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Ottawa police will release a copy ofa cellblock video that shows policetreatment of a woman who claimsshe was stripped and beaten, eventhough the original video was lostin the court system, acting ChiefGilles Larochelle said in statementreleased just before 5 p.m. yesterday.

Roxanne Carr was arrested onAug. 23, 2008, but the Crown with-drew charges against her after view-ing the video, said her defenselawyer Mark Ertel. He said he is “sur-prised” police took so long to agreeto the release.

“The judge made an order releas-ing it last week, and then the lawyerfor the police offered the court acouple of what I would describe asoutrageous reasons why the DVDshould not be released,” said Ertel.

“The public can decide after theysee the video tape whether whatthe acting chief is saying is accurate— that police behaved appropri-ately — or not. And they’ll also beable to assess why the police wouldhave gone to such great lengths totry and prevent the public from see-ing this DVD.”

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Models spread the word on charity driveMoores Clothing for Men sent scantily clad male models out onto the streets of major cities acrossCanada yesterday to help raise awareness of their clothing drive. The clothing company is collectingused suits and other items of men’s, women’s and children’s clothing and donating them tocharities that will pass along the garments to people trying to get back into the workforce and toothers in need. Moores is giving customers who donate clothes 50 per cent off on a new suit.

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“Cellblock officershandled the custody ofRoxanne Carr with theutmost professionalism,especially when facedwith a crisis in the cell.” ACTING OTTAWA POLICE CHIEF GILLESLAROCHELLE IN A WRITTEN STATEMENT

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About 50 angry Heron Gatetenants and members of Ot-tawa ACORN rallied outsidetheir homes yesterday tosay they are fed up withgarbage not being pickedup, mould growing on theirwalls and rats running wild.

But it was unclear whataction might be taken orwhat the property managerintends to do about it.

TransGlobe PropertyManagement Services,

which owns the Heron Gaterental complex, took overdirect control of managingthe property just fourweeks ago, after contract-ing it out for years, aspokesman said.

“I don’t know what hap-pened over the last severalmonths or years in thatbuilding and the work ofthe last management firmthat was in there,”spokesman Danny Rothsaid.

Although he would notspeak to Metro about spe-cific complaints, he said the

company wants to addressthe problems and will lis-ten to tenants.

TransGlobe bought theHeron Gate rental commu-nity in 2007. In 2010, CBCreported that three build-ings in the complex toppedthe city’s 2009 complaintlist.

Tenants said they are stillfacing problems withgarbage pickup and waterleakages that haven’t beenaddressed since the shift inmanagement.

“Everywhere you lookthere’s rotting wood. All

the windowsills are fallingapart,” said Jennifer Macwa-ters, a Sandalwood Driveresident.

A city health inspectorcame to her home in Apriland noted mould growingon her basement walls andwater that had leaked on-to the floor. The innards ofthe walls are still exposedand the pieces of mouldywall are sitting in herbasement.

“That’s a third of ourhouse that’s unusable,” shesaid.

Roth counters that ten-

ants also have a responsibil-ity to look after their neigh-bourhood.

“It’s incumbent on theresidents to take theirgarbage and put it in thebin. If it’s left on the groundand left to rot, or if it ripsopen because a car drivesby it, there’s an element ofcatch-up here that becomesvery difficult.

“At the end of the day,”Roth said, “I think there’sa shared responsibilityfrom residents to help usimprove the quality of lifein that community.”

Jennifer Macwaters points to the wall that was ripped up by her landlord after mould was found growing at the base of the walls in April.

JOE LOFARO/METRO

Tenants complain of unhygienic living conditions in Heron Gate apartments Building management says tenants have a role to play in improving quality of life, too

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The head of the unionlocal representing OCTranspo workers says hehopes “cooler heads willprevail” so Ottawa canavoid another transitstrike when contract nego-tiations begin again.

“Hopefully with a newmayor and a new TransitCommission with DianeDeans at the head of it,they’ll have a better reinon the negotiating team,”said ATU local 279 presi-dent Garry Queale yester-day.

Queale said the 2011round of negotiations willlikely begin in about a

month, now that an arbi-tration board has settledthe last remaining disputefrom the 2008 negotia-tions in a report releasedthis week.

Asked what the unionwill be seeking in thisround, Queale said: “Idon’t want to discusseverything yet before ne-gotiations but there’s ma-jor issues that will bediscussed and we’ll hope

to come out with a resolu-tion to some of these atleast.”

He said the board's rul-ing on drivers’ schedulingwill be a starting point forthe next round of negotia-tions. The board ruled driv-ers’ workdays must end nolater than 12 hours afterthey begin — or less if theystarted early in the morn-ing — and they must bepaid for at least 7.5 hours.

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Force of nature topples power lineThe fallen limb brought down a power line and closed the street between Kenil-worth and Hutchinson streets for just over an hour. No one was injured in the in-cident.

Heavy. Wood

City of Ottawa tree workers clear a downed limb

from a Manitoba maple on Parkdale Avenue.

Transit talks getrolling again

City and union both put positive spin on arbitrationboard’s ruling Say they are ready to negotiate

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“I’m pleased that this final decision putsthe dispute behind us and concludes along and difficult round of negotiations.The City is determined to work with theATU to address the concerns of theunion and its membership.”MAYOR JIM WATSON IN A WEEKEND PRESS RELEASE ON THE ARBITRATIONBOARD REPORT.

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Police hope to stem an up-swing in auto breaks-ins byasking drivers to tellthieves there’s nothing tosteal in their vehicles.

Officers are handing out5,000 bright yellow cardsthat read “All valuables re-moved.” Drivers are beingasked to put the cards ontheir dashboards.

“Obviously, this won’tdeter a thief from breakinginto your car if he looks in-to your car and sees allkinds of valuables,” Sgt. De-nis Hull said. “But if he seesit, looks inside your car andsees nothing in it, it’s doneits job.”

Asked if thieves won’tjust move on to the next car

when they see the sign,Hull said, “If everybodydoes this, he’s not going togo to any other car. If every-body removes their valu-ables from their vehicles, itwill reduce thefts from ve-hicles across the city.”

The card also serves as areminder to others to taketheir valuables, he said.

There were 141 theftsfrom the ByWard Marketand Vanier this June, com-pared to 121 in June of lastyear, Hull said. In the down-town Golden Triangle therewere 41 thefts last June and80 this June.

“Statistics are showingthat thefts from vehiclesare occurring in under-ground parking, above-ground parking, anywherethere’s massive amounts ofvehicles,” Hull said.

Will yellow card ward off thieves?Auto break-ins have doubled in

some areas over the past year Card seeks to deter theft

Sgt. Dennis Hull introduces a new police initiative aimed at deterring auto break-ins in the ByWard Market yesterday.

Drivers are being asked to place bright yellow cards reading “All valuables removed” on their dashboards. The idea is that

thieves will look in the vehicle, see the card and move on.

JESSICA SMITH/METRO

Whiz kids seekgold medalNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.Three Canadians are vy-ing for the gold this weekin the finals of theNational GeographicWorld Championship inSan Francisco. AlexanderCohen, 15, of Ottawa,Alejandro Torres-Lopez,16, of North Vancouverand Aoife O’Leary, 15, ofSurrey, B.C., will be atGoogle headquarters tocompete in a question-and-answer format mod-erated by Alex Trebek.Canada’s team won thegold medal at the worldchampionship in 2009.

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Senators hostcharity tee-offDUFFING FOR DOLLARS. Ot-tawa Senators MattCarkner and JesseWinchester will host thisyear’s Direct Energy SensFore Kids Classic on Aug.9. Participants enjoy aday on the links followedby a reception, dinner,silent auctions and enter-

tainment. Money raisedgoes to Roger’s Houseand other charities.

JOE LOFARO

Museums want1940s items WARTIME WORK. The Cana-dian Museum of Civiliza-tion and the CanadianWar Museum are seekingartifacts related to indus-trial production in the1940s, such as uniformsmocks, hats, books, paystubs, lunch boxes andclothing. The items willbe added to the SecondWorld War Home Frontcollection, which isunder development.

JOE LOFARO

Fury playershead to finals PERFECT SEASON. Threemembers of the OttawaFury will join the All-League team as they faceSeattle in the W-Leaguechampionship semi-finals on Friday. MalloryOuterbridge, AmandaFancher and JessicaSchufelt were chosen af-ter helping to lead theFury to its first perfectregular season.

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A research team from Dal-housie University may notbe battling Blackbeard, butit is undertaking a similarquest: Preventing piracy.

Led by the marine-af-fairs program at the Hali-fax-based university, thework will explore issuessurrounding modern pira-cy to gain insight that mayhelp prevent future out-breaks of violence at sea,said Hugh Williamson,project manager and leadinvestigator for the Dal-housie marine and piracy

project.“What sets us apart is

we’re looking at the issuein a holistic manner ...which hasn’t been donebefore,” he said, adding hehas a legal, operations andsocio-economic team.

Williamson said piratesare dealt with on a region-

al basis — those who catchprivateers bring them totrial within the local juris-diction. He hopes the two-year project will offer amore efficient and effec-tive process.

“We (will) come up withwhat we call our consid-ered policy options and

then say, ‘Here’s the typesof things you can do toprevent and deal with pira-cy, but here’s the thingsyou’re going to have to doto make it work.’”

He said the universityserves as the perfect plat-form to investigate the is-sue.

“Almost everyone in-volved in the project hasbeen dealing with an as-pect of piracy,” he said.“We have a lot of differentsectors at Dalhousie and alot of different connec-tions around the world,and that makes us an idealhub to take a look at thisissue.”

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Interview

Hugh Williamson, project manager and lead investigator for Dalhousie University’s

marine and piracy project, looks over Halifax Harbour yesterday.

