead of focusing on the broader implications of this political decision on the part of policy makers (where are the civil liber-

ties groups in all of this?), the story accepts the status quo and wisely follows the simple but emotionally-wrought love triangle between the three main characters. Kathy loves Tommy; Ruth and Kathy are best friends, but Ruth is spiteful and jealous of Kathy, so she steals the emotional Tommy, thwarting a very real love that could have blossomed between Kathy and Tommy.

The three children grow up together and turn into young adults.

They are moved to The Cottages, a place where they wjll live with other youth like them. Clad in droopy wool clothing, they make

for a sad looking lot, and plenty of brooding whilst looking out windows at the rainy English countryside ensues.

The central question of the film is modest. Simply, are these children, who were created in a lab, actually human? Are they able to love? This question has already been answered by civil society in the film, and is evidenced by the way people from outside Hailsham and The Cottages treat the children, as well as by the casual grace with which the children accept their place in life. Delivery men shy away from them and treat them like aliens. The children

don't get real toys; instead, they buy junk (broken dolls, old cassette tapes, dirty teddy bears) with tokens (tiddly-winks) at periodical "toy sales" that are put on by school administrators. When, as youth, they venture into town in their odd attire and have no idea what to order at .a diner, people stare. The film shows passionate and complex emotions between the three main characters, slamming the viewer with the sad reality of the lives of these protagonists.

Ten years after they leave The Cottages, Kathy is working as a Carer (someone who provides comfort to the donors) and waiting to begin her own donations.

She sees Ruth at the hospital. Ruth is on her second donation and in very poor health, but, determined to redeem herself for her childhood spite, she convinces Kathy to reconnect with Tommy. Following their reunion, the new couple sets out to find some answers to an oft-whispered rumour from Hailsham, the rumour that if two people were "truly in love," they could put off their donations for a few years, and live together like a "proper couple."

This stunning film is a reminder that perhaps the worst dystopia is the one that looks civilized, yet is rife with institutionalized cruelty. The film reminds society how far we could go in our quest to achieve perfection and long life, but more importantly, the short but blissful romance Kathy and Tommy share with each other reminds the viewer to take and enjoy the small amount of happiness that is given in our tumultuous lives.

Movie Review Nowhere Boy BRITIANY WIESNER buster Kick Ass, and his portrayal STAFFWRITER of John Lennon is phenomenal.

His ability to immerse himself in the role is incredible; he becomes owhere Boy is a British-Canadian biopic about John Len- John Lennori - it is obvious he was non's teenage years, the formation emotionally invested in the character. All of the actors were imof his first band, The Quarrymen, and his relationship with his pressive: Thomas Brodie Sangster mother and his aunt Mimi. While even learned to play guitar leftit was released in the UK in De- handed to play Paul McCartney. cember of 2009, it was just recently Anne-Marie Duff captured the up released in North America. and down nature of Julia, displayNowhere Boy stars Aaron John- ing her wild emotions in a unique son as John Lennon, Thomas Bro- and honest way. die Sangster as Paul McCartney, The cinematography in the Kirstin Scott Thomas as Mimi and film is brilliant. The director, Sam Anne-Marie Duff as John's moth- Talyor-Wood, has a history of exer Julia. It was directed by Sam cellence in her fine arts career and Taylor-Wood and semi-based on a has worked with various types of memoir by John's sister Julia Baird. media. Nowhere Boy is her direcThe-memoir is titled Imagine This: torial debut, and she did a fine Growing Up With My Brother John job. The shots are all interestLennon. However, the film cred- ing and beautiful. Moments are its don't reference the book they heightened by the way the_camera just credit the screen writer Matt moves, or the places it pauses. It was filmed on location in LiverGreenhalgh.

The film follows Lennon's tur- pool, which is the perfect backbulent relationship with the two drop for this biopic. Sometimes predominant female figures in his period dramas come off phoney life: his Aunt Mimi and his mother, and are missing elements. However, the filmmakers were able to Julia. It focuses on his introduction to rock n' roll, his growing love take the audience straight into the of music and the confusing emo- heart of 1950's Liverpool. The costions these entail. Aaron Johnson tumes and setting are perfect and is a talented up and comer, having convey the lifestyle of the people stared in the pre-summer block- of the era. The film even cleverly

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adds the elements of the growing popularity of Elvis Presley and other rock n' roll pioneers.

