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A memorial service will take placeon Monday for five members of aWinnipeg family who died in ahouse fire.

Shahina Siddiqui of the Islam-ic Social Services Association saysthe service will be held at the city’sGrand Mosque on Waverley Street.It starts at 6:30 p.m. and all arewelcome.

Hamid Farooq will make a pub-lic statement thanking all thosewho have helped, Siddiqui said.Farooq lost his entire family in thefire last Tuesday in West Kildonan:His wife, mother and three daugh-ters.

He was at work when the firebroke out. His youngest daughterwas only four months old and hadbeen on life support, but she diedFriday afternoon.

The Islamic Social ServicesAssociation, which has been help-ing to support Farooq and hisextended family, is also raisingfunds for the family. The cost toreturn the family to Pakistan for

interment was initially pegged at$60,000, but airlines have reducedthat cost to about $26,000, Sid-diqui said.

Siddiqui says both Muslims andthe wider community haveexpressed a desire to pay theirrespects to the family memberswho died, as well as to Farooq.

Siddiqui was with Farooq at thehospital on Friday. She said he isholding up well and that his faithis strong.

“To have your entire familywiped out, it’s difficult. We arepraying God will see him throughthis,” she said.

The Assiniboine Credit Unionhas opened a trust fund to acceptdonations to help the family.

Siddiqui said it’s touching howmuch support has been shown forthe family.

“As sad as this story is, and astragic the event, it has also shownthe best of the human spirit,” shesaid. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Service plannedfor fire victims

Assiniboine Credit Union has opened a trust fund for the familyBlaze is believed to have been an accident, officials say

“To have your entirefamily wiped out, it’sdifficult. We arepraying God will seehim through this.”SHAHINA SIDDIQUI, OF THE ISLAMIC SOCIAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION, ON HAMID FAROOQ, WHOSE FAMILY DIED IN LAST TUESDAY’S FIRE

Their art’s in the right placeFifty graphic-design students spent Saturday and Sunday makingart in the market’s centre court before auctioning off the piecesto raise money for their graduation and Winnipeg Harvest.

Forks. Auction

Red River College student Laura Cadick created her artwork, titled Beauty in the Beast, in just two days as part of the 10th annual Forks Market Student Art Show and Auction this weekend.

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Fire raged through this West Kildonan home last week.

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One of Canada’s top Moun-ties says more drug traffick-ers from across Canada aresetting up elaborate and so-phisticated grow-ops in ru-ral Manitoba bankrolled byorganized crime.

RCMP Assistant Commis-sioner Bill Robinson saysthe province’s Mountiestook 15,000 marijuanaplants last year in just over1,000 seizures. That’s dou-ble from the year before.

He says much of the potwas grown in sophisticatedgreenhouses in rural loca-

tions and was destined forstreets across Canada. Someof it was genetically modi-fied to produce “super-trees” rather than regularmarijuana plants.

The increasing numberof non-residents arrestedsuggests a crackdown ondrugs in other provinces isdriving criminals to set upshop in rural Manitoba,Robinson said in a briefingFriday.

“We’re seeing the endproduct of a lot of enforce-ment that’s taking place in

other parts of the country,”he said. “In Manitoba, of

course, we’re a ruralprovince. We’ve got lots ofland. We’ve got some veryisolated locations with oldfarmyards where peoplecan set up.

“If you can grow 3,500marijuana super-trees ingreenhouses in a rural loca-tion versus a small base-ment in the north end (ofWinnipeg), where are yougoing to go? You are goingto go into a location whereyou are making the biggestbang for your buck.”THE CANADIAN PRESS

Police are doing what they can to attack the organized criminals behind the drug trade, as well as growers and traffickers, RCMP say

Arrestmade instabbingA man is in custodyfollowing a stabbing onMountain Avenue over theweekend.

Winnipeg police founda man suffering from stabwounds to his upper bodynear Mountain Avenueand Aikins Street while patrolling the area just before 11 a.m. Saturday.

The 23-year-old victimwas taken to hospital inunstable condition andhas since been upgradedto stable condition.

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Teachercharged withsexualexploitationA teacher and coach from aWinnipeg high school is onleave after being chargedwith sexual exploitation in-volving a student.

Global Winnipeg hasidentified Regan Mosesfrom Fort RichmondCollege as the teacherinvolved in the incident,which is alleged to havetaken place between Febru-ary 2006 and February2008.

Police began their inves-tigation in January last yearand Moses was charged onJan. 6.

It’s not known whetherthe alleged victim iscurrently a student at theschool.

Moses has worked atFort Richmond Collegesince 1999 where shetaught social students andcoached boys’ basketball.

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Grow-ops on rise inManitoba, Mounties say

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Two newly renovated buildings were opened at the University of Manitoba this past weekend.

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Three members of anAfghanistan-bornMontreal familywere defiant Sunday

in the face of life in prisonand harsh condemnationfor the murders of threedaughters and a co-wife ap-parently motivated by whatthe judge called their“twisted concept of hon-our.”

A jury took 15 hours tofind Mohammad Shafia,58, his wife Tooba Yahya,42, and their son Hamed,21, each guilty of fourcounts of first-degree mur-der in a so-called mass hon-our killing that hascaptivated Canadians from

coast to coast, and touchedoff post-911 criticism ofMuslim culture.

The three immediatelypronounced the verdicts asunjust, but the judge wasunmoved, cutting right tothe core of the culturalcloud that hung over thiscase.

“It is difficult to conceiveof a more heinous, moredespicable, more honour-less crime,” Ontario Superi-or Court Judge Robert

Maranger said.“The apparent reason

behind these cold-blooded,shameful murders was thatthe four completely inno-cent victims offended yourcompletely twisted conceptof honour ... that has ab-solutely no place in any civ-ilized society.”

The trial heard evidenceover many weeks about the

bizarre divide in the Shafiafamily, in which the patri-arch struck fear in thehearts of some of his chil-dren, though often beingaway on business. Hamedacted as the surrogate disci-plinarian.