Piracy considered ‘a crime against all humanity’: ResearcherProject being funded by a two-year, $500,000 research grant from

the TK Foundation Findings and recommendations will be presentedto key policy stakeholders

History

Dating back to the 1970s,pirate attacks have beenabundant in the Gulf ofThailand, the Caribbean,the Straits of Malacca, offthe coast of Africa and inwaters leading up to the

Persian Gulf, said investiga-tor Hugh Williamson.From looting ships for mon-ey to taking crew membershostage to murdering yachtcrews so as to use boats asdrug-trafficking vessels, thedefinition of piracy is asvast as the ocean.

RESEARCHERSLOOK TO TURN TIDE

IN PIRACY FIGHT

RYAN TAPLIN/METRO

Quebecers are expressingsadness and shock at thenews that Jack Layton istaking a sick leave lessthan three months afterhis historic electoral tri-umph in the province.

Major newspapers,politicians of differentstripes and regular citizensoffered words of encour-agement yesterday to theNDP leader in his battleagainst cancer.

In the recent federalelection, Quebec votersnearly wiped the BlocQuébécois off the map —and were so keen to sup-port Layton’s party that, insome cases, they electedpeople who had nevereven seen their riding. Acommon refrain heard inQuebec after the electionwas, “I voted for Jack.”

But one central Quebecbusinessman said he stillhad no regrets yesterdayabout voting NDP. He saidthe party is bigger thanjust one man.

Jean-Guy Otis said peo-ple in his riding have al-ready been impressed bytheir new MP, Ruth EllenBrosseau — the one whomanaged an Ottawa pub

and spent part of the elec-tion campaign in Las Ve-gas.

Otis said it’s the NDP’sphilosophy that connectswith the people in hismostly rural riding — andhe insisted that while Lay-ton is very popular in thearea, the party transcendshim.

“I don’t believe that oneleader, that one person,can be the NDP,” said Otis,who co-owns a beauty sa-lon on the main strip inthe town of Louiseville.

“It’s an ensemble of in-dividuals and there arevery good individuals whoare part of it.”

Layton, whose partywon 59 of Quebec’s 75seats in the election, alsoreceived words of supportfrom Montreal newspa-pers.

The Montreal daily LaPresse paid homage to Lay-ton yesterday with a head-line that reads A LeaderClose to the People. Therewere also get-well wishesexpressed in a cartoon andan editorial, and the entireletters section was filledwith eight notes of encour-agement. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Quebecers rally behindstricken Layton

NDP Leader Jack Layton and his wife, Olivia Chow, leave

a news conference in Toronto on Monday. Layton has been

diagnosed with another form of cancer and is taking a

temporary leave of absence as leader of the federal NDP.

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One Bloc incumbent

defeated in the federal

election shared an

anecdote yesterday to il-

lustrate the role Jack Lay-

ton’s personal popularity

played in the NDP break-

through.

Marc Lemay said his elec-tion observers reportedthat, on May 2, at leastthree voters left votingcentres without casting aballot. They apparently re-fused to vote because theydidn’t see Layton’s namelisted among the local can-didates.

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Premier Dalton McGuintyis taking aim once again atOttawa, painting himselfas a strongman of Confed-eration and the only onewho will stand up to thefederal Conservatives.

This time, the Liberalpremier is slamming theTories for failing to throwtheir support behind anew risk managementprogram for Ontario farm-ers.

It’s not the first timeMcGuinty — who is facingan election this fall — hasraised the issue. But it’squickly becoming anothergripe in a long list of griev-ances that appears to bepitting the premieragainst his federal andprovincial counterparts.

Last week, McGuintygrumbled that Ontariowas being shortchangedwhen it comes to equaliza-tion and green energyprojects, raising a few eye-

brows during a summit ofprovincial and territorialleaders in Vancouver.

He’s also warned thatOntario needs a strongvoice now that Canada hasa majority Tory govern-ment dominated by theWest and an Oppositiondominated by Quebec.

“I think it’s OK for us as

Ontarians from time totime to assert ourselves,and to do so in an un-selfish way,” he said whilevisiting a hog farm nearStratford, Ont., yesterday.

“The fact of the matteris, if we grow stronger,that stands to the benefitof the country as a whole.”

As leader of the coun-try’s most populousprovince, McGuinty alsosuggested that he nowsees himself as thestrongest Liberal voice inthe country.

“Well, I represent 40per cent of the country,”he said. “I think that’s apretty significant influ-ence.”

There’s always been anexpectation that Ontario— as the biggest andstrongest province —would do the heavy liftingand stay silent, McGuintysaid. THE CANADIAN PRESS

McGuinty picksfight with Ottawa

Dalton McGuinty

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Premier slams feds for skimming Ontario initiativesTakes the lead in view of upcoming provincial elections

War crimesite a hit:MinisterFederal Public SafetyMinister Vic Toews says anew website with sus-pected war criminals inCanada might be ex-panded to cover domes-tic crimes committed byforeigners.

He made thecomment after thearrest of Manuel De LaTorre Herrera, a suspect-ed war criminal listed onthe website. The Canadi-an Border ServicesAgency says Herrera waspart of a brutalgovernment regime inPeru, and was denied arefugee claim severalyears ago. He wentunderground and wasonly found this week.THE CANADIAN PRESS

3Herrera is the thirdsuspected warcriminal caught sincelast week, when thefederal governmentlaunched a websitefeaturing 30 of themost wanted suspects.

ADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Conflicting tastes in artForeign service staff and art lovers are grumblingabout new Minister John Baird’s decorating tastesinside the lobby of their building. A pair of historicpaintings by Quebec modern master Alfred Pellanwere removed from their decades-old spot and re-placed by a portrait of the Queen late last month.

Art. Swap

A portrait of the Queenhangs at the entrance to the

Department of Foreign Affairsbuilding in Ottawa.

Driver in rampage faces 11 chargesA 44-year-old B.C. man isfacing criminal charges af-ter allegedly running downtwo women last night inNorth Vancouver. RCMP saya driver in a blue Mustangdrove his vehicle into awoman, who launched over

the hood of the car. He thenfled and backed into anoth-er woman, pinning heragainst a signpost. Policesaid both victims sufferednon-life threatening in-juries.

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Gasexplosionstrikes firefightersTwo Edmonton firefightershave been taken to hospitalwith small burns on theirfaces after a gas explosion.

A fire crew was called toa south-side home after awoman smelled gas.

Four firefighters wereshutting off a gas meter onthe side of the house whenan explosion blew open aside door.

All four were knocked tothe ground. Two were tak-en to a hospital as a precau-tion.THE CANADIAN PRESS


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Seven-month-old MihagGedi Farah is the frail faceof Somalia’s famine. Hestares out wide-eyed al-most in alarm, his skinpulled taut over his ribsand twig-like arms.

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Somalia’s faminevictims fight for life

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United Nations estimates 11 million people in EastAfrica affected by drought 3.7 million in Somaliaamong worst hit because of country’s ongoing civil war

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Bomb rocksUN convoy BEIRUT. A roadside bombblew up next to a UnitedNations convoy carryingFrench peacekeepers insouth Lebanon yesterday,wounding five. The bombwent off near Sidon.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Three surviveplane crashRABAT, Morocco. Seventy-eight people were killed— and three survived —when a C-130 militaryplane crashed into a Mo-roccan mountain in bad

weather yesterday. Thecrash happened near thedisputed Western Sahara.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Gander getsgrim memento ST. JOHN’S, N.L. A NewYork fire department isdonating a piece of theWorld Trade Center toGander, N.L., for its helpafter the 9-11 terrorist at-tacks. Gander was theclosest airport for 38 jet-liners forced to land onSept. 11, 2001.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Gadhafi facesa food crisisTRIPOLI, Libya. The area ofLibya controlled byMoammar Gadhafi iswracked by shortages offuel, food and cash, saysthe United Nations.Rebels hold eastern Libyaand pockets in the west.Gadhafi clings to the rest.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The father of one of theNorway massacre victimssaid his son’s last wordswere “Dad, someone isshooting.”

Gunnar Linaker’s fathersaid Gunnar was “a calm,big teddy bear with lots ofhumour and lots of love.”

His voice weak andtrembling, Roald Linakersaid he had been on thephone with his 23-year-oldson when the shootingstarted.

“He said to me: ‘Dad,dad, someone is shooting,’and then he hung up.”

That was the last heheard from his son. Gun-nar was wounded and wastaken to a nearby hospital,where he died Saturday.

His 17-year-old sister al-so was at the camp but sur-vived, Roald Linaker said.

Yesterday, the newspa-per Dagbladet posted thenames of victims.

Three of the victims didnot appear to be ethnic

Norwegians — examplesof the multi-ethnic Nor-way that gunman AndersBehring Breivik says he de-spised.

The Friday attacks be-gan with a bombing out-side the building that

houses the prime minis-ter’s office in Oslo. Eightwere killed.

Then, Breivik openedfire on an island retreat forthe youth wing of the Labor Party, leavingdozens dead and hundredsof terrified young peoplescrambling to escape,many trying to swim away.

Though Breivik hasbeen charged with acts ofterrorism, lawyer GeirLippestad said he could al-so be charged with crimesagainst humanity.

Although the stiffestsentence in Norway is 21years, the lawyer said hisclient would never be setfree.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Grieving dad recalls lastwords of his ‘teddy bear’

‘Someone is shooting,’ Norway massacre victim said in final phone callGunman regards himself as ‘some kind of saviour,’ his lawyer says

Is he insane?

Anders Behring Breivik,the 32-year-old who hasconfessed to the massacre,

is likely insane, says hislawyer.He is unaware of theimpact of the attacks andasked his defence counselhow many people he hadkilled, lawyer Geir Lippes-tad said yesterday.Lippestad said Breivik tookdrugs to “to be strong, tobe efficient, to keep himawake” during the 90-minute attack.

