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Old East Village looks to futureIn 2004, the Community Association, City of London and Old East Business Improvement Area partnered to

support ongoing development in the area 20 new storefronts expected to be ready for business by 2013

“I have no time to worry about anoutdated stigma,” Sarah Merrittsaid about what others mightthink about life East of Adelaide.“My job is to work with peopledown here to do really greatthings.”

As manager of the Old East Vil-lage Business Improvement Area,Merritt is focused on the positiveresults in an effort to revitalize the

area, thanks to some helpful part-nerships and a supportive com-munity. As part of the revitaliza-tion process, there’s an economic-development plan Merritt says isbeing driven at a grassroots level.

“We’re maintaining momen-tum, but we need more resources,”she said about the developmentplan.

Merritt said the village has ben-

efited from partnerships with theWestern Fair Entertainment Dis-trict and Farmer’s Market, as wellas the City of London and com-munity associations. But her groupwants to do more and is focusingon new development to get morepeople living and working in thearea.

“We need to strengthen the artscorridor and we want to partner

with ethnic groups to bring a dif-ferent cultural base to the area,”she said. “The same old, same olddoesn’t work here.

“We have created great foun-dations to grow the local econo-my. Now we need to be creativeto grow what we have, bring newpeople and businesses in and finda financial mechanism to supportit.” DAWN LYONS

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Higher! Higher! Dad gives kids a boost Dad, son and daughter were taking advantage of the warmweather by checking out the splash pad before the kids wanteda ride on the swing.

Dan Desjardins pushes his kids, Oliver, 3, and Maia, 5, on the swings at Ivey Park on Thursday afternoon.

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A community is only asgood as its people, it’s said.

Members of the non-profit Emerging Leadersgroup have made it theirimperative to ensure thebest and brightest in thecity remain in the area andcontribute to the better-ment of London.

“We (want to) help tosupport people in Londonto do the things they wantto do,” said Kevin VanLierop, community ener-gizer for Emerging Lead-ers.

“(We can) help them un-leash their talents —they’ll be better connectedto the city and have morereasons to stay and investin London.”

Emerging Leaders willbe holding its first mem-bership drive Thursday tocelebrate its one-year an-

niversary as a non-profitenterprise and to hold itsAGM.

“We’ll be nominatingour board for the next cou-ple of years and reportingon what we’ve been up toover the past year,” VanLierop said.

“We want to celebrate(the membership drive)and talk about what we’re

going to be doing in thecoming year to offer ourmembers.”

Visit emerginglead-ers.ca for more detailsabout the group’s pro-grams and information onbecoming a member.

The cost to join is $40plus fees (regular mem-ber), or $20 plus fees forstudents.

Helping new leaders emerge

The Emerging Leaders annual general meeting will take place at Museum London on Thursday. Go to emergingleaders.ca for more information.

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Non-profitgroup striving to keep the bestand brightest in London

New Kids fans sing a helping songDevotees of New Kids OnThe Block and TheBackstreet Boys, who arebringing their NKOTBSBtour to the John LabattCentre on Sunday night,are no ordinary fans.

They’ve organizedevents to bring people together prior to the showand to help charitable or-

ganizations.A charity pub will be

held at the Honest Lawyer(228 Dundas St.), from12:30 to 3:30 p.m. by fansraising money for theCanadian Breast CancerFoundation’s Run for theCure.

The group calls itselfTeam Betty, in honour of NKOTB member Danny

Wood’s mother, Betty,who died from thedisease.

For a $20 ticket, you geta drink and munchies,and you’ll be entered intoa grand-prize draw.

Also scheduled: grabbags, door prizes and asilent auction featuringNKOTB-related items.

Fans are also invited togather at the JLC from 5 to6:30 p.m. and bring aboxed-food item, such asKraft Dinner or cereal, tohelp create a line of domi-noes around the “block”of the JLC. The boxed foodwill be donated to the Lon-don Food Bank.

DAWN LYONS

Labatt Parkneeds you HOME RUN? It’s the finalweekend to vote forLabatt Park in Canada’sfavourite ballpark conteston Baseball Canada’s web-site. Until 10 a.m. Monday,visit baseball.ca and clickon Canada’s favourite

ballpark contest. BaseballCanada launched the con-test last month.

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Your chance to help othersSIGN UP. The Middlesex-London Health Unit isseeking volunteers for thecommunity emergency response team. Trainingbegins next month, with aonce-monthly daytime

session. Visithealthunit.com or [email protected] more information.

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Forest Edgegets $15,000IN THE SWIM. Forest EdgeCommunity Pool hasreceived $15,000 from the Ontario Trillium Foun-dation. Forest Edge, a not-for-profit community

organization, has been agathering place for youthand families to participatein water sports and socialactivities for more than 40years.

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Catch them at the libraryDOUBLING UP. The LondonArts Council and the Lon-don Heritage Council willshare an expanded office

space at London Public Library, 251 Dundas St.

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Highway 10victim namedCOLLISION. DorothyMcDonald, 66, of London,died after an SUV and apickup collided on High-way 10 north ofOrangeville Wednesday,police say. AM980/AM980.CA

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Tickets ($91.25, $71.25) are still available for the7:30 p.m. show. Drop bythe JLC box office, call 1-866-455-2849, or visitjohnlabattcentre.com.

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On Board helps put new leaders ontoestablished non-profitboards and committees toprovide a new voice andperspective.

MentorNET is a network-ing program that teamsyounger leaders in the citywith established leaders indifferent organizationsand professions.Leadership London is aprofessional-developmentseries that focuses on de-veloping people’s leader-ship styles.

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It ain’t just your cheatin’heart that will tell on you

Cheaterville.com allows users to accuse others of infidelityWebsite currently has 10,000 profiles of alleged heartbreakers

A screenshot of Cheaterville.com’s home page.

CHEATERVILLE.COM

For those with an itch tocheat, there’s a new reasonto think twice before sneak-ing around. Unless youwant to risk being outedonline.

Cheaterville.com, a U.S.-based website that made itsway to Canada last month,allows anonymous users topost stories accusingfriends, enemies, cowork-ers, ex-lovers and acquain-tances of infidelity.

The site currently hasabout 10,000 profiles of al-leged cheaters, which in-clude full name, age,hometown, marital status,photos and other informa-tion.

The infidelity stories arenot verified but that doesn’tworry founder and CEOJames McGibney.

