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Adele, seen arriving at the 54th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles, won four awards by the midpoint of the show, including song of the year for Rolling in the Deep. The 23-year-old sang publicly for the first time since undergoing vocal microsurgery in November. Afterward, she shrugged and curtsied as the crowd rose to its feet and roared its approval. More Grammy coverage, page 19. CHRIS PIZZELLO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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These days, it scares Jodi Kaplan to let her live-in caregiver, Rose Pablico, out of her sight because of the rampant “nanny poaching” across Canada, especially in the GTA. Since 2010, fewer foreign live-in caregivers have been admitted to Canada, partly due to the declining applications by Canadian families who are now required to pay for all recruitment fees incurred, and partly a result of Ottawa’s slower processing and tighter screening. The shortage of live-in caregivers has been exacerbated since midDecember when the federal government issued 14,000 open work permits to nannies who met the employment hours to apply for permanent residency. The open work permits allow the nannies to work outside of an employer’s home and
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Doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children have mended four broken hearts in time for Valentine’s Day. George Xenarios is just 12 weeks old, but is home in Richmond Hill today with his parents, Kostas Xenarios and Helen Chialtas, and sister, Ellie, 3, after a successful heart transplant early last month. The family’s saga began last November, when an otherwise-normal pregnancy became a potential tragedy. At 33 weeks, the 35-yearold mother felt pain in her pelvic area and her weight suddenly ballooned. An ultrasound showed the fetus
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Between 30 to 35 pediatric heart transplants are performed in Canada each year, 65 per cent at Sick Kids. had fluid around the brain, heart and abdomen. Chialtas was given a choice to try to hang on, and thus risk a stillborn baby, or have a caesarean section — still with no guarantee of a healthy child. The couple chose an emergency C-section. George was born Nov. 17, but he wasn’t healthy. He
had cardiomyopathy, a weakness of the heart muscle. He would not be leaving the hospital without a new heart. The next six weeks were a blur. The couple bonded with other parents at Sick Kids, sharing the ups and downs of the conditions of each other’s babies. And then during what started out as another routine day, George’s cardiologist, Dr. Anne Dipchand, brought welcome news that a heart was available. George was discharged seven days after his heart transplant and is thriving, with a good chance to live a long life, Dipchand says.
“During the surgery I knew he was in good hands,” says Chialtas. “That’s when I started thinking about the other family.” In particular, she thought about the grieving mother, and the little time she had to consider donating her dying child’s organs. “She was strong enough that she wanted to give other children life.” After several drafts, Chialtas and Xenarios are almost finished a letter of gratitude to that anonymous family, whose hearts, they know, are still broken. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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Fresh off the biggest defeat in his mayoralty, Rob Ford appears in the mood for compromise on his controversial push to sell 675 Toronto Community Housing Corp. single-family homes. In a report going to the mayor’s executive commit-
tee Friday, the TCHC is urging council to stick to its Ford-backed plan that projects $222 million in sales revenue to be used against the $750-million repair backlog for multi-unit buildings. Amid criticism from tenants, councillors and the
province, which could halt the sale of all but 31 of the homes, Ford delayed the decision last month while TCHC added caveats including plans for consulting the 2,600 tenants and helping them move to other subsidized units. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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Panda Er Shun eats bamboo while he watches Prime Minister Stephen Harper speak during a ceremony at the Chongqing Zoo in Chongqing, China, on Saturday.
Panda loan serves as symbol of better relations with China First pandas loaned to Canada from China since 1985 Deal touted as sign of progress between two countries Er Shun and Ji Li have a lot riding on their hunched, furry, five-year-old shoulders. They’ve never met. They live in separate cities. Yet they’ve been genetically matched as potential lovers. And they are soon to have a 10-year honeymoon in Canada as the two giant pandas selected by China to be loaned as a “friendship� gesture. Theirs is a courtship about to unfold at the Toronto and Calgary zoos, starting in the spring of 2013. On Saturday, Prime Min-
Panda story Er Shun whose name is roughly translated as Number Two Smoothness (because his mother had a difficult labour with the birth of her first cub) — lives at the Chongqing Zoo. Ji Li (translated as Successful Achievement or Successful and Pretty) lives in Chengdu.
ister Stephen Harper declared the pandas were an apt symbol of the ChinaCanada relationship he says has been taken to a
new level. All of this could make it awkward when it comes time to mate during the once-a-year, 48-hour window during which a female bear can become pregnant. In Toronto, the pair will take over what is currently the 2,000-square-foot home of a Siberian tiger. While the move will pose few problems for the pandas, as Toronto’s climate is similar to that of their native Sichuan, the zoo’s attempt to breed the animal for the first time on Canadian soil will be a daunting task. THE CANADIAN PRESS
The cost of Vaughan’s new state-of-the art city hall continues to escalate as councillors mull over how to pay for the next stages of the costly project — including an idea that could put taxpayers on the hook to fund it’s completion. The city has already spent more than $122.6million on the first phase of the civic-centre project — the construction of the highly touted city hall building that officially opened last September. The project was $15.6-million over budget, with the final cost yet to be determined due to ongoing “legal issues� between the developer and subcontractors. At a budget meeting on Monday, council is expected to approve a $2-million loan to pay for the immediate demolition of the old city hall building and the funding for a new resource
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library on the 26-hectare site — part of what is now Phase 2 of the project. The urgent need for money to pay for the demolition has at least one councillor asking tough questions. “What other things have we committed to that need to be done (for this project) that are now requiring more money, and where is
the plan?� said York regional Coun. Deb Schulte, who says councillors are being “forced into a box� to approve funding the demolition, which they were initially told was included in phase one of the project. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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Firefighters are still looking into what caused a blaze at a west-end Toronto rail yard. Crews were called to the rail yard near Dundas Street West and Runnymede Road around 9 p.m. Friday. They say a boxcar carrying several vehicles had caught fire. The flames were quickly put out and no injuries have been reported.
Toronto police are investigating two separate stabbings at opposite ends of the city. Police say a man is expected to survive after he was stabbed Sunday morning in the west end. They say it happened around 5 a.m. near Bloor Street West and Royal York Road. A stabbing in the east end sent a man to hospital about an hour later.
Toronto police say four people fled the scene of a crash that caused serious injuries Sunday morning. Police say the group was aboard a car that struck a pole around 4 a.m. on Dundas Street East near George Street. They say officers later arrested the driver, a 36year-old man. The other three made their way to hospital.
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Sarah Palin, a prominent voice among some U.S conservatives, said Mitt Romney has work to do to convince GOP voters he’s moved beyond his “pretty moderate past ... even in some cases a liberal past.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Tories bring in new blood Provincial PCs elect Richard Ciano as party president But give Tim Hudak a second shot Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives are choosing to stick with their leader Tim Hudak, but injected fresh new blood in the party machinery following a humbling election defeat last fall. Conservative strategist Richard Ciano, 38, was elected party president Sunday, beating out former provincial cabinet minister turned columnist John Snobelen and Kevin Gaudet, a
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former taxpayers’ advocate and party candidate. It was a hotly contested race, with Ciano — who helped propel Toronto May-
or Rob Ford to power — pulling out all the stops in a relentless effort to obtain what is essentially an unpaid and often thankless full-time job. Ciano is a guy who “knows how to win elections, and a guy who knows how to win elections in the city of Toronto by helping run Mayor Ford’s successful campaign,” Hudak said. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Prince Harry has been warned: The Taliban plan to use “all our power” to kill him. The 27-year-old prince, fresh from graduating to the elite class of Apache attack helicopter pilots, is expected to join British troops fighting the militant Taliban in Afghanistan later this year. Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, had some advice for the third in line to the throne, speaking through the Daily Telegraph. “A prince should use his position to help people, not to come and kill people around the
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No immediate discipline is planned for any Dickinson State University in Bismarck, N.D., employees in the wake of an audit determining that the school awarded hundreds of degrees to foreign students who didn’t earn them, the chancellor of North Dakota’s university system said Saturday. The audit determined that only 10 of 410 foreign students who earned joint degrees from Dickinson State and the students’ home universities since 2003 had completed all their requirements. Most were Chinese, it said. The rest were Russian.
