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Talk of a return to health-care pre-miums is making the rounds as theprovince grapples with its red-inked budget in the midst of atumultuous global economy.

The province says in second-quarter financial numbers releasedyesterday that it expects to finishthe 2011-12 fiscal year next springwith a $3.1-billion deficit — closeto what it had forecast in the budg-et.

The revised numbers are a bigshift from three months ago, whenofficials predicted oil leases andstrong oil prices meant the deficitwould be almost $2 billion lessthan the $3.4 billion predicted lastspring.

Deputy premier Doug Hornerand Finance Minister Ron Liepertsaid the goal is still to balance thebudget by 2013-14, as promised byPremier Alison Redford, withoutsharp budget cuts that occurredunder former premier Ralph Klein

in the early 1990s.Both mentioned that recent

roundtable discussions with select-ed citizens indicated the provinceshould look at new “revenuestreams,” including a return tohealth-care premiums.

Those premiums, worth asmuch as $1 billion to government

coffers, were abandoned under for-mer premier Ed Stelmach in 2009.

Opposition critics said Liepertand Horner are laying the ground-work to bring the fees back, butHorner said their return isn’t a spe-cific target, just a point of discus-sion.

“We’re not taking anything offthe table except a sales tax — andthe reality is that’s what Albertanshave told us.”

NDP Leader Brian Mason said areturn to health premiums wouldcost a family $1,000 a year andhammer middle and low-incomeearners.

One way or the other, the writ-ing is on the wall for Alberta’s need-iest, he suggested. “If you’re goingto balance (the budget) by cutting,you’re going to have to balance itin the area where the governmentspends the vast majority of its mon-ey, and that’s in health and education.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

Province hints atbringing back health premiums

Discussion comes as legislature begins fall sitting

Wildrose criticism

Deficit. Wildrose party critic RobAnderson said the governmentis running a deficit because itcan’t manage its money.

Tax increases. “Albertans aretelling us that they’re not inter-ested in tax increases,” saidAnderson. “Clearly no one wants’90s-style, deep, five per cent,across-the-board cuts, but whatthey are looking for is common-sense austerity.”

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It was zero tolerance overthe weekend, as the city en-forced its first seasonalparking ban.

The ban, for residentialbus routes, was declared 7a.m. Friday and lifted 7p.m. Sunday, culminatingin 1,278 tickets — even onroads already clear of snow.

“As long as the ban wasdeclared, we were enforc-ing,” Erin Blaine, parkingenforcement co-ordinator,

said yesterday. That puzzled Coun.

Amarjeet Sohi.“If they were parked

there prior to plows com-ing and they had to goaround them,” he said.“But there’s an issue withones parked after plowsclear it.”

But Bob Dunford, direc-tor of roadway mainte-nance, said it would bedifficult to say “what areashave been released andwhat hasn’t.”

“The faster we can getthe residential bus routes

done, the more quickly wecan lift the parking ban,”he said.

A total of 45 vehicleswere requested towed, butonly seven were.

“When people see park-ing enforcement in front of

their house, they movefast,” said Blaine.

Residential blading be-gan Sunday, and was nearly25 per cent done after oneday. A neighbourhoodschedule can be found on-line at edmonton.ca.

When the city declares a seasonal

parking ban, vehicles must be removed

on residential bus routes, on which routes

signs like this one, found on 84 Street,

just off Jasper Avenue, are posted.

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More than 1,200 ticketsduring first parking ban

The Crown wants a 14-yearsentence for PatrickClayton, 40, who held ninepeople at gunpoint insidethe Workers CompensationBoard in 2009.

At a sentencing hearingyesterday, the Crown calledClayton high-risk, danger-ous and reckless, askingthat the hostage takerserve half his time beforebecoming eligible forparole. Defence lawyerswant two years in jail andthree years’ probation.

Clayton pleaded guiltyearlier this month totaking a hostage,possession of a weapon andpointing a firearm. Thejudge will give his decisionthis afternoon. METRO

Crown wants14 years forhostage taker

Priestcharged inhistoric sexassault caseA Catholic priest is facingsex-related charges inEdmonton that go backmore than 35 years.

