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A mysterious dented copper boxhas been pulled from the rubble ofthe Queen Elizabeth High Schoolsite.

Construction workers recentlydiscovered the box in the build-ing’s cornerstone, which means it’smost likely a time capsule from1941, when the school was beingbuilt.

“I can’t wait to crack that thingopen,” Transportation Minister BillEstabrooks, a former historyteacher, said yesterday.

But before the contents arerevealed, the province wants to findformer graduates, hopefully somewho attended the school in the1940s, to be there when it’s opened.

Estabrooks said the event shouldtake place sometime next month.

“It will be really interesting tosee 1941, the war era and Halifax’snew high school,” he said.

Sue Hughes has a lengthy fami-ly tradition when it comes to QEH.Her parents were seniors at theschool in 1942, its inaugural year.

Hughes graduated from there in1964 and her children are alsoalumni.

She said she’d like to see evi-dence in the box of what studentsand teachers in 1941 thought theworld would be like.

“Like I’m sure they didn’t eventhink of television,” she said.

Even though the building is nowrubble and the Last ChanceReunion of 2007 is long over, theschool still has a community. Hugh-es said she keeps in contact withseveral of her former classmates.

“It’s sad to see it gone, but it wassadder to see it in disarray,” shesaid.

JENNIFER TAPLIN

Blast fromthe past

Likely time capsule has no externalmarks on it Nothing else of interest discovered at construction site: Estabrooks

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Suburban FC goes the distance for title

Halifax City striker Dylan Sheehan, No. 10, and Suburban FC’s Chris McEachern

battle for the ball during the second half of yesterday’s EastLink Premiership final

at Mainland Common. Suburban FC scored twice in overtime to win 3-1. Story, page 22.

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Condolence books will be taken to Toronto for Saturday’s state funeralService is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto

Sharing their grief

Whether they wore orangeor not, people throughoutHRM filled up condolencebooks with their grief overthe death of Jack Laytonyesterday.

“I don’t know a wholelot about politics, I don’tfollow it a lot, but he was afront-runner so you wereaware of him. I just felt hewas very compassionate, es-pecially being a politicalperson,” said Susan Gilbertwho wrote on a poster ofLayton at NDP MP MeganLeslie’s headquarters onGottingen Street yesterday.

“You want to pay your re-spects to someone who wassuch a good leader and whois different than what youwould typically get in poli-tics.”

People were pouring in-to Leslie’s office yesterdayafternoon, sometimes wait-ing in line to write in one oftwo books there. There areseveral books of condo-lences open around the mu-nicipality, including in thefoyer at Province House, atCole Harbour Place and atDartmouth North Commu-

nity Centre. “It’s a space of not too

many words,” Leslie said,while greeting people atthe door. “People have beenchannelling their words in-to the condolence books.”

A poster of Layton inLeslie’s office was coveredin scribbles: “Canada won’tbe the same without you”and “Much love to you andyour family.”

Long-time NDP support-er Mike Holmes said stop-ping by to write down hisgrief seemed the least hecould do.

“In the face of what wasabout to happen, he wasunrelentingly positive (inhis letter) and you couldn’thelp but feel positive. Idon’t know of many publicfigures who instil that feel-ing in people,” Holmes said.

Dog, ownerssought afteraltercationled to dog’sdeathPolice are looking for adog, and its ownersinvolved in an incidentthat led to another dog’sdeath on Monday night.

A woman was walkingher small dog on a leashnear Eric Graves Memori-al Junior High School inDartmouth at around5:45 p.m.

Two men and a womanwere walking two dogs,one of which was not on aleash.

The off-leash dog gotinto an “altercation” withthe small dog, saidHailfax Regional Policespokesman Const. BrianPalmeter.

The small dog took off,with its owner givingchase, but it didn’t endwell.

“It resulted in thesmaller dog being injuredto the point it had to beeuthanized,” he said.

Police are looking forthe woman and the twomen who were with theother dog to get their sideof the story.

Their dog is describedas a red- and short-haireddog that looks like a pit-bull.

JENNIFER TAPLIN

Hurt herorecoveringin hospitalAs Halifax’s NicoleWilliamson lies in bed atthe Ottawa Hospital, with

cuts and bruises on herbody she is being praised asa hero. Amid the fierydebris of Saturday’s fatalplane crash in Resolute Bay,Nunavut, the 23-year-oldCarleton UniversityMasters student selflesslycame to the rescue ofseven-year-old Gabrielle

Pelky who she found on arock with a broken leg.

“It’s amazing theysurvived such a thing,” saidRCMP Sgt. Paul Solomon.

Now, Williamson isrecovering in hospital withimages of the tragedy freshin her mind.

“Nicole wishes to

express her deepestgratitude to the membersof the Canadian Forces, Op-eration Nanook, and to theResolute Bay responderspresent at the crash site fortheir efficiency under thecircumstances,” a familystatement said yesterday.

JOE LOFARO IN OTTAWA

Contact

Police are asking anyonewith information aboutthis incident to call HRMAnimal Services at 490-4000.

Memorial walk

There will be a walk inmemory of Jack Laytontonight in Halifax, startingat the Public Gardens at8:30 p.m. It will end at theNova Scotia legislature,where participants will layflowers.

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Rob Hansen gives Halifax MP Megan Leslie a hug at Leslie’s constituency office on Gottingen St. yesterday. Hundreds of people dropped by the office to sign condolence books for Jack Layton’s family.

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‘Decidedly Atlantic’feel to film-fest lineup

AFF dubs 2011’s lineup the ‘Festival of Hits’ Clattenburg, Fitzgerald,Melski, Bush among Halifax directors with offerings in movie showcase

Afghan Luke, directed by Halifax’s Mike Clattenburg, will close out this year’s Atlantic Film Festival.

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Halifax-produced filmswill open and close the31st annual Atlantic FilmFestival next month.

The festival’s openingnight will feature RollerTown, the first feature filmfrom “Halifamous” come-dy troupe Picnicface.Roller Town — tag line:“Disco Didn’t Die. It WasMurdered” — is billed as aslapstick parody of theroller-skate movies of thelate 1970s.

The film, directed by

Andrew Bush, will makeits world premiere at ParkLane and Oxford Theatreson Sept. 15.

Afghan Luke, from Hali-fax-based director MikeClattenburg, will close outthe festival on Sept. 24.The film chronicles a jour-nalist’s attempt to uncoverevidence of Canadiansnipers mutilating corpsesin Afghanistan. And it’s be-ing labelled as a comedy.

“After considering al-most 1,447 films for thisyear’s program, and 149from this region alone,you’ll see that we built aprogram that is decidedly

Atlantic,” said Lia Rinaldo,festival director, followingyesterday morning’s line-up launch.

Between those twobookends, a whopping 187films will be shown in the-atres across the city.

Of course, the AFF ismore than just movies.Workshops, panel discus-sions and other specialevents dot the 10-day festi-val — not to mention thefamous opening gala.

