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Too close for comfort CLIMBING EVEREST IS DANGEROUS AT THE BEST OF TIMES, LET ALONE DURING A 7.8-MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF When a deadly earthquake hit Nepal in April, there were two Central Albertans on location, one attempting to climb Mount Everest, the other in a nearby village, they both had very different perspectives of this disaster.

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

Climbing the Khumbu Icefall on the Nepali slopes of Mount Everest is always dangerous — underline always.

Huge blocks of ice the size of a house regularly come crashing down. And don’t forget deadly crevasses that can open up with little warning or be hidden underfoot.

On April 25, former Red Deer MLA John Oldring and seven teammates were climbing that icefall to reach the Everest summit when the 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal.

Miraculously, all eight survived.

Oldring said three members had just safely climbed five ladders tied together to reach straight up to a plateau when an avalanche on nearby Mount Pumori hammered part of the icefall.

“You see these big clouds of snow and you hear all the rumbling. But you’re safe and it’s not an issue. That’s kind of how we felt. That was too close for comfort, but pretty cool,” said Oldring, 63, now a managing director with investment company BMO Nesbitt Burns in Calgary.

“Then all of a sudden it was followed by just massive amounts of ice and noise. We certainly felt lots of shaking. We just thought it was from the ice pounding down. Then it was a total whiteout so you can’t see anything. All you’re hearing is noise and snow and ice. It seemed to stop, the noise at least.

And all of a sudden there was just this blast of wind.

Just this massive amount of wind. For me, that moment just sent pure terror up my spine. Just pure fear. It’s like — What’s next?”

He said they thought it was just a huge avalanche and the wind was a backdraught from all the ice striking the bottom.

“The three above us were just screaming and yelling as soon as the noise stopped. They thought for sure we would have been crushed by all the stuff they could see dropping where we were. They were relieved to hear our voices.”

The team quickly made the decision to keep climbing as fast as possible.

“We had one climber who was probably very close to being in shock. But we knew we had to get out of the ice field and we knew it was closer to get to Camp One then try to go back.”

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ABOVE: John Oldring climbing Mount Everest.

LEFT: Oldring walked through the hardest hit portion of South Base Camp that was strewn with twisted wreckage.

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CLIMBER: Get through the icefall They left South Base Camp earlier that day.

He said the plan was always to get through the icefall as fast as possible. To avoid other teams on the route, they gave another team a three-hour head start.

“We didn’t want anyone slowing us up, over ladders, up ladders because the biggest defence that you have going through there is to get through it as quickly as you can.”

Four hours after they left base camp, they caught up with the other team. Instead of stopping to rest, Oldring’s team had a quick snack, some water, and climbed on.

“That probably saved our lives. The team we caught up to, we thought they were probably in a very bad spot. Fortunately for them, they turned around and had actually gone down.”

Oldring’s team estimated if they had been just 15 minutes slower, they would likely have been caught up in the avalanche of ice and snow.

They went on to reach Camp One and where they learned of the earthquake from other climbers.

People didn’t expect Oldring’s team to make it out of the icefall alive. A tweet had already gone out ‘pity the poor guys in the ice field.’

“They had already written our obituaries,” Oldring said.

But it was at base camp where tragedy struck. At least 22 people died and several injured.

The powerful wind that Oldring and his team felt was funnelled down to wipe out the middle of base camp.

He said top speed was estimated at 644 km per hour by world-renowned mountaineer David Breashears who investigated the impact of the earthquake.

“Most of the fatalities were head injuries. It wasn’t people being buried in snow. They were launched by the wind. They were literally picked up and thrown into rock. All of a sudden their tent was cartwheeling down the mountain.”

Oldring was eventually evacuated to base camp by helicopter with 90 other climbers from Camp One. He said guides had determined the icefall was passable, but for 90 people it would have been too slow and dangerous given the range of climbers’ skills.

His team spent a week at base camp where their tents were still standing because they has set up on the edge rather than the middle of the base. They also had a month’s supply of food and didn’t want to use up limited resources in Kathmandu where the airport had yet to reopen.

“The best thing we could do was stay out of the way.”

Before flying home, they took supplies to a charity for girls in Kathmandu.

Oldring, a Red Deer city councillor for 12 years and Progressive Conservative MLA for Red Deer South for seven years, said some climbers still suffer the occasional sleepless night having lived through the earthquake.

For him, it was a sobering rather than life-altering experience.

One young woman named Eve, who died at base camp, was a physician’s assistant he came to know during the trek to base camp.

She provided medical support for another team and reminded Oldring of his daughter who is a doctor.

“For me, that was probably the most devastating.

Up to then it was just numbers. Eve made it real, and personal, and very sad. Those of us climbing the mountain know we are signing up for an element of risk. Eve didn’t sign up for that. She signed up to be a support person.”

He said in some ways, mountain climbing is a very selfish activity.

“Obviously none of us want to cause grief or anguish to friends and family. Regrettably, I think we did cause more than our share of grief and angst for our families. For that I’m sorry. But I do love climbing mountains.”

Right after knocking the ice and snow off his gear from the avalanche in the icefall, he was excited to continue the climb.

“I had fun every time we got another ladder or crevasse to go over, or another section of ice to front point and jimmy up. For me, I was happy because we got to go climb again. I was happy everyone was safe and alive. The world seemed pretty good at that point.”

When they reached Camp One and learned of the earthquake, he was still optimistic and had faith

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ABOVE: John Oldring during his incredible adventure on Mount Everest.

BELOW: Oldring and his team were safe at Camp One the morning after the earthquake.

they would get off the mountain, even as aftershocks rattled their tents and avalanches rumbled in the distance.

“God didn’t bring us through that icefall to Camp One to kill us at Camp One. If we were going to die, we would have been dead already.”

Oldring said surviving the earthquake was his scariest moment ever on a mountain. But he intends to attempt Everest again, possibly in the spring.

“You hit that summit and you have a moment of pure joy. And then you just want to get off. You’ve just had enough of bad food, and cold weather, and

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wind, and snow and all that goes with it. Then you get back and it’s not long before you want to be on a mountain again.”

He said it’s hard for climbers to explain. For him, it’s about the tranquility, the challenge and the beauty of being on a mountain that he could never capture in a photo.

“No one gets to see what I just saw. Nobody gets to see, breath, smell and feel – all those emotions that you get to capture when you’re on the mountain. Only you get to capture them.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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‘Dementors’ stalk addicts in fentanyl crisis

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LEVERN — “Dementors” are leaving a trail of death and destruction on the sprawling Blood reserve in southwestern Alberta.

Dr. Susan Christenson uses the term — borrowed from the soul-consuming phantoms in the “Harry Potter” series — for the drug pushers she says will often wait outside her Levern Health Clinic trying to lure back patients attempting to escape fentanyl’s grasp.

“They’re like dark ghosts who are trying to trip you up. They’re trying to drag you back and take your soul and that’s what the addiction is,” says Christenson, a member of the band.

“You can’t do anything but feed the receptors in your brain. They show up at night, shake a bottle of pills in their face and will grind them up because most of the people will snort it like cocaine.”

The crystal-blue, snow-capped Rockies to the west and the silver ribbons of the Belly and Waterton rivers give the Blood reserve an idyllic appearance. But looks can be deceiving.

Canada’s largest reserve is on the front lines of a fentanyl epidemic that is sweeping across Western Canada.

Fentanyl, an opioid up to 100 times more powerful than heroin, is used as a painkiller for terminal cancer patients. But on the streets it has emerged as an Oxycontin replacement after that drug’s formula was changed to make it harder to abuse.

Fentanyl has been blamed in more than 650 deaths across Canada in the last six years. The problem is especially acute in Western Canada, where Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Alberta have all announced programs to distribute the antidote naloxone in take-home kits.

Ontario recently passed a private-member’s bill that forces people who take the drug through a skin patch to turn in their used patch before getting a new one.

Sixteen overdose deaths in the first three months of 2015 prompted the Blood band to declare a state of emergency. The death toll is now more than 20. Of

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Gayle Chase, the prescription drug co-ordinator for the Blood reserve south of Calgary, discusses the state of emergency launched by the band after 16 fentanyl related deaths in 2015. the roughly 10,000 band members, as many as 300 are believed hooked on the drug.

“We still have the overdoses, but not as many deaths,” says prescription drug co-ordinator Gayle Chase. “I think we’ve been able to contain that. For a while there was one every week.”

Chase says initially the victims were in their 20s

and 30s, but now teens as young as 13 are using.

Christenson has about 100 patients taking Suboxone, a non-addictive medication used to treat opioid addiction.

“Maybe 40 to 50 per cent of the patients do extremely well and they get their lives back,” Christenson says. “They start to experience joy in life … they can get employment. Their health is better.”

But she compares the withdrawal to “Dante’s Inferno.”

“These people are in unbelievable hell, total body pain, vomiting, retching, unable to sleep, severe depression, sweating. It’s like misery. I think Dante did a good job of describing it and it is hell.”

Kyle Drewniak, 29, says he became hooked after years of alcohol and cocaine abuse. It initially made him ill, but eventually he had to have it.

“When I didn’t have it, I was dope sick. It’s just torture. You’re restless, you can’t sleep, half the time you have diarrhea, runny nose. You feel like you’ve got a flu and I’m realizing the only way to feel better is to get high,” Drewniak explains.

He went to rehab, but quickly started using again.

It was only when he hit rock bottom that he sought help a second time.

“I’m not eating and I’m not sleeping. I am completely weak. I would wake up and do two pills right off the bat. I was legitimately scared,” he remembers.

“You hear people dying off of one bad pill and I’m doing one in a whole line just to start my day. I knew the end was probably coming and it was just a matter of time before something inside me quit.”

Police in nearby Lethbridge, realized 18 months ago that there was a new drug in play.

Staff Sgt. Rod Klassen said since the pills cost about 50 cents to make and sell from $20 to $40 each, there’s no shortage of dealers.

Unlike Oxycontin, there’s no quality control.

“This is home-made. They’re pressing it into a pill. Nobody has had any training. They’re making these pills strictly for money and they’re getting rich,” Klassen says.

“It doesn’t take much to have a lethal overdose.

It’s extremely addictive.

Ten big challenges facing Trudeau’s government

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Bringing the Liberal party back from the dead was a monumental undertaking for Justin Trudeau: two and a half grinding years rebuilding the party apparatus from the ground up, filling its depleted war chest, recruiting impressive candidates and crafting a platform, capped by a gruelling 11-week marathon campaign that vaulted the Liberals from third to first with a solid majority victory on Oct. 19. So much for the easy stuff. Now comes the hard part as the rookie prime minister and his team confront the reality of delivering on Trudeau’s promises of “real change.”

Here are 10 of the biggest challenges ahead in the year to come.

1. The budget. Finance Minister Bill Morneau is expected to table his maiden budget in February or March. He’s got the unenviable task of trying to deliver all the Liberals’ pricey campaign promises without plunging the country deeply into deficit.

Trudeau promised during last fall’s election campaign that a Liberal government would run “modest” deficits of less than $10 billion in each of the first three years before finishing up the final year of his mandate with a slim surplus of $1 billion.

But parliamentary budget officer Jean-Denis Frechette has estimated that over the medium term, the government could run up deficits $10.8 billion higher than Morneau has projected — and that’s before factoring in all the new spending the Liberals have promised. Morneau acknowledges the books are in worse shape than anticipated, as commodity prices continue to plummet and economic growth remains stalled 2. Withdrawing Canadian fighter jets from the U.S.led bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq. Trudeau has promised to end Canadian participation in the air war but says Canada will continue to contribute in some other way to the campaign against Islamic radicals. He’s talked about using Canadian troops to help train local military and police but how many and how close to the front lines the trainers may be has yet to be determined. The government is also talking to NATO allies about other ways Canada could contribute. Canada’s commitment to the current air mis-

sion ends on March 31.

3. Resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015 and another 15,000 by the end of February — two months later than originally promised. Fewer than 4,000 have arrived so far, but the Liberals insist the remainder will come by the government’s self-imposed deadline. The logistics of processing and moving so many people has proved much more complicated and costly than anticipated.

4. Meeting with premiers and territorial leaders by mid-March to hammer out a detailed national climate change strategy. Having agreed to an ambitious 195-country deal to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, Trudeau and the premiers now have to set a specific target for reducing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions and figure out how to achieve it.

The strategy will involve putting a price on carbon and will require consensus among the premiers, which may be hard to come by. Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has already signalled his concern that imposing a price on carbon will unfairly damage the economies of energy producing western provinces, already reeling from the plunge in oil prices.

The previous Conservative government set a target to cut emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. The Trudeau government has said that target is a “floor ” it hopes to set a more ambitious goal.

5. Develop a nation-to-nation relationship with indigenous peoples and work in partnership to improve housing, infrastructure, health care, child welfare, education and community policing, as promised in the campaign. That includes immediately setting up a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women, delivering on all 94 of the Truth and Reconciliation commission’s recommendations and ending all boil-water advisories on reserves within five years. Any one of those promises would be ambitious. Taken together, they’re daunting.

6. Pass a new law that recognizes the right of clearly consenting adults who are enduring intolerable physical or mental suffering to seek medical help in ending their lives. The Supreme Court, which struck down the prohibition on doctor-assisted dying last February, gave the government a year to draft a new law but the Trudeau government is asking for a sixmonth extension. The government has struck a spe-

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cial joint parliamentary committee to consult widely and report back with recommendations for a new law by the end of February.

7. Fill 22 vacancies in the scandal-plagued Senate.

The government has announced the creation of an arm’s-length advisory board to recommend non-partisan nominees for appointment to the Senate, a move Trudeau says is aimed at restoring the maligned upper house to its intended role as an independent chamber of sober second thought.

The five-member board is supposed to recommend nominees to fill five vacancies by early next year, with the rest to follow by the end of 2016.

8. Deliver on Trudeau’s promise that the 2015 election will be the last under the first-past-the-post electoral system. He’s pledged to create an all-party committee to consult on alternatives — including ranked ballots, proportional representation, online voting and mandatory voting — and report back within 18 months. The Liberals maintain that electoral reform should be the product of all-party consensus but, with each party looking out for its own self-interest, that may prove impossible.

Even before special committee is struck, Trudeau is facing opposition accusations that he favours a ranked ballot system because it would theoretically benefit his centrist party most. And he’s under pressure from the Conservatives to commit to holding a referendum on whatever is ultimately proposed, a process that has killed electoral reform initiatives in three provinces and could do the same for any federal proposal.

9. Legalize, regulate and restrict access to marijuana. This will be a complex and controversial file that will require working with the provinces. If Trudeau wants to achieve legalization during his first mandate, the government will have to get down to work quickly in the new year.

10. Repeal parts of the previous Conservative government’s controversial anti-terrorism act and introduce new legislation that better protects rights and freedoms while improving security. Among other things, Trudeau has promised to create an all-party parliamentary committee to oversee national security agencies, narrow the definition of terrorist propaganda and ensure lawful protests and advocacy are not considered terrorism.

Canada-wide warrants issued for man, woman sought in murder MONCTON, N.B. — Canada-wide arrest warrants have been issued for a young man and woman charged in what the RCMP describe as an “extremely violent” murder in Moncton, N.B. Eighteen-year-old Tyler Noel and 20-year-old Marissa Shephard, both of the Moncton area, face charges of first-degree murder and arson in the Dec. 17 death of Baylee Wylie.

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Alberta needs a transportation solution Alberta’s version of trains, planes most any time of day or night, Hwy 2 is and automobiles is not exactly a com- a nightmare of congestion.

That congestion needs to alleviated, edy — unless it is a comedy of errors.

This province has not managed its to save lives and improve the movetransportation challenges well. The ev- ment of goods that are the lifeblood of Alberta’s economy. idence is around too many And, given the conversacorners: tion in this province about The tragic debacle of environmental stewardship, tardy upgrades to Hwy 63, it is well past time that we the overloaded and deadly accelerated conservation route to Fort McMurray; strategies by getting more The snail-paced, expencars off the roads. sive and ill-conceived hanIn 2014, 369 people were dling of ring roads in Calkilled and 18,745 injured in gary and Edmonton; 144,740 collisions around The sluggish urban rapthe province, according to id transit development in Alberta government statisboth of the province’s largtics. Seventy per cent of the est cities, and the failure to JOHN fatal collisions occurred on incorporate Edmonton and STEWART rural roads and highways.

Calgary’s satellite commuNot surprisingly, the collinities into the urban train OPINION sions that resulted in propsystems; erty damage are highest in The inability or unwillingness to stay ahead — or at least on the winter months.

This fall, the provincial government pace — with the astounding traffic on announced that it intended to study Hwy 2 from Edmonton to Calgary.

The latter two failures may be most Hwy 2 congestion and possible solucritical over the long haul. The vast tions.

The 300-km corridor running from majority of Albertans live in a northsouth swath from metropolitan Edmon- Calgary to Edmonton handles 70,000 ton to the greater Calgary area. And to 80,000 vehicles a day. Based on histhat economically dynamic stretch will toric economic patterns, analysts projonly grow over time; some estimates ect that traffic will triple by 2050. The suggest there will be as many as 4.5 highway — with the exception of a few million people in and around that cor- stretches, notably into and out of the two largest cities — remains as it has ridor alone within 40 years.

But growth has its drawbacks. At al- been for 40 and more years: four lanes,

two either way.

Premier Rachel Notley suggested there could be any number of solutions, including widening the highway or establishing alternatives to driving, like high-speed rail.

In part, Notley is broadening the conversation because the transportation crisis in Alberta is not just about safety and movement — it is also about rising concern over pollution from all sources, including cars and trucks.

Of course, this is not nearly the first time Albertans have indulged in discussions about high-speed rail. An Alberta government report released a year and a half ago dismissed the notion, saying the province’s population does not warrant the expense — expected to be anywhere from $6 billion to $10 billion just to connect Edmonton and Calgary.

The study, completed in 2014, took an either-or approach to transportation spending — it suggested that better value could be achieved by investing in urban transportation and regional people-moving solutions.

However, it also suggested that an Edmonton-Calgary route be mapped out and that land be acquired.

For many Albertans, this conversation is just an echo. In 2010, high-speed rail was identified as a key component in any economic growth by the Conservative government. A three-year timetable was floated. And in 2004, a study by the Calgary-based Van Horne

Institute said high-speed rail was key to maintaining Alberta’s economic well-being.

Of course, there are naysayers. In 2010, a study by the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties warned that an Edmonton-Calgary high-speed rail line would cut off rural communities, split farmland, hamper wildlife migration and put small communities at economic peril.

The new NDP government has started to push money out to satellite communities around Edmonton and Calgary, to establish green public transit into the major centres. But buses are not a long-term answer. More traffic on roads doesn’t represent a sustainable solution. Calgary’s LRT system runs entirely on electricity generated with renewable resources. That’s the kind of solution that needs to be pushed out to the rest of the province.

