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Festival opens Friday, runs until July 16 Main stage near Keith’s Brewery market

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forms her album Mischievous Moon on Monday night. The record is the top-selling jazz album in Canada, despite it being Barber’s first attempt at the genre.

In total, close to 90 groups or artists will take the stage, including several local musicians.

The festival is returning to where it began due to construction on the new Spring Garden Road library. The main stage is located on the Halifax waterfront. “It’s both excitement for something new ... and a little bit of nerves,� Healey said, referring to the change in location.

Visit halifaxjazzfestival.ca for complete details on the event.

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Three-year-old Bennett CoďŹƒn gets a mouthful of water as he plays in the Isleville spray park in Halifax on Thursday. Plenty of sunshine with temperatures of around 28 C made the spray park a popular place.

Halifax, get ready to dance and reminisce over the next nine days as a popular music festival celebrates its 25th anniversary.

Once a small, local talent festival, the TD Halifax Jazz Festival now draws international acts and had about 65,000 fans last year alone. “People love the jazz festival.

If you haven’t been down, you don’t really know how fun it can be,� said Laura (Lulu) Healey, the festival’s artistic director.

This year’s lineup includes big names such as bassist Christian McBride, who is under 40 but has played alongside Herbie Hancock and collaborated with Queen Latifah.

Local talent Jill Barber per-

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Almost half of 87 Sid prints already sold Sidney and father Troy take prints No. 87 and 86 for themselves MATTHEW WUEST

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When Robb Scott decided to put pencil to paper and draw hockey superstar Sidney Crosby, he says he worried he’d get laughed at.

But a little over a year later, the Truro native finds himself as the only Canadian artist authorized to work with Crosby, and his 20-by-28-inch, black-andwhite prints — 87 of them, signed by Scott and Crosby himself — are flying off the shelves for $1,000 a pop.

Cole Harbour hockey star Sidney Crosby tries his hand at drumming with patient Max Forsythe while playing Rock Band at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax on Wednesday.

The IWK announced Thursday that a contribution from the Sidney Crosby Foundation made possible the redevelopment of its teen lounge.

“I just tried it on a whim, thinking I would probably get laughed at, and to have this happen, it’s amazing,” says Scott, a father of three who has a full-time job in marketing with Pye Chevrolet.

The 36-year-old had drawn as a child but only realized his knack as a pencil artist 10 years ago, when he needed to assemble a portfolio to apply for architecture school.

After realizing his talent, he abandoned architecture school and spent the next decade paying his

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Hospital plays to a different beat dues as an artist.

“It’s something I’ve worked for 10 years for, doing all the crappy door-todoor sales and working on the waterfront (in Halifax),” he says. “It’s nice to finally have something like this pay off.”

It didn’t come without some risk. Crosby’s memorabilia company didn’t make any promises when Scott first pitched

the idea with a composite sketch. He was told they’d need to see a finished product before making a commitment.

“These drawings take me 120-plus hours to do,” Scott says. “It’s not just a small investment of time, and I thought it was a risk for myself and my family.”

But he decided to take the plunge, and received Crosby’s stamp of approval

in early June. The Pittsburgh Penguins star privately signed all 87 prints on June 20 near Halifax.

Scott hopes it’s a springboard to bigger and better things. For now, he’s enjoying his success and still can’t fathom the fact that his work has the endorsement of one of Canada’s most famous athletes.

“Just saying that still makes me smile,” he says.

Check out facebook.com/RobbScottDrawings and twitter.com/RobbScottArt

Meet our very own Bones. Look in Monday’s Metro for a story on Tanya Peckmann, a forensic anthropologist.

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Province reaches settlement deal The Nova Scotia government says it has reached a settlement agreement in a proposed class-action lawsuit filed less than two years ago over a failed immigrant program.

Tom Peck, a spokesman for the Immigration Department, says the settlement still has to be approved in court.

He says that’s expected to happen Friday, at which time details of the deal will be made public.

The suit was filed in December 2009 on behalf of

News in brief

Bail hearing postponed HATCHET CASE. The bail

hearing for one of two people charged in a downtown Halifax hatchet attack has been adjourned to later this month.

Benjamin Joshua Gillis, 20, was scheduled for a bail hearing Thursday, but it is now on July 20, the same day as the co-accused, Shane Lee Croke, 22.

On Tuesday, police were called to the vicinity of Duke and Barring-

Peter King, who moved to Halifax from the U.K. in 2006 and paid to participate in the now-defunct program. The program was supposed to pair new immigrants with on-the-job training, but a statement of claim alleged that King couldn’t secure work and eventually accepted a position in British Columbia.

The provincial government refunded immigrants who met certain requirements, but King didn’t meet the criteria.

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Lower tuition luring students to N.L.: Study RYAN TAPLIN/METRO

Out-of-province students at MUN up 500% from 1999 to 2009 ALEX BOUTILIER

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ton streets after receiving a call about a man being struck in the head with what turned out to be a hatchet. The victim received non-life-threatening injuries. METRO

Police need your help MISSING WOMAN. Police are asking for help from the public to find a woman who has not been seen since leaving a Nova Scotia hospital a week ago.

Officers say 26-year-old Caitlin Elizabeth Cameron was reported missing when she failed to return to the Cape Breton Regional Hospital in Sydney.

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Students walk in front of the Henry Hicks building on the Dalhousie University campus in this ďŹ le photo.

1,348 The number of Maritime students studying at Memorial University in 2010. The total student population at the school was 14,143.

The number of students from Nova Scotia enrolled at Newfoundland and Labrador’s Memorial University increased by 1,079 per cent from 1997 to 2009.

That is more than the number of students from New Brunswick (800 per cent) and Prince Edward Island (418 per cent) who headed elsewhere in Atlantic Canada for their post-secondary education.

A new study by researchers at MUN’s faculty of education found lower tuition is the main factor driving students to Newfoundland and Labrador.

The study, titled Matriculating Eastward, notes that while average tuition fees increased by 7.7 per cent in Nova Scotia from 1999 to 2009, average fees in Newfoundland dropped by 37.4 per cent.

For prospective students and their families, that means a $3,133 difference in tuition between the two provinces.

Nova Scotia removed the cap on tuition fees earlier this year, allowing universities to increase fees by up to three per cent.

“While there is some debate on the impact of tuition-fee increases on enrolment, there is ample evidence to suggest that downward enrolment pressure resulting from increases in tuition fees tends to be disproportionately shouldered by individuals from lower-income backgrounds,� reads the report. “In the absence of additional needs-based financial assistance, large increases in fees are likely to specifically and differentially curtail access for some segments of the population.�

According to the Canadian Federation of Students, the push from the Maritimes to Newfoundland and Labrador is partially attributable to tuition freezes and reductions over the last decade.

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A judge has adjourned the case of a former provincial Liberal facing 33 charges related to the spending scandal at the Nova Scotia legislature.

