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The accusations and finger pointingat the Missing Women Inquiry havebegun.

During his opening remarks toCommissioner Wally Oppal, thelawyer representing disgraced ex-Vancouver police investigator KimRossmo said he plans to highlightsenior management’s negligencein the Robert Pickton investigationfrom 1997 to 2002.

“In my submission, the evidencewill show … the police investiga-tion as a whole was nothing shortof an epic failure,” said attorneyMark Skwarok.

According to Skwarok, seniorVPD officials ignored Rossmo’s ear-ly reports that a serial killer couldbe on the loose in the DowntownEastside. Rossmo’s superiors alsoblocked him from issuing a pressrelease warning the public.

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ditions “prematurely ended (Ross-mo’s) 21-year career” in policing,Skwarok said.

Sean Hearn, representing theVPD, admitted that Pickton shouldhave been arrested sooner.

“The Vancouver Police Depart-ment has expressed it could have,and should have, done better,” hesaid, while extending an apologyto the victims’ families.

At the same time, he urgedOppal not to be biased by hindsight.

“During the investigation itself,the investigators stood at the sur-face of a flat landscape with hun-dreds of possibilities and little toguide them,” he said. “The investi-gation was conducted by people,and even those with the best inten-tions and skills are not perfect.”

Witness testimony at the inquiryis expected to begin today.

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Investigationof Pickton a ‘failure’:Lawyer

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The founder of Vancouver-based Adbusters, whose an-ti-consumerist magazinecatalyzed the Occupy WallStreet demonstration, did-n’t expect the movement tospread like wildfire, says anOccupy Vancouver organiz-er.

New Westminster resi-dent Min Reyes said sheand other organizers metup with Adbusters founderand editor Kalle Lasn andsaid he realized that this is-

n’t a one-shot deal any-more.

“I kind of sensed that(Lasn) was actually some-what surprised by how fastand how big this grew outof a call of action they had,”Reyes said. “I rememberhim saying that the time isright for this kind of move-ment, not to only takeplace in certain cities for lo-cal issues, but rather a glob-al awakening where weneed to figure out how tosave our world from de-struction.”

Reyes added Vancouver’sown Occupy movement,

fashioned after New York’santi-Wall Street protest, hasno specific demands, but issure issues will form “or-ganically” during thedemonstration Saturday atthe Vancouver Art Gallery.

“It is through the processof general assemblieswhere people will be ableto identify common issuesand be able to reach a con-sensus through open com-munication,” she said,adding they will be indefi-nitely occupying the area.

The Downtown BusinessImprovement Associationhas warned store owners to

prepare themselves for theprotest, which is expectedto attract more than 2,000people. Reyes said there isno need to worry, but shecan’t guarantee what mayor may not happen.

“The movement in itscore is peaceful,” she said.“It’s not a protest, it’s moreof a gathering for people totalk and try and figure outhow we can change our so-ciety. There are no guaran-tees because it’s an openinvitation to everybody tojoin us, but we do try tomaintain a peaceful envi-ronment.”

Protesters indefinitely occupying Vancouver Art Gallery, says organizerLabour federation joining protest, calling for good jobs and fair taxes

A young woman holds up a sign at the Occupy Wall Street

headquarters at Zuccotti Park inNew York on Tuesday. The

protest is entering its fourth week.

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Occupy movement a global awakening

Man wronglyID’d throughsocial mediaPolice say people using so-cial media have wronglyidentified a suspect in thestabbing death of an 18-year-old boy in Surrey lastweekend.

Sgt. Jennifer Pound ofthe Integrated HomicideInvestigation Team saysthe man named on mediasites in the killing of JamieKehoe began getting deaththreats and went to police,who have ruled him out asa suspect. She warns thatuttering threats is a crimi-nal offence and they couldhurt the investigation.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Infant’sbody foundin riverA baby boy’s body wasfound along the Fraser Riv-er between Richmond andBurnaby Tuesday night.

Sgt. Jennifer Pound saidjust after 10 p.m. RCMP re-ceived a call about a babyfound in the Fraser River.

Witnesses initiallythought the baby was adoll, Pound added.

IHIT, which has takenover the case, is appealingto the public for help.

“Our main priority is toconcentrate on finding themother of the baby,” Poundsaid. “We need to ensurethat her health and well-be-ing have been looked after.We know that this is a mostdefinitely traumatizingevent for her.... She may re-quire medical attention.”

Pound added the babyappears to be newborn. Anautopsy will be conductedtoday.

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The Rick Hansen Founda-tion hopes a new onlinetool will empower peoplewith disabilities and en-courage accessibility aware-ness around the world.

Rick Hansen unveiled aglobal accessibility map yes-terday, which he says willhopefully level the playingfield as people with disabili-ties can rate the accessibili-ty of buildings and publicservices in communitiesacross Canada and othercountries.

The website offers thechance to submit and ob-tain reviews from a mobili-ty, hearing and sightperspective.

“When a person has adisability, whether it’s a vi-

sual, hearing or mobilitychallenge, you face strug-gles every single day,”Hansen said. “One of thethings you don’t want tohave to deal with is when

you want to go somewhereto then have artificial barri-ers that limit you from be-ing a full part of society.”

Although accessibilityfor people with disabilities

has come a long way,Hansen said there is stillroom for improvement.

Hansen hopes the web-site will be filled with per-sonal ratings andcomments so people withdisabilities can have a com-mon reference point whenmaking decisions about ac-cessible places to eat, work,study and play.

It will be helpful whenpeople plan for vacationssince they now have a wayof knowing if their desiredlocation has accessiblebuildings and services, hesaid.

Accessibility for all stillhas a long way to go, butHansen said he hopes thistool will move society onestep closer to realizing thisdream. The map can be ac-cessed at rickhansen.global-accessabilitymap.com.

People with disabilities can rate accessible buildings around the worldCanadian celebrating 25th anniversary of the Man in Motion tour

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Judge deniesclarification LABOUR. The B.C.Teachers’ Federation haslost a bid to get a judge toclarify a ruling oncontract talks with theprovincial government.

In April, Justice SusanGriffin ruled the govern-ment violated teachers’rights nine years agowhen it stripped theunion of the right to bar-gain class size and compo-sition. The union wantedher to provide more direc-tion on her decision.

She has refused, sayingit’s not the role of thecourts to give opinions onhypothetical situations. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Inquiry willlead to changesLAW. The British Colum-

bia government says itwill implement all of therecommendations froman inquiry into the deathof an aboriginal man inVancouver, includingchanging the way prose-cutors assess criminalcharges against police.

