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A contract to install a major drainage pipe in southeast Ed-monton is stirring up contro-versy because it was awarded to a firm bidding $1.5 million more than the lowest bidder. The bid, which has already drawn attention because made-in-China concrete pipes will be used, was awarded to the Canadian arm of the Shanghai Construction Group. The $11.3 million contract is to install a major drainage pipe in south-east Edmonton, underneath Anthony Henday Drive.

Gerry Mulhern, president

of the Canadian Concrete Pipe and Precast Association, re-quested information about the bid under freedom of informa-tion and found there were two bids lower than that of the Shanghai Construction Group.

“Why is the City of Edmon-ton spending $1.5 million extra for Shanghai to do the job?” he asked.

Mulhern said he under-stands the city’s argument that some technical aspects of the job pushed Shanghai to the top, but he said the city has to be more forthright in that in-formation.

His freedom of information request only gave overall scores for the technical aspect of the bid, but provided little detail about how firms obtained those scores.

“A whole bunch of informa-tion has been redacted and we need to get our hands on that

information,” he said. Konrad Siu, the acting man-

ager of drainage, said the bid-ding process awarded 40 per cent of the marks on cost and 60 per cent based on technical merit, including construction method, safety and previous experience.

“Our experience finds that if you just look at the cost, you might not get the quality of work,” he said.

Siu said while Shanghai Construction Group scored third on the cost of the bid, it was first overall on the tech-nical side.

Coun. Mike Nickel said the entire process raised several red flags for him. He said the infor-mation needs to be public.

“You have to provide a rationale, because this is not my money, this is not your money, this is the public’s money,” he said.

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CARS FOR MILESKustom King owner Murray King stands in front of his collection of more than 600 classic cars he’ll be putting up for auction in August. Read more on page 6. LEAH GERMAIN/METRO

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One of the proposed barricade designs at last year’s Fringe Festival. The city has said the barricades can’t be used for road closures at festivals. METRO FILE

Festival barricade plan not street-legal

Proposed road barricades for Edmonton’s festivals, that won a design competition last sum-mer, have hit a brick wall with city officials.

Designer Nadir Bellahmer sponsored the contest last summer through Make Some-thing Edmonton, with several proposed designs making ap-pearances at the Fringe and the

124 Street market for public review.

After the competition was over, Bellahmer said he reached out but the city didn’t seem interested.

“The city really didn’t seem like it was on their radar,” he said.

Bellahmer said he didn’t im-agine his idea would instantly replace all of the city’s road barricades, but thought there would be more interest in the idea.

“As a festival city, it would be a kind of trailblazing thing that we could do,” he said. “I was hoping someone would have a look and say, ‘What a great idea.’”

Dwayne Cunningham, with the city’s transportation operations department, said he likes the creative ideas, but unfortunately the city’s hands are tied when it comes to road safety.

“There are standards that have been set across Alberta,” he said.

Cunningham said the road closures signs have to have a certain amount of reflective tape in orange and black and they have to be stackable for the city’s use. He said beyond just the standards, the city has to consider legal consequences.

“If I were to stick that in a road closure and somebody hits it, then the city is liable.”

Design contest. Winning prototype won’t be on streets; city says road closure signs must meet certain province-wide standards

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• There was both a people’s choice and a judge’s choice at the end of the competition, with each winner taking home $300.

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Owner faces animal cruelty charges after dog locked in hot carA charge of animal cruelty has been laid after a distressed dog was found locked in a parked vehicle on a hot day in Edmon-ton.

The outside temper-ature was 28 C when the panting collie-cross was discovered Monday after-noon at a location on the city’s west side.

The dog was rescued by firefighters, then taken to a veterinarian for treat-ment of thermal distress.

The animal was later reported to be responding well to emergency care.

It’s not known how long the canine had been locked up before it was rescued.

The cruelty charge has been laid against the dog’s owner. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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St. Albert to test out electric buses as part of pilot projectSt. Albert will be joining the City of Edmonton as another municipality testing out electric buses when a pilot project starts Aug. 5.

One fully electric bus will be assigned to both local and commuter routes for St. Albert and will be free to those who board.

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Students heading both downtown and south of the river will encounter a new campaign hosted by Responsible Hospitality Edmonton. Ryan TumilTy/meTRo

A new campaign aimed at “safe partying” for students is coming to Old Strathcona and downtown this fall.

Working with businesses near the Whyte Avenue and Jasper Avenue area, part of the promotion will help new and returning students navigate late nights with helpful tips.

“It will really help to edu-cate, inform and give students some tools to plan a safe night out,” said Angela Turner with Responsible Hospitality Ed-monton.

With thousands of stu-dents visiting the popular nightlife areas in the city each weekend, officials say infor-mation such as keeping their cellphones charged and hav-ing a designated driver will be shared with those passing by as part of the multi-level cam-paign.

Social media will also be used to help students make sure they get home and cele-brate safely.

“It’s all about planning a safe night out,” said Turner.

Street teams will also be in the area to help, with Respon-sible Hospitality Edmonton officials adding that the cam-paign will be rolled out in “a game format” when it hits lo-cal streets.

The minimum six-week campaign will launch mid-September.

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No knowledge of ‘false passengers’: RedfordFormer Alberta premier Alison Redford is denying any person-al wrongdoing associated with findings by the auditor general that passenger lists on govern-ment aircraft were altered so she could fly alone.

Redford issued the denial via Twitter on Tuesday, noting she has not been able to read the auditor general’s draft re-port because it has not been provided to her.

“But I have co-operated fully with the auditor general in the preparation of his report and will continue to do so,” she said.

“I understand from the media that the draft report supposedly refers to certain flight booking practices in the Office of the Premier. I would be surprised if these allega-tions are true but in any event, I also understand that the draft report makes clear that these

were not practices that I had any knowledge of.”

Alberta’s Wildrose Oppos-ition says there should be an RCMP investigation into Red-ford’s use of government air-craft.

Wildrose finance critic Rob Anderson says the public has an expectation that politicians who may have broken the law should be investigated.

A CBC News report on Tues-

day said a review by auditor general Merwan Saher found that Redford’s staff blocked others from flying on govern-ment planes by booking seats in advance and then removing passenger names before print-ing the flight manifest.

“The implications of this practice were that other gov-ernment employees or elected officials would not have been able to travel on those aircraft,”

Saher said in an internal gov-ernment report obtained by the CBC.

Anderson said it appears the governing Progressive Conserv-atives were using the planes as “personal air limousines.”

“The PCs will undoubtedly try and pin this all on Ms. Red-ford and her departed staff as though they had absolutely nothing to do with it,” Ander-son said. The caNadiaN PRess

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600 classic cars going under gavel in Spruce Grove

Spruce Grove’s Murray King is looking to unload some old assets — 600-odd clas-sic cars he’s been collecting over the last 36 years, to be exact.

The collection of cars, ranging from 1920s classics to more modern trucks, will be going up for auction Aug. 16 and 17 as King downsizes his collectibles.

“It’s hard to find good cars nowadays,” said King, owner of Kustom King — a car restoration company lo-cated outside of Edmonton. “I always focused on con-vertibles and you have to find a hard top for parts for the convertible, then you buy a four-door for parts for both of them.

“That’s why I have what I have in my yard.”

Even though King said it will be sad to see the vehicles go, it’s time for them to move as he pre-pares to sell the land where

the cars are currently parked.

“My land, I paid $35,000 for and it’s worth well over $1 million now,” he said about the 2.5 acres the cars occupy.

Along with some cars valuable for parts, King will be auctioning off a few fully restored cars. Buyers from places like Texas and California are expected to make the trek north for the auction, while internation-al bidders will be making their bids online.

“Some are fairly rare,” said King about his cars. “I’ve got a 1941 Chrysler Roadster that there might have been 500 or 600 built. I’ve got a 1941 Buick Road-master Convertible. Again, there might have been 400 to 500 of them made.”

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Growing up in Sherwood Park, Orville Cameron never heard of John Ware: There was no mention of the iconic black hero, a founder of the prov-ince’s ranching industry, in high-school history books.

It wasn’t until his brother showed him a heritage stamp of the freed U.S. slave — who became a legendary cow-boy and ranching pioneer in southern Alberta in the late 1800s — that Cameron took any interest in the figure, once called “the only man who could tame a wild steer.”

Two years later, the 37-year-old Edmonton actor is in southern Alberta, set to bring the horseman and devoted family man to life in the world

premiere of the play John Ware Reimagined.

