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Christy Clark is about to intro-duce her first major policy ini-tiative since her election as pre-mier last February — a jobs planthat comes as the B.C. economyshrinks and job growth sputters.

Clark is kicking off a cross-province tour today that sees hermaking stops in Prince Rupert,Kitimat Village, Kamloops andSurrey and ends Thursday witha speech at a Vancouver Board ofTrade luncheon.

Liberal officials familiar withClark’s jobs initiative said theycould not discuss the specifics ofher plan, but were willing to pro-vide a general outline.

They said it will focus on threethemes Clark has been raising inpublic in recent months, includ-ing getting goods to market,opening new markets and mak-ing things easier for business todo business — things like chop-ping permitting backlogs.

Education and training arealso areas of focus for Clark, as

are forestry, mining, tourism,natural gas, energy, ports and air-ports, clean technology, greentechnology, agribusiness, andinternational education, said theofficials.

Clark has planned a trade mis-sion to China and India inNovember.

Helmut Pastrick, chief econo-mist at the Central 1 CreditUnion, said Clark faces a some-what daunting task as she tries tocreate jobs as the B.C. economyis battered by outside and inter-nal forces.

British Columbia’s largesttrading partner, the UnitedStates, faces an uncertain eco-nomic recovery and growingfinancial troubles in Europecould dampen the worldwidebusiness climate, he said. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Clark hits roadto sell jobs plan

Ends tour Thursday in Vancouver Plan will focus on gettinggoods to market, creating new markets, chopping red tape: Insiders

Runners lace ’em upHundreds of people took part in the annual Terry Fox Run yes-terday in Stanley Park and throughout the Lower Mainland.Story, page 3.

Terry. Fox

A young admirer checks out the new

Terry Fox sculpture outside BC Place yesterday.

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“I have spent thesummer thinking abouthow we can enable thecreation of jobs in theprovince and how wecan defend the jobsthat we have in theface of what’s going onglobally.”PREMIER CHRISTY CLARK, AFTER THEPROVINCE’S REJECTION OF THE HST

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One person can make adifference.

Terry Fox is the embodi-ment of that statement,and it wasn’t lost on morethan 650 runners whoturned out for the 31st an-nual Terry Fox Run at Stan-ley Park yesterday.

“He was a young indi-vidual who had a lot of de-termination and courageto set out to do this on hisown,” runner Eric Siriannisaid. “That’s the Canadianspirit. If you want some-thing done, you have to doit yourself and hopefullyalong the way someonewill pick up where you leftoff. That’s why we’re allhere today.”

It was the first runsince the death, in June,

of Terry’s mother, Betty,who was instrumental increating the Terry FoxFoundation.

“The run is still aboutTerry Fox, but I think it’sreally important to re-member what Betty Foxcontributed and the pas-sion she put behind thefoundation,” said run or-ganizer Bede Cocks.

Elizabeth Roy was oneof many who ran in a teamput together by the JewishCommunity Centre. Sheknows on a professionallevel how far cancer re-search has come.

“I work in cancer reha-bilitation, so I see the sig-nificant new treatments,new drugs and treatmentcentres,” she said. “Tryingto find a cure for cancer isnot just something you doin small, wealthy countriesanymore. It’s a global goal.”

‘Canadian spirit’ shines through

Runners blast out of the start gate as the 31st annualTerry Fox Run begins yesterday at Stanley Park.

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Hundreds take part in Terry FoxRun Late Betty Fox honoured too

The sculpture at BC Place brings to lifeTerry Fox’s famous gait.

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Terry’s journey etched in bronzeA sculptor who has workedon three Terry Fox memori-als, including the bronzecasting at SFU, says the newsculpture unveiled Fridayat BC Place is his favourite.

“This is the best,” saidStephen Harman, whoworked for a time-con-strained six months to re-alize Douglas Coupland’svision of four statues thatbring to life Fox’s famoushop-step gait.

“It’s amazing, and Iknew it would be,” said

Harman, who cast thebronzes and was puttingsome final touches onthem yesterday.

Since the unveiling, thestatues have been attract-ing crowds. John Pettittwas among the viewersyesterday.

“If you think about it,when he started his jour-ney out East, he was un-known, but now he’slarger than life,” Pettittsaid of the figures that be-come progressively larger

toward the road. Lee Turner, a three-time

cancer survivor and dis-abled runner, could relateto the struggle and tri-umph the bronzes capture.She said Terry Fox has beena source of inspiration.

“He kept me motivatedand inspired me,” saidTurner, who completedboth the short and longroutes of the Terry FoxRun this year despite hav-ing to wear restrictiveknee braces. CHELSEA ALTICE

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Tiqa, the VancouverAquarium’s young belugawhale, died early Friday ofpneumonia, according topreliminary necropsy re-sults.

Veterinarian Dr. MartinHaulena spent most of Fri-day conducting Tiqa’snecropsy at the Ministryof Agriculture AnimalHealth Centre in Abbots-ford.

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Tiqa died at about 5:45 a.m. An hour earlier,a man climbed down intothe beluga pool enclosurebut quickly climbed backout after staff scared himoff.

Vancouver police weredispatched after the re-ported intrusion, butaquarium staff said thebreak-in did not appear tobe connected to thewhale’s death.

Tiqa is the third youngbeluga to die at the aquar-ium since 2005. Last year,one-year-old Nala died af-ter two rocks and a pennyblocked her airway, andTuvaq died in 2005 justdays before his thirdbirthday.

But aquarium veterinarian still looking for the underlying cause ofyoung whale’s death Earlier break-in likely not linked, officials say

Tiqa the baby beluga died early Friday.

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Cat manglerstrikes inMaple RidgePolice are warning petowners in the Maple Ridgearea to be vigilant abouttheir animals’ safety as agruesome crime spreeshocks the community.