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Canada’s increasingly influential ethnic-press industry will seek a financial boost from the upper levels of government to better its business and journalistic know-how. While minority-language publications remain anonymous to most Canadians, their combined readership is in the millions — more than the country’s largest daily newspapers. The ethnic press also wields clout inside the Prime Minister’s Office where, more than ever, the industry is viewed as a coveted conduit to the multicultural vote. Canada’s ethnic newspapers and magazines — often one-person operations typed up in the homes of recent immi-
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grants — are now hoping to raise their game even higher. The man who represents 540 of the publications says many of these editors scrape by on tiny budgets and still have a lot to learn about Canada. But Thomas Saras, the president of the National Ethnic Press and Media
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Eastleigh neighbourhood of Nairobi, once a ramshackle settlement, now has shiny new buildings ELISABEETH BRAW
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Envy the residents of Eastleigh, Nairobi: despite the global recession, the investments keep flowing in. They have new shopping malls, and more are under construction. The neighbourhood in Kenya’s capital city is nicknamed Little Mogadishu, and many of the investors are pirates. “Somali pirates are doing huge business hijacking ships, and most of their money is being laundered in Nairobi,” explains Ernesto Savona, professor of criminology at Catholic University in Milan. “Little Mogadishu is beautiful, with new cars and buildings. With a $9-million ransom, you could buy a whole modern building in Nairobi.” Only a few years ago, Eastleigh was a poor settlement. Piracy is booming off the Horn of Africa. In 2010 alone, more than 1,000 seamen were taken hostage. According to the UN, the pirates were paid an average ransom of $4.85 million, and a new study reports that Somali piracy now costs the world $7 billion per year. “I want to take all my family out of Somalia because there is no hope for peace here,” Hassan Farah, a pirate, told a local news-
paper. “I am trying to get enough money from the illegal fishing ships that we hijack to go to Europe.” But, just like the Mafia, Somali pirates need to park their fortunes somewhere. “The most common methods are basic forms of money laundering, such as investing in real estate or front-businesses, sending money to relatives or buying expensive goods in cash,” explains a spokesman for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Notes Mark Schroeder, Africa director at intelligence firm Stratfor: “They’re not as sophisticated as the Mafia. But they’re entrepreneurial. They know where to put their money. And by Somali standards, this is the most money you could ever hope to make.” Somalia’s GDP per capita is $600. Nairobi is a logical place to invest. Kenya neighbours Somalia and has a stable government, as well as a large number of Somalis, most of whom reside in Eastleigh. Though the majority of these Somalis are law-abiding residents, many — knowingly or not — build businesses with pirate money. “Somalia couldn’t absorb this kind of cash,” notes Schroeder. “Nairobi can.” Nairobi is also a hub for Al Shabab, the al-Qaidaaffiliated terrorist group that controls Somalia.
Nairobi’s Little Mogadishu is a slum no more. Check out the new cars and the shiny new building in the background.
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Pirates boost economy: UN The young pirates support the entire Somali economy. According to the UN, 40 per cent of the ransom goes directly to the Somali economy: bribes and creating jobs. The pirates even invest in
cattle. According to a recent report by Chatham House, a think tank, pirates’ ransoms have even led to wage increases in Somalia. But locals aren’t happy. Too much of the pirates’ money is invested abroad, they say. Most likely, the pirates channel their money as
far as Europe and North America. “The ransoms are a large amount of money,” notes Savona. “This amount goes only partially to bordering countries like Kenya. One can only assume that the rest is laundered and invested internationally.” METRO WORLD NEWS
Until the 1990s, the waters off the Horn of Africa were relatively peaceful. Then Somalis, angered over fishing by foreign vessels, started attacking them. That’s when they realized there were fortunes to be made. Since then, piracy has exploded. In 2007, 26 ships were hijacked; in 2010 the figure was 400, and the problem remains, even though 30 countries now have navy commandos in the area. “The Somali pirates are very young,” notes criminology professor Ernesto Savona. “If they go to prison, they’re quickly replaced by other young pirates. And when they get out of prison, they go back to hijacking ships. But most ... won’t be caught.”
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Five-year-old girl pulled out of rubble of house flattened by an avalanche in Kosovo Disaster killed her parents, relatives Rescuers have pulled a fiveyear-old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both her parents and at least seven of her relatives in a remote mountain village in southern Kosovo. Col. Shemsi Syla, a spokesman for the Kosovo Security Force, said Sunday officers discovered the girl when they heard her voice and cellphone. Her home was buried under 10 metres of snow. Rescuers cheered and pumped their fists in the air late Saturday as the girl was pulled out alive. A video aired on Klan Kosova TV showed rescuers covering the girl with blankets before she was rushed to hospital.
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Rescuers carry a five-year-old girl pulled alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche in southern Kosovo Sunday.
and children have been killed.” The girl, identified as Asmira Reka, was recovering in hospital in the nearby town of Prizren. Doctors said her life was not in danger, but her parents had perished in the avalanche, and she had been buried for more than 10 hours.
The cold snap in Europe, which began late January, has killed hundreds of people — most of them homeless. Heavy snow has been blanketing the Balkans for more than two weeks, with Restelica and roads in the region blocked for several days. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Dad defends shooting laptop Man’s public shaming of daughter is triggering discussion about ‘Facebook parenting,’ tough love A lesson in tough love has turned a small-town father in North Carolina into a polarizing figure overnight. More than 19 million people have seen Tommy Jordan chastise his 15-yearold daughter, Hannah — and then shoot her laptop — in a YouTube video titled Facebook Parenting: For the Troubled Teen. Response is divided. Some viewers praise Jordan as a “hero,” while others condemn him as “insane.” In the video, Jordan
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Greek lawmakers on Monday approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the debt-crippled nation from bankruptcy, after rioters in central Athens torched buildings, looted shops and clashed with riot police. The historic vote paves the way for Greece’s European partners and the International Monetary Fund to release $170 billion US in new rescue loans, without which Greece would default on its mountain of debt next month and likely leave the eurozone — a scenario that would further roil global markets. Lawmakers voted 199-74 in favour of the cutbacks, despite strong dissent among the two main coalition members. A total of 37 lawmakers from the majority Socialists and conservative New Democracy party either voted against the party line, abstained or voted present. Clashes erupted after more than 100,000 protesters marched to the parliament to rally against the
drastic cuts, which will axe one in five civil service jobs and slash the minimum wage by more than a fifth. At least 45 businesses were damaged by fire, including several historic buildings, movie theatres, banks and a cafeteria, in the worst riot damage in Athens in years. Fifty police officers were injured and at least 55 protesters were hospitalized. Sixty-five suspected rioters were arrested and a further 70 detained. Prime Minister Lucas Papademos urged calm, pointing to the country’s dire financial straits. “Vandalism and destruction have no place in a democracy and will not be tolerated,” Papademos told Parliament. “I call on the public to show calm.” Since May 2010, Greece has survived on a $145 billion US bailout from its European partners and the International Monetary Fund. When that proved insufficient, the new rescue package was approved. The deal will be combined with a massive bond swap deal to write off half the coun-
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What is the best Valentine’s Day gift? Two broken hearts ham it up at Heartbreak Karaoke 2008.
