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Repainting doors can transform a room Customize design to any decor Amy Lorentzen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS If you’ve got your decor looking just about right but want that extra “wow” factor, consider painting interior doors.

“Address other main features in the room first, and then if something is still missing, painting the door provides that ‘Aha’ moment,” says Natalie Myers, principal designer with Veneer Designs in Los Angeles. “It changes everything.”

Painting a doorway is easy and inexpensive, depending on your preferred paint and supplies. It’s a low-commitment project, since you can simply repaint if you don’t like the outcome. And you can customize the colour and design to any decor.

“The true trend is that homeowners are becoming much more confident in us-

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Valspar Signature’s Celestial Blue, available at Lowe’s, creates contrast for the door and trim in this room, while adding drama and architectural detail to personalize the space. ing colour,” says Colleen Maiura with Lowe’s Home Improvement stores.

What are designers seeing most on interior doors?

Interesting colours, especially teal blues and nature-inspired greens, with yellows and pastels for a

more playful look in warmer climes and vacation homes.

For the less adventurous who still want a bold statement, it’s classic colours such as black, charcoal, chocolate and navy.

Before you coat your entire door, test a small

spot to make sure you like the colour. Many interior designers will do a colour consultation for a small fee.

Or if that’s not in your budget, Myers suggests searching for inspiration at sites such as Houzz.com and DesignSponge.com, where de-

signers feature their projects, or at Pinterest.com, where do-it-yourselfers post their own interior door transformations.

You can also find inspiration at ApartmentTherapy. com, where founder Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan and his team offer design tips.

Gillingham-Ryan recommends choosing a gloss finish, not matte, of whatever hue you choose for your interior door.

“Think classic, European, oil-based paints,” he says, and urges investing in a quality paint.

“Higher amounts of pigments and more body make fewer coats needed and a smoother finish. Since you don’t need a large amount, the investment in quality paint is worthwhile and a reasonable splurge.”

Transforming your door can increase the impact of any architectural details in the room.

It “helps to define the space visually while adding personality, colour and, in the case of (a glossy) finish, texture and light reflection,” explains Gillingham-Ryan.

If you want the door to blend into the look of the room, choose colours that c o m p l e m e n t yo u r w a l l shades, experts say.

Pick an accent colour or something bold if you want the door to pop out as its own statement.

Painting the trim the same colour as the door or walls, or an entirely different colour, can also add dimension.

“I have seen people follow the geometric trend right now and paint two shades of the same colour on the diagonal on one door face. That’s pretty adventurous,” says Myers.

Once you’ve decided on your colour palette and finish, it’s time to get down to painting.

Experts suggest setting aside at least a couple of hours; plan to apply at least two coats.

It’s usually best to take the door off and remove the hinges and other hardware before painting. However, if you’ve got a steady hand, you can use brushes and small rollers to carefully apply paint to a hanging door.

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Drafts and cold spots can steal comfort out of your home and money out of your pocket in terms of wasted energy. More homeowners might be starting to notice drafts, which is normal for this time of year when temperatures drop and winds pick up.

You can usually feel drafts around windows, doors and fireplaces. Or, sometimes you can feel a cold spot along a wall. Feeling a draft or a cold spot is one thing; finding exactly where the cold is coming from is something else.

Sometimes when homeowners feel a draft they’ll start to seal everything with caulking, not knowing the exact source of the problem.

That’s like throwing a handful of darts hoping one of them hits the target. It’s not the best strategy, but I get it.

The truth is there are plenty of places in the home that could be causing the draft.

There are a few known areas that are vulnerable to drafts.

Some of them I already mentioned, such as windows and doors. Replacing the seal on doors and weatherstripping can help. But if the framing around doors and windows are rotted you’re going to have gaps that will let in cold air.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen contractors install brand new windows — top of the line — over a rotting frame. That’s unacceptable. It’s wasted money.

You can have the best windows on the market, but if the frame is rotted, you’ve got nothing.

Recessed lights or pot lights might also be a cold spot hot spot. When they’re installed on the top floor of a home, holes have to be cut into the ceiling, which means penetrating into the attic space.

Your home’s attic is a cold zone — the temperature in the attic should be the same as the air outside. I hate pot lights in a cold zone. If there isn’t enough insulation around the pot light, heat will escape into the attic.