Dave Wilson, the former member for Glace Bay, was expected to enter a plea Thursday but the case was set over until Sept. 2 because Wilson recently retained a new lawyer.

Wilson did not appear in provincial court.

He faces 31 charges of uttering forged documents and one count each of breach of trust and fraud.

Wilson was represented

by Halifax lawyer Alfred Seaman, who told the court that his client had only recently retained defence lawyer Steven O’Leary of Glace Bay. Outside court, Crown attorney Andrew Macdonald

Police officers investigate at the scene of a domestic-related stabbing on Thursday morning in Fairview.

Stabbed man charged in domestic incident 31-year-old accused of assault causing bodily harm Dad severely beaten in altercation, mom alleges ALEX BOUTILIER

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A 31-year-old man is facing assault charges after an early morning altercation with his father at a home in Fairview.

Halifax Regional Police were called to 174 Main Ave. just before 9 a.m. on Thursday after receiving reports of a stabbing.

When they arrived on scene, they found the 31year-old suffering from a stab wound. His 53-yearold father was found in the residence, beaten.

Both men were taken to

The 31-year-old man is to appear in Halifax provincial court on Friday.

hospital with non-lifethreatening injuries.

A woman at the scene identified herself as the mother of the 31-year-old and wife to the 53-yearold.

She said her son, who was recently released from jail, was attempting to break into the house when his father confronted him. “(The 31-year-old) was on top of (the 53-year-old),

and pummelling (him), trying to pummel him to death,” alleged the woman.

She then said her younger son, 17, intervened and stabbed his brother in the side.

Police are not confirming the name of anyone involved, but did say the three men knew each other.

Police spokesman Const. Brian Palmeter also confirmed the 31-year-old is known to police. “(A domestic) dispute of this seriousness is something that we thankfully don’t see a lot of,” he said.

Also charged Also facing charges related to the spending scandal are Trevor Zinck, the independent MLA for Dartmouth North, and former MLAs Richard Hurlburt and Russell MacKinnon.

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said Wilson had to hire a new lawyer after his former counsel, Mark Gouthro, was recently appointed as a Crown attorney in Sydney.

“We put the matter over to give Mr. O’Leary an opportunity to familiarize himself with the file,” said Macdonald.

Wilson resigned without explanation in March 2010, saying only that he

Driver clocked going 176 km/h, say RCMP A 20-year-old woman has been charged with stunting after Halifax police say she was clocked driving 176 km/h in a 100 km/h zone on Highway 107 near Head of Chezzetcook.

Halifax RCMP say the woman was behind the wheel of a Dodge Charger and was pulled over for exceeding the speed limit around 8 p.m. on Wednes-

day near Exit 21.

Under the province’s stunting law, drivers automatically lose their licence for one week and their car is impounded.

If convicted, they also face a minimum fine of $2,410.

The driver, who is from Head of Chezzetcook, will appear in court at a later date.

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could no longer fulfil his duties. He is one of three former members of the legislature charged by the RCMP in February following a nine-month investigation.

One current member of the legislature has also been charged.

The investigation was initiated after auditor general Jacques Lapointe gave police forensic audit files on specific transactions involving five former and one current member of the legislature.

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Top honour again for Cape Breton Cape Breton is the No. 1 island destination in Canada and the continental United States, according to Travel and Leisure magazine’s 2011 World’s Best Awards.

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Malaysian kids held captive

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Man with a machete holds kindergartners hostage for six fearful hours A man carrying a machete barged into a Malaysian kindergarten and held children and teachers hostage for six tense hours Thursday.

The man threatened to kill the children unless he was given a gun, police said.

The children were heard singing in what was believed to be an attempt to calm the man.

Finally, police shot him in the head.

The 30 children and four teachers were not harmed, officers said.

The unidentified man was in hospital in critical condition after sustaining a single bullet wound to the head, said Jalaluddin

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Labrador government to cull the moose population. The Save Our People Action Committee says killing the animals to save human lives is socially acceptable.

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MAKING A SPLASH. Youppi,

the one-in-10-million orange lobster, has found a new home — far from a scalding pot of boiling water.

The rare crustacean, whose orange shell makes him look like he has already been cooked, is being transferred from a Quebec supermarket to a nature centre that will build a brand new saltwater tank to put him on display.

Paramedics carry the hostage-taker to an ambulance after he was shot by police.

Abdul Rahman, deputy police chief in southern Johor state.

“All the 30 children, aged between three and five years, and their four teachers are safe,” he was quoted as saying.

A Johor police officer

said the man wielded a machete and a hammer when he barged into the kindergarten in a residential area in Johor.

The man, believed to have mental problems, forced the hostages to go upstairs in the two-storey

building.

Police managed to enter the ground floor and were heading up the stairs when the man attacked them with his weapons and a fire extinguisher.

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Group wants moose cull HIGHWAY SAFETY. A group

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Canadarm’s last flight SPACE ICON. The iconic Canadarm is making its final flight aboard a U.S. space shuttle. It will be put to work on the shuttle Atlantis, due to be launched Friday morning — weather permitting.

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Men appeal in murder case FAMILY KILLED. Two B.C. men found guilty of beating to death a Seattle family with baseball bats in 1994 will appeal their murder convictions in Washington state Friday.

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Shanghai family discovers the beauty of good advice on Atlantic shore While an eye for beauty is similar around the world, banking methods are very different in a new country, according to Quanhong Chen, who brought his family to Canada in 2009.

Drawn to Atlantic Canada’s peaceful beauty, Mr. Chen and his wife Li – successful beauty professionals from Shanghai – soon realized the challenges of settling in a foreign land.

Fortunately, they found solid ďŹ nancial advice, in their native language, to unveil their goal of homeownership by the sea.

By chance, during a tour of Halifax, the family’s creative spirit was ignited when they stumbled upon a house that matched Mr. Chen’s aesthetic ideal. “I always dreamed of a home with a view of water, trees and flowers,� he recalls, describing the sixbedroom home on Bedford Basin that bore no comparison to their cramped Shanghai apartment.

Mr. Chen also advises other newcomers to seek quality counsel from a banker who understands their concerns, including the need for credit upon arrival to help cover high settlement costs.

Now the Chen family is busy, both enjoying and enhancing the local beauty, as operators of the Cantrust Salon in Clayton Park, Halifax. “While business and banking are different here, beauty is the same – we love the friendly people, and we feel positive about our future.�

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Germany approves embryo screening

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Morality of genetic testing at heart of heated debate After an emotional debate, German lawmakers voted Thursday to allow a procedure that looks for genetic disorders in embryos before they are implanted in the womb.

Lawmakers voted 326260 to permit the procedure known as preimplantation genetic diagnosis under strict conditions after a debate that cut across party lines. Eight lawmakers abstained.