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I’ve come to accept that Valentine’s Day is an impossible “holiday” to ignore. Unless you live in Sudan, I suppose. ELIANNA LEV Those red and pink greeting METRO TORONTO cards displays are erected sometime in early January, not so long after Christmas decorations have come down. And like snow, ice and Canada Goose jackets in Toronto, there is no way to avoid it. For those of us who are single (hello!) and particularly cynical about finding love (hi again!) it’s just one of those things, like war and Lindsay Lohan’s fame, whose existence we have to accept. And yet the pressure to find something to keep yourself occupied on this designated, mass-marketed day of forced love is insurmountable. So, last week, I did some research into things to do in Toronto on Valentine’s Day when you’re single. The first thing that came up was an event called Heartbreak Karaoke at Supermarket in Kensington Market. If the name wasn’t enough to sell me on the spot, this line “If you’re alone on the event’s website was ... exaggerate it.” the dealmaker: “We’ve got a karaoke machine, a microEVENT ORGANIZER phone, sad, sad, sad songs, SERAH-MARIE MCMAHON and enough bitter tears and sweet liquor to fill a swimming pool.” Bingo! That’s all I needed. Event organizer Serah-Marie McMahon says she started the event because she was sick of how “cheesy loveydovey” the lead-up to Valentine’s Day was getting. “We take the idea of having to be brokenhearted on Valentine’s Day if you’re alone, and exaggerate it,” she says. “It’s fun and light-hearted and it’s not a bunch of people crying into their whisky.” But, as with Fight Club, there are rules for Heartbreak Karaoke. Rule No. 1: You can only sing songs about love. (McMahon points out this isn’t terribly limiting.) Rule No. 2: If you’re not going to sing a song about love, you have to explain to the audience what the song means to you. “We encourage people to be very confessional,” she says. Hence, the heartbreak. McMahon is positive new love has blossomed at Heartbreak Karaoke among its patrons. It’s a queer-friendly party and there’s a good mix of single men and single women of and for all sexual preferences. “It’s pretty even,” she says. “It’s not just a bunch of sad, single straight girls.” I guess that means I won’t stand out. I’ll probably fit right in.
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Grammy Awards strike a
sombre note 2 Whitney Houston’s death overshadows big wins by Adele, Kanye West and the Foo Fighters
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Adele made her return to the stage and the Foo Fighters piled up the hardware at the 54th Grammy Awards, but the focus was on tributes rather than trophies as a grieving music industry said goodbye to the late Whitney Houston. Off the top of the show, host L.L. Cool J led the first of many tributes to Houston by announcing that the industry had endured a “death in the family,” before leading a prayer to the singer — who died suddenly Saturday night. “Whitney, we will always love you,” he said. That was followed by a retrospective video devoted to the singer. L.L. Cool J finished his monologue on a high-energy note before multiple nominee Bruno Mars led a frenetic performance of his single Runaway Baby. The Foo Fighters had five trophies by the midpoint of the show while Adele and Kanye West had won four apiece. “Long live rock ‘n’ roll!” shouted Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl while producers tried to play him off the stage. It was a humorous mo-
Canadian winners Melanie Fiona and Cee Lo Green for traditional R&B vocal performance and R&B song for Fool For You Caroline Robert for best recording package for the deluxe re-release of Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs JASON MERRITT/GETTY IMAGES
Dave Grohl, centre, with fellow Foo Fighters Nate Mendel, left, and Taylor Hawkins accept their award for best rock performance.
ment in an otherwise muted show. The focus on Houston understandably drew attention away from what was supposed to be Adele’s night. Still, the 23-year-old Brit had four awards by the midpoint of the show — including song of the year — and sang for the first time since undergoing vocal microsurgery in No-
vember, delivering a stirring take on Rolling in the Deep. Toronto native Melanie Fiona was a double winner before dedicating the two trophies she won for her Cee Lo Green collaboration Fool For You to Houston with an impassioned speech. Montreal’s Caroline Robert was also a winner, taking best recording package for designing the
deluxe re-release of Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. The rest of the Canadian contingent didn’t fare so well. Toronto rapper Drake and DJ Deadmau5 — from Niagara Falls, Ont. — were each shut out despite three nominations apiece, while Sum 41 and Toronto composer Ryan Shore also missed out on awards.
Box office
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What happened to Whitney? ROMINA MCGUINNESS
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Whitney Houston, the Queen of Soul, was found dead in her bath tub on Saturday afternoon. No ev-
idence of crime or self harm was found at the scene. She was due to attend her mentor Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy party that night and the actual ceremony on Sunday. The news of her death comes as a major blow to
the music industry, which is still mourning Amy Winehouse, who died of alcohol abuse at the age of 27 last summer. The 48-year-old Houston was known to have been a cocaine and marijuana user in the past, addictions she sought to end with a number of stints in rehab. We speak to addiction expert Dr. John Sharpe about her death. Addicts often just drop dead. Why?
“We know that she has had a long struggle with drugs, namely cocaine and crack cocaine, and it may have beaten her. Over the years, it can ravage the body and people get worn down, which can have catastrophic consequences. Cocaine can cause stress, which can further lead to heart attacks,
aneurysms or strokes. Although in Whitney’s case, it could have been unrelated.” What do you think could have been the cause of her death?
“I think her body gave in to years of abuse or a recent period of indulgence. She had recently just wrapped up shooting for the movie Sparkle and was in L.A. over the weekend getting ready to attend Clive Davis’ party. These are all relevant factors. People celebrate big accomplishments and I worry that she may have overindulged in old vices at the wrong time. It was just three o’clock in the afternoon. I’d like to believe she got the drugs out of her system and in a moment of total letdown, her body gave out.”
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Whitney Houston’s daughter has been released from a Los Angeles hospital after being rushed there the morning after her mother’s death. A source close to the family who did not want to speak given the sensitivity of the matter says Bobbi Kristina Brown was treated and released for stress and anxiety. The 18-year-old was taken by ambulance to the hospital around 10:30 a.m. Sunday from the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where her mother was found dead Saturday afternoon. Brown had accompanied her mother to several pre-Grammy events last week.
Bobbi Kristina Brown
Coroner’s officials received Whitney Houston’s body early Sunday morning, but have not yet said when an autopsy will occur. Any cause of death determination will likely be delayed while they await toxicology results. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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TIMELINE A look at the ups and downs of Whitney Houston’s life.
Highs
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A life of highs and lows
The movies Although not critically acclaimed, her film work was respected and popular with fans, with The Bodyguard earning $410 million worldwide.
Lows
The marriage The pairing raised eyebrows: the church-going Houston and the hardedged R&B singer Bobby Brown. He was repeatedly arrested. She lost her good-girl image.
The drugs Houston was open about her addictions. And the toll they took on her voice was evident in her final albums.
The end After appearing on a reality show about her husband, Houston is now remembered as a “former” icon-turned-mess. But her legacy remains. Her fans will always love her.
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She will never be Mariah Carey forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth.
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The charts Houston ruled them in the 1980s and early ’90s. She was the first artist ever to score seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits, which included Saving All My Love for You, How Will I Know, Greatest Love of All, I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) and more.