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a pioneer of Alberta, so why don’t Canadians know more about him the way we do about Louis Riel?” asked Cam-eron.

Playwright Cheryl Foggo said her play is meant to exam-ine race and identity, but it’s a simple story, as well.

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City officials haven’t given up on a plan to get late-night transit in Edmonton.

With budget discussions approaching, staff at Respon-sible Hospitality Edmonton (RHE) are looking to get fund-ing so that both Whyte Av-enue and Jasper Avenue areas could have functioning tran-sit for partygoers.

“Late-night transit is al-ways an issue. There’s a crush of people at the end of the

night … and it’s like a late-night rush hour with limited

transportation,” said Angela Turner with RHE.

Coun. Andrew Knack went on a recent ride-along, both downtown and in the Old Strathcona area, and wit-nessed first-hand the need to have transit options in the growing city.

“In a city of our size, the fact that a bus doesn’t run later in most cases, 12:30 at night, is mind-boggling,” he said. stepHanie Dubois/metro

transit plan for ‘late-night rush hour’ looks for funding

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5Five routes would operate to Century Park, Mill Woods, Capilano, Clareview, Eaux Claires and West Edmonton Mall in the first phase of a proposal council reviewed last year.

The house that was the site of Calgary’s worst mass killing has been put up for sale.

Five young people were slain at an end-of-school party in April at the house near the University of Calgary campus.

The real-estate listing for the 1,033-square-foot, four-bedroom home puts the ask-ing price at $489,900.

The listing promises a great location on a massive lot but

adds it “needs some work to turn it into the gem it can be.”

Matthew de Grood has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of Zackariah Rathwell, 21; Lawrence Hong, 27; Joshua Hunter, 23; Jordan Segura, 22; and Kaiti Perras, 23.

He is to undergo a psychi-atric assessment and will be back in court Aug. 29. tHe CanaDian press

Calgary. House where five were killed put up for sale

Total now at 28,583

Leduc reports another boost in populationEdmonton’s neighbour to the south is reporting a 4.9 per cent population in-crease this year from 2013.

According to a release, the city of Leduc’s growth rate over the last five years has averaged at 5.8 per cent.

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Online matchmaking service OkCupid said on Monday it messed with members’ minds a bit in a bid to refine the for-

mula for finding love.OkCupid co-founder Chris-

tian Rudder made a case for the practice in a blog post titled We Experiment on Hu-man Beings, which came on the heels of criticism of Face-book for tinkering with posts to see how it influenced emo-tions of members of the lead-ing social network.

“We noticed recently that people didn’t like it when Fa-

cebook ‘experimented’ with their news feed,” Rudder said.

“But guess what, every-body: if you use the Internet, you’re the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site. That’s how websites work.”

Rudder described how Ok-Cupid hid profile text to find out how important words were compared to people’s pictures. It also told some incompatible

folks they were ideal matches to determine if the power of suggestion played into roman-tic equations.

OkCupid learned that words in profiles mattered little next to pictures and that telling people they were fine matches ramped up the ten-dency for them to agree.

“When we tell people they are a good match, they act as if they are — even when they

should be wrong for each other,” Rudder said.

The matchmaking service also tested telling some seem-ingly perfect pairings they were lousy fits.

It turned out those people were inclined to defy the power of suggestion and grow enamoured of one another anyway, according to statistics posted at OkCupid.agenCe franCe-press

Love-finding formula. Matchmaking website co-founder says testing is how you figure out what works

Facebook

British authorities earlier this month revealed plans to investigate Facebook over an experiment that manipulated the feelings of users, as the social network apologized for its poor handling of the row.

Newfoundland

Soldiers rescue woman before truck explodesA group of current and former military members who were on vacation in central Newfoundland put their rescue training to use as they pulled a bleeding woman from a burning truck.

Ryan Folkes and five other friends were driv-ing between Grand Falls-Windsor and Badger on their way to go swim-ming Sunday when they saw smoke fuming out of the overturned vehicle.

Folkes, 26, said that as onlookers shouted for help, he and his friends administered first aid to the woman, removed her from the truck and brought her to safety just minutes before it burst into flames and exploded.THe CanaDIan press

Harry meets sprinting starBritain’s Prince Harry, right, meets with Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt during a visit to the Commonwealth Games Village in Glasgow, Scot-land, Tuesday. Danny Lawson/tHe associateD press

B.C. cyclist survives shooting, makes tourniquet from pants

It was just before 1 a.m. dur-ing an overnight cycling race in June, when loud explo-sions disrupted the solace of a rider along Highway 1 in British Columbia.

At first, Craig Premack, 59, thought he was hearing fire-crackers near Spences Bridge while he was taking part in a 600-kilometre, two-day cyc-ling event called the Cache Creek 600.

“But then my right fore-arm just blew up,” Premack said at a police news confer-ence Tuesday. “Seconds later I could feel the warmth of the blood rolling down my leg. I quickly realized that I had been shot and pedalled faster to escape.”

Premack said the bullet entered his right forearm, just below his elbow.

As he tried to make sense of what was happening, he saw a dark-coloured vehicle leaving a highway pullout.

“It was almost like a bad dream. I looked down and I could feel the blood. My good-ness, I’ve been shot. I’ve real-ly been shot. And all I could think was ‘Get away.’”

Premack said he slowed the bleeding with a tourni-quet he fashioned out of a pair of pants, and hoped his cycling buddies would soon come by.

He said some cyclists were 20 minutes ahead of him and others were 20 minutes behind him in the cycling event, that runs from Metro Vancouver to B.C.’s southern Interior and back.

“After the longest 20 min-utes of my life, I could see the lights of what could only be

my cycling friends. They were quick to react, with one of them riding back to Spences Bridge to summon help.”

RCMP Insp. Ed Boettcher told the news conference that police believe the potentially deadly incident near Lytton was a random attack.

Premack said he was taken to a nearby hospital in Ash-croft before being transferred to Vancouver for surgery.

He appealed to anyone with information about who could be responsible for the shooting to contact police.

“The community at large needs to be protected from this person,” he said.

Premack said he won’t be able to return to work for several months and that he’s concerned about finances.

Although he can’t ride these days, the avid cyclist added: “I will for sure. There’s no question.” THe CanaDIan press

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EU sends ‘strong warning’ to Russia

Shocked into action by the downing of the Malaysian air-liner and the resulting deaths of more than 200 Europeans, the European Union approved

dramatically tougher economic sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, to be followed swiftly by similar punitive measures from the U.S.

The new sanctions adopted by the Europeans over the up-rising in Ukraine include an arms embargo on Moscow and a ban on the unapproved sale to the Russians of technology that has dual military and civil-ian uses or is sensitive, such as advanced equipment used in deep-sea and Arctic oil drilling,

EU officials said.To restrict Russia’s access

to Europe’s capital markets, EU citizens and banks will be barred from purchasing certain bonds or stocks issued by state-owned Russian banks, said the officials, who spoke on condi-tion of anonymity.

EU President Herman Van Rompuy and the head of the EU’s executive, Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, said the 28-nation bloc meant to send a “strong warning” to

Russian President Vladimir Pu-tin that the “illegal annexation” of Crimea and Russia’s destabil-ization of Ukraine cannot be tolerated.

“Furthermore, when the violence created spirals out of control and leads to the killing of almost 300 innocent civilians in their flight from the Nether-lands to Malaysia, the situation requires urgent and deter-mined response,” the two top EU officials said in a statement.thE associatEd pREss

Tougher sanctions. Arms embargo, ban on some tech sales adopted by Europeans after Malaysian airline disaster

Canada’s part

The federal government says it will impose new sanctions against Russia in the coming days over Moscow’s support of rebel groups in Ukraine.

• Inastatement,PrimeMinisterStephenHarpersaysRussianPresidentVladimirPutin’sfailure

toceasebackingarmedrebelsineasternUkraineconstitutesagenuinethreattointernationalpeaceandsecurity.

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Civil aviation

UN agency aims to toughen airline security after Ukraine disasterThe UN body that governs civil aviation says it is set-ting up a task force aimed at improving security measures in the wake of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.

The plane was shot down in mid-July by a surface-to-air missile while flying over a war-torn sec-tion of Ukraine.

Top officials from four international organiza-tions met in Montreal on Tuesday to discuss risks to civilian aviation in conflict zones.

Raymond Benjamin, the head of the International Civil Aviation Organization, told a news conference the agency will convene a high-level safety meeting with its 191 member states in February 2015.

