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Despite a thin layer of white blan-keting the city on Sunday, Edmon-ton’s snow budget is in good shape.

The two centimetres were essen-tially gone when Bob Dunford,director of roadway maintenance,addressed the media Monday morn-ing.

“We saved $7 million in January,usually a very significant snowfallmonth,” he said. “And February, it’sbeen very favourable.”

The first official tally will comeat the end of March — and winterreturns later this year.

But for some, this news is as wel-come as the warm weather.

“It’s really a blessing because lasttime I checked, we were still in adeficit position,” said Coun. KerryDiotte, referring to last year’s $30-

million plunge into the red due torecord snowfalls.

City council approved a newsnow policy last summer, and alsoincreased the budget to just over$47 million for 2012.

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Sunnydays savecity $7M

Warm weather also allowing for earlypothole repair and litter pickup

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Star power

1 Colin Priestner wrote thescript and acted in mostof the scenes along withhis girlfriend, Alanna Bateup. Evan Isbisterfilmed and edited thevideo.

2 Others making anappearance includeSportsnet’s GenePrincipe, and Oilers for-wards Ryan Nugent-Hop-kins and Jordan Eberle.

When it comes to thingsEdmontonians say, ColinPriestner seems to have itright.

He recently producedthe S#!t EdmontoniansSay video with girlfriendAlanna Bateup, featuringclassic one-liners knownto be said by those livingin the City of Champions.

Thanks to lines aboutkeeping Lucy at the zoo,

photo radar on the White-mud, living in the northversus the south, and any-thing to do with hockey,the video became an in-stant hit after it was post-ed online at midnight onSunday.

“I had seen some of theother ones,” said Priest-ner, 28, a local musicianwho also runs two cardealerships.

“Especially the NewYork one. I’ve been toNew York a million timesand I think it’s pretty fun-

ny.”On a recent holiday the

pair realized how manysimilar videos exist.

“I noticed every big cityhad one, but no one haddone one in Alberta,”Priestner said.

When they returnedtwo weeks ago they gotstarted, but Priestner wassure someone would beatthem to it.

“Every day I would hitreload and check thesearches, and nothingshowed up,” he said.

Common quips both promoting and poking fun at the city put togetherfor video Local celebrities, including Oilers players, make an appearance

Colin Priestner wrote the script for the S#!t Edmontonians Say video that created quite a stir online Monday.

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Things Edmontonianssay creates online buzz

North-enddeathprobedHomicide investigatorscanvassed the Rosslyncommunity Monday look-ing for details about whatmay be the city’s first mur-der of 2011.

Police were called tonorth end near 134Avenue and 101 Street af-ter a resident spotted a 22-year-old man lying injuredin an alley at about 4:45a.m. Sunday.

He died on scene.Police said Sunday they

were treating it as a suspi-cious death, but an autop-sy today may shed morelight, including the man’sidentity and cause ofdeath. METRO

Policesearchingfor convictThe hunt is on for aconvict who was servingseven years for killing aSaskatchewan man in2006 before escaping cus-tody.

Correctional ServicesCanada said Michael Bear-boy, 42, was absent duringthe Sunday count atEdmonton’s Stan DanielsHealing Centre, aminimum-security facility.

Bearboy is described asfive-foot-eight, 237pounds, with brown eyes,black hair and a cat tattooon his left arm.

This is the second timehe’s evaded custody — heescaped a halfway houselast February.

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“I can’t do anything,” hesaid Monday from hisDidsbury home. “They (theRCMP) aren’t telling usnothing ... everything’sjust fallen apart.”

Shachtay’s 23-year-oldsibling, Vicky, was killedafter a package deliveredto her Innisfail home inlate November exploded.

RCMP have offered fewdetails on the disturbingincident other than to saythe package was intention-

ally delivered with the pur-pose of killing the youngmother, who had recentlybeen left a wheelchair-bound paraplegic due toinjuries suffered in a carcrash.

Not knowing who could

possibly want to harm hissister is what bothersDerek the most, leadinghim to fear for the safetyof his one-year-old daugh-ter and a second child dueto be born next week.

“I watch over my shoul-

der — I am paranoid,” hesaid. “We haven’t evenbeen offered any form ofprotection.”

RCMP spokespersonPatrick Webb said investi-gators have yet to deter-mine a motive for thecrime and whether any-one else could be in dan-ger.

“Nothing would be of-fered until we determinedwhether it’s even neces-sary,” he said.

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Online dating websites area success, and that’s thecase for a similar site for Ed-monton’s non-profit organi-zations.

EdmontonSpaceFind-er.ca, launched just over ayear ago, is a “space-datingservice,” said Russ Dahms,executive director of theEdmonton Chamber of Vol-untary Organizations.

It links landlords togroups struggling to find alocation for services andprograms. Prior to thelaunch, a survey of 5,500non-profits found nearly

400 were having issuesfinding suitable space.

There were 2,500 visitorsto the site in the first fivemonths and more than 200spaces have been listed todate, including ExpressionzCafé.

The decade-old non-prof-it company, located at 99Street and 70 Avenue forthe last 18 months, has aperforming area, café, andmore room upstairs.

“We have three very dif-ferent spaces,” managerAmanda Loch said of the6,000 square feet. “Andwe’re finding EdmontonSpaceFinder is giving usmore and more options.”

In the last year, Loch esti-

mated the café had about300 inquiries for rentingspace, and one in 10 arecredited to the site.

The online initiative waspart of a 2008 plan to ad-dress space demands andthe variety of needs, and

continued growth of it isdesired.

“We’ve got a lot of per-formance-type space,”Dahms said of the listings.“What we’re wanting to doin time … (is) increase of-fice-related spaces.”

Supply/demand

According to a city report,some relief could comefrom scheduled openingsfor 2014: The South Edmon-ton Multicultural Centre,Jerry Forbes Centre for Com-munity Spirit, ClareviewMulticultural Centre, MillWoods Seniors Centre andMulticultural Facility, and

The Meadows CommunityRecreation Centre.Other initiatives include theuse of school gyms duringsummer, and possibly theutilization of surplusschools.The ECVO is working withthe Multicultural Coalitionfor Equity in Health andWellbeing, Arts Habitat As-sociation of Edmonton andCity of Edmonton.

Amanda Loch, manager of Expressionz Café, stands

in the Sundrenched Room, one of three rooms available

for non-profit organizations to rent at the location.

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El Salvador is a tiny country – less

than half the size of Nova Scotia, with

a population about the size of the GTA

– but it is one of the most dangerous

countries in the Western hemisphere.

There were 3,985 violent deaths in El

Salvador in 2010, most related to gang

activity; that is a higher per-capita

number than in Afghanistan.

That’s why communities place a

high priority on giving their young

people tools to build a future. “Our

preschool centres are critically impor-

tant,” says Laura Mata, chief of com-

munications for World Vision El

Salvador, which works with commu-

nity groups to create programs to ad-

dress their most pressing needs. “By

giving small children a good educa-

tional foundation, they’re ready for

Grade 1. They’re then more likely to

be successful and less likely to flunk

out or quit later.”

