Red Deer Advocate, February 18, 2014

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DEFINING ROLE Jennifer Hudson explores unfamiliar territory in latest role

The Rebels lost back-to-back games on the weekend to the Saskatoon Blades and the Calgary Hitmen

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Avalanche kills Sylvan man CHRIS MCCOY DIES WHILE SNOWMOBILING NEAR REVELSTOKE

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF An avalanche in eastern B.C. Saturday claimed the life of a Sylvan Lake snowmobiler who had been trying to get a fellow rider unstuck when the avalanche hit.

Chris McCoy and three other snowmobilers from Alberta were riding on an “extremely busy” Boulder Mountain near Revelstoke on Saturday afternoon when an avalanche was triggered around 3:30 p.m. McCoy and another rider were caught in the avalanche, and McCoy was eventually located unconscious under a large amount of snow by search and rescue crews and evacuated via helicopter, but could not be resuscitated.

The other rider survived with nonlife threatening injuries.

McCoy’s widow, Kathy, said her husband had an intense passion for sledding, and embraced adventure and challenges. He would get out sledding

‘HE DID HAVE A BEACON ON HIM AND HE HAS ALL THE APPROPRIATE GEAR THAT HE NEEDS FOR THAT AND HE WAS ALWAYS VERY AWARE OF WHAT THE CONDITIONS WERE, SO THIS COMES AS A BIG SURPRISE.’ — KATHY MCCOY, WIDOW

as often as he could, and loved simply being outdoors.

“Ever since I’ve known him, he’s been a sled head. He breathed sledding,” said Kathy, who married Chris just over five years ago.

But despite his fervor for ripping through snow in the mountains or around Sylvan Lake, McCoy, 36, emphasized safety. He knew Boulder Mountain inside-out, said Kathy, and always took precautions.

“He did have a beacon on him and he has all the appropriate gear that he needs for that and he was always very aware of what the conditions were, so this comes as a big surprise,” she said.

What did not surprise Kathy was

hearing from McCoy’s brother, who was also in the riding party, that Chris had left his own ride just before the avalanche hit to aid another rider who had gotten stuck.

“He had absolutely no problem with helping somebody out. He said ‘If you don’t get stuck sledding, you’re not sledding hard enough,’ so he wouldn’t hesitate to go help somebody else out.

“If he saw somebody was stuck, he’d rip around and go back, help them out and keep going. He said that’s just part of sledding; you go help everybody out,” she said.

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Chris McCoy, 36, was killed in an avalanche near Revelstoke, B.C. on Saturday, one day after he celebrated his birthday.

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FAMILY DAY

Dunk tank, dip raise money for charities

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF

United States took gold, while Virtue and Moir settled for silver in their Olympic swan song.

“We would have liked to bring home gold for Canada but no one close to us will love us any less because we’re bringing home silver,” Virtue said.

With the maple leaf on his chest, a Canadian pride-filled Logan Vogt psyched himself up and sat ready to face his competition on Saturday.

What he was about to do — get dumped into a dunk tank in sub-zero temperatures — is not an Olympic sport, of course, but perhaps it should be. The 29 dippers who took the plunge at Sylvan Lake’s Winterfest on Saturday required a certain amount of fortitude and inner strength, after all.

And the weather in Central Alberta Saturday was certainly more conducive to a Winter Olympics than the sun and swaying palms in Sochi.

Concerns over thin ice on the lake caused the annual polar dip at Winterfest to be moved off of the water body and into the dunk tanks this year, which led to fewer people taking part.

But, said organizer Jennifer Bickell, no one backed out when the change was announced two weeks ago, and those who participated still managed to raise $20,701 for local charities.

The use of the dunk tanks allowed for another fundraising initiative as well, as money from ball sales went to the town’s Hockeyville campaign.

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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada compete in the ice dance free dance figure skating finals at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Winter Olympics, Monday in Sochi, Russia.

Ice dancers take silver in final Olympics

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SOCHI, Russia — Jennifer Jones was perfect. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir were oh so close.

Shortly after Jones wrapped up a flawless round robin in women’s curling with a 9-4 win over South Korea on Monday, Virtue and Moir skated a

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riveting free program in the ice dance to assure Canada its 15th medal of the Sochi Olympics.

But while the Canadians gave their all in their attempt to defend the ice dance gold they won at the 2010 Vancouver Games, Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White were just as compelling in their free program.

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A2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014 Searchers have not been able to recover his body because of bad weather and blowing snow.

Galloway, a married father of two children, was elected to Lethbridge city council last fall.

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City councillor from Lethbridge killed in avalanche while snowboarding

GRANDE PRAIRIE — Mounties in northern Alberta say human remains have been found at a waste management facility they had been searching as part of a homicide investigation.

RCMP say the remains were found Saturday at the Aquatera Waste Management site in Grande Prairie.

Courtney Breanna Johnstone, 26, of Grande Prairie was reported missing on Jan. 30.

While RCMP charged a man with her death last week, officers hadn’t found her body.

Police say they’re still working to confirm the identity of the remains and an autopsy is anticipated early this week.

Shane Gregory Babitsch, 21, of Grande Prairie has been charged with first-degree murder.

His next court appearance is March 12 in Grande Prairie.

Police say they are continuing to investigate.

Officers had been searching the waste site since

WATERTON — A city councillor from southern Alberta has died in an avalanche while snowboarding.

Wade Galloway, who was 37, was killed Saturday at Waterton Lakes National Park near the United States border.

The City of Lethbridge says in a statement that the firstterm councillor had been with a friend when a wave of snow slid down a mountain.

Wade Galloway The friend tried to resuscitate Galloway before going for help.

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Mounties said in a news release last week that the search was “methodical and arduous,” noting that they faced challenges such as cold weather, snow and dangers that included industrial and medical waste as well as toxic gasses.

They said their investigation was helped by the fact Johnstone’s family and friends were quick to report her missing.

Prince Edward Island government confirms first case of pig virus CHARLOTTETOWN — A professor at a Prince Edward Island veterinary college says his worse fears have been realized with confirmation of a case of the deadly pig virus porcine epidemic diarrhea on an Island farm.

“We were worried about the virus even before this break. We were hoping it wouldn’t come,” said Dan Hurnik, a professor of swine health management at the Atlantic Veterinary College.

The province’s Agriculture Department says the National Centre of Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg has confirmed the presence of the virus, a highly contagious disease that has already killed millions of piglets in the United States.

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MCCOY: Recently started new job McCoy had recently become general manager of Cycle Works Motorsports in Red Deer, using his intimate knowledge of recreational machines to rise from being a salesman to manager in only six weeks, said Kathy. His dream, she said, was to own his own dealership.

McCoy’s passion for snowmobiling spread to his wife after they married, and a trip to the same Boulder Mountain over Christmas gave Kathy’s two sons the sledding bug as well.

“It was awesome. He smiled when we left here, and that smile didn’t go away until we came back . . . . My oldest son, we weren’t even off the mountain yet and he was already texting his uncle asking if he could buy his sled,” said Kathy.

McCoy turned 36 the day before the avalanche took his life. He celebrated his birthday in the mountains, where the group of riders had travelled to test out a snowmobile to be added to the Cycle Works lineup.

Kathy said if her husband was able to speak any final words, “he would probably address anybody that was a snowmobiler and say ‘Go rip up the mountains.’ That was his life, that was his love. He’d probably tell them to go have fun; be safe, have fun.”

Boulder Mountain is a very popular snowmobiling destination just outside of Revelstoke. Two snowmobilers were killed and 32 injured on the mountain in a 2010 avalanche. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

HOLIDAY: Blackfalds shows off Abbey Centre Vogt raised over $200 for minor hockey in Sylvan through his participation, and was shocked to learn while sitting above the tank that he there was a “payback” seeker in the crowd only too eager to hasten his frigid swim.

“I was like, ‘I don’t even know you!’” he laughed.

Family Day Monday, meanwhile, was balmy and many came out for festivities across Central Alberta.

In Blackfalds, the holiday presented a chance for many residents to get a look inside the newest addition to the town’s recreational family. Over 2,000 people came out for some outdoor fun around the Abbey Centre, and between trying their hand at the activities — ranging from ice sculpting to a treasure hunt in a snow pile — they could get a sneak peek inside the $15 million multipurpose exercise and recreation facility located in the town’s west end.

Wiring was done for the facility last week, and the first fitness classes offered at the rec centre get underway today. The target date for the full opening is March 17; from then on residents will be able to avail themselves of a full gymnasium, fitness centre, running track, separate walking track, and an impressive indoor play space for children.

The outdoor aquatic elements connected to the Abbey Centre are expected to open in time for the

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Logan Vogt gives a thumbs-up as he falls into the dunk tank set up as part of Sylvan Lake’s Winterfest celebrations on Saturday. The dunk tanks represented a change for the town’s annual Polar Bear Dip, which normally sees entrants jumping into the frigid lake. Unreliable ice conditions on the lake forced the change this year.

May long weekend. Those features include a lane pool, spray park, two waterslides, and a hot tub.

There was a tub present at Blackfalds’ Winterfest too, but it was anything but hot. Eleven brave souls hopped into the pool as part of the ‘Penguin Dip’ event, having raised money for charities to take part.

Participants raised funds for STARS, the Blackfalds Block Parent program, and the town’s subsidization program for recreational activities.

Up until 2007, Alberta was the only province to have a statutory holiday in February, but now Saskatchewan, Ontario and B.C. all have February Family Days. In Manitoba the holiday is called Louis Riel Day and P.E.I. celebrates Islander Day. In Nova Scotia, a mid-winter statutory holiday will be on the calendar for the first time next year, and in that province the holiday will go by a different name every year. The first holiday will be called Viola Desmond Day, in honour of a provincial civil rights leader. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

OLYMPICS: Canada has 15 medals overall That silver gave Canada 15 medals overall (four gold, seven silver, four bronze) after Day 11 of the Sochi Games. Canada was tied for fourth with Norway, behind host Russia and the United States (18 medals each) and the Netherlands (17 medals, 16 in long-track speedskating).

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Germany still has the most gold medals overall with seven.

Canada’s goal is to win more medals than any other country in Sochi. At least one more piece of hardware is guaranteed as the women’s hockey team got

by Switzerland 3-1 to set up a gold-medal showdown with the archrival United States. Canada is going for its fourth Olympic gold medal in a row.

And additional medals from Canada’s curlers are a strong possibility. Jones knew her Winnipeg rink was going to be the top-ranked team in the semifinals going into Monday’s match with South Korea, but her Winnipeg rink still put an exclamation point on its round-robin by improving to 9-0 and becoming the first women’s team to qualify for the semifinals with an undefeated record.

“In my opinion, this is one of the toughest fields that has ever been assembled for women’s curling,” Jones said. “To go through undefeated, and to go into the Olympic record books, is pretty awesome.”

Edmonton’s Kevin Martin, who did it four years ago in Vancouver, is the only other curler to go through the preliminary round undefeated.

Jones will face world champion Eve Muirhead and her rink from Britain in the semifinals on Wednesday. Canada beat Britain 9-6 in the roundrobin after Muirhead missed a potential game-winning shot in the final end.

“Now you start fresh,” said Jones. “And everyone’s on an even record.”

Brad Jacobs’ rink was idle as the men’s roundrobin ended on Monday. The foursome from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., will face surprising China in the semifinals.

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Helping the disabled, for little cost RDC PROGRAM GETS STUDENTS BUILDING SIMPLE, PRACTICAL DEVICES

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Stephanie Marchinko can see the value in a class project where the goal is to create a cost-effective tool to help people with disabilities improve their motor skills. Seeing her family spend some $30,000 on a few devices her brother needs to get around will do that.

A second-year student in the Adapted Physical Education diploma program at Red Deer College, Marchinko and 17 of her classmates had to create something practical for instructor Brandi Robinson’s class, and do it for under $5.

For the second year in a row, Robinson instituted the assignment to get her students some practical experience and show them how simple things can serve as substitutes for the far more elaborate, and far more expensive.

Marchinko’s creation could not be much simpler. She took a tennis ball, glued some eyes and a nose on it, and cut a hole for a mouth.

Other balls serve as a reward if the patient can place paper clips in the ball’s mouth.

The whole shebang cost roughly $3.50, and she said it could work just as well as balls that could cost $50 out of a physiotherapy equipment magazine.

While her family has received financial support through community organizations to purchase equipment for her brother — $35,000 for two wheelchairs, for example — she has also seen how much her family has spent out of pocket on other expensive items. “If we paid for everything, we’d be broke,� said Marchinko, 22.

Because of the sometimes huge

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From left, Red Deer College Kinesiology instructor Brandi Robinson meets with adaptive kinesiolgy students Regina Bossart, Karen Hanvold, and Brooke Vanwolde as they talk about their project Safe Glide‚ a support for persons with limited leg function. costs of equipment for people with disabilities, Robinson said adaptations will always be needed.

Physiotherapists and occupational therapists will commonly use things like Styrofoam or duct tape to work with patients, she said. “Adaptations are made all the time with materials that wouldn’t be conventional materials. It’d be nice to buy beautifully-made things, but that isn’t what families need and that isn’t what’s happening in the community.

The real-life world of occupational and physical therapy is all about making

things easy and simple,� said Robinson. “I can show you 10 magazines full of stuff, but no one, unless you’re rich beyond means, has that kind of money.�

Another student creation would allow children who have limited abilities in their legs to skate or scoot around on hardwood flooring.

The team of Karen Hanvold, Regina Bossart,

Woman relents, pays hefty water bill

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF In September, after months of fighting the City of Lacombe, Brookes Wallace paid a $1,028 water bill she is certain was based on a mistake. Then, she sold her property in the city, vowing to never pay another cent to the municipality.

Tests done on Wallace’s water meter that recorded 364 cubic metres of water — enough to fill a decent-sized swimming pool — used last February had found the meter to be acceptably accurate.

After the tests, and despite Wallace’s protestations, the city maintained that the meter reading was accurate, and told her she should pay the bill promptly.

She had a plumber inspect the property in question, which Wallace rented out to two tenants, and he found no leaks.

She demonstrated that her water bills returned to normal after a new meter was installed, but that did not sway the powers that be either.

So, eventually, she capitulated.

After she had paid the bill and sold the home, though, there was another hope.

Sid Morris, an Alix-area senior, had been saved from having to pay a $3,800 gas bill last year after a Measurement Canada investigation found that his gas meter was defective, with it possible that the

digits on his meter “freewheeled,� running far higher than they should have.

The federal agency with a mandate to inspect meters and investigate consumer complaints got possession of Wallace’s meter in October. It ran tests on the meter, and initial results found that the register was working properly. But, in its report issued in January, it said that further tests showed it is possible that a faulty interlocking odometer could have caused “freewheeling.�

The report said that despite the fault, through testing it could not definitely say whether a meter error caused the 12-fold consumption jump recorded. It closed off the report by saying the file is closed and that it would do no further investigation.

Wallace read the report and contacted the city again, hoping that the potential for a meter error would get her a refund for what she had already paid. But the city interpreted the letter to read that Measurement Canada was satisfied with the meter’s accuracy, and said it would not adjust the bill as doing so would spread out the bill cost to other taxpayers.

On Friday, an exasperated Wallace said she feels like she has wasted her time “banging her head against a wall� for the last year, and she does not plan to fight the charge anymore. “I have tried. I have thousands

and Brooke Vanwolde got the idea for their ‘Safe Glide’ from the ubiquitous Jolly Jumper.

Their device features a frame made from PVC pipe (acquired through the college’s plumbing department), felt pads on the bottom of the legs and tape on the top, and in the middle is an old pair of jean shorts held up by recycled backpack straps. Technically, it cost the trio nothing at all, and when Vanwolde’s two-year-old niece tested it out, she was able to rip around a hardwood floor just fine. “We just really wanted to give kids the equal opportunity to skate, just give them a chance to be out on the ice, like everybody else,� said Bossart.

Other creations included a weighted blanket made of beans and plastic bags sewed together, needed for kids with autism, and a glove adapted to allow someone without any grip strength to hold onto a piece of cutlery.

Robinson said some of various creations will be provided to a local special needs resource centre, to then be shared with children in the community. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

of pages of emails. Every avenue has been researched — nothing,� she said. “There’s nothing I haven’t tried.

Everyone has come back and said they can’t help in this, they don’t have jurisdiction.�

That includes Measurement Canada, which actually is not mandated under federal legislation to regulate water meters. Such devices are specially exempt, along with parking meters and coin-operated weigh scales.

The City of Lacombe has put the meter matter to bed, but does plan to change out all water meters in the city over the next four years. It says the changes are not predicated on Wallace’s situation.

While the meters themselves will barely change, the new devices will have antennas on them, allowing readers to get numbers from the meters using radio waves, rather than having to go inspect the numbers up close.

The city’s utilities and fleet manager said as part of the new system, information will be stored for each meter in the city. “The new system we’re installing, if a resident called up, we could produce graphs for the last 90 days of water use. We can show if there’s strange use, or no use,� said Chris Huston.

He said that ability to check for blips won’t likely eliminate disputes like Wallace’s, but could lessen their occurrence. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Conservative government wants to hear from the public about how to rewrite the prostitution laws that were struck down by the Supreme Court late last year.

A month-long, online consultation period on the Justice Canada website began Monday and runs to March 17. “Our government is concerned about the significant harms that flow from prostitution to communities, those engaged in prostitution and other vulnerable persons,� Justice Minister Peter MacKay said in a release. “Doing nothing is not an option.

We are therefore asking Canadians right across the country to provide their input through an online consultation to ensure a legislative response to prostitution that reflects our country’s values.�

In a Dec. 20 ruling, the high court unanimously struck down laws against street soliciting, living on the avails of prostitution and keeping a brothel.

The Supreme Court ruled the laws endangered sex workers and were violations of the constitutional guarantee to life, liberty and security of the person. It gave the government one year to come up with new legislation before the current Criminal Code provisions lapse.

However, in the meantime, several provinces say they will not prosecute prostitution-related offences and that in some cases existing charges are being thrown

out, drawing the ire of the federal justice minister.

NDP justice critic Francoise Boivin expressed deep skepticism of the government’s track record on public input. “You’ve got a minister that’s almost announced the law that he’s going to present,� she said in an interview. “He didn’t leave much room for changing his mind, but we’ll see.�

MacKay said earlier this month that the government had already started drafting new prostitution legislation and planned to consult police and provincial governments.

Adding online public input to the mix is not unprecedented for the Conservative government, although it tends to pick its spots.

The government held consultations on a new victims’ bill of rights last year, and in that case, the public comment period ran for almost five months, from May 1 to Sept. 27.

The Department of Justice also consulted the public in 2010 on drunk-driving laws and family law reforms, while a 2008 effort to harmonize federal law with Quebec civil law was also opened to public input. “I think it makes perfect sense,� Liberal justice critic Sean Casey said of the consultations on prostitution law. “They have a year to do this and to get it right. There’s a better chance of getting it right if they listen to the public.�

Casey called it “a little out of character (for the Harper government) when you look at what

they’re doing with the Fair Elections Act and with some other legislation they brought in in the past.�

The government is stiffly resisting public hearings on its current, sweeping overhaul of the Elections Act. Pierre Poilievre, the minister in charge of electoral reform, dismissed an NDP proposal for travelling committee hearings as a “costly circus.� His parliamentary secretary predicted a “gong show.�

A discussion paper on the Department of Justice’s website lists three international approaches to prostitution: decriminalization or legalization, as practised in countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and Australia; prohibition, as practised in most American states; and abolition, or the so-called Nordic Model, which targets johns and other third parties but not prostitutes.

Boivin said she’d like to see a truly national consultation, including televised government ads informing citizens how to make their views known. “ ‘Please voice your opinion on prostitution, a message from your government of Canada’ — during the Olympics!� said the Nsew Democrat, laughing. “You might have a lot of people answer, but I doubt very much they’ll promote that.�

Those who wish to comment can do so through the website at http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cons/ curr-cours/proscons-conspros/index .html2014—02—17 or by emailing Consultations.Prostitution@ justice.gc.ca.

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But many argue that, despite Fukushima and other disasters, nuclear is the best option to reduce carbon emissions fast enough to avoid catastrophic DAVID climate change.

SUZUKI Because of problems with radioactive waste, meltdown risks and weapons proliferation, some say we must develop safer nuclear technologies.

Even eminent climate scientists like James Hansen claim we can’t avoid nuclear if we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Hansen, a former NASA scientist, with Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution, Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tom Wigley of Australia’s

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University of Adelaide, wrote an open letter last year stating, “the time has come for those who take the threat of global warming seriously to embrace the development and deployment of safer nuclear power systems.”

What are “safer nuclear power systems?” And are they the answer?

Proposed technologies include smaller modular reactors, reactors that shut down automatically after an accident and molten salt reactors.

Some would use fuels and coolants deemed safer. (Industry proponents argue the low incidence of nuclear accidents means current technology is safe enough. But the costs and consequences of an accident, as well as problems such as containing highly radioactive wastes, provide strong arguments against building new reactors with current technology.)

One idea is to use thorium instead of uranium for reactor fuel. Thorium is more abundant than uranium. Unlike uranium, it’s not fissile; that is, it can’t be split to create a nuclear chain reaction, so it must be bred through nuclear reactors to produce fissile uranium.

Thorium-fuelled reactors produce less waste, and while some trace elements in spent uranium fuels remain radioactive for many thousands of years, levels in spent thorium fuels drop off much faster.

China and Canada are working on

a modified Canadian design that includes thorium along with recycled uranium fuel. With the right type of reactor, such as this design or the integral fast reactor, meltdown risks are reduced or eliminated.

Thorium can be employed in a variety of reactor types, some of which currently use uranium — including heavy water reactors like Canada’s CANDU. But some experts say new technologies, such as molten salt reactors, including liquid fluoride thorium reactors, are much safer and more efficient than today’s conventional reactors.

So why aren’t we using them?

Although they may be better than today’s reactors, LFTRs still produce radioactive and corrosive materials, they can be used to produce weapons and we don’t know enough about the impacts of using fluoride salts. Fluoride will contain a nuclear reaction, but it can be highly toxic, and deadly as fluorine gas. And though the technology’s been around since the 1950s, it hasn’t been proven on a commercial scale. Countries including the U.S., China, France and Russia are pursuing it, but in 2010 the U.K.’s National Nuclear Laboratory reported that thorium claims are “overstated.”

It will also take a lot of time and money to get a large number of reactors on-stream – some say from 30 to 50 years. Given the urgent challenge

of global warming, we don’t have that much time. Many argue that if renewables received the same level of government subsidies as the nuclear industry, we’d be ahead at lower costs.

Thorium essentially just adds another fuel option to the nuclear mix and isn’t a significant departure from conventional nuclear. All nuclear power remains expensive, unwieldy and difficult to integrate with intermittent renewables – and carries risks for weapons proliferation.

If the choice is between keeping nuclear power facilities running or shutting them down and replacing them with coal-fired power plants, the nuclear option is best for the climate.

But, for now, investing in renewable energy and smart-grid technologies is a faster, more cost-effective and safer option than building new nuclear facilities, regardless of type.

That doesn’t mean we should curtail research into nuclear and other options, including thorium’s potential to improve the safety and efficiency of nuclear facilities. But we must also build on the momentum of renewable energy development, which has been spurred by its safety, declining costs and proven effectiveness.

Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

Finding precious connections RED DEER GENEALOGICAL EVENT CAN HELP YOU DELVE INTO YOUR FAMILY’S PAST Dressed in full swashbuckling pirate garb, “Captain” Jack Starling wandered amid throngs of thousands of eager genealogists recently in Salt Lake City, Utah, effusing prolific pearls of wisdom like: “Dead men tell no tales … but their obituaries do!”

It was all part of the energy and excitement of Rootstech, an annual family history conference (North America’s largest, attracting nearly 16,000 participants on day three alone) organized to help people connect with their families — past, present, and future.

On Saturday, local members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in collaboration with the VESNA Red Deer branch of the AlHIGHAM berta Genealogical Society, are hosting a Family History Fair in Red Deer, featuring broadcast Rootstech sessions throughout the day, as well as hands-on technology sessions in the family history centre, with research consultants available to direct and instruct attendees.

Whether you’re just beginning your family tree, an avid hobbyist, or an experienced researcher, family history enthusiasts of all ages are invited to discover and learn to preserve precious family connections, stories, and personal histories in this one-day exposition.

The local fair is part of an ambitious endeavour broadcasting Rootstech sessions to 600 similar satellite workshops throughout the globe, for the purpose of enhancing family connectedness across the generations through record-keeping, storytelling, and photo-preservation.

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Talk to any family history enthusiast and you’ll quickly discover that the growing interest in family history worldwide encompasses far more than the old genealogical names, dates and pedigree charts of past generations.

Indeed, the recent proliferation of blog sites, social media, and digitized photobook websites represents an ever-growing interest in discovering our roots — connecting with the past in an effort better to understand our present and more richly embrace the future.

Participants at the Red Deer Rootstech Fair may attend five sessions throughout the day, selecting from various offerings each hour, featuring topics such as: Basic Online Resources for the Beginning Genealogist, How to Interview Yourself for a Personal History, From Chaos to CALM – Organizing Digital Photos for your Life Story Project and How to Scan an Elephant: Digitizing Your Family History from Artifact to Zombie.

The clear objective of today’s modern family history movement supersedes rote data-gathering of the past to emphasize the importance of telling your stories, sharing your photos, and preserving your family’s precious memories in unique, creative ways with the aid of monumental advances in digital and online technology — many of which will be highlighted at the fair.

One interesting tidbit illustrates the swelling wave of family history interest across the planet: FamilySearch (the genealogical research arm of the LDS church) set a goal this year to index 100 million obituaries worldwide in 2014 alone. Considering the church stores billions of unindexed, digitized records, it’s certainly a work in progress, but one worth investing time in.

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“People like the convenience of searching for key family history records digitally. No one has time to go hunting through stacks of paper anymore,” he added.

Enthusiasts like Darby can bend your ear for hours with nary a breath about the exciting, new and innovative technologies advancing the family history movement today.

If you’re among the growing number of people with a passion for blogging, personal stories, photo gathering and sharing, preserving family keepsake memories, or old fashion pedigree charts, you’ll find something of interest at the Red Deer Rootstech Fair.

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The one-day workshop runs Saturday, Feb. 22, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the LDS church building at 3002 47th Ave. in Red Deer (across from Sunnybrook Farm).

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Ombudsman slams lax review of federal prison deaths from natural causes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The national prison ombudsman says he has serious concerns about the quality of care provided to ailing prisoners in federal custody.

A report released Monday by correctional investigator Howard Sapers also found it often takes more than two years for Correctional Service Canada to complete a mandatory review when someone behind bars dies of natural causes.

Sapers says he uncovered questionable diagnostic practices, incomplete records, lax information-sharing and delays or lack of follow-up on treatment recommendations.

