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Water bombers sit idle as wildfi res increase Criticism of government refusal to launch famous Martin Mars water bombers continues. A5

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CITY» Weather

As smoke settles on city, offi cials issue fi re warning

Brian Potentier stands at the Seair dock alongside a seaplane as smoke partially obscures the horizon. Seaplane carriers were grounded briefly by the smoke but resumed service by Monday afternoon. [DARRELL BELLAART/DAILY NEWS]

SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

With a provincial order loom-ing, Nanaimo city council voted Monday to defer a decision on construction on the lower Col-liery dam until later this month amid concerns of inadequate technical information on the structure.

City legislators voted 5-4 in favour of a motion from Coun. Gord Fuller moved to delay making a decision until council had time to review a staff report that recommends an alternate spillway be constructed to handle excess water flows in an extreme flood.

Not making a decision Monday night means the city will likely miss a July 24 deadline from the B.C. water comptroller to choose an option for work on the lower dam and prepare designs for construction, city manager Ted Swabey said.

The session Monday was heat-ed and sometimes acrimonious. Near the outset, one man stood up and began shouting as Mayor Bill McKay was talking.

Some residents who came to the podium to speak to the Col-liery dams issue urged council members to ignore the province’s order and deadline.

“Let’s defy this order and stand up for what’s right,” one speaker said.

McKay, who has implored his council to choose from one of several remediation options for the lower dam, was the target of much criticism from the public gallery Monday night, with some accusing him of changing his position from when he was run-ning for mayor last year.

But McKay said with a provin-cial order on the table, the city risks seeing enforcement action from the order from the prov-ince, a view echoed by Coun. Diane Brennan.

“What if the comptroller says ‘I’m going to take it all out of your hands,’” said McKay.

The engineering firm hired by the city has concluded there is inadequate spillway capacity on the lower dam that could threat-en the structure in a major flood.

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Flights held up; some seek hospital treatmentDARRELL BELLAART AND SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo was under an air quality advisory on Monday as wildfire smoke drove up hospital

visits and temporarily sidelined float plane service.

Dry and hot conditions also prompted city officials to issue a plea for greater attention to fire prevention.

While the persistent heat and high winds continue to pose a high fire risk in the region, Nanaimo’s fire chief Craig Rich-ardson is worried messages on fire prevention are not getting through to the public.

“We’ve had 13 brush fires in the last 72 hours and they were all human caused,” Richardson said.

He added that fires investi-gators “highly suspect” that smoking was the cause of all of them. Remnants of smoking

materials have been found in almost all of the locations.

Nanaimo Regional General Hospital staff could not say how many admissions they’d booked since adverse air quality started on Sunday, but at 1 p.m. Monday seven patients were being teated at NRGH due to smoke.

“The information is anecdotal, but the manager of emergency said: ‘Yes, we were seeing quite a few, (patients),’” said Suzanne Germain, Island Health spokeswoman.

Those most susceptible to the fine particulate matter con-tained in wood smoke include people with asthma or other lung conditions.

Smoke from wildfires in Pem-berton and the Sunshine Coast is being felt across the south Island and on the mainland.

A lack of wind and the same high pressure system responsible for hot summer weather is keep-ing smoke close to the ground, said Environment Canada climatologist Lisa Coldwells.

“This inversion is like having a campfire with a tarp on top,” Coldwells said. “Smoke can’t rise up, it just spreads out and the south coast is stuck under this virtual tarp.”

Cooler marine air is expected to bring winds from the south tip of the Island today, which should arrive in Nanaimo by evening, Coldwells said: “That’s all we need, is some wind.”

A thick grey blanket smothered the city Sunday morning, as

residents awoke to a sky turned yellow-orange by sunlight fil-tered through wood smoke.

On Monday it grew thick enough to obscure visibility for float plane pilots, preventing flights between the Island and the mainland.

Planes were grounded for much of the morning, leaving travellers to scramble to find an alternative.

“Some took ferries, some went by HeliJet,” said Brian Potentier, Nanaimo manager of Seair.

Seair flights were grounded until about 11 a.m.

“It’s very unusual,” Potentier said. “In all my years on the coast, I have never seen anything like it.”

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“This inversion is like having a campfire with a tarp on top. Smoke can’t rise up, it just spreads out and the south coast is stuck under this virtual tarp.”Lisa Coldwells, climatologist

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TUESDAY, JULY 7

10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Irwin Street work parties. Children and families wel-come. 256 Needham St.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8

7 p.m. Big Little Lions, the songwriting duo of Helen Austin and Paul Otten, with special guests at The Queens.

THURSDAY, JULY 9

7:30 p.m. Opening night of the 2015 InFrinGinG Dance Festival. V.I. Conference Centre, tickets: performance only $15; performance & dance: $25 (includes performance and Hot Salsa Party with beginner and intermediate Salsa Lesson).

FRIDAY, JULY 10

6 p.m. Prox:Imity Re:Mix, Gender, Identity and Community, Where do you stand? A show about gender, identity and com-munity. Port Theatre, Tickets: $15 early bird, $20 after July 9.

8 p.m. Tango Nights — Extempore Danse followed by Milonga on stage. The Port Theatre, tickets: performance only: $20, performance and Milonga: $30.

SATURDAY, JULY 11

11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Art Bomb in Bowen Park. Wander around the artist’s booths and for a snack by the pond. Twenty city artists are showing their works.

SUNDAY, JULY 12

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cedar Farmers Market. Next to the fields of the Crow and Gate pub field. A new parking lot has just been added. 2313 Yellow Point Rd, Cedar.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Gabriola Sunday Mar-ket every Sunday at Silva Bay.

1:30 to 4 p.m. Lantzville Farmers Mar-ket. St. Phillips Church parking lot, 7113 Lantzville Rd.

2 p.m. Prox:Imity Re:Mix, Gender, Identity and Community, Where do you stand?

A show about gender, identity and com-munity. At the Port Theatre, tickets: $15 early birds, $20 after July 9.

MONDAY, JULY 13

6:40 p.m. Bingo. loonie pot, g-ball, bon-anza and 50/50 draw. Chemainus Sen-iors Drop In Centre. Every Monday, doors open at 4:45 pm. everyone welcome.

TUESDAY, JULY 14

9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Morrell Nature Sanctu-ary Summer Day Camp; 787 Nanaimo Lakes Road. Contact Mark Tardif [email protected], 250-753-5811.

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Minor Hockey Regis-tration. Nanaimo Ice Centre 741 Third St, Nanaimo. Vicky Long [email protected] 250-754-5010.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15

6:30-8:30 p.m. Vancouver Island Regional Library branches are hosting public community consultation sessions

to gather input that will shape VIRL’s direction over the next five years (2016-2020 Strategic Plan) Nanaimo North Library Branch, 6250 Hammond Bay Rd.

7-9 p.m. Island Counselling offers, Yes! you can . . . Stop Chasing Your Racing Mind, small, safe, confidential group to address worries, depression, insomnia, fears, anger, low self esteem, panic each week Wednesday or Thursday, by dona-tion. Register at 250-754-9988.

THURSDAY, JULY 16

7-9 p.m. Nanaimo Theatre Group seeks actors/singers aged 17+ for The Emper-or’s New Clothes. Auditions at 2373 Ross-town Road, Bailey Studio, Information: 250-758-7246.

8 p.m. Theo Massop, Brian Hazelbower live at The Longwood Brew Pub.

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8:30 a.m. to noon Qualicum Beach Farmers Market.

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District axes print shop to save $60,000Facility was used by offi cials and individual schools for variety of jobs; one CUPE staffer out of workROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

The print shop in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district was shut down perma-nently last week after decades of service.

The print shop was used by school district personnel and individual schools for a variety of jobs that included basic photo-copying, bindery, printing books for courses, certificates, year-books and photo IDs.

The decision to close the print shop, which will see one CUPE worker out of a job and save the district approximately $60,000 in

costs and labour, was made in the spring as part of the budget process for 2015-16 as it struggled with budget issues.

The district had to cut approximately $4.5 million from its operating expenses to balance its budget for next year.

But the decision was not just a cost-saving measure.

District spokesman Dale Bur-gos said a lot of the district’s schools have begun doing much of their own printing over the past few years, making the print shop less busy.

He said many of the more complicated printing jobs, like booklets and year books, can be done outside the district with no extra expense, and even less in some cases.

“There are a number of options now available, including the fact that we now have the opportun-ity to have access to Vancouver Island University’s print shop for some of the bigger projects as part of the partnership that the district has with VIU,” Burgos said.

“Much of the equipment in our print shop is at least 40 years old and VIU’s shop has more up-to-date equipment and is a lot bigger.

“They can also match our costs so it’s a pretty good option for us, on top of other opportunities in the community that have come

up to do this type of work.”The district considered closing

the print shop in 2013 to save costs, but it was determined that the costs of having the work done by the private sector at the time would be higher than what the district was spending on its shop.

Burgos said the move to close the print shop also reflects the district’s desire to use less paper in an era of growing online communications.


“There are a number of options now available, including . . . the opportunity to have access to Vancouver Island University’s print shop.”Dale Burgos, District 68 spokesman

PARKS

Protection ferry may take over Newcastle runROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

The Protection Island ferry service is looking to permanently take over the seasonal ferry

run between Newcastle Island Provincial Marine Park and Maffeo-Sutton Park.

Owner John Logan said he handed a contract proposal to the Snuneymuxw First Nation to take over the service last week.

The Protection Island ferry service took over the Newcastle Island ferry service on a day-to-day basis since June 19, after the Victoria-based Nanaimo Harbour Ferry Tours and Charters shut down their operation when nego-tiations broke down to renew their contract with the SFN.

Nanaimo Harbour Ferry Tours and the company’s little green “pickle boats” ferrying passen-gers had been operating each summer in Nanaimo harbour for almost a decade.

Company officials said they had no intention of returning to Nanaimo when contacted by the Daily News on June 25.

Officials from the SFN couldn’t be reached for comment.

“We’re hoping to hear some-thing back (regarding our con-tract proposal) from the SFN soon,” said Logan, who also runs a ferry service to adjacent Protection Island and its Din-ghy Dock Pub, which he also operates.

“Until then, we’ll continue to offer the service between New-castle and downtown until we’re told otherwise.”

The SFN co-manages the 336-hectare island park located in the Nanaimo harbour along

with the province and the City of Nanaimo, and is responsible for contracting out the ferry service.

Nanaimo Mayor Bill McKay said he can’t speak for the SFN, but he believes the Protection Island ferry service’s contract proposal requires approval from the band council before it can be accepted, and that may take some time.

But, McKay said when the

Protection Island ferry service quickly agreed to take over the run within hours of the Nanaimo Harbour Ferry Tours’ sudden decision to stop its service, it “seemed like a perfect fit.”

“The Protection Island ferry service was there in a time of need and the company was delighted to be given the oppor-tunity to step in and help out, so I’m sure its proposal will be

given every consideration by the SFN,” McKay said.

Logan said he has yet to deter-mine just how economically viable taking over the Newcastle Island ferry service would be.

He said his staff have been noticing that some days are busy on the ferry run, “and some days it’s not.”

“All I can say so far is that the Protection Island ferry has been

much busier for us over the last few weeks,” he said.

“We’ve only been operating the Newcastle Island ferry for just a little while so it’s still too early to determine just how busy it will be. But we have to be given the contract first.”


The Protection Island ferry service has been running the Newcastle Island ferry service on a day-to-day basis since June 19 after the Victoria-based Nanaimo Harbour Ferry Tours and Charters shut down their operation. [DAILY NEWS FILE PHOTO]

Province, feds kick in $6M for water treatment plantDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

The funding is now in place for a new water system for Parks-ville and Nanoose residents.

Senior government representa-tives unveiled $6 million in fund-ing earmarked for a treatment plant, new intake and water sup-ply lines for both communities.

The federal and provincial gov-ernment each kicked in $3 million toward the project. The funding was announced jointly by Vancouver Island North MP John Duncan and Parksville-Qualicum MLA Michelle Stilwell last week.

“We’re very grateful,” said

Parksville Mayor Marc Lefebvre. “We’re looking forward to it, because it’s got to be done.”

The money comes from the fed-eral Build Canada Fund and the provincial Small Communities Fund.

No work can proceed until after a referendum on the project, like-ly in the late fall, but even if the referendum fails, the city must move to water treatment.

New provincial standards now require it for all surface water.

Parksville’s water comes from the Englishman River near the river estuary, downstream of the orange Highway 19A bridge.

In anticipation of senior gov-

ernment funding, Parksville set a $36-million budget for a new intake upstream of Highway 19, safe from road spills, and a treat-ment plant with capacity to meet decades of future demand from population growth.

But after city council learned Build Canada funding was “over-subscribed,” Lefebvre said the project was scaled back to $24 million.

The city already has some money in reserves, but not enough for the entire project.

“In order to borrow $5 million, we needed $6 million,” Lefebvre said.

Joe Stanhope, chairman of the

Regional District of Nanaimo and regional director for nearby Area G, French Creek, welcomes the announcement.

“This intake and treatment plant project will allow us to protect and enhance our water, while improving fish habitat and domestic water supply,” Stan-hope said.

Duncan, a sitting MP first elected in 1993, has said he will run for re-election in the newly redrawn federal riding in October.

He said the money “will benefit our community by improving much-needed infrastructure.”

Critics have said an upstream

intake will threaten fish stocks, but Stilwell said it will “provide a safe and adequate supply of water and ensure a high quality of life and economic growth, while sustaining a healthy river system.”

Lefebvre said the entire project would likely take 18 months to complete, but he doesn’t antici-pate work to start until next summer.

“We’ve got to get ready for the referendum and develop a refer-endum strategy,” Lefebvre said.


PARKSVILLE

We usually don’t trot out the cliche about a ‘long, hot summer’ until

we’re at least through what, on the Island, we cheekily refer to as “Junuary,” when clouds, cool temperatures and rain make it feel more like January than the beginning of summer.

Not this year. Summer has descended upon us in early July with heat and dry conditions exacerbated by winds, in addi-tion to very real concerns all over the south coast and the Island about a water shortages.

To boot, Nanaimo residents woke up Sunday to golden skies brought about by smoke from wildfires. It was a real light show — until we smelled the smoke and saw the ash on our decks and vehicle windshields.

Put all this together and it amounts to a warning about fire safety and water conservation.

A strong message has to go out to all the smokers. Last month — another indication of an early onset of the hot, dry weather — Nanaimo Fire Rescue have now repeated an earlier than usual warning about the number of brushfires they were seeing.

A large fire in Yellow Point last week was close enough to home to also be a stark reminder. And right now a large fire is burning above Sproat Lake outside Port Alberni.

While many wildfires are sparked by lightning, the risk of discarded cigarettes can neither be minimized nor ignored. It is likely we will soon get to the point, as has happened in past

years, that smokers seen cast-ing away butts may get a visit from police as a reminder of the ongoing risk.

Of course, not only smokers present a fire risk; it’s just that due to their number and the hab-it by some of unthinkingly dis-carding butts they need strong warnings. There remain those who may think a beach fire, or backyard cookout, is a good idea.

You might contain the fire and even have a hose and bucket of sand at the ready, but that’s not the main issue. It’s the embers. In dry and windy conditions, it just takes one ember to float off and set alight dry grass, bark mulch or other debris.

The smoke hanging in the air is a reminder that these risks have increased significantly this year.

It’s only early July and we need to be prepared — unless the weather returns to being wet and cool — for this to continue into September if past weather pat-terns are an indication.

We need to start thinking and acting now in a way that takes fire prevention seriously. The stakes are just too high in terms of potential loss of property and risk to life to be complacent.