Benjamin said states have also been reminded of their responsibilities to address any potential risks to civil aviation in their airspace. thE canadian pREss

Israel bombards symbols of Hamas power in GazaA Palestinian inspects the damage to the offices of Hamas’ Al-Aqsa satel-lite TV station, destroyed by an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Tuesday. Israel unleashed its heaviest bombardment in the three-week-old war against Hamas on Tuesday, striking symbols of the militant group’s control in Gaza and firing tank shells that Palestinian officials said shut down the strip’s only power plant. The fighting came as diplomatic efforts to forge a truce remained stalled, despite a death toll that Palestinian officials said rose above 1,200 on Tuesday. LefterIs PItarakIs)/tHe assocIated Press

Vancouver is the first city in Canada where you can take a free HIV test at a pharmacy.

Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and Providence Health Care announced Tuesday that they’re piloting the feasibility of local pharmacies offering HIV tests by introducing the test at two Vancouver Medicine Shoppe locations.

“A few years ago, evidence became really compelling that diagnosis at the earliest pos-sible moment is beneficial to patients and their partner,” said VCH medical health officer Dr. Reka Gustafson. “We began to greatly expand the availability of HIV testing in health-care settings and also outreach set-tings. It’s had a tremendous impact.”

But the health-care system continued to see the infection spreading among young people — who rarely see a doctor or visit hospitals — at concerning

rates. So in an effort to make the test as accessible and easy as possible, they decided to launch the pilot project.

“People may know what the healthy thing to do is, but don’t always do it,” said Gustafson. “Now they have the option of being tested while they wait for a prescription to be filled. We’ve made it easy for them.”

The two Medicine Shoppe pharmacies have private areas where the test can be con-ducted. The free Rapid HIV test is a simple pinprick blood test that identifies antibodies pro-duced by humans when the HIV virus is present.

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Is sifting through email stressing you out?

Dustin Moskovitz is plotting an escape from email.

The 30-year-old entrepre-neur has learned a lot about communication since he teamed up with his college roommate Mark Zuckerberg to create Facebook a decade ago, and that knowledge is fuel-ling an audacious attempt to change the way people connect at work, where the incessant drumbeat of email has become an annoyance.

Moskovitz is trying to turn

that chronic headache into an afterthought with Asana, a San Francisco startup he runs with former Facebook and Google product manager Justin Rosen-stein.

Asana peddles software that combines the elements of a communal notebook, social network, instant messaging ap-plication and online calendar to enable teams of employees to share information and do

most of their jobs without rely-ing on email.

“We are trying to make all the soul-sucking work that comes with email go away,” Rosenstein says, as Moskovitz nods while sitting across from him in a former brewery that serves as Asana’s headquarters. “This came out of a deep, heart-felt pain that Dustin and I were experiencing, along with just about everyone around us.”

The misery keeps mounting in the corporate world, which remains an email haven. This year, each worker using a busi-ness email account will send and receive a daily average of 121 mail messages, a 15 per cent increase from 105 per day in 2011, according to The Radi-cati Group, which tracks email usage.

In contrast, consumers have been weaning themselves off

electronic inboxes and increas-ingly turning to digital alterna-tives such as Facebook, Twitter and mobile messaging.

More email translates to less productivity as workers spend more time weeding their inboxes and puzzling over con-voluted exchanges among a hodgepodge of colleagues and managers scattered in various offices — or sometimes just a cubicle away. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Take a deep breath. Asana aims to bring tranquility (and focus) to your work day by offering an alternative to the deluge of email

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Science is a wonderful thing.It can determine the age of the universe

(13.798 billion years, if you’re counting from home).

Or it can find out if your dog gets jealous. Seriously, a study released last week

proves that Fido doesn’t like it when you scratch behind some other dog’s ears, even if the other dog is a stuffed animal.

Researchers at the University of Califor-nia (it’s not, like, Harvard) did an experi-ment with 36 dog owners and their dogs. First, owners were told to play with a little stuffed dog that barks and wags its tail (Tickle Me Fido?), followed by one of those Halloween jack-o’-lantern treat buckets, fol-lowed by reading aloud from a children’s popup book.

As you might expect, the dogs were only moderately per-

turbed by the book and the jack-o’-lantern, al-though 42 per cent weren’t sure about that jack-o’-lantern. But they went all canine when their humans started messing with another dog. In fact, 78 per cent tried to push the toy dog away, and one in four actually snapped at it.

As interesting as this is, dog owners don’t need science to tell them their dogs get jealous.

Before the kids came along, we had a dog named Mabel. People would ask, “Where did you come up with a dumb name like Mabel?” I replied that I should have called her Dinner, as that’s the only name she’ll answer to.

Mabel was not the most affectionate animal but she showed her true colours (black and tan and green all over) the day we brought the first baby home from the hospital. No nudging with

her nose or snapping — she just walked into the nursery and deposited a load.

In case there was any doubt about her intentions, 18 months later, when we brought home the second baby, she did exactly the same thing — the only other incident of in-continence in her 17-year existence.

Then there was her body language. Whenever the kids were in the room, Mabel would deliberately turn her back and pointedly ignore them. They grew up traumatized.

Of course, faced with the data, the scientists are showing admirable restraint. “We can’t really speak to the dogs’ sub-jective experiences, of course, but it looks as though they were motivated to protect an important social relationship,” said Christine Harris, the lead researcher.

Well, duh. Not to mention an important meal ticket. After all, there’s more at stake here than a scratch behind the ears.

When you’re a dog, you need your best friend more than he or she needs you. So the last thing you need is some other animal — or stupid jack-o’-lantern — competing for tasty snacks that are rightfully yours.

It’s a dog’s life. And there’s no room for another one.

DOGS: THEY’RE JUST LIKE US

Rats are on a rampage in the elegant garden of the Louvre Museum, so bold they romp on the grass in broad daylight, defying threats from sanitation workers and scaring tourists.

The hot weather in Paris has brought many picnicking visitors, whose garbage is a feast for the rats. And they’re getting help from animal lovers who dig up poison and give them water.

Maybe it’s the Ratatouille

eff ect, with the beloved French rat Remy from Disney’s computer-animated fi lm helping real-life rats win Parisian hearts. The vermin are fi nding a lifeline from “people who don’t want us to kill animals,” said Jean-Claude Ndzana Ekani, a museum employee.

Rodents have long made Paris their home. In 2000, mice were caught picnicking on pastries in the window of the luxury shop Fauchon. To the west, moles are an ever-present problem at the Palace of Versailles — which has its own mole-catcher. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The Guardians of the Galaxy, who made their first appear-ance in print in 1969, bear very little resemblance to the team of superheroes who will grace the big screen this weekend.

Conspicuous by his ab-sence in the original book is Rocket Raccoon, the heroic character voiced by Bradley Cooper in the film. The feisty raccoon appeared years later, created by writer Bill Mantlo and illustrator Keith Giffen, who named the masked crea-ture in tribute to the Beatles’ tune Rocky Raccoon.

They confirmed the Beat-le’s influence in 1982 with a story that paraphrased John and Paul’s lyrics for the title. Called Now Somewhere In the Black Holes of Sirius Major There Lived a Young Boy Named Rocket Raccoon, the book saw the Hulk and Rocket Raccoon stop a vil-lain from stealing Gideon’s Bible.

Rocket is the latest rac-coon, but not the only, to become a mammalian movie star. Recently Liam Neeson starred in the animated mov-ie The Nut Job, playing the imaginatively named Rac-coon, the patriarch of a park, who might not have the best interests of the other ani-mals top of mind.

Other animated raccoons

have worked steadily. Meeko, the raccoon from Disney’s Pocahontas and Pocahontas ll: Journey to a New World cartoon also makes appear-ances in Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse and in the Pocahontas video game. Then there’s RJ from Over the Hedge, a lovable raccoon voiced by Bruce Willis. “The rascally charm Bruce Wil-lis brought to Moonlighting makes RJ a lovable rogue, or at least a likable one,” said director Karey Kirkpatrick.

Real-life raccoons are also getting work — in films like Rascal and The Details — but according to director Steve Carr they can present some problems. Tough guy actor Michael Rappaport voiced Joey, the consigliere rac-coon, in Dr. Dolittle 2. The film featured more than 250

four-legged cast mem-bers, Carr says, “A huge percentage of our work was waiting for the ani-mals to do what they’re trained to do. And the patience that was need-ed well, it felt at times as if it were Herculean.”

