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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF The four 1,200-horsepower Wright Cyclone engines announced it was go-time with an ear-splitting roar.

Only a few metres below my feet, the runway slid underneath the plexiglass nose of the Second World War-era B-17 Flying Fortress, one of only about a dozen still flying around the world.

From my perch, the end of the runway seemed to loom ahead alarmingly close with no obvious sign of any flying happening.

Then, my pulse quickening by the second, we were suddenly airborne, golden fields racing blurringly by below.

Welcome to flying — old school.

Over the next half hour, six aviation enthusiasts, who paid $1,000 each, and a pair of media representatives got an unforgettable taste of the kind of flying experienced by tens of thousands of young men who answered war’s call 70 years ago.

Inside the B-17’s cramped interior, 10 men, many of them only teenagers, took the fight to the skies over Germany.

“A lot of these fellas never made it back in these things,” said load master Bob Brademeyer in his pre-flight briefing at the Red Deer Flying Club’s building at Red Deer Airport.

He makes a point of paying tribute to those who risked their lives during the war when he talks to people about the history of the plane named Sentimental Journey.

The average age of pilots was only 20 or so.

The gunners who manned the Flying Fortress’s 13 50-calibre guns were usually even younger, he said.

Of the 12,700 B-17s built, nearly a third were lost in combat in the skies over Europe or the Pacific and thousands of aircrew died.

Flying through flak-filled skies must have been a frightening and exhausting experience.

Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

Clockwise from top: The Commemorative Air Force’s B-17 bomber Sentimental Journey flies over the Red Deer Airport Tuesday as part of a fundraiser for the Harvard Historical Aviation Society; Pilots begin their pre-flight check aboard the plan before taking off from the Red Deer Airport Tuesday; The aircraft taxis into the Red Deer Airport Tuesday. Please see related video at www. reddeeradvocate.com.

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Green space, trails and commerce included in Timber Ridge plan

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

CITY COUNCIL

Green space in four quadrants, interconnected paved trails and a district commercial centre are part of Red Deer’s future on the east side.

On Monday, city council adopted the Timber Ridge Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan which encompasses the quarter section next to 55th Street, north of Roadale neighbourhood and east of Timberstone Park neighourhood.

The new neighbourhood features a mix of single family and multi-family homes with space for a middle public school, a pedestrian network of paved trails, a community gathering area and other features.

Coun. Tara Veer said overall it’s a good plan with a lot of housing options for the community, park space and trail linkages but she had some res-

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ervations about the amount of commercial space prescribed for the developers.

“We have to make sure that we are competitive on a regional basis and if we are approving commercial development that they will succeed,” said Veer.

“I think it is important that we meet market demand but not provide so much that we actually soften our local commercial market. I think we need to watch it and be mindful of it.”

Veer had also expressed reservations about the location of the commercial area after speaking with local realtors who were concerned the area is not near a main road entrance.

‘I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE MEET MARKET DEMAND BUT NOT PROVIDE SO MUCH THAT WE ACTUALLY SOFTEN OUR LOCAL COMMERCIAL MARKET. I THINK WE NEED TO WATCH IT AND BE MINDFUL OF IT.’ — COUN. TARA VEER

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Fatal stabbing over missing steak nets killer four years

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF What started as an assault over a missing piece of steak, and resulted in a fatal stabbing of a Rocky Mountain House-area man with a steak knife, ended with a four-year prison sentence for his killer.

Michael Ernest Thivierge, 55, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the May 18, 2011, death of Chester Shearer, 64, in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Tuesday.

In an agreed statement of facts, the court heard that Shearer, who was known to become violent, attacked Thivierge from behind, pulled him out of his chair, threw him down and kicked him after Thivierge took some of Shearer’s steak.

Shearer left, then returned, and when he approached Thivierge from across the table, Thivierge grabbed a steak knife on the table and stabbed Shearer in the chest.

Shearer died at a rural

acreage on Hwy 752 near Cow Lake, about 15 km southwest of Rocky, where Shearer and Thivierge lived.

Justice M.T. Moreau sentenced Thivierge to four years, less the 480 days he spent in pre-trial custody.

Moreau said while Thivierge feared for his life, stabbing Shearer was a thoughtless, impulsive response to a “benign set of circumstances.”

“There is no suggestion of planning here,” Moreau said.

She also took into consideration that Thivierge sought help for Shearer and that he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Thivierge, who has a criminal record, was originally charged with second-degree murder. A two-week judge and jury trial was set to begin on Tuesday. Instead, Thivierge pleaded guilty to the lesser charge.

His sentence includes a lifetime weapons ban. szielinski@reddeeradvocate. com

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32ND STREET REHABILITATION

City clarifies dog bylaw, review process set up

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A new dog bylaw that clarifies definitions and establishes a clear ticket review process is one step closer to reality.

City council gave first reading on Monday to a revised dog bylaw that spells out definitions surrounding “a dog running at large” and “a dog running at large in an off-leash area,” establishing a clear appeals process and penalties.

The review stems from the request from Mark Yabar, a Red Deer resident, who received a $250 fine and impound fee of $42 after his dog took off for the pond at Three Mile Bend in 2011.

Yabar fought the ticket in provincial court and lost.

Yabar wrote in a letter to city council that the bylaw does not meet the city residents expectations “because of its ambiguous provisions and excessively punitive penalties.”

The proposed bylaw differentiates between the owner of a dog being guilty of an offence if the dog running at large in an off-leash area or the dog is running at large in other areas of the city.

In the past, the issuing officer would review the ticket.

City council had requested a more collaborative approach to the appeal process.

Now the reviews will be submitted to the city’s Inspections and Licensing depart-

ment and all dog bylaw ticket reviews will be looked at by a supervisor or manager and the ticket issuing officer.

Coun. Tara Veer said from the public’s perspective, many would like an independent review but she thinks it’s a step in the right direction with the manager meeting with the citizens.

“I think ultimately it will be an area where we will try this out,” she said.

“It is a step in the right direction but we might need a comprehensive and transparent appeal process in the future.’

She added the bylaw is moving in the right direction by adding clarity but council should continue to monitor it and perhaps not wait so long to review it the next time.

“I think we could offer greater differentiation between the provisions pertaining to regular dogs and aggressive dogs,” she said.

“In particular, I think we need to look at the fines and make sure our fines are effective deterrents without be oppressive for the public that we serve.”

There will be new signs installed at Three Mile Bend to be consistent with the signs already in place at the Oxbows Off-Leash Dog Park, near Delburne Street and 40th Avenue.

The existing bylaw was implemented in 2009. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

● City council agreed to submit a letter of intent to host the 2015 Alberta 55+ Summer Games in 2015.

The games, held every two years, feature more than 1,100 participants in 14 different sports including military whist, cycling, bocce, creative writing and horseshoes.

Meanwhile, the City is eyeing the chance to host the Canada Winter Games in 2019. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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COUNCIL: Expressway planned for 2022 “Because this particular commercial site falls mid-block there’s some hesitation whether it will be picked up for some commercial site,” said Veer.

“I think we need to be mindful in the future that we have great access and great visibility for when we are placing expectation that commercial will transpire.”

The plan calls for a construction of Highway 20, a new expressway, along the eastern boundary of Timber Ridge in 2022.

The road will function as part of a ring road around the east side of Red Deer. At first the lane will be developed with two lanes but could eventually be upgraded to six lanes.

Two collector roads will link the local roads to the rest of the city.

Where the two roads intersect, a roundabout will be constructed.

Senior city planner Jordan Furness said this is a little out of the box for the neighbourhood because four-way stops are not generally built within neighbourhoods.

He said the roundabout will partly help with traffic flow and act as a traffic calmer.

Furness said the design encourages walkability by creating interconnected network of trails and sidewalks.

City council gave third readings to the East Hill Major Area Structure Plan bylaw amendment and the Timber Ridge Neighourhood Area Structure Plan bylaw on Monday.

The area will be developed in nine phases.

Applicant for the first phase subdivision is expected to be filed to municipal planning commission this week.

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Eastbound 32nd Street traffic backs up as a LeDuc Asphalt Milling machine takes off old asphalt Tuesday. Both eastbound lanes are now closed from just west of 47th Avenue as part of the rehabilitation of the busy roadway. Traffic is down to a single lane in both directions, a situation worsened by the temporary closure of 47th Avenue.

B-17: Deafening drone Even in Red Deer’s friendly skies, the deafening drone of the engines and the constant vibration that shakes every surface soon wears on you.

Moving about inside means half-crawling through narrow passages along a metal catwalk only a few centimetres wide.

Passengers are warned to stick to the catwalks and wooden flooring and not to tread on the plane’s fuselage.

It’s only aluminum held together with a few rivets, we’re told.

And stay out of the bomb bay. It only takes 45 kg (100 pounds) of weight to pop the doors open.

Passenger Gary Sorensen marvelled at the thin aluminum skin that was all that stood between the bomber’s crew and the cannon and machine-gun rounds of German fighter planes.

“You can see how people got picked apart so easily by those machine-guns.

“These walls are very thin.”

For Sorensen, the flight was a surprise from his fiancée and he came away thrilled.

“It was pretty incredible,” he said.

“It’s something you can’t compare until you get on it.

“I think it was a great experience — a lifetime experience,” said aviation enthusiast Lawrence Heck.

“It was really something to see.

“It was exciting.”

One of two pilots on board, Reid MacCosham of Arizona, said flying the B-17 is a big departure from the high-tech airliners he guides through the skies in

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his day job.

The B-17 is all cables and pulleys and other basic mechanical controls. Wires slide back and forth along the fuselage as the pilot adjusts control surfaces.

MacCosham said there’s not much left on the plane that is original. The engines have been replaced many times over and every 25 hours each engine undergoes detailed maintenance.

That maintenance schedule means all four engines have been fully inspected, oiled and fine tuned after 100 hours of flying time. Then, the process starts all over again.

Sentimental Journey rolled off a California production line in late 1944. It arrived too late to join the thousands of other B-17s that formed the backbone of the United States Air Forces campaign against Nazi Germany.

It was sent to the Pacific theatre in early 1945 for the duration of the war and later went on to a diverse career as a photo-mapping plane, air-sea rescue craft, a drone control plane during nuclear tests and a firefighting water bomber.

Arizona’s Commemorative Air Force bought it in 1978 and fully restored it to flying condition.

On its latest tour, the plane has already made stops in Cranbrook, B.C., Medicine Hat, Calgary and Edmonton.

The warbird is here as a fundraiser for the Harvard Historical Aviation Society, which is developing a museum at the Red Deer Airport to celebrate the area’s aviation heritage.

It will be at the Red Deer Airport all day today and will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Those who want to come out and take a look inside are asked to make a $5 donation.

Jodi Smith, president of the aviation society, said they are hoping to raise $10,000 during the B-17s stay.

The money will go towards the development of a series of hands-on displays that the society hopes to take around Central Alberta, and which will eventually form the heart of the museum’s collection. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Watchdog raises alarm over spending habits of U of C chair

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A taxpayers group is taking the University of Calgary to task for board expenses, including executive-class flights and $500-a-night hotel rooms, rung up by the chairman of the school’s board.

Doug Black, who is also a senator-in-waiting in Alberta, has repaid the university nearly $5,400 for airfare expenses the institution says were “processed in error.”

But Scott Hennig, Alberta director of the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation, is raising questions about the price of hotel rooms claimed as part of the $28,000 billed to the university and revealed through Freedom of Information laws.

“We got tipped off,” said Henni.

The tipster advised the group to

compare Black’s and former board chair Jack Perraton’s expenses.

“It’s a trend of $300, $400 or $500 hotel rooms that (Black) stays in.”

Hennig said the University of Calgary’s travel expense procedure dictates that flights shorter than five hours must be economy class.

Hotels are to be “standard room rates” and that travellers are to stay “where preferred or discount rates — or the equivalent of such rates — are available whenever possible.”

The claims show a $1,268.19 bill for a room at the Houston Four Seasons for two nights and another $1,261.71 from the Ritz Carleton for a two-night stay in Toronto.

Hennig said Perraton, who served as chair from April, 2007 through December 2010, claimed a total of $434.01 in expenses dur-

ing his 3 ½-year term. Black was appointed in February 2011.

An official with the University of Calgary says the error in payment was discovered in the audit and believes that the institution is doing a good job keeping an eye on dollars and cents.

However, Jonathon Gebert, vice-president of finance and services, didn’t offer an explanation as to why Black didn’t find cheaper hotel rooms during his trips.

“I can talk to you about the financial controls and the policies and that’s all I can talk to you about,” he said Tuesday.

“We do have a policy that applies to all university funds related to travel and hospitality and we’ve been working hard on our policies. We will be looking at our hospitality and travel expense policy as a normal course of business.”

Driver causes crash to save four children crossing street

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Edmonton police are calling an alert driver a Good Samaritan for causing a fender-bender that saved four children crossing a busy street.

Darrell Krushelnicki is a bit stunned by the accolades and attention he’s received since the crash last Friday outside a mall on the south side of the city.

But he said he’d do it again.

“Vehicles can always be repaired and replaced,” the 46-yearold said Tuesday. “It’s lives that are at risk. And I’m just glad it worked out for everybody.”

Krushelnicki recently moved from southern Alberta to Fort Nelson, B.C., where he has a job in the oil and gas industry.

He was on his way to work but stopped last week to visit his parents in Sherwood Park, a bedroom community east of Edmonton.

He had just dropped his girlfriend off at the Bonnie Doon mall and was driving out of the parking lot when he saw the children crossing the road and realized they were in danger.

The four kids, ranging in ages from three to 16, had the right of way. They were in a marked crosswalk and flashing lights had alerted drivers to stop.

Krushelnicki said all vehicles had stopped except for a silver car that was heading straight for the children. It appeared the man driving the car was on his cell phone, he said.

“He wasn’t aware of the surroundings and those kids cross-

ing the street. The timing was all bad,” Krushelnicki said.

“The kids were almost completely across but not quite and the vehicle was travelling at a pretty high rate of speed.”

Krushelnicki was already half way into the intersection, waiting to turn, and made a split decision to drive into the path of the oncoming car.

The car skimmed off the front bumper of his Hummer then turned into an adjacent service road before stopping.

Krushelnicki got out of his truck to check on the children.

They were shaken up and the youngest one was crying, he said.

Police have charged John Troy Heitzman, 23, with dangerous driving.

Lethbridge police station evacuated after pre-WW1 military ordinance brought in LETHBRIDGE — A well-meaning attempt to turn in an old military weapon exploded into turmoil Tuesday afternoon, forcing an evacuation of police headquarters and tying up traffic in downtown Lethbridge for the better part of three hours.

The drama unfolded just before noon Tuesday when a man came into the Lethbridge regional police station carrying what officials later determined was a pre-First World War anti-tank explosive device.

The man waited at the front counter for a while, according to police, but when he saw that staff members were all busy, he simply put the small, rusted antique on the counter and left.

When police realized that the dropped-off device was a potentially live explosive with a detonator attached, they evacuated the building.

Nearly 100 police officers and civilian staff rushed outside and across the street, leaving their lunches on their desks as the fire department arrived for backup.

Police directed traffic away from the police station, causing a backlog of idling cars through the downtown until the explosive was removed and staff were allowed back inside.

The local explosive disposal unit sent in a bomb robot to fetch the device and place it in the back of a sandbag-loaded City of Lethbridge pickup truck.

It was then driven to a gravel pit, prompting officials to close Highway 3 to all traffic while the large vehicle made its way down the road.

From the gravel pit, officials awaited the arrival of explosives experts from Canadian Forces Base Suffield to identify the device and then safely blow it up.

Canadian Forces personnel have more ex-

perience dealing with military explosives than Lethbridge police, said Insp. Jeff Cove.

“You really want to make sure that you have the right people with the right level of expertise, and in Lethbridge we just don’t have the call for our guys to go and take those things apart,” he said.

“We have tried to communicate to the public if you have explosive ordnance, old souvenirs that you want to get rid of, please don’t bring them to the police station,” he said.

“Call us. We’re more than happy to come and pick them up and we will collect them and dispose of them for you. You

can’t go to the front counter of the police station and just drop these off, and you especially can’t go in, drop these off and leave. We need to know what they are.”

Cove said he didn’t know how much calling in the Department of National Defence or evacuating the police station would cost taxpayers.

BRIEFS

Human skull linked to woman who vanished two years ago

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LEDUC — Alberta Mounties have linked a human skull found south of Edmonton to a woman who disappeared in the area two years ago.

A group of horseback riders discovered the skull Saturday in a wooded area in a field on a rural property near Leduc.

RCMP say dental records were used to identify the remains as belonging to Amber Tuccaro of Fort McMurray.

The 20-year-old was visiting the Edmonton area when she was last seen on Aug. 18, 2010.

“This is very sad news for the Tuccaro family, and our thoughts are with them,” Staff-Sergeant Gerard MacNeil of Project Kare said Tuesday.

“This discovery brings us closer to finding out what happened to Amber.”

RCMP say the circumstances surrounding her death are suspicious and a ground search of the area is underway.

Tuccaro’s family do not wish to comment and have asked that their privacy be respected.

Tuccaro lived in Fort McMurray, and flew to Edmonton International Airport with her then 14-month-old son and a female friend on Aug. 17, 2010.

She booked into a hotel in Nisku near the airport and spent the day in the community.

The next day, Tuccaro left her hotel room to catch a ride into Edmonton and got into an unknown man’s vehicle.

“She left Jacob (her son) with her friend to meet with another friend of hers and that was the last time she was seen,” MacNeil said.

Her family reported her missing two days later.

Trucking company boss named new head of Alberta Health Services EDMONTON — The head of a Calgary-area trucking company has been named the new chairman of Alberta’s health superboard.

The government says Stephen Lockwood has a background rooted in strong financial oversight and good corporate governance.

Lockwood, a lawyer, is currently the president and co-CEO of Okotoks-based Mullen Group, a trucking and logistics company.

He takes over from Catherine Roozen, who served as Alberta Health Service’s interim chairwoman after Ken Hughes stepped down to sit in the legislature.

Dr. Tony Fields has been named the new chairman of the Health Quality Council of Alberta.

Fields, an oncologist, was a vice-president with Alberta Health Services and was already sitting on the quality council’s board.

Man reportedly dead after overnight basement fire EDMONTON — One person is dead after a house fire in Edmonton.

The fire happened overnight in the basement of a north-end residence.

Smoke could be seen pouring from the lower level when firefighters arrived at the scene.

The body was discovered, once crews were able to get inside to search the building.

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Closing an historical void Sayings about the importance of knowing your history have been uttered often enough not to need repeating. But that doesn’t mean the lesson’s been learned.

Amazingly, as we mark the bicentennial of the War of 1812, a survey for the Department of National Defence shows that few Canadians know about the two-year conflict between this country and the United States.

Many could not even identify it by name, let alone discuss its significance.

This disappointing F mark comes after the Conservatives, to mark the

OTHERVIEW historical turning point, invested $28 million in historical re-enactments, television commercials, museum exhibits, a $60 commemorative coin, and even a mobile app for smart phones.

Since this bicentennial observation could hardly be construed to have political ramifications, it’s safe to say the Conservatives simply thought it worthwhile to know the history.

Peter MacKay, MP for Central Nova and minister of Defence, took part in

a recent ceremony presenting battle honours at Toronto’s Fort York to some of the regiments that fought 200 years ago — lest they be forgotten.

MacKay commented that much of what Canadians have today shouldn’t be taken for granted. The country’s history could have been much different.

Indeed, this war was a contributing factor ultimately leading to Confederation.

Don’t get us wrong. People on the south side of the border are a fantastic bunch. They’re close cousins — figuratively, and often in the literal sense — they’re great friends in the best of

times and certainly the allies you’d want in the worst of times.

But just take their marathon election years, for example.

Consider the show-biz style Republican convention on this past week, including movie director Clint Eastwood disgracing himself with an eerie, rambling monologue; or first lady wannabe Ann Romney trying to pass herself off as a latter-day, bubbly Sarah Palin.

Would any Canadian with better things to do want to sit through that?

Come on, really.

An editorial from the New Glasgow News.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Helping Red Deerians be healthy Re: Bike lanes in Red Deer, catalyst for change I read with interest the letter and editorials in the Aug. 29 Advocate. Certainly, it has been a lively discussion that Red Deerians are having on the expansion of the bicycle lanes in Red Deer.