Police say Father Eric De-jaeger is being transferredto the city from the BaffinCorrectional Centre inNunavut.

Dejaeger who is 64, wasreturned to Canada fromhis Belgium residence lastJanuary on outstanding sex-ual-assault charges in theterritory. Edmonton policesay they received acomplaint in April about analleged encounter with De-jaeger in 1975. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Worst offenders

The nearly $64,000 fromthe tickets (at $50 each) willgo into general revenue forthe city.Blaine said downtownhoused the worst offenders

Friday, while issues in thenortheast, west and south-east were noticed Saturday.Roadways around the Mis-ericordia Hospital andtownhouses in the north-east were problem areas,according to Dunford.

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City bylaw officers ticketed cars before and after streets were plowed Stricter enforcement possible in future if compliance not reached

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It’s official: Melcor filescomplaint about occupiers

Despite the fact that an of-ficial complaint has beenlodged, Edmonton policeare still hoping for apeaceful resolution be-tween Melcor and OccupyEdmonton campers.

Between 10 and 20 pro-

testers remained campedon private land at 102Street and Jasper Avenue.

“We’ve handed it overto the police,” companyCEO Ralph Young said yes-terday. “We filed last nightjust after 11 p.m.”

The company set aneviction time for Sunday,but occupiers defied thenotice.

And while police chiefRod Knecht said a court or-der isn’t needed to removethe protesters, he’s hopingto do so “without any con-frontation.”

“But the situation is flu-id,” he said. “It couldchange at any time.”

A meeting between allparties yesterday was dis-appointing, spokesperson

Mike Hudema said.“It seems Melcor is

pushing for the end resultto be a forced eviction,” hesaid, adding that his groupoffered to sit down with amediator, but were de-nied.

They were to vote lastnight on whether to stayon or strike camp and findanother site.

Company calls on police to remove protesters camped out since Oct. [email protected]

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Occupy campers toldto pack up and leave

Activists in many locations vow the movement will live on, perhaps in some other incarnation Some protesters plan ‘flash occupations’

City of Toronto bylaw officers are

accompanied by police as they place

a new batch of eviction notices on tents and

structures at the Occupy Toronto grounds

in St. James Park, in Toronto, yesterday.

NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS

The pan-Canadian wall ofcorporate resistance erect-ed by Occupy protestersfive weeks ago was crum-bling yesterday as camps inseveral major cities weredismantled or told by thecourts staying put was fu-tile.

The day began with ajudge in Toronto decreeingprotesters in a city parkwere trespassing. It sawVancouver’s activists fever-ishly tear down their mini-village before somerelocated across the street

at the courthouse. And itclosed with the mayor ofMontreal for the first timeasking his city’s group tovacate.

Protesters in Ottawawere also handed their no-tice of eviction.

London, Halifax andSaskatoon camps werecleared earlier in themonth, while most protest-ers in Victoria have headedhome. The Edmonton campwas still up despite a mid-night Sunday deadline totear down from a develop-

ment company that ownsthe park.

Tents were pitched inCanada on Oct. 15 in soli-darity with a protest thatbegan a month earlier onMahattan’s Wall Street, de-crying the world’s concen-

tration in the hands of richelites.

Protesters were weigh-ing their options in Montre-al and Toronto, asindividuals consideredwhether to risk policereprisals.

In Vancouver, a smallnumber of city workerssporting neon vests movedin with a modest-sizedfrontloader to assist pro-testers who scurried aboutoutside the art gallery clear-ing away their gear.THE CANADIAN PRESS

“Anarchism has along politicalhistory. But Canadahas not chosenanarchism.”ONTARIO SUPERIOR COURT JUSTICEDAVID BROWN

We paid $1,650to remove a bedat G8 summitCanadian taxpayers forkedout almost $2 million —including more than$1,600 to remove a bed —to spruce up a luxuryMuskoka resort for lastyear’s G8 summit.

The renovations includ-ed $500 to remove a smalllight fixture from oneroom and $3,000 to raise alarge chandelier in themain lobby of DeerhurstResort.