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Lovable masked rogues. Real-life or animated, raccoons are making out like bandits in the movie world

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Zoe comes out swingingGuardians of the Galaxy might mark Zoe Saldana’s first Marvel movie, but she’s no stranger to stunt work. When it came time to get fighting, the Star Trek and Avatar star had plenty of past experience to call upon. “There’s muscle memory of the things I’ve done the past seven or eight years. I was able to kind of relax with my body and work with the stunt co-ordinators, but not excessively like I’ve done on other films,” she says.

“Chris [Pratt] was like, ‘I know you’re very stunt-y, but just be yourself.’ Around the third take he’s like, ‘Take it easy, baby. There’s your mark.’”

Pratt happily concurs: “She whacked me a few times. I can guarantee she can knock anybody out. She’s got a very strong kick and she’s not afraid to use it.”

But she is concerned with exactly how she uses it, especially when bringing Gamora, an alien bred to be an assassin, to life. “I didn’t want Gamora to look like any typical action person that’s martial artsy, that

just does those Underworld jumps and lands on the ground and it breaks. I wanted her to be a little more graceful and classy in the way she fights,” Saldana explains. “She has to be seductive to trick her enemy into fall-ing into their own death.”NED EHRBAR/METRO IN L.A.

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Don’t worry about me. The Sharknado Evacuation map supplied by Syfy network places me, as a resident of Lower Manhattan, smack in the zone most in peril this sharknado season. But I’ll be ready.

You might as well bat-ten down the hatches, too. Sharknado 2: The Second One (which, if you hadn’t guessed, is an encore follow-up sequel to last summer’s campy clas-sic) premieres Wednesday (Space, 9 p.m. EDT).

The original Sharknado de-picted a weather aberration on the Southern California

coast that caused bloodthirsty sharks to rain on hapless An-gelenos. But hunky beach-bar owner Fin Shepard (get it: fin shepherd?!) saved the day with a makeshift shark explo-sion.

Now he’s back. Again played by Beverly Hills, 90210 alum Ian Ziering, Fin, in the aftermath of his sharknado trauma, is heading to New York City for a quiet visit along with his beloved ex, April (the returning Tara Reid). It won’t surprise you to learn that an even big-ger, badder sharknado siege awaits him.

That’s the bad news. The good news: Sharknado 2 is a hilarious must-see treat.

The original film erupted as a social-media and pop-culture phenomenon, mostly celebrated for its unwitting awfulness. It was a throw-

back to drive-in movies of 50 years ago that you would have ignored while you and your date put your attention elsewhere. A would-be blend of Jaws and Baywatch, it was funny, but never seemed to be in on the joke.

Against all odds, Shark-nado 2 has wised up. Though it and its performers teem with conviction — no wink-ing at the audience here — the film is unabashedly awash with fun. And unlike laid-back Cali, New York — al-ways spoiling for a fight — is the perfect arena for dramatic strife, even from killer sharks cascading from the sky.

In fact, Sharknado 2 serves as a paean to the Big Apple. Veteran comedian Robert Klein (playing the mayor of New York in one of the film’s numerous celebrity cameos) delivers a rousing call-to-arms

for all New Yorkers: “When something bites us, we bite back!” Hizzoner said a mouth-ful!

Adding to the merriment are the many New York loca-tions. Director Anthony C. Ferrante (back again for the sequel, as is screenwriter Thunder Levin) proves him-self as a guerrilla filmmaker, capturing the city up-close-and-personal yet with a re-markably sleek touch. It’s a fine-looking film, despite a budget (Ferrante hints) some-where between $1 million and $2 million and a shooting schedule (he swears) of just 18

days.“I had only been to New

York a few times,” Ferrante, who grew up in Northern Cali-fornia, said recently, “and get-ting to come here and shoot at all these landmarks, I was like a kid in a candy store. When they told me, ‘You only get Times Square for two hours, and with only a crew of eight,’ I said, ‘OK, let’s do it!’ We shot the whole ferry scene in 15 minutes on the ride back from Liberty Island.

“We needed to do the sub-way scene, and got a meeting with the MTA. They didn’t know what a sharknado is,

but we made our case. They said, ‘We’re gonna give you the platform at Citi Field and a functioning (subway) car for three hours.’ And the Mets gave us a 12-hour day at Citi Field. I’m from L.A., but I want the Mets to win the World Series this year. They did me a solid!”

The subway and Citi Field sequences are riotous, and, among the many star turns, Today personalities Matt Lauer and Al Roker do some of the best work of their lives providing poker-faced cover-age of the raging disaster.

But the film will sink its teeth into you from its first moments as you join Fin and April on their terrifying air-line flight. Fasten your seat-belt for a wicked homage. This Sharknado is the very definition of scared silly.THE AssociATEd PREss

Comical cult legend John Wat-ers says he doesn’t know if he’ll make another film again, and he’s fine with that.

After writing and directing over a dozen features, earn-ing nicknames including the Baron of Bad Taste and the Pope of Trash for his subver-sive screen stories, he’s found happiness in penning books as it gets harder and harder to secure financing for new big-screen projects.

“I want to make another movie, but if I don’t, I have many ways to tell my stories,” Waters said in a telephone interview to promote his sev-enth book, Carsick.

“They want me to make (films) on the budgets I made Female Trouble and Polyester, and I can’t be a faux under-ground filmmaker at 68.

“It’s just like when they wanted me to come to Occupy Baltimore. I’m for it, I’m for all anarchy kids — as a mat-ter of fact, I want a hacker boyfriend, because they stay home, they’re up in their bed-rooms shutting down govern-ments,” the openly gay writer-director-actor continued with a laugh from his Baltimore home.

“But at the same time I said, ‘I own three homes and a summer rental. I can’t really be too much of an anarchist.’ Brigid Berlin, the great War-hol star, said to me ... ‘How can we be bad at 70?’ What a great line that was. That we even want to be, at 70.”

Waters happy under his own thumbSubversive storyteller. Auteur and author John Waters unsure if he’ll make another film as he promotes latest book Carsick

John Waters GreG Gorman/raincoast Books

Sequel bares its sharking-eating grinFin-stastic. Sharknado 2 delivers a storm of laughs as it sinks its teeth into Manhattan

Ian Ziering, as Fin Shepard, battles a shark on a New York City street in a scene from Sharknado 2: The Second One. syfy/the associated press

On not being recognized

“But once I stood there for 10 hours, are you kid-ding? I prayed somebody would recognize me. When I had to walk down in those Holiday Inns at seven in the mor-ning to those breakfast rooms with the truckers, I was prayin’ somebody would recognize me, but they usually never did.”John Waters

A mouthful of bravodo

“When something bites us, we bite back!”Veteran comedian Robert Klein as the mayor of new York delivers a rousing call-to-arms for all New Yorkers in Sharknado 2: The Second One.

Anything but faux

“They want me to make (films) on the budgets I made Female Trouble and Polyester, and I can’t be a faux under-ground filmmaker at 68.”John Waters says if he can’t secure funding to make another movie, he has other ways to tell stories — including his book, Carsick, based on his 2012 cross-country hitchhiking adventure.

The baddest thing Waters has done lately? Hitchhiking from his Baltimore house to his apartment in San Francis-co for Carsick, now on shelves.

The book begins with fic-tionalized hitchhiking scen-arios he imagined might happen to him on the road. It then gives a humorous ac-count of his actual 2012 trip with drivers including a min-ister’s wife, a young man in a red Corvette and a coal miner.

His cover was eventually blown after he was picked up

by the indie band Here We Go Magic and they tweeted about it, leading to a flurry of posts of his adventure on social media.

Holding out his thumb roadside with a cardboard sign and signature pencil-thin moustache gave him a new outlook on Middle America, said the writer-director of 1988’s Hairspray and 1994’s Serial Mom.

“I always said before, I do great in the high life and the low life — I can do well

at the Cannes Film Festival, I do well in prison, I don’t do well in a shopping mall. But I think that changed, because I think Middle America is dif-ferent now. I think people have changed. I think it’s all because of the Internet and the global community and everything.

“Everybody’s better, every-body’s a little cooler, every-body’s a little less judgment-al. Even Republicans, even people that I don’t believe in their politics at all.”

Before Waters embarked on the trip, he didn’t want to push being recognized by his drivers.

“But once I stood there for 10 hours, are you kidding? I prayed somebody would rec-ognize me,” he said. “When I had to walk down in those Holiday Inns at seven in the morning to those breakfast rooms with the truckers, I was prayin’ somebody would rec-ognize me, but they usually never did.”

