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TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 Gerry Thompson and his daughter Teaghan, 9, play horseshoes on the first day of their Victoria Day Weekend camping trip at Aspen Beach at Gull Lake on Friday.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

A welcome weekend NORDEGG RESIDENTS HAPPY TO BE HOME AFTER WILDFIRE, CAMPERS HEAD OUT TO ENJOY HOLIDAY

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Nordegg residents were happy to celebrate the May long weekend in their own homes.

An evacuation order was lifted on Friday and by that evening Nancy Vermette and her three cats were back in her home and getting ready for the six house guests who were descending on her for a weekend of quad riding.

All looked good when she came home, said Vermette, who is one of the few full-time residents.

“You’d never know there was a problem.”

Residents had been told not to worry about any fire retardant they may encounter because it’s non-toxic, but Vermette says she has seen no sign of the stuff or any smoke traces around town.

Residents remain on a two-hour evacuation alert, but Vermette said the fire situation seems well in hand and she’s not expecting to have to pack up again.

Evidence that there is still firefighting to be done can be seen above where a pair of helicopters were going back and forth dropping loads of water.

The weather has been cooler and they got a little rain on Sunday morn-

ing, she said.

“We got a little. It kind of dampened things down. It’s very pleasant right now.

“It doesn’t feel like it’s super dry and there are no big winds, so that’s good for the firefighters.”

Uncertainty about the fire situation kept many visitors from coming out to the area.

“It’s sad. It’s long weekend and a lot of people have stayed away.”

At Upper Shunda Creek Campground, business was unusually slow, said Linda Latter, who operates it with husband Gordon. “(The fire) kind of ruined it for the camping,” said Latter.

Every kilometre dedicated FIRST-TIME COMPETITOR IN WOODY’S RV MARATHON HAD REASON EVERY STEP OF THE WAY

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF “Just do it.”

Nike may have the trademark, but Toni-Lee Johnstone was living it on Sunday as she completed her first marathon at the Woody’s RV World Marathon.

She dedicated every passed kilometre to a loved one and her whole race to a friend who committed suicide.

“I was running for him.”

Mustering a weary smile just minutes after she crossed the finish line at about 4:52, Johnstone said the experience was unforgettable.

“It was painful. It hurt.

But the sense of pride I’m feeling right now is pretty incredible,” said the 37-year-old mother of one.

Despite the aches and a wonky knee that gave her trouble after 35

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km of the 42.2-km race, she had some advice for those dreaming of running a marathon: “Do it. Make it happen. Just do it.”

Johnstone was among several runners interviewed in April by the Red Deer Advocate ahead of their big races.

Another was Les Simpson, who was running for his first halfmarathon, after cheering on his running wife Carol for years.

The pair both competed this year with Les coming in with a time of two hours and two minutes.

“It went really well for me,” he said. “After I was a little sore.”

He was pleased with his time. Early in his training, he mentally set a 2:15 goal for himself, and then lowered it as his running improved to 2:05.

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THE ‘SILENT MPS’

Central Alberta members decline comment on records

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Toni-Lee Johnstone completed her first marathon this year at the Woody’s RV World Marathon on Sunday.

She dedicated each kilometre completed to loved ones to keep her going.

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“The long weekend is pretty much a write-off. Instead of 30 units, we had like five units or something.

“They’re running the choppers today because they’re probably going to be digging out hot spots for the next little while. But we’re not in any kind of danger. You can’t even smell smoke today.”

Latter understands campers’ caution, but she said it’s important to get the word out that the danger has passed and the area is open for business again and visitors are welcome.

“There’s no fire ban so everything’s good to go.”

Three Central Alberta MPs didn’t respond to requests for comment on a story about their speaking records in the House of Commons.

That’s not surprising, according to a study that suggests the trio are reluctant to have their voices heard.

A charitable organization that studies Canadian democracy has released its analysis of how many words each member of Parliament spoke in the House of Commons in 2012. In the bottom 10 — Wetaskiwin MP Blaine Calkins and Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen.

According to the data, Calkins spoke 1,667 words in 2012, the eighth lowest total among the 302 MPs included in the study. Dreeshen was one spot better, having uttered 1,670 words.

Crowfoot MP Kevin Sorenson was 213th on the list at 10,912 words said.

Samara, the organization conducting the study, examined 54 days of debate over three periods in 2012 and projected the word counts from those days to come up with a number for the 129 days the House sat last year. The totals do not include words spoken in parliamentary committees.

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NORDEGG: Weather turns out well for campers Often the news of a fire gets a lot of attention, but people aren’t as aware when the situation is back to normal, she said.

“As a town, we very much rely on the tourism for the different businesses.”

Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development reported on Sunday that the Nordegg fire was being held at about 770 acres.

On the weekend, Alberta had 25 wildfires burning, including two considered out of control. Five are being held, 14 under control, and four have been turned over to residents.

Since April 1, the province has recorded 302 wildfires which have burned about 4,900 acres.

Clearwater County Coun. Dick Wymenga joined enforcement officers at a Friday checkstop near Crimson Lake and took to the air on Sunday for a helicopter tour of the popular West Country spots.

The numbers of people heading out to the area were down by about a third, he estimated.

The publicity about the forest fires and the closure of the Forestry Trunk Road from Highway 11 to south of the North Saskatchewan River bridge and other trail closures likely contributed.

About 100 forestry staff, RCMP and other enforcement personnel were patrolling campgrounds, trails and roads throughout the weekend.

There was no word on Monday about the number of charges laid or any other problems.

A tally is expected for Tuesday, said an RCMP spokesperson.

At Brewers Campground in Aspen Beach Provincial Park on Gull Lake, Gerry Thompson, his family and friends enjoyed the weather that turned out better than forecasters predicted.

Showers and thunderstorms predicted for later in the weekend didn’t make an appearance.

“It kind of spit here and there and that was about it. The wind picked up a little bit and then disappeared and we still managed to have our little badminton tournament.”

Nine-year-old daughter Teaghan and a teenage friend of the family even took the plunge under the water, which was too chilly for swimming for most.

“The beach wasn’t busy,” he said with a chuckle. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

WORDS: Spoken words counted At the top of the list was B.C. NDP MP Peter Julian, whose total was 226,027 words spoken. Julian’s 13-hour filibuster in objection to last year’s budget boosted his total.

At the bottom of the list, with 963 words spoken, was Calgary Conservative MP Rob Anders.

Those MPs who resigned, were elected in byelec-

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Jaimen Kelly helps to launch his father Darren and sister Lauren on the maiden voyage of the Calgary families new jet ski Friday evening at Gull Lake. tions, or regularly served in the Speaker’s chair in 2012 were not counted in the study.

Samara also broke down the words spoken by each party, gender and age group in the House.

It found that female MPs spoke 31 per cent of the words, despite taking up only 25 per cent of the seats in the House; MPs under 35 — nine per cent of the House population — spoke 11 per cent of its words.

The majority Conservative caucus, meanwhile, spoke only 36 per cent of the body’s words and had 28 of the 30 most mute members.

NDP MPs, counting for 33 per cent of all members, spoke 44 per cent of the words. Liberals made up for 16 per cent of the total talking, with only 11 per cent of all MPs. The lone Green Party MP was easily the most talkative party leader, speaking 174,783 words.

In its study, Lost in Translation or Just Lost?, Samara also looked at the disconnect between what Canadians believe happens in Ottawa versus what actually goes on.

For more on the study, visit www.samaracanada. com. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

MARATHON: Will return Simpson said he will be back for next year’s halfmarathon and is already considering other races this year.

He recommends those interested in tackling the half-marathon to take a running clinic, such as the

one he took at the Running Room.

It’s well worth it to take a clinic,” he said, adding it offered camaraderie and provided a lot of useful information.

MARATHON COVERAGE B1 “I swear by the clinics.”

Marathon co-chair Jason Hazlett said this year’s race couldn’t have gone better.

“Absolutely incredible is the way I can describe it,” he said, as the final marathoners came in one by one.

The weather was almost perfect, with comfortably cool temperatures in the morning.

“Now we’ve got a little bit of breeze to keep the racers cool.

“It’s like we ordered the weather.”

Once again the numbers showed the event is becoming one of the premier running events in Alberta.

More than 1,600 people were registered to run in the 10-km, half-marathon or marathon.

There were 506 registered for the 10-km, 937 for the half-marathon, and 184 tackled the marathon.

Registration for the 10 km was capped at 500, a 150-runner increase over last year.

The race is now in its third year at the event.

“It filled up in about three months.”

More than 350 volunteers took part and the starter was Colin Ingles, a Calgarian who has volunteered for every one of the 15 years. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Canadian and American missing for nearly two weeks in Mexico

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — The disappearances of a British Columbia man and a U.S. man in the Mexican resort city of Puerto Vallarta has their families frantically searching for information in what they believe could be a kidnapping.

Diego Hernandez, a 22-yearold Canadian martial arts instructor, and his friend and business partner Craig Silva vanished on May 8, just days after Hernandez put together a mixed martial arts sporting event in the city.

The pair was last seen in Silva’s truck, a black 2003 Chevy Trailblazer, which has since been recovered by Mexican authorities.

Reached in Puerto Vallarta, Hernandez’s mother, Me-

lissa Canez, said her son and Silva had been planning to withdraw money from Silva’s account to pay for some of the event’s expenses. Soon after they obtained the money, they dropped off Silva’s girlfriend at a local university and intended to pick her up after class, she said.

Canez said she suspected the two men were kidnapped when she was told the next day that they did not return to pick up Silva’s girlfriend.

“They’re both martial arts instructors, they’re disciplined individuals,” she told The Canadian Press in a phone interview on Monday.

“As soon as she said they hadn’t come back and they didn’t answer their phones, for me, I knew somebody had my son against his will because he would not do that. He wouldn’t just take off.”

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The online newspaper Noticias PV says Puerto Vallarta’s director of public safety, Silvestre Chavez, didn’t learn of the men’s disappearance until five days later and has launched an investigation.

Canez said her son’s girlfriend filed a missing persons report within 48 hours.

Hernandez’s girlfriend also received a call from someone who claimed he saw the two men being arrested by municipal police on the same day they went missing, Canez said.

“Of course that changed everything because then it’s like, what are you talking about?” she said.

Since the missing reports have been filed, the local authorities and the Canadian consular have been of little help, Canez said.

She said she has seen surveillance footage of an un-

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known man withdrawing money at a bank using Silva’s card.

There is also apparently another surveillance video that shows Hernandez withdrawing cash at an ATM while being flanked by two masked people, she said. One of the men’s bank card was also used at a convenience store, she added.

Hernandez lived in Coquitlam, B.C. before moving to Puerto Vallarta two years ago.

The mixed martial arts event that he put on earlier this month was in collaboration with another business partner who was mostly in charge of the finances.

According to Canez, Hernandez was approached a few days before the event by somebody who wanted a percentage of the earnings. Her son refused, Canez said.

“I was terrified,” she said.

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Canez said the event was extravagant and televised, and Hernandez and his business partner were having trouble paying some of the expenses.

Puerto Vallarta police said no information would be given on the case at this time.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson from Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada confirmed that consular officials are providing services to the family of a Canadian citizen reported missing in Mexico, and that they are in contact with local authorities.

A Facebook group has been set up to collect tips about the men’s whereabouts. Word of the case has also spread through social media, with many sharing photos of the men on Twitter.

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Sundre flood mapping to go ahead WILL INVOLVE GATHERING DATA TO DETERMINE AREAS MOST AT RISK FROM FLOODING

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Long-sought flood hazard mapping of the Red Deer River near Sundre will be undertaken by the province this year.

The study, which was lobbied for by area politicians and the Red Deer River Quality Control Committee, will involve gathering data to determine the areas most at risk from flooding.

“The idea is to establish exactly where the flood way is and where the flood fringe is,” said Mountain View County Reeve Bruce Beattie.

Local representatives went to Edmonton in March to meet with Environment Minister Diana McQueen and Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths

to press their case for a study.

The assessment is expected to support the committee’s case for funding to undertake flood control measures, such as berms, along the river south of Sundre.

A similar flood hazard of what is known as the McDougall Flats southwest of Sundre was done in 1997 focusing on the existing urban area.

Fears of flooding have been heightened over the last year after the river changed course, moving several hundred metres to the north and running along a stretch of low banks.

The government was presented with 160 letters from residents concerned about potential flooding.

“We’re very happy that the province found the funding to do it,” said Beattie.

“We think it’s an important

first step to determine how we can then decide how development should happen in that area.”

The mapping is expected to take about a year and Beattie said they’re content to wait.

“We want to make sure the study is done to the best way,” he said. The project involves taking elevations and aerial reviews.

A similar study was done before Sundre embarked on a project to build eight spurs to redirect water flow along the banks near the town to limit erosion.

About 14,000 tonnes of rock were used to build the spurs as part of a $2.4-million project completed last June.

Further to the south and west a pair of berms were built

by Mountain View County at a cost of $200,000 in late 2011.

Municipalities are hoping to line up $2.5 million in provincial funding to extend the berm to provide full protection for low-lying areas.

Beattie said the flood mapping study will not come with recommendations on how to prevent flooding. That will remain a separate process and would required permits from Alberta Environment and Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation.

“There would be a fair amount of work to be done.”

A letter has been sent to the environment minister asking for permission to undertake some work in the meantime.

A response has not yet been received.

Information provided by Alberta Environment says the province has been undertaking flood hazard studies and

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mapping since the 1970s. A joint federal-provincial initiative was started in 1989 to standardize and cost-share flood mapping work.

The objectives of Alberta’s Flood Hazard Identification Program are to: increase public safety and awareness of flood hazards; promote appropriate development in floodprone areas; and reduce damages and costs related to flood damage.

The study involves creating a computer hydraulic model of the river using historic high water marks. The model is then used to calculate water levels under various scenarios.

That data is transferred to a map to determine flood hazard areas. pcowley@reddeeradvocate. com

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Woman dies in rollover A 25-year-old Red Deer woman was killed in a single-vehicle rollover on Hwy 2 north of Ponoka on Saturday morning.

Ponoka RCMP said a vehicle carrying three people was heading south on Hwy 2 about 12 km north of Ponoka when it hit the west ditch and rolled several times about 9:16 a.m.

The 25-year-old victim was thrown from the vehicle. Police believe she was not wearing a seatbelt.

The driver, a 26-year-old Red Deer woman, was treated and released from Ponoka General Hospital.

A 29-year-old Sylvan Lake man escaped without injury. Both had been wearing seatbelts.

Police said the cause of the collision remains under investigation. A Red Deer RCMP traffic collision re-constructionist is assisting. The name of the victim has not been released at the wishes of the family.

Meanwhile, a 15-year-old Red Deer girl has been charged with speeding after a vehicle was clocked at 187 km/h on Hwy 2 near the Crossfield overpass.

Airdrie Integrated Traffic Unit was alerted to be on the lookout for a speeding vehicle about 8:55 a.m. on Monday.

When the vehicle was pulled over, RCMP allege the 15-year-old driver, who did not have a licence, tried to switch seats with a front-seat passenger.

The driver has been charged been with speeding at 77 km/h over the speed limit, driving an uninsured motor vehicle, driving without a licence and failing to provide proof of vehicle registration.

She is due to appear in Airdrie provincial court on July 2. Her name can’t be released under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

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EDMONTON — Police in Edmonton have laid numerous impaired driving charges after a toddler was killed by an SUV that smashed through a restaurant patio.

Investigators say a family was dining at an outdoor table at a restaurant in southwest Edmonton on Sunday evening when an Acura MDX crashed into them, pinning a two-year-old boy to a wall.

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

B.C. NDP loss impact wide No New Democrat anywhere in the country can afford to brush off Tuesday’s upset defeat in British Columbia.

That starts with those who toil at Ontario’s Queen’s Park and on Parliament Hill.

Ontario’s Andrea Horwath and Thomas Mulcair really needed British Columbians to lead by example by handing the reins of their province to the NDP. B.C. NDP Leader Adrian CHANTAL Dix’s campaign HÉBERT was supposed to provide the template for Horwath and Mulcair’s own bids for government.

Once in power, it was hoped that he would showcase the New Democrats’ ability to manage a major provincial economy.

The NDP has yet to win power in any of the four big provinces in this century.

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Like his Ontario and federal counterparts, Dix had spent the pre-writ period smoothing the edges of his party and it seemed that it would to pay off.

Few NDP leaders have ever entered an election campaign with as big a lead as Dix had when the B.C. writ was dropped last month.

His strategy borrowed heavily from Jack Layton’s 2011 recipe.

As an aside, it makes matters worse for the New Democrats that the masterminds in charge of the B.C. campaign were the same people who had earned bragging rights by bringing the party to the major role of official Opposition in the House of Commons in the last federal election.

Instead of mapping out a safe path to power for 21st-century New Democrats, Layton’s former chief strategist, Brian Topp, and his acolytes ended up highlighting the daunting roadblocks that stand in their way.

Like Layton in 2011, Dix spent the campaign on the high road. There he was exposed to relentless Liberal attacks on the economic competence of his party.

In the end, even as they had consistently craved change for more than two years, a sufficient number of British

Columbians could not find it in themselves to hand over the reins to the NDP. It does not take a big leap of imagination to think that one could be treated to a replay of the same scenario federally in two years. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have already been practising the same lines on Mulcair that Christy Clark successfully used on Dix. The federal Liberals will also be gunning for the NDP on the economy.

In B.C. on Tuesday, the anti-NDP vote coalesced around Clark. The reverse was not true of the anti-Liberal vote. In that, there is another ominous message for Mulcair. In fact it is the second time in six months that British Columbian voters deliver the same warning to the New Democrats.

In dismissing the notion that the division of the opposition vote could doom their efforts to win power federally, the New Democrats may well be whistling past what stands to become the cemetery of their governing ambitions.

The federal New Democrats got a first taste of the negative impact of federal Green Leader Elizabeth May’s popularity on its prospects when it narrowly hung on to the riding of Victoria

in a byelection last fall.

That impact stands to be compounded by the presence on the forefront of world-renowned climate change expert Andrew Weaver. He will be the first Green member to take a seat in the provincial legislature in Victoria.

Mulcair already has to juggle a double challenge in Quebec where both Justin Trudeau and his reinvigorated Liberals and the Bloc Québécois have to be kept at bay. Mulcair’s effort to bind nationalist voters to the NDP in his home province have so far come at a cost to his credibility elsewhere in Canada.

He faces an equally difficult balancing act in B.C. — one that caused Dix much grief over the past month.

Early on in the B.C. campaign, the NDP sacrificed precious ground in the larger economic battle against the Liberals when it hardened its anti-pipeline stance to preserve itself from the Greens.

On what can only be a national day of political mourning for the NDP, its brain trust is headed back to the drawing board where a disquietly blank page awaits it.

Chantal Hébert is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

Bean leaves, bedbugs and biomimicry Scientists often come up with new discoveries, technologies or theories. But sometimes they rediscover what our ancestors already knew. A couple of recent findings show we have a lot to learn from our forebears — and nature — about bugs.

Modern methods of controlling pests have consisted mainly of poisoning them with chemicals. But that’s led to problems. Pesticides kill far more than the bugs they target, and pollute air, water and soil. As we learned with the widespread use of DDT to control agricultural pests and mosquitoes, chemicals can bioaccumulate, meaning molecules may concentrate hundreds of thousands of times DAVID up the food web — eventually SUZUKI reaching people.

As Rachel Carson wrote in her 1962 book Silent Spring, using DDT widely without knowing the full consequences was folly. She showed it was polluting water and killing wildlife, especially birds, and that it could cause cancer in humans. Her book launched the environmental movement but did little to change our overall strategy for dealing with bugs. Although DDT was banned worldwide for agricultural purposes in 2001, the chemical is still used to control insects that spread disease.

Recent research shows that widespread use of pesticides like DDT may have caused us to ignore

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or forget benign methods of pest control. Because the chemicals were so effective, infestations were reduced and there was little interest in non-toxic methods. But bugs evolve quickly and can become immune to pesticides. That’s true of bedbugs, the now ubiquitous critters that are showing up around the world in homes, hotels, schools, movie theatres — even libraries.

But a method used long ago provides an effective and non-toxic weapon against the pests, according to a U.S. study in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. The authors looked into the once-common Eastern European practice of spreading bean leaves around a bed to control bedbugs. What they found was fascinating.

“During the night, bed bugs walking on the floor would accumulate on these bean leaves, which were collected and burned the following morning to exterminate the bed bugs.

The entrapment of bed bugs by the bean leaves was attributed to the action of microscopic plant hairs (trichomes) on the leaf surfaces that would entangle the legs of the bed bugs,” the scientists, from the University of California, Irvine, and University of Kentucky, wrote.

They discovered that after bugs get caught up in the hooked plant hairs, they struggle to escape, and in the process vulnerable parts of their feet are pierced by the hooks, permanently trapping them.

The research focuses on a way to replicate this.

“This physical entrapment is a source of inspiration in the development of new and sustainable methods to control the burgeoning numbers of bed bugs,” the researchers wrote, adding that the method “would

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Other research has literally dug up pest control methods that go back millennia. An international team of archeologists recently found evidence that people living in South Africa almost 80,000 years ago made bedding out of insect-repelling plants.

According to the journal Science, the research team found 15 different layers containing bedding made from compacted stems and leaves of sedges and rushes, dating between 77,000 and 38,000 years ago. One layer of leaves was identified as River Wild-quince, which contains “chemicals that are insecticidal, and would be suitable for repelling mosquitoes.” The archeologists also found evidence that people often burned the bedding after use, possibly to remove pests.

These are just two examples of what we can learn from our ancestors and from nature. Because natural systems tend toward balance, the fascinating field of biomimicry has developed to explore what nature can teach us. It’s aimed at finding “sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies,” according to the Biomimicry Guild website. “The goal is to create products, processes, and policies — new ways of living — that are welladapted to life on earth over the long haul.”

Maybe the truest sign of human intelligence is not to learn how we can shoehorn nature into our own agenda, but to see how we can better find our own place in nature.

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The season is still going to rank among the top-10 warmest summers on record though, but that’s largely due to recurring warmer-thannormal temperatures in the country’s far north.

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Residents living in Montreal through to Quebec City can also expect the mercury to rise.

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miliating showdown with his Senate colleagues. Colleague Pamela Wallin, who is facing her own expenses audit, also stepped down OTTAWA — The federal New on Friday.