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Whitney Houston — music icon, best-selling artist, winner of six Grammy awards, movie star and admitted drug addict — died Feb. 11 at age 48, a spokesman said. She was found unresponsive at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, hours before she was to attend a Grammy party hosted by music producer Clive Davis. Born in Newark, N.J., into a musical family, Houston was the daughter of Cissy Houston, a gospel singer, and cousin of Dionne Warwick (with Aretha Franklin as her godmother). In the 1980s, she started performing with her mom in New York City nightclubs, where she was spotted by Davis, who produced her debut, Whitney Houston, in 1985. How Will I Know, Saving All My Love, The Greatest Love of All: The songs became the soundtrack to the 1980s, selling millions. Her follow-ups al-
Simon Cowell
I am so sad to hear about Whitney. We have lost one of the greatest singers of all time. Christina Aguilera
We have lost another legend. Wyclef Jean
Whitney Houston was 48 years old at the time of her death.
so went No. 1, with the 1992 soundtrack to her film The Bodyguard topping the U.S. charts for months. Its single, I Will Always Love You, was the best-selling single by a female artist ever. Over her lifetime, Houston sold some 55 million records. But in the 1990s, her ca-
reer, and life, went downhill. In 1992, she married Bobby Brown, an R&B singer. They divorced in 1997, but not before years of domestic abuse calls and doing drugs together. Houston began admitting her problems with marijuana and cocaine (not crack; “Crack is
whack,” she said memorably) in television interviews. “The biggest devil is me,” she told TV interviewer Diane Sawyer in 2002, with Brown next to her. “I’m either my best friend or worst enemy.” She is survived by their daughter, 18-year-old Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown.
SAD, SAD WAY TO LEAVE THIS WORLD ALAN CROSS
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If you had to pinpoint the moment things began to go wrong for Whitney Houston, it was around the same time everything was going right. In 1992, she had already sold nearly 50 million albums and was about to sell 44 million more with The Bodyguard soundtrack. There was her children’s charity, her support
of Nelson Mandela and a world tour. But she married Bobby Brown, a guy who came with a lot of very heavy baggage. Together, they became tabloid gold. By 2000, her erratic behaviour, increasingly embarrassing live performances and a shocking deterioration in her physical appearance turned her into a punchline for morbid jokes. There were stories alleging cocaine and crack
abuse. There were noshows at important events. Word spread that working with her was impossible. Even non-insiders saw that she was messed up and getting more messed up by the month. As early as 2001, MTV began assembling video for an obit for when the inevitable happened. Lately, though, things seemed to be getting much, much better with even a possible shot at being a judge on X Factor.
It’s too early to call this a junkie’s death, although that might turn out to be the case. Perhaps it was death by misadventure. Or it could be some kind of cardiac failure resulting from years of drug abuse. After all, isn’t this the woman that was once quoted as saying, “Crack is whack”? But whatever the story, it’s a sad, sad way to go for a woman with one of the greatest voices of the last couple of generations.
This is the saddest thing I’ve ever had to write in my life, R I P to one of the greatest humans that I have ever known Whitney Houston Queen Latifah
Oh Dear Lord! Hurting so Bad!!! MY Sister Whitney!!!!!!! Newark please Pray!!! World Please Pray! Ricky Martin
RIP Whitney Houston. Sending my love and deepest condolences to her family and friends. Fly Whitney Fly
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Zombies creep their way into our hearts Season 2 of The Walking Dead moved at snail’s pace Viewers need time to get emotionally involved with the characters, says the show’s executive producer
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Zombies are relatively slow creatures, we get it — they’re technically dead, for starters, which severely limits cognitive abilities. But for some fans of The Walking Dead, the first half of Season 2 moved at a criminally lethargic pace — even for a drama about a small band of humans trying to eke out an existence post-zombie apocalypse. So we sat down with Robert Kirkman, creator of the graphic novel series on which the TV show is based, and executive producer Glen Mazzara, who took on showrunner duties this season, to find out why the survivors have spent so much time hanging out on a farm, and what happens after the devastating events set in motion in the midseason finale. There was so much chaos in the first season, just in introducing the fact that a zombie apocalypse had occurred. Was it always your intention to make the conflict in Season 2 more internal?
Glen Mazzara: It was important to push in and develop our characters. We really wanted to spend time and examine who these people are and to get to know them. The more fully realized these characters are, the more emotionally damaging it is when we lose them. Hopefully that’s the case. These fans love these characters and they get upset, they get pissed off, they get excited, they get afraid for them, and that’s something that’s very special as that does not happen on most TV shows. The show is about the characters. And if we weren’t spending time with them, I don’t know if that would be the case. One of the characters fans love to hate right now is Shane, who has made some shocking choices — particularly when he sparked a mas-
Jon Bernthal plays Shane Walsh on The Waking Dead on AMC.
sacre at the farm. At this point, is he redeemable?
GM: Shane is not a villain. He’s a guy who makes total sense to us. He’s a guy who feels he knows best. Now he’s a guy whose baby is being carried by his best friend’s wife — you know, he believes that. Was Shane justified in what he did in the finale? That’s an interesting question. He’s not necessarily out for his own preservation, so he’s an interesting character. Of course he’s polarizing, he’s dynamic. Jon Bernthal does a great job playing him. How quickly is the “Was Shane justified?” question addressed as the series returns?
Robert Kirkman: We hit the ground running from minute one. It’s pretty much Rick and Shane at odds over what Shane did at the barn. GM: Shane and Rick present two very different types of leader for the group, and that’ll tear at the group for the rest of the season. That final scene at the barn, which clearly showed the leadership styles of both men,
was very poignant.
GM: And that’s what we were building to. You know, some people said that the show’s slow, it’s quieter or more character-based. It was designed to build to that payoff. So I think because that payoff was so successful, that first part of the season was successful. The midseason finale ended with a lot of action. Will that pace continue through the rest of the season?
RK: The midseason finale was the beginning of an escalation that brings us all the way to the end of our season. That event and those people being at odds over this thing that Shane has done really kind of drives us to event after event after event. We are going to end with six episodes that are absolutely packed. GM: It’s a roller coaster. What’s interesting is after the events at the barn, it’s impossible to slow down. And sometimes we actually thought, “Should we slow down?” It’s impossible to go back. The show’s off the hook.
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Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams — stars of The Vow — tell you how to survive Valentine’s Day NED EHRBAR
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CHANNING TATUM: Are you a hopeless romantic yourself?
I hate that question, because yeah, I would like to say I’m a romantic. I don’t personally think it’s that hard to be that thoughtful. Caring for somebody and showing them that you love them is just another outlet for creativity for me. I like to draw and write little, tiny stories, or even just ‘I love you’ and hide it in her purse or under the toilet seat so when she gets up before you she sees it. It’s whatever. Because I’m a practical joker, it’s fun for me. What advice do you have for a great Valentine’s Day?
Valentine’s Day, I would always say misleading is the best. Say you’re going to dinner, like something really boring — not boring, but normal. Look, I love sitting and having dinner. I probably will be doing that on Valentine’s Day because it’s the day this comes out, and we’ll be working and whatnot. But mislead. That’s what I always say. Mislead. Say we’re doing that, and then go and, I don’t know, go skydiving. Do something that’s a little shocking, that you’ll remember. Don’t do something that you’ve already done. Any memorable Valentine’s Days for you?
