News worth sharing. “If I have tried to bring anything to federal politics, it is the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.” Tuesday, July 26, 2011 www.metronews.ca of his health. But as they watched the tele- vised news conference, the insider said: “You could see hearts sinking in the room because the visual was very hard.” THE CANADIAN PRESS More coverage {page 6} NDP Leader Jack Layton speaks at a news conference in Toronto yesterday. JACK LAYTON
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Only three months after riding JackLayton’s personal popularity to ahistoric electoral breakthrough,New Democrats are confrontingthe tragic possibility that they’llhave to soldier on without theircharismatic leader.
A frail, raspy-voiced Layton, whohas been battling prostate cancerand a recent hip fracture,announced yesterday that he’sbeen diagnosed with a new form ofcancer.
The 61-year-old said he’s takinga temporary leave of absence inorder to “focus on treatment andrecovery.” Layton would not revealwhat kind of cancer he has or whattreatment he is undergoing. Buthe struck a resolutely optimistictone, saying he expects to be backin the House of Commons on Sept.19.
“I’m going to fight this cancernow so I can be back to fight for
families when Parliamentresumes,” he told a surprise newsconference in Toronto.
Privately, NDP insiders wereshocked by Layton’s appearanceand how much he’s deterioratedsince his last public appearance onJuly 3. The once trim, athleticleader was gaunt and pale, his voiceweak and hoarse.
His Ottawa staffers wereinformed of the announcement ata meeting 15 minutes before thenews conference. Initially, oneinsider said staffers were pleased tohear that Layton — who cam-
Ailing Jack to take leaveof absence
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NDP Leader Jack Layton speaks at a news conference in Toronto yesterday.
“If I have tried to bringanything to federalpolitics, it is the ideathat hope andoptimism should be attheir heart.”JACK LAYTON
AFTER THE WIREIDRIS ELBA RUNNINGWITH THE MARVELCREW NOW {page 10}
Tuesday, July 26, 2011www.metronews.ca
News worth sharing.
More coverage {page 6}
paigned vigorously with a cane dur-ing the spring election just weeksafter undergoing hip surgery —was finally taking time to take care
of his health.But as they watched the tele-
vised news conference, the insidersaid: “You could see hearts sinking
in the room because the visual wasvery hard.” THE CANADIAN PRESS
Outpouring of support from politicalfoes, general public for NDP leader Partyto appoint interim leader on Thursday
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New measures are beingtaken by a Calgary commu-nity association to curb al-leyway rummaging byhomeless people.
The Renfrew Communi-ty Association is encourag-ing residents to avoidputting recyclable bottlesand cans in the curbsideblue bins, and has beenrunning a monthly bottledrive to keep recyclablesout of the alleyways, said
an association representa-tive.
The Renfrew areaspokesperson, who didn’twant to be named, said thedecision was made on theadvice of the Calgary Po-lice.
Residents aren’t con-vinced it’s a solution.
“I don’t think it’s goingto stop them,” said Renfrewresident Anne Piskolti, whodonates her cans.
Around $500 per monthis collected during thesedrives, and half goes to theDrop-In Centre, according
to the community associa-tion representative.
Police spokespersonKevin Brookwell said it’snot an issue of denying thecans to rummagers, butthat bins were beingdumped out to get to therecyclables.
“To discourage the rum-maging and dumping ofbins, we suggest that if youdon’t want to take them toa bottle depot or donatethem, put the recyclablesin a plastic bag and placethem beside your bins,” hesaid.
Renfrew looks to avoid dumping of garbage cans Plastic-bag-stylerecycling encouraged, as is donating cans to charities or bottle depot
Anne Piskolti doesn’t think removing recyclables from blue bins will remove can collectors from neighbourhoods.
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Library sitestill inquestion A press release sent out pre-maturely by city officialslast night left aldermenshaking their heads as theyleft council chambers.
At 8:40 p.m., while coun-cil was still in camera, acity release was sent out in-dicating the East Villagehad been approved for thenew central library. Howev-er, after council emergedfrom closed doors, itbecame clear the site hasnot yet been officiallyapproved.
Council will reconveneat 1 p.m. today to discussthe new library site.
KATIE TURNER
Calgaryfilm hubgets $10MCalgary is now one stepcloser to becoming a com-petitive location for filmand television productionafter council voted yester-day to dole out $10 millionin funding.
The Alberta CreativeHub, a project spearheadedby Calgary Economic Devel-opment, will be a multipur-pose facility, which willinclude sound stages andproduction studios. “Thesupport of Calgary citycouncil through the Cultur-al Space InvestmentProcess highlights the city’songoing commitment toarts and culture spaces,”says Bruce Graham, presi-dent & CEO of Calgary Eco-nomic Development in arelease.
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The self-described perpe-trator of Norway’s deadlybombing and shootingrampage was ordered heldin isolation at a hearingyesterday after calmlytelling the court that twoother groups of alliesstand ready to join hismurderous campaign.