The inquiry looked in-to the case of Frank Paul,who was drunk and soak-ing wet when policedumped him in an alleywhere he froze to death13 years ago.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Assault rap forhead stompLAW AND ORDER. TheRCMP have recommend-ed a charge of assaultagainst a 15-year-oldKelowna lacrosse playerafter an alleged head-stomp incident in a gamelast summer.

During the game, thesuspect allegedly cross-checked a player andstomped on his head.CFJC

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Former Soviet presidentand Nobel peace laureate. Mia Farrow. Award-winning actress andactivist.Shaquille O’Neal. NBA all-star.Hedley. Multi-platinumJuno- and MMVA-winningrecording artists.Holly Branson. Daughterof Sir Richard Branson.Down With Webster. Juno-nominated, MMVA-winning Canadian band.Liz Murray. Inspirationalspeaker best known ashaving been homeless inher youth before graduat-ing from Harvard.FRESHH. The 2011 Canadi-an National Hip HopChampions & Hip Hop In-ternational Grand Finalists.Jessi Cruickshank and

Jesse Giddings. Hosts.

NBA all-star ShaquilleO’Neal, Nobel peace laure-ate Mikhail Gorbachev andactress Mia Farrow will beamong the celebritiesspeaking at We Day in Van-couver today.

The celebrity buzzaround the annual event at-tests to the global successof its host organization,Free the Children. Pastspeakers in Vancouver haveincluded the Dalai Lamaand former U.S. vice-presi-dent Al Gore.

“They see there is tangi-ble action,” said Craig Kiel-burger, co-founder of Freethe Children, about WeDay’s high-profile guests.

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ver-band Hedley joinedFree the Children two yearsago in Africa. He was in In-dia earlier this year tospread the We Day messagethat change is possible to-gether.

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from overseas, but addedthe real inspiration comesfrom the thousands ofyouth in the audience thatwant to change the world.

Likewise, MuchMusic VJand co-host of VancouverWe Day Jesse Giddings be-came involved with theevent to empower youngpeople.

“In one day, youth areexposed to so many differ-ent causes and then offeredopportunities to get in-volved with whatever theyfeel most passionate for.”

He said complacency isthe greatest challenge tostudents today with somany distractions demand-ing attention.

“We often miss what ishappening in our commu-nity and around the globe,or feel that we can’t possi-bly make a difference.

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Don’t be fooled by the run-time, short films give direc-tors plenty of room toexperiment and tell pro-found stories.

That was part of the at-traction for Montreal film-maker Pedro Pires — whohas worked on such fea-ture-length films as The RedViolin — when deciding tomake his second short,Hope.

Based on a play of thesame name, Hope takesviewers deep into the mindof a general during the finalmoments of his life.

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Hope screens during theVancouver InternationalFilm Festival’s Air collec-tion of short films today at4 p.m. at the Pacific Cine-matheque.

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er?

It is important for peopleto know how does thiswar really affect lives,and I am putting a faceto it.

I saw my mother getraped. I can’t go toschool and be quiet andkeep letting that happento other kids. I want toend the war. I want tomake sure that womenin the Congo are just asempowered to stand uplike women in Canada.

My father left a legacyfor me to continue,something that he could

never truly achieve. Hedrew attention to theconflict and what washappening, but waskilled for it. I’ve been giv-en the opportunity tospeak and to help peopleunderstand.

What is one of your main

messages on We Day?

In the Congo, many ofthe parents look aroundin their communitiesand don’t see teachers orschools.

There is no welfare orsocial structure and theonly way they can see tobuild a better future for

their children is to get in-volved in war. They stealfrom their neighbours,and that’s why it’s acycle of revenge. Educa-tion gives communityand parents that bit ofhope for their children.

What are your future

plans?

I want to start a socceracademy for childsoldiers. They often endup on the streets withoutan education, and a soc-cer academy is a way torecruit kids, to get theman education and acareer.

During the Congo war,there was a game withSouth Africa, and on thatone day you did not heara single gunshot — thesport stopped the war.That gives you an ideaabout how importantand how big the sport is.

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After crossing the finishline in third place andsmashing his personalbest, Rob Sloan celebratedand boasted how he’d justcompleted an “unbeliev-ably tough” marathon.

It turns out that thingsweren’t quite what theyseemed.

Sloan, organizers say,had actually dropped out32 kilometres into therace, hitched a ride on aspectator shuttle bus andemerged from the woodsnear the finish line tomake the podium.

After initially describingclaims that he cheated in

Sunday’s Kielder Marathonin the U.K. as “laughable,”the 31-year-old formerarmy mechanic admitted

his transgression followingan investigation.

“People in cars followingthe bus saw him get on andoff. People saw him runthrough the bushes — wehad him hook, line andsinker,” said Dave Roberts,one of the marathon organ-izers. Sloan was stripped ofhis third-place result.

Fellow competitors andbosses of Sloan’s runningclub, the Sunderland Har-riers, criticized the runnerfor tainting an event la-belled by organizers as“Britain’s most beautifulmarathon.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Gatineau police have up-graded charges against aPontiac, Que., teen tomanslaughter after a manwho tried to stop teensfrom stealing a pumpkintwo weeks ago died.

Korey Perry, 19, was ar-rested yesterday and madea brief appearance incourt. He was initiallycharged with assault caus-ing bodily harm.

Police said a group ofmen tried to steal a pump-kin from the IGA on 203Chemin d’Aylmer on Sept.29 when Paul Hines, 57,intervened.

Hines was beaten andtransported to hospital incritical condition withhead injuries. He suc-cumbed to his injuries inhospital last Thursday.

Perry’s arrest was car-

ried out at around thesame time as Hines waslaid to rest at St. Markchurch.

Crown prosecutor Syl-vain Petitclerc said thequestion of whether Perryshould be detained in cus-tody pending trial re-mains open.

Perry is set to appear incourt at 9 a.m. today.

JOE LOFARO IN OTTAWA

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Protests spread across CanadaA demonstration in Philadelphia is one of many being held across the UnitedStates recently in support of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstration inNew York. Similar protests are being planned in several cities across Canada for Saturday, including Vancouver.

Occupy. Philadelphia

Protester John Leonard sleeps beneath a sheet of plastic

on a fold-out couch outside city hall yesterday in Philadelphia.

English runneradmits cheating

Sloan disqualified from marathon after taking busto finish course Faces ban from future marathons

Famous cheat

One of the most famouscases of cheating in amarathon came at theBoston Marathon in 1980,where Rosie Ruiz was thefirst woman to cross thefinish line but was disqual-ified when officials discov-ered she jumped into therace about 1.5 kilometresfrom the end.

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Comic book fans mightcall it a great origin story:In the aftermath of 9-11, aMuslim man creates acomic book series, The 99,inspired by the principlesof his faith. It builds a glob-

al audience and investorscontribute millions for itto continue and expand.