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‘Keystone Kops’face criticismWhen Anders BehringBreivik launched hisassault on campers onNorway’s Utoya Island, heexpected special forces toswoop and stop him fast.

But he was given timeto kill.

Officers of Oslo’s DeltaForce had to drive —because police don’t own atransport helicopter.

Then they were rescuedby a civilian boat whentheir own broke down asit tried to navigate a one-minute hop to the island.

It took police more than90 minutes to reach thegunman, who had mortal-ly wounded 68 people.

International expertssaid Norway’s governmentand security forces mustlearn stark lessons fromthe killings — made worseby lackadaisical planningfor terror.

Andrew Silke, directorof terrorism studies at theUniversity of East London,called the police response“a bit Keystone Kops.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The brutal assault has stunned peaceful, liberal Norway — but also brought its citizens together. Yesterday, a wall in Oslo was

decorated with flowers in memory of the massacre victims and on Monday thousands laid roses feet deep in streets.

EMILIO MORENATTI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

‘We’re human’

Police spokesperson Johan Fredriksen, above,

rebuffed journalists’ questions yesterday about the planning andequipment failures thatgave Breivik untold extraminutes to kill. Fredriksen called the criticisms “unworthy.”“We can take a lot, we’reprofessional, but we arealso human beings,”Fredriksen said.

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McDonald’s Corp. isadding apples to all itsHappy Meals and launch-ing a nutrition-focusedmobile-phone app as partof a broader health push.

The changes underscorehow the restaurant indus-try is reacting to the de-mands of customers andregulators who blame itfor health ills rangingfrom childhood obesity todiabetes.

Among other changesin McDonald’s new pro-gram:

• A pledge to reducesugars, saturated fats andcalories through “variedportion sizes, reformula-tions and innovations” by2020. By 2015, the fastfood chain will reducesodium by 15 per cent.

• McDonald’s will intro-duce a new mobile app fo-

cused just on nutrition in-formation.

• McDonald’s USA presi-dent Jan Fields and otherexecutives will go on a “lis-tening tour” in August tohear suggestions from par-ents and nutrition experts.The chain will also launcha new online forum forparents.

McDonald's says thenew directives are “ab-solutely not” related to im-pending regulations thatwill force the industry tocurb the marketing ofjunk food to children andpost nutrition informationon menus.

Rather, the changes area response to what cus-tomers were asking for,said Cindy Goody, McDon-ald’s senior director of nu-trition. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

McD’s getsappy andhealthy

A McDonald’s Cheeseburger Happy Meal with the new

appleslices option is shown yesterday in Pittsburgh.

U.S. Happy Meal customers can already choose apples instead offries But only about 11 per cent do

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Economicwoes angerIsraelisThousands of young pro-testers have set up sprawl-ing tent camps in Israelicities, forcing Prime Minis-ter Benjamin Netanyahuyesterday to introduce eco-nomic reforms to address a

swell of discontent overhigh housing costs andstave off the worst domes-tic crisis of his two years inpower.

Netanyahu’s reforms,meant to bring down steephousing prices, appearedunlikely to end the crisis,which already has forcedhim to cancel a high-pro-file visit to Poland and senthis approval ratings plum-meting. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Rogers said it was hit ona number of fronts in thecellphone market after re-porting its net incomeslipped to $410 million, or75 cents a share, downfrom $452 million or 77cents a share a year ago.

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The world’s largest retaileryesterday started stream-ing many movies the sameday they come out onDVD, in a second bid for ashare of popular movierental and streaming web-site Netflix Inc.’s businessand just two weeks afterNetflix announced newprice increases.

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Re: She Says column(Table for two, please...non-children) publishedJuly 26

I normally enjoy this arti-cle, but today I am a bitoffended. Systematicallybarring any group from arestaurant is textbookdiscrimination. But I ammore worried about theflippant attitudedisplayed when it comesto “happy meals” andthat “you have tosacrifice a little” to go toa restaurant withchildren. Not all childrenbehave badly. The biggerissue is a battlenationwide, in Canadaand the U.S., against obe-sity. To suggest that theseare reasonablealternatives isthoughtless. Think of thehealth of the kids — thisis not a laughing matter.Children become whatthey become by how theyare raised. Take your kidsto fast-food joints all thetime, and what do youget? Obese, lazy parentswho take their kids tofast-food joints. Morehealth problems, highertaxes to treat those prob-lems, then no one will beable to go to nice restau-rants because fast food,will be the onlyaffordable option. MICHAEL WEBERTORONTO

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Attack of thekangaroo endswith pepper spray A 94-year-old woman struck an attack-ing kangaroo with a broom and man-aged to crawl to safety in her house inthe Australian Outback before policesubdued it with pepper spray.

Phyllis Johnson said the kangarooattacked her while she was hangingher laundry in her yard Sunday in theQueensland state town of Charleville.

“I thought it was going to kill me,”Johnson told The Courier Mail from ahospital bed. “It just plowed through

the clothes on the washing linestraight for me.”

She said the kangaroo knocked herdown and kicked her prone body.Johnson said she managed to get toher feet and grab the broom to hit it.

“She fought it off herself with a bitof help from the family dog,” her son,Rob Johnson, said, adding the kanga-roo had “a bit of a go” at him when hecame home, then he called police.

Senior-Sgt. Stephen Perkins said thefirst officer to reach the backyard wasforced to spray the kangaroo to avoidbeing injured.

Wildlife rangers trapped the kanga-roo. It will be examined by a vet beforea decision is made about its future, agovernment official said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NOT EVERYDOG HAS ADAY LIKE THIS

Alexander McQueen had it all.The English fashion design-

er rose from the obligatoryhumble beginnings inLondon’s East End. He was theson of a taxi driver and a

school drop-out at 16.By the time he was 40, he was one of

the world’s leading fashion designers.Kate Middleton’s wedding dress, currentlythe target of pilgrimages to BuckinghamPalace where it’s on display, is the work ofan Alexander McQueen designer.

None of this was able to soothe the beast ofdepression, and last February, just days after his motherdied, Alexander McQueen hanged himself in what theEnglish call a wardrobe … a closet.

Now comes the task of dividing his 16-million-poundfortune and eyebrows are heightened on both sides of thepond with the news that 50 thousand pounds of it are go-ing to the dogs.

Three dogs, in fact: Juice,Minter and Callum, theworld’s luckiest English bullterriers.

Fifty thousand poundswill buy a lot of kibble andflea baths, not to mentionsqueaky toys.

Fifty thousand pounds isthe same amount he left hishousekeepers — one ofwhom discovered his body— his godson and each ofhis nieces and nephews.

To prove that blood is abit thicker than slobber, healso left 250 thousand toeach of his three sisters andtwo brothers.

But he wasn’t done withthe dogs — he left 100,000

pounds each to the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home andthe Blue Cross animal-welfare charity.

Every dog has his day, but it’s not every day the dogsinherit the treasure.

The CEO of the Blue Cross charity is “thrilled.” Hard totell what the dogs think, but tails are wagging all around.

We could put this down to Englishmen and their maddogs, but it’s hardly the dogs that are mad. Juice, Minterand Callum would be perfectly happy with three squares,shelter from the storm and a nice curb, but people like toanthropomorphize their pets, smother them in love andluxury and hope they get a nice greeting at the door in re-turn.

I suspect that whatever Juice, Minter and Callum couldhave given their master it would have been infinitely lesscomplicated and conditional than the web ofrelationships that defined his social circle. So I’m surethey’re full value for their 50K.

Still, if there’s anyone out there who feels compelledto follow Alexander McQueen’s lead, rest assured that for$77,000 Canadian I’ll take care of your pooches like theywuz kings. The line forms here.

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TRACING SCI-FI WESTERNS

When wethink of west-erns usuallyimages ofcowboy hats,stagecoaches

and John Wayne come tomind. I say usually becausewhile those may be themost common icons associ-ated with the genre they’renot the only ones.

This weekend, Cowboys& Aliens adds spaceships,extraterrestrials and laserguns to the existing formu-la. To research the movie’s

western half director JonFavreau watched classicmovies like Stagecoach andDestry Rides Again. Thenhe spent time with Alien,Predator, and Close En-counters of the Third Kind.

“If you do it right,” hesaid of the film, “it honoursboth, and it becomes inter-esting and clever and areinvention of two thingsthat people understand.”

So call it a spacetern orneo-western if you like, butit isn’t the first movie tomix and match sci fi withhorse opera.

Michael Crichton wroteand directed Westworld af-ter a trip to Disneyland.The Pirates of theCaribbean ride inspired

him to imagine an amuse-ment park where vacation-ers pay $1,000 a day tointeract with robots pro-grammed to replicate lifein different periods of his-tory. When a computermalfunction sends YulBrynner’s black hatted cy-borg gunslinger on an ani-matronic rampage throughthe western theme parkthe old west becomes aplace of high tech terror.

Sci fi westerns aren’t al-ways set on Earth however.

The animated featureBravestarr: The Legend setsthe action on the planet ofNew Texas, located 1956light-years from Earth.Bashing together the bestbits of Star Wars and tradi-

tional oater plots the moviefeatures cool western spacetoys like rocket scooterswith fairings shaped likehorses' heads and a villainnamed Tex Hex.

Outland, the 1981 SeanConnery space thriller isn’texactly a sci fi western, butit is based on one of the

most famous cowboymovies of all time, HighNoon. A critic for theBoston Globe wrote, “Out-land marks the return ofthe classic western hero ina space helmet,” and notedthat its themes of loyaltyand betrayal echoed HighNoon.

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In an interviewing stylethat references De Niro’stight-lipped one-word an-swers or Bob Dylan’s ab-surd responses, it’s nevereasy to pin down RyanGosling. But while he pro-moted his latest film, theromantic comedy Crazy,Stupid, Love, the Notebookstar was forced to talkabout himself and, unfor-tunately for him, dating.