The three murdereddaughters thumbed theirnoses at the family rules.The children they did notkill were the ones rattingout their sisters to their

parents for bad behaviour,court heard.

It was notions of honour,directly tied to women'ssexuality and general con-trol over their behaviour,that led the Shafias to kill,court heard, in an effort tocleanse them of the shamethey perceived their daugh-ters had brought uponthem.

The idea that such think-ing had not only beenbrewing in one of Canada'smost cosmopolitan cities,but that this “honour” ap-parently superseded thevalue of life for the Shafiashas shocked many.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Chronology

Major events before the

deaths:

1992: The Kabul-bornShafia family leavesAfghanistan and lives inPakistan, Dubai andAustralia before moving toMontreal in 2007.June 2007: Shafia familymoves to Canada, grantedlanded immigrant status.November 2007: First wifeRona Amir Mohammad ar-rives in Canada.April 2008: Rona starts a di-ary, writing that Shafia beather and Yahya threatenedto kick her out of thehouse, calling her a servant.April 17, 2009: Zainab, 19,the eldest Shafia daughter,runs away to a shelter. Oth-er Shafia children call 911saying they are fearful oftheir father’s reaction.May 18, 2009: Zainab mar-ries her boyfriend but herfamily convinces her to an-nul it after a few hours.June 20, 2009: Someone us-es the family computer tosearch “where to commit amurder.”June 22, 2009: Shafia buys aused Nissan, the one thatwould be found at the bot-tom of a canal days later.June 23, 2009: The Shafiafamily leaves on a trip to Ni-agara Falls, N.Y. They leaveNiagara on June 29. June 30, 2009, about 2 a.m.:

Shafia and Hamed check in-to two rooms at theKingston East motel, nearKingston Mills. Ten peoplewere on the family vacation,but Shafia and Hamed taketwo rooms for a total of sixpeople. The motel managersees Shafia and Hamed thenleave in an SUV. He does notsee anyone return for aslong as he is awake.June 30, 2009, 7:55 a.m.:

Hamed calls police in Mon-treal to report he had an ac-cident with a barrier in anear-empty parking lot. June 30, 2009, about 9

a.m.: Worker finds a car inthe locks at Kingston Mills.

“We are notcriminal, we arenot murderers, wedidn’t commit themurder and this isunjust.”MOHAMMAD SHAFIA, 58

“Sir, I did notdrown my sistersanywhere.”HAMED SHAFIA, 21

“I am not amurderer, and I ama mother — amother!”TOOBA YAHYA, 42

Mohammad Shafia, centre, Tooba

Yahya, seen behind him, and Hamed

Shafia, left, arrive at the Frontenac County

courthouse in Kingston, Ont., Sunday.

GRAHAM HUGHES/THE CANADIAN PRESS

‘Honourlesscrime’

Crown attorney in Shafia trial says guilty verdicts are a reflection of Canadian values

‘Honourlesscrime’

For each ecstasy overdosebeing brought to lightpublicly in Calgary, front-line doctors are treatingdozens more with similar,near-fatal symptoms.

The discovery of anoth-er body in a northeast Cal-gary residence Sundayraised fears that the totalnumber of deaths linked

to a toxic compoundknown as PMMA couldrise. Police believe thecompound is being usedin place of standard MD-MA in ecstasy tablets fol-lowing a recentcrackdown by RCMP.

Officials also said Fri-day a sixth individual’sdeath last summer has

been tied to PMMA.With each reported

death, emergency roomphysicians are also treat-ing a wave of patients re-acting negatively to thedrug, explained Dr. MarkYarema, medical directorfor the Poison and DrugInformation Service andemergency room physi-

cian.“What’s been really

striking is how hypother-mic or elevated the bodytemperature is of thesepatients,” he said.

“They are also veryrigid; we are seeing exten-sive muscular contrac-tion.”

JEREMY NOLAIS IN CALGARY

Ecstasy overdose patients flood Calgary ERs Eco-initiative getsfederal funding boostThe federal governmentwill spend an additional$117 million over threeyears on its EcoEnergy Effi-ciency Initiative, NaturalResources Minister JoeOliver announced Sunday.

The program is meantto encourage consumers

and companies to cut theirenergy use.

It calls for new la-belling, benchmarking,training and information-sharing tools to help im-prove energy performancein all sectors of the econo-my. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The commander of theCanadian army says hedoubts the internationalcommunity will have thecash or the political stom-ach after 2014 to sustainthe sprawling Afghan secu-rity force being trained byNATO allies.

Lt.-Gen. Peter Devlin,the chief of land staff, re-cently returned from Kab-ul, where roughly 950Canadians have settled infor a three-year stint underthe newly establishedtraining mission.

Some questions on hismind during a round ofmeetings with NATO com-manders involved whetherthe Afghan governmentwill have the means of pay-ing for an army and a po-lice force that is expectedto top out at 352,000 mem-bers. Devlin also wonderedif the perceived threatfrom Taliban insurgentsrequired building a forceof that size.

Current estimates fromthe country’s defence min-

ister, Abdul Rahim War-dak, see the Afghansspending more than $6.2billion a year to pay for andequip their forces. That’s ina country where the budg-et of the entire federaltreasury is $4 billion —much of that foreign aid.

Devlin, who command-ed NATO’s multi-nationalbrigade in Kabul in 2003-

04, said the shortfall needsto be recognized.

Such a scenario mightbe uncomfortable, but De-vlin said it could force theKarzai government to takemore ownership of securi-ty forces and their budgetthan in the past. It couldalso “energize conversa-tions” with the Taliban, headded. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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At least 10 dead on Florida highwayAt press time, at least 10 people had died in a series of crashes apparently causedby heavy smoke and fog on Interstate 75 in north Florida Sunday. At least another18 people hurt in the wreck were being treated in hospital.

Deadly. Crash

Officials work at the scene of a multi-vehicle wreck on

Interstate 75, south of Gainesville, Fla., on Sunday.