Waters battled rainy weather, stayed in motels and dined at truck stops and fast-food restaurants on his trip, which his assistants tracked via GPS. Some passersby and patrons at rest stops offered him money, thinking he was homeless.

“It was like being in Pink Flamingos, at the end when they say, ‘Let’s sleep in gas station lavatories’ — I WAS in gas station lavatories,” ex-claimed Waters, who wrote and directed 1972’s Pink Fla-mingos.

“In the beginning you say, ‘Well, I wouldn’t get in a car like this, I wouldn’t do this.’ But by the time you’re

really out there doing it for five days, I said I’d get in Ted Bundy’s car. If he had a Volk-swagen and a broken arm and pulled up, I would’ve gotten in with him.”

In fact, the more offbeat the driver the better for Wat-ers, who noted he’s more interested in “people that think they’re normal but are insane.”

“Because that’s all the characters I make movies about,” he said.

Waters has also picked up hitchhikers himself.

“The last time I remember picking up a hitchhiker was in Baltimore and it was in the daytime and it was a young kid and he jumped in the car and started huffing glue and I thought, ‘Well make yourself comfortable,’” he said.

“But then he offered me some and I said, ‘Well not on Tuesday at 11 in the mor-ning. Maybe Friday night.’ ... I thought it was sort of shock-ing and it made me laugh. He wasn’t scary or anything. But then again, the hitchhiker with the birthmark in Texas Chainsaw Massacre is my type.” THE cANAdiAN PREss

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Despite rampant rumours of tension at home and even infidelity — not to mention a reported stay in rehab earlier this year — Ellen DeGeneres is said to be standing by her woman when it comes to wife Portia de Rossi. “Ellen is very supportive of Portia and has no intention of leaving her. Portia is her world,” a source tells Radar Online. “Ellen is controlling of Por-tia, but she is always talking about how lucky she is to have such a beautiful wife.” Reports surfaced earlier this month that de Rossi had secretly checked into a rehab facility in May to deal with alcohol and drug issues.

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Where have you Ben? Kevin Smith wonders what

happened to bromanceKevin Smith used to be able to count on Ben Affleck for anything — even a cameo in Clerks 2. But not anymore. “We’re not f—ing tight. I have not been (close with him) in decades. That’s old Ben. He’s got a wife that don’t care for me at all,” Smith told Yahoo Mov-ies, referring to Jennifer Garner. “And plus, honestly,

he probably don’t care for me at all anymore. He’s a triple-A-list movie star and s— like that. If he’s Jimmy Carter, I’m Billy Carter, to put it in ’70s terms. And I’m not even related and s—.”

That may sound rough, but Smith’s rep was quick to clarify it was all “simply a joke and taken completely out of context.”

Freddie’s fed up:He’s got 24 problems

and Kiefer is oneIf you’re wondering where Freddie Prinze Jr. has been for the last few years, it’s sitting at home and seething about Kiefer Sutherland. The She’s All That star opened up to ABC News about how working on Sutherland’s 24 almost drove him into early retirement.

“Kiefer was the most unprofessional dude in the world. That’s not me talking trash, I’d say it to his face, I think everyone that’s worked with him has said that,” Prinze says. “I just wanted to quit the business after that. So, I just sort of stopped. I went and worked for Vince McMahon at (professional wrestling organization) WWE, for Christ’s sake. And it was a crazier job than working with Kiefer. But at least he was cool and tall. I didn’t have to take my shoes off to do scenes with him, which they made me do. Just put the guy on an apple box or don’t hire me next time. You know I’m 6 feet and he’s 5-foot-4.”

Prinze also says Suther-

land would regularly show up to work drunk and sit in his trailer for hours, keeping everyone waiting. Suther-land’s rep fired back: “Kiefer worked with Freddie Prinze, Jr. more than five years ago, and this is the first he has heard of Freddie’s grievances. Kiefer enjoyed working with Freddie and wishes him the best.”

Freddie Prinze Jr.

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Chris Pratt: The incredible growing- shrinking machine

Chris Pratt’s waistline has been having quite the adventure. As the actor has been more than happy to discuss, he’s packed on and peeled off plenty of pounds for his various roles, getting into impres-sive shape to play a Navy SEAL in Zero Dark Thirty (230 lbs.) then flabbing out to play a heavyset lawyer in the Delivery Man (295 lbs.), then getting buff again forGuardians of the Galaxy (225 lbs.).

Mention that some of the body image issues pro-jected on women by Holly-

wood might be crossing the gender divide, and he sounds almost proud. “Are you saying that I might be responsible for giving men body issues? That’s the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me,” he jokes.

But seriously, folks: “I’m sure I can’t relate to what females go through in Hollywood. I do know what it feels like to eat emotionally, to be sad and make yourself happy with food, and then be almost immediately sad and ashamed to try to hide those feelings with more food. It’s a vicious cycle and a very real thing,” he says.

“I know what it’s like to have body image issues. I also know that if you just work hard and enlist the help of good coaches and be willing to work hard, you can actually change that.”

And by this point, Pratt has made some of those good coaches very wealthy.

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El Salvador’s beaches are beautiful and void of the crowds you’ll see in more popular spots like Costa Rica. LIZ BROWN/METRO

It was a cold night in Decem-ber when my pal and I popped open a bottle of wine and start-ed planning our two-week surf trip down Central America’s Pacific coast.

Stops in Costa Rica and Nicaragua were musts, as the countries boast some of the best surf scenes in that corner of the globe. But another coun-try had grabbed our attention: El Salvador.

Everything we read talked of the unspoiled beaches, the nascent tourism industry that made your dollar stretch, and the excellent surf. It might have been our curiosity. It might have been the wine. But within the hour we had booked a flight to the capital San Salva-dor and exchanged a high five.

“You did what?” was my mother’s response to the news. “Isn’t there a war going on there?”

“Not since the early ’90s, mom,” I said.

Twenty years on, El Salvador is still trying to shake the vio-lent reputation it gained from that long, brutish civil war that stretched over a decade and saw children recruited as sol-diers and civilians terrorized by

massacres. It’s been a long re-covery but the nation that has emerged is on the path towards healing and excited by the pros-pect of sharing its treasures with visitors.

Any trepidation we felt as we flew towards San Salvador in March dissipated when we walked out of the airport to meet a clean-cut surfer named Jaime holding a plac-ard with our names scrawled on it.

We’d arranged the ride through Papayas, a hostel we booked in a small surf town called El Tunco, about a 45-minute drive from the San

Salvador airport. Following a stilted conver-

sation of broken English and Spanish, he piled our back-packs into his Nissan truck and we hit the highway.

We spent three days in this little town taking surf lessons, gorging on fresh fruit and fried Salvadoran fare and partying late into the night. While we spent two weeks in Central Amer-ica, we both agreed those first three days were the highlight of our trip.

Here’s why you should plan your own Salvadoran adven-ture.

The costWe nabbed a room with an en-suite bathroom at Papayas Surf Lodge, three minutes from the beach, for $22 a night. The beds were clean and comfort-able and the lodge had a small pool and kitchen for those who wanted to cook. There are a handful of restaurants to choose from in town (the town consists of two main dirt roads where all of the eateries, shops and bars are clustered). The cost of dinner ranged from $1 for three pupusas (fried tortilla with cheese, meat and beans) from a street vendor to about $6 for North American fare

from a patio restaurant on the beach. The meals washed down easily with $1.50 beers. Surf lessons are $10 an hour. Just take the main road to the beach where buff surfer boys hang out hounding you to hire them.

The empty beachesThe three days we spent in El Tunco were midweek, so we missed the weekend rush when the locals from San Sal-vador come out to play. That said, it was still high season in Central America (March) and at times we were the only surfers at the beach. There are some breaks further away from El Tunco for more skilled surfers, but the beach near Papayas offers a con-sistent mid-size wave that’s perfect for learning with the added bonus you don’t have to worry about running a kid over with your board (a very real risk at some of the more popular spots in Costa Rica). This isn’t a white sand Carib-bean beach — it’s pebbly and dark with volcanic rock — but the waves are good and the sun shines.

Get there before everyone else. Passed over in favour of more popular destinations like Costa Rica, this tiny nation has plenty to off er visitors

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Hardcore fans of Diana Gabal-don’s epic fantasy romance series, Outlander, are seriously being spoiled this year.

