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Calgary’s ranking as the fifth mostlivable city in the world will helpattract new Calgarians to the city,according to one local expert.
The 2011 Livability Rankingreleased yesterday by the Econo-mist Intelligence Unit scored Cal-gary at a 96.6 out of a possible 100points.
“I think rankings like this gainattention, not only locally butnationally and internationally, saidElsbeth Mehrer, director research,work force and strategy for CalgaryEconomic Development.
“And any time we’ve have thechance to tell the story about Cal-gary, that’s an opportunity we have
to capitalize on.”Mehrer said the rankings will be
used on their website and in mar-keting tools to attract more peopleto Calgary.
Mayor Naheed Nenshi said thecity’s top spot speaks to the stridesCalgary has made in recent years.
“I’d like to take all the credit forit, but in fact Calgary has beenincreasing in livability surveysaround the world for many yearsnow,” he said. “The fact that we’reranked top five in the world by theEconomist magazine I think reallyspeaks to the kind of communitywe’re building here.”
One area where Calgary fairedlower than other cities was in theweather category and Nenshi saidhe’s looking to make someimprovements in that area.
“I’ve been working very, veryhard as you all know on my plan fora Calgary weather dome to fix theclimate part of that,” he joked. “Citycouncil won’t go for it I’m afraid.”
Top five rankinghelps ‘tell thestory of Calgary’
Three of the top five livable cities are in Canada Calgary scored 100 in stability, healthcare and education
Capitals, Vipers rivalry in full swingTonight the teams bat it out at Telus Field for Game 2 in a best-of-seven in the North American Baseball League’s NorthDivision championship.
Battle. Alberta
Calgary Vipers’ C.J. Ziegler slides safely to second base, despite Edmonton Capitals’ Matt Rogelstad’s attempts to tag him in last night’s first game in what promises to be an exciting battle of Alberta.
SHELLEY WILLIAMSON/METRO
Livable cities index
Calgary was named the fifth mostlivable city last year as well.After a longstanding run as No. 1,Vancouver was bumped down tothe third most livable city thisyear.Melbourne, Australia made it tothe top of the list, followed byVienna, Austria. Toronto ranked fourth.Harare, Zimbabwe scored thelowest at 38.2.
INSPIRATION FORTASTY LUNCH BAGS TRY HAM, CHEESECASSEROLE {page 20}
FALSEJOLIE DENIESBABY, WEDDINGREPORTS {page 16}
Roughly seven months af-ter police raided seven Cal-gary stores and seizedhundreds of synthetic mar-ijuana packets, similarproducts remain on cityshelves.
Employees at nearlyhalf of the dozen headshops contacted by Metroyesterday confirmed theystill sell some form of theproduct, including two in-volved in the original Janu-ary bust.
Acting drug unit StaffSgt. Mike Bossley said hisofficers’ hands are oftentied while waiting for theCriminal Code of Canadato catch up with constant-ly evolving chemical com-pounds found in syntheticproducts.
“We certainly don’tclose a blind eye to this,this is an issue for us,” hesaid. “We still can be veryactive in educating people... making them under-stand why this is so dan-gerous.”
Many of the products inquestion are sold as in-cense, but then inhaled bypurchasers to achieve ahigh, Bossley said.
Local head shop ownerFred, who asked his lastname be withheld, sellssome of the products inquestion but believes po-lice resources could be bet-
ter spent elsewhere.“I would hope they are
out getting real criminalsand things like cocaineand heroine off the streetrather than harmlessherbs that are doing wayless harm to people,” hesaid.
Bossley hopes Calgari-ans will think twice beforeexperimenting with syn-thetic brands.
“The message is it’s notgood for you,” he said.
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Slow-to-evolve legislation keeps some products on shelves Policeseized 770 packets of the substance from Calgary shops earlier this year
Fake marijuana anongoing issue: Police
Calgary police Det. Collin Harris is seen with some of the synthetic marijuana products seized by police in January.
METRO FILE PHOTO
Pedestriankilled in C-Train collisionPolice are trying to deter-mine how a collisionbetween a pedestrian anda C-Train occurred yester-day morning, leaving oneman dead.
Around 8:40 a.m., EMSand police were called to36 St. and 39 Ave. N.E.
“Unfortunately, on theirarrival they did determinethat a male patient,approximately in his mid-30s, was deceased as a re-sult of that collision,” saidEMS spokesperson StuartBrideaux.
“What is unclear is theprecise details that led tothe collision.”
Duty Insp. MichaelWatterston said the inves-tigation is in its earlystages but it appears the36-year-old victim did notintend to step in front ofthe train.
He said Calgary Transitis looking after the driver.“It’s a traumatic situationfor the driver and pedestri-ans that may havewitnessed it.”
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The most commonsynthetic marijuana prod-uct identified to Metro yesterday by head shopemployees is called HappyShaman.
Police have said otherbrands of synthetic mari-juana include YucatanFire, Tribe, Skunk, K2 andSpice.
Health Canada made itclear in June last year thatthey were investigatingsome synthetic marijuanabrands.
U.S. health studies have suggested that someusers have experiencedside effects such as panicattacks, heart palpitations,hallucinations and vomiting.
Enmaxworker electrocutedAn investigation isunderway after anEnmax utilities workerwas electrocuted yester-day.
The victim, believedto be in his 20s, wasabout five metres up apower pole near the2800 block of 37thStreet S.W. when the in-
cident occurred, accord-ing to reports.
“Our thoughts andsympathies go out to thefamily and friends of theyoung man involved,”Enmax interimPresident and CEOCharles Ruigrok said in astatement.
The victim wasreportedly hooked into asafety harness when theshock occurred shortlyafter 1 p.m. He was low-ered by co-workers andtransported to FoothillsHospital, where he laterdied. METRO
Real-time crime updatesand interaction with Cal-gary police were on theminds of social media usersparticipating in a first-of-its-kind Twitter chat yesterday.
For 90 minutes, CalgaryPolice Service communica-tions staff fielded questionsfrom citizens using thehashtag #TellCPS in thehopes of improving theironline presence.
“I think the commontheme here was that thecommunity is engaged,”said spokesperson MichelleDassinger after the conver-sation. She said social me-dia adds another level ofservice to the community.
As an example, residentswill tweet a traffic com-plaint to @calgarypoliceand then a communica-tions staff member will re-ply.
Dassinger said policenow plan to analyze all re-sponses from tweeps anddetermine what sugges-tions are within the realmof possibility. The police arealso planning a similar chatusing Facebook next week.
400Police saidthey received
more than 400 postsfrom tweeps (Twitterusers) participating inthe #TellCPS chat yes-terday.
Alison Redford at a news conference earlier this year. The
Tory leadership candidate is open to the idea of putting
provincial funding toward the Alberta Creative Hub.
METRO FILE PHOTO
One of the candidates forthe Alberta ProgressiveConservative leadershipsays she’s open to the ideaof the province helpingfund a new state-of-the artmovie studio in Calgary.
Alison Redford says shefirst wants to crunch num-bers on what would becalled the Alberta CreativeHub in Calgary, but addsthe concept meshes withher proposal to expand therole of the arts in theprovince.