Funds for Afghanarmy in doubt:Canadian chief

Lt.-Gen. Peter Devlin

JOHN ALTHOUSE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

European debt crisis, U.S. budget gridlock couldtake toll on western combat forces in Afghanistan

Allegations halt RCMP trainingThe federal RCMP havesuspended a program thatsends Mounties to train indrug recognition with anArizona-based police de-partment after learning ofallegations against theforce including racism andabuse of authority.

An RCMP deputy com-missioner halted the train-ing with the Maricopa

County Sheriff’s Office af-ter the B.C. Civil LibertiesAssociation alerted him toa scathing report on theforce by the U.S. Depart-ment of Justice.

The departmentstripped powers from thepolice force after an investi-gation found its officers al-legedly engaged in racialprofiling, retaliated against

people who criticized itspolicies and disregarded ba-sic legal obligations.

BCCLA executive direc-tor David Eby says thetraining program involvedhaving police officers testtheir skills on prisonerswho had been stopped forallegedly driving while un-der the influence of drugs.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Public discourse

Congressional researchersin the U.S. have beendebating these questionsfor months. Some of thediscussion in the U.S. hasrevolved around whetherthe Afghan army needs tobe as big as planned.There has been virtually nopublic discussion in Cana-da about the future ofAfghanistan, despite thedeaths of 158 Canadiansoldiers and the expendi-ture of as much as $18 bil-lion of taxpayer dollars.

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The day my child-hood bully re-en-tered my life I felt allthe old emotions:

Fear, embarrassment, butmostly indignation.

All while looking at acomputer.

I was catching up withold friends on Facebookwhen I got the friend re-quest.

Are you kidding me? Ithought.

I was a kid again, my earsburning, my shoulderstense.

Matt Gabriel was not myworst tormentor. We wereonce even pals. Then hestarted hanging aroundwith older kids who bulliedme as a group.

Tripping, pushing,names, fights, alienation. Ifelt then like I was walkingaround with a label on myforehead.

He kept sending friend

requests. Each time I reject-ed him with a click and felta nasty glee exacting arighteous revenge.

Finally he wrote: “DearSean: I keep asking for yourfriendship on Facebookand keeping getting denied— which is understand-able. I am not looking foryou to be able to forgive mefor picking on you in pub-lic school a lot — butmaybe just to give yousome perspective. Mymother was dying a terribleand painful death fromcancer and I acted out quitea bit.”

And then he apologized.I wrote back. I apolo-

gized too. I thought I’dmoved on, but I’d been car-rying around resentment. Ilooked at my own behav-iour back then. Most of uskids at the bottom of thesocial order weren’t any

kinder to each other thanMatt and his cronies. Onlything was, Matt was manenough to reach out to peo-ple (not just me) to makeamends.

Turns out the older kidsthat picked on us were getting beat up by evenolder kids.

“We were scared, butthen we would go intoschool and do the samething,” he recalls.

Matt was physically big-ger and began studyingmartial arts. Rather than bea victim he tried to intimidate others beforethey could go after him.

He realized in his 20s,while working as a bounc-er, he didn’t like wherethings were going. He’djust become a father and hedidn’t want to hurt people.

“I guess it was a processof maturing,” he said.“Hurting people is wrong.And helping people is soeasy. There’s no negativeemotions afterward.”

He works in telecommu-nications now. He became

a union shop steward, hesays, because he wanted tohelp and he found he wasgood at it.

Did he know as a kid hewas doing somethingwrong?

“I don’t know that youhave that well-developed asense of right and wrongwhen you’re young,” hesays.

It sounds like a cop out,but I know Matt is right. Itwas easy for me to seewhen I was being wronged,but when I got into fights Ialways felt I was right.

“There were mixed mes-sages coming at us, evenfrom our teachers and parents,” Matt says.

I have to agree again.

There were mixed mes-sages: Corporal punish-ment, religion, movies —all had a good guy fightingand punishing a bad guy.

Matt says he struggledwith his mother’s illnessfrom kindergarten untilGrade 8 when she died. Hedidn’t get counselling andhis father was often awayworking, trying to makeends meet.

“It’s not an excuse, but ithelps explain things,” Mattsays.

Matt and I continue tobe friends on Facebook.And we may all get togeth-er (him and his brothers)for a beer now that my earsdon’t burn every time Ithink of him.

It’s hard to admit that youare bullying someone.In fact, most children rec-ognize their actions, butdo not understand whythey are doing it, said Dr.John LeBlanc, an associateprofessor of pediatrics atDalhousie University inHalifax.

He said there are threecomponents of bullying:An intent to harm, a pow-er imbalance and repeti- tion. So the person who isbullying is well aware oftheir actions, saidLeBlanc.

“But they just don’tknow why.”

He said it’s hard “forsomeone who is bullying,for them to have theinsight to say, ‘Oh, I’mbullying. I better stop.’”

“Usually they are bully-ing because they want tobully. Children who bullydo it for a reason. They’reusually troubled childrenthemselves,” he said.

Consequently, it’s rarefor a child to stop the behaviour without somesort of intervention, hesaid.

“You can’t expect thebully to stop it on theirown, nor the victim. Thevictim is already in a weak-ened position,” he said.

“It never felt good.It didn’t feel rightand it’s not who I was inside.”MATT GABRIEL

Politicians are drafting legislation to combat bullying in schools But if they really want to tackle the problem, they’ll have to delve deeper than kicking kids out

Bullies can be victims too, as Metro Ottawa’s managing editor discoveredSEAN MCKIBBON/METRO

Expert advice

Dr. LeBlanc’s strategies to

prevent or stop bullying:

Bullying amongst childrenshould be dealt with ingroups: Ask each childhow they would feel ifthey were being bullied.In the “no-blame ap -proach,” the adult asks thevictim if the incident canbe brought to a group thatincludes the child who isbullying. The group is thenasked how they can helpthe child and some times,the child who is bullyingwill actually offer to help.

