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MOVIE MAGIC Karl Sisson’s work is in the running for a Best Visual Effects Oscar at the Academy Awards

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Karl Sisson’s work can be seen in the moving artwork on the walls of Hogwart’s.

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF As a teenager, Karl Sisson was blown away by the prehistoric special effects in the Steven Spielberg movie Jurassic Park.

“It was just amazing what they did at that time,” Sisson said of the 1993 movie that resurrected on celluloid a herd of long-necked apatosauruses, flying pterodactyls and one terrifying tyrannosaurus rex.

Two decades later, the Red Deer native is using his own visual effects skills to help other filmgoers step into magical worlds — such as those created for the Harry Potter and Narnia films, as well as Twilight, John Carter and The Incredible Hulk.

He was also part of the CGI (computer generated imagery) team behind the visuals in Life of Pi. The movie is in the running for a Best Visual Effects Oscar at the 2013 Academy Awards on Feb. 24.

Vancouver-based Sisson helped create the interior of the ship that the film’s hero is travelling in, which later capsizes, leaving Pi floating in a life boat with a Bengal tiger. “They’d built part of the interior, but it’s quite a large ship,” Sisson said, so a digital effects team was assembled to create photo-realistic imagery depicting the depth and breadth of the vessel’s interior.

Another of his high-profile projects, Harry Potter And the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, required that Sisson relocate to England to help shade the magical ceiling above the Hogwarts dining hall that reveals stars and clouds.

The digital matte painter also added dimension to some of the picture frames surrounding the moving paintings that hang along the main staircase at

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Left: Karl Sisson may soon be able to add an Academy Award to his resumé.

Right: The magical ceiling in the great hall of Hogwart’s is an example of Sisson’s visual handiwork.

Hogwarts, as well as architectural details behind the paintings.

When it comes to visual effects, “I’m a generalist, a jack-of-all-trades,” said the former Red Deer College visual arts student, who was mostly interested in art and science while attending Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School.

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Sisson figures knowledge of both has helped him in his career, which took off in 2004, right after he graduated from the renowned computer animation program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ont.

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Hanson found not guilty of drunk driving death

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BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF Questions about who may have been the driver led to a Red Deer judge finding a 25-year-old man not guilty on Thursday of impaired driving causing death.

Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Monica Bast found Preston Clifford Hanson, 25, not guilty following a trial that began on Feb. 4.

Hanson was arrested at his home in Sylvan Lake in June 2010 and was charged in connection with a crash that resulted in the death of his friend, Nathan Michael Medwid, 19, early on Dec. 5, 2006.

Medwid died after being ejected from his car after it rolled at least four times on Hwy 20, about five kms north of Sylvan Lake.

The men had gone to a Red Deer bar to go drinking on the night of Dec. 4, 2006.

Bast said there was no direct evidence presented during the trial to show that Hanson was the driver.

The Crown evidence was circumstantial, she added.

As a result, Bast said there was enough reasonable doubt that Hanson was not the driver.

Still, she said concluding this does not mean to say Medwid was the driver.

“The Crown was unable to prove beyond a reasonable doubt (that Hanson was),” said Bast.

Bast said the Crown inferred that Hanson was the driver through various circumstantial evidence, including that Medwid was sleeping in the passenger seat of his car while outside the bar during one point of the evening.

Plus, Hanson was found to have the key inside his coat pocket and that he had lied to emergency responders about a female driving that night.

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Sandra Atsinger, left, of Lacombe and Sherri Chapman of Delburne look over a collection of rocks and crystals as a boy walks past the display at the Lacombe Centre Mall on Thursday. From Feb. 21 to March 3 the shopping centre will host what is billed as Alberta’s largest collection of gems, crystals and fossils. Some of the highlighted pieces at the show are Naica Mine Selenite Crystals, Black Amethyst, Victoria Stone, Dinosaur footprints and fossilized Megalodon teeth. Customers to the mall can view and handle thousands of pieces, which are for sale at the show.

Redford off to Washington EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Alison Redford, who is heading to Washington this weekend to lobby for the Keystone XL pipeline, says she remains confident the project will be approved.

“I’m still very optimistic about that,” Redford said Thursday after she met with her caucus at Government House.

“I think everything that we’re doing right now is

about ensuring that we have a more sustainable and stronger record with respect to environmental management.”

Redford’s trip comes after recent comments from U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry about the importance of all nations combatting climate change.

Redford said she will discuss not only the need for Keystone, but also the province’s environmental track record.

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SISSON: ‘I like fantasy’ The science comes in handy when trying to understand the physical properties of various materials — whether it’s wood, metal, stone — or even fabrics such as velvet or satin. “You have to have an understanding of why things do what they do,” said Sisson, who noted that light rays are reflected, diffused or absorbed, depending on the material.

He often labours to match CGI lighting on matte paintings with the conditions that surround real actors, to create a seamless effect. Once there’s a comprehension of how light plays off objects, creating surface effects “is really all about layering” to replicate the look of various properties using computer tools.

The creativity sparked by Sisson’s childhood interest in drawing is what film companies look for when hiring, said the digital artist. At the same time, he describes his job as requiring a balance between the personal touches he can bring to a project and working within the larger framework of what a director wants.

“Especially towards the project’s completion, you have to stay close to what the director is looking for because it’s their vision.”

While Sisson regretfully didn’t meet Clint Eastwood, he worked on Eastwood’s films Changeling, and contributed realistic lighting on CGI soccer fans in Invictus.

While living in England, Sisson also helped give dimension and surface texture to the walls of a desert island city in The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

His work can be seen in Blades of Glory, Dragonball Evolution, Vantage Point, Beowulf and Resident Evil: Apocalypse. He also made what he considers small contributions to Twilight and District 9.

“It’s funny, you can enjoy watching a film,” said Sisson, “but whenever your scene comes on, or you see the parts you worked on, it totally pulls you out of the movie. You think about what you did do and what you didn’t do and you totally lose your objectivity.”

One of Sisson’s most involved projects was working on John Carter, which had a massive CGI team

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Karl Sisson was also part of the CGI (computer generated imagery) team behind the visuals in Life of Pi. The movie is in the running for a Best Visual Effects Oscar at the 2013 Academy Awards on Feb. 24. Sisson helped create the interior of the ship that the film’s hero is travelling in, which later capsizes, leaving Pi floating in a life boat with a Bengal tiger. of hundreds of people, because a whole imaginary planet had to be created. He recalled, “It was fun to work on because it was with a good bunch of people and it was challenging.” Sisson helped “light” some of the outdoor scenes.

One of his favourite jobs was working on a documentary film about experimental aircraft that was designed during the Second World War but never taken beyond the blueprint stage.

Sisson was among the CGI artists who examined the old plans, researched building materials available at the time and digitally “built” these planes in three dimensions.

“I like fantasy, but I’m kind of a history buff. I like historic things and bringing to life a world that’s gone,” said Sisson, who sites the Napoleonic-era sail-

ing movie Master and Commander — which he didn’t work on — as one that really “brings you into that world.”

So far, his creative career has been fulfilling and has allowed the married father of two to experience living in the U.K. as well as Los Angeles.

Sisson can’t remember a particular moment when he knew he wanted to work in the film business. The realization occurred to him over time; “It was something I was good at and (eventually) I thought, I want to work in the movies.”

If other kids share the same dream, he encourages them to keep drawing and dreaming. “Work hard at what you’re interested in and you might end up doing it for a living.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Carver trial opens with victim’s testimony Street, then corrected itself at 50th Street, said Van Den Maagdenberg.

Van Den Maagdenberg said he got the licence plate number.

Crown witness Andrew Smith said that both Van Den Maagdenberg and Ellison were in the crosswalk and that he, along with those two, were walking at a normal rate of speed.

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Municipalities as they stand now are unsustainable: speaker

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF The way municipalities are run now isn’t going to work in a future of growing infrastructure deficits, says the City of Red Deer director of planning.

“The model we’ve done doesn’t work or it’s broken, and we’re going to have a very big problem,” said Kim Fowler, who is a municipal sustainability expert and former directory of sustainability for the City of Victoria, B.C. For too long, municipalities and other levels of government have not put the money aside to ensure existing infrastructure can be maintained and replaced. Unless something is done, taxpayers could face a big spike in property taxes and utility rates down the road.

A majority of Canada’s major infrastructure was built from the 1950s and 1970s and is nearing the end of its useful lifespan.

How that will be replaced at a time when budgets are already tight is a question municipalities will have to address, she said in a presentation for the Alberta Professional Planners Institute on Thursday.

Currently, municipalities don’t have enough money put aside to maintain and replace all their assets, which includes everything from playgrounds and pools to sewers and roads.

“We need to do communications to the community to understand that’s why those costs are going up and that’s what those issues are,” she said in an interview.

Municipalities try to recoup some of the costs of building sewers and roads for new developments. But the amount collected falls far short

of the actual cost of maintaining and eventually, replacing infrastructure in neighbourhoods.

The amount collected is based on norms that have been in place for decades.

“It’s not based on a model of recovering those costs. That ends up in the infrastructure that we have across the county, and the United States is in even worse circumstances than we are,” she said.

“We need to review why we’re doing it and what those implications are.”

The development industry needs to remain viable, so its players will need to be part of the discussion on how best to fund future communities, she said.

Challenges posed by an aging population, and the results of climate change, which are expect to speed up damage to infrastructure, must also be addressed.

Fowler said the city is already looking at ways of doing things differently.

“We have a corporate strategic planning process, which is going to be looking at things like fiscal sustainability or financial stability policy.”

It will look at where the money is coming from and where it is going.

How much residents pay for recreation, which is heavily subsidized by taxes, and other services will need to be addressed, she said.

“The message is we’re not talking about huge amounts of change overnight. The model isn’t working and we’re going to be shifting the model to a more sustainable one.”

Some of the issues about sustainable community were part of the design thinking behind

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TRIAL: Some doubt existed However, the defence also pointed out a number of factors, including that the car had been owned by Medwid and that there were no steering wheel injuries sustained by either men, both of whom hadn’t been wearing seatbelts. Hanson had the key to turn the car off after impact and it was still running, court heard.

Hanson had told several people, including police, that he wasn’t the driver. Initially, he told emergency responders that a woman had driven in an effort to save himself and Medwid from trouble, not knowing that his friend had died, court had heard. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

Ellison was drunk, but not unable to walk, Smith added.

Crown witness Tamara Charles testified that she was preparing to cross the street with Smith when she saw her friend fly through the air, but she didn’t see the actual impact. Prior to that, she hadn’t seen the truck, she said.

The trial resumes this morning. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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A young impaired driver should have seen a woman crossing the street in downtown Red Deer when he struck and badly injured her, provincial court heard on Thursday.

The case of Kyle Brian Carver, 18, of Sylvan Lake, opened Thursday afternoon after Red Deer provincial court Judge B.D. Rosborough said he would allow the trial to proceed. Initially, defence lawyer Peter Northcott asked for re-election by judge and jury on Wednesday.

Carver then pleaded guilty to driving while over .08. The trial continued in regards to the charges of impaired driving causing bodily harm, leaving the scene of a collision in which someone suffered bodily harm, and dangerous driving causing bodily harm.

Crown prosecutor Maurice Collard told the court that Brittany Ellison, 25, has a titanium rod in her hip, a trachea scar, increased anxiety, as well as other health issues after being struck at about 3 a.m. on March 17, 2012.

Ellison testified that she had hung out with four friends the night before and had consumed alcohol at various places. After being at a downtown nightclub, the five of them began walking towards McDonalds, which is along 52nd Avenue, where they intended to get a cab.

Ellison said the last thing she remembered was the last store she was looking at, McBain Camera, at the corner of 48th Street and 52nd Avenue.

She said she was been doing “normal walking” and didn’t remember being hit.

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Maagdenberg said that he saw the truck approaching when he went to cross the street at 52nd Avenue from 48th Street. But he figured that the driver was far enough away and that the area was well lit, plus he was walking within the crosswalk. Ellison, his girlfriend at the time, was walking about two feet behind. He said that the truck was about three-quarters of a block south of 48th Street.

“There were street lights everywhere — pretty easy to see,” said Van Den Maagdenberg.

While walking across, he said he felt like someone had “flicked his hoodie” and then he turned around and saw Ellison airborne. Van Den Maagdenberg said he noticed that the driver hadn’t even tapped his brake lights. He said he didn’t see the truck hit her.

He estimated the truck was travelling between 40 and 50 km/h.

Van Den Maagdenberg said he ran up to the driver, who by then had made it to the lights at 52nd Street and 49th Avenue, and he tried to break the driver’s window twice with his elbow. On the third time, he fell down. Van Den Maagdenberg then testified that he opened the door and spoke to the accused, saying twice that “you just hit somebody.”

“He looked back and said ‘nah,’” said Van Den Maagdenberg. “So I hit him.”

Van Den Maagdenberg said he didn’t remember the passenger in the truck looking over at all at him.

Van Den Maagdenberg said there was a “kind of a tussle”, trying to get Carver out of the truck and at one point, Carver said ‘stop, I will get out.’

But he then sped off while Van Den Maagdenberg ripped at his shirt. The truck headed down a wrong way at 49th

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Why Alberta is broke AND WHAT THE REST OF THE COUNTRY CAN LEARN FROM IT

BY MARK MILKE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The red-ink budgets that have engulfed Alberta since the last recession — Alberta’s Finance Minister Doug Horner just announced this year’s deficit could hit $4-billion — are not just the result of weaker resource revenues, as Alberta Premier Alison Redford regularly claims.

That explanation ignores the other half of the ledger — the spending side.

And it is here where the rest of Canada should use Alberta’s budgetary fall closely as a cautionary tale. In particular, watch the kind of contract deals your government signs with the public sector because that’s where most tax dollars are spent.

Before detailing how Alberta has gone from ballooning surpluses to massive deficits, in part due to spending, let’s examine the assertion that drops in revenue caused Alberta’s red ink.

To do that, take a look Alberta’s most recent boom years, arguably in the middle part of the last decade.

Back in 2005-06, resource revenues

flowing into Alberta’s provincial coffers hit a peak of $17.1 billion. As of the budget estimate for this current year (2012-13), such revenues will be $11.2 billion (all figures adjusted for inflation to 2012 dollars). That figure may sink lower if recent emanations from the provincial government are correct.

So did the decline in resource revenues affect the province’s ability to balance the budget? Yes. But now let’s take a look at the other side of the ledger, the spending side.

The public should know that much of what governments spend goes to programs (roughly 85 per cent in Alberta) and much of that is spent on public sector compensation.

Alberta does not estimate how much of its total budget ends up in the form of wages and benefits for the broad public sector. However, last year, the Ontario Commission on Reform of Public Finances said that half of Ontario’s budget is spent on wages and benefits in the overall public sector. It is reasonable to assume other provinces incur similar, proportionate costs.

So how has Alberta done on keeping program spending (and thus compensation costs) in check? Not very well.

Let’s compare from 2005 forward, the boom years, at which point per capita program spending was already significantly up from the mid-1990s

lows.

Back in 2005, the Alberta government spent $9,594 per person on programs. By the current year, that jumped to $10,526 per capita, an almost 10 per cent rise in real per capita terms (and again, adjusted for inflation).

What Alberta did over the past eight years was akin to someone who assumes a large Christmas bonus given in one or two years will reappear every year — and then buys an expensive house with permanently higher mortgage payments. That’s exactly what Alberta’s government did when it committed to ever-higher program spending in the boom years.

Now consider this simple question: How would Alberta’s finances look now, even with the revenue decline, if the province had increased program spending since 2005, but in line with inflation and population growth?

Crunch those numbers and you find that Alberta spent an extra $22.1 billion beyond that parameter.

Had the province stuck to inflation plus population growth increases since 2005, Alberta would have enjoyed surplus budgets, including during the recession and in this present fiscal year.

Instead, the province has recorded five straight deficits and is heading for its sixth deficit year.

Part of the problem has been the

generous collective agreements the province has signed.

For example, in 2007, the province signed a five-year deal with the teachers’ union that provided for raises over that period that were double the rate of inflation, even though Alberta’s teachers were already the best-paid in the country. The province also took over billions in unfunded liabilities in the Teachers’ Pension Plan that had previously been the responsibility of teachers. Both very generous gestures, to be sure, but very costly deals for taxpayers.

Recessions and economic cycles are inevitable, as is the inevitability that provincial revenues, in any province, will occasionally drop. The critical question is whether a government is prudent enough in advance to avoid overstretching itself on the program spending side of the ledger.

In Alberta’s case, the answer was “no.” Alberta’s red ink experience should serve as a warning to the rest of the country: Watch your collective agreements with the public sector.

They can come back to haunt you.

Mark Milke is director of Alberta policy at the Fraser Institute and author of Alberta’s $22-Billion Lost Opportunity: How Spending beyond Inflation + Population Created Alberta’s Red Ink. This column was provided by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Show us the 140 federal tax cuts The Jan. 21 letter by Wetaskiwin MP Blaine Calkins trying to tune in Kyle Morrow leaves me with a few questions I’m sure the public would like the answers to.

This is the second time a Conservative MP made the claim that this government has cut taxes over 140 different times.

Remarkable because I notice government departments that can charge a taxpayer seem to be charging more for the same service. For your information, that’s a tax increase not a tax decrease.

Please explain, in a letter to the editor of our Red Deer Advocate for all of us to read, just where and how much our taxes have been cut. How many for business and how many for the taxpayers. While you are at it, you could also show where services to taxpayers have increased in cost, how much and why.

If you are to have any credibility for your letter to Mr. Morrow, then I would suggest you put some facts to your statement that this Conservative government has reduced taxes more than 140 times.

If you can’t, or won’t, supply us that information then I would suggest that your claim is a bunch of hot political air, which is quite normal for most politicians.

It’s your move — do you or don’t you have the fortitude to back up your statement about tax reduction over 140 times and will you print it to enlighten all of us simple hard working taxpayers?

E.T. (Tom) Skoreyko Red Deer

Moose cold, suffering from shock After reading the article on the recovery and subsequent death of the moose calf on Adams Lake, I have some thoughts on this matter.

I believe there is good in all people and I commend those who risked their lives to rescue this animal. The whole matter does cause me some concerns.

Had anyone thought of the well-being of this moose?

It was in very cold water for apparently a long time and they dragged it from the hole and left. I don’t know if it was dry or wet but it was probably cold.

There are several things wrong with this scene.

I would imagine after being in cold water for that length of time, it was suffering from hypothermia. After being in water and also being handled by people, it was probably also suffering from shock. (The picture indicates the moose is suffering and probably dying, not bonding.)

The article does not indicate if any attempt was made to take the meat of the animal. Maybe the person who shot it felt the animal was dying a slow death and decided the best thing to do was put it out of its misery. They then attempted to put it someplace that was not visible.

It has been suggested that the hole was made by a fisherman. Most holes that I have seen made by a fisherman are six to eight inches in diameter, some maybe larger. A moose would break its leg in these and not fall through the ice.

I suspect it was closer to the truth to say the ice was thin from a spring or flowing water. Maybe the ice was just not strong enough to support the weight of the moose.

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I’m scheduled to visit a total of 23 places from Whitecourt, Athabasca and Bonnyville, through Brooks, Medicine Hat and Cochrane. The schedule will allow me the opportunity to see and hear from parts of the province I don’t usually get to visit.

Seniors’ issues are complex and often misunderstood. Seniors built this great province and they deserve better. Seniors need to be part of the discussion that is setting the policies in Alberta.

We know that every day there are almost 100 Albertans turning 65 years old. This will increase the demands on the health-care system as well as see the options for seniors decrease. Many seniors are expressing that they would like to remain in their homes longer, they want to stay in their communities and they don’t want to be a forgotten piece of the puzzle.

There are a lot of improvements to be made. Unfortunately — for the nearly 400,000 seniors living in Alberta today — properly addressing seniors’ care has not been a priority. The need to move seniors out of their communities while awaiting long-term care placement is difficult and onerous for the families.

There is no question that the health-care system has to be improved but one of the issues facing acute care is the lack of long-term care spaces for seniors.

Seniors languish in acute care beds, which are not the appropriate situation. Instead, they should be in their communities, surrounded by family and friends, and receiving the care they need.

As if the cost of prescription drugs wasn’t already high enough, the government threw in a costly premium on top for good measure. For seniors already struggling with the rising cost of living, this was an extremely difficult and unnecessary burden to bear.

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PM to put defibrillators in arenas

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SASKATOON — Robin Biggs was playing recreational hockey when halfway through the game he skated over to the bench and lost consciousness.

Biggs was having a heart attack.

“My teammates noticed I was in distress and swung into action,” Biggs said.

“The pressure pumps (from CPR) turned into punches as I was not responding. One teammate jokingly commented later that ’it was great taking shots at you without you swinging back, but my hands were getting sore.”’

That was in November 2011 and Biggs, 59, says he’s alive today because the rink had a heart defibrillator.

Biggs was on hand Thursday as Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood on the ice in the same Saskatoon rink where Biggs collapsed and announced that the federal government is pushing ahead with a plan to put defibrillators in recreational hockey arenas

across the country.

The Conservatives promised $10-million initiative during the April 2011 election campaign.

Harper said the goal is to have 1,500 of the potentially life-saving machines in rinks that don’t already have them. The government will also support training on the devices.

“Let me be clear, that means a defibrillator in every recreational hockey rink from coast to coast to coast,” the prime minister said.

The needs of about 3,000 arenas are to be assessed before the actual machines start rolling out this spring.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation says up to 40,000 Canadians experience sudden cardiac arrest each year and, on average, only about five per cent survive.

“This hit home to many of us in 2009 when distinguished photojournalist Tom Hanson suddenly collapsed while playing hockey with friends,” Harper said.

“Tom was someone who had travelled extensively

with me over the years. He was in the prime of his life.”

Hanson was 41 and Harper said The Canadian Press photographer’s story “helped to spur us into action.”

The foundation says defibrillators could potentially save the lives of thousands of adults and children. It says CPR and defibrillation within the first three minutes may increase the likelihood of survival by 75 per cent or more.

“I want to stress — there are lives to be saved,” said foundation chair Dr. Doug Clement.

The Opposition NDP said the plan could help prevent deaths, but it suggested the government could further.

“One concern we do have ... is that obviously in Canada we tend to look at things that happen around hockey, but (sudden cardiac arrest) is obviously not limited to hockey. We’re hoping that this sort of philosophy and these policies will apply to other sports installations as well,” said New Democrat sports critic Matthew Dube.

Public servants making EI house Parents charged calls to root out fraudsters: Harper with murder SASKATOON — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says hundreds of millions of dollars are lost through false or inappropriate employment insurance claims and the federal government wants to curb that.

Federal workers are now visiting employment insurance recipients at home, the prime minister confirmed Thursday in response to a report from The Canadian Press. He said the government must ensure the EI system’s integrity.

“Every year, unfortunately, in our Employment Insurance system hundreds of millions of dollars are identified or are lost through false, or fraudulent, or inappropriate claims,” Harper said while in Saskatoon for an unrelated announcement.

“One of the jobs of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada is to ensure that the funds in the employment insurance system are there for people who have lost their jobs, who qualify, and who need that help.”

He spoke following a report that public servants

have been making unannounced visits since January, as part of an examination being conducted while the EI program is overhauled.

During those visits federal employees have been hand-delivering questionnaires and requests for people to appear at their regular EI interviews.

About 1,200 EI beneficiaries will be receiving the visits, through the end of next month. A group of 50 federal civil servants have been assigned to make the house calls.

A federal workers’ union representative has told The Canadian Press that she had already been concerned for government employees because of the controversy over EI changes.

From now on, people who frequently claim EI are expected to accept any job for which they’re qualified, within 100 kilometres of home, as long as the pay is 70 per cent of their previous salary.

They must also prove they’re actively seeking work.

Opponents say the plan is particularly harsh on Atlantic Canada and Quebec, which have a number of seasonal industries.

Agreement on oilsands health survey collapses after band pulls out

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A long-awaited study on the health of aboriginals in Alberta’s oilsands region is being questioned before it’s even begun over concerns about how it would deal with cancer rates.

The chief and council for the Mikisew Cree ‘IT IS ABSOLUTELY have told Alberta Health AN ISSUE OF that they won’t take part in a long-promised, govTRUST.’ ernment-funded survey that would assess the — GEORGE POITRAS health of people living SPOKESMAN in Fort Chipewyan and Fort McKay. “They felt it would be too much control by Alberta or Canada, that at the end of the day we would not be satisfied,” said spokesman George Poitras.

Poitras said the Mikisew wanted assurances the study would focus on community concerns over cancer rates, which many believe are elevated because of the presence of environmental toxins from the oilsands.

They also wanted a baseline health study, as well as promises local people would be involved and that the community would own the data.

The band council didn’t get the assurances they needed, Poitras said.

“It is absolutely an issue of trust.”

The three-year, $1.2 million study will still go ahead, said Howard May of Alberta Health.

“The University of Calgary is planning to conduct the community health assessment, and has applied for a grant,” he said in an email.

“Subject to the grant application being finalized, the research team will work with the participating community members to develop the approach — and will lead this work. The assessment will be informed by the health priorities identified by the community.”

The Athabasca Chipewyan, the Nunee Health Authority and the Fort McKay Metis remain committed.

The project is different from what Mikisew wanted, said John Rigney, director of special projects for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.

“Mikisew wants to focus more on the cancer side of things, which isn’t the focus of this study,” he said.

He said the project will take a broad look at health concerns in the two communities, from mental health to drinking water.

“There’s a perception among us that there’s an awful lot of cancer,” he said. “We want to get to the root of that, but there’s also other things we want to get to the root of.”

Illnesses like arthritis and diabetes — which afflicts 10 per cent of Rigney’s band — are also pressing concerns, he said.

The Alberta government has been promising a health study since Gene Zwozdesky, as provincial health minister, visited Fort Chipewyan in 2009.

Previous efforts to initiate a study have collapsed over disagreements about what it should study and who should run it.

Both Poitras and Rigney said the government’s latest proposal came to them last summer out of the blue.

“It’s frustrating at this end because the province comes to the community and says, ’We’ll do the health study for you if you guys will sign this letter of intent,”’ Rigney said. “But that means everybody has to follow (the province’s) agenda and that’s where the disagreement starts.”

The issue of community health in the oilsands area is one of the main points repeatedly brought up by critics of the industry both in Canada and abroad.

The Alberta Cancer Board has found elevated rates of some types of cancer in Fort McKay and Fort Chipewyan. But the Royal Society of Canada found

no evidence that specifically linked those rates to oilsands contaminants.

Poitras said the Mikisew will probably fund its own study.

That might work out fine, Rigney said.

“I don’t see those studies conflicting. I don’t see it as a bad thing.”

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — An Edmonton couple charged with starving and abusing their young twins are to appear in court Friday on new charges of seconddegree murder and criminal negligence causing the death of one of the girls.

In addition, they will still face original charges of aggravated assault, criminal negligence causing bodily harm and failing to provide the necessities of life.

Paramedics were called last May to a home where they found the two-year-old girls suffering from injuries and severe malnourishment. Police said they weighed just 13 and 16 pounds.

One of the girls, known in court documents as M, went into cardiac arrest and spent the next three months in a coma virtually brain dead.

Doctors said she had an irreversible brain injury and would never regain consciousness, but the parents fought to keep her on life support, citing their religious beliefs as Muslims and their love for the girl.

Court of Queen’s Bench Justice June Ross ruled she should be taken off life support.

“There is no status quo for M while she awaits the resolution of her parents’ legal difficulties,” Ross said in her ruling. “There are further medical challenges and further invasive treatments aimed only at continuing a life that holds no benefit for her.”

The Alberta Court of Appeal agreed it was in the girl’s best interests to be allowed to die, and said doctors had the right to remove her from a ventilator.

The Supreme Court of Canada refused to interfere with that ruling.

The parents were allowed one last visit with the girl in hospital, meeting individually with her for 20 minutes under police escort.

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New detective assigned to Pistorius case sat in the dock during his bail hearing, mostly keeping his composure in contrast to slumped-over outbursts of weeping on previous days in court.

In front of Pistorius, defence lawyer Barry Roux pounced on the apparent disarray in the state’s case, laying out arguments that amounted to a test run for the full trial yet to come.

Roux pointed to what he called the “poor quality” of the state’s investigation and raised the matter of intent, saying Pistorius and Steenkamp had a “loving relationship” and the athlete had no motive to plan her killing.

Pistorius, 26, says he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder when he shot her through a locked bathroom door in his home. Prosecutors believe the shooting happened after the couple got into an argument, and prosecutor Gerrie Nel painted a picture of a man he said was “willing and ready to fire and kill.”

Much of the drama Thursday, however, happened outside the courtroom as South African police scrambled to

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PRETORIA, South Africa — South African police appointed a new chief investigator Thursday in the Oscar Pistorius murder case, replacing a veteran detective after unsettling revelations that the officer was charged with seven counts of attempted murder.

The sensational twist in the state’s troubled investigation fueled growing public fascination with the case against the double-amputee Olympian, who is charged with premeditated murder in the Valentine’s Day slaying of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

Pistorius, a sporting icon and source of inspiration to millions until the shooting last week, is backed by a highpowered team of lawyers and publicists. The abruptness of his fall, and its gruesome circumstances, have gripped a global audience and put South Africa’s police and judicial system under the spotlight.

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get their investigation on track.

In a news conference at a training academy, National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega said a senior detective would gather a team of “highly skilled and experienced” officers to investigate the killing of 29-year-old Steenkamp, a model and budding reality TV contestant.

The decision to put police Lt. Gen. Vinesh Moonoo in charge came soon after word emerged that the initial chief investigator, Hilton Botha, is facing attempted murder charges.

Botha acknowledged Wednesday in court that nothing in Pistorius’ version of the fatal shooting contradicted what police had discovered, even though there have been some discrepancies.

Botha also said that police left a 9 mm slug in the toilet and lost track of allegedly illegal ammunition found in Pistorius’ home.

“This matter shall receive attention at the national level,” Phiyega told reporters after testimony ended in the

Car bomb kills 53 in Syrian capital in Damascus, a city that has largely been insulated from the bloodshed and destruction that has left other urban centres in ruins.

The rebels launched an offensive on Damascus in July following a stunning bombing on a high-level government crisis meeting that killed four top regime officials, including Assad’s brother-in-law and the defence minister. Following that attack, rebel groups that had established footholds in the suburbs pushed in, battling government forces for more than a week before being routed and swept out.

Since then, government warplanes have pounded opposition strongholds on the outskirts, and rebels have managed only small incursions on the city’s southern and eastern sides.

But the recent bombings and mortar attacks suggest that instead of trying a major assault, rebel fighters are resorting to guerrilla tactics to loosen Assad’s grip on the heavily fortified capital.

The fighting in Damascus also follows a string of tactical victories in recent weeks for the rebels — capturing the nation’s largest hydroelectric dam and overtaking airbases in the northeast — that have contributed to the sense that the opposition may be gaining some momentum.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAMASCUS, Syria — A car bomb exploded Thursday near Syria’s ruling party headquarters in Damascus, killing at least 53 people and scattering mangled bodies among the blazing wreckage in one of the bloodiest days in the capital since the uprising began almost two years ago.

Elsewhere in the city, two other bombs struck intelligence offices, killing 13, and mortar rounds hit the army’s central command, activists said.

Recent rebel advances in the Damascus suburbs, combined with the bombings and three straight days of mortar attacks, mark the most sustained challenge of the civil war for control of the seat of President Bashar Assad’s power.

Syrian state media said the car bombing near the Baath Party headquarters and the Russian Embassy was a suicide attack that killed 53 civilians and wounded more than 200, with children among the casualties. Antiregime activists put the death toll at 59, which would make it the deadliest Damascus bombing of the revolt.

The violence has shattered the sense of normalcy that the Syrian regime has desperately tried to maintain

third day of Pistorius’ bail hearing.

Bulewa Makeke, spokeswoman for South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority, said the attempted murder charges had been reinstated against Botha on Feb. 4. Police say they found out about it after Botha testified in Pistorius’ bail hearing Wednesday.

Botha and two other police officers had seven counts of attempted murder reinstated against them in connection with a 2011 shooting incident in which they allegedly fired shots at a minibus they were trying to stop.