The Red Deer Primary Care Network (PCN) — your family physician working in partnership with Central Health Zone of Alberta Health Services — has been integral in moving up plans as generally outlined in the City of Red Deer’s Master Transportation Plan.

Encouraged by ourselves, the Red Deer Bicycle Commuters Association, ReThink Red Deer, and Safe Communities Central Alberta, the City of Red Deer has taken the lead in financing the creation of integrated bike lanes on our roadways.

The Red Deer PCN has provided financial support in educating the public about the lanes through brochures and the presence of a stall at the Saturday morning Red Deer Public Market.

As with our helping the city establish the outdoor gyms and the disc golf facility in north Red Deer, the Red Deer PCN aims to get people active in their daily lives.

The projects funded are not meant to build people into superathletes, but are meant to be a catalyst in encouraging good health.

The bike lane pilot project is just another way that Red Deerians, with regular usage can get and stay healthy.

If enough Red Deerians use the lanes, maybe we can get rid of them, when there is mutual respect and care between motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians!

So, I look forward to the discussion and ultimately, the decision of city council. Whatever the decision regarding the bike lanes pilot project, do remember, your choices reveal your priorities.

Peter Mah, MD Board Member Past President Red Deer Primary Care Network

Torture editorial way off mark It has been several years since the Advocate has published as asinine an editorial as the one written by Cameron Kennedy for the Aug. 30 paper concerning Public Safety Minister Vic Toew’s authorizing the RCMP, CSIS and Canada Border Services officers to use information from other countries that might have been obtained there through the use of torture.

If Kennedy had bothered to read the original documents, he would have seen the careful qualifications and restrictions put on this authorization — its primary objective is to save Canadian lives and protect our nation.

How Kennedy’s thought processes led him to believe that in the future Canadian personnel might start torturing suspects themselves by plucking finger nails, etc., as a result of Toew’s document is beyond me.

My understanding of the paper is that if the RCMP or the other agencies hear from any source of a plan that would cause major loss of Canadian lives or facilities, the information can now be used legally to try to save our citizens and infrastructure.

Does Kennedy actually believe that our intelligence and security personnel should just ignore warnings of possible large scale terrorist strikes against such sites as, for example, our Parliament Buildings, Toronto’s Eaton Centre, a Montreal university, etc. because the information came from a brutal country and might have come to light as the result of torture there?

I hope not.

Using such information to protect Canada and Canadians is far removed from condoning torture or authorizing Canadian personnel to practise torture or encouraging it elsewhere in the world.

I and, I believe, most rational citizens would expect our government to first ensure the safety of our citizens and institutions and to then worry about the sources.

Proper research should be mandatory before the writing of any editorial.

Fred Brittain Red Deer

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Coming to grips with Arctic unknowns It’s no surprise that we will have a record minimum of ice cover in the Arctic Ocean at the end of this summer melt season. It’s already down to around four million square km, with a least another week of melting to go, but this is what you might call a “known unknown.”

Scientists knew we were losing the ice-cover fast; they just didn’t know how fast.

I’m no fan of Don Rumsfeld, who helped to lead the United States into the disastrous invasion of Iraq when he was George W. Bush’s defence secretary, but I never had a problem with the distinction he made between “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns” when discussing the intelligence data. He was brutally mocked in the media for using such jargon, but there really is a difference.

A “known unknown,” in the GWYNNE case of the Arctic Ocean, is how long it will be before the entire DYER sea is ice-free at the end of each summer. The last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2007, talked about that happening some time in the second half of this century, but it couldn’t be more specific.

The IPCC usually underestimates the rate of climatic change, but even the pessimists didn’t think we’d get there before the 2030s. I did encounter one maverick at the National Ice and Snow Data Centre who thought it might happen in this decade, but nobody actually knew.

A “known unknown,” in other words.

As for the impact that an ice-free Arctic Ocean might have on climates elsewhere, it would obviously accelerate the global warming trend, but beyond that there wasn’t much to go on.

This was the territory of the “unknown unknowns”: big things might happen to the complex atmospheric system of the planet when a major chunk of it suddenly changes, but nobody knew what.

Now we begin to see the consequences. The polar jet stream, an air current that circles the globe in the high-

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er northern latitudes and separates cold, wet weather to the north from warmer, drier weather to the south, is changing its behaviour.

In a paper in Geophysical Letters last March entitled Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes, Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University and Stephen Vavrus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison offered a hypothesis that may explain why world grain prices have risen 30 per cent in the past four months (and are still going up).

First, a warmer Arctic reduces the temperature gradient between the temperate and polar zones. That, in turn, slows the wind speeds in the zone between the two and increases the “wave amplitude” of the jet stream.

The jet stream flows around the planet in great swooping curves, like a river crossing a flat plain, and those curves — Rossby waves, in scientific language — are getting bigger and slower.

This is a recipe for extreme weather. In the old days the Rossby waves went past fast, bringing the alternation of rainy and sunny weather that characterized the mid-latitude climate. Now they hang around much longer and generate more extreme weather events: droughts and heat-waves, or prolonged rain and flooding, or blizzards and long, hard freezes.

The temperate zone has been seeing a lot of that sort of thing in the past couple of years — much more than usual. It’s cutting deeply into food production in the major breadbaskets of the planet, like the U.S. Midwest and southern Russia, which is why food prices are going up so fast. And this was an “unknown unknown”: nobody saw it coming.

All the scenarios that the military of various countries were working with assumed that climate change would hit food production very hard in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of the world, and that is still true. But the scenarios also assumed that the temperate regions of the planet would still be able to feed themselves well (and even have a surplus left over to export) for many decades to come.

If Francis and Vavrus are right, that may not be the case. It’s a most unwelcome surprise – and it may be the first of many.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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PQ elected in Quebec BUT CAN IT GOVERN?

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The Parti Quebecois celebrated a return to power after nine years in opposition but its parade was dampened Tuesday by a weaker-thandesired result that could severely limit its ability to pursue its independence agenda.

The party has never governed with a minority in its history and, therefore, has never faced the need to table a referendum question, an inaugural speech, or any other confidence measure with the support of other parties that oppose its values.

The result was greeted with perhaps the greatest sigh of relief, ever, to follow any of the five elections the PQ has won in its history. In an early reaction from federal politicians, Liberal Leader Bob Rae described the result as: “Quebec voters reject separatist project.”

The score in the popular vote was about 32 per cent for the PQ; 31 per cent for the governing Liberals, who staved off the electoral annihilation many had predicted; and 27 per cent for the new Coalition party.

Several factors could still resurrect the independence program.

It remained unclear whether the

‘Diefenbaby’ won’t have hair tested

final seat numbers would ultimately leave another pro-independence party, the smaller and more left-wing Quebec solidaire, with the balance of power.

The PQ won or was leading in about 56 ridings in Tuesday’s election, shy of the 63 needed for a majority in the 125-seat legislature. Quebec solidaire won two seats.

The governing Liberals had a far better-than-expected result and were leading or elected in about 48 ridings, holding onto official Opposition status.

The newly formed Coalition party had a disappointing night, winning or leading in about 20 ridings.

Among party leaders, the PQ’s Pauline Marois was easily elected in her riding.

She will become the fifth female provincial or territorial premier. The Coalition’s Francois Legault held a narrow lead, and Quebec solidaire’s two co-leaders, Amir Khadir and Francoise David, were elected.

Liberal Premier Jean Charest, meanwhile, was trailing badly in his riding of Sherbrooke and appeared poised to lose his seat for the first time in nine federal or provincial elections.

Charest’s status was a major wildcard: It’s unknown whether he would stay on to lead his party, or how his party would vote in the legislature

Photo by THE CANADIAN RPESS

Parti Quebecois supporters cheer as election results are announced in Montreal, Tuesday. without a leader there.

Predictions of the Liberals’ electoral wipeout did not come true Tuesday but the party is not out of the woods yet: in addition to being potentially leaderless, the inner workings of its fundraising will be exposed to public scrutiny in an ongoing public inquiry.

There was a surge in voter turnout from 2008 levels.

The sovereigntist PQ led in surveys throughout the campaign with its support pegged in the low-30s, leaving

open the question of whether a majority government was within reach.

A PQ win in the seat count likely terminates the reign of Charest, the resolutely pro-Canada premier who made the transition from national politics in 1998 when the federalist forces in the province were leaderless and fearful of another sovereignty referendum.

Charest’s Liberals had won the popular vote in every provincial campaign he led and, since 2003, had held power with three straight election victories.

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The Diefenbaker Canada Centre in Saskatoon announced last week it found a chunk of hair labelled as belonging to the former prime minister.

The hair, not listed in the museum’s computer database, was a surprise find for the museum during renovations.

Staff believe the blonde strands were likely cut from Diefenbaker’s head when he was a child and kept as a family keepsake.

The centre has invited George Dryden to have the hair tested but he believes it would be a waste of time.

“It’s useless. There’s nothing there to test,” Dryden said Tuesday.

“You need the root. A clipping just doesn’t do it.” Dryden, who bears a strong resemblance to the former Conservative leader, claims his mother had an affair with the prime minister in the 1960s.

Diefenbaker was Canada’s 13th prime minister from 1959 to 1963. He reportedly had no children and died in 1979.

Dryden has been trying for more than a year to establish whether he is Diefenbaker’s offspring. Earlier this year, he hired a company to conduct DNA tests on a few artifacts at the centre, but the results were inconclusive.

Dryden said he’s disappointed the museum touted the hair as a major development in his paternity quest.

“The only thing that might be useful to be tested would be if there was some dandruff or something on the hair ... But this was clipped from his head when he was a little boy so I’d be very surprised if there is dandruff there.”

The centre’s director, Michael Atkinson, said it looks like a clean cut of hair with no specks.

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CHEW A SPRIG OF PARSLEY TO FRESHEN YOUR BREATH AFTER EATING GARLIC If you are a garlic lover, not a vampire, and looking for a “stinking” good dinner menu, then you might want to make reservation at the La Casa Pergola — a cozy Italian restaurant located in the Red Deer downtown district. On September 15 and 16, this restaurant will be hosting their 7th annual Ode to the “Stinking Rose” dinner event. Named after the historical term for garlic, the dinner will feature a whole meal including starter, entree, and a dessert around the pungent herb.

It seems so appropriate that La Casa Pergola is putting on this tribute since garlic is the defining flavour of Italian food and is as essential as violins to an orchestra; it mingles well with other ingredients but imparts its own flavour to the dish.

The tribute to the stinking rose begins with two starters; Gorgonzola and grape salad and fennel, and potato soup.

Gorgonzola is an Italian soft textured cheese that has a robust spicy flavour that complements well with the sweet grapes and crisp greens.

The garlic in this dish comes in the form of a crunchy caramel cloaking the clove. Candied garlic seems outrageous but it is a real treat and MADHU extenuates the BADONI salad. The salad is partnered with an anise-scented soup which is reminiscent of the classic creamy potato and leek soup. It is lighter tasting than the typical creamy soups as there is no thick cream added. Instead the garlic is boiled with the potatoes to infuse all the flavours into the spud and then blended into a creamy velvety concoction.

The entree of the meal is Bistecca di Cipolla — a grilled Alberta beef tenderloin steak. This is true garlicky haven and enough garlic flavour to ward Count Dracula from miles away. Perfectly cooked medium rare steak is topped with red onion garlic flavoured port sauce.

This is all served with garlic and herb roasted potatoes and sautéed mushrooms and red onions. Please wipe off the drool from your chin . . . there is still dessert to be had!

The sweet note to the meal — a garlic cheese cake garnished with chocolate sauce and crumbled garlic brittle. It really is a superb take on the popular dessert. Unlike what you’re probably imagining, surprisingly the garlic cloves and the other elements of the velvety rich cheesecake dance together in sweet harmony! The creaminess of cheese and the careful caramelization of the garlic brittle strip the characteristic sharp spicy flavor off the garlic. What’s left is a mellowed and subtly sweet flavour that’s still somewhat discernible in a mouthful!

This ode garlic dinner cost $49.95 per person and it is recommended that you make advance reservation. For all those paying tribute to the stinking rose will also take home a booklet that includes recipes and interesting history and myth associated with the garlic. Those who find the herb’s folklore and aroma more appealing than its taste can also order off of La Casa Pergola’s regular menu.

Garlic Facts The ancient Egyptians were the first to farm garlic. They worshiped garlic and placed clay models of garlic bulbs in the tomb of Tutankhamenin. The little bulbs helped power the building of the great pyramids. Hard-working slaves received a ration of garlic each day to improve their strength and ward off illness. And a mere 15 pounds of this ancient currency would buy a healthy male slave to add to the pyramid-building team.

Folklore holds that garlic repelled vampires, protected against the evil eye and warded off jealous nymphs said to terrorize pregnant women and engaged maidens.

The history of the “stinking rose” has not all been rosy. In certain times and places, people despised garlic. Many Kings who reigned during the 14th century ordered people to stay away from them if they had eaten garlic within the past month. Also, its alleged aphrodisiac qualities made garlic taboo for Tibetan monks.

Ancient Indians believed garlic would lure people away from spiritual endeavors, so it was banned in certain sacred places. What’s more, the upper classes among them felt it would be barbaric to eat such a “common people’s food.”

The British considered it as food for the lower rank, and even Shakespeare mentioned it with disdain in several of his plays.

However, as its health benefits began to be recognized garlic climbed up the ranks and was classified as a super food.

There has been studies showing that eating garlic lowers cholesterol, ward off coughs and cold and increase blood circulation.

Finally the one negative attribute associated with garlic is it can cause bad breath. But there is a remedy; simply chew a sprig of parsley, or else eat a few coffee beans to freshen your breath after eating garlic!

Madhu Badoni is a Red Deer-based freelance food writer. She can be reached at madhubadoni@gmail.com or on Twitter @ madhubadoni. Watch for Madhu’s MasalaMix blog on www.reddeeradvocate.com.

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The entree of the meal is Bistecca di Cipolla — a grilled Alberta beef tenderloin steak. This is true garlicky haven and enough to ward Count Dracula from miles away.

Finocchio, aglio e patate Zuppa (Fennel, garlic and Potato soup) 1 medium onion diced 2 stalks of celery, sliced 2 lbs fennel, diced Salt to taste 1lb Yukon gold potatoes, diced 6 cloves of garlic Bouquet garni (bay leaf, parsley sprigs, thyme fennel seed, black pepper tied in cheesecloth) 2 quarts vegetable stock

In a large heavy soup pot over medium heat add onion, celery fennel and salt. Cook for about 8 minutes until vegetables have softened. Add potatoes, cloves bouquet garni and vegetable stock.

Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and let simmer for about 1 hour. Remove Bouquet garni, blend the soup until smooth. Taste and season with salt and peper. Serve hot or chilled.

Insalata di Vine (Grape salad) Serves 6-7 people Salad 2 cups seedless red and green grapes, halved 8 ounces of crumbled gorgonzola cheese 6 loose cups of organic artisan lettuce Vinaigrette ½ cup red wine vinegar ½ cup fresh lemon juice

1 ½ tsp honey ½ tbsp. salt 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 ½ cup small shallot, minced 2 ½ cups extra virgin olive oil 1 ½ tsp black pepper Mix all together

Candied garlic 25 cloves garlic 1 ¾ cup water 1/3 cup sugar

cookie sheet lined with parchment paper to cool.

Mix garlic and water together and bring to boil.

Boil for 8 minutes. Drain. Ina skillet melt 1/3 cup of sugar until light brown, add garlic cloves and stir constantly to coat, continued to caramelize the garlic until golden to dark brown , spread out onto

For the salad: Place the grapes, Gorgonzola and candied garlic in a large mixing bowl. Add ¾ cup of dressing. You want enough dressing in the bowl to fully saturate the cheese and grape mixture.

Add the lettuce and toss your salad. Taste for seasoning.

Bistecca di Cipolla (Grilled Beef Tenderloin Steak)

Aglio Torta di Ricotta (Garlic cheesecake)

Red onion Port Sauce 1 ½ cups red wine ½ cup tawny port 3 cups sliced red onion 1 cup diced cremini mushrooms 4 cloves garlic, chopped Chili pepper, to taste 1 tbsp. chopped parsley ½ teaspoon fresh thyme, 2 cups beef stock 3 tbsp. unsalted butter, cut into small pieces

Crust 1 ¼ cup finely crushed ginger cookies ½ cup milted butter 1 egg Mix together and press into a bottom and up and the side by about 1” of 9’ spring form pan. Set aside.

Cheesecake 3 eggs 3 ¼ cup cream cheese, softened 1 cup white sugar 1 tablespoon flour 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract 1 tsp lemon zest 1 tbsp. heavy cream Pinch of salt 4 cloves of roasted elephant garlic, minced

In a saucepan combine wine, port, onions, mushrooms, garlic, chili pepper, parsley and thyme.

Bring to a boil and let simmer until liquid is reduced by The sweet note to the meal — a garlic cheese In a bowl comhalf. Add broth and bine eggs and cream let reduce again to cake garnished with chocolate sauce and cheese and blend half. Strain the liqcrumbled garlic brittle. It really is a superb until smooth. Blend uid off into a sauce take on the popular dessert. in sugar, flour, expan and reduce tract, lemon zest, again for about 5 cream, salt and garminutes, remove from heat and whisk in the butter a little at a time, lic. Beat with mix master until smooth, pour into crust. Bake at 500 degrees for 5 minutes; reduce season with salt to taste.

Place tenderloin steak in middle of plate top oven heat to 250 for the next 45 to 60 minutes. Rewith Port sauce. Serve with garlic and herb roast- move from the oven and chill at least 3 hours beed potatoes and sautéed mushrooms and red on- fore cutting. Serve with chocolate sauce, crumble garlic brittle and coarse salt. ion.

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Bryn Thiessen, left, Ben Crane: declaring International Cow Appreciation Day.

A LOOK BACK

25 YEARS AGO Lodge to open in 1988: Construction of Red Deer’s first senior citizens’ lodge in 11 years would begin soon.

A $2.6-million contract for Parkvale Lodge was awarded to Omex Construction of Red Deer.

The 65-bed lodge would be at 4277 46A Ave. on part of the old exhibition grounds.

The new building would help relieve a critical shortage of accommodation for seniors in Red Deer. More than 100 people were waiting for accommodation in two city lodges.

50 YEARS AGO City boy spent seven days on pack horse trail: “You never saw biscuits like those — soft and fluffy. I never tasted anything like them in all my life.”

Ron Prokosch described the food on his seven day pack-horse trip through the mountains with all the zeal of a perpetually hungry 16-year-old.

Ron was one of five boys who went into Ya-ha-tinda country west of Sundre on the Pioneer

Camp trail-ride. The boys with two counsellors set out from the camp at Sundre on horse-back to go to the Helmer’s ranch west of town.

On horseback they travelled 15 miles to reach the ranch.

On the first day the group had to cross the Red Deer River in a basket cable car. Ron found this crossing quite exciting, particularly in the middle of the river when the car jerked and started to go upward.

“It was just like a roller-coaster,” he grinned.

Contract awarded: A $762,362 contract was awarded for the immediate construction of a 100-bed auxiliary hospital in Red Deer to Burns and Dutton Concrete and Construction Company Ltd. of Calgary.

The auxiliary hospital was to be established immediately west of the Red Deer Municipal Hospital and the two institutions would jointly utilize some central services such as heating.

Sports stadium planned: A tentative plan for the development of an intensive recreation set-up including a 2,200-seat football stadium and track on the ground of the River Glen Composite and Vocational schools was approved in principle by the recreation board.

Unveiled by recreation su-

perintendent Donald Moore, the scheme detailed construction of a complex of recreational facilities including hockey rinks and tennis courts, skating rinks, baseball, fastball and softball diamond of various sizes, soccer fields, playground equipment and other areas and equipment.

90 YEARS AGO Back to school: The schools opened for the fall term with an attendance about the same as a year ago. In the high school, there were a bout 140 pupils already, so it was probably that the month’s registration would equal that of last September — 150. The year’s Grade 10 class had 53 pupils so two classes were formed.

Weekend fun: The Labour Day tournament and stampede in Red Deer, the first event of the kind ever attempted in Red Deer, was a splendid success.

Every part of the entertainment on both days was put over in fine style, the events being run off in good order and without any delay.

The directors in charge of the various lines of sport put their shoulder to the wheel and as a consequence everything ran along smoothly, no hitch being apparent in any part of the program.

