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OccupyEdmonton
Edmontonians joining global protestagainst corporate greed
Has spread from WallStreet to more than 200cities worldwide{page 4}
Police Chief Rod Knecht speaks to reporters yesterday about his
violence-reduction strategy and the need for more officers, following
three suspicious deaths in the city since Saturday. For more, see page 3.
SHELLEY WILLIAMSON/METRO
Chief wants more copsAs homicide toll climbs, city’s top cop about to ask city for 100 more officersInvestigations of this year’s killings will linger into new year: Knecht
Chief Rod Knecht said he plansto combat Edmonton’s recordhomicide rate by adding moreofficers to his police force, whichhe says is now stretched to capac-ity.
“The severity of violence con-tinues to be an issue here inEdmonton, and that’s led to ourhigh homicide rate as comparedto the rest of the country,” saidKnecht.
While the chief did not give adollar amount he’s eyeing in thenext budget, he’s shooting for 100new officers “to enhance homi-cide, and enhance other areaswhere we think we can drivedown crime and drive down vio-lence,” he said.
“As you are aware, we have tak-en a lot of our resources from oth-er areas in the police service andput them full-time into the homi-cide unit to help with the highnumbers and move forward,” saidKnecht.
He said focusing on victims,potential victims and those per-
petrating violence is key to curb-ing the killings.
“This is not a sprint, it’s amarathon. It’s a long race,” saidKnecht.
He reiterated that, despite thedeath toll, the average citizen issafe.
He said most of the victims ofviolent crimes led “high-risk”lifestyles and knew their killers.
Homicide facts
Of the city’s 40 recordedhomicides in 2011, 65 per centare “cleared,” meaning suspectshave either been charged orcleared of culpability.
At the same time last year, thecity had recorded half as manyhomicides.
80 per cent of this year’shomicides have involved peoplewho knew each other, 50 per centhave happened in private andmore than 50 per cent haveinvolved edged weapons.
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On the same day Edmon-ton police confirmed thecity’s 40th homicide, de-tectives investigated twomore suspicious deaths.
Officers were called tothe Rosehill Cemetery at13951 Ellerslie Rd. around8 a.m. yesterday after aworker spotted a blackSUV parked with its lightson.
They found the bodiesof two men inside.
“We will have to waiton some autopsy andforensic evidence … it’svery early in our investiga-tion and we have muchwork to do on that file,”said Staff Sgt. Dave Spiers.
Access was blocked at141 and 127 Streets as
homicide and forensicsunits investigated.
Meanwhile, police con-firmed a man killed earlySaturday at 86 Street and117 Avenue was the city’s40th homicide victim.
An autopsy revealed
Daniel Charles Hamer, 35,died of blunt head trau-ma.
“We are still looking forone important witness, a
female witness,” said Act-ing Staff Sgt. Bill Clark.
Two suspects, whoHamer knew, have beeninterviewed but no
charges have been laid,and investigators are con-sidering a self-defence an-gle in the homicide, saidClark.
Edmonton forensics and homicide investigators search an SUV at the Rosehill Cemetery yesterday morning after the bodies of two men were found inside.
SHELLEY WILLIAMSON/METRO
Victim of 40th slaying of 2011 ledhigh-risk lifestyle: Police Two bodies found in vehicle on southside yesterday may bring count to 42
A University of Alberta dis-covery could change theunderstanding of how ma-terial moves within a cell.
A membrane traffickingsystem, consisting of fourproteins called adaptins,moves material in, out andaround the cell. “Whenthat goes wrong, you get allsorts of diseases,” said evo-lutionary cell biologist Joel
Dacks. The discovery couldshed new light on neuro-logical diseases such asAlzheimer’s, Huntington’sdisease and ALS. The discov-ery of the fifth adaptin, al-ready connected tohereditary spastic paraple-gia, will change how scien-tists look at the first four,said Dacks.
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Cell biology discovery could alter disease research Fraudster
sentenced Kenneth Gillis, chargedwith fraud in 1988 by theRCMP CommercialCrime Section in Edmon-ton, will serve 12months for defraudingthe Alberta TreasuryBranch, amassing morethan $500,000 in person-al and company assets
before fleeing the coun-try twice.
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Smoke advisory still in effectAlberta Health Servicessays the precautionarysmoke advisory issuedMonday will remain ineffect until furthernotice, as the fire at theWaste Management Cen-tre continues to burn.
METRO
News in brief
By the numbers
Edmonton has officiallyrecorded 40 homicides in2011, but that includestwo officer-involved fatalshootings, and a homicidefrom each of 2010 and2009.
Police Chief Rod Knechttold reporters yesterday heconsiders the homiciderate to be at 38, as that isthe actual number ofhomicides during the cal-endar year to date.
The paper was publishedyesterday in the Public Library of Science Biology.
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Painting the words “Occu-py Everywhere” seemedmost appropriate toMichael Thomas.
Thomas is one of manypeople who have beenbusy making signs thisweek for Occupy Edmon-
ton, slated for noon on Sat-urday at Churchill Square.
The occupation of WallStreet began on Sept. 17,and has spread to morethan 200 cities worldwide.
“It seems to me this is anew kind of activism to par-ticipate in and I just want tosupport it,” Thomas said.
The movement is classi-fied as a leaderless resist-
ance campaign. The web-site occupywallstreet.orgstates: “We are the 99 percent that will no longer tol-erate the greed and corrup-tion of the one per cent.”
The state of the econo-my, social inequality andcorporate greed have beennamed as driving forces,though “everyone isprotesting with their own
message,” said Thomas, anelectrician who has beenout of work for about ayear. “I’m not getting anykind of bailout or assis-tance,” he said.
Occupy Calgary has setup camp in a park, withcity approval. Thomas saidit is yet to be determined ifa campout will be held inEdmonton.
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Get set for a baby boom:Couples win IVF prizes
For five years, Natasha andRyan Derouchie have beentrying to have a baby.
Now they could be closeto making that dream a re-ality.
Just like four other cou-ples.
The Derouchies wereone of five finalist couplesin a Win A Baby contest onOttawa radio station Hot89.9.
Only one couple couldwin — until yesterday.
Much to everyone’s sur-prise yesterday morning,radio host Jeff Mauler an-nounced that all five cou-ples had won up to three
fertility treatments. “There was lots of cry-
ing. We pretty muchsobbed … just holdingeach other. My phone wasgoing crazy,” said Natasha,30.
Doctors had toldNatasha and Ryan the onlyway they could conceivewas through in vitro fertil-ization (IVF).
The high cost of the pro-cedures held them back,but now they’ve won thethree fertility treatmentsvalued at $35,000.
