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H1N1 cases ‘tip of the iceberg’

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Ten people with influenza have so far been hospitalized in Central Alberta.

H1N1, the 2009 pandemic flu, is the influenza A strain causing the most grief this season.

As of Dec. 28, there were 83 lab-confirmed flu cases in Alberta Health Services Central Zone, of which 79 were H1N1.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw, a Central Zone medical officer of health, said those cases are likely the “tip of the iceberg” as most people do not get tested.

“Although the total number of cases of influenza is about the same as what we typically see in an average season,

there are more cases that are sicker,” Hinshaw said on Tuesday.

“A number of the cases that required hospitalization have needed to be in ICU.”

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Snowfall stands out in year of wild weather

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by MYLES FISH/Advocate staff

Parents Melanie Cappiello and Eric Stebenne sit with their children Jade (left), Miah (right), and Luca, who is Red Deer’s New Year’s Baby of 2014. The couple’s son was born at 4:26 a.m. Wednesday.

RCMP couple have New Year’s baby

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Melanie Cappiello and Eric Stebenne celebrated the advent of another year as per usual on Tuesday evening with the popping of a champagne cork at the midnight hour.

A short time later, there was something much more exciting to celebrate — the birth of Red Deer’s 2014 New Year’s baby, their son Luca Stebenne.

The couple’s third child came into the world at Red Deer Regional Hospital at 4:26 a.m. Wednesday, weighing a healthy seven pounds, 15 ounces.

The common-law couple celebrated

New Year’s Eve on Tuesday night by watching Québécois television shows, and at midnight Stebenne had some champagne to celebrate. With Cappiello’s parents, visiting from B.C., they enjoyed the evening before turning in at 2 a.m.

Please see BABY on Page A2

A weather roller-coaster, bookended by significant snowfalls, brought highs and lows weather-wise to Central Alberta in 2013.

Bill McMurtry, an Environment Canada meteorologist, said it was a year of swings in terms of weather, with unpredictability being at the forefront.

“We saw significant swings in the weather from colder than usual to warmer than usual to drier than normal to wetter than normal, all in successive months,” said McMurtry. “It was quite a variation.”

But after the up-and-down weather of the year, Red Deer got smacked in the face and all over the ground with a record snowfall in November, as well as a record two-month snowfall in November and December.

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Dream home winner bought ticket on day of the draw

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Linda Boyd just did not want to pick up the phone.

For one, she and partner Larry Petersen had just sat down for a late New Year’s Eve dinner and glass of wine around 8 p.m. Tuesday. On top of that, she did not recognize the number that was calling her.

That caller was persistent, though, and after letting her home and cell phones ring out a few times, she decided to listen to one of the messages the caller had left: “Good evening, I’m looking for a Linda Boyd. My name is Len Sisco, and

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Those words alone still did not entirely convince her that she should return the call, though. What did finally make her think it was the real deal were the excited voices of others she could hear in the background.

When she did return Sisco’s call, she got the news — of the 12,424 tickets in the barrel for the Kinsmen Dream Home draw, hers had been picked out; she had won the house.

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Linda Boyd, right, celebrates her winning of the Kinsmen Dream Home Lottery with friends at the Vanier Woods East home on Wednesday. Boyd bought her ticket Tuesday morning and was drawn as the winner later that night.

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WEATHER: Worse winter since 1942 Red Deer historian Michael Dawe said this winter has been the worst since 1942. That year, winter started with a massive snowfall on Nov. 15 and didn’t let up.

According to Environment Canada, 1924 produced the record November-December snowfall of 104.9 cm — until Monday. The two-month record was broken on Dec. 30, when Red Deer reached 109.9 cm. The average November-December snow is about 36 cm.

“We’re approaching almost three times the amount of snow we’d typically see for NovemberDecember.”

Weather statistics for Red Deer are measured at the airport.

Environment Canada records, which date back to 1904, indicate that this November was the snowiest

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Joe Mills works to remove snow from the sidewalk and parking lot of the First Church of the Nazarene in Morrisroe on Tuesday. on record for the area. A total of 62.5 cm of snow was recorded, breaking the 1996 record of 56 cm. The record for December was not broken, however, as only about 47 cm fell in 2013, which is off the 1924 record of 88 cm.

“Snowfall really stood out for the calendar year,” said McMurtry. “Typically, Red Deer receives about 116 cm. So far, it has received 190 cm. It is about 60 per cent more snow in 2013.”

The year started out promising for Central Alberta as warmer than normal temperatures dominated January and February 2013. McMurtry said both months had temperatures three degrees above normal.

“That’s a significant departure when you’re looking at a two-month period to see temperatures that much warmer than average,” said McMurtry. “But then we gave away those temperatures quite quickly because March and April were exactly the opposite, on average three degrees cooler than normal. We saw significantly cooler temperatures than what we would see in March and April.”

This meant the snow stayed longer, as McMurtry said there were about 28 cm of snow in April, which is more than the normal 11 to 12 cm.

“The winter just seemed to drag on into early spring.”

May was warmer than normal, but only marginally, while June and July were par for the course.

Similarly to temperature variance, rainfall had its ups and downs in 2013. McMurtry said while there were some wetter than normal months, May and June, they were followed by dry conditions in August and September. About 296 mm of rain fell in 2013, down from the average of 381 mm.

“Once we got into August and September, they were quite a bit warmer than normal,” said McMurtry. “Temperatures were, on average, about two to three degrees above normal and October was pretty much average.”

But 2013 closed out with a cold November and December, on average three degrees below normal, along with the significant snowfalls. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

LOTTERY: Money funds local agency When she got over her initial sense of disbelief, Boyd called friends with whom the couple had been talking about going out to celebrate the new year earlier in the day, asking them to come with her and Petersen into Red Deer because she had won the dream home.

“So we called them and they thought it was a spoof to make them get up to go out,” Boyd, 52, laughed.

After a half hour, Boyd made the drive in to Red Deer for a celebratory first look at the 3,000-squarefoot, $890,000 home in Vanier Woods East. Still somewhat in disbelief, she had to admit to the person describing the home’s amenities to her upon her arrival that she was not exactly taking in much of what he was saying.

Boyd said she has bought a ticket for the home lottery most years, but she almost forgot to in 2013. It was only hearing a reminder on the radio Tuesday morning that prompted her to go online and purchase a single ticket. Some 12 hours later, she had won the grand prize.

“It’s one of those things — it’s great to win, but if you don’t win you know your money is going to work

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They would not be asleep long.

“She woke me up at 3:27 a.m. We got ready really quick, took a quick shower, came down to the hospital and hit a locked door at the entrance we normally use. So we had to go to (the emergency department), so that delayed us a little bit.

“We made it to the delivery room at 4:18 a.m., and two contractions later at 4:26 a.m., the baby was here,” said Stebenne, 42.

Two hours later, Cappiello, 32, had showered, changed, and was feeling great. She had never really considered the possibility that she could give birth to the city’s New Year’s baby, because doctors had given her due dates of Jan. 2 and Jan. 4 in her pregnancy’s early stages.

“I knew it was probably going to happen fast, I just didn’t know when,” said Cappiello.

Fast indeed. The couple’s first two daughters took three and two hours respectively, including driving time, to be delivered; Stebenne joked that if the couple continues having children, he might have to deliver the next one himself in the garage.

Both Cappiello and Stebenne are originally from Quebec, and they came to Red Deer in early 2013 from B.C. The couple crammed into a fifth-wheel trailer with their now four- and two-year-old daughters for their first five-and-a-half months in the city before moving into a new home in August.

Both of Luca’s parents work with the RCMP — Cappiello is a constable with the Red Deer force; Stebenne, a sergeant, is a trainer at the Police Dog Service Training Centre in Innisfail.

The parents have never known the sex of their children in advance of them being born, and so had the name Luca picked out in 2009 — the only boy’s name they could agree upon.

Last year’s New Year’s baby in Red Deer was born at 12:04 a.m., but this year Luca won the title comfortably, as there was not another birth for a few hours after he was born. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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in the community,” she said.

Whether she will actually move into the house or sell it, though, is a decision she will mull over for the next few months. While loving the dream home for its open, airy feel and with friends living in the neighbourhood, Boyd’s current home in Sylvan Lake gives her easy access to the water that she loves to use for sailing.

Overall, 88 per cent of all tickets for the lottery were sold, up from 70 per cent last year and the highest percentage since 2006. Sisco, chair of the lottery, said increased promotion on social media this year helped, and the Larkaun Homes-built house impressed a lot of people who would buy a ticket, tour the home, and then buy another one.

Money raised through the lottery will go to a number of local agencies, such as Family Services of Central Alberta and the Central Alberta Emergency Women’s Shelter. Sisco estimated that approximately $400,000 would be raised this year, up from about $150,000 last year.

Other prizes won through the lottery included a truck, a quad, a hot tub, and a trip to Mexico.

Iris Eliuk won nearly $75,000 in the 50/50 draw, run for only the second time in 2013. The other half of the funds raised through the draw will go towards a renovation project at Camp Alexo. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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She was admitted by ambulance on Dec. 24 and is still sedated to allow for a breathing tube.

“Her condition is stable. It’s just a question of time for her lungs to heal and her body to combat the virus. Most likely we’re looking at a month or two for sure,” Resta said.

He said both of them were battling the flu at the same time, but when he started to get better, she got worse.

Lab-confirmed flu in Central Alberta has jumped since Dec. 21, when there were 47 cases, the majority H1N1.

As of Dec. 28, across the province there were 662 lab-confirmed cases and 621 were H1N1.

Three deaths in the province have been attributed to the flu so far this season. None were from Central Alberta.

No outbreaks have been confirmed at local schools or nursing homes.

Hinshaw said H1N1, which is one of three strains included in this year’s flu vaccine, has been present during the typical flu season since 2009 but for some reason has become the dominate strain.

“What we’re seeing is those people who have been hospitalized, most of them did not have an influenza vaccine at all or they had started getting sick within two weeks of getting the vaccine.”

It takes two weeks to become protected after the vaccine is administered.

She said H1N1 affects young to middle-age adults more than seniors, who are typically the high-risk category.

Since there are more cases around, its spread is more likely, but it’s not too late to try to stay healthy by getting immunized, she said.

“Everyone in Central Alberta who hasn’t been vaccinated yet, we encourage them to go to their local public health unit.”

Mass immunization clinics have been set up elsewhere in Alberta to address the surge in cases, but in Central Alberta the demand has been manageable with the regularly scheduled clinics, Hinshaw said.

Resta said neither he nor his wife were immunized. It was suspected that their daughter had H1N1 in 2009 so the couple thought they were immune. As soon as he is healthier, Resta intends to get immunized — just in case.

The flu vaccine is available at Johnstone Crossing Community Health Centre on Jan. 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 14. Call for an appointment.

Immunization is available on a drop-in basis at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre Fred Vincent Wellness Centre from 12:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28 and 29.

Some physicians and pharmacists also provide the vaccine.

The vaccine is free to all Albertans six months of age and older. A nasal spray is available for children age two to 17.

Alberta Health Services says those at risk for serious health problems from influenza are generally children younger than two and adults 65 and older; people with weakened immune systems; those with chronic illnesses such as heart, lung or kidney disease, diabetes and cancer; and severely overweight individuals. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Hike tobacco taxes to cut smoking: experts deaths this century.”

The 2013 World Health Assembly — the annual general meeting of the World Health Organization — issued the challenge to governments to reduce smoking among their populations by 2025.

“Without large price increases, a reduction in smoking by a third would be difficult to achieve,” Jha and Peto argue.

Jha says that as incomes rise in countries like India, smoking is growing in popularity. He and

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TORONTO — A pair of leading tobacco control experts are urging countries to significantly boost tobacco excise taxes, saying it is the best way to reach the global goal of cutting the prevalence of smoking by one-third by 2025.

The experts say a steep rise in tobacco excise taxes would double the cost of cigarettes on the street in developing countries where prices are currently low and the numbers of smokers are climbing rapidly.

They say this type of approach has resulted in substantial reductions in the portion of the population that smokes in countries that have used it, including Canada and France.

The arguments are laid out in a review article by Dr. Prabhat Jha, a public health professor at the University of Toronto, and Sir Richard Peto, a professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at Oxford University.

The article is published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine.

They say that if current smoking patterns continue unabated, about one billion people will die from tobacco-related causes this century, most of them in low- and middle-income countries.

Doubling the cost of cigarettes would prompt some current smokers to quit and prevent others from starting, leading to a major drop in tobacco 3-PIECE deaths.

“There are no magic KITCHEN APPLIANCES bullets in public health.

But tobacco taxes are as close to a silver bullet as you can think of,” Jha, who is also with Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, said in an interview from New Delhi.

“Higher taxes are the single best way to get people to quit smoking.

Quitting seriously would avoid something like 200 million premature

Peto say that about 1.3 billion people — or one out of every seven people on the globe — smoke. Most of those smokers are in developing countries, where quitting is not common.

“The reason smoking is going up in poor countries is because cigarettes are cheap. Particularly when incomes have grown, people are able to buy cigarettes at a lower price relative to their incomes.”

Raising excise taxes on tobacco would start to close that gap, Jha says.

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Snowden made history It’s always dangerous to declare “mission accomplished.”

F o r m e r U.S. president George W. Bush did it weeks after he invaded Iraq, and it will be quoted in history books a century hence as proof of his arrogance and his ignorance.

British Prime Minister David GWYNNE Cameron did DYER it a couple of weeks ago in Afghanistan, and you didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

But when Edward Snowden said it this week — “In terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished” — nobody laughed.

Unless you just want a list of events, a year-end piece should be a first draft of history that tries to identify where the flow of events is really taking us.

By that standard, Snowden comes first.

The former National Security Agency contractor, once an unremarkable man, saw where the combination of new technologies and institutional empire-building was taking us, and stepped in front of the juggernaut to stop it.

“You recognise that you’re going in blind ...” Snowden told the Washington Post. “But when you weigh that against the alternative, which is not to act, you realize that some analysis is better than no analysis.”

So he fled his country taking a huge cache of secret documents with him, and started a global debate about the acceptability of mass surveillance techniques that the vast majority of people did not even know existed.

The bloated American “security” industry and its political and military allies call him a traitor and claim that “everybody already knew that all governments spy,” but that is a shameless distortion of the truth. Almost nobody outside the industry knew the scale and reach of what was going on, nor did the U.S. government and its faithful sidekick, the British government, want them to know.

As Snowden, now living in exile in Russia, put it in a Christmas broadcast on Britain’s Channel 4: “A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought.”

Unless, that is, the monster of staterun mass surveillance is brought under control.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon called the NSA’s mass surveillance program “almost Orwellian,” and in a 68-page ruling declared that the indiscriminate collection of “metadata” by the government probably violates the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (relating to unreasonable searches and seizures).

Leon also rejected the spies’ usual defence that their techniques are vital to stop the evil terrorists from killing us all: “The government does not cite a single case in which analysis of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent terrorist attack.”

The spooks’ stock response would be that they could have told him, but then they’d have to kill him.

The truth is that they snooped on everybody just because they could. It’s called hubris.

This is not just an American issue, though the protagonists in the debate that Snowden has unleashed are inevitably American. These techniques are available to every government, or soon will be. The tyrannies will naturally use them to control their citizens.

But other countries have a choice. The future health of liberal democratic societies depends on the restrictions we place on these techniques in this decade.

“The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it,” Snowden said in his Channel 4 broadcast. “Together we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance and remind the government that if it really wants to know

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Once an unremarkable man, Edward Snowden saw where the combination of new technologies and institutional empire-building was taking us, and stepped in front of the juggernaut to stop it. how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying.”

He has paid a high price to give us this opportunity, and we should use it.

Now, in no particular order, some other new things this year, most of them unwelcome.

Have you noticed that protesters are starting to use non-violent techniques to overthrow democratically elected governments?

We have grown familiar with the scenes of unarmed crowds taking over the streets and forcing dictators to quit: it didn’t always succeed, but from Manila in 1986 to Cairo in 2011, it had a pretty good success rate and at least two dozen dictators bit the dust.

But the crowds were back in Tahrir Square in Cairo last July to overthrow President Mohammed Morsi, who had been elected only one year before in a free election.

Morsi won with only 51.7 per cent of the vote, and a lot of people who did vote for him were holding their noses.

The secular liberals who had made the revolution in 2011 divided their votes between several rival presidential candidates, leaving voters in the second round with only a choice between Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, and an adversary who was part of the old regime.

Morsi often talked as if he had a mandate to Islamize Egyptian society (though he didn’t actually do all that much), and it alarmed the former revolutionaries. They could and should have waited for the next election, which Morsi would certainly have lost, mainly because the economy was still a wreck. But they were too impatient, so they made a deal with the army and went back out on the square.

Their little pantomime of non-violent protest lasted only two days before the army stepped in and removed Morsi from power. It subsequently murdered about a thousand of Morsi’s supporters in the streets of Cairo to consolidate its rule, while the men and women who had been the heroes of the 2011 revolution cheered the soldiers on. And now these “useful idiots” are joining Morsi and his supporters in the regime’s jails: the counter-revolution is complete.

But it gets weirder: in Thailand, for the past two months, non-violent protestors have been explicitly demanding the end of democracy. They are relatively privileged people, mostly from Bangkok and the south, who bitterly resent the fact that a series of elected governments led by Thaksin Shinawatra or his sister Yingluck has been spending their tax money to improve the lives of the impoverished rural majority in the north of Thailand.

Naturally, most of the poor vote for the Shinawatras, who win every time there is an election. In 2006, the rich party (“yellow shirts”) conspired with the army to remove the party of the poor (“red shirts”) in a coup, but as soon as there was an election the Shinawatras’ party returned to power. So now the “non-violent protests” have begun again, supported by the prosperous middle class of Bangkok, and this

time they are demanding a non-elected “people’s council” made up (surprise!) of people like them.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra responded on Dec. 9 by calling an election. But of course the “yellow shirts” don’t want an election, because they would lose it. They have declared a boycott of the vote, scheduled for February, and resumed their demonstrations. Democracy is their enemy, and non-violence is their weapon.

There was a point when it looked like the mass demonstrations in Ukraine that began in late November were heading in the same direction.

The protests were originally against President Viktor Yanukovich’s refusal to sign an association agreement with the European Union, which was legitimate — and they did deter the president (who was under severe pressure from Moscow) from joining a Russianled customs union instead.

So far, so good — but the opposition leaders have also been playing with the idea of using the demonstrations in Kiev as a way of forcing the elected president out of power. That has been done once before, in 2005, when the extra-constitutional action was justified by a rigged election, but there is no such justification this time – and it is unwise to make a habit of changing governments this way in a country that is so evenly divided between the proMoscow, Russian-speaking east and the pro-EU, Ukrainian-speaking west.

The outcome is unclear in both Thailand and Ukraine, but non-violence can now also work for the Dark Side.

Meanwhile, in Africa, wars have exploded across the continent this year like a string of firecrackers. In January, France sent troops to Mali after Islamist rebels who had already captured the sparsely populated north of the country threatened to overrun the rest of it as well. The north was more or less reconquered by mid-year, but the situation remains highly fraught.

In March Muslim rebels captured Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. Their leaders quickly lost control, and the rebel troops began to massacre Christians. Christian militias then began carrying out mass reprisals against the Muslim civilian minority, and thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, were dead before French troops arrived in December. A kind of peace has now descended on the capital, but elsewhere, who knows?

And in December a full-scale civil war suddenly broke out in South Sudan between the country’s two biggest ethnic groups, the Dinka and the Nuer. Pogroms have emptied Nuer districts in the capital, and there are tank battles near the oil-fields as the army splits on Dinka-Nuer lines. The African Union is stripping troops from its other peacekeeping missions to strengthen its force in South Sudan, but this war could end up with killing on a Rwandan scale.

The African continent is emphatically not at war, but the band of territory between the equator and about 15 degrees North is in very deep trouble.

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You can’t just blame all these wars on the fact that the dividing line between Muslims to the north and Christians to the south generally runs through this territory. Mali, after all, is almost entirely Muslim, and South Sudan contains very few Muslims. Maybe it’s just that these countries are all among the poorest in Africa, and the traditional social networks are collapsing under the strain.

The good news is that there are no major wars anywhere else in the world — except Syria, of course. But there are already 120,000 dead in Syria, and more than a quarter of the population is living as refugees either inside Syria or in the neighbouring countries. Siege warfare conditions prevail across much of the country, now a patchwork quilt of government- and oppositioncontrolled areas.

The United States went to the brink of bombing the regime’s key centres after poison gas was used in Damascus in August, but it managed to avoid war after the Russians persuaded Bashar al-Assad to surrender all his chemical weapons. And by now there is nobody left for the United States to back in the Syrian war even if it wanted to, because the larger rebel groups are rapidly falling under the influence of extreme Islamist organizations including al-Qaida.

As evidence of how little Washington wants to be drawn back into the Syrian mess, there is now an attempt underway to defuse the 34-year-old U.S.-Iranian confrontation by negotiating a deal on Iran’s nuclear programme. Meanwhile, if Iran wants to go on supporting the Syrian regime with arms and money, Washington will not object very loudly.

So the war can go on indefinitely, and it has become a proxy Sunni-Shia war. The arms pour in from Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to the rebel groups, and from Iran and Iraq to the Syrian regime, because the former are all Sunni Muslims and the latter are all Shia Muslims. (Assad’s regime is drawn mainly from the 10-percent Alawite minority in Syria, which observes a deviant form of Shia Islam.)

And the risk grows that all this Sunni-Shia hostility could morph into something like Europe’s 16th-century wars of religion, with Sunni or Shia minorities rebelling in Arab countries like Iraq, Lebanon, or Saudi Arabia.

What else? Oh, yes, a list. Right, then. Iran sent a monkey into space in January, North Korea carried out its third underground nuclear test in February, and the Catholic Church got a new head when Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina became Pope Francis I in March.

The United States also fell off the “fiscal cliff” in March, but nobody was hurt. Xi Jinping took over as president of the People’s Republic of China for the next ten years (no election required), and “Curiosity”, the Mars rover, found evidence for running water in ancient times on the red planet. It was a busy month.

In April, Nicolas Maduro was narrowly elected president of Venezuela a month after Hugo Chavez’s death.

In May, Silvio Berlusconi, three times prime minister of Italy, was sentenced to four years in prison for fraud. In June, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin announced his divorce.

In July, Croatia joined the European Union. In August, Robert Mugabe won his seventh term as president of Zimbabwe at the age of 89. And in September Japan, emotionally shaken by the Fukushima incident, switched off the last of its fifty nuclear reactors. (This means the Japanese will be burning far more coal to keep the lights on, and so they have cut their target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 from 25 per cent to only 3.8 per cent.

But they probably feel better about it, so that’s all right.)

In October, New Zealand announced the official Maori-language alternative names for North Island (Te Ika-aMaui) and South Island (Te Waipounamu). In November, Typhoon Haiyan, possibly the largest tropical storm to make landfall in recorded history, devastated the central Philippines. And in December, the Chinese spacecraft Chang’e landed the Jade Rabbit rover on the Moon. It was the first soft landing on the Moon since 1976. So you see, there is progress.

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Sri Lanka kept tabs on MP NEW DEMOCRAT OF TAMIL BACKGROUND SAYS SHE FACED ’POLITICAL INTIMIDATION’ DURING VISIT TO COUNTRY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A New Democrat MP of Tamil heritage says she experienced “political intimidation” during a private visit to her native Sri Lanka, but that authorities stopped short of trying to kick her out of the country.

In a statement issued Wednesday, Rathika Sitsabaiesan said she was warned by Sri Lankan officials that she could be arrested and deported.

Canadian officials were scrambling on New Year’s Eve to determine the veracity of reports that Sitsabaiesan, a Toronto-area MP, had been placed under house arrest.

Sitsabaiesan said in the statement that she had received word from the Canadian High Commission in Colombo that there was in fact no Sri Lankan arrest warrant in her name.

Sitsabaiesan, 32, came to Canada with her family at the age of five and was elected to the House of Commons in 2011 in the Toronto-area riding of Scarborough-Rouge River.

She played a prominent role in New Democrat efforts to persuade the

Conservative government to boycott a meeting of Commonwealth leaders in Sri Lanka last November. Prime Minister Stephen Harper did not attend, citing the Sri Lankan government’s human rights record. However, Deepak Obhrai, a parliamentary secretary, did represent Canada at the Colombo meeting.

The New Democrats and others have called for the Asian country’s government to submit to an investigation of alleged war crimes during the lengthy civil war between the military and Tamil insurgents seeking an independent homeland.

“My experiences since arriving in Sri Lanka are a reminder that defending principles of human rights is not easy, but I continue to believe that it is only through open dialogue and freedom of expression that people can ultimately achieve healing and reconciliation,” Sitsabaiesan said in the statement.

She added that she now looks forward “to exploring and learning more about the country of my birth.”

New Democrat MP Paul Dewar, who has spoken to Sitsabaiesan, said

Wednesday his caucus colleague had been followed and closely monitored

by Sri Lankan authorities during her stay.

“Her intention was to visit the country of her birth, and to visit friends and family,” said Dewar, the party’s foreign affairs critic.

“As soon as she arrived it became clear that the authorities were keeping a close tab on her. And then she started to receive warnings that she should be careful of whom she speaks to, where she goes.

“This is a pattern we’ve seen with the Sri Lankan government.”

Two Green Party MPs — one from Australia, the other from New Zealand — had their passports confiscated in November just before a planned news conference in Sri Lanka to describe human rights abuses they were told of during their trip.

Dewar said authorities showed up at Sitsabaiesan’s hotel Tuesday night to try to meet with her but she did not respond.

Officials were concerned that Sitsabaiesan, who is in the country on a visitor’s visa, had met with a Sri Lank-

an MP and had visited an orphanage, Dewar said. The visits involved family, he added, noting the local MP was a cousin.

Sitsabaiesan should not be prevented from seeing a family member who happens to be active in politics, he said.

“That’s why we wanted to be very public about what she was doing, whom she was meeting with. And that we didn’t believe, and she doesn’t believe, that this is in any way shape or form outside of what the conditions were for her visa.”

Officials at the Canadian High Commission were in touch with Sitsabaiesan again Wednesday and learned that she had not been interviewed by Sri Lankan authorities about her visa, said Caitlin Workman, a Foreign Affairs spokeswoman.

Sitsabaiesan intends to stay until Saturday when her visa expires, he said.

Dewar added that Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird had contacted him to say he was aware of what was going on, “and we certainly appreciate that support.”

