She Thinks SheScarlett Can Dance She’s Right How My Life Got BLOGGED MuchMusic VJ Liz Trinnear: She’s a Winner Contents VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1 December 2009 How My Life Got Blogged The Internet impacted her career 3 Scarlett Editorial & Production Team Members Cinthia MacLean Carry Your Ride Rebecca Mader Portable, lightweight wheels to go 4 Caroline Marini Lori A. May Wine 101 Corrine Morris An introduction to making grape choices 5 Amanda Shaw Brooke Shekter Bent Out of Shape? Victoria Siemon Simple workout strategies 6 Daisy Sun Jessica Uniac 8 Ways to Break the Ice 7 Instructor: Patrick M. Kennedy It’s easy to meet new people Scarlett is a project of Writing 2294- Publishing which is one of many Smart Snacks courses offered in the Writing, Rhetoric, for Savvy Women 7 and Professional Communication Program (http://www.uwo.ca/writing) in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at The She’s a Winner University of Western Ontario. Liz Trinnear achieves her “. ultimate goal” 8 Students worked in teams to develop a Reader Profi le, Mission Statement, Be Your Own Boss Editorial Formula, and Editorial Content It’s a career option many students choose 9 and Assignments; they wrote articles, took photographs, designed title and cover, edited each other’s work, and Party Your Way Around the World 10 directed design and layout decisions “Where’s the best place to party?” within the context of a team. Each student prepared a version of the above listed elements of a contemporary The Write Career magazine, and team members evaluated One-On-One with Poet Penn Kemp 12 each other’s submissions, and either chose one as the best proposal or merged 7 Easy Tricks their ideas to create a team proposal. to Balance Your Budget 13 Each team offered its concepts and ideas to the class where they were discussed BBM ME! and debated until one proposal was A handheld that connects you to the world instantly 14 universally adopted. Special Thanks to: Workout Buddies The Reader’s Digest Foundation of Jessica and Tiffany burn calories together 15 Canada for the professional input of their Production Editor Michele Beacom Cant who visited the class and provided students with valuable feedback on their She Can Dance publication and insightful career advice; Melanie Mah learns something about herself after taking the SYTYCDC challenge 16 To Marie Smibert whose generosity to the Writing Program has made this Harmless Fun? publication possible; Things you can do to protect yourself 18 To Denise Ward Production Manager Love London at The Aymer Express for being a Eating, shopping, and entertainment values 19 valuable technical resource for the course instructor. I CHOO Printed in Canada “Jimmy Choo” means shoes 20 at The Aylmer Express (Printing Division) 2 Scarlett DECEMBER 2009 How My Life Got Blogged Recent Law Grad Uses the Internet to Create the Career She Wants by Caroline Marini So what courses helped this Blogging offers the opportunity budding lawyer bring her so much for people to tell the world what’s success at such a young age? Zizzo on their minds, talk about current took an interdisciplinary degree events, or circulate information in Environmental Studies from about one’s business, no matter how the University of Waterloo. The uniquely focused. This new web- degree emphasised being able to based craze has allowed one young converse across various disciplines recent graduate to open her own law thereby helping her expand her fi rm, get national exposure to clients, knowledge: “I’d say the courses on and be featured in the business economics, environmental studies, section of the Globe and Mail. and the specifi c courses on climate change best prepared me for this So here she is . meet Laura Laura Zizzo, LLB new venture.” With an undergrad Zizzo. Twenty-seven years old in Environmental Sciences, Zizzo and already she has a degree in “It’s absolutely essential to have continued to study environmental Environmental Studies from the a web presence,”says Zizzo. “The law and specialized in it after University of Waterloo and a fi rst thing I did when I decided graduating from the University of law degree from the University to start my own fi rm was get a Toronto Law School. of Toronto. Since graduation she temporary website up and running. has worked in environmental law The Internet (my blog, Twitter and “I started with no clients; I made at the Toronto law fi rm Gowling Facebook) has been essential. I am a leap to a job where I wasn’t sure Lafl eur Henderson LLP. This past constantly online, and clients are I’d be able to make any money or July Zizzo opened her own practice fi nding me from the web presence