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Occupy camp breaks apart, but how do the pieces fall? ANDREW FRANCIS WALLACE/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Police move in, putting an end to 39-day encampment Park cleanup begins The Toronto Police spent yesterday dismantling the Occupy Toronto campground. Protesters, for the most part, made a graceful exit and the cops played nice. But now that St. James Park is tent-free, what’s next for the movement? Protesters: Like other evicted occupy groups before them, the protesters have to regroup and plan. Another legal battle is likely out of the question, said Kevin Konnyu, a 33-year-old volunteer facilitator. But some form of occupying is on the short-term agenda, he adds. Homeless: For the approximately 100 homeless people who slept in the park, police advised them to go to the Adelaide Resource Centre for Women to receive support. Local businesses: Rachel Young, co-founder of Camaraderie Coworking and organizer of Friends of St. James Park — a 40-person coalition of area business owners and residents who wanted the occupiers out — said she’s looking forward to the “revitalization” of the park and the return of lunching “business folk” and dog-walkers. Coffee shops: Staff at both Starbucks, at Church and Adelaide streets, and Second Cup, at King and Jarvis streets, predict sales will return to pre-occupa-

“It’s only because of occupying space and being slightly inconvenient that focus is put on massive injustices and inequalities.” KEVIN KONNYU, 33, A VOLUNTEER FACILITATOR FOR OCCUPY TORONTO

tion levels. Church: The Cathedral Church of St. James declined to comment. St. James Park: According to a City of Toronto press release, the full cost of cleanup and damage won’t be known for a couple of days. Once the park is clean, Parks, Forestry and Recreation staff will begin the restoration work — including winterizing the sprinkler system. Yurts: In October, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) helped purchase three yurts, worth about $20,000, made by Groovy Yurts inc., a Quebecbased company. “They’re going into storage,” said Heino Nielsen, administrator of the campaigns and communications department at OPSEU. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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Arena builder has ‘no expectations’ of NHL team CONTRIBUTED

The chairman of the group hoping to build a 20,000seat arena in Markham says that concerts alone are justification for the $300-million expense. W. Graeme Roustan of GTA Sports and Entertainment confirmed plans for a multi-use entertainment venue yesterday, but shot down suggestions the true aim of the “GTA Centre” is to snag an NHL team. “I have no expectations of having any professional

sports franchise at the GTA Centre as a tenant,” said Roustan, adding that concert promoters expect venues that large. The Air Canada Centre seats 19,800. Roustan, chairman of hockey apparel manufacturer Bauer, tried to buy the Montreal Canadiens in 2009. NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly confirmed Tuesday that the GTA Centre group had approached the league, but had been

told to assume nothing. The GTA Centre would sit on land owned by Remington Group, which is developing a larger swath of downtown Markham. Roustan said his group hopes to put a proposal before council in early 2012. Markham councillors are keeping mum on the venue, with some referring questions to the mayor, who was not available for comment yesterday.

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Transit town hall meeting running 6-9 p.m. at city hall council chambers The TTC is coming late to the customer-relations experience, acknowledges its new customer service chief, who’s holding the transit system’s first town hall meeting tonight. “There’s not many organizations in the world that would find it strange talking to their customers,” Chris Upfold said of the event. Such a meeting was among the 78 recommendations made by a blue-ribbon panel on TTC customer service last year. It would have come sooner, but the top priority — finding someone like Upfold — took time. The Canadian returned to Toronto after holding a similar job with the London Underground. Despite pervasive complaints about the transit service and impending

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cuts to buses in the new year, Upfold said he expects “good, positive customer engagement” to come out of the event. The first hour will be a marketplace, where riders can look at displays and talk to staff about TTC vehicles, service and plans. And then it will be an open microphone, he said. The first hour will focus on service quantity, routes and schedules. The second will be on the customer service experience. Upfold will be flanked by executives and staff from all corners of the TTC, the subway lines and Transit Control. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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Gary Webster, TTC chief general manager, announces yesterday the ﬁrst major customer service innovations since the TTC’s new customer service executive, Chris Upfold, right, joined the transit system.

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Trash party decadence Residents vent anger after taxpayer money used at private party in Durham

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Shrimp and sushi, no. Airconditioned tents, yes. Durham Region Chair Roger Anderson has apologized for spending so much of taxpayers’ money on frills at a private party

celebrating a controversial garbage incinerator. But he defended some costs such as food and furniture rentals for the $75,000 groundbreaking ceremony to which taxpay-

ers were not invited. “Yes, I made a mistake,” he told regional council Wednesday after several residents vented their anger over the Aug. 17 event.

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metronews.ca THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Space crunch could impel rapid transit

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Traffic at Union could nearly triple by 2031: Metrolinx Subway or light rail potential solutions ANDREW WALLACE/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

The ﬁve ﬁnalist titles — and the celebrities who will defend them — in this year’s Canada Reads competition were announced yesterday at the CBC Broadcast Centre. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-CBC-TANJA-TIZIANA BURD

Finalists listed in battle of the books Defenders, above from left, actor Alan Thicke with The Game by Ken Dryden, model Stacey McKenzie with On a Cold Road by Dave Bidini, lawyer Anne-France Goldwater who chose The Tiger by John Vaillant, Dragons Den star Arlene Dickinson takes Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat and hip-hop artist Shad is taking Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre.

A looming space crunch at Union Station and on the south end of the Yonge subway in 20 years could move up the prospect of another downtown subway or light rail line. One potential solution is to move up plans to create a downtown rapid-transit line (subway or light rail) from Exhibition Place to the Bloor-Danforth subway, which would relieve pressure on Union Station. Transit officials say current renovations at the station, including a new train shed roof, a shopping concourse, new exit and entry paths and a larger GO concourse, should accommodate growing ridership in the medium-term. But in two decades, GO expects to be running allday, two-way service on all its lines, and there won’t be enough room for people or trains at Union as the load of downtownbound commuters

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doubles. Meantime, the TTC will also be under pressure to accommodate more than double the number of people living downtown and a 25 per cent increase in the number of jobs in the core. The relief line scenario could see riders on the Barrie and Georgetown train lines ending their GO trip at a stop east of Union Station, in the Bathurst North Yard near Spadina Avenue.

From there they could access the new rapid transit line or the PATH. The plan could shift 35 per cent of GO train users to that station. Another option approved for further study is a Lakeshore GO tunnel to a new station east of Union near Yonge St., which would direct 40 per cent of GO riders to a second underground level. The underground track scenario would depend on GO trains being electrified. Metrolinx is still looking at how much those options would relieve traffic on the Yonge subway line. The study is a sign of the growing integration between TTC and the provincial agency Metrolinx, blurring the current distinction between urban and suburban services, said Metrolinx CEO Bruce McCuaig. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Dog owners walk again as protesters leave STEPHANIE FINDLAY/TORSTAR

It’s an understatement to say that the locals who frequented the St. James Park pre-occupation are happy to see the protestors gone — the dog walkers especially. After all, before the park was overrun with yurts, port-a-potties and ceremonial fires it was home to Woofstock, a festival celebrating all things Fido. “This is not just a park,” said Richard Paul, an agent for classical musicians, “this is where residents would socialize.” Paul and his grey, sevenyear-old Skye Terrier, Gomez, used to meet some 30 other owners and their pets at 5 p.m. daily. They’d talk while the dogs played. However, that stopped when the protestors arrived. Still, Paul’s problem isn’t with the protest per se but

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rather the righteous attitude of the occupiers. “There was a sense of entitlement,” said Paul, who is also a member of Friends of St. James Park, a coalition of about 40 locals in opposition to the occupation. “It’s the end of this particular little operation,” said Andrew, a 33-year-old engineer who walks Kenya, his 120-lb black and tan Swiss Mountain dog, at least twice a day through the park. (Kenya, says Andrew, is the only one of her kind in the area, the rest are “miserable condo dogs” like Chihuahuas). Andrew looks forward to

Kenya being able to run freely through the park chasing squirrels. Many locals bemoaned the transformation of the park from a green space to muddy mess. For others, the protest was a glimpse into a bohemian existence. “It reminded me of Nuit Blanche,” said Ben Frank, a member of the Canadian Armed Forces. At least one man will miss the opportunity to talk politics. “I spoke to them about the green party,” said Will, a 60-year-old litigation lawyer who frequents the park weekly to sit on the benches of the English-style garden and eat his lunch. “But others have spoken about anarchy,” he said, “I don’t buy that.” In conversation, residents living near St. James

Richard Paul with his dog yesterday afternoon at St. James Park. The Occupy Toronto protest camp is being dismantled in the background.