So much has been said aboutcasting you in a comedic role.Do think you’re funny?Yes. I’m just trying to con-vince you of that. That’s it? Just yes?Uhh ... you want more? It’snot good enough. I guessI’m not funny. I’ll work onit. I don’t know how to an-swer that. This project shows off yourimprov skills. Are there anyprojects you’re interested inthat would allow you to domore of that?No. I don’t want to improv.They make me because

they get bored. They’relike, be funnier. Makesomething up. Entertainus. Dance, monkey. Would you host SaturdayNight Live?I’m too scared. It took me alot to get up the guts to dothis. What was scary about doingCrazy, Stupid, Love?I’d never done a comedybefore so that was scary. Idid it because I love SteveCarrell. I think he’s thebest. When I first moved toLos Angeles, I did a pilotand I was 17. I had a small

part and so did Steve. Hewas so funny that I wouldgo to the set to watch himwork. Your character in the film, Ja-cob, is really good at pickingup ladies. Can you relate tohim at all?Not really. I don’t know ifanyone can. He’s kind oflike Bugs Bunny. I relatemore to Steve’s character.It was hard to play Jacob.So then are you shy aroundwomen?I don’t know how to an-swer that. They come up tome and then they’re disap-

pointed that I’m not RyanReynolds.

Soft-spoken and reserved, Ryan Gosling struggles with living in thespotlight Crazy, Stupid, Love star tells Metro how he gets past his fear

A man of few wordsRyan Gosling gets put out of his element in his new movie Crazy, Stupid, Love.

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Some winningbidder will soonbe cruising life’swinding road inSheryl Crow’s1959 Mercedes-Benz 190SL Road-ster. Crow isauctioning off theclassic car nextmonth with theproceeds going tohelp rebuild thetornado-ravagedcity of Joplin. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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With gay marriage legal in NewYork, actress Heather Matarazzo to

wed longtime girlfriend

He says co-stars KunalNayyar (Raj), Jim Parsons(Sheldon) and JohnnyGalecki (Leonard) aren’tnerds either, despite howwell they play the sociallychallenged geniuses.

“I think ultimatelyeveryone has those quali-ties of feeling a little bitlike an outsider or beingpassionate about some-thing,” says Helberg, whowill host the Tribute toNerds show with Nayyar atMontreal’s Just For Laughsfestival on Friday.

The Big Bang Theory,which is seen on CTV, isabout four young scientistsand their attractive — andcomparatively normal —neighbour Penny (KaleyCuoco).

While the show startedstrongly in 2007, it reallycaught fire through wordof mouth.

“Nerds will talk,” ob-served Helberg, althoughboth he and Nayyar point-ed out the show isn’t out tojust ridicule geeks but alsoto lovingly poke fun atthem.

The show’s fourth sea-son finale set the Internetabuzz when Raj ended upsleeping with Penny,Leonard’s former girl-

friend.Nayyar and Helberg are

surprisingly like their char-acters when it comes to re-solving that situation, withNayyar saying he’d adviseRaj to take a deep breath,not beat himself up, and re-build his friendship withLeonard.

As for Helberg, he’d tellRaj to rebuild his bridgeswith Leonard — “and bragquietly to your friendsabout your victory. TellWolowitz all the details be-cause he’s not going to letyou go without it.”

Both Nayyar and Hel-berg say the cast is as closeoff-screen as they are onand that contributes totheir performances as atight-knit group of buddies.

“It’s a lot of fun,” saysNayyar. “We’re a family.”THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The stars of The Big BangTheory acknowledge theycould well be the outsiderswhen it comes to the num-

ber of people in the worldwho are nerds.

“There’s a lot of closetednerds out there,” says Si-

mon Helberg, who playsthe perpetually randyHoward Wolowitz on thehit TV show.

“Personally, I’m not intoStar Trek or physics or com-ic books but I know I mightbe in the minority.”

Hit show speaks to geeksThe Big Bang Theory lovingly pokes fun at nerds, say cast members Rating gold: Program was renewed earlier this year for another 3 years

Looking a bit less dorky than usual: The Big Bang Theory

cast members, Simon Helberg, left, Jim Parsons, centre,

and Kunal Nayyar pose in Toronto, October 7, 2010.

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Nerd icons?

Nayyar says any suggestion

the stars are nerd icons is

humbling and the idea

gives him “goosebumps.”

“I would hope that peoplewho were poked fun at forbeing nerds or geeks in thepast can now wear it proud-ly and I hope Big Bang hadsome part to play in it,” hesaid.

“I don’t know what nerdi-ness they see in me or whythey immediately thoughtof my face when the wordnerd was in the title but Iwill try not to let down thenerds,” cast mate SimonHelberg promised. “It’s abig responsibility so I’mworking on my nerdinessand perfecting it.”

“People relate to itbecause it’s aboutunderdogs and it’sabout reaching outto the real worldand it’s abouttrying to find loveand it’s aboutfriendship.”ACTOR KUNAL NAYYAR, WHO PLAYSRAJ ON THE BIG BANG THEORY

Gossip Girl star LeightonMeester is suing her moth-er for allegedly misusingmoney the actress hadbeen sending home for thecare of her brother, accord-ing to People magazine.

Instead, ConstanceMeester was allegedly us-ing the $7,500 a month forcosmetic procedures andother personal expenses.

“This whole thing’sbeen really tough onLeighton,” a source says.

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Friends and family weresaying goodbye to AmyWinehouse yesterday at aprivate funeral ceremonyin London.

Producer Mark Ronsonand media personality KellyOsbourne — her hair piledbeehive-high in an echo ofthe singer’s trademark style— were among mournersarriving for the service atEdgwarebury Cemetery innorth London.

The service was expectedto be followed by cremationand a family gathering at alocal synagogue.

The soul diva, who hadbattled alcohol and drug ad-

diction, was found dead Sat-urday at her London home.She was 27.

On Monday the singer’sfather, mother and brothervisited the house where shedied, thanking mournerswho had left flowers.

“Her whole life was de-voted to her family and herfriends and to you guys aswell,” father Mitch Wine-house said to fans.

Winehouse released onlytwo albums in her short ca-reer — winning five Gram-my awards for the second,Back to Black — and oftenmade headlines because ofdrug and alcohol abuse, eat-ing disorders, destructiverelationships and abortiveperformances.

Since her death, herrecords have re-entered al-bum charts around theworld, and tributes havepoured in from fans and fel-low musicians.

George Michael calledher “the most soulful vocal-ist this country has everseen,” and Adele said she“paved the way for artistslike me and made peopleexcited about British musicagain.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Laying Winehouse to restAutopsy fails to determine cause of singer’s death Police waiting on toxicology tests, results in 2-4 weeks

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Amy’s ex reacts

Despite their messy split in2009, Blake Fielder-Civil is“devastated and shattered”by the news of ex-wife AmyWinehouse’s death, his cur-rent girlfriend, SarahAspin, tells the Sun.

“I will never ever again feelthe love I felt for her,” Field-er-Civil reportedly told As-pin. “Everybody who knewme and knew Amy knewthe depth of our love. Ican’t believe she’s dead.”

Staff at the jail where Field-er-Civil is currently servingout a three-year sentencefor burglary and firearmpossession have beeninstructed to keep a closereye on him. “He just can’ttake it in that she’s deadand he’ll never see heragain,” Aspin says.

Kelly Osbourne arrives at Golders Green Crematorium for the funeral ceremony of British singer Amy Winehouse, north London, yesterday.

“Amy was about onething and that waslove.” FATHER MITCH WINEHOUSE

Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil in 2007

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About 10,000 visitors toHorne Lake CavesProvincial Park takeguided undergroundtours each year — butmany others are toonervous to do so. An in-terpretive centre open-ing Aug. 9 will allowthose nervous visitorsto experience the site.British Columbia hasmore caves than all theother provincescombined — and Van-couver Island, withmore than 1,400 knowncaves, has the highestconcentration in B.C.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Big Sur a haven for writers, musicians, artists inspired by

history, Henry Miller.

For Manus, a 41-year-oldmountain-bike rider, it’sall about the adrenalinerush when he’s tacklingthe downhill trails of Van-couver Island’s MountWashington.

Time slows, and Manus,who uses no last name,grows focused on the ever-changing landscape.

“Your environment iswhipping by you at suchhyper speed that you’rejust reacting to your envi-ronment,” he said. “Theadrenaline rush is out ofthis world.”

Mount Washingtonhopes visitors, especiallynovice and beginnermountain bikers, want apiece of that action, too.

After all, whether it’swinter or summer, MountWashington is in the busi-ness of selling adrenaline.And in a move to improveits summertime bottomline, the resort has addeda beginners trail and les-sons to its intermediateand expert mountain-bikeattractions.

The mountain, whichtowers over the ComoxValley on the east coast ofVancouver Island, about anhour’s drive north of thecity of Nanaimo, is notalone. Around B.C., inplaces like Whistler andSun Peaks, near Kamloops,ski resorts are sellingdownhill mountain-bikethrills to tourists.

Brent Curtain, directorof public relations forMount Washington AlpineResort, said while hun-dreds of thousands of peo-ple visit his resort to skiand snowboard during thewinter months, only“thousands” of people pa-tronize it during summer.

So the resort hasopened its Green Linemountain-bike run, a 2.2kilometre novice trailthat’s serviced by a high-speed chair lift. The trailtakes riders down themountain’s western flank.

The Green Line joins alist of 15 other runs, boast-ing intimidating nameslike Monster Mile, Back inBlack, Helter Skelter andthe Evil Eye, and not-so-

intimidating names likeQuick N Dirty, Big Brotherand Time Warp.