Makeke indicated the charges were reinstated because more evidence had been gathered.

She said the charge against Botha was initially dropped “because there was not enough evidence at the time.”

Pistorius’ main sponsor, Nike, meanwhile, suspended its contract with the multiple Paralympic champion, following eyewear manufacturer Oakley’s decision to suspend its sponsorship.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Strip became a scene of deadly violence early Thursday when someone in a black Range Rover opened fire on a Maserati, sending it crashing into a taxi that burst into flames, leaving three people dead and at least six injured.

Police believe an altercation earlier at an unspecified casino resort prompted the car-to-car attack in the heart of the Strip at Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Road. The crossroads is the site of several major hotel-casinos.

“This doesn’t happen where we come from, not on this scale,” said Mark Thompson, who was visiting from Manchester, England, with his wife. “We get stabbings, and gang violence, but this is like something out of a movie. Like Die Hard or something.”

Police said they were contacting authorities in three neighbouring states about the Range Rover Sport with dark tinted windows, distinctive black custom rims and paper dealer ads in place of license plates that fled the scene about 4:20 a.m.

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Smoke and flames billow from a burning vehicle following a shooting and multi-car accident on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas early Thursday. as it headed north from the shooting scene on Las Vegas Boulevard.

Witnesses also told police the SUV and Maserati had come from the nearby CityCenter area, just south of the site of the attack.

“We have numerous witnesses to this,” Sheahan said. “But what is the genesis of this? We don’t know yet.”

Predawn jogger Eric Lackey was on his way back to the New York-New York hotel when he snapped a cellphone photo of the blazing scene moments after the crash. Black smoke billowed from the flaming taxi, amid popping sounds from the fire.

Lackey, of Forest Hill, Md., said a security officer in a yellow shirt performed CPR on a person on the sidewalk while police officers canvassed a small crowd of perhaps 15 onlookers at the scene.

“Police were asking if anyone was still in the vehicles and if they heard gunfire,” Lackey told The Associated Press. “That’s when I realized it wasn’t just a regular accident.”

Sheahan said police have video from traffic cameras at the intersection and were checking hotel surveillance systems. The video will not be made public, he said.

Police said the Maserati hit the taxi cab, which went up in flames, and the driver and passenger were killed. The male driver of the Maserati also died, and his passenger was shot.

The crumpled, grey sports car, which had no license plates, came to rest several feet away from the incinerated taxi.

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Judge orders ‘Baby Doc’ to appear in court PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A Haitian judge on Thursday summoned Jean-Claude Duvalier to appear in court after the former dictator defied an order to attend a hearing to determine whether he should again face charges for human rights abuses committed during the nearly 15 years of his brutal regime.

In an airless courtroom filled with human rights activists, journalists and other observers, magistrate Jean Joseph Lebrun also dismissed an appeal filed by the defence team that sought to take the case to the Supreme Court.

A prosecutor said the judge’s order requires Duvalier to appear in court next Thursday.

The rulings in Haiti’s Court of Appeal provided some hope to a group of plaintiffs who are seeking to have the former dictator better known as “Baby Doc” prosecutor for alleged rights abuses.

“Today’s decision is an important victory for Duvalier’s victims who never gave up hope of seeing him in court, and for the Haitian people who have the right to know what happened during the dark years of the Duvalier dictatorship,” said Reed Brody, counsel and a spokesman for Human Rights Watch. “It’s now up to the authorities to make sure that this summons is swiftly executed.”

Three British men convicted of plotting terrorist bombings LONDON — They were very ordinary would-be terrorists, with big plans but bad luck.

On Thursday, a London jury convicted the three young British men of being ringleaders of an al-Qaida-inspired plot to explode knapsack bombs in crowded parts of Birmingham, England’s second-largest city. The men had pleaded not guilty, but were recorded discussing plans for attacks that one said would be “another 9-11.”

The trial exposed how the trio — Ashik Ali, 27; Irfan Khalid, also 27; and 31-year-old Irfan “Chubbs” Naseer — were foiled by a mix of police intelligence, personal incompetence, and lousy luck as they tried to spread terror.

They attempted to recruit others to their cause, but four young men they dispatched to Pakistan for training were sent home within days when the family of one man found out.

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Oilers get dumped by Wild CULLEN LEADS WILD WITH TWO GOALS AS OILERS DROP THREE OF FIRST FOUR GAMES IN HOMESTAND

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Today

● College volleyball: ACAC women’s championship at RDC, games at 1 3, 6 and 8 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. (The Drive). ● Senior AAA hockey: Bentley at Sylvan Lake, second game of bestof-seven provincial semifinal, 8:30 p.m., Multiplex.

Saturday

● College volleyball: ACAC women’s championship at RDC, games at 1, 3, 6 and 8 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Canucks at Red Deer Northstar, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● Major bantam female hockey: Calgary Outlaws at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Kin City B. ● Senior AAA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Bentley, third game of bestof-seven provincial semifinal, 7 p.m. ● WHL: Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer, first game of best-of-seven North semifinal, 8 p.m., Arena; Mountainview at Three Hills, third game of bestof-three North survivor series, if necessary, 8 p.m.

Sunday

● College women’s hockey: MacEwan at RDC, third game of bestof-three semifinal, if necessary, 12:30 p.m., Arena. ● College volleyball: ACAC women’s championship at RDC, fifth-place game at 11 a.m., bronze-medal game at 1 p.m., gold-medal game at 3:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m. (The Drive).

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Minnesota Wild’s Cal Clutterbuck and Edmonton Oilers’ Ales Hemsky collide during third period action in Edmonton, on Thursday.

Wild 3 Oilers 1 EDMONTON — Matt Cullen had two goals and an assist Thursday as the Minnesota Wild defeated the Edmonton Oilers 3-1.

Devin Setoguchi also scored for Minnesota (8-6-2), which has won two straight.

Niklas Backstrom made 25 saves to get the win.

Ryan Smyth replied for the Oilers (6-7-3), who have lost three of the first four contests of a five-game homestand in advance of a nine-game road trip. Devan Dubnyk stopped 25 shots in taking the loss.

There was an ugly incident with 2:33 to play in the game when Edmonton’s Taylor Hall hit Minnesota’s Cal Clutterbuck kneeon-knee at centre ice.

Hall was assessed a five-minute major and a game misconduct on a play certain to be reviewed by the league.

Clutterbuck stayed on the ice writhing in pain had to be helped to the Wild’s lockerroom.

Tied 1-1 after 40 minutes, Minnesota took the lead just over two minutes into the third when Cullen sent a pass in front to a streaking Setoguchi, who beat Dubnyk with a quick shot.

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Queens open playoffs with victory

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Queens 4 Griffins 1 There’s just no time to take it easy when it comes to a best-ofthree playoff series, especially when you open at home.

The RDC Queens knew that and turned in a solid effort in downing the Grant MacEwan University Griffins 4-1 in the opening game of the Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League semifinal series at the Arena Thursday.

“You can’t mess around in a short series, you need that first one,” said Queens veteran captain Rachael Hoppins, who was named the RDC player of the game. “We were a little nervous in the first period, but we showed our true character tonight with the win. That’s the team we are.”

Hoppins helped get rid of some of the nerves when she beat Griffins netminder Morgan Glover at 4:28 of the first period.

She took a nice feed from Jade Petrie on a two-on-one, deked Glover and tucked the puck into the open net.

“It was a nice pass, in fact my linemates really helped me

tonight,” she said.

Queens head coach Trevor Keeper knew that first goal was important for their confidence.

“That was huge for us, especially coming from the captain,” he said. “But she’s been playing well. She was in a bit of a slump at the end of the first semester and I just told her to stick with what she’s doing and the chances will come and she’ll score. I believe this was her fifth game in a row with a goal.”

The score remained 1-0 until the third period as both teams were a bit scrambly, especially in the second period.

“They (Griffins) work hard . . . they’re not what you call a finesse team, but they put pressure on you and in the second we started to break down a little and it was scrambly, but we settled down in the third when we needed it,” said Hoppins.

Regular season team scoring leader Gillian Altheim scored what could have been the biggest goal of the game at 2:37 of the third period when she took the puck down the right side, cut in on Glover and roofed a perfect shot to make it 2-0 while on the power play.

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Red Deer College Queen Laura Salomons looks to get her stick on a rebound as Grant MacEwan Griffen goaltender Morgan Glover makes a first period save at the Arena on Thursday.

Manitoba’s Jones improves to 9-0 at Scotties

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KINGSTON, Ont. — The battle of unbeaten rinks at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts on Thursday delivered drama, back-and-forth scoring swings and plenty of excitement.

Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones emerged triumphant after a stellar display of shotmaking gave her a 9-7 win, a guaranteed playoff berth and left Ontario’s Rachel Homan with her first loss of the tournament.

Jones shot an impressive 93 per cent and always had an answer for her opponent. Homan was buoyed by the pro-Ontario crowd at the K-Rock Centre but it wasn’t enough to prevent her from suffering her first defeat.

“I predicted that we were going to lose a couple of games — it’s nationals and it’s tough,” Homan said. “There are so many good teams. We’re just trying to get to the playoffs so we’re looking really good.”

Jones then improved to 9-0 in the evening draw with a 7-1 victory over Quebec’s Allison Ross (3-6), while Homan (8-1) kept pace with a 6-5 victory over Nova Scotia’s Mary-Anne Arsenault (4-5).

In other Draw 14 action Thursday night,

Team Canada’s Heather Nedohin (7-2) topped Alberta’s Kristie Moore (1-8) by a count of 5-3 and sits alone in third, while B.C.’s Kelly Scott is fourth at 6-3 following a 9-2 victory over Saskatchewan’s Jill Shumay.

Shumay and New Brunswick’s Andrea Crawford are tied for fifth at 5-4.

The top four rinks in the 12-team field will qualify for the playoffs on the weekend.

Jones is focused on qualifying for the 1-2 Page playoff game and said she’s not really concerned about maintaining a perfect record.

“We had one loss in our provincials and it kind of gave us a kick in the pants,” she said after beating Homan. “Right now I feel like we’re playing well and we don’t need that kick in the pants. So hopefully that’s true.”

Jones took the lead with a pair in the eighth end against Homan and added a steal of one in the ninth.

Round-robin play continues through Friday evening.

Jones displayed the consistency that she’s known for throughout her win over Homan, who shot just 71 per cent for the

game. The young Ontario skip blew a chance to tie the game by coming up light with her final stone in the ninth end.

“Both teams played really well, both had some big ends and it just came down to a couple of shots here and there,” Homan said.

Manitoba shot 84 per cent as a team while Ontario finished at 75 per cent.

Homan opened the scoring with a draw to the button in the first end and stole a point in the second for a 2-0 lead. Jones came roaring back in the fourth when Homan missed a freeze attempt, leaving the Manitoba skip with a hit to score four.

Homan’s confidence wasn’t affected as she came through with a highlight-reel shot in the fifth end. The Ontario skip feathered her stone between two guards and followed with a tapback to score three and move back into the lead at 5-4.

Jones answered in the sixth end with a pair before Homan took the lead again with a takeout to score two in the seventh. Jones replied by drawing to the button for two in the eighth end.

She extended her arm in the air and had a big smile on her face when she completed the victory.

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The Toronto Raptors added to their backcourt ahead of Thursday’s trade deadline by acquiring Phoenix point guard Sebastian Telfair. The Raptors sent centre Hamed Haddadi — who never played for Toronto — and a conditional secondround pick to the Suns.

The deal gives Toronto a third point guard, joining Kyle Lowry and John Lucas. Raptors head coach Dwane Casey had expressed a desire for a veteran points guard in the days leading up to the trade deadline. Lucas is shooting 52 per cent while Telfair has struggled this season, shooting just 38 per cent.

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Volek rounding into form RANDY MOLLER

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

Randy Moller suited up with the Red Deer Rustlers — who will be honoured Saturday when the Red Deer Rebels don the Rustlers jersey for a meeting with the Prince Albert Raiders — during the club’s national junior A championship season of 1979-80. The Red Deer minor hockey product went on to play two seasons with the Lethbridge Broncos and was selected by the Quebec Nordiques in the first round of the 1981 NHL entry draft. Moller was an NHL player for 13 seasons with Quebec, the New York Rangers, Buffalo and Florida, amassing 45 goals, 180 assists and 1,692 penalty minutes in 815 games.

He lives with his family in Boca Raton, Fla., and has been a member of the Panthers broadcast team for the last 12 years.

He is the team’s VP of broadcasting and alumni and is also president of the Florida Panthers Alumni Association.

Dominik Volek is gradually rounding into the type of player Brent Sutter envisioned when he acquired the rights to the Czech forward from the Regina Pats in December.

Volek has been hampered somewhat by a hip flexor and inconsistent play, but has appeared to be on the upswing in recent games, including Tuesday’s 3-2 win over the visiting Pats when his shootout goal was the winner.

The 19-year-old son of former New York Islanders forward David Volek — a one-time teammate of Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter — has a nifty set of wheels and an accurate shot, two traits that are attractive to any team at any level.

“That’s why we traded for him, to add some skill to our lineup,” said Sutter. “He brings us a skill set that we needed in our top six forwards.

“He gives us that skill that we needed to have on the power play. He’s a guy who’s learning the power play and will get better at it this season and next.

He’s a guy who in a way is our power play quarterback. We like to work everything off his side because of his skill set and his ability to make plays.”

Sutter was holding his breath Thursday when Volek went to hospital for an x-ray — and accompanying MRI — after blocking a shot by teammate Mathew Dumba during the overtime session of Tuesday’s contest. The Rebels GM/bench boss breathed a sigh of relief when it was determined that Volek’s ankle pain and swelling was limited to a bruise, and not the break that Sutter had feared.

“He’s now listed as day-today,” said Sutter, whose squad is in Lethbridge tonight to take on the Hurricanes, plays host to the Prince Albert Raiders Saturday and visits the Medicine

WHO’S HOT Red Deer Rebels RW Rhyse Dieno is on a roll.

Dieno has picked up at least one point in each of his last nine games, racking up 10 goals and eight assists during his run dating back to Jan. 26.

WHO’S NOT Brandon Wheat Kings overage C Nick Buonassisi has only two points (1g,1a) in his last 10 games and after 58 games this season has garnered 29 points (11-18). Buonassisi, a minus-23 player this winter, put up 49 points (16-33) in 69 games last season with Prince George and Lethbridge.

THEY SAID IT “I honestly can’t even really describe it. If anything, I would say it was like the world’s best roller-coaster. The amount of Gs in a loop was just ridiculous. I felt like I was going to black out every time we did it. It was g-force after g-force for 10 minutes.

It was something I will probably never get to do again and most people never get to experience.”

— Moose Jaw Warriors forward Tanner Eberle, to the Moose Jaw Herald, on flying with the 431 Air Demonstration Squadron — the Snowbirds.

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Dominik Volek has a great skill set that has been getting better in recent games. Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter has a lot of confidence in the 19-year-old as Volek is the powerplay quarterback because of his ability to make plays.

Hat Tigers Sunday. “We were concerned that it could have been much more than (a bruise).

If it’s still sore tomorrow (today) we’ll give him all the time it takes to heal and hopefully it will be sooner than later.”

Volek, who celebrated his 19th birthday in January, admitted he felt immediate pain when he was struck with Dumba’s shot.

“I moved my leg into the shot and it hurt right away,” said Volek. “Brent asked me if I could go for a shootout and I said ‘yeah, I can.’ And it worked out.”

Volek, a six-foot, 175-pound winger, has certainly contributed offensively this season with eight goals and 15 points in 23

games. But his level of intensity has wavered from game to game, although he has seemed to be more in tune recently.

“For him it’s about consistency, the consistency of knowing that there’s a certain level of play that’s acceptable,” said Sutter. “He has to understand and learn that he can’t have nights where he’s not where he needs to be. It’s just a learning process for him.”

Volek scored 14 goals and added 18 assists in 70 games for the Pats last season, then refused to return to Regina last fall and played nearly three months in Sweden before joining the Rebels.

Despite playing in the WHL last season, Volek admitted

there was an adjustment period upon returning to Canada.

“I think the first four to five games was very hard with the smaller ice and high tempo of the game,” he said. “But now I think it’s getting better every game.

“I feel like home here now.

The first 14 days you don’t know anyone, so it’s kind of tough. But now I feel like home and feel good on the ice and off the ice.

The boys are awesome.

“I still try to play my best.

Yeah, I have some bad games, I have some good games, so I’m trying to play every game so I can bring something on the ice for the team.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

Wallin says it’s time to move on FORMER COACH CONFIRMS THAT HE WILL NOT BE TAKING ANOTHER POSITION WITH REBELS Jesse Wallin put his stamp of approval Brenden Walker had scored an empty-net this week on what had become fairly obvi- goal at 18:06. ous — he won’t be taking another position Walker tallied again just over a minute with the Red Deer Rebels. later— again into an empty net — and StoUpon relieving Wallin of his duties as thers was ejected after yelling at Molleken. head coach of the Rebels in November, “I have all kind of respect for Mike Stothowner/president/GM and now head coach ers,” Molleken told Daniel Nugent-Bowman Brent Sutter suggested that he of the Saskatoon StarPhoenix. would be offered another po“He’s a good coach and his teams sition with the club if he so play hard. I don’t believe when wished. The plan called for you’re up like that to put your Wallin to approach Sutter after No. 1 power-play unit out like Christmas if he was interested. that. But it was simply because Wallin never got back to Sutof McFaull going after Nicholls.” ter and confirmed Thursday that The Blades will establish a he’s on the verge of accepting a franchise mark for consecutive job that he would not identify as wins if they defeat the visiting either hockey or non-hockey reWheat Kings tonight. lated. The bottom line, once and ● Red Deer product Matt for all — he won’t be back with Fraser was recalled by the Dalthe Rebels in any capacity. las Stars this week but wasn’t in GREG “Ultimately, Brent and I the lineup Thursday versus the MEACHEM never really discussed it,” said Vancouver Canucks.

Wallin. “It’s not something he Fraser, who made his NHL pushed on his side and not debut and played one game with something that I was really exDallas last winter, is in his seccited about. It was time to move on. I’d been ond season with the Texas Stars, the Amerin the organization for awhile and coming ican Hockey League affiliate of the NHL from a GM position and a head coach posi- Stars. He is tied for third in the AHL in tion, I can’t imagine what would have been goals, with 24, and leads the league with 13 there that would have interested me, that power-play tallies. would have made me want to stick around.

Earlier this season, the former Kootenay “It was time to move on and there is lots Ice forward was selected to represent the of opportunity out there. This is a great Western Conference in the AHL all-star place to be as far as that’s concerned. It’s game. He left Texas as the club’s leading time to move forward and on to bigger and scorer with 24 goals and 35 points in 51 better things.” games. ● The Saskatoon Blades tied a franchise ● Red Deer native and Tri-City Amerirecord Wednesday, downing the visiting cans captain Justin Feser was named best Moose Jaw Warriors 5-1 for their 13th con- overage player in this year’s Best of the secutive win.

West survey conducted by the Tri-City HerIn the process, Blades GM/coach Lorne ald. The veteran forward is sixth in league Molleken didn’t endear himself to Warriors scoring with 83 points (35g,48a) and leads bench boss Mike Stothers, who was enraged all overage players in offensive production. when Molleken sent out his top power-play The survey, with input from Western late in the game with his club up 4-1.

Conference players, management and The Warriors were penalized when de- broadcasters, also annointed Feser as the fenceman Kendall McFaull picked up an player most valuable to his team and most extra roughing infraction for decking Josh under-rated player.

Nicholls with a right hand during a tussle.

The Portland Winterhawks were front The dust-up came just after Blades captain and centre in the survey, with Ty Rattie

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(most accurate shot), Taylor Peters (top faceoff man and defensive forward), Tyler Wotherspoon (best stay-at-home defenceman), Seth Jones (top rookie and top pro prospect) and Brendan Liepsic (most irritating player) topping various categories.

The other winners included Tyler Sandhu of Everett (best 16-year-old), Eric Comrie of the Americans (best goaltender), Myles Bell of Kelowna (hardest short), Colin Smith of Kamloops (best skater), Tyrell Goulburne of Kelowna (toughest player) and JC Lipon of Kamloops (most improved player).

Kelowna Rockets general manager Bruce Hamilton was named top executive and Rockets bench boss Ryan Huska was selected as the top coach. Pat Smith was voted top referee and Everett supporters were selected as the best fans. ● This, courtesy of Annie Fowler of the Tri-City Herald: Mitch Topping has been a champion of causes during his time with the Tri-City Americans. Topping and Americans team captain Justin Feser are involved with the local MDA chapter. He makes appearances at local school, hospitals and helped build a Habitat for Humanity house.

“I don’t go to school, so I want to put my interests where they can help,” said Topping, a native of Red Deer. “The community appreciates what we do and I get a kick out of it.”

Wednesday, Topping and the rest of the Americans leadership group toured the Tri-Cities Cancer Center in advance of tonight’s annual Breast Cancer Awareness Game against the Everett Silvertips.

“It’s an amazing facility,” Topping said.

“I didn’t realize how much they depend on donations and our game. They thanked us upward of 10 times while we were there.

The city embraces that facility and it’s amazing what they have done for people.

This game means a little more to us now.

(Today) will be a great experience.”

The annual Breast Cancer Awareness Game has raised $114,075 in seven years, including more than $20,000 in each of the last three years. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Nordic club getting more competitive THE CROSS-COUNTRY SKI CLUB HAS SEEN A CHANGE FROM BEING RECREATIONAL TO MORE OF A FOCUS ON THE COMPETITIVE SIDE OF THE SPORT

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Red Deer Nordic Ski Club members Zach Kosack, leading, and Devin Saunders train with ski coach Brian Johnson at River Bend Golf and Recreation Area Thursday.

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF It wasn’t that long ago the Red Deer Nordic Club was more recreational than competitive.

That’s changed a bit over the last few years.

“We’re building it up and we have a few good kids, who are more competitive and take it more seriously,” explained assistant coach Brian Johnson, who has been with the club for five years. “In the past it was more recreational, now they want to compete for the Alberta Cup.” The cross-country ski club has also hired Graeme

Moore as a “full time” head coach, although as Johnson explains it’s only half time.

“You find the big ski clubs hiring a coach full time, but we’re not quite there yet,” he said. “We can’t compete with them, but we’re halfway there.”

The RDNC is for the kids 13 and over while the Track Attack, which is new to the Red Deer Club, is for youngsters 10-12, who have likely came out of the Jack Rabbits program.

Johnson is the head coach of the Track Attack, which has 25 athletes registered. There’s also 25 in the Nordic Club and 50 in Jack Rabbitts.

“And we’re always looking for more,” said John-

son, who feels the Track Attack was a key addition to the program.

“There was a gap between the older kids and the Jack Rabbits and it was hard for the kids to make that jump,” he explained.

The Track Attack works out three times a week, usually at River Bend, with the older skiers in the Nordic Club practicing three to five times a week.

“At times we have the Track Attack kids working with the older kids as it gives them a chance to see the speed and what they need to do to take the next step.”

There are four members of the RDNC who are among the best in the province. In fact Bailey Johnson has already wrapped up the Alberta Cup title in the U14 girls’ division. The Alberta Cup winner is determined on the results of five of their eight races.

The Red Deer team has been involved in six races and Bailey Johnson has won all six.

Anna Zimmerman and Claire Espey are two of the top skiers in the U16 girls’ category and Gavin Rittamer in the U14 boy’s division.

The top three races, at the end of the season, qualify for the provincial team, which means they get extra competition and attend extra camps.

Zimmerman, whose younger sister Reyna is one of the top skiers in the U8 division, will represent Red Deer at the national finals in Vancouver.

A number of the Red Deer competitors will also be at the Western Canadian championships this weekend in Grande Prairie.

While the Track Attack also competes at a number of events, Johnson looks at it as a chance for kids to work on their skills while enjoying the sport.

“We’re not all competitive,” he said. “But the kids do work hard and learn the skills while having fun.”

But cross-country skiing, much like cross-country running, which Johnson also coaches at Hunting Hills, is a sport that takes a lot of time and dedication to be among the elite.

“The kids ski in the dark and cold . . . they need toughness and endurance to be competitive. It’s a tough sell at times and you need the right kids to do it.”

There are a few kids who run cross-country and also ski.

“There are, but you find the top runners are in the middle of the pack in nordic,” Johnson explained.

The RDNC is relatively inexpensive and the club will provide some equipment. The Track Attack costs $175 for a season while the Nordic Club costs $300 for recreation skiers and $600 for full competitive skiers. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Top seeds eliminated early at Match Play Championship

over the 15th green and into a cactus. But the two-time major champion hung tough, coming up with a clutch birdie on the 16th to stay in the game.

McIlroy nearly holed his bunker on the 18th, and Lowry followed with a steady shot out to 4 feet and calmly sank the putt.

“Deep down, I knew I could beat him,” Lowry said. “There’s a reason I’m here, and this is match play.”

For McIlroy, more questions are sure to follow him to Florida for his road to the Masters. He now has played only 54 holes in the first two months of the season, missing the cut in Abu Dhabi and losing in the first round at Dove Mountain.

“You want to try and get as far as you can, but I guess that’s match play,” McIlroy said. “I probably would have lost by more if I had played someone else in the

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MARANA, Ariz. — The snow is gone from the Match Play Championship, and so are Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods.

In a stunning conclusion to what already is a bizarre week on Dove Mountain, Shane Lowry of Ireland made a 4-foot par putt on the 18th hole to eliminate Rory McIlroy in the opening round Thursday of golf’s most unpredictable tournament.

“It’s definitely a day I’m going to remember,” said Lowry, the third player in the last four years to beat the No. 1 seed in the opening round.

Moments later, Charles Howell III finished off a fabulous round in cold conditions by defeating Woods on the 17th hole. Howell, who had not faced Woods in match play since losing to him in the third round of the 1996 U.S. Amateur, played bogeyfree on a course that still had patches of snow and ice after being cleared Thursday morning.

The match was all square when Howell hit a wedge that stopped inches from the cup on the 15th hole for a conceded birdie. Then, he holed a 25-foot birdie putt on the 16th and went 2 up when Woods badly missed a 12-foot birdie putt.

“I had nothing to lose,” said Howell, who started the year outside the top 100 in the world and hasn’t qualified for this World Golf Championship in five years. “In this format, match play is crazy. He’s Tiger Woods.

I was lucky to hang in there.”

The final matches were played in near darkness, and they could have stopped after 15 holes. Woods wanted to play on, even though Howell had the momentum. Woods was 2 under for the day, and neither of them made a bogey.

“We both played well,” Woods said. “He made a couple of more birdies than I did. He played well, and he’s advancing.”

McIlroy, the No. 1 player in the world, built a 2-up lead early in the match until Lowry rallied and grabbed the moment by chipping in for birdie on the par-3 12th and then ripping a fairway metal to within a few feet for a conceded eagle on the 13th.

Lowry missed a short par putt on the 14th, only for McIlroy to give away the next hole with a tee shot into the desert and a bunker shot that flew

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Siem of Germany. Donald then birdied the 18th from 7 feet to win the match.

Louis Oosthuizen, the No. 4 seed, rallied to get past Richie Ramsay of Scotland.

The opening round was halted Wednesday after 3 ½ hours because of a freak snowstorm that covered Dove Mountain with nearly 2 inches.

It continued to snow at times overnight, and it took nearly five hours to clear snow from the golf course for the tournament to resume.

Turns out snow wasn’t the only surprise.

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— not as an amateur, not even in dozens of games at Isleworth before Woods moved away to south Florida. What a time to change that losing streak.

“I had to play extremely well to have a chance, and I still kept waiting for that Tiger moment,” Howell said.

It never came.

Woods missed short birdie chances at the 10th and 11th, but the real damage came on the 15th when he went long of the green with a wedge in hand. Howell also missed a pair of short putts on the back nine, but he came up big with the putt on the 16th.

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field. It wasn’t a great quality match. But it would have been nice to get through and just get another day here and another competitive round under my belt.”

Just like that, the Match Play Championship lost its two biggest stars in one day.

The only other time the top two seeds lost in the opening round was in 2002, when Woods and Phil Mickelson lost at La Costa.

Luke Donald nearly made it the top three seeds except for a clutch performance. He holed a 10-foot birdie putt to halve the 17th hole and stay tied with Marcel

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W LOTLSOL GF dx-Edmonton 61 43 13 2 3 233 d-Saskatoon 60 36 21 0 3 221 Calgary 60 39 17 1 3 213 Prince Albert 60 33 22 2 3 194 Red Deer 60 32 22 4 2 172 Medicine Hat 61 30 28 2 1 208 Swift Current 60 28 26 3 3 172 Kootenay 60 29 29 2 0 165 Lethbridge 60 25 26 2 7 185 Moose Jaw 60 20 31 3 6 152 Regina 61 21 33 3 4 156 Brandon 61 21 35 3 2 162

GA 124 177 161 188 174 208 170 182 200 210 222 245

Pt 91 75 82 71 70 63 62 60 59 49 49 47

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt dx-Portland 61 49 9 1 2 280 138 101 dx-Kelowna 61 42 15 3 1 258 156 88 x-Kamloops 61 40 16 2 3 220 163 85 Tri-City 59 34 22 1 2 198 179 71 Spokane 60 34 24 2 0 220 198 70 Victoria 59 32 22 1 4 189 196 69 Seattle 60 21 32 6 1 173 238 49 Everett 60 21 34 1 4 140 218 47 Prince George 60 18 34 2 6 151 220 44 Vancouver 61 15 44 2 0 165 261 32 d — Division leader. x — Clinched playoff berth.

Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; 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 point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Wednesday’s results Saskatoon 5 Moose Jaw 1 Regina 3 Edmonton 2 Prince Albert 5 Medicine Hat 2 Portland 3 Kamloops 0 Thursday’s results No Games Scheduled.

Friday’s games Regina at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Prince Albert at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Portland at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 23 Saskatoon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m.

Portland at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Kamloops at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 24 Seattle at Vancouver, 3 p.m.

Kootenay at Lethbridge, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA New Jersey 17 10 3 4 24 45 40 Pittsburgh 17 11 6 0 22 57 44 N.Y. Rangers 16 8 6 2 18 41 41 Philadelphia 19 8 10 1 17 53 59 N.Y. Islanders 17 7 9 1 15 50 60

Montreal Boston Ottawa Toronto Buffalo

Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts 17 11 4 2 24 14 10 2 2 22 18 10 6 2 22 18 11 7 0 22 18 6 11 1 13

GF GA 49 39 41 33 43 34 51 41 48 59

Carolina Tampa Bay Winnipeg Florida Washington

Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts 15 8 6 1 17 16 8 7 1 17 16 7 8 1 15 16 5 7 4 14 16 5 10 1 11

GF GA 44 44 61 51 41 50 40 58 43 54

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 16 13 0 3 29 55 34 Nashville 17 8 4 5 21 39 38 St. Louis 17 9 6 2 20 53 51 Detroit 17 7 7 3 17 45 51 Columbus 17 5 10 2 12 39 53

Vancouver Minnesota Colorado Edmonton Calgary

Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts 16 9 3 4 22 16 8 6 2 18 15 7 7 1 15 16 6 7 3 15 15 5 7 3 13

GF GA 48 40 36 39 38 43 37 44 40 54

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 15 12 2 1 25 53 39 San Jose 15 8 4 3 19 39 34 Phoenix 16 8 6 2 18 44 41 Dallas 17 8 8 1 17 44 47 Los Angeles 15 7 6 2 16 36 38 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia 6, Pittsburgh 5 Colorado 1, St. Louis 0, OT Los Angeles 3, Calgary 1 Thursday’s Games Ottawa 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, SO Toronto 3, Buffalo 1 Florida 5, Philadelphia 2 New Jersey 3, Washington 2 Winnipeg 4, Carolina 3 N.Y. Islanders 4, Montreal 3, OT Boston 4, Tampa Bay 2 Columbus 3, Detroit 2 Vancouver 4, Dallas 3 Minnesota 3, Edmonton 1 Friday’s Games Florida at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Nashville, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games New Jersey at Washington, 10 a.m.

Winnipeg at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Phoenix at Edmonton, 1:30 p.m.

Colorado at Los Angeles, 2 p.m.

Nashville at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Montreal, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

San Jose at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Columbus at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s summaries Wild 3 Oilers 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties - None.

