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Mellisa Hollingsworth, from Eckville, celebrates with school children after being named to the 2014 Olympic skeleton team that will compete in Sochi, at a news conference in Calgary last month.

The 33-year-old is heading into her third and final Olympic Games next month.

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Despite the disappointment in Vancouver, Mellisa Hollingsworth says it was the strength of the country during that period that gave her the desire and commitment to stay involved for another four years.

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BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF The road to the Sochi Olympic Winter Games has been extra special for Mellisa Hollingsworth.

The 33-year-old Eckville native is heading into her third and final Olympic Games next month. When she’ll officially retire from the Canadian women’s skeleton team is certain, but she will do so before 2018, and when she does she’ll be remembered as one of Canada’s greats in the sport.

But right now she’s concentrating on stepping on the podium for a second time. She finished third in women’s skeleton at the 2006 Games in Torino, Italy, before a fifth-place finish in Vancouver in 2010.

Despite the disappointment in Vancouver, Hollingsworth believes it was the strength of the country during that period that gave her the desire and commitment to stay involved for another four years.

“I’m just grateful to represent Canada again, but the only reason I’m here is because Canada supported me and didn’t kick me while I was down,” she said during a telephone interview from Austria.

“I lost an Olympic medal by 24/100ths of a second and it would have been completely different (now) if I didn’t have the support of the country. If they didn’t enjoy and support athletes, whether they won a medal or didn’t ... it made me brave enough to try again.”

She went into the Vancouver Games as defending World Cup champion, and was in second place after the first three runs. But costly errors in her final run left her in fifth place.

In the emotional moments after the event, a tearful Hollingsworth apologized to the nation, saying she felt she had let Canadians down.

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“It’s a game of consistency and while I’ve never been one to believe in luck, I’m open to everything.

“It comes down to being focused on your game that day and whatever happens, happens. As long as you’re prepared to do your very best on that day and not leave anything (on the course), then at the end of the day it’s all you can ask for.”

Hollingsworth sees the Sochi Games, which open on Feb. 7, as similar to those in Italy.

“There was a lot more on the table during the Vancouver Games. The whole country was involved in it well in advance and there was so much preparation prior to the Games. These Games are more like the first ones.

People kind of forget about them until a couple of months out, then they remember.

“For myself, I’ve been at this for almost two decades and I appreciate it all. It also gets a lot harder as you get older. You’re dealing with hundredths of a second and there’s not much room for error. When there is (an error), there’s big consequences with it.”

Hollingsworth will have time after she leaves the sport to remember all the good times.

But she’s still willing to look back a bit now.

“During the year I take a little time to reminisce and be grateful. The result at the end of each race isn’t the be-all and end-all. Seeing the bigger picture is. Remembering great friends and the journey I’ve been on for such a long time is.

“But it’s also been an interesting year — I battled through equipment struggles and everything — but I feel I’m definitely in the best possible spot I could be in going into the Olympics.

I’m really motivated, which is all I could ask for.”

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“I had a new sled, which I trained on last year but didn’t race on it,” she explained. “This year I decided to fully commit to it, but it was like golf where you have that one drive and you think you’ll conquer the world. That’s how that sled was for me. I’d have one great run, smoking fast, and then the next 10 were terrible.”

She changed back to her old sled just prior to the World Cup in Lake Placid and saw immediate dividends with a second-place finish.

“Things have been amazing since then,” she said. “I’m more confident with my setup and equipment and I’m not questioning if I should be on that other sled. I’m not looking over my shoulder and wondering what I should be doing, I know my exact setup.”

She said she is mentally prepared.

“Definitely.

“When you’re at the top of any sport, the best athletes of each country are capable of doing the same thing physically on game day. The rest is completely mental preparation.”

Hollingsworth has competed on the Sochi track and she trained there in November.

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Hollingsworth was born and raised on a Central Alberta ranch and loves horses and competes on the rodeo circuit in barrel racing. Whether she turns to that full time after this season isn’t known for sure.

“Horses are part of me, but we’ll see what happens if I hit the rodeo road,” she said. “My goal is to be back on the Olympic podium and there will be a lot of responsibilities afterward. I have my school speaking program (Passion for Excellence) and lots of schools and sponsor commitments.”

Then she can see what her presence in the sport has helped her accomplish. She may well be the biggest name in skeleton, although she wouldn’t admit it.

“I’ve watched the sport evolve in Canada and worldwide,” she said.

“There were times when no one had a clue what the sport was. Now there are household names on my team and it’s rewarding to be part of that evolution.

And it’s been rewarding for myself to be competitive during all that time.

“I saw a Twitter where I was the all-time leader in World Cup podium finishes with 34. I had no idea, so there were a lot of great things that happened to me.”

She is a two-time World Cup point standings champion and finished third on another occasion. She also has a second, third, two fifths and two sixths at World Championships.

And the final chapter of her outstanding career has yet to be written. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

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‘Smile with your heart’ RED DEER MAN MARKS MOEBIUS SYNDROME AWARENESS DAY

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF One Red Deer man is sporting purple in hopes that others suffering from an extremely rare congenital neurological disorder don’t feel alone.

Roger Kreil, 32, has lived with Moebius Syndrome, which affects lateral eye movement and facial expression, since he was born.

People from all over the globe celebrated the fourth annual Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day on Friday, wearing purple T-shirts that say “Smile with your heart.”

“It’s a special day for me,” Kreil said. “I hope to raise awareness because a lot of people don’t know what I have . . . They look at me and want to shun me because they think I’m mentally disabled. But I’m not.”

Kreil also hopes that by raising awareness, he’ll be able to find others like him and share experiences.

He doesn’t know anyone else in Red Deer with Moebius though he has connected through Facebook with one woman in Calgary and another person in Canmore.

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Roger Kreil, 32, of Red Deer has been celebrating Jan. 24 as Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day for the past four years.

“We’re thinking about meeting up for the first time sometime this year,” Kreil said, noting it’s hard because he doesn’t drive.

According to one website, Moebius Syndrome stems from the underdevelopment of the sixth and seventh cranial nerve. As such, many born with

the syndrome have facial paralysis and can’t move their eyes from side to side.

Often, the upper lip is also retracted due to muscle shrinkage.

Kreil, who has clubbed feet as a result of the syndrome as well, had to travel to Toronto a number of years ago to undergo surgery so he could smile, a movement he proudly shows off whenever he can.

He also works on his speech, which is sometimes a struggle, he said.

It is estimated that there are, on average, two to 20 cases of Moebius Syndrome per one million births.

Other symptoms include crossed eyes, missing fingers or toes, respiratory problems, swallowing disorders, visual impairments, sensory integration dysfunction, sleep disorders and weak upper body strength.

Kreil, who grew up in Rimbey with three brothers, said a number of children picked on him when he was small because he “looked different.”

By high school however, he’d made a few good friends and said most people stopped bullying him after he explained about Moebius.

He said he was actually one of the lucky ones as he was diagnosed shortly

after his birth. He knows others who were not diagnosed until they were in their 30s.

He wanted to become a chef and started school to study baking after his mother suggested that as a career option but had to drop out after instructors expressed a concern about him burning himself.

“I was unemployed for a year and moved back in with my parents,” he said. “Now I have a job at Little Caesars Pizza . . . So I’m living in Red Deer with a roommate.”

Kreil put up awareness posters in the pizzeria and handed out Moebius awareness T-shirts to his co-workers.

Next year he hopes to hand out buttons as well and dreams of one day organizing a walk to raise money for Moebius research.

Kreil said he’s just a “regular guy” who likes video games and reading about space and science.

Moebius Syndrome is named for Paul Julius Möbius, a German neurologist who described it in 1888.

There is no cure or single treatment and it is still not yet known what causes it. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

Annie L. Gaetz receiving multi-million-dollar facelift

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Students at Annie L. Gaetz got to stay comfortable on Friday, thanks to the holding of pyjama day. They will get even more comfortable in their school in the coming years, thanks to provincial funding for a major modernization at the 1965-built school.

Red Deer MLAs Cal Dallas and Mary Anne Jablonski were at the Morrisroe school on Friday to announce funding for a project that will provide mechanical, electrical, interior and exterior upgrades for the building. While no dollar amount was announced, Red Deer Public School Division’s 2013 estimate for the work to be done was $5.6 million.

Division facilities director Darren Skrepnyk said the overall look of the school will be improved through the work, and mechanical and electrical upgrades will bring everything up to

current code. Lighting improvements will be made as well.

“Certainly when we get this type of announcement it’s exciting because this means we can do everything we want to do to that building. Otherwise we’re trying to work throughout the district doing as much as we can on a smaller project basis,” said Skrepnyk.

He said tenders for the project could go out in the spring, and he estimated the work would take over a year.

Classes will have to be moved around the school during the work period, but Skrepnyk said disruptions would be minimal.

The modernization project was the top capital priority for the division.

School board chair Bev Manning said Dallas and Jablonski have paid attention to the division’s needs, which gives her hope that another announcement could come soon — for a new elementary school, likely in the city’s northeast.

“As I look at the needs throughout

the province, I’m concerned about the deficit that we have in buildings and infrastructure, so I recognize the fact that we are not the only place in the province that has some significant pressures. But we are very hopeful,” said Manning.

The province’s stated plan for the next three years is to fund the construction of 50 new schools and the modernization of 70 others. At an event in Innisfail on Thursday, Education Minister Jeff Johnson said all of the projects will be announced by the end of February.

Johnson met with both Red Deer school boards on Thursday, and Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division board chair Guy Pelletier said the minister was told of the need for another Catholic high school in the city, with Notre Dame High School over capacity and reliant on more and more portable classrooms to fit everyone in.

With another 30 or so projects to be announced by the province over the next

month, Pelletier said he is confident his division will hear its name called soon.

“For our plan, as near as we can tell from the administrators at Alberta Education, everything looks favourable in terms of the application. The need is clear, the city has confirmed the land availability and the servicing and road access to it, so we’ve sort of done all we can do from our end,” said Pelletier.

The board has already chosen a name for a future Red Deer high school — St. Joseph High School — and the city has allocated space for the facility in Timberlands, northeast of the 67th Street and 30th Avenue intersection. The division has also put together a working group to formulate a design for the capital project and look into how it could incorporate other community elements into the facility.

The government also announced school projects for Athabasca, Bashaw and Calmar on Friday. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

Unattended cooking oil caused blaze A fire in a Parkvale home was confirmed to be the result of cooking oil left unattended on a stove top.

Red Deer Emergency Services responded to a call about a blaze at 4601 46th Ave. at around 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon.

They knocked it down within the first five minutes of arriving on scene and took about 20 minutes total to give the all-clear after opening some walls and ceilings to check for fire extension, said fire investigator Steve Gailloux.

No one was injured.

The entire kitchen of the duplex unit was burned out, with the main floor also blackened from smoke damage, he said.

“It super heated to the point where that stuff was auto-combusting,” he said.

According to Gailloux, the duplex property is listed at around $450,000 and there was at least $150,000 worth of damage.

“The upstairs is damaged as well.

The fire damage was confined to the kitchen and just part of the hallway but the smoke damage is throughout.

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EDMONTON — Edmonton police are investigating what it is calling elder abuse after a 73-year-old woman was found living in deplorable conditions.

Const. Darren Smith says the rental apartment the woman was living in was filled with black mould and the kitchen ceiling had collapsed due to leaking water.

He says there were also constant electrical failures.

Smith says the woman finally called Catholic Social Services because she felt trapped and unable to move due to financial constraints.

The woman was taken to hospital for observation and has since been released.

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and water damage in the basement.”

He said as the blaze was cleared so quickly by crews, he believes there was no damage to the neighbouring duplex unit on the north end.

Gailloux said the whole main floor will need to be gutted. He believed the owner of the property will try to provide the family with alternative housing.

The building is a duplex owned by the Red Deer Housing Authority. The authority could not be reached for comment on Friday.

Meanwhile the Red Cross stepped in to provide the family (one adult and three children) with clothing and food.

Gailloux said the female occupant of the unit had been cooking with oil on the stove and “just left the room for a minute.” When she returned to the kitchen, it was in flames. It had spread quickly to the curtains and across the cupboards.

Cooking fires are a leading cause of home fires and unattended cooking is the No. 1 cause behind that, Gailloux said.

“It’s really, really important people watch what they heat and stand by their pan. ... I just want to reinforce that people must pay attention when they’re cooking because it happens so often and I’ve seen cases like this over and over again.” rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

ment and the landlord has been ordered to repair the damages.

“There were actually electrical shocks that came out of an outlet that was in the bathroom about 12 feet away,” Smith said. “So, of course for me that was a big indication of a fire hazard, a fire concern.”

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The Partners and Staff of Johnston Ming Manning LLP would like to congratulate Christopher A. Rickards, who was appointed Queen’s Counsel (Q.C.) on December 31, 2013, by the Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Alberta.

Queen’s Counsel appointments are made once every two years to recognize and honor a select group of lawyers for their exceptional capability and talent and for their contributions to the administration of justice, contributions to their profession, and contributions to the community.

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EDMONTON — A Calgary nursing home where two residents died of neglect over the last year is making changes to how it takes care of wounds.

The McKenzie Towne Care Centre is to track patients’ wounds on a computer to make sure no one is missed and a provincial consultant is to check in regularly, Health Minister Fred Horne said Friday.

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A police investigator slips on the ice as they search through the frozen rubble of a seniors residence Friday in L’Isle-Verte, Que. Eight people are confirmed dead and about another 30 are still missing. klers in the new part of the building triggered the alarm.

Fire chief Yvan Charron said his colleagues were able to get to the third of the building that remained standing, while the rest was inaccessible.

The owners of the residence emerged on Friday, issuing a statement to offer their condolences to victims’ families.

Roch Bernier and Irene Plante thanked firefighters, volunteers and the residence’s employees and said they are co-operating fully with authorities.

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PM visits Syrian refugee camp

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ZA’ATRI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan — Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited a massive Syrian refugee camp on Friday, taking in first-hand the sea of humanity that has fled the brutal, bloody civil war of their homeland.

On his first trip to the Arab kingdom of Jordan, Harper made a stop at the Za’atari camp in the northern reaches of the country, near the Syrian border.

Za’atari is the second-largest refugee camp in the world, a veritable city stretching for eight square kilometres and straining Jordan’s resources and infrastructure.

The camp is a mass of criss-crossing laneways where as many as 120,000 people live, go to school and try to earn a living. The camp is encased by chain-link fences festooned with lengths of barbed wire; its residents live in ramshackle structures of corrugated metal.

“We talk in terms of hundreds of thousands of refugees and millions of displaced persons; it’s sometimes easy to forget that these are all individual lives,” Harper said.

“We are touched by this. This is the reason we try to provide food and shelter and sanitation and education and security, to do what we can.”

Not far from where Harper and his wife, Laureen, met with the international officials and aid workers who run the camp, Syrians in makeshift shops sold everything from wedding dresses to pet birds in cages.

There were barbers, fruit vendors and women selling hand-knit sweaters to ward off the cold on chilly desert nights, during which the pounding of artillery fire can often be heard from just across the border.

Children smiled shyly at a Canadian photographer as he snapped shots of their daily routine on a

brilliantly sunny afternoon. Many waved at the Canadian motorcade as it arrived at the camp.

Women held babies; twelve are born every day at the camp. Half of Za’atari’s population, in fact, are school-age children.

“Home? Hoping that will be soon,” said a man shopping in the makeshift market who’s been in the camp for 18 months.

Harper, however, didn’t see much of the activity. Due to security reasons, he was kept close to the base headquarters and its police station, as are most world leaders when they visit the camp.

The prime minister echoed what he was told by the man known as the Mayor of Za’atari, Kilian Kleinschmidt of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

“This is just the tip of the iceberg of the scale of the refugee problem and the tremendous human suffering that we see,” Harper said.

“As large as this camp is, this is only one small piece of the refugee crisis and the refugee crisis here is only one small piece of a broader humanitarian displacement in Syria itself .... Obviously, unfortunately, it appears that this is going to, if anything, get worse or continue. So our commitment must be for the long term.”

To that end, Harper announced another $150 million in aid for Syrian refugees on Friday.

That’s in addition to the approximately $200 million Canada has already earmarked for the refugees.

The new money will go towards basic needs that include food, water and shelter while another $50 million will be provided to a UNICEF education and child-protection initiative.

He also announced an additional $15 million to aid in the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons.

“The use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians was an atrocity that cannot be allowed to happen again,” he said in a statement announcing the new funding.

Rob Ford a clue to an $800 question on Jeopardy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in a rambling, profane rant in a Jamaican accent has again propelled the city to worldwide infamy, in a week capped off by a crack cocaine-related question on Jeopardy.

The quiz-show clue came in a Scandals category as an $800 question.

“In 2013 Rob Ford, mayor of this 4th-largest city in N. America said he smoked weed, no crackathen yes, ok, crack, too,” host Alex Trebek read.

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Ford was asked Friday by reporters whether the question should have been worth more than $800, but he said he didn’t want to comment.

Coun. Denzil Minnan-Wong, however, did want to comment, and bemoaned Toronto’s new reputation on the world stage.

“I’d just as soon not be on Jeopardy and that Toronto be recognized for something other than the mayor’s antics,” he told television station CP24. “I’d like (it) to be known for other things, better things, like the CN Tower or our hockey teams rather than conduct unbecoming.”

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — After he was sworn in Friday as premier of Newfoundland and Labrador following a week of political turmoil, Tom Marshall summed it all up in a word: “Wow.” The affable finance minister and senior statesman of the Progressive Conservative government drew laughs as he revealed how he first learned he was to take the helm.

Former premier Kathy Dunderdale called him into her office Tuesday night to say she was stepping down and that the Tory caucus had tapped him as interim party leader, he said.

Reports of Dunderdale’s imminent departure and Marshall’s ascension were already spreading on social media before he got home, he recalled.

“I went home that night and my daughter came to me and she said: ’Dad? Are you premier?”’

Marshall praised Dunderdale, the province’s first female premier, as one of the most dedicated and compassionate people he has worked alongside. She was not at the ceremony to hear it.

Dunderdale announced Wednesday that she was quitting after a punishing year of leadership doubts and dismal approval ratings.

Marshall, 67, quoted Russian poet Boris Pasternak in his swearing-in speech.

“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us,” he said. “But to be brutally frank, surprise is hardly strong enough a word to describe my reaction when Premier Kathy Dunderdale asked me earlier this week to take on this significant responsibility today.”

Marshall, the province’s first Jewish premier, said he was humbled. And he used a passage from Deuteronomy in the Old Testament to convey how he hopes to leave his mark in the few months before a Tory leadership convention is expected.

“Justice shall you pursue,” he said of the standard set by Moses for all who would serve in public office.

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The statement made no mention of sprinklers and it said they would be making no further comment for now.

Meanwhile, the Queen also sent her condolences in a statement Friday.

“Prince Philip and I were saddened to learn of the serious fire at the seniors’ residence in L’Isle-Verts, Quebec yesterday,“ it read.

“The Duke of Edinburgh and I send our sympathy to the families of those who have died and our thoughts and prayers to all those who have been injured in this terrible event.“

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L’ISLE-VERTE, Que. — Investigators continued their painstaking search on Friday for victims of the fatal fire that devastated a seniors’ home and has left a Quebec village grieving for the dead and the missing.

Frigid temperatures were hampering the work of search crews in L’Isle-Verte as they sifted through the icy rubble of what, until tragedy struck Thursday morning, was a lively residence for the elderly.

Authorities used steam to melt the ice and to preserve the bodies they were looking for in the Residence du Havre debris.

“The difficulty we have is that we want to be able to find victims but we want to respect the integrity of these potential victims,” Quebec provincial police Lt. Guy Lapointe told a news conference.

“So the steam allows us to melt the ice...without damaging any element that might allow us to go forward in the investigation.”

No official cause has been given for the blaze, which killed eight people but more than likely has claimed the lives of about another 30.

“Nothing has been ruled out,” Lapointe replied when asked about a report that a faulty heater may have caused the fire.

Lapointe said there is no way of knowing when investigators would be able to retrieve bodies.

“The cold is extreme, the equipment could freeze, we could run into other issues, so at this point it’s really difficult for me to set a timetable of any kind,” he said.

The search crews announced late Friday afternoon they would resume their operations at 7 a.m. eastern on Saturday.

While some 30 people are believed missing, Lapointe said that number could fluctuate.

“People might have been away,” he noted. “We want to make sure that everyone who lived there was there or wasn’t there. But also the people who might not have lived there who might have come over to spend the night there. We need to check on that too.”

Lapointe also called for people who took photos or shot video when the fire broke out to contact authorities to give them a better idea of what exactly might have happened.

Most of the residents probably never had a chance when the blaze erupted — many were over 85, had little or no mobility and were confined to wheelchairs or walkers.

A Quebec Health Department document indicates the residence, which has operated since 1997, had only a partial sprinkler system.

The facility expanded around 2002 and the sprin-

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The government said the change was intended to ensure consistent tax treatment.

Now, however, Finance is proposing a new loophole for parking fees paid by hospital patients and visitors.

It will go ahead with amendments to eliminate the tax exemption for parking provided by a charity set up or used by a municipality, university, public college or school.

The department says it will accept pubic comments on the proposal until Feb. 24.

who called it a landmark victory even though it said there were inconsistencies with the ban.

The ruling said exemptions under the EU ban for aboriginal hunts and those conducted to manage seal populations weren’t being fairly applied.

But it also said the ban satisfies public concerns about the welfare of seals to an extent.

At issue was a challenge by Canada and Norway of the 28-member EU’s 2010 ban on the import and sale of seal fur, meat, blubber and other products.

The federal government has repeatedly said the ban is unfair because it discriminates against Canadian seal products that come from an industry that follows humane measures.

But critics of the hunt dispute say the seal hunt is

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Military plane down in Saskatchewan; 2 pilots walk away uninjured MOOSE JAW, Sask. — A military plane has gone down near a Canadian Forces Base south of Moose Jaw, Sask.

Officials at 15 Wing say two people in the Harvard training aircraft walked away unharmed after what is being called a — quote — “controlled ejection.”

Lt. Thomas Edelson says the two in the plane made a decision that landing the aircraft wouldn’t be safe.

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The B.C. Civil Liberties Association filed a lawsuit last fall, alleging Canadians’ communications were being illegally swept up by the Communications Security Establishment Canada, or CSEC. The group’s lawsuit targeted the spy agency’s monitoring of foreign communications, as well as the collection of metadata, which reveals technical information but not the content of electronic communication.

But Ottawa has filed a statement of defence that says CSEC follows strict rules that prevent the agency from specifically targeting Canadians and its activities are monitored by an independent commissioner.

The government says it’s impossible to know whether a foreign target may be communicating with someone in Canada, which means a “small” number of communications from Canadians has be collected.

As for the collection of metadata, the statement of defence says it plays a vital role in identifying and thwarting cyber threats.

Ottawa files appeal of World Trade Organization ruling on EU seal products ban OTTAWA — Ottawa has filed its appeal of a World Trade Organization ruling that says aspects of Europe’s ban on importing seal products undermine fair trade but can be justified on “public moral concerns” for animal welfare.

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WINNIPEG — An Orthodox archbishop has been found guilty of sexually assaulting one of two brothers in Winnipeg almost 30 years ago.

The judge said in his ruling that Seraphim Kenneth Storheim was evasive and untrustworthy in his denials on the witness stand.

The Court of Queen’s Bench justice also said one brother was clear in his testimony, while the other had memory and mental illness problems.

The brothers, who are now in their 30s, testified they lived with Storheim briefly, on separate occasions, when they worked as altar boys in 1985.

They said Storheim walked around naked and touched them sexually — accusations Storheim denied.

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Stars appear to be aligning for snap Quebec election The failure of Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois to win a majority in 2012 put to rest the notion that the return of a sovereigntist government in Quebec would kick-start a new round of referendum hostilities.

Polls suggest that could soon change.

This week, both CROP and Léger Marketing gave the PQ enough of a leading edge in voting intentions to put a majority within Marois’ reach.

With the wind of public opinion at her CHANTAL back in francoHÉBERT phone Quebec, the premier is unlikely to let the opportunity to solidify her hold on power slip away.

Rather than wait to see if the opposition will have the fortitude to bring down the government over the spring budget, Marois might well take matters in her own hands and call a snap election.

The PQ’s secularism charter has gone a long way to shift the electoral momentum to the government.

Predictably the plan is popular with the francophone electorate that determines the outcome of Quebec elections.

But it is the performance of Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard that ultimately stands to make a quick election call irresistible.

Nine months into the job, Jean Charest’s successor has turned out to be less than ready for prime time.

Despite the glaring absence of empirical evidence to support the government’s proposed charter and despite the refusal of major elements of Quebec civil society to support it, Couillard has failed to make a scratch in the veneer of the PQ’s narrative.

It has not helped that he has been consistent only in flip-flopping.

Almost six months into the debate, his party was still scrambling this week to agree on a position that it could sustain for more than a few news cycles.

It is hardly the first time that the Quebec Liberals have struggled with an identity-related issue.

In the face of the passionate nationalist appeals of the Yes camp in the 1995 referendum, they offered what can only be described as a wet-noodle

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defence of federalism.

Two decades later, the charter debate has once again brought more ambivalence than conviction about the case they purport to make.

In their more successful past incarnations, they compensated for that on other fronts.

But it has been decades since a Quebec federalist leader has had constitutional progress to show for his dealings with the rest of Canada and every promising beginning has ended in failure.

Any commitment on the part of Couillard to reform federalism along the lines of Quebec’s so-called traditional demands cannot but fail the test of reality.

And then in contrast with Marois and CAQ Leader François Legault,

Couillard has never held an economic portfolio.

Based on his uncertain performance to date he will have to work hard to hold his own against his rivals on the economy in the election debates.

The travails of a provincial opposition leader are usually of little consequence for the country as a whole, except when the travails are those of the leading federalist on the Quebec scene.

No one should doubt that a majority PQ government would focus its considerable resources on recreating the conditions for a winning referendum on sovereignty.

And while polls suggest that could be a challenge, anyone who has followed the secularism charter debate would be foolish to dismiss the possi-

bility out of hand.

If it has shown anything it is: a) that there is still quite a bit of political mileage to be had by stoking the collective cultural insecurity of francophone Quebecers; b) that Marois’ government will stop at little within its powers to advance a goal that it has set its eye on.

No election outcome is preordained.

The PQ could still stumble on the way to a majority victory later this year.

But the odds that the Quebec/Canada issue will make a return on the national radar in time for the 2015 federal campaign are substantially higher now than even six months ago.

Chantal Hébert is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

Organic foods are not healthier SOUND PRACTICES IN TRADITIONAL FARMING HAVE LED TO THE ELIMINATION OF MANY PESTICIDES

BY SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The organic movement was served a toxic dish recently when the media disclosed a study conducted by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) that suggests organic foods contain high levels of pesticides.

The report claimed that half of a sample of organic products randomly tested had traces of pesticides.

To explain why results were not disseminated when the study was completed more than a year ago, the CFIA told the media that none of the test results posed a health risk as farming practices complied with Canadian-approved standards.

In this era of scepticism, mistrust and scandals, it makes one wonder why the CFIA allowed the media to unveil the information before it did in its role as our country’s

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Basically, the CFIA was outright undermined by a study they actually conducted themselves, which made the story quite surreal.

The way that these findings were made public should be a cause for concern for organic farmers in Canada.

Many Canadians were surprised by the findings and were hard-pressed to find clear answers from regulators.

Some organic products are double, even triple, the average price of their conventional counterparts.

As an environmentally-focused niche market that offers an alternative production system for certain farmers, the findings revealed are not consistent with what the industry is trying to achieve.

In a sense, the organic movement is now paying the price for its pesticide-free campaign.

For years, studies have suggested that it is nearly impos-

sible to find organic produce, fruits, or vegetables at retail with zero pesticide residues unless, of course, production, distribution and retail chains operate in complete isolation from conventional supply streams.

Such an approach would likely increase the prices of products that are already expensive enough and most organic experts would concur.

Organic production allows the use of natural pesticides only. From an ecological standpoint, it makes the organic case much more compelling than conventional farming.

However, agriculture has seen some dramatic changes in Canada and elsewhere in the last decade.

Farming is now much wiser and more frugal when using chemicals in the field. Sound practices have led to the elimination of many problematic, old pesticides. This is something we need to recognize more often.

Nonetheless, consumers are often oblivious of how our organic operations become certified. The certification process for any commodity in Canada is very comprehensive and rigorous, but our climate makes our organic industry much less efficient than in other countries.

In fact, more than 80 per cent of all organic food products purchased by consumers in Canada are imported, so certification processes are complex, to say the least.

This means reviews and access to proper data will remain a challenge for quite some time, particularly when dealing with emerging countries where regulatory oversight is lacking.

The CFIA, in partnership with the domestic organic industry, should commit to expanding the scope of their surveillance of and compliance guidance with our trading partners.

Consumers ought to contin-

ue to buy organics for reasons they feel strongly about. Consumers, though, also deserve to have access to proper data so they can make educated decisions in relation to their diets, organic or not.

As far as organics go, science remains inconclusive about the health benefits of organic food products compared to conventional offerings.

What we do know is that they are certainly not unhealthier. Organic products generally have fewer pesticides on them, full stop; therefore, the premium we pay is justified.

But the CFIA should stop allowing the media to be the food safety boogeyman and make their studies readily available to the public.

Sylvain Charlebois, PhD, is associate dean at the College of Management and Economics at the University of Guelph in Ontario. This column was supplied

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Bold new thinking needed Industry Canada is seeking the views of Canadians for a new Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy, an update from the strategy unveiled by the Harper government in 2007.

That there is an urgent need for a review is clearly evident — Canada is still struggling to build its capacity for innovation and productivity growth.

Despite some federal program improvements, we are still a long way from achieving a high-value competitive economy for the 21st century — and the jobs that such an economy would generate.

But the consultation process that Industry Canada has launched appears unlikely to deliver the kind of bold new thinking we need for a more innovative country. For one thing, the consultation period is extraordinarily short.

Announced on Jan. 8, Canadians have only until Feb. 7 to submit ideas.

Just as important, it does not appear Industry Canada is seeking major new ideas. It has issued a pamphlet — Seizing Canada’s Moment — that DAVID is long on boastful statements CRANE about existing federal policies and extraordinarily short on any kind of serious analysis on the challenges we face.

It sets out a set of questions — asking, for example, what new steps can be taken to improve business investment in R&D and innovation, how to improve commercialization of new knowledge coming from universities, colleges and government labs, how to attract top talent from other countries, and how to improve support for research excellence.

By themselves, these are important questions. But the answers will not add up to an effective new innovation strategy.

As the OECD has pointed out in a recent publication — Supporting Investment in Knowledge, Capital, Growth and Innovation — “innovation is a key to business success, but where innovation comes from is changing.” Today, it says, “firms are looking beyond research and development (R&D) to drive innovation. They invest in a wide range of intangible assets, such as data, software, patents, designs, new organizational processes and firm-specific skills.” It is this knowledge capital that makes firms innovative and competitive.

In a 2012 paper — Intangible Capital and Productivity Growth in Canada — John Baldwin and his colleagues at Statistics Canada found that investment in intangible or knowledge capital by the business sector in 2008 was 66 per cent of the level of investment in tangible capital, such as machinery and equipment, compared to just 23 per cent in 1976. Business spending on intangible capital reached $150.7 billion in 2008, compared to $96.8 billion in 2000.

Industry Canada also appears to be caught in another mind-trap as well, focusing on commercialization of new knowledge from universities as the critical challenge.

This all about starting new companies. In reality, this is the easy part. Scaling up a company for commercial success is a much more difficult and time-consuming process — something that is too often ignored in innovation debates. This is a key but neglected challenge in Canada.

Two studies from Statistics Canada earlier this month showed that the productivity gap in the business sector between Canada and the U.S. can be explained in large part by the greater proportion of smaller firms, those with fewer than 500 employees, in Canada than in the U.S. and the fact that smaller firms in Canada, compared to larger firms, are much less productive in Canada than in the U.S. In Canada, productivity in small firms was about half the productivity level of large firms but in the U.S., small firms were about 70 per cent as productive as large firms.

What this means is that we need to do a better job of growing more smaller firms into bigger firms so that they can benefit from greater economies of scale and develop greater capacity for innovation and that we need to look at better ways of raising the productivity of smaller firms.

As Statistics Canada researchers put it, “together, decreasing the relative importance of small firms in the economy and increasing their relative productivity compared with large firms accounts for most of the gap in productivity levels between Canada and the United States.”

The federal innovation strategy does not address either of these issues nor are they raised in the discussion pamphlet issued by Industry Canada in seeking the views and recommendation of Canadians in the current review.

Reviewing the federal innovation strategy is important and timely. But Industry Canada seems more interested in gathering some quick ideas than undertaking the kind of serious analytical review that we need for a more innovative country.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

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I can’t remember what this column is about I’ll take my sources anywhere I has those papers and — bonus! — can get ’em. that place has ice cream!