Three severed cat headshave been found on

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All of the remains werefound within a two-kilometre radius of eachother around 232nd Street.

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Womandies afterhotel fallVancouver police are in-vestigating the death ofa 50-year-old womanwho fell from the sixth-floor window of a Down-town Eastside hotelFriday night, the sameplace where anotherwoman fell to her deathexactly one year ago.

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Charging into battleRockets and mortars rained down on the positionwhere the revolutionaries had retreated on theoutskirts of the mountainous stronghold of MoammarGadhafi’s loyalists. So, in a fury, the fighters chargedwildly yesterday back into the city for yet another dayof fighting.

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Libyan fighters chant slogans as they take control of Moammar Gadhafi loyalists’ villages in the desert 750 kilometres south of Tripoli at Gohta, Libya, yesterday.

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A man looks on from a damaged house

after an earthquake yesterday in Bhaktapur,

Nepal, on the outskirts of Katmandu.

NIRANJAN SHRESTHA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Quake rocks India, NepalAction plan

Indian Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh

summoned the National

Disaster Management Au-

thority for an emergency

meeting.

The death toll from astrong earthquake innortheastern India andNepal climbed to 23 today,but police said the full ex-tent of the damage in the

remote region was notknown.

The quake, with a pre-liminary magnitude of 6.9,struck at 6:10 p.m. yester-day local time, triggering

landslides, damaging build-ings and sending peoplerushing into the streets.The shaking was felt as faraway as Bangladesh and Ti-bet. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rescuers search for people trapped under rubble

Ex-Air Canadapilot, wifekilled in Renoair show crashA former Air Canada pilotand his wife were amongnine people killed inNevada after a 1940s-eraplane crashed during an airshow.

George Hewitt, 60, andhis wife Wendy, 57, weresitting with a group of vin-tage military plane ownerswhen a P-51 Mustangcrashed near a grandstandat the Reno air show on Fri-day, killing them instantly.

The couple reportedlyhad moved recently fromWashington to FortMohave, Ariz., after Hewittretired. He was born inWinnipeg and flew as a pi-lot with Air Canada forabout 40 years.THE CANADIAN PRESS

ePassportscould carryhefty price tag The first version ofCanada’s new electronicpassport carries a heftyprice tag — an ominoussign that the generalversion being issued latenext year might cost tripleor more what Canadianspay today.

Since January 2009 thefederal government has is-sued 40,000 so-calledePassports to governmentofficials and diplomats.

An expense claim filedby Prime Minister StephenHarper indicates the costof the diplomatic versionis far more than the $87that adult Canadians paynow. Harper purchasedfour diplomatic ePassportsfor himself, his wife andtwo children, at $225 each.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Defence chiefscoffs at paybackOTTAWA. The country’stop military commanderhas dismissed asuggestion from theprime minister that hepay back taxpayers forhis personal use ofgovernment jets.

Chief of Defence StaffGen. Walter Natynczyksays he uses the air force’sChallenger jets as part ofhis command-and-liaisonrole and sees no reasonthe public treasury needsto be reimbursed.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Pilot dies inultralight crash MIDDLE MUSQUODOBOIT,N.S. A man died after hisultralight plane crashedinto a pond near MiddleMusquodoboit, N.S.

The RCMP says thesmall plane plunged 150metres into the water asseveral people looked on.Cpl. Scott MacRae says the60-year-old man took offin his ultralight from hisnearby property and wasin the air for only a shorttime. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Warning overvisa for MexicansOTTAWA. Senior bureau -crats warned the Harpergovernment that impos-ing a new visa on Mexicantravellers would overloadCanada’s diplomatic cap-acity. The deputy minis-ters of Foreign Affairs andInternational Trade offer-ed that assessment in July2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The tiny country known forsun-baked islands and his-toric ruins seems unlikelyas the trigger for the nextglobal economic tsunami.

Yet just as the startlingcollapse of Lehman was fol-lowed by the worst reces-sion in six decades, a Greekdefault has the potential tosend the world tumbling.

Already owing about 150per cent its annual econom-ic output, Greece has said ithas enough cash to carry itsdebt to mid-October, bywhich time it will needabout $8 billion to stave off

default. Eventually, its part-ners in the 17-country euro-zone will balk at extendingmore of their money.

“I think at the end of theday, it’s up to Greece.Greece has to fulfil its com-mitments not only to theeurozone but also to theIMF,” said Finance MinisterJim Flaherty to CTV.

According to Paul Taylor,chief investment officerwith BMO Harris PrivateBanking, the danger toCanada’s economy is what adefault does to confidenceand credit. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Greece must stepup, Flaherty says

Oswald Gruebel, the chiefexecutive of UBS, has dis-missed calls for his resigna-tion as politically

motivated, even as theSwiss banking giant raisedits estimated loss by a roguetrader to $2.3 billion US, up

from $2 billion when newsof the scandal first brokelast Thursday.

UBS also confirmed that

the trader, 31-year-oldKweku Adoboli, was al-ready under investigation.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

UBS puts trading-scandal losses at $2.3B

Even as President BarackObama prepares his open-ing bid on long-term debtreduction, the White Housewants to keep the focus onjobs and is determined toavoid getting sucked intoanother budget fight withlawmakers.

Administration officialssee the task of attending todeficits as necessary but notnecessarily urgent, com-pared with the need to re-vive the economy andincrease employment. TheWhite House also sees thisas the time to draw sharp

contrasts with Republicans. So when Obama an-

nounces at least $2 trillionin deficit reduction meas-ures today, he is not expect-ed to offer all thecompromises he reachedwith House Speaker JohnBoehner in July.

The plan represents aneconomic bookend to the$447 billion in tax cuts andnew public works spendingthat Obama has proposedto as a short-term measureto stimulate the economyand create jobs. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jobs over austerity: ObamaPlan proposes minimum tax rate

for earners of more than $1 million U.S. President Barack Obama gestures as he

speaks about his American Jobs Act legislation

last Wednesday in Raleigh, N.C.