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Swimmers run into the waters of Deep Cove in North Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday to ring in the new year by taking part in the annual Penguin Plunge. The swim dates back to 1920, and people from as far away as Japan assembled at English Bay to take a plunge. Eri Okinaga says she returned to Vancouver from Japan to participate in her first swim and she’s says she feels crazy to be participating in the event. Goldie Hoffman wore a pink wig, a black and white body suit and pink bikini and says the swim is her first and wanted to do something crazy, too. In Oakville, near Toronto, people clad in bathing suits braved frosty air as they waded into the frigid waters of Lake Ontario. There were swims in a number of other communities including Halifax and Calgary.

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Few hundred customers still without power in New Brunswick after ice storm SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Several hundred people are still waiting for the lights to come back on in New Brunswick, more than a week after an ice storm left tens of thousands of people shivering in the dark.

NB Power says about 73 customers in southern New Brunswick had yet to be reconnected on Wednesday evening.

Spokesman Brent Staeben says the utility expected only a few dozen customers would still be without power on Thursday.

The Canadian Red Cross says their warming centres and shelters have all closed as there was no longer a demand for them.

At one point, about 50,000 NB Power customers were without electricity as ice-laden trees snapped and pulled down power lines across the province.

Meanwhile, New Brunswick’s Emergency Measures Organization is advising residents of a prolonged stretch of cold weather.

The organization is asking residents to check on vulnerable neighbours and bring their pets inside.

It says the province is ready to distribute emergency supplies of food, water, firewood, kerosene and other necessities.

In Ontario, the provincial utility Hydro One reported that about 480 customers remained without power while Toronto Hydro at least report said there were 100 customers who were off the grid.

Former adviser to prime ministers Pearson and Trudeau, dead at 75 OTTAWA — Jim Coutts, a former advisor to prime ministers Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau, died on Tuesday after a battle with cancer.

He was 75. Coutts was a lawyer, businessman and key figure within Canada’s Liberal party.

He was secretary to Pearson between 1963 and 1966. He went on to serve as principal secretary to Trudeau between 1975 and 1981, and was regarded as one of the powerful figures in Ottawa during that period.

Coutts, who obtained a law degree from University of Alberta and an MBA from Harvard Business School, later became involved with several foundations and public policy organizations.

The High River-native was named a member of the Order of Canada in 2001.

SURREY, B.C. — A British Columbia hockey mom who was viciously attacked as she waited for her son at a Surrey hockey rink died Tuesday.

Sgt. Adam MacIntosh of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said Julie Paskall succumbed to the injuries she suffered on Sunday night outside the Newton Arena.

Police said from the outset that the 53-year-old mother of three was not expected to survive and Paskall’s family gathered at her hospital bedside as she remained on life support to say goodbye.

Relative Randy Paskall posted a heartbreaking message on Facebook.

“Off to say a last goodbye to a friend and family member of 35 years. One who taught me much in the rules of life, made me a better person, picked me up when I was down, showed me a better road, and was what a person/ friend/parent/mother/daughter/wife/ role model should strive to be in this thing called life,” he wrote.

“Nothing can bring her back, it will never be the same without her, no matter what happens after this, let us weep but not lose strength or most of all WHO we are.

“My message to you my friends, is to keep your heads up, this is no longer the world we grew up in. Stay vigilant.

Stay safe. Stay healthy.”

Police suspect Paskall was the victim of a random robbery as she waited for her referee son to finish officiating a minor hockey game.

“This was an unprovoked attack,” MacIntosh said. “It appears the motive remains robbery, and... we’re working very hard to try and find out what happened.”

Investigators were reviewing surveillance tape and appealed for public assistance to identify a suspect. They believe the attack is similar to another in the same Metro Vancouver area on Dec. 16.

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Egyptian telecom company investigated BLOGGER ACCUSES ONLINE AD OF SENDING A CODED MESSAGE LINKED TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD CAIRO, Egypt — Prosecutors have questioned officials in one of Egypt’s largest telecommunications companies over an online advertisement featuring a puppet, which a controversial blogger has accused of delivering a coded message linked to the Muslim Brotherhood group, the company said Wednesday.

The accusations made against Vodafone Egypt’s ad starring well-known puppet Abla Fahita come shortly after the government designated the Brotherhood a terrorist organization. The government accused the Brotherhood of orchestrating a series of attacks by Sinai militants, but has provided little evidence to prove the connection. The Brotherhood denies the accusations.

Ahmed “Spider,” a self-style youth activist known as a strong supporter of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, says code about an upcoming attack is included in the details of the puppet ad.

Fahita and her daughter Karkoura search for her deceased’s husband sim card, while explaining to her friend over the phone about another character “Mama Touta.” In the background, a radio anchor explains how to make “stuffed turkey” for Christmas while sitting next to a cactus from which ball ornaments were dangling. She says she asked the building guards to get a sniffer dog of a shopping mall to search for missing things and gets money in return.

Spider explained the alleged code on the Al-Tahrir network on Tuesday night: the mall and the dog refer to the planned site of the attack, and “Mama Touta” is the Brotherhood’s secret name.

“The dog, garage, guard, mall and next to us these are elements tell us that there will be a big mall and an explosion after a dog . fails to find the bomb in a car,” Spider said.

He said he filed a complaint with Egypt’s prosecutor general who referred it to state security prosecutors, who handle terrorism and other political allegations.

His lawyer told another TV network,

el-Faraeen, that an ornament on the cactus refers to the bomb. The cactus has four branches referring to Muslim Brotherhood group’s Rabaah sign, commemorating the victims of a deadly crackdown on a protest camp held next to Rabaah el-Adawiya mosque in eastern Cairo. Rabaah is Arabic for “fourth” and is also a name.

A statement by Vodafone said that the prosecutors summoned the company representatives and asked about the accusations, but didn’t make any accusations themselves.

It described the accusations as “irrational.” It said that the advertisement is only for “marketing aiming at explaining how to reactivate a Vodafone sim card and attract audience to the product.”

“The advertisement carries no other meaning . and any other interpretation other than that is mere imagination or personal opinion of some of the audience,” the statement sent to The Associated Press read.

Egypt has cracked down heavily on the Brotherhood since the July 3 coup that toppled President Mohammed Morsi, who hails from the group, following demonstrations by millions calling on him to leave office.

The crackdown has recently expanded to include secular activists who opposed the Brotherhood. Critics say the authorities are trying to stifle all dissent.

The government’s defenders have often alluded to foreign plots against the state, leading to what some activists call an atmosphere of spy hysteria.

In August, police in southern Egypt detained a migratory stork that a citizen suspected of being a spy. The electronic device attached to it however turned out to be a wildlife tracker.

Also in 2013, a security guard filed a police report after capturing a pigeon he said carried microfilm. A previous rumour in 2010 blamed a series of shark attacks along Egypt’s Mediterranean coast on an Israeli plot. It wasn’t.

Egypt has seen a series of recent bomb attacks, including a suicide bombing of a security headquarters last month that left 16 dead in a Nile Delta city.

Former first lady hospitalized in Texas BARBARA BUSH SENT TO HOSPITAL WITH A RESPIRATORY RELATED ISSUE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — Former first lady Barbara Bush remains hospitalized with a respiratory-related issue, but her condition hasn’t changed, a spokesman for her husband’s office said Wednesday.

Bush, 88, was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital on Monday, though it wasn’t announced until former President George H.W. Bush’s office released a statement Tuesday night.

“She is in great spirits, has already received visits from her husband and family, and is receiving fantastic care,” the statement read, promising to provide updates as warranted.

Jim McGrath, a spokesman for the former president, said there was “nothing new to report” on Wednesday.

In the meantime, President Barack Obama said he hopes Bush gets well soon.

“Michelle and I send our best wishes to Mrs. Bush for a speedy recovery,” the president said in a written statement.

“Barbara is blessed to have both a loving, supportive family by her side and a vibrant spirit that we hope will have her feeling better soon.”

He added: “I know I speak for Americans everywhere when I say that our thoughts and prayers are with Barbara and her family on this New Year’s Day.” Bush and her husband, the 41st president, live in Houston and still make public appearances. Last week, they honoured a Houston businessman and philanthropist with a Points of Light Award, a volunteer service award started by the former president.

Also Wednesday, former President Bill Clinton tweeted: “I’ll be rooting for Barbara Bush’s full recovery while she’s rooting for Baylor today.

All the best to her and to (at)GeorgeHWBush.”

Baylor plays Central Florida in the Fiesta Bowl on Wednesday

night.

The former first lady had a reputation for bluntness when her husband was president. Her son, George W. Bush, was the 43rd president.

The Bush family matriarch had heart surgery in March 2009 for a severe narrowing of the main heart valve.

She also was hospitalized in November 2008, when she underwent surgery for a perforated ulcer. In 2010, she was admitted to the hospital after having a mild relapse of Graves disease, a thyroid condition for which she was treated in 1989.

Health concerns had been more common of late with her 89-year-old husband, the nation’s oldest living former president. George H.W. Bush was released in January 2013 after he spent nearly two months at Houston Methodist Hospital, being treated for a bronchitis-related cough and other health issues.

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Ukrainian nationalists carry torches during a rally in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, late Wednesday. The rally was organized on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Stepan Bandera, founder of a rebel army that fought against the Soviet regime and who was assassinated in Germany in 1959.

Torch-lit march honours Ukrainian nationalist leader THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine — About 15,000 people marched through Kyiv on Wednesday night to honour Stepan Bandera, glorified by some as a leader of Ukraine’s liberation movement and dismissed by others as a Nazi collaborator.

The march was held in Ukraine’s capital on what would have been Bandera’s 105th birthday, and many of the celebrants carried torches.

Some wore the uniform of a Ukrainian division of the German army during World War II. Others chanted “Ukraine above all!” and “Bandera, come and bring order!”

However, many of Bandera’s followers sought to play down his collaboration with the Germans in the fight for Ukraine’s independence as the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Ukraine’s foremost nationalist organization in the first half of the 20th century.

Bandera, who died 55 year ago, remains a deeply divisive figure in Ukraine, glorified by many in western Ukraine as a freedom fighter but dismissed by millions in eastern and southeastern Ukraine as a traitor to the Soviet Union’s struggle against the occupying German army.

Bandera was a leader of Ukraine’s nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s, which included an insurgent army that fought alongside Nazi soldiers during part of the Second World War.

Bandera’s supporters claim they sided with the Nazis against the Soviet army, believing that Adolf Hitler would grant Ukraine independence.

Ihor Mykolaiv, one of Wednesday night’s torch bearers, described Bandera as a man “who fought for the country, the faith and the ideals,” but insisted that “Bandera never was on the Germans’ side.”

However, Bandera did collaborate with the Nazis and receive German funding for subversive acts in the USSR as German forces advanced across Poland and into the Soviet Union at the start of the war.

He fell out with the Nazis in 1941, after the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists declared Ukraine’s independence, and he was sent to a concentration camp.

Bandera won back Germany’s support in 1944, and he was released. The German army was hoping the Ukrainian insurgents could stop the advance of the Soviet army, which had regained control over much of eastern Ukraine by then. Bandera set up a headquarters in Berlin and oversaw the training of Ukrainian insurgents by the German army.

His group also was involved in the ethnic cleansing that killed tens of thousands of Poles in 1942-44. The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists portrayed Russians, Poles, Hungarians and Jews — most of the minorities in western Ukraine — as aliens and encouraged locals to “destroy” Poles and Jews.

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Larissa Niec, a PCIT therapist and psychology professor at Central Michigan University, practises coaching a mother and son at a university clinic.

How to tame an out-of-control child PARENT-CHILD INTERACTION THERAPY (PCIT) USED ON OUT-OF-CONTROL PRESCHOOLERS

BY ARIEL SABAR ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Edith, a retired Capitol Hill staffer from Washington, was at the end of her rope last year over the mayhem her 5-year-old greatgrandson Wayne was causing at preschool.

“I was on speed dial” at the school, says Edith, who is raising two of her great-grandchildren.

“He was hitting kids, destroying the classroom, tearing the ABCs off the wall, just terrorizing the building.”

The principal begged her to seek help, and Edith soon enrolled Wayne — and herself — in an emerging psychological treatment for out-of-control preschoolers called Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT).

The program has been slowly making its way into clinics across the country after years of randomized trials that have won it recognition as one of the most effective treatments for young children prone to frequent and destructive meltdowns.

Unlike traditional play therapy, in which a therapist plays with the child while the parent stays in a waiting room, PCIT takes aim at both child and parent (or chief caregiver) and at the day-to-day mechanics of their relationship.

Its premise is simple: that the best way to help children with titanic tempers is to coach parenting in real time.

Parents who enroll in PCIT get their own personal trainer: a social worker or psychologist who dispenses guidance through a wireless earpiece.

In a typical session, the therapist retreats behind a one-way mirror and instructs parents — sometimes even feeding them lines to say — as they play with and learn to discipline their children.

The live feedback catches ineffective parenting habits in their tracks and helps parents hew to PCIT’s somewhat rigid script,

which combines effusive praise and attention for good behavior with a clear system of warnings and timeouts for bad.

“It gave me a sense of ‘someone’s got my back,’ “ says Edith, who entered PCIT with Wayne at a mental health clinic in August 2012. (Like other parents quoted in this article, Edith asked that only her first name be used.)

Wayne is typical of children who benefit from the therapy, which researchers have found most effective for those ages 2 to 7.

According to clinical studies, families who complete PCIT see lasting improvements in child behavior: less-frequent and lessintense tantrums, less crying and whining, and less hyperactivity and inattention.

Parents had less stress and enjoyed parenting more, and typically developed a closer relationship with their children.

To one degree or another, nearly every preschooler has an inner Dennis the Menace.

But families who enter PCIT have typically reached a crisis.

Their kids have been expelled from day care or preschool.

Parents, demoralized by one too many public meltdowns, have grown isolated from friends and emotionally withdrawn from their children.

A common refrain is: I love my child, but I no longer like her.

“I have had folks come in and say, ‘What I need is Supernanny’,” says Teresa Loya, a clinical social worker who is the PCIT coordinator at the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Family Center in Baltimore.

“More than that, though, they often say, ‘I need to get rid of this kid’.”

“At our darkest moments, we thought, ‘This child can’t live with us anymore; he’s going to have to go to a home’,’’ says Jennie, a 30-year-old mother of three in Auburn, N.Y., who once locked herself and her newborn in a bathroom for safety from her raging 5-year-old son, Alex.

Jennie tried everything — play therapy, medication, a gluten-free diet — before she and Alex began making a weekly six-hour drive last year to the PCIT program at the Child Mind Institute in Manhattan.

“I always thought that kids with (behavior disorders) came from abusive households or really sad, poor conditions where they witnessed violence.

My son comes from a pretty cushy middle-class lifestyle. I felt very ashamed, like I’m not a good parent.”

Most families complete PCIT after 10 to 20 weekly, hour-long sessions.

In the first phase of PCIT — called child-directed interaction (CDI) — the parent is taught to notice and praise even the briefest moments of good behavior (“Thank you for sharing your toys!”), while mostly ignoring defiance.

In the second phase — called parent-directed interaction (PDI) — the parent is taught to issue calm and concrete commands (“Put the crayons in the box” rather than simply “Clean up your mess”) and to respond to noncompliance with predictable, immediate consequences (a warning, followed by escalating timeouts).

The sequence is not accidental: The idea is that the discipline becomes effective — and, ideally, unnecessary — only once the child discovers he can get as much attention for good behavior as for bad.

The therapy does not end until the parent has demonstrated — live, with the child — that he or she has mastered the CDI and PDI skills.

Parents maintain the skills at home by establishing a timeout room and having at least five minutes a day of “special time” with their child.

That often means playing together with toys and using the relationship-building techniques learned in CDI.

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Some ideas to help better your life Do you feel that your life has fallen into the rat race of self-defeat, weight gain, and stress … or was it just over the holidays?

Well welcome to a New Year! Like every other new year, millions strive to set goals to better themselves in someway.

For five particular locations around the globe, called Blue Zones, a project funded

by National Geographic and researched by team lead Daniel Buettner — those goals are already set habits with some of the longest living, happiest people on the planet.

Maybe it’s possible we can learn a thing or two about living that healthy happy life while setting forth with our own resolutions and live our KRISTIN youngest year yet?

FRASER The five regions found to contain the most centenarians (people living past one hundred) were found to be Okiniwa, Japan Sardinia Italy; Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California.

So what can we learn from these cultures?

A team of medical researchers, anthropologists and other experts found nine common denominators: 1. Move naturally — exercise was just a natural part of their day. No gyms, weight lifting or marathons.

2. “Plan de vida” — or purpose. Knowing why you wake up in the morning can potentially tack on an additional seven years.

3. Downshift. Relieving stress from life is important to avoid major age-related disease. These cultures all have a daily practice of stress relief by either taking a nap, taking a few moments to remember ancestors in the case of the Okinawans, have time for prayer or in the case of the Italians — happy hour!

4. The Eighty Per cent Rule when eating. Only fill yourself until you are 80 per cent full and they all have their largest meal in the morning.

5. Each of these cultures consumed a predominantly plant based diet rich in beans and lentils with meat consumed on average around five times per month with a serving size about 3-4oz.

6. Daily/Moderate to in some places no alcohol with friends and/or food.

7. Over 98 per cent of the centenarians belonged to some faith-based community.

8. Putting their loved ones first by committing to a life partner, having children and keeping elders close by.

9. And finally, surrounding yourself with social circles that engage in healthy behaviours. Okinawans create groups of five friends who commit to life.

Research showed that happiness was contagious and necessary to be surrounded with other happy people if you want for yourself.

This doesn’t means skip the gym and indulge in a daily dose of alcohol as I know that’s exactly what some of you were thinking — but as you reflect on your own life and how you want to better yourself this year, think of which of these criteria you can implement more in your own life.

If you’re looking for a change in your own life, join me in Red Deer next Wednesday, Jan. 8, at the Sheraton at my Taste of Change talk. Check out www. somethingtochewon.ca for more information on how to register for free.

Kristin Fraser, BSc, is a holistic nutritionist and local freelance writer. Her column appears every second Thursday. She can be reached at kristin@somethingtochewon.ca.

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Stress in pregnancy can hurt baby Dear docs: My sister is having her first child, and her husband just lost his job. I told her she needs to stop stressing so much, but she won’t listen to me.

What can I do to convince her it’s important? — Georgia F. Dear Georgia: You are right; even though it’s tough to do, it’s important for your sister to de-stress, particularly now that she’s pregnant. Stress alters the baby’s immune system and other bodily functions.

But we can show her effective ways to defuse the tension, and your sister and her baby should end up being happier and healthier.

First, here’s why stress can be harmful: Stress hormones and other bodily reactions stimulate the immune and other systems into overproduction of inflammatory substances.

They summon the immune system’s warrior cells to battle — even if there’s not an actual bad guy, like a virus or bacteria, to fight off.

That all-revved-up-without-a-good-reason response changes the way the body makes new immune cells, and seems to increase production of proinflammatory immune cells. So the fetus is growing in an overcharged, inflammatory environment.

Research also shows that what’s transmitted from mom to baby isn’t just the hard-wired genetic code (DNA) that is locked in at conception: Environmental trauma like stress can turn some of your sister’s genes on or off, and those changes often show up in the fetus’s genes as well!

Stress also affects the child as it’s being born.

While passing through the birth canal, a newborn picks up bacteria from the mother’s vagina that becomes a part of the child’s microbiome (gut bacteria).

But your sister’s balance of good and bad gut bacteria is affected by constant stress (bad takes over).

Animal studies have shown that an offspring’s brain development can be hurt by a stress-caused imbalance in a pregnant mother’s biome.

So, to keep everyone de-stressed and healthy, help your sister enjoy light cardio exercise for 20 minutes, three times a week. (Check sharecare.com’s “pregnancy exercise” for advice on doing it safely.)

It’s been shown to improve fetal brain development. And have her try 10 minutes of mindful meditation in the morning and before bed.

It helps manage stress, improves sleep (it’s so important during pregnancy) and will give her more energy to deal with daily challenges.

Dear docs: My best friend’s husband came back from Iraq and probably is going to need care for the rest of his life.

How can I help my friend so that she doesn’t become a casualty as well? — Stephie P. Dear Stephie: That’s very caring of you, and there are several things you can do. First and most important, find her a support group for people who are going through similar challenges.

Next, make sure she takes care of herself (you’re going to be a caregiver to her) so she doesn’t burn out. Signs include getting sick frequently; snapping at everyone; being sad one moment, furious the next;

MIKE ROIZEN & MEHMET OZ

DRS. OZ AND ROIZEN not having an independent social life; and never exercising.

Make sure she eats well and regularly; if you’re around, help with meals. And identify specific people who will agree to help her out — picking up the mail, filling prescriptions, grocery shopping, even vacuuming and doing the laundry. If possible, schedule a morning or evening walk with you and other pals.

Despite what you do, it might be difficult, at first, for your friend to take advantage of available support groups (and friends’ helping hands). Don’t push, but gently suggest you go with her as she tries to find a group meeting that suits her. Good luck to all.

Mehmet Oz, MD, is host of The Dr. Oz Show, and Mike Roizen, MD, is chief wellness officer and chair of Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, visit sharecare.com.

B2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014

MAYBE BODY CLOCK DOESN’T MATCH BEDTIME

BY LAURAN NEERGAARD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — “Just one more story, please?” ”I need a glass of water.“ ”Mom, I can’t sleep!“ When youngsters continually struggle to fall asleep at night, new research suggests maybe their body clock doesn’t match their bedtime.

That doesn’t mean tots should be up at all hours.

“Just like nutrition and exercise, sleep is critical for good health,” said sleep scientist Monique LeBourgeois of the University of Colorado, Boulder, who is leading the research.

The ultimate goal is to help reset a delayed sleep clock so that young children can settle down more easily, she said. Hint: It seems to have a lot to do with light.

We all have what’s called a circadian rhythm, a master biological clock, that regulates when we become sleepy, and when we’re more alert.

Those patterns vary with age: It’s the reason teenagers are notorious for late nights and difficultto-wake mornings.

But how does that clock work in preschoolers, who need more sleep than older kids or adults?

A first-of-its-kind study tracked 14 healthy youngsters for six days to begin finding out.

The children, ages 2 ½ to 3, wore activity monitors on their wrists to detect when they slept.

Parents kept diaries about bedtime routines.

Then on the last afternoon, researchers visited each home, dimming lights and covering windows.

Then every 30 minutes for six hours leading up to the child’s appointed bedtime, they also coaxed each tot to chew on some dental cotton to provide a sample of saliva.

The reason: To test for levels of a hormone named melatonin that

is key to the sleep cycle and also sensitive to light.

At some point every evening, people’s melatonin levels surge and a while later, they begin to feel sleepy.

Among adults who sleep well, that melatonin rise tends to happen about two hours before whatever is their chosen bedtime.

For preschoolers, the new study found that on average, the melatonin surge occurred around 7:40 p.m.

The children tended to be tucked in around 8:10 p.m., and most were asleep 30 minutes later, LeBourgeois reported in the journal Mind, Brain and Education.

When melatonin rose earlier in the evening, tots who hit the sack around 8 fell asleep a bit faster.

But when the melatonin surge was closer to bedtime, the youngsters were more likely to fuss or make curtain calls after lights-out.

Two children in the study actually were tucked in before their rise in melatonin ever occurred, and it took them up to an hour past bedtime to fall asleep, she said.

“We don’t know what that sweet spot is yet,” LeBourgeois said, but the data suggest bedtime is easiest if the melatonin surge occurred at least 30 minutes earlier.

The study reinforces what doctors have long suspected is one bedtime barrier, said Dr. Jyoti Krishna, a pediatric sleep expert at the Cleveland Clinic. Other factors can disrupt a child’s sleep, too, such as noise, stress or anxiety, or disrupted home routines, he cautioned.

“But this paper reminds us that, hey, there is a time that the body is more ready to sleep than at other times,” Krishna said.

The National Institutes of Health says preschoolers need 11 to 12 hours of sleep each day; some typically comes from an afternoon nap.

Parents don’t have melatonin tests as a guide, so Krishna advises looking for cues when setting a bedtime — yawning, rubbing eyes

— and then to adjust that bedtime as the child gets older.

“The melatonin onset and our body rhythms change,” Krishna said.

“You can’t stick to what worked two years ago with this child, because this child is now a different child.”

About 25 per cent of young children experience some type of sleep difficulty, including trouble settling down at bedtime, LeBourgeois said.

Harried parents aside, there’s concern that early-in-life bedtime frustration might lead to more persistent sleep trouble.

“Listen to your child’s physiology,” she advised. Some steps that might help: ● Research shows that in adults, too much light in the evening delays the melatonin surge and subsequent sleepiness.

While there’s no data in young children yet, LeBourgeois says dimming the lights about an hour before bedtime makes sense. ● Avoid electronics near bedtime, because they generate a specific type of light that triggers wakefulness.

LeBourgeois was horrified to hear one parent offer a sleepless youngster an iPad to play with as long as the child stayed in the bedroom. ● And make sure blackout shades aren’t keeping your children from getting enough morning sunlight, she said. Light in the morning also is key to keeping the biological sleep clock on schedule.

Stay tuned: With funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, LeBourgeois has begun a larger study that will track sleep patterns of 40 2-year-olds until they’re 5.

She’ll also measure their light exposure, and periodically record their brain waves during sleep, in a bid to better understand the influence of sleep patterns on children’s development.

Saskatoon man makes short list for private project to colonize Mars

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SASKATOON — A Saskatoon man is now one step closer to making his dream of travelling to space a reality.

Justin Semenoff applied to go on a 2023 space mission with the Dutch-led Mars One project.

If he was accepted and the mission took flight, Semenoff would spend the rest of his life with 24 other

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PCIT: Immediate consequences If a child misbehaves in public, parents are instructed to find a makeshift timeout area; a stairwell landing or a restroom alcove will do.

“Immediate consequences are hands-down the important thing,” says Steven Kurtz, a child psychologist who conducts PCIT at the Child Mind Institute.

Once parents graduate from the program, therapists schedule a follow-up phone call a few months later — and, if necessary, a “booster” session. Medicaid and most private insurance cover PCIT as family or individual therapy.

Patients without insurance can expect to pay $150 to $200 per session in an area like Washington, according to one local therapist.

Edith finished the program after three months.

Now, she says, Wayne is a seemingly different child, sitting still in class, advancing a level in reading, trusted by teachers to help out in class. “I feel like I can live now,” Edith says.

Jennie reported similar results after graduating from PCIT. Tantrums that had drawn blood and lasted for hours are now mild and over within a couple of minutes.