Nowhere Boy introduces us to a John Lennon we've never met; the boy before the Beatles, before Yoko and before he became a beacon of almost universal and enduring respect and popularity. Nowhere Boy portrays an intimate. glimpse at Lennon's relationships and how they shaped his personality, especially the troubles and abandonment of his mother and the unfailing love of the woman who ultimately raised him - his aunt Mimi. We also get to see the beginnings of Lennon's musical career, the formation of The Quarrymen, how Lennon learned to play the guitar and banjo, the growing friendship of Lennon and McCartney and Lennon's love of art. It's such a treat to be able to watch a film that entails all that. Any fan of John Lennon should immediately see this film.

- What's interesting is that The Beatles are never once mentioned in the film, and no Beatles song is ever played. The only solo Lennon song played and sung by him is the song "Mother" which plays during the credits. It truly is an excellent film th<\~you can't miss.

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Shoot on Sight First Feature at sixth Ehsaas South Asian Film Festival JOEL SMARTof the Fraser Valley. The film was SPORTS EDITOR played at 6:30 p.m. on October 13 to an audience in BlOl, the theatre On July 7, 2005, terrorist bomb- near the cafeteria at the UFV Abings in London rocked the post- botsford campus. The theme of the 9/11 world and sent a frenzy of festival this year is "related to the panic and anger through much of September 11 terrorist attacks on the world. Unfortunately, some of New York City," according to the that anger was misplaced. Mus- CICS. lims became victims of discrimiThe 2007 film is about a Muslim nation in an unprecedented way. police officer, Tariq Ali, who finds Shoot on Sight is based on the himself on both sides of the issue, true story of the accidental killing as he is tasked to help hunt down of Jean Charles de Menezes by the terrorist threats, while also endurLondon police that occurred two ing criticism and discrimination weeks after the bombings. How- due to his ethnicity and religious ever, the story is fictional; it deals views. The way Ali is forced to with the way that discrimination see both the discrimination angle harmed innocent fyluslims, while and the security angle gives the simultaneously acknowledging film a complexity and depth that that there are Muslim extremists makes it ideal for critical analysis. that still pose a threat to the secu- Though the film deals with some tough subjects, it also has a lot of rity of the public at large.

This was the film and topic of action, which makes it captivating the first of four films that are to to watch. There were a few plot make up the sixth annual Ehsaas twists that were a little unbelievSouth Asian Film Festival, put on able, but it didn't detract from the by the Centre for lndo-Canadian message of the £nm.

Studies (CICS) at the University After it was over, a brief discus-

sion took place among viewers in the theatre. The discussion, led

by Sharanjit Sandhra, focused on the intensity of the film, and on how unfortunate it is that some children are still being raised into thinking they must become suicide-bombers and martyrs.

The film festival continues for three more Wednesdays, as Of Land, Labour and Love airs on Wednesday, October 20. This film deals with the exploitation of the tribal peasants of Dasmanthpur in Orissa, India.

Next week, on Wednesday, October 27, the 2009 film New York airs, which tells the story of three friends who are accused of causing the 9/11 attacks due to their Indian heritage. The friends are all students at the fictional New York State University. The film deals with the prejudice that occurred in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.

Then two weeks after New York, the festival wraps up with A Dreamfor Kabul on Wednesday,

November 10. The documentary follows the life of Haruhiro Shiratori, a man who lost his son in 9/11 and travels across three continents speaking about the hardships children in Afghanistan have faced, fundraising to build a cultural centre in Kabul for the kids.

Each of the films will take

place at 6:30 p.m. on its respective Wednesday in room Bl0l on the Abbotsford campus. Admission is free, but the CICS says that donations are welcome. Students and non-students are encouraged to attend and to participate in the dis~ussion after the film.

ChannelSurling Channel Surfing JUSTIN ORLEWICZ

familiar showgirl while searching for Jimmy in A.C. BoardwalkEmpire airs Sundays at 8:00 p.m. on HBO.

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Jersey Shore So, season two of Jersey Shore:Miami (I know the title makes absolutely no sense, but it's a Jersey thing) is coming to an end, and I know that you are all sad. Next Thursday will be the last episode of season two, and then we probably won't see these very rich Guido's acting a fool for at least another year. Maybe if I start having withdrawal I can start tanning and grenade hunting on Thursdays; I will need to get some sort of regular GTL going on until season three.

The season two finale is at 7:00 p.m. and 10:bo p.m. this Thursday on MTV. It should be a beauty.

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BoardwalkEmpire.So far Jimmy has been banished from Atlantic City and has been forced to team up with a young Al Capone to bootleg in Chicago. The two of them are climbing the ranks quickly on the streets of Chicago and getting

Boardwalk Empire It's only five episodes deep, but things are starting to heat up on

themselves into all sorts of trouble.

