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Province should hear P3 concerns: EPSB trustee
Problems faced when build-ing schools through a private-public partnership need to be brought to the province’s atten-tion, said an Edmonton public school trustee.
In a report presented to the Edmonton Public School Board trustees Tuesday, planning staff revealed they had encountered challenges in the P3 process early on, including dealing
with third-party maintenance providers.
Staff also identified prob-lems clarifying the roles of staff from EPSB, Alberta Infrastruc-ture and the third-party builder.
Trustee Ken Gibson said these were concerns that need-ed to be shared with the prov-ince.
“I would suggest the experi-ence captured in the informa-tion report be shared with Infrastructure Alberta so if the government at some point re-turns to the P3 model, we can help them improve it to better meet our needs,” he said.
The information report comes just days after the prov-ince announced it would be ditching the P3 plan for 19 planned new schools.
Education minister Jeff Johnson said while the prov-ince wont be using P3s this time around, they’ve been ex-tremely successful in the past.
“By doing P3s over the last several rounds it’s meant we’ve been able to do in the neigh-bourhood of 20 more schools with the same amount of money,” he told Metro.
“There are benefits when done in the right situation.”
EPSB’s Ken Erickson said while the district identified some challenges with the P3 model, the process has overall been a success.
“We’ve had a few challenges like any new relationship, but generally speaking, the P3s are working quite well for us.”
Erickson said the need for the nine schools built under the P3 model in the district have been crucial for the grow-ing population.
“We got them and we need-ed them badly in those new areas. If we had to wait an extra year or two, that would have made it a lot harder for our stu-dents,” he said.
Edmonton Public School Board. New schools built under the private-public partnership model or P3 have been crucial for the growing population
LAMBERTAN RHAPSODY Adam Lambert joined Queen on the band’s visit to Edmonton for the Queen + Adam Lambert Tour, visiting Rexall Place Tuesday night. TOPHER SEGUIN/FOR METRO
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Highrise developments will still soar along the north edge of downtown, but councillors have taken a step toward keep-ing one property in the area closer to the ground.
City administration had proposed new zoning for doz-ens of properties along 105th Avenue that would have nixed a requirement that commer-cial properties — such as stores or restaurants — come as part of residential towers.
The change was particu-larly important to one land-owner hoping to develop a standalone restaurant near 105th Street and 106th Av-enue. Council was against the broader change but asked
administration to come back with zoning changes for just that one property.
Members from the com-munity argued the zoning was part of a plan for the area that they had spent a lot of time de-veloping with the city.
“We bought into it and we worked hard on it,” said Der-rick Forsythe with the Queen Mary Park Community League.
Forsythe told councillors he was concerned the dom-inoes would fall, even if they approved a change for just one property.
Coun. Scott McKeen said he couldn’t support changing the overall vision but didn’t think one restaurant would be the linchpin.
“I don’t know if a one-off here will actually affect the plan in a negative way,” he said.
Following the decision, For-sythe said it sends the wrong message because council al-lowed lower density in an ideal spot just steps from an LRT stop, a university and the arena.
Zoning. But exception may be made for one restaurant, which critic fears will be fi rst domino
This property near Grant MacEwan University and a future LRT station will be considered for rezoning to allow a standalone restaurant, but council kept the requirement for other properties in Downtown’s north edge. RYAN TUMILTY/METRO
Council keeps most of north-edge plan intact
Consultation
Trustees push on with closure plan for three schoolsThree Edmonton schools are one step closer to being closed and re-placed by a brand new kindergarten-to-Grade 9 school, now that the city’s public school board has approved a new consulta-tion process.
At Tuesday’s Edmonton Public School Board meet-ing, Supt. Darrel Robert-son presented the plan to close Rundle Elementary, R.J. Scott Elementary and Lawton Junior High, then build an $18.84-million school in Rundle Heights.
“The Rundle commun-ity has embraced this pro-ject; they’re very excited,” said Robertson. “They didn’t want a moderniza-tion, they wanted a new school, and that’s what we’re giving them.”
After the province announced funding for the project in January, the board launched what Robertson called an “ex-tensive consultation” to gauge the interest of three different communities.
In June, EPSB an-nounced the Lawton community had clearly wanted the new facility.
“The community really views the possible replace-ment school as an invest-ment in our students and our community and a recognition that we need to provide great learning spaces not only next year and the year after, but 30, 40 years down the road,” Robertson said.
The board also ap-proved drafting a letter to the province in hopes of achieving a September 2016 open date.LEAH GERMAIN/METRO
Molson site redevelopment beginsThe controversial redevelop-ment of the former Molson Brewery site will break ground Wednesday, with the developer hoping to win people over as it’s built out.
Ralph Huzinga with First Capital Reality said the new LEED silver development will bring a lot to the city.
“Once it’s built it will be ap-preciated more than it is on a site plan,” he said.
Huzinga said that, since the
approval, more of the parking has been moved underground and the building designs have been tweaked.
He said he believes most of the resistance was from the Oli-ver Community League board.
“The resistance we experi-enced, I’m not convinced was necessarily indicative of the broader Oliver community,” he said.
Jarrett Campbell, president of the Oliver Community
League, said the development is still wrong for the area.
“Fundamentally, it’s the same development and we have the same concerns we have always had,” he said.
Campbell hopes denser, more pedestrian-oriented de-velopment is the future.
“We should take the Mol-son development and see it as a missed opportunity, but also a learning opportunity,” he said. RYAN TUMILTY/METRO
The former Molson Brewery will be preserved. METRO FILE
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This photo shows the plot of land earmarked for the city’s first fruit forest in the Edmonton River Valley. Contributed
Group plots to plant Edmonton’s first food forest
River Valley users could soon find themselves snacking on locally grown berries and fruit as a group of Edmonton gar-deners plot to plant the city’s first food forest.
Leading the charge, Ed-monton high school teacher and master gardener Dustin Bajer said a food forest not only provides locally-sourced edibles, but offers the city a chance to increase its tree count as it works to naturalize different areas.
“A forest doesn’t require any weeding, tilling, fertiliz-ing, watering, insecticides or chemicals,” said Bajer. “If a forest burns down it will re-plenish itself.
“The idea behind a food forest is to mimic those pat-terns in such a way that you can have the resiliency of a natural system but you can tweak it in such a way you can produce food.”
Currently, the city is work-ing to cut back on the amount of mowing it does, while plant-ing trees and shrubs native to the province in an effort to naturalize certain areas.
According to Bajer, the food forest accomplishes all of those goals.
As a result, he plans on planting native plants, includ-ing Saskatoons, high bush cranberries, currants, goose-
berries and pin cherries.“It’s turning a piece of land
that was previously mowed continuously back into a river valley forest,” he added.
Bajer said there’s huge po-tential to add more food for-ests throughout the city.
“There’s no shortage of places to do this,” Bajer said.
Local edibles. City working to naturalize different parts of River Valley
Heritage Savings Trust. Fund earned $2.1B in 2013-14; sits at $17.5BThe Alberta government says its nest egg earned $2.1 billion in the last fiscal year — a 16 per cent rate of re-turn.
The value of the Heritage Savings Trust Fund now sits at $17.5 billion.
“The Heritage Fund’s strong growth confirms what we have been telling Albertans for some time now — that we can grow our short-term and long-term savings and keep our balance sheet strong at the same time,” said Finance Minister Doug Horner, president of Treasury Board.
Most of the money earned is being moved into general revenue to pay for government programs.
Just under $200 million is being kept in the fund, as required by law, to protect against inflation.
The heritage fund was set up under former pre-mier Peter Lougheed as a long-term savings account generated by Alberta’s oil wealth.
Initially, the govern-ment deposited 30 per cent of non-renewable resource revenues into the fund.
Those deposits stopped during hard times in the 1980s, but began again in 2005.
According to the Herit-age Fund’s 2013-14 Annual Report, the fund’s average annual investment return over the past five years was 12.7 per cent. The 10-year average annual return is 7.5 per cent. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Cycling
Bike-riding skills prevent collisions: AdvocatesCycling advocates are re-minding bikers to be aware of the rules of the road after a 15-year-old girl was struck by a car in Sherwood Park Monday.
The girl is still in hospital Tuesday afternoon with serious but non-life threatening injuries to her head and legs, said RCMP.
The girl was not wearing a helmet at the time of the collision, according to police, something cycling specialists say is mandatory for anyone under 18.
“We focus on teach-ing people riding skills. A helmet isn’t designed to prevent collisions,” said Christopher Chan, execu-tive director of Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society.
Witnesses say the young biker crossed the Granada Boulevard and Cloverbar Road intersection when the traffic light was red and was struck by a minivan driving through a green light.
Strathcona RCMP say cyclists who choose to ride on the road need to follow the same rules of the road as motor vehicle drivers. STEPHANIE DuBoIS/METRo
On July 19, Bajer and a group of volunteers will be planting the city’s first food forest in the River Valley be-tween 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
• ThegroupwillmeetatGovernment House Park and walk to the plot, about five minutes west of the meeting location.
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If you ride on two wheels, or-ganizers of a new bike anthol-ogy want to hear from you on June 29.
As the second book in the series, Be-Spoked will be made up of local cyclists’ accounts of riding their bike in Edmonton or around the world.
“We’re inviting bike en-thusiasts to explore the loyalty that cyclists bestow on bike through the medium of the written word,” said Grace Em-manuel, owner of Stylus Fine Pens and co-collaborator of the project.
Cyclists are asked to sub-mit either a short story, essay or poetry that explain to the reader the joys of riding a bike.
With June being Bike Month, project organizers are working under the theme of “spoke,” which is both an in-tegral component of a bike wheel and the past tense of speak.
“It’s submissions that in-voke the sensory experience of cycling or reveal the senti-ments that are bestowed upon
bikes when they’re regarded as companions. We’re invit-ing people to muse about their loyalty,” said Emmanuel.