“Rarely do we have to use a timeout, rarely does it go beyond a warning,” she says of Alex, who has mild autism. “He just seems so much more like a typical child now. People that know us ask: What did you do?”

Young children, taking the first steps toward independence, are in many ways naughty by nature. By one estimate, the typical preschooler disobeys 25 to 50 percent of his parents’ commands.

Psychologists advise professional intervention only once the defiance becomes so disruptive that it upends family life.

“It’s when the frequency of the behavior reaches a point where it starts influencing relationships with peers, family and teachers,” says Kelly O’Brien, a clinical psychologist.

“It’s when it becomes multiple times per day over routine requests like getting ready for bed or turning off the computer to go to dinner.”

To determine whether PCIT is appropriate, a therapist interviews the family, administers a parent questionnaire and standard child behavior assessment, and watches the parent and child play.

Though some children entering PCIT may have already received a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or oppositional defiant disorder, a psychiatric diagnosis isn’t necessary for treatment.

The therapy isn’t right for everyone. Psychologists say that children who have been sexually abused by caregivers, and parents who have low IQ, serious mental illness or substance abuse issues are bet-

astronauts settling a colony on the red planet.

More than 200,000 people applied for the privately funded project.

The list is now down to 1,058.

The mission clearly states that those sent to Mars will never be able to return to Earth.

Semenoff is an army combat engineer with the Canadian Forces.

He says making it to the short list is a huge honour for him. ter served by programs that tackle those underlying problems first. Because of PCIT’s time demands, parents have to be motivated. “The parent has to be organized enough to make a weekly outpatient therapy appointment,” Loya says.

“That kind of sounds like a given. But for a lot of folks, that’s not the case.”

Psychologists say that the consequences of untreated behavior disorders in children are not just glares at the grocery store or the playground: Research has found that such children are more apt later to have drug and alcohol problems, to drop out of school, to develop other mental illnesses and to spend time in prison.

Though stimulants such as Ritalin are often prescribed for behavioral problems, medicine alone is not seen as an effective treatment for young children with disruptive behavior disorders.

PCIT may also play a role in reducing child abuse.

A 2004 study in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology found that 850 days after treatment, 19 percent of physically abusive parents who had undergone PCIT had been re-reported to child welfare authorities, compared with 49 percent of physically abusive parents who received conventional services.

A new line of PCIT research is also showing promising results with autistic children.

PCIT has its roots in the early 1970s, when Sheila Eyberg, now a professor emeritus at the University of Florida in Gainesville, began developing the technique out of frustration with the two prevailing interventions: play therapy, in which a therapist gleans a child’s inner dramas from the way he plays with toys in a clinic; and behavior therapy, in which parents meet with a therapist once a week to discuss their child’s behavior problems and develop responses.

Parent and child were rarely with the therapist at the same time.

As a result, the child associated the calming effects of play therapy with the therapist, not her own parents. Parents, meanwhile, struggled to apply the therapist’s lessons at home.

Eyberg’s insight was, in essence, to cast parents as play therapists to their own children.

The professional therapist still had an important role but was behind the scenes, performing a kind of ventriloquism through an earpiece until parents internalized the therapist’s voice.

Eyberg won federal money for a pilot study in the mid-1970s; over the next three decades, randomized clinical trials began finding large, lasting improvements in child behavior and in parents’ skills, attitudes and stress.

But PCIT remained largely confined to university settings where Eyberg and her former graduate students taught. The therapy met resistance from some traditional therapists, who had been trained to listen to patients, not to tell them what to do.

The intensive training and supervision required of new PCIT therapists was another impediment.

That began to change in the late 1990s, with growing interest among health professionals and public

December tends to be a very busy month, which means some things, like indoor plants, can get neglected. The most common problem is in the amount of water a plant receives.

Give the plant too little water and it will wilt.

The same can be said if the plant receives too much water. More plants die from being overwatered than under watered.

A simple solution to watering problems is to test the soil before watering the plant.

This does not mean looking at the soil or touching the top.

It means sticking a finger or moisture monitor into the soil at a depth greater than 1 inch (2.5 cm) and testing for moisture.

Pots that contain soil that is moist to the touch should not be watered. If in doubt about how wet the soil is, remove a small portion of soil, and roll LINDA it between fingers and thumb.

TOMLINSON Wet or moist soil will stick together while dry soil will flake.

Moisture meters are an alternative to the touch system. Be sure to read the instructions and follow them to get correct readings.

In dry soil, the few water particles that are available are bound to soil particles and not available to plant roots.

Once the plant has used up its store of moisture, the plant cells become soft, the stems sag and leaves wilt.

Soil that contains too much water contains too little oxygen, which is needed for the roots to absorb moisture. As a result, plant cells become soft, the stems sag and leaves wilt.

Plants that are overwatered often die but it is possible to save the plant by getting oxygen into the soil.

Start by draining excess water from the pot and saucer. Then repot the plant if possible.

Repotting the plant using dry soil will help move excess moisture away from the roots. Repotting can be as simple as placing the root ball intact into a larger pot with dry soil.

It can also involve removing excess wet soil from the rootball and replacing it with dry soil. The goal for both of these methods is to wick the wet soil away from the roots, allowing for air pockets to form between soil particles.

Once the repotting is completed, place the plant in a cool area where it will not be in direct sunlight or heat, thus slowing down the transpiration rate until the soil is drier and has room for air particles.

Take the following into consideration when watering plants: the size of plant compared to the pot, type of soil and the time of year.

Pots that are filled with roots use more moisture and there is rarely an excess amount of moisture.

Pots with few roots cannot absorb all the moisture the soil can hold and once the soil becomes saturated, it is hard to dry it out.

Soil that is loose with large pores drains quickly after watering and is less likely to become waterlogged than heavy soils with small air pockets.

During the winter months when there are fewer hours of daylight, plants become dormant.

They live but do not put out many if any new growth.

Transpiration is at a minimum, as is water intake.

Plants make great additions to the home and office.

Take time to check the soil carefully before watering the plant.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at www.igardencanada.com or your_garden@hotmail.com

GARDENING

health officials in evidence-based treatments, whose effectiveness had been demonstrated in controlled scientific studies.

Jennifer Wyatt Kaminski, a developmental psychologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, led a meta-analysis of 77 published studies on evidence-based treatments for early childhood behavior problems.

The results, published in 2008 in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, found that one of the most successful strategies was to increase the number of positive everyday interactions between parents and children.

PCIT’s live coaching and laserlike focus on the parent-child relationship make it distinctive, but the therapy shares many of the same goals as other highly regarded interventions, such as the Incredible Years and the Triple P: Positive Parenting Program.

“You’re relationship-building and providing children with positive attention in such a way that it reduces their need to seek out attention through” undesirable behaviors, Kaminski says.

Ariel Sabar writes for The Washington Post.

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B3 SPORTS Leafs win Classic

THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 2014

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto 3 Detroit 2 (SO) ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Mike Babcock wasn’t on the ice at Michigan Stadium himself, so seven minutes into the Winter Classic the Detroit Red Wings coach asked star Pavel Datsyuk how he thought things were going.

“He said, ’Well, we’re being too careful with the puck,’ ” Babcock recalled. “But he said, ’we got to be because you’re scared to turn it over there’s so much snow.”

Snow built up amid frigid temperatures throughout the game, which the Toronto Maple Leafs ultimately won 3-2 in a shootout to jump ahead of the Red Wings in the standings. The conditions didn’t make for the prettiest fundamental game, but the spectacle of having a capacity crowd of 105,491 at this venue set such a picturesque scene that it overshadowed those shortcomings.

“I don’t know if you would call it a gem from a pace standpoint,” Leafs coach Randy Carlyle said. “The weather definitely changed the way it was presented with the snow coming down, and it brought back a lot of memories from a childhood of playing outside.”

Even after watching Tyler Bozak score the shootout winner against his Red Wings, Babcock was beaming and talking about how glad he was to participate in an event that set the NHL attendance record and might have been enough to make the Guinness Book of World Records.

It didn’t even bother him that the snow slowed the puck and the players down.

“I thought that was a big part of the atmosphere in today’s game to make it even more special,” Babcock said. “To me, today was a home run for hockey.”

It was -11 C when the puck dropped at 1:31 p.m., and snow fell steadily throughout the game, which featured goals from James van Riemsdyk and Bozak for Toronto and Daniel Alfredsson and Justin Abdelkader for Detroit.

Coaches remarked that the snow had the biggest impact on power plays, based on how long they came after the crew was able to shovel the ice.

“The NHL did a good job keeping the ice as clean as possible,” said Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf, whose shot was deflected in by Bozak to give Toronto

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Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Jonathan Bernier (45) blocks a shot by Detroit Red Wings left wing Tomas Tatar (21), of the Czech Republic, during the first period of the Winter Classic outdoor NHL hockey game at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich., Wednesday. the lead in the third period. “It’s an experience. It’s an outdoor game, in the middle of winter you’re going to have snow.”

That was commissioner Gary Bettman’s message afterward, as well. This is the first of six outdoor games in the NHL this season, and inevitably the weather makes an impact.

In this case, Bettman was satisfied with how “ice guru” Dan Craig and others handled the conditions to make this game playable.

“We’re playing outdoors and that’s what you get when you play outdoors.

When you get the elements, you get the

elements,” Bettman said. “You could tell as the logo started getting more covered when we needed to shovel.

It actually looked like synchronized swimming, so to speak. They did a great job. Listen, whatever the conditions were, it was the same for both teams.”

The conditions led to some sloppy play, especially a slow start as players had to feel out the conditions. The Leafs beat the Red Wings in a shootout Dec. 21 at Air Canada Centre, but this was uglier because of the snow.

“You lose the puck every once in a while because you get stuck in the

snow, or you can’t find it,” Red Wings defenceman Brendan Smith said. “The game was a lot simpler because you had to make smart decisions.”

Some smart decisions came from the Leafs’ top line of van Riemsdyk, Bozak and Phil Kessel, which produced both goals in regulation. After the game, Kessel and van Riemsdyk were named to the U.S. Olympic team, along with Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard, who made 24 saves in a losing effort but bounced back from his five-goal outing Monday in Nashville.

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Sutter not looking past Swiss TEAM CANADA COACH FOCUSED ON QUARTER-FINAL MATCHUP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MALMO, Sweden — Brent Sutter seemed to be in a nasty mood at practice the morning after Canada’s biggest win so far at the world junior hockey championship.

The veteran coach was barking orders and slamming his stick at missed plays on Wednesday, as if his team had lost the night before instead of pulling out a 3-2 victory over the defending champion United States to take first place in its preliminary round group.

But the shouting had a tactical side.

He didn’t want his team feeling too good about themselves heading into the single-game knockout part of the tournament.

Canada plays its quarter-final on Thursday against the Swiss, who finished fourth in the other group but who have shown they can pull off upsets against teams that take them lightly.

On paper, it’s a game Canada should win handily, but that may be what Finland thought when they lost to the Swiss in a shootout in their final round robin game.

“They’re a disciplined hockey

team,” said Sutter. “They’ve kept games close.

“They’re in this position for a reason. They’re a very structured team.

You’ve got to be disciplined in your game when you play them. You can’t get frustrated.”

Canada beat the Swiss 4-1 in an exhibition game Dec. 23, profiting from five power plays to build a 2-0 first period lead. At one point, there were four Swiss players in the penalty box.

Despite the loss, the Swiss came out of the game feeling good about their chances.

“We know their players now,” said Swiss goalie Melvin Nyffeler. “They’ve got a pretty good power play.

“Last game we lost because they had so many power plays. Now we’re looking forward to playing them and let’s see. In hockey, anything’s possible. We have a chance against anybody.”

Canada went into its showdown with the Americans needing to win in regulation time to take over first place. They did it with a two-goal third period and some brilliant saves from Zach Fucale.

But a day later, Sutter made sure to remind them they haven’t won any-

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Team Canada goaltenders Zach Fucale makes a save on forward Frederik Gauthier (22) during practice at the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships in Malmo, Sweden on Wednesday. thing yet. As well as Canada played against the Americans, he said “I don’t want to see it slip.

“When you get to this point, every game is like a Game 7. We have to make sure our emotions are in control and our details are good. It doesn’t matter who your opponent is, you have to be at the top of your game. We’ve got to practice like it’s for keeps. You can’t just turn a switch on.”

Finishing first was a bonus on paper as it gave Canada a quarter-final against Switzerland and, if they

win that, a semifinal against either the Czech Republic or Finland. The Americans now must face Russia in the quarter-finals and, if they manage a win, play the winner of Sweden-Slovakia in the semis.

Sutter understands what it takes to win tournaments. He guided Canadian teams to gold medals at the 2005 and 206 world juniors without losing a game. His record at the tournament is 15-0-1.

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DeRozan leads Raptors over league-leading Pacers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto 95 Indiana 82 TORONTO — If the league-leading Indiana Pacers provided the perfect gauge for just how much the Toronto Raptors have improved, the answer was: plenty.

DeMar DeRozan poured in 26 points to lead the red-hot Raptors to a resounding 95-82 win over Indiana on Wednesday.

The Raptors’ victory was their fourth in a row and eighth in their last 10 outings. It also snapped Indiana’s five-game winning streak.

Terrence Ross added 18 for Toronto

(15-15), while Kyle Lowry had a gamehigh 14 assists to go with 13 points, and Jonas Valanciunas scored 13 points and grabbed nine rebounds.

Roy Hibbert scored 16 for the Pacers (25-6) before fouling out with 3:25 to go, while Paul George added 12 and Danny Granger finished with 11.

The Raptors’ confidence was soaring going into Wednesday’s game, and a night earlier, the Raptors were down by five heading into the fourth at Chicago before rallying for an 85-79 victory over the Bulls.

They’d shown more fight in the past couple of weeks than in recent memory, and were making a habit of fourthquarter comebacks. But they didn’t

need one Wednesday.

The Raptors led by as much as nine points against a Pacers team that came into the game with a 9-0 record against Atlantic Division opponents, and fought back from a Pacers rally to lead 66-63 going into the fourth quarter.

They found another gear down the stretch. Back-to-back buckets by DeRozan then a steal by Ross that turned into a Lowry basket with 2:54 to play had the crowd on its feet screaming and put Toronto up by 11. The thrilled Air Canada Centre crowd of 18,271 stood and cheered the Raptors off the floor after the final buzzer.

The Pacers, said Raptors coach Dwane Casey, provided his players

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the chance to test themselves against the best in the league, to see just how much they’ve improved, and how far they still have to go.

“It’s never a good time to play Indiana, Miami. . . you don’t want to wish for those games. But we’re playing with confidence now,” Casey said before the game. “This is a good measuring stick for us. You can measure yourself against the best teams in the league.

Their style of play is the way you have to play to win in this league, so this will tell us how far we have to go or what we have to do to get there.”

The Raptors opened with one of the best all-around quarters of the season, with 10 assists on 11 made field goals.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports Today

● Peewee AA hockey: Lacombe Rockets at Sylvan Lake Lakers, 6 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels vs. Seattle Thunderbirds, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley Timberwolves at Sylvan Lake Lakers, 8:15 p.m. ● Senior hockey: Chinook League, Stony Plain Eagles at Innisfail Eagles, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Bantam AAA hockey: Red Deer Rebels Black vs. Calgary Flames, 2 p.m., Arena ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Northstar Chiefs vs. Calgary Rangers, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● AJHL: Drumheller Dragons at Olds Grizzlys, 7:30 p.m. ● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Red Deer Vipers vs. Three Hills, 8 p.m.; Mountainview at Ponoka.

Sunday

● Senior hockey: Chinook League, Innisfail Eagles at Bentley Generals, 2 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Foothills Bisons at Sylvan Lake Lakers, 3 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Northstar Chiefs vs. Calgary Canucks, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels vs. Moose Jaw Warriors, 5 p.m., Centrium.

Transactions TUESDAY, DEC, 31, 2013 BASEBALL American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jesse Crain on a one-year contract.

American Association GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Signed RHP Kagen Hopkins, RHP Ethan Gibbons and RHP Mike Weatherly.

Frontier League SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS — Exercised 2014 contract options on OFs Kenny Gregory and Steven Liddle; 1B Gerardo Avila; Cs Philip Butler and Shane Street; RHPs Kyle Wahl, Nelson Curry, Wes Alsup, Brett Kennedy, Preston Vancil, Blake Nation, Travis Bradshaw and John Colella; INFs Jason Ganek, Jon Eisen, Danny Hernandez, Cannon Lester, Trevor Whyte and Andrew Cohn; and LHPs Michael Carden and Matt Crim. Declined the options on INF Austin Montgomery, RHPs Drew Bailey and Bryant George and LHP Richard Sullivan.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Waived F Lou Amundson.

NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed F Jeremy Tyler from Erie (NBADL). Released G Chris Smith.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed WR Mike Thomas to a reserve/future contract.

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed TEs Matt Furstenburg and Nathan Overbay (TE), WRs Gerrard Sheppard and Kamar Aiken, DT Cody Larsen, OT David Mims, QB Nick Stephens and C Reggie Stephens to reserve/future contracts.

BUFFALO BILLS — Signed DB Brandon Burton to a reserve/future contract.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed P Drew Butler and RB Willie Carter to reserve/future contracts.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed WR Tim Benford, G Ray Dominguez, WR Lance Lewis, DE Caesar Rayford, LB Jonathan Stewart and OT John Wetzel to reserve/future contracts.

GREEN BAY PACKERS—Signed G Lanier Coleman to the practice squad.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed WRs Rico Richardson, Andy Cruse and Uzoma Nwachukwu; DB Steven Terrell; and CB Loyce Means to reserve/ future contracts.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed WRs Jabin Sambrano and Chad Bumphis, DEs Will Pericak and D’Aundre Reed, OT DeMarcus Love, QB Matt Scott, TE Brandon Barden and RB Shaun Chapas to reserve/future contracts.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Placed LB JamesMichael Johnson on injured reserve. Signed LB Robert James.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed C Matt Stankiewitch. Signed WR Greg Orton to the practice squad.

NEW YORK JETS — Signed TE Colin Anderson, DT T.J. Barnes, WR Michael Campbell, DT Tevita Finau, C Dalton Freeman, LB Tim Fugger, WR Dwight Jones and S Rontez Miles to reservefuture contracts.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed RB Alvester Alexander, WRs Justin Brown and Kashif Moore, Gs Bryant Browning and Chris Hubbard, S Ross Ventrone and LB Kion Wilson to reserve/future contracts.

HOCKEY National Hockey League COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Signed LW Kerby Rychel to a three-year, entry-level contract.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Recalled F Mark Stone from Binghamton (AHL) on an emergency basis.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned F Pierre-Cedric Labrie to Syracuse (AHL).

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Signed D Dion Phaneuf to a seven-year contract.

WINNIPEG JETS — Agreed to terms with F Ryan Olsen on a three-year, two-way, entry-level contract.

American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Reassigned D Sean Escobedo to Stockton (AHL).

ECHL READING ROYALS — Signed G Russ Stein.

Suspended F Louie Caporusso.

COLLEGE FLORIDA STATE — Signed football coach Jimbo Fisher to a three-year contract extension through 2018.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 1 BASKETBALL National Basketball Association PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS — Assigned G CJ McCollum to Idaho (NBADL).

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Recalled D Brayden McNabb and LW Johan Larsson from Rochester (AHL). Placed C Cody Hodgson on injured reserve.

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Acquired D Tim Gleason the rights to D Dennis Robertson from Carolina for D John-Michael Liles.

American Hockey League SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Announced F Jonathan Marchessault was recalled by Columbus (NHL).

ECHL GWINNETT GLADIATORS — Traded F Jeremie Malouin to Cincinnati to complete a previous trade.

Soccer ENGLISH FOOTBALL STANDINGS English Premier League GP W D L GF GA Pts Arsenal 20 14 3 3 39 18 45 M. City 20 14 2 4 57 23 44 Chelsea 20 13 4 3 38 19 43 Liverpool 20 12 3 5 46 23 39 Everton 20 10 8 2 32 19 38 Tottenham 20 11 4 5 24 25 37 M. United 20 10 4 6 33 24 34 Newcastle 20 10 3 7 29 25 33 Southampton 20 7 6 7 26 23 27 Hull City 20 6 5 9 22 25 23 Aston Villa 20 6 5 9 19 25 23 Stoke 20 5 7 8 19 30 22 Swansea 20 5 6 9 26 28 21 West Brom 20 4 9 7 23 27 21 Norwich 20 5 5 10 17 33 20 Fulham 20 6 1 13 21 42 19 Cardiff City 20 4 6 10 15 32 18 Crystal Palace 20 5 2 13 13 29 17 West Ham 20 3 6 11 19 30 15 Sunderland 20 3 5 12 15 33 14 Wednesday’s Games Swansea 2, Manchester City 3 Arsenal 2, Cardiff City 0 Crystal Palace 1, Norwich 1 Fulham 2, West Ham 1 Liverpool 2, Hull City 0 Southampton 0, Chelsea 3 Stoke 1, Everton 1 Sunderland 0, Aston Villa 1 West Brom 1, Newcastle 0 Manchester United 1, Tottenham 2

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THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 2014

Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Swift Current 41 21 14 1 5 141 124 Brandon 39 20 15 4 0 149 145 Prince Albert 39 20 17 2 0 137 132 Regina 40 19 17 2 2 131 152 Moose Jaw 40 12 22 3 3 105 148 Saskatoon 41 11 27 1 2 119 169

Pt 48 44 42 42 30 25

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA 37 24 8 2 3 131 96 37 24 12 0 1 138 99 37 22 12 3 0 127 107 40 19 18 2 1 116 120 38 19 17 0 2 113 116 41 8 28 2 3 109 185

Pt 53 49 47 41 40 21

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 36 31 3 0 2 158 87 Victoria 42 27 13 0 2 128 99 Vancouver 40 19 14 5 2 133 135 Prince George 40 14 21 2 3 115 158 Kamloops 39 10 25 2 2 101 157

Pt 64 56 45 33 24

Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay Red Deer Lethbridge

Portland Everett Seattle Spokane Tri-City

GP 38 40 38 38 39

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 25 9 2 2 23 12 4 1 22 11 2 3 23 13 0 2 17 18 2 2

Goal — Lethbridge: Boes (W, 4-22-2); Regina: Macauley (L, 17-12-2).

GF GA 175 129 123 106 138 134 138 113 99 113

Pt 54 51 49 48 38

d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Wednesday’s results Lethbridge 6 Regina 3 Saskatoon 6 Swift Current 3 Victoria 1 Everett 0 (SO) Tuesday’s results Edmonton 5 Brandon 4 (OT) Moose Jaw 4 Prince Albert 3 Victoria 3 Everett 2 Kamloops 7 Seattle 1 Spokane 4 Tri-City 2 Kelowna 9 Portland 3 Today’s games Brandon at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Kelowna at Portland, 8 p.m.

Blades 6, Broncos 3 First Period 1. Saskatoon, Nikkel 3 (Sherbak) 13:41.

Penalties — Odgers SC (fighting) 5:49, Kirichenko Sas (fighting) 5:49, Revel Sas (tripping) 8:47, Busenius Sas (holding) 10:03, Zinkan SC (holding) 14:57.

Second Period 2. Swift Current, Merkley 17 (unassisted) 8:40.

3. Saskatoon, Zajac 6 (Clayton) 8:58.

4. Swift Current, Black 18 (Lernout, Gordon) 16:09 (pp).

Penalties — Nikkel Sas (delay of game) 9:34, Sherbak Sas (tripping) 15:31.

Third Period 5. Saskatoon, Sherbak 21 (Zajac, Busenius) 8:25 (pp).

6. Swift Current, Gordon 14 (Cave) 13:02 (pp).

7. Saskatoon, Sherbak 22 (Busenius, Clayton) 14:37.

8. Saskatoon, Harland 3 (Kirichenko, Revel) 16:00.

9. Saskatoon, Busenius 7 (unassisted) 19:24.

Penalties — Debrusk SC (high-sticking) 5:48, Debrusk SC (high-sticking) 5:48, Zajac Sas (tripping) 11:47, Lesann SC (fighting) 13:14, Graham Sas (fighting) 13:14.

Shots on goal by Swift Current 7 20 13 — 40 Saskatoon 15 9 15 — 39 Goal — Swift Current: Bow (L, 9-4-1); Saskatoon: Trombley (W, 4-12-0).

Royals 1, Silvertips 0 (SO) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Low Eve (fighting) 0:27, Fisher Vic (fighting) 0:27, Eve Bench (served by Deroose, Bench - Coach) 7:36, Cote Vic (slashing) 8:05, Pufahl Eve (hooking) 13:54, Kanzig Vic (crosschecking) 16:53, Khaira Eve (cross-checking) 17:27, Pufahl Eve (roughing) 19:43, Hodges Vic (roughing) 19:43.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Betker Eve (high-sticking) 9:37, Deroose Eve (boarding) 13:05.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties —None.

Everett : Nikolishin miss, Khaira miss, Stadnyk miss.

Victoria : Walker miss, Walker goal, Hodges miss.

Shots on goal by Everett 9 7 7 1 3 — 24 Victoria 6 3 17 3 3 — 29 Goal — Everett: Lotz (LS, 16-10-1); Victoria: Polivka (W, 18-9-0).

Friday’s games Lethbridge at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Regina, 6 p.m.

Seattle at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

Kelowna at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Lethbridge at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Regina at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Seattle at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Calgary, 7 p.m.

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

Victoria at Portland, 8 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Everett at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday, January 5 Seattle at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 5 p.m.

Tri-City at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Kootenay, 6 p.m.

Boston Tampa Bay Montreal Toronto Detroit Ottawa Florida Buffalo

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT GF GA 40 26 12 2 117 86 39 23 12 4 110 93 41 23 14 4 103 94 42 21 16 5 118 120 42 18 14 10 109 120 42 17 18 7 118 135 41 15 20 6 96 130 40 11 25 4 71 113

Pt 54 50 50 47 46 41 36 26

Pittsburgh Washington Philadelphia New Jersey NY Rangers Carolina Columbus NY Islanders

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT GF GA 42 29 12 1 131 96 40 20 15 5 122 119 40 20 16 4 105 111 41 17 16 8 97 103 41 20 19 2 96 109 40 15 16 9 96 118 40 17 19 4 109 117 41 13 21 7 107 138

Pt 59 45 44 42 42 39 38 33

Chicago St. Louis Colorado Dallas Minnesota Winnipeg Nashville

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT GF GA 42 28 7 7 158 115 39 27 7 5 139 93 39 24 11 4 114 100 39 20 12 7 115 113 42 20 17 5 97 109 42 19 18 5 114 121 40 18 18 4 95 119

Pt 63 59 52 47 45 43 40

Anaheim San Jose Los Angeles Vancouver Phoenix Calgary Edmonton

GP 42 40 41 41 39 40 42

Pacific Division W L OT GF 29 8 5 137 25 9 6 131 25 12 4 110 23 11 7 111 20 10 9 120 14 20 6 96 13 24 5 109

Pt 63 56 54 53 49 34 31

WEDNESDAY SUMMARIES Hurricanes 6, Pats 3 First Period 1. Lethbridge, Foulk 4 (Cooper, Duke) 8:12.