World Vision’s Children’s Clubs

and Youth Clubs not only provide

young people with a safe place to so-

cialize, but also give them life skills

and vocational training. (In one club,

Kevin, 15 was learning to bake bread

and fancy pastries; in another, a band

of musicians practiced while another

group took learned to paint.)

Carlos, who is now 17, remembers

the first time he went to a World Vi-

sion Communications Club in Tacuba,

a small mountain town near the

Guatemalan border where local gangs

are particularly powerful. “I was 13.

Some of my friends had been to the

club and done a radio show, and they

needed more people. I went. I was

very nervous. But it was such

a nice experience my [nervousness]

vanished.”

Before that, Carlos had been play-

ing hookey from school since age 10,

had failed 4th grade and fallen in with

a sketchy group. At the club, “I got re-

ally involved. I realized I had to stop

doing the things I’d been doing. I

started studying again.” Today he

leads other teens in the group and

works half-days at a local professional

radio station while attending high

school.

Of course World Vision Canada

sponsorships support efforts like nutri-

tion and health care programs in El

Salvador. But Laura believes that is

just as important to “improve knowl-

edge. You can’t change lives by just

giving tangible things,” she says.

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denial of benefits, ombudsman saysA report on how formersoldiers are told whetherthey have qualified for dis-ability benefits is the startof a wide-ranging look intoproblems plaguing veter-ans’ care, the veterans om-budsman says.

In his report intowhether veterans are givenenough information aboutwhy they are granted or de-nied disability benefits,Guy Parent found the gov-ernment is failing.

And failure so early inthe process can have adomino effect that Parentsays he intends to studyover the coming years.

“We needed to startsomewhere and I thinkthis is a good point,” hesaid in an interview.

The report releasedMonday reviewed a sampleof 213 disability benefit de-cision letters sent between2001 and 2010 and found

that none clearly stated thereasoning behind the deci-sion. About one in five gaveenough detail for veteransto attempt to deduce therationale, but the remain-der came up entirely short.

Parent said providing in-formation to support a de-cision is fundamentallydifferent from simply pro-viding a reason for a deci-sion. Failing to providesupporting information fordecisions is at odds with

the Veterans Bill of Rightsand other federal laws, hesaid.

His report makes fourrecommendations. Theway the letters are generat-ed needs to be improvedand reasons for decisionsneed to be stated in plain

English, not medical or le-gal terms.

It also says manualsshould be reviewed tomake sure adjudicators areaware of what has to be inthe letters, and a quality as-surance system must be inplace. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Reaction

A spokeswoman for

Veterans Affairs MinisterSteven Blaney said he welcomes the report andintends to act quickly.“Cutting red tape and

providing hassle-free serv-ices to our veterans is min-ister Blaney’s top priority,”Codie Taylor said.

“Many veterans may be wrongly assessed and do not

pursue the matter further because the (decision) letter did

not reveal where the department’s decision might have

been flawed,” Veterans Ombudsman Guy Parent says.

Third chargelaid in ‘couch

A Quebec man accused ofdriving a vehicle thatdragged a sofa carryingtwo of his friends, one ofwhom was killed, facesthree criminal charges.

Alex Labbe, 21, of St-

Benjamin, had alreadybeen charged with hit-and-run causing deathand dangerous drivingcausing death. OnMonday, the Crown laid athird charge of criminalnegligence causing deathin the Saturday-nightstunt that killed FrancoisHallee, 22. He was freedon $2,000 bail.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Surveillance storiesOpponents of the govern-ment’s online surveillancebill say Canada should lookto its allies for cautionarytales before pushing aheadwith measures that woulderode Internet freedom.

Experiences in other ju-risdictions, such as theUnited States and Britain,show no evidence of im-proved crime-fighting abili-ty and “overwhelmingevidence of increased sur-veillance,” said MichealVonn of the BC Civil Liber-ties Association.

The legislation would al-low police, intelligence andcompetition bureau officersaccess to Internet sub-scriber information — in-cluding name, emailaddress and Internet Proto-col address — without awarrant.

It would also requiretelecommunication service

providers to have the tech-nical capability to enablepolice and spies to interceptmessages and conversa-tions.

The international exam-ples demonstrate thatwhen authorities are givenmore powers to keep an eye

on Internet surfers, theydefinitely use them, saidVonn.

The government insiststhe bill will improve Cana-da’s ability to work with itsinternational partners tofight crime and terrorism.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Foreign legislation underscores need for caution,critics say Government insists new law is necessary

Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews speaks during

Question Period last week. Toews says new legislation

is needed to deal with crime over the Internet.

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RCMP to probeToewsthreatsThe RCMP say they’vebeen asked to investi-gate threats madeagainst Public SafetyMinister Vic Toews.

Toews is facing criti-cism over theintroduction of an In-ternet surveillance billthat critics say could violate people’sprivacy.

Over the weekend,the online activistgroup Anonymousposted a video suggest-ing the heat on theminister could intensi-fy unless the bill isscrapped.THE CANADIAN PRESS

PainkillerstrategypushedAddiction experts are ap-plauding Ontario’s newrestrictions on OxyCon-tin and the drugreplacing it, but say thecountry needs a nationalstrategy to tacklewidespread abuse of pre-scription painkillers.

The province’sdecision to remove Oxy-Contin and its successorfrom the list of drugs itroutinely funds is a “verypositive thing overall,”said Dr. Irfan Dhalla ofToronto’s St. Michael’sHospital.

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More than 40 people, mostof them children, havefrozen to death in what hasbeen Afghanistan’s coldestwinter in years, an Afghanhealth official said Monday.

The government hasrecorded 41 deaths fromfreezing in three provinces— Kabul, Ghor andBadakhshan, said HealthMinistry spokesman Ghu-lam Sakhi Kargar.

All but three or four ofthose deaths were children,he said. Twenty-four of thedeaths were in the capitalof Kabul, mostly in campsfor people who have fledfighting elsewhere in thecountry.

Kabul has been experi-

encing its worst cold snapand heaviest snowfall in 15years, according to the Na-tional Weather Center. Itsaid the weather was to im-prove by the end of theweek.

Heavy snowfall in DayKundi province caused anavalanche late Sunday inthe Sang-i-Takht districtthat damaged three dozenhomes and shops. The ava-lanche caused no injuries,said Nasrullah Sadiqizada, amember of parliamentfrom the central province.

The hardest-hit havebeen people living in tentsin a number of campsaround the capital. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Afghan coldclaims morethan 40 lives

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A child stands with his father as they wait to receive

blankets and winter jackets at a camp in Kabul for

internally-displaced Afghans.

Coldest winter in years forces locals into camps Number ofdeaths in capital city outrages public

Red Cross urgingceasefire in SyriaThe International Com-mittee of the Red Cross(ICRC) said Monday that itis trying to broker a cease-fire aimed at allowingemergency aid to reachpeople in the areas mostaffected by fighting in Syr-ia, where thousands havedied in an 11-month up-rising against PresidentBashar Assad’s regime.

An ICRC spokeswoman,Carla Haddad, said the Geneva-based aidgroup has been in talks

with Syrian authoritiesand opposition groups forsome time, but attemptsto negotiate a ceasefirehad begun only recently.Haddad declined to speci-fy when.