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As markets head intothe final two weeks ofwhat is historically theworst trading month ofthe year, consumers,businesses and investors

around the world are try-ing to glean any signs ofanother global recession.

The Federal ReserveOpen Market Committeeis set to meet tomorrowand Wednesday — butit’s highly unlikely theFed will touch its keylending rate, given that itpledged not to raise ratesuntil at least 2013.

Fed chairman BenBernanke has given nohints of measures thatmay be taken to combatprospects of a recession.A “range of options” willbe considered, he said.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Local tweetsBELUGA WHALEDEATH ACLAMMY ISSUE

It must be tough being a ba-by beluga.

Especially if you’re born ina fishbowl.

First, you have to beadorable like the baby belugain the Raffi song or like the

plush toys they sell in the gift shop of theVancouver Aquarium.

Then you have to have a cool, First Na-tions-sounding name, like Tiqa. It helps ifit has “Q” in it.

Then you have to make it toadulthood, and if the fishbowl you’re

born in happens to be the Vancouver Aquarium, theodds of that happening aren’t good — three baby belu-gas have died in the past six years.

A total of five have born been born at the aquariumincluding Tiqa’s mother, Qila, since 1995, and three

have died. You have a 60per cent chance of notmaking it.

Tiqa was the latest fish-bowl beluga to die, on Fri-day morning, ofpneumonia, or someunderlying cause. At thistime, the underlying causeremains a mystery, butwho knows? Maybe three-year-old Tiqa faced spend-ing his 25- to 30-year lifespan as an adorablemarketing device and justgave up the ghost.

In the wild, belugasrange the oceans,migrating from the Arcticto warmer southern watersin the winter. In the aquari-um, belugas swim fromone end of the fishbowl tothe other, and then repeat.I have no idea what thatfeels like if you’re a beluga,but I suspect it’s like spend-ing your entire existence ina 350-square-foot studioapartment. At least there

are always plenty of snacks.Animal-rights activists always sound so sure of them-

selves: We have no right to keep these enormous, intelli-gent creatures in aquariums. They belong in the wild.End of argument. Just watching them swim around incircles, it’s tough to argue.

But who knows? Maybe belugas are slacker whalesand like dwelling in the marine equivalent of a couch.Certainly, it’s no haven out there. If the killer whales orthe polar bears don’t get you, the humans will, armedwith their pointy sticks and pollution. As aquarium CEOJohn Nightengale points out, belugas have a 50-50chance of survival in the wild, which apparently meansit’s OK to raise them in a fishbowl.

Maybe it is, but when they insist on dying, their valueas adorable marketing devices is limited. Maybe theaquarium should just give up on the idea and stick tothe lower forms of life. I mean, who cares if yourmollusc dies? You just get a new clam and carry on.

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“Tiqa was thelatest fishbowl

beluga to die, onFriday morning,

of pneumonia, orsome underlying

cause. At thistime, the

underlying causeremains a

mystery, but whoknows? Maybethree-year-old

Tiqa facedspending his 25-

to 30-year lifespan as anadorable

marketing deviceand just gave up

the ghost.”

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Why are people starvingto death in Somalia,Ethiopia and Kenya? The world has no short-age of food. Americans,Canadians andEuropeans are dying ofdiabetes, cholesterol andobesity. The westerncountries are consumingtoo much food at the ex-pense of the rest of theplanet. Just to feed ourappetite for meatrequires huge amountsof agricultural land togrow plant-based feed tofatten livestock animals.

We are on adownward spiral. Wetreat our pet rocks andgardens better than chil-dren and people experi-encing real humansuffering.

Decisions are made allfor the sake of money,power and privilege, orshould I say control of oiland resources.

I hate to go all Jesus onyou, but Christ did saythat it is easier for acamel to go through aneye of a needle than arich man to enter theKingdom of God. Thisbiblical quote makes a lotof sense. Greed is a sinand it has played a majorpart in shaping the worldand its citizens intoeither haves or have nots. ALEX SANGHADELTA, B.C.

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Recoveredmessage in abottle a ‘miracle’A Japanese teenager expressed hergratitude yesterday after a U.S. sailorin Hawaii found a bottle she hadtossed into the sea off Japan’ssouthern coast as a child.

Saki Arikawa, 17, said she hadalmost forgotten about the bottle andinitially couldn’t believe it was foundafter five years.

She said “it’s a miracle” the bottlewas found. “It’s incredible,” she said.

The clear glass bottle was foundThursday by Navy Petty Officer JonMoore during a beach cleanup at thePacific Missile Range Facility on Kauaiisland.

The bottle contained four origamicranes — symbols of peace in Japan —as well as a photo of Arikawa’selementary school class and a notedated March 25, 2006, and signed byArikawa saying she wanted it to be “agraduation memory.”

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There are few actors thatcan upstage legendary Os-car-winning thespian Mor-gan Freeman. But ofcourse that’s exclusivelyincluding human actors. Inhis latest movie, Free-man’s co-star is a dolphin.

“That’s why they playsuch big roles (in ourlives),” said Freeman re-cently about the animals’natural acting ability.“And it’s like they’re doingtheir own thing — you

don’t know if they’retrained to do this stuff or ifthey’re showing off. I’mfascinated by them be-cause I’ve seen them dostuff like that in the wild.”

Specifically, Freeman istalking about Winter, thecharming subject and starof this Friday’s release ofDolphin Tale, an inspiringstory of a young marinemammal that was savedwith the use of a prosthet-ic after losing its tail in atragic accident.

“I think this is a particu-larly special dolphin,” in-

sisted director CharlesMartin Smith. “She has somuch personality andshe’s such a character.She’s basically the equiva-lent of a human 10-year-old … when I first startedworking on the script forthis I sat with her for threedays and watched her and(observed) all the thingsthat she does that I couldwrite into the script.”

