Metro Ottawa - January 4, 2013

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Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence, second from left, is helped back to her teepee after greeting and welcoming supporters as they visit her on Victoria Island in Ottawa on Thursday. Spence is in her fourth week of a hunger strike calling on
#IdleNoMoreTime?
Harper to meet and discuss First Nations issues. SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Hunger strike. Spence ers, is weak with hunger and action either by First Nations critic Carolyn Bennett, who implementation and a separate country and there have been
needs action from needs the meeting to take leadership or by Canada.” also sat down Thursday with discussion on comprehensive several blockades of transpor-
place within the next 72 hours, But Spence’s failing health Spence, described her as weak claim negotiations. tation corridors.
Ottawa within 72 hours,
said spokesman Danny Meta- won’t allow her to wait that but in good spirits. “Our government remains Spence has warned there
spokesperson says tawabin. long, Metatawabin said. Spence has been demand- committed to creating the con- will be more unrest, includ-
Shawn Atleo, national chief Spence met Thursday with ing discussions with Harper ditions for healthier, more self- ing “countrywide economic
of the Assembly of First Na- regional chiefs to establish a and Johnston about revisiting sufficient First Nation commun- disturbances,” unless Harper
tions, has urged Harper and united front and clarify their the treaty rights of First Na- ities,” Duncan’s spokesman said meets her.
The hunger-striking chief of Johnston to meet chiefs on Jan. demands in order to better ex- tions, although the scope of in a statement Thursday. Atleo, however, stressed the
northern Ontario’s poverty- 24 — the one-year anniversary pedite a meeting and call a halt her demands has left govern- “We continue to believe that need for peaceful protest and
racked Attawapiskat First Na- of Harper’s summit with First to the hunger strike, which has ment officials puzzled. the best way to make progress concrete solutions.
tion can’t wait three more Nations. been attracting support across Harper has not agreed to on our shared priorities — edu- “It’s time for the Crown to
weeks for the prime minister “First Nations across this Canada. meet Spence, but Aboriginal Af- cation, housing, clean drinking honour its relationship and re-
to meet with aboriginal lead- country have been voicing Alvin Fiddler, deputy grand fairs Minister John Duncan has water and economic opportun- sponsibilities to First Nations,
ers, a spokesman said Thurs- concern and frustration with chief of the Nishnawbe Aski tried repeatedly to speak with ity — is by working together.” starting with the recognition
day. a broken system that does not Nation, a regional advocacy her, to no avail. But since the exchange of and affirmation of our inher-
Theresa Spence, who’s been address long-standing dispar- network, said First Nations In recent letters to Spence letters and promise for treaty ent and treaty rights,”he said.
subsisting on liquids since Dec. ities between First Nations and leaders need to clarify their and a letter to Atleo in Nov- talks in November, tension has “It’s time for all First Na-
11 to prod Stephen Harper the rest of Canada,” Atleo said concerns in order to resolve ember, Duncan has proposed escalated. Grassroots protests tions citizens and their lead-
and Gov. Gen. David Johnston in a news release. their dispute with Ottawa. a First Nations–federal-govern- under the Idle No More ban- ers to drive solutions.”
into talks with aboriginal lead- “There is no excuse for in- Liberal aboriginal affairs ment working group on treaty ner have broken out across the THE CANADIAN PRESS
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WEEKEND, January 4-6, 2013
LRT-station design raises
public-safety concern: Critic
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wonders why station
“You can’t supervise
designs changed
the entire length of the
platform, so you have
no comfort level going
STEVE
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COLLINS down.”
[email protected]
Eric Darwin, who served on a LRT public-
advisory committee, thinks the fi nal plans
A change to LRT-station plans compromise rider safety
could compromise rider safe- W
ty, says a local community ac- ferior.”
tivist who participated in ear- Earlier city plans included
lier LRT planning meetings. the mezzanines, which Dar-
Eric Darwin, who served win said he and his commit-
on a public-advisory commit- tee colleagues supported for
tee for the light-rail project, safety reasons.
was surprised to see that “You could see from the
plans for open mezzanines, mezzanine levels down to the S
which allow a clear view of lower levels, so there’s super-
the platforms below, didn’t vision on the track level.
make it into Rideau Transit People don’t feel they’re wait-
Group’s winning design. ing alone wherever they are.”