Anders Behring Breivikhas admitted bombingNorway’s capital andopening fire on a politicalyouth group retreat on anisland near the capital. Hetold authorities he expectsto spend the rest of his lifein prison. Saying he want-ed to save Europe fromMuslim immigration, heentered a plea of notguilty that will guarantee
him future court hearingsand opportunities to ad-dress the public, even indi-rectly.
Police believe Breivikacted alone, despite hisgrand claims in a 1,500-
page manifesto that he be-longed to a modern groupof crusaders. But they havenot completely ruled outthat he had accomplices.
Judge Kim Heger or-dered Breivik held foreight weeks, includingfour in isolation.
Norway has beenstunned by the attacksand riveted by Breivik’sstrange writings. Hun-dreds of reporters and lo-cals thronged thecourthouse ahead of hisfirst court appearance yes-terday, hoping to get theirfirst glimpse of the manblamed for the deaths of76 people — lowered yes-terday from 93. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Norway suspectordered held
Anders Behring Breivik
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Breivik threatens more violence Judge orders himto solitary confinement Thousands lay flowers in Oslo
Attacks aconcern forLondon2012Olympics IOC president JacquesRogge is confident policeintelligence work willhelp avert any attack onthe London Olympics simi-lar to the bombing andshooting massacre in Nor-way.
Rogge said British secu-rity officials will have tak-en into account the type ofattacks that shook Norwayon Friday.
British Olympics Minis-ter Hugh Robertson saidthe U.K. had alreadyprepared for attacks by“lone wolves” but wouldre-examine its securityplans in the wake of thetwin attacks.
“Clearly, where thereare lessons to be learnedfrom Norway, we willlearn them,” he said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Jack Layton has endorsedan interim leadership re-placement because she’sexperienced, bilingualand, most importantly,she will not rock the boat.
The New Democratleader recommendedrookie Quebec MP NycoleTurmel as the temporaryparty leader while he un-
dergoes cancer treatment.The former leader of
the Public Service Allianceof Canada has only sat inParliament for less thanthree months; but shedoes have years of experi-ence working with thefederal government.
Layton says Turmel isan experienced national
leader who has alreadyearned the unanimoussupport of her colleaguesin becoming the party’snational caucus chair.
NDP president BrianTopp says the party ex-pects to appoint an inter-im leader by Thursdayafternoon.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canadians set aside poli-tics yesterday and stoodin solidarity with NDPLeader Jack Layton, whoannounced he’s leavingthe job temporarily tofight an unexpected newcancer.
Layton had previouslygone public with hisstruggle against prostatecancer, but his wan face,thin body and raspy voiceat a Toronto news confer-ence announcing his lat-est diagnosis triggered anemotional torrent of sup-port as the depth of thisillness became obvious toall.
“My heart breaks forJack Layton and his familytoday. Bless his heart formaintaining such high
spirits in the face of thisterrible illness,” said atweet from a woman iden-tifying herself as LaurenGilhooly.
Her comment, one ofthousands on Twitter, wasmatched on Layton’s Face-book page, where hun-dreds of Canadiansrushed to offer comfort-ing words.
Prime Minister StephenHarper, who sparred tart-ly with Layton in the re-cent election campaign,said he was “deeply sad-dened today to hear thatJack Layton is temporarilyleaving his post as leaderof Her Majesty’s OfficialOpposition and leader ofthe New Democratic Par-ty.” THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canadians rallyaround Layton
Politics forgotten as NDP leader’s announcementbrings support from colleagues of all parties
NDP Leader Jack layton and his wife, MP Olivia Chow, at a news conference in Toronto yesterday.
NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Layton recommends leader
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@pmharper I salute thecourage @jacklayton con-tinues to show in his fightagainst cancer. I wish Jack asuccessful recovery.#getwelljack
@elizabethmay Temporaryleave of absence for JackLayton to get well. Prayingfor his full recovery. As areall Canadians.
@glen4tc (Glen Murray,Ontario MPP Toronto Cen-tre, former Winnipeg may-or) I lost my father beforehis time to prostate cancer& my mom has twice beat-en back cancer. Jack #Lay-ton we r w/u heart & soul.
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Fake Appleshopsbusted Chinese officials foundfive fake Apple stores and ordered two of themto suspend business whilethey’re investigated, a lo-cal government website
said yesterday.Officials couldn’t do
anything about the otherthree stores — which dis-played Apple signs and lo-gos -— because they didnot find any fake Appleproducts for sale, a localnewspaper reported.
The investigationfollows a blog post lastweek by a U.S. woman liv-ing in Kunming in Yunnanprovince, who stumbledacross three shops
masquerading as Applestores in the city. She tookphotos and posted themon her BirdAbroad blog.
She said they weremodelled on thecompany’s iconic storesright down to the windingstaircase and the staff uni-form of blue T-shirts.