Democrats have asked the MountThe ethics commissioner is also ies to determine whether Prime looking into Wright’s repayment of Minister Stephen Harper’s former Duffy’s expenses. right-hand man broke any laws At least one Tory MP was trying by cutting a personal to put a decidedly cheque to cover an face on a ‘WE HAVEN’T HEARD THE PRIME MINISTER optimistic embattled senator’s week that saw Harpimproper housing er lose two ConserSAY THAT A SECRET CASH PAYMENT TO A expenses. vative senators and POLITICIAN IS WRONG, AND WHETHER The NDP’s ethhis top aide. ics critic, MP CharConservative MP THE PRIME MINISTER KNEW, AT WHAT lie Angus, wrote to Joan Crockett took to POINT HE KNEW. HE MUST HAVE KNOWN Twitter on Monday RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson on SOMETHING.’ to trump her party’s Monday asking the commitment to ethforce to look into — NDP’S ETHICS CRITIC, MP CHARLIE ANGUS ics. the actions of Nigel “Our govt has the Wright. highest ethical stanWright abruptly quit his job about it, that would be absolutely dards demonstrated by 3 resignaSunday as Harper‘s chief of staff, shocking.� tions: 2 from Senate caucus & the days after it emerged that he gave Harper is expected to address PM chief of staff,� Crockett wrote.

Sen. Mike Duffy $90,000 to repay the Conservative caucus this “Those whose actions don’t his housing claims. morning before departing to South stand up to scrutiny, resign. UnAngus says the gift may have America for trade talks. like the opposition. It’s a clear broken the law.

Wright’s resignation followed demo of accountability folks from He added that Harper had a that of Duffy, who left caucus on some other parties could emulate. duty to explain to Canadians just Thursday facing a potentially hu- liberals.� what happened.

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‘ANARCHY’

‘Panda’ leads new fight AGAINST PROTEST FINES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — A philosophy professor who famously wore a panda costume to lighten the mood throughout last year’s Quebec student protests has found a new cause.

Anarchopanda, the unofficial mascot of the Quebec student strikes, has completed a fundraising campaign to contest fines levied against protesters in recent months.

More than $31,000 has been raised according to Anarchopanda — whose real identity is Julien Villeneuve, a philosophy professor at the College de Maisonneuve.

He became a local celebrity during the student strikes where, clad as the bamboo-munching bear, he peacefully marched with students, offered hugs to police, and spread the authority-resisting gospel of anarchism.

Although the strikes ended last year, the most committed core of protesters carried on this spring.

First they fought the smaller tuition hikes introduced by the Parti Quebecois and, lately, have been contesting an alleged crackdown on civil liberties.

Villeneuve was detained last month and fined $637 for not respecting a Montreal bylaw that has become the focus of the civil-liberties dispute.

He is now fighting that local bylaw, P-6 — which bans masks at protests, and requires that an itinerary be submitted before any demonstration in Montreal.

The case challenging the constitutionality of the bylaw is set to resume in October before Quebec Superior Court.

Villeneuve says he has been pleasantly surprised by the amount collected in less than a month. That offers him some hope that he might be able to cover the legal bills if the case persists.

“Initially, I expected (to raise) $10,000,” he said.

“But we will need more than that, especially if the city appeals.”

The most controversial provisions of P-6 came into existence in May 2012, at the height of the student strikes.

However, the Montreal police only started applying them systematically this spring.

A motion to strike down the bylaw, introduced last month by an opposition party at city hall, failed.

Villeneuve said the bylaw gives too much arbitrary power to the police.

That suspicion of power is consistent with the anarchist credo that inspired the name of Villeneuve’s mascot alter-ego.

“The executive (municipal body) and the (police) can declare any gathering of three or more people illegal,” he said.

“They apply it like they want — and that’s a problem.”

He said masks provide protection for people who, for whatever reason, might fear reprisals. The bylaw takes away their ability to demonstrate anonymously, he said.

Hundreds wait to pay respects to leader who blocked accord ELIJAH HARPER RESISTED THE MEECH LAKE CONSTITUTIONAL ACCORD THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Hundreds of people lined up inside the Manitoba legislature Monday to pay their respects to Elijah Harper, the aboriginal politician whose quiet but firm resistance to the Meech Lake constitutional accord became a symbolic moment for indigenous rights.

“He gave us all inspiration to know that it’s OK to say no sometimes,” Derek Nepinak, grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, said before taking his turn to walk by Harper’s casket.

“I think the legacy that he left will continue to inspire us and keep us on a good path.”

People young and old slowly made their way past the open casket, draped in a Manitoba flag and with an eaglefeather headdress sitting on top.

Nearby were portraits of Harper with an eagle feather in his hand, similar to the one he held in 1990 inside the legislature chamber when he denied the unanimous consent needed to rush the accord through to final approval.

“I brought my niece to be exposed to aboriginal history. Elijah was a role model,” said Margaret Pollock, whose nine-year-old niece is set to attend a non-aboriginal school in Winnipeg for the first time this fall.

Harper was born on the Red Sucker Lake reserve in northern Manitoba, and like many of his generation, attended a residential school.

Afterward, he furthered his education in Winnipeg and came across other future aboriginal leaders — Phil

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Manitobans line up to pay their respects and sign a book of condolences for Elijah Harper at the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg, Monday. Harper was the Manitoba politician who blocked the Meech Lake constitutional accord in 1990.

Fontaine, Ovide Mercredi, and Eric Robinson, who is Manitoba’s deputy premier and holds Harper’s former legislature seat.

“Elijah was always the quiet one in the crowd, he didn’t speak very much,” Robinson recalled Monday.

“You could tell that he had a quiet demeanour about him but you knew that the guy had more knowledge underneath that quiet exterior.”

Harper was elected chief of Red Sucker Lake in the late 1970s and was elected to the Manitoba legislature in 1981.

Harper was in the NDP opposition benches during the federal government’s 1990 attempt to enact the Meech Lake accord, which had been crafted to win Quebec’s signature on the Constitution.

Brian Mulroney, who was prime minister at the time, was pressing

dissenting premiers to go along with the accord and gave them a deadline to approve. Voting in Manitoba came late in the national debate.

Harper believed the deal gave his people short shrift.

Holding an eagle feather, Harper refused to allow rules to be waived to speed debate of the resolution supporting the accord.

He did so despite pressure from federal officials and harsh criticism from some people.

“He stood firmly in his identity, in his roots,” Shawn Atleo, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, told reporters Monday.

“Those of us that are younger, we continue to stand in the shadow of great moments like that.

Our work continues.”

Harper resigned from the legislature in 1992 and left the New Democrats a year later to run

federally for the Liberals.

He won a seat representing the sprawling northern Manitoba riding of Churchill.

Harper had been dealing with health issues for years and underwent a kidney transplant late last year.

He died Friday morning in hospital of cardiac failure due to diabetes complications. He was 64.

His widow, Anita Olsen Harper, sat by his casket with other relatives Monday and accepted condolences from the long line of well-wishers.

“I’m very encouraged by it,” she later told reporters.

“I’m not at all surprised. People loved Elijah. They still do.”

A funeral was set to take place in Winnipeg on Monday night while a burial service is scheduled for Thursday in Red Sucker Lake.

Rally calls for end to ties with monarchy MONTREAL — The Queen would likely not be amused by the way Victoria Day was observed in downtown Montreal on Monday.

At a rally of hardcore Quebec nationalists, a handful of people threw darts at a photo of the Queen. Others held up signs saying “Down with the monarchy” and “Quebec will soon be a republic.”

In Quebec, there is little love for the monarchy, and Monday‘s public holiday is now known as the Journee nationale des patriotes, to mark a rebellion against the British in 1837-1838.

Pierre Veronneau, who made the dartboard used at the rally, said he wanted to make a point that Quebecers don’t feel any connection to the Queen.

“I’m not someone who is politically correct,” Veronneau said, calling the royal family “parasites” who “do absolutely nothing.”

Victoria Day marks the birthday of Queen Victoria and is celebrated on the last Monday before May 25.

It’s often recognized as the beginning of the summer season. But the holiday also holds historic significance. As the monarch in 1867, Queen Victoria is sometimes recognized as the “Mother of Confederation” for helping to bring the country together.

In Quebec, though, the name of the holiday has changed over the years, reflecting the province’s complicated relationship with the monarchy.

Quebec celebrated Victoria Day until the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, when the holiday was changed to the Fete de Dollard, in honour of the 17th-century French soldier and colonist Adam Dollard des Ormeaux.

The name was changed again in 2003 to Journee des patriotes.

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Red Wings take upper hand

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BRYAN COLANGELO

COLANGELO OUT AS RAPTORS GM It appears Bryan Colangelo is out as president and general manager of the Toronto Raptors, but he could be staying with the team in another capacity.

According to multiple media reports, the Raptors are negotiating with Colangelo to take on a corporate, nonbasketball role with the team. Colangelo joined the Raptors in 2006 and was named the NBA’s executive of the year in 2007 when Toronto won its only Atlantic Division title.

But Toronto has missed the post-season for five straight seasons and it appears the team is ready to move in a new direction.

The Raptors are reportedly targeting Denver GM Masai Ujiri to take over the reins in Toronto.

Today

● Senior high boys soccer: Sylvan Lake at Hunting Hills, 4:15 p.m., Collicutt East. ● Senior high girls soccer: Central Alberta Christian at Notre Dame (At Collicutt West), Eckville at Lacombe, Hunting Hills at Lindsay Thurber, 4:15 p.m. ● Sunburst baseball: Confederation at Red Deer Riggers, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Women’s fastball: Shooters vs. N. Jensen’s Bandits, Central Alberta Threat vs. Midget Rage, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; TNT Athletics vs. Stettler Heat, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief 1. ● Men’s ball hockey: Sharks vs. Raiders, 7 p.m., Cruisin’ Auto vs.

ATB Bears, 8:15 p.m., Long Ball vs. Ferus Gas Industries, 9:30 p.m., all games at Dawe; Brewhouse vs.

Hammerhead Oilfield, 7 p.m., Gentex Heat vs. JMAA Architecture, 8:15 p.m., Braves vs.

Gentex Heat, 9:30 p.m., all games at Kinsmen B. ● Senior men’s baseball: Lacombe Stone and Granite at Printing Place, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2. ● Parkland baseball: Eckville at Rocky Mountain House, 7 p.m.

Red Wings 3 Blackhawks 1 DETROIT — The young Detroit Red Wings have made the mighty Chicago Blackhawks look vulnerable, beating them two straight times to gain an advantage in their last playoff matchup as Western Conference rivals.

Gustav Nyquist and Drew Miller scored 31 seconds apart midway through the second period and Pavel Datsyuk restored a two-goal lead in the third to help Detroit beat the Chicago Blackhawks 3-1 Monday night and take a 2-1 lead in the second round series.

As good as the Red Wings have looked — scoring six straight goals to earn momentum in the matchup — their hard-driving coach isn’t ready to celebrate.

“We haven’t done anything yet,” Mike Babcock said.

That’s an understatement. If the seventhseeded Red Wings keep playing like they are, the top-seeded Blackhawks will have a long off-season to wonder what went wrong in a season that looked like it was going to be special.

On Thursday night at home in Game 4, Detroit has a shot to put Chicago on the brink of elimination.

“It takes something like this to slap you in the face, so to speak, to really understand what adversity is and how tough the playoffs can be,” Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews said. “A lot of guys in this room have been in tough positions before in the playoffs and that’s never stopped us. We know this is a long series and we’re going to be fighting until the end.”

Chicago’s chances will improve if Toews can end his goal-scoring skid.

He doesn’t have a goal in nine playoff games, dating to last year. He matched Patrick Kane with a team-high 23 goals in the 48-game, lockout-shortened season.

Toews did have a game-high seven shots in Game 3, but Jimmy Howard and his backchecking, shot-blocking teammates

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Detroit Red Wings center Gustav Nyquist wraps up Chicago Blackhawks left wing Brandon Saad as defenseman Jakub Kindl watches during the first period of an NHL Stanley Cup playoffs Western Conference semifinal game in Detroit, Monday. wouldn’t let him end his drought.

“I’m not going to let it get the best of me,” Toews said. “I know I’m doing good things. I’m very confident that it’s going to come.”

Kane scored 4:35 into the third period to pull Chicago within one. About a minute later, the Blackhawks celebrated as if they tied the game, but Andrew Shaw’s goal was waved off because he was in the crease.

Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said he

disagreed with the call that negated Shaw’s game-tying score.

“He didn’t touch the goalie,” Quenneville said.

And Chicago’s goalie, Corey Crawford, couldn’t touch Datsyuk’s shot 6:46 into the final period that went in and out of the net before he saw it. Crawford finished with 27 saves.

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Lunty wins second straight Woody’s

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Brendan Lunty has a long way to go to catch Phil Meagher if he wants to take over the record for the most wins in the Red Deer Woody’s Marathon.

Lunty captured his second straight title, winning the 15th annual affair in two hours, 49 minutes 24.20 seconds Sunday morning. The win leaves the Camrose resident five wins behind Meagher.

“I don’t want to think about that . . . I’m not even close to half way yet,” Lunty said with a laugh. “Those would be big shoes to ever fill. I just enjoy coming here and it really doesn’t matter if I win or not. It’s fun being here.”

Lunty shared the spotlight with Joelle MacDonald of Airdrie, who finished 11th overall and won the women’s title in 3:18:48.40.

Craig Schmidt of Red Deer finished second overall at 2:50:28.40 and pushed Lunty for most of the race.

“Every time I looked behind me he was right on my butt,” said Lunty.

“I’d think I was putting some distance between

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Brendan Lunty crosses the finish line for the 15th annual Woody’s Marathon, Sunday. Lunty was the men’s overall winner for the second straight year. us and look behind and there he was. The last time I looked before I got to the top of the hill we were in the trees by the golf course (River

Bend) and he was right behind me, which was kind of discouraging, so I decided not to look again. When I got to the top of the hill I looked

again and couldn’t see him. That hill makes a difference.

“But I was glad he was there, he pushed me and made it more exciting.”

It was the first marathon of the season for Lunty, who was making his 10th appearance in the race.

“It’s been a long winter and not great for training so I’m not in as good a shape as normal, but I’m just happy to come back here. I love it. It’s one of the best races of the year with the trails, the volunteers and fans.”

MacDonald agreed.

“This is my sixth time here and it’s my favourite race,” she said. “I’ve competed in three half marathons and three full and it’s first class . . . second to none.”

MacDonald’s performance was spectacular as she broke her personal best by 45 minutes.

“There’s no way I expected that,” she said.

“I’ve been training for my first 100-kilometre ultra marathon in St. Paul in October and this was just part of it. I hoped to finish in around 3:45, so I couldn’t be happier.

What a great day.”

It was the first win ever for MacDonald, who runs at least one mara-

thon a month during the summer.

“I’m also competing in a 50k marathon next month, so I do a lot of running, which I love,” she said.

MacDonald trailed Amy Benson of Edmonton by close to two-anda-half minutes at the halfway mark, but didn’t take long to pass her.

“I got a real boost at the 10k mark when they said I was second and I caught her just past the halfway mark and never saw her again,” explained the 41-year-old MacDonald, who has always been a runner and got into marathons in her “late 20s”.

Brian McArthur of Red Deer was third overall at 2:57:15.75 with Rory Whitbread of Lacombe at 3:01:59.55 and Julian Price of Sylvan Lake at 3:03:10.40.

Benson finished second for the women and 18th overall at 3:29:16.40 with defending champion Bonnie Rouse of Calgary 21st at 3:31:50.60.

AJ Rankel of Edmonton won the half marathon in 1:20:13.10 with Mark Fewster of Calgary at 1:24:32.60 and Kit Richmond of Red Deer at 1:25:33.00.

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Dickey’s knuckleball leads Blue Jays past Rays

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Toronto Blue Jays Brett Lawrie slides safely into third after hitting an RBI triple off Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Jake Odorizzi during first inning baseball action in Toronto on Monday.

Blue Jays 7 Rays 5 TORONTO — R.A. Dickey and the Jays found the win column, notching a valuable victory against an American League East opponent, but remain very much a work in progress.

Toronto needed Tampa Bay to help its cause Monday, with Rays reliever Josh Lueke walking four — one intentionally — in an ugly seventh inning that propelled the Jays to a 7-5 win on a sun-splashed Victoria Day matinee.

Dickey (4-5) scattered four hits over a season-high eight innings, striking out five and walking four in his team-leading seventh quality start of the season.

The 38-year-old knuckleballer, who has suffered neck and back issues, says he has a ways to go yet — both with his health and knuckleball.

“It’s still pretty inconsistent.

I’m still walking more guys than I hope to, which is causing my pitch counts to be higher,”

said Dickey, who had ice on his right knee after the game.

“That should have been a game where my pitch count should have been around 100 pitches after eight (innings) and I went 120-something.

“But you’ve just got to keep grinding it out. I’ve felt like I’ve been stuck in a quagmire for the last week, two weeks. So it’s nice to feel like you’ve got at least one foot out of it.”

He threw 120 pitches, 72 for strikes, was charged with just two earned runs and did not give up a hit after the fourth inning. He had good movement on the knuckleball but found it hard to control.

His pitch might have been a tad wonky but, as always, Dickey’s vocabulary was spot on.

“The knuckleball can be a very capricious animal,” he said. “It’s there one batter and then it kind of goes away.

You can throw great ones and they’re just not strikes.”

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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NHL Playoffs CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

No Scoring Penalties — Andersson Det (roughing) 10:54, Bickell Chi (unsportsmanlike conduct), Shaw Chi (roughing), Quincey Det (unsportsmanlike conduct) 13:03, Abdelkader Det (holding stick) 16:12.

Second Period 1. Detroit, Nyquist 2 (Brunner, Andersson) 7:49 2. Detroit, Miller 1 (Eaves, Emmerton) 8:20 Penalties — Br.Smith Det (holding) 0:54, Br.Smith Det (interference) 17:39.

Third Period 3. Chicago, Kane 2 (Keith) 4:35 4. Detroit, Datsyuk 3 (Franzen, Br.Smith) 6:46 Penalties — Shaw Chi (slashing) 1:53, Handzus Chi (holding) 8:58, Keith Chi (roughing) 14:09, Bickell Chi (cross-checking) 19:00.

Shots on goal Chicago 15 8 17 — 40 Detroit 9 14 7 — 30 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (L,5-3-0); Detroit: Howard (W,6-4-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Chicago: 0-4; Detroit: 0-5.

Attendance — 20,066 (20,066).

EASTERN CONFERENCE Pittsburgh 2, Ottawa 1 Tuesday, May 14: Pittsburgh 4, Ottawa 1 Friday, May 17: Pittsburgh 4, Ottawa 3 Sunday, May 19: Ottawa 2, Pittsburgh 1, 2OT Wednesday, May 22: Pittsburgh at Ottawa. 5:30 p.m.

Friday, May 24: Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m. x-Sunday, May 26: Pittsburgh at Ottawa, TBD x-Tuesday, May 28: Ottawa at Pittsburgh, TBD Boston 2, N.Y. Rangers 0 Thursday, May 16: Boston 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, OT Sunday, May 19: Boston 5, N.Y. Rangers 2 Tuesday, May 21: Boston at N.Y. Rangers, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 23: Boston at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m. x-Saturday, May 25: N.Y. Rangers at Boston, 3:30 p.m. x-Monday, May 27: Boston at N.Y. Rangers, TBD x-Wednesday, May 29: N.Y. Rangers at Boston, TBD

2013 Memorial Cup Canadian Junior Championship

WESTERN CONFERENCE Detroit 2, Chicago 1 Wednesday, May 15: Chicago 4, Detroit 1 Saturday, May 18: Detroit 4, Chicago 1 Monday, May 20: Detroit 3, Chicago 1 Thursday, May 23: Chicago at Detroit, 6 p.m.

Saturday, May 25: Detroit at Chicago, 6 p.m. x-Monday, May 27: Chicago at Detroit, TBD x-Wednesday, May 29: Detroit at Chicago, TBD

PRELIMINARY ROUND GP W Portland (WHL) 2 1 Halifax (QMJHL) 2 1 Saskatoon (host) 2 1 London (OHL) 2 1

L 1 1 1 1

GF 10 9 7 6

GA 10 9 5 8

Pt 2 2 2 2

Friday’s result London 3 Saskatoon 2

Los Angeles 2, San Jose 1 Tuesday, May 14: Los Angeles 2, San Jose 0 Thursday, May 16: Los Angeles 4, San Jose 3 Saturday, May 18: San Jose 2, Los Angeles 1, OT Tuesday, May 21: Los Angeles at San Jose, 8 p.m.

Thursday, May 23: San Jose at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 26: Los Angeles at San Jose, TBD x-Tuesday, May 28: San Jose at Los Angeles, TBD

Saturday’s result Halifax 7 Portland 4 Sunday’s result Saskatoon 5 Halifax 2 Monday’s result Portland 6 London 3

Monday’s summary

Tuesday’s game Halifax vs. London, 6 p.m.

Blackhawks 1 at Red Wings 3 First Period

Wednesday’s game

Saskatoon vs. Portland, 6 p.m.

End of preliminary round

NBA Playoffs SECOND ROUND Conference Semifinals (Best-of-7)

PLAYOFFS Thursday’s game Tiebreaker (if necessary), 6 p.m.

New York Boston Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto

GB — 1 1/2 5 5 10

Cleveland Detroit Kansas City Chicago Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 26 17 .605 23 19 .548 20 21 .488 20 23 .465 18 23 .439

GB — 2 1/2 5 6 7

Texas Oakland Seattle Los Angeles Houston

West Division W L Pct 29 16 .644 24 22 .522 20 25 .444 17 27 .386 13 32 .289

GB — 5 1/2 9 11 1/2 16

Machado Bal Donaldson Oak

Monday’s Games Cleveland 10, Seattle 8, 10 innings Toronto 7, Tampa Bay 5 N.Y. Yankees 6, Baltimore 4, 10 innings Atlanta 5, Minnesota 1 Oakland 9, Texas 2 Chicago White Sox 6, Boston 4 Houston 6, Kansas City 5

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H 42 173 34 67 44 135 19 47 41 175 29 60 45 176 32 60 39 159 25 53 44 169 32 56 41 165 17 54 39 150 21 48

Pct. .387 .348 .343 .341 .333 .331 .327 .320

32 23

61 53

.319 .319

Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami

National League East Division W L Pct 26 18 .591 23 22 .511 21 24 .467 17 25 .405 13 32 .289

GB — 3 1/2 5 1/2 8 13 1/2

St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 28 16 .636 27 18 .600 26 18 .591 18 25 .419 17 26 .395

GB — 1 1/2 2 9 1/2 10 1/2

West Division W L Pct 26 19 .578 25 20 .556 24 21 .533 21 23 .477 18 25 .419

GB — 1 2 4 1/2 7

Arizona San Francisco Colorado San Diego Los Angeles

Tuesday’s Games Detroit (Scherzer 5-0) at Cleveland (Kluber 3-2), 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 2-3) at Baltimore (Mig. Gonzalez 2-2), 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Cobb 4-2) at Toronto (R.Ortiz 1-1), 5:07 p.m.