Park wonder who will foot the restoration bill. Ruth Pierce, a retired education consultant said the park used to be her oasis

where she listened to singing birds. But now, she says, it’s a potential burden on her pocketbook.

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Visa log-jam sparks legal battle CONTRIBUTED

Potential immigrants say Ottawa is moving too slowly People paid fees, but still waiting for decision More than 300 people around the world awaiting immigration visas have filed legal notices against the Canadian government, claiming they are being “warehoused” in a lengthy backlog. The notices, filed with the Federal Court of Canada, are asking Citizenship and Immigration Canada to process their applications within a reasonable time frame. The litigants, some of whom applied as far back as 2004, accuse CIC of violating a pledge to assess and finalize decisions in a timely fashion. “These people paid the application fees, but immigration has never even started processing their applications,” said Tim Leahy, one of the lawyers representing the litigants. The legal notices — from Asia to Africa, Europe and the Middle East

History repeats In 2002 and 2003, the federal government was confronted with a similar volley of court challenges to new regulations and the treatment of backlogged cases. Ottawa offered a $2.9 million settlement to 105,000 backlogged applicants, agreeing to get rid of the new rule that affected preexisting applications negatively, said Leahy, who led one of the lawsuits.

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Shrish Aithala in Dubai, where he is currently working. The computer engineer ﬁled his application for an immigration visa in 2006, but is still waiting for a decision to be made.

2008, when new laws were brought in to fasttrack new applications from skilled workers, and those who filed between 2008 and 2010, when fur-

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Shrish Aithala, who has a master’s degree in computer integrated engineering from New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology, filed his application in 2006 in New Delhi. “I cannot understand how the existing backlog can be bypassed. I’m sure there are skilled and educated people in the backlog ready to contribute to the economy,” Aithala, 36, told the Toronto Star from his current job in Dubai. “Because of the uncertainly of my application status, I have missed out on many opportunities as commitment was required from my side with regards to these work assignments.” Applicants who filed between 2008 and 2010 say they, too, are being unfairly treated since the application cap was brought in. The immigration department confirmed receipt of the legal notices, but declined to comment on the allegations. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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The federal government needs to take the lead in fighting child exploitation in Canada starting with a national databank on the problem, a Senate committee said Thursday. “Canadian children who are being sexually exploited, or are at risk of being sexually exploited, do not all have sufficient access to the services that could help them,” the committee wrote in a report prepared after two

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Liberal MP Marc Garneau has prepared a private member’s bill calling for a Children’s Commissioner.

CBC must hand over papers The CBC has lost another key court battle in its efforts to keep internal documents secret. The Federal Court of Appeal unanimously ruled against the public broadcaster yesterday, saying the CBC is legally required to turn over material for re-

view by the information commissioner of Canada. The case involved 16 requests for information the CBC said it did not have to provide. It cited a provision in the law that allows it to protect journalistic, creative and programming material. The broadcaster also re-

fused to allow information commissioner Suzanne Legault to examine the documents to review its decision. Legault took the case to Federal Court, winning in 2010 and again yesterday after the CBC appealed. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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unheeded call from 2007 to name a parliamentary Children’s Commissioner to represent the interests of the country’s youngest and most vulnerable citizens. That commissioner would ensure the government was taking effective steps to follow and address such issues as child abuse, child prostitution and child pornography, and make sure Canada was fulfilling its duties un-

der the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Liberal MP Marc Garneau has prepared a private member’s bill calling for a Children’s Commissioner, but it has yet to come before the Commons for debate. The senators also emphasized the gravity of the problem of sexual exploitation in First Nations and Inuit communities. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Chinese firm could face trial for oilsands deaths A unit of a giant Chinese petrochemical corporation can face trial on safety charges in the deaths of two oilsands workers. The Alberta Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that Sinopec Shanghai Engineering Co. can be prose-

cuted under the Health and Safety Act. The court also ruled that the Crown can apply to hold a trial on the charges under the Criminal Code if Sinopec Shanghai does not show up in court. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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French only in the schoolyard?

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Montreal survey says 70 per cent of respondents support the speak French in all school spaces effort HANDOUT

The Quebec government is reacting favourably to a plan by a Montreal school board to ban any other language than French from its schoolyards. Culture Minister Christine St-Pierre says the French-language Commission scolaire de Montreal would be making an important effort to promote Quebec’s majority language. “I think that children who attend school in French must obviously speak French among themselves,” she said yesterday. “To say that it must be French in the schoolyard sends a clear message and that message is, ‘Listen, you must learn French.’” However, commission

Quebec Culture Minister Christine St-Pierre

chairwoman Diane de Courcy says there would be no sanctions against anyone speaking English, Arabic or Spanish, for example. “Education works by persuasion and repetition. We don’t work by punishment,” she said. Under Quebec’s French-

language charter, most immigrants and francophones must send their children to French school. However, students generally speak whatever language they want out in the schoolyard. De Courcy says the commission wants to improve students’ French. She also points out that many students come from different cultural communities and have French as their third language after their mother tongue and English. St-Pierre backs this. “There are 76,000 students from cultural communities in Montreal. ... So it’s important to send the message that elementary and secondary school happens in French.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

Quebec Premier Jean Charest speaks of tourism for the Plan Nord, a northern Quebec development plan, yesterday in Quebec City. JACQUES BOISSINOT/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Quebec looks north for a vision

Plan Nord sets out a vision for the future development of Northern Quebec, and is intended as “an exemplary sustainable development project combining energy, mining, forest, bio-food, tourism and transportation development, wildlife development, environmental protection and biodiversity protection,” Charest’s government said in press release.

Polar popularity pulling on purse strings JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Call them Canada’s billion dollar bears. While it’s no secret that polar bears have captured Canadians’ hearts, they’ve apparently got us by the purse strings, too. Canadians would be willing to pay $6.3 billion per year to ensure the polar bears do not disappear, according to an Environment Canada report. With 15,000 of these majestic creatures roaming the Canadian Arctic, that’s about $420,000 per bear —

slightly less than the average price of a house in Toronto. The multi-billion dollar value comes from a variety of the bears’ charming, albeit hard to quantify, qualities, the report says. The polar bear’s image is constantly used in advertising campaigns, the report points out. (Think of Coca Cola’s obsession with the great, white bear around Christmas and its $2 million contribution to the World Wildlife Fund.) The iconic image of ur-

A polar bear mother and her two cubs walk along the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Man.

sus maritimus has even been hijacked by the government for the $2 coin. Plus, polar bears are an invaluable asset to science and education, the report states. Their fur has fibreoptic properties that capture heat, and their status at the top of the food chain provides much information on habitat productivity. “It is, moreover, a charismatic animal whose image has come to symbolize climate change,” the report explains. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICES

Bear value The report, which cost $41,300, was used to help decide whether polar bears should be named “species of special concern.” Polar bears’ popularity supercedes more at risk whales with Canadians willing to spend $508 per household to save the bears, versus $107 per year to save the whales. Polar bears bring $1.9 million into economy through sport and subsistence hunting and $7.2 million through tourism.

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‘Unprecedented’ Arctic sea ice loss

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Research published in a top scientific journal, which gives the most detailed picture ever of the northern oceans over the previous millennium-and-a-half, concludes the current decline in sea ice has already lasted longer than any previous one in that period. “When we look at our reconstruction, we can see that the decline that has occurred in the last 50 years or so seems to be unprecedented for the last 1,450 years,” Christian Zdanowicz of the Geological Survey of Canada said

Melting Arctic sea ice is considered a main indicator of climate change.

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sion that greenhouse gases must have something to do with this,” added Zdanowicz, one of the co-authors of the report in Nature. Zdanowicz and his team combined 69 different data sources to determine the extent of sea ice for every decade going back about 1,000 years and every 25 years beyond that. They found that by the mid-1990s sea ice had fallen even further than in previous lows such as the so-called Medieval Warm Period between 800 and 1300. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Karen Kelly shovels a walkway as snow removal crews clean up on Parliament Hill in Ottawa yesterday. SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The first snowfall of the season brought upwards of 10 centimetres of snow to the nation’s capital.

Website calls for town boycott over bunny cull BILL GRAVELAND/THE CANADIAN PRESS

A website is urging tourists to boycott a scenic Rocky Mountain community near Banff National Park if it doesn’t back off plans to destroy its feral rabbits. The site called Canmore Resident Plan doesn’t list a spokesperson, but heavily criticizes the town’s mayor and council. It calls on musicians, dancers, sports teams and businesses plan-

ning events in Canmore to go elsewhere from Dec. 1. “You have to take some of it seriously because obviously you will lose some people. There’s no doubt about it,” Mayor Ron Casey said in an interview with The Canadian Press. “But at the same time you can’t let a percentage drop in tourism influence you from doing the right thing.”