The Kunming Tradeand Industry Bureauinspected more than 300electronics stores.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Research In Motion will cut2,000 jobs, or about 11 percent of its global workforce,this year to reduce costs inthe competitive smart-phone and tablet markets,in which consumers are in-creasingly turning to Appleand Android products.
The BlackBerry makerprovided the details yester-day, about a month afterannouncing it would re-duce its workforce after ithad lower BlackBerrysmartphone sales in the re-cent financial quarter.
“The workforce reduc-tion is believed to be a pru-dent and necessary step forthe long-term success of thecompany,” RIM said in astatement.
“It follows an extendedperiod of rapid growthwithin the company where-by the workforce had near-ly quadrupled in the lastfive years alone.”
In trading on the Toron-
to Stock Exchange, RIM’sshares were down $1.28, or4.8 per cent, at $25.19.
RIM, based in Waterloo,Ont., has about 19,000 em-ployees. RIM is facing a hostof competition in thesmartphone market fromApple’s iPhone and smart-phones using Google’s An-droid operating system.
Its PlayBook tablet,which met expectations ofselling 500,000 in the re-cent quarter, has receivedlukewarm reviews com-pared with Apple’s iPad.
“If they want to be a top-three or top-five smart-
phone player, then theyhave to much more aggres-sively spend money in theconsumer market,” said an-alyst Alkesh Shah of Ever-core Partners.
“They have to create adifferentiated consumermessage,” Shah said.
There aren’t enough rea-sons for consumers to buy aBlackBerry smartphone ortablet over Apple or An-droid products, he said, sug-gesting RIM could promoteits security feature, valuedby business users, to a con-sumer audience.THE CANADIAN PRESS
RIM to downsizeglobal workforce
Canadian tech firm to release new BlackBerrys in ‘12
An employee holds a BlackBerry Playbook tablet at the Research in Motion
annual meeting.
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After the phone-hacking scandal, isRupert Murdoch’s era of influence over?
HAPPY MEALS. Emotionscan be modified by theintake of food even whenpeople don’t taste thefood or realize they arereceiving nutrients, newresearch indicates. Partic-ipants in a study wereblinded as to the natureof a intragastric infusion,and had 40-minute fMRIneurologic scans as theyprovided responses abouttheir mood, fullness,hunger or nausea.
Sad or neutralemotions were inducedwith music playedthrough headphones andwith images of facial ex-pressions depictingeither sad or neutralemotions back-projectedonto a screen.
Hunger scores roseduring sad emotion anddecreased during neutralemotion conditions. Theeffect of a sad mood wasweakened by fatty acid.
“The novelty lies inthe fact that it’s purelysubliminal or what wecall unconscious brainsignalling happeninghere,” said lead authorDr. Lukas VanOudenhove.
“Something I likeabout this study is that itstarts from the body,from the stomach, and itgoes to the brain,” saidDr. Giovanni Cizza.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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This is how youend up wakingup in VegasOne day in the spring of 1979, ArthurGerald Jones, a well-connected Chica-go financier and father of three, lefthis posh home to run an errand andvanished, never to return.
Despite the FBI’s best efforts to fig-ure out what happened to the power-ful commodity trader, no trace wasever found of Jones. In 1986, an Illinoiscourt declared him dead, and social se-curity paid $47,000 in survivor
benefits to his wife and children.But late last week, the shroud of
mystery enveloping the 32-year-oldcase was suddenly pulled back whenJones, now 72, was discovered living inLas Vegas, where he has been workingas a bookie at a casino.
According to a court affidavit, Jonestold a special investigator with the So-cial Security Administration that hehad a seat on the Chicago Board ofTrade as a commodities trader, but wasforced to sell his seat to pay off a debtincurred when he made a trading er-ror. He lost his job in the process and,fearing what investigators have specu-lated may have been relations with theChicago mafia, Jones decided to leavehis wife of 17 years and family.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
TABLE FORTWO, PLEASE ...NON-CHILDREN
Earlier this month, I read anews story about a Pennsylva-nia restaurant owner who hasdecided to ban children underthe age of six at his establish-ment. While outraged parents
condemned the restaurant for discriminat-ing against their brood, some clientele wel-comed the new policy, breathing a heavysigh of relief knowing that their next $30entrée wouldn’t be served up with a side ofscreaming toddler.
Misbehaved children, and theirseemingly oblivious guardians, can reduce a pleasant din-ing experience to an evening of exasperated eye-rolling.There have been plenty of times that I’ve given up ondessert or another glass of wine in order to get away fromthe piercing sound of a four-year-old in the middle of a
temper tantrum.So should the parents of
these bratty customers bemore considerate of theirfellow patrons and leave thekids at home when diningout?
Some would argue thatparents should be entitledto enjoy a meal with theiroffspring without being sub-jected to dirty looks fromthe next table. However, inmy opinion, letting yourprecious angels run lapsaround the dining room orshriek hysterically while be-ing force-fed broccoli is in-excusable. If you areunwilling or unable to con-trol your children, youmight want to skip the high-end restaurants and opt fora Happy Meal instead.