The procedure is sometimes used after in-vitro fertilization, when parents whose families have a history of genetic disorders want to avoid having a child with a lethal or severely debilitating birth defect.

Elsewhere in Europe and in the U.S., the test is often used in infertile couples

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Thursday.

who have failed in previous attempts to have children while using IVF in hopes that the test will boost their chances of implanting the best embryo.

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Debates on procedures that involve genetic selection tend to be tinged in Germany by memories of the country’s Nazi past, but no one mentioned that during the debate.

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Anthony to be freed Sentencing comes 3 years after her daughter was reported missing

Casey Anthony will be freed next week after spending nearly three years in jail on accusations she killed her two-year-old daughter, punctuating a case that captured Americans and bitterly divided many over whether she got away with murder.

While cleared of charges of killing and abusing her daughter Caylee, Anthony was con-

victed of lying to investigators and sentenced Thursday to four years, the maximum punishment.

But she was given credit for the time she has already served and her good behaviour, and she was set to be released Wednesday.

Judge Belvin Perry also fined her $1,000 US on each of the four counts.

Before her sentence was announced, the 25-year-

old Anthony was animated, smiling and occasionally played with her hair, which was let down for the first time since her trial began in late May. Perhaps she thought, like many, that she would be let go Thursday. Her demeanour turned stonefaced when she heard she would be spending more time in jail.

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Insanity verdict for ‘zombie’ stabbing A teenager from Canada who allegedly stabbed to death a 21-year-old man in Glasgow after hearing voices saying the man was a zombie who was going to attack him, has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.

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Davis had just finished work and was on his way to a second job when Zhan allegedly stabbed him three times. He underwent surgery but died the next day.

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Troops wrap up Afghan mission Canada officially transfers control over to the U.S. 950 of our troops will train Afghan security forces 0RAFIQ MAQBOOL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Canada formally ended its combat mission in Afghanistan on Thursday after years of being on the front lines of the fight against Taliban insurgents in the south.

The withdrawal of 2,850 Canadian combat troops comes at a time when the Taliban continue to show their resilience, peace talks are in their infancy, and governance and development are lagging security gains on the battlefield.

Underscoring the persistent dangers, a roadside bomb killed eight Afghan policemen in the northern district of Fayz Abad.

Northern Afghanistan has seen a rise in violence over

Brig.-Gen. Dean Milner, commander of Canadian Forces Kandahar, gestures after a transfer-ofcommand-authority ceremony at the Kandahar airbase in Afghanistan Thursday.

the past two years.

“It's safe to say that the country of Afghanistan remains volatile,” said Defence Minister Peter MacKay. “There have been very hard-fought gains

made as far as the stability and security, but it is fragile and much of the responsibility rests, of course, with the government of Afghanistan.”

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South Sudanese brace for their independence DAVID AZIA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The people of South Sudan finally get their own country on Saturday, an emotional independence celebration few thought possible during a half century of civil wars and oppression that left more than two million dead.

Military parades and celebrations will burst forth Saturday in front of dozens of visiting world leaders.

But South Sudan must face grim realities: It will be one of the most underdeveloped countries on the planet, only 15 per cent of its citizens can read and fears of renewed conflict abound.

South Sudan’s successful independence drive was made possible by a 2005 peace deal between Sudan’s north and south. Last January, former guerrilla fighters shed tears as they cast votes to break away from the control of the Khar-

toum-based north.

Among those who cast ballots at special U.S. polling stations were some of the 3,800 war orphans known as the Lost Boys of Sudan, who ran away from war and fled to the U.S. In the southern capital of Juba, the Republic of South Sudan’s new national anthem blared from cellphones.

“It took a

combination of bullets and ballots to attain our hardearned independence,” reads one sign beside an intersection.

Major challenges include reforming a bloated and often predatory army, diversifying the solely oilbased economy, and deciding how political power will be distributed.

Deadly fall at ex-B.C. premier’s home

Court gives mining project go-ahead

Yukon politician dies in car crash

A worker has died after falling through a skylight at the vacation home of former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell.

WorkSafeBC and the coroner confirmed the man died at least one day after the fall, which occurred July 4 at B.C.’s Halfmoon Bay.

A court case that could have increased First Nations influence over Yukon mining has supported the existing assessment and regulatory system. The Liard First Nation had asked to suspend a decision that allowed Selwyn Chihong Mining Ltd. to proceed with a project.

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Steve Cardiff, 53, died Wednesday when the car he was in hit a truck south of Whitehorse. Cardiff was first elected in 2002 and represented the southern Yukon riding of Mount Lorne for two terms. He planned to run again in the territorial election this fall. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Conflict zone The north-south civil war took place from 1983-2005 The north is mostly Arab, while traditional African religions and Christianity are practised in the south.

Women from Jonglei state gather during a rehearsal for independence celebrations Thursday.

Violence has killed nearly 2,400 this year alone.

Seven different rebel militias operate in the south.

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U.S. lawmakers try to hammer out a deal to avert a default on debt It would be the first time in history that the U.S. has missed a payment Spectre of debt Obama says the government needs to raise the $14.3-trillion debt limit

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sional and presidential elections. Democrats are already campaigning as defenders of social programs while Republicans oppose any tax increases.

The White House has also said Obama is aiming for

deficit reduction closer to $4 trillion over 10 years, nearly double the roughly $2 trillion that had been at the centre of negotiations.

Raising the U.S. debt ceiling is usually little more than a formality, but Republicans who control the House of Representatives say they won’t go along without major spending cuts, and they will not accept tax increases, something Obama has said will be necessary. “People were frank,�

Obama said, just moments after adjourning the meeting with the eight lawmakers who make up the bipartisan leadership of Congress. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Rupert and Wendi Murdoch arrive for the 2011 Allen and Co. Sun Valley Conference on Thursday in Idaho. News International announced it is shutting down the News of the World.

Murdoch shutting down tabloid News of the World Paper accused of bribing sources and phone hacking The Murdoch media empire unexpectedly killed off the muckraking News of the World tabloid Thursday after a public backlash over the illegal guerrilla tactics it used to expose the rich, the famous and the royal and remain Britain’s bestselling weekly newspaper.

The abrupt decision stunned the paper’s staff of 200 and ignited speculation

that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. plans to rebrand the tabloid to prevent a phone-hacking scandal from impacting a bid for a far more lucrative television deal.

“This Sunday will be the last issue of the News of the World,” James Murdoch, son of the media magnate, announced in a memo.

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Mother-in-law from hell. No, not my mother-in-law. She’s great.

I’m referring to the MIL who NEIL MORTON sent a scathing email gone viMETRO ral to her future daughter-inlaw insulting her for a lack of ladylike behaviour. Lesson learned: If your MIL sends you a nasty email, take the high road. Don’t reply. Simply forward her email to a few friends and watch it go viral.