So when I came So a short drive later across a little blurb in a and I’m sitting enjoylittle publication found ing a chocolate fudge in many cafes in just sundae with whipped about every city and cream and peanuts town, I immediately and wondering what I thought: I should steal was doing sitting alone this idea! in a restaurant at 9 What I mean is, I was o’clock at night eating having some fairly fast ice cream. food of questionable And by pure chance, health benefit the other on my way out, all deday when I picked up jected and confused one of those one-sheet again, I somehow noHARLEY advertising pamphlet ticed what I’d actually HAY thingies with the wacky come there for in the news tidbits and quotes first place. I grabbed a and trivia questions copy of the little oneand saw an item that page advertising broimmediately caught my eye. And chure thingy with the trivia and when it finally gave my eye back, I the jokes and I left feeling pretty thought my friends in Columnland darned impressed with myself might be interested to hear about that I had more or less rememthis little news item. bered something for a change.

And then, by the time I got back Of course, I had forgotten to my home office, fired up my where I parked the car. various computer devices and laid News item: A study by the the old fingers on the keyboard, I American Demographic Society took a deep breath and stared at found that “Americans spend nine the blank page. Well, I stared at million hours looking for importhe blank screen actually, but you tant items they have misplaced.” get my drift.

To put that into more relevant CaMy mind was as blank as the nadian terms, I believe that would page (screen) and while that is not translate into the fact that Canaat all surprising for Yours Truly, dians spend approximately nine the point is, I had completely for- million metric hours looking for gotten what it was I was going to stuff. Also, I doubt that Canadians write and rant about. would have something called a I had not forgotten to remem- Demographic Society, because we ber that I got some interesting Canucks know that our American information from the little free neighbours obviously just made paper at the café, mind you; I just that part up. The society part, I couldn’t for the life of me remem- mean, I’m sure the nine million ber what the idea was. forgetful hours is totally true. And So later that evening, when I fi- nine million hours a day is lot of nally remembered I was supposed honkin’ hours. to be writing a column, I ventured Be that as it may, the point is out to retrieve my memory by bor- — if I can remember what it was rowing one of those little brochure — is that most of us are generally thingies. somewhere between somewhat I drive all the way back to the absent-minded and pathologically café, walk in nonchalantly (know- forgetful. ing I wasn’t planning on buying And I don’t know about you, but anything) and stroll innocently I find the further I get along the over to the place where the news- path on the trail on the road of papers are kept for the enjoyment life’s great journey, the more forof the paying patrons, with the in- getful I am becoming. tent of purloining said paper. If The article referred to above, I have to, I’ll buy a Pepsi to go, I which I had previously forgotten think to myself. to remember, blames all this forI can always use a Pepsi. But, getfulness on the fact that many of course, all the little paper thin- of us are not very organized or gies were gone. I can’t remember tidy. It argues that this causes us why. to waste time trying to find things Forget about it, I thought, and and makes us “emotionally and then I remembered that there was physically tired.” another place nearby that often It concludes with this impor-

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tant news nugget: “A cluttered environment tends to clutter one’s mind.”

Or as my Better Half puts it as she points to my noggin: “You can’t remember anything because your computer is full!”

This may be true but how can I remember anything when I’m spending nine million metric hours looking for “important items I’ve misplaced?”

So with my computer being full and me being not exactly overly neat and tidy, it’s no wonder I arrive at an important photographic shoot and at the exact moment I need to take a picture I realize I’ve forgotten to bring my camera!

(True story).

It’s no wonder that I head out from the house and drive earnestly for quite a few minutes and quite a few blocks until I realize I have no idea where I’m headed or why.

It’s a good thing I keep my appointments and other daily reminders on the calendar thingy on my phone. However, it’s not such a good thing to realize, as I often do, that I’ve forgotten my phone at home.

Lately I’ve gone to the wrong place at the right time, the right place at the wrong time and, I hate to admit, to the wrong place at the wrong time.

I’ve already lost one of the nice winter gloves my BH gave me for Christmas, and I haven’t seen my clip-on sunglasses since September. (My fourth set. I lost the other three.)

But I’m sure all of this forgetfulness will go away once I reboot my “computer” and tidy up a bit around my office, my car, my head, etc. But it’s no big deal, really. It’s January and I’ve only used up about one million metric hours looking for misplaced stuff. Hey, I’ve got eight million left!

And I really think I’m starting to improve — I don’t forget things nearly as much as I used to. Now, if I could only remember how I was going to end this column. Oh, yeah — I really think I’m starting to improve — I don’t forget things nearly as much as I used to.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Children need dedicated, discerning parents Last night when I got home after a long day at the kitchen, my potbellied body was crying out desperately for reprieve.

My Lazyboy was beckoning in the most prodigious manner, but my wife had a video to show me of our granddaughter before any ‘vegging’ could take place.

In this video, our daughter was playing a musical card that we had sent to our son-in-law for his birthday.

Our granddaughter, so enthralled by this song The Hamster Dance, was dancing up a storm.

Seriously though, I don’t know who was more enthralled, our granddaughter or my wife, who kept playing CHRIS this clip over and over until SALOMONS she finally broke Sky Drives’ rules of engagement.

I must confess, I did watch it more than once as well, but this morning as I reflected on it, it made me realize just how precious our children are, and how dedicated and discerning we as parents have to be to ensure these little flowers have the best possible chance to grow into mature, well balanced adults themselves.

This week, I was witness to and had to intervene

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in a situation that taught me something new but also turned my stomach.

A very young couple came into the kitchen, she being pregnant with her second child that social services will be taking at birth, and the male so drunk that he was incoherent. Before long, he was outside, shirtless; lying on the ground, where a well-placed punch to the face had levelled him.

I had already warned him to calm down and stop interfering with other clients, so when he wanted to come back into the kitchen I refused him access, at which point he went into a temper tantrum similar to a two-year-old; kicking the door, then beating the ground and actually crying.

It was at this time that I called the RCMP. Fortunately, they were just on the next street, so I had barely hung up the phone when they arrived and as they dealt with this matter, this young fellow even took a poke at one of the officers, who promptly took both of them away.

I don’t relay this incident so that I can find fault, but rather that I learned something about people that saddens me almost beyond hope were it not for my faith. Let me explain.

The following morning, the young woman came to me and apologized for her mate, and it was on the tip of my tongue to tell her that women’s shelters are full of ladies like her whose self-worth is so low that they hang onto a domineering male who has anger issues.

Evidently he has beaten her several times (this tidbit from some of her girlfriends); once even when she was pregnant the first time. According to her, she deserved it.

I know her history and where her lack of selfworth comes from because I wrote her story about two years ago, but I don’t know his background. It makes me wonder: what was his upbringing like that he should at the age of about 22 or so, revert to a childlike behaviour when denied what he wants? It was an ugly scene.

Generally we focus on the female and not on the male and his problems.

But as is so often the case, these two personalities seem to attract each other.

What if when a young man like this one is in court for his anger problems, part of his sentencing would be to take not just anger management, but a study on the reasons for his anger?

So what did I learn in this entire episode?

Just that people are what they are in large part because of what they were taught when they were infants. So if we want them to be well-balanced people, then we have to raise them in a well-balanced method, which, by the way, fills us with joy when we let the children dance to a silly little song, because they only dance with joy if they are not in a threatening environment.

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This is the first of a two-part series on Bhutan.

On the fourth morning someone finally mentioned weird dreams. Our breakfast conversation erupted, everyone speaking at once.

Since arriving we’d all been beset by bizarre, vivid night visions. Not your typical “I can fly” dreams but a netherworld where childhood friends were engaged in odd departure rituals; an octogenarian mother was with child.

Even Dale, the non-dreamer, was visited by curious nightly imaginings.

We decided to ask our guide Tsewang about these GERRY strange episodes.

FEEHAN “This is normal, quite common,” he responded calmly.

“It is your introduction to our high altitude. The dreams will pass.” And they did.

We had bombarded Tsewang for three days with our dumb inquiries — when he wasn’t busy offering up volumes of Buddhist wisdom. By now we felt Tsewang knew all. And he did.

We were in the Kingdom of Bhutan, with Bubbles and Simone Schumacher and Dale and Karen Horsley, our peculiar reveries framed by majestic Himalayan foothills.

Tucked between India and Tibet, Bhutan is 12 time zones and a world removed from Canada. We’d come for the mountain trekking — and a crash course in Buddhist culture.

Bhutan is small (just 300 km long and 150 km wide) but geographically diverse. The rainforests of the steamy south are barely above sea level while the snowy mountains in the north rise to 8,000 metres.

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Please see BHUTAN on Page B2

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: School boys, clothed in the traditional gho, met us shyly with a “kuzu zang po” greeting. A prayer wheel should be spun in a clockwise direction to enhance and release mindful intentions. Simone-La making butter tea.

Tsewang explaining Buddhist mythology while a giant prayer wheel spins. The 17th century Dzong at Punakha is Bhutan’s oldest and largest fortress.

Photos by GERRY FEEHAN/ freelance

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Young monks play soccer. thin slice of understanding. In many ways Buddhism is incomprehensibly complicated — a multitude of deities and icons all wrapped up in mythology, reincarnation and karma.

But basically Buddhism incorporates a simple ideal: finding inner peace through the realization that things are just not that big a deal. (My words, not the Buddha’s. But the Bhutanese are an understanding people who know that most Westerners are simple-minded and should be given some interpretive leeway. They are content with the hope that a few of their values might be hauled home in the suitcase of our minds).

Still, there are some inflexible rules. A monastery must always be entered in a clockwise manner. Also a prayer wheel must invariably be spun clockwise to release and enhance one’s mindful intentions.

And yet despite my repeated counter-clockwise transgressions, when Tsewang chastised me with the words “Gerry La ‌,â€? I felt utterly forgiven.

At least I dreamt I did.

Gerry Feehan, QC, is a retired lawyer, avid traveller and photographer. He lives in Red Deer. For more of Gerry’s travel adventures, please visit www.gnfeehan. blogspot.com.

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Bhutanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 700,000 people, mostly subsistence farmers, are squeezed into sheer river valleys, their fields fed by rich glacial waters from the Himalayas.

On our first day-hike, Tsewang led us along an ancient footpath, through bucolic highlands overlooking steeply terraced rice paddies. Farmers, saffronclad monks and itinerant yak herders have trampled these paths for centuries.

Bhutanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s topography makes travelling even short distances a challenge. The countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first car arrived in 1961, the same year its earliest, crude road was built. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roadways are still rudimentary. A 70km journey is a three-hour ordeal, pitting battered vehicle against dispassionate potholes, ambivalent road-workers and stray cattle.

You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see any backpackers in Bhutan. The daily per person visa fee of $250 makes travel to the Hidden Country prohibitively expensive for the budget-minded traveller. Except in larger centres and hotels, we rarely crossed paths with other tourists. Fortunately, Florence and I were able to travel all-expenses-paid, courtesy of the FCIF: Feehan Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inheritance Fund.

The Bhutanese are a genuine, welcoming people.

When we met passersby â&#x20AC;&#x201D; school children, expectant mothers, grizzled old men â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with the traditional â&#x20AC;&#x153;kuzu zang poâ&#x20AC;? greeting, they invariably smiled and shyly returned our salutation.

Bhutanese are also blunt. One afternoon we sweated up a steep trail, zigzagging through ripe terraces of rice. Music wafted upward from a school celebration hundreds of hazy metres below. Bubbles (aka Kim), avoiding a switchback, took a shortcut.

When we converged higher up the path, he arrived huffing and puffing. Tsewang, leaning on a makeshift hiking stick, regarded our wayward companion quietly and after a moment said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Bhutan, we talk straight and walk around.â&#x20AC;? Then he turned and silently continued the steady uphill climb.

Though only half our age, Tsewang was a pearl of wisdom. Clad always in a gho, the traditional garment worn by Bhutanese men, he greeted us every morning with a bright smile. We were amazed at the stuff he could carry in that outfit: maps, books, binoculars, water bottles and â&#x20AC;&#x201D; of course â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a cellphone. I asked him one day if he had a hammer handy. He reached into his gho purposefully ... and then winked.

Tsewangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s calm Buddhist demeanour, quick wit and love of country were enlightening and humbling.

He opened Bhutan to us like a treasured family book.

Each day we had a good solid trek, our destination usually one of the many dzongs that dot the country.

Situated at strategic locations along pristine rivers pouring southward from Tibet, these fortresses were built by Shabdrung (the feared Bluebeard), the 17th century warrior who unified Bhutan. These ancient buildings are still in use today, housing both monastic and government administrative offices.

We stood in the giant courtyard of Bhutanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest fortress, the Dzong of Punakha, watching a meditative monk methodically spin a giant prayer wheel while a group of bureaucrats hustled officiously by.

Tsewang was explaining the frescoed images adorning the walls but the distractions made his labyrinthal tale impossible to follow.

I was drifting off into another high-altitude dream world when he mentioned that the Bhutanese recognize thousands of deities. I wondered whether, for a sizable cash donation, a Canadian ex-lawyer might be added to the vast stable of Bhutanese gods. Fortunately the sound of nearby chanting shook me from my sacrilegious reverie before I could blurt out a regrettable idiocy.

Tsewang is a â&#x20AC;&#x153;still waters run deepâ&#x20AC;? sort of fellow.

And, although remarkably practical and resourceful (he was constantly mending small glitches and massaging details to ensure our trip went smoothly), I sometimes found his strict adherence to traditional Buddhist doctrine a little amusing. The morning he proposed to hang a prayer flag across the pass at 3,700-metre-high Pele La, Tsewang consulted an astrologer to ensure the day was appropriately auspicious for conducting such an endeavour. Apparently an inauspicious prayer-flag unfurling is an open invitation for negative karma. He received the green light and our ceremony proceeded.

(A small confession: when the flags began to wave in the crisp mountain air, I shouted â&#x20AC;&#x153;hle-guy-loâ&#x20AC;? (may the gods be victorious) as loudly as any of the others.)

Each hike was punctuated by a mountainside picnic or lunch in a quiet village; and always there was ema datshi: hot chilies cooked in cheese. The roof of every Bhutanese home is covered blood-red with drying chilies. And outside every door is a cow waiting to be milked. We developed a passion for this fiery national dish, made the more delectable when washed down with gulps of Druk 11,000 â&#x20AC;&#x153;extrastrongâ&#x20AC;? beer.

Culture shock is both the beauty and bane of travel. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a Starbucks coffee guy. In Bhutan, brewed coffee is unheard of. Nescafe instant is your only choice â&#x20AC;Ś so I switched to tea. I hate tea. But if you want something truly awful, order a steaming cup of freshly-churned yak-butter tea with your ema datshi.

Oddly, the Bhutanese have incorporated into mainstream culture a lurid fascination with phalluses. The exterior of many houses are decorated unabashedly with indicia of male fertility. Designed to ward off the evil eye, this custom is attributable to the 17th century Divine Mad Monk and his â&#x20AC;&#x153;magnificent thunderbolt of wisdomâ&#x20AC;? (which can not be reproduced in these family-friendly pages but can be firmly viewed on my blogsite).

As we scampered through muddy bogs, Tsewang was ever diligent and attentive, cautioning us away

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from the itch of stinging nettle and lending a steady hand to ensure no one sprained an ankle or â&#x20AC;&#x201D; worse yet â&#x20AC;&#x201D; did a yak-pie face-plant. One morning as we laughed and skipped down a smooth path admiring the snow-capped Himalayan peaks, oblivious to the tread of our feet, Tsewang stopped us cold. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be careful for the ants,â&#x20AC;? he admonished, pointing earthward. An army of tiny insects was marching across our trail. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What if I step on them inadvertently?â&#x20AC;? asked Mrs. Schumacher. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ah, Simone-La,â&#x20AC;? he responded, invoking the Bhutanese suffix of courtesy and respect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is as it is â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but no action happens without consequence. We must be attentive to the welfare of all sentient beings.â&#x20AC;?

When Florence and I retired that evening, a huge moth flew through our open door, attracted by the light. Honouring the dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lesson, I spent 10 minutes carefully shooing the unco-operative beast outside. Then, as I was brushing my teeth, an intrusive mosquito jabbed its proboscis into my shoulder. I studied it impassively for a moment â&#x20AC;Ś and then mercilessly terminated its existence. One can take this sentient being thing only so far.

Before our trip to Bhutan, I knew nothing of Buddhism. After 12 days of immersion, I claim only a

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 3 Blades 2 SASKATOON, Sask. — Red Deer Rebels head coach/GM Brent Sutter was more than willing to take the two points, but he was anything but happy following a 3-2 victory over the Saskatoon Blades in Western Hockey League action Friday.

“We found a way to win, but it wasn’t one of our better games,” he said. “We just weren’t as sharp as we need to be at this time of the year. That’s not the way we should be playing.

“Our team game has to be better.”

The Rebels once again got outstanding goaltending from Patrik Bartosak, who finished with 42 saves.

“He was no doubt our best player,” added Sutter. “He won this for us.”

Twice the Rebels fell behind. Former Rebel Cory Millette opened the scoring for the Blades at 4:03 of the first period with Brooks Maxwell evening the count at 17:16.

Cameron Hebig made it 2-1 for the home side at 11:43 of the middle stanza, but Rhyse Dieno connected on his 16th of the season to tie it at 16:11 and Evan Polei, who was traded to the Rebels by the Blades in the Millette deal, got the winner at 17:45.

“The motivation I guess is there because they didn’t really want me,” Polei told the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.

“When I went to Red Deer, it was a new start for me. They told me I needed to earn my keep.”

The third period was scoreless thanks to Bartosak, who made 18 saves in the frame.

It was the second win in three days for the Rebels who opened the road trip with a 5-0 win in Prince Albert.

“The game in Prince Albert and the one tonight were like night and day,” said Sutter.

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Kings, Queens sweep Clippers

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Queens 68 Clippers 57 It’s not going to be easy for the RDC Queens to grab a playoff spot in the Alberta Colleges Women’s Basketball League, but they’re not going to go down without a fight.

The Queens went into the weekend needing to win possibly all six of their remaining games to have a shot at the playoffs. They took the first step with a 68-57 victory over the Briercrest Bible College Clippers before a capacity crowd at RDC Friday.

“This was big for us . . . a good confidence boost, now we have to continue this on tomorrow,” said Queens head coach Mike Woollard, whose squad faces the Clippers again today at 1 p.m. with the men to follow.

The win gave the Queens a 6-9 record and moved them into a 11th place tie with Olds, a point back of Keyano.

The game didn’t start well for either team, although the Queens managed to lead 12-11 after the first 10 minutes. A solid second quarter which saw them outscore the Clippers 16-11 gave them some breathing room. After the teams split 30 points in the third quarter the Queens held a 25-20 edge in the fourth.

“I thought as the game wore on we got into a flow and started moving the ball better and started moving it into the post,” said Woollard.

RDC’s six-foot-two post players, Jessica Foley and Desirae Paterson, both started to control inside and started to see their shots go down. Foley finished with 10 points, with eight coming late. Paterson made two of her last four shots.

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RDC Queen Mozanga Ekwalanga battles against Briercrest Clipper Nicole Meyer during the second quarter of Friday’s game against the Briercrest Clippers.

Flames come from behind to beat Predators in SO

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Calgary 5 Nashville 4 (SO) CALGARY — Reto Berra remained perfect in shootouts, and Sean Monahan scored the deciding goal as the Calgary Flames overcame a four-goal night from Eric Nystrom to post a 5-4 comeback victory over the Nashville Predators.

Monahan, the Flames 19-year-old rookie and leading scorer, beat Devan Dubnyk on a deke after Jiri Hudler scored in the shootout for Calgary and Roman Josi replied for the Predators to even it after three shooters.

Berra improved to 4-0 in shootouts this season as he sprawled to get a pad on a deke from Ryan Ellis.

With the single point, Nashville (2322-8) moved within seven points of one of the two wildcard spots in the Western Conference, currently held by Minnesota and Vancouver.

David Jones scored twice, and Mark Giordano and Mikael Backlund also scored for Calgary (18-27-7). The Flames have now won two games in a row for the first time in over a month.

Giordano’s first period goal gave him a career-high six-game points streak (3-3-6).

The Flames trailed 3-1 entering the third period but got back to within one on Jones’ first goal in 18 games at 1:24.

After Nystrom restored the two-goal cushion, re-directing Matt Cullen’s shot through the pads of Berra at 10:47, the Flames answered right back less than two minutes later with Backlund deflecting in Kris Russell’s point shot for Calgary’s third power-play goal of

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Nashville Predators’ Victor Bartley, left, fights with Calgary Flames’ David Jones, centre, for the puck in front of goalie Devan Dubnyk during second period NHL hockey action in Calgary, Friday. the night.

Jones tipped in T.J. Brodie’s rising shot from the blue-line to elude Dubnyk and even the game just over a minute later.

Nystrom entered the night with one goal in his previous 19 games, but he

wasted little time giving Nashville the early lead as he fired a shot past Karri Ramo from the slot just 1:51 into the game.

Tied 1-1, the 30-year-old gave the Predators the lead again on a strange goal 1:50 into the second period. From

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centre ice, Josi flipped the puck towards the Calgary net where it took a weird bounce that Ramo was just able to get his shoulder in front of. Nystrom was first to the rebound and he jammed it under the Flames goalie.

Nystrom made it 3-1 less than five minutes later, tipping Paul Gaustad’s shot from deep in the corner over Ramo’s shoulder.

Heading into Friday’s game, Nystrom had never scored more than two goals in a single contest, and had only scored twice three times.

Ramo was promptly pulled by Flames coach Bob Hartley after Nystrom’s third goal, leaving the game with nine saves on 12 shots. It was the first time Ramo had been pulled this season.

Dubnyk was making his second start since being acquired from the Edmonton Oilers on Jan. 15 in a trade for Matt Hendricks. He had 27 saves while Berra, in relief, had 12.

It was the second meeting between the two teams in 10 days, with the Predators winning 4-2 in Nashville.

Notes: The Flames had multiple power-play goals for just the second time since Oct. 21. The last time they had two was Dec. 23... Nystrom had 19 goals and 20 assists in 204 games with Calgary over parts of four seasons... Paul Byron (foot) returned to the Flames line-up after missing one game. Scratched for Calgary was RW Brian McGrattan (foot) and D Ladislav Smid (undisclosed)... The Predators are 8-3-2 against the Pacific Division...

The Flames win for the first time (1-32) when Jones scores.

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Nadal beats Federer in straight sets

AN OUTDOOR CLASSIC OF THEIR OWN

FACES WAWRINKA IN AUSSIE OPEN FINAL

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE, Australia — Rafael Nadal continued his dominant streak over Roger Federer to reach the Australian Open final for the third time, beating the 17-time major winner 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-3 Friday night to set up a championship decider against No. 8-seeded Stan Wawrinka.

With his 23rd win in 33 matches against Federer, the 27-year-old Spaniard set up an ideal chance to win a 14th Grand Slam title and to become the first man to win all four majors at least twice in the Open era.

In mixed doubles semifinal play, Toronto’s Daniel Nestor and Kristina Mladenovic of France defeated Zheng Jie of China and American Scott Lipsky 6-3, 6-1. Nestor and Mladenovic will face India’s Sania Mirza and Horia Tecau of Romania in the final.

Nadal missed the 2013 Australian Open during a seven-month layoff for illness and a knee injury, but returned to win the French and U.S. Opens among his 10 titles for the season and finished the year at No. 1. He won the Australian Open in 2009, beating Federer in the final, and lost in a five-set, 5-hour, 53-minute 2012 final to Novak Djokovic after ousting Federer in the semis. In other years, he’s struggled with injuries — it’s the only Grand Slam tournament he hasn’t won at least twice.

“It’s really, really emotional for me to be back on this court, Rod Laver Arena, and to be able to play another final,” Nadal said. “I think tonight I played the best match of the tournament. I go on court (against Federer) knowing that is a really tough match and if I am not playing my best, I will not have the chance to win.”

At the end of the night, Federer knew he wouldn’t even be the No. 1-ranked player in Switzerland next week. By reaching his first major final, Wawrinka ensured he’d replace Federer as their country’s highest-ranked player for the first time.

But the 32-year-old Federer is confident of winning more majors, expecting some coaching from Stefan Edberg and continued improvement in his fitness to help after a slump in 2013, when he didn’t reach any of the major finals for the first time in 11 years.

“I still think my best tennis is only ahead of me now,” said Federer, who reached the Australian Open semifinals for 11 consecutive years.

Nadal is now second on the list of players reaching Grand Slam finals, joining Ivan Lendl on 19 — Federer leads the list with 24. Another Grand Slam title would lift Nadal to equal second on the all-time list with Pete Sampras, who was in the crowd for the match.

Nadal has struggled with a blister on the palm of his left hand in his last two matches, but he removed the heavy tape that affected his serve in his quarterfinal win over Grigor Dimitrov and replaced it with one square of adhesive tape. A TV camera got a close-up view of the blister when he took a medical timeout after the first game of the second set, drawing gasps and groans from the crowd.

“Too much talk about the blister. The blister is OK,” Nadal said in his on-court interview. “The problem ... is the position of the blister, it’s difficult.”

But, he said, he didn’t feel any pain.

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The Red Deer Minor Hockey Novice teams battle it out wearing the jerseys of the 1987 Team Canada and CCCP Russia teans as part of the Tommy Gun’s Outdoor Winter Classic held at the Bower Community Centre rinks. The classic continues until Jan. 26, and features eight different teams all sporting “Defunct NHL Era” sweaters.

Coyotes hold off late Oiler’s surge EDMONTON’S LOSING STREAK STRETCHES TO SIX GAMES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Phoenix 4 Edmonton 3 EDMONTON — Mike Ribeiro had a goal and an assist as the Phoenix Coyotes held on to snap a twogame losing streak with a 4-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Friday.

Mikkel Boedker, Radim Vrbata and Derek Morris also scored for the Coyotes (24-18-9) who also ended a five-game losing skid on the road.

Matt Hendricks, David Perron and Ryan NugentHopkins responded for the Oilers (15-32-6) who have now lost six in a row for the second time this season and have had five losing streaks go five games or longer.

The Oilers, who are just three points ahead of last-place Buffalo, only have two wins in their last 13 games.

The Coyotes started the scoring 14 minutes into the spirited first period as Antoine Vermette made a cross-ice pass to send Boedker in with some steam, beating Oilers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov with a wellplaced wrist shot to the top corner. It was Boedker’s 15th goal of the season.

Phoenix took a two-goal lead with three minutes left in the opening period after some quick passing allowed Martin Hanzal to put it in front to Vrbata and he rifled it home for a power-play goal.

Just over a minute later, it was 3-0 Phoenix, as some shoddy defensive play allowed the puck to squirt back toward the blue-line. Morris skated in and got all of his weight behind a shot that beat Bryzgalov to the glove side.

Mike Smith was as busy as Bryzgalov in the Phoenix net, as both goalies faced 15 shots apiece in the first period.

The Coyotes kept coming with another goal three minutes into the second period as a shot that was going wide was deftly tipped into Edmonton’s net by Ribeiro.

Edmonton finally got on the board with seven minutes left in the second period as Hendricks redirected Ryan Jones’s shot past Smith for his first goal in his fourth game as an Oiler since coming over in a trade with Nashville.

The Oilers made it a 4-2 game 1:50 into the third as Perron picked a puck up off the side boards and made a couple of nice moves to get past the Phoenix defenders before lifting a backhand shot top shelf past Smith.

It was Perron’s team-leading 19th goal of the season.

Edmonton then cut the lead to a single goal eight minutes into the third as Jordan Eberle drew the defence to him before sending a nice backhand pass to a trailing Nugent-Hopkins, who sent a quick shot into the Coyotes net.

The Oilers continued to press and had several good opportunities late in the game but couldn’t get the equalizer.

Both teams return to action on Sunday as the Oilers play host to the Nashville Predators and the Coyotes travel to Vancouver to play the Canucks.

Notes: It was the fourth of five games between the two teams, with the Coyotes having won the first three, including a comeback for a 4-3 overtime win in Phoenix on New Year’s Eve. The Coyotes entered the game with four straight wins over the Oilers, and having won nine of the last 11 encounters between the two teams overall. They had also won seven of their last eight in Edmonton Oilers captain Andrew Ference left the game with a head injury and did not return.

Penalties, ejections mar Kings effort in Edmonton Thunder 3 Kings 2 EDMONTON — The RDC Kings got the bad end of the stick in a 3-2 loss to the Concordia University College Thunder in Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League play Friday.

The Kings were assessed nine of 11 minor penalties, had two players kicked out of the game, and saw the winning goal count despite hitting the cross bar.

“It was an ugly game, an embarrassment to the league,” said Kings head coach Trevor Keeper. “At the start the referee came over and said he was going to let us play. For the first period that was the case then suddenly he’s calling everything against us. I don’t think I’ve been in a game where we had nine of 11 penalties.”

The Kings led 2-1 after 40 minutes on goals by DJay McGrath and Davis Claffey.

“In the third period there’s a big scramble in front of their net and the net gets pushed off and we get a penalty out of the deal. Then they score off the cross

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REBELS: Now tied for seventh in conference “We held our turnovers to a minimum in that game and battled hard. Tonight we didn’t win many battles and spent way too much time in our zone.”

Still he’ll take the two points, which moved the Rebels into a tie with the Kootenay Ice for seventh place in the Eastern Conference.

“There are times when you have to win ugly and tonight was one of those,” he said. “The two points are important at this time of the year, but we still can’t be dropping our guard.

“We came our flat tonight. I think there was a lack of respect and a lack of preparation.”

He hopes that’s not the case tonight as the Rebels travel to Regina to face the Pats, who defeated Prince George 8-0 Friday. The Pats are three points up on the Rebels, who have two games in hand. ● Red Deer finished with 41 shots on Troy Tromblay and took five of eight minor penalties . . . Rebels return home Wednesday with a 7 p.m. contest against Kamloops. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

COLLEGE: Tight defence key But in the end it was the RDC defence that was the difference.

“I thought we defended well in both the half court

bar . . it’s tough to take,” said Keeper.

Mike Salmon made 22 saves in goal.

The Kings will get a chance for redemption tonight as they host the Thunder at 7:15 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

Volleyball CARONPORT, Sask.— Both RDC volleyball teams expected a tough test as they hit the road this weekend for a doubleheader with the Briercrest Bible College Clippers.

But they were able to shake off their bus legs Friday and sweep the Clippers with the Queens winning 25-23, 27-25, 25-22 and the Kings 25-15, 25-23, 23-25, 25-14.

“It’s tough to travel all that way and then play, but we came out and played well,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton. “The first set was fairly even until we pulled away at the end. The second we trailed early, tied it at 11 and then played fairly well when we needed to. The third set we led, they battled back, we pulled ahead and they came back, before we once again put it away at the end.

“In think overall it was a reflection of a tough trip,

but I believe we can play better tomorrow.”

Amber Adolf was the RDC player of the game with seven kills and nine digs and setter Bronwyn Hawkes was once against outstanding and added three kills, 13 digs and two stuff blocks.

Shelby Bromall had nine kills and four digs, Brooke Sutter seven kills and 10 digs, Alex Donaghy seven kills and Karissa Kuhr five kills and eight digs.

Libero Maddi Quinn had 11 digs.

The Queens ran their record to 15-0 with BBC slipping to 11-4.

The Kings had a letdown in the third set, but impressed head coach Aaron Schulha with the effort in the fourth set.

“The third set we had a mental letdown, but it was nice to see the way we responded in the fourth set.”

Tim Finnigan led the Kings with 18 kills, 11 digs, four aces and a block while Braden O’Toole added 17 kills, two aces and nine digs, Chris Jones four kills and 10 digs, Chris Osborn five kills and five digs and Justin Lukacs six kills.

The Kings are 13-0 with BBC at 7-6. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

and full court,” added Woollard. “For the most part we had good gap control. We attacked them in the full court and created a number of turnovers.”

The Queens till had 28 turnovers, but forced 37.

Kaitlin Bracko had six steals with Mozanga Ekwalanga and Dedra Janvier grabbing five each.

Ekwalanga finished with 19 points while Janvier, who hit four three pointers, had 14 points. Claire Richardson had 12 points and 12 rebounds for the Clippers while Tracy Frimpong had 13 points, Meghan Friesen 12 and Krista Wiens 11.

Kings 109 Clippers 73 Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger knew heading into the game they had to play tight defence against one of the premier scoring teams in the ACAC. “They’re the second highest scoring team in the league (behind us) and they take advantage of every mistake you make. We focused all week on making sure we limited those mistakes by defending well and forcing them to make tough shots and for the most part we did exactly that,” said Pottinger after a 109-73 win over the Clippers.

The Kings led 31-17, 54-31, 88-52 by quarters.

“We did a good job defensively, although as the game wore on and we were in control, I thought we let up a bit,” added Pottinger. “That’s something we’ve been working on, trying to be consistent for a full game.

“Still we can’t be dissatisfied, like some nights,” he said with a laugh. “Overall we executed on offence. They played mainly a zone, which we prepared for and with Jacob (Cusumano) and Ashaunti (Hogan) hot it helps a lot.”

Cusumano hit on six of nine three-point attempts and finished with 22 points while Hogan nailed four of three from long distance and added 20 points.

