Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 18, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba B2 Magazine March 2001 caterpillars Are Creepy and not harmful 6 0 or not to Spray that i is the question whether tis Al nobler in real life to suffer the mess of outrageous numbers of or to take up Aerial Spray ing against this sea of and by opposing end their its with apolo Gies to Shakespeare and some trepidation that i Wade into the debate Over Forest tent Cater pillars As a White Shell i endured the great Etc out break of my family was undeterred by the caterpillars that blanketed the Park from May until late they were gone by Only the cocoons were and the Forest had released completely by so it want like the whole summer was i cant say that i enjoyed but neither was i disgusted or a lot of people deprived themselves of being at their cottages or campsites for much of the Early i have Little sympathy for them and their i supported Manitoba conservations decision to let the outbreak run its course the More this Issue was the More interested i became in the facts behind the heres some of what i found ftps Are the larvae of the Etc a native widespread in North their populations Cycle Over a 1520 year occasionally exploding to defoliate Large areas of the cause int Well but it May be a relationship that simply gets out of their chief predator is the flesh whose larvae eat the whatever sets them in two or three years ftps can multiply to astronomical up to 10 million caterpillars per but the flesh Fly is not far its numbers ballooning along with its main in a year or two the flesh Fly and other parasites and diseases overtake the ftps and Send their numbers crashing Back is there damage to the Forest ecosystem not in the Long aspens and other deciduous Trees can be weakened by several years of but unless factors such As drought or other pests there is Little threat to the the temporary hardship imposed on the deciduous Trees actually Bene fits Young conifers and Forest wildflowers that receive extra sunlight and fertilizer Etc no North american jurisdiction employs Pesti cide programs against Forest tent caterpillars for for est Protection Pur that not to that a control program would not be the biological by Bacillus a bacterium is used to control other Defolia Ting studies have shown that this Short lived agent is effective and relatively environmentally with Little effect on Overall insect a a spraying program int such a bad biologically nor is letting the Etc out break run its i dont see this As a biological enter the humans and their aesthetic and economic the outbreak had an undeniable effect on Park i enjoyed the increased peace and quiet in May and but local businesses Felt the and we were All left with a fair bit of work to clean up and rid our bicycles and boats of the innumerable cocoons left what would be the Cost of a control program Aerial by spraying costs about the White Shell District association contends it would be feasible to Spray cottage subdivisions and a Buffer area for less than to their they suggest that individual cottagers pay for the pro Gram with a service that leaves Manitoba conservation to pick up the Tab for the rest of the High use areas of the of if the province agrees to they set a and not just for the this could end up being a moot debate it May already be too late to develop a program to Spray this with or without the problem will go away by itself in a year or i think there Are More pressing things for our government to be concerned but if you feel strongly about this one Way or the then let them know what you that your Doug Coll Cut is a Winnipeg his web nature is no North american jurisdiction employs pesticide programs against Forest tent caterpillars for Forest protection9 purposes All All the time millions head to sultry site to get their news with a View Brown Toronto the nightly news has and Anchor Victoria Sinclair is her tone is serious and As she reads the latest breaking the camera pans enemy claims of Mili tary hits and govern Mielit without her skirt president Bush has taken a hard Shet zips her Kelt face seems unaware of what her hands Are wit the seriousness of she broadcast school the president or Paraguay May be Dri ving a her hands reach behind her head and Urpin her it Falls Over her shoulders ethnic albanians target ing Down comes one Bra then the a space station she slowly slides out of her under until she is completely Welcome to the network Worth Sinclair has become an internet spreading like a virus nakedness is news done in the says spokeswoman Kathy As if Shes describing the manufacture of Buck no need to sensationalize the head lines when newsreaders Are standing before you Buck forecasting the talking about Stock mar Ket there is Diane weather dressed or rather undressed in Only stockings and standing at a weather reporting that its 18 below Zero in she it might not be As cold if she put on a then theres Holly sports wearing Only a microphone while recapping game As you watch for the first the mind has trouble it hears the news As the is usually but the sound Doest Register with what the Eye is the Eye never really gets Over what it Learned i the girls Dicker room in Junior High that it stays at Chin level and no matter at first i Felt a Little uncomfortable because i am not in the habit of watching naked but i am there for business says and somewhere in the process of i forgot i was looking at a naked person and i started to listen to what was being it made me laugh it got it was a Good news is this what news has become entertainment because otherwise were bored our minds dulled by the massive amounts of information heaped on us Day after Day then a show like nakedness comes launched a year the show has grown from View ers a month to Many of them women an impeccable exam Morgan Dennis the Washington Post Anchor Victoria Sinclair gives her Down report above on nakedness at anchors Holly Weston Sinclair news and Diane Foster their show now has million viewers a pie of viral Pinckert originally designed to target Young adult this group began telling their friends by email and word of Mouth about the nakedness draws an audience that includes men and women ranging in Ages from 18 to 99 and from All walks of the site is free the Only requirement is that users leave behind email addresses so the site can track demo users can pay per month to become members and see full screen images and