Jose Bautista. In an era of flamboyant star athletes, how refreshing is it that down-to-earth Blue Jay slugger Jose Bautista will not only be starting next Tuesday’s all-star game, but also set a record for the most votes ever cast for a single player in Major League Baseball history: 7,454,753 votes.

The Twitter friends. Only in the social media age!

Two women who met on Twitter, Megan and Beth, become real-life friends and begin a video series The Twitter Friends (thetwitterfriends.com). In “I’m referring every episode, they sit and chat about the neatest to the things they have (mother-in-law) discovered from tweeps. who sent a Check it out, then tweet about it. scathing email Kevin Bacon. Kevin gone viral (Six Degrees of Sepato her future ration) Bacon turns daughter-in-law 53 today. He has been insulting her for around so long that his 1984 iconic film Footloose a lack of ladylike has been remade for behaviour.” release later this year.

Don’t worry Kevin, this news makes a lot of us feel ancient.

Brady and Lang in the morning. On your groggy morning commute, if a Timmy’s double-double alone won’t pick you up, turn the dial to Fan 590 radio where its morning team, Greg Brady and Jim Lang, bring it. Whatever Kool-Aid these Energizer bunnies drink before they gab about all things jock, I want some.

Will & Kate tour ends. Their rock star-esque nineday, seven-city tour of Canada finishes today in Calgary. Next stop: Los Angeles. Where they will fit right in. Yes, Will-Kat are the next Brangelina, with enormous power to effect positive change.

Casey Anthony. She was found not guilty. And no O.J. jokes because they have all been done already. But, yes, a rather astonishing verdict to many. At the very least, as @piersmorgan tweeted after the verdict, “Not guilty of murder ... but still guilty of being a shockingly bad mother. #CaseyAnthony” Hot dogging it. Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island, Brooklyn, N.Y., by consuming 62 hotdogs in 10 minutes. Now I don’t feel so bad about pigging out on Canada Day.

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Cartoon by Michael de Adder Worth mentioning BENGHAZI, Libya.

Moammar Gadhafi is loved in Libya’s rebel capital — as a subject for street artists to mock.

Caricatures of the Libyan leader dot walls and buildings across Benghazi in renderings that range from crude sketches to elaborate satire such as Gadhafi being knocked around by a rebel-flagged boot or depicted with a Nazi swastika.

Before Libya’s uprising, even a hint of dissent risked a crushing response from Gadhafi’s security forces. Now, it’s open season on Gadhafi in rebel-held territory.

For some aspiring cartoonists — and others wanting to make their mark — this means getting out their spray paints and markers to display their opposition.

Rida, a 35-year-old barber and interior designer before the rebellion, makes dozens of Gadhafi sketches each day. Some have shown him in a trash can or with his clothes blown off by a U.S. jet fighter.

“I cannot fight with arms, but I can kill him with my pencil,” said Rida.

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A dog that went missing seven years ago will be reunited with her original owner after living for all that time with another family in the same Arkansas town.

Andrew Navarette told animal control officers that he let his Shih Tzu, Mimi, out in the backyard of his Rogers, Ark., home seven years ago, but when he went to retrieve her she had disappeared, the Rogers Morning

News reported Thursday. Navarette was unable to track Mimi down, even though she had a microchip containing his contact information.

Some time later, Kim Rafter of Rogers acquired the animal from someone in good faith, renamed her Gizmo, and has cared for her ever since. Meanwhile, Navarette relocated to Woodlake, Calif.

Last Saturday, Mimi showed up at an animal shelter in Rogers where officials found the chip and called Navarette, who had kept the same cellphone number. Assistant shelter manager Matt Colston said Navarette was excited Mimi had been found and said he would pay for the Shih Tzu to be shipped to his home in California. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis and Jason Bateman in Horrible Bosses.

Bosses delivers the goods Richard Crouse and Phil Brown agree the premise of Horrible Bosses is a bit tired Despite that, it’s a funny movie that induces pants-wetting laughs

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Richard Crouse: Phil, of course no reasonable person would break into their bosses homes looking for ways to kill them, but this is a comedy so we’ll accept that. Or will we? I thought the movie started off strong, funny and well paced, but its central premise — let’s kill our bosses! — seems forced and it sucks some of the funny from the middle part of the movie. What did you think?

Phil Brown: Richard, I’ve got to go the other way.

The premise of having a terrible boss that makes

your life hell is sadly all too relatable for many, but the opening bad boss gags felt tired even with the R-rated facelift. It didn’t click for me until the murder element turned the movie into a live action cartoon with a sick sense of humour.

RC: Interesting, I felt as though I was watching a funny enough movie marred by a silly premise.

It’s one thing to have some drinks and joke about killing your boss, it’s quite another to act on it. I don’t want to beleaguer this point, but the crucial setup scene to me felt forced, like a weak lead in to a funny punch line. Having said that, Charlie Day

made me laugh. A lot.

PB: The whole premise is old and they even namedropped two movies that did it better (Strangers On A Train and Throw Mamma From The Train). I think we can both agree that things really got rolling in the second half when it deviated from that form. Charlie Day definitely induces pants-wetting laughter consistently and I think the cast made this movie work through an improvisation festival. The only problem is that comedy style kills narrative momentum and there was no real tension in the thriller aspect of the story. Though I suppose the laughs are more important.

RC: And there are plenty of laughs. I don’t want to be Debbie Downer here. The movie is funny. It was cool to see Kevin Spacey revive his character Buddy from Swimming with Sharks, and if this doesn’t wipe away any traces of Rachel left over from Jennifer Aniston’s TV work I don’t know what will. Now, I guess, she’s America’s Foul Mouthed Over Sexed Sweetheart.

PB: In my mind, she always will be. Despite the inconsistencies, Horrible Bosses delivers the goods and will always be the only movie featuring Colin Farrell doing a coked-up Michael Keaton impression with a comb-over.

The website Funny Or Die debuted a Field of Dreams sequel Wednesday.

Twilight star Taylor Lautner plays the equivalent of Kevin Costner in a mock movie trailer that quickly drew more than 150,000 views.

The video, Field of Dreams 2: Lockout, is a riff on the NFL labour negotiations.

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With the final Harry Potter movie hitting theatres next week, Metro takes a look at life after a decade of Hogwarts

A Potter post-mortem COURTESY WARNER BROS

We take a stab at writing book 8 everal years after the fall of Voldemort — and the flight of the remaining Death Eaters to Brazil — newly Certified Public Accountant Harold J. Potter has finally started to settle down into a normal, almost Muggle-ish life. He and Ginny Weasley, flush with excitement over the birth of their first son, now battled nothing more sinister than the occasional dirty, levitating diaper. But one day Harold went on a business trip to the Ministry of Magic. There he was informed that, through a complicated series of risky dragon scale default swaps and unregulated wand sales to nonmagical beings, the very economic foundation of their world was in jeopardy. Harold also learned that the new Minister of Magic — Harold’s old Quidditch teammate Oliver Wood — had just been found murdered in a Slytherin dormitory at Hogwarts. Harold’s thoughts turned to Voldemort, the only being capable of such cruelty. But the Ministers told Harold the name that had been scratched into the skin of poor Oliver, and Harold knew he faced a new enemy. The name scratched into Wood’s body, the ministers told Harry, was...Mrs. Norris.