“It’s a bit alarming when The lack of clear sight-
you go to meeting after meet- lines in designs for stations
ing that emphasizes some- like Downtown West worries
thing as being important Darwin: “You can’t supervise
such as having a mezzanine the entire length of the plat-
that’s visible to the station form, so you have no comfort
platforms ... and then when level going down as to who’s
the design comes back it’s already down there. These
suddenly a very different de- were supposed to be import- While some light-rail stations like Tunney’s Pasture, top photo, will still feature open mezzanines, the feature has
sign that I think is much in- ant factors and they’re gone.” disappeared from plans for others like Downtown West, bottom photo. CONTRIBUTED
Cell-block strip search appropriate: Constable
There was nothing inappro- has pleaded not guilty. vent a possible suicide and to
priate about the forced strip Downie said the woman clear her before lodging her in
search of a female prisoner was struggling with police the cell.
on the floor of an Ottawa po- at the booking table and her Crown lawyer Chris Webb
lice cell block, a police witness hand became loose from a argued there was no indication
testified Thursday in the sex- handcuff before she mule that the woman — who can’t
ual assault trial of Sgt. Steven kicked Special Const. Melanie be named — was suicidal.
Desjourdy. Morris in the right leg. “Did you form an opinion
Const. Cameron Downie Downie said in court he’d that she was suicidal?” said
testified in the trial for a never seen a strip search car- Webb.
second and final day on Thurs- ried out as it was on Sept. 6, “No,” replied Downie.
day. Desjourdy, who could be 2008, but he said Desjourdy The constable said he has
seen on video cutting off the didn’t do it to humiliate or never asked anyone arrested
woman’s shirt and bra with punish the woman. for public intoxication to be
scissors from behind in the In a police statement, Des- strip searched.
Sgt. Steven Desjourdy with the Ottawa police enters the Elgin Street presence of three other male jourdy wrote he removed part The trial resumes Friday.
courthouse on Sept. 27, 2012. JOE LOFARO/METRO officers and one female officer, of the woman’s clothes to pre- JOE LOFARO/METRO
04 NEWS metronews.ca
WEEKEND, January 4-6, 2013
Imposed teacher contract
will deepen strife: Unions
‘Dangerous precedent.’ own without union direction.
“The biggest thing I think
Bill that gave province
you will see our teachers doing
power to ‘do anything’ is cutting out extra work that
involves the ministry,” she said.
seen as unfair by
Broten trumpeted the fact
unions: Professor that the controversial bill will
soon be repealed and that
55,000 school-support staff,
GRAHAM including custodians and guid-
LANKTREE ance counsellors, are set to
[email protected] sign a contract negotiated be-
fore the Dec. 31 deadline, but
Imposing a contract on teach- CUPE sounded less pleased.
ers to end strikes will only “It sets a dangerous, dan-
deepen labour strife in Ontario gerous precedent in Ontario,”
schools, said legal experts and said Fred Hahn, president of
unions Thursday after an an- CUPE Ontario. “This is not col-
nouncement the province will lective bargaining like we have
dictate a new contract for edu- ever known it. This is the first
cators. time in the history of our prov-
“What I’m hearing from ince when any government
our members is that it won’t has overstepped the limits of
be business as usual,” said Jan power in an unprecedented
Fraser, first vice-president of way.”
the Ottawa-Carleton Elemen- Hahn said the union will
tary Teachers’ Federation. “I continue to stand with teach-
don’t see this ending. I don’t ers in opposition to the govern-
think you treat people the way ment’s tactics and will forge
they have and expect them to ahead with a legal challenge to
give their own time and do all the bill.
they do.” University of Ottawa labour-
Soon after Education Minis- law professor Pamela Chap-
ter Laurel Broten wielded the man agrees with the challenge.