The premier has floated the idea that Alberta’s new carbon tax, which will generate billions, could be injected into public transportation, including urban trains.

It is a great idea. But unless real action rises out of the idea, it is just more idle speculation. And Alberta has been idle for far too long when it comes to its transportation problems.

The comedy of errors is no laughing matter.

Troy Media columnist John Stewart is a journalist based in Red Deer and former editor at the Advocate.

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Pet caught in trap line worth more than any bounty To the trapper, east of the city, who recently killed our dog: Buddy, I would be happy to have given you the $2,000 (and rising) which we have lately spent on veterinary fees. It is Christmas and one has to be generous. This was to fix up the dog which didn’t die in your traps. Her mangled muzzle will need more repair yet (surgery and sutures and stuff) but she is making a comeback.

The other dog, which you did kill (“quickly and painlessly,” I think you said on the phone), is now buried.

Do you really believe that? I rather think that her life leaked away slowly over two sub-zero nights.

The earth was hard, almost undiggable, when I put her in it with tears streaming down mine and my wife’s faces. What came back to us, stiff and rigid, seemed smaller and lighter than when the life was in it. You would accept, I think, that a dog’s life energy

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How many dollars do the carcasses of foxes, coyotes and dogs add to an itinerant oil man’s annual income? What does a small black and white frozen dog bring on the fur market these days?

We would cheerfully hand that amount of money over to you, if to be able to hear the happy bark of my friend of the last 11 years.

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Good Samaritans still abound I just wanted to express my thanks and good wishes to all those very kind people out there who have been so very gracious.

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Six patients were taken to hospital by ground ambulance and another was taken by air.

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The crash involved two vehicles, and closed the Highway 97 in both directions for more than two hours.

RCMP in Kelowna did not have details on the crash, but say there were been a number of crashes on roads in the southern interior Monday.

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Two seriously injured in small plane crash at airport north of Montreal MONTREAL — Two people are in critical condition following the crash of a small plane near Mascouche airport, north of Montreal.

Police say there were two men on the plane when it crashed late Monday afternoon and they were taken to hospital.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MINNEAPOLIS — A former Minnesota nurse who admitted to going online and encouraging people to kill themselves didn’t give specific instructions to a Carleton University student, a U.S. appeals court ruled Monday in overturning his conviction.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals said there wasn’t enough evidence to convict William Melchert-Dinkel of attempting to assist the suicide of 18-year-old Nadia Kajouji, of Brampton, Ont., who jumped into the freezing Rideau River in 2008.

However, the court upheld his conviction on the higher charge of assisting the suicide of a British man, saying he gave 32-year-old Mark Drybrough, of Coventry, England, detailed instructions on how to hang himself.

Melchert-Dinkel, obsessed with suicide and death, trolled chat rooms dedicated to suicide methods posing as a female.

He sought out his victims, entering into a suicide pact with Kajouji and trying to get her to hang herself while he watched via webcam.

During trial, he acknowledged participating in online chats about suicide with up to 20 people and entering into fake suicide pacts with about 10, five of whom he believed killed themselves.

But the defence argued that the online activities were protected speech, the victims were predisposed to suicide and Melchert-Dinkel’s comments were not a factor in their deaths.

Melchert-Dinkel was initially charged with encouraging Kajouji’s death but the trial judge ruled state

prosecutors failed to prove his assistance was a direct cause of her suicide and found him guilty of the lesser charged of attempting to help her to end her life.

The case has been the subject of a long legal fight that narrowed Minnesota’s law against assisting suicides.

The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed Melchert-Dinkel’s original convictions last year. The justices declared that a state law banning someone from “encouraging” or “advising” suicide was unconstitutional, but upheld part of the law making it a crime to “assist” in a suicide.

Melchert-Dinkel’s attorney, Terry Watkins, said they plan yet another appeal to the state Supreme Court.

He said Melchert-Dinkel should have been allowed a jury trial after the Supreme Court sent the case back to the trial court for further proceedings. The judge declined to allow him to withdraw his waiver of a jury trial from his original trial.

Rice County Attorney John Fossum said he doesn’t plan to challenge the reversal of Melchert-Dinkel’s conviction in Kajouji’s death, given that the appeals court upheld his conviction on the more serious count, but that he was still evaluating the decision.

Melchert-Dinkel served nearly six months in jail after his 2014 conviction and remains on 10 years of probation.

While he told police he did it “for the thrill of the chase,” he apologized at his sentencing and said he had repented.

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Mohamed Fahmy asks Egyptian authorities to restore his citizenship A Canadian journalist who was released from prison in Egypt this fall said Monday he has asked authorities in that country to restore the citizenship he renounced in hopes of regaining his freedom.

Mohamed Fahmy said he initially refused to give up his Egyptian citizenship when it was suggested to him as a way of speeding up his release.

But he eventually relented late last year after receiving reassurance that he could reapply for it at a later date, he said.

Even so, it took almost a year — and a presidential pardon — before he was freed.

Fahmy, who now lives in Vancouver, said he is seeking to recover his dual citizenship as a “matter of principle.”

“I kind of feel that it was unnecessary for me to renounce my citizenship to get out of prison,” he said. “I’ve spoken to Egyptian officials and my lawyers have and we don’t have a clear answer on why this happened.”

“So now I would like to claim it back,” he said.

“I will continue to fight for it as long as it takes and at any cost.”

He also said he plans to go back to Egypt one day and report from there, and feels he shouldn’t need a visa to do so.

For now, however, he is working as an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia and writing a book about his experience.

Fahmy was arrested in 2013 with two Al-Jazeera English colleagues on terror-related charges.

He was sentenced to three years in prison in a retrial this year for airing what a court described as “false news” and coverage biased in favour of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood.

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The officer was taken to hospital to be treated for a minor injury, Douglas-Cook said, but is otherwise fine.

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The re-emergence of rabies only came to light after two dogs got into a fight with a sick raccoon in the back of a Hamilton Animal Services van.

The raccoon was euthanized and tests revealed the first rabies case in raccoons since 2005.

Douglas-Cook said Toronto’s Animal Services division showed up shortly after the officers arrived and captured the animal. Neither the city’s Animal Services or Toronto Public Health could be immediately reached for comment. There has also been an outbreak in distemper in raccoons in southwestern Ontario, according to the ministry. That illness is also fatal and presents similar symptoms as rabies, but is not transferable to humans.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Amid bear hugs, smiles and tears, the family of a Syrian boy whose lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach earlier this year repeated one message when they landed at the Vancouver airport on Monday: thank you.

Mohammed Kurdi, his wife and their five children arrived in Canada as refugees, sponsored by his sister, Tima Kurdi, who has become an international spokeswoman for people fleeing the war-torn nation.

“Thank you Canada! Thank you Canada!” the family chanted in English after being greeted by about two dozen family, friends and supporters.

Speaking through his sister, who translated from Arabic, Mohammed Kurdi also thanked Canadians and the government for making his dreams come true.

“I’m happy! Very happy!” he said in English to a crowd of reporters.

His 14-year-old son Shergo clutched a stuffed dog and a paper Canadian flag as he said through his aunt that he was looking forward to going back to school and starting a new life.

Tima Kurdi wiped away tears as she greeted her relatives at the airport’s arrival gates.

The reunion comes at the end of a difficult year for the family.

Tima and Mohammed’s three-yearold nephew, Alan Kurdi, drowned along with his five-year-old brother and their mother while crossing the waters between Turkey and Greece in September.

A photo of the boy’s body face down in the surf sparked international sorrow and momentum to help Syrian refugees.

Alan’s father, Abdullah Kurdi, de-

“WE WISH THE WAR TO END, AND MOST OF (THE REFUGEES), THAT’S WHAT THEY WANT. PLEASE DON’T CLOSE THE DOOR IN THEIR FACE.” — TIMA KURDI cided to attempt the treacherous trip after his brother Mohammed’s original refugee application was rejected by the Canadian government because it did not have the necessary documentation.

An official with Citizenship and Immigration Canada invited Tima Kurdi to re-apply for Mohammed and his family in mid-October, as the government was no longer asking for difficult-to-obtain United Nations documents.

Mohammed Kurdi has been in Germany since leaving his family in Turkey seven months ago to find work.

He had not met his five-month-old son, Sherwan, who was born in July, but the family reunited in Frankfurt before flying to Canada.

“It was a feeling he cannot express.

It was really emotional,” Tima Kurdi said, translating for her brother as he spoke of holding the little boy for the first time.

Among the supporters at the airport was Fin Donnelly, MP for Port Moody-Coquitlam, who Tima Kurdi turned to for help in March, desperate to help her family get to Canada.

Seeing Mohammed Kurdi and his family finally walk on Canadian soil is “bittersweet,” Donnelly said, explaining that he had been working with Tima Kurdi to submit applications for both of her brothers’ families.

“It’s always unfortunate that it takes tragedy to mobilize the global community, but certainly in this case, that’s

what happened,” he said.

“But we have Mohammed and his family here today.

“It’s a very celebratory day for Canada and for Tima and her family.”

The Kurdis are among 25,000 Syrian refugees the Canadian government has pledged to welcome by the end of February.

Immigration Minister John McCallum said last week the government will likely not meet its target of having 10,000 of them on Canadian soil by Jan. 1.

The federal website that updates progress listed 2,413 refugees as having arrived in Canada by Dec. 26.

Tima Kurdi said it’s important that governments around the world continue to welcome refugees.

“We wish the war to end, and most of (the refugees), that’s what they want,” she said.

“Please, don’t close the door in their face.”

Mohammed Kurdi, his wife and children will all stay with Tima Kurdi and her family for now.

The brother and sister are planning to work together at Tima Kurdi’s new hair salon in Port Coquitlam, B.C., Kurdi Hair Design.

One day, Tima Kurdi hopes that her brother Abdullah will join them.

“Abdullah, all of us here, we wish you were here with us. But you’re always here,” she said, placing her hand over her heart.

OTTAWA — Here is a look at the latest numbers on the Liberals’ Syrian refugee resettlement program.

10,000: Number of privately-sponsored Syrian refugees the government had said it was aiming to bring to Canada by the of the year.

7,218: number of Syrians who have arrived in Canada plus those who have had their applications approved but have not travelled.

2,413: As of Dec. 26, total number of Syrians who have arrived in Canada since Nov. 4.

1,452: number of Syrians listed as arriving on flights scheduled on Dec. 27 and 28.

6,135: Number of Syrians that would be required to arrive after that to meet the Dec. 31 goal.

1,500: maximum number of Syrian refugees that Immigration Minister John McCallum has said can arrive via government flights, per day, at the Toronto and Montreal airports combined.

9: government flights of Syrian refugees currently scheduled to arrive between Dec. 29 and Dec. 31.

5: maximum number of flights per day those two airports can accommodate.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING — Global stocks were mixed in light trading Monday as markets reopened following the Christmas break.

KEEPING SCORE: In early trading, Germany’s DAX slipped 0.1 per cent to 10,727.00 and France’s CAC-40 shed 0.3 per cent to 4,647.47. On Thursday, the CAC-40 fell 0.2 per cent and Britain’s FTSE 100 closed up 0.2 per cent. The DAX rose 1.8 per cent on Wednesday, its last pre-Christmas trading day. Wall Street looked set for a lukewarm start, with futures for the Dow Jones industrial average down 0.2 per cent and Standard & Poor’s 500 dipping 0.1 per

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ASIA’S DAY: Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index added 0.6 per cent to 18,873.35 while the Shanghai Composite Index shed 2.6 per cent to 3,533.78. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was off 1 per cent at 21,919.62 and Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 1.3 per cent to 5,207.60. Seoul’s Kospi retreated 1.3 per cent to 1,964.06.

New Zealand advanced while Taiwan and Singapore declined.

WALL STREET: Stocks closed lower Thursday in light Christmas Eve trading. The energy component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 0.9 per cent, the most of its 10 industry sectors.

The Dow Jones industrial average lost 0.3 per cent and the S&P 500 declined 0.2 per cent. The Nasdaq composite

lost less than 0.1 per cent. The S&P 500 ended the week up nearly 3 per cent and is back into positive territory for the year.

ANALYST’S TAKE: Trading “easing off into thin holiday markets should not lull one into complacency,” said Mizuho Bank in a report. “Watch for renewed momentum in 2016!”

JAPANESE DOLDRUMS: Industrial production in November declined 1 per cent month on month following two months of gains. Retail sales fell for the first time since June 2015. Analysts blamed unusually warm weather that hurt clothing sales and lower prices for fuel and fresh food. “Increased purchasing power gained by lower oil prices and larger seasonal bonuses

for large corporations will probably provide only limited support to boost Japan’s retail sales because overall wage growth remains slack,” Harumi Taguchi of IHS Global Insight said in a report.

ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude shed 64 cents to $37.46 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Thursday, the contract gained 60 cents to close at $38.10. Brent crude, which is used to price international oils, lost 62 cents to $37.27 per barrel in London. In the previous session, the contract rose 53 cents to close at $37.89.

CURRENCY: The dollar rose to 120.59 yen from 120.43 yen. The euro weakened to $1.0972 from $1.0976.

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Amazon says its holiday shipping, Christmas Eve set records

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TRENTON, N.J. — Online retailer Amazon has been a prime beneficiary of more consumers doing their holiday shopping online and procrastinating.

Amazon Prime, the company’s $99-a-year loyalty program that includes unlimited free two-day shipping, gained 3 million new members in the third week of December alone.

Meanwhile, the number of Prime members shopping via mobile more than doubled this holiday season, Amazon said Monday.

Christmas Eve was the biggest day yet for deliveries by the company’s Prime Now service, which now offers free two-hour delivery to more than 20 metropolitan areas.

When Prime Now launched last year, it only delivered within Manhattan.

Seattle-based Amazon also said it shipped a record number of items worldwide for the holidays, with items going to 185 countries.

The 20-year-old company is profiting from major trends reshaping holiday shopping in the U.S. More and more people do part or even all of their shopping online, increasingly using mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones to “window shop” and then buy items from their couch or their desk at work. Retailers are deluging consumers with email offers for online-only deals.

And procrastinators, once stuck dealing with huge crowds at shopping malls and big-box stores right before Christmas, now can do last-minute shopping online. Amazon and some other retailers promised that items ordered as late as the morning of Christmas Eve would arrive by midnight.

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its customers this holiday used a mobile device to shop. Worldwide, on Cyber Monday alone, those customers ordered more than 35 electronic items per second and Adele’s new CD, 25, every 3 seconds.

Cyber Monday, the Monday following Thanksgiving, has seen online purchases jump since its founding a decade ago.

Meanwhile, the number of shoppers going to stores on Black Friday has decreased as major retailers open on Thanksgiving evening and many retailers offer deals before then.

Amazon’s report issued on Monday covers trends and percentage changes in its shipments, but doesn’t give sales figures or the number of items it shipped. In response to an Associated Press request for details, Amazon.com Inc. said that it isn’t sharing additional information.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAVAL, Que. — Embattled pharmaceutical firm Valeant International says its chief executive is taking a medical leave of absence.

The Quebec-based company previously revealed that Michael Pearson was hospitalized last week with what it described as a severe case of pneumonia.

Valeant (TSX:VRX) did not offer updates on Pearson’s condition, but says his leave of absence takes effect immediately.

Valeant says Pearson’s duties will be shared on an interim basis between General Council Robert Chai-Onn, Company Group Chairman Ari Kellen, and Chief Financial Officer Robert Rosiello.

Valeant has been facing a series of scandals that have slashed its stock price by more than half since record highs posted in August.

The company is facing a congressional investigation in the U.S. over its pricing practices and has been forced to revise its 2016 outlook after ending a drug distribution agreement with

“IF THE BOARD WANTS TO FIRE ME THEY ARE WELCOME TO FIRE ME, BUT UNTIL THEY DO WE’RE GOING TO GET THROUGH THIS THING.” — MICHAEL PEARSON, VALEANT CEO the controversial Philidor mail-order pharmacy.

Pearson himself had been facing criticism for Valeant’s share price collapse and recently struck a defiant tone after calls for his dismissal surfaced.

“If the board wants to fire me they are welcome to fire me, but until they do we’re going to get through this thing,” Pearson told investors during a Dec. 16 webcast.

Valeant said the October split from specialty pharmaceutical partner Philidor Rx Services caused a big shortterm disruption to its business that would reduce its expectations for the fourth quarter and 2015 as a whole.

But Pearson had also indicated that a new distribution agreement with major U.S. drug store chain Walgreens had set the company back on the road to recovery.

Pearson, 56, joined Valeant in 2008 after a 23-year career with the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., for which he served as head of its global pharmaceutical practice.

He used a string of acquisitions to turn a relatively small business that made generic drugs and chronic illness treatments into a major pharmaceutical company.

Valeant, formerly based in California, combined with Wellbutrin XL maker Biovail in 2010 to form Laval, Quebec-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. Its sales climbed from US$2.46 billion in 2011 to an expected US$10.4 billion to US$10.5 billion for this year.

Valeant shares closed at $157.68 on Thursday, the most recent day on which the Toronto Stock Exchange was open for trading.

That figure was well up from a 52-week low of $92.65 but well shy of a historic high of $347.84 in August.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia on Monday said this year’s budget deficit amounted to $98 billion (367 billion riyals) as lower oil prices cut into the government’s main source of revenue, prompting the kingdom to scale back spending for the coming year and hike up petrol prices.

A royal decree announced that petrol prices would go up by 50 per cent effective Tuesday. Even with that jump, Saudis will pay just 24 cents (0.90 riyals) for a litre of 95 octane gasoline, less than a dollar per gallon.

The Saudi-based Jadwa Investment estimates the government spends around $61 billion in energy subsidies annually, almost $11 billion of that on gasoline subsidies alone.

For two consecutive years the kingdom has posted a deficit, and it is planning for another budget shortfall next year, projected at $87 billion (326 billion riyals).

The deficits represent a sharp turnaround from just a few years ago, before oil prices tumbled in mid-2014.

Instead of cutting oil production to drive prices up, Saudi Arabia has aggressively kept its production levels high in what analysts say is an attempt to keep its market share and stymie the reach of U.S. shale producers in the global market.

The Saudi government has been digging into its large foreign reserves, built up during years of higher oil prices. To cover the difference between its spending and revenue over the past year, Saudi Arabia has drawn its reserves down from $728 billion at the end of last year to around $640 billion.

The Saudi fiscal budget is being watched closely by investors to see how the kingdom plans to consolidate after years of heavy spending when oil prices were more than double what they are now. Benchmark U.S. crude was trading Monday at $37.46 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

The government said it is anticipating $137 billion (513 billion riyals) in revenue for the coming year, around $26 billion (95 billion riyals) less than the total for 2015. As is typical for the published version of the budget, it did not include a projected oil price.