“Red carpets, bubblyflutes, twinkling discoballs. This night, we prom-ise, will take you back-wards and inside out,” said

Rinaldo, noting the partyis being held in one of theofficial sets from RollerTown, Olympic Hall.“We’re very excited aboutthis night.”

The full schedule offilms, special events andparties can be found at theAFF’s website, atlanticfilm.com.

Pop lineup releasedThey promised another bigannouncement, and theydid not disappoint.

The Halifax Pop Explo-sion released this year’s fulllineup yesterday morning.Joining the likes of JEFF theBrotherhood, Dan Mangan,and F---ed Up in Halifax thisOctober will be Stars, Thee

Oh Sees, DD/MM/YYYY andThe Meligrove Band.

But that’s just the tip ofthe hipster iceberg. Thefive-day festival, from Oct.18 to 22 will host more than150 artists from acrossNorth America. For morevisit halifaxpopexplo-sion.com. METRO

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Halifax Regional Police areasking for the public’s helpfinding a man they say isviolent and shouldn’t beapproached.

A warrant has been is-sued for Brent James Oak-ley, 31, for breaching hisconditions.

On July 31, police saythey went to a residence inHarrietsfield to make sureOakley was complyingwith conditions stemmingfor an assault charge andhe wasn’t there.

Police say for the pastthree weeks they’ve been

trying to locate him with-out success.

Should anyone know ofOakley’s whereabouts,they are asked to contactHRP at 490-5016 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

METRO

Nova Scotiastill in Irene’spath: ForecastThere remains a “fairlygood chance” we will befeeling the effects of Hurri-cane Irene.

Bob Robichaud of theCanadian Hurricane Centresaid yesterday most forecasttracks for the storm have itmaking landfall in NovaScotia early next week.

The question remainsjust how strong a storm itwill be should it arrive.

“If it makes landfall, itloses about half of itsstrength within a 12- or 24-hour period,” Robichaudsaid. “So if it stays over landand then comes over New

Brunswick, it might be ablustery day with showers.If it stays over water, then itmight be something differ-ent.”

Robichaud said modelsshow the hurricane makinglandfall around the Caroli-nas in the eastern UnitedStates on Saturday night. Atthat point, it’s expected tobe a Category 3 storm.

Robichaud estimated apossible strike for Nova Sco-tia could be between lateSunday and Tuesday. Hesaid a more precise forecastwill be ready in the comingdays. PHILIP CROUCHER

WHAT LIVES ON EARTH?

Dalhousiestudy mayclosespecies gapIn the past 250 years, theformal list of namedspecies has grown to in-clude about 1.2 millionanimals, plants, fungiand other simpler organ-isms.

But the actual total ismuch higher, given thatnew species are stillbeing discovered at arapid rate, with an aver-age of 6,200 new speciescatalogued annually inthe past 20 years alone.

Trouble is, the latestscientific estimates areless than useful, varyingfrom three million tomore than 100 millionspecies.

Researchers at Dal-housie University in Hali-fax say they have devisedan innovative analyticaltechnique to dramati-cally narrow that range,producing what they de-scribe as the most precisecalculation ever offered.In a study published yes-terday in the scientificjournal PLoS Biology, thescientists say the poten-tial number of speciesworldwide is about 8.7million.

If they’re right, thatmeans 86 per cent of allspecies have yet to be dis-covered. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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tival passes and merchan-

dise go on sale Friday at

noon at the Festival Box

Office at Park Lane Mall.

Charged, violent man ison the lam: Police

COURTESY OF HALIFAX REGIONAL POLICE

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Provinceset to helppaper millThe province is offeringto help NewPage PortHawkesbury try to sellits paper products tonew markets followingword the mill will shutdown indefinitely nextmonth due to economicfactors.

Premier Darrell Dex-

ter met with NewPagePort Hawkesbury presi-dent Tor Suther and BillStewart, NewPage’sdirector of woodlandsand strategic initiatives,in Halifax yesterdaymorning.

“They wanted toassure me that this is anefficient, productivemill, that it should beable to make a profit,that it should be able tooperate in the appropri-ate context and providea long-term future forthe mill, and that’s whatI committed to work

with them on,” Dextertold the Cape BretonPost following the meet-ing.

Bill Stewart, directorof woodlands forNewPage PortHawkesbury, said he did-n’t know what it wouldtake for the province tosave the mill.

“It’s a complex issue,”said Stewart. “I don’tknow that there is a sin-gle issue, but we need towork hard to find thosesolutions.” CAPE BRETON POST/WITH FILESFROM THE CANADIAN PRESS

Premier Darrell Dexter saidthe province will interveneagainst Nova Scotia PowerInc.’s bid to pull in moreprofits this fall.

Dexter told reportersyesterday he thinks NSPI’srequest to increase its profitmargin is “inappropriate”in light of the province’scurrent economic situation.

“My advice to themwould be to withdraw it,”Dexter said. “I think weneed to be realistic aboutthe cost base for ... indus-tries but also for ratepay-ers.”

NSPI has submitted an

application to the Nova Sco-tia Utility and Review Boardto increase its return on eq-uity from 9.35 per cent to9.6 per cent.

The hearing coincideswith another — an applica-tion by Port Hawkesbury’sNewPage paper mill to low-er their energy rates. New-Page announced Monday itwould shut down the millindefinitely, putting ap-proximately 1,000 peopleout of work.

Dexter said he has beenmarshalling politiciansfrom all three levels of gov-ernment to work on a solu-tion for the mill. Hewouldn’t say if the provincewill support NewPage’s ap-plication, or if the province

was considering financialassistance for the troubledmill.

NSPI spokesman DavidRodenhiser said the energy-utility company is meetingwith industry and con-sumer advocates tomorrowto discuss a possible multi-year rate-increase plan totry and smooth out thehike.

“Return on equity will beone of the issues that wewant to talk to all of thecustomer representativesabout,” said Rodenhiser.

“Everything is up for dis-cussion at those discus-sions, and certainly we’llwant to hear the opinionsof all those different advo-cates.”

Premier Darrell Dexter speaks to reporters at One

Government Place in this file photo from last year.

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One of the strongest earth-quakes ever recorded onthe East Coast of the U.S.shook buildings and rattlednerves yesterday, forcingthe evacuation of parts ofthe Capitol, White Houseand Pentagon.

There were no immedi-ate reports of deaths, butthere were some injuries.The U.S. Geological Surveysaid the quake registeredmagnitude 5.8 and was cen-tred about 64 kilometresnorthwest of Richmond, Va.Two nuclear reactors at theNorth Anna Power Stationwere automatically takenoff line by safety systems.

U.S. President BarackObama led a conferencecall with administration of-ficials, including the Feder-al Emergency ManagementAgency. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ministry to‘look into’tornadodeathThe family of a salt-mineworker fatally crushed bydebris in a violent tornadothat ripped through asouthwestern Ontario townon the weekend grappledyesterday with his death.