Getting ready for fall season Although its official It’s like a waterproof start isn’t for a few more jacket! weeks, the changing of Bot eggs are another the leaves and single sign that fall is on its digit overnight tempera- way. I’ve been working tures confirm the shift at removing these little into autumn. Topests for over day I’m going to a month altalk about a few ready. things to keep These eggs in mind as we have been head into the strategically cooler months. placed on the You’ve probhorse’s legs, ably noticed mane and that over the shoulders last month or by an adult so your horse botfly. Durhas shed out its ing its life, summer coat a botfly can and a longer, lay anywhere coarser winter between 300SHELLY L. coat is begin1000 eggs.

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When the The shorthorse rubs its ened days sigmuzzle over nal the body to the eggs, they begin growing a warmer hatch and burrow into hair coat that will keep the tissues of the cheeks the horse warm in the and gums. cold of winter. It is a litIn the tongue, gums or tle known fact that the cheeks they can cause irhorse actually grows an ritation and inflammaentirely new coat. tion. They remain and The shortening of the grow here for around a days triggers hormones mouth before being swalthat shift his coat into a lowed into the stomach. growth phase, pushing They spend winter the summer hairs out of and spring attached to the follicles as the win- the stomach lining, livter hair grows. ing on blood and tissue, Horses exposed only growing and maturing. to warm weather condiA large infestation tions in this late June- will inhibit the absorpOctober period may only tion of nutrients that algrow a light winter coat, while horses exposed to colder conditions will grow a longer, thicker coat.

The longer, thicker coats trap more dirt and oils against the skin, resulting in a layer of insulation that helps to keep the horse warm and dry.

The coarse, fluffy winter coat stands up rather than lying flat like a sleek summer coat and traps a layer of warm air close to the body. This process is called piloerection. The blood vessels in the skin constrict from the cold and the hair shafts stand up on end.

This winter coat is amazingly functional.

It is a mixture of thick, dense hairs and long, coarse ‘guard’ hairs.

The coat lays in a downward (toward the ground) tilt encouraging rain and snow to glide down and off the horse.

This discourages the moisture from saturating the horse and causing him to get chilled from being damp in the cold.

HORSE SENSE

low our horses to maintain good health. Not only do they interfere with the digestion process, they also cause damage to the stomach lining, or in extreme cases perforations of the stomach wall.

When mature, the larvae are 1-2 centimetres in length and red in color.

This is when they release from the horse’s stomach and are passed in the manure. When in the manure, they burrow down deep and further mature in to the pupae.

Weeks later (anywhere from 4-10) the adult botfly emerges, ready to pester your horse and continue the cycle of life by cementing more eggs onto your horse.

While diligent removal of bot eggs is important to breaking up the life cycle of this parasite, fall manure management is also a key component to ensuring the health of your horse.

Cleaning up all manure and removing it from your horse’s environment can drastically decrease exposure to all internal parasites, therefore reducing the need for deworming products and saving you money.

Assessing your

horse’s body condition and making appropriate adjustments to his diet are easier now before the weather turns cold.

When the temperature drops, the horse’s appetite increases. An increased consumption of food is the body’s way of putting on a few extra pounds of winter ‘insulation’ in the form of fat.

This light layer of body fat under the skin is the horse’s next level of defense against the winter cold.

Digestion is the primary warming process.

The digestion of fibre in the cecum and large intestine results in the production of heat. This internal furnace keeps the horse warm in cold weather.

Like any furnace, it requires something to run on and in the case of your horse, the fuel is hay.

In the bitter cold your horse should have a constant supply of good quality hay to keep his furnace going.

Preparation is the key to a healthy horse. Being proactive and making sure that your horse is in top health will make the transition in to the inevitably colder times a little smoother.

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“How’s the new job?”

“It’s OK,” replied my friend without looking up.

“Just OK?” The response struck me as lukewarm.

“Not great or fantastic?”

“It’s OK,” he repeated and I got the impression he didn’t want to talk about it.

It has been my experience that people can be divided into four categories when it comes to employment: people who are unemployed and looking for work, people who work but hate what they do, those who are just OK with their job and those few (only about 10 per cent) who absolutely love their work and can’t wait to start each morning. Perhaps there is still another group that prefers never to work and finds ways to make non-work a reality for themselves.

If you’re among the 10 per cent, then you’ve figured MURRAY something out that few peoFUHRER ple ever do. And if you’re among the other groups then perhaps there’s something of value here for you.

I can remember years ago when I was toying with the idea of becoming a columnist; I spoke to Pat Lynch who was (at the time) a successful American columnist and professional motivator.

Pat asked me, “If you could do anything you wanted and never had to think about money or the future, what would you do?” Of course, Pat was talking about pursuing my passion. I thought about the question. I’ve asked it often in my workshops and have received a variety of answers from gardening and yes, writing, to watching television, shopping and even on-line gaming.

I have often heard the sentiment, “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Boy doesn’t that sound great. The presupposition is that you can make a great living pursuing your passion – doing what you love – whatever it should happen to be. Well, maybe.

There is a question that you must ask yourself first and it’s critical to your success: what value does your passion have for other people?

Value is what will separate an enjoyable hobby from a viable vocation. If you have a passion for online gaming (for example), you must ask yourself how your passion can translate into value or a tangible benefit for others.

I had a young friend who would spend hours sitting at home gaming and, though he derived great enjoyment from the experience, it seemed to contribute little to his life – especially from a social viewpoint.

Later, when he met his girlfriend, his gaming time was severely curtailed.

And later still, when he and his girlfriend got married and had a child, gaming was all but discontinued. Now on the surface, you might say my friend’s passion had little if any hope of translating into a viable job.

Being a smart lad, my friend decided to write a blog about gaming which eventually led to a column in a gaming magazine and ultimately a part-time job testing new games and writing reviews — in between spending time with his new wife and changing diapers, of course.

Quite simply, to be profitable your passion must be of benefit to others.

Before I was ever writing columns or books, I was writing short stories. One day someone made the comment that my stories contained great life lessons.

I wondered how I could make my stories and life lessons beneficial to others. The idea for Extreme Esteem was born.

People have often asked me about self-esteem and career choice. If you’re a passionate person who feels worthy and deserving of success, you’ll be much more driven to pursue your passion to a profitable end.

People with healthy self-esteem are frequently goal-focused individuals.

Where most people see only obstacles, the empowered individual will see a challenge to be overcome on the way to success. People with good self-esteem are generally more selective about the types of careers they choose. It must have that passion component.

If you have a well-rounded and grounded sense of self, it’s unlikely that you’ll stay in a job that doesn’t honour your natural gifts, unique personality or speak to your passion.

People with poor self-esteem often stay in soulcrushing jobs because they reside in a place of fear.

Fear will always prompt you to set aside your passion in exchange for security and predictability.

There was a time (a long time) that I worked at passionless jobs I didn’t enjoy — where I even tolerated abuse — because I was afraid and believed myself unworthy and incapable of anything better. Our passion sustains us and without it, we wither and die a little each time we punch the clock.

Where do you fall in the four categories? I can honestly say that when I’m writing about self-esteem and personal empowerment, speaking to engaged groups of individuals or counselling people on how to reach their full potential, I’m in the elite 10 per cent category.

American President Barack Obama declared in his commencement speech, “I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege.

Because it’s moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us.

So don’t ever shy away from that endeavour. Don’t stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.”

Want a job that’s truly in alignment with your best interests and unique gifts? Pursue your passion! Set goals and go for it. And most importantly, don’t give up and never settle.

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Spotting skin cancer Don’t be afraid to haggle SERVICE PROVIDERS AND PROFESSIONALS CAN HELP

TORONTO — It could appear on your scalp. Or the sole of your foot. Under a fingernail. Or on a stretch of your back that is virtually impossible to see without a three-way mirror.

Skin cancers can show up anywhere. And while we all should be keeping an eye out for moles on our skin that are changing colour or size, there are a lot of other people who can help detect skin cancer as well.

Your hairdresser or barber sees far more of your scalp than you ever will. A massage therapist gets a great view of a client’s back. A podiatrist can see the undersides of feet or the cracks between toes.

Any person who provides a health-related service — they are often called allied medical professionals — or even a beauty-based one can play a role in early detection of skin cancer, suggests Dr. Richard Langley, president-elect of the Canadian Dermatology Association.

“Skin cancer can occur on any cutaneous surface ... from the feet up to the scalp. So when you think about it, you can see that there is a broad group of medical, allied medical and nonmedical (professionals) that could provide a benefit to patients by screening in these areas,” says Langley, who is a professor of dermatology and director of dermatology research at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

“So hairdressers.

Chiropractors. Massage therapists. Respiratory therapists. Estheticians.

Podiatrists. Orthotics (fitters). All of these groups are examining the skin and are able to see and identify a lesion that may be of concern.”

Some already consider informal skin cancer screening as part of their job.

Melanie Dowell, a registered massage therapist from Tantallon, near Halifax, remembers spotting a lesion she didn’t like the look of on the back of a new client a few years ago. It was dark, with jagged edges.

“The red flag went up for me,” says Dowell, whose training program at Northumberland College in Halifax included a section on differentiating cancerous from noncancerous moles and lesions.

She asked the woman about it. The client said she’d had the mole examined by her doctor and he’d assured her it was fine.

But when the woman came back for a second massage, Dowell urged her to go back and get the mole rechecked.

The woman didn’t book a third appointment. “I figured I probably annoyed her or something and she went off somewhere else,” Dowell says.

Months later, she got a thank-you letter from the woman, who had followed Dowell’s advice.

The mole was diagnosed as melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer.

The letter said the surgeon who removed the lesion told the woman she was lucky she had sought care when she did.

The letter came with a small present. “She gave me an angel ornament and said I was her angel and I saved her life,” Dowell says.

Danielle Love, a registered massage therapist from Halifax, makes a point of scanning her clients’ skin. She is also a graduate of the Northumberland College program. If she sees something she thinks bears looking into, she’ll suggest clients see their doctor.

Several years ago she noticed something different on one of her long-time clients and made the recommendation. The client’s doctor dismissed the concern, but the woman persisted and got a referral to a dermatologist. In this case, too, the lesion was cancerous.

“They got it in time.

And she was so thankful,” Love says.

There are three major types of skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell cancer and melanoma. Basal cell cancers are the most common; they rarely spread. Squamous cell cancers can occasionally spread to other parts of the body.

Melanoma is the least common of the three types of skin cancer and is the most dangerous.

While curable if found early, its prognosis is poor if found later in the disease.

The Canadian Cancer Society estimates that this year, 5,800 Canadians will be diagnosed with melanoma, and 970 will die from the disease.

According to the Canadian Dermatology Association, one in 74 Canadian men will develop melanoma in their lifetime; for women, the rate is one in 90.

Langley says skin cancer lends itself well to being spotted at home or in the offices of massage therapists, podiatrists or the like.

Where internal cancers may require scans or sophisticated tests to

diagnose, anyone who makes a point of learning what skin cancer looks like can play a role in detecting it.

Dermatologists have developed a useful mnemonic to remind people what to look for when they are assessing a mole as a possible melanoma.

They say you should remember your ABCDEs. These moles can be asymmetrical (A), have an irregular border (B), have different colours (C) within the one mole, can increase in diameter (D) and evolve (E) in shape, colour, size or symptoms.

In terms of symptoms, they can itch, be tender to the touch or bleed.

“What we know from research is that over 50 per cent of the most serious form of skin cancer, melanoma, has been recognized by patients,” he says.

“With the Internet and a more educated population, I have had patients come in and say that they’re concerned that a lesion on their back may be a melanoma. And in fact they’ve been right.”

Langley has also had indirect referrals from hairdressers and massage therapists, and welcomes their help.

Haggling is a way of life in a lot of countries.

It is not done as often or as openly here in Canada or the U.S. But it does really work.

So tell the next sales clerk to sharpen up that pencil and it’s time to talk price.

First of all, just simply ask.

Is this the best price you can offer me? The only thing that can happen is they say that is the best they can do.

So then you decide if you really want that item or if you are going to shop around more.

Ask all the time when you purchase something.

Especially in classified ads, in print or online, often people put the price higher knowing that when you call, if they knock a few dollars off everyone feels they got a good deal.

You feel good because you saved some money and they feel good because they made some money and got rid of an item they no longer needed.

Another place that will usually lower their prices are phone, cable satellite TV and Internet providers.

Before purchasing their services for the first time, see how low you can get them to go.

After all, you are a customer — nothing says you have to continue paying that price. If you notice your billing slowly creeping up in price or even if it is not, call up and see if that’s their best offer. Can your bill be lowered?

If the first person you speak to says no, ask if you can speak to a supervisor. They will most likely discount your bill to keep you as a customer.

This works really well with credit card companies to get your interest

SANDRA NOLAN

BUDGET BUSTING rate lowered.

A great thing to have here is an offer from another card company advertising a lower rate.

So the next time you get one of those letters in the mail saying you have been pre-approved, don’t throw it out.

Keep it for a time when you can call in and negotiate a better interest rate.

Your company should be able to at least match the rate the other company is offering — or even beat it.

Be polite but persistent. If one person says no, ask for a supervisor; if they say no, call back again on a different day. At times, the second person you talk to will have a different answer to the same question.

Remember: be polite to each person you speak to. Being rude will get you zip, zero, nada. In smaller stores, the clerk on the floor cannot authorize a price reduction.

But be sure that when they relay the request to their supervisor, if you have been a jerk, they will make that clear to their boss.

Who wants to help out someone who is being nasty and pushy? You will get more positive responses if you are courteous, friendly and smile. A pleasant customer puts everyone in a better mood and people in a good mood are more likely to say yes to a discount.

Sandra Nolan is a freelance writer from Rocky Mountain House. Her column appears every other week in LIFE. Contact her at slnolan@xplornet.com.

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Azarenka advances to semis TOP SEED TAKES OUT DEFENDING CHAMPION ON RAIN SOAKED DAY AT U.S. OPEN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MICHAEL FERLAND

FERLAND CASE HELD OVER The lawyer for Calgary Flames left-winger Michael Ferland says there is a lot more to the story surrounding the aggravated assault charge his client faces stemming from a bar fight earlier this summer. Michael Bates suggested outside court Tuesday that there are additional witnesses that will present a fuller picture of what happened the night of July 29.

Ferland was not in attendance Tuesday when his matter came up in Cochrane provincial court. Bates had the matter put off until Sept. 18 to obtain more information.

Ferland was charged with aggravated assault and assault last month relating to a disturbance outside a bar in Cochrane.

RCMP say a man who tried to help someone who had been pushed to the ground was struck in the face and knocked unconscious.

He suffered a fractured orbital bone.

Investigators charged Ferland, of Brandon, Man., a week later. In a statement released in August, Ferland denied any wrongdoing.

“It upset me to hear that someone might have been hurt and I am embarrassed by these accusations but I trust the court process and look forward to having this situation behind me as soon as possible,” he said.

Thursday

● High school football: Hunting Hills at Ponoka, Lacombe at Stettler, 4:30 p.m.; Wetaskiwin at Lindsay Thurber, 7:30, Great Chief Park.

Friday

● High school football: Rocky Mountain House at Sylvan Lake, 4:30 p.m.; Notre Dame at Camrose, 7:30 p.m. ● WHL preseason: Red Deer Rebels at Calgary Hitmen, 7 p.m., WinSport at Canada Olympic Park. ● AJHL: Spruce Grove Saints at Olds Grizzlys, 8 p.m.

Saturday

● WHL preseason:

Lethbridge Hurricanes at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Innisfail. ● AJHL: Canmore Eagles at Olds Grizzlys, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY SCORES MLB Baltimore 12 Toronto 0 St. Louis

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6 Texas

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6 Atlanta

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NEW YORK — So, Victoria Azarenka, what went through your mind as your hightension, high-quality U.S. Open quarterfinal victory over defending champion Sam Stosur stretched into a third-set tiebreaker?

“You don’t want to know what I kept telling myself,” Azarenka deadpanned Tuesday. “I would have to beep that, I think.”

She went on to offer a cleaned-up version of what her thoughts had been — “Don’t be a chicken” — while cobbling together a 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (5) rain-interrupted win that eliminated Stosur, put the top-seeded Azarenka in her first semifinal at Flushing Meadows and assured her of retaining the No. 1 ranking no matter what happens the rest of this week.

“Definitely I don’t want to stop. I really want it bad,” Azarenka said about the prospect of adding a second Grand Slam trophy to the one she earned in January at the Australian Open. “I’m going to do absolutely everything I have, you know, to give it all here.”

Because of rain that halted play on and off throughout the day, Azarenka was the only woman who got to enjoy a singles victory at the U.S. Open on Tuesday. The other women’s quarterfinal on the schedule was suspended in progress because of rain, and four-time major champion Maria Sharapova will be trailing 2007 Wimbledon runnerup Marion Bartoli 4-0 when they resume Wednesday.

Sharapova got a bit of a reprieve from the weather during her previous match: She was down 2-0 in the third set against Nadia Petrova when a rain delay of 75 minutes came: After the break, Sharapova took five of the next six games. She’ll get at least 15 hours to contemplate her deficit against Bartoli, who lost all eight sets they had played before Tuesday.

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Victoria Azarenka, of Belarus, returns a shot to Samantha Stosur, of Australia, in the quarterfinals of the 2012 US Open tennis tournament, Tuesday, in New York.

Boomgaarden making sizable impact

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR His physical dimensions are impressive; Riley Boomgaarden now has to refine his abilities.

Standing just a shade under six-foot-three and testing the scales at 210 pounds, it’s no surprise that the Red Deer Rebels prospect prefers to use his size to punish opposing forwards.

But now that he’s closer to his goal of playing in the Western Hockey League, the big defenceman knows he has to continue to work on his skills in order to be productive at the major junior level.

“I like to play a physical game, for sure, and definitely my size helps with that. But there are things I have to work on,” the Grande Prairie product said on Tuesday, following a practice session at the Penhold Regional Multiplex. “It’s a never-ending process of just progressing in everything I do. I just have to continue adjusting to the speed.”

Boomgaarden lasted through Red Deer’s training camp and after appearing in both of the Rebels’ preseason games in St. Albert during the weekend, is one of 29 players remaining on the club’s roster.

The burly blueliner was a combined plus-2 and didn’t feel out of place in 6-3 and 5-3 losses to Prince George and Edmonton

Riley Boomgaarden has been using all of his six-foot-three, 210 pound frame in Rebels training camp which has earned him some extra time with the hockey team. on Saturday and Sunday.

“I started off a little slow, but then I’m just getting into the groove of things. I felt a lot better towards the end of the games and I’ll be good to go from now on,” he said.

About a month after finishing his second season with the midget AAA Grande Prairie Storm, Boomgaarden was contacted by Rebels senior scout Shaun Sutter.

“Shaun talked to me this spring. I got a letter out of the blue and a couple of calls from

him,” said Boomgaarden.

After scoring two goals, registering 19 points and racking up 95 penalty minutes in 28 games as the midget AAA Storm captain and eventual MVP last season, Boomgaarden also received training camp invitations from three other WHL teams.

“But Red Deer definitely showed the most interest and I was most interested in them because they were good about everything in regards to the phone calls and letters,” he said.

Boomgaarden played one game with the Grande Prairie Storm of the Alberta Junior League last winter, but was determined to test his skills at a WHL camp this fall and hopefully beyond.

“This is a lot higher level and any hockey player wants to play at the highest level he can,” he stated. “Certainly it’s a bigger step coming here from midget triple A than it is to junior A.” Even if he fails to make the grade with the Rebels this season, Boomgaarden won’t suit up with the AJHL Storm.

“I didn’t want to go that route if I was to play junior A. The Storm showed a lot of interest in me, but they also have a lot of players coming back so I signed with a team in Saskatchewan,” he said.

Indeed, Boomgaarden committed to playing with the Melfort Mustangs if his WHL plans are derailed.

“Talking to the coaches in Saskatchewan . . . they just seemed a lot more interested in me (as opposed to the Storm). I thought I’d have a bigger role to play there,” he said.

Boomgaarden, however, is intent on sticking with the Rebels.

“I’m confident that I can make it here, but there’s still a lot of stuff I have to work on,” he reiterated. “I’m just going to stick with it and continue to try hard and work hard.”

