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Serving up Christmas cheer David Burt, 49, welcomes a serving of gravy from volunteer Gene Sale at the Salvation Army’s annual Christmas dinner.

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FOR OVER 35 YEARS RED DEER’S SALVATION ARMY HAS PREPARED A CHRISTMAS DAY FEAST FOR PEOPLE TO COME ENJOY A WARM MEAL AND SOME FELLOWSHIP

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF The Salvation Army Church’s traditional turkey dinner with all the fixings drew crowds on Christmas Day. Served at noon by volunteers in bright red aprons, the annual feast boasted of turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, stuffing and deserts.

For more than 35 years a Central Alberta family, who wishes to remain anonymous, has footed the grocery bill for the Christmas Days meal.

Major Larry Bridger said they were expecting

about 200 people but they had food to serve 250 people. Another 25 or so meals will be delivered free of charge by Associated Cab to people in the community who were unable to make the dinner.

“For most people families are together on Christmas,” said Bridger. “Some of these people who come are just alone and they would like to have not just a good meal but have company. Then the people who are living on the streets might not necessarily have not opportunity so we provide them with that opportunity as well to have a good meal and being able to sit down in a warm place and enjoy some fellowship with other people as well.”

About 15 Sally Ann volunteers spent a few hours on Christmas Eve peeling, chopping and slicing in preparation for the annual dinner at the church. The food tally included nine turkeys, five large hams, 100 pounds of potatoes and other foods.

Another 20 volunteers served the dishes from the assembly line buffet to the guests on Christmas Day. Volunteer Dianne Sutherland has volunteered slicing and dicing on Christmas Eve and serving on Christmas Day for four years.

“It’s an enjoyable part of my service,” said Sutherland.

Cheryl Krawchuk was one of the first guests to arrive for dinner. The Red Deer resident tries to come every year to enjoy a good meal and to catch up with old friends like Doug Guerin and Bill Krawchuk. The threesome shared a table and some laughs.

“I like the way they put the dinner on,” said Krawchuk. “They help people who have no place to go.”

Guerin said he likes to see his friends that he hasn’t seen in a long time.

“I have no place to go for Christmas so I like coming here for Christmas dinner,” said Doug Guerin.

“Have something to eat and I won’t be hungry.”

Bachelor David Burt, 49, said he does not want to cook a full turkey dinner for himself. Like Krawchuk, he has been enjoying the dinners at the Salvation Army Church for at least three or four years.

“It’s like going to grandma’s house,” said Burt.

“Everything here is homemade. It tastes great.”

This year a secret Santa dropped off warm toques for all the guests. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Best present is being safe Christmas Redford has tough

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF While Christmas has many different meanings for different people, for some it is about being safe and escaping the abuse in their lives.

Some people will have the chance to share the holidays with their families, many will not have that opportunity. And for those seeking help in emergency shelters that could be for the best.

June, not her real name, came to the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter on Dec. 8 with her two daughters. When she arrived she thought she’d be out of the shelter before Christmas, but that hasn’t been the case.

This year she’ll be spending Christmas in the shelter, away from the rest of her family, but with her two daughters.

Her family celebrates Christmas the way a lot of people do with presents, dinner and family, but this year she will not be a part of it.

She hasn’t told her family she won’t be home this year. But on top of leaving an abusive relation-

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ship, she left behind abusive siblings.

“A part of me feels bad for not being there, but I’ve never apologized for it yet and I don’t feel that I need to,” she said, in an interview on Monday. “The situation I left from was definitely not a good one and nobody heard me and nobody understood. And nobody apologized to me until after the fact I left. I guess in their eyes the way I was treated wasn’t wrong.”

June is taking the situation day by day, which she said she has to.

“You can’t worry too much about seeing family or disappointing anybody by not going to dinners,” she said. “The shelter here, they care a lot about your needs.

Obviously it’s going to be a hard time for the mothers here.”

Coming to the shelter has been emotional for June, but she said it is definitely better than the situation she came from.

“At first we all had difficulty adjusting,” said June. “Sleep wise, attitudes and eating habits.

As we’ve been here longer, we’re adjusting quite well.”

Her goal when she first arrived was to get re-established before Christmas.

“I’ve never spent Christmas in a shelter. I didn’t want to, because, I don’t know if it was weird or wrong, but it was just different.

It just feels different as opposed to spending Christmas with family and friends.”

Because of her situation, June doesn’t have much money for presents. While she bought her kids a few little things, she hopes they understand and keep the importance of family in mind.

“I don’t have an income right now, I’m more or less trying to save for when I get out of here,” she said. “Being here I try to explain to my daughter that Christmas is more about being with people you love and appreciating that bond, that special time.

A gift, sure that’s great, but there are also a lot of less fortunate people out there besides us that don’t have family, food or a place to live. We’re still very lucky.”

Being able to spend this Christmas out of an abusive situation and with her two daughters is what is most important to June this year.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON - For 30 years, Alison Redford had known Peter Lougheed and from him learned the art of politics.

In April she won a majority mandate at the helm of the Progressive Conservative dynasty he launched as premier four decades earlier. Less than five months later, in the autumn heat of the legislature’s marbled rotunda, she stood alone before his casket and gazed upon it.

For 30 seconds she was immobile, her back to the crowd, hands twice coming to her face. What was going through your mind? Redford was asked in a yearend interview.

“Flashbacks,” she said. “It was just like boom, boom, boom,” she said snapping her fingers.

“From the first time I met him to the last time that I saw him, to having lunch when I was first got elected as an MLA. Isn’t it funny when things like that happen in life how many flashbacks (there can be) in 30 seconds.”

It was a year of superlatives for Redford.

The 47-year-old became the first elected female premier of Alberta and in doing so ensured Lougheed’s party would become the longest running political dynasty in Canadian history.

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Obama cuts holiday short as ‘fiscal cliff’ looms

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU — President Barack Obama will cut short his traditional Christmas holiday in Hawaii, planning to leave for Washington on Wednesday evening as he and lawmakers consider how to prevent the economy from going over the so-called “fiscal cliff.”

Obama was expected to arrive in Washington early Thursday, the White House said Tuesday night.

First lady Michelle Obama and the couple’s two daughters will remain in Hawaii.

In the past, the president’s end-of-the-year holiday in his native state had stretched into the new year. The first family had left Washington last Friday night.

Congress was expected to return to Washington on Thursday. Before he departed for Hawaii, Obama told reporters he expected to be back in the capital the following week.

Unless Obama and Congress can reach a deal to avert the “fiscal cliff,”automatic budget cuts and tax increases are set to begin in January, which many economists say could send the U.S. back into recession. So far, the president and congressional Republicans have been unable to reach agreement on any alternatives. Lawmakers have expressed little but pessimism for the prospect of an agreement coming before Jan. 1. On Sunday, Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas said she expects any action in the waning days of the year to be “a patch because in four days we can’t solve everything.”

The Obamas were spending the holiday at a rented home near Honolulu. On Christmas Day, the president and first lady visited with members of the military to express thanks for their service.

“One of my favourite things is always coming to base on Christmas Day just to meet you and say thank you,” the president said at Marine Corps Base Hawaii’s Anderson Hall. He said that being commander in chief was his greatest honour as president.

Obama took photos with individual service members and their families.

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SAFE: Waking up in a shelter on Christmas difficult, but safe “Christmas is not a big deal for me,” she said. “It’s being happy, being safe is a big deal. I know they’re my family and I love them, but I have children I need to watch out for too.”

She knows Christmas will be a difficult day and even if her kids don’t understand this year, she hopes they will eventually.

“I’m nervous about tomorrow (Christmas) because it’s very different as opposed to waking up at home,” she said. “I already explained it to my daughters, ‘you won’t get everything you wanted and desired because Christmas isn’t always about getting everything you want from Santa. Just appreciate what you do get.’”

She hadn’t really decided how she was going to go about Christmas morning with her kids in the shelter.

“There’s a tree, very few ornaments left, but it’s still a tree,” she said.

She said the staff make her feel comfortable and they are helpful and supportive in these “Christmas is just another day,” she said. “I’m more Christian than Christmas has become, more about gifts. I just thank the Lord I’m still here, I still have a roof over my head and I still have my kids. As long as I have that I’m very happy.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

REDFORD: 2013 expected to be as rough a ride as 2012 for Redford In 2013 she embarks on the biggest gamble of her political career, taking on debt to pay for infrastruc-

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Angela Klayman (left) and her mother Charlotte Maffenbier serve up hot food at the annual Salvation Army Christmas dinner. ture and perhaps day-to-day operating expenses while an oil glut and a faltering US economy put the death squeeze on the price of Alberta’s lifeblood heavy oil.

It’s expected to be as rough a ride as 2012, which saw Redford take a political and personal pounding in the legislature.

There was controversy over an Olympic-sized $500,000 bill for ministers to mix and mingle at the London Games.

Questions swirled around reports Edmonton Oilers owner and pharmacy magnate Daryl Katz had bought himself government influence with a $430,000 contribution to the PC party.

There were revelations that Redford’s sister, Lynn, had used her expense account at the old Calgary health authority for buying tickets, liquor and even bug spray for PC functions.

In November came paper trail revelations that as justice minister in 2010 Redford herself pushed for her ex-husband’s law firm to get a lucrative government contract to sue Big Tobacco. The winning and losing firms were notified while Redford was still in charge of that portfolio, but the final papers were not signed until after she left.

Opposition politicians howled, accusing her of the grievous parliamentary offence of misleading the house by claiming she didn’t make the decision.

NDP Leader Brian Mason said the accusations were so grave, Redford had lost the moral authority to govern and needed to step down until her role in the affair was cleared up.

Redford said she was taken aback, given that Mason is respected for questions that plunge like a dagger into the heart of an issue without the grandstanding hyperbole.

“I expected that from some of the opposition parties. I was kind of surprised to hear it from him,” said Redford.

“I remember when he said it thinking to myself, ‘So you actually think an Albertan who is watching question period right now might think that the premier of Alberta — who was elected six months ago and is responsible for everything that is going on and building markets, and planning a budget and putting in place — should step down?’

“I don’t even know ... what that would look like.

But I just thought it spoke to the tone of the day.”

The year 2012 was also the first full year for Redford without her other confidant and political mentor, her mother Helen.

Helen died of an infection in hospital at age 71 just four days before her daughter won the PC lead-

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Redford credits Helen with pushing her toward politics and spurring her interest in government, policy and public service.

She still carries Helen close to her heart in a set of pearls passed down from grandmother to mother to her.

“I’ll tell you the last month I’ve thought a lot about her to the point where I’ve actually picked up the phone and thought, ‘God I wish I could call my mom.’

Just in the last month and I’m sure that’s because of some of the personal stuff,” said Redford.

“Just hearing her voice would remind me of everything that ever happened in my life that made me who I am today, every experience that I’d ever had, whether it’s baking with granny or going to church or whatever it is. Falling and skinning my knee.

“If you just think for a moment about everything that you could feel when you hear a parent’s voice — and in my case my mother’s — it’s sort of an affirmation of who you are as a person.”

She said Helen wasn’t a rah rah, my daughter right-or-wrong type of person.

“Sometimes she would say to me: ‘You screwed up’ or ‘I’ve got a question about this,’” said Redford.

“She was always really a good gauge of (reality) because she saw the world the way that everybody else did — not the way that politicians see the world.”

Redford said she still gets firsthand glimpses of that world when she meets Albertans.

“I’m amazed by the number of places that I went to through the leadership (race) and I’d meet young girls and they’d be wearing pearls.

“I’d say ‘Oh, you’re wearing pearls,’ and they’d say, ‘That’s because you’re wearing pearls.’

“I do feel a little bit of an added responsibility when I talk to moms, when I talk to young women.

They’re very aware of the fact that I’m the first female premier of Alberta.”

She said connecting with Albertans is both exhilarating and sobering.

“Sometimes they’re saying ‘You know you’re on the right track’ or ‘I’ve never told anyone, but my child was an addict,’ or ‘I’ve never told anyone that I’m a victim of domestic violence.’

“Just the fact that a person would share something that intimate with someone who essentially is a complete stranger to them is a privilege.

“And it is something that again reminds me that this role is more than a job and it’s more than sitting in meetings and running an agenda. It’s about making people’s lives better.”

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Tree House Youth Theatre is running a winter program called Tall Tales and Beyond for youth aged nine to 11. The program is for young performers and it introduces them to character study, voice, movement and performance as they explore folk and fairy tales from around the world.

The program, which runs on Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. from January 17 to May 4, features public presentations at the end of it. The program will be held at the Scott Block, 4818 50th Ave. and there is a limit of 18 participants.

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Olds RCMP arrest four in drug bust Four people face a litany of drug charges after Olds RCMP raided a residence in the town south of Red Deer.

On Dec. 21 members from the Olds RCMP detachment, with the assistance of Red Deer Police Dog Services, executed a search warrant in a residence in Olds.

The warrant was obtained to search the residence, located near the downtown core, as a result of an on-going investigation into the possession and the trafficking of cocaine and marijuana.

Upon entering the residence four adults and several youth were arrested. A search of the residence yielded cocaine, marijua-

No charges laid in random bar inspections It would appear drinking establishments in Red Deer are doing a better job at following the law, according to the RCMP. The Red Deer Public Safety Compliance Team paid surprise visits to 14 drinking establishments on Dec. 21, this time no charges were laid. Members of the PCST told RCMP that there has been a noticeable improvement among Red Deer businesses in adhering to the rules and protocols, when compared to when the PCST was first formed.

The PCST was formed earlier this year to address concerns at drinking establishments in Red Deer. The team is both prevention and enforcement based and strives to improve the safety of staff and patrons. They also aim to reduce the negative impact these establishments have on the community.

The team was formed out of a partnership between the Red Deer City RCMP, Red Deer City fire department, Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission Red Deer Branch and the Red Deer Inspec-

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In their inspections the team works to reduce the cases of over service alcohol, serving under aged people, fire code violations, exceeding occupancy limits and escalating violence.

Police said the PCST will continue with unannounced inspections throughout the new year.

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The flames broke out early Christmas morning, causing an estimated $12 million damage.

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Firefighters say they found a pickup truck had been driven into one of the businesses.

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Michael Kelm, 37, faces two counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count of possession for the purposes of trafficking.

Natalie Carriere faces two counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count of possession for the purposes of trafficking.

Jennifer Ellah, 35, faces one count each of possession for the purposes of trafficking, failing to comply with a probation order and failing to comply with an undertaking.

Richard Logan, 38, faces five counts of failing to comply with a probation order and one count of possession for the purposes of trafficking.

Both Ellah and Logan had several outstanding warrants at the time of their arrest.

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Taking aim at America GUNS ARE PART OF AMERICAN CULTURE BUT THE BIGGER ISSUE IS THE PERVASIVE INCLINATION TO GET ‘JUSTICE’ THROUGH VIOLENCE Here’s an interesting statistic: the second-highest rate of gun ownership in the world is in Yemen, a largely tribal, extremely poor country.

The highest is in the United States, where there are almost as many guns as people: around 300 million guns for 311 million people.

But here’s another interesting statistic: GWYNNE in the past 25 DYER years, the proportion of Americans who own guns has fallen from about one in three to only one in five.

However, the United States, unlike Yemen, is a rich country, and the average American gun-owner has four or five firearms. Moreover, he or she is utterly determined to keep them no matter what happens.

What has just happened in Sandy Hook, Conn., is the seventh massacre this year in which four or more people were killed by a lone gunman. The fact that this time 20 of the victims were little girls and boys six or seven years old has caused a wave of revulsion in the United States, but it is not likely to lead to new laws on gun controls.

It’s not even clear that new laws would help.

Half the firearms in the entire world are in the United States. The rate of murders by gunfire in the United States is almost 20 times higher than the average rate in 22 other populous, high-income countries where the frequency of other crimes is about the same. There is clearly a connection between these two facts, but it is not necessarily simple cause-and-effect.

Here’s one reason to suspect that it’s not that simple: the American rate for murders of all kinds — shooting, strangling, stabbing, poisoning, pushing people under buses, etc. — is seven times higher than it is in those other 22 rich countries. It can’t just be guns.

And here’s another clue: the rate of firearms homicides in Canada, another mainly English-speaking country in North America with a similar political heritage, is about half the American rate — and in England it is only one-30th as much. What else is in play here?

Steven Pinker, whose book The Better Angels of Our Nature is about the long-term decline in violence of every kind in the world, is well aware that murder rates have not fallen in the United States in the past century. (Most

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people don’t believe that violence is in decline anywhere, let alone almost everywhere. That’s why he wrote the book.)

And Pinker suggests an explanation for the American exception.

In medieval Europe, where everybody from warlords to peasants was on his own when it came to defending his property, his rights and his “honour,” the murder rates were astronomically high: 110 people per 100,000 in 14thcentury Oxford, for example. It was at least as high in colonial New England in the early 17th century.

By the mid-20th century, the murder rate in England had fallen more than a hundredfold: in London, it was less than one person per 100,000 per year.

In most Western European countries, it was about the same. Whereas the U.S. murder rate is still up around seven people per 100,000 per year.

Why? Pinker quotes historian Pieter Spierenburg’s provocative suggestion that “democracy came too early” to America. In European countries, the population was gradually disarmed by

the centralized state as it put an end to feudal anarchy. Only much later, after people had already learned to trust the law to defend their property and protect them from violence, did democracy come to these countries.

This is also what has happened in most other parts of the world, although in many cases it was the colonial power that disarmed the people and instituted the rule of law. But in the United States, where the democratic revolution came over two centuries ago, the people took over the state before they had been disarmed — and kept their weapons. They also kept their old attitudes.

Indeed, large parts of the United States, particularly in the southeast and southwest, still have an “honour” culture in which it is accepted that a private individual may choose to defend his rights and his interests by violence rather than seeking justice through the law. The homicide rate in New England is less than three people per 100,000 per year; in Louisiana, it is more than 14.

None of this explains the specific

phenomenon of gun massacres by deranged individuals, who are presumably present at the same rate in every country.

It’s just that in the United States, it’s easier for individuals like that to get access to rapid-fire weapons. And, of course, the intense media coverage of every massacre gives many other crazies an incentive to do the same, only more of it.

But only one in 300 murders in the United States happens in that kind of massacre. Most are simply due to quarrels between individuals, often members of the same family. Private acts of violence to obtain “justice,” with or without guns, are deeply entrenched in American culture, and the murder rate would stay extraordinarily high even if there were no guns.

Since there are guns everywhere, of course, the murder rate is even higher.

But since the popular attitudes to violence have not changed, that is not going to change either.

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

Voters still happy with Harper’s government The year 2012 is poised to go down as the quietest in federal politics in a decade.

The selection of a new NDP leader and the formal launch of the Liberal leadership contest simply did not compete with the suspense that attended the Alberta and Quebec elections; the abrupt resignation of Ontario’s premier, or the storms that engulfed the governments of Toronto and Montreal.

If there was a game-changer in federal politics this year, it has yet to register with disCHANTAL tracted voters.

HEBERT Year-end polls paint a federal picture whose dynamics are fundamentally unchanged from the same period a year ago and not substantially different from the day after the last federal election.

But a federal voting intention picture devoid of dramatic swings in public opinion is not one that is devoid of meaning. Almost halfway through its first majority mandate, Stephen Harper’s government is in better shape in voting intentions that Brian Mulroney’s was at the same point in his two mandates.

Predictions that this Conservative majority government would quickly lose its audience have not panned out. But Harper’s mandate remains more

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tentative than those handed to Jean Chrétien in the 1990s. The Liberals spent most of their last decade in power in clear majority territory.

Despite enjoying the similar luxury of a divided opposition, the ruling Conservatives are more likely to hover in the grey zone between majority and minority support than to climb above the majority threshold.

That could be a reflection on the more remote than average connection between the current prime minister and the electorate or on the retail politics that his party practices. But Harper also faces a more credible opposition than Chrétien did.

Among the main federal parties, the NDP faced the tallest post-election order in 2011.

Cast in an unfamiliar front-line role, equipped with a caucus dominated by MPs with very little history in the party and without the services of the leader who had made it happen, its election breakthrough featured many of the ingredients of a poisoned chalice.

A year and a half later, polls suggest the NDP has weathered the transition from Jack Layton to Thomas Mulcair and from third party to official Opposition.

Moreover, the Quebec polls show no evidence that the election of a sovereigntist government is translating into a significant improvement in the fortunes of the Bloc Québécois. That’s good news for the NDP, whose main opponent in the next election will be the BQ. Justin Trudeau made a splash when he entered

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With a federal election more than two years away, offering a take on its outcome is a mug’s game — akin to predicting next summer’s weather. In theory, it is possible to chart a 2015 path to power for the three main parties.

Harper’s is the most obvious as he is already walking it. But for any government, the 10-year mark in power is the equivalent of the seven-year marriage itch. In the next election, the Conservatives will be seeking to extend their decade in power by four more years.

To different degrees, British Columbia and Quebec are the ground zero of popular discontent with the Conservatives these days. As it happens, the NDP is the dominant opposition party in both of them.

With a strong Ontario ground game, Mulcair could build on that axis to eke out a minority mandate in 2015.

Finally, only those who learned nothing from Layton’s rags to riches course in Quebec in the 2011 election will dismiss out of hand the possibility that the Liberals could surf back to power on a similar kind of wave.

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Hunger-striking chief’s health concerns federal minister THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan expressed concern on Tuesday for the health of a northern Ontario First Nation chief who is on a hunger strike near Parliament Hill.

In a letter sent to Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence on Christmas Day, Duncan said he was worried about the leader’s well-being and urged her to end her protest.

Spence has been on a hunger strike since Dec. 11 to focus public attention on aboriginal issues, and has been living in a teepee on an island in the Ottawa River that many aboriginals consider to be sacred land.

She is seeking a meeting with the prime minister, the governor general and First Nations leaders to discuss the government’s relationship with First Nations.

Duncan’s letter said Spence had been unresponsive to his offer of meeting with her or speaking to her by phone.

It also said Aboriginal Affairs was prepared to set up a working group between federal and First Nations representatives to discuss treaty and rights issues between Ottawa and aboriginal governments.

“I remain concerned about your health and hope that you will accept my offer to speak about how we might move forward with improving the treaty relationship,” Duncan wrote.

“It is unfortunate that you are unwilling to speak with me about the issues you have raised publicly.”

Duncan’s letter came a day after Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau, who is Algonquin, tried unsuccessfully to meet with Spence.

Brazeau posted an account on Twitter of his efforts to meet Spence on Monday, saying he was first told she needed time to prepare to see him but then that she wouldn’t see him at all.

“Not sure if Chief Spence’s advisors made the recommendation not to meet but regardless, I respect her decision,” Brazeau wrote.

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Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence talks with her family and First Nations actor Adam Beach and his daughter Phoenix Beach as she continues her hunger strike in a teepee on Victoria Island in Ottawa, early Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012.

Spence’s hunger strike helped spark the national Idle No More movement, which in turn has spawned several protests and demonstrations — including an ongoing Sarnia, Ont., rail blockade.

Many of the protests are focused on denouncing

the Harper government’s omnibus Bill C-45, which demonstrators claim eliminates treaty and aboriginal rights set out in the Constitution.

The Conservatives maintain that they are taking strong action to address aboriginal concerns.

Support growing for CN Rail blockade in Sarnia: group SARNIA, Ont. — A member of a southwestern Ontario First Nation blockading a CN Rail line in Sarnia says gestures of support are flooding in as the protest reaches its fifth day.

Ron Plain of the Aamjiwnaang (AWN’-ja-nong) First Nation says donations such as blankets and food and other offers of help are coming in from within the province and from as far away as California as word spreads through social media.

The protesters are denouncing the Harper government’s omnibus Bill C-45, which they claim eliminates treaty and aboriginal rights set out in the Constitution Plain says organizers have yet to decide whether to challenge a court injunction granting police the power to end the protest.

Sarnia police have said they won’t move to stop the blockade unless there is a safety risk.

Demonstrators say the blockade will continue until Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with Attiwapiskat Chief Theresa Spence. The leader of the northern Ontario First Nation is on a hunger strike in Ottawa to bring attention to aboriginal issues.

Meanwhile, members of two First Nations near Sault Ste. Marie in northern Ontario have posted

a message on Facebook saying they plan to launch their own rail blockade on Thursday to back Spence.

Plain says there is an “air of excitement” at the Sarnia blockade, with Aamjiwnaang youth — who started the protest Friday as part of the national Idle No More movement — building snowmen along the tracks.

“The resolve of the community seems to be deepening,” Plain said, adding the demonstration is “turning into a community event as opposed to a blockade.”

The protest has seen dozens huddle around tents, tables and vehicles, shutting off rail access to several chemical plants.

“We’ve got people coming in from all over Ontario.

We’ve got people coming in from the United States to sit in,” Plain added.

Plain said a representative for the rail company spoke with organizers Monday, but the talks were not fruitful.

He said the First Nation is unwavering in its stance that the tracks were not laid legitimately.

“Our view is a very solid view in that the tracks are not permitted on that road. There was never any kind of permit issued for those tracks to cross there.”

Spence started her hunger strike on Dec. 11, and has been living in a teepee on an island in the Ottawa River that many aboriginals consider to be

sacred land.

She is seeking a meeting with Harper, the governor general and First Nations leaders to discuss the treaty relationship.

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THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Hydro Quebec says it has restored power to 90 per cent of its customers who lost electricity after a powerful storm last week.

The lights went out for about 110,000 customers in the Laurentians, the Lanaudiere region north of Montreal and the Outaouais region of western Quebec when a storm dumped about 50 centimetres of snow in some areas on Friday.

As of 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Hydro Quebec said about 7,000 customers were still without power.