Two days after policebroke the news that her 61-year-old husband had died,Brenda Turcotte Labergesaid she still doesn’t knowwhy he was the only onekilled in the storm that bat-tered Goderich with 280km/h winds and injured 37other people.

Normand Laberge diedon the job at the Sifto saltmine, the largest rock-saltmine in the world. Otheremployees who were work-ing at the time survived.

A spokeswoman forSifto’s parent companyCompass Minerals said themine was being evacuatedbut Laberge wasn’t able toescape. Ontario’s Ministryof Labour is looking intowhat caused Laberge’sdeath and what procedureswere taken to prevent it. THE CANADIAN PRESS

U.S. tremor felt far and widePeople scurried onto city streetsSome flights were put on hold,

while trains ran at slower speeds

Office workers gather on the sidewalk in downtown Washington, D.C.,

yesterday moments after a 5.8-magnitude tremor shook the U.S. capital.

J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DSK casecollapsesA pair of judges put anend yesterday to the sen-sational sexual assaultcase against DominiqueStrauss-Kahn, setting himfree after prosecutors ar-gued the hotel house-keeper accusing theformer InternationalMonetary Fund head ofsexual assault couldn’t betrusted.

The decision to dropthe charges in a case thathas attracted global at-tention as a cauldron ofsex, violence, power andpolitics had been widelyexpected. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HurricaneIrene eases offIrene has lost some of itspunch and is now a Cate-gory 1 hurricane. But thestorm remains likely toregain strength and be-come a major hurricane.The National HurricaneCenter said yesterdaythat Irene had maximumsustained winds of 145km/h as it lashed theTurks and Caicos Islands.Updated projections hadthe storm moving farthereast, but models stillshow Irene could makelandfall in North Carolinaover the weekend.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Winehousedeath still amysteryAmy Winehouse had noillegal drugs in her sys-tem when she died, and it

is still un-clear whatkilled thesinger, herfamily saidyesterday.

Toxicology tests showed“alcohol was present” butit is not determined if itthis contributed to herdeath. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

News in brief

Shaky ground

People from across centraland eastern Canada,including residents ofToronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Londonreported feeling effects including rumbling desksand swaying buildings.Earthquake Canada saidCanadians weren’t feelingtremors or aftershocks,just waves from the quake.More than 12 millionpeople live close enoughto the quake’s epicentre tohave felt shaking.Social media sites lit upwith first-hand accountsfrom Canada and the U.S.In 1897, a magnitude-5.9quake at Giles County, Va.,was the strongest everrecorded in the state.

One of Jack Layton’s closestadvisers is emerging as asurprise front-runner topick up the torch from thefallen NDP leader.

Insiders say party presi-dent Brian Topp is receivinga lot of encouragementfrom influential quarters tojoin the impending race tosucceed Layton, who diedon Monday.

Topp is one of the key ar-chitects of Layton’s successand was among the last ofLayton’s tight-knit inner cir-cle to speak with him be-fore his death.

Montreal MP ThomasMulcair, Layton’s deputyleader, is widely consideredthe only other prospectivecandidate to have a seriousshot at taking Layton’splace.

Signs of leadership jock-eying emerged yesterdayeven as plans were drawnup for Layton’s body to liein state on Parliament Hilland Toronto City Hall be-fore a state funeral inToronto on Saturday.

His closed casket willrest for visitation in the foy-er outside the House of

Commons.The lying-in-state will be

open to the public todayfrom 12:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.ET, and tomorrow from 9a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET. He willreceive a 15-gun salute ashe leaves Parliament Hill.

Layton’s casket will thenrest “in repose” at TorontoCity Hall all day Friday andSaturday morning before astate funeral at Roy Thom-son Hall that afternoon.

The state funeral, nor-mally accorded only to cur-rent and former primeministers, current cabinet

ministers and governorsgeneral, was offered byPrime Minister StephenHarper out of respect forLayton’s stature.

Topp, meanwhile, de-clined to comment on hispossible leadership aspira-tions.

“We lost Jack yesterdayand his funeral is on Satur-day,” Topp said in an inter-view. “It’s not appropriateto talk about his successorthis week.”

Mulcair could not bereached for comment.THE CANADIAN PRESS

NDP front-runneralready on the horizon

Melanie d’Esterre reads from a wall that has been

made into a tribute to the late NDP leader Jack Layton

at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto yesterday.

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With Moammar Ghadafiat large, we take a look at

where past ousted leadershave fled. METRO

Zine Al-Abidine Ben AliTunisia’sformerpresidentand hiswife havebeen sen-tenced inabsentia

to 35 years of prisonwhile they currentlyenjoy a golden exile inSaudi Arabia.

Ferdinand MarcosThe Filipino dictatorwas lucky enough to befriends with former U.S.president Reagan, whosuggested he escape toHawaiiwhenmassiveriotsbrokeout inManila.

Rebels reclaim cityHundreds of Libyan rebelsstormed Moammar Gad-hafi’s compound yesterday,charging wildly throughthe symbolic heart of thecrumbing regime as theykilled loyalist troops, loot-ed armouries and knockedthe head off a statue of thebesieged dictator. But theyfound no sign of the manhimself.

The storming of Bab al-Aziziya, long the nexus ofGadhafi’s power, markedthe effective collapse of his42-year-old regime. Butwith Gadhafi and his pow-erful sons still unaccount-ed for, and gun battlesflaring across the nervouscity, the fighters cannot declare victory.

The rebel force enteredthe compound after fight-ing for five hours with Gad-hafi loyalists outside, using

mortars, heavy machine-guns and anti-aircraft guns.

They beat and killedsome of those who defend-ed the compound andhauled away crates of

weapons and trucks withguns mounted on the backin a frenzy of looting.

Gadhafi has not beenheard from since Sunday,when rebels entered

Tripoli and he delivered aseries of angry and defiantaudio messages that wereapparently phoned in to state television.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Anti-Gadhafi forces have taken over most of the country Libyanleader’s hometown city, Sirte, one of few areas still under his control

Rebel fighters trample on a

bust of Moammar Gadhafi

inside the main compound

in Bab al-Aziziya in

Tripoli, Libya, yesterday.

SERGEY PONOMAREV/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Where did they hide?

Saddam HusseinSome of the bloodiestdictators were not ableto escape. Iraq's formerleaderwasfound ina tinycellar in2003 andhangedthreeyears later.

Jean-Claude (BabyDoc) Duvalier

Haiti’sformerpresidentfoundshelter inPariswith hiswives.

Early this year, he wastaken into custody forcorruption and theft.

Canadiandrones assist rebelsAeryon Labs Inc., based outof Waterloo, Ont., has sup-plied one of its AeryonScout Micro UAV units tothe Libyan Transitional Na-tional Council, to helprebels fight against govern-ment forces by identifyingenemy locations.

The small device, whichlooks like a toy helicopter,can fly into dangerousareas while shooting high-quality video that isbeamed back in real-timeto smartphones like Black-Berrys and iPhones. Thecompany says the device isvery easy to use and can becontrolled via a map-based,touch-screen interface.