Among those traits in-cluded some interestinghuman-like habits andeven an affinity for humancontact. For Freeman, it

was an agreeable improve-ment on some of his previ-ous co-stars.

“I worked with a bearone time and the guy said‘don’t look him in the eye’.That’s a note I need —don’t look the damn thingin the eye,” laughed Free-man. “(Winter) has been inthis aquarium for most ofher life and even if she waswild, it wouldn’t botherme because somehow itappears that (dolphins)have the same kind ofaffinity for us as we havefor them.”

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Morgan Freeman on his

love of animal movies:

“The first book I ever readwas about a horse — BlackBeauty — and I was lost inanimal stories after that,”said Freeman. “We have akind of symbiosis with ani-mals that we interactwith.”

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It’s 1994 all overagain, with a re-release of The LionKing opening at thetop of the box office.A 3D version of theDisney favouriteearned a surprising$29.3 million in itsfirst weekend in the-atres, according toSunday estimates.Last week’s No. 1movie, Contagion,dropped a spot in itssecond weekend.Drive came in at No. 3with just over $11million.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Fleshing out femalecharacters on television

Whitney Cummings as Whitney and Chris D’Elia

as Alex in the new comedy series Whitney.

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When provocative comedywriter and performer Whit-ney Cummings was devel-oping her own self-titledseries, she didn’t have todig deep into her imagina-tion to come up with aunique lead role.

Her own life was alreadyfar different from those ofthe female characters shewas seeing in most TVcomedies, and seemed arich source from which tomine funny stories that hergeneration could relate to,she says.

“I found myself not find-ing anyone on TV, exceptfor maybe Tina Fey, who Ithought was a strong, fun-ny, outspoken woman whois in charge,” the 29-year-old statuesque standup star,who lives in Los Angeles,said during a recent stop inthe city.

Debuting today on CTVand Thursday on NBC, themulti-camera comedyWhitney sees the witty andwhip-smart Cummingsplaying a character basedon herself.

“Most TV showshave women on thesidelines andwomen are thesetups for the jokesand very one-dimensional, sothat kind of boredme, and there werenot a lot of womenon TV for womento look up to.”WHITNEY CUMMINGS

Charlie Sheen seems tohave buried the hatchet.

Appearing on Thurs-day’s Tonight Show, theformer star of Two and aHalf Men radiated a for-giving mood toward hisold workplace.

Asked by host Jay Lenoif he’s still angry at thesitcom’s producers andnetwork, he said no: Hewould have fired himselfhad he been in their

shoes. Then he added with a

laugh, “Well, maybe notlike they did.”

Sheen was dumpedlast March after the actorrailed against his bosses,and they blasted him forhis unpredictable behav-iour as a drug-abusing,reckless playboy.

“It was bad,” Sheensaid, summing up theclash, “and I own my

part in that, and I justwant to make everythingright.”

Asked why he thoughthe should have beenfired, Sheen explained, “Ishould have been a littlemore responsible aboutthe condition I was show-ing up in.”

He told Leno he hasnot had any contact withhis former castmates,but said he felt no ani-

mosity toward them. His formerly strained

relationship with his fa-ther, actor Martin Sheen,is “totally repaired,” hesaid. “We’re buddiesagain.”

The hit CBS comedyreturns for a new seasontoday with Ashton Kutch-er as Sheen’s replace-ment.

He praised Kutcher asbeing “accomplished,”

and when asked if he hadany advice for his succes-sor, he said he’d like togive him a hug and tellhim, “Make me proud,dude.”

Sheen was also inter-viewed on Friday’s edi-tion of Today.

These appearancesplug a Comedy Centralroast of him that will beairing today.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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I should have been fired, says Charlie Sheen

Whitney Cummings hopes new show challenges female TV stereotypes

In the debut episode, sheand her boyfriend, Alex(Chris D’Elia), attend a wed-ding, where Whitney com-

mits several faux pas. Theepisode also sees Whitneytrying to put the spark backin her relationship with

Alex by seducing him — amove that proves disas-trous.

Co-stars include Zoe Lis-

ter-Jones and Rhea Seehorn,who play Whitney’s friends.

Cummings, who is alsoexecutive producer of theseries, said several of Whit-ney’s missteps are based onher own gaffes.

“Yeah, that’s me. I’mpretty much a moron. ... Lu-cille Ball is one of my he-roes,” said Cummings, whomodelled while growing upin the Washington, D.C.,area and got into standupcomedy after graduatingfrom university.

Unlike many femalecharacters onscreen, Whit-ney is in no rush to get mar-ried and questions theinstitution of monogamyand other relationship tra-ditions.

Cummings said she’s in aserious relationship in reallife but witnessed a lot of di-vorce in her family, and shewanted Whitney to reflect ageneration “who is fullyaware of the statistics thathalf of all marriages end.”

Cummings said Whitneyalso reflects her group offriends who are independ-ent and picky. And unlikemany female comedy char-acters, Whitney doesn’temasculate her spouse andactually wants to sleep withhim, she noted.