Nucky is trying to bribe his senator friend into building roads into Atlantic City so that his Bootlegging operation can prosper even more. Meanwhile, Lucky Luciano has been courting an older and

Kenny Powers is dominating the Mexican Baseball League and still struggling with the fact that he is becoming an ass man when he has always been known as being a tit man. He has also learned that his new chicka has a young boy, and he has dubbed himself as a father figure for the kid. It also seems that Steve will be striking up a relationship during his Mexican adventure with the nurse that lives downstairs. She has been changing his bandages since Kenny shot him in the leg after mistaking him for an intruder. Kenny has also formed a bit of a relationship with the millionaire owner of the Charro's.

East Bound and Down airs on Sundays at 9:30 p.m. on HBO.

games are perhaps the ultimate nerd fantasy, but they do exist. In fact, there are a lot of them, and they aren't all interested in playing Barbie's Magical Adventure either. With the incredible popularity of Worldof Warcraft,it should be no surprise that a large number of the players of that game are women. Partners that raid together stay together, apparently. Actually, it is a bit silly to begin naming games that girls enjoy playing, because, not surprisingly, women's tastes in gaming are just as varied and diverse as men's tastes are.

If a woman is interested in im: proving her relationship by including gaming as part of their together time, I do applaud the effort. Perhaps a-helpful tip, though, is to choose the game wisely. It is

worth taking the time to find a game that both will enjoy playing.

Nothing will ruin the mood faster than having the more experienced gamer win 30 straight matches of Halo.

If you're new to gaming, it might be worth suggesting a game with easy controls and cooperative play. LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation 3 is a great game for beginners to try, as it has a light atmosphere and a good balance between working together while still remaining a little competitive. The Wii also has a number of fun party games for partners to try together.

The motion controls make the Wii a good choice, as it can really lower the learning curve for many games. The PlayStation Move also has motion controls, which could

Rescue Me Rescue Me has begun it's sixth season in Canada on the Showcase network, despite the fact that it has already aired on the FX network in the United States. The show chronicles the way a New York City firehouse and fire fighters cope with life following the events that transpired on 9/11. The show's lead star is Dennis Leary, who plays TomllJ-yGavin - an alcoholic firefighter who sees the ghosts of all the victims he failed to save.

You can catch Rescue Me Wednesday at 10:00 p.rn. on Showcase.

Or if you are impatient like me, you can watch it online on various sites, such as TV Shack, Surf the Channel and almost every other internet pirate television site.

Cascadelrcade Cosmo recommends girlsploytoo JOEL SMART SPORTS EDITOR

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n the November 2010 issue of Cosmopolitan,the women's magazine suggested that women should try playing video games with their male partners as a way to improve relationships. A better reason for women to play, though, would be because games are awesome.

Cosmo cited a three-year-old UK survey (done by a game rental service) that showed women who played games were more likely to have sex than women who didn't; women who played games had sex four times a week, versus three times for the rest.

Firstly, that is the definition of a biased survey. Secondly, while I would not argue with the prem-

ise that a girl who enjoys playing video games is probably more attractive to a partner who enjoys gaming as well, I highly doubt it would increase the intimacy of a relationship if a girl suddenly pretended to have the same interests as her partner in order to get more sex.

Girls who enjoy playing video

make playing together more fun too. The Xbox 360 will also have motion controls when it releases the Kinect on November 4. As you grow accustomed to playing together, you could incorporate some more challenging games as well. Don't be afraid to rent a few games before buying them to see if they're fun for both of you.

While I think the recommendation for girls to get their game on is a good one, I really think they should try playing a few games just for themselves, rather than simply playing as part of a relationship-improvement · strategy.

After -developing an appreciation for gaming, though, playing together could be the perfect addition to a relationship. Just remember, it's only a game.

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Canucks stuck in the middle after five JOEL SMART SPORTS EDITOR

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f a possible ten points in the season, the Canucks have five points. After an overtime loss in their first game, they have won two games and lost just as many.

Over the course of five games, the team has managed to look really good and really bad. While they haven't blown fans away with their play just yet, it is likely due to the fact that the new lines and partnerships are going to take a bit of work before they really begin to click.

Perhaps due 'to their early exit from the playoffs last year as a result of the Canucks, the Los Angeles Kings have caused painful losses to the Canucks in two very different ways. In the first game of the season, the Kings hurt Vancouver fans by coming back to win right at the end of the game.

In the most recent affair, the Canucks were simply outplayed in every facet of the game, losing an agonizing 4-1. In the Friday night affair, Vancouver played a sloppy first period that saw them down by one. A strong second period would have made all the difference, but the Canucks came out and played even worse. The two goal deficit going into the third seeme9 impossible, and ultimately it was.