My bully,my friend

Tuesday in Metro: More on bullying

In the second instalment of our three-part series:

We investigate the differences between boys and girls

when it comes to bullying tactics.

And we take a look at what we can learn from

those TV bullies we love to loathe.

ALY THOMSONIN HALIFAX

Do kidsknow whythey arebullying?

SEANMCKIBBON@METRONEWS.CA

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Sean McKibbon, left, and Matthew Gabriel stand out in front of what used to be North Edwardsburgh Public School,

where they attended elementary school. The building is now a retirement residence.

Should reformedbul lies reach outto their victims or leave the past behind? Tweet us @metrowinnipeg.

The possibility of Iran devel-oping nuclear weapons wasamong the top concerns atDavos this year.

There were also severalpanels on the Arab Springand a session moderated bySchwab with Israeli Presi-dent Shimon Peres andPalestinian Prime MinisterSalam Fayyad, whichdemonstrated the deep divi-sions over getting peace ne-gotiations back on track.Although the conflict inSyria came up, it wasn’t a

hot issue. Julia Marton-Lefevre, di-

rector general of the Inter-national Union for theConservation of Nature,

said that this year “the envi-ronment is not treated somuch as separate topic,which I think is a goodthing.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The mood at the end ofthe five-day meeting inDavos, Switzerland, wassombre, and more than2,500 VIPs headed homeSunday concerned aboutwhat lies ahead in 2012.Plenty of champagneflowed in this alpine ski re-sort — but the atmospherewas flat and the bubblingenthusiasm of some past

World Economic Forumswas noticeably absent.

Despite some guardedoptimism about Europe’slatest attempts to stem theeurozone crisis, fears re-main that turmoil could re-turn and spill over to therest of the world. And therewere no answers to thewidening inequality gap,but a mounting realizationthat economic growth mustinclude the poor, that jobcreation is critical, and thataffordable food, housing,health care and educationare needed in any solution.

The International Mone-tary Fund reduced its fore-cast for global growth in2012 to 3.3 per cent fromthe four per cent pace itprojected in September.

Asia is expected to remainthe engine for globalgrowth though at a slowerrate, with China leading theway at more than eight percent, followed by India andIndonesia.

IMF managing directorChristine Lagarde warned

that the eurozone crisis isnot the region’s problemalone. The IMF is theworld’s traditional lender-of-last-resort and Lagarde istrying to increase its re-sources by $500 billion USif more lending is needed. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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in Davos, Switzerland,

on Saturday.

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As the World Economic Forum wraps up, impact of the eurozone crisisglobally still feared IMF predicts global growth to be less than expected

Widening inequality gapleft unanswered at WEF

More Canadianstapping intotablets: ReportTablet ownership nearlytripled in Canada last yearand will continue to surgein 2012, according to a re-port by the Media Technol-ogy Monitor.

Among anglophones,tablet ownership was atabout 11 per cent last fall,up from four per cent in2010, according to the re-port, based on surveys of4,000 anglophones and4,000 francophones.

Francophone tablet

ownership was at six percent last fall, compared totwo per cent in 2010. Thereport suggests about 72per cent of all tabletsowned by anglophones lastyear were iPads, but does-n’t break down the other28 per cent.

Apple reported it sold15.4-million iPads in thefourth quarter, which in-cluded the holiday shop-ping season. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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nothing to run.So naturally, the city is thinking about

getting rid of it.The Windsor Park Nordic Centre, based

out of the Windsor Park Golf Course, isground zero for cross-country skiing inWinnipeg. Featuring 10 kilometres of

groomed and illuminated trails, it’s home to seven skiclubs and is used by over 30,000 skiers annually.

“This is the premiere ur-ban ski facility in Canada,”says Brent Bottomley, chairof the Windsor Park NordicCentre Advisory Council.“There’s no other city in thecountry that has this manykilometres of groomed, littrails located just 10minutes away fromdowntown.”

A major nordic centre fora major winter city seemslike a natural fit. But for al-most a decade, the CrossCountry Ski Association ofManitoba has operated thefacility on a year-to-year ba-sis, as the city has refused toenter into a longer-termagreement.

Now, with the cityreviewing its golf course holdings, the ski association wor-ries the future of the centre could be in jeopardy if Wind-sor Park is turned over to a private operator or sold forresidential development.

“Skiing is a major sport in this city,” says Bottomley.“This is a fantastic asset that the city owns. It’s successful,it’s well used, it delivers a lot of programs, it’s run by anon-profit organization, and it costs the city nothing tooperate. I don’t know why they’d want to tinker withthat.”

The association has submitted its own proposal to thecity, for a 50-year access agreement. It’s backing its planwith a financial commitment to spend $600,000 over thenext few years on expanded trail development, groomingequipment, snow-making capacity and a new building forinstructional programs.

Even if the city decides to close the golf operation atWindsor Park, Bottomley suggests the ski association’splan could be the centrepiece of a year-round urban recre-ation park.

“I could see developing that land to include mountain-bike trails, a dog park, soccer and ultimate fields, andeven a paved path for roller skiing. It would work reallywell with what we’re already doing in the winter,” he says.

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“It’s successful,it’s well used, itdelivers a lot of

programs, it’s runby a non-profit

organization, andit costs the city

nothing tooperate. I don’t

know why they’dwant to tinker

with that.”BRENT BOTTOMLEY, CHAIR OFTHE WINDSOR PARK NORDICCENTRE ADVISORY COUNCIL

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“Normally,” says DanielRadcliffe, “I hate watch-ing my movies and hatewatching myself.”

Why, then, did he sitthrough his new film, TheWoman in Black, duringits Canadian premier lastweek in Toronto?

“The last time I willwatch it was last night,”the former Harry Pottertold me the next day.

“I’ve picked this apartenough now. I don’t needto watch it any more.

“The line between self-critical and self-hating isblurred.

“Normally when Iwatch my stuff, I say, ‘Idon’t like that but I don’tknow what to do about it,’but last night I was watch-ing and thinking, ‘Oh,this is how that could beimproved.’”

