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833.9That’s the speed in miles per

hour that Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner hit during the Red Bull Stratos jump on Sunday morning in Roswell, N.M. — almost 1.25 times the speed of sound.

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MP aims to close CBC loopholeGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

Brent Rathgeber is continuing his fight for more transparency at the CBC with a private member’s bill set to be tabled next week.

The Edmonton-St. Albert Conservative MP garnered national media attention last year when he made several requests under the federal Access to Information Act to have the salaries of CBC personalities like George Stroumboulopoulos, Peter Mansbridge and Rick Mercer made public — requests that were flatly denied under section 68.1 of the act, which states that it does not apply to any CBC information “that relates to its journalistic, creative or programming activities, other than information that relates to its general administration.”

Now, Rathgeber wants to amend that section, putting the onus on the CBC to prove to the federal information commissioner that releasing information would prejudice those journalistic, creative or programming activities in order for the exclusion to apply.

Rathgeber said that he understands certain information should not be disclosed — chiefly journalist’s sources, as well as bids on broadcast rights to major events that could be easily undermined — but he contends there are plenty of other instances where the CBC has hidden behind the act to keep information that should be public under wraps.

“There are people out there … who ask for full disclosure, who say, ‘Taxpayers have a right to know.’ I don’t take that position,” he said. “I take a nuanced position that the public has a right to know how the government — including Crown corporations, like the CBC — spend taxpayer dollars. But I fully appreciate that, if the CBC is going to operate in a competitive market and compete with Bell Media and

Global and Citytv and whoever else, competitive programming information, that’s got to be protected information. And journalistic sources clearly has to be protected information.”

The amendment is based on British legislation that pertains to information about their state-run television channel, the BBC.

Of course, the same act couldn’t be used to obtain salary information of employees of private broadcasters, but Rathgeber said that’s the added responsibility that comes with the CBC being a government-owned entity.

“Lisa Laflamme, she works for Bell Media, parent company of CTV. I will absolutely concede that, under current law, I am not

entitled to know what her salary is, nor should I be,” he said. “But I would suggest to you that, if I was a shareholder of Bell Media — which I’m not — I could contact one of

the directors of Bell Media and that director would find out and tell me. … When we get to the CBC, I’m a shareholder, you’re a shareholder, we’re all shareholders.”

Rathgeber was successful in obtaining a salary range for CBC president and CEO Hubert Lacroix through his requests, which is between $358,400 and $421,600.

Another part of Rathgeber’s bill is to remove the word “range” from a provision in the federal Privacy Act, meaning specific salaries would be part of any future responses to requests.

Based on the process and research so far, Rathgeber is confident the private member’s bill will pass.

“The federal court of appeal called 68.1 ‘not a model of clarity’ — which, I think, is an understatement; I think that’s being kind to the drafters,” he said. “I don’t think Parliament in 2006 meant to give the CBC blanket refusal to disclose based on those three topics, but that interpretation is a reasonable interpretation based on the words that Parliament passed. … I absolutely believe some version of this will pass. An all-party committee recommended it; the government appreciates that the awkward wording of the current section 68.1 has created some problems, like blanket refusals, and there’s got to be a nuanced position between everything gets disclosed and nothing gets disclosed.”

Brent RathgeberConservative MP

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Council wants clarity on new animal bylaw

GLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

St. Albert city council wants more clarity on several issues before pressing ahead with a new animal bylaw.

The issue was back before councillors at their regular meeting on Monday, as they unanimously approved a motion made by Mayor Nolan Crouse that “the City Manager be directed to provide supplementary recommendations to council to bring clarity to the current ambiguity” in motions approved last month to guide the new bylaw.

Crouse said that, in the weeks since those first motions were passed, it became clear to him that the animal bylaw would be destined to fail if definitions are not set out and other bylaws are not tweaked to complement it.

“I want our staff to go through, to make sure the prerequisites are in place, so that we really can make sure this is successful,” Crouse said. “I don’t know what an open space is when it comes to this, and I don’t think our bylaw officers would necessarily know unless something is built into the bylaw. ... I think we would be setting ourselves up for a real disaster if we didn’t have some more clarity on some of these things.”

City manager Patrick Draper agreed with the measure, saying there was confusion among staff about council’s intent with some of the motions.

“I think the idea of giving administration maybe 30 days to examine the motions and to identify and review for your benefit if there are any implications and what are the implications of the exact wording in the

motions you had passed,” he said. “I believe that way you will end up making a more informed decision that really reflects the operational aspects of implementing such a bylaw.”

Some of the guiding motions approved by council in September included keeping dogs on leashes at all times unless in an identified dog park or an uninhabited open field, requiring dog owners to carry with them at all times a means of picking up waste, and prohibiting animals normally considered livestock, such as pigs, sheep, goats, pigeons and chickens.

Despite the unanimous vote, Coun. Malcolm Parker argued Monday that there was enough clarity in the original motions and that this motion would only result in delays when staff had already been working on the bylaw overhaul for nearly a year.

“I’m working on the premise we have a pretty capable staff, and they’re going to understand the need for some of these things, and by resourcing and researching and referencing what other municipalities have done, I’m sure they’re going to be able to come back with a bylaw that’s going to include all these errors, omissions and upgrades required,” said Parker, who proposed many of the motions that were passed in September. “I don’t want to sit here, or at home, for hours on end putting down all the points I think I have to give to the city manager for him to pass off to his staff to create a bylaw. I think we’ve got pretty capable people that can do that for us.”

The report back from Draper should be before council by November. The final draft of the animal bylaw is scheduled to return to council for approval in March 2013.

“We would be setting ourselves up for a real disaster.”

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When it comes to alumni of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Nolan Crouse is at the head of the class.

St. Albert’s mayor was named Monday as one of NAIT’s Top 50 Alumni as the school celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

Crouse, who graduated from NAIT’s chemical technology program in 1973, said it’s a humbling honour when he considers that there have been about 170,000 people graduate from NAIT over those five decades.

“I’m really a representative, a symbol of the 170,000, and there have so many graduates who have done unique and different things around the world,” he said.