In addition, prison staff did not investigate the circumstances of natural deaths beyond recording the cause as either unexpected or sudden.

Correctional Serviceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s process for reviewing such in-custody deaths failed to generate significant findings or recommendations, Sapers says.

There is no way of determining whether a death was preventable or premature.

On average, about 35 federal prisoners die each year for natural reasons â&#x20AC;&#x201D; by far the

most common cause, the report says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;More offenders are growing old in custody and succumbing to chronic disease in prison.â&#x20AC;?

It calls on the prison service to do a comprehensive â&#x20AC;&#x153;lessonslearned exerciseâ&#x20AC;? to identify measures to reduce or prevent natural-cause deaths.

Sapers recommends several other changes: â&#x2014;? All sudden or unexpected fatalities should be subject to a full national board of investigation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the kind of inquiry that now happens when thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a suicide or homicide; â&#x2014;? The board should convene within 15 working days of the fatality; â&#x2014;? All reviews of prison deaths â&#x20AC;&#x201D; no matter the cause â&#x20AC;&#x201D; should be led by a doctor; â&#x2014;? Death review reports should be shared with family members in a timely way.

The process for reviewing deaths in prison should also be subject to a â&#x20AC;&#x153;quality control auditâ&#x20AC;? by an outside medical examiner, Sapers says.

Correctional Service spokeswoman Sara Parkes said Monday the agency has â&#x20AC;&#x153;already begun work in many of the areasâ&#x20AC;? identified by Sapers.

However, Parkes could not say

which recommendations the prison service might adopt.

In preparing the report, Sapersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; office hired an independent doctor to study the medical care provided to a sample of 15 offenders before they died.

All of the deaths involved men and all but one was anticipated by the prison service.

In each case, the doctor looked at the same medical charts, files and records that were part of Correctional Serviceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case review.

In one case of an inmate who died of a cancerous tumour, a review of his medical chart showed lack of continuity of care, incomplete and poor documentation, lack of progress notes and an absence of follow-up on treatment recommendations.

In five of 15 cases, recommendations for further testing or referrals to specialists were not followed and unexplained delays in treatment occurred, the report adds.

It says the original prison service death reviews â&#x20AC;&#x153;do not indicate the rationale upon which the treating physicians relied or why recommended tests or referrals were not followed.â&#x20AC;?

Endangered whale meat shipped through Canada PROMPTS CALL FOR TOUGHER TRADE LAWS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trade laws involving at-risk species are being called into question after meat of the endangered fin whale was recently shipped through the country, sparking outcry from environmentalists.

Greenpeace Canada is urging Ottawa to implement stronger measures after it says fin whale meat arrived in Halifax from Iceland about three weeks ago and was transported by train across the country en route to Japan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t something we heard anything about before,â&#x20AC;? Sarah King, oceans campaign co-ordinator for Greenpeace, said Monday from Fredericton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To think that they shipped not only to a Canadian port but then by rail across Canada was definitely an eye-opener.â&#x20AC;?

Canada is a signatory of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which includes the fin whale in a list of the most endangered species. The fin whale is also listed as a special concern under the federal Species at Risk Act. Environment Canada declined an interview request. But in an email, it said it inspected the shipment and had to allow it to proceed since Iceland and Japan did not agree to the listing of the fin whale under the convention.

It also said the convention provides an exemption for shipments of endangered species in-transit through a country so long as the shipment remains in customs control.

Environment Canada would not provide specific information about the shipment, saying that it

does not give information on inspections that did not result in warnings, directions or charges. But it confirmed it was the first time Canada has been involved in the transportation of whale meat.

Robbie Marsland, the United Kingdomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said he questions Ottawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position that it was required to permit the shipment through the country.

Marsland said although the convention rules include an exemption for shipments of endangered species in-transit, researchers at his organization have not found anything in Canadian law to that effect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;CITES isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a piece of legislation which is enforced in the 185 countries who have signed up to it.

You have to have your own laws to bring it into effect,â&#x20AC;? said Marsland in an interview from London. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We believe that those local laws could enable the Canadian government to say that they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to have anything to do with such an odious and repugnant trade.â&#x20AC;?

Marsland said his organization has asked Environment Canada for clarification, but it has not heard back.

King said regardless of whether Canada complied with the rules, the government should adopt stricter measures to ensure it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen again. â&#x20AC;&#x153;CITES doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t prevent countries from adopting stricter regulations or to take stricter domestic measures including the prohibition of the transport of these types of species,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fact is that the Canadian government has a commitment to protect endangered species and they need to live up to that commitment and not allow the trade of these species through the country.â&#x20AC;?

Irving Oil to convert railcar fleet, remove older cars from service ving Oil president Paul Browning said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By taking this voluntary leadership position with our own fleet of railcars we expect to set a standard for the suppliers and marketers who ship crude oil to our facilities to quickly follow our example.â&#x20AC;?

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Trial starts 14 years after B.C. man disappeared

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KAMLOOPS, B.C. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A trial is underway into the murder of a man who disappeared from his home in Lytton, B.C., more than 14 years ago.

Crown lawyer Tim Livingston says the man charged with manslaughter in August 2012 confessed to the murder of Sandy Charlie to undercover police officers. Livingston told a B.C. Supreme Court jury that William Smith was angry at Charlie for talking to police about a previous crime.

He says Smith beat up 48-year-old Charlie and dragged him down a flight of stairs. Charlie was last seen in December 1999, and his remains were found in a concealed grave in September 2011.

Medicinal marijuana seller to challenge federal drug laws KAMLOOPS, B.C. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the first day in what may be a long legal journey for the owner-operator of a Kamloops compassion club.

Carl Anderson and his business partner Wesley Jenkins are each facing a single charge of drug trafficking after RCMP busted their club in 2011.

Anderson plans to launch a constitutional challenge to the federal law banning such non-profit clubs from selling unsanctioned medicinal marijuana, saying the current regime violates patientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; charter rights.

More than 37,000 Canadians are authorized to possess marijuana for medicinal purposes.

Beginning April 1, medicinal marijuana users will no longer have to buy pot from Health Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one approved supplier but will be restricted to buying from a list of approved growers.

PotashCorp worker killed in mine near Saskatoon, facility shuts down SASKATOON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A worker has been killed at a Saskatchewan potash mine.

Officials with Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSX:POT) say some ore fell on top of the man while he was underground at its Cory mine near Saskatoon.

Co-workers tried to resuscitate the 31-year-old, said company spokesman Bill Johnson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The crews working with this individual tended to him right away underground administering CPR,â&#x20AC;?

Johnson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was brought to the surface and he was taken to hospital by ambulance.â&#x20AC;?

He later died in hospital, Johnson said.

Another person was also taken to hospital, but was not seriously injured. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a very sad day at PotashCorp,â&#x20AC;? Johnson said.

The mine has temporarily shut down as workplace safety officials investigate.

Gilles Duceppe says he wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t run for the PQ in next Quebec election QUEBEC â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe says he will not run in the next Quebec election.

Gilles Duceppe tells The Canadian Press he wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seek a Parti Quebecois nomination and hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been asked by the PQ if he would be interested.

Speculation is swirling that Premier Pauline Marois is poised to call a provincial election in the days or weeks after her minority government tables its budget on Thursday. Duceppe has been associated with the PQ in the past â&#x20AC;&#x201D; usually as a potential leader.

Canadian man dies after falling into tree well when skiing in Montana WHITEFISH, Mon. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An Alberta man died in a weekend skiing accident at Whitefish Mountain Resort in northwestern Montana. The Flathead County sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office says 48-year-old Thomas Podivinsky of Calgary died after falling into a tree well.

Officials say Podivinsky was skiing with a friend when they became separated at about 12:30 p.m.

Sunday. When he failed to meet up with a group of people as planned, he was reported missing at about 1 p.m. Ski patrollers found Podivinsky upside-down in a tree well and were unable to resuscitate him. A tree well is a hole in the snow that forms around the base of a tree.

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The DOT-111 railcars are considered to be the workhorses of the oil-byrail industry.

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SAINT JOHN, N.B. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Irving Oil said Monday it will remove from its fleet the same type of railcar involved in the deadly train derailment in LacMegantic, Que., last summer.

The company said it will convert its fleet of crude oil railcars to comply with U.S. standards for DOT-111 tank cars built after Oct. 1, 2011, and remove the older cars from service.

Specifications set out by the Association of American Railroads call for railcars built after October 2011 to be constructed with reinforcements that have been reported to reduce the risk of product loss if the railcars derail.

The Saint John-based firm said it will complete the conversion by April 30.

The change comes after 47 people were killed in July when a train carrying crude oil derailed in Lac-Megantic and incinerated the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown core.

Investigators said 60 of 63 railcars carrying oil that left the tracks spilled their contents because of tank car damage. All were older-model DOT-111s.

Irving Oil said it will also ask its suppliers to adhere to the American standards by Dec. 31. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Safety is paramount to our business,â&#x20AC;? Ir-

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Syrian rebels appoint new military chief ATTEMPT TO REVAMP MODERATE OPPOSITION

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — After losing ground to Syrian forces and Islamic extremists for months, the Westernbacked rebel movement announced Monday it was replacing its military chief with an experienced, moderate field commander from the south.

The move is part of a broader restructuring aimed at persuading the U.S. and its allies to provide more sophisticated weapons to confront President Bashar Assad’s army after diplomatic efforts to end the war failed to take off.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, meanwhile, accused Assad of stonewalling in peace talks and called on Russia to push its ally to negotiate with opposition leaders.

“Right now, Bashar Assad has not engaged in the discussions along the promised and required standard that both Russia spoke up for and the regime spoke up for,” Kerry said during a news conference in Jakarta, Indonesia. He said it was clear the Syrian leader was “trying to win this on the battlefield instead of coming to the negotiating table in good faith.”

The opposition reluctantly agreed to participate in two rounds of peace negotiations in Geneva, hoping it would convince the U.S. of the futility of a diplomatic track to end the country’s three-year conflict.

By revamping the opposition’s moderate forces, it hopes to encourage its reluctant U.S. and European allies to send them anti-aircraft weapons to challenge Assad’s monopoly on air power.

Brig. Gen. Abdul-Ilah al-Bashir replaces Gen. Salim Idris, a secular-leaning moderate who was criticized by many in the opposition for being ineffective and lost the confidence of the U.S. and its allies, particularly after Islamic extremists seized a weapons depot from moderate rebels. The move was announced Monday in a statement by the FSA’s Supreme Military Council.

Al-Bashir, who previously headed the group’s operations in the southern province of Quneitra on the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, is considered a moderate Islamist. He hails from the region’s most powerful al-Nuaimi tribe, giving him influence among Syria’s conservative rural areas, where tribal connections are important.

Rebels say he has vast knowledge of the areas south of Damascus where he served as an army commander until defecting to the opposition in 2012. His son Talal, also a rebel, was killed in battle with government forces in Quneitra last year.

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In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. Iran’s top leader backs the continuation of nuclear negotiations with the West but says he doubts they will succeed.

Ahead of talks, huge obstacles remain BETWEEN 6 WORLD POWERS, IRAN NUKE DEAL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VIENNA, Austria — It took months of arduous bargaining before Iran and six world powers could agree on a firststep nuclear deal. But the two sides may find the going even tougher Tuesday, when they start to confront hurdles standing in the path of a final accord.

Tehran denies Western accusations that it wants — or worked on — nuclear arms. But on Nov. 24 it agreed to initial curbs on uranium enrichment — which can serve at different levels as the core of nuclear arms or reactor fuel — in exchange for some easing of the sanctions choking its economy.

In effect for six months, the deal is meant to lead to a final accord that minimizes any potential Iranian nuclear weapons threat in return for a full lifting of sanctions.

But as the sides begin haggling over the final pact in Vienna, Gary Samore, who helped the U.S. negotiate with Iran until last year, describes the interim deal as “simply a truce,” with the hard work still ahead.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is even more pessimistic.

Accusing the Americans of approaching the talks in bad faith, he urged Iranian envoys on Monday to do their best but said the negotiations “will lead nowhere.”

A look at some obstacles: HOW MANY CENTRIFUGES? The interim accord says a final deal would leave Iran with an “enrichment program with practical limits and transparency measures” to ensure its peaceful nature.

That means haggling over the number of centrifuges, the machines

that enrich uranium to high-tech applications that can range from reactor fuel to use in nuclear bombs.

Samore, the former White House arms control co-ordinator who is now with Harvard’s Belfer Center think-tank , says the Iranians will insist on keeping all of the 20,000 centrifuges set up at their enrichment sites.

Of those, 10,000 are running and Tehran will push to keep as many of those operating as possible. But the United States fears that having 20,000 centrifuges on site — even with most of them idle — would give Iran the capacity to produce enough weaponsgrade enriched uranium within a few months.

Washington and its five negotiating partners — Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany — want only a few thousand of the machines standing.

They calculate that would give them a more than a one-year window, if Iran turned on all its centrifuges and started working on weaponsgrade uranium from the start to the time it had enough for one weapon.

Centrifuge types also will be in dispute. The Iranians want to upgrade with advanced machines that work up to four times faster than older centrifuges now doing most of the enriching.

Samore says bargaining over enrichment will be the most difficult issue and expects little tangible progress until the end of this year — if at all.

FORDO AND ARAK: The U.S. and its allies see the underground enriching facility at Fordo as a particular problem because it is heavily fortified against aerial attacks.

Samore says the six powers want Fordo shut down. But because Tehran is opposed to tearing

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down any of its atomic infrastructure as a matter of national pride, a possible compromise would be to “repurpose” Fordo while keeping it a nuclear facility, perhaps as a storage area for equipment or material.

The reactor under construction at Arak is a concern because it is a heavy-water facility that would produce substantial amounts of plutonium that also can be used as the fissile core of a missile. Converting the reactor to a light-water installation or cutting back on its output would ease big-power concerns.

Samore agrees with Iranian officials that construction is too far advanced to re-engineer the reactor, saying it would make more sense to take a wrecking ball to it and finance the building of a new, light-water reactor.

But because of Iran’s insistence that its nuclear facilities be kept intact, he suggests that the six may offer to reconfigure it anyway “to give the Iranians some facesaving.”

BACK TO SQUARE ONE? The interim agreement says that as a member of the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty, Iran will at some point be treated as any other non-nuclear weapons NPT member state, if it honours commitments it takes on under a final agreement.

But the big question

is when? And what happens then?

The U.S. and its allies will likely seek to extend the agreement for up to 25 years for maximum assurance that Iran has forsworn any potential nuclear weapons ambitions. Samore says Iran wants the final agreement to end after five years, and when it does expire Tehran can start building its nuclear program like any other nonweapon NPT states.

That could include running tens of thousands of centrifuges, heavy-water reactors that produce substantial amounts of plutonium and other measures now worrying the international community. All are allowed under the NPT as long as the U.N. nuclear agency can find no reason to suspect that any activity is non-peaceful.

Samore agrees that could result in renewed worries but shares the view that it is impossible to single out Iran for restrictions that other NPT member states are not under once it is deemed to have dispelled concerns that it represents a threat.

The plan to push for decades of nuclear curbs rests on hopes of regime change in Iran— for what the United States considers would be a more democratic government.

“That will be so far in the distant future that it is very likely that there will a different leadership,” says Samore.

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GENEVA — A UN panel warned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday that he may be held accountable for orchestrating widespread crimes against civilians in the secretive Asian nation, ranging from systematic executions to torture, rape and mass starvation.

It is unusual for a UN report to directly implicate a nation’s leader. But in a letter accompanying a yearlong investigative report, the chairman of a three-member UN commission of inquiry, retired Australian judge Michael Kirby, directly warned Kim that international prosecution is needed “to render accountable all those, including possibly yourself, who may be responsible for crimes against humanity.”

“Even without being directly involved in crimes against humanity, a military commander may be held responsible for crimes against humanity committed by forces under the commander’s effective command and control,” Kirby wrote.

He urged Kim to take “all necessary and reasonable measures” to stop crimes against humanity and insure that they are properly investigated and prosecuted. Kirby added, however, there was no indication the North Korea would do so.

The investigative commission’s 372-page report is a wide-ranging indictment of North Korea for policies including political prison camps with 80,000 to 120,000 people, state-sponsored abductions of North Korean, Japanese and other nationals, and lifelong indoctrination.

“They are wrongs that shock the conscience of humanity,” Kirby said, comparing them with Nazi atrocities.

Details of the findings were reported Friday by The Associated Press.

Speaking to reporters after the release of the report, Kirby said it was impossible not to include Kim’s name in the list of suspects because of what he described as the government’s totalitarian nature.

Kirby referred to prison camps, which North Korea says do not exist. “However, the satellite images show the prison camps and we had testimony, which is quoted in the report, which tells the stories of the prison camps” that include starvation and stunted growth in babies, he said.

North Korean officials did not co-operate with the panel’s investigation, saying in correspondence last year that the country “totally and categorically rejects” the probe ordered by the UN’s 47-nation Human Rights Council, which is based in Geneva.

The commission’s three members — which also include Sonja Biserko of Serbia and Marzuki Darusman of Indonesia — said the findings are based on testimony from 80 witnesses at four public hearings in Seoul, Tokyo, London and Washington last year plus more than 240 confidential interviews with victims and others.

North Korea is unlikely to face prosecution because China, one of five veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council, generally opposes such referrals to the International Criminal Court.

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Helping in Haiti HORIZON FAMILY MEDICINE FUNDS CLINIC IN TOWN DESTROYED BY 2010 EARTHQUAKE

JUKE BOX MANIA IS ON MARCH 22 A fundraiser that helps Family Services of Central Alberta will challenge players’ knowledge of music, movies and television. The fourth annual Juke Box Mania, on March 22 at the Harvest Centre in Red Deer, is a Name That Tune game in a party-like atmosphere.

Participants are encouraged to dress up as their favourite musical group or entertainer.

Costume prizes will be awarded and there are other contests to raise funds. Family Services is a local non-profit organization that provides program and services to children, adults, families and seniors. The event begins at 6 p.m. Tickets are on sale for $55 each or $360 per table of eight, at www.fcsa.ca.

FIRE SEASON STARTS MARCH 1 Alberta’s forest fire season officially starts March 1. This is the date that Albertans in forested areas require a fire permit for any burning, excluding campfires. In 2013, there were 1,207 wildfires. Of these, 920 were caused by humans and 287 were caused by lightning. In total, 54,084 forest acres burned. Remember, human-caused fires are 100 per cent preventable.

For information on fire permits contact Sundre at 403-638-3805; Rocky Mountain House at 403845-8581; Drayton Valley at 780-542-6616; or toll free anywhere in Alberta by calling 310-0000.

ENTITLED CHILD PARENTING Drop the worry ball and learn to parent in the age of entitlement. Toronto psychologist Alex Russell will present Entitled Child at the Central Alberta Teachers Convention Association at Red Deer College on Wednesday.

Russell says the key to raising well-adjusted children is to allow kids to learn by falling down, experiencing failure and disappointment. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the presentation to follow at 7 p.m. Admission is free.

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BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Even before the 2010 earthquake that devastated much of the country, Haiti was the poorest nation in the Americas.

When the quake hit in January four years ago, killing tens of thousands and leaving many more in need of urgent care, the lack of appropriate medical resources was made all too clear.

Four years later the country remains remarkably poor, much still needs to be rebuilt, and most Haitians are at a high risk of contracting major infectious diseases.

But the chance to rebuild post-earthquake has also provided a great opportunity, an opportunity exemplified at the Haiti ARISE compound in Grand-Goâve, a town of 60,000 two hours west of the capital Port-au-Prince.

The majority of buildings in Grand-Goâve were destroyed in the earthquake, including many structures at the compound of the faith-based humanitarian organization.

After the quake, not only were buildings on the compound rebuilt, a new one was built — an $80,000 medical clinic.

That clinic has received financial support from Horizon Family Medicine, based in Red Deer and Sylvan Lake, in recent years.

Earlier this month, a team of six from the local clinics spent a week at the Haiti clinic seeing patients and learning where their support is most needed moving forward.

Diabetes, hypertension and eye troubles were common issues the medical team’s four physicians saw at the clinic.

Many of the Haitians lacked regular access to a physician, and specialists were often hours away in the capital.

Dr. Ray Comeau has done medical trips to many countries through A Better World Canada, but said the situation in Haiti

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Red Deer physician Dr. Mandy Hyde (middle) meets with a Haitian patient in early February when she and a team of others from Horizon Family Medicine travelled to the Caribbean nation to work for a week at a local medical clinic. remains very poor.

Oddly, it was when an injured Canadian on the trip needed an X-ray that the lack of medical infrastructure in the country was most evident to Comeau.

“They really tried to get us through fast and help us, but that machine they had there came out of Noah’s Ark. It was really really something old.

They do amazing things with what they’ve got, but it’s a pretty sad situation.

“And it’s also sad that so much money has been poured into Haiti and there’s so little to show for it,” he said.

The clinic at the Haiti ARISE compound lacked an on-site lab other diagnostic tools, some-

thing Dr. Mandy Hyde said hampers the health of those who may have to travel far away to determine whether they have an infectious disease.

The humanitarian organization also runs a primary school, bible college and trade school for the community.

The trade school is seen as a particularly important piece of the charity’s efforts, as for much of the rebuilding work in the country, Comeau said, Dominicans have been brought in simply because Haitians have not had the necessary skills.

“In order to improve the health of that community, you need to get people out of pov-

erty. In order for them to get out of poverty, they need to have jobs.

“So I think their vision is good; they’re trying to improve people’s lives that way,” said Hyde.

While no further trips have yet been planned, ongoing financial support from Horizon funds a physician and pharmacist at the clinic three days per week.

Other medical personnel on the Haiti trip were Dr. Chauntille Munchinsky, Dr. Marci Wilson and pharmacy technician Denise Hubert. Horizon business manager Martin Penninga also made the trip. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

Helping heal the hurting HORSES HELP VETERANS SUFFERING STRESS

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Using horses to help heal the hurting is the modus operandi of Can Praxis. Thanks to a huge contribution announced last week, the specialized program using horses to soothe some of those most in pain — veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder — will be able to be accessed by more veterans in 2014.

The program, which operates at Jim Marland’s ranch northeast of Rocky Mountain House, started last March and since then over 70 veterans have attended the sessions held so far.

Last year, Wounded Warriors Canada provided $10,000 in funding for the program’s 2013 operations.

Last week, the veterans charity that focuses on the mental health of current and former troops, made a far bigger donation to the program — $150,000.

The issue of mental health and the military has come to the fore in recent months, after a spate of suicides of personnel in a short time frame.

Marland, who has experience in equine therapy, runs the initiative with Steve Critchley, a professional mediator who spent 28 years in the military.

Through the programs, veterans spend three days at Marland’s ranch with their spouses, partners, or another loved one, where they get theoretical and practical instruction to help mend broken relationships.

Horses are the centrepiece of the healing efforts. In one exercise, veterans and loved ones are to lead the creatures around a simple obstacle course.

“The reason we use horses is, as an animal of prey, over the years they got very good at recognizing if another animal coming towards them is a friend or a foe. So they read our body language in the same way, instantly.

“Maybe there’s some stress and tension and the horse recognizes it immediately and sometimes, for example, the horse might stop,” said Marland.

“That’s an invitation to ask ‘Where’s the stress; what’s happening?’ It’s very easy for people to respond to that kind of question because the horse is the teacher. The horse

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Over the last year, military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder have been coming for sessions of equine therapy through the Can Praxis program operating northeast of Rocky Mountain House. A big funding boost from Wounded Warriors Canada will allow the program to be offered free to more veterans. is telling them something’s changed that’s not quite right and it’s less threatening than some professor saying ‘You’ve made a mistake.’”

Marland said people often come nervous and skeptical, but leave after the three days with new insights and connections with other veterans going through the same issues.

Spouses and loved ones attend so that they too can better understand what their partners are going through and how they can contribute to a healthier relationship.

“The essence of it isn’t to come to Rocky Mountain House and play with ponies. The essence is to experience the exercises and realize what they’re learning in the horse arena so they can take it home to the hu-

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man arena,” he said.

Veterans from across the country attend the sessions for free at present, and Marland said he and Critchley are looking at offering the program to first responders who may suffer from PTSD as well.

He and Critchley also plan to offer other horse-based opportunities for veterans, including teaching them how to ride horses and taking them on pack rides in the mountains.

Veterans Affairs Canada contributed $50,000 last year to fund a scientific study of the equine therapy program, said Marland, the results of which will be published in the Canadian Military Journal in the spring. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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Train accidents stir safety worries OIL BOOM SENDS MORE TANKER TRAINS ACROSS NORTH AMERICA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BILLINGS, Mon. — At least 10 times since 2008, freight trains hauling oil across North America have derailed and spilled significant quantities of crude, with most of the accidents touching off fires or catastrophic explosions.

The derailments released almost 3 million gallons of oil, nearly twice as much as the largest pipeline spill in the U.S. since at least 1986. And the deadliest wreck killed 47 people in the town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec.

Those findings, from an Associated Press review of U.S. and Canadian accident records, underscore a lesserknown danger of America’s oil boom, which is changing the global energy balance and raising urgent safety questions closer to home.

Experts say recent efforts to improve the safety of oil shipments belie an unsettling fact: With increasing volumes of crude now moving by rail, it’s become impossible to send oil-hauling trains to refineries without passing major population centres, where more lives and property are at risk.

Adding to the danger is the high volatility of the light, sweet crude from the fast-growing Bakken oil patch in Montana and North Dakota, where many of the trains originate. Because it contains more natural gas than heavier crude, Bakken oil can have a lower ignition point.

Of the six oil trains that derailed and caught fire since 2008, four came from the Bakken and each caused at least one explosion.

That includes the accident at LacMegantic, which spilled an estimated

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Tank cars used to transport crude oil from North Dakota are parked among other rail traffic at a train yard in Tacoma, Wash. Washington lawmakers are considering competing measures that try to address safety issues surrounding the increased number of crude oil trains moving throughout the state.

1.6 million gallons and set off a blast that levelled a large section of the town.

After recent fiery derailments in Quebec, Alabama, North Dakota and New Brunswick, companies and regulators in the U.S. and Canada are pursuing an array of potential changes such as slowing or rerouting trains, upgrading rupture-prone tank cars and bolstering fire departments.

Company executives were expected to offer a set of voluntary safety measures in the coming days at the request

of U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.

“I’m absolutely positive the railway industry will come up with techniques to define how to minimize risk,” said Allan Zarembski who leads the railsafety program at the University of Delaware.

“The key word is ’minimize.’ You can’t eliminate risk.”

Since 2008, the number of tanker cars hauling oil has increased 40-fold, and federal records show that’s been accompanied by a dramatic spike in

accidental crude releases from tank cars.