Kyndra Bigg of the group Save Canmore Bunnies makes friends with a resident of a Canmore park, yesterday.

Canmore is expected to begin trapping some of its burgeoning bunny population next week. The issue has been the source of heated debate for years. The rabbits were originally pets but were released in the 1990s and started doing what bunnies do best. According to town officials, the population has hit the 2,000 mark — one rabbit

for every six people in the town of 12,000 — and something has to be done. Canmore hired a contractor to trap the rabbits and have them gassed if a deal isn’t reached with a local animal welfare group to sterilize and relocate them. Casey said the rabbits could attract cougars and coyotes looking for an easy snack. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Medvedev warns that Moscow may opt out of START arms control deal with Washington The White House says the U.S. will not limit or change its missile defence plans in Europe amid new threats from Russia. Spokesman Tommy Vietor says the U.S. has been open and transparent with Moscow on its missile defence plans in Western Europe. The U.S. has repeatedly said those plans reflect a growing threat from Iran and would not be directed against Russia’s nuclear forces. His comments follow Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s assertion yesterday that Russia would target the U.S. missile shield if Washington fails to assuage Moscow’s concerns. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tit-for-tat The U.S. plan calls for placing land- and sea-based radars and interceptors in European locations, including Romania and Poland, over the next decade and upgrading them over time. Medvedev warned that Moscow would deploy short-range Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, a Baltic Sea region bordering Poland, and place weapons in other areas in Russia’s west and south to target U.S. missile defence sites. Medvedev said Russia would put a new early-warning radar in Kaliningrad.

Cars get stuck in the mud in Scarcelli Saponara, near Messina, southern Italy, yesterday. CARMELO IMBESI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Actor George Clooney and his ex-girlfriend, Elisabetta Canalis, are among more than 200 witnesses accepted yesterday by a Milan court in the trial of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute. Clooney has said he was

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Yemen’s president agrees to go MOHAMMED HUWAIS/GETTY IMAGES

Countrywide protests pushed for Ali Abdullah Saleh’s ouster Yemen’s autocratic leader agreed yesterday to step down after months of demonstrations against his 33-year rule, pleasing the U.S. and its Gulf allies who feared that collapsing security in the impoverished nation was allowing an active al-Qaida franchise to step up operations. President Ali Abdullah Saleh is the fourth leader to lose power in the wave of Arab Spring uprisings this year, following longtime dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. But the deal ushering Saleh from power grants him immunity from prosecution and doesn’t explicitly ban him from the country’s political life — raising doubts that it will address Yemen’s many problems. The deal opens the way to what will likely be a messy power struggle.

Strategic value Oil fields. Yemen, a nation of some 25 million people, is of strategic value to the United States and its Gulf Arab allies, particularly Saudi Arabia. It sits close to the major Gulf oil fields and overlooks key shipping lanes in the Red and Arabian seas. Fractured. Even before the uprising began, Yemen was the poorest country in the Middle East, fractured and unstable with a government that had weak authority at best outside the capital Sanaa.

Among those possibly vying for power are Saleh’s son and nephew, powerful tribal leaders, and the commander of a renegade battalion.

Yemeni anti-government protesters react in Sanaa yesterday after President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a deal to transfer power.

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The meeting of President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal, the rival Palestinian leaders, will signal whether they’re truly ready to share power or largely going through the motions for political gains. Talks today in Cairo will be their first serious sitdown since the Pales-

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Bahrain report cites use of torture HASAN JAMALI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

At least 35 people have been killed in uprising-related violence With Bahrain’s king watching, the chief investigator asked to probe his government’s crackdowns gave a blow-by-blow reckoning yesterday of torture, excessive force and fast-track justice in attempts to crush the largest Arab Spring uprising in the Gulf. The investigator, Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni, also said there was no evidence of Iranian links to Bahrain’s Shiite-led protests. That was a clear rebuke to Gulf leaders, who accuse Tehran of playing a role in the 10month-old showdown in the Western-allied kingdom. The 500-page study — authorized by Bahrain’s Sunni rulers in a bid to ease tensions — marks the most comprehensive document on security force actions during any of the revolts

Discrimination Bahrain’s Shiites comprise about 70 per cent of the island nation’s 525,000 citizens. They have complained of widespread discrimination such as being blocked from top government or military posts.

across the Arab world this year. It also displayed a stunning image of a powerful Arab monarch facing a harsh public reckoning, as King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa listened somberly to a bullet-point summary of the report’s conclusions. Bassiouni’s summary read like a checklist of complaints by rights groups since February, including jail-house abuses using electric shocks and beatings.

Tear gas rains down on anti-government protesters Tuesday in Sitra, Bahrain, where clashes erupted during a procession marking the third day after the death of Ali Youssef Baddah, 16, who was struck and killed by a police vehicle.

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Jennifer Gardy braves hungry mosquitoes, a tub of ice water and more to separate fact from fiction Fact or fiction: Mosquitoes prefer women. You lose most of your body warmth through your head. Drink alcohol to keep warm. Disease detective Dr. Jennifer Gardy tests these common health beliefs and others in the documentary Myth or Science, airing tonight on CBC. We asked her about the wonders of grilling with rosemary, wearing a hat and doing vodka shots in a freezer. You tested grilled hamburgers to see if eating grilled meat promotes cancer. Does it?

It’s eating improperly cooked meat — really, any protein — that’s cooked on too hot a flame so that it creates a char on the meat, the chunks of carbon. There’s a chemical reaction with the protein that forms byproducts — heterocyclic amines. These HCAs are compounds that can bind to your DNA and cause mutations. If it happens at the wrong gene at the wrong time it can turn into cancer.

HCAs than a plain burger and the one marinated in the Caribbean blend had 88 per cent fewer. Rosemary protects against that damage from grilling? Anything high in antioxidants — rosemary, other herbs, fruits such as blueberries — helps prevent the formation of HCAs. Antioxidants are little molecular mops that soak up free radicals, one of the things that leads to HCA formation.

In your test, the burger with chopped rosemary had 84 per cent fewer

Common belief: We lose most of our body heat through our heads. Fact or fiction? I’ll call it “faction.” It turns out your body loses heat equally all over its surfaces. The reason the myth persists, and is true to a certain extent, is that our heads tend to be the only exposed part of our body.

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To test that, you bravely submerged your bikiniclad body in icy water. How cold was it? It was 14 degrees Celsius. When that’s the outdoor temperature, it’s OK, but water is a different beast. Water draws the heat away from your body faster. Will alcohol keep you

Disease detective Jennifer Gardy stars in the documentary Myth or Science, airing tonight on CBC.

warm? It’s a deadly illusion. For that experiment, I swallowed a radioactive pill that acts as a thermometer that broadcasted my core temperature via radio waves to a transmitter in the lab. Then they popped me into a freezer where I sat doing vodka shots and reporting how I felt. When I was sober, it was freaking cold in there, but the more I drank I was totally OK hanging out in the freezer. Meanwhile my core temperature was dropping. The alcohol gives the impression you are warmer because it acts as a vasodilator, making your

skin heat up, and makes you feel warm. But it’s drawing out your core temperature to do that. You feel warm but you are closer to hypothermia. Also, the alcohol acts as a muscle relaxant and you don’t shiver. That shivering is the body’s way to bring up the core temperature. So not only does your core temperature drop but you also turn off the body’s rescue mechanism. Which test result surprised you the most? I always believed I was a mosquito magnet. But I went head to head with Dr. Uli Bernier (chemist at the

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Occupy protests cost cities $13M

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Spending comes as police across the U.S. have cut overtime budgets, travel and training due to recession Cities across the United States have spent at least $13 million US in response to the Occupy Wall Street movement on police overtime and other services, according to a survey by The Associated Press. Authorities say the police spending is for the public’s safety, while protesters say cities could save money by simply letting the demonstrations against economic inequality and corporate greed continue. Cities that have seen the most clashes between Occupy protesters and police, including the movement’s original site in New York City, have spent the most on police work. The AP gathered figures from government agencies in 18 cities with active protests and focused on costs through Nov. 15, the day protesters were evicted from New York’s Zuccotti Park, where the protests began Sept. 17 before spreading nationwide. Broken down city by city, the numbers are more or less in line with the cost of policing major public events and emergencies. In Los Angeles, for example,

New York City In New York City, the police department has spent $7 million in overtime on the protests. $7 million is small change given the NYPD’s $4.5-billion budget, which allots money for emergency overtime. Last year, the New York Police Department spent about $550 million on overtime.

the Michael Jackson memorial concert cost the city $1.4 million. In some cities, officials say the spending is eating into their overtime budgets and leaving less money for other public services. Protesters blame excessive police presence for the high costs in some places. The city of Los Angeles estimates that property damage to a park, including destroyed sprinklers, has been $200,000. About 500 Occupy Los Angeles protesters’ tents are jammed into the park surrounding City Hall.