In two vastly differentcultures, Naif Al-Mutawa'stale hits a few roadblocks –“villains” if you will: Cen-

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Museumbandit ano-showAuthorities say a U.S. bur-glary suspect dubbed“Moss Man” failed toshow up at his trial, and a

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Gregory Liascos of Port-land, Ore., earned hismoniker after police sayhe was arrested in full-body camouflage last Oc-tober outside a museum.Police say the 36-year-oldman had cut a hole in amuseum wall and wastrying to break in.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

sorship from Saudi Arabia,home to the main Muslimholy sites; in the UnitedStates, a struggle to buildan audience where free ex-pression has been ham-pered by a post-9-11 rise insuspicion and scrutiny ofall things Islamic.

The series is named forthe 99 qualities the Qur’anattributes to God:strength, courage, wisdomand mercy among them.

Critics on both sides ofthe religious and culturaldivide see subversion in Al-Mutawa's superheroes.Some hardline Muslimssay the series subvertstheir faith by embodyingthe attributes in humancharacters, while a fewnon-Muslim American crit-ics have labelled it sneakymeans of Islamic indoctri-nation.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Air Canada passengers arebreathing a sigh of reliefthat a day of uncertaintyhas ended with the block-ing of a planned strike byflight attendants just hoursbefore it was set to begin.

The Canadian Union ofPublic Employees, whichrepresents 6,800 flight at-tendants, said it cancelledthe strike after Labour Min-ister Lisa Raitt submittedtwo referrals to the CanadaIndustrial Relations Boardat 2 p.m.

“One of the minister’sletters concerns Section 87of the Canada Labour Code,

dealing with essential serv-ices to be maintained in theevent of a strike or lockout.

The minister’s interven-tion with the labour board,as it stands, postpones thecalling of a strike until thequestion of essential servic-es has been ruled on,” theunion said in a statementon its website.

“During all previous dis-cussions and negotiationsbetween Air Canada and itsflight attendants, at notime did the employermake a formal request forthe maintenance of ‘essen-tial services’ in the event of

a strike.”CIRB executive director

Ginette Brazeau said theminister’s action automati-cally suspends the workers’right to strike.

“The parties cannot re-sort to their right to strikeor lockout until such timeas the board disposes ofthis particular referral,”Brazeau said in an inter-view.

While a legal strike isnot permitted, workerscould have gone on wildcatstrikes. However, unionleaders could have facedlarge fines. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Flight attendantscall off strike for now

Labour board to consider imposing a settlementor binding arbitration in Air Canada dispute

Air Canada passengers wait to check in at Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Airport in Montreal yesterday.

RYAN REMIORZ/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Post workerstaking Toriesto courtCanada Post workers aretaking the Harpergovernment to court ina case that could test theConservatives’aggressive stance on therights of unionizedlabour.

The Canadian Unionof Postal Workers ischallenging the consti-tutionality of the lawwhich forced itsmembers back to workin June.

Close to 50,000 Cana-

da Post workers werelocked out by the Crowncorporation in June after12 days of rotatingstrikes by the union.

The majority Conser-vatives had cited thefragile economy whenthey decided to goahead with a back-to-work bill, a movethey’ve repeated in oth-er labour disputes since.

But the union sayssuch laws take awayworkers’ rights.

The union has alreadychallenged severalelements of the legisla-tion. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The BlackBerry outage— the biggest in the com-pany’s history — evenreached Prime MinisterStephen Harper’s office.

Andrew MacDougall,spokesman for the primeminister, took to social net-working site Twitter yester-day and tweeted: “Ambeing impacted byRIM/Berry service outage —please call if you need toreach me.”

Outages for RIM’s in-stant messaging service,email and browsing startedat the beginning of theweek in Europe and thenspread to the Middle East,Africa and hit Canada yes-

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The problem began as atechnical failure in Europe,but snowballed into a glob-

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RIM’s chief technologyofficer David Yach said thecompany is workingaround the clock to sendthe undelivered messages,noting that the problem is-n’t related to a securitybreach. THE CANADIAN PRESS

A subscriber holds a BlackBerry in Ottawa yesterday.

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It’s like a deerin headlinesFor the past week, a massive, short-tempered stag has been charging intoBritish headlines, goring a man in themiddle of a picnic and chasing onewoman through the brush.

The stag’s rampage has cast a shad-ow over Bushy Park, a quiet suburbanexpanse of tree-lined avenues andponds some 21 kilometres southwestof central London.

“I’ve been in and out of the park for20 years, and this is the first time I’veheard of people being attacked in such

quick succession,” said Robert Piper, asports and wildlife photographerwhose dramatic shots of the angrydeer have kept it in the headlines.

Bushy Park holds 320 deer, whichroam freely across a 445-hectare areaof meadows and forested areas.

They are generally gentle creatures— until fall’s rutting season.

Park veteran Dick Hill, a 64-year-oldretiree with binoculars dangling fromhis neck, says, “There have been quitea few of (the incidents) this year.”

Hill said a shortage of female deercould be to blame for the aggressivebehaviour.

London’s feisty press have tracedthe path of the stag’s rampage underarticles bearing names such as “StagFright.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TRAVELLING GETSTHIS GUY FLUSHED

It says something about mylack of recent globetrottingthat I’m really lookingforward to discovering somestrange bathrooms.

I’ll explain that in a second,but let it be known I’ve been stuck on thiscontinent for five long years. In my 20s Ihad extended stays in Austria, Zimbabweand New Zealand, and I’ve been home solong that I actually miss feelinguncomfortable.

I miss culture shock, in other words,which usually goes something like this:

1) Fascination with the new culture: “Wow, they eatlizard eyeballs here!”

2) Feeling uncomfortable: “My eyeball smells funny.”3) Rejection: “Who wants my eyeball?”4) Understanding: “Ohhh, my eyeball needs Tabasco!”5) Embracing the new culture: “I love eyeballs! Satisfy-

ing! Now, what was it you wanted to tell me was just ajoke?”

I need bizarre food. I need confusing customs. I need toguess whether the local barfly seems like a big weirdo be-cause of cultural differences between us or because he is,in fact, a big weirdo. And, yes, as a “one world” sort, I miss

being able to embrace thefull diversity of the world’sbathrooms.

Here’s a tour:In New Zealand, the

locals are very conservative— not in their politics, butin their generosity with toi-let paper. It’s an eco-friendlycountry, so toilet-paper dis-pensers only allow you onesquare at a time, and the au-tomatic hand dryers turn onfor approximately three mi-croseconds, give or take a pi-cosecond. Also, the flush isso wimpy that you can dis-turb the bowl equally wellby jumping up and down onthe bathroom tile. It’s mad-ness.