Rebels head coach Jesse Wallin is reasonably high on the rangy rearguard.

“He had a real good training camp and he fits in well as far as his age is concerned. He’s a younger guy who has a couple of years ahead of him,” said Wallin. “We like his size and he’s a guy who we feel has a lot of upside.

“He’s a big, strong guy who will be hard to play against, it’s just a matter of getting him up to this level and getting his feet moving and getting him up to pace. We think he’s a player who can help us now and certainly down the road as he continues to improve.”

The Rebels return to preseason action on Friday against the Calgary Hitmen at Winsport at Canada Olympic Park. Red Deer will then take on the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Saturday at 7 p.m. at Innisfail. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

U.S. finalizes Ryder Cup team KHL ready to welcome LOVE FILLS REMAINING FOUR SPOTS locked out NHLers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Brandt Snedeker had nothing more than big hopes and another strong finish when he left the TPC Boston, expecting to wait deep into the night for a phone call from Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III that would determine if he was on the U.S. team.

“I had no clue one way or another,” Snedeker said Tuesday. “Got on the plane, got here to Indianapolis and got a voicemail from Davis just asking if I brought my putter from Boston and if I wanted to be on the team. I was just so excited. Couldn’t hardly sleep last night. Just a huge, huge thing for my career.”

Snedeker was among four players whom Love selected to fill out his 12man Ryder Cup team.

The captain also took a pair of veterans, Jim Furyk and Steve Stricker, and Dustin Johnson, who showed the hottest hand over the past two weeks and who Love said was “perfect for Medinah.”

The Ryder Cup is Sept. 28-30 at Medinah outside Chicago, which has hosted the PGA Championship twice since 1999 and is known as a power

golf course. Tiger Woods won two majors there.

More than power, however, Love emphasized putting.

Stricker is regarded as one of the best in the game, and Snedeker is not far behind, as he showed at the British Open and during his charge up the leaderboard the past two weeks at Bethpage Black and the TPC Boston.

“I’ve been saying a lot that we need hot putters, and there really has not been a hotter putter on tour since the British Open,” Love said, referring to Snedeker, one of four Ryder Cup rookies for the U.S. There was just as much talk about who didn’t make the team.

Hunter Mahan, whose two PGA Tour wins this year included the Match Play Championship when he beat Rory McIlroy, was leading the Ryder Cup standings after the Masters and still didn’t qualify for the eight automatic spots.

He had to rely on a pick after he missed the cut in the PGA Championship, and then he missed the cut at The Barclays and was in the middle of the pack at the Deutsche Bank Championship.

The Russians are ready.

With time ticking down until the NHL is expected to lock out its players, KHL teams and executives are bracing for a windfall. The Russian-based league will open its arms to NHL players who wake up Sept. 16 without a place to play because it believes it can capitalize while arenas go dark around North America.

“Mainly I think it’s going to be a lot of additional marketing potential for the league and hockey itself as a game,” KHL vice-president Ilya Kochevrin told The Canadian Press on Tuesday.

“The stars bring additional attention ... to a lot of people who probably don’t consider hockey the sport of choice.

“I think as a marketing tool it’s a great opportunity.”

Most of the top Russian players are expected to quickly make their way home if the NHL and NHL Players’ Association are unable to reach a new collective bargaining agreement by Sept. 15. Evgeni Malkin, Alex Ovechkin, Pavel Datsyuk and Ilya Kovalchuk have already been linked to KHL teams — as have Sergei Gonchar, Nikolai Kulemin and others.

It will be interesting to see how many top players from other countries join them in the event of a lockout.

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Baseball Baltimore New York Tampa Bay Boston Toronto

Early Standings American League East Division W L Pct GB WC 76 59 .563 — — 76 59 .563 — — 75 61 .551 1 1/2 1 1/2 62 74 .456 14 1/214 1/2 60 75 .444 16 16

Chicago Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct GB WC 73 62 .541 — — 72 63 .533 1 4 61 74 .452 12 15 58 78 .426 15 1/218 1/2 56 80 .412 17 1/220 1/2

Texas Oakland Los Angeles Seattle

West Division W L Pct GB WC 80 55 .593 — — 76 58 .567 3 1/2 — 72 63 .533 8 4 66 70 .485 14 1/210 1/2

Football New York 200 000 000 — 2 6 0 Tampa Bay 102 020 00x — 5 5 0 F.Garcia, Rapada (6), Eppley (6), Chamberlain (8) and C.Stewart, Cervelli; Cobb, Jo.Peralta (8), Rodney (9) and J.Molina. W—Cobb 9-8. L—F.Garcia 7-6. Sv—Rodney (42). HRs—New York, Cano (29). Tampa Bay, Longoria (10), De.Jennings (12), B.Upton (18).

Minn.

070 0(10)0 100 — 18 17 1 Chicago 300 100 041 — 9 13 1 Diamond, Swarzak (6), Perdomo (8) and Mauer, Butera; Quintana, Axelrod (2), Septimo (5), Humber (5), Omogrosso (5), Wise (9) and Flowers. W— Diamond 11-6. L—Quintana 5-4. HRs—Minnesota, Parmelee (5), Doumit (15).

Texas 110 000 001 — 3 7 1 Kan. City 002 031 00x — 6 11 1 M.Harrison, Oswalt (5), M.Lowe (8) and Soto; Guthrie, K.Herrera (8), G.Holland (9) and S.Perez.

W—Guthrie 4-3. L—M.Harrison 15-9. Sv—G.Holland (11). HRs—Texas, Andrus (3). Kansas City, A.Gordon (11), Giavotella (1).

Today’s Games Minnesota (Walters 2-2) at Chicago White Sox (Peavy 9-10), 12:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Haren 9-10) at Oakland (McCarthy 8-5), 1:35 p.m.

Cleveland (Jimenez 9-14) at Detroit (Fister 7-8), 5:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 6-3) at Toronto (Morrow 8-5), 5:07 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 12-10) at Tampa Bay (M.Moore 10-8), 5:10 p.m.

Texas (Dempster 4-1) at Kansas City (Teaford 1-3), 6:10 p.m.

Boston (A.Cook 3-8) at Seattle (Millwood 4-12), 8:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Texas at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m.

Washington Atlanta Philadelphia New York Miami

National League East Division W L Pct GB 83 52 .615 — 76 60 .559 7 1/2 65 71 .478 18 1/2 64 72 .471 19 1/2 60 76 .441 23 1/2

Cincinnati St. Louis Pittsburgh Milwaukee Chicago Houston

Central Division W L Pct GB WC 83 54 .606 — — 74 62 .544 8 1/2 — 71 64 .526 11 2 1/2 66 69 .489 16 7 1/2 51 84 .378 3122 1/2 42 94 .309 40 1/2 32

San Francisco Los Angeles Arizona San Diego Colorado

Tuesday’s Major League Linescores Cleveland 021 000 000 — 3 9 1 Detroit 000 002 000 — 2 4 0 Masterson, S.Barnes (7), J.Smith (7), Pestano (8), C.Perez (9) and Marson; Porcello, Smyly (6), Alburquerque (7), Benoit (9) and Avila. W—Masterson 11-12. L—Porcello 9-11. Sv—C.Perez (34). HRs— Detroit, Mi.Cabrera (34).

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Today’s Games Philadelphia (Halladay 8-7) at Cincinnati (Leake 7-8), 10:35 a.m.

N.Y. Mets (Dickey 17-4) at St. Louis (Wainwright 13-11), 11:45 a.m.

Chicago Cubs (Volstad 2-9) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 17-7), 5:05 p.m.

Houston (Abad 0-2) at Pittsburgh (Correia 9-8), 5:05 p.m.

Colorado (White 2-7) at Atlanta (Minor 7-10), 5:10 p.m.

Baltimore 000 031 350 — 12 18 0 Toronto 000 000 000 — 0 4 1 Britton, Gregg (8), Z.Phillips (9) and Wieters, Teagarden; Villanueva, Loup (7), Beck (8), Lyon (9) and Mathis. W—Britton 5-1. L—Villanueva 7-5. HRs— Baltimore, Mar.Reynolds (17).

Milwaukee (W.Peralta 0-0) at Miami (Eovaldi 4-10), 5:10 p.m.

San Diego (Richard 12-12) at L.A. Dodgers (Harang 9-8), 8:10 p.m.

Arizona (Cahill 9-11) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 14-9), 8:15 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Colorado at Atlanta, 10:10 a.m.

Milwaukee at Miami, 10:40 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s Major League Linescores Houston 000 000 020 — 2 7 2 Pittsburgh 102 030 00x — 6 10 0 Lyles, Fe.Rodriguez (5), Fick (6), R.Cruz (7), J.Valdez (8) and J.Castro; W.Rodriguez, Resop (8), Watson (8), Hanrahan (9) and McKenry. W—W. Rodriguez 10-13. L—Lyles 3-11.

Chicago 000 103 010 — 5 8 0 Wash.

230 301 11x — 11 19 0 Rusin, J.Chapman (2), B.Parker (3), Dolis (4), Socolovich (5), Al.Cabrera (7), Beliveau (8) and W.Castillo; E.Jackson, C.Garcia (6), Gorzelanny (7), Mattheus (8), Mic.Gonzalez (9) and Flores.

W—E.Jackson 9-9. L—Rusin 0-2. HRs—Chicago, A.Soriano (26). Washington, Desmond (20), Flores (5), LaRoche 2 (27), T.Moore (8), Zimmerman (18).

Milwaukee 120 000 230 — 8 11 0 Miami 010 120 000 — 4 9 0 Marcum, Loe (6), Fr.Rodriguez (7), Henderson (8), Veras (9), Axford (9) and Lucroy; LeBlanc, Webb (7), M.Dunn (7), Zambrano (7), Gaudin (8), A.Ramos (9) and Brantly. W—Loe 6-4. L—M.Dunn 0-2. Sv—Axford (24). HRs—Milwaukee, Aoki (7), Bianchi (3). Miami, Stanton (30), G.Hernandez (1).

Phila.

000 100 000 — 1 4 0 Cincinnati 000 002 00x — 2 7 0 K.Kendrick, Lindblom (7), Rosenberg (8), Diekman (8), De Fratus (8) and Kratz; Latos, Broxton (8), A.Chapman (9) and Hanigan. W—Latos 12-4.

L—K.Kendrick 8-10. Sv—A.Chapman (35). HRs— Cincinnati, Bruce (31).

Colorado 000 110 220 — 6 10 0 Atlanta 000 000 000 — 0 9 3 D.Pomeranz, C.Torres (4), Brothers (7), Belisle (9) and W.Rosario; Hanson, Moylan (6), Avilan (7), Durbin (8), Batista (9) and D.Ross. W—C.Torres 4-1. L—Hanson 12-8. HRs—Colorado, C.Gonzalez (22), Pacheco (4).

New York 000 000 010 — 1 9 0 St. Louis 030 001 10x — 5 10 2 Harvey, Hampson (6), R.Ramirez (7), Familia (8) and Shoppach; J.Garcia, Lynn (8), Rosenthal (9) and Y.Molina. W—J.Garcia 4-6. L—Harvey 3-4.

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ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Purchased the contract of RHP Shelby Miller from Memphis (PCL). Recalled INF Ryan Jackson and OF Adron Chambers from Memphis.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Recalled OF Corey Brown from Syracuse (IL). Activated RHP Chien-Ming Wang from the 15-day DL. American Association LINCOLN SALTDOGS—Traded INF David Espinosa to York for a player to be named.

BASEBALL BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Recalled LHP Zach Britton from Norfolk (IL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Recalled RHP Jeremy Jeffress from Northwest Arkansas (Texas).

MINNESOTA TWINS—Recalled INF Eduardo Escobar and RHP Luis Perdomo from Rochester (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES—Recalled INF Casey McGehee from Charleston (SAL).

National League CINCINNATI REDS—Activated 1B Joey Votto from the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Todd Redmond and RHP Pedro Villarreal from Louisville (IL). Selected the contract of LHP Tony Cingrani from Pensacolo (SL). Assigned INF Chris Valaika and RHP Jordan Smith outright to Louisville.

NEW YORK METS—Recalled OF Jordany Valdespin, RHP Elvin Ramirez, RHP Jenrry Mejia and RHP Jeurys Familia from Buffalo (IL). Purchased the contracts of LHP Justin Hampson and OF Fred Lewis from Buffalo.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES—Selected the con-

FOOTBALL BUFFALO BILLS—Signed WR Ruvell Martin.

Placed CB Ron Brooks on injured reserve/designated for return list. Signed DT Jay Ross to the practice squad.

CINCINNATI BENGALS—Placed C Kyle Cook on injured reserve/designated for return list. Signed TE Richard Quinn. Released TE Bryce Davis from the practice squad.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Signed TE Colin Cloherty. Placed TE Brett Brackett on injured reserve.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Signed RB Lex

Hilliard. Released OL Matt Tennant.

NEW YORK GIANTS—Signed WR Brandon Collins to the practice squad. Released OL Stephen Goodin from the practice squad.

VANCOUVER — A youth hockey coach accused of tripping two players after a game this summer is now facing assault charges in British Columbia.

Coach Martin Tremblay of the UBC Hornets is scheduled to appear in Richmond provincial

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American Hockey League PROVIDENCE BRUINS—Signed F Bobby Robins.

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS—Agreed to terms with D Jordon Southorn.

IDAHO STEELHEADS—Agreed to terms with F Justin Dowling.

LACROSSE COLORADO MAMMOTH—Re-signed D Jarett Park. Signed D Richard Morgan and T John McClure.

court Sept. 13. Crown spokesman Neil MacKenzie says a video of the alleged June 23 incident played a significant part in the investigation.

In the video, Tremblay allegedly sticks out his foot while players from his team and an opposing team, the Richmond Steel, shake hands.

Two Richmond Steel players are seen tumbling over each other, and one of them ended up with a broken wrist.

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NFL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI — Quarterback David Garrard has been released by the Miami Dolphins, leaving Matt Moore as the veteran backup to rookie starter Ryan Tannehill.

Garrard signed in March and climbed atop the depth chart in training camp before he was sidelined by a left knee injury that required arthroscopic surgery Aug. 11. In his absence, Tannehill claimed the starting job for Sunday’s opener at Houston.

The release of Garrard on Tuesday was confirmed by his agent, Al Irby. The veteran’s $2.25 million salary would have been guaranteed if he was on the roster for the opener.

The 34-year-old Garrard returned to practice Monday on a limited basis and said he’s not yet 100 per cent.

Moore started the Dolphins’ final 12 games last year. Their other quarterback is second-year pro Pat Devlin.

In other league news a marketing agent for T.J. Conley says that the New York Jets have released the punter five days before the team’s regular-season opener against the Buffalo Bills.

Chuck Vine of Titan Sports Group said on Tuesday that he’s “disappointed, but confident he’ll be playing this season.” The team had not immediately announced the move, which was first reported by the New York Post.

The Jets brought in some competition for Conley, who beat out Travis Baltz during training camp and Spencer Lanning last week, and his job appeared to be safe.

He was the only punter on the team’s roster.

NFL season kicks off with champion Giants against Cowboys said.

“We can care less about that. We leave that up to spectators. We’re just going out there and playing ball. And that is what it is all about. We can care less about what kind of recognition we are getting or who is crowning us and who is not crowning us. None of that matters coming into the 2012 season.”

Jerry Jones’ Cowboys face a much different task after an 8-8 campaign that ended with an embarrassing 31-14 loss to the Giants on New Year’s Day. The outspoken owner, who boasted to fans that his team would kick the Giants’ posteriors in Dallas when the clubs meet a second time this season on Oct. 28, knows the window for the aging Cowboys to return to the franchise’s glory years is fading fast.

“It’s a great opportunity for us is how I look at it,” Jones said of the season opener. “So very meaningful. Everybody has all the appreciation in the world for what we’re up against here,

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On Wednesday night at MetLife Stadium, the winner will take the early upper hand in the divisional race.

For Eli Manning and the Super Bowl champion Giants, this will be a chance to silence the critics and detractors who have sounded off repeatedly after they beat the New England Patriots in February to claim their second title in five seasons.

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“As in any game in the NFL, it’s certainly not how you ultimately will wind up one way or the other, but it is a big game in front of really the entire world of sports, high visible game against the world champions.”

Romo will again be under the spotlight. He has yet to lead the ’Boys to a title, and many wonder whether he will after a late-season meltdown in which Dallas lost four of its final five games, including two to the Giants.

“I think they always stick with you,” Romo said of the last game. “That’s what fuels you in the off-season and makes you ... you want to remember those moments so you can improve from them. As a football team, we’ve

taken an approach that we need to get better. I think we’ve done that with the personnel and our approach and the way the guys have been committed. It’s been great to see. Now it’s time to take it to the field.”

There are a couple of key matchups to watch.

Manning and receivers Victor Cruz and Hakeem Nicks combined for 14 receptions for 237 yards in New York’s 37-34 win in Dallas on Dec. 11, and they had 11 more catches for 254 yards and two touchdowns in the division-deciding game.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Frustrated Winnipeg Blue Bombers fans shouldn’t expect any more heads to roll in the wake of the CFL team’s humiliating 52-0 road loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Sunday.

Bombers board of directors chairperson Bill Watchorn said Tuesday in a phone interview that he’s aware of the growing backlash directed at team vice-president and general manager Joe Mack, but said that no changes to the team’s front office are expected.

Mack has been on the hot seat since he fired former head coach Paul LaPolice on Aug. 25 and replaced him on an interim basis with defensive coordinator Tim Burke.

Following Burke’s debut in Sunday’s loss — the first time the Bombers (2-7) have been held scoreless since 1969 — Mack became the target of a Facebook page called “Fire Joe Mack Petition” and a “Fire Joe Mack” Twitter feed. As of Tuesday afternoon, the “Fire Joe Mack Petition” page had 3,686 likes on Facebook.

While Watchorn understands fans’ frustrations — he shared the same emotions as he watched the game on TV — he tried to put the loss in perspective.

“One game is not a season,” Watchorn said. “Disappointing though it may be, the board has confidence in Joe Mack, the coaches and the players and the CEO (Garth Buchko).

“I think that you’ll find, we hope, but I think you’ll find that the performance will improve. You can’t go from a team of last year to a team of this year, with essentially the same core group although I know there’s a few who left, and say it’s useless.

“So I would say the board has the confidence in those people. We will do a review of football opera-

tions annually as we always do at the end of the season.”

At his regular meeting with the media Tuesday afternoon, Burke said he didn’t know about the Internet campaign to have Mack fired.

“First of all, I’m not aware of it because I don’t go on Facebook and, secondly, especially now that I’m in this role as a head coach, I don’t read the newspapers or watch TV, not the news, at least,” he said.

But he did have a message for fans.

“We’re not dead yet,” Burke said. “We’re going to go out there and give it everything we’ve got and we need their support.”

The Bombers will get a chance to redeem themselves Sunday afternoon when they host Saskatchewan in the annual Banjo Bowl, but it won’t be with Buck Pierce as their starting quarterback.

Burke said doctors have ruled out Pierce because he’s still feeling the effects of tearing ligaments and a muscle in his left foot July 13 in a 42-10 loss to Edmonton.

Joey Elliott, who started in the Saskatchewan debacle, gets the nod for his fourth straight start. The third-year pivot completed nine of 19 passes for only 61 yards with one interception and was replaced by Alex Brink in the fourth quarter.

Burke said he hopes Elliott’s performance was an anomaly.

“Just like everything else, one person is never to blame for such a terrible loss so there’s a lot of factors that go into it,” he said.

Fans weren’t pointing their fingers at Burke for the loss, seeming to give him a pass because of the circumstances of his job promotion.

The Bombers are the worst team in the league and their 2-7 record is the direct opposite of last year’s mid-season mark. Last season’s squad went on to finish 10-8 and lost the Grey Cup 34-23 to the B.C. Lions.

The blame for that flipping of records has fallen on Mack after fans were divided on LaPolice’s firing the day after the team lost 20-17 to B.C. at home.

Mortimer wins second swimming gold of games THE CANADIAN PRESS LONDON — Summer Mortimer has her second gold medal of the London Paralympics, and once again she won in record style.

The Hamilton native won the women’s S10 backstroke in a world-record time of one minute 5.90 seconds.

Mortimer also won gold in the 50-metre freestyle event in worldrecord time last week.