So what can you do about pot light leaks? Make sure there is vapour barrier in the

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All vents and openings on a home’s exterior, such as a dryer vent, must be properly sealed. attic, with the area around the pot light properly sealed to the original vapour barrier with Tuck Tape. And, of course, insulation over the vapour barrier. Also, choose the right kind of pot light for an insulated space — IC lights.

Also, there should be insulation around electrical boxes located on walls that are part of your home’s building envelope. I’ve seen new homes where the builder doesn’t bother insulating these spots at all. You end up with a wall that lets heat escape left, right

and centre — literally.

Who do you call?

Knowing where to target can be tricky. Before you start caulking up a storm, hire a professional to identify draft sources and cold spots.

For example, a qualified home inspector who is an accredited thermographer can use a thermal imaging camera to find cold spots and air leaks in your home, identifying problems such as missing insulation in

your walls or around your electrical boxes and recessed lights.

A qualified home inspector will go into your attic to make sure there is enough insulation and that there aren’t any walls that aren’t properly sealed off. The attic hatch, duct registers and plumbing vents should all be tightly sealed. The professional should also check any other vents and openings that might not be properly sealed on your home’s exterior, like the dryer vent.

You can also try con-

tacting an energy adviser licensed by Natural Resources Canada to give you some recommendations on how to boost your home’s energy efficiency. It might be as simple as insulating ducts that run through cold zones.

An energy audit is another option. This usually involves a blower door test, which can tell the auditor whether your home is airtight.

The test is pretty straightforward. A fan is mounted to an exterior door and pulls all the air out of your house.

If there are any cracks or unsealed openings in your home, outside air will seep in as the inside air is being sucked out. A smoke pencil can then show the auditor where the air leaks are that are causing drafts in your home.

Remember: When you get rid of drafts and cold spots you increase your home’s energy efficiency. So it’s worth your time and effort to solve the problem.

Catch Mike Holmes in his new series, Holmes Makes It Right Tuesdays on HGTV. For more information, visit hgtv. ca. For more information on home renovations, visit makeitright.ca.

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Saskatchewan leads in residential construction Alan thomarat

CEO and President Canadian Home Builders’ Association - Saskatchewan The residential construction industry in Saskatchewan is firing on all cylinders and again experienced growth in 2012, which put Saskatchewan at the head of the pack in Canada in overall percentage growth.

Both the Saskatoon and Regina permit offices had record-breaking years and, at the end of December, the Regina Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) recorded 3,093 housing starts, a 45 per cent increase over last year. The Saskatoon CMA was up 20 per cent, with a preliminary total of 3,753 housing starts for 2012.

For the month of December, Saskatoon had a 10 per cent increase in single-family units and a 60 per cent increase in multi-family unit starts from the same time last year. Regina and region builders also were working hard to get ahead of demand, posting a 33 per cent increase in single-family production and an incredible increase of more than 140 per cent in multi-family starts.

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in housing construction with only the markets of Swift Current and Estevan facing challenges meeting the new demands of the market to provide more housing.

That said, plans are well underway in both communities to increase the capacity needed to build their community advantage and drive those regional economies.

Moose Jaw, Prince Albert, the Battlefords, Yorkton and Lloydminster all posted year-over-year gains of anywhere from 17 to 90 per cent.

A bit of a surprise presented itself in Lloydminster, in fact, where the starts on the Saskatchewan side increased by 24 per cent yet production on the Alberta side of the border city decreased by 36 per cent. So if anyone tells you there isn’t a new Saskatchewan, then either they’re not paying attention or they don’t live here, because we have rarely if ever witnessed such a complete reversal.

With final reporting yet to come it seems clear that we will surpass a target of 8,000 starts and modest increases in the next two years will put us on track to reach and hold onto a production level of 10,000 starts provincewide. Overall, Saskatchewan’s preliminary number of 7,941 housing starts is nearly 43 per cent more than the strong activity in 2011. That’s called continuous improvement and we need more of that!

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While it has been suggested by some that the Saskatchewan housing market is about to begin a decline, in reality the market is not showing any signs of slowing. In both 2011 and 2012, the housing market met and exceeded CMHC predicted housing starts and it is easy to anticipate the same for 2013. Saskatchewan is continually drawing people here from other countries and other provinces, as our own province is now the place to be. Our Saskatchewan is indeed an attractive place to live, work and start a business.