The utility said its crews would continue to work through the evening and hoped to restore electricity to all customers by Wednesday.

More than 800 Hydro Quebec employees were working Christmas Day to restore service.

Hydro-Quebec spokeswoman Isabelle Nuckle said the weight of the snow caused several trees to sag onto power lines.

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People gather around the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Christmas Eve, Monday, December 24, 2012.

OTTAWA — Canada’s special forces will establish a charitable foundation to support serving and retired members and their families.

The commander of the country’s special forces says the new foundation will also help with the reintegration of commandos into civilian life.

Brig.-Gen. Denis Thompson says the charitable group is still under development and will register with the Canada Revenue Agency within the next few weeks.

Certain units in the military have long had their own associations which provide a variety of services outside of government benefits.

The special forces group is part of a growing trend since the Afghan war of private organizations springing up to cover the gap between the need for services and what the federal government is willing and obliged to cover.

The Harper government, through a series of Veterans

Affairs initiatives, has placed more emphasis on linking retiring soldiers with jobs in the private sector.

Once established, the CANSOF Foundation will provide financial assistance to active and retired members and their families or referrals to other agencies or programs.

It will also provide financial support to members who have been wounded in the line of duty and their families, and to families of members who have been killed in the line of duty.

Assistance will also be provided to children of deployed members to alleviate the stress of deployment on families and for unforeseen expenses.

Thompson says money will be set aside so that children of members can attend summer camp.

The organization will also help put those who’ve found civilian employment in touch with those considering or preparing to leave uniform.

It will also have a database of potential employers that understand the nature of special forces service.

Swimmer braces the ‘Ice Mile’ in B.C. interior lake THE CANADIAN PRESS KELOWNA, B.C. — A Kelowna athlete has braved the frigid waters of a southern B.C. Interior lake to join an exclusive club of global ice swimmers.

Paul Duffield may well be the first Canadian to swim 1.6 kilometres — dubbed the “Ice Mile” — in water colder than 5 C sporting only a swimsuit and cap.

The 43-year-old joined on Sunday a list of 25 people who have completed that distance worldwide.

The swimmer decided to take the plunge after reading about the International Ice Swimming Association last January, and he kept the goal in mind while training for a swim across the English Channel that’s coming next summer.

Duffield emerged with bright red skin from Gellatly Bay in Okanagan Lake to the cheers of two dozen supporters, and did not need assistance from waiting paramedics.

He says it was as much a mental challenge as a physical feat.

“It certainly is an extreme challenge,” he said.

“The physical is obviously the pain of the cold. If you are not mentally prepared, then the physical will just take over and you won’t succeed.”

After the swim, his wife helped him put on a fleece jacket and toque while drinking hot sports liquids. He placed hot water bottles under each arm, then put on a ski jacket, sweatpants and snow boots.

Duffield immediately climbed into a vehicle with its heater on full and was whisked away to his nearby home to complete the warming process.

“Clockwork,” said Mark Fromberg, a doctor who monitored Duffield’s progress from the shoreline.

“You couldn’t ask for a better result. I knew he could do this, he’s been training really well. ... It takes a special bit of discipline to stay calm in this kind of circumstance, but Paul has the right kind of demeanour to do that. It’s all about mental control.”

John Smirl, an Okanagan Masters Swim Club coach, encouraged Duffield from a kayak and documented a distance of 1.75 kilometres in a time of 36:50.

“The stroke looked really, really good the whole time,” he said. “He was very conversant, coherent. It was the best possible scenario. That was a really, really well-done swim. It was awesome.”

Duffield took advice from U.S. cold water swimmer Lynne Cox, who said in her book, Swimming to Antarctica: “If you focus on the cold, you’re focusing on something that is not going to get you to where you want to be.”

Duffield said he’s heard two words from people the week before Sunday’s swim: “Crazy” and “why?”

“Am I insane? Maybe,” he said with a chuckle before the swim. “I don’t know. I passed a physical earlier in the week, so physically I’m prepared for it. Mentally? There may still be a few questions to answer there.”

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Separate funerals held for four victims of N.B. car crash THE CANADIAN PRESS TRACADIE-SHEILA, N.B. — The mayor of a small New Brunswick community said Monday that separate, private funerals will be held for four young people who died when their car slid into the icy Tracadie River.

Aldeoda Losier, the mayor of Tracadie-Sheila, said the families of four teenagers from the Acadian peninsula have told him they aren’t seeking a public memorial to mark Friday’s tragedy.

“We have to respect the wish of the families,” he said. “Each one has their own religious parish and each one wants to do their own memorial.”

Losier said the northeastern New Brunswick community is mourning, noting all local churches observed two minutes of silence Sunday in the victims’ honour.

People formed long lines at the local funeral home for visitations on Christmas Eve and local newspapers published notices of funerals for the days after Christmas, he said.

RCMP say 17-year-old Marie-Helene Gauvin of Pointe Canot, 18-yearold Tommy Losier and 19-year-old Brian Basque, both of Ste-Rose, and 20-year-old Alexandre McGraw of Losier Settlement died in the crash near Tracadie-Sheila.

The mayor said the three young men had all attended W.-ArthurLosier high school in Tracadie-Sheila, while the young woman went to school on nearby Lameque Island.

He said the Acadian peninsula region as a whole feels their loss due to the tight-knit nature of the francophone towns in the region, and a sense that young people who stay in the community are needed to ensure its future.

“This is a very big loss.

It’s a tragedy for the parents, the grandparents and all of the community. When you have four people of these names ... these are big families in this region,” Aldeoda Losier said.

The mayor said parents in the area already worry about their sons and daughters as they commute by airplane to jobs in Western Canada and return every few weeks.

“Now people feel we have lost four young people, and they will never come back,” he said.

RCMP say they are still investigating the reason for the accident

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The Canadian flag flutters in the breeze Monday, Sept. 8, 2003, by the lighthouse at Machias Seal Island.

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Tiny island the subject of a boundary dispute between Canada and the US FREDERICTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A tiny island between New Brunswick and Maine is the subject of renewed calls from both sides of the border to settle a territorial dispute once and for all.

Machias Seal Island is a flat, treeless piece of rock located about 19 kilometres southwest of Grand Manan Island at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy.

The island is a sanctuary for many kinds of seabirds including the Atlantic Puffin and draws visitors from around the world to observe them in the summer.

There are no permanent human residents on the island, just pairs of lightkeepers who spend 28 days at a time maintaining a lighthouse operated by the Canadian Coast Guard. The original lighthouse was built by the British in 1832, and a lighthouse has been maintained there ever since.

So why would anyone even care which country gets title to Machias Seal Island?

The answer lies in the 720 square kilometres of water around the island in whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called a grey zone.

Lobster fishermen from both Canada and the U.S. fish these waters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fishing community on Grand Manan is permitted to fish there on an open-end basis and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our way of laying our claim to this water that is part of the Machias Seal Island dispute,â&#x20AC;? said MP John Williamson, who represents the riding of New Brunswick-Southwest.

Williamson said the island is considered to be in his riding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think our claim is sound and is legitimate, but at the end of the day itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to come down to the minister in this country and the administration in Washington to settle it,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it is in the interests of both of our countries to do that.â&#x20AC;?

That feeling is echoed by Stephen Kelly, a professor at the Center for Canadian Studies at Duke University and a retired American diplomat who has served in Canada.

Conservation group wants love corridor so N.B. moose can find N.S. mates THE CANADIAN PRESS AMHERST, N.S. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Nature Conservancy of Canada has launched a fundraising program in the Maritimes over Christmas to help Moose find their way to some cross-border love.

The program, dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Moose Sex Project,â&#x20AC;? is aiming to raise $35,000 to buy a narrow strip of the Chignecto Isthmus â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a strip of land between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Andrew Holland, spokesman for the conservation group, says creating a corridor for wildlife may allow more of the New Brunswick moose population to cross over to Nova Scotia and find mates.

The Nova Scotia mainland moose has been endangered since 2003, and the conservancy says that ensuring corridors between provinces may help preserve the declining population.

He says the total purchase would create a corridor of about 100 hectares along the narrow strip of land.

The group currently has secured five properties in the Chignecto Isthmus Natural Area, which total more than 332 hectares, and is awaiting the funds to complete several purchases to complete the corridor.

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The conservation group notes that in addition to moose, other mammals and bird species such as Canada lynx, bobcat and northern goshawk can use the corridor between the two Maritime provinces.

Holland says the area is also a potential nesting site for American black duck, green-winged teal and wood duck.

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Sailors from the Philippines aboard the cargo ship Nord Tradition open Christmas presents delivered by Father John Eason, of The Mission to Seafarers Flying Angels Club, at port in Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday December 22, 2012. The local organization gives out Christmas gifts to more than 2,000 sailors at Port Metro Vancouver who find themselves away from their families during the holiday season.

Santa arrives by sea taxi for international sailors in Vancouver VANCOUVER — All Alexander Geraldizo wants for Christmas this year is to be at home, celebrating a magical day with the one-month-old baby daughter he has never met.

Instead the sailor from San Fernando, Cebu in the Philippines will be at sea with aboard the cargo ship Nord Tradition, likely in the Pacific somewhere near Vancouver.

Yet he’s thinking his reality won’t be nearly as cold, after getting an unexpected burst of cheer from a British Columbia charity that gives Yuletide gifts to weary souls who are far from home.

“I had been asking the office to send me home this Christmas, but there is nothing I can do ... but continue my duties,” said Geraldizo in broken English, the vessel’s chief engineer, who’s been at sea for the past five months.

Receiving an unexpected gift while docked in Vancouver over the weekend gave the father of three children “relief,” he said.

“People (are) thinking I am special, all of us are special.”

That’s exactly the intention of Vancouver’s Flying Angel Club, run by the religious Mission to Seafarers group, which has been handing out Christmas gifts for the past 50 years.

This year, the club and a few handfuls of volunteers will present about 2,000 brightly-coloured Christmas bags to men aboard dozens of ships that will dock in the port. The presents were purchased with $9,000 in donations.

“This is a bad time away to be away from family. So we try to be family for them by giving them Christmas presents,” said Father John Eason, the Catholic port chaplain of Vancouver, who is helping co-ordinate the drive.

“It takes away a little bit of the pain of the loneliness of being away from loved ones.”

While the exchange began on Dec. 17, the volunteers — including someone decked as Santa — will deliver the biggest haul on Christmas Eve day with the help of a donated water taxi and its crew. They expect to deliver 500 gifts to sailors on about 12 ships, though none of the merriment will be expected.

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TORONTO — When Asad Muhammad and Mathew Ho mapped out a route for the lego man they hoped to send into space last January, they little imagined they’d be changing the course of their own lives as well.

The voyage they planned for the toy figure was originally conceived as a fun project for two high school friends who shared a love of science. By attaching cameras to a weather balloon and styrofoam container, the 18-year-olds from Toronto hoped only to capture pictures of the earth’s curvature.

But the lego figure they included in their makeshift craft on a whim catapulted the test flight to greater heights than Ho and Muhammad ever imagined. Footage of the plastic figure soaring 24 kilometres above the earth garnered instant praise once it had been posted to Youtube, and the teens found themselves dead centre on the public radar.

“It’s still overwhelming,” Muhammad said in a telephone interview. “We thought no one was going to be interested in listening to what we did, but when the story got out, it was amazing.”

The changes began in the hallways of the teens’ former high school, where students who once warned Muhammad that the project was doomed to flop greeted him with applause.

As the internet footage gained traction, Ho and Mohammad’s reputations captured the attention of other educational institutions as well. Several universities contacted the pair to offer up tours of their facilities and court them as prospective science students, Muhammad said. At least two followed up the invitations with offers of acceptance.

But the exposure had its downsides too. Ho and Muhammad spent at least four months wading through everything from media requests to lecture invitations, and Muhammad said the hectic pace made them reconsider their future paths.

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Netflix back up after Xmas eve outage Those hoping to spend the holiday watching streaming video from Netflix can now get back in front of their TVs, tablets and PCs after a Christmas Eve outage. A Netflix Inc. spokesman said by email Tuesday morning that the service has been fully restored.

The outage affected customers in the Americas starting around 12:30 p.m.

PST on Monday. The company, which is based in Los Gatos, Calif., blames problems with Amazon Web Services, and says it is investigating further.

Amazon Web Services provides companies with online storage and computing.

Canadian miner Axmin camp taken over by African rebels Axmin Inc. (TSXV:AXM) says its operating camp based near Ndassima Village in the Central African Republic was temporarily occupied by rebels last Friday, but no casualties were reported. Food, medical supplies and vehicles were taken by the rebels, who were believed en route to the major town of Bambari. The Ndassima camp was effectively shut down for the Christmas break and only minimal staff and security were on duty.

“The occupation occurred without violence and the Axmin staff are all accounted for and are in good health,” the company said in a statement.

“Whilst I deeply regret this event, I am relieved that all personnel are safe and that there were no injuries during this temporary occupation,” said president and CEO George Roach said. “We remain in close contact in the CAR (Central African Republic) and will report any significant developments.”

Axmin is a Canadian exploration and development company with a strong focus on central and West Africa, including the Central African Republic, Mozambique and Senegal.

Oil prices drift lower in quiet holiday trading The price of oil fell slightly Monday during a shortened pre-Christmas trading day. Concerns over the political stalemate in Washington continue to be the focus of traders, with the price of benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude closing down five cents at US$88.61 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Brent crude, used to price international varieties of oil, fell 17 cents to US$108.80 a barrel. Energy traders have been watching Democrats and Republicans clash over tax hikes and social services cuts. Normally, recent good economic data would signal more energy consumption and higher prices.

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Harley Richards, Business Editor, 403-314-4337 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

Tech trends to watch in 2013 AND SOME OF THE BUSTS THAT EMERGED IN 2012

BY MICHAEL OLIVEIRA THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Another year, another iPhone. More surprisingly, Apple fans were tempted with not just one new iPad, not two, but three, including the latest mini-sized tablet.

Research in Motion released new phones but not many noticed.

Microsoft was set to close 2012 on a big note but missed the mark.

There were baby steps made to introduce mobile commerce to Canadian consumers, while digital video viewing went mainstream.

Here’s a look at the trends that emerged in 2012 and are likely to develop in the year ahead, and the busts of the past year.

APPLE FACES MAJOR CHALLENGES IN ’13 It took a very long time for any other manufacturer to develop a tablet that came even close to Apple’s iPad, but that gap has now closed considerably — particularly with solid tablets released this year by Asus and Samsung. Google struck a major pre-emptive blow against the iPad mini by pricing its small Nexus 7 tablet at just $209 and up. When the iPad mini was released months later, it looked expensive starting at $329. Apple will need game-changing hardware or software for its next iPad or it risks losing a large chunk of the tablet market to cheap — and just as capable — competition.

There’s a similar smartphone threat as cheaper Google Android phones have overtaken the lower-end of the mobile market and the top-of-the-line models have proven to be real iPhone rivals. Windows phones have yet to catch on, although they’ve shown promise, and it remains to be seen if RIM can successfully re-establish itself as a mobile leader with its new BB10 operating system.

Apple will also have to rebound from the Google Maps controversy that forced the company to acknowledge that it made a mistake in dropping the popular app without having something just as good ready for its customers to use.

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Sami Smidi demonstrates an internet capable TV in Montreal. With smart tvs consumers can access movie services like Netflix, games, news and weather feeds, Facebook and Twitter or just do a search for information, all with their remotes.

WEB VIDEO CONTINUES TO GROW, IS MOBILE NEXT? Earlier this year, a survey suggested almost one in four Canadians were spending more time watching online video over the course of a day than time on the couch in front of their TV. Another 16 per cent said the time they spent watching content online and on TV was about the same. Between watching a few minutes of video at a time on YouTube, catching missed TV episodes on network websites, and streaming movies off Netflix, Canadians have learned there’s plenty to watch even when there’s nothing good on the dial.

A recent survey commissioned by the federal government found one in three Canadians said they now download

or stream films online and 12 per cent said they do it either daily or at least once a week.

The same survey stated that 48 per cent of respondents had a smartphone and 24 per cent had a tablet they could watch video on. But mobile viewing is still being held back by data prices, which make streaming of high-quality video too pricey to be a daily habit. Luckily, coffee shops, fast food outlets and airports have begun to offer free WiFi that can be used to watch a TV show or YouTube clips while waiting around. If mobile pricing doesn’t come down in 2013 — and it’s not expected to — mobile viewers will have to hope that the encoding efficiency of video is drastically improved so less data is used per stream.

BREAK OUT YOUR DIGITAL WALLET Starbucks regulars have probably noticed fellow customers occasionally handing

over their smartphone to pay for their coffee or latte. It’s one of the first popular examples of the digital wallet concept, electronically storing purchasing power on a smartphone. In the case of the Starbucks app, it’s a link to a customer’s prepaid credit that’s commonly stored on a gift card. The latest Apple devices come loaded with something called Passbook, which allows users to store electronic copies of flight boarding passes, movie and sports tickets, travel points and coupons. The next step is a technology called near field communication, a way to securely send data wirelessly, including payment information for purchases. CIBC took a small step in that direction this past year by starting to offer digital wallet services for its customers with NFC-capable BlackBerrys. Royal Bank signalled it will be following suit and you can expect other financial institutions will add their names to the list in 2013.

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Potatoes help Boeing improve on-board wireless

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — If the wireless Internet connection during your holiday flight seems more reliable than it used to, you could have the humble potato to thank.

While major airlines offer in-flight Wi-Fi on many flights, the signal strength can be spotty. Airlines and aircraft makers have been striving to improve this with the growing use of wireless devices and the number of people who don’t want to be disconnected, even 35,000 feet (10,700 metres) up.

Engineers at Chicago-based Boeing Co. used sacks of potatoes as stand-ins for passengers as they worked to eliminate weak spots in in-flight wireless signals. They needed full planes to get accurate results during signal testing, but they couldn’t ask people to sit motionless for days while data was gathered.

“That’s where potatoes come into the picture,” Boeing spokesman Adam Tischler said.

It turns out that potatoes — because of their water content and chemistry — ab-

sorb and reflect radio wave signals much the same way as the human body does, making them suitable substitutes for airline passengers.

“It’s a testament to the ingenuity of these engineers. They didn’t go in with potatoes as the plan,” Tischler said.

Recapping the serendipitous path that led to better onboard wireless, Tischler said a member of the research team stumbled across an article in the Journal of Food Science describing research in which 15 vegetables and fruits were evaluated for their dielectric properties, or the way they transmit electric force without conduction.

Its conclusions led the Boeing researchers to wonder if potatoes might serve just as well as humans during their own signal testing. Despite some skepticism, they ended up buying 20,000 pounds (9,000 kilograms) of them.

Video and photos of the work, which started in 2006, show a decommissioned airplane loaded with row upon row of potato sacks that look like large, lumpy passengers. The sacks sit eerily still in the seats as the engineers collect data on the strength

of wireless signals in various spots.

The Boeing engineers added some complicated statistical analysis and the result was a proprietary system for fine tuning Internet signals so they would be strong and reliable wherever a laptop was used on a plane.

Boeing says the system also ensures WiFi signals won’t interfere with the plane’s sensitive navigation and communications equipment.

“From a safety standpoint, you want to know what the peak signals are, what’s the strongest signal one of our communications and navigation systems might see from a laptop or 150 laptops or 350 laptops,” Boeing engineer Dennis Lewis explains in a video.

In a nod to the humour in using a tuber to solve a high-tech problem, researchers dubbed the project Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution, or SPUDS. The company says better Wi-Fi signals can be found already on three Boeing aircraft models flown by major airlines: 777, 747-8 and the 787 Dreamliner.

What factors are contributing to more work, less life In several columns I’ve “dropping by a third in the past stressed the benefits of regular 10 years”. To top it off, only 23 planning in business. I talked per cent of working Canadians about vision, reveare highly satisfied nue, clients, margin with life. That’s half and costs. Examinas many as in 1991.” ing all these areas is Over the past deinvaluable and neccade, separating our essary in order to work lives from our succeed in business. private lives has I also believe that become more chalplanning and implelenging. A statistic menting strategies used in the article to achieve a better indicates that, “only work-life balance is 23 per cent of workequally important. ing Canadians are In his October highly satisfied with JOHN 25th Globe & Mail life… half as many MACKENZIE article, Josh O’Kane as in 1991.” stated the following Theses statistics ACTION dramatic statistics. reflect some fairly “Almost two-thirds common, and rather of us are working more than 45 dismal, opinions. So what’s conhours a week – 50-per-cent more tributing to this current reality? than two decades ago.

Issue #1: O’Kane further comments Lower productivity and abthat there are fewer opportuni- senteeism at work directly afties in the work place to negoti- fect the bottom line. Have you ate flex-time working schedules, considered that individual per-

formance issues may be as a result of personal pressures?

Some may be directly related to the stresses people experience separating work and family life.

There may be an ongoing situation, like managing aging parents and a young family. Or, it may be a health, relationship or financial problem. An open workplace culture and an owner or manager willing to listen and adjust the workload is required. For the individual and the business, it’s critical to address each situation, and look at the possibility of adjusting workload expectations.

Issue #2: A primary contributing factor to separating work and personal/family life is the advancement technology.

The devices designed to make tasks easier and communication faster in the workplace, we now carry in our pockets and purses.

Many of us are never “leave the office” at the end of the day.

The ability to wind down and shut off your work life is imperative.

Part of the responsibility lies with the individual. Except in emergency situations, there is no need to check work related emails after your work day is done.

There are some astonishing statistics that indicate that more and more employees are expected to be “on call”, evenings and weekends. If this is part of the job description, or a rotating task, then it’s a key responsibility that must be compensated for.

Issue #3: A statistic from the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)website states that 58 per cent of Canadians report ‘overload’ associated with the variety of roles they perform in their lives.

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Japanese stocks rally on weak yen ASIA MARKETS ELSEWHERE ARE CLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK, Thailand — Japan’s benchmark stock index jumped Tuesday as a softening yen helped boost the country’s powerhouse export sector. The Nikkei 225 index in Tokyo rallied 1.4 per cent to close at 10,080.12, with export shares leading the way.

The yen traded at a 20-month high of 84.95 yen in New York after incoming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe turned up the pressure on the Bank of Japan to adopt a 2 per cent inflation target. During a televised program Sunday, Abe said he will consider revising the Bank of Japan Act if the central bank refuses to act at next month’s policy meeting, Kyodo News Agency said.

That’s designed to fight deflation, or continually dropping prices, which deadens economic activity.

The Japanese economy has been stuck in deflation for two decades. On Monday in Asia, the dollar stood at 84.77 yen.

Mazda Motor Corp. gained 2 per cent, while Nikon Corp. advanced 2.3 per cent. Nomura Holdings jumped 6.3 per cent.

Stocks in mainland China posted strong gains.

The Shanghai Composite Index jumped 2.5 per cent to 2,213.61. The smaller Shenzhen Composite Index surged 2.4 per cent to 855.79. Shares in real estate, financial services and travel-related companies led the gains.

Poly Real Estate, China’s second-largest listed developer, gained 4.7 per cent while industry leader China Vanke soared 6 per cent.

Markets in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand were among those closed for Christmas.

On Wall Street on Monday, the last day of trading before Christmas, stocks fell on concern that time is running out for lawmakers to reach a budget deal to avoid the U.S. going over the “fiscal cliff.”

The Dow Jones industrial average lost 0.4 per cent to close at 13,139.08. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 0.2 per cent to 1,426.66. The Nasdaq composite index fell 0.2 per cent to 3,012.60.

For weeks, discussions between the White House and Congress over a budget deal have been the main

driver in markets. If a deal isn’t reached by the start of 2013, automatic spending cuts and tax increases worth hundreds of billions of dollars will be imposed — which many economists think could push the U.S. economy back into recession.

Most markets across Europe were open for only half a day on Monday and won’t reopen until Thursday.

As well as monitoring developments in the U.S. over the coming days, investors will be keeping a close watch on what’s going on in Italy ahead of a general election in February.

Over the weekend, outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti indicated that he would be willing to return to the role if pro-reform parties back him. Monti has won praise for his economic reforms and efforts to get a grip on the country’s borrowing. Italy has the second-highest debt burden among the 17 EU countries that use the euro. Only Greece’s is higher.

Meanwhile, Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos., said in a report that China’s apparent oil demand rose 9.1 per cent in November from a year earlier to 42.96 million metric tons, an average of 10.5 million barrels per day, the highest on record.

Stock markets stay focused on fiscal cliff

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

51.76 points to 13,139.08, the Nasdaq fell 8.41 points to 3,012.60 and the S&P 500 index was off 3.49 points at 1,426.66.

North American markets will be closed for the Christmas Day holiday, and the TSX will also be closed on Wednesday for Boxing Day. In commodities, March copper was down 2.1 cents at US$3.55 a pound while February gold bullion ended 60 cents lower to US$1,659.50 an ounce.

The January crude oil contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange slid five cents to US$88.61 a barrel.

Chevron Canada Ltd. is moving to acquire a 50 per cent stake in a proposed liquefied natural gas export terminal near Kitimat, B.C., in a series of deals that will result in the exit of two of the three current partners.

Under the deal, the subsidiary of Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX) has agreed to buy out the stakes held by Encana Corp. (TSX:ECA) and a subsidiary of EOG Resources, Inc. (NYSE:EOG), which each hold 30 per cent. Apache Corp. (NYSE:APA), which holds the remaining 40 per cent, will raise its stake to 50 per cent.

Encana shares were down 47 cents at $19.66 in Toronto. In New York, Chevron slid 98 cents to US$108.63, EOG slipped 80 cents to US$122.77 and Apache dropped $1.32 to $78.68.

Key U.S. lawmakers are already

IRAQ OIL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — An Iraqi Kurdish official says the country’s selfruled northern Kurdish

region has suspended oil exports over a payment row with the central government in Baghdad.