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Movie zombiestake a tumbleTORONTO. Emergencyworkers faced a sceneout of a horror movieyesterday after actorsdressed as zombies felloff a platform during afilm shoot in Toronto.
At least 16 actors onthe set of Resident Evil:Retribution were injured.
The bizarre sight ofthe zombies made it difficult for emergencyworkers to assess the in-juries, a spokespersonsaid. “It did kind of catchus off guard,” said Sgt.Andrew Gibson.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Hi, zombies …here’s a BibleCALGARY. Break out theBibles, Halloween’s com-ing. That’s the message
from a Calgary pastor,who aims to turnstandard Oct. 31activities on their head.
Paul Ade, 40, has beendoling out Bibles insteadof sugary treats since2002. Now he wants oth-ers to follow suit and hasmade contact with about3,200 North Americanchurches.
METRO
Zombie armscache busted BUDAPEST. Nearly 100 liveweapons to be used inBrad Pitt’s zombie flickWorld War Z were confis-cated by Hungarian offi-cials, reports said. Thecache included machine-guns, rifles and pistols.
Counterterrorism offi-cial Janos Hajdu said:“It’s possible all theweapons were brought infor the film, but thiswould not be allowed byHungarian law. This is avery complicated case.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Radio station springs a surprise in contest for $35,000 in treatments “We’re still tryingto absorb itbecause it’s reallya dream cometrue.”NATASHA DEROUCHIE
Hundreds of protesters, em-boldened by the growingnational outcry againstwhat they see as the greedof Wall Street, streamedpast the homes of some ofthe country’s richest resi-dents yesterday in a “Mil-lionaires March.”
Members of the OccupyWall Street movement andother groups walked up thesidewalks of Manhattan’s
East Side, along world-famous streets lined withswank apartment towers.
Protesters have beencamped out for weeks inlower Manhattan’s ZuccottiPark saying they’re fightingfor the “99 per cent,” ofAmericans who do not fallinto the wealthiest one percent of the population.
Several hundred protest-ers were arrested in New
York more than a week agoafter police said they ig-nored warnings not toblock traffic on the Brook-lyn Bridge.
Their causes range frombringing down Wall Streetto fighting global warming.The movement gained trac-tion through social media,and protests have takenplace in several other U.S.cities. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Marching for 99%NYC protesters express concern over ‘millionaires’ tax’
expiration in December Hundreds cry out across U.S.
Rapper Bun B unites with protesters staging at City Hall in Houston yesterday.
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What is this about?A lawsuit was started against the Province of Nova Scotia in 2009.
The goal was to get a refund for people who applied for and paid
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What does this mean for me?If you are a Class Member, your legal rights are affected. You will
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How much will I get?If you were not paid anything under a business mentorship, you
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What if too many people opt out?If more than 50 people opt out, the Province has the right to
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Air Canada employees hold a rally at Pierre Elliott Trudeau
airport in Montreal yesterday after talks over pay and
conditions between unions and management broke down. The
federal government is considering its options on how to
handle a renewed threat of a strike at Canada’s largest airline.
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Feds buy some time sending strike matter to the CIRB
Union set to resume talks if keyissues addressed Unclear whyagreements rejected by membersThe federal government ismoving to prevent a strikeThursday by Air Canadaflight attendants by send-ing the matter to the Cana-da Industrial RelationsBoard for review.
Labour Minister LisaRaitt told CTV News that areference will be sent to theboard today asking it to ex-amine the difficulties inwinning ratification of twotentative agreementsreached by company andunion negotiators.
“While the matter is be-fore the CIRB, there cannotbe a work stoppage,” Raittsaid from Vancouver. “AirCanada must be preparedto more on our key issues.”
The latest twist in AirCanada’s troubled contractnegotiations comes aftermembers of the union re-jected the latest agreement,
which was supported byleaders of the CanadianUnion of Public Employees.
“Our members are clear-ly frustrated, and are de-manding their sacrificesover the past 10 years be ad-dressed,” said Jeff Taylor,president of the Air CanadaComponent of the Canadi-an Union of Public Employ-ees.
The tentative deal wasreached Sept. 20 with thehelp of a federal mediatorappointed by Raitt and thethreat of back-to-work legis-lation.
The reference buys thegovernment time to passback to work legislationonce the House of Com-mons resumes Monday. AirCanada would operate apartial schedule if a strikeoccurred. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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@juliannacummins: Week-end homicide = #40 for2011. Officially havebroken the record # ofhomicides in #yeg.@Benbabchishin: What aglorious day here in the#yeg, sun shinin, warmtemps...it’s a grand day.@artstylelove: Outside ofDetroit, I’ve never heard somany city murder jokes.It’s like people think we’rethe next Mexico city. #yeg@erikholmlund: Just gotreminded that I have towear a diaper at City Halltomorrow. Yeah, you readthat right. @TerraCentre#yeg
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RE: Jessica Napier’scolumn published Oct.11, What’s in a maidenname?
Although I think the arti-cle was well written andthought provoking, I wassurprised that, for awoman who writes froman informed andfeminist perspective, sheused references such as“Mr. and Mrs. His Firstand Last Name” and “Tak-ing your husband’sname.” The article waswritten with genderassumptions and from aheterosexist perspectivewhich made a good arti-cle disappointing in theend.CHARLENE CREWS, TORONTO
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Who nose?Simply blowing your nose couldnow produce energy-making resultsas scientists have discovered a wayof converting human breathing intoelectricity.
Professor Xudong Wang and histeam have made a tiny device thatgenerates a small amount ofelectricity when a low-speed airflowsuch as human respiration passesover it.
The engineers at the University ofWisconsin-Madison used a specialplastic named polyvinylidene fluo-ride that can produce an electrical
charge in response to a mechanicalstress, a phenomenon known as the‘piezoelectric effect.’ This plasticwas small enough to be put inside ahuman nose.
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new diseases from birds and barnyard an-imals, now they’re coming at us from 114years in the past.
Time capsules are designed to beopened in the future, and the future
arrived last week when a building at Bellevue Hospitalin New York was demolished, exposing a time capsuleincluding the scientist’s little gift and a note asking fu-ture generations to “let us know how long these sporeslast.”
Well, Ed, we’ll get back to you. I might add we’relucky they weren’t active and belong to a type of bacte-ria that has been successfully treated by antibiotics, a
post-1897 invention.Which leads you to won-
der: what else is out thereburied in a box from thepast that could have inter-esting consequences ifopened before Christmas?
Here’s just a partial listfrom time capsules buriedin various cornerstonesaround the world: silk con-doms, false teeth, bikinibottoms, Life magazine, akewpie doll, various grainseeds, messages fromAlbert Einstein, and even acar. Not toxic, per se, but
what are they supposed to make of all that junk in theyear 7000 AD?