Riders can now tackle37 kilometres of trails.

Instead of adding evenmore runs to its existingnetwork of trails this year,the resort decided to openthe Green Line and up-grade its existing runs,said Curtain.

It’s also offering a learn-to-ride week between July25 and July 29, in additionto events like the B.C.Provincial Cup Champi-onships Aug. 13-14 and thefemale-only See Jane Jumpcompetition, Aug. 20-21.

There’s even a food andwine festival Aug. 26-27.

Jeremy Grasby, owner ofthe Riding Fool, a nearbyhostel that’s geared to-ward mountain bikers,said the beginners trailand lessons are a must forthe mountain.

He said while the resorthas had a great reputationwith intermediate and ad-vanced riders, it has fallenshort with beginners.

“The rider that MountWashington attracts isseeking adrenaline, as wellas pushing the envelopesof their riding abilities.”

Curtain said the sport,which has been dominatedtraditionally by men intheir late teens and early20s, has witnessed somebig changes in the pastfew years. It’s now not un-common to see people intheir 60s riding mountainbikes, as well as kids andwomen.

“We feel that thosenumbers will continue togrow in the future years tocome,” he said.

Gregory Bird, owner ofthe Vancouver IslandMountain Biking website,VIMB.com, said he has rid-den the new beginners trailand gives it high marks.

“It’s a pretty neat trail,

actually,” he said, notingthe run boasts lots of flowand corners. And it’s abouttime, he added, for the re-sort to increase its offer-ings for beginners.

“There’s been many atime I’ve seen beginnersup there sort of looking forstuff to ride and beingsomewhat intimidated by

the stuff they saw.”Bird said more and

more visitors are growinginterested in Vancouver Is-land mountain biking op-portunities, and he’s seenan increase in emails andforum posts from Euro-pean and American riderson his website.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Hitting the slopes in summerVancouver Island resort courts

mountain bikers New trail,courses cater to beginners to helpthem get a piece of the action

Mountain bikes are transported on a chair lift to the top of Mount Washington.

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Cyclists pose at the top of Mount Washington.

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If you go

How to get there: MountWashington overlooks theComox Valley, on Vancou-ver Island's east coast. It isaccessible by car, bus, airand ferry.

The bike park is open be-tween 11 a.m. and 7:30p.m. daily between July 15and Sept. 5. The resort alsoprovides rental bikes.

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The greatest iceberg sea-son in recent memory isdrawing scores of visitorsto Newfoundland’s north-ern peninsula for aglimpse of the majesticsculptures.

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One of the largest re-maining pieces is the 50-square-kilometre ice islandnow floating about 20 kilo-metres off Labrador, southof Cartwright.

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One of the highlights ofhis tour is a massive tabu-lar slab that's about 1.6kilometres long and 54metres high.

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There's so much big icethat Alcock expects arecord-long viewing sea-son stretching into Sep-tember.

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In a blender, combineingredients andpurée until smooth.You may need to stopblender and stiringredients once toensure everythingblends evenly. Serve.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Drink of the weekDip into healthier snackingDunk your favourite fruit into these unique citrus, chocolate or orchard spice flavours

Shopping List:

Base• 500 ml (2 cups) non-fat plain Greek-style yogurt

• 250 ml (8 oz) low-fatcream cheese

Chocolate• 50 ml (1/4 cup) unsweet-ened cocoa powder

• 30 ml (2 tbsp) honey

• Pinch cinnamon

• 30 ml (2 tbsp) fat-free milk

Citrus• Zest of 1/2 lemon

• Zest of 1/2 orange


• 30 ml (2 tbsp) orange juice

Orchard Spice• 15 ml (1 tbsp) vanilla ex-tract

• 5 ml (1 tsp) butter rum ex-tract

• 2 ml (1/2 tsp) cinnamon

• 1 ml (1/4 tsp) dry ginger

• Pinch ground nutmeg

• Pinch ground cloves


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You want somethingthat doesn’t pile on the fator sugar, but still is inter-esting enough that youwant to dunk apples andstrawberries in it.

We wanted to create acreamy base that could beeasily flavoured.

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The result is creamy andluscious and is a perfectbase for flavourings.

As a bonus, it’s also agreat way to get calcium.

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1 In the bowl of a foodprocessor, combine thenon-fat Greek yogurtand low-fat creamcheese. Process themuntil completelysmooth. Divide the mix-ture among 3 bowls.

2 Chocolate dipper: In asmall bowl, mix togeth-er the cocoa powder,

honey, cinnamon andmilk until the mixture iscompletely smooth. Addit to one of the bowls ofyogurt mixture and stiruntil it is smooth.

3 Citrus dipper: Stir bothof the zests, honey andorange juice into one ofthe remaining bowls ofthe yogurt mixture.

4 Orchard Spice dipper:Stir the vanilla, butterrum extract, cinnamon,ginger, nutmeg, clovesand honey into the lastbowl of yogurt andcream cheese mixture.

5 Serve your Chocolate,Citrus and Orchard Spicedips with cut-up wedgesof apples, pears, peach-es, berries, and yourother favourite fruits.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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It’s one thing to be marriedto your job. But to be mar-ried to someone else whoworks there?

Career counsellors saynewlyweds who clock intothe same office share com-mutes, professional aspira-tions, and tax benefitsgalore.

“A lot of people do it ex-tremely well, and it’s reallycommon,” workplace rela-tionship guru Courtney An-derson says. “It’s a greatway to maximize your re-sources and benefits, andwhen it works, it worksamazingly.”

And when it doesn’t?You could get fired and di-vorced by the same boss:ouch.

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“When it’s done right, peo-ple take their work very se-

riously,” Anderson says. “They’re not like, ‘Can

you file this business re-port, oh honey, I love you,can you pick up the kids?’No. That would be ridicu-lous.”

“You have to be veryclear about keeping thelines set,” agrees OfficeMate author Helaine Olen,who has worked five yearsalongside her husband.That means don’t reach de-cisions at the dinner table.Don’t dash into yourspouse’s office and shut thedoor.

“You cannot use yourspousal relationship in anyway, shape, or form to get afavour,” Olen emphasizes.“You have to keep it reallyprofessional.”

“It should seem almostweird from the outside,”Anderson adds. “People willsay ‘Oh, that’s your hus-band? That’s your wife? Butyou seem so formal withthem.’” But why shouldn’t

you be formal?” she contin-ues.

“Team members aren’tthere to see you runningaround, patting each otheron the butt.”

Separately Together

The tough part about split-ting an office with yoursoulmate isn’t finding away to work together, Olensays. It’s finding a way to beapart.

“There is obviously athing called too much to-getherness,” she warns. “Becareful about that. Youneed to have separation.”

If you work from home,work in separate sides ofthe house, she recom-mends. If you work in theoffice, don’t do lunch every-day.

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A year out from the 2012Olympic Games in London,Canada’s summer athletesfeel inspired by what theirwinter counterparts did atthe 2010 Games in Vancou-ver and Whistler, B.C.

Wrestler Carol Huynh,who won gold in Beijing in2008, followed the exploitsof several winter athletesshe knows personally.

“There were so manyCanadian athletes whowere successful there,”Huynh says. “It was just anoverall general great feel-ing for everybody.

“I was there for quite abit of the Games. Just get-ting that feel, that energyin the air in Vancouver,that was just amazing. Itkind of brought me backto what I experienced inBeijing.”

The 2012 Olympicsopen July 27 and close Aug.12.

Canada finished third inoverall medals with 25 inVancouver and Whistler,but set a Winter Gamesrecord with 14 gold.

The Summer Gamesgoal for Own The Podiumand the Canadian Olympic

Committee isn’t to win theoverall medal count,which was the objective in2010.

“The reality is, certainlyat the Summer Games, wewon’t ‘own the podium,’”says OTP chief executiveofficer Alex Baumann. “Wewon’t be No. 1 ... but wewant to move up the lad-der.”

Canada was 19th at the2004 Summer Games inAthens and finished tiedfor 14th in Beijing fouryears later.

Canadians won 18medals — three gold, nine

silver, six bronze — in Bei-jing to tie its second-bestperformance at a non-boy-cotted Games. Canadianathletes also finished infourth 10 times in Beijing.

Canada’s performancein Vancouver reinforcedthat Own The Podium, es-tablished five years outfrom the 2010 WinterGames, had largely hit on asuccessful plan for win-ning medals. That strategyis the template for howCanadian high-perfor-mance sport now operates.

“I think what Vancouvergave us was we can actual-

ly be the best in theworld,” Baumann says.“That confidence can cer-tainly be transferred overonto the summer side.”

In London, Canadashould have multiplemedal threats in track andfield, rowing, canoe/kayak,cycling, women’s boxingand women’s wrestling.

Results from worldchampionships over thenext few weeks will be astrong indicator of howCanada will perform inLondon.

“Our performance thisyear is critical,” says AnneMerklinger, director ofOTP’s summer sports. “Ourtop sports, rowing, diving,wrestling, canoeing, tram-poline, they need to beplayers, winning medals ornipping at the heels to winmedals. Top-five finishesare critical for us at themajor championships.”

Canada ranked 15th inworld championshipmedals won in 2010 with18, according to OTP. Chi-na, Russia and the U.S.ranked first to third with90, 87 and 75 respectively.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canadian athletic programs have modest goals for London compared toVancouver Own the Podium considers top-12 finish a realistic target

Olympic Stadium and the aquatics centre in London yesterday. The 2012 Olympics open July 27 and close Aug. 12.

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Expectations at baywith Games a year away

NFL chaosbegins aftertruncatedoff-seasonThe free agency free-for-allhas begun, mostly with ob-scure names from the col-lege ranks.