Other names on the list include CTV Edmonton news anchor Daryl McIntyre, Olympic curling gold medallist Kevin Martin, and Food Network Canada host Corbin Tomaszeski, as well as several other CEOs, researchers and elected officials.

Crouse said being part of such an esteemed group of individuals really highlights the importance of post-secondary education.

“People who are providing leadership in various disciplines can come from any walk, but in particular, people with a post-secondary education obviously have a leg up on being able to do certain things that others may not have the opportunity to do,” he said.

Erin Kuebler, co-ordinator of the selection committee, said that there were four criteria used in selecting alumni — service,

leadership, innovation and being a role model — and Crouse ranked high in almost all of them.

“What really stood out was his service and community involvement,” she said. “He’s really been involved in a lot of league and coaching in St. Albert, and he had some strong points in being a role model, being the mayor, as well as in leadership. Being the mayor of St. Albert, that’s pretty much a gimmie.”

Crouse also earned points due to his involvement in the Beaumont and Parkland learning centres.

She added that paring down all the nominations to just 50 recipients was a tough task for the committee, which consisted of alumni, academic staff, student and communications staff.

“It was such an incredible cross-section of health and science and leaders in the community and service that it was really difficult to narrow it down — it took us hours,”

Kuebler said. As for Crouse, he said that chemical

technology diploma has come in handy during his time in the mayor’s chair.

“It’s amazing the number of times you use it in your life,” he said. “Whether you’re reading something or watching a program or trying to understand research — I can understand all the science relative to the Riel Pond issue. I can understand the science relative the Sturgeon River. I can read those reports. It really helps me.”

The Top 50 alumni will be honoured at a gala event on Thursday, Oct. 25, and featured in a special edition of Techlife, NAIT’s technology lifestyle magazine.

Nolan CrouseSt. Albert Mayor

Photo: glenn cook, St. Albert leaderElmer S. Gish Grade 9 student Chase Romaniuk (right) and Grade 3 student Ian Strike team up to do a science experiment Friday. Students from Gish joined peers across Canada to try and set a world record for the largest practical science experiment.

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It’s a long journey to the destination of greater economic development, but the City of St. Albert now at least has a road map.

Guy Boston, executive director of the City’s economic development department, came before St. Albert city council on Monday afternoon to present the department’s action plan, which should unfold over the next year or so with the ultimate goal of attracting more business to St. Albert and lowering the tax burden on homeowners.

“Most of what we have here is all about attracting investment to St. Albert, putting us on the map,” Boston said.

Councillors were generally happy with the plan, unanimously passing it and saying it was a move in the right direction.

“This issue has been on council’s radar for as long as I can remember, and it’s definitely at the very top of our priorities we discuss and vote on every year, so I feel good that we’re starting the process,” Coun. Roger Lemieux said. “There’s a lot of questions to be answered and there’s money to be found

... [but] I have the utmost faith in this action plan.”

The economic development plan identifies six key areas that need to be addressed:

• Focusing on improving existing perceptions;

• Raising the profile of St. Albert;• Conceptualizing and marketing the

future direction;• Bringing innovations to council

for consideration; • Building investment attraction

plans; and• Developing business retention

and expansion plans.Part of bringing forward

innovations includes infrastructure partnerships, which could set St. Albert apart as a hub for high-technology industry.

“We are looking at issuing requests for interest around creating these high degree of

connectivity types of communications networks. That is something that is not only viable, but there’s significant interest in providing that type of connectivity,” Boston said.

“That will not only provide us with the potential for having that kind of infrastructure and support for what we’re

trying to do here, but also raise our profile,” he added. “Any time we talk in those terms in the industry, people will start say either, ‘St. Albert is forward-thinking,’ or ‘What is St. Albert doing that’s very unique and interesting?’”

Some councillors also felt that public transit to employment areas would be a necessary cog in the wheel.

“It’s going to be a while before we actually have the employees living in the city of St. Albert that are sufficient to work on are these lands we’re bringing online, and until that time, we need to get them there,” said Coun. Cathy Heron. “Every developer I’ve talked to has said, if there’s a bus stop and a Tim Hortons in the employment lands, they’d be interested.”

While the focus of the plan is attracting businesses, both Boston and council recognized that residential development cannot be ignored, as the number of rooftops in the city will drive commercial development.

“We need to grow. We need to have rooftops. We need to have a population that’s growing as well,” Boston said. “We

can’t ignore the residential component of what makes up our city.”

Also not to be ignored are existing St. Albert businesses, which still need to be looked after.

“As they see us focusing on economic development and see us focusing on attracting new businesses, their question — and rightly so — is: What are you providing for me as an existing business that’s been here for many years?” city manager Patrick

Draper told council.There is a business

case to go along with this action plan that will be considered as council enters budget deliberations later this month. But Boston said that, if if that money is not approved, his department

will continue to press forward.“We have developed a very aggressive

plan, and with existing resources, we are prepared to move it forward as best we can,” Boston said. “We do have a business case that involves additional resources that will help us meet it, but if, for whatever reason, that business case is not supported by city council, we would reprioritize and drive forward the plan.”

Economic development plan gets approval

“I have the utmost faith in

this action plan.”Roger LemieuxCity councillorGuy

BostonCity of St. Albert

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Four years after he graduated from St. Albert Catholic High School, Nick Kazakoff has certainly left his mark on the school.

Kazakoff, a student in the University of Alberta’s design program, was back at his alma mater on Tuesday as SACHS unveiled his abstract metal sculpture as a permanent fixture on campus.

“It’s a huge deal to have it here,” the artist said. “I thought putting the sculpture here, it’s going to be here for a really long time, and I hope that it inspires students.”

SACHS co-principal Cathy Rasmussen said that the sculpture is as big a deal to the school as it is to Kazakoff.

“It affirms for us that what we do is important and what we do makes a difference,” she said. “We knew he was special when he was here, and it’s great to see that he’s continuing that.”

Rasmussen said that Kazakoff approached the school about installing the sculpture, and they were more than happy to find a space.

“He was thinking about where he would want it to be, and we were his first pick,” she said.