Following the hotly antici-pated TV series of the same name (premiering Aug. 24 on Showcase, just in case you’ve been living under a set of Stand-ing Stones), Outlander enthusi-asts can now travel to Scotland and completely immerse them-selves in the world of time-travelling lovers Jamie Fraser and Claire Beauchamp Randall by way of a specially designed, seven-day Outlander tour.

Beginning in Edinburgh, fans will be taken on their own Scottish adventure, visiting some of the key locations used in filming the series and sites that inspired Gabaldon while writing the books.

Highlights of the tour in-clude exploring the cobble-stone streets of the Royal Mile and Edinburgh’s Old Town, a visit to Doune Castle (Castle Leoch in the novel) and a trip to Loch Ness. There are also tours of Glencoe and Fort William.

Of course, it wouldn’t be an official Outlander tour without

sampling some of what the Scottish like to call The Water of Life (also Jamie’s favourite drink) with a visit to a whisky distillery.

Tours are limited to a max-imum of 16 people, so no doubt tickets will sell fast (double rates start at $1,005). The first trip is scheduled for Oct. 31, but six trips have just been added for 2015 (May 11, June 8, July 13, Aug. 17, Sept. 14, Oct. 12; booking for next year begins in early October). For further information, head over to the website: rabbies.comNikki Murphy/MwN iN New york

Fans can immerse themselves in the lives of the Outlander characters on a new tour. the associated press

Air travel

A peek at the perks of flying first classThe front of the plane; where beds lie flat, jackets hang neatly, cookies come warmed and drinks flow freely. But what are the secret perks? With the assistance of Cheapflights.ca, I got the scoop on what are inside those coveted amenity bags.

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Air CanadaInside this navy coloured kit are soft cotton socks, a pair of grey ear plugs, a light grey eye shade that’s soft to the touch, a tooth-brush with a five-gram tube of Colgate toothpaste and a Mentos mint. The skin care products include bergamot body lotion, a refreshing cleansing cloth and a lime-peppermint lip balm. It’s best for no-nonsense travel-lers who are rich enough to fly Business Class but don’t want bling cluttering up their cabinets.

DeltaMade by Tumi, this travel kit is a small, woven-effect black purse containing a multitude of goodies. The branding is no-nonsense, black and sleek; the eye mask and cosy socks are wrapped in red card saying “sleep,” the hand wipe is labelled “clean” and the ear plugs “quiet.” Also included is shoe polish, a shoe horn, comb, tissue, pen and 50 grams of Crest and dental floss (a first). By far the most generous of all the kits collected by Cheapflights.ca, travellers looking for quality and quantity will love this kit.

British AirwaysThe first class men’s kit offers a foldable comb/brush, razor, toothbrush and toothpaste, a pen, shave gel, moisturizer, eye gel, lip balm and deodorant. The women’s kit includes a foldable comb with a mirror, cotton pads, a pen, toothbrush and tooth-paste. There’s also renewing rose cleanser and triple rose renewing moisturizer, firm-ing eye serum, orange flower hand lotion, a lip balm and a deodorant stick.

EtihadEtihad’s limited-edition kits were created and pro-duced by Sougha, a social enterprise initiative that’s preserving the Emirati herit-age and promoting local artisans. The patterns of the kits evoke the romance of Bedouin tents. The diamond-level kit includes soft brown socks and an eye mask that’s as soft as suede, as well as roll-on pulse point oil, pillow mist, a toothbrush and toothpaste, cotton buds, pads and emery board, lip balm, hand balm and facial moisturizer by Le Labo.

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When the workday is sweet, ask why Cinnabon president Kat Cole’s path to climbing the corporate ladder was a bit more unconventional than that of most high-profile executives.

As a teenager, she began working as a wait-ress at Hooters and even-tually worked her way up to becoming one of the

company’s top executives before moving on to Cin-nabon four years ago.

In an interview in the New York Times, Cole stressed the importance of examining how a com-pany’s successes came to be.

“I’ve learned to question success a lot more than fail-

ure. I’ll ask more questions when sales are up than I do when they’re down,” Cole tells the Times.

“I ask more questions when things seem to be moving smoothly, because I’m thinking: ‘There’s got to be something I don’t know. There’s always some-thing.’”

This approach means that people don’t feel beat up for failing, but they should feel very concerned if they don’t understand why they’re successful.

“I made mistakes over the years that taught me to ask those questions.”

She also notes that since joining Cinnabon, she’s dis-

covered a very valuable les-son about leadership.

“I learned to make sure I take the full authority of my role.

“When I haven’t, I knew it immediately. And so I keep a keen eye out for whether my young leaders are forgoing an opportunity to lead,” she says.

Delicious dollars. Always question success, Cinnabon president tells aspiring leaders

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Digital desires

students say they want more digital and technical class options In today’s corporate world, it seems like strong digital skills are becoming more and more essential — and college stu-dents are noticing.

A new study by Internships.com and General Assembly found that today’s post-secondary students are eager to develop their digital and technical skills, regardless of their majors. However, there’s a large gap between the students’ desire to learn these skills and the resources available to them. Three out of four of the students surveyed said they wished their schools would help them with more “real world” internships. More than half said that colleges and universities should create more courses that focus on the development of technical skills as a requirement. metro

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How Tweet it is to be employed by you

In this day and age, who wouldn’t dream of working in the popular field of social media?

Job opportunities in so-cial media have started to grow in popularity among the millennial generation — and many organizations have a high demand for pro-fessionals in this area.

There are a number of skills that can make you an asset in this field, and many of them require just a little investment of time and energy outside the class-room.

Strong writing skills

While social media profes-sionals often tackle a num-ber of small writing tasks (think: 140 characters) in-stead of large ones, you’ll still need excellent writing skills to get ahead in this field.

In addition to being a grammar wizard, you’ll also need to communicate ef-

fectively using the written word.

This is a key skill for any career, but when you’re the person behind a brand’s on-line presence, it is absolute-ly mandatory that you be able to write effective and engaging content.

Customer service skills

You might not think to con-nect your experience in customer service with a job opportunity that involves social media.

However, careers in so-cial media involve dealing with the public all the time.

While you may be con-necting with people from the other side of a screen, knowing how to deal with different customer inquir-ies and complaints is vital to your continued success.

Dedication & passion

Working in social media is not a nine-to-five job.

You will often have to

work around the clock and on weekends. The online

community never sleeps, and neither do your fans

and customers. This is particularly true

if you work for a business that is open seven days a week.

There’s good news. If you’re dedicated and pas-sionate about social media and community manage-ment, it won’t feel like work to be constantly tuned into your social media chan-nels; it should be second na-ture.

Willingness to learn

Social media is rapidly changing.

Since you’ve started reading this article, it’s probably already changed in some way, shape or form, or a new trend has appeared. If you plan on pursuing a ca-reer in social media, you’ll have to be ready to keep up.

If you’re looking for a career where your learning stops the minute you gradu-ate school, social media isn’t for you.

You can’t be an expert in social media without stay-ing up-to-date — and you have to be willing to accept that.TalenTegg.ca is canada’s leading job siTe and online career re-source for college and univer-siTy sTudenTs and recenT gradu-aTes.

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Personality

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Fragrant lemongrass fills the air with a citrus aroma while the mussels steam to produce a flavourful juice. The juicy mus-sels are loaded with flavours that entice you into the rest of your Thai experience. This dish

is great served hot or cold.

1. Trim top and end of lem-ongrass. Remove outer layers. Using back of knife gently bruise stalks. Cut in half length-wise, then crosswise into slices.

2. In Dutch oven or large sauce-pan, heat oil over medium heat. Add lemongrass, garlic and pepper; cook stirring for 1 minute or until fragrant. Add wine, water, fish sauce, lime rind and juice and half of the coriander.

3. Bring to boil; add mussels. Cover and cook, stirring once, for about 5 minutes or until all mussels are open. Discard any mussels that do not open. Pour onto large platter; sprinkle with remaining coriander.

Mussel your way to Thai flavours

Steamed Lemongrass Mussels. To cool or not to cool? The choice is yours with this refreshing dinner option

This recipe makes eight servings. emily richards

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Ingredients

• 2 stalks lemongrass • 2 tsp (20 ml) canola oil • 2 cloves garlic, minced • 1 Thai bird chili pepper, sliced (or 1/4 tsp/1 ml hot pepper flakes)• 1/4 cup (50 ml) white wine or sodium-reduced vegetable broth• 1/4 cup (50 ml) water

• 2 tsp (10 ml) fish or sodium- reduced soy sauce • 1/2 tsp (2 ml) grated lime rind• 2 tbsp (25 ml) fresh lime juice• 1/2 cup (125 ml) chopped fresh coriander • 2 pkgs (907 g each) mussels, bearded and rinsed

DInnEr ExprEssEmily Richards [email protected]

1. Melt the butter and ol-ive oil in large saucepan on medium high heat until both are bubbling.

2. Add the chopped garlic and mushrooms. Sauté for about one minute. Add the white wine and clam juice. Reduce until liquid is about half gone.