The device was deliveredto Libya by the Ottawa-based private security firmZariba SecurityCorporation, whichconducted a day and a halfof training before therebels began using thedrone.

Aeryon has sold its tech-nology to police, militaryand corporate clientsaround the world. THE CANADIAN PRESS


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Prime Minister Stephen Harper greets Canadian Rangers

as he arrives in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, yesterday.

Among the victims of thedeadly weekend jet crashthat Prime MinisterStephen Harper paid trib-ute to yesterday was a fed-eral scientist with a passionfor Arctic research.

Harper was supposed tohave toured a shiny new re-search facility in ResoluteBay, but his visit was abbre-viated due to Saturday’shorrific crash that killed 12people, including Win-nipeg’s Martin Bergman,the senior government re-

searcher who was to haveguided Harper on his science tour.

“Marty Bergman spenthis life in pursuit of sharingthe importance and relevance of (the) Arcticthrough science,” Harpersaid in a release before hisarrival in Resolute Bay.

Canada’s Arctic researchinfrastructure is the subjectof hot debate within itstight-knit research commu-nity, with diverging opin-ions on the focus and

direction of the Harper government.

Louis Fortier, a Laval Uni-versity biologist and long-time Arctic researcher, saysthat Canada is doing only“25 to 30 per cent” of whatit should in the Arctic com-pared with the UnitedStates, Denmark or Norway.

Bergman's loss is just an-other blow to a difficult re-search environment thatone observer notes has al-ways been “boom andbust.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

PM honours scientistPlane crash victim Martin Bergman was ‘a leader in

rejuvenating Canada’s Arctic research infrastructure’

SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Federal Funding

The Conservative govern-

ment quietly extended

Canada’s Arctic research

network’s funding last year.

The seven-year extension

ensures the research groupreceives $66 million fromthe government.

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Nine-million-dollar smile: Akshay Kothari attended

Facebook class and founded Pulse.com, a news aggregator

that now has five million users.

Think rich withFacebook class

The company founded andrun by Evan Reas has 10employees and $6 millionin investor funding. Reas’sbusiness concept is simple:his website, lal.com, allowscollege students to flirt on-line. And U.S. college stu-dents apparently don’t getto flirt enough in real life —thousands have signed up.

Reas himself is still just26. He’s one of the super-en-trepreneurs trained at Stan-ford University’s “Facebookclass.”

“The class was extremelypractical,” says Reas.

“(Professor B.J. Fogg)taught us the theory of en-trepreneurship, but expect-ed us to use it in the realworld and try it out withsmall experiments to at-tempt to do it ourselves,”says Reas.

“He wanted us to talk tousers and to get real dataourselves rather than justreading it in a book.”

The class, launched byFogg and Dave McClure in2007, hasn’t just spawnedReas and lal.com. In fact, itsmain result is a new genera-tion of companies thatmake money on Facebookapps. The first-year studentsdesigned apps that attract-ed 16 million users.

“The concept of this classhad never been tried be-fore,” explains ProfessorFogg. “The students built re-al things and put them outin the world. I told them todrop out if they didn’t likechallenges.”

Their seminar was, inessence, a boot camp for fu-ture Silicon Valley stars.Many are now millionaires,at least on paper.

Akshay Kothari, 25, tookthe class last year andfounded Pulse.me, an appthat allows users to create ascreen mosaic of theirfavourite news sites.

Since launching 14

months ago, Pulse has gaineda million users, $10 millionin funding and an endorse-ment from Steve Jobs.

Fogg says starting a suc-cessful company is actuallyfairly simple. “The biggestmistake companies makeis to overthink.” he says.

“They make their prod-ucts too complicated, addway too many features,and delay launching forfear of failure. Successfulapps are simple, social andfun.”

Creative payoff

Professor BJ Fogg directsStanford’s Persuasive Tech-nology Lab. The profchanges the class eachyear. This year, he taughtstudents how to use tech-nology to reduce people’sstress.Several weeks after the2007 Facebook class ended,the students’ Facebookapps had 24 million users. Many of the students havesold their ideas to existingcompanies or started com-panies featuring their apps.

Mark Zuckerberg who? StanfordUniversity students learn how tocreate equally successful biz plans

Canadian actress MargotKidder was among the lat-est slate of environmental-ists to be arrested outsidethe White House yesterday,handcuffed and sent to jailon the fourth day of a two-week civil disobediencecampaign against Trans-Canada’s Keystone XLpipeline.

Kidder, born in Yel-lowknife but now living inMontana as an Americancitizen, was arrested along-side fellow Canadian actressTantoo Cardinal by U.S.Park Police for refusing tovacate a White House side-walk.

U.S. President BarackObama will decide by theend of the year whether toallow Calgary-based Trans-Canada to build the US$7-billion pipeline. It wouldtransport millions of bar-rels of Alberta oilsandscrude a week through theU.S. and to Gulf Coast re-fineries.

“We’re the first state thepipeline goes through,” Kid-der, 62, best known forplaying Lois Lane in four Su-perman movies, said beforeher arrest.

She marched fromLafayette Square north ofthe White House to thesidewalk lining the presi-dential residence.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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KFC arrives inEast Africa CHICKEN. Good news forchicken lovers: KFC justopened its first restaurantin Kenya.

KFC sits in a new wingof a Nairobi mall and isthe first U.S. fast food out-let in East Africa’s mostdeveloped economy.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Sign of roguepanda disturbsmotoristsAuthorities in Flagstaff, Ariz., are as-suring residents there are no roguepandas roaming the city after somepranksters got creative with an elec-tronic street sign.

The Arizona Department of Trans-portation-controlled sign was set upto warn drivers not to make leftturns at a busy intersection. But mo-torists heading to work Mondaymorning got an entirely different

message: “Rogue panda on rampage.”A passerby reported the hacked

sign to police at about 3 a.m. yester-day.

Transportation Departmentspokeswoman Mackenzie Nuno saysthe sign was restored to its originalmessage by 11 a.m.

She says the agency has nosuspects, but she noted the hackerswould have needed specialized equip-ment to change the sign.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

IF ONLY I HAD ADOLLAR FOR EVERYSONG I’VE SUNG

So you think you can sing.Not to worry, it’s a

common delusion, and withtreatment, you can lead anearly normal life.

I, for example, havelearned to confine my delusion to thecar with the windows rolled up all theway, to the tune of Sweet HomeAlabama. Well, maybe not to the exacttune, but only a sharp or flat off.

I used to sing in the shower, but theSPCA came by one day and confiscated

my dog. Some neighbour thought that horrible noisecould only be the beseeching cries of an abusedanimal and called it in.

Sadly, some peoplechoose to ignore theevidence, and there’s evena machine that aids andabets their transgressions.It’s called a karaokemachine and, along withother weird stuff likesushi and manga, it comesfrom Japan.