“It’s like, since when dowomen not like sex? I don’tunderstand that. Like, whatis that?” THE CANADIAN PRESS

Join (or found) ababysitting co-op “We started a co-op in myneighbourhood, and we cur-rently have about 25 familiessigned up. Everyone starts with80 points, and sits are fourpoints an hour. So when you sit,you earn points; when you goout, you ‘pay.’ I’m having a sit-ter twice next week!” —Alexia

Do playdate swapswith other families “My moms’ club set up a systemwhere all the kids have a longplay date at one family's housewhile the other moms get to goout and have fun. Each set of

parents get three or four hoursto themselves every week.”—Rebecca

Bring your babyalong to an outdoorevent (where cryingshould be less of anissue) “When she was little, we tookour daughter to drive-inmovies. She’d fall asleep in hercar seat and we could watch themovie. It was a great way to getout of the house.”—Nancy

“My son napped in his strollerthrough an entire outdoor JoanJett concert at a state fair. Wejust put in earplugs.”—Roseanne

Seek out a baby-

friendly happy hour Many bars in large Americancities are hosting special after-noons with kids’ activities in or-der to attract families duringslow times. “Nectar Bar [in NewYork City] does a monthly Fri-day happy hour with appetizersand babysitting. It’s how we getout of the house!”—Sarah

Attend a kids’ eventthat also offersgrown-up fun“We started going to BabyLoves Disco [a family dance par-ty that tours all over the U.S.]before my baby could evencrawl. But we liked the retromusic, and there was tons ofstuff for parents, like massagesand cocktails, so my husbandand I had a blast, too.” Similar

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Her lengthy resume ofnewsmaker interviews in-cludes presidents and topathletes, but Katie Couricsees her greatest profes-sional accomplishments ina deeply personal cause —raising awareness of coloncancer. The disease claimedthe life of Couric’s hus-band, Jay Monahan, whodied in 1998 at age 42.

As co-anchor of NBC’smorning show Today,Couric memorably under-went an on-air colonoscopymore than a decade ago,which was credited for aspike in screenings follow-

ing her examination. In the years since, she

has continued to be achampion of the cause.

“Being an advocate forraising money for cancerresearch and for increasingawareness and for gettingpeople to take charge oftheir own well-being andhealth — it’s resulted inlives being saved,” said theaffable Couric in an inter-view at a downtown hotel.

“People come up to meand say: ‘I was screened forcolon cancer because ofyou and it saved my life.’And I think that that has

been such a gift for me tobe able to pay forward, ifyou will, in the wake of atragedy involving my hus-band who died way toosoon and of a disease that— if detected early — canbe cured.”

Couric was in Torontothis week for a dinner atMax Mara’s new flagshipboutique to be celebratedfor her philanthropicwork, including her role inhelping to establish The JayMonahan Center for Gas-trointestinal Health.

Couric left the anchordesk at the CBS Evening

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The creator and star of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphiagains 50 pounds — for ‘art’

The new season of It’s Al-ways Sunny in Philadelphiapremiered in America thisweek, and there was some-thing different about thecharacter of Mac.

He’s more like a Big Mac.Creator/star Rob McElhen-ney packed on a whopping50 pounds for Season 7 —all in the name of art.

Inspired by the actors in“a very popular sitcom” get-ting “new hair and newteeth” as seasons pro-

gressed, McElhenney decid-ed to take the foundingethos of Sunny one step fur-ther.

Or, one giant leap be-yond common sense.

“I always thought thatwhat we were trying to dowith Sunny is a sort of de-construction of the sitcom,”he says. “So instead of mak-ing the characters as like-able as possible, we’vealways tried to make themas unlikeable as possible. Ithought maybe the samecould be done with the aes-thetics. … I tried to look asugly as possible, basically.”

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In real life, McElhenneygot advice from Philadel-phia Phillies baseball starChase Utley, who has ap-peared on the show.

He mentioned that heworks with a sports nutri-tionist whose specialty isbulking up linemen.

The actor soon signed upfor a similar weight gain

plan that required seriousdiscipline.

“You need to eat about5,000 calories a day to puton that kind of weight,” hesays. “Over the course offive months I ate ... fivemeals [per day] at 1,000calories each.”

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Lifehouse trying to ‘cleanse the palate’Metro recently spoke to singer Jason Wade Band wants to be fresh

Los Angeles-based group

Lifehouse burst onto thescene in 2001 with HangingBy A Moment, the first sin-gle off their debut albumNo Name Face, and sincethen, they’ve recorded four

more albums and have an-other in the works.

We spoke to lead singerJason Wade about his writ-ing process, the new albumand how he’s spending his

off-stage time in Beantown.

So how has your soundchanged since your earliermaterial?The last album, I did quite a

bit more co-writing. In theearly days I wrote predomi-nately by myself, so I havebeen going through a tran-sition over last two or threeyears learning how to co-write a little bit more, butnow we’re back in the stu-dio doing demos and I amstarting to write by myselfquite a bit more.

And that can be tiringand wearing on you as well.You always feel that you arejust bleeding on this canvasfor everybody to analyze, soit was refreshing not usingmy own relationships forthe world to see.

What’s your song-writingprocess like? It is different every time forme and it is still evolvingover the years. I will startwith the melody sometimesand I will wait for the lyricsto come to me. Sometimes Iwill wake up in the middleof the night with a lyricidea. I am always trying tostay sensitive when that in-spiration hits, because Ifind when I try to just sitdown and write a song itdoesn’t really happen.

I feel like we are at thatpoint in our career wherewe’ve written so manysongs that we have to trick(ourselves) and I am tryingto write more on the bassand the piano just to try toget outside of my own littletricks that I have learnedover the years.

How’s the new record coming along?It is going good. We are justin the process now of doingdemos and I am transition-ing into writing more bymyself and channellingsome of the earlier Life-house music. I really don’twant to put too much pres-sure on it and rush it andjust make a record like ourprevious albums just be-cause they did well.

I really want to makesure that what we are doingis inspired and fresh. I amjust trying to cleanse thepalate and start over andpretend like it is just ourfirst album.

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Brad Pitt is doing damagecontrol after he madesome less-than-complimentary remarksto Entertainment Weeklyabout life with JenniferAniston.

“It started feeling pa-thetic. It became veryclear to me that I was in-tent on trying to find amovie about an interest-ing life, but I wasn’t livingan interesting life myself,”Pitt told the magazine.

“I think that my mar-riage (to Aniston) hadsomething to do with it.Trying to pretend the mar-

riage was something thatit wasn’t.”

But Pitt insists he’sbeen taken out of context.