The Harper governmentpicked up the tab, whichalso included $1,540 tomove furniture in roomsused by the German dele-gation and $1,650 to re-move a king-sized bed andheadboard from a roomused by the French delega-tion. THE CANADIAN PRESS

PRISON PROBLEM

UnwantedfriendrequestsLisa Gesik hesitates to loginto her Facebookaccount nowadaysbecause of unwanted“friend” requests, notfrom long-ago classmatesbut from the ex-husbandnow in prison for kidnap-ping her and her daugh-ter.

Neither Gesik norprison officials can proveher ex-husband is send-ing her the messages,which feature photos of

him wearing his prisonblues and dark sun-glasses, arms crossed ashe poses in front of aprison gate.

The Newport, Ore.,woman is afraid and, asthe days tick down to hisJanuary release, is consid-ering going into hidingwith her 12-year-olddaughter. “It’s just beingvictimized all overagain,” she said.

Across the U.S. and be-yond, inmates are usingsocial networks and thegrowing numbers ofsmartphones smuggledinto prisons and jails toharass their victims oraccusers and intimidatewitnesses.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Departmental spokesper-son Natalie Pennefathersaid “full and completedocumentation” wasrequired before the gov-ernment finalizedpayment for any of thework done at Deerhurst.She said such recordswere “only available”through Access toInformation.Yet a subsequent accessrequest for all receipts re-lated to the $1.9-millionrenovation tab producednothing close to full andcomplete documentation.Only the $95,000 worth ofrenovations to officespaces were detailed.

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EU plans toban sharkfinningThe EU’s executive armyesterday said that itwants to completely banshark finning — the prac-tice of removing sharks’fins and throwing the fin-less creatures back into

the sea to die.Under the proposal ap-

proved by the EuropeanCommission, all boats inEU waters — and EU-regis-tered boats anywhere inthe world — would haveto land sharks with theirfins attached.

The law, should it go in-to effect, would primarilyaffect fishing vessels fromSpain and Portugal.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Protesters carry a boy wounded

during clashes with Egyptian riot police

in Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday.

EGYPTIAN CABINET QUITSPROTESTERS STILL WANTMILITARY OUT OF POWER

Egypt’s army-appointedgovernment handed inits resignation yesterday,trying to stem a spi -ralling crisis asthousands of protestersin Cairo’s Tahrir Squareclashed for the thirdstraight day with securi-ty forces in violence thathas killed at least 26 peo-ple and posed the most

sustained challenge yetto the military’s rule.

The crowds in Tahrirbroke out into cheerswith the news of the cab-inet’s move. But therewas no sign the conces-sion would break theirdetermination to protestuntil the military stepsdown.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KHALIL HAMRA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Canada joined Britain andthe United States in an-nouncing additional sanc-tions against Iran yesterday,as the three countriesstepped up pressure onTehran to end its nuclear-weapons program.

The United Nations In-ternational Atomic EnergyAgency in Vienna warnedtwo weeks ago that Tehranwas more than likely on theway to acquiring nuclearweapons and pointed toseveral troubling signs.

House leader Peter VanLoan told the Commonsthat Canada would expandprevious sanctions to block

“virtually all” transactionswith Iran’s central bank.

“We will do what it takesto isolate the regime and tominimize the risk that itposes to global peace,” hesaid.

In July 2010, Canada im-posed sanctions on Iran un-der the Special EconomicMeasures Act, aimed at re-stricting Iran’s nuclear pro-gram.

A U.S. official told TheAssociated Press earlier yes-terday the Obama adminis-tration would hit theIranian economy with newsanctions.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canadaadds to Iransanctions

Curbs aimed at preventingTehran’s nuclear weapon goals


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Workload complaints havereached staggering propor-tions among Canadian em-ployees, a global researchfirm said yesterday.

Nearly nine in ten em-ployers — 89 per cent — re-ported heavy workload as acomplaint among staff, re-sults of a Towers Watsonstudy show.

A similar study by thesame firm two years agofound 64 per cent of em-ployers reported excessive-workload complaintsamong staff, a difference of25 percentage points.

“Most organizations re-port that employee stress isa major and growing busi-ness issue,” the latest re-sults also show, comparingresults to surveys doneevery two years for the past16 years on the health and

productivity practices ofNorth American compa-nies.