In a similar vein, water con-servation is also emerging as a significant issue — not a critical issue yet — but something to be mindful of in a way that Island-ers haven’t had to consider in past years.

There was no snowpack and efforts began early to fill reser-voirs. But that doesn’t give us a licence to waste water.

Conservation now will prevent this becoming a critical issue later. That said, numbers show Nanaimo residents have taken water conservation seriously so we need just to continue as is.

We can blame climate change, we can argue about whether it’s man-made global warming or not and given the current condi-tions such debates are no longer helpful. We are seeing a very hot, and very dry start to summer. We all need to be part of making sure Nanaimo and surrounding areas are safe from fire.

The Island is one of the best places in the world to live and we want to keep it that way.

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Discussion around sign issue at council needed

Re ‘Sign flap has yet to be resolved’ (Daily News, June 30)

I am glad that the issue of behav-iour at Nanaimo city council meetings has come up for public scrutiny.

I have repeatedly voiced my con-cern on aspects of this, to council and staff, with no response. Now Mayor Bill McKay is in my pos-ition — something bugs him about the whole setup.

Good! Let us take this oppor-tunity to have a discussion: At present citizens must speak at the mic, while others behind him or her are chatting, fiddling, walking back and forth, and holding up signs. This is very distracting for TV viewers of the meetings.

Picture for a moment what it would look like if citizens were walking back and forth behind the backs of the city councillors, chat-ting together, scratching them-selves and holding up signs.

It would be utterly disrespectful to the city councillors, and be dis-

tracting to the business at hand, for TV viewers, and the audience in Shaw auditorium.

I notice that on her TV show Judge Judy does not allow people before her to fidget and toe-tap, because it distracts her. She tells them to stop it.

It would make both Mayor McKay and myself happy if there was a wall behind the citizens at the mic who are making presenta-tions. If that does not happen, we may both be unhappy for a long, long time.

Madeline BruceNanaimo

Discarded cigarettes are a big risk in dry weather

In the past week, I have twice been behind a car/truck where the driver threw his cigarette butt out the window and onto the road. Twice! In this tinder dry environment! The second time, I made a note of his license plate so if I heard of a fire happening in that vicinity later in the day, I

could submit his license plate to the authorities.

I urge everyone who sees any-one throw a cigarette butt out the window to take down the license plate and report it to the authorities if there is a fire in that vicinity later. Then, I think the perpetrator should be charged for full cost of battling that fire and for any loss of homes, lives, or livestock. What are these people thinking?

And just in case you think this is an attack on smokers, it’s not. I’m a smoker, too. However, I use my ashtray in my car to put out my cigarettes. And if your car doesn’t have an ashtray, you can easily purchase a portable ashtray to put in your vehicle. Petra TschaunerNanoose Bay

City should end watering in parks to save resource

The Millstream water level is low, the Nanaimo River can in spots be walked across, the tem-

peratures are record setting, water restrictions are in effect, we have had a wildfire just south of the city limits, July has barely begun and yet our city continues to blithely water the baseball park at Campbell and Kennedy Streets.

I would like to see the city and parks workers turn off these sprinklers. It is only grass for god’s sake, it will grow back.

These parks, little jewels that they are, are drinking up in one day water we cannot afford to use this year.

Lay off the watering, save it for, god forbid, a fire or a water short-age more severe than the one we currently have.

Rod MacdonaldNanaimo

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Vigilance needed by us all as fi re risk rises

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Scrabbling in the hay Janel van Dongen celebrates the completion of her unique word art made of hay bales. The eight-year-old came up with the idea to spell out ‘Springford Farm’ using hay bales as a way to promote the on-farm store owned and operated by her grandparents Colin and Diane Springford and uncle Ross Springford. She later shortened it to simply ‘Farm’ after realizing just how many bales it would take to spell the full name. [PHOTO SUBMITTED]

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Martin Mars sit idle as wildfi res increaseCriticism of the government’s refusal to launch the famous water bombers continues this summerERIC PLUMMER ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

As a forest fire rapidly spreads across Dog Mountain, thicken-ing the Alberni Valley’s air with smoke, one question continues to burn away with many members of the public: Why are the Mar-tin Mars water bombers sitting idle on the shore of Sproat Lake?

The Hawaii and Philippine Mars bombers have not seen fire-fighting action in years, but this could change as early as the mid-dle of this week with a deploy-ment order from the province for one of the aircraft, said Wayne Coulson, CEO of the Coulson Group of Companies and owner of the two planes.

When a severe fire season was expected this summer B.C.’s Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations contracted the Hawaii Mars in case its 27,200-litre drop capacity was needed.

“We have a contract with the government for the Mars and all we are waiting for is for them to order us up,” said Coulson in an email adding that the air tanker could be serviceable by Wednes-day or Thursday.

“The Mars has been offered to the government starting three months ago when the govern-ment agency fire predictive mod-els were indicating the B.C. coast was going to experience a bad wildfire season.”

Last year was bad for wildfires as well; 369,169 hectares of forest were affected across the province over the warm months. After years of service the province’s contract with the Hawaii Mars was not continued in 2014 when the Ministry of Forests opted to rely on smaller planes provided by Abbotsford-based Conair. These planes are less cumber-some, cost-effective and more versatile than the Hawaii Mars, stated the ministry.

But with fires spreading across the province frustrations grew that the Hawaii Mars, which is the world’s largest water bomber,

was not added to B.C.’s firefight-ing arsenal.

Criticism of the government’s refusal to launch the Hawaii Mars has continued this summer — especially from Sproat Lake residents, who are watching the Dog Mountain forest fire grow seemingly unhindered by the province’s suppression efforts.

“I witnessed first-hand today

five small helicopters with monsoon buckets (pee cans), two Aurora water bombers and a spotter plane waste a ton of that budget in a futile effort to try and control or put out what started as a very small forest fire at Sproat Lake,” wrote Bob Cole in an open letter directed to Minister of Forests Steve Thom-son. “Your ministry called the

Martin Mars water bombers old, obsolete and not as effective as your other fire-fighting aircraft. I strenuously beg to differ. The Martin Mars could have put this fire out effectively and easily in much less than the two-and-a-half-hour response time of your ‘elite’ fire-fighting planes.”

Any decisions on handling the Dog Mountain fire rest with the

province, as the Mars cannot be deployed without an order from Victoria.

“It would be illegal for us to take the Mars onto a fire without the approval from the govern-ment,” said Coulson. “We are as frustrated as many people in the province about the lack of support the government is giving the firefighters and the public.”

A Martin Mars water bomber at its base on Sproat Lake as the Dog Mountain fire burns further down the lake. People in Port Alberni are asking why the planes are not being used as the forest fire season sees a dramatic early start. [CHRIS BOAR OF CB PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE DAILY NEWS]

Worsening drought bans freshwater angling; may put spawning in jeopardy on Island riversROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Both salmon heading up Van-couver Island’s rivers and water-ways to spawn this year and freshwater fish could be in jeop-ardy as a result of the worsening drought in the region.

B.C.’s Ministry of Forests announced a Level 4 drought rating for southern Vancouver Island, the highest ranking on the drought monitor scale, last week.

That means all fishing has now been suspended in streams and rivers in the region, which includes Nanaimo, because of low river levels and high water temperatures.

The ministry says it is also watching 75 other key angling streams across B.C., and that the

fishing ban could be extended if conditions warrant.

Dr. Brian Riddell, president of the Pacific Salmon Foundation, said if water temperatures in the rivers and streams in the region

climb above 20 degrees Celsius, fish can quickly die.

He said the impacts on many freshwater species, including steelhead and rainbow trout, as well as juvenile salmon still in freshwater systems, could be severe.

“We’re already above 18 degrees Celsius in many of these water-ways, so a lot of the fish are now under stress,” Riddell said.

“Some fish might find relief in deep pools where the water is cooler at lower levels and there’s more oxygen. But due to ongoing development next to a lot of riv-ers and streams, many of these deep pools are gone so if these conditions continue, there could be a very high mortality rate.”

He said the next large salmon spawning runs into local streams

and rivers are usually the sock-eye, and that would typically begin in three to four weeks, but they may be jeopardized by the drought as well.

“We’ll undoubtedly see a lot of mortality among the adult sal-mon as well if there’s no change in the weather conditions,” he said.

“It’s still too early to determine if the major salmon spawning runs in the area will be impacted by the drought, but we’re see-ing conditions that we have not seen for a long time. This could impact not only recreational fish-eries, but commercial and First Nation fisheries as well.”


Smoke a reminder fi re risk in city is still highWEATHER, from Page A1

At Harbour Air, “we cancelled 16 flights to Nanaimo,” said Randy Wright, Harbour Air executive vice-president.

“As of noon we started flying again. The wind is blowing the smoke into the east, so we’re up and rolling again.”

The fire chief said his crews are dealing with conditions that are “the worst we’ve seen in decades.” He once again urged residents not to flick their ciga-rette butts out of their car win-dow or anywhere the butts could ignite a blaze. He suggested dous-ing them in water instead.

He said the locations of recent fires within Nanaimo range from the 1400-block of Jingle Pot Road to the 1700-block of Bowen Road. One brush fire spread on Howard Avenue spread to a vacant home. Another fire took place behind a large retail store near Woodgrove Mall.

“I’m fearful we’re going to have some building fires as a result of this,” Richardson said.

“And with the wind and high temperatures, the fires are grow-ing rapidly.”

“The potential’s high,” he said.Nanaimo’s water resources

manager Bill Sims said the city’s reservoir at Jump Creek dam is holding well at approximately 88 per cent capacity. But he said he has seen water levels decrease more quickly.

“Part of the reason for that is the resources it take to douse fires,” he said.

“A major structure fire is equivalent to five to 10 per cent of daily (water) use” city-wide, Sims said.

Sims said the city will be ask-ing residents to help conserve water by voluntarily ceasing lawn watering.

“Due to ongoing development next to a lot of rivers and streams, many of these deep pools are gone so if these conditions continue, there could be a very high mortality rate.”

Dr. Brian Riddell, President Pacific Salmon Foundation

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Outgoing Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, left, speaks as the new Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos listens to him during a hand over ceremony in Athens on Monday. [AP PHOTO]

Greece attempts to reopen bailout talksELENA BECATOROS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATHENS, Greece — Greece and its membership in Europe’s joint currency faced an uncertain future Monday, with the country under pressure to restart bailout talks with creditors as soon as possible after Greeks resound-ingly rejected the notion of more austerity in exchange for aid.

With Greek banks running out of cash and facing the danger of collapse within days without new aid, the government in Ath-ens is racing against the clock.

In an effort to facilitate nego-tiations on a new aid program, Finance Minister Yanis Varou-fakis, who had clashed with European officials in the bailout talks, announced his resignation Monday.

But Greece and its creditors, who will meet again Tuesday to discuss how to keep the country in the euro, remain far apart on key issues, particularly the notion of debt relief.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke on the phone Monday ahead of the Tuesday summit, though no details were disclosed of what they discussed.

New negotiations will be complicated for the European creditors by Tsipras’ triumph in Sunday’s referendum.

More than 61 per cent of Greeks backed his call to vote “no” to budget cuts the creditors had proposed in return for rescue loans the country needs — even though those proposals were no longer on the table.

The vote was painted by oppos-ition parties and many Euro-pean officials as one on whether Greece should remain in Eur-ope’s joint currency. In the after-

math, many European leaders softened their tone and said talks would resume, though Greece’s chance of staying in the euro was looking increasingly shaky.

The country’s banks remained shut on Monday for a sixth work-ing day and the government kept tight limits on cash withdrawals at ATMs and money transfers to limit the drain on deposits.

All eyes now turn to whether the European Central Bank will increase the amount of credit the banks can draw on to make up for the cash drain. Analysts expect the ECB to not provide more emergency assistance on Monday.

That means the banks would not be able to reopen and Greece might have to tighten its limits on cash withdrawals and trans-fers from the current 60 euros ($67) per day.

Some banks may even face the risk of collapse in coming days as they continue to be drained of banknotes.

Greece’s economy minister, Giorgos Stathakis, told the BBC that if the ECB keeps its support unchanged, the current cash withdrawals limits can stay in place until Friday without any banks collapsing.

Facing such urgency, the Greek government has vowed to quickly restart negotiations with creditors in other eurozone coun-tries and with the institutions that oversaw the country’s bail-

out: the ECB, European Commis-sion and International Monetary Fund.

Varoufakis appeared to be the first casualty of the Greek gov-ernment’s attempt to reach a deal with creditors.

With his brash style and fond-ness for frequent media appear-ances, Varoufakis had visibly annoyed many of the eurozone’s finance ministers during the past months’ debt negotiations.

Varoufakis said in a statement he was told shortly after the referendum result that some other eurozone finance min-isters and the country’s other creditors would appreciate his not attending the ministers’ meetings.

The idea was one “that the Prime Minister judged to be potentially helpful to him in reaching an agreement. For this reason I am leaving the Ministry of Finance today,” he said.

As for his European negotiat-ing colleagues, he said of them: “I shall wear the creditors’ loath-ing with pride.”

A replacement was to be announced later Monday.

With his high-stakes gamble to call a referendum with just a week’s notice, Tsipras aimed to show creditors that Greeks, whose economy has been shat-tered and who face spiraling unemployment and poverty, have had enough and that the auster-ity prescribed isn’t working.

But everything hinges on Euro-pean reaction.

European officials appear to be split on a key demand by Greece to have the burden of its bailout loans be made more manageable.

Germany, however, remains reluctant to discuss debt forgiveness.

Country wants to strike a deal before the banks collapse

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Accused bomber in divorce battleSTEVE LAMBERT AND CHINTA PUXLEY THE CANADIAN PRESS

WINNIPEG — Court documents show a man accused of sending letter bombs to Winnipeg law-yers and his ex-wife has been in a decade-long battle with his for-mer spouse that includes accus-ations of theft, impersonation and a wedding ring being flushed down a toilet.

Police allege Guido Amsel, 49, became so enraged over perceived mistreatment at the hands of his former wife and lawyers who had been involved in the dispute, he sent explosive devices to their offices though Canada Post.

A lawyer was seriously injured when one of the bombs blew up at a firm on Friday. Police deton-ated two more devices over the weekend and warned justice offi-cials that more could be found in the next day or so.

The situation has unnerved many city residents and prompt-ed dozens of reports of suspi-cious packages. City hall and a nearby Canada Post office were briefly evacuated Monday.

Court documents show Guido Amsel and his wife, Iris Amsel, separated in 2004.

They have a son, who was nine at the time.

Documents from the divorce proceedings show no unusual acrimony at first. Amsel and his wife owned a numbered com-pany involved in automotive repair.

The couple initially split shares in the company — Amsel later bought out his ex-wife — and Amsel was ordered to pay $500 a month in child support.

The divorce became bitter in 2010. Guido Amsel accused his ex-wife of siphoning more than $3 million from the company into hidden bank accounts prior to the divorce being finalized.

“It is my belief at the present time that during our cohabit-ation, the respondent secreted money to these accounts,” reads

an affidavit from Guido Amsel dated July 9, 2010.

“I am fearful that the respondent will transfer funds from these and any other accounts she may have to Ger-many and thereafter relocate there with the intention of keep-ing our son there as well.”

Guido Amsel also accused his ex-wife in the affidavit of flush-ing his wedding ring down a toilet and trying to break up his second marriage by calling and pretending to be a boyfriend of the new wife.

Iris Amsel has denied all the accusations.

Iris Amsel’s lawyer was Maria Mitousis, who suffered severe injuries when the first letter bomb went off last Friday.