In Zimbabwe, bycontrast, the flush is so pow-erful you have to grab holdof the doorknob first, lestyou be caught in the mael-strom. Also, the public serv-ices aren’t what they couldbe — the Murderous DespotAppropriation really cuts in-

to public funds — so I would often open a bathroom doorand watch as a wave of filthy water rushed toward mewhile I scrambled to escape, Indiana Jones-style.

In Vienna (motto: “Kultur aus der Wazoo”) there are“water closets” that play operas and urinals that are sculp-tures — no kidding. The urinal cakes may in fact bedelicious pastry, but I never tried.

You can see how my boring old Canadian toilet isn’tmeasuring up, no matter what Don Cherry thinks.

So, I’m now in the process of booking a one-month trekthrough Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Denmark. I’m hop-ing for interesting people, new food and plumbing towrite about. Just thinking about it, I get a little flushed.

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square at a time,and the

automatic handdryers turn on for

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picosecond. Also,the flush is so

wimpy that youcan disturb the

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and down on thebathroom tile.”

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Photo of the day

These colourful snails secrete mucus from their “foot,”an organ at the base of their body. Instead of using slime to get around, they trap air inside fast-settingmucus to make bubbles that stick together and formrafts where they spend the rest of their lives.

Snail’s. Pace

This sea snail has a rather peculiar method of transport – by floating upside down on mucus bubbles it produces.

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A GIFTED MAN

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Scientists have crackedthe genetic code of theBlack Death, one of histo-ry’s worst plagues, andfound that its modernday bacterial descendantshaven’t changed much.

Luckily, we have.The evolution of socie-

ty and medicine and ourown bodies has faroutpaced the evolutionof that deadly bacterium,scientists said.

The 14th century bugis nearly identical to themodern-day version ofthe same germ. There areonly a few dozen changesamong the more than 4million building blocksof DNA, according to thejournal Nature.

What that shows isthat the plague was dead-ly for reasons beyond itsDNA, authors said.

In its day, the diseasekilled between 30 millionand 50 million people —about one of every threeEuropeans. It came at theworst possible time —when the climate wassuddenly getting colder,the world was in themidst of a long war andhorrible famine, and peo-ple were moving intocloser quarters, scientistssay. And it was likely thefirst time the disease hadstruck humans, attackingpeople without anyinnate protection.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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New spin on an old yarnMargaret Atwood’s Penelopiad stays true to the story while expanding on The Odyssey

“I want toshake offthe dust ofthis one-horse town.I want toexplore the

world. I want to watch TVin a different time zone. Iwant to visit strange, exot-ic malls. I’m sick of eatinghoagies! I want a grinder, asub, a foot-long hero! Iwant to LIVE, Marge!Won’t you let me live?Won’t you, please?”

It’s not everyday theArts Club stages a story in-fluenced by the writings ofHomer.

OK, so this one’s gotmore Iliad than Idiot, but,as the above example fromMr. Simpson succinctlyshows, The Odyssey is inthe eye of the beholder.

Famous Canadianwriter and outspoken li-brary lover Margaret At-wood would have to agree,since she based her 2005novella The Penelopiad onHomer’s well-spun yarns.

Only Atwood’s versionis told from the perspec-tive of Odysseus’ wife,Penelope — perhaps fit-tingly described in theplay’s publicity as the orig-inal desperate housewife— as well as from the col-lective voice of the twelvemaids — all of whom arehanged at the end of TheOdyssey.

All are speaking freely

from the Greek Under-world, or Hades, which, ifyou believe Greek mythol-ogy, had a ton of soul.

Atwood adapted herown work for the stage.Which brings us down afairly straight road to theArts Club production, di-rected by Vanessa Porte-ous, who says she wassurprised at Atwood’s sub-tlety.

“She didn’t make a one-dimensional satire ofHomer or anything likethat,” she says.

“Comparing Atwood’sand Homer’s versions ofthe story, you see a similar-ly rich and interestingcharacter in Penelope, notthe weak Penelope thatcame out in nineteenth-century interpretations ofThe Odyssey. Atwood isn’tattempting to rewrite (thebook), but to add to it … Ithink Homer would have agood time at the show.”

Now that would be atrip.

The Penelopiad opensOct. 20 and runs until Nov.20 at the Arts Club’s Stan-ley Industrial AllianceStage.

Tickets are $29 to $63.More info at ArtsClub.com.

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Clockwise from top: Meg Roe, Laara Sadiq, Ming Hudson, Rachel Aberle and Sarah Donald

in the Arts Club Theatre Company's production of The Penelopiad.

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A collection ofAmerican vintageguitars owned byactor RichardGere has fetchednearly $1 millionat auction in NewYork City. The topsale went to a1960 solid-bodyLes Paul electricguitar by Gibson,which sold formore than$98,000.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Auctioned off

London Film Festival opens withJude Law, Rachel Weisz in roman-

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“ComparingAtwood’s andHomer’s versionsof the story, yousee a similarly richand interestingcharacter inPenelope.”VANESSA PORTEOUS

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‘About a cult’Martha Marcy May Marlene delves into the world

of manipulation Films stars Elizabeth Olson

From left, actresses Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, director Sean

Durkin and actor Hugh Dancy attend the Martha Marcy May Marlene

premiere during the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.

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Writer-director SeanDurkin’s first feature film,Martha Marcy May Mar-lene, deals with the traumaof life inside and after es-caping a cult — though thatword is never used in thefilm.

In fact, the film’s protag-onist, Elizabeth Olson —turning in a striking, heart-breaking performance —doesn’t use very manywords at all, which makesunderstanding why she’s sotroubled that much harderfor her sister (Sarah Paul-son) and brother-in-law(Hugh Dancy). Told in afractured chronology thathighlights Martha’s grow-ing paranoia, the film isboth beautiful and unset-tling. But more unsettlingfor Durkin was how easy itwas to find former cultmembers to discuss their

experiences while research-ing the project.

Where did the idea for thismovie start?It started with just a verysimple desire to maybemake a film about a cult. Ifelt like I hadn’t seen any-thing that was modern andnaturalistic. I wanted to dosomething that showed alittle bit more of the subtlemanipulation. I startedwriting and I just startedtalking about it, and whenyou start talking about it,people are always like, “Ohmy friend grew up in one.I’m sure he’d be happy totalk to you.” It’s amazing. I

didn’t have to go out andsearch. It’s really common,which is very strange.