Clay Crellin was the player of the game as the Kings played consistently at a high level with him on the court. He had 16 points, which included three spectacular dunks, seven rebounds and seven assists.

One of his dunks came during a 30 second spell

in the third quarter that had the crowd and the RDC bench on their feet. Crellin’s dunk started the onslaught, which saw the Kings force two quick turnovers, which gave them five more points.

“That was impressive, even I was excited,” said Pottinger. “That all started with defence, which is one of our hallmarks.”

Lloyd Strickland added 16 points, six rebounds and four assists while Cusumano also had five assists.

Brandon Friesen had 18 points and five rebounds and James Wohlgeschaffen 11 points for BBC. The Kings ran their record to 14-1 while Briercrest slipped to 8-7. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

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SCOREBOARD Schedule Saturday

● Cross-country skiing: Alberta Cup 5&6, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., River Bend Golf and Recreation Area. ● Peewee AA hockey: Wheatland at Lacombe, 11:15 a.m., Clive; Medicine Hat Black at Sylvan Lake, 1:30 p.m.; Taber at Red Deer TBS, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● College basketball: Briercrest at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow. ● Major bantam hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Ramada at Red Deer Steel Kings, 3 p.m., Kin City A. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● WHL: Red Deer at Regina, 6 p.m. (The Drive). ● College hockey: Concordia at RDC, 7:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Mountainview at Stettler, 8:15 p.m.

Sunday

● Cross-country skiing: Alberta Cup 5&6, 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., River Bend Golf and Recreation Area. ● Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Sylvan Lake, 11 a.m.; Taber at Red Deer Parkland, 11:30 a.m., Kin City A; Medicine Hat Black at Red Deer TBS, 12:45 p.m., Kin City B. ● Major bantam hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer White, noon, Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Gord Scott Nissan vs. Triple A Batteries, 1:15 p.m.; Rusty Chuckers vs.

Sheraton Red Deer, 2:30 p.m.; Investors Group vs. Monstars, 4:15 p.m.; Woody’s RV vs. The Secret Runs, 5:30 p.m.; all games at River Glen. ● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Steel Kings, 1:45 p.m., Kin City A; Wheatland at Red Deer Ramada, 4 p.m., Kin City A. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 2:45 p.m., Arena; Calgary Bruins at Red Deer Northstar, 5:30 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AAA hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer Elks, 7:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with manager Robin Ventura on a multiyear contract extension.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with C Luke Carlin on a minor league contract.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Traded LHP David Huff to the San Francisco Giants for cash considerations.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Named Kevin Mather president and & chief operating officer, and Bob Aylward chairman of the board of NW Sports Net LLC. Agreed to terms with LHP Joe Beimel and RHP Mark Rogers on minor league contracts.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with RHP Freddy Garcia on a minor league contract.

CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with LHP Travis Wood on a one-year contract and with RHP Carlos Pimentel, LHP Tommy Hottovy, LHP Jonathan Sanchez, LHP Tsuyoshi Wada, INF Ryan Roberts, INF Chris Valaika, INF Jeudy Valdez, OF Chris Coghlan, OF Aaron Cunningham, OF Ryan Kalish, OF Mitch Maier, OF Darnell McDonald, OF Casper Wells, C John Baker and C Eli Whiteside on minor league contracts.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Signed INF Chone Figgins to a minor league contract.

MIAMI MARLINS — Signed 3B Ty Wigginton to a minor-league contract.

NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka on a minor league contract.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Gabriel Alfaro, INF Jamey Carroll, RHP Manny Delcarmen, INF Mike Fontenot, RHP Clay Hensley, RHP Daniel Stange, INF Brock Peterson, and C Chris Snyder on minor league contracts.

American Association SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Signed RHP Kyle Vazquez.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Signed RHP Michael Schlact, OF Brent Clevlen and OF Carlo Testa.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Signed RHP Chris Kissock.

Can-Am League TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Released OF Jeremy Nowak.

Frontier League GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed LHP Jacob Liedka.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Signed C Dewayne Dedmon to a second 10-day contract.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS — Signed G Othyus Jeffers to a 10-day contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Seattle CB Richard Sherman was fined $7,875 for unsportsmanlike conduct/taunting in the final minute of the NFC championship game against San Francisco.

BUFFALO BILLS — Named Jim Schwartz defensive coordinator and Todd Downing quarterbacks coach.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Announced the retirement of OT David Diehl.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Named Pete Metzelaars tight ends coach.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Named Mike Phair assistant defensive line coach and Carlos Polk assistant special teams coach.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Assigned D defenceman Mark Pysyk to Rochester (AHL). Recalled D Chad Ruhwedel from Rochester.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Sent D Dalton Prout to Springfield (AHL).

SAN JOSE SHARKS — Signed C Joe Thornton and LW Patrick Marleau to three-year contract extensions.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned F Richard Panik to Syracuse (AHL).

American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Named Joseph Yancho group sales account executive.

NORFOLK ADMIRALS — Signed D Steve Eminger.

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Reassigned D Josh McFadden to Cincinnati (ECHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer ORLANDO CITY SC — Named Paul McDonough senior VP of soccer operations.

TORONTO FC — Signed D Bradley Orr.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 25, 2014

Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Swift Current 50 25 18 1 6 170 148 Brandon 47 25 17 5 0 180 172 Regina 50 25 20 3 2 169 183 Prince Albert 48 23 23 2 0 154 166 Moose Jaw 49 13 28 3 5 127 190 Saskatoon 50 13 33 1 3 142 202

Pt 57 55 55 48 34 30

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA 47 31 11 2 3 178 123 46 32 13 0 1 191 120 46 27 16 3 0 157 128 48 25 21 0 2 146 144 48 24 20 2 2 148 145 50 9 36 2 3 124 229

Pt 67 65 57 52 52 23

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 46 38 6 0 2 199 115 Victoria 50 32 16 0 2 153 119 Vancouver 49 23 18 5 3 162 170 Prince George 50 18 25 2 5 155 209 Kamloops 48 11 32 2 3 127 198

Pt 78 66 54 43 27

Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Red Deer Kootenay Lethbridge

Portland Seattle Spokane Everett Tri-City

GP 49 49 47 48 49

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 32 12 2 3 29 15 2 3 28 15 2 2 25 16 6 1 24 21 2 2

GF GA 216 158 168 174 161 136 143 135 128 134

Pt 69 63 60 57 52

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 Friday’s results Regina 8 Prince George 0 Prince Albert 3 Swift Current 2 (SO) Red Deer 3 Saskatoon 2 Victoria 7 Kamloops 2 Portland 5 Everett 1 Medicine Hat at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Spokane 3 Moose Jaw 1 Tri-City 3 Seattle 1 Lethbridge at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Today’s games Red Deer at Regina, 6 p.m.

Swift Current at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Prince George at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Lethbridge at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Everett at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

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

Sunday’s games Edmonton at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 5:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s games Prince George at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

FRIDAY’S GAMES Rebels 3, Blades 2 First Period 1. Saskatoon, Millette 11 (Clayton) 4:03.

2. Red Deer, Maxwell 10 (Dieno, Sutter) 17:16.

Penalties — Dixon RD (tripping) 13:56, Nikkel Sas (holding) 18:08.

Second Period 3. Saskatoon, Hebig 4 (Sherbak, Zajac) 11:43.

4. Red Deer, Dieno 16 (unassisted) 16:11.

5. Red Deer, Polei 5 (Musil, Nell) 17:45.

Penalties — Sas Bench (served by Adamson, too many men) 6:46.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Doetzel RD (holding) 3:38, Dixon RD (roughing) 5:27, Sanvido Sas (roughing) 5:27, Doetzel RD (tripping) 10:32, Sutter RD (high-sticking) 13:42.

Shots on goal by Red Deer 13 18 10 — 41 Saskatoon 14 12 18 — 44 Goal — Red Deer: Bartosak (W, 23-17-0); Saskatoon: Trombley (L, 6-16-0).

Chiefs 3, Warriors 1 First Period 1. Moose Jaw, Eberle 13 (Jensen, Rodewald) 8:51.

Penalties — Fram Spo (hooking) 6:41, Aviani Spo (kneeing) 11:35, Cooke MJ (fighting) 13:40, McIntosh Spo (fighting) 13:40, Uhrich MJ (hooking) 17:01.

Second Period 2. Spokane, Whittingham 11 (Elynuik) 6:06.

3. Spokane, Yamamoto 4 (Fram, McIntosh) 14:41.

Penalties — Valentine MJ (interference) 3:18, Stewart Spo (tripping) 6:20, Messier Spo (tripping) 11:16, Cardiff Spo (interference) 15:49, Forsberg MJ (holding) 19:50.

Third Period 4. Spokane, Holmberg 43 (unassisted) 19:50 (-EN).

Penalties — Gow Spo (tripping) 13:30.

Shots on goal by Moose Jaw 10 11 4 — 25 Spokane 6 9 14 — 29 Goal — Moose Jaw: Paulic (L, 8-20-3); Spokane: Williams (W, 23-10-2).

Boston Tampa Bay Montreal Toronto Detroit Ottawa Florida Buffalo

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT GF GA 49 31 15 3 141 109 51 30 16 5 150 126 51 27 19 5 128 129 53 27 21 5 151 163 51 23 18 10 131 139 51 22 19 10 144 159 51 20 24 7 122 154 49 13 29 7 92 142

Pt 65 65 59 59 56 54 47 33

Pittsburgh NY Rangers Columbus Philadelphia New Jersey Carolina Washington NY Islanders

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT GF GA 51 36 13 2 168 125 53 27 23 3 132 135 50 26 20 4 148 140 52 25 21 6 141 152 52 22 19 11 124 125 50 22 19 9 125 142 51 22 21 8 143 154 53 21 25 7 151 175

Pt 74 57 56 56 55 53 52 49

Chicago St. Louis Colorado Minnesota Dallas Nashville Winnipeg

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT GF GA 53 32 9 12 189 146 50 34 11 5 173 116 50 32 13 5 147 129 53 28 20 5 127 130 51 23 20 8 148 153 53 23 22 8 131 158 52 23 24 5 144 153

Pt 76 73 69 61 54 54 51

Anaheim San Jose Los Angeles Vancouver Phoenix Calgary

GP 53 51 52 52 51 52

Pacific Division W L OT GF 38 10 5 179 33 12 6 162 29 17 6 132 26 17 9 130 24 18 9 147 18 27 7 119

Pt 81 72 64 61 57 43

GA 130 123 110 130 155 165

Edmonton

53

15

32

6 135 187

36

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

Friday’s results Carolina 0 Ottawa 0 postponed New Jersey 2 Washington 1 Colorado 3 Florida 2 Detroit 4 Montreal 1 Calgary 5 Nashville 4 (SO) Phoenix 4 Edmonton 3 Today’s games Ottawa at Carolina, 10 a.m.

St. Louis at NY Islanders, 11 a.m.

Boston at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Colorado at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.

Washington at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.

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

Sunday’s games NY Rangers at New Jersey, 10:30 a.m.

Florida at Detroit, 3 p.m.

Winnipeg at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Nashville at Edmonton, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Avalanche 3, Panthers 2 First Period 1. Colorado, O’Reilly 19 (Duchene) 1:34.

2. Colorado, Stastny 14 (Landeskog, Tanguay) 16:13.

Penalties — Holden Col (hooking) 6:03, Weaver Fla (hooking) 10:09.

Second Period 3. Colorado, McGinn 11 (O’Reilly, Duchene) 13:00.

Penalties — Matthias Fla (tripping) 15:49, MacKinnon Col (high-sticking) 19:43.

Third Period 4. Florida, Upshall 8 (Fleischmann, Gilbert) 5:18.

5. Florida, Upshall 9 (Bergenheim, Gilbert) 18:17.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Colorado 10 9 6 — 25 Florida 7 9 20 — 36 Goal — Colorado: Varlamov (W, 25-9-5); Florida: Thomas (L, 13-14-3).

Red Wings 4, Canadiens 1 First Period 1. Detroit, Zetterberg 16 (Alfredsson, Kronwall) 12:27 (pp).

Penalties — Zetterberg Det (high-sticking) 6:42, Gallagher Mtl (high-sticking) 10:30, Emelin Mtl (boarding) 11:25, Prust Mtl (tripping) 19:15.

Second Period 2. Detroit, Sheahan 2 (unassisted) 11:48.

3. Montreal, Gallagher 13 (Desharnais, Subban) 12:56 (pp).

4. Detroit, Kronwall 6 (Nyquist, Ericsson) 16:29.

Penalties — Smith Det (interference) 2:19, DeKeyser Det (cross-checking) 7:22, Pacioretty Mtl (tripping) 7:48, Abdelkader Det (boarding) 12:40, Subban Mtl (holding) 17:56.

Third Period 5. Detroit, Nyquist 8 (Zetterberg, Abdelkader) 18:41.

Penalties — Subban Mtl (delay of game) 5:41, Moen Mtl (slashing) 11:58, Quincey Det (crosschecking) 11:58.

Shots on goal by Montreal 13 9 9 — 31 Detroit 8 13 5 — 26 Goal — Montreal: Price (L, 22-15-4); Detroit: Gustavsson (W, 13-3-2).

First Period 1. New Jersey, Gionta 3 (Jagr) 4:57.

Penalties — Erat Wash (boarding) 2:31, Backstrom Wash (cross-checking) 12:24, Fayne NJ (tripping) 18:08.

Second Period 2. New Jersey, Henrique 14 (Jagr, Zajac) 1:45 (pp).

Penalties — Orlov Wash (holding) 0:41, Wilson Wash (charging) 1:58, Jagr NJ (slashing) 16:51, Wilson Wash (holding) 19:53.

Third Period 3. Washington, Chimera 10 (Erskine, Wilson) 10:10.

Penalties — Greene NJ (interference) 7:16.

Shots on goal by Washington 7 14 10 — 31 New Jersey 11 12 7 — 30 Goal — Washington: Neuvirth (L, 3-5-1); New Jersey: Schneider (W, 9-9-7).

Coyotes 4, Oilers 3 First Period 1. Phoenix, Boedker 15 (Vermette, Korpikoski) 14:17.

2. Phoenix, Vrbata 12 (Hanzal, Ribeiro) 17:10 (pp).

3. Phoenix, Morris 5 (Halpern, Klinkhammer) 18:19.

Penalties — Hendricks Edm (elbowing) 6:48, Chipchura Phx (tripping) 10:21, Chipchura Phx (roughing) 15:53, Hendricks Edm (roughing) 15:53, Stone Phx (hooking) 19:24.

Second Period 4. Phoenix, Ribeiro 13 (Moss, Smith) 3:00.

5. Edmonton, Hendricks 3 (Jones, Gordon) 13:17.

Penalties — Smith Phx (delay of game) 0:42, Hanzal Phx (roughing) 8:14.

Third Period 6. Edmonton, Perron 19 (Potter, Marincin) 1:50.

7. Edmonton, Nugent-Hopkins 14 (Eberle, Hall) 7:50.

Penalties — Yandle Phx (elbowing) 2:16.

Shots on goal by Phoenix 15 5 9 — 29 Edmonton 15 10 14 — 39 Goal — Phoenix: Smith (W, 18-15-8); Edmonton: Bryzgalov (L, 3-8-3).

Flames 5, Predators 4 (SO) First Period 1. Nashville, Nystrom 8 (Bourque, Cullen) 1:51.

2. Calgary, Giordano 8 (Russell, Backlund) 3:23 (pp).

Penalties — Gaustad Nash (holding) 2:31, Josi Nash (delay of game) 13:32, Backlund Cgy (holding) 17:08.

Second Period 3. Nashville, Nystrom 9 (Josi, Weber) 1:50.

4. Nashville, Nystrom 10 (Gaustad, Bartley) 6:00.

Penalties — Backlund Cgy (boarding) 12:45, Clune Nash (hooking) 19:59.

Third Period 5. Calgary, Jones 7 (Stajan) 1:24 (pp).

6. Nashville, Nystrom 11 (Cullen, Josi) 10:47.

7. Calgary, Backlund 9 (Russell, Stempniak) 12:27 (pp).

8. Calgary, Jones 8 (Brodie) 13:36.

Penalties — Smith Nash (tripping) 11:01, Gaustad Nash (hooking) 11:25.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout — Calgary wins 2-1 Nashville : Cullen miss, Legwand miss, Josi goal, Ellis miss.

Calgary : Colborne miss, Hudler goal, Stempniak miss, Monahan goal.

Shots on goal by Nashville 8 10 7 0 — 25 Calgary 6 9 15 1 — 31 Goal — Nashville: Dubnyk (LO, 11-18-3); Calgary: Berra (W, 6-14-2).

Devils 2, Capitals 1

Basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct d-Indiana 33 8 .805 d-Miami 31 12 .721 d-Toronto 22 20 .524 Atlanta 22 20 .524 Washington 21 21 .500 Chicago 21 21 .500 Brooklyn 19 22 .463 Charlotte 19 26 .422 Detroit 17 26 .395 Cleveland 16 27 .372 New York 16 27 .372 Boston 15 30 .333 Philadelphia 14 29 .326 Orlando 12 32 .273 Milwaukee 8 34 .190

GB — 3 11.5 11.5 12.5 12.5 14 16 17 18 18 20 20 22.5 25.5

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct d-Oklahoma City 34 10 .773 d-San Antonio 33 10 .767 Portland 32 11 .744 d-L.A. Clippers 30 15 .667 Houston 29 16 .644 Golden State 26 18 .591 Phoenix 24 18 .571 Dallas 25 20 .556 Memphis 21 20 .512 Minnesota 21 21 .500 Denver 20 21 .488 New Orleans 17 25 .405 Sacramento 15 26 .366 L.A. Lakers 16 28 .364 Utah 14 29 .326

Chicago at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Indiana at Denver, 7 p.m.

Washington at Utah, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Portland, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s Games San Antonio at Miami, 11 a.m.

L.A. Lakers at New York, 1:30 p.m.

Orlando at New Orleans, 4 p.m.

Phoenix at Cleveland, 4 p.m.

Brooklyn at Boston, 4:30 p.m.

Detroit at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Denver at Sacramento, 7 p.m.

d-division leader GB — 1/2 1.5 4.5 5.5 8 9 9.5 11.5 12 12.5 16 17.5 18 19.5

Friday’s Games Orlando 114, L.A. Lakers 105 Toronto 104, Philadelphia 95 Brooklyn 107, Dallas 106 Oklahoma City 101, Boston 83 Cleveland 93, Milwaukee 78 New Orleans 103, Detroit 101 San Antonio 105, Atlanta 79 New York 125, Charlotte 96 L.A. Clippers 112, Chicago 95 Memphis 88, Houston 87 Washington 101, Phoenix 95 Indiana at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Minnesota 121, Golden State 120 Today’s Games

Golf FARMERS INSURANCE OPEN Torrey Pines (Par 72) San Diego Purse: $6.1 million Second Round Jordan Spieth Stewart Cink Nicolas Colsaerts Billy Horschel Marc Leishman Morgan Hoffmann Gary Woodland Russell Knox Pat Perez Erik Compton Brad Fritsch J.B. Holmes Kevin Tway Justin Hicks Charley Hoffman Scott Stallings Jason Day Kevin Chappell Jamie Lovemark Martin Laird Matt Jones Victor Dubuisson D.A. Points Will MacKenzie Seung-Yul Noh Jim Herman David Lynn Lee Westwood Keegan Bradley Bobby Gates Justin Thomas Charlie Wi Trevor Immelman David Lingmerth Ian Poulter Harrison Frazar

71-63 64-71 69-67 70-67 66-71 72-66 65-73 71-67 67-71 69-69 69-70 71-68 69-70 71-68 69-70 72-67 66-73 73-66 72-67 69-71 75-65 72-69 67-74 72-69 68-73 66-75 68-73 73-68 69-72 69-72 68-73 72-70 68-74 72-70 75-67 68-74

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134 135 136 137 137 138 138 138 138 138 139 139 139 139 139 139 139 139 139 140 140 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 142 142 142 142 142

Nicholas Thompson Michael Putnam Ryo Ishikawa Robert Streb Robert Garrigus Bryce Molder Cameron Tringale Charles Howell III Rory Sabbatini Phil Mickelson Jonathan Byrd Brendon Todd Tyrone Van Aswegen Camilo Villegas Brendan Steele Brian Stuard John Merrick Justin Leonard Sang-Moon Bae Jhonattan Vegas Tiger Woods Brice Garnett Graham DeLaet Y.E. Yang Bubba Watson Stuart Appleby Michael Block Chris Williams Tag Ridings Greg Owen D.H. Lee Matt Bettencourt Hideki Matsuyama Nick Watney Chad Collins Mark Calcavecchia Tim Herron Aaron Baddeley Steven Bowditch Blake Adams Luke Guthrie Hunter Mahan

72-70 69-73 72-70 73-69 71-71 77-65 71-71 70-72 74-68 69-73 70-72 69-73 66-76 72-71 76-67 70-73 69-74 74-69 67-76 68-75 72-71 75-68 70-73 76-67 70-73 74-69 74-69 71-72 73-70 70-74 73-71 71-73 72-72 70-74 78-66 70-74 70-74 71-73 68-76 75-69 76-68 72-72

Millwall C. Athletic D. Rovers Yeovil Town Barnsley

7 9 6 5 8

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142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144

K.J. Choi Bill Haas Ben Crane Andres Romero Will Claxton

74-70 74-70 77-67 72-72 71-73

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144 144 144 144 144

Pure Silk-Bahamas Classic At Ocean Club Golf Course Paradise Island, Bahamas Purse: $1.3 million Yardage: 6,644; Par: 73 Second Round Jessica Korda Paula Creamer Michelle Wie Jenny Suh Christel Boeljon Na Yeon Choi P.K. Kongkraphan Lydia Ko Lizette Salas Sandra Gal Pornanong Phatlum Amy Yang Stacy Lewis Brittany Lincicome Pernilla Lindberg Azahara Munoz Thidapa Suwannapura Candie Kung Hee Young Park Chella Choi Danielle Kang Katherine Kirk Sun Young Yoo Amelia Lewis Jodi Ewart Shadoff Mi Jung Hur Laura Diaz Mi Hyang Lee Natalie Gulbis

69-66 71-65 72-65 71-66 71-67 70-68 69-69 68-70 72-67 71-69 71-69 71-69 69-71 70-71 70-71 70-71 70-71 69-72 69-72 73-69 73-69 73-69 73-69 69-73 75-68 75-68 74-69 74-69 73-70

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135 136 137 137 138 138 138 138 139 140 140 140 140 141 141 141 141 141 141 142 142 142 142 142 143 143 143 143 143

Sandra Changkija Paz Echeverria Morgan Pressel Danah Bordner Austin Ernst Kathleen Ekey Alena Sharp Rebecca Lee-Bentham Lisa McCloskey Julieta Granada Kristy McPherson Cindy LaCrosse Meena Lee Erica Popson Dewi Claire Schreefel Hannah Jun Birdie Kim Se Ri Pak Sarah Jane Smith Ai Miyazato Moriya Jutanugarn Perrine Delacour Megan Grehan Angela Stanford Lexi Thompson Ayako Uehara Gerina Piller Mo Martin Jennifer Song Mirim Lee Mindy Kim Kelly Tan Seon Hwa Lee Caroline Masson Vicky Hurst Karine Icher Dori Carter Lisa Ferrero Tiffany Joh Haru Nomura Line Vedel Brittany Lang

71-72 70-73 70-73 69-74 69-74 75-69 75-69 74-70 74-70 73-71 73-71 70-74 68-76 74-71 74-71 73-72 73-72 72-73 72-73 75-71 74-72 73-73 73-73 73-73 73-73 72-74 71-75 70-76 70-76 69-77 77-70 76-71 75-72 75-72 74-73 74-73 73-74 73-74 73-74 73-74 73-74 69-78

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143 143 143 143 143 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 145 145 145 145 145 145 146 146 146 146 146 146 146 146 146 146 146 147 147 147 147 147 147 147 147 147 147 147 147

Soccer ENGLISH FOOTBALL ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE GP W D L GF GA Arsenal 22 16 3 3 43 19 M. City 22 16 2 4 63 25 Chelsea 22 15 4 3 43 20 Liverpool 22 13 4 5 53 28 Tottenham 22 13 4 5 29 26 Everton 22 11 9 2 35 20 M. United 22 11 4 7 36 27 Newcastle 22 11 3 8 32 28 Southampton 22 8 7 7 29 25 Aston Villa 22 6 6 10 22 29 Hull City 22 6 5 11 22 28 Norwich 22 6 5 11 18 35 West Brom 22 4 10 8 24 29 Stoke 22 5 7 10 22 36 Swansea 22 5 6 11 27 33 C. Palace 22 6 2 14 14 31 Fulham 22 6 1 15 22 48 West Ham 22 4 6 12 22 33 Sunderland 22 4 6 12 21 36 Cardiff City 22 4 6 12 17 38

Pts 51 50 49 43 43 42 37 36 31 24 23 23 22 22 21 20 19 18 18 18

Tuesday, Jan. 28 Manchester United vs. Cardiff City, 1945 GMT Norwich vs. Newcastle, 1945 GMT Southampton vs. Arsenal, 1945 GMT Swansea vs. Fulham, 1945 GMT Crystal Palace vs. Hull City, 2000 GMT Liverpool vs. Everton, 2000 GMT Wednesday, Jan. 29 Aston Villa vs. West Brom, 1945 GMT Chelsea vs. West Ham, 1945 GMT Sunderland vs. Stoke, 1945 GMT Tottenham vs. Manchester City, 1945 GMT ENGLAND CHAMPIONSHIP GP W D L GF GA Leicester 26 18 3 5 47 27 Q.P.R. 26 15 7 4 31 16 Burnley 26 14 9 3 39 20 Derby County 26 14 5 7 50 34 N. Forest 26 11 11 4 39 26 Reading 26 11 8 7 39 30 B.H.A> 26 10 9 7 30 23 Blackburn 26 10 7 9 32 32 Middlesbrough 26 9 9 8 41 33 Ipswich 26 9 9 8 37 31 Wigan Athletic 25 10 6 9 28 26 Leeds 26 10 5 11 35 35 H. Town 26 9 7 10 35 31 Blackpool 26 8 8 10 25 33 Watford 25 7 10 8 36 31 Bournemouth 26 8 7 11 32 45 Birmingham 26 7 8 11 30 32 Bolton 26 6 10 10 31 42 S. Wednesday 25 5 11 9 32 33

Pts 57 52 51 47 44 41 39 37 36 36 36 35 34 32 31 31 29 28 26

26 25 26 25 25

6 5 6 5 4

13 11 14 15 13

27 22 22 21 23

50 31 43 38 42

25 24 24 20 20

Today’s games Blackburn vs. Derby County, 1500 GMT Blackpool vs. Doncaster Rovers, 1500 GMT Bolton vs. Burnley, 1500 GMT, Ppd. Brighton & Hove Albion vs. Leeds, 1500 GMT, Ppd. Charlton Athletic vs. Bournemouth, 1500 GMT, Ppd. Huddersfield Town vs. Nottingham Forest, 1500 GMT, Ppd. Ipswich vs. Reading, 1500 GMT Leicester vs. Middlesbrough, 1500 GMT Sheffield Wednesday vs. Queens Park Rangers, 1500 GMT, Ppd. Watford vs. Birmingham, 1500 GMT, Ppd. Wigan Athletic vs. Barnsley, 1500 GMT, Ppd. Yeovil Town vs. Millwall, 1500 GMT, Ppd. SPANISH FOOTBALL LA LIGA GP W D L GF GA Barcelona 20 16 3 1 54 13 A. Madrid 20 16 3 1 48 12 Real Madrid 20 16 2 2 58 21 A. Bilbao 20 12 3 5 36 26 Villarreal 20 11 4 5 39 21 R.Sociedad 20 9 6 5 38 30 Sevilla 20 8 7 5 37 31 Espanyol 20 7 4 9 23 25 Valencia 20 7 3 10 26 31 Granada 20 7 3 10 19 25 Levante 20 6 6 8 19 28 Getafe 20 7 3 10 22 33 Celta Vigo 21 6 4 11 27 34 Osasuna 20 6 4 10 17 29 Malaga 20 5 6 9 19 24 Elche 20 5 6 9 19 28 Almeria 20 5 4 11 21 40 Valladolid 20 3 7 10 23 37 R. Vallecano 20 5 1 14 19 47 Real Betis 21 2 5 14 18 47

Pts 51 51 50 39 37 33 31 25 24 24 24 24 22 22 21 21 19 16 16 11

Friday’s games Celta Vigo 4, Real Betis 2 Today’s games Real Madrid vs. Granada, 1500 GMT Valladolid vs. Villarreal, 1700 GMT Valencia vs. Espanyol, 1900 GMT Sevilla vs. Levante, 2100 GMT Sunday’s games Almeria vs. Getafe, 1100 GMT Osasuna vs. Athletic Bilbao, 1600 GMT Rayo Vallecano vs. Atletico Madrid, 1800 GMT Barcelona vs. Malaga, 2000 GMT

Freiburg 17 3 Nuremberg 17 0 E. Braunschweig17 3

Monday’s games Real Sociedad vs. Elche, 2100 GMT

Juventus Roma Napoli Fiorentina Inter Milan Verona Torino Parma Lazio Genoa AC Milan Atalanta Sampdoria Cagliari Udinese Chievo Bologna Sassuolo Livorno Catania

ITALIAN FOOTBALL ITALY SERIE A W D L GF 18 1 1 50 14 5 1 42 13 4 3 43 12 4 4 37 8 8 4 38 10 2 8 34 7 8 5 33 7 8 5 31 7 6 7 26 7 5 8 20 6 7 7 32 7 3 10 21 5 6 9 24 4 9 7 19 6 2 12 20 4 5 11 15 3 8 9 19 4 5 11 21 3 4 13 16 3 4 13 13

GP 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20

GA 14 10 22 20 24 31 27 27 28 24 30 29 31 29 31 26 35 43 36 37

Pts 55 47 43 40 32 32 29 29 27 26 25 24 21 21 20 17 17 17 13 13

Today’s games Napoli vs. Chievo, 1700 GMT Lazio vs. Juventus, 1945 GMT Sunday’s games Verona vs. Roma, 1130 GMT Cagliari vs. AC Milan, 1400 GMT Inter Milan vs. Catania, 1400 GMT Livorno vs. Sassuolo, 1400 GMT Parma vs. Udinese, 1400 GMT Sampdoria vs. Bologna, 1400 GMT Torino vs. Atalanta, 1400 GMT Fiorentina vs. Genoa, 1945 GMT GERMAN FOOTBALL GERMANY BUNDESLIGA GP W D L GF GA B. Munich 17 15 2 0 44 8 B. Leverkusen 17 12 1 4 32 16 B. Moen.

18 10 3 5 35 21 B. Dortmund 17 10 2 5 38 20 Wolfsburg 17 9 3 5 28 19 H. BSC Berlin 17 8 4 5 27 20 Schalke 17 8 4 5 32 28 Augsburg 17 7 3 7 21 25 Mainz 17 7 3 7 25 31 Stuttgart 16 5 4 7 29 31 W. Bremen 17 5 4 8 22 37 Hoffenheim 17 4 6 7 36 38 Hannover 17 5 3 9 23 31 Hamburger SV17 4 4 9 33 38 E. Frankfurt 17 3 6 8 20 29

Pts 47 37 33 32 30 28 28 24 24 19 19 18 18 16 15

5 9 16 31 11 6 17 33 2 12 10 32

14 11 11

Friday’s games Borussia Moenchengladbach 0, Bayern Munich 2 Today’s games Nuremberg vs. Hoffenheim, 1430 GMT Borussia Dortmund vs. Augsburg, 1430 GMT Freiburg vs. Bayer Leverkusen, 1430 GMT Stuttgart vs. Mainz, 1430 GMT Wolfsburg vs. Hannover, 1430 GMT Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Hertha BSC Berlin, 1730 GMT Sunday’s games Werder Bremen vs. Eintracht Braunschweig, 1430 GMT Hamburger SV vs. Schalke, 1630 GMT FRENCH FOOTBAL FRANCE LIGUE 1 GP W D L GF P.S.G. 21 15 5 1 51 Monaco 21 13 6 2 34 Lille 22 12 5 5 24 Saint-Etienne 21 11 4 6 30 Marseille 20 9 5 6 29 Nantes 21 10 2 9 24 Reims 21 8 8 5 25 Lyon 21 8 7 6 32 Bordeaux 21 8 7 6 27 Lorient 21 9 3 9 28 Toulouse 21 7 7 7 21 SC Bastia 21 7 6 8 24 Nice 21 8 3 10 20 Guingamp 21 6 7 8 19 Rennes 22 5 9 8 23 Montpellier 21 3 12 6 21 Evian 21 5 6 10 20 Valenciennes 20 4 5 11 20 Sochaux 21 2 5 14 15 Ajaccio 21 1 6 14 14

GA 14 14 13 20 21 22 24 27 23 27 26 29 25 21 25 25 34 30 43 38

Pts 50 45 41 37 32 32 32 31 31 30 28 27 27 25 24 21 21 17 11 9

Friday’s games Lille 1, Rennes 1 Saturday’s games Guingamp vs. Paris Saint-Germain, 1600 GMT Ajaccio vs. Sochaux, 1900 GMT Montpellier vs. Nice, 1900 GMT Nantes vs. Reims, 1900 GMT Toulouse vs. SC Bastia, 1900 GMT Valenciennes vs. Lorient, 1900 GMT Sunday’s games Lyon vs. Evian, 1300 GMT Bordeaux vs. Saint-Etienne, 1600 GMT Monaco vs. Marseille, 2000 GMT

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 B7

Jays still quiet, but moves could come ANTHOPOULOS STILL LOOKING TO UPGRADE DESPITE PITCHERS SIGNING ELSEWHERE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Alex Anthopoulos was a busy man last off-season.