Just so you know,“karaoke” means “emptyorchestra,” which justabout sums it up. As any-one who has ever been toa bar knows, the karaokemachine provides the lushorchestralaccompaniment, completewith lyrics, and the usual-ly drunken patronsprovide the vocal track.

The really amazingthing is that unlike thehouse band, karaoke nev-

er sounds better no matter how many drinks you have.So imagine my, er, delight when I discovered there’s

a World Karaoke Championship, where they actuallyencourage these people with cash prizes and recordingcontracts. This year, it’s in Killarney, Ireland, fromSept. 8-10. You might want to vacation in France thisyear.

The last one was held in Moscow, and they shouldhave the broken glass cleared up in time for the 2014Winter Olympics. The World Karaoke Championshipwebsite quickly points out that this contest bears noresemblance to the usual alcohol-fuelled caterwaulingin bars — these people can really sing.

But if they can really sing, why do they need thecheesy canned arrangements and backup singers?Why not just ... sing? I can only guess these audio-assisted thrushes have moved up through the bars andbubble-tea joints of the world and asking them to singwithout their beloved music machine would be likeasking Lady Gaga to appear in public without her meatdress.

It’s part of the act. There are two British Columbians representing

Canada at the 2011 Killarney blarney fest. To TrevorDunn and Jerrica Santos, I say: Good luck and stayaway from Sweet Home Alabama. That one’s mine.

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Jack Layton’s passing isan unequivocal tragedyin the Canadian politicalarena. It was difficult toseparate Jack Layton fromhis politics, not becauseone overrode the other,but because they weresynonymous.

Layton tried to revital-ize politics — fighting togive it a good name again— with unrelenting com-mitment to tolerance,compassion, and socialjustice. His death exem-plifies that the politics ofgenerosity andcompassion aren’t weak.

They reflect the innergoodness that not onlyconstitutes the historicalordinance of Canada, butalso humanity.

Layton, throughout hispolitical career, dared toreimagine Canada,attempting to reroot it asa beacon of diversity andsocial justice. He provedthat when you truly em-body your personal con-victions in your politics,you will not only beheard but respected.

Layton was heard loudand clear in May, whenthe NDP took over as theofficial opposition for thefirst time in history; andtoday that man with thecane — a charismatic andpassionate Canadian — isbeing remembered.ZAIN VELJICALGARY

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Zoe Saldana re-defines the female assassin in Columbiana.

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Chances arethe firstmovie assas-sin namesthat pop intoyour head are

The Jackal, Martin Q.Blank or El Mariachi. Whatdo they have in common,other than flashy namesand a predilection for gun-ning down their on-screenenemies?

They’re all men.What about the ladies?

Beatrix Kiddo, Charlie Bal-timore or Jane Smith?

Jean Luc Goddard said,“all you need to make a

movie is a girl and a gun,”and often these days film-makers are placing thatgun in the hands of femalefilm assassins. Nikita isback on the tube and earli-er this year Saoirse Ronanplayed a deadly 16-year-oldin Hanna.

This weekend Avatar’sZoe Saldana is back as astone-cold killer in Colom-biana.

As Charlie Baltimore,Geena Davis created one ofthe screen’s most loved fe-male assassins in The LongKiss Goodnight. Sufferingfrom amnesia, when herpast catches up with hershe flip flops from subur-ban mom to killer.

Best Line? “They’re gonna blow

my head off, you know.This is the last time I’llever be pretty.”

Angelina Jolie’s deadlydemeanor has pumped upseveral action movies. LaraCroft was a gun-slingingsuper-heroine but she’s al-so played assassins in twomovies.

In Mr. and Mrs. Smithshe’s a hitlady assigned tokill her own on-screen

(and future real life) part-ner Brad Pitt.

“Still alive baby?” shepurrs after trying to shoothim through a wall.

Also, as Fox in Wantedshe was a member of theFraternity, a deadly groupof killers, with the usefulability to shoot around cor-ners. Best line?

“We kill one, andmaybe save a thousand.That’s the code of the Fra-ternity.”

The highest body countmust go to Beatrix Kiddo,played by Uma Thurmanin Kill Bill parts one andtwo.

As a bride done wrongby her former DeadlyViper Assassination Squadcolleagues (including Vivi-

ca A. Fox plays VernitaGreen and Lucy Liu as O-Ren Ishii), Kiddo slices anddices her way throughmore than 100 opponents.

But the two most un-likely female assassins onfilm were found in Leon:The Professional and Kick-Ass.

In the former NataliePortman was a 12-year-oldwho learns how to killfrom her teacher, Léon(Jean Reno), a skillful butsensitive hitman.

In Kick-Ass, a 2010 ac-tion-comedy starring Nico-las Cage and Chloë Moretz,Hit Girl (Moretz) asks herfather (and assassin men-tor) for a Benchmade mod-el 42 butterfly knife forher 11th birthday.

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EMBRACING THE FEMME FATALE“They’re gonnablow my head off,you know. This isthe last time I’llever be pretty.”GEENA DAVIS AS CHARLIEBALTIMORE IN THE LONG KISSGOODNIGHT

ArnoldSchwarzeneggerwill be making hismovie comebackin New Mexico.The ValenciaCounty New-Bul-letin reports themovie Last Standwill start filmingin Belen, N.M., inOctober. THE ASSOCI-ATED PRESS

He’s back

Handwritten letter from authorKathryn Stockett becomes focal

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14 scene metronews.caWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2011

Greyson Chance has theunique distinction of beinga YouTube sensation.

He grabbed attentionworldwide (not to mentionweb hits) for his renditionof Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi.

At just 12 years old, healso caught the attentionof talk- show host Ellen De-Generes.

She invited him on hershow, and was so im-pressed, she created arecord label calledeleveneleven and signedhim as its first artist.

Now, Greyson is 14 yearsold and has spent the timesince writing, recordingsongs and touring to estab-lish himself in the musicindustry.

He released his first al-bum called Hold on ‘Til theNight earlier this month.

It debuted No. 29 on theBillboard album charts.

He talked about his mu-sic, DeGeneres and howhe’s wise beyond his yearsduring a recent interview.What did you learn fromrecording your first album?

I learned tons fromrecording this album. I re-ally got into productionand started learning howto make sounds, how tomake beats and that sort ofthing. Also, I think I’ve re-ally advanced as a song-writer because I wrotemore than half of therecord.You didn’t rush to put out analbum after getting a recorddeal. Was there a pressure tokeep the momentum going?

I feel like you need totake time. You need to taketime to build the process,gain the fans, put out therecord and also build timeto realize what the heckyou’re doing. You don’twant to rush into some-thing. You need to takeyour time, realize whatyou’re doing, what youwant to do, how to marketyourself. And the music in-dustry is a lot of businessand it’s a lot of politics.You’re very well spoken andwise for your age. Are yousure you’re only 14?

Now that you’re asking,I’m actually about to turn46 this Christmas. I’m veryexcited. I’m going to spendit with the kids. You know,we’re gonna have a goodvacation,niceChristmasand it’sgonnabe

good.How involved is EllenDeGeneres in your career?