“We are currently dis-cussing several possibili-ties with all thoseconcerned, and it includesa cessation of fighting inthe most affected areas,”Haddad told The Associat-ed Press.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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YouTube is enlisting Holly-wood’s help to reach a gen-eration of viewers morefamiliar with smartphonesthan TV remotes.

The online-video giant isaiming to create 25 hoursof programming per daywith the help of some ofthe top names in tradition-al TV. The Google-ownedsite is spreading its wealthamong producers, directorsand other filmmakersusing a $100-million US potof seed money itcommitted last fall. Thefund represents YouTube’slargest spending onoriginal content so far.

YouTube believes it islaying groundwork for thefuture. While the numberof traditional TV watchershas levelled off in recentyears, more and more peo-ple are watching video onmobile phones, tablets andcomputers, especially the

18- to 34-year-old age demo-graphic that advertiserscovet. The idea is to create96 additional YouTubechannels, which are essen-tially artists’ home pages,where viewers can see ex-isting video clips and click“Subscribe” to be notifiedwhen new content goes up.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Walmart raisesstake in online

Walmart plans to buy acontrolling interest in thefast-growing Chineseonline retailer Yihaodian.

The big-box- chain oper-ator has agreed to increaseits stake in Yihaodian’sholding company toapproximately 51 percent, Walmart saidSunday. The financialterms of the deal were notdisclosed and it must be

approved by Chinese gov-ernment regulators. Yihao-dian has been in businessfor less than four years. Itsells more than 180,000products, ranging fromgroceries to electronics toclothing. It has 5,400 em-ployees and a delivery net-

work across Shanghai, Bei-jing, Guangzhou, Wuhanand Chengdu. Walmartsaid the deal improves itsaccess to Chineseconsumers who use smart-phones and social mediato shop. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Canadianslove to pay

In the age of debit andcredit cards, Canadiansstill love cash.

That’s the conclusion ofan unusual survey by theBank of Canada, whichtalked to about 6,800 Cana-dians, including half whowere asked to record theirpurchases over a threedays. Findings revealedcash still accounts for 53.8per cent of all transactions,and if the purchase wasunder $25, that share goesto about 70 per cent.

“In particular, con-sumers prefer to use cashbecause they find it fast,cheap, safe against fraudand convenient for budget-control purposes,” it saidin a discussion paper.THE CANADIAN PRESS

YouTube reaches out toTinseltown for viewers

What to expect

YouTube has attracted

Fast Five director JustinLin, who directs episodesof Community; CSI creatorAnthony Zuiker; and NancyTellem, former presidentof CBS entertainment.Several new channels,

such as the extreme-sports-focused Network Aand Spanish-languageTutele, have launched.YouTube hopes to havethem all up this summer.

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The growth of online retail-ers represents the biggestopportunity in a genera-tion, but Canada Post chiefexecutive Deepak Choprasays the post office needs tochange to survive as fewerletters get delivered eachyear.

Chopra says the organi-zation is going through itsbiggest upheaval since theintroduction of postal codesand machine sorting.

And while the number ofwindowpaned envelopeswith the latest Visa bill orbank statement are decreas-ing, the volume of yellow-padded envelopes witheBay purchases are on therise.

“We’re on the verge of amassive explosion in e-com-merce,” said Chopra.

Postal services aroundthe world are facing thesame trends that squeezetheir business, undercutrevenues and threaten toproduce mass layoffs. TheU.S. Postal Service says itmay lose as much as $18.2billion a year by 2015 with-out major changes. CanadaPost is also restructuring. Itopened its first new plant in20 years in Winnipeg and isretrofitting major opera-tions in Toronto, Montrealand other cities. Modernequipment is speeding pro-cessing times, but meansless manual handling and

tensions with unionizedworkers. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada Post mustmodernize, CEO says

$2.1 billion being put toward revamping service

After more than 12 hours oftalks, the countries that useto euro reached an agree-ment early Tuesday to handGreece $170 billion US inextra bailout loans to save itfrom a potentially disas-trous default next month,an unidentified EuropeanUnion diplomat said.

The euro surged as thenews broke, climbing 0.7per cent to $1.328 withinminutes. While much de-pended on the details of the

deal, a final agreement forGreece will take some pres-sure off the 17-country cur-rency union, which hasbeen battling a serious debtcrisis for two years.

The deal — details ofwhich were still beingworked out by European fi-nance ministers in an all-night session in Brussels —was expected to bringGreece’s debt down to 120.5per cent of gross domesticproduct by 2020, according

to the official. That’saround the maximum thatthe International MonetaryFund and the eurozone con-sidered sustainable.

Meanwhile, a senior eu-rozone official says privateholders of Greece’s debtshave agreed to more sub-stantial losses than previ-ously expected, including aface value loss of 53.5 percent on their bonds.

The investors — mostlybanks and investment

funds — have agreed toswap their bonds for oneswith longer maturities andlower interest rates startingat 2 per cent and eventuallyrising to 4.3 per cent, ac-cording to Jean-ClaudeJuncker, the prime ministerof Luxembourg.

That deal agreed to onTuesday is a critical part oflowering Greece’s debt sothat it can eventually bepaid off.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos,

second right, speaks with Belgian Finance Minister

Steven Vanackere, left, French Finance Minister Francois

Baroin and Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos at the

EU Council building in Brussels on Monday.

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Eurozone agrees to save Greece from bankruptcy

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YOU AREWHAT YOU PIN

If Facebook is like a diary ofwhat my life actually lookslike (albeit a carefully curat-ed one), then Pinterest is myvision board for what I wishmy life looked like.

If you’re unfamiliar with this rapidlygrowing social-networking site, well,where have you been? Here’s how itworks: images of beautiful clothes,adorable animals, elegant homes andperfectly styled foodstuffs are virtually“pinned” onto thematic boards. Users

can edit and share their digital pinboards with fellowpinthusiasts who can then comment on, like and re-pin the images on their own boards and so on.

While a small percentage of the images are purelypractical — think “the best DIY drain cleaner” — themajority are simply things that are nice to look at. Thephoto-sharing site is especially popular among youngwomen (hi there!) who grew up tearing images out ofmagazines and tacking them up on corkboards to cre-ate aspirational collages. Taking this low-tech practiceand moving it online is both genius in its simplicityand its revenue-generating potential.

Not only is Pinteresteasy to use, it’s also hope-lessly addictive. I’ve stayedup until 1 a.m. browsingonline catalogues of stun-ning interiors because Idecided my home-decorboard absolutely neededsome new material. I catchmyself pinning at home,at the office, in transit ...heck, I’ve pinned 10 timesalready while writing thiscolumn.

Interestingly,Pinterest’s userdemographics in North

America differ vastly from those across the pond. Theoverwhelming majority of American users are females(83 per cent) using the site to post images fromfeminine interest areas such as fashion, hair and beau-ty, wedding decor, recipes, etc. In Britain, more than50 per cent of the users are males sharing very differ-ent materials, including SEO and marketing resources,web analytics and venture-capital-related items.Notwithstanding these differences, images concernedwith homemade crafts rank pretty high in both coun-tries. I guess you can’t deny the popularity of DIYtchotchkes.