The 38-year-old was taken to hospital in critical condition, but has since been upgraded to stable. A source in the legal com-munity said Mitousis had sur-gery and lost one of her hands.

Guido Amsel’s son, Kyle, wrote in a 2013 affidavit that he did not have a good relationship with his father, in part because “he has been threatening towards me when I do not agree with him that my mother stole several mil-lion dollars from their company.”

By August 2013, Guido Amsel was expressing doubt that Kyle was his biological son. He wrote a letter to Mitousis demanding a paternity test. The court agreed to order one on the condition Amsel pay for it. There is no rec-ord of a result on the court file.

At the same time, Guido Amsel had his wages garnished on at least one occasion and she launched a lawsuit in 2010 against him and others in con-nection with the numbered com-pany she once shared with him. That matter is due to return to court in December.

One of the bombs detonated by police was found at another law firm involved with the case and the second was at a small auto-motive business north of down-town with ties to Iris Amsel.

Ottawa poised to defend rights record on aboriginalsTHE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Critics of the Harp-er government’s policies on murdered or missing aboriginal women and terrorism are getting an international podium at the United Nations this week to air their grievances.

The government will formally respond Tuesday to complaints at what is a regularly scheduled examination of Canada’s record by the UN Human Rights Com-mittee — a review that just hap-pens to be taking place 100 days

before the federal election.The panel of experts conducts

reviews of UN member’s adher-ence to a core international treaty, the International Coven-ant on Political and Civil Rights.

It’s the first time Canada has been examined by the panel since 2005, which makes this the first such examination of the Conservatives’ rights record.

But as it comes in the run-up to the fall federal election, the UN panel’s findings could pro-vide fodder for the government’s domestic political opponents.

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Ethnic groups tell of stigmatization fear

A new law allowing the gov-ernment to revoke Canadian cit-izenship from dual citizens con-victed of certain serious crimes is prompting fears among some ethnic communities that they’ll be unfairly stigmatized.

Those from countries that don’t allow dual citizenship told gov-ernment focus groups last year they had no issue with the law stripping of Canadian citizen-ship from dual citizens convicted of terrorism, treason or spying offences.

But other participants said while they agreed people con-victed of such offences should be punished, they were alarmed by the potential longer-term impli-cations of the measures.

◆ OTTAWA

Government drops its appeal on CSIS spying

The federal government has abandoned its high-profile appeal to the Supreme Court on overseas spying by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

The court agreed to take the case after federal lawyers argued for guidance on whether CSIS needed a warrant to seek allied help in spying on Canadians abroad.

They said the spy service was left in the dark as to when a judge’s approval was required to monitor suspected Canadian extremists in other countries.

In a recent letter to the Supreme Court, federal lawyer Robert Frater notes Parliament has since enacted changes to the judicial warrant scheme gov-erning CSIS.

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Man wins $12.5 million in Lotto-Max draw

An Ottawa man got lucky in Edmonton, winning $12.5 million in a Lotto-Max draw.

Eddy Mushibuka had been working in Alberta and bought his ticket at a Safeway Gas Bar in west Edmonton in June.

When he recently went to a store to check it, the retailer told him he won $12,500.

But Mushibuka looked at the screen, and saw more zeros.

The retailer then told him he actually won $12.5 million.

When it comes to ideas for his windfall, Mushibuka has a few ideas, including buying a car.

“The first thing I have to do is come back to earth,” he said, laughing. “After that I’ll probably buy a new home and maybe a car. Other than that I think I’ll just take a couple vacations and that will be great!”

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Cleanup may not be adequate: auditor general

Alberta’s auditor general says the province may not be requir-ing oilsands companies to save enough money to ensure their gigantic mines are cleaned up at the end of their life.

“If there isn’t an adequate program in place to ensure that financial security is provided by mine operators . . . mine sites may either not be reclaimed as intended or Albertans could be forced to pay the reclamation costs,” says a report released Monday by Merwan Saher.

Saher says current rules allow companies to overestimate the value of their resources.

That allows them to delay increases to the amount of money they sock away to fund cleanup.

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Infant boy slain in suspected murder suicide

Investigators spent much of Monday gathering evidence after a 10-month-old boy and his fath-er died in what Montreal police believe is a murder-suicide.

The bodies of the infant and the 39-year-old man were found late Sunday behind a home in the northeastern part of the city.

Montreal police spokeswoman Anie Lemieux says the boy’s mother contacted police in the evening after the father failed to return with him as planned Sun-day afternoon.

“When police officers got there, they searched the area and the man and the child were found in the shed at the back of the house,” she said Monday.

The mother was taken to hos-pital to be treated for nervous shock.

Lac-Megantic marks sombre anniversary of 2013 rail disasterChurch bells ring 47 times in honour of every victim that died in the acciedentTHE CANADIAN PRESS

LAC-MEGANTIC, Que. — Church bells rang 47 times in Lac-Megantic on Monday as locals gathered to honour the victims of a rail disaster two years ago that forever changed the Quebec town.

Forty-seven people were killed and a large swath of downtown was destroyed on July 6, 2013, when an unmanned 72-car train jumped the track, spilling and igniting some six million litres of volatile crude oil.

At noon, people gathered out-side Lac-Megantic’s St-Agnes Church for a moment of silence and a ringing of the bells. Ongoing decontamination work was also halted briefly to mark the tragedy.

A low-key mass was held Sun-day night.

Politicians of all stripes marked the anniversary, vowing to con-tinue to support the community.

Premier Philippe Couillard hailed the resolve of locals and said in a statement the province would keep helping the town of 6,000.

“Our thoughts are with the families and relatives of the victims and to all citizens of Lac-Megantic,” Couillard said. “The Meganticois are a good example of solidarity and resili-ence for all of Quebec.”

Prime Minister Stephen Harp-er also praised residents as the town rebuilds and heals.

“It takes people of extraordin-ary strength to overcome such a disaster, and I was privileged to witness first-hand during my vis-its to Lac-Megantic the remark-able resilience, pride and spirit of those in the community,” Harper said.

He added that those found guilty of breaking the law will be held to account.

In late June, several people and the defunct rail company at the heart of the disaster were hit with new federal charges. Among the accused were Mont-real, Maine and Atlantic Railway, the insolvent company’s for-mer president, and train driver Thomas Harding.

All those charged will appear in court in Lac-Megantic on Nov. 12.

Previously, Harding, two fellow railway employees and the company were charged by the Crown in Quebec with 47 counts of criminal negligence causing death.

A trial date is expected to be set Sept. 8.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau also marked the anniversary and both said not enough has been done.

“Every possible precaution

must be taken to ensure such an incident is never repeated,” Trudeau said. “Unfortunately, two years have passed and too little has been done by this government to bring about the necessary changes.”

Mulcair said the NDP called in January for an independent investigation into transportation of dangerous goods by rail. He said he’d grant a costly solution being sought by the city.

“An NDP government would build a railway bypassing Lac-Megantic, which has already paid a high price in human lives,” Mulcair vowed.

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt defended the government’s actions, including stricter rules and lower speed limits for trains carrying dangerous cargo through urban areas.

In March, the government announced proposed new feder-

al regulations that would give companies until 2025 to upgrade rail tank cars to a higher safety standard.

“Safety is Transport Canada’s top priority,” Raitt said.

“And in the wake of the acci-dent, we took immediate, con-crete action to further protect Canadians and maintain the safety and integrity of the Can-adian rail system.”

Lac-Megantic residents are also waiting to hear the fate of a court settlement, where about 25 companies accused of responsib-ility have put up a fund of $431.5 million.

The settlement is being opposed by the only firm that hasn’t signed on: Canadian Pacif-ic Railway Ltd.

If the legal challenge fails, law-yers representing victims and creditors hope money can start being disbursed later this year.

Smoke rises from railway cars that were carrying crude oil after derailing in downtown Lac-Megantic, Que., on July 6, 2013. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Soldiers arrive to fi ght fi res in SaskatchewanTHE CANADIAN PRESS

Soldiers started rolling into Saskatchewan on Monday to double firefighting efforts in the north, where about 9,000 people have been forced out of their homes — many for more than a week.

Colin King, with Saskatchewan’s Emergency Management department, said 1,000 military per-sonnel were arriving from bases in Shilo, Man., and Edmonton.

About 600 are to receive basic wildfire train-ing and will likely be on the ground Wednesday alongside another 600 firefighters.

The remaining soldiers are to work in support roles such as helping with equipment and getting food and water to fire crews.

King described the fire situation as “critical” and said people evacuated from more than 50 communities wouldn’t be returning soon.

“The threat has not been reduced in any of those communities. We are advising all commun-ity leadership to remain out until it is safe,” he said.

As of Monday morning, the most significant of 112 fires burning in the province was about three kilometres north of La Ronge, one of the largest communities in north. Residents were evacuated on the weekend from the town, as well as Air Ronge and the Lac La Ronge Indian Band.

Fires and thick smoke forced others in the north to start leaving their homes 11 days earlier.

Flames have destroyed about a dozen homes, remote cabins and other buildings in Montreal Lake, Weyakwin and Wadin Bay. One building also burned north of La Ronge.

About 300 square kilometres are burning in what officials are calling high-priority fire zones, about 10 times the yearly average.

Scott Wasylenchuk with the Provincial Fire Centre had some good news, however. An area near La Ronge burned in an old forest fire is act-ing as a natural barrier and wind was expected to shift flames away from the town.

“Which means some of the fire lines closest to the community won’t be as hot and we’ll be able to get on them and make good progress,” he said.

Premier Brad Wall, who visited La Ronge last week, said he’s glad soldiers are on hand to help and he’s not worried fire will spread into the town.

“Right now we’re in a pretty good spot . . . We’re feeling cautiously optimistic after a difficult weekend.”

Nearly 700 evacuees from La Ronge were being housed in Cold Lake, Alta. The Alberta govern-ment had said it was preparing to receive up to 5,000 after centres in Saskatoon, Regina, Prince Albert and North Battleford were filling up.

“We always have problems with fires here and there but never in my lifetime can I remember it being this bad,” Darlene Studer told radio station CJME.

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Canada, Japan at odds over timber in trade talks

One of Canada’s most pro-tected industries — British Columbia timber — has been targeted by Japan in the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks, The Canadian Press has learned.

Japan is pushing Canada to eliminate or modify the controls it imposes on B.C. log exports — a practice that is heavily restrict-ed by the federal and provincial governments, and which drives up their cost to foreign buyers.

Details of the forestry impasse with Japan are contained in documents from Canada’s For-eign Affairs department that are marked “secret” and that have been obtained by The Canadian Press.

The revelation comes as Can-ada continues to face pressure from another TPP country — the United States — which has taken aim at the coveted supply management system that pro-tects the country’s dairy and poultry farmers.

◆ VANCOUVER

Smoke-fi lled grey air envelopes southern B.C.

A heavy blanket of stagnant grey haze has settled over British Columbia’s south coast as winds push smoke south from the many forest fires burning across the province.

Air quality advisories have been issued across southern Vancouver Island, along the mainland coast, Metro Vancouver and also the Fraser Valley.

Roger Quan, director of air quality for Metro Vancouver, said conditions worsened Monday as the smell of smoke permeated some parts of the region.

“This is more widespread than anything we’ve seen in the past,” he said.

“The wind is blowing smoke from, we believe, the Sunshine Coast and the Sea-to-Sky area. There are three large fires in that area and that seems to be impacting us most heavily. But there are also fires in the B.C. Interior so we’re receiving smoke from both ends.”

◆ PRINCE GEORGE

Rescued couple wish they could hug searchers

An Ontario couple rescued after spending six days lost in the British Columbia wilderness say they’ve been through a hum-bling experience and want to thank the searchers who looked for them.

Rick Moynan and Lynne Carmody say that since they returned home to North Bay, they’ve heard stories about the large number of volunteers and search teams who dedicated their time.

The pair say in a letter released by the RCMP that they arrived at Cathedral Lakes Lodge in Pentic-ton, on June 21 and set off on a short hike the next day.

Moynan and Carmody say that within hours, they were lost in a thick wooded area and decided to make a shelter for the night.

The couple say they’ve learned some lessons about being proper-ly prepared and wish they could hug or shake hands with every person involved in the search.

◆ VANCOUVER

B.C. panel orders for $42 million in penalties

Securities regulators in Brit-ish Columbia have ordered $42 million in penalties against two former Burnaby residents it accused of numerous secur-ities-related infractions, includ-ing fraud.

Yan Zhu, also known as Rachel Zhu, and Guan Qiang Zhang, have also been permanently banned from public markets as a result of the offences, which also included illegally distrib-uting securities, withholding information from regulators and instructing their employees and investors to do the same.

In its decision announced Monday, the British Columbia Securities Commission also fined and permanently cease-traded Bossteam E-Commerce, the company co-founded by Zhu and Zhang.

Bossteam described itself on its websites, in documents and in presentations as an online adver-tising business.

Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he rides aboard the Popemobile in the streets of Quito in Ecuador on Sunday. [AP PHOTO]

Pope Francis holds fi rst public Mass in EcuadorNICOLE WINFIELD AND ALLEN PANCHANA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador — Hun-dreds of thousands of people filled a park in Ecuador’s main port city Monday for Pope Francis’ first big event of his three-nation South American tour, hoping for a glimpse of Lat-in America’s first pope returning to his home soil for a Mass dedi-cated to the family.

Many pilgrims spent the night outdoors, and some walked for miles to reach the park on Guayaquil’s northern outskirts where the crowd sang hymns and sought pockets of shade to keep cool amid the scorching sun and high humidity.

Firefighters sprayed them with water hoses to provide relief.

“I’m tired. I’m hungry, I haven’t slept but I’m also full of emo-tion and joy in my heart,” said Vicente Huilcatoma, a 47-year-old retired police officer who

walked 40 kilometres to reach Samanes Park.

The Vatican had originally estimated more than 1 million people would turn out for the Mass, and government organiz-ers put the crowd at above one million people in the hour before the service began.

But Gabriel Almeida, the government spokesman at the scene, rolled back the estimate to several hundred thousand after officials viewed aerial images of the area.

Across the park, Ecuadoran national flags and papal banners waved above the enormous sea of people, who were divided into quadrants that Francis looped around slowly on his pope-mobile to cheers of “Francisco! Francisco!”

In his homily, Francis praised families as the bedrock of society — “the nearest hospital, the first school for the young, the best home for the elderly” — and said

miracles are performed every day inside a family out of love. But he said sometimes the love and happiness runs out.

“How many women, sad and lonely, wonder when love left, when it slipped away from their lives?” he asked. “How many elderly people feel left out of family celebrations, cast aside and longing each day for a little love?”

Francis has dedicated the first two years of his pontificate to family issues, giving weekly catechism lessons on different aspects of family life and invit-ing the entire church to study ways to provide better pastor-al care for Catholic families, people who are divorced, gays and families in “nontraditional” situations.

“I ask you to pray fervently for this intention, so that Christ can take even what might seem to us impure, scandalous or threaten-ing, and turn it ... into a miracle.”

Hundreds of thousands gather at a park in Guayaquil

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Canadian Pospisil through to Wimbledon quarters || Page B2

DIABETES

Mitral valve surgery can best be described by comparison to the swinging saloon door in old western movies.

It demonstrates what can go wrong with the heart’s valves.

And what surgical procedure is needed to correct mitral valve prolapse (MVP).

To get a first-hand view of this pro-cedure, I watched Dr. Tirone David, one the world’s great cardiac surgeons, per-form the operation at Toronto General Hospital.

The mitral valve separates the two left chambers of the heart.

Each time the heart beats the valves swing open, like the doors of a western saloon.

But after opening they close firmly again while the heart pumps blood to the body.