The Toronto Blue Jays general manager made a series of bold moves that reshaped the club ahead of what would turn out to be a disastrous 2013 campaign.

The lead-up to the 2014 season has been relatively quiet in comparison, with the Blue Jays’ biggest splash coming when they cut ties with catcher J.P Arencibia and replaced him with free-agent Dioner Navarro.

While that deal wasn’t not on the same level as the headline-grabbing acquisitions of Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle and R.A. Dickey, Anthopoulos says he won’t be adding any pieces through trade or free agency unless it fits into the team’s model.

“We made a lot of big moves early last off-season.

It wasn’t by design, it just worked out that way,” Anthopoulos said Friday. “We’ve had a lot of dialogue.

There’s still a lot of players out there, just haven’t been able to line up with respect to a price, whether it’s trade or free-agent cost.

“We do have the ability on some trade fronts to just say ’Yes’. We know what the asking prices are — just not willing to pay that price. From a free-agent standpoint . . . we have been given a price and we just don’t necessarily see the value right now.”

The starting rotation continues to be a point of emphasis after a miserable 2013 that saw Toronto finish last in the American League East after starting the season as World Series favourites.

Free agent starters Ervin Santana or Ubaldo Jimenez are still on the open market, but Anthopoulos said there’s a chance that the rotation could be

filled out from within.

“We have a lot of candidates and a lot of options.

Someone like Brandon Morrow coming back (from injury) is a huge boost for us, some of our young kids that are coming back are certainly going help,” he said. “We still have dialogue and try to upgrade but we do have some upside to some of the guys that are coming back.”

Anthopoulos, who was in town for a luncheon with the single-A Vancouver Canadians, also touched on the New York Yankees’ signing of Japanese starter Masahiro Tanaka earlier this week.

The 25-year-old right-hander inked a seven-year deal worth $155 million dollars with Toronto’s AL East rivals that also includes a $20-million dollar payment to his club team.

The Blue Jays, who have an internal policy of not signing player contracts longer than five years, were rumoured to be in the running for Tanaka’s services early on in the process.

“Obviously he’s a great starter and there was a lot speculation on where the dollars would go just based on the previous two Japanese starters (Daisuke Matsuzaka and Yu Darvish),” said Anthopoulos. “I think it was expected that he would go north of (their price tags) — $175 million, I don’t know if anybody predicted that.

“He’s very talented and the Yankees certainly got better.”

Anthopoulos said the Blue Jays use the five-year limit on contracts as “a guideline” but tend to shy away from longer-term deals because they offer clubs very little wiggle room.

“We’ve held firm on our five-year policy in terms of contracts. When free agents are signing for seven, eight years, then normally that’s where we tap out,” he said. “We definitely have the resources financial-

‘SOMEONE LIKE BRANDON MORROW COMING BACK (FROM INJURY) IS A HUGE BOOST FOR US, SOME OF OUR YOUNG KIDS THAT ARE COMING BACK ARE CERTAINLY GOING HELP.’ — ALEX ANTHOPOULOS TORONTO BLUE JAYS GENERAL MANAGER

ly in terms of annual value and salaries and things like that. I think we’ve proven that with some of the players we have acquired. But just the length of term — very rarely do those seven-, eight-year deals work out.”

Anthopoulos and manager John Gibbons will be feeling the heat if the Blue Jays stumble out of the gate as the they did in 2013. Fans flocked to Rogers Centre with dreams of a return to the team’s glory years of the early 1990s that included two World Series titles, but were instead bitterly disappointed with the product on the field.

With pitchers and catchers set to report for spring training on Feb. 17, a repeat in 2014 surely won’t fly.

“You’re always anxious to try to improve the club and to add to it, but you don’t necessarily have to guard against it when you know there’s a deal that just doesn’t make any sense,” said Anthopoulos. “We just don’t want to force a deal and do it for the sake of doing it.

“We want to make moves that we think are going to help the club. If we have to go more years and dollars than we believe in, people might get excited now but a few months into it we may be regretting that deal and be hamstrung with a contract that we don’t want.”

Lowry, DeRozan lead Raptors to big win

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Toronto 104 Philadelphia 95 PHILADELPHIA — Kyle Lowry slept in his own bed, left about 50 tickets for family and friends, then gave his hometown crowd a reason to cheer.

Lowry had 18 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds for his fourth career triple-double, and DeMar DeRozan scored 34 points to help the Toronto Raptors beat the Philadelphia 76ers 104-95 on Friday night.

“As long as it’s with a win, I’m happy to have it,” Lowry said. “I’ll take the thanks from the team and congratulations from all my teammates. But as long as it came with a win, that’s all that really matters.”

Lowry grabbed his 10th rebound late in the fourth quarter, continuing a string of strong games he’s had for the Atlantic Division leaders. He’s a Philadelphia native and played two seasons at Villanova. He didn’t get a chance to stop by his old school — though current and former Wildcats had to be watching.

Lowry was nearly flawless in his latest homecoming, and didn’t commit his first turnover until there were about 2 minutes left in the game. He shot 7 of 11 and hit a trio of 3-pointers in 35 minutes to help keep the Raptors in control of the worst division in the NBA. “It’s always special to play here,” Lowry said.

He had help putting the game away.

DeRozan scored 16 points in the fourth, including seven straight early in the period as the Raptors opened a double-digit lead.

In a game in which neither team could build much of a lead, DeRozan finally helped the Raptors take control in the final quarter. He had a dunk, hit a 3-pointer and nailed a mid-range jumper to give Toronto some breathing room. Patrick Patterson’s jumper made it 96-83.

The Sixers made a short run to close to 98-91 but didn’t have enough left for one more rally.

“When we got a chance to put a stronghold on it, we closed it out,” Lowry said.

The Raptors snapped a four-game losing streak on

the road.

DeRozan scored a career-high 40 points in Toronto’s 93-85 win over Dallas on Wednesday night. He connected on 15 of 22 field goal attempts and went 9 for 14 at the free throw line, becoming the seventh player in Raptors history to score 40 points or more.

Against the Sixers, DeRozan made 10 of 22 shots and 13 of 16 free throws.

The Raptors moved to .500 on the road (11-11) and are 22-20 overall. But the other four teams in the division all have losing records, including Philadelphia, so they’ve been good enough to sit atop the standings.

The Raptors are 16-8 since they traded Rudy Gay. “They make the trade, and it ends up a little bit addition by subtraction in many ways,” Sixers coach Brett Brown said. “They get a little bit more of an identity and a defensive purpose. And I thought they were really good. I always felt like they were a pretty good defensive team.”

Spencer Hawes had 14 points and 12 rebounds for the 76ers. Michael Carter-Williams scored 20.

The Raptors opened the game on a 15-2 run, the Sixers countered with a 20-5 spurt, and from there it was pretty much even.

“I liked the start. We had an excellent focus and sustained it as long as we could,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said.

The Sixers could never get their perimeter game going, scoring 50 of their 78 points through three quarters in the paint. Philadelphia missed 14 of 20 3s overall. Thaddeus Young scored 16 points.

“We got good shots, but just went cold,” Young said. “They’re just a good team. In the past, it was a point where, the Toronto Raptors walk in and it’s going to be an easy win. But they have a lot of key guys on that team that can do a lot of different things.”

NOTES: Sixers G Tony Wroten (right ankle) sat out. ... The Sixers signed C Dewayne Dedmon to a second 10-day contract. ... There were 12 lead changes and 15 ties. ... The Sixers have scored fewer than 100 points in eight of the last 10 games after scoring 100-plus in seven straight. ... The Sixers committed a season-low 10 turnovers.

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Toronto Raptors’ Terrence Ross, right, has his shot blocked by Philadelphia 76ers’ James Anderson during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Friday in Philadelphia.

Spieth leaves Woods in his wake Anthony shatters TAKES LEAD INTO WEEKEND AT TORREY PINES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN DIEGO — Jordan Spieth turned out to be the star attraction Friday playing with Tiger Woods at Torrey Pines.

Spieth again showed game well beyond his 20 years with a 9-under 63 on the North Course, giving him a one-shot lead over Stewart Cink going into the weekend at the Farmers Insurance Open. Cink drilled a 3-wood from 280 yards onto the green at the par-5 ninth on the tougher South Course for a two-putt birdie and a 71.

Woods rarely gets upstaged at Torrey Pines, where his eight professional wins include the 2008 U.S. Open.

But in his first competition in six weeks, Woods hardly looked the part as the defending champion. He did not make birdie on any of the par 5s for the second straight day, and a three-putt bogey on the par-5 ninth hole on the North gave him a 71.

He was nine shots behind.

Phil Mickelson’s ailing back wasn’t much better, though Lefty plodded along and shot 73 on the South to finish eight shots out of the lead. Mickelson contemplated pulling out to rest his back, and said only that he would give it a shot Saturday depending on how he felt.

Ottawa’s Brad Fritsch shot 70 to jump into a tie for 11th place.

It was the first time Spieth has played with Woods in a tournament — they played a practice round together at the Presidents Cup last fall — and the Texan felt and played as if it was any other round on the PGA Tour.

Then again, the first time he played with Mickelson, Spieth

closed with a 62 at the TPC Boston last year, a round that led Mickelson to call Presidents Cup captain Fred Couples and lobby for Spieth to be picked for the team.

In both cases, Spieth was more interested with the score than the audience.

“Any time you can shoot a lower score than a 66 or 65 and you can really get it deep and be in a zone and not worry about what your score is ... that’s special,” Spieth said. “That’s proving that I can play my best golf when it matters on a PGA Tour venue. Each time you can do that, you get more and more confident that you can do it more often.”

As for playing with Woods? He only shrugged.

Spieth grew up watching, idolizing and being amazed by Woods.

But this was only a Friday.

“They were both rounds that I needed to move up the leaderboard,” he said about playing with Woods this week and Mickelson last year. “They weren’t in the last couple groups on Sunday, so they weren’t to win. They were to get myself up and in a position.”

Spieth was at 10-under 134 and will be in the last group Saturday with Cink and Nicolas Colsaerts, who shot 67 on the South and was two shots behind.

“I’m looking forward to playing with Jordan. I’ve never seen him hit a ball, so that will be fun,” Cink said. “It’s always exciting to see the young guys play. I’m playing really well. I’m really excited about golf right now and the way I’m playing. I’m having some fun out there and seeing a lot of good things.”

The final two rounds will be on the South, which is about 600 yards longer and on Friday played

more than 4 ½ shots harder.

Spieth didn’t hit the ball better than his opening-round 71 on the South. His putter made the difference. He rolled in a bending 18-foot birdie putt on the 10th hole and his confidence grew up there.

He avoided a three-putt on the 17th by making a 15-footer for par, and he really took off down the stretch. He holed another sidehill birdie putt on the par-3 sixth from about 20 feet, and he made a 15-footer for his final birdie on the eighth hole. The rest of his birdie putts were inside 4 feet.

“The kid’s got talent,” Woods said. “He hits it a long way, phenomenal putter. He made a boat load of putts today from the 10- to 20-foot range, and on poa greens, that’s not easy to do. He was pouring them in there. He had speed to them, too. That’s what you have to do to putt on poa.

“He putted with a lot of confidence.”

That wasn’t the case for Woods, whose only birdies came on his opening hole and on his sixth hole, a flip wedge to 4 feet. He didn’t feel like he was off by much, but that’s all it took. The course is set up in such a way that the thickest grass is just off the fairway.

“I wouldn’t say it’s rusty,” Woods said. “I was just a fraction off, and at this level and on golf courses like this, if you’re just a fraction off it doesn’t take much, especially as tight as the North Course is. I had so many balls that landed in the fairway that went in the rough. Now I can’t be aggressive, I’ve got to play conservative into some of these flags. When you should be able to fire at some of these flags, I just couldn’t.”

The cut was at even-par 144, and 83 players advanced.

Knicks record with 62 points

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Carmelo Anthony scored a careerhigh and franchise-record 62 points, most at the current Madison Square Garden, and the New York Knicks beat the Charlotte Bobcats 125-96 on Friday night to stop a five-game losing streak.

“It’s an unbelievable feeling,” Anthony said in an interview on MSG Network immediately after the game.

“It’s just a zone that you get into sometimes. Only certain people know what that zone feels like.”

Anthony made 23 of 35 shots, one when he leapt from halfcourt to beat the halftime buzzer, and even added 13 rebounds in the NBA’s highest-scoring performance this season.

Anthony had 56 after three quarters, bettering Kevin Durant’s previous season high of 54, and stayed in for the first few minutes of the fourth to break Bernard King’s Knicks record of 60 points and Kobe Bryant’s arena record of 61, set five years ago.

“I came into this game locked in,” Anthony said.

“I didn’t know I was going to have that type of performance . . . . It’s a special moment. I know Bernard King is somewhere smiling at me . . . . I was just taking it one possession at a time . . . . My teammates found me. I’ve got to thank them.”

It was easily the highlight of the season for Anthony, on pace to miss the playoffs for the first time in his career and facing frequent questions about his future with the team as he heads into free agency this summer.

That was all on hold for one night, the focus simply on Anthony’s amazing scoring.

He easily passed his previous career best of 50 points and possibly could’ve even passed 70 or more had the game been close.

Instead, he checked out for good after breaking the records when he banked in a short jumper with 7:24 to play.

With the Knicks desperately thin in the frontcourt after losing Andrea Bargnani on top of the injuries to Amare Stoudemire and Kenyon Martin, Anthony simply took on more of the scoring load as New York won for the first time on its eight-game homestand.

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Grizzlys comeback attempt falls short OLDS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Calgary Mustangs grabbed a 3-0 lead in the first period and hung on to edge the Olds Grizzlys 3-2 in Alberta Junior Hockey League action before 427 fans Friday.

Phelan Shaw, Josh Betinol and Carson McCormick connected for the Mustangs in the opening 20 minutes.

Landon Kletke and Spencer Dorowicz scored for the Grizzlys in the second period.

Ethan Jemieff finished with 30 saves for Calgary while Jeff Orser made 28 saves for Olds, who took 11 of 21 minors and the lone misconduct. The teams split two fighting majors.

The Grizzlys next action is Tuesday when they host Drumheller at 7:30 p.m.

Gardenhire gets two-year deal

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Cross-country skiers enjoy the warm weather on the trails at Riverbend Golf Course on Friday afternoon. The area has 15 km of trails for ski enthusiasts.

Thornton, Marleau staying in San Jose BOTH SIGN THREE-YEAR DEALS WITH THE SHARKS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Joe Thornton knew for a while he was re-signing with the San Jose Sharks for three more years. He just waited for Patrick Marleau to get the same assurance.

On Friday, Thornton and Marleau each signed three-year contract extensions to keep San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perennial playoff core intact. Thornton got US$6.75 million per season, while Marleau got an average of $6.67 million.

Unsurprisingly, the franchise cornerstones came as a package deal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Both players said one of the priorities is that they really would only come back if the other one was coming back,â&#x20AC;? general manager Doug Wilson said on a conference call Friday afternoon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was contingent (on) them knowing that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a better team with both of them instead of just one.â&#x20AC;?

Thorntonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agent/brother John said in a phone interview that the Sharks captain wanted to win in San Jose alongside Marleau but also recognized his value to the team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is it the same team without a 35-goal scorer?â&#x20AC;?

John Thornton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a different team without him. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just replace Patrick Marleau.â&#x20AC;?

Fortunately for the Sharks, they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to.

This is Marleauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 16th season with the Sharks after being their second overall pick in the 1997 draft. In 1,216 career games, he has 425 goals and 483 points â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both franchise records â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and was captain from 2003 through 2009. The Sharks have made the playoffs in all but one season of Marleauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career.

Thornton has been Marleauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teammate in San Jo-

se since a November 2005 trade from the Boston Bruins and has been captain since 2010. Since the trade, he has 168 goals and 549 assists, second in points to only Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals, and the Sharks also have the most points and regularseason victories in the NHL. John Thornton had no trouble seeing this kind of success more than eight years ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew my brother would be one of the best as long as he wants to be one of the best,â&#x20AC;? he said.

A key component to this deal was Thornton and Marleau still playing strong at the age of 35. Thornton leads the Sharks in scoring with 53 points on six goals and 47 assists, while Marleau is third with 47 points on 21 goals and 26 assists. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re elite-level players that are still playing at an elite level,â&#x20AC;? Wilson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They make other players around them better, but they can still carry their own weight.â&#x20AC;?

And they still fit in with a young group led by centres Logan Couture and Joe Pavelski, winger Brent Burns, rookie forward Tomas Hertl and defenceman.

All of those players expect for Hertl have long-term contracts, and Vezina Trophy-finalist goaltender Antti Niemi is signed through 2014-15. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really fortunate that we certainly have everybody in key positions,â&#x20AC;? Wilson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our scouts have done an excellent job of the defence position and the centre position, which are really, really hard to find in the league, and certainly in goaltending. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re strong in those positions, it enables you to bring in some younger players that maybe can play on the wing or can play on the back end around the strength of the centre position.â&#x20AC;?

MINNEAPOLIS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; On the day before his 12th season as manager of the Minnesota Twins ended, Ron Gardenhire woke up and came to the ballpark not knowing if he would be back for a 13th year.

The Twins were finishing up a third straight dreadful season, limping toward a second straight 66-96 record, and Gardenhire was in the final year of his contract. Minnesota is home for Gardenhire, and the possibility of uprooting and taking his family to another town, to take an offer from another team that surely would have come, was wearing him out.

After a 5-1 loss to the Cleveland Indians for defeat No. 95, GM Terry Ryan finally let Gardenhire know of his plans. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He walked in and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Get some sleep tonight, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to give you a two-year deal,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Gardenhire said Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when I knew that I was going to be back. All up to that point ... (Ryan said) â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t made a decision yet. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still thinking about it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;I told him, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to do what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to do.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Twins continued their reputation for loyalty, giving Gardenhire a two-year deal to try and shepherd the franchise out of the misery that has hung over it for the last three seasons.

Great one makes appearance on Conan Before the hockey town that Wayne Gretzky built hosted its first outdoor game at Dodger Stadium, The Great One made a rare Hollywood move by going on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Conanâ&#x20AC;? to promote it.

In an 11-minute interview on the late-night show with host Conan Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien, Gretzky reflected on his trade from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings, his guest appearance on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Saturday Night Liveâ&#x20AC;? and several aspects of his on-ice playing career. Beyond all his records and his place in hockey history, Gretzkyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hollywood persona wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have been as pronounced if it were not for that trade 25 ½ years ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was hard for especially people in Edmonton because they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just fans, they were friends of mine. A lot of the people that go to all the games, I knew from all the years of being in Edmonton,â&#x20AC;?

Gretzky said of the deal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So it was difficult for everyone. But you look back at it now and everything happens for a reason and we love it here in L.A. and the NHL is thriving here and everyone seems to be doing OK.â&#x20AC;?

The Oilers won their fifth Stanley Cup in 1990 without Gretzky and made it to the final in 2006 before losing to the Carolina Hurricanes. The Kings made it to the final in 1993 with Gretzky before losing to the Montreal Canadiens, then won their first title in franchise history in 2012.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jessica Korda took the second-round lead in the season-opening Bahamas LPGA Classic, birdieing four of her last seven holes in high wind Friday for a 7-under 66.

The 20-year-old Korda had an 11-under 135 total on Atlantis Resortâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ocean Club course. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We went from beautiful, sunny, slight wind to cloudy and hurricane wind,â&#x20AC;? Korda said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a tough day out there. I mean, a little mentally draining because you really had to put everything into every shot.â&#x20AC;?

The 2012 Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Australian Open winner for her lone LPGA Tour title, Korda recently started working with swing coach Grant Price. She struggled with her swing last year and felt that it led to some injuries in her left shoulder and wrist. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was just time for a change,â&#x20AC;? Korda said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was just stuff that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t working. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked with (Grant) before, so I was really comfortable going into it, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just super positive, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that I really needed coming into this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just working on keeping everything in plane and keeping it really simple to where if something does go wrong on the golf course, I can fix it myself.â&#x20AC;?

Price, Hall of Famer Nick Priceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nephew, is fighting testicular cancer.

Paula Creamer, playing alongside Korda, was a stroke back after a 65. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Feeding off Paula was good,â&#x20AC;? Korda said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She made four birdies in a row after (starting with a double bogey), and it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like she wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t giving herself opportunities. It was birdie after birdie. It was awesome to play with somebody like that because they really do push you and keep making you try harder.â&#x20AC;?

Creamer drove left on the first hole and threeputted from 7 feet. She birdied 10 of the last 17 holes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After that, I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s go make some birdies.â&#x20AC;?

And I did,â&#x20AC;&#x153; said Creamer, winless since the 2010 U.S. Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open. â&#x20AC;?I love playing in windy conditions. I always have. The more difficult, the better. You have to be kind of a feel player out in these kind of situations and trust what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing and committing to your shots, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that I really worked hard on in the off-season and it paid off today.â&#x20AC;&#x153; Michelle Wie and Monday qualifier Jenny Suh were tied for third at 9 under. Wie had a 65, and Suh shot 66.

Wie had 28 putts in her bogey-free round. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think I just had a good rest this off-season,â&#x20AC;? Wie said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I came back in January and I picked up my golf clubs, I was really excited to play. I was so ready to get back into a rhythm.â&#x20AC;?

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SOMETHING’S COOKING CELEBRITY CHEFS HEADLINE HOSPICE SOCIETY FUNDRAISER Photos courtesy of Ashley Jackson Photo

Celebrity chefs Michael Bonacini and Massimo Capra put on quite a show at the Sheraton Hotel in Red Deer on Jan. 17.

Bonacini, culinary leader and co-founder of Oliver and Bonacini Restaurants, and Capra, chef and co-owner of Toronto restaurants Mistura and Sopra Upper Lounge, put their skills on display during the Red Deer Hospice Society Gala.

The two chefs designed the menu and demonstrated the prep and involved the audience in the production. They also donated a live auction item — a round trip flight to Toronto with dinner for four at Capra’s restaurant one night and then Bonacini’s another night, with accommodations included.

The final numbers aren’t yet available, but organizers say the event raised more than $60,000.

Learn more about the Red Deer Hospice Society at http://www.reddeerhospice.com.

Mark Daines runs the live auction.

Jo Hikk of the Jo Hikk Band.

Brenda Watts, hospice executive director.

Bryan Wilson, president, hospice board of directors.

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Mansfield Construction site supervisor Marc Redka walks past the large indoor playspace located in the new Blackfalds Abbey Centre.

On Wednesday, about 750 Blackfalds residents got the chance to take a sneak preview of the facility, which is scheduled to open later this year. The Abbey Centre will feature an outdoor swimming pool, water slides, hot tub and splash park. Inside the building, a field house is the main component, along with a fitness facility, and children’s play space.

FABRIC DONATIONS SOUGHT FOR ANNUAL GRAMMALINK FABRIC SALE Donations of fabric (one metre or more), yarn and notions are wanted for the third annual GrammaLink Africa fabric sale on April 12 at Gaetz United Church in Red Deer. All proceeds will go toward the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmother to Grandmother campaign.

For pickup of donations or for information, contact MaryEllen at 403-340-1365 or Shirley at 403-347-5958 no later than April 4.

HEART AND STROKE MONTH To kick off heart month, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, along with the Red Deer Rebels and Booster Juice, will be at the Rebels game on Saturday, Feb. 1. People are encouraged to attend the 7 p.m. game at the Centrium, at 4847A 19th St., wearing red to show their support. There will be prizes, an automated external defibrillator, AED and a race even, information on area events and more.

SUPPORT FUNDING BIDS Organizations looking to apply for funding through Family and Community Support Services have until Feb. 7 to make their pitch. Applications must be received by Feb.7 to be considered for the 2015-2017 FCSS funding.

The funding is open to non-profit groups, school boards or municipalities that are involved with the delivery of preventive social services to residents in the Red Deer and District FCSS region.

Complete details including application forms are available at www.reddeer. ca/fcss. More information is available by emailing fcss@reddeer.ca.

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Main Street facelift faces funding questions

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Rocky Mountain House downtown businesses have rejected the idea of a special business tax to help bankroll a Main Street facelift.

A public meeting was held at a local hotel on Thursday evening to get feedback on the prospect of levying a local improvement tax on Main Street businesses to cover a $1.5-million shortfall in the project, which is expected to cost around $11 million.

The proposal did not go over well with the business community, who argued the project would benefit the whole community and not just downtown merchants and other business owners.

“Pretty much all of the business owners were against the idea,” said Brad Dollevoet, Rocky’s director of community planning and development, on Friday.

A number of councillors were at the

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BRIEFS Ice-covered water bodies still hold risk: fire department The Olds Fire Department is warning people about ice safety and to be careful around ice-covered bodies of water at this time of year.

Over the winter, many water bodies in Olds and Mountain View County will freeze. However, safety on ice is everyone’s responsibility and neither the town nor county monitor ice conditions on lakes, ponds, rivers or dugouts.

People are reminded to play safe and stay off the ice, and to take proper care and be smart around ice-covered bodies of water.

The fire department said the strength of ice cannot be judged by appearance alone.

Ice strength is affected by many factors, including weather conditions, road runoff, springs that feed into the water body, snow pack and overall thickness.

Stormwater ponds have an inlet and outlet pipe with water flowing much of the year. This can make ice weak and it is always best to use caution.

If someone does fall through the ice, don’t follow them out on the ice to try to pull them out. Call 911 and get help as quickly

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Red Deer property assessments are in the mail

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Red Deer property owners can expect their 2014 property assessment notices in their mail boxes any day now.

The city sent out the notices last week and owners are reminded to review their notices to ensure the information is correct.

Each property tax notice is based on the assessed property value multiplied by the property tax rate, which is determined by council in May. The payments are due by June 30.

People who do not receive a notice by Jan. 31 should contact Revenue and Assessment Services.

More information is available at www. reddeer.ca/tax.

Property tax notices that arrive in May

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An artist’s rendering of how the Rocky Mountain House downtown streetscape would look after proposed work is completed. meeting and it will be up to town council to decide whether to go ahead with the tax or find another way to cover the cost of the project, which is largely being paid for through grants such as the Municipal Sustainability Initiative funding from the province.

Among options that council is expected to consider are borrowing to make up the shortfall or delaying the project to build up more grant money.

Dollevoet said the project will be ten-

dered in coming weeks and the issue will come back to council, likely at its March 4 meeting. At that time, the town will have more detailed cost estimates for council to consider.

The project involves replacing water and sewer mains as well as sprucing up the appearance of the main drag with terraced sidewalks, angled parking and additional landscaping and decorative light poles, and other aesthetic touches. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

cannot be disputed. Therefore owners must try to resolve any concerns that they have with their assessments before the deadline stated on their notice.

If property owners are not able to resolve their concerns through a conversation with an assessor, they can submit a formal appeal to the Clerk of the Regional Assessment Review Board. Appeals must be made no later than March 18.

Details on submitting an appeal can be obtained through the Clerk of the Regional Assessment Review Board on the second floor of City Hall.

suit, pleaded guilty to a number of offences.

These include dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, failure to stop for a police officer, driving without insurance, and operating an irregular motor vehicle with a trailer.

Charges of failing to stop at the scene of an accident, failing to stop at an intersection, and displaying an unauthorized vehicle licence plate were withdrawn.

Legge, 31, was slapped with a $2,800 fine and given two two-year jail sentences, to be served concurrently. According to an Alberta Justice spokesperson, he spent 13 months in pretrial custody, so will have to serve another 11 months in a federal penitentiary.

Impaired driving suspect returns to court in March A woman facing more than 20 charges in connection with an alleged impaired driving crash that killed two people will return to court in March.

Cree Roan Omeasoo, 22, of Maskwacis (formerly Hobbema) was released on bail after a Jan. 16 court appearance. Election was reserved and she was released on bail.

Charges she faces include two counts of refusing to comply with a police demand for a breath sample causing death, five counts of refusing to comply with a police demand for a breath sample causing bodily harm, two counts of impaired driving causing death, five counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm, two counts of dangerous driving causing death and five counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm.

Wetaskiwin RCMP said the vehicle she was driving lost control and flipped while southbound on Hwy 2A north of Millet. Two people were declared dead at the scene of the crash, two more were taken to hospital with critical injuries, and two others were treated for serious but not life-threatening injuries.

She makes her next court appearance on March 11 in Wetaskiwin provincial court.

Legge enters guilty plea A former Red Deer resident who was the subject of a Canada-wide manhunt pleaded guilty this week to several driving-related charges.

Trevor Norman John Legge will serve another 11 months in jail and have his driver’s licence suspended for three years after being sentenced in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday.

Legge, who among other things was charged with driving his pickup truck through a local elk farm with police in pur-

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Liquor store bandit sought Red Deer City RCMP are searching for a bandit who brandished a handgun while holding up the Gaetz Avenue Liquor World on Thursday night.

Police say a masked man carrying a handgun walked into the liquor store at 3417 50th Ave. and demanded cash around 7:15 p.m.

The man left with an undisclosed amount of money. Police are unsure of his method of escape and the direction he fled.

The suspect is described as Caucasian weighing about 90 to 95 kg (210 to 220 pounds) and about 1.8 metres (six feet) in height.

He was wearing a black balaclava, black hoodie and black pants.

If you have information on this incident, call RCMP at 403-343-5575 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Murder case put over A man charged with the first-degree murder of a Potter’s Hands resident in Red Deer appeared in provincial court via close-circuit camera on Friday.

Mark William Bitterman, 31, who remains in custody at the Red Deer Remand Centre, was ordered by Judge Jim Mitchell to return to court in person on Feb. 28 to make an election and plea.

At that point, his Calgary lawyer Kim Ross and Crown prosecutor Jason Snider could also set a date for a preliminary hearing.

Bitterman is accused of killing Curtis Leroy Rangen, 43, of the Potter’s Hands housing complex, during a break-in. Rangen’s body was found in a freezer inside his apartment on May 3, 2013.

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Track down lost love from the Big Easy Hi Harlan!: I went to Mardi Gras And it might help the “annoying” 2012 in New Orleans with my longtime one to get counseling and coaching boyfriend (six years). to help fit in — plus, it would teach Our relationship was already dete- “Stuck” a little about people he might riorating, and I ended it the following meet in the future.

July.

Please note that a life of harassment One day at the hotel I can turn anyone — Aspie or was taking pictures of the not — to the dark side. place, and I met another hoAnd we really don’t want tel guest. that.

I’m pretty sure I fell in Answer: I couldn’t agree love at first sight with him more. that day. We chatted for Last month, I met a some time, he took some 24-year-old college student pictures of me for my collecwho recently was diagnosed tion and we went our sepawith Asperger’s Syndrome. rate ways.

He is another one who He mentioned that he was misunderstood and loves New Orleans and redidn’t fit in. turns to it often, but he stays He was home-schooled in New York to be near famand came from a family ily and friends, and because where his behavior was the HARLAN the Big Easy is too temptnorm.

COHEN ing, which I can fully underWhich makes me wonder stand! if a parent also might be unI had this crazy idea to diagnosed. make a document, a call-out of sorts, As you can attest, friends, family, and get hold of some hopeless ro- classmates, roommates and coworkers mantic behind the desk at our hotel can go undiagnosed. to put it on display, at least until Parents, too.

Mardi Gras is over this year.

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I agree with most of what you said, If she presses on, tell her that you but want to point out that the annoying don’t feel comfortable with the quesroommate might be on the autism spec- tion because you are an adult and want trum (referred to as having Aspergers her to trust your judgment. or being an “Aspie,” though that term If she offers her opinion, just listen is being phased out). and thank her for loving you without I am an Aspie, and socially awkward answering the question. That’s called as described by “Stuck.” being an adult. See, there’s no need to I am 64, but was not diagnosed until lie.

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BY RACHEL LU ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES HONG KONG — On Jan. 17, hundreds of young men and women partied in the ballroom of a five-star hotel in Wenzhou, a large city in eastern China.

The women were fully decked out in colourful evening gowns, the men in tuxedos.

Some sported expensive purses, ornate Venetian-style masquerade masks, or ribbons with the English words “Team Elite.”

One took to Sina Weibo, a social media platform, to urge her followers to join her: “if you are also a little bit vain, if you feel like you should be the star in your own life.”

For those ambitious enough, she continued, “next year’s spotlight could be on you.”

These young Chinese are self-styled Nu Stars, a moniker for salespeople for Nu Skin, a Utah-based health product maker that reportedly made more than 31 percent of its total revenue of $2.16 billion in China, all just in the first nine months of 2013 (fourth-quarter data is forthcoming).