Despite being one ofthe most beloved actorson the planet and the starof some of the highestgrossing films of all time,Radcliffe isn’t content torest on his laurels.

“I know I have a longway to go as an actor,” hesays.

“I’m 22 and at the stagewhen most actors wouldbe coming out of dramaschool but because I’vegot 10 years of experienceon a film set I think peo-ple expect me to be morecomplete, perhaps, than Iam.

“I think that there aresome things I do really

well and some things I seeand go, ‘OK, I know howto fix that now.’”

One thing he can’tchange is the way his fansrespond to him.

“It’s kind of part of mylife,” he says of the fanda-monium that followswherever he goes.

“The thing you have toremind yourself is that itis not about me.

“It’s about the fact that

I played this character,which became belovedand anyone who took onthat character would begetting this reaction.

“The fact that I’m nowgetting it on my ownaway from the series isvery gratifying, althoughit is still kind of residualfrom Potter, unless theyare fans of that and of me.

“You just have to laugh

at it and have a sense ofhumour about it.

“As I said to you, whenI’m at home, smoking acigarette and it’s cold andI’m in my Canada Goosejacket eating half a pizza,those are the momentsyou have to take a pictureof yourself and play it toyourself when you are onthe red carpet and go,‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, you’renot all that, really.’”

Harry Potter grows upWith the beloved wizard franchise behind him, Daniel Radcliffe looks forward to growing

as an actor He drops the wand and takes on the role of a lawyer in The Woman in Black

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Born: July 23, 1989 in London, England

Early roles: When he wasjust 10, he took the role ofa young David Copperfieldin the television seriesDavid Copperfield. He alsostarred in The Tailor ofPanama in 2001.

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The Grey topped theweekend box officewith $20 million, con-tinuing Liam Neeson’ssuccess as an actionstar. Also openingwere Man on a Ledgeand One for the Mon-ey with Katherine Hei-gl. One for the Moneytook home $11.8 mil-lion, while Man on aLedge opened with$8.3 million.Underworld: Awaken-ings, came in secondwith $12.5 million.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana celebrate thepremiere of their Sundance-closing film, The Words

Bradley Cooper and ZoeSaldana came to the Sun-dance Film Festival to pro-mote their closing-nightfilm, The Words.

The two actors play amarried couple in themovie, which follows anaspiring writer who gainsfame when he finds an oldmanuscript and passes itoff as his own.

The pair avoided any ap-pearance of their reportedoff-screen romance by stay-ing apart from one anoth-er while posing for photosand giving interviews tosupport the film. Saldanadid affectionately touchCooper as they passed in ahallway, though.

Both had been to Sun-dance before, where snowfell throughout the festivaland the weather dipped in-to the teens. Still, Saldanamaintained her fashionistaedge.

“I did bring warm stuffbut I also brought fashion-y stuff. Come on. You’vegot to pay the price, even ifit’s too cold,” she said.

The 33-year-old actresswore green suede shoeswith spiked stiletto heelsdespite the slushy condi-tions.

“They’re kind of fabu-lous. They’re also lethal. SoI have to be really careful,and somebody has to becareful not to piss me off,”she said with a smile.“Yeah right. I’m just tryingnot to fall. It’s like, ‘Pleasedon’t fall. Please don’t fall,’when I’m walking.”

Cooper’s first time atthe festival was 12 yearsearlier with the eventualcult comedy hit Wet HotAmerican Summer.

“I wasn’t even able toget into the screening,” herecalled.

Saldana said playingCooper’s wife in TheWords made her thinkabout how she approachesrelationships and the con-cept of unconditional love.

“Like how uncondition-al am I when I’m in love.

Do you bypass certainthings? Would I be able tobe with a man — or withsomeone — that feels in-complete, doesn’t matterwhat we do?” she said.

“If we change this, if weget married, if we have ababy — just someone thatfeels incomplete. Would Ibe able to deal with thatfor so many years and ac-cept them as who they areand go, ‘Come as you are.This is who I fell in lovewith and I don’t want tochange you?’

“I’m not like that,which is why I wanted toplay her, because it was achallenge, you know. Lookat me, I totally said I’m notunconditional at all. So aw-ful.”

Cooper’s part as author-plagiarist Rory Jansen ishis second writerly role af-ter playing a novelist inlast year’s Limitless. Butthat’s just coincidence, hesaid. Despite having a de-gree in English, the 37-year-old actor says hetypically only writes in his“girlnal.”

“Journal, sorry,” he said.“That’s a ‘Wet Hot’ refer-ence. Paul Rudd says that.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Actor Bradley Cooper, from the film The Words, poses for a portrait

during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, last week.

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The Words, which alsostars Dennis Quaid, JeremyIrons, Ben Barnes andOlivia Wilde, premieredFriday. It was acquired ear-ly in the festival by CBSFilms, which plans torelease it theatrically inthe fall.

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Kellie Pickler wants youto know she’s a traditionalgal — and she’s making itvery clear with her new al-bum, 100 Proof.

The platinum blondeAmerican Idol alum ispulling back from the pop-country tunes that once de-fined her, like Red HighHeels and Best Days OfYour Life, and replacingthem with ones that reflecther traditional countryroots. The album was re-leased this week.

“I guess it’s been likethree-and-a-half years sincemy last record came out. ...So a lot has happened inmy life. I’m married. I’vegrown up a lot, becausewhen I started this I was 19and green when I did myfirst record, Small TownGirl,” said Pickler. “Somuch has happened in mylife. Most of it is on therecord.”

Pickler, 25, took cuesfrom her musical heroes,the big wigs of women incountry music. The open-ing track even namechecks one of those leg-ends in Where’s TammyWynette.

“I love Tammy Wynette.She’s a big reason why I fellin love with country music.You wouldn’t know that if

you listened to (my) pastthings,” Pickler said. “I lovethat sound, and I wanted tosprinkle a little bit of thepeople that influenced meto be here in the first placebut make it my record.”

