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A Winnipeg councillor is hopingcity administrators and ManitobaPublic Insurance (MPI) can find away to slash a high number of dan-gerous deer-vehicle crashes hap-pening inside city limits.

An average of 410 vehicles hitdeer in the city each year, accord-ing to MPI data, a number Coun.Russ Wyatt (Transcona) describesas alarming.

“I was amazed to see the statis-tics,” he said.

Residents in his ward have com-plained about the issue, and someeffort has been made to erect signsto warn drivers of darting deer.

However, Wyatt contends thepublic works department has saidit doesn’t have the resources tomaintain signage in areas where itmay be needed.

He’s asked the city to work withMPI to try and find other ways toprotect drivers and wildlife. Yes-terday, the city’s public works sub-committee agreed to his request tostudy the issue.

Installing fences along roadwaysand perhaps adjusting speed lim-its could be considered, Wyatt said.

The public insurer has identified11 areas on the fringes of the citywhere the majority of the collisionstake place.

“This is a huge loss oflife, not to mentionpotential to humanphysical harm, andproperty damage.”COUN. RUSS WYATT IN A LETTER TO ACONSTITUENT.

Powerful winds force downtown closuresWind gusts prompted police to close streets in the downtown area due to safety concerns. Trafficwas snarled over the rush hour due to the closures.

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A Winnipeg firefighter inspects a loose pane of glass on the west

side of the Marlborough Business Centre’s top floor yesterday.

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A Quebec man who de-frauded banks and storesin Winnipeg, Regina andSaskatoon has had 18months of jail time addedto a prison sentence he’s al-ready serving for similarcrimes.

For months, Winnipegpolice waited for prison of-ficials to move TresorNkumbo, 26, to Manitobaso they could charge himin connection with a fraudspree that took place herelast summer. Yesterday,

charges stemming fromthe crimes were also addedto the list.

Nkumbo pleaded guiltyto a range of crimes yester-day in front of Judge JohnGuy, including severalcounts of fraud over$5,000, forgery and identi-ty theft.

Court heard the fatherof three used fake identifi-cations — from driver’s li-cences and social-insurancecards to a forged Canadianpassport — to open ac-

counts at major banks andapply for credit at storessuch as Leon’s Furnitureand Future Shop.

On many occasions, fakecheques worth thousandswere deposited and cashed,leaving the banks on thehook for the money.

Guy heard Nkumbo hasa recent and related recordfor fraud and possession offake ID that netted him atwo-year prison term lastOctober.

Court heard that in

2004, Nkumbo fell in witha group of fraudsters onlyto break free. He waspulled back in, however,

because he owed the groupmoney.

“He didn’t want to angerthese individuals and fool-ishly went along withthem,” defence lawyer Sa-heel Zaman said.

The Crown declined toask the court to orderNkumbo to pay back whathe stole, suggesting there’sno way he’d ever be able to.

“I think it would behopeless,” prosecutor NeilCutler told Guy.

JAMES TURNER

Developed series of aliases and IDs Has history of convictions dating back to 2006

Fraudster gets 18 months“This takesplanning andpremeditation —we’re talkingforged passports,we’re talkingcounterfeitcheques.”JUDGE JOHN GUY

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Colourful additionThe West End BIZ unveiled the first of four planned murals that will be added tothe city’s already colourful collection of artwork-painted walls. The first, honour-ing school patrols, was painted on the Pal Supermarket building on St. MatthewsStreet.

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Group of ‘angels’ save crash victim’s life

BROADCASTING

Get rid ofloud TVads: CRTCCanada’s broadcastershave a year to turn downthe volume on their TVads..

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecom-municationsCommission has ruledthat commercials areindeed annoyinglyloud, and will givebroadcasters until next

September to do some-thing about it.

They got help in theverdict from more than7,000 Canadians whoresponded with a re-sounding “yes” to thequestion it posed inFebruary whether theythought ads were tooloud.

The commission says2009’s internationalstandard for measuringand controlling televi-sion signals will applyto minimize fluctua-tions in loudness be-tween shows andcommercials.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The foreign affairs ministersays his confidence in par-liamentary secretary BobDechert has not been shak-en by an embarrassingemail exchange with a Chi-nese journalist.

John Baird says he’sworked with the Toronto-area MP for a long time and

he still trusts him, despitethe flirtations involvingDechert and an employeeof a state-run news agencylinked to Chinese intelli-gence.