Luckily, a home game against the Carolina Hurricanes made all the difference, as the Canucks

took a 5-1 victory, even with their young back-up goalie Cory Schneider in net. He made some huge saves early in a 32 save performance and was a valuable asset in the win. Mason Raymond replaced Mikael Samuelsson on the top line, and both players took advantage of the aifferent line combinations. Samuelsson had three points on the night, while Raymond scored a couple of goals.

Ryan Kesler has been struggling so far this season. He didn't look himself in the preseason, and he was missing chances and looking snake bitten in each of his first five games. He even hit a crossbar on a wide-open net early in the game against the 'Canes. The early drought came to an end, though, as he scored a power play goal for

the team with just under six minutes left in the game. I hope his first goal of the season will inspire more confidence in his game.

He had a great game overall, winning face-offs and blocking shots on the penalty kill.

Manny Malhotra also had an amazing night in the face-off circle, winning an unbelievable 15 of 16 draws. The Canucks were also a perfect 6-6 on the penalty kill. The Sedin twins have gotten off to an amazing start, with seven points a piece in five games.

All seven of Henrik Sedin's points have come in the form of assists, as opposed to Daniel, who has put four pucks in the net. Seven players on the team have scored goals, with Mason Raymond and Christian Erhhoff the only two besides Daniel to score multiple goals. The Sunday night game against the Hurricanes increased the team's scoring from seven goals on the season to 12, a much needed increase in offensive output. If the Canucks can continue to get secondary scoring while playing soundly on defence, they should find more results like the game against Carolina and fewer like those against Los Angeles. ,I

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he Abbotsford Heat opened up their Second AHL season on the road with a 3-2 shootout win against the Grand Rapids Griffins. Goals for the Heat came from Carter Bancks and Matt Keith, while Staffon Kronwall had the shootout winner.

The Heat then traveled to Milwaukee to play the Admirals, where they got their first loss of the season. The final score was 6-2, Greg Nemisz and Cam Cunning scored the only goals for the Abbotsford team. After only one day of rest, the Heat faced off against the Marlies in Toronto, making this their third game in four nights. It didn't seem to faze the Heat, as they went on to Beat the Marlies 3-2, with goals coming from Keith, Nemisz and Cunning.

After starting the season ,with three games on the road, the Heat had three days of rest before their home opening weekend series with the Rockford Ice Hogs. To 5,341 home fans, the Abbotsford Heat unveiled a very different looking team than they had on the ice last season, with all sorts of theatrics and special guests to kick off the new season. Unfortunately, the Rockford Ice Hogs spoiled the Heat home opener by blowing them oul 5-0. The Heat didn't go down without a fight, though, as

the fans were treated to three great fights. Two of them ended heavily in favour of the Heat combatant.

The following night the Heat came out with a little more spark against the Ice Hogs and took the game to overtime and eventually a shootout. They would ultimately lose again, but this time in a much more respectable fashion. The final score was 4-3 with the Heat's goals coming from John Armstrong, Matt Keith and the local boy Keith Seabrook.

This year's team is missing a lot of its pieces from last year's second round playoff team. Jason Jaffray has been traded to the Anaheim Ducks and is now playing in their farm system. To make matters worse, because of the dismal roster of the Calgary Flames, both Mikael Backlund and Brett Sutter have been called up to play with them. Garth Murray and Carson Germyn have also signed with

hilliwack Bruins forward Ryan Howse is continuing to impress early in the WHL season.

On Saturday night, the Calgary Flames third round draft pick led Chilliwack over the Vancouver Giants with a "natural hat-trick" in the second period of a 6-3 win.

The three goal performance was his second in just nine games this season. Howse's first goal came 7:59 into the second period on a 5-on-3 man advantage. Thirtynine seconds later he struck again on the power play. He followed this up with his third goal a mere 19 seconds after that, completing other teams. To put it simply, there are a lot of new faces in the Ab- the "natural hat-trick." The hatbotsford locker room. trick was completed in only 58 seconds!

Lucky for the Heat, they had While you may think that this a lot of injuries during last year's season and playoffs which forced must be a WHL record for the fastest hat-trick ever, it's not. The fastthem to call up some of their est recorded hat-trick in the WHL ECHL and CHL prospects, who performed marvelously at the end was scored by Jim Harrison of the of the season and in the playoffs. Estevan Bruins in just 24 seconds Most of the lcids that were called on Dec. 4, 1966.Although this was not the fastest in league history, it up last season have now earned themselves full time spots on the was the fastest in Chilliwack BruHeat this season. Some of the new ins history. All this considered, youngsters to watch for are Lance scoring three goals in a 58 second Bouma, Carter Bancks, Mitch span is an impressive, if not unbeWahl and Jon Rheault. The Heat lievable, feat. also acquired AHL journeyman . The Bruins' top line - comprised of the "Three R's," of Ryan and local boy Matt Keith.