Second Period 1. Edmonton, Smyth 2 (Belanger, Eager) 12:26 2. Minnesota, Cullen 2 (Suter) 15:02 Penalties - Smid Edm (roughing) 6:45, Heatley Minn (goaltender interference) 8:02.

Third Period 3. Minnesota, Setoguchi 3 (Cullen) 2:20 4. Minnesota, Cullen 3 (Clutterbuck, Gilbert) 13:59 Penalties - Peckham Edm (hooking) 2:47, Hall Edm (kneeing), Hall Edm (game misconduct) 17:27.

Shots on goal Minnesota 3 16 9 — 28 Edmonton 8 10 10 — 28 Goal - Minnesota: Backstrom (W, 6-4-2); Edmonton: Dubnyk (L, 5-5-3).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Minnesota: 0-3; Edmonton: 0-1.

Attendance — 16,839 at Edmonton Canucks 4 at Stars 3 First Period 1. Dallas, Ja.Benn 5 (Rome, Morrow) 0:35 2. Vancouver, Burrows 5 (Edler, Kesler) 8:29 (pp) Penalties — Smith Dal (interference) 7:49, Bieksa Vcr (kneeing) 10:53, Raymond Vcr (tripping) 17:42.

Second Period 3. Dallas, Ryder 5 (Roussel, Jo.Benn) 2:39 4. Vancouver, Bieksa 5 (Hamhuis, Schroeder) 7:05 Penalties — Rome Dal (hooking) 6:00, Burrows Vcr (cross-checking) 6:55, Kassian Vcr (fighting, major), Roussel Dal (fighting, major) 9:53, Eakin Dal (holding) 17:55, Burrows Vcr (interference) 19:02.

Third Period 5. Vancouver, Garrison 2 (Kesler, Kassian) 2:32 6. Vancouver, H.Sedin 2 (Burrows, D.Sedin) 4:18 7. Dallas, Morrow 4, 6:07 Penalties — Morrow Dal (hooking) 9:46, Bieksa Vcr (interference) 14:51, Roy Dal (hooking) 17:59.

Shots on goal Vancouver 7 8 7 — 22 Dallas 8 10 7 — 25 Goal — Vancouver: Schneider (W,5-3-1); Dallas: Nilstorp (L,0-3-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Vancouver: 1-5; Dallas: 0-5.

Attendance — 17,393 (18,532).

Blue Jackets 3 at Red Wings 2 First Period 1. Detroit, Brunner 8, 0:18 2. Detroit, Filppula 4 (Lashoff, Zetterberg) 2:40

3. Columbus, Umberger 2 (Atkinson, Johnson) 4:23 (pp) Penalties — Dorsett Clb (fighting, major), Tootoo Det (instigator, fighting, minor-major-misconduct) 3:57, Gillies Clb (cross-checking) 7:07, Cleary Det (interference) 8:09, Mursak Det (high-sticking) 19:37.

Second Period No Scoring Penalties — Dorsett Clb (unsportsmanlike conduct), Ericsson Det (unsportsmanlike conduct) 2:18, Tyutin Clb (interference) 9:40.

Third Period 4. Columbus, Dorsett 2 (Brassard) 5:03 5. Columbus, Prospal 6 (Wisniewski, Dorsett) 19:35 Penalties — Dorsett Clb (interference) 8:56, MacKenzie Clb (tripping) 10:47.

Shots on goal Columbus 8 7 9 — 24 Detroit 7 11 12 — 30 Goal — Columbus: Bobrovsky (W,3-5-2); Detroit: Howard (L,6-6-2).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Columbus: 1-3; Detroit: 0-4.

Attendance — 20,066 (20,066).

Bruins 4 at Lightning 2 First Period 1. Boston, Horton 5 (Hamilton) 1:11 2. Boston, P.Bergeron 3 (Marchand) 3:50 3. Tampa Bay, Stamkos 11 (Purcell, M.Bergeron) 8:13 Penalty — Hamilton Bos (high-sticking) 4:07.

Second Period 4. Tampa Bay, Conacher 6 (Purcell, Stamkos) 9:00 5. Boston, Marchand 9 (Seguin, P.Bergeron) 13:58 Penalty — Chara Bos (roughing) 19:35.

Third Period 6. Boston, Horton 6 (Chara, Hamilton) 2:33 Penalties — McQuaid Bos (tripping) 14:15, Lecavalier TB (tripping) 20:00.

Shots on goal Boston 8 12 6 — 26 Tampa Bay 5 12 9 — 26 Goal — Boston: Rask (W,8-1-2); Tampa Bay: Lindback (L,7-4-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Boston: 0-0; Tampa Bay: 0-3.

Attendance — 19,204 (19,204).

Devils 3 at Capitals 2 First Period No Scoring Penalties — New Jersey bench (too many men, served by Matteau) 11:49, Perreault Wash (holding) 13:39, Greene NJ (tripping) 19:27.

Second Period 1. Washington, Perreault 2 (Brouwer) 9:28 (pp) 2. New Jersey, Elias 5 (Henrique) 11:16 (sh) 3. Washington, Ribeiro 6 (Brouwer, Backstrom) 12:40 (pp) Penalties — Volchenkov NJ (tripping) 7:43, Zidlicky NJ (interference) 10:56.

Third Period 4. New Jersey, Loktionov 1 (Larsson) 9:19 5. New Jersey, Kovalchuk 6 (Elias, Zidlicky) 11:40 (pp) Penalties — Larsson NJ (cross-checking), Backstrom Wash (boarding) 1:16, Hendricks Wash (holding) 2:55, Kundratek Wash (delay of game) 3:09, Ovechkin Wash (tripping) 6:52, Erskine Wash (hooking) 9:59, Poti Wash (interference) 10:51.

Shots on goal New Jersey 13 9 15 — 37 Washington 4 12 3 — 19 Goal — New Jersey: Brodeur (W,8-2-3); Washington: Holtby (L,4-6-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — New Jersey: 1-6; Washington: 2-4.

Attendance — 18,506 (18,506).

Panthers 5 at Flyers 2 First Period 1. Florida, Mueller 5 (Huberdeau, Weaver) 8:15 2. Florida, Kopecky 4 (Weaver) 8:44 3. Florida, Huberdeau 7 (penalty shot) 10:15 Penalty — Kopecky Fla (tripping) 2:29.

Second Period 4. Florida, Huberdeau 8 (Shore, Gudbranson) 11:46 (pp) Penalties — L.Schenn Pha (boarding) 7:21, Fedotenko Pha (tripping) 9:58, Briere Pha (interference) 12:11, Parros Fla (fighting, major), Grossmann Pha (fighting, major) 15:57, Matthias Fla (interference) 17:53.

Third Period 5. Philadelphia, L.Schenn 2 (Briere, Simmonds) 13:49 6. Florida, Mueller 6 (Shore, Huberdeau) 14:33 7. Philadelphia, Voracek 7 (Gustafsson, Giroux) 15:35 Penalties — None Shots on goal Florida 10 8 8 — 26 Philadelphia 13 9 12 — 34 Goal (shots-saves) — Florida: Clemmensen (W,1-1-2); Philadelphia: Bryzgalov (L,8-8-1)(15-11), Boucher (11:46 second)(11-10).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Florida: 1-3; Philadelphia: 0-2.

Attendance — 19,605 (19,538).

Jets 4 at Hurricanes 3 First Period 1. Winnipeg, Wheeler 5 (Ladd) 1:53 2. Carolina, Tlusty 6 (Semin, E.Staal) 18:39 Penalties — Jordan Car (freezing the puck) 2:36, Clitsome Wpg (tripping) 6:58.

Second Period No Scoring Penalties — Wheeler Wpg (unsportsmanlike conduct) 3:43, Clitsome Wpg (interference) 4:48, Harrison Car (interference) 16:26, Corvo Car (tripping) 17:15.

Third Period 3. Winnipeg, Kane 5 (Antropov) 2:10 4. Carolina, J.Staal 3 (Harrison, Dwyer) 3:37 5. Winnipeg, Ladd 9 (Little) 14:03 6. Carolina, Tlusty 7, 14:50 7. Winnipeg, Wheeler 6 (Ladd, Little) 15:06 Penalty — J.Staal Car (hooking) 19:02.

Shots on goal Winnipeg 8 6 9 — 23 Carolina 10 8 12 — 30 Goal — Winnipeg: Pavelec (W,5-8-1); Carolina: Ward (L,5-5-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Winnipeg: 0-4; Carolina: 0-3.

Attendance — 18,282 (18,680).

Islanders 4 Canadiens 3 (OT) First Period 1. Montreal, Moen 2 (Armstrong) 0:49 2. Montreal, Pacioretty 3 (Desharnais, Subban) 11:02 (pp) Penalties - Visnovsky NYI (hooking) 9:41, Eller Mtl (slashing) 19:29.

Second Period 3. New York, Moulson 8 (Streit, Visnovsky) 0:34 (pp) 4. Montreal, Pacioretty 4 (Desharnais) 8:30 5. New York, Moulson 9 (Tavares, Boyes) 16:57 (pp) Penalties - Finley NYI (boarding), Finley NYI (fighting), Prust Mtl (fighting) 9:57, Desharnais Mtl (holding) 16:32.

Third Period 6. New York, Nielsen 2 (Bailey, Nabokov) 9:51 Penalties - White Mtl (interference on goalkeeper) 1:57, Boyes NYI (hooking) 2:05, Plekanec Mtl (hooking) 3:01, Okposo (roughing) 11:28, Eller Mtl (roughing) 11:28, Streit NYI (high-sticking) 12:52, Visnovsky NYI (interference) 17:03.

Overtime 7. New York, Boyes (Grabner, Tavares) 3:12 Shots on goal NY Islanders 3 12 8 2 25 Montreal 14 14 4 1 33 Goal - New York: Nabokov (W, 7-6-1); Montreal: Price (L, 9-4-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — New York: 2-4; Montreal: 1-5.

Attendance — 21,273 at Montreal, Que. Senators 3 Rangers 2 (SO) First Period 1. Ottawa, Silfverberg 3 (Alfredsson) 6:48 (sh) Penalties - Gryba Ott (tripping) 5:32, Methot Ott (hooking) 11:39, Stepan NYR (high-sticking) 14:44.

Second Period No scoring Penalties - Neil Ott (boarding) 19:56.

Third Period 2. New York, Callahan 4 (Staal, Stepan) 10:44 (pp) 3. New York, McDonagh 2 (Miller, Halpern) 11:35 4. Ottawa, Zibanejad 2 (Greening, Wiercioch) 13:30 (pp) Penalties - Gonchar Ott (holding) 9:49, Boyle NYR (holding) 13:19.

Overtime No scoring Penalties - None Shootout New York (1) Gaborik, miss; Callahan, goal; Stepan, miss; Richards, miss; Hagelin, miss; Miller, miss; Kreider, miss Ottawa (2) Alfredsson, miss; Silfverberg, goal; Turris, miss; Zibanejad, miss; Smith, miss; Wiercioch, miss; Daugavins, goal Shots on goal NY Rangers 11 9 11 3 34 Ottawa 11 8 15 3 37 Goal - New York: Lundqvist (L, 7-7-0); Ottawa: Anderson (start 3:17 of second, 21-21), Bishop (W, 2-2-0)(11-13).

Power plays (goals-chances) — New York: 1-4; Ottawa: 1-2.

Attendance — 19,076 at Ottawa, Ont. Leafs 3 Sabres 1 First Period 1. Buffalo, Ennis 6 (Stafford) 13:20 Penalties - Brown Tor (roughing) 15:08; Sulzer Buf (holding) 19:18.

Second Period 2. Toronto, Phaneuf 3 (Kessel, Franson) 1:15 (pp) 3. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 10 (Kessel, Kostka) 18:04 Penalties - Gerbe Tor (tripping) 3:38; Porter Buf (goalie interference) 7:08; Toronto bench minor (too

many men on the ice; served by MacArthur) 12:55.

Third Period 4. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 11 (Franson, Phaneuf) 14:28 (pp) Penalties - Scott Buf, McLaren Tor (fighting) 3:07; Gerbe Buf, Phaneuf Tor (roughing) 4:14; Porter Buf (tripping) 12:36; Hecht Buf (delay of game) 13:20; Komarov Tor (holding) 16:00.

Shots on goal Buffalo 12 7 11 — 30 Toronto 10 15 10 — 35 Goal - Buffalo: Miller (L, 6-9-1); Toronto: Scrivens (W, 5-4-0) Power plays (goals-chances) — Buffalo 0-3; Toronto 2-5.

Attendance — 19,473 at Toronto, Ont. NHL Scoring leaders TORONTO — Unofficial National Hockey League scoring leaders following Wednesday’s games: SCORING G A Pt Vanek, Buf 12 13 25 Crosby, Pgh 7 18 25 Stamkos, TB 10 12 22 P.Kane, Chi 9 13 22 St. Louis, TB 4 18 22 Zetterberg, Det 5 16 21 Tavares, NYI 11 9 20 Malkin, Pgh 4 16 20 Kunitz, Pgh 6 13 19 Elias, NJ 4 15 19 Datsyuk, Det 8 19 18 Voracek, Pha 6 12 18 Ribeiro, Wash 5 13 18 E.Staal, Car 8 9 17 Moulson, NYI 7 10 17 Duchene, Col 6 11 17 Neal, Pgh 12 4 16 Clarkson, NJ 10 6 16 Marleau, SJ 10 6 16 Lecavalier, TB 6 10 16 D.Sedin, Vcr 5 11 16 S.Gagner, Edm 5 11 16 J.Thornton, SJ 4 12 16 Hall, Edm 3 13 16 Pominville, Buf 7 8 15 Hodgson, Buf 7 8 15 Toews, Chi 7 8 15 Kovalchuk, NJ 5 10 15 Giroux, Pha 5 10 15 Steen, StL 4 11 15 Purcell, TB 4 11 15 Selanne, Ana 4 11 15 Hossa, Chi 8 6 14 Skinner, Car 7 7 14 Pavelski, SJ 6 8 14 Getzlaf, Ana 5 9 14 Wilson, Nash 5 9 14 Kadri, Tor 5 9 14 Conacher, TB 5 9 14 Sharp, Chi 4 10 14 B.Schenn, Pha 4 10 14 S.Koivu, Ana 4 10 14 Shattenkirk, StL 1 13 14 H.Sedin, Vcr 1 13 14 AHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Providence 50 30 17 0 3 140 132 Portland 50 30 18 1 1 147 143 Worcester 49 23 20 1 5 121 138 Manchester 51 22 24 2 3 141 140 St. John’s 54 23 28 1 2 128 163

Pt 63 62 52 49 49

Springfield Connecticut Bridgeport Albany Adirondack

Northeast Division GP W LOTLSOL 48 29 12 3 4 53 25 22 4 2 49 22 21 3 3 49 20 19 1 9 48 20 25 2 1

GF GA 158 115 154 161 150 164 127 141 118 140

Pt 65 56 50 50 43

Syracuse Binghamton W-B/Scranton Hershey Norfolk

GP 51 50 51 51 50

East Division W LOTLSOL 31 14 2 4 30 15 1 4 26 22 2 1 24 20 3 4 22 24 3 1

GF GA 179 141 151 125 121 120 129 123 120 143

Pt 68 65 55 55 48

WESTERN CONFERENCE North Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Abbotsford 54 26 20 3 5 121 126 Toronto 49 26 17 2 4 156 132 Rochester 49 27 19 2 1 165 145 Lake Erie 53 25 20 2 6 156 158 Hamilton 50 19 25 1 5 108 155

Pt 60 58 57 57 44

Midwest Division GP W LOTLSOL Grand Rapids 49 29 16 2 2 Chicago 48 25 16 4 3 Milwaukee 50 23 21 3 3 Peoria 51 22 22 4 3 Rockford 52 25 25 1 1

Pt 62 57 52 51 52

GF GA 159 135 134 131 129 149 129 158 159 158

South Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Texas 52 31 13 4 4 152 128 70 Charlotte 52 30 17 2 3 163 134 65 Houston 53 27 19 4 3 142 139 61 Okla. City 49 23 19 2 5 154 164 53 San Antonio 51 23 23 1 4 131 141 51 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.

Wednesday’s resuls St. John’s 5 Connecticut 1 Syracuse 4 Toronto 3 (SO) Texas 5 Rochester 1 Chicago 4 Abbotsford 3 (SO) Rockford 4 Peoria 0 Thursday’s result Lake Erie 7 Milwaukee 1 Friday’s games Wilkes-Barre/Scranton vs. Adirondack (at Philadelphia), 5 p.m.

Bridgeport at Springfield, 5 p.m.

Hershey at Binghamton, 5:05 p.m.

Rochester at Hamilton, 5:30 p.m.

Texas at Lake Erie, 5:30 p.m.

Providence at Norfolk, 5:30 p.m.

Manchester at Worcester, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Peoria, 6:05 p.m.

Grand Rapids at Rockford, 6:05 p.m.

Charlotte at Abbotsford, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 23 Milwaukee at Toronto, 1 p.m.

Manchester at Bridgeport, 5 p.m.

Adirondack at Hershey, 5 p.m.

San Antonio at Grand Rapids, 5 p.m.

Portland at Worcester, 5 p.m.

Albany at Binghamton, 5:05 p.m.

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

Providence at Norfolk, 5:15 p.m.

Texas at Lake Erie, 5:30 p.m.

Springfield at Syracuse, 5:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Houston, 6:05 p.m.

Chicago at Peoria, 6:05 p.m.

Charlotte at Abbotsford, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 24 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Bridgeport, 1 p.m.

Milwaukee at Hamilton, 1 p.m.

Connecticut at Syracuse, 1 p.m.

St. John’s at Toronto, 1 p.m.

Springfield at Worcester, 1 p.m.

Hershey vs. Albany (at Atlantic City, N.J.), 2 p.m.

Rockford at Chicago, 2 p.m.

San Antonio at Grand Rapids, 2 p.m.

Manchester at Portland, 2 p.m.

Binghamton at Adirondack, 3 p.m.

AJHL North Division GP W LOTLSOL x-Spruce Grove 57 33 15 7 2 Grand Prairie 56 32 20 3 1 Fort McMurray 58 31 21 5 1 Bonnyville 56 29 18 6 3 Whitecourt 56 28 20 6 2 Drayton Valley 56 29 22 3 2 Sherwood Park 56 27 22 1 6 Lloydminster 57 19 31 4 3

GF 171 172 167 165 207 165 172 157

GA 148 146 165 161 203 160 169 215

Pt 75 68 68 67 64 63 61 45

South Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt y-Brooks 56 50 3 1 2 271 105 103 x-Camrose 57 34 18 2 3 177 152 73 x-Okotoks 56 34 18 2 2 178 147 72 x-Drumheller 57 28 25 2 2 174 167 60 Canmore 56 22 28 4 2 145 201 50 Olds 57 22 31 3 1 162 201 48 Cal. Mustangs 58 20 31 6 1 170 211 47 Cal. Canucks 57 15 38 3 1 129 231 34 x — clinched playoff berth. y — clinched division title. Note: Two points for a win; one for an overtime or shootout loss.

Thursday’s results No Games Scheduled.

Friday’s games Lloydminster at Bonnyville, 7 p.m.

Canmore at Brooks, 7 p.m.

Olds at Okotoks, 7 p.m.

Sherwood Park at Spruce Grove, 7 p.m.

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

Saturday, Feb. 23 Drumheller at Canmore, 7 p.m.

Okotoks at Calgary Canucks, 7 p.m.

Camrose at Brooks, 7 p.m.

Spruce Grove at Whitecourt, 7:30 p.m.

Bonnyville at Lloydminster, 7:30 p.m.

Grande Prairie at Drayton Valley, 7:30 p.m.

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

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 32 19 .627 — Brooklyn 33 22 .600 1 Boston 28 26 .519 5 Philadelphia 22 30 .423 10 Toronto 22 33 .400 12

Miami Atlanta Washington Orlando Charlotte

Indiana Chicago Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

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Southeast Division W L Pct GB 38 14 .731 — 29 23 .558 9 15 37 .288 23 15 39 .278 24 13 41 .241 26 Central Division W L Pct 33 21 .611 31 23 .574 26 27 .491 22 34 .393 17 37 .315

.696 .574 .473 .345 .327

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Wednesday’s Games Detroit 105, Charlotte 99 Memphis 88, Toronto 82 Indiana 125, New York 91 Houston 122, Oklahoma City 119 Minnesota 94, Philadelphia 87 Brooklyn 97, Milwaukee 94 Miami 103, Atlanta 90 Cleveland 105, New Orleans 100 Dallas 111, Orlando 96 Golden State 108, Phoenix 98 L.A. Lakers 113, Boston 99

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Northwest Division W L Pct GB 39 15 .722 — 34 21 .618 5 31 24 .564 8 25 29 .463 14 20 31 .392 17 Pacific Division W L Pct

17 23 29 36 37

Thursday’s Games Miami 86, Chicago 67 San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, Late

GB — 2 6 12 16

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 43 12 .782 — Memphis 35 18 .660 7 Houston 30 26 .536 13 Dallas 24 29 .453 18 New Orleans 19 36 .345 24

Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland Minnesota

39 31 26 19 18

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Friday’s Games Chicago at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

New York at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Denver at Washington, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Dallas at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Boston at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Portland at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Denver at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Houston at Washington, 5 p.m.

Miami at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Indiana at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

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

Curling 2013 Scotties Tournament of Hearts KINGSTON, Ont. — Standings Thursday following the fourteenth draw of the 2013 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women’s curling championship, to be held through Feb. 24 at the K-Rock Centre (all times Eastern): Province (Skip) W L Manitoba (J.Jones) 9 0 Ontario (Homan) 8 1 Canada (Nedohin) 7 2 B.C. (Scott) 6 3 Saskatchewan (Shumay) 5 4 New Brunswick (Crawford) 5 4 P.E.I. (Birt) 4 5 Nova Scotia (Arsenault) 4 5 Quebec (Ross) 3 6 NWT/Yukon (Galusha) 1 8 N.L. (S.Devereaux) 1 8 Alberta (K.Moore) 1 8 Canada (Nedohin) Alberta (K.Moore) B.C. (Scott) Manitoba (J.Jones) New Brunswick (Crawford) N.L. (S.Devereaux) NWT/Yukon (Galusha) Nova Scotia (Arsenault) Ontario (Homan) P.E.I. (Birt) Quebec (Ross) Saskatchewan (Shumay)

Manitoba 9 Ontario 7 Thirteenth Draw Nova Scotia 9 Prince Edward Island 6 New Brunswick 9 Alberta 3 Quebec 8 NWT/Yukon 7 British Columbia 7 Newfoundland & Labrador 4 Fourteenth Draw British Columbia 9 Saskatchewan 2 Manitoba 7 Quebec 1 Canada 5 Alberta 3 Ontario 6 Nova Scotia 5 Friday’s games Draw 15, 7 a.m.

Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Quebec; British Columbia vs. NWT/Yukon; New Brunswick vs. Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island vs. Alberta.

Draw 16, noon Manitoba vs. New Brunswick; Prince Edward Island vs. Ontario; Saskatchewan vs. Newfoundland & Labrador; Canada vs. NWT/Yukon.

Draw 17, 5:30 p.m.

Ontario vs. Canada; Alberta vs. Nova Scotia; Quebec vs. British Columbia; Manitoba vs. Saskatchewan.

End of Round Robin

Wednesday’s results Tenth Draw Manitoba 8 Canada 5 Prince Edward Island 7 NWT/Yukon 6 New Brunswick 8 Newfoundland & Labrador 7 Ontario 8 Saskatchewan 2 Eleventh Draw Alberta 9 NWT/Yukon 3 Nova Scotia 7 Newfoundland & Labrador 6 British Columbia 9 Prince Edward Island 8 New Brunswick 8 Quebec 4 Thursday’s results Twelth Draw Saskatchewan 7 Canada 5

PLAYOFFS Saturday, Feb. 23 If No Tiebreakers Are Required Page Playoffs — One vs. Two, noon Page Playoffs — Three vs. Four, 5 p.m.

If Tiebreakers Are Required Tiebreaker, 7 a.m.

Page Playoffs — One vs. Two, noon Page Playoffs — Three vs. Four, 5 p.m.

Note: if two tiebreakers are required, the second will be played at noon Sunday, Feb. 24 Semifinal One-Two loser vs. Three-Four winner, 7 a.m.

Third Place Three-Four loser vs. Semifinal loser, noon Championship One-Two winner vs. Semifinal winner, 5 p.m.

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League TEXAS RANGERS—Named Ivan Rodriguez special assistant to the general manager/instructor/ ambassador.

National League WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Agreed to terms with RHP Chris Young on a minor league contract.

American Association WICHITA WINGNUTS—Signed LHP Anthony Capra. Traded RHP Josh Lowey to Somerset for cash and a player to be named.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES—Signed INF/OF Leonard Davis.

Can-Am League ROCKLAND BOULDERS—Traded RHP Dan Jurik and a player to be named to Newark for OF Jerod Edmondson.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS—Named Jarett Gardner pitching coach.

FLORENCE FREEDOM—Signed SS Junior Arrojo to a contract extension. Signed RHP Mike Lawlor.

WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS—Signed LHP Rich Hawkins.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA—Named Greg Taylor senior vice-president for player development.

ATLANTA HAWKS—Traded G Anthony Morrow to Dallas for G/F Dahntay Jones.

CHARLOTTE HORNETS—Traded F Hakim Warrick to Orlando for F Josh McRoberts.

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS—Traded G Charles Jenkins and cash to Philadelphia for a protected second-round draft pick. Traded F Jeremy Tyler to Atlanta for cash and future draft considerations.

HOUSTON ROCKETS—Traded F Marcus Morris to Phoenix for a 2013 second-round draft pick.

Traded F Patrick Patterson, C Cole Aldrich and G Toney Douglas to Sacramento for C Thomas Robinson, F Francisco Garcia and F Tyler Honeycutt.

MIAMI HEAT—Traded C Dexter Pittman, a 2013 second-round draft pick and cash considerations to Memphis for the draft rights to F Ricky Sanchez.

NEW YORK KNICKS—Traded G/F Ronnie Brewer to Oklahoma City for a 2014 second-round draft pick and cash.

OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER—Traded G Eric

Maynor to Portland for the rights to F Georgios Printezis and cash.

ORLANDO MAGIC—Traded G J.J. Redick, C Gustavo Ayon and G Ish Smith to Milwaukee for G Doron Lamb, G Beno Udrih and F Tobias Harris.

PHOENIX SUNS—Waived F Luke Zeller.

TORONTO RAPTORS—Traded C Hamed Haddadi and a 2014 second-round draft pick to Phoenix for G Sebastian Telfair.

WASHINGTON WIZARDS—Traded G Jordan Crawford to Boston for C Jason Collins and G Leandro Barbosa.

FOOTBALL National Football League DETROIT LIONS—Named Terry Heffernan assistant offensive line coach.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS—Reassigned RW Matt Kennedy from Norfolk (AHL) to Fort Wayne (ECHL).

Named Brian Burke part-time pro scout.

NEW YORK RANGERS—Reassigned G Scott Stajcer from Greenville (ECHL) to Connecticut (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES—Assigned G Jake Allen to Peoria (AHL).

SAN JOSE SHARKS—Reassigned RW Matt Pelech to Worcester (AHL).

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS—Assigned F Brad Ross to Idaho (ECHL).

American Hockey League BINGHAMTON SENATORS—Assigned G Marc Cheverie to Elmira (AHL).

HERSHEY BEARS—Loaned F T.J. Syner to Reading (ECHL).

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS—Signed F Tyler Noseworthy.

READING ROYALS—Signed G Corey Milan.

SOCCER North American Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS—Signed F Peri Marosevic and F Henry Lopez.

PORTLAND TIMBERS—Signed M Michael Nanchoff. Traded the first right of refusal to M Nigel Reo-Coker to Vancouver for 2014 and 2015 second-round draft picks.

National Women’s Soccer League PORTLAND THORNS—Signed F Danielle Foxhoven.

Baseball Spring Training AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore Boston Chicago Cleveland Detroit Houston Kansas City Los Angeles Minnesota New York Oakland Seattle Tampa Bay Texas Toronto

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NATIONAL LEAGUE Arizona Atlanta Chicago Cincinnati Colorado Los Angeles Miami Milwaukee New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh San Diego San Francisco St. Louis Washington

NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Friday’s Games Detroit vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Cincinnati vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Kansas City vs. Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

San Diego vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Washington vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 10:10 a.m.

St. Louis vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Toronto vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Houston vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Minnesota vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Tampa Bay (ss) at Port Charlotte, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Tampa Bay (ss) vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 11:35 a.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. L.A. Angels (ss) at Tempe, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (ss) vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Oakland vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 1:05 p.m.

Cleveland vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Seattle vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Texas vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 1:10 p.m.

Remaining Free Agents NEW YORK — The 35 remaining free agents (xsigning club, if different, would lose draft pick): AMERICAN LEAGUE BALTIMORE (3) — Nick Johnson, dh; Jim Thome, dh; Randy Wolf, lhp.

BOSTON (1) — Scott Podsednik, of.

CHICAGO (2) — Brian Bruney, rhp; Orlando Hudson, 2b.

CLEVELAND (1) — Grady Sizemore, of.

DETROIT (1) — Jose Valverde, rhp.

LOS ANGELES (1) — Jason Isringhausen, rhp.

MINNESOTA (1) — Carl Pavano, rhp.

NEW YORK (1) — Derek Lowe, rhp.

SEATTLE (1) — Kevin Millwood, rhp.

TEXAS (1) — Roy Oswalt, rhp.

TORONTO (1) — Omar Vizquel, 2b.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 B5

Big names stay put as NBA trade deadline passes

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The only trade involving Dwight Howard came last summer. The potent scorers that moved did so long ago.

There was no eye-catching activity left for deadline day, resulting in minor deals Thursday to the disappointment of those hoping for a frenzy.

Josh Smith stayed put and the Boston Celtics’ core stayed together, leaving J.J. Redick, dealt to Milwaukee, as the biggest name to be traded.

There were nine moves, nothing approaching a blockbuster and none to jump-start the Lakers.

Players such as James Harden and Rudy Gay were traded far before the deadline, but with teams perhaps fearful of new penalties for the biggest spenders, Thursday was mostly quiet.

“I don’t think I’ve seen fewer trade deadline deals, ever,” said Houston general manager Daryl Morey, who completed two trades Wednesday. “But I think it’s a one-year blip.”

The Atlanta Hawks held onto Smith, and Utah kept both Paul Millsap and Al Jefferson on a day when much attention was focused on both situations, since those players have value and could leave their teams this summer as free agents.

The long-shot deals never materialized. Howard remained in Los Angeles, just what Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak repeatedly said would happen. Howard’s unhappiness and struggles since he was acquired from Orlando last summer fueled speculation that the Lakers might move him before possibly losing him for nothing as a free agent.

“It took a while for league to understand our position was exactly what we stated,” Kupchak told reporters. “I think they finally got it.”

Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce will continue wearing Celtic green, as will Rajon Rondo when he’s healthy enough to put on a uniform again.

The Celtics did make one deal, acquiring guard Jordan Crawford from the Washington Wizards for centre Jason Collins and injured guard Leandro Barbosa.

Those were the types of trades that were left after the big names that were available had already been moved. Oklahoma City sent all-star Harden to

Houston the pre-season, fearing it couldn’t pay what last season’s top sixth man would want after already giving lucrative long-term deals to Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook.

The Memphis Grizzlies broke up their frontcourt when they sent Gay to Toronto in a three-team deal with Detroit “I think normally a point was made, normally you would see big deals being made. We cannot forget, Andre Iguodala, that deal was made in the summer.

That could have potentially been a trade deadline move,” said Denver Nuggets president Masai Ujiri, referring to the player he acquired in the four-time Howard trade in August.

“Harden was traded right before the season started. That could have been a potential trade deadline move. Rudy Gay was started a couple weeks ago.

There was some cleanup before this date. Apart from a couple guys who were out there all the time in terms of big names, it just went by. I can’t explain it.”

Finances certainly played into it. The collective bargaining agreement that went into effect in 2011 came with much more punitive penalties for teams that repeatedly exceed the luxury tax and limits the options of those over the salary cap, and decisions Thursday were made with that in mind.