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TRENDS: Shopping on a smartphone Mobile e-commerce — shopping on a smartphone or tablet while on the go — is also expected to rise next year, although it may see somewhat slow growth in Canada. A poll commissioned by Google and released in May suggested only 20 per cent of Canadians had ever made a mobile purchase and only 16 per cent expected to boost their mobile shopping in the following year.

A YEAR TO FORGET It was a tough year of waiting for those holding out hope for Research in Motion as its BB10 operating system, the company’s last hope of staying alive in the smartphone space, was built up and prepped for an early 2013 release.

Those who have had a sneak peek have suggested RIM has finally caught up and developed a slick mobile experience that may rival the iPhone and Android phones. But it doesn’t appear there are enough consumer-friendly bells and whistles to sway Apple fans and the company is instead expected to focus on re-establishing its dominance in the corporate market. Meanwhile, it was a stomach-churning roller coaster ride for stock holders who watched their investment cut in half from the start of the year to the summer, before rebounding in the fall. But just when it looked like the ride was over, the company’s latest earnings release spooked the market and prompted another steep stock decline of more than 20 per cent on Friday.

It could’ve been a monster year for Microsoft — with the huge releases of its Windows 8 PC operating system, a new mobile phone operating system, and the new Surface tablet — but all hit the market without much fanfare.

Windows 8 was panned as a confusing, unfocused user experience that left many users with a frustrating first impression. Windows Phone was better received, particularly for its fresh, new approach to displaying apps, photos and social media content on its home screen. But it hasn’t connected with the mass market yet. And despite a large marketing campaign, the first version of Microsoft’s Surface tablet

predicting that much of their holiday season will be spent in Washington.

Many believe that the most that will be achieved is a stop-gap measure to avoid the federal spending cuts and broad tax hikes that would take effect Jan. 1 if no budget deal is reached.

President Barack Obama said Friday that he is “ready and willing” to get a big package done to deal with the fiscal cliff, adding there’s no reason not to protect middle-class Americans from tax increases.

Obama said spoke Friday with House Speaker John Boehner and met with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He says Congress should pass a plan to extend tax breaks for the middle class and extend unemployment benefits.

Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday that it “It’s the first time that I feel it’s more likely we’ll go over the cliff than not,” following the collapse late Thursday of House Speaker John Boehner’s plan to allow tax rates to rise on million-dollar-plus incomes. Wyoming Sen. Jon Barrasso, a member of the Republican leadership, predicted the new year would come without an agreement.

This week investors will be squaring away their tax books for the year.

Monday marks the last day for tax-loss selling for Canadian taxpayers selling

equities through domestic accounts.

The deadline for U.S. securities tax loss sales is Wednesday.

Sears Canada Inc. (TSX:SCC) said its chief financial officer Sharon Driscoll, who has been CFO for the national retailer since December 2010, will leave the company on Jan. 4 to pursue other interests. Its shares were up 17 cents to $10.83.

Shares of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (TSX:RIM) continued to lose ground, falling another three per cent, after a steep 22 per cent decline on Friday.

Investors have responded negatively to RIM’s early details of a new plan that could see its lucrative oneplan-fits-all service fees turned into an a la carte menu, which some believe could negatively affect revenues.

RIM’s shares ended Monday down 36 cents at $10.50.

Most markets across Europe were only open for half a day and will only re-open again on Thursday. German markets, and others, were closed for Christmas Eve. Among those that were open, Britain’s FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closed up 0.2 per cent at 5,954.18 while the CAC-40 in France was down an equivalent rate at 3,652.61.

Earlier in Asia, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng, closed up 0.1 per cent at 22,531.51 while South Korea’s Kospi rose less than 0.1 per cent to 1,981.82. Japanese markets were closed for the Emperor’s birthday holiday.

sources, said Tuesday Baghdad failed to fulfil its commitment to pay the full 1 trillion Iraqi dinars (about $848 million) to companies working in the region. Balo said it only paid 650 billion Iraqi dinars (about $550 million).

managed to attract some early attention but failed to be seen as a real iPad rival.

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COACH: People take home work Many people take home work on a regular basis. There may be times when this is necessary however this should not be the situation on a daily or weekly basis. Whether you are the employee or the employer, be aware that demands at work will directly affect personal and family life.

As an employer, recognize that employee retention can be directly related to workload issues. Stress can affect individuals both the physically and mentally. Watch for the signs and symptoms, like illness and general absenteeism. Whenever possible, negotiate a flexible schedule that gets the work done and keeps good team members.

Take time to build in downtime in your life. If you have to schedule fun/ play, then do so. Set some personal goals and short incremental milestones throughout the year. Small successes will boost your mood and renew your energy. Always take your vacation time!

The CMHA site is an excellence resource for employees and employers. http://www.cmha.ca.

Developing your personal interests contributes to a healthy work-life balance. All learning adds a new dimension to your life. You also meet new and interesting people, some that may even become customers, colleagues, or friends.

Operating a small to medium-sized business is time consuming. It’s easy to delude ourselves that we need to be on top of everything, and we do. Look for those individuals and specific times that you can delegate responsibilities to others and take break from the work environment.

Give something back to your community. Make this the year that you serve on a committee, be a mentor, volunteer, or make regular donations to the groups in your community that try to make the place you live a better place. And those that give get.

Achieving a healthy work-life balance is like maintaining a good relationship; you have to keep working on it. But if you apply these New Year’s resolutions throughout the year, you’ll ensure success.

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TORONTO — The Toronto stock market ended lower on Monday as concerns about stalled talks over the U.S. federal budget dominated attention ahead of the Christmas holiday.

The S&P/TSX composite index was down 14.90 points to 12,370.80, in a shortened trading session that ended at 1 p.m. ET. The TSX Venture Exchange rose 7.89 points to 1,185.60.

The Canadian dollar was at 100.88 cents U.S., up 0.22 of a cent.

Attention continues to be focused on a deadline for U.S. politicians to avoid a combination of automatic tax increases and spending cuts that will go into effect in the New Year. There’s a fear that the U.S. economy could be pushed into a recession of it goes over the so-called “fiscal cliff.”

The Republican-dominated House has been at odds with the Democrat controlled White House and Senate over the best way to deal with the deficit. The two sides have been unable to find a workable compromise.

On Wall Street, where markets also closed early, investors appeared to be staying cautious as the budget deadline nears.

“People are just waiting to see what happens,” said Colin Cieszynski, market analyst at CMC Markets Canada.

“Nobody really wants to go out and rock the boat at this point.”

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Chevron to buy half of Kitimat LNG project INCLUDES DEALS WITH ENCANA, EOG AND APACHE THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX) is moving to acquire a 50 per cent stake in a proposed liquefied natural gas export terminal near Kitimat, B.C., in a series of deals that will see Encana Corp. and EOG Resources sell their parts in the project.

“The Kitimat LNG development is an attractive opportunity that is aligned with existing strategies and will drive additional long-term production growth and shareholder returns,” Chevron vicechairman George Kirkland said Monday.

“This investment grows our global LNG portfolio and builds upon our LNG construction, operations and marketing capabilities.”

Liquefied natural gas is seen as a way to open up markets beyond the reach of the North American pipeline system. The gas can be cooled to a liquid state and loaded onto ships from terminals, such as the one planned for Kitimat, for transport to Asia or other markets.

Chevron Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of the U.S. energy giant, has agreed to buy out the stakes held by Calgary-based Encana Corp. and a subsidiary of EOG Resources, Inc. (NYSE:EOG), which each hold 30 per cent.

As part of an transaction with Chevron, U.S.-based Apache Corp., which holds the remaining 40 per cent stake, will increase its ownership of the plant and pipeline to 50 per cent.

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LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS mediately available.

The deal, which includes the Pacific Trails Pipelines project, will also see Chevron acquire properties in the Horn River Basin from Encana, EOG and Apache, and property in the Liard Basin from Apache.

Chevron will operate the LNG plant and pipeline, while Apache will operate the upstream assets.

The company brings to the project considerable expertise with several liquefied natural gas projects under development around the world.

In Australia, Chevron owns a 64.14 per cent stake in the Wheatstone Project under development on the West Pilbara coast.

As well, the company is developing the Gorgon project, one of the largest in the world, that will include an LNG plant on Barrow Island and a domestic gas plant in Western Australia.

Both Encana and EOG said they were selling their stakes in the project to focus on their core operations.

“Our main goal since we first acquired an interest in Kitimat LNG almost two years ago was to help ensure the progression of this project towards its development,” Encana chief executive Randy Eresman said in a statement.

“While we are no longer a direct participant in this project, we continue to support LNG export as vital to diversifying markets for North American natural gas.”

Apache called the deal a milestone for the project.

“With experience developing LNG projects, marketing expertise and financial wherewithal, Chevron

is the preferred coventurer to join Kitimat LNG,” Apache chairman and chief executive Steven Farris said in a statement.

“Apache has a proven record in finding and developing shale gas resources in Canada and is the logical operator for the upstream elements of the joint venture.

The proposed Kitimat LNG project is in the frontend engineering and design phase. The current plans call for two liquefaction trains, each with expected capacity of five million tons of liquefied natural gas per year.

In October 2011, the National Energy Board granted Kitimat LNG a 20-year export licence to serve international markets.

The project is one of several under development on the B.C. north coast.

A feasibility study into an LNG facility on Lelu Island near Prince Rupert, B.C., as been done by Petronas and Progress Energy Resources, work is now going ahead to determine timelines, costs and labour requirements.

Petronas recently acquired Progress and had said if the federal government approved the purchase it would look to build a larger plant than had first been considered.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC and three Asian partners — PetroChina, Mitsubishi Corp. and Korea Gas Corp.

— have also announced plans to build a liquefied natural gas export terminal in Kitimat, B.C. Another proposal called BC LNG, owned by the Haisla First Nation and Houston-based LNG Partners, expects its first shipment in 2014.

Storms and fiscal cliff scares of U.S. shoppers HOLIDAY SHOPPING UP JUST 0.7 PER CENT, WEAKEST SINCE 2008

WASHINGTON — U.S. holiday retail sales this year grew at the weakest pace since 2008, when the nation was in a deep recession. In 2012, the shopping season was disrupted by bad weather and consumers’ rising uncertainty about the economy.

A report that tracks spending on popular holiday goods, the MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse, said Tuesday that sales in the two months before Christmas increased 0.7 per cent, compared with last year. Many analysts had expected holiday sales to grow 3 to 4 per cent.

In 2008, sales declined by between 2 per cent and 4 per cent as the financial crisis that crested that fall dragged the economy into recession. Last year, by contrast, retail sales in November and December rose between 4 per cent and 5 per cent, according to ShopperTrak, a separate market research firm. A 4 per cent increase is considered a healthy season.

Shoppers were buffeted this year by a string of events that made them less likely to spend: Superstorm Sandy and other bad weather, the distraction of the presidential election and grief about the massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn. The numbers also show how Washington’s current budget impasse is trickling down to Main Street and unsettling consumers. If Americans remain reluctant to spend, analysts say, economic growth could falter next year.

In the end, even steep last-minute discounts weren’t enough to get people into stores, said Marshal Cohen, chief research analyst at the market research firm NPD Inc. “A lot of the Christmas spirit was left behind way back in Black Friday weekend,” Cohen said, referring to the traditional retail rush the day after Thanksgiving. “We had one reason after another for consumers to say, ’I’m going to stick to my list and not go beyond it.”’

Holiday sales are a crucial indicator of the economy’s strength. November and December account for up to 40 per cent of annual sales for many retailers.

If those sales don’t materialize, stores are forced to offer steeper discounts.

That’s a boon for shoppers, but it cuts into stores’ profits.

Last-minute shoppers like Kris Betzold, of Carmel, Ind., embraced discounts that were available before Christmas.

“We went out yesterday, and I noticed that the sales were even better now than they were at Thanksgiving,” said Betzold Monday while shopping at

an upscale mall in Indianapolis. Betzold, who said the sluggish economy prompted her and her husband to be more frugal this year, noted that she saved about $25 on a Kindle Fire she found at Best Buy. Spending by consumers accounts for 70 per cent of overall economic activity, so the eight-week period encompassed by the SpendingPulse data is seen as a critical time not just for retailers but for manufacturers, wholesalers and companies at every other point along the supply chain.

The SpendingPulse data include sales by retailers in key holiday spending categories such as electronics, clothing, jewelry, luxury goods, furniture and other home goods between Oct. 28 and Dec. 24. They include sales across all payment methods, including cards, cash and checks.

It’s the first major snapshot of retail sales during the holiday season through Christmas Eve. A clearer picture will emerge next week as retailers like Macy’s and Target report revenue from stores open for at least a year. That sales measure is widely watched in the retail industry because it excludes revenue from stores that recently opened or closed, which can be volatile.

Despite the weak numbers out Tuesday, retailers still have some time to make up lost ground. The final week of December accounts for about 15 per cent of the month’s sales, said Michael McNamara, vice-president for research and analysis at MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse. As stores offer steeper discounts to clear some of their unsold inventory, they may be able to soften some of the grim results reflected in Tuesday’s data.

Still, this season’s weak sales could have repercussions for 2013, he said.

Retailers will make fewer orders to restock their shelves, and discounts will hurt their profitability. Wholesalers, in turn, will buy fewer goods, and orders to factories for consumer goods will likely drop in the coming months.

In the run-up to Christmas, analysts blamed the weather and worries about the “fiscal cliff” for putting a damper on shopping. Superstorm Sandy battered the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states in late October. Many in the New York region were left without power, and people farther inland were buried under feet of snow. According to McNamara, the Northeast and midAtlantic account for 24 per cent of U.S. retail sales.

Buying picked up in the second half of November as retailers offered more discounts and shoppers waylaid by the storm finally made it into malls, he said.

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In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, photo, a holiday shopper walks past a large Christmas tree at Fashion Island shopping center in Newport Beach, Calif. U.S. holiday retail sales this year are the weakest since 2008, after a shopping season disrupted by storms and rising uncertainty among consumers. A report out Tuesday that tracks spending, called MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse, says holiday sales increased 0.7 percent. Analysts had expected sales to grow 3 to 4 per cent.

But as the weather calmed, the threat of the “fiscal cliff” picked up.

In December, lawmakers remained unable to reach a deal that would prevent tax increases and government spending cuts set to take effect at the beginning of 2013. If the cuts and tax hikes kick in and stay in place for months, many economists expect the nation

could fall back into recession.

The news media discussed this possibility more intensely as December wore on, making Americans increasingly aware of the economic troubles they might face if Washington is unable to resolve the impasse.

Sales never fully recovered, Cohen said.

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BY SAMANTHA CRITCHELL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Every year fashion offers up the good, the bad and the ugly. But what the industry is really built on — and consumers respond to — is buzz.

Here are the top moments of 2012 that made our heads turn: ● Angelina Jolie at the Oscars. The leg that peeked out of the high thigh-high slit of her Versace gown was the most exciting appearance on the red carpet. The gown fit perfectly into the sleek, simple, sexy mould that Jolie favours, but it was Jolie’s picture-perfect pose to expose just enough thigh that launched a thousand memes. Her companion Brad Pitt gets an honourable mention for his scruffy appearance in a Chanel fragrance ad that left many scratching their heads. ● Michelle Obama and Ann Romney’s matching hues. The wives of the presidential candidates turned out to the second debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in practically the same shade of hot pink. But they weren’t by the same designer: Romney’s was by Oscar de la Renta, and Obama’s by Michael Kors. A potential matching prom dress-style embarrassment was chalked up to timing: October’s breast cancer awareness month. ● Marc Jacobs’ Louis Vuitton show. Many of the designer runways seemed more of the same — stark stages, thumping music and audiences distracted by their electronic gadgets — but the Louis Vuitton fall catwalk in Paris commanded attention. Models dressed in their very best travelling clothes stepped off a reconstructed retro steam train. Valets carried the vintage-inspired hat boxes and vanity cases. The trip seemed refreshingly refined and modern. ● Two-tone Stella McCartney dresses. McCartney, no stranger to the red carpet, has created a style that celebrities can’t get enough of. Her ultra-flattering “silhouette” dress has become almost ubiquitous. It features one colour on the bodice and back, and a graphic opposite on the sides and sleeves. Kate Winslet has worn several versions, and Brooklyn Decker, Kate Moss, Edie Falco and Liv Tyler have, too. The best turn might have been Jane Fonda at the Cannes Film Festival. ● Beyonce’s back-from-baby body. Some new mothers claim they feel sexier than ever. Beyonce was living proof at the Met Gala, the important industry event co-hosted by Vogue’s Anna Wintour.

Beyonce’s skin-tight, largely sheer — save the bodice beading and feathered fish-tail train — gown

by Givenchy announced that Ivy Blue Carter’s mom wasn’t going to hold back. An honourable mention goes to Jessica Simpson, who dieted her way to a Weight Watchers ad then wound up pregnant again. ● 007’s slim suits. Daniel Craig’s wardrobe in “Skyfall” is impeccably tailored — and quite tight.

Unlike the James Bonds that came before him who all liked the traditional looser, longer cut of a Savile Row-style suit, Craig, whose wardrobe is created mostly by Tom Ford, takes his suits Euro style with tapered legs and shorter rises. There’s no question

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This March 7 photo shows a model wearing a creation by U.S fashion designer Marc Jacobs for his Louis Vuitton collection, Women’s Fall-Winter, ready-to-wear 2013 during Paris Fashion week. Polished sophistication is the new trend after previous trends that have alternately favored bohemian, aggressive and blingy looks.

Craig’s super spy Bond will go down in history as one of the best, but it’s fair to ask if he could pull off those impressive chases in clothes that tight. ● Supermodel reunion at the London Olympics.

Gold was the new black at the closing ceremony with a parade of supermodels wearing gilded gowns in a tribute to British fashion. Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell both had on Alexander McQueen, Georgia May Jagger’s was by Victoria Beckham, Karen Elson was in Burberry, and Stella Tennant donned a Christopher Kane Swarovski-crystal catsuit. The soundtrack — of course — was David Bowie’s “Fashion.” ● Another supermodel reunion at New York Fashion Week. Alexander Wang’s show has become mustsee viewing, partly for influential hipster clothes, but also for the model line-up, a who’s who of top catwalkers. It was a coup even for him, however, to get the likes of Gisele Bundchen, Carmen Kass, Frankie Rayder and Shalom Harlow, who all very rarely do shows, to walk in February. Start the wish list now of

who he’ll nab for his debut at Balenciaga next year. ● Miley Cyrus’ cropped cut. When Cyrus cut off the long hair her fans had become used to, she took some heat. She has said (and Tweeted) repeatedly, though, that she was pleased with the new punkpixie look and was sticking with it. Short hair turned out to be a big trend, with Alicia Keys, Rihanna and Anne Hathaway all ending the year with much shorter locks than they started with. ● Julianne Moore at the Emmys. Moore’s neonyellow Dior Haute Couture outfit (really a sweater and ball skirt) spawned a love-it-or-hate-it debate among armchair style critics. What was largely left out of that conversation, however, was that it was Raf Simons’ big celebrity debut for Dior, which he took creative control of after the John Galliano scandal.

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U.S. airports offering more to flyers TRAVEL HELL NO MORE AS ‘TERMINAL BLISS’ WELCOMES PEOPLE WITH SHOPPING, DINING AND MORE and operate commercial airports.

The new business model has helped airports like San Francisco International, which finished a major refurbishment of Terminal 2 in April 2011 with the firm Gensler. The design is sleek, super modern and playful, with children and adults spinning in comfy swivel chairs around coffee tables placed at every gate. Check-in desks — imposingly high at some airports — were lowered to look more like hotel concierge desks.

“What we were aiming for is a fouror five-star hotel experience for passengers in the terminal building,” said airport Director John L. Martin.

The average spent per passenger at the terminal is now about $14. That’s 22 per cent more than domestic travellers spend at the airport’s other terminals.

At O’Hare, where once there was little more than hot dogs and souvenir shops, domestic terminals are now dotted with restaurants led by celebrity chefs like Rick Bayless, piano bars, and a tranquil aeroponic herb garden — a mini forest of green on a quiet mezzanine level.

“It’s pretty amazing. ... I didn’t expect that to be here,” said grad student David Janesko, 30, reading a book in a comfy lounge chair beside the garden on his way to see family in Pittsburgh.

But airport bliss doesn’t come cheap, and its price can be a little jarring for passengers.

Back at the Ice Bar — which offers 23 different vodkas and four different kinds of ice (crushed, cubes or sphere) — blues musician and actor Cedric “Catfish” Turner was lamenting that his Jack Daniels on the rocks cost $11.

But he needed it, he said, to ease a headache from a long layover.

“I could have stolen a bottle,” he said with a laugh, his guitar propped next to his bar stool. “I’m a bluesman.

Come on, you don’t treat a bluesman like that.”

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — Getting stranded at a U.S. airport once meant enduring hours of boredom in a kind of travel purgatory with nothing to eat but fast food.

These days, it can seem more like passing through the gates of Shangri-la to find spas, yoga studios, luxury shopping and restaurant menus crafted by celebrity chefs in terminals with a calming, sleek design.

Stung by airline bankruptcies and mergers, more U.S. airports are hunting for alternative revenue streams by hiring top design firms to transform once chaotic and dreary way stations into places of Zen-like tranquility and luxury where people actually want to get stuck — and spend money. As the holiday travel season is in full gear, airports are putting what one designer calls “terminal bliss” on display in hopes of drawing in higher passenger numbers and revenue.

“It’s classy, it’s very classy. ... It makes you feel good about the layover,” said Marty Rapp, 70, who was getting rosy cheeked last week with the help of a large glass of merlot under ice-crystal chandeliers at ChicaPhoto by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS go-O’Hare’s Ice Bar, whose white and softly reflective decor gives the feeling In this photo taken Dec. 18, at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, a diner of being secluded in an igloo — where at Wolfgang Puck Cafe sits in a sidewalk cafe setting in Terminal 3. Getting everyone is drinking and merry.

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Finding toys that don’t box in kids

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A 13-year-old girl’s campaign to get Hasbro to make an Easy-Bake Oven that isn’t purple or pink so it would appeal to her little brother is a fresh sign of movement in an old debate. Parents who hope to expose their children to different kinds of play — science sets for girls and dolls for boys, for example — can find themselves stymied by a toy industry that can seem stuck in the past when it comes to gender roles.

Hasbro wasn’t the only target of criticism this year.

One of the year’s hottest toys, the “LEGO Friends Butterfly Beauty Shop,” specifically aimed Legos at girls, but turned to tired gender stereotypes with its focus on a beauty shop and inclusion of characters with curves and eyelashes. Barbie turned builder with a new construction set. But while some praised it, others criticized it for being too pink.

Toy experts say the industry reflects cultural norms, and toy companies are giving people what sells. Plenty of parents find nothing wrong with buying pink frou-frou toys for their girls and avoiding stereotypically “girl” toys for their boys in favour of guns and trucks.

But other parents are sent into knots by an unapologetically gender-specific toy industry.

“There’s a lot of pressure to conform to those gender stereotypes from the time you’re pregnant,” said Teresa Graham Brett, a higher-education consultant from Tucson, Ariz., and mother to two boys, ages 6 and 11.

Children naturally begin to identify themselves as boys and girls around the ages of 3 and 4, said Dr. Susan Linn, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School, who cofounded the advocacy group Campaign for a CommercialFree Childhood.

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capacity,” Linn said. “It’s not like girls are born with the predilection to pink, but they’re trained to it, so it becomes what they want and need. There are neurological differences between boys and girls at birth. But our goal should be to provide them with a range of experiences so they can develop all of their tendencies.”

Large toy stores and most large online retailers often divide toys up by gender. On Amazon, or on the websites for toy makers Mattel or Hasbro, for example, toys are sorted by age, category and gender. A person who wants to buy a baby doll on the Toys R Us website will find hundreds of choices categorized for girls and five for boys.

Three of those are dressed in pink.

In recent years, Toys R Us was criticized for an ad selling three microscopes, silver, red and pink. The pink one was the least powerful.

“Toy companies are businesses, so they are responding to and making their products based on consumer demands. They’re meeting with moms, focus groups. They’re doing what makes sense,” said Adrienne Appell, a spokeswoman for the Toy Industry Association.

Chris Byrne, content director for timetoplaymag.com, said the market ultimately decides what makes it onto store shelves and into people’s homes.

“The toy industry is always going to reflect the culture at large, and it’s going to reflect the market,” he said.

That’s even true for a soon-to-bereleased toy that has gotten a lot of attention for seeking to subvert gender stereotypes. GoldieBlox, a construction toy, was invented by Debbie Sterling, who holds a degree from Stanford in product design engineering and who aimed to make a toy to spark an interest in girls in science and engineering.

She was turned off by what she saw in a visit to a toy store.

“I felt like I was in the 1950s,” she said. “The girls section was pink. It was teaching a girl how to be a housewife, and a princess and pop star.”

Meanwhile, she described the boys section as dynamic, with kits to make

interesting things like roller coasters and “smarter more complex, engineering math and science toys.”

The toy’s main character is Goldie, a female engineer, and it is scheduled to be on store shelves in April. In a concession to commercial realities, the toy’s colour scheme includes a liberal dose of pink.

“There’s a lot of parents out there, they’re conditioned by this. They won’t even pick up something if it doesn’t cue that it’s a girl,” she said. “I don’t want girls to miss out on GoldieBlox because it wasn’t overtly messaged for them, at least in the early stages.”

Some things are changing in the industry. This year, the London department store Harrods redesigned its toy department to organize it by theme rather than by gender. Swedish toy firm Top-Toy published a genderneutral catalogue in which boys were shown playing with a kitchen set and hair dryer and a girl was shown shooting a toy gun.