Howse, Roman Horak and Robin The Abbotsford Heat have now got three road games before they Soudek - continues to impress. return home on October 25 for a Howse brought his goal total up series with the Rochester Amerito an impressive 14 in nine games, cans. The Heat's record is 2-2-0-1, good for best in the WHL so far. and they sit fpurth in the Northern Roman Horak has six goals and Division. seven assists in eight games so far.

Robin Soudek had two goals and two assists in the game against the Giants to boost his total so far to 12 points in nine games. The Bruins' first line is showing no signs that it will slow down any time soon.

Bruins defenseman Brandon Manning has also been a dominating force on the ice. Since he was returned to Chilliwack by the New York Rangers, he has scored three goals and nine assists in seven games. Manning's 12 points in seven games makes him the leading scorer among defencemen in the WHL so far this season. Brandon Manning finished the 2009-10 WHL season eighth among defencemen in scoring, sci his push for the top is a welcome and expected development. It is a trend that the Bruins hope will continue all season long.

The Chilliwack Bruins also made a roster move earlier in the week. Twenty-year-old left-winger Shayne Neigum was released by the team. The roster move was necessitated by the existence of the WHL overage player limit. In the Western Hockey League each team is only allowed a maximum of three 20-year-old players on their roster. The Bruins had four 20-year-olds on their roster and made the cut before the deadline date. Sticking with the team are 20-year-old defencemerr Jeff Einhorn, and the aforementioned Brandon Manning, in addition to Bruins starting goaltender Lucas Gore. Shayne Neigum played in 76 games for the Bruins recording 11 goals and 13 assists.

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JUSTIN ORLEWICZsimilar last season; they built up a

SPORTS EDITOR huge lead at the beginning of the season and slowly fell into that t's been just over a week of NHL eighth and final playoff spot. The hockey and look who is lead- Leafs have a stacked blue line, ing the Eastern Conference with a and with Clark Macarthur and 4-0-0-1 record- the Toronto Maple Phil Kessel on pace for a career Leafs. Despite of a couple of close season, I think that this season's Maple Leafs could definitely emugames, the Maple Leafs managed late the same pattern the Colorado to hold to a perfect record, which includes a convincing win against Avalanche did. They will probably Sidney Crosby and the mighty have a first round exit, but I expect Pittsburgh Penguins. them to at least make the playoffs Now, I know what you are this season.

The Canucks started their forthinking: "this won't last, and they will be in the league cellar soon" - tieth season with two losses to but maybe not. Remember the Col- the Los Angeles Kings, but I don't . think that Canucks fans have to orado Avalanche did something

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start acting all Vancouver-like and write the season off. The Canucks had two convincing wins already and are cruising with a .500 record. As well, the Sedin twins have put up points in almost every game and are on pace for a similar season to last year's. Besides, these Canucks are also known for starting slow and then coming on strong at the end of the season when the playoffs are close and points really matter. So don't start slicing your wrists yet Canucks faithful, they will probably finish at the top of the Western Division and make a sei,::iousrun at the Cup. The Detroit Red Wings look

deadly this year. It reminds me of the Detroit team of a couple years back. This could be scary. The Red Wings will most likely finish on top of the West again; alongside the Canucks. Johan Franzen is out with a concussion, but I don't think it is an injury that will keep him out for long. His return will definitely be a factor in whether or not Detroit will be successful this year.

Despite losing half of their key players in the off season, Chicago still looks impressive. Marian Hossa looks especially impressive.

He has an early start in the scoring race and is currently leading the

league in goals as well as points. It is still way too early to tell if they can defend their title, though.

Last thing for the first week of NHL hockey, I would like to give a' shout out to Brian Gionta. The Montreal Canadiens recently appointed the American their new captain, and like every other Anglophone to ever wear the "C" or coach the Hahs, he has decided to take French lessons so that he· can address the French media. He also stepped up big time in front of the home crowd and scored a beautiful breakaway goal to start the game off. Mad props to Brian Gio11ta!

