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FEBRUARY 23, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 23
Official Tournament Mark This manual provides you with tools and guidelines to ensure the tournament logo type (tournament mark) for the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship appears in a consistent manner that is appropriate to IIHF standards in all communications. These standards should be followed as closely as possible, however it is understood that requirements for unspecified applications may arise.
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The official tournament mark will appear prominently on all official communications and marketing materials pertaining to the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship.
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The tournament mark has bilingual (English/French, horizontal only), English (horizontal and vertical), and French (horizontal and vertical) versions. The bilingual version of the official tournament mark should be used in cases where both English and French are being used in the communication.
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Rare species abound in Ajax mine area
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SUCH AS TEN-CENT TARPAPER LICHEN CAM FORTEMS
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he upper-level grasslands immediately south of the city have been tromped on and dug up by mining, logging and grazing and are criss-crossed by roads that brought noxious weeds. Despite a century of sometimes hard use, consultants working for KGHM Ajax — using an array of methods including bird calls, combing the grasses and listening for nighttime calls — discovered a complex environment home to rare plants and amphibians and a transit area for migratory birds. “No one has done an awful lot of work there,” said Francis Vyse, a local naturalist. Until now. For the report — part of the daunting 18,000-page application to the federal and provincial governments — botanists spent nearly 400 hours sampling and listing the ecology near the mine and in the larger regional study area. “It’s an area that’s been grazed for decades, or a century,” Vyse said. “The original composition of the grasslands has changed. But there are areas where cattle just don’t go.” Trevor Goward, a Clearwaterbased lichenologist and naturalist, said environment around the city
is globally rare, the tip of the Great Basin Desert in North America. “It’s right on the northern edge . . . There’s not a lot of it — not just in B.C., but generally.” The report notes microhabitats that are home to some of the rarest plants in B.C. In one case, botanists found an example of a lichen with a great name and a low profile: ten cent tarpaper. The lichenologist who named that plant, and scores of other fungi, said the report is just skipping over the top of what’s really there. Goward said science knows little about the delicate world of grasslands, even this imperfect one. “There are species identified by Conservation Data Centre or COSEWIC or the Nature Conservancy that are threatened. But we know so little about lichens and mosses.” Using a different methodology, he said, “I’d guarantee you’d find species without names yet.” There are only eight recorded populations in B.C. of ten cent tarpaper — so literally named by Goward. And, despite any efforts from KGHM, the report notes “it will be lost as a result of project construction.” Lichens and mosses cannot be moved. See NOISE, A4
Accused killer Peter Beckett (standing in boat) joined RCMP officers on Upper Arrow Lake in 2011, where he detailed his version of what happened the day his wife drowned. This photo is taken from video shown in B.C. Supreme Court.
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Kamloops This Week has been granted an order in B.C. Supreme Court to publish video footage of a police re-enactment video in the case of a former New Zealand politician now standing trial for firstdegree murder. KTW succeeded in applying for access to the video, which
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See footage at kamloopsthisweek. com/beckettvideo/ was played for jurors in the Peter Beckett trial last week. Beckett, 59, is accused of drowning his wife while on vacation at a Revelstokearea lake in 2010.
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In the video, filmed before his arrest in 2011, Beckett is taken by police to Upper Arrow Lake, where he is put on a boat with three detectives. Beckett details his version of the events of his wife’s drowning multiple times. The video can be viewed online at kamloopsthisweek.com/beckettvideo/. The trial is slated to resume on Monday, Feb. 29.
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