“Listen, I think the gov-ernment has spoken to this,Mr. Dechert has spoken tothis, I have spoken to this,”

Baird said yesterday. “I havenothing really additional.”

Baird refused furthercomment on the matter.

Last week, Dechert ac-knowledged sendingamorous notes to journalistShi Rong, who works forthe Xinhua news agency,linked to China’s intelli-

gence agencies. He insistedthe relationship was “inno-cent.”

“The person is a journal-ist whom I have come toknow as a friend. I met herwhile doing Chinese-lan-guage media communica-tions,” Dechert said in astatement. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Baird backs official who sent flirty email

The bystanders had to actquickly. A motorcyclist hadjust collided with a car andwas pinned beneath theflaming wreckage.

Disregarding their ownsafety, they lined up on oneside of the car. And slowly,they managed to lift theroughly 4,000-pound carjust high enough for onerescuer to pull BrandonWright to safety.

They are being called“heroes” and “angels” —their few minutes of hero-ics was captured on videoand has gone viral on theInternet.

“I'm just very thankfulfor everyone that helpedme out,” Wright told TheAssociated Press bytelephone from his hospi-tal bed. “They saved mylife.”

Most of those whohelped then scattered.

“Every one of those peo-ple put their lives in

danger,” Assistant PoliceChief Jeff Curtis said,adding that “you can onlyspeculate what theoutcome would have beenif they hadn't lifted thatcar.”

At a hospital news con-ference yesterday Wright'suncle, Tyler Riggs, recount-ed what Wright told hisfamily about Monday's acci-dent.

The crash happenednear Utah State Universityin Logan, north of Salt LakeCity. Wright was headed tostudy at a computer lab,Riggs said. The BMW waspulling out of a parking lot.

Despite not wearing ahelmet, Riggs said, Wrighthad suffered no head trau-ma.

However, Wright doeshave two broken legs, abroken pelvis, road rash,burns on his left foot andabrasions to his forehead. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Strangers disregard own safety tosave motorcyclist trapped under car

Kienan Hebert's fathersays the arrest of the solesuspect in his son’s disap-pearance is a relief for hisfamily and will calmnerves in this southeast-ern British Columbia com-munity.

Convicted sex offenderRandall Hopley, 46, wasarrested yesterday morn-ing, nearly a week afterthree-year-old Kienan van-ished from his familyhome in Sparwood, B.C.,RCMP said. A worker at arock quarry in southwest-ern Alberta, not far fromthe B.C. boundary, said Ho-pley was arrested nearby.

Police offered few de-tails of the arrest, whichcame two days after Kien-an was mysteriously re-turned to his home in themiddle of the night. Anews conference wasplanned for later in theday in Sparwood.

Kienan’s father, PaulHebert, who has shown a

thoughtful stoicism as thefamily’s spokesman dur-ing the past week, waselated at the news.

“We’re happy for thecommunity, relieved forthe community. Whatmore can we say? Ex-tremely excited,” Heberttold The Canadian Pressshortly after RCMP con-firmed the arrest.

“We’re all excited thathe's out of the communi-ty.”

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Accused nabbedin boy’s abduction

Randall Hopley

In this image taken from video,

people rescue Brandon Wright,

on his back, who was pinned underneath

when he collided with the car while

riding his motorcycle.

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The ranks of America’spoor swelled to almostone in six people last year,reaching a new high aslong-term unemploymentleft millions of Americansstruggling and out ofwork. The number ofuninsured edged up to49.9 million, the biggestin more than two decades.

The Census Bureau’sannual report releasedyesterday offers asnapshot of the economicwell-being of U.S.households for 2010,when joblessness hoveredabove nine per cent for asecond year. It comes at apolitically sensitive timefor President Barack Oba-ma, who hasacknowledged in themidst of a re-election fightthat the unemploymentrate could persist at highlevels through next year.

The overall poverty rateclimbed to 15.1 per cent,or 46.2 million, up from14.3 per cent in 2009. Theofficial poverty level is anannual income of $22,314US for a family of four.

Reflecting the lingeringimpact of the recession,the U.S. poverty rate from2007-2010 has now risenfaster than any three-yearperiod since the early1980s, when a cripplingenergy crisis amid govern-ment cutbacks

contributed to inflation,spiralling interest ratesand unemployment.

Measured by total num-bers, the 46 million nowliving in poverty is thelargest on record datingback to when the censusbegan tracking poverty in1959. Based on percent -ages, it tied the povertylevel in 1993 and was thehighest since 1983.