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organizers, something they hope is reflected in submis-sions compiled at Bike Writer’s Night at Mike’s Bikes on June 29. Submissions will be ac-cepted until the end of August.
It’s a case that gives new mean-ing to the term “shock talk”.
Mounties in the town of Hinton have confiscated a pair of stun guns designed to look like iPhones.
RCMP officials were tipped off on June 18 that someone was trying to sell a Taser-like device online and seized the first of two so-called “con-ducted energy weapons.”
Officers were called within a day to a bar in the west-cen-tral Alberta town for reports a woman was causing a ruckus.
They seized a second weapon designed to look like a mobile device. metro
Riding and writing. Anthology aims to express joys of cycling via the written word
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Grace Emmanuel, owner of Stylus Fine Pens and co-collaborator on a new project that aims to get submissions from cyclists about the joy of cycling, holds up the first anthology. Stephanie DuboiS/Metro
All shocking, no talking. Alberta rCmP seize stun guns disguised as iPhones
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EPSB OKs $1B budget for 2015Next year’s budget for Ed-monton Public Schools was approved Tuesday, marking the district’s highest budget to date at $1 billion.
While provincial grants remained the same, the district received a two per cent bump from the gov-ernment to accommodate its expected 2.6 per cent enrolment growth.
The district will also look to increase transporta-tion fees paid by parents following a change to prov-incial grant funding.
EPSB will also access $13.8 million of operating reserves to cover a funding shortfall. LeAh GermAin/metro
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Thanks to a simple book-keeping error, a farmer from Czar, Alta., was able to locate the 59 heifers he had reported being stolen.
According to RCMP, the farmer had made a mistake in his records and only real-
ized the error almost a month after he first thought they dis-appeared.
“Police investigations go where the facts lead us,” said Corporal Dave Heaslip of the Alberta RCMP Livestock Inves-tigation Unit. “In this case, the facts led us back home.”
Along with a ground search, RCMP completed an air search and inspected livestock mar-kets in several provinces. metro
High Level Bridge set for Canada Day lightup
Testing of the lights on the High Level Bridge is going well and the people behind the project believe they will
be ready to switch it on for good next week.
Derek Pogany, with Pro-loux Lighting, said the team has been working on the program that will run the lights, which are almost ready to go. He said when the lights go on, the hope is that everything will be timed with the music.
“Hopefully the timing works perfectly and the highs (in the music) react with the lighting and the
lows work well with the lighting,” he said.
Pogany said the bridge control system is massive and allows a wide variety of colours and patterns.
“There are 15,000 chan-nels that are controlling this project,” he said. “That’s quite a powerful system.”
Pogany said the opening sequence the team is work-ing on is going to paint the bridge with light but will
avoid being too glitzy. It will be up to the city how the bridge is used long-term.
Dave Hoeksema, with EPCOR, said ongoing test-ing citizens may have seen showed the bridge lighting at its full potential, not ne-cessarily how it will be used when it turns on.
“We have run it through very complex testing pat-terns, so we have tried to do as much as it possibly could do,” he said.
Big switch. Controlling lights a complex operation
From left, Blake McGrath with Summit Swing Stage, who installed the lights,Dave Hoeksema with EPCOR, who oversaw the project, and Derek Pogany withProloux Lighting, who is programming the lights, stand with samples of thelights that have been installed on the High Level Bridge. Ryan TumilTy/meTRo
Organizers of Dishcrawl are breathing new life into the popular foodie event after a switch in volunteers led to a several-month hiatus for the touring food group.
Theresa Engel-Wood, who has taken over the role as Edmonton Dishcrawl Ambassador, says the up-coming Dishcrawl on 124 Street will focus on a mixed bag of local restaurants to
give the event something new.
“We’re going to visit some of the new restau-
rants that may not be as trendy right now but are just starting up,” she said.
With the July 15 event almost full, organizers are looking at touring people to dine for a second night in a row to keep up with the local foodie demand.
“It’s all about finding those gems in the neigh-bourhood,” said Engel-Wood. StepHanie DuBoiS/metro
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Suspicious-death victim identifiedEdmonton police have released the name of a sus-picious-death victim from Sunday in Bonnie Doon.
The body of Michael Bradley Laronde, 33, of Sas-katchewan, was found Sun-day at approximately 10:30 a.m. in a residence near 91 Street and 83 Avenue.
EPS is not releasing the results of an autopsy com-pleted Tuesday. metro
Horse, rider die in ‘freak accident’An exercise rider died Tues-day after being crushed by a thoroughbred at Toronto’s Woodbine Racetrack in what officials described as a “freak accident.”
Police said the rider was in the saddle around 6 a.m., when the horse was showing signs of medical distress. The rider, identi-fied as Mourad Boudraa, 40, was crushed into the railing and then by the weight of the horse. The Canadian press
San Francisco
Mismanagement blamed in Asiana Flight 214 crashMismanagement by the pilots of Asiana Flight 214, including confusion over whether one of the airliner’s key controls was maintaining airspeed, caused the plane to crash while landing in San Fran-cisco last year, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded Tuesday. The assoCiaTed press
In 1948, as Naomi Schenck was rushed into a North Caro-lina operating room because she was having a miscarriage, the then-17-year-old newlywed heard a doctor say: “Cut her.”
“I didn’t know what ‘cut her’ meant,” said Schenck, now 83. She soon found out: Schen-ck said she was given a spinal tap and then sterilized against her will, along with 7,600 others from 1929 to 1974 under the state’s eugenics program.
Schenck is among 520 ster-ilization victims and family members waiting to be paid a portion of the $10-million fund established by North Carolina. The Office for Justice of Steril-
ization Victims estimates about 1,800 victims are still alive. The deadline to file claims is Mon-day.
Eugenics programs in the U.S. were widely perceived as a legitimate effort to improve society by sterilizing people the state deemed inferior citizens incapable of caring for children. Victims were disproportion-ately poor, mentally disabled or African-American. Eugenics fell out of favour in when it became associated with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s ideas of racial purity during the Second World War.
Of 33 states that ran forced sterilization programs, North Carolina is the first to com-pensate victims. But getting
victims to come forward can be difficult. Only one woman attended a legal clinic recently held by the University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights to guide people through the claims process.
Others have died awaiting compensation, and their fam-ilies will not qualify for pay-ments if they died before June 2013. Victims will be paid June 30, 2015, one year after the claims deadline. The $10 mil-lion will be divided according to the number of victims file claims approved. At the current rate, the average payment will be less than $20,000 per person.
For Schenck, it won’t take away the pain.The assoCiaTed press
North Carolina. Eugenics programs in the U.S. were widely seen as an effort to improve society
Claims deadline nears for victims of forced sterilization
Lessya Kotelevskaya attends a news conference on Oct. 29, 2013, in Louisville,Ky., where her surgeon discussed her upcoming surgeries to undo damage doneto her face when she lived in Kazakhstan. Bruce Schreiner/The ASSociATed PreSS
Mistaken diagnosis. Face reconstruction a success for Kazakhstani womanA medical team has painstak-ingly repaired the disfiguring injuries to a woman’s face, caused by radiation treatments for a cancer she never had that caused a gaping hole in her cheek and made her an outcast in a former Soviet republic.
Lessya Kotelevskaya was recovering Tuesday after a 16-hour surgery the day before at University of Louisville Hospi-tal. Her surgeon, Dr. Jarrod Lit-tle, said the procedure to recon-struct her jawbone and cheek went according to plan.
The 30-year-old was diag-
nosed with terminal jaw cancer at age 19 in Kazakhstan after she was elbowed in the face at a basketball game and her jaw became swollen. The dam-age from radiation treatments made it difficult to eat and talk. By the time she found out the diagnosis was wrong, she had lost her husband and their clothing boutique.
The surgery included re-moving a leg bone that was conformed into a new jaw-bone, with the skin becoming the new inside covering of her mouth. The assoCiaTed press
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“I think they should help the family of deceased victims that have been verified like us, because our family was devastated.”Bertha D. Marks, the daughter of a deceased victim of forced sterilization
Extremists have abducted 91 more people, including tod-dlers as young as three, in weekend attacks on villages in Nigeria, witnesses said Tues-day, providing fresh evidence of the military’s failure to curb an Islamic uprising and the government’s inability to pro-vide security.
The kidnappings come less than three months after the mass abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls, which embar-rassed Nigeria’s government and military because of their slow response. Those girls are still being held captive.
The most recent victims
include 60 girls and women, some of whom are married, and 31 boys, witnesses said.
A local official confirmed the abductions, but security
forces denied them.There was no way to safely
and independently confirm the report from Kummabza, 150 kilometres from Maidu-
guri, capital of Borno state and headquarters of a military state of emergency that has failed to curtail near-daily attacks by Boko Haram fighters.
Vigilante leader Aji Khalil said Tuesday the abductions took place Saturday in an attack that killed four villagers. Khalil lives in Maiduguri but gets re-ports daily from other vigilante groups that have had some suc-cess in repelling Boko Haram with primitive weapons.
A senior councillor from the village’s Damboa local govern-ment told The Associated Press that abductions had occurred but spoke on condition of ano-nymity because he was not au-thorized to give information to reporters. He said the reports came from elderly survivors of the attack who had walked some 25 kilometres to the rela-tive safety of other villages.
An intelligence officer with Nigeria’s Department of State Security also said there had been a mass abduction, but he said it occurred in Kummabza and three nearby villages be-tween June 13 and 15, and that no one knows the actual num-ber abducted. the associated press
Kummabza, Nigeria. Kidnappings come less than three months after 200 schoolgirls were taken in mass abduction
Boko haram attacks villages, abducts 91 people: Witnesses
Escalating violence
No end in sightA strategy to rescue the girls is at an impasse. Nigeria’s military has said it knows where they are but fears their abductors would kill them if military action is taken.
Boko Haram has been demanding the release of detained members, but President Goodluck Jona-than has said he will not consider a swap.
This year, the Boko Haram insurgents have embarked on a two-pronged strategy — bombing in cities and a scorched-earth policy in rural areas where they are devastating villages.