“This feels absolutely amazing,” said Mortimer, who also a silver medal in the 200 individual medley earlier at the Games. “I haven’t been that fast since I was abled bodied. To be able to beat my times from when I was 14-15 years-old is amazing. I wasn’t expecting it but the race went perfectly.”

Sophie Pasco of New Zealand, who led Mortimer by a half second at the turn, took the silver in 1:06.69.

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OPEN: Suspended They were allowed to head to their hotels before 6 p.m., because the tournament wanted to free up Arthur Ashe Stadium for the night session and the main event: 2003 U.S. Open champion Andy Roddick’s bid to postpone retirement yet again by beating 2009 champ Juan Martin del Potro in the fourth round. They started about an hour later than scheduled, and played for less than an hour before a rain delay came with Roddick ahead 1-0 in a first-set tiebreaker.

Also starting behind schedule was defending champion Novak Djokovic against No. 18 Stanislas Wawrinka, and No. 8 Janko Tipsarevic against No. 19 Philipp Kohlschreiber. Both of those matches were stuck in the first set when showers returned. All matched were then suspended until today.

Getting through to the men’s quarterfinals was No. 4 David Ferrer, who defeated No. 13 Richard Gasquet 7-5, 7-6 (2), 6-4.

That match, like most this week at Flushing Meadows, took second billing to one involving Roddick, who surprisingly announced last week that this tournament would be the last of his career. Since then, he picked up victories over players ranked 43rd and 59th, but the No. 7-seeded del Potro figured to provide more of a challenge.

Del Potro is the only man other than Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Djokovic to win any of the last 30 Grand Slam titles.

The women’s match pitted Stosur, the champion here last year, against Azarenka, who won the Australian Open to start the 2012 Grand Slam season. Amazingly, as accomplished as Stosur is, she never had taken so much as a set off Azarenka in six previous tour meetings, including one match in qualifying.

CUP: Disappointing “The Ryder Cup has been a goal for every American player, and it’s disappointing not to be a part of it,” Mahan said Tuesday from the BMW Championship in Indiana. “I’ve been part of the last five teams, so it hurts not to be a part of it, and it feels a little empty right now. It’s tough because I’ve still got two events to play, and they don’t feel quite as important as I want them to be right now.”

Also left off was Rickie Fowler, who picked up his first PGA Tour win this year at Quail Hollow and turned in the most dynamic American performance at Wales two years ago when he won the last four holes to earn a halve that kept alive the American chances.

Fowler has not had a top 10 since a tie for fifth at the Colonial in May. “I definitely felt like I was kind of

Elsewhere in the pool, Benoit Huot of Montreal won bronze men’s S10 backstroke in 1:00.73.

“It wasn’t easy but it worked out well for me,” said Huot, now with 18 career Paralympic medal through four Games. “This isn’t the race I feel the most comfortable in and at the end I wasn’t sure I was in the medal contenders.”

Earlier in the day, Marco Dispaltro of St-Jerome, Que., and Josh Vander Vies of Vancouver defeated British brothers Stephen and Peter McGuire 8-2 in the bronze-medal boccia match of the BC4 mixed pairs category.

Canada now has 16 medals (four gold, seven silver, five bronze) over seven games of competition.

Canada sits 16th in the gold-medal standings and 13th on the overall medal table.

on the outside looking in,” he said.

Fowler took a month off between the U.S. Open and British Open to try to stay fresh for the end of the year, and he could only wonder if it cost him. He missed four tournaments, including the Travelers Championship and AT&T National, where he could have earned points.

Love said all the players who didn’t make the team handled the news well.

The eight players who qualified three weeks ago for the U.S. team are Woods, Jason Dufner, Masters champion Bubba Watson, U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson, Keegan Bradley, Zach Johnson, Matt Kuchar and Phil Mickelson. They have combined to win 12 times this year, including two majors and a World Golf Championship.

It’s a far cry from last time, when none of the picks by Corey Pavin was playing particularly well.

Never before has the Ryder Cup featured so many of the best players. All 24 players from both teams are among the top 36 in the world; the Ryder Cup will have 13 of the top 15 players.

“To have 24 players of the top 36 is mind-boggling,” Furyk said. “As Davis said, really happy with our team. It’s really strong, but we have our hands full. There’s a strong team on the other side, and we’ll have to play them real tough.”

Europe has won six of the past eight times, but only twice on American soil in the past 20 years.

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Roberto Luongo says it just “makes sense” for him to return to the Florida Panthers.

The Vancouver Canucks goaltender, who is awaiting a trade after losing his No. 1 job to Cory Schneider, skated near his off-season home on Tuesday and made it clear during an interview with the South Florida Sun Sentinel that his preference was to return to the Panthers. “(Florida) makes sense for myself, for my career and my family,” Luongo told the paper. “That being said, there’s obvious other options as well. This is a preferred location for obvious reasons but I’m not shutting the door on other possibilities if it comes up.”

Luongo spent five seasons in Florida between 2001 and 2006, when he was dealt to Vancouver. He and his wife return to the area every summer with their young children.

The 33-year-old has 10 years remaining on his contract at a cap hit of US$5.33 million and holds a no-trade clause.

Luongo posted a 31-14-8 record last season with a .919 save percentage and 2.41 goals-against average. He’s dealt with speculation about his future in Vancouver for the past two seasons and it reached a new pitch when Schneider took over the No. 1 job during a first-round playoff loss to Los Angeles in the spring.

Luongo, who backstopped Canada to gold at the Vancouver Olympics, maintains that he wants to be in a position where he gets the majority of starts. The veteran is willing to be patient while the Canucks look for a trade that makes sense.

“You’re dealt different situations in life,” said Luongo. “You’ve got to handle them the right way.

I don’t know what’s going to happen this year. The only thing I could do is work hard and have a positive attitude.

“At the end of the day, I’m sure everything is going to work out.”

THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Mark Reynolds hit a home run and drove in four runs on Tuesday while lefthander Zach Britton held the Blue Jays to four hits over seven innings as the Baltimore Orioles routed Toronto 12-0.

The Orioles (76-59) entered the game in second place in the American League East, one game behind the New York Yankees. The Blue Jays (60-75) were fifth, one game behind the Boston Red Sox. The victory was the Orioles’ 21st in their past 29 games. The Blue

Jays are 9-25 since July 30. The Blue Jays were outhit 18-4. Britton (5-1), who led the Orioles with 11 wins last season, was making his ninth majorleague start this year after opening the season on the disabled list with a shoulder impingement.

He made 11 starts in the minors.

He struck out eight while walking two, one of which was intentional, in winning his fourth start in a row. Toronto starter Carlos Villanueva (7-5) allowed seven hits and was charged with six runs in 6 2-3 innings as the Blue Jays lost their fourth game in a row.

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NHL: Waiting Swedish players, for example, won’t be permitted to play in their homeland after the country’s hockey federation announced last month that all contracts must last for the entire year — something Henrik Zetterberg or Erik Karlsson wouldn’t sign because of the possibility the NHL season gets underway after a short stoppage.

Karlsson bemoaned that fact to reporters after a skate with teammates in Ottawa on Tuesday, saying it didn’t leave Swedes with many options.

“Maybe the Swedish League changes its mind once it gets closer,” he added.

Six of the KHL’s 26 teams are based in countries other than Russia and the league has designs on expanding its reach even further. Two regularseason games are already scheduled for the newly built Barclays Center in Brooklyn in January and the league has looked into its options for showing games on TV in North America this season.

“We’re waiting for the outcome (of the NHL’s labour negotiations),” said Kochevrin. “There is definitely great interest from broadcasters and I’m pretty sure once the (NHL’s) deal is announced one way or the other, you’re going to see (that).

“I’m pretty sure that if there is a lockout the KHL can be a definite choice for North American hockey fans.”

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PARALYMPICS “I need to see the clock when I swim backstroke, and I saw that Sophie was ahead of me at the split and I just went for it,” Mortimer said.

Shireen Shapiro of South Africa was third in 1:09.02 while Aurelie Rivard of St-Jean-surRichelieu, Que., was fifth.

Mortimer ranked third in the preliminaries, but said she was simply following her game plan.

“I went easy in the prelims,” she said.

“I was trying to strategically place myself a couple of lanes over so I wouldn’t be beside the main people and be able to focus on my own race.”

The S10 classification is defined as minimal physical impairment. Mortimer broke most of the bones in her feet in a trampoline accident in 2008.

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August was warmer, dryer CHARITY DOG WASH Dog owners can get their dogs bathed and help sick pets at the same time at the 13th annual Animal Cancer Therapy Subsidization Society’s Charity Dog Wash on Sept. 15. Groomers in 10 communities across Alberta are participating, including 4 Paws Dog Day Care & Grooming in Red Deer. Treating cancer can often be financially beyond the means of many pet owners. Last year’s ACTSS dog wash raised over $10,000 to treat pets with cancer.

To book an appointment at 4 Paws Dog Day Care & Grooming, call 403342-0085. For more information, visit www. actss.ca.

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF The last month of summer proved to be a little warmer and a little less rainy than normal.

Environment Canada reports that August wasn’t too far off the mark when it came to temperatures and precipitation.

Red Deer received a total of 67.6 mm of rain. Eleven days saw rain.

Ross Macdonald, meteorologist for Environment Canada, said that climate data of the last 30 years shows that Red Deer would on average receive 71.1 mm of rain in August.

Typically, Red Deer sees 14 days of rain

in August, Macdonald added.

When it comes to temperatures, Red Deer was slightly warmer than average this August.

The maximum high in August was 23.8C. The average high was 21.9 C. “We were about two degrees warmer than normal,” said Macdonald.

The average overnight low last month was 9.4C, whereas the average low over the last 30 years is 8.8C. Out in Stettler, the precipitation totals were slightly over.

“They are a little less than Red Deer, but typically in the summertime we see rain showers and thunder showers that come across,” said Macdonald. “So sometimes areas can receive more localized amounts if a

thunderstorm moves over top.”

Stettler received 43.2 mm of rain last month. On average, the community had 11 days of rain in August.

Harry Brook, crop specialist with the Ag-Info Centre in Stettler, said that this season’s crops are proving to be a bit of a disappointment in Central Alberta.

“We had such humidity over the summer that disease took a much bigger bite out of the yield than we expected,” said Brook.

“The barley crops ... everything looked like they were going to have a bumper year.”

Some of the early yields coming back are showing that this might be an average year, Brook said.

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Rural camping allowed “CAMPGROUND MINOR”

HAT PARADE Grab your hats for the Rotary Sunrise Club’s Triple Crown evening on Sept. 29. Join the Rotary Sunrise Club at the Sheraton Hotel at 5 p.m. for an extravagant evening of fun and philanthropy in support of Aspire Special Needs Resource Centre, the Boys and Girls Clubs and the Magdalene House Society. The evening will feature horse racing, a fivecourse male, fine wine and a derby hat parade.

Tickets are $125 per person or $1,000 for a table of eight. For more information, contact Adele Poratto at 403343-0067 or via email at aporatto@telus.net.

SERIES ON FUNDING The changing environment of funding models and the impact on local non-profit and volunteer organizations will be discussed at So What? series workshop on Sept. 18, from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at Hampton Inn & Suites.

Trends in governance and changing views of philanthropy come from the latest research conducted by Mount Royal University.

Admission is free but registration is recommended. So What? is presented

by Alberta Rural Development Network, Mount Royal University and Volunteer Alberta and is hosted by Volunteer Red Deer. To register, call Volunteer Red Deer at 403-3464636 or email darlene@ volunteerreddeer.ca.

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A provincial sheriff photographs a pick up truck after the female driver lost control and rolled into the Hwy 42 ditch about six km east of Hwy 2 Tuesday afternoon. The woman suffered non-life threatening injuries in the incident that closed the westbound lane about an hour.

A Central Alberta man who let friends and relatives camp on his wooded rural property can now do so officially.

Jack Oszli received Red Deer County’s unanimous approval on Tuesday to run a “campground minor” on his agricultural property, 21 km southeast of Innisfail. This is defined as a small campground with up to 20 sites.

Oszli said he’d been unofficially allowing friends to set up their recreation vehicles on his land near the Dickson Leisure Grounds Campground for years.

But some neighbours complained, forcing him to seek a permit.

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Friendship Centre housing plan proceeds OFFICIAL UNDERSTANDS SOME RESIDENTS CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT AFFORDABLE HOUSING WILL LOOK LIKE IN CLEARVIEW NORTH

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer Native Friendship Centre Society has worked with the City of Red Deer and the provincial government for several years on its plans for affordable housing and a cultural centre in Clearview North, says the society’s executive director.

Tanya Schur said a number of residents are wondering about the friendship centre plans because they seem to have cropped up out of nowhere.

In fact, the centre’s plans have been in the works since 2008, she said.

The four-acre site along Caribou Crescent is in the most northwesterly corner of the neighbourhood, south of 67th Street and east of the Gaetz Lakes sanctuary. The city acquired the land from the provincial government on the condition that the lands be used for affordable housing for at least 15 years.

The city is now looking at changing the area structure plan, as well as rezoning.

Schur said they have funding for 32 units, so that is what they are targeting for.

The society is working with an architect to come up with designs for multi-family attached dwellings.

“We would be looking at a concept of two wings of housing with the friendship centre in the middle,” said Schur.

The friendship centre will have a small gathering space for fewer than 100 people,

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SOCIETY’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TANYA SCHUR plus offices and potentially other aboriginal agencies.

Schur said she understands some residents are confused about what affordable housing will look like on the site.

“Affordable housing is defined as 10 per cent below market value — that’s what we’re talking about building,” Schur said.

Schur said everyone who ends up in one of these units will commit to a sober lifestyle.

It’s not a Housing First project, she said.

Housing First focuses on moving homeless people from shelters and the streets into permanent housing as quickly as possible and they also receive supports.

“In order to be a part of our housing program now, you have to have a plan for sobriety and make that commitment,” said Schur.

The friendship centre will always have an outreach place downtown to help aboriginals in need, Schur added.

Schur said some of those 32 units will house aboriginal elders, which is very important in having the culture available to the community members.

The friendship cultural centre will run various programs, from parenting and women’s wellness to beading classes and dance classes. All will be open to non-aboriginals as well.

“It’s a great opportunity for community members to learn about the culture as well,” said Schur. “This is something that our community has talked about for decades — of having a community gathering space on the land, where the land would be a part of the cultural experience.”

The land was set aside for a project like this, added Schur.

People generally will do better when they have direct access to supports and services, plus they are away from the downtown. t makes sense to put residents in a residential area, she added.

Access to the culture is integral to housing success, Schur added.

Red Deerians will hear more about the project on Sept. 19 at Eastview Middle School from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

A presentation will run at 5 p.m.

Council will then hold a public hearing on Oct. 1 at 6 p.m. at the Sheraton Red Deer Hotel. Any decisions will be put off until the next council meeting on Oct. 15.

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POLICE DISAPPOINTED BY NUMBER OF INTOXICATED PEOPLE PULLED OVER ON WEEKEND

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF Tougher impaired driving laws that took effect on Saturday failed to keep intoxicated drivers off Red Deer streets.

Sgt. Bob Bell, in charge of the traffic unit at Red Deer city RCMP, said he was disappointed by the number of intoxicated people pulled over on Labour Day weekend, despite increased publicity over provincial legislation regarding .05 to .08 blood alcohol levels.

From early Saturday until early Tuesday, five 72-hour driving suspensions were issued for those with .05 to .08 levels. Six people were charged with impaired driving.

“The first vehicle we seized was about 20 minutes after midnight (early Saturday),” said Bell on Tuesday. “These numbers are surprising with all the increased publicity through the Alberta government ... you would think that people would be extra cautious.

“I thought it would have been difficult to find anyone who had been drinking and driving.”

Increased penalties began on Saturday for anyone facing violations of having blood alcohol between .05 and .08. Targeting these drivers has not happened before in Alberta. They automatically are banned from driving for three days.

Police could ban drivers for 24 hours before.

The province also increased penalties

for those over .08 as of July 1.

On a first charge, drivers will see their licence suspended until their criminal charge is resolved, plus their vehicle is seized for three days, and they must take a Planning Ahead course.

As of July 1, any driver with a graduated licence will face an immediate 30-day licence suspension and seven-day vehicle suspension as a result of having any alcohol in their system.

Bell said the increased penalties regarding driving suspensions were a shock to those who were caught on the holiday weekend.

“Some people weren’t too happy from what I heard,” said Bell. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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WEATHER: Farmers note crop ailments Farmers in the Stettler area, as well as other areas of Central Alberta and farther northeast, are reporting more occurrences of fungal diseases. “The disease levels are far higher than we expected and even if you spray, there’s still disease out there,� said Brook. Lots of moisture and lots of heat in combination with a short crop rotation makes this season ripe for disease, Brook said.

One of the diseases, clubroot, is becoming a problem with canola crops.

It’s a serious disease that affects the roots of canola, as well as other field crops like mustard. It also hits vegetable crops like cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower.

Two more counties have clubroot now — Beaver County and County of Stettler.

Clubroot was added as a declared pest to the Agricultural Pests Act in April 2007. Among other areas reporting a lot of clubroot is Lacombe County, said Brook. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

CAMP: Some residents opposed The county received six opposing letters from people concerned primarily about sewage disposal and potential fire danger, in relation to Oszli’s campground proposal.

Oszli told county officials he hires a professional company to empty septic tanks weekly from recreational vehicles on his property.

He said he also developed fire pits

with the required setback from vegetation. But just in case a blaze did spark, Oszli keeps a large storage tank of water on site, along with 425 metres of hose, fire extinguishers and shovels.

County representatives were told that staff worked with Oszli for a year and a half on his campground proposal and they recommended it be approved.

The county previously had no rules for small campgrounds. Oszli said, “I’m the guinea pig.� “There’s a tremendous need for campgrounds, so it’s nice to see small ones starting up,� said Red Deer County Mayor Jim Wood.

Councillor George Gehrke jokingly reminded Wood that Oszli only intended to allow people he knew onto the site. “It’s by invitation.� lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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HOUSING: City to inform residents Planning manager Tara Lodewyk said residents in Clearview will receive information in the mail this week about the coming meeting. “People have gotten excited for the next stage of what might come when we are still dealing with the generalities of the use,� said Lodewyk.

Lodewyk said the original zoning calls for single family and multi-family, and now it’s looking at multi-family and a worship centre site.

The original area structure plan was done in 2007. The province gave conditions for affordable housing in 2011, when the land was signed over. “We don’t talk about the users in our land use bylaw,� said Lodewyk. “It’s this additional agreement that the province has put on us that we now have to look at affordable housing there. Right now, you can put 36 units on there with the current area structure plan and current zoning.� ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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Ian Whishaw from Lethbridge rides his horse Blue Reflections during the Reining Alberta Fall Classic 2012. The show was held at the Westerner grounds over the long weekend, and had over 180 competitors.

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BRIEFS Otis and Charlie hitting the road Medicine River Wildlife Centre’s Otis the owl and Charlie the porcupine will be seen roaming around Central Alberta — on the centre’s new outfitted education vehicle that is.

Medicine River Wildlife Centre’s education program got a boost this summer, receiving an $18,850 provincial grant that enabled them to purchase an education vehicle, which has been outfitted with Charlie and Otis’s pictures on each side. “When we are taking things to trade shows, when we are going out to schools, community functions, when we are doing all those things for our eduction programs, we don’t have to be using our personal vehicles now,� Medicine River’s executive director Carol Kelly said.

A stipulation of the grant, under the province’s Community Initiatives Program, however, is that the centre match the $18,850. “So instead of using up our operating money we would really like to find sponsors to cover that amount of money, whether it is one, two or three sponsors,� Kelly said.

The sponsors will then have their names displayed on the vehicle. For more information, contact Carol Kelly at 403-728-3467 or at carol.kelly@mrwc.ca.

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Red Deer Library employee Levi Albers moves a box of books in the Childrens Services Library Tuesday as staff put about 50,000 books, magazines, DVD’s and other materials into storage. For the next month the children’s library will be closed during a renovation project which will see the facility painted and new flooring installed. Library staff hope to have the library open again on October 9.

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More than $43,000 was declared the proceeds of crime and forfeited to the Crown in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday after charges were stayed against a gang member as he died earlier this summer.

Leonard John Desjarlais, 38, of Red Deer was charged with one count of possession of proceeds obtained by crime, one count of uttering forged documents, one count of using forged documents, and two counts of unauthorized possession of a prohibited weapon.