SaskatoonHuskiesdropthe Cascadesin soccer The Cascades started their JOEL SMART find the net. The Huskies scored SPORTS EDITOR 80 minutes into the game. The game against the Huskies very winning goal was Saskatchewan's poorly, playing slow and sloppy. n men's soccer, the University of Josh Northey's second goal of the As a result, the Saskatchewan game, swiftly maneuvering the team took advantage just five Saskatchewan Huskies topped the UFV Cascades 2-1 in Saska- ball past UFV's goaltender Colton minutes in and kept the pres- · toon, Saskatchewan. The UFV de- Kearn, of Langley. UFV head coach sure on UFV's defence. By half feat dropped the Cascades Canada time, the Cascades were two Alan Errington was impressed West regular season record to 2-8- with the effort, despite the result: goals down. But Ellen Kuyer, "[It was] a good performance to- of Surrey, gave the UFV team 0. The Cascades, currently sitting in sixth place, trail the fourth place· ·day-and a step in the right direc- - a chance when she scored five Huskies by 11 points this season. tion. However, we still seem to minutes into the second half There are only four games remainon a feed from Carly Neeson, come up short." ing for the Cascades, all home The women's soccer club was of Maple Ridge. The Cascades games at Bateman Park. also unsuccessful against the Hus- kept the pressure on, but could The Cascades gave up the first kies, who beat the UFV team 3-1. not turn their "loose ball" wins goal to the Huskies seven minutes The defeat caused them to fall to or six corner kicks into any into the game. Shortly afterward, goals to tie the match. Saskatchsixth place in Canada West standthe UFV team began to put pres- ings, the same as the men's team. ewan put a stop to the attemptsure on the Saskatchewan team The loss, which also occurred ed comeback with·· a victoryand began to control the play in in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, clinching third goal 78 minutes midfield. Their hard work paid off dropped the Cascades to 4-5-1. into the game. UFV head coach 27 minutes into the game as Brent The Cascades now trail Saskatch- Rob Giesbrecht was unhappy Wantke, a third year Criminology with the result, despite the ewan by two points and Calgary major from Langley, scored the ty- by a single point for the fourth and strong effort in the second half ing goal off a corner that the Hus- final postseason berth. Like the of the game. "It's disappointkies failed to dear. In the second men's team, the Cascades will play ing to come out flat in such a half of the game, UFV continued their four remaii;iing home games big game," said Giesbrecht. "In to pressure the Huskies. Josh At- in the "friendly confines" of Bate- the second half we picked it up, ebe, of Mission, came close with a man Park. The team will need to however we could not turn the header that went over the net. Stu- have more team points than the hard work into goals." art Rowlands, from Chilliwack, Huskies in order to claim the last had Diakiw beaten, but couldn't playoff spot.

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Oct 14: UFV vs. CBC W 111-68 Oct 16: UFV vs. Laurentian W 89-61

Oct 3: UFV vs. Kwantlen W 9340 Oct 14: UFV vs. Lethbridge L 55-33

Oct 24: UFV vs. Portland Bible C @ EAC @ 1:00 p.m.

Oct 15: UFV vs. Capilano C W 67-65

Oct 29: UFV vs. Manitoba @ EAC@ 8:00 p.m.

Oct 29: UFV vs. Manitoba @ EAC@6:00 p.m.

Oct 30: UFV vs. Manitoba @ EAC @ 7:00 p.m.

Oct 30: UFV vs. Manitoba @ EAC @ 5:00 p.m.

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Oct 9: UFV vs. Victoria W 3-0

Oct 9: UFV vs. UBC W 4-3

Oct 16: UFV vs. Alberta L 5-1

Oct 16: UFV vs. Alberta L 2-0

Oct 17: UFV vs. Saskatchewan L 2-1

Oct 17: UFV vs. Saskatchewan L 3-1

Oct 23: UFV vs. TWU@ Bateman Park@ 2:15 p.m.

Oct 23: UFV vs. Manitoba @ Bateman Park@ 12:00 p.m.

Oct 24: UFV vs. UBC (alumni day)@ Bateman@ 2:15 p.m.

Oct 24: UFV vs. Regina (alumni day)@ Bateman @ 12:00 p.m.

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NFL week six in review TREVORFIKfield against a desperate-to-win STAFFWRITER Dallas Cowboys squad at the Metrodome in Minnesota on Sunday. ith the October 19 trade The Vikings, fresh off a devastatdeadline happening on the ing loss to the New York Jets the cusp of week six, NFL action was week before, relied primarily on reduced to background noise as their defensive efforts and a Percy talk between football pundits and Harvin 95-yard kick-off return touchdown to go up 24-21. analysts intensified over whether With all hope of a playoff apany big deals would be made in pearance dwindling after a 1-4 the coming 48 hours.

Leading up to week six, some start, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has confirmed that he will not potentially season changing trades had been made by teams make any midseason personnel desperate for a quick fix, as game changes. However, he noted the results spiraled quickly out of "discipline problems" stemmed control. The biggest trade of the from a lack of firm leadership, week came in the form of a win- shifting the blame to head coach less squad shipping away one of Wade Phillips.