“Canadian respondentscited excessive workloads,lack of work/life balance,unclear or conflicting jobexpectations and inade-quate staffing as topsources of workplacestress,” concludes the study.

As firms look to combatstress, disability and absen-teeism, some are consider-ing pay bonuses to workerswho engage in fitness andhealth-management pro-grams, the survey found.

“One-quarter of Canadi-an employers are planningto offer some type of finan-cial reward in 2012, upfrom 13 per cent who cur-rently do so,” the studysays.

The survey was complet-

ed by 335 human resourcesand health benefit man-agers at companies with1,000 or more employees.TORSTAR NEWS SERVICES

Canadians overworked,out of balance: Study

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BERLUSCONI RELEASESALBUM OF LOVE SONGS‘IN ITALY, I AM THE ONE

WITH THE PEST NOW’Former cruise-ship crooner,flamboyant billionaire,now ex-Italian prime minis-ter Silvio Berlusconi kick-starts a new career bygoing back where it all be-gan: the music industry.

All the 11 “elegant andrefined songs” in his newestrelease Il Vero Amore (TrueLove), are written in

Neapolitan dialect byBerlusconi and arranged byfolk-singer Mariano Apicel-la.

Over the past decade,Apicella has been invited tothe former PM’s luxury re-treat in Sardinia. Now, headmits, “people look at meas if I was infected with aplague.”

What’s it like having SilvioBerlusconi as a sidekick foryour album?The premier, who is fromMilan, has the rareprivilege of being comfort-able even with the hardestwords of the Neapolitan di-alect. ... He’s got natural tal-ent: he could write a songin five minutes or even atnight.From the streets of Naples toBerlusconi’s villas, your musi-cal collaboration goes far be-yond the studio albums. I have a one-year contractwith him. I work on call: hesummons me andsometimes we play togeth-er at his parties. They wereabsolutely normal and de-cent dinners.Becoming Berlusconi’s person-al serenader must be a toughjob.Even if you are Frank Sina-tra or Pavarotti but you arefriends with Berlusconi,people look at you as youwere a “chiavica”(“rubbish”). Your music career owes a lot toMr. Berlusconi: aren’t youafraid that it will fade awaywith his political adventure?I don’t believe he will everquit his political career.He’s not a quitter, hecannot stand inactivity.

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SUNDAY BEST:AN ODE TO BRUNCH

In my early 20s, eating break-fast on the weekend was apretty pathetic affair. It neverhappened before 1 p.m. andalmost always took place at agreasy diner called The Pan-

cake House. Sweatpants were the dresscode and if my bill came to more than $6after tax and tip I was doing somethingwrong.

After I graduated and moved offcampus into a grownup apartment some-thing happened: I stopped eating

breakfast and started going for brunch.If you’re unfamiliar with the most delicious portman-

teau in the dictionary, brunch is that sweet spot betweenbreakfast and lunch. It isn’t just a meal; it’s an epicureanevent. Brunch is a hungover server’s worst nightmareand arguably the most civilized part of my week.

To become a person who brunches (it’s also a verbnow), you must develop a whole new attitude toward thelate-morning meal.

When I go for brunch, I expect to wait at least 45minutes for a seat because,naturally, any restaurantworth going to doesn’t takereservations. When I finallysit down, I order three different beverages — icewater, an Americano and amimosa — to combat mydehydration, fatigue andhangover, respectively. Idon’t raise an eyebrow atthe outlandishly overpricedmenu items; I eagerly handover $20 for deconstructedFrench toast or huevosrancheros. I mean, this isn’tjust your run-of-the-mill ba-con and eggs — it’s brunch.

If my buttermilkpancakes have berries inthem, I want those berries

hand-foraged from a local bramble and soaked in cassisfor three days. I don’t want sausage; I want chorizo. Idon’t want toast; I want fresh-baked focaccia seasonedwith rosemary and sea salt. Why is that Bloody Caesar ina regular glass — shouldn’t it be in a decorative masonjar?

I probably shouldn’t be this high-maintenance whenit comes to breakfast. I really can’t afford to care thismuch about where my fruit garnish came from andwhether the chicken that hatched my egg-whiteomelette was raised on an organic diet.