“If it makes economicsense and it’s actuallysomething that supportswhat I’ve been talkingabout, then I’m very opento looking at it,” Redfordsaid Tuesday before outlin-ing her arts policy at adowntown Edmonton park.
The $32-million proposalfor land at Calgary OlympicPark includes two massivesound stages along with of-fices, editing and produc-tion suites.
The project would keephomegrown artists in Alber-ta, which Redford said iscritical to her vision. “WhatI don't want arts and cul-ture to be anymore is a two-
page policy,” she said.Redford is running along
with caucus colleaguesDoug Horner, Doug Grif-fiths and Ted Morton. RickOrman and Gary Mar, cabi-net ministers in previousTory governments, are alsovying for the top job.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Candidate favours plan to build $32 million film studio
HopingHub willbe lure forHollywoodThe idea would be tolure filmmakers nowchoosing other citiessuch as Vancouver totake advantage of theRockies and southern Al-
berta badlands as sitesfor exterior movie work.
The City of Calgaryhas already committedto about one-third of thecost.
Culture Minister Lind-say Blackett would likeanother third from theprovince, with thebalance sought from thefederal government andprivate investors.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Other views
Doug Horner has said hewould renew acommitment to the arts bydoubling funding over thenext three years for the Al-berta Foundation for theArts.Rick Orman has promisedto increase lottery fundingand integrate arts furtherinto the province’seconomic diversificationplan.Doug Griffiths has said hewould look at furtherinvestment in top-levelarts instructors in schoolsand transforming somebuildings for artinstruction.Gary Mar and Ted Morton
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Gadhafi’s mystery daughterRebel orders
The rebels are tightening
their grip on Libya after a
military blitz and have
taken several steps to en-
sure control.
Libyan rebels issued an ultimatum yesterday toGadhafi’s hometown ofSirte: Surrender this week-end or face an attack.There has been speculation that the dicta-tor is seeking refuge inSirte or one of the otherremaining regime strong-holds, among them thetowns of Bani Walid orSabha.Rebels also demanded thatAlgeria return Gadhafi’swife and three of his chil-dren, who fled there Mon-day.They also insisted they are slowly restoring order inwar-torn Tripoli by deploying police and col-lecting garbage.
Since the rebel takeover ofTripoli, evidence has beenmounting that MoammarGadhafi may have liedabout the death of hisadopted baby daughterHana in a 1986 U.S.airstrike.
The strike hit Gadhafi’shome in retaliation for theLibyan-sponsored bombingof a Berlin nightclub earlierthat year that killed twoU.S. servicemen. At thetime, Gadhafi showedAmerican journalists a pic-ture of a dead baby and saidit was his adopted daughterHana — the first publicmention that she even ex-isted. Diplomats almost im-mediately questioned theclaim. But Gadhafi kept thestory alive through theyears.
But when Libyan rebelstook over last week, they
found a room in Gadhafi’shome with Hana’s birthcertificate and pictures of ayoung woman with thename “Hana” written onthe back, possible indica-
tions that she lived beyondinfancy.
Many Libyans believeHana was never killed andtalked about her existenceopenly. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Evidence mounts the exiled leader faked the deathof adopted girl Libyans believe Gadhafi wanted to garner sympathy and foster hatred toward the West
Moammar Gadhafi holds, presumably, his daughter
Hana in Tripoli in this undated 1996 photo.
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Passenger getsrevenge on boy INJURY. San Diego policesay a boy throwing rocksat vehicles was struck inthe abdomen by acrossbow bolt fired by apassenger in small sportutility vehicle.
The boy was shot in theabdomen and was takento a hospital. The SanDiego Union-Tribunenewspaper says hisinjuries are not life-threat-ening. His name and ageweren’t released. Nobodyhas been arrested. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israel rampsup securityMILITARY. Israel sent twomore warships to the RedSea border with Egypt,the military saidyesterday, as part of mili-
tary reinforcement.Earlier this week,
Israel’s military orderedmore troops to the borderarea, days after militantscrossed into Israelthrough the Egyptian bor-der and killed eightIsraelis in a brazen attackthat touched off a wave ofviolence between Israeland militants in the GazaStrip.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Greek prisonersalmost escapedJAIL BREAK. Officials atGreece’s largest prisonsay they have preventedan escape by discoveringa 10-metre-long tunneldug by an allegedmurderer and two otherinmates awaiting trial forburglary.
The inmates allegedlycut through the wall anddug the tunnel usingmostly makeshift tools.The tunnel wasdiscovered late Monday.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
News in brief
Hunted throughout herhomeland and forced toflee into exile across a dan-gerous desert border, thedaughter of ousted Libyanleader Moammar Gadhafipaused somewhere in theSahara to have a baby.
The dramatic birth ofGadhafi’s granddaughter,after her mother and otherrelatives escaped Libyanterritory into Algeria, lendsa human dimension to thedictator’s downfall and theongoing mystery of his
whereabouts. The birth inexile was disclosed by theAlgerian Health Ministryyesterday.
Algeria’s UN ambassa-dor, Mourad BenmehidiBenmehidi, said the coun-try allowed them to enterfor “humanitarian consid-erations.” Algerian news re-ports had said Aisha’spregnancy was one reasonfor the country’s controver-sial decision to take thefamily in.
An Algerian newspaper
reported that the exiles,who also included an un-known number of Gad-hafi’s grandchildren by hiseight children, had waited12 hours to receive authori-zation to cross the Algerianborder from President Ab-delaziz Bouteflika — whileAisha was in labour.
Libya’s interim govern-ment criticized Algeria’sdecision and demandedthat Algiers hand themover for trial in Libya. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gadhafi’s other daughter gives birth
Aisha Gadhafi
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Violentprotestserupt inSouth AfricaSupporters of SouthAfrica’s firebrand youthleader are the latest polit-ical salvo in a powerstruggle that could deter-mine the future of SouthAfrica’s president and theman who helped catapulthim to power — youth
league chief Julius Male-ma.
Demonstrators burnedflags of the ruling AfricanNational Congress andran through the streets ofdowntown Johannesburgholding up flaming T-shirts bearing the imageof President Jacob Zuma.
When the protestersbegan lobbing stones andbottles, police detonatedstun grenades and turnedwater cannons on thecrowd of thousands. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Police saveChina bushostagesChinese police subdued aknife-wielding assailantand freed a busload ofpassengers he’d takencaptive yesterday outsidea major eastern city inChina, authorities andstate media reported.
State media reports ofthe incident near Nanjingsaid at least three peopleaboard the bus wereinjured and taken to ahospital. Media accountsdiffered, with some say-ing there were multiplehijackers, at least one of
whom had been shot andkilled by a police SWATteam.
However, a Nanjinggovernment spokesmanwho gave only hissurname, Zhang, said allthe hostages weresuccessfully rescued anddid not mention any in-juries.
A news release fromthe city government didnot say whether thehostage taker had beenkilled or merely arrested.
There was no immedi-ate word on the hostagetaker’s identity, hismotive or any specific de-mands he might havemade.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Vancouver police are ask-ing the public to help thembring hundreds of suspectsfrom the June 15 StanleyCup riot to justice througha new interactive website(riot2011.vpd.ca).
Insp. Les Yeo of the riotinvestigation team saidthey have posted 40 photosof suspected rioters on thewebsite in the hopes thepublic can identify them.