Minnesota (Pelfrey 3-4) at Atlanta (Hudson 4-3), 5:10 p.m.

Oakland (Straily 1-2) at Texas (Darvish 7-1), 6:05 p.m.

Boston (Doubront 3-1) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 2-1), 6:10 p.m.

Kansas City (W.Davis 3-3) at Houston (B.Norris 4-4), 6:10 p.m.

Seattle (Harang 1-4) at L.A. Angels (Williams 2-1), 8:05 p.m.

MiCabrera Det Loney TB AGordon KC Pedroia Bos Mauer Min Longoria TB Altuve Hou JhPeralta Det

191 166

Home Runs Cano, New York, 13; CDavis, Baltimore, 13; Encarnacion, Toronto, 12; MarReynolds, Cleveland, 12; MiCabrera, Detroit, 11; NCruz, Texas, 11; ADunn, Chicago, 11.

Runs Batted In MiCabrera, Detroit, 47; CDavis, Baltimore, 41; Fielder, Detroit, 37; MarReynolds, Cleveland, 37; Napoli, Boston, 35; Encarnacion, Toronto, 34; NCruz, Texas, 33.

Pitching MMoore, Tampa Bay, 8-0; Darvish, Texas, 7-1; Masterson, Cleveland, 7-2; Buchholz, Boston, 6-0; Lester, Boston, 6-1; Kuroda, New York, 6-2; Scherzer, Detroit, 5-0.

Sunday’s Games Cleveland 6, Seattle 0 Toronto at New York, ppd., rain Pittsburgh 1, Houston 0 Tampa Bay 3, Baltimore 1 Boston 5, Minnesota 1 L.A. Angels 6, Chicago White Sox 2 Oakland 4, Kansas City 3 Texas 11, Detroit 8

Wednesday’s Games Minnesota at Atlanta, 10:10 a.m.

Oakland at Texas, 12:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Toronto, 2:37 p.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Seattle at L.A. Angels, 5:05 p.m.

Boston at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

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

44 45

New York (2) vs. Indiana (3) (Indiana wins series 4-2) Saturday’s result Indiana 106 New York 99 Thursday’s result New York 85 Indiana 75

Saturday, May 25 No Games Scheduled.

Sunday, May 26 Championship First place vs. Semifinal winner, 5 p.m.

Winterhawks 6, Knights 3 First Period 1. Portland, Leier 1 (Wotherspoon) 16:53 Penalty — Ferry Ldn (slashing) 6:49.

Second Period 2. Portland, Bjorkstrand 1 (Leier, De Leo) 2:17 3. Portland, Rattie 2 (Rutkowski) 10:23 4. London, Harrington 1 (Broadhurst, Horvat) 10:38 5. London, Horvat 1 (Domi, Griffith) 12:30 (pp) Penalties — Mermis Ldn (hooking) 6:00, Jones Por (high-sticking), Griffith Ldn (unsportsmanlike cnd.)

8:58, Wotherspoon Por (interference) 11:37, Pouliot Por (roughing), Anderson Ldn (slashing) 18:24, Jones Por (slashing) 18:26.

Third Period 6. London, Broadhurst 1 (Welychka, Hughes) 1:48 7. Portland, Pouliot 1 (Rattie, Petan) 6:20 (pp) 8. Portland, De Leo 1 (Bjorkstrand) 6:43 9. Portland, Rattie 3 (Leier) 19:05 (en) Penalties — Rupert Ldn (closing hand on puck) 5:12, Pouliot Por (tripping) 8:17.

Shots on goal Portland 12 13 11 — 36 London 9 12 7 — 28 Goal (shots-saves) — Portland: Carruth (W,1-1); London: Stolarz (L,1-1)(31-26), Patterson (6:43 third, 4-4).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Portland: 1-3; London: 1-3.

Attendance — 7,575 at Saskatoon.

Sunday’s Games Miami 2, Arizona 1 Philadelphia 3, Cincinnati 2 Pittsburgh 1, Houston 0 Atlanta 5, L.A. Dodgers 2 St. Louis 4, Milwaukee 2 N.Y. Mets 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Colorado 5, San Francisco 0 San Diego 13, Washington 4

Minnesota at Atlanta, 10:10 a.m.

Cincinnati at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Milwaukee, 11:10 a.m.

Arizona at Colorado, 1:10 p.m.

Washington at San Francisco, 1:45 p.m.

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

Philadelphia at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

St. Louis at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H 42 166 25 59 45 170 34 60 41 168 24 56 41 138 23 46 45 164 30 54 42 155 23 51 43 162 16 53 42 166 26 54 39 149 23 48 40 140 11 45

Pct. .355 .353 .333 .333 .329 .329 .327 .325 .322 .321

Home Runs JUpton, Atlanta, 14; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 12; Harper, Washington, 11; Beltran, St. Louis, 10; Buck, New York, 10; CGonzalez, Colorado, 10; Rizzo, Chicago, 10.

Runs Batted In Phillips, Cincinnati, 38; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 37; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 36; Sandoval, San Francisco, 32; Buck, New York, 31; Bruce, Cincinnati, 30; Craig, St. Louis, 30; Rizzo, Chicago, 30.

Pitching Corbin, Arizona, 7-0; Zimmermann, Washington, 7-2; Lynn, St. Louis, 6-1; Marquis, San Diego, 6-2; Harvey, New York, 5-0; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 5-2; Minor, Atlanta, 5-2.

Monday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Seattle 202 100 011 1 — 812 3 Cleveland 041 000 101 3 — 1011 0 (10 innings) Iwakuma, Medina (7), O.Perez (8), Capps (8), Wilhelmsen (9), Furbush (10) and Shoppach, J.Montero; Kazmir, Albers (4), Shaw (6), Pestano (8), C.Perez (9), J.Smith (10) and Y.Gomes. W—J. Smith 2-0. L—Furbush 0-3. HRs—Seattle, Seager (6), En.Chavez (1), Smoak (3). Cleveland, Raburn (5), Y.Gomes 2 (4).

Tampa Bay 012 000 002 — 5 7 1 Toronto 210 000 31x — 7 8 0 Odorizzi, McGee (6), Lueke (7), Farnsworth (7), J.Wright (8) and Lobaton; Dickey, Janssen (9) and H.Blanco. W—Dickey 4-5. L—Lueke 0-1. HRs— Tampa Bay, Y.Escobar (4).

Monday’s Games Cincinnati 4, N.Y. Mets 3 Atlanta 5, Minnesota 1 Miami 5, Philadelphia 1 L.A. Dodgers 3, Milwaukee 1 Arizona 5, Colorado 1 San Diego 4, St. Louis 2 San Francisco 8, Washington 0 Tuesday’s Games Chicago Cubs (Garza 0-0) at Pittsburgh (W.Rodriguez 4-2), 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Leake 3-2) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 3-4), 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Pelfrey 3-4) at Atlanta (Hudson 4-3), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Cloyd 0-0) at Miami (Fernandez 2-2), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 2-0) at Milwaukee (Burgos 1-2), 6:10 p.m.

Arizona (Kennedy 2-3) at Colorado (Chacin 3-3), 6:40 p.m.

St. Louis (Wainwright 5-3) at San Diego (Volquez 3-4), 8:10 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 2-5) at San Francisco (M.Cain 3-2), 8:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games

WESTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio 1, Memphis 0 Sunday, May 19: San Antonio 105, Memphis 83 Tuesday, May 21: Memphis at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 25: San Antonio at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Monday, May 27: San Antonio at Memphis, 7 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 29: Memphis at San Antonio, 7 p.m. x-Friday, May 31: San Antonio at Memphis, 7 p.m. x-Sunday, June 2: Memphis at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Oklahoma City (1) vs. Memphis (5) (Memphis wins series 4-1)

Monday’s summary

Segura Mil Votto Cin Scutaro SF Tulowitzki Col Goldschmidt Ari CGomez Mil YMolina StL Aoki Mil Braun Mil AdGonzalez LAD

EASTERN CONFERENCE Miami vs. Indiana Wednesday, May 22: Indiana at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, May 24: Indiana at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 26: Miami at Indiana, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 28: Miami at Indiana, 6:30 p.m. x-Thursday, May 30: Indiana at Miami, 6:30 p.m. x-Saturday, June 1: Miami at Indiana, 6:30 p.m. x-Monday, June 3: Indiana at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Miami (1) vs. Chicago (5) (Miami wins series 4-1)

Friday, May 24 Semifinal Second place vs. Third place, 6 p.m.

Baseball American League East Division W L Pct 28 16 .636 27 18 .600 23 21 .523 23 21 .523 18 26 .409

CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

New York110000 101 2 — 6 9 0 Baltimore 010 010 200 0 — 413 0 (10 innings) Sabathia, Kelley (7), Logan (8), D.Robertson (9), Rivera (10) and Au.Romine; F.Garcia, Patton (7), O’Day (8), Ji.Johnson (9), Strop (10), Matusz (10) and Wieters. W—D.Robertson 3-0. L—Strop 0-2. Sv—Rivera (17). HRs—New York, Cano (13), D.Adams (1), Overbay (7), Hafner (8). Baltimore, C.Davis (13).

Oakland 010 040 301 — 9 15 0 Texas 001 010 000 — 2 6 1 Colon, Blevins (8), Neshek (9) and D.Norris; Lindblom, J.Ortiz (5), Burns (7), Kirkman (9) and G.Soto.

W—Colon 4-2. L—Lindblom 0-1. HRs—Oakland, S.Smith (4).

Boston 002 000 200 — 4 6 1 Chicago 320 010 00x — 6 8 0 Lester, Mortensen (7), Breslow (8) and Saltalamacchia; Axelrod, Thornton (7), Crain (8), A.Reed (9) and Flowers. W—Axelrod 2-3. L—Lester 6-1. Sv— A.Reed (15). HRs—Boston, Saltalamacchia (5).

Chicago, A.Dunn (11).

JUNIOR GOLF

AAA MIDGET BASEBALL

Brett Pasula of Red Deer played through the wind to shoot 76 in Sunday’s second and final round and take top overall honours in a Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour Nationwide Series event at The Links in Spruce Grove.

Pasula, in the juvenile boys (15-16) division, carded a 69 Saturday and with a 145 total won the two-day event by one stroke over Alex Corrigan of Calgary (75-71—146) and Noah Lubberding of St. Albert (74-72—146).

“I kept pulling all of my shots on the back nine and started to miss key putts, but somehow I got it done,” said Pasula of his second-round play.

With the victory, Pasula, who also won the 15-16 long drive competition, qualified for the Future Champions World Championship in July at La Quinta, Calif.

Nolan Bruin of Red Deer, who was also in the juvenile boys category, shot 87-81 for a 168 total.

Ty Wagar stroked a double and single and drove in three runs as the Red Deer Carstar Braves rallied for a 5-4 win and a doubleheader sweep of the visiting Fort McMurray Oil Giants in midget AAA baseball action Saturday.

Dylan Borman picked up the win at Great Chief Park with five solid innings on the Braves mound. Brendan Baker pitched two strong frames to close out the contest.

The Braves scored six runs in the second inning and prevailed 10-8 in the opener. Ty Elliott knocked in three runs and Triston Hill drove in a pair, while winning pitcher Mac Guckert worked five and two-thirds innings before handing the ball to Ryan Klinck.

San Antonio (2) vs. Golden State (6) (San Antonio wins series 4-2)

Golf PGA-Byron Nelson Sunday At Irving, Texas TPC Four Seasons Resort Purse—US$6.7 million Yardage—7,166; Par—70 Final Round Sang-Moon Bae, $1,206,000 Keegan Bradley, $723,600 Charl Schwartzel, $455,600 Justin Bolli, $321,600 Morgan Hoffmann, $244,550 Martin Kaymer, $244,550 Scott Piercy, $244,550 Charley Hoffman, $201,000 John Huh, $201,000 Graham DeLaet, $174,200 Ryo Ishikawa, $174,200 Ricky Barnes, $131,320 Angel Cabrera, $131,320 Tom Gillis, $131,320 Marc Leishman, $131,320 D.A. Points, $131,320 Harris English, $97,150 Charles Howell III, $97,150 Freddie Jacobson, $97,150 Brendon Todd, $97,150 Jason Bohn, $67,000 Justin Hicks, $67,000 Jerry Kelly, $67,000 Colt Knost, $67,000 Chez Reavie, $67,000 John Rollins, $67,000 Will Claxton, $46,565 Jason Day, $46,565 Brian Harman, $46,565 Ted Potter, Jr., $46,565 Wes Short, Jr., $46,565 Jimmy Walker, $46,565 Erik Compton, $32,495 James Driscoll, $32,495 Jason Dufner, $32,495 Nathan Green, $32,495 Matt Kuchar, $32,495 Jeff Overton, $32,495 Ryan Palmer, $32,495 Kenny Perry, $32,495 Marcel Siem, $32,495 Mike Weir, $32,495 Charlie Beljan, $22,110 Martin Flores, $22,110 D.H. Lee, $22,110 Justin Leonard, $22,110 Rory Sabbatini, $22,110 Stephen Ames, $16,363 Matt Bettencourt, $16,363 Padraig Harrington, $16,363 Steve Marino, $16,363 William McGirt, $16,363 Joe Ogilvie, $16,363 Camilo Villegas, $16,363 Duffy Waldorf, $16,363 Gary Woodland, $16,363 Stuart Appleby, $14,807 Ben Crane, $14,807 Henrik Norlander, $14,807

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267 269 270 271 272 272 272 273 273 274 274 275 275 275 275 275 276 276 276 276 277 277 277 277 277 277 278 278 278 278 278 278 279 279 279 279 279 279 279 279 279 279 280 280 280 280 280 281 281 281 281 281 281 281 281 281 282 282 282

Cameron Percy, $14,807 Tag Ridings, $14,807 Andrew Svoboda, $14,807 Gary Christian, $14,204 Scott Langley, $14,204 David Mathis, $14,204 John Daly, $13,869 Alexandre Rocha, $13,869 Zack Fischer, $13,601 Jordan Spieth, $13,601 Seung-Yul Noh, $13,400

YTD Top Rank Name Points Wins 10’s 1. Tiger Woods 2,340 4 5 2. Brandt Snedeker 1,474 1 6 3. Kevin Streelman 1,234 1 5 4. Billy Horschel 1,205 1 5 5. Matt Kuchar 1,122 1 4 6. Phil Mickelson 1,003 1 3 7. D.A. Points 985 1 2 8. Keegan Bradley 974 6 9. Adam Scott 919 1 3 10. Charles Howell III 865 5 11. Webb Simpson 854 3 12. Graeme McDowell 838 1 4 13. Steve Stricker 827 3 14. Jimmy Walker 811 4 15. Dustin Johnson 810 1 2 16. Jason Day 805 4 17. Russell Henley 800 1 2 18. Sang-Moon Bae 769 1 2 19. Hunter Mahan 743 2 20. Chris Kirk 712 2 21. Brian Gay 684 1 1 22. Martin Laird 673 1 2 23. John Merrick 660 1 1 24. David Lynn 652 2 25. Michael Thompson 636 1 2 26. Bill Haas 633 5 27. Justin Rose 626 3 28. Boo Weekley 614 3 29. Rory McIlroy 610 4 30. Charl Schwartzel 587 3 31. Lee Westwood 571 5 32. Freddie Jacobson 568 3 33. Brendon de Jonge 559 3 34. Angel Cabrera 551 1 35. David Lingmerth 549 2 36. Josh Teater 543 2 37. Nick Watney 542 2 38. Tim Clark 541 2 39. Sergio Garcia 538 4 40. Scott Piercy 536 3 41. Derek Ernst 528 1 1 42. Henrik Stenson 523 3 43. Ryan Palmer 513 3 44. Scott Brown 504 1 1 45. Marc Leishman 504 4 46. Charley Hoffman 503 4 47. Rickie Fowler 499 3 48. Luke Guthrie 497 2 49. Luke Donald 494 2 50. Robert Garrigus 490 2

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Last Week Finish Chg DNP DNP DNP DNP T33 DNP T12 2 +12 DNP -1 T17 +2 DNP -2 DNP -2 DNP -2 T27 +1 DNP -2 T27 DNP -3 1 +77 DNP -2 DNP -2 CUT -2 DNP -1 DNP -1 DNP -1 DNP -1 DNP -1 DNP -1 CUT -1 DNP -1 3 +28 DNP -2 T17 +6 DNP -3 T12 +9 DNP -4 DNP -4 DNP -4 DNP -4 DNP -4 T5 +10 DNP -5 DNP -5 T33 +2 DNP -5 T12 +4 T8 +6 DNP -7 DNP -7 DNP -7 CUT -6

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX—Optioned RHP Jose De La Torre to Pawtucket (IL). Reinstated RHP Andrew Bailey from the 15-day DL. DETROIT TIGERS—Optioned RHP Evan Reed to Toledo (IL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Sent RHP Kevin Jepsen to Inland Empire (Cal) for a rehab assignment.

MINNESOTA TWINS—Optioned LHP Pedro Hernandez to Rochester (IL). Recalled LHP Caleb Thielbar from Rochester.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Assigned RHP Chris Resop outright to Sacramento (PCL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS—Optioned LHP Jeff Beliveau to Durham (IL). Recalled RHP Jake Odorizzi from Durham (IL).

TEXAS RANGERS—Designated RHP Derek Lowe for assignment. Recalled RHP Josh Lindblom from Round Rock (PCL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Optioned RHP Mickey Storey to Buffalo (IL). Recalled OF Anthony Gose from Buffalo. Sent RHP Josh Johnson to Dunedin (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Reinstated LHP Ted Lilly from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Matt Magill to Albuquerque (PCL).

NEW YORK METS—Agreed to terms with RHP David Aardsma on a minor league contract and assigned him to Las Vegas (PCL).

American Association AMARILLO SOX—Signed INF Jermel Womack.

GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS—Released RHP Takahiro Matsuka.

ST. PAUL SAINTS—Released RHP Danny Gutierrez.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES—Signed RHP Wes Alsup.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS—Signed WR Robert Woods.

CHICAGO BEARS—Terminated the contract of DT Andre Fluellen.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Signed DB Jeremy Harris.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Signed WR Mark Harrison and K David Ruffer.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS—Named Doug Tatum executive director of digital media for the Saints and New Orleans Pelicans (NBA).

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES—Signed TE Will Shaw.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS—Signed LB Vince Williams to a four-year contract.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Signed TE Darren Fells and RB Christine Michael to multiyear contracts. Released LS Adam Steiner.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES—Re-signed F John Scott to a one-year contract.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS—Signed F Mark Van Guilder to a two-year, two-way contract.

American Hockey League AHL—Suspended Providence RW Graham Mink two games.

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Hunting Hills Lightning quarterback Scott Pearson tossed a 12-yard scoring pass to Brandon Thera-Plamondon of St. Albert in a losing cause as the North fell 31-19 to the South in the Alberta high school football Senior Bowl Saturday

at Calgary’s McMahon Stadium.

The series now stands at 1211-1 for the South with next year’s 25th Anniversary game scheduled for Edmonton.

The South downed the North 19-8 in the Bantam Bowl.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, May 21, 2013 B3

Winterhawks rebound with win over Knights MEMORIAL CUP

Winterhawks 6 Knights 3 SASKATOON — Derrick Pouliot and Chase De Leo scored 23 seconds apart in the third period Monday as the Portland Winterhawks defeated the London Knights 6-3 at the MasterCard Memorial Cup. Ty Rattie had two goals and an assist for Portland (1-1), Taylor Leier had a goal and two assists, while Oliver Bjorkstrand chipped in with a goal and an assist.

Mac Carruth made 25 saves after allowing all seven goals in Saturday’s 7-4 loss to the Halifax Mooseheads as the Western Hockey League champions picked up their first win at the tournament. De Leo also had an assist.

The result means that all four teams at the tournament sit at 1-1 and guarantees a tiebreaker game on Thursday.

Bo Horvat and Alex Broadhurst replied with a goal and an assist each for London, while Scott Harrington also scored. Anthony Stolarz allowed five goals on 26 shots before being replaced

by Jake Patterson. The Knights backup finished with five saves.

Portland defenceman Seth Jones, the No. 1 ranked North American skater according to NHL Central Scouting ahead of next month’s draft, had a relatively quiet night for the Winterhawks, but still finished with a plus-4 rating.

After London tied the game 3-3 early in the third period, Pouliot, a firstround pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2012, ripped a shot off Stolarz’s shoulder and in on a Portland power play at 6:20. De Leo ended the London netminder’s night at 6:43 by sliding a shot home from the slot.

The Knights had a couple of chances to get closer as the period wore on but Carruth shut the door.

Down 3-2 after two periods, the

Knights tied it early in the third when London forward Brett Welychka’s attempted deflection in front of Carruth fell to Broadhurst at the side of the Portland goal for an easy tap in.

The Winterhawks netminder kept the score tied with a stop of Josh Anderson on a partial breakaway a couple minutes later before Pouliot and De Leo struck in quick succession and Rattie scored into an empty net.

With Portland leading 1-0 after a sleepy first period, the floodgates opened in the second. Bjorkstrand doubled the Winterhawks’ lead 2:17 into the second after wheeling out from behind the London net and snapping a shot shortside on Stolarz.

Rattie then stretched the advantage to three with a goal that was a carbon copy of his effort against Halifax on Saturday night. The St. Louis Blues draft pick moved into the London zone and toe dragged the puck around a Knights defender before slipping a backhand past Stolarz at 10:23 while falling to the ice.

Needing a spark, the Ontario Hockey League champions responded just 15 seconds later as Harrington moved into the high slot and wired a shot into the top corner past Carruth.

Horvat scored the game’s second highlight-reel goal at 12:30 on the power play. The 15th-ranked North American skater ahead of the draft took a slick between-the-legs pass from Max Domi right in front of Carruth before burying a shot past the Portland goalie.

Horvat nearly tied the score with four minutes left in the period but his shot rang off the post.

Carruth then stoned both Domi and Horvat on back-to-back rushes on another London power play to keep the Winterhawks up by one heading to the third.

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WINGS: Adversity Howard stopped 39 shots.

Chicago has lost consecutive games for the first time in nearly two months.

The Blackhawks began the lockoutdelayed season by setting an NHL record with at least a point in their first 24 games, ended it with a league-high 77 points and avoided having a threegame losing streak.

“The team is facing a little adversity and I am on a personal basis,” Toews said. “Not going to let that stop us or me.”

After a scoreless first period in a hot and steamy Joe Louis Arena, Detroit took a 2-0 lead with a pretty goal and a gritty one.

Nyquist patiently carried the puck from right to left and waited for defenceman Brent Seabrook and Crawford to sprawl out to make a shot before shooting the puck into the open net.

“He’s real good at hanging onto the puck,” Babcock said.