The Cowboys are easily the their most promising players in exchange for a chance at better for- train wreck story of the season. tunes in years to come. With run- The problem comes back to discining back Marshawn Lynch head- pline, and the mounting penalties ing to the Seattle Seahawks from that the team racks up each game. the Buffalo Bills in exchange for They are not short on talent at any a fourth-round draft pick in 2011, position; all the Cowboys need to and a conditional pick in 2012, it is do to really get back into the seaclear the Bills have said goodbye son is to cut down on the number to this year and are content to fo- of yards lost to stupid calls and, emotional reactions. cus on next year's squad.

Lynch, who has proven to be On the opposite side of the as much of a problem off the field spectrum, the New York Jets apas a star on it, made his presence pear to be unstoppable, after capping off a 24-20 win against the felt in the Seahawks game against Chicago on Sunday. Lynch ran for Denver Broncos on Sunday after44 yards on 17 carries in the Se- noon. Down 20-17 with just over ahawks 23-20 win at Solider Field a minute to play in the game, Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez threw in Chicago, adding a touchdown up a pass that saw Jets' receiver in a game that saw him reunited Santonio Holmes and Denver with Justin Forsett, his roommate cornerback Renaldo Hill scramat the University of California.

In other NFL action, the team ble for the ball near the two yard that turned the league upside line. Termed the "Rock Mountai_n_ down last week with its acquisi- Miracle" by ESPN writer Rich Cition of Randy Moss took to the mini, the pass interference call on

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Hill that followed allowed the Jets to get into a great field position and for LaDainian Tomlinson to pound in his second touchdown run of the game for the Jets to go 5-1 on the season.

Other notable action around the league saw a couple of teams squeeze out overtime victories in both New England and, Green Bay. Considered the best team in the NFL by many around the league, the Baltimore Ravens played like future Super Bowl champions, going up 20-10 and holding on to the lead until late in the fourth quarter. It was then that Brady took over, reunited with wide receiver Deion Branch and equipped with his now famous flowing locks of hair, Brady got the Patriots within field goal range on two occasions to allow for a couple of late field goals and an overtime victory of 23-20. With this win, Tom Brady has won 23 straight home field victories, two shy of Brett Favre's 25-win record.

In Green Bay, the Packers were unable to mount a comeback at Lambeau Field, despite a late Aaron Rodgers touchdown run, losing to the Miami Dolphins 23-20. In a game that saw the Packers defence decimated by injuries, Dolphins wideout Brandon Marshall had a standout game grabbing 10 catches for 127 yards.

The Packers will have to rebound quickly from the loss, as they head in to an always emotional match against Brett Favre anq the Vikings next Sunday, in what is sure to be the game to watch in week seven.

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n what proved to be a disappointing night for English fighters in front of a 17,000strong crowd in London's 02 arena, Manchester native Michael "The Count" Bisping proved to be Britain's saving grace in a night of upsets and knockouts that is sure to put the memory of the lackluster UFC 119 · once he gets one or two more victories. With Akiyama's third UFC out of the minds of UFC fans. appearance, "Sexiyama" has had The main event of the evening started off looking as daunting for three consecutive "Fight of the Bisping as it had for other British Night" honours.

Knockout of the night at UFC fighters earlier in the night, with Akiyama landing a huge right 120 came during the co-main event hook early in the round. Bisping, when American fighter Carlos Condit pummeled "The Outlaw" who was momentarily stunned, was able to shake off the hit and Dan Hardy, knocking him out at come back strong to finish with a 4:27 of the first round. Hardy, who is normally most comfortable on decisive win for the fight.

Although Japanese-born Aki- his feet, appeared sluggish and yama came out looking every bit unable to cope with Condit's well as in control of the fight as was ex- placed strikes.

The upset win of the night goes pected, his failure to capitalize on a good early shot was indicative of to American fighter Mike Pyle in his fighting style. The former K-1 his win over formerly undefeated veteran has previously emerged British sensation John Hathaway. with wins from his contests Hathaway, who was nursing a rough devastating strikes and 14-fight-win-streak entering the S\WIDissions, but was content to fight, was coming off a notable 'ttµ'ow out any game plan he once knock-out victory against Diego had the moment he hurt Bisping. Sanchez. Whether it was the overInstead of taking control of the confidence that comes with being undefeated, or underestimating fight, Akiyama spent the better his 35-year-old opponent, Hathapart of the second and third round trying to land another big right way was dominated by strikes and the relentless takedown attempts hand to finish the fight.