The median householdincome was $49,445 US,down 2.3 per cent from2009.

The latest numbers,which cover Obama’s sec-ond year in office, offerpolitical fodder for bothparties as Obama seeks topush a new $447-billionUS plan for creating jobsand stimulating the econ-omy. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Other findings

Poverty rose among allrace and ethnic groups ex-cept Asians.The number of Hispanicsin poverty increased to26.6 per cent from 25.3per cent.For blacks, it increased to27.4 per cent from 25.8per cent.The number of whites inpoverty rose to 9.9 percent from 9.4 per cent.

Disgraced impresariosGarth Drabinsky and My-ron Gottlieb, whose com-pany Livent Inc. was oncethe toast of the Canadiantheatre scene, remainguilty of fraud but willserve shorter prisonterms, Ontario’s highestcourt has ruled.

The Ontario Court ofAppeal upheld the fraudconvictions handed downby a lower court in 2009,but trimmed their jailtime by two years each —Drabinsky must now servefive years behind bars, andGottlieb four years.

The two were convictedafter Ontario court JudgeMary Lou Benotto foundthat during a nine-yearspan they manipulated theincome reported byLivent, once the drivingforce behind Canadianand Broadway theatre hitslike The Phantom of theOpera and Showboat.

At the time of their tri-al, Benotto imposed a sen-tence that took intoaccount the magnitude ofthe company’s collapse —it was estimated at thetime that investors lostsome $500 million whenthe company went bank-rupt in 1998.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Fraudconvictionsupheld inLivent case

Livent co-founder

Garth Drabinsky

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U.S. poverty ratesoars to 1 in 6

50 million Americans go withouthealth coverage, report reveals

A homeless man plays his guitar while panhandling

on the street in New York City in June.

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Canada’s rich-poor gapwidening faster than peers’Canada is rapidly catchingup to the United States as acountry divided betweenhaves and have-nots, ac-cording to a study issuedyesterday by the Confer-ence Board.

The Conference Boardsays income inequality hasbeen rising more in Canadathan in the United Statessince the mid-1990s, and

faster than in many peercountries.

In fact, the think-tanksays Canada had the fourth-largest increase in incomedisparity among a samplegroup of 17 advancedeconomies in the period be-tween the mid-1990s andthe late 2000s.

“Even though the U.S.currently has the largest

rich-poor income gapamong these countries, thegap in Canada has been ris-ing at a faster rate,” saidAnne Golden, the board’schief executive.

Overall, income inequali-ty rose in 10 of the coun-tries sampled, rising fastestin Sweden, Finland andDenmark. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Aqua Booksto rise asnon-profit

One of Winnipeg’scherished downtown in-stitutions won’t beclosing, but it will be dif-ferent.

Kelly Hughes, owner ofAqua Books on GarryStreet, said the used-book

store and cultural venuewill be restructured as anon-profit, and while thebuilding will be sold, hehopes to stay there.

Hughes said theannouncement that thestore would be closingnetted an overwhelmingresponse.

Hughes said Eat! Bistrowill still be closing, likelyat the end of October.

Hughes said a group oflocals are also trying toput together a co-op tobuy the building and leaseout extra space to “other

creative groups who aredoing something good inthe community, who aredoing something unique.”

Those interested canemail [email protected].

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WEIRD NEWS

A 290-poundman goes toWhite CastleA man is suing the White Castlechain, claiming the booths in one ofits hamburger restaurants are toosmall.

Martin Kessman says in the feder-al lawsuit filed last week that hewas embarrassed in 2009 when hetried squeezing his six-foot, 290-pound frame into the seating at aWhite Castle in New York state.

He says he slammed his knee into

a metal post under thetable and was in pain.

The lawsuitclaims therestaurantcould not ac-commodate acustomer ofKessman’sstature, in vio-

lation of theAmericans With Disabilities Act.

The suit seeks an unspecifiedfinancial judgment.

Spokesman Jamie Richardson atWhite Castle headquarters inColumbus, Ohio, says the restaurantis being replaced and the new onewill have roomier seating.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

100 ACRES OFINFIDELITY

Quick quiz: Who is the mostadmired person on Earth, liv-ing or dead? If your list startswith Martin Luther King Jr.,you get the kewpie doll. Forexample, in a recent survey of2,000 U.S. high school

students, Dr. King was No. 1 aboveBenjamin Franklin and even Oprah, theonly living admirable person who madethe list. On survey after survey he’s rightup there with Gandhi, Nelson Mandelaand Winnie the Pooh (even though he is abear of very little brain, OK?).