Yeo said police will beadding 100 more photos inthe coming weeks so inves-tigators won’t be over-whelmed and will haveenough time for a thor-
ough investigation.Chief Jim Chu also again
defended the VancouverPolice Department overthe lack of charges stem-ming from the incident.He said police are takingtheir time collecting evi-dence to make sure thatpeople are held account-able to the full extent oftheir involvement during
the riots.“We don’t get two
chances at this,” Chu said.“We can’t charge (suspectswith) rioting and then say,‘Hey, your honour, wefound some more informa-tion three months later.Can we charge (them) withrioting again?’”
Chu added 42 peoplehave already turned them-selves in, and police are in-vestigating 1,100 names ofpeople who may have beeninvolved in the riots. Still,no charges have been laid.
An independent reportinto the riot is expected tobe released tomorrow byformer VANOC head JohnFurlong and former NovaScotia deputy justice min-ister Doug Keefe.
Riot investigationgiven high-tech spin
Vancouver police encourage public to log on to new website and help identify suspected rioters
Restoring the traditionalnames of the navy and airforce has the support of amajority of Canadians, anew poll suggests.
A survey by The Canadi-
an Press-Harris/Decimafound that 56 per cent ofrespondents agreed withthe change and 31 per centopposed it. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Military name change gets the OK
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Ramadan ends with Eid festivitiesEid al-Fitr marks an end to the holy month of Ramadan. Thousands of Muslimsattended the 26th annual event at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, as wellas other celebrations across Canada, yesterday.
Muslim. Holiday
A young boy watches as men pray during the Muslim Association of Canada’s
Eid celebration at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, yesterday.
41Regionally, therewas marked
disagreement only inQuebec, where 41 percent approved of theidea and 46 per centwere against it.
“You get one kickat the can, andthat’s why we needto take our time to ensure thesesuspects, theseaccused, don’tevade justice.”JIM CHU, VANCOUVER POLICE CHIEF
CNN buysmagazinefor iPadsCNN has acquired Zite, adigital magazine for theiPad tablet that learnsabout readers’ tastes andselects packages from hun-dreds of websites.
The cable news channelhas no plans to changeZite’s format, but may usethe technology to helpcustomize its news on theiPad and other devices.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHINESE MINE DISASTER
19 minerspulled to safety Their faces black withcoal dust, 19 Chineseminers trapped for aweek underground werebrought to the surfaceyesterday, as rescuerssearched for three miss-ing colleagues.
Twenty-six minershad been trapped nearthe surface when water
poured into a shaft onAug. 23 from anadjacent, flooded mine.Three had been pulledout alive Saturday andone body was recovered.
The survivors stayedalive with water thatdripped from the ceilingand nutrition packs sentthrough a 280-metrepipe drilled through therock. The pipe also pro-vided fresh air.
The mine was orderedshut in 2007, butreopened withoutpermission earlier thismonth.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rupert Murdoch’s scandal-hit News International con-firmed yesterday that itwas reviewing journalisticstandards across the com-pany, a U.K. media groupthat includes The Times ofLondon newspaper.
More than a dozen for-mer journalists and execu-tives from the now-defunctNews of the World havebeen arrested over claimsthey systematically inter-cepted mobile phone mes-sages and illegally paidpolice for tips.
It’s believed the reviewwill examine News Interna-tional publications, includ-ing the 226-year-old Times,
its sister-publication theSunday Times, and TheSun, Britain’s biggest-sell-ing daily.
The publishers of theDaily Mirror and the DailyMail, which both competewith Murdoch’s papers,have announced their ownseparate reviews.
Meanwhile, Britain’sElectoral Commission saysit won’t investigate pay-ments made to Andy Coul-son, the former News ofthe World editor who washired to work as DavidCameron’s top media aidein 2007, three years beforehe became prime minister.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Judge to probeBritish tabloids
News International shaken by allegations of illegalbehaviour Fingers pointed at even more newspapers
A pedestrian passes signs at the entrance to News International headquarters in London.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
The scoop
An independent inquiry
led by Judge Brian
Leveson is preparing to
put Britain’s press under
the microscope. Here’s
what is known about the
inquiry so far:
A spokesman for theinquiry said he couldn’tconfirm a report thatRupert and JamesMurdoch will be called totestify. The judge is hoping totelevise the inquiry’s pro-ceedings in the interests oftransparency.
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The New York man suingfor part ownership of Face-book must give lawyers forthe social networking com-pany access to all hisemails dating to 2003.
A federal judge yester-day denied Paul Ceglia’s re-quest to delay Facebook’saccess to his emails so hecould voice his objectionsin court. Ceglia’s lawyerhad made the request in afiling late Monday, hopingto protect Ceglia’s privacy.
Ceglia claims he made adeal with Facebookfounder Mark Zuckerbergin 2003 that entitles him to half ownership of the$50 billion company.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Forget the old-fashionedweb suffix “.com”— com-ing up with eccentricnames to make websitescatchier and easier to re-member is the new trendon the Internet.
Icann, the global inter-net body that creates newweb addresses, announcedit will be taking applica-
tions next year for domainsuffixes of almost any wordand in any language.
From the current 22 do-main endings available,websites ending with theadverb-sounding “.ly”, thebroadcast-hinting “.tv” orthe captivating “.me” arenow the hippest choice.
“Businesses always needquirky names that are easyto spell and to remember. Ifyou come up with a morebrandable name for yourwebsite, then you should
go for it,” marketing expertAndrew Girdwood fromglobal digital media compa-ny bigmouthmedia toldMetro.
As Girdwood explains,the downside is that web-sites ending in .ly — thecountry code domain forLibya — are designated asformal property of Libya’sstate-controlled telecom-munications corporation,whose status is uncertaindue to unrest in the region.
Montenegro has ar-
guably the coolest-sound-ing ccTLD (country codetop-level domain) with .me.Indeed, it has been a realgold mine for a countryborn only in 2006. Accord-ing to Hosterstats.com,more than 500,000 .me do-
mains have been regis-tered, so far.
Yet despite the rise intrendy domain names, oldhabits die hard, as majoronline search engines stillfavour the old-fashioned.
“Dot-tv sounds perfect
for a broadcasting compa-ny, but for search engineoptimization, the dot-comis more popular,” Mick Say,an expert at England’s On-line Marketing Academy,tells Metro.
“If a person is searchingthe Internet for a service ora global business, Googlegives priority to the dot-com extension. It tells thesearch engine that ‘I wantto be known international-ly as an international busi-ness.’”
No more limits to new domain namesWeb addresses could soon be more personalized and funky But search engines still look for .com
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Sticky situation for oil firmGreenpeace is demanding that Anglo-French oilcompany Perenco, and other companies, stop theirexploration in Abrolhos, a large mating area forhumpback whales off the coast of Brazil.
Brazil. Greenpeace protest
A Greenpeace activist helps a person dressed
as a whale covered in oil during a protest at the
headquarters of oil company Perenco, yesterday,
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“A great quirky domain can work reallywell. But I don’t envisage mostestablished companies moving theirprimary web presence away from .comany time soon.”WILL CRITCHLOW, DISTILLED SEARCH MARKETING COMPANY
Economy may be stallingEconomists widely expectthat the Canadian economystalled in the second quar-ter and may have even con-tracted slightly amid theglobal economic slowdown.