He was scheduled for a five-day trial that was to start Tuesday.

Instead, money found during the police investigation was ordered by Judge John Holmes to be turned over to the government.

On Tuesday, the court heard charges were laid after a repairman found $42,400 in the furnace of a basement suite in a home in Red Deer’s Michener Hill area on Nov. 25, 2009.

Another $860, found in Desjarlais’ home, was also forfeited to the Crown. Desjarlais, who was a local Hells Angels Nomads member, died of an overdose.

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Tories boost resource support NEW FIGURES SHOW NATURAL RESOURCES DRIVE 20 PER CENT OF THE ECONOMY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives have re-calculated the impact of energy and mining on the Canadian economy in order to help bolster their strong support of the natural-resource sector against environmentalists and others.

Officials have figured out how much income the sector brings to the economy — instead of just counting barrels of oil and tonnes of metal, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said Tuesday in a speech to business leaders in Toronto.

In 2011, the figures show, energy, forestry, metals and minerals directly accounted for 15 per cent of the country’s income.

But when indirect effects are taken into account, the minister said natural resources drive 20 per cent of the economy — and about 10 per cent of all the jobs in Canada.

“It’s not all oilsands and it’s not all Alberta,” Oliver said in his prepared remarks.

“It is forestry in British Columbia, potash and uranium in Saskatchewan, mining

in Ontario’s Sudbury basin, hydro power in Quebec and all the related supply chains.”

Critics say that while no one doubts the economic dominance of energy and mining, the Conservative math only shows a slice of the story.

NDP natural resource critic Peter Julian said the figures don’t show how many jobs have been lost in softwood lumber and elsewhere because of the Ottawa focus on exporting raw materials instead of valueadded products.

“We don’t argue that natural resources are an important part of the Canadian economy,” Julian said. “The issue is how the government is managing the resource economy.”

Plus, the new calculations are blind to the environmental cost of different types of energy production, added Keith Stewart of Greenpeace Canada.

Production and investment in wind, solar and other renewables are far less costly for the environment than oil and gas, he said.

“Not all resources are created equally.”

Normally, anyone interested in the heft of the natural-resource sector has had to rely on less-than-optimal data.

The real gross domestic product figures that come out every three months don’t capture the huge impact of global prices on the economy. And nominal GDP figures by industry, which include the price effect, have only been available for up to 2008 — ancient history when it comes to calculating the impact of a major, evolving part of the economy.

Now, government officials have developed a way to update the nominal GDP numbers for the natural-resource sector so that they can see how much money is flowing into the economy from energy and mining on a more timely basis.

Oliver said the exercise shows that in both Alberta and Saskatchewan, energy and resources directly account for one third of nominal GDP. In Newfoundland and Labrador, it’s 40 per cent.

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Invite spurs speculation of iPhone 5 NEW YORK — Apple Inc. on Tuesday invited reporters to a news conference next week in San Francisco with a message that suggests that it will reveal the iPhone 5, as expected.

The email invitation shows a big “12,” for Sept. 12, casting a shadow in the shape of a “5.” Various unconfirmed reports have pointed to Sept.

12 as being the day Apple Inc. shows off the new phone, which is expected to go on sale a week or two later. The next iPhone is expected to have a taller screen and the ability to access the latest wireless data networks in the U.S. Analysts expect it to set sales records. On Wednesday, Nokia and Motorola are holding events of their own in New York, apparently to reveal their latest products ahead of the iPhone launch.

Apple shares rose $5.18 to $676.42 in afternoon trading.

The shares are close to their all-time high of $680.87, hit a week ago

China’s Wanda Group closes AMC deal NEW YORK — Chinese conglomerate Wanda says it has closed on the acquisition of AMC Entertainment Holdings, one of the largest movie theatre chains in the U.S. The US$2.6 billion deal is the largest takeover yet of a U.S. company by a Chinese firm. It also makes Wanda the world’s largest owner of cinemas.

Dalian Wanda Group Co.’s purchase reflects the global ambitions of cash-rich Chinese companies that are using acquisitions to speed their expansion.

The Beijing-based company said it will invest an additional $500 million in AMC and keep its headquarters in Kansas City, Mo. AMC operates 338 cinemas. It’s owned by a group of private-equity firms.

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SERVICE FROM SPRINGBROOK TO FORT MCMURRAY

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

A recent survey of commercial space in Red Deer indicated a vacancy rate of 5.17 per cent, with enclosed malls, power centres and strip malls like this one in Highland Park considered. A similar study of industrial buildings found a vacancy rate of 3.33 per cent.

Industrial vacancy rate stays low despite addition of new buildings

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Despite the addition of 285,000 square feet of building space, the availability of industrial property in Red Deer tightened between July 2011 and the same month this year.

That’s one of the findings of a market survey conducted recently by Soderquist Appraisals Ltd. The Red Deer real estate appraisal and consulting firm calculated that the local industrial vacancy rate stood at 3.33 per cent in July, down from 3.57 per cent a year earlier.

Mike Garcelon, the CEO and senior appraiser at Soderquist, said the latest figure suggests that there is strong demand for industrial space here and the sector is healthy.

“This is very good for Red Deer, because the industrial sec-

tor is a large part of our economy.”

The survey considered 14 industrial districts in and adjacent to the city of Red Deer. Queens Industrial Park to the west and McKenzie Industrial Park in Red Deer County to the south were excluded because there were no buildings there in July.

Total industrial building space was calculated at about 12.2 million square feet, up 2.4 per cent from the nearly 12 million square feet in July 2011.

“There was a lot of new construction this year,” said Garcelon.

However, vacant industrial space declined 4.8 per cent — to about 407,000 square feet from 427,000 square feet.

That appears to be putting upward pressure on rental rates, said Garcelon.

“It’s kind of a self-correcting thing.

“Once vacancies get low

enough, rents will start going up and then it makes it feasible to build.”

That, in turn, will bring rents down, he said.

This is the second year that Soderquist has conducted an industrial property survey. It also looked at commercial property this year — specifically Red Deer’s strip malls, enclosed malls and power centres.

The vacancy rate for commercial property as of August, based on a total area of 4.4 million square feet, was calculated at 5.17 per cent.

When the number of commercial units that were unoccupied was considered — 76 out of 955 — the vacancy rate was found to be 7.96 per cent.

Although higher than Garcelon had hoped, these numbers still reflect a healthy market, he said.

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We cannot predict interest rate changes I’m often asked when do I think interest rates will rise.

My response: “Eventually, sometime in the future.”

It is a non-answer but as I often tell my students, if I knew the answer to every question I would be on a beach in California. So if we cannot, with any confidence, predict when and how high interest rates will rise, how can we prepare for the day when they do rise?

Mortgages are most Canadians’ largest debt. More crucially, this debt is tied to our single largest asset, our home.

This makes mortgage debt both our cheapest source of financing but also the one debt with the most potential for psychological risk. After all, our home is where we live and share our lives with family and friends. It is a fundamental PATRICK part of our “self image,” and O’MEARA the fear of losing our most valuable asset can cause us much stress.

For sure loans, unsecured lines of credit and credit cards all carry higher interest rates. But a one per cent increase in

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mortgage interest rates can have a dramatic effect on our ability to finance our single largest asset.

By my calculations, a $250,000 mortgage financed over 25 years at 3.04 per cent would cost $1,191 a month. If rates were to rise by just 1.5 per cent, that same payment would only cover a $213,000 mortgage, a reduction of $37,000.

I tell my students that every rational person’s long-term goal should be to maximize their net worth — net worth being total assets less total liabilities. The question then is can we build some financial and psychological protection into the management of our single largest debt.

Yes we can, by making inflation our friend.

To compensate for the rise in prices, most of us ask our employers annually for a pay raise, sometimes referred to as a cost-of-living adjustment.

Why not increase your mortgage payments by your cost-of-living adjustment? You get the raise and more than likely, like the rest of us, you find ways to spend more. Why not spend a little less by having your mortgage payment increased annually?

For example, a payment of $1,191, increased by three per cent this year, means you would make additional payments of just under $36 a month which goes straight to paying down principal. In fact, increasing your payments by just three per cent annually over five years would result in paying down a $250,000 mortgage by just over $41,000.

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The drive from Central Alberta to Fort McMurray could soon end in the parking lot of the Red Deer Airport.

Northwestern Air Lease Ltd. plans to launch twiceweekly direct passenger service from the Springbrook-based airport to the Northern Alberta city on Oct. 1. The return flight would include a stop at the Edmonton International Airport.

“There are quite a few people in Red Deer that work in Fort McMurray,” said Northwestern president Terry Harrold.

He noted that his company previously offered passenger service between Red Deer and Fort McMurray, but discontinued it in July 2010 as a result of the economic downturn.

“I think now things have ramped up pretty good.”

Although the schedule has yet to be finalized, Harrold expects one of Northwestern’s Jetstream 32 aircraft to leave Fort McMurray at 10:10 a.m. on Mondays and Fridays, and arrive in Red Deer at 12:30 p.m. after a stop in Edmonton.

The plane will then take off from the Red Deer Airport at 1 p.m. and touch down in Fort McMurray at 2:20 p.m.

The service will have an introductory one-way fare of about $200, he said.

A release issued by Northwestern and the Red Deer Airport said the frequency of flights could increase if passenger counts justify it.

Meanwhile, Northwestern suspended its scheduled air service between Red Deer and Dawson Creek, B.C. — via Edmonton — effective Monday.

Launched in May, the flights failed to attract the interest Northwestern had hoped they would.

Frequency was reduced from three days a week to two, and now the airline is reassessing the route and looking for ways to boost interest.

“We’ll probably do an add-on — either Fort St. John or Grande Prairie, or something like that,” said Harrold.

An announcement is expected in October.

Northwestern also flies between Red Deer and Kelowna on Fridays and Sundays.

Demand for this route was strong during the summer, said Harrold, but appears to have slowed with the arrival of fall. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Tuesday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 96.77 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 75.85 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.07 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.43 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.92 Cdn. National Railway . . 89.73 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . . 81.33 Cdn. Satellite . . . . . . . . . . 4.00 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 67.99 Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.78 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.22 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 28.64 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 38.21 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 22.90 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.73 General Motors Co. . . . . 21.31 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 16.66 Research in Motion. . . . . . 6.54 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 35.00 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 31.56 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 62.69 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.68 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 44.88 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.71 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 69.32 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.91 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 34.00 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 10.90 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.82 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.07 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 49.84 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.51 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 16.41 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 37.68 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . 21.158 First Quantum Minerals . 19.13 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 40.07 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.49 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 43.46 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 8.72 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.05 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.27 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 26.58

Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 22.90 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 26.03 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 44.66 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.38 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 42.92 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 29.22 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.67 Canyon Services Group. 10.59 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 32.23 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.650 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 21.57 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.33 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.12 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 32.15 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . 1.720 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 26.20 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.07 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.45 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.82 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.47 Penn West Energy . . . . . 13.80 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.82 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 7.35 Pure Energy . . . . . . . . . . 10.97 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 31.12 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 13.74 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 11.73 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 6.46 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 44.63 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 57.10 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 52.24 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.21 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.29 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 26.43 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 21.57 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 38.25 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 60.55 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 11.17 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 72.80 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.10 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 54.86 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 22.90 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.24

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market was off to a tepid start to September trading Tuesday as investors wondered what steps central banks might take to support the economic recovery amid another dose of weak U.S. economic data.

The S&P/TSX composite index slipped 7.56 points to 11,941.7 while

the TSX Venture Exchange was ahead 1.84 points to 1,242.58.

The Canadian dollar also finished little changed, down 0.01 of a cent at 101.44 cents US. The loonie could be in for some volatility after Quebecers vote in a new government Tuesday while the Bank of Canada makes its next announcement on interest rates Wednesday.

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ECONOMY: Industrial-based “In Red Deer our economy is an industrial-based economy. So when we get into the recovery phase of the cycle it’s the industrial side that should recover first.”

Industrial growth, he added, translates into more jobs and spending, which in turn spur commercial growth.

The commercial space in Red Deer that the Soderquist survey considered included 1.1 million square feet (or 225 units) in enclosed malls, 2.4 million square feet (or 657 units) in strip malls and 918,000 square feet (or 73 units) in power centres.

Most of the downtown area was excluded, because the changing mix of commercial and residential space there makes it difficult to measure shifts in vacancy rates, said Garcelon.

In the case of Clearview Market Square, which is currently under development in the northeast part of the city, only buildings that have been completed and are occupied were included in the survey.

Red Deer has seen significant development of commercial space over the past year, said Garcelon.

“As long as the economy continues to recover, I would not be surprised to

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U.S. markets were mainly lower even as a disappointing reading of a key gauge of the manufacturing sector and lower construction spending raised expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will embark on another jolt of stimulus.

The Dow Jones industrials fell 54.9 points to 13,035.94 after the Institute for Supply Management’s August index came in at 49.6, a bit weaker than July’s reading of 49.8 and below expectations of 50.2, which would have signalled expansion.

Also, construction spending dropped by 0.9 per cent in July against expectations for a slight increase.

The Nasdaq composite index was ahead 8.1 points at 3,075.06 and the S&P 500 index was off 1.64 points to 1,404.94.

Investors also looked to employment data for clues as to whether the Fed thinks the U.S. economic recovery needs help in staying on the rails.

Economists expect Friday’s non-farm payrolls report to show that the American economy created 127,000 jobs in August, on top of 163,000 in July. T he Fed holds its next meeting Sept. 13.

Canadian employment data is also being released Friday. It is believed that the economy cranked out 11,000 jobs last month.

Traders also looked ahead to Thursday and an announcement from European Central Bank president Mario Draghi.

He is expected to announce details of a new bond-buying program intended to bring down the borrowing costs of countries such as Spain and Italy.

The plan is seen as a crucial step toward easing the European government debt crisis, which is increasingly

see new development.”

A detailed version of Soderquist’s industrial market study can be found on the company’s website (www.soderquist.ca) under “Studies.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

RATES: Manage risk Why is this important to our longterm financial plan? First, paying down debt faster means that our net worth rises faster. Second, as interest rates rise, property prices may fall due to less demand for new or resale homes, so you are building a hedge against a potential decline in your home’s equity.

Third, it saves you money given lower interest costs. Finally, you are actively managing risk, in this case interest rate risk.

Many of us are not good risk managers. By having your lender build an automatic increase into your mortgage payments you are managing both the financial and psychological risks that come with mortgage debt. If interest rates do rise over the next few years, you will have built into your household budget a psychological and financial cushion against a rise in mortgage payments.

It is just one more way you can control your financial destiny.

Easy Money is written by Patrick O’Meara, an instructor at Red Deer College’s Donald School of Business. He can be contacted at Patrick.O’Meara@rdc. ab.ca.

hurting the continent’s economy.

Ahead of Thursday’s announcement, Moody’s Investors Service lowered its rating outlook for the 17-country region that uses the euro currency, as uncertainty over the European debt crisis grows and the stronger countries in the group could be hardpressed to provide support.

Moody’s is revising its outlook to “Negative” from “Stable” for the European Union’s top Aaa credit rating. That means the rating could be downgraded, which would cost the EU more to borrow.

Canada’s central bank will be in focus Wednesday as the Bank of Canada makes its next announcement on interest rates. The bank is expected to leave its key interest rate unchanged at one per cent, but traders will look for hints as to when it might hike rates.

There was also other negative economic news over the long Labour Day weekend.

China’s HSBC manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index fell to 47.6 in August from 49.3 in July, which was the lowest reading since March 2009.

However, there are signs that China’s central bank is resisting calls for more aggressive measures to boost the economy based on past experience. Huge stimulus enacted in response to the 2008 global crisis fuelled inflation and a wasteful spending boom.

Meanwhile, the final read on the eurozone manufacturing PMI came in at 45.1 in August.

The energy sector dipped 0.6 per cent as oil prices backed off after the release of the U.S. data, with the October crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange down $1.17 at US$95.30 a barrel.

Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) lost 77 cents to C$29.22 while Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) gained 31 cents to $31.12.

The December copper contract on the Nymex was up one cent at US$3.47 a pound but the base metals sector lost 0.4 per cent. Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) fell 66 cents to C$26.58 and Major Drilling Group Intl.

(TSX:MDI) shed 36 cents to $8.98.

The gold sector was down about 0.5 per cent with bullion up $8.40 to US$1,696 an ounce. Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX) lost 33 cents to C$37.68.

Financial stocks also weakened with National Bank (TSX:NA) off $1.21 at $72.80 while Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) gave back 52 cents to $57.10.

The health-care segment led advancers as investors also took in major acquisition activity.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Tuesday world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 11,941.70 down 7.56 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,242.58 up 1.84 points TSX 60 — 682.79 down 0.68 point Dow — 13,035.94 down 54.90 points S&P 500 — 1,404.94 down 1.64 points Nasdaq — 3,075.06 up 8.10 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 101.44 cents US, down 0.01 of a cent Pound — C$1.5648, unchanged Euro — C$1.2383, down 0.17 of a cent

RESOURCES: Impact declines since 2008 However, officials did not immediately make a full province-by-province analysis available.

So calculations for the two largest provinces — Ontario and Quebec — were absent.

By year, details provided by the department showed that the impact of natural resources has declined since the boom of 2008.

Then, energy, mining and forestry were the source of 17.2 per cent of Canada’s income, falling to 12.9 per cent during the low-price days of 2009 before climbing to 15 per cent in 2011.

Oliver said the calculations can be used to determine that natural resources support 800,000 direct jobs and another 800,000 indirect jobs in other sectors.

The impact will continue to grow, the minister added.

The department’s most recent cal-

Euro — US$1.2561, down 0.19 of a cent Oil futures: US$95.30 per barrel, down $1.17 (October contract) Gold Futures: US$1,696 per oz., up $8.40 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $32.978 per oz., up $0.824 $1,060.24 per kg., up $26.49 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Tuesday at 1,242.58 up 1.84 points. The volume was 150.57 million shares at 4:20 p.m. ET. ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov.’12 $4.20 lower $633.40; Jan ’13 $4.00 lower $637.20; March ’13 $4.20 lower $636.40; May ’13 $3.60 lower $624.70; July ’13 $2.70 lower $617.00; Nov. ’13 $3.00 higher $562.70; Jan. ’14 $4.50 higher $567.70; March ’14 $1.00 higher $563.80; May ’14 $1.00 higher $563.80; July ’14 $1.00 higher $563.80; Nov. ’14 $1.00 higher $563.80.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’12 unchanged $264.50; Dec. ’12 unchanged $269.50; March ’13 unchanged $272.50; May ’13 unchanged $273.50; July ’13 unchanged $274.00; Oct. ’13 unchanged $274.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $274.00; March ’14 unchanged $274.00; May ’14 unchanged $274.00; July ’14 unchanged $274.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $274.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 274,800 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 274,800.

culations project $650 billion in investment in about 600 major resource projects over the next 10 years. That’s up from previous estimates of $500 billion.

“That $650-billion figure represents hundreds of thousands of high-quality, well-paying jobs for Canadian middleclass families in every sector of our economy, in every region of the country,” Oliver said.

The Harper government has been at pains to make that point since it overhauled the country’s environmental assessment process in its spring budget.

Federal ministers have argued repeatedly that streamlining environmental assessment is an efficiency exercise that will protect the environment but also make it easier for every region of the country to benefit from natural resources.

But their arguments have been drowned out by the outcry from environmentalists and other critics who say Ottawa is sacrificing the environment to the interests of the oilpatch.

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Beloved album once a failure ‘TWICE REMOVED’ CONSIDERED CLEAN BACK WHEN CLEAN WAS A DIRTY WORD

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Now that it’s a fixture on lists of the greatest Canadian rock albums of all time, it’s easy to forget that Sloan’s Twice Removed was once reviled.

Or at least it was by the behemoth of alt-rock record labels, Geffen, when the Halifax quartet delivered the glimmering LP, a thoughtful collection of brightly lit guitar-pop.

Twice Removed was an admitted leftturn from the group’s distortion-contorted debut Smeared, and at a time when the modern-rock charts were dominated by sludge-slinging Nirvana imitators, their sophomore album was not what the label wanted to hear. It was clean, back when “clean” was a dirty word.

The album killed the golden goose.

It broke up the band. But now they’re celebrating it, in the form of a deluxe vinyl re-issue and a cross-country tour during which Sloan will play the record in its entirety.