Pickler wrote more onthis album than in the past,penning six of the 11 songs.Two are very personal andreflect her separate, com-plicated relationships withher mother and father.

“Mother’s Day” explainsher mixed feelings aboutthe day — how she avoidsit but wishes for a reason tocelebrate. Her mom aban-doned her when she waslittle, and they have no con-tact today. Pickler wrotethe tune with husband KyleJacobs and reveals emotion-al growth that took years.

“I went through all ofthe stages of hurt and cry-ing and mad and angry andjust red, seeing red. I wentthrough all of those emo-tions, which anyone would... I had to get it out, andthen I realized, this ain’tworking. This ain’t makinganything better,” she said.

“When you get to thatplace where you can for-give and just let go, it’s sofreeing.”

On The Letter, Picklerthanks her dad “for never

giving up on us” and ad-dresses his past struggleswith drug and alcohol ad-diction. Pickler was raisedby her father but lived withher grandparents when hewas in prison.

“My dad was very mucha part of my life growingup. However, when he wasincarcerated we wrote let-ters back and forth, and Ihave every single one ofthem,” she said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Former Idol tryingfor image change

Album

As for the rest of the

album, Pickler doesn't

lose her sassy personality.

Quote “There’s songs thatare fun, upbeat. We’ve gotUnlock That Honky Tonkthat’s rockin’. There’s a lotof banjo. There’s a lot ofsteel. There’s a lot offiddle.”

Pickler grows up, goes traditional on her new album

Kellie Pickler is pulling back from the pop-country

tunes that once defined her.

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Whip-itsredactedReferences to whip-its willbe redacted from DemiMoore’s 911 tape, saysTMZ. (A whip-it is a streetname for a type of nitrousoxide inhalant, accordingto TMZ.) The L.A. city attor-ney recommended themove to protect her privacyif the tape is released to thepublic, although it hasalready been reported thatparamedics were told thatshe inhaled nitrous oxidebefore falling unconscious.

We’ve got to wonder: Isthis a policy for all drugs,

or just the small handfulthat are moreembarrassing than coughsyrup? MONICA WEYMOUTH

After almostseven years to-gether, itlooks like BradPitt and An-gelina Joliemight make it

official. The royal couple is

abandoning their originalplan to wait until gaymarriage is legal in ex-change for some peaceand quiet around thehouse.

“We’re getting a lot ofpressure from the kids,”Pitt admits in an inter-view with CBS SundayMorning that aired yester-day.

“It means something to

them.” It seems their six-pack

— count ’em: Maddox,Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knoxand Vivienne — havebeen telling him to “getMommy a ring” and he’spromised, “OK, I will! Iwill!”

So, just to sum it up:When pressured by sixyoung children to buy adiamond for a womanwho has let him stickaround since 2005 with-out one, Brad Pitt runs hisstrong, rugged handsthrough his shiny blondehair and says, “Sure kids,why not.”

Angelina, we don’tknow what you did to thisman, but we’re im-pressed.MONICA WEYMOUTH WROTE MON-DAY’S THE WORD. DOROTHY ROBIN-SON WILL BE BACK TUESDAY.

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Ashton Kutcher returnedto Los Angeles this week-end after workengagements — includingmodelling for clothingbrand Colcci — kept himin Brazil during estrangedwife Demi Moore’s drug-related hospitalization.

“Ashton is deeply con-cerned for Demi,” a sourcesays, according toHollyscoop. “He still caresabout her and wants thebest for her. But their mar-riage is ending and theyare both moving on withtheir lives.” METRO

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Russell Brand hasn’t beenwasting any time.

Less than a month afterfiling for divorce fromKaty Perry, Brand is report-edly already seeingmultiplewomen —and bad-mouthinghis soon-to-be ex-wifeto them,accord-ing to UsWeekly.

“He’sspokenterriblyabout

Katy to them,” one sourcesays, adding that Brand isparticularly interested inone of the new women.

“He told her he wantedher to move in with himafter the divorce is final.”

And worst of all, evenPerry can’t avoid the

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When I first read that amother in Acworth, Ga.,allowed her 10-year-oldson to get a tattoo, Ithought, “A tattoo, peo-ple?! On a 10-year-old!”

Then I discovered thatthe tattoo is actually inmemory of the boy’s olderbrother, Malik, who washit and killed by a teenage

driver at age 12. The 10-year-old, Gaquan, waswith his brother when hedied.

That was a couple ofyears ago now, but he re-cently told his mom,Chuntera Napier, that hewanted to get a tattoo as away of honouring Malik’smemory. (Gaguan has sev-eral tattoos of her own inher late son’s memory.)

“My son came to meand said, ‘Mom, I want toget a tattoo with Malik onit, rest in peace.’ What do Isay to a child that wants toremember his brother?”Napier told the local TVstation.

She claims she didn’tknow it was illegal for a10-year-old to get a tattoo,and so she took her son toa tattoo artist, who gavethe boy a tattoo featuringMalik’s old jersey number.As Napier explained, “Itmade me feel good toknow that he wanted hisbrother on him.”

Gaquan then returnedto school, where someonenoticed his new ink andcalled authorities. Napieris now facing child crueltycharges because it’s illegalfor anyone under 18 to geta tattoo, even with theirparent’s consent.

“We hope that they can

Would you let your child get a tattoo?

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Tattooed 10-year-oldIn Georgia, a mother has been

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[the reason] doesn’t mat-ter. tell him to go plant atree or start a foundationor something more sensi-ble than a tattoo@dakneez

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find something that cansustain them through thatloss, but this is not theway. It is illegal and it’ssomething that we werebound by the law to inves-tigate and to prosecute,”

said Acworth police chiefMike Wilkie. (They’re alsoinvestigating the tattooartist.)

I don’t think there’sever justification for per-manently inking a child,

though my heart justbreaks for this family whosuffered such a tragic loss.Napier is set to appear incourt in March.CONTRIBUTED BY SHAWNA COHENOF MOMMYISH.COM.