Over the next decade, rail-based oil shipments are forecast to increase from 1 million barrels a day to more than 4.5 million barrels a day, according to transportation officials.

By rail, it’s roughly 2,000 miles from the heart of the oil boom on the Northern Plains to some of the East Coast refineries that turn the crude into gasoline.

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More air-travel links between Canada, Mexico to be unveiled DURING HARPER VISIT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Freshly-brewed coffee sits on a hot plate in a Tim Hortons outlet in. A refreshed vision for Tim Hortons begins to take shape this week as the company releases details on its financial results.

Tim Hortons expected to refresh its image IN FACE OF INTENSE COMPETITION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A refreshed vision for Tim Hortons (TSX:THI) begins to take shape this week as the company releases details on its financial results, and how it plans to remain innovative in the highly-competitive Canadian coffee market.

The quick-service chain will reveal the strategy in two stages, starting on Thursday with its year-end financial results.

The, next week, recently appointed chief executive officer Marc Caira will take the stage at the company’s investor day to outline the next steps for Tim Hortons.

The Oakville, Ont.,-based company

(TSX:THI) faces on onslaught of challengers in the coffee industry, a corner of the Canadian market it once seemed to effortlessly dominate.

While promotions like its annual Roll Up the Rim contest still generate plenty of attention, the number of people buying food and beverages at its restaurants has been slowly declining over several years.

Working against it are cheaper alternatives like McDonald’s, and the wider range of coffee flavours offered by Starbucks and Second Cup (TSX:SCU).

Analysts don’t anticipate much will improve when the fourth-quarter results are posted Thursday.

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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in Mexico City with a plan that could pave the way for getting rid of his host’s biggest complaint about Canada — the onerous visa on Mexican travellers.

Trade Minister Ed Fast, who is also in Mexico with the prime minister, has been authorized by the federal cabinet to sign an expanded airline access agreement with Mexico, The Canadian Press has learned.

That agreement would allow Mexican airlines greater access to more cities, and Canadians more direct flights to Mexico.

The expanded air access would likely be a precursor to the Conservative government eventually lifting the controversial visa it slapped on Mexican travellers in 2009 to combat an increase of bogus asylum seekers.

Harper isn’t expected to announce a lifting of the visa this week, but the two countries are hopeful the issue can be ironed out in the coming months.

A document dated earlier this month from the Privy Council Office, the bureaucratic arm of Harper’s office, authorizes Fast “to sign, on behalf of the Government of Canada, subject to ratification, the agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United Mexican States on air transport.”

Sergio Alcocer Martinez, Mexico’s undersecretary for North America, said the new air agreement would greatly expand the current one between the two countries, which is more than 50 years old.

It would allow more direct Mexican flights to Canadian cities, beyond the current routes to Montreal and Toronto.

“The new agreement, which will be signed, is much broader in terms of allowing more companies, more destinations, code shares among the airlines.

And that certainly will help our trade, our business people, to move back and forth, as well as tourism,” he told The Canadian Press.

He suggested the air agreement would serve as a precursor to the eventual lifting of the Canadian visa requirement on Mexican travellers, which was imposed in 2009 to curb bogus asylum claims.

“It is important to facilitate the movement of people.”

A Canadian expert on Latin America, who has been advising the Mexican government on the Harper government, said the air access agreement is expected to be one of the main announcements of the bilateral portion of Harper’s visit.

“I can’t fly directly from Calgary, the energy capital of the superpower that is Canada, to Mexico directly,” said Carlo Dade, director of the Centre for Trade and Investment Policy at the Canada West Foundation. “You’ll see a new announcement on flights.”

Mexican officials, not authorized to speak on the record, say that if Canada opens its skies to more air links, it would make no sense to keep the visa in place.

Harper’s plane touched down late Monday afternoon in Mexico City; his only scheduled public event of the day was to place a wreath at the Altar of the Nation, Mexico’s principal war memorial in Chapultepec Park.

The visa irritant has been hanging over Harper’s four-day trip to Mexico.

After his visit today with President Enrique Pena Nieto, Harper will take part in the North American leaders’ summit with U.S. President Barack Obama.

Singles face RRSP, retirement challenges It seems Canadians are having financial troubles ing, the buck stops with you when it comes to saving in retirement. or planning for your retirement,” said Chris ButtNumerous studies show many Canadians are not igieg, senior manager, wealth planning strategy, with financially prepared for retirement and a recent BMO Financial Group.

ING Direct poll found that 30 per cent of “With couples there is usually one retirees are being forced back into the person who takes the lead in financial workforce, nearly half of them for finanmatters and the other person is in the cial reasons. background, but when you’re single it’s This disturbing news becomes more usually only you, so it becomes extremely problematic when you consider Canaimportant to understand your financial dians are not contributing fully to their situation — what are your assets and liaregistered retirement savings plans (RRbilities, your income and expenses — and SPs). In fact, they have $600 billion in to create a budget to manage your inflows under-contributions to a plan that was and outflows,” said Buttigieg. put in place in 1957 to help them save for “When you’re single there’s often no retirement. one to tell you you’re not saving enough One segment of the population that or to pull in the reins on your spending faces unique challenges in preparing fiso it’s even more important to work with TALBOT nancially for retirement is singles. a financial planner and be willing to take BOGGS “If you’re single for whatever reason, constructive criticism and advice.” whether it’s through a divorce, the death Singles usually have only one income of a spouse or partner, or just not marryand have to shoulder the burden of ex-

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penses themselves, while couples often have two incomes and share expenses, allowing them to build a bigger nest egg for retirement.

Couples, unlike singles, also have the advantage of using a spousal RRSP, which allows them to create a retirement fund for each partner/taxpayer.

One spouse can choose to contribute to their own personal RRSP or to an RRSP in their spouse’s name while claiming the contribution as a deduction on their own tax return.

The immediate benefit to the contributor is the tax deduction. However, in the long term the overall family tax bill will be reduced, as income will be available for withdrawal by each spouse during retirement.

In 1993, the Canada Revenue Agency revised the definition of spouse to include common-law spouses.

If you have lived in a conjugal relationship for one year or more, or live together and have a child, you can make a spousal RRSP contribution.

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SAVING: Start early “Saving early while working and putting as much away as you can is really important for singles, particularly now that expenses keep going up and people are living longer,” Buttigieg said.

People who are widowed get a double shock when their partner dies.

“The expenses continue but there’s one less income, which can lead to a deficiency,” Buttigieg noted.

“Some of the first resources people draw on to fill that gap are insurance, and personal and retirement savings like an RRSP.” One strategy some couples forget is to designate their RRSP to their spouse, which allows the funds to be transferred from the deceased spouse to the surviving spouse’s RRSP taxfree.

Proactive financial planning can soften the shock of widowhood by ensuring there is appropriate insurance so the surviving spouse is looked after financially and the deceased spouse’s pension plan includes a last survivor’s benefit.

“The last survivor’s benefit is often about 60 per cent, so there is a reduction in income, which is why financial planning is so important,” said Buttigieg. “It’s a really good idea to stress-test your financial plan for the three Ds: death, divorce and disability.

Many people just are not adequately prepared for death and to face widowhood.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

TRAINS: Sometimes no option Trains pulling several million gallons apiece must pass through metropolitan areas that include Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland and Buffalo.

Some cities such as Chicago have belt railroads that divert freight traffic from the metropolitan core. But elsewhere, railroad representatives said, the best-maintained and safest track often runs directly through communities that were built around the railroad.

Trains sometimes have no option but to roll deep into populated areas.

That’s the case in Philadelphia, New Orleans, Albany, N.Y., and Tacoma, Wash.

Experts say the explosive nature of Bakken oil derailments caught everyone off guard — from regulators to the railroads themselves.

“I don’t think people understood the potential for a problem if there were a derailment,” said Jason Kuehn, a former railroad executive and now vice-president for the industry consulting firm Oliver Wyman.

A major accident was narrowly avoided last month in Philadelphia, where six tanker cars carrying oil derailed near the heart of the city on a bridge over the Schuylkill River. The CSX freight train had picked up North Dakota oil in Chicago and was headed for a refinery in South Philadelphia.

Nothing was spilled, but the accident rattled nerves.

Proposals to route trains away from population centres are modeled on rules adopted after the 2001 terrorist attacks to restrict cargoes even more hazardous than oil — explosives, radioactive material and poisonous gases.

When the rules were being written, California regulators pushed their federal counterparts to include oil. But Transportation Department officials said they were “not persuaded.”

Federal safety officials say it’s time to reverse that decision, given the huge growth in tank cars carrying crude and ethanol, another flammable liquid involved in recent derailments and explosions.

The rules gave railroads broad discretion, and routing decisions are not automatically reviewed by regulators.

But the Federal Railroad Administration is authorized to reject any routes found to be too risky. That has never happened since the rules took effect, said FRA Associate Administrator Kevin Thompson.

Even where trains can be re-routed through less-populous areas, critics say that simply shifts the risk to smaller communities with fewer resources to handle a fiery accident. Rural and suburban municipalities in Maine, Illinois and Vermont already have pushed back against the proposal.

The routing rules in place for other hazardous materials list 27 factors to consider, including shipment volumes, nearby population densities and proximity to “iconic targets” or environmentally sensitive areas.

Rail companies weigh whether routes are “practicable” and consider economic impacts such as rail network congestion. While that can involve trade-offs, transportation consultant Steven Ditmeyer said railroads have made huge strides since the industry was deregulated in 1980.

“You cannot avoid the economic issues,” said Ditmeyer, an adjunct professor at Michigan State University. “Because the risk is so high, the railroads do have an incentive to run a safe railroad.”

But pointing to Lac-Megantic, he said, “sometimes they screw up.”

TIMS: Battling negative traffic Bad weather in Ontario and Quebec caused power outages and store closures in December, which hit the entire retail industry hard during the peak Christmas shopping period.

Average earnings per share expectations are targeted at 77 cents, according to a survey of analysts by Thomson Reuters, while a dividend increase from the current quarterly payout of 26 cents is also likely, several analysts predict.

“Our outlook for Tims is unchanged heading into the fourth-quarter release, as negative traffic in Canada remains a concern,” Barclays analyst Jim Durran said in a note.

He expects the company will need to innovate, focus on better customer service and utilize more advanced technology at its stores if it wants to grow.

Tim Hortons also faces challenges with its own operations, as it contends with higher-priced food items that take longer to prepare.

During peak hours, the backlog of sandwiches and hot food items often causes a bottleneck of customers waiting for orders. The snaking lineups have become part of the regular business day at some of the company’s more popular restaurants and drivethru locations.

That image has pained executives like Caira, who told The Canadian Press last fall that service at the counter is the “moment of truth” that determines whether a customer is pleased enough to make a return visit.

“Future battles are not going to be won, in my view, with who has the best strategy or who has the best innovation,” he said.

“The companies that will win will be the companies that can execute flawlessly at the store level.”

After much anticipation, Caira will make his case to investors on Feb. 25 during his first detailed presentation about the strategic plan that stretches until 2017.

RBC Capital Markets analyst Irene Nattel expects that Caira will emphasize customer service improvements that are in the works and his plans to speed up renovations.

Tim Hortons has lagged behind other fast food chains, which have redesigned their stores with couches and fireplaces that encourage customers to stay longer. The company only recently introduced free Wi-Fi to its restaurants and still doesn’t offer outlets to power laptops and charge mobile phones.

The menu at Tim Hortons is almost certain to get a refreshed look, as Caira said one of his priorities was to reconsider everything from the coffee cup sizes to doughnut selection in an effort to craft a product lineup that didn’t simply mimic his competitors.

One of the most drastic changes being considered was creating a second Tim Hortons coffee blend — a first for the company. Also on the table was the possibility of a loyalty program that rewards the most frequent coffee drinkers.

Before he joined Tim Hortons, Caira held various executive roles at Nestle’s global operations where he helped expand the company’s hot and cold beverage division.

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Underwear trade ban has Russia’s knickers in a twist

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — A trade ban on lacy lingerie has Russian consumers and their neighbours with their knickers in a twist.

The ban will outlaw any underwear containing less than 6 per cent cotton from being imported, made, or sold in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

And it has struck a chord in societies where La Perla and Victoria’s Secret are panty paradises compared to Soviet-era cotton underwear, which was often about as flattering and shapely as drapery.

On Sunday, 30 women protesters in Kazakhstan were arrested and thrown into police vans while wearing lace underwear on their heads and shouting “Freedom to panties!”

The ban in those three countries was first outlined in 2010 by the Eurasian Economic Commission, which regulates the customs union, and it won’t go into effect until July 1. But a consumer outcry against it already is reaching a fever pitch.

Photographs comparing sexy modern underwear to outdated, Soviet goods began spreading on Facebook and Twitter on Sunday, as women and men alike railed against the prospective changes.

“As a rule, lacy underwear ... is literally snatched off the shelves,” said Alisa Sapardiyeva, the manager of a lingerie store in Moscow, DD-Shop, as she flicked through her colorful wares.

“If you take that away again, the buyer

is going to be the one who suffers the most.”

According to the Russian Textile Businesses Union, more than $4 billion worth of underwear is sold in Russia annually, and 80 per cent of the goods sold are foreign made. Analysts have estimated that 90 per cent of products would disappear from shelves, if the ban goes into effect this summer as planned.

The Eurasian Economic Commission declined to comment Monday, saying it was preparing to issue a statement about the underwear ban.

While consumer outrage may force customs union officials to compromise, many see the underwear ban as yet another example of the misguided economic policies that have become a trademark of many post-Soviet countries.

Sunday’s panty protest in Kazakhstan followed a larger demonstration the day before against a 19 per cent devaluation of the country’s currency, the tenge.

Other people laughed off the panty ban, seeing it as yet another attempt to add regulations and controls to an already byzantine bureaucracy in the three countries “I think (the girls)... will still have the opportunity to wear it (synthetic underwear) whether you can buy it in Russia or not,” said 22-year-old Muscovite Trifon Gadzhikasimov, noting that most of his friends travel abroad regularly. “I think this is just another silly law that shows the ineffectiveness of our government.”

U.S. crop values declined in many states last year THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DES MOINES, Iowa — The value of U.S. crops fell 9.8 per cent last year as prices declined for major crops, including corn and soybeans, from 2012’s record high levels, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its annual estimate.

The value of field crops fell 9.8 per cent to $166.95 billion in 2013, down from $185.12 billion in 2012, the USDA said in Friday’s report.

The value is determined by multiplying the average price for a crop from Sept. 1 to Aug. 31 by the total production.

Corn and soybean harvests declined during the drought of 2012, driving prices to record highs and increasing the

value of field crops. But in 2013, an abundance of grain — owing to the record 13.9 billion bushels of corn and third-largest soybean crop — sent prices downward.

For example, the average price of corn in 2012 was $6.89 a bushel, driving the crop’s value to $74.3 billion.

Last year’s average corn price was $4.50, resulting in the value falling to $62.7 billion.

Soybeans didn’t fare much better, dropping from $14.40 a bushel in 2012 to $12.70 in 2013 — reducing the crop’s value 4 per cent to $41.81 billion.

While corn prices are expected to remain lower, there is some debate about whether prices will be as low as some are predicting.

Darrel Good, an agriculture economist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, wrote in a paper released Monday that estimates of corn in the mid-$3 range for the next several years may be too low.

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Do instead of dream “An unused life is an early death.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, novelist and dramatist “It’s not fair,” he said. “It’s just not fair.”

I remember sitting with an elderly friend near the end of his life. Leonard was suffering from a terminal illness and as the time of his passing neared, he became anxious and depressed.

“Why is it that a man has to grow old and useless?”

Like so many people I’ve known, Leonard was filled with regrets. He spoke of all the things he had wanted to do in his life. His regrets terrified me. I didn’t want to be like him. I found the courage one day to ask Leonard why he had put so many dreams on hold. He spoke about the obligations of work and family – of his responsibility as the sole provider.

Then halfway through his defending and justifying, he stopped, let out a heavy sigh and fell back on his pillow.

“You really want to know why?” he asked, turning to face me.

I nodded and put his hand on my arm.

“It was because I dreamed instead of did. I wished and hoped instead of tried.”

Why do we wait and what are we waiting for? The right time, person or series of events so that we may start living or living again? Could it be that we hope and we wait for something better and don’t even

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know what “better” looks like – unable to recognize it if it should arrive?

The truth is, if our selfesteem is poor and our self-image is in tatters we simply won’t feel worthy of happiness or success.

Judging by Leonard’s use of the word “tried,” he clearly never felt capable of accomplishing his dreams. And if we don’t feel entitled to or capable of achieving those precious moments of joy and fulfillment, we may postpone them, waiting until the ideal moment arrives, or until someone else gives us permission. The only person who needs to give you permission to start living your dreams

is you.

It’s not too late to reclaim your dreams. You can start today – right now – in this very moment. The first step to reigniting your dreams is to gain some objectivity. Step back from your daily routine, remove the blinders and take a serious look at your

Issues in the bedroom affect couple’s intimacy Question: How can a couple resolve issues over the frequency of sex? My wife would be content making love once a month, which doesn’t come close to satisfying me.

Which one of us is “abnormal”?

Jim: The first thing to understand is that there’s no such thing as “normal.”

Research shows that there’s a wide range among couples as to the frequency of sex, and individuals can differ radically in terms of their sexual desires and interests.

That’s why many couples clash over the question of how often they “should” have sex.

Here are four points our counselors encourage you to remember in this area. ● Every couple is different. Such subjects as gender, individual expectations, developmental maturity as a couple and cultural differences all have an impact. ● Quality precedes quantity. This doesn’t mean

life. With a little distance, you’ll have a better view of the obstacles in your path and the attitudes that need to be addressed.

You’ll also be in a better position to make an allimportant determination: is your dream still meaningful to you? Does it still fire your passion? Sometimes we hang onto an unfulfilled dream because it reinforces a failure mentality. If your dream is simply a tool of self-abuse, then release it. However, if the dream still means something to you then pursuit it. Once you take action, you may find that a newfound sense of self-confidence begins to develop giving you the ability to shift your attitudes and reclaim what’s truly important to you.

The second step is to stop making excuses – stop justifying and defending. It’s easy to assign blame or make up excuses as to why things didn’t turn out as we had hoped or expected. Stop wasting your energy and get real. It’s time to be completely honest with yourself. We are responsible for the state and quality of our lives. Sure, other people and situations impact us. It’s part of being human. But remember, we are ultimately responsible for the choices we make and consequences we face.

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JIM DALY Instead, it’s a call to excellence. Once intimate communication begins to grow and needs are satisfied, increased frequency usually isn’t far behind. ● There’s a time to serve.

Sadly, the realities of our broken world can leave one or both spouses needing special consideration.

Sexual trauma, abuse, addiction, abortion and disease can affect our sexuality in profound ways.

Recovery is often slow, requiring patience and understanding from both spouses. It’s also important for a husband to understand and show sensitivity to his wife’s reproductive cycle and other unique physiological needs.

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Hudson’s defining role PRODUCER ALICIA KEYS COULDN’T BELIEVE HOW COMPLETELY HER FRIEND DIVED INTO AN UNFLATTERING PERFORMANCE

BY NICK PATCH THE CANADIAN PRESS In The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete, powerhouse vocalist Jennifer Hudson disappears into an entirely unfamiliar role as a drug-addicted prostitute and absentee mother, her eyes drooping, her hair a sweat-sopped pile, her tattooed arms pocked with syringe scars.

And Alicia Keys, who executive produced and scored the film, couldn’t believe how completely her friend dived into the unflattering performance.

“This is what defines Jennifer Hudson as an actress, this film here.

“This is a defining role for her,” Keys said in a recent telephone interview from New York.

“She’s a drug addict and she is in pain and she feels hopeless, and she’s also trying to somewhere inside of there raise a son even though everything is pointing to just this discouragement.

“She did an amazing job.

It was totally unvain. Totally selfless.

“She went all the way in. ... We’re already great, great friends, but I admire her to a whole other degree and level for being brave enough to take a role that takes you that far away from yourself.

“Like, she aced this thing,” she added.

Keys speaks with an uncommon passion for the acclaimed film — which is out on DVD in

Canada on Tuesday — because she spent five years nurturing it to the screen.

The gritty drama tracks Mister (Skylan Brooks), an endlessly feisty 13-year-old who is left to fend for himself (along with his nine-year-old compatriot Pete) for one long, hot Brooklyn summer after his mom is hauled off to jail.

Keys, 33, first discovered the script from Michael Starrbury when director George Tillman Jr. (Men of Honor, Notorious) brought it to her attention a half a decade ago.

Though at the time she had no experience either producing or composing a film soundtrack, she was so moved by the story she knew she had to get involved.

“When I read it, I was blown away,” said the serene, friendly Keys. “(It’s) almost tragedy, it’s triumph, it’s got comedy but realistically. You find yourself as you’re watching it, you’re laughing, you’re crying, you’re rooting for these boys.

“I fell in love with it,” she added.

“I knew I wanted to score it. I wanted to be part of it. So then I set off on the journey of how to make it real.”

The 15-time Grammy Award-winning No One hitmaker has transitioned smoothly to screen before — most recently in The Secret Life of Bees, The Nanny Diaries and Smokin’ Aces — but chose not to take a role in the unflinching coming-of-age story.

Brooks’ resourceful Mister harbours seemingly unlikely

acting ambition, and at several points in the film recites a monologue he’s memorized from Fargo (a “hilarious” movie he eagerly points out is about “these Minnesota people with funny accents”).

Keys grew up in the oncerough Manhattan enclave of Hell’s Kitchen and personally related to both Mister’s hardscrabble surroundings and his show-business dreams.

“That part really resonated with me — him hanging onto this one wrinkled postcard of an audition in L.A.,” she said.

“I definitely understand that feeling of having a dream, having something to hold onto, something that you’re working for, and it gives you the desire to go beyond your circumstance.

“I think one of the strongest things that the human spirit needs (is) something that says: I can get up again today because this just might happen for me,” she added. “We all need that and we all have that inside of us.”

Though it received only a limited theatrical release, Mister & Pete earned enthusiastic critical praise.

The New York Times called Mister “one funny, sad kid in one funny, sad movie,” while the L.A. Times cheered the film as a “moving bit of mischief and mayhem that will break your heart, give you hope, make you laugh, possibly cry.”

With due respect to those critics, the rave that most moved Keys came from Mi-

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Singer/actress Jennifer Hudson arrives at The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards on February 13, 2011 in Los Angeles, California: a defining role for her in The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete. chelle Obama, who hosted a screening of the film at the White House in January.

“She fell in love with the film,” Keys said.

Obama followed the presentation with a group discussion about improving educational access in underserved communities.

This surprised Keys.

Though the film is bookended with references to Mister’s struggles in school, during the vast majority of its running time he’s winding around the sun-baked projects, his education seemingly the farthest thing from his mind.

Winter’s Tale turns silk purse into sow’s ear Winter’s Tale Half a star (out of four) Rated: PG

simply can’t be intelligently crammed into a twohour movie.

Especially not the way Goldsman has done it, which was to evidently rip out about 300 pages at random and to stitch together what was left over.

He’s chucked much of Helprin’s lyrical and metaConsidering how badly Akiva Goldsman pillages Winter’s Tale, he might as well have gone whole phorical narrative and wealth of characters, preferhog and swapped Pink Floyd’s flying porker for the ring to pull the tear-jerking threads about dying beauties: consumptive newspaper heiress winged white horse that is central to the Beverly Penn (Jessica Brown Findlay) saga. and youthful cancer victim Abby (Ripley It would be the most fitting way of Sobo). showing how he’s turned the silk purse Sure, it’s a movie aimed at a Valenthat is author Mark Helprin’s original tine’s Day audience, but this is like breakprose and storytelling into the sow’s ear of ing your tooth while crunching down hard this misbegotten screen adaptation. on a cinnamon heart.

Enduring this soppy muddle of twinAnd the major plot omissions leave us kling stars, fluttering wings, refracted scratching our heads over many things, points of light and destiny-led swooners such as why Colin Farrell’s orphan thief is like being forced to listen at length to character Peter Lake is so hated by Rusa crazy person at a street corner read out sell Crowe’s demonic Pearly Soames, who old Hallmark greeting cards. grunts with a bad Irish accent.

There’s a good reason why longtime PETER The two have a long history together screenwriters often don’t succeed when HOWELL that is only hinted at in the film, one akin they try their hand at directing films, as to Dickens’ Artful Dodger and Fagin, yet Goldsman does here for the first time afGoldsman weirdly finds room to stuff in ter a career of hits (Oscar winner A Beaua character not found in the book: Will tiful Mind) and misses (Batman & Robin, Smith’s take on Lucifer, a funky cellar-dweller in Lost in Space).

They tend to resist having their words cut to suit earrings and a Jimi Hendrix T-shirt, who dispenses the film’s visual medium, requiring an objective eye, peevish “rules” (barely explained) to his satanic ear and mind behind the blade. No such luck here, minion Soames.

Smith’s here because, as Variety reports, Goldswith Goldsman not only writing and directing but also producing what amounts to a colossal vanity man called in markers from his celebrity friends from other films he’s been involved with. Smith project.

There’s also a reason a book of Winter’s Tale vast starred in I Am Legend, which Goldsman wrote and splendour has often been described as “unfilmable.” produced.

Similar career connections also explain the presThe nearly 700 pages of Helprin’s acclaimed 1983 novel, spanning more than a century in a super- ence of A Beautiful Mind’s Crowe and Jennifer Connatural New York alive with winged steeds, vengeful nelly (who plays a journalist in Winter’s Tale) and Lost demons, technological marvels and spirited humans, in Space’s William Hurt (who plays a press tycoon).

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This leaves the great Eva Marie Saint, making her first big-screen appearance in eight years in the role of a newspaper publisher, who evidently doesn’t owe Goldsman any favours.

We can only assume she loved the book but didn’t read the screenplay.

This is all very chummy, but not much of a basis on which to pursue the screen adaptation of a novel and story that would be a challenge even for a great writer and director, neither of which Goldsman is.

Not helping at all is cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, who shoots with a dull and lifeless lens that fails to fully exploit the many NYC landmarks the film whirls past.

But we must at least applaud the selection of Farrell for main character Lake, a mysterious time traveller who takes Manhattan from the 1895 up through 2014.

That twinkle in his eye suggests that he knows he’s caught in a steaming load, one that requires him to sport a lopsided haircut (I call it the Permanent Tidal Wave) while riding a flying white horse with badly conjured CGI wings. Hey, the money’s good and the cheque cashed, so Farrell might as well grin and make the best of it.

We might further extend critical charity to Findlay, best known from TV’s Downton Abbey, who brings sensitivity and romance to the thankless role of a doomed recluse.

As for the rest, the less said, the better — other than to note the luck of the minor character who gets shot and killed in the film’s first half-hour.