Kazakoff told students the sculpture was designed to stand tall and be assertive and dynamic in the way it leans.

“It’s a lot of hard work, that’s what it all comes down to,” he said. “It was a year’s worth of process and designing and figuring out how to make it lean the way I wanted it to. You can’t really understand it from any one view; you have to walk around it to figure it out.”

The sculpture dedication was held in conjunction with a pep rally and the blessing of the school’s refurbished gym.

Although he was a star athlete and academic in his time at SACHS, Kazakoff decided to pursue a more artistic path after graduating in 2008, and Rasmussen said that’s an inspiring message for other students.

“Kids were up there being passionate about some of the things they do already, so this was the perfect end to the day,” she said. “I hope some of them think it’s not about the paycheck you bring home; it’s about loving what you do.”

SACHS alum leaves legacy with sculpture

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderArtist Nick Kazakoff looks on as St. Albert Catholic High School principal Garret Doll speaks prior to the dedication of Kazakoff’s statue outside SACHS on Tuesday afternoon.


It’s been a pretty busy year but one filled with pride.

Today is issue one of volume two! One year under our belt and, to use a tired cliché, I can’t believe how quick the year went by.

Over this past year, starting the Leader from scratch and publishing 52 issues, ranks number two as the highlight for my year.

Number two?Don’t get me wrong, I’m

very proud of it, but it just can’t compete with one of life’s gifts.

Number one belongs to the arrival of our fourth child in April. Our baby boy was a very welcome addition. I’ve joked that having a baby was not quite in the business plan when we started up last October.

For the family slopitch league, our team had all the bases covered along with

pitcher and catcher. We just needed a shortstop.

My wife and I have learned to function with very little sleep while still carting kids to schools, their sports and all kinds of activities ... with baby in tow.

And of course, working hard on our new business. Which brings me back to number two.

I love this business, I love this city. I could not think of something I want to do more, so I feel very fortunate to do this every day.

We’ve had many ups and many downs in our first year. Everyone gets to see both and

they let us know what they think. We’re OK with that.

I’ve never shied away from throwing many things up on the wall to see what sticks. Sometimes, the ones that fall off make quite the thud. But when they stick, it’s pretty awesome.

Many raised their eyebrows when they learned we were starting a newspaper from scratch, going up against an established competitor in an industry many think is dead.

Well, I love to compete and am happy to do so. If we weren’t here, there would only be one team in town. Ever see a hockey game with only one team on the ice? Not very exciting.

The weekly community newspaper industry may slightly change, but I believe it has a pretty strong future.

I personally believe the dailies of the future will

actually look more like the weeklies of present: One print product per week with a full digital offering in between.

The Leader has a team of very hard-working and committed staff. I am very thankful for them.

St. Albert has a lot going on right now. A ton of resources are being put into economic development and I’m confident we’re going to see some very interesting developments in the near future. We are glad to be a part of this city’s growth and even more so to be 100 per cent St. Albert-owned.

If you would like to touch base with me to share what you like, what you don’t or maybe what you’d like to see, I’d love to hear from you. Email me at [email protected].

Thanks everyone! Onward and upward.

Starting Leader only ranks No. 2 in 2012

Plan nothing without action

Economic development — two words that have been thrown around St. Albert for years now. Everybody

wants more economic development, but no one can quite agree on the best way to get it. We have had committees, and now even an entire City of St. Albert department, dedicated to these two words. Elections have been won and lost over them, as have paid municipal government staff positions.

And now we have an action plan to deal with economic development.

St. Albert city council approved that action plan on Monday afternoon, a plan that has admirable goals, like raising St. Albert’s profile and shedding the business-unfriendly reputation that has dogged us for decades, being on the forefront of new innovations and new technologies, and making sure existing businesses are not lost in the scramble to bring new companies into the city.

It all sounds well and good, but the question is: What now? What next? Plans are great, but we have seen, especially in St. Albert, plans that get rubber-stamped and then go nowhere. Far too many good plans have found themselves sitting on a bookshelf gathering dust instead of carrying out the work they were meant for.

The operative word in all of this is “action.” This economic development plan is specifically referred to as an “action plan.” Without that action, it is doomed to share the same fate as its dust-caked brethren.

And while that action must come from City staff, that is not the only source. For this plan to be successful, it requires action from city council, to give it the support it needs through the civic budget and to back it up when it is challenged. And it requires the action of ordinary citizens, to pitch in where needed and lend support.

In the end, economic development will benefit us all. It will make St. Albert a better, more affordable place to live. And it will allow those who live here now and those who wish to live here in the future to hear two other, more comforting words: Welcome home.

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More upgrades for Apex CasinoGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

With their interior all spruced up, Apex Casino is refurbishing the exterior to match.

Work started recently on a $1.5-million renovation on the outside of the casino, located in Campbell Business Park, which will see a canopy added to the south entrance so patrons can be dropped off in comfort.

“It’s very exciting,” said staff relations manager Cindy McPherson. “The outside is so tired and outdated, so we’re really

looking forward to the new look.”Maximizing the casino’s exposure to the

south should also take advantage of traffic along Anthony Henday Drive, which runs adjacent to the casino’s land.

“We really wanted to flip the exposure, because of the land that’s going to be developed,” McPherson said. “That will be our main side.”

Renovations to the interior of the casino were completed two years ago with a price tag of $5 million, and McPherson said they’ve been very well-received so far.

The exterior renovations are expected to be finished by the end of December.


A St. Albert media company was the recipient of a major award from NAIT this week.

Avatar Media, which is based out of the novaNAIT centre on St. Albert Trail, received the 2012 Senator Thelma Chalifoux Award on Thursday, Oct. 11, for its commitment to the success of First Nations students.

“This is an incredible honour,” said Jaro Malanowski, president of Avatar Media. “When we heard about being nominated and then being the recipient of the award, we were taken aback. We never got into this for winning awards. But it’s nice to be acknowledged as a company, for all of our team.”

Among the company’s efforts are its work with the Michif Institute in St. Albert — which Chalifoux founded — to create a virtual museum designed to feature artifacts and documents currently housed at the institute, as well as help keep the Michif language alive.