“There’s lots of things onthe Internet and not every-

thing is validated. At theend of the day, it’s up to theperson who’s reading thepost to determine whetherit’s true or not,” said McGib-ney, noting that the site ismoderated and posts withnude photos, personalphone numbers or creditcard information are not al-lowed.

McGibney launched thesite on Valentine’s Day inLas Vegas and it has beengaining popularity sincethen.

A former U.S. marine,McGibney says he decidedto start Cheaterville.com af-ter a fellow marine foundout his wife had been cheat-ing on him during his de-ployment. Less than sixmonths later, the site getsabout 250,000 hits on aslow day, and McGibneyhopes that it will soon

reach a solid five millionweekly hits.

Critics, however, arguethe site provides angry exeswith an outlet to spreadfalse information, ruin ca-reers and break up families.

One Canadian listed onCheaterville.com, who

wished to remain un-named, denied the accusa-tions and said the site hasno business publicizing pri-vate matters. The allega-tions could cause theirfamily enormous distressand ruin their professionalreputation, the accusedadded.

But McGibney said he isnot concerned about pro-tecting the reputations ofcheaters or worryingwhether a cheater’s em-ployer will discover theirindiscretions and fire them.

“You absolutely get whatyou deserve. We’re here forthe people who have beencheated on, not thecheaters. I don’t care aboutthe cheaters,” he said. “Inmy opinion, it serves themright if something like thathappens to them.”

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“You absolutely getwhat you deserve.We’re here for thepeople who havebeen cheated on,not the cheaters.”JAMES MCGIBNEY,CHEATERVILLE.COM FOUNDER AND CEO

Happy 50thbirthday, Mr.PresidentWith the arduous debttalks behind him, U.S.President Barack Obamacelebrated his 50th birth-day at the White House onThursday with a Rose Gar-den party, a toast from hissenior staff and somegood-natured ribbing fromhis wife.

Even on her husband’sbirthday, Michelle Obamacouldn’t resist poking funat his greying hair in acampaign email with thesubject line “Gray Hairs,”in which she asked sup-porters to sign an elec-tronic birthday card.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

I signed dealwhen drunk:Mayor The mayor of a town inNew Mexico says he wasdrunk when he signednine contracts with a Cali-fornia company that isnow suing the city for $1million, according to adeposition in the case.

“The day I signed, I hadway too much to drink. Itwas after 5 p.m. and Isigned it (the contracts)and I didn’t know what Iwas signing,” SunlandPark Mayor Martin Re-sendiz wrote in responseto questions from lawyersfor the architectural de-sign firm Synthesis+. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Wrongly accused?Tough luckIf you do by chance findyourself wrongly accusedon Cheaterville.com, don’texpect the website to takethe post down.

Founder James McGib-ney says they don’t playjudge or jury. “We don’t de-cide whether we believethat someone’s telling thetruth about an allegedcheater or not,” he said.

According to Internetand defamation lawyer GilZvulony, if the accusationsare both false and damag-ing, it could become a libelsuit. But suing the websitemight not get you very far.While the defamation lawsin Canada are differentfrom the U.S.’s, Zvulonysays the legalities aren’tclear.

“It’s certain in the U.S.they’re immune from liabil-ity, it’s uncertain in Cana-da,” he said. “The law is

completely different here,it’s sort of uncharted terri-tory. The law is not clearwhere websites may be li-able or not.”

While McGibney says thepremise of the site is tohelp warn people beforestarting a relationship witha potential heartbreaker orsociopath, Zvulony saysthere could be a lot ofrepercussions to those whoare falsely accused in such apublic venue.

“My concern is that a lotof innocent people’s livesare going to be hurt by thiswebsite, and a lot of mar-riages are going to break upand a lot of kids are goingto have divorced parentsbecause some idiot went onthis website,” he said. “Thelaw as it stands today leavesa lot of loopholes for peopleto get away with this kindof thing.” PHOEBE HO

SENTENCING HEARING

Family of victim speaksat Tobin trialThe sister of Alex Zolpissaid she still wakes up intears and relies on a pre-scription to sleep sinceher brother was killedlast Christmas Eve.

“There will always bea huge hole in my worldwhere Alex should be,”Meaghan Zolpis said inher victim impact state-

ment yesterday at thesentencing hearing ofJack Tobin.

Tobin, son of formerNewfoundland premierBrian Tobin, pleadedguilty in May to impaireddriving causing death.

Tobin’s lawyer, Nor-man Boxall, said he isseeking a sentence of 18to 30 months, citing hisclient’s remorse and im-mediate willingness toplead guilty. Crown pros-ecutor Mark Moors rec-ommended five years inprison and a 10-year driv-ing ban. STEVE COLLINS

CHEATERVILLE.COM

The drought and faminein Somalia have killedmore than 29,000 childrenunder the age of five, ac-cording to U.S. estimates,the first time such a pre-cise death toll has been re-leased related to the Hornof Africa crisis.

The United Nations hassaid previously that tensof thousands of peoplehave died in the drought,the worst in Somalia in 60years.

The UN says 640,000 So-mali children are acutelymalnourished, a statisticthat suggests the deathtoll of small children willrise.

Nancy Lindborg, an offi-cial with the U.S. govern-ment aid arm, told acongressional committeein Washington onWednesday that the U.S.estimates that more than29,000 children under theage of five have died in thelast 90 days in southernSomalia.

That number is basedon nutrition and mortalitysurveys verified by the U.S.Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention.

The UN on Wednesdaydeclared three new re-gions in Somalia faminezones, bringing the totalnumber to five.

Out of a population ofroughly 7.5 million, theUN says 3.2 million Soma-lis are in need of immedi-ate lifesaving assistance.

Getting aid to Somaliahas been made more diffi-

cult because al-Qaida-linked militants controlmuch of the country’smost desperate areas.

Al-Shabab has deniedthat a famine is takingplace, and won’t give ac-cess to the World Food

Program, the world’sbiggest provider of foodaid.

Tens of thousands ofrefugees have fled south-central Somalia in hopesof finding food at camps inEthiopia, Kenya and in Mo-

gadishu, the Somali capi-tal.

Hundreds of millions ofdollars have been donatedto fight the hunger crisis,but the UN says it needshundreds of millionsmore. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Women stand in line to get water in a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, on Thursday.

Dadaab, a camp designed for 90,000 people, now houses about 440,000 refugees. Almost all

are from war-ravaged Somalia. Some have been here for more than 20 years, when the

country first collapsed into anarchy.