Next year’s budget suggests Saudi Arabia is basing its revenue on an even lower price of $40 a barrel for export crude, if production remains at 10.2 million barrels per day, said Fahad Alturki, chief economist and head of research at Saudi-based Jadwa Investment. That’s less than the $56 per barrel priced into the projected 2015 budget. In the 2015 budget, oil revenues accounted for 72 per cent of total revenue as opposed to 87 per cent in 2014. Coinciding with that drop, nonoil revenues rose by almost $10 billion from 2014. Saudi Arabia and its Arab Gulf neighbours have been working to diversify their economies and decrease their dependence on oil, and to support the private sector to absorb the millions of young people coming into the workforce.

Saudi Arabia says it expects to spend $224 billion (840 billion riyals) in 2016, which is $5 billion (20 billion riyals) less than what had been projected for this year. However, the government has also put aside $49 billion (183 billion riyals) in discretionary spending to use on infrastructure projects if oil prices improve. Nearly half of this year’s spending, or around $120 billion (450 billion riyals), went to wages, salaries and allowances. The budget revealed that the kingdom spent $30 billion more in 2015 than it had initially planned, reaching $260 billion (975 billion riyals) in total expenditures largely because of financial handouts King Salman doled out to the public when he ascended the throne earlier this year.

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Fitbit CEO James Park shows off one of his devices as he poses for photos outside the New York Stock Exchange, before his company’s IPO. The company’s app was the most downloaded on Apple Inc.’s app store on Christmas Day 2015, a sign that many people set up their Fitbit trackers after unwrapping them. It also suggests that Fitbit trackers were a hot seller during the holidays, despite increasing competition from Apple’s smartwatch and others.

A Fitbit Christmas SHARES OF FITBIT RISE ON SIGNS ITS FITNESS TRACKERS WERE HOT SELLERS OVER THE HOLIDAYS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — It was a very merry Christmas for fitness-tracking device maker Fitbit.

The company’s app was the most downloaded on Apple’s app store Christmas Day, a sign that many people couldn’t wait to set up their Fitbit trackers after unwrapping them. It also suggests that Fitbit trackers were a hot seller during the holidays, despite increasing competition from Apple’s smartwatch and other wearable devices. Investors were pleased, sending shares of the San Francisco company higher Monday.

The Fitbit app topped Apple’s app store in the U.S. on Christmas Day and the day after, according App Annie, which tracks app downloads and rankings. That’s far better than last year when the Fitbit app ranked at No. 18 on Christmas Day and No. 15 the day after, according to research from Raymond James & Associates. In a note to clients, Raymond James analyst Tavis McCourt called the numbers “impressive.”

Fitbit declined to comment Monday.

Apple did not respond to a request for comment.

While app downloads don’t necessarily mean a tracker was sold, McCourt said it’s a “good measure of relative sales success.”

Retailers confirmed Monday that Fitbit trackers were in high demand during the holiday shopping season.

Macy’s Inc. said the Fitbit’s products sold “very well” at the department store. Discount retailer Target Corp. said the trackers were one of its top-selling electronics during the holiday season. And Amazon.com Inc. said the Fitbit Charge was one of its most popular items for customers that used its same-day delivery service in Chicago, Dallas, New York and other

major cities.

App downloads could also lead to future sales. Users who track their health information on the app are more likely to buy another Fitbit device when they want to upgrade, said Ross Rubin, the senior director of industry analysis at App Annie.

Amanda Hetherington opened a Fitbit Flex on Christmas Eve, a gift from her son, and plans to buy more.

Hetherington, who says she is working on getting back into shape, downloaded the app on Christmas Day. Besides steps, she also plans to track what she eats and how much water she drinks with the app.

She’s already making changes: This weekend she parked further away from a restaurant to get in more steps.

“I love it so much,” said Hetherington, who lives near Columbia, South Carolina, “I’ll probably get one for my husband for Valentine’s Day.” Fitbit sells several different devices that track user’s steps, calories or sleep patterns. They cost as little as $60 for a tracker that clips to clothing to about $250 for a watch. The company has already sold more than 13 million devices so far this year before the holiday shopping season, surpassing the 10.9 million total devices it sold last year.

But like a new gym membership, there is still the question of how long people will remain dedicated to their fitness trackers once the novelty wears off. Research firm Endeavour Partners estimated earlier this year that about a third of trackers get abandoned after six months.

On Monday, shares in Fitbit Inc. jumped 95 cents, or 3.3 per cent, to $29.86. Still, they are down about 42 per cent since reaching a high of $51.90 in August, a couple of months after the company’s initial public offering in June.

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A Halliburton Co. Wellhead Connection Unit at Halliburton Co. in Houston in 2013. Shale oil producers who pushed cost-cutting efforts to the limits when oil hit $50 per barrel face new challenges now that it trades near $35.

Shale’s running out of tricks as OPEC ramps up pressure DAN MURTAUGH SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE HOUSTON — In 2015, the fracking outfits that dot America’s oil-rich plains threw everything they had at $50-a- barrel crude. To cope with the 50 percent price plunge, they laid off thousands of roughnecks, focused their rigs on the biggest gushers only and used cutting-edge technology to squeeze all the oil they could out of every well.

Those efforts, to the surprise of many observers, largely succeeded. As of this month, U.S. oil output remained within 4 percent of a 43-year high.

The problem? Oil’s no longer at $50.

It now trades near $35.

For an industry that already was pushing its cost-cutting efforts to the limits, the new declines are a devastating blow. These drillers are “not set up to survive oil in the $30s,” said R.T. Dukes, a senior upstream analyst for Wood Mackenzie Ltd. in Houston.

The Energy Information Administration now predicts that companies operating in U.S. shale formations will cut production by a record 570,000 barrels a day in 2016. That’s precisely the kind of capitulation that OPEC is seeking as it floods the world with oil, depressing prices and pressuring the world’s high-cost producers. It’s a high-risk strategy, one whose success will ultimately hinge on whether shale drillers drop out before the financial pain within OPEC nations themselves becomes too great. Drillers including Samson Resources Corp. and Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. have already

filed for bankruptcy. About $99 billion in face value of high-yield energy bonds are trading at distressed prices, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Spencer Cutter. The BofA Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Energy Index has given up almost all of its outperformance since 2001, with the yield reaching its highest level relative to the broader market in at least 10 years.

“You are going to see a pickup in bankruptcy filings, a pickup in distressed asset sales and a pickup in distressed debt exchanges,” said Jeff Jones, managing director at Blackhill Partners, a Dallas-based investment banking firm. “And $35 oil will clearly accelerate the distress.”

To understand why production is about to collapse, we have to go back to how it came about. Geologists have long known about shale. It’s what they called the source rock: Oil and gas leached out of the shale into the porous dirt around it that drillers could easily pump from. The shale itself was so impermeable that wells would go dry almost immediately. A wildcatter named George Mitchell solved the problem by using directional bores to carve a long horizontal hole through the shale layer, and then blasting that tunnel with high- pressure bursts of water, chemicals and sand to create millions of tiny fissures through which oil and gas could escape. It worked, but was too expensive to implement on a wide scale.Oil prices rose as rapid global economic growth in the early 2000s boosted energy d emand, making shale profitable to drill. Output leaped more than 60 percent from the end of 2010.

Why Chinese traders love manipulated stocks BLOOMBERG NEWS SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE SHANGHAI — The way Liu Xiaozhen tells it, the only way to truly understand China’s stock market is by learning the tactics of traders who routinely manipulate it.

“We need to dance with the wolves,” says Liu, the chief executive officer at Qingdao Langwang Investment Consulting Co., a producer of online video seminars for stock investors in China’s eastern Shandong province.

For a one-time payment of 6,800 yuan ($1,050), Liu’s firm provides a crash course on stock manipulators in China: how to anticipate their targets, how to spot their trades and -- most importantly -- how to profit by following in their tracks. The three-month class is one of at least 100 across the country that promise insight into Zhuang Jia, a local term for market manipulators that portrays them as holding the upper hand.

The courses, along with hundreds of books on the subject, show how law-abiding investors are adapting to a market that even China’s state-run media acknowledge has become rife with manipulation.

Instead of avoiding suspected Zhuang Jia targets, many of the nation’s 97 million individual investors actively seek them out -- hoping to ride the artificial gains in manipulated shares and sell before they inevitably collapse.

“If you want to make a quick buck from the stock market, you’d better look for stocks with manipulators,” explains Chen Yifeng, a 37-year-old accountant at a state-owned company in Shanghai who has about 100,000 yuan of his personal portfolio invested in local shares. “You just need to pull out faster than them.”

That piggy-back strategy, while completely legal, is magnifying the challenge for Chinese policy makers as they try to improve the international image of a $7.2 trillion stock market where valuations often appear detached from economic fundamentals. Global money managers cut their holdings of mainland shares by about 5 percent in the first nine months of 2015, even after authorities made it easier than ever to bring money into the country.

Chinese securities regulators are hoping to tackle the problem at its source. Over the past few months, they’ve escalated a crackdown on market manipulators, ensnaring some of the the nation’s most high-profile money managers and announcing more

than 2 billion yuan of fines and confiscated gains.

That comes after authorities more than doubled the pace of manipulation investigations in the first half from a year earlier.

The regulatory focus on manipulation “is a long overdue policy measure,” said Gan Jie, a professor of finance at the Beijing-based Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. “This isn’t the first time authorities have tried to crack down, but in terms of scale it is large. This is good for the stock market.”

Gan says the most common form of manipulation in China is the classic “pump and dump” scheme, where the perpetrators establish positions in a stock and promote it to outsiders, seeking to inflate the share price before selling out.

In some cases, multiple manipulators team up to trade shares among themselves, creating an illusion of growing investor demand that’s designed to attract momentum-chasing speculators, according to Oliver Rui, a professor of finance and accounting at China Europe International Business School in Shanghai.

China’s market is particularly vulnerable to such schemes because it has so many unsophisticated investors, Gan said. Individuals account for more than 80 percent of trading on mainland exchanges, while one university survey showed that more than twothirds of the nation’s new investors at the end of 2014 hadn’t received a high-school level education.

While manipulation cases in developed countries like the United States often revolve around penny stocks with tiny market values, Chinese authorities have punished traders for targeting multi- billion dollar companies this year.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission levied a 19.9 million yuan fine in September on Ye Fei, one of the country’s most well-known hedge fund managers, after saying he manipulated five stocks including Beijing Xinwei Telecom Technology Group Co. The developer of network equipment has a market value of 75 billion yuan, on par with Alcoa Inc., the biggest U.S. aluminum producer.

Ye, the general manager at Yitian Investment Co., said he used “inappropriate methods” when trading shares in May and June, according to a letter to shareholders published on Yitian’s website in September. Ye couldn’t be reached for comment and a Yitian employee, who wouldn’t give his name, declined to comment when contacted by Bloomberg News.

This year’s most high-profile target of China’s manipulation crackdown was Xu Xiang, who ran some of the country’s top-performing hedge funds

as the head of Zexi Investment in Shanghai. Xu was detained in November and police froze $1 billion of shares in listed companies tied to the money manager.

Efforts to contact him for comment have been unsuccessful.

While the CSRC doesn’t publish estimates on the prevalence of stock manipulation, it does release figures on manipulation cases pursued by regulators.

The latest data show 31 investigations in the first half, versus 15 for all of 2014 and eight in 2013. In October, regulators said they had prosecuted 12 market manipulation cases with fines and confiscated gains totaling 2 billion yuan.

In a response to questions from Bloomberg News on Dec. 18, CSRC spokesman Zhang Xiaojun said that data on market manipulation cases for the second half will only be compiled at year-end. He said the CSRC has teams at branches across the country who monitor for signs of misconduct, including stock manipulation, without providing specifics.

Market manipulation in China is probably widespread in part because the market is still in the early stages of development, according to Rui, the finance professor at CEIBS in Shanghai. He compared the country to the U.S. during the 1920s, when “pump and dump” syndicates were common and the investing public often tried to benefit from the resulting share-price gains.

Today’s mentality in China also has echoes of 1990s Japan, where reports of manipulation routinely showed up in financial tabloids and libraries were stocked with books on how to trade in manipulated shares, known locally as “shite kabu.”

While the popularity of piggy-back trades has diminished in the U.S. and Japan, those markets are by no means free of concerns about manipulation.

Spoofing, when a trader places orders they have no intention of filling to move markets in their favor, has come under worldwide scrutiny this year as the rise of computerized trading made the bait-andswitch scheme more effective.

Of course, not all individual investors in China are chasing after manipulated stocks. Zhang Kai, a 27-year-old consultant at a financial firm in Beijing, sold his personal equity holdings in June in part because he thinks amateur traders will struggle to make much money in shares where Zhuang Jia are active.

“It’s possible for individual investors to enjoy some soup if they follow the Zhuang Jia, but they can never eat the meat in the end,” he said.

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Black sheep sister never helped Dear Annie: I am one of six sisters. her out and maybe even find it in your We are all adults with children of our heart to forgive her. It’s so much better own. One lives in New Jersey and the than holding onto your anger. others live in Florida, three of us in Dear Annie: I read the letter from the same city. My sister, “Claire,” lives “Snowbird Driver,” whose friends retwo hours away. Three fuse to let her drive when they years ago, she was diagare going out for dinner. The nosed with breast cancer. one thing that was not menWith good doctors and tioned was alcohol. care, she has successfully We have many friends who come through five surgergather together for cocktails ies and battled the rounds before leaving for dinner at of chemo. So far, she rea restaurant. With a cocktail mains cancer-free. or two before, and several Four of us did whatdrinks at the restaurant, they ever we could to help may well be driving under the Claire during this time. influence by the time they are Two of my sisters worked on their way home. remotely so they could I live in Florida and see KATHY MITCHELL help with her medical apthis situation often. If the AND MARCY SUGAR pointments. Even my sisneighbors do not drink themter in New Jersey offered selves, they might feel terriANNIE’S MAILBOX to stay with Claire. Only bly uncomfortable driving one sister, “Pam,” never with anyone who has had a helped, and in fact, nevfew. I agree with your answer er even acknowledged the cancer or about treating them with a gift card wished Claire a speedy recovery. or dinner out in order to reciprocate.

The problem now is that four of us However, the real reason for their reare empty nesters and we vacation to- luctance to share driving responsibilgether once or twice a year. We have ities might be too many cocktails imbeen doing this for more than a de- bibed by the driver. — Sarasota. cade. But family isn’t only for the good Dear Sarasota: You could very well times. If a person cannot care about be right. Thanks for mentioning the her sister when she is ill, then I don’t possibility. think she should be included when Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy we go on vacations. We always stay in Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edtimeshares, which I own. I don’t invite itors of the Ann Landers column. Please Pam on these vacations, but another email your questions to anniesmailbox@ sister does. I can’t uninvite her without creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailcreating a rift. box, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Annie, I don’t want to vacation with Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You Pam, but feel the choice is out of my can also find Annie on Facebook at Facecontrol. I would appreciate advice book.com/AskAnnies. from a disinterested party. — Sibling Dilemma Dear Sibling: Are you sure you want to do this? The consequences could turn out to be more distressing than worthwhile. An estrangement hurts you, too, and, as you said, will create a rift between all of the siblings. We know Pam deserves your condemnation for acting so uncaring toward her own sister, but have you asked her about it? Did you say, “Pam, I am so disappointed and angry that you cared so little about Claire that you couldn’t even wish her well”? She needs to know how upset you are and why. She may have some explanation - all stock for her callous behavior, and even though it will hardly be good enough, we hope you will hear

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t be side-tracked by extravagant promises from fair-weather friends! Keep it real Virgo. With three planets firing up Tuesday, Dec. 29 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS your friendship zone, itís time to sort DATE: Ted Danson, 67; Jude Law, 42; out who your true life-long mates are.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You may Mary Tyler Moore, 78 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Look for be uncharacteristically undiplomatsomeone who needs encouragement or ic today Libra, as Mars fires up your a helping hand. feisty side which is hiding HAPPY BIRTHDAY: there somewhere! So aim to You can get caught up livbe firm and assertive, rather ing your life the way you than passive-aggressive. think other people expect SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): you to. 2016 is the year to Be extremely careful what do the things you want to you post on social media todo. Take loved ones along day Scorpio. Think things for the ride. through otherwise you are ARIES (March 21-April likely to make an insensitive 19): When communicating comment or send a sarcastic with others over the next message that you later regret. couple of days, resist the SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22urge to be a rash Ram. Dec. 21): You’re in an exuJOANNE MADELINE Words can cut like a knife berant frame of mind SagMOORE so think things through ittarius, as you amuse and before you say something SUN SIGNS entertain family and friends. that you later regret.

You’re also keen to help TAURUS (April 20-May someone in need but remem21): It’s a wonderful day to catch up with overseas friends or in- ber that promises are cheap!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’ll ternational contacts, either in person or online. Group activities and team enjoy finding satisfactory solutions to sports are favoured so jump off the pressing problems but resist the urge comfy couch and get moving! to criticize others — no matter how GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Are you “constructive” it is. You may also play jamming the holidays with too many the role of learned teacher or curious activities? You may feel irritable to- student. day, and inclined to blurt out things AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re that are better left unsaid. So calm in the mood for some heavenly holiday down and slow down Twins — before relaxation, as you spend quality time you blow a fuse! with yourself. But — when it comes to CANCER (June 21-July 22): There financial matters — have you got your may be a tussle between head and heart/intellect and intuition today head firmly stuck in the sand?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The su— as you struggle to make a decision that’s been worrying you. In the end, per Sun/Neptune aspect increases let your steady inner voice be your your spiritual side and your compassionate nature. Group activities are alguide.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Even if it’s so favoured as you inspire loved ones raining today, your positive mood with your versatile Piscean creativity.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internawill boost the holiday spirits of those around you. But remember that a child tionally syndicated astrologer and color teenager also expects you to set a umnist. Her column appears daily in the mature and responsible example.

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WASHINGTON — There likely will be one more Clinton on the campaign trail next fall.

Chelsea Clinton, the only child of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, announced Monday that she is expecting her second child next summer.

“Charlotte is going to be a big sister! Feeling very blessed & grateful this holiday season,” Chelsea Clinton wrote on Twitter.

Chelsea Clinton, 35, and her father have largely stayed off the campaign trail since Hillary Clinton launched her Democratic bid for the presidency in April.

Both have said they plan to intensify their public political roles after the New Year in an effort to boost Clinton’s campaign just six weeks before the first round of primary voting.

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“Your dad and I could not be happier for you, Marc, and Charlotte.