As said, Saskatchewan is in first place among the provinces in terms of percentage growth, well above the national average. With impressive increases in employment, income and migration, housing starts in 2012 have increased for the third consecutive year, reaching a 33-year high. Resale price growth in 2012 continued to be among the strongest in the country as sales increased and markets remained in balanced conditions.

Going into 2013, Saskatch-

ewan will lead economic growth in Canada. According to the Conference Board of Canada, Saskatchewan is on track to be the fastestgrowing economy in Canada for 2013 and 2014, while new home production across the rest of the country is cooling off, specifically in Toronto and Vancouver. Saskatchewan and Alberta are the exceptions with starts in 2013 expected to be similar or higher than those of 2012.

Over the past five years, Saskatchewan has grown by more than 80,000 people.

Premier Brad Wall presented the Saskatchewan Plan for Growth in the fall of 2012. With this plan, the government of Saskatchewan hopes to not only sustain population growth, but also to better handle the challenges that come with it. These challenges impact the housing industry and include infrastructure, a skilled workforce and homes for those moving to Saskatchewan.

A sound plan will ensure a healthy future for all industries and communities and better facilitate the potential for the home build-

ing industry to meet the growing needs of the province of Saskatchewan. 2012 was a year that exceeded most people’s expectations, but we aren’t slowing down any time soon and 2013 will be another record-breaking year.

What Saskatchewan is experiencing is neither a blip on the radar nor is this a historical anomaly. The shoulders to the wheel, the concerted efforts across industries, from community to community, are clearly bearing fruit and changing the prospects for the long term in Saskatchewan. The clear result of planning, good management and a strong resource-based and diverse economy have led to the success the entire province enjoys while many other jurisdictions are struggling to support their core industries and achieve sustainable economic development.

The diverse regions of the

province with support of the provincial government need to continue to attract the skilled trades and talent pool that is necessary to continue to build communities, improve infrastructure, provide quality housing and grow Saskatchewan to continue its leadership role in the 21st century. There are strengths and advantages in all our communities and clearly there is a Saskatchewan advantage that more need to hear about.

A population of 1.2 million by 2020? Clearly we’re on track and maybe we’ll get ahead of that target, too.

Continuous improvement ...

Thomarat is president and CEO of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association — Saskatchewan and the Saskatoon & Region Home Builders Association. He also serves as a director on the national board of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association.

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Bring your basement back from the brink Patrick Langston For Postmedia News What have you done for your basement lately? It serves you faithfully, accepting outgrown winter boots, malfunctioning table lamps, your grandmother’s tarnished tea service. Maybe it’s thank-you time.

Lots of homeowners are doing exactly that, lavishing the home’s traditionally forgotten space with mainfloor amenities including entertainment centres, kitchenettes, upscale home offices and full bathrooms.

“This is really valuable real estate. It can be something special in your home,” says Norm Lecuyer, owner of Just Basements in Ottawa.

“As the value of people’s homes increases, we’re seeing people putting more money into the basement,” he continues.

And why not? You can gain hundreds of extra square feet of living space — luxurious living space if you do it right — for far less than an addition would cost.

Gerhard Linse of Gerhard Linse Design & Building Consultants in Ottawa advocates replacing standard basement windows with deeper and wider ones up to three-by-six feet to give that above-ground feel.

Excavation will usually be required around the new windows, but terracing, including the use of mulch and water-absorbing shrubbery, will prevent water from pooling and entering the basement.

He does, however, caution that a reputable designer and contractor are essential in preventing both foundation damage while excavating and the water problems that can afflict basements.

A linear, wall-mounted fireplace instead of the traditional hearth, like this one by Just Basements, adds flair and makes the room feel longer.

Linse also points out that a well-outfitted basement can serve as a rental suite, bringing in extra cash.

Emile Salem, owner of Ottawa Home Improvements knows all about meeting clients’ below-grade expectations. He says that while business is always cyclic, he was busier than usual last year with basement renos.

“A lot of basements were finished in the 1970s with panelling and shag rugs. It was time to update them.”

That includes replacing dropped ceilings with more attractive and versatile drywall. Salem says it’s a misconception that you need access to a lot of building systems in basement ceilings.

Most shut-off valves are in the furnace room. If there is a valve or junction box in the ceiling, a removable panel provides access.

Much of Salem’s lowerlevel work is in newer homes.

young and adult hobbyist, basements afford the space for long workbenches, display areas and storage space.