Advocates say Canadi-ans and their govern-ments must take actionto tear down barriersthat hurt people withdisabilities. The pleacame with the launchof a report by theWorld Health Organiza-tion and World Bank.

WHO’s Tom Shake-speare points out thatin Canada disabledpeople are twice aslikely to beunemployed and facebarriers that leavethem feeling excluded.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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If you’re reading this story,there’s a good chanceyou’re riding public tran-sit. If you’re not in a busshelter this instant, youmay have been just mo-ments ago.

It’s as simple as struc-ture as you can imagine.Yet, even here, innovativegreener ideas are being de-veloped — and deployed.

The City of San Francis-co is entering the thirdyear of a five-year programto replace its 1,400 conven-tional shelters with mod-ern, solar-poweredalternatives.

“They’re made entirelyfrom sustainable materi-als,” says Ryan Hughes,project manager for Lund-berg Designs, creators ofthese new, sleek-lookingshelters. “The steel is recy-cled, and the solar poweralleviates the cost of pow-ering the shelter.”

Solar generators in theshelters’ roofs are actually

connected directly to thecity’s power grid. They do-nate electricity to the cityduring the day, then drawback what they need topower LED lights, WIFI ca-

pability, and an electronic“next bus” sign that letsevery commuter know ex-actly how long their wait isgoing to be.

The overall effect? A ze-

ro net-draw on the powersystem. Throw in the factthat the shelters are beingbuilt, run and paid for byan advertising agency, andthese updated high-tech

transit stops aren’t costingthe city a cent.

Increased comfort andconvenience — virtuallyno ecological or financialdownside.

The only thing missing— and this would be ofparticular interest to Cana-dian commuters — is heat.

“In terms of using thesolar power, that would bechallenging,” Hughes ex-plains. “Given the generalsize of bus shelters, theamount of available roofarea is limited. In ourcase, it works to power theequipment we have, be-cause we were very carefulabout selecting only com-

ponents that don’t drawvery much power. I thinkheaters, just in general, re-quire a lot of power to con-vert electricity into heat.”

San Francisco is famous-ly cold, wet and windy, byCalifornia standards. But atypical Canadian city faceswinter conditions that arefar more severe. Theseeye-catching shelters arestill a tweak or two awayfrom being ideal in realwinter conditions.

But they also reveal howaffordable innovation canbe — and that even themost basic, stripped-downstructure can be improved,re-imagined and greened.

Solar powered bus shelters showing the way forward for clean cities Puts energy back into the grid as well

Green tech in from the cold

Environmentally-friendly bus shelters are providing alternatives for public transit.

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Shelters

Bus shelter history

Buses The first recordedbus stop in historyappeared in Bishops Stort-ford, England, in 1890.There is no evidence that ithad a bus shelter.

“It works to powerthe equipment wehave, because wewere very carefulabout selectingonly componentsthat don’t drawvery much power.”RYAN HUGHES

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There are two areaswhere students may needhelp with their school-work: with specific sub-jects and with studyingskills.

And the learning cen-tre at your school likelyhas resources for both.

Community College ofPhiladelphia, for instance,has tutoring available onall its campuses. Dr.Megan Fuller, an assistantprofessor in the LearningLabs explains, “We havefull-time faculty, non-stu-dent tutors who have ei-ther associate’s orbachelor’s degrees andpeer tutors who have suc-cessfully taken the classthey’re tutoring.”

These staffers provideboth one-on-one tutoringand group sessions thatmeet once a week ormore. Students are wel-come to check out both tosee what works fromthem.

“If you aren’t gettingwhat you need from a tu-tor, don’t just give up, askto see someone else,”Fuller says.

The college also offersworkshops in study skillslike time management,note-taking and examanxiety.

“Time management iscrucial for everyone,” em-phasizes Dr. Nancy Mott,director of learning sup-port services at Villanova

University, “but especiallyfor nontraditional stu-dents, who have job andfamily obligations aswell.”

She recommends usingwhatever planner you’remost comfortable with,whether that’s an elec-tronic gadget or an old-fashioned paper calendar.Make sure you’ve alwaysgot your planner withyou, enter all of your as-signments and obliga-tions as soon as you knowthem and keep track ofthe big picture.

“Contact your schoolto see what services andresources are available,”Mott says.

“Don’t wait until thelast minute,” Fulleragrees. “If you’re havingproblems, come in and letus help you find the solu-tion that works for you.”

Find counsel onyour campus

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Nancy Mott, director of

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at Villanova University,

says:

“Don’t be afraid to ask forhelp. It isn’t a sign of weak-ness — it’s a sign of intelli-gence and strength. Findout early what’s available,and get to know your pro-fessors, as well.”

Visit your school’s websiteto find out what servicesyour school has to offer.

It helps to talk through the tough times of

your academic life.

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MWN IN PHILADELPHIA

‘You can have it all’Mary Morassutti did a career 180 at age 35 and hasn’t looked back since

Mary Morassutti was 35years old and at the top ofher profession, directingand shooting televisionshows all over the world.Married and expecting herfirst child, she reached aturning point and knewshe’d have to leave her jobbecause of the gruelingtravel schedule.

“I knew I was going toreinvent myself and I did-n’t realize how much myidentity was tied into mycareer. I felt I was floatingin the abyss and couldn’tfind my feet.”

Mary asked a female col-league who had also facedthe same situation. Shewas blunt when she toldher, “The best gift you cangive a child is a happymother”.

Today, Mary runs herown business develop-ment and marketing com-pany called mk strategicand is an executive manag-ing director of eWomen-Network.

“Find out what makes

you happy and how youcan bring both worlds to-gether. I’ve met some in-credible women who are

juggling everything andstill doing great work. Youcan have it all.”

Did she follow her col-

league’s advice?“Yes,” she says with a

smile, “I’m a very happymother.”