University of California, Davis’ Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school’s quad last Friday in Davis, Calif. An Associated Press survey says cities across the U.S. have spent at least $13 million US in response to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

In Oakland, Calif., where protesters have clashed more than once with police and temporarily forced the shutdown of a major port, the city has spent more than $2.4 million responding to the protests. The cash-strapped city already faced a $58 million budget gap this year.

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Polygamy law upheld B.C. judge justifies centuries-old ban on polygamy Says harm to women and children outweigh religious rights Chief Justice Robert Bauman of the B.C. Supreme Court concluded yesterday that Canada’s polygamy law is valid as long as it isn’t used to prosecute child

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The leader of a breakaway Amish group allowed the beatings of those who disobeyed him, made some members sleep in a chicken coop and had sexual relations with married women to “cleanse them,” federal authorities said yesterday as they charged him and six others with hate crimes in hair-cutting attacks against other Amish. Authorities raided the group’s compound in eastern Ohio earlier in the day and arrested seven men, including group leader Sam Mullet and three of his sons. Several members of the group carried out the attacks in September, October and November by forcefully cutting the beards and hair of Amish men and women and then taking photos of them, authorities said. Cutting the hair is a highly offensive act to the Amish, who believe the Bible instructs women to let their hair grow long and men to grow beards and stop shaving once they marry. One victim told the FBI he would rather have

Mullet’s defense Mullet’s defence attorney said that his client plans to fight the federal charges. Mullet said he didn’t order the hair-cutting but didn’t stop the crime either. His goal was to send a message to other Amish that they should be ashamed of themselves for how they were treating Mullet and his community.

been “beaten black and blue than to suffer the disfigurement and humiliation of having his hair removed,” according to court papers. The attacks struck at the core of the Amish identity and tested their principles. They are pacifists and strongly believe that they must be forgiving in order for God to forgive them, which often means handing out their own punishment and not reporting crimes to law enforcement. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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$170 million craft stranded in earth’s orbit since Nov. 9 launch Contact gives hope that engineers can prevent its uncontrollable plunge to Earth The European Space Agency (ESA) has received the first signal from an unmanned spacecraft bound for a moon of Mars since it got stuck in Earth’s orbit. The ESA, which has been

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In this four-picture combo photo taken from video, a helicopter helping to install a Christmas tree on Auckland’s waterfront crashes in dramatic fashion yesterday. The pilot escaped serious injury.

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Elephants die in heat wave ZIMBABWE. More than 77

elephants have died in a three-month heat wave that has dried up watering holes in western Zimbabwe, wildlife authorities said yesterday. Rangers in the Hwange National Park have counted 18 calves and 21 adolescent elephants among the dead animals, the state Parks and Wildlife Authority said in statement. Since September, Hwange National

Park has seen temperatures soar to above 40 C, far higher than annual averages. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Burned bodies found in trucks MEXICO. Police have found 13 shot and burned bodies in two pickup trucks in Mexico’s western city of Culiacan. Sinaloa state Attorney General Marco Antonio Higuera Gomez says neighbours called police after seeing a pickup truck on fire early yesterday. Culiacan is the capital of the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa, which is home of a major drug cartel. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Man gets 20 years for ‘offensive’ texts Thai court deemed messages not fit for the queen A Thai criminal court sentenced a 61-year-old man to 20 years in prison yesterday for sending text messages deemed offensive to the country’s queen. The court found Amphon Tangnoppaku guilty on four counts under lèsemajesté and computer crime laws, sentencing him to five years imprisonment for each charge, to be served consecutively. Lèse-majesté is the crime VIRGIN MARY’S CINCTURE

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details of an alleged offence is illegal. The court said Amphon sent offensive text messages in May 2010 to a personal secretary of thenPrime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. Amphon denied the charges, saying he was unfamiliar with the text-message function on mobile phones and did not know the recipient of the message. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Ambulances make their way through thousands of Egyptian protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo yesterday. The chaos created by this week’s rallies could beneﬁt the country’s most powerful political party — the Muslim Brotherhood.

For months, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has focused single-mindedly on this moment — parliamentary elections beginning Monday that the fundamentalist group is expected to dominate. Now it may be a pyrrhic victory. The Brotherhood stayed on the sidelines of this week’s protests by secular liberal groups demanding the country’s military rulers step down, hurting its image among key sectors of the Egyptian public who accuse the group of siding with the generals and selling out democracy demands to gain power. By staying out of the protests, “the Brotherhood

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Americans give thanks About 42.5 million people are expected to drive, fly or ride trains to their Thanksgiving destinations, according to travel tracker AAA. That’s the highest number since the start of the recession in 2008, despite an average 20 per cent increase in travel costs.

“Benton! Benton! Jesus Christ!” That was the cry heard around the world this week, when a video of a British man cursing his dog — as the dog chases some deer — went viral. (Search for Jesus Christ in Richmond Park.) Within hours, a spoof video had gone up: “Jesus Christ in Jurassic Park,” which places the “Benton!” audio track over footage of rampaging dinosaurs. Then more parodies hit: Braveheart, Back to the Future, Jumanji, The Lion King, Alien. How does someone make a viral video of a viral video so quickly? We contacted the “Jurassic” creator. “My niece put the original on Facebook when it first came out and had like

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Court to probe Gadhafi crimes Prosecutor visits site of mass murder near Tripoli where survivors say 106 prisoners were killed in a grenade attack by Gadhafi loyalists

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, centre, visits the site of a mass grave yesterday at the Al-Yarmuk military base near Tripoli.

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court viewed human bones and charred clothing at the site of a massacre that survivors say was committed by Gadhafi loyalists as the capital, Tripoli, fell to advancing rebels. Luis Moreno-Ocampo pledged yesterday to help bring clarity to crimes stemming from the civil

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based court investigate it as part of its broader inquiry into crimes committed by the Gadhafi regime during the war. The bones and charred clothing cover the ground of a shed-like building on a site where Gadhafiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nowdeposed military had a base on the southwest outskirts of Tripoli. The Libyan Society of the Missing says 106 pris-

oners were killed in the building on Aug. 23 when Gadhafi loyalists threw grenades inside. The ICC has charged Seif al-Islam and former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi with crimes against humanity for unleashing the brutal crackdown on an uprising that began in February and spiraled into a civil war. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Ethan Hawke knocks offshore oil drilling Plans for a well Halifax-based Corridor Resources Inc. plans to drill a single exploratory well at the Old Harry prospect near the Iles-de-la-Madeleine, which falls under the purview of Newfoundland and Labrador. While Quebec currently has a province-wide moratorium on offshore drilling, no such measures exist in Newfoundland.

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McAvoy’s magic voice James McAvoy lends his voice for the role of Santa’s son in Arthur Christmas Talks about the key ingredient for a Christmas movie HANDOUT

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Having lent his voice to the upcoming movie Arthur Christmas, James McAvoy has some insight on the key ingredient for making cinematic holiday classics. “That key ingredient is the threat that Christmas might not happen,” said the X-Men: First Class star recently in a phone interview. “It’s an incredible thing — that all the kids in one night in the world get a gift by one guy. “That myth is so hard to protect and that’s what makes it so epic to do it as a movie.” That’s precisely what happens in Arthur Christmas — an animated feature in which McAvoy voices the meek son of Santa who sets out to deliver presents to one poor child who was mistakenly overlooked by Old St. Nick. “It’s very easy for these films to be generic and also to be just a little bit formulaic,” said McAvoy of holiday movies. “(But) this film is an Aardman film. “They make Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and they’ve made Flushed Away and all that. And what their movies have always had is exquisite detail as well as a fantastic sense of humour and real heart.”

James McAvoy says the key ingredient to a Christmas movie is the threat that Christmas might not happen.

There was certainly no shortage of detail in Arthur Christmas. Featuring an army of Santa’s little helpers, the filmmakers reportedly created a few hundred thousand elf characters — even though McAvoy acknowledges moviegoers will hardly notice them all. “The fact is, you don’t appreciate how many elves there are and how many different elves there are and they’ve all got personalities,” explained McAvoy.

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While Demi Moore may have filed for divorce from Ashton Kutcher, she’s apparently not done talking to him, as the pair reportedly met at the Beverly Hills home of a friend the weekend after her divorce announcement, according to Us Weekly. “It’s affiliated with Kabbalah, and some of the people who go there refer to it as the ‘Kabbalah House,’” a source says of their meeting place, where the couple are said to have previously visited for Kabbalah-themed marriage counselling. Kutcher and Moore arrived separately but were seen leaving at the same time.