Back when Geffen first rejected it, when they asked the band to re-record the entire thing, the band certainly never imagined they would one day warm to the album.

“Self-doubt is my default setting — but I was the most torn up about it,” said bassist and co-frontman Chris Murphy from their cluttered Toronto rehearsal space.

“I probably would have done anything, I was so excited to be on Geffen . . . . ‘Oh, they’re asking us to record the whole thing again? I guess that’s what you do. I guess that’s what we should do.’

“I’m glad that we didn’t.”

So are the album’s legions of fans.

But they didn’t really exist back in 1994. Sure, Sloan did have fans. A couple years prior, they had inked a deal with Geffen — the home of Nirvana, Beck and Sonic Youth — on the strength of their 1992 Peppermint EP, and followed it with their messy but charming full-length Smeared later that year.

That debut was a moderate chart success in Canada, but was most notable for the seemingly rosy future it forecasted. In truth, Smeared was a dissonant pastiche of various indie-rock influences, one which both belied the band’s inexperience and hinted at real songwriting skill submerged under the layers of fashionable fuzz.

That album, of course, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. But the band didn’t really savour the idea of playing Smeared front-to-back every night.

“There’d be a bunch of songs where we’d be like: ‘Ugh. Skip that one,”’ laughed Murphy.

But to rich record labels eager to mine the continent’s underground for grunge gold, Smeared indicated a band with the potential to combine pop

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“Twice Removed” broke up the band, but now Sloan are celebrating it in the form of a deluxe vinyl re-issue and a cross-country tour during which it will play the record in its entirety. prowess (check the wit of single Underwhelmed) with the noisy rage that was all the rage on the charts in the grimy wake of Nirvana’s success.

So, it was a natural decision for Geffen to pay for Sloan’s sophomore record up front. But for a band in the midst of an adolescent transformation, the cash seemed to just make the task ahead even more daunting.

“I think I was probably the most nervous about it,” Murphy said. “I think a lot of times when we tell the story it’s the David and Goliath story. ‘Geffen was mean to us’ or something like that.

But for the most part, what I was feeling was . . . they paid us up front, and it was like: ‘Hope you like this one.’

“So I was kind of dying inside like, ‘Oh, I hope they like it,’ wanting to please.”

The band demoed roughly 70 songs for Twice Removed. Then as they do now, the band had four songwriters and all were contributing, swapping instruments as they went. Geffen thought this democratic breakdown of duties was a marketing challenge.

Well, the music was apparently moreso. Sloan dug deeper into their influences — including the Velvet Underground, Slint, ’80s hardcore and,

of course, some classic British pop — while penning the songs that would form Twice Removed. There was certainly a degree of defiance as they rejected the direction most of the rock world was drifting.

“We were kind of running from grunge and this sort of house of cards that it seemed to be — all that ’poor man’s Nirvana’ (stuff),” Murphy said.

Added guitarist Jay Ferguson: “It was a reaction to not wanting to jump the bandwagon. There were so many bands out there playing melodic pop songs with distorted guitars. It kind of got a little played out.”

It’s not as though they were making the album in secret — the A&R rep who signed them, Todd Sullivan, was present for the sessions and was generally supportive of the direction the band was pursuing.

Looking back, it’s difficult to understand how such an accessible album could ever have been considered somehow radical.

The record simply brims with giddy hooks. There’s the unexpectedly gorgeous chorus carved like a skylight into Ferguson’s I Hate My Generation, the “ba-ba-bada-ba” chanting in drummer Andrew Scott’s transcendent People of

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the Sky, or the delicate boy-girl harmonies buoying Patrick Pentland’s I Can Feel It. (Also worth mentioning is Murphy’s brilliant Coax Me, which features what he says is their most celebrated lyric of all time: “It’s not the band I hate, it’s their fans.” It was inspired by a pretentious Kate Bush fan Ferguson knew in high-school.)

“We were like, ‘Let’s make the Plastic Ono Band record, or Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours — what’s wrong with those records?”’ Murphy recalled.

“It’s ironic that we were referencing . . . a record that sold 25 million copies, and then it’s like: ‘What is THIS? My ears!”’ he said, mimicking the response of the label. “It wasn’t like we were referencing Can or (Einsturzende) Neubauten or whatever.”

But there weren’t many bands making polished, intelligent guitar pop at the time. The band agrees that the closest comparison in 1994 was Pavement’s masterful Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, which provided the beloved California quintet their most successful record (although it came out on indie imprint Matador).

Geffen, certainly, was less interested in swimming against the current.

To hear Murphy and Ferguson tell it, the label was primarily frustrated because they had promoted Sloan one way and now the band had made a drastic change, thus undoing whatever gains they had made.

“They heard it and it was like: ’We can’t work with this,”’ Ferguson said.

“It seemed like to them it wasn’t of the time.”

Geffen asked Sloan to record the album again. The band refused. So the label put the record out without promotional support, essentially hiding it in plain view.

Sloan wasn’t the only band to endure a process like this. Washington power-pop outfit the Posies were also asked by Geffen to re-record the album that became Frosting on the Beater, and they consented (the well-reviewed album still wasn’t a hit). And Weezer, who were coincidentally also signed to Geffen by Sullivan, saw their now-classic Blue Album released with similarly non-existent fanfare by the label until radio stations and MTV sensed a hit and lifted the record up.

With the benefit of hindsight, Sloan feels they made the right choice refusing to remake Twice Removed.

“I’m grateful that we didn’t go and re-do the record because it might not have made any difference anyhow — even if we had turned up the guitars, they might have still been like, ‘Well, whatever,”’ Ferguson said.

“Our manager, Chip Sutherland, was very ballsy too,” added Murphy.

“He was just like, ‘They’re contractually obligated to release it. Let’s just do it. You can’t guess what they want.

Just do what you do and maybe you can show them and it’ll be a success.’

Goodbye Genies and Geminis, hello Screenies?

TORONTO — Say goodbye to Canahan said on Tuesday, “and I’m glad the challenge on balance beams. joke came true.”

Strahan was totally game for the da’s Genie and Gemini Awards, which Strahan’s hiring has been an open stunt, which called for carrying eggs honoured the best in homegrown film NEW YORK — The only worry on secret for the past two weeks. His se- balanced on a spoon. (The two teams and television.

And say hello to the Canadian Michael Strahan’s mind when he made lection was made official a couple of tied with 13 eggs apiece.) his entrance Tuesday as the new co- minutes into what, since November, After the broadcast, Strahan down- Screen Awards — a new prize meant to host of Live!: “Don’t trip,” he summed had gone by the stripped-down title played any suggestion the show would recognize the best in Canuck film, TV and digital work. up after the show.

Live! With Kelly and now rechristened be changing much.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & He didn’t.

Live! With Kelly and Michael.

“I think you have two people who When Kelly Ripa introOr rather, live! with kel- can laugh at themselves, who can laugh Television says the combined award is duced him, the gap-toothed ly and michael. Eyeing the at each other, who have a good time, “a true reflection of the multiplatform former football player brand-new all-lowercase who get along — and make sure that universe of today” since news, sports jogged onto the morning logo during a commercial anyone who watches the show enjoys and entertainment are now available show set and gathered her break, the co-hosts pon- it,” Strahan said. “I think it’s the same on screens of many sizes.

The trophy will be handed out for up in a bear hug, lifting her dered whether the first let- formula.” off her feet. ters of their names would The formula was cooked up by the first time March 3, when comic “When I was hugging look better capitalized.

Philbin, the original host, nearly 30 Martin Short will host a two-hour bash.

French-language television and Kelly, that’s when I was During their breezy years ago. Ripa joined him in 2001. calming down,” Strahan exfirst “host chat,” Strahan E x e c u t i v e p r o d u c e r M i c h a e l digital media will continue to be recplained. amusedly shared from a list Gelman, who oversaw that transition ognized by the annual Prix Gemeaux, with this year’s show on Sept. 16.

The rest of the hour was of obnoxious pet names for from Kathie Lee Gifford clearly a snap for him and women (“babe” and “sweet to Ripa, was asked how for Ripa, who was getting Michael Strahan cheeks” among them). The Strahan emerged as the WALMART CORRECTION NOTICE a permanent partner nine pair discussed parenting favourite in the current Our flyer distributed on Aug. 29-31 and effective Aug. 31-Sept. 6: months after Regis Philbin policies, in particular how much mon- competition.

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Aly Raisman and Jordyn Wieber each try was there.”

Strahan was relaxed, amiable and teamed with one of the co-hosts in a playful, and drew “ahhhs” from womGet Out & Have Some Fun! en in the studio audience when he presented Ripa with a dozen red roses.

“It’s so nice to have a co-host literally sweep you off your feet,” Ripa told viewers, “and I know that he can bench press www.reddeermuseum.com me if he wanted to.”

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LUANN Sept. 5 1990, Montreal — The Mercier Bridge through the Kanawake reserve opens after a 55-day Mohawk standoff.

1979, Winnipeg— The Canadian gold Maple Leaf coin goes on sale in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. It is Canada’s first gold bullion coin, a runaway success for the Royal Canadian Mint.

1945, Chalk River, Ont. — Canada’s first

nuclear reactor, ZEEP — the Zero Energy Experimental Pile — goes into operation at Chalk River.

1914, Toronto — Baseball legend Babe Ruth hits his first professional home run at Hanlan’s Point on Toronto Island, knocking in three runs. The budding southpaw pitcher also tosses a one-hitter that day as his Providence club blanks Toronto 9-0.

1881, Sarnia, Ont. — Forest fires in Ontario and Michigan kill an estimated 500 people in 20 villages near Lake Huron; the region is cloaked with a yellowish-green fog.

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Depression straining marriage Dear Annie: Six months ago, I married a lovely young woman.

While we were engaged, “Nina” and I had several candid discussions about finances, figuring that once we married, she would look for a job and we would split the household expenses evenly.

Her parents were very generous and gave us a nice amount of money at the wedding in order to help smooth the transition until she found a job.

Well, a few months after we married, Nina stopped looking for work.

She suffers from chronic MITCHELL depression, and it got so bad & SUGAR that she refused to apply for a job, convinced that no one would hire her.

She also refused to get counselling, saying she couldn’t afford it, even though both her father and I offered to pay for it.

I have worked my best to keep a roof over our heads and have even taken out loans in order to pay our bills, but I’m now $1,000 in debt.

Recently, Nina’s father gave her a large sum of money.

I asked if she would use a small amount to pay one of our outstanding bills.

She refused, saying that this was her money and she could spend it on whatever she wanted. Over the next week, that turned out to be fast food and cigarettes.

Annie, was I unreasonable to ask for her financial help? — New York Dear New York: Of course not. Nina apparently does not consider herself to be in a partnership.

She thinks you should support her. And it’s possible that Nina combats her depression by spending money, eating and smoking.

Nonetheless, this is not a tenable solution. She should not use her depression as an excuse to refuse help. We urge you to get counselling on your own and also contact NAMI (nami.org).

Dear Annie: I am pregnant with my third child.

Prior experience compels me to send my list of things you should never do or say to a pregnant woman: 1. Do not ask whether the pregnancy was planned.

It is absolutely no one’s business.

2. Hands off the belly. This is her personal space and should be respected. If you feel compelled to touch that elusive kick, always ask first — and don’t be insulted when she says no.

3. Please don’t make comments that could be interpreted as “you’re fat.” My boss asked whether I was having twins because I was so big. Another person asked if I was due before Christmas when my due date was mid-March.

4. Please don’t share unsolicited horror stories of labour and delivery. Expectant moms don’t need more to worry about.

Also, while I feel genuine sympathy for those who have experienced a miscarriage, hearing these stories only induces anxiety in the mom-to-be, which isn’t good for her health or the baby’s.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to vent. — Sharing the News in Pa. Dear Sharing: You’re very welcome. And congratulations on your upcoming blessed event.

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Wednesday, Sept. 5 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Rose McGowan, 39; Cathy Guisewite, 62; Raquel Welch, 72 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Mercury connects with Mars, making for conversations and communications that are characterized by passion.

It’s not about the easy conversation, but the words that spur action that matter most. It will be a great day, enjoy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: There is harmony and power within you, as you ascertain where you need change and how you can go about getting it, and then implementing the strategy with success. You can see under the surface, using the info to your NADIYA advantage. It will be a great SHAH year, enjoy!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): SUN SIGNS When we are determined on a course of action, the soft whisperings of the world telling us what direction it would like us to go in can be missed. You feel a determination now.

Do not let it cut off the wisdom you’ve earned.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Life is full of moments of stress. We can give into them and ride the wave of discontent, or we can breathe and reconnect to what matters most. You are being asked now to focus your powerful feelings towards what you desire to manifest.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Outer circumstances are never perfect, and by attempting to block off the world we can inadvertently block ourselves off from an important source of wisdom and learning. You may feel like hiding out now. That’s fine, as long as it is not out of fear.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There is nothing like knowing something in the depths of your bones. That type of knowledge far exceeds rational considerations.

You are presented with an explanation but know the truth lies elsewhere. You can feel it already. Trust yourself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Doubt is an insidious thing.

It can rob us of the confidence we need to continue in a strong and positive direction. You may be uncertain. It is arising from fear. Release it and keep moving forward.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Some people wear their pain. They radiate it when they walk. It’s evident when you look at them. But there comes a point in every life that the pain outweighs the fear of change. You are em-

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BUCHAREST, Romania — A white limousine screeches to a halt and a bride, resplendent in frothy gown and veil, is hauled outside by her abductors.

It’s one of Romania’s more colorful customs: bride-napping.

And the tradition of snatching the bride from under the nose of groom and guests with the wedding party in full swing is getting bigger, brasher and an increasingly common sight in the Romanian capital, the Balkans’ undisputed party town.

Every Saturday night, brides from Bucharest and beyond are dragged away in a mock abduction by friends and driven to a top tourist spot where they are “held hostage” — all the while pouting, dancing and striking provocative poses for the cameras.

The ransom: a few bottles of whisky or perhaps something more romantic, like a public declaration of love from the abandoned groom.

The kidnappers negotiate by phone, working out the details of the payoff.

It’s all harmless theatrics meant to add a whiff of risque fun to the nuptials.

Mock abductions of brides are part of marriage ceremonies across the former Soviet Union.

In some countries, guests lock up a bride or have her hide in a backroom during celebrations, demanding that the bridegroom delivers a “ransom” — like singing a song, dancing or sometimes paying real money.

In Romania, the custom took off a few years ago when a top football player rented Bucharest’s Arch of Triumph, a major monument modeled after its iconic namesake in Paris, and proposed there to his girlfriend.

There was no kidnapping involved but the scene stuck in the popular imagination as a symbol of marriage — and soon the monument became a sort of midnight mecca for bride-napping.

This past Saturday, about 20 brides were held hostage at the Arch of Triumph, which was built in 1922 to honour Romanian soldiers who died during World War I and to celebrate the reunification of Transylvania with the rest of Romania.

One bride was driven in from her wedding in a town an hour east of Bucharest with a gaggle of guests in tow.

Another grabbed the toy ma-

barking on a new chapter. It will be wonderful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There are times to delve into our emotions and learn from them. You are now in need of a methodical approach to a most irrational feeling. Your intellect is your greatest asset now. Tap into it to provide needed structure and bring the right system to your day.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): How much strength is denoted in simply the willingness to live. You are now at a point of decision. You can see what is required to embrace your life and potential more fully. You are willing to put your fears aside and take the step. What a remarkable choice.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sometimes the hardest thing to do is relax. A million thoughts can race through our mind and lead us nowhere. There is a solution to what might feel like endless chatter. Replace it with simple hope.

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chine-gun of her kidnappers, dressed up as Taliban, and pretending to use it in front of the monument.

Authorities turn a blind eye to the partying under the monument, technically illegal because it’s a historic landmark.

Motorists cruise around the square honking, waving and cheering.

The outdoor party is one way for Romanians, frustrated with austerity measures and feuding politicians, to let off steam.

One bride, 25-year-old Alisar Dragne, says her abduction was scripted from start to finish.

“Everything was staged and ready in my case. The limousine was waiting for me in front of the restaurant, I was given the ’leave’ signal by my friends and together we came here to have some fun,” she said.

“Now everyone’s thinking what ransom to ask the groom.”

George Neascu, a Roma musician, who plays at the monument every week for small change, said the bride-stealing custom is as old as living memory.

“All sorts of people come here,” said Neascu, “both those who have lots of money and those who have less.”

able. If your impulses are loving and kind, trust them.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There is a difference between wanting to do something, and actually following through with your action. You now feel the urge to give your all to an endeavor. The way to help yourself most is to do all you can in the moment and loosen your grip on the end result.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Divination is the space of living in the flow of energy, of feeling life course through you, and responding to the thoughts and movements of the moment. You are being asked to live your life as a divine moment, for today.

Nadiya Shah is a consulting astrologer, syndicated sun sign columnist and holds a master’s degree in the Cultural Study of Cosmology and Divination, from the University of Kent, U.K. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Romanian brides pose for pictures under the Triumph Arch in Bucharest, Romania. The arch, a replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, is a rendezvous place for brides on the wedding night for the bride-stealing ritual.

The ancient Romanian tradition of bride stealing is getting bigger, brasher and an increasingly common sight in the Romanian capital, the region’s undisputed party town

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Digging roots, filling the pantry with herbs of life

Is organic healthier?

Not so much, but it’s key to why consumers buy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Organic radishes at the Pacifica Farmers Market in Pacifica, Calif. for 4.2 per cent of retail food sales, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It certifies products as organic if they meet certain requirements including being produced without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers, or routine use of antibiotics or growth hormones.

Consumers can pay a lot more for some organic products but demand is rising: Organic foods accounted for $31.4 billion sales last year, according to a recent Obama administration report.

That’s up from $3.6 billion in 1997.

The Stanford team combed through thousands of studies to analyze the 237 that most rigorously compared organic and conventional foods.

Bravata was dismayed that just 17 compared how people fared eating either diet while the rest investigated properties of the foods themselves.

Organic produce had a 30 per cent lower risk of containing detectable pesticide levels.

In two studies of children, urine testing showed lower pesticide levels in those on organic diets. But Bravata cautioned that both groups harboured very small amounts — and said one study suggested insecticide use in their homes may be more to blame than their food.

Still, some studies have suggested that even small pesticide exposures might be risky for some children, and the Organic Trade Asso-

ciation said the Stanford work confirms that organics can help consumers lower their exposure.

CSPI’s DeWaal noted that difference, but added that the issue is more complicated.

Some fruits and vegetables can harbour more pesticide residue than others — she listed peaches from Chile as topping a recent testing list.

Overall levels have dropped in North American produce over the last decade as farms implemented some new standards addressing child concerns, she said. “Parents with young children should consider where their produce is coming from,� DeWaal said, calling types grown in the U.S. or Canada “a safer bet� for lower pesticide levels.

As for antibiotics, some farms that aren’t certified organic have begun selling antibioticfree meat or hormonefree milk, to address specific consumer demands, noted Bravata. Her own preference is to buy from local farmers in hopes of getting the ripest produce with the least handling.

That kind of mixed approach was evident in a market in the nation’s capital Thursday, where Liz Pardue of Washington said she buys organic “partially for environmental reasons.�

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picking a few rose leaves. I have, however, resolved to carry a rose root with me for moment like those from here on in.

I plan to excavate one of my elecampane (inulin helenium) plants. This will be a challenge. Elecampane root is large and fleshy. The mighty main root sends branches thick as my wrist burrowing deep into the earth. Elecampane has a firm grip on the soil.

Like valerian, elecampane root is strongly aromatic. The chemistry that creates the root’s pungent scent and taste is the same chemistry that herbalists have used for thousands of years to relieve deep-seated winter coughs and flus.

Elecampane root chemistry also carries another useful medicine called inulin. Inulin is found in many roots, including dandelion (taraxacum officinalis). Inulin is the plant’s pantry.

All the combined sunshine and rain of summer is stored as inulin in elecampane’s root as a complex sugar. Next spring, when elecampane awakens in the warming soil, it will feed on the stored inulin as it pushes its green tips up through the earth.

Herbalists offer plants high in inulin to help the body’s muscles absorb glucose from the blood stream. This lowers blood sugar levels for those struggling with type two diabetes.