We’re so excited to meet our second grandchild!” wrote Hillary Clinton.

Bill Clinton added: “Christmas comes early!

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Chinese fans, dressed as Star Wars character Stormtroopers, gesture as they arrive for the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in Shanghai, China on Sunday.

The movie has already broken the $1 billion mark, and it hasn’t even been released in China yet. The Chinese premiere took place in Shanghai on Sunday, with director J.J. Abrams, producer Kathleen Kennedy and cast members Daisy Ridley, and John Boyega receiving a warm welcome from Chinese fans, some in Star Wars costumes

Star Wars producer says movie’s success a surprise EXPECTS IT TO DO WELL IN CHINA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SHANGHAI — The latest Star Wars movie broke the $1 billion mark before fans in China could see it, but producers anticipate The Force Awakens will play “very very well” in the world’s second-biggest film market.

The film opens in China on Jan. 9.

Director J.J. Abrams watched the Chinese premiere in Shanghai with a Chinese audience Sunday night. He told a news conference Monday that he was thrilled to see people “laughing and cheering in exactly the same plac-

es that we’ve seen other audiences.”

“It’s a testament to the power of cinema, that it does not matter where you’re from, you can get caught up in a story,” Abrams said.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens took 12 days to earn $1 billion worldwide, becoming the fastest movie to achieve such a feat.

The previous movie to reach $1 billion the fastest was Jurassic World, which did it in 13 days in June — and which had the benefit of record grosses in China.

Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy said the movie’s success to date

was “a huge surprise.”

“We certainly hoped for enormous success but I think the fact that we crossed the billion-dollars … it’s almost so overwhelming it’s difficult to really process just what the response has been to the movie so far, and it hasn’t even opened here yet,” she said.

“Certainly we’re hoping and anticipating that it will play very very well here.”

The Chinese market has become increasingly important for Hollywood as revenues from movie theatres stagnate at home. Some movies have incorporated Chinese characters or sto-

ries to try to appeal to the Chinese movie-going audience. Asked whether “Star Wars” movies would do the same in the future, Kennedy said they had just finished shooting Rogue One, the first stand alone Star Wars story. Hong Kong martial arts actor Donnie Yen and Chinese actor and director Jiang Wen have roles in it.

“They play wonderful characters and certainly there are many mythologies inside Chinese literature that I know we can explore in the future and find ways in which we can integrate some of those stories into the Star Wars universe,” said Kennedy.

From Pixar to Star Wars, a stellar year for Hader’s voice Perhaps Bill Hader was destined to voice a Star Wars droid. The sci-fi franchise, after all, provided his first inkling that he would wed his wife of now nearly a decade.

“Yeah, that’s true,” Hader said the first time I interviewed him, several years back now. He looked around writer-director Maggie Carey’s apartment, and he knew.

“She had Star Wars curtains.

I walked in there and in my head, I thought: This is awesome and we will be married.”

Now, nine years after their nuptials, Hader has lent his vocal skills to a Star Wars character that is being emblazoned upon seemingly every fabric and common surface material around. The SNL alum is credited as a “vocal consultant” for the sounds of BB-8, the cute new “soccer ball” droid in The Force Awakens.

Two years ago on Conan, Hader while doing his comic impressions of dying Star Wars characters - half-joked that he “cornered” J.J. Abrams and told the Force Awakens director that he would do any voice for Episode VII. What really happened, Hader has said in recent interviews, was that Abrams was messing around with an iPad sound-effects app while the actor operated a talk box.

The result soon became less “voice” and more mechanical, as they found

the droid sounds they were looking for.

(Parks and Recreation’s Ben Schwartz is also credited as a BB-8 consultant.)

Inspiring the whirs and whistles of a droid is just the capper on a stellar year for Hader, the Emmy-winning performer who got to contribute even more significantly to another one of Disney’s biggest hits of 2015: Pixar’s Inside Out. Hader voices the emotion Fear — an easy role for him, he says, given his naturally anxious state. When I asked Hader in June how he landed that role, he joked that he basically hung out at Pixar for days until they gave him work.

“It’s that thing where,” he says, “I stalked them.”

The real reason I believe directors love to hire Hader, however, is that as a quick-witted performer and writer, he’s an appealing mix of wildly imaginative, joyously collaborative and ever so sonically gifted – plus, it doesn’t hurt that the Oklahoma native comes across as terminally humble.

No part is too small if it captures his creative interest.

This past summer, I mentioned to Hader how fascinating I’ve found his career choices — that the sheer eclecticism of his roles suggests someone who is truly following his own muse as a performer.

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Yet often, 2015 resonated as the Year of Bill Hader’s Voice.

Besides his Disney credits, he continues to provide inspired contributions to South Park, and also voiced Dr. Malocchio — alongside a wealth of fellow SNL talent -— on The Awesomes.

(He even offered ideas to Pixar for the current The Good Dinosaur.)

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Motorhead frontman Lemmy dies at 70 LOS ANGELES — Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, the Motorhead frontman whose outsized persona made him a hero for generations of hard-rockers and metal-heads, has died.

He was 70.

Agent Andrew Goodfriend tells The Associated Press that Kilmister died on Monday in Los Angeles after a brief battle with aggressive cancer.

Known simply as “Lemmy” to most, he was as famous for his moustache, mutton chops and the mole on his face as he was for his music.

But he was deeply respected and revered as a rock master and innovator, from his time with the seminal psychedelic band Hawkwind in the early 1970s to his four decades in Motorhead, best known for their 1980 anthem Ace of Spades.

The band announced Kilmister’s death on its Facebook page, describing him and “our mighty, noble friend” and urging fans to “…play Motörhead loud, play Hawkwind loud, play Lemmy’s music LOUD. Have a drink or few. Share stories.

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wonderful man celebrated so vibrantly himself. HE WOULD WANT EXACTLY THAT.” Born on Christmas Eve, 1945, in Staffordshire, England, Kilmister founded Motorhead in 1975.

Its bassist and lead singer ever since, Kilmister was royalty even among fellow rockers.

Ozzy Osbourne called him “one of my best friends.”

“He will be sadly missed,” Osbourne wrote on Twitter late Monday.

“He was a warrior and a legend. I will see you on the other side.”

Tall and lanky, with his distinct look, “Lemmy” lived rock music — he was a regular at Sunset Strip rocker hangout The Rainbow and never stopped recording and performing.

And he wasn’t just culturally revered, he was critically acclaimed: Motorhead won a Grammy for 2004’s best metal performance.

Kilmister had suffered numerous health issues in recent months.

According to the band’s statement, he learned of his cancer diagnosis just two days before his death.

PBS’ ‘In Defence of Food’ takes a measured look at healthy eating

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — January is looming, and we all know what that means: A resolution to lose weight and get healthy. Just like the 2015 declaration. And the one before that.

What diet to choose this time? Low-fat? Low-carb?

Gluten-free or prehistoric? Or just throw out the scale and surrender to fate and French fries?

Stop, take a breath and consider instead a seven-word alternative offered by prominent food writer Michael Pollan that embraces clarity and shuns extremism.

Here goes: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.

Behind that advice is a wealth of scientific, medical and anecdotal evidence as explored in the documentary In Defence of Food, airing 7-9 p.m. MST Wednesday on PBS stations (check local listings).

Pollan is an amiable, engaging guide through a buffet line that includes the how and why of the modern diet, the ever-shifting barrage of confusing, conflicting decrees (Don’t eat eggs! Eat eggs!) and, most importantly, realistic alternatives to chew over.

“The more I worked on this issue, the more I realized that painting things in black and white is not the way to help people move, because people move incrementally,” said Pollan, whose books include In Defence of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto and The Omnivore’s Dilemma.

“Relaxing about our eating is really important, too. I don’t want to make people more anxious about it,” he added. “ We already are made very anxious.”

But there is reason for concern. A sharp rise in U.S. obesity and diabetes parallels our devotion to a diet heavy in meat, white flour and fat.

And sugar: We consume about 1,000 per cent more of it per day than we did 200 years ago, Dr. Robert Lustig , a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, says in In Defence of Food.

Among the guidelines Pollan offers in the documentary: — “When I say, ‘Eat food,’ I’m basically saying eat the kinds of things that people have been eating for a long time,” including meat, fish, vegetables, fruit and grains, but everything in moderation.

— Avoid supermarket centre aisles that harbour the processed foods that Pollan labels “edible foodlike substances” that don’t deserve to be called food.

“If it came from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don’t,” he says.

— Use smaller plates and glasses to reduce portions.

Pollan says his inclusion of meat — in limited quantities — hasn’t made his approach popular with carnivores who feel he’s dissing their choices or with vegetarians. But it reflects his approach to being a happy and healthy eater.

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WITH TWO DAYS UNTIL DRAW, KINSMAN LOTTERY ONLY AT 60 PER CENT SOLD

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Odds of winning the 2015 Kinsmen Dream Home Lottery are higher than usual — so far.

Len Sisco, 2015 Kinsmen Dream Home chairman, said less than 60 per cent of tickets have been purchased.

“With the decline in the economy, it has affected us severely. We haven’t had as many people coming through,” said Sisco on Monday.

Tickets are available for the Dec. 31 draw until 5 p.m. on Thursday. Draws will begin at 8 p.m. at the dream home.

He said it’s been a strange year with less online traffic and home visits to purchase tickets prior to draws for the early bird and loyalty prizes.

About 70 per cent of tickets were purchased for the 2014 dream home and 88 per cent in 2013.

This year is the 34th Kinsmen Dream Home Lottery which is the city’s longest running dream home lottery.

The three-bedroom dream home, located at 77 Lalor Dr. built by Larkaun Homes, features custom maple cabinets, double-attached garage, a double-sided gas fireplace, main-floor laundry, and two-and-a-half bathrooms.

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A view of the exterior of the Kinsmen Dream Home located at 77 Lalor Drive on Monday afternoon.

The 2,369-square-foot home and lot are worth $850,000. Home appliances, window coverings and home theatre are included.

Auxiliary prizes include a 2015 Arctic Cat XR700 Ltd. quad valued at

$13,215, two Zen Awakening massage chairs each valued at $6,000, a $5,000 Co-op gift card, 10 inflatable jet spas valued at $1,995 each, and more.

“We’ve got a fabulous home. A lot of good prizes.”

The trip to Puerto Vallarta, and five $1,000 loyalty cash prizes, have already been awarded.

Sisco said local Kinsmen rely on money made from the lottery to fund projects and programs run by different agencies and community groups and requests are increasing.

Kinsmen would have more than $200,000 to distribute if all 14,100 tickets were sold.

He said the separate 50-50 lottery sold out as of Sunday. That draw is always a sell-out, but this year took about two weeks longer. As a sell-out, the winner will walk away with $75,000.

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Pam Pennington, operator of Red Deer Pet First Aid, her husband, Dave Connelly, and their dogs Pongo, left, and Penelope, right, pose for a picture at the Rhino Integrated Safety Training Services Ltd. office Monday afternoon.

First aid course open for pet owners PROGRAM AIMED AT SAVING FURRY FRIENDS HAS SPACE FOR 16 PEOPLE

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer & District SPCA has teamed up with Red Deer Pet First Aid to teach cat and dog owners how to respond to pet emergencies.

The two-day course on Jan. 23 and 24, to be held at the SPCA, will be taught by Pam Pennington, operator of Red Deer Pet First Aid at Rhino Integrated Safety Training Services Ltd. The 10-hour course, that runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day, costs $150. Half the proceeds will be donated to the local SPCA. Topics include CPR and artificial respiration, choking, bleeding and other wounds, broken bones and joint injuries.

“People seem quite interested in

“EMERGENCIES ARE TOUGH. IT’S NICE TO BE ABLE TO EQUIP PEOPLE WITH THAT FIRST STEP, WHAT THEY CAN DO PRIOR TO COMING TO US.” PAM PENNINGTON, OPERATOR OF RED DEER PET FIRST AID the CPR aspect. That’s an extreme emergency situation. But lots of people wouldn’t know how to do CPR on their pet if it came to that,” said Pennington, an animal health technologist at a local veterinary clinic and long-time SPCA volunteer, on Monday.

Other issues that will be discussed are health care and injury prevention, how to safely restrain and transport animals, and more.

Dogs from the SPCA will attend the class for demonstration and practice purposes. No invasive or distressing procedures will be done on the animals.

“We haven’t tried using a cat yet,” Pennington said with a laugh, knowing

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that cat owners can imagine how much a typical feline would enjoy participating in class.

Working at a clinic, she has seen how difficult and stressful emergencies can be for pet owners.

“Emergencies are tough. It’s nice to be able to equip people with that first step, what they can do prior to coming to us.”

Pennington teaches Walks ‘N’ Wags Pet First Aid program and has offered classes since spring.

She said the program is unique because it’s available to both dog and cat owners. So far more dog owners have attended her classes.

It’s a niche-type class, but there are a lot of pets in Red Deer and owners are really receptive, she said.

“They do feel like they leave having learned something.”

Space is available for 16 students.

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Police have arrested an “armed and dangerous” man in connection to a recent stabbing of a man on the side of the road near Eckville.

Innisfail RCMP arrested Edward Dwayne Heywood, 45, of no fixed address, on an outstanding charge of attempted murder late Sunday.

Police were conducting routine patrols in Bowden when they spotted the suspect in a stolen GMC Sierra truck on Cottonwood Road near Range Road 10.

When police attempted to pull the vehicle over it failed to stop and a pursuit began out of Bowden where the truck struck a power pole, an unoccupied parked vehicle and an electrical box.

The vehicle continued onto Highway 2A where police were able to deploy a spike belt. The truck then drove into an open field where the deflating tires brought the vehicle to a stop. The driver,then fled on foot where he was arrested a short distance later by RCMP members who had followed him on foot into the field.

Heywood will be held for a bail hearing. In addition to the attempted murder charge, he will face a number of criminal code charges as a result of the police pursuit and arrest.

He was also arrested on an outstanding warrant issued by Olds RCMP for assault, assault with a weapon and uttering threats in an unrelated investigation.

His court date and additional charge information is expected to be released today

Police look for more info on suspicious death

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Police are expected to release more details surrounding the suspicious Christmas day death in Red Deer on Tuesday.

An autopsy on Thomas Patrick Braconnier was scheduled on Monday.

Braconnier, 46, who lived at the Buffalo Hotel, was found around 5:20 a.m. on Christmas morning in a vestible 50th Street and 50th Avenue in downtown Red Deer.

Police confirmed on Sunday the death was a result of “foul play.”

The RCMP continue to appeal to the public to contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575 or Crime Stoppers 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) if they have any information that may assist the police in this investigation.

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Storms bring ice, flooding across U.S. Midwest GARLAND, Texas — The storm system that spawned deadly tornadoes in Texas over the weekend brought heavy snow, ice and blustery winds Monday to several states in the nation’s midsection, as well as heavy rain in already water-logged areas where flooding has already been blamed for more than a dozen deaths.

More than 2,100 flights across the U.S. were cancelled Monday — more than half of them at Chicago’s two main airports — and 3,700 were delayed, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware. A typical day sees about 150 cancellations and 4,000 delays.

At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in the tornadoes that swept through the Dallas area Saturday. Snow from New Mexico through the Midwest, plus flooding in Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois, added to the succession of severe weather events across the U.S. in the last week that led to about four dozen deaths.

Highways turned icy and treacherous in New Mexico, while Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin declared a state of emergency after blizzard conditions affected parts of the state and heavy rains fell.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said the body of a 22-year-old man was recovered in northern Oklahoma but

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The fire broke out near an oil pipeline in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco on Dec. 22. The Tabasco Health Department said Monday that the latest death was a 33-year-old man who died Sunday after suffering third-degree burns over three-quarters of his body.

The state-owned oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, said the fire ignited in a pool of fuel left by thieves after they drilled a tap into a pipeline.

The company sealed the tap, but some fuel collected near a hose used by the thieves, and local residents were apparently trying to collect it.

Observer group: Venezuelan homicide rate rose in 2015, rivaling El Salvador as world’s highest CARACAS, Venezuela — A non-governmental group that tracks crime in Venezuela says that the homicide rate

a second man, the lead singer of the country-rock band Backroad Anthem, was still missing after the two went duck hunting and their boat capsized.

The body of a 36-year-old man who tried to cross a creek in his pickup truck near the town of Arpelar was also recovered Monday afternoon, the patrol said.

Officials in Arkansas said a 31-yearold man died in a storm-related drowning.

Several inches of rain caused flooding in Illinois and Missouri, where Gov. Jay Nixon also declared a state of emergency. Nixon says the state’s death toll from days of pounding rainfall has risen to 10, and he expects that number to grow.

The Mississippi River neared a potential record crest, after an unusual amount of late-fall rain had the river already high before torrential downpours that began Saturday.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said Monday the state is seeking a federal disaster declaration for some or all of the seven counties hit by a tornado last week. Authorities in Georgia said they recovered the body of a man whose car was swept away when floodwaters overtook it.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made disaster declarations Sunday for four counties — Dallas, Collin, Rockwall and Ellis. Officials estimated as many as 1,450 homes in North Texas were damaged or destroyed by at least nine tornadoes. rose in 2015, putting the country on track to be perhaps the most-violent in the world.

The Venezuelan Violence Observatory estimates that 27,875 killings occurred this year, pushing the homicide rate up to 90 per 100,000 inhabitants.

The group says that killings in Venezuela this year surpassed those in Honduras and the country now rivals El Salvador as the world’s deadliest.

Last year, the observatory counted 82 killings per 100,000 people. In 1998, the rate was 19 per 100,000.

The report published Monday is based on press reports, victim surveys and officials’ comments. Venezuelan authorities generally dispute the group’s findings and say the homicide rate is much lower.

Elephant seal repeatedly tries to cross California highway SAN FRANCISCO — Wildlife experts and law enforcement officials are working to keep a determined elephant seal off a Northern California highway that it has repeatedly tried to cross, slowing traffic in the area.

California Highway Patrol spokesman Officer Andrew Barclay says callers first reported the 500-pound mammal was trying to climb the divider wall of Highway 37 near Sears Point in Sonoma. He says U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crews and CHP officers managed to usher the adult seal back into the San Francisco Bay. But instead of swimming away, the animal got back on land at least twice.

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Workers cut up a section of tree that fell across westbound Indiana 18 in Marion, Ind., after ice and high winds hit the area on Monday. The storm system that spawned weekend twisters in North Texas brought winter storm woes to the Midwest and amplified flooding that’s blamed for more than a dozen deaths.

The National Weather Service has said an EF-4 tornado, which is the second-most powerful with winds up to more than 200 mph (320 kph), hit Garland. Eight people died there, 15 were injured and more than 600 structures,

mostly single-family homes, were damaged.

“I’ve never seen anything like this, with this scale of destruction,” Garland Police Chief Mitch Bates said Monday.