Miller crashed the net to stuff the puck into the net after Patrick Eaves got to his own rebound to keep pressure on Crawford. Blackhawks defenceman Michal Rozsival started the sequence with a turnover in the Chicago end.

It was a sixth straight goal for the Red Wings, who lost the series opener 4-1 and gave up the first goal of Game 2 before going on to even the series with a 4-1 victory.

“They’re a real good team and they’re going to carry the play at times,” Babcock said. “We’re a good team and we’re going to carry the play at times.”

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Airdrie’s Joelle MacDonald crosses the finish line as the top overall woman at the Woody’s Marathon, Sunday.

Kristan Spady of Red Deer was the top woman, and sixth overall at 1:28:15.90 while Naomi Schmold of Edmonton was 19th at 1:33:17.00 and Cara Barry of Airdrie 20th at 1:33:24.25.

Devin Woodland of Three Hills, who was the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference cross-country champion for RDC, won the 10-kilometre race in 36:49.30 with Dusty Spiller of Red Deer second at 36:58.35. Former RDC star Jodi Sanguin of Red Deer was first among the women and third overall at 39:30.10 and Jordanna Cota of Hunting Hills High School fourth at 41:57.10. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

JAYS: Offence Dickey had been slated to pitch Sunday at Yankee Stadium but the game was rained out.

The underperforming Jays (18-26) entered the game having lost their last two while the resurgent Rays (2321), sweeping Baltimore to open a sixgame AL East road trip, had won three straight and nine of their last 11.

Toronto is now 9-17 against AL East opponents.

A crowd of 29,885 took in the start of a nine-game homestand that also includes visits by Baltimore and Atlanta.

Edwin Encarnacion provided the key offence, doubling home three runs in the seventh inning.

Lueke (0-1) has only himself to blame after walking Emilio Bonifacio, Munenori Kawaski and Jose Bautista with the game knotted at 3-3. Encarnacion, who has reached base safely in 22 of his last 25 games, then slammed a swerving ball into left field to clear the bases.

Kawasaki added a run in the eighth inning, driving in Henry Blanco with a triple.

Former Jay Yunel Escobar hit a two-run homer on a 3-2 pitch with two out in the ninth off a rusty Casey Janssen to narrow the lead to 7-5.

The Rays got the tying run on base with a single and walk before Janssen finally put out the fire by striking out Ben Zobrist.

Escobar was booed at every visit to the plate for the Rays. The shortstop, who was traded away from Toronto in November after writing a homophobic slur on his eye black, grounded out to third base three times before his home run.

He celebrated as he crossed home plate, making a safe sign. Janssen said he did not see the gesture.

“I don’t think he was doing anything directed to me,” said Janssen. “We were teammates. I had nothing wrong with him.”

Said Rays manager Joe Maddon: “I’m sure that was an emotional moment for him. The booing probably promoted the reaction that he had. I’m going to talk to him about that (Tuesday). I’m certain you’re not going to see that again.”

Janssen, who had not pitched for eight days, gave up three hits and a walk in his one inning. He said he and the team are trying to strike a balance between resting a sore shoulder and getting the work in needed to stay sharp.

“I probably didn’t feel the best I’ve ever felt today but I think in the long run it’s going to help my arm out to get those extra days (off) and feel fresh for the future,” said the Jays closer.

“He got the job done, that’s the bottom line,” said manager John Gibbons.

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London Knights goaltender Anthony Stolarz stops a shot from Portland Winterhawks centre Taylor Peters during Memorial Cup action in Saskatoon, Sask. on Monday.

The crowd of 7,575 at the Credit Union Centre seemed half asleep in the early going and the two teams didn’t do much to help wake them out of their slumber.

Coming off the high of the host Saskatoon Blades’ exciting 5-2 victory over Halifax on Sunday night, the half-empty arena finally came to life at 16:53 of the first period when Leier deflected a shot off the sideboards from Taylor Wotherspoon past Stolarz for the only action of note in a drab opening 20

minutes.

Notes: The Knights are back in action Tuesday against the Halifax Mooseheads (1-1) in the final roundrobin game for both teams. Portland wraps up its schedule on Wednesday against the Saskatoon (1-1). ... The Winterhawks won the Memorial Cup in 1983 and 1998, while the Knights were victorious as tournament hosts in 2005. London lost last year’s final 2-1 in overtime to the host Shawinigan Cataractes.

Brooks wins first RBC Cup

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Bandits 3 Western Capitals 1 SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — Anthony Petruzzelli and Dakota Mason scored in the first period and the Brooks Bandits never looked back in a 3-1 victory over the Summerside Western Capitals on Sunday to win the RBC Cup, Canada’s junior A hockey championship.

Cam Maclise added an empty-net goal with 30 seconds left to play for Brooks, while Michael Fredrick made 17 saves for the win.

This was the Bandits first RBC Cup tournament.

Christopher Caissy replied for the host Western Capitals and Kevin Bailie stopped 33 shots.

Summerside lost the national final on home ice for the second time in three tries.

It fell to Thunder Bay in the 1989 championship game before beating South Surrey in 1997 for its only national crown.

Brooks jumped on the Western Capitals right out of the gate, taking a 2-0

lead before the first period reached its midway point.

First it was Petruzzelli, tapping a centring feed from Maclise into an open net to start the scoring at 7:17 before Mason found the five-hole on Bailie just 80 seconds later to double the lead.

The Western Capitals got one back at 10:20 when Caissy squeezed one past Fredrick, but that would be it for offence from the host team.

The Bandits allowed Summerside just 18 shots on goal, 10 in the final 40 minutes and none in the first 12 minutes of the third period, when Brooks held on to a tenuous one-goal lead.

Maclise capped the scoring and clinched the win with just 29.6 seconds left, scoring into an empty net.

It was fitting it was Maclise who scored the final goal — the Bandits’ captain led the way from start to finish for Brooks, becoming the first player to win national player of the year honours and the national championship in the same season since Greg Johnson in 1989.

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Bantam Braves have a ‘solid group’ CAM MACLISE

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Lacombe native Cam Maclise capped a fabulous season by leading the Brooks Bandits to the Royal Bank Cup championship on Sunday. Maclise, the AJHL most valuable player, MVP of the Royal Bank Cup tournament and the top player in the Canadian Junior Hockey League this season, scored an empty-net marker as the Bandits downed the host Summerside West Capitals of P.E.I., 3-1 in the national junior A championship game Sunday. Maclise is a graduate of the Red Deer Optimist midget AAA Rebels.

THIS WEEK Wednesday

● Track and field: Senior high area meet, Lindsay Thurber, 10 a.m. start. ● Senior high girls rugby: Olds at Lacombe, 4:15 p.m.; Lindsay Thurber at Hunting Hills, Rocky Mountain House at Notre Dame, 4:15 p.m., Titans Park. ● Senior high boys rugby: Hunting Hills at David Thompson, Lindsay Thurber at Notre Dame, 4:15 p.m. ● Men’s ball hockey: Boston Pizza vs. Cruisin’ Auto, 9:30 p.m., Dawe.

Thursday

● Senior high girls soccer: Sylvan Lake at Central Alberta Christian, 4:15 p.m., Michener Park. ● Senior high boys soccer: Central Alberta Christian at Lacombe, Olds at Sylvan Lake, 4:15 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: North Star Sports vs. The Hideout, doubleheader starting at 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1; Lacombe Stone and Granite at Gary Moe Volkswagen, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2. ● Women’s fastball: N. Jensen’s Bandits vs. Snell and Oslund Badgers, Shooters vs.

Central Alberta Threat, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; Midget Rage at Stettler Heat, 7 p.m. ● Men’s ball hockey: Boston Pizza vs. Sharks, 7 p.m., Trican CMT vs.

Long Ball, 8:15 p.m., ATB Bears vs. Ferus Gas Industries, 9:30 p.m., all games Dawe; Tommy Gun’s vs. Brewhouse, 7 p.m., Details Devils vs. Braves, 8:15 p.m., JMAA Architecture vs.

Mariners, 9:30 p.m., all games at Kinsmen B.

Friday

● Senior high girls soccer: Lacombe at Lindsay Thurber, Alix at Notre Dame (at Collicutt West), 4:15 p.m. ● Senior high boys soccer: Lindsay Thurber at Notre Dame (at Collicutt West), Alix at Innisfail, 4:15 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Irricana at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Senior men’s lacrosse: Calgary Irish at Blackfalds, 8 p.m. ● Jr. B tier 2 lacrosse: Lacoka at Innisfail, 8 p.m.

Photo by GREG MEACHEM/Advocate staff

Red Deer Bantam AAA Brave Brad Pope steps on first base just late and is called out during a game against the Fort McMurray Oil Giant at Great Chief Park on Saturday.

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF With only two returnees on the roster it would have been easy for Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves head coach Dwayne Lalor to be worried about the bantam AAA baseball season.

But that was anything but the case.

“We have the two kids from AAA, but two years ago most of these kids played together in peewee and finished second in the province and went to the Western Canadians where we won a game, so I knew we had a solid group,” he said. “The only thing I didn’t know was if we’d have a shut down pitcher or how our overall hitting would be until some of the kids got used to the different level. But so far so good. We’ve played

well and had some great hitting performances.

“We haven’t had a lot of strikeouts . . . we’re getting the barrel of the bat on the ball, which forces the opposition to make the plays. You do that and you’ll have success.”

The Braves showed some of their ability during the weekend at Great Chief Park, winning two of three starts against the Fort McMurray Oil Giants, winning 10-5 on Saturday and 10-2 on Sunday. They lost 7-5 in the second game Saturday.

The games were the start of the second round of the regular season.

“The first is a development round where you modify some of the baseball rules, while the second is strictly baseball rules, so you have to be smarter with your sub-

stitutions and moving people around,” explained Lalor, who is also the president of the Red Deer Minor Baseball Association.

Besides hitting the ball well the Braves have solid pitching and their defence has been good.

“It’s the bantam level and defence can be scary at times, but it can also be spectacular,” said Lalor, who grew up playing the game under some of the best coaching in the city and learned the fundamentals of the game as a youngster.

“We work on our fundamentals all the time and the kids learn to play different positions, which makes it exciting for them.

Being fundamentally solid also helps the pitchers so they don’t have to be strike out machines. They learn the skills and are consistent which only helps us as we develop and it will show up as the year rolls along.”

Lalor knows the majority of the team and the fact the players know him will only help.

“Instead of a new voice telling them what to do, they know me which makes it easier. Plus I know them and what they can do. Also the kids like each other which also makes it easier on everyone.”

Infielder Kelsey Lalor and Ethan Ropcean, who plays centre field, short stop and pitches, are the only two remaining members of last year’s team.

Hayley Lalor, Austin Hammond and Zach Olson played peewee AAA last year while Andrew MacCuaig played peewee AA in Lacombe. Left-hander Kobe Scott moved in from Wainwright while Austin Kelts-Larsen, Brad Pope, Parker Booth, left-hander Griffin Moline, Jordan Muirhead and Carter O’Donnell played bantam AA. Practically the entire roster can pitch with Muirhead, Moline, Ropcean, MacCuaig, Scott and O’Donnell seeing a lot of duty on the mound.

Del Booth and Shayne Olson are also coaches.

Moline started in the opener against the Giants Saturday and went four innings, allowing two runs on five hits, a walk and four strikeouts. Ropcean went the final three innings, allowing three runs on four hits and two walks.

Muirhead had a pair of singles, two stolen bases and scored three times while Scott had two singles and two RBIs, Hammond an RBI on two singles and Olson a single, double and two stolen bases. Olson also threw out a pair of runners.

The second game Saturday saw Pope start on the mound and allow three runs on two hits, four walks and fanned five over three innings. MacCuaig went three innings, allowing four runs on two hits, four walks and four strikeouts.

Olson had another strong game behind the plate throwing out three runners. He also had two hits, two stolen bases and an RBI. Kelsey Lalor added a triple.

On Sunday, Scott started on the hill and allowed two runs over three innings on four hits, three walks and a pair of hit batters.

Hammond tossed the final three innings of two-hit ball while walking one and fanning four.

Hammond had two singles, two RBIs, two stolen bases and scored twice. Kelts-Larsen had a pair of hits and drove in two runs while Olson had a run-scoring triple, a walk and scored three times. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Red Deer finishes first in Pee wee B division at home lacrosse tournament TRADITION LIVES The Kneehill Bulldogs, based out of Three Hills, were 4-0 while winning the midget B title in the Tradition Lives lacrosse tournament during the weekend at four Red Deer sites.

The Bulldogs opened with a 7-4 win over the Innisfail Phantoms, ripped the Okotoks Raiders 13-3, blanked the Lacoka Locos 7-0 and closed out with a 6-1 win over the Rockyview Rage.

The Fort Saskatchewan Rebels, Rockyview, Medicine Hat and the Edmonton Warriors each finished with a 3-1 record. Innisfail was 2-2, as were the Red Deer Chiefs 1 and 2, while Lacoka was 1-3 in the 12-team division. ● The Calgary Axemen were a flawless 4-0 while gaining the championship of the bantam A division, posting 12-1, 10-2, 14-6 and 6-1 victories over St. Albert, Sherwood Park, SALA and the Edmonton Wizards. Red Deer finished third in the eight-team division with a 2-1-1 record, defeating Okotoks 11-5 and St. Albert 8-1, falling 8-0 to the Edmonton Wizards and battling Sherwood Park to a 3-3 tie. ● The Calgary Hornets took top honours in the bantam B category with a 4-0 slate that included 7-4, 3-2, 6-4 and 4-3 victories over the Red Deer Chiefs 2, Kneehill Bulldogs, Leduc Crush and Sherwood Park.

The Innisfail Phantoms and Sherwood Park were second with 3-2 records, while the Chiefs 3 and 1 were both 2-1-1, Kneehill was 1-3, Sylvan Lake was 0-2-1 and Red Deer 2 was 0-4. ● The Red Deer Chiefs 4 rolled up a 4-0 slate to finish first in the peewee B category, while five teams — the Edmonton Warriors, Red Deer Chiefs 1, 2 and 3, and the Sylvan Lake Buccaneers — finished at 3-1. Kneehill and Innisfail were both 0-4.

The Chiefs 4 won the championship with 8-6, 11-2, 9-3 and 4-3 wins over the Leduc Crush, Kneehill Bulldogs, Edmonton Thrashers and Edmonton Warriors. ● The Calgary Axemen 1 were named champions of the novice division with a 3-1 record despite the fact the Red Deer Chiefs 1 were 4-0 in another pool. The Axemen were given the nod due to a better goals-for-and-against record. The Sylvan Lake Buccaneers were 3-1, as were the Red Deer Chiefs 2, while the Chiefs 3 were 2-1-1 and the Innisfail Phantoms were 0-4-0.

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A Red Deer Midget B1 Chief blocks out an Innisfail Phantom so his teammate can run down the surface with the ball during the Tradition Lives lacrosse tournament throughout the weekend in Red Deer. The Chiefs lost the game to the Phantoms 6-3.

AAA PEEWEE BASEBALL ST. ALBERT — The Red Deer Dairy Queen Braves won one of three starts in the St. Albert peewee AAA baseball tournament during the weekend.

The Braves lost 13-9 to the Lethbridge Bulls on Saturday and 9-8 to the Sherwood Park A’s on Monday while beating the Edmonton Cardinals 15-14 on Sunday.

Hunter Leslie had an inside the park home run and a triple, on which he scored on an error, while driving in four runs against Lethbridge. Ben LeBlanc was two-for-two with a walk and Reid Howell, one-for-one with a walk.

On Sunday, the Braves scored five times in the first inning and seven in the second to grab a 12-1 lead against Edmonton.

Cooper Jones started on the mound and allowed six runs over 5 1/3 innings.

Aidan Schafer got out of the sixth, allowing one run.

The Cardinals got to a pair of Red Deer pitchers for seven runs in the seventh before Brett Porter got a pop up and a ground out to end the threat.

On Monday, the Braves were their own worst enemies as they ran into error problems and gave up five runs in the second inning and three in the fourth. Adam Junck went 4 1/3 innings and was the hard-luck loser. Howell tossed 1 2/3 innings of scoreless ball to end the game.

Junck was two-for-three at the plate with three RBIs.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, May 21, 2013 B5

Support key in youth development Is it back to the driving range or to miliar with the etiquette of the game of the playground? golf; they are taught specific swing and For most children, this ques- short game skills and finally are introtion would never come up. The play duced to the golf course. From here, ground, of course. We are free and our the juniors will be introduced to a club loud voices, joyful screams golf tournament in which and larger than life smiles they may have or have not back up our true inner feelexperienced success in, but ings. Playing is fun. Life is being in the competition fun. Not a care in the world. did something to them. It This is what being a child is created or released a drive about. and desire to not only comThis is true, but not for pete, but to win. all kids. In some, there is an When they arrive home innate instinct to compete. I you cannot contain their am not sure if the instinct to excitement. It seems that compete precedes the drive from this point on your juto play better, but it appears nior golfers are hooked on that some simply want to exthe game of golf and the SCOTT cel. This, of course, not only competitive nature of the BERGDAHL happens on the golf course game. The fire inside them but in all other activities.

INSTRUCTION is burning and it needs to Children and therefore be fed. What do you do from adults — some, not all — here? want to become better than the rest.

You support their drive and desire This competitive drive should not to compete. At this stage, your sons or be overlooked. In many cases there daughters are learning to play. They is a natural progression to becoming go out to the golf course, hit a few balls competitive at golf. Young juniors are and play a round of golf. They may be introduced to the game of golf by their introduced to a few ball-striking games parents, their friends, at school or by and short-game competitions that they watching it on television. From here, play with their friends to kill time unthey hit their first balls on a driving til they are picked up. The next stage range and show a general interest in of their competitive development is the game. the ‘train to play stage’.

As parents, we recognize their pleaThe Canadian Professional Golfers sure with this activity and support Association, in partnership with the them by taking them to the range to Royal Canadian Golfers’ Association, hit balls and by going golfing. Our chil- developed the Long Term Player Dedren keep bugging us to take them to velopment Guide. This guide assists the course, so to stop this incessant golf professionals in developing the nagging you enrol them in a junior pro- content and activities that make up jugram at your local golf course. nior golf programs. As a matter of fact, From here, your son or daughter this guide becomes our template to becomes introduced to many different player development from age six into aspects of the game. They become fa- adulthood.

Supporting our children at this point is just another step in the long road to excelling at the game of golf.

Understanding your role as a parent becomes just as important as your child’s desire to learn and play at an advanced level. So the question then becomes, what happens from here?

What do you need to do to support your child in their desire to play competitive golf?

There are a number of things that you as a parent must investigate and or consider when supporting your children on this path. The first and most importantly is simply to support them no matter what their requests are. Remember that the game of golf is simply that — a game. Pressuring your children to excel generally becomes counter productive and in many cases will turn them off of the game. Therefore, when it comes to playing the game and their practice habits, there is no wrong answer for your children.

If they are excited to get to the course and want to play and practice, then your answer to them is “I will be happy to drive you there.” If they do not feel like going to the course on a particular day or for days on end, then you support their wishes by not pressuring them. Either way, their answer is correct. For those interested in improving their skills and competing at a higher level, their motivation level will generally be high. If they become disinterested then there is generally a reason and quite often this reason is that they are burning out or simply tired of the activity and need another form of stimulation.

Educating yourself on the steps involved in developing your child’s skills is one of the most helpful things you can do as a parent. Doing so will assist

your young golfer in developing his/her game to a higher level. There are many steps along the way that they will need to achieve in order to reach their final destination. This destination may not be fully understood or known at the time, but developing all the skills they will need to compete at the highest level will be critical later in their development. Understanding what those skills are is crucial in assisting your children to excelling in their various stages of development.

When your children show signs of wanting more in the game of golf and become interested in developing their game to a higher level, one of the first steps that need’s to be done is to find an instructor with the same passion as they have. Your local CPGA professional will have all the tools necessary to assist in the development of your children to whatever stage of development they are interested in. Having said that, be sure you screen all potential candidates as it is extremely important that your children feel comfortable and can communicate comfortably with their instructor.

The bottom line is that supporting your children in their desire to learn more is critical in any sport or activity they show interest in. If they want more, then find a way to give them more. In golf, there is so much more information and it translates to skill development for those that want to play the game at a higher level. Next week, I will write on the next stages of development which include ‘learning to compete’, ‘learning to excel’ and finally ‘playing the game’ stage, which is a crucial stage as that is what we all do — we play the game.

Scott Bergdahl is the head professional at Lakewood Golf Resort

Bae gets first PGA victory at Byron Nelson Players wore red ribbons during the final round in memory of Ken Venturi, the 1964 U.S. Open champion and longtime CBS golf analyst who died Friday.

With winds gusting at times to about 40 mph and dried-out greens, the scoring average was 71.8 on Sunday.

That was two strokes higher than Thursday’s first round, which was played after 1 ½ inches of rain.

Players were able to lift, clean and place their balls the first two days.

Bae won $1.2 million, nearly matching his PGA Tour career earnings of $1.6 million in his 42 previous starts. He tied for second last year in the Transitions Championship after getting into a four-man playoff. He is the fourth South Korean-born player to win on the PGA Tour, joining K.J. Choi, Y.E. Yang and Kevin Na. At No. 14, Bradley drove into the left rough between some trees and missed the green before chipping to 5 feet to save par. On the par 3 just before that, his tee shot settled behind the green, but he hit from there to 8 feet and made that putt as well.

Bradley scrambled for pars on the first two holes, and gave up the lead at the 502-yard third hole when his drive went left into the water. He bogeyed and Bae rolled in a 27-foot birdie putt.

Bae was 16 under and four strokes ahead after birdies on Nos. 5-7.

After the differing results on the short putts at No. 16, Bae watched anxiously after hitting his tee shot at the par-3 17th. When the ball landed on the front edge of the green fronted by water, he bent his knees and leaned backward in obvious relief.

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BRITISH OPEN QUALIFYING

missed qualifying was young American star Jordan Spieth, who lives nearby and played the course dozens of times as a junior. He was on the verge of qualifying, but put two balls in the water on the par-3 17th hole, taking a 7 and sinking his chances for his

first Open Championship.

Former Masters champion Trevor Immelman missed with scores of 68-73-141 as did former Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III, 70-72-142, who put a streak of 26 straight Open Championship appearances in danger.

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PLANO, Texas — Americans Josh Teater, Scott Brown Johnson Wagner and Bud Cauley qualified for the British Open on Monday at the international final qualifying at Gleneagles Country Club Queens Course.

The 34-year-old Teater shot rounds of 64 and 69 to take medallist honours. He has never played in a major championship before taking one of eight spots available under very windy conditions at the par 70 course.

The British Open will be held July 18-21 at Muirfield Golf Club in East Lothian, Scotland.

Wagner shot 134, along with Columbia’s Camilo Villegas, who did not play in a single major last year.