The problem is that swinging doors of saloons often develop loose rusty hinges that don’t close well.

The mitral valve has the same trouble when the tough parachute-like cords that attach the valves to the heart’s muscle become too loose.

When this happens some ejected blood falls back into the heart’s chamber follow-ing every beat.

This places extra burden on the heart’s muscle.

If you’re diagnosed with this condition, don’t panic.

You’re far from the end of the road.Prior to the use of echocardiograms

(ultrasound of the heart), doctors believed MVP was present in 17 per cent of women and 5 percent of men.

Now we know it’s less common, affect-ing about 2.4 per cent of both sexes. But, according to a report from Johns Hopkins University, about 25 per cent of Amer-icans older than age 55 have some degree of MVP.

It’s now believed that, in addition to aging, genetics also plays a role in who develops this condition.

How mitral valve prolapse is treated depends on several factors. The great majority of patients with MVP have no idea it is present and normally do not need surgery.

Some patients complain of shortness of breath, palpitations and fatigue.

But people without MVP can experience similar symptoms.

What often happens is these symptoms occur after the diagnosis, triggering anxiety.

Dr. David says that several factors must be considered before deciding mitral sur-gery is needed. One of the most important is the severity of the prolapse and what affect it’s having on the heart’s muscle.

There’s an old saying that, “A stitch in time saves nine”.

In mild cases of MVP, there’s no point in exposing patients prematurely to the risk of surgery. But it also makes no sense to wait until either the patient’s symp-toms are severe or the muscles of the heart are failing from extra stress.

Mitral valve surgery is not just for incompetent valves. It’s also performed when the mitral valve becomes thickened and rigid from aging and the opening becomes as small as a pencil.

The extra work of pushing blood through such a tiny opening can also cause heart failure.

Patients with these conditions often have heart murmurs that can be detected by a stethoscope. But an echocardiogram of the heart will determine their severity and help to gauge whether the condition is worsening.

In recent years there’s been tremendous advancements in surgical technique for the treatment of MVP or stenosis.

The morning I watched Dr. David oper-ate, the patient’s chest was opened in the same way as a bypass operation.

This patient suffered from severe mitral stenosis and required a totally new valve.

The majority of cases performed today try to save the old valve. For instance, it is often possible to shorten the para-chute-like cords which restore the valves to their normal position.

The advantage to using the patient’s own tissue is that there is no chance of its rejection by the body.

In other cases, minimal invasive surgery can be done by working through the fem-oral artery, the blood vessel at the top of the leg. A new valve is guided through the artery using a special catheter tube until it reaches the mitral valve location and is inserted.

Dr. David says there’s no age limit for mitral valve surgery as long as the patient has no other problems that would increase the risk.

His oldest mitral valve patient was 95 years of age.

Swinging-door heart surgery

Dr. W. Gifford-JonesThe Doctor Game

Study tests if insulin in pills can prevent disease

LINDSEY TANNER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — For nearly a century, insulin has been a life-saving diabetes treatmentNow scientists are testing a tantalizing question: What if pills containing the same medicine patients inject every day could also prevent the disease?

Thirteen-year-old Hayden Murphy of Plainfield, Ill., is helping researchers determine if the strategy works for Type 1 diabetes, the kind that is usually diag-nosed in childhood. If it does, he might be able to avoid the lifetime burdens facing his five-year-old brother, Weston.

They includes countless finger pricks and blood sugar checks, and avoiding playing too hard or eating too little, which both can cause dangerous blood sugar fluctuations.

Hayden Murphy is among more than 400 children and adults participating in U.S. government-funded international research investigating whether experi-mental insulin capsules can prevent or at least delay Type 1 diabetes.

Hospitals in the United States and eight other countries are involved and recruit-ment is ongoing.

To enrol, participants must first get bad news: results of a blood test showing their chances for developing the disease are high.

“When I got the news, I was devastated,” Hayden said. He knows it means his life could change in an instant.

“He has the daily reminders. He sees

what his brother goes through,” said the boys’ mom, Myra Murphy.

So now Hayden Murphy swallows a small white capsule daily and has his blood checked periodically for signs of diabetes.

“I hope it doesn’t come to me, and I real-ly didn’t want it to come to him,” Hayden said.

A small, preliminary study by different researchers, published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Asso-ciation, suggests the approach might work. Children who took insulin pills showed immune system changes that the researchers said might help prevent dia-betes. The study was too small and didn’t last long enough to know for sure.

The ongoing larger study is more rigor-ous, randomly assigning participants to get experimental insulin capsules or dummy pills, and should provide a clearer answer.

“Does it prevent indefinitely? Does it slow it down, does it delay diabetes? That also would be a pretty big win,” said Dr. Louis Philipson, a University of Chicago diabetes specialist involved in the study.

About 1.25 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes.

Type 2 disease is more common, affect-ing nearly 30 million nationwide and most of the more than 300 million worldwide with diabetes. Besides short-term com-plications from poorly controlled blood sugar, both types raise long-term risks for damage to the kidneys, heart and eyes.

Both types are increasing and for Type 2, experts think that’s because of ris-ing obesity and inactivity. But the upward trend in Type 1 diabetes, increasing world-wide by at least three per cent each year, is more perplexing.

“We know so very little about the exact mechanisms that cause Type 1 diabetes,” which complicates efforts to prevent it, said Dr. Desmond Schatz, the study’s chair and medical director of the University of Florida Diabetes Center.

“For the most part, it’s really shooting an arrow into a field and hoping one of the arrows hits a target,” Schatz said.

In Type 1 diabetes, the pancreas stops making insulin, a blood sugar-regulating hormone that helps the body convert sugar in food into energy. Treatment is lifetime replacement insulin, usually via injections or a small pump. In Type 2, the body can’t make proper use of insulin. It can sometimes be treated with a healthy diet and exercise.

Genes are thought to increase risks for Type 1 diabetes. Viruses and other infections are among factors suggested as possible triggers the disease, which causes the body’s immune system to attack insu-lin-producing cells.

Dr. Wendy Brickman, a diabetes special-ist at Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital who’s involved in the study, explained that researchers think taking insulin by mouth so that it’s digested like food might somehow trick the faulty immune system into not attacking insulin-making cells.

Participants attain blood test results showing high risk of getting diabetes

Hayden Murphy, 13, sits for a photo with his medicine at his home in Plainfield, Ill. Hayden is among more than 400 children and adults participating in U.S. government-funded research investigating whether experimental insulin capsules can prevent or at least delay Type 1 diabetes. [AP PHOTO]

CANCER

Study suggests which glioblastoma patients may benefi t most from drug treatmentMAYO CLINIC NEWS NETWORK

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Clinicians testing the drug dasatinib, approved for several blood cancers, had hoped it would slow the aggressive growth of the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma. While clinical trials to date have not found any benefit, researchers at Mayo Clinic, who con-ducted one of those clinical trials, believe they know why dasatinib failed — and what to do about it.

In the online issue of Molecular Onc-ology, investigators report finding that dasatinib inhibits proteins that promote cancer growth as expected but also sup-presses proteins that protect against cancer.

The findings suggest that pretesting patient glioblastoma biopsies will help identify who may respond well to dasat-inib and who should avoid using the drug, says the study’s senior author, Panos Z. Anastasiadis, Ph.D., chair of the Depart-ment of Cancer Biology at Mayo Clinic in Florida.

Dasatinib is a general Src-family kinase inhibitor. It shuts down all members of the Src family of protein kinases, which are believed to activate proteins that

essentially give tumours “legs” upon which to crawl through tissue to seek blood nutrients.

In the study, the investigators teased apart dasatinib’s effect on individual Src family members — Src, Fyn, Yes and Lyn — using laboratory glioblastoma cell lines and mouse models of the brain cancer.

In the cell lines, inhibiting Src, Fyn and Yes generally reduced growth and migration.

So did Lyn, but to a lesser degree.But there were significant differences

in mice, depending on which Src family

member was experimentally inhibited. Mice with glioblastoma tumors lacking functioning Src or Fyn showed no differ-ence in survival, compared to untreated mice.

In contrast, inhibiting Yes in mice increased survival, while inhibiting Lyn resulted in shorter survival and accelerat-ed tumor growth.

“These findings were very surprising to us for two reasons,” Dr. Anastasiadis says. “One is the difference between lab and animal findings. The other is that, togeth-er with the bad, dasatinib inhibited the good, as well.”

“Yes promotes cancer growth, so it should be inhibited,” he says.

“Unexpectedly though, Lyn protects against cancer growth, and so it should not be deactivated by use of dasatinib.”

Researchers found that not all human tumors express all members of the Src family, and that expression of Yes and Lyn differed among tumours.

The research team is examining tumour biopsies from the patients who partici-pated in Mayo Clinic’s clinical trial testing the use of dasatinib combined with beva-cizumab (Avastin), an agent that restricts blood flow to tumours.

“These findings were very surprising to us for two reasons. One is the difference between lab findings and animal findings. The other is that, together with the bad, dasatinib inhibited the good, as well.”Panos Anastasiadis, Department of Cancer Biology at Mayo Clinic

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Canada’s Pospisil on court for six hours, advances to quarter-fi nalsVancouver native to face No. 3 seed and 2013 champion Murray on WednesdayTHE CANADIAN PRESS

LONDON — After 10 sets of tennis, a pair of marathon ral-lies from two sets down and a spirited rant against an oppon-ent, Vasek Pospisil is looking forward to a day off.

The Vancouver player was on the court for almost six hours Monday as he continued his impressive run at Wimbledon.

Hours after coming back from two sets down to beat Viktor Troicki in the fourth round of the men’s singles, Pospisil and doubles teammate Jack Sock staged another two-set comeback before ultimately falling to Aus-tralia’s John Peers and Britain’s Jamie Murray.

“It was a long day, for sure,” Pospisil offered as an under-statement to kick off his press conference after the doubles loss. “Pretty tired right now, but I have a day off tomorrow, so that’s good.”

He will need all the rest he can get, as his quarter-final opponent on Wednesday is No. 3 seed and 2013 Wimbledon champion Andy Murray. The Scotsman is bound to have a loud cheering section at the All England Club.

“Obviously I played a lot of tennis, but one day recovery is a lot,” Pospisil said. “So I can sleep well tonight. Just have a full day of rest tomorrow. Do a lot of recovery . . . then come out strong on Wednesday and take it to him.”

The unseeded Canadian advanced to the men’s quar-ter-finals after a 4-6, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 win over Troicki, the No. 22 seed from Serbia.

The match took two hours 39 minutes, and that wasn’t even his longest of the day.

“It was tough. I didn’t have the start I wanted to have, and then ... I got unlucky a little bit in the (second set) tiebreaker there,” Pospisil said. “I made a couple of good adjustments on my return games.

“And even being down two sets, it didn’t faze me. I feel I’m pretty tough that way. Even if I’m down, I’m always finding ways to come back.”

Murray has beaten Pospisil in hard-surface tournaments at

Rotterdam and Indian Wells this season, but said he is expecting a tougher challenge from Pospisil on grass.

Murray said he hopes Pospisil’s fatigue comes into play.

“After today maybe he’s a bit tired. But he will be confident after coming form two sets down and feeling good about his game,” said Murray, a 7-6 (7), 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 winner over Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic. “He has a game which suits grass and he likes to come to the net.”

Pospisil, the world No. 56, had never previously been past the second round in singles play at the All England Club.

His previous best singles show-ing at a Grand Slam event was a third-round appearance at the Australian Open (2014, 2015).

He’s hoping to become just the third Canadian to reach the men’s singles semifinals at Wimbledon.

The others are Robert Powell (1908) and Milos Raonic (2014).

It’s almost the reverse story for Pospisil in doubles.

The Canadian partnered with Sock to win the Wimbledon men’s doubles title last year, but the duo was ousted in the third round 6-3, 7-6 (6), 6-7(5), 3-6, 8-6 by Peers and Jamie Murray in a match that lasted three hours 19 minutes.

Pospisil and Sock appeared to lack energy early in the match, but were energized by a contro-versial call that went against them in the third set.

With the tiebreaker tied 1-1, a Pospisil volley appeared to go off

Peers’ racket and out of play. But the umpire ruled that Pospisil hit the ball out of bounds.

Pospisil and Sock argued with the referee before turning their ire toward Peers.

“You want to take the point? Keep your mouth shut,” Pospisil said to Peers before adding an expletive.

When a heckler yelled at the duo to get back to playing ten-nis, the pair had words with the crowd.

“Yeah, it fired us up. But the ball hit the racket of Peers, and it’s not that he didn’t say any-thing, but he said he wasn’t sure if he hit it,” Pospisil said.

“He said he didn’t feel it, but it was clearly not the case. So that got us really fired up.”

Pospisil, who reached a career-

SOCCER

Mid Isle Mariners remain in the hunt for titleROSS ARMOUR DAILY NEWS

The Mid Isle Mariners have had their eye on the Pacific Soccer League championship for some time now.

With just three games left in the regular season, the Mariners sit third in the table, four points behind leaders the Victoria High-landers with two games in hand.

But last weekend was a missed opportunity to close that gap as Chris Merriman’s team came out on the wrong side of a 2-1 score-line against the Highlanders at Merle Logan Field on Sunday, despite winning by the same scoreline the day before against the Vancouver Thunderbirds.

But the good news is that of those three games left, the Mariners still have to play the Highlanders in what could be a ‘winner-takes-all’ matchup on the final weekend of the season.

Prior to that, the Mariners have to face basement team FC Tigers Vancouver and second bottom Abbotsford Magnuson Ford and Merriman’s aim is nothing less than six points to take it to that final round against the Highlanders.

The Mariners play the Tigers at Merle Logan this Saturday, with a 4 p.m. kickoff.

“We’ll be preparing for that game just like we would do for any other team and won’t be taking them lightly,” said coach Merriman. “It’s simple — we drop points and we’re out of the title race.”

The Mariners will train tonight and again on Thursday and Merriman says he’ll focus on the mental side of things.

“That’s what we’ll be working on more than anything. All of our games have been tight.”

The Mariners currently have 26 points on the season. The High-landers have 30.

After Saturday’s game, the Mar-iners will also be hosting a pub night fundraiser at the Wheat-sheaf Inn in Cedar from 7 p.m.


McIlroy sprains ankle at soccerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — Rory McIlroy was on crutches Monday with an ankle injury from playing soccer, leaving in doubt the prospects of golf’s No. 1 player defending his British Open title next week at St. Andrews.

Just as excitement was building toward a potential clash at the Old Course between McIlroy and Jordan Spieth, McIlroy posted

a jarring photo on Instagram showing him on crutches with a walking boot on this left ankle.

The 26-year-old from Northern Ireland said it was a “total rup-ture” of an ankle ligament and the joint capsule that happened while he was playing soccer with friends.

Sean O’Flaherty, his chief spokesman, said McIlroy has withdrawn from the Scottish Open this week at Gullane.

O’Flaherty said they would not know until later in the week the extent of the injury and whether McIlroy would be able to tee it up July 16 at St. Andrews.

Ben Hogan in 1954 was the last British Open champion who did not play the following year.

McIlroy had been the joint favourite along with Spieth.

McIlroy referred to his ATFL, which is the anterior talofibular ligament.

Vasek Pospisil of Canada returns a ball to Viktor Troicki of Serbia during their singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London on Monday. [AP PHOTO]

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SOCCER Serena beats sister Venus at Wimbledon

BILL DWYRE LOS ANGELES TIMES

LONDON — When Venus and Serena Williams played on Cen-tre Court at Wimbledon on Mon-day, the match fell way short of the buildup.

Which is just the way they like it.