‘La Familia’ cartel co-founder found dumped on Mexican highway

Thousands in shelters in several South American nations due to flooding

MORELIA, Mexico — The bullet-ridden bodies of four people including the co-founder of a violent drug cartel were found early Monday on a highway in western Mexico, authorities said.

All the victims were men and they were apparently killed elsewhere and dumped in a parking area near a tollbooth, according to Michoacan state prosecutors.

The prosecutors’ office later confirmed in a statement that one of the victims was Carlos Rosales Mendoza, 53, alias “El Tisico.” Rosales is considered one of the founders and leaders of La Familia Michoacana cartel and the Knights Templar, which arose from the remnants of La Familia.

Michoacan has been afflicted by increasing drug violence and also an armed uprising starting in 2013, by vigilante groups who sought to kick the Knights Templar out of the state.

CONCORDIA, Argentina — Massive, widespread flooding forced tens of thousands of people in South America to take refuge in shelters on Monday, as they endured heat, bugs and dirty running water because of contaminated sewer lines.

The floods were caused by heavy rains and bulging rivers over the last several days and come at the beginning of the Southern Hemisphere’s summer months. That means evacuees were also dealing with heat, humidity, mosquitoes and snakes that thrive in swamp-like conditions.

Concordia, about 425 kilometres north of Buenos Aires, was among places that were particularly hard hit.

Some houses had water nearly up to the roofs, and people made their way around town in canoes. It was unclear what thousands of people will find when they do return to their homes after the waters subside.

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It feels like it was many moons ago particular who he hit it off with. As it when I had a nervous little boy starting happened the mothers of these boys his first day of Kindergarten. Lars has also ended up being pretty spectacular always worn his emotions on his sleeve human beings and just as the boys’ relationships grew into great so it was painfully apparent friendships so did their to everyone in the colorfulmothers. ly decorated classroom that It is a wonderful thing my son did not want to be when an acquaintance can there. He cried and asked blossom into something so over and over again to go meaningful over the course home. However we perseof only one year. I look at vered and the more he ateverything that has changed tended class the more he for me and my family over enjoyed it. these last twelve months It is one of the importand I feel so thankful to ant lessons of life: Anything have been blessed with worth doing is going to be Carla and Jen’s friendship. difficult. It takes work and Just as Lars has found saferesolve to accomplish greatLINDSAY ty and comfort in his new ness. It takes determinaBROWN friendships so have I. tion even when the outlook ME PLUS THREE I was having a bad day. seems grim. Success means The pressure of the move having a healthy dose of and about a thousand other optimism to back up your plans. It also helps to have support and everyday stresses had come crashing a shoulder to lean on from the people down on me and I felt as though I was drowning. we call friends.

Jen had picked up Lars from school I think it was a number of things that turned Lars around when it came for me and brought him to her house to school but a big one was the friend- where she and Carla were having ships that he made in that first year of a play date for the kids. I figured it Kindergarten. There were two boys in would be a good chance for me to get

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some packing done and try to de-stress a bit.

When I got to Jen’s house to pick him up I didn’t intend on staying and I certainly didn’t plan on breaking down into a blubbering mess in front of her and Carla.

But both of those things happened despite my best efforts.

One look of, “are you sure you’re okay” from Carla and every tear I was holding back and sob I was stuffing down came flowing out relentlessly.

Before I knew it I was unloading on them every piece of anxiety I had been harboring and the worries that were weighing me down for what seemed like so long.

I cried uninhibitedly, it was no doubt the ugliest of ugly cries and I didn’t give a damn. I told them how I felt I was failing as Mom because I couldn’t ease Lars’ anxieties about the move and how didn’t know what to do about Sophie’s acting out lately.

Both of these women, who I’ve only known for a short time in the grand scheme of things, hugged me and told me that it was normal to feel this way.

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And I can never thank them enough for those few minutes we shared at Jen’s kitchen table that day.

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The coffee conversations we have with our parents and the silent moments we share with our children. If we look we can unearth unique friendships everywhere.

As humans it is in our nature to find consolation in one another—whether it is to feel comfortable in a new school or to simply have someone tell us that everything is going to be okay. We talk, and cry and laugh and feel each other’s pain. Friendship truly is a beautiful thing.

And in those quiet flashes of reflection we can truly realize how fortunate we are to have had these exceptional people slip into our existence.

Lindsay Brown is an Alberta mother of two and freelance columnist.

Relaxing now that Christmas deadlines have passed After weeks of anticipation, ChristIn the weekly newspaper world mas has come and Christmas has gone! which I inhabit on a regular basis, And now, just days after the cel- deadline is our bottom line, our motto, ebration, the holiday is our common ground, and our all bundled up in yesterown secret password. Early day’s crumpled wrapping deadline is even more deadly, paper, ready to be recyso to speak! cled and the new year is So, for the last few days rebut an embryo waiting to maining in 2015, it’s nice to emerge. know Christmas and its ensuAnd for a quick and ing deadlines have come and fleeting moment in time gone. there is no great holiday Looking back on the days to celebrate. between the deadlines, it In hockey and golf, seems we’ve all lived through they call this in-betweena whole lot of experiences, time the shoulder season some good and some not so –a time when golfers go good, but all of which have TREENA into withdrawal because served to shape us and, hopeMIELKE of the frost warnings and fully, leave us a little more LIFE hockey players await with humble, a whole lot more anticipation newly schedgrateful and maybe even a tiuled ice times. ny bit wiser.

It’s all good. It’s a time to exhale For me, it’s been a season punctuand relax. ated with the comforting familiarity The deadline has passed. of Christmas concerts and cheerful

Christmas greetings, ringing out like silver bells in the frosty December air.

And, also for me, the holiday season has been highlighted by unexpected kindnesses that have lighted up my world to an even brighter hue than the Christmas lights stretched across the top of my garage door.

These unexpected kindnesses dropped into my world remind me of a line taken from the famous Desiderata which says eloquently: ‘with all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.’

As 2015 rolls to a finish it is nice to know that traits such as kindness and compassion still exist, even as our world continues to be shaken by wars and rumours of wars.

For each and everyone of us, the year ahead is full of unchartered territory, a thought which could be slightly disturbing.

But, once again I am reminded of the beautiful words of The Desiderata: ‘You are a child of the universe, no

less than the trees and the stars: you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt, the universe is unfolding as it should.’

And so it seems to me if we simply believe those words and trust that they will be as accurate in 2016 as they were in 1692 when The Desiderata was found, we will eliminate a lot of useless worrying from our lives.

And, despite the economic downturn, the continual upheaval over Bill 6 and the overall unrest that shrouds the entire world, allow optimism to flourish.

And allow ourselves to have a truly happy new year!

Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.

Tips to stick Challenge negative messages from your with New Year’s inner critic: shift your programming resolutions

hood is a “proactive way to shift these numbers.”

“At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.”

– Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian author, essayResearch suggests that there are eight factors ist and historian that contribute to negative early programming and “You think you know so damn much,” he spat. among them are disapproving authority figures, un“You don’t know a damn thing!” involved/preoccupied caregivers, authority figures With that, Jerry’s father removed the small en- in conflict, trauma, academic challenges with little gine from the vice where it was secured and threw caregiver support, bullying, cultural or religious beit against the garage wall. Parts, including the car- lief systems, and unrealistic expectations of society buretor, broke off and bounced across and the media. the shop floor. A handsaw and level If your childhood was like most, you probhanging on hooks fell from the wall ably experienced one or many these factors. and clattered to the floor. Jerry was Over time, they have become woven into the only about 12 at the time but he knew tapestry of your life and absorbed in ways full well what was coming next – a jaryou might never imagine. They have conring, open-handed cuff across the side tributed to making you the person you are of the head. Instead of waiting for the today. The important thing to know is that inevitable, he turned and ran. Despite you’re not bound – as an adult – by these yells and curses for him to stop and early circumstances. Upon reviewing your come back, he kept running – all the history, you may discover that many of these way to his secret hiding spot where he experiences and intense emotional messages hunkered down and stayed for most of weren’t necessarily meant for you. They were the day. reactions and responses to circumstances by MURRAY Jerry’s story is just one of many the people who delivered them to you – peoFUHRER I’ve heard over the years. People with ple who were dealing with their own poor self-esteem issues often have traumatearly programming. With awareness and time EXTREME ESTEEM ic stories of abuse from childhood. spent in reflection, you may be able to reIn Jerry’s case, he loved to tinker so lease and forgive or at least dilute the power one day found his way into his father’s of these negative messages in your life. Unworkshop where he’s placed an old Briggs & Stratton derstanding the sources of your self-esteem issues gas engine – the type you’d find on a garden cultiva- will help you put them into proper context. tor – into a vice of the workbench. Jerry thought if he One of the first steps toward shifting your early could get it working, his father might let him use it to programming is to challenge the negative messages power a go-kart he was building. from your inner critic. If you actually listen to what “That old engine had sat on the shelf for years,” the critic is saying, you’ll find the messages are often said Jerry, reflecting back on the incident. “When I unrealistic, generalized, illogical or catastrophized/ came back, it was outside in the trash bin. Nothing unlikely predictions. Use the inner critic as a means more was said about it.” of revealing what it is that you’ve come to accept to It’s a given that early childhood experiences – early programming – can have a tremendous effect be true.

Rebuking the inner critic is a great first step, but on our self-esteem. For Jerry, every time he’d begin to feel competent, he would hear his father’s angry you’ll also need to practise self-compassion. Treat declaration that he didn’t know a “damn thing” and yourself gently and with respect and empathy – the way you would show it to others. Be mindful of your lose all self-confidence.

Though there is evidence to support the idea emotions and watch for your triggers. This can be that some personality traits are genetic – like a hot insightful. Once you know what triggers an emotiontemper or a shiftless nature – there is even greater al and damaging response, you can learn to unplug evidence to support the assertion that most of our from it.

It’s important to talk about experiences that dampersonality traits are the result of experiences we aged you as a child. I’m not talking about playing had as children.

For example, if a child grows up in an overly-pro- the victim or moaning the blues, but to talk, explore tective family, he or she might come to believe the and release in a positive manner. People with low world is frightening and unsafe place and develop self-esteem are often reluctant to ask for help, feelunfounded fears and insecurities. The child might ing underserving of it. Speak with a friend, join a fear strangers and find it difficult to meet new peo- self-esteem group or, if necessary, talk to a therapist or counsellor. ple and build relationships.

“There is no magic cure [and] no way to make it Our self-esteem reflects how we feel about ourselves and contributes to how we approach the all go away forever,” writes American young adult world. Although our level of self-esteem will fluc- novelist Laurie Halse Anderson on early childhood tuate from day-to-day, it provides us with a general experiences. “There are only small steps upward. sense of our self-efficacy, personal value and self- An easier day, un unexpected laugh, a mirror that worth. This “sense” is reflected in our behaviour, doesn’t matter anymore.”

Yes, there will be those experiences from childbody language, response to crisis and conflict and hood that are impossible to resolve but what matters our overall demeanour.

In a report by the American Psychological Asso- is that you continue to look for ways to learn, grow, ciation, it is estimated that one in four Americans understand and forgive. With time and perseversuffered from a mental health condition and that low ance, you’ll become more skilled at repairing the self-esteem is a contributing factor. According to the early damage.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitareport, there is a “high correlation between mental health conditions like depression and anxiety and tor. His new book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four low self-esteem.” The report goes on to say that de- Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the veloping a loving and positive self-image in child- Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca

Q: With a new year upon us, I’ve once again made a long list of resolutions I intend to keep. As sincere as I am about achieving my goals and making some changes, I’m afraid they’re doomed to fail as they did in 2015 — and every year before. Do you have any advice?

Jim: I suspect many of us can empathize with your frustration. I could offer some tips, like focusing on just a JIM DALY few goals, making yourself FOCUS ON THE accountable to someone, etc. But what I’ve discovered FAMILY through my own failures is that often the problem is rooted in willpower that’s insufficient for the particular thing I want to accomplish.

This concept may be easier to understand by realizing that the word “willpower” in Greek is often translated as “desire.” It’s the idea that we can achieve a goal when our desire matches our objective. But, too often, our desires are in direct conflict with our goals. And that’s exactly the problem, isn’t it?

Take weight loss, for example. I may wish to lose 20 pounds, but if what I truly desire is to eat ice cream every night, I soon find my willpower breaking down. The reality is our wishes are never strong enough to overcome our true desires for very long.

In these situations, I’d suggest the solution is to focus on the underlying needs that control our desires.

For example, maybe we routinely overeat to anesthetize emotional pain. If we find healing for that inner struggle, the need to pacify our pain should dissipate. If this is your situation, you may have to put in some work to get your true desires to align with your goals. Once that happens, your willpower can work for you, rather than against you.

Q: My son is big into video games. I have no qualms with him firing up the PlayStation and enjoying some screen time. But, in my opinion, he can be at it for way too long. Surprisingly, I’ve polled other parents only to find that their kids spend just as much time, if not more, gaming. What kind of limits would you recommend?

Bob Waliszewski, Director, Plugged-In: A few years ago, in an effort to get a better handle on some of the hottest video games, I made arrangements to hang out with a neighborhood kid who had a reputation as a major league gamer. As part of my research, I was curious to find out how much time he spent playing games and how attached he was to his gaming console. I was amazed to learn that not only had he spent seven hours gaming the day before, but he’d been at it for another four prior to our meeting that day. Clearly fatigue wasn’t a factor for him as he proceeded to put on a mind-bending demonstration of his skills and of the latest games. After two hours I left exhausted, but he showed no signs of letting up.

I was aware of the consuming nature of video games, but seeing it firsthand made an indelible impression.

Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program.

HEALTH

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TUESDAY, DEC. 29, 2015

Hidden epidemic few women want to talk about

BY TARA BAHRAMPOUR ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES When Carmel Price’s mother had an operation six years ago, Price helped her in the hospital but never really knew what the procedure was for. “I heard that she was having ‘reconstructive surgery,’ like that her organs had moved around and they were putting them back where they belonged,” said Price, a sociology professor at the University of Michigan in Dearborn.

Then Price had two babies of her own and suddenly she understood and unlike many women in the past, she is talking about it.

“My bladder was bulging outside of my body, and if I was on my feet for any significant length of time, like if I was giving a three-hour lecture, or running or jumping, it would fall out even further.” Her mother confirmed that it was the same thing she’d had.

Pelvic organ prolapse - when a woman’s bladder, uterus, or rectum falls down through the vaginal canal - affects millions of women in America, and becomes more likely the older they get. The average age women start to notice pelvic floor disorders, which include prolapse as well as urinary and fecal incontinence, is 56; by 80, half of all women have one or more symptoms. One in ten end up in surgery - and associated costs are soaring as the population ages - from an estimated $66 billion a year in 2007 to a projected $83 billion in 2020.

And yet for years, few women talked about it. Gynecologists often do not notice it in routine exams, and many women have lived with the condition for years or even decades without realizing anything could be done.

“This is a stigmatized condition,” said John DeLancey, a Univeristy of Michigan professor of gynecology and urology who pioneered the use of MRIs and biomechanical analysis to diag-

nose pelvic floor damage. “It’s nothing people would talk about in polite company… . And because nobody talks about it, everyone thinks they’re the only one.”

Recently, however, the conversation has opened up ever so slightly. Last month the actress Kate Winslet spoke publicly about her urinary incontinence since having babies.

The FDA recently approved several versions of a pelvic floor muscle trainer, which provide feedback via a smartphone app. And new internal devices for incontinence and prolapse, which advocates say work better than earlier versions, are just hitting the U.S. market.

“There has definitely been a sea change starting this calendar year,” said Missy Lavender, founder and executive director of the Women’s Health Foundation, which does education and advocacy on the issue. “We suddenly have people looking at women’s pelvic health, going, ‘Why don’t we do more?’ “ References to pelvic organ prolapse appear in Egyptian hieroglyphics, Medieval woodcuts, and the Bible (which says it is a sign a wife has been unfaithful). Treatments throughout the ages included fumigating the lower abdomen with herbs; tying a woman upside-down to a ladder and shaking it; or menacing the wayward organ with a hot poker to frighten it into place.

In reality, pelvic floor prolapse is similar to a hernia where the organs and vaginal walls are pushed out through an opening in the muscles of the pelvic floor.

The condition is most common among women who have given birth. In 10 to 15 percent of vaginal deliveries, the attachment of the muscles to the side walls tears, weakening the ability of the muscles to support the organs.

Most women have no idea there is a problem until years later: when the muscles weaken with age and are no

longer able to hold the organs in place.

“It’s not painful so much as uncomfortable,” DeLancey said. ” … They feel this intense pressure. Often they say they have a backache.”

Pelvic floor problems run in families; other risk factors include obesity, routine heavy lifting, older maternal age at first birth, and the use of forceps during delivery.

Treatments include the use of a pessary, an internal support device that women can insert to hold the organs

in place, or surgery using the patient’s own tissue or a mesh to lift and repair the fallen organs.

There are 320,000 surgeries a year for pelvic floor disorder, 200,000 of which are for prolapse. For less advanced cases, physical therapy can help reduce symptoms.

Left untreated, the prolapse can grow to the size of a grapefruit or larger, and it can become painful if the organs pull on the ligaments that connect to the sacrum.

Why 3D games might be good for your child EXERCISE FOR THE BRAIN

BY MEERI KIM ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES The late film critic Roger Ebert famously declared that video games could never be art, much to the outrage of die-hard gamers everywhere. While the artistic value of classics like “Portal” or “Doom” continues to be a matter of debate, another group of skeptics about the value of video games — namely medical researchers — are starting to come around to the idea that becoming engrossed in the virtual world of a video game may have value beyond pure fun.

Recent research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology and cognitive science has found evidence that playing certain video games can be like exercise for the brain.

Studies from the past decade have found that individuals who frequently play action games like first-person shooters outperform non-gamers on a variety of perceptual and cognitive measures - visual acuity, decision-making, object tracking, and task switching to name a few. Even players of casual video games, such as “Bejeweled Blitz” or “Candy Crush Saga,” report memory improvements and quicker response time as a result.

Now, researchers have discovered that playing 3-D video games - those that immerse the player in a three-dimensional world with a more true-to-life, first-person perspective - may boost memory and stimulate the brain.

A new study published this month in the Journal of Neuroscience, trained college students with either a simple 2-D game (“Angry Birds”) or an intricate 3-D game (“Super Mario 3-D World”). The subjects had little to no experience with video games before the experiment, and were instructed to play for a half-hour per day for two weeks. After the training period, the groups took memory tests designed to activate the brain’s hippocampus, which is highly involved in the formation of new memories and becomes stimulated when navigating an unfamiliar environment.