With the steps the cult leader(John Hawkes) takes to indoc-trinate your heroine, it’salmost like a how-to guide.It’s funny, these guys are allvery generic. Like seriously,you read about them andthey just all use the sametactics. The things that hedoes are just what theseguys do over and overagain. They just changetheir purpose.The word “cult” never comesup in the movie.We never used the word“cult” until after the movie

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was finished and we had tostart talking about it, be-cause there’s no other wordto use.

But we never talkedabout it while we werethere, when we were shoot-ing.

With the actors, we nev-er discussed it like that.“Cult” has got a lot of con-notations that aren’t help-ful when you’re making amovie about someone be-ing manipulated into cer-

tain things.I mean, no one in a cult

ever talks about being in acult or thinks they’re in acult. They just think thatwhat they’re doing is rightand they’re doing whatthey believe in.

The title is a mouthful untilyou see the movie, and thenit just rolls off the tongue.

Yeah, that seems to be acommon response. I neverwanted to call it anything

else. I usually struggle withnames of things that I do,but I came up with that theday I came up with the plot.And the name just poppedinto my head. I thought ofMartha, and then MarcyMay Marlene just flowedout after and that was it. AtSundance, the first couplebig reviews to come outmentioned that once yousee it, it’s easier — whichwas great to hear becauseit’s obviously a concern.

Bio

Sean Durkin and his NYUclassmates Josh Mond andAntonio Campos foundedBorderline Films in 2005,and the three rotate theroles of writer, directorand producer for their

films. While Martha Marcy MayMarlene is his first featureas a director, Durkinproduced the company’sother features, includingAfterschool and SimonKiller, which is currently inpost-production.

Captain Kirk is covering tunesShatner says he ‘was on dangerous ground’ with

his new spoken-word album Seeking Major Tom

William Shatner

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William Shatner has bold-ly ventured into a newspace-themed project: aspoken-word, cover-tunealbum that the former StarTrek captain felt was a riskwhen he recorded it.

“It’s such a departureand it’s such a reinterpre-tation of some classics thatI knew that I was on dan-gerous ground,” Shatner,80, said during a recenttelephone interview topromote Seeking MajorTom.

“For the longest time Ididn’t know whether itwas going to be acceptedor not. It seems to be tak-ing (off ).”

Out this week as a two-disc CD version as well as athree-disc vinyl edition,Seeking Major Tom fea-

tures Shatner’s trademarkspeak-sing interpretationsof classic rock favouritesand other space-themedsongs. The first tune, Ma-jor Tom (Coming Home),begins with a blast: thesound of spacecraft lift-offfollowed by pulsating ’80ssynth sounds and Shat-ner’s deadpan-to-dramaticdelivery of the lyrics.

Other songs include

Rocket Man, She BlindedMe With Science, WalkingOn The Moon, BohemianRhapsody and Iron Man.

Shatner said CleopatraRecords in Los Angeles ap-proached him about a yearago to do recitations on analbum. It wasn’t a stretch:after all, Shatner had al-ready done this type ofthing before, first with hismuch-lampooned 1968 al-bum The TransformedMan, and then with 2004’sHas Been.

“I ultimately presentedthem with this and theywere a little hesitant atfirst and then they got be-hind it,” said the Montreal-born star, who’s won twoEmmy Awards and a Gold-en Globe. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Guests

Guest artists include BradPaisley, Zakk Wylde, SherylCrow, Ritchie Blackmore,Lyle Lovett, Steve Millerand Peter Frampton. Alsofeatured are members ofthe Strokes, the Kinks andAlice in Chains.

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Cagelamentslack ofscreen timeNicolas Cage may be happyhe got to work with NicoleKidman and reunite withdirector Joel Schumacheron his new thriller Tres-pass. Yet Cage isn’t thrilledthat viewers will be able towatch the movie at homethe same day it opens in ahandful of theatres.

The story of a family ter-rorized by home intruders,Trespass debuts Friday fora limited theatrical run inNew York City, Los Ange-les, Chicago and seven oth-er major markets.

It will be available at thesame time for home view-ing through video on de-mand.

The DVD and Blu-ray re-lease follow barely twoweeks later on Nov. 1, com-pared with a typical win-dow of about four monthsbetween the time mostHollywood films open intheatres and debut onhome video.

It’s a business decisionthat will help Trespass dis-tributor Millennium Enter-tainment, an independentoutfit that does not havethe big marketing bucks ofa Hollywood studio, makethe most of its advertisingdollars.

Cage understands that,but he wishes the moviecould have a separate lifeon the big-screen before itgoes to smaller televisionand computer screens —or even tiny cellphonescreens.

“I like movies to be seenthe way the director want-ed them to be seen, whichis on the big-screen, withan audience, with theirpopcorn,” Cage said in aninterview alongside Schu-macher at September’sToronto International FilmFestival, where Trespasspremiered.

Smaller distributorssuch as Magnolia Picturesand IFC Films often releasefilms to theatres and videoon demand around thesame time.

With Academy Awardwinners Cage and Kid-man, along with directorSchumacher (Batman For-ever, A Time to Kill), Tres-pass arguably is thebiggest test yet for simul-taneous big-screen andhome releases.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Nicolas Cage is disappointed that his new film, Trespass, is being released for

home viewing at the same time it hits theatres.

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In Trespass, Cam Gigandet plays a robber who hopes to cash in on the riches of

a wealthy couple, played by Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage.

Mr. Nice Guy he’s not. If anything, 29-year-old

actor Cam Gigandet hascultivated quite a reputa-tion for playing bad guys,and he prefers it that way.

The star of Twilight andPriest makes his next ap-pearance with Trespass, ahome-invasion thrillerthat pits his character andtwo other accomplicesagainst a rich couple(played by Nicole Kidmanand Nicholas Cage) whosehouse they hope to rob formillions.

Gigandet explained whyplaying the bad guy is sosatisfying for him.

In this film, as in many others,

you end up playing the bad

guy. Why do you always get

these parts?

I enjoy it the most. I thinkthere just seems to bemore to grab onto, I guess.

You can use your imagi-nation a little bit more —whereas if they’re a goodguy or heroes, they haveto abide by a strict set ofrules and to this day Ihaven’t been able to fig-ure out how to workaround those.

Maybe just because Idon’t know how to do it.There seems to be morecreativity and imaginationinvolved in justifying whatthey do.

And yeah, that’s whatpeople hire me for, so I’lltake what I can get.

What are the key differences

from playing, say, an evil

vampire in Twilight and a

desperate robber in Trespass?

I prefer Trespass and I hada good time on Twilight.We were all so new andyoung to the experience.Even our director at thetime [Catherine Hard-

wicke] was new to direct-ing, so it was a little hap-hazard how we shot.

And having 12 young ac-tors, trying to corral everyone (was tough).

A lot of the time wasspent doing that, whereason Trespass, before weeven started shooting,there were two or threeweeks where we literallyrehearsed every single day.To be able to do that is anyactor’s dream.