Serena won in one hour eight minutes. Before you could wash down your strawberries and cream with some warm tea, it was over. She hit 10 aces and 36 winners and broke Venus’ serve at love in the last game to win, 6-4, 6-3.

It was how it was supposed to happen, how the form-sheet seedings said it would. Serena is No. 1 in the world and obvious-ly top-seeded here. Venus was No. 16. When Serena is playing well, as she is right now — she carries her run at No. 1 into its 248th week — she is pretty much untouchable (although Britain’s Heather Watson gave her a big scare in the previous round).

This marked Serena’s 25th consecutive victory in a major tournament, and it kept her going toward two goals — a fourth straight Grand Slam tour-nament victory, which would be the second “Serena Slam” in her career; and a much sought-after calendar year Grand Slam. She already has won the Australian and French Opens this year.

It was the 26th time Serena, who will be 34 on Sept. 26, and Venus, who turned 35 on June 17, have faced each other on the tour. Serena extended her lead to 15-11.

More interesting than all those statistics is the story of two sis-ters, originally from Compton, Calif., rising to the top of the ten-nis world and staying there for so long. Serena has won 20 Grand Slam titles, third on the all-time list; Venus has seven. Each has won here, in the Grandest of the Slams, five times.

That sister story drives head-lines and broadcast chatter well beyond the norm. With it, some-how, comes expectation of drama or soap operas.

For example, one oft-repeated story in the local papers is how their father, Richard, taught them the game on Compton’s public courts. True. And that those courts were pockmarked with bullet holes from gang shootings. Probably not true.

Venus’ default to Serena and Serena’s long boycott of Indian Wells is always revisited, as are the frequent commitments to and pull-outs from tournaments. This was the third straight major in which the sisters pulled out of the doubles after entering. Also used for fodder is last year’s strange departure by Serena in the doubles, when she couldn’t even pitty-pat a serve into the court and left in a convoy of medical people.

But mostly, the fascination is driven by how good they are after all these years, and, also after all these years, how little we really know about them. In today’s celebrity-conscious world, just being good at some-thing doesn’t satisfy that public appetite anymore.

Both sisters were pressed after the match, with little success, to reveal little tidbits about their relationship.

Challenge of growing women’s game arises after the World Cup Canadian goalkeeper recalls days of very little spectators and interest from afarNEIL DAVIDSON THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Karina LeBlanc remembers playing in front of empty stands, so the well-at-tended stadium love-ins that embraced the Canadian team at the Women’s World Cup were something special.

“When I first started, it used to be I could count on my hand how many people were are the game and it was usually friends and family,” the veteran goalkeeper recalled. “Now to have scream-ing kids — just the other day I had a 40-year-old man walk up to me and he was in tears. He said ’You guys just make me so proud to be Canadian.”’

With the World Cup over, the job now is to build on the success of the tournament and grow women’s soccer.

Dan Levy, a North Caro-lina-based player agent with Wasserman Media Group, had high hopes for this World Cup. As he expected, the U.S. rallied behind its team while Canada embraced the home side. But he said the depth of interest in the entire tournament took him by surprise.

He believes the Canadian com-petition, from its fine play to good sportsmanship, won over many people.

“I do think that the level of play, sophistication in tactics, obviously their technical abil-ities, is stronger than ever. And that bodes well for the future, it really does.”

Matthew Buck, director of play-er management for the Profes-sional Footballers’ Association that represents the English team collectively and about half the World Cup roster individually, said England’s trip deep into the tournament was reflected back home by the increase in media requests for female pros who weren’t part of the England team.

And with the Olympics only a year away, women’s soccer can look forward to another high-profile tournament around the corner.

“Big events do provide a unique platform that others can’t . . . Fans gravitate towards great games, great players.

“They want to be inspired,” said Levy, whose company has deep soccer roots.

South of the border, Fox smashed records with its cover-age of the U.S.-Japan final (25.4 million viewers), erasing the previous U.S. soccer mark of 18.22 million for the U.S.-Portu-gal matchup at last year’s men’s

World Cup.And the Fox numbers were

positive across the board.“They’re really pleased with

how things have gone and I think that’s a testament to people car-ing about the event,” said Levy. “I think it’s still hard, whether it’s this country or abroad, to sustain it week in and week out, certainly at the level we’re used to on the men’s side.

“But it does show that coun-tries and fans will rally round big events. And that’s exciting because that hasn’t always been the case for the women.”

The women’s game has a lot going for it.

Simulation, which is a plague on the men’s side, is far less prevalent among the women who just seem to get on with the game.

And fans love them.Levy points to the

ground-breaking 1999 World Cup in the U.S.

The victorious American team, whose star-studded roster included Mia Hamm, Christie Rampone, Julie Foudy, Kristine Lilly, Michelle Akers, and Brandi Chastain to name a few, under-stood the importance of being role models and to inspire

young kids.“They set a great example and

many many women have fol-lowed in their footsteps, not just Americans,” he said.

Certainly the outpouring of affection from spectators for all the teams at the World Cup was remarkable.

“I think the players feel more real to them, they’re more approachable,” Levy said. “When was the last time you saw players from the EPL (English Premier League) sign autographs after a game?”

Women still don’t get rich play-ing soccer. Canadians do better than most, however.

The lucky ones got carding money from Sport Canada, a contract from the Canadian Soccer Association to play in the National Women’s Soccer League and undisclosed World Cup com-pensation from their national governing body.

The federal government said 50 women soccer athletes shared $645,790.11 in 2014—15 through its Athletes Assistance Program. In terms of the World Cup team, that ranged from $3,600 for Ally-sha Chapman to $24,000 for Emi-ly Zurrer.

The even luckier ones, like cap-

tain Christine Sinclair (who got $18,000 from Sport Canada), can also draw on endorsements.

Like their U.S. and Mexican counterparts, Canadian players whose pay is provided by their national federations do not count against the NWSL’s US$265,000 salary cap per team and there is no maximum on such pay.

“They do OK in comparison to some of the other players,” said Canadian coach John Herdman.

“But we know we’ve got some highly talented highly educated women here. That if they chose a career, they could be earning double, triple what they’re earn-ing now.

“But we know this group are in it for something completely different. And they’re prepared to sacrifice because of the love of what they do, and this team and playing for their country surpasses any of those (other) motivations.”

For the rest of the NWSL, the minimum salary this year is US$6,842, with the maximum at $37,800.

NWSL clubs also have a separ-ate budget, a so-called Permitted Team Assistance program that allows them to help players with housing. cars and moving.

Canada’s goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc makes a save during a practice session in Edmonton on Friday. Veteran goalkeeper LeBlanc remembers playing in front of empty stands. [CP PHOTO]

Women’s World Cup embraced across globeNEIL DAVIDSON THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — The numbers show the Women’ World Cup was embraced at home and around the globe.

TV records were set on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.

Twitter says tweets about the soccer tournament were viewed nine billion times, with the U.S. dominating the conversation.

Sunday’s final between the U.S. and Japan led the Twitter buzz with other U.S. games as well as tight knockout-round contests between Japan and England and Germany and France also draw-ing significant traffic.

The top six tournament play-

ers on Twitter were all from the U.S. team: Julie Johnston, Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Hope Solo and Abby Wambach.

A Canadian Twitter breakdown was not immediately available.

Facebook says its data shows nearly nine million people had 20 million interactions about the Women’s World Cup on Facebook.

The U.S. topped the Facebook table in terms of engagement by country, followed by Mexico, Britain, Canada and Brazil.

TSN says Sunday’s final, won 5-2 by the U.S., averaged 2.1 million viewers according to preliminary figures — making

it the most-watched Women’s World Cup final for a Canadian audience. Some 7.7 million view-ers tuned in at some point, with the average audience peaking at 2.8 million for the final minute of the game.

TSN says Canada’s five tour-nament matches averaged 2.3 million viewers. That rose to 3.2 million for the final quarter-final loss to England, which set a record for the country’s most-watched Women’s World Cup match ever. Like the final, it was the most-watched program on Canadian TV that weekend.

The network calls it Canada’s most-watched FIFA Women’s World Cup ever. The audience

was nearly four times that of the 2011 tournament in Germany.

Fox says the final was also the most-watched soccer match in U.S. history, according to Niel-sen. The telecast averaged 25.4 million viewers and peaked at 30.9 million.

That breaks the previous U.S. soccer mark of 18.22 million set by the U.S.-Portugal match at last year’s men’s World Cup. It also shattered the previous rec-ord for a women’s soccer match (1999 Women’s World Cup final, 17.975 million) and the 2011 Women’s World Cup final (13.5 million).

FIFA said other countries also enjoyed record TV numbers.

World Cup bids inspector bannedGRAHAM DUNBAR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GENEVA — The official chosen by FIFA to inspect 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosting candidates was banned from soccer for sev-en years on Monday for breaking ethics rules.

FIFA’s ethics committee gave no reason for its decision to sus-pend Harold Mayne-Nicholls, a former president of Chile’s foot-ball federation who is disputing the sanction.

“I will appeal to higher courts established in FIFA statutes and

TAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport),” Mayne-Nicholls said. “I wonder why FIFA publishes a sanction that has outstanding resources, as this may be modi-fied by higher courts.”

Mayne-Nicholls said the ethics committee prohibited him from speaking about the details of the case in public. He has previously spoken to some media about con-versations he had in 2010 with officials in Qatar about possible work placements for relatives at the Aspire youth academy.

Details of that case were also

published by a website last year, which obtained a leaked email sent to Mayne-Nicholls by Cornel Borbely, who heads the investi-gation chamber of FIFA’s ethics committee.

Mayne-Nicholls was consid-ering standing in the FIFA presi-dential election when his ethics case was reported last year.

Instead, he is barred “from taking part in any kind of foot-ball-related activity at national and international level for a period of seven years,” the ethics panel said in a brief statement.

SOCCER

SOCCER

WILLIAMS

MLB All-Star GameWednesday, July 15, 4 p.m.Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati, Ohio

Starters, elected by fan voteAmerican LeagueCatcher: Salvador Perez, RoyalsFirst baseman: Miguel Cabrera, Tigers (injured and can’t play)Second baseman: Jose Altuve, AstrosThird baseman: Josh Donaldson, Blue Jays (leading AL vote-getter)Shortstop: Alcides Escobar, RoyalsOutfielders: Mike Trout, Angels; Lorenzo Cain, Royals; Alex Gordon, RoyalsDesignated hitter: Nelson Cruz, MarinersAL manager Ned Yost will name the necessary replacement(s).

National LeagueCatcher: Buster Posey, GiantsFirst Baseman: Paul Goldschmidt, DiamondbacksSecond Baseman: Dee Gordon, MarlinsThird baseman: Todd Frazier, RedsShortstop: Jhonny Peralta, CardinalsOutfielders: Bryce Harper, Nationals (leading vote-getter and highest vote-getter in NL history); Matt Hol-liday, Cardinals (injured, participation questionable); Giancarlo Stanton, Marlins (injured, won’t be able to play and will be replaced)The DH and all changes will be chosen by NL manager Bruce Bochy.

BASEBALLMLB - Results and standings

Yesterday’s resultsCincinnati 3, Washington 2Pittsburgh 2, San Diego 1Houston 9, Cleveland 4St. Louis 6, Chicago Cubs 0Atlanta 5, Milwaukee 3Minnesota 4, Baltimore 2Chicago Sox 4, Toronto 2NY Mets 3, San Francisco 0Tampa Bay at Kansas City, postponedDetroit 12, Seattle 5Philadelphia at L.A. Dodgers

Today’s schedule with probable startersSt. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 10:20 a.m. Lackey (6-4) vs. Arrieta (7-5)Oakland at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m. Hahn (5-6) vs. Sabathia (3-7)Cincinnati at Washington, 4:05 p.m. Cueto (4-5) vs. Scherzer (9-5)San Diego at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m. Ross (5-7) vs. Liriano (4-6)Miami at Boston, 4:10 p.m. Latos (2-5) vs. Porcello (4-8)Houston at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m. Velasquez (0-0) vs. Kluber (3-9)St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 5:05 p.m. Wacha (10-3) vs. Wada (1-1)Arizona at Texas, 5:05 p.m. Ray (2-3) vs. Martinez (5-4)Tampa Bay at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m. Andriese (3-2) vs. Young (7-3)Atlanta at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. Perez (4-0) vs. Garza (4-10)Toronto at Chi. White Sox, 5:10 p.m. Hutchison (7-1) vs. Quintana (3-7)Baltimore at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m. Chen (3-4) vs. Gibson (5-6)L.A. Angels at Colorado, 5:40 p.m. Heaney (0-0) vs. Bettis (4-2)Philadelphia at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m. Morgan (1-0) vs. Anderson (4-4)Detroit at Seattle, 7:10 p.m. Sanchez (6-7) vs. Walker (6-6)N.Y. Mets at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m. Colon (9-6) vs. Hudson (5-7)

Wednesday, July 8 (early games)Baltimore at Minnesota, 10:10 a.m. Jimenez (7-4) vs. May (4-7)Atlanta at Milwaukee, 11:10 a.m. Teheran (6-4) vs. Fiers (4-7)Detroit at Seattle, 12:40 p.m. Sanchez (7-7) vs. Happ (4-5)N.Y. Mets at San Francisco, 12:45 p.m. deGrom (8-6) vs. Peavy (0-3)San Diego at Pittsburgh, 3:05 p.m. Cashner (3-9) vs. Morton (6-2)Cincinnati at Washington, 3:05 p.m. Lorenzen (3-3) vs. Gonzalez (6-4)

TENNISThe Championships, Wimbledon, Today-July 12 (Major)Wimbledon, London, EnglandSurface: Grass. Purse: $42.2 million (men and women)2014 champions: Novak Djokovic, Petra Kvitova

Yesterday’s complete results NOTE: Canadians in boldface

Men’s Singles - Round 4Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def. Roberto Bautista Agut (20), Spain, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3.Andy Murray (3), Britain, def. Ivo Karlo-vic (23), Croatia, 7-6 (7), 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.Vasek Pospisil, Vernon, B.C., def. Viktor Troicki (22), Serbia, 4-6, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.Stan Wawrinka (4), Switzerland, def. David Goffin (16), Belgium, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (7), 6-4.Gilles Simon (12), France, def. Tomas Berdych (6), Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2.Marin Cilic (9), Croatia, def. Denis Kudla, United States, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.Richard Gasquet (21), France, def. Nick Kyrgios (26), Australia, 7-5, 6-1, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (6)..

Women’s Singles WTA Rankings Points Winnings1 Serena Williams, USA 11291 $6,175,6492 Petra Kvitova, CZE 6870 $1,420,8583 Simona Halep, ROM 6200 $2,237,3264 Maria Sharapova, RUS 5950 $2,536,1325 Caroline Wozniacki, DEN 5000 $632,3086 Lucie Safarova, CZE 4055 $2,089,4437 Ana Ivanovic, SRB 3895 $881,6268 Ekaterina Makarova, RUS 3575 $1,255,2439 Carla Suarez Navarro, ESP 3345 $1,419,06810 Angelique Kerber, GER 3285 $697,65111 Karolina Pliskova, CZE 3210 $899,61112 Eugenie Bouchard, CAN 3172 $471,35213 Agnieszka Radwanska, POL 3020 $484,90614 Andrea Petkovic, GER 2705 $662,28815 Timea Bacsinszky, SUI 2605 $1,012,51816 Venus Williams, USA 2586 $577,56217 Elina Svitolina, UKR 2405 $672,61518 Sabine Lisicki, GER 2320 $621,81519 Sara Errani, ITA 2140 $667,55720 Garbine Muguruza, ESP 2075 $861,677

Round 4 Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Venus Williams (16), United States, 6-4, 6-3.Maria Sharapova (4), Russia, def. Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, 6-4, 6-4.Garbine Muguruza (20), Spain, def. Caroline Wozniacki (5), Denmark, 6-4, 6-4.Coco Vandeweghe, United States, def. Lucie Safarova (6), Czech Republic, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (4).Agnieszka Radwanska (13), Poland, def. Jelena Jankovic (28), Serbia, 7-5, 6-4.Timea Bacsinszky (15), Switzerland, def. Monica Niculescu, Romania, 1-6, 7-5, 6-2.Madison Keys (21), United States, def. Olga Govortsova, Belarus, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.Victoria Azarenka (23), Belarus, def. Belinda Bencic (30), Switzerland, 6-2, 6-3.