Still, we continue to bury our civilization’s flotsamand jetsam in structures that don’t last 50 years, nevermind 5,000. Or we shoot them into space, needles in acosmic haystack. We do it because we hope thatsomeone will be there and if they are, they need to get itright, dammit.
It’s a way of bestowing immortality upon ourselves.And certainly, the only way any of these Just Sayin’columns will ever survive is to slip them in a timecapsule between the bikinis and false teeth.
LOL if you must, but what goes into your timecapsule? Downloads of Two and A Half Men? DNA fromyour dog? An Ikea catalogue? The iPod or the iPad?Both?
Let’s say this stuff actually survives 5,000 years and isdug up. Will our descendants be able to decode our littleblasts from the past? The origin and meaning of an 8-track could be as obscure as a cave painting.
Anthropologists, when they don’t have a clue, alwaysplay the religious ritual card.
So in 7011, when they open up the Charlie Sheen Vio-lent Torpedo of Truth Tour Video, it’s possible a new reli-gion will be born.
That’s if God still has a sense of humour at that point.
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It seems Tinseltownnever met an idea it could-n’t endlessly recycle.
This is particularly truein the horror genre. In thelast 12 months, Colin Far-rell clipped on ChrisSarandon’s used fangs in aremake of Fright Night,and this weekend, TheThing is, according toIMDB, “a prequel to a re-make of an adaptation ofthe novella Who GoesThere?” Whatever it is,original it’s not.
Not that all original hor-ror films are better thantheir remakes. David Cro-nenberg’s dark vision en-hanced the story of TheFly, delivering the realscares that the campy 1958 version lacked, and1978’s Invasion of theBody Snatchers is farcreepier than its cinematic predecessor.
Tinseltown loves to recycle It seems the horror remake factory is working overtimeHANDOUT
The Thing, opening this weekend, is one example of a horror remake.
It’s another honourfor Taylor Swift. Thecountry music super-star has beencrowned Woman ofthe Year by Billboardmagazine.The 21-year-old multi-platinum singer-song-writer is the youngestto receive the award.The announcementwas made Tuesday.She will be honouredat the 2011 BillboardWomen in Musicevent in New York onDec. 2.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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warfare goes awry, hasbeen made a couple oftimes. The original is anunintentionally funnyflick with more gigglesthan gore, but it inspired asequel, a remake and, ifthe rumours are true, abloody revamp by horrormaestro Rob Zombie.
I have a soft spot for thelow-budget charm of the1958 version, although the1988 reboot has a smarter-
than-it-needs-to-be scriptco-written by FrankDarabont and a cooltagline — “Scream now!while you can stillbreathe!”
Count Dracula is one ofthe most portrayed char-acters on the big screen,having appeared in morehorror films than any oth-er famous monster of film-land. Eighty years after hefirst portrayed the vam-
pire in the 1931 film Drac-ula, Bela Lugosi is still themost famous blood suckerof them all, although formy money, two British ac-tors — Gary Oldham inBram Stoker’s Dracula andChristopher Lee in Horrorof Dracula — are tip-topTransylvanians.
Unlike his work inScream, Wes Craven’s ear-ly films didn’t have any ofthe self-depreciating hu-
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His first movies werebrutal, bloody and grim,usually all at once. Recentremakes of The Last Houseon the Left — rated R for“sadistic violence” — andThe Hills Have Eyes —“The lucky ones diefirst!”— don’t have quitethe impact of the Vietnamera originals, but still re-quire a strong stomach.
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Rihanna says she resentedChris Brown for a time,but has put that behindher and is happy that herformer boyfriend hasfound success in musicagain.
Rihanna tells Esquiremagazine that dislikingBrown “was taking up toomuch of my time” andthat she has moved onfrom that.
“It was too muchanger,” the 23-year-oldsaid.
“I’m really excited tosee the breakthrough he’shad in his career.”
Brown, 21, is servingfive years of probation af-ter pleading guilty tofelony assault for the at-tack on Rihanna in theearly morning hours be-
fore the 2009 Grammys. Graffiti, the album he
released 10 months afterthe attack, was a commer-cial disappointment.
But his latest release,F.A.M.E. (Forgiving All MyEnemies), debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 al-bums chart in March; itreached gold status andhas multiple pop and R&Bhits with songs like Lookat Me Now and Deuces,among other tracks.
“It’s incredible to seehow he pulled out theway he did. Even whenthe world seemed like itwas against him, youknow?” Rihanna said.
“I really like the musiche’s putting out. I’m a fanof his stuff. I’ve alwaysbeen a fan.”
Rihanna has done wellmusically, too: Her al-bums following the attack— Rated R and Loud —have both gone platinum,and she’s releasing a newalbum, Talk That Talk,next month.
Her latest single, WeFound Love, is her 20thsong to hit the Top 10 onthe Billboard Hot 100 sin-gles chart since she de-buted in 2005.
Overall, she says shewants to see Brown dowell.
“I would never wishanything horrible forhim. Never. I never have,”she said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Two years ago, Chris Brown pleaded guilty to assault on then-girlfriend Rihanna Now the ‘Sexiest Woman Alive’ says she wishes him all the best
Rihanna happy for her ex
Rihanna performs at the o2 arena in east London,
as part of her 2011 Loud tour, last week.
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Jess to go publicON A POTENTIAL MINISIMPSON. After months ofspeculation, JessicaSimpson is reportedlygearing up to announceher pregnancy, a sourceclose to Simpson’sfiancé, Eric Johnson,tells Radar Online. “It’sstill early in thepregnancy, and Jessicahas decided to waitbefore sharing her hap-piness with her fans,”the source says. “But shehas begun telling familyand friends the excitingnews.” Simpson isexpected to go publicwith the news as an ex-clusive for a magazine,the website claims.
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The couple didn’t seemat all pleased when spot-ted by other campers,though.
“Demi was screaming
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First time?There are tours you cantake, from walking tourslike the Freedom Trail aswell as the Duck Toursthat take you round thecity then into the CharlesRiver (bostonduck-tours.com). We have theUSS Constitution, a shipthat was used in the CivilWar (ussconstitutionmu-seum.org) near the mon-ument where the battleof Bunker Hill wasfought. There’s the Insti-tute of Contemporary Artdown by the waterfront(icaboston.org) and a
wealth of greatrestaurants and bars andtheatre in the south endand downtown.
The Faneuil Hall areais nice, especially ifyou’re coming in the fallor winter. They reallydress it up forChristmas.
StayWhen our guys come totown they stay at HotelCommonwealth.