Golden State sent forward Jeremy Tyler to Atlanta and guard Charles Jenkins to Philadelphia in separate deals, slicing more than $1.5 million off its payroll after beginning the day about $1.2 million over the league’s $70,307,000 luxury tax.

Rebuilding after trading Howard, the Magic decided Redick wasn’t in their plans while averaging career highs in points (15.1) and field goal percent-

age (45.0). He was traded along with centre Gustavo Ayon and reserve point guard Ish Smith to the Bucks in exchange for guards Doron Lamb and Beno Udrih, and forward Tobias Harris.

The Raptors added to their backcourt, acquiring Phoenix point guard Sebastian Telfair.

The Raptors sent centre Hamed Haddadi — who never played for Toronto — and a conditional second-round pick to the Suns.

The deal gives Toronto a third point guard, joining Kyle Lowry and John Lucas.

The New York Knicks traded Ronnie Brewer to Oklahoma City to open a roster spot that will be used to give Kenyon Martin a 10-day contract. The Hawks couldn’t find a good enough deal for Smith, who had largely been considered the biggest name that would move, and settled for sending Anthony Morrow to Dallas for Dahntay Jones.

With so little happening, Morey may have pulled off the most intriguing move this week when he acquired Thomas Robinson, the No. 5 pick in last year’s draft, from Sacramento in one of his two deals.

“I thought the main thing that was different at this trade deadline was there was a big premium on cap space and draft picks,” Morey said. “Usually, that’s the currency that moves markets. They were at such a premium that every deal was very difficult.

It became like a barter economy instead of a cash economy. That made deals harder.

“I do think you could say that maybe the CBA might be contributing to that. But I also think a lot of it is just the phase teams are in. There are a lot of good teams trying to maybe rebuild, for lack of a better word.

NBA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Heat 86 Bulls 67 CHICAGO — LeBron James scored 26 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, and the Miami Heat beat the Chicago Bulls 86-67 Thursday for their season-high ninth straight win.

James also had seven assists in another big performance after ending his franchise-record sevengame streak of scoring at least 30 the previous night in Atlanta.

Dwyane Wade added 17 points, and the Heat took control in the first half, sending the Bulls to their fifth loss in seven games on a night when the Derrick Rose recovery story took another twist.

After saying last week that he wouldn’t rush back from his knee injury to play this season if he wasn’t ready, Chicago’s sidelined superstar had to go into damage control mode after his older brother Reggie blasted the organization in an ESPNChicago.com article for not making a move before Thursday’s trade deadline.

Things didn’t get much better for the Bulls once the game started.

Nate Robinson scored 14 points, Carlos Boozer had 12 points and 11 rebounds and Joakim Noah added 11 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, but he also committed four of the Bulls’ season-high 27 turnovers.

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Backup catcher spot wide open at Jays camp DUNEDIN, Fla. — Henry Blanco remembers the first time he tried to catch a knuckleball. It was back in 1997 and a young Blanco was working with Tom Candiotti in the Los Angeles Dodgers bullpen.

“The first knuckleball that he threw just hit me right on my mask,” the Venezuelan catcher recalled.

Now a weathered 41, with tattoos that would do a mixed martial arts fighter proud, Blanco is bidding to back up Blue Jays incumbent J.P. Arencibia and perhaps use his experience to handle R.A. Dickey’s knuckleball.

Blanco caught Dickey for seven games with the Mets in 2010.

“You get used to it, but it’s still hard,” said Blanco, who has been with nine teams since those Dodgers days.

“Sometimes you don’t know where that thing’s going to go.”

Because of that, Toronto brought in two other catchers — Josh Thole and Mike Nickeas — who also have experience catching the 38-year-old Dickey.

As a result, on a team that has few roster questions left to resolve, the role of backup catcher is getting plenty of attention these days.

Does Dickey gets his own personal catcher? Or does Arencibia get his wish to handle last year’s National League Cy Young Award-winner?

Arencibia has added to the drama by insisting that he can catch Dickey, pointing to their winter workouts together in their off-season home of Nashville.

“I’m comfortable and I’m ready to be able to do it in a game,” he said earlier in camp.

When Dickey took the practice mound for the first time here, Arencibia practically bowled over the other catchers to get to handle Dickey. And he made a point of telling watching reporters afterwards how well it went.

It’s clear he does not want to be in the dugout when Dickey starts opening day — April 2 against Cleveland.

Arencibia told reporters that general manager Alex Anthopoulos and manager John Gibbons have told him “from Day 1 ... I’m going to have the opportunity to catch him.”

Gibbons has been the very definition of laid-back at spring training, perhaps not surprising given the nature of the stacked roster he has inherited upon his return to the club.

But ongoing questions about the catching logistics seem to be forming a burr under the former catcher’s saddle.

His ever-present smile slipped a bit when asked Thursday whether he was worried that Arencibia’s desire to catch Dickey might become an issue.

“I’m sure he does (want to catch Dickey) and he may. But he’s not making out the lineup. We’re going to put the best team out there, what works and what we think is going to work,” Gibbons said. “If it’s not J.P., I don’t think he’ll have one bit of problem with that, I’d be surprised if he did.”

Thole caught Dickey 66 times over the last three seasons with the Mets.

Nickeas combined with Dickey 12 times in 2010 and 2011 while Blanco handled him seven times in 2010.

Blanco is seen as the favourite to be Arencibia’s backup.

“We’ll just look at it and see what’s the best fit,” Gibbons said to another catching question. “If one of those other guys is better off catching (Dickey), that’s the way we’ll go. If he (Arencibia) proves that hey, we want him, the other guy will get the backup role and catch one of the other guys possibly. That will all play out. We haven’t played a game yet.”

Arencibia will catch Dickey in his spring debut Monday. The two will also work together with the U.S. team at the World Baseball Classic.

Thole will start as catcher for Brandon Morrow in the Grapefruit League opener Saturday against Detroit, with Arencibia playing designated hitter — to give him some extra at-bats ahead of the WBC, according to Gibbons.

Arencibia will catch Mark Buehrle in a split-squad game Sunday, while Blanco handles J.A. Happ in the other outing that day.

The bottom line for Gibbons is that no catcher can play 162 games. The manager sees 125-130 as a heavy load for Arencibia.

If Dickey had a personal catcher, Arencibia would sit out every fifth game — some 32.

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Toronto Blue Jays catchers J.P. Arencibia, left, Josh Thole, centre, and Henry Blanco chat before a drill during baseball spring training in Dunedin, Fla., on Thursday. bons said of the numbers, before adding “Not that we’re going to do that.”

The players involved in the catching web are all saying the right things.

Dickey says Arencibia’s enthusiasm to catch him is “a window into J.P. as a human.”

Blanco, whose locker stall is next to Arencibia’s, says he has no idea of the manager’s plans but he’s there to support Arencibia.

“I know J.P.’s working really hard with him (Dickey) and hopefully he’ll get the rhythm. He’s the No 1 guy and hopefully he’ll be able to catch him.”

For his part, Thole says all is good among Toronto’s brotherhood of catchers.

“Everybody’s got everybody’s back.

At the end of the day, that’s what’s important. Whatever happens, happens.”

Nickeas says he has no idea what the future holds but clearly isn’t stressing about it.

“I’m looking forward to just going out there and kind of showing a new organization what I’m capable of and seeing where that lands me.”

All three agree the knuckleball is a handful.

“The knuckleball, it’s like it’s bouncing in mid-air,” Nickeas said. “It’s like one of those balls that take funny hops on you. It’s just not hitting the ground, it’s just doing it in the air. It gets very challenging at times. You really try to relax until the last second then make a snatch at it.”

Added Blanco: “It’s a crazy thing.”

Experience helps, says the 26-yearold Thole.

“That’s my opinion about it. I’m not saying it gets any easier but I can tell you that you get a little more confident.”

But the 30-year-old Nickeas says experience doesn’t mean you know where it’s going to go.

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OILERS: Breakaway Edmonton had a chance to tie it up midway through the period on a breakaway, but Sam Gagner sent his shot wide.

Cullen then gave his team a two-goal cushion with six minutes left to play by electing to shoot on a 2-on1 and wiring a shot high past Dubnyk.

There was no scoring and few chances in a defensively-minded first period, the best belonging to Minnesota’s Dany Heatley, who had Dubnyk beat on a quick shot but hit the post in the final minute.

The Oilers’ best chance in the first half of the game came six minutes into the second when Nail Yakupov fed Gagner on a 2-on-1 with Gagner, but Backstrom came across to make the save.

Minnesota came close midway through the second period with a flurry in front that included a huge save from Dubnyk in tight on a rebound from Heatley and another post.

Edmonton finally broke the deadlock at 12:26 of the second when Smyth picked up a rebound behind the net and quickly looped around to put the puck in from the other side before Backstrom could get across.

It was the second goal of the season for Smyth, who was celebrating his 37th birthday.

The Wild tied the game up with five minutes to play in the period as Cullen outmuscled Mark Fistric to the puck and then beat Dubnyk with a backhand shot through the legs.

Both teams return to the ice on Saturday.

The Oilers conclude their homestand with a game against Phoenix, while the Wild are in Calgary to face the Flames.

Notes: It was the first of four games this season between the two teams. Last season, the Wild won four of six games after a six-game sweep in 2010-11. The Wild entered the contest with a 27-8-2 record against the Oilers over the last six seasons.

RDC: One of the fastest skaters in the league “When Jill is playing well, she’s using her speed,”

said Keeper. “She’s one of the fastest skaters in the league and tonight she was using that. She was keeping her shifts short, so that she had enough energy and when she does that she’ll get rewarded, like she did.”

“She’s been struggling a bit of late, but she’s our leading scorer and that was a big goal,” said Hoppins.

“That’s what she does for us.”

Hoppins set up the Queens third goal at 4:20 by winning a faceoff over to Petrie, who whipped a quick shot high to Glover’s glove side. Kyla Lorenz gave the Griffins a little life at 8:28, beating Camille Trautman on the power play.

To make matters worse Emily Lougheed took a penalty 35 seconds after the Griffins scored. However, Jena Holden turned the shorthanded situation into RDC’s favour when she darted into the MacEwan zone, out-fought the Griffins for the puck in front and scored shorthanded.

“She scored all because of her forechecking pressure,” said Keeper. “She always puts a lot of pressure on the puck. She’s a fast skater, wins faceoffs and is a strong penalty killer. That’s what she gives us and tonight she used her speed and created the shorthanded goal.”

Overall the Queens did exactly what the coaching staff set up for them, although Keeper said he was a bit nervous.

“No matter how good your team is you’re always nervous,” he said. “When the playoffs start what you’ve accomplished to that point doesn’t matter.

A team can come in, out-work you, get a couple of bounces and beat you.

“But we prepared by breaking each period down into seven minute segments and focused on little things for each seven minutes. We told the girls if they do that they’ll likely win.”

The Queens finished with 38 shots on Glover while Trautman faced 25.

The teams meet Saturday at 8:15 p.m. at Confederation Park in Edmonton with the third game, if necessary, Sunday at 12:30 p.m. at the Arena.

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Patrick protects pole after safe run in duel owner Gene Haas even suggested — perhaps, jokingly — that Patrick call it a day after a couple of laps.

Not a chance.

“We really just wanted to run probably 10 or 15 laps and be in the pack, be in front,” crew chief Tony Gibson said. “Once we got into a stalemate, we fell back, the inside line wasn’t moving and it was just time to get out.”

No driver has won the Daytona 500 from the pole since Dale Jarrett in 2000.

She can’t rest easy yet, not with Cup practices today and Saturday, where any wreck could send her to the back of the field. But she passed the first major of Speedweeks since she thrust herself and NASCAR into the national spotlight with a history-making run at the pole for “The Great American Race.”

“My nerves will be calmed down a little bit Saturday afternoon when practice is over and our car’s in one piece,” Gibson said.

Her debrief was, well, brief. Her No. 10 Chevrolet had a tachometer issue and she enjoyed taking the outside lane. Other than those tidbits, Patrick had little analysis for her mundane performance.

“I hate coming to the end like that and just lagging back,” she said. “That’s not fun, but it’s also really ignorant to go drive up into the pack and be part of an accident for absolutely no reason. You’re really not going to learn much there.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — All Danica Patrick needed to do was keep her car intact.

She didn’t exactly follow her team owner’s advice — start and then park after two laps, he joked — but she certainly saved an all-out push for Sunday’s Daytona 500.

Patrick started on the pole for the first 150-mile Budweiser Duel before she coasted and finished 17th out of 23 cars. She’ll keep the top spot for Sunday’s Daytona 500.

She led the field to green, then quietly faded to the back, never giving herself a chance to race for the win.

“I suppose there’s a sense of relief” she kept the pole, Patrick said. “But at the same point in time, I’m a race car driver, and it’s not fun to have to protect and be careful and be cautious and drop back at times.”

Patrick was nowhere near the four-lap sprint to the finish that saw Kevin Harvick hold off Greg Biffle for the win. She became the first woman in history to win a pole in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup series. Team

be driving in the back of the field, with no serious chance for the checkered flag. Her average start was 36th and her average finish was 28th in her 10 Cup races last season. She got caught in a crash on just the second lap of her Daytona 500 debut last season and finished 38th.

Patrick has struggled in three NASCAR seasons and has never finished better than 17th. She made the fulltime jump to the top series this season.

Her chance to show what she could do racing up front from the start never got going.

“It’s not fun racing like that, I know it’s not a lot of fun for her,” Gibson said. “Our car’s in one piece for now.”

Patrick is the fresh face of NASCAR heading into the series’ season-opener. She signed autographs without slowing a step as she whisked through the fan zone on her way to the hauler. Patrick fans camped out on seats atop the garage and yelled, “Danica, we love you!” as she went to the hauler.

She’s handled the pressure of the pole with the same ease she handled the No. 10. Patrick said Thursday’s run was comparable to a test session.

If she keeps the top spot until Sunday, all she’ll need to do is pick where she’ll race, not when to drop back “Do I have to start on the inside on Sunday? I’m not really sure,” she said. “Where does the pole start? The outside looked pretty nice.”

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HAMILTON, Ont. — He was a double-threat, a player capable of turning a short completion into a huge play or burning the opposition on special teams.

On Thursday, Earl Winfield received the highest individual honour a football player in this country can as the former Hamilton Tiger-Cats star headlined the 2013 class named for induction into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.

Also selected as players were offensive linemen Dan Ferrone and Miles Gorrell and receiver Brian Fryer while former official John (Jake) Ireland and long-time CIS coach Don Loney (posthumously) will go in the builder’s category.

The official induction ceremony will be held in Edmonton later this year with the new inductees boosting the Hall of Fame’s membership to 264.

The 51-year-old Winfield, a native of Petersburg, Pa., joined the Ticats in 1987 after attending the Seattle Seahawks’ training camp the season before and wasted little time making an impact in the CFL. On Sept. 5, 1988 he became the first CFL player to score a TD three different ways in a game. He had 101-yard punt return, 100-yard kickoff return and touchdown catch in leading Hamilton to a 5628 victory over the arch-rival Toronto Argonauts.

Over 11 seasons with Hamilton, Winfield had 573 career catches for 10,119 yards and 75 touchdown grabs. He also recorded 281 punt returns for 2,834 yards and 11 TDs and returned 75 kickoffs for 1,656 yards and the TD against Toronto.

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Ronda Rousey has an Olympic judo medal, an undeniable personal magnetism and a merciless string of victories in her short mixed martial arts career.

Now she’s finally got a showcase worthy of her talent.

Rousey and Liz Carmouche will make history Saturday night at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., when they meet in the first women’s bout in UFC history. They’re the main event at UFC 157, and Rousey is the star of the latest pay-per-view show put on by MMA’s dominant promotion.

It’s a scenario that was fairly unimaginable even a year ago in the UFC, which never had a women’s division and showed scant interest in that version of the sport.

Rousey and her fellow fighters have created believers at every level of MMA in the past few years, culminating in this breakthrough onto its biggest stage.

“I feel like the brighter the lights are, the better I can see,” Rousey said.

“These are things that needed to be done for a very long time now, and I didn’t think that waiting for somebody else to do it was the wisest thing to do,” she added. “I feel like I’m the most capable person, and I should do whatever I can to make it happen.”

It’s all happening for Rousey, who has already graced magazine covers and national talk shows with a sparkling wit and charm that’s in sharp contrast to her savage, joint-dislocating performances in the cage. After winning each of her first six professional MMA fights by painful armbar submissions in the first round, Rousey is a huge favourite to retain the UFC women’s bantamweight belt handed to her by UFC President Dana White last year after she defended her title in the now-defunct Strikeforce promotion.

“It’s very serendipitous, the way it’s all come together,” said Rousey, a Southern California native who lives beachside in Venice. “If I could have had everything exactly the way I wanted, this is how I would have written it down. Win all my fights in the first round, then go to the UFC and headline a show, and have it as a pay-per-view and at home. People’s dreams don’t come true like that. You think so when you’re a kid, but then you get older and realize that’s not the real world.

I guess the real world is pretty cool sometimes, too.”

As the anointed face of her sport, Rousey’s profile is growing among casual sports fans, even overtaking the stature of Gina Carano, the former fighter who got an acting career when director Steven Soderbergh saw her fighting on CBS. On the heels of the wildly successful debut of women’s boxing at the London Olympics, Rousey seems poised to take the so-called combat sports to greater exposure than ever before.

She already won over the most important skeptic of all: White, who initially wanted no part of women’s MMA. “After we met, she told me she had envisioned in her mind that she was going to make it so that I couldn’t deny women, that I would have to bring her into the UFC,” White said.

“We’ve had some pretty crazy conversations about a lot of things, but she was right. She willed it so that there was no way I was not going to do it.”

Rousey specializes in the armbar, a judo technique that bends an opponent’s arm in grotesque fashion until she taps out or gets a dislocated elbow.

Rousey has an equal-

ly spectacular way with words: During promotion for her final Strikeforce fight against Sarah Kaufman last August, Rousey vowed to rip off Kaufman’s arm and throw it at her corner. She settled for her sixth straight armbar.

“Everybody calls her a one-trick pony, but she’s fought a lot of women that are very good, who all know exactly what she’s going to do, and they can’t stop her,” White said. “She goes right in and gets you down, goes for that arm, and they can’t stop her from doing it. She doesn’t want her arm raised in a decision. She wants to finish you, and that’s what I like.”

She’s not talking any trash for her UFC debut, though: Rousey has a warm mutual respect with Carmouche, a Marine from San Diego.

Carmouche is the first openly gay fighter in UFC history, yet she’s nearly a footnote in the UFC 157 hype compared to Rousey’s rising star.

Carmouche realizes Rousey is supremely gifted, but eagerly took this historic chance to be in the UFC’s first women’s fight.

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receiving touchdowns, punt return touchdowns and overall TDs (87) as well as single-season punt return TDs (four in ’88). Twice he was a CFL Earl Winfield all-star and in 2005 was named to the Ticats’ Wall of Fame.

Ferrone, 54, a native of Oakville, Ont., spent 11 of his 12 CFL seasons with Toronto (1981’88, 1990-’92). He played for the Calgary Stampeders in 1989.

Ferrone won two Grey Cup titles with Toronto (1983, ’91) and was a five-time CFL all-star. Twice the former Simon Fraser star was named the East Division top lineman and appeared in 213 career games and served 10 years as an Argos team captain. Ten times he was the club’s nominee as outstanding lineman.

Ferrone also served as president of the CFL Players’ Association from 1993 to 2000 and was an offensive line coach with Toronto in 2002. He moved into the front office as vice-president in 2003 before being promoted to president.

In 2006, Ferrone was named an All-Time Argo before being placed on the All-Time Argos squad at guard.

Gorrell, a 57-year-old Edmonton native, was a fixture in the CFL, entering the league in 1978 with Calgary and playing for five teams — Calgary, Ottawa, Montreal, Hamilton (twice) and Winnipeg — through the ’96 season. He stands fourth in league history in games played (321) and twice was

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PHOTO RADAR SITES Red Deer City RCMP has photo radar set up in several locations to watch motorists around the city. Photo radar is in place at school zones on 39th Street, Niven Street and Oleander Drive. Enforcement is underway at playground zones on Northey Avenue, Kerry Wood Drive, Allan Street and 55th Avenue. Police are also checking traffic corridors on Taylor Drive, 50th Avenue, 67th Street, 49th Avenue, Riverside Drive and 40th Avenue.

Enforcement will continue at these sites until Feb. 28. RCMP reserve the right to change locations without notice.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MOVING The Red Deer and District Community Foundation is moving.

Effective March 1, the foundation’s office will be located in Suite 203 in Mid City Plaza at 4805 48th St. It is currently located in the Scott Block. The foundation oversees a community endowment fund to provide grants for deserving projects, as well as producing the annual Vital Signs report on community quality of life, aiding in the Ending Homelessness initiative and running the Women of Excellence Awards program.

DINNER FUNDRAISER A County Dinner will be served up to raise money for the Crestomere Playground at Lincoln Hall on March 1. The dinner and auction are organized by the Friends of Crestomere Committee.

Cocktails will be served at 5:30 p.m. Dinner follows at 6:30 p.m. The live and silent auction will start shortly after dinner. Tickets are $25 and are available at Crestomere School or Gull Lake Vet Clinic. Call Laverne or Mandi at 403-782-0354 for more information.

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Firefighter heralds spirit NYC FIREMAN WHO EXPERIENCED 9/11, SUPERSTORM SANDY SPEAKS AT PRAYER BREAKFAST

BY RANDY FIEDLER ADVOCATE STAFF The power of community overcomes disaster, a New York City fireman who experienced 9/11 and Superstorm Sandy told Lacombe and area residents on Thursday.

“When these hard times come, people really rally around each other,” Gene Philcox explained at the Lacombe Leadership Prayer Breakfast.

“When you have that spirit going on, it’s a great experience.”

The 21-year Fire Department of New York veteran recounted leaving his firehouse on Sept. 11, 2001, “on a beautiful morning, which was an irony,” heading for the World Trade Center 16 km away.

His crew arrived to find the South Tower down and was touched as the fire department chief’s impromptu funeral procession passed.

“I saw his helmet hanging down and it had been cut cleanly in half. There was just a lot of tragedy all around.”

Philcox feared what would happen once inside the North Tower.

“It was a soul searching matter. You’re looking at people jumping out of windows and you know you have to go in, but you want to come out.”

The North Tower’s collapse was followed by an “eerie, hushed silence created by the dust.

“The silence was deafening. It was bizarre,” said the 51-year-old, adding the calm was shattered once car tires began exploding from underground fires due to broken gas and electrical lines.

When Superstorm Sandy struck last October, Philcox was coming off shift in Breezy Point, an area hard hit over the ensuing hours.

Winds and tidal surges kept him there overnight and he worked a 24-hour shift in the storm’s aftermath.

“There were small fires here and there from downed power lines and broken gas lines, but people came from all over the country to help.”

He recounted how a group of elderly southern U.S. Baptist volunteers slept in his firehouse.

“We had no heat and no power and they were freezing, but they were such diehard

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Liz Stad, left, and her daughter Sarah thank New York firefighter Gene Philcox for sharing his accounts of 9/11 and Superstorm Sandy at the Lacombe Leadership Prayer Breakfast on Thursday.

‘IT WAS A SOUL SEARCHING MATTER. YOU’RE LOOKING AT PEOPLE JUMPING OUT OF WINDOWS AND YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO GO IN, BUT YOU WANT TO COME OUT.’ — NEW YORK CITY FIREFIGHTER GENE PHILCOX

giving people,” he said to laughter, adding the group set up a tent outside the hall and stayed a month.

More laughter followed as he explained how New Yorkers renowned for directness and impatience pulled together in the wake of the disasters.

“Good does come out of these things, the community spirit was very wonderful.”

That unity’s now exhausted, he said, because New Yorkers, like many other Americans, “are divided on how to do what’s best

for the country.”

A devout Christian and church director from East Rockaway, Philcox is thankful for his faith.

“Where’s God in all this? We have God’s word no matter what the situation is. God is real and he’s there for us.”

The 260 people at the second annual event in the Lacombe Memorial Centre offered prayers for Lacombe’s mayor, council, police and fire departments. rfiedler@reddeeradvocate.com

Care network gives Jablonski rules out disc golf a spin mayoral candidacy

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF As the Mark Twain saying goes, golf can be a good way to ruin a four-hour walk, but disc golf can be a little less frustrating and all it costs is a flying disc.

The activity was given a shot in the arm by the Red Deer Primary Care Network, which developed two disc golf courses in the city, one in Victoria Park in the Anders neighbourhood and another in the Kentwood neighbourhood.

Disc golf is similar to golf in both scoring and play, however the target is a metal pole with chains attached to it that the shooter aims at, instead of holes. They are commonly put in public parks as an activity designed for anyone with a flying disc or Frisbee.

Lorna Milkovich, Red Deer Primary Care Network executive director, said the courses the network partnered with the city to install are meant to promote healthy activity for all ages.

“Our goal here is to try to create a culture of active living in the community of Red Deer,” said Milkovich.

“Everything we do we look at how can it be accessible to everybody.”

Disc golf fit the mould because it is low cost and involves physical and social activity.

One of the doctors in the primary care network suggested disc golf about three

years ago.

The game is open to anyone, new or experienced.

The serious disc golfers use three flying discs with different weights and sizes, while others can just use any old disc.

“It really crosses the generations because kids can do it, right through to older people,” said Milkovich.

She said the city has been very co-operative as the primary care network established the courses, but the city will be responsible for the upkeep of them in the long run.

The Kentwood course was designed for beginners and the Victoria Park course is meant to be a little more challenging.

An association of disc golfers was established by enthusiasts. The Central Alberta Disc Golf Association has seven Facebook members.

They also have a website, www.cadga.ca, with discussions of starting a league in the summer and possibly having mini-tournaments.

The primary care network doesn’t plan on putting in any new disc golf courses.

“It’s light, it’s fun, it’s meant to be accessible for families to people who are more competitive,” said Milkovich.

“We were thrilled to have this opportunity.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

nominations now open Red Deer College is now accepting nominations for the awards that are presented annually at RDC’s Convocation, Friday, June 7, 2013.

G.H. Dawe Memorial Award of Excellence Presented by RDC to a community member who best exemplifies the values of Mr. George Harold Dawe (1910-1999), co-founder of RDC and first administrative officer.

Details online www.rdc.ab.ca/convocation_awards For more information: 403.342.3259 email: elaine.vandale@rdc.ab.ca

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Mary Anne Jablonski has put an end to rumours about her potential candidacy for Red Deer mayor.

The MLA for Red Deer North announced on Thursday that she is not running at this time.

A five-term Progressive Conservative MLA and former cabinet minister, she said she will not run in the October municipal M a r y A n n e election, choos- Jablonski ing to stay in the legislature.

“I thought very long and very hard about this,” said Jablonski, 60.

“I have a number of great friends and colleagues who have been encouraging me over the last couple of months to run for mayor.”

Jablonski cited several reasons for the decision, including her election as Red Deer North MLA in 2012, the cost of a byelection for her vacated riding to taxpayers if she were to run, that she believes a candidate must be committed to at least two terms as mayor to be effective and, while she does have property in Red Deer, she lives one block east of the city boundary.

Under the Municipal Government Act, a candidate must live within the municipality for six months prior to any election.

“I feel like I said (to my constituents), if you elect me I will serve you to the best of my ability over the next four years,” said Jablons-

Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award To honour a RDC Alumni who has distinguished him or herself in Professional Achievement; Academic Achievement; Public Service Achievement.

Alumni Legacy Award A posthumous recognition to recognize an individual alumnus’ contribution to the community.

Details for Alumni Awards online: www.rdc.ab.a/alumni - see Awards & Recognition For more information: 403.342.3308 email: alumni@rdc.ab.ca Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 22, 2013

ki. “I feel like I have a contract with them and I should complete that contract.”

While Jablonski may have closed the door on her candidacy for the October 2013 municipal election, she said she may consider running for mayor in the future.

“Right now I’m loyal to the people of Red Deer North,” said Jablonski.

“Never say never.”

She would not comment on why the rumour persisted about her mayoral candidacy.

“I felt it was time to the make the decision,” said Jablonski. “I spoke to family and some close friends and colleagues and got some good advice, I thought. I told the people who have been encouraging me to run for mayor that I would still be working for the City of Red Deer.”

Jablonski has had a smaller role in government since Alison Redford was elected PC party leader.

Under previous the premier, Ed Stelmach, she was minister of Seniors and Community Supports, but is no longer in cabinet.

This leaves the mayoralty race to current city councillor Cindy Jefferies and newcomer Chad Mason.

Jefferies announced on Jan. 15 that she would run. Mayor Morris Flewwelling has announced that this will be his last term.

Jablonski said while she and Jefferies don’t see eye-to-eye on several issues, she thinks the three-term city councillor is a good person.

“I think we have different points of view on things,” said Jablonski.

“It’s my fiscal conservative background that probably is what other people are looking at . . . she has some different opinions than I do.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Division gets cash for youth employment

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Eastview Middle School students (from left) Alison Harman, Cole Webber, Connor McCallister and Aidan Schafer with their model of a school they designed. The students are waiting to see if their entry will be one of eight finalists in a School of the Future Contest.

Students plan ‘school of future’ WAITING WORD IF THEY’VE MADE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Four students from Eastview Middle School have come up with an architectural design for a school that connects education to Red Deer’s downtown community.

They call it Mamawayawin School, which translates to ‘living in a community’ in Cree.

Grade 7 and 8 students Cole Webber, Connor McCallister, Alison Harman and Aidan Schafer are competing in the School of the Future contest put on by the Council of Education Facility Planners International.

The Red Deer team won the right to represent Alberta and is now competing against two teams, one from Alaska and a team from Washington State, for the title of Pacific Northwest regional finalist.

Students will find out on Monday if they are

one of eight international teams heading to the finals in April in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mamawayawin School was designed to attach to the existing Recreation Centre. Students came up with an innovative plan to expand the aquatics centre and add a museum and art gallery to their proposed Kindergarten to Grade 8 school. Grade 9 to 12 students would be taught in a nearby science centre.

The concept grew from a desire to make students more successful based on the Finnish education system that emphasizes individualized education suited to students’ needs.

“In our design we kind of wanted to make learning fun and really want the students to be happy to go to school,” McCallister said on Thursday.

Opportunities to learn from businesses and organizations in the down-

town community would further enhance students’ education.

“We really wanted to make it interactive. Everybody in the community plays a part in their education,” McCallister said.

The team worked to complement city plans for future development in the downtown.

Webber said the facilities were designed to be shared with the community. Constructing multiuse facilities means fewer facilities are needed.

Sustainability is a big part of schools of the future and Mamawayawin School would use geothermal heating, solar energy, and harness waste energy from rinks to cool buildings.

A green roof edged with railing on the main school facility would double as a playground.

“This building is very big and we thought it would take away the

True Imagination.

The deadline for nominations is May 1, with the award ceremony to take place in late September.

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aspect of the park so we designed this part here to almost act as a path so you can walk right up and over it,” said Harman while pointing to the curved roof that touches ground in the team’s table-top model.

“We designed it like that so the students can still feel a part of downtown and the site without being at risk of danger.”

Craig Webber, principal with Group2 Architecture Engineering Ltd., was a professional mentor for the Eastview team. Eastview teacher Kelly Aleman worked with the students. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Chinook’s Edge School Division is receiving $542,000 in federal funding over two years to help youth overcome barriers to employment.

The division operates a Skills Link program, which is part of the government’s Youth Employment Strategy.

Chinook’s Edge has been running its Personal Empowerment and Employment Program since 1995.

“We’ve had an 86-per cent success rate. Government expects 70, but we’ve maintained 86 per cent,” said program director Michele Brewster on Thursday.

“It’s been a very, very good fit with the division.

It’s been terrific.”

Open to young people age 15 to 30 who are not attending school and are unemployed or underemployed, participants complete 22 weeks of classroom instruction and a 26-week job placement in the energy sector, service or construction industry. Participants are paid minimum wage.

The program is running out of Didsbury this year and Innisfail next year.

The Didsbury program, also available to people in Olds, started Feb. 11, and is full with 17 participants.