It will get wilder.Contract negotiations for

free agents and draft picksstarted yesterday, withdraftees able to sign rightaway. The big names amongveterans — Nnamdi Aso-mugha, Santonio Holmes,Matt Hasselbeck — can’tsign until tomorrow, buttheir agents are negotiatingdeals right now.

Throw in dozens of play-ers who will be cut, such asDallas receiver RoyWilliams and Baltimoretight end Todd Heap, whichofficially can’t happen untiltomorrow, and it’s “orga-nized chaos,” according toColts general managerChris Polian.

“It’s a lot of stress, work,preparation. But it’s whatwe all look forward to. It’sour playoffs and our SuperBowl,” agent Peter Schaffersaid.

Indeed, several agentssaid they didn’t expect tosleep last night as the NFLreopened after four-and-a-half months. In addition totheir clients already in theleague who are unrestrictedor restricted free agents,they will have veterans re-leased. And they are tryingto set up youngsters withteams after they werepassed over in April’s draft.

The math adds up tohundreds of transactions ina few days, as opposed to afew weeks had there notbeen a labour stoppage.

“I think the best way tosay it is whatever you canimagine, it’s probablyworse than that,” Cardinalscoach Ken Whisenhuntsaid. “There is multi-taskingat its most furious.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Loonie counter

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doled out an average of

$30 million over the last

three years to summer

sport federations with a

high of $34.5 million for

this crucial year before the

London Games.

That money goes to sportsand individual athletesdeemed to have medal po-tential in 2012, withconsideration also given to

what they can do in 2016.OTP’s money comes fromSport Canada, the federalgovernment arm that over-sees sport. All in, the Canadiangovernment spendsbetween $165 million to$175 million a year onsport, OTP executive offi-cer Alex Baumannestimates. By comparison,the Australian governmentwill spend $1.2 billion onsport over the next fouryears.

“Most (players)said, ‘Listen, thebottom line is theteam I’m with I like.If somebody outthere is reallyinterested, if theycome with a greatoffer up front, thenwe’ll look intothat.’”NFL PLAYER AGENT JORDAN WOY

Quoted

“I lovedeverything

about the gameand everythingabout the Red

Wings. Andthat’s why I’mgoing to miss it

so much”KRIS DRAPER, WHO

OFFICIALLY RETIRED AS ARED WING YESTERDAY AFTER20 NHL SEASON. HE HELPED

THE WINGS WIN FOURSTANLEY CUPS IN HIS 17

SEASONS IN DETROIT.

“He was a rolemodel for all of

our youngplayers and aleader in the

locker-room.”WINGS GM KEN HOLLAND

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

AMERICAN LEAGUEEAST DIVISION

W L Pct GBBoston 62 38 .620 —New York 60 40 .600 2Tampa Bay 53 48 .525 91/2Toronto 51 51 .500 12Baltimore 40 58 .408 21

CENTRAL DIVISIONW L Pct GB

Detroit 54 48 .529 —Cleveland 52 49 .515 11/2Chicago 50 51 .495 31/2Minnesota 47 55 .461 7Kansas City 43 59 .422 11

WEST DIVISIONW L Pct GB

Texas 59 44 .573 —Los Angeles 56 48 .538 31/2Oakland 45 57 .441 131/2Seattle 43 59 .422 151/2

NATIONAL LEAGUEEAST DIVISION

W L Pct GBPhiladelphia 65 37 .637 —Atlanta 59 44 .573 61/2New York 51 51 .500 14Washington 49 52 .485 151/2Florida 49 53 .480 16

CENTRAL DIVISIONW L Pct GB

Pittsburgh 53 47 .530 —St. Louis 54 48 .529 —Milwaukee 54 49 .524 1/2Cincinnati 50 52 .490 4Chicago 42 60 .412 12Houston 33 69 .324 21

WEST DIVISIONW L Pct GB

San Francisco 59 44 .573 —Arizona 55 47 .539 31/2Colorado 48 55 .466 11Los Angeles 46 56 .451 121/2San Diego 45 58 .437 14

SOCCER

CFL

Last night’s resultsL.A. Angels 2 Cleveland 1Seattle at N.Y. YankeesBaltimore at TorontoKansas City at BostonMinnesota at TexasDetroit at ChicagoWhite SoxTampa Bay at OaklandMonday’s resultsCleveland 3 L.A. Angels 2N.Y. Yankees 10 Seattle 3Kansas City 3 Boston 1 (14 inn.)Texas 20Minnesota 6ChicagoWhite Sox 6 Detroit 3Oakland 7 Tampa Bay 5Today’s gamesL.A. Angels (E.Santana 5-8) at Cleveland(D.Huff 1-0), 12:05 p.m.Seattle (F.Hernandez 8-9) at N.Y. Yankees(P.Hughes 1-2), 1:05 p.m.Detroit (Scherzer 11-5) at ChicagoWhite Sox(Danks 3-8), 2:10 p.m.Baltimore (Simon 2-3) at Toronto (R.Romero7-9), 7:07 p.m.Kansas City (Chen 5-3) at Boston (Lackey 8-8), 7:10 p.m.Minnesota (Duensing 7-8) at Texas (C.Lewis10-7), 8:05 p.m.Tampa Bay (Shields 9-8) at Oakland (Cahill 8-9), 10:05 p.m.Tomorrow’s gamesL.A. Angels at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.Kansas City at Boston, 1:35 p.m.Tampa Bay at Oakland, 3:35 p.m.Baltimore at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.Minnesota at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

AL LEADERSG AB R H Avg.

AdGonzalez, Bos 99 408 70 141 .346MiYoung, Tex 101 403 50 134 .333Bautista, Tor 91 321 76 106 .330Kotchman, TB 86 289 25 94 .325JhPeralta, Det 92 332 45 107 .322VMartinez, Det 87 322 44 103 .320Ellsbury, Bos 99 408 74 130 .319MiCabrera, Det 102 353 69 111 .314Konerko, ChW 98 357 47 110 .308YEscobar, Tor 93 357 55 109 .305HOMERUNS—Bautista, Toronto, 31; Granderson,NewYork, 27; Teixeira, NewYork, 27; Konerko, Chica-go, 23; NCruz, Texas, 22;MiCabrera, Detroit, 21;Mar-Reynolds, Baltimore, 21.PITCHING—Sabathia, NewYork, 14-5;Weaver, LosAngeles, 13-4; Verlander, Detroit, 13-5; Tomlin,Cleveland, 11-4; Scherzer, Detroit, 11-5; 6 tied at 10.Not including last night’s games

Last night’s resultsPhiladelphia 7 San Francisco 2Florida atWashingtonN.Y.Mets at CincinnatiPittsburgh at AtlantaChicago Cubs atMilwaukeeHouston at St. LouisArizona at San DiegoColorado at L.A. DodgersMonday’s resultsSan Diego 5 Philadelphia 4N.Y.Mets 4 Cincinnati 2Pittsburgh 3 Atlanta 1St. Louis 10 Houston 5L.A. Dodgers 8 Colorado 5Tonight’s gamesFlorida (Vazquez 6-9) atWashington(L.Hernandez 5-9), 7:05 p.m.San Francisco (Cain 8-6) at Philadelphia(Hamels 12-5), 7:05 p.m.N.Y.Mets (Pelfrey 5-9) at Cincinnati (Arroyo7-8), 7:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Maholm 6-10) at Atlanta (Jur-rjens 12-3), 7:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Zambrano 7-5) atMilwaukee(Greinke 7-4), 8:10 p.m.Houston (Norris 5-7) at St. Louis (C.Carpenter6-7), 8:15 p.m.Arizona (I.Kennedy 11-3) at San Diego (Lue-bke 3-4), 10:05 p.m.Colorado (A.Cook 1-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda6-12), 10:10 p.m.Tomorrow’s gamesFlorida atWashington, 12:35 p.m.N.Y.Mets at Cincinnati, 12:35 p.m.Chicago Cubs atMilwaukee, 2:10 p.m.Arizona at San Diego, 3:35 p.m.San Francisco at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.Pittsburgh at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.Houston at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

NL LEADERSG AB R H Avg.

JosReyes, NYM 87 385 74 135 .351Braun,Mil 92 336 62 108 .321Helton, Col 91 305 44 96 .315Votto, Cin 101 373 61 117 .314Morse,Wash 90 307 44 96 .313Kemp, LAD 102 367 61 114 .311Holliday, StL 77 274 50 85 .310Pence, Hou 96 389 48 120 .308DanMurphy,NYM 98 351 41 108 .308McCann,Atl 90 328 42 100 .305Not including last night’s games

TENNIS

EAST DIVISIONGP W L T PF PA Pt

Montreal 4 3 1 0 133 95 6Winnipeg 4 3 1 0 99 77 6Hamilton 4 2 2 0 98 86 4Toronto 4 1 3 0 80 116 2

WEST DIVISIONGP W L T PF PA Pt

Edmonton 4 4 0 0 127 74 8Calgary 4 2 2 0 95 99 4Saskatchewan 4 1 3 0 83 138 2B.C. 4 0 4 0 106 136 0WEEK FOURSunday’s resultSaskatchewan 27Montreal 24WEEK FIVETomorrow’s gameAll times EasternB.C. atWinnipeg, 8 p.m.Friday’s gamesMontreal at Hamilton, 6:30 p.m.Toronto at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.Saturday’s gameCalgary at Saskatchewan, 9:30 p.m.WEEKSIXThursday, Aug. 4Montreal at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.Friday, Aug. 5Edmonton atWinnipeg, 7:30 p.m.Saskatchewan at B.C., 10:30 p.m.Saturday, Aug. 6Hamilton at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.MLS

Tonight’s game

All times Eastern

ALL-STARGAME

AtHarrison, N.J.