DOUBLESMen’s Doubles - Round 3Bob Bryan, United States, and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def. Mate Pavic, Croatia, and Michael Venus, New Zealand, 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-1.Ivan Dodig, Croatia, and Marcelo Melo (2), Brazil, def. Jonathan Marray, Britain, and Frederik Nielsen, Denmark, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (6).Jamie Murray, Britain, and John Peers (13), Australia, def. Vasek Pospisil, Vernon, B.C., and Jack Sock (3), United States, 6-3, 7-6 (6), 6-7 (5), 3-6, 8-6.Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands, and Horia Tecau (4), Romania, def. Lleyton Hewitt, Australia, and Thanasi Kokkina-kis, Australia, 7-6 (7), 6-3, 7-6 (1).Marcin Matkowski, Poland, and Nenad Zimonjic (7), Serbia, def. Pierre-Hugues Herbert, France, and Nicolas Mahut (10), France, 7-6 (7), 3-6, 7-5, 6-1.Alexander Peya, Austria, and Bruno Soares (8), Brazil, def. Daniel Nestor, Toronto, and Leander Paes (11), India, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 2-6, 6-2.Rohan Bopanna, India, and Florin Mergea (9), Romania, def. Lukasz Kubot, Poland, and Max Mirnyi, Belarus, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 7-6 (8).

Women’s Doubles - Round 3Martina Hingis, Switzerland, and Sania Mirza (1), India, def. Anabel Medina Garrigues, Spain, and Arantxa Parra Santonja (16), Spain, 6-4, 6-3.Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, and Elena Vesnina (2), Russia, def. Mona Barthel, Germany, and Lyudmyla Kichenok, Ukraine, 6-3, 6-1.Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, and Lucie Safarova (3), Czech Republic, def. Jarmila Gajdosova, Australia, and Ajla Tomljanovic, Croatia, 7-5, 6-2.Timea Babos, Hungary, and Kristina Mladenovic (4), France, def. Michaella Krajicek, Netherlands, and Barbora Strycova (14), Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-2.Raquel Kops-Jones, United States, and Abigail Spears (5), United States, def. Hao-Ching Chan, Taiwan, and Alison Van Uytvanck, Belgium, 6-2, 6-4.Hsieh Su-Wei, Taiwan, and Flavia Pen-netta (7), Italy, def. Anna-Lena Groene-feld, Germany, and Coco Vandeweghe, United States, 3-6, 6-0, 9-7.Casey Dellacqua, Australia, and Yaro-slava Shvedova (9), Kazakhstan, def. Karin Knapp, Italy, and Roberta Vinci, Italy, 4-6, 6-2, 8-6.Cara Black, Zimbabwe, and Lisa Raymond, USA, def. Alla Kudryavtseva, Russia, and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (11), Russia, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Mixed Doubles - Round 2Daniel Nestor, Toronto, and Kristina Mladenovic (8), France, def. Ken Skup-ski, Britain, and Johanna Konta, Britain, 5-7, 6-1, 6-4.Juan Sebastian Cabal, Colombia, and Cara Black (9), Zimbabwe, def. Lleyton Hewitt, Australia, and Casey Dellacqua, Australia, 0-6, 6-3, 6-3.Robert Lindstedt, Sweden, and Anabel Medina Garrigues, Spain, def. Florin Mergea, Romania, and Michaella Kraji-cek (13), Netherlands, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.Michael Venus, New Zealand, and Raluca Olaru, Romania, def. Henri Kontinen, Finland, and Zheng Jie (15), China, 6-4, 6-2.Lukasz Kubot, Poland, and Andrea Hlavackova (16), Czech Republic, def. Nick Kyrgios, Australia, and Madison Keys, United States, 3-6, 7-6 (2), 10-8.Oliver Marach, Austria, and Olga Savchuk, Ukraine, def. David Marrero, Spain, and Arantxa Parra Santonja (17), Spain, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.

AUTO RACINGThis week’s race

NASCARQuaker State 400Saturday, July 11, 4:30 p.m.Kentucky Speedway, Sparta, KentuckyQualifying Friday, July 10, 2:45 p.m.

Current drivers’ standings Pts Money1 Jimmie Johnson 589 $3,881,2772 Kevin Harvick 656 $5,023,3813 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 593 $3,294,9504 Kurt Busch 508 $2,164,0005 Joey Logano 581 $4,182,4586 Martin Truex Jr. 569 $2,756,9537 Brad Keselowski 520 $2,928,1968 Matt Kenseth 501 $2,965,3519 Denny Hamlin 480 $3,538,02210 Carl Edwards 408 $2,112,72311 Jamie McMurray 526 $2,561,19112 Jeff Gordon 500 $2,975,02613 Kasey Kahne 496 $2,294,14414 Paul Menard 480 $2,068,61015 Ryan Newman 472 $2,615,59316 Clint Bowyer 465 $2,653,738

— Chase for the Sprint Cup cut-off —

17 Kyle Busch 152 $983,65518 Aric Almirola 441 $2,483,95619 Kyle Larson 395 $2,216,19520 Greg Biffle 392 $2,616,642

Formula OneHungarian Grand Prix, July 26, 5 a.m.Hungaroring, Mogyorod, Hungary.Track length 4.381 km (2.722 miles), 16 turnsQualifying Saturday, July 25, 5 a.m.

F1 drivers’ standings(After 9 of 19 races)Driver, Team, Points1 Lewis Hamilton, England, Mercedes, 1942 Nico Rosberg, Germany, Mercedes, 1773 Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Ferrari, 1354 Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Williams, 775 Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Ferrari, 766 Felipe Massa, Brazil, Williams, 747 Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Red Bull, 368 Daniil Kvyat, Russia, Red Bull, 279 Nico Hulkenberg, Germany, Force India, 2410 Romain Grosjean, France, Lotus, 1711 Felipe Nasr, Brazil, Sauber, 1612 Sergio Perez, Mexico, Force India, 1513 Pastor Maldonado, Venezuela, Lotus, 1214 Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Toro Rosso, 1015 Carlos Sainz Jr., Spain, Toro Rosso, 916 Marcus Ericsson, Sweden, Sauber, 517 Jenson Button, England, McLaren, 418 Fernando Alonso, Spain, McLaren, 1

MLS

Friday, July 10Houston at San Jose, 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 11New England at NY Red Bulls, 4 p.m.Portland at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.Dallas at Orlando, 4:30 p.m.Columbus at Montreal, 5 p.m.Seattle at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.Salt Lake at Colorado, 6 p.m.

Pacific Coast Soccer League W D L GF GA PtsVancouver Utd 9 2 3 30 16 29Victoria 8 5 1 31 15 29Mid Isle 8 2 3 22 14 26Khalsa 7 1 5 28 19 22Van Tbirds 5 5 4 29 22 20Kamloops 6 1 5 20 21 19Tim Hortons 3 1 9 23 40 10Abbotsford 2 4 7 15 22 10FC Tigers 0 3 11 15 44 3

Today’s scheduleVan United at FC Tigers, 8 p.m.

Thursday, July 9Van Tbirds at Khalsa, 7:15 p.m.

Saturday, July 11Abbotsford at Kamloops, 2:30 p.m.

LACROSSEWestern Lacrosse AssnWLA Senior A

Standings GP W L T PtsVictoria 12 10 2 0 20New Westminster 12 7 5 0 14Burnaby 11 6 5 0 12Langley 12 6 6 0 12Coquitlam 10 4 6 0 8Maple Ridge 11 4 7 0 8Nanaimo 10 2 8 0 4

Today’s scheduleVictoria vs. Burnaby, 7:00 p.m.Langley vs. Maple Ridge, 7:45 p.m.

Wednesday, July 8Nanaimo vs. Langley, 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, July 9Maple Ridge vs. New Westminster, 7:45 p.m.

BC Junior A Lacrosse League

Final Standings GP W L T PtsCoquitlam 21 20 1 0 40Victoria 21 14 6 1 29Delta 21 13 7 1 27New Westminster 21 13 7 1 27Nanaimo 21 6 14 1 13Langley 21 5 13 3 13Port Coquitlam 21 5 15 1 11Burnaby 21 4 17 0 8

Sunday’s results (Final regular season games)Victoria 9, Port Coquitlam 5Nanaimo 11, Langley 8 (OT)New Westminster 17, Burnaby 5Coquitlam 26, Delta 6

Complete playoff schedule

Series are best-of-5*=if necessaryWednesday, July 8New Westminster at Coquitlam, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 11Coquitlam at New Westminster, 2:30 p.m.Delta at Victoria, 5 p.m.

Sunday, July 12Victoria at Delta, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, July 15New Westminster at Coquitlam, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 18Coquitlam at New Westminster*, 2:30 p.m.Delta at Victoria, 5 p.m.

Sunday, July 19Victoria at Delta*, 5 p.m.

Monday, July 20Delta at Victoria*, 5 p.m.New Westminster at Coquitlam*, 7:30 p.m.

FOOTBALLCFL

West W L T Pts PF PAWinnipeg 1 1 0 2 56 78Calgary 1 1 0 2 35 52BC Lions 0 1 0 0 16 27Edmonton 0 1 0 0 11 26Saskatchewan 0 2 0 0 60 70East W L T Pts PF PAOttawa 2 0 0 4 47 32Toronto 2 0 0 4 66 45Hamilton 1 1 0 2 75 50Montreal 1 1 0 2 45 31

Week 2, full results

Thursday’s resultHamilton 52, Winnipeg 26Montreal 29, Calgary 11Ottawa 27, BC Lions 16Toronto 42, Saskatchewan 40 (2OT)

This week’s schedule (Week 3)

Thursday, July 9Ottawa at Edmonton, 6 p.m.

Friday, July 10Montreal at Winnipeg, 4 p.m.Saskatchewan at BC Lions, 7 p.m.

Monday, July 13Toronto at Calgary, 6 p.m.

West Coast League

Yesterday’s resultsMedford 4, Corvallis 2Victoria 10, Kitsap 0Kelowna 7, Klamath Falls 6Bend 7, Wenatchee 2Bellingham 5, Cowlitz 2Yakima Valley 12, Walla Walla 8

Today’s scheduleCorvallis at Medford, 6:35 p.m.Kitsap at Victoria, 6:35 p.m.Klamath Falls at Kelowna, 6:35 p.m.Bend at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.Cowlitz at Bellingham, 7:05 p.m.Yakima Valley at Walla Walla, 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday, July 8Corvallis at Medford, 6:35 p.m.Kitsap at Victoria, 6:35 p.m.Klamath Falls at Kelowna, 6:35 p.m.Bend at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.Cowlitz at Bellingham, 7:05 p.m.Yakima Valley at Walla Walla, 7:05 p.m.

Thursday, July 9Kitsap at Corvallis, 6:40 p.m.

CYCLING102nd Tour de France, July 4-26, 3,360 km in 21 stages.

Canadian entries: Svein Tuft (Langley, B.C., Orica GreenEdge)Ryder Hesjedal (Victoria, Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team)

Today’s scheduleStage 4: Seraing-Cambrsai, 223.5 km

Yesterday’s resultsStage 3, Anvers-Huy, 159.5 km, some hills (category 3, 4)1 Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha, 3:26:542 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky3 Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale, 0:00:044 Daniel Martin (Irl) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team, 0:00:055 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Soudal, 0:00:086 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team, 0:00:117 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team8 Simon Yates (GBr) Orica GreenEdge9 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 10 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek Factory Racing 11 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 12 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo, 0:00:1813 Julian Arredondo (Col) Trek Factory Racing, 0:00:1914 Robert Gesink (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo, 0:00:2215 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team 16 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale, 0:00:2417 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Giant-Alpecin 18 Julien Simon (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits, 0:00:2819 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Etixx - Quick-Step, 0:00:3420 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Team Europcar, 0:00:36Canadian riders24 Ryder Hesjedal, Victoria, Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team, 0:00:40180 Svein Tuft, Langley, B.C., Orica GreenEdge, 0:11:09

General Classification, after Stage 31 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky, 7:11:372 Tony Martin (Ger) Etixx - Quick-Step, 0:00:013 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team, 0:00:134 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Soudal, 0:00:265 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team, 0:00:286 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo, 0:00:317 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Etixx - Quick-Step, 0:00:348 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo, 0:00:369 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky, 0:01:0310 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Etixx - Quick-Step, 0:01:0449 Ryder Hesjedal, Victoria, Cannondale-Garmin, 0:06:15161 Svein Tuft, Langley, B.C., Orica GreenEdge, 0:16:14

GOLFResults and winnings

PGAThe Greenbrier Classic, July 2-5The Old White TPC, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Par 70, 7,287 yards. Purse: $6,700,000. 2014 cham-pion: Angel Cabrera

Final leaderboard, with winningsGolfer Par Winnings1 Danny Lee -13 $1,206,000 Lee won 2-hole playoffT2 David Hearn Brantford, Ont. -13 $500,267T2 Kevin Kisner -13 $500,267T2 Robert Streb -13 $500,2675 Russell Henley -12 $268,000T6 Chad Collins -11 $195,736T6 James Hahn -11 $195,736T6 David Lingmerth -11 $195,736T6 Bryce Molder -11 $195,736T6 Greg Owen -11 $195,736T6 Andres Romero -11 $195,736T6 Brendon Todd -11 $195,736T13 Jason Bohn -10 $107,944T13 Steven Bowditch -10 $107,944Also from CanadaT37 Graham DeLaet -6 $22,851

Canadian PGA TourDakota Dunes Open presented by SaskTel, July 2-5Dakota Dunes Golf Links, Saskatoon Sask. Par 72, 7301 yards. Purse: $175,000. 2014 champion: Matt Harmon

Final leaderboard, with winningsGolfer Par Winnings1 Michael Letzig -16 $31,500 Won 2-hole playoffT2 Clark Klaasen -16 -T2 JJ Spaun -16 -Tournament purse: CAD $175,000. Individual winnings not available.