The Innisfail program starts in February 2014 and is also open to residents of Penhold, Spruce View, Bowden and Elnora.

Clues still sought in woman’s disappearance

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS GRANDE PRAIRIE — Mounties in northwestern Alberta suspect there is still valuable information out there about a woman who was last sighted three years ago.

Jody Hockett vanished on Feb. 22, 2009, after being seen getting into a small white car outside a Grande Prairie hotel.

Police say they believe there are people who know something about what happened to Hockett, but have chosen not to come forward.

They say some of those people were in her social circle when she disappeared.

Hockett, who would now be 37, was described at the time as being five-foot-five and 140 pounds, with blue eyes and long blond hair.

Investigators are asking anyone who might have information to call the Grande Prairie RCMP detachment.

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Sudden death at O’Chiese reserve investigated

Alberta individuals and organizations doing good work in the fields of mental health and addictions are being sought as nominations for the 2013 True Awards are now open.

The annual awards are presented through The Lieutenant Governor’s Circle on Mental Health and Addiction.

“The True Awards honour exemplary Albertans who have dedicated themselves to fostering a better public understanding of mental illness and addiction and to serving all those who suffer,” said Lt.-Gov. Donald Ethell.

Awards are presented in five categories: True Grit, True Compassion, True Leadership, True Service and

RCMP investigators are probing the sudden death of a 44-year-old man on the O’Chiese Reserve, north of Rocky Mountain House early on Wednesday.

Ronald Jack Mitchell was found dead in a home by police responding to a complaint.

Police are awaiting an autopsy to determine the cause of death, says a news release from RCMP Southern Alberta spokesman Cpl. Darrin Turnbull.

The RCMP’s major crimes unit and forensic identification section have been called in to help with the investigation.

No further information will be released at this time, says Turnbull.

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Businesses to open in Penhold PHARMACY WITH POSSIBLE DENTIST AND MEDICAL CLINICS FOR BUILDING EAST OF HWY 2A

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR A proposed shopping centre in Penhold will give the town a pharmacy and likely a dentist, with a medical clinic also a possibility.

Pharmacist Steven Busse confirmed on Thursday that he plans to build a medicalprofessional centre on the east side of Hwy 2A in Penhold.

The building, which Busse expects to be 7,500 to 8,000 square feet, will house a pharmacy that he will operate. Busse said he’s also close to securing a dentist for the site, and hopes to have other medical tenants.

“We will build space in that building to accommodate a doctor’s office.”

Other potential uses include optometry, physiotherapy and massage services, added Busse.

Construction should commence in May, and wrap up by October or November, he said.

A second, similar-sized building is proposed for the same 1.5-acre lot.

“There’s been some interest from another group wanting to do a building of their own on that property,” said Busse.

It would likely contain a mix of commercial-retail businesses, he said.

Busse’s property is north of another 1.5-acre parcel, where First Choice Family Foods owner Gerry Knebel plans to develop a 13,000-square-foot supermarket.

That grocery store would be located in a 16,000-square-foot building, which is expected to contain other commercial businesses.

Busse and Knebel see their buildings as part of a larger shopping centre, with further commercial development possible on another two acres further north. Busse said a financial institution and a restaurant might be good options for the area, and said he and Knebel will work with the town to create a site plan that ensures ease of access.

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EU wants change in trade stand BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Union’s trade commissioner says he hopes to wrap up a trade deal with Canada soon, but that Canada must change its positions for that to happen.

Karel De Gucht, speaking Thursday to a committee of the European Parliament, visited Ottawa recently. “What was on the table simply didn’t please me, so I didn’t make an agreement,” he said. “Of course, we will continue to negotiate with them, and I hope that we can conclude those negotiations rather soon,” he added. “But my opinion is you only make a deal when you think it’s a good deal.”

The EU also is pursuing a free-trade deal with the U.S.

Number of EI recipients down Statistics Canada says the number of people receiving regular employment insurance fell in December for the third time in four months, hitting a level similar to that of last spring. The agency says there were 517,000 people on EI in December, down 1.6 per cent from November.

All provinces had fewer beneficiaries in December, with the largest percentage decreases occurring in Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador and Manitoba. To receive EI benefits, individuals must first submit a claim and the number of claims provides an indication of the number of people who could become beneficiaries Nationally, there were 226,700 initial and renewal claims in December, virtually unchanged from the previous month.

Provincially, there were fewer claims in Manitoba, Alberta, New Brunswick and Quebec. The number increased in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario.

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ily Foods, said last week that he sees good market potential in Penhold.

Busse agreed.

“Between Penhold and Springbrook, you’re looking at close to 4,000 people with really no commercial services out there at all.”

Busse believes the town is poised for the same kind of growth that Blackfalds has experienced in recent years.

Penhold Mayor Dennis Cooper said recently that these commercial projects are great news for the town.

Not only will they afford residents the convenience of shopping close to home, they’ll likely attract more development, create local jobs and broaden the town’s tax base.

Busse has worked as a pharmacist in the Red Deer area for more than 10 years, and is currently operating Sylvan Lake Pharmacy.

He said a business partner will probably assist him with the Penhold pharmacy. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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The Google Chromebook Pixel laptop computer is shown at an announcement in San Francisco, Thursday. Google is adding a new touch to its line of Chrome laptops in an attempt to outshine personal computers running on software made by rivals Microsoft and Apple.

Google expands into high-end laptop market with Chrome

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Google is adding a new and more expensive touch to its line of Chrome laptops in an attempt to outshine personal computers running on software made by rivals Microsoft and Apple.

The Chromebook Pixel unveiled Thursday includes a nearly 13-inch (33-centimetre) display screen that responds to the touch or swipe of a finger. That duplicates a key feature in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 8, a dramatic makeover of the world’s leading operating system for PCs. The Pixel’s high-resolution screen displays 239 pixels per inch, slightly more than Apple Inc.’s MacBooks with high-resolution Retina displays.

A MacBook Pro with a screen that measures 13.1 inches (33.3 centimetres) diagonally can handle 227 pixels per inch (2.5 centimetres), while the 15.4-inch (39.1-centimetre) model is at 220 pixels per inch.

“This is the future: high-resolution screens and touch,” said Sundar Pichai, a senior vice-president who oversees Google’s Chrome Web browser and operating system.

Google Inc. designed and built the Pixel for “power users” — a fastidious and generally more affluent segment of the PC market willing to pay more for machines equipped with compelling features and components not found in cheaper laptops. The strategy is a departure for Google, which had positioned Chromebooks based on its Chrome operating system as affordable options for homes and offices looking for a quick and easy way to connect to the Web. Google has been partnering with PC makers to make Chromebooks over the past two years. Among them: Acer Inc. makes a bare-bones Chromebook for just $199, while Samsung Elec-

tronics Co. sells one for $249.

The Pixel, which Google is building without a partner, will cost $1,299 for a Wi-Fi only model with 32 gigabytes of flash storage. A 64-gigabyte machine that can connect on both Wi-Fi and a 4G LTE cellular network will cost $1,499. That’s the same price as the cheapest MacBook Pro with a comparable screen, though the Apple laptop comes with 128 gigabytes of storage.

Apple does have a cheaper, lighter laptop, the MacBook Air. A 13-inch (33-centimetre) model with 128 gigabytes of storage starts at $1,199. It weighs less than 3 pounds (1.35 kilograms) and doesn’t have a high-resolution screen. The Pixel has the highresolution screen and weighs 3.35 pounds (1.52 kilograms). The 13-inch high-resolution MacBook Pro weighs 3.57 pounds.

Google believes Pixel is a better value than the Air, given its higherresolution screen with touch controls.

Google is also throwing in 1 terabytes of free online storage in its data centres for three years — a benefit that Pichai estimated would cost $500 to $600.

The Pixel “will stand up very, very well to the MacBook Air,” Pichai said.

“The goal here is to push the boundaries to deliver the best laptop at the best possible price.”

Though its popular iPad has a touch screen, Apple has shunned touchscreen laptops. Apple figures that because people use laptops with the screen in front of them, rather than in their hands or laps, it’s not a pleasant experience to constantly have to reach out to touch the screen.

Microsoft, on the other hand, considers touch screens to be central to all computing environments. Windows 8 was designed to make desktop and laptop computers work more like tablet computers.

Rifco Inc. (TSXV: RFC) posted some record numbers during its third quarter of operations.

The Red Deer-based company, which provides consumer financing on new and used vehicles, reported on Thursday that its net income for the three months ended Dec. 31 was $1.23 million. That represented a 93 per cent increase over the $637,000 earned during the same period in the previous year.

Rifco’s earnings per basic share for the quarter were 6.1 cents, up 91 per cent from 3.2 cents a year earlier.

The company’s revenues for the three-month period were $6.42 million, a 50 per cent improvement over the $4.29 million generated to the end of December 2011.

Rifco also enjoyed a 30 per cent jump in loan originations for the quarter, to $23.2 million. Yearto-date numbers include $3.2 million in net income, up 81 per cent from the $1.8 million earned during the same nine-month period of 2011; and earnings per basic share of 15.8 cents, up 78 per cent from 8.9 cents. Revenues for the same three quarters were $17.6 million, a 49 per cent jump from $11.8 million.

MPC approves Vanier East subdivision Red Deer’s municipal planning commission has approved the subdivision of 17.3 acres in the Lancaster/Vanier East subdivision to create 107 residential lots.

Phase 4B of the Melcor Developments Ltd. project will result in the addition of 41 low-density R1 lots and 66 narrow R1N lots. R1 lots must have at least 12 metres of frontage, and R1N lots no less than 10.5 metres.

Coun. Cindy Jefferies noted that the area is adjacent to the future 20th Avenue Expressway, and suggested that lot buyers should be made aware of this.

City planner Jordan Furness said the location of 20th Avenue is apparent to anyone looking at the neighbourhood area structure plan.

Coun. Buck Buchanan wondered about the use of the name Village Crescent in the new neighbourhood, and the potential for confusion with respect to Village Mall in north Red Deer. Furness said the name, and others in the subdivision, have been circulated through the city’s Emergency Services Department. No concerns were identified, he said.

The Lancaster/Vanier East neighbourhood is located south of Lancaster and east of Vanier Woods.

Info sessions on agri-programs available next month Farmers looking for information about pending changes to the AgriStability and AgriInvest programs will be able to find it at several Central Alberta sessions next month.

Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) is conducting the sessions in more than 40 Alberta communities, including Rocky Mountain House on March 7, Ponoka and Three Hills on March 13, Olds and Springbrook on March 14, and Stettler on March 21.

AgriStability and AgriInvest, as well as AgriRecovery and AgriInsurance, are business risk management programs created through the federal-provincial Growing Forward agreement. A new agreement takes effect on April 1, and it will result in a number of changes to AgriStability and AgriInvest.

Brad Klak, president and CEO of AFSC, said farmers should learn about these, and their impact.

“It’s important that they understand the program changes, consider their business needs, and make an informed decision.”

Details about the upcoming information sessions can be found on the AFSC website at www.

AFSC.ca. Producers can also call the AFSC office at 1-877-899-AFSC (2372).

Independent internet providers to get standard bill

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Independent, high-speed Internet providers must be charged standardized rates from the big telephone and cable companies for using their networks under a new regulatory ruling.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said Thursday the more straightforward, single billing model will mean the same rates will apply for wholesale business and residential services.

“Large and small independent service providers now have the certainty they need to continue offering Canadians a choice of

innovative and competitive service,” commission chairman Jean-Pierre Blais said in a statement.

Although the CRTC does not regulate Internet prices for consumers, it said it expects the new standardized wholesale rates will have a “favourable impact” on prices charged in the competitive retail market.

Independent Internet providers make up a small part of the market but they often distinguish themselves by offering customers an all-you-eat or unlimited service.

The CRTC said some independent Internet providers will see significant reductions in the wholesale rates they pay to rent space on the large providers’ networks as a result of its review.

Some large companies had charged independent Internet providers different rates under different billing models for wholesale and residential business services, the commission said.

Tom Copeland, president and founder of independent Internet provider eagle.ca, said the CRTC’s ruling provides stability in network rental costs. He added his network costs should come down marginally.

“I think what it means for us primarily is that we finally have some certainty in our pricing, in our costs,” Copeland said from Cobourg, Ont. Copeland said he can now better compete with big companies such as Bell, Rogers, and Telus.

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Rona to cut 200 administrative jobs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 108.75 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 88.00 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.09 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.89 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.67 Cdn. National Railway . 100.14 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 119.18 Cdn. Satellite . . . . . . . . . . 6.59 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 75.06 Capital Power Corp . . . . 23.16 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.21 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 30.84 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 44.79 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 26.04 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.67 General Motors Co. . . . . 26.51 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 19.28 Research in Motion. . . . . 14.31 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 48.02 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 40.83 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.48 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 16.35 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 47.10 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.31 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 68.91 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.91 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.42 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 13.16 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.60 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.25 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 49.30 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.26 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.49 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 30.97 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.31 First Quantum Minerals . 18.73 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 32.91 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.35 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 66.93 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 7.75 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.35 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.42

Teck Resources . . . . . . . 31.69 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 25.61 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 34.18 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 45.56 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.56 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 48.08 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 29.99 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.48 Canyon Services Group. 10.81 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 32.37 CWC Well Services . . . . . 0.71 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 18.42 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.05 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.59 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.77 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.47 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 30.44 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 42.55 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.37 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.91 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.39 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.06 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.11 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.56 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 31.52 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.81 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.60 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 6.99 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 52.07 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 62.71 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 59.92 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.31 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 31.53 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 32.20 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 26.88 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 44.67 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 64.10 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 15.01 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 78.11 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.35 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 63.96 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 28.79 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.14

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Thursday as traders worry that the U.S. Federal Reserve will end its open-ended stimulus program of bond purchases by the end of the year.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed off the worst levels of the session, coming back from a 111-point tumble to close down 74.08 points to 12,639.97, with pressure also coming from poorly received earnings news.

The TSX Venture Exchange added 2.8 points to 1,133.97.

The Canadian dollar lost 0.14 of a cent to a fresh seven-month low of 98.16 cents US as traders avoided risk and resource-based currencies such as the loonie and commodity prices fell sharply.

U.S. indexes were also in the red in the wake of the Wednesday release of minutes from the Fed’s last policy meeting.

They showed some policy-makers at the U.S. central bank were worried that the Fed’s US$85 billion in monthly bond purchases could eventually unsettle financial markets or cause the Fed to take losses. The purchases, commonly known as quantitative easing, are designed to boost the U.S. economy by increasing liquidity in financial markets.

The Fed said it would review its asset purchases program at its March meeting. But New York indexes also came back from the lows of the day as the Dow Jones industrials fell 46.92 points to 13,880.62 after losing as much as 93 points during the morning. The Nasdaq composite index dropped 32.92 points to 3,131.49 and the S&P 500 index was 9.53 points lower at 1,502.42.

Positive news from the U.S. housing sector failed to make much of a dent on markets.

Sales of previously occupied homes rose in January to the secondhighest level in three years, up 0.4 per cent in a sign the housing market is maintaining its recovery and helping to bolster the economy. Economists had looked for a decline of 0.8 per cent.

The base metals sector led decliners, down 2.47 per cent as copper prices closed down sharply for a second day with the March contract on the Nymex off five cents at US$3.55 a pound, adding to a fourcent fall Wednesday. HudBay Minerals (TSX:HBM) fell 72 cents to C$9.35 while First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) gave back 77 cents to $18.73.

Consumer discretion stocks fell 1.6 per cent. Tim Hortons Inc. (TSX:THI) is planning to increase its quarterly dividend by 23.8 per cent.

It also said quarterly revenue was up 4.1 per cent to $811.6 million, less than half the growth rate of the year as a whole. Net income attributable to shareholders also fell, dropping 2.5 per cent from a year earlier to $100.3 million or 65 cents per share.

Its shares dropped $1.50 to $49.30.

Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. (TSX:CTC.A) says quarterly net income was $163.1 million or $2 per diluted share, down 1.9 per cent from a year ago. Revenue rose one per cent to $3.16 billion and the retailer’s shares rose 69 cents to $68.91.

The industrials sector fell 1.72 per cent with shares in Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B) down 39 cents or 9.11 per cent to $3.89 on very heavy volume of 26.6 million shares after it said fourth-quarter net income fell

by US$200 million to just $14 million before adjustments, mostly due to weak results from its rail division.

Ex-items, earnings were down $39

million or 17 per cent to US$188 million or 10 cents per share, which met expectations.

The energy sector fell 1.21 per cent while the April crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange lost $2.38 to US$92.84 a barrel on top of a $2 slide Wednesday.

Oil prices were also undercut by data showing U.S. oil inventories rose last week by a much more than expected 4.14 million barrels. Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) was down 58 cents to C$29.99.

Financials were also weak as Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) declined 61 cents to $62.71.

The gold sector was the leading advancer, up about 1.3 per cent as gold prices surrendered earlier minor gains to move lower for a seventh straight day. The April contract edged closed down 60 cents to US$1,578.60 an ounce after closing at a sevenmonth low Wednesday. Iamgold Inc. (TSX:IMG) rose 28 cents to $7.85 while Kinross Gold (TSX:K) advanced 14 cents to $7.75 .

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Thursday Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,639.97 down 74.08 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,133.97 up 2.80 points TSX 60 — 726.94 down 4.21 points Dow — 13,880.62 down 46.92 points S&P 500 — 1,502.42 down 9.53 points Nasdaq — 3,131.49 down 32.92 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 98.16 cents US, down 0.14 of a cent Pound — C$1.5538, up 0.33 of a cent Euro — C$1.3431, down 0.72 of a cent Euro — US$1.3184, down 0.89 of a cent Oil futures: US$92.84 per barrel, down $2.38 (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,578.60 per oz., up 60 cents (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $30.413 per oz., up 16.3 cents $977.78 kg., up $5.24 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Thursday at 1,133.97, up 2.80 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 164.05 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA Canola: March ’13 $0.80 lower $643.40; May ’13 $0.90 lower $631.70; July ’13 $0.10 lower $618.80; Nov. ’13 $1.00 higher $571.80; Jan. ’14 $1.20 higher $569.00; March ’14 $1.20 higher $566.50; May ’14 $1.20 higher $564.40; July ’14 $1.20 higher $562.50; Nov. ’14 $1.20 higher $551.30; Jan ’15 $1.20 higher $551.30; March ’15 $1.20 higher $551.30.

Barley (Western): March ’13 unchanged $241.50; May ’13 unchanged $242.50; July ’13 unchanged $243.00; Oct. ’13 unchanged $243.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $243.00; March ’14 unchanged $243.00; May ’14 unchanged $243.00; July ’14 unchanged $243.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $243.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $243.00; March ’15 unchanged $243.00.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 499,880 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 499,880.

MONTREAL — Home improvement retailer Rona Inc. plans to cut 200 full-time jobs across Canada and shrink its presence outside of Quebec as it seeks to rebuild a network that continues to underperform in the face of weak consumer demand.

The downsizing, which represents 15 per cent of its administrative positions, is part of the company’s plan to focus on its core businesses and reduce other holdings.

“Our goal is to remain a full Canadian operation and even to accelerate this growth,” acting CEO Dominique Boies said in an interview Thursday after unveiling details of Rona’s strategic plan and

fourth-quarter results.

“By freeing up capital, we will be able to reinvest in that business and gain additional scale.”

The Quebec-based company lost $17.9 million, or 15 cents per share, for the period ended Dec. 30, compared to a loss of $153.6 million or $1.19 per share a year earlier.

Revenues increased 2.2 per cent to $1.2 billion largely on an extra week of business in the quarter.

Adjusting for one-time items, Rona earned $6.6 million or five cents per share, down from $19.7 million or 15 cents per share a year ago.

Rona was expected to earn 14 cents per share in adjusted profits on $1.13 billion in revenues in the fourth quarter, according to a

consensus estimate compiled by Thomson Reuters.

For the full year, it earned $8 million on $4.9 billion of sales.

That compared to a loss of $86.4 million on $4.8 billion of sales in 2011. Adjusted profits decreased nearly 20 per cent to $70 million or 57 cents per share, from $86.9 million or 66 cents in 2011.

Boies appeared to repudiate the past actions of long-time CEO Robert Dutton, who led the company through years of growth through acquisitions that failed to deliver profits or return on capital.

He said the company’s past restructuring efforts were “BandAid solutions” that didn’t address the merchandising and pricing strategy that drive consumer demand.

Imperial Oil says CEO switch not related to cost overruns at Kearl oilsands mine THE CANADIAN PRESS A sudden leadership change at Imperial Oil Ltd. had nothing to do with a recent $2-billion cost overrun at the company’s Kearl oilsands mine in northern Alberta, the outgoing CEO said Thursday.

Bruce March, 56, is leaving Imperial (TSX:IMO) to run parent company ExxonMobil Corp.’s global chemical operations after nearly five years in the role.

Taking his place is Rich Kruger, the 53-yearold president of ExxonMobil Production Co. who moved up through the ranks in postings throughout the United States, as well as in the former Soviet Union, Africa and Southeast Asia.

The change becomes official on March 1.

“Rich is the right person at the right time at the right company. I can’t think of a better guy that I could have any more confidence in than him,” March said of Kruger.

The two men have been friends for 10 years.

The transition was “not at all” related to an announcement last month that the first phase of the massive Kearl oilsands mine will cost $12.9 billion, up from a previous estimate of $10.9 million.

The project was initially expected to cost $7.9 billion.

Imperial faced legal and regulatory delays in bringing enormous pieces of South Korean-made equipment to the mine site, which were shipped

across the Pacific and then through the United States and Canada by river barge and truck.

The 200 modules had to be broken up into smaller pieces so that they could be transported along interstate highways in Idaho and Montana and then put together again near Edmonton.

That work added to the pricetag, as well as harsh winter weather around Fort McMurray while final construction

work was being completed. Kearl is expected to start churning out oil by the end of the first quarter, March said.

He said other factors went into the leadership change announcement, such as the timing of his entrance into the new role at ExxonMobil Chemical Co., which operates in 11 countries.

Kruger added that it’s “very natural, logical timing,” given where Imperial is with major oilsands projects.

“If you look at the stage of where Imperial is, with the first phase of Kearl being completed here, and now the startup imminent, this is very natural and timely for what we’re doing,” he said.

“At ExxonMobil and Imperial, we plan succession well in advance.”

Exxon Mobil owns about 69.6 per cent of Calgary-based Imperial’s common stock, which is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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Scientists discover ‘smallest planet yet’

BY ALICIA CHANG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Astronomers searching for planets outside our solar system have discovered the tiniest one yet — one that’s about the size of our moon.

But hunters for life in the universe will need to poke elsewhere.

The new world orbits too close to its sun-like star and is too sizzling to support life. Its surface temperature is an estimated 700 degrees Fahrenheit (371 degrees Celsius).

It also lacks an atmosphere and water on its rocky surface.

University of California, Berkeley astronomer Geoff Marcy, one of the founding fathers of the planet-hunting field, called the latest find “absolutely mind-boggling.”

“This new discovery raises the spectre that the universe is jampacked, like jelly beans in a jar, with planets even smaller than Earth,” said Marcy, who had no role in the new research.

It’s been nearly two decades since the first planet was found outside our solar system.

Since then, there’s been an explosion of discoveries, accelerated by NASA’s Kepler telescope launched in 2009 to search for a twin Earth.

So far, 861 planets have been spotted and only recently have scientists been able to detect planets that are similar in size to Earth or smaller.

While scientists have theorized the existence of a celestial body that’s smaller than Mercury — the baby of the solar system since Pluto’s downgrade — they have not spotted one until now.

Nearest to the sun, Mercury is about twofifths the Earth’s diameter; the newly discovered planet and our moon are about a third the size of Earth.

‘THIS NEW DISCOVERY RAISES THE SPECTRE THAT THE UNIVERSE IS JAMPACKED, LIKE JELLY BEANS IN A JAR, WITH PLANETS EVEN SMALLER THAN EARTH.’ — ASTRONOMER GEOFF

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How small is a nanometre?

“Nano,” derived from the Greek word for dwarf, is the prefix that means one billionth.

A nanometer is a billionth of a metre, or one millionth of a millimetre.

How small is that on a practical scale?

Well the head of a pin would be a million nanometers, a red blood cell flowing through our circulatory system is about 2,500 nanometers and carbon “nanotubes” are about two nanometers wide.

This miniscule size imparts some elements with amazing properties, for example gold changes colour on this scale, zinc oxide appears clear, boiling temperatures change, gravitational forces disappear, and electromagnetic forces dominate.

Nano particles make materials more durable and resilient, biological and chemical reactions more responsive and metal ions and enzymes LORNE can be attached for more efOJA fective distribution.

Work with nanomaterial includes strengthening common items with carbon; treating sewage and enhancing photovoltaic panel’s materials of manufacture and power production.

Nano-scale coatings of gold applied to the graphite anode of microbial electrochemical cells will enhance electrical power production on the order of twenty times.

It works by using bacteria from biowaste, basically sewage, which when placed in an anode chamber forms a biofilm that consumes nutrients and grows.

In the process, electrons are released and this forms the basis for an electric current to flow. This bodes very well for future sewage treatment as a source of energy.

There is also related technology that enhances hydrogen gas production from bio waste.

The resulting hydrogen could be used to run fuels cells and produce electricity, again producing energy from waste water and turning an energy using technology into an energy producing technology.

Nano silver has been used to increase the power output of polymer solar cells by helping the polymer absorb a larger range of the suns wavelengths of light than the polymer can by itself.

This technology can also be adapted to conventional photovoltaic cells to increase their power output. Like adding salt to a meal, nanomaterial’s miniscule pieces of elements can be used to enhance energy production.

Research in to nanoparticles is making huge inroads into environmental technology. New uses include the removal of PCBs and arsenic to make sources of water clean and safe again.

It does not stop there — nanomaterials are being developed for, and are in use in, the food industry, medical treatments, filtration, as well as the production of resilient materials.

For all the advantages that nanomaterial provides, there are some major shortcomings that require more study.

Carbon nanotubes cause lung damage in lab rats, copper nanoparticles cause gill damage in zebra fish, and silver nanoparticles cause liver damage in rats.

Nano particles can be inhaled and enter the brain through the nasal neurons and the particles may translocate to other organs in the body.

These side effects are not well understood and their dangers are not totally defined.

As with most technologies, for all the advantages that are provided, there are always trade-offs. If we can mitigate or eliminate the dangers posed, the advantages provided can be phenomenal.

Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca.

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You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative & Governance Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on March 8, 2013. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative & Governance Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

Development Officer Approvals On February 19, 2013, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Mountview 1. Bemoco Land Surveying Ltd. – a 0.4 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing deck located at 4422-37 Street.

Timberstone 2. Laebon Developments Ltd. – a 1.62% relaxation to the maximum floor area to a proposed six unit multi-attached dwelling, to be located at 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 & 20 Tallman Close.

Waskasoo 3. Beta Surveys Ltd. – a 0.46 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing detached garage located at 5544-45 Avenue.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on March 8, 2013. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403342-8399.

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Details as to eligibility, conditions of sale, prices, etc. may be obtained from: Melcor Developments Ltd. 403-343-0817 If this site is not purchased for the purpose listed above by December 31, 2013 it will alternatively be developed for low density residential uses in accordance with the approved Lancaster Vanier Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan.

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In accordance withThe City of Red Deer Neighbourhood Planning and Design Guidelines & Standards (2008) the properties within legal land description NW1/4 Sec 22, TWP 38, Rge 27, W4M, and located within the new Clearview North (Ridge) neighbourhood, have been identified by Genstar Titleco Limited for sale as sites for the possible development of a Place of Worship (church) and a Social Care Facility.

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PLANET: More than 150,000 stars watched for signs of planets passing

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The teeny planet was detected by Kepler, which simultaneously tracks more than 150,000 stars for slight dips in brightness — a sign of a planet passing in front of the star.

The planet — known as Kepler-37b — orbits a star 210 light years away in the constellation Lyra.

It’s one of three known planets in that solar system.

Discoverer Thomas Barclay of the NASA Ames Research Center in Northern California was so excited when he spied the moon-sized planet that for days, he said he recited the Star Wars movie line: “That’s no moon.”

It took more than a year and an international team to confirm that it was a bona fide planet.

The discovery is detailed in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature.

Scientists are looking for an Earth-size planet that’s in the so-called Goldilocks zone — that sweet spot that’s not too hot and not too cold where water, which is essential for life, could exist on the surface.

While the newly discovered planet isn’t it, “that does not detract from the fact that this is yet another mile marker along the way to habitable Earth-like planets,” said Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, who was not part of the discovery team.

WASHINGTON — With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have pointed to global warming as the culprit.

Then, when a whopper of a blizzard smacked the Northeast with more than 2 feet of snow in some places earlier this month, some of the same people again blamed global warming.

How can that be? It’s been a joke among skeptics, pointing to what seems to be a brazen contradiction.

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A warmer atmosphere can hold, and dump, more moisture, snow experts say.

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Consider: ● The United States has been walloped by twice as many of the most extreme snowstorms in the past 50 years than in the previous 60 years, according to an upcoming study on extreme weather by leading federal and university climate scientists. This also fits with a dramatic upward trend in extreme winter precipitation — both rain and snow — in the Northeastern U.S. charted by the National Climatic Data Center. ● Yet the Global Snow Lab at Rutgers University says spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has shrunk on average by

1 million square miles in the past 45 years. ● And an upcoming study in the Journal of Climate says computer models predict annual global snowfall to shrink by more than a foot in the next 50 years. The study’s author said most people live in parts of the United States that are likely to see annual snowfall drop between 30 per cent and 70 per cent by the end of the century.

Ten climate scientists say the idea of less snow and more blizzards makes sense: A warmer world is likely to decrease the overall amount of snow falling each year and shrink the snow season. But when it is cold enough for a snowstorm to hit, the slightly warmer air is often carrying more moisture, producing potentially historic blizzards.

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Sexuality, social status, fashion IQ: The reasons for our shoe obsession are many, but one thing’s

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“There has been a big emphasis on high designer shoes in the past 10 to 12 years, so more women are certainly willing to spend more money on high-end shoes, but there’s also been a real focus on shoes as art pieces,” said Colleen Hill, assistant curator of ac-

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SHOE: Some women own . . . lots of shoes Outlandish beer heiress Daphne Guinness lent some of her favourites.

So did jewelry designer Lynn Ban, who owns roughly 800 pairs and says, “I’ve worn them all, at least once.”

The exhibition shows off 153 specimens, mostly from this century, including Ban’s silver-platform Chanels with handguns for heels (They came with a warning against packing them in carry-on luggage when flying).

From the eerie, bone-white Exoskeleton made of resin and produced through 3-D digital printing by Janina Alleyne to the disco-ballish silver sparklers without a heel by Giuseppe Zanotti (also Ban’s); nary a style is left unrepresented by FIT. Hill and Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of the museum, have co-written a book, Shoe Obsession, to accompany the exhibit. During a recent walkthrough, the two spoke of designer shoes as the new millennium’s “It” bag, which has not gone unnoticed by major department stores.

The flagship Macy’s in Manhattan expanded floor space for shoes by 10 per cent, boasting 250,000 pairs.

Saks Fifth Avenue enlarged shoe departments in about a dozen stores around the country, with the Manhattan store’s department 40 per cent larger, spanning the entire eighth floor and hosting the first Louis Vuitton shoe shop within a department store.

Shoes by established designers and design houses — Manolo Blahnik, Salvatore Ferragamo, Roger Vivier, Chanel, Prada, Christian Louboutin — remain popular — obvi! — but quirky stars have arisen as quickly as heels have gone so high that four inches is the new “low,” the two curators said.

The new design generation?

Modernists Kei Kagami, with art pieces that take on an almost orthopedic terror, and Noritaka Tatehana, working in stamped leather, spikes and tall toe platforms absent a heel, stand out in a strong contingent from Japan.

Brazilian shoe designer Alexandre Birman lent the exhibit three pairs done in painted reptile skin.

“Shoes have a psychological, sociocultural and seductive significance to our culture, from the Hollywood celebrity to the everyday woman, which goes beyond a materialistic obsession,” he said in an email.

The centuries have spawned many beautiful shoes, but the masses joining in a more recent phenomenon known as the Sex and the City effect continues to ripple in fashion.