Yes, I could make these meals at home, saving myselfmoney and the hassle of this so-hip-it-hurts ritual. But, asgratuitous as it is, brunch has become an integral part ofmy weekend routine.

One day a week I give myself licence to be completelypretentious about waffles and consume 1,200 calories be-fore noon. Let’s face it: Sunday just can’t happen untilI’ve had some hollandaise.

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“I don’t raise an eyebrow at

the outlandishlyoverpriced menuitems; I eagerlyhand over $20

for deconstructedFrench toast

or huevosrancheros.

I mean, this isn’t just yourrun-of-the-millbacon and eggs— it’s brunch.”

RESTROOM LAURELS.Toronto restaurante11even has beennamed the best in Canada — not for thefood but for the loo.

The upscaledowntown dining spotwon the second annual“Canada’s BestRestroom” contest conducted byMississauga, Ont.-basedCintas Canada Ltd., aprovider of hygieneproducts.

Thousands of voteswere cast on thecontest’s website,Cintas said.

With marble fromfloor to ceiling and elegant mosaic tile accents, e11even’s washrooms flushedaway the competition.

In second place wasAllstream Centre inToronto, followed by Hotel Le Germain inMontreal, David MorrisFine Cars in Edmontonand the Ottawa Convention Centre.

“We are thrilled to receive this honour,”said e11even generalmanager Steven Salm.“While it may notalways be top of mindwhen dining, we feelthat the restroom is anintegral part of the overall design.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Pint-sized withmonster driveKaid Jaret Olson-Weston is strapped into a 1,270-kilogram half-scale monster truck, humming playfullyas he waits for the green light.

KJ, as he is known to his fans,sits patiently as he and hiscoach go over the safe-ty features in his truck.

The roll cage is low-ered. KJ starts theengine and jumpsover humps of dirtbefore crushing a

beat-up car. He spins the truck — andits 90-kilogram tires — clockwise,then backwards, leaving behind acloud of dust in its tracks at his train-ing centre in Ocala, Fla.

Despite these feats, KJ can barelysee over the steering wheel. At eightyears old, he is the youngest monster-truck driver.

KJ performs across the U.S. at about60 different shows every year. He signs

hundreds of autographs at eachshow, but still considers him-self an average kid.

“I do really good in schooland am able to drive this,which people think itmight be hard but it’s actually pretty easy,” hesaid. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Last year he played a myste-rious doctor in MartinScorsese’s Shutter Islandand now Sir Ben Kingsleypartners up once againwith Marty as he affection-ately calls him, but forlighter fare. In Hugo, Kings-ley plays one of the world’sfirst filmmakers, GeorgesMelies, who directed A Tripto the Moon and hundredsof other silent films in theearly 20th century. Kings-ley gave Metro a few mo-ments of his undividedattention to chat about the

3D filmmaking of Hugoand his upcoming film, TheDictator.

George Melies’ film A Trip tothe Moon is one of the mosticonic early films ever made.Do you remember where andwhen you first saw it?I don’t remember when itwas but I do know thatwhen I was at school, it wasa great school and it had afilm society. We were ableto watch some of cinema’smasterpieces that camefrom way back. I know thatwe watched Fritz Langfilms, Eisenstein films, andI think in and amongstthem was The Trip to theMoon because I know I’d

seen it before I got [MartinScorsese’s] offer.

Did shooting in 3D for Hugoaffect your performance atall?Yes. The 3D camerabrought a kind of bonuswhere it was detail, detail,detail, very little CGI,which fed our performanc-es tremendously and keptus in character beautifully.Also, the scrutiny of a 3Dcamera is quite alarming. Inoticed fairly early on thatthe 3D camera can seewhat you’ve done beforeyou’ve done it. It’s so scruti-nizing. It’s x-ray. You cansee the most delicatechanges of body language

and facial expression, al-most pulse and heartbeat.One thing that 3D camerainsisted on was, “don’t tryto act. Don’t show off.Don’t be clever.” Of course,Mr. Scorsese would also say,“keep it simple. Keep ithonest.”