Penalties — Sinitsyn Reg (tripping) 3:09, Jensen Let (interference) 10:38, Ramsay Let (fighting) 14:24, Christoffer Reg (fighting) 14:24, Cooper Let (hooking) 15:24.

Second Period 2. Lethbridge, Bell 3 (Duke, Watson) 1:05.

3. Lethbridge, Duke 8 (Hackman, Watson) 1:26.

4. Lethbridge, Sheen 9 (Ramsay, Bell) 1:57.

5. Lethbridge, Sheen 10 (unassisted) 7:02.

6. Regina, Burroughs 3 (Gay, Zgraggen) 14:25.

Penalties — Khenkel Let (fighting) 2:04, Khenkel Let (10-minute misconduct) 2:04, Hunt Reg (fighting) 2:04, Watson Let (fighting) 8:23, Mumby Reg (fighting) 8:23, Zgraggen Reg (hooking) 12:07.

Third Period 7. Regina, Gay 9 (Harrison, Stephenson) 4:13.

8. Regina, Stephenson 16 (Leier) 13:38.

9. Lethbridge, Maxwell 10 (unassisted) 18:22 (-EN).

Penalties — Duke Let (high-sticking) 14:31.

Shots on goal by Lethbridge 12 13 8 — 33 Regina 11 19 19 — 49

GA 106 104 83 97 120 126 143

Note: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s results Toronto 3 Detroit 2 (SO) Tampa Bay at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s results

New Jersey 2 Pittsburgh 1 NY Rangers 2 Florida 1 (SO) St. Louis 2 Minnesota 1 Winnipeg 3 Buffalo 0 NY Islanders 5 Boston 3 Carolina 5 Montreal 4 (OT) Colorado 5 Columbus 3 Dallas 3 Los Angeles 2 Anaheim 6 San Jose 3 Philadelphia 4 Calgary 1 Phoenix 4 Edmonton 3 (OT)

Tuesday’s results Canada 3 U.S. 2 Czech Republic 4 Slovakia 1 Sweden 3 Russia 2 Switzerland 4 Finland 3 (SO) Monday’s results Canada 5 Slovakia 3 Finland 4 Russia 1 Germany 3 Czech Republic 0 Switzerland 3 Norway 2 End of Preliminary Round

Today’s games Nashville at Boston, 5 p.m.

Chicago at NY Islanders, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Washington, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Columbus at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s games No Games Scheduled.

PLAYOFFS Today’s games Relegation Game Germany vs. Norway, 3 a.m.

Quarter-finals U.S. vs. Russia, 4 a.m.

Finland vs. Czech Republic, 6:30 a.m.

Canada vs. Switzerland, 9 a.m.

Sweden vs. Slovakia, 11:30 s.m.

WEDNESDAY’S SUMMARIES Maple Leafs 3, Red Wings 2 (SO) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Abdelkader Det (cross-checking) 6:39, Lupul Tor (cross-checking) 11:04, Phaneuf Tor (holding) 16:21.

Second Period 1. Detroit, Alfredsson 11 (Zetterberg, Smith) 13:14.

2. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 15 (Kessel, Phaneuf) 19:23.

Penalties — McClement Tor (high-sticking) 13:36, Kindl Det (closing hand on puck) 17:23.

Third Period 3. Toronto, Bozak 5 (Phaneuf) 4:41.

4. Detroit, Abdelkader 5 (Smith) 14:28.

Penalties — van Riemsdyk Tor (hooking) 11:45.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout Toronto wins 2-1 Toronto : van Riemsdyk miss, Lupul goal, Bozak goal.

Detroit : Alfredsson miss, Datsyuk goal, Tatar miss.

Shots on goal by Toronto 5 13 6 2 — 26 Detroit 13 14 14 2 — 43 Goal — Toronto: Bernier (W, 13-11-4); Detroit: Howard (LO, 6-9-8).

Power plays (goal-chances)Toronto: 0-2; Detroit: 0-4.

Referees — Dan O’Halloran, Brian Pochmara.

Linesmen — Scott Driscoll, Mark Shewchyk.

Attendance — 105,491 at Detroit.

NHL SCORING LEADERS G A 22 37 23 30 20 27 16 28 10 34 5 39 22 21 21 22 30 11 22 19 9 32 15 25 15 25 20 19 3 36 24 14 17 21 15 23 10 28 20 17 17 20 16 21 11 26 18 18 16 20 13 22 13 22 9 26 9 26

Sidney Crosby, Pgh Patrick Kane, Chi Ryan Getzlaf, Ana John Tavares, NYI Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Joe Thornton, SJ Corey Perry, Ana Chris Kunitz, Pgh Alex Ovechkin, Wash Patrick Sharp, Chi Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Kyle Okposo, NYI Jonathan Toews, Chi Tyler Seguin, Dal Duncan Keith, Chi Alex Steen, StL Martin St. Louis, TB Taylor Hall, Edm Erik Karlsson, Ott Phil Kessel, Tor Patrick Marleau, SJ Joe Pavelski, SJ Claude Giroux, Pha Bobby Ryan, Ott Matt Duchene, Col Daniel Sedin, Vcr Jamie Benn, Dal Henrik Sedin, Vcr David Krejci, Bos

Pts 59 53 47 44 44 44 43 43 41 41 41 40 40 39 39 38 38 38 38 37 37 37 37 36 36 35 35 35 35

2014 World Junior Hockey Championship PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W OW OL L GF GA Pts x-Canada 4 3 0 1 0 19 12 10 x-U.S. 4 3 0 0 1 21 7 9 x-Czech Rep. 4 1 1 0 2 10 13 5 x-Slovakia 4 1 0 0 3 16 17 3 r-Germany 4 1 0 0 3 7 24 3 Group B GP W OW OL L GF GA Pts x-Sweden 4 4 0 0 0 22 7 12 x-Finland 4 2 0 1 1 14 10 7 x-Russia 4 2 0 0 2 21 8 6 x-Switzerland 4 1 1 0 2 11 17 5 r-Norway 4 0 0 0 4 3 29 0 x — Clinched quarter-final berth; r — Will play relegation games.

Note: Three points awarded for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win and one for an overtime/shootout loss.

Friday’s games Relegation Game Norway vs. Germany, 8 a.m.

Saturday’s games Semifinals Quarter-final winners, 7 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Sunday’s games Relegation Game Germany vs. Norway, 4 a.m.

Bronze Medal Game Semifinal losers, 7 a.m.

Gold Medal Game Semifinal winners, 11 a.m.

AHL EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Manchester 35 22 8 1 4 106 88 Providence 33 17 10 1 5 112 103 St. John’s 32 16 13 1 2 94 86 Portland 29 13 11 1 4 81 90 Worcester 29 13 13 2 1 68 82

Springfield Albany Adirondack Bridgeport Hartford

GP 31 31 31 34 31

Binghamton W-B/Scranton Norfolk Hershey Syracuse

GP 31 31 33 30 31

NORTHEAST W L OTLSOL 22 5 1 3 19 8 2 2 16 13 0 2 13 17 1 3 11 16 0 4

Pt 49 40 35 31 29

GF GA 102 76 99 77 74 76 86 111 72 100

Pt 48 42 34 30 26

GF 110 91 95 92 78

GA 92 76 91 91 94

Pt 41 40 37 31 30

WESTERN CONFERENCE NORTH GP W L OTLSOL GF Toronto 31 18 10 2 1 87 Hamilton 33 15 14 0 4 83 Lake Erie 31 15 13 0 3 83 Rochester 30 13 11 3 3 85 Utica 30 11 16 1 2 72

GA 75 94 95 92 90

Pt 39 34 33 32 25

MIDWEST W L OTLSOL 22 8 1 2 16 8 5 1 17 12 1 2 15 16 3 0 13 14 2 0

GF GA 116 78 80 73 94 86 95 118 69 78

Pt 47 38 37 33 28

WEST L OTLSOL 9 1 1 9 2 3 17 0 1 17 1 5 18 0 3

GF GA 114 92 120 94 86 100 90 116 83 103

Pt 48 45 29 28 27

Grand Rapids Milwaukee Chicago Rockford Iowa

GP 33 30 32 34 29

GP Abbotsford 34 Texas 34 Charlotte 32 Oklahoma City 34 San Antonio 33

W 19 18 16 13 13

W 23 20 14 11 12

EAST L OTLSOL 9 0 3 9 1 3 12 1 4 12 2 3 14 1 3

d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Wednesday’s results Utica 3 Lake Erie 2 Tuesday’s results Springfield 4 St. John’s 2 Adirondack 2 Worcester 1 W-B/Scranton 5 Syracuse 2 Portland 4 Bridgeport 2 Toronto 3 Grand Rapids 1 Binghamton 3 Norfolk 2 Providence 3 Manchester 1 Texas 6 Oklahoma City 5 (OT) Today’s games Texas at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct d-Indiana 25 6 .806 d-Miami 24 7 .774 Atlanta 18 14 .563 d-Toronto 15 15 .500 Washington 14 15 .483 Charlotte 14 19 .424 Detroit 14 19 .424 Boston 13 18 .419 Chicago 12 18 .400 Cleveland 10 21 .323 Orlando 10 21 .323 Brooklyn 10 21 .323 Philadelphia 10 21 .323 New York 9 21 .300 Milwaukee 7 24 .226

GB — 1 7.5 9.5 10 12 12 12 12.5 15 15 15 15 15.5 18

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct d-Oklahoma City 25 6 .806 d-San Antonio 25 7 .781 Portland 25 7 .781 d-L.A. Clippers 22 12 .647 Phoenix 19 11 .633 Houston 21 13 .618 Golden State 20 13 .606 Dallas 19 13 .594 Minnesota 16 16 .500 New Orleans 14 16 .467 Denver 14 17 .452 Memphis 13 17 .433 L.A. Lakers 13 19 .406 Sacramento 10 20 .333 Utah 10 24 .294

d-division leader GB — 1/2 1/2 4.5 5.5 5.5 6 6.5 9.5 10.5 11 11.5 12.5 14.5 16.5

Tuesday’s Games Atlanta 92, Boston 91 Indiana 91, Cleveland 76 Golden State 94, Orlando 81 Sacramento 110, Houston 106 San Antonio 113, Brooklyn 92 Toronto 85, Chicago 79 Portland 98, Oklahoma City 94 Milwaukee 94, L.A. Lakers 79 Wednesday’s Games Dallas 87, Washington 78 Toronto 95, Indiana 82 Minnesota 124, New Orleans 112 Philadelphia 114, Denver 102 L.A. Clippers 112, Charlotte 85

Today’s Games Orlando at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Golden State at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Boston at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

New York at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Memphis at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Utah, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Portland, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Friday’s Games Toronto at Washington, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Golden State at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

New York at Houston, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Memphis at Denver, 7 p.m.

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

Football National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF y-New England 12 4 0 .750 444 N.Y. Jets 8 8 0 .500 290 Miami 8 8 0 .500 317 Buffalo 6 10 0 .375 339 South W L T Pct PF y-Indianapolis 11 5 0 .688 391 Tennessee 7 9 0 .438 362 Jacksonville 4 12 0 .250 247 Houston 2 14 0 .125 276 North W L T Pct PF y-Cincinnati 11 5 0 .688 430 Pittsburgh 8 8 0 .500 379 Baltimore 8 8 0 .500 320 Cleveland 4 12 0 .250 308 West W L T Pct PF y-Denver 13 3 0 .813 606 x-Kansas City 11 5 0 .688 430 x-San Diego 9 7 0 .563 396 Oakland 4 12 0 .250 322 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Philadelphia 10 6 0 .625 442 Dallas 8 8 0 .500 439 N.Y. Giants 7 9 0 .438 294 Washington 3 13 0 .188 334 South W L T Pct PF y-Carolina 12 4 0 .750 366 x-New Orleans 11 5 0 .688 414 Atlanta 4 12 0 .250 353 Tampa Bay 4 12 0 .250 288 North W L T Pct PF y-Green Bay 8 7 1 .531 417 Chicago 8 8 0 .500 445 Detroit 7 9 0 .438 395 Minnesota 5 10 1 .344 391 West W L T Pct PF y-Seattle 13 3 0 .813 417 x-San Francisco12 4 0 .750 406 Arizona 10 6 0 .625 379 St. Louis 7 9 0 .438 348 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Sunday’s Games Tennessee 16, Houston 10 Minnesota 14, Detroit 13 Carolina 21, Atlanta 20 Pittsburgh 20, Cleveland 7 N.Y. Giants 20, Washington 6 Cincinnati 34, Baltimore 17 Indianapolis 30, Jacksonville 10 N.Y. Jets 20, Miami 7 Denver 34, Oakland 14 San Diego 27, Kansas City 24, OT Seattle 27, St. Louis 9 San Francisco 23, Arizona 20 Green Bay 33, Chicago 28

New Orleans 42, Tampa Bay 17 New England 34, Buffalo 20 Philadelphia 24, Dallas 22 PA 338 387 335 388 PA 336 381 449 428 PA 305 370 352 406 PA 399 305 348 453

PA 382 432 383 478 PA 241 304 443 389 PA 428 478 376 480 PA 231 272 324 364

NFL Playoffs Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 4 Kansas City at Indianapolis, 2:35 p.m. (NBC) New Orleans at Philadelphia, 6:10 p.m. (NBC) Sunday, Jan. 5 San Diego at Cincinnati, 11:05 a.m. (CBS) San Francisco at Green Bay, 2:40 p.m. (FOX) Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 11 Green Bay, San Francisco or New Orleans at Seattle, 2:35 p.m. (FOX) Cincinnati, Indianpolis or Kansas City at New England, 6:15 p.m. (CBS) Sunday, Jan. 12 Philadelphia, Green Bay or San Francisco at Carolina, 11:05 a.m. (FOX) Indianapolis, Kansas City or San Diego at Denver, 2:40 p.m. (CBS) NFL ODDS (Odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Saturday Kansas City at INDIANAPOLIS 2.5 46.5 New Orleans at PHILADELPHIA 2.5 53.5 Sunday San Diego at CINCINNATI 6.5 46.5 SAN FRANCISCO at Green Bay 2.5 47.5 COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego Utah State 21, Northern Illinois 14 Friday, Dec. 27 Military Bowl At Annapolis, Md. Marshall 31, Maryland 20 Texas Bowl At Houston Syracuse 21, Minnesota 17 Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco Washington 31, BYU 16 Saturday, Dec. 28 Pinstripe Bowl At New York Notre Dame 29, Rutgers 16 Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina 39, Cincinnati 17 Russell Athletic Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Louisville 36, Miami 9 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Kansas State 31, Michigan 14 Monday, Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth, Texas Navy 24, Middle Tennessee 6

Saturday, Dec. 21 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Colorado State 48, Washington State 45

Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Mississippi 25, Georgia Tech 17

Las Vegas Bowl Southern Cal 45, Fresno State 20

Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Oregon 30, Texas 7

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho San Diego State 49, Buffalo 24 New Orleans Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette 24, Tulane 21 Monday, Dec. 23 Beef ’O’ Brady’s Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. East Carolina 37, Ohio 20 Tuesday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Oregon State 38, Boise State 23

Holiday Bowl At San Diego Texas Tech 37, Arizona State 23 Tuesday, Dec. 31 AdvoCare V100 Bowl At Shreveport, La. Arizona 42, Boston College 19 Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas UCLA 42, Virginia Tech 12 Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Mississippi State 44, Rice 7

Thursday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Pittsburgh 30, Bowling Green 27

Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Texas A&M 52, Duke 48 Wednesday, Jan. 1 Heart of Dallas Bowl

At Dallas North Texas 36, UNLV 14 Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Nebraska 24, Georgia 19 Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. South Carolina 34, Wisconsin 24 Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. LSU 21, Iowa 14 Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

Michigan State 24, Stanford 20 Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Baylor (11-1) vs. UCF (11-1), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 2 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Alabama (11-1) vs. Oklahoma (10-2), 6:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Friday, Jan. 3 Orange Bowl At Miami Ohio State (12-1) vs. Clemson (10-2), 6 p.m.

(ESPN) Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas Missouri (11-2) vs. Oklahoma State (10-2), 5:30 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 4 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Vanderbilt (8-4) vs. Houston (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 5 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Arkansas State (7-5) vs. Ball State (10-2), 7 p.m.

(ESPN) Monday, Jan. 6 BCS National Championship At Pasadena, Calif.

Florida State (13-0) vs. Auburn (12-1), 6:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 18 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 2 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Jan. 25 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. South vs. North, 2 p.m. (NFLN)

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 B5

Michigan State gets first Rose Bowl win in 26 years

Ryan misses cut for U.S. Olympic team

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Michigan State linebacker Kyler Elsworth celebrates the team’s 24-20 win over Stanford in the Rose Bowl NCAA college football game Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014, in Pasadena, Calif. about 70 per cent wearing green in the crowd of 95,173 — the game’s largest turnout since 1998.

After Tournament of Roses Parade grand marshal Vin Scully flipped the coin, Stanford started with a 77-yard drive culminating in Gaffney’s 16-yard TD run.

A field goal put Stanford up 10-0 late in the first quarter, but the Spartans finally connected with a 13-play drive for Langford’s TD. Cook handed seven points to the Cardinal shortly before halftime. With Usua Amanam bearing down on him unblocked, Cook inexplicably threw a soft looping pass directly to Anderson, who returned his first career interception untouched for a score — the first defensive touchdown allowed by Michigan State all season.

Cook responded with a stellar drive in the waning minutes, moving Michigan State 75 yards in 99 seconds and evading pursuit to deliver Pendleton’s 2-yard TD catch 28 seconds before halftime.

After Cook connected down the middle with Lippett for the go-ahead score, Stanford stalled and kicked a field goal with 5:05 left.

Bullough was on his teammates’ minds, and his number was written on a towel by linebacker Taiwan Jones. But Elsworth capably handled Bullough’s work before making the play of his life on that final tackle.

While the sideline roared and the stands rocked, even the stone-faced Dantonio celebrated.

Victoria shuts Everett out WHL ROUNDUP THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — Jack Walker scored the only goal of the shootout as the Victoria Royals shut out the Everett Silvertips 1-0 in Western Hockey League action Wednesday.

The win moved the Royals into a points tie with Portland for second in the Western Conference.

Patrik Polivka finished with 24 saves for the Royals (27-13-2).

Austin Lotz stopped 29 shots for the

Silvertips (23-12-5), who trail Victoria by four points in the standings.

HURRICANES 6 PATS 3 REGINA — Corbin Boes made 46 saves and Lethbridge scored three goals in the opening two minutes of the second period on its way to hammering the Pats.

Riley Sheen had a pair of goals for the Hurricanes (8-28-5), with singles coming from Griffin Foulk, Tyler Bell, Russell Maxwell and Reid Duke.

Kyle Burroughs, Chandler Stephenson and Connor Gay replied for Regina (19-17-4).

Pats goalie Nick Schneider allowed three goals on 26 shots, while Dawson MacAuley struggled with two goals

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JUNIORS: Players have to adapt Canada improved from game to game as it built a 3-0-1 record in the preliminary round, and the coaching staff was active.

Through three pre-tournament exhibitions and four round robin games, lines have been juggled and re-juggled. Centres play on the wings and move back to centre.

In Curtis Lazar’s case, you play left wing, right wing and centre in the same tournament.

“You’ve got to think the game well, have a good hockey IQ, and make sure you have a third guy high all the time,” Lazar said Wednesday. “I’m just trying to better myself so I can be prepared for all these situations.”

Sutter said there isn’t time in a tournament to build chemistry on the ice. Players have to adapt immediately or changes will be made.

Nine of the 13 forwards are centres on their club teams, so five have to play on the wings.

“It’s a matter of finding what they’re most comfortable with when they’re playing wing,” said Sutter.

“They can’t all play centre, so who they can play with as pairs and threesomes to feel comfortable?

“It’s been a revolving door. There’s not really a plan in place. You just have a feel for your team. If something’s not working, you’ve got to change. You don’t have time to let it progress over a month. If something’s not working or someone’s not playing well, you have to change it up quickly.”

There were two moves of note against the U.S., moving Lazar off left wing to the right side, and switching Frederik Gauthier from the wing to centre, where the Toronto Maple Leafs prospect used his considerable size to win some key defensive zone faceoffs.

Sutter had particular praise for Lazar, who has scored in consecutive games while still playing well defensively.

“We started him on left wing because that’s where he finished the game before, but we talked after the first period,” he said. “He was having a bit of difficulty at that position, so I moved him back to right wing and he got his game back to where it was before.

allowed on six shots in just over five minutes of play.

BLADES 6 BRONCOS 3 SASKATOON — The lowly Blades scored three unanswered goals late in the third to surprise Swift Current.

Nikita Scherbak led the way with two goals, and Ayrton Nikkel, Nick Zajac, Logan Harland and Dylan Busenius added a goal apiece for Saskatoon (11-27-3).

Jay Merkley, Graham Black and Coda Gordon had goals for the Broncos (21-14-6).

Troy Trombley finished with 37 saves for Saskatoon, while at the other end of the ice Landon Bow stopped 33 shots.

“He’s most comfortable on right wing or centre ice. He’s been one of our best forwards, if not our best, so we have to make sure he’s feeling comfortable.”

He had similar praise for 18-year-old Sam Reinhart, a centre who has played mostly right wing.

“He plays 5-on-5, power plays, penalty killing, 5-on-3,” he said. “He and Curtis, as far as forwards go, have been very adaptable and have been our most complete players in that they can be put into any situation.”

At practice, Reinhart skated with centre Bo Horvat and captain Scott Laughton, while Lazar was with centre Nic Petan and 16-year-old Connor McDavid. Gauthier centred Kerby Rychel and Josh Anderson, while Jonathan Drouin was between Taylor Leier and Anthony Mantha.

Charles Hudon missed practice to treat a shoulder injured in Canada’s 5-3 win over Slovakia on Saturday.

“It doesn’t really matter where we play because we’re all pretty different,” said Laughton, a centre playing on left wing. “We all don’t really know each other.

“Right now, we’ve got four complete lines that can work and all have size, so I think we’re pretty set on the lines right now.”

Petan and Rychel both signed entry-level NHL contracts this week — Petan with the Winnipeg Jets and Rychel with Columbus.

“I was pretty cool,” the diminutive Petan said. “It was a good New Years’ present.”

CLASSIC: Bernier stopped 41 shots “I don’t know if it was a low point for him, but Howie’s better than that,” Babcock said. “So for him to respond today, he didn’t have a lot of

work, but he had some tough plays. And the way the puck was bouncing, it was hard anyways for a goaltender.”

It was hard on Leafs goalie Jonathan Bernier, too, but he was up to the task in making 41 saves through regulation and overtime. That’s a record for an NHL outdoor game, surpassing the Calgary Flames’ Miikka Kiprusoff’s 39 in the 2011 Heritage Classic.

Bernier said the visibility was bad in the first period, and then the wind became the problem in the second when the teams changed ends. In the shootout, he figured he had an edge because players couldn’t stickhandle as well.

“I tried to play the odds with the ice advantage, probably, as a goalie,” said Bernier, who stopped Alfredsson and Tomas Tatar in the shootout.

“I tried to take away the angles and be more vs aggressive a little bit and hopefully they go for the deke and miss the puck.”

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first half. But the Cardinal couldn’t follow up last season’s success in Pasadena with back-to-back Rose Bowl wins, managing just three points from their offence after the first quarter.

And Gaffney could only watch as Hewitt was stopped on Stanford’s final play.

“You have to give it to Michigan State for stuffing that,” said Gaffney, who managed just 24 yards after the first quarter. “Everybody in the building knew exactly what was coming. A run was coming up the middle, and it was a test of wills, and they got the better of us.”

Cook led in his own inimitable fashion, making incredible plays and huge mistakes along the way. Along with his costly interception to Anderson, he also threw two passes that went through the hands of Cardinal defenders, and an interception in the third quarter was wiped out by a defensive holding call.

But when the Spartans needed big plays in the second half, Cook repeatedly delivered, finishing 22 for 36.

“When we got down, guys were always helping each other,” Cook said.

“We’re such a balanced team.”

A mere 112 years after the game considered the first Rose Bowl was played in a park elsewhere in Pasadena, Stanford and Michigan State engaged in an old-fashioned slugfest in the venerable stadium that will host the BCS title game Monday night.

Michigan State fans dominated the Rose Bowl grounds and stands, with

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — USA Hockey used to have it relatively easy picking players for the Olympics.

Not anymore.

Bobby Ryan helped the United States earn a silver medal in 2010 in Vancouver and only 10 NHL players — from all countries — have more goals than he does this season for the Ottawa Senators. But unless Ryan gets a spot in place of an injured player, he won’t have a chance to help the Americans go for gold in Sochi.

“We did not pick the best 25 players,” general manager David Poile said Wednesday after the roster was announced. “We picked the best 25 players that we thought gave us a chance to compete and win the gold medal.”

And with goaltending and grit, the Americans might have some assets to help them compete with the defending champion Canadians along with the talented and extremely motivated Russians on their home soil.

In Sochi, the U.S. forwards will be: David Backes, Dustin Brown, Ryan Callahan, Patrick Kane, Ryan Kesler, Phil Kessel, T.J. Oshie, Max Pacioretty, Zach Parise, Joe Pavelski, Paul Stastny, Derek Stepan, James van Riemsdyk and Blake Wheeler. John Carlson, Justin Faulk, Cam Fowler, Paul Martin, Ryan McDonagh, Brooks Orpik, Kevin Shattenkirk and Ryan Suter will be on defence for the Americans.

“There is a lot of guys that can skate well and on the bigger sheet, that’ll be huge,” van Riemsdyk said after helping Toronto beat Detroit 3-2 in a shootout at the Winter Classic.

Kessel’s sister, Amanda, was selected to the women’s team Wednesday.

Ryan was perhaps the most surprising omission on the 25-man roster. Jack Johnson and Erik Johnson, a pair of defencemen who played in the Vancouver Games, also didn’t make the cut. Ryan has 18 goals this season — trailing just two U.S.-born players — is among league leaders with 36 points and has scored at least 30 times in four previous years.