Brown who won earlier this year in a PGA Tour event in Puerto Rico. He shot a 135. England’s Brian Davis also shot 135.

There was a four-man playoff for the final three spots between Americans Bud Cauley, Luke Guthrie, Columbia’s Andres Echavarria and Sweden’s Robert Karlsson, who all finished at 136.

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hit his tee shot over the green at the 171-yard 17th.

Charl Schwartzel, the 2011 Masters champ, shot a 68 to finish third at 10 under. Justin Bolli shot a bogey-free 65 for the best round of the day and matched his career-best finish of fourth. Morgan Hoffmann (66), Martin Kaymer (68) and Scott Piercy (72) were a stroke back at 272.

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Echavarria, seeking his first major championship, was eliminated with a bogey four on the first playoff hole while the others made par 3.

Among those who

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Sang-Moon Bae of South Korea kisses the trophy as he poses for photos on the 18th green after winning the Byron Nelson golf tournament Sunday, in Irving, Texas.

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IRVING, Texas — Sang-Moon Bae led by four strokes in the final round of the Byron Nelson Championship when his tee shot at the ninth hole went way left.

After getting to his ball, Bae hit a high-arcing shot over the trees in front of him, clearing the green and apparently going into the water — nobody seemed to know for sure where it went. He took a drop in deep grass after conferring with a rules official.

“I don’t know, where is it?” Bae was able to joke Sunday after his first PGA Tour victory.

Bae shot a closing 1-under 69, even after that double bogey and another bogey on the next hole while squandering all of his early lead. He finished at 13-under 267, two strokes ahead of Keegan Bradley.

The 26-year-old South Korean now has a win in the United States to go with his 11 international victories on the Korea, Japan and Asian tours. After a par at the 18th hole, Bae got a congratulatory hug from the widow of the tournament’s namesake.

“It’s something I’ve always dreamed of, winning on the PGA Tour,” Bae said. “It was surreal to have Mrs. (Peggy) Nelson there and with all the history. ...

I was in awe, actually, so almost I didn’t know how to react. ” Bradley was trying to become the Nelson’s first wire-to-wire winner since Tom Watson in 1980. Bradley set the TPC Four Seasons course record with an opening 60, a round in which he had two bogeys. He shot a 2-over 72 in Sunday’s windy conditions.

“I’m pretty disappointed, but Moon played very well,” Bradley said. “I just didn’t play great today, but I hung in there. I chipped away. ... When I made that putt on 15, I was pretty confident that I was going to win.”

Four birdies in a five-hole stretch on the front nine gave Bae a four-stroke advantage in the final group. Bradley made some nice par saves, but was hurt by a three-putt from 17 feet at the 305-yard 11th hole. He finally got even at No. 15 with his only birdie of the day. He made a 17-footer that had just enough to get into the cup, while Bae missed a par from inside 6 feet.

After Bae sank a 5-foot birdie at the par-5 16th, Bradley had a shorter putt on the same line, but it horseshoed around the hole and didn’t fall. He then

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Anderson’s rebound gives Sens a chance

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Craig Anderson has returned to form just in time to give the Ottawa Senators a chance against the top seed in the Eastern Conference.

Anderson was a pivotal part of Ottawa’s 2-1 double-overtime win over Pittsburgh on Sunday that cut the Penguins’ lead to 2-1 in the best-of-seven secondround playoff series.

He made 49 saves in Game 3, and his stunning performance was timely. It came after he was pulled less than two minutes into the second period of Game 2 after allowing three goals on 21 shots.

“You have to put things behind you as quick as possible and regardless of wins or loses you have to look forward to the next day and try and improve on your last performance,” Anderson said Monday as both teams had a day off from skating.

“I just kept things simple and focused on things I could control which was stopping the puck. It was exciting. We found a way to win. We did a lot of good things and we got rewarded.”

Anderson shut the door on a Sidney Crosby breakaway and made an acrobatic stop on Evgeni Malkin, who used every move in his repertoire to get around the Ottawa defence and get a shot off in the first overtime.

The only thing keeping the play from being a goalof-the year candidate was the fact the Anderson refused to allow the puck to cross the goal-line.

“That was a pretty impressive performance com-

ing off the first time he gets pulled all year, and one of the more clutch performances from a goaltender because of the stakes and the landscape of the series and how it would have changed had we gone down 3-0 in the series,” said Senators forward Jason Spezza, who made his playoff debut Sunday following back surgery that limited him to just five games at the start of the regular season.

“Andy looked like the way Andy has looked all year, and that’s confident and calm. He’s a guy that has a good edge to him and I think that suits our team well. He’s real competitive, he’s demanding of our team in front of him and I think we have a good dynamic.”

The Senators put the game away when Colin Greening scored in the eighth minute of double overtime. Game 4 is Wednesday before the series shifts back to Pittsburgh for Game 5 Friday.

Senators coach Paul MacLean says that he has enjoyed success scoring goals — he had 324 of them during his NHL career — but he has no experience venturing into the minds of goaltenders.

“I’m concerned with (the goaltender) all the time, but I try to spend no time with them at all,” MacLean said Monday.

“Rick Wamsley our goaltending coach does an outstanding job with the goaltender. I’ve had the ability in the past to score on goaltenders but I’m not really sure how they go about their business and I don’t pretend to.

“We do spend some time talking to them but not about how they play their position, but just about keeping their mind where it needs to be and if there are any issues we can solve.”

As for Spezza, he put in some overtime in his first

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Bosh looking for chance to compete in another meeting with Pacers NBA PLAYOFFS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI — This is the matchup Chris Bosh wanted in the Eastern Conference finals.

No, he might not necessarily enjoy going head-to-head with 7-foot-2 Roy Hibbert when the Miami Heat open this series against the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday night, especially since the Pacers’ biggest man is arguably enjoying the best post-season run of his career to date. And it’s not because he thinks Miami will waltz past the Pacers, either.

It’s simply because this is the series that got taken away from him last season.

Bosh got hurt after playing just 16 minutes of Game 1 of the Miami-Indiana second-round series in 2012, badly straining an abdominal muscle when he reached past Hibbert for a fierce dunk. He missed the remainder of the series, which the Heat eventually won in six games on their way toward the NBA title.

“To be able to have a chance to compete against these guys, I didn’t get the chance last time,” Bosh said.

“I felt last year that I could have really made an imprint on the series.

And it’s funny how things come back around. I’m going to get another shot.

So I’m just thankful to be healthy and be able to play and we’ll see what happens.”

The irony of the play where Bosh got hurt — and where Miami’s title hopes almost evaporated — was that it was a sensational move.

He caught a pass from LeBron James near the top of the key, took one hard dribble, drove past Hibbert, outstretched his left arm and slammed the ball home while getting fouled by the Pacers’ centre. The contact was minor. The result was a fluke.

Bosh felt intense pain around his abdomen, and remained on his hands and knees on the court for several seconds after the dunk.

James came over and tapped him on the backside. Mike Miller grabbed at Bosh’s arm, ready to pull him off the floor. After a few moments, Bosh slowly pulled himself to his feet, and even made the subsequent free throw for the Hibbert foul.

The pain didn’t subside, and moments later, he was gone — for the series.

Bosh returned during the East finals against the Boston Celtics, and the Heat said after that series that without him, they probably wouldn’t have even gotten a shot to face and ultimately beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals.

game since January 27, also against the Penguins.

“It was fun. It’s been a long road for my and the longest season personally having to watch the games,” he said. “It was pretty satisfying just to be in the lineup and to get a win in dramatic fashion makes it all worthwhile.

“I feel good. I feel like I played my first doubleovertime game in four months, but my back feels no worse for wear and in fact I’m encouraged that I can go through a game like that and feel good the next day. It’s not the type of game that I would have wanted to start with, but now that we’ve had it I think it benefits me.”

Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma thought it was the best road game his team played during these playoffs, but was very disappointed obviously with the way it ended, and especially the fact they had a lead and a power play with 1:27 seconds remaining in regulation.

Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson tied the game with a short-handed goal in the final minute of regulation before Greening finally put the game away.

“We didn’t accomplish our goal of holding onto the puck through that minute 27,” he said. “We gave up a second dump and that was the one they were able to come back on a line rush that Alfredsson scored on.

“We had some good opportunities, especially fiveon-three. I think the Malkin chance, and both Sid and Jarome (Iginla) had some good looks but Anderson was up to the task. He was real strong.”

Anderson will have to display much of the same if the Senators are going to be able to turn the best-ofseven into a best-of-three.

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“It’s big-time,” James said of having Bosh around for this series. “He’s an All-Star. Multiple All-Star. We didn’t have him last time we faced them. He’s the wild-card for us, the way he’s been rebounding this post-season and shooting the ball brings a whole new dynamic to our team.”

There may be other matchups that command more attention going into this series, like the one between James and Paul George, or maybe Dwyane Wade and Lance Stephenson, or even the X’s and O’s chess match that will ensue between Miami coach Erik Spoelstra and Indiana coach Frank Vogel.

But the Bosh vs. Hibbert battle might be the one that decides who represents the East in the NBA Finals.

When Hibbert scores at least 14 points, the Pacers are 11-2 in playoff games. When he doesn’t, they’re 4-11. And while Bosh might not be the bruiser inside who can overpower Hibbert — who’s three inches taller and 45 pounds bigger than the de facto Heat centre — there is a simple way that Miami might be able to slow down the Pacers’ centre.

That would be to do what the Heat like to do most with Bosh on offence, let him extend defences and exploit his jumper.

“He’s very disruptive back there,” Spoelstra said of Hibbert, who had 21 points, 12 rebounds and five blocked shots in Indiana’s second-roundclinching win over New York on Saturday. “He’s big, he’s intelligent, he changes shots, he sees so many pickand-rolls every night, he knows how to do it without fouling. He’s, no question, the anchor of their defence.”

Said Vogel: “Roy Hibbert is the best rim protector in the game.”

Hibbert is most effective defensively around the rim, so having Bosh set up on the perimeter — as he’s apt to do anyway — would serve two purposes. One, it would set him up for his preferred shot and would likely make Hibbert venture outside his comfort zone. Two, pulling Hibbert away from the rim could potentially free up some lanes for James and Wade to attack the basket.

“That’s worth a lot,” James said.

“When Chris pulls anyone out of the lane, his ability to shoot the ball is a huge bonus for our team. There’s not many (centres) that can stretch to the 3-point line. I don’t know one besides Chris that can stretch to the 3-point line every night. So it works wonders for our team.”

Bosh said he’s eager for the challenge.

“I’m just thankful to be out there,” Bosh said.

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DUBLIN, Ohio — Guan Tianlang, the 14-year-old Chinese amateur who made history at Augusta National, is bringing his game to Jack Nicklaus’ backyard.

Guan, who last month became the youngest player to make the cut in a major championship when he finished 58th at the Masters, has accepted an exemption to play at the Memorial Tournament next week.

“I am very excited to accept the invitation to play at the Memorial Tournament,” Tianlang said. “It is Jack Nicklaus’ event, and the same as all the golf fans out there I have very high respect to Mr. Nicklaus, not just as a golf legend, but also as a great person.

He has been actively involved in the development of golf in China, and junior golf development worldwide, and as a junior golfer myself I appreciate what he has done to help us grow.”

Guan also made the cut at the PGA Tour stop in New Orleans but missed weekend play at last week’s Byron Nelson. Nicklaus, founder and host of the Memorial, met with Guan’s parents at

the Masters and had hoped the young phenom might play at Muirfield Village May 30-June 2.

He is as astounded as any by the maturity the youngster has shown.

“He was 14 years old! I mean, c’mon,” Nicklaus said recently during a trip to his hometown of nearby Columbus. “A seventh-grader won the Asian Amateur, and now he’s an eighth-grader? C’mon, that’s pretty unbelievable.”

Nicklaus was very impressed with Guan and his parents.

“He came to me and wanted to know what I felt about his education and what he should do. I said, ’For the next few years, I’d let him finish up high school.’ Let’s start with that,” Nicklaus said with a laugh.

Nicklaus counselled the family to take it slowly, make sure he gets his schooling and is surrounded by peers.

“His parents are trying to figure out the best way to promote his life in golf,” he said. “I said, ’Let him make a few of the decisions.’ They’re very sharp people and he was very sharp for an eighth-grade kid to sit there and talk to us all down there. He’s pretty mature. But he’s still 14.”

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Relic caboose gets new home BEATLES MOVIE AT SNELL Spend a lazy Sunday afternoon watching George, Paul, John and Ringo have A Hard Day’s Night at the Red Deer Public Library.

The film will be shown at 2 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium at the library’s downtown branch. The first fulllength film starring the Beatles, the blackand-white comedy was made in 1964 at the height of Beatlemania.

Admission to the screening is free.

HUNTINGTON PRESENTATION A three-hour panel presentation and forum will offers a look at Huntington Disease.

From 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday at the Black Knight Inn, 2929 50th Ave. in Red Deer, four speakers will discuss the disease. Dr. Wayne Martin, Edmonton movement disorder clinic neurologist; Pam King, Edmonton movement disorder clinic clinical research nurse; Janis Bell, Red Deer outreach genetic nurse; and Stephanie Rees, a Calgary woman who’s family has been affected by Huntington Disease, will talk about the disease, genetics, latest studies, share their stories and talk about what services are available from resource centres. For more information, contact Sally Vincent, Northern Alberta Resource Centre director, at 780-434-3229, or Karl Lottes, Southern Alberta Resource director, at 403-5320609.

WOMEN’S HIGH TEA The Deer Park Alliance Church Women are hosting a women’s high tea to kick off June.

The friendship high tea features special music and summer entertaining ideas. It is a bring your own tea cup event as there will be prizes for the most unique tea cups. Tickets cost $7 and must be picked up before Sunday at the church office, at 2960 39th St. in Red Deer. The tea is scheduled for June 1 from 1 to 3 p.m. For more information, call 403-343-1511.

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A century-old relic of Canadian rail history was hoisted up and gently swung into place at its new resting place on a farm near Eckville on Saturday.

Once known simply as #78366, the caboose is now the prized possession of Ernie Beskowiney, who plans to turn it into the control booth for a scale rideable railroad he has envisioned for his land a few kilometres southeast of Eckville.

The caboose was donated to him by the Canadian Northern Society, which is dedicated to preserving Prairies railroad history and oversees railway stations sites at Big Valley, Meeting Creek and Camrose.

For years, it sat next to the Big Valley station. But time and the elements have taken their toll, and the caboose was donated to Beskowiney, who plans to undertake a full restoration and make it the centrepiece of his miniature railroad.

His caboose comes with a movie star pedigree. It was seen in the Clint Eastwood Oscar winner Unforgiven among a number of big screen appearances. Brad Pitt was also filmed in it.

“I’ve been looking for years for something,” Beskowiney said, shortly after his new acquisition was lowered onto its wheels on a short piece of track he had put in place to receive it just a stone’s throw from his home.

“One day I was told the caboose was mine.”

He wanted to make a donation to the society, but they wouldn’t take his money, he said.

The society was just happy that it went to someone with both the enthusiasm and the restoration know-how to restore the caboose to its former Canadian National Railway glory.

Beskowiney was trained as a journeyman and has been involved in a number of ventures,

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Ernie Beskowiney watches as his historic caboose is carefully lowered into place on its wheels at his farm near Eckville on Saturday. Simon Pollock, of Hammer Head Oilfield Services Inc. is guiding the caboose, which was transported from Big Valley and lifted onto its tracks by Sharpie’s Picker Service, of Red Deer. including owning his own business manufacturing precision downhole measuring instruments.

As a hobby, he became an expert automobile restorer taking top prizes at car shows, before turning his attention to creating scale steam engines fit for a seven-inch (38-cm) wide track.

He is currently building multiple versions of the 6060 series U1F Mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive that is operated by the Rocky Mountain Rail Society out of Stettler. It was one of the engines used on the popular train trips offered through Alberta Prairie Railway Excursions.

He has recently been working with the society on the fullsize 6060, which is need of some

repair work.

The caboose was built by Canadian Car and Foundry, a Montreal-based company formed in 1897.

It manufactured rail cars out of Montreal and Amherst, N.S. and Beskowiney’s was made sometime between 1910 and 1913.

In 1942, it was refitted as a caboose and served for several more decades. At one point, it wound up in a siding in Jasper as an exhibit before being moved to Big Valley.

Beskowiney estimates restoring the caboose will be a two- to three-year project. All of the original wood siding, which has rotted and the red paint has faded and peeled, needs to be replaced.

The interior remains in good shape, right down to its original potbelly stove.

Once restored, he hopes to build a shelter above it to protect it from the elements.

His long-term plan is to lay out 1,500 metres of track and to give the public rides on the miniature train similar to those found in amusement parks.

Two big fundraising events would be held each year to benefit Alberta’s two children’s hospitals.

Outside those events, the site will be open to the public on a drop-in basis and for educational purposes.

He expects to begin laying track this summer and hopes to have the railroad open in three years.

New market look praised

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Closing down the street in front of the public market got almost as good reviews as the weather.

Most of those interviewed under sunny skies on Saturday morning approved of the move to close 43rd Street and post a row of vendors along the route, although there were a few qualms voiced about losing so much parking.

Patti Resta, of Red Deer, is a regular market visitor and likes the road closure.

“I think it’s a wonderful thing,” said Resta. Often she visits the market with her grandchildren and not having to dodge traffic will be an improvement for families, and the many seniors who live in the area.

“I think it just makes easier access.”

Ingrid Hainzmann, owner of Lacombe’s Wolf’s Botanical Greenhouses and Nurseries, likes the extra open areas.

“Vendors are on side and you have all this free space,” said Hainzmann, who has been setting up shop at the market for 30 years. Hainzmann also said the market made the right move by returning the closing time to 12:30 p.m. A 2 p.m. finish was experimented with last year, but it didn’t add much business, she said.

Colleen Burwell, of Lacombe, also gave the new look market a thumbs up.

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Red Deer’s Patti Resta checks out the offerings from Wolf’s Botanical Greenhouses and Nurseries at Red Deer’s Public Market which opened for the season on Saturday.

It’s pretty good. It’s not as crowded then,” said Colleen, who was joined by her 20-year-old daughter Skyla. Crossing the street had always had its risks.

“It’s crazy. Drivers don’t always watch for little kids. They’re more interested in a parking spot.”

Diane Diewold, who is from Regina and was visiting her sister, at first questioned the loss of parking, but felt it was worth it to improve safety.

Dennis Moffat, who has been the genial face of the public market for 43 years, was in his usual good spirits on Saturday.

“We lucked out on the weather,” said Moffat. “And the new order, by having 43rd Street closed to traffic is going to benefit everybody. It’s worked out well.”

There were 190 stalls hawking their wares on Saturday and lineups were lengthy for some of the popular draws, like sausage on a bun and crepes.

Moffat’s son Patrick is the second generation to get involved in running the market. Red Deer’s success has led him to open a market next month in Edmonton outside the Century Plaza in that city’s south end. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Rimbey announces plebiscite on library

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Rimbey residents will get to vote on the future of their library.

Council recently decided to take to a plebiscite a controversial plan to expand the library and move town hall into the local provincial building.

The proposal to sell the town hall space left vacant for $1 to the library board became an unlikely hot topic around town.

It spawned a 437-name petition calling for a plebiscite in the October municipal election. After review, the petition was considered non-binding because it didn’t meet requirements that a clear question be asked.

However, council decided that it was time to put the question of whether the community supported the library plan to rest once and for all. A plebiscite will be held on June 3, with voting to take place at town hall from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

“We decided to do that because it had

‘WE DECIDED TO DO THAT BECAUSE IT HAD BECOME OBVIOUS THIS HAD BECOME A DIVISIVE ISSUE.’ MAYOR SHELDON IBBOTSON

become obvious this had become a divisive issue,” said Mayor Sheldon Ibbotson. “By going to a public vote it settles the question for and against.”

The town could have gone ahead without a vote.

“But you would have had people say we didn’t listen to public opinion and they wouldn’t support it and it would be an issue that would linger in the community for some time,” he said.

If the support is there, the town is pretty much ready to start renovation work once provincial approval for leasing their space is lined up.

A “no” vote will mean exploring other options — almost guaranteed to be more

expensive — to expand the library, which is in desperate need of more space.

Adding a floor or some other addition would likely be required. That would involve significant local fundraising and a search for matching grants and delay the project for years.

While the plebiscite is non-binding, Ibbotson said council will honour the decision of citizens.

The Rimbey Municipal Library Board supports the move and encouraged town council in an April 24 letter to put the expansion question to the public.

“We do not like to see the town become divisive over this issue nor do we like the negative impact it is having on the library,” says board chair Rowena Aitken. “We feel that unfortunately this is the only way to stop the negativity.”

The board also asked the town to call in an engineer to look at the viability of expanding the library’s existing building. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Skin picking gets status as distinct disorder

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Angela Hartlin is seen at home in Dartmouth, N.S. Hartlin has lived with skin picking disease, formally known as dermatillomania, since her early teens. they have a better sense of control,” she says, adding that one treatment tactic is introducing “competing responses” such as squeezing a stress ball or clenching one’s fists — activities incompatible with picking.

Besides dealing with the physical, there are also emotional issues to tackle — often a longstanding sense of worthlessness and self-disgust, adds Richter.

Those feelings can impair the ability to have relationships, especially with a romantic partner.

“Imagine how you feel about getting into an intimate relationship with a possible serious life partner when your skin looks like you have cigarette burns all over it or raw patches that would make it painful to be touched.”

Now that the DSM-5 officially recognizes skin picking disease, that should lend legitimacy to people struggling to

overcome the disorder and hopefully expanded treatment resources across the country, she says.

“Because I’ve had so many run-ins with doctors, and other people have as well, other sufferers, of doctors not understanding, of doctors chastising. I had a mental health nurse in my area a few years back, she told me that I needed to ’grow up.’

“Now you can just open up that (DSM-5) book and show this.”

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No. For most of us, it’s an isolated event.

Sarah Roberts, a PhD candidate who works with a University of Montreal team that researches obsessive disorders like skin picking, says many of those afflicted don’t use only their nails.

Implements like nail files and tweezers are also employed to gouge out imperfections in their skin, which can lead to infection.

“The criteria for almost any DSM disorder involves distress or impairment in functioning,” Roberts notes. “So we’re talking about someone who has to see the doctor because their skin is infected because they picked at it so much.”

Richter said the exact cause of dermatillomania isn’t known, but it occurs more in families with a history of OCD spectrum disorders, suggesting there is a complex genetic vulnerability to the disorder.

An estimated one to four per cent of the population may have the disorder, with women more often affected.

But prevalence studies are not definitive, and indeed research of any kind on the condition is relatively sparse.

Treatment primarily involves cognitive behavioural therapy, specifically habit reversal, says Richter, who has treated about 100 patients with skin picking and hair pulling over the last decade or so.

