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What happened? (NY Times) enabled by laws that allow an individual BRIGITA GUBINS As has already been publicized, the with a violent past to legally purchase a YEAR 2 A man, who claimed ties with the terrorist gunman was 29 year old Omar Mateen, semi-automatic rifle. (Time Magazine) ENVIRONMENTAL group known as ISIS, the Islamic State, a resident of nearby Port St. Lucie, and a Daesh and other names, entered a nightclub United States citizen. As has already been The Response to the Tragedy shortly after 2a.m. Sunday, June 12 with a discussed at length by the media, Mateen Fear and hate only breed more fear and loaded assault rifle, handgun, and many was a member of the Islamic faith. Having Less than 12 hours after the event, far too hate. rounds of ammunition. The gunman then said that, the massacre in Orland was a hate many major news sources distorted this story In the early hours of Sunday, June 12 at opened fire on the dancing patrons. Over the crime, not an act prompted by any religion. into another sad attempt at scapegoating Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, 49 course of the next hour, the shooter corralled 49 families mourn because a man was taught Islam. people’s lives were cut short at the hands of individuals who were hiding in bathrooms as to hate those people who were different In the aftermath of the tragedy, there has a gunman; 53 more escaped with their lives, hostages, and proceeded to barricade himself from himself, and at some point in his life, been an outpouring of support and sympathy but sustained major injuries. The massacre inside with them. This led to a three hour was taught that violence would solve his from the Muslim community in the United in Orlando, Florida is about many things; standoff between police and the gunman. problems. A deeply disturbed, violent man States, the LGBTQIA+ community, as well radicalized people, hate, fear, and very much After communication between them broke who was investigated by the FBI for claims as from political leaders and unaffiliated about how insanely easy it is to acquire guns down, law enforcement breached the wall of membership in various terrorist groups, communities from around the world. in the United States. of the building, allowing the remaining with a troubling past of death threats, hostages to escape at approximately 5 a.m. domestic violence, and outspoken hate was Continued on Page 4 as Orlando E3: The Electronic Entertainment Expo

Gears of War 4, Halo Wars 2, and Dead tos will be returning, taking his God of downs. The highs were the announce- DONOVAN Rising 4 being the standouts. There were War duties to a Norse setting. The new ments of a Prey reboot, and the trailer MAUDSLEY no big reveals during their conference, IP Days Gone seems like a larger, faster for Dishonoured 2. The Prey reboot 3A MECHANICAL and it’s fairly obvious that their focus is paced version of the Last of Us. Another looks nothing like the original game, and selling consoles rather than making new new IP, Detroit: Become Human, looks to Bethesda has said it’s more of a re-imag- games. New IPs can be risky projects, but be a cross between L.A. Noire and Deus ining of the original. The lows were the Just some background on me, so that in the long term are needed. Ex. The highly anticipated Last Guardian lack of other original content. While ad- you know where my perspectives come Nintendo has essentially entered a finally got a release date. Resident Evil ditional content for Fallout 4 and DOOM from: I enjoy videogames, and am by holding pattern until the NX is ready for 7 looks to change the series direction in was announced, it was nothing major. no means a hardcore gamer. I can, how- release. With the Wii U selling horribly a good way. Last was Spiderman, a new A cinematic trailer for a new Quake ever, tell the difference between garbage and nothing else really going on with project being developed by Insomniac game was shown, but no game play. For and an instant classic. My twin pillars of them, Nintendo is likely going to wait for Game. Sony’s Virtual Reality system was Bethesda’s largest IP, the Elder Scrolls a great game are terrific game play and their next fiscal before moving forward. also on show during their conference, series, not a whole lot was talked about. an engaging story, but if you’re a multi- With the NX on the backburner, Nin- with tons of titles announced for it. Skyrim is coming to the PS4 and Xbox player first kind of gamer we can still get tendo showed off their biggest and most Ubisoft had far too long of a press con- One through a re master, and the next along. I just find the whole repetitiveness expensive game ever: The Legend of Zel- ference this year, for the amount of con- game in the series is in early development of online shooting somewhat monoto- da: Breath of the Wild. Taking the clas- tent they showed off. The highlights of but it’s still a long way off. nous. sic Legend of Zelda recipe and adding their show were the game play trailer for EA had a surprisingly packed con- E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo) survival mechanics such as hunting and For Honor, and Star Trek: Bridge Crew a ference. Their monopoly on Star Wars took place this week and was, as usual, equipment durability, Nintendo hopes to VR game. For Honor is a melee hack and games is expanding, with a new action massive and exciting. I’m going to give completely redefine one of the best game slash style that has an innovative combat adventure series in development, and a brief overview of all the major reveals, series ever and force people to buy the mechanic, and Bridge Crew is a 4 player updates planned for Battlefront, Galaxy as well as my top choices from this expo. NX. co-op game centered on a new Starfleet of Heroes, and the Old Republic. Among Microsoft started and ended their con- Sony took the opposite approach to exploration mission. The demos of Ghost those is a VR X-Wing mission for Battle- ference by revealing new consoles, the Microsoft this year, focusing on games Recon: Wildlands and Watch Dogs 2 also front exclusively to the PS4. A new trail- Xbox One Slim and the Project Scorpio. rather than hardware. The lineup of PS4 showed cool game play, but were way er was also shown for Titanfall 2, which The Slim is a more compact and less ex- exclusives announced is enough to make too long. The scripted player interaction will include a single player campaign. pensive Xbox One, and the Scorpio is an every competitor worry. Acclaimed de- in the Wildlands demo was also horrible. The game play for Titanfall 2 looks cha- upgraded version featuring 4K graphics signer Hideo Kojima, of Metal Gear Their other major game reveal was Steep, otic and very fun. It will also be available resolution and a better CPU. Microsoft’s Solid fame, revealed his new game Death a sports adventure game. game line up was rather sparse, with Stranding starring Norman Reedus. Kra- Bethesda’s conference had its ups and Continued on Page 11 as E3 THE IRON WARRIOR 2 Editorial WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016 Letter from the Editor

Mad Skillz The Newspaper of the University of Waterloo Engineering Society a kid. Whatever the reason, learning an high school.) And this is where discipline BRYAN MAILLOUX instrument is a great hobby to have. and enjoying the new hobby come into Editor-in-Chief EDITOR-IN-CHIEF This has me thinking, though – is play. Once we can get past that initial Bryan Mailloux it possible for anyone to become an barrier to entry – usually by forcing excellent musician? Or for that matter, ourselves to sit through the basics of Assistant Editor is it possible for anyone to pick up any learning the new hobby – we can begin to Donovan Maudsley Hi everyone, and welcome to Issue skill they want? I personally believe that appreciate it and it becomes much more 3! The tragedy of midterms has finally in theory, people should be able to learn interesting. This means that applying Layout Editors passed, and hopefully by now many of any new skill and, given enough time and more efficient learning techniques is most Donovan Maudsley you are starting to recover from your practice, they will become very good at important during that phase where we’re Brigita Gubins post-weekend hangovers. it. But of course, being human, we don’t just trying out the new skill, because it’ll Cameron Soltys I’d like to start first with an apology have an unlimited amount of time to learn make sure we’re able to overcome the to Professor Bajcsy, who was featured skills, so if we want to learn as much as barrier to entry more easily. Copy Editors in last issue’s Prof Personalities – we possible, we need to find ways to increase One more common perception about Elizabeth Salsberg mentioned in the photo caption that he our learning efficiency. skills that I find a bit silly is the idea Cameron Soltys was currently completing his research in As one could imagine, there are that just because people do a certain Caitlin McLaren the United States. In fact, he was simply techniques we can use to learn new things profession or are studying a certain thing Brigita Gubins visiting the States last week. Sorry about faster. For instance, I’ve played classical in school, they can only learn skills that Tiffany Chang that! piano for a while and one technique I are somewhat related to that domain of Isabel Vilchis Besides midterms, though, these past use to great effect is splitting each piece knowledge. For instance, we’d probably couple of weeks have truly been tragic. into small chunks. Where the chunks expect engineering students to have Circulation Manager It seems like people are getting shot left are divided depends on whether those hobbies such as programming or building Donovan Maudsley and right now – first the Youtuber and the divisions make sense within the context circuits, but it’s ridiculous to expect Voice winner Christina Grimmie, then of the piece (for example, ending a chunk every engineering student to have only Advertising Manager the 50 people in Orlando, then the British in the middle of a bar doesn’t make a hobbies related to engineering. Case Brigita Gubins MP Jo Cox… And as we’d expect, the lot of sense). This division makes each in point: all the writers here at the Iron topic of gun control in America is being chunk easy to memorize, and if a piece Warrior. There are plenty of engineering Photo Editor hotly debated like never before. When is especially difficult from a technical students who also love arts, and history, Thomas Willert things like this happen, the National Rifle standpoint, separating each difficult part and philosophy – things you wouldn’t Association (NRA) and allies usually into a chunk allows me to focus on one typically associate with engineering. Web Editor spend a lot of money making sure these challenging passage at a time. It’s also One of the most hopeful things to think Bryan Mailloux debates about gun control just fizzle out possible to practice each chunk using a about, when it comes to learning skills of existence. different rhythm, which helps me learn that are thought of as opposites (such as Social Media Manager But I think this time there’s a hope faster because it forces me to think actively science and arts), is that we can become Sarah Chan something can be done. Stricter about the passage while I’m practicing. extremely good in skills from entirely regulations on gun sales and more Then, when each chunk is memorized, I “opposite” regions of knowledge. Blaise Staff Writers thorough background checks seem like can work backwards and reconstruct the Pascal was a 16th century mathematician Seamus Bannon they’re very close to being enacted (it’s entire piece. One sure sign you’re doing and philosopher. Arnold Schwarzenegger Sarah Chan a wonder that they haven’t been enacted a good job is if you can start from any was a weightlifter, a movie star, and a Tiffany Chang already), and in the best case a full ban chunk you want within the piece – this Governator. The famed comedian Rowan Brigita Gubins on civilian-owned automatic weapons means that as you’re playing, you should Atkinson has his Masters’ in Electrical Gabrielle Klemt would come into effect. And seriously, be able to remember which section comes Engineering. So whatever your hobby, Ashlyn Low who really needs a fully or even semi- next and think about how you’re going to just go out and do it, and do it well – but Donovan Maudsley automatic weapon? If you believe in play it before you actually play it. be sure to never stop learning! Caitlin McLaren owning a gun because you want to defend In a somewhat limited sense, this Elizabeth Salsberg yourself and your family, what kind of method can be applied to learning other Cameron Soltys assailant merits owning an automatic skills as well. We already organize Ratan Varghese weapon? The mafia? The KGB? And textbooks into sections so that the content Thomas Willert while it’s true that determined mass and knowledge contained within them is Tristan Kuehn murderers will find ways to kill people more modular and easier to learn. What without using automatic weapons, if we we can then do with each module is, for Contributors can reduce the number of mass shootings example, if there are certain applications Hannah Gautreau by even a little bit, then it’s a measure listed in a textbook, we could imagine Teresa Lumini that we should take. other applications where the knowledge Kieran Broekhoven Anyway, I’ll leave the gun control could be used, or we could think of Don Tu debate for others to fight. This time, I analogies for that knowledge. I find Anson Chen think I’ll step away from social media as a these techniques while studying are very Sarah Martin topic and talk a little bit about music. I’m helpful when it comes to staying focused. sure many of you have at least dabbled How about for other hobbies, rather ADVISORY BOARD with playing a musical instrument before. than school-related skills? Sometimes Off-Stream Editor-in-Chief Maybe you picked up an old guitar at a I find the hardest part of trying to learn Caitlin McLaren garage sale and figured you wanted to something new is if I’m unable to draw emulate your musical heroes. (Kudos those analogies to something I already Executive Members to you if you bought a guitar because know, or if I’m unable to “get a feel” for Sarbajoy Majumdar you got sick of playing the air guitar the new hobby, especially if the hobby Teresa Lumini An Old Book via Wikipedia Commons every time your favourite riff came on.) is something I learn in my spare time. Or maybe you made a band with your (Funny story – not getting a feel for Blaise Pascal was good at many Students-at-Large friends in high school. Or perhaps your the mechanics of the game “League of things, and you can be too! Megan Town parents made you learn an instrument as Legends” probably saved my grades in Maya Deen Advertise With Us!