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A day after the start ofHosni Mubarak’s historictrial, seven of his co-defen-dants were back in thecourtroom on Thursdayon charges of complicityin the killing of protestersduring the uprising thattoppled Egypt’s longtimepresident.

The hearing of formerinterior minister Habib el-Adly and six top police of-ficials was broadcast liveon Egyptian state televi-sion.

The seven first ap-

peared in court onWednesday in the samedefendants’ cage withMubarak and his two sons— one-time heir apparentGamal and businessmanAlaa — in a related casethat is tried by the samejudge. The Mubaraks’ trialresumes Aug. 15.

Mubarak, el-Adly andthe six police officials facethe death penalty if con-victed over the protesters’deaths.

The three Mubaraksseparately face corruption

charges.El-Adly was Mubarak’s

interior minister for morethan a decade, in chargeof the country’s 500,000-strong security forces.

Some of the worst hu-man rights abuses duringMubarak’s 29 years in of-fice are blamed on el-Adlyand his police force.

The judge gave thelawyers a week to exam-ine the evidence beforehearings resume onAug. 14.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

An Egyptian man reads the al-Akhbar newspaper

showing photos of ousted Egyptian president Hosni

Mubarak on the second day of his trial on Thursday.

KHALIL HAMRA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Evidence box

Thursday’s hearing dealtwith procedural matters.

The judge opened up boxesof evidence, whichcontained police logs dur-ing Egypt’s uprising fromJan. 25-Feb. 11.

The evidence also includedseveral weapons andammunition rounds, as wellas a blood-soaked jacket.

Judge sorts evidence at Mubarak trial

Cops huntfor ‘bomb’suspectAustralian police werehunting Thursday for amasked man whochained a fake bomb to awoman’s neck after

breaking into herwealthy family’s home inan extortion attempt.

Bomb squad specialistssafely freed MadeleinePulver, 18, after 10 hourswith the device attachedaround her neck. The de-vice contained no explo-sives. A note of demandshad been attached to thedevice. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

29,000 kids dead: U.S.More than 1,000 refugees, mostly from Somalia, arrive daily to a

crowded refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya Most fleeing fighting, hunger

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Air Canada has been fined$50,000 US by the U.S. De-partment of Transportationfor violating “deceptiveprice advertising” rules inonline ads.

“When passengers buyan airline ticket, they havea right to know how muchthey will have to pay,” U.S.Transportation SecretaryRay LaHood said in a newsrelease Thursday announc-ing the fine.

The government agencyfound that Canada’s largest

carrier displayed ads on itswebsites in early 2011 thatdidn’t disclose taxes andfees tacked onto advertisedfares.

Consumers who clickedon the ads were taken toAir Canada’s website butcould not find details of theadditional taxes and feesunless they scrolled downto the fine print at the bot-tom of the page, the depart-ment said.

Transportation Depart-ment rules require that any

U.S. or foreign carrier thatadvertises a price for airtransportation must statethe full price to be paid bythe consumer, including allcarrier-imposed surcharges.

The only exception ispassenger facility charges,which may be stated sepa-rately, but must be clearlydisclosed in the ad.

Beginning in January,carriers will be required toinclude all government tax-es and fees in advertisedfares. THE CANADIAN PRESS

GM upgrading Oshawa plant toroll out new Cadillacs Productionstarts early in 2012

That’s one heckuva Caddy shack

A worker moves a door into position for a 2012 Chevrolet Volt at the General Motors Hamtramck Assembly plant

in Hamtramck, Mich. General Motors Co. said Thursday that its second-quarter profit nearly doubled

to $2.5 billion US as it got higher prices for its cars and trucks worldwide.

PAUL SANCYA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Air Canada’s failure to disclose all additional fees and

taxes in its online advertising landed the company a

$50,000 fine by the U.S. Transportation Department.

ANDREW VAUGHAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE

Fare game

Air Canada will continue

to attempt to raise faresand trim costs to absorbhigher fuel prices.Fuel costs surged by 40 per

cent from a year ago andare expected to add about$800 million to the airline’soperating expenses thisyear.Air Canada and rival

WestJet have already im-plemented price increasesto maintain profitability.

Air Canada fined for ‘deceptive’ advertising

General Motors will invest$117 million to refit its as-sembly plant in Oshawa,Ont., to build the newCadillac XTS next year.

GM said Thursday thatthe move will create or save400 jobs on the flexible as-sembly line in Oshawa, siteof the company’s Canadianheadquarters and main car-making operations.

The plant has had majorchanges in the past year,with new vehicle modelsand expanded productionthat has added two shiftsand 1,300 jobs. It buildsmany GM models, from theImpala and Camaro to theChevrolet Equinox andBuick Regal, and employsmore than 4,500 people.

The Cadillac XTS is beingdesigned to competeagainst other luxury cars, ahighly competitive market.Production is planned tostart next year.

GM Corp. and its Canadi-an subsidiary were bailedout by the U.S., Canadianand Ontario governments

two years ago and restruc-tured its operations, closedplants and introduced newmodels to compete more ef-fectively and reverse itsmounting losses. THE CANADIAN PRESS

A fine line

The GM announcement

“delighted” Canadian AutoWorkers president KenLewenza, though he wasless certain it would addjobs at the plant in theshort term.“It will really depend on

the market,” Lewenza said.“The reality is theinvestment will obviouslyprovide the necessary capital to make theOshawa facility flexible forthe new product.”But in terms of overall job

creation, he said when anew vehicle is introduced,“more days than not it’s toreplace another and yourobjective is to increase the(sales) volume.”

New agency to overseegovernment systemsAbout 8,000 public-sectortech workers are beingwrapped into a new $2-bil-lion federal agency in aneffort to streamline

Ottawa’s information-tech-nology systems.

In a move the Conserva-tives called “long overdue,”a hodgepodge of more

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than 100 email formats,more than 300 data centresand 3,000 “overlappingand unco-ordinated” elec-tronic networks will beconsolidated under one vir-tual roof in the aim of cre-ating a more efficient,secure and cheaper system.

Ottawa, through its vari-ous departments and agen-

cies, spends about $5billion a year on IT, ofwhich $2 billion is to betransferred to theoversight and control of anew agency called SharedServices Canada. The gov-ernment said it hopes tosave $100 million to $200million annually.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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JERRY LEWIS. ComedianJerry Lewis and the Mus-cular Dystrophy Associa-tion aren’t saying whythey’re fully parting waysafter 45 years and raisingmore than $1 billion forthe non-profit throughits annual telethon.