While only about half have recovered fully, overall about 80 to 90 per cent have seen improvement.

“They may still pick but it’s more limited,

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Angela Hartlin’s legs are covered with small bloodied sores that overlay myriad scars, ghostlike reminders of similar lesions that have dotted her skin for years.

For more than decade, she has been obsessively picking at the skin on her legs, chest and face — sometimes for many hours at a time — and she can’t find a way to stop.

Hartlin suffers from skin picking disease, a disorder classified for the first time as a distinct entity in the just revised psychiatric bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5.

Skin picking, or dermatillomania as it’s formally known, was long considered an offshoot of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). And that has made it difficult for those with the condition to get treatment, or even to have it recognized by many as anything more than a bad habit.

Hartlin, who lives in Halifax, says there are no medical specialists in her province who can provide treatment for skin picking disease, or even acknowledge it as a separate diagnosis on the spectrum of psychiatric disorders.

“I went through years, I just felt so embarrassed and had so much shame,” says Hartlin, 26, who began digging at her skin at about age 13.

“I thought I was the only one for years, and I think that is the worst part, that disorders such as this feed into that isolation and make it worse.”

Often she will pick at her skin — what she perceives as in-grown hairs on her legs, or bumps and blemishes on her chest and arms — without conscious awareness while watching TV or sitting at her computer.

Even sleep brings no respite: “I wake up with blood on my legs. I wake up sometimes and I have blood on my fingers from picking at my legs while I’m asleep.”

At other times, the picking is more deliberate, triggered by a trip to the bathroom, where she can get entrenched in an episode she feels powerless to stop.

“It takes up a lot of time. If I don’t go to bed at a certain time, by about midnight, then I get stuck in the bathroom for well over an hour,” she explains. “But when I was younger, like about 20, I used to get caught up in the bathroom for eight hours.

“And sometimes I didn’t realize how much time had passed. Sometimes I did but I was just ... I had to keep going to get that feeling.”

She has trouble explaining the feeling: it does seem to relieve anxiety and it has a component of self-gratification, a cathartic sense of accomplishment that she has successfully removed what she sees as defects on her skin.

“I’m in a zone where it’s just such a fixation that I can’t do anything else. I can’t think of anything else or focus on anything else. I have to do that.”

Toronto psychiatrist Dr. Peggy Richter says everyone picks at their skin to a certain degree, whether that’s popping a pimple, squeezing a blackhead or pulling off a scab.

“This is normal behaviour,” says Richter, director of the clinic for OCD and related disorders at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, who specializes in treating skin picking and trichotillomania, or compulsive hair pulling.

The World Health Organization has issued a blunt assessment of the coronavirus outbreak in Saudi Arabia, acknowledging for the first time that there are concerns the virus may be spreading from person to person, at least in a limited way.

The statement called for urgent investigations to find the source of the virus and learn how it is infecting people. And it reminded countries they have a duty to the international community to rapidly report cases and related information to the WHO. The worrying appraisal of the situation was echoed in a revised risk assessment issued Friday by the European Centre for Disease Control. It warned hospitals in Europe to be on the lookout for coronavirus cases coming in by air ambulance, saying the numbers of such patients may rise if the public in affected countries are afraid to seek care in their own hospitals.

The warnings come as health leaders from around the world are gathering in Geneva for the World Health Assembly, the annual general meeting of the WHO. The eight-day meeting begins Monday.

Though other nations have not publicly pressed leaders of coronavirus-affected countries for more transparency to date, it is likely that concerns about the virus and the opaque way investigations into it are being handled will be aired during the meeting.

“There is no formal agenda for novel coronavirus but I would be surprised if it didn’t come up,” WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said in an interview.

Saudi Arabia, after all, is the home of Mecca. The holy site draws roughly three million Muslims from around the world every year to the Hajj, a mass pilgrimage Muslims are meant to perform at least once in their lifetimes.

As well, nearly one million international tourists travel to Mecca during Ramadan — the Muslim month of fasting — to take part in another pilgrimage called Umrah.

Ramadan starts in the second week of July this year.

And the 2013 Hajj will take place in mid-October, only five months from now. Experts watching the coronavirus situation are already worried about the potential for spread of the new virus, both within Saudi Arabia and internationally.

“I don’t think anyone necessarily knows for certain what is or isn’t happening,” said Dr. Kamran Khan, an infectious diseases specialist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.

In his research, Khan tracks global travel patterns as a tool to predict and interpret spread of diseases.

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Oil, gas potential studied IN ALASKA ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, Alaska — The state of Alaska on Monday proposed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar plan aimed at determining the true oil and gas potential in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

State officials hope the plan will reinvigorate — and reshape — the debate over whether to drill on the refuge’s coastal plain.

The plan was announced at an event hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy in Washington, D.C., by Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell and Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan. Parnell appeared by remote.

Parnell, in a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, said he is prepared to ask the state Legislature for $50 million toward funding the seismic program if the federal government is in as a partner. He also sees the private sector playing a role as well.

“For 26 years, Americans have engaged in a debate about the wildlife and oil and gas resources on and underneath the 1002 Area.

Unfortunately, ANWR’s oil and gas resources have been estimated using archaic 2D seismic data,” he said in the letter, dated Saturday.

The 1002 area refers to the coastal plain.

“State of Alaska land managers have found that 3D seismic data is an indispensable tool to

managing our lands,” he said.

“We believe that it would be very valuable for your land managers to have this data to inform their planning efforts for the 1002 Area.”

Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Cathy Rezabeck did not say whether Interior is interested in the plan but said Congress must weigh in on any potential oil and gas activity on the roughly 1.5-million acre coastal plain.

The last seismic program took place in the early 1980s, and in 1987, the Interior secretary recommended development. Congress in 1995 passed legislation that would have allowed for drilling but that was vetoed by then-President Bill Clinton.

Efforts since then aimed at

opening ANWR for development — supported by state political leaders and members of Alaska’s congressional delegation — have gone nowhere.

U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, DAlaska, said opening the refuge for drilling “has been a top priority for me and most Alaskans because it is a critical part of a comprehensive national energy plan.”

Having modern, 3-D seismic information available would help inform the debate, he said in a release. U.S. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, said he hopes Jewell “takes this good faith effort” by the state into consideration as Interior updates its plan for refuge.

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Etrepreneurs pitch ideas to Warren Buffett Meeting Warren Buffett is exciting, but 10-yearold Matthew Meyer says winning $5,000 and 10 shares of stock in Buffett’s company made Monday the best day of his life. Matthew says winning the grand prize in a contest tied to “The Secret Millionaire’s Club” cartoon makes him “rich-ish.” The Cincinnati boy won the individual competition with a writing aid he designed. The cartoon, featuring an animated Buffett teaching financial lessons, airs on the Hub cable network and online at www.smckids.com.

Five individuals and three teams between the ages of 7 and 16 from Maryland, Maine, Texas, New Jersey, Ohio, Kentucky and Washington competed.

Entrepreneur gets death in banking crackdown A businesswoman in southern China has been sentenced to death in the government’s latest crackdown on underground lending that is widely used by entrepreneurs. The Intermediate People’s Court of Wenzhou, a centre for private sector business, says Lin Haiyan was convicted of “illegal fundraising” for collecting 640 million yuan ($101 million) from individual investors by promising high returns and low risk. Chinese entrepreneurs who often cannot get loans from the state-owned banking system rely on such informal lending.

Regulators have begun tightening controls after a surge of defaults prompted protests by lenders.

— The Associated Press

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Farmer Clark Kelly holds a golf ball he dug out of a fairway on the Hend-Co-Hills Golf Course, in Biggsville, Ill. Kelly purchased the course, which was in foreclosure, with plans to plow it into farm land. Across the Midwest, farmers are planting crops on almost any scrap of available land to take advantage of consistently high corn and soybean prices.

Tractors replacing golfers HIGH CROP PRICES ENTICE FARMERS TO PLANT ON OLD GOLF COURSES, WILDLIFE PRESERVES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BIGGSVILLE, Ill. — Clark Kelly plans to spend a lot of time on the links this spring. The Illinois farmer is plowing the Hend-CoHills Golf Course near tiny Biggsville into a cornfield.

He’s not the only one turning over soil in unlikely places. Across the Midwest, farmers are planting crops on almost any scrap of available land to take advantage of consistently high corn and soybean prices.

Growers are knocking down old barns, tearing out fencerows and digging up land that had once been preserved for wildlife. Some are even suspected of tearing into pioneer cemeteries.

Kelly moved quickly when he heard the golf course was for sale near the Mississippi River, about 80 miles west of Peoria.

With nearby land selling for $15,000 an acre, the 133-acre course with a clubhouse and campground was quite a find for $775,000.

“That’s why I wanted to get my paws on it so bad,” said Kelly, who estimates he can plant at least 80 acres on the property.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects farmers to plant 174.4 million acres of corn and soybeans this year, a record high.

More than 97 million acres will be devoted to corn — the most since 1936 — as demand keeps prices high.

Prices soared above $8 a bushel last summer and have hovered around $7 recently. For farmers with production costs around $5 a bushel, there’s still room for a good profit.

The growing world population, widespread use of corn for ethanol and other factors have produced significantly higher demand for the crop in the U.S. and elsewhere, said Dan Steinkruger, executive director of Nebraska’s Farm Service Agency.

Gordon Wassenaar, who grows corn and soybeans near Prairie City, Iowa, east of Des Moines, said he’s removed fences and trees to squeeze in more crops.

“In all honesty, it’s easier to get rid of the buildings and crop farm as it is to take care of the buildings and mow and do a lot of that stuff,” Wassenaar said.

It’s a similar situation for Bill Bayliss, who raises cattle and

sheep and grows corn, soybeans and wheat on about 2,000 acres near West Mansfield, Ohio.

“We tore out fencerows and tore down one old barn, and we farm right over it,” he said.

In Minnesota, state archaeologist Scott Anfinson is investigating whether farmers plowed up pioneer cemeteries.

He will soon inspect an area of Grant County in west-central Minnesota, where a farmer hired an excavator to bulldoze trees and headstones near a pioneer cemetery dating to the late 1800s.

Headstones were knocked down, and Anfinson will determine whether human remains or coffin parts have been turned up by a plow.

The farmer, who is in his 90s and farms with his son, could be charged with a felony if graves were disturbed. He will probably be required to replant trees and reset the headstones.

Anfinson said the family whose ancestors are buried in the plots is appalled.

“Families don’t forget about these things,” he said.

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WASHINGTON — A new government report details 87 shipwrecks — most sunk during World War II decades ago — that could pollute U.S. waters with tens of millions of gallons of oil.

Even so, the potential for pollution is less than scientists had expected.

The report released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concludes “the scope of the problem is much more manageable than initially feared.... Our coastlines are not littered with ’ticking time bombs.”’

Agency officials estimate that far less oil will leak into the ocean than the BP oil spill of 2010, which spewed roughly 200 million gallons into the Gulf of Mexico alone.

“That’s not a bad number in comparison to what we first thought it would be,” said NOAA’s Lisa Symons, who wrote the study.

There are 20,000 shipwrecked vessels that lie off the nation’s coastlines. Most of those either finished leaking long ago, ran on coal instead of oil, are too small or aren’t near vulnerable land.

“There are only six that really keep me up at night, but we don’t know where they all really are,” Symons said.

Those six have the biggest potential to foul coastal areas because even if they spill only 10 per cent of their oil, they could cause a local-scale disaster, she said.

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Women face unique financial challenges Canadian women undoubtedly are gain- to ensure they have the established plans ing more financial power and control than in place for more savings that take into acever, but in spite of this they still face a count a longer time spent in retirement,” unique set of financial challenges based said Caroline Dabu, vice-president and on life expectancy, earning head of BMO Wealth Planning power, marital status, health Group. “As well, health care care needs and estate plancosts are a key consideration for ning. women as they think about their Women today control 27 per retirement plans.” cent of the world’s wealth — The first challenge women about $20 trillion in assets and face is that they live on averone third of all the wealth in age about four years longer than North America — a figure that men. is increasing by about eight per This means women have to cent a year. fund a longer retirement and poWomen have some unique fitentially have higher health care nancial challenges that are not costs at the end of their lives always faced by men. than men, Dabu said during a TALBOT “On average, women live recent BMO panel on women and BOGGS longer than men and they have wealth. lower earnings over their lifeThe second challenge is that time, which means they need despite needing more money in

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retirement, women are not setting aside as much money for their retirement years as men.

Women contribute 30 per cent less to their retirement savings plans (RSPs) as men and 58 per cent of baby boom women who now are on the cusp of retirement have less than $10,000 set aside for their retirement years.

There are several reasons for this situation, Dabu says.

The first is that over their lifetime, women earn about 83 per cent of what men earn, resulting in less earnings and fewer pension benefits.

Many women still maintain the role of primary caregiver for children and parents, and therefore have intermittent work histories and work more part time and freelance.

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A Boeing 787 Dreamliner of the All Nippon Airways prepares to land after a test flight at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo. United Airlines is getting its 787s back in the air. The planes returned Monday after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines. A test flight from Houston to Chicago was uneventlful, Boeing reported on Monday.

Apple uses companies outside U.S. to avoid taxes THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found.

The world’s most valuable company is holding overseas some $102 billion of its $145 billion in cash, and an Irish subsidiary that earned $22 billion in 2011 paid only $10 million in taxes, according to the report issued Monday by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

The strategies Apple uses are legal, and many other multinational corporations use similar tax techniques to avoid paying U.S. income taxes on profits they reap overseas.

But Apple uses a unique twist, the report found. The company’s tactics raise questions about loopholes in the U.S. tax code, lawmakers say.

The spotlight on Apple’s tax strategy comes at a time of fevered debate in Washington over whether and how to raise revenues to help reduce the federal deficit.

Many Democrats complain that the government is missing out on collecting billions because companies are stashing profits abroad and avoiding taxes.

Republicans want to cut the corporate tax rate of 35 per cent and ease the tax burden on money that U.S. companies make abroad.

They say the move would encourage companies to invest at home.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, the company’s chief financial officer and its tax chief are scheduled to testify and explain the company’s tax strategy at a hearing by the subcommittee today.

Apple spokesmen didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Monday on the subcommittee report.

The company has made clear that given current U.S. tax rates, it has no intention of repatriating its overseas profits to the U.S. The subcommittee also has examined the tax strategies of Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and other multinational companies, finding that they too have avoided billions in U.S. taxes by shifting profits offshore and exploiting weak, ambiguous sections of the tax code.

Microsoft has used “aggressive” transactions to shift assets to subsidiaries in Puerto Rico, Ireland and Singapore, in part to avoid taxes.

HP has used complex offshore loan transactions worth billions while using the money to run its U.S. operations, according to the panel.

The subcommittee’s report estimates that Apple avoided at least $3.5 billion in U.S. federal taxes in 2011 and $9 billion in 2012 by using the strategy. The company, based in Cupertino, Calif., paid $2.5 billion in federal taxes in 2011 and $6 billion in 2012.

Apple uses five companies located in Ireland to carry out its tax strategy, according to the report.

The companies are located at the same address in Cork, Ireland, and they share members of their boards of directors.

While all five companies were incorporated in Ireland, only two of them also have tax residency in that country.

That means the other three aren’t legally required to pay taxes in Ireland because they aren’t managed or controlled in that country,

in Apple’s view.

The report says Apple capitalizes on a difference between U.S. and Irish rules regarding tax residency. In Ireland, a company must be managed and controlled in the country to be a tax resident. Under U.S. law, a company is a tax resident of the country in which it was established.

Therefore, the Apple companies aren’t tax residents of Ireland nor of the U.S., since they weren’t incorporated in the U.S., in Apple’s view.

The subcommittee said Apple’s strategy of not declaring tax residency in any country could be unique among corporations.

“Apple wasn’t satisfied with shifting its profits to a low-tax offshore tax haven,” Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the subcommittee’s chairman, said in a statement.

“Apple sought the Holy Grail of tax avoidance.

It has created offshore entities holding tens of billions of dollars, while claiming to be tax resident nowhere.”

Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the panel’s senior Republican, said that while Apple claims to be the biggest U.S. corporate taxpayer, it is also “among America’s largest tax avoiders.”

He said the company is “purposefully depriving the American people of revenue” by using a “byzantine” tax structure.

The subcommittee report also noted that Apple has been setting aside billions for tax bills it may never pay.

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by The Associated Press, the overlooked asset that Apple has been building up could boost Apple’s profits by as much as $10.5 billion.

This all adds up to less pension and fewer contributions to savings and less money to set aside for retirement.

Another factor is that women have to take more responsibility than men for their retirement.

“Four out of five businesses in Canada are started by women, which is great, but that means they have fewer corporate pensions and the responsibility of retirement lies squarely on their shoulders,” Dabu said.

The third unique financial challenge is that 90 per cent of women at some point in their lives will find themselves solely responsible for their finances, most often from the death of a spouse or from a separation or divorce. The average age of widowhood in Canada is 66 years old.

“We see a lot of women who have found themselves widowed at a young age with no idea how to manage finances and only 84 per cent of women actually have a plan if there’s a spousal death, divorce or separation,” Dabu said. “If you don’t out-live your spouse, the divorce rate is 40 per cent — 40 per cent of Canadian women will find themselves not making it to their 30th wedding anniversary, and we know from studies that upon divorce women often have a drop in income of up to 40 per cent.”

Although women increasingly are assuming the role of chief financial officer in their families, they have not been proactive when it comes to discussing and being involved in estate planning.

Dabu recounted a case in which a successful 60-year-old physician in declining health named his first wife — he was married to her in his 20s for only 10 months — as an irrevocable beneficiary to a $1-million death benefit. To change that would be difficult and would require the consent of the first wife with whom he hadn’t had any contact for decades.

“The moral of that story is that estate discussions are critical, because in many cases this type of situation often is not discovered until the death of spouse, not beforehand,” Dabu said.

“It really shows the importance of these estate planning discussions, particularly as they relate to women.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

ALASKA: Opposition Pamela A. Miller, Arctic program director for the Northern Alaska Environmental Center, called the state’s plan a “recycled bad idea” aimed at opening the refuge to drilling.

“There’s no point in exploring for a resource that cannot be developed today and should not be developed because of the values of this remarkable land for wildlife, people and human cultures,” she said.

Between the coastal plain, adjacent state lands and Alaska Native in-holdings, the U.S. Geological Survey has estimated the mean volume of recoverable oil of about 10.4 billion barrels, though that has a wide range of uncertainty. Natural Resources Commissioner Sullivan said officials could

get an “almost definitive” number that Congress then can debate under the state’s plan, which would span at least seven years.

Miller said the prior seismic program had a lasting impact on vegetation and permafrost.

FARMS: Land rented He’s investigating three other cases in which Minnesota farmers are suspected of “nibbling” at the edges of pioneer cemeteries.

Many farmers have pulled land out of the federal government’s Conservation Reserve Program, which pays farmers not to plant land that could easily erode or is ideal for grassland, wetlands and wildlife habitat. It’s become increasingly lucrative to farm or rent such land to another farmer rather than collect the government payments.

In Iowa, the average cash rent for corn or soybean fields is about $270 per acre, said Chad Hart, an Iowa State University agriculture economist. The average conservation payment in Iowa is $141 an acre.

Nationally, the number of acres enrolled in the program has slipped to about 27 million acres from a high of more than 36 million acres in 2007.

Losing that land worries conservationists, who see dwindling habitat as a threat to the already falling numbers of pheasants and other wildlife. It also raises environmental concerns about soil erosion and water quality, said Tom Fuller, Iowa co-ordinator for Pheasants Forever, a non-profit organization focusing on wildlife conservation.

Back in Biggsville, corn is returning to land that for 48 years was devoted to golfing. Kelly said his father farmed the land before selling it as a golf course. Although popular for decades, the course ran into trouble during the recession, and flooding by the Mississippi a few years ago hurt attendance.

“It was a well-run fun place for the community since 1970, and everybody was sad to see it close, including me,” Kelly said.

Tractors have replaced golfers at the former Whittemore Golf Club near Algona, in north-central Iowa. It closed in 2011 after more than 40 years and was planted over by a farmer.

The same thing happened near Wayland, Mich., where the Hidden Valley Golf Course closed in November and was sold to a farmer.

WRECKS: Some most during war They don’t have to be a worst-case spill to be a disaster.

Of those six, Symons said NOAA doesn’t know the exact location of three of them, just where they were last seen before they sank. Three of the six worst potential problems are off Florida, one near Georgia, one near South Carolina and one near New York. Some are as close as 15 miles from shore.

Of the overall 87 ships identified as potential polluters, 52 were lost in World War II, mostly up and down the Atlantic coastline.

Others were lost in crashes, fires and storms, including the Edmund Fitzgerald. The story of that ship’s sinking in Lake Superior was turned into a classic pop song by Gordon Lightfoot.

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A start, finish at Cannes STEVEN SODERBERGH ON BREAKING FROM FILMMAKING

BY JAKE COYLE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Steven Soderbergh is working on a new currency.

In his Chelsea studio, among various film posters and piles of moviemaking mementos, he has a few paintings in progress, including a new, livelier, “more Hendrix” version of a U.S. dollar bill. It’s only one of the many artistic endeavours he bounces between now that he’s begun his long-predicted hiatus from filmmaking.

Today, he will bring his Liberace film, Behind the Candelabra, to the Cannes Film Festival, where it will compete for the same Palme d’Or he won 24 years ago for his first film, Sex, Lies and Videotape.

Soderbergh has said this — a $23 million HBO movie starring Michael Douglas as the flamboyant pianist and Matt Damon as his lover, Scott Thorson, airing Sunday in the U.S. — will be his last film, at least for now.

The 50 year-old’s career in film — 26 protean features including Out of Sight, Traffic and the Ocean’s franchise — will effectively conclude in Cannes, the same place it was internationally launched.

“It’s not often you get the opportunity to arrange that kind of symmetry,” Soderbergh says.

“It’s funny to think about how long ago that was.”

Shortly after Soderbergh began tweeting a sparse novella and gave a remarkable speech at the San Francisco Film Festival in which he vented his frustration at Hollywood studios, he sat for a lengthy interview as he steps away from movies.

“In theory,” he says, “I’m finished.”

AP: When you look back on your filmography, what do you think of it?

Soderbergh: It feels like one big movie to me, like chapters of a novel.

There’s continuity. There’s evolution. I shot Sex, Lies in 35 days and Candelabra in 30 days. I’m more economical. I’d probably make them all a few minutes shorter. Shorter is always better.

AP: The break from movies you’ve long talked about is now effectively underway. How’s it going?

Soderbergh: It’s been a little quieter for me. My wanting to consider what my relationship to movies is can sort of happen while I’m doing this other stuff. . It’s hard for me to do nothing.