Avatar Media has also

developed the Health Warriors website (www.healthwarriors.ca) to educate First Nations youth about careers in health care, and produced a series of videos for the Northern Lights School Division — which covers Bonnyville, Cold Lake and Lac La Biche — called Our Culture, Our People that introduces students and teachers to First Nations and Métis communities and culture.

Chalifoux said she was impressed with the work Avatar Media has done.

“They’re doing really great things out there,” she said.

Chalifoux is NAIT’s Métis elder, and the awards ceremony was held in conjunction with the school’s Aboriginal Awareness Week celebrations. She was also named a Distinguished Friend of the Institute in 2002 and received an honorary diploma in business administration in 2003. She served in the Canadian Senate from 1997 to 2004.

She said she is proud of what the school is doing to educate First Nations students from across northern Alberta and beyond,

including the EnCana Aboriginal Centre on campus.

“It’s a wonderful institution,” Chalifoux said. When I go down to the EnCana Centre, the students are really enthusiastic. We have a lot of Aboriginal students that are coming to NAIT. We don’t do it to brag; it’s just part of us.”

Nicole Rose, advancement relations officer with NAIT, said that commitment to First Nations students is something the school takes seriously.

“It’s really important for us to really try to find people or organizations that are supporting student success,” she said, “and especially Aboriginal student success, because there tends to be more barriers for that, so we want to recognize people that are going above and beyond.”

Avatar Media has been operating for 14 years now, and Malanowski said that “creating media that makes a difference is what we’re all about.”

Malanowski started out as a photojournalist, and while he loved the work, he wanted to more

of a chance to devote more time to people and communities whose stories he was sharing.

“[‘Avatar’] is a Sanskrit word meaning one who goes into a community, helps out, does some work, and then moves on and continues to do that in other places and trying to inspire other people,” he said.

Avatar Media is currently working on a number of projects, some that Malanowski can talk

about and some that are still under wraps.

“Part of it is to take Health Warriors to the next level — we’d like to include more careers, more health stories,” he said. “We’re continuing to work on the living museum with the Michif Institute. We’ve got a number of other projects as well, trying to use media in an effective way.”

For more information, visit www.avatarmedia.ca.

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Cruel twist for Dean at CityChaseGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

James Dean knows that, in City Chase races, you can expect the unexpected. But the biggest twist in this year’s City Chase national championships in Whitehorse, Yukon, threw even him for a loop.

After winning the right to represent Edmonton with partner David Quashnick, Dean — twice a world champion in the Amazing Race-style event that sends competitors all over a particular city completing mental and physical challenges — was racing in Whitehorse when, after a chase point involving paintball, Quashnick was eliminated from the race and Dean finished the event teamed up with Chris McQuinn, who had been on a team representing Ottawa, and crossed the finish line in first place.

“[It was a] huge shock. This had never happened before,” Dean said in an email from New Zealand, where he is currently getting ready to compete in the World Triathlon Championships. “I was sick. Everyone, every team, every volunteer was shocked. We had dominated day one of the race, then half of our team was eliminated! We were the favorites and eliminated mainly due to random chance. It frustrates me still that this happened.”

But, he added, there was no thought of packing it in.

“I have been on the brink of elimination before, but never eliminated,” he said. “I never once thought of giving up. That is worse than being eliminated.”

At one point, Dean was given a chance to bring Quashnick back into the race, but Quashnick couldn’t be tracked down, and Dean would have been automatically

eliminated if he couldn’t be found.So he pushed on with McQuinn, and will do

so again at this year’s world championships.“As long as we both stay fit, be willing to

accept what is thrown at us and keep positive, we’ll be OK,” Dean said. “We made a good pair. I have not raced with him as a teammate before, but this was his sixth nationals, one more than me. He is a veteran and very mentally and physically fit.”

Dean is no slouch himself, though. The owner of St. Albert Physical Therapy in Tudor Glen Place won the City Chase world championships in Chicago in 2006 and in Rome, Italy, in 2007, and was a runner-up in Marrakech, Morocco, in 2008 before bowing out as he and his wife were expecting their third child.

“Last year, we were down in Oliver [B.C.] for a half Ironman and I saw that, the day before my race, they were having a City Chase in Kelowna,” he said. “I called up a buddy I graduated with and asked him if he wanted to do it. Initially he said he could not as his wife was cycling with the gals, but then he called me back and said OK! We registered 12 hours before the race started and we won! Now I’m hooked again!”

That rekindled passion led Dean to Whitehorse for this year’s nationals, where he faced challenges like pulling an airplane, firefighting exercises, a rope course, and assembling variety packs at the Yukon Brewing Company.

“This was the most physically demanding nationals ever. They could do that because Whitehorse offers such mountainous terrain with raging rivers all around it,” he said. “It was my first time in Whitehorse and I would go back in a heartbeat.”

And while the site for this year’s world championships has yet to be announced, Dean is keeping that old mantra in mind: Expect the unexpected.

“Even when they tell us where it is, it might not be there,” he said. “In 2004, nationals were in Vancouver, but the race started with teams having to find an airplane hangar, which then took everyone to Victoria to race there for the next two days.”

Photo SuppliedSt. Albert’s James Dean makes his way across a rope course during City Chase nationals.

Photo: glenn cook, St. Albert leaderStaff from Apex Casino —(L-R) Charlene Sebastianelli, Jenn Osborne, Sarah Van Dusen, Lesley Knull and Diane Waine — show off just a few of the coats they’ve collected for the Salvation Army’s Coats for Kids campaign. The collection has become an annual tradition at the casino, and they’ll be collecting donations just inside the front entrance until Friday.

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A weekly honour has one local athlete swinging for the fences in Ontario.

St. Albert native and Durham College Lords catcher Sydney Kozuska was named Ontario Collegiate Athletics Association women’s fastball Player of the Week for the week of Oct. 1 to 7, and she said it’s a good feeling to win the award.