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Wands out one last time: Daniel Radcliffe in a scene from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.

What’s the next big series?

The Hunger Games Premise: Every year, one boy and one girl must fight to the death in a televised event, brought to you by the evil government in charge of the land of Panem.

The movies: The first is filming now. Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar-nominee, will play our hero, Katniss Everdeen.

Chances of it taking off: High. It’s not corny, but clever.

Snow White and the Huntsman Premise: Our heroine is cast out by a wicked witch, and ordered to die at the hands of a hunter.

The movies: Kristen Stewart leaves one franchise for another, playing a tough version of Snow White.

Chances of it taking off: Fair.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Premise: A kid discovers his dad is the Greek god Poseidon. Rick Riordan’s series has five books so far.

Chances of it taking off: Despite a lack of buzz, the first film made more than $200 million worldwide.

What’s next for the Potter stars?

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Daniel Radcliffe (Harry) Currently singing and dancing in the Broadway musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, he earned rave reviews, even if the production itself didn’t. Chances of future success: 4 out of 5 wands

Emma Watson (Hermione) Already a fashion magazine staple, Watson has left the genre ghetto for trendy indies. Chances of success: 5 out of 5 wands

Rupert Grint (Ron) Is he ambitious, or just a stoner? Either way, Ron will likely make likeable movies that no one will see.

Chances of success: 3 out of 5 wands

Tom Felton (Draco) He’s getting attacked by primates in Ride of the Planet of the Apes, out this August. Chances of success: 2 out of 5 wands

Alan Rickman (Snape) Rickman will star in The Seminar, a new Broadway play, this fall.

Chances of success: After Die Hard, Potter and countless plays, the man’s a legend. Plus, we’re too scared to say otherwise. SAM CASTONE

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A Pooh for a new century

Movie reviews

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Disney gives Winnie the Pooh a more contemporary feel, yet stays true to the classic charm of the original HANDOUT

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Winnie the Pooh has Canadian roots. The beloved A.A. Milne creation, a potbellied bear with a taste for “hunny,” was based on a real-life Canadian black bear that lived at the London Zoo. Brought to the zoo by Lieutenant Harry Colebourn during the First World War, the bear was named Winnie after the soldier’s hometown of Winnipeg.

It’s fitting, then, that the new Disney Winnie the Pooh movie had many Canadians help bring it to the screen.

“It’s like winning the lottery having worked here,” says Alberta native Brian Ferguson of his 21 years working at the House of Mouse.

His first job after joining the company was animating the company’s mascot in Mickey Mouse’s Prince and the Pauper. “It’s such a simple design,” he says, “but if you get a pencil thickness off in the proportions, it looks wrong.”

That’s a lesson he took with him when drawing the classic characters in Winnie the Pooh.

“The people who did the first Winnie the Poohs were masters and the stuff they did then, wow,” he says. “Even as an experienced animator I look at it and go, ‘Oh my goodness, I wouldn’t have thought of that.’ It’s subtle little things that make a character be just a little away from normal. It’s the subtle difference between, ‘I would never have done it that way,’ to ‘I would never have thought to do it that way.’”

Nik Ranieri, a Torontonian with 23 years at the studio, adds that while the classic look of Winnie the Pooh has been maintained in the movie, efforts have been made to update the feel of the film.

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“When I watch the film there are some things in there I don’t think you’d see in the old ones,” he says. “Look at the character of Rabbit. Some of those poses and expressions are a little more manic, but it doesn’t take away from the charm of the original. It just adds a little bit of contemporary feel to it.”

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amazingly — that isn’t actually as boneheaded as the premise sounds. As a man passionate about his zookeeping job, James’ character gets advice from his talking animals (voiced by the likes of Nick Nolte and Cher) on how to win back an ex.

It’s goofy, obvious, contrived and corny (there is

a trip to TGI Friday’s with a dancing gorilla, after all), but the humour is silly enough to amuse kids without resorting to toilet humour or sleaze for the adults. With this box of chocolates, you know exactly what you’re going to get, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

HEIDI PATALANO

marks a landmark — it’s her first Disney film. “I think I was four when I told my dad I wanted to work here,” she says. “He said, ‘OK, you can sell Coke in the parks in a mouse suit.’ Luckily it was animation instead.”

When I ask her if all the Disney Canucks have their own table in the cafeteria she nods and laughs, “We eat maple cookies and drink syrup.”

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FOR THE LOVE OF STEREO’S SOUND SOUND CHECK

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Whilst out walking the faithful bull terrier, the Beatles’ Strawberry Fields Forever came up on shuffle on the iPhone.

Although I’ve heard the song a zillion times, for some reason, I heard the swirl of sounds in a new way.

When it was recorded in late 1966, the concept of stereophonic sound — dividing a recording into left and right channels to create the illusion of spaciousness — was still very new.

Eager to explore the possibilities, the Beatles and producer George Martin went crazy, separating voices, instruments and even different parts of Ringo’s drums between two channels. It must have been pretty thrilling

Ringo, left, and Beatles’ producer George Martin.

for those lucky enough to have new-fangled stereophonic record players to hear these new sounds bounce between the left and right speakers.

Today, we take stereo for granted, although almost no one knows anything about the technology.

Although attempts at creating a stereo (or binaural) effect go back as far

as the late 1800s and were demonstrated repeatedly through the first half of the 20th century, applying the concept to easy-to-use consumer technology proved to be tricky.

An early effort to introduce stereo to connoisseurs of highfidelity sound came in 1953 with special vinyl discs with two sets of par-

allel grooves, one for the left channel and one for the right.

Naturally, you needed two needles mounted in a special (and expensive) tone arm.

Then Sidney Frey, the founder and president of a company called Westrex, came up with a solution. Westrex made the machines that cut master plates from which

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vinyl records were pressed. Frey’s people figured out how to transfer two-track stereo recordings from magnetic tape into just one groove on a disc.

On Dec. 13, 1957, Frey demonstrated his technology with an LP that featured Dukes of Dixieland on side one and railroad sound effects on side two.

By the following spring, sales of stereo recordings were in huge demand and musicians, freed from the limitations of monophonic (i.e. onechannel) recording, began to demand that recording studios outfit themselves with the latest technology.

By the early 70s, production of mono discs had all but stopped.

But mono still has its fans.

Old mono records from the Beatles (pre 1966) and Bob Dylan releases (196267) can be worth a lot of money to collectors.