AP: You’ve recently tweeted a novella, Glue, and given a wide-ranging speech about how Hollywood could function better.

Soderbergh: It was kind of an opportunity to organize in one place a lot of thing I’ve either said in interviews or bars. It was just a way for me to structure it all, get it out and close the door on it. . As I walked out the door, I felt there were some things I wanted to memorialize about what I’ve seen.

AP: It felt like a goodbye.

Soderbergh: I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how I can optimize my process as a filmmaker, and I haven’t seen a lot of effort expended on the part of the studios to optimize their process.

And I don’t understand it. . The biggest stumbling block to this paradigm being revised is the cost of putting a mainstream movie out. It’s truly the tail that’s wagging the dog.

It’s influencing every decision at every level. I can’t believe — unless there’s some aspect of the relationship between the studios and the theatre owners that I’m not aware of — that this is the only way it can be done.

AP: Is your stepping back motivated equally by industry frustration and by your desire to grow in some new way as a filmmaker?

Soderbergh: Yeah, absolutely, it’s a combination of a lot of different things.

Some of them have to do with the way the business is working now, some of them have to do with me just wanting a break from the social aspect of it.

The fact that you’re the target for tens of thousands of questions. It’s a very intense process and you can feel worn down after a while. And then my own feelings just about the grammar of it, the language of it: Is there some other way to transmit and release information that isn’t so prescribed? It’s quite possible that I could end up making something that is designed more to be seen in a museum than a movie theatre.

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Soderbergh: It was a great way to express my appreciation for a kind of movie I’ve watched my whole life but never got to make, which is kind of a melodrama. I looked at as being in line with all the Douglas Sirk movies and Sunset Blvd. and All About Eve and Valley of the Dolls. It was interesting to look around and wonder when I’ll be doing this again.

AP: HBO picked up Candelabra after no studio would take it, and you’re currently contemplating several TV proj-

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Soderbergh: Very. Very. There’s a lot of great stuff being made. You can go narrow and deep, and I like that. And this is all David Chase. He single-handedly rebuilt the landscape. Anything that’s on now that’s any good is standing on his shoulders. I don’t hear anybody talking about movies the way they talk about TV right now. . Knowing that I can’t swim upstream forever, it seems to me that if I want to work, that I need to move to a medium in which the way I like to do things is viewed as a positive and not a negative.

Apple of Eye’ star Michelle Chen turns to her first love, music THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Taiwan singer-actress Michelle Chen during an interview in Hong Kong.

HONG KONG — Fans know her as the sweet schoolgirl in the 2011 blockbuster You Are the Apple of My Eye. Now, they can take a closer look at Michelle Chen through her first love: music.

After she graduated from the University of Southern California and returned home to Taiwan, her initial attempts to break into the island’s music scene hit a brick wall.

But trying acting at the advice of a talent manager, she landed a few film and television roles, then shot to stardom with You Are the Apple of My Eye. The 29-year-old ac-

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I wrote the lyrics. And I wrote this album about my family and friends, my . maybe lovers,” Chen said.

One song is written to her fans, and she says “I think the audience can really, really get to know who Michelle Chen is through the album.”

Crediting the late Mandarin pop legend Teresa Teng as one of her major musical influences, Chen said she wrote one of the songs on the album as a tribute to Teng and also to a close family member who introduced her to Teng’s

music. Uncle Grandpa’s Small City Story is a tribute to the first pop song Chen listened to, Teng’s Small Town Story, because it was a favourite of Chen’s uncle grandpa.

Chen sang part of Small City Story on her own song and says she was amazed while studying Teng’s live performances.

“When I was trying how to sing that song, you will realize how much detail that she put into the song, like maybe in one sentence with three words, she has to make three different turns (vibrato three of four times),” Chen said.

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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: As the LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s your Moon moves into gracious Libra, jus- duty to ensure that the limits are clear tice and fairness become important if you consider that your parents may issues. Peace and diplomacy turn be interfering in your life. You need into vital players of our instinctual both space and freedom within your responses. A tense vibe bepartnerships which may tween Uranus and Pluto cost you more than you had urges us to keep our temimagined. pers under control. Power SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. struggles and rash behav21): Daily chores can beiours should be avoided at come too restraining and any cost. unpredictable. You seek HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If liberation from certain today is your birthday, the tasks which hold you back. year ahead will be very acSoon enough you realize tive and full of personal exthat you’ve been holding periences. You will be fointo some ideas and beliefs cusing on your physical self which no longer serve their and your identity. The way purpose. It’s time to let go. you are perceived by others SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22ASTRO will make you more conDec. 21): Your main chalDOYNA scious and aware of your lenge will be to balance own abilities and what you out the strain between your can bring to the table. Endesire to brake free within joy the busyness this year your romantic relationwill bring you along with ships and the need to stick many new exciting beginnings. to your set of values. What you considARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t er important and significant may not rub your opponent the wrong way to- be as relevant to the other person. day. Any false move on your part and CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): An you may regret stepping into the for- inner battle arises when you struggle bidden zone. Apply caution along with to become less dependent upon your some much needed patience. You will family members and become somebe glad you did. what freer from their demands. You TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Try not manifest the urge to rebel against the to force things today. If certain infor- norms for which you fight with a strong mation slips through your fingers, the conviction. worst would be for you to stop it. ReAQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Liberal sisting the flow of things can be coun- expressions come easy when you face terproductive. Tough lessons may be no opposition. You seem to encounter hard to swallow, but valuable. some old, inhibited blockages that do GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Face your not allow you to fully share your side fears head on. Do not avoid your deep- of the story. Don’t shut yourself down est insecurities. Come clean in terms and listen to the hidden messages. of a partnership that means a lot to PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Finanyou. Set the boundaries of your alli- cial co-dependency and restrictions ance by being honest with each other. tempt you to make a risky move. Don’t Keeping it real will lessen the tension. let peer pressure get to you just beCANCER (June 21-July 22): Analyze cause you cannot afford certain luxucarefully your partnership needs and rious items or because you are missing issues. Instead of overreacting over an asset. Treasure the relationships a pressing turmoil, try to understand you have, not the possessions. your relationship from the other perAstro Doyna is an internationally synson’s point of view. Give them the ben- dicated astrologer/columnist. efit of the doubt.

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Dear Annie: I feel betrayed by my I was shocked to hear this from a felhusband, and he doesn’t seem to see low cat owner and have ceased speakthe problem. ing to him. He has made overtures toWe have been married for 40 years. ward friendship, and I’ve rebuffed him.

“Victor” always had a wandering eye Should I forgive and forget? - Cat Lover and a problem being faithEd ful. For whatever reason, I Dear Ed: No one expects was never enough for him. you to agree with everything He has no idea how much he your friends think, do and has hurt me over the years. say. But this is essentially a I put up with a lot, but now difference of opinion about he has started watching porhow much money one would nography when he thinks spend on an animal’s treatI’m asleep. I know he’s masment. If you think this comturbating, but if I ask whethment means your neighbor is er he wants to have sex, he an unkind, nasty person, you says “no,” and eventually, I don’t need to stay friends. fall asleep.

But if he is otherwise a good This makes me feel as if guy and you miss his friendMITCHELL he’s cheating on me in my ship, please forgive him. & SUGAR own bed. I’ve tried talking to Dear Annie: “Conflicted Victor about it, but he thinks Adoptee in Kansas” was I’m the one with the probhurt that her biological lem. What do you think? mother didn’t want to tell Betrayed her other grown children Dear Betrayed: You must ask yourself about her. Three years ago, my 70-yearwhat you want out of this marriage af- old grandmother walked over to my ter 40 years. Can you make Victor stop mother, handed her a piece of paper having affairs and watching pornogra- and said, “Well, you’ve always wanted phy? Not unless he understands that a sister.” Grandma had given up a baby it is a betrayal and decides he doesn’t girl when Grandpa was still married to want to hurt you anymore. his first wife. When she became pregThat would require effort on his nant again (with my mother), they fipart, and likely counseling to help him nally wed. navigate a new way to relate to you. If At first we were shocked. Grandma you think he would be willing, please was ashamed and embarrassed. My suggest it. mother was excited to get to know her You also can get counseling on your new sister, but they discovered that own and learn what you are willing they really don’t care much for each to tolerate for the sake of remaining other. in the marriage if you choose to stay.

In fact, no one in the family likes In the meantime, contact COSA (co- her, but we feel obligated to be nice sa-recovery.org), a 12-step program for and polite. those whose lives have been affected Grandma refuses to talk about it. by another person’s compulsive sexual The one thing she had written in the behavior. adoption records was that she didn’t Dear Annie: I’ve been friendly with want anyone in her family to know. I a neighbor for some time, as we are completely understand why some both cat owners. I recently let my cat things are better left alone. - Omaha, outside briefly, and he came in limping Neb. as a result of a catfight. I immediately Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy rushed him to my vet, who performed Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ediemergency surgery and presented me tors of the Ann Landers column. Please with a big bill. email your questions to anniesmailbox@ When telling my neighbor of the ex- comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, penses, he said I was foolish to have c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, been so concerned about a cat. Annie, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Email: Find something to sit on hr@bearspawpet.com in Classifieds Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Restaurant/ Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

820

Hotel

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Professionals

810

SUPPORT WORKER We are looking for a support worker to become a member of our team which supports a 28 year old young man in his home in the community. This young man is autistic and has complex behavioral needs. The ideal candidate will have exp. working with challenging behaviors.

They will also believe in inclusion & be passionate about supporting an individual with a developmental disability to have an inclusive & full life. Provide direct care & participate in the development of personalized goals. You will be employed directly by his family. Team communication is key to supporting the success of this young man so you must have excellent written & verbal communication skills.

F/T & P/T positions avail.

Apply to: kelly-s@shaw.ca Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons FOOD SERVICE SUPERVIISORS $13/hr.

4 positions. Apply at 6620 Orr Drive. Red Deer Fax: 403-782-9685 Call 403-341-3561 or apply in person TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

F/T & P/T KITCHEN HELPERS Wages $12./hr.

Apply in Person w/resume to: BLACKJACK LOUNGE #1, 6350 - 67 St. Phone/Fax: 403-347-2118

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Experienced P/T Servers.

Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T BARTENDER and SERVER Must have experience!

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Sales & Distributors

Heavy Duty Mechanic

Red Deer Shop req’s Journeyman or 4th yr. apprentice with CVIP license. Manufacturing and Hydraulic system experience an asset.

Good hours, competitive wage & benefit package.

Fax resume to: 403-309-3360.

830

1511018 Alberta Ltd. O/A Micabella Cosmetics req’s sales people F/T, P/T for women’s cosmetics in Red Deer Malls $15/hr. Shift. canadacarts@gmail.com

JEETS PLUMBING & HEATING Service Plumbers.

Journeyman, w/service exp. Competitive wages.

Fax resume: 403-356-0244 ALLMAR, a leader in the architectural NEEDED F/T Service Person openings industry is for after sales service and seeking to fill the position of set up of manufactured COUNTER and modular home. Must have exp. in roofing, siding, SALESPERSON. flooring, drywall, paint etc., Prior work in sales Competitive wages and and the construction health plan avail. Apply to industry an asset.

James at M & K Homes, We offer $18-$20/hr, 403-346-6116 in-house training, and career advancement NEW EMPLOYMENT opportunities.

OPPORTUNITIES Applicants please send resume to: Experienced HR@allmar.com

Trades

850

Screedman Roller Operator Transfer Machine Operator

NOW HIRING

Carpenters & Labourers for work in Red Deer

Apply at: Email: careers@ clarkbuilders.com Fax: 1-888-403-3051 www.clarkbuilders.com

C & C COATINGS in Innisfail is seeking F/T Laborers, sandblasters, powder coaters, and painters. Competitive wages and benefits. Fax resume to: 403-227-1165.

CURRENTLY HIRING operators on various types of Construction equipment.

Also seeking Gravel truck drivers with Class 1 license. Fax: 346-8490 or email lclark@ settersconstruction.ca

Newcart Contracting (1993) is looking for

Safety Supervisors & Safety Watch People

for the Plant Turnaround Season.

Must have valid H2S, CSTS/PST, First Aid/CPR, Confined Space, and WHIMIS Safety Tickets.

Fax resume to 403-729-2396 or email: resumes @newcartcontracting.com No phone inquiries please.

Noise Solutions Delburne, AB accepting Resumes for Welders,Assemblers, Sheet Metal Workers & Field Crew Email to lgoddard@noisesolutions. com Fax 403-749-2259 Attn. Lorna NOW Hiring Site Superintendants, Carpenters, Apprentice Carpenters for Full Time Work in the Red Deer area. Fully paid Benefit Package, Pension Plan, Bonuses. Good wages. Experience in the Petroleum industry an asset, Service Stations, Bulk Plants. E-mail Resume to tedc@kellerdenali.com PIDHERNEY’S Requires Experienced Heavy Equipment Operators for work in the Coronation and Red Deer areas. Fax or email resume to: 403-8455370 / hr@pidherneys.com REQ’D IMMED. 3rd. yr, 4th yr. or licensed tech. Apply in person at OK Tire South 3218 49 Ave. Red.

Clark’s

PLUMBING & HEATING CORP.

Plumbing & HVAC Service Technicians NEEDED!!!

This is a Monday – Friday position located in Lac La Biche, (furnished living accommodations provided for out of town employees) Clark’s has immediate openings for qualified, experienced heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) Technician and Plumbers. The successful candidates will: • hold a current Journeyman’s ticket • be experienced in all aspects of HVAC or Plumbing service • must pass a Pre-employment Drug and Alcohol Screening • Provide a current Drivers Abstract • be a motivated self-starter • take pride in doing great work and willing to work long hours if needed • be energetic, positive, and keen to work with a rapidly expanding company • be 100% dedicated to customer service and satisfaction Clark’s offers top wages,10% holiday/vacation pay, overtime after 8 hrs, training, Health and Dental packages.

We are a COR Certified and ISNetworld Compliant, safety-conscious company that provides a safe and enjoyable workplace.

Fax Resume to 780-623-7451 or Email: sales@cpandh.ca

WE ARE GROWING, NOW HIRING

F/T MEAT CUTTER and

F/T GROCERY CLERK Competitive wages.

Apply in person or fax resume to 403-885-5231.

1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1130

Massage Therapy

1280

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS GUTTERS CLEANED & Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. REPAIRED. 403-391-2169 with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals Escorts RW Smith, 346-9351

VII MASSAGE Feeling over whelmed?

Hard work day?

Pampering at its best. #7 7464 Gaetz ASIAN MZ. REIKO Ave. www.

587-377-1298 Avail. days viimassage.biz In/Out Calls to EDEN 587-877-7399 10am-midnight Hotels. 403-986-6686

1165

Cleaning

1070

Housecleaning. Free up time in your schedule. I have 20 yrs experience, honest and reliable. Call for an appointment. Janet 250-489-8889.

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 MAMMA MIA !!

Soffit, Fascia & Eaves.

403-391-2169 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia preferring non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages 598-3049 www.eroticasplaymates.net LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Massage Therapy

1280

RED DEER’S BEST

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

ASIAN Executive Touch Exclusive for men. Open 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 5003-50 St. 403-348-5650

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Painters/ Decorators

Moving & Storage

1300

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

1310

PAINTING SERVICE Res./Com. Celebrating 25 years. 25% off paint.

403-358-8384

880

ACADEMIC Express

LANCASTER AREA

Spring Start

Lewis Close/ Law Close

Fall Start

Community Support Worker

SUNNYBROOK AREA

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

Springfield Ave. Savoy Cres./ Selkirk Blvd.

Sherwood Cres.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

in DEER PARK AREA Dawson St. & 1 Block of Davison Dr. ALSO Dandell Close Davison Dr. & 2 blocks of Dowler St. ALSO Dunham Close ALSO Duncan Cres.

ALSO 3 blocks of West Duston St. & Dale Close ALSO Densmore Cres. & East part of Donnelly Cres.

Competitive starting wages plus regular increases.

Hours: M-F 7:30am-4:30pm Excellent benefits package. Opportunities to advance. Must be dependable, hardworking and seeking a long-term career. Apply in person, or email to: hartleytj@eecol.com 4747 - 61st Street

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BEN

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Rental Department/ Delivery Driver • Class 5 Drivers Licence. *abstract may be required • Must be able to tow trailers/5th wheels • Cleaning of units • Some evenings & weekends may be required • Full time seasonal position (May 01-Sept. 30) Apply by: Email: unclebens@telus.net Fax: 403-346-1055 or drop off resume at reception Attn: Charles (rental manager)

VANIER AREA ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

Warehouse Shipper/ Receiver

880

Misc.

Help

Broughton/ Brooks Cres.

Bettenson St./ Baines Cres.

Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St

Adult Education and Training

GED classes days/evening

The Red Deer Advocate is looking for friendly and outgoing telephone sales people to join our team.

Work 3-4 days per week 4:00 - 8 :00 p.m Great earning potential for the right person.

If this is for you please drop off your resume at: The Red Deer Advocate 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer or email to: dsibbet@ reddeeradvocate.com or rholt@reddeeradvocate.com

Vanson Close/ Visser St. Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

OPERATOR 2 POSITION Rahr Malting Canada Ltd., a leading manufacturer of Brewer’s Malt,

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

is now accepting applications for a full time Operator 2 position.

DSM INC.

looking for laborers, in the Innisfail area.

Salary is $14.75/hr. Fax resume to: 403-314-0676.

GRAYSON EXCAVATING LTD. requires experienced foremen, pipelayers, equipment operators, Class 1 drivers, topmen and general labourers for installation of deep utilities (water and sewer). Fax resume to (403)782-6846 or e-mail to: info@ graysonexcavating.com IN SERVICE SHOP, exp’d with farm equipment and the ability to weld. Apply fax 403-341-5622

Misc.

Help

The position includes Plant Operations and Sanitation duties.

Applicants must have a minimum Grade 12 diploma and must be available for shift work.

Experience in manufacturing or factory environment is preferred.

Application Closing Date: March 21, 2013.

Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to:

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd. Attn: Human Resources Box 113, Alix, Alberta T0C 0B0 FAX: (403) 747-2660 email: mlyle@rahr.com

880

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

PIDHERNEY’S IS GROWING! ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST PARK Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED To deliver the Morning Advocate.

We currently require a

EARTHWORKS CONSTRUCTION FOREMAN For work in and around the Red Deer area

This successful individual will possess the following quali¿cations: • Minimum 3 – 5 years running crews • Have blueprint knowledge and experience • Various types of construction project experience an asset • Understand Alberta Transportation Speci¿cations • Must be a team player Pidherney’s offers competitive wages based on experience & bene¿t packages.

Please fax resume to 403-845-5370 or email to hr@pidherneys.com

DEERPARK Dowler & Douglas St. Area $605.00/mo Call Jamie 403-314-4306 For more information

PRO-PAINTING at reasonable rates. 304-0379

Seniors’ Services

1372

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 SENIORS need a HELPING HAND? Cleaning, cooking companionship - in home or in facility.

Call 403-346-7777 or visit helpinghands.com for info.

Yard Care IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346

ANDERS AREA

BOWER AREA

Misc.

Help

880

Misc.

Help

6 days per week Vehicle needed

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 Eavestroughing

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

JOURNEYMAN WELDER REQ’D.

Indoors, great hours, diversity and fabrication.

Competitive wage and benefit pkg. Fax resume to 403-309-3360.

880

Misc.

Help

EARN EXTRA CASH!!!

Anders St. Addinell Close/ Allan St. Abbott Close/ Allan St. Allan Close/Allan St. Allsop Cres.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

For local work.

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

880

With Residential roughin exp. Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Carpenters Helpers & Labourers

CLASSIFICATIONS

1010

QUALIFIED 3rd and 4th yr.

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

wegotservices

Accounting

TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Requires

LANCASTER East half of Lampard Cres.

ALSO Landry Bend Lacey Close & Lenon Close area.

ALSO Leonard Cres. & 1 Block of Lancaster Ave. ALSO Part of Lanterman Cres.

ALSO Lamont Close

Requires Full Time

Misc.

Help

CARRIERS NEEDED

Email resume to: office@ccal.com Fax resume to: 403-885-5137

850

Trades

850

Trades

DRYWALL CREW req’d immediately for huge project in Blackfalds. Must have all tools & own trans.

Exp.’d only. 403-872-1686

CARPENTERS HELPER and P/T (could turn into F/T) mature hot shot driver. Must be able to work on own, and clean drivers abstract. Fax resume to 403-986-0020

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

850

Trades

301312E22

Bed Truck Operator

820

301017E14-26

Picker operator

CONTRACT Financial Controller for family-owned construction company.

Proficient with Simply Accounting, Excel, and Word Software.

Responsible for monthly account reconciliations including: * bank * Accounts Receivable * Accounts Payable * GST * Capital assets * Inter company accounts * Loans/capital leases * Prepaid Expenses

Restaurant/ Hotel

301600E24

Is now hiring experienced:

810

1430

GARDEN ROTOTILLING & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957 GARDENS ROTOTILLED 304-7250 LAWN AERATING Call 403-304-0678 LITTLE R&R AERATION Call Randy 403-341-3780 ROTOTILLING, power raking, aerating & grass cutting. Reasonable rates. 403-341-4745

AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED 1 day per week in the town of Bowden, Innisfail, and Olds.

Packages come ready to deliver.

No collecting!

Please call Quitcy 403-314-4316 COLLEGE/UNIV STUDENTS

flexible summer schedules, $16 base/appt. cust. sales/service, conditions apply, will train. Call Now! 403-755-6711 www. summeropenings.ca/ DISPATCHER req’d.

Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

Looking for

a job? ?

Community & Social Services

Red Deer Alberta Works Centre

Mini Job Fairs

4911 - 51 Street, Red Deer

Alberta Works is hosting mini job fairs throughout Central Alberta focused on careers in the Community and Social Services sector

May 22, 2013 (all locations) 9 a.m. - Noon Innisfail Learning Centre 4303 - 49 Street, Innisfail t Innisfail School Age Program t Innisfail Early Learning Centre t Innisfail Family Day Home Society t McMan Youth, Family Services

Olds Alberta Works Centre 4500 - 50 Street, Olds t Innisfail Family Day Home Society

t Alberta Council of Disability Services t Catholic Social Services t Central Alberta Child & Family Services t Central Alberta Day Association t Central Alberta Family Day Home Association t Cosmos Community Support Services t Lacombe Action Group t Parkland CLASS t Red Deer Child Care Society t Red Deer College Children’s Program t Razzle Dazzle - Sylvan Lake t Kids Konnection - Blackfalds t St. John Ambulance

Rocky Mountain House Alberta Works Centre 4919 - 51 Street t The Good Samaritan Society t Learn & Laugh Family Day Homes t McMan Youth, Family & Comm. Services t Westward Goals t HOPE - Society for Persons with Disabilities

Government

300543E21-22

PROVIDENCE Trucking Inc

Professionals

301314F1-4

800

Oilfield

RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, May 21, 2013 D3

Misc.