“It is going to be a hairwithin positive or negative,but the balance is slightly
tilted to the negative,” CIBCchief economist AveryShenfeld said yesterday.
“Either way, it is essen-tially a flat profile for theeconomy.”
Statistics Canada is ex-pected to report the coun-try’s second-quarter gross
domestic product resultsthis morning, and a readingthat economic growth wasslower or even reversedcourse a little would indi-cate the economy is stillstruggling to throw off theeffects of the recession. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Consumerconfidencedrops in U.S.A private research groupsays that American con-sumers’ confidence in theeconomy in Augustdropped almost 15 pointsto its lowest level in twoyears.
The reading came asworries about the economyfuelled the wildest stockmarket swings since the fi-nancial meltdown in 2008.
The Conference Boardsays that its consumer con-fidence index dropped tothe lowest level since April2009. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Federal EnvironmentMinister Peter Kentrecently announced newregulations for limitingemissions for any newcoal-fired power plantsthat will be built inCanada starting July2015.
While framed as legis-lation that Kent claimswill act as “theequivalent of takingeight million cars offCanadian roads” this leg-islation falls drasticallyshort of an effective lev-el of environmental pro-tection for two centralreasons: Firstly, the leg-islation essentially givesexisting plants licenceto continue to pollute;secondly, it allows Max-im Power to build a new500-megawatt coal plantin Alberta before the Ju-ly deadline, thereby es-caping the newregulations.
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Snakes on aplane attemptan epic failU.S. officials say a man tried toboard a flight from Miami to Brazilwith bags of exotic snakes andtortoises stuffed in his pants.
Transportation Security Adminis-tration spokesman Jonathon Allensays the man was stopped after pass-ing through a body scanner at MiamiInternational Airport last week.
Security officials spotted thenylon bags filled with seven snakes
and three tortoises hidden in theman’s pants.
The South Florida Sun Sentinelnewspaper reports the animals weretaken by the U.S. Department of Fishand Wildlife.
The unidentified passenger wasarrested.
It’s not the only time someonehas tried to smuggle snakes on aTAM Airlines flight, the paperreported.
In 1996, a woman attempted tosneak 75 live snakes inside her brain Sweden, according to theSentinel. And, in 2007, a man triedto smuggle a tiny monkey under hisshirt on a flight from FortLauderdale, the paper said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VANCOUVER’SNEW RANKREEKS
Vancouver: the world’s mostliveable city – NOT!
There is no joy in lattéland today with the newsthat the EconomistIntelligence Unit has demot-
ed Vancouver, for years the mostliveable city atop its list, to third,behind Melbourne and Vienna.
Even worse news? Toronto andCalgary are 4th and 5th, hot on ourheels.
Oddly, the stupid Stanley Cup riotplayed no role in the demotion, although it may hit uswhere we rank. The reason for this year’s demotion: abrief closure of the Malahat Highway due to a tankerspill in April led to a fractional reduction in infrastruc-ture points, enough to allow Melbourne and Vienna tosurge ahead.
Melbourne? Wasn’t that the place that was hit withdevastating floods earlier this year?
What’s really puzzlingis that the Malahat High-way is on VancouverIsland. Which iselsewhere. You have totake a ferry to get to Van-couver Island. All told,that’s about a four to four-and-a-half hour trip fromVancouver. I would wagerthat many of the peoplewho live in Metro Vancou-ver have no idea wherethe Malahat Highway isand have never been on it.It’s relevant if you live inVictoria, which, like Van-couver, starts with a “V”,but that’s about it.
So you have to wonderabout the Economist Intel-ligence Unit and its wholeWorld’s Most Liveable Cityproject. The problem isthere was no wondering
when Vancouver was on top of the list. We just satback, relaxed, and gloated.
Even when it rained 40 days and 40 nights. Even asit took a king’s ransom to buy a rundown bungalow inKerrisdale. Even as we rolled up the tinted windows onthe SUV to avoid being tainted by the Downtown EastSide. So now it’s not going to do us much good to castaspersions on the intelligence of the Intelligence Unit.
Meanwhile, Toronto and Calgary are flexing theirgloating muscles. They can hardly wait for next year’slist, when the EIU takes the riot into account. I’m notsure I’ll have the strength to carry on if Calgary turnsout to be more liveable than Vancouver.
There’s one thing I do know. I’d rather live in Toron-to, or even (gasp) Calgary than in one of the cities atthe bottom of the list, although they say #140: lastplace Harare, Zimbabwe, is nice this time of year.
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Canuck star JasonPriestley is set to ap-pear at the GeminiAwards next month.His racy program CallMe Fitz has 16 awardnominations. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ed O’Neill to get HollywoodWalk of Fame star in front of
shoe store, event featuresTV wives.
Scene in brief
Metro recently caught upwith Shark Night 3D direc-tor David Ellis and one ofthe flick’s stars, AmericanIdol runner-up KatharineMcPhee, to see what se-crets about the film they’rewilling to spill.
What can you tell us, withoutgiving too much away, aboutShark Night 3D?David Ellis: There’s sharksin it (laughs). It’s reallyweird. And a lot of themovie takes place at night.Katharine McPhee: I’m in it.
DE: Kat’s in it.KM: My character’s nameis Beth. That’s all I know.
David, you’re no stranger togenre movies. What’s the ap-peal of them as a filmmaker?DE: For me, I think it’s justfun to be able to entertainpeople — for them to beable to go an escape fromeverything crazy that’s go-ing on in the world for anhour and a half and gohave fun, to kind of scarethem and make themlaugh and make them cry,and just kind of play withtheir emotions.KM: You like making peo-ple cry.
How was the Shark Night ex-perience for you, Kat?KM: Oh, it was so muchfun. I love going to set. Ilove getting up early. Imean, on a regular basis,you will never find me upearly, but I love when myalarm goes off and I get toput on my pyjamas andget to set and get mycoffee and my food and getin hair and makeup.
I love everything aboutit, so for me just the wholeexperience is great. Weshot in Shreveport, La.,and even though it’s not aparticularly exotic place, itwas gorgeous. And I just
love being in new placesand feeling like you’restarting something new.DE: I love the free foodpart. Like, every day whenyou go to the set and theyhave all this free food. Butwhat made it so fun for mewas that we had an amaz-ing crew and we had a castthat was into it 110 percent.
Were you afraid of sharks be-fore you made the movie?KM: I’m one of those peo-ple who, especially as akid, would spend hours inthe ocean swimming. Ilove swimming. Butalways in the back of my
head there was that fear ofa shark coming andgetting you. I could saythat, yeah, this hasdefinitely made it a littlebit more of a threat.DE: For me, I grew up inthe ocean as well — mywhole life in Malibu —and I’m aware of them,you respect them. But youhave a better chance ofgetting hit by a coconutthan getting killed by ashark. But it’s a primalfear for people.KM: It’s just not a way youwant to go. There’s a cou-ple other ways I couldthink of wanting to go oth-er than sharks.