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is unclear which of them if any have a basis in Europe, thus tying the issues together. refugees sent their condolences, as well as CAITLIN MCLAREN in fact. Mair did have a history of mental The issue of immigration has been getting foreign political leaders. Members of all 3T CHEMICAL health issues, and his family argues that this a great deal of attention due to the highly the British political parties alike paid their was the reason for his actions. Mair, for his visible refugee crisis and the backlash from respects, and Queen Elizabeth herself will part, when appearing in court on Saturday far-right groups, who fear that Islamic send private condolences to her family. morning, would say nothing except “Death radicalism might be introduced or spread by Cox was well-liked by both her Britain was stunned on Thursday when to traitors freedom for Britain”, which the largely Muslim refugees that, according constituents and her colleagues, and will Member of Parliament Helen “Jo” Cox suggests that he is indeed a political radical. to European Union policies, Britain should be remembered as a force promoting love, was shot and stabbed in broad daylight This is the first murder of a British Member harbour. Ironic, then, that the first act of tolerance, and respect. As her widower puts while meeting with constituents. She left of Parliament since 1990, and comes just politically-motivated violence related to the it: “She would have wanted two things behind her husband Brendan and two days before the “Brexit” referendum, which issue was performed by a radical supporter above all else to happen now, one that our small children, Cuillin and Lejla. Cox will take place on June 23rd. On that day, of British nationalism. precious children are bathed in love and was a member of the Labour party, and an Britons will vote on whether to remain Jo Cox was known as a strong voice for two, that we all unite to fight against the outspoken advocate for refugees, migrants, a member of the European Union or to refugees and minorities, and ever since her hatred that killed her. Hate doesn’t have a and minorities. She also supported Britain’s leave: if a straight majority votes to leave, death there has been a strong outpouring of creed, race or religion, it is poisonous.” In remaining in the European Union in the leave they will; and if the majority votes to grief not only in Britain but from around these troubled political times, let us all hope referendum to take place on the 23rd. stay, Britain will remain a member of the the world. Syrian groups and advocates for that the world will respect Jo Cox’s wishes. The murderer was 52-year old Thomas European Union, but with special status. Mair, who allegedly shouted “Britain first!” At the beginning of the year, British Prime during the attack. Reportedly, his gun was Minister David Cameron negotiated a deal either homemade or an antique, as there with EU leaders that would exempt Britain are many legal restrictions on obtaining a from certain EU requirements and keep gun in the UK. Mair also stabbed a 77-year Britain more independent, as opposed to the old bystander who attempted to intervene “ever closer union” outlined by the treaties before leaving the scene, but was soon forming the European Union. Cox was in captured by police. Cox died from her favour of the “Remain” side. injuries within an hour. The older man was Britain is very split on the issue, which hospitalized with serious injuries, but is is complex and has economical and expected to survive. ideological components. However, the While the matter is still under issues that are the most controversial are investigation, it is very likely that Mair immigration regulations and trade, and was a right-wing radical. Mrs. Cox’s the split has become largely between the political views made her unpopular with right and left. Conservative-leaning Britons conservatives, who disagreed with her are worried about excessive immigration particularly on immigration policies. leading to a loss of British identity and Furthermore, “Britain First” is the name of economic trouble, while liberals are a right-wing, anti-Islamic group, although concerned for the plight of asylum-seekers they declare themselves “shocked” and and are not convinced by the nationalist Garry Knight via Flickr profess that the killer has no connection arguments. While the trade situation is to them. There are many rumours about more tangled, Cameron’s deal does limit A memorial site for Cox was set up at Parliament Mair’s possible connections to that and the amount of money foreign workers with Square in London, England. other radical right-wing groups, although it EU citizenship could send to their families GM Plans to Hire 1,000 Engineers in Canada To Drive a Driverless Future

Both politicians were optimistic that jolts the rest of the engineering community the limited number of industry jobs, so I TIFFANY CHANG GM’s investment would create good-paying and gives all current and aspiring engineers hope that GM’s opportunity is merely one 1B CHEMICAL jobs and a positive feedback loop to catalyze faith that there will be work for us once we of a cascade and that there will be more to economic growth. are ready. I know what it’s like to question come in which everyone can partake. This announcement has some other sig- nificant implications, too. On June 10, 2016, General Motors an- For one, GM will open a new Automotive The licence To nounced that approximately 1,000 software Software Development Centre in Markham, positions would be open to the Canadian Ontario. Being a local, I know that an IT P.Eng. engineer in Ontario engineering industry over the next couple of cluster surrounds IBM Canada, which is years. based in my hometown. Having another gi- The revamped GM Canada work will fo- ant in the city could be another cue for other cus on developing new automotive systems companies to invest in the Greater Toronto and technologies pertaining to autonomous Area and the rest of the province. vehicles—self-driving vehicles. This means Since Toyota decided to put a plant in that areas of “Autonomous Vehicle Software Woodstock, this is the decade’s biggest auto & Controls Development, Active Safety and sector announcement. For an industry that Vehicle Dynamics Technology, Infotainment has seen more layoffs than hires in the prov- and Connected Vehicle Technology” will be ince, this gives current workers in the indus- in heavy demand for qualified engineers. try some hope that there is still a chance for To announce this milestone of engineer- Ontario’s auto industry and engineers think- ing and software work in Canada, Prime ing of pursuing the industry the confidence Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Kath- they need to wait out the rough patch. leen Wynne joined GM in Oshawa. Trudeau Canada cannot compete with Mexico’s To practise as a professional engineer in Ontario, had met with GM’s CEO Mary Barra at the low costs; however, it will be competing World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzer- with Google, Tesla, Apple, and the other you must be licensed by Professional Engineers Ontario. land back in late January to persuade her to bigs of Silicon Valley. GM’s decision clearly It’s the law. invest in Canada, framing Canada as a se- indicates that the company is confident in the cure country to invest in during global eco- province’s ability to produce the engineering nomic uncertainty. talent needed to stay and get ahead at the Take your professional career Barra was clearly convinced by Mr. forefront of self-driving technology. into your own hands. Trudeau’s reassurances, and he should be However, as of yet, it is hard to tell wheth- proud that he has managed to convince her er this decision will provide Canada with For information on licensing–and how the PEO Student Membership (SMP) to choose Canada as GM’s home base for its some leverage in the Trans-Pacific Partner- and Engineering Intern Training (EIT) programs can help you get there– advanced vehicle software development. ship (TPP) pertaining to the auto industry. In Ms. Wynne was eager to express the the press release, both parties stayed mum visit www.peo.on.ca or www.engineeringstudents.peo.on.ca provincial government’s gratitude to GM’s and did not bring up TPP, but it will be inter- long-term commitment to investing in On- esting to see if Canada can ratify an agree- tario and promises that the province’s high- ment that takes off some of the international …regulating the profession ly-skilled workforce, world-class university competitive pressure for our country’s auto …serving the public research, and innovation will make this a parts industry. worthy investment. Personally, I hope that this announcement THE IRON WARRIOR 4 News WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016 Orlando Shootings Unify LGBTQ and Muslim Groups

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 extremist groups so despise. to 100% legally purchase a military-grade of her car. She had a loaded hand gun in While Pride celebrations have become weapon. Ubains was equally horrified and her purse. The kid thought it was a toy. President Obama ordered the flags at the more vigilant after various cities receiving furious at how “appallingly easy [it is] to On Saturday, June 17th, a 4 year old shot White House to be lowered to half mast, threats, the organizers have refused get a gun in this country,”. himself in the head and died because he and some Orlando Muslims broke their to cancel the events, stating that “We Omar Mateen was able to walk into thought the gun in the house was a toy. fast during the holy month of Ramadan to celebrate Pride in defiance of all the hate. a gun shop in Florida and purchase Lather, rinse, repeat. By the time this is give blood to the 53 individuals injured in We celebrate and refuse to live in fear an assault rifle and a hand gun, 100% published, it is more probable than not the mass shooting. because we know that tomorrow, someone legally. The law in the state of Florida that another child will die as a result of Vigils were held throughout the world, may take that away from us.” had no problem selling him a weapon playing with a gun. including here in Waterloo, for the victims despite his 10-month investigation by Full disclosure: The following are of the massacre in Orlando all last week. Guns and America the FBI, multiple run-ins with police, opinions. Some people may disagree with Many Pride events have dedicated their and a record of domestic violence with them. proceedings and celebrations to the dead, As it has escaped nobody’s notice, the his previous wife. But in America, if you How can a country allow this to happen? and groups in the Orlando area are working United States of America has become the aren’t formally convicted, you can buy all Well, the short answer is that gun lobbyists together to raise money for medical costs, gun violence capitol of the world. Since the the guns your heart desires. It is common have an iron grip on politics, and far too funerals, and to prevent hate groups from Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting place in some states to see individuals many American politicians have their fair picketing the memorials of those killed in in 2012, (which is outrageous enough on its with hand guns or rifles strapped to their share of conflicts of interest, as one way the attack. own,) there have been 980 mass shootings backs at the local grocery store. This may to phrase it. That’s not to say any other In the days following the tragedy, in the country. (Gun Violence Archive) only be my opinion, but on no planet is country’s politicians can’t be influenced numerous media outlets worked to counter Many, if not most, of these were carried it normal for someone to carry an assault by lobbyists, but the failure of counties, the homophobic, Islamophobic, and other out using legally purchased weapons. A rifle on daily errands. states, and the federal government to hateful speech ad acts directed towards journalist in Philadelphia, Helen Ubains If open-carry laws don’t unsettle you, police gun laws is the biggest indication the victims. An individual associated with with the Philadelphia Daily, was able to and the 980 mass shootings in the last 4 of the failure to put the good of the people the hacktivist group Anonymous was able walk into a gun shop and purchase a semi- years don’t either, then the 15 accidental before private interests and finances. to hack the social media feeds used by automatic assault rifle within 7 minutes. gun deaths since the beginning of this The violence cannot continue. The laws ISIS extremists, and posted many links The shop spent 7 minutes verifying her month should do it. In a dark twist of must change. Guns are not the answer to homosexual pornography, redesigned identity and running a background check. irony, some months ago an outspoken to fear and hatred is not the answer to homepages covered in rainbows, and It takes 7 minutes to boil water for pasta, gun advocate, a young mother, was fatally heartbreak-those conclusions are what led promoted the love and acceptance the it should not take 7 minutes for someone shot by her toddler from the back seat a man to kill 49 innocent people. The Legacy of Number 9 Gordie Howe, aka Mr. Hockey, Dies at Age 88