Irresponsible parents andtheir squealing spawnshould be banished to fami-ly-friendly restaurants thatprovide crayons with their
kids’ menu. Sure, the food at these playground snack barsisn’t exactly top-notch, but you have to sacrifice a little ifyou want arcade games as an appetizer.
But while misbehaved tots can be a serious annoyance,I’ve seen plenty of adults over the years who are just asbad, if not worse, when it comes to mealtime manners.
Grown-ups should know better but often they don’t.They snap their fingers at the serving staff, request somany modifications they might as well eat at home andlinger at the table while a lineup stretches out the door. Ofcourse, the worst restaurant-goers are those who insist onconducting obnoxious cellphone conversations mid-mealwith no regard for their dinner date or the increasinglyannoyed patrons around them. The loudmouth suitscreaming into his BlackBerry is just as disruptive as thelittle ones shrieking over their vegetables. Small childrenmay not be ideal dinner companions, but there are alsoplenty of adults out there who could use a crash course indining etiquette.
SHE SAYS ...
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snack bars isn’texactly top-
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a little if youwant arcadegames as anappetizer.”
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Be-tween last year’s the Los-ers, this year’s Thor andnext year’s Ghost Rider:Spirit of Vengeance,British actor Idris Elbaseems to have a thing forcomic book adaptations.
But there’s still one su-perhero that’s eluded him:Avengers member LukeCage. Not that he’s com-plaining, mind you.
Between two Emmynominations, RidleyScott’s upcoming Alienprequel, Prometheus, andGuillermo del Toro’s Pacif-ic Rim, which starts shoot-ing in October, the formerWire star has plenty tokeep him busy.
Metro caught up withElba in the middle of theComic-Con madness for astatus update.
What are you most excited tosee or do while at Comic-Con?Dude, I don’t get to do any-thing. I do like seeing theaudience react to whatwe’ve got to show themfor Ghost Rider, because Ijust saw it and it’s phe-nomenal.
You’ve been doing very well with comic book movies lately.Well, two films, two char-acters, really. And the Los-ers as well.
I thought that film wasgood. It had a lot of oppor-tunity to be better — notbetter but more well re-
ceived. It didn’t quite do it,but I liked the film. Ithought it was well direct-ed. Sylvain White did that,and he’s great.
Speaking of comic book characters, you’vementioned wanting to playLuke Cage in a film.I’d like having a shot atthat. But listen, we need toknow there’s an appetitefor that. I need the audi-
ences that like Luke Cageto come up and say theywant to see a Luke Cagefilm with me in it.
I’m part of the Marvelfamily, and I think nowthey might be aware thatthere’s this little appetiteto do it, but at the sametime, I’m also part of theThor story, so we’ll see.
What can you tell us aboutPrometheus?
I have to say, it’s an enor-mous film — enormouslyrich in its depth, its com-plexity. The filmmaking issecond to none.
It’s none other than thegreat Ridley Scott, andthere are some really goodactors in it. I can say this:The wait for Ridley to re-turn to a film like that isdefinitely going to be re-warded with somethingexciting
You’ve had a few roles nowfor which people recognizeyou. What comes up most?The Wire, mainly. It wasmy first American callingcard. But now Luther isstarting to, and then Heim-dall [in Thor], believe it ornot. A lot of people are ac-tually like that. It’s a tinypart in that film — hugefilm, tiny part, but it defi-nitely has resonated withsome people.
After finding success on TV’s The Wire, Idris Elba launches his career with a slew of newmovies that have a comic book theme Metro caught up with the rising star at Comic-Con
A career in high gear
Actors Idris Elba and Nicolas Cage speak at a Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
panel during Comic-Con 2011 in San Diego last week.
Source Code’s almost risi-ble collision of the bogusscience and cranial confu-sion recalls GroundhogDay, Inception and Avatar.It also shares the isolationand alienation found inMoon, director DuncanJones’ heralded debut.
Continually returningto its opening scene, the
film has Jake Gyllenhaalchatting up Michelle Mon-aghan on a Chicago com-muter train, in a situationmeant to remind us ofStrangers on a Train. It’smore schlock than Hitch-cock, but here’s wheregood casting and a littlepatience pay off.
Gyllenhaal is U.S. armyCapt. Colter Stevens, adecorated helicopter pilotwho awakens to find him-self part of a science ex-periment.
The science is sketchy,
to say the least. Jones al-lows Jeffrey Wright, as theSource Code project head,to ham it up with a wackyprofessor turn.
Better that Jones shouldconcentrate on the per-formances, and he getsthree fine ones from Gyl-lenhaal, Monaghan andFarmiga, who invest agood deal of emotion intoa farcical situation.