Hasbro this week announced it has spent the past 18 months developing an Easy-Bake Oven in the genderneutral colours of black and silver. It made the announcement after meeting with McKenna Pope, the Garfield, N.J., 13-year-old whose online petition asking the company to make one attractive to all kids gathered tens of thousands of signatures. Hasbro says it knows both boys and girls have fun playing with the Easy-Bake.

Even parents who are sensitive to gender issues say they sometimes have to challenge their own notions. Brett said her older son was interested in toys aimed at both genders as a little boy. But when son number two came along five years later, she was surprised to see he had a stronger preference to play with guns and Army men.

“I really needed to let go of controlling what I thought he should play with as an enlightened boy,” she said.

“They may choose to do what is stereotypical, and they should have the right to choose that as well.”

New coronavirus may have spread in Jordan INFECTION WITH NEW VIRUS CAN BE MILDER THAN WHAT WAS SEEN IN FIRST CASES THIS FALL

BY HELEN BRANSWELL

THE CANADIAN PRESS The World Health Organization says the new coronavirus may have spread from person to person in a cluster of cases that occurred in Jordan in April.

The organization says investigation of that cluster suggests that in some cases, infection with the new virus can be milder than what was seen in the first cases that came to the world’s attention this fall.

The first observed cases involved people who become severely ill from infection with the new coronavirus, which is a member of the same family as the virus that caused SARS. Of the nine people who have had confirmed infections to date, all were severely ill and five died.

The WHO says it now considers other patients from the Jordanian cluster to be probable cases.

But it says that based on what is known to date, it doesn’t appear that at present the new virus can transmit to people easily or spread among them in a sustained manner.

In a statement issued Friday, the global health agency did not indicate how many people it considers as probable cases from the Jordanian outbreak, which centred on a hospital in Zarqa.

In April, before the existence of the new coronavirus was recognized, the Jordan Times reported that there was an outbreak of an unknown illness causing pneumonias at Zarqa Public Hospital.

The newspaper cited Abdul Latif Wreikat, Jordan’s minister of health, as saying there were 11 cases. Seven were nurses, one was a doctor and one was a brother of one of the nurses. The article did not indicate who the other two patients were.

Two people in this cluster of cases died of their infections. Once the existence of the new coronavirus became known, stored samples taken from the

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A coronavirus is shown in this colorized transmission electron micrograph. two patients who died were tested for the virus and they were confirmed as cases.

In November, the WHO sent a team to Jordan to investigate the outbreak at the request of the Jordanian government.

The team went over case records and interviewed surviving patients, their relatives and caregivers.

The team was unable to determine which was the first case in the cluster.

Knowing who got sick first might help investigators home in on how the virus is moving from its natural reservoir — suspected to be bats — to people.

Most family members and the health-care workers who looked after the cases did not become ill, the WHO says.

“However, the appearance of pneumonia in some who provided care and in at least two family members with direct personal contact increases the suspicion that person-to-person trans-

mission may have occurred,” the agency says, though it added it cannot rule out the possibility that all the patients were infected from a common environmental source.

The Jordanian cluster is not the only time person-to-person spread of the virus is suspected to have occurred. In November, Saudi Arabia reported that three members of the same family had tested positive for the virus.

A fourth family member was sick at the same time. And while he tested negative, the WHO considers him a probable case. (Tests that look for fragments of virus in a patient — the type used on this man — can miss infections depending on when in the course of an illness they are done.)

Saudi Arabia and Qatar are the only two other countries to have reported cases of this infection.

The report of the Jordanian investigation reveals that none of the cases had travelled outside of Jordan in the

time preceding the outbreak. And none of the confirmed or probable cases had contact with animals.

The WHO says all the patients had pneumonia. But the disease was generally milder in the unconfirmed probable cases.

It notes that one of the probable cases did not need to be admitted to hospital; his or her symptoms were mild enough that home care was sufficient.

It notes that the patients in the Jordanian outbreak did not suffer from kidney failure, which had been seen in several of the Saudi and Qatari cases.

The WHO says that when a blood test becomes available, testing of the probable cases may lead to additional confirmations and may help investigators figure out the types of exposures that led to infection — in other words, why some people got sick and others did not.

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CHUCK PAGANO

PAGANO RETURNS TO COLT’S BENCH Chuck Pagano was back at work Monday morning. Three months after taking an indefinite leave to battle leukemia, the Colts’ coach was scheduled to meet with players, coaches and reporters as he retook the reins from interim coach Bruce Arians. When Pagano arrived at the team headquarters, he drove past an inflatable Colts player to the side of the driveway with a simple message across the chest “Welcome Back Chuck.” Indianapolis (10-5) has been waiting months for this day, and last week Arians called Pagano’s impending return the best Christmas gift the team could get.

Pagano began the first of three rounds of chemotherapy Sept. 26, after the team completed its final practice during a bye week. When the Colts returned to their practice facility Oct. 1, they were told Pagano had cancer and was taking an indefinite leave. Arians, a prostate cancer survivor, immediately established the goal: Play long enough so Pagano could return to the sideline this season. If all goes well at practice this week, Pagano will likely be on the sideline calling the shots Sunday against AFC South champion Houston in the regular-season finale. It would be the first time Pagano has been making gameday decisions since Jacksonville scored a last-minute touchdown in Week 3, handing Indy it’s only home loss this season.

Today

● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Mac’s Tournament — Red Deer vs. Moose Jaw, 10 a.m., Father David Bauer Arena.

Thursday

● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Mac’s Tournament — Red Deer vs. Calgary Royals, 11:45 a.m., Father David Bauer Arena. ● WHL: Red Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m. (The Drive).

Lakers hand Knicks some coal for Christmas THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lakers 100 Knicks 94 LOS ANGELES — The pieces of the puzzle that have been the Lakers’ confounding season so far are starting to fall into place.

Kobe Bryant engineered a second-half comeback, the defence stepped up, and Los Angeles beat the New York Knicks 100-94 on Tuesday, extending its winning streak to five games.

“We’re .500,” a smiling Dwight Howard said.

“We did it on Christmas, too. I knew this day would come.”

Bryant scored 34 points in his NBA-record 15th Christmas Day game and Metta World Peace added 20 points and seven rebounds while defending Carmelo Anthony, whose 34 points led the Knicks. Anthony said he hyperextended his left knee, but expects to play on Wednesday in Phoenix.

Bryant, the league’s leading scorer, has topped 30 or more points in nine straight games.

“If you’re going to play on Christmas, it’s always better to win. Makes it all worthwhile,” said Bryant, who would soon hop a flight to Denver, getting there ahead of the Nuggets, who played the Clippers in the other half of the holiday doubleheader at Staples Center.

The Lakers improved to 14-14 — 9-9 under new coach Mike D’Antoni — and upped their holiday record to 21-18, includ-

ing 13-9 at home. They returned to .500 for the first time since they were 8-8 on Nov. 30.

“It’s so early in the season to have turned a corner,” Bryant said.

“We have everybody in the lineup and we’re starting to see how we want to play.”

The Knicks controlled most of the game behind Anthony and J.R. Smith, who had 24 points. But they struggled offensively in the fourth, when Anthony was limited to seven points and Smith had five as the Lakers’ defence clamped down.

World Peace fouled out with 1:58 to play and the Lakers ahead by four.

World Peace credited his defence on Anthony to “old-school basketball.”

“I’m back in shape and it’s a little tough to guard me,” he said.

Steve Nash said: “This is what he’s been doing all year. He gets his hands on a lot of balls, pounds on the other team’s best guy. You can’t win without that type of effort.”

Smith’s 3-pointer pulled New York to 9694. After Pau Gasol made one of two free throws, Smith missed another 3 that would have tied the game at 97 with 32 seconds left.

“We missed a lot of easy shots, a lot of little chippers around the basket, shots that we normally make,” Anthony said.

“There were some plays that we thought should have went our way down the stretch, but for the most part, we fought. I’ll

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Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Nash drives between New York Knicks guards Jason Kidd and Raymond Felton during the first half of their NBA game in Los Angeles, Tuesday. take this effort any night.

If we continue to play with this effort, we’ll win a lot of games.”

With Bryant doubleteamed, Nash passed to Gasol, who dunked with 12 seconds to go, punctuating a win that sent Lakers fans, frustrated by the team’s struggles and coaching change, home happy. The Lakers avenged a 116-107 loss in New York on Dec. 13.

A smiling Howard called Gasol’s driving slam “a submarine dunk because he was very low

to the ground.”

Gasol responded, “I don’t dunk as often as I used to so it felt good.

I took it right down the lane and finished strong.”

Nash had 16 points, 11 assists and six rebounds in his second game in nearly two months. He missed 24 straight games while recovering from a small fracture in his lower left leg. Howard had 14 points and 12 rebounds, and Gasol had 13 points and eight rebounds.

“It was an important win for us as we were a little bit desperate,” Nash said. “We’ve gone through a lot since Mike Brown — new coach, new offence. It’s been a difficult transition.”

Bryant had eight of the Lakers’ first 10 points to open the fourth during a run that provided their first lead since the opening quarter in a game matching the two teams that have played the most on Christmas Day.

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Canada loses Jenner for three FORWARD SUSPENDED FOR HIT ON SWEDISH PLAYER IN EXHIBITION MATCH

WORLD JUNIORS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS UFA, Russia — Drama continued to dog Canada on the eve of the world junior hockey championship.

After hastily summoning Mark McNeill from home to replace an injured forward, Canada will now be without an important player for their first three games of the tournament.

The International Ice Hockey Federation handed forward Boone Jenner a threegame suspension on Monday for his late hit on a Swedish defenceman in Canada’s final exhibition game.

Jenner will miss Canada’s games against Germany on Boxing Day, Slovakia on Friday and the United States on Sunday. The Oshawa Generals forward is eligible to return for the final Pool B game before the medal round against Russia on New Year’s Eve. “Obviously it’s really tough,” Jenner said quietly following Tuesday’s practice in Ufa. “I really want to play in this tournament and be out there with my teammates. I don’t want to be in the crowd watching.

“There’s nothing I can do now. The ruling was made and it was three games. I’m going to sit out the three games, cheer on the team and be ready for the fourth.”

So for three games, Canada is minus their top faceoff man, key penalty killer, third-line centre plus a player with previous tournament experience all in one package.

“He’s definitely a big loss for the hockey club,” Canadian head coach Steve Spott said.

Also, winger Jonathan Drouin suffered a mild charley horse in Tuesday’s practice.

He was left off Canada’s roster of players submitted for the tournament, in order to keep a spot open should another replacement player be needed.

Drouin’s game fitness will be evaluated Wednesday and the Halifax Mooseheads forward can be added to the team’s list up to two hours before the game versus Germany, according to Hockey Canada.

It was also announced late Tuesday evening that Belleville Bulls goaltender Malcolm Subban will start versus the Germans.

It’s been an eventful leadup to the 2013 world junior championship for Canada.

When Charles Hudon of the Chicoutimi Sagueneens was forced off the team late last week with a back injury late, McNeill

rushed to catch up with the Canadians in Finland before the team headed to Ufa. McNeill had been released from the team at selection camp in Calgary. Now the Prince Albert Raiders forward will centre Canada’s third line in the absence of Jenner.

Swedish defenceman Jesper Pettersson suffered a broken wrist and a dislocated shoulder when Jenner checked him Saturday in a pre-tournament game in Finland.

The Swede was removed from the ice on a stretcher. Jenner was assessed a fiveminute major and a game misconduct for charging.

The International Ice Hockey Federation meted out additional discipline late Monday.

“The video material indicated that the hit was late and delivered with no intention to play the puck and with Pettersson being in a vulnerable position,” the IIHF said in a statement. “It was Jenner’s intention to deliver the forceful check in spite of having the opportunity to at least make an attempt to avoid contact on Pettersson. The hit was delivered far too late. This resulted in an injury to Sweden’s Pettersson and for this Jenner is to be held accountable.”

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Friday

● WHL: Edmonton at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Centrium.

Saturday

● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Mac’s Tournament — Red Deer vs. Lloydminster, 8 p.m., Father David Bauer Arena.

Sunday

● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Mac’s Tournament — Red Deer vs. Pirati Chomutov, Czech Republic, 5:15 p.m., Max Bell Centre. ● WHL: Brandon at Red Deer, 6 p.m., Centrium.

Canada needs chemistry quickly at Spengler

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS DAVOS, Switzerland — The current incarnation of Canada’s Spengler Cup roster is stacked, star-studded and could be its best-ever on paper.

Just don’t call them a team yet.

Although the Canadians are drawing most of the hype with big names like Jason Spezza, Matt Duchene, John Tavares and Ryan Smyth, they are a favourite with one distinct disadvantage.

“We’re a dream team, but we’re not really a team yet,” head coach Doug Shedden said Tuesday. “We got here on Sunday, and now we have to come

together very fast.”

First played in 1923, the Spengler Cup annually pits hosts HC Davos and Canada against four European club teams in a six-day tournament that grips fans across Switzerland.

“You can really feel the mystique of this tournament,” Tavares said. “The history, the crowds ... it’s a special time for this city.”

While every other team is getting a boost from locked out NHLers playing in Europe, Canada’s is the only roster that hasn’t played together yet this season.

But Shedden is confident he will be able to get the best out

his impressive lineup.

“I use a system where my team wants the puck and wants to make the skill plays,” said Shedden, who is also the coach of the talented Swiss team EV Zug. “I have the two top scorers in the league, we’re a fast skating team, and if (Canada) can find its chemistry, we’ll be just as successful.”

Shedden spotted some of that chemistry in Canada’s only full practice before the team’s Boxing Day opener against Alder Mannheim, the top team in the German league that counts NHLers Jason Pominville (Buffalo Sabres) and Dennis Seidenberg (Boston Bruins) among its players.

The Toronto-area trio of Spezza (Ottawa Senators), Tavares (New York Islanders ) and Sam Ganger (Edmonton Oilers) are discovering a special flow together, while Bruins teammates Patrice Bergeron and Tyler Seguin are set to reignite their explosive chemistry.

HC Davos centre Joe Thornton, ordinarily a member of the San Jose Sharks, says Canada is in for a challenge because with only two round-robin games, the tournament is brutally short.

Nonetheless, Thornton still believes Canada, which last won the Spengler Cup in 2007, is the team to beat.

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Houston rockets past Chicago in Christmas Day game Rockets 120 Bulls 97 CHICAGO — James Harden scored 26 points and Jeremy Lin added 20 points and 11 assists to lead the Houston Rockets to a 120-97 win over the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday night.

Omer Asik returned to the United Center and had a double-double with 20 points and 18 rebounds in his first trip back to Chicago since signing with the Rockets in the off-season.

The Rockets starters all scored in double figures. Chandler Parsons added 23 points and Marcus Morris had 10.

Houston has won six of seven.

The Rockets had been just 3-7 on the road entering Tuesday, but a strong second quarter turned the holiday matchup into a blowout.

The Rockets outscored the Bulls 31-19 in the period to break the game open.

Lin capped a 14-2 run midway through the quarter with a drive and a layup to make it 55-34.

He scored 12 in the second quarter and Harden had 13.

Houston led 58-41 at halftime.

Nate Robinson led the Bulls with 27 points, and

Marco Belinelli scored 15.

Houston entered the game tops in the league in scoring at 105.4 points per game, while Chicago allowed the third-fewest in the league at 91.

Houston, though, was not slowed at all.

The Rockets pushed the pace and shot well against Chicago’s defence.

The Rockets outscored the Bulls 66-32 in the paint and 31-8 in transition. Their largest lead was 35 points.

The 120 points allowed and 23-point loss were season-worsts for the Bulls.

The Turkish-born Asik spent his first two years in the NBA with Chicago.

He signed a three-year, $25 million offer sheet with the Rockets this summer that the Bulls did not match. He entered the game averaging 10.6 points and 11.4 rebounds, and put together perhaps his best game of the season.

Asik received a round of applause when he was introduced at the beginning of the game, but the hospitality didn’t last.

He quickly heard jeers when he stepped to the free throw line early in the first quarter.

Harden, fourth in the league in scoring, followed up two strong per-

formances — 37 points against Detroit and 45 against Atlanta — with another strong game.

He was 7 for 13 from the field and 11 for 13 from the free throw line.

Houston improved to 11-2 against the Eastern Conference.

The Bulls had won nine of 13 to climb into first place in the Eastern Conference’s Central Division, but were flat for the second consecutive game. Chicago lost 92-75 Saturday in Atlanta.

Boos came down from the United Center crowd when Asik scored to make it 82-51 in the third quarter.

Chicago cut the Houston lead to 100-85 with just under eight minutes to play in the fourth quarter, but a 6-0 Rockets’ run ended the rally.

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Houston Rockets’ James Harden, center, battles Chicago Bulls’ Kirk Hinrich, right, and Jimmy Butler, left, for a loose ball during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game in Chicago, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012.

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This NBA Finals rematch met expectations.

And like that series, it ended with Miami on top.

James had 29 points, nine assists and eight rebounds, Wade scored 21, and the Heat survived a frantic finish to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 103-97 on Tuesday.

“Felt a little bit like a different month,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “Regardless of what your script is coming into the game, when you play this team, it’s not going to go according to script. They’re too good.”

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Mario Chalmers scored a season-high 20 for the Heat, who were 19 for 19 from the foul line, the second-best effort in franchise history behind only a 30for-30 game in Boston on March 24, 1993. Chris Bosh added 16 for Miami, which has beaten the Thunder five straight times going back to last June’s title series.

Durant scored 33 points and Westbrook added 21 for Oklahoma City, but both Thunder stars missed potential game-tying 3-point attempts in the final seconds.

“It was a great game. I can’t complain,” Thunder coach Scott Brooks said. “We could have done a better job of not turning the ball over in the first half.

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2013 IIHF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP At Ufa, Russia PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP WOTWOTL L GF GA Pt Czech Rep. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Finland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Latvia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sweden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Switzerland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Group B GP WOTWOTL L GF GA Pt Canada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Germany 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Russia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Slovakia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 U.S. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Note: Three points awarded for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win and one for an overtime/shootout loss, which is registered in the respective OTW or OTL columns.

Wednesday’s games Latvia vs. Finland, 12:30 a.m.

Germany vs. Canada, 2:30 a.m.

Czech Republic vs. Sweden, 5 a.m.

Slovakia vs. Russia, 7 a.m.

Steel (Czech Republic), Salavat Yulaev UFA (Russia).

Group B Canada, HC Davos (Switzerland), Adler Mannheim (Germany).

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Prince Albert 36 22 11 0 3 126 103 Saskatoon 35 19 15 0 1 119 116 Swift Current 38 16 17 3 2 110 101 Moose Jaw 36 12 17 3 4 89 114 Brandon 36 13 19 2 2 102 145 Regina 37 13 20 2 2 91 139 GP Edmonton 35 Calgary 35 Red Deer 37 Lethbridge 38 Medicine Hat 35 Kootenay 34

Central Division W LOTLSOL 23 7 2 3 23 8 1 3 21 13 2 1 17 16 1 4 15 18 2 0 10 23 1 0

GF GA 124 86 112 93 103 103 123 115 117 127 80 125

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Kamloops 38 25 9 2 2 133 98 Kelowna 35 23 10 1 1 143 87 Victoria 33 17 14 0 2 97 109 Prince George 34 12 18 1 3 87 116 Vancouver 34 9 25 0 0 86 134

Thursday’s games Switzerland vs. Latvia, 5 a.m.

U.S. vs. Germany, 7 a.m.

Friday’s games Finland vs. Czech Republic, 12:30 a.m.

Canada vs. Slovakia, 2:30 a.m.

Sweden vs. Switzerland, 5 a.m.

Russia vs. U.S., 7 a.m.

Pt 47 39 37 31 30 30 Pt 51 50 45 39 32 21

Pt 54 48 36 28 18

U.S. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 35 29 5 1 0 159 76 59 Spokane 34 23 10 1 0 140 101 47 Tri-City 35 20 12 1 2 105 96 43 Seattle 35 16 17 1 1 116 136 34 Everett 37 13 22 0 2 92 134 28 Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Saturday, Dec. 29 Latvia vs. Sweden, 5 a.m.

Germany vs. Russia, 7 a.m.

Sunday, Dec. 30 Finland vs. Switzerland, 12:30 a.m.

Canada vs. U.S., 2:30 a.m.

Czech Republic vs. Latvia, 5 a.m.

Slovakia vs. Germany, 7 a.m.

December 19-26 Holiday Break No Games Scheduled.

Monday, Dec. 31 Switzerland vs. Czech Republic, 12:30 a.m.

U.S. vs. Slovakia, 3 a.m.

Sweden vs. Finland, 5 a.m.

Russia vs. Canada, 7 a.m.

Thursday’s games Red Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Regina, 7 p.m.

End of Preliminary Round

Fribourg Vitkovice Yulaev

Canada Davos Mannheim

SPENGLER CUP At Davos, Switzerland PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W L OL GF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GP 0 0 0

Group B W L OL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

GF 0 0 0

GA 0 0 0 GA 0 0 0

Friday’s games Moose Jaw at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Lethbridge at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m.

Everett at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Portland at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Prince George at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

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Wednesday’s games Fribourg vs. Yulaev, 7 a.m.

Canada vs. Adler Mannheim, 12:15 p.m.

Thursday’s games Vitkovice vs. Fribourg/Yulaev loser, 7 a.m.

Davos vs. Canada/Mannheim loser, 12:15 p.m.

Friday’s games Vitkovice vs. Fribourg/Yulaev winner, 7 a.m.

Davos vs. Canada/Mannheim winner, 12:15 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 29 Quarter-finals Second A vs. Third B, 7 a.m. or 12:15 p.m.

Second B vs. Third A, 7 a.m. or 12:15 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 30 Semifinals First A vs. Quarter-final winner, 7 a.m. or 12:15 p.m.

First B vs. Quarter-final winner, 7 a.m. or 12:15 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 31 Championship Semifinals winners, 4 a.m.

PARTICIPANTS Group A HC Fribourg Gotteron (Switzerland), HC Vitkovice

AHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W LOTLSOL GF Portland 29 16 11 1 1 88 Providence 27 15 10 0 2 68 Worcester 27 14 10 1 2 77 Manchester 29 13 12 2 2 82 St. John’s 31 14 16 0 1 72

GA 90 75 82 78 85

Pt 34 32 31 30 29

Northeast Division GP W LOTLSOL 27 16 6 2 3 28 13 12 1 2 28 13 14 1 0 28 12 14 2 0 26 9 10 1 6

GF 90 85 71 80 60

GA 61 93 82 93 69

Pt 37 29 27 26 25

Syracuse Binghamton W-B/Scranton Hershey Norfolk

GP 28 25 27 29 27

East Division W LOTLSOL 17 7 1 3 16 6 1 2 14 11 1 1 14 13 1 1 13 13 1 0

GF 100 84 75 77 73

GA 77 63 74 76 80

Pt 38 35 30 30 27

GA 75 61 96 90

27

10

14

1

2 61 87

Midwest Division GP W LOTLSOL Grand Rapids 27 16 9 1 1 Rockford 30 15 13 1 1 Chicago 26 13 9 3 1 Peoria 29 13 12 2 2 Milwaukee 28 13 12 2 1

GF 85 95 67 73 76

GA 74 91 73 92 83

23 Pt 34 32 30 30 29

South Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Charlotte 30 18 9 0 3 96 80 39 Texas 28 15 9 2 2 69 71 34 Oklahoma City 28 14 10 1 3 92 83 32 Houston 28 14 10 1 3 87 82 32 San Antonio 31 11 17 0 3 77 95 25 Note: A team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Sunday-Tuesday Holiday Break No Games Scheduled.

Wednesday’s games Hamilton at Toronto, 11 a.m.

Connecticut at Bridgeport, 5 p.m.

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Hershey, 5 p.m.

Worcester at Manchester, 5 p.m.

Syracuse at Binghamton, 5:05 p.m.

Lake Erie at Rochester, 5:05 p.m.

Texas at Houston, 6:05 p.m.

Thursday’s games Bridgeport at Connecticut, 5 p.m.

Providence at Portland, 5 p.m.

Albany at Springfield, 5 p.m.

Hershey at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, 5:05 p.m.

Peoria at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Rockford, 6:05 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Texas, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 28 Providence at Adirondack, 5 p.m.

Binghamton at Albany, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Grand Rapids, 5 p.m.

Lake Erie at Rochester, 5:05 p.m.

St. John’s at Hamilton, 5:30 p.m.

Norfolk at Syracuse, 5:30 p.m.

Manchester at Worcester, 5:30 p.m.

Peoria at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Houston, 6:05 p.m.

Alberta Junior Hockey League North Division GP W LOTL GF GA Pts Spruce Grove 39 24 9 6 123 101 54 Grand Prairie 37 24 11 2 123 97 50 Bonnyville 40 20 12 8 113 115 48 Whitecourt 38 19 11 8 147 137 46 Drayton Valley 39 21 14 4 117 99 46 Fort McMurray 39 20 15 4 109 119 44 Sherwood Park 37 17 16 4 106 120 38 Lloydminster 40 11 23 6 101 156 28

Springfield Bridgeport Adirondack Connecticut Albany

WESTERN CONFERENCE North Division GP W LOTLSOL GF Toronto 28 17 9 1 1 96 Abbotsford 29 15 8 3 3 69 Lake Erie 30 15 13 1 1 95 Rochester 27 13 11 2 1 91

Hamilton

Pt 36 36 32 29

South Division GP W LOTL GF GA Pts Brooks 36 35 1 0 189 66 70 Camrose 39 23 13 3 116 100 49 Okotoks 37 20 15 2 107 104 42 Drumheller 37 19 15 3 115 104 41 Olds 41 15 23 3 122 148 33 Cal. Mustangs 40 14 21 5 120 143 33 Canmore 36 12 19 5 91 131 29 Cal. Canucks 39 13 24 2 96 151 28 Note: Two points for a win, one for an overtime loss.