It’s on top of a spotwhere the RathskellerClub used to be, whichwas where the Ramonesplayed their first show in
Boston. So I have a little
vendetta against them,only for that though, because I wish that wehad the Rathskeller Club.
Apparently the hoteltreats the guys right.View the website at hotel-common-wealth.com.
USS Constitution
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Sports!Take a tour of FenwayPark, our baseball stadi-um, which I believe is theoldest in the country(boston.redsox.mlb.com).
Ken, our bass player, isinvolved with a placecalled McGreevy’s.McGreevy was a fellowwho owned the originalsports bar down in theFens around the turn ofthe last century and theyresurrected that bar andit has a lot of decorationsfrom the original bar —it’s almost like a Red Soxand baseball museum
with photos, trophiesand banners. You can al-so get a good pint of
Guinness and fantasticchicken wings(mcgreevysboston.com).
McGreevy’s has fantastic chicken wings.
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Live musicThere’s great independ-ent clubs here, like theMiddle East café(mideastclub.com), O’Brien’s(obrienspubboston.com),and The House of Blues,with live music everyday of the week (houseof
blues.com). Great Scottis one of my favourites.There’s a lack of mid-sized clubs and it holdsabout 250, so it’s greatfor bands that are justbreaking out of the barscene. Every night of theweek you can find livemusic (greatscottboston.com).
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Matt Kelly is the drummer of the Dropkick Murphys, Boston’s famous Irish-American punkrock band He shares his favourite spots for sports and soaking up Boston’s Gaelic heritage
I grew up 65 kilometresfrom here, so this is mycapital city. My family alllives in the area — we’reall New Englanders.
Where I live has aneighbourhood feel;you’re in the city but youknow your neighbours andthe kids all play hockey in
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There’s a lot of historyhere. I like the people. It’sa walking city so you canwalk from place to place;it’s not sprawled out. I’vebeen everywhere in theworld and I love comingback. It’s a unique place inthe U.S. and in the world.
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The South will riseagain — at least on theNew York City restau-rant scene. Accordingto the 2012 Zagatguide to city dining,Southern food tops thisyear’s trends, thanks tonewcomers like MarcusSamuelsson’s celebritymagnet Red Roosterand The Cardinal, anEast Village eaterydishing up okra,smothered pork chopsand fried green toma-toes. Other trends in-clude on-site gardens.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Cowichan Valley itself isa great little paradise nes-tled among towering oldgrowth forests, quiet beach-
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es and meandering rivers.Combine that with somegood vino and you’ve gotyourself a winning combi-nation. Centrally locatedbetween the cities of Victo-ria and Nanaimo, there is al-so no shortage of outdoorfun. I found myself sur-rounded by curious sealsone morning as my one-man kayak skimmed thecalm Pacific Ocean in frontof the cosy Ocean Point Ho-tel in Cowichan Bay. Thesefriendly little guys (almostlooked like a pack of pup-pies poking there heads up)were all around my vessel.It was a very cool way tospend a morning.
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Move over, vampires Zombies are everywhere and rising in popularity Soon to be kings of the undead
Sparkly vampires are all therage right now, but zombiesare knocking their fellow le-gions of the undead fromtheir pedestal.
From zombie walks be-ing held in cities across theworld to television shows,video games and numerousbooks hitting the stores,people’s fascination withzombies is spreading like aplague.
“Zombies have the up-per hand,” says Universityof B.C. film studies profes-
sor Ernest Mathijs, whosespecialities include horrorand fantasy film.
“Zombies are a kind ofingredient you can add toany cultural product andmake it look slightly differ-ent,” he said. “It will turn itinto a funny parody of con-temporary cultures, andsomehow that appeals tocultures across the globe.”
The idea of zombiesoriginally came from thevoodoo culture in Haiti.The word “zombi” wasused to describe a brainlessslave labourer raised fromthe dead by a bokor, or sor-cerer.
The now-familiar mod-ern zombie was popular-ized and turned into aphenomenon in 1968 byway of the unexpected pop-ularity of director GeorgeRomero’s low-budget hor-ror classic Night of the Liv-ing Dead.
Gisele Baxter of UBC’sEnglish department, whospecializes in gothic cul-
ture and post-apocalypticfiction, says Romero’s filmtook the horror genre onestep further.
“Romero was influentialin spawning everyday hor-ror that doesn’t deal withmad scientists or external-ized threats, but deals withthreats we associate withnightmares, personalthreats and very primal
fears,” she says.The audience identifies
with zombie stories be-cause people today are fas-cinated and fearful of thepossibility of an apoca-lypse, widespread annihila-tion or a viral pandemic,Baxter says.
The metaphorical possi-bilities and themes inher-ent in zombie stories alsoappeal to modern filmmak-ers because they can exper-iment with notions of whatpeople would do to survivein a kill-or-be-killed world,
Both Mathijs and Baxterhave been fascinated by theemergence of new, creative
ways of incorporating thezombie factor into popularculture. One recent innova-tion is the spoof novel Prideand Prejudice and Zombies,which is being adapted intoa film.
“When you think ofPride and Prejudice, thelast thing you think aboutis zombies,” Baxter says.“The juxtaposition of theseimmensely different thingsreally fascinated people.Then it spawned a lot ofcopycat titles, which is veryimpressive because peoplefound the energy and imag-ination to do anything withthese titles.”
Zombie love is a no-brainer“If zombie narratives go further ininvesting zombies with some capacity forpersonality and depth of characterization,it will probably come closer to being avariance on vampire stories.”PROF. GISELE BAXTER, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
A scene from the cult TV series The Walking Dead. The show’s second season kicks off on Sunday.
Where to flee when the dead invade EdmontonYou can run but you can’teasily hide in the event of azombie apocalypse.
And while it might be ahuge draw for tourists, Ed-monton’s biggest attractionis no place to take coverwhen they come lookingfor your brains, say experts.
“You would want toavoid the West EdmontonMall because there are waytoo many people in it,” saidCarla Noble, co-founder ofthe River City Zombie Com-mittee, which holds two an-nual Zombie Walks, mostrecently last Friday.
If you can’t escape thecity, seclusion is best.
“Find somewhere withno windows and only onedoor,” said Noble.
Darryl Plunkie of Ed-monton said he’d elude theundead aboard the Edmon-
ton Queen riverboat.“You can stick it in the
middle and nobody can getto you, and you can havepeople rappel down,” hesaid, adding the Alberta leg-islature and Hotel MacDon-ald are also good makeshift
forts.If it seems hopeless,
heading to some place withliquor to numb the pain in-flicted by flesh-eating at-tackers is advised.