“It’s great. It feels like a really big accomplishment,” she said. “With all the people I’m playing with this year, it’s the best athletes I’ve ever competed with in my life, so to be recognized as one of them is a really big accomplishment.”

In that period, Kosuzka went 5-for-6 with three RBI and three runs scored as Durham swept a doubleheader over Conestoga College of Kitchener.

The rest of the season has been going pretty well, too, as the Lords had a 10-1 record heading into games last week against Seneca College and St. Clair College, and Kozuska sat 12th in the OCAA with a .432 batting average.

“Off the field, the team is all super close. I love everyone out here,” she said. “It’s been a great experience.”

Kozuska, 18, a graduate of St. Albert Catholic High School, started playing fastball in Winnipeg in Grade 3 when a friend convinced her to sign up.

“I haven’t stopped since,” she said with a laugh.

That includes a few moves along the way, but eventually her family settled in St. Albert

in 2006, and she played with the St. Albert Angels program for three years as well as a couple of different Edmonton teams.

She was recruited to Durham College in Oshawa after fastball head coach Jim Nemish saw her profile and video on a website called berecruited.com.

“It displayed all my skills — hitting,

fielding, catching, stuff like that. Coaches from all over America and Canada can log on and check you out,” Kozuska said.

“A lot of athletes I know have used it. It’s a really good way to get seen and be scouted,” she added.

Still, it was a big move going from St. Albert to Oshawa, and Kozuska had some trepidations.

“I don’t really like big changes and I wasn’t sure how it was going to go,” she said. “But I knew I’d have a lot of people here that I’d be meeting on the team, so it would be easy to make friends. I thought it was worth the risk, because it’s what I’ve always wanted to do.”

But, she said, when she first signed up to play, she never really thought she would take it this far.

Although there aren’t many opportunities to play fastball beyond the collegiate level, including some in Europe, Kozuska has her eye on continuing her career.

“I feel like, in the future, that would be a great experience,” she said, adding that she’ll help coach a local team when she comes home this summer.

The OCAA women’s fastball championship takes place this weekend, hosted by Seneca College in Toronto.

Photo: AL FOURNIER, Durham CollegeSt. Albert native and Durham College Lords catcher Sydney Kozuska won women’s fastball player of the week honours in the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association for Oct. 1 to 7.


A local student has brought back an honour from an international conference that is out of this world.

Backs, a St. Albert native and University of Alberta student, was in Nagoya, Japan, last week to represent of the U of A’s AlbertaSat-1 team at the fourth United Nations/Japan Nanosatellite Symposium and make the team’s final presentation in the UNISEC 2nd International Mission Idea Contest.

There, the team picked up the International Academy of Astronautics award for “the imaginative application of micro/nano satellite technologies to environmental issues for the benefit of humankind,” according to an IAA brief.

“It was one those ‘Wow, really?’ moments,” Backs said. “It was an honour enough to be there, but to actually add something like that to it was definitely a feather in the cap for our team.”

The AlbertaSat-1 team hopes to use cube satellite technology to build a satellite roughly 10 centimetres high by 10 centimetres

wide by 30 centimetres deep — roughly the size of a loaf of bread, as Backs described it to the Leader before the trip — to measure greenhouse gas concentrations around the world and specifically due to oilsands development in Alberta.

With teams from all over the world — including the United States, Italy, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom — represented at the symposium, Backs took full advantage of the opportunity to soak in knowledge and bring ideas back to Edmonton.

“There were definitely some pretty impressive people in field of nanosatellites there,” he said. “I attended most of the presentations, and I was pretty excited to see most of them.”

With the competition behind them, Backs said the AlbertaSat-1 team is ready to move on to actually building their satellite.

“This [award] will be something we can show off and validates our mission, certainly,” he said. “The next step will be to secure additional funding for our team so we can start building it, because our design is mostly finished.”


First Nations athletes from across the province will flock to St. Albert next year for the 2013 Alberta Indigenous Games.

The games are scheduled to take place Aug. 4 to 9, with 4,300 participants between the ages of 12 and 18 participating in 10 sports: softball, ball hockey, archery, basketball, volleyball, track and field, soccer, golf, canoeing and lacrosse.

Cheryl Raymes, a member of the games’ steering committee, came before St. Albert city council Monday afternoon to fill them in on all the details.

“The intent is to use the power of sport to give our indigenous youth the opportunity to take part in physical activity and personal achievement — and, for many, the unfamiliar opportunity of a positive off-reserve experience to influence positive and personal social behaviour,” she said.

Raymes said St. Albert was chosen for a number of reasons, including the First Nations history in the area and being the home of Poundmaker’s Lodge and the Nechi Training Institute.

“[St. Albert is] known for hosting sporting events, and you have the facilities and events

to support the staging of our games,” she said. “St. Albert is focusing on cultivating life, and we share common goals, as we are focused on cultivating cultural awakening and positive behaviour through sport development to achieve our purpose and our work, which is reclaiming indigenous youth.”

The canoeing events will be held in Leduc and the golf events will be held in Enoch, but the rest of the sports will use St. Albert venues.

Raymes also said that organizers hope to close St. Anne Street for the duration of the games to create a festival atmosphere there.

Councillors were assured that this event would not conflict in any way with the annual Rock’n August classic car festival.

There are also several special events planned around the games, including a school poster contest, a career fair, a trade show, concerts and a sacred eagle staff run, in which runners will converge on St. Albert from all four directions as the games torch is lit at the opening ceremonies.

Raymes also asked city council for a contribution of $75,000 toward the games, whether in cash or in-kind services, but noted that they should end up contributing $1.58 million to the local economy.

“We intend to build a long-term partnership between your city and our games,” she said.

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Passions converge for FallisGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

Two of Terry Fallis’s great interests have come together beautifully in his latest novel.

The Toronto-based author recently released his third book, Up and Down, and will be in St. Albert on Saturday to talk about it during the St. Albert Readers’ Festival (STARFest), hosted by the St. Albert Public Library.

A public relations professional by trade and a space enthusiast since his youth, the two came together in Up and Down to tell the story of a newly minted PR pro who concocts a plan to revitalize interest in the space program by sending ordinary citizens to the International Space Station.