On the set of Hugo you wereknown for staying in charac-ter as Melies in his lateryears, when he was quitecranky and withdrawn. Howdid your young co-stars AsaButterfield (Hugo) and ChloeGrace-Moretz (Isabelle) reactto that?Staying in character for mewas almost mandatory. I’mquite fit and slim but I had

to strap on this pot bellyand I had to strap on thishump in my shoulders tohave this depressed body.I’m more like the [younger]Georges directing in theglass house. I felt, it was go-ing to be a huge effort totake all this off so I thought,“I must stay in character.”Even though he was a sadman and somewhat defeat-ed, I quite enjoyed that Ihad to stay in character.Then I learned to capitalizeon it. I started speaking toboth [Moretz and Butter-field] in French. I found itfed the work so that by thetime, whenever Marty said‘action’ to Asa, he was al-ready dealing with me.

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After making fun of TaylorLautner’s hot physique,his svelte Twilight co-starsKristen Stewart andRobert Pattinson admittedgoing “nuts” working outfor their Breaking Dawnbikini scene. Lautner, onthe other hand, had to goshirtless for the previousinstallments, sticking toan intense regimenthroughout the saga —who’s laughing now?

His workout Lautner’s trademark is hiswashboard abs.

“His Twilight body wasperfect but it wasn’t sym-metrical,” Jordan Yuam,his trainer throughout theentire series says. “He wasso buff he almost lookedcartoonish, but every-thing was based on themoment he took off hisshirt.”

When he wasn’t film-ing, Taylor’s body was 10to 12 per cent but for Twi-light, Yuam would bring itdown to seven per cent.

“Taylor’s always up fora challenge, he’s so fo-cused and disciplined.We’d meet up four times aweek to chisel away fat,”Yuam said.

In order to get Taylorready for his role asripped werewolf Jacob,Yuam used a combinationof classic moves includinghanging leg raises and re-verse crunches to definehis muscles.

The (super) power “I got Taylor on the powerplate,” says Yuam. “It’s in-strumental to my work asI use it to create muscleand for post workout re-covery.”

He admits that he uses

the Power Plate “morethan ever” to sculpt hisclients’ bodies. It’s high-speed workout as vibra-tions (around 1,000 perminute) are transferred toyour muscles causingthem to contract as a re-flex action. This createsinternal heat that increas-es circulation, oxygenatesblood flow around thebody, flushes out toxinsstored in fat cells and lac-tic acid.

“Working out is aboutrecovery and the plateloosens up your stabilizersso you don’t get sore. Theidea isn’t to do thousandsof reps; 25 is enough (12minutes on the plate). Idon’t believe in workoutsthat last more than 50minutes,” Yuam added.

Wolfing food down“Taylor isn’t naturally big.

So the key to maintaininghis frame was to makesure he ate right pre andpost workout. BreakingDawn was a challenge, aswe had to overlap with hisAbduction body for whichhe was doing a lot of box-ing,” says Yuam. “He wasburning a lot of caloriesand finding it hard to eatenough.”

He devised a diet com-bining healthy fats, carbo-hydrates and protein.

“He ate simple carbohy-drates, such as bananas, tomaintain glycogen levelsand provide slow energyrelease throughout theworkout as well as wheyprotein blended with oat-meal to build muscle.”

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HANGING LEGRAISES“This helped bring out andthicken Taylor’s upper tor-so,” says Yuam. “Hangingleg raises helped roundout Taylor’s abs. It bringsout the muscles aroundthe upper corners of the

rib cage and wraps aroundinto his back muscles. I al-so use this exercise tolengthen the torso. Hewould do various positionsmoving from rectal ab areato the oblique area.” 12-15reps holding for 10 countseach time How to do it: Grab a chin-up bar overhand and hangwith your feet togetherand your knees bent slightly. Bend your kneesto lift your thighs up toyour chest. When the front of your thighs reachyour chest, hold the position and exhale fully.Then slowly lower yourknees back to the startingposition, consciously inhaling fully. Try wideningyour legs a little more each time to increase theeffectiveness.