“The Billiards Club isgood,” said Plunkie. “Putpool tables against thedoors and there aren’tmany windows.”
Check out a zombie-walk photo galleryat metronews.ca/zombies
Participants in last week’s Zombie Walk.
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Just in case
Have a meeting spot, atime to head out and anexit strategy in case noone shows up. Fill an emergency packwith the necessities: Guns,
easy-to-carry food, some-thing to start a fire, warmclothes, blankets and wa-ter.Make sure your weaponsare light enough to carryand not too loud, as theymay attract more zombies.
20 zombies! metronews.caWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2011
SURVIVE A ZOMBIE OUTBREAK
It’s remarkable how theliving dead have definedthe post-millennium zeit-geist more than any otherpop-culture entity.
From Max Brooks’ best-selling novel World War Z(an upcoming film adapta-tion will star Brad Pitt) to aglut of first-person shootervideogames to mainstreamtelevision with AMC’s TheWalking Dead (now in itssecond season), the zombiehas mysteriously reachedthe peak of his popularity.
But it’s been a long, slowprogression, a road litteredwith taboo and terror, andmost of it can be tracedback to the brain of oneman, the master of zombielore, George A. Romero.
It was Romero who, in1968, took the basic thrustof Richard Matheson’sshattering vampire apoca-lypse novel I Am Legendand brought the dead backto life with his game-changing black-and-whitemasterpiece Night of theLiving Dead.
That film would spawn aseries of rip-offs, sequels(Romero directed Dawn ofthe Dead in 1978 and fol-lowed that with four moreDead pictures; Dawn wasremade in 2004) and even-tually spoofs like EdgarWright’s smash-hit comedy
Shaun of the Dead.Look anywhere, look
everywhere, and you’ll seeevidence of the zombiephenomenon surroundingus, trapping us, ready toeat us alive.
And that is what’s sospooky about the conceptof the zombie. They’re us,back from our final rest,hungry to devour the peo-ple we once loved. Zombiesare ugly, grotesque shad-ows of their former selves.They smell bad, as all theirparts have long soured.And they’re lethally dumb,driven only by an instinctto kill.
Zombies are not nice,and if, by some sort of bio-logically bad stroke of viralluck, Romero’s fantasticalprophecies were to cometrue, if mankind were tosuddenly be under siegefrom a revolution of thedead ... what would we do?
Or more importantly,what shouldn’t we do?
Metro thought long andhard about this and, usingcommentary from GeorgeRomero and his frequentcollaborator, iconic FX wiz-ard, director and actor TomSavini, we now offer you aselection of “do nots” inthe face of a potential zom-bie-geddon.
Do not. Upload your homemade zombie footage to YouTube
Do not. Take the elevator
Do not. Attempt to out-swim the dead
Zombies aren’t bears. As a few unfortunate charac-ters in Romero’s 2010 horror-western Survival of theDead discover, they aren’t afraid of the water
When rogue SWAT cops go for a dip to escape theghouls, they soon discover the dead — who, remem-ber, don’t breathe — are excellent swimmers andhave no problem eating whilst underwater.
Romero: I had underwater zombie stuff in Landand Diary but really played with it here. There is alot of humour in Survival, but it’s also really melan-cholic, less free-and-easy. Though at this stage of mylife, I’m thinking of calling the next one — if thereis a next one — Enough of the Dead!
Savini: Forget swimming. I go where there areplaces to run and things to hide behind, maybe uphigh, where I can blast away at them and they can'tget to me.
See also: Zombie (1979) the Italian Dawn ripoffthat sees an underwater zom attack a shocked skin-ny dipper before doing titanic battle with a greatwhite shark!
In Romero’s incredibly influential 1978 epic Dawn of theDead, a handful of survivors land their helicopter on theroof of Pittsburgh’s Monroeville Mall and block out thecorpses, creating a Shangri-la of material bliss.
But when the ghouls gain entrance as they always do,chopper pilot Fly Boy (David Emge) stupidly takes the lift.And when those doors open up, a horde of flesheatersburst in and ride with him. The following scenes are goryand should serve as a warning to potential zombiesurvivalists to always take the stairs.
Romero: Dawn is a romp, and I think it’s the most en-tertaining of all the Dead films. I really cut loose and did itas “comic book,” as I wanted to do it. But when Fly Boygets it there’s tragedy in there too.
Savini: The other thing Dawn teaches you is that yourfriends should not know where the hell you’re hiding,just in case they become zombies with good memories.
See also:: Resident Evil (2004), in which military typestake an elevator to hell and encounter subterranean zom-bies of both human and canine persuasions.
2007’s Diary of the Dead sawRomero doing the faux-documen-tary approach with a bunch ofcontemporary, tech-savvy kidsshooting the zombie outbreakwith their camcorders and stick-ing the resulting mess onto theInternet.
Of course, in their mad questto “shoot the dead” they forgetthat cannibal corpses don’t give adamn about their 15 minutes offame, and most of them get gob-bled up, regardless of their cine-matic pretensions.
Romero: Diary is about thateye in the sky that’s watching usall and us pretending theproblem doesn’t exist. Never agood thing.
See also: The Zombie Ziaries(2007) is a similar first-personBritish movie where members ofa crew try to film the unfilmableand end up players in their owndrama.
Just in case you happen to find yourself face-to-face with the undead, here’s what you shouldn’t do
Diary of the Dead
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Survival of the Dead
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“Look around, lookeverywhere, andyou’ll see evidenceof the zombiephenomenonsurrounding us,trapping us, readyto eat us alive.”
Dead (1985)What begins as a spoofof Romero’s films slowlyevolves into a blood-and-brains-soaked nightmare.
2Zombie (1979)
The unofficial Italian pre-quel to Romero’s Dawn,made by splatter master
Lucio Fulci. Insane,delightfully disgusting.
1The No. 1 pick (releasedin 1978) is fierce, funnyand melancholy. To findout its title — and see
clips from all five films —visit metronews.ca/zom-
bies.
Top 5 zombie flicks
?CHRIS ALEXANDER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF HORROR FILM MAGAZINE FANGORIA
If you were faced with it – what would your weaponof choice be to fend off a Zombie attack?1. Flamethrower2. Lightsaber3. .22 cal Assault Rifle
Top Canadian Metro City to escape toin a Zombie apocalypse?Vancouver!
Which Canadian would make for thescariest Zombie?Don Cherry
BRAAAAINS!We picked metropolitans’ brains about zombies, and here’s what they had to say:
Night of theLiving Dead
Shaun ofthe Dead
ResidentEvil
The best Zombie Movies ever made were:
21% 18% 16%If a loved one was being mauled by a Zombie horde,what would you do?Help fight off the Zombies with myweapon of choice
63%Kill them before they turn into a Zombie
29%Turn tail and run for my life!