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Tomorrow marks Black Friday — the biggest sales event of the year in the United States — with retailers slashing prices on virtually everything. Held the day after American Thanksgiving (this year, it falls on Nov. 25), it traditionally marks the kick-off to the holiday shopping season. In the past, many Canadians flocked to their closest border crossing in order to take advantage of the U.S. deals, but rather than packing up the car, making the road trip south and waiting in lineups for hours, more and more Canadians will be journeying online for cross-border shopping deals this year. According to a recent Ip-

Some helpful sites to help you navigate Black Friday:

Cyber Monday — the online cousin to Black Friday — takes place on the Monday following the U.S. Thanksgiving weekend and features a number of discounts on shopping websites.

blackfriday.info: The official site for all the 2011 Black Friday ads. BlackFriday.FM: You can sign up for email updates and check out sales from your favourite stores. TGIBlackFriday.com: Offers one-click filters to see what popular deals are available online. redflagdeals.com: Canada’s largest bargain hunting website has an entire section devoted to Black Friday deals.

sos Reid survey conducted on behalf of Visa Canada, 34 per cent of Canadian online shoppers plan to

shop online at American retailers this Black Friday. This is an increase of six per cent from last year.

“Over the past few years we have seen a steady increase in the number of Canadians who look for deals south of the border on Black Friday,” says Stephanie Wallat, business leader for e-commerce with Visa Canada. As a result, many U.S. retailers seem to be taking notice of the Canadian interest and have extended their shipping to Canada and abroad. In a bid to keep Canadians from cross-border shopping this weekend, some Canadian retailers are ramping up sales of their own. Toys R Us Canada announced that it’s holding a half-price event this weekend. And The Bay, Zellers and Home Outfitters, Future Shop and Best Buy will also be offering special sales events this weekend.

Shopping tips Make the most of Black Friday by following these savvy shopping tips: Do your research before shopping. Go to a retailer’s site early, pick out everything you want, do price comparisons and add items you want to your shopping cart. Find out the full cost of the item you want. Borderlinx (borderlinx.com/visa/ca) provides a calculator that estimates the entire cost of a purchase, including currency conversion, taxes, duties and shipping. Canadian duties on apparel are much higher than on electronics. That could eat into some of your cross-border savings. How do you know if you’re really getting a great deal? Experts say that if the item you want isn’t 40 to 50 per cent off, leave it behind.

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Passport rules, border waits and gas prices make staying in Canada more appealing to the Black Friday shopper.

Canadian retailers get in on the action More Black Friday bargain hunting is beginning to happen in Canada, says an Ottawa-based marketing expert. “Surveys across Canada show that this year, crossborder shopping is going to be down,” said Brian Card, president of the Ottawabased market research firm CRG consulting. But that flies in the face of travel data from Statistics Canada showing sameday car trips to and from the U.S. by Canadians are at their highest level since 1998 at 7.2 million in the second quarter of 2011 and 7.1 million in the third. BMO economist Robert Kavcic said the numbers correlate with the rise in value of the loonie versus the greenback. He agree with Card that Canadian retailers are beginning to hold their own Black Friday sales. JESSICA SMITH/SEAN MCKIBBON

What’s allowed Exemptions: If you’re gone for a day, you get $50 worth of goods to bring back. If you’re gone for 48 hours, you get $400. A week? $750. If you’re caught smuggling: Border services can seize your goods, fine you up to 80 per cent of their worth and take your car — and you have to pay before you get any of it back. That’s if you’re not arrested. ELISHA DACEY

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Is it worth the drive? Hordes of shoppers, including thousands of Canadians, are gearing up to spend their hardearned money south of the border during America’s largest shopping event of the year. Black Friday enthusiast Danielle Graydon, who heads to Bellevue, Wash., every year, says

Hot items According to Ipsos Reid, clothing and accessories will be the most popular purchases tomorrow, followed closely by books, movies and music. Some of the steepest price

the event is a good place to finish Christmas shopping in one trip. “Last year I got all my Christmas shopping done for $350,” she said. “At some stores you’ll get discount on top of discount. The trip is worth it because you end up saving hundreds.” Graydon describes Canada’s Boxing Day as a “pathetic” alternative to America’s busiest shopping day. KENDRA WONG cuts are on electronics, including televisions, computers, DVD players, music players, video game consoles and small appliances. Leave home furnishings purchases until Boxing Day sales. HEATHER BUCHAN

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2011

This Victoria’s Secret bombshell gets in shape with maca powder, bee pollen and sun warrior protein We discuss

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For the first time in her five years of walking down the runway as a Victoria’s Secret Angel, the Australian bombshell Miranda Kerr had the honour of wearing the $2.5 million Fantasy Treasure Bra. And that’s just months after giving birth to her first baby with husband, Orlando Bloom. We ask her the question every woman wants to know. Besides the $2 million bra, what’s the biggest diﬀerence between walking in a high fashion catwalk show such as, say, Balenciaga versus Victoria’s Secret?

The great thing with Victoria’s Secret is they really encourage us girls to interact with the audience and show a bit of personality, so it’s a totally different thing for sure, but both of them are good in their own right. The Victoria’s Secret show is quite a theatrical performance. I love to be in the

“[Generally the] ﬁrst step would be to blow dry then apply a volume lotion in your hair. Once we blow dry all that through we spray in [Orlando Pita] Elevate Texture Spray. Then we do the curling iron set. Then we send the girls to makeup, after they’re done we brush it all out.” HAIR GURU ORLANDO PITA ON HOW TO NAIL THOSE BIG VS CURLS

moment and feel the music. You lost the baby weight ridiculously fast. Can you give us a breakdown of your daily diet?

Everyday is different but I like to start the day with a fresh green juice with kale, spinach, cucumber, beets and lemon. Then half an hour later, I have a power smoothie, which has sun warrior protein powder, chia seeds, maca powder, raw cacao, bee pollen, goji berries, noni juice, vitamineral green and coconut water. Then an hour after that I’ll have oatmeal or eggs. That’s my three-course power breakfast. For lunch I might have some grilled fish with goat cheese or baby spinach salad and olives. Sometimes I’ll have a sweet potato. At dinner, I’ll have a lentil soup and maybe some chicken. And I love to have my salads with avocado, feta and spinach. It sounds like a lot of careful maintenance. What does your workout regimen look like?

I’ve been practicing yoga for over 12 years. And after I had the baby I started doing Pilates. That was really helpful. But three weeks leading up to the

VS show, I start working out five times a week using a resistance band and leg weights. Is the Fantasy bra heavy?

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Backstage talk How the angels whip their skin and bodies into shape

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Adriana Lima “I think working out makes your skin glow. It’s a natural detox. I also drink a lot of water and coconut water. For makeup, I use lots of black mascara, lip gloss and that’s it.”

Joan Smalls “Every day, I wash my face with something that contains salicylic acid and then I continue with an advanced night repair. I put it on in the morning and I mix it with Estée Lauder DayWear cream, it has SPF 15. It's important to protect your skin in the morning.”

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Of a dress that impressed InStyle fashion director Hal Rubenstein takes a look back at 100 of the most memorable gowns of our time RENE MACURA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Some dresses you remember: Michelle Obama’s inaugural gown, Coco Chanel’s little black dress, Cher’s Oscar getups. They make an impression on the collective culture beyond a fleeting fashion trend. InStyle fashion director Hal Rubenstein has counted down his favourites in a new book called 100 Unforgettable Dresses. “Dresses are important for different reasons, but how they are unified is that they are not all simply about fashion. They hit us emotionally, psychologically or affect how we perceive beauty,” he says. A great dress also can jump-start a career, he says, and that’s not just limited to fashion. Mrs. Obama’s white, one-shouldered gown for the inaugural balls literally made Jason Wu a household name overnight, but stars as diverse as Phyllis Diller and Elizabeth Hurley parlayed a splash of style into celebrity. Hurley in Gianni Versace’s safety-pin gown in 1994 for the premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral

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She wore it wow Two of Rubenstein’s favourite behind-the-seams stories: The ‘revenge’ dress worn by Diana, the Princess of Wales, in the summer of 1994 stole the thunder from a TV interview in which Prince Charles admitted marital infidelities. The next day, Diana’s picture was splashed on front pages wearing an off-the-shoulder, short black dress by London boutique owner Christina Stambolian that she had stashed in her closet for three years, waiting for the right occasion. McQueen’s 2006 hologram gown, worn by Kate Moss — or a 3D image of Moss — topped all the theatrical, elaborate creations that McQueen had dreamed up before, Rubenstein says. The feat of technology, showmanship and craftsmanship, not to mention the gown itself, featuring cascades of organza, created an enduring image of McQueen’s genius. Actress Cate Blanchett at a Vanity Fair post-Oscar party.

is the first dress featured in the book — which is “not quite” random order, Rubenstein says. “The Versace safety-pin dress is the greatest example of the power of clothing. It made a woman famous overnight. Elizabeth Hurley was a pretty girl on Hugh Grant’s arm who no one knew. The next day it was, ‘Who’s that girl?’” Modern A-listers Sarah Jessica Parker and Cate Blanchett join the late style icons Audrey Hepburn, Jacqueline Kennedy and Grace Kelly as women who successfully made fashion part of their identity, he says. They show a deep understanding of fashion

Elizabeth Hurley, wearing a dress designed by Gianni Versace.