Help

880

920

Career Planning

Misc. for Sale

1760

RED DEER WORKS 3 TARPS, 14’ X 10’, 12’ X

GREENHOUSE WORKERS BLACKFALDS Central AB Greenhouses We have some seasonal positions available commencing immediately and ending June 1, 2013.

Duties include planting seedlings, watering plants, moving plants from one area to another, loading plants onto carts and loading trucks. This position is labor intensive and includes working weekends and some evenings (approx.

65 hrs./wk.). Must have own transportatin. We will train. Wage is $11.50/hr.

Fax resume to 403-885-4147 or email to: ar-cag@telus.net.

Please note that only those to be interviewed will be contacted.

HERITAGE LANES BOWLING

Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s F/T kitchen staff, servers and front counter staff.

Must be avail. eves and wknds. Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person

Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Antiques & Art

ANTIQUE ARMIOR $275 obo. 403-747-2597

Auctions

EASTVIEW 84 Papers $441/month $5292/yr.

WESTPARK 81 Papers $425/month $5103/yr.

WESTLAKE 81 Papers $420/month $5040/yr.

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED For afternoon delivery once per week In the towns of: Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

If you’re looking for a challenging position with one of the world’s leading snack food companies, here’s your chance to join the largest sales team in Canada as a Weekend Part Time Account Merchandiser in Red Deer, AB. We’re looking for someone who pays great attention to detail, has a interest in building displays, and can ensure that our product is always well stocked and looking great. So if you’re an excellent communicator, have great people skills, a class 5 driver’s license, and a flawless driving record, we invite you to apply online at www. fritolay.ca or fax your resume to (780) 577-2174 ATTN: Elaine Diesbourg.

RESIDENTIAL APT MANAGER 23 suite apt. complex.

Live-in role. Responsibilities incl. cleaning, maintenance, yard care, administration.

Bondable. Reply to Box 1043, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 WEED SPRAYER required. No exp. necessary. Must have valid Class 5 Driver’s License.

Fax resume to 403-2275099, e-mail to cdsprung@ telus.net or call Cory @403-304-8201 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Employment Training

1540

BIKE, blue, child’s, 20” wheels. great cond.

1 owner only. $50.

403-347-0024

Clothing

1590

NEW ladies Power Walk, made by Natural Sport runners size 9 $20 403-340-1120

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

FOOD Dehydrator, with 7 trays, Ronco.

Exc. Cond. $50.

1 Pair of men’s calf high, rubbher boots, size 12. $25.

403-227-2653 GARDEN CULTIVATOR, small electric drive, $30.

403-347-1501 GOLF carry bag $25 obo; Action Spy books, 4 boxes $60 obo 403-782-3847 ROYAL DOULTON Pretty Ladies, 3 for $250. Will sell separately. 403-347-5911

Pets & Supplies

1810

SMALL DOG KENNEL $50. 403-346-7375

Sporting Goods

1860

ATTENTION GOLFERS, 2 remote control golf club caddys. 1 - Electronic caddy $700. 1- X3R Stewart Golf Dream Machine. $1000.

403-346-6989, 373-2574 GOLF CLUB SET RIGHT HAND. Cleveland Launcher Driver Srixon 3 Wood. Bazooka Tour Edge Cavity Back Irons. 3-PW, Regular Flex Graphite Shafts. Bag. $75.

Very good condition.

403-346-0093

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

Garden Supplies

1680

ROTTOTILLER, Mantis Electric, w/ kick stand, border edger, aerator, dethatcher & cord management system. $300. 403-227-2653

1710

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042 FRIDGE $75 Marilee 403-341-9990 leave msg.

KENMORE DRYER Electric. Excellent cond. $100. 403-347-5873 MEDIUM SIZE DEEP FREEZER. $100.

403-346-7375

Household Furnishings

1720

MAPLE WOOD shelving, $50; maple wood desk w/hutch, $135.

403-346-3708 NEW KING SIZE BOX SPRINGS. Sealy Posturepedic. $90.

403-343-0745 QUEEN SIZE FUTON W/WOODEN FRAME, $40. 403-747-2597

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

SPEAKER w/Ipod hookup $30 obo; Ipod docking station stereo $30; X box with 6 games $60 obo; PS 2 w/6 games $60 obo 403-782-3847

Misc. for Sale

1760

20 QUART roasting oven $20; 19.2 volt cordless variable spd. reversible drill, $35; Craftsman spiral cutting saw $50, 6 cu. ft. steel wheel barrow $40, Coleman propane lantern $10 403-347-2603

3050

Modern open concept, 2 large bdrms, 1.5 bath, In-suite Laundry. NO PETS, N/S. Avail NOW. $1325 & UTIL Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554

3060

Suites

FAMILY APT. Near Downtown RD

2 bright bdrms, 1 baths, recently updated. 2 appls.

Coin-op laundry. No pets.

N/S. Starting @ $950 & Power; SD $950; Avail NOW. Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

3020

3 BDRM, 3 bath home , nice deck, new paint & carpet, for over 40 couple with no pets at 7316-59 Ave. Rent $1500/Sec. $1500.

Ph: 403-341-4627

4601 49 STREET

NOW RENTING 1& 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/ onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat and hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955 PENHOLD 1 bdrm., incl. heat/ water. $685 avail.

June 1, no pets 403-348-6594

QUIET LOCATION

2 bdrm. adult bldg. lower flr. Utils. incld’d $800. mo.

Call 403-347-4007 1 bdrm. apt. avail. May 15 Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets. 403-346-6686

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Rooms For Rent

3090

ROOM $600. Blackfalds.

All incld’d, furn. 588-2564 ROOM for rent $550./mo.

Call 403-352-7417 ROOM for rent. $450 rent, d.d. $350. 403-343-0421

Mobile Lot

ALIX: 2 bdrm. 1 bath, 5 appls, shows like new. $1000 + utils. Avail. June 1, 403-341-9974

Out Of Town Property

4170

MASON MARTIN HOMES New bi-level, 1400 sq.ft.

Dbl. att. garage. $409,900.

403-588-2550

Locally owned and family operated

SUV's

MUST SELL New 2 Storey 1550 sq.ft 3 bdrm, bonus room, 2.5 bath, $379,900. Dbl. att. garage. 403-588-2550

5040

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

2005 INFINITI FX 35 AWD sunroof, leather, $18,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import 2001 DODGE Durango 4x4, $5000 o.b.o.

403-348-1634

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Trucks

4070

4090

Manufactured Homes

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Mauricia 403-340-0225

3190

LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.

Excellent 1st time home buyers. 403-588-8820

Income Property

MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Mauricia 403-340-0225

4100

NEW DUPLEX, 2 suites, for $389,900. 2000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath. Mason Martin Homes 403-588-2550

5050

5030 2007 HONDA Ridgeline EX-L. Exc. cond. loaded, 96,000 km, $18,900. 403-318-5747

2009 Cadillac STS Platinum AWD, 42,750 Kms. Fully loaded like new. 2 sets of rims & tires. $35,000 403 348 3762

Motorcycles

5080

2007 MERCEDES BENZ B 200 5 speed, $8,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2006 KAWASAKI Ninja, 10,300 kms. $5,400.

403-597-5972 2006 HONDA Civic Coupe LX Exc cond. Loaded, 84,000 km $12,000, 403-318-5747

Motorhomes

2005 PORSCHE Cayenne S AWD, leather, Lexani wheels, $23,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

5100

2008 WINNEBAGO Sightseer 34’ Class A 3 slides, every option, mint cond, workhorse chassis, 8.1gas 15,885 miles, $87,500 403-227-8414 350-5099

4000-4190

Fifth Wheels

RAYMOND SHORES

4020

GULL LAKE, 2012 Park model home, on professionally landscaped lot. Fully furnished.

Too many extras to list.

403-350-5524 for details.

Businesses For Sale

4140

YOUR CAREER IN

WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629

PUBLIC NOTICES

6010

Public Notices

5110

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Tornado rips through Oklahoma City MASSIVE MILE-WIDE TWISTER FLATTENS ENTIRE NEIGHBOURHOODS, AT LEAST 51 DEAD

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOORE, Okla. — A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighbourhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. At least 51 people were killed, and officials said the death toll was expected to rise.

The storm laid waste to scores of buildings in Moore, a community of 41,000 people south of the city. Block after block lay in ruins. Homes were crushed into piles of broken wood. Cars and trucks were left crumpled on the roadside.

The National Weather Service issued an initial finding that the tornado was an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale, the second most-powerful type of twister.

More than 120 people were being treated at hospitals, including about 70 children.

Rescuers launched a desperate rescue effort at the school, pulling children from heaps of debris and carrying them to a triage centre.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin deployed 80 National Guard members to assist with search-and-rescue operations and activated extra highway patrol officers.

Fallin also spoke with President Barack Obama, who offered the nation’s help and gave Fallin a direct line to his office.

Many land lines to stricken areas were down and cellphone traffic was congested. The storm was so massive that it will take time to establish communications between rescuers and state officials, the governor said.

In video of the storm, the dark funnel cloud could be seen marching slowly across the green landscape.

As it churned through the community, the twister scattered shards of wood, pieces of insulation, awnings, shingles and glass all over the streets.

Volunteers and first responders raced to search the debris for survivors.

At Plaza Towers Elementary School, the storm tore off the roof, knocked down walls and turned the playground into a mass of twisted plastic and metal.

Children from the school were among the dead, but several students were pulled alive from the rubble. Rescue workers passed the survivors down a human chain to the triage centre in the parking lot.

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A fire burns in the Tower Plaza Addition in Moore, Okla., following a tornado Monday. A tornado as much as a mile (1.6 kilometers) wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph) roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school.

Fighting near Syria-Lebanon border takes toll Wave of attacks hits Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — A wave of attacks killed at least 95 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 240 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years.

The bloodshed is still far shy of the pace, scale and brutality of the dark days of 2006-2007, when Sunni and Shiite militias carried out retaliatory attacks against each other in a cycle of violence that left the country awash in blood.

Still, Monday’s attacks, some of which hit markets and crowded bus stops during the morning rush hour, have heightened fears that the country could be turning back down the path toward civil war.

Sectarian tensions have been worsening since Iraq’s minority Sunnis began protesting what they say is mistreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led government. The mass demonstrations, which began in December, have largely been peaceful, but the number of attacks rose sharply after a deadly security crackdown on a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq on April 23.

Iraq’s Shiite majority, which was oppressed under the late dictator Saddam Hussein, now holds the levers of power in the country. Wishing to rebuild the nation rather than revert to open warfare, they have largely restrained their militias over the past five years or so as Sunni extremist groups such as al-Qaida have targeted them with occasional large-scale attacks.

But the renewed violence in both Shiite and Sunni areas since late last month has fueled concerns of a return to sectarian warfare. Monday marked the deadliest day in Iraq in more than 20 months, and raised the nationwide death toll since last Wednesday alone to more than 240 people, according to an AP count.

Prime Minister Nouri

al-Maliki accused militant groups of trying to exploit Iraq’s political instability to exacerbate sectarian tensions at home, and blamed the recent spike in violence on the wider unrest in the region, particularly in neighbouring Syria.

At the same time, he pledged Monday that insurgents “will not be able to bring back the atmosphere of the sectarian war.”

Many Sunnis here contend that much of the country’s current turmoil is rooted in decisions made by al-Maliki’s government, saying his administration planted the seeds for more sectarian tension by becoming more aggressive toward Sunnis after the U.S. military withdrawal in December 2011.

The worst of Monday’s violence took place in Baghdad, where 10 car bombs ripped through open-air markets and other areas of Shiite neighbourhoods, killing at least 48 people and wounding more than 150, police officials said. In the bloodiest attack, a parked car bomb blew up in a busy market in the northern Shiite neighbourhood of Shaab.

BEIRUT — Fierce street fighting in a Syrian town near the Lebanese border has killed at least 28 elite members of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group, activists said Monday, as Syrian government forces pushed deeper into the strategic, opposition-held town.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks Syria’s civil war, said that more than 70 Hezbollah fighters have also been wounded in the fighting around the town of Qusair. If confirmed, the casualties would be a significant blow to the Iranian-backed Shiite group, which has come under harsh criticism at home for its involvement in the war next door.

A staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, Hezbollah is heavily invested in the survival of the Damascus regime and is known to have sent fighters to aid government forces. The Lebanese group’s growing role in the conflict also points to the deeply sectarian nature of the war in Syria, in which a rebellion driven by the country’s Sunni majority seeks to overthrow a regime dominated by the president’s Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

The increasingly overt Hezbollah involvement in the Syrian conflict is almost certain to threaten stability in Lebanon, which is sharply split along sectarian lines, and between supporters and opponents of Assad.

The Observatory, which relies on a wide network of activists on the ground in Syria, cited “sources close to the militant group” for the death toll but declined to reveal their identity. It said at least 50 Syrian rebels were also killed in the battle for Qusair on Sunday, including two commanders.

Qusair has been the target of a withering government offensive in recent weeks, and the countryside around the town has been engulfed in fighting as regime troops backed by Hezbollah fighters seized villages while closing in on Qusair itself. The opposition estimates that some 40,000 civilians are currently in the town.

The intensity of the fighting reflects the importance that both sides attach to the area. In the regime’s calculations, Qusair lies along a strategic land corridor linking Damascus with the Mediterranean coast, the Alawite heartland. For the rebels, overwhelmingly Sunni Qusair has served as a conduit for shipments of weapons and supplies smuggled from

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Regime troops and Hezbollah fighters, who laid siege to Qusair weeks ago, launched an offensive to regain control of the town, with Hezbollah’s elite fighters advancing from the east and south, an opposition figure said.

He added that it took Hezbollah troops a few hours to take control of the town’s main square and municipal building. By the end of the day Sunday, they had pushed out rebel units, including the al-Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, from most of Qusair, he said on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation by both sides.

He said fighting was focused in the northern part of the town on Monday.

The account matched that of Syria’s state news media, which said President Bashar Assad’s troops took control of most of Qusair on Monday. State-run TV said forces restored stability to the entire eastern front of the town, killing scores of “terrorists” there — the term used by the Syrian regime to refer to all rebels.

An official in the Homs governor’s office told the AP on Monday that more than 60 per cent of the city is in government hands after scores of gunmen were killed or surrendered Sunday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to give information to the media during an ongoing military operation, said more than 1,500 residents fled the city due to intensified fighting.

Qusair-based opposition activist Hadi Abdullah denied official reports that the army was advancing in the town, saying they were still trying to storm it.

“They go in and out, until now I can say with confidence that they have not been able to enter the town and stay there,” Abdullah said.

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Feeling crabby? Look inside If you drop a crab into a bucket it will usually manage to climb back out.

However, if you drop two crabs into a bucket the first crab to attempt to climb out will be pulled back down by the other.

When you have a bucketful of crabs you don’t even need to worry about them escaping.

There will always be crabs pulling the other crabs back down.

Known as “crab bucket mentality” this has become a catch phrase to describe the all too frequent thinking of “if I can’t have it neither can you”.

We all have lofty aspiraSHANNON tions in our crabby little MCKINNON hearts and we all have crabs close to us who feel it’s their responsibility to set our feet back on the ground.

Crabs that seem irritated by our dreams and sometimes even our successes.

And let’s face it, some days we’re the ones reaching for the rim and some days we’re pulling others down.

Sometimes we don’t even think we’re being crabby. We’re simply feeling protective. You see a loved one teetering on the rim and you worry. It’s a long ways down and anything could happen.

They might break something or maybe a seagull will gobble them up. So you pull them back down to where it’s safe and familiar. You forget “safe and familiar” is still a crab bucket, and like life, no one is going to make it out of this thing alive.

Other times it’s envy. Strange how we always seem to be more jealous of the ones we share a bucket with than the ones we don’t.

When a celebrity loses a hundred pounds we are inspired.

When our best friend loses a hundred pounds we are a bit undone. If a stranger becomes a famous singer we’ll stand in line for hours to get an autograph.

If a high school friend becomes a famous singer, we’re in disbelief. Why is that?

It’s as if we believe each bucket has only so much success to go around. Like a pie. If someone grabs too big of a slice there might not be enough left for the rest of us. This makes about as much sense as thinking, “Well, Joan got greedy and lost 100 pounds.

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Now there’s no pounds left for the rest of us to lose so we’re just going to have to stay fat. Thanks a lot Joan.” There is no pie.

Each of us has everything we need already inside us, packaged up and waiting to be unwrapped.

And then there’s fear of change. We seem programmed to resist change, which is odd since change is the only thing we can really count on.

A dark part of our heart wishes Joan had just been content to stay beside us in the bucket eating nachos, making excuses and complaining.

If someone digs deep and manages to clamor their way out it shakes things up. It forces the rest of us to face the fact we could do it too. Now we know it’s not just crabs from other buckets that realize their dreams. Excuses are comfortable.

Blaming others for pulling us down is easy. Watching Joan exit the bucket is terrifying. It’s a path out of our comfort zone. Can we overcome our excuses and make our way out too?

Or will we give up and spend the rest of our lives— however long that might be—crabbing with the other crabs?

Where is “out” anyway? I believe out is in. It’s the art of finding peace and happiness inside you. If you’re an unhappy, bitter little crab inside the bucket, you’re going to be an unhappy, bitter little crab outside the bucket.

If upon learning about crab bucket mentality your first reaction is, “I knew those @#&%s were holding me back! It’s their fault I’m not happy!” you might be missing the point.

The Dalai Lama is quoted as saying, “If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue.”

It is impossible to hate someone for how they treated you in the past, trash people for their political beliefs, mock their religious practices or give in to whatever else affronts us and still be truly happy.

Hate—no matter how righteous we think it might be—is still hate and hate is what ultimately destroys us.

Perhaps the happiest people of all are neither pulling someone down nor shaking someone off, but the ones who spend their lives giving others a leg up.

Something to think about the next time I’m feeling crabby.

Shannon McKinnon is a syndicated columnist from Northern BC. You can catch up on past columns by visiting www.shannonmckinnon.com

Question: Now that I’m divorced, how can I stay involved with my kids and have a positive influence on them? Legally, I’m only allowed to have them a few days out of each month and my ex-wife is very strict in her interpretation of the court order.

Jim: You’re in a tough spot, and my heart goes out to you. So what can you do?

You might begin by praying the “Serenity Prayer”: God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference.

The application for you is obvious. You’re determined to JIM have an influence in the lives DALY of your children despite the breakup of your family. That requires courage.

It means finding the strength and fortitude to seize and maximize every opportunity that comes your way. Meanwhile, you have no choice but to accept your limitations and make the most of your circumstances.

When you do have time with your kids, make an intentional effort to put it to the best use. This doesn’t mean that you need to be a “Disneyland Dad.” In fact, it’s best to make your days and hours with them as “normal” (and as upbeat) as possible.

How do you do this? Here are a few suggestions: Resist the temptation to badmouth your ex-spouse or complain about the “system.” Don’t play the “blame game.”

Don’t try to compensate for the pain, loss and confusion of divorce by acting like Superman. All the exciting, expensive and exotic outings in the world can never take the place of a loving dad who is simply there for his children when they need him. So be there, whether that means sitting and talking with them, helping them with their homework or taking them out for ice cream.

Finally, you might find additional help and encouragement by joining a DivorceCare support group. For more information check out their website at www.divorcecare.org.

Catch up with Jim Daly at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.

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New food map will tell us what we buy, what we consume

BY MARY CLARE JALONICK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought.

Same goes for soda.

Until now, the only way to find out what people eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and changing food marketplace.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are trying to change that by creating a gargantuan map of what foods Americans are buying and eating.

Part of the uniqueness of the database is its ability to sort one product into what it really is — thousands of brands and variations.

Take the chocolate milk.

The government long has long classified chocolate milk with 2 per cent fat as one item.

But the UNC researchers, using scanner data from grocery stores and other commercial data, found thousands of different brands and variations of 2 per cent chocolate milk and averaged them out.

The results show that chocolate milk has about 11 calories per cup more than the government thought.

The researchers led by professor Barry Popkin at the UNC School of Public Health, are figuring out that chocolate milk equation over and over, with every single item in the grocery store.

It’s a massive project that could be the first evidence of how rapidly the marketplace is changing, and the best data yet on what exact ingredients and nutrients people are consuming.

That kind of information could be used to better target nutritional guidelines, push companies to cut down on certain ingredients and even help with disease research.

Just call it “mapping the food genome.”

“The country needs something like this, given all of the questions about our food supply,” says Popkin, the head of the UNC Food Research Program.

“We’re interested in improving the public’s health and it really takes this kind of knowledge.”

The project first came together in 2010 after a group of 16 major food companies pledged, as part of first lady Michelle Obama’s campaign to combat obesity, to reduce the calories they sell to the public by 1.5 trillion.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation agreed to fund a study to hold the companies accountable, eventually turning to UNC with grants totalling $6.7 million.

Aided by supercomputers on campus, Popkin and his team have taken existing commercial databases of food

items in stores and people’s homes, including the store-based scanner data of 600,000 different foods, and matched that information with the nutrition facts panels on the back of packages and government data on individuals’ dietary intake.

The result is an enormous database that has taken almost three years so far to construct and includes more detail than researchers have ever had on grocery store items — their individual nutritional content, who is buying them and their part in consumers’ diets.

The study will fill gaps in current data about the choices available to consumers and whether they are healthy, says Susan Krebs-Smith, who

researches diet and other risk factors related to cancer at the National Cancer Institute.

Government data, long the only source of information about American eating habits, can have a lag of several years and neglect entire categories of new types of products — Greek yogurt or energy drinks, for example.

With those significant gaps, the government information fails to account for the rapid change now seen in the marketplace. Now more than ever, companies are reformulating products on the fly as they try to make them healthier or better tasting.

While consumers may not notice changes in the ingredient panel on the

back of the package, the UNC study will pick up small variations in individual items and also begin to be able to tell how much the marketplace as a whole is evolving.

“When we are done we will probably see 20 per cent change in the food supply in a year,” Popkin says. “The food supply is changing and no one really knows how.”

For example, the researchers have found that there has been an increase in using fruit concentrate as a sweetener in foods and beverages because of a propensity toward natural foods, even though it isn’t necessarily healthier than other sugars.

While the soda and

chocolate milk have more calories on average than the government thought, the federal numbers were more accurate on the calories in milk and cereals.

Popkin and his researchers are hoping their project will only be the beginning of a map that consumers, companies, researchers and even the government can use, breaking the data down to find out who is eating what and where they shop.

Online: UNC Food Research Program: http://uncfoodresearchprogram.web. unc.edu Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation: http://www.healthyweightcommit.org

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