8%
If you were part of a team,what role would you play?The StrategistSidekickTeam Leader
Who would you wanton your Zombiefighting team?1. Chuck Norris2. Samuel L. Jackson3. Lara Croft
What is your favourite type of Zombie?Slow-moving Zombie
Where would be the scariest place to fighta Zombie horde?Airplane
95%95%5%
In a Zombieapocalypse,would yougo it aloneor build a team?SoloTeam
31%
18%16%
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Zombify your look for HalloweenDo you want to look likeyou just stepped off the setof Night of the Living Deadthis Halloween? You’llneed: liquid latex, tissuepaper or cotton balls, mul-ti-colour makeup kit(white, black, green), fakeblood, white powder or ba-by powder, tooth stain,charcoal powder, brushesand a sponge.
Step 1Apply liquid latex overclean skin to createthe effect of peelingskin and wounds. For amore dramatic effect,you can mix cotton orpieces of tissue paperwith latex. Once thelatex dries, start peel-ing the edges to getthe desired effect.
Step 2With a makeupsponge, add a grey orgreenish crème make-up base to the entireface, neck and any oth-er exposed skin. All ar-eas of flesh must becovered in makeup.Pay close attention tothe jawline, hairlineand hands.
Step 3Use the black or darkgrey colour from themulti-colour makeupkit and apply shadowswith a sponge or brusharound the eyes andcheekbones to achievea sunken-in look.
Step 5To create wrinkles andcreases, squint andpucker up your lipswhile you apply whitepowder around youreyes and lips with asponge.
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Step 4Add fake blood for de-sired effect and applytooth stain.
Achieving a gory zombie look — complete with sunken eyes and rotting flesh — may seemdaunting But professional makeup artist Dorota Buczel shows you how in five easy steps
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Place mint in heat-proofglass. Add syrup and mud-dle gently. Add whisky andtop with boiling water. Stirand serve with mint sprig.
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TV’s Stefano Faita keepsit simple in the kitchen
This recipe makes eight to 12 servings.
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Ingredients:Bechamel Sauce
• 75 ml (1/3 cup) butter• 75 ml (1/3 cup) plus 15 ml(1 tbsp) flour• 1.25 l (5 cups) milk• Salt and pepper, to taste
Lasagna• 60 g (2 oz) dried porcinimushrooms• Extra virgin olive oil• Butter• 1 medium onion, chopped• 2 garlic cloves, minced• 1 kg (2 lb) fresh mixed
mushrooms, such as cremi-ni, shiitake and oyster• 15 ml (1 tbsp) choppedfresh rosemary• 30 ml (2 tbsp) eachchopped thyme and sage• 75 ml (1/3 cup) plus 15 ml(1 tbsp) white wine• Salt and pepper, to taste• 10 fresh lasagna sheets • 250 ml (1 cup) each gratedParmesan and Asiagocheese• 30 ml (2 tbsp) choppedfresh parsley
This lasagna, made withcreamy bechamel sauce, is
indulgent. “I love all kindsof mushrooms, so it’s a
nice lasagna with all themushrooms and bechamel
Host of In the Kitchen With Stefano Faita shares his Creamy Mixed Mushroom Lasagna and cheese. It’s pretty sim-ple but really delicious,”says Stefano Faita, host ofCBC-TV’s weekday after-noon show In The Kitchenwith Stefano Faita.
Preparation:
1 In saucepan, melt butterover medium heat. Addflour and stir to combineto make a roux. Contin-ue to cook and stir, 2 to3 minutes. Graduallywhisk in milk, makingsure to incorporate theroux into milk. Continueto whisk mixture andbring to a boil. Reduceheat and simmer, whisk-ing frequently, untilsauce is thickened,about 10 minutes.
2 In bowl, soak driedmushrooms in warm wa-ter for 20 mins. Drain.Chop and set aside.
3 Heat 2 large skillets overmedium heat. Add 30 ml(2 tbsp) olive oil and 30ml (2 tbsp) butter toeach pan. Divide onionand garlic between 2pans. Cook until theybegin to soften, 2 to 3minutes.
4 Increase heat to mediumhigh and divide freshmushrooms andchopped herbs betweenthe 2 pans. Sauté mush-rooms until goldenbrown, 8 to 10 minutes.Add chopped driedmushrooms and contin-ue to cook for 2minutes. Deglaze panswith white wine and
cook until most of thewine has evaporated.
5 Heat oven to 190 C (375F). Then in a largesaucepan of boiling salt-ed water, cook sheets oflasagna in batches, 3 to4 sheets at a time, untilal dente. Immediatelyplunge them into coldwater to stop the cook-ing process and transferto a clean towel in a sin-gle layer to drain.
6 Butter 20-by-30-cm (8-by-12-inch) baking dish.
7 To assemble lasagna:Add a few tablespoonsof bechamel to lightlycover bottom of bakingdish. Add, in layers, 2lasagna sheets, about aquarter of themushroom mixture, aquarter of theremaining bechamelsauce, 30 ml (2 tbsp)grated Asiago and 30 ml(2 tbsp) gratedParmesan cheese.Repeat 4 times, addingcheese every other layer.For the top layer, finishwith just grated cheese,about 125 ml (1/2 cup)of Asiago and 125 ml(1/2 cup) of Parmesancheese. Add morecheese if you like.
8 Bake lasagna until fillingis hot and bubbling andcheese is golden brown,30 to 35 minutes. Letlasagna rest 10 minutesbefore cutting. Sprinklewith parsley and serve.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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82-game season and the op-position was missing itstwo best players (three ifyou’d rather have goalieMarc-Andre Fleury over
centre Jordan Staal — back-up Brent Johnson playedinstead), but Edmonton’s 2-1 shootout win over Pitts-burgh had at least onemajor positive: Devan Dub-nyk’s excellent play.
Dubnyk was the game’sfirst star with 33 saves butit was when he made themthat mattered most. Withthe game in the balanceand Ryan Smyth showingthe opposite of veteransavvy by taking a five-minute elbowing penalty,Dubnyk kept his troopsalive, even when the majorseeped into overtime.
I talked to a lot of Ed-monton fans over the sum-mer and I always askedwhat they thought of Dub-nyk. Oilers fans tend to bevery optimistic, so I sup-pose I should not havebeen surprised that every-one was keen on the 25-year-old from Regina.Across the league, I don’tthink Dubnyk has earnedthe same kind of respect.To be fair, he must stillprove himself. Look at theother starting goalies inthe Northwest Division:Roberto Luongo (be nice,he was an Olympian),
Niklas Backstrom, MiikkaKiprusoff and Semyon Var-lamov. For the weakest di-vision in the NHL rightnow, that’s a pretty nicecollection of ’keepers.