COBRA POSE“This move helped loosenup his shoulders after lift-ing a lot of heavy weights.”“The Cobra pose on a 65cm exercise ball made surethe front of Taylor’s shoul-ders didn’t get too tight.Holding that position nolonger than five countsand then standing him upand bending at the waistwith his head down

circling the arms in eachdirection for eightrotations. I was alternatingthis movement with thePower plate to get the lac-tic acid and stabilizers torecover for more sets andreps.” “Many men with anteriorinstability issues shouldutilize both moves so theinflammation in thatregion is minimal,” Yuamsaid.

Now go do the workoutREVERSE CRUNCH“He would perform 3 setsat 12-15 reps.”How to do it: Lie like thepicture. Then lift your feetoff the floor (six inchesmax) so your thighs areperpendicular to the floorand your legs parallel tothe floor. Exhale on yourway up, pulling your kneesin toward your chest andlift your hips off the floor.As you pull your legs intwist your torso and angleboth knees towards yourleft shoulder to workthe obliques.”

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Stars shine as Oilers come out flat in DallasToby Petersen, Steve Ottand Michael Ryder eachscored goals and the DallasStars ended a five-game los-ing streak with a 4-1 victoryover the Edmonton Oilerslast night.

Kari Lehtonen made 17saves for the Stars, who hadbeen outscored 21-4 duringthe five-game skid.

Before the game, Canadi-an businessman TomGaglardi was introduced tothe crowd as the Stars’ newowner and dropped the

puck for the ceremonialfaceoff. Gaglardi’s purchaseof the team was approvedby the NHL last week.

Radek Dvorak wrappedup the win with a short-handed empty-netter with1:24 left.

Rookie Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who had five as-sists in the Oilers’ 9-2 winover Chicago on Saturdaynight, scored his eighthgoal of the season for Ed-monton.

Nikolai Khabibulinstopped 31 shots for Ed-monton, which is 1-5 in itspast six games.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Crosby returns in stylePenguins superstar shows no signs of rust with dazzling four-point performance

The Pittsburgh Penguinswould have accepted an av-erage Sidney Crosby in hisfirst game in nearly 11months — a routine per-formance, a regular nightat the office.

Instead, they got the ex-traordinary.

Crosby scored thegame’s first goal on his firstshot since Jan. 5, scoredagain in the third periodand added two assists dur-ing the NHL’s most-awaitedcomeback game sinceMario Lemieux’s return in2000 as the Penguinsroughed up the New YorkIslanders 5-0 last night.

“I saw for a few secondsthey were a little flat-foot-ed,” Crosby said of his firstgoal. “I was able to getsome good speed built upwhen I got it. I knew I had achance to go wide.”

No one in the hockeyworld knew exactly what toexpect as its biggest starplayed his first game in 321days following a prolongedlayoff with a concussionthat caused him consider-able discomfort for months.But few probably expectedhim to be this good, thisfast, this dominant.

This much like the Cros-by of old.

Even the score was thesame as when Lemieux re-turned from a 44-month re-tirement to collect a goaland two assists against theToronto Maple Leafs onDec. 27, 2000.

The Penguins, alreadyone of the NHL’s top teams,now have a superstar look-ing just like the player who

was dominating the NHLscoring race at this time ayear ago, when Crosby wason pace for the league’shighest scoring total in 15years before he was hurt.

Crosby was the fastestplayer on the ice from thevery start of a memorablenight.

And who could havescripted this any better —Crosby grabbed a PascalDupuis pass in stride on histhird shift, accelerated tothe net and, while fendingoff defenceman Andrew

MacDonald, lifted a back-hander under the crossbar5:24 into the game. Is-landers rookie Anders Nils-son, in his first NHL start,never had a chance.

It never got any better af-ter that for New York,

which dropped its 12thgame in its last 14 and its13th in a row in Pittsburgh.

For Crosby, and the first-place Penguins, it couldn’thave gone much better.

He also took a few hardhits — the kind that can’tbe handed out in practice— with Travis Hamonicshoving him in the endboards during the first peri-od. Crosby quickly jumpedup, not shaken a bit.

“I was mad at myself forputting myself in that posi-tion,” Crosby said. “(But)

I’m glad I kind of got thatover with too early on.There’s going to be morehits and probably harderones.”