“If you’re talking about the Johnsons and if you’re talking about Bobby Ryan, they’re fabulous hockey players,” Poile said. “And if I can say this the right way, this is the first time that we’re having to make similar decisions that Canada has had to make for years.

“We’re leaving off top, top players.”

Jimmy Howard appears to be the Americans’ third goaltender behind Jonathan Quick and Ryan Miller.

He hasn’t played well and has been injured for much of the season for the Red Wings, but his body of work boosted his bid ahead of Ben Bishop of the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Bishop has the most wins (29) and the best goals-against average (1.89) among American-born No. 1 goalies in the NHL this season.

“He’s playing lights out,” Poile acknowledged. “Our decisions were tough in goal — really tough.”

Other players who could’ve potentially been on the team, but weren’t selected include: Keith Yandle, Kyle Okposo, Cory Schneider, Brandon Saad and Dustin Byfuglien.

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PASADENA, Calif. — When Kyler Elsworth soared over the pile to deliver the final hit of Michigan State’s season, the storybook ending came with a moral.

After so many years outside the spotlight, the Spartans are in nobody’s shadow anymore. And for the first time in 26 years, they’re Rose Bowl champions.

Connor Cook passed for a careerhigh 332 yards and hit Tony Lippett with a tiebreaking 25-yard touchdown pass early in the fourth quarter, leading No. 4 Michigan State to a 24-20 victory over No. 5 Stanford on Wednesday night in the 100th Rose Bowl.

Michigan State’s FBS-best defence capped a dominant season with one more old-school performance befitting the centennial celebration of the Granddaddy of Them All. The Spartans (13-1) yielded just 159 yards in the final three quarters, and they closed it out by stopping Stanford fullback Ryan Hewitt on fourth-and-1 near midfield with 1:46 to play.

Elsworth, the fill-in starter for suspended senior linebacker Max Bullough, hurdled the pile and flew into Michigan State lore with a spectacular head-on tackle.

“When I saw their offensive linemen’s stance, I knew the way to make a play was to go over the top,” said Elsworth, the game’s defensive MVP. “I was hoping they would run a play like they did on their fourth down. It’s a one-in-a-lifetime play. We proved we could play on the big stage on the national level.”

Cook also threw a TD pass to Trevon Pendleton, and Jeremy Langford rushed for 84 yards and a score as the Big Ten champion Spartans overcame their first double-digit deficit of the entire season. Michigan State finished with 10 straight wins, holding off the Pac-12 champion Cardinal (11-3) for the school’s first Rose Bowl victory since 1988.

“It’s a special time for all Spartans, and we came here in force,” coach Mark Dantonio said. “I’m very happy for our football team, the resilience we showed all season long.”

The Spartans have long laboured behind Michigan, Ohio State and even Wisconsin among the Midwest’s top programs, but Dantonio’s seven-year rebuilding project in East Lansing has put them on top of the Midwest this season with a perfect run through conference play.

Tyler Gaffney ran for 91 yards and an early TD for Stanford, and linebacker Kevin Anderson returned an interception 40 yards for a score late in the

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San Diego Chargers wide receiver Eddie Royal, left, can’t hold on to a pass as Kansas City Chiefs defensive back Ron Parker defends during the second half of an NFL football game.

Chargers ‘ecstatic’ to be in playoffs

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN DIEGO — A month ago, no one could have imagined the San Diego Chargers would be practicing on New Year’s Day. The Bolts were manhandled by the Cincinnati Bengals on Dec. 1, losing 17-10 to fall to 5-7.

The playoffs were a far-off dream.

And there the Chargers were on Wednesday, practicing on a sunny, 72-degree afternoon for their wildcard game Sunday at Cincinnati.

The Bengals were the last team to beat the Chargers, who have won four straight games.

“It’s always better when you have a familiar opponent and you can see how players play, what we did wrong, what we did good,” Pro Bowl safety Eric Weddle said.

“Obviously it’s going to be a tough challenge going into their place and trying to get a win, but we can’t be more ecstatic with the opportunity we have as a football team. We surely missed this chance over the last three years. I know I have, so we can’t wait to get on the road and go play a playoff game.”

The Chargers haven’t been in the playoffs since 2009, when they were 13-3 and earned the AFC’s No. 2 seed before being embarrassed at home in a 17-14 loss to the New York Jets in the divisional round.

Norv Turner was in his third year as San Diego’s coach and LaDainian Tomlinson was in his ninth and final season with the Chargers.

Only six players remain from that team: Weddle,

quarterback Philip Rivers, tight end Antonio Gates, punter Mike Scifres, centre Nick Hardwick and right guard Jeromey Clary.

San Diego hasn’t won a playoff game since 2008, when it won its final four games and took advantage of a collapse by Denver to win the AFC West at 8-8.

San Diego beat Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts in overtime in a home wild-card game before losing at Pittsburgh.

To get another playoff win, the Chargers will have to play better than they did against the Bengals a month ago.

Although that game was tied 7-7 at halftime, the Bengals dominated the second half. They finished with 164 yards rushing, held Rivers to just 252 yards passing, forced three turnovers and jumped on a big breakdown in coverage.

Weddle thinks the Chargers can do better against the run if they “just understand what they’re doing, play physical, play tough, know what style of game it’s going to be and tackle. We need to tackle better as a group,” he said. “We’ll be ready for that. I’m not too worried that we won’t be able to stop the run. We should be able to get in there, battle, fight and see what happens.”

Rivers, San Diego’s other Pro Bowler this season, said the Chargers have to do a better job of finishing drives.

“I want to be very respectful because they had a lot to do with it,” Rivers said. “They caused the turnovers and they covered us. Some of it may not have been the best throw.”

GRENOBLE, France — Formula One great Michael Schumacher’s condition was stable but still critical overnight as he remained unconscious following a brain injury suffered in a skiing accident, his manager said Wednesday.

Sabine Kehm told reporters that his condition has not changed since doctors said he showed small signs of improvement on Tuesday, following his second operation.

Schumacher, who turns 45 on Friday, suffered critical head injuries when he fell and struck a rock while skiing Sunday morning during a family vacation at Meribel in the French Alps. His 14-year-old son, Mick, was with him in a group of friends when the accident happened in a small, rock-strewn area of open ground between two groomed pistes.

The seven-time F1 champion has since undergone two brain operations and remains in a medically induced coma.

“The good news for today is ... there’s no significant changes,” Kehm told reporters gathered outside the Grenoble hospital where he is being treated.

“However, it is still very early, and the situation overall is critical. Everything can change immediately,” she added.

Doctors have refused to give a prognosis for Schumacher, saying they are focused on his immediate care. They are trying to reduce swelling in his brain by keeping him in a coma and lowering his body temperature to between 34 and 35 degrees Celsius (93.2 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit).

Kehm said Schumacher was surrounded by his family — including his wife, daughter and son — and that there is always somebody with him.

“They are trying to support him by being by his side,” Kehm said.

One visitor returning to the hospital Wednesday was Jean Todt, president of the FIA motor racing governing body and team principal at Ferrari when Schumacher won five straight F1 titles from 2000 to 2004.

Schumacher is the most successful F1 driver in history, racking up a record 91 race wins. He retired from Formula One in 2012 after garnering an unmatched seven world titles.

Tottenham claims second straight Premier League win BEAT MAN UNITED 2-1 AT OLD TRAFFORD

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANCHESTER, England — New year, same old problems for Manchester United at Old Trafford.

The reigning Premier League champions slipped to a fourth home defeat of the campaign — and even further out of title contention — by losing 2-1 to Tottenham on Wednesday.

Emmanuel Adebayor put Spurs ahead with a header in the 34th minute before lively playmaker Christian Eriksen turned from supplier to scorer on another quick counter-attack to leave United 2-0 down in the 66th.

Danny Welbeck responded a minute later with his fifth goal in his last five league matches but it was another tame home display by United, which is now 11 points behind leader Arsenal.

“The margin of error has been slim for a long time,” United manager David Moyes said of his team’s title hopes.

United has dropped more points after 20 games this campaign (26) than it did all last season (25), and notched just one win over the current top nine.

Visiting teams are coming to Old Trafford with more confidence and belief in the post-Alex Ferguson era.

Tottenham was no exception and continued its revival under new manager Tim Sherwood, who has picked up 10 points from a possible 12 since replacing Andre Villas-Boas.

Spurs climbed above United into sixth, two points off fourth-place Liverpool.

“It is about letting (the players) have their head and go out and enjoy themselves,” Sherwood said. “We have all

played in the street. Sometimes you need to take it back to that.”

Adebayor has been central to Spurs’ improvement, and he has now scored three goals and set up two others in his last four games since returning to the first team after being overlooked by Villas-Boas.

His goal was a classic striker’s finish, drifting to the back post and beating back-pedaling fullback Chris Smalling with a downward header into the corner from Eriksen’s pinpoint cross.

Aaron Lennon and Roberto Soldado squandered good chances in the first half and United’s frustrations built, with Rooney booked for a blatant tug on Eriksen and Welbeck avoiding a yellow card despite a dive in the penalty area.

Moyes removed Smalling and holding midfielder Michael Carrick to go on all-out attack for the final 30 minutes but United was caught on the counterattack for Eriksen’s goal.

Adebayor launched the move and Soldado fed Lennon, who burst into the box and sent in a cross that deflected up off Nemanja Vidic. Eriksen nipped ahead of Antonio Valencia to head home from six yards out.

The two-goal cushion lasted barely a minute as Adnan Januzaj curled through a pass that Welbeck seized upon, before chipping the outrushing Hugo Lloris for a fine finish.

Spurs hung on in the final stages, with Lloris’ reckless lunge at Ashley Young just inside the penalty area going unpunished. Moyes was incredulous at the decision of referee Howard Webb, saying: “I thought it was scan-

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Manchester United’s Danny Welbeck, top, scores past Tottenham’s goalkeeper Hugo Lloris during their English Premier League soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Wednesday Jan. 1, 2014. dalous. It’s a scandal.”

“You’d hope the people who put the referees out there would have a look at it and look to see if they think the referees are doing as well as they can be,” Moyes added in a lengthy attack on Webb, arguably English football’s top referee.

Spurs had gone 23 years without a league win at Old Trafford until a 3-2 victory last season. Now they have won

there two seasons in a row.

Adebayor was carried off on a stretcher and Sherwood said he was unsure whether the striker would be fit to play against former club Arsenal in a north London derby in the third round of the FA Cup on Saturday.

“He has ice on everything,” Sherwood said, without specifying the injury. “He doesn’t know what is hurting him more.”

Nebraska holds on in rain-soaked Gator Bowl, beats Georgia BOWL GAMES ROUNDUP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Tommy Armstrong Jr. connected with Quincy Enunwa for two touchdowns, including a 99-yarder in the third quarter, and Nebraska held on to beat No. 23 Georgia 24-19 in the rain-soaked Gator Bowl on Wednesday.

Playing in their 50th bowl, the Cornhuskers (9-4) ended a four-game losing streak against teams from the Southeastern Conference. The streak included a 45-31 loss to Georgia in the Capital One Bowl last season.

The rematch was much different.

Nebraska did a solid job against running back Todd Gurley, who ran for 125 yards and a touchdown last year.

Gurley finished with 86 yards on the ground.

Gurley was more effective in the passing game, catching seven passes for 97 yards and a score. His 25-yard scoring receptions on the first play of the fourth quarter cut Nebraska’s lead to 24-19.

But the Huskers stopped Georgia (8-5) twice on fourth down in the closing minutes. Rantavious Wooten and Arthur Lynch dropped fourth-down

passes that ended drives in the red zone.

Georgia had a chance late.

Wooten dropped a fourth-and-2 pass at the 10-yard line with 4:42 remaining.

Georgia got the ball back with 3:18 to play and marched toward the end zone.

But Lynch couldn’t haul in a fourthand-3 pass that would have moved the chains with about 25 seconds remaining.

CAPITAL ONE BOWL NO. 8 SOUTH CAROLINA 34, NO. 19 WISCONSIN 24 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Connor Shaw was responsible for five touchdowns, including three passing, and South Carolina outlasted Wisconsin in the Capital One Bowl.

The senior was selected the game MVP after picking apart the Badgers’ defence, completing 22 of 25 passes for 312 yards. Shaw also had rushing and receiving scores.

The game also turned out to be the final college contest for South Carolina star defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, who said afterward that he would forgo his senior season to enter the NFL draft.

South Carolina (11-2) won its third straight bowl game to cap its third straight 11-win season.

Bruce Ellington caught six passes for 140 yards and two touchdowns.

The Badgers (9-4) lost their fourth

straight bowl game, failing to capitalize on 100-yard rushing games from both Melvin Gordon and James White, and struggling after quarterback Joel Stave left in the third quarter with a shoulder injury.

Backup Curt Phillips threw two interceptions.

OUTBACK BOWL NO. 14 LSU 21, IOWA 14 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Jeremy Hill ran for 216 yards and two touchdowns, helping LSU and inexperienced quarterback Anthony Jennings hold off Iowa in the Outback Bowl.

Craig Loston’s fourth-quarter interception stopped a potential tying drive, giving Hill a chance to put the game out of reach by carrying four times for 87 yards on a 92-yard march that gave LSU (10-3) a 21-7 lead.

Iowa (8-5) pulled within a touchdown after Jordan Cotton returned the ensuing kickoff to the Tigers 4.

Jennings rushed for one touchdown, but the freshman threw for only 82 yards and was intercepted once and sacked four times while standing in for the injured Zach Mettenberger in his first college start.

C.J. Beathard replaced Jake Rudock at quarterback for Iowa on the first play of the fourth quarter. His fourthdown interception stopped one promising drive, but he also tossed a 4-yard TD pass to Kevonte Martin-Manley that

cut it 21-14 with 1:42 remaining.

Safety John Lowdermilk set up Iowa’s other TD — Mark Weisman’s 2-yard run in the third quarter — with an interception and 71-yard return to the 1. Officials initially ruled Lowdermilk, who was untouched on the return, scored. But the TD was reversed when a replay review determined the Iowa defender dropped the ball before crossing the goal line.

HEART OF DALLAS BOWL NORTH TEXAS 36, UNLV 14 DALLAS (AP) — Derek Thompson threw for 256 yards and two touchdowns, Brelan Chancellor scored twice and North Texas dominated the second half to beat UNLV in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.

Both of Chancellor’s touchdown runs came in the fourth quarter after he keyed the go-ahead scoring drive in the third with some nifty footwork on a first-down catch.

He had 121 yards combined rushing and receiving.

The Mean Green (9-4) were making their first post-season appearance since a 2004 New Orleans Bowl loss to Southern Miss and won a bowl for the first sice New Orleans in 2002.

UNLV (7-6) drove 95 yards for a touchdown on its opening possession but didn’t score again until the Mean Green were up 28-7 in the fourth quarter.

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Red Deer City RCMP will have candid cameras trained on motorists at least 16 locations from now until Jan. 15. The areas being monitored include the following traffic corridors, school and playground zones.

School zones: 60th Street, 48th Avenue, Lawford Avenue, Douglas Avenue, and Oleander Drive.

Playground zones: 57th Avenue, Oak Street, Glendale Boulevard, Vanier Drive, Allan Street, and Addington Drive.

Traffic corridors: 49th Avenue, 50th Avenue, Taylor Drive, 49th Street, and Riverside Drive. The Red Deer RCMP Traffic Services Department reserves the option of changing locations without notice.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s acting police superintendent is a 32-year veteran who supervised the surrounding detachments in Central Alberta for more than a year.

RCMP Insp. David Elliott, 53, took over the reins from Warren Dosko, who unexpectedly retired from the police force on Dec. 20. Dosko had the position for close to three years.

Elliott worked as the operations officer for the Central Alberta District in Red Deer for 14 months before taking the interim position. The district oversees the 23 Central Alberta detachments in the province.

“There’s definitely lots going on at the detachment,” said Elliott.

“There’s lots going on in the city. Very interesting time.”

Elliott said he is very familiar with the area, the issues and how the detachments interact because of his position with the Insp. David Elliott Central Alberta District.

He was also a liaison with the office and the City of Red Deer.

Two men set to stand trial CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER

HISTORY THROUGH ART The Central Alberta Historical Society is taking a look at how our area developed through the art created over the years. The society’s next meeting is on Jan. 15 at the Snell Auditorium of the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library, at 4818 49th St. Everyone is welcome to attend the event, which starts at 7 p.m. and looks at the depictions of developing Western Canada Through Art. For more information, call Iris at 403-340-2588.

QUIT SMOKING PROGRAM Smokers who need help with their New Year’s resolutions to call it quits can sign up for the sevenweek QuitCore program.

The free tobacco-cessation workshops, offered by Alberta Health Services, start on Jan. 23 and run from 2:30 to 4 p.m. on seven consecutive Thursdays in room 102 at Johnstone Community Health Centre, 300 Jordan Parkway in Red Deer.

Led by trained cessation professionals, QuitCore teaches tobacco users how to develop a plan to quit while providing strategies to address recovery symptoms, manage stress and, ultimately, prevent relapse. The program also connects participants with others trying to quit.

QuitCore, launched in 2008, is available in more than 20 communities across Alberta. To register, call toll-free 1-866-710QUIT (7848). Information is also available from www. albertaquits.ca.

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Ecole Barrie Wilson School in the Timberlands in Red Deer is currently accepting registrations for the school year beginning September 2014.

Registration starts for new Timberlands area school

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Having to head back to school after Christmas break next week might not thrill elementary students in east Red Deer, but the ability to secure their place in a new school next September might help to alleviate some of the glumness.

Starting on Monday, registration begins for the newest public school in Red Deer, École Barrie Wilson Elementary School, set to open in September. Located in the Timberlands neighbourhood, the school will come into being with a capacity of 500 students and offer French immersion as well as regular programming.

The division approved new school attendance boundaries in early 2013, after a period of community consultation.

Starting next school year, French immersion students living east of 30th Avenue will move from Mountview School to Barrie Wilson. The new kindergarten to Grade 5 school will also cater to English students in the Clearview Ridge, Clearview Extension, College Park, Garden Heights, Laredo, Timberlands, Timberstone, Vanier East and Vanier Woods neighbourhoods.

Along with Mountview School, the other schools in the city’s east that will lose students to the new facility in 2014 are Joseph Welsh, Grandview, Annie L. Gaetz, and Mattie McCullough elementary schools. The division’s director of community relations, Bruce Buruma, said he expects the new school will open at near capacity; it is being designed to accommodate portable classrooms in the future to permit the instruction of up to 600 students.

Three registration sessions will take place at Balmoral Bible Chapel, located at the intersection of Hwy 11 and Rutherford

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Born in New Liskeard, Ont., Elliott joined the RCMP in 1981. Following RCMP training in Regina, Elliott spent 23 years working in small towns and cities in Saskatchewan.

“After being in Saskatchewan for so many years, I felt like I should go to Alberta like everybody else,” he laughed.

He moved to Bonnyville, where he was the detachment commander for five years before heading north to Yellowknife for the same position for three years.

The nationwide search for Dosko’s permanent replacement has begun.

For the first time, the city will have some say in who will be the next detachment commander. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Red Deer RCMP are calling for the public’s help in solving a year-old sex assault case.

In the early hours of Jan. 1, 2013, a male suspect allegedly sexually assaulted a female near Potter’s Hands Ministries at 4935 51st St. The assault took place at 5:15 a.m. that day.

The suspect, described as a Caucasian male in his mid-20s with light brown hair, was wearing a black winter coat and blue jeans at the time of the incident. A composite sketch of the suspect

Drive, in January. On Jan. 6 and 13, parents can register their children from 8 a.m. to noon and 4 to 8 p.m.; on Jan. 7, registrations will be accepted between 8 a.m. and noon.

Registrations can also be made directly to principal Chris Good at 403-348-0050 or chris.good@rdpsd.ab.ca.

While Barrie Wilson will open for all kindergarten to Grade 5 aged students in the designated neighbourhoods, those students who are in Grade 4 this school year will have the option to stay at their existing school to close out their elementary careers. Buruma said the option is being given to allow those students — who will be moving on to middle schools in 2015 — to not have to change schools two years in a row.

But while those students have the option of spending next year in their old schools, if they do so the division will not provide transportation services for them. The division provides transportation to students who attend their designated school and reside more than 1.6 km from that school.

Two other moves will take place in conjunction with the beginning of the 2013-14 school year. The Spanish bilingual program, which has operated over the last two years at G.H. Dawe Elementary School, will move to Gateway Christian School in the Pines neighbourhood. The Christian schooling program will move to River Glen School in 2014.

The division’s intent is to continue to build the Spanish program, which this year is open to kindergarten and Grade 1 students. As the students currently enrolled age, the program will grow with them, with the plan to have Pines School operating solely as a Spanish bilingual school by 2017.

The Christian program currently operates at both the Pines and at the division’s Central Campus. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com has been completed and police believe that an elephant-shaped marijuana glass pipe left by the suspect at the scene may assist in his identification.

No new information has come to light in the year since the alleged assault, and police are hoping that the turn of another year will jog someone’s memory in regards to the case.

“Unfortunately we’re at a standstill with this investigation right now,” said Cpl. Sarah Knelsen with the Red Deer City RCMP. Anyone with information relating to the incident can call police at 403-343-5575 or provide information anonymously through CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477. Information can also be reported online at www. tipsubmit.com.

Deer Park cars vandalized A dozen Red Deer vehicles were vandalized and had items taken from just before Christmas.

Red Deer RCMP are hoping for the public’s assistance in finding the culprits.

In the early morning hours of Dec. 23, about 12 vehicles in the Deer Park neighbourhood were vandalized. Police said vehicles had their mirrors broken off, windshield wipers torn off, windows smashed and, in one case, a vehicle’s soft top cover was cut. Items were also stolen from several of these vehicles.

Witnesses reported seeing two males

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Two Red Deer men charged with the attempted murder of another man were ordered on Tuesday to stand trial.

Daniel Huddlestone, 35, and Cameron Monkman, 29, were arrested by RCMP who were called to investigate after a seriously wounded man was found at a roadside near Benalto on the evening of June 3.

Police allege that the man was shot and robbed, and then abandoned at the side of the road.

Huddlestone and Monkman are jointly charged with attempted murder, armed robbery and aggravated assault. Huddlestone is also charged with weapons offences, including discharging a firearm with intent to wound, possession of a loaded firearm that is either restricted or prohibited and possession of a firearm while prohibited.

Huddlestone was denied bail earlier this year and remains in custody awaiting trial.

Monkman was granted release in June on $2,000 cash bail.

Represented by Calgary lawyers Darren Mahoney for Huddlestone and Tony Dos Santos for Monkman, the accused men asked earlier to be tried by judge and jury in Court of Queen’s Bench.

They were placed together in the prisoner’s box for their preliminary hearing on Tuesday morning, held before Judge Jim Hunter in Red Deer provincial court.

Preliminary hearings may be held before proceeding to trial to test some or all of the Crown’s case against the accused.

A publication ban requested by the defence bans publication of evidence presented on Tuesday.

The Crown’s case is being carried by special prosecutor Janice Rea, an organized crime specialist from Calgary.

A group of about a dozen men and women attended the hearing, sitting directly behind the defence counsels’ table save for two men who sat on the opposite side of the room.

At the request of Rea, Hunter stopped proceedings at one point in the hearing to order the two accused men to stop talking to each other or risk watching the balance of their hearing from a closed-circuit TV room at the Red Deer Remand Centre.

A sheriff also had to shush some of the people in the gallery a few moments later, telling them to stop laughing or they would be removed from the courtroom.

A date for the trial is to be set in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Feb. 3. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com in the area. Police said they were wearing dark clothing, peering into vehicles and trying to open vehicle doors.

Anyone with information about these incidents is asked to contact Red Deer City RCMP at 403-343-5575. Anyone wishing to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www. tipsubmit.com.

Local lawyers among 114 Queen’s counsel appointees Two lawyers from Red Deer are among those most recently elevated to the rank of Queen’s counsel.

Suzanne Maria Alexander-Smith and Christopher Rickards are among the 114 QC appointments announced on Tuesday by Solicitor General Jonathan Denis.

A call is made for applications every second September and then submitted to the Law Society of Alberta for screening.

Final selections are made by the justice minister and cabinet and then forwarded to the lieutenant governor, who makes the appointments.

Queen’s (or King’s) counsel appointments date back to 16th-century England as a means of recognizing lawyers from both the public and private sectors for exceptional capability and talent.

Canada’s first QCs were appointed in 1841.

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A warm welcome in Thailand THAI FACILITIES WELCOME EUROPEANS WITH ALZHEIMER’S; RELATIVES SAY CARE CHEAPER, MORE PERSONAL

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Residents of this facility for people with Alzheimer’s disease toss around a yellow ball and laugh under a cascade with their caregivers, in a swimming pool ringed by palm trees and wind chimes. Susanna Kuratli, once a painter of delicate oils, swims a lap and smiles.

Watching is her husband, Ulrich, who has a heartrending decision: to leave his wife of 41 years in this facility 9,000 kilometres (5,600 miles) from home, or to bring her back to Switzerland.

Their homeland treats the elderly as well as any nation on Earth, but Ulrich Kuratli says the care here in northern Thailand is not only less expensive but more personal. In Switzerland, “You have a cold, old lady who gives you pills and tells you to go to bed,” he says.

Kuratli and his family have given themselves six months to decide while the retired software developer lives alongside his 65-year-old wife in Baan Kamlangchay — “Home for Care from the Heart.”

Patients live in individual houses within a Thai community, are taken to local markets, temples and restaurants, and receive personal around-the-clock care. The monthly $3,800 cost is a third of what basic institutional care would cost in Switzerland.

Kuratli is not yet sure how he’ll care for Susanna, who used to produce a popular annual calendar of her paintings. But he’s leaning toward keeping her in Thailand.

“Sometimes I am jealous. My wife won’t take my hand but when her Thai carer takes it, she is calm.

She seems to be happy,” he says. “When she sees me she starts to cry. Maybe she remembers how we were and understands, but can no longer find the words.”

Relatives in Western nations are increasingly confronting Kuratli’s dilemma as the number of Alzheimer’s patients and costs rise, and the supply of qualified nurses and facilities struggles to keep up.

Faraway countries are offering cheaper, and to some minds better, care for those suffering from the irreversible loss of memory.

The nascent trend is unnerving to some experts who say uprooting people with Alzheimer’s will add to their sense of displacement and anxiety, though others say quality of care is more important than location. There’s also some general uneasiness over the idea of sending ailing elderly people abroad: The German press has branded it “gerontological colonialism.”