While you could dismiss this photo-sharing site as afrivolous collection of eye candy, you’d be a fool not torecognize its potential. I’m sure plenty of companiesand brands would love to know that I have visitedwebsites and even made a couple of purchases as a di-rect result of something I stumbled upon onsomeone’s virtual pin board.

In January of this year, Pinterest became the fastestwebsite in history to break through the 10-million-unique-visitor mark and it’s growing exponentiallyevery single day. So are you getting nervous, Mr.Zuckerberg?

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Revellers gatherin Rio for paradeRIO DE JANEIRO. This year’sCarnival celebrationsseem to have drawn someof the unlikeliest of fans.These “Smurfs” were someof the many revellers whodescended on Rio de Janei-ro to watch the elaborateparades of Carnival whichculminate on Fat Tuesdaybefore the start of the Cat-holic season of Lent.

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History. Carnival datesback to the 18th centuryand mixes the traditionsof Portuguese settlerswith the culture and his-tory of the African slavepopulation. The first pa-rade of samba schoolswas in 1928.What samba schools do.

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well as spectacularly dec-orated floats. The schoolsdevelop an allegoricaltheme with a speciallywritten samba song.Queens of the Night

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Filming on a missionAct of Valor crew had their work cut out for them following the days of real-life Navy SEALs

“We wanted to show thatthese guys were humanbeings and not Termina-tors,” says Scott Waugh,the co-director of the un-conventional new featureAct of Valor, an actionmovie starring real-lifeNavy SEALS.

“Originally, theyturned us down, sayingthat they weren’t actors,and that they weren’t Hol-lywood guys.

“We told them that weonly wanted them to bethemselves.”

Waugh is a formerstuntman and his co-di-rector Mike McCoy usedto race motorcycles for aliving, so it’s no surprisethat they were able to re-late to a group of alpha-male types.

Act of Valor grew out ofdocumentaries the pairmade for the Air Forceand the Navy, but it’s afictional narrative, featur-ing scripted dialogue, plottwists, and actors in sup-porting roles (mostly asthe terrorist villains onthe wrong end of theSEALS’ gunsights).

McCoy says that thestory is rooted in reality,however.

“Everything that hap-pens to a SEAL in the filmhas happened to a SEALon the battlefield.”

In some cases, the linebetween filmmaking andfield work blurred togeth-er: a scene where the

SEAL team rendez-vouswith a nuclear submarinewas shot using the realthing.

“We waited until a trueinsertion operation wasplanned and then hoppedon,” says Waugh, whosays that they weren’t giv-en exact coordinates on the sub’s location until the morning of theshoot.

“All that stuff is realand shot in real time.”

“We avoided CGI,” adds

McCoy. “It’s all real stuff, like

in the action movies wewere raised on.”

That also means thatthe SEALs did their ownstunts, which McCoy sayswas less of a stretch thanone might think.

“The way they train,they’re the most physical-ly capable people on theplanet.”

While Waugh and Mc-Coy acknowledge that re-leasing such a

pro-military movie intosuch a polarized politicalmoment is a risk, they saythey don’t have any agen-da: their admiration fortheir subjects and subjectmatter is sincere.

“We had one goal whenwe started the film,” saysWaugh, “and that’s thatthe guys would still wantto have a beer with uswhen we were done. AndI’m proud to say thatwe’re still drinking beertogether.”

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Shooting SEALs

The Act of Valor crew followed real SEAL trainingsessions and althoughthere might be concernabout revealing the identi-ties of these special opera-tions forces, the SEALs theyfollowed weren’t in an op-erational position, butmerely in training. Thefaces of the SEALs andtheir first names are usedin the movie.

Canadian film sound engineers lose out to Hugo

team at Audio Society Awards

Box office

Woody Allen’sromantic fantasyMidnight in Paris andAlexander Payne’sfamily drama The De-scendants have wontop screenplay hon-ours from the WritersGuild of America.Writer-director Allenearned the guild’sprize Sunday for orig-inal screenplay onMidnight in Paris. Di-rector Payne sharedthe adapted screen-play honour with co-writers Nat Faxonand Jim Rash.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Riding on the 19th centurycoattails of Robert Downey Jr. onthe big screen and Benedict Cum-berbatch on PBS, Jonny Lee Milleris now set to play Sherlock Holmesin a new TV pilot for CBS.

The former Eli Stone star willheadline Elementary, a dramabased on the Sir Arthur ConanDoyle character, reportsDeadline.com.

Rather than keep Holmes ina historical context a laDowney Jr.’s Sherlock Holmesfilm franchise, CBS istransporting the crime-solverto modern times, just as thePBS miniseries SherlockHolmes has. (It’s a smart tactic— the Cumberbatch-led minis-eries, a coproduction with theBBC that is currently airing inBritain, is a certified hit.)

The twist: Miller’s detectivewill be solving crimes in NewYork City.

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J.EdgarGenre: DramaDirector: Clint EastwoodStars: Leonardo DiCaprio,Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts811

Clint Eastwood’s substan-tial biopic tells us manythings, possibly too many,about the late J. EdgarHoover, the secretive FBIdirector who probedAmerica’s nether regionsfor 48 years under eightpresidents, from 1924-72.

Penned by Milk screen-writer Dustin LanceBlack, J. Edgar is attentiveto both the rumours (thecross-dressing and the gaylover) and to historicalfact (the crime-bustingand the empire building).

There is almost toomuch detail about theman/monster portrayedby Leo DiCaprio fromHoover’s youth to old age.

J. Edgar neverthelesssucceeds in illuminatingHoover, despite the fadedhues of Tom Stern’s desat-urated colour cinematog-raphy and Eastwood’s

austere direction andminimalist score.

The spotlight is pow-ered largely by thewattage of DiCaprio’s for-midable central perform-ance. There are other starturns, including JudiDench as Hoover’s overlyattentive mother, NaomiWatts as a potential love

interest, and Armie Ham-mer as his true love.

In the end, J. Edgar is awildly ambitious yet ad-mirable undertaking thatleaves us with no tears,but reminds us about thepower of love.

Extras include a mak-ing-of featurette.

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Tower HeistGenre: Action/ComedyDirector: Brett RatnerStars: Eddie Murphy, BenStiller, Casey Affleck811⁄2

The disjointed and dopeyTower Heist plays like anOcean’s 11 for idiots, butretains our goodwill bygiving us a revitalized Ed-die Murphy for ouramusement.

Director Brett Ratner’sfilm begins as mostly seri-ous fiction that drawsfrom recent Ponzi schemeheadlines in the BernieMadoff affair.

Scammer Arthur Shawis played by Alan Alda, to-tally believable as a smugbajillionaire investor liv-ing in the penthouse lux-ury of the Tower (inreality the Trump Tower).Shaw’s every want andwhim is serviced by theTower’s building managerJosh (Ben Stiller) and thecolourful characters whoassist him.

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pyramid collapses, takingdown the trusting Toweremployees’ pension planwith it.

How to get the employ-ees’ dough back? A heistis in order.

And the person to engi-neer it is Murphy, in oneof his funniest live-actionroles since his 1980s hey-day. Ratner breaks all the

rules of the universe, in-cluding gravity. But ifyou’re willing to suspendyour disbelief, he’ll leaveyou smiling.