She is very, very in-volved. She is always cri-tiquing songs, artwork,everything.What’s the best piece of ad-vice she’s given you?

She told me, ‘Do notchange yourself,’ and I real-ly haven’t. I’ve definitelyevolved as an artist and asa person but I haven’tchanged myself one bit.How are youwith listeningto your musicor watchingyourself per-form?

I’m veryhard on my-self. ... Werecord the

showevery

night and I go look back atit and I write notes aboutwhat to do, what looksgood, what doesn’t lookgood.What do you do when youdowntime and you’re not do-ing something music-related?

I’m very into photogra-phy. I love taking photosand I’m a huge reader ...I’m desperately into HarryPotter. THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS

Internet famous toreal-world famous

Come and see

Bringing his Internet fame

to Toronto.

Music YouTube sensationGreyson Chance will beperforming at the CNEbandshell stage on Aug.30. Greyson will performhis new single, UnfriendYou, to a crowd of 10,000fans and will be availablefor an exclusive VIP meetand greet.

Greyson Chance building off his web fame to find success in the musicindustry He will be performing and doing a meet and greet at the CNE

Wise beyond his years, Greyson Chance is turning his web fame into real success.

RICHARD DREW/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

60 seconds

Bright Eyes are still burning.

BRIGHT FUTURE?“THIS IS NOT THE LAST

BRIGHT EYES FOR SURE”Conor Oberst has been re-leasing music under theBright Eyes moniker sincehe was 15, and when heand his band released ThePeople’s Key earlier thisyear, there was some buzzthat it might be the lastfrom the formative indierock band from Nebraska.Oberst says not to worry.

I’ve read that this is the fi-nal Bright Eyes album. Isthat true?No, not definitively. Wedon’t really have anyplans for the future atthis point, but as far asthat whole thing, thatwas something wheresomeone took a quotethat I said (out ofcontext) and that wassomething that otherpeople decided. We nev-er made an officialannouncement. Even ifit were our last record,we wouldn’t say it wasour last record. As therumor mill works, that’skind of the way it goes.You can definitely quoteme, this is not the lastBright Eyes for sure.

What are some of yourfavourite songs to play livethese days?We keep adding on atsound check. The lastone we learned was thisone called I Believe in

Symmetry which is onthe Digital Ash record,and that’s always been agood one live. It has asort of cathartic ending.

How often do you achievecatharsis when you’re per-forming?Night-to-night, the goalis always to be in themusic and feel asconnected to it as possi-ble, and depending onthe environment andthe crowd and our statesof mind as far as theband members I thinkon a good night we total-ly achieve that, andsometimes there’sdistractions or thingsthat can take me out ofthe moment. But thegoal is to reach thatpoint where you remem-ber, I guess, just remem-ber the place, thefeeling, that created thesong, and try to get backto that.

You kind of get the psyche-delic effect almost.Yeah, we wanted it to bea little more trippy.We’re always just tryingto find new sounds thatintrigue us, and thenhopefully if it’ssomething that we’re in-terested in the listener iswilling to come alongwith us. PAT HEALY

dish 15metronews.caWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2011

While vacationing inRichard Branson’s estateon beautiful Necker Is-land, Kate Winslet nar-rowly escaped a massivefire that destroyed thehome — and even carriedBranson’s 90-year-oldmother, Eve, to safety.

“[Winslet] was stayingthere with her childrenand in fact it was she whocarried my mother out ofthe house,” Branson tells

ITV News. “She swept her up into

her arms and got themout of the house as fast aspossible.”

Lightning during atropical storm is said tobe the cause of the fire.

“The main house iscompletely destroyed andthe fire is not yet com-pletely out,” the billion-aire Branson says.

METRO

Kate Winsletsaves Branson’smom from fire

Sure, she let ‘Jack’ freeze in the water after the Titanic sunk, but real-lifeactress is something of a lifesaver House destroyed, but no one was hurt

Kate Winslet

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Victoria Beckham is re-covering from a slippeddisc in her back, and ap-peared in public for thefirst time since the prob-lem developed — and shewasn’t wearing her trade-mark high-heels, accord-ing to Us Weekly.

It’s been speculatedthat the slipped disc wascaused at least in part by

Beckham’s insistence towear stilettos during herrecent pregnancy.

“Thank you for yourkind messages,” Beckhamposted on Twitter recent-ly.

“I’m feeling much bet-ter and enjoying everyprecious minute with ba-by Harper. I’m so in love.”

METRO

Victoria ditchesher high heels —for now anyway

Victoria Beckham

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A land of wonder and

Gabriola Island in B.C. is a magnet for artists, earning it the nickname ‘Isle of the Arts’

There is immeasurablecharacter and wonder tobe discovered in the mys-tic landscape of GabriolaIsland, in the Gulf Islandsof British Columbia.

Within minutes of arriv-ing, there’s a good chanceyou’ll spot an eagle soaring,watch deer scamperingalong the road or pass bythe alpaca farm. Ancientpetroglyphs are carved intosandstone throughout theisland, which is a 20-minute ferry ride fromNanaimo. There are more

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According to the Gabrio-la Arts Council, the islandhas the fifth highest con-centration of artists in allof Canada. The island is of-ten referred to as the “Isleof the Arts.”

“There’s a real work

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Another intriguing char-acteristic about Gabriola isthe high number of vintagecars that are seen duringthe summer months. Untilrecently, the local newspa-per would publish a featureon a different vehicle everymonth.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Visitors enjoy the beach on the northern tip of Gabriola Island.

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GABRIOLA ISLAND

A historyof hippies The 4,200 residents wholive here emit a laid-back, welcoming vibe.

Resident Kathy Ram-sey says not to besurprised if the personworking at the checkoutof the grocery store is aformer rocket scientist.

The eccentricity ofthe island could be

traced back to its historyas a hippie colony in the1960s, when manyEarth-loving wanderersmade their way over tolive off the land, explod-ing the populationTHE CANADIAN PRESS

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Iconic buildingclosing its doors

The Royal Bank build-ing on St. JacquesStreet, which gracesthe Montreal skyline,will close next springwhen the Royal Bankshutters its branch in abuilding that served asits headquarters from1928 to 1962. When itopened, it was dubbedthe tallest building inthe British Empire.It’s not yet clearwhether visitors willstill be able to access itbeyond next spring.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The1,850-square-metreFundyDiscov-eryAquari-um, lo-cated atthe Hunts-man MarineScience Centre,will remain openyear-round. It replaces amuch smaller aquariumthat had been at the sitesince 1972 and was torndown in May 2010.

A pair of popular har-bour seals named Loki andSnorkel are back, givingshows at twice-a-day feed-ings, but they now occupya deep pool with an under-water window, said Cor-

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sea cucumbers andother animals, and a sepa-rate touch pool withskates.