If your list started with Jackie Kennedy Onassis, you’reeligible for therapy. She was probably the most notoriouswoman of her generation, but hardly the most admired.True, as U.S. first lady, she put up with serial adultererJohn Kennedy until he was assassinated. But when shemarried Aristotle Onassis, the creepy Greek shipping mag-

nate, she became an objectof cynical disdain, especiallywhen, once widowed, shelaunched a two-year legalbattle to extract $26 millionout of Christina Onassis,Ari’s daughter and sole heir.

Here’s an ironic historicalfootnote. Recently releasedinterview tapes reveal thatwhen she was first lady,Jackie thought King was“tricky” and “phoney”because the FBI caught himwith a woman in his hotelroom.

This was before itbecame apparent that “JohnKennedy Slept Here” was awhole different story than“George Washington SleptHere.”

It’s not really fair to judgeJackie with the benefit ofhindsight, but that trickyphoney has his own nation-al holiday, Martin LutherKing boulevards in every

U.S. burg and more than 10,000 (and who knows thedegree to which his fame extends to hamlets) publicschools, community centres and libraries.

Jackie has the reservoir in Central Park, although onceagain I’m being unfair. She is also memorialized in awhite gazebo in Middleburg, Va., where she often partici-pated in the bizarre practice of inducing hounds to chaseand tear apart a fox.

I’m not sure why Jackie O. was oblivious to greatness,athough I harbour graceless suspicions. Give her the bene-fit of the doubt and take the “tricky phoney” talk at facevalue. After all, if he were discovered in a hotel room withanother woman in 2011, King would make an entirely dif-ferent list, along with Arnold Schwarzenegger, EliotSpitzer and the much-admired Anthony Weiner, not tomention Jackie’s husband JFK, who brought a whole newmeaning to “affairs of state.”

The times, they are a changin’. And through it all, Win-nie the Pooh remains devoted to Christopher Robin.

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I have enjoyed readingyour daily paper. Goodjob.

I was disappointed,however, to see the poortaste you showed inplacing the photodepicting a mother’sgrief on the front pageof the Sept. 8 issue.

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Re: Editorial cartoon,page 13, Sept. 8, 2011

I think it is disgustingthat people were baseenough to send lettersto the editor re: the car-toon of the concussedhockey players.

Those were all verywell recognizableimages of major concus-sions in hockey.

I think if people don’tunderstand somethingthey have no right to beupset! I don’t want goodcommentary like thatsnuffed out by ignorantpeople.STEPHEN LIPICWINNIPEG

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Sarah JessicaParker isbest knownas CarrieBradshaw,the sharp-

tongued figurehead of Sexand the City, the long-run-ning ode to post feminismand stylish clothes. But be-fore Mr. Big and theLouboutins she was amovie star with some clas-sics — like Footloose —and some stinkers — likeDudley Do-Right — to her

credit.This weekend she’s

back on the big screen forthe first time in a non-Sexand the City movie sincethe 2009 flop Did YouHear about the Morgans?In I Don’t Know How SheDoes It she plays a versionof Carrie all grown upwith kids and a job in thefinancial sector.

It’s a far cry from herfirst big movie, Footloose.

She played Rusty, a roleParker has called the “bestfriend of the pretty girl.”

The movie and its fancyfootwork earned her aBest Young Supporting Ac-tress in a Motion Picture

Musical, Comedy, Adven-ture or Drama nomina-tion at the Sixth AnnualYouth in Film Awards.

A few forgettable filmsfollowed like Firstborn —described as a “heavy-handed suburbansitcom”— Girls Just Wantto Have Fun — called “atotal wannabe in therealm of ‘80s teenflicks”— and Flight of theNavigator, which featuresthe voice of Pee Wee Her-man as a robot.

It wasn’t until sheteamed with Steve Martinin L.A. Story that thingsstarted looking up.

In this surreal look at

life and love in Los Ange-les Parker plays SanDeE, aditzy blonde who aspiresto be a superstarspokesmodel.

“Um, it’s just a modelwho speaks,” she explains.“You know, and she pointsat things like merchan-dise, you know, like a caror washer and dryer.

Sometimes it’s some-thing really small, youknow, like, like a book orfine art print.”

The movie broke herout of the teen moviemode and displayed herdeft comic timing, whichwas put to great use inHoneymoon in Vegas op-

posite Nic Cage. A few flops later she ap-

peared in the critically ac-claimed Ed Wood withJohnny Depp.