Me? I’ll take the swirl of sounds every time.

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Fleet Foxes singer Robin Pecknold talks about the band’s follow-up album, Helplessness Blues PAT HEALY

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Fleet Foxes singer Robin Pecknold has made no secret of his struggles to overcome the dreaded “sophomore slump.”

After the folkie Seattle combo reached critical acclaim with their self-titled debut in 2008, it seemed that topping that effort would be difficult.

But with Helplessness Blues, it seems they have topped themselves. The songs are confident, richly acoustic and full of the energetic introspection that seems to hit artists hardest in their 20s. (Everyone from Rumer to Zach Galifianakis is into the new album.)

Pecknold has said the reason that it took so long to write and record their follow-up was his picky nature, which even led to him scrapping recordings the band had reportedly spent several thousands of dollars on. But it has paid off.

How does it feel to finally take these songs from the incubation process of writing and recording to audiences?

It’s been good to have the chance to sort of make the songs more physical and less cerebral. You can play louder or have it sound huge without feeling like the sound is too big and without the kind of hemming and hawing about what you’re doing in the studio. So that’s been

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good. It’s not like we had the songs all worked out live before we recorded, so this has kind of been our first chance to get to know them in some ways.

Were there any challenges in making that jump?

We had to rehearse for almost a month just to get all the parts down and all the chord changes. So that took a while, but it was fun to do as well.

What’s been the biggest surprise as far as crowd response?

There’s been a few. It really just depends on the crowd. We open the show with the instrumental from the album. It’s kind of funny that people are like, “Yeah!” for this little, small instrumental song.

And there’s this one line in one of the new songs where I really push my voice, and after that line in The Shrine people are always like, “Yeah!”

There are a lot of fruits blossoming within the lyrics of these songs. One goes, “If I had an orchard....”

My grandpa was an orchardist in Wenatchee, which is in Washington.

It’s a big apple-growing region. There’s an apple and orchard iconography up at the cabin. He’s passed away now, but me and my brother Sean just go up there and work on stuff together, and there’s a lot of stuff up there that’s applerelated and there’s Yeats poems on the walls. I feel like that’s probably where a little bit of it came from.

The orchard thing is not literal at all, or wasn’t meant it to be.

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said to be an allegory for something going on in the real world. It kicks off with two back-to-back episodes. (HBO Canada).

Resolution of a cliffhanger?

FLASHPOINT. A new season

Hugh Dillon stars as Ed Lane in Flashpoint

Mockumentary with a purpose ALLEGORY. Movie star Paul Gross is the executive producer of the new sixpart, half-hour mockumentary series The Yard, which starts Friday.

It follows the day-to-day battle between two schoolyard gangs and mostly features kids between the ages of 10 and 13.

Billed as a satirical comedy, each episode is

of Flashpoint returns Friday with Ed battling for his life after being shot in last season’s cliffhanger.

Meanwhile, Cle Bennett (Lost Girl, Barney’s Version) joins the cast as a diamond-inthe-rough recruit and Victor Garber (Alias) guest stars as a hard-nosed military psychologist bent on disbanding Team One for good. (CTV).

Ode to female resilience WATER. Airing Saturday,

Deepa Mehta’s Oscarnominated film Water is an ode to female resilience as it follows

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three women forced to live in an ashram, or widow colony, in 1938 India.

They include the eightyear-old Chuyia, who questions not only her own confinement but the logic of sequestering widows.

Production of the provocative film was plagued by religious fundamentalists who deemed it anti-Hindu and threatened Mehta and her crew.

(A Channel).

Outcasts from across the pond SCI-FI. The British sci-fi se-

ries Outcasts lands on this side of the pond on Saturday with an ambitious premise — 10 years after Earth colonists arrive on Carpathia, they anxiously await the arrival of the last known transporter from their doomed home planet. (Space).

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Canadian TV is hitting full bloom this summer.

“You go on in the fall when all the big U.S. shows come and you get buried behind their promotional machine,” says comic Brent Butt, whose Vancouver-set sitcom Hiccups returned with new episodes at the end of May. “Maybe in the summer you get a chance to pop out a little more.”

The belief that most people cool down their viewing habits when the weather turns hot is not true, says Butt, convinced that a sizable number of couch-potatoes exist yearround.

The fresh crop includes a new season of CTV’s Flashpoint, premiering on Friday.

Film and TV star Paul Gross executive produces

Characters are shown in a scene from the new TV series The Yard.

The boys are back The long-awaited Trailer Park Boys followup hits the air July 22 on Action, with Mike Smith, Robb Wells and JP Tremblay playing very loose versions of themselves.

The Drunk And On Drugs Happy Funtime Hour centres on a fictional sketchvariety TV show that runs off the rails when the cast mistakenly ingests a powerful hallucinogen.

HBO Canada’s edgy satire The Yard, also debuting Friday, about the day-today struggle for supremacy between two schoolyard gangs.

On Global, the songand-dance competition Canada Sings debuts Aug. 10, pitting workplace glee clubs against each other in front of judges Vanilla Ice, Jann Arden, and Simple Plan rocker Pierre Bouvier.

Those are all on top of

last month’s return of Citytv’s Murdoch Mysteries, Global’s cop series Rookie Blue, CTV’s Dan for Mayor and the debut of Global’s Combat Hospital.

The influx of new summer episodes comes before the lucrative fall TV season, when the private broadcasters typically stack their schedules with big-budget, star-driven U.S. simulcasts.

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Bow Wow has a new pup running around Rapper admits to suicidal feelings Mazel tov to Bow Wow, who revealed on his website Wednesday that he’s a father to a baby girl.

The 24-year-old former child star and rapper/actor, whose real name is Shad Gregory Moss, also admitted suicidal feelings on the site. “For the past 3 years i been batteling life,� he wrote (we are not correcting his spelling or grammar). “Even thought about taking my own. I felt like as a kid i did everything and saw everything too fast which spoiled my adult years. I felt as if i had no purpose to live (Thinking selfishly) until god gave me the illest gift of my life. No lambo, no blk card nuffn ammounts to my lil girl.�

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Michaels’ lawsuit delayed Bret Michaels’ lawsuit over an accident at the 2009 Tony Awards that the singer claims nearly killed him should be heard in New York where the accident happened, a federal judge has ruled.

It makes more sense for the case — which stems from Michaels being hit in the head by a set piece after performing at Radio City Music Hall — to be handled by a federal court in Manhattan, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee wrote in a

ruling Tuesday.

The Poison frontman sued Tony organizers, claiming the accident contributed to a brain hemorrhage that nearly killed him.

Michaels is seeking unspecified damages on claims that show organizers never explained that the set would be changing after the band performed Nothin’ But a Good Time during the 2009 Tony Awards.

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Who will be the next star of Transformers?