Web.com TourNova Scotia Open, July 2-5Ashburn Golf Club - New Course, Halifax, N.S. Par 72, 7,014 yards. Purse: $650,000. 2014 champion: Roger Sloan

Final leaderboard, with winningsGolfer Par Winnings1 Abraham Ancer -13 $117,000 Won 1-hole playoff2 Bronson Burgoon -13 $70,200T3 Jason Allred -12 $33,800T3 Travis Bertoni -12 $33,800T3 D.H. Lee -12 $33,800T6 Andy Pope -11 $21,044T6 Mark Walker -11 $21,044T6 Oliver Goss -11 $21,044T6 Harold Varner III -11 $21,044T10 Bubba Dickerson -10 $14,408T10 Brady Schnell -10 $14,408T10 Zack Fischer -10 $14,408T10 Brian Campbell -10 $14,408T10 Hunter Hamrick -10 $14,408T10 Jamie Lovemark -10 $14,408T16 Ryan Yip, Calgary -9 $8,537T16 Dominic Bozzelli -9 $8,537T16 Henrik Norlander -9 $8,537T16 Tag Ridings -9 $8,537T16 Peter Malnati -9 $8,537T16 Seamus Power -9 $8,537T16 Hao-Tong Li -9 $8,537T16 Chris Wilson -9 $8,537T16 Andrew Landry -9 $8,537Other CanadiansT25 Adam Svensson -8 $5,165T57 Eugene Wong -4 $1,710

European TourAlstom Open de France, July 2-5Le Golf National Paris, France. Par 72, 7,315 yards. Purse: $3,000,000. 2014 champion: Graeme McDowell

Final leaderboard, with winningsGolfer Par WinningsNOTE: €1 = CAD$1.402 James Morrison -10 €333,3303 Jaco Van Zyl -8 €187,8004 Martin Kaymer -7 €150,0005 Rafael Cabrera-Bello -5 €127,200T6 M. Lorenzo-Vera -4 €84,300T6 Francesco Molinari -4 €84,300T6 Brendan Steele -4 €84,300T6 Andy Sullivan -4 €84,300T10 Thongchai Jaidee -3 €57,600T10 Maximilian Kieffer -3 €57,600T12 Kristoffer Broberg -2 €48,600T12 Victor Dubuisson -2 €48,600T12 Tyrrell Hatton -2 €48,600T15 Richard Bland -1 €40,560T15 Jorge Campillo -1 €40,560T15 Marcus Fraser -1 €40,560T15 Soren Kjeldsen -1 €40,560T15 Jake Roos -1 €40,560T20 Byeong-Hun An E €34,425T20 Daniel Brooks E €34,425T20 Jamie Donaldson E €34,425T20 Fabrizio Zanotti E €34,425

This week’s tournaments

PGAJohn Deere Classic, July 9-12TPC Deere Run, Silvis, Illinois. Par 71, 7,256 yards. Purse: $4,700,000. 2014 champion: Brian Harman

Canada (MacKenzie Tour)The Players Cup, July 9-12Pine Ridge Golf Club, Winnipeg, Par 72, 6,636 yards. Purse: $175,000. 2014 champion: Timothy Madigan.

LPGANo events last weekU.S. Women’s Open, July 9-12Lancaster Country Club, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Par 72, 6,657 yards. Purse: $4,000,000. 2014 champion: Michelle Wie

Champions TourNo events last weekEncompass Championship, July 10-12North Shore Country Club, Glenview, Illinois. Par 72, 7,031 yards. Purse: $1,900,000. 2014 champion: Tom Lehman

Web.com TourAlbertsons Boise Open, July 9-12Hillcrest Country Club, Boise, Idaho. Par 71, 6,825 yards. Purse: $800,000. 2014 champion: Steve Wheatcroft

B.C. Premier LeagueTeam W L Pct GBNorth Shore 26 8 .765 -Vic Eagles 28 12 .700 1Langley 25 13 .658 3Nanaimo 25 13 .658 3Okanagan 21 15 .583 6Whalley 19 18 .514 8.5North Delta 15 18 .455 1.5Abbotsford 13 22 .371 13.5White Rock 14 24 .368 14Coquitlam 14 24 .368 14Vic Mariners 13 26 .333 15.5Parksville 9 29 .237 19

Sunday’s resultsVictoria Eagles 9, White Rock 7North Shore 6, Parksville 0Okanagan 11, Coquitlam 10North Delta 4, Nanaimo 1Victoria Mariners 6, Langley 3Coquitlam 10, Okanagan 9North Delta at Nanaimo n/aNorth Shore 8, Parksville 1Victoria Eagles 11, White Rock 6Langley 13, Victoria Mariners 2

Today’s scheduleVic Eagles at Vic Mariners, 6 p.m.Coquitlam at North Shore, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday July 9North Delta at Whalley, 7 p.m.

SOCCERWorld Rankings (women)(after Women’s World Cup)

Team Points1 United States 18512 France 17023 England 16874 Japan 16845 Germany 16656 Australia 16427 North Korea 16408 New Zealand 16359 China 163010 Norway 162711 Brazil 162612 Sweden 162513 Italy 161714 Scotland 161615 Netherlands 160416 Canada 159617 Colombia 159418 Iceland 158319 Denmark 158120 Switzerland 157521 South Korea 157322 Austria 156823 Belgium 155224 Costa Rica 154125 Ukraine 1541

Men’s rankings (after Copa America)Team Points1 Chile 17932 Argentina 17813 Germany 17584 Peru 17405 England 17406 USA 17377 Wales 17268 Colombia 17269 Scotland 171310 Austria 170911 Belgium 170512 Spain 170513 Poland 170314 Ecuador 170315 Netherlands 170216 Brazil 169917 Portugal 169818 Uruguay 169819 Australia 169720 Ivory Coast 169679 Canada 1585

White Sox 4, Blue Jays 2Toronto Chicago Sox ab r h bi ab r h biReyes SS 4 0 1 0 Eaton CF 4 1 2 0Donaldson 3B 3 1 2 1 Abreu 1B 4 1 1 1Bautista RF 4 0 0 0 Cabrera LF 4 1 2 2Enc’acion DH 4 0 2 0 Garcia RF 4 0 1 0Valencia LF 4 0 0 0 LaRoche DH 3 0 0 0Martin C 3 0 0 0 Ramirez SS 3 0 2 0Colabello 1B 3 1 1 1 Beckham 3B 3 1 0 0Pillar CF 3 0 0 0 Flowers C 3 0 1 0Travis 2B 3 0 0 0 Sanchez 2B 3 0 0 0Totals 31 2 6 2 Totals 31 4 9 3

Toronto 001 001 000 2 Chicago Sox 000 100 03x 4

2B: CWS Ramirez, Al (15, Buehrle), Cabrera, Me (12, Buehrle). GIDP: TOR Donaldson, Valencia; CWS Abreu, Eaton. HR: TOR Colabello (8, 3rd inning off Sale, 0 on, 0 out), Donaldson (20, 6th inning off Sale, 0 on, 1 out). Team Lob: TOR 3; CWS 3. DP: TOR 3 (Donaldson-Travis-Colabello, Colabello-Reyes-Colabello, Colabello); CWS 2 (Ramirez, Al-Sanchez, C-Abreu 2). E: TOR Bautista (1, throw), Reyes (7, fielding).

Toronto IP H R ER BB SOM Buehrle (L, 9-5) 8.0 9 4 0 0 2Chicago Sox IP H R ER BB SOC Sale (W, 7-4) 9.0 6 2 2 0 6HBP: Donaldson (by Sale).

Time: 1:54. Att: 24,593.

Astros 9, Indians 4Houston Cleveland ab r h bi ab r h biAltuve 2B 4 1 2 1 Kipnis 2B 4 0 1 1Tucker RF 5 2 4 2 Lindor SS 5 0 2 0Correa SS 4 2 0 0 Brantley CF 3 0 0 0Gattis DH 4 1 2 1 Raburn DH 3 0 0 0S’ingletonDH 1 0 0 0 Santana 1B 4 1 1 0Rasmus LF 5 1 3 2 Gomes C 4 1 2 0Carter 1B 3 0 0 1 Moss RF 4 0 2 2Gonzalez 3B 5 1 3 2 Urshela 3B 3 1 1 0Castro C 5 1 1 0 Aviles LF 3 1 1 0Marisnick CF 3 0 1 0 Totals 33 4 10 3Totals 39 9 16 9

Houston 400 103 100 9 Cleveland 001 101 100 4

2B: HOU Rasmus (15, Carrasco), Tucker (14, Carrasco), Altuve (16, Adams, A); CLE Gomes, Y 2 (6, Keuchel, Keuchel), Urshela (1, Keuchel). 3B: CLE Moss (1, Keuchel). GIDP: HOU Altuve; CLE Aviles, Lindor. HR: HOU Tucker (5, 4th inning off Carrasco, 0 on, 2 out), Gonzalez, M (6, 7th inning off Manship, 0 on, 0 out). S: HOU Marisnick. Team Lob: HOU 8; CLE 7. DP: HOU 2 (Correa-Carter, Altuve-Correa-Carter); CLE (Urshela-Kipnis-Santana, C).

Houston IP H R ER BB SOD Keuchel(W, 11-3) 6.0 9 3 3 1 8J Thatcher 0.1 1 1 1 2 1P Neshek 0.2 0 0 0 0 0J Fields 2.0 0 0 0 0 2Cleveland IP H R ER BB SOC Carrasco (L, 10-7) 4.0 10 5 5 1 5N Hagadone 1.0 1 1 1 1 2A Adams 1.0 4 2 2 0 1J Manship 2.0 1 1 1 1 2Z McAllister 1.0 0 0 0 0 2

Time: 3:15. Att: 13,516.

Reds 3, Nationals 2Cincinnati Washington ab r h bi ab r h biPhillips 2B 5 0 1 0 Span CF 1 0 0 0Votto 1B 5 0 2 0 d’Dekker LF 4 1 1 0Frazier 3B 5 0 1 0 Escobar 3B 2 0 1 0Bruce RF 3 0 1 0 Uggla PH-2B 1 0 0 0Byrd LF 4 1 1 0 Harper RF 3 0 0 0Pena C 4 1 0 0 Ramos C 4 0 0 0Suarez SS 4 1 3 2 Robinson 1B 3 0 0 0DeSclafani P 1 0 1 1 Espinosa2-3B 4 1 2 1De Jesus PH 1 0 0 0 Desmond SS 4 0 1 0Hamilton CF 4 0 0 0 Taylor LF-CF 2 0 0 0Totals 36 3 10 3 Fister P 2 0 0 0 Moore PH 1 0 0 0 Lobaton PH 1 0 0 0 Totals 32 2 5 1

Cincinnati 010 001 010 3 Washington 001 001 000 2

SB: WSH Desmond (3, 2nd base off DeSclafani/Pena, B). 2B: CIN DeSclafani (1, Fister), Bruce (17, Fister), Byrd (7, Fister); WSH Espinosa (15, DeSclafani). GIDP: CIN Frazier. HR: CIN Suarez (3, 8th inning off Janssen, 0 on, 1 out); WSH Espinosa (9, 6th inning off DeSclafani, 0 on, 2 out). S: CIN DeSclafani. Team Lob: CIN 9; WSH 8. DP: WSH (Espinosa-Desmond-Robinson, C). E: WSH Fister (3, throw), Desmond (19, throw). PICKOFFS: WSH Ramos, W (Suarez at 1st base).

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Pirates 2, Padres 1San Diego Pittsburgh ab r h bi ab r h biNorris C 4 0 1 0 Polanco RF 4 0 1 0Solarte 3B 4 0 1 0 Walker 2B 4 0 0 0Kemp RF 4 0 0 0 McCutchen CF 2 2 1 0Upton LF 4 0 1 0 Kang 3B 4 0 1 0Alonso 1B 3 1 2 0 Cervelli C 3 0 0 0Gyorko 2B 4 0 2 0 Alvarez 1B 4 0 1 1Venable CF-RF 2 0 0 0 Mercer SS 3 0 1 0Amarista SS 2 0 0 1 Rodriguez LF 3 0 0 0Shields P 2 0 0 0 Burnett P 2 0 0 0Totals 29 1 7 1 Totals 29 2 5 1

San Diego 010 000 000 1 Pittsburgh 000 000 101 2

2B: PIT McCutchen (23, Shields). GIDP: SD Gyorko; PIT Burnett. Team Lob: SD 5; PIT 5. DP: SD (Amarista-Gyorko-Alonso); PIT 2 (Walker, N-Alvarez, P-Mercer-Kang, Mercer-Walker, N-Alvarez, P). E: SD Solarte (6, throw). PICKOFFS: PIT Burnett (Upton Jr. at 1st base).

San Diego IP H R ER BB SOJ Shields 7.0 2 1 0 1 3J Benoit 1.0 1 0 0 0 1B Maurer (L, 5-2) 0.2 2 1 1 1 0Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SOA Burnett 7.2 5 1 1 3 4A Watson 0.1 0 0 0 0 1W Hughes (W, 2-1) 1.0 2 0 0 0 0HBP: Cervelli (by Shields).

Time: 2:53 (:28 delay). Att: 23,182.

Reds 3, Nationals 2 (Cont’d)

Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SOA DeSclafani 5.2 5 2 2 4 6R Mattheus 0.1 0 0 0 0 0M Parra (W, 1-1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0J Hoover 1.0 0 0 0 0 0A Chapman 1.0 0 0 0 1 1Washington IP H R ER BB SOD Fister 6.0 8 2 1 1 2B Treinen 1.0 1 0 0 1 3R Janssen (L, 0-2) 1.0 1 1 1 0 0F Rivero 1.0 0 0 0 0 1

Time: 2:43 (:29 delay). Att: 23,673.

Twins 4, Orioles 2 (10 innings)Baltimore 000 010 000 2 10 0Minnesota 100 000 002 4 6 0W: T. May (5-7) L: T. Hunter (2-2)HR: BAL- M. Machado (18), A. Jones (11) MIN- T. Hunter (13), A. Hicks (3), B. Dozier (17)

Cardinals 6, Cubs 0St Louis 000 000 204 6 6 0Chi. Cubs 000 000 000 0 6 1W: Lackey (7-5, 3.09) L: Lester (4-7, 3.48)Home runs: None

Braves 5, Brewers 3Atlanta 220 001 000 5 15 0Milwaukee 100 011 000 3 8 0W: Wisler (3-1, 3.13) L: Lohse (5-10, 6.29) SV: Grilli(23)HR: ATL- Johnson, K(7) MIL- Parra, G(8)

Eastern LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GADC United 35 21 10 6 5 23 18Columbus 24 18 6 6 6 27 26Orlando 24 18 6 6 6 23 22N. England 24 20 6 8 6 25 29Toronto 23 16 7 7 2 22 23NY Red Bulls 23 17 6 6 5 23 22NY City FC 20 18 5 8 5 20 23Philadelphia 19 19 5 10 4 22 32Montreal 18 15 5 7 3 20 25Chicago 15 16 4 9 3 18 24

Western LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GASeattle 32 19 10 7 2 25 18Vancouver 32 19 10 7 2 23 19Portland 31 19 9 6 4 22 20Los Angeles 31 21 8 6 7 31 23Dallas 29 18 8 5 5 24 23Sporting KC 27 16 7 3 6 25 17San Jose 25 17 7 6 4 19 17Salt Lake 23 19 5 6 8 18 23Houston 21 18 5 7 6 22 24Colorado 18 18 3 6 9 14 18

HarbourCats 10, BlueJackets 0Kitsap Victoria ab r h bi ab r h biJunior 4 0 0 0 Degoti 4 1 1 1Clardy 3 0 1 0 Gretler 4 1 2 2Dunlap 1 0 0 0 Alcantara 4 1 3 2Nobach 4 0 1 0 Collard 5 0 0 0Bautista 3 0 0 0 Meyer 3 0 0 0Scudder 4 0 1 0 Pries 4 1 2 0Valenti 3 0 0 0 Polshuk 3 2 2 0Galindo 1 0 0 0 Goldstein 3 2 1 0Peabody 2 0 0 0 Jarvis 4 2 1 4Siegel 0 0 0 0 Totals 34 10 12 9Ping 3 0 1 0 Beck 1 0 1 0 Sommer 4 0 2 0 Totals 33 0 7 0

Kitsap 000 000 000 0 7 3Victoria 046 000 00x 10 12 2

2B: A.Ping (3), A.Degoti (3), B.Polshuk (1). HR: A.Alcantara (1).RBI: A.Degoti (6), M.Gretler 2 (5), A.Alcantara 2 (6), S.Jarvis 4 (6).HP: J.Peabody (1), A.Alcantara (2), T.Goldstein (1). SF: M.Gretler (1).SB: J.Beck (1), A.Degoti (5). CS: C.Clardy (3), M.Gretler (2), J.Pries (2).E: C.Clardy 2 (4), L.Valenti (6), A.Degoti (5), J.Pries (2). LOB: Kitsap 10, Victoria 6. DP: S. Jarvis(2B) - M. Gretler(3B) - T.Goldstein(1B), L. Valenti(SS), S. Jarvis(2B) - A. Degoti(SS) - T.Goldstein(1B).