“It grieves me that thiswas interpreted this way,”Pitt says in a statement.

“Jen is an incrediblygiving, loving and hilari-ous woman who remainsmy friend. It is an impor-tant relationship I valuegreatly. The point I wastrying to make is not thatJen was dull, but that Iwas becoming dull to my-self — and that, I am re-sponsible for.”

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Eva has somebig shoes to fillRyan Gosling’s rumouredgirlfriend, EvaMendes, hasa lot to liveup to.

“I hadtwo of thegreatestgirlfriendsof all time.I haven’t metanybody whocould top them,”Gosling

says of exes Sandra Bullockand Rachel McAdams, ac-cording to Hollyscoop.

Plus, any relationshipnow takes a backseat to hiscareer. “There’s interest,but I’m in a committed re-lationship with film. I’mgiving as much to it as amarriage,” he says.

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Maybe David and VictoriaBeckham aren’t done hav-ing kids after all, as thesoccer star hinted to EllenDeGeneres that they’d bewelcome to another baby.

“If we were luckyenough to have anotherone, it would be great,” hesaid.

“We always spoke abouthaving a big family. Welove children.

“We are very blessed to

have four healthy chil-dren, so if one comesalong that would be amaz-ing.”

DeGeneres pointed outthat another child wouldmake five, bringing themto a family of seven,David’s lucky number.

“What can I say? I lovethe number seven,” he re-sponded.

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Forget posing,just playIt’s a general rule that kidshate a photo shoot. You doget the rare ham wholoves to pose, but it oftengets goofy. I prefer to letkids play in a familiar en-vironment and catch themhaving fun. If kids are hav-ing fun, they will most

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Get an SLRThere are wonderfulpoint-and-shoot camerasout there, but to get trulygreat results, nothingbeats a digital SLR. Andthe market these days isfull of affordableconsumer cameras. Throwit on the portrait automat-ic setting to start, or getbrave and play with it in

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Squash gets you fall readyThis Squash Crumble will work as a side dish or even as a tasty dessert

The natural sweetness ofbutternut squash makes ita wonderfully versatile in-gredient. This spiced andbaked dish, for example,can be served as a sweetside alongside a roast andthe traditional fixings ortopped with ice cream fora delicious dessert.

Preparation:

1 Heat oven to 180 C (350F). Coat a 23-by-33-cm(9-by-13-inch) bakingdish with cooking spray.

2 To make filling, in bowlmix brown sugar, corn-starch, salt, cinnamonand nutmeg. Set aside.

3 Bring pot of water toboil. Add squash andcook 6 minutes, or untiljust tender. Drain thor-oughly. In bowl, mixsquash and apples. Addbrown sugar mixture,toss well; transfer every-

thing to baking dish.

4 To make topping, in afood processor combineflour, sugar, cinnamonand salt. Add butter andpulse until mixresembles coarse

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This Squash Crumble serves eight.

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Ingredients:

Filling:• 45 ml (3 tbsp) brown sug-ar• 15 ml (1 tbsp) cornstarch• Pinch salt• 2 ml (1/2 tsp) cinnamon• 1 ml (1/4 tsp) nutmeg• 1 butternut squash (about900 g or 2 pounds), peeled,seeded and cut into 2.5 cm(1-inch) chunks• 3 baking apples (such asGranny Smith), peeled,cored and cut into smallchunks

Topping:• 250 ml (1 cup) all-purposeflour• 125 ml (1/2 cup) granulat-ed sugar• 2 ml (1/2 tsp) cinnamon• Pinch salt• 75 ml (5 tbsp) butter, cold• 125 ml (1/2 cup) pecans

Of roasted tomatoes & sausageFall inspires many to getback into the kitchen.Now, if only it somehow al-so created lots of extratime to do that.

This ridiculously easypasta topped with roastedtomatoes, green peppers,garlic and sausage is agreat example. Dumpeverything on a rimmedbaking sheet, toss it in theoven, then go outside andplay in the leaves. A littlewhile later, boil up somepasta, spoon the “sauce”over it, top with gratedParmesan and you’re done.

To make this dish evenmore weeknight friendly,it’s extremely versatile.Use whatever tomatoesyou have handy. Ditto for

the peppers and pasta vari-ety. And don’t hesitate toadd other vegetables.

Preparation:

1 Heat the oven to 150 C(300 F). Then on rimmedbaking sheet, combinethe tomatoes, garlic,peppers, red onions,mushrooms, sausageand carrots. Drizzle theoil over the vegetables,then sprinkle with theoregano and basil. Useyour hands to toss thevegetables and sausageuntil coated, then spread in an even layer.

2 Place in the oven androast for 40 minutes.Walk away and do

something fun for thefirst 20 minutes.

3 Bring pot of salted waterto boil. Add spaghettiand cook according topackage directions.Drain, then divide

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Ingredients:• 500 ml (1 pint) cherrytomatoes, halved• 4 cloves garlic• 2 green bell peppers,cored, cut into thick strips• 1 large red onion, roughlychopped• 250 ml (8-oz) packagewhite button mushrooms• 375 ml (12-oz) packagecooked Italian chicken

sausage, cut into 1-inchchunks• 4 large carrots, peeledand cut into 1.3-cm (1/2-inch) chunks• 45 ml (3 tbsp) olive oil• 5 ml (1 tsp) dried oregano• 5 ml (1 tsp) dried basil• salt and black pepper• 450 g (1 lb) spaghetti• Grated Parmesan cheese• 60 ml (1/4 cup) toastedpine nuts

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This pasta recipe serves six.

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New book shows how to find stuff for your yard without making a trip to a store Learn what you can do

Reclaiming the backyard

This walkway is made from scrap steel plates and

remnant cedar planks from a fence.

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Trash talk has helpedMatthew Levesque fashionan inventive career in gar-den design.

He holds “creativereuse” workshops, and his“yardscaping” creationsmade from locally avail-

able items have becomeausterity-chic collectibles.