On Monday, an explo-sion at a medical college in the city of Kano killed at least eight people and wounded 12, police said. On Saturday, Boko Haram fighters attacked four villa-ges near Chibok, witnesses said, and 33 villagers, six vigilantes and two dozen Boko Haram fighters were killed. the associated press
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President won’t interfere in verdicts against three journalistsEgyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on Tuesday rejected calls from the United States and other Western governments that he pardon or com-mute the sentences of an Egyptian-Canadian journalist and two of his Al-Jazeera colleagues who were all handed heavy prison terms a day earlier in a court ruling that raised international outrage.
El-Sissi’s tough stance reflected an image the former army chief has sought to project to the Egyptian public — one of a strong leader defy-ing foreign pressure on Egypt. Nationalist media bolstered that narrative Tuesday, praising the verdicts as a sign of the judiciary standing up to outside interference.
El-Sissi said he would not interfere in court rulings or the judicial process. Legal experts said that doesn’t rule out a pardon later after any ap-peals are exhausted. the associated press
KFc. probe doesn’t find evidence worker asked scarred child to leaveFried-chicken chain KFC said two different investigations have not found any evidence that an employee asked a three-year-old girl and family members to leave because her severe facial injuries, suf-fered in a pit bull mauling, disturbed customers.
KFC spokesman Rick May-nard said Tuesday the com-pany considered the matter closed after an internal in-vestigation by the franchise restaurant in Jackson and an independent probe. Maynard said the company would hon-our its commitment to donate $30,000 to help with medical bills for Victoria Wilcher.
“Like the rest of Amer-ica, the KFC family has been moved by the story of Vic-toria’s injuries and recovery,” Maynard said.
Allegations that Victoria was asked to leave the restaurant were made earlier this month on the Facebook site Victoria’s Victories, which follows her recovery from the April attack.
In a statement, Hannon Food Services, which operates the restaurant, said the com-pany was deeply troubled by the allegation. As part of its investigation, Hannon said it
spent hundreds of hours re-viewing surveillance video, interviewing employees and hired the outside investigator. The company said it would reach out to the child’s family for additional discussions.
Jackson attorney Bill Kel-lum said Victoria’s grand-mother, Kelly Mullins, stands by her claim of what hap-pened at the restaurant.the associated press
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From Philly, with fun. Giant Tetris game sets new Guinness RecordAll the pieces have fallen into place for the designer of a giant Tetris game.
Drexel University profes-sor Frank Lee has earned the Guinness World Record for largest architectural video game display. Again.
Lee and two colleagues created a computer program to play the classic shape-fitting puzzle on two sides of a 29-storey skyscraper in Philadelphia.
They used hundreds of lights embedded in the glass
facades of the Cira Centre. All told, the “screens” to-talled nearly 11,000 square meters.
Dozens of Tetris enthusi-asts played the supersized version in April using a joystick from about 2 kilo-metres away.
The record announced Tuesday beat the previous one also set by Lee. Last year, he recreated the classic Atari game Pong on a side of the same building. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Woman jumps barrier at Memphis zoo to feed cookies to the lionsMemphis Zoo officials have banned a woman after saying she climbed over a barrier to the en-closure where lions are kept and tried to feed them cookies.
The unidentified woman’s actions were reported by other zoo patrons, who saw her jump the barrier. Pa-trons also said that they heard her singing to the animals.
After the barrier, only wire separates guests from the lions inside the enclosure.
Zoo spokeswoman Ab-bey Dane told Memphis station WMC-TV the woman’s behaviour was dangerous for her and the lions.
She said the woman won’t be allowed back into the facility. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An Arizona company said Tuesday it has successfully completed the first small-scale test flight of a high-altitude balloon and capsule being de-veloped to let tourists float 32 kilometres above the earth.
World View Enterprises of Tucson said it launched the flight last week from Ros-well, New Mexico.
CEO Jane Poynter said the system broke the world record for highest parafoil flight, lifting a payload to 36,576 metres.
“It went really, really, real-ly well,” Poynter said. “Actual-
ly, the guys hit the ball out of the park. We’re thrilled.”
The system uses a balloon similar to that used in 2012 to lift Austrian daredevil Felix
Baumgartner 39,014 metres to make a world-record break-ing 38.62-kilometre sky dive. That flight launched from the Roswell airport.
Poynter said that last week’s flight was the first testing all the components together. It used a balloon about third the size of that planned for passenger flight to lift a payload of about one-tenth of what will be used to carry passengers.
The company is still plan-ning to begin its $75,000-per-person flights in 2016, she said. The balloons will lift a capsule carrying six passen-gers and two crew members 32 kilometres up, where they will float under a parafoil for about two hours before float-ing back down to earth. THE CAnADIAn PRESS
$75K per person. Flights planned to begin in 2016
U.S. company one step closer to space tourism
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Justice Minister Peter MacKay raised eyebrows in his depart-ment with two very different tributes to female and male employees for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day this year.
Emails obtained by The Canadian Press show that in May, MacKay saluted mothers in the department for hold-ing down two full-time jobs — at home and at work.
“By the time many of you have arrived at the office in the morning, you’ve already changed diapers, packed lunches, run after school buses, dropped kids off at daycare, taken care of an aging loved one and maybe even thought about dinner,” MacKay said of the moms in a staff-wide memo that went out to thousands of employ-ees before Mother’s Day.
The email didn’t get much reaction internally until the Father’s Day version arrived a month later. It made no men-tion of any household duties, but said the men were “shap-ing the minds and futures of the next generation of lead-ers.”
“... Needless to say, it can
also be daunting to consider the immense and life-long influence we have over our children,” MacKay wrote. “Our words, actions and ex-amples greatly mould who they will become.”
The Mother’s Day message does not touch on the impact the women have on their children’s futures.
MacKay’s office did not respond to a request for an interview.
Liberal trade critic Chrys-
tia Freeland calls the dif-ference in the Justice De-partment email messages striking and says they play on outdated stereotypes of parental roles.
“I think that particularly in families like the ones that were addressed by these emails ... I simply don’t think that reflects the modern Can-adian family and is demean-ing to both mothers and fath-ers,” said Freeland. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Mother’s, Father’s Day messages. Women change diapers and pack lunches, while men shape ‘leaders,’ minister writes to staff
Tribute to moms has MacKay in hot water
Justice Minister Peter MacKay answers questions in the House of Commons on June 18. ADRIAN WYLD/ THE CANADIAN PRESS
Punishable by death
LGBT rights need protection: U.S.With anti-gay laws taking root in nearly 80 coun-tries, White House Nation-al Security Adviser Susan Rice said Tuesday that pro-tecting gays from global discrimination, abuse and even death is the most challenging international human rights issue facing the United States.
Seven countries have laws imposing death sen-tences for gay sex. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Backs gay marriage
Defrocked pastor back in pulpitA Pennsylvania pastor who presided over his son’s same-sex wedding can return to the pulpit after a United Methodist Church appeals panel on Tuesday overturned a decision to defrock him.
The nine-person panel said the jury that convicted Frank Schaefer of breaking church law erred when fashioning his punishment. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A silent euthanasia protestAnti-euthanasia demonstrators dressed as mime artists hold placards near the Eiffel Tower in Paris. A French court ruled Tuesday that doc-tors can turn off life support for Vincent Lambert, 38, left comatose by a car accident six years ago. MICHEL EULER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Environmental crime such as the poaching of elephants for ivory and the selling of illegal charcoal is helping to finance criminal, militia and terrorist groups, said a report from the United Nations Environment Program released Tuesday.
The Somali terror group al-Shabab makes between $38 million and $56 million a year in illegal charcoal, the report said.
Other militia groups — in-cluding the Lord’s Resistance Army, which U.S. troops are trying to help hunt down in central Africa — make be-tween $4 million and $12 mil-lion a year by trafficking ele-phant ivory.
The most lucrative en-vironmental crime is illegal logging, which the report said is worth between $30 billion and $100 billion annually.
“This is a big story. It’s a sad story. It’s threatening communities and internation-al economics despite every-thing we’ve put in place at the national and international level, the forces of the market are not allowing us to come to grips with this problem,” said Achim Steiner, the head of UNEP.
The illegal trade in natural resources has mushroomed
in recent years and threat-ens species and ecosystems but also national economies, Steiner said.
The magnitude of money lost to national economies “registers on an economic Richter scale” and requires a more systemic response because of the transnational nature of the threat, Steiner said.
Tuesday’s report was re-
leased during the first-ever United Nations Environment-al Assembly, a week-long con-ference in Nairobi.
John Scanlon, the secretary general of CITES, the Conven-tion on International Trade in Endangered Species, said ex-perts believe that speculators are stockpiling ivory in the belief that elephants will one day become extinct and the price of ivory will rise.
Poachers have killed tens of thousands of elephants across Africa in recent years, a trend that experts say will lead to extinction if the kill-ings are not stopped.
“There has been a clear change in the nature of wild-life crime in the last three, four, five years. It’s happening on an industrial scale now,” Scanlon said. tHE ASSOCIAtED PRESS
Prisoners’ rights
Greek inmates go on hunger strikeInmates at prisons across Greece have gone on hunger strike to protest government plans to build a new maximum security jail, and to demand better detention conditions. A prisoners’ rights group said Tuesday that more than 3,800 people in 13 prisons are taking part in the hun-ger strike, which started on Monday. tHE ASSOCIAtED PRESS
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Leader of drug cartel arrestedThe head of the once-mighty Tijuana-based Arel-lano Felix drug cartel was arrested while watching Mexico’s soccer team play in the World Cup, a top Mexican federal official said Tuesday.
The federal police chief said Fernando Sanchez Arellano was detained in Tijuana on Monday. tHE ASSOCIAtED PRESS
Uruguay. Marijuana club takes steps to register officially under national pot legalization lawA group has taken steps to be-come the first officially recog-nized marijuana-growing club in Uruguay, where lawmakers have made their country the world’s first national market-place for legal pot.