He gets to check out of Winter’s Tale early. The rest of have to sit through another 90 minutes of it.

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Heimlich manoeuvre inventor pens memoir TO PRESERVE ANTI-CHOKING METHOD

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CINCINNATI, Ohio â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Cincinnati surgeon who wrote the book on saving choking victims through his namesake Heimlich manoeuvre has now penned a new book: his memoir.

Dr. Henry Heimlichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s views on how the manoeuvre should be used and on other innovations he has created or proposed have put him at odds with some in the health field.

But he hopes his recently published memoir will preserve the technique that has cleared obstructions from windpipes of choking victims around the world for four decades and made his name a household word. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know the manoeuvre saves lives, and I want it to be used and remembered,â&#x20AC;? the 94-year-old retired chest surgeon told The Associated Press this month. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt I had to have it down in print so the

public will have the correct information.â&#x20AC;?

Much of his autobiography â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Heimlichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manoeuvres: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving Innovation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; focuses on the manoeuvre, which involves thrusts to the abdomen that apply upward pressure on the diaphragm to create an air flow forcing food or other objects out of the windpipe.

Heimlich says thousands of deaths reported annually from choking prompted him in 1972 to seek a solution. Over the next two years, leading a team of researchers at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati, he successfully tested the technique by putting a tube with a balloon at one end down an anesthetized dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s airway until it choked. He then used the manoeuvre to force the dog to expel the obstruction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By 1974, I knew I needed to get the manoeuvre to the public as soon as possible to save lives,â&#x20AC;? he said.

He appeared on radio and

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FUHRER: Pursue your dreams We can choose to be the victim or choose to be the victor.

Making a conscious decision to move forward in the pursuit of our dreams, while fully accepting our personal responsibilities, builds confidence and creates momentum. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to say that someone or something is preventing you from achieving your goals. It takes courage to own your life, to step up to the podium and say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to be, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to me.â&#x20AC;?

The third step is to keep your eye on the target. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to get distracted and lose sight of the finish line.

If we look back, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more likely to become discouraged â&#x20AC;&#x201D; more likely to start dredging up the old excuses and justifications.

Yes, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to reflect and reassess occasionally, to tap the past for knowledge, insights and wisdom.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a healthy and strategic aspect of any goal-focused endeavour. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when we start to look for those old reasons to give up that it becomes a problem.

Keep moving forward, facing and overcoming one obstacle at a time.

Remember, your dream is a precious commodity; you are responsible for its care.

The final step is to say no. No to all the reasons why your dream is impractical, ill-timed, ill-considered or simply the fanciful notion of a foolish mind. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m speaking of all the reasons people will fire at you to stop your pursuit. Say no to the naysayers. Say no to always putting yourself last and putting everyone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs ahead of your own. That has always been one of my greatest pitfalls: saying yes to everyone else and no to myself, trying to make everyone happy and myself miserable in the process. Achieving any worthwhile goal requires setting

television shows including Good Morning America and The Late Show Starring Johnny Carson and started hearing from people who had used the manoeuvre or been saved by it.

The manoeuvre made headlines again this month. Clint Eastwood was attending a golf event in Monterey, Calif., when the 83-year-old actor saw the tournament director choking on a piece of cheese and successfully performed the technique. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The best thing about it is that it allows anyone to save a life,â&#x20AC;? Heimlich said.

Anne Jutt of Mason, a Cincinnati suburb, said Heimlich will always be a hero to her family. She used the manoeuvre last spring when her 6-year-old son was choking on a cherry tomato. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was scared of hurting him, but he was starting to get limp,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I put everything I had into it, and the tomato flew out like a bullet.â&#x20AC;?

Heimlich says the manoeu-

healthy boundaries. You are the one who must decide whether you make time for yourself or not. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Begin doing what you want to do now,â&#x20AC;? wrote English lawyer and philosopher, Francis Bacon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.â&#x20AC;?

If you want to live a life of passion and purpose, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just dream it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dream it and do it. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just wish and hope â&#x20AC;&#x201D; wish, hope and try your best.

Use every ounce of this life.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His new book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.

vre is very effective when used correctly, but he does not approve of American Red Cross guidelines calling for back blows followed by abdominal thrusts in choking cases that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t involve infants or unconscious victims.

Red Cross officials say evidence shows using multiple methods can be more effective, but Heimlich says blows can drive obstructions deeper into a windpipe.

The American Heart Association backs abdominal thrusts.

Neither organization supports Heimlichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s view that using the manoeuvre to remove water from the lungs could save drowning victims. They recommend CPR. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no evidence that abdominal thrusts are effective for drowning victims,â&#x20AC;? said Dr. Robert Neumar, chairman of the Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee of the American Heart Association.

have found in the back of your fridge.

In big delicious chunks.

Step 5: Remove meat from heat, and transfer into Crock-potting machine.

Step 6: Allow all ingredients to stew for a while. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really know how long, go with your gut on this one guyslike seriously do I have to hold your hand through this entire process?

Step 7: Add hot sauce and spices.

And enjoy the tantalizing tastes that will begin to waylay your mouth and area! You know, I think I might have to scrap the whole columnist business and get into the cookbook industry...I feel like I could really have a good shot at this.

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BROWN: Cookbook DALY: Be intentional a possibility Shrimp (The ones that we learn are oxymoronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in middle school) And some really spicy hot sauce.

(Optional- if spicy isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t your idea of a good time!) And finally A LOT of Parmesan and Herbs spice.

Alright now for the magic to begin...

Step 1: Cook meat. Do not burn yourself on the enormous flame that is produced whilst turning your gas oven on...I know it is frightening but man-up and get through it as it is best to cook meat before placing it in your gullet.

Step 2: Attempt to find can opener for tomatoes...Begin stomping around furiously when unable to locate opener. Throw pan across room. Flush when realizing you have been holding it in your right hand the entire time.

Open tomatoes and pour into Crockpot.

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Step 4: Carefully, and I mean carefully chop up random vegetables you

â&#x2014;? Be intentional. Impulsive, spontaneous sex can be great, but it tends to fall by the wayside as jobs, mortgages and children enter the picture.

If you give your spouse only the leftovers of your time and energy, neither of you will be sexually satisfied.

Planning a time and place for intimacy seems anything but intimate, but the lack of negotiation can lead to lack of fulfillment.

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Heimlich points with pride to some of his other innovations, such as a chest drain valve credited by some with saving soldiers and civilians during the Vietnam War. But he has drawn sharp criticism for his theory that injecting patients with a curable form of malaria could trigger immunity in patients with the HIV virus that causes AIDS. Medical experts have said injecting patients with malaria would be dangerous and have criticized Heimlich for conducting studies involving malariotherapy on HIV patients in China.

Heimlich mostly brushes off criticism about his work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be the first to admit that a number of my ideas are controversial and in some ways unorthodox,â&#x20AC;? Heimlich said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I have enough guts to know that when I am right, it will come about as the thing to do, even if others do the wrong thing for a time.â&#x20AC;?

In: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a firm believer in the digital video recorder, or DVR, an incredible piece of technology that can help families navigate media in several ways.

For instance, it can help us record only family-friendly programming.

With it, we can pause live or recorded TV to discuss something weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just seen, and turn it into a valuable teachable moment.

Plus, it can help us fast-forward through commercials and other unnecessary TV moments such as, in my opinion, sports halftime shows.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all busy people, so why waste time watching commercials and mindnumbing programming?

Unfortunately, even highly offensive ads can air during some â&#x20AC;&#x153;family friendlyâ&#x20AC;? shows or relatively innocuous sporting events. Who needs that?

I suggest using a DVR to record everything your children might watch.

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It wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take them long to catch on.

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B1 SPORTS Rebels get rocked TUESDAY, FEB. 18, 2014

PAIR OF WEEKEND LOSSES SEE REBELS OUTSCORED 11-2

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Hitmen 7 Rebels 1 CALGARY — The Red Deer Rebels fired 40 shots at Calgary Hitmen netminder Mack Shields Monday at the Scotiabank Saddledome.

That was the good news.

Otherwise, it was a one-sided contest as the Hitmen potted four man-advantage goals en route to a 7-1 Western Hockey League contest viewed by 9,424 fans.

“We took some penalties and they got four power-play goals on us. That was really the difference in the game,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “We had some breakdowns with coverage and their specialty teams won the battle.”

The Hitmen struck early, as Brady Brassart notched his first of three goals on the evening 4:28 into the contest with the Rebels short two men.

Adam Tambellini added another power-play marker late in the period to up the count to 2-0.

Adam Musil got Red Deer back into the game with a power-play tally at 5:34 of the middle frame, but Joe Mahon and Brassart connected for the Hitmen 85 seconds apart midway through the

period.

“Their two quick goals were off defensive zone breakdowns,” said Sutter.

“Our forwards lost coverage off rushes and you just can’t make those kinds of mistakes at this time of the year.”

Brassard made it 5-1 with a powerplay goal at 11:37 of the third period, Greg Chase sniped another man-advantage marker just under five minutes later and Mahon scored his second of the evening with three minutes remaining.

“Five on five we did some pretty good things,” said Sutter. “We in-

creased the pace in the second and third periods but just made too many mistakes.”

Rebels starting netminder Patrik Bartosak stopped 29 of 35 shots before being replaced by Taz Burman with just over three minutes remaining. Burman blocked two of three shots he faced.

“Now we have to move on,” said Sutter, whose team hosts the Edmonton Oil Kings Wednesday, the Vancouver Giants Friday and the Swift Current Broncos Saturday.

Bartosak’s volume of work Monday left him with a franchise-record 1,739 saves for the season. Shane Bendera held the previous record of 1,727 saves, which he accomplished in 69 games during the 1999-2000 season.

After snapping a seven-game losing streak with a 3-2 overtime win Friday at Edmonton, the Rebels fell 4-1 to the visiting Saskatoon Blades Saturday.

Blades 4 Rebels 1 The Rebels scored early but then couldn’t beat Blades goalie Troy Trombley over the final 53 minutes.

Along the way, the hosts committed a costly series of defensive blunders and the Blades took full advantage.

Red Deer captain Conner Bleackley connected 6:32 into the contest, cash-

ing a rebound after linemate Wyatt Johnson crashed the net with the puck in tow. However, Blades forward Chase Clayton converted a centering pass from Brett Stovin five minutes later while all alone in the low slot and the visitors took a 2-1 lead to the intermission after Ryan Graham — uncontested — drove to the net and tipped home a perfect power-play pass from Nikita Scherback at 18:53.

Stovin worked off the wall and beat Bartosak over the shoulder at 8:32 of the middle period and Graham potted his second of the night at 7:10 of the final frame, breaking into the slot and cashing a nifty feed from Scherback.

Meanwhile, the Rebels fired 15 shots at Trombley in each of the second and third periods and came up empty, although the Blades netminder didn’t have to be sensational. Trombley finished with 41 saves, while Bartosak made 24 stops before being replaced midway through the third period by Taz Burman, who blocked all seven shots he faced.

Sutter didn’t like his club’s finish but was more upset at the Rebels’ sloppy defensive play a mere 24 hours after posting a 3-2 overtime win over the host Edmonton Oil Kings.

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Canada shut out in two-man bobsled SYLVAN LAKE’S LYNDON RUSH FINISHES NINTH

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Chris Spring walked out of the finish area at the Sanki Sliding Center, flashed his trademark grin and greeted some familiar faces.

His eyes told another story.

While brakeman Jesse Lumsden spoke to reporters about their disappointing finish in the two-man bobsled at the Sochi Games, Spring cast a glance at the big screen beside him.

He watched as Russia’s Alexander Zubkov finished his gold-medal run as the home crowd roared its approval. Spring’s eyes moistened a little as he took in the celebration, the sound of cheering fans, cowbells and kazoos ringing in his ears.

When Spring took a few questions, the emotion of the moment quickly took hold of him. He thought about his result, the competition and the atmosphere.

He thought about the other Canadian sleds that missed out on the podium. He also thought about the horrific crash in Germany two years ago that sent him and two of his teammates to hospital with serious injuries.

It’s something he thinks about every day. It comes to mind when he’s at the top of the track and again when he gets out of the sled at the bottom.

“I definitely draw on the confidence of my team to help me get through it a lot of the time,” he said as tears rolled down his cheeks. “Just the visuals, the sounds, everything like that. Even just talking about it now gets me pretty upset. It’s something that has helped me a lot too in a way.

“I nearly died that day. You have to

appreciate life a lot more after something like that.”

Spring, from Calgary, and Lumsden, from Burlington, Ont., finished seventh in the Canada 2 sled on Monday night.

The Canada 3 sled of Justin Kripps of Summerland, B.C., and Bryan Barnett of Edmonton fell two spots in the final run and took sixth. Lyndon Rush of Sylvan Lake, and Lascelles Brown of Calgary in Canada 1 were ninth.

Swiss pilot Beat Hefti took the silver and American Steven Holcomb won bronze.

Spring was doing his best to look at the positives from his Olympic experience, even if he came up short on this night. He’ll get another crack at a medal in the four-man event Sunday.

“Maybe that’s why I’m so emotional right now,” he said. “I get to represent Canada at an Olympic Games. To do that just two years after nearly giving up the sport and nearly not making it through a crash, it’s pretty amazing I guess.

“I hope that I can have more moments like this. Maybe next time I’ll be on the podium.”

Of the three Canadian sleds, Kripps had the best shot at a medal entering the final two runs. He was in fourth place after the first two runs Sunday and was less than one-10th of a second behind the third-place duo.

Kripps had a decent opening run Monday but struggled in the finale.

With three big guns ahead of him in the standings, he didn’t hold anything back and attacked the track with all he had.

It led to a few mistakes, but he felt it was the way to go.

Please see SLED on Page B2

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The team from Canada CAN-1, piloted by Lyndon Rush and brakeman Lascelles Brown, start their first run during the men’s two-man bobsled competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia.

Crosby production not a concern for Canada

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SOCHI, Russia — Ziga Jeglic and Janis Sprukts aren’t Sidney Crosby, yet they’re both outscoring the Team Canada captain in the Olympic hockey tournament.

Through three games, Crosby has no goals and two assists, a level of production that could be cause for concern. But that’s only the case if Crosby’s other contributions on the ice are ignored.

“He’s playing against the best D-pairing and they’re going all out trying to check him,” centre Jonathan Toews said Monday. “Whether he’s scoring every game or not, he’s deflecting a lot of that attention, a lot of that pressure towards himself, and it creates a lot of room and a lot of breathing room and space for other guys to go out and create offence.”

In other words, Canada shouldn’t panic about Crosby.

Coach Mike Babcock, who said in August it was important to get Crosby going but that “he’s just part of the team,

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Canada forward Sidney Crosby watches the official during a face-off against Finland forward Jarkko Immonen in the first period of a men’s ice hockey game at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, in Sochi, Russia. too” understands the star centre’s role on this team goes beyond just filling up the score sheet.

“Everyone evaluates Sid on scoring, and I evaluate Sid on winning,” Babcock said Sunday night after beating Fin-

land 2-1 in overtime.

“That’s what we came here for.”

Through three games his team is undefeated going into Wednesday’s quarter-final against Switzerland or Latvia, and Crosby has offered a bal-

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anced assessment of his performance. He and his bevy of linemates had more chances against Norway and Austria than against the more-talented Finns, but that was expected as the talent level increased.

“I think you always want more,” Crosby said. “If you asked me that question a month ago, I’d have said, ‘I’d like to create more.’ It’s the same way now. You always want to generate offence, create chances, and obviously put the puck in the net.”

The last time Crosby put the puck in the net at the Olympics, he won Canada the gold medal. But as Toews pointed out, “it doesn’t really matter when you play teams like Norway and Austria.”

Patrice Bergeron could see after just one game as Crosby’s right-winger what he was capable of.

“He does all the little details on the ice right, and he’s so explosive,” Bergeron said.

“Obviously he draws lots of attention to him. You can tell they are worried about him and they are playing him tight.”

>>>>

By the time this tournament is over, Crosby won’t be measured by what he did in two games against Norway and Austria that essentially served as warm-ups for a star-studded group of NHL players.

Beginning in the quarterfinals, he has opportunities to further burnish his legacy.

In the process, though, he has to deal with the challenge of developing chemistry with his linemates, something that also took a while to click in 2010.

Already Babcock has had Chris Kunitz and Jamie Benn on Crosby’s left wing and Jeff Carter, Martin St. Louis and Bergeron on his right.

That’s almost as many as he went through during the entire Vancouver Olympics. Still, Crosby said going through the blender of linemates doesn’t change much of what he does.

“I don’t think I’m out there, thinking about where a guy’s going to be, or second-guessing a play because I haven’t necessarily played with that guy,” he said.

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B2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014

Generals march away with series

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

STORIES FROM PAGE B1

REBELS: Mistakes “Look at the goals we gave up, they were just details to the game,” he said.

“You can’t make those kinds of mistakes at this time of the year.

“Last night we take a step forward, then we come home and take a step back. For whatever reason, we don’t play the way we need to play here.

We had chances tonight but our details suffered, and that comes down to being focused and mentally sharp.

At home we struggle with that.”

Blades head coach David Struch praised his rebuilding squad, which was coming off a 6-5 overtime loss Friday at Calgary and won for just the 16th time this season.

“This was probably our best effort in a weekend we’ve seen all year.

We’ve been playing well since Christmas and it is nice to be rewarded,” said Struch.

The Blades were one-for-two on the power play and four-for-four killing penalties.

“Our penalty kill is all about sacrifice,” said Struch. “We have guys who aren’t afraid to get in front of the puck.”

Struch was tickled with Trombley’s performance but noted many of the Red Deer shots were from the perimeter.

“The guys did a good job of keeping the shots to the outside,” said the Blades bench boss. “Our goal against this team was to come back hard through the middle . I can’t tell you how many times we saw three forwards coming back right to the hash marks in our zone and that’s the key to keeping shots to the outside.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

SLED: Risked it “Fourth to me is the same as sixth,” he said. “I wanted to get a medal so we risked it, you know. We wanted to go for it and came sixth. Still, it’s one of our best finishes on the world stage so no regrets out there.”

The frustration was evident at the finish. Kripps folded his arms and tilted his head back before getting out of his sled.

“That was really hard to watch because he had a real shot at a medal,” Spring said. “Everyone was pulling for him. We’re a really close team and everyone wishes everyone the best. I’m sure Justin will regroup and we’ll all show the world what we can do next (Sunday) in four-man.”

There was no topping Zubkov on this day. He opened the third heat by trimming nearly two-10ths of a second off the track record he set a day earlier.

The Russian pilot moved well ahead entering the final run while the rest of the top 10 essentially stayed in the same order. Kripps fell one-100th of a second behind Holcomb and would get no closer.

The 17-curve course has not been kind to the Canadians so far at the Games. The national luge team was a good bet to win at least one medal but had to settle for three fourth-place finishes.

The intensity is all around at the venue. The athletes often grunt and slap the side of the sled to get amped

Photo by CARSON PAPKE/Advocate staff

Bentley General Chris Neiszner rips a shot at the Stony Plain Eagles net while Eagle Scott Enders tries to get his stick in the way during senior men’s AAA provincial playoff hockey action at the Arena, Monday.

Stony Plain. ● The Innisfail Eagles will host the Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs in Game 3 of the other provincial semifinal Friday with the best-of-seven series tied 1-1.

The Chiefs drew even with a 5-4 win Sunday at home. Jamie Marshall, Steele Boomer, Ryan Smith, Brian Woolger and Doug Auchenberg scored for the winners, with Travis Dunstall, Shawn Bates, Tylor Keller and Mike Sullivan replying for the Eagles.

The Eagles drew first blood at home Friday, as Keller tallied twice in a 6-3 win. Bates, Darryl Laplante, Chad Ziegler and Joe Vandermeer also scored for Innisfail, while Chad Klassen, Adam Scott and Brant Middleton replied for the Chiefs.

Eagles netminder Jonathan Larose made 23 saves. Jim Watt stopped 26 shots for the visitors. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Brett Thurston serving an interference penalty.

But once again, the Generals found a way to prevail and take a commanding 3-0 series lead back to Stony Plain.

“They forced OT late and we had to the momentum back,” said Neiszner.

“Nothing builds momentum for the next game like an overtime goal.”

The Generals pulled out the win despite being minus the services of head coach Ryan Tobler (one game for a misconduct in the last 10 minutes) and players Kyle Sheen (one game) and Matt Stefanishion (two games for a slashing major), all of whom drew suspensions from Saturday’s Game 2.

“I don’t think it’s a secret. Our depth is no different than last year, it’s our strength,” said Neiszner. “We were short guys today but every guy stepped up. We just keep rolling and don’t change anything.

“We had 10 forwards and six defenceman today and we just kept going after them (Eagles). That’s what you need to do.”

Both goaltenders were sharp as Yonkman blocked 26 shots and Wilburn made 31 saves, including a second-period breakaway stop on Craig Weller. ● Neiszner, Curtis Austring and Don Morrison scored for the Generals Saturday at Stony Plain. James Reid made 28 saves in the Bentley net and Wilburn stopped 25 shots for the Eagles.

The Generals opened the series with a 6-2 victory Friday at Bentley, getting two goals from Connor Shields and singles courtesy of Morrison, Gelech, Neiszner and Stefanishion. Kosolofsky and Mike Desjarlais were the only Eagles to beat Yonkman, who made 22 saves.

Wade Waters made 32 saves for

up before they begin.

One look at their chiselled bodies leaves the impression they could push a truck out of a ditch.

The small viewing areas are packed with rabid, flag-waving fans who love their sliding sports. There’s room for a couple hundred spectators in the finish area.

The sled sounds like an old wooden roller coaster as it barrels down the track. Throw in a couple athletes built like football players and you’ve got an ice rocket that reaches speeds of 150 km/h.

The four-man event should be just as exciting. Lumsden, for one, can’t wait to get back at it.

“We’ve got two other horses in the stable that are just friggin’ foaming at the mouth ready to go now,” he said.

Stanley Cup appearance at Canadian Olympic House causes stir

CROSBY: Debates “I don’t know if you necessarily have that much time to think about or dissect how your linemates are going to play,” Crosby added.

Leave that to everyone else, and that could mean 34 million opinions.

Debates among Canadian fans over Crosby’s linemates and the how difficult it is to play with him are raging, especially after Babcock dropped Pittsburgh Penguins teammate Kunitz off that line.

That’s not an indictment of Crosby’s play as much as it’s another chapter in the developing storyline that it’s not easy to find chemistry with him, especially in a short tournament like the Olympics.

“I think maybe at this point whoever gets that chance shouldn’t put too much pressure on themselves,” Toews said. “Just go play hockey. When you have the puck, just look for whoever’s open. It doesn’t necessarily mean you have to get it to Sidney.”

Crosby believes that, because all of these forwards are so good, “you can just read off each other, no matter who you’re playing with.”

But there’s a psychological block that can go into playing with Crosby, considering his undeniable skill. A huge reason why Kunitz made the team was because he has had plenty of time in the NHL to get over any mental hurdles that exist.

Count Bergeron among those still trying to figure it out.

“The challenge is to try to play to your best,” he said.

“He’s obviously the best player in the world. It’s about trying to find him when he’s open but also it’s getting open for yourself, not just trying to feed him. He’s a smart enough player to get open and see the right area to go to. I’m trying to do the same thing as well so he has some options.”

Benn and Bergeron were arguably two of Canada’s best forwards in the first two games while skating on the fourth line with John Tavares. In one game against Finland, there wasn’t instant chemistry with Crosby, though that doesn’t mean it cannot develop if Babcock keeps the trio together.

There’s no telling if that will happen, especially given the number of possibilities at his disposal. Whoever draws that spot for the quarter-final has the task of speeding up — physically and mentally.

“He’s a tough guy to keep up with,” right-winger Rick Nash said. “He’s so fast. The way he thinks about the game seems like it’s far beyond everyone else’s process.”

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OLYMPICS

SOCHI, Russia — Ca- bring their trophies. believed the country’s nadian Olympians Mel- Hate when hockey tries success or failure at the lisa Hollingsworth and to overshadow other Olympics depended on the men’s hockey team, Danielle Wotherspoon- sports.”

The athletes at Cana- he said that was “unfair Gregg were hanging out in the athletes village da Olympic House didn’t to the rest of the CanaMonday when they heard seem to see it that way dian Olympic team.”

“I want people to unthe Stanley Cup would as figure skater Patrick be at Canada Olympic Chan, speedskater Brit- derstand our players tany Schussler, skeleton are respectful of all the House.

Hollingsworth, a skel- racer Eric Neilson and other athletes here and eton racer, and Wother- some of the Canadian are proud to be a part of spoon-Gregg, a long-track curlers were among the Canadian Olympic team,” Yzerspeedskater, man said last figured why ‘WHY IS THE STANLEY CUP AT week. “For not go and take a picture with CANADA HOUSE IN SOCHI? OTHER every Canadian athlete, one of the most ATHLETES DON’T BRING THEIR they’ve been famous troTROPHIES. HATE WHEN HOCKEY training their phies in sports. ire life Like many of TRIES TO OVERSHADOW OTHER eforn tthis, and I the athletes SPORTS.’ think it’s unwho went to see fair to them the Cup, they’ll — BRIAN STEMMLE that we denever compete WROTE ON TWITTER tract from any for it, yet it still of their accomholds a special those to have their pic- plishments regardless of meaning to them. what happens with our “It is a symbolism of ture taken with the Cup. But Stemmle’s com- hockey team.” sport and greatness for Philip Pritchard, the Canada, really,” Holling- ments, which led to more sworth said. “It doesn’t criticism on social me- Cup’s handler, said the matter if you’re an ath- dia, highlighted the de- NHL is “thrilled to be lete or what career path bate over whether NHL part of the Olympics.

“And to share the you’re down. This is players should be at the something that symbol- Olympics, and whether Stanley Cup with not izes Canada and our cul- their presence in Sochi only the athletes but the and at other Games takes fans, the media, the volture.”

On Monday, while ath- away from athletes in unteers, everything — it’s a win-win for all sports letes from various sports other sports.

Team Canada execu- athletes and sports fans were enjoying their hour with the Cup, its appear- tive director Steve Yzer- around the world.”

That seemed to be the ance at Canada Olympic man, who also serves as House became a light- general manager of the reaction inside as flashTampa Bay Lightning, bulbs went off around ning rod for criticism.

“Why is the Stanley has said on numerous oc- the Cup. Current OlymCup at Canada House in casions that he believes pians were urged to take Sochi?” former Canadi- in NHL participation a team photo with it, an Olympic skier Brian at the Olympics. When and they did so smiling, Stemmle wrote on Twit- asked about a recent poll laughing and soaking up ter. “Other athletes don’t that suggested Canadians the moment.