“We carry a range ofcreatures that would be in

the (Fundy) intertidal zoneall the way down to thedeep sea” — a broad selec-tion that allows the aquari-um to raise issues such asecology, climate changeand invasive species, saysCornall.

As well, a two-storey dis-play shows the height ofthe local tides.

“We’re lucky that theBay of Fundy has the high-est tides in the world. It’san impressive exhibit.”

The federal and NewBrunswick governmentseach contributed $2.5 mil-lion toward the aquarium,while the Huntsman Ma-rine Science Centre, a re-search and educationfacility, added $3 million.

St. Andrews, in thesouthwest corner of N.B.,is about 100 kilometreswest of Saint John.THE CANADIAN PRESS

What lies beneath Soon, the public will get a closer look at sea life from

the Bay of Fundy St. Andrews, N.B., readies aquarium

The popular harbour seal Snorkel will be giving

twice-daily shows at the new aquarium.

ALL PHOTOS, THE HUNTSMAN MARINE SCIENCE CENTRE, THE CANADIAN PRESS

The new aquarium will be located at the Huntsman Marine Science Centre.

This lobster was raised

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Tomatoes star in this easy, delicious Pasta Pomodoro

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One of the basic ways Ital-ins prepare garden-freshtomatoes is in a pomodorosauce made with basil andgarlic tossed with pasta.This dish embodies thecore philosophy of Italianfood: letting a few perfect-ly ripe ingredients shine.

Preparation:

1 In pot, bring 6 l (24cups) of water to a boil.Add 30 ml (2 tbsp) ofsalt.

2 In non-stick skillet overmedium-low, heat 7 ml(1/2 tbsp) of the oil. Addgarlic slices and toast,stirring constantly, for 3or until lightly browned.Increase heat tomedium, add redpepper flakes and half

of the basil leaves. Cook for 30 seconds,then add tomatoes.

3 Add pasta to boiling wa-ter and cook until aldente according to pack-age directions.

4 Meanwhile, toss toma-toes in skillet and cookuntil they start to blisterand the skins pop. Mashtomatoes with potatomasher or fork to makepulp, then turn off heat.Season lightly with saltand black pepper.

5 Drain pasta, reserving50 ml (1/4 cup) of cook-ing water. Add pastaand reserved pasta wa-ter to tomato mix.Increase heat to

medium-high. Add halfof cheese. Cook untilsauce begins to cling tonoodles, using heat-re-sistant rubber spatula totoss pasta to coat.

6 Add remaining basil andolive oil and toss tocoat. Season to tastewith salt and pepper. Di-vide pasta among 4plates and sprinkle withremaining cheese.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/ROCCO DISPIRITO

Ingredients:• Salt• 15 ml (1 tbsp) extra-virginolive oil, divided• 6 cloves garlic, thinlysliced

• Pinch red pepper flakes(peperoncino)• 16 fresh basil leaves, torninto small pieces, divided• 1 l (4 cups) very ripe grapetomatoes (about 80 grapetomatoes)

• 250 g (8 oz) dry kamutspaghetti• Ground black pepper, totaste• 30 ml (1 oz) Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, freshlygrated, divided

ALL PHOTOS: MATTHEW MEAD/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The same combinationthat makes pizza so irre-sistible — mozzarella andtomatoes — also makes amean salad.

Preparation:

1 Use a serrated knife toslice each ball of moz-zarella into 4 slices. Re-

Ingredients:

• Two 250-g (8-oz) ballsfresh mozzarella• 2 large slicing tomatoes• Salt and ground blackpepper• 50 ml (1/4 cup) olive oil• Juice and zest of 1 lemon• 15 ml (1 tbsp) capers, di-vided• Handful fresh basil leaves

peat with tomatoes, cut-ting each into 4 slices.

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I was just about to completemy Bachelor of Commercein Marketing from RyersonUniversity. I started lookingfor jobs a few months be-fore graduation, but I was-n’t prepared for theproblems I would face.

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Performance appraisals When assessing merit,your appraisals matter.When assessing sever-ance, they are mostly ir-relevant. This is becausepoor performance is sel-dom cause for dismissal.Similarly, there is no suchconcept as “near cause”,which means there is nocorrelation between yourlevel of performance andthe quantum of severanceyou will ultimately re-ceive. Therefore, if youare fired and it relates toperformance, you shouldreceive the same sever-ance as if it did not.

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22 sports metronews.caWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2011

Doucettefinds swingwith DryJust a few months removedfrom his 40th birthday,Darren Doucette is hittingthe ball better than he hasin years.

As his DartmouthMoosehead Dry head off toChatham, N.B., to battle forthe team’s fourth Canadiansenior baseball title,Doucette — already an 11-time Nova Scotia home-runchampion — has piled up12 dingers and has hissights set on more.

The former St. Louis Car-dinals farmhand hasn’t hadthis many home runs infive years. He’s three awayfrom his career best andfive away from the provin-cial record of 17 with fiveregular-season games to go.

“I’m seeing the ball pret-ty well,” said Doucette,who represented Canada atthe World BaseballChallenge in July. “Goingaway with Team Canada,getting a lot of swings in,and seeing some greatpitching helped me refocusand work on some kinks inmy swing. Things are start-ing to fall into place.”

Dartmouth, which isfirst in the province with a21-6 record, opens nation-als tomorrow at noonagainst Alberta, while theHalifax Pelham MolsonCanadians are facing Wind-sor, Ont., at 4 p.m.

While Doucette’s batwill be an asset, so too willDartmouth’s all-star pitch-ing staff, which featuresSteve Nelson, CraigLangille, Marek Deska, Ja-son Bailey and Ontariopickup Greg Byron.

Dartmouth is also on aroll, losing just once in itspast 10.

“We’ve been thereenough times to knowwhat it takes to win and weuse the regular season as abuilding block toward na-tionals,” Doucette said.“We’ve tried to get betterand hopefully we can con-tinue that into theweekend.” MATTHEW WUEST

Darren Doucette

METRO FILE

After spending the first halfon the bench watching Ja-son Ross make save afterhighlight-reel save, AlexCordoba made sure hiskeeper’s efforts didn’t gounrewarded.

The 24-year-old strikerfrom Colombia scored apair of goals to lift Subur-ban FC to an EastLink Pre-miership men’s soccerchampionship, with a 3-1non-golden-goal overtimevictory over Halifax City lastnight at Mainland Com-mon.

Matched only in speed byhis younger brother Jonat-tan on the opposite wing,Cordoba was a whirling dy-namo all over the field andscored a beautiful 30-footer

in the 73rd minute thatwoke his team from a slum-ber.

“I’m pretty excited aboutwhat happened today,” saida jubilant Cordoba after-ward. “I came in (at half-time) and did my best, youknow?”

City poured it onthrough the opening 70minutes and Matt Feganfound the net in the 65thminute. But Ross, an 18-year-old from Bedford, wassensational, diving andleaping to neutralize City’sattack.

“Me, personally, I was inthe zone,” said Ross, whowill suit up for the Dal-housie Tigers this fall. “Iknew what I had to do andthe boys were giving me theopportunity to do it.”