The standing-roomcrowd of 18,571 in the Con-sol Energy Center was pre-dictably loud andsupportive, holding up Wel-come Back Sid signs by thethousands while chanting“Crosby, Crosby” as a hugeNo. 87 was displayed on thescoreboard before the open-ing faceoff.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Sidney Crosby scores his first goal of the year on his first shot against

New York Islanders goaltender Anders Nilsson last night in Pittsburgh.

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“I’ve never beenaway from hockeyfor that long, soI’m just excited toplay again.”SIDNEY CROSBY, BEFORE LAST NIGHT’S GAME

Sports in brief

Seattle Marinersoutfielder GregHalman wasstabbed to deathearly yesterday, po-lice said, cuttingshort the life andcareer of one of thefew Dutchmen tomake it into MajorLeague Baseball.

His club andbaseball officialshailed the 24-year-old Halman as aman with a passionfor the game andfor instilling it inyoungsters.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Something to build uponEskimos vow to ‘keep heads up’ after turnaround season Key free-agent players say they want to return

The Edmonton Eskimosdressing room was ankle-deep in garbage bags anddisappointment yesterdayafter the team’s decisiveloss in Sunday’s West Final.

However, many of theteam’s players and coachessaid just getting that deepinto the CFL playoffs was avictory in itself.

“You’ve been going hardfor six months and youwake up one day andthere’s no meetings, nopractice, no game to playthe next week,” said quar-terback Ricky Ray as coach-es and players packed theirbags for the off-season. “Itdefinitely stings, especiallybeing so close to the GreyCup and not being able tomake it.

“We’ve got to say, ‘Thatwas a good season, butwe’ve got to come back alittle bit more hungry fornext time.’”

The West Final ended upin a 40-23 loss to the GreyCup-bound B.C. Lions, butthe overall season featureda reversal of fortune of themost welcome kind. Ateam that went 7-11 in the2010 season racked up arecord of 11-7 this year.

And perhaps most im-portantly, the Eskimos saythey’ve recovered some ofthe team’s spirit from thedays when championships,not just playoff games,were the expectation.

“It seems like over thelast few years, it’s just beenguys coming and going andwe really didn’t have thatsense of unity,” said Ray.

“(Coach) Kavis (Reed) did

a great job of bringing usall together. Hopefully, wecan use this as fuel for theoff-season to come backstronger next year.

“He’s just done atremendous job. I thinkguys bought into his sys-tem and we really came to-gether and became a prettytight-knit team and that al-ways makes playing foot-ball a lot more fun.”

Defensive end GregPeach thinks the seasonprovided a lesson in learn-

ing how to win.“We need to start doing

this every year — not justexpecting playoffs, but ex-pecting the Grey Cup,” hesaid. “This was a good start.

“Everyone doubted us.We came out and weshowed that we could com-pete and become one of thebetter teams in this league.Next year is the year for usto finish the job.”

Slotback Fred Stampssaid yesterday’s final teammeeting was positive.

“The guys, they’re hun-gry. Nobody’s hangingtheir head, and that’s agood sign. Everybody’skeeping their head up andlooking forward to nextyear.”

Key players, such aswide receiver Adarius Bow-man now up for contracttalks, said they want to re-turn.

“I would love to see that(locker) again,” he said.

Reed himself shruggedoff the compliments from

the dressing room.“When you’re blessed in

a leadership position ...you’re a steward, to makesure that you take care ofwhat you’ve been given,”he said.

Reed said planning fornext year is already under-way — “making the smartdecisions to get bigger andfaster.”

But better times for thegreen and gold are withinsight, said Ray.

“You’ve got to love play-

ing for the Eskimos andyou’ve got to hate all theother teams,” he said.“That’s what it was likewhen I first came into theleague. We had a lot veter-an guys who just lovedplaying for this city andthis organization and hatedall the other cities.

“(This year), you couldsee guys really buying in towhat it means to be an Es-kimo here. It’s a great thingto see.”THE CANADIAN PRESS

Eskimos, from left, Jason Armstead, Chris Thompson, Jykine Bradley, Weldon Brown

and Donovan Alexander sit in the dressing room after losing to the Lions on Sunday.

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