After 25 years in Detroit Howe began could’ve mistaken him for a staff member retired. DONOVAN developing a chronic wrist issue, and in at Joe Louis Arena. He and Mrs. Hockey, Many recognize Gretzky as being MAUDSLEY 1971 he was forced to retire. Immediately Coleen Howe, always took the time to the best player ever, but even he 3A MECHANICAL out of the game Howe was offered the talk with everybody and treated everyone acknowledged that Howe was his better. job coaching the brand new New York very kindly. Howe also helped found what The two were actually very good friends, Islanders, but turned it down for a job in would go on to become the NHL’s Player’s and Gretzky idolized Gordie from a young The hockey community lost one of the Red Wings front office. His job began Association during his fight for better pay age. When he was 11 Gretzky would ask its greats recently, Gordie Howe passed to feel less and less meaningful after about during the 60s. He is also the only team hairdressers to give him the “Gordie away at the age of 88 at his son’s home in a year, and he made the decision to return to have his number individually retired by Howe cut”. They actually met that year. Ohio. Gordie made a lasting impression to hockey, albeit at a lower level. He had two different teams, Hartford and Detroit. Gretzky recently recalled one Christmas on the sports world with his fierce surgery on his wrist to correct his issue Although no number 9 banner flies in when he was given a Howe Red Wings competitiveness and refined how a hockey and began playing for the World Hockey Carolina, the new location of the Whalers jersey that immediately became his most forward should play. He earned the Association’s Houston Aeros with his franchise, his number is still technically prized possession. nickname “Mr Hockey” over five decades sons Mark and Marty Howe. One of my in the NHL and no one will ever contest favourite clips of Howe from this time is this. Many, including the Great One him driving an opponent into the boards himself Wayne Gretzky, consider number after that player hit one of his sons. 9 to be the best player in the history of the While still a big time goal scorer, Howe sport. Howe started his professional career became known more for his aggressive in 1946 at age 19 playing for the Detroit style of play, and specifically his tendency Red Wings, and would play with them to throw elbows. Despite only completing for 25 seasons. That’s probably longer the feat twice, the act of scoring a goal, than you’ve been alive for. Along the way marking an assist and getting into a fight he lead the Wings to winning 4 Stanley became known as the “Gordie Howe Cups, finished in the top 5 scorers in the Hat Trick”. For comparison, another league in 20 straight seasons, and was the Red Wings legend, Brendan Shannahan, first player ever to record 90 plus points recorded 17 in his career. Fun fact, in a season. The Red Wings top line of Shannahan previously served as the Gordie Howe-Sid Abel-Ted Lindsay was league’s director of player safety. known as the “production line” because Howe went on to lead the Aeros to they made points like nobody’s business. two WHA championships before the In the 49-50 season they finished 1-2-3 Howe family moved to the New England in the league in scoring. Another legend, Whalers. In 1979 the WHA folded and Maurice “The Rocket’ Richard was also was absorbed into the NHL. While the fast, skilled, and tough. He was also so Red Wings still technically held Howe’s good that the league named the scoring contract rights, he was permitted to play title after him. Howe beat him in scoring for the Hartford Whalers in the 1979-80 head to head multiple times. He also season. Gordie was selected that season knocked him out cold the first time they to play in his 23rd NHL All-Star game, ever played each other. which was coincidentally Gretzky’s first. Howe played the majority of his career Gordie had an assist in the third period. in a low scoring era of the NHL, making Gordie retired again in 1980, and was the his totals even more ridiculous. During the oldest and most experienced player in the days of the original six all of the available league. Mr Hockey’s longevity makes his talent went in to the 6 teams. There were career even more astonishing. In 1997, really no weak players in the league. at 69 years old, Gordie signed a one day Imagine if all the players in today’s NHL contract with the minor league Detroit made up six teams. The defensive units Vipers, and played a single shift. This would be insanely good. The season was makes him the only player to ever to play also shorter, with teams only playing 60 professional hockey in six decades. games. Analytics pros have adjusted and Howe’s legacy includes more than extrapolated Howe’s points totals with the just stats though. He is remembered as a Red Wings to compare with the higher kind and humble man. Steve Yzerman, Chex Cereal via Wikimedia Commons scoring 80s, and his totals pass even Detroit’s 2nd best player ever, said that Gretzky. if you didn’t know who he was you Gordie Howe on a Chex Cereal Hockey Card in 1963 THE IRON WARRIOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016 Opinion 5 Point Vs. Counterpoint Should Prison Funding Be Redirected Towards POINT COUNTERPOINT Social Rehabilitation Programs?

change, and to be able to live a normal life order. Furthermore, staffing difficulties RAEESA after serving their sentence. CAITLIN MCLAREN often lead to the hiring of people without ASHIQUE We have to look at how such programs 3T CHEMICAL proper background checks, and the officers 2N ELECTRICAL would be facilitated, and who they are often to not have proper oversight. This viable for. First of all, rehabilitation can lead to abuse of the prisoners, which should take place in prison. It is only fair is not only a serious human rights issue This is Canada, which means that we that they serve their time for breaking the Everybody knows that prisoners but is a major factor in recidivism. There do not believe in capital punishment. But law; and in addition, these people should who are treated harshly are likely to have been many cases in recent years of does that mean our system is any better? stay out of society for a while. However, re-offend. As such, many suggest that prisoners who were injured, abused, or Is incarceration really the best way to deal the focus should be on shorter sentences, funding for prisons should be cut in neglected, and this is a positive disgrace. with criminals? which would save a great deal of money, favour of rehabilitation programs. While In many cases, it appears that there are The purpose of prison should be two- with more effective programs in place. rehabilitation programs are good and serious problems with the hiring system, fold: punishment, and rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is not for everyone: necessary, cutting funding for prisons is not to mention poor supervision. These Lawbreakers need to realize the violent offenders, rapists, and child not the right way to fund rehabilitation. people have an important job – keeping consequences of their actions, and pay the molesters are dangerous and should be Prisons are, after all, meant to keep society both the prisoners and the outside world price. The state needs to reinforce the law, locked up for the sake of public safety. safe; they are not a program which should safe – and it is vital to make sure that they making prisoners an example and prison Arguably, it is not even possible to be de-funded lightly. There are many are doing it correctly, even if that does a deterrent for others who may follow in rehabilitate such criminals, and there is serious problems with the prison system cost taxpayers more money. That is what their footsteps. But lawbreakers also need no saying that they will not repeat their today that require more funding to correct, taxpayer money is for. to be rehabilitated. It is all very well to crimes. However, rehabilitation should and failing to solve these issues will make Moreover, prisoners’ access to health spend some number of months or years be an option for nonviolent offenders, to prisoners more difficult to rehabilitate. care is often poor, especially mental locked away, but to re-enter a criminal make a real difference and ensure that they Prisons are often tightly stretched for health care. A large number of prisoners lifestyle upon release back into society is can later make something of their lives. funds, and many of the resulting issues suffer from mental health issues, and these pointless. Of course, the only way for rehabilitation have an effect on prisoners’ ability to issues are often worsened by a prison The real question is, what is the end to be useful is if the motivation to change successfully reintegrate into society after environment. Mental health problems are goal? Yes, prison should both punish comes from within. Although people release. It would be useless to spend money a huge barrier to successful reintegration and rehabilitate, but what is the desired who are already motivated can change on rehabilitation programs while prisoners into society, and often lead to former result? The focus should be on creating a without help, most others would need still do not have basic safety or comforts, prisoners committing more crimes and system where former inmates can become help and structured programs. The types and without a good prison system those being re-arrested in the future. The point contributing members of society and will of rehabilitation that should be looked at programs would fail to produce results. of prisons is to make society safer; how not be re-incarcerated, which is why some are education, vocational training, and Many of the negative aspects of prison does removing an unstable or disturbed portion of funding for prisoners should go drug addiction. that rehabilitation programs seek to person from society only to release them in towards social rehabilitation programs. Ignorance leads to crime, and a lack mitigate are in fact aggravated by a lack much worse condition in a few years make There are many downsides to the current of access to education may be why some of prison funding, and thus the redirected society safer? That is aside from even prison system, which alternative programs people got involved in crime in the first money would be largely wasted. basic medical care; prisoners often do not address. place. Some education and basic training For one thing, many prisons are even receive basic treatment in a timely Prisons create dependency and a lack of will go a long way to helping people get overcrowded. This has a negative effect manner. Our basic humanity demands responsibility. Taxpayer dollars are going their lives together, and be able to work a on prisoners’ mental health and physical that prisoners be treated reasonably well. towards ensuring that inmates eat on time real job after being released. safety, leading to inter-prisoner violence These people are human beings, who every day, and that they will have a roof Prisons also need to take steps to and the spread of disease. It is an urgent have families who care about them. Most over their head for the remainder of their make sure that drugs addicts get the help and expensive issue that needs to be are not even violent offenders. How can sentence. When everything is taken care they need. Their cases should be treated fixed, and this can only be accomplished Canadians boast about our universal of for you, what are the chances of being differently than violent offenders, because by building more prisons and expanding health care, if it is denied in its fullness to able to take care of basic needs yourself drug addiction is something for which current ones. Reducing the incarcerated one of the most vulnerable populations? after being released? people can be rehabilitated. population is desirable, but the reality While rehabilitation programs are There tends to be more prisoners Overall, the cost of rehabilitation is that currently the incarceration rate is admirable and should certainly be funded, from minority groups or lower classes programs is much less than the current growing, and that is a trend that will take cutting prison budgets is not the way to – although the justice system is another cost of maintaining prisons. It is a better a long time to reverse. Meanwhile, it is fund them. Rehabilitation is much more discussion for another time – who did system because it helps the inmates important that current prisoners be kept in difficult when conditions in a prison are not have access to education and may become contributing members of society humane conditions. Construction projects terrible. When prisons have serious issues have found it difficult to secure a job in upon release, and attempts to break the are costly and cutting funding for prisons with their basic functioning, and those the past. Being in prison only exacerbates cycle of crime. Of course, punishment is will prevent new ones from being built, issues have a highly negative impact these obstacles, leading to further issues important and the offender must live with and the problem of overcrowding will not on the prisoners’ quality of life, prison later. the consequences of breaking the law, but be solved. When prisons are even being funding is a priority. Funding prisons and Prison cultivates a mindset of bitterness there is also the need to inspire change, closed due to budget cuts, leading to rehabilitation programs are not mutually and resentfulness which may become which is definitely a better use of taxpayer further overcrowding, cutting more funds exclusive, and failing to fund prisons detrimental. There is an attitude of “me dollars. Therefore, we need to redirect could be disastrous. sufficiently works against rehabilitation versus the world” after being left to rot the money to social rehabilitation which Another issue is the one of staffing. Many efforts. There is no point in renovating a in prison for years. For petty offenders allows for shorter sentences but a more prisons are understaffed, making it very house when the foundation is crumbling especially, the violence and corruption of favourable result. difficult for corrections officers to keep beneath you. the prison world may cause irreversible damage to those who were not bad people to begin with. A person released back into Editor’s Note: society with this extremely bitter mindset Point Vs. Counterpoint is a feature meant to stimulate discussion on thought-provoking topics. The views and opinions may be dangerous, but rehabilitation can expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of the authors, The Iron Warrior, or the Engineering Society. give people the means and motivation to

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all pilots learn and while it’s common reached the end of the valley. They only The next day, they heard the rescue GABRIELLE KLEMT to know other people who have had in- managed to clear some rocks and maintain helicopter, and two hours later were safe 1B GEOLOGICAL flight emergencies, you never think it will altitude when they spotted the glacier. The and warm and headed back to town. happen to you. pilot, managed to bring the plane down on The feat of bringing off a perfect Luckily for 81-year old pilot Vern the ice field in the soft snow, executing a landing in emergency situations on a Hannah and his two passengers, he was perfect soft-field landing, with “not even glacier is impressive enough as it is, add When you learn to fly, the first thing paying attention when he was taught his a bump” to any the passengers. to that the fact that Hannah is 81 and you they teach you after “don’t stand beside emergency procedures. On a flight in his When the plane was safely on the have my hero of the month. All I can hope the propeller”, is your emergency single-engine Beechcraft from Kelowna ground, and completely unharmed, they is that I have a plane by the time I’m 81, procedures. With planes, there’s are an to Whistler two weeks ago, a spur-of-the- tried crawling across the glacier, avoiding let alone still being able to fly it. Though awful lot of things that can go wrong moment detour down a valley turned into crevices and looking for a way to get to he says he’s taking a hiatus from flying and it’s important that you be prepared an early landing on a glacier. safety. The trek up the glacier was too for now I hope he keeps it up, as you can to deal with any one of them before you The plane started losing power and hard for the pilot so they instead followed see from this story, passion will keep you even do a take-off. This is just something came closer and closer to stalling as they a river and spent the night in the forest. young! World Wide Development Conference Apple’s Big Show