Shoes are so popular, in fact, that Hill cited recent data noting the average American woman owns nearly twice as many shoes as she did a decade ago — about 17 pairs.

“What we’re seeing in a way is a kind of democratization of the kind of phenomenon that we saw in Sex and the City,” Steele said.

“At first it was just sort of some people who were really obsessed with high-end designer shoes. This has now spread.”

Shoes, she said, have moved from accessories to fashion’s main story “to BEING the main story, in part because designer clothes have gotten so expensive.

So even if you’re spending $900, $1,000 on a pair of shoes, something insane, that’s less than you’d be

spending by far than if you were getting a dress or something, and people seem to feel that it’s more worth it.”

Height, Steele said, “has reached this great moment,” when compared to a decade ago.

“We’ve gone about as high as most people can walk in shoes, unless you’re Lady Gaga. That’s about six inches, but some people can do higher.”

Ban is one of them.

“I can go maybe 10 inches, but that’s, like, standing at a cocktail party not moving. Anything for fashion,” she laughed.

While a high toe platform to match rear height remains popular, with Ban and millions of other fashionistas, “we’re starting to see a new trend toward what people are calling sexy shoes, by which they mean single-sole shoes instead of a platform, so I think that implies that the heel will get a little bit less vertiginous, and instead the emphasis will be on interesting materials and decoration, and different shoe shapes,” Steele said.

There’s no way to categorize popularity in shoes today.

There’s a range of heights, shapes and embellishments — feathers, crystals, beads, spikes, human hair made to look like the tails of ponies, moulded and painted resins, painted python. All are included in the exhibition.

Linda Wells, editor in chief of Allure magazine, said in a New York Fashion Week interview that shoe trends are like fashion trends in general — you can find whatever you want: pointy toes, stiletto heels, high platforms, fancy flats, more masculine shapes.

“Everyone likes buying shoes. You don’t have to take your clothes off or be a model size to wear them,” Wells said.

Overall, Steele said, “high heels have really become the prime symbol of erotic femininity. However high it is, but the concept of the high heel, that’s really important. It’s such a powerful trope for women and for men.”

Shoes, Steele said, are “fierce,” but also feminine, high and often striving for that “Cinderella factor” that can transform the wearer. It’s all “quite delightful,” she smiled. “It just makes you want to run out and go shoe shopping.”

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TREND: Can be adopted without sacrificing comfort An easy way to adopt the trend without sacrificing comfort is to consider opting for a brightly-coloured pair of jeans, said Laframboise.

Neon not your flavour? Laframboise said pastel hues — a tried and true springtime staple — are still in vogue, notably softer shades like pale blues and yellows.

2. Pretty prints. It wouldn’t be spring without a little flower power, and fashionable florals will once again be in full bloom— with a stylized update, of course.

“What’s newer is the bigger scale floral print as opposed to the small dainty one,” said Laframboise.

Many prints are also drawing inspiration from digital imagery, making them appear pixelated, reminiscent of an abstract print, he noted.

Torn between sporting stripes or polka dots? No need to choose when you can wear different patterns together.

Laframboise said the mixing of prints was an evo-

lution of colour blocking, which involves teaming distinctive bright hues within one ensemble.

Individuals can get a jump start on spring now by trying their hand at combining seemingly contrasting prints — keeping in mind that complementary colours are key.

“The best way is to mix prints that have a similar colour base; and this way, you don’t look like you’re wearing the whole rainbow at once,” said Laframboise.

“I think you just have to sort of tone down the colours, so maybe go for darker jewel shades as opposed to really, really bright summer hues.”

Laframboise said stripes are always the best pattern to start with.

“If you have floral pants or patterned pants or skirts, a striped top or a striped shirt will always be the easiest print to mix with something else.”

3. Black and white. The classic colour pairing made a splash on the spring runways and may be among the easiest trends to work into your wardrobe.

“It’s not about wearing a white shirt and black pants,” said Laframboise. “It’s really about wearing a striped top with solid pants, or a crisp white shirt, but with a patterned skirt that would be black and white.”

Laframboise said the pairing also acts as a good base for bright hues, like teaming a black-and-white striped top with another on-trend item like electric blue or hot pink jeans.

Expect to see many of the season’s key prints like stripes, polka dots and floral prints steeped in black and white, he noted.

Laframboise suggested opting for a heavier-weight striped jersey dress now, or perhaps sporting a silky, polka-dotted top under a jacket and wear it standalone in spring.

4. Jazzing up jackets. You’ll have to hang on to your parkas and pea coats for a little while longer, but you don’t have to wait until spring to wear lighter-weight outerwear.

Tweeds in softer shades can be paired now with a turtleneck sweater.

Come spring, the same tweed jacket could be partnered with paler apparel in white and cream, said Laframboise.

The boyfriend jacket popularized several years ago morphed into the more recent tuxedo-inspired varieties being in style.

Heading into spring, it’s more of a hybrid, he noted.

“The jacket is always going to be inspired by men’s tailoring,” said Laframboise.

“But you see a lot of softer more fluid fabrics, shawl collars as opposed to strict tailored collars.”

Many companies are lining the interiors of jackets with contrasting fabrics or patterns, he noted.

“Rolling up your sleeves becomes part of the styling where you’re seeing colour or a bit of print,” Laframboise said.

“So it’s sort of a softer take on men’s tailoring as opposed to being a first-degree boyfriend jacket.”

5. Finishing touches. From a coral clutch to a checkered handbag, some of the hot colour and pattern trends in apparel are translating to accessories.

Mixed metal statement jewelry is emerging for spring, with everything from rhinestones to neon colours in the mix, he noted.

Consider pairing your statement necklace with a T-shirt and jeans, or even overtop a collared shirt that has been fully buttoned up, Laframboise suggested.

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Newly widowed Alice Ridgeway isn’t thinking about eradicating that kind of weed as she primps her rural property for the local Communities in Bloom contest.

Yet a marijuana grow operation is exactly what Alice discovers in an old barn on her deceased husband’s farm.

The one-act comedy Bloom, which opens on Thursday as part of Central Alberta Theatre’s Prairie Winter Theatre presentation, shows that life can take some unlikely turns after the death of a spouse.

It’s a good thing that Alice has her good friend and fellow widow, Olive, to lean on.

For as aghast as Alice is to discover the secret stash of cannabis, she’s also thinking “those plants could sure use some fertilizer!” added the play’s director Deb O’Brien, with a chuckle.

Something about this play by Leeann Minogue about friendship, parenthood and loyalty that runs at the Nickle Studio at the Memorial Centre, spoke to the 15-year CAT veteran — or at least tickled her funny bone. “There aren’t that many plays about women in their 50s” — never mind light-hearted

ones, added O’Brien, who first saw Bloom staged at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival in 2010.

“I thought it’s very funny. You do laugh throughout.”

She noted Saskatchewan playwright Minogue’s “Prairie” humour also went over well with local audiences when CAT staged her full-length play Dry Streak a couple of years ago. “I like to do Canadian plays and I think Red Deer audiences understand the Prairie feel.”

The concise nature of one-acts appeals to O’Brien as well. Like short stories, they are often punchier because they have to unfold a plot line and develop characters quickly.

“You have a shorter time to draw in the audience, so everything is intensified.”

The 60-minute comedy Bloom has been staged at Ottawa’s Little Theatre One-Act Play Festival, where it won an honourable mention, and will also be mounted next month at the Calgary Regional OneAct Theatre Festival at the Pumphouse Theatre.

Minogue, who has relatives in the Red Deer area, plans to catch one of CAT’s community theatre performances — which is very exciting for O’Brien and her two-person cast of Debby Allan and Erna Soder-

berg.

“It’s kind of an honour to have her,” said O’Brien, who works at the Red Deer Public Library when she isn’t directing or acting with CAT. The other one-act play that will be part of Prairie Winter Theatre is Prelude to Thirty-five, by American playwright Seth Kramer.

The 17-minute romantic comedy, directed by Red Deer College student Nicole Leal, starts off with some tension.

It seems Jay’s girlfriend, Rae, would rather endure nine hours at a train station in a snowstorm with no coat than spend one more minute at Jay’s parents’ house.

Although he botches the job of running after Rae, and ends up with a bloody nose, Jay still figures there’s scope to pop the question.

For Rae’s reaction, you’ll have to catch the Prairie Winter Theatre presentation.

It runs from 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 28, March 1, 2, 7, 8 and 9 at the Nickle Studio, upstairs at the Memorial Centre. Tickets are $28.70 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. Refreshments and snacks can be purchased from the Break-A-Leg Bar, down the hall from the studio. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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The hip-hop/soul group the Boombox Saints perform for the first time in Red Deer on Saturday at The Vat.

Boombox Saints happy the way debut album turned out

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Chasing that most elusive of human emotions, happiness, is what the Boombox Saints’ debut album, For the Moment, is about.

The hip-hop/soul group’s MC, Freeky P, believes that catching contentment is like trying to hold onto water — the minute you have it in your hands, it tends to trickle away.

“We always want to be happy, but even if we attain what we want to attain, we still find happiness out of our reach because there’s something else we’re dissatisfied with,” said the 29-year-old, who performs with the Boombox Saints for the first time in Red Deer on Saturday at The Vat. Despite being personally prone to this frailty, Freeky P (who also goes by the non-show-biz name of J.P. Pascual) admitted he actually is pretty happy with the way For the Moment has turned out.

Recording the album was an one-and-a-half-year struggle, since all four group members were also holding down other jobs to pay the bills — including Freeky P’s moonlighting MC-ing stints at a Vancouver night club.

But West Coast music critics have praised the release as a solid “reminder of the kind of heartfelt soul that rap can really deliver.”

And Freeky P is eager to perform new songs, such as O (for orgasm) and Walls, about overcoming obstacles, across Canada on an Eastern tour that will stop this spring in his native Hamilton, Ont. “All of my childhood friends are back there. It’s crazy how many there are. They all have kids and mortgages now, but whenever we perform, it’s always a party.”

The still single hip-hop artist was born and raised in Hamilton to parents who immigrated from the Philippines, and then split up when he was a teen.

At age 21, Freeky P had a big decision to make. “I was working in the steel mills and got an offer of a full-time job,” recalled the performer, who remembers thinking he could either stay in Hamilton and get used to the comfortable paycheques, or “explore being in my 20s and go to Vancouver to do what I’ve always wanted to do — music.”

Freeky P opted to follow his then-girlfriend, and it was a serendipitous move.

Soon after arriving on the West Coast, he met his future group members, vocalists Adlib and DJ Relik,

and fellow MC Huggy Fresh, through friends. The Boombox Saints were barely born when the soulful rappers won the Urban Music Association of Canada’s Urban X-posure Triple Threat competition in 2009.

The quartet went on to release The Boombox EP, featuring the infectious single Flip It and She Got in 2010, followed by a four-single release, Bringin’ the Boom Back: Based on a True Story, in 2010.

The first full-length R&B/hip-hop album, For the Moment, is a departure from the group’s earliest material in that the musical tone seems softer — more Boyz II Men than Eminem.

“But content wise, it’s harsher,” said Freeky P, who believes the release is all about dealing with life’s hardships — from overcoming relationship breakups to other people’s negative opinions.

The title track is about naysayers who try to pull you down. “You can try to brush it off, and say you don’t care what other people think,” he said, “But whether you admit it or not, at some deeper level, I think we all care.”

For more information about the show, call 403346-5636. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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BURMIS TREE

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The Burmis Tree, an acrylic on canvas painting by artist Karen Tamminga-Paton, is one of many works by several artists in an exhibit in the Marjorie Wood Gallery at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. The collection titled Celebrating Alberta is a selection of works from The Alberta Society of Artists. The show runs until March 16.

EXHIBITS RED DEER GALLERIES ● When the City Isn’t Looking: Photographs by Bill Peters, Calgarian artist will be on display at the Kiwanis Gallery of the Red Deer Public Library at the downtown location from Feb. 26 to April 28. For more information call the Red Deer Arts Council at 403-348-2787 or visit www.reddeerartscouncil. ca ● Red Deer College Visual Art Faculty and Staff Exhibition — Conversations with the Collection — features new work to be exhibited beside pieces from the Red Deer College Permanent Art Collection at the library until March 28. ● Art from the Heart by Judy Weismiller Berger will be featured at The Hub until Feb. 28. ● Celebrating Alberta by Members of the Alberta Society of Artists will be on display at the Marjorie Wood Gallery at Kerry Wood Nature Centre until March 12. Phone 403-3462010. ● The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum celebrates Red Deer Centennial with the opening of the exhibit Red Deer Sport History. Take a look at over 100 years Sports History and discover the impact that sport had on Red Deer and its citizens. For more information contact Debbie at debbie@ashfm.ca or visit www.ashfm.ca or call 403-341-8614.

To be included in this listing, please email event details to editorial@reddeeradvocate.com, fax to 403-341-6560, or phone 403-314-4325.

LIVE DATES ● Elks Lodge presents Stephen Fearing on March 7 as part of his cross-Canada tour. ● The Vat presents Boombox Saints on Feb. 23. ● The Centrium presents Billy Talent on March 19 with guests Ottawa indie-rockers Hollerado, Sum 41, and Indian Handicrafts. On April 17 punk/emo rock band from Vancouver — Marianas Trench — performs. Special guests are Down With Webster, and Anami Vice. Doors open at 6 p.m. and show gets going at 7 p.m. Ticket sales are through Livenation. com or from Ticketmaster. Ticket prices are $29.50 and $45 (plus FMF and service charges). Reserved seating for this all ages show.

To have your establishment’s live bands included in this space, fax a list to Club Dates by 8 a.m. on Wednesday to 403-341-6560 or email editorial@reddeeradvocate.com.

ABC gives up on Tuesday comedy

BY ADVOCATE NEW SERVICES ABC is throwing in the towel on its Tuesday comedy block earlier than planned.

Instead of airing back-to-back Happy Endings episodes on that night until Dancing With the Stars returns March 19 (as originally announced), the network has decided to move the struggling comedy series.

Happy Endings will now do its back-to-back thing on Friday nights starting March 29, where the Tim Allen comedy Last Man Standing and Reba McIntire’s Malibu Country have been running.

Both of the latter two will have finished their season by then.

No, none of this is good news for Happy Endings fans.

The Friday play is ABC’s third better idea for the show this midseason. Remember the Sundaynight, paired-with-Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 plan?

Meanwhile, ABC’s turning Tuesdays at 8 over to reality series.

The cooking competition series The Taste is taking over the Happy Endings time slot Feb. 26, the same night that Celebrity Wife Swap returns to the night at 8.

In its season debut, Celebrity Wife Swap features former Playboy Playmate Kendra Wilkinson and former TLC star Kate Gosselin — both alums of Dancing With the Stars.

In Thursday’s announcement, ABC made a point of saying that during the one-week Celebrity experiment, the two women will swap lifestyles, children and homes — but not bedrooms. ★★★ In one of the more clever February “sweeps” stunts, this Sunday’s 60 Minutes will try to cash in on

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that night’s Downton Abbey season-finale ratings by featuring an interview with star Maggie Smith.

Most of the Oscars walk-up blah-blah-blah has been Seth-MacFarlane-is-going-to-bomb-as-host this, and what-were-the-producers-thinking-when-theycast-MacFarlane? that — with a little how-dare-theynot-nominate-Ben-Affleck-for-best-director thrown in. But on Tuesday, attention turned to Jimmy Kimmel’s post-Oscar plans.

Last year, Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Academy Awards was maybe the most-talked-about thing about the 84th Annual Academy Awards — that and Angelina Jolie’s right leg pulling an Eve Harrington and stealing the show, catapulting it into the meme-osphere.

Part of Kimmel’s post-Oscar coup was his premiere of a trailer for Movie: The Movie — the most star-studded nonexistent film the world has ever seen. Tom Cruise, George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Martin Scorsese, Helen Mirren, J.J. Abrams, Ben Affleck, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Jon Stewart, Don Cheadle, Billy Crystal and Ellen DeGeneres were among the stars who, well, starred.

Movie: The Movie was billed as a romantic action thriller comedy drama, based on the novel Push by Sapphire, with Abrams and Scorsese as directors and Michael Bay as a producer.

Josh Brolin, playing the president of the United States, kissed Edward Norton; Colin Farrell highfived a sports-playing dog; Gary Oldman made a cameo as a Centaur.

Kimmel said he’d set out to “make the biggest, most star-studded movie in the history of American cinema. . . . Something that packs everything moviegoers love into one spectacular motion picture event.”

M:TM garnered nearly 20 million views on YouTube and even opened on nearly 6,000 movie screens across the country.

The movie industry being the wellspring of original ideas that it is, a M:TM sequel was inevitable.

And although it’s no A Good Day to Die Hard, the sequel, Movie: The Movie Twovie will star Bradley Cooper, Jessica Chastain, Jude Law, Salma Hayek, Samuel L. Jackson and, of course, John Krasinski, because he and Kimmel are BFF neighbors, as we’re plenty sick of hearing.

Last year’s post-Oscar show featured its first sitdown with Oprah Winfrey.

This year’s show will feature Jamie Foxx, Channing Tatum, and Good Morning America’s newly-backafter-bone-marrow-transplant host Robin Roberts.

Zzzzzzzz.

The 2012 post-Oscar show snagged Jimmy Kimmel Live’s second-biggest audience ever — behind only his late-night show’s post-Super Bowl broadcast in 2006.

Director held briefly at L.A. airport LOS ANGELES — Immigration officials briefly detained the Palestinian director of the Oscar-nominated documentary 5 Broken Cameras on his way into town for Sunday’s Academy Awards.

Emad Burnat says that when he arrived at Los Angeles International Airport from Turkey with his wife and 8-year-old son late Tuesday, agents told them they didn’t have the proper proof that he was a nominee and would send them back if they couldn’t verify the reason for their visit. After about an hour of questioning, the agents allowed Burnat and his family to enter the country.

Oscar-winning documentarian Michael Moore said on his website that he helped clear up the matter by making some phone calls on Burnat’s behalf.

Burnat had just been in the United States two weeks earlier doing interviews about the film alongside his co-director, Israeli activist Guy Davidi, including some with The Associated Press.

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Couples get close-ups with Kiss Cam

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON — As the University of Maryland and University of Virginia basketball teams gathered by their benches late in the first half Sunday, a few middle-aged men in Room 0427 — the “Video Scoreboard Control Room” — tried to inject some mid-afternoon romance into a basketball gymnasium.

“Salute the Troops, then Kiss Cam,” Scott Youngblood, Maryland’s game-day director for 10 years, called into his headset. “Start looking for people.”

Kiss Cams have been a game-day scoreboard staple at college and professional arenas for decades.

They can provide cheap laughs, as when two players from a visiting team are shown together. They can provide oohs and ahhs when grandparents smooch.

There are occasional marriage proposals and occasional exaggerated gropes.

Mostly, though, there are camera operators and directors and nervous couples trying to create five seconds of lovin’ in front of thousands of sports fans in about the least-romantic setting imaginable.

“It’s not scripted. That’s what kind of makes it great,” said Carrie Blankenship, an assistant athletics director of marketing at Maryland. “It’s raw — love and humor all at the same time. You never know what you get.”

You might get Maryland junior Kelsey Franey, who was sitting next to a male friend on Sunday at Comcast Center in College Park, Md. The friend — who declined to provide his name — is dating someone else. He and Franey stared at each other as they realized that more than 16,000 people were watching them in anticipation.

“Oh no, oh no, not me,” Franey later recalled thinking. “It’s very stressful. . . . He really likes [his girlfriend], so he didn’t want to upset her.”

The man kissed her on the cheek and rolled his eyes. Franey smiled and blushed. “For probably about 20 minutes afterwards, I was like, ‘Did that really just happen?’ “ she later said. Her friend cursed in disbelief when approached by a reporter and asked not to be quoted.

Or you might get Alexander Jonesi, a sophomore Maryland super fan. Jonesi arrives hours early for home games, the better to display his massive flags honoring the state of Maryland, Ukraine (home of Maryland center Alex Len) and the Bahamas (home of fan favorite Shaq Cleare).

Jonesi’s vigor and colorful accessories often land him on the video board mid-cheer. This time, though, he was supposed to kiss Melissa Capurro. She dates one of his friends; his own girlfriend was sitting on his other side.

“Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh,” said video operations coordinator Ed Clark, sitting in the control room and watching multiple monitors full of prospective couples. “No, them over there! Those other ones!”

Jonesi and Capurro leaned away from each other, as far as humans can lean, toddlers fleeing a nurse’s needle, seeking refuge outside the frame. There was no kiss.

“That awkward moment when you’re on the kiss cam with someone other than your boyfriend,” Capurro later wrote on Twitter.

Why no kiss? “If I didn’t know her boyfriend, then maybe. And maybe if my girlfriend hadn’t been right next to me,” Jonesi said. “She might have pulled me back. Or slapped me. One or the other.”

Not every team, of course, uses a Kiss Cam. The Washington Capitals hockey franchise did for years, but when director of game entertainment Michael Wurman arrived in the fall of 2009, he wanted to go in a different direction.

“I felt like the cams are easy. We just wanted to challenge ourselves,” Wurman said. “Dance Cam, Smile Cam, Kiss Cam, Dance for Your Dinner [Cam] — put any phrase in front of the word ‘Cam,’ and most teams have done it. . . . I just felt, what does somebody kissing have to do with hockey?”

In the NBA, the Washington Wizards still use a

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Tom Lugenbeel, 68, and Betty Lugenbeel, 64, of Columbia, Md., exchange a peck for the Kiss Cam at the University of Maryland’s Comcast Center in College Park, Md. on Feb. 10.

Kiss Cam about every other game, prompted by a sponsorship deal with the D.C. Lottery. Kate Layman, the team’s director of game operations, said sponsors love the 75-second segment because fans are “literally staring at the video board the entire time.”

“It’s like live television. You’re not quite sure what’s coming next,” she said. “You have couples that surprise you, an older couple in their 70s and they’re just making out all of a sudden.”

Betty and Tom Lugenbeel aren’t in their 70s and they didn’t make out, but they sure like to kiss. She’s 64, he’s 68; they celebrated their 34th anniversary this month. Generations of Lugenbeels have been coming to Maryland basketball games, ever since Bud Millikan led the program in the 1950s and ‘60s, but Betty and Tom had never been on a Kiss Cam before Sunday.

“I’m like, ‘Why don’t they ever pick us?’ and then they did,” said Betty, who was the first to notice their moment and hastily patted Tom on the arm to get his attention.

“C’mon, guy,” someone muttered in the control room.

Performance anxiety?

“None whatsoever,” Tom said.

“No, not after 34 years,” Betty agreed. “We like to kiss.”

After their kiss, Betty leaned her head on Tom’s shoulder and grinned.

“You could almost feel people smiling,” Clark said.

On the other end of the spectrum were Michael Helderman and Kate Correia. He’s a sophomore, she’s a freshman, they’re both from New Jersey and they both love Maryland basketball. They’ve been dating for 3 ½ months, Helderman said — “four months, almost,” Correia pointed out — and they had been featured on Maryland’s Kiss Cam once before.

“I actually saw the camera there this time,” Correia said Sunday. “So I was like, ‘Oh, okay, I’m gonna be on the Kiss Cam again. Great.’ “ She closed her eyes, leaned in and covered her face in embarrassment.

“Yayyy!” Clark said in the control room.

Youngblood, sitting to Clark’s right, has three cameras to choose from: two handhelds roaming the floor and a third near the 100-level concourse. The cameramen have to instantly judge who might be a couple, while dodging all the detritus of a basketball sideline — T-shirt tossers, resting cheerleaders, print photographers.

“Anybody, Stephen?” Youngblood asked cameraman Stephen Cohen midway through Sunday’s segment.

“Can’t find anybody,” Cohen answered, a hint of desperation in his voice.

The Kiss Cam became an every-game feature in College Park only this season, when Elephant Auto Insurance stepped up as a full-time sponsor.

The background music can vary from Katy Perry to Barry White to the Temptations — to “get them in the mood,” Blankenship explained. The goal is eight to 10 couples per segment. (Betty and Tom Lugenbeel made seven, six of whom had kissed.)

“Anybody?” Youngblood called out from the control room. “Two more. Ready 1. Dissolve 1.”

Camera 1 meant Scott Norton, who had been trolling the student section closest to the floor. Now he found an attractive pair of young professionals not wearing Maryland colors: The manwore a blue vest, the woman wore a cream-colored top. They appeared on the video scoreboard and almost winced.

He whispered in her ear, then shrugged helplessly at Norton’s camera as a fan in the background mockingly puckered his lips.

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MONTREAL — The child actress in the Oscarnominated Rebelle will attend this Sunday’s starstudded gala in Los Angeles.

A spokeswoman for the Item 7 production company told The Canadian Press that Rachel Mwanza has received the visas needed to travel to the United States and Canada.

Mwanza will also attend the Canadian Screen Awards in Toronto on March 3 and the Jutra ceremony in Montreal on March 17.

Rebelle, which is directed by Montreal’s Kim Nguyen, is in the running for the best foreign-language film prize at the Oscars.

In the French-language film, which is also known as War Witch, Mwanza plays a 12-year-old girl who is abducted and forced to become a child soldier.

The 16-year-old Mwanza, who won best actress awards at last year’s Berlin International Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival, is a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Item 7 spokeswoman Jeannette Garcia said Mwanza is thrilled at being able to visit North America.

“She was excited and wrote me on Facebook this morning to say (her shoe size) is now 9.5 instead of nine,” said Garcia.

Mwanza is expected to give interviews in the United States, where the film will come out on March 1.

In a recent interview, Nguyen said Mwanza is no longer just having to survive on the street.

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54 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Looking for an ideal love or the Learning issues such how to perfect mate might not be as easy value ourselves and as you had hoped. It’s how to get what we a formula you cannot deserve will wander decipher. Colleagues prominently through might seem to invade our minds today. We your personal space may encounter issues or just step on your such as conflict within nerves. Leave your our closest relationmodesty aside and ships or poor money stand up for yourself. management. InvestLIBRA (Sept. ment is highly not 23-Oct. 22): Power advised today. Forstruggles may appear tunately, the Moon in within the household Leo will alleviate the environment. It is a ASTRO mood today with its fitime when you are DOYNA ery and fun attitude. feeling tested and HAPPY BIRTHscrutinized for your DAY: If today is your domestic, paternal birthday, your needs abilities. A child may and your wants will be highly in tune with each other this coming prove to be a tad too manipulative year, suggesting a long lasting and or demanding right now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): a stable direction in your life. Your sense of purpose is very clear and Communicating the right words concise to you. You will instinc- to the right individuals may seem tively know which road you should like a challenge at this point. You be taking as your intuition will be just feel misunderstood. Be careful razor-sharp. Positive changes will who you invite in your own personrevolve mainly around romance al space. Don’t become paranoid of everyone you have over, but be and children.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): It inquisitive about your guests.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. would be crucial for you to maintain a healthy status and to know 21): You may stumble upon fiwhat your standards are. You may nancial problems due to risky infeel that a certain association or vestments or some outstanding acquaintances from your network frustrating bills. Be vigilant in your are being too invasive or that they close neighbourhoods or towards any stranger you’re engaging into are trying to smother you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): a conversation with.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. You may feel frustrated by the ongoing heavy forces making you 19): Your self-esteem and your feel restrained and tested. Higher self-worth are undergoing major ups might be trying to abuse of shake ups in terms of your values. your eminence or simply, dete- You may feel that life is making riorate your core belief system. If heavy demands on you and that ongoing work strategies are not you need to compromise with life functioning, implement new ones lessons more than you can hanin order to overcome this exasper- dle.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): ating energy.

You may experience chance enGEMINI (May 21-June 20): You may experience some irri- counters that have a very karmic tating situations involving foreign feel to them. You may be attracting travel or while travelling overseas. the wrong type of person. Secret, There’s a discrepancy between clandestine affairs might bring you what you value as your freedom a dose of frustration. Fight for your in relationships and what you can values.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): bring on a more intimate level.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are still uncertain about exYou have strong material desires posing your romantic life, which and it may seem that you are put- you prefer to keep well hidden ting certain pressures on your part- behind closed doors. Social conner. Be careful with your finances ditions or pressures from your at this time and about the sharing friends seem to interfere with your of personal information. You do happiness due to a certain power struggle. not want certain things exposed.

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Father wonders why he is being left out of daughter’s life Dear Annie: My daughter hasn’t spoken to Should I do something? If so, what? — Lost and me in 20 years. “Linda” is 45 years old and has Alone been married since around 1993. I wasn’t invited Dear Lost: Here’s the truth, and you may not to her wedding, so I am not sure. I think she re- like it: In middle school, it is not unusual for ceived a master’s degree, but I wasn’t invited to kids to develop new interests and new friends. her graduation, so I’m not sure of that, either.

Some of them discard their old friends in the Linda’s mother left me for her married lover process. If Janie is so shallow that she chooses when our daughter was 6. Instead of her friends based on their clothes, taking custody, I felt it best for her she’s not much of a true friend, and mother to raise her, which was a big we think you know that. mistake.

It’s OK to tell My current wife enjoyed a good reher you miss the lationship with Linda. We visited her friendship you once during her college years and gave had and then see her money to spend. whether she is more But once she finished her degree, attentive. But you we never heard from her again. She are also changing didn’t reply to our phone calls, letand maturing. As ters or emails. much as you have Linda’s brother informed me that relied on Janie in she and her husband have four chilthe past, it’s time MITCHELL dren we have never met. for you to hold your & SUGAR The oldest must be about 16 and head up and make the youngest about 3, but I do not new friends who are know any of their birthdates. When I steadfast and appretried to find out why she stopped all ciate you as you are. contact, the only thing she said was, “Whatever It won’t be easy, but it will be the reason that you think it is.” worth it.

Linda was trained as a family counselor. What Dear Annie: Like “Too Well Bunks happened in her training that would lead her to Endowed in Kansas,” I have refuse a relationship with her own father? struggled for years with the The divorce wasn’t my idea, so why am I left same problem. out in the cold? — Father Who Can’t See His I’m 72 years old, and my Child current doctor is the only one Dear Father: This has nothing to do with Lin- who suggested breast reducda’s training. More likely, it is some grudge she tion as a way to help with my has been holding onto for years. Since you are back, neck and other issues. I Barb Pierson in contact with your son and he is in touch with figured I was too old, but the General his sister, ask him to act as your intermediary. doctor said I was a perfect canManager Have him tell Linda that you are sorry for any- didate. I had surgery and am thing you may have done that has created this loving the results. — Newfound estrangement, and you want to know how to rec- Freedom in New York Open oncile. We hope she is responsive.

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Plucky character must choose between beliefs and commitments yellow fever and survives only a few days in America.

The town of FaithHonor Bright and her ful, is a community of 15 sister Grace, two Quaker Quaker families, known sisters from Devon, Eng- as “friends.” The book land, set sail paints a picfor the town of ture of a Faithful, Ohio, people honin America. est in their The year is dealings, 1850. plain spoken Grace is to and industribe married to ous, urged by Adam Cox, a their religion merchant of to “look for dry goods and the spark of cloth. humanity in Originally, each person.”

Grace was to Honor has no travel alone choice but to on the Adventravel to FaithPEGGY turer, sailing ful and meet FREEMAN out of Bristol, with Adam but Honor’s Cox. young fiancee Along the Samuel had “released way, Honor meets with her” from their engage- Belle, a milliner, and ment. She was jilted, her brother Donovan, a in other words, and did Negro hunter. not wish to face the pity Although many of the of friends. Instead, she states had given black would join Grace and people their freedom, sail to America. She rea- there were still many soned that she could al- land owners who deways return home again. pended on black labour.

Honor is no sailor, When these slaves tried and has a terrible voy- to run away to Canada age of nausea and fa- and freedom, they were tigue. Grace, though a helped along the way by good sailor, falls ill with Quakers.

Lisa Moore book wins CBC Reads contest TORONTO — February

by Lisa Moore, a story based on a maritime disaster off the coast of Newfoundland on Feb. 14, 1982, has won CBC’s Canada Reads contest.

This year, the annual battle of the books competition divided the country into five regions — British Columbia and Yukon, the Prairies and the North, Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic provinces — and had Canadians vote to pick titles that represented their local culture.

Five panelists selected a book to champion from the most popular titles and debated which should win the contest.