The Association of Canna-bis Studies of Uruguay began the process by registering with the Education and Cul-ture Ministry, Drug Control Chief Julio Calzada said Tues-day.
The club will have 40 members and will be headed by Laura Blanco. She told the Uruguayan newspaper El Pais that members will pay $300 each to join, and a monthly fee of up to $65. Some of the members will use the marijuana to treat medical conditions.
Lawmakers in December approved Uruguay’s experi-
ment with marijuana, giving the government the power to oversee production, sales and consumption of a drug illegal almost everywhere else.
Joining a growing club is one of three legal ways to ob-tain pot under the law.
Licensed buyers will be able to purchase up to 10 grams a week or 40 grams a month from a network of pharmacies that is expected to be functioning by late 2014 or early 2015.
Uruguayan citizens and legal residents 18 or older can also register to obtain licenses giving them the right to cul-tivate up to six marijuana plants per household and har-vest 480 grams a year, or join a marijuana-growing club with between 15 and 45 members and no more than 99 plants. tHE ASSOCIAtED PRESS
Chinese visitors look at souvenirs made of ivory for sale at the Benfica market on the outskirts of Luanda, Angola.The market sells more than 10,000 pieces of ivory, making it the largest one in southern Africa to openly sell illegal elephant tusks. Lucy Vigne/the associated press
Environmental crime financescriminal, terrorist groups: UNIllegal logging. It’s the most lucrative, bringing in between $30 and $100 billion annually
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The shaky ceasefire in Ukraine was thrown into peril Tuesday when pro-Mos-cow separatists shot down a Ukrainian military helicop-ter, killing nine servicemen.
Ukrainian President Pet-ro Poroshenko warned he may end the weeklong truce ahead of time. The deadly attack came a day after the rebels vowed to respect the ceasefire, which began last Friday.
Russian President Vladi-mir Putin, meanwhile, played the peacemaker, ur-ging Ukraine to extend the truce and sit down for talks
with the rebels. He also moved to rescind a parlia-mentary resolution author-
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ceasefire as part of a plan to end two months of fighting between government troops
and pro-Russian insurgents in the east. The violence, which erupted after the
Kremlin’s lightning annexa-tion of Crimea in March, has left hundreds dead.
The ceasefire has been re-peatedly broken by sporadic clashes, and it was violated again Tuesday when rebels used a shoulder-fired mis-sile to down a helicopter in Slovyansk, a key flashpoint in the insurgency.The AssociATed Press
Discussions. Russian president urging Ukraine to extend the truce and sit down for talks with the rebels
Demonstrators protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin during his meeting with Austrian President Heinz Fischer in front of Vienna’s historic Hofburg palace Tuesday. Herwig Prammer/THe associaTed Press
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Gunman fires on plane as it lands in Pakistan
Authorities in Pakistan were looking for a gunman who opened fire at a plane Tuesday evening just as it was landing in the vola-tile northwest, killing one person and wounding two others, officials said, casting fresh doubts about security at the country’s airports.
The violence in Peshawar comes just two weeks after gunmen laid siege to the country’s busiest airport in Karachi in an attack that
shocked Pakistanis and the international community and helped trigger a long-awaited military offensive against militants in the northwest.
A female passenger on board the plane died on the way to the hospital, said Ma-shood Tajwar, a spokesman for the national carrier, Pak-istan International Airlines. He said 178 passengers and an undetermined number of crew were on board.
Two other people on the flight were also wounded, said Dost Muhammad Khan, the station house officer in charge of the area. The plane was coming from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, said Khan and the passengers
were believed to mostly be Pakistanis who go to Saudi Arabia to work. He said the woman had been visiting her husband and had also gone on a religious pilgrim-age.
“When the plane was about to land, we heard shots and suddenly there was chaos in the flight,” said an unidentified male pas-senger, speaking to Dunya TV outside the airport.
Khan initially said five bullets hit the plane as it was coming in to the air-port, but the senior super-intendent of police, Najeeb ur Rehman Bhagvi, said when he and other author-ities later inspected the plane they found at least 10 bullet holes.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but suspicion will likely fall on militants that the govern-ment has been fighting in the country’s northwest. The AssociATed Press
Attack. The plane was coming from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, according to Pakistani official
“When the plane was about to land, we heard shots and suddenly there was chaos in the flight.”An unidentified male passenger, speaking to Dunya TV outside the airport
Verdict against Islamist delayedIn this Aug. 20, 2005, file photo, Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami President and Industries Minister Motiur Rahman Nizami addresses the media in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A Bangladesh court on Tuesday delayed a verdict against the top leader of the Islamist party charged with war crimes after the defendant in the politically charged trial become ill. A special tribunal was set to deliver the verdict for Nizami, who faces 16 charges, including genocide, murder, torture, rape and destruction of property during the nation’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971. PaVel Rahman/The CanadIan PRess
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The Hudson’s Bay Co. is pulling a T-shirt from its stores after a backlash unfolded on social media tied to an eyebrow-rais-ing message on the garment.
The T-shirt bears an infam-ous quote by British super-model Kate Moss that says, “Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels.”
The quote is shown inside a mockup of a nutrition label with the calorie count listed as zero.
After igniting some criti-cism online, Hudson’s Bay tweeted from its official ac-count that the T-shirt was be-ing removed from stores and online immediately.
The retailer confirmed the move to pull the garment in an official statement to The Can-adian Press on Tuesday.
“We always take into con-sideration what our customers want and need in our offerings and constantly evaluate the products we provide,” a por-tion of the statement read.
“We truly value our rela-tionship with our customers and take their concerns ser-iously and we recognize that many took offence to the item. In this particular instance, while we respect the design-er’s art, due to the overwhelm-ing response and the sensitiv-ity of the matter, we made the decision to promptly remove the T-shirts from our stores
and from thebay.com.” The Canadian-born design-
er of the T-shirt issued his own statement on Tuesday in wake of the controversy.
Christopher Lee Sauve said allegations that the shirt is celebrating the severity of eat-ing disorders “is just not the case.”
Sauve said that as an art-
ist, he got his start mocking the fashion industry. While he said it’s an industry he’s long followed and admired, it’s also one that “begs to be mocked.”
“Fashion is created to be either celebrated, adored, or hated and deplored. Quite like the industry itself,” the New York-based Sauve said. “The particular T-shirt in question
showcases an infamous quote by supermodel Kate Moss as a nutrition label. Like all of my designs, it’s a glorified warn-ing, an ode to the farcicality of the fashion industry and the obsessives that surround it.
“Most if not all of my de-signs showcase some type of statement pointing out the absurdity of fashion, and this one item is no exception,” he added. “I fully understand and comprehend the severity of an eating disorder and I do not condone celebrating such pain. My sincerest apologies to anyone that I have offended with my designs. I believe wholeheartedly in my work, however, and I can’t apologize for that.” THE canadian PRESS
HBc pulls T-shirt with infamous quote
Sorry, not sorry?
“i fully understand and comprehend the severity of an eating disorder and i do not condone celebrating such pain. My sincerest apologies to anyone that i have offended with my designs. i believe wholeheartedly in my work, however, and i can’t apologize for that.’’Christopher Lee sauve, the Canadian-born designer of the T-shirt
Hudson’s Bay Company. While the Canadian retailer pulls shirt, the Canadian-born designer stands by his use of the quote ‘Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels’
The FDA gave a GSK manufacturing facility a warning. Getty ImaGes
Fda warns Quebec flu vaccine plant The company that makes much of Canada’s annual flu vaccine and has the country’s pandem-ic flu vaccine contract has been issued a warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The letter, dated June 12, laid out a number of concerns, many related to sterility issues and microbial contamination problems at the GSK manufac-turing facility in Ste. Foy, Que.
The problems were identi-fied during an FDA inspection of the plant between March
31 and April 9. The U.S. regulatory agency
noted that since 2011 multiple batches of flu vaccine from the Quebec plant have been rejected. It warned that if the problems identified are not fixed promptly the company’s licence to produce flu vaccine for the U.S. market could be suspended or revoked.
“The deficiencies described ... at the close of the inspection referenced above and this letter are an indication of your qual-
ity control unit not fulfilling its responsibility to assure the identity, strength, quality, and purity of your licensed biologic-al drug product and intermedi-ates,” the letter stated.
“You should take prompt ac-tion to correct these deviations. Failure to promptly correct these deviations may result in regulatory action without fur-ther notice. Such actions may include license suspension and-or revocation.” THE canadian PRESS
The Hudson’s Bay Company removed a T-shirt from its stores Tuesday when customers cried foul on Twitter. torstar news servIce
Canadian businesses are be-coming increasingly active on mediums such as LinkedIn and Twitter, but too many remain socially awkward, and it’s hurt-ing their bottom line.
“Companies are starting to engage in an authentic way with Canadians and that’s lead-ing to increased sales, increased customer service satisfaction and a sense of connectedness,” said Ian Capstick, managing partner at Ottawa-based con-sulting firm MediaStyle.
“But, let’s be honest, not all Canadian companies are quite there yet. You can still find lots of dormant Twitter accounts, websites that aren’t updated, store hours on a door front, for instance, that don’t match the digital store hours or the ones on Google.”
While many businesses may think they’re interacting with their customers on so-cial media because they have a Twitter account or Facebook page, experts agree a more stra-tegic plan is needed to really leverage the many available platforms and give companies a proper return on investment.
“People need to tie their
social media activities to their overall communications plan, they need to make it part of what they’re trying to do,” said Lara Wellman of Wellman Wilson Consulting, an Ottawa-based firm that coaches clients in social media communica-tions.