actually fill a two hour presentation with ordinary Apple Remote, plus a keyboard. Every app that supports multiple RATAN VARGHESE nothing but miscellaneous, unconnected It’s like 2008 all over again! windows will now support detachable 1B ELECTRICAL software updates. Users will only need to sign on once tabs, like Chrome does. No developer So let’s dive in, shall we? to access their various cable network modification will be required. If you are subscription thingies and I’m sorry I especially anal you might think this is the watchOS 3: time to roll haven’t watched multiple minutes of first case of a company actually imitating Do you have an iPhone-controlled television for months now I don’t know features from ChromeOS. Your anus ceiling fan? Do you stand up whenever You use an Apple watch? Really? My what to think of any of this. would be wrong though: centOS and your Apple watch tells you to? Do you condolences. Waiting multiple seconds Also there’s a dark mode. Windows 10 are both known to update use Apple Maps or, heavens forbid, for your favorite workout app to load must automatically and uninvited. iCloud? be frustrating. The good news here is that macOS Sierra: as below, so Apple Pay and Siri are both going to be No? Then this article is going to be watchOS 3 will load apps much quicker. above supported on the Mac. It will be possible something of a disappointment. They’ll be easier to find by pressing the to verify an web purchase using a nearby side button and scrolling through a list The current trend of imitating Apple Watch or the fingerprint sensor of About WWDC of apps. Also, you will be able to track features from iOS and interfacing with an iPhone. As for Siri, there are some your “rings” (that’s what Apple calls it continues. Starting with the name. important differences from the Windows Apple’s World Wide Developer them now, not even “activity rings”) There’ll be no more Roman numeral desktop voice assistant Cortana. Instead Conference was held last week. As you right on your watch face. The watchOS “X”: so eat a knife, Caesar. Apple of making video game references, Siri may know if you’re a coder, it is where messaging app can parse handwriting in pronounces it “maaaac ohhhhh es” but will tell you that your “filin’ be stylin’”. developers from around the world can English and Chinese, and you can make in my own mind it will be “macossssss” No but really Siri said that. talk to Apple engineers about their latest region-specific emergency calls from forevermore. There’s a new picture-in-picture mode technologies in face-to-face sessions. your wrist. A nice little convenience, for The new macOS Sierra will be able for videos that works in fullscreen. Don’t Also there’s that big keynote for press, the least convenient moments of your life. to unlock automatically when an Apple ask why that’s impressive. Just don’t. marketing, fan, normies, and anyone else There are also major enhancements for Watch is near it. Macs and iOS devices wanting a summary at the next year of wheelchair users and mindful breathing will now have a shared clipboard: you iOS 10: Yes it’s been 10 years, iThings. enthusiasts. can copy on one device and paste on feel old yet? Often this presentation (called “The the other. There’s an Optimized Storage WWDC Keynote”, or “The State of tvOS: something or something feature which can move rarely used files Apple calls this the “biggest release” the Union” by the true believers) has about something to -chokes up- iCloud automatically. Yes, ever. Not revolutionary or a major some clear theme or focus, perhaps a as in those rarely seen files will only be change, just big. It is big in the same way massive hardware announcement. Not Apple has released an Apple Remote on -gasp-iCloud. Before you switch to this year. Now that Apple is concurrently app for controlling an Apple TV from an Gentoo Linux, remember that this feature Continued on Page 12 as World developing 4 software platforms, they can iPhone. It has all the capabilities of the is totally opt-in. Wide Development Conference Playboy Mansion Sold To Twinkies Owner

Who could possibly own a more ridicu- The former owner of both Hostess (THE to honour its creators by reconnecting the THOMAS WILLERT lous product that Hugh himself? Richard MAN OWNED TWINKIES) and… Pabst two properties into one massive 7.3 acre 3A MECHANICAL Branson? Elon Musk? The inventor of the Brewing company. So with the power of plot with 29 rooms just from the mansion whoopee cushion? All wrong, and that Twinkies and PBR, Mr. Daren Metro- itself. And what of the activities that took other person you have in mind, wrong poulos has amassed enough money to not place in during Hef’s stay at the mansion? as well. The man, the legend and the only buy the Playboy mansion but the Whether Mr. Metropoulos chooses to per- In January 2016 something radical new owner of the playboy mansion is… property beside it as well, in an attempt petuate them remains to be seen. happened. The historic Playboy mansion went up for sale - the estate that has been the definition of the cutting edge of “mod- eling”, as well as home of the grottoes and some of the greatest parties known in re- cent history, will no longer be owned by Hugh Hefner. But there’s a catch: though he may not own the property, the contract that the new homeowner must sign states that you must allow him to live there until the end of his days. Well, for $200 mil- lion you don’t even get to own your own home, as the man who has lived there since 1971 will be there for who knows how long (Rock and Roll genes state that he will live forever). While this $200 mil- lion may seem ridiculous, a property in the same neighborhood sold for $59 mil- lion last year, and furthermore, this was the most expensive property sold in Los Angeles when it was originally purchased foe $1.05 million in 1971. So who would Toglenn via Wikimedia Commons buy such a property? Well if you search in your heart of hearts you know the answer. The Playboy Mansion, a Gothic/Tudor Revival Mansion built in the 1920s THE IRON WARRIOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016 Science and Technology 7 The Middle East Gets (Less) Salty

deal with both excess CO2 emissions, new process out. than current industrial processes. GABRIELLE KLEMT and waste brine at once. Benyahia has It’s estimated that Benyahia’s method Until a way of desalinating water 1B GEOLOGICAL taken the 150-year-old Solvay seven-step can reduce brine waste by almost 100%, without creating concentrated brine is process of producing sodium carbonate which makes it pretty ridiculous that they thought up (maybe by someone from for industrial purposes, and reduced it haven’t tried this already. He believes he Waterloo, who knows!), I’ll be following to a two-step process to produce sodium can offset the hefty cost of implementing these developments. This is an exciting It’s commonly known that while the bicarbonate, what we commonly refer to this process by selling the by-products, proposal and it can be hoped that Qatar Middle East in abundant in fossil fuel as baking soda. baking soda and calcium chloride, will pursue this option more thoroughly deposits, it’s very deficient in supplies of The process involves those lovely pointing out that this process will and start reducing their waste emissions fresh water. The search for ways to make chain reactions we all learned about in actually produce these products cheaper significantly! do with the water they have, water from CHE102, whereby he reacts the pure the Persian Gulf, has lead to concentrated CO2 with waste brine in the presence waste brine from the desalinization of ammonia gas, producing ammonium process being pumped back into the Gulf. chloride and baking soda. Then he reacts This waste brine is typically twice as the ammonium chloride solution with salty as normal sea water and is leading calcium oxide to recover the ammonia to the Gulf and surrounding areas turning gas to reuse. saltier as a consequence of it’s disposal What makes Benyahia’s method better back into the source. This threat is not than those people are currently using only short-term either, it also threatens is that most systems currently in place future drinking water supplies and don’t use pure CO2, but flue gas from ground-water sources. power plants which contains only small Recently, a chemical engineer at amounts of actual CO2 and requires the Garry Knight via Flickr Qatar University by the name of Farid separation of the gases to extract it. Qatar Benyahia has had a breakthrough of sorts has multiple plants producing pure CO2 A Water De-Salination Plant in Ras Al Khaimah, and has come up with a new solution to gas, making this country ideal to try the United Arab Emirates in 2007 Scottish Scientists Slow Down Light in Vacuum

It is well known that when light traveling speeds of each photon. The control photon Though the findings are primarily of ELIZABETH in air hits a medium, its speed is slowed had the expected speed (299,792,458 m/s). fundamental physics research (as opposed SALSBERG down. When the propagating light exits the The second photon (shaped by the mask) to applied physics) the researchers do see 3B NANOTECHNOLOGY medium back into free space, it returns to finished a mere few millionths of a meter some application of these findings in the the speed of light. behind. future. This is particularly important for In this experiment, two photons “race” While this experiment was done for making very precise measurements (often Researchers at the University of Glasgow against one another to the finish line. One single photons, they also experimented done using light). One such example would and Heriot-Watt University have shown photon travels through free space (i.e.: the with Gaussian and Bessel beams and be determining the distance of the Moon that photons can be made to travel slower control). The second photon passes through observed the same results. This shows that to the Earth. The finding is also relevant than the speed of light in vacuum. What is a circular mask with several rings and then by patterning a light beam with a mask to scientists using huge aperture lenses to so remarkable about this observation is that continues propagating through free space. actually slows the photons slightly—the measure very short distances, in the micro- they were able to alter the speed of light The scientists measured the travel time patterned photons do not return to the or nano-scale, accurately. Not something in free space and maintain the new (slower of each photon down the 1 m racetrack speed of light after passing through the you’ll see everyday, but overall quite an speed). and compared the times to determine the mask despite being in vacuum. interesting experimental finding!

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Instead I want to tell you what it is from reason among groups that largely consist HANNAH ANSON CHEN the perspective of someone who’s done it of faculty members and CECA staff. And GAUTREAU VP EDUCATION for 14 months. these groups welcome your input; most of PRESIDENT The VP Academic is the VP Education, the time, they genuinely don’t know what re-branded. Essentially all the other VP students are thinking and might propose positions got re-named, so this one got a things in ignorance of that perspective. Hello Everyone! I hope midterms went Hello everyone! Your friendly VP Edu- titular overhaul too. Same as the VP Edu- That’s what you’re there to offer insight well! This is going to be a short update cation here. You know what’s funny? My cation now, everything the VP Academic on. E.g. adding more support for WEEF since school has been pretty crazy for the calendar. I’m booked out for 6 meetings in does will go toward two very broad goals: TA’s for critiquing first year resumes? past two weeks. the week following the writing of this arti- to make it easier for engineering students Good! Adding clauses on course outlines cle, but no meetings have been scheduled to learn things, and to make it easier for preventing students from sharing course Joint Annual General Meeting in the last 2 weeks. In lieu of actual updates engineering students to get jobs. material with other students? Bad! Both (JAGM) this week, I thought I could tell you about are real examples. the VP Academic role. What committees do they sit on? Our Annual JAGM is coming up THIS As you may or may not have heard, there What directorships do they SUNDAY JUNE 26TH AT 11am! Every will be a by-election for one last open ex- The VP Academic achieves those two manage? EngSoc member has a vote, so make sure ecutive position. Nominations for VP Ac- goals in two ways: representing Engineer- to come out and voice your opinions. We ademic are open from June 27 to July 3; ing students on 8 committees, and manag- VP Academic is “officially” in charge will be voting on a number of exciting campaigning will take place between July ing EngSoc’s academic- and co-op related of Career Fair and Course Critiques. What constitutional changes, including a new 4 and 8. If you are interested in bettering services. Below is a list of the committees: they “really” take on can be divided dif- Council structure. All of the motions the quality of learning at Waterloo, and Co-op Working Group (Faculty) ferently amongst execs. This term I took and the CRC report can be found on the would like to take on a role at the Execu- Faculty Undergraduate Studies Council on the Exam Bank as well as a work term EngSoc website at engsoc.uwaterloo.ca! tive level that impacts all undergraduate (Faculty, obviously) rating initiative. The A-Society VP Educa- students, this might be a good fit for you. WatPD Engineering Curriculum Com- tion took on the Student Services Commis- Mental Health mittee (Faculty) sioner directorships. Your directorships are What is the VP Academic? Co-operative Student Council (Feds) not set in stone, as long as they’re some- I have been working with Fiona Education Advisory Committee (Feds) what related to those 2 goals I talked about. Dhanapala to investigate implementing I’m not here to give you the official spiel; Senate Undergraduate Council (Univer- What makes someone a good candidate? weekly group sessions, each with a you can find that at the Executive Review sity) Being passionate about changing the different topic surrounding mental health Report, here (https://www.engsoc.uwater- Co-operative Education Council (Uni- quality of education at Waterloo for the and wellness. This would start in the loo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ERC- versity) better. Not being afraid to speak up when fall and would be running alongside the Report-Final-Report.pdf). Teaching Award Committee (EngSoc) you see opportunities for that change, be- weekly stress management workshops The VP Academic will spend 1-6 hours cause opportunities will be thrown at you. that will be starting up in the next week. a week advocating on behalf of students at Having some experience with EngSoc, and The Committee of Society Presidents meetings involving these groups. This usu- being willing to commit time each week to met two weeks ago, and I brought forward ally evens out at about 3 hours per week. meetings, both with committees and Ex- the idea of collaborating with the other The VP should be consulting students ecutive/Council. societies across campus to write an open prior to the meeting if important agenda Being currently in 2nd-year or higher, letter from the undergraduate student items are identified, but a lot of the time, being on-campus for both Winter and Fall body with our stance on the counselling this involves the VP speaking on the spot 2017. resources on campus. I will be working to things that arise and concern students. Don’t worry about public speaking or on writing this, and sending it around to For example, the suggestion of including finding the words, that’ll all come. It did all of the other societies’ councils for their work term report marks in official aver- for me. :) approval. ages came up last term. I had a pretty good If you have any further questions, shoot As always, if you have any questions, idea how people felt about this already, and me an email at vpeducation.b@engsoc. feel free to email me at president.b@ spoke for students against the suggestion. uwaterloo.ca. Hope to see you run! Thanks engsoc.uwaterloo.ca! Mostly, you are the student voice of for Reading! Upcoming Events Calendar Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday June 22 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 Check out up-to- the-day event Exchange Info WiE Self Defence Finger Painting EngHack EngHack Introduction to Eat Grilled postings on the Session 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Starts 10:30 AM Ends 1:30 PM AutoCad Cheese EngSoc website at 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM engsoc.uwaterloo. 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EngSoc puts together a float and marches SARAH MARTIN your votes were critical to selecting the KIERAN in the Toronto Pride Parade. Tickets are on 1B MECHATRONICS new executive team who will be repre- BROEKHOVEN sale now! If you’d like to participate, drop senting you for the next 16 months. VP EXTERNAL by bit.ly/engpride. We also participate in The votes have been counted and the Hopefully you’re not tired of elections UWaterloo’s Canada Day event; we set up a results are in. Let’s give a huge congrat- yet as there remains a vacancy in the VP booth all day and play some fun mini games ulations to the newly elected Engineer- Academic position. This position is very Update number 3 of the term! with the children that show up. We need ing Society executive team of Rachel similar to the VP Education position, I’ll be giving a quick overview of what’s volunteers! So if you’re interested, check Malevich as President, Melissa Buckley with its main goal being to improve the been happening/what’s coming up in our out bit.ly/canadeng (yes, we like bitlinks). and Dan Robertson as VP Communica- quality of engineering education at Wa- outreach portfolio. We’ve continued with Both events will be a ton of fun and I highly tions, Katie Arnold as VP Operations and terloo. Candidates are eligible for this the usual initiatives; just this past weekend recommend. Finance, as well as Sabrina Huston and position if they are currently in their 2A we had our trip to THEMUSEUM in Kitch- We will also soon be choosing a charity Chelsea VanderMeer as VP Student Life. term or higher. The nomination period ener that we do twice a term. Kids learned for the coming year! All of our proceeds Also, congratulations to Jordan Nickel is from June 27th to July 3rd. Interested things about engineering, and everybody throughout the year go to a charity that is for his election as WEEF Director. candidates and nomination forms and had a good time. If you’re interested in do- voted on by the student body. Soon we’ll Thank you to everyone who voted this more information can be found in the ing science with kids, keep an eye out for have nominations, and then a vote. So if election. These were exciting races, and Orifice. that event in future terms. there’s a charity that you feel is particularly In a couple weeks we have a rather im- deserving, keep an eye out for nominations. portant weekend coming up in that port- As always, send me a message if you VP Finance Update folio - Pride and Canada Day! Every year have any questions! If You’re Reading This It’s TU Late