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Generals 3 Eagles 2 (OT) The Bentley Generals have fashioned a seemingly comfortable 3-0 provincial senior AAA hockey semifinal lead over the Stony Plain Eagles the old-fashioned way — they’ve earned it.

After winning Game 1 of the series 6-2 at Bentley Friday, the Generals pulled out a 3-0 victory on enemy ice 24 hours after and slipped past the Eagles 3-2 before 600 fans Monday at the Red Deer Arena on an overtime goal from Keenan Desmet.

The fourth and possibly final game of the best-of-seven set is slated for Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Stony Plain.

“That’s what you expect at this time of the year — nothing comes easy,” said Generals forward Chris Neiszner, who scored once and assisted on the winner as the defending Allan Cup champions found a way to prevail. “The first two games of this series were not easy and today was exactly the same.

“It was scratch and claw to the end.”

Neiszner carried the puck to the net to set up the winning goal, which saw Desmet bury a rebound with 32 seconds remaining in the 10-minute extra session.

“I dropped the puck to Neiszner at the end of my shift. I was going to go off after I went to the net,” said Desmet. “I went to the net and Neiszner shot and left me a rebound that popped out to my stick.”

The Eagles were rapidly running out of time when Nik Yaremchuk caught the low corner of the net from 15 feet out with 1.6 seconds to play in the third period, forcing overtime.

To that point, Neiszner’s early thirdperiod goal was looming large as the winner. The former Red Deer Rebels player and assistant coach worked his way out from behind the net and beat Eagles netminder Clayton Wilburn top shelf to snap a 1-1 tie.

The Generals opened the scoring 15:17 into the first period when Randall Gelech’s bad-angle backhand somehow got past Wilburn. The visitors pulled even at 13:25 of the second period, as Brandon Kosolofsky snapped a one-timer past Bentley netminder Travis Yonkman with Gens defenceman

SCOREBOARD Hockey GA 206 189 219 211 225 252

Pt 68 66 64 58 39 37

GA 140 168 159 170 193 295

Pt 84 84 75 70 60 29

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 58 46 8 0 4 250 150 96 Victoria 61 41 16 1 3 200 152 86 Vancouver 61 28 23 7 3 203 209 66 Prince George 62 25 29 3 5 213 259 58 Kamloops 60 12 43 2 3 151 253 29 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 59 42 12 2 3 282 183 89 Seattle 60 37 18 2 3 205 203 79 Spokane 59 34 20 3 2 201 175 73 Everett 59 28 23 7 1 171 180 64 Tri-City 59 27 26 3 3 151 174 60 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 Saturday’s results Victoria 5 Prince Albert 4 Swift Current 4 Regina 3 (SO) Kootenay 5 Brandon 2 Saskatoon 4 Red Deer 1 Calgary 8 Lethbridge 1 Medicine Hat 6 Moose Jaw 1 Portland 7 Vancouver 4 Kamloops 4 Prince George 3 (OT) Seattle 3 Everett 2 Spokane 7 Tri-City 0 Sunday’s results Vancouver 7 Kamloops 2 Prince George 6 Seattle 4 Spokane 5 Everett 3 Monday’s results Victoria 4 Moose Jaw 3 (SO) Regina 4 Brandon 0 Prince Albert 3 Swift Current 1 Edmonton 12 Lethbridge 0 Calgary 7 Red Deer 1 Tuesday’s games Prince George at Portland, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Victoria at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Regina at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

Saturday’s summary Blades 4, Rebels 1 First Period 1. Red Deer, Bleackley 26 (Johnson, Sterzer) 6:32.

2. Saskatoon, Clayton 8 (Stovin, Busenius) 11:20.

3. Saskatoon, Graham 8 (Sherbak, Busenius) 18:53 (pp).

Penalties — Dea Sas (tripping) 8:17, Busenius Sas (cross-checking) 13:34, Feser RD (tripping) 18:28, Doetzel RD (holding) 20:00.

Second Period 4. Saskatoon, Stovin 13 (Clayton, Zajac) 8:32.

Penalties — Clayton Sas (hooking) 12:36, Kirichenko Sas (holding) 18:42.

Third Period 5. Saskatoon, Graham 9 (Sherbak) 7:10.

Penalties — Johnston Sas (roughing) 8:17, Feser RD (cross-checking) 8:17, Millar Sas (slashing) 18:45, Dixon RD (slashing) 18:45.

Shots on goal Saskatoon 10 14 11 — 35 Red Deer 12 15 15 — 42 Goal — Saskatoon: Trombley (W, 9-21-1); Red Deer: Bartosak (L, 26-22-1).

Power plays (goal-chances)Saskatoon: 1-2; Red Deer: 0-4.

Monday’s summaries Hitmen 7, Rebels 1 First Period 1. Calgary, Brassart 28 (Chase, Tambellini) 4:28 (pp).

2. Calgary, Tambellini 13 (Chase, Sanheim) 16:54 (pp).

Penalties — Mpofu RD (fighting) 2:20, Harmsworth CAL (fighting) 2:20, Sutter RD (high-sticking) 3:03, Maxwell RD (high-sticking) 3:59, Fafard RD (roughing) 6:36, Mahon CAL (roughing) 6:36, Padakin CAL (tripping) 11:43, Gaudet RD (roughing) 15:38.

Second Period 3. Red Deer, Musil 7 (Dieno, Maxwell) 5:34 (pp).

4. Calgary, Mahon 6 (Lang, Sanheim) 10:00.

5. Calgary, Brassart 29 (Sanheim, Virtanen) 11:25.

Penalties — Johnson RD (roughing) 3:13, Peterson CAL (high-sticking) 3:13, Thomas CAL (roughing) 3:13, Roach CAL (cross-checking) 4:03, Sutter RD (roughing) 6:10, Brassart CAL (roughing) 6:10, Charif RD (roughing) 10:05, Babych CAL (roughing) 10:05, Zipp CAL (holding) 11:40, Gaudet RD (slashing) 15:51, Charif RD (hooking) 19:05.

Third Period 6. Calgary, Brassart 30 (Tambellini, Sanheim) 11:37 (pp).

7. Calgary, Chase 31 (Sanheim, Tambellini) 16:10 (pp).

8. Calgary, Mahon 7 (Lang, Hyman) 16:59.

Penalties — Brassart CAL (interference) 8:35, Polei RD (interference) 10:25, Bleackley RD (slashing) 14:39, Dixon RD (10-minute misconduct) 17:28, Sterzer RD (roughing) 18:46.

Shots on goal Red Deer 11 20 9 — 40 Calgary 20 9 9 — 38 Goal — Red Deer: Bartosak (L, 26-23-1); Calgary: Shields (W, 18-2-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Red Deer: 1-5; Calgary: 4-8.

Oil Kings 12, Hurricanes 0 First Period 1. Edmonton, Petryk 15 (Moroz, Corbett) 2:17 (pp).

2. Edmonton, Lazar 31 (Petryk, Mayo) 15:53 (pp).

3. Edmonton, Samuelsson 27 (Pollock, Kulda) 17:57.

Penalties — Khenkel Let (hooking) 0:37, Moroz Edm (roughing) 6:16, Sheen Let (slashing) 14:29.

Second Period 4. Edmonton, Pollock 22 (Samuelsson, Orban) 1:59.

5. Edmonton, Sautner 6 (Mayo, Samuelsson) 9:35 (pp).

6. Edmonton, Eller 5 (Mills) 10:54.

7. Edmonton, Moroz 30 (Mayo, Petryk) 13:24 (pp).

8. Edmonton, Samuelsson 28 (Corbett, Kulda) 16:39 (pp).

Penalties — Samuelsson Edm (hooking) 5:32, Sheen Let (holding opp. stick) 7:49, Watson Let (delay of game) 8:46, Bell Let (roughing) 9:50, Orban Edm (roughing) 9:50, Duke Let (high-sticking) 11:50, Alldridge Let (cross-checking) 13:34, Amson Let (Major-Check/behind) 13:34, Amson Let (game misconduct) 13:34, Bell Let (roughing) 13:34, Jensen Let (fighting) 13:34, Eller Edm (fighting) 13:34, Mills Edm (roughing) 13:34, Watson Let (delay of game) 15:55.

Third Period 9. Edmonton, Kulda 22 (Moroz) 1:24.

10. Edmonton, Moroz 31 (Lazar, Petryk) 12:59 (pp).

11. Edmonton, Pollock 23 (unassisted) 16:18.

12. Edmonton, Lazar 32 (Petryk, Moroz) 17:10.

Penalties — Duke Let (fighting) 9:10, Samuelsson Edm (slashing) 9:10, Samuelsson Edm (fighting) 9:10, Sheen Let (slashing) 10:16, Estephan Let (high-sticking) 11:41, Folk Let (kneeing) 13:49, Duke Let (slashing) 16:39, Duke Let (roughing) 16:39, Orban Edm (slashing) 16:39, Orban Edm (roughing) 16:39, Ramsay Let (fighting) 19:06, Kulda Edm (fighting) 19:06.

Shots on goal Lethbridge 10 6 9 — 25 Edmonton 12 21 20 — 53 Goal — Lethbridge: Sacher (L, 4-8-0); Edmonton:

Jarry (W, 36-12-1).

Power plays (goal-chances)Lethbridge: 0-3; Edmonton: 6-11.

Raiders 3, Broncos 1 First Period 1. Prince Albert, Valcourt 21 (Conroy, Draisaitl) 5:09.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 2. Prince Albert, Craig 5 (Hart, Andrlik) 7:52 (pp).

Penalties — Stewart P.A. (fighting) 2:53, Odgers SC (fighting) 2:53, Gordon SC (roughing) 3:34, Gordon SC (hooking) 6:51, Craig P.A. (boarding) 8:01, Conroy P.A. (high-sticking) 18:51.

Third Period 3. Prince Albert, Draisaitl 26 (Morrissey, Lange) 7:30 (pp).

4. Swift Current, Honka 14 (Black) 10:37 (pp).

Penalties — Gardiner P.A. (interference) 10:33, Cave SC (holding) 16:05.

Shots on goal Prince Albert 15 8 4 — 27 Swift Current 4 14 14 — 32 Goal — Prince Albert: McBride (W, 6-6-0); Swift Current: Laurikainen (L, 20-18-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Prince Albert: 2-3; Swift Current: 1-3.

Royals 4, Warriors 3 (SO) First Period 1. Moose Jaw, Eberle 15 (Point, White) 3:01.

2. Victoria, Hicketts 6 (Brown, Crunk) 11:18.

3. Moose Jaw, Forsberg 5 (Point, White) 19:10.

Penalties — Eberle MJ (roughing) 0:37, Skapski Vic (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 4:02, Rodewald MJ (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 4:02, Fisher Vic (crosschecking) 7:37, Reddekopp Vic (hooking) 14:23.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Cooke MJ (slashing) 5:15, Sleptsov MJ (delay of game) 10:15, Skapski Vic (highsticking) 12:40, Hicketts Vic (Embellishment) 15:21, Uhrich MJ (holding) 15:21.

Third Period 4. Victoria, Carroll 30 (Hicketts, Brown) 3:03.

5. Victoria, Blomqvist 21 (Nelson, Walker) 8:23 (pp).

6. Moose Jaw, Rodewald 20 (Point, Forsberg) 15:58.

Penalties — Brown MJ (inter. on goaltender) 8:21.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — Forsberg MJ (hooking) 1:08.

Shootout Victoria : Nelson goal, Walker goal.

Moose Jaw : Point miss, White miss.

Shots on goal Victoria 9 12 6 5 2 — 32 Moose Jaw 12 7 8 7 2 — 34 Goal — Victoria: Polivka (W, 21-11-0); Moose Jaw: Sawchenko (LS, 6-8-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Victoria: 1-5; Moose Jaw: 0-3.

Pats 4, Wheat Kings 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Coulter Bra (tripping) 5:19, McGauley Bra (tripping) 13:51, Waltz Bra (fighting) 15:03, Gay Reg (instigator) 15:03, Gay Reg (fighting) 15:03, Gay Reg (10-minute misconduct) 15:03, Quenneville Bra (slashing) 16:34, Williams Reg (boarding) 19:03.

Second Period 1. Regina, Stevenson 27 (Leier, Klimchuk) 6:55 (pp).

2. Regina, Hansen 8 (Christoffer, Sinitsyn) 11:30.

3. Regina, Stevenson 28 (Zgraggen) 13:24.

Penalties — Nejezchleb Bra (hooking) 1:08, McVeigh Reg (too many men) 2:57, Lisoway Bra (hooking) 6:41, Christoffer Reg (tripping) 9:07, Nejezchleb Bra (slashing) 19:00.

Third Period 4. Regina, Klimchuk 20 (Stephenson, Stevenson) 18:55.

Penalties — Burroughs Reg (delay of game) 7:41, Nejezchleb Bra (slashing) 8:11, Nejezchleb Bra (roughing) 14:19.

Shots on goal Brandon 7 7 9 — 23 Regina 9 17 13 — 39 Goal — Brandon: Papirny (L, 18-11-4); Regina: Wapple (W, 21-12-1).

Power plays (goal-chances)Brandon: 0-5; Regina: 1-8.

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TUESDAY, FEB. 18, 2014

Local Sports

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Regina 59 31 22 3 3 203 Swift Current 60 29 23 2 6 198 Brandon 60 28 24 6 2 216 Prince Albert 59 27 28 2 2 188 Moose Jaw 58 15 34 3 6 151 Saskatoon 60 16 39 2 3 175 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Edmonton 57 41 14 1 1 242 Calgary 60 39 15 3 3 238 Medicine Hat 59 36 20 3 0 210 Kootenay 59 33 22 2 2 196 Red Deer 60 28 28 1 3 176 Lethbridge 61 12 44 2 3 145

MEDALS Nation Russian Federation United States Netherlands Norway Canada Germany Sweden Switzerland Austria Belarus China France Japan Czech Republic Slovenia Italy Poland South Korea Australia Latvia Great Britain Finland Slovakia Croatia Kazakhstan Ukraine

B3

S 7 4 5 3 7 3 5 2 5 0 2 0 3 3 1 2 0 1 2 1 0 2 0 1 0 0

B 6 9 7 7 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 4 2 1 3 3 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 1

Tot. 18 18 17 15 15 13 9 8 8 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 4 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1

HOCKEY Preliminary Round Men Group A GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pts United States 3 2 0 0 0 15 4 8 Russia 3 1 0 0 0 8 5 6 Slovenia 3 1 0 0 2 6 11 3 Slovakia 3 0 0 0 2 2 11 1 Group B GP WOTWOTL L GF GA Pts Canada 3 2 1 0 0 11 2 8 Finland 3 2 0 1 0 15 7 7 Austria 3 1 0 0 2 7 15 3 Norway 3 0 0 0 3 3 12 0 Group C GP WOTWOTL L GF GA Pts Sweden 3 3 0 0 0 10 5 9 Switzerland 3 2 0 0 1 2 1 6 Czech Republic 3 1 0 0 2 6 7 3 Latvia 3 0 0 0 3 5 10 0 Three points awarded for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win and one for an overtime/ shootout loss.

Saturday, Feb. 15 Group A : Slovenia 3 Slovakia 1 Group A : United States 3 Russia 2 (SO) Group C : Switzerland 1 Czech Republic 0 Group C : Sweden 5 Latvia 3 Sunday, Feb. 16 Group B : Austria 3 Norway 1 Group A : Russia 1 Slovakia 0 (SO) Group A : United States 5 Slovenia 1 Group B : Canada 2 Finland 1 (OT) Tuesday, Feb. 18 Qualification Playoff Round Slovenia at Austria, 1 a.m.

Russia at Norway, 5:30 a.m.

Czech Republic at Slovakia, 10 a.m.

Switzerland at Latvia, 10 a.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 19 Quarterfinals TBAH at Sweden, 1 a.m.

TBAH at Finland, 5:30 a.m.

TBAH at Canada, 10 a.m.

TBAH at United States, 10 a.m.

Friday, Feb. 21 Semifinals TBAA at TBAH, 5 a.m.

TBAA at TBAH, 10 a.m.

Saturday, Feb. 22 Bronze Medal Game TBAA at TBAH, 8 a.m.

Sunday, Feb. 23 Gold Medal Game TBAA at TBAH, 5 a.m.

What Canada Did on Monday, Feb. 17 SOCHI, Russia — What Canada Did on Monday at the 2014 Winter Olympics: BIATHLON Women’s 12.5 km Mass Start - Megan Imrie, Falcon Lake, Man., 28th, (38 minutes 59 seconds, +3:33.4).

BOBSLEIGH Two-man Heat 3 - x-Canada 3 (Justin Kripps (pilot), Summerland, B.C., and Bryan Barnett, Edmonton), 4th, (56.42 seconds, +0.34); x-Canada 2 (Chris Spring (pilot), Calgary, and Jesse Lumsden, Burlington, Ont.), 8th (56.62); x-Canada 1 (Lyndon Rush (pilot), Sylvan Lake., and Lascelles Brown, Calgary), 10th (56.64).

Two-man Heat 4 - Canada 2 (Chris Spring (pilot) and Jesse Lumsden), 7th (56.74 seconds, +0.25); Canada 1 (Lyndon Rush (pilot) and Lascelles Brown), 9th (56.76); Canada 3 (Justin Kripps (pilot) and Bryan Barnett), 14th, (56.94).

Two-man Final Ranking: Canada 3 (Justin Kripps (pilot) and Bryan Barnett), 6th, (3 minutes 46.62 seconds, +1.23 seconds); Canada 2 (Chris Spring (pilot) and Jesse Lumsden), 7th (3:46.79); Canada 1 (Lyndon Rush (pilot) and Lascelles Brown), 9th (3:46.88).

CURLING Women’s Round Robin Session 12 - Canada 9 Korea 4 (Standings: Canada 9-0, first) Canada plays Great Britain in the semifinal game on Feb. 19 FIGURE SKATING Ice Dance Free Dance - Tessa Virtue, London, Ont., and Scott Moir, Ilderton, Ont., 2nd, (114.66 points, +1.97); Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, both Waterloo, Ont., 5th (103.18); Alexandra Paul and Mitchell Islam, both Barrie, Ont., 16th (82.79).

Ice Dance Final Ranking: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, Silver Medal, (190.99, +4.53); Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, 7th (169.11); Alexandra Paul and Mitchell Islam, 18th (138.70).

FREESTYLE SKIING Men’s Aerials Qualification 1 - Travis Gerrits, Milton, Ont., 19th, (76.92) Men’s Aerials Qualification 2 - Travis Gerrits, 4th, (112.39, +4.80); qualified for Final 1 Men’s Aerials Final 1 - Travis Gerrits, 6th, (107.29); qualified for Final 2 Men’s Aerials Final 2 - Travis Gerrits, 7th, (111.95); did not qualify for Final 3 Men’s Aerials Final Ranking - Travis Gerrits, 7th ICE HOCKEY Women’s Semifinals - Canada 3 Switzerland 1 Canada plays the U.S. in the gold medal game on Feb. 20 SKI JUMPING Men’s Team 1st Round - Canada (Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes (107.6), Dusty Korek (102.6), Trevor Morrice (94.3) (all from Calgary) and Matthew Rowley, Red Deer, Alta., (94.7)), 12th, (399.2, +119.8); did not qualify for final Men’s Team Final Ranking - Canada, 12th.

What Canada Did on the weekend SUNDAY ALPINE SKIING Men’s Super-G — Jan Hudec, Calgary, tied for bronze medal (one minute 18.67 seconds); Morgan Pridy, Whistler, B.C., 10th (1:19.19); Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Vancouver, 24 (1:20.19); Erik Guay, Mont-Tremblant, Que., disqualified.

BOBSLEIGH Men’s doubles — Justin Kripps (pilot), Summerland, B.C., and Bryan Barnett, Edmonton, rank fourth after the opening two runs (1:53.26); Chris

Spring, Calgary, and Jesse Lumsden, Burlington, Ont., eighth (1:53.43); Lyndon Rush, Sylvan Lake, and Lascelles Brown, Calgary, ninth (1:53.48).

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING Men’s 4x10 kilometre relay — Canada (Len Valjas, Toronto; Ivan Babikov, Canmore, Alta.; Graeme Killick, Fort McMurray, Alta.; and Jesse Cockney, Canmore, Alta.) placed 12th overall (one hour 33 minutes 19.0 seconds).

CURLING Women — Canada (8-0) defeated the U.S. 7-6 in an extra end to clinch first place with one game remaining in the round robin.

Men — Canada (7-2) has earned a berth in the semifinals after winning 8-6 over the U.S., and 9-8 over China in an extra end.

FIGURE SKATING Ice dance — Tessa Virtue, London, Ont., and Scott Moir, Ilderton, Ont., are second after the short program (76.33 points); Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, both Waterloo, Ont., seventh (65.93); Alexandra Paul and Mitchell Islam, both Barrie, Ont., 18 (55.91).

HOCKEY Men — Canada (2-1-0-0) completed the preliminary round with a 2-1 overtime win over Finland.

SNOWBOARDING Women’s snowboardcross — Dominique Maltais, Petite-Riviere-St-Francois, Que., silver medal; Maelle Ricker, West Vancouver, B.C., did not advance after failing to finish in her quarter-final heat.

SPEEDSKATING Long Track Women’s 1,500 — Kali Christ, Regina, 16th (1:58.63); Christine Nesbitt, London, Ont., 17 (1:58.67); Brittany Schussler, Winnipeg, 26 (2:00.65); Brianne Tutt, Airdrie, Alta., 35 (2:03.69).

SATURDAY ALPINE SKIING Women’s Super-G — Marie-Pier Prefontaine, St-Sauveur, Que., 20th overall (one minute 28.67 seconds); Marie-Michele Gagnon, Lac-Etchemin, Que., and Larisa Yurkiw, Owen Sound, Ont. — both missed a gate and did not finish.

CROSS-C0UNTRY SKIING Women’s 4x5-kilometre Relay — Canada (Perianne Jones, Calgary; Daria Gaiazova, Banff, Alta.; Emily Nishikawa, Whitehorse; and Brittany Webster, Caledon, Ont.), placed 14th in the event (59:13.6).

CURLING Men — Canada won 7-5 over Britain to move into a third-place tie.

Women — Canada clinched a playoff berth after defeating Japan 8-6 and Russia, 5-3.

SKELETON Men’s singles — John Fairbairn, Calgary, finished seventh overall after four runs (3:48.13) - 0.87 seconds behind the bronze medallist; Eric Neilson, Kelowna, B.C., 13th (3:48.77).

SKI JUMPING Men’s K120 individual — Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes, Calgary, 25th overall (237.9 points after two jumps); Trevor Morrice, Calgary, 43rd after first jump (103.4) and Matthew Rowley, Red Deer, Alta. (disqualified) — neither advanced to the second jump.

SPEEDSKATING Long Track Men’s 1,500 — Denny Morrison, Fort St. John, B.C., silver medal (1:45.22); Mathieu Giroux, Pointe-auxTrembles, Que., 19th (1:47.65); Lucas Makowsky, Regina, 28 (1:48.51); Vincent de Haitre, Cumberland, Ont., 33 (1:49.42).

Short Track Men’s 1,000 — Olivier Jean, Lachenaie, Que., was third in his quarter-final heat (1:24.935); Charles Hamelin, Ste-Julie, Que., fourth (1:40.408); Charle Cournoyer, Boucherville, Que., fifth (1:25.204) — all failed to qualify for the semifinal round.

Women’s 1,500 — Valerie Maltais, La Baie, Que., won the B-final (seventh overall) in 2:24.711; MarieEve Drolet, Chicoutimi, Que., placed third in the B-final (2:24.859); Marianne St-Gelais, St-Felicien, Que., was fourth in her qualifying heat (2:27.071), and failed to advance.

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with LHP Andrew Miller on a one-year contract.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with RHP Aaron Harang on a minor league contract.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with 1B Justin Smoak on a one-year contract.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with UT Emilio Bonifacio on a minor league contract.

HOCKEY American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Syracuse D J.P. Cote five games for an illegal check to the head of an opponent.

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Idaho F Brett Robinson two games and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions during Friday’s game.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with RHP Francisco Cordero on a minor league contract.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with OF Josh Reddick on a one-year contract.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with RHP Craig Kimbrel on a four-year contract.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Agreed to terms with RHP A.J. Burnett to a one-year contract. Designated LHP Joe Savery for assignment.

HOCKEY American Hockey League PROVIDENCE BRUINS — Recalled F Scott Campbell from South Carolina (ECHL).

Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with

RHP Suk-min Yoon on a three-year contract.

DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jose Valdez, LHP Casey Crosby, C Ramon Cabrera, INFs Jordan Lennerton and Eugenio Suarez and OF Daniel Fields on one-year contracts.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Claimed OF Jimmy Paredes off waivers from Baltimore. Designated RHP Maikel Cleto for assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Claimed LHP Joe Savery off waivers from Philadelphia. Placed LHP Eric O’Flaherty to the 60-day DL. TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Lisalverto Bonilla, Cory Burns, Wilmer Font, Roman Mendez and Tanner Scheppers; INF Luis Sardinas and OFs James Adduci, Engel Beltre and Michael Choice on one-year contracts.

FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed LB Terrell Suggs to a four-year contract extension.

CHICAGO BEARS —Signed DE Austen Lane to a one-year contract.

Today

● Senior high basketball: Rocky Mountain House at Notre Dame, Ponoka at Lacombe, Hunting Hills at Sylvan Lake, Camrose at Stettler, Lindsay Thurber at Wetaskiwin; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● Men’s basketball: Vikings vs. Aiken Basin Drillers, Grandview Allstars vs.

Dream Team, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Wednesday

● JV basketball: Notre Dame at Lindsay Thurber, Camrose at Hunting Hills, Innisfail at Stettler, Ponoka at Rocky Mountain House, Lacombe at Wetaskiwin; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● WHL: Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Red Deer, first game of best-of-three North Division survivor series, 8:15 p.m., Arena.

North Division survivor series, 8 p.m. ● Senior AAA hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Innisfail, third game of best-of-seven provincial semifinal, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Senior high basketball: Hunting Hills tournament. ● College volleyball: Alberta Colleges men’s championship at RDC; games at 1, 3, 6 and 8 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blazers at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● Major bantam hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer White, second game of best-of-three divisional semifinal, 2 p.m., Arena. ● WHL: Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Red Deer, third game of best-ofthree North Division survivor series, if necessary, 8 p.m., Arena.

Sunday

Thursday

● Men’s basketball: Gord Scott Nissan vs. Sheraton Red Deer, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Orangemen, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday

● College volleyball: Alberta Colleges men’s championship at RDC; RDC vs.