This victory marks the second of the Randy Couture prodigy. in a row for "The Count," who, Speaking of his underdog status in dominating Akiyama with a after. the fight, Pyle noted "I'm 35 series of combos throughout the years old. I'm not going to let some fight, has assured h~ni.s-elfa title overJtyped London kid jus~ out of shot in the middleweight d1vi~ion ·. l:tigh schooi beat me~hell no."

With UFC's most recent European excursion in the books, we look to UFC 121. We do not have to look very far, as Saturday October 23 will be the date that Brock Lesnar defends his Heavyweight Championship belt against undefeated Brazilian Cain Velasquez.

Velasquez goes into the fight vastly undersized compared to the gargantuan Lesnar. If he is to have a shot at stripping the title from the champ, it will be have to come in the ground game. Having proven his tough chin against Shane Carwin in their last battle, any attempt at stand-up from the Brazilian_ will be met with hamsized fists and a quick beat down.

Other notable fights· marking the UFC's return to An~heim at UFC 121 are the Ortiz versus Hamill fight, as well as the welterweight bout between Jake Shields and Martin Kampmann. The Huntingdon Beach Bad Boy, Tito Ortiz, will attempt to come away with his first victory since October 10, 2006, when he defeated Ken Shamrock.

Matt Hamill, who is coming off victories against former UFC fighter Keith Jardine, as well as a disqualification win over Jon "Bones" Jones, trained under Ortiz on the third season of The Ultimate Fighter television series.

If Ortiz is to have any hope of remaining relevant within the UFC, he has to come out with a huge victory here. If he fails; it could be just another case of a fighter battling far past his prime and UFC president Dana White showing the door to another one of its hall of fame fighters.

Sports You've Never Heard Of:

EXTREME IRONING

CHRIS BONSHORyou to cut your teeth, metaphoriCOPYEDITOR cally, before you try the real thing.

In addition, the bureau suggests or those of you who really en- that you try ironing in your backjoy a neatly pressed shirt and yard before moving to more chalfor those of you who really enjoy lenging_!errain. extreme outdoor activities, but Currently, this sport is most have never been able to combine popular in the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia. However, them, your time has finally come!

For more than a decade the the website does say that the extreme ironing bureau is looking semi-professional sport of extreme ironing has been growing in pop- for new clubs internationally. This ularity. According to the website means'that 'y1;m,dear reader, could www.extremeironing.com, "It all start a local club and propel yourstarted in the city of Leicester in self~· to international-niche-sport the UK, in the summer of 199Z history!

When mild-mannered Steam reImagine it! If you have a supple turned home after a long day in wrist and a penchant for doing the knitwear factory, the last thing crazy things outside, you could he wanted to do was start on a pile become the Tiger Woods of exof ironing. The sun was shining treme ironing (which might be and Phil preferred the idea of an a good or bad thing if you think evening out pursuing his (some- about it). To join, all you have to what unsuccessful) hobby of rock do is bring your iron, board, some climbing. Then it occurred to him wrinkly clothes and a camera with to combine these activities into an you into the wild. Get some picextreme sport - the result: extreme tures and submit them. ironing."

But you have to ask yourself, Extreme ironing is "an outdoor in a world of steam pressers, dryactivity that combines the danger cleaning, Maytag washer and dryand excitement of an 'extreme' ers and wrinkle-resistant-fabric, sport with the satisfaction of a why do we need to iron at all? My well pressed shirt." It involves tak- wife theorizes that because we no ing an iron and board (if possible) longer need to iron, extreme ironto remote locations and ironing a ing is evidence of a visceral reacfew items of laundry. This can in- tion to technological advances by volve ironing on a mountainside, · those who still believe in arcane preferably on a difficult climb, or technologies like the iron. These ·people look around and see their taking an iron skiing, snowboardworld crumbling around them ing or canoeing. (or lacking irons, at least). In a On the website, one can find examples of members ironing un- last ditch effort to get people to derwater, while in trees, on rock think about irons again, they have faces and even on glaciers. In fact, decided to do what many other there is even a gallery devoted to sports have done: make it extreme. the extreme ironer known as "Silt- Extreme ironing can be seen as an attempt to appeal to the culkicker," who combined extreme ironing with bog snorkelling (our turally-bankrupt youth of today, feature from a few weeks ago). by promoting the hard work and In an odd twist, you can also values of a by-gone generation (or play the sport from the comfort at least an attempt to make irons appear relevant and fun). of your own home. This is thanks to the crazy video game developIf this sounds like you or someers at Sega, who have included one you know, then I urge you to extreme ironing in the Wii game take up your iron, hiking boots Wacky World of Sports. While it is and ironing board, and show the world that you will not be kind of silly to have an extreme ·game playable indoors, in my stopped! As the great Doctor used opinion, this will at least allow to say, Allons-y!

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