I also hope to make some medicine with enormous lovage (levisticum official) that threatens to take over one corner of the garden. I have never dug the lovage root before, so I am looking forward to uncovering its character.

Lovage’s root, like valerian and elecampane, is aromatic and spicy. In a formula, lovage can aid elecampane in relieving deep wet coughs. But I am hoping to use it to moderate migraine headache pain. Taking a teaspoon of lovage tincture at the very first signs of the headache can dampen the severity of the head pain and relieve queasiness in the stomach.

It requires patience unearthing roots. One gently pushes the soil aside, going deeper and deeper, careful not to bruise the roots. It will take several days to do this work. Little else will be accomplished. But when finished, I will have good, strong earth medicine ready to be used.

Herbs for Life is written by Abrah Arneson, a local clinical herbalist. It is intended for information purposes only.

Readers with a specific medical problem should consult a doctor. For more information, visit www.abraherbalist.ca.

Arneson can be reached at abrah@shaw. ca.

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The odd yellow leaf has appeared on the poplars. The fan has been turned off in the bedroom and an quilt has been tossed on the bed. In the woods, the rose hips are a lovely blushing pink. It is almost time to harvest roots.

After the plant’s seed has been scattered by the wind, been a crow’s or chickadee’s ABRAH mid-morning ARNESON snack or tumb l e d t o t h e HERBS FOR LIFE ground, herbalists get out their digging sticks to root out the medicine hidden in the soil.

I love digging up roots. Just as flowers come in so many shapes and such wide ranging scents, so do roots.

Yellow doc (rumex crispus) has a thick, stubborn tap root that plows deeper than I can dig into the earth.

Snap doc’s fresh root open and yellow sap oozes out. Hence its name yellow doc. Doc’s scent is reminiscent of baby poo. I think of its scent as its signature.

Yellow doc is very helpful in reorganizing the unorganized bowels of irritable bowel syndrome.

Valerian (valarianna officinalis) is another matter. It has a twisted tangle of thin rhizomes. One would expect a sturdy, earthy root from such a vigorous plant. Valerian’s scent is either loved or strongly disliked. My friend Sabrina tells me it is similar to licorice; I think it has a closer resemblance to cat urine. Despite its powerful aroma, it does wonders for those who have cramping tension below the navel, or for the heart that needs little extra calm.

I plan to pull some wandering rose roots from the garden this year. Usually I leave them. But this summer, a Cherokee herbalist told me a story about his mother’s rose root. She carried a tough, black rose root in her purse wrapped in cotton. Her mother had given her the root. Whenever the family went camping, his mother unwrapped the root and made tea with it. Apparently, she made tea with the same rose root for many years.

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WASHINGTON — Patient after patient asked: Is eating organic food, which costs more, really better for me?

Unsure, Stanford University doctors dug through reams of research to find out — and concluded there’s little evidence that going organic is much healthier, citing only a few differences involving pesticides and antibiotics.

Eating organic fruits and vegetables can lower exposure to pesticides, including for children — but the amount measured from conventionally grown produce was within safety limits, the researchers reported Monday.

Nor did the organic foods prove more nutritious. “I was absolutely surprised,� said Dr. Dena Bravata, a senior research affiliate at Stanford and long-time internist who began the analysis because so many of her patients asked if they should switch. “There are many reasons why someone might choose organic foods over conventional foods,� from environmental concerns to taste preferences, Bravata stressed. But when it comes to individual health, “there isn’t much difference.�

Her team did find a notable difference with antibiotic-resistant germs, a public health concern because they are harder to treat if they cause food poisoning.

Specialists long have said that organic or not, the chances of bacterial contamination of food are the same, and Monday’s analysis agreed.

But when bacteria did lurk in chicken or pork, germs in the non-organic meats had a 33 per cent higher risk of being resistant to multiple antibiotics, the researchers reported Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.

That finding comes amid debate over feeding animals antibiotics, not because they’re sick but to fatten them up.

Farmers say it’s necessary to meet demand for cheap meat.

Public health advocates say it’s one contributor to the nation’s growing problem with increasingly hard-to-treat germs. Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, counted 24 outbreaks linked to multidrug-resistant germs in food between 2000 and 2010.

The government has begun steps to curb the nonmedical use of antibiotics on the farm.

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Democrats hope to rekindle Obama’s magic HOPING TO DEPICT HIM AS COURAGEOUS, COMPASSIONATE LEADER AT NATIONAL CONVENTION

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Democrats launched President Barack Obama on his uncertain bid for re-election as they opened their national convention Tuesday. They looked to help Obama recapture the hearts of Americans once drawn to his message of hope and change, but now weary after years of economic weakness and political squabbles.

The nationally televised, three-day convention puts Democrats in the spotlight, allowing them to depict Obama as a courageous, compassionate leader who has put the United States on the right track after inheriting a brutal recession. They will seek to counter attacks made at last week’s Republican convention and cast rival Mitt Romney, a wealthy businessman and former Massachusetts governor, as distant, privileged and out-of-touch with common Americans.

The star speaker Monday, first lady Michelle Obama, looked to draw a contrast, at least implicitly, with Romney by highlighting her husband’s more humble background. She told an interviewer earlier Tuesday that she was “ going to take folks back to the man he was before he was president.”

Polls show Obama and Romney locked in a tight race ahead of the November vote. Romney is seen as the better candidate for improving the economy, the biggest issue in the race. But Obama is seen as more likable.

Candidates traditionally get a bounce in the polls from political conventions, though there is little sign that Romney improved his standing. Once dramatic events for selecting candidates and debating issues, political conventions are now carefully scripted shows put on by the parties with little spontaneity — making them less compelling programming for television viewers.

Tuesday’s other major speaker during prime television time was San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, who was delivering the high-profile keynote address.

A rising star in the party, Castro is of Mexican-American descent and his selection highlights the importance given to Hispanic voters in the race.

Castro, in excerpts of the speech released in advance, said Obama “knows better than anyone there’s more hard work to do.” He said the United States is making progress “despite incredible odds and united Republican opposition.”

He said Republican economic theories have been tested and failed. “Mitt Romney just doesn’t get it,” he said.

Other convention highlights include Wednesday’s roll call votes formally nominating Obama and VicePresident Joe Biden, and a speech by Bill Clinton, the popular former president. The climax will be Obama’s acceptance speech in a 74,000-seat football stadium on Thursday.

That speech seeks to recapture the grandeur of Obama’s acceptance address in a Colorado stadium four years ago. At the time, the United States was in the midst of a devastating financial crisis while un-

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President Barack Obama holds up a bottle of beer as he delivers a case of White House brewed beer to the firefighters at Fire Station No. 14, during an unscheduled stop, Tuesday, in Norfolk, Va. popular wars were dragging on in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama — young, magnetic and eloquent — captured the imagination of many Americans as the first black nominee of a major party. He promised a fresh start after eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency and new hope for the economy.

Obama did withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq and the United States emerged from the recession. But economic growth has been tepid and unemployment is high at 8.3 per cent. Though he stepped up drone strikes on suspect terrorists and gave the order that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden, Republicans cast him as a weak leader. He won congressional approval of an overhaul of the U.S health care system, but his plan remains largely unpopular. Meanwhile, some Democrats have been disappointed by Obama’s failure to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and what they see as lacklustre action on issues such as climate change and immigration.

Republicans have been pressing a question made

popular during Republican Ronald Reagan’s successful campaign against incumbent President Jimmy Carter, asking voters if they are better off than they had been four years ago. Republicans released a web video that interspersed images of Obama and the economy’s weak performance with slightly outof-focus video clips of Carter discussing the country’s economic woes when he sat in the White House more than 30 years ago.

Obama has also been invoking unpopular former presidents, arguing that Romney plans to reprise Bush’s policies.

The election will allow voters to choose between contrasting visions of the role of government. Romney’s Republicans, increasingly guided by the antitax tea party movement, want to minimize the role of government, which it sees as an obstacle to enterprise and liberty. Obama’s Democrats see government as a potential force for good, helping the downtrodden and providing the education and infrastructure needed to help the country prosper.

Blame from Isaac flooding pointing towards new defences THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAPLACE, La. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will look into whether New Orleans’ recently strengthened defences pushed Hurricane Isaac’s floodwaters into outlying areas.

The study was prompted by the suggestion that Isaac’s storm surge bounced off the levees and floodgates built around New Orleans since the devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and hit communities outside the city’s defences.

The Corps has said it is unlikely scientific analysis will confirm that theory, which has been suggested by locals and some of Louisiana’s most powerful politicians.

Instead, weather experts say a unique set of circumstances — not the floodwalls — had more to do with flooding neighbourhoods that in recent years have never been under water because of storm surge.

Isaac was a large, slow-moving storm that wobbled along the state’s coast for about two and a half days, pumping water into bays and lakes and leaving thousands of residents under water outside the massive levee system protecting New Orleans.

It was blamed for seven deaths and damage to more than 13,000 homes on the Gulf Coast, many of them in a region that is largely below sea level.

The Corps was criticized after Katrina, which pushed in enough water to break through the levees that had surrounded New Orleans. Much of the city

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David Sellers returns to the home he was renovating after floodwaters receded from Hurricane Isaac in Braithwaite, La., Tuesday. Sellers was rescued by boat during the hurricane as he and many other residents were trapped by rapidly rising floodwaters. was left under water, and since then the government has spent millions of dollars rebuilding the city’s system of floodwalls.

Now, towns around New Orleans want answers.

“It has a lot of us questioning,” said Ed Powell, a 47-year-old who’s lived in the town of LaPlace for 15 years and had never seen flooding on his street until Isaac hit.

On Friday, U.S. Sen. David Vitter asked the Corps to commission an independent study to determine if the new floodwalls, gates and higher levees around greater New Orleans caused water to stack up elsewhere.

The Corps is expected to complete its study within two months, said U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, who joined Vitter in calling for the study.

In a statement, the Corps said it ex-

pects the study will find “minimal” changes in surge elevation because of its works around New Orleans. It based that assessment on previous modeling. The agency said it would not comment further until the scientific work is done.

Isaac came ashore as a Category 1 storm, but that classification is based on wind speed, not surge predictions.

Really strong hurricanes can sometimes produce small surge levels while weaker hurricanes — ones like Isaac — can kick up massive surge.

Furthermore, the storm’s size, slow speed and the way it angled into the state “worked together to produce incredibly high surge,” said Jamie Rhome, a surge specialist with the National Hurricane Center. “The water piled up.”

Other scientists agreed it was unlikely New Orleans’ fortified defences caused flooding in neighbouring communities.

Instead, numerous factors combined to create ideal flooding conditions. For instance, the storm was virtually stationary for a time and dumped rain far longer than many other tropical systems.

Vitter, the senator, said he was thankful the Corps was quick in building up the New Orleans area but said it needs to keep its promise to provide protection for outlying communities.

“The problem is now that the main post-Katrina system has been built, those other programs are either being cancelled outright or being slowed to the normal Corps snail’s pace,” Vitter said.

Mexican officials say attack on Suspect in Ethiopia torture pleads U.S. embassy car was accident not guilty to immigration violations

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — High-ranking Mexican security officials are portraying the shooting of two CIA agents by Mexican federal police as a well-intentioned mishap rather than a deliberate attack.

A series of military and law-enforcement officials have emphasized in public statements over the last three days that the group of 12 federal police was investigating a kidnapping when they encountered the two U.S. agents and a Mexican marine captain and opened fire on their armoured sport-utility vehicle.

U.S. and Mexican statements released on the day of the shooting contained few details, excluding mention of the kidnapping probe. As a result, they left open the possibility that it could have been a deliberate attack on the Americans by corrupt officers or

a gross error by well-intentioned but trigger-happy police conducting legitimate work in a dangerous rural area outside the city of Cuernavaca. Mexican officials declined to elaborate for more than a week after the shooting, but now appear to be trying to be making a case for the accidental scenario.

Navy Secretary Mariano Francisco Saynez told reporters after President Felipe Calderon’s last state-of-theunion address on Monday that the attack “was an error and not a malicious act.” The statement carried particular significance coming from the highestranking officer in the navy, the military branch that includes the marines.

Interior Minister Alejandro Poire said Tuesday that federal police officials were investigating a kidnapping that had taken place a day earlier near the scene of the shooting. He wouldn’t give any other details Tuesday “out of respect for the kidnapping victim.”

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — An Ethiopian immigrant suspected of torturing political prisoners decades ago during the aftermath of a bloody coup in his home country pleaded not guilty Tuesday to U.S. immigration charges.

The man authorities identify as Kefelegn Alemu Worku (kah-FEH’-lun ah-LEE’-moo WER’-koo) entered his plea in federal court in Denver before being ordered held without bail.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Kristen Mix noted that the man is accused of using several aliases. Mix also said he faces seri-

ous accusations involving a prison known for atrocities and human rights abuses.

The man’s lawyer said his client denies the immigration charges and says he is not the former prison guard Worku.

“He denies all of it,” said Matthew Golla, a federal public defender, who called his client “Mr. Doe” during the hearing.

The man was identified by three Ethiopian immigrants who all say they were held at a prison known as Higher 15, established during the late 1970s in a campaign known as the Red Terror.

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group Human Rights Watch has said it was “one of the most systematic uses of mass murder by a state ever witnessed in Africa.”

These men had “a very strong reason to remember even though it was 30 years ago,” said federal prosecutor Brenda Taylor in court.

All three, who have not been identified except by initials, picked the man out of a photo lineup.

A chance encounter at a bar in Denver led to the investigation that resulted in the man’s arrest last month, a Department of Homeland Security official said in court.

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UN chief accuses Syria of violations Jamaican policeman their lives shattered, before president Assad and his advisers are persuaded to change course?” Ban asked. “How can we convince armed groups that a better future lies not in fighting, but in building the foundations of a new political and social contract that guarantees freedom and justice?”

Syria’s most important allies, Russia and China, have vetoed three Western-backed resolutions in the U.N. Security Council aimed at stepping up pressure on Assad’s government to end the conflict by threatening sanctions. As a result, the U.N.’s most powerful body remains paralyzed and unable to address the escalating civil war.

The secretary-general appealed to those providing arms to either side to end the “highly dangerous” escalating military action.

“Those who provide arms to either side are only contributing to further misery — and the risk of unintended consequences as the fighting intensifies and spreads,” he warned.

The General Assembly meeting also provided the first opportunity for U.N. member states to hear from Lakhdar Brahimi, the new U.N.-Arab League special representative to Syria. Brahimi replaced Kofi Annan on Sept. 1.

Ban urged all countries to unite behind Brahimi’s mission, which he called “daunting but not insurmountable.”

Ban said Brahimi will visit Cairo shortly for talks with Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby before heading to Damascus “as soon as possible.”

In his brief speech to the General Assembly, Brahimi called the support of the international community for his mission “indispensable and very urgent.”

“It will only be effective if all pull in the same direction,” he said.

Syria’s U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari told the assembly that his government is fully prepared to cooperate with Brahimi “with a view to bringing about the full success of his efforts.” He called on all parties with influence on the armed groups to ensure their co-operation with Brahimi.

Elsewhere, the head of the main Syrian opposition group called Tuesday for a massive aid program to rebuild Syria in the event of the fall of the Assad regime and warned that a lack of economic development would open the door to extremism.

Abdelbaset Sieda, the head of the Syrian National Council, told a meeting of Syrian opposition representatives and diplomats in Berlin that a program similar to the post-World War II European reconstruction effort, commonly known as the Marshall Plan, would be needed.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accused both the Syrian government and the opposition Tuesday of large-scale human rights violations, including torturing and reportedly executing prisoners and failing to protect civilians fleeing the war-ravaged country in record numbers.

In an address to the U.N. General Assembly, Ban demanded that those responsible for violating international humanitarian and human rights laws be held accountable.

The U.N. chief went before the 193-nation world body to report on an intensifying conflict that he said has taken “a particularly brutal turn.” He warned that “the entire region is being engulfed by the complex dynamics of the conflict.”

Activists say the civil war has claimed between 23,000 and 26,000 lives.

The U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday that more than 100,000 Syrians fled their country in August, the highest monthly total since the crisis began in March 2011. A total of 234,368 Syrians have fled to neighbouring countries in the past 17 months, the agency said.

Ban said more than 2.5 million people inside Syria need assistance, along with those who have fled to Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. He urged donors to come forward, saying the U.N. appeal for $180 million is only half-funded.

The U.N. chief accused Syrian forces of indiscriminately shelling densely populated areas with heavy weapons, tanks and military aircraft and urged both sides — but especially President Bashar Assad’s government — to end the fighting.

Ban lamented that civilians are bearing the brunt of the violence, saying even people in bread lines have been attacked.

“Prisoners on both sides are subject to harsh treatment and, often, torture,” he said. “There have been alarming reports of summary executions on both sides.”

He added, “government forces and the armed opposition have clearly failed to protect civilians and respect the rules of international humanitarian law.”

The U.N. chief urged the world to unite behind a plan to end the conflict.

Missing in all international initiatives so far, Ban said, “is a unity of effort that will have an impact on the ground.”

“How many more will be killed and wounded,

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Mexican marines detain cartel leader MEXICO CITY — The Mexican navy says it has detained a top leader of the Gulf drug cartel.

Navy spokesman Jose Luis Vergara says marines detained Mario Cardenas Guillen Tuesday in the northern city of Altamira. Vergara says Cardenas Guillen is the brother of Osiel Cardenas

Guillen, who led the cartel until he was detained in 2003. Osiel Cardenas was extradited in 2007 to the United States and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Marines killed another brother, Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, in 2010 in the city of Matamoros.

At the time, authorities said Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen and Jorge Eduardo Costilla were the cartel’s top leaders.

Veteran claims self-defence in shooting VERONA, Ky. — A 92-year-old farmer and World War II veteran who fatally shot an intruder in his Kentucky

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Horrified eyewitnesses in the coastal town of Yallahs told investigators that Corporal Dwayne Smart shot Kayann Lamont in the head with his Glock service pistol during a scuffle as he tried to arrest her for using “indecent language,” a crime in Jamaica.

He then allegedly shot her sister in her upper body, and was apparently aiming at the third sister but his gun ran out of ammunition. Eyewitnesses report that Smart appeared to be reloading his weapon when he was restrained by a fellow officer.

The 25-year-old Lamont was about eight months pregnant and just coming back to the Yallahs area after a shopping trip to downtown Kingston with her two sisters.

The Saturday afternoon slaying of the pregnant woman and the shooting of her sister, Novia, have sent a shock wave through much of the island’s society. Dozens of furious Yallahs residents have demonstrated in the town, denouncing police and calling for justice.

Linda Palmer-Hamilton, the island’s acting director of public prosecution, ruled Tuesday that Smart will be charged with murder, wounding with intent, assault and firearm violations. She made the quick ruling spurred by widespread outrage.

The Independent Commission of Investigations said Tuesday that Smart was quickly taken into custody on the insistence of Indecom as investigators were concerned that he was a flight risk.

The uninjured sister, Shem Lamont, told Television Jamaica that her elder sister was overheard using a commonly-used Jamaican curse word to a nearby market vendor as she got out of a minibus in Yallahs Square. She said the accused officer immediately tried to arrest the woman and was trying to drag her to a police station when she tried to get out of his grip.

“The man kill off my sister, you know, for nothing at all,” Shem Lamont told the TV station.

home says he acted in self-defence and aimed “right for his heart.”

Earl Jones says he shot a man who came up the stairs and kicked open the basement door early Monday. The Kentucky Enquirer reports two other men were charged with burglary and tampering with evidence. Jones says he heard a sound in his basement early Monday and grabbed his .22-calibre rifle. He says he sat in a chair with a clear view of the basement door and had no fear. The Boone County Sheriff’s Department says the intruder who was fatally shot was 24-year-old Lloyd “Adam” Maxwell.

Authorities are continuing to investigate. Kentucky law allows the use of physical force if someone believes it’s needed to prevent criminal trespass,

robbery or burglary in their house.

WHO: Ebola virus found in Congo KINSHASA, Congo — The World Health Organization has registered 30 suspected cases of the deadly Ebola virus in Congo in an outbreak that comes on the heels of one in neighbouring Uganda. It says 14 people have died.

The WHO said in a statement that as of Sept. 1, they had counted 30 cases in Isiro, located northeast of Kisangani.

Another 169 people have come into contact with infected patients and are under surveillance. Of these cases, only seven tested positive for Ebola.

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