Dubnyk has gone overto Europe the past twosummers to representCanada at the WorldChampionships. In 2010,he didn’t see any action asthe third-stringer to ChrisMason and Chad Johnson.This year, he at least gotsome ice time (nearly 14minutes!), but was still be-hind James Reimer andJonathan Bernier.
Luckily, in EdmontonDubnyk is No. 1. NikolaiKhabibulin’s summer wasmuch worse and it’s clearhis stellar NHL career iswinding down. The six-foot-five Dubnyk stood tallagainst the Penguins, evenif their power play wasmissing Sidney Crosby andEvgeni Malkin and so feck-less it was borderline offen-sive to watch.
The Oilers aren’t themost responsible team, sotheir netminder must bailthem out many more timesthis season. That is Dub-nyk’s challenge.
Dubnyk takes first step in proving he’s No. 1THE HOCKEYNEWSRYAN [email protected]
Quoted
“It’s the same asusual — I feelgood. It went
good today andI’m excited to be
home.”SIDNEY CROSBY. CROSBY
WENT THROUGH ANOTHERPITTSBURGH PENGUINS
MORNING SKATE WITHOUTCONTACT YESTERDAY AS HE
CONTINUES TO RECOVERFROM A CONCUSSION.
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Tigers claw back intoAL championship withwin over Rangers
Doug Fister delivered another strong start in a game Detroit needed and MiguelCabrera homered and hit a tiebreaking double to lead the Tigers past the TexasRangers 5-2 last night in Game 3 of the AL championship series.Detroit dropped the first two games in Texas before turning to Fister, who wonthe decisive fifth game of the division series at Yankee Stadium last week. He wassharp again, allowing two runs and seven hits with no walks in 7 1⁄3 innings.Game 4 is this afternoon in Detroit.
Detroit. Exhales
Tigers starting pitcher Doug Fister throws during the seventh inning in Detroit last night. The Tigers trail the Texas Rangers 2-1 in the ALCS.
d— division leaders ranked 1-2-3 regardless of points; a teamwinning in overtime or shootout iscreditedwith two points and a victory in theW column; the team losing in overtime or shootoutreceives one pointwhich is registered in the OTL (overtime loss) or SL (shootout loss) column.
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE NFL
LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPSERIES(Best-of-7 series)All times Eastern
AMERICAN LEAGUETEXAS (W)VS. DETROIT (C)(Texas leads 2-1)Last night’s resultDetroit 5 Texas 2Monday’s resultTexas 7 Detroit 3 (11 inn.)Tonight’s gameTexas (Harrison 14-9) at Detroit (Porcello 14-9), 4:19 p.m.Tomorrow’s gameTexas at Detroit (Verlander 24-5), 4:19 p.m.Saturday’s gamex-Detroit (Scherzer) at Texas, 8:05 p.m.Sunday’s gamex-Detroit (Fister) at Texas, 8:05 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUEMILWAUKEE (C) VS. ST. LOUIS (WC)(Series tied 1-1)Monday’s resultSt. Louis 12Milwaukee 3Tonight’s gameMilwaukee (Gallardo 17-10) at St. Louis (Car-penter 11-9), 8:05 p.m.Tomorrow’s gameMilwaukee (Wolf 13-10) at St. Louis (Lohse14-8), 8:05 p.m.Friday’s gameMilwaukee at St. Louis, 8:05 p.m.Sunday’s gamex-St. Louis atMilwaukee, 4:05 or 8:05 p.m.Monday, Oct. 17x-St. Louis atMilwaukee, 8:05 p.m.x— if necessary.
AMERICAN CONFERENCEEAST
W L T Pct PF PABuffalo 4 1 0 .800 164 120New England 4 1 0 .800 165 119N.Y. Jets 2 3 0 .400 121 125Miami 0 4 0 .000 69 104
San Francisco 4 1 0 .800 142 78Seattle 2 3 0 .400 94 122Arizona 1 4 0 .200 96 121St. Louis 0 4 0 .000 46 113Monday’s resultDetroit 24 Chicago 13WEEK 6Sunday’s gamesSt. Louis at Green Bay, 1 p.m.Jacksonville at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.Philadelphia atWashington, 1 p.m.San Francisco at Detroit, 1 p.m.Carolina at Atlanta, 1 p.m.Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.Buffalo at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.Cleveland at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.Houston at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m.Dallas at NewEngland, 4:15 p.m.NewOrleans at Tampa Bay, 4:15 p.m.Minnesota at Chicago, 8:20 p.m.Byes:Arizona, Denver, Kansas City, San Diego,Seattle, TennesseeMonday, Oct. 17Miami at N.Y. Jets, 8:30 p.m.
GP W L T GF GA PtPhiladelphia 32 11 7 14 43 34 47Kansas City 32 11 9 12 47 40 45Columbus 32 12 12 8 38 41 44Houston 32 10 9 13 40 40 43New York 32 9 7 16 49 42 43D.C. United 30 9 10 11 46 46 38Chicago 31 7 8 16 40 40 37Toronto 32 6 13 13 33 56 31New England 32 5 15 12 36 53 27
WESTERN CONFERENCEGP W L T GF GA Pt
x-Los Angeles 32 18 4 10 46 25 64x-Seattle 32 16 7 9 51 35 57x-Salt Lake 32 15 11 6 43 35 51Dallas 31 13 11 7 36 34 46Colorado 32 11 9 12 42 40 45Portland 31 11 13 7 38 44 40Chivas USA 32 8 12 12 40 39 36San Jose 32 7 11 14 35 41 35Vancouver 31 5 16 10 32 50 25x— clinched playoff berth.Note: Three points for awin, one for a tie.Tonight’s gamesAll times EasternDallas at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.D.C. United at Vancouver, 10 p.m.Friday’s gamesHouston at Portland, 10:30 p.m.Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 10:30 p.m.Saturday’s gamesToronto at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.NewYork at Kansas City, 4 p.m.Chicago at D.C. United, 7:30 p.m.Columbus at NewEngland, 7:30 p.m.Vancouver at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.San Jose at Seattle, 10:30 p.m.
Ford FiestaBase price: $14,500All-new sedan andhatchback modelsare easy on the eyesand easy on gas.
Honda FitBase price: $15,900Highly practical androomy wagon with apeppy powerplant.
Chevrolet SonicBase price: $16,000New Aveo replace-ment offers lots ofpower plus good fu-el economy.