“I am a member in good standing of the write-what-you-know school,” Fallis said with a laugh. “I have a relatively busy life — a day job that I’m not quite as busy at now because I’m writing more, and we have two teenage sons and my wife is very busy — so I don’t have a lot of time to research. I like planning the story and writing as opposed to research. So I tend to rely things I’ve experienced, things I’m interested in, things I care about or things I’m curious about and don’t mind researching.”

“I’ve always been interested in space since I was a kid,” he added. “When I watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon when I was nine years old, I think something shifted in my head and set off this abiding interest in space. So it was fun to write about it.”

Fallis said that coming to events like STARFest gives him a chance to meet with readers “who have actually read your book, which is always a thrill.”

“We write to be read, and I always enjoy the chance to meet with other book lovers and readers,” he said. “I always look forward to these events, and do quite a few of them.”

Fallis’s current Western Canadian tour wraps up in St. Albert, and has also taken him to places like Victoria, Calgary and Banff.

As part of the promotion of Up and Down, Fallis has released the book in its entirety as a 17-episode podcast that is available through iTunes and his website (www.terryfallis.com).

He said that started a way to build

an audience for his self-published first novel, and has continued at the grace of his new publishers.

“I realize it’s a little counterintuitive for many people to get their heads around, and the fallback measure or medium ground is to podcast excerpts of the novel rather than the whole thing,” he said. “There are different steps

you can take; you don’t have to go whole hog. But I think it gives listeners or readers a chance to hear the author in his or her own voice and get a sense of who they are.”

Fallis’s previous books, The Best Laid Plans and The High Road, were both in the same vein, satirizing Canadian politics.

While Canada has a rich history of skewering politicians

in a comedic way on television with programs like Royal Canadian Air Farce, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and even Wayne and Schuster, Fallis thinks we could use more satire in print.

“There is a thread of a tradition there, but we could use some more ... I think satire is a trenchant instrument of social comment, and even sometimes social change, and we need that,” he said.

The Best Laid Plans won both the 2008 Stephen Leacock Award for Humour and the 2011 Canada Reads competition on CBC Radio, and both honours hold a special place in Fallis’s heart.

“Those two events have really helped give me a writer’s life, if you will,”

he said. “Within a week of of being nominated for the Leacock with my self-published novel, I landed a literary agent. Within a week of winning, we signed with [publishers] McClelland and Stewart. That was the first step that allowed me to enter the realm of traditionally published writers.

“And Canada Reads scaled that to a whole different level. Canada Reads sells more books in this country than anything else, except for the Giller Prize.”

The Best Laid Plans is even being adapted into a six-part miniseries for CBC television. As with other authors who sign over the rights to their books, it’s a process Fallis has become detached from, but he has made peace with that.

“That story, in a way, at least for television, is theirs now. Once you accept that, once you get over that, and stop trying to jealously protect your baby, you’re fine,” he said. “I’m just happy to be a fly on the wall, seeing how one goes about making a television series.”

In the meantime, Fallis is moving on to his fourth novel, which he hopes to have out in time to keep up the pace of one book every two years he as achieved so far.

Terry Fallis will appear at Forsyth Hall at the St. Albert Public Library on Saturday at 7 p.m. The talk will be hosted by Edmonton Journal columnist Paula Simons, and a wine reception will follow.

Tickets are $5 each and are available at the library’s main floor and information desk. For more information on STARFest, visit www.starfest.ca.

Photo SuppliedAuthor Terry Fallis recently released his third novel, Up and Down, and will be at the St. Albert Public Library on Saturday evening as part of the St. Albert Readers Festival.

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Lapidary Club ready to rock annual show

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There will be a rock show in St. Albert this weekend, but there won’t be any guitars or drums being played.

The Edmonton Tumblewood Lapidary Club — a collection of local rock, fossil and gem enthusiasts from across the Capital Region — are hosting their fifth annual show and sale at the St. Albert 50+ Club on Friday and Saturday.

After hopping around venues in west Edmonton, this is the third year that the club has hosted the show in St. Albert, and club member Fiona Jakielaszek said that the club has plenty of strong ties to St. Albert, holding monthly meetings for its more than 60 members from September to May in the basement of Gemport on St. Anne Street in downtown St. Albert, as well as shop nights every Monday and Tuesday, where members can access cutting, grinding and polishing tools.

“We have strong ties with St. Albert, and there’s always been the question of whether we should change our name,” she said with a laugh. “But because

we’re a registered not-for-profit organization, trying to change the name is difficult.”

Fiona’s husband Jake is also a member of the ETLC, and Fiona also serves as president of the Gem and Mineral Federation of Canada, which is holding its annual general meeting in conjunction with the ETLC show in St. Albert.

The show will not only feature lapidary enthusiasts from across Alberta and into British Columbia selling their wares, ranging from rough rocks to finished jewelry, but also demonstrations of techniques like faceting, beading, wire wrapping and even chain mail construction.

“There’s quite a mixture of stuff being sold, from rough, raw rock material to really high-class jewelry,” Fiona said. “... We’re getting bigger every year, and

people want to expand, but we’re trying to keep it to the size we have currently.”

There will also be door prizes every hour for adults and kids.

“I’ve had repeat customers for the past five years. As soon as the door opens, they’re at my table,” Jake said.

But a show like this is also a great chance for children to get introduced to the world of the lapidary arts and take a typical fascination with rocks much further.

“We always hand out gifts to the children when they come in; we always have a rock they can pick out. And it’s interesting because the girls love the sparkly things, while the boys will go for the more practical,” Fiona said.

The Edmonton Tumblewood Lapidary Club’s fifth annual show and sale runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday at the St. Albert 50+ Club. Admission is $4 for adults, $3 for students with identification and $10 per family, including one or two adults and kids under 16. Children under 12 get in free.

For more information, check out the club’s website at rme.tcor.ca/cms/tumblewood.

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderEdmonton Tumblewood Lapidary Club members Fiona and Jake Jakielaszek show off some of the wares they’ll have for sale this weekend in St. Albert.