power granted to her under Bill “I don’t think I understand
115 to end work-to-rule action how they thought interven-
that has been brewing since ing with collective bargaining
September, Fraser said teach- would be seen to be fair. It has Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten leaves the podium after speaking to reporters in Toronto on Thursday. Broten announced the province would dictate
ers will move forward on their had the reverse effect.” a new contract for teachers, following months of negotiations with teachers’ unions. FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Drinks, dancing and dinosaurs Trial. Boone acquitted on
attempted-murder charges
at Museum of Nature parties
At a loss for whom to believe,
a judge acquitted Steven Paul
Scenesters will soon have a Boone Thursday of four sex-
chance to enjoy a cocktail related offences involving a
next to a tarantula or dance developmentally delayed Ot-
the night away among art in- tawa man.
stallations in the Museum of Justice Bonnie Warkentin
Nature’s glass atrium when said in her ruling Boone was
the institution launches a not guilty of attempted murder,
series of dance parties at the attempted aggravated sexual as-
end of the month. sault, attempting to administer
“It’s for people inter- a noxious substance and sexual
ested in the museum but assault. The judge found him
who don’t feel comfortable guilty of one count of breach of Steven Boone HANDOUT
when there are a lot of kids probation.
around,” said Cynthia Iburg, On Oct. 31, 2012, an Ottawa from the complainant, which
senior educator at the Can- jury in a separate trial found the Crown argued should be
adian Museum of Nature, Boone guilty on nine charges, treated as from a child witness.
who came up with the Na- including attempted murder, Warkentin said his evidence
ture Nocturne parties. “You aggravated sexual assault and was “confusing” and she was
can’t make the same jokes. administering a noxious sub- not convinced beyond a reason-
People want to have fun stance. able doubt that there was at-
with their friends.” The Crown in the second tempted anal intercourse.
DJ TDot, set up in the trial sought to prove Boone “I do not believe that (the
museum’s glass tower, will engaged in sexual activity with- complainant) intended to mis-
pump beats into the build- Cynthia Iburg, senior educator at the Canadian Museum of Nature, will bring in the beats at a monthly series of dance out the consent of a 21-year-old lead the police or this court;
ing Jan. 25 as a team of parties at the museum starting Jan. 25. GRAHAM LANKTREE/METRO man in April 2010 and with- however, his evidence was,
young museum botanists out disclosing his HIV-positive on the whole, inconsistent on
recently returned from the of neat experiences that video group Luminartists. “The idea is that every status. significant points regarding
Arctic swap tales of adven- won’t be there through the Bars and a VIP lounge in month we want to create a Warkentin said Boone’s evi- the sexual interactions that oc-
ture from 8 p.m. to midnight day,” said Iburg. “They’re all the insect room will be set new experience for people,” dence lacked credibility “in its curred,” said Warkentin.
and a number of artists from interactive or collaborative up throughout the castle- said Iburg, noting food that entirety” in part because of evi- Boone will be remanded
Ottawa’s Nuit Blanche trans- in some way,” she said, add- like building to attract can be eaten on the run will dence presented at his first trial into custody pending a danger-
form the museum. ing that the dinosaur room young professionals who be provided. last fall. ous-offender assessment.
“There will be all sorts will be taken over by digital don’t often visit the space. GRAHAM LANKTREE/METRO The judge assessed evidence JOE LOFARO/METRO
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06 NEWS metronews.ca
WEEKEND, January 4-6, 2013
Rape and murder charges laid
against accused in gang rape
Global outrage. Backwards justice
Protesters gather in
New Delhi and around Many cases in India never get
the world to push for to court because of intense
social pressure against
stricter laws against
families reporting sexual
sexual assaults in India assaults, which are often
blamed on the victims.