Playing the much put-upon girlfriend of theworld’s worst director, shecalls the actors and crewof his film Bride of theMonster “the usual cast ofmisfits and dope addicts.”

Her most spectacularpre-Sex and the City role,however, is in Mars At-tacks.

In it she plays a flightytalk show host, who liter-ally becomes a talkinghead when she is behead-ed by aliens.

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SARAH’S FLIP FLOPPING MOVIE CAREER

The year 1971 was a water-shed time for new cinema.Films like A Clockwork Or-ange, Dirty Harry andStraw Dogs pushed theboundaries of what was ac-ceptable on the silverscreen. None are passivefilms.

Each brims with the ob-sessions of their makers,and for that each was thesubject of controversy andcensorship.

Eventually they becameaccepted by the main-

stream. A Clockwork Or-ange has become a cultur-al touchstone, witheveryone from Lady Gagato David Bowie to KylieMinogue, who dressed in ablack bowler hat and awhite jumpsuit on tour in2002, paying tribute.

It was even played atthe Cannes Film Festivaland released on Blu Ray tomark its 40th anniversary.Dirty Harry is on constantrotation on television andRod Lurie’s remake of theSam Peckinpah film StrawDogs hits screens thisweekend.

The movie stars James

Marsden and KateBosworth as David andAmy Sumner, a big citycouple who move back toher hometown on the Mis-sissippi Gulf Coast.

Tensions with some ofthe locals (including TrueBlood’s Alexander Skars-

gård) bubble to the surfaceand soon boil over into vio-lence.

“If you look at a movielike Straw Dogs, whichwas heavily influenced bya book called The Territori-al Imperative,” says Lurie,“Peckinpah seems to besaying that violence is inthe genetics of all men andtherefore we must beaware of it so we can con-trol it. It was extremelyfascist thinking but that al-so seems to be the thingwith Dirty Harry.

“A Clockwork Orange isa much more clinical lookat that but I think artists

were trying to provide theanswers top what societywas asking then. It was avery, very violent era.

“This was an era inwhich people were search-ing for answers to themadness that was going onaround them,” Lurie con-tinues, “and filmmakerswere trying to providesome of the answers. Youhad everything from theassassinations of Kennedyand King to Vietnam to theWhitman murders to MyLai. I think all of societywas trying to understandhow human beings coulddo such things.”

The man behind remake of Straw Dogs, Rod Lurie, speaks to Metro about its significance

Dog days of summer“This was an era inwhich people weresearching foranswers to themadness that wasgoing on aroundthem.”ROD LURIE

Drew Powell as Bic, James Marsden as David Sumner and Billy Lush as Chris star in Straw Dogs.

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Smith drug case

Michelle Williamstells Vogue maga-zine in theirupcoming issuethat although lifehas settled sincethe death of herformer fiance, ac-tor Heath Ledger,it’s affected allfacets of her life. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Megan Fox is up for beinga mom, but first she needsto pad out her bank ac-count.

“I want to have chil-dren. I’ve always wantedkids,” she tells Amicamagazine.

“I have a number in mymind of what amount ofmoney I want in the bankso that I can protect my

child’s future.” While she’s saving,

she’s also ditching her ve-gan diet.

“For a year and a half,until about four monthsago, I followed a strict veg-an diet based on raw fruitsand vegetables, no bread,sugar and coffee. But I hadlost too much weight,”she says. METRO

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Eva Longoria ad-mits it’s a littletoo soon af-ter her splitfrom TonyParker tothink aboutsettling downagain.

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now,” Longoria tellsAccess Hollywood.

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Jennifer Aniston’s mom,Nancy Dow, was reported-ly hospitalized recentlyafter suffering a stroke,according to the DailyMail.

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08 travel metronews.caWEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

French food, culture await inSt. Pierre & Miquelon

The islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon offer a taste ofFrance, just a short ferry ride off the coast of Newfoundland This tiny collection of is-lands, about 25 kilometresfrom Fortune, N.L., has a to-tal population of around7,000 people. It is all thatremains of colonial NewFrance.

A former strategic landbase for the once lucrativecod fishery, the French gov-ernment now pays about$65 million a year in subsi-dies to sustain the islands— its only toehold in NorthAmerica. St. Pierre andMiquelon were returned toFrance in 1815 after severalstints of British occupation.

Today, residents speakFrench, deal in Euros andrely heavily on governmentjobs, fishing and tourism.