a free show officials say it makes a profit from ads and so Many women have expressed Pinckert that auditions were recently held for nude male nakedness applies to More than just says producer Elliott shul we knew we had to have More than just you can get nudity the Content of the show had to have Shulman the show plays on the inner Freak in news says Mark King philosophy professor and Cul Tural critic at the University of nakedness acts out one of we knew we had to have More than just you can get nudity anywhere those absurdist impulses we All have where we imagine Dan or Peter Jennings not wearing we do this is something that can happen Only in a parallel universe like the says where the like watching the evening is somehow mixed with what we think of in it rides As a kind of undercurrent of mockery and sarcasm to the main Stream the idea for nakedness came in summer 1998 when two web x Developer Fernando Pereira arid web artist Kirby Stasy both were watching the news together one night what if the news were read naked one they called who was a production manager forthe Canadian Media company Astral to come up with a demo Shulman looked no further than his significant Victoria to become the i figured if i didst ask the woman i i would be he who describes herself As a celebrant of had spent 10 years working in marketing Corban Dennis the Washington Post nakedness producer Elliott ing for the right the Job that would she auditioned in May immediately they could see she had a Talent for Reading the news while undressing Shes not tossing salad it is deliberately i cant have tragedy and May hem All when in talking about the tragic school in not whipping things she explains with no hint of it is a simple melting Shulman introduces the new read none of whom has a journalism background and in Black suits and pumps now six months in she rubs her which has become part of the show because the producers have agreed that preg Nancy is we report the says a former weve just decided to do it Shulman says female viewers Are attracted because the newsreaders Are real women with real bodies no explosive Mango the show promotes fit and healthy bodies without adhering to Holly Wood says we Are not 20 to we Are in our thir not the Model but we feel the Washington Post Burnt Bridges Hurt pal listers ambition Ottawa As Cabinet Back benches and other political Hanger son Chow Down in the parliamentary dining there is one my who stands out without even at six eight inches in the honourable member for Portage Lis the tallest freestanding Structure on the Hill after the peace is hard to but its not just height that distinguishes Brian its unlikely anyone on parliament Hill can curl As Well As the newcomer to the Canadian no other my has been nominated to the Manitoba softball Hall of and if a piano was part of the entertainment mix at question even the prime minis Ter would be singing pal listers its not his sport ing prowess or musical inclinations which have tongues wagging its his which Many believe exceeds even his considerable already the name Pallister is being bandied about As one which might land on some future leadership maybe it will be a run somewhere Down the Road for the top Alliance perhaps it will be to head some new conservative creation to try and topple the either the 46yearold insurance Salesman has quickly become someone to watch in this 37th parliamentary Only two months into the Pallis Ter launched a Cross country roadshow to meet and listen to provincial Politi the official reason for his exer Cise is to take Stock of regional gripes and but its also a prime Opportunity for someone who thinks he May have the Royal Jelly to get some exposure and make a Good impression on those from coast to coast he might later need in a leadership kiss and make up last it was the relaunch of pal listers common ground strategy to help unite the another smart bit of positioning and exposure As tories and Alliance members consider kiss ing and making but As Pallister digs into his club House and he insists issues of leadership Are not what is driving he pledges allegiance to Day and then begins a Spiel about How his his Mission and his passion is to be a peacemaker for the country divided he uses words like build ing Bridges and tearing Down he talks about reconciliation and he envisions a convention next february in Winnipeg where a tent big enough for the tories and Alliance can be and he bristles at suggestions that he is some How Angling for a leadership say ing such talk hampers and hinders the chances of his a number of common ground ribs once but when believed what asked whether he said and he still has the desire to some Are hot about to Day be prime make the same pal Mojo take Anain Lister Doest again directly answer the saying instead hell die a Happy Man if the inscription on his Tombstone reads that he helped reunite the country its a Good and Pallister might actually mean what he a number of tories once believed what he said and Are not about to make the same mistake a Short three years Pallister was a Man who wanted to Lead the fed eral he entered the race As a dark horse caused some excitement but ultimately fell far Short in a race easily won by Joe Pallister pledged Allegan to Clark and then got the Job of co chairing the tory Effort at uniting the Pallis Ter crisscrossed the talked to the party grass roots and helped write a report which ultimately rejected the idea of jointly nominated Candi but even after the party voted Down the idea Central to the common ground Pallister pushed ultimately going Down a path which led to an acrimonious split with the party he once wanted to Lead and a jump to the Alliance last to put an exclamation Point on his Lister even wrote a letter to Clark about postelection i write it off As the false bravado that comes with the euphoria of your individual Success in capturing your like it will tories who gave up part of their summer in 1998 to help elect Pallister have never forgiven him for the sense of Treyve also come to con clude that he is driven by a sense of destiny to one Day become prime min Pallister will need that drive if he really does want to one Day go for the country top but the memory of what he once did As a tory and the Bridges he burned with former col leagues May not Only Hurt his Leader ship but also cause him some difficulty As he tries to find common Paul Samyn is the free press National his email address is ;