Extras include a direc-tor’s commentary, alter-nate ending,deleted/alternate scenesand making-of fea-turettes.

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The legacy of Whitney HoustonAs the singer is laid to rest, experts ponder her past and what it means for her music in future

As Whitney Houston’s fu-neral took place this pastSaturday, the tragedy ofher death is still fresh inour minds. However, Hous-ton, like Michael Jackson,may have a legacy that canoutlive our collective mem-ory of her somewhat taint-ed past.

But that doesn’t happenon its own. There are pro-fessionals who specializein the act of “sanitizing”the image of a deceasedcelebrity. “The estates ofdead celebrities these daysare so savvy and there’s ahandful of people thatmanage it in Hollywood,”explains Jo Piazza, authorof Celebrity Inc. How Fa-

mous People Make Money.“Whitney’s estate will like-ly sign on with one of thembecause they know what todo to kind of sanitize acelebrity who has died inan unsavory way. They’realso bulldogs to make surethat the image is not usedin a way that is one, notprofitable for them andtwo, will continue to dam-age the brand in perpetu-ity.”

Piazza notes thatMichael Jackson’s estateused the same experts thathad worked on Elvis Pres-ley’s estate after he died.Many may forget that Pres-ley also died young, and onthe toilet. But Jackson andPresley at the top two deadcelebrity earners. Why? Be-cause they present brand-ing that allows newgenerations to become

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Will Whitney Houston become a top deceased celebrity

earner like Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley?

On casting aHouston biopicWe asked movie critic forFandango.com Grae Draketo speculate as to who couldplay the key roles in a Whit-ney Houston biopic if onewere to be made today. ButDrake warned us first, thatthe public will need dis-tance from her death in or-der to appreciate afictionalized retelling of herlife. “Biopics usually do bet-ter when people have hadtime to forget what it waslike to live through it in thenews,” she says.

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The cast

Who would play Whitney

Houston and Bobbi Brown?

Whitney Houston:

“Jennifer Hudson is whoeveryone is bringing up forthis,” says Drake.

Bobbi Brown: “The thingabout Don Cheadle is thathe can really bringsomething deep to a figurewhom I think is largely un-sympathetic. Getting theright performer in therecould really turn the tide ofpublic opinion,” says Drake.

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Jennifer Hudson

fans and then, consumers. “Michael Jackson’s es-

tate benefited from thefact that Conrad Murraywas convicted,” she says.“That kind of clears hisname and de-stigmatizeshim going forward. Theway Whitney Houstondied, that’s not a family-friendly way to die. And ifyou die in an un-familyfriendly way, similar toAmy Winehouse, it’s hardfor parents to encouragethat next generation ofconsumers to sign on tothis brand.”

Michael Jackson andElvis Presley’s respectiveCirque du Soleil shows, inaddition to Presley’s Grace-land, not only generate bigmoney for their estates,but indoctrinate new gen-erations as fans of theirmusic.

But can Houston man-age to overcome the samesort of branding crisis? Pi-azza doesn’t think so. “Idon’t think that her brandwas as strong as Jackson

and Presley’s,” she says. “Idon’t think that she had astrong enough catalogue inone genre to be able to doanything in perpetuity.”

Piazza also notes thatbecause Houston did notwrite her songs, she alsostands to make less moneyfrom her catalogue goingforward.

Dorothy Pomerantz isan entertainment journal-ist for Forbes Magazine andcompiles the annual list oftop-earning dead celebri-ties. She takes a morehopeful perspective on thefuture of Houston’s legacy.

“Yes, the way WhitneyHouston died was incredi-bly sad, but what’s going tomatter is how her heirsand her estate managershandle her name going for-ward,” Pomerantz says.“There’s no reason thatsomething similar (to thesuccess of Presley and Jack-son) couldn’t happen withWhitney Houston after herestate and her name havehad room to separate fromthe way she died. Fiveyears from now, will Whit-ney be remembered for hergrace and for her songs? Orwill she be rememberedfor dying from whatevercomes out in the autopsy?It takes PR and smart plan-ning and smart work.There’s potential there.”

$10MThe amount Houston’sestate may earn in thenext 12 months,according to estimatesby Forbes Magazine.

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Houston items go upon the auction block

Singing legend was buried on Saturday and already her Bodyguard dress,earrings are up for grabs How much will these pieces of Whitney go for?

Well, that wasquick. She wasjust buried onSaturday, butthe vulturesare already cir-cling: It wasannounced on

Sunday that the black vel-vet dress and a pair of ear-rings Whitney Houstonwore in The Bodyguardwill be put up for auctionnext month in Californiaas part of a Hollywood Leg-ends auction.

According to celebrityauctioneer Darren Julien,Houston’s Bodyguarditems became available af-ter her death on Feb. 11.

“It proves a point thatthese items, they’re an in-vestment,” Julien told TheAssociated Press.

“You buy items just likea stock. Buy at the righttime and sell at the righttime, and they just in-crease in value.”

He continued: “It’s a cel-ebration of her life. If youhide these things in fearthat you’re going to offendsomeone — her life is to becelebrated. These itemsare historic now that she’spassed.”

Point taken. But herdeath is already so tragic.

Can’t we have an appropri-ate amount of time tomourn before everyonestarts to profit off of her?Say, a week?

Lilo to actually work? Lindsay Lohan is set tohost Saturday Night Liveon March 3, but the gig

didn’t come without a fairamount of begging andpleading, according toTMZ.

Sources say that withher community servicenearly complete, the trou-bled actress is hoping tokick-start her career come-back.

To that end, Lohanreached out to the show’sexecutive producer, LorneMichaels, suggesting theidea of her hosting again.This will be Lohan’s fourthtime hosting the program.

And I know you all willbe tuning for all of thewrong reasons.

THE WORDDOROTHY ROBINSONSCENE@METRONEWS.CA

A fan takes a photograph at the gravesite of Whitney Houston Sunday in Westfield, N.J.

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“It’s a celebrationof her life... Theseitems are historicnow that she’spassed.”

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Mark Wahlberg hasfound an effective wayto deter his kids fromgetting tattoos: bring-ing them along to hisextremely painful tat-too-removal sessions.

“I don’t want mykids get-ting tat-toos. AndI wantedthem tobe [re-moved]by thetime Idid the

Fighter because put-ting makeup on andcovering them uphas always been apain in the butt,”Wahlberg says in an

interview with theToday show.

“I’ve taken mytwo older kidsto the proce-dure so theysee howpainful it isand what Ihave to gothrough.”

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Judi Dench’s eyes are dimDame Judi Dench admitsthat she’s been battlingmacular degeneration, aneye condition that’s causingthe 77-year-old to lose hervision.

“I can’t read scripts anymore because of the troublewith my eyes,” she tells the

Daily Mirror. “And so some-body comes in and readsthem to me, like telling mea story.” But Dench, who’sundergoing treatment forthe condition, doesn’t haveany plans to give up acting.

“As long as there is a pos-sibility of working, I’m notgoing to retire,” she says. “IfI retire, nothing will workany more, and it’s hardenough as it is.” METRO

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Lie face down on the floorwith your palms at shoulderlevel, fingers pointingforward. Squeezing yourgluteus, push yourself upuntil your body weight restsonly on your palms andtoes. Lower yourself and repeat.