But the 85-year-old co-median told reporterslast week that he plans tohold a press conferencethe day after this year’stelethon to talk aboutwhat he thinks is impor-tant.

When pressed by a re-porter about his rolewith the telethon, Lewissaid: “It’s none of yourbusiness.”

The associationannounced Wednesdaythat Lewis was no longerits national chairmanand he would not appearon the telethon this year.

In May, Lewis said in astatement issuedthrough the associationthat he would make hisfinal appearance on thetelethon this year andsing You’ll Never WalkAlone during a six-hourprimetime broadcastscheduled for Sept. 4.

When asked what he’dhave to do to be satisfiedwith his life, Lewis said:“Get the cure for muscu-lar dystrophy, then I’mfine.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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You don’t need toget a bee in yourbonnet, but ...It was a traffic accident with an addedsting.

RCMP officers had to close an Alber-ta highway Thursday after a truck car-rying honey bees rolled into the ditch.

Mounties say the contents of 104hives spilled onto both sides of thetwo-lane road southeast of Edmonton.

Police say the accident happenedwhen one of the truck’s wheelsdropped over the highway’s shoulderinto the ditch. The flatbed rolled onto

its side and skidded several hundredmetres when the driver over-correctedin his attempt to get the wheel backon the road.

The owner of the bees arrived onthe scene and advised the fire depart-ment to spray a mixture of water andfoam. RCMP say that killed a lot of thebuzzers and brought the situationdown to a “manageable level.”

The owner also arranged for severalof his workers to help clean up. Thesurviving hives where loaded into twoseparate vehicles and taken back totheir home.

The escapees are European honeybees, which aren’t nearly as aggressiveas potentially deadly African honeybees, which are known to pursue,swarm and sting. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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1People For Good: ThePeople For Good cam-paign running in large

cities in Canada on transitshelters, buses, billboardsand the like encourages peo-

ple to, well, do good. The brains behind ithave no ulterior motives, they just want-ed to start a positive social movement.Check out their website,peopleforgood.ca or download their Peo-ple For Good iPhone app. Then go outand do good.

2Ashley Picks ... J.P.!: So J.P.proposed and Ashley said “Yes!”on the Bachelorette finale

Monday. Only time — or the “dot dot dot” (thanks Bent-ley) -— will tell whether they make it to the altar, as thebatting average of couples who actually stay togetherfrom past Bachelor seasons is something like .150.

3Atwood for Mayor: A public feud betweenMargaret Atwood and Toronto Coun. Doug Ford(Mayor Rob’s older bro) that began over public li-

braries (he wants to close branches to save $$$; she saysno way) has led Atwood supporters to begin a cheeky, vi-ral “Atwood for Mayor” campaign on social media andaround Toronto. Atwood’s not biting: “Noo, not runningfor Mayor.. too old. Used to think Too Ignorant, but thathasn’t stopped some. :D Appreciate the kind thoughtshowever!” she tweeted out to her 235,000 followers.

4Kings of Leon in trouble?: Frontman CalebFollowill walked off the stage in Dallas last week-end, citing heat exhaustion, and didn’t return. In

an act of commendable transparency, his brother,bassist Jared, sent out a couple tweets: “Dallas, I cannotbegin to tell you how sorry I am. There are internal sick-nesses & problems that have needed to be addressed. Nowords”, and “I love our fans so much. I know you guysaren’t stupid... There are problems in our band biggerthan not drinking enough Gatorade.” The band has can-celled the rest of its U.S. tour., and apparently wantsCaleb to go to rehab to address his drinking problems.

5The Change-Up opens: This body-switching come-dy starring Jason Bateman and Canada’s RyanReynolds starts Friday, with Bateman playing an

overworked lawyer, hubby and dad, and Reynolds a sin-gle man-child. Think an alpha-male version of FreakyFriday on steroids, and you’ve got a couple of escapisthours of outrageous, over-the-top LOL high jinks.

6MTV turns 30: MTV turned 30 earlier this weekand for a time had the impact on the musicindustry that Rolling Stone magazine did when it

launched in 1967. In recent memory, of course, it has be-come much more about pop culture than the music, butcollege kids still want their MTV. They just watch itwhile also listening to iTunes and checking out YouTubevideos.

7Neil Armstrong: Happy 81st birthday to the firstman to walk on the moon, on July 20th, 1969. Tocelebrate, since Mr. Armstrong shares a birthday

with Adam Yauch from the Beastie Boys, may we suggesta listen of Intergalactic?

8Robbie Alomar: His No. 12 is now hanging fromthe rafters at Rogers Centre after being retired.Hope the next celebration he can be a part of is

another Jays World Series. 2012 will be their year.

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Michael Bublé willbring a sprinkle ofChristmas cheer totelevision this holi-day season. Thecrooner says he willheadline a holidayvariety special onNBC in December.The show will beproduced by Ben Sil-verman of The Officeand Saturday NightLive mastermindLorne Michaels.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Lost Hitchcock film The

White Shadow from 1923discovered in New Zealand

Scene in briefFreida Pinto and James Franco star in Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Richard: Mark, I love Planetof the Apes. I’ve seen theoriginal and the sequelscountless times but I don’tthink Rise will find its wayto my Blu ray shelf. I likedthe action and some of themonkey business was verycool, but honestly, I wishthey would have kept theirstinking hands off mybeloved damn dirty apes.

MB: Yes, Richard, one tin-kers with a masterpiece atone’s own peril. And Ican’t help but miss the ele-ments that made the origi-nal franchise so great,mostly the heavy-handedirony, satiric wit, and thatthe apes talked!!! Theseapes are just too real,grunting away like abunch of...apes. Although,

even the CGI isn’t perfect.In some shots, Caesar, thelead ape, looks like anovergrown Beanie Baby.

RC: I thought AndySerkis’s performance-cap-ture work as alpha apeCeasar was both one of themovie’s strengths andweaknesses. No doubt hisfacial expressions, particu-larly the use of his eyes,add much to the characterbut the computer generat-ed imagery used to bringCaesar to life, while oftenimpressive, lacks an organ-ic feel. The Roddy McDow-ell era apes were obviouslyfake — sometimes painful-ly so — but somehow theyhad more soul.