Wainscotting: Brings out the potential coziness of basements without breaking the bank.

Fireplaces: Try a linear, wallmounted fireplace instead of the traditional hearth. It adds flair to the fire and makes the room feel longer.

Dalton Distinctive Renovations’ gleaming white basement boasts rich millwork and a very cool display area for the owner’s electric guitar collection.

Their basements typically have nine-foot ceilings and generous windows but the area is unfinished. After a few years of home ownership and having paid off some debt, owners say “let’s have some fun” and in go the home theatres, kitchenettes and wet bars (after all, who wants to

troop all the way upstairs midmovie for popcorn and a fresh beer?) and exercise rooms.

Bathrooms are big as well, according to Salem. “They’ve retrofitted the ensuite with a Roman tub, so now they put the Jacuzzi and hot tub downstairs.”

He adds that while we’re

uneasy about going too avant garde on the more public main floor, we’re quite happy to get a little edgy below grade. So let your imagination run riot.

Five basement trends Hobby rooms: For the

LED lighting: It’s the future of residential lighting. Adaptable and using very little electricity, it’s ideal for the nooks, crannies and wall niches that make a basement homey.

Guest suites: Full-on facilities for visitors including hotel-like mini fridges, coffee machines, kitchenettes as well as luxury bathrooms with walk-in glass showers.

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Shirley MacFarlane 536-9127 WANTED in the south or east: 1,400 sq. ft. + modern bungalow, 2 good sized bedrooms, 2 baths, double attached garage, backing green space or quiet location, finished basement preferred, up to $580,000.

Updated home on large corner lot is move in ready!

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Belly up to bar stool, but test drive it first Jeffrey Fisher Postmedia News Q: My husband and I are in the process of freshening up our home. Nothing major, just some cosmetic fluffing.

We’re primarily focusing on the main floor kitchen — family room area as we’ve lived in the house for 10 years and it’s starting to show it.

I’m having trouble choosing a stool for the kitchen that I like. We have a large island that can accommodate four or five stools, depending on the size of them. Our current ones have an upholstered seat and back, are heavy and look a bit too much like a bar stool for a basement. Do you have any recommendations for an updated stool that will take me another 10 years?

A: Oh, the dreaded bar stool question. I knew it was only a matter of time until I opened my email to find it. I joke about it being the dreaded

question because choosing a bar stool is like choosing artwork — it’s a very personal thing. What I like in a bar stool, you might hate and vice versa. And that’s not even taking into consideration your husband’s opinion.

Let’s start with an overview of things to think about.

Do you like an adjustable bar stool or fixed height? A swivel or stationary? Back or no back? Bucket seat or flat?

And then there’s height (there are actually two different standards). Bar height is generally 29 to 31 inches and counter height is between 24 and 26 inches. Counterheight bar stools are best for bar areas that are the same height as your counters (35 to 37 inches), and if your bar area is taller (41 to 43 inches), you’ll need a bar stool. For the sake of this conversation, let’s refer to them all as bar stools.

Not long ago, I specified what I thought was the perfect bar stool for a project

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Coloured bar stools can add pizzazz to an otherwise neutral room’s decor, and can tuck neatly out of the way.

I was working on. The outside of the bucket-style seat was white moulded plastic

(though it could also be entirely upholstered), and the inside where you sit was

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leather. It had an ever-sosmall back support, a metal base with different finish options, and it looked sexy — if you’re inclined to call a bar stool sexy.

The bar stool I sourced is called the Turtle bar stool from the Walter Knoll collection (walterknoll.de). Excited by my find, I sent my client to the store to sit in it before I placed an order for five.

He loved the look but said it hit him at an odd spot on his back. What?! I love this bar stool. It fits my back perfectly. He must have a weird back. And so it goes with bar stools.

With the popularity of open-concept kitchen — family rooms, it’s important that your five bar stools don’t look too heavy at your counter. It’s easy for the area to start looking like a hotel bar. If you choose an upholstered bar stool (I love the durability of leather) in an open-concept layout, make certain the fabric co-ordinates with the

fabrics of your family room (you are essentially decorating one large room).

I like bar stools that tuck in under a counter so they don’t take up precious floor space. And remember — it’s the back of the bar stool that you can see, so make sure you like the lines from the back.

You don’t mention the colour scheme of your room, but if you’re looking to add a pop of colour and pizzazz to an otherwise subdued room, you could do it with a bar stool.