“I’m trying to get peoplethinking about alternative

sources for their materi-als,” said Levesque, authorof The Revolutionary Yard-scape. “Lots of landscape

people are beginning topay attention.”

A slumping economy isforcing consumers to be asimaginative about findinglandscaping supplies asthey are about using them.Levesque is a master atcrafting yard decor fromcast-off materials that oth-erwise would stuff land-fills or litter vacant lots. Heturns toolboxes intoplanters, and makes walk-ways from tumbled, recy-cled glass. He uses doorsfor fences and links smallceramic tubes into rainchains, a substitute fordownspouts.

“It’s the art of usingwhat we’ve got,” saidLevesque, who also oper-ates what he describes as a“thrift store for houseparts” in San Francisco. “Iuse my garden as a testkitchen, trying things outto see if they work.”

Ignore the cookie-cuttergarden furnishings sold atbig box stores and nurs-eries, Levesque said. In-stead, reclaim buildingmaterials with recogniz-ably local origins so you

can make one-of-a-kindstatements.

“What is a flowerpotbut a hole with a bottomand sides? Through reuse,a great many things can fitthat description,” he said.

Where should you lookfor reclaimable buildingsupplies? Salvage yards aregreat spots to start,Levesque said.

“They generally offergoods at reasonable prices,and often the proceeds goto an affiliated non-profitendeavour,” he said.

“This is a quick place tofind beautiful old win-dows, doors, racks of sheetmetal and other usefulstuff.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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One of our country’s wealthiest businessmen came from humble beginnings

Jim Pattison believes that to be successful in the business

world you must learn to let go of certain ideas and to

interpret change as a window of opportunity.

Tough times

Jim Pattison’s 10 tips for

surviving a downturn.

1 Out of adversity andchange comes opportu-nity for something new.

2 Be alert and keep youreyes open.

3 Find the resources tomake it happen.

4 Have the best price and quality to becompetitive on a worldwide basis.

5 Conduct yourself withintegrity.

6 Don’t worry aboutthings you can’t control.

7If timing is on your sideyou have a chance

8Treat people the wayyou want to be treated.

9We all make mistakesbut the key is not to“live” with yourmistakes.

10Know when it’s timeto move on

He is a super-star entrepre-neur andaccording toForbes, isworth $5.8billion. JimPattison hascome a long

way from growing up inpoverty and watching hisfamily struggle to makeends meet.

He bought a car dealer-ship in Vancouver, got intoleasing and then moved onto media, the food industryand other ventures.

Today, the Jim PattisonGroup is Canada’s thirdlargest privately ownedcompany, but when I askhim to share his story hestops me quickly.

“At our company wedon’t talk about our-selves,” he says quietly.“We’re not fancy and wedidn’t do much different.We just worked hard.”

After much cajoling, I fi-nally convince him to talkabout business and the af-fable billionaire is willingto share his thoughts onhow to survive in a chal-lenging economy.

“When there’s lots ofchange in the world

there’s also lots of opportu-nity. You have to follow upon the opportunities. Ifyou stick with what youbelieve in you’ll be success-ful.

But it’s all about hardwork and timing.

There’s no sense inbashing your head againstthe wall if it’s not goinganywhere.

There are a lot of peoplewith good ideas but if it’snot commercially viablethere’s no sense stickingwith something that isn’tgoing well.”

Pattison cautions every-one to be realistic in an

economic downturn and torealize that every situationis unique.

What works in New-

foundland may not fly inB.C.

What’s the bottom linefrom one of the best entre-

preneurs ever to emergefrom Canada?

“If you work hard and

be honest then you’ll besuccessful and that’s aboutas simple as it gets.”

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Three key ways to jinx a job You already know to spell-check your resumé andgive a nice firm hand-shake, but these days,there’s a lot more be-tween you and your newgig. Tony Lee, publisher ofCareerCast.com, adviseson the biggest red flagsrecruiters encounter.

Being too casual

Sometimes, being yourlovable, charming self is-n’t the best approach.

“One of the biggestproblems is people thinkof themselves as beingpretty smart, so theythink they can wing it —they’ll impress companiesand interviewers and re-cruiters just by beingthemselves,” says Lee.

“But you really need tobe ready to show whyyou’re the best candidateand are ready for the job.Make sure you’re not toocasual in your approach.”

Submitting a general

application

Even if the positionsyou’re applying for aresimilar, take the time topersonalize each coverletter and resumé — it’llmake you stand out fromthe majority of applicantswho don’t.

“One of the biggestcomplaints we hear fromemployers is that candi-dates aren’t very savvyabout applying for jobs,”

says Lee. “They fire off thesame application forevery job without tailor-ing it for that position,and without carefullylooking for an opportuni-ty that you’d be successfulat.”

Not explaining gaps in em-

ployment

If you haven’t been work-ing, you’re far from alone.But it’s important to ac-count for that time to prospective employers. “They’re afraid that if

you’ve been out of workfor a couple years thanyou’ve fallen into badhabits. What you have toshow is that you’ve beenactive,” says Lee.

“If you can show thatin the last year youhelped manage threeevents at your children’sschools that helped raiseover $20,000, it showsthat you’ve been active.”

Advice? Do some Google

housekeeping

You can clean up yourFacebook profile, but ifyour Google search re-sults aren’t flattering,that’s a little more diffi-cult to work around.

One easy diversion thatLee suggests is to inviteemployers to visit yourpolished LinkedIn orGoogle+ profile so theydon’t have to search.”

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A little too casual, too cocky, too tense about your online profile? You’ll be

waiting a heck of a lot longer for that callback.

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In the age of auto-spellcheck, it’s temptingto thumb out double-timememos with no regard forthe art of spelling.

Still, career counsellorswarn, your lack of SMSmanners could cost you.