Whether a company’s goal is to promote its brand, become a leader in its field, sell ideas or target a new audience, know-ing what it wants to achieve will help it map out how to get there, and create the right con-tent to keep followers engaged.THE canadian PRESS
Social media. Businesses prove to be a bit socially awkward on the internet
Many businesses are now on social media sites, such as Twitter. Getty ImaGes
Accounting firm partner
exec pleads guilty for role in Madoff’s ‘evil Ponzi scheme’A senior partner at a New York accounting firm plead-ed guilty to criminal charges Tuesday in a co-operation deal with the government,
saying he unwittingly played a role in financier Bernard Madoff’s “horrific and evil Ponzi scheme.”
Paul Konigsberg pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to conspiracy and two counts of falsify-ing books and records. He also agreed to forfeit $4.4 million US in cash and prop-erty. THE aSSOciaTEd PRESS
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Good news! The Global Insufferability Index (GII) is
down slightly today.For those of you not familiar with the GII,
it’s the measure of the amount of holier-than-thou self-righteousness in the atmosphere, and it experienced a sharp drop when we learned about the Greenpeace executive who commut-ed by air between Luxembourg where he lives and Amsterdam where he works, 400 kilo-metres one way.
As a result of his commute, Pascal Husting, the environmental organization’s internation-al program director, personally has been re-sponsible for dumping 7.4 tonnes of carbon di-oxide into the atmosphere over the last two years.
This comes from an organization that says: “In terms of damage to the climate, flying is 10 times worse than taking the train.” But Husting didn’t want to endure the 12-hour re-
turn trip, so he flew instead, (as would any sane person).
As you might imagine, his colleagues are gasping a bit for air. All over the planet, Greenpeace faces are red.
In his blog, the executive director of Greenpeace UK asks the question: “What kind of compromises do you make in your ef-forts to try to make the world a better place?”
And then, without waiting for an answer he may not like, he answers his own ques-tion: “For what it’s worth, I don’t think we’ve crossed the line here at Greenpeace.”
Of course, that doesn’t clear the air for all those Greenpeace volunteers who have made the hard choices and now find them-selves underwriting airline travel for their
trusty stewards of the environment. One guy, who has volun-teered since the ’80s, calls the situation “unbelievable.”
So now they know what it’s like for the rest of us: It ain’t
easy being green. If they were really honest, the rainbow warriors of Greenpeace would add up ALL of their carbon-emitting activities. And then stay home, which is probably the greenest thing they could do.
As much as there’s a temptation to gloat, we have to be careful about the GII. And we don’t want to discourage all those people who are trying to save the planet. We just want them to ask: Are we part of the solution…or part of the prob-lem?
Other organizations are quietly doing their best to put en-vironmental standards in places that don’t require a circus act — in construction, waste management, transportation, the food industry, etc. They don’t make headlines, but they do make it possible for 7.2 billion people to make it through an-other day on earth.
Global warming is one of the great challenges of the age. But it’s not the only one. Insufferability is right up there.
Greenpeace, at least, will be a little more down to earth — literally. Starting next week, Greenpeace has announced, Pascal Husting will start taking the train.
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Remember a while ago when that beautiful video of strangers kissing turned out to be just another viral publicity stunt? Remember what a slap in the face that was to those of us with quaint ideas like love, happiness and human connection?
Well, Max Landis remembers. And rather than move on to the next thing like the rest of us, he took a stand by arranging a little consensual slapping among strangers to illustrate how we all felt.
And, yes. That is Haley Joel Osment. (uptomyknees/YouTube)
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This tradition represents the way John the Baptist disguised himself when he baptized Jesus Christ. The people say St. John
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Director Michael Bay once said he doesn’t make movies for critics. The auteur behind such hits as The Rock, Armageddon, Bad Boys 1 and 2 and the Trans-formers movies is best known for making big, loud films that rake it in at the box office but leave critics reaching for the Advil.
Bay acknowledged the ad-versarial relationship in a 2005 article by Rene Rodriguez.
“They castrate me,” he told Rodriguez. “They call me the devil and all that crap.”
It’s not hard to see why re-viewers have a hard time with his films. He never met a build-ing or car or city he didn’t want to blow up in spectacular fash-ion, and critics often feel like they have to slather on SPF 70 to avoid getting a tan from the glare off the giant fireballs that light up screen in Bay’s films.
Audiences, however, have flocked to his flicks. According to boxofficemojo.com his 10 features have grossed close to $2 billion. That’s a lot of beans.
The release this weekend of Transformers: Age of Extinction promises to add to those totals. The fourth installment of the franchise stars Mark Wahlberg as a single father and struggling inventor who discovers the de-activated Autobots leader Opti-mus Prime.
The movie promises a whole new raft of Transform-ers, including bounty hunter Lockdown and the rough and tumble Dinobot Grimlock. Bay promises we’ll also see an “angry Optimus Prime.”
Will the critics like Age of Extinction? Who knows.
The Transformers movies are as close to guaranteed hits as Hollywood has these days, so reviews most likely won’t mat-ter to the box office.
Not all of Bay’s films have been critically reviled.
“The critics were very nice to me when I first began with Bad Boys,” he says and his last movie, the crime drama Pain and Gain, was called “the best movie Michael Bay’s ever made,” by the Newark Star-Ledger.
That film has a few things
going for it. First, there isn’t a robot in sight. Secondly, it has a great cast — including Wahl-berg, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ John-son and Anthony Mackie —
who bring serious star power Plus it doesn’t really feel like
a Michael Bay film. And by that I mean there’s only one shot of the three leads walking away
from a slow-mo-
tion explosion.Years ago,
I wrote this
about his trademarked aural and optical onslaught:
“The former commercial director has a knack for mak-ing everything look shiny, but having great taste doesn’t make a great film director any more than great taste makes a Snick-
er’s bar a gourmet meal.” I even coined a word
for his style: Hullabay-loo. But nothing I or any other critic writes matters to the direc-tor.
“I’ve actually stopped reading (re-views),” he told Rod-riguez.
Nicola Peltz plays Tessa and Mark Wahlberg plays Cade Yeager in Transformers: Age of Extinction. CONTRIBUTED
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Cancel the stunt doubles
Stars feel the heat of real explosions“We were happy to do whatever was asked of us whenever it was asked of us,” says Transformers: Age of Extinction star Jack Reynor.
The Colorado-born, Irish-raised actor proved he was game for anything when he was given just 20 minutes to prepare for a wild scene that brought him face-to-face with real explosions.
“It is an incredibly intimi-dating experience in many ways,” he said, “but at the end of the day you have to trust the people around you, that they know what they’re doing that they’re prepared, and that you’re safe. We had a great stunt team who worked on this film with us. Those
guys really put us at ease.”Sharing the explosive
scene with Reynor were his co-stars Nicola Peltz and Mark Wahlberg.
“They worked so hard to make this huge explosion,” says Peltz, best known for her role as Bradley Martin on Bates Motel. “I think it took a week, but we didn’t know about it. We were kind of con-fused when we got on set and saw 10 cameras. (Director) Michael (Bay) told us a few minutes before, ‘You’re going to do this huge stunt. It’s not going to be stunt doubles, it’s going to be you guys and you have to run from here to here in 4.6 seconds.’
“There’s not much acting when there are real explosions behind you,” she
says. “You just have to run.” The experience of sprint-
ing away from live blasts wasn’t exactly what Peltz expected when she signed on for the role in the fourth Transformers film.
“I thought there was go-ing to be more green screen than there actually was, but Michael wants everything to be as real as possible so the car chases and the explosions are all real.”
“You can really tell the difference,” says Reynor. “You can tell when a movie is really heavy on CG.... That’s why I think these movies have been as incredibly successful as they have, because the audi-
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GOT. Here’s the one ruler who doesn’t want WesterosFor Queen Elizabeth II, one throne is enough.
The United Kingdom’s 88-year-old monarch toured the Belfast sets of the hit HBO series Game of Thrones and met many of its stars Tuesday beside the show’s sword-cov-ered seat of power, the Iron Throne.
Unlike many visitors to Belfast’s Titanic Studios, the monarch declined to try out the throne created for the ruler of the mythical Seven Kingdoms and legendar-ily forged from a thousand swords. Instead, she received
a miniature model as a gift.Game of Thrones cre-
ators David Benioff and Dan Weiss escorted the monarch through the show’s armoury, costume design and storage, and sprawling sets used to shoot the program’s interior scenes and perilous ice-cliff ascents — all part of the biggest TV production ever mounted in Europe.
The real-life head of the House of Windsor talked with actors from the show’s rival royal houses, the Lannisters and the Starks.THe assOciaTed press
Queen Elizabeth II declines to sit on the Iron Throne while visiting the set of GOTin Belfast on Tuesday. Peter Morrison/the AssociAted Press
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Big Lebowski. Turturro is interested in reprising his nemesis role in cult classicActor and director John Tur-turro, who played bowling league nemesis Jesus Quin-tana in The Big Lebowski,”told a film festival audience that he would be interested in re-visiting the character in 2015.
“If I can get the permission I need, I’d like to return to that role,” he told a master class audience at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily, Italy, on Sat-urday, according to The Holly-wood Reporter.
The rival bowler, a thin, flamboyant, intense competi-
tor clad in purple, opposes the laidback Jeff Lebowski — slacker icon “The Dude” — and his bowling team during a local tournament.
Limited screen-time during the 1998 Coen brothers movie did not prevent Jesus Quin-tana from becoming a cult character.
Though this is not the first time that Turturro has ex-pressed interest in returning to the part, a 2015 date insinu-ates that his speculated spin-off is nearing realization. afp
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Actor teaming up with scorsese for flick about 1970s nYc music sceneActor P.J. Byrne, known for The Wolf of Wall Street and Horrible Bosses, is to team up with Martin Scor-sese once again in the pilot episode for a drama series about the 1970s New York music scene.
Already cast are Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire) in the lead role of a record label execu-tive searching for his next crucial signing, as well as Juno Temple (Maleficent), Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond) and Olivia Wilde (Rush). afp
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Paramount selling 2012 doc to fans for $4 on Facebook The documentary Katy Perry: Part Of Me 3D is avail-able to fans via Facebook for about $4. Paramount Pictures is trying out a new experiment in broadcasting the documentary via the social network.