The company acknowledged last week that it is now under investigation for marketing practices that, according to Chinese state-owned media, involve brainwashing and defrauding these fervent young members of China’s wannabe glamour set.

Like Amway and Mary Kay, Nu Skin relies on salespeople peddling products directly to family and friends, while developing new recruits to do the same.

This technique has a checkered history in many parts of the world including the United States, but it is particularly fraught in China.

In 1998, the Chinese government banned all enterprises employing the practice after a flood of pyramid schemes claimed thousands of victims, but eased the restrictions somewhat in 2005 to allow “direct selling,” whereby salespeople earn a commission based on the quantity of products sold, rather than the number of “downlines,” an industry term for new enlists.

U.S. companies with well-developed direct selling cultures, like Amway, Herbalife and Mary Kay, still boast a significant collective presence in China, albeit with somewhat modified business models that involve opening brick-and-mortar stores and registering salespeople as distributors.

But Nu Skin was reportedly more

aggressive in its practices, employing salespeople directly and compensating them for downlines. This deviated dangerously from a relatively well-tested gray area, and toward a clear violation of Chinese regulations.

Chinese authorities reportedly busted more than 7,600 pyramid schemes involving more than 60,000 people over a three-month period in 2013 in a campaign against direct selling.

Those involved with Nu Skin, however, don’t seem interested in political organizing, just the mirage of success that lies in slickly packaged beauty products with foreign names like “ageLOC”and “Scion.”

Over 10,000 user accounts on Sina Weibo have “Nu Skin,” “Nu Star” or “ruxin,” the Chinese name for Nu Skin, in their handles.

The sample is certainly skewed because Weibo, with over 280 million total users, has a youthful demographic.

Nonetheless, it is revealing that an overwhelming majority of the Nu Starlabeled accounts are young women in their twenties and thirties.

A fair number proudly show off the label “post-90,” a common way of referring to young people born after 1990. Many call Nu Skin a “platform for young entrepreneurs,” where they can “work hard, play hard.”

Judging from their social media personalities, Nu Stars are a group of Chinese youth aching for recognition, glamour, and freedom — all in relatively short supply elsewhere in their lives.

Even after winning a brutal competition for thankless, low-paying jobs, many young Chinese still struggle to pay rent, support their families, and find extra money to afford the luxury goods that their country’s middle class conspicuously consumes.

The promise of a less-treacherous path to riches — even one that involves hard work, not just play —has drawn tens of thousands of Chinese youth looking for somewhere to channel their aspirations.

For a brief time, Nu Skin appeared to offer a different path for those determined to fight for what they perceived to be the good life.

Self-declared Nu Stars partied, preened and posed before Nu Skinbranded backdrops as if they were Hollywood royalty on the red carpet.

Now it may be time for them to return to a harsher reality.

Lu is the co-founder of Tea Leaf Nation, Foreign Policy’s blog about news and major trends in China.

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Thoroughly Countryfied BENTLEY’S DICK DAMRON HAS CRAFTED A REMARKABLE CAREER THAT IS NOW BEING CELEBRATED IN A DOCUMENTARY FILM material. He’s such as storyteller — and he’s not getting any younger,” said Hay, who wants to preserve Damron’s contributions for future generations.

Harrow believes CBC or CMT might be interested in the film. The TV stations are on a list of potential buyers he intends to approach for the funding needed to finish the 60-to-90-minute documentary — which will entail the filmmakers flying to Mexico in April to interview Damron about his 2002 stroke and remarkable recovery.

Harrow, a former musician with The Original Cast (of One Tin Soldier fame), has moved in the same circles as the Bentley singer/songwriter since the mid-1960s, when he opened for Damron at a performance at Red Deer’s Westerner Days exhibition. And he has always been impressed by his down-toearth manner.

“Dick is not only a very nice man, he’s also very humble. He’s been that same character as long as I’ve ever known him. If there was a Canadian Willie Nelson, that’s what Dick’s like,” said Harrow.

Despite all of his accolades, including honours in Europe and Texas, Damron has never forgotten where he came from. While he spends much of his time in Mexico, he still regularly returns to Bentley to perform at the Monkey Top Saloon, where he’s also known to have lunch. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Decades ago, a young Dick Damron hopped on a train to Nashville to try to jump start his country music career.

The long ride from Lacombe to Tennessee included an overnight stop in Winnipeg. Since the cash-strapped Bentley native didn’t have enough money for a hotel, he spent the night at an all-night movie theatre.

When Damron finally showed up to meet the record industry brass, he’d freshened up by donning a formal suit and bow tie.

He was an oddity to the casually dressed Nashville execs, who eyed him curiously, said local filmmaker Harley Hay, who heard this story while coproducing a documentary on Damron’s life. “They said, ‘OK, we’ll see what you can do. ...’ ” And Damron showed them, all right.

Over the span of his 32-year recording career, he put out 25 albums and 500 songs — many later covered by Charley Pride, George Hamilton IV, Carroll Baker and other big-time country artists.

Among Damron’s best-loved hits are Jesus It’s Me Again, Countryfied, Rise ’n’ Shine, The Long Green Line, Mother Love and Country, Susan Flowers, Silver and Shine, Whiskey Jack, Honky Tonk Angels and Good Ol’ Boys and Good Ol’ Time Country Rock ’n’ Roll.

Now in his 80th year (and 54th as a country artist), the Central Albertan has been repeatedly honoured by the Canadian Country Music Association, won a 1984 Juno, and was inducted into both the Canadian and International Country Music Halls of Fame.

Last year, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) recognized Damron, along with Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings. David Foster and Bryan Adams, for protecting Canadian songwriters’ rights. He was also given a spot in the Canada’s Recording Legacy Music Industry Hall of Fame.

But one of his greatest legacies could turn out to be a feature-length documentary being made of his life and career by Calgary-based filmmaker Richard Harrow of HB Media Inc. and Hay of Harley Hay Studios.

The project sprang from video footage from a Dick Damron and Friends tribute concert organized by his Calgary supporters. The 2009 show featured performances by many country artists who owed Damron a debt of gratitude for their recording success with his material. Such “heavy hitters” as Pride, Hamilton, Baker, Ronnie Prophet, The Good Brothers, Michelle Wright, Patricia Conroy and Joan Kennedy performed his songs.

Damron was touched by this honour, and later took some of filmed footage from the concert to Harrow to ask for his help in editing it for YouTube viewing.

Harrow saw the potential for much more than online videos. “We knew we could do something more with it. ... There was a story to be told,” said

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Dick Damron performs at the Central Music Festival in August 2012. The Bentley singer/songwriter has been playing country music for 54 years. He has pleased countless fans and earned a bushel of honours along the way. the former Red Deer resident, who brought his friend Hay on board to coproduce a documentary on Damron.

The two are making The Long Green Line, named for the artist’s signature song about the hardships of making it in the country music business.

In the first 25 minutes, the affable Damron regales viewers with tales of his early days — such as his train trip to Nashville, and the time he sent some songs on spec to a recording company. (The label ended up pressing them onto records and sending them out to radio stations, unbeknownst to Damron, who hadn’t yet even signed a contract.)

“We really have quite a wealth of

DICK DAMRON IN CONVERSATION WITH THE ADVOCATE Congratulations on being inducted into the Canada’s Recording Legacy Music Industry Hall of Fame.

How do you feel about this latest accolade?

DD — Thank you. Awards are always nice and I had my days in the ’70s and ’80s. The hall of fame is more permanent and lasting and means a little more to a person as you grow old, I think.

There is a documentary being made of your life by a local filmmaking team. How did this come about?

DD — The producers came up with the concept when they were editing my tribute show. There was so much material with artists like Charley Pride, Carroll Baker, George Hamilton IV and many others all performing my songs and maybe they just thought the time has come.

Did participating in the project make you reflect on, or review, certain aspects of your life?

DD — Oh yes, and it’s a long look back to days of my first bands and dances and radio, and black and white TV shows, my first rockabilly 45s back in the ’50s, and my first hardcore Nashville country sessions in ’61,’63 and ’65. And (also at) my first No. 1 record in ’65 with Hitch Hikin’. They have done great job on this early stuff.

Do you think it was easier or harder to make it in country music back in the ’70s or ’80s, compared to now?

DD — Some of the young folk say there was no competition back in those days. But I’ve saved the chart when Countryfied was No. 1. Other songs on the Top Ten at the time were Me and Bobby McGee, Snowbird, For The Good Times and Mule Skinner Blues, so there were some big names and some great songs around at the time.

What are some of the main differences you have noticed in the way the music industry operates over the years?

DD — Not only has it changed, I honestly don’t believe there was what you could call a music industry in Canada in my first few years. I recorded my first songs at CKRD Radio in Red Deer and sent the tapes to King Plastics in Cincinnati, Ohio, to be pressed.

This is also well documented with footage of the old pressing plant.

As an outlaw country guy, what are your thoughts on the more pop-oriented country getting radio play today?

DD — I did record some outlaw style music like Waylon’s T Shirt, Ballad Of TJs, but I did a lot of straight ahead country music as well as two gospel CDs, two instrumental CDs, and a movie sound track.

I don’t compare my music with what is going on to-

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Dick Damron’s long and storied career included him being categorized as an outlaw country artist. But he says he has also done “a lot of straight ahead country music.’ day. I’m completely out of the loop. Two of the strongest comments I have heard on the state of country music today are: “Nashville blames radio and radio blames Nashville” and “I wonder what Country Gold from this era is going to look like?”

Looking back, what are the things that made the biggest positive impact on your life/career? Would you do anything differently?

DD — Countryfied and Jesus It’s Me Again are the two biggest songs I ever had, they have been recorded by countless artists and still get played on classic

and traditional country on satellite and Internet stations. Being in the International Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame were big boosts. Events that were game changers were the Country Music Association’s International Show in 1972 in Nashville and the Wembley festival in the U.K. in ’76 and ’78 with Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Carl Perkins was a boost for the U.K. and European market. There never was a defining moment when I said “Now I’ve made it, now I am a Big Star.” My father would have came down from above and kicked my ass.

What do you hope viewers of the documentary will glean from watching it?

DD — I hope they will enjoy the music and the more than 60 years of musical history. I think the producers are digging deep to make it real. There is no hype or promo here. At my age I have nothing left to prove. I think my years in Las Vegas honed my entertainment skills and all I have to prove is that I can still do it. I’ll be 80 in March and I’m still playing cantinas down here, and casinos and festival up there in the summertime.

Are you enjoying your dual residencies in Mexico and Canada? (Do you miss snow? We have plenty of it this winter!)

DD — I have been coming to Mexico since ’74 and I think it has saved my life. As the years go by, I spend more time here and less in the Great White North. Don’t know what to say about the snow. I put in my time in Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Fort Churchill, but the hot Mexico sun feels pretty good on the old bones.

How has being a Central Albertan affected your personal outlook and your songwriting?

DD — I was born and raised in Central Alberta, but after all these years I don’t think it has much to do with my songwriting. The only Alberta song I ever wrote was Alberta Skyline. It might make a good theme song for Neil Young’s tour. ...

What are the projects you are working on, or are in the works?

DD — I have written and recorded a song called The Last Days of a Crazy Old Man in Mexico. We shot the video here last week and it’s being edited in L.A. It is also the title of my fourth book. I have about 12,000 words written and hope to finish it this year.

I play here at a club called La Catrina. ... I tell everybody I am on the waiting list at the crematorium and my ashes will be spread in the Sierra Madres, no need for Alberta Health Care.

— Lana Michelin

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Don Berner Sextet on stage here next week

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Sax player Don Berner, who flags his affection for Edmonton with his release Love Letters to a Rat-Free Capital, performs with his band in Red Deer next week.

The Don Berner Sextet is billed as “Canada’s most dangerous Prairie bop rockers” because they will put on an evening of hard-swinging jazz, featuring music from their new album.

Inspired by the bands of Art Blakey, Dave Holland, and the Marsalis Brothers, the sextet performs an eclectic mix of original compositions on Love Letters that are composed by various band members.

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ring with sophistication, while The House That Bop Built and Festival City take a more irreverent approach.

The musicians will perform on Thursday, Jan. 30, at The District Eatery and Lounge at 104 4909 49th St. The Don Berner Sextet has regularly played at the Yardbird Suite in Edmonton and the Jazz City Festival.

Berner has also recorded with the bands of Tommy Banks and Tilo Paiz, and performed around the world alongside Bobby Shew, P.J. Perry, Hugh Fraser, Slide Hampton, Bob Stroup, Chu Cho Valdez and others.

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The real man-made monster in I, Frankenstein is the film itself, a ridiculous good-versus-evil story enrobed in a pastiche of religious symbolism and stodgy mythology and set in a world created in a computer special effects lab.

There’s very little left of Mary Shelley’s 19th-century morality tale in this video game-like version, clearly geared to the fan-boy/fan-girl set.

Banish earlier cinematic versions of the monster from your mind — whether Boris Karloff, brilliant in his outcast torment, or hilarious Young Frankenstein’s Peter Boyle. Here, Aaron Eckhart (Thank You for Smoking) speaks in menacing mutters as a handsome, stitch-faced monster who has survived 200 years to land clad in rocker chic in an unnamed present-day European city.

Clearly cribbed together from some decidedly buff corpses, Frankenstein’s monster is fully flexed out and blessed with superhero-like physical power as he makes his journey to the modern world via Muscle Beach with a quick stop at the island of wretched dialogue.

Written and directed by Stuart Beattie (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra), I, Frankenstein is loosely based on the Darkstorm graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux, the author of the similarly good-battling-evil-themed Underworld franchise, which has gotten progressively weaker despite Kate Beckinsale’s charms.

Much of I, Frankenstein takes place in a massive cathedral inhabited by gargoyle humanoids ruled by Queen Leonore (Miranda Otto). She takes pity on the outcast monster, rescued by winged gargoyle guardians Gideon (Jai Courtney) and Keziah (Caitlin Stasey) from a vicious attack in a confusing

opening scene.

Leonore names him Adam but the gargoyle good guys have no time to properly welcome him. They’re busy fighting evil demons, led by a menacing Naberius (Bill Nighy), who has them doing battle for the fate of mankind in a covert war the rest of the world can’t see — and we wish we couldn’t.

Naberius has a fancy high-tech lab run by pretty blond scientist Terra (Yvonne Strahovski) where he plans to perfect the mechanics of reanimating dead things. But the lab rats aren’t cutting it and Naberius has a far bigger plan that requires things done on a grander scale. Victor Frankenstein’s 200-year-old monster-making journal would certainly help. Terra pouts and looks skeptical. This isn’t what she signed on for.

“Bring me Frankenstein’s monster!”

Naberius bellows.

Over my dead body, Adam replies.

Or he would if he was given better lines. Stronger than any man and schooled in stick fighting, he doesn’t need the gargoyle army to take out the demons. “This ends tonight,” he flatly intones. Well, at least we have that going for us.

By going to the unusual length of insisting reviewers hold opinions until 9 a.m. opening day, clearly the movie studio behind I, Frankenstein sees this as a “critic-proof” effort that will easily separate genre lovers from their premium ticket money (it’s in IMAX and 3D) no matter what the reaction to the movie may be.

While Nighy is quite entertaining as the devilish Naberius and Eckhart makes the most of his buff physique in shirtless scenes, I, Frankenstein is remarkable only for how bad it is and how swiftly it will unseat Adam Sandler when next year’s Razzie Awards are handed out.

Linda Barnard is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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August: Osage County reveals a family flock ripe for plucking THERE IS PLENTY OF BILE TO GO AROUND IN THIS MOVIE August: Osage County 2.5 stars (out of four) Rated: 14A

Bill (Ewan McGregor) and their rebellious teen child Jean (Abigail Breslin).

Karen, the youngest of the three Weston daughters, The chickens are comhas her creepy new fiancée ing home to roost in August: Steve (Dermot Mulroney) Osage County — and they’re in tow. Middle sibling Ivy going to have their feathers is single, a situation that painfully plucked, one at a brings her both scorn and time. pity.

A bevy of bold faces, Violet’s outspoken sisled by Meryl Streep and ter Mattie (Margot MartinJulia Roberts, congregate dale) and her upholsterer in a faded Oklahoma counhusband Charlie (Chris try home in the title month Cooper) also enter the coop, and locale. The perpetusoon to be joined by their ally drawn window shades PETER introverted son Charles aren’t dark enough, and the (Benedict Cumberbatch), HOWELL surrounding prairie grass who is referred to as “Little doesn’t grow tall enough, to Charles,” the verbal equivahide all the family secrets lent of a head pat. that are about to be teased With a talent roster this out by a vengeful matriarch, played large and a script this pointed, there’s with vicious fury by Streep. not much more director Wells can do The henhouse analogy also de- than get out of the way — and indeed, scribes the cacophonous screenplay by that’s what he does.

Tracy Letts, which he’s adapted from Streep is the movie’s constant flash his Pulitzer Prize-winning 2007 play point, raging at grievances large and of the same name. The film, directed small. She’s so good at playing the unby John Wells (The Company Men), is tamed shrew — witness The Devil Wears by turns energizing and exhausting, as Prada, Doubt and The Iron Lady — that talented actors emote at each other in it hardly comes as a revelation that she a showy manner better suited to the really knows how to bring the bile. stage than the screen.

So does Roberts, whose Barbara Streep is Violet Weston, the non- matches Violet hiss for hiss and beat shrinking mama (“Nobody slips any- down for beat down. The two go at thing by me”) of three middle-aged each other like two large alligators in daughters: resentful Barbara (Rob- a small swamp, exorcising the demons erts), serious Ivy (Julianne Nicholson) of a mother-daughter relationship that and flighty Karen (Juliette Lewis). long ago went sour, and an extended Violet has summed them home to family that is about to be stretched to address the sudden disappearance of the breaking point. their father, Beverly (Sam Shepard).

It’s no wonder that Streep and RobWe’ve already met Bev, in a prologue erts both figure in the current Oscar where he mordantly quotes T.S. El- buzz. For my money, though, the more iot (“Life is very long”) and describes satisfying performances come from the chemical accommodations he and Martindale, Cooper and Nicholson.

Violet have made over decades of Their every pained grimace and gritmarriage (“My wife takes pills and I ted-teeth retort indicates the weight drink”). they carry of a clan that long closed in Bev’s absence is the reason for the on itself, like those shuttered window gathering, but Violet’s hot tongue, shades that eternally block the sun. made all the hotter by painful mouth All of the performances in August: cancer, will be the catalyst for this Osage County are worthy of note, with most combustible of family reunions. the possible exception of CumberShe’s the kind of woman who refers batch’s Little Charlie. He struggles to Native Americans as “Injuns,” no with the southern accent and with a deference being made to the nearby role that might better suit an actor who reserve that is home to Johnna (Misty is not so obviously bright.

Upham), the manor’s put-upon new Everyone must hold on for dear life housekeeper. in this movie, actors and viewers both.

Violet speaks her mind about what- A quote from Robert Penn Warren’s ever is upon her vile grey matter, southern gothic novel All the King’s whether it’s dishing out ad hominen Men, prefacing the August screenplay, insults (“Women just get old and fat prompts yet another animal metaphor, and wrinkly”) or dissecting matters of perhaps the best one: “And the good altogether more serious and hurtful old family reunion, with picnic dinconcern. ner under the maples, is very much In truth, though, her anger isn’t com- like diving into the octopus tank at the pletely unwarranted. aquarium.”

Older daughter Barbara arrives Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto with her estranged egghead husband Star movie critic.

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Country crooner George Canyon seeks Conservative nomination

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HIGH RIVER — Canadian country crooner George Canyon wants to sing from the Conservative party song sheet as a member of Parliament.

Canyon, an award-winning singer who has sold more than 300,000 albums, announced Friday that he is seeking the Tory nomination in the new federal riding of Bow River in Southern Alberta.

He made the announcement on a radio station in High River, the community devastated in June by torrential rain and floods. Canyon helped out during the relief campaign following the disaster.

“My wife and I were working alongside all of these volunteers, people being completely giving of themselves — strangers — and I saw that empathy and that service and I said to my wife, ’You know, I really feel that I need to serve more.”’

Canyon, who lives on a ranch outside the town, said there is no one single political issue that is driving him to throw his cowboy hat into the ring.

He said he just wants to ensure that the largely rural area that includes cattle ranches, grain farms, and oil and gas rigs continues to grow and prosper.

Canyon, 43, said he doesn’t plan to give up his music career and may record a campaign song called Stand

Your Ground.

When he sings at concerts he connects with people, he said, and that wouldn’t change if he won the Tory nomination or a seat in the Commons and found himself on the political stage.

“When I put on a show, we’re having a big visit,” he said. “I feel I could really represent them by wearing their hearts on my sleeve.”

Canyon said the date for the Conservative nomination meeting for the new riding has not been set yet and he doesn’t know who he will be running against.

The sprawling riding includes the communities of Fort Macleod, Claresholm and Brooks and brushes up against the eastern outskirts of Calgary.

It does not include the town of High River.

The area encompasses parts of the existing ridings of Macleod, which was represented by Conservative Ted Menzies before he retired a few months ago, and Crowfoot, which is represented by Kevin Sorenson, minister of state for finance.

Voters in those ridings have a long history of electing Conservative or conservative-minded candidates.

In the last two elections, Menzies won more than 77 per cent of the vote, Sorenson more than 83 per cent.

Canyon said he will kick off his campaign this weekend, guitar in hand.

Is Bieber singing or sinking?

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — For more than a year, Justin Bieber has had more tabloid hits than Billboard hits: The singer’s music career has taken a backseat to his wild boy antics, and a new arrest for a DUI charge marks a new low for the Grammy-nominated pop star.

Bieber’s arrest Thursday is another sign of the crazy lifestyle that has taken over the 19-year-old’s image — but a more serious one given the gravity of his alleged offences. Authorities say Bieber failed a field sobriety test early Thursday and he is facing driving under the influence charges after driving nearly twice the speed limit

on a Miami Beach street. Police said he also resisted the arrest and smelled of alcohol. After he was charged, some key industry watchers were hesitant to talk about the singer’s woes and what it would mean to his imploding career.

But rapper Macklemore, 30, was sympathetic. He said if he had become a mainstream musician when he was Bieber’s age, people would also see his struggles. “I think it’s challenging for anybody to have your life be a spectacle and to be challenged and critiqued and judged. And it’s definitely hard if you’ve never had any normalcy in your adult life or in your teenage life,” said Macklemore, who has struggled with substance abuse. “I think that’s very challenging.”

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Julia Roberts, left, and Meryl Streep in a scene from August: Osage County. The film is nominated for a Writers Guild Award for adapted screenplay, and it has a strong script. The peformances, as a whole, are also worthy of note.

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HEALTH

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SATURDAY, JAN. 25, 2014

Is there a diabetes/cleanliness link?

BY ERIC NIILER ADVOCATE NEW SERVICES It may come as a surprise that Finland — one of the least polluted, wealthiest countries, where average life expectancy is among the world’s highest — has the highest rate of Type 1 diabetes.

Each year, there are about 58 cases diagnosed per 100,000 children; in the United States there are 24 cases per 100,000, according to the International Diabetes Federation.

Some researchers suspect there may be a connection between Finland’s cleanliness and the incidence of the disease there.

They are investigating whether the lack of exposure to a specific group of bacteria found in the intestine may be causing weaker immune systems in Finnish children, making them more susceptible to Type 1 diabetes.

This so-called hygiene hypothesis — that cleaner living can result in a weaker immune system — has also been linked to ailments such as asthma, allergies and other autoimmune diseases.

“We are working along the idea that we have a trigger which most likely is an infectious agent,” said Mikael Knip, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Helsinki who has been studying diabetes for 30 years.

“There is an association between such infections and appearance of antibodies.”

Just as there are microbes that trigger the disease, Knip says there are also some bacterial or viral infections that, if they occur at an early age, can protect a young child from developing Type 1 diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes, which affects approximately 37 million people worldwide, is an autoimmune disease in which the body does not produce sufficient insulin, a hormone needed to break down sugars.

Typically diagnosed in children, teens and young adults, the disease can eventually damage the eyes and organs such as the kidneys, and it increases the likelihood of stroke and heart failure.

Type 1 diabetes can shorten a person’s life span by as many as 10 years, according to the National Institutes of Health. There is no cure, although one promising line of research involves transplanting new insulin-making tissue, called islets, into the pancreas, where insulin is produced.

In Finland, Salli Salonen has been dealing with Type 1 diabetes since the disease was diagnosed in her daughter Emilia shortly after she was born nine years ago.

A single parent with two other children, Salonen says she struggled at first with Emilia’s care. “My problem in the beginning was you always have to make decisions what to do now. The glucose is this and this and that, I am 30 minutes from food. I found that very stressing.”

But Emilia has grown to manage her disease, learning how to check her insulin pump and her blood-sugar readings during the day.

For the past three years, she has also been part of a study in which researchers, led by Knip, took blood and tissue samples from nearly 3,500 children — from Finland, Estonia and Karelia, a part of Russia that once belonged to Finland. While residents of the three areas share similar language and genes, the rate of Type 1 diabetes is remarkably different, as are their levels of hygiene.

At 58 cases per 100,000, Finland’s rate is about six times as high as Karelia’s. Estonia’s is between 25 and 30 cases per 100,000, but it has tripled in the past 15 years, catching up with its Western European neighbors. Karelia, just north of St. Petersburg, is

poorer, and children there grow up in an environment that is dirtier than the two other study areas, according to Knip. There, the rate is less than 10 cases per 100,000 per year.

“We are studying babies and young children to look whether we have a specific microbe of the infections or whether the total microbial load is important,” he said.

Microbes found in stool samples from each child and in dust particles from their homes are also being analyzed by researchers at the Harvard/MIT Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

“What we have been able to do is get a detailed trajectory of how bugs change and how stable the microbiome is,” said Ramnik Xavier, chief of gastroenterology at Massachusetts General and senior associate at the Broad Institute.

“The only way is to identify the bugs and then do experiments to see whether they” cause diabetes to develop.

It turns out that the Russian children play outside more often and are around more animals. Many of their houses don’t have air conditioning or central heat.

They also have greater exposure to such microbes as hepatitis A, Helicobacter pylori (which causes stomach ulcers) and Toxoplasmosa gondii, a parasite spread by cat feces.

Eric Niiler is a freelance science writer based in Chevy Chase, Md.

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RELIGION

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SATURDAY, JAN. 25, 2014

When religion brought peace to the Middle East Editor’s note: The following piece was inspired in part by Lawrence Wright’s forthcoming play, Camp David, which tells the story of the 1978 peace treaty forged between Israel and Egypt.

BY LAWRENCE WRIGHT ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Religion has certainly started more wars than it has stopped, and this is nowhere more evident than in the Middle East, the venue for religious conflict since prehistory.

The Old Testament and the Qu’ran are the testaments of different tribes with different gods, and those differences continue to divide peoples who are otherwise very much alike.

In one case, however, religion had a hand in bringing peace to the Middle East. That was when President Jimmy Carter invited Anwar Sadat, the president of Egypt, and Menachem Begin, the Israeli prime minister, to meet at Camp David in the fall of 1978.

As we consider once again the difficulty of finalizing a comprehensive peace in the Middle East, it’s worth recalling that the men who went to Camp David were just as flawed and handicapped by their histories as anyone who is in office today.

Carter’s presidency was flailing, overwhelmed by a rotten economy and eventu-

ally sabotaged by a failed attempt to rescue the American hostages held in Iran after the overthrow of the Shah.

The men he invited to Camp David were unlikely partners for peace. Sadat was a former assassin who had spent five years in prison for various crimes, including his attempt to collaborate with the Nazis.

Begin was a terrorist who had been responsible for blowing up Jerusalem’s King David Hotel, under the British Mandate, and committing the 1948 massacre of the village of Deir Yassin, which spurred the Palestinian diaspora.

Each of these men was religious, in his own tradition.

Carter had grown up in a Southern Baptist congregation in Plains, Georgia. He began memorizing Bible verses at the age of three and started teaching Sunday School when he was an eighteen-year-old midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy.

In 1973, while still Governor of Georgia, he and his wife, Rosalynn, took a trip to the Holy Land. They walked in the streets where Jesus walked, they bathed in the River Jordan, and they returned to the U.S. deeply committed to helping Israel.

The idea was planted in Carter’s mind that God might find a use for him in bringing peace to this eternally conflicted region.

In some respects, Sadat’s

for making peace with Egypt was surrendering the Sinai Peninsula, the concourse for four previous wars between the two nations, which provided Israel with strategic depth and what it believed was a more defensible border.

What these flawed men had in common was faith, but it is also what separated them.

Of the three, only Carter really believed that peace might be attainable at Camp David.

Perhaps it was because he was convinced that God wanted to use him in this fashion.

If so, there was little effort of divine assistance.

The thirteen days were marked by continual setbacks.

Carter had hoped and expected that he could simply put Begin and Sadat together in the same room, and in the peace and isolation of the mountaintop encampment they would come to trust each other and sort out the issues that kept them from making peace.

Soon the Israeli and the Egyptian were screaming at each other.

Carter finally had to separate them for the remainder of the summit while he shuttled back and forth. When Sadat had threatened to walk out, Carter had prayed to find a way to make him stay.

In that case, Sadat finally agreed, but it probably had more to do with the fact that Carter threatened to blame the failure of the talks on him.

background was similar to Carter’s.

They had both grown up in isolated, rural communities.

He memorized the Qu’ran as a young child, and as an adult, he sported the “zabeeba”—the dark callus on his forehead that testified to many hours with his head pressed to the prayer mat.

He called himself “the first man of Islam,” although of course it would be the Islamists who would one day kill him, in part because of the peace he made with Israel.

But he knew what the stakes were when he came to Camp David.

Begin was not as pious as Carter or Sadat, but he was schooled in the Bible and Jewish scholarship and fiercely committed to the salvation of the Jewish people. He looked upon the Old Testament as both history and prophecy.

He believed that God had chosen the Jewish people and given them the Land of Israel.

In his mind, that included not only the West Bank (which he always referred to, in biblical terms, as Judea and Samaria) and Gaza, but also what is present-day Jordan.

Begin, who lost his parents and brother in the Holocaust, believed that Israel was the only refuge for the Jewish people. He had to weigh any compromise against an existential balance sheet that allowed no margin for error. The price

Even on the final day, with the signing of the agreement already scheduled at the White House and television broadcasters ready to interrupt their programming, a last-minute flare up over Jerusalem nearly torpedoed everything that had been achieved in forging peace between Israel and Egypt.

The very first issue on the table was a prayer that Rosalynn Carter had prepared. The idea had arisen that the three men would release a statement in the form of a prayer for the success of the summit.

Sadat immediately agreed, but Begin—as would prove characteristic of the entire negotiation—insisted on editing and making small word changes.

The prayer was: “After four wars, despite vast human effort, the Holy Land does not yet enjoy the blessings of peace.

Conscious of the grave issues which face us, we place our trust in the God of our fathers, from whom we seek wisdom and guidance. As we meet here at Camp David, we ask people of all faiths to pray with us that peace and justice may result from these deliberations.”

On Sept. 17, 1978, an exhausted Jimmy Carter told the world that their prayers had been answered.

Lawrence Wright is the author, most recently, of Going Clear and the play Camp David.

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BAHÁ'í Faith “Ye are all leaves of one tree and the fruits of one branch.”

By this it is meant that the world of humanity is like a tree, the nations or peoples are the different limbs or branches of that tree and the individual human creatures are as the fruits and blossoms thereof. In this way His Holiness Bahá’u’lláh expressed the oneness of humankind. Abdu’l-Bahá Sun. Feb. 9th there will be an interfaith potluck supper. If you are interested in dialogue with other faiths, call Rev. Jeff at (403) 347-2244. For information on the Bahá’i Faith www.building-community.ca

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Pork industry on guard PORCINE EPIDEMIC DIARRHEA REPORTED IN ONTARIO

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF BANFF — Alberta’s swine industry is shoring up its defences after news that a deadly virus has made its way from the United States into an Ontario hog barn.

Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), not transmissible to humans but lethal to baby pigs, has struck more than one-third of the sow barns and killed four per cent of the nursing piglets in the U.S. since the first case was confirmed last summer.

The question about how long it could be kept out of Canada was answered at the Banff Centre on Thursday afternoon. More than 500 farmers, truckers,

packers and veterinarians from across the continent had gathered there for the final session of an annual conference dealing with industry issues, including discussions of how to keep PED out and what to do if an outbreak were to occur.

The shock went through the room like a lightning bolt as people started receiving word that the dreaded disease had been confirmed on an Ontario farm, said Don Brookbank, procurement manager at the Olymel pork processing plant in Red Deer.

At this point, Olymel has not had to take any special precautions or change any of the practices at its loading dock, Brookbank said outside the meeting.

That will change if there is evidence that the disease has started to move toward Alberta, he said.

“The key break has to be transport trucks going to farms. That’s critical to producers — proper clean-

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ing, drying, disinfecting,” said Brookbank.

“We have a plan in place. We’re ready to do what we can, and we will do everything we can to do our part.”