If all else fails, it’s a de-cent thriller at a brisk 93minutes, including all therepeats. PETER HOWELL
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The 35-year-old’slast album, 2007’sThe Reminder, was abreakthrough hit,reaching platinumcertification in Cana-da and going gold inthe U.S.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Family visits memorial outside home Spokesperson says funeral will be held today
An autopsy on singer AmyWinehouse Monday failedto determine what killedthe 27-year-old star, leav-ing fans and family with aweeks-long wait for the re-sults of toxicology tests.
Winehouse’s devastatedparents visited mournersoutside her north Londonhome to thank them fortheir support.
The singer, who hadstruggled with drug and al-cohol abuse for years, wasfound dead Saturday athome by a member of hersecurity team, who calledan ambulance. It arrivedtoo late to save her.
The Metropolitan Policesaid Monday that a foren-
sic post mortem “did notestablish a formal cause ofdeath and we await the re-sults of further toxicologytests.” Those are expected
to take two to four weeks.An inquest into the
singer’s death was openedand adjourned at London’sSt. Pancras Coroner’s
Court. During the two-minute hearing, an officialread out the name, birthdate and address of Wine-house, described as “a di-vorced lady living atCamden Square NW1.”
“She was a singer song-writer at the time of herdeath and was identifiedby her family here at St.Pancras this morning,”said coroner’s officerSharon Duff.
Duff said the scene ofWinehouse’s death “wasinvestigated by police anddetermined non-suspi-cious.”
In Britain, inquests areheld to establish the factswhenever someone dies vi-
olently or in unexplainedcircumstances. AssistantDeputy Coroner SuzanneGreenaway said Wine-house’s inquest would re-sume on Oct. 26.
The singer’s father,mother and brother visitedher home yesterday, stop-ping to inspect themounds of bouquets, can-dles and handwrittennotes across the road fromthe Victorian house.
Her father, Mitch Wine-house, thanked mournersfor their tributes.
“I can’t tell you whatthis means to us — it reallyis making this a lot easierfor us,” he said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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While Glee boss Ryan Mur-phy recently said stars LeaMichele, Cory Montheithand Emmy nominee ChrisColfer would be leavingthe show after next sea-son, that may not actuallybe the case. “Here’s the ex-act thing: [The characters]are seniors, so they’regraduating,” executive
producer Brad Falchuktold the audience at theshow’s Comic-Con panel,according to TV Line. “Butbecause they’re graduat-ing doesn’t mean they’releaving the show. If youhave Lea Michele undercontract, you don’t say,‘We’re gonna let you go.’”
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Will the show go onfor Glee leads?
Cory Montheith and Lea Michele
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True Blood star AnnaPaquin admits being mar-ried to co-star StephenMoyer makes filming inti-mate scenes easier.
“Maybe it should beweird, simulating sex
with your husband infront of people? But it’sreally not,” Paquin tells VMagazine.
“When it’s a love scenewith someone you actual-ly love, there’s no feeling
like, ‘Can I touch himhere? Can I touch himthere?’ You know whatyour boundaries are — orwhat they aren’t, I sup-pose.”
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A rowdy nightout for LindsayLindsay Lohan seems to beslipping back intobad habits, if anight out inHollywood isany indica-tion. Thetroubledstarlet hitup afriend’sbirth-day,show-ingupsoberandonlyorder-ing
juice from the wait-staff, but by the end
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han wassneakinggulps ofother peo-ple’s drinks
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ing shots of vodkaon the sly. Lohan waslater spotted holding on-to curtains for supportand screaming into hercell phone before she leftthe club around 2 a.m.“When she got to her Es-calade she just collapsedinto it,” the source says.Lohan, who is still onprobation, is legally al-lowed to drink.
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A study conducted atQueen’s University inKingston, Ont., has foundthat children and adoles-cents who watched morethan four hours per day ofTV were 2.5 times morelikely to have heightenedrisks for chronic diseasethan those who watched
less than an hour per day. The study was looking
for cardio-metabolic riskfactors, which are signalsthat the body could beheading in the direction ofheart disease and type 2 di-abetes.
These included obesity,hypertension, fats in theblood and glucose intoler-ance.
“These risk factors arebecoming more prevalentin children and adoles-cents,” says Valerie Carson,
a PhD student in theschool of kinesiology andhealth studies, who waslead author on the paper.
“This particular studyfound the most significanthealth risk at greater thanfour hours per day (of TV).This is concerning becausethese risk factors can trackfrom childhood to adult-hood,” she adds.
Carson and her supervi-sor Ian Janssen, associateprofessor in the school ofkinesiology and health
studies at Queen’s, tookinto account age, gender,ethnicity, socioeconomicstatus, physical activitylevels and diet, and stilldrew the same conclusion.
“Even if children andadolescents are active, ifthey engaged in high dailyTV use, they may still havecardio-metabolic risk fac-tors,” says Carson.