MB: I don’t know about

you, but I found the story— Science ExperimentGone Awry! — cheesy andderivative, but I did enjoyCaesar’s antics in JamesFranco’s house, whichwere pure kinetic poetry.But I suspect the entiremovie exists for the last 20minutes when the apesrun amok in San Francis-co. Genuinely thrilling, forme. Did you think Francois really the reason to seethe movie?

RC: No, I don’t think Fran-co or Freida Pinto are rea-son enough to see themovie. It’s all about themonkey business. Whenthe revolution begins themovie kicks into gear andbecomes the movie thetrailers promised. Some of

the action is a bit tooshowy — since when canapes do martial arts? —but the scene of Caesar onhorseback leading thecharge against the heavilyfortified cops is a realcrowd pleaser but for mymoney it took WAY toolong to get to the goodstuff.

MB: There’s also a lot ofhack work in the minorroles: John Lithgow’s saint-ly Alzheimer’s patient, theangry next door neigh-bour, and worst of all,Franco’s boss at the re-search facility — a card-board villain out of a muchcruddier film. The apeshad more depth, althoughperhaps that’s the point ofthe movie.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes is full of action, but loses the camp appeal ofthe original Crouse and Breslin concur: this classic was better left untouched

Apes remake lacks soul

Plot synopsis

In modern day San Francis-co geneticist James Francodevelops a cure forAlzheimer's which whentested on chimps givesthem extraordinary intelli-gence. When he rescues ababy chimp from his labafter an experiment gonewrong, the ape, namedCaesar, uses his newfoundsmarts to begin a revolu-tion between humans andapes. This ape is mad ashell and he’s not going totake it anymore.

Ratings:

Richard: 888Mark: 881⁄2

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Blige gets personal with The HelpSinger’s soundtrack contribution is about moving

forward She’s doing that by testing her acting chops

From left, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis star in The Help.

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While she’s lent her musi-cal talents to films before,Grammy-winning singerMary J. Blige wanted theLiving Proof, her contribu-tion to The Help, to bemore than a mere sound-track listing.

Based on Kathryn Stock-ett’s best-selling novel ofthe same name, the Helpcaptures the essence of1960s Jackson, Miss.,chronicling the relation-ships between three verydifferent women whocome together around a se-cret writing project thatputs them all at risk.

“I saw a screening of themovie twice,” Blige ex-plains.

“At each screening I hadmy Blackberry and I wouldwrite down each time

something would makeme cry and I would writedown when I laughed. Bythe time we got to the stu-dio, the song was almostwritten.”

And while the song in-tertwines thematically withthe film, it’s still an intense-ly personal piece for Blige.“It means everything tome,” she says of the tune.“It means I know exactlywhere I’m going. I knowwhat lies ahead for me. Iknow that my journey con-tinues because it’s been sorough here that to have anylife, I have to have thecourage to keep moving.”

And moving forward issomething Blige excels at,starting with moving frommusic into acting. Havingalready made several tele-vision and film appear-ances, most recently inTyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad

All By Myself, Blige is cur-rently shooting Rock ofAges.

Describing her castingin the Broadway smash-turned-movie as “a bless-ing,” Blige plays Justice, “agentlemen’s club owner —a very nice strip club own-er,” she says.

“I have to be the light ina dark place. Normally theperson that’s always themost bubbly person is theperson with the mostproblems. The person is al-ways smiling. So, that’swho Justice is. And that’sbasically my part. Ofcourse there’s singing. Ising and I act.”

Blige is taking her newcareer seriously, workingwith an acting coach tohone her skills. “I’m im-proving,” she says modest-ly.

While she says music

has given her great confi-dence in life, “acting is justthe opposite. It says to me,‘You’ve got a lot of work todo. You’re blinking. You’restuttering. Keep working

on that. Keep working onyour confidence.’”

And where does shehope that growing confi-dence will take her? Ideallyinto a Steven Spielberg

film. “If he ever does ahuge movie, I would lovefor him to call Mary J. Bligeto be one of the African-Americans in the film,” shesays. “That’s a big deal.”

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The Change UpGenre: ComedyDirector: David DobkinStars: Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, Olivia Wilde881

The Change Up, a newcomedy starring RyanReynolds and Jason Bate-man as best friends who

switch personalities, feelsas though it switched di-rectors midway through.

The first hour is allgross out — baby endan-germent, diaper hijinksand pregnant sex kittens— but into the secondhour the characters notonly start respecting one

another, but the audienceas well. It’s still prettyoutrageous stuff, but ithas far more heart thanthe first half and the “Ican’t believe they just didthat” laughs morph intogenuine laughs based onthe story and characters.

RICHARD CROUSE

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| Worth watching 888 | Yawn 88 | Don’t bother 8 Critics slam Oprah’sAcademy AwardFilm academy presidentTom Sherak is coming toOprah Winfrey’s defence.

Sherak says Winfrey is“one of the most philan-thropic performers in theworld” and thus deservingof the academy’s Jean Her-sholt Humanitarian Award.

The Academy of MotionPicture Arts and Sciencesvoted Tuesday night topresent Winfrey with anOscar statuette at the an-nual Governors Awards inNovember.

Blogs have been abuzzwith criticism over the se-lection of Winfrey.

In an article publishedWednesday, Los AngelesTimes columnist PatrickGoldstein calls the acade-my decision “a bonehead-ed move.”

Goldstein and Dead-line.com's Nikki Finke sayWinfrey belongs more tothe world of television thanfilm. She was nominatedfor a supporting actress Os-car for 1985’s The ColorPurple, produced and ap-peared in Beloved in 1998

and was an executive pro-ducer of 2009’s Precious.

Finke asks in her post if“no one among the philan-

thropic film bigwigs de-served this award morethan her this year?” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Oprah presents an award at this year’s Oscars.

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CBS didn’t bring the castand producers of Two and aHalf Men to the TelevisionCritics Association presstour in Beverly Hills, Calif.,this week because “they’rein production,” CBS Enter-tainment President NinaTassler told journalists, whoaudibly groaned at that ex-cuse (numerous othershows “in production”managed to attend).

Instead, Tassler fieldedquestions about the show,offering praise for new leadAshton Kutcher and shar-ing lessons learned fromthe Charlie Sheen debacle.

Tassler announcedKutcher will play WaldenSchmidt on Two and a HalfMen, an “Internet billion-aire with a broken heart.”

Walden will be intro-duced in a two-part episodeairing over two weeks,Tassler said. She refused toconfirm or deny rumoursthat the season premierewill involve a funeral forSheen’s character. Tasslertouted the “mystery” sur-rounding the exit/entranceof Sheen and Kutcher’scharacters, saying the net-work has high hopes thatthese episodes will be “anevent” and draw viewers.