I don’t know any
“I like to write ‘I love you’ and hide it in her purse or under the toilet seat. It’s fun for me.” CHANNING TATUM memorable ones as far as great dates because I think I’ve had two really bad days on Valentine’s Day. I had two long-term girlfriends — for almost exactly the same amount of time, it was like three and a half years each — and on Valentine’s Day on both of them we broke up. But in hindsight it was a really honest thing because I think that right around that time you should be figuring out if this is who you want to be with. Is this who you want to raise children with? Is this something that you see going on and getting to the next stage, whatever that next stage is? And I think that when Valentine’s Day comes around, you can’t get away from it. It makes you think of it, and you can’t be dishonest on that day. And I think that in both of those relationships, we had great, great communication and real friendship, and I think it was just one of those, ‘Yeah, let’s try something different,’ you know? And, ‘I love you, but...’ And it was hard because it wasn’t like a bad breakup. It never was like, ‘You cheated on me!’ It was always just like, ‘I think we’re doing different things now.’ And it was sad, it was re-
Rachel McAdams Do you have any Valentine’s Day advice for our readers? “Well, I always like really personal things, doing something no one else would know about you. But a girlfriend of mine, she does this very cute thing where she writes little notes on the toilet paper roll for her boyfriend. Like draws little drawings and pictures and stuff, which I think is really cute. But yeah, just something really personal. I prefer those things. It doesn’t have to be big or lavish, just some thought put into it.”
ally sad. But I think those are the ones that I remember the most. You weren’t skydiving at the time, were you?
No, no. (laughs) Like, [yelling over his shoulder] ‘You know what, this isn’t working for me!’
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Whitney: What we know The news that music legend Whitney Houston died on Saturday has everyone asking: What happened? As of press time, here’s what we know: MARK J. TERRILL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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In this undated image released by Beyonce.com, Beyoncé Knowles holds her daughter Blue Ivy in a recent family photo.
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• On Thursday afternoon, a Los Angeles Times reporter who was on hand to cover rehearsals with Brandy, Monica, and Clive Davis for the mogul’s annual pre-Grammys party, described Houston as reeking of alcohol, “visibly bloated,” and “disheveled in mismatched clothes and hair that was dripping wet with either sweat or water.” She spent half the day “wandering aimlessly” around the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hilton, where she was staying and where
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Media mobs a coroner’s van as it leaves the Beverly Hilton Hotel early Sunday in Beverly Hills.
she was set to perform at the same event. Reportedly, guests even called security on the singer, because she was performing handstands by the hotel pool. • As of now, it looks like the cause of death was from drowning in a bathtub; Houston was probably under some kind of sedation. According to TMZ.com, her stylist, hairdresser, and two bodyguards were among the ones who found Houston in the tub under-
water. She had apparently been in the bathroom for more than an hour and her hairdresser, concerned they wouldn’t have time to get ready for Clive Davis’ preGrammys bash, where she was set to perform, went in to check on her. • Per TMZ.com, they discovered her with her “face ... below the water and her legs were up ... like she had slid down the back of the tub.” The bodyguards pulled
her out and called hotel security. After unsuccessfully performing CPR on her “cold” body, paramedics, who quickly arrived on the scene, pronounced her dead at 3:55 p.m. • Radaronline.com reports no illicit drugs were found in Houston’s hotel room, but police did recover a half dozen pill bottles from the room, including Xanax. • An autopsy was performed on Sunday but no foul play is suspected.
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A I go only when forced to — if it’s that of a close family member or friend B Love ’em! A new audience I can impress with my killer humpback whale calls C They’re a great chance to place bets on when the couple will divorce D Um, have you seen Wedding Crashers? 9. What’s your favourite way to unwind after a long day at work?
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Jazz up classic comfort food Miso is more than just a soup we slurp with sushi Fermented bean paste is a creative addition to this twist on macaroni and cheese Though miso is from China, it is best known for its role in Japanese cooking, where it is used in soups, sauces, marinades, glazes and dressings. Miso can vary widely in colour and flavour intensity based on how long it is aged and what ingredients are added with it.
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Shading your energy costs There is a simple solution to cutting your energy
Natural window blinds can save you up to 50 per cent ISTOCK PHOTOS
BEN KNIGHT
LIFE@METRONEWS.CA
Boosting your home’s insulation can be a daunting, expensive task: sealing cracks, replacing doors and windows, ripping walls apart to add more fibreglass. If that’s making you cringe, there are simpler solutions. It turns out you can cut expenditures like air conditioning by as much as 50 per cent with a simple, humble, old-school product – the window blind. “Glass lets heat or cold penetrate from the outside to the inside, and vice versa, very easily,” says Steve Kleihege, a product management specialist at Blinds.com. “You need
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Windows account for 20 per cent of the exterior wall space in many homes – and 20 times more heat flows through them when they are uncovered. This unnecessarily eats up energy, in the form of extra heating or air conditioning. Window blinds can help save you money on energy costs.
something – another barrier – to stop that from happening.” We’re not talking about a simple roll-up piece of vinyl or plastic here. Sophisticated design and natural ingredients make a
huge difference in how much money and energy you can save. “When I think of ecofriendly window products, I like ones that are manufactured out of products naturally grown from the
earth, that don’t contaminate anything in the air, and can be recycled,” Kleihege explains. Bamboo blinds put an attractive, natural barrier between your home and the sun’s heat. But if you
really want to cut your electricity bill, cellular shades are the way to go. “These products are manufactured out of fabric. They have pockets formed in the blind that help trap air, which stops the heat or the cold coming from the outside into your room. For best sav-
ings, your shade would need to be lowered on every window, especially during the day. And in the evening time when the heat isn’t so bad, you can always raise them up.” Window glass is a spectacularly efficient transmitter of heat. The biggest window-blind savings come from exterior products, which block the sunlight before it even reaches your glass. “You have roller shades, which are like screens, and you can also have permanent stationary screens on the outside,” says Kleihege. “That is probably the most energy-efficient shade out there. If the heat never touches the glass, it will never get to your room.” For more information, check out blinds.com.
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Turning the dial to determination He pursued his dream relentlessly for more than a decade
Finally Fitzroy Gordon’s hard work is paying off
TURNING POINT
“I hope my story will give people strength, resolve and inspiration to fight on because without a fight you can never have victory.”
TERESA KRUZE LIFE@METRONEWS.CA
Fitzroy Gordon was nine years old when he bought his first transistor radio in Jamaica. He listened for hours and soon the budding DJ had his own radio station set up in the backyard. He spent all day spinning records and interviewing imaginary guests. After his family moved to Canada, Gordon got into broadcasting and he realized that the black and Caribbean communities were not being served on the radio in Toronto. I thought, “I’m going to
FITZROY GORDON
Gordon battled on and finally after a trip to Parlia-
ment Hill and an intervention from the Prime Minister, Fitzroy put G98.7 FM on the air in Toronto in November of 2011. Now he plans to build a radio network across Canada. “I hope my story will give people strength, resolve and inspiration to fight on because without a fight you can never have victory.”
Spinning a song of success Fitzroy Gordon’s advice for the aspiring entrepreneur: Dreams never die, only the dreamer. Fitzroy Gordon in the control room on the morning of his radio station launch.
step up and make it happen.” In 1998, Gordon assembled a team and began a
13-year odyssey to secure a spot on the dial for his radio station. He had no idea the emo-
tional toll it would take on his life as he lost everything, including relationships, his house and car.
The more difficulties you have the more determined you must become. Nothing comes easy. Perspiration brings inspiration. Have faith in your dream.
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Dressing up the dining hall It’s not all about slop being served by sour-faced cooks
These American cafeterias are dishing out a difference ISTOCK IMAGES
BRUCE WALSH
Local leader
LIFE@METR0NEWS.CA MWN IN PHILADELPHIA
In 2011, the University of Pennsylvania was recognized by PETA for offering a variety of vegan options, including Vegan Daiya cheese pizzas, cranberry scones, Indian dishes and carob-chip banana squares. Last semester, the school’s dining program teamed up with the Penn Vegan Society for a baked goods potluck to educate students on plant-based goodies.