The smallest of the is-lands, St. Pierre, is also themost populated, withcolourful clapboard homeson tidy, winding streetsthat are home to about6,000 people. Restaurantsand bakeries bustle withforeigners in summer.

History buffs won’t wantto miss the L’Arche muse-um in the centre of town,where a guillotine similarto one used in 1889 ishoused. The eerie killingmachine is on display nextto the museum’s mainstaircase. The only soul todie by guillotine in NorthAmerica was a fishermanconvicted of murdering afishing boat captain. Hewas beheaded in St. Pierreon Aug. 24, 1889.

It is said that local peo-ple were so disgusted theguillotine was never usedagain.

On the lighter side, visi-tors can also soak up richtales of rum-running andgangsters, as St. Pierre be-came the ideal base forbooze shipments to a verythirsty North America dur-ing Prohibition in the1920s.

The North American al-cohol ban was a bonanzafor the fishing town untilProhibition ended in theUnited States in 1933. Dry

laws were repealed in mostof Canada several years ear-lier, depending on theprovince.

“A lot of people earned alot of money during thoseyears in St. Pierre andMiquelon,” said LaurianeDetcheverry, a spokes-woman for the L’Arche mu-seum.

“But in St. Pierre it was-n’t illegal. People selling al-cohol here weren’t doingsomething wrong.”

Some of the island’smost oft-told yarns hailfrom those heady days.

Just down the streetfrom the museum is thehistoric Hotel Robertwhere, according to locallore, Al Capone stayed dur-ing a visit to check onliquor shipments.

In a glass cabinet in thegift shop sits a straw hatthat Capone apparently leftas a souvenir of his pres-ence.

“It may be Al Capone’shat, but it’s difficult to sayif it’s really true or not,”says Detcheverry. “But welike to believe that history,of course.”

In Miquelon, with a per-manent population ofabout 700 people, thechurch L’Eglise deMiquelon tells local historyin its stained glass win-dows.

“It’s worth a visit be-cause it’s so beautiful,”Madeline Fitzsimmons ofHuntsville, Ont., said dur-ing a trip last month to theislands. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The harbour of St. Pierre was once the perfect base for booze shipments

for North America under the wraps of Prohibition.

St. Pierre and Miquelon offer plenty to see.Canadians less green whenthey’re travelling than at

home, says eco group.

Travel in brief

Authors will be takingto the water on Sept.25 for readings at theWord on the Streetbook and magazinefestival in Halifax.The deck of CSSAcadia, the 98-year-old scientific shipparked beside theMaritime Museum ofthe Atlantic, will bethe stationary settingfor readings by StevenLaffoley and JerryLockett from theirnew, nautical books.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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According to a recentstudy by Ethnographic Re-search in Illinois AcademicLibraries Project, studentsare turning more to Inter-net search engines and lessto physical research.

The three-year studyconsisted of interviewswith librarians, studentsand other campus facultyat five universities. Theyfound that students oftendon't know where to turnwhen it comes to doing realresearch within the library.In fact, students prefer tojust enter a few key wordsinto a search engine ratherthan pour through academ-ic journals and encyclope-dias.

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The researchers saidthey were surprised by "theextent to which studentsappeared to lack even someof the most basic informa-tion literacy skills that weassumed they would havemastered in high school."

Apparently, studentsmentioned Google 115times during the interviewsfor the study, more thantwice as many times as anyother research method.

Students aren't com-pletely to blame, though,for their lack of libraryprowess. Researchers alsopoint the finger at librari-ans for overestimating stu-dents' knowledge ofresearch techniques, oftenresulting in conversationsthat leave students feelingintimidated.

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What’s a librarian? Expertswarn that students’ poor researchskills could hinder their careers

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When I first heard aboutco-operative educationprograms offered at uni-versities, I immediatelyfigured that the work-study cycle would be anexcellent way to gain ex-posure to the professionalworld.

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Many good cases die onthe vine because of a de-lay in mounting an appro-priate response. If youdisagree with an employ-er’s decision, such as apay cut or demotion, youmust immediately protestit and do so in writing.Failing to respond simplyconveys to your employerthat you agreed with thedecision or at least thatyou did not care enoughto complain. Allegations

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It’s already October for theTampa Bay Rays, who haveswitched into playoff modein a late push to overtakethe sagging Boston Red Soxfor the AL wild-card spot.

After losing four of five,Tampa Bay trailed the RedSox by nine games on Sept.2. The Rays have since gone8-2 and now sit four gamesback of a Boston club stag-gering toward the finish.