Germany is already sending several thousand sufferers, as well as the aged and otherwise ill, to Eastern Europe, Spain, Greece and Ukraine. Patients are even moving from Switzerland, which was ranked No. 1 in health care for the elderly this year in an index compiled by the elderly advocacy group HelpAge International and the U.N. Population Fund.

The Philippines is offering Americans care for $1,500 to $3,500 a month, well below U.S. rates. About 100 Americans are currently seeking care in the Philippines, says J.J. Reyes, who is planning a retirement community near Manila.

Facilities in Thailand also are preparing to attract more Alzheimer’s sufferers. In Chiang Mai, a pleasant city ringed by mountains, Baan Kamlangchay will be followed by a $10 million, holiday-like home scheduled to open before mid-2014. Also on the way is a small Alzheimer’s unit within a retirement community set on the grounds of a former four-star resort.

The U.K.-based Alzheimer’s Disease International says there are more than 44 million Alzheimer’s patients globally, and the figure is projected to triple to 135 million by 2050.

A number of European countries have generous national health insurance, but these generally do not cover treatment abroad. Kuratli says the Swiss government would cover two-thirds of the bill for his wife’s care if she stays in Switzerland, but since highend private clinics there can cost $15,000 or more per

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In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013, Alzheimer patients from Switzerland are cared by Thai caretakers during afternoon activities at Baan Kamlangchay care center in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand. Thailand is poised to attract more Alzheimer’s sufferers from the Alpine country and elsewhere. In this pleasant city ringed by mountains “Baan Kamlangchay” will be followed by a $10 million dollar, holidaylike home scheduled to open before mid-2014 and a small Alzheimer’s unit within a retirement community set on the grounds of a former four-star resort. month, he could still end up paying more there than he would in Thailand.

Baan Kamlangchay was established by Martin Woodtli, a Swiss who spent four years in Thailand with the aid group Doctors Without Borders before returning home to care for his Alzheimer’s-diagnosed mother.

He brought his mother to Chiang Mai, where she became the home’s first “guest.” Woodtli never uses the word “patient.”

Over the next 10 years, the 52-year-old psychologist and social worker purchased or rented eight two-story houses where 13 Swiss and German patients now reside.

On most afternoons, the group gathers at a private, walled park to swim, snack and relax on deck chairs.

Regular outside activities are organized because Woodtli believes these stimuli may help delay degeneration.

He says his guests “cannot explain it, but I think they feel part of a family, a community, and that is very important.”

Sabine Jansen, head of Germany’s Alzheimer Society, says that while some with Alzheimer’s may adjust to an alien place, most find it difficult because they live in a world of earlier memories.

“They are better oriented in their own living places and communities,” she says. “Friends, family members, neighbours can visit them. Also because of language and cultural reasons, it is best for most to stay in their home country.”

Angela Lunde of the U.S.-based Mayo Clinic says that generally the afflicted do better in a familiar environment, but over time, even those with advanced stages of the disease can adjust well. “I think a positive transition has less to do with the move itself

and more with the way in which the staff and new environment accommodates the person living with dementia,” she says.

Woodtli says people who have travelled widely and are accustomed to change can probably adapt.

“One of our guests sometimes wakes up in the morning and says, ’Where am I?’ But she would do the same if she was in a care centre in Switzerland,” he says. “One guest thinks she is in a schoolhouse at Lake Lucerne.”

At the swimming pool, Madeleine Buchmeier snaps photos and laughs as she watches a caregiver take her smiling husband’s hands to twirl around together in a dance out of childhood.

“It’s a miracle,” she says. Geri used to bang his head against the walls of a care facility in Switzerland, she says, “as if he wanted to do something, get somewhere.”

He would sink when entering water. In the three weeks since they arrived, he has calmed down and can swim again, all while his medicine is being sharply reduced.

Like Kuratli, Buchmeier is deciding whether her 64-year-old husband, a former Ford Motor Co. employee, should stay or go back to Switzerland.

Nearby, Manfred Schlaupitz, a former DaimlerBenz engineer in his 70s, lies back in a deck chair, cradling a stuffed toy lamb. His caregiver, Kanokkan Tasa, sits on the grass beside him, gently massaging his legs and tickling his chin. She has been with him for six years.

“If you think of it as a job it’s very difficult,” she says, “but if it comes from the heart, it is easy.”

Like a number of Alzheimer’s victims, Schlaupitz responds well to music. Sometimes they sing one of his favourite songs: “Yesterday.”

Pepper dubbed the world’s hottest by Panel says yearly Guinness is grown in South Carolina screening can cut

deaths from lung cancer but only for certain smokers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT MILL, S.C. — Ed Currie holds one of his world-record Carolina Reaper peppers by the stem, which looks like the tail of a scorpion.

On the other end is the bumpy, oily, fire-engine red fruit with a punch of heat nearly as potent as most pepper sprays used by police. It’s hot enough to leave even the most seasoned spicy food aficionado crimson-faced, flushed with sweat, trying not to lose his lunch.

Last month, The Guinness Book of World Records decided Currie’s peppers were the hottest on Earth, ending a more than fouryear drive to prove no one grows a more scorching chili. The heat of Currie’s peppers was certified by students at Winthrop University who test food as part of their undergraduate classes.

But whether Currie’s peppers are truly the world’s hottest is a question that one scientist said can never be known. The heat of a pepper depends not just on the plant’s genetics, but also where it is grown, said Paul Bosland, director of the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University. And the heat of a pepper is more about being macho than seasoning.

“You have to think of chili heat like salt. A little bit improves the flavour, but a lot ruins it,” Bosland said.

Some ask Currie if the record should be given to the single hottest pepper tested instead of the mean taken over a whole batch.

After all, Usain Bolt isn’t considered the world’s fastest man because of his average time over several races. But Currie shakes off those questions.

“What’s the sense in calling something a record if it can’t be replicated? People want to be able to say they ate the world’s hottest pepper,” Currie said.

The record is for the hottest batch of Currie’s peppers that

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In this Dec. 12, 2013 photo, Ed Currie holds three Carolina Reaper peppers, in Fort Mill, S.C. Last month, The Guinness Book of World Records decided Currie’s peppers were the hottest on Earth. was tested, code name HP22B for “Higher Power, Pot No. 22, Plant B.” Currie said he has peppers from other pots and other plants that have comparable heat.

The science of hot peppers centres around chemical compounds called capsaicinoids. The higher concentration the hotter the pepper, said Cliff Calloway, the Winthrop University professor whose students tested Currie’s peppers.

The heat of a pepper is measured in Scoville Heat Units. Zero is bland, and a regular jalapeno pepper registers around 5,000 on the Scoville scale. Currie’s world record batch of Carolina Reapers comes in at 1,569,300 Scoville Heat Units, with an individual pepper measured at 2.2 million. Pepper spray weighs in at about 2 million Scoville Units.

Pharmacist Wilbur Scoville devised the scale 100 years ago, taking a solution of sugar and water to dilute an extract made from the pepper. A scientist would then taste the solution and dilute it again and against until the heat

was no longer detected. So the rating depended on a scientist’s tongue, a technique that Calloway is glad is no longer necessary.

“I haven’t tried Ed’s peppers.

I am afraid to,” Calloway said. “I bite into a jalapeno — that’s too hot for me.”

Now, scientists separate the capsaicinoids from the rest of the peppers and use liquid chromatography to detect the exact amount of the compounds. A formula then converts the readings into Scoville’s old scale.

The world record is nice, but it’s just part of Currie’s grand plan. He’s been interested in peppers all his life, the hotter the better.

Ever since he got the taste of a sweet hot pepper from the Caribbean a decade ago, he has been determined to breed the hottest pepper he can. He is also determined to build his company, PuckerButt Pepper Company, into something that will let the 50-yearold entrepreneur retire before his young kids grow up.

WASHINGTON — Certain current or former heavy smokers should start getting yearly scans for lung cancer to cut their risk of death from the nation’s top cancer killer, government advisers said Monday — even as they stressed that the tests aren’t for everyone.

Monday’s long-anticipated decision by the influential U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says these CT scans of the lungs should be offered only to people at especially high risk: Those who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 30 years or an equivalent amount, such as two packs a day for 15 years — and who are between the ages of 55 and 80.

That’s roughly 10 million people, but not all of them qualify for screening, said task force vice chairman Dr. Michael LeFevre, a University of Missouri family physician. Even those high-risk people shouldn’t be scanned if they’re not healthy enough to withstand cancer treatment, or if they kicked the habit more than 15 years ago.

Lung cancer kills nearly 160,000 Americans each year. Smoking is the biggest risk factor, and the more and longer people smoke, the higher their risk. Usually, lung cancer is diagnosed too late for treatment to succeed, but until now there hasn’t been a good means of early detection.

The newly recommended screening could prevent as many as 20,000 deaths a year, LeFevre said — if it’s used correctly. That estimate assumes good candidates seek the scans. There’s no way to know if people at the highest risk will, or if instead the overly anxious will flood testing centres.

Screen the wrong people, “and we could see more harm than good,” LeFevre cautioned. “There’s a lot of room for what I would call people exploiting the recommendation. I can imagine a street-corner imaging centre advertising to invite people in.”

Why not screen younger or lighter smokers?

There’s no data to tell if they’d be helped. Lung cancer is rare before age 50, and the major study that showed screening could save lives enrolled only heavy smokers starting at age 55.

But screening isn’t harm-free. A suspicious scan is far more likely to be a false alarm than a tumour, LeFevre noted. Yet patients may undergo invasive testing to find out, which in turn can cause complications.

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ABOVE: Continuing a craze for adapting movies into musicals, the Kennedy Center in Washington is presenting ‘Flashdance: The Musical,’ an expansion of the hugely popular movie, on its Eisenhower stage. Jillian Mueller re-creates the role of Alex Owens made famous in the 1983 film.

BELOW: Popular films ‘Big Fish,’ ‘Far From Heaven’ and ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ (shown here, at Second Stage Theatre) all lifted their newly musical voices lately in New York. Big musicals due on Broadway in 2014 include Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ and ‘The Bridges of Madison County.’

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that gauntlet down, you find yourself doing it.”

Menken argues that movies are a natural source for musicals, just as books and plays were for so many standards written in Broadway’s Golden Age, from My Fair Lady to South Pacific.

“Most of those hit shows were based on things they read, or based on plays,” Menken says. “We’re in a different culture,” he adds, wondering if adaptations of TV series will be next.

Elf composer Matthew Sklar suggests that The Producers in 2001 was a turning point. The tidal wave of 1980s and 1990s megamusicals finally crashed, and The Producers reintroduced the world to musical comedy.

“After 9/11, I think people wanted to laugh,” says Sklar, whose musicals with lyricist and book writer Chad Beguelin include a short-lived 2006 Broadway musical of the Adam Sandler comedy The Wedding Singer.

But it was Disney and the 1994 Beauty and the Beast that really unlocked Pandora’s Box. That

show ran 13 years and paved the way for The Lion King, which has been an unrelenting smash since 1997. The first week of this December, The Lion King grossed nearly $2 million for its eight performances on Broadway alone, filling 93 per cent of the 1,597 seats in the Minskoff Theater and averaging $155 a ticket. National and international tours continue, sweetening the pot.

Even though Menken asserts that the lure of Hollywood dates to Gershwin and Irving Berlin, the aggressive theatrical arm of Disney in the 1990s plainly paved a new avenue for Hollywood execs to tread.

Film studios increasingly opened their own theatrical divisions after the Disney hits and the next decade’s successes of The Producers, Hairspray and Wicked.

“Now you literally have heads of studios coming in wanting to be deeply and directly involved,” Menken says. “By film standards, it’s practically dirt cheap to put up a musical.”

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WASHINGTON — How extreme is the craze for adapting movies into musicals? Consider what’s singing out at the Kennedy Center: Elf the Musical, based on the 2003 Will Ferrell hit, is currently hopping through the Opera House. Flashdance — The Musical, an expansion of the hugely popular 1980s movie, is also running in the Eisenhower.

Last month, a tour of Sister Act wimpled through.

That undeclared mini-festival is just the tip of an iceberg that may be sabotaging ingenuity in one of America’s proudest native art forms. And while the run on Hollywood titles may suggest a gold rush, the formula for success is inscrutable. Offbeat triumphs were nabbed by minor movie titles such as Once, Kinky Boots and Grey Gardens, while such Hollywood blockbusters as Ghost and Catch Me if You Can — the latter by Hairspray songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, who would seem to know how these conversions work — flamed out fast.

The one sure thing: Like a Netflix menu, the titles keep coming.

Big Fish, Far From Heaven and Little Miss Sunshine all lifted their newly musical voices lately in New York. Big musicals due on Broadway this winter and spring: Aladdin, The Bridges of Madison County (a successful novel made even more popular by the Clint Eastwood-Meryl Streep film), Bullets Over Broadway and Rocky. Just announced for off-Broadway in March: Heathers.

The fad is international: American Psycho, The Bodyguard, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and From Here to Eternity are all running in London’s West End. Coal Miner’s Daughter is in the works. So is Dirty Dancing (now on U.S. tour, and playing in London), Ever After, Honeymoon in Vegas and even King Kong, a rock spectacular that has already conquered Australia and stars a one-ton gorilla puppet 20 feet tall.

Even the most highbrow composers can’t resist the lure of musicalizing movies. The property Stephen Sondheim kept saying he’d like to get around to in the past decade or so but never did? Groundhog Day. And what has Light in the Piazza composer Adam Guettel been working on since the plug was pulled on his unfinished version of The Princess Bride? Days of Wine and Roses and the 2004 Danny Boyle movie, Millions.

Michael John LaChiusa’s Giant, which made its debut at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va., several seasons ago, finally made it to New York (briefly) last year. That LaChiusa worked from the Edna Ferber novel is moot, marketing-wise: Audiences hear Giant and think Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean.

Likewise Signature’s premiere musical next spring, based on the Iris Rainer Dart novel that became the Bette Midler screen smash, Beaches.

Isn’t this dependency on Hollywood-branded titles strangling Broadway’s originality? According to the composers of the musicals scrolling through the Kennedy Center, it ain’t necessarily so.

“With Sister Act, I was resistant,” says composer and uber-adapter Alan Menken, whose first stage hit was 1982’s Little Shop of Horrors and who owns eight Oscars for songs and scores of the movies The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas and Aladdin. He helped convert Mermaid and Beast into stage hits, and his new musical of Aladdin just opened in Toronto en route to its first Broadway performances in February. Last year Menken won his first Tony with Newsies, adapting his own score from the 1989 Disney film; a January workshop is scheduled for Menken’s new musical of the Disney film Hunchback of Notre Dame.

“People were saying, ‘Oh, my God, everything’s coming from film, it’s getting uncreative,’” Menken says by phone from his home in the New York area.

“But I think it depends on where it comes from, and what you do with it.”

The Sister Act title “felt tired,” Menken said, but he warmed to the challenge of revitalizing it for the stage. The 1990s story was relocated to 1970s, allowing Menken to pen disco songs and R&B tunes.

In the end, he says, “I loved it. Once you throw

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NHL deal top story of ’13 HOCKEY PARTNERSHIP ECLIPSED OTHER MAJOR HEADLINES IN AN ANNUAL SURVEY

BY DAVID FRIEND THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Few things get to the heart of Canadians like hockey, so when Rogers Communications scored a multi-billion-dollar deal that will shake up how the sport is broadcast, you can bet the country paid attention.

The ink was hardly dry on the 12-year contact, in which Rogers locked up National Hockey League television and multimedia broadcast rights, when fans began asking how their beloved “Hockey Night in Canada” show, and the culture of the game, would be affected.

But reverberations from the $5.2-billion sports deal will be felt beyond the rinks in 2014 as Canada’s biggest media companies grapple with a world that’s increasingly turning off real-time television broadcasts.

The savvy hockey partnership, which begins next season, eclipsed other major headlines in an annual survey of editors and broadcasters for The Canadian Press Business News Story of the Year.

The November deal was chosen by 48 per cent of respondents, more than double the votes for BlackBerry’s latest swing at a recovery which received 23 per cent. The battle over the Keystone XL and Northern Gateway pipelines took 22 per cent.

“Rogers has delivered an American-style, big money TV deal, certainly a first for a Canadian network,” said Christopher Pride, a radio host at CJRW in Summerside, P.E.I. “This may be the beginning of a major cultural shift in how this country views hockey.”

Even if you don’t watch sports, chances are the Rogers-NHL partnership will change how you view cable television and, potentially, how much you pay for the privilege.

Sports entertainment is the Holy Grail for broadcasters because it’s one of the few places where advertisers will still pay top dollar for a 30-second spot in an era of Netflix, PVRs and ondemand programs.

Ten years ago, live shows like “American Idol” drew big viewership

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Rogers President and CEO Nadir Mohamed (right) poses for a photo with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman behind the Stanley Cup after a news conference in Toronto on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013. The Rogers Communications deal to lock up the National Hockey League television and multimedia broadcast rights has been voted the 2013 Canadian Press Business News Story of the Year. numbers but those franchises have dwindled in popularity, leaving networks with few options.

“Sports programming is the last bastion of appointment viewing,” said Vijay Setlur, a sports marketing instructor in Toronto.

“The NHL is a big piece in the puzzle for Rogers.”

Sports became a priority for the telecommunications giant after it acquired the Toronto Blue Jays more than a decade ago and learned a lesson about fan loyalty. Rogers has been in the game ever since and most recently acquired The Score sports channel, and rebranded it as Sportsnet 360 to fit into its roster of sports-angled TV and radio assets.

All of these deals have come at a major price and if lessons from the United States are any sign, the bill will be paid for by more than just sports fans.

Networks like ESPN pay massive

amounts of money to leagues for rights to their games. Two years ago, the cable channel dished out $15.2 billion to extend an agreement with the NFL through 2021. Much of those expenses are pushed down to cable operators when networks charge them to carry their signal.

In the U.S., sports programming has been responsible for nearly doubling the price of the average monthly cable bill from US$40 to $78 between 2001 and 2011, according to marketing research firm SNL Kagan.

While the price climb has been less dramatic in Canada, cable packages became a centre of controversy in 2013 as the federal regulator pushed for more consumer choice, and weighed the possibility of a “pick-and-pay” model that would let viewers opt out of unwanted channels.

It’s still unclear how Rogers plans to distribute the heaps of NHL content it will own, raising the possibility the

CRTC could intervene, said a report from ratings agency Moody’s.

“Despite the Canadian government’s support of free markets, should Rogers’ plans adversely affect consumers, regulators will respond,” the ratings agency said in a note issued in December.

Digital streaming distribution is one area where Rogers has tested the water. The company already sells digital access to its Sportsnet World programming, which includes international soccer, rugby and cricket, for about $275 a year.

Rogers has considered a streaming subscription for Toronto Blue Jays games or its Sportsnet channel, senior vice-president of content David Purdy said in early 2013.

So far, that package has yet to materialize, although a hockey bundle would almost certainly be offered as well.

To keep from appearing as a predator, Rogers has invited its competitors underneath the velvet rope to secure their own mini-agreements for NHL content, although the offers are hardly ideal.

One of the biggest losers is the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., which has been the television home of Hockey Night in Canada since 1952, and the radio partner for even longer.

For the next four years, Rogers will allow the CBC to broadcast the same Saturday night hockey feed that will be shown on its own networks. The catch is that CBC will have to rebroadcast the same commercials as the Rogers channels — and CBC won’t pocket any of the ad revenue.

As a consolation, Rogers says it will show commercials for upcoming CBC shows across its networks for the duration of the agreement.

The loss of “Hockey Night in Canada” is expected to slam the financials of the cash-strapped CBC, and the fallout is certain to cause a decline in CBC viewership, less money for its TV show budgets, and job losses over the next four years.

TVA in Quebec will handle all of the Canadian French-language multimedia rights.

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TIMS OPENS IN CLEARVIEW MARKET SQUARE

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

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Red Deer’s newest Tim Hortons opened for business last week. The outlet is attached to a Shell service station at 62 Carleton Ave. in Clearview Market Square.

MLA begins new year with trip to India CAL DALLAS TO JOIN PREMIER ALISON REDFORD ON TRADE MISSION

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Promoting trade between Alberta and Southeast Asia are among the first tasks on Cal Dallas’s 2014 to-do list.

The MLA for Red Deer South and the province’s International and Intergovernmental Relations minister will depart for India on Jan. 9. There, he’ll accompany Premier Alison Redford in New Delhi, Noida Cal Dallas and Mumbai.

Dallas’s itinerary includes

attendance at the opening of Alberta’s new India Office and at the Petrotech 2014 Exhibition and Conference, as well as a presentation at the Canada India Energy Forum, and meetings with India’s minister of petroleum and natural gas, officials from the country’s oil and gas and financial sectors, and the Canadian High Commissioner for India.

On Jan. 16, Dallas will continue on to Singapore, where he’ll attend a business dinner with the Canadian High Commissioner for Singapore, a briefing session with the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, and an Alberta Food Industry event. He’ll also speak at a Canadian Chamber of Commerce Singapore networking breakfast, and meet with representatives from a number of industry and business organizations.

“Southeast Asia and Oceania have a combined population of 600 million people and include several of the world’s most successful economies,” said Dallas in a government release.

“Singapore remains a significant entry point into these diverse and prosperous markets. This is why it’s so important we get boots on the ground to identify opportunities and showcase what Alberta has to offer.”

Dallas is scheduled to return to Alberta on Jan. 21. Redford will also spend time at Bangalore while in India, and then travel to Switzerland for the World Economic Forum.

Meanwhile, Alberta Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour Minister Thomas Lukaszuk will be in China Jan. 3 to 10.

He’s expected to meet with government and industry officials, as well as the Canadian Consul General.

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

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Five years ago, few Central Albertans had heard of Snap Fitness.

Today, four of the 24-hour gyms operate in the Red Deer area, with a fifth scheduled to open by the end of January.

Leigh and Tim Ostiguy own the Snap Fitness franchises in Sylvan Lake, Lacombe and at 88 Howarth St. in Red Deer. The fourth, in Innisfail, belongs to another franchisee.

“It is growing quite successfully,” said Leigh, noting that new Snap Fitness outlets opened recently in Wetaskiwin and Leduc, with others pending in Beaumont and Devon.

Internationally, there are more than 1,400, according to the company’s website.

The Ostiguys are preparing to open their fourth gym at 3119 49th Ave. They felt it was important to offer members a south Red Deer option, said Leigh.

“It’s pretty much the same, except we’re adding group fitness to it.”

The new premises, which have more than 4,000 square feet, will contain a studio area designated for group exercising. These could be led by a staff member, or by a virtual trainer who will appear on a large projection screen.

“So if they come at 5 in the morning and there’s not a scheduled class, they just go in there and push what they want to do — like boot camp, or Zumba class or spin bikes,” said Leigh.

The new location will also feature a workout monitoring system called MyZone, which will track information like heart rate, calories burned and exertion level through a sensor worn by the user.

The results will be displayed on a monitor and recorded into members’ personal profiles.

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MARKETS CLOSE DEC. 31 TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Tuesday as investors closed the books on a year that saw a solid advance.

The S&P/TSX composite index climbed 40.16 points to 13,621.55 with gains for the day led by the battered gold sector, by far the biggest loser on the Toronto market this year.

The TSX ended 2013 up 9.55 per cent for the year, with the advance racked up over the last five months.

“The back half of the year was really the inflection point,” said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets specialist at Edward Jones in St. Louis.

He observed that was the point where the market started to transition from one that was driven by central bank stimulus to an environment where investors started to focus more on economic fundamentals.

“And that’s a healthy transition,” added Fehr.

The Canadian dollar closed up 0.04 of a cent to 94.02 cents US. U.S. indexes also ended the year higher as traders digested a mixed bag of data on home prices, consumer confidence and manufacturing.

The Dow Jones industrials rose 72.37 points to a new closing high of 16,576.66, adding up to a gain of 26.5 per cent for 2013. The Nasdaq was ahead 22.39 points to 4,176.59, up 38 per cent this year to its highest level in 13 years. The S&P 500 index was up 7.29 points to 1,848.36 for a gain of 29 per cent for 2013, its best year since 1997.

The gains on the final trading day of the year came as Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 0.2 per cent from September to October, down from a 0.7 per cent increase from August to September, as higher mortgage rates weighed on sales and dampened the housing recovery.

For the year, U.S. home prices reflected big gains in earlier months. They rose 13.6 per cent over the past 12 months, the fastest pace since February 2006 — before the U.S. real estate crash.

Other data showed the Chicago Purchasing Managers Index, a key reading on manufacturing in the American Midwest, slowed during this month, falling to 59.1 from 63.

Also, the U.S. Conference Board said its consumer confidence index for December came in 78.1, up sharply from 72 in November.

TSX gains for the year would have been greater if not for deep losses in the mining sectors. The gold sector fell about 48 per cent for the year while the precious metal has fallen about 28 per cent, the first annual loss since 2000.

Gold prices have taken a big hit this year as the global economy gradually improved and the U.S. Federal Reserve made moves to cut back on its monthly bond purchases, a key area of stimulus.

On Tuesday, the gold sector was the major advancer, up just over two per cent while the February contract on the Nymex shed early losses to move up $1.50 to US$1,202.30 an ounce.

Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) climbed 51 cents to C$18.71.

In addition to the big losses in gold, the base metals component has retreated 21 per cent as an uneven global recovery kept the lid on commodity prices.

The base metals group was also ahead 0.77 per cent on Tuesday with March copper up a penny at US$3.40 a pound. Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) was ahead 35 cents to C$27.65.

Outside of the mining sectors, most TSX sectors did quite well for the year.

“Roughly half of the TSX sectors are up double digits or more for the year,” said Fehr.

“And when you look at industrials, consumer discretionary, there are some very strong gains and I think the investments that were really tied to fundamental growth, better manufacturing, consumer spending around the world, those are areas that did exceptionally well.”

Financials were up 22 per cent for the year. Insurance companies were particularly strong

performers as companies benefited from strong stock market gains and rising bond yields.

Industrials also had a good year, up about 35 per cent as railroad stocks shot ahead, helped along in large part by rising shipments of crude oil. Fresh questions about rail transport safety for crude will be asked after a 1.6-kilometre-long train carrying crude oil derailed outside of the town of Casselton, North Dakota on Monday. BNSF Railway Co. said it believes about 20 cars caught fire after its oil train left the tracks Monday afternoon.

The consumer discretion sector jumped about 40 per cent.