Typically, college is not fondly remembered for culinary experiences, as students shuffle between the cafeteria and campus pizza joint. But there are plenty of students and administrators alike who are pushing for more creative forms of nourishment. Here are three of the best campus culinary ideas taking hold at schools across the United States in 2012.
What started as a fundraiser for Haitian relief is now a thriving weekly tradition at MTU. Each Friday, a different international student plays guest chef at the university cafeteria, sharing a favourite dish with fellow students. With scarce ethnic cuisine available on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Khana Khazana (Hindi for “food treasure�) attempts to open the minds of MTU students while filling their bellies along the way. University of California, Riverside’s Culinary Chameleon
While food trucks are deeply ingrained in the culture of urban Northeast campuses, they’re still largely an experiment at West Coast schools. Rather than contracting vendors, this month UC Riverside is attempting to launch a truck owned and operated by the university. The Chameleon promises to adjust its location and menu at the whims of the student body. Boston University’s Fancy Fridays
With plenty of ironic flair, every Friday BU students flaunt their very finest attire at Shelton Hall. The cuisine is still 100
Some school cafeteries are getting students excited.
per cent BU dining services — grilled cheese (fro-
mage grille, perhaps?) and pizza — but the speeches
are high-brow, as founding student Thomas
Unger often leads sparkling cider toasts ex-
tolling the virtues of cufflinks and other accoutrement.
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Phil Mickelson won the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Derrick Rose was out again for the Bulls’ game against Boston on Sunday with what coach Tom Thibodeau called “stiffness” in his back. Spring training is officially underway with Seattle’s pitchers and catchers holding their first workout. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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So close, and yet so far Raptors nearly upset Lakers before Bryant sinks jumper with four seconds left to seal win DAVID COOPER/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
94 92 LAKERS
“I was proud how we dug ourselves out, but not happy with how we dug the hole.”
RAPTORS
Kobe Bryant didn’t need a huge game to dismantle the Toronto Raptors, just one good look with a few seconds left on the clock. The Lakers superstar drained a long fadeaway jumper from the baseline with 4.2 seconds to play Sunday to lift Los Angeles to a 94-92 victory over the Raptors. The Lakers’ victory spoiled an excellent afternoon for Jose Calderon, who scored a career-high 30 points for Toronto (9-20), and came after the Raptors had battled back from an 18-point deficit. “That’s his instinct, especially late in the game, that’s why you really can’t have a close game,” Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan said of the Lakers star who famously dropped 81 points on the Raptors back in 2006. Linas Kleiza added 15 points, Leandro Barbosa finished with 12 and DeRozan doled out a career-high seven assists in what was very nearly the Raptors’ second consecutive big upset, coming two days after Toronto beat the Boston Celtics.
RAPTORS COACH DWANE CASEY
DeMar DeRozan tries to cover Lakers star Kobe Bryant on Sunday.
The game’s final few seconds drew angry boos from the crowd of 19,311 at Air
Canada Centre — just shy of a sellout — after Rasual Butler tried to call a time-
out on Toronto’s possession with 3.6 seconds left. Officials ruled Butler didn’t sig-
nal for the timeout before the allowable five seconds to inbound the ball, giving possession to the Lakers. Raptors coach Dwane Casey, who was also hollering for a timeout from the bench, was livid with the call, but bit his tongue after the game for fear of being fined by the league. “I like my money, what little money I make I like it, so I’m not going to comment on it,” said Casey. “It’s a tough call.” Calderon’s previous career-high of 27 points came almost four years ago to the day — Feb. 11, 2008 versus San Antonio. The Raptors guard, however, shrugged off his performance. “It doesn’t matter, we lost so I don’t care,” Calderon said. “It’s tough, when we had a chance to beat another great team like L.A. But we couldn’t today so we’ve got to grab the positive part, we can compete against everybody, we’ve got to believe we can do it.” THE CANADIAN PRESS
With Raonic out, Canada falls to France DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canada failed to advance to the Davis Cup quarter-finals Sunday as France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat surprise substitute Frank Dancevic in straight sets. Tsonga, the world’s sixth-ranked player, prevailed 6-4, 6-4, 6-1, over the feisty 178th-ranked Niagara Falls native, who was a late replacement for Canada’s injured top singles player Milos Raonic. The win gave France an insurmountable 3-1 lead in the best-of-five competition with one match to play.
“Obviously I am extremely disappointed to not be able to play for my team today.” MILOS RAONIC
France will take on the United States in the World Group quarter-finals in April. Canada must play a World Group playoff tie in September to try to retain its spot in the elite 16-team group for 2013. Dancevic, 31, got the call
Milos Raonic watches Frank Dancevic play on Sunday.
to play his first match of the weekend after Raonic pulled out due to a knee injury. Canada, ranked 14th in the world, needed a win in
the reverse singles match to keep its victory hopes alive. But the upset was not to be after Dancevic lost the opening four games of the match and then surren-
dered leads twice in the second set. Raonic, the world No. 29 from Thornhill, experienced some pain in his knee after Saturdays doubles match. “After our doubles match (Saturday) I consulted with my team, and a team of doctors regarding some pain in my knee,” Raonic said in a release. “After extensive discussions, the doctors determined it is not in my best interest to play today.” THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Guarding the NBA’s global future Spanish phenom and Ivy League underdog building overseas buzz while helping to rejuvenate T-Wolves, Knicks One point guard has practically been a household name since he started playing professionally at 14, a lottery pick who has made the two-year wait for his flashy passes well worth it. The other went undrafted out of Harvard and unwanted in Golden State and Houston before a desperate team and a desperate coach gave him the chance he needed on the game’s biggest stage. In their own dynamic ways, Ricky Rubio and Jeremy Lin have put their dormant franchises on their backs and given a jolt to the NBA’s long-standing mission of bringing the game to every corner of the world. As the first Americanborn player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent, Lin is re-opening doors in Asia that some feared to be clos-
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Jeremy Lin has poured in 109 points in his ďŹ rst four starts. That’s more than any player has had in his ďŹ rst four starts since the NBAABA merger, besting Allen Iverson, Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal. ing in the wake of Yao Ming’s retirement. He’s led the New York Knicks to five straight wins and has become an instant fan favourite at Madison Square Garden. Rubio is the Spanish sensation who has fans in Barcelona watching in the wee hours of the morning. His infectious play has the Timberwolves gunning for the playoffs for the first
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Rookie Ricky Rubio is the playmaker who is ďŹ fth in the league in assists and ďŹ rst in steals.
Minnesota’s Ricky Rubio, left, guards New York’s Jeremy Lin in Minneapolis on Saturday night.