VP Internal Update due on July 2nd. I’ve sent out info via DON TU the EngSoc mailing list, including the A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Post-Hell Week VP FINANCE fact that you are allowed to make video submissions this term. However, they something that you like doing to take your need to be in by the 25th! If you wish TERESA LUMINI mind away from work every once in a to pursue that route, please send me an VP INTERNAL while, and by once in a while, I mean at Hello readers! Now you’re probably email. Furthermore, ECIF proposals are least once a week. This can be absolutely asking yourself: Why is Don making due on July 1st. anything you want like video games, Net- a pun based on his name and a Drake Aside from those programs, I will flix, maybe you play a sport or a musical album? The answer is that I wanted your largely be focusing on carrying through Hey hey hey! instrument. Just make sure it’s something attention. It worked, didn’t it? the Novelties and RidgidWare plans that Hope everyone completed midterms that you like and take a day off from study- It’s also a reference to the fact that I’ve discussed in past updates. We’ve fairly unscathed. Now it is time to recover ing and do that thing. Make sure you also the Engineering Society elections just purchased approximately $500 worth of from all the mental exhaustion with Men- take at least an hour a day where you just finished. If you’re reading this and components for RidgidWare, so that’ll be tal Health Awareness Week. During this relax and not look at any work. In the wise wanted to enjoy another sixteen months on the shelves soon! For Novelties, we week, we will be running events to help words of Tom Hatherford: Treat yo’ self. of my vice-presidency, then I have some are just about ready to put in glassware, blow off that post-exam steam such as Fin- bad news for you! You’ll just have to baseball tees, and some patches. And ger Painting, a Euchre Tournament, and for be happy with the time we have left we’ve also got some awesome Student the first time in a long time, reviving on- together. However, in that, there is also Deals changes in the works, but I can’t term SCUNT! some awesome news: the wonderful share any details just yet. More to come! We all know that engineering is a lot of Katie Arnold will be the new – and Of course, I’ll be topping this off with work, with a lot of tight deadlines, chal- first ever! – VP Operations & Finance. transitioning the VPOF-elect and trying lenging content to learn, and labs and pro- Having worked with Katie on Novelties, to survive in the storm of 3A Chemical jects to get done. But let’s not forget that I can vouch for her and tell you that she’s Engineering. Speaking of which, I have there is more to your time here than just got some great ideas to bring to EngSoc. some post-Hell Week assignments that studying. Yes, it is very important if you With that said, I still have some fight I need to tend to! So, as always, please want to succeed, but if that is all you do, in me! There is still much to do while I reach out to me at vpfinance.b@engsoc. and not taking time for yourself now and am still VP Finance. First and foremost, uwaterloo.ca. I’d love to hear what then you are doing yourself a disservice. I would like to remind everyone that you’ve thought of my term so far and Everyone will tell you to find a good work- ECIF and Sponsorship proposals are what I can do to improve in the time I play balance, but no one actually tells you due soon! Sponsorship proposals are have left! how to do that. So I’m going to take this article to talk about some of the ways other people have found this balance to try and help you out if you are struggling to find that balance like I have. Let’s start with the work-half of this bal- ance, because, honestly, it will be a lot of your time. In the beginning, it’s fairly easy to plan out your time when you don’t have any labs, projects or assignments, since focusing on one course a day is typically enough for review or studying. Once those projects, midterms, and labs reports start tumbling in a landslide-esque fashion this is can be trickier to get a hold on. For me personally, when they start piling up, I pull out my calendar and take a look at when everything is due, then, if possible, focus on one thing a night with the goal of get- ting it done and just steadily start knock- ing things off the list until I’ve completed everything. Remember, university is a marathon, not a sprint. Now sometimes projects are too big to accomplish in one night so break it down into smaller, more manageable components and make goals for completing those components. Again, sometimes this isn’t the easiest thing in the world as our projects here are pretty chal- lenging and that’s when you start reach- ing out to friends and classmates for help. There is no shame is getting help when you need it. Now for the play portion of this pro- gramming. Basically, make sure you have THE IRON WARRIOR 10 Science and Technology WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016 Leafy Thoughts: Responsibility

the consumer’s end just by drinking water. growth, mould, and even glass found in the this idea--between the C&Ds, SLC, South BRIGITA GUBINS If you’re in need of some sad humour, water (The Polaris Institute, 2014). Campus Hall, and other food retailers, YEAR 2 more than one company legitimately sells A second major issue with purified water water typically is the only healthy beverage ENVIRONMENTAL boxed water now as the ‘environmental is the lowered, or lack of fluoridation and option. The major caveat to this argument, alternative to bottles’. other minerals. In a University of Calgary however, is that it relies on the assumption LEAFY THOUGHTS It’s one thing to have packaged water if study comparing dental decay before and that an individual must purchase a you live in an area without reliably safe tap after the city removed fluoridation from beverage. By my own searching, there is a As you may have noticed while walking water, but in the city of Waterloo, it’s quite its water treatment process, very strong water fountain within 10m of any beverage around campus, there are empty chip bags frankly absurd that someone has the thought evidence was found that suggested the rapid retailer on campus in CPH, DC, SLC, and coffee cups blowing around with the process of “Hmm, I’m thirsty, let me go decline in the dental health of children was Biology, and EIT. In Dana Porter library, breeze. While littering is reprehensible in spend 1700x the amount of money I spend caused by the lack of fluoride in the city’s there is a water fountain within 15m of itself, it would be a fair argument to say on tap water to have a drink.” The lowest water (UCalgary, 2016). the first floor coffee shop. While I haven’t that over-packaging of everything is just as price of bottled water I’ve found through Aside from emergencies, there is checked to see if there are water fountains frustrating of an issue. vigorous internet searching is $2.00 CDN absolutely no reason for daily [disposable] in other buildings with beverage retail, I Plan on buying lunch in the plaza? The / L of water. In the region of Waterloo, tap water bottle use if you live in KW region. would be willing to bet that there are, water absolute minimum you’ll get in terms of water costs $0.017 / L (City of Waterloo, Or quite frankly, any other major Canadian is a fairly common thing. packaging waste is napkins and cutlery 2016). Furthermore, most major cities test city. The facts: City of Waterloo tap water is if you sit down to eat somewhere. Even their water quality every 4-6 hours. Water Knowing this makes it so frustrating just as safe, if not safer than bottled water. then, you are often given a plastic drinking bottling companies? No regulations exist to see the dozens of broken, crumpled My opinion: It is irresponsible (and straw, wrapped in paper, for your glass of for the frequency or quality of product plastic water bottles littering most areas negligent) to knowingly continue a wasteful water, or even worse, offering you a bottle testing, and the industry is entirely self- of Waterloo that I frequent, including practice when you have the resources and of water. (Cue last straw pun.) It’s become monitored (CBC, 2014). None of the data Waterloo Park. The closest legitimate capacity to change over to a sustainable a completely accepted part of life to just from these tests is required to be made counter-argument for not banning the use process, like a reusable water bottle in lieu throw away almost half of the things that public, and in addition to this, there have of bottled water altogether is that it is of disposable bottles. A reusable water touch our hands. Just considering plastic been dozens of quiet recalls of bottled frequently the only healthy beverage option bottle costs as little $9, and if that is still too drinking straws and bottled water, it’s water in the past decade, citing everything if you are purchasing something to drink. expensive, use a mason jar or carry around insane how much waste is produced on from arsenic contamination, bacterial Let’s take UW campus as a test case for a cup. Axes Are Awesome