Briercrest, 6 p.m., other games at 1, 3 and 8 p.m. ● Senior high basketball: Hunting Hills tournament. ● WHL: Vancouver at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Three Hills, second game of best-of-three

● College volleyball: Alberta Colleges men’s championship at RDC; games at 11 a.m. and 1 (bronze-medal) and 3:30 p.m.(gold-medal). ● Senior AAA hockey: Stony Plain at Bentley, fifth game of best-of-seven provincial semifinal, if neccesary, 2 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Orangemen, Dream Team vs. Rusty Chuckers, Triple Threat vs. The Secret Runs, 4:15 p.m.; Monstars vs. Carster, Wells Furniture vs. Woodys RV, Triple A Batteries vs. Alken Basin Drillers, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Aero Equipment at Red Deer Northstar, 5:30 p.m., Arena.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB d-Indiana 40 12 .769 — d-Miami 37 14 .725 2 d-Toronto 28 24 .538 12 Chicago 27 25 .519 13 Atlanta 25 26 .490 14 Washington 25 27 .481 15 Brooklyn 24 27 .471 15 Charlotte 23 30 .434 17 Detroit 22 30 .423 18 New York 20 32 .385 20 Cleveland 20 33 .377 20 Boston 19 35 .352 22 Orlando 16 38 .296 25 Philadelphia 15 39 .278 26 Milwaukee 9 43 .173 31

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Cleveland at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Washington, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

New York at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Miami at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Denver, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

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WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB 43 12 .782 — 38 15 .717 4 36 17 .679 6 37 18 .673 6 36 17 .679 6 32 22 .593 10 1/2 30 21 .588 11 31 22 .585 11 29 23 .558 12 1/2 25 28 .472 17 24 27 .471 17 23 29 .442 18 1/2 19 33 .365 22 1/2 18 35 .340 24 18 35 .340 24

d-Oklahoma City d-San Antonio Houston d-L.A. Clippers Portland Dallas Phoenix Golden State Memphis Minnesota Denver New Orleans Utah L.A. Lakers Sacramento d-division leader

Durant, OKC Anthony, NYK James, MIA Love, MIN Curry, GOL Griffin, LAC Aldridge, POR Harden, HOU Cousins, SAC DeRozan, TOR George, IND Nowitzki, DAL Irving, CLE

G 54 49 50 50 50 55 53 45 46 50 52 52 50

FG 558 472 484 418 425 495 518 322 369 390 395 406 388

FT 463 293 287 342 211 330 229 339 299 292 243 232 207

PTS 1699 1338 1324 1292 1232 1329 1267 1075 1037 1121 1156 1128 1073

AVG 31.5 27.3 26.5 25.8 24.6 24.2 23.9 23.9 22.5 22.4 22.2 21.7 21.5

OFF DEF TOT 230 539 769 163 498 661 283 393 676 173 489 662 147 393 540 190 385 575 125 477 602

AVG 14.0 13.2 13.0 12.5 11.7 11.5 11.4

Rebounds Jordan, LAC Love, MIN Drummond, DET Howard, HOU Cousins, SAC Noah, CHI Aldridge, POR

G 55 50 52 53 46 50 53

Assists Curry, GOL Lawson, DEN Wall, WAS Rubio, MIN Jennings, DET Lowry, TOR Teague, ATL

Sunday’s Games East 163, West 155 Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games Atlanta at Indiana, 5 p.m.

G 50 45 52 53 50 52 49

AST 450 396 443 441 404 395 354

AVG 9.0 8.8 8.5 8.3 8.1 7.6 7.2

Golf PGA-Northern Trust Open Sunday At Riviera Country Club Los Angeles Purse: $6.7 million Yardage: 7,349; Par 71 Final Bubba Watson, $1,206,000 Dustin Johnson, $723,600 Jason Allred, $388,600 Brian Harman, $388,600 Charl Schwartzel, $268,000 Bryce Molder, $216,913 Matt Every, $216,913 William McGirt, $216,913 George McNeill, $216,913 Harris English, $174,200 Brendan Steele, $174,200 K.J. Choi, $127,300 Charley Hoffman, $127,300 Sang-Moon Bae, $127,300 Cameron Tringale, $127,300 Jordan Spieth, $127,300 Charlie Beljan, $127,300 Aaron Baddeley, $97,150 John Senden, $97,150 Keegan Bradley, $80,847 Lee Westwood, $80,847 Jimmy Walker, $80,847 Kevin Chappell, $57,955 Kevin Stadler, $57,955 Jim Furyk, $57,955 Robert Garrigus, $57,955 Hideki Matsuyama, $57,955 Bill Haas, $57,955 Robert Allenby, $42,601 Dan. Summerhays, $42,601 Geoff Ogilvy, $42,601 Blake Adams, $42,601 David Lingmerth, $42,601 James Hahn, $42,601 Brendon Todd, $33,031 Ernie Els, $33,031 Gon. Fdez-Castano, $33,031 Kevin Streelman, $33,031 John Huh, $33,031 J.J. Henry, $26,130 Victor Dubuisson, $26,130 Jhonattan Vegas, $26,130 Francesco Molinari, $26,130 Luke Guthrie, $26,130 Justin Rose, $18,779 Stuart Appleby, $18,779 Scott Stallings, $18,779 Scott Brown, $18,779 Vijay Singh, $18,779 Richard H. Lee, $18,779 Davis Love III, $18,779

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

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269 271 272 272 273 274 274 274 274 275 275 276 276 276 276 276 276 277 277 278 278 278 279 279 279 279 279 279 280 280 280 280 280 280 281 281 281 281 281 282 282 282 282 282 283 283 283 283 283 283 283

Women’s Australian Open Sunday At Victoria Golf Club Melbourne, Australia Purse: $1.2 million Yardage: 6,480; Par: 72 Final a-amateur Karrie Webb, $180,000 Chella Choi, $110,822 Paula Creamer, $64,213 Karine Icher, $64,213

71-69-68-68 70-71-62-74 68-69-73-68 69-68-70-71

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276 277 278 278

Lydia Ko, $64,213 68-68-69-73 — Stacy Lewis, $33,068 71-69-70-69 — Amelia Lewis, $33,068 71-67-69-72 — Morgan Pressel, $33,068 69-68-70-72 — Jenny Shin, $33,068 74-67-66-72 — Gerina Piller, $24,573 75-69-68-68 — Azahara Munoz, $21,296 68-70-73-70 — Jessica Speechley, $21,296 71-67-70-73 — Mi Hyang Lee, $21,296 72-67-68-74 — a-Minjee Lee, 68-67-68-78 — Trish Johnson, $17,171 70-73-68-71 — Sarah Kemp, $17,171 71-68-71-72 — Perrine Delacour, $17,171 70-73-65-74 — Caroline Hedwall, $17,171 68-65-74-75 — Sandra Gal, $14,228 73-69-72-69 — Giulia Sergas, $14,228 68-71-72-72 — Jessica Korda, $14,228 67-70-72-74 — Dewi Claire Schreefel, $14,22870-68-71-74 — Cheyenne Woods, $12,742 74-65-71-74 — Holly Clyburn, $12,742 68-68-71-77 — Mirim Lee, $11,589 74-68-72-71 — Becky Morgan, $11,589 70-74-69-72 — Amy Anderson, $11,589 72-70-68-75 — Beatriz Recari, $8,847 72-69-74-71 — Hee Young Park, $8,847 67-77-70-72 — Dori Carter, $8,847 70-70-73-73 — Hannah Burke, $8,847 72-72-68-74 — Lorie Kane, $8,847 71-71-69-75 — Brooke Pancake, $8,847 70-70-71-75 — Carlota Ciganda, $8,847 68-70-72-76 — Rebecca Lee-Bentham, $8,84773-69-67-77 — Caroline Masson, $8,847 72-68-69-77 — Marianne Skarpnord, $8,847 70-69-68-79 — Suzann Pettersen, $8,847 66-68-72-80 — Marina Alex, $6,322 71-73-72-71 — Lindsey Wright, $6,322 73-69-72-73 — Sarah Jane Smith, $6,322 68-72-72-75 — Valentine Derrey, $6,322 69-69-72-77 — Haru Nomura, $6,322 70-68-71-78 — a-Su-Hyun Oh, 74-69-66-78 —

ACE Group Classic NAPLES, Florida (AP) — Scores Sunday from the ACE Group Classic at TwinEagles Golf Club on the 7,193-yard, par-72, Talon Course: Final Kirk Triplett, $240,000 67-67-66 — 200 Olin Browne, $117,067 66-69-66 — 201 Bernhard Langer, $117,067 64-70-67 — 201 Duffy Waldorf, $117,067 67-68-66 — 201 Jay Haas, $76,000 68-72-64 — 204 Michael Allen, $60,800 68-71-67 — 206 Colin Montgomerie, $60,800 70-67-69 — 206 Mark Calcavecchia, $45,867 73-69-66 — 208 Mike Goodes, $45,867 68-72-68 — 208 Billy Andrade, $45,867 71-69-68 — 208 Peter Senior, $32,000 75-69-65 — 209 Jim Rutledge, $32,000 72-73-64 — 209 Wes Short, Jr., $32,000 69-73-67 — 209 Tommy Armour III, $32,000 68-72-69 — 209 Rod Spittle, $32,000 70-70-69 — 209 Bob Tway, $32,000 65-72-72 — 209 Tom Pernice Jr., $25,600 69-71-70 — 210 Mark O’Meara, $21,120 70-72-69 — 211 Rocco Mediate, $21,120 70-70-71 — 211 Tom Lehman, $21,120 70-70-71 — 211 Bill Glasson, $21,120 69-69-73 — 211 Gene Sauers, $21,120 70-69-72 — 211 Roger Chapman, $15,337 72-73-67 — 212 Lee Rinker, $15,337 70-73-69 — 212 Steve Pate, $15,337 73-70-69 — 212

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct. GF GA GB Buffalo 8 6 2 .750 95 83 — Rochester 7 5 2 .714 76 57 1/2 Toronto 7 3 4 .429 90 86 2 1/2 Philadelphia 9 3 6 .333 102 107 3 1/2 Minnesota 7 1 6 .143 64 84 4 1/2

Edmonton Calgary Colorado Vancouver

GP 7 7 10 10

West Division W L Pct. GF GA GB 7 0 1.000 84 54 — 4 3 .571 95 90 3 4 6 .400 109 138 4 1/2 3 7 .300 112 126 5 1/2

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Saturday’s results Calgary 20 Vancouver 9 Edmonton 14 Minnesota 9 Rochester 17 Toronto 9 Buffalo 13 Philadelphia 7 Friday’s result Vancouver 19 Colorado 9 Saturday, Feb. 22 Minnesota at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Rochester at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 23 Minnesota at Philadelphia, 2 p.m.

B4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014

Kings edge Kodiaks on last-second shot BASKETBALL TEAM PICKS UP HUGE VICTORY GOING INTO BREAK, HOCKEY KINGS WIN BIG ON THE ROAD AGAINST BRIERCREST RDC ATHLETICS

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Kings 103 Kodiaks 102 LETHBRIDGE — RDC Kings head coach Clay Pottinger saved his final time out just in case and the decision turned out to work perfectly.

When the Lethbridge Kodiaks Brendan Blood scored with three seconds remaining to give Lethbridge a 102-100 lead Pottinger used his final time out to discuss a play and to move the ball to centre court.

After a discussion on whether to take a two-point shot to try to reach overtime, or go for the win, he was talked into the win or nothing.

“Originally I thought we would go for two, but (assistant coach) Luc (Stevenson) said we were shorthanded and with Rob (Pierce) fouled out we’d be in tough to win in overtime, so go for the three.”

Fifth-year veteran guard Jacob Cusumano agreed.

“He said ‘coach I can make it’, so we had a play set up and it worked to perfection.”

Cusumano nailed the long three at the buzzer for a 103-102 victory, giving the Kings a 17-3 record. The Kings will host the ACAC final Feb. 28-March 2.

The Kings split a weekend doubleheader with the Kodiaks, losing 80-66 on Friday when they were without three of their leaders — Clay Crellin, Sam Lolik and Mari Peoples-Wong. Crellin played Saturday and finished with 25 points, nine rebounds and six

assists.

Cusumano was the RDC player of the game as he had 20 points and hit six of seven from long distance.

He added eight assists and four rebounds. Matt Johnson added 20 points, Pierce 16 and Taner Parrington 10. Lloyd Strickland had nine assists.

The win was a perfect way to go into a two-week break.

“It was great competition and I have a lot of respect for Lethbridge. I feel they could be the second best team in the league,” concluded Pottinger.

Kodiaks 90 Queens 78 The 90-78 loss ended the Queens season. The Queens tied Keyano for the final playoff spot but lost the tie-breaker despite the fact they played one less game than the Fort McMurray squad.

The Queens lost the game at the free throw line as Lethbridge was awarded 50 free throws, hitting 37 while RDC had 29 free throws and nailed 20.

Dedra Janvier led the Queens with 17 points and five assists while Desirae Paterson and Mozanga Ekwalanga added 14 points each and Sarah Williamson 11.

Hockey Kings 8 Clippers 1 CARONPORT, Sask. — The Kings had their legs Saturday and it showed on the scoresheet as they ran away to an 8-1 victory over the Briercrest Bible College Clippers in ACAC Men’s Hockey League action.

On Friday the Kings managed a 5-3 win after an 11-hour bus ride.

Brett Printz, Davis Claffey, Logan Sceviour, Shamus Graham, Jared Ramstead, Doug Jones, Kirsten

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — For Canadian pilots Chris Spring and Justin Kripps, their bobsleds literally are chariots of the gods.

Born in Hawaii, Kripps dug into his heritage to name his original Canada 3 sleds after Hawaiian gods. The twoman sled is named Pele, the goddess of fire and lava, while the four-man sled was Poliahu, goddess of ice and snow.

When Kripps inherited Lyndon Rush’s four-man 2010 sled, he opted to retain its name of Kal-el — Superman’s name on Krypton — “as a tribute to Rush and that sled itself.”

“That sled has a lot of mojo,” said Kripps, a native of Summerland, B.C. Rush piloted the sled to a bronze medal at the 2010 Vancouver Games, becoming the first Canadian in more than 40 years to win an Olympic medal in the four-man event.

Australian-born Chris Spring, who now makes his home in Calgary, also looked to the heavens to name Canada 2. His two-man sled is Altuira, the god of the dreamtime.

“A time before man that the aboriginals believed in,” he explained. “I have a lot of respect for the aboriginal culture back home and wanted to represent that through my sled.”

He originally didn’t have a name for his four-man ride. But a crash in January 2012 took care of that.

“My sled went from being worth a lot of money to probably not being worth anything at all,” he said dryly.

Bobsleigh Canada’s head mechanic Marc Van Den Berg built him a new

OLDS GRIZZLYS BROOKS — Patrick Chore scored once and assisted on another goal as the Brooks Bandits completed a sweep of a homeand-home AJHL series with a 3-1 win over the Olds Grizzlys Monday.

Patrick Lee and Nick McCormack also tallied for the Bandits in front of 1,944 fans at Centennial Regional Arena. Chris Gerrie notched the lone goal for the Grizzlys, who trailed 1-0 after oner period and 3-1 after 40 minutes.

Michael Fredrick made 21 saves as the winning netminder. Ethan Jemiff stopped 22 shots in the Olds net. ● Maddison Smiley and Madison Dunn each sniped a pair of goals for Brooks in a 5-3 win Saturday in front of 788 fans at the Olds Sportsplex.

Chore had a single goal for the visitors, while Shane Bear contributed three assists.

Scoring for the Grizzlys were Dustin Gorgi with two goals, and BJ Duffin.

Jemieff made 36 saves in a losing cause, while Fredrick blocked 28 shots. ● The Grizzlys fell 3-0 to the host Drumheller Dragons Friday as winning netminder Devin Buffalo made 25 saves.

Red Deer product Chris Rauckman and Colton Vannucci potted first-period goals for the Dragons, who got a second-period marker from Dallas James. Rauckman and Vannucci each added an assist for the winners, who fired 25 shots at Olds netminder Jake Tamagi.

The Grizzlys conclude their regular-season record on the road, with games Friday and Feb. 28 at Okotoks and Camrose.

Volleyball NAIT grabbed seventh place on the men’s side of ACAC volleyball playoffs, set to open Friday at RDC. The RDC Kings will meet Briercrest in their opening game Friday after BBC lost 3-1 to NAIT Saturday.

NAIT downed King’s 3-1 and BBC downed Keyano 3-1 in earlier action.

On the women’s side the RDC Queens will face Lakeland in their opening game of the women’s championships in Grande Prairie Friday.

Lakeland lost 3-0 to NAIT, who upset SAIT 3-2 in their first game, Lakeland downed Lethbridge 3-0. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Morrow, Blue Jays hoping for bounce-back year

Canada’s bobsleds really are chariots of the gods

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Odendaal and Jared Kambeitz scored for the Kings while Kraymer Barnstable made 24 saves. The Kings had 58 shots on a pair of BBC netminders and led 3-0 and 6-1 by periods.

“We played quite well Saturday and were rewarded with a win. We played the way we want to play in the playoffs,” said Kings head coach Trevor Keeper.

The Kings have this weekend off before finishing their regular season against Portage. The second game of the twin bill is March 1 in Penhold.

“We just have to get over some bumps and bruises during our bye week,” said Keeper.

The Kings will wrap up third place with a pair of wins. They sit five points up on Augustana, which has two games in hand.

Basketball The Olds Broncos lost all four games against SAIT in basketball action during the weekend.

SAIT won 53-42 and 71-61 in women’s play and 7268 and 97-88 in men’s action.

sled, drawing in a few parts from the wreck. “So fittingly I have named it Phoenix, after being reborn literally from the ashes.”

Olympic champion Kaillie Humphries named her sled Thorfin after her great-grandfather. Her grandfather also used the name for a sailboat that Kaillie used as a kid.

“I never actually got to meet my great-grandfather but he was a World War II vet and I remember hearing stories upon stories and seeing some of the medals he had got,” said the Calgary native. “And being a part of the boat and understanding a bit of history and background of my family, I decided to stick with it.”

Regulations don’t allow the name to be displayed on the outside of the sled.

So they are marked on the inside of the front nose, right in front of the driver.

Edmonton’s Jenny Ciochetti named her Canada 2 sled DJ Sirocco. D.J. are the initials of a friend who died. Sirocco is a warm Mediterranean wind, which fits in with her Italian heritage.

Rush, from Sylvan Lake, calls his Canada 1 two-man sled Deuce and the four-man sled Moose.

“It’s a two-man so Deuce makes sense but my wife (Krista) calls bobsled poopsled and my kids (Olivia and Amelia) call bobsled poopsled and they kind of tease me. And going poop is a No. 2,” he explained, drawing laughs at a team news conference.

Hence Deuce, thanks to a suggestion from Olivia. And with sleds hurtling down the track at more than 140 km/h, that’s real poop power. Moose was chosen for the four-man “because it’s big and rhymes with Deuce.”

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUNEDIN, Fla. — As the Toronto Blue Jays got busy in 2014, pitcher Brandon Morrow offered a blunt assessment of what went wrong in a most disappointing 2013.

He began with the rotation.

“We pitched like garbage,” Morrow said Monday at Toronto’s first spring training workout.

“Starting pitchers were awful the first month, myself included. I mean, none of us were pitching like we wanted to, whether it was just bad luck that all five of us were going through that same time, or just putting pressure on ourselves,” he said.

Morrow’s season ended in May because of a forearm injury. The righthander finished 2-3 with a 5.63 ERA. R.A. Dickey and Mark Buehrle, both expected to be aces, barely wound up over .500. Josh Johnson went 2-8, got injured and now plays for San Diego.

“Guys started getting hurt and knowing other guys were already barking and hurt, and trying to keep it up and stay on the field. I think that was a big part of it. Just the slow start and our pitching just didn’t give us a chance in those first couple months.”

Boosted by a winter makeover, the Blue Jays were picked by many last year to be a World Series contender.

But even with the addition of Jose Reyes, Melky Cabrera, Dickey, Buehrle and more, Toronto stumbled to a 74-88 record and finished last in the AL East for the first time since 2004.

Manager John Gibbons said the

LOCAL

BRIEFS Raider girls get win in final game at Spruce Grove tournament The Lindsay Thurber Raiders closed out the Spruce Grove senior high girls basketball tournament Saturday with a 59-28 win over Grande Prairie.

Kelsey Smale scored 12 points and Kelsey Lalor contributed 10 for the Raiders, who posted a 1-2 record in the tournament.

Lindsay Thurber opened with an 85-39 loss to St. Albert, ranked No. 3 in the province. Lalor and Emma Newton each netted 10 points in a losing cause.

The Raiders then fell 76-70 to Edmonton Harry Ainlay, getting 22 points from Lalor, 14 from Newton and 11 from Lizzy Morneault.

Maplethorpe finishes seventh at Nike Indoor Challenge meet in Edmonton EDMONTON — Emily Maplethorpe of RDC placed seventh overall and fifth among college runners in the 1,500-metres in the Nike Indoor Challenge track meet at the Edmonton Garrison Military Fitness Centre Fieldhouse Saturday.

Maplethorpe had a personal best time of 5:52.07. Jennifer Norminton of the Running Room Athletic Club won the race in 4:50.24.

Megan Johnson of Hunting Hills High School was fourth at 1:14.94 and Tara McDonald of Hunting Hills sixth at 1:16.03 in the 400m, won by Lesley Koopman of Grant MacEwan University in 1:02.89.

Dina Iatrou of Hunting Hills was seventh (2:37.52) and Anna Duda of RDC 11th (2:51.45) in the 800m. Jamie Wigmore of Grande Prairie was first at 2:20.88.

Samantha Debree of RDC placed 11th in the 3,000m at 13:07.71 while Vanessa Trofimenkov of GMU won at 11:01.48.

In the women’s 4x400m relay, GMU was first at 4:33.96 while Johnson, McDonald and Iatrou of Hunting Hills, along with

Norminton, placed fifth at 5:01.96 and RDC eighth at 5:16.60.

Lethbridge College was first in women’s division with 47 points while RDC was sixth with 10.

Kevin Buckel of RDC was 16th in the men’s 400m at 1:04.42 with Kenton Sportak of SAIT at 52.64 seconds.

Andrew Jacobs of RDC placed 14th in the 3,000m, at 10:39.75 with Edwin Kaitany of Lethbridge at 9:10.46.

The top two RDC runners — Devin Woodland and Jordanna Cota — were unable to compete but will be on hand for the ACAC finals, March 7-8 at the Garrison Centre.

Rebels White sweep Airdrie in major bantam playoffs Jeremy Klessens and Joel Ray scored for the Red Deer Rebels White in a 2-1 Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League playoff win over the host Airdrie Xtreme Saturday.

Dawson Weatherill made 27 saves for the winners, who swept the best-of-three division quarter-final 2-0. Red Deer was outhsot 28-27 while taking six of 10 minor penalties.

The Rebels White will now meet the Okotoks Rocky Mountain Raiders after the Raiders doubled the Rebels Black 4-2 Saturday at the Arena to take that series 2-0.

Tyrees Goodrunning scored Red Deer’s first goal and assisted on the other by Levi Glasman.

Shae Herbert made 24 saves for the Rebels Black as the visitors held a 28-26 edge in shots and were assessed four of seven minor penalties.

The division semifinal will open in Okotoks.

Daines leads Innisfail to final win over Raiders at Cougar Classic JV girl’s tournament Sydney Daines netted 18 points Saturday as the Innisfail Cyclones downed the Lindsay Thurber Raiders 54-39 in the

club’s issues started from the beginning. Reyes broke his ankle in April on an awkward slide, and the star shortstop missed nearly three months. The Blue Jays dropped 10 games below .500 by early May and were doomed for the rest of the season.

“Last year, we didn’t play well in really any phase of the game early on,” Gibbons said. “We didn’t play very good defence, hitting was sporadic and we struggled in the rotation. That leads to how we started the season.”

But Gibbons said there is reason to be optimistic this season. Gibbons expects former All-Star outfielders Jose Bautista and Cabrera and third baseman Brett Lawrie to bounce back after missing significant time with injuries.

Gibbons said he also has full confidence that the team’s rotation will drastically improve its 4.81 ERA that ranked second-worst in the majors.

He has yet to say who will be the Blue Jays’ fifth starter.

If everything falls into place, Gibbons said he believes Toronto can end its 21-year post-season drought, which ranks second longest in the majors behind only the Royals (28).

“We said all last year that we like this ballclub and we still do,” he said.

“It was put together for a reason: to win. Last year didn’t end the way we want to. Not even close. But we still like it as a group. You go around with Lawrie, Reyes, Eddie (Encarnacion), Bautista, hopefully Cabrera bounces back and hopefully Colby (Rasmus) has another good year. There’s some pretty good players out there and we like them.”

championship final of the Notre Dame Cougar Classic JV girls basketball tournament.

Jaycee Halerewich added 14 points for the winners, while Kaylee Domoney led the Raiders with 14.

St. Mary’s of Calgary downed Edmonton Archbishop MacDonald 48-45 in the thirdplace game and the host Cougars defeated the Hunting Hills Lightning 60-46 in the consolation final.

Ayzhelmor Tultog and Janelle Pearle each scored 10 points for the Cougars.

Kristen Loney paced the Lightning with 18.

Results of earlier games involving Central Alberta teams: Lindsay Thurber 59 St. Mary’s 46 — LT: Kristen Demale 26 points, Janalyn Tuazon 12; Innisfail 56 Archbishop MacDonald 53 — Inn: Sydney Daines 20, Courtney Dickson 16; Hunting Hills 62 Stony Plain Memorial 47 — HH: Kristen Loney 22, Irsa Alam 12; Notre Dame 58 Canmore 25 — ND: Gemma Davis 8, Amanda Omilon 8; St. Mary’s 48 Hunting Hills 45 — HH: Alam 9; Lindsay Thurber 73 Memorial 38 — LT: Demale 20, Kaylee Domoney 18; Innisfail 55 Notre Dame 46 — Inn: Daines 26, Dickson 11; ND: Davis 18, Krisha Hernaez 8.

Cougar boys win consolation final at Edmonton Strathcona high school tournament The Notre Dame Cougars bolted out to a 29-9 first-quarter lead en route to an 82-71 win over Airdrie Bert Church in Saturday’s consolation final of the Edmonton Strathcona senior high boys basketball tournament.

Every member of the Cougars hit the scoresheet, with tournament all-star Jake Dahl leading the way with 17 points and five assists. TJ Carter added 11 points and seven rebounds.

The Cougars advanced to the consolation final Friday with a 95-46 spanking of Saskatoon Tommy Douglas. Ken Villaluz netted 18 points for the winners, with Logan Hermus recording a season-best double-double of 13 points and 11 rebounds.

Notre Dame opened the tournament with a 102-99 overtime loss to Fort St. John, B.C. The Cougars battled back from an 11-point half-time deficit with 33 points in the fourth quarter, then ran into foul trouble. Trenton Drieger paced Notre Dame with 21 points and 15 rebounds as five of his teammates finished in double figures.