Mary’s tips

An entrepreneur’s

thoughts on business

Focus on what you’redoing and what youwant to do. Compete with yourselfnot others. Then you’llbe better.Think outside of thebox. Find what makesyou unique and differ-ent and why they wouldwant to work with you. Practice your elevatorspeech. Be able toexplain what you do in30 seconds. If you con-fuse the person you’repitching to then you’velost them.There’s no fast fix. Taketime to figure out whatyou want. Once Irealized what I wantedto do the “how” cameto me because I put my-self in the rightdirection.

TURNING

POINT

TERESA KRUZELIFE@METRONEWS.CA

Mary Morassutti, CEO of mk strategic,

executive managing director of

eWomenNetwork and happy

mother of two children.

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Blasts from the pastPair of former Senators spark Team Chara to 12-9 all-star win over Team Alfredsson

The NHL all-star game wassupposed to be all aboutDaniel Alfredsson and hisOttawa teammates, but itwas ex-Senator ZdenoChara who had the lastlaugh.

The Boston Bruins cap-tain had the game-winneras he and another formerSenator from Slovakia,Marian Hossa of theChicago Blackhawks,scored 16 seconds apart ina six-goal third period tolead Team Chara to a 12-9victory over Team Alfreds-son on Sunday.

“That was my firstshot,” said the six-foot-nine Chara, who went inalone to snap a shot pastBrian Elliott, who wasbombed for six goals on19 third-period shots.“Early on, (the game) wasreally loose but as wewere going to the end youcould see that guys want-ed to win.

“That’s the way it goessome times at the all-stargame.”

Prime Minister Stephen

Harper chatted in thestands with league com-missioner Gary Bettmanthrough much of a wide-open game. They sawTeam Chara lose the leadfour times only to pile upan insurmountable totalin the third with goalsfrom Phil Kessel, JaromeIginla, Hossa, Chara,Corey Perry and the sec-ond of the game by JoffreyLupul.

They didn’t need thenotable absentees, the in-jured Sidney Crosby and

the holdout AlexOvechkin, to score inbunches.

Marian Gaborik had ahat-trick, while EvgeniMalkin and Patrick Kanehad the other goals forTeam Chara.

Alfredsson scoredtwice, while Jason Spezza,Henrik Sedin, JohnTavares, Jason Pominville,Milan Michalek, ClaudeGiroux and Daniel Sedinscored for Team Alfreds-sonTHE CANADIAN PRESS

Djokovic wins epic battle in finalNovak Djokovic woredown Rafael Nadal in thelongest Grand Slam sin-gles final in the history ofprofessional tennis, win-ning 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 after five hours 53minutes to claim his thirdAustralian Open title.

Djokovic sealed victoryat 1:37 a.m. Monday localtime and became the fifthman since the Open Erabegan in 1968 to winthree straight Grand Slamfinals.

The 24-year-oldDjokovic tore off his shirt

in celebration after one ofthe most dramatic finalsin the history of the game.He went to his supportcamp and repeatedlythumped the side of thearena in front of them indelight and relief.

Nadal leaned on thenet, while Djokovic sat onhis haunches before thetrophy presentation.Eventually, a nearby offi-cial took pity and theywere given chairs and abottle of water each.

“We made historytonight and, unfortunate-ly, there couldn’t be twowinners,” Djokovic said.

Djokovic’s win main-tained his mastery ofNadal, who has lost sevenstraight finals against theSerb since March last year.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Marian Hossa of Team Chara scores a goal in the third period against Team Alfredsson’s Brian Elliott.

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4:54Length of the previouslongest major singlesfinal: Mats Wilander’swin over Ivan Lendl atthe U.S. Open in 1988.

All-star MVP

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named the 2012 NHL all-

star game MVP for Marian

Gaborik.

Gaborik scored the first ofhis two goals on Rangersteammate HenrikLundqvist and he took fulladvantage of rubbing it in.Gaborik recreated acontroversial goal celebra-tion by Rangers forwardArtem Anisimov after hisfirst goal on Lundqvist.Anisimov mimed shootingTampa Bay goalie MathieuGaron after a scoring agoal on Dec. 8, a movethat angered Lightningplayers and led to a scrum.

Sports in brief

Tiger Woods fin-ished in a tie forthird at the AbuDhabi GolfChampionshipafter startingthe final roundtied for the lead.

The PittsburghPenguinsconfirmed Sat-urday that Sid-ney Crosby wasdiagnosed witha neck injury.

LeBron Jamesscored 35 pointsas the MiamiHeat escapedwith a 97-93 winSunday over theChicago Bulls.THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS

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Today’s horoscopeFor today’s crossword answersand for expanded horoscopes, go to metronews.ca

Aries March 21-April 20Has someone taken advantage ofyou? Maybe, but more likely youare overreacting.

Taurus April 21-May 21 This could be a hectic week andmost likely you’ll find yourself rush-ing all over the place without get-ting much done.

Gemini May 22-June 21There are many ways to impresspeople, but working yourself intothe ground isn’t one of them.

Cancer June 22-July 22 Putyourself out there and let theworld see what star quality lookslike. You won’t be short of interest-ing offers.

Leo July 23-Aug.23 Try not to be too eager today.

Virgo Aug. 24- Sept. 22 A loved one seems to be in anemotional mood at the moment.All you can do is be there for themwhen they need a shoulder to cryon.

Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 23 You really don’t have to explainyour actions or your motives toanybody.

Scorpio Oct. 24-Nov. 22 The more someone tries to tell youthat something cannot be done themore determined you will be toprove them wrong.

Sagittarius Nov. 23-Dec.

21 No matter how negative a pic-ture certain people may be paint-ing of your current situation, allyou need to know is that they arewrong.

Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 20Anyone who expects you to stay inone place over the next few days isgoing to be disappointed.

Aquarius Jan. 21-Feb. 18In a matter of days you’ll be back inthe money.

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20It seems you are having to react toone crisis after another of late. Isthere an end in sight? Yes, ofcourse there is.

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