With summer coming to an end, it’s the perfect time for a movie to scare you off the beach Here to do it is Shark Night 3D, from Snakes on a Plane director David Ellis
The DebtGenre: Thriller/DramaDirector: John MaddenStars: Helen Mirren, SamWorthington and TomWilkinson888
The Debt is an espionagestory with a twist. In 1996retired Mossad agentsRachel, David and Stefan(Helen Mirren, CiaránHinds and Tom
Wilkinson) are heroes, ac-claimed for their bravecapture and execution ofa notorious war criminalin 1966.
In flashback we meetthe same charactersplayed by JessicaChastain, Marton Csokas,and Sam Worthington,learn the personal dynam-ics of the mission and thekey to a long held secret.
The flashback sequencemakes up the bulk of thefilm so it’s fair to say thisisn’t Helen Mirren’s film,but her characterRachel’s.
Unusual for a spymovie, the story is toldthrough the eyes of awoman but that addsdepth to what is essential-ly a pulpy spy story.
RICHARD CROUSE
The Debt. Screen times
Lost star Matthew Fox wasdetained by police inCleveland after an alterca-
tion outside a bar with afemale bus driver, accord-ing to TMZ.
The driver, Heather Bor-man, says a clearly inebri-ated Fox was trying to theparty bus she was driving,though he wasn’t a part ofthe group who had rentedit.
“He just kept staringat me with his mouthwide open and not say-ing anything. I toldhim, ‘You have toleave buddy. You aretrespassing on mybus,’” Bor-man says.
She addedthat Fox then“leaned inand started
punching my crotch andbreast.”
Borman struck back,punching Fox in the faceand splitting his lip, whichdeterred the actor.
Borman says she wasacting in self-defence.
METRO
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Andrew Garfield says theonly thing that made himnearly say no to being thenew Spider-Man was themovie star status thatwould come with it.
“That was absolutelythe one thing I ques-tioned. I thought about itfor a month, constantly,”he tells the L.A. Times.
“It terrifies me. I justsaw that I was given an op-portunity to play a partthat I’ve been wanting toplay since I was a two-year-old. I don’t want therest of it.
METRO
With all the speculationgoing around about herfamily life, Angelina Joliewants to clear a fewthings up.
“I’m not pregnant. I’mnot adopting at the mo-ment,” Jolie tells VanityFair. She added that thereis no “secret wedding”planned for her and BradPitt.
Jolie is more concernedwith her directorial de-but,
In the Land of Bloodand Honey, and says that
Pitt tried his best to behelpful during the mak-ing of the project.
“He’d come in and saywhat he liked or what hedidn’t understand,” shesays.
“Like any woman, Iwould listen to most of itand fight a few things.He’s been so supportive.
But it’s hard to sepa-rate the person that lovesyou from the critic, so Idon’t think he’s a fairjudge.”
METRO
Jolie sets baby bumprecord straight
Rumours of secret wedding and another baby en route make headlines
Garfieldfears bigfame
Angelina Jolie
Matthew Fox detained by police
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Kate Winslet is finallybreaking her silenceabout her harrowing es-cape from a recent housefire on Richard Branson’sprivate Caribbean is-land.
She gives credit to herhost for making the mostof the terrifying situation.
“I will never forgetRichard placing his arms
around both my chil-dren as we werewatching the flames,and saying, ‘At theend of the day, whatyou realize is that allthat matters is thepeople that you love.
Everything else isjust stuff. And none of
that stuff matters,’”Winslet remem-
bers of theemotionalday.
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Lindsay’s bro receivesthreatening callsLindsay Lohan’s 15-year-old brother, Cody Lohan,hasn’t been having thebest summer.
The teen has reportedlybeen receiving threaten-ing phone calls that wereunsettling enough forhim to call 911, accordingto reports from TMZ.
Cody reported to policethat the caller was threat-ening to “harm him,” lawenforcement sources say.
There was some ques-
tions raised about whowas watching the teenagebrother of star Linsday.
Reports indicated hismother, Dina Lohan, wasstill in Los Angeles at thetime after attending therecent, high-profile wed-ding of socialite Kim Kar-dashian.
Sources have since toldthe celebrity-driven web-site that Cody is “underproper care now.”
METRO
Lindsay Lohan
Steven Soderberghadmits he is consid-ering leaving film-making behind.
“I’m interestedin exploring anoth-er art form while Ihave the time andability to do so,” hetells the New YorkTimes. “I’ll be thefirst person to say ifI can’t be any goodat it and run out ofmoney I’ll be back
making anotherOcean’s movie.”
The filmmakersays earlier thisyear he told MattDamon about hisplans during a“drunk” chat.
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Prepare for a scare at
Ghost stories and sightings abound at Halifax’s most popular tourist sites
With its long history of dis-asters and shipwrecks,there is an air of tragedythat hangs over Halifax,not unlike the dense fogthat often rolls in from itsharbour.
Though the port city haslong established itself as adown-home, good-timeburg — a place to unwindto a toe-tapping Celtic tuneand a dram of whisky —those thirsty for spirits ofthe paranormal kind won’tbe disappointed.
One of Halifax’s mostinfamous spooky sites isthe Five Fishermen Restau-rant and Grill, perched on
the bustling corner ofCarmichael and ArgyleStreets. Having onceserved as a mortuary, it’sperhaps not surprisingthat the 194-year-old struc-ture is equally known forits hauntings as well as itshalibut.
The four-storey, brick-and-wood building openedin 1816 as a schoolhouseand was eventually takenover by a local family and
turned into a funeralhome.
It became the last stopof sorts for victims of twosignificant disasters of the20th century — the sink-ing of the Titanic off New-foundland in April 1912and the Halifax Explosionof 1917. The explosion oc-curred when a supply ves-sel and a munitions shipcollided in the harbour,killing 2,000 people and
leaving some 9,000 in-jured.
Shane Robilliard, theFive Fishermen’s generalmanager, says tales of cut-lery moving on its own, dis-embodied voices andshadowy figures have actu-ally been good for business.
Robilliard recalls a re-cent instance when dinerstried to send a text mes-sage from their table. Butinstead of the intendedmessage, Robilliard saysonly one word flashed onthe recipient’s mobilephone: death.
“People dine at the FiveFishermen to experiencesomething or to be a partof the history of this build-ing,” he says.
More eerie experiencesawait just up CarmichaelStreet at one of the city’smost recognizable sites,the Halifax Citadel Nation-al Historic Site.
The British fort, complet-ed in 1856, offers 90-minutetours exploring every darknook and cranny where theghosts of former soldiersare said to lurk.
A steep walk down
some 33 stone steps on thesouthwest demi-bastionleads to a pair of dark,dank rooms with a half-dozen metal cots andgrimy, barred windows —a former prison for sol-diers.
Hal Thompson, thesite’s visitor experience of-ficer, remembers one visi-tor to the site who said shespied a uniformed man en-ter a room and seeminglyvanish. The woman wasunaware of the site’sghostly reputation andwanted to know how theman — whom she pre-sumed to be a staff mem-ber — managed to leaveundetected from a roomwith only one exit.
At first, Thompson sayshe joked that perhaps thewoman had seen a ghost.But then he began to won-der.
“It doesn't make anysense. There should nothave been anyone therewearing that uniform anddisappearing into thin airlike that,” he recalls. “Sothat’s a fairly convincingstory.” THE CANADIAN PRESS
Halifax haunts
Visitors claim to have seen ghosts in the garrison cells at Halifax Citadel National Historic Site.