Kitsap IP H R ER BB SOC Weinberg 2.2 10 9 3 1 4T Omlid 5.1 2 1 0 2 2Victoria IP H R ER BB SOA Dondanville 6.0 5 0 0 1 3J Walker 3.0 2 0 0 2 4

Att: 1,034. Time: 2:49

East W L PCT GB StrkKelowna 17 8 .680 - W2Yakima Valley 17 11 .593 2 W2Walla Walla 13 15 .481 5 L2Wenatchee 11 14 .458 5.5 L1South W L PCT GB StrkBend 23 5 .815 - W5Medford 6 9 .400 6 L1Corvallis 7 14 .333 10 L1Klamath Falls 3 12 .200 9.5 L1West W L PCT GB StrkBellingham 19 9 .667 - W6Cowlitz 10 15 .400 7.5 L2Kitsap 10 15 .400 7.5 L5Victoria 9 16 .360 8.5 W1

American LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkNY Yankees 44 38 .537 - L1Baltimore 43 40 .518 1.5 L1Tampa Bay 43 41 .512 2.0 W1Toronto 43 42 .506 2.5 L1Boston 39 45 .464 6.0 W2Central W L PCT GB StrkKansas City 46 33 .582 - W1Minnesota 44 39 .530 4.0 W1Detroit 42 40 .510 5.5 W1Cleveland 38 44 .463 9.5 L3Chicago Sox 37 43 .463 9.5 W1West W L PCT GB StrkHouston 49 36 .576 - W1LA Angels 44 38 .537 3.5 W3Texas 41 42 .494 7.0 L3Seattle 38 45 .463 10 L1Oakland 38 47 .447 11.0 L1

National LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkWashington 46 37 .554 - L1NY Mets 42 41 .506 4.0 W1Atlanta 41 42 .494 5.0 W1Miami 35 48 .422 11.0 L2Philadelphia 28 56 .333 18.5 W1Central W L PCT GB StrkSt. Louis 54 28 .659 - W3Pittsburgh 48 34 .585 6.0 W3Chicago Cubs 44 37 .543 9.5 L1Cincinnati 37 44 .457 16.5 W1Milwaukee 36 49 .424 19.5 L1West W L PCT GB StrkLA Dodgers 46 37 .554 - L1San Francisco 42 41 .506 4.0 L6Arizona 40 42 .488 5.5 L1San Diego 39 46 .459 8.0 L3Colorado 35 47 .427 10.5 W1

SCOREBOARD

Toronto Blue Jays starter Mark Buehrle delivers a pitch during the first inning. [THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

B4 | DAILY NEWS | TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015 SPORTS

Blue Jays suffer 4-2 loss in ChicagoJOHN JACKSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — Chris Sale’s bid for a record strikeout streak ended, but he pitched a six-hitter that led the Chicago White Sox past the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 Monday night in the fastest major league game in almost four years.

Sale (7-4) had struck out at least 10 batters in eight straight starts, matching the major league mark set by Pedro Martinez in 1999.

Josh Donaldson and Chris Colabello hit solo home runs for Toronto.

Sale began the game pitching more like Buehrle, getting five outs on groundballs in the first two innings.

In fact, Sale allowed a homer — a solo shot to Colabello leading off the third inning — before recording his first strikeout when he got Devon Travis looking for the second out in the third.

The Blue Jays, the top-scoring team in the majors, were aggressive at the plate and didn’t work many deep counts, opting to put the ball in play before getting two strikes.

Chicago tied the score at 1 in the fourth inning with an assist from the Toronto defence.

Melky Cabrera singled with one out and advanced to third base when Avisail Garcia fol-lowed with another single.

Right fielder Jose Bautista decided to throw to first base behind Garcia, who didn’t take a par-ticularly wide turn around the bag.

The ball bounced away from Colabello at first base and rolled far enough away to allow Cabrera to score on Bautista’s first error of the season.

Donaldson hit his 20th homer in the sixth.Buehrle had retired nine straight batters before

Reyes committed an error on Gordon Beckham’s routine grounder to start the eighth.

Buehrle retired the next two batters, but then the White Sox put together three straight hits. Jose Abreu tied it with an RBI single and Cab-rera followed with a two-run double.

HI AND LOIS

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

SHERMAN’S LAGOON

BLONDIE

BABY BLUES

BC

ARCTIC CIRCLE

CRANKSHAFT

ZITS

ANDY CAPP

WORD FIND

CROSSWORD

CRYPTOQUOTE

BRIDGE

SOLUTION: A GREAT CITY

A Trap Dealer: East Both vulnerable

NORTH ♠KJ5 ♥A3 ♦KQ984 ♣972

WEST EAST ♠1072 ♠Q3 ♥J874 ♥Q109652 ♦2 ♦1065 ♣KJ653 ♣108

SOUTH ♠A9864 ♥K ♦AJ73 ♣AQ4

W N E S Pass 1♠ Pass 2♦ Pass 3♦ Pass 4♠ Pass 4NT Pass 5♥* Pass 6♠ * ♠K and ♥A Opening Lead: ♦2

South won in hand to fol-low with ace and another trump. West contributed

the ten but declarer put up the king dropping the queen. The last trump was extracted and thirteentrickswerehome,N-S +1460.

It was obvious that the open-ing lead was a singleton and declarer was acutely aware that a losing spade finesse might result in defeat. The layout that he feared existed. If he takes a second round finesse, East returns a diamond where West’s ruff sets the slam. West would certainly not begin with a singleton when he held queen-ten fourth of spades.

North’s two-level response was game-forcing but the sub-sequent leap to four spades revealed a minimum. South launched into Blackwood and settled into a small slam when partner’s response promised the ace of hearts and the king of spades but denied the trump queen.

South should have ventured 6NT because he holds the ace and queen of clubs. West cannot profitably lead a club and South will have time to establish the spade suit. Even if he loses a spade, twelve tricks will roll home as long as partner dis-plays a fifth diamond. The irony is that East will score the spade queen restricting declarer to twelve tricks.

Author: Dave Willis - visit his website at www.insidebridge.ca Questions on bridge can be sent with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to The New Canadian Bridge c/o Torstar Syndication Services, One Yonge St., Toronto, M5E 1E6.

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ACROSS

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4 Gave a darn

9 Talks a lot

13 One of Columbus’ ships

14 Run off to wed

15 Unlock

16 Run __ (go wild)

17 Philbin of TV

18 Opera solo

19 Local delivery vehicle

21 Time-consuming

22 Cut and __ (edit)

23 Rulers on thrones

24 Long-beaked parrot

27 Sensible

29 More than

30 Sheep’s coat

33 Jacket’s sleeve

36 Stunning surprise

39 NBC satirical show, for short

40 Can’t stand

41 Woes

42 Give autographs

43 Double-curve letters

44 Invigorate

47 __ boom (jet sound)

50 Clothes-pressing device

51 Is determined by

56 Chops (off)

57 Nimble

58 Where Des Moines is

59 Garfield dog

60 Lassoed

61 Be abundant

62 Camper’s shelter

63 Put on clothing

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2 Get __ the ground floor

3 Be involved

4 Tic-Tacs alternative

5 Wide awake

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Back on the road to ‘do it again’: Steely DanBRIAN MANSFIELD USA TODAY

They’re back, Jack, to do it again. For an act known to avoid playing live during its commer-

cial heyday, Steely Dan has been a touring mainstay recently, hitting the road during eight of the past 10 years. Backed by a 12-piece band, the duo of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen will play 21 dates on its Rockabye Gollie Angel Tour with Elvis Costello and the Imposters, beginning Monday at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colo. “The conditions are much better now than they were in the ’70s,” Fagen says. “We don’t have to stay at tiny motels in Lincoln, Neb., during a blizzard.”

Which one’s Stevie? During the touring days of the ’70s, the band often came on stage to the intro-ductions of a truck driver named Jerome Aniton, who, at least for a while, thought he’d been hired to drive for a guy named “Stevie Dan.” Becker and Fagen includ-ed one of Aniton’s rambling, inebriated intros on a 1974 live recording of Bodhisattva that appeared as the B-side of the 1980 single Hey Nineteen. “That was probably the single aesthet-ic decision from the ’70s I don’t have any regrets about making,” Becker says.

No, we can’t play together. Becker and Fagen once shut

down a proposed tour when musicians in the backing band discovered some of them were being paid more than others. “These were master musicians, because they were the only guys that we knew of who could play it properly,” Fagen says. “We were paying them quite a bit of money to do this, but we weren’t paying them all the same money.” Becker says he and Fagen knew they had to cancel once the difference in the pay-checks became known: “Rather than live through the entire dis-aster in slow motion in front of

the eyes of the world, we decided to cut our losses and go back to the drawing board.”

Lone Star magic. Steely Dan played no shows between 1975 and 1992, though the duo released four albums during that time. The new, more tour-friend-ly Steely Dan era began Oct. 25, 1991, during an unannounced Fagen set at New York’s Lone Star Roadhouse. Becker attended the show, and the pair wound up performing three Steely Dan songs — “Black Friday,” “Josie” and “Hey Nineteen.” Becker swears he went to Fagen’s show

with no intention of performing with him: “I wouldn’t have worn a sweater if I had known I was going to be on stage.”

During a 2011 Australian tour, Steve Winwood regularly joined Steely Dan to play the title track from the 1974 album Pretzel Logic. Fagen and Becker say they haven’t discussed doing a similar collaboration with Costello. “When we start doing shows, we’ll probably talk about if we want to do something like that,” Fagen says. Costello, how-ever, has been known to cover the duo’s Show Biz Kids, and he included 1973’s Countdown to Ecstasy on a list of “500 albums you need” for Vanity Fair in 2000.

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Backed by a 12-piece band, the duo of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen will play 21 dates on its Rockabye Gollie Angel Tour with Elvis Costello and the Imposters, beginning Monday.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You’ll feel energized in the mor-

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Use the early part of the mor-ning for handling any matters of importance. Making plans for the weekend could be crucial too! Later in the day, a money matter is likely to come up in a discus-sion. Understand that someone could nix your idea. Tonight: Get some extra R and R.GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

A gesture in the morning will mean a lot to a friend. You will bring smiles into the day. A meeting allows you to express ideas that are not being valued at the moment. Though you might receive a negative reaction at first, the tune will change later on. Tonight: With a loved one.CANCER (June 21-July 22)

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You might be withdrawn in the later afternoon. You will want to stay close to home, handle your bills and return some calls. Someone at a distance might call you, but the conversation could be difficult. Be aware of a resistance to a particular topic. Tonight: Be a duo.YOUR BIRTHDAY (July 7)

This year you often see matters in a different light from that of your friends and loved ones. Others appreciate your unique perspective and abilities. You might decide to head in a new direction, but the path could be somewhat rocky. If you are single, someone very different suddenly could enter your life. You will enjoy the process of get-ting to know this person better. If you are attached, the two of you often are seen out in public together. BORN TODAY

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HOROSCOPEby Holiday Mathis There’s nothing rude about telling

neighbours their kids are annoying

Dear Annie: How do I tell my neighbours that it’s annoying and frustrating to listen to their teenaged daughters shrieking and screaming as they’re having fun outside?

Often, I want to go out and play with my dog, but I can’t because these girls are behaving like five-year-olds, screaming their heads off. There are things I need to do outside, but the noise makes it impossible. And it’s hor-rible to have to listen to it inside as well.

The mother says she doesn’t like to interfere with the girls when they’re having a good time. Well, they may be enjoying them-selves, but the rest of the neigh-borhood is not. People are just too polite to say anything.

I don’t want to be offensive, rude or hurt my neighbours’

feelings. These parents and their girls are sweet, good-hearted people, but it seems that the discipline and consideration for others is simply not there. I don’t want the girls to stop having fun.

I’d just like them to keep other people in mind, too. But trying to tell someone else how to disci-pline their kids is a very delicate subject. This has been going on since the weather has warmed up. I can’t even entertain outside because of the shrieking. Please help, Annie.

— A Frustrated Neighbour Dear Frustrated: You say your

neighbors are sweet and good-hearted. Surely they would not want people to think their children are so annoying and disruptive. There is nothing rude or hurtful about saying to your neighbors, “We’re happy the girls are having such a great time out-side, but we would deeply appre-ciate it if they could tone it down a bit. I’m sure they don’t realize how loud they are.”

Unless they are breaking some local noise ordinances, there isn’t much more you can do. But you can repeat to yourself that “this, too, shall pass.” Soon enough, those shrieking teenagers will be

off to college (or adulthood) and this will no longer be a problem. Until then, you might want to invest in some noise-blocking headphones and a fan.

Dear Annie: Two of us work with a woman in our office who sleeps propped up at her desk. She snores lightly and wakes herself up numerous times.

We have spoken to her about this, to no avail. We don’t want to tell the boss and get her into trouble. But as you can imagine, it is both irritating and distract-ing. How should we handle it?

— Very FrustratedDear Frustrated: Your co-work-

er is not getting enough restful sleep at night. She may be burn-ing the candle at both ends, or she may have a sleep disorder. Suggest to her that she see a doc-tor immediately because you are worried about her. And please don’t feel guilty about reporting her to the boss. She is sleeping on the job, which affects your ability to work and your boss’ bottom line. But more importantly, she may have a serious health issue that should be addressed, and that is how you should approach it — with genuine concern.

Kathy Mitchell & Marcy SugarAnnie’s Mailbox

Miss Universe refuses to give up her crownTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOGOTA — The reigning Miss Universe has refused to relin-quish her crown despite a tide of condemnation following pageant owner Donald Trump’s remarks on Mexican immigrants.

Paulina Vega on Monday said she would continue doing the organization’s social work and dismissed Trump’s accusation that she is a hypocrite for con-demning his recent comments but declining to step down as Miss Universe.

“The fact that I am not giv-ing up my crown doesn’t mean that I am changing my stance about everything I said,” the Colombian beauty said in her native country during an inter-view with radio station La W.

“It doesn’t make any sense that Donald Trump calls me a hypo-crite because I’m not giving up my crown.”

In his June presidential cam-paign announcement, Trump said that some Mexican immi-grants to the U.S. bring drugs and crime, and some are rapists.

On Sunday, a few days after Vega called his remarks “unjust and hurtful,” Trump tweeted: “Miss Universe, Paulina Vega, criticized me for telling the truth about illegal immigration, but then said she would keep the crown — Hypocrite.”

“As a Colombian and as Miss Universe, I want to show my support and validate the senti-ments of the Latin community,” Vega had said on her Instagram account last week.

Vega, 22, won the 2014 Miss Universe pageant last January in Miami. Pressure on her to quit has increased over the past sev-eral days, with Colombia retiring its bid to host the event and Mexico announcing that it won’t be sending any candidate to the competition.

Univision also cut its ties with Trump and all of his enter-prises, and Colombian superstar Shakira, in reference to the tycoon’s comments, tweeted that “no one living in this century should stand behind so much ignorance.”

Vega stressed to the radio station that the Miss Universe pageant existed long before Trump acquired it and that “it will continue to exist if he stops being its owner someday.”

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