Daryl Toews, Alberta regional manager for Steve’s Livestock Transport, said his company is doing everything possible to keep its trucks from shipping the virus to the farms they serve. A drying bay was added to its wash facilities about a year ago so trucks and trailers can be cleaned, disinfected and then thoroughly dried between loads.

“We’ve done a lot of training of our drivers, giving them proper instruction about biosecurity and proper footwear to help break the chain of the disease.

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CREDIT MONITORING ON TARGET

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR In 2012, more than 35,000 immigrants became permanent residents of Alberta — with about 1,000 of these settling in Red Deer.

“Which is double the number from 2010 and 2011,” pointed out Avery Acheson, a settlement practitioner — public awareness with Central Alberta Refugee Effort.

The majority of those new Red Deer residents were skilled workers, a desperately needed resource in Alberta’s growing economy. In fact, noted Acheson, Citizenship and Immigration Canada has said that immigrants will account for 100 per cent of the growth in this country’s labour force between 2011 and 2016.

“That really astounds people when they hear that,” said Jan Underwood, another settlement practitioner — public awareness with CARE. It means Canada is reliant on immigrants to fill the employment needs of its growing economy.

“And that’s not in any way taking jobs away from Canadian people,” stressed Underwood.

Employing immigrant workers shouldn’t just be viewed as simply a demographic necessity, said Acheson and Underwood. Done properly, it can improve a business’s performance and ultimately its bottom line.

Acheson cited a 2009 study in the United States that found a strong correlation between businesses’ racial diversity and their sales revenue.

“That shows that there really is a big competitive advantage to having cultural diversity, and also to be using it within that inclusion structure to allow that everyone’s ideas are heard, seen and put to good use,” he said.

The challenge for many employers is ensuring that their workplaces are culturally diverse and inclusive.

CARE offered a helping hand on Thursday, when it organized a Red Deer workshop for businesses and other organizations on the issue. About 30 people took part, said Underwood, with these able to learn and share their experiences.

Although each organization is unique, the process of creating a culturally diverse and inclusive workplace involves ensuring immigrant workers feel welcome, said Underwood. It’s also important that their input is encouraged and even sought.

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Workers install an outdoor sign at the new Target store at the Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth, N.S., on July 20, 2013. Target Corp. is offering some of its Canadian customers a year of free credit monitoring after a massive security breach at its U.S. stores put confidential details into the hands of thieves.

Inflation may ease pressure on loonie: analysts

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s annual inflation rate rose to 1.2 per cent last month, still below the Bank of Canada’s ideal target but back within its desired range.

It likely won’t assuage the central bank’s worries over persistently low inflation in Canada, but it may ease pressure on the falling loonie, economists said Friday.

While it’s reassuring to see inflation back in the bank’s target range, “the report still fails to reveal the kind of thrust that would inspire a tone shift at the (Bank of Canada),” Jimmy Jean, economic strategist with Desjardins, said in a note.

It could take until mid-year for the consumer price index to move to the bank’s ideal two per cent target in a sustained way, he said.

The 1.2 per cent climb in the consumer price index’s basket of goods that Canadians regularly purchase for December was up from gain of 0.9 per cent in November.

The Bank of Canada raised concerns about low inflation on Wednesday after it lowered its forecast and said it was keeping a close eye on prices. The

central bank, which worries persistent low inflation may be a sign of weakness in the economy, forecasts inflation will likely reach the two per cent mark in about two years.

The Bank of Canada’s core index, which excludes several volatile components that are part of the broader consumer price index, rose 1.3 per cent for December compared with 1.1 per cent for November.

The report Friday carried a lot more weight than usual, given that the bank has “lifted inflation to exalted status in their worry list,” said BMO chief economist Douglas Porter.

“However, the results are a stalemate for the market since they precisely met the bank’s assumptions,” he said in a note.

“For now, though, inflation has moved above the very low end of the Bank’s comfort zone, providing a touch of breathing space and easing one source of pressure on the loonie.”

The loonie was up 0.19 of a cent to 90.29 cents U.S. before noon Friday.

CIBC economist Peter Buchanan said the Bank of Canada is going to want to see more data before their concerns ease, but the numbers were within expectations.

Province forecasts anticipated demand for workers Dear Working Wise: What careers will be in the highest demand in the future? I’m trying to decide on a career and a school, but I want a job that pays well when I’m done.

Do you have any advice? — Searching Student Dear Searching: It’s difficult to say for sure what the future holds, but the government of Alberta did just release a report last week that you might find helpful.

The Occupational Demand and Supply Outlook 2013-2023 forecasts the anticipated demand for workers for the next 10 years. More importantly, CHARLES it reveals expected labour STRACHEY shortages and surpluses by comparing the forecasted de- WORKING WISE mand to the predicted supply of workers.

The Alberta government produces the 10-year outlook to focus training dollars in strategic areas to minimize labour and skills shortages.

According to the latest outlook, 407,000 new jobs are expected to be added in Alberta over the coming decade, while only 311,000 new workers will join our workforce — leaving us a shortage of approximately

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96,000 workers in 2023. This is an improvement from two years ago, when the shortage was estimated at 114,000, but as you can see, there will be a lot of opportunities in Alberta’s workforce over the next decade.

These new job opportunities will not be limited to entry-level, lower-paying, or part-time positions.

Some of the biggest shortages are expected in the health care, construction, retail, operations/maintenance and energy sectors.

The top-20 biggest predicted shortages include: 1. Veterinarians (15.9 per cent) 2. Family physicians (15.6 per cent) 3. Dentists (15.2 per cent) 4. Oil & Gas Drilling/Service labourers (12.7 per cent) 5. Physiotherapists (11.9 per cent) 6. Construction trades labourers/helpers (11.7 per cent) 7. Occupational therapists (11.4 per cent) 8. Landscaping/grounds maintenance labourers (11.3 per cent) 9. Biologists (11 per cent) 10. Trades labourers/helpers (10 per cent) 11. Pharmacists (9.9 per cent) 12. Dieticians/nutritionists (9.9 per cent) 13. Head nurses (9.7 per cent) 14. Registered nurses (9.5 per cent) 15. Senior managers, financial/communications

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(8.4 per cent) 16. Dental hygienists (8.3 per cent) 17. Retail managers (8.2 per cent) 18. Heavy equipment operators (8.2 per cent) 19. Public works and maintenance labourers (8.2 per cent) 20. Janitors/caretakers (7.7 per cent).

You can read the complete list of results for nearly 300 occupations in Appendix D of the Occupational Demand and Supply Outlook 2013-2023 at http:// eae.alberta.ca/lmi.

Employers and managers may find the forecast helpful in planning their staff attraction and retention strategies. Students and young Albertans may also find the outlook helpful while they are researching potential careers.

You can learn more about any occupation that interests you by visiting the Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS) web site at http://alis.alberta.ca.

ALIS has profiles (OccInfo) of more than 500 occupations, including working conditions, typical salaries, and required education/training. ALIS also offers 240 occupational videos that provide overviews and interviews with people who work in each occupation.

Working Wise is compiled by Charles Strachey, a manager with Alberta Human Services, for general information. He can be contacted at charles.strachey@gov. ab.ca.

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

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 98.78 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 48.06 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.03 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.94 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.86 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.67 Cdn. National Railway . . 57.93 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 156.88 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.70 Capital Power Corp . . . . 22.60 Cervus Equipment Corp 23.97 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 43.41 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 46.62 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 26.42 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.31 General Motors Co. . . . . 36.83 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.65 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.11 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.87 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 67.84 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 36.72 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.31 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 48.44

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.55 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.59 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 58.73 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.42 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 26.72 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 21.05 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 24.23 First Quantum Minerals . 19.82 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 26.60 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.93 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.15 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 35.19 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.58 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 26.61

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 97.31 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.45 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.29 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.98 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 15.75

Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 28.56 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 91.70 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 56.43 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.74 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 51.22 Calfrac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.53 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 35.47 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.45 Canyon Services Group. 11.18 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 29.18 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.810 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 20.18 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.53

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market plunged more than 200 points Friday as emerging market worries persuaded investors to avoid riskier assets like equities and commodities.

The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 215.18 points to 13,717.79 in a broad-based selloff.

The Canadian dollar was ahead 0.21 of a cent to 90.31 cents US as Statistics Canada said the annual inflation rate rose to 1.2 per cent in December, compared with 0.9 per cent in November, largely because of higher gasoline prices.

Losses were even steeper in New York where the Dow Jones industrials racked up a sizable triple-digit loss for a second day, falling 318.24 points to 15,879.11

after plunging 176 points on Thursday. The Nasdaq was 90.7 points lower to 4,128.17 while the S&P 500 index was down 38.17 points to 1,790.29.

Investors have been worried about sharp drops in the values of currencies in several emerging markets, including Turkey, Russia, South Africa and Argentina.

These drops were sparked by moves by the U.S. Federal Reserve to cut back on its massive bond purchases, a key stimulus measure that fuelled a rally on stock markets last year and also kept long-term rates low.

But U.S. bond yields have risen as the Fed moves to taper its purchases.

“If the expectation is in the U.S. that yields start going up, I think the investors who are now overseas in the Turkish, Argen-

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 94.85 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 48.61 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.66 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 32.92 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.82 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.19 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 8.14 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.200 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.78 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.91 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.56 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.99 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.25 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 62.40 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 72.00 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 56.89 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.28 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 37.12 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.85 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.63 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 54.89 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 68.16 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.86 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 86.75 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.42 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 70.49 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 36.86 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.11 tinian, South African or Venezuelan bond markets don’t see the need to stay there anymore — so they repatriate their money,” said John Tsagarelis, portfolio manager at Manulife Asset Management.

“So there’s a pretty quick outflow and you’re seeing that through the transmission mechanisms of the currencies first and then obviously the bond market and then things follow from there.”

The rout in emerging market assets began a day earlier following signs that manufacturing was contracting in China, a major driver of global economic growth.

Also weighing on markets has been a slew of fourth-quarter earnings reports out this week that have disappointed on rev-

a five-cent retreat Thursday on the China manufacturing data.

Teck Resources lost 54 cents to C$26.61 and HudBay Minerals (TSX:HBM) lost 37 cents to $8.93.

Financials were also a weight, down 1.61 per cent with Manulife Financial (TSX:MFC) 94 cents lower to $20.86, while Royal Bank (TSX:RY) gave back 93 cents to $70.49.

The energy sector lost 1.38 per cent with the March crude oil contract down 68 cents to US$96.64 a barrel. Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) fell 71 cents to C$35.47 and Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) shed 89 cents to $36.91.

The February gold bullion contract rose $2 to US$1,264.30 an ounce as the gold sector lost early momentum and turned down about 0.7 per cent. Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) lost 38 cents to C$21.05 and Kinross Gold (TSX:K) faded nine cents to C$5.15.

The tech sector was the main advancer, with shares in business software company Open Text Corp. (TSX:OTC) running ahead $10.81, or 10.79 per cent, to $111 as it posted a quarterly profit of US$53.5 million or 90 cents a share, down from $61.1 million a year ago. Revenue increased to US$363.5 million from $352.2 million. Open Text also said that it will split its stock two-for-one next month.

enue growth.

“Many companies last year were coming in line or just coming in slightly below revenue expectations and then beating on EPS because of cost cutting and issues related to maintaining margins and so forth,” Tsagarelis said.

“But I think if you don’t have topline growth, cost reductions can only go so far.”

Investors are wary of a U.S. market that hasn’t experienced a serious correction in almost 18 months. The S&P 500 soared about 30 per cent last year.

Much of last year’s rally was made possible by Fed stimulus in the form of massive bond buying. But the central bank announced last month it was cutting those purchases by US$10 billion a month to $75 billion.

The Fed holds its next interest rate meeting next week and traders will be anxious to see if the Fed reduces its asset purchases further.

In earnings news Friday, Procter & Gamble said its second-quarter net income fell 16 per cent to US$3.43 billion, or $1.18 per share as the world’s largest consumer products maker faced tough comparisons from a year ago, the stronger dollar and flat sales globally. But its adjusted earnings still beat expectations. Revenue was flat at $22.28 billion, short of the $22.34 billion in revenue analysts expected but its shares headed up 1.2 per cent to $79.18.

North American indexes fell sharply during the week with the TSX down 1.23 per cent while New York’s Dow industrials gave back 3.52 per cent.

The industrials group led decliners on Friday, down 2.55 per cent with Canadian National Railways (TSX:CNR) losing $1.77 to $57.93 while Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) dropped $7.22 to $156.88.

The base metals sector was close behind, down 1.98 per cent as March copper declined a cent to US$3.278 a pound following

Nasdaq — 4,128.17, down 90.70 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 90.31 cents US, up 0.21 of a cent Pound — C$1.8274, down 1.90 cents Euro — C$1.5141 down 0.59 of a cent Euro — US$1.3674, down 0.21 cents Oil futures: US$96.64 per barrel, down 68 cents (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,264.30 per oz., up two dollars (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.786 oz., down 36.5 cents $732.57 kg, down $11.73 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’14 $3.00 lower $425.20; May ’14 $2.90 lower $435.00; July ’14 $3.00 lower $443.80; Nov. ’14 $3.00 lower $459.30; Jan ’15 $3.00 lower $464.90; March ’15 $3.10 lower $470.20; May ’15 $3.00 lower $472.30; July ’15 $3.00 lower $474.30; Nov ’15 $3.00 lower $470.50; Jan. ’16 $3.00 lower $470.50; March ’16 $3.00 lower $470.50.

Barley (Western): March ’14 unchanged $127.00; May ’14 unchanged $129.00; July ’14 unchanged $129.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $129.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $129.00; March ’15 unchanged $129.00; May ’15 unchanged $129.00; July ’15 unchanged $129.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $129.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $129.00; March ’16 unchanged $129.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 1,082,420 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 1,082,420.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,717.76, down 215.21 points TSX Venture Exchange — 967.30, down 16.09 points TSX 60 — 788.15, down 13.68 points Dow — 15,879.11, down 318.24 points S&P 500 — 1,790.29, down 38.17 points

Natural gas soars as frigid winter limits production, boosts demand

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The frigid winter of 2014 is setting the price of natural gas on fire.

The price in the futures market soared to $5.18 per 1,000 cubic feet Friday, up 10 per cent to the highest level in three and a half years. The price of natural gas is up 29 per cent in two weeks, and is 50 per cent higher than last year at this time.

Record amounts of natural gas are being burned for heat and electricity. Meanwhile, it’s so cold that

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VIRUS: Classified as a reportable disease Toews said his company has done everything it knows and will change practices and add new procedures if required.

Veterinarian Julia Keenliside, a specialist with the provincial government, said Alberta declared PED a reportable disease earlier in the week, meaning all confirmed and suspected cases must be reported immediately. Money has been made ready so farmers can get free lab tests if suspicious symptoms show up in their barns and to cover the first visit from their veterinarians.

Working with Alberta Pork, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development has the capacity to trace out and track back to find all potential points of contact if evidence of the virus does show up here, said Keenliside.

A communications system has been set up to ensure that updates are shared as they come available and all farmers are being asked to speak up immediately if they see signs of trouble in their barns, she said.

Darcy Fitzgerald, executive director for Alberta Pork, said his group has great biosecurity procedures in place and has been encouraging producers to maintain their vigilance, keep their trucks clean and be watchful of the units coming to their farms. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

DIVERSITY: Talk about it “I think a lot of time, with people of different cultures, if you ask them personally by name in a meeting, they’ll probably give you a fabulous answer,” she said. “But they’re not as likely to give it in a free-forall kind of situation.”

Or, added Underwood, they might be more comfortable offering their perspective in a one-on-one conversation, rather than in a meeting.

Acheson also said that input should be obtained from workers in different positions and from various cultures.

Underwood described how Canadian-born employers can misinterpret the actions of immigrants.

For example, a weak handshake or lack of eye contact might be interpreted as low self-confidence, when in fact it reflects that person’s upbringing.

“There are many different ways that people greet,” agreed Acheson. “We don’t have to know every single culture’s way of greeting. What we need to know is that people greet in different ways.”

He hopes CARE’s workshop will promote discussion about cultural diversity and inclusion in organizations, and the sharing of information and ideas.

“The only way to make progress with a lot of these things is to get people talking about it.”

Acheson and Underwood hope to conduct similar sessions in the future, with one already planned for Feb. 20 from 11 a.m. to noon at the Red Deer County office. It will focus on community inclusiveness, but anyone is welcome to participate.

Interested people can register by calling the county’s community services department at 403-3502150. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

drillers are struggling to produce enough to keep up with the high demand. So much natural gas is coming out of storage that the Energy Department says supplies have fallen 20 per cent below a year ago — and that was before this latest cold spell.

“We’ve got record demand, record withdrawals from storage, and short-term production is threatened,” says energy analyst Stephen Schork. “It’s a dangerous market right now.”

Natural gas and electric customers are sure to see somewhat higher rates in the coming months.

But they will be insulated from sharp increases be-

cause regulators often force natural gas and electric utilities to use financial instruments and fuel-buying strategies that protect residential customers from high volatility.

To understand the price increase, just look at the thermometer. A second major cold snap this month is gripping much of the country, including the heavily-populated Northeast. And forecasters are now predicting colder weather in the weeks to come, extending south through Texas.

Natural gas is used by half the nation’s households for heating.

Porcine epidemic diarrhea — a member of the corona family of viruses — is widespread in Europe and China but was not seen in North America until last summer, when the first cases started to show up on farms in the United States.

North American pigs are highly susceptible to the virus because their immune systems have not had to deal with it in the past.

The disease is not transferred directly from animal to animal, nor is it transmissible to humans.

In a bulletin released earlier this week, Alberta Pork describes PED as a virus causing severe diarrhea and death in suckling pigs and milder diarrhea in older animals. One hundred per cent of infected piglets will die at three to five weeks of age, says the bulletin.

Pigs become infected by eating contaminated feed, with the virus transmitted by pregnant sows to their unborn piglets.

By Wednesday afternoon, U.S. farmers had lost four per cent of their piglets to the disease and the numbers were climbing.

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U.S.-based economist Steve Meyers estimates that those losses would be felt about six months from an outbreak, when there would be a gap in the number of pigs available for market.

While the effects have been devastating in the short term, the loss of supply may mean improvements in prices for farmers whose barns are not affected, Meyers said during a meeting with producers in Banff on Thursday.

Ontario veterinarian Doug MacDougald said the key direction for Canadians is to keep the disease contained while continuing to work on strategies already being developed to deal with those farms that are affected.

“It may be acting like a super virus, but folks it’s not. We know if it’s handled right in most situations, the track record is sow herds can eliminate this in 90 to 100 days,” MacDougald told producers and other industry leaders during the 2014 Banff Pork Seminar on Thursday.

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Turning the ordinary into the extraordinary We refuse, point blank, to let even the tiniest room feel decoratively underplayed; that’s why we’re especially excited to show what we can do when faced with diminutive square footage and seriously limited cash.

Our motto, as always — “It’s not how much you spend but how you spend it that counts” — remains utterly pertinent. We love turning the ordinary into the extraordinary and, as such, were thrilled with this particular transformation; one that we found us high-kicking back to our style laboratory when our decorative spell had been well and truly cast.

Holy moly; with a little imagination, a sprinkling of Colin and Justin magic and a COLIN & touch of auspicious shopping JUSTIN anything is possible. Here’s how we walked on decorative water to play out our latest designer miracle:

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Adding features adds value

Modern four-poster Who says that four-poster beds can’t be modern and affordable? Certainly not us.

The Naples canopy bed, $503 from Target, would be ideal for a project such as this. When searching the market for a modern four poster, you’ll notice lots of white models, but don’t let this put you off.

With gentle care, you can easily recolour these to suit a project like this.

Use wet and dry sandpaper — start with heavy gage and work through to fine finish then apply sev-

What can we say? Some rooms just need to be revived. eral light coats of paint (allowing time between each to dry) rather than one gloopy coat that will drip and seriously undermine your finished project.

House of Wax is so not the desired look.

All that glitters ...

We picked up matching $20 bedside tables in a junk store then treated them to a little bit of shimmer.

Here’s how: To create a timeworn antique look, first sand, then spray each item silver and leave to dry.

Next, gently brush a little black paint over raised edges and details — doing this will help bring your look alive while providing extra visual texture.

Bright idea In a second-hand lighting store, we discovered unique and ornate cherubic brass lamps which we bagged for 40 bucks and then sprayed silver.

The original shades were white fabric but we swapped these to black drums to provide dramatic

new identity.

And the cost? An astonishing $80 per completed lamp — bases and shades.

Our best advice is to look outside the box at all times. Don’t only consider the high street; get into the habit of visiting on line auctions, sale rooms and junk stores to find what you need.

Flooring Dark lumber flooring provides connectivity to the ebony toned four-poster bed.

We recommend Kentwood (www.kentwoodfloors. com/ca) — their ranges are fantastic and the genus collection almost never ending.

Tip: buy five per cent more planks than you actually require and stash the surplus in your basement or attic.

Should damage ever occur (to the room floor) at a later stage you could rest easy, safe in the knowledge that you’ve material to patch in or fill problem areas as required.

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Rather than make the room feel smaller, our simple panels (lovingly fashioned from two-cm decorative beading) actually extend the feeling of width and height, especially when painted soft, muted grey.

To create this little box of Austrian-inspired magic, we used 70 BG 44/129 Rococo Blue by ICI. Visit www.dulux.cafor further info and for a huge selection of panel mouldings, try www.homedepot. ca.

Tip: draw a rough guide onto walls (use chalk so you can rub off any mistakes) before cutting your beading. This will help calculate exactly how much lumber you need and will give an idea of how your finished project will look. In short, planning everything properly saves future grief.

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RUG: Simple piece can provide contrast Rug A simple berber rug (we selected a circular shape to provide a little contrast to our project’s regimented lines) provides a touchy feely quotient that is useful in comfort terms but also in visual terms; the pile’s soft casual nature serves to soften the ‘manicured’ aesthetic of the scheme.

Ikea have a wicked selection of affordable flooring options; to be honest, they’re pretty much market leaders when it comes to affordability and choice.

Visit www.ikea.ca to view the range.

Use bold patterns delicately To further promote the feeling of understated luxury, we added bed detailing with a large damask print.

The key to using a dramatic pattern is to opt for an understated tone-ontone design palette.

Layering everything on a simple white $30 quilt set from HomeSense was our guaranteed means by which to keep our final look fresh and crisp.

Visit www.thibautdesign.com — the company’s wallpaper and fabric collection is particularly inspiring and allows you to select product and then see

it in stunning room sets before making an order.

Note how we used the same fabric for Roman blinds and cushions as we did the casual throw that dresses the bottom of the bed.

A simple move like this creates lovely continuity that suggests time was taken (as indeed it was) to create perfectly tailored results.

Accessories If you have space, add a smart chair and an occasional table to provide extra schematic layers.

This cute wee table came from Morba — www.morba.ca — and we had the chair made up by our friendly upholsterer. Accessories in chrome help bounce light while adding serious sparkle and vibrant tone.

We imagine, wincing at our before picture then allowing your eyes to pop on springs cartoon style (at our after shot) that it’s hard to believe this is the same room.

But of course it is.

Its realization is simple testament to what can be achieved if you carefully plan every single element of your reno. Don’t rush. sTake your time.

As you know by now — we never over spend as we concoct our visions. It’s all about careful shopping; we always think twice so we buy only once. Follow suit and every room you tackle will be similarly successful.

One final word of caution: never rest on your laurels. For there is still much to be learned.

Colin and Justin are regular home and design experts on TV and in print

This cute wee table came from Morba. Accessories in chrome help bounce light while adding serious sparkle and vibrant tone.

Move to condo needs dining, living room ideas

Dear Debbie: We are looking at a big move from a house to a newly built condominium and are struggling with design ideas for the combination livingdining-kitchen area.

We enjoy cooking and would still like to have a few friends for dinner. — Jacky Dear Jacky: This is your new home, so take the time to arrange the space to fit what you love and how you enjoy entertaining.

Dining is more relaxed today, and you can utilize table and seating options in your new space that insure you and your guests feel pampered and special.

You don’t require a large kitchen to enjoy cooking if both you and the space are well organized.

Think about the output DEBBIE that short-order chefs hanTRAVIS dle, or the mouthwatering meals that are stirred up in a tiny-perfect boat galley.

You might have to pare down on extra appliances that take up a lot of room; the same for dishes.

Be judicious about your requirements now that you will be cooking on a smaller scale and make the most of available counter space for preparation.

Many condos have a large, passthrough or window-style opening to the dining area, which is a clever way to keep guests out of the small kitchen area while you are preparing food, and also presents a practical solution for seating.

Instead of the traditional dining table, why not opt for a custom-built counter table that sits flush to the wall as shown here in Neil Kelly Design’s well-planned condo space, www.neilkelly. com.

This plan includes storage under the counter for wine, and from the kitchen side, a large cabinet for pantry items.

(By omitting the wine storage there would be leg room for a fourth chair.)

The slightly oval shape allows for angled views that keep everyone in touch with each other, and also facing open space rather than a wall.

The lighting was planned so that pendants focus on the counter, sleek and simple.

Plan to seat four to six people comfortably in the living room space.

Select love seats and small occasional chairs to make up the grouping.

Ottomans work well as extra seating, storage and tabletops. If the furniture is streamlined you won’t feel crowded.

Take advantage of ceiling and wall lighting to free up more space.

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Creative designs for small spaces take the sting out of downsizing and allow you to hang onto what you love.

Dear Debbie: I’m wondering if I can mix two large armless wingback dining room chairs with two smaller armed dining chairs around the table.

There is a difference in height of 10 inches.

Thank you. — Cindy Dear Cindy: Mixing and matching dining chairs is a very popular solution for seating today.

In fact, it gives you the advantage of using chairs in both living and dining areas.

Your arrangement will work if you place the larger chairs at the ends of the table and the smaller at the sides.

The size of the chair backs can vary.

However, be sure that the seats are the same

height so that everyone is sitting at the same level.

Choose a fabric or design for the chairs that links them in some way, either by colour or motif, to contribute to a cohesive style throughout your rooms.

Keep in mind that dining chairs should offer good solid support; it is difficult and uncomfortable to eat in a lounge chair.

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Factory-built home update Question: What’s your opinion on factory built homes these days? I’m told they’re more consistent than houses built on site in the usual way, and deliver better energy performance. Is factory built cheaper?

Answer: Factory-built homes are assembled in large, indoor manufacturing facilities, then transported in a few pieces for assembly on a pre-built foundation.

I’ve made it a point to ask every owner of a factory-built home I’ve met how they like their place, and I’ve never met anyone who didn’t have good things to say.

I’ve also looked into the process behind the way these houses are built, and I’m impressed.

The first wave of factorybuilt homes were clunky looking, but computer-controlled STEVE design and manufacturing has MAXWELL allowed style and good looks to be part the factory-built scene.

I toured one of the most innovative factory-built homes I’ve ever seen at a trade show back in November.

The concept was built around a modular design that allows construction to happen in stages. The central living space includes kitchen, livingroom and a bedroom, with the option of adding more bedroom or recreation wings later, as funds allow.

Choosing factory-built won’t save you any money, but it does make the homebuilding process more predictable.

You’ll get to see 3-D renderings of the various models you’re interested in, and walk into real versions on the company’s site.

All things considered, I’m convinced that factory built houses offer real benefits. That’s why more and more people are choosing them.

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Pieces of laminate floors sometimes pull apart when the interlocking click edges aren’t manufactured to fit tightly enough together. Apply wood glue to the gap, then push the pieces together for a permanent fix.

Vapour barrier in a garage ceiling Question: Do I need to install vapour barrier between joists in the ceiling of a garage I’m insulating?

The bedroom above will be heated. My builder has installed plastic sheets between the joists, and he says it’s OK. Is he right?

Answer: The job of a vapour barrier is to stop heated, moist indoor air from making its way into cold framing cavities where it would cool, condense and form liquid moisture. That’s why vapour barrier is always installed on the warm side of any hollow building structure.

This being said, any finished floor you’ve got above your garage will act as a pretty good vapour barrier all on its own. You’re OK to proceed without any special sealing measures beyond what your contractor has installed.

If you’re planning to replace the finished floor in the room above your garage, then installing one or two inches of rigid foam with a layer of half-inch plywood on top will make for a much warmer floor.

Fixing laminate floor gaps Question: What caused gaps to appear on the ends of laminate floor strips in my apartment? It seems like the strips of laminate have shrunk, leaving gaps in some places but not in others.

This is the first winter with the floor. Is my place too dry?

Answer: The cause of your problem isn’t really about dry air, though dry air has triggered it.

Laminate flooring changes shape very little with changes in humidity, but some click styles of laminate can be effected.

If the interlocking click joint isn’t quite tight enough as it comes from the factory, it can shrink enough during the dry heating season to allow pieces

of laminate to slide apart under foot traffic. The result is the gaps that you see in some places but not others.

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I’ve done this work before, and if the strips of laminate were loose enough to work their way apart, then they can be pushed together again by hand from

above.

Wipe the excess glue off with a damp rag after neighbouring pieces of laminate are pushed tight.

Steve Maxwell, syndicated home improvement and woodworking columnist, has shared his DIY tips, how-to videos and product reviews since 1988. Get home improvement and renovation advice directly from Steve at www.stevemaxwellhowto.com.

Modern play spaces can be cool, contemporary BUT THE ESSENTIAL KEY IS MAKING THEM CHILD-FRIENDLY -era posters or toy ads, and add floor pillows covered in patterns drawn from the era.

Soothing hues like umber, avocado, mustard and sky blue keep the energy relaxed.

INDUSTRIAL CHIC Rooms with an industrial feel — warehousegrade tables and storage, furniture and decorative elements with a rugged look — appeal to many kids, who sense they can let loose in these spaces.

And the style’s on trend, so it’s easy to do.

Neutral colour palettes mixing whites, greys and browns work for either gender. Look for ceiling lights caged in metal (no worries about errant pillows or Nerf balls), riveted furniture, and repurposed machine-shop elements such as gear pieces, tools

and signage. A galvanized-iron, locker-style dresser makes great storage. (www.pbteen.com ) Powder-coated in crisp red or white, Ikea’s PS metal cabinet adds a pop of colour. (www. ikea.com ) A magnetized blackboard fits the edgy vibe and lets inspiration fly. Make your own inexpensively with instructions at TheTurquoiseHome.com.

Rugged-looking play tables offer surfaces for messy art and often offer great storage for toys and games. (www.rhbabyandchild.com ) Lumber, flooring and stone yards will often give old pallets away: Lots of ideas for making your own play or coffee table can be found at Home -dzone.co.za.

EXPLORATION LOCATION Animals, trees, and

sky or earth elements can inspire children to be creative in play spaces, and many contemporary pieces appeal to both kids and adults. At Stardust.com, find the Zuo Modern Phante chair, a version of Eames’ iconic, polypropylene, elephantshaped chair.

A realistic, cast-resin bear’s head is fun, eclectic wall art. (www.urbanoutfitters.com ) Other ideas: ● Create inexpensive, customized storage in a playroom by painting or staining ready-made kitchen cabinets. Metal tool carts can be side tables, as well as portable art supply zones or storage stations for small toy parts. ● Display books face

forward on wall-mounted shelves with a lip, so covers can be easily seen.

Or scrounge flea markets for old wooden carpenter’s tool boxes, which are sturdy and shallow. Use games as art by displaying the boxes on floating shelves; old game boards hung on a wall add colour and visual punch. ● Shoot photos of kids’ favourite toys — close-ups, Instagrams and black-and-white look cool — and then mount them in identical frames.

Ikea has inexpensive options, and Michaels’ craft stores stock three-packs of LP frames.

When the kids set up their own places in a few years, this will be hip art with happy memories.

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Outfitting a play space for children might consist of nothing more than setting up a few old furniture pieces, plastic storage bins and the extra TV. But some parents want the play space to reflect their design esthetic. Does the rest of the home read more Eero Saarinen than Superman? More Verner Panton than Pokemon? Is the vibe less Nickelodeon, more George Nelson? If so, you’ll want to try balancing kid-friendly with cool.

Some options: MOD MAD Lots of decor from the ’60s and ’70s works well in a play space: mod lamps, modular furniture, pop art, and fun, space-age prints for wallpaper and textiles. Hues popular back then — orange, yellow, teal, green, white — add energy to furniture, cushions and rugs.

New York-based designer Amanda Nisbet used a Roy Lichtenstein print and a chrometrimmed bubble chair in one of her children’s space projects. Victoria Sanchez, a designer in Washington, D.C., used colorful Missoni fabrics to liven up a teen lounge. (www.amandanisbetdesign.com; www.victoriaathome.com) Check out Modshop1. com and Designpublic. com for pieces — many of them kid-size — that fit the style.

Hip, retro-style robot,

typography and animal patterns designed by New Yorker Nancy Wolff are at AllModern.com.

And chocolate, tangerine or red knitted poufs and flat weave rugs with zingy geometric graphics are part of the signature line at Fab.com.

For a low-key look that still fits the esthetic, think smooth-edged Danish modern wood furniture. Armless upholstered club chairs look smart and are perfect for lounging; find new ones at Overstock. com and vintage ones on Etsy.com. Or take a cue from Australian designer Anna Williams and use mid-century credenzas for toy storage — check out ThriveFurniture.com and OneKingsLane.com for options at various prices.