December 24-January 1 Holiday Break No Games Scheduled.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 20 8 .714 — Brooklyn 14 13 .519 5 Boston 14 13 .519 5 Philadelphia 13 15 .464 7 Toronto 9 19 .321 11

Miami Atlanta Orlando Charlotte Washington

Chicago Indiana Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

Friday, Jan. 4 Drumheller at Bonnyville, 7 p.m.

Lloydminster at Camrose, 7:30 p.m.

Spruce Grove at Grande Prairie, 7:30 p.m.

Drayton Valley at Whitecourt, 7:30 p.m.

Okotoks at Olds, 7:30 p.m.

Brooks at Fort McMurray, 8 p.m.

MADRID, Spain — Rafael Nadal announced Tuesday that doctors have ordered him to pull out of what was to have been his first comeback tournament after a seven-month hiatus nursing a knee injury.

The 26-year-old Spaniard said on his Facebook page that a fever caused by a stomach infection has forced him to pull out of an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 27.

“I am very disappointed that I will not be able to compete this year in Abu Dhabi,” he said. “Everything had been prepared.”

Nadal added that he had been very keen to return to the Middle East competition but doctors had told him his body needs rest “to fight this stomach virus.”

Nadal acknowledged his withdrawal would be a disappointment to fans and the tournament, which is due to feature top-ranked Novak

Djokovic and No. 3-ranked Andy Murray of Britain, but emphasized that it was not prompted by his knee injury.

Nadal is now expected to make his return at the Qatar Open, which begins on Dec. 31.

The knee injury prevented Nadal from defending his Olympic singles gold at the Olympics in London, where he was supposed to be Spain’s flag bearer at the opening ceremony.

He also had to pull out of the U.S. Open and Spain’s Davis Cup final against the Czech Republic, which his teammates lost without him.

The 11-time Grand Slam winner and former top-ranked player said his knee has improved over the last two months after making frustratingly little progress during the summer.

The tournament in Abu Dhabi would have been Nadal’s first competitive action since being sidelined with tendinitis in his left knee following a second-round loss to then 100thranked Lukas Rosol at Wimbledon in June.

STORIES FROM B8

GB — — 1 8 10

Northwest Division W L Pct GB 21 6 .778 — 15 13 .536 6 13 12 .520 7

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF y-New England 11 4 0 .733 529 Miami 7 8 0 .467 288 N.Y. Jets 6 9 0 .400 272 Buffalo 5 10 0 .333 316

14 .517 13 .500

7 7

Pacific Division W L Pct 21 6 .778 18 10 .643 14 14 .500 11 17 .393 9 18 .333

GB — 3 7 10 12

1/2

1/2 1/2 1/2

Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games Boston 93, Brooklyn 76 L.A. Lakers 100, New York 94 Miami 103, Oklahoma City 97 Houston at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Clippers, Late

1/2

1/2 1/2

1/2

PA 331 289 347 426

y-Houston x-Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville

W 12 10 5 2

South L T 3 0 5 0 10 0 13 0

Pct .800 .667 .333 .133

PF 400 329 292 235

PA 303 371 451 406

y-Baltimore x-Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland

W 10 9 7 5

North L T 5 0 6 0 8 0 10 0

Pct .667 .600 .467 .333

PF 381 368 312 292

PA 321 303 304 344

W 12 6 4 2

West L 3 9 11 13

Pct .800 .400 .267 .133

PF 443 326 269 208

PA 286 329 419 387

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Washington 9 6 0 .600 408 Dallas 8 7 0 .533 358 N.Y. Giants 8 7 0 .533 387 Philadelphia 4 11 0 .267 273

PA 370 372 337 402

y-Denver San Diego Oakland Kansas City

W

Wednesday’s Games Miami at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Indiana, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Washington, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Toronto at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Denver, 7 p.m.

New York at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Utah, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at Portland, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Dallas at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Boston at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

T 0 0 0 0

South L T Pct

PF

PA

y-Atlanta New Orleans Tampa Bay Carolina

13 7 6 6

y-Green Bay Minnesota Chicago Detroit

W 11 9 9 4

2 8 9 9

0 0 0 0

.867 .467 .400 .400

402 423 367 313

277 410 377 325

North L T 4 0 6 0 6 0 11 0

Pct .733 .600 .600 .267

PF 399 342 349 348

PA 299 314 253 411

Pct .700 .667 .500 .333

PF 370 392 286 237

PA 260 232 328 330

West W L x-San Francisco 10 4 x-Seattle 10 5 St. Louis 7 7 Arizona 5 10 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

T 1 0 1 0

Week 17 Sunday, Dec. 30 Jacksonville at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Carolina at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Houston at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.

Chicago at Detroit, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Oakland at San Diego, 2:25 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

Kansas City at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Minnesota, 2:25 p.m.

Miami at New England, 2:25 p.m.

Dallas at Washington, 6:20 p.m.

Andruw Jones arrested on battery charge MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Nadal pulls out of comeback tournament due to virus

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Central Division W L Pct 15 11 .577 16 12 .571 14 12 .538 9 21 .300 6 23 .207

L.A. Clippers Golden State L.A. Lakers Phoenix Sacramento

15 13

Football

Wednesday, Jan. 2 Drumheller at Fort McMurray, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 3 Canmore at Calgary Canucks, 7 p.m.

Sherwood Park at Olds, 7:30 p.m.

1/2 1/2

Southeast Division W L Pct GB 19 6 .760 — 16 9 .640 3 12 15 .444 8 7 20 .259 13 3 22 .120 16

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 21 8 .724 — Memphis 18 7 .720 1 Houston 14 12 .538 5 Dallas 12 16 .429 8 New Orleans 5 22 .185 15

Oklahoma City Denver Minnesota

Utah Portland

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DULUTH, Ga. — Former Atlanta Braves star centre fielder Andruw Jones was free on bond after being arrested in suburban Atlanta early Tuesday on a battery charge, according to jail records.

Around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, police responded to a call for a domestic dispute between Jones and his wife in Duluth.

Gwinnett County Detention Center records say Jones was booked into the jail around 3:45 a.m. and had been released on $2,400 bond by 11 a.m.

Once one of the premier players in the big leagues, Jones broke into the majors with the Atlanta Braves in 1996 and won 10 consecutive Gold Gloves from 1998-07 as their centre fielder.

He has 434 career home runs over the span of 17 seasons in the majors.

Jones earlier this month signed a $3.5 million, one-year contract with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan’s Pacific League.

NBA: More aggressive

CANADA: Didn’t want to dwell on decision

They took the lead for good on Bryant’s basket with 7:38 remaining. Anthony and Tyson Chandler were in foul trouble in the fourth, with Chandler fouling out late.

“They just were a little bit more aggressive,” Anthony said. “Kobe got it going and Steve Nash hit some big shots down the stretch. When you have a guy like Nash doing that, it’s kind of tough. Those guys know how to play. They’ve been waiting for Steve Nash to get back, so it’s just a matter of then sticking it out until he did.”

The Knicks opened the third on a 15-5 run, with Anthony setting up on the perimeter and hitting two 3-pointers as part of his 10 points that stretched their lead to 61-53. His jumper provided the Knicks’ largest lead of the game, 69-60.

Bryant and Nash ignited the quiet atmosphere by leading a 17-9 run that drew the Lakers to 78-77 going into the fourth. They combined to score 15 points, although Bryant missed two free throws to end the third that would have given the Lakers their first lead since early in the game.

The Knicks’ earlier roll dissolved in missed shots and a technical on Chandler for arguing a call.

“We were more determined, fought for everything,” Nash said about the second half.

World Peace scored 16 points in the second quarter, including eight in a row, when the Lakers played catch-up most of the way. His 3-pointer gave the Lakers their first lead of the period with 1:10 remaining. Smith tied it up with a free throw before Nash’s jumper sent the Lakers into halftime leading 51-49.

“We’re playing really well together,” World Peace said. “Kobe is really playing excellent now. He’s still being aggressive on the offensive end, but he’s giving everybody a chance to be aggressive. Pau is making strong, aggressive moves.”

Bryant scored the Lakers’ final nine points of the first quarter to give them a 25-23 lead. D’Antoni’s plan of having Darius Morris guard Anthony didn’t last long after he scored five of the Knicks’ first seven points.

“I thought he’d get warmed up before he started firing,” World Peace said.

Spott didn’t want to dwell on the IIHF’s decision to avoid it becoming a distraction.

“It’s disappointing, but we respect and understand the IIHF’s decision saying that there was an injury on the play and we hope the Swedish player is going to be OK long-term,” he said.

It’s not the first time Jenner has run afoul of the IIHF’s disciplinary committee.

The Columbus Blue Jackets prospect was suspended for one game of the 2012 world junior championship for spearing Russian captain Evgeni Kuznetsov in the semifinal. Jenner couldn’t play in the bronze-medal game, which Canada won.

“I guess it’s a coincidence that it’s happened two year in a row,” Jenner said. “It’s not the greatest thing to happen.”

Spott says he didn’t call up another player to replace Jenner in the lineup because the suspension was limited to three games.

“We had a plan going in based on the games,” the coach explained. “We knew one, two or three... that Boone would stay and be a part of our club against the Russians.”

Spott shuffled his third and fourth lines in practice in preparation to play without Jenner. McNeill was between wingers Phillip Danault of the Victoriaville Tigres and JC Lipon of the Kamloops Blazers.

Halifax Mooseheads forwards Nathan MacKinnon, 17, centred the fourth line with wingers Ty Rattie of the Portland Winter Hawks and Anthony Camara of the Barrie Colts.

McNeill, a Chicago Blackhawks draft pick, is still trying to familiarize himself with his teammates. Unlike them, he didn’t take part in the pre-competition camp in Finland to ease him through jet lag en route to Ufa. “I’m still adjusting to the time frame and everything and long hours on the plane,” the Edmonton native said. “I’ve got a couple of good skates under me now and I’m feeling a lot better.

“The doc’s been really great telling us when to sleep and not to sleep and that’s been key. I think I’m getting a lot better and tomorrow I’ll be even better.”

Canada is heavily favoured against the Germans, who earned a promotion back to the top-tier world championship this year.

Spott, who coaches the Kitchener Rangers, will face one his Ontario Hockey League players in Canada’s opener — German defenceman and Edmonton Oilers Tobias Rieder.

“We know teams like this can be dangerous because when they play against us, we’re going to see their best,” Spott said. “We know they’re going to be motivated. It’s up to us to find that level of motivation ourselves.”

SPENGLER: Great things “When good players play with good players, great things happen — and they have a lot of good players,” Thornton said. “They’ll probably gel pretty quickly,” Thornton said.

But the road ahead will not be easy.

Along with Thornton, HC Davos’ chase will be guided by Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane, Dallas Stars forward Loui Eriksson, the Swiss league’s top scorer Damien Brunner and top defenceman Rafael Diaz of the Montreal Canadiens.

Moreover, Canada’s path collides with another first-place team in HC Fribourg. The top Swiss team is a talented, fast-skating bunch boosted by NHL players like goaltender Cory Schneider (Vancouver Canucks), forwards Patric Hornqvist (Nashville Predators), Max Talbot (Philadelphia Flyers) and David Desharnais (Montreal), as well as defenceman Bruno Gervais (Philadelphia).

In order to break through, Canada will rely on leadership from Smyth, their captain and seasoned international veteran, as well as experienced European teammates like alternate captain Josh Holden.

A former first-round draft pick who played only 60 NHL games, Holden re-established his career with eight strong seasons in Switzerland. He also has three years of Spengler Cup experience.

“We’re trying to put in place a system where guys know their positions and once we establish that, we can use our skill and get going,” Holden said.

“There’s no doubt the other teams are solid and stacked with great players.

“But the bottom line is that if we show up and put our hearts right on the line and go after it, our story will be told.”

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Rajon Rondo scores 19 to beat Nets in Christmas opener THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Rajon Rondo scored 19 points in his first full game against Brooklyn this season, and the Boston Celtics beat the Nets 93-76 on Tuesday in another game with some heated moments between the division rivals.

Rondo, sidelined in the first meeting and thrown out of the second after shoving Nets forward Kris Humphries into the courtside seats, outplayed counterpart Deron Williams and helped the Celtics take control early.

Rookie Jared Sullinger tied a career high with 16 points and Jeff Green had 15 for the Celtics (14-13), who avoided falling under .500 with just their second victory in six games.

Gerald Wallace and Brook Lopez each scored 15 for the Nets, who have lost four of five.

The Celtics took control with a 23-5 run in the second quarter. They had 11 assists on 13 baskets and outscored the Nets 34-18 in the period.

A month after the teams scuffled in Boston, there was another skirmish in the fourth quarter that resulted in four technical fouls, but that was the most fight the Nets put up in a disappointing performance on the national stage of the Christmas opener. They were never in the game after the first 20 minutes, and their fans headed to the exits with under 2 minutes left as a

Photo by The Associated Press

Boston Celtics’ Kevin Garnett, far left, and Brooklyn Nets forward Gerald Wallace, third from right, are separated by officials in the second half of their NBA basketball game at Barclays Center, Tuesday, in New York. Boston won 93-76.

“Let’s go Celtics!” chant broke out.

Williams had only 10 points on 3-of-7 shooting and Joe Johnson, his partner in a highpriced backcourt, shot 4 of 14 for his 12 points.

Boston’s Kevin Garnett had eight points and 10 rebounds on the day he tied Charles Oakley for 15th place on the

NBA’s career list with his 1,282nd game. He was also front and centre when things got testy.

Wallace was fouled with 9:31 remaining and appeared to hold onto Garnett’s uniform to balance himself and not fall. But Garnett objected to how long Wallace hung on, and they said something

to each other as they tried to push themselves free. That led to technical fouls on the two, along with Andray Blatche and Courtney Lee. Sullinger delivered a flagrant foul on Wallace a few minutes later, but there was nothing further.

In the Nets’ Nov. 28 victory in Boston, Rondo, Humphries

and Wallace were ejected.

It was the second quarter of that game where things got away from the Celtics, and Rondo’s frustrations soon followed. He shoved Humphries after the Nets forward fouled Garnett, ruining the point guard’s chance to extend what was then a 37-game streak with double digit assists by finishing with three. He had five assists and six rebounds Tuesday.

This time, the second period belonged to the guys in green.

With the Celtics down three, Green had six points in a 10-0 run that made it 36-29. After Johnson’s basket, Boston answered with a 13-3 spurt. Jason Terry made a 3-pointer before Rondo converted a three-point play to push the Celtics’ lead to 49-34 with 3:56 to go.

Notes: As with everyone playing on Christmas, players, coaches and referees wore green ribbons in tribute to the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School. ... Humphries was out with an abdominal strain and will be re-evaluated after the Nets return from Milwaukee. He had mostly been a starter but then didn’t play at all Sunday against Philadelphia. ... Feeling Avery Bradley isn’t ready yet, Celtics coach Doc Rivers decided not to bring the guard on this four-game road trip so he can continue working his way back from shoulder surgery in Boston. Rivers said the shoulder is strong but that Bradley has had only 2 ½ practices.

The NFL’s year of the comeback with Manning, Peterson, Pagano and Charles making impact THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — From Peyton Manning overcoming four neck surgeries to Adrian Peterson’s rebound from a shredded knee to Chuck Pagano’s fight with leukemia, this has been the Year of the Comeback in the NFL. A season besmirched by tragedies, replacement officials and a bounty scandal also will go down as one in which some of the game’s greats not only regained their old form but somehow surpassed it.

There are always feel-good stories about those who overcome long odds and broken bodies to regain at least a sliver of their past glory. This season provided an abundance of them.

When the season started, who could have expected Manning to recapture his MVP play so quickly with a new team? Or for Peterson to come back less than nine months after shredding his left knee. Or for Jamaal Charles to return better than ever after suffering a similar injury.

Then there’s Pagano beating the biggest opponent of his life.

A year ago, Manning was in the midst of four neck operations to fix a nerve injury that had caused his right arm to atrophy and had sidelined him for an entire season. Soon, he would say a tearful farewell to Indianapolis, a city he’d put back on the NFL map, and hook up with John Elway in Denver.

Peterson’s left knee was still swollen after he’d shredded it on Christmas Eve, an injury similar to the one Charles suffered earlier last season.

Yet both would defy medicine and conventional wisdom alike to rebound as better runners than they were before getting hurt.

Pagano’s fight started three months ago when it was disclosed he had cancer, forcing the first-year Colts coach to take time off for chemotherapy treatments. He returned to work this week, taking the reins from assistant Bruce Arians, who guided the team to a surprising playoff berth in his absence.

“When I asked for Bruce to take over, I asked for him to kick some you-know-what and to do great. Damn Bruce, you had to go and win nine games?” Pagano said. “Tough act to follow.”

If all goes well at practice this week, Pagano will be on the sideline for the regular-season finale against Houston.

That’s a final tuneup for the AFC wildcard playoffs that nobody saw coming for the Colts so soon after cutting ties with Manning, who switched teams, coaches, cities and colours and didn’t miss a beat in 2012.

Despite a new supporting cast and a 36-year-old body he insists continues to confound him, the quintessential quarterback has had one of the best seasons in his storied career. Manning set franchise or NFL records just about every week while completing 68 per cent of his passes for 4,355 yards with 34 TDs and just 11 interceptions.

And yet, he insists he’s not anything close to what he used to be, that all he can do is maximize what’s left in a body that’s been slowed by so many surgeons’ scalpels, and trips around the sun.

“I know you don’t believe me when I say this; I’m still learning about myself physically and what I can do, it’s still the truth,” Manning said after guiding Denver to its 10th straight win. “I still have things that are harder than they used to be, so (there’s) things I have to work on from a rehab standpoint and a strength standpoint. That’s just the way it is and maybe that’s the way it’s going

to be from here on out, I don’t know.”

Maybe Manning’s being modest, maybe he’s suckering opponents into blitzing him more often so he can burn them again. Either way, it’s a remarkable rebound for a man whose right arm was so weakened after one of his neck surgeries that he could hardly throw the football 15 yards.

Long before Manning ever dreamed he’d be wearing the orange-mane mustang on his helmet instead of the blue and white horseshoe, Manning met up with college buddy Todd Helton of the Colorado Rockies for a workout during last year’s NFL lockout. They retreated to an indoor batting cage at Coors Field with a trainer in tow, and Manning’s first pass nose-dived so badly that Helton told him to quit goofing around.

Manning wasn’t messing with him.

He was dead serious. His arm was shot, his future in football in doubt. A few days later, he underwent spinal fusion surgery and would miss the entire 2011 season.

If doctors had told him that was it, Manning said he would have called it a career without regret. But they gave him a bit of hope and that’s all he needed to embark on his comeback in Colorado.

Coach John Fox, never one to lobby for awards, suggested this week that Manning deserves a fifth MVP honour for the numbers he’s put up, the obstacles he’s overcome, the shift of culture he’s engineered.

Manning isn’t interested in talking about MVPs or comeback awards. He just wants enough wins to get a shot at hoisting another Lombardi Trophy in New Orleans in six weeks.

Peterson, on the other hand, is unabashedly clear in his desire for some recognition after overcoming torn anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in his left knee, requiring the kind of reconstructive surgery that usually turns dominant players into ordinary ones.

There’s a long, long list of players who had shortened careers because of such injuries. But Peterson returned to the Vikings lineup less than nine months after his operation, and with a league-high 1,898 yards, he’s 207 yards shy of Eric Dickerson’s single-season record. He can topple it with another big game Sunday when Minnesota faces Green Bay with a playoff berth on the line for the Vikings.

With typical unflinching confidence, Peterson said in a recent interview with The Associated Press he’s expecting to win the comeback award.

“I kind of have that in the bag, especially how I’ve been telling people I’m going to come back stronger and better than ever,” he said.

Carrying the Vikings to the playoffs without a potent passing game in a league dominated by strong-armed, accurate quarterbacks would only burnish the credentials of this thoroughbred throwback.

In any other year, the zenith of comebacks might be that of Carolina linebacker Thomas Davis, who battled back from three torn right ACLs — in 2009, 2010 and 2011 — to be a major contributor to the Panthers this year.

No player in NFL history has returned after tearing the same ACL three separate times.

Charles missed nearly all of 2011 with a torn left ACL. Yet the former All-Pro running back has run for 1,456 yards, the seventh-best season in franchise history.

He can break his single-season-high set in 2010 with 12 yards against the Broncos on Sunday.

Photo by The Associated Press

Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson (28) tries to turn upfield as Houston Texans’ Connor Barwin (98) tackles him during the second quarter of an NFL football game Sunday, in Houston. Peterson is one of several players having a comeback season.

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BORROW ART FROM THE LIBRARY Instead of borrowing a book from the library, the Red Deer Public Library is offering people a chance to borrow art. Local artists, through the Red Deer Arts Council, are offering their work for people to hang on their walls, be it at home, work or wherever. As part of the lending program, there will be an exhibit in the Kiwanis Gallery of the Red Deer Public Library’s downtown branch, at 4818 48th St. From Jan. 3 to Feb. 19, three pieces: The Watcher by Sandra Gibson, Untitled by Melissa Merrill and Business Sense by Eric Burton will be on display. For the first Friday, there will be a special opening event on Jan. 4 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. where refreshments will be served. For more information, call Diana at 403-348-2787.

FORD TEST DRIVES NETS BIG BUCKS FOR BALL Rimbey Ford, the Kinsmen Club of Rimbey and members of the community have raised $3,720 to upgrade baseball diamonds. It was part of the Ford Motor Company of Canada’s Drive One 4 UR Community event on Oct. 20. For each of the 186 Rimbey residents who took a car for a test drive, Rimbey Ford and Ford of Canada donated $20. Since the program began in 2010, over $1 million has been raised for high schools and organizations in Canada.

Roma seek to step out of shadows and raise awareness of their plight

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer woman wants to bring the issues facing the Roma people around the world to the forefront.

Zoe DuVal was adopted by a Red Deer couple in 1991 when she was 17 weeks old from a small Roma village called Stefanestii de Jos in Romania during the Romania Revolution.

Her new family lost touch with her biological family when DuVal was two years old.

One day, DuVal would like to reunite with her parents, her other siblings and relatives.

“I would like to thank them for giving me this life that I have here,” said DuVal, 21. “I am successful. I run my own business. I am so fortunate to be here I feel that I need to give back to my community.”

DuVal is working closely with the Toronto Roma Community Centre to create awareness of the plight of the Roma people. DuVal said the Roma people are being persecuted in their home countries like Hungary, Poland, Romania and Russia.

“My parents have raised me to be Canadian and to be accepting of all people,” said DuVal. “They explained to me my culture and where I came from. The more I found out the worst it got.”

The Roma people immigrated from India more than a thousand years ago and settled all over the world but most live in eastern Europe.

There are roughly 80,000 Roma in Canada. DuVal doesn’t know how many are in Alberta but she

‘THE PROBLEM WITH ROMA IS THERE IS A LARGE DISTRUST WITH AUTHORITY BECAUSE IN THESE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AUTHORITIES DON’T REALLY CARE. THEY ARE TREATED THAN LESS THAN DOGS.’ — ZOE DUVAL

would like them to come forward so they can unite and become contributing members of society and to abolish the “gypsy” stereotypes.

“That is a huge thing to ask,” said DuVal. “A lot of them have assimilated. They have changed their identity because they don’t want to be known ... The problem with Roma is there is a large distrust with authority because in these different countries authorities don’t really care. They are treated than less than dogs.”

DuVal said the Roma have suffered silently after being been marginalized and prosecuted and persecuted for years.

She said Hungary was put on the safe countries list as part of Canada’s new immigration law but the country far from safe for the Roma people and Jewish people.

Every year on April 8th, the International Romani Day is celebrated around the world. For more information or to help, contact DuVal at zoe.duval@gmail.com crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Zoe Duval of Red Deer is working to help the Roma people of Hungary.

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FREE HOT YOGA Bikram Yoga Red Deer is hosting its third annual Free Hot Yoga Weekend. On Jan. 5 and 6, classes at 10 a.m., 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. will be free. Owners Jenna Rosene and Josh Biro are offering the classes to help people reach their health goals in the New Year.

All classes run on a first-come, first-served basis. Bikram yoga is a series of stretching postures, practised in a heated room. Two-week introductory passes will also be discounted over the event weekend. For more information, call 403-346-1501.

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From the left, Central Alberta Aids Network Society employees Ashley Fleming, night reach coordinator, Jenn McCrindle, harm reduction coordinator and Andrea Dillingham, community action coordinator, sort through backpacks that were be handed out to those in need on Christmas Day.

Cold war relic cleansed of diesel contamination FORMER DIEFENBUNKER SITE REMEDIATED AFTER GROUND WATER IMPACTED AREA

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The clean up of the contaminated land that once was the site of two Cold War bomb shelters in Red Deer County has been completed.

The government paid a Calgary company $850,000 to demolish the The 70,000-squarefoot “Diefenbunker” off Hwy 2A and the smaller communications bunker (17,000 square-foot) nearby in 2001.

Built in 1964, the fallout shelters were part of Canada’s network of bunkers to give federal and provincial officials a safe place to go in the event of a nuclear attack. The two underground bunkers were part of the former Canadian Forces Base in Penhold.

Shannon McCourt, regional manager, Public Works and Government Works Canada, said the two properties were demolished as they were found to be contaminated with mold, asbestos and lead. An historical diesel fuel spill was also discovered

near the smaller bunker.