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OTHER SITES
Ghostsgalore Other sites that arerumoured to be hauntedcan be found in andaround Halifax’s historicharbour.
Near the waterfront isthe Alexander Keith’sbrewery, which is said tobe inhabited by theghost of the brewmasterhimself. McNabs Island,accessible only by boat(ghost ship notrequired), is reputed to
be haunted by the ghostof a former resident whowas found drowned.
At least twocompanies in Halifax of-fer ghost walk tours forvisitors eager to learnabout the creepier sideof the city.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Yankee mag offers foliageapp and annual fall issue forNew England leaf-peepers
Guided hikes reveal Niagara’s geology
A series of guided fallhikes along Ontario’slong-distance BruceTrail will explore thegeology of the Niaga-ra Escarpment. Sevenlocations on the trailare highlighted,including Waterdown,the Credit River valley,the NottawasagaBluffs and the BrucePeninsula on GeorgianBay. Dubbed “Geology101 on Foot,” thewalks are afundraising project tosupport the Bruce TrailConservancy. The trailstretches almost 900kilometres fromQueenston, near Niag-ara Falls, toTobermory.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Breakfast lunchThis easy pancake and ba-con breakfast-lunch let’skids assemble their ownmeal. You just need to give them the basics — tiny
pancakes, cooked baconslices, blueberries andmaple syrup for dunking.
2 In skillet over medium-high heat, melt butter.Drop spoonfuls of batterinto pan, leaving spacebetween each to allowfor spreading. Cook for
1 to 2 minutes, flip andcook for an additional 1to 2 minutes, or untilgolden and cookedthrough. Let cool thor-oughly before packing.
3 Pack the pancakes withthe bacon, fruit andmaple syrup on the sidein their lunch bags.
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Mango Smoothie• Flesh of 1 large ripemango, chopped• 2 ml (1/2 tsp) fresh gin-ger, grated• 75 ml (1/3 cup) frozenorange juice concentrate• 375 ml (1 1/2 cups)milk, chilled• 250 ml (1 cup) ice
In a blender, puree thepeeled and chopped man-go, ginger and orangejuice concentrate togetheruntil the mixture issmooth. Add milk and iceand blend again. This recipe makes 500 ml(2 cups).THE CANADIAN PRESS
Drink of the week Let your creative sideshine with their lunches
Believe it or not, school lunches can consist of a lot more than a peanut butter and jellysandwich and a juice box Leftovers and deconstructing meals are great places to start
Tortellini Veggie Skewers
Preparation:
1 Cut yellow pepper into6 strips. Using eachpepper strip as a skew-er, push 2 tortellini on-to each strip.
2 Use a paring knife topoke a hole into thetop of each cherrytomato and cap end ofeach pepper strip witha tomato and an olive.Cut slices of turkey andprovolone into 6 long
strips, then wrap oneof each around skew-ers. Serve skewers witha side of your child'sfavourite salad dress-ing.
Ingredients:
• 1/2 yellow bell pepper• 12 cooked tortellini• 6 whole black olives• 6 cherry tomatoes• 1 slice deli turkey• 1 slice provolone cheese
Getting creative with kids’lunches can be a bit of aminefield. It can be hardenough to get them to em-brace new foods at home,never mind when they aresurrounded by friends atschool.
But that doesn’t mean
you can’t break free of thesame old sandwich rou-tine. It’s just a matter of us-ing foods already in yourchildren’s comfort zone.
Leftovers are a greatplace to start (assumingthey were well receivedthe first time around).Plenty of thick stews andchilies can be repurposedas chilled fillings forwraps, especially whentopped with shreddedcheese. Or consider decon-structing something, suchas pasta salad. Put it backtogether in a way that’sfun for kids, as we did for
Ingredients:• 5 ml (1 tsp) mustard• 30 ml (2 tbsp) low-fatmayonnaise• 5 ml (1 tsp) apple cidervinegar• 125 ml (1/2 cup) cookedrice (white or brown)• 50 ml (1/4 cup) cubedcooked ham• 30 ml (2 tbsp) shreddedcheddar• 1 scallion, thinly sliced, togarnish
This Cold Ham and Cheese Casserole
takes 10 minutes to make.
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the tortellini veggie skew-ers. Also, breakfast is greatfor the beginning of theday and makes a fun sup-per, so why not consider itfor lunch too?
Cold Ham andCheese Casserole
This “casserole” is a greatway to use up leftovers.Feel free to play with theingredients. Chicken,steak and even choppedleftover hamburgers arefine substitutes for theham.
Preparation:
1 In a small bowl, stir to-gether mustard, mayon-naise and vinegar. Addrice, ham and cheddar,then mix well.ALL RECIPES THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS
Ingredients:• 50 ml (1/4 cup) all-purpose flour• 15 ml (1 tbsp) cornmeal• 1 ml (1/4 tsp) baking soda• 15 ml (1 tbsp) sugar• Pinch salt
• 50 ml (1/4 cup) plain yo-gurt• 45 ml (3 tbsp) milk• 15 ml (1 tbsp) butter• 2 slices cooked bacon• 125 ml (1/2 cup) blueber-ries (or favourite fruit)• Maple syrup, for dipping
Turn breakfast into lunch with this pancake-bacon combo.
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As a second-year businessstudent tired of spendingmy summers working inretail, I jumped at the op-portunity to enrol in theco-operative education op-tion (co-op) offered at myschool.
I joined co-op under theimpression that I wouldeasily be able to securemeaningful summer em-ployment, but I quicklydiscovered this was notthe case.
I applied to countlessjobs and had no difficultygetting interviews; myproblem lay in receivingan actual job offer.
I left each interviewfeeling as if it had gone
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well, only to be informeda few days later that I had
not been chosen as thesuccessful candidate forthe job. And I was notalone. Several of my fel-low classmates were expe-riencing the exact samedilemma.
As a well-qualified ap-plicant, this frustratingprocess led me to wonderwhich students were be-ing selected for thesejobs. It turned out thatstudents with more expe-rience and education,such as third and fourthyears and graduates withwhom I could not com-pete, were getting those
offers.Employers shouldn’t
overlook the applicationsof promising young stu-
Erin Hayes
Where Erin is now
I had nearly resorted to handing out resumés atthe local mall when an opportunity arose.
I was contacted by a professional I had met dur-ing a networking event hosted by a student societyI belonged to. My professor had spoken with thisindividual and requested that they consider mefor a job before formally posting the position, andfollowing the interview I was fortunate enough toreceive a job offer.
My story has proven that although what youknow is undoubtedly the most important, whoyou know can’t hurt.
dents simply because theylack experience.
Students who activelyachieve and aim to im-prove themselves shouldbe given fair considera-tion from employers;
these students should notbe automatically placedon the back burner tomore senior and experi-enced applicants.
To compete with moreexperienced applicants,younger students shouldtake advantage of themany opportunities of-fered by universities, suchas volunteering, confer-ences and competitions.
By making an effort toget involved, students candevelop relevant skills totheir field of study, aswell as establish relation-ships and build their pro-fessional network. Whenparticipating in extra-cur-ricular activities, you nev-er know whatopportunities will presentthemselves or who youmight meet.