“As soon as the door opens, they’re

at my table.”Jake Jakielaszek

Lapidary artist


The St. Albert Painters’ Guild is flying high as they celebrate a quarter-century in existence.

The guild is gearing up for its annual fall show and sale, titled “Up, Up and Away,” taking place this weekend at St. Albert Place.

Guild member Sharon Merryweather said that the guild had humble beginnings, but has grown into a wonderful group.

“They used to have tea parties in the old days; they used to have them upstairs at St. Albert Place,” Merryweather said. “But then they used to meet at a school and a few people just did art … When they built [St. Albert Place], [architect] Douglas Cardinal said they should have studios, and so they formed the guild.”

The painters’ guild started in 1987 with just seven members, but it has grown to 80 today. Three of the seven original members — Peg McPherson, Pat Trudeau

and Carol Rose — are still with the guild today.

Merryweather said the membership and activity of the guild goes through peaks and valleys, but they have always managed to stay near maximum membership.

“It’s all volunteers, and we all have different times in our lives when we’re active,” she said. “For me, painting is about 10 per cent of my life; for some people, it’s way more.”

“It’s the same with any organization — you have people who are very active in the moment, and then they fade out, but it creates a void that other people can come in,” she added.

Merryweather herself has been with the guild for six years, joining only one month after taking up a brush and canvas for the first time. She said it has been a great help over that time.

“They’re very supportive and friendly. It’s a place where you can show your stuff and have this connection with other people, other artists,” she said.

Merryweather added that Mayor Nolan Crouse is expected to attend the opening reception on Friday evening, and that is indicative of the support both elected officials and the city as a whole affords the arts.

“I think it’s awesome,” she said. “St. Albert is a small community, so it supports the arts and the arts support it — it’s mutual. I’ve been here 35 years

or something, and as we go through the different stages of our lives … all those things are in St. Albert. We’re truly blessed.”

The St. Albert Painters’ Guild show and sale runs in the lobby of St. Albert Place on Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The opening reception runs from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday.

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderSt. Albert Painters’ Guild member Gerhard Frost puts the finishing touches on one of his works at St. Albert Place on Tuesday. The guild’s fall show and sale is this weekend.

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No matter how much you might love cars, chances are you haven’t built one from scratch using parts and an engine you designed yourself. And chances are you didn’t then convince the biggest dealerships in town to let you sell your car on their lots.

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As a kid, “the more I enjoyed a game, the more I’d want to put it down and just make my own version,” said Provinciano, 27, from the office of his one-man game development studio, Vancouver-based Vblank Entertainment Inc.

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Provinciano quit his job with Vancouver’s Disney-owned (and now defunct) Propaganda Games in 2009 to work on Retro City Rampage full time, buoyed by positive buzz an early version of the game received at San Francisco’s annual Independent Games Festival.

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MilestonesThis week in history and

celebrity birthdays

DID YOU KNOW?

Oct. 18, 1867The United States takes

possession of Alaska after buying the territory for $7.2 million, or

less than two cents per acre.

Oct. 19, 1957Maurice “Rocket” Richard

becomes the first NHL player to score 500 career goals.

Oct. 20, 1968U.S. high jumper Dick Fosbury, 21, sets an Olympic record of 7 feet, 4 1/4 inches at the Games

in Mexico City using a new technique that would become known as the “Fosbury Flop.”

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Stockholm, Sweden. He would go on to invent dynamite, as well as

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Taylor, 63, becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls

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Real estate firms uniteGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

A pair of local real estate offices are uniting under one banner.

Sutton Group Nor-Vista Realty and Realty Executives Masters have reached an agreement to merge under the latter’s name effective immediately.

“David [Malko] and I sat down for lunch one day, basically, and starting hashing out what it could look like and what the opportunity was,” said James Mabey, broker for Sutton Nor-Vista who will soon take over the same duties for the new firm. “It was kind of an informal start to something we worked on for a while, and made really good sense to both of us.”

Sutton Nor-Vista had been serving St. Albert for about 20 years.

“We were both very similarly sized offices with similar sales forces,” Mabey said. “It sort of suddenly made sense that, if we combined our resources, we could do a better job for our clients and

a better job of offering great new resources to our realtors.”

The move should not affect office realtors adversely, and there are no layoffs expected as real estate agents are independent contractors.

“I see there being synergy between people, sharing of information, more listing inventory within the office and a bigger buyer pool that we’re working with,” Mabey said. “It enhances the ability of the realtors to network with each other and enhance their personal businesses as well.”

And customers shouldn’t notice a difference either.

“For people who had great service from Realty Executives or Nor-vista, they can expect the same level of service and exactly the same personality from their realtor as they had before,” Mabey said. “It’s just that their realtor has tapped into some additional resources and a bigger company so they can offer a wider variety of services.”

Check out www.realtyexecutivesmasters.ca for more information.

Photo: glenn cook, St. Albert leaderCoun. Cathy Heron looks down the scope of an airsoft gun during the grand opening of Force on Force Tactical Training in the basement of Grandin Park Plaza on Friday.

In her sights


A renowned economist turned up the heat on Small Business Week in St. Albert this week.

Alberta Treasury Branches senior economist Todd Hirsch was at the St. Albert Public Library on Wednesday for the annual Small Business Breakfast to talk about his book The Boiling Frog Dilemma: Saving canada from economic Decline.

“The book itself answers one central question: What creates wealth in the economy?” Hirsch said in an interview Friday, prior to the breakfast. “My co-author [Robert Roach] and I argue that it’s not resources that create wealth and it’s not manufacturing that creates wealth. Fundamentally, what creates wealth is the power of a really great idea. As an economy, we’re only as good as our last great idea.”

Where the frog comes into things is the old anecdote of a frog jumping out of a pot of boiling water, but remaining in a pot of cold water that is slowly heated until it is cooked.

“We’re suggesting that Canada’s economy is a lot like the frog in the pot of warm water,” Hirsch said. “We’ve done nothing wrong; in fact, on balance, Canada’s done almost everything right, so this isn’t a down-on-Canada book. It’s really talking about the global economy, the environment in which our economy operates, which is changing dramatically. It’s like the water in the pot that’s heating up on us.