ManchesterU. (Eng.) atMLSAll-stars, 8:30 pm

Friday’s game

Colorado at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

UEFACHAMPIONS LEAGUEYesterday’s results

Rubin Kazan (Russia) 2 DynamoKyiv

(Ukarine) 0

FC Twente (Netherlands) 2 Vaslui (Romania) 0

Champions Route

APOEL (Cyprus) 0 Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia)

0

Ekranas (Lithuania) 0 BATE Borisov (Belarus)

0

Wisla Krakow (Poland) 2 Litex Lovech (Bulgar-

ia) 1

Genk (Belgium) 2 Partizan (Serbia) 1

Malmo (Sweden) 1 Rangers (Scotland) 0

Zestafoni (Georgia) 1 SturmGraz (Austria) 1

EUROPA LEAGUEYesterday’s result

Bnei Yehuda 1 Helsingborg 0

CONCACAF

CHAMPIONS LEAGUESan Francisco vs. Seattle Sounders FC

Herediano vs Alpha United

BLUE JAYS LEADERSBATTERS AB R H HR RBI AVGBautista 321 76106 31 70 .330Molina 108 14 34 2 9 .315Thames 143 26 44 4 19 .308Escobar 357 55109 9 38 .305Lind 303 42 88 18 56 .290Encarnacion 284 38 74 7 25 .261Patterson 313 44 79 6 33 .252Davis 294 40 70 1 27 .238McCoy 77 11 18 1 5 .234Snider 159 18 37 3 30 .233Hill 323 31 73 4 37 .226McDonald 139 16 31 2 16 .223Arencibia 277 32 59 15 42 .213PITCHERS W L SV IP SO ERAMcCoy 0 0 0 1.0 0 0.00Rzepczynski 2 3 0 39.1 33 2.97Frasor 2 1 0 42.1 37 2.98Janssen 3 0 1 28.2 27 3.14Romero 7 9 0134.2 117 3.27Villanueva 5 2 0 90.0 61 3.40Dotel 2 1 1 29.1 30 3.68Rauch 4 3 7 41.2 29 3.89Morrow 7 4 0101.2 117 4.34Cecil 3 4 0 57.1 42 4.71Camp 1 1 1 43.1 19 4.78Francisco 1 4 10 28.2 35 5.34Not including last night’s game

ACTIVITY

BASEBALLMAJOR LEAGUEBASEBALLÑ Suspended SanFrancisco bench coach RonWotus one gamefor his inappropriate actions during Saturday’sgame againstMilwaukee.

AMERICAN LEAGUEBALTIMOREORIOLES—Activated DHVladimir Guerrero from the 15-day DL. Op-tioned RHPMarkWorrell to Norfolk (IL).BOSTONREDSOX—Placed OF J.D. Drew onthe 15-day DL, retroactive to July 20. RecalledINF DrewSutton fromPawtucket (IL).NEWYORKYANKEES—Activated 3B EricChavez from the 60-day DL. Optioned INFBrandon Laird to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

NATIONAL LEAGUEARIZONADIAMONDBACKS—ReinstatedRHP J.J. Putz from the 15-day DL. Selectedthe contract of OF Collin Cowgill fromReno(PCL). Placed INF Geoff Blum on the 15-dayDL, retroactive to July 25.PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES—Assigned RHPTyson Brummett from Lehigh Valley (IL) toReading (EL).SANDIEGO PADRES—Recalled RHP PatNeshek and C LuisMartinez from Tucson(PCL). Optioned C Kyle Phillips to Tucson.Placed RHP Ernesto Frieri on the paternityleave list.

FOOTBALLNFLCAROLINA PANTHERS—Agreed to termswith S Kevin Payne on a one-year contract.CHICAGOBEARS—Agreed to termswith TEKyle Adams, LB Tressor Baptiste, C JCBrignone, CBAntareis Bryan, DT CorbinBryant,WR Travis Cobb, T Josh Davis, G RickyHenry, CBMike Holmes, RB Robert Hughes,CB Ryan Jones, C Alex Linnenkohl, DT JordanMiller, LB DeronMinor, DT SeanMurnane, TEAndre Smith, SWinston Venable, S AnthonyWalters,WR JimmyYoung,WRKris Adams,DEMario Addison, LB Tanner Antle, LB DomDeCicco, P Spencer Lanning,WRDane Sanzen-backer and QB Trevor Vittatoe.INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Announced they arerelinquishing the rights to RBMike Hart, DBMike Richardson, TE Gijon Robinson, TE TomSanti and DB Jamie Silva.JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Agreed to termswithWRArmon Binns, OT Cameron Bradfield,CB Cole Brodie, LB JoJo Dickson,WRGregEllingson, SMatt Estrada, TE TommyGallarda,LB Eric Gordon, G BrandonHarper, RB DuJuanHarris, CB T.J. Heath,WRDontrelle Inman, CBJalil Johnson, LBMichael Lockley, LB ScottLutrus, TE KyleMiller, RB RichardMurphy,WRJamar Newsome, DEOdrick Ray, QB Scott Rid-dle, CB Kevin Rutland, P Brian Saunders, DEMarc Schiechl and G TroyWhite.NEWYORKGIANTS—Signed LBMark Her-zlich.SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Agreed to termswith DT Ladi Ajiboye, DE Pierre Allen,WRDoug Baldwin, FB Dorson Boyce, DE JarrettCrittenton, P John Gold, CB Jesse Hoffman, GMichael Huey, T Zach Hurd, S Jeron Johnson,QB Zach Lee,WRRicardo Lockette, LB DeronMinor, LBMikeMorgan, G/C Brent Osborne,CB Ron Parker, QB Josh Portis, S RickeyThenarse and TE Ryan Travis.TENNESSEE TITANS—Agreed to termswithLB Jonathan Cornell, P Chad Cunningham, TE

WTA-BANKOFTHEWESTCLASSICAt Stanford, CalifYesterday’s resultsSingles — First RoundMaria Kirilenko, Russia, def. Julia Goerges(6), Germany, 6-2, 6-3.AyumiMorita, Japan, def. Ana Ivanovic (7),Serbia, 6-3, 7-5.Sabine Lisicki, Germany, def. SimonaHalep,Romania, 6-1, 6-2.Marina Erakovic, NewZealand, def. SofiaArvidsson, Sweden, 6-2, 6-1.Urszula Radwanska, Poland, def. OlgaSavchuk, Ukraine, 6-4, 6-2.Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, def. Rika Fuji-wara, Japan, 6-0, 6-2.

ATP-STUDENACROATIAOPENAt Umag, CroatiaYesterday’s resultsSingles — First RoundTommyRobredo (5), Spain, def. RubenRamirez Hidalgo, Spain, 6-3, 6-2.Fabio Fognini (6), Italy, def. RuiMachado,Portugal, 6-4, 6-3.Andreas Seppi (7), Italy, def. Dusan Lajovic,Serbia, 6-4, 6-2.Potito Starace, Italy, def. Thiemo de Bakker,Netherlands, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-1.Robin Haase, Netherlands, def. SimoneVagnozzi, Italy, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1.Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spain, def.MaximoGon-zalez, Argentina, 3-6, 6-3, 1-1, retired.Filippo Volandri, Italy, def. Mate Pavic, Croat-ia, 6-4, 6-0.Carlos Berlocq, Argentina, def. Blaz Kavcic,Slovenia, 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-4.Olivier Rochus, Belgium, def. SergiyStakhovsky, Ukraine, 6-4, 6-4.Gianluca Naso, Italy, def. Mate Delic, Croatia,6-4, 6-2.

ATP-CREDIT AGRICOLE SUISSEOPENGSTAADAt Gstaad, SwitzerlandSingles — First RoundFeliciano Lopez (5), Spain, def. Michael Lam-mer, Switzerland, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-3.Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, def. GuillermoGarcia-Lopez (6), Spain, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1.Marcel Granollers (8), Spain, def. StephaneBohli, Switzerland, 6-1, 6-0.Daniel Gimeno-Traver, Spain, def. Steve Dar-cis, Belgium, 6-4, 5-7, 7-5.Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, def. Victor Hanes-cu, Romania, 7-5, 6-2.Frederico Gil, Portugal, def. Joao Souza, Por-tugal, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.Julien Benneteau, France, def. Lukas Rosol,Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-7 (6), 6-3.

GOLF

WEEKEND GLANCELPGATOUR/LADIES’GOLFUNIONWOMEN’S BRITISHOPENSite: Carnoustie, Scotland.Schedule: Tomorrow-Sunday.OntheNet:www.ricohwomensbritishopen.comLPGA Tour site:www.lpga.comLadies’ Golf Union site:www.lgu.orgLadies European Tour site:www.ladieseuropeantour.com

PGATOURGREENBRIER CLASSICSite:White Sulphur Springs,W.Va.Schedule: Tomorrow-Sunday.Online:www.pgatour.com

U.S. GOLF ASSOCIATIONU.S. SENIOROPENSite: Toledo, Ohio.Schedule: Tomorrow-Sunday.Online:www.usga.orgChampions Tour site:www.pgatour.com

EUROPEANTOURIRISHOPENSite:Killarney, Ireland.Schedule: Tomorrow-Sunday.Online:www.europeantour.com

NATIONWIDE TOURUTAHCHAMPIONSHIPSite: Sandy, Utah.Schedule: Tomorrow-Sunday.Online:www.pgatour.com

Cameron Graham, G Thomas Gray, FB PatrickHill,WR JosephHills, DE Julian Hartsell, G An-quez Jackson,WR James Kirkendoll, CBLequan Lewis,WROrenthaMurdock,WRMichael Preston,WROwen Spencer andLS/LB John Stokes, Vanderbilt.

HOCKEYNHLDETROIT REDWINGS—Announce the retire-ment of C Kris Draper.NASHVILLE PREDATORS—Signed C CraigSmith to a two-year contract.PITTSBURGHPENGUINS—Signed F JasonWilliams to a one-year contract.WINNIPEG JETS—Agreed to termswith CIvan Telegin.