“People are losing theart of putting together acomplete couple of sen-tences,” says career coachSue Thompson. “You needto consider to whom areyou writing.”

“It’s all about buildingrapport,” agrees ShirinKhamisa, founder of Ca-

reers By Design. If your emails are re-

sponded to with snap-pish, unpunctuatedreplies — no “Hey, howare you,” no “Nice to hearfrom you” — then youmight, she suggests, keepyour correspondence curt.

“But if it’s a person

who has a more personaltouch, then I would recip-rocate,” she adds.

“Those niceties arevery important in build-ing relationships, evenonline — and especiallyonline — because weneed that glue to hold ustogether.”

Older workers, Thomp-son notes, can be madeuncomfortable by anoverload of web abbrevia-tions.

“Baby boomers are go-ing to expect a fairly con-cise, but formal email,”she says.

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a greater importance onspelling, she adds.

“Some people will real-ly consider your spelling,whether you know the

difference between ‘your’and ‘you’re.’ Just respectthe person to whomyou’re writing. That’swhat etiquette is.”

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Quoted

“I didn’t havethat much left inthe tank, but just

enough to playone more match.I left everythingout there. Lot of

it wasadrenalin.”

CANADIAN TENNIS PLAYERVASEK POSPISIL. HE CARRIED

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GROUP BY FINISHING THEWEEKEND UNDEFEATEDAFTER A 6-2, 7-6 (3), 6-4VICTORY OVER ISRAEL’SAMIR WEINTRAUB IN A

DECIDING MATCHYESTERDAY.

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Panthers rookie

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For three veterans, the Van-couver Canucks trainingcamp might be the lastchance to salvage an NHLcareer.

Forwards Owen Nolanand Todd Fedoruk plus goal-tender Manny Legace allskated yesterday with thehope of proving they stillhave the talent to play pro-fessional hockey.

Fedoruk, 32, and Legace,38, admit their tryout withthe Canucks is also a show-case to other teams aroundthe league. Both would bewilling to sign minor-leaguecontracts.

Nolan, 39, said he’s fo-cused on staying in Vancou-ver.

“This is the team I wantto play for,” said the nativeof Belfast, Northern Ireland,who still looks as fit asmany of the 20-year-oldshe’s competing against for ajob. “My main focus is tostay here.”

Nolan, who played last

year with Zurich of theSwiss league, shruggedwhen asked if he would goto Vancouver’s AmericanHockey League team inChicago.

“Let’s cross that bridgewhen we get there,” saidthe veteran of 1,200 NHLgames with six NHL fran-chises.

Nolan would bring lead-ership and some scoringtouch to the Canucks.

Fedoruk is best known asa fighter who might addsome toughness to a teamthat has been pushedaround in the past. In 545NHL games with six teams

he has 32 goals and 1,050penalty minutes.

Legace, who has a 2.41goals-against average in 365NHL games with fourteams, could help tutoryoung Eddie Lack in the mi-nors.

Fedoruk comes with bag-gage. He has suffered con-cussions and has titaniumplates in his face to repairinjuries suffered during a2006 fight with DerekBoogaard, then of the Min-nesota Wild.

Fedoruk also has battledalcohol and drug problems.He didn’t play hockey lastseason but said he comes toVancouver clean, sober andexcited about the chance toget back into the game.

“That’s why the year offwas a blessing ... getting mypriorities right and reallytaking care of some things Ineed to take care of,” saidthe amiable native of Red-water, Alta.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Will they still measure up?Todd Fedoruk has his

height measured on Friday

as part of the first day of

Canucks training camp.

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Boston’s Dustin Pedroia, left, walks to the dugout

after an eighth-inning strikeout yesterday.

DARREN MCCOLLESTER/GETTY IMAGES

Rays continue to close gap on Red SoxThe ball struck David Pricein the chest and bounced inthe air, a hit that could havedevastated Tampa Bay’splayoff chances.

But Evan Longoria field-ed the carom and threw tofirst for the out, Pricestayed in the game and theRays beat the Red Sox 8-5yesterday to take three outof four in Boston and closewithin two games in the AL

wild-card race.The Red Sox have lost 11

of 14 and are left rootingfor the New York Yankees,

who play the Rays seventimes in the last 10 games.

“To be able to do thisagainst this team here, ifthat can’t bolster your con-fidence nothing really can,”Rays manager Joe Maddonsaid. “Now it becomes moreviable. You can see the lightat the end of the tunnel,and now it’s not attached toan oncoming train.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Three veterans attending Canucks camp aim to showthey still have what it takes to make an impact in NHL

Around the NFL

In other action yesterday:

Ryan Fitzpatrick threw a six-yard touchdown to DavidNelson with 14 seconds leftand the Buffalo Bills scoredfive second-half TDs toovercome a 21-3 first-halfdeficit in a 38-35 win overthe Oakland Raiders.

Matthew Stafford threwtwo of his four TD passes toCalvin Johnson and the De-troit Lions are 2-0 after a 48-3 rout over the Kansas CityChiefs, the largest marginof victory ever for the Lions.The Pittsburgh Steelersbounced back from anopening-weekend loss toBaltimore as Ben Roethlis-berger threw for 298 yardsand a TD in a 24-0 rompover the Seattle Seahawks.Mark Sanchez threw two TDs and Antonio Cromartiehad two interceptions asthe New York Jets beat theJacksonville Jaguars 32-3.

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Aaron Rodgers threw for308 yards and two scoresand the Green Bay Packerswithstood another 400-yardpassing day from Carolinarookie Cam Newton to beatthe Panthers 30-23 yester-day.

A week after throwingfor 422 yards, Newtontopped himself with 432yards and a touchdown. Healso ran for a four-yardtouchdown with 37 secondsleft to bring Carolina (0-2)within seven, but the Pack-ers (2-0) recovered the on-

side kick to seal the victory.Rodgers found Greg Jen-

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