(cid:580)(cid:3) When women do report
Five men accused of raping a rapes, police often refuse
university student for hours to file charges and pres-
on a bus as it drove through sure the victims to reach
India’s capital were charged a compromise with their
Thursday with murder, rape attackers.
and other crimes that could
bring them the death penalty. (cid:580)(cid:3) The 23-year-old was at-
The attack on the 23-year- tacked Dec. 16 after board-
old woman, who died of severe ing a bus with a male
companion after watching
internal injuries over the week-
an evening showing of the
end, provoked a fierce debate
movie Life of Pi at a mall.
across India about the routine
mistreatment of females and Savita Verma, a mother from Brampton, wipes a tear as she joins a protest outside the Indian Consulate in Toronto on Thursday. CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
triggered daily protests de-
manding action. and chemical castration for women’s rights. charges against the five men with evidence, kidnapping, Singh, the bus driver; his broth-
There have been signs of rapists, and the government In a nation where court were filed Thursday even- murder and other charges er Mukesh Singh, who cleans
change since the attack. Rapes, is examining wide-scale re- cases often linger for years, the ing. The government said it against the men. The charge buses for the same company;
often ignored, have become forms in the criminal justice government set up a special planned to open four more of sheet was not released and he Pavan Gupta, a fruit vendor;
front-page news, politicians system’s handling of sexual as- fast-track court Wednesday those courts in the city. asked for a closed trial. A hear- Akshay Singh, a bus washer;
have called for tougher laws, saults. Activists say the tragedy to deal with crimes against Prosecutor Rajiv Mohan ing was set for Saturday. and Vinay Sharma, a fitness
including the death penalty could mark a turning point for women, and that is where the filed a case of rape, tampering The men charged were Ram trainer. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Unwanted pregnancy
First shake. Baby reaching
Icelandic girl fighting
Man who poked
out of womb to grab doctor
holes in condoms
state to keep her name captured in viral photo loses sexual-
assault appeal
It’s a moment Dr. Allan Sawyer Alicia is the photograph- A Nova Scotia man con-
Call her the girl with no will never forget — the new- er in the family, but Randy victed of sexual assault
name. born he was helping deliver snapped the picture after for trying to trick his
A 15-year-old is suing the reached out of her mother’s Sawyer told him, “Hey, she’s girlfriend into becoming
Icelandic state for the right womb and grabbed his finger. grabbed my finger.” pregnant by poking holes
to legally use the name given Now he has the evidence “My daughter reached in her condoms has lost
to her by her mother. The hanging framed on his of- up out of my stomach and his appeal.
problem? Blaer, which means fice wall, a thank you from grabbed the Doctor’s finger Craig Jaret Hutchinson
“light breeze” in Icelandic, is the parents and the first viral and my hubby caught this of Shelburne County was
not on a list approved by the photograph of 2013. special moment,” Alicia said given an 18-month prison
government. “It’s just one of those mir- on the page. sentence in December
Like a handful of other aculous moments,” Sawyer’s “Truly amazing. I am in 2011 after his judge-only
countries, including Ger- receptionist Tracy told Torstar awe of this photo.” trial heard that he pricked
many and Denmark, Iceland News Service on Thursday. Since then, “the photo has his girlfriend’s condoms
has official rules about what Alicia and Randy Atkins gone completely viral world- with a pin in 2006 so she
a baby can be named. In a delivered the picture on Box- wide, and as you can imagine, would get pregnant and
country comfortable with a ing Day and then posted it on we are a little overwhelmed,” not break up with him.
firm state role, most people Alicia’s company Facebook she said. The Halifax-area
don’t question the Personal Blaer Bjarkardottir, 15, left, and her mother, Bjork Eidsdottir, are photographed page, A Classic Pin-Up. Since The Glendale, Ariz., couple woman became pregnant
Names Register, a list of 1,712 outside a court building in Reykjavik. Bjarkardottir is bringing legal action against then, thousands of people named the baby Nevaeh, and had an abortion, but
male names and 1,853 female the Icelandic government to allow her to use her name, which is not on the list of around the world have seen which is heaven in reverse. she later suffered an infec-
names that fit Icelandic gram- 1,853 government-approved names. ANNA ANDERSEN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and shared it. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE tion of her uterus that was
mar and pronunciation rules treated with antibiotics.