tates counter clockwise from this perspec- prograde orbiting bodies. If you imagine that are much closer to edge-on. CAMERON SOLTYS tive, the planets are said to orbit prograde. sitting on the proto-planet orbiting closer Theories are abound as to why Uranus is 3N MECHANICAL “Retrograde motion” is the opposite, where to the sun, you would be orbiting faster so off-kilter, just as they do for Venus. One a rotation or orbit is opposite to another ro- than the outer planet; this is an extremely theory is the impact theory, similar to Ve- tation. important consequence of Kepler’s Laws nus. Computer simulations have shown that SPACE CAM As mentioned, all of the planets orbit the that govern orbital motion. If you imagine if a single impact turned Uranus sideways, Sun prograde. Most of them also rotate pro- yourself as stationary relative to the Sun, then its ring would be orbiting retrograde to As most people probably know, the grade; when looking down from the Sun’s then the outer planet looks like it’s orbiting the rotation of the planet. The same simula- seasons on Earth are caused by the way north pole, the planets rotate counter-clock- retrograde. When these two proto-planets tions showed that a series of at least two or it orbits the Sun. This has little to do with wise, the same as the Sun. The Moon orbits merged, they maintained their rotational more impacts would cause the rings to orbit the distance between the two bodies—in Earth prograde as it rotates prograde. In momentum. They continue to orbit pro- prograde, as is seen. Therefore, if Uranus’ fact Earth is closest to the Sun in January, other words, prograde is typical. There are grade, but since the system was rotating odd rotation was caused by impact, there height of the Canadian winter—and a lot to plenty of exceptions, particularly among retrograde before, it continues to rotate ret- must have been at least two of them. do with the tilt of Earth’s axis of rotation. small moons and comets, but larger objects rograde as a single mass. A second theory is that early in the so- Since the axis of Earth’s rotation is about tend to be prograde. There are a few very The two above theories have largely fall- lar systems formation, Jupiter and Saturn 23° out of alignment with its orbit around interesting exceptions. The first one is Ve- en out of favour. Instead, it is now thought entered a 1:2 resonance where Jupiter or- the sun, the amount of sunlight reaching the nus. that Venus’ rotation is slowed down by tidal bited the sun twice for each orbit of Saturn. southern and northern hemispheres chang- Venus has an axial tilt of 177°, mean- effects from the Sun. A slight retrograde Resonances like these do really interesting es throughout the year. During each hemi- ing that it is only three degrees out from torque caused by thermal effects in its thick things to orbits. In this case, it is theorized sphere’s winter, that hemisphere is tilted rotating exactly in-line with it’s orbit, the atmosphere causes its slow, but existent, that the two larger planets could have trans- away from the sun, receiving less energy. sun eternally almost directly over the equa- rotation. ferred rotational momentum to Uranus, This is a fairly-well-known phenomenon so tor. Only thing is, the orbit is upside-down Moving on to a completely different putting it on its strange path. it will not take up any more of this article. because Venus rotates retrograde. Just as system, we come to Uranus. Once again, Whatever the reasons for our two retro- Instead, it is time to take a closer look at curious, this backwards rotation is incred- Uranus rotates retrograde, but with an axial grade-rotating planetary neighbours, the some much more interesting axes. Before ibly slow; it takes Venus 243 Earth days to tilt of 98°, the retrograde tag is the least two are fascinating irregularities. Our solar that, there are two words that need to be rotate once but only 225 to orbit the sun. interesting part. Uranus is less like a spin- system has only eight planets (nine if the defined: prograde and retrograde. “Pro- There have been a number of theories over ning top as it orbits the sun and more like Planet X hunt is successful). Yet in those grade motion” is motion that is in the same the years as to how this happened. The most a ball rolling in a circular path (although, eight planets, there is a tremendous diversi- direction as something else. In the case of pedestrian is that Venus was hit by a series admittedly, there is quite a bit of slip). Just ty in all sorts of weird ways. Not only is this the solar system, all of the planets—along of impacts that slowed down its prograde as interestingly, Uranus’ ring system stays interesting in its own right, but it also raises with almost everything else—orbit the Sun rotation, then started it slowly backwards. with the planet’s equator. This means that the anticipation for all the discoveries to be counter-clockwise when looking down at A second theory is that Venus was cre- the rings of Uranus are broad-side for us to made as exoplanets become ever-clearer in the Sun’s north pole. Since the Sun also ro- ated from the merger of two similar-sized, see from Earth, unlike the rings of Saturn our telescopes. Broskies on Brewskies Pickup Truck Pilsner, Kissmeyer Nordic Pale Ale and Plowman’s Ale

DONOVAN Ready. They also encourage any readers to disappoint. We rather enjoyed it. A very ac- ter, like pretty much every other pale ale, MAUDSLEY recommend their favourite craft beers for cessible beer, the Pickup Truck knows what but the underlying flavours came through TRISTAN KUEHN review, just email the Iron Warrior! it is and doesn’t try to be anything else. This very nicely. Overall we gave it three and a 3A MECHANICAL This issue of Broskies on Brewskies was is a great summer beer, and should be con- half out of five. 3A SYSTEMS a pretty low key event. We’re back to drink- sumed in full sunlight. It’s one of the bet- Last up this week was the Plowman’s Ale ing three beers again. Something exciting ter beers that we’ve tried, and we settled on from Grand River Brewing. We think that BROSKIES ON BREWSKIES did happen on our way to the liquor store a score of four out of five. The Thornbury we’ve tried one of their beers before, but though. We stopped by the record store so Beverage Company is making a solid repu- couldn’t recall which one it was or what we Tristan and Donovan are off-again-on- Donovan could do some father’s day shop- tation for themselves. thought of it. This beer is very easy to drink, again roommates and good friends from ping and Donovan picked up an album by next up was the Kissmeyer Nordic Pale and goes down quite well. It has a very full London, Ontario. Good, local food and ‘60s Scottish folk singer Donovan. That Ale from Beau’s All Natural Brewing Com- flavour and it is pretty malty, which Do- beer are just some of the common interests was pretty cool. pany. We didn’t realize at the time, but ap- novan particularly liked. Unfortunately it these two share. While they realize that We started off with the Pickup Truck parently Beau’s makes all natural and or- didn’t really do anything to try to break the they don’t know everything there is to know Pilsner from The Thornbury Beverage ganic beers, and we think that’s pretty cool. mould, so it loses points there. We settled about craft beer (and cider) (and mead), Company. We picked this one up because It was definitely a Pale Ale, and was similar on three out five for this one. they’re always willing to try something we really enjoyed their Jubilee Amber La- to many of the ales we’ve tried before but Overall we had a pretty underwhelming new for the greater good. Neither is a beer ger (it made our top five in our last issue), we liked this one a lot more. Tristan put it issue this time. As always if you’ve got snob, and both have been known to drink and because we don’t drink enough pils- pretty perfectly when he said “it presents opinions on craft beers please give us an beer store favourites such as Molson Cana- ners. A pilsner is a type of lager that tends to its flavour nicely rather than assaulting the email. Remember to taste responsibly Bro- dian, Budweiser, and their old friend James be crisper in taste. The Pickup Truck didn’t senses.” Tristan really enjoyed it. It was bit- skies! THE IRON WARRIOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016 Arts and Entertainment 11 E3: Exciting, Engaging, Expensive

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 than the first game. weird. The game play shown closely re- different choices were made. The devel- sembles Dead Space, and looks terrific opers have said that the game is going to for the PS4, unlike the original. Other Best Shooter: Battlefield 1 and terrifying. I’m going to have to play be on the short side, around 8-10 hours, AAA games shown included Battlefield 1 this with the lights on in the middle of but with a lot of replay value, and I can and Mass Effect Andromeda, which will While it was revealed before E3, the day. see why. both hopefully live up to their predeces- DICE’s next entry into the Battlefield sors. EA has also decided to include a series looks terrific. DICE has chosen to Best new IP: tie between Friday Worst Idea: Skyrim remaster story mode in the next FIFA game, which do the opposite of their biggest compe- the 13th and Detroit: Become seems like an interesting move, albeit one tition, Call of Duty, which is going far- Human Everyone played Skyrim. Everyone that could pay off immensely. Another ther and farther into the future. Crafting played the HELL out of Skyrim. Doing cool move by EA was the announcement a fictionalized version of World War One, Friday the 13th: Yes, it’s based on a a massive overhaul of Skyrim’s graphics of EA Originals, a plan to publish and Battlefield 1 is only in its Alpha stage but movie series, and yes Jason has shown up engine makes the game look great, but is distribute more and more indie developed showcases amazing graphics and terrific in videogames before, but this is a whole it really worth it considering the game is games every year. physics. EA actually let gamers who at- animal. The game as it stands right now only coming up to its 5th birthday? I’d Other, smaller conferences and re- tended the expo play a few rounds of the is entirely multiplayer based, with one have preferred a remaster of Oblivion, veals happened this week, including game and the reviews were very positive. player controlling the monstrous Jason with the mechanics of the game moving a new Dragon Ball Z fighting game to They’ve been able to make The Great and the rest playing as unaware summer into skyrim’s models. be released this fall, an Attack on Titan War look exciting and fast paced. camp councillors. Jason’s many abilities game centered around the first season of and shear brutality are translated well Best Surprise: Spiderman the anime, a new indie Friday the 13th Best Action and adventure: Prey from the movies, and the councillors need multiplayer game, and Inside, a new title to use their wits to evade and survive. One of my favourite games as a kid from Playdead games, the studio behind I’d never heard of the original before Detroit: Become Human: A futuris- was Spiderman 2 for the Gamecube. The Limbo. I’m particularly excited for the seeing the trailer for this game, but now I tic single player game centered around web slinging mechanic was terrific and Dragon Ball Z game. It looks like it em- want to play it. The trailer for Prey starts an android police officer. The neo-noire Spiderman’s other powers were also well ploys a similar system to Pokken Tourna- off weird, with the protagonist Morgan style game offers the player choices thought out and implemented. This game ment, having a ranged phase and an up repeating the same morning routine, on throughout each case that affect the out- looks to revitalize that series. A PS4 ex- close and personal phase. Netherrealm the same day. Every time, little things come in serious ways. In the trailer we clusive, Sony has handed the reins to Games also officially announced Injus- are different and Morgan’s eyes get more watch a hostage standoff that goes south their long time partner Insomniac Games, tice 2, which is going to feature an even and more bloodshot. The fourth time, he pretty quickly. The scene then backs up the creators of the Ratchet and Clank and bigger roster of DC heroes and villains awakens in a lab... and everything gets and shows what could have happened if Resistance series. Fun games with great game play seem to be Insomniac’s pre- rogative so Spiderman is set up to be a great entry to the PS4’s library. I was much more impressed with game reveals that featured actual game play footage rather than just cinematic trail- ers. Shiny reveal trailers like those for the new Quake and Halo Wars games look amazing, but don’t really tell the audience anything about the game. Actu- ally showing off your game play should be the highlight of your conference, but not enough publishers did. So Who Won E3? Sony

Gamers want games and Sony deliv- ered. While they do have plans for a new half cycle console, the PS4 Neo, they showed their commitment to PS4 owners with their exclusives lineup. I’m going to be broke a lot in the coming years. Viper via youtube.com Battlefield 1 by EA DICE arrives on consoles and PC this fall Engineering Exchanges?? But I’m Only in 1B!!

PROF. RICK CULHAM language. In some cases, it’s best to go world that stay-at-home students may change.” (Lin Lin Chen, Management ASSOCIATE DEAN, INTERNATIONAL for a one-term exchange; in others, two never experience. Don’t take my word for Engineering) terms work out best. it; read what previous exchangers have to “Going on exchange was the single best Yes it IS too early in your academic ca- All this is a part of planning for your say: choice I made during my undergraduate reer to go on an international exchange but future career which could take you any- “Going on exchange is the BEST deci- studies. The experience was eye open- it’s NOT too early to start planning for it! where in the world. sion I’ve made in my undergrad life! It has ing to parts of the world I’ve only read It’s a great opportunity and privilege To get started, visit our website (search helped me grow as a person from learn- about. Experiencing Asia rather than sim- but you must prepare, organize and plan. for “Engineering Exchanges” from the ing in a new environment, making friends ply seeing it as a tourist gave traveling a You could be among the 15% of your class UW home page) for all the details and around the world, and seeing things in whole new definition and I will cherish the who go on this once-in-a-lifetime experi- then meet with Cindy Howe, Administra- different perspectives. Not to mention all memories forever.” (Gary Guo, Computer ence. Most students go on exchange in 3A tive Coordinator of engineering exchang- the amazing travels you can do on an ex- Engineering) or 3B or both. You might even consider es to discuss all of your exchange options. combining it with a work term. But you She can be reached at eng.ug.exchange. have to start planning early! [email protected] and her office is Carl What is an academic exchange? You’ll Pollock Hall, Room 3658. get to spend one or two academic terms On Facebook, look for the “UW Engi- at a partner university where you’ll take neering Exchanges” group, which is spe- courses equivalent to those your class- cifically for outbound students and those mates will be taking at UW. It is com- who have been on exchange. It’s moder- mon practice for engineering exchange ated by the Engineering Society (EngSoc) students to remain on the same academic and Cindy Howe. schedule as the rest of their cohort and Don’t let the opportunity pass you by! graduate with their class. The application process takes more than We have exchange partnerships with a year of lead time. Applications must be over 80 top-tier universities in about 30 submitted by November 1 for the follow- countries around the world. So you need ing academic year. For example, if you to investigate which partner best suits want to go on exchange for your 3B term your needs; many of our exchanges are (Fall 2018 or Winter 2019), your applica- restricted in numbers, some are open only tion must be submitted on Waterloo Pass- to certain disciplines of engineering, for port by November 1, 2017. others you may need to brush up on your Finally, exchange is great for fun, travel language skills or possibly learn a new and adventure. You’ll visit parts of the On exchange, you can go to school virtually anywhere in the world! THE IRON WARRIOR 12 Arts and Entertainment WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016 Discover Broadway: Chess A Cold War Story of Games and Intrigue