Marilyn Monroe’s Happy Birthday, Mr. President dress.

without ever seeming burdened by it, he describes. Not all their outfits were showstoppers, but there rarely have been missteps — at least not missteps for the signature look they carved for themselves. Blanchett is one of the few people who could have pulled off Alexander McQueen’s Where Eagles Fly gown, worn to the Oscars just weeks after the designer’s suicide in 2010, Rubenstein says. On

her, the dramatic embellishment was a complement to her persona as someone who makes strong choices. On someone else, it might have overshadowed the person wearing it. Kennedy figured out how to use clothing as a political tool. With her appearance in France at Versailles in 1961 in an ivory gown with floral beading all over the bodice by Hubert de Givenchy, she changed the world’s perception of how a new generation of Americans might dress. “She knew how to present a picture,” Rubenstein says. Diller, the comedien — an uncon-

ventional choice for the book, Rubenstein allows — used her clothes as a warm-up act. There wasn’t one dress that was necessarily her calling card, but she had a wardrobe full of glitzy — sometimes garish — tent dresses that she’d often wear with go-go boots, gloves and a long cigarette holder. Rubenstein describes her look in the book as, “a violent cross between a Pucci mini and a Hawaiian muumuu attacked by a rhinestone stun gun and a flock of peacocks.” Kooky? Yes. Yet, it was a smart move, says Rubenstein, because the audience was smiling before she opened her mouth. Every dress in the book tells a story, and that’s why, at 35,000 words, it’s

more for reference than the coffee table, Rubenstein says. “It’s not called the 100 Most Beautiful Dresses or 100 Most Fashionable Dresses. Three-quarters of these have been stuck in my head my whole life. I didn’t need to find the 100 dresses, 75 of them just showed up in just a couple of minutes after I had the idea,” he says. “It’s the culmination of how fashion has impacted the culture in my world. I’m somebody who grew up in a culture of red carpet, fashion, comedy — and the dresses come at you from all angles, not just the runway.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Mugler gets a makeover The world has gone Gaga over Nicola Formichetti

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“We were very interested right at the beginning in terms of what he's done over the years, and I was a big fan. We wanted to continue what he's done and kind of show the younger generation, and also the older fans and we wanted to just continue the legacy. But also, I suppose, by making it contemporary — that's our twist on it.”NICOLA FORMICHETTI ON THIERRY MUGLER ®

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Style superman The fashion force that is Nicola Fomichetti has a pretty impressive resumé Among his many roles, Formichetti also serves as fashion director of both Vogue Hommes Japan and Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo, a reflection of his wide-ranging interests in the industry. “I never went into fashion with one goal. I didn't even know what I wanted to do to,” he said. “In a way, directing a brand is the perfect job for me because I get to do all these different aspects that I do and focus on one thing,” he added.

has also left his imprint on the fashion world and pop culture as Gaga's stylist, helping outfit her for videos, album covers and the stage — including the now-infamous raw meat dress. After meeting on a photo shoot, the electro-pop diva asked Formichetti to work on her performance for the 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards where Gaga wore another memorable creation — a pyrotechnic bra. It sparked a bit of trouble for Formichetti as he prepared to leave Canada with the wired metal contraption in a silver case. “I was stopped at the Toronto airport because I was carrying the bra and they opened up (the case) and literally, it looked like a bomb,” he recalled. Luckily, a sharp-eyed observer came to the rescue. “Someone actually recognized (it): They said `Oh my God — that's Lady Gaga's bra!' So they just let me go,” he said, laughing. “I was almost going to jail, probably.” Gaga has been actively

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A taste of what’s to come Sebastien Peigne said the forthcoming fallwinter line will see the emergence of a new Mugler woman, combining iconic inspiration from the label's archives and the more personal, deconstructed style that marked their first two collections. In the meantime, Formichetti said he is enjoying tapping into his various creative passions and partnering with other like-minded talents in the process. “I don't really come from that school of, like, `Here's my vision....' I'm not a trained fashion designer,” he said.

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involved with Mugler, walking the runway in the label's fall-winter show last March and appearing in a video for the label's most recent showcase in September. Formichetti said collaborating with the singersongwriter is “very organic” and the creative process works at an altogether different pace than that of his label. “Mugler is much, much more you have to think about the whole vision, but with her, it's about a really abstract idea to make into reality and

then you move on again.” Formichetti was in Toronto last week with Mugler women's designer Sebastien Peigne at The Room at the Bay's downtown Toronto flagship location for a meet-and-greet with the media and evening cocktail event. Formichetti oversees Peigne, formerly of Balenciaga, and head menswear designer Romain Kremer, who also designs his own signature label. Formichetti said they set out to put their own stamp on the brand while

also trying to remain true to Mugler's creative vision. “We were very interested right at the beginning in terms of what he's done over the years, and I was a big fan,” he said. “We wanted to continue what he's done and kind of show the younger generation, and also the older fans and we wanted to just continue the legacy. But also, I suppose, by making it contemporary that's our twist on it.” “I learned so much at Balenciaga about the cut of the clothes and the pro-

portion of the silhouettes so I really wanted to bring that legacy of Balenciaga at Mugler,” said Peigne. Formichetti said with their debut collection they drew on bits and pieces of the label's archives that they loved to combine them and create a “harder, sexier feeling of the Mugler woman.” For their springsummer line, they opted for a different approach. “It was much much more abstract and softer and more romantic. For us, that was Mugler too,” Formichetti said. “It's not so well-known that he's done (those) kind of clothes, but he's done beautiful clothes long, long floaty dresses. It looked a little bit completely different for some people, but for us, it was still in keeping with the Mugler feeling.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The holidays are all about creating a magical mood in your home for entertaining; great music, special food and drink, and of course lots of candles to help set a festive mood. I love to use candles everywhere around the house when having people over, but am also cautious about leaving them to burn on their own. Flameless candles are a great option to real ones, and although you don’t get some of the scents that are available with the real thing, the flicker and light that is cast would fool almost anyone. Made of quality wax or plastic resin, the candle’s inside houses an LED light that flickers and is shaped like a small flame.

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The magic of Morocco at home Bring the flavours of the Middle East to your kitchen with this easy tagine recipe for lamb NEWS CANADA

Moroccan cuisine is renowned for its delicate balance of sweet and spicy flavours. Try this easy slowcooker tagine recipe with some convenient grocery store items to help you during the week.

Preparation: 150 Best Tagine Recipes (Robert Rose, 2011) by Pat Crocker offers a comprehensive history of traditional Moroccan tagine cooking, including an extensive Tagine Know-How section that answers all possible questions about tagines, as well as a North African Flavour Footprint section that profiles the 20 herbs and spices to provide authentic flavour. Home cooks can bring Morocco into their kitchens with these tantalizing dishes: Cinnamon lamb tagine with apricots, minted lemon whitefish, fiery beef tagine, and more.

In large heavy frying pan, heat oil over medium-high heat. Sprinkle lamb with salt and pepper. Cook for 10 to 12 minutes, turning occasionally, or until browned. Transfer lamb to slow cooker. Stir onions and garlic into frying pan, reduce heat to medium-low and cook for 4 to 6 minutes or until softened. Transfer onion mixture to slow cooker. Stir carrots, broth and sauce into slow cooker. Cover slow cooker, turn

Ingredients:

Moroccan Lamb Tagine

• 2 tbsp (25 mL) canola oil • 1 boneless lamb shoulder, about 1 3⁄4 lb (875 g) • 1/2 tsp (2 mL) salt • 1/2 tsp (2 mL) freshly ground black pepper • 1 large white onion, halved and thinly sliced • 2 cloves garlic, sliced • 2 large carrots, peeled and cut diagonally in 1 1⁄2 inch (4 cm) long pieces • 3 cups (750 mL) sodiumreduced chicken broth • 1 bottle (350 mL) PC Memories of Morocco Sauce

heat to low and cook for 10 to 12 hours or until lamb is very tender when prodded with fork.