While rehearsing, did

anyone have their own

stories about having their

house robbed?

Everyone would sharetheir stories, just while wewere rehearsing, andwhen you talk to everyone,surprisingly a lot of peoplehave had this happen.Even — not that this is anormal one — but I thinkNicolas Cage had someoneend up in his bedroomwhen he was sleeping andthey were naked or had apopsicle.

I haven’t gotten to thatplace yet, but I think I’mprotected enough with mymace and baseball bat.

Is your co-star Nicolas Cage as

crazy as everyone says he is?

Yes and yes. I’ll be honest. Iwas warned before work-ing with him by a few peo-ple that he’s very difficultand crazy and this and thatand he is crazy but in sucha good way.

I don’t know if it’s crazyso much as quirkiness.

He’s just out there andoutgoing and funnier thanI could’ve imagined. Ithink he’s a little misun-derstood.

He definitely has a goodsense of humour — an oddone, but a good one.

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Sara Leal, the San Diegowoman who claims she waswith Ashton Kutcher on thenight of his sixth weddinganniversary, is breaking hersilence.

“He just came up andkissed me,” Leal tells UsWeekly of her introductionto Kutcher, who she claimshad told her he was separat-ed from Demi Moore.

Leal details a late nightcavorting naked in a hottub with Kutcher and oneother woman before thepair retired to Kutcher’sbedroom in the early morn-ing. “He lost his towel and Itook my robe off,” Leal says.“Then we had sex.” And ap-parently Kutcher’s pillowtalk got political, as Lealsays he quizzed her on “up-and-coming candidates,”she remembers.

“I said Rick Perry. Heasked if I’d vote for him. Isaid I didn’t know and helaughed.”

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Though she usually can’tmake a move without pa-parazzi knowing it, Angeli-na Jolie made a secret tripto Libya this week, accord-ing to Reuters. “I havecome to Libya for a varietyof reasons, to see a countryin transition at everylevel,” Jolie said. “I will bemeeting with officials from

all sides, but above all lis-tening to the local peoplein the street. I am here toexpress solidarity withthem.”

The actress visited thecountry under her role asan ambassador for theUnited Nations refugeeagency, UNHCR.

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Your front row look atFashion Month

Sweet and pretty Just when you were begin-ning to get used to the ideaof fall’s kinky fetish wear,the fashion pendulumswung the completely op-posite way for spring.Chanel, Louis Vuitton,Valentino and Givenchy arejust a few houses thatturned out the kinds offeminine, universally ap-pealing dresses that bothyour mother and homegirlwould approve of. Think:shimmery, ethereal dressesthat resembled oystershells and lace frocks thecolour of lemon drops.

Tough and sportyThe spring summer collec-tions will hit stores in Feb-ruary, just as previewcoverage of the 2012Olympics is getting under-way. That’s five wholemonths before you get sickof all talk about The Games.So it’s no wonder that de-signers such as AlexanderWang, Stella McCartney,Nicole Farhi and Team Max-Mara showed athletic-in-spired collections completewith perforated leather,high-performance knitsand enough mesh to outfit

an entire BMX team.

The mid-centuryrevisitedLately, the fashion weekshave been unfolding like agame of guess the decade.Last season was all aboutthe ’60s. The season beforethat, the ’70s. And this timearound, Prada, Jil Sander,Rochas and Dries vanNoten were just a few thatconjured up prim, ’50sglamour. But it’s a slightlydifferent take on the

decade from the whole MadMen look that was so popu-lar two years ago. It’s a littlebit Happy Days, a little bitHitchcock. Prada’s stiff,greaser jackets, Sander’scrisp poplin dresses and Ro-chas’s full skirts made astrong case for a polished,coolly calculated approachto dressing that simplydoesn’t exist in this daywhere most women tryvery hard to look like theydidn’t put any effort intotheir appearance at all.

FlaptasticThe ’50s wasn’t the onlydecade to make a come-back for spring. Ralph Lau-ren, Marc Jacobs, Etro andGucci all served up fantasti-cal flapper collections withone key element that issure to trickle its way downto the H&Ms and Zaras ofthe world: the dropped-waist dress.

Back to AfricaThe use of African prints forspring/summer collectionsis hardly new. But this sea-son, the trend seemed toreach a tipping point withBurberry Prorsum, DonnaKaran, Michael Kors and Al-berta Ferretti, among a longlist of others, all showingprints that were inspired bythe continent in someshape or form.

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Alexa Chung is someonewho has become famousfor how she looks more sothan her day job as a tele-vision personality. She’sgot a unique thing going— a tomboyish schoolgirlpluckiness thatmiraculously manages tolook chic and modern,rather than childlike. Notevery woman can pull off aPeter Pan collar, kneesocks and loafers, but thatwon’t stop hundreds ofthousands from trying.The 28-year-old gives KateMoss a run for her moneyas the British exportwomen most want to dresslike.

How do you feel about the‘It-girl’ label? At the beginning I was un-comfortable with it. Iguess it’s my British way ofbeing wary of celebrationas it ultimately precedes afall. Before, the it-girlscene meant peoplelike Paris Hilton. Butnot anymore. Now,it’s a different vibe.People like DianeKruger, Elle Fanningand myself. I liketo think wewear clothesin an interest-ing way, andnot necessari-ly have theemphasis onsex. It’s pret-ty cool.

How do you ap-proach designfor theMadewell collec-tion?

I’m designingfor myself,rather selfishly.I don’t have avested interestto make a linethat is commer-cially viable.They’re allclothes that youcan chuck on. A

lot of my girlfriends are inbands, so I thought about

clothes that would lookgood on the tour bus,on stage and if theystopped for gas at thepetrol station.

People are alwaysdissecting your style

in magazines andon blogs. Buthow would youdescribe it? I appreciateclassicdesign, it’sclassic for areason — ashirt andblazer ispractical,comfortableand neverlooks dated.Carven is abrand thatvery much

does what Ilove, a mix of

strict mistress andschoolgirl. It’s notovertly sexy andwhen you wear ityou feel attractive.I’m more inspiredby what men wear,

people like Keith Richards,Bryan Jones and the Beat-les. If I wear a girlie partydress, I prefer wearing itwith a briefcase andbrogues, though I’m a bitbored of that right now. Isometimes wish I’d been aboy. The more I thinkabout it, the more I thinkmy tomboy side is what Iuse to assert the fact thatI’m not a push over. I guessI’d call it modern powerdressing.

How much time do youspend thinking about whatto wear each day?The key is I don’t spendtime getting ready in themorning but I do put a lotof thought into the thingsI buy. If you know whatyour style really is, itdoesn’t matter how youassemble things, you canjust mix and match and itwill always look nice.