No one has been named thenext star of Glee just yet,but the contestants on TheGlee Project already feellike bona fide celebrities.

Earlier this week, the fi-nal six singers walked thered carpet at NBC Univer-sal’s Television Critics Asso-ciation party at trendy TheBazaar by Jose Andres inLos Angeles; and each ofthem looked every bit astar, too.

“It was amazing,” con-testant Alex Newell gushedduring an interview. “Weall love to perform, but toget recognized for what wedo and what we love to dois amazing. I know that Iloved it, and I know thateverybody loved to be on ared carpet for the first timetoo.”

The downside of famevia a reality competition,however, is that only onecontestant wins the grandprize of a seven-episodeguest stint on Glee.

The producers admit theprocess of whittling downthe talent pool on a weeklybasis was “excruciating.”

“Everyone is fit for theshow, which made our deci-sion even more difficult,”says mentor Zach Woodlee,who also serves as choreog-rapher/producer on Glee.

“We actually had to lookat this show as a trial andsort of a boot camp to getpeople Season 3 ready. Soeach week it was who is

raising the bar. We wouldsit there and be like, ‘Whois making the mostprogress in this week?’ It’swho was ready to be at Sea-son 3 quality of our cast onthe scripted show.”

So is there any chancemore than one competitormight wind up walking thehalls of McKinley High?

“Ultimately that’s up to[Glee creator] Ryan Mur-phy,” mentor Robert J. Ul-rich says.

“But they’re all wonder-ful enough to have thatchance; and as a casting di-rector, I would keep themin mind for everything elsethat I do.”

Up and coming singers compete for guest stint on Glee

Shown are the Season 1 contestants of The Glee Project,

from left: Damian, Alex, Ellis, Bryce, Emily, McKynleigh,

Marissa, Samuel, Lindsay, Ellis, Matheus, Hannah and

Cameron.

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Gleek clique

The Glee Project airs Sun-days at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m.PT on Slice.

Early dropout: CameronMitchell left the competi-tion as he was uncomfort-able with the sexualsituations he may havehad to portray on Glee.

Mitchell says he doesn’tregret his choice to returnhome: “To some people itmight seem like a hastydecision. But it was some-thing that I truly felt in myheart,” he says.

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Former pop star still looking for suitable partner since high profile splitMarriage is definitely partof the plan for formerN’Sync star Lance Bass.

“I definitely want that.I’m a Southerner. Wedream of having the fami-ly and the kids, and theparents want grandkids,that’s all they care about;‘Give me some grandba-bies,’" he tells the DailyBeast.

But first he has to find aboyfriend. While he’s beenspotted with more than afew men on his arm sincehis breakup with ReichenLehmkuhl in 2006, theunidentified beau he’s see-ing now is the closest he’scome to something seri-ous, he insists.

“I haven’t had aboyfriend in four years.But now it’s getting there.”

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“We dream ofhaving the familyand the kids, andthe parents wantgrandkids, that'sall they care about;‘Give me somegrandbabies.’”LANCE BASS

Osbourne callsout Aguilerafor past insultsHOLDING A GRUDGE. KellyOsbourne doesn’t mincewords when it comes toChristina Aguilera. On arecent episode of E!’sFashion Police, whilemocking Aguilera’s out-fit, Osbourne unloaded.

“Maybe she is just be-coming the fat bitch shewas born to be,”Osbourne said.

The anger apparentlycomes from personalhistory.

“She called me fat forso many f---ing years. Soyou know what? F--- you!You're fat, too.” METRO

Vergara fearshaving new kidsFAMILY PRESSURE.Though she’s already aparent, Modern Familystar Sofia Vergara isn’tas thrilled about doingthe whole pregnancything again, she tellsRedbook magazine.

“When I had (myson) Manolo, I was 19,and I had the energy foreverything,” he says.

“My boyfriend nowwants to have kids, andI don’t even want tothink about it. I wouldhave to get into thatmind-set again, thewaking up early.”

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Paltrow looksto changeimageTRYING MUSICGwyneth Paltrowis looking toshake up her im-age.

“It’s good toshock people whothink of me asthe primGwynethPaltrow,”she tellsElle maga-zine.

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of some very famousfriends, is by exploring amusic career.

“Beyoncé Knowles andJay-Z — they think that Ishould just go do it by my-self. That I should go in a

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happens,”she says.

“And ifit’s good,do it. Andif it’s not,don’t. Sothat’s prob-ably whatI’ll do.”

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Jason Statham is looking tosettle down, and he’sfound just the place. TheTransporter star purchasedBen Stiller’s $11.5 millionHollywood Hills home, ac-cording to the HollywoodReporter.

The 10-bedroomMediterranean-style homewith guest house near theHollywood Bowl was origi-

nally listed for $12.5 mil-lion in 2009, but Stillerand wife Christine Taylorre-listed it for $1 millionless. Statham, who is dat-ing Transformers: Dark ofthe Moon star Rosie Hunt-ington-Whiteley, recentlysold a nearby bachelor padfor $2.7 million, accordingto the Daily Mail.

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The art ofmix & match

If you’re a fan of singlevarietal wines (thosemade with just onegrape), it’s time forsome tough liquid love.Many (and by many Imean most) wines thatdisplay one grape ontheir label are madefrom a juice blend.

But there’s no needto riot. The laws of al-most all wine produc-ing countries allow forthe mingling of fruit tobalance flavour. What’stypically displayed onthe front panel is theprimary grape which isusually more than 85per cent of the union.

The French certainlylove the idea of mixinggrapes. The wines ofChampagne are nearlyalways a blend of atleast two, while wine-makers in the RhoneValley’s famedChâteauneuf-du-Papeappellation can havetheir way with morethan 13 to come upwith their final cuvée.

The Aussies’ havemastered the megablend with wines likePeter Lehmann’s 2008Layers Red ($16.99 -$19.99) a brightberry mash of shi-raz, tempranillo,carignane,mourvèdre andgrenache that’sred meat ready.PRICES REFLECT THERANGE ACROSS CANA-DA. SOME PRODUCTSMAY NOT BE AVAIL-ABLE IN ALLPROVINCES.

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Looking good

The pleasure ofeating apples — ormany other Cana-dian–grown fruits— quickly turns todisgust if a bite in-to the fruit revealsa creepy, crawlyinsect.