The film is available to download on Facebook and VOD websites for about $4 — a boon for Perry, who has over 71 million Face-book fans and potentially as many viewers. The film was released in 2012 and has already grossed almost $33 million. afp
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Joan Rivers takes a swipe at K. Stew in new book
Kristen Stewart doesn’t take kindly to the implication that she sleeps around to get roles: She’s threatened to sue Joan Rivers if she sees it in print.
Rivers’ new book, Diary of a Mad Diva, includes a pointed crack about the Twilight actress. “Many stars only do one thing well. The best one-trick pony is Kristen Stewart, who got a whole ca-reer by being able to juggle a
director’s b—s,” Rivers wrote.All the world knows that
Stewart did cheat on then-boyfriend Robert Pattinson with director Rupert Sanders, but it would be a stretch to say that doing so gave her a career — Sanders directed her in Snow White and the Huntsman, not, you know, one of those little vampire movies she did.
Plus, Stewart’s had a thriv-ing career since she was a
teen, which makes the allega-tion even more unsavoury.
Stewart dispatched a law-yer to make these points to Rivers’ people, according to Page Six. It sounds unlikely that Rivers will apologize or revise, however. The book’s prologue reads: “Anyone who takes anything in this book seriously is an idiot.”
Which is probably the closest Joan Rivers gets to issuing an apology.
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Miley Cyrus has a job for her 14-year-old sister, Noah Cyrus, that some critics might find a tad inappropri-ate for the young teen.
Miley tells Australia’s 2Day FM radio station that Noah works as her “p—sy police” to prevent the sing-er’s privates from becoming exposed during her vigorous dance routines in skimpy costumes. “She makes sure that, you know, everything is staying intact,” Miley
explains. As summer jobs go, it at least beats having a paper route. “She’s a natural entertainer. When I’m with her I’ll feel like sometimes, ‘Oh my God, she’s totally stealing my shine,’” Miley says of the possibility of her younger sister follow-ing her into show business. “She gets more attention than me. And she’s kind of like a natural at it, so I feel like if she wanted to do it, I wouldn’t stop her.”
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Kristen Bell is pregnant once again. The Frozen star’s rep confirms that Bell and husband Dax Shepard are expecting their second child, according to People magazine.
“The whole family is beyond excited,” the rep says. Bell and Shepard are already parents to one-year-old daughter Lincoln Bell. They were married in 2013. Kristen Bell
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What’s eating Leo DiCaprio?
A note to fans of Leonardo DiCaprio: The Wolf of Wall Street star is happy to acknowledge you should you meet each other, but he doesn’t necessarily want there to be a record of the occasion.
According to the New York Post, DiCaprio was partying with A Tribe Called Quest rapper Q-Tip in New York City’s Meatpacking Dis-trict recently when a blonde fan celebrating her birthday “fell into their area” and introduced herself.
DiCaprio said “‘Happy birthday’ to the girl,” ac-cording to a source, but when she asked to have her picture taken with him, “he responded, ‘Sorry, not tonight.’”
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Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran has some insight into pal Taylor Swift’s personality.
“I know she’s 24, but she’s a sort of middle-aged woman trapped in a 24-year-old’s body,” Sheeran tells MTV. “She hangs out with her cat and sews things.” Case in point? Swift — whom Sheeran calls “very crafty” — gifted Sheeran with a needlepoint of a Drake lyric, which Sheeran happily had framed. It’s unclear whether Swift is upset about having her dowdiness exposed, but at least for Sheeran’s sake she just writes songs about ex-boyfriends and not regular friends.
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Northern Ireland. If you’re in the mood for wondrous scenery and a little bit of whiskey, try striking out on the Causeway Coastal Route this summer
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Northern Ireland’s famed Causeway Coastal Route is rat-ed as one of the world’s great road journeys. This past May it was in the international spot-light as the scenic backdrop to the Giro d’Italia’s Big Start cycle race, which was watched by over 775 million people around the world.
The 200 kilometres of stun-ning coastline offers twists and turns that reveal windswept cliffs, ancient cathedrals, crum-bling castles, quaint farms, vil-lages and unspoiled beaches. Here are four attractions along the Causeway Coast:
Titanic Belfast Perhaps the most famous ves-sel ever launched, RMS Titanic was built in Belfast’s Harland & Wolff shipyard for White Star Line. When her keel was laid in 1909, Belfast was at the height of its fame as a shipbuilding powerhouse. Today Belfast’s star attraction is Titanic Belfast, a world-class museum which sits where the original ship was con-structed. The six-floor building features nine interactive galler-ies that explore the Titanic.
The Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
This bridge is a 20 metre-long, one metre-wide bridge of wire rope that spans the chasm be-
tween sea cliffs and the island of Carrick-a-Rede. It sways gently, 30 metres above rock-strewn water. The island has sustained a salmon fishery for centuries; fishermen stretch nets out from the tip of the island to intercept salmon mi-grating to their home rivers.
Giant’s CausewayWhen you first see it, you’ll understand why the an-cients believed the Giant’s Causeway was not a natural
feature. The vast expanse of closely packed, hexagonal stone columns dipping gently beneath the waves looks like the handiwork of giants. This spectacular rock formation is Northern Ireland’s only UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is one of the Emerald Isle’s most impressive and atmospheric features.
BushmillsThe small town of Bushmills has long been a pilgrimage
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Quintessentially Canadian road trips
There’s nothing quite as much fun as hitting the highway in the middle of summer. With car windows rolled down, Canada has some of the most remarkable road trips on the planet.
Whether you have days to spend (or just a few hours), treat yourself to some free-way freedom this summer by taking one of these three journeys.
The Sea-to-Sky Highway Vancouver to Whistler, B.C.Approximately a two-hour drive from Vancouver to Whistler, Highway 99 pro-vides breathtaking seaside vistas and stunning water-falls as it winds through the Coast Mountains.
Easily one of the most gor-geous drives in Canada, it also celebrates the area’s First Nations history with many interpretive kiosks along the way — as well as the fascinat-ing Britannia Mine Museum, where visitors can travel deep into what was once the Com-monwealth’s largest copper mine.
If You’re Hungry: Stop at The Watershed Grill in Shan-non Falls and grab a seat on the patio overlooking the peaceful Squamish River.
Cabot Trail Cape Breton, N.S.
A curvy, two-lane blacktop that circles Cape Breton Is-
land, Cabot Trail may be a four-hour drive from Hali-fax, but it’s worth the ven-ture.
Start at the southern tip in Baddeck where Alexander Graham Bell lived. After a visit to the telephone invent-or’s national historical site, head north to enjoy amazing views from the rocky cliffs overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
As you circle the route, take in sandy beaches and whale watching in Ingonish and enjoy the French spoken in the Acadian capital of Cheticamp.
If You’re Hungry: Be sure to savour freshly caught, hand-gathered Asby Bay oysters at Hideaway Campground and Oyster Market at the top of the Cabot Trail.
The Rocky MountainsBanff to Jasper, Alta.
There’s almost no imperfect route through the Rockies. However, for first-timers, begin in Banff (90 minutes from Calgary) where you can bask in the beauty of Can-ada’s first national park and hot springs before heading north through the stunning, mountainous Icefields Park-way to Jasper.
Besides magnificent mountainous scenery, look for wildlife including bears and elk, explore historical buildings or simply hike.
Make time to discover Lake Louise, where visitors are rewarded by a graceful glacial basin below the tow-ering peaks.
If You’re Hungry: Try the deli (or make dinner reserva-tions) at popular Sunwapta Falls Lodge, where you can dine and enjoy the panoram-ic views along the Icefields Parkway.
The Icefields Parkway stretches between Jasper and Banff and offers lots of opportunity for wildlife watching. istock
The Cabot Trail circles Cape Breton Island. istockThe Sea-to-Sky Highway in British Columbia. courtesy travel bc
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A CV that sells in a few simple steps
Are you passionate about selling and looking to get into a sales career?
Perhaps you’ve never worked directly in sales before, but now that’s the path you are determined to follow.
Well, whether you’ve worked in sales or not, you will likely have transferable skills from past work ex-periences that can help you transition well into a sales role.
To put your best foot for-ward, it is critical that your resumé highlight your key achievements as they per-tain to your sales career.
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For this reason, it is of the utmost importance that you highlight your specific performance based accom-plishments.
Here are important things to consider including in your resumé:
The right detailsFor each company you’ve worked at, provide a brief description of what that company does/sells and an understanding of their size (i.e. personnel, number of offices and annual rev-enues).
For each role on your re-sumé, you should include who you reported to, what you did and your target market.
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1. Slice the onion into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Spear the slices across the grain with a small
wooden skewer.
2. In a zip-close plastic bag,
combine 1 tablespoon of ol-ive oil, the vinegar, oregano, lemon zest and juice, and gar-lic. Add a pinch of salt and a hefty pinch of black pepper. Place the skewered onions, artichokes, halloumi and pep-pers in the bag. Allow to mar-inate, refrigerated, for at least 2 hours, and up to overnight.
3. Heat the grill to medium-high.
4. Using a slotted spoon, remove the vegetables and cheese from the marinade. Place on a rimmed baking
sheet. Arrange the romaine lettuce on the baking sheet and pour the marinade over it, being sure to coat all sides and allow the marinade to seep down into the lettuce leaves. Season with salt and pepper.
5. Grill the onion, artichoke, halloumi and peppers for 4 to 6 minutes per side, or until charred. Grill the romaine let-tuce and tomatoes, whole and on the stem, for 3 to 4 minutes, or until charred.
6. To serve, place a half ro-maine heart on a plate. Ar-
range a quarter of the arti-chokes, halloumi, peppers and tomatoes around the romaine. Sprinkle with the chopped
olives, then drizzle with addi-tional olive oil and the balsam-ic glaze.The associaTed press
Halloumi steals salad spotlight
This Grilled Greek Salad recipe serves four. matthew mead/ the associated press
Get your grill on and create a delicious dinner salad using chicken and vegetables.