Comedian Trent McClellan fought for February, actor Jay Baruchel of Quebec supported runner-up Two Solitudes

by Hugh MacLennan, Ontario author Charlotte Gray argued for Away by Jane Urquhart, Olympic wrestler Carol Huynh picked Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese for B.C. and Yukon, and Ron MacLean defended The Age of Hope by David Bergen for the Prairies and North.

February, about a woman whose husband was among the 84 victims of the Ocean Ranger sinking in 1982, outlasted the other books in the elimination-style contest.

Johansen gets big fantasy book deal A debut author has a seven-figure book deal.

HarperCollins announced Wednesday that it will publish Erika Johansen’s Queen of the Tearling, a fantasy trilogy inspired in part by Barack Obama.

A person with knowledge of the negotiations said that the deal was worth seven figures..

The 35-year-old Johansen says she heard then-Senator Obama give a speech in 2007 and was inspired to create the series’ idealistic heroine, 19-year-old Kelsea Glynn.

The publisher is billing the books as a female version of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones.

tional issues.

Jury chair William Thorsell said this year’s selections “offer fresh perspectives from the past that bring deeper understanding of current global issues and compelling perspectives on the future.”

Thorsell is joined on the jury by Walter Russell Mead and Margaret Wente, as well as Daniel W. Drezner and Gaynor Lilian Johnson.

The prize was founded in 1989 in memory of Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber. The award is presented annually by The Lionel Gelber Foundation, in partnership with Foreign Policy magazine and the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.

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They include: Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 by journalist Anne Applebaum; The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics by Paul Bracken; Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

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Passing these blacks from house to house was part of the famous “Underground Railway.”

The law had serious fines and jail time for people who helped the runaways.

Like many girls raised in a protected community, Honor is reluctantly drawn to Donovan. There is something exciting about such a bad man.

Can her common sense save her?

In the close-knit community it is expected that Honor will marry and release Adam Cox from responsibility for her. So Honor does what is expected.

She acquires a formidable mother-in-law, a cranky sister-in-law and the expectation that she can milk cows, garden, bake and sew.

She is a fine sewer, especially of quilts, and that is the only skill they admire. She also wants to help the blacks who pass through the farm. These Quakers have lost much by helping runaways and they forbid Honor to aid in any way.

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Loring writes on life in autobiography ACTRESS-SINGER DIDN’T WANT TO WRITE A TELL-ALL BOOK BUT INSTEAD TALKS ABOUT COINCIDENCE

BY VICTORIA AHEARN THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Actress-singer Gloria Loring didn’t want to delve into tellall territory with her new spiritually charged autobiography, Coincidence Is God’s Way of Remaining Anonymous.

“My purpose was not to expose every nook and cranny of my life,’’ says the former Days of our Lives star, who was once married to Canadian actor Alan Thicke and had two sons with him, including pop star Robin Thicke.

“My purpose was to tell the story of why coincidence comes into our lives and how we can use it for our benefit, and to use my own life as an example.’’

But in writing about such spiritual inspiration, Loring felt compelled to divulge how it led to her remembering a traumatic incident involving her father when she was young.

As the book explains, Loring was meditating one day when she started communicating with an angel who told her she was sexually abused by her father at age three.

Through therapy, Loring remembered the incident happened one night when her alcoholic father was drunk and he fell on top of her, aroused.

When Loring remembered the incident, her father was in a nursing home with Parkinson’s disease and she felt it was time to forgive.

“I know that I have to forgive in the same ways I would want to be forgiven,’’ Loring, who played singer Liz Chandler on Days of our Lives, says by phone from New York.

“I’m sure along the way my selfishness or thoughtlessness or my own needs bumped up against someone else’s and has caused them hurt or pain. My father, I know without a doubt, in that particular instance, it was not a rape. It was just a sexualized encounter, because he was aroused and fell on top of me. But I was only three. It was like my world came to an end and something in me shattered.

“He was very drunk. He lost his mother when he was just five years old, or four. Very, very difficult. Who am I to judge him? And if I can do that for

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Gloria Loring recently talks about her new book Coincidence Is God’s Way of Remaining Anonymous. The multitalented actress-singer is best known for her role on Days of Our Lives and was once married to Alan Thicke. my father, I can do that for anyone.’’

Coincidence Is God’s Way of Remaining Anonymous: Reflections on Daytime Dramas and Divine Intervention is a selfhelp guide of sorts, as Loring details how events in her life led her to believe in “the divine source/connecting principle that brings us coincidences.’’

Loring, who has meditated for several decades, did mounds of research on coincidence and quantum physics for the book and offers advice on how to follow intuition.

The first half of the title — Coincidence Is God’s Way of Remaining Anonymous — is an Albert Einstein quote.

Loring says she started paying attention to coincidences after a business card with the message “Expect a Miracle’’ mysteriously appeared in her Days dressing room. It came a day before she met a man who helped her raise $1 million for research into diabetes — a disease her son Brennan was diagnosed with at age four — with the Days of Our Lives Celebrity Cookbook.

That led to several other Days cookbooks for diabetes research, as well as Loring’s own record company, from which she also raised funds for the cause.

The California-based co-composer and singer of The Facts of Life TV theme song, whose other tunes include the hit Friends and Lovers, also runs down her life story in the book.

Born in New York and raised in Minneapolis, Loring was a night-club singer and go-go girl before a contract on The Merv Griffin Show led to hundreds of variety TV show appearances.

She met Thicke while performing in Toronto at the Royal York Hotel.

Seven months later they married in the city and moved to Los Angeles.

And four years after that they had their first son, Brennan.

“I had so many of those early times coming up to Toronto at Christmas time, and then when the boys were little, coming up for Christmas — and the

cabbage rolls and the tourtiere,’’ says Loring, pronouncing Toronto “Trawna,’’ like some locals do.

“It was just a wonderful time, and I love the Canadian sensibility, I love the down-to-earth quality ... and I love the ‘eh.’ We had a party one night and somebody started in on it, it was very funny, and they said, ‘You work for the CBC, eh?’ ‘Yeah, yeah, I’ve got an MBA and now I work at the CBC, eh,’ and they went on and on,’’ she adds with a howl.

Loring’s book doesn’t specify what ended the marriage, but the two are still on good terms, she says.

“My sons don’t need — nobody needs to know — all the little nooks and crannies,’’ adds Loring.

“My marriage to Alan absolutely succeeded on so many levels. I learned so much from being married to him, he was so funny.

“I probably stayed married five years longer than I would have, because he was so bloody funny he’d make me laugh when I wanted to wring his neck.

“We were just very different people, which so many married people are.’’

Loring’s book also includes some behind-the-scenes tidbits from the set of Days, where she got to sing some of the theme songs.

One of her co-stars, for instance, was known for her temper and threw a large trash can across the stage and barely missed Loring.

“Everybody wants to know who threw the trash can. I’m not telling!’’

Loring says with a laugh.

“I didn’t even know I had a tiff with her. She was known for volatility at the time.

“She evidently has mellowed since, so that’s nice.’’

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BOOK: Ambitious The Americans of the frontier are people ambitious toward change and unsympathetic to soft gentility. Of all the new things Honor must adjust to — expressions, climate, deep forests and strange animals — this American brashness is the most difficult.

This is a great story, well told, with a plucky female character. Honor must choose between her beliefs and her commitments, but she has few weapons for her battle.

This author has proven her ability with a good story. She has written Girl with a Pearl Earring, Remarkable Creatures and others.

Peggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer.

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She was born March 1, 1927 in Clive, AB, Canada. She and Raymond Burton Lawson were married on August 16, 1947 and enjoyed 65 years of great love, friendship and travel with their family and friends. Sylvia worked for Prairie Bus Lines in Red Deer, AB, Canada for many years, and was active in the Lions Club, IODE, CGIT in and many church and civic activities. She and Raymond formed lasting friendships with their fellow square dancers, and loved entertaining and travel. She will be remembered by all for her great enjoyment of life, as well as her loyalty to family and friends, and genuine concern for others. Sylvia is survived by her loving husband Raymond, sons Keith (Peggy), Brian (Linda) of Mesa, AZ and daughter Nora Reilander (Dennis) of Innisfail, AB, Canada, along with four grandchildren and their spouses, six great grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren.

She is also survived by her sister; Dorothy Hawkes, brother, Norman Gish (Joan), sister-in-law, Peggy Gish and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her brother, Robert Gish.

A celebration and remembrance of her life will be held Saturday, March 23, 2:00 pm at Legacy Retirement Community, 5625 E. McKellips Rd., Mesa, AZ 85215.

WEBBER June On February 20, 2013 at 87 years young, June left us to join her husband Roy, for sunshine days and moonlit nights of camping and card playing. She leaves her daughter Lynn, her granddaughter Crystal (Mike Ouellette) and her cherished great grandsons Isaac Michalsky and Joshua Ouellette with a love of nature and a need for music a quick wit and a smile. Her beloved walking companions Misty and Morgan ask that in lieu of flowers please take a walk at Bower Ponds. Enjoy the peace and remember June when you see the geese the fox and the deer. Words cannot express the gratitude our family feels for the wonderful people at Rimbey Long Term Care Facility, you always made us feel welcome and that she was at home. Thank You.

WINTERS Lance Thomas 1953 - 2013 Lance passed peacefully on February 08, 2013 at the Foothills Hospital at the age of 59. He will be sadly missed but lovingly remembered by his wife, Karen; daughter, Angela Winters; two sons, Jason Winters, and Nicholas Winters; five grandchildren; two brothers, Vance and Perry and his sister Alesa Winters. Lance was born in Stettler and grew up in the Donalda area, where his parents (Alfred and Jewell Winters) farmed. Lance worked on the oil rigs before starting his own trucking company.

He married and moved to Sylvan Lake, and continued to truck his remaining years.

He loved his family and his job where he had many experiences and met many friends. Many will remember his handle “Casper” and his driven nature. At his request, there will be no Funeral Service. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Canadian Arthritis Society, 200, 1301 - 8 Street SW, Calgary, AB, T2R 1B7.

Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca

WHITEHEAD Marjorie Jean Jean Whitehead passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Monday, February 18, 2013 at the age of 79 years. She is survived by her children, Valerie Willison, David Whitehead, Blair Whitehead and Susan (Mike) Krebs; and by her grandchildren, James (Barb) Willison and Serving Red Deer and Brett and Courtney Whitehead.

Central Alberta Since 1997 Jean is predeceased by her 403-341-5181 & 888-216-5111 husband, Bernard. There will not be a funeral service at Jean’s request.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL In Memoriam HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-3319

Funeral Directors & Services RESTA Edward Leonard Edward Leonard Resta passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at the age of 70 years. He will be lovingly remembered by his siblings; Lillian Sprecher, Marcie Line, Don (Pat), Henry (Helen), Jim (Vicky) and Dennis. Edward will also be missed by numerous nieces, nephews and friends. He was predeceased by his sister, Sylvia, b r o t h e r, J u l i o , p a r e n t s ; Laurence and Julia, and his special companion, Doreen.

A Memorial Service for Edward will be held at a later date.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to Patrick Brown EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

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BRYSON Ernest Alfred June 20, 1929 - Feb. 19, 2013 Ernest was born June 20, 1929 and went to be with his Lord February 19, 2013 at age 83 years. He was born in Bassano, Alberta and grew up at Westward Ho, James River and later Red Deer.

His schooling was in James River, Olds and Three Hills.

He was the oldest of three children who were raised by their widowed mother on the farm at James River. Ernie worked on the farm and at McLeod’s Hardware as well as Universal Metal. He then formed Lynnel Metal and Furnace Co Ltd and PSM Mechanical. Later Ernie went into Real Estate with Century 21 and Sutton Group Real Estate. Upon retirement he volunteered at Habitat for Humanity. He loved reading, watching sports, gardening and being an active member of the church. He was preceded by his parents; an infant sister and Donald Armstrong; his brother-in-law. He is survived by his loving wife Doreen; daughters: Lynnel (Reid Davis, and sons Logan and Peyton), Colleen (Darrell Handford and daughter Gina), Lea (Art Bryson-Hare) and son Myles.

Ernie leaves behind his sister Mahala (Gordon Johnson) and brother John Bryson (Vicki); sister-in-Law Eleanor Armstrong and many nieces and nephews. The family would like to extend their deepest gratitude to the staff at Units 31, 21, 35, 23 at Red Deer Regional Hospital and compassionate care providers at Red Deer Hospice. At the family’s wishes, rather than flowers, please make a donation to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 3S6. A funeral service will be held at Deer Park Alliance Church (located at the corner of 30th Ave and 39th Street) on Friday, February 22, 2013 at 11:00 a.m.

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

The family of Demi-Enna Fay announce the sudden and heartbreaking passing of their precious baby girl on February 15, 2013. DemiEnna will be thought of often by her Mother and Father, D a v i d a n d J a n e l l e F a y, siblings; Nateya, Mathis and Jayce, as well as grand parents; Dusty and Karen Fay, Joan Wagner of Saskatoon and Errol St. Germaine of Caroline. A reception will take place at the Caroline C o m p l e x o n S a t u r d a y, February 23, 2013 from 1:00 to 4:00 PM. Interment will be held at the Caroline Cemetery prior to the reception.

In lieu of flowers, the family invites friends to donate to the Ronald McDonald House, 5002 39 Street Red Deer AB T4N 2P2.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to Rebekah Sealock EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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BAKER In loving memory of Ruth Gertrude Baker, who passed away on February 22, 2001.

Gone from the earth so swiftly, Just like a flower in bloom, So young, so fair, so loving, Yet called away so soon.

We’ll meet her some glad morning, Resting by waters fair, She is waiting for our coming In the upper garden there, Safe in the arms of Jesus. ~Dearly loved and sadly missed by your husband Thomas, daughter Sandee Baker, granddaughters Candra and Janet

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Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

Card Of Thanks GLOVER - CHADWICK We would like to sincerely thank our extended family and friends for their support during this difficult time.

The words and acts of kindness that were expressed will remain with us. Special thanks to all the doctors and nurses at RDRH who looked after Dad in his last weeks. ~The Glover and Chadwick families

Graduations

MacKinnon Well done Doris Jeanne on your recent convocation for your Ph. D. in History from the University of Calgary.

Congratulations as well on the publication of your first book, The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith and on being short listed for the Saskatchewan Book Awards.

Enjoy your teaching position at Olds College.

Love from your family in Alberta and Nova Scotia.

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Dale and Darlene Mytton and Marcel and Bernie LeBlanc are thrilled and proud to announce the birth of their beautiful granddaughter on November 21, 2012.

Loving parents of Viviana Eleanor Louise Leblanc are Jordin Denis LeBlanc and Stacey Louise LeBlanc.

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Engagements

MUNDLE - BLAESER Ron and Bev Mundle are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter, Kristie, to Joe Blaeser, son of Tina Cole of Red Deer, and Joe Blaeser of Kelowna.

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COLTER PRODUCTION TESTING SERVICES INC

Is looking to fill the following position:

Join Our Fast Growing Team and Secure Your Future with our Optimum Benefit Package & RRSP’s!!

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The successful applicant will have a NCSO designaCELEBRATIONS tion and will have: HAPPEN EVERY DAY * Actual hands on oilfield IN CLASSIFIEDS Production Testing construction experience. * Good computer skills.

Personnel: * Extensive travel is Day & Night required.

Supervisors Janitorial * Excellent people skills. & Field Operators * H2S Alive and First Aid. * Certified D&A tester, ARAMARK at (Dow • Qualified Day & Night an asset.

Prentiss Plant) about Supervisors * Drivers License, with 20-25 minutes out of Red - (Must be able to provide clean Abstract.

Deer needs hardworking, own work truck.) * Must relocate to Hinton. reliable, honest person • Field Operators w/drivers license, to work - Valid First Aid, H2S, “NO SAFETY COPS 40/hrs. per week w/some driver’s license required!

WANTED” weekends, daytime hrs.

We want to build a safety Fax resume w/ref’s to Please see our website @ culture, NOT enforce one.

403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black www.colterenergy.ca or contact us at Tired of Standing?

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We are seeking an individual interested in a full-time, long term, professional career in our Merchandise Rewards division.

Data Services Coordinator

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SAFETY PROFESSIONAL

Alstar is looking for a TANKMASTER RENTALS Safety Professional to help requires CLASS 1 BED expand our safety program TRUCK Operators for through projects and auditing.

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P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle. 403-348-5456 or 403-505-7846

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JOHNPAUL2@LIVE.CA I cannot reach you at this email address. I have made several tries to meet as you requested. It is now your problem, i.e. pay phone to start. Contact me @ Box 1033, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

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Dental

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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Chandler Consulting Inc. is now seeking an RN interested in part time contract work. Position is related to workplace health assessments, training provided.

Must live in Red Deer and have own transportation.

Please email resume and availability to info@ chandlerconsulting.net.

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Car Lot in Classifieds knowledge of Microsoft Please call 403-346-1860 Excel and Access • Extracting & summarizing data into reports from Databases Companions • Critical thinking and Oilfield problem solving S/W/M, 43 living in Red • Ability to multi-task in a Deer, variety of interests, fast paced environment seeks SF for friendship. • Detail oriented, extremely No kids, who believes love organized is more important than • Ability to communicate money, has own transporin a professional manner tation if out of town reply “People are our most with phone number to: Box We offer the rewards: important asset - their 1034, c/o R. D. Advocate, safety is our greatest 2 9 5 0 B r e m n e r A v e . , • Service recognition responsibility.

Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 program • Comprehensive benefits No job is so urgent that it cannot be done safely.”

SENIOR gay male wishes package to meet same, or bi-sexual • Continuous training A Pipeline and Facility for talks and companion- • S a l a r y b a s e d o n Construction company is ship in Red Deer. Please credentials currently accepting respond with phone numapplications for ber to Box 1033, c/o R. D. Your next step: forward Advocate, 2950 Bremner your resume by noon on Class 1 Licenced Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 March 1, 2013 to: Picker Operator Cascadia Motivation Inc. Must be able to run a 30 Attn:Gary Thorsteinson ton Knuckle boom.

Suite 14, All Oilfield tickets required Personals 4646 Riverside Drive Benefits offered Red Deer, AB T4N 6Y5 Resumes can be faxed ALCOHOLICS Fax: 403.340.1314 403-729-3606 ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 E-mail: or emailed to GaryT@ hr@wpidhirney.net Classifieds CascadiaMotivation.com www.wpidhirney.net Your place to SELL Your place to BUY Buying or Selling your home?

COCAINE ANONYMOUS Check out Homes for Sale 403-304-1207 (Pager) in Classifieds 1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Clerical Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

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SERVICE RIG

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d FLOORHAND Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

PROVIDENCE Trucking Inc

Is now hiring experienced:

Winch truck operator Picker operator

All candidates must be able to pass a pre-employment drug screen. We offer exceptional wages and benefits for exceptional people. Fax resume and abstract to 403-314-2340 or email to safety@ providencetrucking.ca Start your career!

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Zubar Production Services

is currently taking resumes for experienced Assistant Operators Email resume to: rdzubaroffice@telus.net or fax to (403)346-9420.

Must have all valid tickets.

TEMP, FULL-TIME CLEANER for March & April.

Rig shacks.

M-F (8-5) $20+/hr Fax Resume to 403-786-9915

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 Looking for a new pet?

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* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants

Bristow Projects, Inc., a Pipeline & Facility construction company, is looking for a

PAYROLL ACCOUNTING - AR / AP CLERK to work in our Innisfail Office.

Strong Computer skills (Quickbooks, MS office suite, Email) essential and the ability to meet deadlines are a must. Must be familiar with applicable accounting principles, practices and reporting, payroll accounting and be detail oriented. Payroll Compliance Practitioner designation an asset. At least 5 years experience preferred.

Interested Candidates can forward Resumes & Cover Letters to:

Fax: 1-403-227-6858 Email: hr@bristowprojects.com

Canyon is the fastest growing fracturing company in North America. We deliver quality customized pressure pumping and service solutions to the oil and gas industry, improving our industry one job at a time.

If you’re looking for a career with a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then we’re looking for you. Now hiring Canyon Champions for the following positions:

Class 1 Driver / Operators: Nitrogen – Pump Operators and Bulk Drivers; Fracturing—Pump Operators and Bulk Drivers; Journeyman Parts Technician Applicant Requirements: f Self-motivated f Willing to work flexible hours f Safety-focused

f Team oriented f Clean Class 1 license drivers abstract f Oil and Gas experience an asset

Why Canyon? f Dynamic and rapidly growing company f Premium compensation package f New Equipment

f Paid technical and leadership training f Career advancement opportunities f RRSP matching program

POINTS WEST LIVING STETTLER REQUIRES GENERAL MANAGER Facility - A 104 suite full service Designated Supportive Living and Independent Living Facility Operated by Connecting Care - A leader in seniors’ supportive housing management in Alberta.

We are looking for a caring professional who is a leader and wants to work in Supportive Housing.

Responsible for the overall management, HR, marketing and administration of the facility.

Qualifications: R.N. registered with CARNA an asset, management experience, time management and problem solving skills Experience: Community involvement, seniors care, hospitality, human resource development, demonstrated record of effective communication with seniors and staff.

Wage: Based on qualifications and years of experience, plus benefits and RRSP matching plan.

Submit resumes: Email: jobs@ connectingcare.ca Closing: April 15, 2013 Only successful applicants will be notified.

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1349300 AB LTD O/A TROCHU GAS & SNACKS WANTED full time service station attendant,food counter attendant,retail store supervisor & food service supervisor.wage from$11.50/hour for service station attendant. $11.50/hour for food counter attendant.$16.00/ hour for retail store supervisor.$14.00/ hour for food service supervisor. APPLY IN sungmina74@gmail.com or MAIL po box488 trochu ab t0m 2c0

MCDONALD’S Restaurants in Gasoline Alley (East and West) are now hiring full time TEAM LEADERS (Food Service Supervisors). Starting wage is between $11.05 to $13.00 per hour, depending upon previous experience and/or equivilent education. All restaurants are 24 hours so applicants must be willing to work flexible shifts, weekend, evenings and late nights.

We offer benefits and opportunities for further advancement. Apply in person, or on line at cbay22@telus.net or fax resume to 403-783-4251.

RAMADA INN & SUITES req’s.

ROOM ATTENDANTS. Exp. preferred. Also BREAKFAST ROOM ATTENDANTS, early morning shifts, flexibility req’d. Only serious inquiries apply.

Rate $13.50/hr.

Drop off resume at: 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer or fax 403-342-4433 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

If you are a team player interested in the oil and gas industry, please submit your resume, current driver’s abstract and current safety certificates to the following: Fax 403-887-4750 lkeshen@1strateenergy.ca

How to apply:

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for a well experienced F/T SERVER Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

email: hr@canyontech.ca fax: (403) 356-1146 website: www.canyontech.ca

Please specify position when replying to this ad.

We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

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1442968 AB LTD O/A RIMBEY GAS & SNACKS WANTED Full Time Food Counter Attendant & Food Service Supervisor. Wage from $11.50/hour for Food Counter Attendant. $14.00/ hour for Food Service Supervisor. $16.00/hour for Retail Store Supervisor.

APPLY IN sungmina@hotmail.com or FAX 403-843-3871 OR MAIL: PO BOX 2069 5134 50 AVE RIMBEY AB T0C 2J0

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BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980

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RENTALS www.homefinders.ca Phone 403-340-3333

LAMINATE floors, drywall, tape, framing, odd jobs, BBB credited, credit cards accepted. 403-896-3904

SHOPPING www.fhtmca.com/derekwiens Online Mega Mall 403-597-1854

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COMPUTER REPAIR

WEB DESIGN

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AB, Computer Hygiene Ltd. 896-7523

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Handyman Services

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Massage Therapy

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HANDYMAN PLUS Painting, laminate, tile, mud/ tape, doors, trim, Call 403-358-9099

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

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Massage Therapy

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ASIAN Executive Touch Exclusive for men. Open 10 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650 CINDY’S Western & Chinese Traditional Massage, micro computer diagnosis. Insurance avail.

New girls coming. 4606 48 Ave. 8 a.m.- 9:30 p.m. 7 days a wk. 403-986-1691

Gentle Touch Massage

4919 50 St. New staff. Daily Specials. New rear entry, lots of parking. 403-341-4445

VII MASSAGE

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5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca FREE removal of all kinds of unwanted scrap metal.

No household appliances 403-396-8629

HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269 LINDA’S CHINESE MASSAGE

COUPLES SPECIAL

Bring loved one & the 2nd person is 1/2 price.

Open daily 9 am-9 pm.

403-986-1550 #3 4820-47 Ave 4 therapists, Insurance receipts

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346

BDI Canada Inc.

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JUNK REMOVAL, Yard/ Garden Serv. 588-2564

Moving & Storage

1300

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

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A COUPLE OF PAINTERS

Call for all your painting requirements. 15 yrs. exp.

Kory at 403-347-9068

Seniors’ Services

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ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small jobs, around the house such as roof snow removal, bathroom fixtures, painting or flooring Call James 403- 341-0617 HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship in home or in facility.

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We are a well-established world-wide supplier of bearings, P/T and specialized industrial products, serving the forestry, mining, pulp and paper, food and beverage, and OEM industries.

We are currently seeking a self-motivated, resultsoriented professional to fulfill the role of Technical Sales Representative at our Red Deer branch.

You need to have a Post-secondary education and be mechanically inclined or have an equivalent technical background with 5+ years’ experience in selling Industrial products.

We offer a comprehensive package, including salary, commission/bonus programs, and full benefits.

Please send your resume in confidence to Mr. Mike Richards, Regional Manager at: mike.richards@ bdi-canada.com We appreciate and thank all candidates for their interest, however advise that only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted directly.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 E3

OLD DUTCH FOODS LTD. is a leader in the snack foods industry. We are looking for a career oriented person who loves sales and customer service to fill the position of Route Sales Assistant for off truck sales.

You must be self motivated and enjoy a challenge.

This is a full time entry level position, with long term career opportunities.

Some weekend work and out of town travel may be necessary. You will receive sufficient training that will equip you with knowledge and confidence to work on your own. This position is training to become an independent distributor.

Applicants must be bondable and supply a current drivers abstract with resume. As an employee you will qualify for our competitive compensation package as well as a great benefit package.

Possible relocation may be an option. Please drop off your resume to 7863-49 Ave. Red Deer or fax to 403-347-9155 or email harvey.rue@olddutchfoods,.com Only successful candidates will be contacted.

WANTED: Outside sales people for a fast growing security company.

Successful applicants must possess an outgoing personality, be self motivated, and be very organized. Door to door sales experience is an asset but not necessary.

Please email resume to hr@ bond-ocommunications.com

Trades

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APPRENTICESHIP OPPORTUNITY

CARSTAR Red Deer (Pro Collision) is currently looking to add an Autobody apprentice to our team. We are a large production collision repair facility located in downtown Red Deer and we are looking to bring on and train another technician.

Applicants should be ambitious, reliable, hard-working and able to work in a team environment.

Relevant experience would be considered as an asset, but we are willing to train the right individual looking to enter the trade. There is no shift work or weekends required in this position, Monday to Friday only.† Wages are based on experience and attitude.

Please apply in person to 4517 54 Avenue (Corner of Taylor Drive and 45th Street).

If it isn’t possible to apply in person during regular business hours, please call 403-343-0505 to arrange an appointment.

B-PRESSURE SHOP WELDERS REQUIRED

NO RIG WELDERS Must be able to read blueprints. Flare stack experience and Stainless welding ticket would Be a asset. Great rates and hours. Merit program.

Please email resume to info@dynamicprojects.ca Or fax to (403)340-3471

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First Choice Collision Seeking Journeyman or 2nd /3rd year apprentices.

Positions for body, prep and refinishing technicians needed for our car and light truck division. Top wages, bonus programs and benefit package. Fax resumes to (403) 343-2160; e-mail choice2@telusplanet.net or drop off in person @ #5, 7493, 49th Avenue Crescent, Red Deer.

Truckers/ Drivers

850

FUTURE AG INC. your Central Alberta Case IH Agricultural Equipment Trades Job Fair dealer is looking for a full time C o m p e n s a t i o n r a n g i n g 3rd year Apprentice from $36.90 - $49.16/hour

and/or Journeyman Evraz will be holding a Parts Person Trades Job Fair at the for their Rimbey location.

Farming background an asset.

• • • • • • • • •

Job duties and responsibilities include: Assist customers and answer customers inquiries Read and interpret parts diagnostics & diagrams Use of computerized inventory system Order and receive parts for customers Excellent communication skills Customer service experience Experience with computerized inventory system Experience with Agricultural equipment Must be reliable, highly organized & team oriented

iHotel on 67th on February 27th from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Interviews will be conducted on site as part of an immediate hiring process.

Evraz Inc. NA is the largest producer of steel and pipe in Western Canada and a recognized leader in the North American oil and gas industry. We are committed to safe, responsible work practices and strive to recruit individuals who share our dedication to continuous success.

We offer employees competitive wages and a comprehensive benefits package, including significant bonus opportunities.

880

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in Clearview Area Castle Crsc.

Clark Crsc. & Crawford St. $155/mo.

880

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in

Deer Park area Dowler St. & Dowler Close $173/mo.

EASTVIEW 100 ADVOCATE $525/MO. $6300/YR 2 HRS./DAY GRANDVIEW 75 Advocate $393/month $4716/yr.

1-1/2 hrs. per day

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

Lancaster Area East half of Lampard Crsc. & Leung Close $61/mo.

WESTLAKE 75 Advocate $393/month $4716/yr.

1-1/2 hrs. /day

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

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

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Truckers/ Drivers

860

CLASS 1 drivers req’d to pull flat deck, exc. wages, Landscaper/laborer safety bonuses, benefits.

We are currently looking We run the 4 western provfor an energetic, positive, i n c e s . P l e a s e c o n t a c t reliable, mature and skilled 1-877-787-2501 for more individual to fill this position. info or fax resume and abstract to 403-784-2330 JOB REQUIREMENTS:: * No formal education req`d * 44 hrs. per wk with some wknds. * Heavy lifting, running equip., yard maintenance, lawncare, snow removal.

Wage $25.hr.

Expected start date: ASAP Those interested please email resume to: CLASS 1 or 3 Drivers resumes@ needed newcartcontracting.com Please fax or email or fax to 403-729-2396. your driver’s advstract, references and resume to: Mike.castilloux@ lafarge-na.com Classifieds...costs so little 403 347 8060(fax) Saves you so much!

SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

STUCCO Labourers.

Needed Immed. Exp’d but will train. Drivers License pref’d. 403-588-5306

Highland Green Holmes St. & Heath Close

Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St

PINES Patterson Cres. & Pamley Ave.

INGLEWOOD AREA

Piper Dr. & Pennington Cres.

Isbister Close Inkster Close

Pallo, Payne & Parsons Cl.

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Sherwood Crsc Scott St./Somerset Close.

Sunnyside Crsc.

VANIER AREA

1 day per wk.

No collecting!!

Please contact QUITCY

Business Opportunities

900

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880

Duties include: - Service Writing - Warranty Administration - Service Scheduling - Maintaining Paper Flow Attributes: - Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically Inclined - Computer Proficient - Previous Experience A Must

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X-STATIC

IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR

F/T EXPERIENCED DOOR SECURITY PERSONNEL

Apply in person after 3 pm.

Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included. Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www.eaglebuilders.ca.

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Women in the Trades

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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Math and Science in the trades

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Pidherney’s is growing and requires experienced Truck drivers to work with our team:

Top wages paid based on experience Assigned units Scheduled days off Valid safety tickets an asset

Fax resume to Human Resources 403-845-5370 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

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• Water Truck Driver to work up North • Class 1 Drivers • Lowbed Drivers with Class 1

900

OILFIELD SERVICES INC.

offers a variety of

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

GED classes evening and days

860

Employment Training

is expanding its facility to double production.

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403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

Summer Employment Opportunity From May 1st - Sept. 15, 2013 Campground Manager: Tail Creek Park Campground Highway 11 & Highway 21, along the Red Deer River Only Serious Inquiries Please Application deadline March 15, 2013 Submit letter of intent and or resume to Marlene Lanz, Métis Nation of AB Region 3 President 1415 - 28 ST NE, Calgary, AB T2A 2P6 Phone: 1(403)569-8800 or 1-800-267-5844

Is taking resumes for: * Accessories Dept. with experience in clothing.