Thankfully, to-day’s farmers haveaccess to safe andeffective tools tocontrol insects intheir crops. Beforeinsecticides, pro-duce was oftensold with holes,scars and tunnelscreated by insects.

Thanks to plantscience technolo-gy, our grocerystores and farmersmarkets are nowfull of fresh, blem-ish–free fruits andvegetables.NEWS CANADA

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Grill for meat lovers &herbivores

This weekend, make veggies the main dish & use meat as an accentFood Network star Guy Fieri offers a recipe for a grilled romaine salad

These Grilled Sweet Pepper Rolls are not only colourful but also delicious with goat cheese

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This recipe takes just 15 minutes to make and serves six.

Ingredients:• 60 ml (4 tbsp) extra-virginolive oil, divided• 175 ml (3/4 cup) finelydiced red onion• 250 g (1/2 pound) bacon,diced into small pieces

• 125 ml (1/2 cup) balsamicvinegar• 3 romaine lettuce heads,halved lengthwise, cores re-moved, leafy ends trimmed• Salt and black pepper• 125 ml (1/2 cup) crumbledblue cheese

A salad should be choppedin the kitchen, not at thetable. That’s the advice ofFood Network star GuyFieri, who prefers saladsmade from bite-size pieces.“A good salad shouldn’t re-quire a knife,” he said.

However it does requirea salad spinner, or someother means of drying thegreens. One of Fieri’s saladturnoffs is wet lettuce. “Itneeds to be rinsed anddried,” he said.

Here, Fieri offers an in-tense salad of grilled ro-maine lettuce.

“The sweet flavour ofthe romaine comes outwhen you char it on thegrill,” he said. “Hit it with the balsamicvinaigrette, bacon, onionand blue cheese and youhave a nice balance ofsweet and savory flavours.”

Preparation:

1 Heat a grill to high. Inskillet over high, heat 15ml (1 tbsp) of olive oil.Add onion and baconand cook until bacon iscrispy, about 10minutes. Use slottedspoon to transfer onionand bacon to plate. Re-turn skillet to heat andadd the balsamicvinegar and 15 ml (1 tb-sp) of the olive oil. Bringto a simmer, then cook

to reduce for 2 minutes.Remove from heat.

2 Brush romaine with re-maining 30 ml (2 tbsp)of olive oil, then seasonwith salt and pepper.Place on grill cut sidedown and quickly searuntil grill marks are visi-ble. Set aside.

3 For each serving, placehalf a head of romaine

cut side up on a plateand drizzle the balsamicdressing. Sprinkle withblue cheese and the ba-

con and onion mixture,then season with blackpepper.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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This recipe serves eight.

Preparation:

1 Thread onion quartersonto metal skewers.Brush with olive oil andseason with salt andpepper. Grill onion andred and yellow peppersover medium-high heat,turning often. (10 mins.for onion and 20 mins.for peppers or untilcharred.) Let cool. Thinlyslice onion and setaside. Peel, seed andhalve peppers.

2 In saucepan, bring vine-gar to boil; reduce heat

and simmer untilreduced by half andsyrup-like, 5 mins.

3 Lay 1 basil leaf on eachpepper half. Top eachleaf with 15 ml (1 tbsp)grilled onions, then 15ml (1 tbsp) goat cheese.

Season with pepper.Bring 2 sides of pepperover filling to close. Toserve, place handful ofarugula in centre of sal-ad plates. Top each withpepper and drizzle withbalsamic glaze. THE CANA-DIAN PRESS/FOODLAND ONT.

Ingredients:• 1 red onion, quartered• 15 ml (1 tbsp) olive oil• Salt and pepper, to taste• 2 each sweet red and yel-low peppers

• 50 ml (1/4 cup) balsamicvinegar, for glaze• 8 to 16 basil leaves• 125 ml (1/2 cup) soft goatcheese• 750 ml (3 cups) babyarugula

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Lawrie’s leaving Las VegasCanadian third basemanBrett Lawrie will soonmake his long-awaited de-but with the Toronto BlueJays.

The team selected hiscontract from triple-A LasVegas shortly after the Jaysdropped a 7-6, 12-inningdecision to the Tampa BayRays on Thursday after-noon.

“We wanted to get himsome August at-bats to geta little bit more of a read onhim, so he deserved to beup here,” general managerAlex Anthopoulos said on aconference call.

Outfielder Travis Snideris the odd man out and hewas sent back down to thetriple-A club.

“It was not an easy deci-sion to make,” said An-thopoulos. “It really camedown to (rookie right-field-er) Eric Thames and Travis.(Manager John Farrell) andI talked about it at lengthand player performance isreally what it came downto.”

Snider has hit .225 in 49games this season withthree home runs and 30RBIs. Thames is hitting .272in his first season in themajors with 22 RBIs andfive home runs in 46games.

“When you look at thenumbers and the perform-ances to date, they bothhaven’t done all that wellin the last week or so,” saidAnthopoulos. “Eric Thamesis probably a little bit aheadof (Snider) in July, but on

the season, overall, Eric’splayed a little bit betterthan Travis.”

Anthopoulos saidThames would move to leftfield and the newly ac-quired Colby Rasmus willstay in centre.

The Blue Jays also re-called left-hander LuisPerez from Las Vegas andplaced right-hander CarlosVillanueva on the 15-daydisabled list with a rightforearm strain.

The 21-year-old Lawrie,has hit .353 for Las Vegasthis season with 18 homeruns and 61 RBIs. The topprospect was acquiredfrom the Milwaukee Brew-ers last December in theShaun Marcum trade.

“You know you’re notgoing to be 100 per centsure. Like I always say, thelikelihood with all youngplayers is that they’re prob-ably going to have to goback down, but at least youwant to do the best you candevelopmentally to preparethem for being up here,”Anthopoulos said.

“Hopefully now withBrett he can be up here tostay for the entire year.”

The Blue Jays continuetheir road trip Friday withthe opener of a weekendseries against the BaltimoreOrioles. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Tampa Bay rookie Robinson Chirinos leaps off of

first base Thursday after his game-winning,

12th-inning hit against Toronto.

MIKE CARLSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rays rookies rally

The rookies were major

contributors in Tampa Bay

Thursday, helping the Rays

comeback twice in extra in-

nings to beat the Toronto

Blue Jays 7-6.