For the study, she andDr. Janssen studied thehabits of 2,527 childrenand adolescents who were
enrolled in the NationalHealth and Nutrition Ex-amination Surveys(NHANES).
TV is really quitewicked: other studies havefound excessive screentime is linked to increasedviolence, negative self-im-age, and higher amountsof smoking, drinking anddrug use.
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If current trends contin-ue, a four-year degree islikely to cost $80,000 forlive-at-home students by2025 and $125,000 forthose away from home.
The good news is thatnew parents are puttingaside those education pen-nies. Across Canada, nearly90 per cent of those withyoung children have start-ed saving, according to theTD Canada Trust 2011 Edu-cation and Finances Survey.
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Calgary Stampeders quar-terback Henry Burris tookto Twitter in the wake ofSaturday’s disappointinghome loss to the Edmon-ton Eskimos, reassuringanyone who would listenthat his team will turnthings around.
“We will be a greatteam this year! Mark myword!” Burris tweeted Sun-day morning, a night afterthe Stampeders dropped a24-19 decision to the Eski-mos.
His tune was un-changed yesterday as Cal-gary (2-2) looks to regroupheading into a Week 5clash with Saskatchewan.
“I said it on Twitter andI’ll say it again,” Burrissaid. “We will be a greatteam before the season’sover. We’re building tomake that happen now.”
Stampeders receiverNik Lewis echoed the vet-eran pivot, adding theteam has the confidenceto get back on track this
Saturday in Regina againstthe Roughriders (1-3).
“My biggest thing isstaying positive, because ifyou don’t stay positivethen this is going to carryover and you’re going tostop working as hard,”Lewis said. “So, stay posi-tive, keep working hardand hey, we’re going tokeep grinding it out.”
Defensive back BrandonSmith could only watch asEdmonton receiver FredStamps got behind him ontwo occasions for a pair oftouchdown grabs. He saidthe Stampeders haven’tlost any of their confidencebecause of the setback.
“We’re still mentally andphysically in it,” he said.“It’s fixable. All the prob-lems that happened are onfilm and are fixable. We
haven’t lost any faith orany confidence or anythinglike that. We’re just goingto go back and get back toit and move on.”
Calgary coach and gener-al manager John Hufnagelsaid he wasn’t surprisedthe players’ reaction.
“We’re a 2-2 team,” hesaid. “We’re in second placein the West with a lot ofseason ahead of us. If theyhave lost their confidenceafter four games of the sea-son after being 2-2, I wouldbe disappointed in them.”
The Stampeders willhave to bounce backagainst the Riders withoutthe services of all-star line-backer Juwan Simpson,who went down with aknee injury against the Es-kimos.
“He’ll be out for a couple
weeks at least,” said Huf-nagel, who referred to theinjury as a strain.
Robert McCune will re-place Simpson in the start-ing lineup, while AkwasiAntwi will serve as hisbackup.
Another concern for Cal-gary is the kicking game.With Rob Maver alreadyout of the lineup with atorn quad muscle, ReneParedes struggled againstEdmonton, missing fieldgoals from 39 and 35 yardsout.
“He had a rough endingto the game, but like I saidbefore I was disappointedin both areas of our kick-ing,” said Hufnagel, whowasn’t impressed with howpunter Burke Dales per-formed either. “We need toimprove.”
As for the possibility ofbringing back former Cal-gary kicker Sandro DeAn-gelis into the fold, Hufnagelsaid he has no such plans.THE CANADIAN PRESS
QB upbeat after 2-2 start to the season and loss to Edmonton
Edmonton’s Jykine Bradley grabs onto Jon Cornish during Saturday’s game.
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Burris forecastsgreatness for Stamps
NFL season a go as playersaccept offer
“It’s such a long season. At some pointwe’re going to hit that surge and it’sgoing to carry us for a long time.”HENRY BURRIS
Now it can be said with cer-tainty: Get ready for somefootball!
NFL players voted to OKa final deal yesterday, daysafter the owners approveda tentative agreement, andthe sides finally managedto put an end to the 41⁄2-month lockout.
“This is a long time com-ing, and football’s back,”NFL commissioner RogerGoodell said, “and that’sthe great news for every-body.”
At a joint appearanceoutside NFL Players Associ-ation headquarters inWashington, Goodell andNFLPA head DeMauriceSmith were flanked bysome of the owners andplayers who were involvedin the talks. They spokeshortly after the NFLPA ex-ecutive board and 32 teamreps voted unanimously toapprove the terms of adeal.
“We didn’t get every-thing that either side want-ed ... but we did arrive at adeal that we think is fairand balanced,” Smith said.
Owners overwhelminglyapproved a proposal Thurs-day, but some unresolvedissues still needed to be re-viewed to satisfy players.
The sides workedthrough the weekend andwrapped up the details yes-terday morning on a finalpact that runs for 10 years,without an opt-out clause,a person familiar with thedeal told the AP on condi-tion of anonymity.