You split your time betweenNew York and London. Whatare the biggest differences,in terms of fashion,between the two cities? People in England are lessafraid to take risks and

don’t necessarily followtrends but instigate themnaturally. The Britishhave this eccentric,enchanting and mad her-itage. In New York it’smore mixed and tamed.In England, peopleindulge in this madness.In the States, peoplewould be like, ‘Oh mygosh, what is shewearing!’

You have been a model, aTV presenter and a design-er. Which role do you feelmost comfortable with?Before I was on TV I wentto art school and if I had-n’t become a TV presen-ter I would have donedesign of some sort. It’smore my scene and whatI’m most comfortable do-ing. TV is not somethingI’m naturally good atwhereas when I’m sittingsketching in theMadewell office, it feelsnatural and easy. In theU.K. everyone is saying,‘Alexa is concentrating onher TV career’ but it’s notthat. I need the money.I’m like everyone else, TVis my job.

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Good lighting not onlyhelps brighten up a space,but also highlights the spe-cial features of each room.

Every room needs threetypes of lighting: overall,task and ambient. Here’s aroom-by-room checklist ofthe lighting needed to keepthings looking bright forthe darker months ahead.

Living room: The right typesof light can make a room ei-ther relax or come to lifewith energy. I like to filldark corners in this roomwith recess lighting that is

discretely hidden in theceiling. You can also use up-right-style floor lamp orsmall lights that shoot lightupwards.

The task lighting in a liv-ing room is primarily forreading. A small-scale el-bowed metal floor lamp isperfect for directing light

where you need it. Keep these sorts of floor

lamps on each side of a sofaand beside your favouritereading chair.

Ambient lighting addssparkle to a room and helpsto balance other stronglight sources in a room. Gofor 15-watt candlestick-style

lamps or use picture lightshung over your art work.

Kitchen: This room needs tohave great light to workwith. Overhead lighting iskey and can come in theform of recessed (pot) light-ing, or a flushmount lightfixture. Under cupboard

lighting is probably themost needed, yet most for-gotten type of lighting for akitchen.

It keeps your counterand stovetop areas illumi-nated for chopping, wash-ing dishes and otherkitchen counter tasks. Sim-ple to install, an electrician

taps into an electricalsource and wires smallpuck-shaped light fixturesunder the upper cabinets.

Dining room: This roomshould evoke pure ambi-ence. Bright overhead light-ing is good to have on hand,but a dimmer switch willdefinitely be your bestfriend when planning light-ing in this room.

The chandelier will beyour main source of light.Make sure that thewattages of chandelierbulbs add up to at least 60to 80 watts to help create astrong illumination.

The bottom of a chande-lier should hang 32 to 40inches above the table.

Other ambient lightingcould be wall sconces orpicture lights that helpwash a subtle light over theside walls in the room. Fi-nally, the ultimate ambientlight will be candles.

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When we were young,“laundry hamper” mighthave referred to the floorunder the bed.

A little later, it mayhave meant a mesh sackkept by the front door,with a pouch full of quar-ters for the laundromat.

But we are grown-upsnow. An attractive recepta-cle for the day’s castoffs isone of the small civilizedgifts we give ourselves.

It’s generally a modestinvestment that banishesthe chaos, and brings inthe calm that is the hall-mark of a well-kept home.

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With more forethought,Adam might not have bit-ten the apple and I mightnot have planted appletrees. But he did, and I did,and we each must deal withthe consequences.

For my part, I hadn’t re-alized that apple trees hadso many pest and diseaseproblems until I planted 25dwarfs.

Sure, those problems canbe fought with repeatedsprays of pesticides. Butwith a little research andplanning, an acceptablecrop of high quality applescan be harvested using littleor no pesticide.

Insect thugsThe three major insectpests for apples are the ap-ple maggot, plum curculioand codling moth. Applemaggots are the worst ofthe lot, dimpling fruits andriddling them with browntrails of burrowing larvae.

Given free rein, theymake almost every fruit toodamaged to eat.

Thankfully, the applemaggot has an Achillesheel. When this insectemerges as a fly about sixweeks after the trees havebloomed, the femalessearch around for thebiggest, reddest apples in-which to lay eggs.

Ms. Maggot can be hood-winked with fake apples:

red spheres coated with asticky material called Tan-gletrap.

Or with sacrificial realapples: Buy the firmest, red-dest Red Delicious you canfind, force a stiff wirethrough the core to hangthe apple, and coat the fruitwith Tangletrap.

(Traps of real appleseventually rot, so usuallyneed to be replaced once ortwice a season.)

One trap per dwarf tree,hung at head height inclear view, or four traps perfull-size apple tree, shouldprovide an irresistible en-ticement to the egg-layingapple maggot.

Plum curculio, which isactive during the six weeksimmediately followingbloom, can cause fruit todrop early. The traditionalway to thwart it, effective ifdone diligently, is to spreadan old sheet or dropclothbeneath each tree eachmorning, then give the treeor branches a sharp whackwith a padded mallet.

Curculios drop from thetree and play dead, atwhich point they can begathered up and destroyed.Letting chickens forage be-neath apple trees also offerssome control.

Spraying is another wayto control curculio, but in-stead of the usual chemicalpesticide sprays, use a sprayderived from nothing morethan kaolin clay.

The material, marketedunder the name Surround,leaves a white coating on

Here’s half of an apple with a codling

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thwarts codling moth, withits signature big, fat worm.

This pest is active formuch of the season, buteven unchecked, affects on-ly 25 per cent of fruits.Disease

The three worst diseases af-flicting apple trees are fireblight, cedar-apple rust andscab. Certain pesticides con-trol cedar apple rust, butspraying must begin beforeblossoms open.

Although apple insectshave cosmopolitan tastes,disease organisms arefinicky. Another way tocontrol diseases is to plant adisease-resistant variety. LEE REICH/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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This traditional pie crustplays host to thinly slicedBosc or Bartlett pears anda custard-like filling,flavoured with hints ofsweet almond.

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2 In a small bowl,combine sour creamwith vanilla and almondextracts. Add to pearmixture and mix to coat.Pour into pie shell andtop with reserved pearsin a fan pattern.

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One Flyers fan in a livelytailgate scene shouted whata demoralized Philadelphiafan base was feeling.

“Come on Flyers, you’reour only hope!”

When it comes to cham-pionships in a city definedthis month by heartbreak,he might be right.

Claude Giroux, ChrisPronger and the rest of theFlyers gave their fans amorale boost, remainingundefeated with a 5-4 victo-ry over the VancouverCanucks last night.