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How Emma got thatred-carpet body

The Academy Awards are this Sunday, so you know celebs are busy working out to getready Personal trainer Armando Alarcon, who works with The Help star Emma Stone, tells

us how to rock the toned red-carpet look For all the jokes about plas-tic surgery and dangerouslythin actresses, manycelebrities today look tonedand tight because of onething: They exercise regu-larly. And they work hard atit. See for yourself February26th, on the red carpet atthe Academy Awards. Sureto be there is Emma Stone,whose film The Help isnominated for Best Picture.We asked her personaltrainer, Armando Alarcon,about her routine — andhow you can emulate it.

Maximize your body100 per centThe first tip is to never sin-gle out one exercise. Full-body training will makeyou use more muscle andburn calories.

“The body does notmove as one single entity,”says Alarcon.

“Constantly change yourroutine with a mix of Pi-lates, basic weightlifting,yoga and plyometrics com-bined into one so that thebody changes as a wholerather than one particularmuscle group.”

Identify, target andfix problem areas When standing tall, a manwill look stronger and a

woman more elegant, buteveryone has a problemarea that can affect overallposture.

Identify these and bringthe body back to its originalstate before building it backup again.

The most common prob-lem occurs when yourchest pulls you forward andyour back doesn’t have thestrength to hold the shoul-ders back, rounding theshoulders and causing asquatted forward lean ofthe head.

You need to focus onworking the back muscles(Pilates is great). Doing soalso flattens out the stom-ach and brings the chestand the shoulders back anddown and correctly alignedwith the head.

Weights don’t needto weigh you down The celebs use weights —well, light ones.

“Think of it this way:walking is good, jogging isbetter and sprinting isbest,” says Alarcon. “Addingfive-pound ankle or armweights to any exercise ishard as heck but causesmore of a burn, as it maxi-mizes the effort and short-ens the time needed to gainthe maximum amount ofmuscle. You can go from do-ing 20 reps to 10 to 15, andget the exact same results,”he continues.

If it’s bad, don’t eat itAlarcon doesn’t believe indiets. Allow yourself to eatwhat you want to eat or youwill crash.

His food rules are sim-ple: If you think it’s bad, itprobably is, so don’t eat it.If you think it’s too much,then don’t eat it all. What-ever your vice is — carbs,fat or salt — change it.

Then eat breakfast. Pro-teins. Vegetables and water.And a flat stomach will fol-low, which you can thentone up with ab exercises.Sounds like a lot of work?For proof of the results,check out Emma this Sun-day night.

“I am not built tolift weightsmentally. I do notlike lifting heavymetal over myhead. I have a lot ofrage, I guess, and itcomes out whenI’m hauling steeloverhead.”EMMA STONE, ON WORKING OUTWITH ARMANDO ALARCON

Alarcon onEmma“Emma is the perfect ex-ample of someone whocontrols her eating verywell. She doesn’t go ondiets and does indulgeonce in a while butoverall, she eats very lit-tle meat and fatty foodsand lots of fresh fruitand vegetables.”

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AMUSEMENT. Have you for-gotten how to have fun?Play is serious businessfor kids, so take somecues from the children inyour midst.

They approach theirplaytime and flights ofimagination with a kindof abandon most adultshave forgotten is possi-ble.

Not only do we becomeboring (and bored) whenwe don’t make the timefor fun, but we also be-come unhappy.

If you have trouble let-ting go of worries and re-sponsibilities, imaginethat you’ve sealed yourcares in a box and stashedit in the closet for a fewhours and then go outand pursue the activitythat makes your heartsing.

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Questions remain about whether the antioxidant-rich fruit can help improve prostate problems

Perhaps you’re perplexedby the pomegranate. Canthis pure, pungent potionprevent prostate prob-lems?

You may have heardclaims that consumingpomegranate juice andsupplements is helpful inailments such as prostatecancer. Yet the makers ofPOM Wonderful 100%Pomegranate Juice andPOMx supplements weregiven a warning in theU.S. for making falsehealth claims.

What is really goingon?

We asked Dr. ChanningPaller, a senior oncologyfellow at Johns HopkinsUniversity in Baltimore, tofill us in. She and her col-leagues recently conduct-

ed a study of POMx pills inmen with prostate cancer.They found that it’s safeto take the pills and doesimprove one importantmarker of prostate cancer.

Specifically, pomegran-ate pills increasedprostate specific antigendoubling time (PSADT),which means that the can-cer was progressing lessrapidly in many of the 104men in the study.

This followed an earlierstudy by Dr. Alan Pantuckof UCLA that found drink-ing eight ounces of pome-granate juice dailyincreases PSADT.

So why isn’t Pallerpraising the pomegran-ate?

“Although we are hap-py that our study demon-strated daily POMx pillsresulted in a six-monthimprovement in PSADT,this is not yet considered

a clinically significantendpoint,” she told Metro.

“Until we can showthat people live longer orhave longer periods wherethey are disease-free ifthey take pomegranate

juice or pomegranate ex-tract … no recommenda-tions can or should bemade for regular use ofthis compound.”

It’s a guarded thumbsup. Next, Paller plans tostudy the benefits of mus-cadine grape skin on menwith prostate cancer.

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Why pomegranate?

There is little doubt thatpomegranate juice is goodfor you and sae to drink. Itis high in antioxidants, nu-trients that are known tofight disease.The Mayo Clinic warns: ifyou are going to drinkpomegranate juice regular-ly to prevent disease, talkto your doctor. It mayaffect how your body me-tabolizes prescriptionmedications. Pomegranate juice is com-parable to grape juice andblueberry juice in antioxi-dant content.

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2 In a separate bowl com-bine milk, egg, pumpkin,oil, lemon juice andvanilla. Beat with a whiskuntil smooth. Add to dryingredients, stirring justuntil blended. Do notover beat.

3 Heat a large skillet orgriddle on medium highheat, adding a smallamount of oil. Portionapproximately 1/4 cup ofbatter on griddle, repeat-ing to fill griddle. Cookpancake until bottom isbrown and top has bub-bles, about 2 minutes.Flip pancakes and contin-ue cooking until bottomis browned. Repeat untilall batter is cooked. Serveimmediately with HotApple Cider Syrup.

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I have noth-ing but re-spect for thearray of“healthier

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However, some places— open for decades —have refused any trendyfood movements and stickto what they do best.

Back Home for fishy dishes

Vermicelli Bowl ($10.25).

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This fish & chips spot serves up old favourites like battered haddock

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One of these places isBack Home, which makesa mean platter of fish andchips.

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tered haddock. The moist white fish

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The lunch menu islight and quickly made,and Back Home’s locationis convenient to severalstreams of traffic.

With everything goingfor it, I figure Back Homecan stick to what it doesbest.

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But I wasn’t being funnyat all. I was telling him thetruth. I truly don’t see howmarried people do it. Infact, I wish married peoplewould speak up more of-ten about how they livewith someone every singleday, hopefully for the restof their lives. There are somany books out there onbeing single, but no booksout there about the truthabout marriage and how tolive with someone.