Since then, multiple revisions have been sensational numbers of the production, intended to portray the character. At the TIFFANY CHANG made for new productions; however, “Endgame #3/Chess Game #3.” time, he had pleasantly surprised most 1B CHEMICAL no major revival of the musical has Freddie has to deal with Florence of the audience, who were unconvinced been attempted in the West End or on deserting him and, in one number in the that he would be able to live up to Tommy Broadway. second act, reflects on how his broken Körberg’s Anatoly. DISCOVER BROADWAY My personal favourite recording of it childhood made him who he is today (“Pity Idina Menzel, though she faltered a is Chess In Concert from 2009. Along the Child #2”). At least in this production, couple of times on the high notes, made I’m so excited to be kicking off this with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, after losing his title of international chess for a convincing Florence performance- new column! Warner Bros. Records produced a two- champion to Anatoly, Freddie sets aside wise. As you probably deduced from the performance concert version of the show his personal grievances with Anatoly to Adam Pascal was perfect for the role of name, I will be reviewing what I would at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The aid him a year after his own defeat. Freddie with his excellent acting and high call some lesser-known, underrated performance includes next to no dialogue I won’t give away any more spoilers vocal range. He nailed both Freddie’s musicals. If you’ve already heard of them, or set, but it emphasizes the musical’s about the plot, but here some more inner monologue in “Pity the Child” and then sweet—we have similar tastes!—but strength: Its music. noteworthy musical numbers. “Where I his change of heart in “Talking Chess.” if you don’t, worry not! The storyline follows a politically- Want to Be” is Anatoly’s confession about Kerry Ellis, I thought, was severely I hope that you will enjoy this musical driven chess tournament during the Cold being a pawn used by people he wouldn’t underused as her character of Svetlana, journey as much as I do. War era between American grandmaster consider to be his friends. “Quartet (A Anatoly’s estranged wife, only appeared To kick things off, I would like to Frederick “Freddie” Trumper and Soviet Model of Decorum and Tranquility)” halfway through the second act. However, introduce you to Chess. Its music is by grandmaster Anatoly Sergievsky— is an interesting piece that happens as she perfectly captured Svetlana’s Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus— played by Adam Pascal and Josh Groban, a result of Freddie storming out of the essence in “Someone Else’s Story”, her formerly of ABBA—and lyrics by Tim respectively. arena while facing Anatoly. After Anatoly understanding of how Florence could Rice—you might recognize his name As the tournament progresses, defeats Freddie and decides to abandon give her husband something she herself from his collaborations with Andrew Freddie’s second and alluded paramour, his Soviet team, the press is tipped off could never give to him in “I Know Him Lloyd Webber on Joseph and the Amazing Florence Vassy, falls in love with Anatoly, about this scandal. They ambush Anatoly, So Well”, and her angst in “Endgame #3/ Technicolour Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ becoming his mistress. and he replies that he will never leave his Chess Game #3.” Superstar, and Evita. The three all have to face their inner country as his land’s “only borders lie Chess is definitely a masterpiece in and In order to raise money for its first demons. For Anatoly, it is having to deal around his heart” in “Anthem.” of itself. I will admit that it will take a theatrical production, a highly successful with being used as a pawn in political The cast did terrific work with their couple of listens to understand all that concept album was released in 1984. games between East and West during the respective characters and captured each happens and its implications toward Two years later, the show premiered in chess tournament and choosing between character’s disposition spot-on. the Cold War. However, once you wrap London’s West End and played there for his love for the game of chess; staying Josh Groban delivered an exceptional your head around the politics, conflict, three years. In 1988, after much alteration with his home country, his wife, and performance with his crooning baritone love, and hate, you will appreciate the to the plot, the American version only family; or his newfound love for Florence. voice and by capturing Anatoly’s inner plot’s complexity and the depth of the played on Broadway for two months. All of this is reflected in one of the most turmoil exactly the way that Tim Rice had characters. World Wide Development Conference

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 those were easily the best minutes of that in photos and parsing human language. The first is a simple, long-awaited fea- silicon church sermon. Everyone got up Apple is relatively bad at this. This is re- ture for iOS: the freedom to delete some of a vending machine’s selection might be big: and danced! For only a few short moments, flected in the relative quality of Siri versus the default apps. Not all of them: Messages there’s lots of little treats but no number of unfortunately. Google Now, and of *cough* iCloud and will not be going anywhere, for instance. Cheetos can be called a meal. The Phone and News apps were rede- Google Drive. No amount of stylin’ or filin’ You also need the App Store to redownload First of all, there are a lot of new ways signed too, but didn’t really feel notable. can hide the truth: that Apple needs to catch the apps if you want them back, so allow- to use notification widgets, and they can be Communicating entirely through chat is up. But how can they feed user data to their ing the deletion of the App Store would be accessed from the lock screen. This actu- pretty hip right now, and I mean, who reads machine learning algorithms without com- an easy “screw my friend over for hundreds ally is revolutionary: for friends who prank newspapers anyway? promising the privacy of their users? of dollars” option for those irresponsible you when they take your phone. 3D touch There’s a new default app appearing on In last week’s keynote Apple announced pranksters I keep mentioning. can do more: which is fine if you use it, I the iOS home screen: it’s called Home and their approach. They try to do as much pro- The next is an even longer awaited suppose. it will be used to control HomeKit support- cessing as they can on the user’s machine change: Apple’s dinosaur of a file sys- Siri has an intents API that will allow 3rd ed home automation devices. I’m sure that rather than on Apple-controlled servers. tem, HFS+, is finally going extinct. The party developers to write apps interfacing will confuse nobody, ever. Home supports They are also looking into a technique replacement is called the Apple File Sys- with Siri, much as they would with Google video doorbells and can unlock your house called differential privacy, wherein so tem: APFS. APFS is optimized for solid Now on Android. Some “Siri intelligence” door right from the lock screen: yet another much noise is injected into user data that it state storage (TRIM is in), has the ability will also be used to enhance word sugges- revolution for pranksters who grab your is impossible to connect a particular user to to quickly find directory sizes, can encrypt tions when typing messages. If this sounds phone. This felt like another reminder of a particular data set. Said data is still useful individual files or entire storage drives in- like it might involve a lot of data mining on my social-financial situation, and that was for algorithms to learn from, however. dependently of the rest of the OS and can Apple’s part: yeah it does, skip to the next before Craig Federighi mentioned a Home- If you want to know more you should make fast snapshots and clones of a whole section for more detail. Kit compliant hot tub. probably consult a distinguished mathemat- system-worth of data. These features have Photos will be able to display pictures on The biggest change for the perpetual ics journal, or failing that, mathNews. existed for a fairly long time in enterprise a map, with the positions corresponding to angsty teenager that wears my skin is iMes- filesystems: it’s good to see the consumer the location the picture was taken. At long sage. In addition to introducing a bunch of Swift Playground world catching up. APFS is still a devel- last, I will finally be able to see how many real flashy animated features and a sticker oper preview: macOS Sierra cannot boot of my screenshots were taken in the RCH store (much in the style of Snapchat, We- Apparently there were a record number from it, and it is recommended that APFS dungeon. Actually I hope it does separate Chat and the like), this was also a part of the of child attendees to WWDC this year: users back up their data on a proven, reli- screenshots from genuine photos because keynote which was mildly self-deprecating there was even a nine-year old. To ensure able filesystem. APFS is only going to be the new Photos is supposed to be smart: and came close to acknowledging that sex- that even more cool kids show up next year, deployed en masse next year, for every Ap- smart enough to support facial, scene and ting is a thing. It was right around 1:25:43, Apple spent the last few minutes of the key- ple device supported at that point. object recognition. Much like Google Pho- for all of you interested in watching execu- note on Swift Playground: a cute iPad app If your eyes glazed over in that last para- tos, but probably worse given Apple’s re- tives try to be hip. In further weird develop- for teaching children to code. graph, don’t worry. I’m sure Apple will stricted data (skip ahead!). Photos also now ments, the keyboard in iMessage can detect Surely there’s nothing of interest there make it all crystal clear during WWDC automatically organize into groups called words in your message that can be replaced for people who already know programming 2017. “memories” which will automatically as- by emoji, which is excellent for finding ob- right? Right? That nifty coding-focused semble into slideshows of all the fun, fun scure emoji and converting all your text to iPad keyboard, we’ll never see that again. times you’ve spent vacationing. Or RCH- emojinese. The fact that a hundred-ish lines of Swift dungeoning. This would all be great, if not for the code with full access to the iOS SDK could The Apple Maps app, which the world fact that they’re dropping support for my be compiled fairly quickly on an iPad, that’s loves to hate, has been updated. It knows cracked, struggling 3rd generation iPad. just for little toy demos. Yep. Nothing to see about all the nearby traffic and snazzy res- for this audience of accomplished develop- taurants. If your car has iOS support, you Intelligence, Data Mining, and ers, this is all purely for teaching the next can get turn by turn instructions right in the Privacy generation how to program. instrument panel. This part of the keynote reminded me strongly of my dismal finan- Google is really, really good at analyzing Beyond the keynote: RIP Find My cial situation. large amounts of data and teaching comput- Friends and HFS+ The Apple Music streaming service has ers to find meaningful links between them. a new, peppy interface. At around 1:11:40 Amazon is also somewhat capable here. Some items outside the keynote that Ap- in the keynote, Apple Music executive These skills, and the user data supporting ple announced this week may be of interest Bozoma Saint John presented a demo and them, are important for object recognition to anyone who managed to read this far. THE IRON WARRIOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016 Sports 13 Euro Cup 2016 Preview and Predictions