3. Add the cherry toma-toes and stir for 30 seconds.

Add cream and reduce heat to medium. Allow cream to bubble for about 30 seconds.

4. Add clams, peas and bacon. Gently stir pan until all ingredients are coated. Season with a few pinches of salt and pepper.

5. Add linguini. Gently stir again until all pasta is coat-ed in sauce. Remove from

heat.

6. Divide pasta evenly into four serving bowls. Sprinkle

each bowl with Parmesan cheese and parsley. rECiPE froM ChEf Bryan JurEk of fionn MaCCool’S

Ingredients

• 4 tbps (60 ml) butter

• 4 tsp (20 ml) olive oil

• 5 cloves garlic, finely chopped

• 10 button mushrooms, thinly sliced

• 1/4 cup (60 ml) white wine

• 1/4 cup (60 ml) clam juice

• 20 cherry tomatoes

• 3/4 cup (180 ml) 35% Cream

• 40 white clams, cooked, drained

• 1/2 cup (120 ml) green peas

• 6 slices bacon, cooked, finely chopped

• 4 cups linguini, cooked

• Salt and pepper

• 1/4 cup (60 ml) Parmesan cheese

• 1 bunch parsley, chopped

Dinner. Clam linguini

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Complaint

UNB’s hockey discrimination case will proceedA complaint of discrimin-ation over a decision by the University of New Brunswick to eliminate varsity women’s hockey will proceed after a tribu-nal on Tuesday rejected the school’s attempt to have the case thrown out.

Sylvia Bryson has been fighting to have the women’s hockey team reinstated as a varsity squad since filing her complaint in 2009, a year after the team was stripped of its funding and downgraded to a competitive sports club.

Bryson, who played for the team, alleges that the decision to down-grade the women’s team constitutes discrimina-tion on the basis of sex. THE CANADIAN PRESS

NFL

Sensitivity training ramped upTo guard against another Miami Dolphins bully-ing scandal, NFL teams are holding sensitivity sessions during training camp.

Such guidance could be valuable for St. Louis Rams players, even if by all accounts they’ve wel-comed Michael Sam, the NFL’s first openly gay player, into the fold.

The worst hazing Rams rookies face is toting veteran players’ helmets off the practice field. Coach Jeff Fisher says no one is made to sing at dinner time. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Blue Jays rookie Marcus Stroman deals to the Red Sox during the Blue Jays’ 4-2 win on Tuesday night at Fenway Park in Boston. ELISE AMENDOLA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Stroman strong as Jays extend streak

Marcus Stroman had his second solid start against Boston in five days, Colby Rasmus hit a solo homer and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Red Sox 4-2 on Tuesday night.

Anthony Gose had a tie-breaking two-run double for

the Blue Jays, who won for the ninth time in 11 games and improved to 9-3 against the Red Sox this season.

Xander Bogaerts homered and Dustin Pedroia added an RBI double for Boston, which

has dropped all five games in Fenway Park against Toronto.

The Red Sox lost for the seventh time in eight games.

Stroman (7-2) held Boston to one run and six hits in sev-en innings, striking out eight and walking two. He took a no-hitter into the seventh last Thursday before giving up Shane Victorino’s leadoff single for his only hit allowed in seven innings.

Casey Janssen got the final three outs for his 17th save despite giving up Bogaerts’ homer.

Rubby De La Rosa (3-4)

gave up three runs on nine hits in six innings.

The Blue Jays beat Boston in the opener of a three-game series on Monday.

Gose’s two-out, two-run double snapped a 1-1 tie and pushed the Blue Jays ahead in the sixth. Juan Francisco and Rasmus singled before advan-cing on Munenori Kawasaki’s sacrifice bunt.

Rasmus’ homer into the centre field bleachers gave Toronto a 1-0 lead in the second, but Boston tied it on Pedroia’s RBI double.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MLB. Rookie right-hander goes seven innings with eight Ks as Toronto continues to put hurt on Boston

On Tuesday

24Blue Jays Red Sox

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They’re armed with T-shirts, face paint and posters — and they’re headed to Montreal.

Founding members of the Genie Army, a group of Eugenie Bouchard supporters who cheered for the rising ten-nis star during the Australian Open in January, will be in the city for the Rogers Cup, begin-ning this weekend.

The fan club is made up of about a dozen people, and six of them are making the long journey to Canada for the tour-nament.

“We thought it would be a great chance to support Genie in her hometown and have the home crowd cheer along with us,” said Stephen Ganavas, a 17-year-old student living in Melbourne.

Dressed in red and white and waving a banner with her name, the Genie Army emerged as Bouchard’s un-official cheering section dur-ing an impressive run in Janu-ary. She ended up losing to the eventual winner, Li Na, in the semifinal.

The Australian devotees, mostly men in their early 20s, readily admit they have no ties

to Canada and no connection with Bouchard. They acknow-ledge the tall blond’s looks may have played a part in their decision to support her.

Ganavas said he and his friends also wanted to back an “up-and-comer” in the tourna-ment, and Bouchard fit the bill to a T after showing her poten-tial at Wimbledon in 2013.

“Genie is great because she is so genuine and down-to-earth,” he said in an email

exchange.“For example, after she

had just lost at the Australian Open to Li Na, she came out onto the grounds and just had a chat with us when she could have been relaxing and think-ing about the match she had just lost.”

It’s been a landmark year for Bouchard.

After her success in Aus-tralia, the 20-year-old made it all the way to the semis in the

French Open in June before playing in the Wimbledon final on July 5. THE CANADIAN PRESS`

The Genie Army cheers Eugenie Bouchard as she walks off the court at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Jan. 15. Six of the group’s 12 founding members will be in Montreal for the Rogers Cup, beginning this weekend. ANDREW BROWNBILL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Duty calls Genie Army to MontrealRogers Cup. Members of Bouchard’s fan club from Down Underwill make long journey to cheer her on

Near the top

6Eugenie Bouchard enters the Rogers Cup at No. 7 in the world rankings but will serve as the tournament’s sixth seed.

Damian Warner’s choice to pur-sue a career in track-and-field has paid off with a gold medal.

The 24-year-old from Lon-don, Ont., won the men’s dec-athlon in dominant fashion Tuesday at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.

The victory was Warner’s first on the international stage, and he spent his victory lap stopping to meet all the kids clamouring for pictures.

“It’s always awesome, run-ning around with the country’s flag,” he said. “I tell ya, we took a lot of selfies out there, a lot of those kids have their cell-phones out.”

Warner scored 8,282 to win his only decathlon of the sea-son; he was hampered earlier by a leg injury. England’s Ash-

ley Bryant won the silver with 8,109 points.

Growing up, Warner con-sidered pursuing basketball or football. He choose decathlon after high school and said there is plenty to learn before the Rio Olympics, where he’s sure to be a favourite. THE CANADIAN PRESS

In Glasgow. Warner on the mark with career choice

Damian Warner prepares for a throw in the javelin during the decathlonin Glasgow, Scotland, on Tuesday. CAMERON SPENCER/GETTY IMAGES

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United stand tall vs. MilanManchester United’s Chris Smalling battles with Mauro Andreolli of Inter Milan during the fi rst half of their match on Tuesday night in Landover, Md. Darren Fletcher converted the decisive fi fth penalty opportunity in Manchester United’s victory over Inter Milan after a scoreless draw Tuesday night in Landover, Md., the second game for both teams in the International Champions Cup. PATRICK SMITH/GETTY IMAGES

NFL

Bills’ sale is on, Toronto may land possible moveA bidding war which could see an NFL franchise land in Toronto kicked into high gear Tuesday.

Investors looking to buy the Buffalo Bills had until 5 p.m. to submit initial, non-binding bids to investment banking firm Morgan Stanley and law firm Proskauer Rose, which are handling the sale of the team for the estate of former owner Ralph Wilson, who died in March.