and that officials maintain after the priest who baptized down on the grounds that the Hutchinson later filed
will protect children from the child later informed her word Blaer takes a masculine an appeal, arguing that
embarrassment. Parents can he had mistakenly allowed it. article, despite the fact that the Nova Scotia Supreme
take from the list or apply to “I had no idea that the it was used for a female char- Court’s sentence was
a special committee that has name wasn’t on the list ...” acter in a novel by Iceland’s harsh and excessive and
the power to say yay or nay. said Bjork Eidsdottir, add- revered Nobel Prize-winning that the woman voluntar-
In Blaer’s case, her mother ing she knew a Blaer whose author Halldor Laxness. ily consented to having
said she learned the name name was accepted in 1973. Given names are even sex with him.
wasn’t on the register only This time, the panel turned it more significant in Iceland But in a 4-1 majority
than in many other coun- decision, the court said
tries — everyone is listed in the sentence was not
Drawing a line the phone book by their first unfit and the trial judge
names. Surnames are based was correct to conclude
“I can understand a clause to protect children from
on a parent’s given name. that the woman did not
being named something like ‘Dog poo,’ but it is Even the president, Olafur consent to having un-
strange that an adult cannot change his name to Ragnar Grimsson, is ad- protected sex.
what he truly wants.” Icelandic artist Birgir Orn Thoroddsen dTHrEe sAsSeSOdC IsAiTmEDp PlyR EaSsS Olafur. Tghraeb fibresdt vDirr.a Al pllhanot Soa owf y2e0r1’s3 fifenagteurr wesh ail en ehwe bwoarns dgeirlli vwehrion gre haecrh. e CdO NoTuRtI BaUnTdE D THE CANADIAN PRESS
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08 NEWS metronews.ca
WEEKEND, January 4-6, 2013
Students attend their first
Switzerland New York
3 gunned down Paper needs guns
day at Sandy Hook clone
in village streets after outing users
A shooting in southern A New York state
Switzerland has left three newspaper that created
women dead, two men a public outcry when it
wounded and highlighted published the names and
the ease of access to fire- addresses of residents Newtown shooting.
arms in the gun-loving na- with handgun permits is School in neighbouring
tion. being protected by armed
town made to look as
The suspect, a 33-year- guards.
old unemployed man liv- Journal News last close as possible to old
ing on disability, opened month published online
school — plus security
fire from his apartment maps with the names and
and pursued people in the addresses of pistol permit
street Wednesday night holders in two counties
in the village of Daillon, it covers. It sought the Classes resumed Thursday
authorities in the Swiss public records after the for the students of the New-
canton (state) of Valais school shooting in nearby town, Conn., school where a
said Thursday. Newtown, Conn. gunman last month killed 20
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS children and six adults in the
second-largest school shoot-
Utah California ing in U.S. history.
With their school still be-
ing treated as a crime scene,
Elvis Presley Teens cuffed for
the more than 400 students
too hot for 2013 drugging parents of Sandy Hook Elementary
School attended classes in
A parent who was upset Two California teenagers neighbouring Monroe.
about Elvis Presley songs were arrested after they Returning students, teach- Signs welcome more than 400 students to the former Chalk School in Monroe, Conn. JESSICA HILL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
in a high school drama gave one of the girl’s par- ers and administrators were
prompted educators in ents milkshakes spiked met by a large police presence America.” parents who wanted to be
Utah to cancel the pro- with prescription sleeping outside their new school, an Students found the same close to their children were Niggling doubt
duction, deeming it too pills so she could use the overhauled middle school chairs and desks, when pos- welcome to visit and stay in
“It’s very hard to turn
sexually suggestive. Internet past her curfew, that had been shuttered for sible. Their classroom walls classrooms or an auditorium.
Presley’s lyrics and a police said. nearly two years. Several of- were painted the same col- Newtown superintendent off the little ‘What if?’....
scene suggesting cross- The 15-year-old ficers guarded the entrance ours and hung with the same Janet Robinson said officials Dec. 14 started out as a
dressing in All Shook daughter and a 16-year- and checked IDs of parents pictures. Other details, such would do their best to make
normal day, too.”