“It’s sometimes called explicit or declarative memory, but what it really comes down to is your ability to remember details of things that have happened to you - and that’s where the hippocampus comes in,” said study author Craig Stark, professor of neurobiology and behavior at the University of California at Irvine.

For instance, structural MRI studies have found significantly larger cortical volume in the posterior hippocampi of London cab drivers - individuals with extensive navigation experience with first-hand knowledge of tens of thousands of streets - relative to control subjects. Stark and his colleagues wanted to determine whether exploration of a virtual world would lead to similar effects in the hippocampus through the use of a 3-D video game.

The group that played “Super Mario 3-D World” improved their scores by about 12 percent after the two-week training, with performance correlating with the amount of exploration achieved in the game’s environment, while the 2-D “Angry Birds” cohort showed no significant progress. To get an idea of the magnitude of this boost, a typical score on these memory tasks has been seen to drop the same amount from ages 45 to 70.

“The amount that we were able to boost people’s memory performance by playing video games represents about 20 to 30 years of cognitive decline,” Stark explained in an interview. “But it would be the sort of thing that would require constant maintenance, like going to the gym. If you work out really hard for a month, that’s great - but it won’t last the rest of your life.”

Indeed, after two weeks of no gaming, the boost in memory performance seen in 3-D gamers had already started to dissipate. But Stark, whose research focuses on how the circuitry of the hippocampus changes with age, plans to further investigate how video games and other stimulating, enriching experiences can help ward off cognitive aging in an older population whose memory is on the decline.

“I don’t necessarily think there’s anything mag-

ical about 3-D games themselves,” he said. “I think they’re tapping into a lot of things - they’re complex, fun, engaging and immersive - and I think that’s what is really driving [the improvements in memory].”

While specific brain training games do exist to supposedly build up memory or concentration, Stark believes that more broad-spectrum approaches like

complex video games, language classes, or even traveling abroad, may be more beneficial for brain health. Living a “cognitively engaged lifestyle” as he calls it, that also captivates our imagination and sense of wonder is a natural way to draw on a number of different brain processes and potentially improve functioning as a result.

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B5 Rebels can’t get going against Oil Kings

TUESDAY, DEC. 29, 2015

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada’s Rourke Chartier fights for the puck against Denmark’s Christian Mieritz during first period hockey action at the IIHF World Junior Championship in Helsinki, Finland on Monday.

Canada gets team effort in win over Denmark

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

WORLD JUNIORS

Canada 6 Denmark 1 HELSINKI — Mitch Marner took off his sandal, held it up like a microphone and joined the reporters interviewing teammate Dylan Strome.

Strome laughed and swatted away his friend’s shoe before continuing to answer questions about Canada’s forward lines after a 6-1 victory over Denmark on Monday in the preliminary round of the world junior hockey championship.

It’s obvious that Canada’s junior team has loosened up on and off the ice after a disappointing 4-2 loss to the United States on Saturday to open the tournament.

“I think our line was having fun, for sure. I think the whole team was too,” said Marner, who was paired with Brayden Point and John Quenneville for the first time at the international event. “It’s nice going out and doing that especially after the USA game. It’s nice to get the confidence back in the room. We’ve got to make sure we come back tomorrow and make sure we’re ready to play.”

Canadian head coach Dave Lowry said after the opening loss that his players needed to stop overthinking plays and shoot more often. They delivered Monday by firing 58 shots on Denmark’s goalie Mathias Seldrup, more than twice as many as Canada had against the Americans.

“We just wanted to get more pucks to the net,” said Marner. “I think that was the problem in our first game we didn’t get enough pucks to the net. We really focused on trying to get bodies in front of the goalies.

“Every goalie in this tournament is great when they see the puck so we just got to get bodies in front of them and make sure we get pucks there.”

Marner and Strome had a goal and an assist each for Canada (1-1), while Anthony Beauvillier, John Quenneville, Matt Barzal and Lawson Crouse also scored at Helsinki Ice Hall.

“We like winning,” said Marner, who was selected fourth overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in last summer’s NHL draft. “Everyone played really well tonight, we had great depth, everyone got a point on

our team almost. Any line can score on our team.”

Mason McDonald faced 11 shots in total — none in the third period — only allowing a goal on a deflection off the skate of Danish forward Alexander True.

“I can’t remember when I faced that little,” said McDonald, who said he worked hard to stay focused in the third period. “It had to be peewee or something.”

It was likely McDonald’s last start of the preliminary round. It’s expected that he will give way to Mackenzie Blackwood on Tuesday when the Canadians face Switzerland (0-2). Blackwood had to serve the final two games of an eight-game suspension before suiting up for Canada.

“I feel good about my game,” said McDonald. “I don’t know who’s going tomorrow. We’ll find out shortly and then just go from there.”

Seldrup made 52 saves in net for Denmark (1-1), which plays Sweden (2-0) on Wednesday.

Marner and Strome, who are good friends off the ice, were split up for this game, with Marner joining Point and Quenneville and Strome centring Jake Virtanen and Brendan Perlini.

At Sunday’s practice, Marner, Strome and Perlini skated on a line while on Saturday, Marner and Strome were with three different wingers at various points in the game.

“It doesn’t really matter who you’re on the ice with,” said Strome. “There’s 13 forwards on this team who can play with anyone. Everyone puts up good numbers with their Canadian Hockey League team.

“It’s not like there’s no goal scorers on this forward group, everyone can put pucks in the net, anyone can set up plays, so it’s easy to play with anyone.”

According to Marner, he and Strome only learned of their new lines shortly before Monday’s game.

“In a perfect world, you’d like to keep them together,” sad Lowry. “It wasn’t working. We weren’t generating enough as a group. These guys, they’re fine with that. They relish the opportunity to play with different guys.

Oil Kings 3 Rebels 1 EDMONTON — The Red Deer Rebels were somewhat lucky to come out of Sunday’s Western Hockey League date with the visiting Edmonton Oil Kings with a victory.

They weren’t as fortunate 24 hours later.

“It was kind of a carryover from last night,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, following a 3-1 loss Monday to the Edmonton Oil Kings in front of 6,928 fans at Rexall Place.

“We just didn’t have any intensity or any emotion.

We weren’t engaged like we need to play.”

Sutter gave newcomer Jake DeBrusk a passing grade but otherwise was somewhat disgruntled with the play of his veteran skaters.

“Our best players just aren’t our best players right now and it’s hurting us,” said the Rebels boss.

The Rebels were outshot 17-4 in the first period but managed to hold the Oil Kings to a single goal — Brandon Baddock’s 15th of the season.

“It was terrible,” Sutter said of his club’s slow start. “We were too much on our heels. We weren’t working hard enough and we weren’t playing with the pace you need to be successful.”

Brett Pollock gave Edmonton a 2-0 lead 25 seconds into the third period when he directed a bounce off the boards past Rebels netminder Trevor Martin.

DeBrusk potted Red Deer’s lone goal 16 minutes later and with Martin on the Red Deer bench in favour of an extra attacker, Oil Kings forward Luke Bertolucci potted an empty-net marker with 35 seconds remaining.

Martin finished with 35 saves, while Edmonton goalie Payton Lee blocked 24 shots.

The setback dropped the Rebels into sole possession of third place in the Eastern Conference, two points back of both the Lethbridge Hurricanes, who have a game in hand, and the Calgary Hitmen, who have played two more than Red Deer.

Meanwhile, the Brandon Wheat Kings are just a single point behind the Rebels and the Prince Albert Raiders are three in arrears.

“We have to get back at it, we’re losing ground,” said Sutter. “We have to get back to playing the right way, and that’s the biggest thing — getting guys committed to play the game the right way.

“You have to understand that you’re not going to score four or five goals every night. You have to be able to win games 1-0 or 2-1 and when you’re giving up 40 shots a night it’s hard to do that.”

• Sutter acquired the WHL rights to forward Taden Rattie from the Portland Winterhawks Monday in exchange for a fourth-round selection in the 2016 bantam draft.

Rattie, the brother of former Portland star forward and St. Louis Blues prospect Ty Rattie, will leave the Calgary Mustangs of the Alberta Junior Hockey League to join the Rebels today. The 17-yearold Airdrie product committed to Western Michigan of the NCAA while playing with the Whitecourt Wolverines last season.

The six-foot-four, 190-pound winger was dealt to the Mustangs in November and in 87 career AJHL games he has produced 16 goals and 31 points and has racked up 297 minutes in penalties.

“He skates real well for a big guy,” said Sutter.

“He’s an up and down guy who finishes all his checks and who will give us some heaviness. He has to continue to work on his game, but he’s only 17.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Henderson named Canadian female athlete of year

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Red-eye flights, pre-tournament qualifiers and last-minute travel plans were often the norm for golfer Brooke Henderson in her first season as a professional.

At the start of the year, she hoped to post some decent results and use her rookie campaign as a learning experience. Henderson did much more than that in 2015 — she became the first Canadian to win on the LPGA Tour in more than a decade and rocketed into the top 20 in the world rankings.

Not bad for someone who just celebrated her 18th birthday a few months ago.

Henderson capped her impressive season Monday by winning the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as The Canadian Press female athlete of the year. She picked up 21 votes (37 per cent) in the annual survey of editors and broadcasters from across the country.

“I’m hoping this is just the start of a pretty long career, and one where I can chase after some bigger dreams and goals that I’ve set for myself,” Henderson said. “Really I think that there are no limits and I think anything is possible. My 2015 year proves that it’s true — that anything is possible.”

Soccer player Kadeisha Buchanan was well back in second place in the voting with 10 votes (17 per cent). Tennis player Eugenie Bouchard won the award the last two years.

Henderson is the first golfer to capture the honour since Lorie Kane in 2000. Kane was also the last Canadian to win on the Tour until Henderson blew away the field at the Cambia Portland Classic in August to end Canada’s 14-year victory drought.

The youngster from Smiths Falls, Ont., needed to play in a qualifier just to enter the tournament field that week. She showed she belonged by finishing with a whopping eight-shot victory.

“A couple days I was playing there and I was thinking back to when I would just kind of daydream when I was little,” she said. “I was looking at my putt on the green and I could see the hole and the ball and I could see the fans around the green. They were kind of blurred and it was just exactly how I pictured it when I was little. I was like, ‘Wow, you know what, this is my dream.”’

Henderson, who also posted fifth-place ties at two major events last season, was granted immediate LPGA Tour membership by commissioner Mike Whan after the win.

“The LPGA Tour win — that was really the pinnacle of the season,” she said. “It was when I was playing my best and I was able to secure my LPGA Tour card and get my first LPGA Tour victory. (The year) as a whole was a result of a lot of hard work and it was just something where everything came together and I thank God for that.

“It was just a miracle year really.”

Henderson will be able to play a full Tour schedule next year and make her plans well ahead of time.

Gone are the days of needing sponsor invitations or travelling overnight to make it to the course in time for morning qualification rounds.

“I wanted to play against the best in the world,” she said. “Most of the times when I was doing that, I wasn’t a member and I didn’t really have anywhere else to play. I was trying to make my way onto the Tour and trying to make my mark. It was something that I knew I had to do and it was exciting to know that I could have a chance to do something amazing.”

Henderson finished the season ranked 18th in the world — a jump of over 200 positions from a year ago — with over US$100,000 in official LPGA earnings and more than $700,000 in earnings as a pro.

“Already a top-flight golfer at such a young age,” said Advocate sports editor Greg Meachem. “Proved she can compete — and be successful — against the

Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-4363 E-mail gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Brooke Henderson poses for a photo at the Smiths Falls Golf Club on December 21. Henderson has won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as The Canadian Press 2015 female athlete of the year. best of the best in a global sport.”

Canadian women’s team coach Tristan Mullally, who has worked with Henderson since she was 14, said she’s a remarkably steady ball striker with the accuracy to be consistent on different types of golf courses.

“When you combine those two, that makes for a pretty potent recipe,” Mullally said.

Henderson hopes to start strong early in the 2016 season with a goal of cracking the top 10 in the world rankings. She’s also a virtual lock to play for Canada when golf makes it return to the Olympic program at the Rio Games in August.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley Timberwolves at Olds Grizzlys, 3:30 p.m.; Airdrie Lightning at Central Alberta Selects, 5:45 p.m., Lacombe; Medicine Hat Hounds at West Central Tigers, 8 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

• WHL: Brandon Wheat Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium.

• AJHL: Brooks Bandits at Olds Grizzlys, 7 p.m.

• Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Mac’s Tournament — Red Deer Optimist Chiefs vs. Calgary Buffaloes, 11:45 a.m., Max Bell Centre.

Thursday • WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Kootenay Ice, 4 p.m. (The Drive).

Sunday

Saturday

• Peewee AA hockey: Central Alberta Selects at Olds Grizzlys, 12:15 p.m..

• Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Ramada Chiefs at Olds Grizzlys, 2:45 p.m.

• Midget AA hockey: Airdrie Lightning at Olds Grizzlys, 5:30 p.m.

• Peewee AA hockey: Foothills Bisons at Olds Grizzlys, 1 p.m.; Red Deer TBS Chiefs at Central Alberta Selects, 2:45 p.m., Clive; Red Deer Parkland Chiefs at West Central Tigers, 5:30 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

Basketball

Southeast Division W L Pct 20 13 .606 18 12 .600 18 13 .581 17 13 .567 14 15 .483

GB — 1/2 1 1 1/2 4

Central Division W L Pct 20 9 .690 18 12 .600 17 12 .586 17 14 .548 12 20 .375

GB — 2 1/2 3 4 9 1/2

NBA Leaders Scoring

Northwest Division W L Pct City 21 10 13 16 .448 13 20 .394 12 19 .387 11 20 .355

Oklahoma Utah Portland Denver Minnesota

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

Pacific Division W L Pct 28 1 .966 19 13 .594 12 18 .400 12 21 .364 5 27 .156

GB .677 — 7 9 9 10

FG 294 266 231 264 277 184 231 243 237 281 236

FT PTS 171 893 292 910 145 666 142 696 195 791 157 551 168 718 144 712 148 637 129 697 220 704

AVG 30.8 28.4 26.6 25.8 25.5 25.0 24.8 24.6 23.6 23.2 22.7

FG Percentage FG 125 151 125 143 145

Jordan, LAC Whiteside, MIA Howard, HOU Kanter, OKC Faried, DEN

GB — 10 1/2 16 1/2 18 24 1/2

FGA 177 246 211 252 259

PCT .706 .614 .592 .567 .560

Rebounds G OFF 31 173 31 114 26 96 27 53 29 86

Drummond, DET Jordan, LAC Howard, HOU Davis, NOR Whiteside, MIA

Sunday’s Games Memphis 112, L.A. Lakers 96 Oklahoma City 122, Denver 112 Boston 100, New York 91 Portland 98, Sacramento 94

DEF 331 294 202 244 232

TOT 504 408 298 297 318

AVG 16.3 13.2 11.5 11.0 11.0

Assists Monday’s Games Indiana 93, Atlanta 87 Orlando 104, New Orleans 89 L.A. Clippers 108, Washington 91 Charlotte 108, L.A. Lakers 98 Brooklyn 111, Miami 105 Chicago 104, Toronto 97

G 29 28 31 26 24

Rondo, SAC Wall, WAS Westbrook, OKC Paul, LAC Rubio, MIN

AST 331 271 291 233 207

AVG 11.4 9.7 9.4 9.0 8.6

Football National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T y-New England 12 3 0 N.Y. Jets 10 5 0 Buffalo 7 8 0 Miami 5 10 0 South W L T Houston 8 7 0 Indianapolis 7 8 0 Jacksonville 5 10 0 Tennessee 3 12 0 North W L T y-Cincinnati 11 4 0 Pittsburgh 9 6 0 Baltimore 5 10 0 Cleveland 3 12 0 West W L T x-Denver 11 4 0 x-Kansas City 10 5 0 Oakland 7 8 0 San Diego 4 11 0

Chicago Pct .800 .667 .467 .333

PF 455 370 357 290

PA 295 292 342 379

Pct .533 .467 .333 .200

PF 309 303 370 275

PA 307 384 418 393

Pct .733 .600 .333 .200

PF 395 395 312 266

PA 263 307 377 404

Pct .733 .667 .467 .267

PF 328 382 342 300

PA 276 270 376 371

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct y-Washington 8 7 0 .533 Philadelphia 6 9 0 .400 N.Y. Giants 6 9 0 .400 Dallas 4 11 0 .267 South W L T Pct y-Carolina 14 1 0 .933 Atlanta 8 7 0 .533 Tampa Bay 6 9 0 .400 New Orleans 6 9 0 .400 North W L T Pct x-Green Bay 10 5 0 .667 x-Minnesota 10 5 0 .667 Detroit 6 9 0 .400

PF 354 342 390 252

PA 356 400 407 340

PF 462 322 332 388

PA 298 325 379 459

PF 355 345 334

PA 303 289 380

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PF 483 387 264 219

PA 277 271 311 371

Sunday’s Games Houston 34, Tennessee 6 Kansas City 17, Cleveland 13 N.Y. Jets 26, New England 20, OT Indianapolis 18, Miami 12 Detroit 32, San Francisco 17 Buffalo 16, Dallas 6 Chicago 26, Tampa Bay 21 Atlanta 20, Carolina 13 Baltimore 20, Pittsburgh 17 New Orleans 38, Jacksonville 27 St. Louis 23, Seattle 17 Arizona 38, Green Bay 8 Minnesota 49, N.Y. Giants 17 Monday’s Game Denver 20, Cincinnati 17, OT Sunday, Jan. 3 Jacksonville at Houston, 11 a.m.

Washington at Dallas, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

New England at Miami, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m.

San Diego at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

Seattle at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 2:25 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Carolina, 2:25 p.m.

Minnesota at Green Bay, 6:30 p.m.

In later games, Team United States beat the Czech Republic 14-4 and Finland’s junior team hammered Slovakia 48-0.

The Canadian juniors take on Sweden’s junior team today. In other games, Czech Republic will meet Finland Junior and Sweden, and Slovakia will face the United States.

RINGETTE HELSINKI, Finland — Red Deer’s Kelsie Caine turned in a hat-trick performance Monday to help Canada’s junior team roll over Sweden 17-1 in the world ringette championships.