F/T positions avail. * 2nd or 3rd. yr. motorcycle mechanic Please forward resume to HR Department Fax: 403-341-4910

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ACADEMIC Express

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be avail.

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

TURPLE BROS. LTD.

- Batch Plant Operator - Carpenters/Woodworkers - General Labourers

Adult Education and Training

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at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

870

Join Distinctly Tea in the high growth & high margin retail loose leaf tea industry. Steve@fylypchuk.com

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail Please contact QUITCY

• This is a career position.

• Salary based on experience and ability.

• Profit sharing and company benefits.

FULL-TIME Truck Driver required at Eastman Feeds, Experience an a s s e t . Wo r k s c h e d u l e Monday – Friday, 8 am – 5 pm. Competitive wages and benefits. Apply with resume and drivers abstract via email: cliff.miller@eastmanfeeds. com or fax to (403) 341-3144.

Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc Valentine Crsc.

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

SERVICE WRITER

Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn: Bill/Service

Lagrange Crsc SUNNYBROOK AREA

E-mail bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn Bill/Service

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FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

BOWER AREA

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

Employment Training

CARRIERS NEEDED

Adams Close/ Adair Ave. Ainsworth Crsc.

Allsop Ave.

ALSO Wedgewood Gardens St. Joseph’s & Montfort Heights

In the towns of:

Central Alberta LIFE The newspaper farmers look to for best values in: *Farm Machinery, *Feed & Grain, *Livestock, *Trailers, *Supplies & *More.

CHECK US OUT CALL 309-3300

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ANDERS AREA

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

BEN

Duties include: • All aspects of RV Service work • Seasonal extended hours • Customer interaction Attributes: • Organized & Reliable • Outgoing • Physically fit • Mechanically inclined • Entry level position • On the job training • Permanent position • Tool allowance • Training allowance • Company benefits

Carriers Needed For 4 days/wk Flyers & Sun. Life IN

For afternoon delivery once per week

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

UNC

Evraz..making the world stronger.

880

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

HELP WANTED, BOTTLE s o r t e r, p e r m a n e n t , f u l l time, $12-$14/hour for 40 hours per week, ASAP, 2 vacancies, Sundre Container Depot in Sundre AB, Apply e-mail badooc@naver.com

APPRENTICE RV MECHANIC

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Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in

GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST LAKE WEST PARK

Evraz is expanding mainteRosedale nance coverage to all We offer a competitive pay shifts and is in need of the Approx. 2 blks of scale, exemplary benefits following positions: Reichley St. package, annual work boot reimbursement, RRSP & Reighley Close Skilled Trades People, plan, sick days, monthly $68/mo.

Millwrights, Electricians bonus and continuous and Machinists professional training in a Applicants must possess a Good for adult with positive environment. valid provincial journeyman small car. certification or InterprovinForward your resume to: cial Red Seal certification.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK Future Ag Inc. Previous work experience Call Jamie Attn: Paula Martin in an industrial manufacturBox 140 403-314-4306 info ing setting is preferred, but Rimbey, AB T0C 2J0 not required. These are full Fax: 403-843-2790 Central Alberta LIFE time shift work positions.

Email to Duties include trouble- The newspaper far mers paulam@futureag.ca shooting and maintenance look to for best values in: of plant equipment. *Farm Machinery, *Feed & Grain, *Livestock, *Trailers, If you are looking for a *Supplies & *More.

GRAPHIC career with a strong CHECK US OUT company, you owe it to DESIGNER CALL 309-3300 yourself to attend the Evraz Trades Job Fair.

Plan to visit us at the iHotel Misc.

Work with clients from initial concept through job on 67th on February 27th Help completion in a fast paced from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm environment.

All potential hires will be Creative, great people skills and a keen eye for detail. required to attend and pass a pre-employment Print or related industry experience or equivalent medical including drug screening test before being education required.

For more info/apply online: offered employment. www.fletcherprinting.com For more information on Evraz’s North American email: careers@ operations, visit www.Evrafletcherprinting.com zIncNA.com

Blue Grass Sod Farms, Box 11, Site 2, RR #1, Red SHOP FOREMAN Deer, Alberta Pressure Piping & Steel F/T farm equipment technifabrication shop cian req’d with exp. repairing farm equipment. Only experience personnel need apply $31 hr, 44 hrs week, dental -Journeyman Pipefitter & health benefits avail. preferred Email resume to debbie. lefeuvre@bg-rd.com or fax -Must be able to organize men and projects 403-342-7488 -Background & experience with Acorn Piping program Understanding and implementation of QC for structural & Piping -Oversee all material ordering, handling & receiving -Competitive Wage & BUSY Clive area HD truck- Benefits Please apply to info@ ing company seeking F/T dynamicprojects.ca or fax apprentice technician.

403-340-3471 Candidates will be req’d. to perform repairs and maintenance of highway tractors and trailers as well as dismantling salvage units. Competitive wages and benefits. Fax resume 403-784-2330 or call 403-784-2501 for more info D. LESLIE WELDING LTD. We are currently accepting resumes for B Pressure, Journeyman and Contract Welders. Valid safety tickets req’d. Rig welding exp. asset. Fax your resumes to: 403-729-2771 or send by email to: dlesliewelding @hotmail.com

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SAFETY COURSES to meet your needs.

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Sales & Distributors

Standard First Aid , Confined Space Entry, H2S Alive and Fire Training are courses that we offer on a regular basis.

As well, we offer a selection of online Training Courses.

For more information check us out online at www.firemaster.ca or call us at 403 342 7500.

You also can find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @firemasterofs.

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Career Planning

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

1520

Antiques & Art

1710

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rentals

1720

3020

1630

Heavy

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1640

8 TRACK & Cassette & Record player. Speakers. $200. 403-343-7393

1530

TABLE SAW - Bench top 10”. Craftsman w/accessories. $190.

403-314-2026

Firewood

BUD HAYNES

SPRING FIREARMS AUCTION Sat., March 2 @ 9 am Bay 4, 7429 49 Ave R.D. Estate: George Huebner of Sask. & Estate: George Stawn of Cochrane.

Over 500 items.

Preview Friday, 3 - 8 p.m.

Saturday, 8 a.m. till sale.

Ph: 403-347-5855 www.budhaynesauctions.com

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

1760

10-12 HOUSE plants $5-$30, 403-342-4572 FOOT OR hand pedal exerciser , reg. $60. asking $25; 10 assorted old cook books from, $3-$5, 403-346-2231

Patio table & 4 chairs, $45.

Dresser/Mirror - 3 drawers, $40. Night table 2 drawers, $30. 4 TV trays w/holder on wheels, $20.

Wheel Barrow, 6 c.ft.

Metal, $30. Garbage can, aluminum w/lid, $12.

Saw blade, 10”, 60 tooth, new, $20.

403-314-2026

SNOW Blower, 8 H.P. 26” $300. 403-347-5873

Dogs

MGM Ford Lincoln Sales Ltd 3010-50 Ave, Red Deer, Alberta

AUCTIONEERS NOTE: MGM has built a brand new sales and service centre. All surplus assets and equipment will be sold and removed so the old building can come down.

Surplus Equipment & Assets Including Portable Sales Office, Dry Van, Forklift, Hoists, Shop Equipment, Chain Link Fencing, Office Furniture & More. See Website for complete list VIEWING: Friday March 1st 10AM-4PM REMOVAL: All Smalls Must be Removed By Friday March 8th @ 3 PM No Exceptions Subject to Additions Deletions Lunch Available 10% Buyers Fee Cash/C/Card

287644B26

www.montgomeryauctions.com

Auctioneers & Sales Management

Open House Directory

Tour These Fine Homes CALL CLASSIFIEDS

309-3300

TO ADVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY HERE!

1860

COMPLETE SET of golf clubs, 3 Woods 9 irons, putter, bag & balls, exc. shape, selling due to health reasons $200, 403-347-0567

3030

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Manufactured Homes

3040

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $899/month Mauricia 403-340-0225

3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

HUGE TRI-PLEX on 59th Ave.

Lots of storage & 2 large bdrms, 1.5 bath, In-suite laundry. No pets. $1225 & UTIL; SD $1225; Avail NOW. Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554

ORIOLE PARK

3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1025 rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Avail. March 1.

Call 403-304-5337

3060

Suites Sporting Goods

1 BDRM. apt. in Penhold, $740/mo. Avail. immed.

Incl. most utils, no pets.

Call 403-886-5288 2 BDRM. furn. apt. and office space in Sylvan Lake.

No pets, n/s. $1100/mo. utils. incl.

403-887-4610

WANTED German rifles from WW11, please leave GLENDALE 2 bdrm. $825, D.D. $825, N/S, no pets, msg. 403-846-6926 no partiers, avail immed.

1-403-200-8175

Travel Packages

DON MONTGOMERY ICCA Auctioneer 403-885-5149 • 1-800-371-6963 Box 939, Blackfalds, AB

1840

Condos/ Townhouses

FREE Husky X puppies 403-396-7771

Saturday, March 2, 2013 @ 10:00 AM

13 WINSTONE PLACE BLACKFALDS Sun. 24th 2 - 4 Priced at just $207,900.

Comfortable & cozy 6 yr. old.

Affordable condo living.

KELLY MCCULLOUGH, Coldwell Banker OnTrack 403-343-3344

Misc. for Sale

PEACOCK feathers (50) $1.50 each 403-346-2231

SURPLUS EQUIPMENT AND ASSETS

4310

1730

NEWER Adult 1/2 Duplex in Inglewood, 1200 sq. ft., 3 bdrms. 6 appls. 2 car 5 CD Changer good cond., $200, 403-986-1091 parking. N/S, no pets, utils. not incld., $1200 rent, PANASONIC CD stereo $1100 s.d. Avail. March 1.

403-340-0363 system, has CD, cass. am/fm radio like new, $100 SYLVAN, avail .immed. 2 403-347-0567 units. 2 bdrm. + hide-abed, incl., cable, dishes, S E T o f o l d e r s u r r o u n d bedding, all utils. $1000 sound speakers, $200 obo, -$1400/mo. 403- 880-0210 403-986-1091

GIANT tv stand. WITH FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, doors, top drawer, space Poplar. Can deliver for VCR, bottom shelves, 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 great for equiip or books, $200 OBO 403-986-1091

1530

Out Of Red Deer

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1900

TIMESHARE FOR SALE Occidental Vacation Club “platinum” timeshare for sale $1000 ($7500 value).

Vacation for one week per year (anytime) at Occidental Resorts & Hotels, or you can exchange with RCI to vacation at one of their resorts throughout the US, Canada & Caribbean.

There is an annual maintenance fee of $250.

The timeshare membership offers preferred accommodations, discount all-inclusive rates, extra vacations with bonus time, exchange privileges.

We no longer use the timeshare is the reason for selling.

More information on: www. occidentalvacationclub.com Phone 403-845-4763 TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

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Tools

Auctions

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Sunday February 24 AGRICULTURAL 11 am Sharp * CLASSIFICATIONS Viewing 9 am Location: Ridgewood 2000-2290 Community Hall PARTIAL LIST ONLY: PRONTO M-91 Sure Stop 2005 Springdale 5th power wheel chair, brand Horses Wheel, 28.5 ft, 1 Slide new, 24 V, top of line (Subject to bank approval) chair, $4500 403-845-3292 – Vintage Major League HORSES WANTED: 403-895-2337 baseball – Pro Smart broke, un-broke, or unBaseball, calculates Speed wanted. 403-783-0303 in MPH – Vintage Tin Household Windup Toys with keys – WANTED: all types of Wall Pendulum Clock – Appliances horses. Processing locally Cedar Chest – Oak 4 in Lacombe weekly.

Drawer Filing Cabinet – APPLS. reconditioned lrg.

403-651-5912 Crocks – Vintage Moriage selection, $150 + up, 6 mo.

Dragon Ware Lithophane warr. Riverside Appliances Geisha Set – Collector 403-342-1042 Coins, Stamps & Bills – Antique Framed Pictures – BBQ c/w propane tank & Sewing Machines & cover. Like new. $100.

Supplies – Wine Making 403-314-2026 Equipment – Furniture – Appliances – Tools – ElecCLASSIFICATIONS tronics – Misc. and More Household FOR RENT • 3000-3200 For a complete list and Furnishings Directions visit WANTED • 3250-3390 www.cherryhillauction.com BED ALL NEW, TERMS OF SALE: Cash, Queen Orthopedic, dble. Houses/ Cheque, C/C, Everything pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr. must be paid for & removed on sale day (NO Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325. Duplexes 302-0582 Free Delivery EXCEPTIONS), 15% 3 BDRM. large bsmt. buyer’s premium. family room, storage room, BED: #1 King. extra thick Sale subject to Additions, fenced, quiet street no orthopedic pillowtop, brand Deletions, Errors and pets, n/s, adults pref. new, never used. 15 yr.

Omissions. $1000/mo. rent + d.d., Cost $1995, sacrifice Cherry Hill Auction warr. avail. end of Feb. ref’s @ $545. 403-302-0582. & Appraisals req’d by app’t only .

Phone 403-342-2514 ***RENTED*** WANTED or 403-347-8988 Antiques, furniture and EAST VIEW 3 bdrm., estates. 342-2514 n/s, no pets, 5 appls.

Avail. Mar 1. $1200. + utils.

Equipment403-357-2001

2 DRESSERS - bdrm. suite.

New mattress, bought 1953, $250. 403-343-7393

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Bankruptcy Police Auction

SAFETY

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

1530

LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

TOP FLOOR BRIGHT APT. on 58 Ave.

2 bdrms, 1 bath. w/balcony.

2 appls, coin-op laundry.

Lots For NO PETS, Avail NOW! Sale $995 & Elect., SD $995 Hearthstone 403-314-0099 112 ACRES of bare land, or 403-396-9554 located in Burnt Lake area structure plan, great investment property with Rooms future subdivision potenFor Rent tial. Asking 1.2M 403-304-5555 FURN. room, all utils. and cable incld, $425/mo.

FULLY SERVICED 403-506-3277 res & duplex lots in Lacombe.

Builders terms or owner ROOM for rent $500./mo. will J.V. with investors or Call 403-352-7417 subtrades who wish to become home builders. Great returns. Call 403-588-8820 Warehouse

Cars

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3090

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Space

WAREHOUSE FOR SALE OR LEASE

4860 sq.ft., new, bright, two 14’ O.H. doors, heated, fans, can be divided into 2 bays, call 403- 318-4848 to view

LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.

Excellent 1st time home buyers. 403-588-8820 MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Mauricia 403-340-0225

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homes

MORTGAGES AVAIL.on all types of real estate including raw land and acreages. Bruised credit and self employed welcome. Fast approvals Ron Lewis 403-819-2436

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Antique & Classic Autos

5020

Mason Martin Homes has

8 Brand New Homes starting at $188,900 Call for more info 403-588-2550

MOVE IN READY RISER HOMES

BLACKFALDS: 2 bdrm. 2 bath, dbl. att. garage. $325,000.

2 bdrm. 2 bath. $297,900.

Inclds. all fees.

Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

ADULT CONDO: $229,900 Downtown Red Deer. 45+ community, top (4th) flr.

975 sq. ft. 2 bdrm., 1 3/4 bath, outside garage, by owner. 403-309-8858

COLLECTOR CAR Auction & Speed and Custom Show. Featuring Ian Roussel, from Car Warriors & Big Schwag.

Mar 15th - 17th. Westerner Park, Red Deer. 150,000 sq.ft. indoor show.

Exhibitors space still avail.

Western Canada’s Largest Collector Car Event.

Consign today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 EGauctions.com

Cars

2009 MAZDA 3 GS FWD, $ 11 8 8 8 1 0 4 4 6 3 k m s , 7620-50 Ave. Sport & Import

3 bdrm., 2 bath townhouse in Lacombe. Walk-out, front att. garage.

Many upgrades. $240,000 incl. all fees.

Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

PUBLIC NOTICES

2003 BMW 3 series 325xi htd. lthr., sunroof, $10,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS At www.garymoe.com

has relocated to

279139

SUV's

5040

Trucks

5050

2011 FORD Ranger, 12,000 kms., $18000 obo.

403-506-7047, 782-2125

2008 GMC SLE 4x4 1/2 ton, 208,000 kms, near perfect cond, $13,000 403-845-3292 403-895-2337

2009 FORD Fusion. Low km.

A/C, cruise, power seats.

Ext. warranty. No gst. $12,495 obo. **SOLD** 2008 DODGE 2500 HD crew cab s/b, 183,000 kms $13,500 403-346-9816

2007 SAAB 9-3 Aero,V-6 turbo, 54,031 kms $18,888. 2007 GMC 2500 SLE turbo 403-348-8788 Sport & Import diesel, $25,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

A MUST SEE! $

20,000with Intro

400/month lot Rent incl. Cable Sharon (403) 340-0225

2007 BMW 335i htd. lthr., sunroof, $19888 7620 -50 Ave., Sport & Import

279426C30

Renter’s Special

DO YOU WANT YOUR AD TO BE READ BY

FREE Cable 2 & 3 bedroom modular/mobile homes

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca

2 bdrms, 1 bath. w/ balcony.

2 appls, coin-op laundry.

NO PETS, Avail NOW! $995 & Elect., SD $995 Hearthstone 403-314-0099 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca

100,000 Potential Buyers???

in pet friendly park

$

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Hagel’s bid for post gets a boost REPUBLICAN’S BACKING GIVES HIM ENOUGH SUPPORT TO BE PENTAGON CHIEF

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Chuck Hagel has secured the necessary votes for the Senate to confirm him to be the next U.S. defence secretary barring any new, damaging information, and a vote ending the bitter fight over President Barack Obama’s Cabinet choice is expected next week.

Hagel cleared the threshold when 30-year veteran Republican Sen. Richard Shelby said he would vote for the fellow Republican and former senator after joining other party members last week in an unprecedented delaying manoeuvr of the Pentagon nominee. Republicans have been critical of the Hagel, charging he is not sufficiently pro-Israel and tough on Iran.

“He’s probably as good as we’re going to get,” Shelby told an Alabama newspaper.

In another boost for Hagel’s nomination, former Republican leader Bob Dole, a decorated Second World War veteran, issued a statement Thursday saying, “Hagel’s wisdom and courage make him uniquely qualified to be secretary of defence and lead the men and women of our armed forces. Chuck Hagel will be an exceptional leader at an important time.”

If confirmed, Hagel, a twice-wounded Vietnam combat veteran, would succeed Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, who is stepping down after four years first as CIA director and then Pentagon chief.

Explosions kill at least 12 in Hyderabad

Although a Republican, Hagel has faced strong Republican opposition, with many of his former colleagues voting last week to stall the nomination.

They have questioned his support for Israel, his tolerance of Iran and willingness to cut the nuclear arsenal. His opposition to the Iraq war after his initial vote for the conflict angered his onetime friend, Sen. John McCain, a Republican.

Hagel once said “the Jewish lobby (in the United States) intimidates a lot of people here” and does some “dumb things” that aren’t “smart for Israel.”

He also said that “I’m not an Israeli senator. I’m a United States senator.” Those statements and others caused jitters in Israel, where in some circles he is seen as unsympathetic.

Regarding Iran, in the past Hagel has questioned the efficacy of unilateral sanction, arguing that penalties in conjunction with international partners made more sense. However, in his responses during confirmation hearings, Hagel adopted a hard line on Iran, echoing Obama’s position that the U.S. would consider all options, including military action, to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Shelby’s support was a clear sign of weakening Republican opposition, and it prompted two letters within hours from Hagel’s fiercest Republican foes. One letter went to the president calling on him to withdraw the nomination, the other to Republican senators pleading with them to stand together

against Hagel.

Fifteen Republicans senators wrote that Hagel lacks the bipartisan support and confidence to serve in the vital job of defence secretary.

“The occupant of this critical office should be someone whose candidacy is neither controversial nor divisive,” wrote the senators — all opponents of Hagel. Leading the effort was Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the party’s No. 2, who is up for re-election next year.

One name missing from the letter was McCain, who has called Hagel unqualified but indicated last Sunday that he wouldn’t stand in the way of a Senate vote.

Separately, the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, Sen. Jim Inhofe, sent a letter to his Republican colleagues urging them to vote again to block the nomination when the Senate returns from its recess next week. He acknowledged the reality that if the Republicans fail to block a vote, Hagel proponents have the votes to approve him on a yes or no vote.

“Make no mistake: A vote for cloture (ending the debate) is a vote to confirm Sen. Hagel as secretary of defence,” wrote Inhofe. He said that while the Senate traditionally defers to presidents on their Cabinet choices, “our nation is at war. The Senate must insist on confirming only the most effective leaders.”

OSCAR PREPARATIONS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HYDERABAD, India — A pair of bombs exploded Thursday evening in a crowded shopping area in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, killing at least 12 people and wounding scores of others in the worst bombing in the country in more than a year, officials said.

The blasts occurred about two minutes apart at around 7 p.m. outside a movie theatre and a bus station, police said. Storefronts were shattered, motorcycles covered in debris, and food and plates from a roadside restaurant were scattered on the ground near a tangle of dead bodies. Passersby rushed the bleeding and wounded out of the area.

“This is a dastardly attack, the guilty will not go unpunished,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said.

He appealed to the public to remain calm.

The bombs were attached to two bicycles about 150 metres (500 feet) apart in Dilsukh Nagar district, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told reporters in New Delhi. The district is a usually crowded shopping area near a residential neighbourhood.

When asked if the government had any suspects, Shinde responded: “We have to investigate.”

The blast killed 12 people, Home Secretary R.K. Singh said.

Mahesh Kumar, a 21-year-old student, was heading home from a tutoring class when a bomb went off.

“I heard a huge sound and something hit me, I fell down, and somebody brought me to the hospital,” said Kumar, who suffered shrapnel wounds.

Hyderabad, a city of 10 million in the state of Andhra Pradesh, is a hub of India’s information technology industry and has a mixed population of Muslims and Hindus.

“This (attack) is to disturb the peaceful living of all communities in Andhra Pradesh,” said Kiran Kumar Reddy, the state’s chief minister.

Campaign starts to save Polish diacritical marks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WARSAW, Poland — Polish language experts launched a campaign Thursday to preserve the challenging system of its diacritical marks, saying the tails, dots and strokes are becoming obsolete under the pressure of IT and speed.

The drive, initiated by the state-run Council of the Polish Language, is part of the UNESCO International Mother Language Day. The campaign’s Polish name is complicated for a non-Polish keyboard: “Je,zyk polski jest a,-e,.”

That’s a pun meaning that Polish language needs its tails and is top class. Part of the meaning is lost and the pronunciation sounds wrong if the marks aren’t there.

Computer and phone keyboards require users to punch additional keys for Polish alphabet. To save time, Poles skip the nuances, and sometimes need to guess the meaning of the message that they have received. This is also true for IT equipment users of other languages with diacritical marks, like Russian.

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Autopsy performed on tourist whose body was found in LA hotel water tank LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County coroner’s officials say determining the cause of death of a Canadian tourist found in a Los Angeles hotel water tank will require more tests.

Coroner’s spokesman Ed Winter says an autopsy was performed Thursday on 21-year-old Elisa Lam. How she died won’t be known until the results from toxicology tests are returned.

Lam’s body was found Tuesday in a water cistern atop the downtown Cecil Hotel. Police call Lam’s death suspicious.

Guest complaints about low water pressure prompted a maintenance worker to make the gruesome discovery.

Myanmar, US agree to resume co-operation in fighting narcotics YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar and the United

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Vatican feuds, betrayals await next pope

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — If evidence was ever needed that the next pope must urgently overhaul the powerful Vatican bureaucracy called the Curia, the scandal over Pope Benedict XVI’s private papers is Exhibit A. The pope’s own butler stole sensitive internal letters to the pontiff and passed them off to a journalist, who then published them in a blockbuster book. The butler did it, he admitted himself, to expose the “evil and corruption” in the Vatican’s frescoed halls that he believed was hidden from Benedict by those who were supposed to serve him.

And if that original sin weren’t enough, the content of the leaks confirmed that the next pope has a very messy house to clean up. The letters and memos exposed petty wrangling, corruption and cronyism at the highest levels of the Catholic Church. The dirt ranged from the awarding of Vatican contracts to a plot, purportedly orchestrated by senior Vatican officials, to out a prominent Catholic newspaper editor as gay.

Ordinary Catholics might not think that dysfunction in the Apostolic Palace has any effect on their lives, but it does: The Curia makes decisions on everything from church closings to marriage annulments to the disciplining of pedophile priests. Papal politics plays into the prayers the faithful say at Mass since missal translations are decided by committee in Rome. Donations the faithful make each year for the pope are held by a Vatican bank whose lack of financial transparency fueled bitter internal debate.

And so after 35 years under two “scholar” popes who paid scant attention to the internal governance of the Catholic Church, a chorus is growing that the next pontiff must have a solid track record managing States have taken a step toward closer relations with an agreement to resume co-operation in fighting narcotics after nearly nine years.

State television says the two sides agreed Thursday to restart joint opium poppy yield surveys and co-operate in counter-narcotics training.

U.S. Ambassador Derek Mitchell says the agreement is another step forward in the two countries’ relationship.

The U.N. says Myanmar is the world’s second-largest producer of opium after Afghanistan, accounting for about 25 per cent of global poppy production.

The U.S. cut most aid for Myanmar’s government after the military took power in 1998. But relations between the two countries have improved dramatically since President Thein Sein took office in 2011 and instituted a range of political and economic reforms.

Tribunal postpones start of trial in slaying of former Lebanese PM THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A judge at the U.N.backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon has postponed the start of the landmark trial in absentia of four Hezbollah fighters charged in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The decision is a major setback for efforts to prosecute the Feb. 14, 2005, bombing that killed Hariri, one of the Middle East’s most notorious assassinations.

a complicated bureaucracy. Cardinals who will vote in next month’s conclave are openly talking about the need for reform, particularly given the dysfunction exposed by the scandal.

“It has to be attended to,” said Chicago Cardinal Francis George. With typical understatement, he called the leaks scandal “a novel event for us.”

Cardinal Walter Kasper, a German who retired in 2010 as the head of the Vatican’s ecumenical office, said the Curia must adapt itself to the 21st century.

“There needs to be more co-ordination between the offices, more collegiality and communication,” he told Corriere della Sera. “Often the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.”

Sandro Magister, the Vatican analyst who most closely follows the comings, goings and internecine feuds of Vatican officials, said the “disaster” of governance began unfolding in the 1980s, in the early years of Pope John Paul II’s pontificate.

“John Paul II was completely disinterested in the Curia; his vision was completely directed to the outside,” Magister said in an interview. “He allowed a proliferation of feuds, small centres of power that fought among themselves with much ambition, careerism and betrayals.”

“This accumulated and ruined it for the next pope,” he said.

Benedict was well aware of the problems, having spent nearly a quarter-century in the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. But he never entered into the Vatican’s political fray as a cardinal — and as pope left it to his No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, to do the job.

“Some of his choices were shown to be counterproductive,” Magister said. “Cardinal Bertone didn’t produce the results that Benedict XVI had hoped for.”

Judge Daniel Fransen says the proposed March 25 start date cannot go ahead because prosecutors have not yet disclosed all evidence to defence attorneys for the suspects.

The court said in a statement Thursday that not giving the defendants enough time to prepare “would be in violation of the most basic right of the accused and the principle of fair trial.”

No new date was immediately set for the trial.

Jerry Sandusky will continue to seek new trial, files notice of appeal BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky’s attorney filed notice that he’ll take his quest for a new trial to a higher level court.

Last month, the trial judge rejected arguments that defence attorneys didn’t have enough time to prepare for the three-week trial at which the former Penn State assistant football coach was convicted on 45 child sex abuse charges.

Cleland had also rejected post-sentencing motions regarding jury instructions, hearsay testimony and a comment by the prosecution during closing arguments that referred to the fact that Sandusky, who did not testify at trial, gave media interviews after he was arrested in November 2011.

In documents filed this week in Centre County Common Pleas Court and released Thursday, defence attorney Joseph Amendola didn’t explain the issues he plans to raise in his Superior Court appeal.

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Ex-smokers regain same health status of non-smokers

BY HELEN BRANSWELL THE CANADIAN PRESS People who quit smoking can acquire the same health status as people of their age who never smoked. But the process takes time, two new studies suggest.

The work, based on data from Statistics Canada studies, suggests that in terms of overall health, women who quit smoking are on a par with nonsmokers after about 10 years, on average.

For men, the gains are slower.

Though their health quality improves after five years, it takes an average of 20 years before they reach the health status of similarly aged men who never smoked.

Statistics Canada senior researcher Didier Garriguet says because of the type of study, one can only hypothesize as to why women’s health-related quality of life improves faster than men.

But one reason may relate to the different smoking patterns of men and women.

“Women smoke less than men when they do smoke.... So that’s one possible explanation. Because we see that intensity also has a role to play in how long it takes to see the health benefits coming back to what they were when you were not a smoker at all,” Garriguet said in an interview.

Garriguet was not an author of either paper but was designated to answer questions on them. Two of the

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The estimates of how long it takes for ex-smokers’ health status to approach that of those who have never smoked are averages. The actual time would vary from person to person depending on factors like how long and how much they smoked.

“There will be differences between people, of course,” Garriguet said.

“Like for some people, it will probably take five years until they have the same quality of life. For some people, they will never see their quality of life going back to the same thing.”

On the specific issue of heart disease, however, one of the studies found that it takes ex-smokers — both men and women — about 20 years before their heart disease risk settles back to the level of non-smokers.

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A drop in core temperature due to exposure to severe cold can slow the metabolism so much that a person can appear to be dead, say doctors, who believe that was likely the case with a newborn girl who had been declared dead on the weekend but “came back” to life.

The infant was born on a Toronto sidewalk Sunday after her mother went into labour while walking to the hospital.

Mother and child were rushed to Humber River Hospital for treatment but the baby had no apparent vital signs and was declared dead.

About 90 minutes later, two police officers standing by the infant while waiting for the coroner to arrive suddenly noticed that a sheet covering the tiny body was moving. The newborn was alive.

The officer found a pulse and alerted doctors. The baby girl was transferred to the Hospital for Sick Children, where she was in fair condition Tuesday, meaning she is conscious and may have minor complications, but has a favourable outlook.

Dr. Jamie Hutchison, an intensive care physician at Sick Kids, said the newborn likely had hypothermia — a condition in which the body is rapidly cooled, leading to a dramatic slowing of metabolism, which in some cases can mimic death.

“That would be the most likely reason,” Hutchison, who was not involved in the newborn’s care but conducts hypothermia research, said Tuesday.

“And that’s because the body requires a certain temperature for metabolism to occur. So with each degree drop in temperature, the metabolism of every organ slows.”

Whether hypothermia occurs in a child or adult, once their body temperature drops below a certain threshold, the person appears to be comatose, he said. And if they get cold enough, the heart beat will slow and weaken so much that they have no perceptible pulse.

“They’re not dead, but they appear that way,” Hutchison said.

The phenomenon has given rise to a saying in medical practice: “A patient isn’t declared dead until they’re warm and dead.”

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Cigarette butts fill an ash can. A new study suggests that ex-smokers can gain a health status similar to those of people their own age who never smoked — but the process takes time.

Current daily smokers have a 60 per cent higher risk of heart disease than people who never smoked, one of the studies suggested.

“The major finding of this study is that long-term smoking cessation results in improvements in HRQL” — statistician-speak for health-related quality of life — “at any age,” said one of the studies.

Both were released Wednesday in the Statistics Canada publication Health Reports.

The studies are based on data draw from the National Population Health Survey, which gathers information on the smoking status of Canadians every two years. For the studies, the authors looked at 16 years of data, or nine cycles of the survey covering the period from 1994-95 to 2010-11.

Over the period studied, the percentage of Canadians aged 15 or older who smoked fell to 17 per cent in 2010 from 35 per cent in 1985.

Also over the period communities began to institute increasingly strict smoking bans, limiting the number of places smokers could indulge their habits.

For the study looking at how long it took for ex-smokers to become like non-smokers in terms of their health, the researchers looked at a sample of 3,341 men and 4,143 women aged 40 or older in 1994-95.

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