“As a result, we have to take some intentional steps to get ourselves out of the pot of water, and those steps are learning how to be more creative, more risk-taking and entrepreneurial.”

“Risk-taking” and “entrepreneurial” go hand-in-hand with a lot of small businesses, making the topic particularly relevant for Small Business Week.

“Small businesses in particular need creative ideas; they need to constantly be

thinking, ‘What is our next market?’ or ‘What is the next market we want to get into?’ or ‘How can I solve some of these problems, like labour shortages?’” Hirsch said.

He added that he thinks the current outlook for small business is bright.

“Right now in Alberta, small business is in good shape. That’s not to say there aren’t challenges — small businesses always face a lot of challenges, but I think that’s reflected in the high level of respect small business receives in the province,” he said. “Our overall economy is doing very well; the energy sector, the agriculture sector, even the forestry sector, are doing

very well at the moment, and small businesses really do tap into a lot of that.”

Small Business Week, presented by the St. Albert Chamber of Commerce, continues tonight (Thursday) at 6:30 p.m. with the annual Small Business Awards of Distinction at the Arden Theatre.

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Photo: glenn cook, St. Albert leaderATB economist Todd Hirsch speaks at the St. Albert Public Library Wednesday morning.

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His task: to prepare the CEO of a Fortune-ranked company for an important TV interview. The executive showed up to the meeting late, dropped his briefing book on the desk and slammed his hands down. He didn’t know why he needed coaching and urged the communications expert to “get to the point.”

Stephen Rafe (pronounced RAY-fee) knew just how to deal with the argumentative and impatient subject in front of him. “He was ready to challenge anything I said. I knew I had to give him evidence and get to the bottom line.” His approach worked, helping the CEO move to a more responsive attitude.

Rafe believes you can tell what kind of mood people are in within 30 seconds and can then use that information to frame your message in a way that will gain their acceptance, their understanding and support.

The benefits of this skill are numerous. By correctly gauging the mood of your team, client or boss, you’ll know if you should open with a joke and ask about the family or if you’d be better off getting right to the point and sticking to the facts, explains Rafe, an internationally known author, researcher, coach and counsellor.

“Common knowledge tells us that it is far easier to adjust or adapt our behaviour to the needs of others than it is to change them,” he says. “If we truly want to achieve a better rapport, our best approach is to understand each type’s needs and fulfill them as best we can.”

Rafe has identified the following are the four types of modalities:

1. Approach-active individuals tend to be more responsive to the views or testimonials of others — particularly people whom they like or admire. They respond best when presented information in a friendly and entertaining way, without a lot of details.

2. Approach-passive people let you do most of the work in communication and tend to leave a lot of silence. They’re most responsive when you present specific solutions that offer as little risk-taking as possible. Speak with them privately before meeting with them in groups and encourage them to share their views with you and find areas of agreement. Involve them in the process as much as possible.

3. Avoidance-active people like proof or documentation and rely heavily on “evidence.” They tend to be impatient and demand that you “get to the bottom line.” They prefer agreement with their views to disagreement and will respond best to people who draw them to acceptable conclusions rather than telling them what to do. Try to avoid direct disagreement and

forcefulness.

4. Avoidance-passive people like proof, documentation, evidence, schedules, plans of action and low-risk situations. They welcome an opportunity to discuss the pros and cons of any important issue. They respond well to someone who is well-prepared and gets right to the bottom line. They prefer agreement with their views to disagreement and will work better with people who successfully involve them in developing solutions or conclusions they find acceptable.

“The moods change of course,” says Rafe. “We can be any of these in the course of a day and even in the course of a conversation.”

How do you use these rules when addressing a group? “If you can address the needs of all four types — in effect, ‘something for everyone’ — you will increase the likelihood that they will accept your message,” says Rafe.

Unless the audience opposes your views, most members will be Approach-Passive and will appreciate it if you tailor your comments to them. They’re also receptive to new information that will help them

without placing them at risk. Approach-Actives may expect to hear testimonials so let them know who supports your statements and quote recognizable names as sources.

Meet the needs of Avoidance-Passives by providing proof and offering assurances and guarantees in your conclusions. If you anticipate Avoidance-Actives among your participants — the ones who have a stronger need than others to hear bottom-line results — early in your presentation at least you need to allude to the outcome you intend to present.

Body language can say a lot in as little as 30 seconds

Attitude: “I would welcome or accept an approach from you to me”Words: Apologetic, hedging, evasive, rambling, at a loss for words, uses “I mean...” and “You know...”, shifts responsibility to othersVoice: Weak, hesitant, soft, perhaps waveringBody: Leans for support, stooped shoulders/head, nodsHands: Fidgety, fluttery, clammy

Eyes: Averted, downcast, perhaps teary or pleading

APPROACH-PASSIVES

Attitude: “I want to keep you away from me or get you away from me”Words: Uses loaded words, makes accusations, puts others down, dictates, doesn’t recognize

others’ contributionsVoice: Tense, pushy, demanding, argumentative, bossy

Body: Stiff and rigid, feet apart, hands on hipsHands: Clenched, points finger, pounds fist

Eyes: Cold, narrow, staring through or past others

AVOIDANCE-ACTIVES

Approach: “I want to keep me away from you”Words: Argumentative, blames othersVoice: Whiny, raspy, irritable, possibly quavering, controlled or staccatoBody: Tense (including lips), “coiled” or “wound up” as if to strike, arms and legs crossed or foldedHands: Clenching, may switch from still to fidgetyEyes: Squinted, vacillate between staring and averting

AVOIDANCE-PASSIVES

Attitude: “I want to approach you”Words: Uses direct statements, states wants or needs, shares feelings candidly, maintains objectivity,

negotiates, prefers win-win, accepts responsibility for own actionsVoice: Well-modulated, firm, friendly, relaxedBody: Well-balanced, straight and erect, relaxedHands: Smooth, slow, relaxed motionsEyes: Direct without staring, warm, frank, encouraging

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