McCourt said over the last 11 years there was rehabilitation work including a hazardous material survey, site supervision and the initial environmental site assessment a fluid vapor recovery program and designed a pilot scale, multi-phase extraction system to remove diesel-contaminated groundwater for treatment and remediation following the demolition.

McCourt said monitoring wells were installed and determined that groundwater was impacted.

“Pipes were installed to extract dieselcontaminated water for treatment,” said McCourt. “In total, about 5,000 litres of diesel fuel was collected from the site and approximately 32,000 tonnes of hydrocarboncontaminated soil was removed.”

MCourt said the landowner was paid $86,000.00 for the loss of his maintenance garage which was demolished to make way for the hydrocarbon-contaminated soil excavation.

All the remediation work has been completed. No further work is scheduled.

At the time of the demolition, there were dozens of ideas for the bomb shelter’s potential use including one from an Innisfail man who wanted to grow medicinal marijuana in the shelter.

Following the closure of CFB Penhold, the two bunkers were sold as surplus assets. The “Diefenbunker” was sold for $312,278 by public tender in 1995 and the smaller communications bunker was sold for $162,000 by public auction in 1994.

The government decided to re-acquire the properties in 1998 following an RCMP investigation into allegations criminals wanted to purchase the bunkers.

The provincial government paid $750,000.00 to buy the larger bunker and $500,000.00 to purchase the smaller communications bunker. The government decided to demolish the shelters because of security risks and the costs to maintain the bunkers. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Syrian rebels make new gains in north CAPTURE TOWN AND ATTACK AIR BASE IN ONGOING CONFLICT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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This Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012 image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Free Syrian Army fighters running towards the scene after a government airstrike hit Hama Suburb of Halfaya, Syria. A government airstrike Sunday on a bakery in a rebel-held town in central Syria killed tens of people, which left scattered bodies and debris up and down a street, and more than a dozen wounded were trapped in tangled heap of dirt and rubble, activists said.

Blind dog lost in Alaska snowstorm finds way back to owners TEMPERATURES DIPPED TO -40 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FAIRBANKS, Alaska â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Blind and alone in Alaska winter temperatures that dipped 40 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (-40 degrees Celsius), a lost 8-year-old Fairbanks dog wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t given much of a chance to make it home.

But after walking 10 miles (16 kilometres) to the edge of a local musherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dog yard, Abby the brown-and-white mixed breed was found and returned to her owners, a family that includes two boys and one girl under the age of 10.

The dog that the family raised from an animal-shelter puppy went missing during a snowstorm on Dec. 13, and the family never expected to see her again, The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a miracle, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no other words to describe it,â&#x20AC;? said McKenzie Grapengeter, emotion choking her voice and tears coming to her eyes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We never expected to have her to be returned safe and alive.â&#x20AC;?

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narian Mark May said he came across the dog while running his team on Dec. 19, but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop to pick her up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It ran with us for about a mile on the way home before she fell off the pace, but I had a big dog team so I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t grab it,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;boy I hope it finds somebodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The next day, the dog turned up at Mayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody just assumed it was some kind of scaredy-cat, but there it was in front of the door in our dog lot and it was blind,â&#x20AC;? May said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was sitting there, all the way from 14 mile on the winter trail down into this neighbourhood, I guess by just sniffing, so I picked it up and brought it in.â&#x20AC;?

To Mayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surprise, the dog had no signs of frostbite. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No frozen ears, no frozen toes, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably go back home and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll (be) business as usual. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no worse for wear but quite an adventure,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The Grapengeter family hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tagged or put a microchip in the dog, but

the community used social media to track down Abbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s owners. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so, so grateful for all (the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) hard work,â&#x20AC;? McKenzie Grapengeter said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve given us the most amazing Christmas gift we could ever ask for.â&#x20AC;?

ficulty sending supplies by land to Aleppo province after rebels captured in October the strategic town Maaret al-Numan. The town is on the highway that links Damascus with Aleppo, Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest city and a major battleground in the civil war since July. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Airplanes and helicopters are the only way to send supplies since the Free Syrian Army controls the land,â&#x20AC;?

Saeed said. He added that rebels are also laying a siege to Aleppoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s international airport known as Nairab and threatening to shoot down military or

civilians planes using it.

In the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, opposition gunmen ambushed the head of military intelligence in the area and seriously wounded him. He later died of his wounds, the Observatory said.

Elsewhere in Syria, the Observatory reported violence in areas including the eastern province of Deir elZour, the southern area of Quneitra on the edge of the Israeli-occupied Golan Height and the southern region of Daraa.

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It was the second injury the minister suffered after being wounded in a July 17, bomb inside a high-level crisis meeting in Damascus that killed four top regime officials, including Assadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother-in-law and the defence minister.

The rebel takeover of Harem, a town of 20,000 in northern Idlib province, was the latest in a string of recent rebel successes.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rebels captured Harem in the early hours of Tuesday. Mohammed Kanaan, an Idlibbased activist, said the last post to be taken was the historic citadel, which overlooked the town. The army had turned the citadel into a military post. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harem is fully liberated now,â&#x20AC;? Kanaan said via Skype. He added that as the rebels pounded army posts and checkpoints in Harem, the troops withdrew to the citadel that later fell in the hands of rebels.

Rami-Abdul-Rahman, who heads to Observatory, said nearly 30 soldiers and pro-government gunmen surrendered late Monday. He added that rebels set free all gunmen at the age of 16 or less and referred others to local tribunals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harem was very important because it is one of the towns that was loyal to the regime,â&#x20AC;? Abdul-Rahman said by telephone about the town that is nearly a mile from the Turkish border.

In Aleppo province, which neighbours Idlib, local activist Mohammed Saeed said rebels attacked the air base in the town of Mannagh near the Turkish border. He said it is one of four air bases in the province, adding that rebels also attacked the police academy near the city of Aleppo.

Regime forces have been using helicopters to carry supplies to besieged areas and to attack rebel positions.

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BEIRUT â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Syrian rebels fully captured a northern town near the Turkish border on Tuesday after weeks of heavy fighting and attacked a regime air base in a neighbouring province, activists said.

The air base is in Aleppo province, where opposition fighters have already captured three other large military bases in recent months. Rebels have also laid siege to the international airport in the city of Aleppo, Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commercial capital, and launched an offensive on the police academy near the city.

With steady rebel gains across the north, President Bashar Assadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regime is having increasing difficulty sending supplies by land to Aleppo province, especially after rebels cut a major thoroughfare from Damascus. It is just another sign that the opposition is consolidating its grip across large swathes of territory in northern Syria near the Turkish border.

In his traditional Christmas address, Pope Benedict XVI decried the slaughter of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;defencelessâ&#x20AC;? in Syria, where anti-regime activists estimate more than 40,000 have died in fighting since the uprising against President Bashar Assadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rule began in March 2011.

In another blow to the regime, activists said that Mohammed Adnan Arabo, a member of Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parliament has left the country and joined the opposition. Ahmad Ramadan, an executive council member of the opposition Syrian National Council group, and other activists said Arabo arrived in Turkey on Tuesday.

He said the regimeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hold on power is deteriorating and rebels are besieging military bases for weeks until they either take over or negotiate with local army commanders to surrender.

He added that some regime forces are being diverted to the capital to fight there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The regime cannot protect its bases and also cannot send forces to support troops under siege,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Over the weeks, rebels fighting to overthrow Assad have also been able to take the battles into the capital Damascus, Assadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seat of power, where the southern neighbourhoods are witnessing almost daily clashes between troops and rebels.

The big successes began in mid-November, when rebels captured Aleppoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Regiment 46, a large military base, carting off tanks, armoured vehicles and truck-loads of munitions. Three weeks later, they captured the Sheik Suleiman base near the provincial capital of Aleppo and days later they took an infantry base in the city.

Last week, they captured an army technical regiment near Damascusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; international airport but were pushed back in a counter attack. The army command said in a statement that the regimentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commander was killed in the battle.

The rebels have also brought the battle to areas around Damascus international airport where some flights were cancelled earlier this month because of the intensity of the fighting.

One of the biggest blows came in Damascus on Dec. 12 when a suicide attacker blew his vehicle outside the Interior Ministry, killing five and wounding many, including Interior Minister Mohammed al-Shaar. The government denied at first that al-Shaar had been wounded until it got out when he was

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Technology enhances cookbook experience BUT AFICIONADOS UNLIKELY TO GIVE UP BOOKS

BY LOIS ABRAHAM THE CANADIAN PRESS While ebooks have been exploding in popularity in recent years, scholars, chefs and those who just love to tool around in the kitchen say it’s not time to stick a fork in the physical cookbook just yet.

“I’m a pretty messy cook, so having your computer on the counter is a recipe for disaster,” said Ian Mosby, who is preparing to teach a University of Guelph course that encompasses the history of the cookbook.

“If I’m going to pay money to own something I would rather have the physicality of the book. I’m more likely to read a physical cookbook than an ebook.”

The university, which has a cookbook collection numbering around 4,000 volumes — including an impressive array of community cookbooks — offers plenty of material for his research, said Mosby, who owns almost 100 classic cookbooks and pamphlets (smaller cookbooks) related to his studies plus about 40 new editions.

Alison Fryer, owner of The Cookbook Store, says people have been downloading recipes from the Internet for years, but notes that new technology has created enhancements for “the cookbook experience.”

Technology allows publishers “to produce the File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS most gorgeous cookbooks. The digital photography Food historian Ian Mosby stands for a portrait in his Toronto home.

Thousands of cookbooks continue to now is stunning. The production quality is jaw-dropping of cookbooks even (compared to) five to 10 be published each year, and aficionados love to leaf through the colourful tomes and draw inspiration from years ago. The other thing it allows them to do is photos of completed dishes. create apps and enhancements and webisodes ... that go hand in hand with the book,” she said from “That is my pet peeve — people posting these Nathan Myhrvold, CEO and a founder of Intellectual her downtown Toronto store, which opened about 30 crazy recipes that nothing works. Then it’s very frus- Ventures, a firm dedicated to creating and investing years ago. trating,” she added. in inventions, along with Chris Young and Maxime “If you’ve got in the fridge some chicken and brocWith the number of cookbooks out there — Fryer Bilet. Prior to that, Myhrvold was the first chief techcoli and you just want to know what to make tonight, estimates some 20,000 cookbooks are published an- nology officer at Microsoft. knock yourself out, go online and find something. nually in all languages, with about two-thirds of “So someone like that still feels that it’s worthThat’s probably the fastest way to do it,” said Fryer, those in English, she says — many culinary authors while to produce a physical hard copy,” she said. whose store offers cooking classes and author events must think it’s lucrative enough to continue publish- “How do you argue with people like that who have and stocks some 9,000 titles. ing. Fryer points to last year’s six-volume, 2,400-page (so many) R&D dollars ...that they can build their “But if you want to sit down and read your cook- Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking by own cooking labs?” books, as so many of us do, there’s something about a living history that’s in your hands and you turn the page with your hand and it’s still so much a part of that.”

Trend watcher Christine Couvelier, who recently passed the 3,000 mark in her cookbook collection, also thinks the print format isn’t going anywhere, though she also enjoys such innovations as the video clips used with recipes and stories in publica® tions like Martha Stewart Living that she reads on her iPad. “There’s something about experiencing a cookbook the way the author designed it so the right format is there,” said the Victoria-based chef, who noted that some e-readers reformat cookbooks.

“But there’s something tactile and inspirational and it transports me when I read a cookbook into that author’s kitchen ... but when I then come back to my kitchen I’m still there with that person because I have that book with me. I just adore my cookbooks.”

Mosby and a group of friends, all in their 30s, formed a cookbook discussion group about three years ago which encourages members to go beyond the realm of what they normally cook.

Their meetings consist of a potluck dinner, using recipes from the book they’ve chosen to discuss that month.

Some members of Mosby’s group purchase the electronic version, but he usually buys the actual book or borrows it from the library. He says he’s not a big fan of e-cookbooks.

“It’s definitely a different experience. Some of these books nowadays, they’re beautiful,” said Mosby, whose primary research interest is the politics, culture and science of food in Canada during the 20th century.

“They’re like pieces of art, so it seems worth it to spend the extra on getting the physical book.”

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HOLIDAYS CAN BE BITTERSWEET WHEN WE ARE MISSING LOVED ONES

By Pam Snowdon

Usually, our “firsts” are causes for celebrations and optimism – that first real paycheque, a first child, a new home. Inevitably, however, we all must face a first holiday season without a loved one. Coping with the holidays while grieving for someone we are missing can seem like an insurmountable hurdle. We feel like we may never be happy again, yet all around us there are messages about joy and happiness, peace and goodwill.

Simone Schumacher, Bereavement Support Coordinator at the Red Deer Hospice Society says that she asks the recently bereaved person to consider what things, such as isolation, might compound their grief when they are preparing for special events. “Grief takes up a lot of energy, “ she says. “One hour of dealing with putting on a brave face is equal to a hard day of labour. So, where do you want to put your energy?” While attending a large get together for a holiday dinner may have been the thing to do last year, this year it may be putting too high of an expectation on ourselves. On the other hand, being with a large group of people we enjoy might be exactly what we need.

While everyone deals with grief in different ways, mental health experts and counsellors stress that during holidays (and other milestones such as birthdays and anniversaries), feelings of loss can be intensified. Accepting that our life is in transition now, and validating our feelings and emotions, are small but significant step we can take towards coping with our loss.

All the plans and preparations that we have made in the past, and that included the person we are now missing, have to be considered in a new light. Things like traveling away for the holidays versus staying home, preparing celebratory meals, gift giving, and shopping may now require a different plan. We can look at this as a time to start new traditions, no matter how small.

Foremost, it is important to realize that we do not have to do it alone, or to put on a brave face, while forging ahead as if nothing has changed.

We can recognize that feelings of depression and loneliness are part of the grieving process.

Acceptance of these feelings is another baby step along the path of our transition, but we do not have to cope with them in isolation. For example, the Golden Circle hosts a chicken dinner on December 24th, as does Community Partners Association in Sylvan Lake. The Golden Circle is also open on December 27 and 28 for drop in visiting and socialization. A new tradition might be reaching out to others who are also feeling a need for connection and friendship.

During the holidays, there is a temptation to get caught up in the expectations of the season: to make it “normal” and “perfect”. This is a time when we need to take care of ourselves, the way we care for others. We need to allow ourself to

experience the emotion of grieving, and cry when we need to, no matter what the season. “Releasing our grief feels better,” says Schumacher. “We prefer to avoid pain and suffering, rather than allowing ourselves to sit with it. Yet tears are a normal expression of the loneliness, sadness, and yearning that we might be feeling.”

Schumacher says that although other people are well intentioned, the reality is that others cannot make us feel better. “We have to lose our agenda to please others, “ she says. “The work of grieving is to acknowledge that we hurt. Instead, we “should” on ourselves: we tell ourselves that we should feel or act in certain ways. If you wake up exhausted in the morning, you can validate yourself by saying it’s okay, that’s how my grief feels today. That is different than denying or being judgmental about what you are experiencing.”

It may be helpful to make a list of what kinds of rituals we previously carried out during the holidays, and consider how we want to handle these things this year. A supportive friend, family member, or a counsellor can help to talk about new ways of approaching the holidays so we don’t feel overwhelmed by our feelings, or by a do-do list to accomplish. Some people create new rituals, such as selecting a special tree ornament for their home or as a part of a community activity such as an Angel Tree. Others donate to a charity in memoriam. “The holidays can be a time to actively embrace the memories of a loved one,” Schumacher says. “You can write a letter remembering things that person liked about the holidays, or things you wish you had done together, for example. Then the letter, or small

notes from other family members, can be placed in a stocking, or a beautiful box specially made for this ritual. This allows you to release the feelings and memories.”

Reaching out to others to assist us with shopping, cooking, and holiday preparations can help us feel like we are moving forward with our lives. When attending get-togethers, we need to be honest with the person who invites us, acknowledging that we are still feeling some pain, and might not have much energy. Schumacher says it takes courage and strength to “be with your feelings”. We can tap into our inner strength by realizing that while we never totally get over our loss completely, the way we are feeling now isn’t always forever.

“The roots of the word “mourning” comes from “to remember”, says Schumacher. “This person existed, and we never get over them. Instead, we want to honour them.” We can realize that while we are changed by our loss, we can use this time of year to incorporate the person we loved into our memories.

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thoughts • irritable, short tempered, or aggressive with others • overindulging in alcohol or drugs, or in reckless behaviour During our grief, it is not unusual to have feelings that life is not worth much. Normally, these feelings are very short lived. If you find that you are dwelling on these kinds of thoughts, or saying things such as “everyone would be better off without me”, it is important to seek help right away. Here are some other warning signs that you, or a loved one, are feeling suicidal: • talking or thinking about killing yourself • expressing strong feelings of hopelessness, despair, or feeling trapped and unable to see positive change • acting reckless, as if having a “death wish” (for example, running a red light in your car) • calling others to say goodbye • putting your affairs in order • extreme mood swings Simone Schumacher points out that we often undervalue our losses.

We try to put on a happy face and care for others, rather than caring for ourselves as we move through grief and loss. “When we are grieving, we are maxed out emotionally, and we can’t deal with other people’s stuff, too,” she says. “Self care includes stepping into your own strengths, and not worrying about what other people will think.” If you need to cry, then go ahead and release those intense feelings.

How long will grief last? That depends on the individual, and your own personal attitudes and resilience.

For help in moving forward, you can consider these resources: The CMHA doesn’t provide crisis services, but does offer support and education • 403-342-2266 • www.reddeer.cmha.ca The Red Deer Hospice Society offers grief support groups • 403-309-4344 ext. 105 For immediate help call: • Mental Health Hotline 1-877-3032642 • Health Link Alberta 1-866-408465 • Alberta Health Services, Mental Health 403-340-5466

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As we age, we experience changes in all of these areas: our friends and loved ones pass away, we may not be as strong or healthy as we once were, we give up a career or job and retire, our family moves away and we may be feeling lonely.

The CMHA website, www.cmha. ca, reports that the keys to coping with these inevitable changes include the ability to expect and plan for these changes, examining your long-term lifestyle (including your health), the strength of your relationships with your surviving family and friends, and your willingness to stay interested and involved with life.

It is normal to feel depressed, lonely, sad, emotional, even angry when faced with these events and the changes that occur as a result of a loss.

Simone Schumacher, Bereavement Support Coordinator at the Red Deer Hospice Society, says that too often we receive messages in our culture that signal we should “just suck it up” and move on as quickly as possible.

Sometimes these kinds of messages come from well intentioned friends who simply want us to be happy. As Schumacher points out, the reality is that sometimes no-one can help us: we have to do the work of grieving alone. However, there is support available every step of the way.

While depression is a normal stage of grieving, after a while you should be able to get up in the morning and move forward with your day.

Knowing exactly when this point occurs differs from one person to another. Depression is not a normal part of aging, although from time to time we all go through periods of “feeling the blues”.

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Tens of Oscar nominated character thousands sign actor dies at 89 in New York City US petition to deport Piers Morgan over gun control views

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge.

His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year career as a consummate Oscar-nominated character actor, playing everyone from a Nazi colonel to the pope to Dustin Hoffman’s would-be suitor in “Tootsie.”

Durning, who died Monday at age 89 in New York, got his start as an usher at a burlesque theatre in Buffalo, N.Y. When one of the comedians showed up too drunk to go on, Durning took his place. He would recall years later that he was hooked as soon as heard the audience laughing.

He told The Associated Press in 2008 that he had no plans to stop working. “They’re going to carry me out, if I go,” he said.

Durning’s longtime agent and friend, Judith Moss, told The Associated Press that he died of natural causes in his home in the borough of Manhattan.

Although he portrayed everyone from blustery public officials to comic foils to put-upon everymen, Durning may be best remembered by movie audiences for his Oscar-nominated, over-the-top role as a comically corrupt governor in 1982’s “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.”

Many critics marveled that such a heavyset man could be so nimble in the film’s show-stopping song-and-dance number, not realizing Durning had been a dance instructor early in his career. Indeed, he had met his first wife, Carol, when both worked at a dance studio.

The year after “Best Little Whorehouse,” Durning received another Oscar nomination, for his portrayal of a bumbling Nazi officer in Mel Brooks’ “To Be or Not to Be.” He was also nominated for a Golden Globe as the harried police lieutenant in 1975’s “Dog Day Afternoon.”

He won a Golden Globe as best supporting TV actor in 1991 for his portrayal of John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald in the TV film “The Kennedys of Massachusetts” and a Tony in 1990 as Big Daddy in the Broadway revival of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”

Durning had begun his career on stage, getting his first big break when theatrical producer Joseph Papp hired him for the New York Shakespeare Festival.

He went on to work regularly, if fairly anonymously, through the 1960s until his breakout role as a small town mayor in the Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning play “That Championship Season” in 1972.

He quickly made an impression on movie audiences the following year as the crooked cop stalking con men Paul Newman and Robert Redford in the Oscar-winning comedy “The Sting.”

Dozens of notable portrayals followed. He was the wouldbe suitor of Dustin Hoffman, posing as a female soap opera star in “Tootsie;” the infamous seller of frog legs in “The Muppet Movie;” and Chief Brandon in Warren Beatty’s “Dick Tracy.” He played Santa Claus in four different movies made

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In this Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008 photo, Charles Durning holds his life achievement award at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. for television and was the pope in the TV film “I Would be Called John: Pope John XXIII.” “I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director,” Durning told The Associated Press in 2008, when he was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Other films included “The Front Page,” ”The Hindenburg,“ ”Breakheart Pass,“ ”North Dallas Forty,“ ”Starting Over,“ ”Tough Guys,“ ”Home for the Holidays,“ ”Spy Hard“ and ’O Brother Where Art Thou?”

Durning also did well in television as a featured performer as well as a guest star. He appeared in the short-lived series “The Cop and the Kid” (1975), “Eye to Eye” (1985) and “First Monday” (2002) as well as the four-season “Evening Shade” in the 1990s.

LONDON — Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition calling for British CNN host Piers Morgan to be deported from the U.S. over his gun control views.

Morgan has taken an aggressive stand for tighter U.S. gun laws in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting. Last week, he called a gun advocate appearing on his “Piers Morgan Tonight” show an “unbelievably stupid man.”

Now, gun rights activists are fighting back. A petition created Dec. 21 on the White House e-petition website by a user in Texas accuses Morgan of engaging in a “hostile attack against the U.S. Constitution” by targeting the Second Amendment.

It demands he be deported immediately for “exploiting his position as a national network television host to stage attacks against the rights of American citizens.”

The petition has already hit the 25,000 signature threshold to get a White House response. By Monday, it had 31,813 signatures.

Morgan seemed unfazed — and even amused — by the movement.

In a series of Twitter messages, he alternately urged his followers to sign the petition and in response to one article about the petition said “bring it on” as he appeared to track the petition’s progress.

“If I do get deported from America for wanting fewer gun murders, are there any other countries that will have me?” he wrote.

‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘30 Rock’ among TV series bidding adieu celled.

Such was the case with “ALF,” the ’80s sitcom about a wise-cracking alien that ends with the worst possible scenario for its fun-loving hero: After spending the entire series in hiding, Alf is caught by the Alien Task Force, presumably to be tortured, killed and dissected. (ABC aired a followup TV movie six years later where Alf escapes.)

As hard as it is for fans, premature endings are brutal for actors, too, says former “Veronica Mars” star Enrico Colantoni. His teen sleuthing series ended in 2007 and he notes that fans

clamour to this day for some kind of resolution — a reunion, a follow-up movie, anything.

“The most frustrating thing is talking to ’Veronica Mars’ fans — you hate looking at those guys and going, ’I’m sorry. I know. I was a fan of that show, too. I wanted to know what happened to Veronica. I wanted to know if Keith lost the election,”’ says Colantoni, who says a “Veronica Mars” feature film would be a “no-brainer.”

“That was awful. I’m still not over that one.

I’m still not over that one.”

Sometimes, showrunners can see the end

coming. They craft final episodes that leave things just open enough to lead into a new season, and just closed enough to feel like major issues are addressed.

Not that their devoted followers necessarily see it that way.

“I always get frustrated when people go, ’Oh, I wish you had gotten to end the series’ because I’m like, ’No, we did end the series,”’ “Freaks and Geeks” creator Paul Feig says of his high school saga, which ends with a

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“It’s the same reason I don’t go to my class reunions — I like seeing everyone at graduation and not knowing where they went to or what happened. That’s more information than I want.”

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TORONTO — There’s an implicit promise every long-running TV show makes to its loyal viewers: When the time comes, favourite storylines and characters will bid farewell with an exhilarating, satisfying finale.

For those that fail to make good on that promise, the wrath of online ranters and watercooler critics awaits — and in this day and age, that griping can linger for years. (Anyone looking to debate the merits/shortcomings of the “Lost” and “Battlestar Galactica” finales should have no trouble igniting a lively back-and-forth out in the ether.)

Next year, beloved series including “30 Rock,” “Breaking Bad,” “The Office,” “Fringe” and “Less Than Kind” wrap their runs. Will they be satisfying conclusions?

“The expectations are high on how this is going to end,” “Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston notes of his grim AMC drug saga, adding he’s happy to let that weight fall solely on the shoulders of writer-creator Vince Gilligan.

“The pressure really is all on Vince Gilligan.

He should (have) and deserves the lion’s share of the praise by far. And he has the lion’s share of the responsibility. My hope is that he is able to find the nuance that he wants to bring to the finale.”

Of course, the most memorable finales tend to be of either two extremes — the ones we love (who didn’t adore the “Newhart” ending?) and the ones we hate (the “Seinfeld” finale stands as a disappointing series low).

Then there are the ones that just plain confuse us until they gradually settle into one of the two camps (David Chase still finds himself on the hotseat over “The Sopranos” ending).