Pt 47 45 41 35 29 24

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF Lethbridge 36 25 11 0 0 153 Calgary 39 24 13 1 1 130 Red Deer 37 24 13 0 0 133 Edmonton 38 15 19 4 0 106 Medicine Hat 35 12 19 3 1 112 Kootenay 38 6 30 2 0 72

GA 109 117 111 124 139 161

Pt 50 50 48 34 28 14

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF Kelowna 37 27 9 1 0 138 Victoria 36 22 12 1 1 123 Prince George 35 21 12 1 1 120 Kamloops 34 17 13 3 1 120 Vancouver 37 13 19 3 2 106

GA 104 87 101 106 129

Pt 55 46 44 38 31

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF 34 19 12 3 0 113 33 19 12 0 2 91 35 18 13 3 1 117 34 17 16 1 0 118 35 14 19 2 0 109

GA 102 74 117 112 135

Pt 41 40 40 35 30

34 28 32 19 23 25 18 24 26

43 42 42 41 41 41 40 40 40

2016 IIHF World Junior Championship At Helsinki, Finland PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pt Sweden 2 2 0 0 0 9 3 6 U.S. 2 1 0 0 1 4 3 3 Canada 2 1 0 0 1 8 5 3 Denmark 2 1 0 0 1 3 7 3 Switzerland 2 0 0 0 2 4 10 0 Group B GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pt Russia 2 1 1 0 0 8 5 5 Czech Rep. 2 1 0 1 0 3 2 4 Finland 2 1 0 0 1 10 6 3 Slovakia 2 1 0 0 1 4 4 3 Belarus 2 0 0 0 2 2 10 0 Note: Three points for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win, one for an overtime/shootout loss.

Monday’s results Canada 6 Denmark 1 Czech Republic 2 Slovakia 0 Sweden 1 United States 0 Russia 6 Finland 4

Thursday’s games Slovakia vs. Russia, 5 a.m.

United States vs. Denmark, 7 a.m.

Czech Republic vs. Finland, 9 a.m.

Sweden vs. Canada, 11 a.m.

End of Preliminary Round

Friday, January 1 Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 1 p.m.

Brandon at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

Victoria at Kamloops, 3 p.m.

Kelowna at Everett, 3:05 p.m.

Swift Current at Regina, 6 p.m.

Monday’s summary Oil Kings 3, Rebels 1 First Period 1. Edmonton, Baddock 15 (Irving, Pollock) 3:53.

Penalties — None.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Irving Edm (fighting) 0:09, Johnson RD (fighting) 0:09, Mayo Edm (hooking) 0:56, Shmoorkoff RD (roughing) 9:39, Elizarov Edm (checking from behind) 13:18, Bleackley RD (slashing) 18:13.

Third Period 2. Edmonton, Pollock 14 (Baddock, Irving) :25.

3. Red Deer, Debrusk 11 (Nikolishin, Bobyk) 16:29.

4. Edmonton, Bertolucci 4 (Carroll, Mayo) 19:25 (-EN).

Penalties — Mayo Edm (cross-checking) 11:52, Bleackley RD (cross-checking) 11:52, Gorda Edm (cross-checking) 12:41.

Shots on goal Red Deer 4 9 12 — 25 Edmonton 17 11 10 — 38 Goal — Red Deer: Martin (L, 5-3-0) Edmonton: Lee (W, 2-9-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 0-3 Edmonton: 0-2.

WHL Scoring Leaders A 37 43 31 35 27 28 27 27 26 31 25

Pts 61 52 50 49 48 48 47 47 45 45 43

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Monday’s results Canada 2 HC Davos 0 Jokerit Helsinki 6 HC Lugano 4 Sunday’s results Adler Mannheim 5 Jokerit Helsinki 3 Automobilist Yekaterinberg 5 HC Davos 1 Saturday’s results Canada 2 Automobilist Yekaterinberg 1 HC Lugano 6 Adler Mannheim 3 End of Preliminary Round Tuesday’s games Quarter-finals Jokerit Helsinki vs. HC Davos, 7 a.m.

Automobilist Yekaterinberg vs. Adler Mannheim, 12:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Semifinals Canada vs. Helsinki-Davos winner, 7 a.m. or 12:15 p.m.

HC Lugano vs. Yekaterinberg-Mannheim winner, 7 a.m. or 12:15 p.m.

Monday’s summary Canada 6, Denmark 1 First Period 1. Denmark, True 1 (From, Krogsgaard) 12:49 2. Canada, Beauvillier 1 (Barzal, Chartier) 13:52 Penalties — None.

Second Period 3. Canada, Quenneville 1 (Marner, Point) 1:14 4. Canada, Barzal 2 (Chabot, Hicketts) 5:03 (pp) 5. Canada, Crouse 1 (Konecny, Dermott) 5:54 6. Canada, Marner 1 (Strome, Point) 11:30 Penalties — From Den (slashing) 3:13, Rondbjerg Den (delay of game) 9:17, Chabot Cda (slashing) 13:20.

Third Period 7. Canada, Strome 2 (Point) 9:32 (pp) Penalties — From Den (delay of game) 3:47, Olsen Den (roughing) 8:20, True Den (delay of game) 10:56, Marner Cda (interference) 12:10.

Shots on goal Denmark 4 7 0 — 11 Canada 19 21 18 — 58 Goal — Denmark: Seldrup (L,0-1-0) Canada: McDonald (W,1-1-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Denmark: 0-2 Canada: 2-5.

World Junior Hockey Scoring Leaders G A 2 4 1 4 2 2 2 2 1 3 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 0 3 0 3 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Puljujarvi, Fin Nylander, Swe Laine, Fin Timashov, Swe Aho, Fin Barzal, Cda Saarela, Fin Strome, Cda Lazarev, Rus Marner, Cda Korshkov, Rus Pettersson, Swe Kessler, Sui Rod, Sui Fazleyev, Rus From, Den Kaprizov, Rus Lauta, Rus Matthews, U.S. Siska, Svk

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 38 21 14 3 45 Florida 36 20 12 4 44 Detroit 36 18 11 7 43 Boston 35 19 12 4 42 Ottawa 36 18 12 6 42 Tampa Bay 37 18 15 4 40 Buffalo 36 15 17 4 34 Toronto 34 13 14 7 33

GF GA 110 95 98 83 93 94 108 94 108 105 95 88 85 94 89 94

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 35 27 6 2 56 37 20 13 4 44 36 19 12 5 43 36 17 14 5 39 35 17 15 3 37 35 15 13 7 37 36 15 16 5 35 38 13 22 3 29

GF GA 110 72 107 98 97 85 84 90 79 86 76 96 85 103 92 120

Pts 6 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 37 27 7 3 57 129 91 St. Louis 38 22 12 4 48 95 90 Minnesota 35 19 10 6 44 95 84 Chicago 37 20 13 4 44 97 89 Nashville 36 18 12 6 42 97 92 Colorado 37 18 17 2 38 106 102 Winnipeg 35 16 17 2 34 93 104 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 35 22 11 2 46 93 79 Arizona 35 17 15 3 37 95 109 Vancouver 38 14 15 9 37 93 109 San Jose 35 17 16 2 36 96 100 Calgary 35 17 16 2 36 96 116 Edmonton 37 15 19 3 33 95 113 Anaheim 34 13 15 6 32 66 87 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s Games Ottawa 3, Boston 1 Florida 3, Columbus 2 Toronto 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 Dallas 3, St. Louis 0 Carolina 2, Chicago 1 Winnipeg 1, Pittsburgh 0 Arizona 2, Colorado 1, OT Anaheim 4, Philadelphia 2 Calgary 5, Edmonton 3 Monday’s Games Montreal 4, Tampa Bay 3, SO Washington 2, Buffalo 0 Nashville 5, N.Y. Rangers 3 Minnesota 3, Detroit 1 Los Angeles 5, Vancouver 0 Colorado 6, San Jose 3 Tuesday’s Games Ottawa at Boston, 5 p.m.

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

Carolina at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Nashville at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Arizona, 7 p.m.

2015 Spengler Cup At Davos, Switzerland Preliminary Round Group A GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pt Canada 2 2 0 0 0 4 1 6 Yekaterinberg 2 1 0 0 0 6 3 3

Wednesday’s Games Toronto at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Washington, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

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

Monday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Recalled F Shea Theodore from San Diego (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled D Erik Gustafsson from the Rockford (AHL). Placed F Marcus Kruger on injured reserve.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled LW Eric Tangradi from Grand Rapids (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Traded F Zack Kassian to Edmonton for G Ben Scrivens. Recalled G Eetu Laurikainen from HPK (Finland) and assigned him to Bakersfield (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Reassigned F Colton Sissons to Milwaukee (AHL). Activated F Mike Fisher from injured reserve.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned Fs Mike Angelidis and Mike Blunden to Syracuse (AHL).

American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Reassigned G Jake Paterson to Toledo (ECHL). Signed G Jeff Lerg to a professional tryout agreement.

BASEBALL American League OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with RHP Henderson Alvarez on a one-year contract.

Designated RHP Arnold Leon for assignment.

National League

CINCINNATI REDS — Traded LHP Aroldis Chapman to the N.Y. Yankees for RHPs Caleb Cotham and Rookie Davis and INFs Eric Jagielo and Tony Renda.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Suspended Memphis F Matt Barnes two games for engaging in a physical altercation with and threatening New York coach Derek Fisher on Oct. 3, in Redondo Beach, Calif.

HOUSTON ROCKETS — Recalled F Montrezl Harrell and G-F K.J. McDaniels from Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Reassigned F Jarell Martin to Iowa (NBADL).

MIDGET AAA HOCKEY Giants 4 Chiefs 1 CALGARY — Tyler Graber’s first-period goal was all the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs could muster in a 4-1 Mac’s midget hockey tournament loss to the Vancouver Northwest Giants Monday.

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The Chiefs, who fell to 0-3 in the tournament, got an 18-save performance from Dawson Weatherill. Giants netminder Beck Warm stopped 24 shots.

Red Deer’s final game is Wednesday at 11:45 a.m. versus the Calgary Buffaloes at the Max Bell Centre.

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Group B GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pt Lugano 2 1 0 0 1 10 9 3 Helsinki 2 1 0 0 1 9 9 3 Mannheim 2 1 0 0 1 8 9 3 Note: Three points for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win, one for an overtime/shootout loss.

Washington N.Y. Rangers N.Y. Islanders New Jersey Pittsburgh Philadelphia Carolina Columbus

Saturday, Jan. 2 Relegation Fifth A vs. Fifth B, 3 a.m.

Quarter-finals (times 5, 7, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.)

First A vs. Fourth B, TBA Second A vs. Third B, TBA First B vs. Fourth A, TBA Second B vs. Third A, TBA

Thursday’s games Red Deer at Kootenay, 4 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

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

Seattle at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

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Thursday’s game Championship Semifinal Winners, 4 a.m.

Wednesday’s games Belarus vs. Czech Republic, 5 a.m.

Denmark vs. Sweden, 7 a.m.

Finland vs. Slovakia, 9 a.m.

Switzerland vs. United States, 11 a.m.

Wednesday’s games Regina at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

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

Lethbridge at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Prince George at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Everett at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

G 24 9 19 14 21 20 20 20 19 14 18

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Tuesday’s games Russia vs. Belarus, 9 a.m.

Canada vs. Switzerland, 11 a.m.

Tuesday’s games Moose Jaw at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Regina, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

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

Tyson Baillie, Kel Brayden Burke, Let Adam Brooks, Reg Devante Stephens, Spo Dryden Hunt, MJ Parker Bowles, TC Ivan Nikolishin, RD Reid Gardiner, P.A. Egor Babenko, Let Alex Forsberg, Vic Brayden Point, MJ

Mathew Barzal, Sea Radel Fazleev, CAL Nolan Patrick, Bra Collin Shirley, Kam Justin Gutierrez, Let Giorgio Estephan, Let Tyler Wong, Let Keegan Kolesar, Sea Brett Pollock, Edm

Sunday’s results Slovakia 4 Belarus 2 Denmark 2 Switzerland 1

Sunday’s results Vancouver 4 Everett 2 Brandon 6 Regina 3 Moose Jaw 4 Swift Current 0 Calgary 4 Kootenay 0 Red Deer 5 Edmonton 4 (OT) Lethbridge 5 Medicine Hat 4 (OT) Prince Albert 6 Saskatoon 2 Portland 5 Tri-City 4 (OT) Spokane 3 Seattle 0 Kelowna 2 Kamloops 1 Victoria 6 Prince George 2

Wednesday’s Games Brooklyn at Orlando, 5 p.m.

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

Washington at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Indiana at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Utah at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Golden State at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Denver at Portland, 8 p.m.

G Curry, GOL 29 Harden, HOU 32 Durant, OKC 25 James, CLE 27 Westbrook, OKC 31 Cousins, SAC 22 George, IND 29 Lillard, POR 29 Davis, NOR 27 Griffin, LAC 30 DeRozan, TOR 31

GA 102 104 107 127 144 113

Monday’s results Calgary 3 Kootenay 2 Edmonton 3 Red Deer 1 Kelowna 3 Kamloops 2 Prince George at Victoria, late

Tuesday’s Games Detroit at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Miami at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at Houston, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Denver, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 27 6 .818 — Dallas 18 13 .581 8 Memphis 17 16 .515 10 Houston 16 16 .500 10 1/2 New Orleans 10 21 .323 16

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF Brandon 36 22 11 1 2 137 Prince Albert 35 21 11 2 1 114 Moose Jaw 35 18 12 4 1 121 Regina 36 15 16 3 2 110 Saskatoon 34 13 18 3 0 104 Swift Current 35 10 21 3 1 78

Seattle Everett Spokane Portland Tri-City

San Antonio 101, Minnesota 95 Dallas 103, Milwaukee 93 Utah 95, Philadelphia 91 Cleveland 101, Phoenix 97 Sacramento at Golden State, late

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 19 13 .594 — Boston 18 13 .581 1/2 New York 14 18 .438 5 Brooklyn 9 22 .290 9 1/2 Philadelphia 2 31 .061 17 1/2

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Broncos clinch playoff berth DEMARCUS WARE’S FUMBLE RECOVERY IN OT GIVES BRONCOS WIN OVER BENGALS

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Cincinnati Bengals tight end Tyler Kroft (81) is hit by Denver Broncos free safety Bradley Roby (29) during the first half of an NFL game, Monday, in Denver.

Incomplete.

Second-and-10 from the Bengals 33.

Centre Russell Bodine’s shotgun snap sailed past McCarron, making his second start in place of Andy Dalton, and Ware beat him to the loose football at the 23.

Game over.

McCarron had driven the Bengals on two long first-half drives, covering 80 and 90 yards and eating up a total of 16:24 to put Cincinnati ahead 14-0. He threw a 5-yard TD pass to A.J. Green and Mohamed Sanu scooted in from 6 yards out on a direct snap.

After that, he found it tough to sustain drives against Denver’s defence, which is ranked No. 1 against both the run and the pass and held McCarron to 200 yards passing and the Bengals to 3.3 yards a carry.

The Broncos pulled to 14-3 at halftime on McManus’ short field goal, and the Broncos came out a different team in the second half — a reversal of last week at Pittsburgh, where they jumped out to

Gasol spark late surge as Bulls top Raptors Bulls 104 Bulls 97 CHICAGO — Tony Snell has no idea when he might play these days, so he prepares as if he’s still a part of the Chicago Bulls’ rotation.

Snell and Pau Gasol each had 22 points, Derrick Rose added 20 and the Bulls pulled away late for a 104-97 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Monday night.

“I’m staying ready every day,” Snell said. “I make sure I’m staying ready at all times.”

Snell, who was back in the rotation because Doug McDermott was a late scratch with a sore right knee, had 19 points in the final 17 ½ minutes — including 16 in the fourth quarter — to spark the Bulls.

If not for McDermott’s injury, Snell, who has started 21 games this season, might not have played at all — just like in two of the previous three games.

“I didn’t know he wasn’t going to play I had no idea,” Snell said of McDermott. “I just make sure to stay ready at all times.”

Aaron Brooks had 17 points and rookie Bobby Portis added 12 as the Chicago reserves outscored their counterparts 51-27.

Kyle Lowry had 28 points and DeMar DeRozan added 19 for Toronto.

Jonas Valanciunas had nine points

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Canadiens send forward Zack Kassian to Oilers for goaltender Ben Scrivens

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens traded forward Zack Kassian to the Edmonton Oilers on Monday in exchange for goaltender Ben Scrivens.

Scrivens, 29, posted a 2-6-1 record with AHL Bakersfield this season. He had a 3.47 goals-against average and

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“He’s getting his sea legs back, getting the rust off,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. “He’s going to be OK. Jonas is the least of our worries, getting him back in.”

Toronto actually got off to a fast start and held the lead for much of the first three quarters.

Luis Scola, who finished with 13 points, had 12 points on 6 of 6 shooting to lead Toronto to a 32-23 lead at the end of the first quarter.

The Bulls rallied in the second behind Brooks and Portis. The two reserves combined to score Chicago’s first 19 points of the quarter as the Bulls took a 42-40 lead.

They led by 49-46 before the Raptors scored the last six points of the first half for a 52-49 advantage.

Toronto maintained the lead for most of the third before the Bulls scored the final eight points of the quarter for a 78-73 lead.

“We’ve got to have some support from our second unit,” Casey said.

The Bulls then continued the surge, opening the final quarter with a 13-5 run for a 91-78 lead with just under six minutes to play. Snell had seven points during the run, Portis added four.

“I’m really happy for Tony,” Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg said. “I’m really proud of Tony for staying in there. He’s one of those kids that’s easy to coach.” .893 save percentage.

In 129 career NHL regular-season games, Scrivens has a 42-56-17 mark with a 2.90 GAA and .905 save percentage.

Kassian, 24, was acquired by the Canadiens last summer but did not play in a regular-season game for Montreal.

He was cleared to play in mid-December after spending more than two months in a substance abuse program.

Kassian then cleared waivers and was assigned to AHL St. John’s.

The physical winger has 35 goals and 31 assists in 198 career NHL regular-season games.

Also Monday, the Oilers recalled goaltender Eetu Laurikainen from HPK of the Finnish Elite League and assigned him to Bakersfield.

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Canada 2 HC Davos 0 DAVOS, Switzerland — Alexandre Giroux and Chris DiDomenico scored as Canada shut out HC Davos 2-0 at Vaillant Arena on Monday to reach the semifinals at the Spengler Cup. Giroux opened the scoring at 5:35 of the second period and DiDomenico padded the lead at 11:27. Jeff Glass made 21 saves for the shutout.

“I was really happy to get the win with this bunch of great guys and for this country,” said Glass. “The team played outstanding in front of me. Our team commitment is great to be part of.”

Leonardo Genoni stopped 40 of 42 shots for the host side.

The game was a clean affair, with the teams combining for five minor penalties.

“Our discipline was the key to the game,” head coach Guy Boucher said.

“We didn’t allow a highly offensive team to get many scoring chances. Because of our commitment to team play,

we were able to create lots of scoring chances that we needed against a goalie that always stands on his head.”

Canada, which opened the tournament on Boxing Day with a 2-1 win over Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg, improved to 2-0. HC Davos fell to 0-2 and will have to play a quarter-final against Jokerit Helsinki on Tuesday.