For instance, take a look at the Vienna Green bar stool from Crate and Barrel pictured (crateandbarrel.com).

It combines the timeless look of a classic bentwood chair with the fresh modern colour of bright apple green. Five of these could be all the freshening-up your kitchen needs.

I hope this helps.

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Polishing can help make those cloudy decanters crystal clear Reena Nerbas For Postmedia News

Pets can help you cut down on clutter since just one wag of a dog’s tail can send coffee table knick-knacks flying. Relocating your precious pieces to higher display levels can keep them safe and out of landfills.

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Lisa Evans Postmedia News For many, a house is not a home without a pet.

Designing living spaces with pets’ needs in mind doesn’t mean sacrificing comfort or style. Julia Szabo, author of Pretty Pet-Friendly, says an animal-friendly house is more comfortable and efficient for humans.

“When you make your home petfriendly, you’re really making it more functional,” she says.

Here are some things to keep in mind when designing and decorating around pets.

Pet-friendly fabrics “Leave the 18th-century French silk textiles in the museums,” says Szabo. Swap velvet (also known as the pet hair magnet) and other delicate fabrics for washable slipcovers made of cotton, denim or microfibre fabrics that will stand up against stains and pet hair. “Microfibre is made of millions of microscopic fibres scrunched together so this creates a barrier against pet hair,” says Szabo.

Swap leather for faux suede.

Leather furniture is seen as a giant rawhide toy in the eyes of your pet.

“They smell the leather is made of an animal so they start to chew it,” says Szabo. Faux suede gives you the sophisticated look of leather without the inviting aroma and bite marks.

Furniture faux pas Opt for clean lines, avoiding upholstery with fringes that pets can bat around or buttons they can rip off. Matching colours to your pet’s coat can help camouflage pet hair. A white sofa in a home with a black Lab will have you constantly vacuuming, while a honey microfibre that matches your golden retriever will always appear clean even when covered in hair.

Some furniture companies are jumping on the pet-friendly trend and incorporating pet behaviour into their designs. Korean furniture designer Seungji Mun has created the cat tunnel sofa. Combining modern design with ingenuity, the sofa contains a bent tube running from the floor in one corner to the arm rest in the other with a slot cut out in the back for cats to poke their heads through. “It’s fun and it becomes a conversation piece in the room,” says Szabo.

Out with the carpet Carpet absorbs odours, traps pet hair and soaks up “accident” stains. Hardwood floors are simple to clean and add warmth to the room, although dogs’ nails can scratch wood. Szabo recommends bamboo flooring. “It’s very durable and resistant to scratching,” she says.

Ceramic or stone tile are best in a home with pets as they’re easy

Seungji Mun

The cat tunnel sofa incorporates tubular tunnels running from the floor in one corner to the arm rest in the other for a cat to clamber through while its owner relaxes on the great conversation piece. to clean and provide furry friends with a cool place to nap during hot weather. If you must have carpet, Szabo recommends carpet tiles.

“It’s like a post-it note for the floor,” she says. Swapping stained tiles can cost as little as $10, versus the cost of replacing wall-to-wall carpet or regularly renting a carpet cleaner.

“Keep garbage cans behind cabinet doors, outdoors or in a garage,” says Chepeka. When planning your garden, make sure your yard is fenced in with no holes that pets can escape from and avoid plants such as azalea, rhododendron, sago palm and lilies as these can be harmful to pets.

Eliminate clutter

A design trend

“Having pets helps you cut down on clutter,” says Szabo. Relocate breakable knick-knacks from coffee tables to higher shelves or behind cabinet doors. “One wag of the tail and all of those things are going to be brushed away,” says Szabo.

David Beart, who runs the online magazine www.professorshouse. com, is designing The Pet-Friendly House to prove that a home can be both stylish and functional for pets. “This house will be beautiful, elegant and built for a family of 100 — a real mother, father, sister, brother, dog, cat, bird and at least 93 fish,” says Beart. The Calgary home will feature pet-accessible entrances and moderate-grade stairs that are easy for Beart’s 14-year-old dog Shreddy to climb.

Beart hopes to break ground in 2013 and thinks the project will shed light on the many positive attributes pets can bring to a home.

Designing your home with the needs of furry friends in mind will improve your satisfaction as a pet owner and be more practical in day-to-day life.