I hate to admit this, butit would be ideal if myboyfriend/baby daddycould live next door to me.Don’t get me wrong: I love

this man more than anyman I’ve ever been with,and I want to spend therest of my life with him.It’s just that I also want abreak, at least one night aweek. It isn’t feasible, eco-nomically, for us to affordtwo houses next to eachother. However, it is feasi-ble that he rents a place,

which he does, to be closerto his own children’sschool and so he can bethere for their after-schoolactivities. Even after wehad our baby, I told him I’dpay for him to keep it.

As it stands, he sleepsthere two nights a week,and I really look forwardto those two nights aweek. I miss him like hell,but it’s a good kind ofmissing, and after thosetwo nights, I can’t wait tosee him again. Meanwhile,I get to wear sweats andeat pizza, without care. (Asa side note, I always dresssexily to bed when I’mwith him. Just my tip toyou ladies!)

I’ve been a single moth-er for five years now. AndI’ve done it. And done it

well. Plus, these marriedfriends of mine — not allof them, but a number ofthem — don’t seem allthat happy in their mar-riages.

I truly believe if theytook a break from eachother, one night a week,their relationships wouldbe better.

Once, after having cof-fee with a friend, she sawher husband’s car in thedriveway, and her facedropped. It literallydropped. She said, “Oh,great. Now I’m not goingto get any work done.”

And I thought, God, ifthis is what marriage is, orwhat living together islike, then count me out.CONTRIBUTED BY: REBECCA ECKLER, MOMMYISH.COM

“I hate to admitthis, but it wouldbe ideal if myboyfriend/baby daddy couldlive next door tome ... Meanwhile, Iget to wear sweatsand eat pizza...”REBECCA ECKLER

… Not enough to live with him Mommyish writer explains why she needs space

BE SOLD ON YOURSELFDear sisters, I have been trying to meetnew people through variousdating sites for a while now.I’ve made a few good connec-tions too; always talking, hav-ing a good time, wanting tohang out more (and the girlusually suggests it). But itseems to fizzle fast. Sheeither is too busy or someother reason, but then theyappear on my list of ‘online’people when I go back tothese sites...Am I not being forwardenough, or too forward by ex-pressing interest? What elsecan I do? Thanks!Wondering what I do.

Andrea: Dear Wondering, Start by patting yourself

on the back for at least go-ing on sites and meetingnew people; that’s half thebattle. Next, go home, kickyourself really hard in theshin, open an umbrella in-doors and whistle thetheme to Knight Rider. Thisis the magic spell to makeany woman fall madly inlove with you.

Not. My point is that you can

put yourself out there andget some positive feedback,but there’s no trick to makeit pan out longer than that... other than good old con-nection. If you haven’t

found it, you haven’t foundit. What women find madlyattractive are confidenceand congruence. I shouldn’thave to explain confidenceto you, because if I do, youdon’t have it. Congruence,though, is when yourthoughts aren’t alignedwith your goal. For in-stance, you’ve dressed thepart and even say the rightthings, but your body lan-guage and tone say thatyou’re desperate, whichmeans you’re not 100 percent sold on yourself orwhat you want, and shewon’t be either. Improveyourself in whatever wayyou think is necessary, thenstop wondering and enjoywho you are.

Claire: Dear Wondering,If you’re getting dates,

you must not be one ofthose weirdos I met during

my brief tenure on one site,who called themselveshotnight69 or romeo-foru462. Congrats!

I’ve been that girl — theone who loses interest. Itmeans you’re either doingor saying something to putme off, like the guy whotalked dirty within sevenminutes of meeting, or theone who smoked in my facewhile telling me what baddrivers women are. Or elseit means that the chemistryjust isn’t there ... yet. We’veall been there, and we’ll allbe there again, so you’renot alone. Don’t lose confi-dence, just step away fromit all once in a while, untilyou feel good again. Andnever tell a woman you’redating what you’ve just toldus; never feel sorry foryourself or wonder aloudwhy things haven’t worked.Try doing the opposite ofwhat you’ve been doing onyour next date —ask ques-tions about her, listen morethan you speak, laughwhen she expects it ... inother words, get to knowher before you reveal your-self too much, but be warmthroughout. Chicks digthat. TWO SISTERS, 20-SOMETHING ANDREAAND 30-SOMETHING CLAIRE, OFFERTHEIR DIFFERING VIEWS ON YOUR RE-LATIONSHIP ISSUES.

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The dinner napkin should not be used for blowing your nose.

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Dear Butler,When at dinner and one feelsa sneeze coming on, how doyou handle the situation?Sneeze into the napkin? Turnyour head and sneeze intothe napkin? Then there is thenose blow. Turn your headand blow into the napkin orleave the table to take care ofit? Does one even use theirnapkin? Very confused here.Arthur

Dear Arthur,Lets first deal with the

easy part of your question.The dinner napkin is never,under any circumstances,used as a handkerchief, soblowing your nose intoyour napkin will never be

an acceptable option. Should you ever need to

blow your nose while at thetable, you should always ex-cuse yourself from the tableand ideally blow your nosein a Kleenex or handker-chief, far enough away sothat the others at the tabledo not hear you.

Now, as for sneezing atthe table. Remember thatsneezing can spread germs.If you must sneeze at thetable, grab your napkin,cover both your mouth andnose, put your head downas close to your chest aspossible and try to pushyour chair back from thetable before sneezing.

It is even better if you areseated in a position that al-lows you to turn your headaway from everyone.

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The ideal scenario is toset money aside for RRSPson a regular basis. “The bestplan is to contribute a fixedamount monthly,” saysPaul Lermitte, a Vancouver-based certified financialplanner with AssanteWealth Management.

The monthly amountgets automatically deduct-ed from your bank account.Then, if at some point dur-ing the year you get a workbonus or inherit money,you can top up your contri-butions.

Not having a ready stashof cash to invest is just oneroadblock stopping peoplefrom contributing to anRRSP.

Here is how to overcomethat obstacle and others.

Can’t scrounge up a dime.If you have raided your pig-gy bank but still can’t comeup with money to invest,consider taking out anRRSP loan. “Borrow an af-fordable amount for oneyear, maximum,” says Ler-mitte. “Then pay back someof the loan with the tax re-fund the RRSP generates.”

Spent too much at Christ-mas. If you blew your budg-et buying gifts for everyoneon your list, you could endup mired in credit card debtleading up to the RRSPdeadline. “That doesn’tmean you shouldn’t buyChristmas gifts,” says Ler-mitte. “But it is a sign thatyou should start reining inyour holiday spending.”

Missed the deadline. Hop-ing there is a grace periodpost-deadline? Unfortunate-ly, there isn’t. But arrivinglate to the party can be anopportunity in disguise.

“If you miss the dead-

line, that’s OK,” says Ler-mitte. “What you need todo now is get a certified fi-nancial planner to help youstart planning right awayfor next year.”

When the time comes,try not to wait until the daybefore the deadline to hand

over your cash; the soonerbefore the final momentyou can do so, the betterprepared you will be.

Waited too long to start. Ifyou are 10 years or moreaway from retirement andyou finally have a good

chunk of change to investin your first RRSP, it mightbe worth your while, buttalk to your financial advis-er to make sure. The closerto retirement you are, theless time you will have totake advantage of com-pound interest. Also, you

must start withdrawingsome of your RRSPs at 71.