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Key take-aways from
Erin’s experience:
Becoming involved withinyour school throughstudent groups,conferences and competi-tions is a great way to de-velop career-related skillsand build your resumé. Get to know yourprofessors and attend asmany on-campus network-ing events as you can. Al-though relevant skills anda strong GPA areimportant, my story high-lights that who you knowis often equally as impor-tant.
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Breaking the school cycleA recent Statistics Canadastudy has found that peo-ple whose parents didn’tgraduate from universityare nearly twice as likelyto get a degree today thanthey were more than twodecades ago.
The study revealed thatin 2009, 23 per cent ofpeople whose parents did-n’t get a university educa-tion held a degree, upfrom 12 per cent in 1986.
The 2009 General So-cial Survey attributes theshrinking disparity in uni-versity completion byfamily background towomen.
In 1986, only 10 percent of women whose par-ents were not universitygraduates held a degree.By 2009, that proportionnearly tripled to 28 percent.
But Martin Turcotte, asenior analyst at Statistics
Canada who authored thestudy, said there was a sig-nificant increase in thenumber of women withhighly educated parentswho got degrees, too.
“Really the fact thatmore women from alltypes of families get de-grees contributed a lot tothe decreasing gap,” saidTurcotte.
Despite the increasethere’s still a sizable dif-
ference between the twogroups, with a personwhose parents hold a de-gree much more likely tocomplete university.
“The gap is still impor-tant,” said Turcotte. “Peo-ple with parents whohave a university educa-tion are twice as likely toget the degree them-selves, compared to otherpeople.”
The study also found
that parents' educationalachievements have less ofan impact on the childrenof immigrants. Those chil-dren are even more likelythan the kids of Canadian-born parents to completeuniversity.
“There's some litera-ture that shows that im-migrants have higherexpectations for theirchildren's education thanCanadian-born parents,”said Turcotte.THE CANADIAN PRESS
Having a parent with a degree not the predictor of success it once was
You too can be the first one in your family to pack
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“The fact thatmore women fomall types offamilies getdegreescontributed a lotto the decreasinggap.”MARTIN TURCOTTE, SENIORANALYST AT STATISTICS CANADA
School supplies?
Balancing the schoolbudget can get complicat-ed when you and yourchild’s other parent arenot together. Here aresome tips to the scholas-tic year fiscally fair, evenif you are not divorced.
Balance needs versus wantsMake a list of “needs” andagree that kids will get afew “wants” met. Allocatea set dollar amount theyare free to spend.
Set the budget before yougo shopping Before youventure into a store set anon-negotiable budget.This is not just for theirpurposes but also to keepparents from caving in.
Make a detailed list beforeyou hit the stores We know not to go groceryshopping when hungryand the same rule applies
for back-to-schoolshopping. There are manypurchase temptations toabstain from, even for thestrong-willed.
Set the budget for extracur-ricular activities before yousign up Set a budget perchild that covers lessons,equipment and other hid-den costs, then engage ina conversation with thekids and the other parentto ensure you are notdoubling up on activitiesor creating a conflictingschedule.
Empower your kids finan-cially Allot an allowancefor extra purchases andone for necessities to en-gage kids in responsiblebudgeting and shoppingat an early age. KAREN STEWART IS THE PRESIDENT,CEO AND FOUNDER OF FAIRWAY DI-VORCE SOLUTIONS.
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Prepare your pre-boot action planKeep all your contacts close to you in case the worst happens And most importantly, never stop networking
Should the axe fall andyour job get severed, ca-reer counsellors warn,you’ll have to get by witha little help from yourfriends.
Except, big problem: Ifyou’re like the averagelaid off employee, yourfriends will all be left be-hind in that same burningbuilding.
That’s why career coun-
sellors recommend youfoster industry friend-ships far beyond theblock where you work,while you’re still work-ing.
“It’s much easier tohave that network ready
in place when you need itthan to try to scrambleand connect the people atthe last minute,”About.com jobseekers’ gu-ru Alison Doyle cautions.“Then all of a suddenyou’re begging people.”
And that, she explains,is what you’d least like tobe doing: scroungingstrangers for jobs.
Instead, agrees Con-necting With Success au-thor Kathleen Barton,your
network should be in con-stant development, a reg-ular exchange of favoursand tips.
“It’s about buildingmutually beneficial rela-tionships, where you’renot always asking for help
when you’re contactingthem,” she says. “Maybeyou’re giving updates, orfinding out how they’redoing, or how you cansupport them.”
Or maybe you’re justcalling to say howdy —one friendly lunch hourphone call at a time.
“Don't try to build anetwork overnight,”Doyle advises. “Take itone step at a time. Spenda little bit of everydayworking on it, looking fornew contacts.”
“Don't be intimidated,”she adds. “You're not theonly person who is new atthis.”
Find The Little ReasonsGreat networking, Bartonoffers, is about seizingthose little excuses toreach out to a mere ac-quaintance.
“There are so many cre-ative ways you can dothat,” she says. Holidayshelp —and not just thepassé ones like Christmasand birthdays. Think Hal-loween, she suggests.
“Rather than Christ-mas, when everybody getscards, I send Thanksgiv-ing cards to let themknow I'm thinking aboutthem,” she adds.
“It’s much easier tohave that networkready in placewhen you need itthan to try toscramble andconnect the peopleat the last minute.”ALISON DOYLE, ABOUT.COM
When the topic of cus-tomer service comes up indiscussion, most conversa-tions likely centre around
experiences with hospitali-ty services such as a hotelstay or a restaurant or per-haps a retail situation.
Hospitals however donot generally come up atall. In his book Prescriptionfor Excellence, Joseph A.Michelli, Ph.D. describesthe incredible transforma-tion that took place at the
UCLA Health System underthe helm of CEO Dr. DavidFeinberg and points to thekey aspect of this changebeing tied to service.
At the time when Fein-berg became CEO he had“inherited an organizationthat had rich existingstrengths in medical train-ing, cutting edge research,
and the delivery of extraor-dinary clinical outcomes.”
However, UCLA’s overallpatient satisfaction scoreswere in the 30 to 40 per-centile.
Initially tasked withturning around this percep-tion, Feinberg was facedwith some strong cynics inthe industry, and even
within the UCLA hospitalsystem.
Michelli’s book demon-strates the effects of inspira-tional leadership, despitethe immensely challengingconditions in the healthcare system, described as “acomplicated and often ma-ligned sector of [the] econo-my.”
At the end of the day, thesimplest methods achievedthe results… it isn’t brainsurgery.
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Can they make the cut?Recent history suggeststwo of them will still bewearing NHL sweaters inOctober.
As Ryan Nugent-Hop-kins, Gabriel Landeskogand Jonathan Huberdeaupulled on the uniform oftheir new NHL teams yes-terday morning, each ex-pressed a strong desire tocontinue wearing it all sea-son. With training campsapproaching, the top threepicks from June’s draft feeltantalizingly close to final-ly realizing their NHLdream.
“I just want to wear thissweater and I just want toget on the ice and play,”said Nugent-Hopkins,sporting a blue and orangeNo. 93 Edmonton Oilershome jersey.