national tournaments, can be expected group. Ibrahimović is a legitimate difference TRISTAN KUEHN to win this group handily. Wales is com- Group D contains current European maker, but he might not be enough for 3A SYSTEMS DESIGN peting in their first international tourna- champs Spain, Croatia, Czech Republic, them to do better than third place in the ment in decades and could be dangerous and Turkey. Spain disappointed in the group. Ireland has never made it past enough to take second place. Slovakia, World Cup two years ago but remain a the group stage in the Euro Cup, so it is in their first Euro Cup as an independ- soccer power who will be expected to doubtful that this will be their year. It’s June, and the Euro Cup is finally ent state, have a lot to prove. Russia has win this group. Croatia has played very Group F contains Portugal, Hungary, back and in full swing. This tournament, struggled in the opening week, and will well since they began competing inde- Iceland, and Austria. Cristiano Ronaldo, the opportunity for European soccer fight hard for even a third place spot. pendently, and will give Spain a run among the best in the world, should lead players to compete for the continent’s Group C contains world champs Ger- for their money. However, the Czech Portugal to the top of this group without most prestigious trophy, is held every many, Poland, Northern Ireland, and Republic should be expected to hang much trouble. Austria performed very four years, two years after the world Ukraine. Germany will win this group right there with them and could take well in qualifiers and could very well cup. This year, for the first time, 24 na- handily and be looking deep into the the second spot. Turkey has been good continue that success through the group tional teams are competing in the tour- playoffs. Poland has a dangerous team in the past, but they are not expected to stage. Iceland has a young squad with a nament. The teams have been divided including star striker Robert Lewan- emerge from this hotly contested group. lot of momentum that could carry them into six groups of four teams for the dowski, so second place will be theirs Group E contains Italy, Ireland, Swe- through to the playoffs. This is the first first phase of the tournament, the group to close. Northern Ireland, a first timer den, and Belgium. Italy is a great team time Hungary has qualified for the Euro stage. Each team will play every other at the tournament, took their qualify- that will very likely win this group, after Cup in decades, and will have to show team in its group, and the winners and ing group by storm and could be a real going undefeated in the qualifiers. Also that they can hang with the leaders of runners up of each group will move on contender to make it to the knockout undefeated, however, is Belgium, who today. to the knockout rounds, as well as the rounds as a third-place group finish- did a lot of damage in the last World Beyond the ultimate results of the four third-place teams with the best re- er. Ukraine’s team has a shot, but will Cup and should be expected to emerge tournament, another sought-after prize cord. struggle against the heavy hitters in this from this group. Sweden’s star Zlatan is the Golden Boot, given to the player Group A contains host country France, with the most goals over the tournament. Switzerland, Romania, and Albania. Portugal’s Ronaldo, Poland’s Lewan- France, the only perennial contender of dowski, and Sweden’s Ibrahimović are the bunch, has to be the favourite to win among the big names being talked about this group. Switzerland and Romania as the tournament begins. My money’s have both seen modest success in recent on Lewandowski. He tore up the Ger- Euro Cups and the qualifiers for this man domestic league last season, led current one, but I have to give the edge scoring in qualifiers for this Euro Cup, to Switzerland. Albania has never been and Poland has the potential to go deep to a major tournament before, and will into the tournament. face an uphill battle in France. No matter what happens, there is sure Group B contains England, Wales, to be a lot of great action and drama to UEFA via Wikimedia Commons Slovakia, and Russia. England, despite fill your off-time this spring term! their recent frustrating exits from inter- The Euro Cup tournament is on now in France The Benchwarmer Report An NBA Final Rematch for the Ages

major sports title in an eon. first in the East (hardly a surprise), what riors raced out to a 3-1 lead after four ELIZABETH Many basketball fans anticipated the was surprising is that the second-seeded games. With game 5 set to go at home, SALSBERG rematch. However it was not anticipat- Raptors finished only one game back. it looked like they were in the driver’s 3B NANOTECHNOLOGY ed that, a) the series would even go to When Steph Curry was forced to play seat. But back came LeBron and the six games let alone seven, and b) that injured during the playoffs, it certainly Cavs—to show us this series is far from THE BENCHWARMER REPORT each game would be won by a comfy hurt the Warriors a bit… they needed over. Following back-to-back 41-point 10-point cushion. game 7 to knock off OKC in the con- performances, LeBron (along with an- NBA fans, welcome to the Final! And After steamrolling the rest of the NBA ference finals. LeBron’s Cavs? They other 41-point game 6 performance what a Final it has been. The top regu- (73-9), it seemed quite likely that Gold- swept both of their first two opponents, from point guard Kyrie Irving), the se- lar season team, the Golden State War- en State would be able to put away most and needed six to put away the Raptors. ries is knotted at 3 games apiece. riors (Steph Curry, et. al.) are duking it opponents in the playoffs. I daresay they Indeed, it can be argued that LeBron The decisive game 7 is to be played out in a rematch with the LeBron et. al. played far superior basketball to Cleve- should have had a far easier time with this Sunday night in Oakland and has al- (the Cleveland Cavaliers). The Warriors land and against stronger opponents, the Raptors than the Warriors did with ready happened by now. What’s intrigu- are the defending NBA champions; the like OKC and the San Antonio Spurs to OKC. ing about this game is whether or not it Cavs are looking for Cleveland’s first name a few. While Cleveland did finish Let’s recap the series so far. The War- will be like the others, with one team leading the other by a significant mar- gin to take the game (and the champion- ship). Could one be a nail biter? Another interesting question is whether Curry, Klay Thompson, Dray- mond Green and the rest of the Warriors can recover psychologically after losing their cool in game 6. Curry fouled out and threw his mouth guard into the first row of fans. Staying out of foul trouble will be critical if they’re going to re- group and win game 7. Remember, this is the NBA: Anyone who breathes near LeBron automatically gets a foul. That’s not to shine bad light on LeB- ron. He may be a bit of a baby, but there is absolutely no question that he is by far the most well-rounded and overall best player in the NBA since Michael Jordan. For the Cavs fan (or objective basketball fan), he is truly compelling to watch. If the Cavs win, most of the credit goes to this man for coming up big when it counted. Because I like making predictions, I want to say the Cavs win. But by the time you read this, you’ll know if I’m right or wrong. Happy Finals, and look- ing forward to the 2016-2017 NBA cam- paign! It’s been a great one. THE IRON WARRIOR 14 Miscellaneous WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016 Five Things You Don’t Want to Know Off With His Head!

and Ecuador. These people traditionally go-ahead, and the story trends for a while. the head isn’t going to be buried any time CAITLIN MCLAREN believed that souls have an expiry date, This happened in 2010, and again in 2013. soon and it was last seen in a Parisian bank 3T CHEMICAL and if you haven’t killed someone in a few While this all sounds entirely legit, vault. years, your soul will start to wander around there is in fact a black market in these at night and might get stolen. You have to medical specimens. It is not clear where Oliver Cromwell’s Head was 5 THINGS YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW keep killing people to get new souls, and of these are coming from (besides, you know, Basically a Hot Potato course any self-respecting warrior will keep necks). Personally, I suspect the Jivaroan The whole world seems to be losing its his enemies’ heads. tribespeople. Oliver Cromwell was a military dictator head these days. Still, we should count our Since heads tend to be big and who ruled England in the 1650s. He was a blessings; we have made some headway cumbersome, you can shrink them this way: Henry IV of France (Or Is He?) fundamentalist Puritan who famously would from the past, in which people frequently Remove the skin from the skull, get rid of not allow people to celebrate Christmas. lost their heads in a much more literal way. all the fat, sew the eyelids shut and pin the During the French Revolution, many After the monarchy was restored, Charles We’ve all heard of the guillotine, and other mouth shut. Put a wooden ball inside to keep members of the royal family and the nobility II became king. He didn’t like Cromwell political beheadings, but severed heads in it round, boil the flesh in water containing a were executed by guillotine. While it is much, partly because he loved partying, history get even weirder. solution of herbs, and dry it with hot rocks. said that many of the heads lived for a few but mainly because of the whole “military Just a heads-up: the following stories are Coat it in ash to prevent the vengeful soul moments after being cut off, some definitely dictatorship forcing him into exile” thing. rather grisly and contain head-based puns. from escaping. did not: those of the deceased heads of state Fortunately for Cromwell, he was dead by When Western countries found out about who were disinterred and decapitated, just that point, but Charles wasn’t about to let Celts Collected Severed Heads, this, they said “Cool!” and tried to buy as to make sure. The bodies of state were then that stop him. The king had Cromwell’s Used them for Interior Decorating many shrunken heads as they could. Unlike dumped into a mass grave. How rude. body hung in public and afterwards put his the Celts, the tribespeople had a good head However, one head may have escaped: head on a pole. The ancient Celts were a tough bunch. A for business and began killing as many that of Henry IV, known as “Good King Years later, the pole broke in a storm and loose collection of tribes living in modern- people as they could to sell their heads. By Henry.” In 1919, a head said to be his was dashed onto the ground. A guard found day Britain and Northern Europe, they were the 1930s, the Peruvian and Ecuadorian turned up, and a random guy bought it for it and took it home, hiding it in his chimney nearly always at war and were proud of governments made it illegal because, come just three francs (presumably, the salesman for some reason. The head got passed their battle prowess. To show off how good on. The killing raids didn’t entirely stop, was not a Celt). It was sold a few more around for a bit; at first it was in a museum, they were at being warriors, they liked to but many people started making them out times, and turned up again in 2008 in the which makes some sense, but it ended up collect the severed heads of their enemies of things like monkey heads or goatskin attic of a retired tax collector. I suppose all in the hands of a sketchy actor who liked to and keep them in temples, or just at home. instead, and nowadays most shrunken heads government workers have a few skeletons pass it around at drunken parties, and it got Particularly impressive heads, such as those you see will be fake. What a shame. in their closets, but most are not quite so damaged. He didn’t want to sell it, though, of famous enemies, might be preserved literal. as he thought Cromwell was his ancestor in cedar oil and taken out to show off to Suspicious Package Facial reconstruction and distinctive (or maybe the man was going back to his guests. The Roman writer Diodorus Siculus features suggest it was Henry IV, but experts Celtic roots?) but eventually it was seized recorded that Celtic warriors would boast Before you start saying “Ha! Our disagree. For one thing, the brain was not by a creditor and sold again (seriously, who about turning down offers of the head’s civilization is so far ahead of theirs!”, keep removed, which the royal embalmers should are all these people buying heads?). In 1960 weight in gold. It is not clear why there in mind that there is still a thriving trade in have done, and furthermore the DNA did everybody finally said “What the hell are we was a market in heads, or how it would be severed heads. These, of course, are medical not match Henry’s living descendants. doing?” and buried it. The head was laid to affected by inflation. Would it result in the specimens, and it happens frequently that Still, there are a lot of royal bastards, so the rest in a secret place to prevent anybody else warrior getting a swollen head? a box of severed heads is found in some mystery is not solved by any means. Since from messing with it. Now that’s what I call airport or shipping depot, scaring the the French are still arguing about this one, thinking ahead. Shrunken Heads, and they may be employees and causing the media to go Counterfeit off its head. Whichever medical institution is responsible promptly pulls out their Shrunken heads are not just a myth – paperwork and goes “Nothing to see here!” they are made by Jivaroan tribes in Peru The shipping companies then give them the “O Canada” Lyrics to be Changed

seen online is that this is an attack on Ca- CAMERON SOLTYS nadian values. Some suggest that this is 3N MECHANICAL the government going into uber-political- ly-correct mode, bowing down to special interest groups to change something that everyone else is happy with. My response I first heard about the bill to remove to this is to question if you’ll be any less gender bias from our national anthem, happy with the new lyrics. The current lyr- C-210, less than a week ago on a politi- ics are pretty arbitrary. There isn’t some cal podcast that I had just started listening group of people known as “the Sons” who to. I listened with passing interest as the fought in 1812, and singlehandedly turned journalist in my ear explained that there back an American advance that would was a bill to change “True patriot love in have otherwise have wiped British North all thy sons command” to “True patriot America off the map forever. There is the love in all of us command” making the fact that most soldiers in Canadian history rounds. The change, it was explained, was have been men, but surely in our nation of to remove a perceived slight; the current innovation and technology it is not only lyrics seem to suggest that Canada only our military feats O Canada should cele- commands love from its menfolk, or per- brate. There is also the fact that the origi- haps that it only needs to command love nal original O Canada used the gender- from the men. neutral line “True patriot love, thou dost The more I think about this change, in us command”. It was changed in 1914, the more I like it. This change may seem which may or may not have been an en- minor and inconsequential, and that’s be- couragement to the hundreds of thousands cause it is. This is not some radical law to of Canadian men who were going off to remove gender inequality, championing in what would become one of the bloodiest an era of true equality. It is part of an ev- conflicts ever. er-necessary effort to update government As of Thursday, June 17, Bill C-210 policies and official documents to reflect has been passed by the lower house. Giv- modern trends. It is a way to acknowledge en that the summer break is coming up that the 20th century and before were full quickly, it is not certain that the bill will of discrimination against women, and that pass the Senate before Canada Day. Sup- there are still many holdouts in the way port for this bill is high in the Senate, and we speak, act and sing that really ought to so it is expected to pass eventually. I will be rectified. be cheerfully singing the new lyrics when One criticism of this bill that I have it does. THE IRON WARRIOR 15 Distractions WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016 The Iron Crossword Sudoku A Post-Modern Interpretation of the Canadian Flag #2016-08 CAMERON SOLTYS BRYAN MAILLOUX 3N MECHANICAL 2B MECHATRONICS

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