OR WHO ELSE WILL HAVE THEIR CAREER RUINED BY MICHAEL BAY? The third

Transformers has made almost $200 million worldwide, so you know there will be a fourth.

But who will star, now that Shia LaBeouf has moved on?

The Internet says: Jason Statham, star of the Transporter films.

After Showbiz Spy reported the rumor, other sites speculated it may be true, partly because he’s dating Transformers 3 star Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley. METRO

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rejected a plea deal that would have resolved Willie Nelson’s marijuana possession case in West Texas with a fine, saying the country singer shouldn’t get what she considers special treatment.

Nelson was arrested in November after a Border Patrol agent said six ounces of marijuana were found on

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Hudspeth County Judge Becky Dean-Walker told The Associated Press on Wednesday that she rejected prosecutor Kit Bramblett’s suggestion that Nelson resolve the case by pleading guilty and paying a $500 fine for possession of drug paraphernalia.

Dean-Walker claims the prosecutor “doesn’t do that for anybody else.�

The judge says Nelson should be charged with the misdemeanour marijuana possession, which carries up to a year in jail.

Bramblett didn’t return a call Wednesday.

Nelson’s publicist declined comment.

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There are nutrients your body cannot produce.

Such nutrients, called “essential” and omega–3 fatty acids, from flaxseed oil or fish oil, are essential fatty acids. Studies show that omega– 3s have many health benefits including the capacity to support mental health and improve mood.

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A beautiful combination PETER ROCKWELL LIQUIDASSETS@EASTLINK.CA TWITTER: @THEREALWINEGUY

Combining wine with anything but an empty glass has been called a lot of things — and not all of them pretty.

It’s never bothered the Spanish. Their recipe for warm weather refreshment has survived for centuries as the popular red winebased, Mediterraneanmixer sangria.

While styles vary, you can make your own version using an inexpensive Spanish red or a value-priced, fruit-forward alternative like Hungary’s non-vintage Hungarovin Szekszárdi Vörös Kékfrankos ($9.68 - $12.79).

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Camp cuisine with a hint of gourmet Mike Faverman and Pat Mac’s Ultimate Camp Cooking proves roughing it doesn’t have to mean burnt hot dogs and trail mix This Chicken Cordon Bleu can be made in less time than it takes to put up a tent MARC KALLWEIT

Ingredients: • 6 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (2 to 3 pounds) • 6 slices Swiss cheese • 6 slices ham (lunch meat style) • 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour • 1 teaspoon paprika • 6 tablespoons unsalted butter • 1⁄2 cup white wine • 1 teaspoon chicken bouillon granules • 1 tablespoon cornstarch • 1 cup heavy whipping cream

Here’s my basic recipe: • 750 ml chilled red wine • 50 ml brandy • 50 ml orange liqueur • 250 ml lemonade • 250 ml raspberries • 1 orange (sliced • 1 lemon (sliced) • 1 green apple (sliced) • sugar to taste • soda water (optional) Combine fruit, brandy, orange liqueur and sugar in a glass pitcher. Refrigerate for an hour. To serve: Stir in chilled wine and lemonade.

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Chow grabs lead from Banks Strong winds play havoc in Round 2

Banks slips after scorching opening round TRURO DAILY NEWS

Wind or no wind, Truro’s Eric Banks isn’t making excuses.

Banks, the first-round leader at the Nova Scotia Golf Association men’s amateur championship, played in strong afternoon winds on Thursday and carded a 4-over-par 75 to fall back to second place, one stroke behind Ashburn’s Trevor Chow.

“It was way tougher than yesterday,” said Banks, who shot a 5-under 66 in Round 1 on Wednesday. “The wind was pretty strong at times ... but there’s no excuses, everybody has to play the same course.”

The par-71, 6,330-yard Truro Golf Club showed its teeth more yesterday than it did in the opening round. Just two players scored even par or better, compared to eight players who did so on Wednesday.

Banks, 18, birdied his first hole of the day, but made bogeys on Nos. 2 and 9 for an outward score of 1over 36. He bogeyed the par-5 10th, birdied the par5 12th and made doublebogey on what was probably the toughest hole of the day — the par-4 13th, which played straight into a wicked wind.

“It’s just different,” Banks said of playing in the wind. “But if you hit good shots anywhere in any conditions you are going to be rewarded, so you just have to really concentrate and try and hit good shots. You have to get your mind

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Eric Banks competes during the second round of the Nova Scotia Golf Association men’s amateur championship in Truro on Thursday.

around it and just commit to every swing.”

Banks said he won’t stray from the game plan heading into Friday’s third round.

“I’m just going to try and play better tomorrow than I did today and just stay focused on the shot I have at hand and not the let the wind distract me and just play my own game.”

Chow turned in another solid round, shooting even-

Leaderboard Leaderboard after 36 holes at the NSGA men’s amateur championship: 1. Trevor Chow, Ashburn 69 71 140 2. Eric Banks, Truro GC

par 71 for a 36-hole total 2under par.

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“There’s a lot of good young talent in our province for golf, so there’s a lot of good players

around me. It’s always nice having the lead but I think the tournament’s just beginning.”

Chow had an uneventful 1-over 36 on the front nine.

His back nine, however, couldn’t have been any more different. After making birdie on No. 10, Chow made double-bogey on No. 11, birdie on No. 12, bogeys on No. 13 and 15, birdie on No. 16 and eagle on the par-4 18th.

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Glenn’s gabbing gaffe and thoughts heading into Week 2 “It was Printers who over-reacted in a similar situation with the B.C. Lions two seasons ago.

He was released and the former MVP hasn’t been seen since.”

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Hamilton quarterback Kevin Glenn should take a lesson from Casey Printers, a former MVP whose big mouth and attitude had him punted from the Canadian Football League.

Going public with his displeasure after being pulled out of Hamilton’s season-opening loss to the Win-

nipeg Blue Bombers, Glenn said, “It just felt like a smack in the face.”

It was Printers who over-reacted in a similar situation with the B.C. Lions two seasons ago.

He was released and the former MVP hasn’t been seen since.

Quarterbacks are supposed to be team leaders, especially when everything goes wrong.

How they react to adversity is just one of the many ways they are evaluated.

Glenn was pulled in favour of backup Quinton Porter with the Tiger-Cats down by four points after the Hamilton starter threw his third pick.

He was back on the field this week, hopefully with a better attitude, taking reps with the Tabbies’ first-team offence as the club prepares for the Edmonton Eskimos.

Buckin’ Tough: If Winnipeg Blue Bombers fans are convinced the team is going nowhere without Buck Pierce at QB this season, they must have been terrified to

see their star get thumped in Week 1. Although Pierce bounced back on his feet, Hamilton linebacker Jamal Johnson hit him so hard it knocked the breath out every Manitoba resident.

Pierce proved he’s a tough dude, but the Bombers need to evaluate their pass protection to keep him on his feet.