The 18-year-old centrehas spent a considerableamount of time in the gymsince being selected withthe No. 1 pick at the XcelEnergy Center in Minneso-ta.
Nugent-Hopkins esti-mates that he’s added 12pounds to his six-footframe over the summerand now weighs in atabout 177 pounds. It wasdone with an eye on crack-ing the Oilers roster out oftraining camp.
“Hopefully that willhelp me,” said Nugent-Hopkins. “I’m not too fo-cused on my weight rightnow, I’m just going to fo-cus on how well I play andjust playing as good as Ican. Obviously, the weightwas a little bit of an issueso I tried to address it asmuch as I could.”
The only No. 1 pick whodidn’t jump straight to theNHL since the lockout wasdefenceman Erik Johnson,who spent a season at theUniversity of Minnesotarather than join the St.Louis Blues in 2006. Over-all, 11 of the 18 playerstaken in the top threespots between 2005 and2010 went directly to theNHL.
It was no coincidencethat Nugent-Hopkins, Lan-deskog and Huberdeauwere grouped togetheryesterday at the NHLPA’srookie showcase, an eventwhere 26 prospects took
the ice and posed for pho-tos that will be used ontheir first NHL tradingcards.
They’ve been fieldingquestions about whetherthey were ready to play inthe NHL right away sincebefore the draft. The focuson them will only intensifyin the coming weeks dur-ing rookie tournamentsand their first trainingcamps.
“It’s something thatcomes along with (being atop pick),” said Landeskog,who sported a No. 92 Col-orado Avalanche jersey. “Isee pressure as a positive
thing. I want high expecta-tions (placed on) myself.That’s why I play thisgame — I want to get bet-ter every day.”
He’ll travel to Denvertoday and plans to pick thebrain of teammate MattDuchene, who was select-ed third in the 2009 draftand joined the Avalanchethe following season.
Many believe Landeskogis in the best positionamong this year’s draftclass to earn a job becausehe’s physically mature andtrying to crack the rosterof a rebuilding team. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Oilers pick Nugent-Hopkins, other top prospects seeking first NHL jobs
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins talks to the media yesterday.
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A former NBA player who isaccused of shootingan Atlanta woman todeath appeared to beretaliating for beingrobbed of $55,000 USworth of jewelry, po-lice said.
Javaris Crittentonwas arrested late Monday at a Southern Californiaairport.
He has beencharged with murder in the Aug.19 shooting death ofJullian Jones outside her house inAtlanta, FBI spokeswoman LauraEimiller said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sports in brief
Ryan Adams capped a two-run, 10th-inning rally withan RBI single and the Balti-more Orioles beat theToronto Blue Jays 6-5 lastnight.
Matt Wieters led off theBaltimore 10th by drawinga walk off Brian Tallet (0-2),who was trying for his firstcareer save. Mark Reynoldswalked and, after RobertAndino bunted a foul thirdstrike, pinch hitter Jake Foxhit a game-tying single toright with Reynolds takingthird.
Adams followed with adeep fly ball off thewarning track beyond adrawn-in outfield.
The Blue Jays have lostfive of six.
“You’ve got to take it asit comes and analyze it andyou’ve just got to suck it upand move on to tomorrow,”said Langely B.C.’s BrettLawrie. “There’s no sensein dwelling on it. You’vegot to come back tomorrowand keep playing.”
Lawrie’s sixth homerstaked Toronto to a 3-0 leadin the second. After one-outwalks to EdwinEncarnacion and KellyJohnson, the native of Lang-ley ripped a 1-2 curveballfrom Jeremy Guthrie intothe left-field stands.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rafael Nadal’s first matchas defending U.S. Openchampion was hardly atour de force.
He would fall behind ina set, then come back. Fallbehind, then come back.
His shots didn’t havetheir normal depth. Heneeded to save seven setpoints during the secondset.
The second-seeded Nadaleventually got past 98th-ranked Andrey Golubev 6-3, 7-6 (1), 7-5 in New YorkCity last night to reach the
second round of the U.S.Open.
“Well,” Nadal said. “Iwas a little bit lucky to wintoday in straight sets.”
Nadal expended a lotmore energy than No. 1ranked Novak Djokovic.
The Serbian built a 6-0,
5-1 lead before qualifierConor Niland of Irelandstopped after 44 minutes.Niland had food poisoning.
Earlier, top-seeded Caro-line Wozniacki — who’ssearching for her firstGrand Slam trophy — de-feated 125th-ranked NuriaLlagostera Vives of Spain 6-3, 6-1.
Vancouver’s RebeccaMarino and Frank Dancevicof Niagara Falls, Ont., bothlost their first-roundmatches.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nadal perseveres in Round 16 Rafael Nadal’s
serve was brokensix times yesterday;that happened to himonly five times in sev-en matches during the2010 U.S. Open
Rafael Nadal of Spain returns a shot against
Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan yesterday.
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Tanguay believed he re-ceived the invite to craft aplan because he made “thebiggest noise” about Toyotalosing its way. The gist ofhis vision was that Toyota’simmense workforce, scat-tered all over the globe,needed a greater sense ofmission and empower-ment. To that end, he sug-gested more localdecision-making and directaccess to the top decision-makers in Japan.
Toyoda liked Tanguay’splan so much he immedi-ately added the title of sen-ior managing officer ofToyota Motor Corporationto Tanguay’s already consid-erable portfolio. There areonly three such positionsworldwide, and they are
just one rung below that ofthe board of directors.
Currently his two othertitles are: Senior Vice Presi-dent, Toyota Motor NorthAmerica; and Chairman,Toyota Motor Manufactur-ing Canada.
The plan is far from hisonly accomplishment. He continues to champion
more production and research facilities on thiscontinent. He oversaw the growth of Toyota’sCanadian production in Cambridge, Ont., and itsevolution into a perennialwinner of internationalquality awards. This made it easy for Toyota to sendLexus RX 350 production
there in 2003 — still the only Lexus plant outside ofJapan. And when Toyotawas looking to open a North American plant to build its RAV4, Tanguaycame up with a novel proposal — build the RAV4plant in nearby Woodstock,as a satellite facility of theCambridge plant.
Another recent accom-plishment: The “house thatRay built” in Woodstockjust received confirmationthis month, that it will bethe first North AmericanToyota facility to build anelectric vehicle. In fact, theRAV EV will be built on thesame line as the gasoline-powered RAV4.
Tanguay has FrenchCanadian roots. Silver-haired, tall, and dignified,he reminds one of anothercharismatic French Canadi-an leader — Jean Beliveau,the legendary and gracefulcaptain of the MontrealCanadians.
I don’t know if Tanguayever played hockey. But seeing that he was born andraised in Mattice, a remotetown in northern Ontario,I’m betting he did. And I’m betting that under-neath the controlled per-sona is someone just likeBeliveau, someone with alot of drive, passion, andcompetitive fight.
Sergio Marchionne isthe high-flying andmuch-quotedpresident of Fiat andChrysler. But he isn’tthe only Canadianmaking an impact onthe global automotivestage.
After a promo-tion earlierthis year, RayTanguaybecame thehighest-rank-
ing non-Japaneseexecutive at Toyota MotorCorporation.
Toyota’s all-electric RAV EV will be built in Canada.
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