Brandon Jennings’ solohomer in the 10th made it

4-4. Robinson Chirinos tiedit again in the 11th with atwo-out, pinch-hit single upthe middle against ShawnCamp (1-2), then won itwith another two-out sin-gle in the 12th.The Blue Jays took a brieflead in the 10th when ColbyRasmus delivered a RBIdouble for his biggest hit

since being acquired fromSt. Louis. Reliever Jon Rauchblew a save chance in thebottom half when Jenningshit a leadoff homer.Jose Bautista hit his majorleague-leading 33rd homerun for Toronto, a solo shotoff Wade Davis that made it3-3 in the eighth.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

“We wanted to findout about BrettLawrie soonerrather than later.”JAYS GM ALEX ANTHOPOULOUS

Jose Bautista bumped back toright field to make room for youngthird baseman from Langley, B.C.

Tiger Woods said his leftknee felt as strong as hethought it was. His gamedidn’t look half bad, either.

Playing for the first timein nearly three months,Woods made a strong open-ing statement Thursdaythat his health is no longeran issue by going after anyshot from any lie in a roundof 2-under 68 at the Bridge-stone Invitational. It wasWoods’ lowest openinground of the year.

“It feels great,” Woods

said. “As anybody who’sbeen off and who’s been in-jured, first time back it’s alittle nervous to see whathappens. But my practicesessions were good, sothere’s no reason why I

should be worried outthere. I went out there andlet it go, let it rip, and seewhat happens.”

His ex-caddie saw thekind of golf he was used toseeing at Firestone, too.

Steve Williams, nowworking permanently forAdam Scott after Woodsfired him a month ago,watched the Australian playflawlessly in matching hiscareer-low round with a 62that gave Scott a one-shotlead. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tiger passes Round 1 test

British Open champion Darren Clarke, left, watches

Tiger Woods’ tee shot on Thursday

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This is TheEnd.

I can’t be-lieve thatit’s the firstweek of Au-gust and

that the Majors have no

more games left (thosewho regularly read thisspace will appreciate thesymmetry of this sentenceto my first article).

What am I supposed todo now? Grow up and focuson a career instead of play-ing a kid’s game every dayfor three months with 25buddies, enjoying all theups and downs that base-ball has to offer?

I shudder at the thought.When I first came to

London back in May, mygoal was to play baseball atthe highest level my talentcould allow me to achieve.

You always hear guys inthe twilight of their athlet-ic lives longing for the olddays — that, with a little bitof luck, they coulda been acontender, they couldabeen somebody. Regret isnot something I wanted tolive with.

I played senior baseballthe last few years, enjoying

some decent success — I ac-tually led the province instrikeouts last summer —but I always had that nag-ging “what if ?” in the backof my mind.

How far could I go inbaseball?

I sit here now, content inthe knowledge that the IBLis, without a doubt, thehighest level of baseball Ican play. I don’t thrownearly hard enough or pos-sess the command of my

secondary pitches to getbatters out in higher levelsof professional baseball.

I lack the intangiblesthat separate good playersfrom those who, upon see-ing their skills, are destinedfor greater things in thegame.

I’m not upset, nor am Idisappointed. I have the an-swer I was looking for atthe start of the summer.There is no regret, no“what if ?” I can continue

playing because I love thegame, not because a part ofme has delusions ofgrandeur of making it toThe Show.

Until I get Tommy Johnsurgery and start throwing95 miles an hour. RogersCentre here I come!

Maybe I haven’t learnedthat much.

Mike Arsenault is a pitcherin his first year with theMajors.

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A-Rod plays cardsclose to his vest

Alex Rodriguez speaks to the media about his rehabilitation

progress following a rehab workout Thursday.

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Yankee not talking about probe of his links to illegal poker games

CFL PASSING MARK

CalvillobreaksrecordAnthony Calvillo hasbroken another ofDamon Allen’s all-timeCFL passing records.

The Montreal quarter-back eclipsed Allen’s all-

time completions recordof 5,158 with an 18-yardstrike to BrandonLondon late in the firstquarter of the Alouettesgame Thursday nightagainst the Toronto Arg-onauts.

Play continued afterthe record-setting com-pletion although it wasacknowledged on theRogers Centre’sJumbotron.THE CANADIAN PRESSAlex Rodriguez refused to

discuss a Major LeagueBaseball investigation intohis involvement in illegalpoker games, ending an in-terview Thursday with aone-word answer.

The New York Yankeeshad said the injured starwould stop his post-work-out media session at theteam’s minor-league train-ing complex if any reporterposed an non-baseballquestion.

Rodriguez spoke for sev-eral minutes about his re-covery from knee surgery.But when asked if he wouldnot discuss the pokergames, he said “yep” andwalked to his car.

Rodriguez’s publicist,however, said the sluggingthird baseman was lookingforward to co-operatingwith MLB in its pokerprobe.

Star Magazine reportedlast month that severalpeople saw A-Rod playingin games hosted atHollywood hotels and resi-dences.

Richard Rubenstein, Ro-driguez’s publicist, said in astatement Thursday morn-ing that the Star’s storycontains “numerous factualinaccuracies.”

Rodriguez said it willtake a few days to get atimeframe for rejoining theYankees.

“I think I’ll have a muchbetter indication over thenext 48 hours,” he said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The Cardinals’ scheduleand Molina’s sore handmade the decision easier tosit out now.

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Molina will return fromhis suspension Wednesday.

“I was looking at it like,take it right away,” he said.“You want to be part of therace. It’s better to do it nowand get it done with andmove on.”

Another factor in the de-cision not to appeal wasthe bruise on the palm ofMolina’s right hand. The

injury occurred when heblocked a pitch Wednes-day, and he said it likelywould have kept him outof two or three games any-way.

Molina said the spittlewas unintentional butapologized for his tantrum.Along with the suspension,he was fined an undis-closed amount.

He became incensed af-ter getting called out onstrikes by plate umpire RobDrake in the 10th inningTuesday night in Milwau-

kee. After being ejected,Molina kept bumping hischest into Drake, and somespit flew into the umpire’sface during the dispute.

“I’m sorry about it forour fans, the people in St.Louis and our organiza-tion,” Molina said. “That’snot me. I’m a good guy. Iwas caught up in the mo-ment. That’s what happenswhen you’re caught up inthe race and trying to win.I didn’t handle it the rightway.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Cards’ Molina accepts five-game suspension for bumping umpire,spraying him with spittle Will use time to let bruised hand heal

Yadier Molina argues with home-plate umpire Rob Drake.

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