All-fours inspection “Just as you do with a child, you want to get on the floor and view things from the pet’s point of view and see where they could get themselves into trouble,” says Szabo.

Mandy Chepeka of the Ottawa Humane Society recommends pet owners do a pet-friendly sweep — taping loose cords to baseboards and locking hazardous chemicals such as cleaners, fertilizers and insecticides behind cabinet doors.

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Miss America contestant to have mastectomy Hannah Dreier The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Win or lose Saturday, Miss America contestant Allyn Rose will have conveyed a message about breast cancer prevention using her primary tool as a beauty queen: her body.

The 24-year-old Miss D.C. plans to undergo a double mastectomy after she struts in a bikini and flaunts her roller skating talent. She is removing both breasts as a preventive measure to reduce her chances of developing the disease that killed her mother, grandmother and great aunt.

“My mom would have given up every part of her body to be here for me, to watch me in the pageant,” she said between dress rehearsals and preliminary competitions at Planet Hollywood on the Las Vegas Strip Wednesday. “If there’s something that I can do to be proactive, it might hurt my body, it might hurt my physical beauty, but I’m going to be alive.”

If crowned, the University of Maryland, College Park politics major could become the first Miss America not endowed with the Barbie silhouette associated with beauty queens.

Rose said it was her father who first broached the subject, during her freshman year of college, two years after the death of her mother “I said, ‘Dad I’m not going to do that. I like the body I have.’ He got serious and said, ‘Well then you’re going to end up dead like your mom.’ ” She has pondered that conversation for the past three years, during which she has worked as a model and won several pageants, including Miss Maryland USA, Miss Sinergy and the Miss District of Columbia competition, which put her

in the running for Saturday’s bonanza.

With her angular face, pale blond hair and watchful blue eyes, Rose is unusually reserved. She acknowledged that she comes off as more of an ice-queen than a girl next door “You have to block out everything and I think sometimes that makes me appear a little cold,” she said. “But it’s because I had to be my own mentor, I had to be my own best friend.”

She measures her age by the time of her mother, Judy Rose’s, first diagnosis, at age 27.“Right now, I’m three years away,” she said.

Judy had one breast removed in her 20s, but waited until she was 47 to remove the other one, which Rose’s father had called a ticking time bomb.

“That’s when they found she had a stage three tumour in her breast,” Rose said. “And that’s why for me, I’m not going to wait.”

She plans to have reconstructive surgery, but said the procedure has complications and there is no guarantee that she will regain her pageant-approved bust.

Preventive surgery is a “very reasonable” choice for someone with Rose’s family history and a genetic predisposition, said Patricia Greenberg, Director of Cancer Prevention at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center in Los Angeles.

“I’ve seen young women have it done, and they have great peace of mind,” she said, adding that the alternative is repeated mammograms and physical exams, which detect but do not prevent cancer from developing.

The number of women opting for preventive mastectomies increased 10-fold between 1998 and 2007, as genetic testing and reconstructive surgery options improved, according to a 2010 study

The Associated Press

Miss D.C. Allyn Rose at the Evening Wear portion of the Miss America pageant this week published last year in Annals of Surgical Oncology.

Art McMaster, CEO of the Miss America Organization, called Rose an “incredible example” of strength and courage.

The Newburg, Md. native said she has received letters from supporters all over the country, including from fellow “previvors” who say they have been inspired to undergo their own preven-

tive surgeries. The Wynn sports book gives her 25 to 1 odds of winning the Miss America crown, making her a moderate favourite.

But her decision is drawing criticism as well as praise in the staged-managed world of pageants, where contestants regularly go under the knife for a very different reason.

She also receives hate mail from beauty circuit

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diehards who write to insist that she continue filling out her bikini.

“You have people who say, ‘Don’t have the surgery. This is mutilating your body. You don’t have cancer.’ They want to pick apart every little thing,” she said. Some have even accused her of faking to make herself a more media-friendly candidate.

This kind of pre-emptive

surgery has divided the medical community as well.

For someone in her early ’20s to have the procedure is “very unusual,” said Todd Tuttle, chief of surgical oncology at the University of Minnesota.

Sandra Swain, medical director of Washington Cancer Institute in Washington, DC, fears that women who have lost family members to breast cancer could take Rose’s example too literally.

“We’ve seen a rise in prophylactic mastectomies and a lot of it is not for a medical reason; it is because of fear and anxiety,” she said.