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CUNDY Robert Raymond William Robert (Bob) passed away peacefully on Tuesday, January 21, 2014. He will be missed by Myrtle, his loving wife of 56 years; his daughter, Cheryl (Darcy) Webb; his son, Curtis (Deb) Cundy; and his grandchildren, Ryan Webb, Kaylee Webb, and Garrett Cundy. Bob was predeceased by his father and mother, William and Ethel Cundy. Bob was proud to be a land use planner and worked as the Director of the Red Deer Regional Planning Commission for most of his 33 years with the Commission. He was devoted to Red Deer and led a number of projects important to the City, one being the relocation of the railway from what is now Taylor Drive.

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LASSESEN Randall Scott April 12, 1966 - January 22, 2014 Randall Scott Lassesen of Gull Lake passed away Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at the age of 47 years. Left to cherish his memory are his mother Linda Walker of Gull Lake; and his brother Neil Lassesen of Sooke, B.C. Randall was predeceased by his father Melvin Lassesen. A Funeral Service will be held 1:00 p.m., Thursday, January 30, 2014 from the Burgar Memorial Chapel (4817 51 Ave Camrose, Alberta) with Rev. Brian Hunter officiating.

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MERCER 1920 - 2014 Mrs. Maggie Jane Mercer of Red Deer was received by the loving arms of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at the age of 93 years. Our beloved Mother and Grandmother is survived by her 11 children and 29 grandchildren, 33 great grandchildren and 8 greatgreat grandchildren. She will be in our hearts forever. A Celebration of her life will be held on Monday, January 27, 2014, at 1:00 pm at the Word Of Life Centre, South end of Taylor Drive on England Way. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Gary W. Anderson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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THORN Rena Thorn passed away at the Extendicare Michener Hill on January 21, 2014 at the age of 96. She left us peacefully holding hands with her loving nieces Faye and Beverly Hallett. Rena was born in Alsask, Saskatchewan, July 24, 1917 to parents Jay and Tina Mowers. She spent her early years on the farm near Sibbald, Alberta leaving there to attend school in Calgary. While working at a bank in Didsbury, Alberta she met Doug Thorn whom she married in Victoria, B.C. in 1942. Rena and Doug moved to Red Deer in 1946 and resided there until their passing. Rena had many interests and hobbies, including her love of a game of cards and her knitting and croqueting. She enjoyed a good game of bridge and during the winter months you could often find her at the River Bend Golf Course playing a game or two with her many friends. She made multiple afghans, giving them to family and to charitable organizations as riffle items.

Many scarves were generously donated for children through the Christmas Bureau. She was also a long time active member of the Order of the Eastern Star, spending countless hours helping the organization raise funds for their charitable projects.

Rena was predeceased by her husband (Doug), sister Iva Belle (Mowers), brother Cleo (Mowers), and-sister Holly-Belle (Hallett). She is survived by her son Robie (Janet), daughter Janice Rogers (Vern), two grand children and two great grandchildren. Rena and her family were eternally grateful for the support, attention, and kindness shown to her by her many friends and the Order of the Eastern Star. Her days were also made brighter by the entire Hallett family, especially her niece Faye Hallett, and her nephew Grant Thorn all of whom were steadfast in their support and love for their aunt. A service will be held for Rena at St. Leonard’s Church in Red Deer on Saturday, January 25 at 2 p.m. with lunch to follow. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to a charity of your choice.

In Memoriam Fowler, Nathan Ray January 26, 2013 I never got to hear you laugh you never saw me cry didn’t get a chance to say “Hello” you never said “Goodbye” I didn’t think that I could feel so sad, lost and forlorn.

I never knew God chose His Angels before some of them were born.

Your life was short yet special I shared it all exclusively I felt you breathe, I felt you kick.

You were alive inside of me.

Every baby is an Angel and every angel is divine God needed one in heaven He came down and took mine And although we are not together we’re not really apart for you’ll always occupy a space deep within my heart.

Time has begun to ease my pain It’s only some days now I cry.

When I wish I could have said “Hello” and heard you say “Goodbye” All our love, Mommy & Daddy

Announcements

Daily

Classifieds 309-3300

Funeral Chapel & Crematorium

by Arbor Memorial Arbor Memorial Inc.

Trusted Since 1929

Births

FUN AND FRIENDS PLAYSCHOOL ** CELEBRATION SALE ** February - June classes Ages 3 -5. Call 403-342-5450

SATINWOOD SCHOOL Alumni for a Finale Reunion.

Please send mailing info to Jackie McPherson (Hebert) at 403-309-8856 or email to jackie.hebert@telus.net

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Lost

ECLECTUS Parrot Escapes! He flew the coop into the sun Sat. morning.

He is about a foot tall, bright green w/an orange beak. Reward Offered, will ID the leg band number. **FOUND**

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Personals

Engagements SMITH - SCHULZE Rollie and Marilyn Smith are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter, Rae-Ann, to Kurt Schulze.

ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work 40/hrs. per week w/some weekends, daytime hrs. $14/hr. Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Oilfield

800

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Coming Events

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

IRELAND John and Tara Ireland, and big brother Braylen are delighted to announce with lots of love the arrival of Brielle Addicyn born on August 31, 2013. She weighed 8 lbs, 10 ozs.

Special thanks to Dr. Thompson and all the nurses on Unit 25.

770

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

4820-45 Street Red Deer, AB

BUGBEE Ruth Eileen Jan. 27, 1919 - Jan. 22, 2014 Ruth passed away peacefully surrounded by her family at Michener Extendicare in Red Deer. Ruth was born in the family farmhouse east of Calgary. After graduating from high school, she took her nurses training at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Victoria, B.C. She met John Bugbee at a dance in Innisfail where he was training for the RAF and she was nursing. They were married in Calgary on June 7, 1943 and left immediately for Truro, Nova Scotia. After the war, they settled into farming near Chestermere Lake until October 1973. They then moved to Ridgewood area and continued to farm until they retired in 1987 and moved to Red Deer. Ruth kept active with gardening and volunteering at the Red Deer Nursing Home and the Red Deer Hospital. Ruth is survived by Christine Connor of Victoria, B.C., Bill (Rose) Bugbee of Innisfail, Don (Deb) Bugbee of Bowden, and Mary (Perry) Hilman of Sylvan Lake, as well as 10 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.

She was predeceased by John in 2001 and Colleen Connor in 1979. The memorial service will be held on January 28, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at the Sylvan Lake Alliance Church.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity of the donors choice.

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Red Deer Advocate

announcements Obituaries

Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 Is someone’s drinking causing you problems?

AL-ANON 403-346-0320

LOOKING for WITNESS to an accident that occurred Fri. Dec. 20 between Black Mini Cooper & Grand Am at Ross St. & 49th at 6:30 pm. Please contact 403-346-9126

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jobs CLASSIFICATIONS

$2500 Bonus Every 100 days

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Night Foremen, Day & Night Operators Must have H2S, First Aid, valid driver’s license.

Pre-employment Drug screening Competitive Wages.

Benefit Package Please submit resume with references to: apply@wespro.ca or by fax to (403) 783-8004 Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted

1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants If you are a team player interested in the oil and gas industry, please submit your resume, current driver’s abstract and current safety certificates to the following: Fax 403-887-4750 mbell@1strateenergy.ca Please specify position when replying to this ad.

We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

700-920

Computer Personnel

730

MICROAGE

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MicroAge is again looking for dynamic individuals to assist with offering our customers a positive and timely response to their IT issues. We require and administration assistant to work with dispatching, shipping/receiving/ and some minor bookkeeping responsibilities. We need someone with an upbeat personality and willing to assist with a variety of tasks. Must be able to work in a team environment.

Please send your resume to hr@microage.cc

Dental

740

BUSY DENTAL OFFICE HIRING F/T RECEPTIONIST. Dental experience req’d.

Start Immediately.

Please email: carol@rddc.ca Experienced

Dental Receptionist

required at House Dental Centre. Looking for friendly, motivated, professional person to join our team. Please email resume to catherine.touche@ housedental.ca.

REG. Dental Hygienist for F/T Matunity Leave.

May lead to P/T Perm.

Must be flexible with hours.

Starting in February.

Apply to Healthy Smiles Fax resume attn. Corinne 403-347-2133 or email: healthysmiles79@hotmail.com

Hair Stylists

760

ADAM & EVE UNISEX In the Parkland Mall is seeking P/T / F/T HAIR STYLISTS Please call Laurie 403-350-4341 JUST CUTS is looking for F/T - P/T HAIRSTYLIST No clientele necessary.

Christie 403-309-2494

Experienced Oilfield Construction Lead Hands Experienced Oilfield Construction Labourers Alstar Oilfield is looking for highly motivated individuals to join our Team in Hinton.

Alstar has been serving the oil and gas construction industry since 1969.

Modular Assembly Experience is an Asset If you have a Desire to be Part of a Growing Company Please apply on our Career Section on our website www.alstaroilfield.com “Committed to enriching the lives of our workforce, while Providing quality energy construction solutions”

FLUID Experts Ltd.

Fluid Experts of Red Deer is seeking experienced

Class 1 Operators

to haul clean fluids for the Oil & Gas Industry. Home every night, company benefits with exceptional pay structure. Must be able to work on their own with minimal supervision.

Compensation based on experience. Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com Global Tubing Canada is currently looking for employees for our growing service company. We are looking for permanent/ fulltime employees with Coil Tubing experience or without. Lots of room for advancement for the entry level employee. Work full time in Red Deer, no travelling. Call 403-3469231 for more information or drop resume off at 7754 47th Avenue Close, Red Deer, Alberta.

JAGARE ENERGY PRODUCTION TESTING now hiring Day Supervisors, Night Operators, and Helpers. Must have valid Class 5 drivers license. RSP’s and benefits pkg. incentives. Email resumes to: jagare2@gmail.com Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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Oilfield

800

Oilfield

800

Oilfield

800

LANGAN SITE SERVICES LTD.

in Ponoka county, supplies oilfield septic containment & disposal throughout AB. We require Driver Operators for small vac trucks. Oilfield exp. is an asset. Must have H2S, First Aid, TDG, clean driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abstract & Class 5 license, drug testing. $20/ hr. to start, home every night, benefits.

Fax resume to Dan 403-704-1127 or email: dan@ langansiteservices.com

OIL & GAS OPERATOR

Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field operations for an intermediate oil and gas operator. Applicants PROVIDENCE must have experience as a Trucking Inc heavy duty mechanic or journeyman instrument Is now hiring experienced mechanic and possess Picker Operator strong mechanical skills, Swamper be quick learners, motivated All candidates must be and hard working and live or be willing to relocate able to pass a pre-employment drug screen. We within a 20 minute commute offer exceptional wages LOCAL Testing company to workplace location. This and benefits for exceptional seeking experienced Well position offers a challenging people. Fax resume and work environment, attractive Testers. benefits with competitive abstract to 403-314-2340 Positions available or email to safety@ pay and significant room immediately. providencetrucking.ca Day/Night Supervisors & for promotion.

Please submit resumes Classifieds...costs so little Assistants.

MUST HAVE valid H2S Saves you so much!

Attn: Human Resources and First Aid. email:kwolokoff@ Competitive wages and TREELINE bearspawpet.com health benefits.

WELL SERVICES Fax 403-252-9719 Email resumes and tickets Has Opening for all Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 to: ken@ positions!

Immediately.

Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 darkstarproduction.com All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, (No GDL licenses) and First Aid. We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits.

Please include 2 work NOW HIRING reference names and Well Testing Personnel numbers.

Sylvan Lake. Openings for Experienced Supervisors Bed truck drivers and winch Please fax resume to: & Operators 403-264-6725 tractor. Top wages and Must have valid applicable Or email to: benefits. Email resume tickets tannis@treelinewell.com tom@roncooilfield.ca Email: lstouffer@ No phone calls please. or fax. 403-887-4892 testalta.com www.treelinewell.com

Oilfield

800

Oilfield

800

Oilfield

800

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

Sales & Distributors

830

Trades

850

LUAU Investments Ltd. SOAP Stories is seeking 5 DNR Pressure Welding (o/a Tim Hortons) F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, requires B-Pressure Food Counter Attendant selling soap & bath Welder Crew Foreman, FT and PT positions products $14.55/hr. + lead hands, labourers for available for day, night, bonus & comm. Beauty various projects in Alberta.

TRIUMPH Well Service is SERVICE RIG cert. reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Location evening and weekend Long term employment.

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd now accepting applications shifts. $9.95 to $11.25 per Parkland Mall - 4747 67th Excellent opportunity for for all positions. is seeking expâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d St. Red Deer. email hour depending on experiapprenticeship.

Excellent Experience reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Tickets FLOORHANDS & ence/availability. Apply in premierjobrdbto@ benefit packages. Fax and drivers license DERRICK HANDS person at any of these gmail.com resume to 403-742-5759 required. Top wages and Locally based, home every locations 4217 - 50 Ave or email: dnrwelding1 benefits with contracted SOAP Stories is seeking 5 @dnrwelding.ca. Attention: night! Qualified applicants 6721 50 Ave work. email dmorin@ retail sales reps. Selling must have all necessary Ryan. No Phone calls 7111 50 Ave triumphwellservice.com soap & bath products. please. Drug and Alcohol valid tickets for the position 62 Carleton Ave $12.10 hr + bonus & combeing applied for. or email timhire@telus.net program in effect. mission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Bearspaw offers a Something for Everyone Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. DNR Pressure Welding & very competitive salary Professionals Everyday in Classifieds Red Deer. email resume to Powerline Construction and benefits package premierjobrd@gmail.com requires Journeyman along with a steady EYEWEAR Heavy Duty Mechanic with work schedule.

Sales & experience in fleet maintePlease submit resumes: LIQUIDATORS nance for Heavy & Light Attn: Human Resources Distributors requires Trades duty trucks. Excellent Email: OPTICAL ASSISTANT benefi t packages. Email hr@bearspawpet.com Training provided.

ELEMENTS is looking 5 CARPENTERS and laborresumes to Harold@ Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Apply in person with Beauty Treatment Operators. ers with exp. in farm dnrwelding.ca or fax Mail to: Suite 5309, resume to: 4924 59 St. Selling seasonal gift buildings. 403-318-6406 (403)742-5759 No Phone 333-96 Ave. NE Red Deer, AB. packages & personal care calls please. Drug and Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 products in Parkland DNR Powerline The Red Deer Public alcohol program in effect.

Mall-4747 67th St Red Construction requires School District Deer, $14.55/Hr. Plus Journeyman/ Invites applications for the F/T COMMERCIAL bonus & commission, F/T, Apprentices/Labourers for positions of: GLAZIER Beauty certifi cation reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d various projects in Alberta.

Educational Assistant at Journeyman & apprentices email resumes: Long term employment.

Gateway Christian School We offer competitive elementsreddeerbto@ Excellent opportunity for Central Campus(15 hour wages. Full benefits after gmail.com apprenticeship. Excellent weekly) The suitable 90 days. Must have valid benefit packages. Fax candidate will provide ELEMENTS is looking for drivers licence. Email resume support to a middle school 5 retail sales reps. selling resume to 403-742-5759 to: d.generationglass or email: dnrwelding1 student with emotional and season gift packages and @platinum.ca @dnrwelding.ca Attention: TANKMASTER RENTALS behavioral learning needs. personal care products in or Fax: 403-886-5224 Noel. No Phone calls Desirable qualifi cations Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Expâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d Class 1 Fluid or Call 403-886-5221 and attributes: Educational Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + please. Drug and Alcohol Haulers for Central program in effect.

TOO MUCH STUFF? Assistant certifi cate or bonus & comm.

FT. No Alberta. Oilfield tickets Social Work or Let Classifieds exp. req`d. Please email Experienced Siders reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Competitive wages Rehabilitation diploma. help you sell it. elementsreddeer@gmail.com Needed Call 403-588-3210 and benefits. admin@tankmaster.ca or Refer to the school website: http://gateway.rdpsd.ab.ca fax 403-340-8818 for a detailed description of Caregivers/ the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s philosophy Aides and mission. For more information about the Red Deer Public School District, visit our web site at: www. rdpsd.ab.ca Applications received by 4:00 p.m. on January 28, 2014 will be assured of careful consideration.

Applications, with references, should be We are looking for a directed to: humanresources@rdpsd. permanent part-time (32 hrs/week) ab.ca Start your career! to provide clinical interventions and support to youth at our Grimmon See Help Wanted

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Boys & Girls Clubs of Calgary

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Hortonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor 8 Vacancies, 1-2 yrs. exp. reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. P/T & F.T. SHIFT WORK, $9.95 - $13.50/hr.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

Now hiring Canyon Champions for the following positions:

Why Canyon? f Paid technical and leadership training f Career advancement opportunities f RRSP matching program f Dynamic and rapidly growing company f Premium compensation package f New Equipment

To apply for the above positions, in confidence, please email or fax your resume and a copy of a current drivers abstract. We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

How to apply: online: canyontech.ca/careers fax: 888 249 3895

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Class 1 Drivers/Operators â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cement and Acid, Fracturing Supervisorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Coiled Tubing, Cement and Acid, Fracturing Journeyman Heavy Equipment Technician

Applicant Requirements: f Self-motivated f 15 /6 or contract 22/13 schedules f Safety-focused f Team orientated f Clean drivers abstract f Oil and Gas experience an asset

Parkland Community Living and Supports Society

BLACKFALDS Motor Inn -Housekeeping Supervisor Reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. 1 F/T, $19 - $20 hr., 1 yr. exp. reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Fax resume: 403-885-5868 Attn: Jenny

Canyon Technical Services is a leader in the oilfield service industry, providing customized fracturing and pressure pumping solutions to oil and gas producers across the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. At Canyon, our employees are â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Championsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, dedicated to fulfilling our Vision of â&#x20AC;&#x153;improving the industry one job at a timeâ&#x20AC;? - our â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Championsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; have made Canyon one of the most sought-after providers in our industry. If you are looking for a career within a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then Canyon is looking for you!

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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Hortonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Counter Attendant 8 Vacancies P/T & F.T. SHIFT WORK, $9.95 $10.98/hr. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

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FULL TIME CHILDREN FOSTER CARE PROVIDER NEEDED Parkland Community Living and Supports Society provides a specialized Foster Care service for children with developmental disabilities. Couples, with no pets or children under the age of 13 years old, willing to open up their home have the opportunity to make an incredible difference in the life of a 13 year old female.

As a Full Time Provider you will provide a caring, safe and structured environment with fun activities and dependable routines seven days per week with two weekends of relief. This commitment involves the inclusion of the child in your regular family life.

Experience with young children with developmental disabilities, FASD, medication administration and following a behavior support plan would be ideal.

Knowledge of Aboriginal Culture and some related post-secondary education would be an asset. Individual must have a private room, be in a non-smoking environment, and play in a fenced yard. Driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license and transportation are required.

Full time Foster Care/Proprietorship Providers receive a (tax free) monthly remuneration. Parkland CLASS provides extensive training which all Foster Care Providers are required to take at no cost to the Proprietor.

Please send a cover letter & resume quoting Comp #4742FCKJ to:

PARKLAND CLASS HUMAN RESOURCES 6010-45th Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 3M4 Fax: (403) 342-2677 e-mail: hr@pclass.org

is now accepting applications for P/T

MALE SEARCH & SECURITY PERSONNEL

We thank all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Competition will remain open until a suitable applicant is found.

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Restaurant/ Hotel

House treatment facility, in Didsbury, AB. through individual and group addictions counseling.

For details, please visit: http://www.boysandgirlsclubsofcalgary.ca/getinvolved/careers/full-time/

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Addictions Counselor

800

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Wise Is a leading oilfield services provider that is committed to Quality and Safety excellence. By empowering positive attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values, our employees care for the success of one another.

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SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

Truckers/ Drivers

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! REQUIRED: CARPENTER/DRYWALLER for restoration company.

This is a F/T position. Must have a valid drivers license.

Duties: Carpentry, drywall, painting & finishing work.

Fax or email resume to 403-347-4037 or crr@telus.net or contact Al @ 403-347-4001

Professionals

860

BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.

We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net

810 Now Hiring

Full-Time BOOKKEEPER with Experience

Highridge Homes, a quickly growing home building company, is currently looking for a full time bookkeeper who will be responsible for: · Working on books for three companies · AR – following up on NSF, invoicing · AP – entering and paying trades & suppliers · Payroll – for only a few employees, tax remittance · GST Remittance · Lot inventory management, architectural controls Min. 2 yrs experience in payroll & accounting/ bookkeeping. Experience working in the homebuilding industry an asset.

This position is a Monday to Friday, permanent position that includes a strong salary and excellent company benefits. If you have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, are computer literate and excel at problem solving and time management we would like to hear from you!

Please email your resume to Chris at info@highridgehomesltd.ca or fax in your resume to 403-342-6599.

Truckers/ Drivers

860

PROFESSIONAL Truck Driver Position Available

A Division of CORDY ENVIRONMENTAL

EXPERIENCED

Vacuum & Water Truck operators req’d. to start immed. $450/per day CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q All oilfield safety tickets req’d. Clean drivers abstract. Must comply with drug and alcohol policy.

References Req’d.

Exc. salary & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-742-5376 doug.reinhart@cordy.ca

www.ads-pipe.com Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., the world’s largest and most innovative manufacturer of HDPE drainage products is expanding and are currently accepting applications for a certified Class 1 Driver, with a minimum of two (2) years B-train trailer experience.

ADS Drivers are required to safely operate company equipment and provide a Buying or Selling high level of customer your home? service, delivering our Check out Homes for Sale products within central in Classifieds Alberta. ADS Drivers are required to be drug free and maintain legal transportation paperwork and driving practices. This position requires a valid Class 1 License, with previous off road forklift experience a definite asset. We offer quarterly cash safety bonuses as well as a comprehensive medical plan.

CENTRAL AB based truck- Benefits include: ing company requires Company provided Group Owner Operators Canadian Benefits & Company Drivers Voluntary dental Life insurance in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late Short-term and long-term disability model tractor pref.

Retirement Savings Plan 403-586-4558 (RSP) and Deferred Profit F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. Sharing Plan (DPSP) Minimum Class 5 with air Paid Vacation and clean abstract. Exp. Safety Bonus preferred. In person to Key All applicants are subject Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. to a pre-employment Red Deer. physical and MVR check.

Interested Applicants may Celebrate your life submit a resume, along with a Classified with a current drivers ANNOUNCEMENT abstract to: Advanced Drainage Looking for a new pet?

Systems Canada Inc. 4316 Gerdts Ave. Check out Classifieds to Blindman Ind. Park find the purrfect pet.

Red Deer County, AB. T4S-2A8 Fax: (403) 346-5806 E-mail ken.mccutcheon@ ads-pipe.com Position closing date: Feb. 6, 2014 Sylvan Lake. Openings for Bed truck drivers and winch tractor. Top wages and benefits. Email resume tom@roncooilfield.ca or fax. 403-887-4892

Professionals

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Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom energy equipment. Since 1992, Bilton has worked with engineering firms and oil and natural gas producers around the globe to develop their own equipment standards for size, capacity and any number of technical specifications. We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and employ over 175 people.

We currently have career opportunities for a professional;

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870

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY!

Food/Lounge Services at the Penhold Regional Mulitplex.

The Multiplex is comprised of an indoor ice arena, fitness center, running/ walking track, gymnasium, dance & motion studio, library, meeting rooms and the Town Office.

A fully equipped concession/ food service kitchen.

OPPORTUNITIES: 2 Year Signed Lease for A) Lounge Operation Only B) The Café Operation Only C) Joint Use of both Café & Lounge For Detailed information regarding this opportunity please visit our website @ www.townofpenhold.ca

Misc.

Help

880

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

WINTER START GED PREPARATION Feb. 10 START

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

ANDERS AREA INGLEWOOD AREA MORRISROE AREA SUNNYBROOK AREA VANIER AREA

Call Prodie: 403-314-4301 for more info ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in Johnstone Crossing Jepsen Cres. & Jordan Pkway Kentwood Kendrew Dr. Also Kennings Cres. & Kirby St. Mustang Acres

880

Misc.

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THE Red Deer Public School District Invites applications for the position of: Educational Assistant at Gateway Christian School Pines Campus. Providing assistance to Kindergarten to Grade 2 students.

Educational Assistant certificate or Early Childhood Development Diploma required. Refer to the school website: http:// gateway.rdpsd.ab.ca for a detailed description of the school’s philosophy and mission. For more information about the Red Deer Public School District, visit our web site at: www. rdpsd.ab.ca Applications received by 4:00 p.m. on January 28, 2014 will be assured of careful consideration.

Applications, with references, should be directed to humanresources@rdpsd. ab.ca

Employment Training

900

SAFETY OILFIELD TICKETS

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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. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

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Children's Items

1580

BOYS skates CCM kids size 13, like new $25; 403-314-9603 WINTER boots, Bogs, kids size 1, waterproof, new $90, asking $30 403-314-9603

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS

TRAINING CENTRE “Low Cost” Quality Training

(Reliable vehicle needed.)

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

Household Furnishings

1720

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

850

Trades

Johns Manville is a Berkshire Hathaway Company and a world leader in the ¿berglass manufacturing industry. Its modern Canadian insulation plant is located in Innisfail, Alberta. This attractive town is located close to Red Deer and 1 hour from Calgary: We require a:

MILLWRIGHT

As a member of the Mechanical Maintenance Team, you must have the following skills, quali¿cations and experience: ¾ Fully Quali¿ed Millwright with an Alberta Journeyman Millwright Trade Certi¿cate or equivalent ¾ A minimum of 3 years industrial plant maintenance experience ¾ Good communication skills ¾ Above average teamwork skills ¾ Basic computer skill (Microsoft Of¿ce & Outlook) ¾ SAP Maintenance Management System experience is an asset ¾ Willing to work shift work if necessary We strive for safety, quality and customer service in everything we do. If you are a high energy individual who enjoys working in Teams, as well as individually, we invite you to apply. We offer a non-smoking environment that promotes quality of work life and employee involvement as well as an excellent compensation and bene¿t package. Please forward your resume, in con¿dence, by Feb 4th, 2014 to: Johns Manville Canada Inc. 5301-42 Avenue Innisfail, Alberta, T4G 1A2 Fax: 403-227-7196 Email: ouelletc@jm.com

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

SPRING START

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Women in the Trades Program

Job Requirements; As the ideal candidate you will possess: • Minimum 3 years previous experience in a related role • Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite • Strong initiative and proactive approach to daily tasks • Self-starter, capable of working independently with minimal supervision • Problem solving and decision making skills

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Math and Science for the Trades Program

Career development, growth and unlimited possibilities – you’ll find it here!

We offer comptitive wage & benefits packages. Only applicants chosen for an interview will be contacted.

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THE Red Deer Public School District Invites applications for the position of: Educational Assistant at West Park Elementary School (30 hour weekly) Desirable qualifications and attributes: Educational Assistant certificate, Social Work or Rehabilitation diploma.

Toileting and Lifting will be required Non-violent Crisis Intervention certificate would be an asset. For more information about the Red Deer Public School District, visit our web site at: www.rdpsd.ab.ca Applications received by 4:00 p.m. on January 28, 2014 will be assured of careful consideration.

Applications, with references, should be directed to:humanresources@ rdpsd.ab.ca Tired of Standing?

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COMMERCIAL LAUNDRY WORKER ~ fast-paced, physical workplace. $11/hr.

Bring resume to Mustang Laundry, 6830-59 Avenue or email mustanglaundryreddeer @gmail.com

Community Support Worker Program

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the BOWER AREA

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

WESTPARK AREA

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

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DSM INC.

looking for laborers, in the Innisfail area.

Salary is $15.00/hr. Fax resume to: 403-314-0676.

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HEAD SWIM COACH

Innisfail Dolphin Swim Club.

Must have ASSA certification.

5-7 p.m. weekdays (May to mid Aug.) Saturdays (June to mid Aug.) Send resume to: innisfaildolphins@yahoo.ca

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STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees.

We are currently hiring for the position of:

FULL TIME PERMANENT JOURNEYMAN REFRIGERATION MECHANICS

4 Day/40 Hour Work Week Petrochemical Facility in the Red Deer Area The ideal candidate will require the following for this position: • Specific experience in preventative maintenance and building checks • Work experience on advanced controls; electric, pneumatic, DDS systems • Compressor and heat pump change outs • Well organized with good time management skills • Strong interpersonal and communication skills • Computer literate Starting at $40.24/hour STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Human Resources Fax # 403-342-6505 Email: hr@studon.com

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

Truckers/ Drivers

860

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

today! y l p p A to:

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

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Oilfield

ROSEDALE AREA Reichley St., Reinholt Ave., Robinson Cres. Area 100 Papers $540/mo.

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Please fax resume to 403-227-7796, or email to hr@bilton.ca

(Reliable vehicle needed)

63 Ave. & 69 St.

ACADEMIC Express

Responsibilities; You will find success based on your ability to; • Maintain Presidents schedule, daily to-do-list and travel plans • Assist with President’s personal matters as directed • Schedule Executive meetings, record and distribute agendas & minutes.

• Assist with planning and organizing corporate events • Assist with corporate presentations, newsletters and other corporate communications • Administer other corporate matters (org chart, keys, donations) • Assist Executives in all areas, preparing documents and presentations as requested • Greet clients and visitors and escort them to the appropriate meeting room • Promptly receive and screen incoming telephone calls • Assist with office tasks as required

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Business Opportunities

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

We are seeking an independent Corporate Administrator to provide high-level administrative support to Bilton’s executive team. The incumbent will be extremely proactive with a professional, courteous and approachable demeanor in all interactions; possess superior interpersonal relations skills will all levels of staff, customers and vendors; and be able to use sound judgment and discretion. The Corporate Administrator will have a thorough understanding of overall business organization, including management and operating structures, and the importance of policies and procedures.

This position is based out of our Innisfail, Alberta office.

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GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

JOURNEYMAN H.D. MECHANIC req’d immed. for very busy heavy equip. sales lot in Innisfail.

Wage range $25. - $35/hr to start, depending on exp.

Preference will be given to those with previous equipment rental service, lifts and off road construction equipment experience. Fax resume to 403-227-5701 or email: bouvier9@telus.net

Truckers/ Drivers

MALE SEARCH & SECURITY PERSONNEL

Apply in person after 3

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Pidherney’s requires experienced Drivers:

CLASS 1 & 3 DRIVERS Pidherney’s is busy and requires Water Truck, Gravel Truck and Lowboy Drivers. The majority of the positions available are based out of camp.

H2S, First Aid, and the capacity to pass a pre-access Drug and Alcohol test are considered assets.

We offer competitive wages, benefits package, and opportunities for advancement.

Please reply by fax: 403-845-5370 or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

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F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca

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Trades

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Trades

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 D7

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Household Furnishings

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Household Furnishings

Custom made pub style LAZBOY MEDIUM BROWN dining table, 4 chairs.

SOFA & two pillows.

Excellent quality soft fabric Tobacco colour for table top and chair seats with in like new condition. Original black legs and trim. Built in price $1400. Asking $750.

Call 403-343-0746 storage and hidden leaf to accomodate seating for 2 more. High quality table purchased from Sim’s. Mint Misc. for condition. $1650 obo.

Sale 403-348-3514.

FREE, Canning jars, pints & quarts. 403-309-3475

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860

Truckers/ Drivers

Requires experienced, responsible and mature

HEAVY EQUIPMENT HAULERS To Join Our Team!

Candidates must:

CHROME TABLE & 4 CHAIRS $100.

MOTORIZED SCOOTER $1500.

BOOK SHELVES, $50 ea.

Call 403-318-9840 DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino NEW dog kennel $25, Hoover carpet cleaner $75, Ikea black leather chair w/matching foot stool $100 403-986-1720 SIX 5/8” shelf boards, various lengths, 16” wide, must take all $40; 25 legal size file holders, like new all for $10; 2 boxes of nails, assorted, $3/box, 3 stacking chairs metal frame w/wooden seat and back $8/ea, desk top fan 3 spd $10; 1 deer antler mount on shield $60 403-314-2026 SNOWBLOWER, 1500 Noma, turbo thrower. $40.

403-347-8726 STAINLESS STEEL DOUBLE SINK. Great condition. $45.

403-342-4937

Musical Instruments

- Have at least three years experience loading and unloading all types of equipment - Jeep and Trailer experience - On road/off road experience - Gravel Hauling (end dump) - Basic Truck Maintenance

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Dogs

SILVER Lab pups P.B. Parents CKC reg. vet checked, 1st & 2nd shots. 3 F, $500 403-843-6564, 785-5772

We offer competitive wages, Year Round Work, Blue Cross Benefits and Room for Advancement.

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

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Contact:

Fax: 403-782-6846

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2 CLARINETS (Yamaha).

403-430-9382

If you have a positive attitude and are committed to providing the best customer service, then we are looking for you!

Email: info@graysonexcavating.com or

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Sporting Goods

CARRIERS NEEDED ANDERS AREA

Abbott Close / Anders St.