With a smokey taste, grill-ing not only adds great fla-vour, but also texture to your vegetables.
I like marinating the chicken in the morning so that when I get home I can put everything on the grill for a weeknight meal that is fast and flavourful.
Not to worry if you can’t wake up early; you can marin-ate it the night before.
If you have a chance to slice up your vegetables the night
before, too, you’ll save time. Not having the right in-
gredients can make dinner difficult. But for this recipe, it’s easy enough to pick up what you need fresh on your way home while some pantry staples are used to complete the dish.
1. In large bowl, whisk togeth-er the soy sauce, cilantro, half of the canola oil, ginger, garlic
and chili paste. Add chicken breasts and toss to coat well. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes or up to 1 day.
2. Meanwhile, cut peppers into quarters. Place on greased grill over medium-high heat. Grill for about 10 minutes turning often or until starting to become golden and tender crisp. Remove to plate.
3. Place chicken breasts on medium-high greased grill and grill for about 12 min-utes, turning once or until no longer pink inside. Remove to plate.
4. Chop grilled peppers into bite-size pieces. In large bowl, toss peppers with spring greens, remaining oil and vin-egar. Slice chicken and serve on top of salad.
Chicken shares the grill with vegBarbecue Chicken Salad. This outdoor dinner is perfect for those nights when you want to pass on those pesky carbs
This recipe makes six servings. emily richards
cook Time25 minutes
Ingredients
• 2 tbsp (30 ml) sodium-reduced soy sauce
• 2 tbsp (30 ml) chopped cilantro
• 1 tbsp (15 ml) canola oil
• 1 tbsp (15 ml) minced fresh ginger
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/4 tsp (1 ml) Asian garlic chili paste or hot pepper flakes
• 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts (about 600 g total)
• 2 each red and yellow bell pep-pers
• 8 cups (2 l) spring greens
• 3 tbsp (45 ml) rice vinegar
Ingredients
• 1 medium red onion
• 1 tbsp olive oil, plus extra
• 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 2 tbsp minced fresh oregano
• Zest and juice of 1 lemon
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• Kosher salt and ground black pepper
• 14-oz can artichoke bottoms, well drained
• 8 oz halloumi cheese, cut into1/2-inch thick slices
• 2 bell peppers, colour of your choice, cored and cut into 2-inch pieces
• Grill the chicken and pep-pers and keep refrigerated for up to 2 days to make the salad later in the week.
• Roasting Option: You can roast the peppers and chicken. Place vegetables on parchment paper lined
baking sheet and roast in 425F (220 C) oven for about 10 minutes. Add chicken breasts and roast for another 20 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink inside and peppers are tender.
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The Oilers have the third selection in Friday night’s first round, a year after taking Dar-nell Nurse seventh and two years removed from a streak of three consecutive No. 1 picks. But even with forwards Nail Yakupov (2012), Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (2011), Taylor Hall (2010) and Jordan Eberle (23rd
in 2008) in the fold, Edmonton isn’t in a position to be pos-ition specific.
“You’re just trying to get the best available player you can,” head amateur scout Stu MacGregor said in a phone interview. “And if you end up with too many of one kind of player, it would then be up to management to trade which-ever asset you have to attain something else at a different position.”
General manager Craig MacTavish has made no se-cret of his desire to acquire a puck-moving defenceman this off-season, which isn’t exactly a unique need in today’s NHL. The No. 3 pick isn’t likely the place do that, unless it be-
comes a trade chip.The Oilers hosted defence-
man Aaron Ekblad, centres Sam Bennett and Sam Reinhart and multi-purpose forward Leon Draisaitl recently, Mac-Tavish said in a radio appear-ance on AM-630 in Edmonton. Two of those players are sure to be available third overall, though Ekblad — a pro-ready two-way defenceman — is con-sidered the likely No. 1 pick
to Florida or whichever team trades for it.
With Hall and Eberle taking up top-six wing spots, there could be room for Bennett or Reinhart behind Nugent-Hop-kins. MacTavish wants to fill in his top three lines so that grinders like Matt Hendricks and Boyd Gordon can slide down the lineup.
NHL Central Scouting direc-tor Dan Marr said during the scouting combine that he sees this draft as being full of play-ers to stock the bottom half of teams’ rosters. The top-end tal-ent is limited, but Marr thinks there are plenty of prospects with long-term staying power as role players.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Oilers get another top-10 dra pickBuilding young core.Edmonton is not goingfor a specifi c position
Golf is indeed di erent when the Tiger is aroundTiger Woods hits balls on the range in preparation for the Quicken Loans National golf tournament at Congressional Country Club on Tuesday, in Bethesda, Md. Last seen wearing golf shoes on March 9, Woods underwent surgery for back pain that had been bothering him on and off since August 2012. Asked for an opening comment on where he is with his recovery, Woods smiled and said, “I’m right here.” ROB CARR/GETTY IMAGES
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“You’re just trying to get the best available player you can.”Head amateur scout Stu MacGregor
Free agency awaits
LeBron opts out of deal with HeatLeBron James informed the Heat he’s decided to opt out of the final two years of his contract. He becomes a free agent on July 1. He’s willing to leave Miami, if that’s what it will take to win more championships. And what happens next will likely be up to not just the Heat, but Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh as well.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NHL awards
The Kid takes it home againPittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby has won his second Hart Trophy as the NHL’s most valuable player at an awards ceremony in Las Vegas Tuesday night.
Crosby also own the Art Ross Trophy as the scoring champion and the Ted Lind-say Award as the players’ choice for the NHL’s most outstanding player. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Out 10 to 12 weeks
Wrist surgery slows QuickLos Angeles Kings goal-tender Jonathan Quick underwent surgery Tuesday to repair a wrist injury.
A Kings spokesman confirmed the surgery and said in an email that the 28-year-old would be out 10 to 12 weeks.
Quick was injured during the second round of the playoffs against the Anaheim Ducks, according to the spokesman. He didn’t miss any playoff games.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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After nearly two weeks of mostly beautiful, free-flowing football, the game’s ugly side was on full display when Uru-guay edged 10-man Italy 1-0 on Tuesday to reach the second round of the World Cup.
With a bite on the shoulder, a shin to the head and a boot to the knee, there wasn’t much to admire at the Arena das Dunas. Even the match’s lone goal was a product of brute force — it didn’t even come with a kick or a header.
Uruguay defender Diego Godin scored with his shoul-der in the 81st minute of an “in or out” match to send his side through to the second round, but the victory was overshadowed by a biting in-cident involving the South American squad’s star forward Luis Suarez.
And with four-time cham-pion Italy heading home after the group phase for a second time in four years, coach Ce-sare Prandelli and football federation president Giancarlo Abete both resigned moments after the match.
“When you don’t score a goal in two matches and don’t create much, it’s clearly a fail-ure,” Italy captain Gianluigi Buffon said, with the Azzurri having also been beaten 1-0 by Costa Rica in their previous game.
This match was decided when Godin rose above a crowd of defenders to redirect
a corner with his back to the goal.
Moments earlier, replays showed Suarez apparently bite the shoulder of Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini as the pair clashed in the Italian penalty area.
Suarez was already sanc-tioned with a heavy ban for biting Chelsea defender Bran-islav Ivanovic in the English Premier League in 2013 and FIFA can sanction players for biting with bans of up to two years.
“Not sending off Suarez was ridiculous,” Chiellini said.
“It was absolutely clear. There’s even a mark,” Chiellini said of the bite.
It was one of the most ap-palling incidents in the World Cup since France’s Zinedine Zidane headbutted Marco
Materazzi of Italy in the 2006 final.
But the biting incident wasn’t all.
In the 59th, Marchisio was shown a straight red card for putting his boot into Egidio Ar-evalo’s knee.
And midway through the first half, Mario Balotelli picked up his second yellow card in two matches for a need-less foul on Alvaro Pereira. Ba-lotelli practically leapt over the midfielder, hitting the back of his opponent’s head with his left shin.the associated press
The ugly face of the game bares its teethItaly out. Uruguay’s Suarez apparently caught biting yet again
Giorgio Chiellini of Italy pulls down his shirt claiming Uruguay’s Luis Suarez (not pictured) bit him in the shoulder as Gaston Ramirez of Uruguay looks on during their match on Tuesday in Natal, Brazil. Julian Finney/getty images
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surprise. costa rica tops the feared ‘death group’Costa Rica finished first in what many considered the World Cup’s toughest group after a dour 0-0 draw against a second-string England side Tuesday.
Costa Rica only needed a draw to top Group D and played that way, setting up in a defensive 5-3-2 formation.
The result gives Costa Rica its best World Cup per-formance, winning a group that contained three former world champions. While Los Ticos reached the knockout stages in 1990, they finished second in a weaker group. Costa Rica will play the runner-up in Group C in the second round.
“We will have to keep fighting,” Costa Rica coach Jorge Luis Pinto said. “What-ever happens we are willing to fight.”
England lost its first two matches to Italy and Uru-guay, while Costa Rica sur-prisingly won its first two. Uruguay also advanced from the group, beating Italy 1-0.
“It wasn’t the death group after all — at least not for us,” Pinto said. He dedicated the qualification to “those who believed in us and those who didn’t.”
England had already been eliminated and will go home without a win. the associated press
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Group C
Greece beats Ivory Coast 2-1 to advanceGeorgios Samaras scored an injury-time penalty to put Greece into the second round of the World Cup with a 2-1 win over Ivory Coast.
Samaras was deemed to have been brought down by substitute Giovanni Sio and calmly slotted in the spot kick for the win that puts Greece through to the knockout stage. Ivory Coast would have advanced with a draw. the associated press
Group C
Colombia shows off in 4-1 win over JapanSubstitute James Rod-riguez scored a brilliant goal and set up two more for Jackson Martinez as Colombia beat Japan 4-1 on Tuesday to confirm top spot in Group C and eliminate the Asian cham-pions from the World Cup.