The key was a three-game sweep of the Red Soxover the weekend, cappedby a 9-1 rout on Sunday.

“Everyone has steppedup and contributed to thisrun,” Rays designated hitterJohnny Damon said. “Nowwe have to keep it going.”

Tampa Bay lost some mo-mentum last night with a 4-2 loss to the Orioles.

The Rays know almostevery game from here onout is a must-win.

“We already started theplayoffs,” Tampa Bay man-ager Joe Maddon said Mon-day. “We’re going for the

two-month gig. ... There’sno letting up. Every gamefrom our perspective has aplayoff atmosphere at-tached to it. That’s the wayit should be, and that’s theway we have to approachit.”

There’s no need topreach that philosophy tothe players, who are wellaware of the situation.

“These games (againstthe Orioles) are just as im-portant as the ones we justplayed and the ones we’regoing to be playing,” Da-mon said.

The Rays close out the se-ries in Baltimore tonightbefore heading to Bostonfor four games against theRed Sox, who broke a five-game losing streak with a18-6 win over Toronto lastnight. Then come fourgames at Yankee Stadium,followed by the final home-stand: Three games versusthe Jays and three againstNew York.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rays of hope in wild-card race

The Rays celebrate Evan Longoria’s game-winning RBI in the

11th inning of Saturday’s 6-5 win over the Red Sox.

MIKE CARLSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tampa Bay surges toward AL’sfinal playoff spot as Boston struggles

NBA optimism low as talks stallThe long looks on players’faces and the anger indeputy commissionerAdam Silver’s voice madeit obvious: There was noprogress in New York yes-terday in talks to end theNBA lockout.

And with less than threeweeks until trainingcamps, the latest setbackmay be a tough one.

“I think coming out oftoday, obviously because ofthe calendar, we can’tcome out of here feeling asthough training camps andthe season is going to starton time at this point,” play-ers’ association presidentDerek Fisher of the Lakerssaid.

Still divided over thesalary-cap structure, own-

ers and players decided topass on talking again to-day, and no further meet-ings are scheduled at thispoint.

“Well, we did not have agreat day, I think it’s fair tosay that,” commissionerDavid Stern said. “On theother hand, we did say thatit is our collective task todecide what we want on

the one hand on each side,and two, what each sideneeds if we choose to workourselves in such a way asto have the season start ontime. That’s still our goal.”

Training camps havebeen expected to open Oct.3 and the regular season’sopening night is scheduledfor Nov. 1.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Stuck on the cap

The salary cap appears to

now be the biggest obsta-

cle to a new NBA deal.

The current system allowsteams to exceed the capceiling through various ex-ceptions if they are willingto pay a luxury tax, givingbig-market teams such asthe Lakers — who can takeon added payroll — an ad-vantage over the little guys.

“We got counted out so many times thisyear — as recently as several days ago.... We need to keep pushing and gettingbetter, and hopefully it rewards us atthe very end.”TAMPA BAY DESIGNATED HITTER JOHNNY DAMON

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Novak Djokovic is rankedNo. 1 and is 64-2 in 2011,and sees room for improve-ment.

He won three of fourGrand Slam titles this year— the Australian Open,Wimbledon and U.S. Open— and is talking aboutadding to his collection.

“There is a lot more toprove, a lot more tourna-ments to win,” Djokovictold reporters at the EmpireState Building yesterday, aday after he beat RafaelNadal in the U.S. Open final.

And that’s not all:Djokovic gained plenty ofattention for his spot-on im-personations of other play-ers (Nadal, Andy Roddickand Maria Sharapova,among others), and now hewants to pursue acting.

“Yeah. Why not? I mightdo something if I have timesoon. And I would like to. Ijust think show business issomething that attractsme,” he said.

He’s is doing pretty wellat his day job, putting to-gether what seven-time ma-jor champion JohnMcEnroe called “the great-est year in the history of oursport, there’s no doubtabout it.”

McEnroe, by the way,went 82-3 in 1984.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Already atop the tennis world, Djokovic aims higher

Novak Djokovic poses with his U.S. Open trophy

atop the Empire State Building in New York yesterday.

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Leading man

Djokovic didn’t say

whether he’d like to wind

up on TV or in a movie, but

the 24-year-old Serb did

say he has had offers.