Esks’ ace in the hole: The constant recycling of CFL coaches often comes back to bite teams.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a case in point after the Eskimos exploited the Green’s defensive tendencies in Week 1.

Edmonton offensive co-ordinator Marcus Crandell quarterbacked the Riders and knows the patterns of Riders defensive mastermind Richie Hall, who is back in Regina after two years in Edmonton as head coach. Esks QB Ricky Ray shredded the Riders D in Week 1, going 21-for-27 for 294

yards and three TDs. Kicking crisis in Calgary: Lose an import receiver or running back to injury and you can have a plane full of recruits in town overnight. Lose a Canadian kicker, as the Calgary Stampeders did last week against Toronto, and you really understand pain.

The Stamps are without injured placekicker Rob Maver (leg) this week and have added Rene Paredes, a player so obscure he isn’t even a household name in his own house.

Paredes spent four seasons at Concordia where he converted 54 of 79 field-goal attempts.

The 26-year-old non-import emerged from a pack of kickers the Stamps airlifted into town to try out, including CFL veterans Jamie Boreham and Matt Kellett.

Pirates no longer taking on water A year after enduring 105 losses, new manager has turned perennial losers into National League feel-good story JARED WICKERHAM/GETTY IMAGES

One by one, a seemingly endless train of reporters filed into first-year Pirates manager Clint Hurdle’s office on Wednesday.

Last season, the afternoon media session for a midweek game against a last-place opponent like Houston might have drawn a handful in this town where the Steelers rule and the Penguins are a marquee attraction.

But it seems like everybody wants to hear what Hurdle has to say these days.

An afterthought for virtually an entire generation, these pesky Pirates were only 1 1⁄2 games behind the National League Central lead as play began on Thursday.

“There’s been a mindset change in this clubhouse and in this organization,” second baseman Neil Walker said. “I think it’s a lot of guys, but Clint Hurdle has come in here and instilled confidence in every single

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Andrew McCutchen of the Pirates is congratulated by manager Clint Hurdle earlier this season.

one of us.”

In stark contrast to insipid predecessor John Russell, Hurdle is at his best with an audience. He cracks jokes, but he’s also not afraid to provide a stern hand with his players.

Perhaps no one knows both ends of that this sea-

“The players understand who they’re playing for — the city of Pittsburgh ...

People work hard for their money, and they want an effort.”

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son better than centrefielder Andrew McCutchen, the team’s best position player.

McCutchen was disci-

plined by Hurdle in May and left out of the lineup for not running out a ball in the dirt after he struck out.

But when McCutchen was a surprising omission for an all-star spot last weekend, Hurdle criticized those involved for the decision.

“That shows one way that he’s supportive and he’s behind us,” McCutchen said. “It feels good to be

able to hear what he had to say and to have that support by saying what he had to say and not really caring (about repercussions).

“That’s the person he is.”

Hurdle has recently spoken of the “joy” this season has brought him. The Texas Rangers’ hitting coach last season — after being fired midway through his eighth season as manager of the Colorado Rockies in 2009 — Hurdle said after a recent victory, “I’ve had a lot of different teams, but this team is an absolute blast to manage.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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DeLaet may miss Canadian Open with back injury Graham DeLaet is unsure if he’ll be able to compete on home soil at the RBC Canadian Open.

After sitting out the first few months of the PGA Tour season recover-

ing from back surgery, the 29-year-old has returned to the sidelines with some stiffness and discomfort. It may keep him from playing the Canadian Open at Vancou-

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Aquarius Jan. 21-Feb. 18 Anything that is petty will not only distract you but annoy you, too.

Steer clear of trivial people.

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20. Try to tone down your act a bit over the next 24 hours — but only a bit.

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TM TheHyundai names, logos, product names, feature names, images and slogans are trademarks owned by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. †Finance offers available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services based on a new 2011 Tucson L 5-speed/2011 Santa Fe 2.4L GL 6-speed/2011 Veracruz GL FWD with an annual finance rate of 0%/0%/0% for 72/84/84 months. Bi-weekly payment is $140/$142/$189. No down payment is required. Finance offers include Delivery and Destination of $1,760/$1,760/$1,760. Registration, insurance, PPSA, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. Delivery and destination charge includes freight, P.D.E., dealer admin fees and a full tank of gas. Financing example: 2011 Veracruz GL FWD for $34,259 at 0% per annum equals $188.24 bi-weekly for 84 months for a total obligation of $34,259. Cash price is $34,259. Example price includes Delivery and Destination of $1,760. Registration, insurance, PPSA, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. ‥Purchase or lease a 2011 Tucson/2011 Santa Fe/2011 Veracruz model during July 2011 and you will receive a preferred price Petro-Canada Gas Card valid for $0.30 per litre savings on each litre of gas up to a total of 900/900/900 Litres. Based on Energuide combined fuel consumption rating for the 2011 Tuscon L 5-speed (8.9L/100km)/2011 Santa Fe 2.4L GL 6-speed (9.0L/100km)/2011 Veracruz GL FWD (10.8L/100km) at 15,400km/year [yearly average driving distance (Transport Canada’s Provincial Light Vehicle Fleet Statistics, 2009)]. This card is valid only at participating Petro-Canada retail locations (and other approved North Atlantic Petroleum locations in Newfoundland). This card has no expiry date. Petro-Canada is a trademark of SUNCOR ENERGY INC. used under license. Petro-Canada is not a sponsor or co-sponsor of this promotion. Eligibility for the card is subject to conditions and exclusions. Offer not available on 2011 Elantra, 2011 Genesis Coupe, 2011 Genesis Sedan, and 2011 Equus models. ĘˆFuel consumption for 2011 Santa Fe 2.4L 6-Speed Automatic FWD (City 10.4L/100KM, HWY 7.2L/100KM)/2011 Tucson L (HWY 6.5L/100KM; City 9.1L/100KM)/2011 Veracruz GL FWD (HWY 8.5L/100KM; City 12.7L/100KM) are based on EnerGuide fuel consumption ratings. Actual fuel efficiency may vary based on driving conditions and the addition of certain vehicle accessories. Fuel economy figures are used for comparison purposes only. †‥Offers available for a limited time and subject to change or cancellation without notice. See dealer for complete details. Dealer may sell for less. Inventory is limited, dealer order may be required. ∞Based on the December 2010 AIAMC report. Ď€Based on the May 2011 AIAMC report. Ç™Based on projected sales figures incorporated into Table 28 of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s 2010 Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Fuel Economy Trends report. This comparison is limited to the top 14 highest-volume manufacturers in the U.S. based on the 2010 model-year fleet. BluetoothÂŽ word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc., and any use of such marks by Hyundai is under license. ∆See your dealer for eligible vehicles and full details of the Graduate Rebate Program. ††Hyundai’s Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage covers most vehicle components against defects in workmanship under normal use and maintenance conditions.

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