“30 Rock” creator and star Tina Fey says she’s determined to end her

NBC/Citytv show on a high.

“We’ve been trying to watch great TV finales, one a day, in our writers’ room and we cry at all of them,” Fey said on the red carpet of the Emmy Awards earlier this year.

“Like, the other day, the staff started crying when Frasier took his dad’s chair out. So yeah, we feel pressure not to blow it.”

At least Fey and Gilligan have the advantage of knowing well in advance their show is coming to an end. So many shows are cancelled before writers have a chance to craft a proper farewell.

“I’m a sci-fi fan and it just drives me crazy when you get to the story and it’s just, snap, the end, rather than a grand finale,” says “Fringe” star Joshua Jackson, who promises a solid conclusion to his mind-bending Fox/Citytv serial.

“We get our grand finale. And hopefully it will be satisfactory to the people who have come with us on the journey.”

Nothing frustrates TV fans more than an abrupt end to ongoing storylines. No one wants to see a great show end on an ambiguous note, or worse, close on a cliffhanger that will never be resolved because the show was suddenly can-

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Dear Annie: I have been dat- marriage through your eyes. ing “Stan” for five years. We are His relationship with his surboth in our 60s. When we started viving parent takes precedence dating, I was absolutely certain over his relationship with you, that I did not want to get mar- and right now, Stan interprets ried. marriage as an abandonment of But Stan and I have been Mom. through so much these past few In addition, you have changed years with various illthe rules midstream nesses and the like. by wanting marWe have always riage when you inistood by each other, tially precluded it. and I have come to reYou would do alize that I would like better to absorb to be married to this Mom into your life, man and have said so making a committo him. ment toward her Stan still has responcare part of your resibilities to a surviving lationship. parent. Both Stan and And although his mom seem so dethat doesn’t prompendent on each other ise marriage, it will MITCHELL that I feel like the promake Stan more fa& SUGAR verbial third wheel. vorably disposed.

When I discuss this Only you can dewith Stan, there is a cide whether the reslight change, but only lationship with Stan for a brief period of time, and the Man is worth keeping withthen things go right back to the out the legal papers. way they were, with me essenDear Annie: My husband, tially on my own.

“Bob,” rarely washes his hands I don’t want to walk away after using the bathroom. from Stan, but I need more than My son and I are really disI am getting and want to know gusted with this behavior and how to get my point across. worry about the lingering germs I would hate for Stan to lose that his hands pass on to everyout on having a wonderful life thing else he touches. with me at this stage of our lives.

Bob claims we are germo— So Confused phobes, and that a little bacteria Dear Confused: You cannot is good for you. force Stan to see the benefits of He thinks we overdo the

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hand washing, getting rid of the “good” germs.

I have asked him to pose this question to his doctor, but he refuses.

Please help settle this argument. — Irritated in Indiana Dear Indiana: It’s true that over-sanitizing can be a problem, but some degree of hygiene is necessary because not all bacteria are harmless.

And we transfer these less helpful germs primarily through our hands, not only via contact with multiple surfaces that others have touched (or will), but also by rubbing our eyes, scratching our noses and covering our mouths with these same bacteria-laden hands.

This is how easily diseases such as meningitis, flu and hepatitis can get passed around.

If your husband wants to swim in a swamp to see whether it boosts his immune system, that’s up to him. But he shouldn’t subject the rest of his family to his quirks.

Happy Kwanzaa to all our readers.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you find a way to deal with your domestic matters, then you will be able to take full advantage of the existing radiant energies. Find the harmony within your home life and you will get closer to reaching your goals.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, expect a busy year filled with lots of errands to run. You will take on the role of Jack of all trades, juggling many things at once while others relying on your wit and resourcefulness. You will eagerly feel an innate need to be of service to others and work closer towards achieving a balance in your lifestyle habits and your daily chores. You will work assertively and with great initiation towards mounting your wealth.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have more than one reason to smile these days. You are dangerously convinced that everything will turn out just fine and in reality: odds are definitely in your favour. You will find yourself moving around a lot and enjoying every moment of your experiences.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Concerns over money will be on your mind today.

Avoid contradictions in relation to shared finances. Your personal needs and your partner’s are not on the same page. Compromise and you will eliminate this uncertainty.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your thoughts tend to turn to emotional issues at this time. You are very likely to change your mind quite often. Avoid important decision for another day. In your personal relationships, you will tend to act on the defensive.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): This is a retreat time for you. You need to find your inner peace and you are certainly in need of some rest.

If possible, keep your daily chores to the minimum and try to not overload yourself with petty things.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A good structure and a strong determination will assist you

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Greater confidence and high hopes can be marked in your union. Appreciate the love you get and give without expecting anything back. You will put your thoughts into action which will invigorate your disposition.

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KRIKKE On Monday, December 17, 2012, surrounded by adoring family, Wijntje “Winnie” Krikke (nee Vriend) passed away peacefully at Extendicare Michener Hill in Red Deer to be present with the Lord.

She was in her 98th year.

Predeceased by her husband Martin and her son Nick, she will be dearly missed by her children, Bert (Lillian), Henk, Eldon (Margaret), Margaret (Charles) Webber, Annette (Paul) Forand, eight grandchildren and their spouses, and ten great-grandchildren.

She was born on June 29, 1915, in Andijk, the Netherlands, at the end of the First World War. She was the youngest of five daughters, joined by brother Gyula Kiss from Hungary, into a garden-farming family.

Early in the Second World War, Winnie and Martin wed, and continued growing tulips, seed vegetables, and seed potatoes. In 1957, the family immigrated to Lacombe, Alberta, and later moved to Red Deer. Winnie was a devoted, loving wife and mother. She was committed to Jesus and the church. She sang a lot while working at home and with the Song Birds, a women’s choral group in her church. The interest in writing poetry and prose that she developed with her friends while a school girl in Holland, continued in the form of years of letters, in both Dutch and English, to relatives and friends in Holland and elsewhere. In later years she enjoyed winning at Scrabble and also took great pleasure in travelling, community excursions, handicrafts, reading, musical performances, and participating in sing-alongs.

She always enjoyed hosting friends and family in her home and they will remember Winnie for her generosity, kindness, and resilience. A memorial service is planned f o r 1 : 0 0 p . m . , S a t u r d a y, January 19, 2013, at the First Christian Reformed Church at 16 McVicar Street, Red Deer. The family thanks the compassionate and competent staff at Extendicare Michener Hill, Pastor Gary Bomhof, and Doctors Lize Jones and Donovan Stearn for their exemplary care. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Salvation Army, 4837-54th Street, Red Deer, T4N 2G5 or online at https://secure.salvationarmy.ca/ registrant/memoriam.aspx? eventid=86874.

Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

PIKE It is with heavy hearts that the family of Shane Douglas Pike announce his passing on Thursday December 20, 2012. Shane is survived by his loving wife Debbie; his daughter Nicole and his son Brandon. Shane’s family was the love of his life. He thought the world of them.

He dedicated his life to each of them in their own special way, whether it was watching Brandon play hockey or those special times shared with Nicole discussing world events. Shane was a great friend to all who knew him.

He was always ready to lend a hand whenever anyone needed help. Shane always had a smile on his face. It was a reflection of who he was. Shane spent his life long career in the oil and gas industry. He was very well respected and ended his career as Drilling Rig Manager while working in the United States. His love of the great outdoors allowed him to spend time with his Aunt Darlene and Uncle Alfred on their farm. He will be sadly missed by all who knew him. A special poem from Debbie for Shane: All I want is to love you For the Rest of my life...

To wake up every morning With you by my side, Knowing that no matter what the day brings, I’ll be coming home to your loving arms again.

All I want is to give you my love...

As a place you can always come to, Where things unspoken can still be understood.

All I ever wanted was to grow old with you To watch our lives unfold and our dreams come true.

All I will do is love you forever.

RAJAH 1937 - 2012 Mr. Ignatius S. Rajah of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, Red Deer on Saturday, December 22, 2012 at the age of 75 years. Ignatius was born in Gampola, Sri Lanka in 1937. He immigrated to Canada in 1969, living in Manitoba for a year before moving to Alberta. Ignatius lived in Innisfail and had a long career as a lab and x-ray technologist. He later worked for Johns Manville as a quality controller until he retired.

Ignatius and his wife Olive moved to Red Deer where they created a beautiful home where they welcomed friends and family on a regular basis. Ignatius was known to be a wonderful friend and a extraordinary host who was generous, kind and possessed a great sense of humor. He was also a loving husband and caring father to his children.

He is survived by his loving wife Olive, his son Eric (Danielle) of St. Alberta, his daughter Suzanne (Bart) of Innisfail. Ignatius had a special place in his heart for his four grandchildren, Emily, Jackson, Tyra and Shane who he loved very much. A memorial service will be held at the College Heights Seventh Day Adventist Church, Lacombe, Alberta on Thursday, December 27, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. with Pastor R. Emerson officiating.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040

Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements.

Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

Cherished wife, mother, grandmother and friend. ~Forever loved, and never forgotten.

David and family

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P/T CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE The Red Deer Advocate is accepting applications for a P/T Customer Service Representative.

Cheney Karate Studios, Red Deer’s most trusted name in Martial Arts is now accepting registration for all adult & children’s programs starting January 2013.

Enrollment is limited.

(403)347-9020 www.cheneykarate.com

This is an entry level position reporting to the Customer Service Superv i s o r. T h i s p o s i t i o n i s responsible for assisting circulation customers by phone or in person with customer service issues and compiling reports and other office duties.

Candidate should possess Coming a good telephone manner, excellent communication Events skills and have basic knowledge.

FREE FLU SHOTS computer Attention to detail and the Highland Green Value ability to function in a fast Drug Mart 6315 Horn St. paced environment with a positive attitude are required for this position.

Preference will be given to Lost candidates with customer service experience.

LOST men’s wallet Dec. Knowledge of the news14 in Pines area. If found p a p e r o r d i s t r i b u t i o n call Jody at 403-343-7663 b u s i n e s s i s s d e f i n i t e or work 403-314-4383 asset.

LOST: Silver Pierced earring Approx. 15-20 hrs. per with 3 rows of stones.

REWARD! 403-347-0878 week including weekend shifts.

Please submit your resume by January 2, Found 2013 to:

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FOUND in Costco parking lot, set of two keys with heart shaped “ornament” Attached. Please call 403-342-1980 to identify

“oh baby ... we’re on parade!”... “oh goody, when?”

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30, 2013

“Babies On Parade” In the Red Deer Advocate If you would like your baby featured in this very special section, a great keepsake, look for forms in the Red Deer Advocate & Life Papers, or call 403-309-3300 for more info

In Memoriam CUNNINGHAM, Emma March 30,1903- Dec.26,1999 In loving memory of our mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.

MOM You will never be forgotten We’re reminded of you every day With love and strength you gave to us, Before you went away.

Announcements Over 2,000,000 hours

FINNIGAN - Esther Dec. 23, 2010

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P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must have own vehicle. 403-348-5456 or 505-7846

You did so many things for us, Your heart was kind and true, And whenever support was needed, We could always count on you.

The hands of time will never turn back, To when we were together,

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

HUMAN RESOURCES Red Deer Advocate 2950 Bremner Ave. Red Deer, T4R 1M9 Fax: 403-341-4772 Email: careers@ reddeeradvocate.com with CSR in subject line

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Looking for Ron Stone who lived in Innisfail in the 1980’s. Please call or text 403-472-5652.

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RED DEER BINGO Centre 4946-53 Ave. (West of Superstore). Precall 12:00 & 6:00. Check TV Today!!!!

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Caregivers/ Aides

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GROUP home in Lacombe needs full & part time workers, starting Jan. 1. 2 yr. diploma in rehab/ nursing care.

403-782-7156 357-7465

Coming Events

CCCSI is hiring sanitation workers for the afternoon and evening shifts. Get paid weekly, $14.22/hr.

Call 403-348-8440 or fax 403-348-8463

Medical

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F/T / P/T Pharmacy Technicians. Apply w/ resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer MEDICAL Office Assistant with Health Unit Coordinator Instructor required.

Must have 3 years industry experience as either a LPN or Unit Clerk and related diploma. This is a part time position for 3 hours per day Monday to Friday.

Submit resumes to resumes@ academyoflearning.ab.ca

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But in the memories we cherish

You’ll be with us forever.

We love you and miss you very much, Your loving family.

St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Office & Phone Lines Closed NO PAPER PUBLISHED

TUES. DEC. 25 & TUES. JAN. 1 Office & Phone Lines Closed WED. DEC. 26 - Boxing Day PUBLICATION DATES & DEADLINES RED DEER ADVOCATE

SAT. DEC. 22,& MON. DEC. 24 Deadline is FRIDAY, DEC. 21 @ 5 P.M.

RED DEER LIFE SUNDAY SUN. DEC. 23 Deadline is Friday Dec. 21 @ 2 p.m.

SUN. DEC. 30 Deadline is Friday Dec. 28 @ 2 p.m.

Wonderful Things Come in Small Packages

A Birth Announcement lets all your friends know he’s arrived...

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RED DEER ADVOCATE WED. DEC. 26 Deadline is MON. DEC. 24 @ 11 A.M.

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WED. JAN. 2 Deadline is Mon. Dec. 31 @ 5 p.m.

hether it happened Yesterday or Today, Whatever you want to say, To celebrate your special day...

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ANNOUNCEMENT 309-3300

Email: classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

CENTRAL AB LIFE - December 24 Deadline is Thur. Dec. 20 @ 10 a.m.

THURS. JAN. 3 Deadline is Fri. Dec. 28 @ 2 p.m.

For Rimbey, Ponoka, Eckville, Sylvan, Stettler, Bashaw, Castor & Weekender See individual publications HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES! Red Deer Advocate Classifieds 403-309-3300

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CIRCULATION

First Choice Collision

“People are our most important asset - their safety is our greatest responsibility.

No job is so urgent that it cannot be done safely.”

OILFIELD CONSTRUCTION COMPANY We are currently accepting resumes for the following fulltime positions.

EXPERIENCED PIPELINE HOE OPERATORS EXPERIENCED PIPELINE LABORERS EXPERIENCED BOOM HANDS Safety tickets required.

PIPELINE EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. BENEFITS OFFERED. An application form can be found on our website.

Website: www.wpidhirney.net or Fax your application or resume to 403-729-3606 or send by email to hr@wpidhirney.net 403-729-3007 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

GREYWOLF ENERGY SERVICES LTD. is now hiring experienced Well Testing Operators, Night Supervisors, and Day Supervisors.

We are one of the largest testing companies in North America.

We pay top wages, have an excellent benefits package, and an RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan) program.

Candidates must have H2S, First Aid training, and the ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening. A valid class five driver’s licence with a clean driver’s abstract is an asset.

Southern Alberta residents, submit resumes to: Email: jliesemer@ greywolfsystems.ca Fax: 1-866-211-0338

PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D RETIREMENT & SAVINGS PLAN BENEFITS

Join Our Fast Growing Team!!

QUALIFIED DAY AND NIGHT SUPERVISORS

(Must be able to Provide own work truck)

FIELD OPERATORS Valid 1st Aid, H2S, Drivers License required!!

Northern Alberta residents, submit resumes to: Email: mstoddard@ greywolfsystems.ca Fax: 780-539-0946

HIRING!

Please contact Murray McGeachy or Jamie Rempel by Fax: (403) 340-0886 or email mmcgeachy@ cathedralenergyservices.com

Expanding Integrated jrempel@ North American Service cathedralenergyservices.com Company is currently accepting resumes for the website: following positions: www.

Experienced Horizontal cathedralenergyservices.

Completion Systems Field com “People are our most Te c h n i c i a n s , S h o p important asset - their Technicians, Operations Your application will be safety is our greatest Manager(s). We offer kept strictly confidential. responsibility.

Comprehensive Benefits, No job is so urgent that it Competitive Salary’s and RATTRAY Reclamation is cannot be done safely.” currently looking for exp’d Field (day) Bonuses.

OILFIELD CONSTRUCTION All applicants are wel- Class 1 drivers, laborers COMPANY and backhoe operators come, but only those We are currently accepting c o n s i d e r e d w i l l b e with a valid Class 1 license resumes for for the Lacombe and contacted. Please forward A QUALITY ASSURANCE resume to: Central Alberta areas. /QUALITY CONTROL Preferences will be given completions.jobs@ ASSISTANT to those who hold current gmail.com safety tickets such as H2S Responsibilities include: Alive, First Aid and Ground * Reviewing project Disturbance Level II certifipackages, ensuring cation as well as a clean procedures and records drivers abstract. Drug and are followed and completed Alcohol policy in affect. We Landcore Technologies * Must have ability to read offer competitive wages, Inc. located in Ponoka is engineered drawings benefits and a safety currently seeking * Understand QA/QC bonus program. Work energetic, motivated team manuals and procedures consists of oilfield reclamaplayers for the following * Monitor work in progress tion and lease construction positions: to ensure compliance as well as many other Drillers and Driller * Have knowledge in tasks. Please fax resume Assistants with a Facility and Pipeline to 403-934-5235 or email construction projects to drattray@rattrayrec.com Class 1 driver’s * Participate in external No phone calls please. license. audits Compensation for this Apprentice or position will be discussed Journeyman with successful applicant.

Safety tickets required PIPELINE EXPERIENCE NECESSARY Benefits offered.

An application form can be found on our website.

Website: www.wpidhirney.net Fax your application or resume to 403-729-3606 or send by email to hr@wpidhirney.net 403-729-3007

Fluid Experts Ltd.

Fluid Experts of Red Deer is seeking experienced

Class 1 Operators

to haul clean fluids for the Oil & Gas Industry. Home every night, company benefits with exceptional pay structure. Must be able to work on their own with minimal supervision.

Compensation based on experience. Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com

Oilfield

Mechanics Pile Drive Operators Pile Drive Assistants Field Supervisor All candidates must be able to pass a pre-employment drug test.

Safety tickets are an asset but we are willing to train the right candidate.

We offer exceptional pay, excellent benefit package and a positive work environment.

Please email resumes to info@landcore.ca or fax 403-783-2011.

The right candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Please no phone calls.

LOCAL SERVICE CO. REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 TEAM Snubbing now hiring operators and helpers. Email: janderson@ teamsnubbing.com

TANKMASTER RENTALS requires CLASS 1 BED TRUCK Operators for Central Alberta. Competitive wages and benefits. m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

WE are looking for Rig Managers, Drillers, Derrick and Floor hands for the Red Deer area.

Please contact Steve Tiffin at stiffin@galleonrigs.com or (403) 358-3350 fax (403) 358-3326

Restaurant/ Hotel

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800 The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time cooks. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

AN EXCELLENT CHOICE WHERE YOUR AD REACHES RURAL READERS

CALL 309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS WHATEVER YOU’RE SELLING...

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CONCRETE FINISHER REQUIRED Must have drivers license.

Fax resume 403-782-2439

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

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For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in DEER PARK Dempsey St. area $45.00/mo.

ALSO Dempsey St. Dumas Crsc. & Duffy Close area $88.00/mo.

ALSO Duston St. Donnelly Crsc., area Densmore Crs. Dale Close $270.00/mo.

ALSO Doran Crsc.

Dunn Close $50.00 /mo.

ALSO Doran Crsc., Doan Ave. area $53.00/mo.

True Power Electric Requires Residential exp. only Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599

Truckers/ Drivers

LANCASTER Lenon Close, Lacey Close, Landry Bend area $76/mo.

ALSO Logan Close Lee St. & Lawrence Crsc. area $158/mo.

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BUSY CENTRAL AB company req’s exp’d. Class 1 drivers to pull decks.

Assigned truck, exc. wages and benefits pkg. Paid extras. Family orientated.

Resume and abstract fax to 403-784-2330 or call 1-877-787-2501 Mon,. - Fri,. 8 a m to 6 pm

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3/4 tons, and 1 ton for R.V. and freight hauling throughout Canada and the U.S. Year round work, lots of miles and home time, fuel subsidies, benefits, excellent earnings.

306-653-8675 saskatoonhotshot.com

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We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted.

The Town of Olds No collecting!

Packages come ready for delivery!

Also for the afternoon in Town of Penhold!

Also afternoon delivery in Town of Springbrook 1 day per wk.

No collecting!!

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

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INGLEWOOD AREA

Isbister Close Issard Close

RED DEER WORKS Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

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Lancaster Drive Lindsay Ave. Lagrange Crsc

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DISPATCHER req’d.

Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Good communication, skills both verbal and written. Must have effective time management skills and able to multi task in a fast paced environment.

Experience preferred, but will train suitable applicant.

Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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Auctions

Scott St./Somerset Close.

Sunnyside Crsc.

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EXPERIENCED PARTS PERSON

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

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BROWN EGGS AND LAMB now has free range pork : gourmet hams and sausage. Great selection of warm woolies.

Phone 403-782-4095 FREE range naturally raised turkey, gov’t. inspected, skinless, boneless turkey breast $5.99/lb, turkey breast steaks $5.99/lb, ground turkey $5.99/lb, drumsticks avail. $10/pkg.

Germane Market Gardens, Gail 403-843-6864

WHOLESALE FIREPLACE Installer req’d for fireplace installations. Call John 780-993-2040 278682L2231

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

EquipmentHeavy

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

for our office in Rocky Mountain House.

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Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail Please contact QUITCY

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

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Homestead Firewood

Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 BIRCH or Pine 347-7211 bluegrassnursery.com

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

Weir SPM is a market leader in well service pumps and high pressure Àow control equipment. Weir SPM’s line of reciprocating plungers pumps are used in various applications including cementing, acidizing, and fracturing. The expanding Àow control product line features products used to safely transport Àuids at high pressure into the wellbore during various well service applications. Weir SPM also utilizes a global network of service facilities to provide superior post-sale services to our customers.

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APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042

WELLHEAD REFURB TECHNICIAN

Household Furnishings

is expanding its facility to double production.

This position is responsible for the assembly, service, maintenance, evaluation and repairs of wellheads and associated equipment.

Preferred candidate will have a background in value and/or wellhead repairs and service. The successful candidate will supervise a team of professionals to satisfy our client needs.

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

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Email: rfontaine@weirspm.com

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www. eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403-885-5516 or e-mail: k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca.

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Weir SPM offers a comprehensive compensation package and bene¿ts program including vision care and RRSP plan. We are an equal opportunity employer with a committed focus on the safety of our employees.

403-341-3072

Submit resume, indicating “Service Runner Position”, along with your drivers abstract immediately to: careers@ reddeeradvocate.com or mail to: Human Resources 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer, AB. T4N 5G3 or fax to: 403-341-4772

Please contact QUITCY

Baile Cl. /Boyce St. Beatty Crs./Barrett Dr. Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St

MOUNTVIEW WEST LAKE WEST PARK

hr@pidherneys.com

Fax:

As part of our customer service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to delivery newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers. A delivery vehicle is provided.

Hours of shifts are Monday through Friday 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. or longer, and/or afternoon shifts Monday to Friday 2 p.m. - 6 p.m..

Saturday and Sunday, 7 a.m.-11 a.m. or longer

In Town of Trochu Morning Delivery 1 hour per day 6 days per week No collection No Sundays

BOWER AREA

Pidherney’s offers competitive wages and benefits.

Please apply at:

Do You: - Want extra income - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hours per week)

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for

Adams Close/ Adair Ave.

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in

GRANDVIEW 75 Advocate $393/month $4725/yr.

1-1/2 hrs. per day

Each Day For The Next Day’s Paper CALL 309-3300

ALSO Clearview Ridge Timberlands area 59 papers $376/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

Service Runner (Part Time)

FREE

EASTVIEW 100 ADVOCATE $525/MO. $6300/YR 2 HRS./DAY

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

DEER PARK Dempsey St. area 79 papers $423/mo.

ALSO Davison Dr. area 101 papers $541/mo.

ANDERS AREA

RIVERSIDE MEADOWS 57, 58 & 58A ST & 58 AVE. Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in

ROSEDALE AREA 72 papers $386/mo.

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ADULT & Youth Carrier Needed For Delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life in

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LANCASTER AREA 77 papers $412/mo.

CARRIERS NEEDED

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

Power Units w/wo stepdecks

For delivery of Red Deer Advocate by 6:30 a.m.

Mon. through Fri. & 8:00. .am. on Saturday in

Call Rick at 403-314-4303

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

RV HAULING Saskatoon Hotshot Transporter

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life in the towns of Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

MICHENER West of 40th Ave. North of Ross St. area $245.00/mo.

Good for adult w/a small car ALSO East of 40th North of Ross St. Michener Green Cresc. area. $268/mo.

Good for adult with small car.

CLASS 3 WATER HAULER needed. Only those with Drilling Rig Water Hauling experience need apply.

Need H2S & First Aid tickets.TOP WAGES PAID Fax clean drivers abstract and resume between the hours of 9 am to 6 pm to: 403-746-3523 or call 403-304-7179

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

We are a growing construction company that requires an

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TECHNICAL Sales Expert required at Digitex Canada Red Deer, AB. Twelve month assignment.

Working hours of 40 hours per week or more.

Required competencies: Must have several years experience in technical sales of Canon digital business equipment and software in a business to business sales environment.

Must be an expert at understanding customer needs, experienced in drafting and completing contracts for selling Canon equipment, previous supervisory experience of technical sales staff, be proficient at large account selling strategies.

Must have completed Canon corporate account training, product & solution selling and be an expert in corporate sales training and solution selling.

Person must be expert in technical training of clients to use Canon products.

Hourly wage CAD $26.44 plus commission.

Duties would include: Promote sales to existing clients, identify and solicit potential clients, assess clients’ needs and resources to recommend the appropriate products.