INGLEWOOD AREA

CREE native Medicine Men shields, approx. 20” x 36”, must sell now $85 403-347-7405

1900

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

2010

Farm Equipment

NEED to plow snow?

Versatile 700 tractor w/12’ Leon blade 403-887-2441 or 928-503-5344

GRANDVIEW AREA

Lamont Close

40A, 41 and 42 Ave. between 39 St. and 44 St. $111/mo.

MICHENER AREA East of 40th Ave., 51 St., 50A St., Michener Cres., Green, etc. to Michener Ave. & Blvd. $303/mo.

SUNNYBROOK AREA

ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

Somerset Close Springfield Ave. Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close

West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

VANIER AREA Viscount Drive Vickers Close

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.

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

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

1090

Contractors

1100

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060 TOO MUCH SNOW to shovel? TL Bobcat Service Ltd. can remove it! $85./hr.

Call Trent 403-358-1415

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Escorts Pampering at its BEST! WCB HELP If you have EDEN been cut off benefits or feel 403-986-6686 you have not received the 587-877-7399 10am-midnight Come in and see benefits you are entitled. why we are the talk Call Norman Zubot Handyman of the town. consulting(29yrs WCB Services exp) Ph: 587-521-4691. www.viimassage.biz

Consulting

Cell: 780-982-9822 norman.zubot@shaw.ca

Contractors

1100

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

1165

1200

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

Massage DAMON INTERIORS Therapy

Drywall, tape, texture, Fully licensed & insured.

Free Estimates. Call anytime Dave, 403-396-4176

1280

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Personal Services

1315

REIKO’S Finest Asian Massage

In call only. 587-377-1298 9 am - 10 pm. Mon. - Fri. Tired of Standing?

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Seniors’ Services

1372

HELP FOR SENIORS:

in home or facility family business est. 1999 bondable staff, great rates, gift certificates avail.

403-346-7777 helpinghandshomesupport.com

Snow Removal

1380

Property clean up 340-8666 APOLLO LANDSCAPING has skidsteer and tandem Painters/ truck avail. for snow removal.

Commercial or Decorators residential. 403-598-1589

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

2 SPEC HOMES Ready for your colours.

Can be shown at any time.

10 & 98 MacKenzie Cres.

Lacombe. 403-588-8820 BRAND NEW 1340 sq. ft. bungalow, 2 bdrm., den, dbl. att. garage. $384,900.

Call Glen 403-588-2231

SNOW ON ROOF??

Call Fred 403-504-6029

EXEC. 1/2 DUPLEX

near Coronation Park and trail system. 1484 sq.ft.

2 storey, 3 bedrooms up, hardwood, gas fireplace, fenced back yard, New shingles in last 5 yrs.

Newly dev. bsmt.

Dble.garage.

Quick Poss. Avail. $349,900. 403-396-5516 Agent Chosen.

Lovely 3 level exec.

3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 Avail. immed.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, FREE Weekly list of full bsmts. 403-347-7473, properties for sale w/details, Sorry no pets. prices, address, owner’s www.greatapartments.ca phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer 4 Plexes/ www.homesreddeer.com

6 Plexes

3050

ORIOLE PARK

3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Avail. Feb 1. 403-304-5337

Suites

3060

1200 SQ.FT. 2 bdrm. suite, satellite TV, all utils. incl. except phone and internet, Rural location, 5 acres, pasture negot., avail. immed., ref’s req’d. N.S., no pets.

403-782-3893

Money To Loan

4430

Private Mortgages Our Rates start at 8%. We lend on Equity. Bus. For Self & Bruised Credit Ok. Ron Lewis 403 819 2436

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Antique & Classic Autos

5020

Custom new homes planning service.

Kyle, 403-588-2550

MUST SELL

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550 NEXT TO NEW TOWNHOUSE FOR SALE $223,000 56 Holmes Street #240 Stainless Steel Appls., 3 bed/2 bath IMMEDIATE POSSESSION Finished Bsmt. Maple cabinetry, balcony w/patio set & bbq Parking Stalls (2).

Close to Park w/skating rink Call Margaret Comeau RE/MAX 403.391.3399 to view!

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MORRISROE MANOR

NEW CONDO

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

SIERRAS Michener Hill, Adult bldg. N/S No pets new 905 sq. ft. condo on 403-755-9852 1st flr., facing S.W. 1 bdrm. + den, never lived in. $265,000. 403-342-2633

THE NORDIC

Roommates Wanted

3080

ACREAGE Home to share N/S, within 5 mins. of RD $425+ , 403-357-9352 F. preferred for 3 bdrm. reno’d home, inc. all utils, $450/mo. DD $450. Avail.

Feb. 1. Must be N/S. 403-986-8656

3090

2008 Escalade ESV. Nav. Dvd camera 6 pass $32,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

2006 CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV platinum, mint $21,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

Income Property

4100

12 UNIT apartment building located in quiet Red Deer neighborhood.

Contact Mike Dandurand Sundance Realty & Management 403-343-6655 391-7945 LAST 2 remaining full duplex lots in desirable neighborhood in Central Alberta. Very well priced with 4 plex as a discretionary use. Contact Mike Dandurand Sundance Realty & Management 403-343-6655 391-7945

2005 HUMMER H2 $24,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

Trucks

5050

2005 CHEV Silverado 2500 crew cab 4x4, S/B, pin & ball 5th wheel hook ups, Duramax diesel, auto, buckets, leather int.

403-887-2441 928-503-5344 1984 FORD F250XLT R/C, L/B, 351 4 barrel V8 142,130 orig. kms, amazing cond.

403-843-4241 for details

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

8TH ANNUAL RED DEER COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION & SPEED SHOW. Mar 14 - 16. Westerner Park, Red Deer. 150,000 sq.ft. indoor show.

Exhibitors space available.

Western Canada’s Largest Collector Car Event.

Consign today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 EGAuctions.com

Cars

5030

2011 HYUNDAI Sonata new tires, keyless entry, exc. cond. 112,000 kms. $13,500 403-597-0166

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Misc.

Automotive

5240

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

PUBLIC NOTICES

Public Notices

6010

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS

MASON MARTIN HOMES

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

403-350-1620 Gloria www.laebon.com GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. Laebon Homes 346-7273 apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 Condos/ LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only Townhouses n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

Rooms For Rent

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 1010

Kyte/Kelloway Cres.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

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FINANCIAL

HALMAN Heights

newer exec. 3 bdrm. bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking, no dogs, rent $1395 SD $1000. n/s Avail. immed.

403-304-7576 / 347-7545

5040

4400-4430

3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, no pets, n/s, rent $1445 SD $1000 avail. Feb. 15.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545

ALSO

Sherwood Cres.

Accounting

32 HOLMES ST.

1 1/2 blocks west of mall, 3 bdrm. bi-level, blinds, lg. balcony, 4 appls, no pets, n/s, rent $1245 SD $1000 Avail. Feb. 15th.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545

SUV's

CLASSIFICATIONS

3020

3030

SUMMER LIVING IN THE SHUSWAP Salmon Arm’s newest townhomes, Maple Lanes is now selling. 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath, 9ft ceilings, hardwood/tile (heated) floors, heat pump/ ac, stainless appls, stamped concrete patio & so much more. $339,000 incl. GST. Check us out at www.edelweissproperties.com or call Roger (403) 350-8089 or Tanja (250) 804-6436

4010

KITSON CLOSE

Langford Close

Vista Village

Houses/ Duplexes

Condos/ Townhouses

74 to 129 Blosk of Dunning Cres., Depalm St. and approx. 3 blocks of Douglas St. $108/mo

MORRISROE AREA

CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Realtors & Services

4020

Issard Close

Lund Close

rentals

4130

Cottages/Resort Property

4000-4190

1930

DEERPARK AREA

Law Close / Lewis Close

CLASSIFICATIONS

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3 BDRM. in Sylvan. 4 appls., fenced yard. No pets. All TOO MUCH STUFF? utils. incl. RENTED Let Classifieds 3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 help you sell it.

HERE TO HELP bath, new paint & carpets & HERE TO SERVE & deck at 7316-59 Ave. Avail. to over 30 tenants.

Call GORD ING at Wanted No pets. Off street parking RE/MAX real estate To Buy for 3 vehicles. Rent $1500, central alberta 403-341-9995 D.D. $1500. 403-341-4627 gord.ing@remax.net WANTED: SNOWBLOWER SYLVAN LAKE 2 bdrm.

403-886-5194 fully furn. dishes, linen, cable & utils. incl’d. $1200. Houses 403-880-0210 For Sale

Isherwood Close

LANCASTER AREA

homes

1870

CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA Crossley St., Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres. & Cody Pl. $190/mo.

Anders Close

3190

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CLEARVIEW AREA Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres. $146/mo.

Addinnell Close / Allan St.

2140 2190

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK in

Anders St. / Armstrong Close

Horses

Mobile Lot

CROSS COUNTRY SKIS, WANTED: all types of PADS $450/mo. vintage wooden, bindings, horses. Processing locally Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., poles & boots, plus many in Lacombe weekly. waxes. $60; NORDIC 403-651-5912 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. walking poles, adjustable, Down payment $4000. Call $25; Men’s & Ladies at anytime. 403-588-8820 curling shoes & brushes Grain, Feed with extenders, men’s, sz. Hay 11, women’s, sz. 9.5; $25. ea. set. 403-309-3475 TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry Collectors' and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798 Items

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FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

1860

EXERCISE REBOUNDER - Good condition, $30.

403-342-4937

1860

Sporting Goods

Estate of BRIAN DUNNILL who died on December 25th 2013

2011 FORD Fiesta. $8900.

Only 11,000 km. Exc. cond. selling for medical reasons Ask for Doug 587-272-2543

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by April 29th, 2014 with Klaus G. Ruschin, Barrister and Solicitor at

#201, 5005 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 4B2

and provide details of your claim.

2008 VW Golf City $9888 Sport & Import 348 8788

If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

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2008 Audi A4 2.0T $19,888.

Sport & Import 348 8788

Tenders

6020

FOOD SERVICE PROPOSAL WANTED Food services Contractor required to provide specified dining service to residents of 60+ condominium located in Red Deer. A commercial 2006 Acura RSX premium kitchen located on site is auto 57,000 km $12,888 available for food Sport & Import 348 8788 preparation. Additional information will be 2003 HONDA Civic provided in response to loaded, mint cond, only your letter of interest.

82,000 kms, Please respond by fax to $10,000 403-346-1704 403-346-9652 or email: legacyestates@shaw.ca 2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., prior to January 31, 2014.

5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040 Only persons with prior commercial kitchen 1999 PONTIAC Bonneyville cooking experience and 4 dr., saftied. 403-352-6995 current food service certificate will be considered.

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

EASY!

The easy way to find a buyer for items you want to sell is with a Red Deer Advocate want ad. Phone 309-3300.

at www.garymoe.com

CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Furn. $575. 403-346-7546 FURN. room, all utils. and cable incld, $450/mo.

Commercial 403-506-3277 Property ROOM FOR RENT. 403-343-0421 SMALL / LARGE SPACES ROOM in Westpark, n/s, -Free standing - fenced yards no pets. Furnished. TV & For all your needs. utils incl. 403-304-6436 400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

4110

Your Guide To Entertainment Locally owned and family operated

Open House

SUV's

5040

Directory

Tour These Fine Homes 2012 INFINITI G37X $27,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

SE Red Deer

4280

OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY 2-4 PM 163 Allan Street Half Duplex $358,000 3 bed/2 bath Perfect for Retired Couple Call Margaret Comeau RE/MAX 403.391.3399

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

CALL CLASSIFIEDS

309-3300

TO ADVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY HERE!

2010 ACURA MDX tech package 91,000 km $30,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

For Home Delivery Call

314-4300

D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014

Ukrainian leader offers concessions

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A protester appeals to riot police, with an entrance to Dynamo Kiev soccer club stadium in the background, in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday. Protesters have seized a government building in the Ukrainian capital while also maintaining the siege of several governors’ offices in the country’s west, raising the pressure on the government.

KYIV, Ukraine — President Viktor Yanukovych promised Friday to reshuffle his government, free scores of protesters from jail and make other concessions after demonstrations against him spread from Ukraine’s besieged capital to nearly half of the country.

At a meeting with religious leaders, Yanukovych vowed that a special parliament meeting next Tuesday will push through changes to his Cabinet, grant amnesty to dozens of jailed activists who are not guilty of serious crimes and will change harsh anti-protest legislation.

The protest law enacted last week appeared to have backfired on Yanukovych, sparking confrontations in which demonstrators threw stones and firebombs at police. The violence was a harsh contrast to the determined peacefulness of the anti-government protests that have gripped the country for two months.

At least two demonstrators were killed this week in clashes with police, and protesters have seized government offices in cities in western Ukraine, where support for Yanukovych is thin.

Protests began in late November after Yanukovych decided to shelve a long-anticipated economic agreement with the 28-nation European Union

and receive a bailout from Russia instead. Russian President Vladimir Putin had pressed hard to keep Ukraine in his nation’s political and economic orbit while many urban Ukrainians had favoured closer ties with the EU. Yanukovych’s comments came as a shaky truce held in the centre of Kyiv, where thousands of protesters behind giant makeshift barricades kept confronting lines of riot police. Fighting eased Thursday morning, as opposition leaders entered into face-to-face talks with Yanukovych.

Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters occupied or besieged the offices of regional governors appointed by Yanukovych in western Ukraine, where most people long for closer ties with the EU. At least two governors were forced to sign resignation letters and another one was chased out of his office by an angry crowd.

Anger spread further in Ukraine after the release of a video where riot police were shown humiliating and abusing a protester who was stripped naked.

The Interior Ministry has apologized for the actions of those police.

A parliament deputy from Yanukovych’s Party of Regions quit the party Friday in the wake of the continued clashes, but presidential allies still control a majority of parliament.

Protesters want Yanukovych to resign and a new election to be held.

Bombings rock Egypt, 6 killed FEARS RAISED OF SPREADING MILITANCY, 14 KILLED IN CLASHES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt — A truck bomb struck the main security headquarters in Cairo on Friday, one of a string of bombings targeting police within a 10-hour period, killing six people. The most significant attack yet in the Egyptian capital fueled a furious backlash against the Muslim Brotherhood amid rising fears of a militant insurgency.

The mayhem on the eve of the third anniversary of Egypt’s once-hopeful revolution pointed to the dangerous slide Egypt has taken since last summer’s military ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi: A mounting confrontation between the militarybacked government and Islamist opponents amid the escalating violence.

In the hours after the blast, angry residents — some chanting for the “execution” of Brotherhood members — joined police in clashes with the group’s supporters holding their daily street protests against the government.

Smoke rose over Cairo from fires, and fighting around the country left 14 more people dead.

Saturday, the anniversary of the start of the 18-day uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak, raised the potential for new violence, as both military supporters and the Islamists vowed to take to the streets with rival rallies.

After Friday’s blasts, interim President Adli Mansour vowed to “uproot terrorism,” just as the government crushed a militant insurgency in the 1990s. The state “will not show them pity or mercy,” he said. “We ... will not hesitate to take the necessary measures.”

That could spell an escalation in the crackdown that the government has waged against Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood since his July 3 ouster.

Thousands of Islamists have already been arrested and hundreds killed, with authorities accusing the group of being behind militant violence. The Brotherhood, which allied with some radical groups while in power, denies the claim, saying the government is us-

ing it to justify its drive to eliminate it as a rival. The crackdown has expanded to silence other forms of dissent, with arrests of secular activists critical of the military, security forces and the new administration.

For activists, that has raised deep concerns over a return of a police state despite the government’s promises of democracy.

But among a broad swath of the public, those concerns are eclipsed by fear of the wave of militant bombings and shootings since the coup, which have largely targeted police but increasingly hit in public areas taking civilian casualties. And the public fury has been funneled at the Brotherhood: After Friday’s bombings, TV stations aired telephone calls from viewers pleading with army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah elSissi to definitively crush the group.

“Execution for Morsi and his leaders!” one man shouted through a megaphone as an angry crowd gathered outside the Cairo security headquarters, hit in Friday’s first bombing.

“Morsi is the butcher and el-Sissi will slaughter him!” screamed a woman, holding up a picture depicting the Brotherhood as sheep.

The day’s violence began with the 6:30 a.m. blast at the security headquarters, located on downtown Bab el-Khalq Square. Security camera footage showed a white pick-up truck pulling up to the building’s gate. A man jumped out of it, got into another car and drove off. Two policemen inspected the truck for a moment before returning to the headquarters. Two minutes later, it exploded.

The powerful blast ripped down a main avenue, knocking out shop windows for more than 500 metres (yards).

The eight-story headquarters’ facade was shattered, with air conditioning units left dangling out of broken windows, and a 6-foot crater was blasted into the pavement.

The explosion also wrecked Cairo’s renowned Islamic Arts Museum, directly across the street, blasting out its windows, causing ceilings to collapse, smashing display cases of porcelain and glasswork and breaking water

pipes that sprayed over manuscripts.

Museum experts said key pieces in its collection of Islamic artifacts were damaged.

Abdullah el-Sayyed, a 26-year-old salesman who lives behind the headquarters, said he was wakened by the blast, followed by heavy gunfire by frantic policemen. “They were firing their guns in panic as if to call for rescue,” he said.

He said he plans to return to his home village in Fayoum, south of Cairo, because he no longer feels safe.

“It’s not worth it anymore to stay here.

Every day I ride the metro and go past here,” he said.

After the blast, several police officers sat on the sidewalk outside the building, weeping as ambulances rushed in. A body lay on the ground, covered by a sheet as a crowd of distraught-looking residents surveyed the damage.

Touring the site, Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim, who is in charge of police, called the bombings a “vile terrorist act” and implicitly blamed the Brotherhood, without naming it.

“They will reach a point where coexistence will be impossible,” he said.

Security officials later said three suspects had been identified in the security headquarters attack, adding that they belonged to the Brotherhood and “extremist groups.” The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

About two hours after the Bab elKhalq blast, attackers threw a bomb at a police car near a metro station in the Dokki district on the other side of the Nile River, killing one person and wounding eight others, the prosecutors’ office said.

A third, smaller blast targeted the Talbiya police station about four kilometres (two miles) from the famed Giza Pyramids but caused no casualties, security officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Hours after the attacks, the Brotherhood held its daily protests that

they have vowed to step up ahead of Saturday’s anniversary. The marches quickly turned into clashes with police, joined by residents furious at the Brotherhood, in several districts of Cairo and in cities across the country.

The Health Ministry said 14 people were killed in the violence.

In one Cairo neighbourhood, proMorsi protesters clashing with security forces set fire to a police kiosk, sending a pall of smoke in the air. In the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, residents throwing stones and firing rounds of birdshot killed one Brotherhood supporter when they attacked Islamists marching after the funeral of a student protester killed a day earlier.

As police drove back from clashes with Brotherhood supporters in the capital’s Giza district, they were hit by the day’s fourth bombing — a roadside explosive that killed one person and wounded four others.

Police and soldiers have been targeted by multiple attacks in recent months. In December, a suicide car bombing blasted the main security headquarters of a Nile Delta province, killing 16 people. The interior minister survived an attempted car-bombing assassination attempt in Cairo in September.

An al-Qaida-inspired group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, or the Champions of Jerusalem, has claimed responsibility for most attacks, saying they aimed to avenge the killings of Morsi’s supporters in the post-coup crackdown. On Thursday, the group issued an online audio statement warning police and soldiers to defect or face new attacks.

The Islamist alliance grouping the Brotherhood and its allies condemned Friday’s attacks and blamed them on the Interior Ministry, saying it wanted to turn the public against the Islamists.

It vowed to push ahead with protests Saturday, saying, “the revolution will continue down its peaceful track to bring down the military coup.”

Government supporters are also planning giant rallies on Saturday to show their backing for the military — and to call for army chief el-Sissi to run for president.

Syrian government and opposition to meet UN MEDIATOR SAID ‘IN THE SAME ROOM’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA — Bending to intense international pressure, Syria’s government and the Western-backed opposition agreed Friday to face each other for the first time since the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad.

After three days of hostile rhetoric and five hours spent assiduously avoiding contact within the United Nations, the two sides will meet “in the same room,” said the U.N. mediator trying to forge an end to the civil war that has left 130,000 people dead since 2011.

Mediator Lakhdar Brahimi met separately with Assad’s delegation and representatives with the Syrian National Coalition, who arrived at the U.N. European headquarters five hours apart to ensure their paths would not cross.

“We never expected it to be easy and I’m sure it’s not going to be, but I think the two parties understand what’s at stake,” Brahimi said. “Their country is in very, very bad shape.”

Brahimi, a famously patient mediator, is credited with efforts to stabilize Iraq and Afghanistan after the U.S. ousted their governments. But he faces a formidable task to build peace in Syria, which has been flooded with alQaida-inspired militants.

The conflict has become a proxy war between regional powers Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Syria’s government has made military gains and has capitalized on the influx of foreign militants, while the

coalition nearly collapsed as it wavered on whether to attend the talks at all. After Brahimi spoke, a member of the group said it still wasn’t clear what would happen Saturday.

“Everybody will be in the same room, but everybody will address Mr. Brahimi. He will be the one who is going to conduct the negotiations,” said Louay Safi, who is taking part in the talks. “We will be addressing him.

There will be no direct negotiation with the regime.”

The coalition, which has the support of the U.S. and other Western powers, is largely made up of exiles and lacks any real influence on the opposition now riven by infighting among factions ranging from moderates to hard-line Islamic groups. Nearly 1,400 fighters have been killed in the last three weeks as the rebel groups grapple for dominance, according to activists.

Omran al-Zoubi, Syria’s information minister, said Assad’s delegation was committed.

“We will stay here until we do the job. We will not be provoked. We will not retreat and we will be wise and flexible,” he said.

Underscoring the foreign involvement in the conflict, Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah fighters fought alongside forces loyal to Assad around the area of eastern Ghouta, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Among those arrayed against them were extremists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a hardline group dominated by foreign jihadis, the Observatory reported.

Syria’s economy, once among the

region’s strongest, has been ruined. A quarter of its population has fled to camps in neighbouring countries or within Syria. The front lines have been largely frozen for months, although Assad’s forces — more cohesive than the rebellion and supported by Russia as well as Iran — have recently made inroads into territory captured by the opposition.

Russia and the United States, which have backed opposite sides in the fight, have raised the pressure for the peace conference, seeing it as the only hope to end a civil war that has destabilized the region and threatens to turn into a long stalemate.

The talks, first conceived in 2012, were repeatedly postponed by the government and the coalition as both jockeyed for advantage. The opposition confirmed it would attend only on Monday — less than 48 hours before the peace conference began — after the U.N. secretary-general rescinded his last-minute invitation to Iran.

Lina Khatib, Middle East director for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said both sides had a lot to gain by staying, and predicted the talks would at least lead to some sort of limited deal.

“Gaining legitimacy is a primary motive for both sides,” she said. “Ultimately this is an opportunity that is too important for them to lose by withdrawing.”

Pressure from the U.S. and Russia played a crucial role, as their positions converged, Khatib said.

“It’s become very clear that a military solution to the conflict in Syria is

not possible,” she said.

At the heart of the talks is Assad’s future. The U.S. and opposition want him out, saying a leader who unleashed his military on a peaceful protest had forfeited legitimacy. But Assad, whose family has ruled Syria since 1970, has insisted he’s going nowhere.

Hasni Abidi, director of the Genevabased Arab and Mediterranean Studies Center, said the talks have gotten off to a predictably rocky start but represent a strategic opportunity for both the government and the opposition.

“It’s the beginning of the talks, and each side wants to place the bar very high,” he said.

“For the Syrian regime, it is a chance to gain time,” he said, while for the opposition, it is a chance for a political solution knowing that the West is not going to intervene militarily.

Protesters in several Syrian towns demonstrated against the peace talks, saying Assad had shown by years of military strikes against his people that he favours violence over negotiations.

“We are bombed and nobody cares,” said one demonstrator in the town of Sabqa.

“The Assad regime doesn’t understand the language of dialogue. We will remove this criminal regime by force,” according to one sign held by protesters.

The two sides’ willingness to meet with Brahimi — even separately — gave some hope the negotiations might bear fruit. Brahimi himself has said both sides may bend on humanitarian corridors, prisoner exchanges and local cease-fires.

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PEANUTS

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GARFIELD

LUANN Jan. 25 1932 — Governor General the Earl of Bessborough speaks to the Lieutenant Governor of each province, to inaugurate the Trans-Canada telephone system.

1996 — Leilani Muir of Red Deer is awarded $750,000 by Alberta judge. She was wrongly diagnosed as mentally dis-

abled and sterilized by the province’s Eugenics Board at what will become Michener Centre in 1959.

1979 — Jean-Luc Pepin and John Robarts release the Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity. They recommend that Quebec should have the power to maintain its language and culture.

1977 — Rene Levesque tells Wall Street audience at the Economic Club of New York that “separation is inevitable.”

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SATURDAY, JAN. 25, 2014

Rude guest has hostess scrambling

ANNIE ANNIE

HOROSCOPES Saturday, Jan. 25 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Alicia Keys, 34; Jenifer Lewis, 57; Mia Kirshner, 39 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The day continues with the Moon in passionate Scorpio. Its celestial position suggests getting things done and acting upon our instincts. Once Mercury squares Saturn, we may be prone to pessimistic thinking.

Taking ourselves too seriously is no good deed. Later on tonight, a lighter mood will set in and bring on some fiery predispositions. Laughter, optimism and not taking ourselves too seriously will truly make us feel open and take pleasure in an honest approach with others.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, you are in a strong position this year and you will remain entirely dedicated to your vocation. You will come into contact with powerful individuals and you ASTRO will deal with authority as well. You DOYNA are strong-opinionated, yet words may not always be your best asset.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You develop a greater need to tap into your innermost feelings and you experience life in its most profound, yet mystical ways. Everything underground appeals to you and you are pretty comfortable with taboo subjects.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The need and the feeling of being with someone really warm you up. Today you long to be in the company of a loved one more than usually. You seek closure and you are not afraid to voice it. You aspire to work towards your common goals.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You are more focused to put your responsibilities into order by ridding yourself of unwanted junk. Certain items have simply outlived their purpose. Be picky about the foods you ingest today and avoid playing the martyr.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You seek emotionally satisfying recreational activities and you feel young at heart when creativity blends well with fun. Later on tonight, you will develop the need to implement some fun in your daily routine, making it less of a chore.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Nostalgia will kick in and your branches of nostalgia will be shaken by certain memorable moments from your past. Your mother might also come into focus today. You will both relate to one another on a more profound level.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The need to speak up your mind and to share what’s on your mind will come easier to you now. You will also be predisposed to be more eloquent and more forthright than usual. As the night unfolds, you will seek more quiet, intimate moments at home.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You feel warm and comfortable in a stable and secure environment. Today you will do whatever is in your power to provide your own family with such necessities. Soon enough, you will be in a chattier mood trying to catch up on the latest news.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You may tend to mother everyone around you today. There’s a certain unconditional care and sympathy that you are willing to offer others today. This will bring others closer to you while seeking for your sharply honest opinions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You may feel overly emotional or simply, detached from everyone else today.

Soon enough, you will no longer seek seclusion, or isolation.

You will yearn to do something bold and perhaps, implement some radical changes into your life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): This is a day where you feel that your place is amongst your friends or your local community. You need to be around individuals you can relate to and with whom you share similar goals. Later on, you will suddenly look forward to some quiet times.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You seek recognition and you will go about it by following your instincts. You will not refer to data or statistics in order to assess your worth, but rather look within the power of your own values.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today you may come into interaction with people from abroad or you will simply desire strongly to evade somewhere far away. Whatever you do, try to control your sense of purpose and focus on the road ahead.

SUN SIGNS

Sunday, Jan. 26 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Colin O’Donoghue, 33; Sara Rue, 35; Ellen DeGeneres, 56 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Moon dives into adventurous Sagittarius today making us long for exploration in some exotic, unknown lands. The Moon makes a harmonious connection to the Sun, making our thoughts in sync with our personal goals. This is a busy day filled with lots errands to run and quite efficiently. Surprises will be pouring like waterfalls today. A square with Neptune denotes a lack of clarity. Missing in willpower of becoming lazy can become major issues today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, you will manifest a necessity to be on top of things in terms of your professional life. You have the right amount of concentration power and are able to evoke a detached attitude in order to focus on your career advancement. The need to be recognized and appreciated for your efforts will bring you the much needed reassurance and validation.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Thanks to your solid awareness of the concealed affairs, you are able to recognize and feel what is truly going on behind the scenes. You will instinctively make the right move at the right time. Isolate yourself

Even though I wanted to tell this niece that she and her boyfriend could stand, I scrambled and used a piano bench as a seat so everyone had a place.

I don’t expect my niece to change her rude behavior.

What I want to know is, as the hostess, am I allowed to make specifications regarding attendance in my home? How do I handle such things? — Tired of Rude Family in Carolina Dear Tired: As the hostess, you are obligated to make your guests comfortable, even the last-minute, uninvited ones.

However, since this is also family and they come often, please speak up when you issue the next invitation.

Tell your sister and her daughter directly that if they are planning to bring an extra guest, you expect them to let you know in advance.

Otherwise, you cannot guarantee that there will be space at the table.

It is also a nice touch to use place cards so that all of the guests have an assigned seat, and the uninvited ones get the piano bench and a paper plate (with a gracious smile).

Dear Annie: My husband passed away suddenly and unexpectedly a few months ago.

I have had an outpouring of compassion, cards, invitations, etc., from wonderful friends, and I am very grateful.

I tried to write a short note acknowledging the thoughtfulness.

In December, I received Christmas cards from

these friends, but I did not feel up to the task of sending out holiday cards.

I’m still feeling a little guilty about it. Was that acceptable?— Doing the Best I Can Dear Doing: Holiday cards are not a requirement, nor is it necessary to respond in kind to cards that do not include a personal message.

Ideally, you would have acknowledged each personalized card with a written note or a phone call, and if you were not able to do that yourself, you could have enlisted the help of friends and family.

But under the circumstances, we know people understand.

Whenever you have the opportunity to let them know their cards were received, please do so.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Perplexed in Pennsylvania,” whose best friend always remembered her birthday belatedly.

Humor is usually a good response. That happened to me, but with family members, and there were quite a few of us.

My response was to pick out nice calendars in October with a theme that would interest them.

Then, at the bottom of the appropriate date, I would put the birthday person’s name, whoever it was.

Problem solved, and the recipients usually appreciated the useful gift. — Andy in Ft. Myers, Fla.

in order to meditate, not to seclude yourself completely from others.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t let poignant boundaries affect your relationships with others today. Instead, let a close friend of yours be your companion. He or she can be just what you needed in order to replenish emotionally and help you restore your inner equilibrium.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Tedious everyday chores might lower your mood. It is also possible that you might have to accomplish some unfinished and pressing work right in the comforts of your own home. Remain detached and carry on.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You might have to deal with certain responsibilities related to your children. Or, whatever comes up today might transform your predisposition into a sober mood. Emotions will certainly not be on display for today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your partner might make you feel guilty or somewhat uneasy about a certain private matter.

You seek for companionship before partnering up but you feel restrained because of a certain home commitment.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Keep away from dark, gloomy thoughts. You are inclined towards believing that you will never catch up with your daily chores and that errands that need to be run today will turn out to be more and more frequent.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today you are not feeling particularly obliged to execute some of the everyday tasks. You prefer to take it down a notch and enjoy yourself in a world filled with artistry and imagination. Your aesthetic senses are keen right now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your overall perspective on life can put you into distress temporarily. Private, domestic matters will require your attention today and you might feel that you cannot achieve the emotional fulfilment that is essential to your wellbeing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You may be inclined to stay in your own company today. The right move would be to put away those long held fears and catch up with your folks.

You will be surprised to find out just how quickly and easily they can uplift your mood into healthier spirits.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You may not feel completely at ease within certain social scenery today. A feeling of awkwardness might prevail in you. Relationships with others will not feel reciprocated or they may seem too challenging for the time being.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Career or professional duties might present themselves as a burden to you. You may feel that your responsibility is to prove yourself even more of your hard work in order to regain that same acceptance and validation from before.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Temporarily, you seek seclusion and isolation from any types of beliefs. You seem to disregard religion or a philosophy of some kind. You also question a lot your own principles and the meaning of life.

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.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Dear Annie: Whenever I invite my siblings over for a family dinner, one sister waits until the very last minute and then brings another person.

This isn’t some informal buffet.

It’s a sit-down dinner. In order for everyone to have a seat and a place setting, I expect to have an accurate headcount in advance.

But my sister does this every single time. Last night, she brought her daughter’s boyfriend.

I do not have a lot of chairs in my house, and my father had already brought extras.

Since I didn’t know this boyfriend was coming, all the chairs were accounted MITCHELL for, along with the necessary & SUGAR plates and silverware.

Worse, they arrived before another couple and took one of the seats intended for them.

My niece didn’t even bother to apologize that she had brought an uninvited guest without informing me.

I am sick of this rude behavior. When I invite my family members, I always ask for an RSVP, whether by phone, email or text.

I also always have been open to including any of the young adults bringing friends, as long as they let me know ahead of time.