With Cordoba’s first goalputting wind back in Subur-

ban’s sails, Golden BootAward-winner Ian Greedydelivered the winner just 10minutes into overtime.

Greedy, who also scoredthe winner in Suburban’ssemifinal win on Sunday,booted one in on a free kickfrom the top of the keeper’sbox just 10 minutes intoovertime.

Cordoba added an insur-ance goal with about fiveminutes to go in extra timeon a perfect setup by hisbrother.

“Having the ’Dobas onthe wing, they’re so fastand they’re so good withtheir feet,” Ross said. “Hav-ing them out there, theycan create chances forthemselves. They can createsomething out of nothing.We got them into the game,got them the ball, and that’swhat really got us going.”

Suburban FC comes from behind to win first EastLink Premiership titleClub heads off to nationals Oct. 5-10 in Brossard, Que.

Suburban FC’s Chris McEachern and Halifax City striker Dylan Sheehan fight for the ball during

yesterday’s EastLink Premiership final at Mainland Common.

RYAN TAPLIN/METRO

Suburban FC’s Ian

Greedy celebrates his

overtime goal.

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HalifaxMooseheads

general managerCam Russell sayshe hopes to havean answer fromsecond-overallpick JonathanDrouin by the

end of today onwhether the16-year-old

winger will playin the QMJHLthis season.

Russell and headcoach

DominiqueDucharme

travelled toMontreal this

week to sit downwith the Drouin

camp andwrapped up

meetingsyesterday

morning. Drouinhas said he

wants to playmidget AAA inLac-St. Louis,

Que.

sports 23metronews.caWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2011

Jays ship second baseman and popular infielder John McDonald to Arizona ‘They were guys that cared,’ says Toronto manager John Farrell

‘This isn’t the end,’says Hill after trade

Fans display a banner at the Rogers Centre in Toronto last night after

John McDonald and Aaron Hill were traded by the Blue Jays.

DARREN CALABRESE/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada is heading homefrom the Little LeagueWorld Series with its headheld high.

The team from Langley,B.C., lost 4-0 to Japan yester-day in an elimination game.

Canada leaves the tour-nament with pride after asurprising victory in a

must-win game againstnemesis Taiwan and a goodeffort against Japan.

“We lost to the defend-ing champs 4-0. We heldour own,” Canadian coachJason Andrews said whenasked how his team han-dled elimination. “I thinkwe represented very well.

They’re very upbeat, veryhappy with the way theyplayed.”

Cole Cantelon allowedfour runs in 4 1⁄3 innings forCanada, which put two run-ners on in the bottom ofthe sixth before Connor Mc-Creath grounded out to endthe game. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canadian little leaguers bow out

Although it’s farewell, itmight not be goodbye.

“I have not ruled out ei-ther player being back herein 2012,” Blue Jays generalmanager Alex Anthopoulossaid after announcing yes-terday that second base-man Aaron Hill andinfielder John McDonaldhad been traded to the Ari-zona Diamondbacks for sec-ond baseman KellyJohnson.

All three players can befree agents in the off-sea-son.

“This is all I’ve known,this has been my family,”Hill told the media atRogers Centre before theBlue Jays game with theKansas City Royals lastnight. “Like Alex said, I’m

very open to coming backnext year. This isn’t theend.”

Added McDonald: “I’vehad a lot of conversationswith Alex recently aboutjust that, about continuingto be a Toronto Blue Jay,and that excites me too.”

The 29-year-old Johnson,long rumoured to be an An-thopoulos target, has ap-peared in 114 games forArizona this season, post-ing a .209 average with 18home runs, 49 RBIs and 13stolen bases.

A first-round pick of the

Atlanta Braves in 2000,Johnson is a career .260 hit-ter with 89 home runs and326 RBIs in 758 games.

“He has the ability to geton base, draw some walksand he’s got power to allfields,” Anthopoulos said.“He’d be the first one to tellyou, I’m sure, he’s not per-forming the way he expect-ed to, especially off the yearhe came off of last year.”

Players must clearwaivers to be traded afterJuly 31 and Anthopoulossaid all the Blue Jays playerscleared early in August as a

matter of club policy.It was at that time that

talks with the Diamond-backs on a possible dealstarted to take place.

Hill has struggled thelast two seasons with theBlue Jays, but said he willcherish his time in Toronto,noting the club’s bright fu-ture.

“This team will win. Theway they’re going, the di-rection they’re going, withAlex and everybody, I do be-lieve this team will win,”Hill said.

Both McDonald and Hillwill have a chance to playin the post-season with Ari-zona in contention for theNational League West’s ti-tle.THE CANADIAN PRESS

“Not only are you playing for the city ofToronto, but the country of Canada. It’s avery special place and it will be missed.”SECOND BASEMAN AARON HILL, AFTER BEING TRADED FROM THE TORONTOBLUE JAYS TO THE ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS YESTERDAY

17 Canadaadvanced to face

Japan after defeatingTaiwan 5-3 onMonday.That marked the firsttime a Canadian teamhad defeated Taiwanin 17 trips at the LittleLeague World Series.

Stamkos pulling for Crosby’s returnSteven Stamkos says theNHL needs Sidney Crosby.

The Pittsburgh Pen-guins superstar has beenout of action since Janu-ary with post-concussionsyndrome and it was ru-moured this week he suf-fered a setback in hisrecovery.

Stamkos said it’s diffi-cult to see Crosby on thesidelines, both for thehealth of the league andas a fellow player.

“It’d be tough, we needhim. He’s the face of theNHL,” the Tampa BayLightning sniper said yes-terday at an NHL fitnesscamp in Toronto. “It obvi-ously would take awayfrom our game not havinghim in the lineup, sohopefully everything goeswell.”

Crosby’s agent tried toquell rumours Mondaythat the centre had can-celled some on-ice work-outs and that he wouldn’t

be ready for trainingcamp next month.

Pat Brisson said in a re-lease the 24-year-old hadadjusted his workoutschedule and would ad-dress his condition at an“appropriate time.”

Crosby hasn’t appearedin a game since Jan. 5when he took a blow tothe head for a secondstraight game and was di-agnosed with a concus-sion.

Stamkos, who recentlysigned a big extensionwith Tampa Bay, addedthe amount of concus-sions in the league isalarming.

“It’s scary with theamount of concussions,not only with him, overthe past couple years,”Stamkos said.

“As a fellow player inthe league, you want toprevent that sort ofthing.”THE CANADIAN PRESS

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EngineUnder the testers’ hood, Honda’s 3.5-litre SOHC V6 engine dis-penses 271 horsepower to the front wheels, thanks in part tothe automaker’s proven VTEC valve timing system. Amongother things, VTEC ramps up engine output and sound effectsat higher revs, creating a delightfully peaky power-curve.Honda’s proven J35 Z3 powerplant sounds fantastic, loves towork and moves the Accord Coupe along like absolute heck.

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