Many stocks almost doubled over the past 52 weeks, including auto parts makers Magna International (TSX:MG), Linamar Corp. (TSX:LNR) and Martinrea International (TSX:MRE).

The TSX energy sector was ahead 0.47 per cent Tuesday, for a gain of about 9.5 per cent for the year. The February crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange closed 87 cents lower to US$98.42 a barrel. Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) advanced 36 cents to C$35.94.

Most TSX sectors were positive but the tech sector shed 0.3 per cent. However, BlackBerry (TSX:BB) gained 18 cents to $7.90, a long way from its 52-week high of $18.49. Prices started to plummet mid-year when it became apparent its new lineup of smartphones had widely missed expectations.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,621.55 up 40.16 points TSX Venture Exchange — 931.97 up 10.73 points TSX 60 — 783.75 up 2.07 points Dow — 16,576.66 up 72.37 points (record high) S&P 500 — 1,848.36 up 7.29 points Nasdaq — 4,176.59 up 22.39 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 94.02 cents US, up 0.04 of a cent Pound — C$1.7619, up 0.57 of a cent Euro — C$1.4644, down 0.38 of a cent Euro — US$1.3768, down 0.31 of a cent Oil futures: US$98.42 per barrel, down 87 cents (February contract) Gold futures: US$1,202.30 per oz., down $1.50 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: Closed through Jan. 3.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan. ’14 $1.70 higher $439.90; March ’14 $2.20 higher $449.90; May ’14 $2.10 higher $458.90; July ’14 $2.30 higher $467.60; Nov. ’14 $2.10 higher $480.80; Jan ’15 $2.00 higher $486.00; March ’15 $1.60 higher $491.00; May ’15 $1.60 higher $495.10; July ’15 $1.60 higher $494.80; Nov ’15 $1.60 higher $491.00; Jan. ’16 $1.60 higher $491.00.

Barley (Western): March ’14 unchanged $146.00; May ’14 unchanged $148.00; July ’14 unchanged $148.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $148.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $148.00; March ’15 unchanged $148.00; May ’15 unchanged $148.00; July ’15 unchanged $148.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $148.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $148.00; March ’16 unchanged $148.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 471,160 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 471,160.

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NHL: What happens to Don Cherry?

The sting is sharper at Bell Media (TSX:BCE) and its TSN cable network where it once appeared that a relationship was forming with Rogers over past sports ventures, including a pact for a majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd. “They partnered together on the Olympics and ... on the MLSE because the content was so rich and compelling and the price was so high,” said Brian Cooper, head of sports sponsorship consultancy firm S&E Sponsorship Group, in an interview after the deal.

“TSN owns a lot of great championships in basketball, soccer, and they own a lot of golf masters . . . but in this country, there is only one sport that really matters.”

Ultimately, TSN is left with the crumbs of the hockey deal — a regional agreement for 10 Leafs

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A man buys souvenirs at a Christmas market in downtown Riga, Latvia, on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013.

When Latvia adopts the euro on Jan. 1, 2014, it will bring with it a banking sector that is swelling with suspicious money from Russia and the east — just as the currency bloc is trying to clamp down on such havens.

Canadian dollar ends 2013 with higher close

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Canadian dollar closed higher Tuesday at the end of a year in which the loonie fell below parity with the U.S. dollar, with little expectation it will regain that level any time soon.

The loonie rose 0.04 of a cent to 94.02 cents U.S. for a loss of 6.4 per cent during 2013.

The currency started the year at 100.51 cents U.S. but by early February the dollar had slipped below parity and closed as low as 93.42 cents on Dec. 27, its lowest close since early August 2010.

Part of the reason for the slide was increasing strength in the U.S. dollar on rising speculation starting in late May that the U.S. Federal Reserve would start to taper its US$85 billion of monthly bond purchases, a key stimulus measure that has kept long term rates low and supported a strong equity market rally.

The U.S. central bank decided in December to reduce purchases by $10 billion a month starting in January and said further tapering would depend on future economic data.

Declining commodity prices also helped depress the loonie, but the biggest pressure point for the dollar was made in Canada.

“Most importantly, the view on the Bank of Canada changed, as we came into this year expecting the BoC to hike rates at some point,” observed said David Watt, chief economist at HSBC Bank of Canada.

“Instead, the Bank of Canada stepped back from its tightening bias and removed its tightening bias and now the discussion is actually whether the Bank of Canada might cut rates.”

Watt added that he expects the Canadian dollar

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Twitterverse blasts Air Canada for ticket controversy but airline says policy is thoroughly modern TORONTO — Air Canada may be on the verge of ushering in a new year, but a recent flurry of activity on social media suggests the country’s largest airline is stuck in a previous century.

Twitter has been abuzz after a Calgary-based customer accused the airline of discriminating against women who decide to keep their maiden names.

Chris Turner voiced his complaints publicly after games next season and a variety of other regional games over the coming years.

But for many hockey fans, the financial details are a mere sidenote in a debate over the future of the Hockey Night in Canada franchise, which is synonymous with its fiery commentator Don Cherry.

“One of the first things that comes to people’s mind is what’s going to happen with Don,” said Cary Kaplan, president of Cosmos Sports, a branding and marketing firm.

Cherry, who turns 80 in February, has shown no signs that he’s ready to throw in the towel. As recently as November he said the fate of his segment, “Coach’s Corner”, was uncertain.

Rogers (TSX:RCI.B) has deflected speculation about its plans for the series, certainly a move to avoid the potential fallout from loyal viewers.

“It will be very hard for anybody to remove Don Cherry,” Kaplan said.

“In some ways, in people’s conscious, Don Cherry is as big as the deal itself.”

will continue to move lower during 2014.

“We were expecting the Canadian dollar to linger around 90 cents actually from the middle of next year into 2015. So we’re expecting the Canadian dollar to remain quite a bit below parity,” he said.

Watt said another issue for the dollar is that the Canadian economy is “consistently underperforming.”

“Even though you may get the odd quarter that looks pretty good, the underlying story for the Canadian economy is still one where we have to essentially go through a difficult transition as we move away from consumers toward exports and business investment,” he said.

“We are not seeing those trends unfold smoothly at the present time, especially on the exports side.”

The Canadian dollar also weakened during the year against the euro and the British pound while rising against the Australian dollar and the Japanese yen.

Meanwhile, traders on Monday digested data showing U.S. home prices increased at a slower rate in October.

The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 0.2 per cent from September to October, down from a 0.7 per cent increase from August to September as higher mortgage rates weighed on sales and dampened the housing recovery.

For the year, U.S. housing prices still reflect big gains in earlier months. They have risen 13.6 per cent over the past 12 months, the fastest since February 2006, before the U.S. real estate crash.

Other data showed the Chicago Purchasing Managers Index, a key reading on manufacturing in the U.S. Midwest, slowed during this month, falling to 59.1 from 63. attempting to transfer a travel voucher to his wife, who does not use the same surname as him.

“Hey, (at)AirCanada — your (very helpful) phone rep tells me I can’t transfer a voucher to my wife preflight BECAUSE SHE KEPT HER NAME. Really?”

Turner tweeted.

The ensuing exchange with the airline prompted a flurry of support from digital spectators as well as a rival pitch from a competing airline.

Air Canada itself, however, said its voucher transfer policy is more nuanced than the social media chatter would have people believe.

Spokeswoman Isabelle Arthur said customers are free to transfer vouchers to anyone they wish, but not all transfers can be accomplished over the phone as Turner was attempting to do.

“If the last name is not the same, documents must be sent for a refund to avoid fraudulent use which unfortunately has occurred in the past,” Arthur said in an email. “This will no longer be an issue as gift cards, which are fully transferable, become more common place (sic).” other gyms as well.

All Snap Fitness outlets operate 24/7, and have the same exercise equipment — from free weights to cardio machines. Members can work out at any location, such as when travelling.

“We’ve got quite a few snowbird members that utilize gyms in Arizona and here,” said Leigh.

She doesn’t dismiss the possibility of her and Tim opening more Snap Fitness locations in the future, although that’s unlikely to happen for a while.

“We’re going to kind of digest this for now, but we always want to grow if the opportunity is there.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

FITNESS: All outlets operate 24/7 “You don’t even have to wear it while you’re in the gym,” said Leigh, explaining that the sensors will record workout data and download it to the Snap Fitness computer when the wearer returns.

“It’s a really cool feature,” she said, adding that the system is being installed at the Ostiguys’

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STOYE Stephanie Stoye (Symbol) of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully at Royal Oak Manor in Lacombe, Alberta on Dec 28, 2013 with her husband and children at her side. Stephanie was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on Feb 26, 1928 and then moved to the family farm in Ostenfeld, Manitoba in 1932. Stephanie had many adventures throughout her life and a very successful business career that took her to several cities starting in Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatchewan i n 1 9 5 6 a n d followed by a short period of time in San Francisco. After 14 years working with Amoco Canada in Calgary, Alberta, on May 18, 1974 she married the love of her life Kendall Stoye.

At this time Amoco even retired her employee number and said they would never be able to replace this gal from Manitoba. Ken and Stephanie resided on their family farm in Tilley, Alberta until they retired to Medicine Hat in 1996.

They both enjoyed travelling regularly to Mom’s home in Manitoba to visit family. They also shared a great trip to Alaska by RV with Stephanie’s sister Frances and husband Harry. In November 2009 Ken and Stephanie continued their adventures and moved to Red Deer, Alberta. Stephanie was actively involved in her community in many ways including Curling, Country Club, Tilley School Library, Line Dancing, Tilley Grazing Association and a variety of other volunteer activities too numerous to mention. Mom also worked other jobs with close friends and served up many coffees and great food at the local cattle auction concession in Brooks, Alberta. Stephanie is lovingly remembered and will be missed dearly by her husband Ken and their children Linda Link (Darwin) of Red Deer, Dan Stoye of Fort Worth, Texas and her special treasured grandchildren Casey and Dallas Link, Madison and Kenton Stoye. Mom will also be missed by brother in-law Harry Winther of Steinbach, Manitoba, nephews - Neil (Gisele) Winther of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Richard (Simone) Symbol - Ostenfeld, Manitoba, Bruce (Lori) Symbol of Isle Des Chenes, Manitoba, nieces- Donna Dickey (Bob) of Beausejour, Manitoba and Corinne Edwards (Bob) of Sherwood Park, Alberta, Elizabeth Potter of Ostenfeld, Manitoba and a special cousin-Tina Steinke - Toronto, Ontario Stephanie was predeceased by her parents John and Tekla Symbol, sister Frances Winther, brother Tony and his wife Miriam Symbol, father and mother in-law Frank and Martha Stoye and sister in-law Irma Goodwin (Stoye) and husband Warren Goodwin. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 PM on Friday, January 3, 2014 from Trinity Lutheran Church in Brooks. Reverend John Theiss Officiating. Interment to follow at Brooks Cemetery. In memory of Stephanie, memorial donations may be made to Diabetes Association (Brooks and District), Box 187 Brooks, Alberta T1R 1B3 Arrangements in care of THOM’S FUNERAL HOME AND RECEPTION CENTRE. For further information please visit www.thomsfuneralhome.com or call (403) 501-1010.

BERG 1973 - 2013 We are deeply saddened to announce the sudden passing of Roxan Berg at her residence in Blackfalds on Saturday, December 28, 2013 at the age of 40 years. Roxan was presently employed in the Long Term Care Centre of the Lacombe Hospital and was formerly employed with the Michener Centre in Red Deer. Roxan is survived by her mother Remedios Rivera; daughter Rylee Berg; sisters Armi Jane Rivera (Shawn Eddy), Tisha (Kevin) Crush; brother Thomas Eric (Valerie) Rivera and nephew Grayson Crush as well as numerous other relatives. Roxan was predeceased by her father Tomas Rivera. Those wishing to pay their respects may do so at the Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive) on January 2, from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm and January 3, from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated at St Stephen’s Catholic Church, 5128 - 53 Street, Lacombe on Saturday, January 4, 2014 at 11:00 am.

Interment will follow at Blackfalds Cemetery. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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PATTON Douglas 1951-2013 Douglas Brock Patton of Red Deer, Alberta passed from the loving arms of his family into the arms of his Heavenly Father on December 26, 2013 at the age of 62. He was born March 2, 1951 in Olds, Alberta to Vi and Brock Patton. Doug attended Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College and practiced in Lacombe. He continued to care for people and treat them until his passing. Doug was a loving husband, caring father, stepfather and grandfather. He found great joy in his family and grandchildren.

He had a compassionate heart and supported several children through World Vision and missionary families. He will be greatly missed by his wife Gladis; daughters Nola ( J a m e s ) Ly t l e o f A i r d r i e , Richelle (Shawn) Greabeiel of Vancouver; stepchildren Ruben, Ana and Delia of Red Deer; grandchildren Luke and Molly (Lytle); brother Grant (Lynn) Patton of Bentley and nieces and nephews. His parents Vi and Brock Patton predeceased him. For those wishing to pay their respects, a visitation will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer on January 1, 2014 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. A Funeral Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel on Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 1:00 pm.

Interment to follow at Alto Reste Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made directly to World Vision, 1 World Drive, Mississauga, Ontario L5T 2Y4. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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JACOBSON Henry Oliver Jan. 30, 1932- Dec. 27, 2013 Red Deer Henry passed away peacefully with his family by his side at Extendicare Michener Hill on December 27, 2013 at the age of 81. Henry was born in Tuberose, Saskatchewan, the youngest of 8 children.

Upon leaving the family farm at Kyle, he embarked on a successful 37 year career with the Toronto Dominion Bank, serving as manager in many Alberta communities.

After retiring he worked 10 years as a security guard with Ipsco in Red Deer. All along the way Henry lent his time and talents to many community and service groups including Lions International, of which he was a member for 35 years.

Henry was an excellent curler and loved to fish and hunt. He also enjoyed long evenings of laughter playing cards or dice with family and friends. In his golden years he could be found in his recliner with his special cat B.B. keeping up with current affairs or enjoying sports.

Henry is survived by his loving wife Inez of 58 years; daughter Moreen Dupuis (Brad) of Bentley; son Bruce (Teresa Neuman) of Red Deer; grandchildren Shaye and Dayne Dupuis and Elizabeth (David Luchenski) and Charles Jacobson, and great-grandchildren Thalia and Tobin Luchenski. He is also survived by brothers Elmer of Kyle, SK, Donald of Fort Saskatchewan, AB and numerous nieces and nephews. Henry was predeceased by his parents Ole and Mathilda and siblings Ralph, Norman, Dora, Leonard, and Orval. He will be greatly missed. Thank you to all who cared for Henry in his last days. A celebration of Henry’s life will be held at a later date. Donations in memory of Henry can be made to the Red Deer and District S.P.C.A., 4505-77 Street, Red Deer, AB T4P 2J1. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45th Street, Red Deer.

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JESKE Lawrence Leonard May 30, 1940 to Dec 27, 2013 Red Deer, Alberta Lawrence passed away at home on Friday, December 27, 2013 at the age of 73 years. Lawrence was born in Clearwater, Alberta to Emil and Emma Jeske. He was the middle child in a family of eight children. Lawrence settled in Red Deer in 1955.

A hard worker from a very young age, he established Jeske Excavating in the 60’s and worked for 40 years with AGT and then on infrastructure and subdivision projects that supported the expansion of the city of Red Deer. When he wasn’t working Lawrence enjoyed c a m p i n g w i t h h i s f a m i l y, playing guitar, cheering on the Stampeders, rebuilding antique cars, tinkering in his garage and spending time with his grandchildren. He is survived and will be deeply missed by his son Travis (Kim) of Red Deer; daughters Julia (Wayne) of Calgary, and Penny (Michael) of Toronto and grandchildren; Brittney, Colton and Avari, as well as his sisters; Doris and Audrey and brothers; Harold and Gerald. Lawrence was predeceased by his parents Emil and Emma; his sister Evelyn; his brothers Benjamin and John; his niece Kathy and his son in law Ian. A special thanks to Dr. Regina Donnelly who cared for Lawrence for 34 years and the incredible medical team at the Heart Function Clinic at Red Deer Regional Hospital.

A celebration of his life will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel 4820-45 street Red Deer, AB on Friday January 3 , 2 0 1 4 a t 2 : 0 0 P. M .

Interment will take place at the Alto-Reste Cemetery Red Deer, AB. In lieu of flowers donations may be directly made in memory of Lawrence Jeske the Red Deer Regional Hospital Foundation, Heart Function Clinic, PO Box 5030 Red Deer, Alberta T4N 6R2. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45th Street, Red Deer.

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WIEBE 1936 - 2013 Linda Marlene Wiebe of Lacombe, Alberta went to be with the Lord on December 30, 2013 at the Lacombe General Hospital. Linda (nee Gorsky) was born at Bentley, Alberta in 1936 the oldest of three children to George and Doris Gorsky. Art and Linda were married in 1963. They resided in Lac La Biche and then settled at Mountain Grove District near Lacombe in 1968. Embraced by her family, she faced the end of her journey with the same courage and dignity as she lived her life. Strength and caring are words most often used to describe Linda. She was known to be diligent, exceptionally capable, ambitious to a fault and always a gracious host. Linda was very active in church ministry including playing piano and serving with women’s ministries.

Everyone was always welcome at her house any time for coffee, a meal or a bed. She loved to quilt, a passion passed down from her mother, quilting for all her children and grandchildren.

She also loved the farm, especially the gardening and could always be found picking berries and sharing the bounty with everyone.

Her children, grandchildren and close nieces and nephews will remember her for being their role model of womanly strength, compassion and tough love. Art and Linda shared 50 years of marriage, an example of love and commitment to all. She is survived by her husband, Arthur Wiebe, their three children, Kevin (Sandra), Greg (Leigh), Karen (Gerard) Halfyard; her eight grandchildren: J a c k s o n , J o r d o n , K a i l y, Evan, Paris; Shayla, Sierra and James Halfyard and great granddaughter Raine Cyr. She is also survived by her sister Judy Waud, brother Garth (Shirlee) Gorsky, as well as many special nieces and nephews, all of whom will miss her dearly. Linda was also predeceased by her mother and father and dear brother-in-law, Larry Waud. A celebration of Linda’s life will b e h e l d a t Wo o d y N o o k Christian Reformed Church, Saturday January 4, 2014 at 2 pm. In lieu of flowers please donate in Linda’s name to The Gideons or The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Arrangements made by Red Deer Funeral Home & Crematorium 403-347-3319

RASMUSSEN Irene Embraced by her family, Irene passed away peacefully and journeyed into the care of God’s hands on December 19, 2013 at the age of 75.

She was born a coal miner’s daughter on January 1, 1938 t o M a r t i n a n d Ve r o n i c a Bozek at Coleman, Alberta.

Her father passed away when she was 12 and the family then moved to the Evergreen district. On April 20, 1957 she was united in marriage to Enos Rasmussen and together they worked side by side on their mixed farming operation in the New Hill district and raising their family of 5 children. She continued to live on the farm until her passing. Irene was a country girl at heart caring for the animals and especially her chickens and turkeys.

Irene could always be found on the combine during harvest season and when she wasn’t in the field she was tending to her flowers and huge garden which was her pride and joy. In her leisure time she loved to cook and entertain family and friends, go camping and fishing.

There was no one more special to her then her grandchildren. Irene was a very kind and gentle soul; she had a loving and generous heart, and was always giving to others. Irene’s loving memories will be cherished by her kids: Therese (Tom) Kleeberger, Brenda (Bert) Zlomanchuk, Dorothy Klassen, Charles Rasmussen, and Gale (Murray) Page; her grandkids Curtis (Carrie), Jeremy, Kathleen, Quinton, Josh, Danielle, Brittany, Delaney, Austin and Kelsey and great granddaughter Kayla; her siblings Ve r o n a S z p a j c h e r, M a r y Boomer, and Alex Bozek; her in-laws Shirl and Glynne Ryan, Leona Bozek, Ann Rasmussen, Pat Rasmussen, Loyal and Rose Rasmussen.

She was predeceased by her beloved husband Enos on April 1, 2013; her parents Martin and Veronica Bozek; and siblings Joe Bozek, Annie Misuda, Martin Bozek, John Bozek and Helen Logan. A Celebration of Life for Irene will be held at the Eckville Community Center, Eckville, AB on Saturday, January 4, 2014 at 1:00 pm.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Irene’s honor to the Lending Cupboard, 5406 - 43 St., Red Deer, AB T4N 1C9 or to the Charity of the donor’s choice.

In Memoriam SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements.

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Dental

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Hair Stylists

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TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid Haulers for Central Alberta. Oilfield tickets req’d. Competitive wages and benefits. m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

TANKMASTER RENTALS requires Labour Crew supervisor for Central Ab. Pipe fitting & light picker exp. would be an asset .

Oilfield tickets and clean driver’s licence req’d.

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Is seeking FRONT DESK CLERK * Answer phone calls * Take reservations * Check in/out Guests Balance cash out & Attend to guest needs $14.00/hr.

HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT * Clean and vacuum rooms, public areas, pool etc.

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All positions are Shift work & weekends Fax Resume to: 780-702-5051

HOLIDAY INN Red Deer South, Gasoline Alley Is Seeking

Sales & Distributors

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com

Trades

CARPET COLOUR CENTRE is currently looking for EXP’D. TILE INSTALLER Applicant must have ability to lay out tiles, be familiar with setting materials and products. This is a F/T position with a wage of $20 -$25/hr. depending on exp.

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No phone calls please.

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Issard Close

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

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CARRIERS NEEDED

Required for busy Optometric office,.

Full Time, avail to work evenings & Saturdays.

Fax resume to 403-343-9440

Accounting

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park Centre Mall. If found please call 403-347-7658

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HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS RED DEER

WHAT’S HAPPENING

CLASSIFICATIONS

Restaurant/ Hotel

1100

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Personal Services

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Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Seniors’ Services

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ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, and roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617

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Services

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5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

SNOW SHOVELLED 587-377-5034 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

LANCASTER AREA Law Close / Lewis Close Langford Close Lamont Close Lund Close MORRISROE AREA Vista Village SUNNYBROOK AREA Somerset Close Springfield Ave. Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close Sherwood Cres.

VANIER AREA Viscount Drive Vickers Close Volks Place / Vanier Drive Vanson Close / Visser St. Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

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Trades

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GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

IMMEDIATE F/T POSITION For Year Round Work.

JOURNEYMAN PICKER OPERATOR In Sundre, AB. Competitive wages, guarantee for right applicant.

Benefits. Must have Journeyman Ticket.

Accommodations available.

Please sent resume to: mross@calmena.com

PARTS PERSON / MAGER

Full time, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Parts Person. Good wages, great benefit package RESPONSIBILITIES: Serving walk in clients, answering phones, inventory control, order parts, etc.

Fax resume to 403-343-1325

PARTSOURCE

REQUIRES P/T PARTS PRO Work with flexible schedule.

Please apply at 6722 50th Ave or fax 403-309-0354 or email: ps791@partsource.ca

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires

Site Superintendents & Foremen For Alberta sites.

Email resume to: admin@shunda.ca

Truckers/ Drivers

860

Central AB based trucking company requires

Owner Operators & Company Drivers

in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

403-586-4558 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Red Deer.

RONCO OILFIELD HAULING Sylvan Lake. Openings for Picker operator, bed truck drivers and winch tractor.

Top wages and benefits.

Email resume tom@ roncooilfield.ca or fax. 403-887-4892

Misc.

Help

880

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the

(Reliable vehicle needed)

Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

CLEARVIEW AREA Cosgrove Cres., Chappel Dr., Carroll Cres., Carpenter St., & Cunningham Cres. Area 93 Papers $498/mo.

DEER PARK AREA Dempsey St. & Drummond. Ave. Area 70 Papers $375/mo.

GRANDVIEW AREA

BOWER AREA WESTPARK AREA

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery (By 6:30 a.m.)

Monday - Saturday in:

73 Papers $439/mo.

Highland Green ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres., Root Cl., 100 to 800 Ramage Cl., and Ralston Cres. area 67 Papers $359/mo.

ALSO Reichley St., Reinholt Ave., Robinson Cres. Area 106 Papers $568/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

in Highland Green Howarth St. & Haliburton Cres.

Kentwood Kilburn Ave. & Krause Cres.

Normandeau Nolan, Norwest & Newlands

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of INNISFAIL Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 PIKE WHEATON CHEVROLET is now accepting applications for a full time Parts Person.

Must have good communication and computer skills and have the ability to work independently.

Excellent company benefits.

Please email resume along with wage expectations to: philparts@gmail.com or fax to 403-347-3813 Siding Helpers Needed Call 403-588-3210

Upper Fairview Fern Rd. & Forest Close BATTERY DOCTORS Exp. not req’d but heavy lifting is involved, mechanical skills an asset. Hours: Mon. to Fri. 8-5. Apply in person at 1, 4801 78 St. No phone calls please.

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info DISPATCHERS req’d.

Day/Night. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential. Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

THE TASTY BAKERY DELIVERY PERSON Permanent P/T required 3-4 hrs. per day 4 days/wk Apply in person Bay #1, 2319 Taylor Drive, (directly behind Nutters)

Employment Training

900

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK in

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“Low Cost” Quality Training

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CLEARVIEW AREA Cardinal Ave & Cosgrove Cl. $97/mo.

ALSO East side of Cosgrove Cres. $91/mo.

ALSO Cole Street $61/mo.

ALSO Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres. $146/mo.

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA Crossley St., Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres. & Cody Pl. $190/mo.

CLASSIFICATIONS

DAVENPORT PLACE AREA Danielle Dr., Dorchester Ave., & Doncaster Ave. $185/mo.

MICHENER AREA East of 40th Ave., 51 St., 50A St., Michener Cres., Green, etc. to Michener Ave. & Blvd. $282/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

ALSO West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113/mo.

ALSO Timberstone Way, Talson Place, Thomas Place, Trimble Cl., Traptow Cl. & Thompson Cres. $307/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

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Oilfield

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stuff 1500-1990

Antiques & Art

1520

Circa 1960’s kitchen table.

Chrome legs and apron.

Top is light grey. Has one leaf. $30. Call (403) 342-7908

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1640

Tools

FREE standing Ryobi table saw, $100 obo Call 403-346-4263

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 D3

FAST TRACK PHOTOS Call 403-309-3300 to get your vehicle pictured here

DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2004 DODGE RAM 1500 4x4, quad, gold , c/w topper, 2 sets of tires. Exc. cond. $6000 firm. 403-304-2118

2006 MERCEDES Benz CLS 500 lthr., sunroof, 115057 kms., $25,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 PONTIAC G5.