Provide input into product design where goods or services must be tailored to suit clients’ needs; develop reports and proposals as part of sales presentation to illustrate benefits from use of good or service and estimate costs of installing and maintaining equipment or service. Candidate must prepare and administer sales contracts, consult with clients after sale to resolve problems and to provide ongoing support.

Must be able to troubleshoot technical problems related to Canon photocopier equipment, printers, scanners, etc. and train customers’ staff in the operation and maintenance of Canon photocopier equipment.

Be able to supervise the activities of other technical sales specialists as needed. Send resumes to: mvandale@digitex.ca or fax to 403-309-3384

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

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Seeking Journeyman or 2nd /3rd year apprentices.

Positions for body, prep and refinishing technicians needed for our car and Come Join our light truck division. Top Team wages, bonus programs Crop Production Services and benefit package. Fax Canada is a division of resumes to Agrium (403) 343-2160; e-mail (www.Agrium.com), choice2@telusplanet.net and one of the largest farm or drop off in person @ #5, market retailers in North 7493, 49th Avenue America. Our mission is Crescent, Red Deer. to be the trusted and recMECH TECH HEAVY ognized leader in the agricultural industry, the EQUIPMENT REPAIR LTD. f i r s t c h o i c e f o r e v e r y mechtech.her@hotmail.com Journeyman Heavy customer and producer.

Equipment Field Make the move to join our more than 7000 employ- Technician needed. Class e e s a c r o s s N o r t h a n d 5 licence. onroad/offroad South America and begin equipment exp. an asset.

Position in Ft.McMurray. growing your career now.

Call Justin 780-713-9049 D u e t o o u r c o n t i n u o u s NEEDED immed. Journeygrowth we are currently man electrician for the AG recruiting for: industry. Competitive Crop Production wages and benefits.

Please forward resume to Advisor info@prolineinc.ca Penhold, AB To l e a r n m o r e a b o u t QUALIFIED dynamic employment ELECTRICIANS opportunities log on to www.cpsagu.com/Careers NEEDED Start making a difference today, and become part of our team!

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2- 20” TV’S $15 EACH, Toshiba 27” $25; Royal blue arm chair, $25; single bed, oak frame and mattress, as new $75; 403-346-2859 dble. bed and mattress 1 yr old only $25; loveseat floral pattern $65; kenmore 14.7 L, humidifier $45 replacement $170; 403-346-2859

BED ALL NEW,

Queen Orthopedic, dble. pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr.

Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325.

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FAST TRACK PHOTOS Call 403-309-3300 to get your vehicle pictured here

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DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2005 CHRYSLER 300 lthr, 64,690 kms, $12,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 JEEP Grand Cherokee AWD $15888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 HYUNDAI Elantra SE FWD, $10888, 7620-50 Ave, Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1993 FORD Ranger, paint like new, 4x4, s/b, V6 auto., $3500. obo.

403-347-5500

2001 DODGE Ram 1500. Q/cab. loaded 403-596-6995

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 LINCOLN MARK LT 4x4, lthr., nav., $26,888 403- 348- 8788 Sport & Import

2008 JEEP Grand Cherokee 4X4 turbo diesel, 30804 kms, $31888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

2010 DODGE Power Wagon 2500 SLT 4x4, winch $26,888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

1998 HONDA CIVIC, $2200 obo passed inspecton 5 spd. good cond. 403-352-3894

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2005 FORD Escape, AWD auto., blue, 173,000 kms. $6500.

403-346-4795

2007 PONTIAC G6 SE sedan. Lady driven, loaded.

103,000 km. $7300.

403-348-9746

2008 NISSAN PATHFINDER S $16888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2010 DODGE RAM 2500 SLT Power Wagon 4X4,hemi, winch, $26888 348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2003 HYUNDAI TIBURON FWD,106300 kms, $6888 348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2008 CHARGER 3.5L Exc. cond. 84,000 careful kms.

Service & fuel economy records avail. Asking $10,750. 403-346-8299 or 403-506-9994

2008 SUZUKI SX4 FWD, 89106 kms, $7888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2010 GMC 3500 HD 4x4 Duramax Dually, leather nav dvd 54,000 km $49,888 Sport & Import 348-8788

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2006 FORD Explorer Eddie Bauer htd. lthr., sunroof, DVD, $16,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2008 TOYOTA YARIS FWD, 62709 kms,

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 2.0T FWD, 4 cyl. turbo, $10,888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 FORD F-350 LARIAT 4x4, turbo diesel, htd.nav., $35,888, 348-8788 Sport & Import

2004 DODGE Dakota Sport 4X4, V-8, $8888 403-348- 8788 Sport & Import

2007 CADILLAC Escalade AWD, lthr.,rear air, sunroof, $27888, 348-8788 Sport & Import

2000 TRIPLE E, 28’.

Fully equipped.

SOLD!

2004 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GLS diesel, $9888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

2001 CADILLAC Deville Sunroof, heated seats, leather, DVD, 126,500 kms exc. cond. in/out. $6500. 403-342-0587

2005 AVALANCHE 1500, loaded, Viper command start, 161,000 kms., exc. cond. Must See. $17,900.

403-342-4909

1999 POLARIS RANGER 6X6 one owner, low hours, 3500 warn winch, $7888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2009 CAMRY XLE V6, loaded, leather, GPS, keyless locks, like new. $19,975. 403-782-3690

2011 CADILLAC CTS 4 AWDCoupe nav full load, 1 owner 53,000 km $39,888 Sport & Import 348-8788

2008 GMC Sierra 2500 4x4, 39000 kms $23888 348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 CHEV CAMARO 2SS/RS, LS3, 6 speed, 2104 kms $36,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2008 HONDA RIDGELINE RT 4X4, $19888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2009 F250 HD 4x4 XLT Super crew, loaded, command start, great shape inside & out $10,900.

403-348-9746

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 GMC SIERRA 1500 SLE 4X4, $18,888 7620- 50 AVE, Sport & Import

2008 HONDA Odyssey, 107,000 kms., $18,900.

403-598-3591

WINTER SPECIAL

2011 GMC SIERRA 1500 SLT 4X4, sunroof, htd. lthr., 61,557 kms $33,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2004 DODGE 1/2 ton quad cab 4x4. New tires. Great cond. $7000.

403-506-9632

2000 TOYOTA 4Runner 196,000 kms., $9300. obo 403-597-5972

$10,888

403-348-8788 Sport & Import

2009 HERITAGE Soft Tail Classic, low mileage. 15,000 kms. Must Sell! $16,000.

403-877-1170

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2009 HYUNDAI SANTA FE LTD/AWD #HP4545 18” alloy wheels, 6 disc CD, leather, sunroof, fog lamps, roof rack, trac control, PL, PW, PS. 51,22 km.

$

25,990

2010 HYUNDAI SONATA GL #H24693A air, tilt, cruise, trac control, heated seats, keyless entry.

$

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2011 FORD FIESTA SES

#HP4916 16” alloy wheels, ABS, Bluetooth, CD, heated mirrors, keyless entry, heated seats, traction control. 48,034 km.

13,990

$

2009 HYUNDAI ELANTRA

#H24477A Touring GL Sport, silver, 17” alloy wheels, sunroof, heated seats, air, tilt, cruise, PB, PL, PM, CD player, fog lamps. , 46,626 km.

12,990

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SALE!

2008 HYUNDAI TUCSON LTD/AWD #HP4859 leather, sunroof, roof rack, 16” alloy wheels, cruise, PW, PL, keyless entry 67,850 km.

$

18,990

2011 HYUNDAI TUCSON LTD/NAV AWD

#HP4820 18” alloy wheels, ABS, CD, cruise, Bluetooth, leather, fog, power seats, power sunroof, tilt, telescopic steering, trac control. 18,179 km.

$

28,990

| 7652 Gaetz Ave., North Red Deer | 403-350-3000

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Antiques, furniture and Make your travel estates. 342-2514 plans now.

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Scottie mug $5; Set of black Scottie mugs $8.

Pics available on request.

Call 403- 342-1980 JUST in time for Christmas entertaining , blue Willow dinnerware set, 12 place setting, w/5 pieces for each setting, versatile, freezer, dishwasher, microwave safe, have not been used, ( pictured in Sears wish book) $199.99.

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BEAUTIFUL affectionate young F. cat, needs loving home. To give away 403-782-3130 FREE F cat to good home, spayed, indoor, likes to go for walks outside 403-304-0879 HOUSE cat to give away, declawed front paws, call 403-728-3151

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Condos/ Townhouses

KITSON CLOSE

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Kyte/Kelloway Cres.

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Jan. 2 403-304-7576 347-7545

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3 BDRM. 4 appls. no pets. $900/mo. + d.d.

403-343-6609

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403-346-5885 SUITES FOR RENT THREE HILLS Affordable housing for low income, single adults of any age, F/S, water/sewer included. $400/mo, $400 DD.Further information & applications available at www.studiosalberta.com or by calling 1-888-963-5698

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2006 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 2.0T FWD, 4 cyl. turbo, $10,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2004 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GLS diesel, $9888 348-8788 Sport & Import

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2011 GMC SIERRA 1500 SLT 4X4, sunroof, htd. lthr., 61,557 kms $33,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 D5

Firemen killer said in note he liked ‘killing people’ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WEBSTER, N.Y. — An ex-convict killed two firefighters with the same calibre and make militarystyle rifle used in the Connecticut school massacre after typing a note pledging to burn down his neighbourhood and “do what I like doing best, killing people,” police said Tuesday as another body, believed to be the gunman’s missing sister, was found.

William Spengler, 62, who served 17 years in prison for manslaughter in the 1980 hammer slaying of his grandmother, set his house afire before dawn Christmas Eve before taking a revolver, a shotgun and a semiautomatic rifle to a sniper position outside, Police Chief Gerald Pickering said.

The death toll rose to three as police revealed that a body believed to be the killer’s 67-year-old sister, Cheryl Spengler, was found in his fire-ravaged home.

Authorities say Spengler sprayed bullets at the first responders, killing two firefighters and injuring two others who remained hospitalized Tuesday in stable condition, awake and alert and expected to survive. He then killed himself as seven houses burned on a sliver of land along Lake Ontario.

Police recovered a military-style .223-calibre semiautomatic Bushmaster rifle with flash suppression, the same make and calibre weapon used in the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, that killed 26, including 20 young children, Pickering said.

The chief said it was believed the firefighters were hit with shots from the rifle given the distance but the investigation was incomplete.

“He was equipped to go to war, kill innocent people,” the chief said.

The two- to three-page typewritten rambling note left by Spengler did not reveal what set off the killer or provide a motive for the shootings, Pickering said. He called the attack a “clear ambush on first responders.”

He declined to reveal the note’s full content or say where it was found. He read only one chilling line: “I still have to get ready to see how much of the neighbourhood I can burn down, and do what I like doing best, killing people.”

Pickering said it was unclear whether the person believed to be Spengler’s sister died before or during the fire.

“It was a raging inferno in there,” Pickering said.

A next-door neighbour said Spengler hated his sister and they lived on opposite sides of the house.

Roger Vercruysse said Spengler loved his mother, Arline, who died in October after living with her son and daughter in the house in a neighbourhood of seasonal and year-round homes across the road from a lakeshore popular with recreational boaters.

As Pickering described it and as emergency radio communications on the scene showed, the heavily armed Spengler took a position behind a small hill by the house as four firefighters arrived after 5:30 a.m. to extinguish the fire: two on a fire truck; two in their own vehicles.

They were immediately greeted by bullets from Spengler, who wore dark clothing. Volunteer firefighter and police Lt. Michael Chiapperini, 43, driving the truck, was killed by gunfire as the windshield before him was shattered. Also killed was Tomasz Kaczowka, 19, who was an emergency dispatcher.

Several firefighters went beneath the truck to shield themselves as an off-duty police officer who was passing by pulled his vehicle alongside the truck to try to shield them, authorities

Photo by The Associated Press

A house burns Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 in Webster, New York. A former convict set a house and car ablaze in his lakeside New York state neighborhood to lure firefighters then opened fire on them, killing two and engaging police in a shootout before killing himself while several homes burned. Authorities used an armored vehicle to evacuate the area. said.

The first police officer who arrived chased and exchanged shots with Spengler, recounting it later over his police radio.

“I could see the muzzle blasts comin’ at me. ... I fired four shots at him. I thought he went down,” the officer said.

At another point, he said: “I don’t know if I hit him or not. He’s by a tree. ... He was movin’ eastbound on the berm when I was firing shots.” Pickering portrayed him as a hero who saved many lives.

The audio posted on the website RadioReference. com also has someone reporting “firefighters are

down” and saying “got to be rifle or shotgun — highpowered ... semi or fully auto.”

Spengler had been charged with murder in his grandmother’s death but pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter, apparently to spare his family a trial.

After he was freed from prison, Spengler — a felon who wasn’t allowed to possess weapons — had lived a quiet life on Lake Road on a narrow peninsula where Irondequoit Bay meets Lake Ontario.

That ended when he left his burning home Monday morning, armed with his three weapons and a lot of ammunition.

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Speculation about the Cambridge, Mass., native rose slightly when he did not completely rule out a Senate bid during an appearance on CBS’ Face The Nation on Sunday.

In his Facebook posting, Affleck says he would continue working with the Eastern Congo Initiative, a non-profit organization that helps direct humanitarian aid to the war-torn region, and for other causes.

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Portraits of slain students and teachers hang from a tree at a memorial in Newtown, Conn. Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. People continue to visit memorials in the wake of the shootings after gunman Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26, including 20 children, before killing himself.

Newtown celebrates Christmas amid signs of mourning, sermons on good overcoming evil THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWTOWN, Conn. — Newtown celebrated Christmas amid piles of snow-covered teddy bears and heaps of flowers as volunteers manned a 24-hour candlelight vigil in memory of the 20 children and six adults shot to death in the second-largest school shooting in U.S. history.

Well-wishers from around the country showed up Tuesday morning to hang ornaments on memorial Christmas trees, while police officers from around Connecticut took extra shifts to give local police a day off.

“It’s a nice thing that they can use us this way,” Ted Latiak, a police detective from Greenwich, Connecticut, said as he and a fellow detective came out of a store with bagels and coffee for other officers.

A steady stream of residents, some in pyjamas, relit candles that had been extinguished in an overnight snowstorm. Others dropped off toys and fought back tears at a huge sidewalk memorial filled with stuffed animals, poems, flowers, posters and cards.

In the morning, resident Joanne Brunetti watched

over 26 candles that had been lit at midnight in honour of those slain at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

She and her husband, Bill, signed up for a three-hour shift and erected a tent to ensure that the flames never went out throughout the day.

“You have to do something and you don’t know what to do, you know? You really feel very helpless in this situation,” she said. “My thought is if we were all this nice to each other all the time maybe things like this wouldn’t happen.”

Julian Revie played “Silent Night” on a piano on the sidewalk at the downtown memorial. Revie, from Ottawa, Canada, was visiting the area at the time of the shootings. He found a piano online and chose to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day playing for the people of Newtown.

“It was such a mood of respectful silence,” said Revie. “But yesterday being Christmas Eve and today being Christmas Day, I thought now it’s time for some Christmas carols for the children.”

At a town hall memorial, Faith Leonard waved to people driving by and handed out Christmas cookies and children’s gifts. She had driven from Arizona, at almost the other end of the country, to volunteer on

Christmas morning alone.

“I guess my thought was if I could be here helping out, maybe one person would be able to spend more time with their family or grieve in the way they needed to,” Leonard said.

Many residents attended Christmas Eve services and spent Tuesday morning at home with their families. Others attended church services in search of a new beginning.

At St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, which eight of the child victims of the massacre attended, the pastor told parishioners that “today is the day we begin everything all over again.”

Recalling the events of Dec. 14, the Rev. Robert Weiss said: “The moment the first responder broke through the doors, we knew good always overcomes evil.”

“We know Christmas in a way we never ever thought we would know it,” Weiss said. “We need a little Christmas and we’ve been given it.”

Police have yet to offer a theory about a possible motive for gunman Adam Lanza’s rampage. The 20-year-old resident killed his mother in her bed before carrying out the massacre and killing himself.

Economic crisis looms after Egyptian constitution passes CAIRO, Egypt — The official approval of Egypt’s disputed, Islamistbacked constitution Tuesday held out little hope of stabilizing the country after two years of turmoil and Islamist President Mohammed Morsi may now face a more immediate crisis with the economy falling deeper into distress.

In a clear sign of anxiety over the economy, the turbulence of the past month and expected austerity measures ahead have some Egyptians hoarding dollars for fear the currency is about to take a significant turn for the weaker.

The battle over the constitution left Egypt deeply polarized at a time when the government is increasingly cashstrapped. Supporters of the charter campaigned for it on the grounds that it will lead to stability, improve the grip of Morsi and his allies on state institutions, restore investor confidence and bring back tourists.

“In times of change, politics are the driver of the economy and not the other way around,” said Mourad Aly, a media adviser for the political arm of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, the backbone of Morsi’s presidency and the main group that backed the constitution.

But there are already multiple fights on the horizon.

The U.S. State Department bluntly told Morsi it was now time to make compromises, acknowledging deep concerns over the constitution.

“President Morsi, as the democratically elected leader of Egypt, has a special responsibility to move forward in a way that recognizes the urgent need to bridge divisions, build trust, and broaden support for the political process,” said Patrick Ventrell, acting deputy spokesman. “We hope those Egyptians disappointed by the result will seek more and deeper engagement. ” He said Egypt “needs a strong, inclusive government to meet its many challenges.”

After a spate of resignations of senior aides and advisers during the constitutional crisis, Morsi appeared to have lost another member of his government late Tuesday night when his communications minister posted on his Twitter account that he was resigning.

The minister Hany Mahmoud said he “couldn’t cope with the culture of government work, particular in the current conditions of the country.” The resignation could not be immediately verified because it came so late at night.

Morsi signed a decree Tuesday night that put the new constitution into effect after the election commission announced the official results of the referendum held over the past two weekends. It said the constitution has passed with a 63.8 per cent “yes.” Turnout of 32.9 per cent of Egypt’s nearly 52 million registered voters was lower than most other elections since the up-

rising nearly two years ago that ousted authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak Morsi is expected to call for a new election of parliament’s lawmaking lower house within two months.

In the meantime, the traditionally toothless upper house, the Shura Council, will hold legislative power.

But the chamber is overwhelmingly Islamist-dominated so any laws it passes could spark a backlash from the opposition. Many fear a legal crackdown on independent media, highly critical of Islamists.

In a bid to reach out to opposition, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood said he hoped the charter will be a “good omen” for Egyptians.

“Let’s all begin to build the renaissance of our country with free will, good intentions and strong determination, men, women, Muslims and Christians,” Mohammed Badie said on his Twitter account.

But the opposition said the passing of the document is was not the end of the political dispute. Critics fear the constitution will usher in Islamic law in Egypt and restrict personal freedoms.

“This is not a constitution that will last for a long time,” said Khaled Dawoud, a spokesman for the main opposition group, the National Salvation Front, vowing to fight for more freedoms, social and economic rights.

In a sign that the new front for the opposition against Morsi’s policies may be the economy, Dawoud said the Morsi administration was “confused” both on the political and economic fronts.

“We want stability and economic prosperity like everybody else. But we don’t believe that the policies of Morsi and the Brotherhood will lead to more stability,” he said.

The turmoil over the constitution sparked huge protests that turned deadly at times. For a moment, the tension looked like it was spiraling out of control and only added to an already weakened economy.

At the height of the protests, the government called off its talks with the International Monetary Fund over a $4.8 billion loan which Morsi’s government viewed as a way to attract much needed foreign investors, and deal with a high budget deficit.

Major foreign currency earners, such as foreign direct investment and tourism, have dropped off because of political unrest and deterioration in security following Mubarak’s ouster in February 2011.

Over the last two years, the country has lost more than half of its foreign currency reserves from $36 billion in 2010 to around $15 billion currently.

The reserve level has been slightly propped up by some Qatari deposits in past months.

Economic experts say that Egypt’s current foreign reserves barely cover three months of imports, which is the IMF’s minimum recommended coverage.

There were signs on Tuesday that some Egyptians were starting to hoard

dollars for fear that the local currency could weaken significantly.

The run on the dollar was fueled in part by a decree issued by Morsi late Monday banning people from leaving Egypt with more than $10,000 or its equivalent in other currencies.

Some currency exchanges in the upscale Cairo neighbourhood of Zamalek ran out of dollars by midday and offered only euros — a rare occurrence.

Some banks, too, said they had run out of cash dollars.

“I asked around in many exchange places and can’t find dollars anywhere,” said Cairo resident Mahmoud Kamel after unsuccessfully visiting one exchange office. “I want to exchange money because I’m afraid the Egyptian pound will not have any value soon.”

The dollar rush prompted the Central Bank of Egypt to issue a statement on Monday calling on banks not to listen to rumours circulating about the fiscal health of the nation.

The bank declared its commitment to guarantee all deposits in local and foreign currencies to banks in Egypt and said banks are “financially strong enough.”

There was one particularly nerverattling report in recent days that longtime Central Bank Governor Farouk Okdah had resigned. The report came on Saturday during the second and final round of voting on the constitutional referendum.

Official media quickly retracted the news after reporting it. The governor

then turned up at a meeting of the government’s economic team on Sunday in an apparent attempt to quell nervousness over the state of the economy.

Egypt’s currency had been stable trading around 6 pounds to the dollar for the first half of the year. It has since slipped, especially in the past two months as political instability worsened. The dollar was selling Tuesday at 6.18.

Rumours swirling around impending tax hikes, subsidy cuts and other bread-and-butter issues have heightened the public’s concern. Around 40 per cent of Egyptians live just at or below the poverty line of surviving on around $2 a day.

In a sign of the worsening economy, the number of people living on under $1 a day rose to 25 per cent in 2011, up from 21.6 per cent in 2009, according to government statistics released last month.

Promises that the Islamist-drafted constitution would bring about the stability Egyptians crave were dismissed by economic experts who warned that without enough currency reserves, there is little to stop the pound from falling.

“The instability of the foreign exchange rate is not at all detached from the political instability. It is a reflection and clear mirror to what is happening,” said Haytham Abdel Fattah, head of the Treasury and International Markets Manager at Industrial Development Bank.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush spent Christmas in a Houston hospital with his wife, Barbara, and other relatives who planned to treat him to a special holiday meal.

Bush’s son, Neil, and his wife also visited on Tuesday, and one of Bush’s grandsons was planning to stop by as well, said Jim McGrath, Bush’s spokesman in Houston.

The 88-year-old has been in the hospital since Nov. 23 with a lingering, bronchitis-like cough. A hospital spokesman had said Bush was likely to be released to spend Christmas at home, but then McGrath said the former president developed a fever.

Doctors remain “cautiously optimistic” Bush will recover, but want to keep him in the hospital while they help him build up his strength and balance his medications, McGrath said.

On Christmas, the Bush family normally eats at Gigi’s Asian Bistro in Houston’s Galleria neighbourhood, McGrath said. There were plans to pick up food at the upscale restaurant and bring the meal to the hospital.

Bush has been receiving visitors for weeks, including two by his son, former President George W. Bush, and one by Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida.

Bush and his wife reside in Houston during the winter, and spend their summers at a home in Kennebunkport, Maine.

The former president was a naval aviator in World War II — at one point the youngest in the Navy — and was shot down over the Pacific.

He achieved notoriety in retirement for skydiving on at least three of his birthdays since leaving the White House in 1992.

a conflict that does not spare even the defenceless and reaps innocent victims.”

He called for easier access to help refugees and for “dialogue in the pursuit of a political solution to the conflict.”

Benedict prayed that God “grant

Israelis and Palestinians courage to end long years of conflict and division, and to embark resolutely on the path to negotiation.”

Israel, backed by the United States, opposed the Palestinian statehood bid, saying it was a ploy to bypass negotiations, something the Palestinians deny.

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VATICAN CITY — In his Christmas message to the world Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI called for an end to the slaughter in Syria and for more meaningful negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, while encouraging more religious freedom under China’s new leaders.

Delivering the traditional speech from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, Benedict also encouraged Arab spring nations, especially Egypt, to build just and respectful societies.

The pope prayed that China’s new leadership may “esteem the contribution of the religions, in respect for each other” to help build a “fraternal society for the benefit of that noble people.”

It was a clear reference to the Chinese government’s often harsh treatment of Catholics loyal to the pontiff instead of to the state-sanctioned church. Earlier this month, the Vatican refused to accept the decision by Chinese authorities to revoke the title of a Shanghai bishop, who had been appointed in a rare show of consensus between the Holy See and China.

As the 85-year-old pontiff, bundled up in an ermine-trimmed red cape, gingerly stepped foot on the balcony, the pilgrims, tourists and Romans below backing St. Peter’s Square erupted in cheers.

Less than 12 hours earlier, Benedict had led a two-hour long Christmas Eve ceremony in the basilica. He sounded hoarse and looked weary as he read his Christmas message and then holiday greetings in 65 languages.

In his “Urbi et Orbi” speech, which traditionally reviews world events and global challenges, Benedict prayed that “peace spring up for the people of Syria, deeply wounded and divided by

Talks stalled four years ago.

Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said that in a meeting with the pope last week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “emphasized our total readiness to resume negotiations.”

The Palestinians have not dropped their demand that Israel first stop settlement activities before returning to the negotiating table.

Hours earlier, in the ancient Bethlehem church built over the site where tradition holds Jesus was born, candles illuminated the sacred site and the joyous sound of prayer filled its overflowing halls.

Overcast skies and a cold wind in the Holy Land didn’t dampen the spirits of worshippers in the biblical West Bank town. Bells pealed and long lines formed inside the fourth-century Church of the Nativity complex as Christian faithful waited to see the grotto that is Jesus’ traditional birthplace.

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