Up were deemed too of- old friend were taken to dropping off children. as the location of bookshelves the students feel at ease.
fensive for Herriman High Juvenile Hall. Law-enforcement officers and cubby holes, were repli- “We will be doing a Sarah Caron, 32, parent of two kids
School. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS guarding the new school cated as much as possible. normal day,” she said. scarred by the shooting, upon seeing them
called it “the safest school in The school district said THE ASSOCIATED PRESS go back to school
Weather
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WEEKEND, January 4-6, 2013
Mother Nature racks up $65B
Washington, D.C. Google chief’s
North Korean visit ‘unhelpful,’
according to U.S. government in insurance payouts for 2012
The U.S. government is voicing shot a satellite into space on
opposition to a planned North the back of a three-stage rocket
Korea visit by Google’s execu- in defiance of a UN ban. Wash- Disaster toll. Weather
tive chairman. ington and others decried it as
State Department spokes- a covert test of ballistic missile events led by Superstorm
woman Victoria Nuland said technology and are seeking UN Sandy cost the industry
Thursday the timing of the visit Security Council action against
dear, but total is down
by Eric Schmidt and former Pyongyang.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richard- Nuland said Schmidt and from record set during
son is “unhelpful.” Richardson were “well aware”
earthquake-ridden 2011
People familiar with the of the U.S. government’s views.
plans tell The Associated Press She said they would be trav-
the trip will happen as early as elling as private citizens and
this month. carrying no messages from Natural disasters cost insurers
Last month, North Korea Washington. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS $65 billion US last year, with
the United States accounting
Overseas accounts Market Minute for nine-tenths of the bill and
Superstorm Sandy prompting
Swiss bank to pay payouts of $25 billion, a lead-
DOLLAR ing insurance company said
$57.8M in U.S. 101.21¢ (-0.29¢) Thursday.
tax evasion case However, Munich Re AG
said that the total insured loss-
TSX es worldwide were down from
Switzerland’s oldest bank 12,470.44 (-70.33) a record $119 billion in 2011,
became the first foreign when devastating earthquakes
bank to plead guilty in in Japan and New Zealand cost
the United States to tax OIL the industry dear. A man walks past a small commercial strip that burned down during Superstorm Sandy in the Rockaways section of
charges when it admitted $92.92 US (-20¢) The company said total New York City on Wednesday. The storm cost insurers $25 billion US in payouts. SETH WENIG/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thursday that it helped U.S. economic costs in 2012 from
clients hide more than $1.2 natural disasters worldwide people in the United States and at $50 billion, though it cau- insured costs and 67 per cent
billion US from the Internal GOLD — including uninsured losses 71 people in the Caribbean. tioned that the figures are of overall losses, the company
Revenue Service. Wegelin $1,674.60 US (-$14.20) — amounted to $160 billion, New York, New Jersey and Con- “still subject to considerable said.
& Co. had been accused compared with the previous necticut were the hardest-hit uncertainty.” That made it the The lengthy drought that
of helping clients conceal year’s $400 billion. U.S. states. year’s most costly disaster — seared swathes of the United
large sums in overseas ac- Natural gas: $3.19 US (-4¢) Sandy, which battered east- Munich Re estimated in- but several other events in the States last summer produced
counts. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Dow Jones: 13,391.36 (-21.19) ern coastline areas at the end sured losses from Sandy at U.S. meant that the country 2012’s second-biggest insur-
of October, killed at least 125 $25 billion and total losses accounted for 90 per cent of ance bill. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
10 VOICES metronews.ca
WEEKEND, January 4-6, 2013
FORECAST FOR
A little bit of Mars on Earth
2013: FERMENTING
KIMYE & A JUICED
Triangular treasure
HONEY BOO BOO
“Here we have a
piece of Mars that I
I spent my holiday honing my can hold in my hands.
THE LIST psychic skills. Here are my That’s really exciting.”