Manual, 130,000 km. Great cond. Winter & Summer tires. Well. maint. N/S. $5550. 403-342-4318

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 PONTIAC Solstice 26080 kms., 5 speed, $19,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 TOYOTA Tacoma V6 4X4, 114903 kms., $19888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 GMC Acadia SLE AWD, 8 passenger, 90485 kms, $19,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2005 LEXUS ES 330 FWD, lthr., 41,100 kms, $15,888. SOLD

2006 Range Rover Sport HSE $25,888 Sport & Import 7652 50 Ave 403-348-8788

2008 BMW 328 xi sunroof, lthr., 66,382 kms., $25,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 GMC Yukon XL

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 34’ Gulf Stream Yellowstone. Sleeps 4, 3 slides, new awning, washer, dryer hookup, equipped w/Arctic & Sub Arctic pkgs, custom skirt & more! $34,900. 403-8878405

ALL WHEEL DRIVE 2007 530 XI BMW. Original Owner, 143,000 km. Exc. Cond. Regularly Maintained, Fully Loaded!

Call 403-350-4323

2008 BMW 535xi $29,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

2008 JEEP Rubicon 4X4, $20,888 7652 Gaetz Ave, Sport & Import 348-8788

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2002 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta GLS 1.8L, $10,888.

2006 34’ Gulf Stream Yellowstone. Sleeps 4, 3 slides, new awning, washer, dryer hookup, equipped w/Arctic & Sub Arctic pkgs, custom skirt & more! $34,900. 403-8878405

2007 CHRYSLER 300 103198 kms., $10,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 BMW X5 3.0 $31,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

2008 LAND ROVER LR2 SE 4X4,.sunroofs, $18,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2011 CHEV Silverado LTZ 6.2 L, lthr., $27,888.

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 COROLLA CE. exc. cond. 78,000. kims.

Offers. 403-392-5628

2007 COLORADO, 28RK, Dutchman, 32’, slideout, back kitchen, shower, king bed, TV, stereo, air. loaded

2008 BMW X5 3.0si AWD, htd. lthr., panaroof,

2008 SANTA FE. 3.3L, 5 spd. auto.

Heated seats & mirrors. $6900 obo. **SOLD**

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2003 DODGE Durango SLT Plus, 4X4, $8888.

403-348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2008 CHEVY Colorado Vortec 3.7 L, 4wd, good tires & brakes, Linex box liner & undercover. 403-783-2064

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 GMC Sierra 1500 Hybrid 4X4, 6.0L, lthr., 81735 kms., $28,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 FORD F-150 Lariat 4X4, htd. lthr., sunroof, $12,888, 348-8788

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2009 RANGER XLT 4x4, 70,000 kms., $15,900. trades cons.

403-598-0682

2011 KEYSTONE Alpine $54,900. Top of the line. Satellite dish, built in Cummins Onan generator, Sub-zero insulation pckg. 403 357 6950

2009 VW GOLF, manual, 90,000 km.

Winter pkg, $10,500.

403-391-1770

2012 CHEV Silverado 2500 LTZ, diesel, lthr., tonneau cover, $36,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

348-8788 Sport & Import

Sport & Import

2003 HONDA Odyssey EX-L V6. Loaded.

One owner. $7800.

Call 403-396-0722.

DO YOU HAVE VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

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D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014

Fresh take for old arguments ahead in 2014 GOP AND DEMS GEARING UP FOR FINAL MIDTERMS OF OBAMA’S PRESIDENCY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Both Republicans and Democrats are looking for fresh ways to pitch old arguments as they head into the final midterm election year of Barack Obama’s presidency.

Eager to capitalize as the president’s job approval rating hovers in the low 40 per cent range, Republicans are looking to hammer the clumsy implementation of Obama’s health-care overhaul and bemoan an economy that, while improving, still grows too slowly.

They’re already painting Democrats as fiscally irresponsible underlings of an increasingly unpopular president whose government creates more problems than it solves.

Democrats say they’ll run as the party of average Americans and paint Republicans as out-of-touch allies of the wealthy, with a stubborn streak that forced a partial government shutdown and still prevents practical solutions for national problems. They’re advocating populist positions like a minimum wage increase and an end to tax breaks for energy companies, and they’re already reminding voters of Republicans’ struggle to connect with women, non-whites and younger Americans. They’re also looking to exploit the rift between tea party conservatives and establishment Republicans.

Republicans hold the House majority, and Democrats control the Senate; so each side wants to reclaim a second chamber to end the Capitol Hill divide that has largely resulted in gridlock for the past three years. Also at stake are a majority of governors’ seats, which control key policy decisions around the country and will help shape the landscape for the 2016 presidential election. Leaders and strategists from each party insist they’ll have fresh twists to the health-care fight now entering its fourth year. Since much of the health-care law takes effect in 2014, voters will be reacting to actual outcomes rather than just political hyperbole from either side.

“Obamacare is in absolute chaos,” wrote Republican Senate campaign spokesman Brad Dayspring in his year-end review. “Vulnerable Democratic incumbents and candidates . . . can’t keep their own spin straight.”

Republicans have enjoyed the technical struggles of the federal online exchanges where customers can attempt to buy coverage. But perhaps the best gift for the Republicans: insurers dropping tens of thousands of policy holders and offering them more comprehensive — and expensive — coverage despite Obama’s explicit promise in 2010 that “if you like your plan, you can keep it.”

That promises to be an acute issue for several Senate Democrats — Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, and Kay Hagan of North Carolina — who are running for re-election for the first time since voting for the health-care law in 2010.

Many Democrats concede that the president’s 2010 promise could be a millstone. But they counter that Republicans’ core argument, particularly from their most conservative candidates, is for outright repeal: House Republicans, including many running for key Senate seats, have voted more than 40 times to scrap the entire law.

“Everything we see tells us that voters want to improve the law, not repeal it,” said Rep. Steve Israel, the New York Democrat who chairs his party’s congressional campaign committee. Indeed, a Gallup Poll in December showed that 54 per cent of Americans disapprove of the law, but just 32 per cent support repeal.

As important for Democrats: most of the 32 per cent are Republicans. The poll found that two-thirds of Republican voters want the entire law gone. That pushes Republican primary candidates to the extreme on the issue, Israel argues, playing into the more general Democratic argument that Republicans’ are out of step. A proposed minimum wage increase — to more than $10 per hour — could become a defining part of that argument. And Israel said his

caucus will push votes to end corporate tax breaks like those for oil and gas companies.

“This election is going to be about who’s got your back,” Israel said. “Republicans continue to show they have the back of powerful special interests.

Democrats have the back of the middle class.”

The ongoing budget debate could be the wild card.

The Senate’s Democratic budget chief, Patty Murray of Washington, and her House counterpart, Republican Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, crafted a spending deal in early December. Conservative groups assailed the plan for insufficient spending cuts, prompting Speaker John Boehner and other Republican leaders to lash out at tea party backed critics of the deal, which easily passed both the House and Senate.

There’ll be another vote to increase America’s borrowing limit in February or March, perhaps setting up a replay of the fall showdown when Republican conservatives forced a partial government closure with their failed attempt to defund Obama’s health-care overhaul.

Republican strategist Chip Lake in Georgia called the fall gambit “a defining moment in our party” that set the stage for the Ryan-Murray agreement and Boehner pushing back at internal party critics.

“We’ve always navigated this divide,” Lake said, “but you’re going to see it play out very visibly over the next year.”

Arch-conservative voices insist the hard line is the right path. “Republicans won big in 2010 because people understood where they stood on things like Obamacare,” said Dean Clancy of FreedomWorks PAC, which has helped elect tea party clarions like Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. “I think Republicans will do well in 2014 if they similarly make clear they are for individual liberty and constitutionally limited government.”

Exit polls from the 2012 presidential election showed that, even with Obama’s victory, a narrow majority of Americans thought the government was doing too much.

TV’s Uncle Phil dead at 68

WINTER WONDERLAND IN INDIA

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — James Avery, the bulky character actor who laid down the law at home and on the job as the Honorable Philip Banks in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, has died.

Avery’s publicist, Cynthia Snyder, told The Associated Press that Avery died Tuesday in Glendale, California, following complications from open heart surgery. He was 68, Snyder said.

Avery, who stood more than 6 feet tall, played the family patriarch and a wealthy attorney and judge on the popular TV comedy that launched the acting career of Will Smith as Banks’ troublemaking nephew.

The sitcom, which aired on NBC from 1990 to 1996, was set in the Banks’ mansion, to which Smith’s character was sent from Philadelphia when things got tough in his own neighbourhood. Fans came to know the imposing Banks as “Uncle Phil.”

Avery liked to say that the way to be an actor was to act, and he had a busy and diverse career before, during and after Fresh Prince. His TV credits included Grey’s Anatomy, NYPD Blue and Dallas, and among his many films were Fletch, Nightflyers and 8 Million Ways to Die. His voice alone brought him many jobs, notably as Shredder in the animated TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

According to Snyder, he will be seen in the film Wish I Was Here, directed by Zach Braff and scheduled to premiere later this month at the Sundance festival.

Avery grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and served in the Navy in Vietnam in the late 1960s. After returning to the states, he settled in California and studied drama and literature at the University of California at San Diego.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara, and stepson, Kevin Waters.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A broken electrical pole hangs in the air as Kashmiri Muslims drive on a snowy road on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Wednesday. Snowfall in the Indian portion of Kashmir has disrupted power supply, as well as air and road traffic between Srinagar and Jammu, the summer and winter capitals of India’s Jammu-Kashmir state, according to news reports.

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D5

THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 2014

Fax 403-341-6560 editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

Wife’s gambling habit a problem

ENJOY THE LIGHTS

Dear Annie: I’ve been married to my lovely wife for nine years, and to this day, I can’t get past her gambling habit. It is causing major problems in our marriage.

Once or twice a week when she gets that itch to head to the casino, she loses all the money she earns in our account and then accumulates bank fees and overdraft charges. I’m fed up MITCHELL & with her habit SUGAR and have mentioned that this must stop. She has promised me many times that she will quit, but she hasn’t been successful.

Once I let her go to the casino and told her to spend only a certain amount, and she ended up gambling away $1,000, which she never replaced.

I was upset and didn’t speak to her for a few days.

I will be deploying overseas soon, and I’m afraid to leave her to handle our financial affairs. I want to ask my brother to put her on an allowance to pay our bills, but I know she will be upset and ask me to move out. I don’t want to do that. What should I do? -Totally Fed Up Dear Totally: Your wife has an addiction. Stopping will be impossible unless she admits she has a problem and agrees to get help. Some addicts voluntarily list their names with casinos to prohibit admittance, although it is not a guarantee.

We urge you to separate your accounts so she cannot access money needed to run the household, and put your brother in charge of paying the bills. She may become angry, but your marriage will not survive her continued gambling and the potential loss of your savings. Please contact Gam-Anon (gam-anon.org) for additional information and support.

Dear Annie: Your advice to couples about affairs has a very negative female bias. A little flirting and an affair or two is normal behavior for both men and women.

Your usual advice is to get counseling or break up the relationship.

I would advise them to just ignore it.

ANNIE

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

The lights of City Hall Park and the decorations at the Old Court House in Red Deer light up the night in downtown Red Deer. There are plenty of displays to enjoy around the community. Among the opportunities is a light tour in support of Boys and Girls Club at 4 McConnell Close that is open to visitors. You can enjoy the Christmas lights and music in the front and back yard between 5 and 9 p.m. until Saturday. Donations to the Boys and Girls Club accepted. Contact Rob or Eva at 403-346-7647.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● School’s Out: MU Monsters University will be held on Jan. 3 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library in the Children’s Department. Children ages eight and up and children ages six accompanied by an adult are invited to watch the movie, earn their Monsters University diploma with games, activities, snacks, and more.

Phone 403-346-4688. ● Forshee Community Hall old-time family dance nights are the first Friday of each month from 7 to 10:30 p.m. Admission is $10 per adult, children 17 years and under are free. Evening lunch is included. Live old time music with Country North Gold Band. Next dance is Jan. 3. For more information, call 403-748-3378. ● Gingerbread cookie campaign in support of Habitat for Humanity will be offered at both Good Earth Coffeehouse and Bakery locations until Jan. 3. Purchase a gingerbread cookie family for $6.25 each, with $1 going to Habitat in Red Deer. ● First Friday’s lineup on Jan. 3 includes: Look a Little Deeper by artist/photographer Kimberley Porter at The Hub on Ross Gallery from 4 to 6 p.m.; The Best of the West Travelling Studio Art Quilts Associates Trunk Show at Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.; Unfiltered: Waskasoo Park Through A Photographer’s Lens Group Show at Marjorie Wood Gallery at Kerry Wood Nature Centre from 5 to 7 p.m.; Works of Emily Thomson at Velvet Olive Lounge. ● Widow and Widower Support Network meets on the first Friday of every month at Remington’s Grill in Black Knight Inn at 6 p.m. for food and fellowship, and on the third Friday of each month at 7 p.m. at the First Christian Reformed Church, 16 McVicar St. The group provides a safe place for men and women who have lost their spouse through death, to interact and support each other.

Upcoming dates are Jan. 3 and 17. Email to widowedsupportnetwork@gmail.com. or call 403-7550977. ● Newcomer Youth Learn to Skate will be held on Jan. 3 at Bower Ponds from 1 to 4:30 p.m.

Youth will have the opportunity to practice skating outdoors with volunteers to lend a helping hand.

Presented by Central Alberta Refugee Effort with City of Red Deer. To find out more, contact Rachel at rachel.pinno@care2centre.ca, 403-304-3676.

Saturday ● Light tour in support of Boys and Girls Club at 4 McConnell Close is open to visitors to enjoy the Christmas lights and music in the front and back yard between 5 and 9 p.m. until Jan. 4. Donations to the Boys and Girls Club accepted. Contact Rob or Eva at 403-346-7647. ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The Jan. 4 session is called Calendar from Around the World with artist Shannon Woolgar. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403309-8405. Free with admission. ● Otis the Owl’s new book Tangled in Trash written by Erin Young and illustrated by Gabe Wong has just been released and it will support Medicine River Wildlife Centre. Otis will be selling his books at Dentoom’s Greenhouses every Saturday until Christmas with an official book launch and signing on at Chapters in Red Deer on Jan. 4. See www. mrwc.ca, or phone 403-728-3467. ● Sierra of Taylor Drive Music Jam is held the first Saturday of every month from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Everyone welcome to play an instrument, dance or simply listen to the music. Each session $2. Phone Chris at 403-341-3385. ● Red Deer Runners meet at the Red Deer Recreation Centre every Saturday at 9 a.m., and at the Collicutt Centre on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Distances and routes vary between 8 and 12 km. After the Saturday run, the group meets at City Roast, and at Original Joe’s after the run on Wednesday.

See www.reddeerrunners.org. The group will be taking over Woody’s RV Marathon Running Clinic which will begin registration on Dec. 15 with the class starting on Jan. 19 for a cost of $60 per person. Contact Matt at 403-396-9262.

Sunday ● Celebrate the premiere of the fourth season of Downton Abbey at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch on Jan. 5 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium. Share tea and cucumber sandwiches, peruse a great array of related

books and DVDs, win door prizes, trivia contest prizes, or best Downton Abbey inspired costume prize. (Costumes optional). Free of charge, but please register by phoning 403-342-9110.

Monday ● Ladies Auxiliary of Red Deer Royal Canadian Legion Branch #35 holds general meetings the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. Next meeting will be on Jan. 6. For a ride please call Harry at 403-598-5331 before noon on meeting day. Meat draw every Friday at 5 p.m. ● MAGsparks is an inclusive and accessible visual art program connecting people with developmental disabilities to the Red Deer Arts Community.

On Jan. 6 and 8 the group will work on Puffy Mobiles, and on Jan. 13 and 15 the group will work on Marsupial Madness (creatures with pockets). There is a drop-in fee of $3. Memberships are available for persons with disabilities for $50. For information, see www.reddeermuseum, or contact Janet at 403309-8405, janet.cole@reddeer.ca. ● Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library offers Preschool Storytime for children ages three to five years on Mondays from 10 to 10:45 a.m., and Toddler Play and Learn on Tuesdays from 10 to 10:30 a.m. for parents and caregivers with their toddlers. Both are drop-in programs. No registration is required. For details, phone 403-341-3822.

Groups resume Jan. 6 and 7. ● Bird Focus Group meets Mondays, at noon at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. On Jan. 6 for an all day trip to Calgary Fish Creek (Bebo Grove) and Carburn Park. Please call Judy at 403-342-4150 to confirm attendance.

Tuesday ● Annual Food Drive in support of Red Deer Food Bank is now on at Red Deer Toyota until Jan. 7. Anyone who brings in a non-perishable food item may enter to win a 2014 Toyota Tundra. ● Heartland Cowboy Church is on the first and third Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m., in the Stettler Agriplex. Dates are Jan. 7 and 14. Call 403742-4273. ● Drop-in Pajama Storytime invites children aged two and their families to the children’s department at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch for stories, songs, finger plays, and crafts at 6:30 to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays. Children under three years of age must be accompanied by an adult. Phone 403346-4688. The group restarts on Jan. 7 as well as all Children’s Department drop in programs.

Wednesday ● Daytime Documentaries will be held on the second Wednesday of each month from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in the Waskasoo Meeting Room at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. A documentary film will be shown on a variety of issues from the environment to history and anything in between, and then discussion will follow, facilitated by a staff member. On Jan. 8, see Into the Cold featuring Sebastian Copeland and Keith Heger as they set off on an expedition to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of Perry and Henson’s trek to the North Pole. Free. Phone 403-346-2100. ● Epilepsy Association of Central Alberta located at 4811 48 Street holds monthly support group meetings at 5:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month. The next meeting is Jan. 8. Presentations on epilepsy are available for organizations. Phone 403-358-3358 or email normak@epilepsycalgary.com. ● Boomtown Trail Cowboy Church meets the second and last Wednesday of each month, 7 p.m., in the Elnora Drop-in Centre. Dates are Jan. 8 and 29. Call 403-749-2047 or 403-773-3600.

Thursday ● Strum and Drum with Guitarist/singer/ songwriter Dean Ray on Jan. 9 and 30, 1 p.m. at The Hub on Ross. Phone 403-340-4869. ● Red Deer Art Club has ongoing painting sessions every Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. Everyone is welcome. These sessions are free time and offer opportunity to meet artists in the community. For more information call Elise at 403-346-5645. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, Jan. 9, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Country Gold North Band. Admission is $7. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-986-7170, or 403-246-3896.

Thursday, Jan. 2 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Kate Bosworth, 30; Taye Diggs, 42; Dax Shepard, 38 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Despite the current celestial mayhem, the sky will boost our spirits by uniting the Moon with Venus. Expect a charming and an enchanting atmosphere due to this sweet combo.

ASTRO Harmony will DOYNA reside within us which will bring us closer. Social and group gatherings are highly favourable today.

Once the Sun square Mars, our competitive side emerges due to our strong determination and overconfident egos.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this is a time of letting go of what no longer serves you in the present and of new beginnings. Your drive will push you to initiate something you have wanted to accomplish for a while now. You certainly want to get ahead this year!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): This is not a day to stay alone at home. Dress up and put on your best smile to accessorize your outfit. You might receive plenty of invitations and parties to attend today. Your friends will be of great support and they will accommodate your needs.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your private life may come to the surface now.

You are inclined to attract now great business alliances and opportunities that will further in your career. You are also predisposed to making new material purchases to enhance your look.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you are in the creative field, this day could offer you great inspiration to write or publish something. Individuals from overseas could be very supportive to you right now. Great affairs from faraway cities can be built on strong, cooperative grounds.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You find yourself guiltily indulging yourself in overspending today. You should be careful over this tendency as pleasureseeking activities can cost you quite a bit at the end. Limit your budget to a certain specific amount.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Even though your partner may not be as co-opera-

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They could have many years of a happy relationship with each other. Why don’t you suggest that alternative? -- D. Dear D.: Most of our readers aren’t big fans of that alternative, whether male or female. If both partners agree that affairs are perfectly fine within their marriage, we have no objection.

Or if one partner chooses to overlook the other’s philandering, the couple might stay together, although they are not necessarily happy. In most cases, however, affairs are sneaky betrayals full of lies, and one partner loses out on the intimacy and trust that keep a marriage solid. The partner who cheats may believe the marriage is sufficiently happy, but our mail says otherwise.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Finally at Peace,” who now focuses on the grandchildren they are “close” to instead of mourning the ones they are not.

My husband and I have four beautiful, successful and intelligent children. When our oldest was an infant, my mother-in-law told me that she was not available to babysit, so we didn’t impose. It was difficult to watch Grandma and Grandpa travel many miles to babysit for their other grandchildren and attend their plays and ballgames, while showing little interest in ours, no matter how many times we invited them. When we had them over for Sunday dinner, we had to listen while Grandpa bragged endlessly about his other grandchildren.

Our children have been taught to treat their grandparents with love and respect, but kids catch on to favoritism. I suggest that those grandparents examine their own behavior to see whether they need to change. I’m still hoping my in-laws will realize what they are missing. -- Hope To Be a Better Grandparent Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

HOROSCOPES tive as you’d like them to be, you can always rely on your closest friends. If you don’t find the necessary nurture and care from loved ones, it’s always good to know you have great supporting companions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The day may seem too routine and lacking in direction. Certain thoughts or ideas restrict you from accomplishing the simple tasks today. Procrastination or deadlines make you panic. Fortunately, your partner can offer you the necessary source of inspiration to carry on.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This is a favorable time to take a vacation somewhere overseas and explore foreign lands. Children will bring you much bliss and bring out the child in you.

The only impediment you might encounter now is financial restrictions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you were looking for peace and serenity within your own household, today is that day. There is a reciprocal cooperation and understanding between family members. You prefer to have a private home gathering rather than go out in the town. The only restrictions will be those imposed by you. Let loose and enjoy the day.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It appears that wherever you go today, either to the grocery store or the local bar, you tend to bump into familiar faces. Even if you have nothing special planned for today, you will enjoy running simple errands.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Even though you may lack some self-discipline when it comes to spending, you are too tempted not to splurge yourself in acquiring material goods. Don’t worry so much about your welfare situation as whatever you acquire now is for basic necessities.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You are welcoming and approachable, yet others may impose certain limits upon you. It seems that there’s too much pressure out there which you have to keep up in order to maintain your popularity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): This is one of those days where you just want to spend some time in solitude with yourself. All you desire is to cuddle up with a comfortable pillow under a warm blanket. You are lazily at ease in your own space.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Cooking en papillote is a smash When I’m ready to test whether the fish is done, I stick a very sharp thin knife right through the parchment and down through the fish. No or little resistance? The fish is done. Significant resistance? Bake it for a few more minutes. And by the way, this test works well regardless of how you cook the fish.

Kitchen parchment — or even pre-made parchment paper bags — is widely available in the foil and plastic wrap aisle. And by the way, it’s also great for lining baking sheets when making cookies.

This recipe includes instructions on how to fold the paper to make a bag yourself, but if you can find the pre-made ones, grab them. I experimented with a pre-made bag while testing this recipe and discovered that it worked perfectly well. You just layer all the ingredients in the bag, fold the bottom under to seal the package, and bake away.

The beauty of this dish, besides its deliciousness, is that it requires very little preparation and cooks in no time at all. I invite you to take this concept and run with it, making new recipes based on whichever fish and vegetables are in season. And by the way, much as I love wild salmon, it isn’t always in season.

So check for sustainably raised farmed salmon, fresh or frozen.

BY SARA MOULTON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fish en papillote is the elegant-sounding name of a staple recipe of classic French cuisine. Translated into English, it becomes the much less elegantsounding — “fish in a bag.” By any name, however, this method of baking fish is a smash.

Typically, the fish is combined with vegetables and herbs, some butter or oil, and often some wine.

All of this is wrapped up in a piece of kitchen parchment and baked. The parchment keeps the flavour and moisture trapped inside during cooking, allowing the juices from the fish and the other ingredients to mingle and become a wonderful sauce.

And because the parchment is stick-resistant, the recipe requires very little fat. The small amount of oil in this recipe is there for taste and texture only.

In this recipe, the relatively few ingredients I’ve added to the salmon are in the service of the sauce.

But let’s say you wanted to make a whole meal in a bag, sort of like a high-toned TV dinner. In that case, you could add some substantial vegetables, for example sauteed mushrooms, steamed cooked potato cubes, blanched broccoli or carrots.

If you do add vegetables, they’ll need to be precooked. The denser vegetables — such as carrots and broccoli — simply won’t have time to get tender during the 10 to 12 minutes of cooking needed by the salmon. Similarly, if wetter veggies — such as mushrooms and spinach — aren’t pre-cooked, they’ll release too much liquid in the packet and water down the sauce.

The only tricky part about cooking en papillote is that you can’t see when the fish is done. If you slice open the bag, you risk losing some of the delicious sauce that’s coming together. My solution is to start with the basic rule of baking fish: In a 400 F oven, give it 10 minutes of cooking time for every inch of thickness.

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Salmon baked in a bag with citrus, olives and chilies PREPARATION: 35 minutes SERVES: 4 INGREDIENTS 1 small orange 1 lemon Four skinless 6-ounce centre cut salmon fillet pieces

¼ cup chopped fresh rosemary Kosher salt 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1/3 cup pitted and chopped olives, preferably oilcured ½ serrano chili, thinly sliced crosswise STEPS Heat the oven to 400 F. Cut the orange and lemon in half crosswise. Thinly slice ½ of the orange and ½ of the lemon into thin slices. Juice the remaining halves of both fruits.

Set a 24-inch-long sheet of kitchen parchment on a baking sheet. Fold the sheet in half across the short side, then open the folded parchment (like a book), leaving one half of it on the baking sheet. Arrange about half of the orange and lemon slices in a single layer in the centre of the parchment on the baking sheet.

Sprinkle half the rosemary over the citrus slices.

Set the salmon over the rosemary, then sprinkle with salt, the citrus juices and oil. Top each piece of salmon with a quarter of the remaining rosemary and citrus slices.

Fold the second half of the parchment over the fish, then crimp and fold the edges together to create a sealed packet. Bake — on the sheet pan — on the oven’s middle shelf for 10 to 12 minutes, or until just cooked through (stick a paring knife through the parchment and salmon; it should move easily through the fish if done).

Cut open the parchment, discard the citrus slices from the top of the salmon, then place each piece on a serving plate. Spoon some of the olives, chilies, rosemary and juices over each piece.

Nutrition information per serving: 440 calories; 260 calories from fat (59 per cent of total calories); 29 g fat (5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 100 mg cholesterol; 9 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 5 g sugar; 35 g protein; 490 mg sodium.

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