Sports in brief

Former WorldSeries MVP MannyRamirez, whoretired this yearamid allegations ofbanned-substanceuse, is facing criminalprosecution oncharges he hit hiswife during anargument.Ramirez, 39, couldget up to a year injail if convicted ofmisdemeanour domestic-batterycharges. He was re-leased on $2,500 USbail yesterday afterspending the nightin the BrowardCounty Jail in FortLauderdale, Fla.

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Monster engineThe Dodge Charger SRT8’s potency has been sig-nificantly enhanced for 2012.

The previous 2010 SRT8 (a 2011 version wasnever offered) generated 425 horsepower and 420pound-feet of torque from a 6.1-litre “Hemi” V-8.

What’s now being served up is a 6.4-litre Hemithat produces 470 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque.

What’s more, a significant amount of thattorque kicks in below the 3,000-r.p.m. range tohelp enhance the car’s off-the-line scoot.

Well ... what else are you going to do with 470 horsepower? Exaggerated looks and exaggerated power leads to exaggerated tire smoke.

Into this eco-minded ageof milquetoast hybrid andelectric vehicles, the 2012Dodge Charger SRT8comes roaring back to lifesporting a honking-big V-8engine and a serious caseof nose-thumbing attitude.

Consider this big familysedan a 21-gun salute to abygone era when full-sizeNorth American familysedans could be optionedwith a surplus of tire-smoking grunt that madeits normally buttoned-down drivers smile glee-fully from ear to ear whilethe neighbours simply ranfor cover.

The Charger is noanomaly, but part of afamily of SRT8-branded ve-hicles for the 2012 modelyear that also includes the

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Compared to the previ-ous SRT8, this one baresits teeth in a more menac-ing fashion.

The basic Charger un-derwent a 2011 refit thatgave it a sleeker and moreaggressive look, improvedroad manners and a newbase V-6.

The SRT8 expands onthis theme.

Needless to say, the$54,000 (estimated) SRT8’sperformance and creaturecomforts would amaze itsHemi Charger ancestors.

That a car like this evenexists in this day and ageis perhaps the most amaz-ing fact of all.

A 21-gun saluteto a bygone era

The SRT8’s interior has been extensively upgraded for

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Despite a delicious interior and significant performance

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automatic transmission. This time around, though, there

are paddles mounted to the steering wheel for shifting.

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Hustle and (gas) flowThe SRT’s development team will brag that thechunky 1,985-kilogram Charger can hustle to60 m.p.h. (96 km/h) from a dead stop in “thehigh four-second range” and is capable of a 280km/h top speed.

To try to keep the SRT8’s premium-gas habitwithin an acceptable range, the engine usesChrysler’s latest deactivation technology thatcuts out half the cylinders over a wider r.p.m.range for an estimated 25 per cent increase inhighway fuel economy (8.0 l/100 km, est.).

Brembo brakesPerhaps the most obvious SRT8 feature isits very distinctive 20-inch (and nine-inch-wide) polished aluminum wheelsthat really set this beast apart frommainstream Chargers.

To haul the big, bad Dodge down in ahurry, there are front and rear Brembo-brand four-piston brake calipers and aspecial underbody ducting that helpkeep the brakes cooler and more fade-re-sistant.

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VerdictA healthy Hummer H2with a mechanicalthumbs-up should provea unique, flexible familyhauler that’s big on sizeand capability.

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What ownersdislikeGripes tend to centre around fuelconsumption, parking difficulties, and issuesfitting into snug quarters. Some owners wishfor more performance from the factory Boseaudio system, more in-cabin storage andmore thoughtfulness to the ergonomics.

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Aries March 21-April 20 If youtry too hard to impress your em-ployer or someone else in a posi-tion of authority today you mayend up doing more than is goodfor you.

Taurus April 21-May 21 Be-lieve in yourself and the world willbelieve in you too.

Gemini May 22-June 21 Cer-tain theories may seem convincingbut you don’t need to adopt whatother people believe.

Cancer June 22-July 22 Don’tget too adventurous financially be-

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Leo July 23-Aug.23 You needto be aware today of how your de-cisions impact on other people.

Virgo Aug. 24- Sept. 22 Yourconfidence will get the kind ofboost that makes all things seempossible.

Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 23 If youwere planning something strenu-ous for today or tomorrow it mightbe wise to think again.

Scorpio Oct. 24-Nov. 22 Youwill be called on to deal with achallenge to your authority.

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Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 20You don’t need to spend a fortuneto get what you desire.

Aquarius Jan. 21-Feb. 18Don’t let the world stifle your cre-ativity.

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