Owners can point to vic-tories, such as gaining ahigher percentage of allrevenue, one of the centralissues — they get 53 percent, the players get 47 percent. The old deal was clos-er to 50-50. There’s also asystem that will rein inspending on first-rounddraft picks.
Players, meanwhile, per-suaded teams to commit tospending nearly all of theirsalary cap space in cashand won changes to prac-tice rules that should makethe game safer.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quoted
“I think we did agreat job of
protecting theplayers that are
currentlyplaying and topreserve thegame for the
players to comeand to protectthe work that
had been doneby those who
came before us.”BUFFALO BILLS SAFETYGEORGE WILSON AFTER
YESTERDAY’SANNOUNCEMENT THAT THENFL AND ITS PLAYERS HAD
COME TO AN AGREEMENT TOEND THE LOCKOUT.
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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUEEAST DIVISION
W L Pct GBBoston 62 37 .626 —New York 60 40 .600 21/2Tampa Bay 53 47 .530 91/2Toronto 51 51 .500 121/2Baltimore 40 58 .408 211/2
Yesterday’s resultsSan Diego 5 Philadelphia 4N.Y.Mets 4 Cincinnati 2Pittsburgh 3 Atlanta 1Houston at St. LouisColorado at L.A. DodgersSunday’s resultsSan Francisco 2Milwaukee 1Florida 5 N.Y.Mets 4Cincinnati 4 Atlanta 3Arizona 7 Colorado 0Philadelphia 5 San Diego 3Pittsburgh 4 St. Louis 3 (10 inn.)Chicago Cubs 5 Houston 4 (10 inn.)L.A. Dodgers 3Washington 1Tonight’s gamesAll times EasternFlorida (Nolasco 6-7) atWashington (Zim-mermann 6-8), 7:05 p.m.San Francisco (Lincecum 8-8) at Philadelphia(Worley 6-1), 7:05 p.m.N.Y.Mets (Niese 9-8) at Cincinnati (Cueto 6-3), 7:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Karstens 8-5) at Atlanta (Hanson11-5), 7:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Dempster 7-7) atMilwaukee(Narveson 6-6), 8:10 p.m.Houston (Myers 3-10) at St. Louis (West-brook 8-4), 8:15 p.m.Arizona (J.Saunders 6-8) at San Diego(Moseley 3-9), 10:05 p.m.Colorado (Chacin 8-7) at L.A. Dodgers (Ker-shaw 11-4), 10:10 p.m.
GP W L T PF PA PtMontreal 4 3 1 0 133 95 6Winnipeg 4 3 1 0 99 77 6Hamilton 4 2 2 0 98 86 4Toronto 4 1 3 0 80 116 2
WEST DIVISIONGP W L T PF PA Pt
Edmonton 4 4 0 0 127 74 8Calgary 4 2 2 0 95 99 4Saskatchewan 4 1 3 0 83 138 2B.C. 4 0 4 0 106 136 0WEEK FOURSunday’s resultSaskatchewan 27Montreal 24WEEK FIVEThursday’s gameAll times EasternB.C. atWinnipeg, 8 p.m.Friday’s gamesMontreal at Hamilton, 6:30 p.m.Toronto at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.Saturday’s gameCalgary at Saskatchewan, 9:30 p.m.WEEKSIXThursday, Aug. 4Montreal at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.Friday, Aug. 5Edmonton atWinnipeg, 7:30 p.m.Saskatchewan at B.C., 10:30 p.m.Saturday, Aug. 6Hamilton at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.
MLSEASTERN CONFERENCE
GP W L T GF GA PtPhiladelphia 19 8 4 7 24 16 31Columbus 21 8 6 7 22 20 31New York 23 6 5 12 37 30 30Kansas City 20 6 6 8 28 27 26Houston 21 5 7 9 24 26 24D.C. United 19 5 6 8 24 30 23New England 21 4 9 8 19 29 20Chicago 20 2 6 12 20 25 18Toronto 23 3 11 9 19 41 18WESTERNCONFERENCE
GP W L T GF GA PtLos Angeles 22 11 2 9 28 16 42Dallas 22 11 5 6 29 21 39Seattle 22 10 4 8 32 23 38Real Salt Lake 18 9 3 6 27 12 33Colorado 23 7 6 10 31 30 31Chivas USA 21 6 7 8 27 23 26San Jose 21 5 7 9 24 27 24Portland 19 6 10 3 22 32 21Vancouver 21 2 10 9 21 30 15Note: Three points for awin, one for a tie.Tomorrow’s gameAll times EasternALL-STARGAMEAtHarrison, N.J.ManchesterU. (Eng.) atMLSAll-stars, 8:30 pmFriday’s gameColorado at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.Saturday’s gamesLos Angeles at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.Seattle at Houston, 8:30 p.m.NewEngland at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.Columbus at Real Salt Lake, 9 p.m.D.C. United at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.Toronto at Portland, 11 p.m.Sunday, July 31Chivas USA at Dallas, 7 p.m.