The Canadians get a day off before their semifinal on Wednesday. HC Lugano earned the other direct berth into the semifinals.

Tuesday’s other quarter-final game pits Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg against Adler Mannheim. The semifinal winners will play in the championship game on Thursday.

Giroux and DiDomenico are two of the three returning Canadian players from last year’s tournament. The other is goaltender Drew MacIntyre.

Canada lost in the semifinals last year to eventual champion Geneve-Servette. Canada hasn’t won the Spengler Cup since 2012.

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a 17-point lead but were outscored 24-0 after the break.

Despite allowing three sacks by Carlos Dunlap, the Broncos got things going on offence, and their defence buckled down despite losing leading tackler Brandon Marshall to an ankle injury and safety T.J. Ward to another sprained ankle.

Osweiler, who threw for 299 yards, connected with Sanders on a short TD throw for Denver’s first third-quarter points since Nov. 8 at Indianapolis, making it 14-10.

C.J. Anderson gave the Broncos their first lead when he broke free for a 39-yard touchdown run with 11:17 remaining.

McCarron completed passes of 20 and 13 yards on third down on Cincinnati’s subsequent drive, which ended with Mike Nugent’s 52-yard field goal that tied it with 6:45 remaining.

The Broncos twice drove deep into Cincinnati territory in the final minutes of regulation only to come away empty.

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Ware beat AJ McCarron to a fumbled snap in overtime, sending the Broncos into the post-season with a 20-17 win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday night.

Ware’s recovery followed a 37-yard field goal by Brandon McManus, whose shanked 45-yarder at the end of regulation made necessary the extra drama.

The Broncos (11-4) overcame a 14-0 first-half deficit in clinching their fifth consecutive playoff berth and denying the Bengals (11-4) their first road win on a Monday night since 1990.

“There’s an old saying: ‘It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,”’ Broncos quarterback Brock Osweiler said.

“And this team finished great tonight.”

Cincinnati also blew a chance to earn a bye in the playoffs.

Denver can earn the top seed in the AFC with a win over San Diego and a loss by New England at Miami next weekend.

Denver, which was in danger of becoming the first team since the 1970 merger to miss the playoffs after starting 10-2, snapped a two-game skid with its third overtime win of the season.

McManus has missed a kick in five consecutive games, and this one wasn’t even close. It sailed wide left — missing the protective netting — to the astonishment of 74,511 fans even though the flags atop the goal posts revealed a complete lack of wind.

The relieved Bengals called tails and the coin landed heads.

Unlike Patriots coach Bill Belichick a day earlier, Broncos coach Gary Kubiak chose to receive, and Denver drove 60 yards in 13 plays. Both Emmanuel Sanders and Owen Daniels limped off during the drive.

Osweiler, making his sixth straight start in place of Peyton Manning, also banged an elbow in the frenetic final minutes but stayed in.

McManus then redeemed himself by splitting the uprights from 37 yards out 5 minutes into the extra period.

Then, it was up to the league’s best defence to seal the deal.

There was an incompletion on first down that the Broncos felt should have been a fumble by McCarron with Derek Wolfe recovering the ball as it skittered downfield, but a review upheld the ruling.

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HURLEY Ross Walter Ross Walter Hurley passed away December 22, 2015 at the age of 84. Loving husband of Marie and loving father of Bev Weaver (Scott) and Cheryl Hurley.

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WARREN Roy Arne It is with sadness Roy’s family announces his passing at Red Deer Regional Hospital on December 22, 2015 at the age of 89 years.

Roy was born on September 22, 1926 on the family farm southeast of Delburne, and received his education in Delburne. He attended Vancouver Technical School where he learned to weld and then spent a year at the University of British Columbia in the engineering faculty. Returning to Delburne in April, 1947, his business life started with the founding of Delburne Machine Shop, where he repaired farm equipment.

1947 was a momentous year for Roy as he married June Beatrice Randall, his partner in love and business. In 1950 Roy and June became a Cockshutt farm equipment dealer. Roy was nominated to the Delburne Village Council and was instrumental in bringing natural gas, water and sewer to the Village. He served on Council until buying a farm and moving from the Village. In January, 1961, Roy was signed as a United Farmers of Alberta (“UFA”) fuel agent and opened the facility in April of that year. In 1965, Roy and June closed the machine shop and the Cockshutt farm equipment dealership to devote their full time to their UFA dealership and farm. In the late 1960’s, a life-long friend, Angus MacArthur, talked Roy and June into opening a Co-Operators Insurance business in Delburne. Roy and June’s devotion to their business and serving their customers earned them several awards.

Roy and June sold their UFA dealership in 1982 to embark on what they considered to be retirement as farmers, where they raised cattle and grain. The family will miss this quiet, kind and unassuming man. Roy is survived by his children: Judy (Larry Watson) and their children Erin (Sheldon Portsmouth) and Chelsey (Zac Harink) and their children (Justice and Kane Portsmouth & Zoe, Hailee and Everly Harink); Chris (Sandra) and their children Mitchell and Natalie; and Kerry (Sheryl) and their children (Avery, Amy, Brett, Sheridan); his brother George and his sister-in-law, Grace Bolander. Roy is also survived by his large extended family of cousins, nieces and nephews.

Roy was predeceased by his wife, June in 2007, his parents, Art and Annie, his brother Don, his sister Dorothy and her husband Dave Guynup, his sister-in-law Irma Warren and his brotherin-law Richard Randall. The funeral will be held January 2, 2016 at 2 pm at the Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, 4304-49 Avenue, Innisfail, Alberta. Roy received compassionate care from Unit 31 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital and the family wishes to note the care from Jim on that unit that exemplifies the best in hospital care. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Red Deer Regional Hospital to benefit Unit 31 or the Pediatric Unit.

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Serena Williams had done all the heavy lifting, or so it seemed.

She conquered the grass of Wimbledon, the red clay of Roland Garros, the hard courts of the Australian Open.

All that was left for tennis’ first Grand Slam since 1988 was a victory in the U.S. Open, surely a mere formality when Williams got to the semifinals with a 43rd-ranked Italian standing in her way.

At 33, Williams was poised to put a remarkable capper on a brilliant career.

Roberta Vinci had other ideas.

“Every so often,” Vinci said, “a miracle happens.”

For Williams, it was a nightmare.

After cruising through the first set 6-2, she finally seemed to feel the weight of history. Her legs got sluggish, her shots spraying all over the court. Vinci evened the match 6-4, and took the decisive third set by the same score.

“I saw she was nervous,” Vinci said, “and that helped me.”

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DOWN GOES ROUSEY! Ronda Rousey was supposed to be invincible. She won her first 12 mixed martial arts fights — eight of them in less than a minute — before stepping into the cage against Holly Holm in Melbourne, Australia. Rowdy Ronda finally met her match Down Under, when Holm finished her off with a devastating kick to the head. “I’ll be back,” Rousey vowed.

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With a roster full of NBA-quality underclassmen, Kentucky was 38-0 and needed two wins to become the first undefeated men’s hoops team in nearly four decades. Turns out, the Wildcats weren’t perfect after all.

Hard-nosed Wisconsin took down John Calipari’s squad 71-64 at the Final Four. “The season was a waste,” Kentucky’s Tyler Ulis said.

THE BRAVE BLOSSOMS In rugby, there’s a clear line between the world’s top teams and everyone else. South Africa belongs in the first group. Japan is undoubtedly part of the second. But on the game’s biggest stage, the team known as “The Brave Blossoms” pulled off the greatest upset the sport has ever seen, beating the two-time Rugby World Cup champion Springboks 34-32. “I’m glad we’ve managed to not only surprise our own fans back in Japan,” fullback Ayumu Goromaru said, “but also fans across the world.”

ONE SHOT TOO MANY Jordan Spieth won the first two major championships on the golfing calendar, and coming down the stretch of the British Open it looked as though he’d make it three in a row. The young Texan shared the lead with two holes to go after sinking a 50-foot birdie putt. But he missed an 8-footer at the 17th and slipped out of a playoff by a single shot, denied in his bid for the first modern Grand Slam. “We gave it a great effort,” Spieth said.

GRAVEYARD OF CHAMPIONS It was certainly a glorious year for American Pharoah, which became the first horse in 37 years to capture the Triple Crown. But even he was bitten by the upset bug at Saratoga, a track appropriately known as the “Graveyard of Champions.” Caught in the stretch by 16-1 long shot Keen Ice, American Pharoah lost the Travers by three-quarters of a length. But he’ll always have that Triple Crown.

THE MOUSE THAT ROARED Bournemouth was toiling in the fourth level of English football in 2010. After climbing to the Premier League for the first time, the Cher-

ries pulled off stunners in back-toback games this season, knocking off defending champion Chelsea and 20-time champion Manchester United.

“Just checking the results again to make certain the last week has actually happened,” chairman Jeff Mostyn tweeted afterward.

FATHER AND SON We’ll all remember Kentucky’s loss, but perhaps the most compelling image from the NCAA tournament was injured Georgia State coach Ron Hunter tumbling off his stool after his son R.J. hit a 3-pointer to cap an improbable upset by the 14th-seeded Panthers over No. 3 Baylor. And let’s not forget UAB prevailing against Iowa State in another 14-beats-3 shocker.

KICK SIX Georgia Tech went 1-7 in the Atlantic Coast Conference this season.

That lone win won’t soon be forgotten.

Lance Austin returned a blocked field goal 78 yards for a touchdown on the final play to give the Yellow Jackets a 22-16 victory Florida State, snapping the Seminoles’ 28-game ACC winning streak. Also worthy of mention from college football: Michigan State ending Ohio State’s bid for a second straight national championship, and Texas handing Oklahoma its only loss in the Red River Showdown.

IT’S ALL IN THE NAME Tyson Fury was born to be a fighter, even though he entered the world three months early weighing just one pound. His father predicted the ailing infant would not only survive, but grow into a heavyweight champion.

Doubling down, he named his son after Mike Tyson. That prophecy was fulfilled when Fury, now 6-foot-9, scored a unanimous decision over Wladimir Klitschko, ending his 9 ½-year reign as champion.

If it was any consolation to Klitschko, he had plenty of company in 2015.

Arsenal moves to top of Premier League VAN GAAL SAYS NO REASON TO LEAVE MANCHESTER UNITED

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Arsenal moved top of the Premier League with a 2-0 win against Bournemouth on Monday, while Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal said there was “not any reason” for him to resign despite a 0-0 draw with Chelsea extending his team’s winless run to eight matches.

Gabriel Paulista and Mesut Ozil led Arsenal to the top — for 24 hours at least — with goals in each half, while goalkeeper Petr Cech set a Premier League clean sheet record with his 170th shutout.

The victory was an authoritative response from Arsenal after losing 4-0 to Southampton on Saturday. Arsenal is a point clear of second-place Leicester and four points above Tottenham and Manchester City. Leicester can replace Arsenal at the top by beating City on Tuesday.

“We were focused from the start,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said.

“It took us a while to get going but (we) were in control of the game and did very well.”

At Old Trafford, United produced an attacking display against Chelsea to end its four-match losing run but missed good chances for a first league win since Nov. 21 against Watford.

Juan Mata and Anthony Martial hit the crossbar and the post, while Thibaut Courtois denied Ander Herrera from point blank range and Wayne Rooney missed from six yards late on.

ENGLISH SOCCER Chelsea also had chances to score, with David De Gea turning John Terry’s header over the bar, before making an impressive double save from Pedro and Cesar Azpilicueta early in the second half.

The draw leaves United five points behind the Champions League positions but Van Gaal, who said he could resign as manager after defeat at Stoke two days ago, was encouraged by his team’s display.

“When the players can give such a performance, when there is a lot of pressure, then it is not any reason to resign for me,” Van Gaal told BT Sport. “I shall not do that. It is not a question of staying, it is a question of fulfilling my contract.”

Elsewhere, Tottenham won its third straight league match to provisionally go third with a late 2-1 victory over 10man Watford, while Stoke beat Everton 4-3 with a last-minute penalty from Marko Arnautovic.

Erik Lamela put Tottenham ahead with a low effort in the 17th minute before Odion Ighalo levelled for host Watford with his 14th goal of the season.

The equalizer ushered in a period of dominance by Watford, but it had Nathan Ake sent off after 63 minutes before substitute Son Heung-min hit Tottenham’s winner in the 89th.

“It was a crazy atmosphere and a

really important goal for the team,” Son said. “We are so happy.”

Tottenham will be dislodged from third if City gets at least a draw against Leicester.

At Goodison Park, Stoke narrowly edged Everton in an entertaining encounter.

Stoke held a 2-1 halftime lead thanks to a double from Xherdan Shaqiri but Romelu Lukaku equalized for Everton with his second of the match.

Gerard Deulofeu tapped in to put host Everton ahead but Joselu scored his first Premier League goal for Stoke with a volley to haul his side back on level terms.

And Mark Hughes’ side then snatched the win through Arnautovic’s penalty, after he was fouled by John Stones. There is real anger at the final decision,” Everton manager Roberto Martinez said.

“The penalty is never a penalty.

It’s a situation where it cost us the draw.”

Also Monday, Norwich beat lastplace Aston Villa 2-0, West Bromwich Albion defeated Newcastle 1-0 and Crystal Palace drew 0-0 against Swansea.

West Ham also came from a goal behind to beat Southampton 2-1 and move seventh in the standings, a point behind United.

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College can’t win for trying INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS SAY EFFORTS TO SERVE FAVOURITES A FAILURE headline read in the New York Post, referring to a student’s complaint that the General Tso’s chicken was steamed instead of fried — and to one of its more famous alumni.

The Washington Post in a story posted on its website Monday discussed the cultural appropriation of food and, as did The Atlantic Magazine, detailed the complaints first published in the college newspaper.

“It was ridiculous,” Diep Nguyen told the Oberlin Review. “How could they just throw out something completely different and label it as another country’s traditional food?”

Japanese student Tomoya Joshi called the cafeteria’s efforts at serving sushi “disrespectful.” In a statement Monday, the head of dining services at Oberlin vowed to do better.

“In our efforts to provide a vibrant menu we recently fell short in the execution of several dishes in a manner that was culturally insensitive,” the statement said. “We are committed to making sure these missteps don’t happen in the future.”

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A frittata is an Italian omelet, but one in which all of the add-ins (cheese, veggies, meat, rice, what have you) are mixed directly into the eggs (rather than folded into the center).

Southwestern mini frittatas over medium, heat 1 tablespoon of the butter until melted. Add the onion and red pepper, then season lightly with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the onions are golden brown and tender, about 6 minutes.

Transfer the vegetables to a plate, then return the skillet to the heat.

Add the remaining tablespoon of butter and add the mushrooms and oregano. Lightly season with salt and pepper, then increase the heat to medium-high. Saute for about 8 minutes, or until there is no liquid left in the pan and the mushrooms are beginning to brown.

Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, whisk the eggs, then season them with salt and pepper. Add the onion and pepper mixture along with the mushrooms, then stir to combine. Use a small ladle to fill each muffin cup with the egg and vegetable mixture almost to the top.

Sprinkle the cheese evenly over each frittata, then bake until they puffed and set, the cheese is melted and the tops are lightly golden, about 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and let sit for 1 to 2 minutes, then use a butter knife to pop the frittatas out of the tins. Let sit for a few more minutes on a wire rack. Serve warm, at room temp or even cold.

Nutrition information per frittata: 100 calories 60 calories from fat (60 per cent of total calories) 7 g fat (3 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 190 mg cholesterol 170 mg sodium 3 g carbohydrate 0 g fiber 1 g sugar 7 g protein.

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CLEVELAND — A ruckus over the cultural sensitivity of cafeteria food at Ohio’s Oberlin College has led to heaping servings of both derision and sympathy.

The complaints of some international students were first published in the Oberlin Review, the college newspaper, in early November. The article discussed a Japanese student’s complaint that rice used in the cafeteria sushi bar was undercooked and the fish wasn’t fresh a Vietnamese student’s outrage that a beloved sliced pork and pickled vegetable sandwich called Bahn Mi was more American barbecue than Southeast Asian street food and a Chinese student’s pan of the cafeteria’s version of the sweet and saucy favourite, General Tso’s chicken.

The story was gradually picked up in — and picked apart by — media across the country.

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Mattick, 37, wanted to tell her young son the peculiar tale and wrote “Finding Winnie: The Story of the Real Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.” The book was published in November — just weeks before the 90th anniversary on Thursday of the first time Milne used the name Winnie-the-Pooh in print. “‘Finding Winnie’ is a story that I have had in my head for a long time,” Mattick told The Associated Press with a warm smile that reveals her passion for this very personal project. “I thought a picture book would be an amazing way to share my incredible family story with my child.”

The family history goes like this: Her great-grandfather, Lt. Harry Colebourn of Canada, bought an American black bear cub from a hunter while Colebourn was on his way to fight in World War I in 1914.

Colebourn, a veterinarian, raised the female bear and named her after his home city, Winnipeg — or Winnie for short.

He took Winnie on the long journey by train and ship to his training camp in England.

The story came to light in the late 1980s, when another regiment was incorrectly linked to the bear, which by then had been made famous by Milne’s classic childhood tales. Mattick’s grandfather wanted to set the record straight.

“He said, ‘No, actually that was my Dad’s bear, that was his pet,’ and at that point, he pulled out his father’s diaries and photographs from the war, and started to really share the story publicly,” Mattick said.

She is now retelling the story for a new generation. Taking inspiration from her family’s archive of photos of Colebourn and Winnie, Mattick teamed up with illustrator Sophie Blackall to create historically accurate drawings that capture the rare bond between the soldier and the bear cub.

But a war zone is no place for a pet.

So when Colebourn was sent to the front lines in France, he left Winnie in the care of London Zoo. Visitors quickly saw that this bear was unusually gentle and kind — qualities later reflected in Milne’s writings. Children were even allowed into her enclosure, something no zoo would consider today.

“She became a star attraction,” Mattick said.

“She had a lot of visitors because of her very friendly and well-trained nature.”

Christopher Robin Milne, a young visitor who forged a friendship with the bear, loved her so much that he re-christened his own teddy Winnie-the-Pooh.

The name “Pooh” comes from a swan also named by Christopher Robin. The boy’s father, A.A. Milne, first published a story about a boy named Christopher Robin and his stuffed bear Winnie-the-Pooh in the London Evening News on Christmas Eve in 1925.

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The Times-Call reports that 32-year-old Becky Ann Lee has been charged with felony theft in a scam against Victoria Lacoste, a student at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Authorities say Lacoste started seeing Lee for Tarot card readings last year and eventually gave Lee more than $200,000, much of which Lee spent buying gold coins. She owns the Psychic Chakra Spa in Boulder.

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Lacoste declined to comment on the case.

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