This recipe makes 6 servings.

Transfer carrots to a bowl; set aside. Remove lamb from slow cooker; using two forks, shred meat. Place lamb and carrots

on a platter; drizzle with sauce. Serve with couscous and hot buttered chickpeas, if desired. Tip: Garnish with chopped dried fruit,

such as apricots, ﬁgs or dates, if you like.

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Shrimp, sausage and bison ... on a stick! MATTHEW MEAD/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Middle Eastern Sage-Shrimp Bison Skewers

Makes 40 bite-size skewers.

Make a batch of these skewers to enjoy for a holiday gathering The combination of meats, spices makes for a great conversation appetizer These Middle Eastern-style skewers combine a potent but delicious seasoning blend (gobs of black pepper and ground star anise) with a mix of ground sausage, bison and shrimp. The result is deliciously meaty and warmly spicy. And since the holidays are a time to entertain, we prepared these as tiny party-friendly skewers. If you’d prefer them for dinner, you could use larger skewers with more meat (you’ll need to adjust the cooking time). You can also skip the sticks entirely and form them into meatballs. While I favoured bison in this blend because it is naturally lean, you could also use lean ground beef or turkey. If you want to offer a simple dipping sauce for these skewers, mix together equal parts toasted

sesame oil, seasoned rice vinegar and soy sauce, as well as a bit of garlic powder and finely diced fresh chives.

and form it in an oblong about 2.5 cm (1 inch) thick at the centre. Repeat with remaining meat mixture, arranging meat on prepared baking sheet. You should have about 40 oblongs. Broil for 3 minutes, then turn and broil for another 3 minutes or until cooked through. Alternatively, skewers can be cooked on a medium-high greased grill for about 3 minutes per side.

Preparation:

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Coat a rimmed baking sheet with cooking spray. In a spice grinder, combine star anise and peppercorns. Grind until reduced to a ﬁne powder. Set aside. In a food processor, combine sausages, shrimp, onion and sage. Pulse until coarsely ground. Transfer to a large bowl. Add bison, salt, star anise-pepper mixture and breadcrumbs. Use your hands to mix well. Break off a walnut-size chunk of the mixture

Tip: When grilling, the skewers can be inserted prior to cooking. Avoid this when using the broiler; the more intense heat of the broiler will burn the skewers.

Ingredients: • 1 star anise • 5 mL (1 tsp) black or mixed peppercorns • 3 raw sweet Italian turkey sausages, casings removed • 250 g (1⁄2 lb) raw shrimp, shells and tails removed • 1 small onion, quartered • 5 large leaves fresh sage • 500 g (1 lb) ground bison • 5 mL (1 tsp) salt • 250 mL (1 cup) panko breadcrumbs

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/ THIS RECIPE WAS ADAPTED FOR METRO BY EMILY RICHARDS, A PROFESSIONAL HOME ECONOMIST, COOKBOOK

Insert toothpicks or short skewers lengthwise into each just before serving.

AUTHOR AND A TV CELEBRITY CHEF. FOR MORE, VISIT HER WEBSITE EMILYRICHARDSCOOKS.CA

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four times he played in the post-season with Buffalo. But again, when he was healthy, Connolly was always a productive player. In 627 NHL games before he got to Toronto, the Syracuse native amassed 277 assists and 395 points with the Sabres and New York Islanders, who drafted him fifth overall in 1999. According to a Western Conference GM who spoke on condition his name not be used, Burke knew exactly what he was getting in

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Final game for B.C. Lions coach? Buono says he’ll make decision on CFL future after Grey Cup He’s won more games than any coach in CFL history and has the B.C. Lions poised to become just the fourth team in league history to win the Grey Cup. But when Wally Buono walks off the B.C. Place Stadium turf Sunday, it could be his last time as a CFL head coach. The B.C. Lions head coach/GM said yesterday

during the Grey Cup coaches news conference that win or lose Sunday, he will take time this off-season to decide whether he will return to the sidelines in 2012. “I said at the beginning of the year the relevance of success or failure is not related to whether I coach again or not,” Buono said. “Today, I’m coaching.

2002 The only season a Buono-coached team hasn’t made the playoﬀs. He left the Stampeders after posting a 6-12 record.

“After Sunday, I’ll sit down and resolve it. That’s

He’s seeking his fifth title as a head coach

the agreement Mr. Braley (Lions owner David Braley) and I have and I’m going to stick to my part of the agreement. “When I committed to signing for three years I told David I would be committed to the contract, not necessarily to the two roles. Winning or losing is not going to have any effect at all.”

Buono reportedly is under contract with B.C. until January 2014. He will be chasing a fifth Grey Cup win as a head coach and second with the Lions when the club faces the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Sunday. Buono has become synonymous with winning throughout his illustrious CFL career. He is the win-

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An NHL-sized building is being planned for the outskirts of Toronto, but a number of hurdles remain before a second NHL team calls the region home. Yesterday, GTA Sports and Entertainment confirmed that it hopes to build a 20,000-seat arena northeast of downtown Toronto in Markham. “After considerable work and discussions, we’re looking forward to bringing our official proposal to the town of Markham in the near future,” said W. Graeme Roustan, the company’s chairman and CEO, in a statement.

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The $300-million arena is being planned as part of a major entertainment complex and could be ready as soon as 2014, according to GTA Sports and Entertainment. While the NHL is aware of the development, the league has been consistent in not making any guarantees to groups involved with arena projects. If at some point there was an NHL team to be moved to Markham, a deal

would likely have to be worked out with the Toronto Maple Leafs. For example, when Anaheim was awarded a NHL team in 1992, half of its $50-million US expansion fee went to the L.A. Kings to help offset potential revenue loss. Even without pro sports, Roustan believes the building will be ideal for concerts and other events. “Markham is recognized as Canada’s high-tech capital and the most ethnically diverse community in Canada, making it an ideal location for this facility,” said Roustan. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Public Open House Bathurst Station – Preliminary Design Metrolinx and the TTC invite you to an Open House to view the preliminary design of Bathurst Station and to share your input with the design team.

Date: Monday, November 28 Time: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Location: Beth Sholom Synagogue, 1445 Eglinton Avenue West (enter at west side)

Public Open House Location

Take Transit: The Open House is just steps across the street from Eglinton West Station at Allen Road.

Rapid and reliable underground transit is coming to the centre of Toronto. The Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown is a 25 kilometre transit project that will connect riders from Black Creek Drive to Scarborough City Centre. The Crosstown will move Torontonians to work, school and play faster than ever before – slashing travel times and enhancing our economy and our environment. The Crosstown will bring new transit stations into several neighbourhoods along Eglinton, including yours.

Online Consultation Can’t make it to the Open House? No problem. Please view the displays online beginning November 28th and send us your feedback at www.thecrosstown.ca

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NATI O N A L H O C K E Y LE AGUE EASTERN CONFERENCE d-Pittsburgh d-Toronto d-Florida Philadelphia Boston Buffalo NY Rangers Washington Ottawa New Jersey Montreal Tampa Bay Winnipeg Carolina NY Islanders

GP 21 22 20 20 19 20 17 19 21 19 21 20 20 22 18

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Away 5-5-0-2 6-5-0-0 7-4-0-0 6-2-1-0 4-2-0-0 7-2-0-0 5-3-1-1 4-6-0-0 5-5-1-0 6-5-0-0 5-4-0-0 3-6-0-2 3-6-2-1 3-6-2-0 0-5-1-1

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WESTERN CONFERENCE d-Minnesota d-Chicago d-San Jose Los Angeles Nashville Dallas Edmonton Detroit Phoenix St. Louis Vancouver Colorado Calgary Anaheim Columbus

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d — division leaders ranked 1-2-3 regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL (overtime loss) or SL (shootout loss) column. Last night’s results Boston at Buffalo Columbus at New Jersey Philadelphia at N.Y. Islanders St. Louis at Pittsburgh Winnipeg at Washington Montreal at Carolina Calgary at Detroit N.Y. Rangers at Florida Nashville at Minnesota Los Angeles at Dallas Vancouver at Colorado Anaheim at Phoenix Chicago at San Jose Tuesday’s results Toronto 7 Tampa Bay 1 Edmonton 6 Nashville 2 Los Angeles 3 St. Louis 2 Tomorrow’s games All times Eastern Detroit at Boston, 1 p.m. New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 1 p.m. Montreal at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. Edmonton at Minnesota, 2 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Washington, 4 p.m. Chicago at Anaheim, 4 p.m. Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at Carolina, 7 p.m. Buffalo at Columbus, 7 p.m. Tampa Bay at Florida, 7:30 p.m. Calgary at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Toronto at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Vancouver at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