BASEBALLAMERICAN LEAGUEDETROIT TIGERS—Called up RHP Chance Ruf-fin from Toledo (IL).
NATIONAL LEAGUEATLANTABRAVES—Activated 3B ChipperJones from the 15-day DL. Optioned OFWilkinRamirez to Gwinnett (IL).PITTSBURGHPIRATES—Placed OFAlexPresley on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July23. Recalled INF Pedro Alvarez from Indi-anapolis (IL).
HOCKEYNHLDALLAS STARS—Signed director of playerpersonnel Les Jackson to a two-year contractextension through the 2012-13 season.FLORIDA PANTHERS—Agreed to termswithDMichael Caruso on a one-year contract.N.Y. RANGERS—Re-signed D Steve Eminger.
LACROSSENLLWASHINGTONSTEALTH—Traded GMattRoik to Toronto for D Kyle Ross.
STUDENACROATIAOPENAt Umag, CroatiaSingles — First RoundAlbert Ramos, Spain, def. Ivan Dodig (8),Croatia, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2.Diego Junqueira, Argentina, def. Antonio Ve-ic, Croatia, 6-4, 7-5.
FARMERS CLASSICAt Los AngelesSingles — First RoundYen-hsun Lu, Taiwan, def. Robby Ginepri, U.S.,6-4, 7-5.Ryan Sweeting, U.S., def. Somdev Devvar-man, Indonesia, 6-4, 7-6 (6).
MONEY LEADERS(all figures in U.S. dollars)1. Novak Djokovic $7,608,6732. Rafael Nadal $5,250,1693. Roger Federer $2,502,9194. AndyMurray $2,495,0545. David Ferrer $1,746,3756. Robin Soderling $1,323,4737. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga $1,041,3238. Nicolas Almagro $1,035,6529. Tomas Berdych $966,63910. Gilles Simon $909,85311. Bob Bryan $811,26411.Mike Bryan $811,26413.Mardy Fish $807,62614. Richard Gasquet $748,46015. JuanMartin del Potro $737,50816. Alexandr Dolgopolov $729,17717. JurgenMelzer $715,97718. StanislasWawrinka $678,075Also29.Milos Raonic $574,005158. Frank Dancevic $88,179187. Vasek Pospisil $31,337
WTAMONEY LEADERS(all figures in U.S. dollars)1. Petra Kvitova $3,189,3342. Li Na $3,158,1633. Victoria Azarenka $2,389,1844. Kim Clijsters $2,315,1665.Maria Sharapova $2,286,1256. CarolineWozniacki $2,181,8797. Francesca Schiavone $1,338,0018.Marion Bartoli $1,287,9339. Vera Zvonareva $1,062,19110. Andrea Petkovic $821,88911. Agnieszka Radwanska $754,02712. Sabine Lisicki $689,25413. Peng Shuai $669,20614. SamStosur $660,00915. Flavia Pennetta $651,18316. Svetlana Kuznetsova $649,36417.Maria Kirilenko $604,66518. Elena Vesnina $602,718Also78. RebeccaMarino $177,174142. Stephanie Dubois $76,307162. AleksandraWozniak $60,908
GOLF
MEN’SWORLDRANKINGThrough July 241. Luke Donald Eng 9.602. LeeWestwood Eng 8.333.Martin Kaymer Ger 7.264. RoryMcIlroy NIr 7.065. Steve Stricker USA 6.946. Phil Mickelson USA 6.277. Dustin Johnson USA 5.758. Jason Day Aus 5.449. Charl Schwartzel SAf 5.3210.Matt Kuchar USA 5.2811. NickWatney USA 5.2412. GraemeMcDowell NIr 5.2013. BubbaWatson USA 4.7714. K.J. Choi Kor 4.7115. Paul Casey Eng 4.5216. Ian Poulter Eng 4.4517. AdamScott Aus 4.0518. Robert Karlsson Swe 3.7519. HunterMahan USA 3.7520. Retief Goosen SAf 3.6721. TigerWoods USA 3.6422. FrancescoMolinari Ita 3.6323. KimKyung-Tae Kor 3.6224. Jim Furyk USA 3.5825. Ernie Els SAf 3.5726. Alvaro Quiros Esp 3.5727. David Toms USA 3.5328.Martin Laird Sco 3.5129.Miguel Angel Jimenez Esp 3.4530.MatteoManassero Ita 3.3631. Darren Clarke NIr 3.3632. Zach Johnson USA 3.2733. Justin Rose Eng 3.2434. Louis Oosthuizen SAf 3.1235. Bo Van Pelt USA 3.1136. Y.E. Yang Kor 3.0737. Tim Clark SAf 3.0338. Geoff Ogilvy Aus 2.9939. RyanMoore USA 2.9740. GaryWoodland USA 2.9541. EdoardoMolinari Ita 2.9442. Peter Hanson Swe 2.93
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