“If you’re less than adecade away from retire-ment, you’d probably bebetter off making non-regis-tered investments like atax-free savings account,”says Lermitte.

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ExcusesNo more

Removing roadblocks for RRSPs

A spousal RRSP is a regularRRSP with one importantdifference, says Mike Hen-ry, senior vice-president ofretail products, Scotia-bank: The person makingthe contribution is doingso in their spouse’s name.

“This lets couples divideup their retirement in-come as a way of minimiz-ing their overall taxliability in retirement. It’sreally useful in that youcan help balance the in-come load and try andkeep each spouse in a low-er overall income taxbracket in retirement.”

A spousal RRSP is an in-come splitting strategywith the objective of re-ducing the cumulativefamily tax bill, accordingto Anthony Williams, vice-president of academic af-fairs, Canadian Institute ofFinancial Planning.

Through their workinglife, the person with thehigher income can shift in-come to the person in thelower tax bracket, says

Williams. When you bothretire, rather than have adisproportionate pool ofRRSP income, you haveequal amounts, saysWilliams. If you need$50,000 of household in-come, you would pull$25,000 from each plan.

“From a tax perspective,that’s much better thantaking the entire amountfrom the one.”

Here’s what you need toknow about spousal RRSPs:

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If you start 10 years lat-er, you will have $138,068by age 65 and your totalcontributions would be$42,000.

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When you’re startingout, perhaps a new career,buying a home, or raising afamily, tax deferral is veryvaluable. It allows you tomaximize your savings op-portunities even thoughyour budget might be tight.

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The Flames (28-22-9)host the Oilers (22-30-6) for the third timethis season. Calgarywon the first twohome games 2-1 onOct. 18 and 3-0 onDec. 10. Edmonton is0-4 overall against theFlames this seasonand is winless in itslast three games.Magnus Paajarvi hasfour points in fivegames after register-ing only four points inthe previous 33. MikeCammalleri has threegoals in four gamesafter scoring two inhis first 10 with theFlames. Miikka Kipru-soff has allowed sixgoals over his pastfour starts combined.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Shrugging off controversyAlbert Pujols pulled in forhis first day of spring train-ing with the Anaheim An-gels on Monday amiddozens of television cam-eras and required a sepa-rate press conference backat the team hotel to han-dle the media interest.

Jose Bautista, mean-while, has been goingabout his business in Flori-da the past few days in ad-vance of the Blue Jays’camp in relative anonymi-ty. But there is some com-mon ground for the twosuperstars — both say theyhave been tested for per-formance enhancing drugswell in excess of normalleague protocol.

Bautista addressed theissue Monday in Dunedin,the first time he spoke toToronto media on the mat-ter after a tweet in mid-January fanned into a briefcontroversy.

Bautista maintained hewas tested 16 times overthe course of his back-to-back American Leaguehome run champion sea-sons (2010 and 2011). Ma-jor League Baseball saidthose figures did notmatch up with their num-bers, and for a week afterthe story broke, therewere questions about whowas correct.

“I don’t care,” Bautistasaid about the entire affair.

“At first it got blownway out of proportion. Iwas at a dinner and a play-er asked me a questionand I gave him my answer.I didn’t know there were(press) working there and

that didn’t matter. Then itbecame a story, from thefirst time it got tweeted orwhatever, it went fromthere.”

Major leaguers can ex-pect at least two unan-nounced tests during theregular season and possi-bly two more duringspring training.

Pujols, like Bautista,

said he was tested well be-yond those numbers. Nei-ther has ever testedpositive for any bannedsubstance.

During the off-season,Bautista said that he tooktwo months off, largely torest his body after a seriesof injuries in the second

half of the season.“To me, the most impor-

tant thing is remaininghealthy and staying on thefield to help this team inany way I can,” saidBautista.

“If we win and get intothe playoffs, then that dic-tates what is my success(in Toronto).” TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

‘I don’t care if anybody is singling me out,’ Toronto slugger Bautista says of PED questions

Kelly Scott’s team keepswinning games at the wireat the Canadian women’scurling championship.However, the B.C. skip isconcerned about an off-icedevelopment.

Teammate Sasha Carterdidn’t play in B.C.’s 7-5 winover defending championAmber Holland in Red Deeron Monday because of theflu. Scott’s husband, Chad,and young son, Nash, hadthe same symptoms.

“My roomie Sasha was

up all night sick,” Scottsaid. “Up until now wethought it was food poison-ing, but obviously a fewmore people are having thesame symptoms.

“We probably shouldtake all precautions. I

might move in with ourfifth. We have to preservethe four people that can goon the ice.”

Scott was 4-0 at the Scot-ties Tournament of Heartsand handed Holland herfirst loss of the tournament.

The Kelowna, B.C., rinktopped the standings aheadof Holland and Manitoba’sJennifer Jones, who were at3-1 with a draw remainingMonday.

The pack of teams at 2-2included Saskatchewan’s

Michelle Englot, Alberta’sHeather Nedohin, Ontario’sTracy Horgan and NewBrunswick’s Heather Atkin-son.

Kerry Galusha of Yukonand Northwest Territories,Quebec’s Marie-FranceLarouche and Kim Dolanand Prince Edward Islandwere 2-3. Nova Scotia’sHeather Smith-Dacey was 1-3 with Heather Strong ofNewfoundland andLabrador at 1-4.THE CANADIAN PRESS

B.C. on a roll despite flu concerns

“I wouldn’t have signed that contract if Ididn’t feel (the organization was buildinga winner) ... I feel we have the group inplace and that we’re ready to go for it.”JOSE BAUTISTA ON THE BLUE JAYS’ CHANCES IN 2012

Jose Bautista prepares for batting practice on Monday

under the watchful eye of Blue Jays manager John Farrell in Dunedin, Fla.

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Albert Pujols answers a question

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Detroit Tigers first baseman Prince Fielder talks to the media as he arrives early to spring training on Monday.

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Prince Fielder entered theTigers’ increasingly crowd-ed clubhouse Monday, theday of Detroit’s first work-out for pitchers and catch-ers. Fielder and MiguelCabrera both came tocamp early, along with ahandful of other positionplayers.Mariano Rivera hinted2012 could be his final yearin the major leagues, say-ing he won’t announce hislong-term plans until afterthe season. The New YorkYankees’ 42-year-old closersays he has reached a deci-sion about whether he willretire or return in 2013 butsaid he won’t reveal it until“maybe October.”Albert Pujols says he won’tlook back as he moves to anew baseball home. OnMonday, he reported to hisfirst training camp withthe Los Angeles Angels, ar-riving a week earlier thanhe planned so he could be-gin bonding with his newteammates.Bryce Harper arrived atspring training with thesame goal he had last sea-son: to make the Washing-ton Nationals’ opening-day roster. Nationalsmanger Davey Johnsonsaid the 19-year-old is “stillin the mix to have anopportunity.”A.J. Burnett was happy toescape from New York. “Itwas fun the first couple ofyears. Then it got like, ‘I’mnever going to get out ofthis funk,’” he saidMonday, a day after theYankees dealt him to thePittsburgh Pirates for apair of low-level prospects.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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