Colombia guaranteed first place with its third straight win, setting up a second-round match against Uruguay. the associated press
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The compact SUV segment is one of the most popular in Can-ada, and it’s easy to see why. These are vehicles that combine car-like driving characteristics with SUV-style practicality, and in many cases, all-wheel drive capability. Hyundai bundles all of that together in its Tucson.
Three trim lines are avail-able, starting at $21,499 for the GL, with a 164-horsepower, 2.0-litre four-cylinder engine and front-wheel drive. Next up is the mid-range GLS, which uses a 2.4-litre four-cylinder making 182 horsepower. My tester, the top-line Limited, ex-clusively combines the 2.4-litre with all-wheel drive.
It’s priced at $33,599 and includes such Limited-only fea-tures as dual-zone automatic climate control, premium stereo, navigation, and leather seats.
Its AWD isn’t meant for
off-roading, but for improved traction. The all-wheel Tucson primarily runs in front-wheel, but sends power to the rear tires when it senses slippage. For muddy or snowy driveways, you can lock it into four-wheel at low speeds.
Also included on the Limit-ed is driver-selectable steering, which lets you adjust the steer-ing feel to normal, comfort, or sport. I find it more of a gim-mick than anything, and all
but the sport are too light and vague for my liking.
The Tucson’s handsome, especially with its new head-lamps and, on the Limited, its LED taillights. However, while the side windows come to a stylish point at the rear, they do cut down on visibility.
The seats are supportive, and while all Tucson models have heated front chairs, the GLS and Limited have heated rear ones, too. Rear legroom is
good, and while the rear seats don’t fold completely flat, they’re easy to operate when you need to increase the cargo area.
Overall, the Tucson rides and handles well, it’s roomy in-side, and it comes with a long warranty. I found the Limited a little pricey and would prob-ably opt for the mid-range GLS, but check out the features and test-drive both of them if a com-pact SUV is in your future.
Review. The Hyundai Tucson Limited off ers all-wheel drive, tons of legroom and driver-selectable steering
When the mild-mannered chemistry teacher turned stone-cold meth kingpin wasn’t cook-ing blue, poisoning children or playing mind games with Jesse, he often tooled around Albu-querque in this widely reviled ride. Reviews were so wretched, it quickly became the Gigli of the auto industry, panned for its “what in the world was GM thinking” butt-ugliness and peculiarly angular tail end. But the Mickey Rourke of SUVs was
genius car casting for Breaking Bad. This was, after all, a car that foreshadowed Detroit’s dark slide into the abyss. Kudos also to the Cadillac Sedan DeVille with the turret mounted auto-firing M60 in the trunk in the series finale that rains hell on the neo-Nazi compound and provides Heisenberg with a worthy supervillain sendoff. “There’s no replacement for displacement.”
Philip Jennings The Americans White 1982 Chevy Camaro Z28
Spies tend to want to drive nondescript vehicles so they blend into their surroundings. The bland 1977 Olds-mobile Delta, seem-ingly straight out of the KGB motor pool, that we typically see Philip and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) in while stalking the streets of suburban D.C. certainly fit the bill. But on Season 2’s “New Car” epi-sode, comrade Philip is overcome by his materialistic urges, and on a spur-of-the-moment whim splurges on a gleaming white 1982 Camaro Z28 — incidentally the pace car in the Indy 500 that year.
Antiheroes on television often drive cars that reveal character truths and act as an extension of their core values. Whether they’re prescient product placement or simply good prop-master juju, these are our top picks of the most badass rides in the increasingly populated universe of morally ambiguous protagonists.
Who knew serial kill-ers and soccer moms had automotive tastes in common? The 2008 Ford Escape Hybrid SUV has an efficient gasoline engine comple-mented by a pair of electric motors so it runs very clean, just like Dexter leaves his crime scenes. Appeasing his “Dark Passenger,” the roomy trunk can fit plenty of plastic sheeting and shrink-wrap rolls along with all his other kill-room necessities. It’s also got excellent safety ratings to keep Dex’s mind at ease when ferry-ing around Harrison.
kenny PowersEastbound and DownFlame-painted lifted Dodge pickup
When your best friend overdoses on cocaine and you were always coveting his flame-painted lifted Dodge pickup, the move is to fish out his keys and just tell his family you bought an identical one. You see, a Dodge pickup with some aftermarket aggro-edge is a white-trash hero’s dream machine. While his previ-ous rides have included a three-wheeled motorcycle, Yukon Denali, and a lime-green Dodge Viper, this take-no-prisoners bad boy best encapsulates Powers’ boorish mystique.
Tony Soprano The Sopranos1999 Chevy Suburban
Tony’s ride for the first few Sopranos seasons was a carmine red 1999 Chevy Suburban. This 5.7-litre V8 beast is big enough to comfortably fit his actual family with room to spare for a consigliere and a couple of capos. One of the two models actually used in the show sold for $110,000 at an auction in Vegas last year. The late James Gandolfini autographed the driver’s side sun visor and added the message: “Be Nice to My Car.” Later in the series Tony upgraded to a Cadillac Escalade ESV, a more modern Mafioso vehicle.
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Today’s driver wants to stay connected on the move, and automakers are offering ever-advancing features and tech-nologies to do just that — helping drivers connect with what matters most, whether it’s with people, information, directions, assistance or their favourite multimedia.
Here’s a closer look at some of the latest connec-tivity features and systems you’ll likely find available in your next new ride.
Connected to Contacts: Press a button, say a contact
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call to begin. With today’s Bluetooth
phone systems, staying in touch on the go is just that simple.
Part of a suite of popular voice-commanded features, Bluetooth allows drivers to handle calls without remov-ing their eyes from the road or hands from the wheel — pos-sibly preventing an expensive ticket.
Many new rides can even use the Bluetooth link between your handset and your ride to read your text messages or emails out loud.
Connected to Your Tunes:With access to a built-in
USB connector, Bluetooth-
powered audio streaming or integrated iPod inputs, today’s drivers can play their favourite tunes directly from the device they’re stored on — and do it easily, without even plugging anything in.
These high-end multimedia connectivity solutions are be-coming increasingly popular at lower price points than ever.
Some vehicles even have a built-in hard drive, allowing drivers to “rip” their CD col-lection directly into their ride’s stereo for later playback.
Other vehicles offer Inter-net radio functionality right in the dashboard. Whether your tunes of choice are inside a smartphone, CD, USB drive, MP3 player or beamed to your
car via satellite from high above the Earth, today’s rides make accessing them a cinch.
Connected to Your Ride: The link between smart-
phone and car is getting ser-ious. A few automakers are presently leading the way, in-cluding Ford, Nissan, Chevrolet and Kia. Many more will follow.
Tapping into wireless com-munication between car and phone, your next ride will likely be able to track down flight information, movie list-ings, weather forecasts, Google search destinations and plenty more.
Find a search destination on your phone and send it to your car’s navigation system for later use.
Remote-start your ride or track it down in a busy parking lot from your handset.
Set geographical boundaries and speed limits if someone else is driving your car, and be alerted if any are violated.
Some models can even text you if they need an oil change, if a tire is low or if your alarm is going off.
The future is now. The latest breed of car allows you to keep in touch with your contacts, fave music and super useful apps
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This scraggly looking shrub is a rubber resource
If this scraggy shrub was grow-ing on your property, chan-ces are you’d be looking to eradicate it with a big weed whacker.
Not only is it not pretty, but it’s got a name that gives your mouth a cardiovascular and flexibility workout: guayule, pronounced “gwah-yoo-lee.”
But this shrub, which grows wild in the desert, pro-duces rubber.
The world’s demand for natural rubber is increasing, and many are concerned that the rubber tree (a.k.a. the Hevea tree) won’t be able to keep up. It’s only grown in a relatively thin strip around the equator in jungle-like loca-tions that are not fun for work-ers, and where landowners have more lucrative crop op-tions (some legal, some not so much). On top of that, it takes seven years before you can harvest rubber from a rubber tree.
So a consortium — led by Cooper Tires and which in-cludes Arizona State Univer-sity — has a $6.9-million grant from the U.S. government to look into the possibility of large-scale growth and produc-tion of guayule-based natural rubber.
Arizona State is looking at the entire social and environ-mental impact of turning de-sert into guayule farmland.
We could just use more syn-thetic rubber, sourced from petrochemicals, but that’s not ideal, and natural rubber is a very unique product.
Even with all their labora-tories and white coats, tire scientists still prefer to use natural rubber in tires.
“Natural rubber is the clos-est thing to the perfect elas-tomer. If I could only use one elastromer in a tire, I would chose natural rubber,” says Cooper Tire research scientist Howard Colvin, from the com-pany’s headquarters in Find-lay, Ohio.
Colvin says natural rubber has lots of beneficial prop-erties, but among the most prized is its ability to self-heal.
“When you get a small crack in the rubber com-pound, the crack stops im-mediately. In synthetics that is not the case. This is especially important in a sidewall, where you have a lot of flexing going on.”
Natural rubber stays “cool-er” than synthetic rubbers.
According to Colvin, the rubber fibres sourced from gu-ayule are remarkably similar to fibres sourced from Hevea, except that guayule, “smells a lot better ... fresher ... a bit like Pine Sol.”
Guayule can be harvested every 18 months, and har-vesting nets useful byprod-ucts, such as resins and bio-mass that can be processed into fuel.
Many tire makers, includ-ing Cooper, are also look-ing into Russian dandelion-sourced rubber; its main byproduct is sugars.
Colvin’s colleague, Chuck Yurkovich, Cooper’s vice-president of global technology, personally feels that guayule is closer to being a realist rubber resource than Russian dande-lion. How close?
“We’re at the point where we are building and testing tires. But a lot also depends on the success of the agronomic part of the equation. Then there would be manufacturing capabilities to be built up. But theoretically you could have a product on the market that uses some guayule rubber in five to 10 years. A lot depends on what happens in the next 12 to 18 months.”
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