that anyone would want to hire me specializing in environmental and alone. I couldn’t do what I’ve been or think I was experienced enough climate-change law. The twist is that doing without the internet!” to do good work. I just took a deep in addition to legal advice, Zizzo is breath and dug in. I do that every providing climate-change consulting The Internet connects Zizzo day.” and advisory services. to people around the world. “I’m like any other 20-something driven With Zizzo’s accomplishments, When asked why she started her women out there; the only difference ideas, and new fi ndings about own law fi rm, Zizzo energetically is that my accomplishments environmental issues blogged responded, “I enjoy leadership are being explored through the immediately online, potential clients and wanted to be in a position to Internet!” see that she is working hard at what practice differently than traditional she believes in. lawyers do. I thought I would be Zizzo was contacted by the able to focus on the subject and style Globe and Mail for creating buzz Zizzo is an infl uential young I wanted to practice in if I started about her independent business woman who has set goals for her my own fi rm, instead of staying in a choices. “An editor at the Globe self, and with an organized agenda, larger fi rm.” contacted me after she checked she keeps her life and her new law out my website and blog — it was fi rm on track. Zizzo not only started her own her idea to do the story. I think it helped build my confi dence and my law fi rm this summer, but she’s been For many young women profi le.” dominating the Internet through intimidated by the thought of the use of her personalized blog, a taking an unconventional career website for her law fi rm, and being With a goal in mind and path, Zizzo exemplifi es what can be followed on Twitter, an up-to-the- an education background that accomplished when a career choice minute blogging site that allows would lead her to success, Zizzo is in harmony with one’s beliefs. people to post and follow newly is constantly networking about discussed issues. environmental issues. Scarlett DECEMBER 2009 3 Carry Your Ride Portable, Lightweight, Take your ride where ever you go. by Victoria Siemon Folding clothes, folding paper, folding towels, folding chairs, and folding bicycles. Wait, folding bicycles? Is there even such a thing? Why, yes there is! The folding The Bergmonch Bike: 9.5 kg bicycle is a bike that folds in half so it is more compact, effi cient, is great for mountain bike trails economical, healthy, ecological, easy because uphill it’s a backpack to transport and store. There are and downhill it’s a speedy bike many different forms of the folding adventure. The frame is made of bicycle including Dahon’s folding strong, lightweight aluminum. bicycle, Bergmonch’s backpack The whole idea is like summer bicycle and Bazooka’s collapsible tobogganing where you climb uphill bike. These bicycles are a recent and enjoy the swift ride downhill. innovation. They are great for urban Special features include an aerated lifestyles where size matters and back plate, shoulder belts, hip belt smaller is often better. and height adjustable chest strap. When life throws uphill trails at you, Cycling is an excellent B. They are the worldwide leader in respond with some hiking boots and alternative to driving a car or taking folding bicycles with sales of almost the backpack bicycle because if there public transit because it’s emission two million. Their headquarters is is an uphill, there is also a downhill. free. However, because of their in Los Angeles, California, however, size and awkward shape, bicycles they sell bicycles in over 30 Bazooka “Ride With Style” was often have to be locked up outside: countries. The majority of Dahon’s established in Vancouver, British a major inconvenience, especially employees ride bicycles to work. Columbia in 2002. The company for those who work in offi ce believes that biking should be a buildings or live in apartments. Dahon bikes are predominantly part of everyday life. An individual The new folding bike design is not sold through independent bike can save money and our planet by only convenient, but it is a great shops and the Internet. There are biking to school, work, or wherever way to minimizing impact on the different categories of bikes that the destination is. Foldable bikes are environment. Folding bikes can be include city, commuter, electric, convenient because there’s no need taken anywhere. mountain, road, touring, sport, and to worry about bike racks, parking, urban utility. These are all foldable or space. Bazooka sells carry bags Dahon, Bergmonch and Bazooka bikes.