TUESDAY MAPLE LEAFS 7, LIGHTNING 1

First Period 1. Toronto, MacArthur 7 (Gardiner, T.Connolly) 0:41 2. Tampa Bay, Lecavalier 9 (Stamkos, Malone) 8:38 (pp) 3. Toronto, T.Connolly 3 (Kulemin, Franson) 17:56 (pp) 4. Toronto, Bozak 3 (Kessel, T.Connolly) 19:22 (pp) Penalties — Dupuis Tor (hooking) 3:27, Gardiner Tor (hooking) 7:42, Hedman TB (double highsticking) 16:20, Kubina TB (interference) 18:44. Second Period 5. Toronto, Colborne 1 (Frattin, Liles) 17:45 Penalty — Rosehill Tor (holding stick) 4:26. Third Period 6. Toronto, Bozak 4, 3:07 7. Toronto, Lupul 11 (Bozak, Phaneuf) 4:28 8. Toronto, Crabb 3 (Frattin, Gardiner) 14:28 Penalties — Franson Tor (hooking), Purcell TB (diving) 1:13, Shannon TB (tripping) 2:29, T.Connolly Tor (interference) 2:52, Gardiner Tor (holding) 11:17, Gardiner Tor, Stamkos TB (double roughing) 18:11. Shots on goal Toronto Tampa Bay

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Goal (shots-saves) — Toronto: Gustavsson (W,6-4-0); Tampa Bay: Roloson (L,6-6-1)(2115), Garon (4:28 third)(5-4). Power plays (goals-chances) — Toronto: 2-4; TB: 1-6. Referees — Tom Kowal, Dan O’Rourke. Linesmen — Brian Murphy, Pierre Racicot. Att. — 0 (19,204) at Tampa, Fla.

CFL PLAYOFFS GREY CUP

TUESDAY OILERS 6, PREDATORS 2

First Period 1. Edmonton, Horcoff 5 (Nugent-Hopkins, Hall) 9:31 (pp) 2. Edmonton, Hemsky 2 (Smyth, Eberle) 11:39 3.Edmonton,Eberle6(Hall,Nugent-Hopkins)15:51 Penalties — C.Smith Nash (hooking) 9:09, Smithson Nash (holding) 13:45. Second Period — No Scoring. Penalties — Smyth Edm (hooking) 6:52, Gilbert Edm (holding) 8:01, Petry Edm (hooking) 12:24, Gagner Edm, Halischuk Nash (fighting) 15:22. Third Period 4. Edmonton, Eberle 7 (Smyth, Smid) 5:00 5. Nashville, Tootoo 1 (Weber, Suter) 11:32 (pp) 6. Edmonton, Petry 1 (Belanger, Hemsky) 12:22 (pp) 7. Edmonton, Horcoff 6 (Gagner, Jones) 15:03 8. Nashville, Blum 2 (Fisher, Tootoo) 19:40 Penalties — Teubert Edm (interference) 5:46, Kostitsyn Nash (interference) 6:50, Teubert Edm (tripping) 11:26, Suter Nash (elbowing) 12:07, Plante Edm (cross-checking) 15:31. Shots on goal Edmonton Nashville

13 7 3 18

12 11

—32 —32

Goal (shots-saves) — Edmonton: Dubnyk (W,3-4-0); Nashville: Rinne (L,10-5-4)(13-10), Lindback (start second)(19-16). Power plays (goals-chances) — Edmonton: 2-4; Nash: 1-6. Att. — 16,838 (17,113) at Nashville, Tenn.

KINGS 3, BLUES 2

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Goal — Los Angeles: Bernier (W,2-2-0); St. Louis: Halak (L,3-7-2). Power plays (goalschances) — Los Angeles: 1-6; St. Louis: 0-6. Att. — 18,178 (19,150) at St. Louis, Mo.

SCORING LEADERS

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Kessel, Tor Lupul, Tor Giroux, Pha Versteeg, Fla Vanek, Buf Kopitar, LA D.Sedin, Vcr Ma.Hossa, Chi Pominville, Buf Smyth, Edm Nugent-Hopkins, Edm H.Sedin, Vcr

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Last night’s games not included

EAST New England N.Y. Jets Buffalo Miami

FO OT B A L L CIS PLAYOFFS

Houston Tennessee Jacksonville Indianapolis

Tomorrow’s game At Vancouver McMaster vs. Laval, 9 p.m., EST

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BARCLAYS WORLD FINALS At London

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ROUND ROBIN SINGLES Group A David Ferrer (5), Spain, def. Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, 6-3, 6-1. Tomas Berdych (7), Czech Republic, def. Janko Tipsarevic (9), Serbia, 2-6, 3-6, 7-6 (6). Standings: x-Ferrer 2-0 (4-0), Berdych 1-1 (33), Djokovic 1-1 (2-3), a-Tipsarevic 0-1 (1-2), yMurray 0-1 (0-2). Group B Standings: x-Federer 2-0 (4-1), Tsonga 1-1 (32), Nadal 1-1 (2-3), Fish 0-2 (1-4). Group A Standings: x-Bryan-Bryan 2-0 (4-1), Lindstedt-Tecau 1-1 (2-2), Bhupathi-Paes 1-1 (2-2), Melzer-Petzschner 0-2 (1-4). Group B Standings: x-Mirnyi-Nestor 2-0 (4-1), Fyrstenberg-Matkowski 1-1 (2-3), Llodra-Zimonjic 1-1 (3-2), Bopanna-Qureshi 0-2 (1-4). x — clinched semi-final berth; a — alternate; y — withdrew.

SOCC ER CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FIRST ROUND

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PREMIER LEAGUE Celtic 2 Dunfermline 1

ITALY (Home teams listed first)

COPPA D’ITALIA Fourth Round Bologna 4 Crotone 2 Chievo Verona 3 Modena 0

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST Dallas N.Y. Giants Philadelphia Washington

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WEEK 12 Today’s games All times Eastern Green Bay at Detroit, 12:30 p.m. Miami at Dallas, 4:15 p.m. San Francisco at Baltimore, 8:20 p.m. Sunday’s games Arizona at St. Louis, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at Tennessee, 1 p.m. Cleveland at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. Houston at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Carolina at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. Minnesota at Atlanta, 1 p.m. Chicago at Oakland, 4:05 p.m. Washington at Seattle, 4:05 p.m. Denver at San Diego, 4:15 p.m. New England at Philadelphia, 4:15 p.m. Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 8:20 p.m. Monday’s game N.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 8:30 p.m.

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CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with OF Grady Sizemore on a one-year contract. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with assistant general manager Matt Klentak on a multiyear contract. MINNESOTA TWINS — Agreed to terms with C Ryan Doumit on a one-year contract. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Claimed C Brian Jeroloman off waivers from Pittsburgh.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with OF Brandon Boggs, RHP Kyle Cofield, RHP Jose Diaz, C Jake Fox, RHP Shairon Martis and INF Stefan Welch on minor league contracts.

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BUFFALO BILLS — Placed RB Fred Jackson on injured reserve. Signed RB Tashard Choice. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed LB Bruce Davis to the practice squad. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Waived S Ross Ventrone. Signed OL Donald Thomas. Resigned CB Josh Victorian to the practice squad. NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed CB Will Blackmon. Placed CB Michael Coe on injured reserve. Re-signed DT Dwayne Hendricks to the practice squad. Terminated the practice squad contract of DE Craig Marshall. ST. LOUIS RAMS — Signed OT Thomas Welch from Buffalo’s practice squad. Placed CB Marquis Johnson on injured reserve. Signed CB Kendric Burney to the practice squad.

HOCKEY NHL

LEAGUE OFFICE — Fined Los Angeles D Drew Doughty $2,500 for cross-checking St. Louis F T.J. Oshie into the boards during Tues. game. NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Assigned F Niclas Bergfors to Milwaukee (AHL). NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled C Tim Sestito from Albany (AHL). TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Recalled F Dana Tyrell from Norfolk (AHL).

AHL

BINGHAMTON SENATORS — Assigned G Brian Stewart to Elmira (ECHL). PROVIDENCE BRUINS — Signed F Adam Presizniuk to a professional tryout agreement. SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Recalled F Garrett Wilson from Cincinnati (ECHL).

WHL

VICTORIA ROYALS — Signed G Coleman Vollrath and D Brodie Clowes.

SOCCER MLS

NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION — Waived F Alan Koger, D Otto Loewy & M Andrew Sousa. PHILADELPHIA UNION — Waived G Thorne Holder and D Juan Diego Gonzalez. SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Waived D Scott Lorenz, M Jeferson, M Milos Stojcev and M Craig Rocastle.

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