LOCAL SPORTS

B5

TUESDAY, FEB. 18, 2014

Queens can’t get past NAIT

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Ooks 3 Queens 2 (OT) The RDC Queens weren’t about to bow out of the Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League playoffs without a fight.

And while they may have deserved to extend the bestof-three semifinal to another game, it wasn’t to be as they dropped a 3-2 overtime decision to the NAIT Ooks at the Arena Saturday to lose the series 2-0.

Haley Vandepoele notched the winner at 9:49 of the 10-minute first overtime session when she grabbed the puck at the RDC blueline, deeked a defender and picked the corner on Queens netminder Camille Trautman.

“I think they stole one today,” said Queens head coach Bob Rutz. “But then they worked hard to grab that 2-0 lead. However, after Taylor (Hall) scored they didn’t touch us. We hemmed them in with our forecheck and had a tonne of chances.”

The Ooks, who won 1-0 on Friday in Edmonton, held a 14-7 edge in shots in the first period, but it wasn’t until 19:21 that Samantha Dyck managed to beat Trautman.

Jody Rammel made it 2-0 at 7:44 of the second period with Hall narrowing the gap on an outstanding individual effort at 9:14.

The first-year defenceman out of the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs major midget program, brought the puck down the left side, cut past a defender and picked the top corner on the short side on NAIT’s Jill Diachuk.

Queens held a 14-8 edge in shots in the second period and 18-7 in the third. Captain Rachael Hoppins tied the game at 3:44 of the third period on the power play when she grabbed a lose puck in the slot.

“Overall we played at a level today we needed to play at all season,” said Rutz. “But we still spotted them a 2-0 lead, which is also something that hurt us all season.”

While the Queens didn’t go

Photo by TONY HANSEN/freelance

RDC Queen Suze Vanderlinde confronts NAIT Ook Breanna Frasca in front of Queens goaltender Camille Trautman during ACAC playoff action at the Arena, Saturday. out without a fight, it was still disappointing and brought a few tears.

“It’s never great when you lose that last game,” said Rutz.

“We didn’t reach the gaol we set out at the beginning of the season. I really believe we had the team to win this, but needed that consistency. Even if we had it yesterday this would have been a different series.”

For Queens fifth-year forward Laura Salomons it was her final game of an outstanding career with the Queens.

She played two years with the team, spent a year with the University of Alberta Pandas, then returned to Red Deer.

She coached with the Queens for two years before getting into nursing and playing her

JUNIOR B HOCKEY Alex Bilton made 39 saves as the Okotoks Bisons downed the host Blackfalds Wranglers 4-1 Sunday to clinch first place overall in the Heritage Junior Hockey League.

Chris Couper and Spencer Barlow-Lakusta each had a goal and an assist for the Bisons, while Tiaan Anderson had the lone Wranglers goals.

Kyle Baumgarner stopped 36 shots for Blackfalds, which finished first in the North Division. Okotoks was assessed nine of 15 minor penalties.

Meanwhile, the Red Deer Vipers traveled to Banff for their final regular-season game and were doubled 6-3 by the Bears.

Justin Corbett, Ryan Thomson and Jonathan Finnigan scored for the Vipers, who blew a 3-2 lead by giving up four unanswered goals in the third period.

Anthony Hamill made 34 saves for the visitors, who held a 42-38 edge in shots.

The Vipers finished fourth in the North Division and will face the fifth-place Three Hills Thrashers in a best-ofthree survivor series starting Wednesday at 8:15 p.m. at the Arena. The second game will go Friday at 8 p.m. in Three Hills and a third game, if needed, will be played Saturday at the Arena, with an 8 p.m. start.

In other Sunday contests, the Thrashers rolled over the host Coaldale Copperheads 8-2 and the visiting Ponoka Stampeders were steamrolled 9-1 by the Medicine Hat Cubs.

Connor Ablett and Kelby Stevens each sniped two goals for Three Hills, with Tyler Newsham, Lucas Jones, Cameron Braun and Cody Phillips also scoring. Thrashers goalie Brady Hoover made 34 saves as the hosts were outshot 3936.

At Medicine Hat, the host Cubs were seven-for-11 on the power play in their rout of the Stampeders, whose lone goal came off the stick of Ryan Strome.

Ponoka netminders Brody Thomas and Nathaniel Nickel combined to make 30 saves as the Cubs held a 39-24 advantage in shots.

In other weekend games: ● The Vipers dropped an 8-5 decision to the High River Flyers Saturday at the Arena, getting two goals from Matthew Thiessen and one from each of Corbett, Avery Weenink and Nick Glackin in a losing cause.

Hamill and Klay Munro combined to make 26 saves for Red Deer, which outshot High River 35-34. ● Three Hills was a 2-1 loser to the Mountainview Colts Saturday at Didsbury.

Michael Stoetzel scored the only Thrashers goal, while Hoover made 37 saves for the visitors. ● The Stettler Lightning, with Dylan Houston and Scott Ternes each supplying two goals, nipped the visiting Airdrie Thunder 5-4 Saturday.

Kyler O’Connor had the other goal for the Lightning, who finished second in the North, Jeff Skaley stopped 20 shots for the win. ● Ponoka was blanked 4-0 by host Coaldale in another Saturday outing. Adam Weersink stopped 39 shots for the shutout and Stamps goalie Eli Falls blocked 31. ● The Thrashers got a two-goal performance from Lucas Jones in a 6-2 defeat of Blackfalds Friday at Three Hills.

Rounding out the Three Hills attack with a goal apiece were Ablett, Braun, Russell Olsen and Tyrel Severtson. Anderson and Chance Abbott replied for the Wranglers.

Hoover blocked 47 shots for the win, while Conner Zenchuk and Thomas Isaman combined to make 30 saves for Blackfalds. ● Corbett and Glackin connected for Red Deer Friday in a 4-2 loss to the host Flyers in the first half of a home-andset.

Hamill made 27 saves for the Vipers. Each team registered 31 shots.

final two seasons.

“When I first started with the team I was in science and thought I’d play two years and that would be that,” she said.

“But as it turned out this is my second home. RDC has been great to me and I’ll continue to follow the team, even if I’m not coaching.”

Rutz has invited Salomons back as a coach next season and it seems she’s leaning that way.

“I’ll be in nursing for at least two more years and (returning) is definitely on my mind. I know part of me wants to stick around.”

Salomons would have liked her career extended for a few more games, but was pleased with the way the team went out.

“The outcome wasn’t how I would have liked, but we could have come in down (after Friday’s loss) and shut it down, especially after getting down 2-0. But we fought thought it and it could have went either way. It would have been nice to win, but it was OK the way we played.”

Rutz is certainly sorry to see Salomons’ career come to an end.

“You talk about consistency, Laura was a model of consistency, She never took a game off, never took a shift off.

She was a great leader and I have a lot of respect for her.

Whatever she does in life she will be good at it because she gets it.

“I leaned a lot on her this year as this was my first year

coaching female hockey and I would love to have her return as a coach. I know one thing if all 20 players played like her we wouldn’t be having this conversation now.”

Salomons isn’t the only player to go next season as it’s expected Trautman and forward Jade Petrie may be leaving, possibly both to university.

“We will have a good core back and I’m exited about next year. We’re just confirming some of the commitments.

The girls we’re talking to have speed and have a go-hard style which is what we want to play.” ● Diachuk finished with 41 saves while Trautman made 29. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Chiefs drop last game to finish second in Alberta Midget Hockey League

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Storm 2 Chiefs 1 If the Alberta Midget Hockey League championship eventually comes down to home ice advantage the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs may be wishing they didn’t let one get away against the Grande Prairie Storm.

The Storm, who finished seventh in the Northern Division and out of the playoffs, recorded a 2-1 victory over the Chiefs Sunday afternoon at the Arena, which left the Red Deer crew in second place overall, back of Northern Division champion Leduc.

The Chiefs finished first in the South with 50 points, one back of Leduc.

“Whatever happens it’s already happened and we can’t do anything about it,” said Chiefs head coach Doug Quinn. “We have the team that can play against any team in the league and can play in any rink and be capable of having a lot of success.”

But Quinn wasn’t pleased with what he saw Sunday.

“A little disappointed in the effort today,” he said. “Sometimes with kids this age they start looking at the standings and think games will be a little easier than they are. They (Storm) played with team work and determination and blocked a tonne of shots. And when things don’t go well at times we start to panic a bit and the whole struc-

MINOR HOCKEY Minor Midget AAA The Red Deer Aero Equipment Chiefs tied the Calgary Blackhawks in their only game of the weekend.

Louis Leclerc scored three times for the Chiefs with Landon Siegle potting a pair and Ryan Vandervlis one.

Meanwhile, the Red Deer Northstar Chiefs tied the Calgary Rangers 5-5 Saturday and lost 2-0 to the Rockyview Raiders Sunday — both games were on the road. Luke Coleman Reed Engman, Braden Olsen, Matthew Froehlick and Gerrit Verhoeven scored against the Rangers with Lane Congdon making 23 saves. Reid Money stopped 18 shots against the Raiders.

Midget AA James Gaume and Matt Krusky each notched two goals to lead the Red Deer Indy Graphics Chiefs to an 8-1 thumping of Airdrie.

Michael Pruss, Brett Marsollier, Braydon Bark-

ture breaks down. There was some of that today.

“But really throughout the year there are no easy games. If you think there will be it never happens. Even when you have a team with more depth it boils down to work ethic, commitment and focus. When you don’t have that anything can happen.”

The Chiefs finished with 36 shots on Grande Prairie netminder Brandon Bilodeau, but many of those, especially in the third period, were from the outside. Although Bilodeau did stop Ross Heidt on a breakaway early in the final frame.

Jared McAmmond opened the scoring for the Storm at 9:40 of the first period with Nolan Yaremko making bit 2-0 at 10:48. Chase Olsen narrowed the gap in the second period.

“Jayden Sittler finish with 11 saves for the Chiefs, who have a bye in the first round of the playoffs.

“Our goal at the beginning of the year was to finish first in the south and get that bye,” said Quinn, whose squad wrapped up first in the south with a 6-3 win over the Edmonton Maple Leafs Saturday.

Jordie Lawson had two goals against the Leafs with singles added by Quentin Greenwood, Trey deGraaf, Heidt and Tyler Steenbergen. Layne Bensmiller had three assists.

Cole Sears started in goal and allowed three second-period goals while finishing with three saves. Sittler made three saves in the third period. The Chiefs had 53 shots. drode@reddeeradvocate.com er and Tayler Sincennes also scored for the winners, while Chris Preston made 17 saves.

Indy Graphics also hammered the Cranbrook Knights 16-2 as Pruss, Barker and Anthony Neurauter each fired three goals, Matt Krusky netted a pair and Gaume, Reid Sterling, Lane Sim, Declan Johnston and Logan Linnell each sniped one.

Preston made 15 saves as the Chiefs dominated the shot clock to the count of 87-17.

Major bantam girls The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs skated to a 3-1 win Sunday to complete a weekend sweep of the host Lloydminster Ice Cats.

Skylar Colonna scored twice and Kaylee Sawchuk had a single goal for the Chiefs, who spotted the Ice Cats a 1-0 lead midway through the first period. Chantelle Sandquist was sharp in the Red Deer net with 27 saves as the visitors held a 30-28 edge in shots.

The Chiefs took Saturday’s series opener 3-2 as Sandquist blocked 24 shots and Colonna, Carley Wald and Kaitlin Linnell provided the Red Deer goals. The Chiefs outshot their hosts 32-26.

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TUESDAY, FEB. 18, 2014

The art of passion and hard work HUMPHRIES EYEING SECOND GOLD MEDAL IN TWO-MAN BOBSLED

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — She’s covered in tattoos, each of their details, colours and designs representing a person or event that has shaped Kaillie Humphries’ life.

A self-portrait on skin, her body of work.

The ink — one of her tats flows from the waist to her toe — accentuates her muscular physique and gives those who don’t know Humphries the idea that she’s some Canadian biker chick with a bad attitude.

“Please,” says her brakeman, Heather Moyse. “All of those tattoos symbolize the softer side of Kaillie. There’s not one skull on there.”

With a heart as golden as the medal she won four years ago in Vancouver, Humphries has a chance to make her own permanent mark in the Olympic record books as the first woman to win consecutive titles in two-man bobsled.

She begins the quest Tuesday, when women’s bobsled begins two days of competition on the Sanki Sliding Center track.

If the World Cup season and training runs the past few days are any indication, Humphries and USA-1 driver Elana Meyers will duke it for the top spot. It’s been that way for months.

Humphries won the World Cup title over Meyers of Douglasville, Ga., by one point, adding fuel to a friendly rivalry between two women who have become good friends.

Ask Meyers about Humphries, and before saying one word, she smiles.

“She’s one of the people I admire most in this sport,”

Meyers said following a training run with brakeman Lauryn Williams of Rochester, Pa. “She genuinely does not care what other people think about her. It’s awesome. She goes out there and is uniquely herself every single time, every single run.”

A former push athlete, Humphries is intense and driven — all the great ones are. She never settles, never walks away from anything without feeling satisfied. If it’s a race, then by gosh, it’s hers to win.

Humphries and Meyers trained together last summer, the pair even sharing the same room for a few days.

Humphries pushed Meyers and Meyers pushed back. Now, they’ll go at it again, this time with their sport’s biggest prize up for grabs.

The Canadian and the American, head to head. May the best woman win.

“Every athlete is going to have a rival,” Humphries said.

“Elana and I knew that going into this year, which is part of why we decided to train together. She knows, as well as I do, we’re really the only two people who can push each other to continuously get better. It was not an easy decision, and it’s not one most people would make, training with your No. 1 competitor.”

Yes, their time together made them stronger athletes, better drivers. But it also gave each an appreciation of the other, pulling them as close as teammates, just under different flags.

“We have become really good friends,” Humphries said.

“Both her and I are very similar in mannerisms and our abilities to put business on one

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Canada’s overall world cup winner Kaillie Humphries, right, and Heather Moyse pose with the trophy after the two-woman Bobsled World Cup race in Koenigssee, southern Germany, Jan. 26. side and personal stuff in the other. I respect that about her and I hope she does with me, and I think that’s how we’re able to be competitors and rivals and still be friends.”

Under intense pressure on her home course in 2010, Humphries and Moyse — they once competed for the same spot on Canada’s team with Moyse beating out Humphries — put together four solid runs on Whistler’s treacherous track and delivered Canada a gold medal.

Of course, Humphries commemorated the win with a trip to the tattoo parlour, adding a few more pieces to her artistic epidermal biography.

Belarus biathlete makes history while teammates sweep skiing aerials EVENT ROUNDUP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SOCHI, Russia — It was Belarus day Monday at the Sochi Olympics.

A Belarussian woman made Olympic history by becoming the first female ever to win three biathlon titles at the same games, and one of her teammates captured the men’s freestyle skiing aerials competition to complete a goldmedal sweep on the event.

Anton Kushnir nailed a near-perfect landing after a “back double full-fulldouble full” jump — five twists packed into three head-over-heels flips while soaring 50 feet off the ramp and into the night sky.

“It was the best jump I’ve ever witnessed in person,” said 18-year-old American Mac Bohonnon, who finished fifth.

Darya Domracheva won her third biathlon title when she left a field of elite racers far behind to capture gold in the 12.5-kilometre mass start. As she neared the finish line, she waved her right pole above her head in celebration.

“Maybe it’s strange, but I don’t feel like I’ve done something special,” Domracheva said. “I just tried to enjoy myself and I did my race with a laugh.

But for sure, it’s amazing.”

The race was in doubt earlier as dense fog forced postponement of the men’s mass start race and the men’s snowboardcross competition. It lifted just in time for the women’s race and Domracheva’s history-making performance.

Indoors, American pair Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the gold in figure skating’s ice dance, finishing just ahead of longtime training partners and rivals Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada. And Germany won the men’s team ski jumping gold, raising its games-leading total to eight.

BIATHLON: Domracheva won the pursuit and individual biathlon races last week. She took the lead for the first time after four minutes and stayed

ahead of the field after the first shooting. Gabriela Soukalova of the Czech Republic took silver and Tiril Eckhoff of Norway bronze.

BOBSLED: Russia’s winning twoman bobsled had Alexander Zubkov driving and Alexey Voevoda as the brakeman. The Swiss team of Beat Hefti and Alex Baumann took silver, and the U.S. bronze, with Steven Holcomb driving and Steven Langton as brakeman. It was the first two-man bobsled medal for the U.S. in more than a half century.

FREESTYLE SKIING: Alexei Grishin won Belarus’ first ever gold medal in Vancouver four years ago — also in the men’s aerials. Afterwards, he got his picture on a stamp back home.

On Monday, he failed to qualify in the aerials. Belarus now has five golds in Sochi. Australia’s David Morris finished 24 points behind Kushnir to win silver; China’s Jia Zongyang took the bronze.

FIGURE SKATING: Davis and White began skating together in 1997, and on the biggest day of their career, they were nearly flawless. The American pair won the silver in Vancouver in 2010, while their Canadian rivals won the gold. The two pairs train together in Detroit and are both coached by Marina Zoueva.

SKI JUMPING: Germany’s win in the team event ended Austria’s winning streak. It had won gold in the last two Olympics and hasn’t lost a team large hill event since the 2005 world championships. Germany’s team included Andreas Wank, Marinus Kraus, Andres Wellinger and Severin Freund.

Austria took silver and Japan won the bronze.

ICE HOCKEY: Megan Bozek and Brianna Decker each had a goal and two assists to help the United States beat Sweden 6-1. The U.S. has medaled in every Winter Games since women’s hockey was added in 1998. Canada, the three-time defending gold medallist , beat Switzerland 3-1 to advance to the final for the fifth consecutive Olympics. The two North American powers have met for three of the previous four championships.

MEN’S CURLING

China reaches playoffs with win over Britain SOCHI, Russia — The curling world has been waiting for years for China’s men’s team to fulfil its rich potential.

It just might happen at the Sochi Olympics.

The Chinese finally made a

breakthrough at international level by beating Britain 6-5 in a winner-takes-all last game of the round robin to reach the Olympic semifinals on Monday.

China skip Liu Rui, arguably the star player in the tournament so far, thrust his clenched right fist into the air when his rock settled in the

She got a replica of the gold medal on her back and shoulder, the date of the race on her right arm and a bobsled coming through a maple leaf on her leg.

Those works have company with the portraits of her parents on her right arm and a memorial work to her grandparents on her left leg with the words “Because you love me” written in Icelandic, honouring her heritage.

There’ pressure again, but it’s not the same.

Humphries may be more relaxed, which maybe makes her more dangerous. While much of the pre-race focus has been on three fast, BMW-engineered

American sleds with track celebrity-turned-sledder Lolo Jones pushing USA-3, experts believe Humphries is the one they’ll have to catch.

She doesn’t disagree.

“It could be my race to win or lose, but it’s anyone’s race to win or lose,” she said. “We don’t go head to head. Once you’re on the track, that’s your time and everybody should look at it that way.”

History awaits her.

And if she makes it, Humphries has already considered a proper tattoo — or two.

“I have some ideas for sure,” she said. “But I don’t know what’s going to happen.”

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW SOCHI, Russia — Five things to know from Day 11 of the Sochi Olympics: SILVER SWAN SONG — Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir’s Olympic farewell was flawless but not golden. The Canadian ice dancing pair won silver behind American rivals Charlie White and Meryl Davis. Virtue and Moir won gold at the 2010 Vancouver Games.

Davis and White meanwhile are the sport’s first American champions.

PERFECT SO FAR — Jennifer Jones has herself in the Olympic history book without having even won a medal. The Winnipeg skip’s 9-4 victory over South Korea makes her the first woman to go through the curling round robin undefeated. Jones finished a flawless 9-0 and will now look ahead to the semifinals against Britain. Canada’s Kevin Martin is the only other curler to stay perfect in the round robin, which he did four years ago in Vancouver.

SURPRISE FINAL — Just kidding, no surprise here. Canada will play the United States for women’s hockey

WOMEN’S CURLING

Jones wraps up round-robin with perfect record SOCHI, Russia — Jennifer Jones’ Olympic experience has been, well, perfect.

“It’s been everything we expected and then some,” the Winnipeg skip said. “It’s blown my dreams out of the water.

“We’ve gone to events, we’ve had fun, we’ve soaked up the experience, we’ve met the other athletes, we’ve cheered on our other teammates.

We’ve laughed, we’ve loved everything absolutely possible, done everything with the Olympics. I don’t want it to end, we don’t want it to end.”

Jones, lead Dawn McEwen, second Jill Officer and third Kaitlyn Lawes have also won nine games in a row, making history in the process.

They dispatched South Korea 9-4 Monday to become the first women’s team to go through an Olympic roundrobin campaign undefeated.

“Just to be at the Olympics is amazing,” said Jones. “And to go into the record books is pretty awesome.

“We’ll take that one, but at the end of the day we want to be on the podium

button for the winning point in the 10th end.

Given his statistics over the past week in Sochi — he’s shooting at 88 per cent accuracy— it was never really in doubt.

“The Chinese guy was on fire there,” Britain skip David Murdoch said of Liu. “It is tough when you are up against a skip who is making everything.”

The defeat bumped the British into a tiebreaker against

gold yet again. Natalie Spooner scored twice as Canada advanced with a 3-1 win over Switzerland. That sets up the fourth Olympic meeting between the two rivals since the sport’s inclusion in 1998. Canada has won three consecutive golds.

BUMPY RIDE — A couple bounces off the wall ended the possibility for a Canadian medal in the two-man bobsled. Justin Kripps and Bryan Barnett started the day in fourth but errors on their final run dropped them to sixth.

Kripps and Barnett were hoping for more after winning a World Cup event earlier this year. Russians Alexey Voevoda and Alexander Zubkov took gold.

REF RAGE — Hockey doesn’t just get fans riled up in Canada. Russians are demonstrating in Moscow after the men’s hockey team had a goal disallowed by officials during Saturday’s shootout loss to the United States. Video review held up the call but that hasn’t satisfied the mob. so that’s definitely the goal.”

Canada’s Kevin Martin, who did it four years ago in Vancouver, is the only other curler to go through the preliminary round undefeated.

“The job is certainly not done yet but I’m super proud of our team for being able to do that, in a field that we thought coming in was one of the toughest fields,” said Officer.

Canada will face Britain (5-4) while Sweden (7-2) takes on Switzerland (5-4) in Wednesday’s semifinals.

“Now you start fresh,” said Jones.

“And everyone’s on an even record.”

Canada beat the Brits 9-6 during the round-robin.

While Jones’ curling trophy case is brimming with trophies, she has had to wait a long time to experience the Olympics.

She failed to secure an Olympic berth in both 2006 and 2010. Shannon Kleibrink won bronze in 2006 in Turin while Cheryl Bernard earned silver four years ago in Vancouver.

Canada has not won a women’s curling gold at the Games since the late Sandra Schmirler did it in 1998 in Nagano. So far, so good for Jones in her Olympic debut.

“We’ve been very consistent,” she said. “We’ve had a couple of games where we weren’t as sharp but still consistent and making the big shots when we have to.”

Norway, which lost 5-3 to Denmark to miss out on advancing directly to the playoffs.

Sweden and Canada already had qualified on Sunday.

The tiebreaker will be played Tuesday.

Liu has been part of a China rink that has been on the circuit for the past decade. The players’ technique and dedication has never been in question but their strategy and biggame temperament certainly

has, making them fall short in the top tournaments.

In their first appearance at an Olympics — in Vancouver in 2010 — the Chinese placed eighth, and they have never made the podium at a world championship.

The transformation from underachievers to gold-medal contenders can be put down in large part to the hiring of Canadian curling great Marcel Rocque for the final year of the Olympic cycle.

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Shooting the lights out in the Big Easy EASTERN CONFERENCE OVERCOMES DURANT, GRIFFIN TO PULL OUT VICTORY IN HIGHEST-SCORING NBA ALL-STAR GAME EVER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — From the first play to the final minute, LeBron James and Kyrie Irving made it clear how the East felt about this All-Star game.

“We took this one personal a bit,” Irving said.

Irving had 31 points and 14 assists and was voted the MVP, Carmelo Anthony made a record eight 3-pointers and scored 30 points, and the East stopped a three-game losing streak with a 163-155 victory over the West on Sunday night in the highest-scoring All-Star game ever.

Fed up with losing the midseason game and tired of the East being picked on for its mediocrity this season, James had a steal and dunk on the first possession, long before defence usually shows up in the All-Star game.

“We wanted this win,” James said. “They beat us the last three years and they had a lot of bragging rights, so to be able to come through being down 18 was huge.”

Kevin Durant and Blake Griffin each finished with 38 points, four shy of Wilt Chamberlain’s All-Star game record, for the West. But the East scored the final 10 points to pull out a game it trailed by 18.

“They started making shots and we didn’t get stops and we went a little bit cold,” said Griffin, who shot 19 of 23, setting a record for field goals made.

Irving scored 15 points in the fourth quarter. James had 22 points, seven rebounds and seven assists.

The 318 points broke the record of 303 set in 1987.

Durant finished with 10 rebounds and six assists, but the West was shut out after his 3-pointer gave it a 155-153 lead with 1:59 left. Indiana’s Paul George made three free throws, Anthony nailed his final 3-pointer, and James scored to make it 161-155.

George closed it out with two

more free throws and finished with 18 points.

“Both teams played extremely well, we just lost,” Durant said.

The game that usually doesn’t get tight until the final minutes was close throughout the fourth quarter, neither team leading by more than four until the final minute.

Chris Paul had 11 points and 13 assists, and first-time All-Star Stephen Curry had 12 points and 11 assists for the West. But the best point guard on the floor was Irving, who shot 14 of 17 and helped the East ring up 87 points in the second half after it surrendered a record 89 in the first.

In a colorful tribute to New Orleans, players wore sneakers and socks that ranged from green and blue to orange and purple, making the game look like a Mardi Gras parade.

The parade was one of layups and dunks for the West, which scored 44 points in the first quarter and 45 in the second. Griffin had 18 points in the first quarter and Durant had 22 at halftime, both two shy of records set by Glen Rice in 1997.

And there was plenty of music, the rosters and starting lineups introduced around a concert by Pharrell Williams, who was joined by his own AllStars in Nelly, Busta Rhymes, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Snoop Dogg.

Magic Johnson led a band, too, encouraging the All-Stars to join him in singing “Happy Birthday” after the first quarter to Hall of Famer Bill Russell, the NBA’s greatest champion who was celebrating his 80th.

The All-Stars played better than they sang.

The East finished with 61 per cent shooting, needing all sorts of offence after it simply couldn’t defend Durant and Griffin.

Durant made six 3-pointers and raised his career scoring average in the All-Star games to a record 30.6 points.