Andrej Meszaros scoredthe go-ahead goal in thethird period, and James vanRiemsdyk and Jakub Vo-racek also scored for theFlyers in their home open-er. Goalie Ilya Bryzgalovwon his third straight startand 10 players had a pointagainst the defending West-ern Conference champions.

The Flyers have alreadybeat both teams in lastyear’s Stanley Cup finalsand the early returns on amajor off-season overhaulare promising.

“The guys seem to fit in-to what we want to play

Jaromir Jagr, right, and Chris Pronger celebrate Pronger’s power play goal.

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Vancouver unable to inflict first defeat of the season on the new-look Flyers

right away and that’shuge,” van Riemsdyk said.

The Flyers have been aneeded bright spot in a citysuffering through a majorsports hangover because ofthe Phillies’ unexpectedelimination in the NL divi-sion series and the Eagles’miserable 1-4 start that hascoach Andy Reid under fire.

The Flyers delivered infront of nearly 20,000 fansbadly needing a reason tocheer. All the new facesshone in their first realgame. Voracek, Jaromir Jagrand first-round draft pickSean Couturier all had

points.The most valuable off-

season acquisition wasBryzgalov, who gives theFlyers their first star No. 1goalie in ages. Bryzgalovstopped all 20 shots Satur-day in a 3-0 win over NewJersey for Philadelphia’sfirst shutout since April 6,2010. He was shaky againstVancouver, as 3-1 and 4-2leads were sliced to one be-fore he allowed DanielSedin to beat him for thetying goal early in thethird.

Meszaros wasted notime putting the Flyers

back in front, this time forgood, rushing the ice andsnapping a wrister pastRoberto Luongo 59 secondslater for the winner.

Bryzgalov held off theCanucks and stopped 36shots.

Mikael Samuelsson,Henrik Sedin and ChrisHiggins scored goals forVancouver.

“We want to be playingour best game right now,we’re not happy with theway things are going,”Canucks defenceman KevinBieksa said. “We are goodenough to play a full 60

minutes. We are not doingthat. When we do play, yousee what happens outthere.”

The fans were ready togo wild and saved theirloudest cheers for Pronger,in his first home game ascaptain, and forwardWayne Simmonds. Sim-monds was involved in twopre-season dust-ups — aman threw a banana at himand he had an altercationwith Sean Avery — and thefans showed their apprecia-tion for one of the newestFlyers with a huge ovation.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Class is Full-Size Pickups over 8,500 lbs. GVWR. **Estimated fuel consumption ratings for the 2011 Ranger 4X2 4.0L V6 5-speed Manual transmission: [13.5L/100km (21MPG) City, 9.8L/100km (29MPG) Hwy]/ 2011 F-150 4X4 5.0L V6 6-speed Automatic transmission: [15L/100km (19MPG) City, 10.5L/100km (27MPG) Hwy]. Fuel consumption ratings based on Transport Canada approved test methods. Actual fuel consumption will vary based on road conditions, vehicle loading and driving habits. ‡Remember that even advanced technology cannot overcome the laws of physics. It’s always possible to lose control of a vehicle due to inappropriate driver input for the conditions. ‡‡Some mobile phones and some digital media players may not be fully compatible – check www.syncmyride.com for a listing of mobile phones, media players, and features supported. Driving while distracted can result in loss of vehiclecontrol, accident and injury. Ford recommends that drivers use caution when using mobile phones, even with voice commands. Only use mobile phones and other devices, even with voice commands, not essential to driving when it is safe to do so. SYNC is optional on most new Ford vehicles. ††© 2011 Sirius Canada Inc. “SIRIUS”, the SIRIUS dog logo, channel names and logos are trademarks of SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. and are used under licence. �Offer only valid from September 1, 2011 to October 31, 2011 (the “Offer Period”) to resident Canadians with a Costco membership on or before August 31, 2011. Use this $1,000CDN Costco member offer towards the purchase or lease of a new 2011/2012 Ford/Lincoln vehicle (excluding Fiesta, Focus, Ranger, Raptor, GT500, Mustang Boss 302, Transit Connect EV & Medium Truck) (each an “Eligible Vehicle”). The Eligible Vehicle must be delivered and/or factory-ordered from your participating Ford/Lincoln dealer withinthe Offer Period. Offer is only valid at participating dealers, is subject to vehicle availability, and may be cancelled or changed at any time without notice. Only one (1) offer may be applied towards the purchase or lease of one (1) Eligible Vehicle, up to a maximum of two (2) separate Eligible Vehicle sales per Costco Membership Number. Offer is transferable to persons domiciled with an eligible Costco member. This offer can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offersmade available by Ford Motor Company of Canada at either the time of factory order (if ordered within the Offer Period) or delivery, but not both. Offer is not combinable with any CPA/GPC or Daily Rental incentives, the Commercial Upfi t Program or the Commercial Fleet Incentive Program (CFIP). Applicable taxes calculated before $1,000CDN offer is deducted. �Program in effect from October 1, 2011 to January 3, 2012 (the “Program Period”) To qualify, customer must turnin a 2005 model year or older vehicle that is in running condition (able to start and move and without missing parts) and has been properly registered/plated or insured for the last 3 months (the “Criteria”). Eligible customers will receive [$500]/[$1,000]/[$2,500]/[$3,000] towards the purchase or lease of a new 2011/2012 Ford [Fiesta (excluding S), Focus (excluding S)]/[Fusion (excluding SE), Taurus (excluding SE), Mustang (excluding Value Leader), Escape (excluding XLT I4 Manual), Transit Connect (excluding EV), Ranger (excluding Regular Cab 4x2 XL), Edge (excluding SE), Flex (excluding SE), Explorer (excluding base)]/[F-150 (excluding Regular Cab 4x2 XL), Expedition, E-Series]/[F250-550] – all Raptor, GT500, BOSS302, and Medium Truck models excluded (each an “Eligible Vehicle”). Taxes payable before Rebate amount is deducted. To qualify: (i) customer must, at the time of the Eligible Vehicle sale, provide the Dealer with (a)suffi cient proof of Criteria, and (b) signed original ownership transferring customer vehicle to the Authorized Recycler; and (ii) Eligible Vehicle must be purchased, leased, or factory ordered during the Program Period. Offer only available to residents of Canada and payable in Canadian dollars. Offer is transferable to persons domiciled with the owner of the recycled vehicle. Offer can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offers made available by Ford at either the time of factory orderor delivery, but not both. Offer not available on any vehicle receiving CPA, GPC, or Daily Rental Rebates and the Commercial Fleet Rebate Program (CFIP). Limited time offer, see dealer for details or call the Ford Customer Relationship Centre at 1-800-565-3673. ©2011 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. All rights reserved.

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