Mike Benhaim predictions for the year ahead:
metronews.ca
Carl Agee, director of the Institute of
1  Deja vu. This year’s top Meteoritics and curator at the University of
reality show will feature Nonelwin eM Tehxuircsod, awy hino tlhede tjohuer sntauld Syc ipeunbcleished
a mother managing
the careers of her daughters who, with no discernible talents,
eclipse professional entertainers for roles and public attention
as they date, marry and divorce rich celebrities. Hey, wait a Found in the desert
minute ...
2  And yet ... Kim Kardashian will resist the temptation
Rock dated 2nd-
to repeat previous mistakes and enter hastily into
marriage with Kanye West. She will publicly reveal her oldest Mars find
enlightenment regarding the seriousness of such commitment
right before she announces that video cameras will be installed The latest meteorite,
3in her uterus to broadcast her pregnancy from within.  known as NWA 7034 and
  Do not pass go. Lindsay Lohan will go to prison. nicknamed “Black Beauty,”
Not so much a “prediction,” but I’m probably not was donated to the Univer-
wrong. sity of New Mexico by an
4
  Weed warnings. Legalized marijuana will become a American who bought it
growth market and be sold, pre-rolled, in packages like from a Moroccan meteor-
cigarettes. Cautionary labels will read, “Song lyrics may ite dealer last year.
seem more profound than they truly are,” “Please refrain from Researchers performed
making career-altering decisions while under the influence of a battery of tests on the
this product” and “Dude, don’t forget the Cheetos.” meteorite and based on its
5
  Here she comes. Honey Boo Boo Child, in a “go-go chemical signature con-
juice”-induced rage, will pummel a pageant adversary, firmed that it was blasted
and emerge as trailer-park queen-for-a-day. Endorse- to Earth from Mars. At
ment deals will allow her to set aside funds for the therapy and 2.1 billion years old, it’s
new set of teeth she will eventually require. the second-oldest known
6  Jersey jacking. Former Jersey Shore cast members will Martian meteorite.
be kidnapped by terrorists and held hostage. A series THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
of prolonged negotiations will be televised and the
perpetrators will end up winning an MTV award.
7
  50 Shades of Stress. Once the concept of BDSM is Rare and ancient
acclimatized into public consciousness by the novels 65
of E. L. James, studies will show accelerated hair loss in
fathers with daughters.
8  Stellar sequels. Disney will attempt to shake up the
decaying Star Wars franchise by producing new About 65 Martian rocks have been
chapters with elements that have proven successful for recovered on Earth, mostly in
them in the past. In the new version, Luke Skywalker will be A4ntarct.ica5 or theB Sahar a.
played by a mouse with a high-pitched voice, Darth Vader will
be a large bulldog and R2D2 will be played by a member of the
9George W. Bush administration. CARL AGEE/UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
  RIM rocks. The much-anticipated BlackBerry 10 will Mars-velous meteorite The oldest dates back 4.5 billion years
launch to critical acclaim, causing millions of consum- to a time when Mars was warmer
10e rsP tloa ysdaya,t “eG. Heeu, gtho oH beafnde Ir a, l8r6e,a adnyd b boulugshhti nthge n iePwho ne.” Black Beauty rocks dreevseeartle: dA iyt’esa qrluointeg dainffaelyr-sis mbee ttweoor ibtiel,l ieosnti ymeaatresd o tldo , a1nd w.ett3er. B
bride, 26-year-old Crystal Harris, will celebrate their science world ent from other Martian is strikingly similar to the
honeymoon by going on a senior’s cruise with her meteorites. volcanic rocks examined by
1gran1dparents. Scientists are abuzz about Not only is it older than the NASA rovers Spirit and About half a dozen Martian meteor-
 Shut the puck up. Desperate for action after this rock from Mars that most, it also contains more Opportunity on the Martian ites are 1.3 billion years old, and the
prolonged negotiations, NHL fans will receive landed in the Sahara water. The baseball-size surface. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS rest are 600 million years or younger.
gratification when commissioner Gary
Bettman is unsuspectingly body-
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