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Longer and widerKia’s California-based stylists really sharpenedtheir pencils (or computer programs) in design-ing the new Rio duo and devised a larger canvason which to do it.
Both the sedan and hatchback 5-Door are a bitlonger and wider than their predecessors andthe distance between their front and rear wheelshas grown by a leg-stretching three inches.
The sheetmetal is now much more pleasing,especially on the slinkier hatch that has its owngrille, bumper and, of course, rear door.
Kia has done a good job of creating a sedan that doesn’t look droopy at the ends. From this angle, you can also see that the headlights stretch up the front fender more than half way. Remember when headlights used to be on the front of a car?
It can now be carved instone with absolute cer-tainty that the dumbed-down, stripped-baresmall-car era is officiallyover. And we have carssuch as the 2012 Kia Rio tothank for pushing high-tech and comfort featuresdown to the lowest limbon the automotive tree.
The all-new Rio sedan
and Rio 5-Door hatchbackbear little resemblance totheir predecessors thattook a minimalist ap-proach and backed it upwith styling and featuresthat defined utilitarian.
But, hey, that workedfor the Rio and itsHyundai Accent relation(Hyundai owns Kia), aswell as for just about everyother entry-level car onthe planet.
It’s amazing what a lit-
tle bar-raising competitionhas done for what wasonce the low-rent catego-ry. Nowadays, the market
is teeming with really de-cent base rides, includingthe Ford Fiesta, ToyotaYaris, Mazda2, Honda Fit,
Nissan Versa and the up-coming Chevrolet Sonic,to name some of the classleaders.
At a base price of$15,650 for the hatchback(pricing for the sedan has-n’t been set yet), the Riomodels appear to have es-tablished category bench-marks for fashion andsubstance that will behard to top, but easy forsmall-car shoppers to swal-low.
Kia Rio: Good things come in small packagesMALCOLM [email protected] MEDIA
Idle Stop and GoThe powerplant’s claim to fame is the adoption ofwhat Kia calls Idle Stop and Go (ISG). This feature,available only in combination with the automatictransmission, shuts down the engine when theRio comes to a complete stop, then instantly firesit up again when the brake pedal is released.
ISG is part of an optional Eco DynamicsPackage that includes a special alternator that dis-engages under high engine load (such as whenheading up a hill) to reduce power-sapping dragand improve fuel economy.
Engine The Rio’s power output has been signifi-cantly increased. The 1.6-litre four-cylin-der produces 138 horses and 123pound-feet of torque. That’s a gain of 28horses and 16 pound-feet of torque com-pared to the outgoing 1.6, which is sig-nificant on a 1,135-kilogram vehicle.
The lighter-by-13 kilograms engine isconnected to a six-speed manual trans-mission or an optional six-speedautomatic.
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FUEL EFFICIENCY FACES INTRIGUING PARADOX
We instinctivelyequate fuel efficiencywith fuelconservation, but theyare completely differ-ent concepts. If fact,fuel efficiency can ac-tually lead to more fu-el consumption.
This disturbingnotion was firstdocumented ina scholarly way,back in 1865,by the British
economist, W. StanleyJevons.
He argued that the tech-nological improvements,which increased theamount of energy onecould extract out of a cer-tain amount of coal, actual-ly led to more coal use, notless. The notion has sincebeen known as the JevonsParadox.
I had my own Jevons Par-adox moment this pastweekend. I made an extrarun to my ancestral bunga-low, 100 kilometres away,mostly because I had accessto a very efficient vehicle —
With the Sonic’s high-way fuel consumption rat-ing of 5.1 L/100 km, the 200km round trip burned upabout 11 litres of regular, at$1.22 per, for an estimatedexpenditure of about 13bucks.
If my only vehicle optionhad been my ’67 Jaguar E-type, I wouldn’t have went,because the round tripwould have cost me about$35 in premium fuel, about$2 in heavy weight engineoil, and about a day or twooff my life expectancy, dueto the physical and emo-
tional stress of watchingthe Jaguar’s coolant tem-perature gauge flirtingwith disaster for two solidhours. But I did have theSonic, so I went. Net result:I used 11 “more” litres ofgasoline than I would have,had I been Sonic-less.
We take more car tripsand drive more annualkilometres than we did 40years ago, and that meanswe consume more gasolinethan we did 40 years ago,even factoring in the fan-tastic fuel efficiency gainswe’ve made over the sameperiod.
Now, we’re contributingsignificantly less green-house gases per vehicle
trip, because the vehiclesrun a lot cleaner, so that’ssomething.
But if we collectivelythink we’ll fix everythingby chipping away at the fu-el numbers, we won’t, be-cause the more fuel-efficient vehicles become,the cheaper it becomes toconsume fuel. We’re on apath to efficiently consumemore and more fuel.
Economists, especiallythose with a free marketbent, tell us there is one,sure-fire way to changeconsumer behaviour — thebrute force of high price.
But do we want a world
where fuel prices are sohigh only the rich get todrive? I say, “nay.”
Actually I would say,“nay, nay, really nay.” Iguess we could also allo-cate fuel via a voucher sys-tem, as used by post-warBritain for many years.
What would really help,however, is if someonecame up with a new para-dox, one that would be eas-ier to get your head aroundthan Jevons Paradox, andwhere the outcome wouldalways be awesome.
That’s your assignmentfor this week. No exten-sions.
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Aries March 21-April 20Today’s full moon in your sign willmotivate you to act quickly and de-cisively, but don’t go too far.
Taurus April 21-May 21 Likeeveryone else, you have secrets.But there is one secret that will be-come public today. Own it.
Gemini May 22-June 21Don’t keep your feelings to your-self today — let everyone knowwhat is going on inside your heart.
Cancer June 22-July 22 Becareful how you come across totoday. The full moon warns noteveryone will see your humour.
Leo July 23-Aug.23 Let some-one you are attracted to know thatyou think they are special.
Virgo Aug. 24- Sept. 22 Youwill get more done if you take agentler, less confrontational ap-proach. Imagine how others feel.
Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 23 You maybe an open-minded person buttoday, protect yourself from otherpeople’s negative emotions.
Scorpio Oct. 24-Nov. 22 Ifyou are going to make progress ona project of some kind, you firstneed to stop thinking you can do italone. Seek help.
Sagittarius Nov. 23-Dec. 21 Today’s full moon in Aries willencourage you to take the kind ofrisk that most people would avoid.
Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 20The less you reveal about yourplans over the next two or threedays, the better.
Aquarius Jan. 21-Feb. 18You may be tempted to cut cornersand bend rules today but you reallydon’t need to.
Pisces Feb. 19-March 20.There’s a chance an employer willtry to cheat you out of what isrightfully yours. SALLY BROMPTON
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