éuies Press April 1996 Grizzian try their hand at ‘Magic’ Shaq Attaqs Big Country by Eileen Rose Books, comtiumued more Out of Control On Friday, March 15, the Orlando Magic played the Vancouver Grizzlies in a basketball lovers dream game. Back and forth the score went, one was never too sure who would win. The sellout crowd was excited the see Shaquille O’ Neal up against our own Big Country. Shaq did not disappoint with his 23 points and 14 rebounds at game end, and Reeves held his own with 14 points and a season-high, 18 rebounds! Hardaway ruled the Magic’s score card with 29 points. The third quarter ended to cries of joy from the crowd as Reeves scored before the buzzer to make the score 65- 64 for the Grizzlies. By the time there was 53 seconds left in the fourth quarter the score was tied at 83. The crowds’ cheers were deafening as the Grizzlies called a time-out. Orlando’s attempts at scoring in the last 30 seconds proved fruitless. We are talking overtime folks!! The game’s five minute OT ended in favour of the Magic. The Grizzly fans didn’t care who won ‘cause our guys played an awesome game and it ended to thunderous applause. Gotta love those Grizzlies C and C is linked to A again. What Changing how people think. That is causes it? You can’t unravel how things ifficult, and very rare for people to have are caused. Everything is interdependent @ newly imagined space in a book. * and ecological and messy and tangled. Like all futurists, Kelly’s is an easy Truth is decapitalized. It is very relative lot. People tend to remember successes and Post-Modern, and that’s where we 2nd ignore failures, and already Kelly is are heading.”! scoring big. His focus on short term Out of Control isn’t a critical work. Predictions, perhaps even technological That isn’t Kelly’s point in writing it, “eventualities” inflate his success rate. Rather, he is popularising new ideas in Sometimes, however, Kelly is given to scientific thought. He admits that not flights of fancy, of long term predictions. everything he says will hold up in a Onthese his success rate is yet unproven, critical framework. Kelly himself is but one can assume that society will willing to question what he himself has embrace some of the changes that he said, and call for more research. Perhaps foresees and ignore the rest. Predicting he is providing cannon fodder for more the future has always been like that. critical thinking. He is giving us things Ironically, a large section of his book to chew on and digest, to see if they stand deals with the science of predicting the up. He takes ideas, draws them together, future, and how powerful computers and synthesises them and comes up with a hot-shot computer programmers are few more ideas and a few more_ trying to figure out ways to predict the questions. Kelly describes his approach stock market. The stock market, just like to writing his book in this manner: yiology, just like machinery is a “I was very concerned abut “vivisystem” ~a complex, interconnected scientifically accurate,tind not being off system-and therefore “unpredictable. Or the deep end in terms of speculation, agd 18 it®.On the »cutting edge of I was being daring in terms. of, mathematics, somewhere in that fuzzy, speculation. But it turns out that reality scary area known as the. chaos theory, has caught up so fast: I thought tise § some people are finding tha itis possible were pretty wild ideas, biit now they are 0 “predict short.”’Patterns emerge in the becoming mainstream, very very very: ace from which the fu bc eterttined. The.tric] “to find them. Shaq denying Bryant Ree (Byrun Allen?) (Below). weak Stuff” (Above), but misses the sure on Jim Irving Photos nycto him. By. using the’ tactics that he thatis. what makess Seat béok, describes, Kelly has done an admirable t I look for in beoks...is an job of glancing into the murky, recursive e future and gleaned something useful “front it. bany Trent Ernst i Excepted from interview will uthor e : 2 Excepted fro an interview with the author, Paul Kanes S Great Nor- West Diane Eaton and Sheila Urbanek » UBC Press Certain parallels can be drawn between Paul Kane and the average cartoon character. He is chased by a gored buffalo, sleeps half covered by water in a swamp, wanders through enemy territory with only two companions, wades through a half frozen river twenty five times before breakfast, gets lost in a desert, gets lost in a blizzard, has five hundred weapon brandishing Paul Kane's Great Nor-West includes people rush at him, and doesn’tever lose approximately 50 of Kane’s paintings his oil paints. and sketches. The paintings are It becomes increasingly apparent in beautiful, despite the fact that what this book that Canada was founded by _ they’re depicting sometimes looks a bit crazy people. This perhaps explains alot like Europe. The field sketches are more of things about this country. fresh and realistic, and a lot more From 1845 to 1848 Paul Kane interesting. traveled across North America from The accompanying text charts Kane’s Toronto to Victoria and back again, voyage across the continent. The writing sketching as he went. On his arrival is packed full of incidents, is informative home, he made 100 oil paintings without being heavy, but it tends to lack chronicling his experiences. These insight. Most of the text is based on a paintings are not what one would expect. book Kane wrote about his travels, There is none of the wildness of araw, which was a romanticized, formalized untamed land in them. Instead they are. version of his more interesting field formalized and romanticized. Kane’s notes. purpose seems to have been to Although Kane’s paintings can be systematically impose order onachaotic — slightly unrealistic, they are still a rich wilderness. This mentality is hard for source of information on a vanished way many modern Canadians to understand, of life. And they’d look great on your as we scramble to save the remnants of coffee table. our wild places. by Corene McKay