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Body changesVisually, the 200 has been treated to a mostlynew front end, including a cleaner-lookinggrille and hood.

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These changes are quite typical of theupdates that many vehicles go through at themid-point of their production cycles.

Although it still looks very much like the previous Sebring, the styling updates tend to smooth things out.

New LED lighting is in vogue, too. The optional V6 is rated to provide similar fuel economy to the four-cylinder.

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InteriorAll is well, or at least better, on the insidenow that Chrysler’s designers have tossedout many of the car’s hard-plastic panelsand trim pieces.

The centrepiece is an all-new soft-touchinstrument panel along with a clearlyclassier steering wheel.

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EngineThe 200 convertible shares the sameengine/transmission choices as the sedan. A173-horsepower 2.4-litre four-cylinder thatoriginated from last year’s Sebring is stan-dard on the base 200 LX.

The real star of the show is the new 283-horsepower 3.6-litre “Pentastar” V6 that re-places the previous 186-horsepower2.7-litre V6 and the 235-horsepower 3.5-litreV6.

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Summer is the main sea-son for road construction,which means there’s agood chance you’ll hit abump or two, or comeacross loose stones andother hazards associatedwith construction zones.

These road conditionscan be tough on a vehicle’ssteering and suspensionsystems and can throw outthe alignment, while loosestones have the potentialto damage the vehicle’s ex-terior or windshield.

The symptoms of steer-ing and suspension orwheel alignment problemsare uneven tire wear,pulling to one side, noiseand vibration while cor-nering or loss of control.

The main parts of thesystems are shocks and/or

struts, the steering knuck-le, ball joints, the steeringrack/box, bearings, seals orhub units, and tie rodends.

Motorists should have

their vehicles checked outimmediately if any ofthese symptoms exist, assteering and suspensionsystems are key safety-re-lated components andlargely determine the car’sride and handling.

Regardless of road con-ditions, these systemsshould be checked annual-ly and a wheel alignmentshould be performed atthe same time.

Motorists also should dofrequent visual checks oftheir vehicle’s exterior andwindshield to identify anychips, dings or cracks.These are small problemsthat can become costly re-pairs and safety hazards ifthey aren’t taken care ofimmediately.

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Designing an interior means form and function

GM TAPS SILICON VALLEY TECH, AND CULTURE AUTO PILOT

MIKE [email protected]

California’s SiliconValley looks prettymuch the way Ipictured it.

Amore-lushversion of atypical indus-trial mall. A-type “types”bicycling

madly during their lunchhours, on a network of bi-cycle lanes, their racinghelmets barely containingtheir immense heads,which were actually glow-ing with activity.

A group of us autoscribes were in the area, tovisit GM’s Advanced Tech-nology Silicon Valley Office(ATSVO), as part of a presspreview for the new BuickLaCrosse eAssist (a new,mild hybrid).

GM set up the shopabout five years ago, to bethe automaker’s “eyes andears on the ground” in Sili-con Valley.

It’s a small place, with asmall team — about 10 sci-entists and business man-agers with variousbackgrounds.

The man who heads upthe team, Bryon Shaw, toldus that the building reflectsits mandate to forge rela-tionships with its famousSilicon Valley neighbours,like Apple, Google, Cisco,

Hewlett-Packard, NeuroSky,Nokia, SoundHound, MADMaps, Digitario, andStratosAudio.

Those firms are not onlyknown for their success,but also for their collabora-tive processes.

To grease the wheels ofcollaboration many adoptan interior design conceptknown as “caves and com-mons.”

“Common areas arewhere you have teams ofpeople working together,collaboratively, so everyoneknows what is going on,and you don’t have silos ofinformation,” said Shaw.

“This leads to faster de-velopment cycles, butsometimes you need tothink… Common areas arenoisy. Cave areas are whereyou can retract into and getyour hard thinking done.”(This reminds me of one ofmy favourite bumper stick-ers: “Ever stop to think andforget to start again.”)

Big Silicon Valley firmsalso have many, many con-ference rooms, which aretypically booked the entireworkday.

“But when you peak in,you see only one person inthat room, on the phone toa globally distributedteam,” noted Shaw.

“So we said how domake that work in a morespace efficient way… That’swhy we have these ‘phonebooths’, which are confer-ence rooms for one per-son.”

When ATSVO staff needto liaison with someonedown the street, or acrossthe globe, everything theyneed to get that done canbe found in the blue booth— small desk, phone, inter-

Among other advancements,

GM’s Silicon Valley tech centre was

responsible for developing the

computer generation of

personalized audio clues for

consumer demographics and

preferences in the Chevrolet Volt.

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A huge amount of workgoes into designing a vehi-cle, but it’s far more thanjust the exterior appear-ance. The inside requiresjust as much attention, cov-ering everything from howit looks to its integrationwith important safety fea-tures.

For Mercedes-Benz, theinterior of the redesigned2012 M-Class SUV startedwith sketches at the compa-ny’s design headquarters inSindelfingen, Germany.

The designers also usecomputer models and thenfull-size clay mockups todetermine what the newvehicle will use.

“It takes a long time,”says Marina Sacco, an inte-rior trim designer specializ-ing in colour and materials.

“We started a few yearsago and have continued to

improve it.”The design follows a ba-

sic theme that Mercedes-Benz reserves for its SUVs:the dash must have stronghorizontal lines to give thefeeling of spaciousness,while a dome over the cen-tre stack controls hints atthe engine’s power. Thematerials, meanwhile, con-vey a “welcome home” feel-ing, with soft-touchsurfaces and wood high-lights. It isn’t enough tosimply use home-style ma-terials, though.

“The colours and materi-als have to work in all tem-peratures, whether very hotor very cold,” Sacco says.

“The leather must func-tion, the plastic must func-tion, and it can’t discolour.Everything has to stay as itis on the first day.”

To that end, everythingthat goes into the interior isthoroughly tested. Eachmaterial is placed undersimulated sunshine, and incold and heat extremes toensure that it doesn’t peel,become brittle or fade.

It’s also very importantthat the final design andthe materials used look likethey belong in a Mercedes,Sacco says.

“Most customers don’tlike screaming colours,”she says. “People like black,brown, beige and grey.Sports cars are allowed a lit-tle bit of red, but on a carlike this (M-Class), it’s niceto have natural colours.This is about driving the carand going to the outdoors.”

Authenticity of the mate-rials is also important, and

for the new model, thecompany has introduced anoptional trim design thatincludes unfinished, open-grain wood.

“You can feel the struc-ture of the grain on it,” Sac-co says, which is veryimportant.

It seems that, althoughMercedes-Benz uses only re-al wood in the M-Class,some customers com-plained that their passen-gers thought the high-glossversion was actually madeof plastic.

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net connection, privacy,and good acoustics.

Not surprisingly, one fo-cus of the team is incorpo-rating connectivity andmore electronic goodnessinto our vehicles.

Two of its more interest-ing advancements were de-veloping Wi-Fi coverage tovehicle occupants while

moving at highway speeds(not yet available in Cana-da), and personalized audiocues for the new ChevroletVolt.

One concept the team isconsidering is a forward-looking camera on your ve-hicle, which can share “realtime” images with yourfriends on Facebook.

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A rare and well-loved retro street rodModel: 1997 to 2002 Plymouth Prowler Vehicle Type: Roadster

The Plymouth brand bitthe dust some years ago —but it’s departure from ex-istence did leave one ofthe world’s most interest-ing and rare sports cars inits wake.

The Plymouth Prowlerwas a two-seat, uber-retrostreet rod convertible soldin 1997, and 1999 through2002. Unlike other Ply-mouth models, theProwler was its own car —not a rebadged variant ofsome other Chrysler,Dodge or Eagle product.

Prowler launched witha manually-operated cloth-top roof, 214-horsepowerV6 engine and rear-wheeldrive. After a break from

the market for 1998,Chrysler updated the 1999model with a new 253-horsepower V6 engine. Allmodels got a four-speed“AutoStick” automatictransmission.

Feature content includ-ed an Infinity CD changeraudio system, air condi-tioning, cruise control,power accessories andleather seats.

An auto-dimmingrearview mirror andleather-trimmed accentswere also on board.

VerdictThough information islimited, a usedPlymouth Prowler ap-pears to be a fairly reli-able, albeit extremelyrare, used sports carbuy.

Shoppers set onowning a Prowler andable to locate a unitfor sale are advised tomake an appointmentwith a nearby Chryslerdealership for aninspection.

A well-maintainedunit with full servicerecords that’s familiarto a Chryslerdealership is the safestbet.

What Owners Like

Exclusivity is the largestdraw to the Prowler,according to most owners. Production was extremelylimited, and few cars turnheads this well. Fun to drive handling, dy-namics, relative perform-ance and a relativelycomfortable ride are alsohighly rated.

What they dislike

Owner complaints includelimited visibility, tight en-try and exit with the roofup, road noise and limitedpracticality. Prowler also had very lim-ited trunk space and limit-ed width to accommodatewide-legged occupants.

Common issues

Given the Prowler’s limitedsales volume and relativelytiny online owner’scommunity, reliability-re-lated information issparse. Some issues havesurfaced with the factorystereo system, includinghissing, static or blownspeakers. Premature suspensionwear may also be aconcern — so be sure tolisten for any popping orclunking sounds on a test-drive that could indicate a

worn-out component. Check power

windows for prop-er operation in

both directions, besure the air condi-tioner works prop-erly, and note any

damaged or missinginterior trim panels.

Prowler’s driveline appearsto be fairly solid and prob-lem free, though the 3.5-

litre engine did suffer fromoccasional sensorproblems in other applica-tions.

1999 Plymouth Prowler

SECOND

GEAR

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