Outside of the ugly sleeved jerseys, it was a good look for

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West Team’s Kevin Durant, of the Oklahoma City Thunder heads to the hoop against Team East during the NBA All Star basketball game, Sunday, in New Orleans. the NBA’s midseason showcase, bouncing back strongly from an uneven All-Star Saturday night.

The new format of the slam dunk contest Saturday wasn’t a hit, but every night is a dunk contest when Griffin is involved.

The guy who once jumped over a car to win a slam dunk contest had eight slams in the first 11 minutes, the backboard often barely done shaking from the last one when he threw down the next.

Durant made a 3-pointer

with 26 seconds left to make it 89-76 at the break, one point better than he and the West had two years ago in Orlando.

He and Griffin each had 30 points by the end of the third quarter, but the East trimmed what was a West 18-point lead to 126-123 after three.

James Harden started for the West in place of Kobe Bryant, who was elected by the fans but was knocked out by a broken left knee. Bryant said before the game his recovery is “coming slowly” but hopes to be back in another All-Star

game.

With Bryant sitting out and longtime regulars Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett not selected, it was a chance for the younger guys to make their mark. The rosters were loaded with players 25 and younger, including first-time starters George, Irving, Stephen Curry and Kevin Love.

DeMar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors made his first All-Star game appearance, and had eight points in his 15 minutes of playing time for the East.

Big games on tap as NBA resumes today

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — LeBron James won’t assume the eventual date with Indiana that so many others expect.

He definitely has another one with Kevin Durant — in just a few days.

The NBA’s two best players went their separate ways after the East’s 163-155 victory over the West in Sunday’s NBA All-Star game, but only temporarily. They will be back on the same floor Thursday in Oklahoma City, perhaps even joined by Russell Westbrook.

Less than two months will remain in the regular season when play resumes Tuesday, with so much still to sort out in the loaded Western Conference.

Things seem so much simpler in the East, where a Miami-Indiana matchup in the Eastern Conference finals has seemed a certainty since the opening weeks of the season — except to James.

“This is more than a two-team race. There’s a lot of good teams in the Eastern Conference,” he said.

“It’s been a slow start for us as a whole, but there’s so many good teams, you can’t just count on us and one other team. I respect every team we go against.”

Miami went into the break 2 ½ games behind Indiana, with third-place Toronto having 10 more losses than the Heat. The Pacers lost Game 7 of the East finals in Miami last June, and they want home-court

advantage if — when? — the teams meet again this spring.

The Heat are interested in it too, though only to a point.

“What matters more is that we’re healthy. We’re going to compete for first place of course, but we’re not going to make it this huge thing,” Chris Bosh said.

“We’re within striking distance, 2 ½ back. We like our chances.”

The Thunder finally opened a little cushion atop the West with their strong finish to the first half, winning their final three games to take a four-game lead over injury-plagued San Antonio, the defending conference champion. Houston, the Los Angeles Clippers and Portland are all six games behind.

Durant is the NBA’s leading scorer and has a good chance to end James’ reign as the league’s MVP. The Thunder could get even stronger when Westbrook returns from knee surgery, perhaps even Thursday in their first game after the break.

Durant scored 38 points in the All-Star game and has been unstoppable even in games where there is defence, averaging 31.5 points. He had 33 in the Thunder’s 112-95 victory in Miami last month, but scoring is only part of what he’s done to help Oklahoma City to a league-best 43-12 record even with only 25 games from Westbrook.

“KD is a great player. He’s a great teammate. He does all the things that we have asked,” Thunder coach Scott Brooks said.

“He doesn’t want to be just a scorer. He wants to be a playmaker, a defender and that’s what he’s done all season for us.”

The trade deadline also is Thursday. The Heat and Pacers have perhaps already made their moves with the signings of centres Greg Oden and Andrew Bynum, but other contenders may seek the opportunity to make a deal they feel could position themselves to end the Heat’s quest for a third straight championship.

The Pacers believe they can do it. Paul George isn’t far from the James-Durant level, and a title would help him inch even closer.

“I want to be one of the best players to ever play in this league and be the best player in this league,” George said, “so it’s just taking every day to get better, every year to get better, and you know, I’m going to be at the top at some point.”

So many others have a chance heading into the stretch run.

The Clippers (Chris Paul and Blake Griffin), Rockets (Dwight Howard and James Harden) and Trail Blazers (LaMarcus Aldridge and Damian Lillard) all have All-Star duos, and don’t forget the Spurs, who were less than a half-minute from finishing off the Heat last June.

“We definitely have the tools, we definitely have the team,” Tony Parker said of his team, which has been playing without Manu Ginobili and Kawhi Leonard. “We’ll be in the mix as long as we stay healthy.”

Watson relies on great golf, not ‘Bubba’ golf, to win Northern Trust

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — This had all the trappings of “Bubba” golf.

Bubba Watson began the final round of the Northern Trust Open four shots out of the lead, and he promptly hit his tee shot on the easy par-5 opening hole at Riviera into the trees well right of the fairway. With just enough of a gap in the trees, he hooked a 7-iron through the limbs and onto the green for a birdie.

It was vaguely reminiscent of his last win nearly two years ago at the Masters, when he hooked a wedge out of the trees in a playoff and onto the 10th green to claim the green jacket and introduce the world to what he called “Bubba” golf.

What he needed Sunday at Riviera was great golf, and that’s what he delivered.

Watson made the cut on Friday with one shot to spare, and then was practically flawless. He played the entire weekend — and the last 39 holes of the tournament — without a bogey. He shot a 64 on Saturday to give himself hope, and then closed with a 64 on Sunday for a two-shot victory over Dustin Johnson.

It was the lowest closing round at this tournament in 28 years. And it gave Watson a victory just two weeks after he let one get away in the Phoe-

nix Open.

“My first win since the Masters,” Watson said. “You never know when your last win is going to be. My last win could have been the Masters, which would have been a great way to go out.

But winning here at Northern Trust is nice. I never felt down that I haven’t won yet, but just kept plugging along.

And somehow, it fell in my lap today.”

Johnson closed with a 66 for the second straight tournament and got the same result. His 66 last week at Pebble Beach left him one shot behind Jimmy Walker. His 66 on Sunday made him a runner-up again.

“When you shoot 14 under on the weekend, it’s tough to beat that,” Johnson said.

Watson, who finished at 15-under 269, had lost track of time. He didn’t realize it had been nearly two years and 41 tournaments since his last victory. A reminder came Sunday afternoon, after he birdied the 18th hole, and then walked up the steps to the clubhouse and saw his son, Caleb.

He was adopted shortly before Watson won the 2012 Masters. He was alone in his green jacket that day. This time, wife and son were at Riviera to watch a masterpiece.

“When I won the Masters, it was just me,” Watson said. “Family members were there, but not my wife and not my son, who was just adopted at that point, and now is two weeks away from being 2 years old. What a thrill. We’ll have some pictures with him and my wife and the trophy, so it’s nice.”

Watson wasn’t the only big winner.

Jason Allred, who went to college up the coast at Pepperdine, played bogey-free for a 68 and tied for third with Brian Harman, who also had a 68. Allred was a Monday qualifier, and this was his first regular PGA Tour event since he last had his card in 2008.

The tie for third was a career-best for the 33-year-old Allred. He earned $388,600, which is more than he had made in his entire career, which included two full seasons on the PGA

Tour. He now is exempt into the Honda Classic, which starts in two weeks — about the time his wife is due with their third child.

Watson won for the fifth time in his career, and he had to earn it. He ran off five birdies in eight holes, including a bunker shot he holed on the par-3 sixth from left of the green. He made up the four-shot deficit with that birdie, and then a 15-footer for birdie on the eighth allowed him to break out of a four-way tie for the lead.

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Found LINDQUIST July 4, 1939 - Feb. 12, 2014 Mr. Norman Albert Lindquist passed away with his Family by his side on Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at Bethany CollegeSide, Red Deer, Alberta.

Norman will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 49 years, Lorna, son, Alen (Teresa) Lindquist and grandsons, Brandon and Justin, daughter, Carol (Leonard) Walter and granddaughters, Jennessa and Melissa, sister, Marion (Leon) Layden and family, sister-inlaw, Fern Lindquist and family, as well as numerous nieces, nephews, family and friends.

Norman was predeceased by his Mother, Annie, Father, Neil and a brother, Ernest.

Relatives and Friends are invited to pay their respects at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer on Tuesday, February 18, 2014 between the hours of 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. A Funeral Service for Norman will be held at the Westlock and District Community Hall, 10711 - 104th Avenue, Westlock, Alberta on Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. with Merlin Affleck and Mildred Lindquist officiating.

Interment will follow at the Mellowdale Community Cemetery. If desired, Memorial Donations in Norman’s Honor may be made directly to Parkinson Alberta, 5406D 43rd Street, Red Deer, Alberta, T4P 1C9. Condolences may be sent or viewed at: www.parklandfuneralhome.com Service and Interment Arrangements in care of Gary Anderson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, 403.340.4040.

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McARTHUR Henry David WALLET, 3 fold style FOUND by North Henry David McArthur passed Walmart. No ID in it. away on February 7, 2014 at 403-343-2387 the age of 61 years. He was Please call to identify born July 22, 1952 in Trochu, AB to Anne and Jack McArthur. Henry was raised on the family farm west of Personals Trochu. While in school in ALCOHOLICS Trochu, he was also involved ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 in 4H, baseball and hockey You can sell your guitar as Henry very much enjoyed for a song... the competition and the team put it in CLASSIFIEDS play. Later in life, he got orand we’ll sell it for you! involved in Poker tournaments too at which he became quite COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 skilled and successful. Henry worked two summers off the farm after high school in construction, but returned to wegot the farm where he worked and spent the rest of his life.

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Corvette cars and a good 403-505-7846 poker tournament now and then. Henry was predeceased by his father, Jack in 1985; his wife, Diana and his step- Farm Work daughter, Bridget Galay in 2007; and by his mother, VFA Pork needs a full time Anne in 2011. Henry leaves swine technician. Breeding, farrowing, finishing duties. to mourn his sister, Gailanne 15 min. West of Lacombe.

(George) Cambridge; nieces, Wages starting at $12, Melissa (Darren) Pearson no experience necessary.

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STUART Russell Hinds Mar. 8, 1917 - Feb.12, 2014 Peacefully, with members of his family by his side, Russ passed away on Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at the Lacombe Hospital and Care Centre. He is survived by his three children, Dianne (Guy), Gary (Maxine), Hal (Coreen) and their families. A Memorial Service to Celebrate Russ’ life will be held on Friday, March 7, 2014, at 1:00 p.m. at the Elks Hall, Red Deer, AB. We would be very honoured to have our family and friends share this day with us. A more detailed obituary to follow.

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BLISH Hugh It is with hearts full of treasured memories that we announce the passing of Hughie Blish on February 13, 2014, at the age of 80.

Hughie will be forever missed by his loving family; special friend Lisa, three daughters, Brenda(Jim), Bev, Bonny (Chris): three sons Hugh (Kathy) Ted (Sonya), Bradley (Jackie); 17 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, niece Sherry, nephew John, and other relatives and friends.

Hughie was predeceased by Joyce Blish, an infant son Billy, his parents Gene and Sylvia Blish, and 3 brothers; Gene, Norman and Clifford.

Thank-you to the dedicated staff of the Red Deer Hospice for the wonderful care. A Life Celebration Service will be held at the Bentley Community Church Wednesday February 19 at 1pm. Interment will follow in the Bentley Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Ave., Red Deer, AB. T4R 3S6.

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TAYLOR Louise Ann Taylor of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully on February 11, 2014 at the age of 54. She is lovingly remembered by her husband Ken, son Cameron (Tanya), Cameron’s father, Todd, mother Audrey, brother James (Marjorie), nephew Patrick (Jay), sister Elaine (Rodge), niece Shanelle and nephew Sean.

Louise is predeceased by her father Lawrence. A Memorial Tea will be held at the Parkland Funeral Home at 6287- 67A Street (Taylor Drive) in Red Deer on Saturday, February 22, 2014 at 1:00 pm.

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403-597-3958 Cash Only AFFORDABLE Homestead Firewood REMINGTON 700 Heavy Spruce & Pine - Split Barrel 6mm Leupold 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 Scope $900. 403-347-6041 SPLITKEIN & TRAIL LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, TOURING Cross Country Skis. $25 each pair. tamarack, poplar.

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6 MO. NEAUTERED German Shepherd, black/tan to give away to acreage.

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Blown-in Attic Insulation Installer Exp’d Blown-In Attic Insulation Installers req’d, must have experience driving a 3 ton truck with van.

Duties: Install attic insulation into houses, shops and barns, etc., drive 3 ton trucks to and from job sites, maintain trucks and equipment.

Must know the proper RValues for blow-in insulation. If you are a Team player who is customer orientated, reliable and have your own transportation to and from work with a clean Class 5 driver’s license, please apply. We offer: 40+work week, benefits and safety program.

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3 bed, 2 bath home, 5 appl, $1450 + util, $1400 SD, N/P, N/S, PM 548 ~ 54 Olsen St ~ Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ www.simproperties .ca ~ Avail Mar. 1 Start your career!

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We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts: PRECAST INSTALLATION LABORERS CONCRETE FINISHERS CARPENTERS/ WOODWORKERS STEEL REINFORCEMENT LABORERS OVERHEAD CRANE OPERATORS GENERAL LABORERS Top wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

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We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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1. CEDA Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 2. Manpower 9:30 a.m. - Noon 3. Prime Boiler Alberta Works Centre 4. WorleyParsonsCord 5. Pacer Corporation 2nd Floor, First Red Deer Place 6. Clearstream Energy 4920 - 51 Street, Red Deer 7. Rykar Industries Ltd 8. Quinn Contracting Ltd Bring your resumé 9. Wolf Creek Metal Worx For more info, call 403-340-5353 10. Bar W Petroleum & Electric 11. Local 110-Assoc of Insulators 12. McElhanney Land Surveys Ltd 366001B20

Required Immediately The largest after market parts distributor in Canada is seeking a H.D. Parts person to join our experienced team in Red Deer.

This individual would require basic knowledge of the heavy-duty truck and trailer market with excellent knowledge of truck and trailer brake and suspension parts.

The individual would have to be able to work unsupervised in a fast paced environment. They should also possess customer service skills that would be used daily by phone and for walk in clients.

This position offers above average salary and is a full time position. We offer complete benefit package along with pension plan.

Please forward your resume to: Traction Heavy Duty 8045 Edgar Industrial Crescent Red Deer Ab T4P 3R2 OR FAX 403-342-7377 Email: jwojtaczka@uapinc.com

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Colombia’s military hit by second scandal

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Colombia’s military grappled Monday with its second big scandal in less than a month after an investigation into extrajudicial killings exposed high-level corruption and raised questions over its top commander’s commitment to human rights.

The deputy joint chief, Gen. Javier Rey, resigned Monday after the country’s leading newsmagazine, Semana, reported on what it called widespread kickbacks in multimillion-dollar military contracts.

But perhaps most damaging was its publication online of an audio recording in which Gen. Leonardo Barrero, the armed forces chief, is heard verbally maligning prosecutors’ investigations into the extrajudicial killings that have brought Colombia international reproach.

Soldiers were implicated in hundreds of such killings through 2008 — dubbed “false positives,” in which innocents were slain and presented as guerrillas who fell in combat.

The No. 2 official in Colombia’s prosecutor’s office, Jorge Perdomo, told reporters Monday that Semana’s story was based on recordings made as part of a false positives case that grew into the wider corruption investigation.

He said, without entering into details, that his office would decide “when it is appropriate to call in for questioning or interrogation the persons” mentioned in the recordings. Semana said multiple officers in different units had inflated costs and pocketed as much as 50 per cent of contracts’ values.

Semana offered just a few examples from the hundreds of hours of audio recordings made in 2012-13 that it said it obtained. A few items highlighted were harnesses and Kevlar gloves for an Army air assault unit.

The report did not accuse Ray, the former head of army aviation, of any specific wrongdoing. He said he was quitting to defend his honour. In one recording Semana published, the colonel it identifies as the corruption network’s co-ordinator discusses a helicopter part that Rey wanted.

In the most explosive recording, Barrero is heard telling the colonel, Robinson Gonzalez del Rio, that prosecutors’ probes into false positives are “a bunch of crap.” Barrero suggests that Gonzalez, who is in a military lockup facing criminal charges over the 2007 “false positives” killing of two men, mount a counterattack to discredit prosecutors.

Barrero said Sunday that he regretted making the remarks.

President Juan Manuel Santos said the allegations made in the Semana report were serious and would be investigated.

Barrero was not relieved of his command.

In one audio recording that raised eyebrows, Gonzalez is heard explaining to another man how he took a three-week family vacation in December 2012 when he was supposed to be confined to a military prison.

Semana said the army paid for his gasoline.

A separate investigation by Semana earlier this month alleged that a military spy ring had eavesdropped for 15 months on emails and text messages of government negotiators involved in peace talks with leftist rebels.

Critics said the spying could undermine rebel confidence in the peace process.

Leftist congressman Ivan Cepeda said Monday that the two scandals highlight a complete lack of control over the military by Defence Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon, whom he called on to resign.

Illegal eavesdropping has been common in Colombia in recent years, and a previous scandal over spying on journalists, judges and politicians led to the dismantling three years ago of the DAS domestic intelligence agency.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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File photo by ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this 2012 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, a high-speed camera captures the first full-energy shots from an electromagnetic launcher at a test facility in Dahlgren, Va. The Navy plans to deploy its first laser on a ship in 2014, and intends to test an electromagnetic rail gun prototype aboard a vessel within the following two years.

The Navy’s new destroyer, the Zumwalt, under construction at Bath Iron Works in Maine, is the only ship with enough electric power to run a rail gun. The stealthy ship’s gas turbine-powered generators can produce up to 78 megawatts of power. That’s enough electricity for a mediumsize city — and more than enough for a rail gun.

Technology from the three ships in that DDG-1000 series will likely trickle down into future warships, said Capt. James Downey, the program manager.

Engineers are also working on a battery system to store enough energy to allow a rail gun to be operated on warships currently in the fleet.

Both weapon systems are prized because they serve to “get ahead of the cost curve,” Ziv said.

In other words, they’re cheap.

Each interceptor missile aboard a U.S. Navy warship costs at least $1 million apiece, making it cost-prohibitive to defend a ship in some hostile environments in which an enemy is using aircraft, drones, artillery, cruise missiles and artillery, Thompson said.

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With a laser operating on about 30 kilowatts of electricity — and possibly three times that in the future — the cost amounts to a few dollars per shot, Thompson said.

The Star Wars analogy isn’t a bad one.

Just like in the movies, the Navy’s laser directs a beam of energy that can burn through a target or fry sensitive electronics. Unlike the movie, the laser beam is invisible to the human eye.

The targeting system locks onto the target, sending a beam of searing heat. “You see the effect on what you are targeting but you don’t see the actual beam,” Ziv said. Other nations are developing their own lasers, but the Navy is more advanced at this point.

Most folks are stunned to learn the technology is ready for deployment, Ziv said.

“It’s fair to say that there are other countries working on this technology. That’s safe to say. But I would also say that a lot of what makes this successful came from the way in which we consolidated all of the complexity into something that can be operated by (a single sailor),” he said.

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BATH, Maine — Some of the Navy’s futuristic weapons sound like something out of Star Wars, with lasers designed to shoot down aerial drones and electric guns that fire projectiles at hypersonic speeds.

That future is now.

The Navy plans to deploy its first laser on a ship later this year, and it intends to test an electromagnetic rail gun prototype aboard a vessel within two years.

For the Navy, it’s not so much about the whiz-bang technology as it is about the economics of such armaments. Both costs pennies on the dollar compared with missiles and smart bombs, and the weapons can be fired continuously, unlike missiles and bombs, which eventually run out.

“It fundamentally changes the way we fight,” said Capt. Mike Ziv, program manager for directed energy and electric weapon systems for the Naval Sea Systems Command.

The Navy’s laser technology has evolved to the point that a prototype to be deployed aboard the USS Ponce this summer can be operated by a single sailor, he said.

The solid-state Laser Weapon System is designed to target what the Navy describes as “asymmetrical threats.” Those include aerial drones, speed boats and swarm boats, all potential threats to warships in the Persian Gulf, where the Ponce, a floating staging base, is set to be deployed.

Rail guns, which have been tested on land in Virginia, fire a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound — enough velocity to cause severe damage. The Navy sees them as replacing or supplementing old-school guns, firing lethal projectiles from long distances.

But both systems have shortcomings.

Lasers tend to loser their effectiveness if it’s raining, if it’s dusty, or if there’s turbulence in the atmosphere, and the rail gun requires vast amount of electricity to launch the projectile, said Loren Thompson, defence analyst at the Lexington Institute.

“The Navy says it’s found ways to deal with use of lasers in bad weather, but there’s little doubt that the range of the weapon would be reduced by clouds, dust or precipitation,” he said.

Producing enough energy for a rail gun is another problem.

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Dear Annie: My sister’s husband assault, never apologized or tried to sexually assaulted my 18-year-old make amends, and blamed you and daughter while she slept on their sofa. your daughter for bringing it up. We We kept this a secret for three years, also don’t know whether her husband and then it finally came out. When has ever dealt with his drinking, which my sister heard, she decided to pro- is no excuse for attacking another pertect her children from the truth about son. their father by “divorcing” my family You will not get the support you deso we would not reveal the secret. She serve from your family. Either accept claimed her husband was “blacked-out what they offer or don’t. But please drunk” and therefore not responsible make sure your daughter is dealing for the assault. Because there was no with this in a healthy way. Contact intent (presumably), he wasn’t at fault.

RAINN (rainn.org) for information and That was four years ago. My sister’s help. sons are the same age as mine, and Dear Annie: My in-laws, whom I they used to spend many nights togeth- adore, do not have soap in their bather. To add salt to our wounds, the rest rooms. My husband and I take soap of my family supports her when we go to visit, but that decision. They no longer doesn’t change the fact that take my kids to her house no one else washes their or to her children’s birthhands after using the restday parties. They never room. They then proceed to tell us when my sister is at prepare meals that we are their home. They celebrate supposed to eat. We have holidays with her family tried sending decorative before visiting us. soap dispensers and asking My kids and I are com“Where’s the soap?” but pletely torn up over all of nothing changes. - Clean this and so deeply woundFreak ed, not only by the loss of Dear Clean: Everyone my sister’s family, but also should wash with soap by the lack of support from and water after using the MITCHELL the rest of them. I don’t unbathroom and especially derstand how my parents before preparing food. It & SUGAR and my other siblings could helps prevent the spread possibly support her deciof germs, some of which sion. Are we wrong to feel can be quite harmful. Have betrayed and abandoned? you asked your in-laws why We are about ready to wash they don’t wash properly? our hands of the lot of them, although If nothing changes, send them this letit isn’t what we want. ter and tell them that Annie says they My parents and siblings have told need to use soap before someone gets me that this is the “new normal” and sick, fer cryin’ out loud. that my family should be grateful for Dear Annie: Kudos to “Tapped Out” the times they see us instead of focus- for complaining about checkout line ing on the times when we aren’t in- panhandling. It’s happening nearly evcluded. It feels as if we are being pun- erywhere. Why should I have to deal ished because my daughter’s assault with solicitors when I just want to buy was “not that bad” and she wasn’t will- a hamburger? Management may think ing to shove it under the rug for the it makes their companies look good, rest of her life. - Open for Input but it causes me to go elsewhere until Dear Open: We understand that your the campaign is over. -- Already Give parents and siblings don’t want to lose 15 Percent to Charity contact with your sister by openly supAnnie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy porting you. They know she would cut Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ediall of them off. Instead, this is the ac- tors of the Ann Landers column. Please commodation they have made in order email your questions to anniesmailbox@ to have a relationship with everyone. comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, The real problem is that your sister c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, and her husband refuse to address the Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

ANNIE ANNIE

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Female Sumatra orangutan Matra holds her newborn cub at the Hellabrunn zoo in Munich, southern Germany. The cub was born on Jan. 31, 2014 and is yet unnamed. as may be, when it comes to disagreements try not to make a mountain out of a molehill.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You Tuesday, Feb. 18 are feeling quite self-assured when it CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jillian Michaels, 40; John Tra- comes to what you are worth. Similarly, you may be asking yourself whether volta, 60; Cybill Shepherd, 64 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Sun your personal objectives in life match enters the intuitive Pisces endowing with your true intentions. Assess your us with a highly creative and imagina- material requirements realistically tive month ahead. We will find our- without overstating your needs.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today you selves diving into the mystical realms appear radiant and sure of fantasy and imagination. of your motives. You are a A hands-on attitude doesn’t go-getter and it seems that work as well as our instincthere’s nothing stopping tive inclinations towards you from this positive atthe humankind. The Moon titude. Do not forget that in Gemini relates beautidespite your confidence, fully to the planet of abunshowing some humbleness dance, Jupiter. Confidence could really go a long way. and poise will win through.

CANCER (June 21-July HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If 22): The need to believe today is your birthday, the in something higher or forthcoming year will be searching for the purpose both a year of a concluding of your life is becoming cycle and one which promincreasingly important to ises you a loving and an afASTRO you. You are trying to dig fectionate time. You will get DOYNA into the hidden messages the sudden desire to commit in order to find out the yourself to someone or to truth. seek more receptivity and LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): understanding from others.

As buoyant and as forwardAs much as you might crave more solo time, be open to a new love. looking you may appear right now, cerKeep your eyes open if you do not want tain of your closest acquaintances may not agree with your goals. You sense a to miss on this amazing opportunity.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You disparity between the goals you once sense that your intuition develops at shared together. You are not on the deeper levels and that you are led by same wavelength.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are your gut instincts when it comes to decision-making. However, as certain feeling secure and confident of your

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standing in your professional sphere.

However, demands from your superiors may be so high that you are feeling the need to sacrifice certain things in your personal life.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Pressure is mounting when you come to the realization that there is so much to do today and you have such little time.

Your agenda is full of tasks to be accomplished and you are overwhelmed by the volume of your work.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You might feel overly confident today and you might be tempted to push your luck today. Any types of investments or monetary dealings are neither clear nor obvious today. Avoid making bad monetary decisions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It is easy for you to relate to others today, especially in committed relationships. You wish the same could be felt when it comes to your parents. What you think is best for them might not

necessarily coincide with what they truly need.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You might seem lacking in harmony when it comes to your relationships with your relatives or they refuse to be more cooperative with during at this time. It turns out that you are the only one eager to reach mutual consent.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You have this tremendous desire to bring about a project that is dear to your heart. The downside is that you may realize that you don’t possess the means to actually carry it out.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are conscious of your direction in life and you feel very self-assured about your personal, emotive life. Down the road, you may come to the conclusion that your needs are not in accordance with your wants.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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