Among the bidders expected to drive the price of the Bills over the $1 billion (U.S.) mark is a group featuring Larry Tanenbaum, chairman of Maple Leaf Sports and En-tertainment, Edward Rog-ers, deputy chairman of Rogers Communications and rocker Jon Bon Jovi. Through spokespeople, Tanenbaum, Rogers and Bon Jovi all declined to comment.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

NHL

Leafs to re-sign Jake GardinerThe Maple Leafs have gone all-in on Jake Gardiner, giving the defenceman a five-year contract.

Gardiner is the last of the Leafs’ restricted free agents to sign a deal.

The deal is worth $20.25 million for a cap hit of $4.05 million. Gardiner the team’s second-highest-paid defenceman, behind captain Dion Phaneuf ($7 million salary cap). TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

NHL

Hurricanes’ Eric Staal gets surgery The Carolina Hurricanes say captain Eric Staal has underwent surgery for a core muscle injury and should be ready for training camp.

General manager Ron Francis said the surgery was performed Tuesday.

He said Staal suffered the injury during off-season training. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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1Honda Civic CoupeBase price: $20,523

Si version is class of the compact sports coupe fi eld.

2 Volkswagen GolfBase price:$20,605

All-new for 2015. As always, adept at handling and inter-ior packaging.

3Hyundai VelosterBase price: $21,544

Unique style not for every-one. Third door aids access.

Safety features

Six airbags, obstacle-detecting power win-dows, child-seat tethers, rear parking camera, automatic headlights, side-view mirror signal repeaters, four-wheel disc brakes with ABS, electron-ic stability control, vehicle stability management, hill assist control, auto dim-ming rear mirror.

Points

• Shares underpinnings with its corporate cousin, the Hyundai Elantra.• This is the second generation for Koup, and the first to get a turbo-charged engine option.• Looks the sportiest of the Forte clan, but the five-door also gets the extra sporty stuff, like turbo engine offer-ing and suspension tweaks.

Market position

For folks seeking a sporty looking car that is also fun to drive, practical, and relatively cheap to buy and operate. Prime demographic is young people and empty nest-ers, who don’t need four doors and a big back seat. Design officer Peter Schreyer is pushing Kia design toward a European look and feel.

2014 Kia Forte Koup

• Type: Two-door, front-wheel-drive compact coupe

• Engines: 2.0-litre four-cylinder (173 hp), 1.6-litre turbo four (201 hp)

• Transmission. Six-speed manual, six-speed automatic

• Base price. $22,480, including destination

Sporty Koup lacks edginess

With the arrival of the all-new Kia Forte sedan, it was just a matter of time before the five-door hatchbacks and two-door coupes showed up.

As it did with the previ-ous generation of Fortes, Kia decided to give the two-door model its own name: the Koup. And the company has honestly tried to make the Koup its own vehicle.

The 2014 Koup only shares its hood and front fenders with its siblings, and

flaunts more of everything compared to its predecessor — more power, more style, a longer and wider stance, and just a wee bit more rear-seat legroom.

The coupe format priori-tizes the driver’s needs for style and at-the-wheel fun. It’s perfect, for example, for young people who have yet to experience the misery (or joy) of having to con-cern themselves with the all-encompassing needs of offspring.

New engines include a 2.0-litre direct-injection four cylinder, which grunts out 173 horsepower, the equal amount of the previous 2.4-litre engine, and a 201-hp, 1.6-litre turbo, which debuted earlier as the up-graded engine for the Velo-ster — the other compact sporty coupe in the Hyun-

dai-Kia arsenal. That turbo, only avail-

able on the Koup’s up-level SX trim, seems to suggest Kia might be eyeing the up-per echelons of the compact sports coupe wars, where the Honda Civic Si and Golf

GTi screech their tires.Even with the new en-

gine, however, the Koup is not really positioned to prosper in that subcategory, which appeals more to out-right gearheads. The Koup doesn’t have the steering

feel and overall edginess of those two.

But we’re sure Kia was aiming for a different ex-perience, anyway, one where the driver can con-fidently fling the vehicle around, and bask in a style and interior experience that belies its price class.

This personal-luxury feel is created by a very quiet cabin, built with high-grade materials and rendered in a modern style.

The sleek roofline means compromises to rear visibil-ity and the size of the trunk access. But the trunk is fairly large, and the rear seats fold forward. It was easy to slide my bicycle into the back.

Friends may have trouble getting into the rear seats, but, overall, the Koup is a very upbeat vehicle that you and your friends will enjoy.

Review. Two-door version of Kia’s Forte gets more of everything over sedan

The modern, quiet cabin is built with high-grade materials.

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The sleek roofl ine compromisesrear visibility and trunk access.

26 metronews.caWednesday, July 30, 2014DRIVE

What test car is Garry bringing us this week? We literally have no clue what he’s bringing us until it lands in our driveway, but who are we to doubt Garry Sowerby, who has a bazillion Guinness records for around-the-world driving? That’s a bazillion more than we have, after all.

Come along and find out as we drive ’em, dirty ’em and shoot ’em with our phone cams. These are real-life, no-glam reviews..JEff MElnychuk

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Looks like a deal at $50,000,but is a Hyundai really worth it?

The 2015 Hyundai Genesis looks like a luxury car, starting with its long, wide snout. Jeff Melnychuk

The sticking point is not whether Hyundai can sell cars costing $50,000 or more. It’s whether the car in question is worth $50,000.

The new 2015 Genesis is therefore about perspective.

“Pretty nice, isn’t it?” Garry says as he hops out and tosses me the key thing.

Pretty nice, indeed.The thing that people

have to come to grips with is that $50,000 is actually not an abnormally huge amount of money for a well-turned-out full-size (gigan-tic, in this case) luxury car.

A case in point is the $90,000 Audi A6 diesel we recently tested, which of course is smaller than the Genesis. The Lexus LS starts in the mid-$80,000 range. The Cadillac CTS Vsport (also smaller than the Hyun-dai) we recently tested was also pushing $80,000. The Acura RLX is closer, at $50,000.

So, a $53,000 Hyundai has to be a deal, right? Well, getting back to the original question, it has to do with whether you feel like you’re getting 50-grand worth of car relative to whatever else is out there and the answer is easily yes.

The Genesis 3.8 Tech-nology model I tested has the base 311-horsepower 3.8-litre V6, as well as the HTRAC all-wheel-drive sys-tem. The car is spilling over with modern crash-mitigat-ing electronics and boasts a great 14-speaker Lexicon stereo that was set to some hip-hop station Garry likes. Please.

But what makes the Gen-esis worth the price is that it actually looks and feels

like it’s worth it — from the ride and drive quality to its side profile, long nose and satin-nickel trim pieces.

And the engine! OK, a V8 is available, but it’s just not necessary. The 3.8 is plenty peppy, partially due to the eight-speed automatic trans-mission, while returning ac-ceptable fuel performance.

With premium brands de-emphasizing engine size and power, it matters less

that the 3.8 is shared with the lesser Genesis coupe or the Santa Fe. Honestly, no one should care.

The beauty is that there are actually two Genesis models below this particular model, starting at $43,000. Looks like the large-car deal of the decade, eh?

And if you’re worried whether people will think you’re a wannabe by driv-ing a Hyundai and not a

Mercedes or BMW, that’s not really the case. Most people I talked to were over the moon with the Genesis’s looks, which is, believe it or not, a huge deal at this level.

It helps that the car gets its own unique winged logo, so you can’t really tell who makes it.

Failing that, if a Cadillac driver turns his nose up at you, remind him about the 1981 Cimmaron (Google it).

Hyundai did such a good job on this car that it calls into question the relevance of its more expensive Equus model, which starts at $65,000.

In fact, the company might do better to pay atten-tion to the gap in the lineup between the smaller Sonata and the Genesis, which is more of a chasm, really.

But as far as the Genesis goes, it is “pretty nice.” Garry, you are the master of understatement.

Special delivery. New Genesis is attractive, very well-equipped, powerful and drives great, despite the relatively low price

The luxury sedan is filled with modern electronics and technology, including a great 14-speaker Lexicon stereo system.

The Genesis gets its own stylizedwing badge on the hood.

There is a V8 available, but the V6is plenty powerful.

Bang for the buck

The 2015 Hyundai Gen-esis will give other luxury brands a run for the money.

• TheGenesisstartsat$43,000; our test vehicle was $53,000.

• Thebasemodelcomeswith a V6 3.8-litre en-gine and an eight-speed automatic transmission.

No stigma here

“Most people I talked to were over the moon with the Genesis’ looks, which is, believe it or not, a huge deal at this level. It helps that the car gets its own unique winged logo.”Jeff Melnychuckwheelbsemedai.com

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