time since 2004. Together, they give the NBA two fresh faces to trumpet to hoops-hungry
hotbeds in Asia and Western Europe. “The world is changing,� Rubio said after his Wolves
lost to Lin’s Knicks 100-98 on Saturday night. “It’s not only America, it’s not only Europe. The world is the
world. It’s growing up.� While the pair’s style of play, backgrounds and upbringings are near polar opposites, the electricity they provide is the tie that binds. “It’s been pretty surreal,� said Lin, who had 38 points in a win over the Lakers on Friday. “I’m just really trying to wake up every day and enjoy, soak it all in, but at the same time stay focused on what we’re doing.... Besides that, just really enjoying the whole experience.� THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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EASTERN CONFERENCE d-NY Rangers d-Boston d-Florida Pittsburgh Philadelphia New Jersey Ottawa Toronto Washington Winnipeg Montreal Tampa Bay Buffalo NY Islanders Carolina
GP 54 53 55 56 56 55 58 56 55 57 56 55 55 55 56
W 36 34 27 32 31 31 28 28 28 26 23 24 24 23 20
L OTL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 13 1 4 153 110 77 18-6-0-2 18-7-1-2 7-2-0-1 17 1 1 184 120 70 18-9-1-1 16-8-0-0 5-4-1-0 17 5 6 141 152 65 14-5-1-6 13-12-4-0 6-3-0-1 19 2 3 175 148 69 17-7-2-0 15-12-0-3 7-2-0-1 18 2 5 182 169 69 13-9-1-4 18-9-1-1 3-4-0-3 20 1 3 154 155 66 15-10-0-3 16-10-1-0 5-3-0-2 22 6 2 169 181 64 15-11-2-1 13-11-4-1 2-6-2-0 22 3 3 171 166 62 16-9-2-2 12-13-1-1 5-4-0-1 22 2 3 153 155 61 19-7-0-2 9-15-2-1 3-4-2-1 25 3 3 139 161 58 16-8-0-2 10-17-3-1 4-5-0-1 24 2 7 149 149 55 11-11-2-5 12-13-0-2 6-3-0-1 25 3 3 155 185 54 15-8-1-1 9-17-2-2 6-2-2-0 25 3 3 136 158 54 13-10-3-3 11-15-0-0 5-4-0-1 24 5 3 131 159 54 12-13-5-0 11-11-1-2 5-3-1-1 25 7 4 142 172 51 14-12-0-3 6-13-7-1 4-2-3-1
Strk W3 W1 W3 W2 L2 L2 L1 L3 L2 L1 W4 L1 L1 L1 L2
WESTERN CONFERENCE d-Detroit d-Vancouver d-San Jose St. Louis Nashville Chicago Los Angeles Phoenix Calgary Colorado Dallas Minnesota Anaheim Edmonton Columbus
GP 57 55 53 55 56 56 57 56 56 57 55 55 55 55 56
W 38 34 30 34 32 29 27 27 26 28 28 25 22 22 16
L OTL SL GF GA Pts Home Away 17 1 1 182 135 78 23-2-1-0 15-15-0-1 15 0 6 178 138 74 15-6-0-4 19-9-0-2 17 3 3 153 127 66 18-9-2-0 12-8-1-3 14 1 6 139 111 75 24-3-1-3 10-11-0-3 18 3 3 158 148 70 17-7-2-2 15-11-1-1 20 4 3 174 171 65 19-6-1-3 10-14-3-0 19 5 6 124 124 65 15-11-0-4 12-8-5-2 21 3 5 148 144 62 14-10-2-2 13-11-1-3 22 4 4 134 151 60 15-8-1-1 11-14-3-3 25 3 1 146 159 60 16-13-0-1 12-12-3-0 24 0 3 145 157 59 15-11-0-2 13-13-0-1 22 2 6 125 144 58 13-9-1-2 12-13-1-4 24 4 5 144 163 53 15-13-2-0 7-11-2-5 28 1 4 147 165 49 15-8-1-2 7-20-0-2 34 1 5 131 185 38 9-15-1-2 7-19-0-3
Last 10 7-2-0-1 6-1-0-3 4-5-0-1 7-2-0-1 6-2-0-2 2-7-1-0 4-4-1-1 6-3-0-1 5-2-1-2 4-4-1-1 4-5-0-1 3-6-0-1 6-2-1-1 5-4-0-1 3-6-0-1
Strk W3 L1 L1 W4 L3 L8 W1 W5 W1 L1 L2 L4 W1 W1 L1
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 Florida 4 Islanders 1 N.Y. Rangers 3 Washington 2 Anaheim 5 Columbus 3 Los Angeles 4 Dallas 2 St. Louis 3 San Jose 0 Pittsburgh 4 Tampa Bay 2 Detroit 4 Philadelphia 3 Saturday’s results Calgary 3 Vancouver 2 (SO) Edmonton 4 Ottawa 3 (OT) Montreal 5 Toronto 0 Pittsburgh 8 Winnipeg 5 Boston 4 Nashville 3 (SO) Columbus 3 Minnesota 1 Florida 3 New Jersey 1 N.Y. Islanders 2 Los Angeles 1 (OT) N.Y. Rangers 5 Philadelphia 2 Phoenix 3 Chicago 0 St. Louis 3 Colorado 2 (OT) Tampa Bay 2 Buffalo 1 Tonight’s games San Jose at Washington, 7:30 p.m. Carolina at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Phoenix at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Tomorrow’s games N.Y. Rangers at Boston, 7 p.m. New Jersey at Buffalo, 7 p.m. St. Louis at Columbus, 7 p.m. Ottawa at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. Dallas at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Chicago at Nashville, 8 p.m. Anaheim at Minnesota, 8 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Winnipeg, 8:30 p.m. Toronto at Calgary, 9 p.m.
SATURDAY CANADIENS 5, MAPLE LEAFS 0
First Period No Sccoring. Penalty — Plekanec Mtl (interference) 17:21. Second Period 1. Montreal, Cole 20 (Desharnais) 5:01 2. Montreal, Bourque 16 (Plekanec, Darche) 6:45 3. Montreal, Pacioretty 23 (Desharnais, Subban) 15:54 (pp) 4. Montreal, Eller 12, 18:54 Penalties — Gill Mtl (holding) 2:49, Pacioretty Mtl (cross-checking) 7:37, Connolly Tor (slashing) 15:00. Third Period 5. Montreal, Darche 4 (Plekanec, Price) 1:29 Penalties — Subban Mtl (interference) 5:44, Eller Mtl (slashing) 16:37, Brown Tor (roughing) 18:56. Shots on goal by Montreal Toronto
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Goal — Montreal: Price (W,21-19-8) Toronto: Reimer (L,10-6-4). Power plays (goals-chances) — Montreal: 1-2 Toronto: 0-5. Referees — Greg Kimmerly, Dan O’Halloran. Linesmen — Greg Devorski, Brad Kovalchik. Att. — 19,685 (18,819) at Toronto.
OILERS 4, SENATORS 3 (OT)
First Period 1. Ottawa, Alfredsson 19 (Karlsson, Spezza) 4:36 Penalties — Hall Edm (tripping) 2:25, Lee Ott
(tripping) 9:08, Hall Edm (goaltender interference) 13:21. Second Period 2. Edmonton, Paajarvi 1 (Hemsky, Horcoff) 14:05 3. Ottawa, Michalek 24 (Spezza, Butler) 16:23 4. Edmonton, Eager 6 (Petry, Lander) 18:52 Penalty — Ott bench (too many men; served by Foligno) 2:50. Third Period 5. Edmonton, Horcoff 10 (Hemsky, Paajarvi) 0:42 6. Ottawa, Karlsson 9, 9:30 Penalties — None. Overtime 7. Edmonton, Hall 19 (Horcoff, Gilbert) 0:17 Penalties — None. Shots Edmonton Ottawa
12 17 17 17
8 3—40 8 0—42
Goal — Edmonton: Khabibulin (W,12-16-4); Ottawa: Anderson (L,25-20-5). Power plays (goals-chances) — Edmonton: 0-2; Ottawa: 0-2. Referees — Marc Joannette, Wes McCauley. Linesmen — Scott Driscoll, Pierre Racicot. Att. — 20,085 (19,153) at Ottawa.
PENGUINS 8, JETS 5
First Period 1. Winnipeg, Wellwood 11 (Enstrom, Byfuglien) 5:17 2. Winnipeg, Burmistrov 10 (Miettinen, Stapleton) 8:04 3. Pittsburgh, Jeffrey 3 (Staal, Letang) 12:11 4. Pittsburgh, Neal 29 (Malkin) 16:42 Penalty — Letang Pgh (holding stick) 17:54. Second Period 5. Pittsburgh, Kunitz 15 (Malkin, Fleury) 3:12 (pp) 6. Pittsburgh, Letang 6 (Malkin, Kunitz) 9:53 7. Winnipeg, Stapleton 8 (Wheeler) 14:19 8. Pittsburgh, Malkin 30 (Kunitz, Neal) 17:08 Penalties — Thorburn Wpg (roughing) 2:01, Enstrom Wpg (tripping) 11:33. Third Period 9. Winnipeg, Byfuglien 8 (Little, Wheeler) 4:35 10. Pittsburgh, Park 5 (Orpik, Adams) 4:54 11. Pittsburgh, Staal 16 (Dupuis, Cooke) 7:48 12. Winnipeg, Little 14 (Hainsey, Bogosian) 10:02 13. Pittsburgh, Letang 7 (Malkin, Kunitz) 17:16 (pp) Penalty — Ladd Wpg (slashing) 16:57. Shots Winnipeg Pittsburgh
10 4 14 15
11 10
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Goal — Winnipeg: Pavelec (L,20-19-6); Pittsburgh: Fleury (W,29-13-3). Power plays (goalschances) — Winnipeg: 0-1; Pittsburgh: 2-3. Referees — Eric Furlatt, Stephane Auger. Linesmen — Derek Amell, Mark Shewchyk. Att. — 18,602 (18,387) at Pittsburgh, Pa.
FLAMES 3, CANUCKS 2 (SO)
First Period 1. Calgary, Cammalleri 12 (Comeau, Hannan) 17:23 Penalties — Duco Vcr, Bouma Cal (fighting) 6:33, Edler Vcr (interference) 13:46, Alberts Vcr (boarding) 17:57. Second Period 2. Calgary, Horak 3 (Bouma, Sarich) 2:41 3. Vancouver, Hodgson 15 (Duco, Edler) 17:55 Penalties — Alberts Vcr (charging, double roughing), Backlund Cal (roughing) 4:30, Tanguay Cal (boarding) 11:20, Alberts Vcr, Jackman Cal (fighting) 13:30.
Third Period 4. Vancouver, Booth 9 (Hamhuis) 8:04 Penalty — Comeau Cal (slashing) 3:50. Overtime No Scoring. Penalties — Alberts Vcr (charging, double roughing), Bouwmeester Cal (holding) 0:55, H.Sedin Vcr (tripping) 1:03. Shootout Calgary wins 2-1 Calgary (2) — Jokinen, goal; Tanguay, miss, Iginla, goal. Vancouver (1) — Edler, miss; Burrows, goal; Raymond, miss. Shots Vancouver Calgary
6 7
9 12 4—31 5 6 0—18
Goal — Vancouver: Luongo (L,22-10-6); Calgary: Kiprusoff (W,25-17-4). Power plays (goalschances) — Vancouver: 0-3; Calgary: 0-5. Referees — Mike Leggo, Dan O’Rourke. Linesmen — Lonnie Cameron, Mike Cvik. Att. — 19,289 (19,289) at Calgary.
SOCCER AFRICAN NATIONS CUP At Libreville, Gabon Yesterday’s result Zambia 0 Ivory Coast 0 (Zambia wins 8-7 on penalty kicks)
ENGLAND PREMIER LEAGUE
Yesterday’s results West Bromwich Albion 5 Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 Aston Villa 0 Manchester City 1
FRANCE LIGUE 1
Yesterday’s results Lille 4 Bordeaux 5 Nice 0 Paris Saint-Germain 0 Toulouse 0 Saint-Etienne 1
GERMANY BUNDESLIGA
Yesterday’s results Augsburg 0 Nuremberg 0 Cologne 0 Hamburger SV 1
ITALY SERIE A
Yesterday’s results Atalanta 0 Lecce 0 Catania 4 Genoa 0 Inter Milan 0 Novara 1 Fiorentina at Parma (ppd.) Juventus at Bologna (ppd.)
SPAIN LA LIGA
Yesterday’s results Espanyol 0 Zaragoza 2 Malaga 3 Mallorca 1 Rayo Vallecano 2 Getafe 0 Real Madrid 4 Levante 2 Valencia 4 Sporting Gijon 0 Villarreal 3 Granada 1
EASTERN CONFERENCE d-Chicago d-Miami d-Philadelphia Atlanta Indiana Orlando Boston New York Milwaukee Cleveland Toronto Detroit New Jersey Washington Charlotte
W 23 21 19 18 17 17 15 13 12 10 9 8 8 6 3
L 7 7 9 10 10 11 12 15 15 16 20 21 21 22 24
Pct .767 .750 .679 .643 .630 .607 .556 .464 .444 .385 .310 .276 .276 .214 .111
WESTERN CONFERENCE d-Oklahoma City d-L.A. Clippers d-San Antonio Dallas Houston L.A. Lakers Denver Portland Utah Memphis Minnesota Phoenix Golden State Sacramento New Orleans
W 21 17 19 17 16 16 16 15 13 14 13 12 9 10 4
L 6 8 9 11 11 12 12 13 12 13 15 15 14 17 23
Pct .778 .680 .679 .607 .593 .571 .571 .536 .520 .519 .464 .444 .391 .370 .148
GB — 1 3 4 41/2 5 61/2 9 91/2 11 131/2 141/2 141/2 16 181/2
GB — 3 21/2 41/2 5 51/2 1 5 /2 61/2 7 7 1 8 /2 9 10 11 17
d — division leaders ranked in top four positions regardless of record. Yesterday’s results L.A. Lakers 94, Toronto 92 Boston 95, Chicago 91 Washington 98, Detroit 77 Miami 107, Atlanta 87 Houston at Golden State, 9 p.m. Utah at Memphis, 9:30 p.m. Saturday’s results L.A. Clippers 111, Charlotte 86 Denver 113, Indiana 109 Philadelphia 99, Cleveland 84 New York 100, Minnesota 98 San Antonio 103, New Jersey 89 Dallas 97, Portland 94,2OT Orlando 99, Milwaukee 94 Phoenix 98, Sacramento 84 Tonight’s games Philadelphia at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Orlando, 7 p.m. Utah at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Miami at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Phoenix at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. Tomorrow’s game Miami at Indiana, 7 p.m. New York at Toronto, 7 p.m. San Antonio at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Sacramento at Chicago, 8 p.m. Utah at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Houston at Memphis, 8 p.m. Phoenix at Denver, 9 p.m. Washington at Portland, 10 p.m. Atlanta at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
NLL WEEK SIX
Yesterday’s results Minnesota 9 Rochester 6 Philadelphia 14 Buffalo 13 Friday’s results Calgary 12 Washington 11 Minnesota 10 Edmonton 9 (OT)
LAKERS 94, RAPTORS 92
L.A. LAKERS (94) World Peace 3-4 1-2 9, Gasol 6-15 4-4 16, Bynum 7-13 0-2 14, Fisher 2-4 0-0 4, Bryant 923 6-8 27, Barnes 1-5 1-2 4, Murphy 2-4 0-0 6, Blake 2-6 2-2 7, Goudelock 3-7 0-0 7, Kapono 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-81 14-20 94. TORONTO (92) J.Johnson 3-8 1-2 7, A.Johnson 0-0 0-0 0, Gray 2-5 0-0 4, Calderon 13-18 0-0 30, DeRozan 2-13 4-5 8, Davis 4-6 1-2 9, Barbosa 4-11 4-4 12, Kleiza 6-11 2-2 15, Carter 1-2 0-0 3, Magloire 24 0-2 4, Butler 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 37-78 12-17 92. L.A. Lakers Toronto
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