Rose does not carry the “breast cancer genes” BRCA1 and BRCA2, but she did inherit a rare genetic mutation which might predispose her to the disease.

Her brother, who works for an oncology association, said he sees the irony in a beauty queen choosing to give up her breasts but supports his sister’s choice.

“For me what trumps everything is her living, hopefully to a ripe old age, as opposed to any ancillary things that she might lose from potentially winning Miss America,” said Dane Rose, 31.

Rose initially said that if she won the crown, she would postpone her surgery until after her year as a titleholder. But while shopping for earrings to match her black velvet pageant gown Wednesday, she said she was now considering having the surgery during her reign as a way of inscribing her platform of breast cancer prevention on her body.

“I’ve been thinking how powerful that might be to have a Miss America say, ‘I might be Miss America but I’m still going to have surgery. I’m going to take control of ... my own health care,’” she said. “So I guess it’s up to what happens on Saturday night.”

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Palestinian killed by Israeli soldiers near Gaza border Dalia Nammari The Associated Press

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Jimmy Savile with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in March 1980

Portrait of sinister Pied Piper Jill Lawless The Associated Press LONDON — Patients in hospital beds; star-struck teenagers in a TV show audience; pupils at a school for troubled girls; a 10-year-old autograph hunter.

All fell victim to the late British entertainer Jimmy Savile, police said, describing him Friday as a sexual predator who used his fame to find victims and deliberately targeted individuals who would not speak out against him. A three-month police investigation yielded a staggering litany of sexual crimes: 214 offences, including 34 rapes, over more than half a century, the majority of the victims under 18.

Police say they expect the number of offences to rise as more allegations are investigated.

A police report published Friday describes a “prolific, predatory sex offender” whose celebrity unlocked the doors of institutions across Britain, from hospitals where he served as a charity fundraiser to schools whose pupils eagerly watched his television programs — and even to the

prime minister’s country house, where he dined with Margaret Thatcher.

“It could be said that he groomed a nation,” said Cmdr. Peter Spindler, head of the Metropolitan Police specialist crimes unit. “He was hiding in plain sight, but none of us were able to do anything about it.”

The catalogue of abuse provides the fullest accounting yet of the allegations ag ainst Savile, a cig archomping, platinum-haired TV and radio personality who died in October 2011 at age 84. Savile’s elaborate funeral reflected his status as a popular entertainer and tireless charity worker, but a documentary broadcast late last year pulled the mask away, claiming that he was a serial sex offender who traded on his celebrity to prey on vulnerable children.

The subsequent police investigation more than bore out those allegations. Detectives initially believed there were between 20 and 25 victims. So far, 450 have come forward with claims against Savile — a scale of abuse police called “unprecedented in the U.K.” Child welfare experts say Savile’s fame helped him

achieve that grim distinction.

“Savile cunningly built his entire life around gaining access to vulnerable children,” said Peter Watt of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Savile set himself up as a sinister Pied Piper; children came to him. He hosted the long-running BBC music show Top of the Pops, which saw everyone from the Rolling Stones to the Sex Pistols perform before an audience of excited young people.

Police say victims were assaulted in dressing rooms or groped during filming breaks. One victim was a teenager who said she was assaulted at the last-ever recording of the show in 2006, when Savile was nearly 80.

Savile also hosted Jim’ll Fix It, a BBC TV show on which he granted the wishes of young viewers who wrote in with cherished plans. Police said Savile would sometimes visit the letter-writers’ schools, and some of the offences took place there.

“He could do anything he wanted,” said Detective Supt. David Gray, who led the police investigation. “He could turn up at a school and say ‘Is anyone interested in meeting me?”’

The Israeli military shot and killed one Palestinian near the border fence with Gaza on Friday, an official in the territory said. The military said that he was part of a group that rushed the fence to try to damage it.

A military spokesman said soldiers warned the Palestinians to back off before firing first into the air and then toward the men’s legs.

Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra said one man was killed by the fire.

Such border incidents have been less common since eight days of fighting between the Jewish state and Gaza militants at the end of last year that ended in a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, the group that rules the coastal territory.

In the West Bank, meanwhile, activists pitched tents to protest Israeli plans

The Associated Press

Palestinian activists pray in the new ‘outpost settlement’ of Bab al-Shams (Gate of the Sun) in an area known as E1, near Jerusalem on Friday. to build a large Jewish settlement on a key route through the territory.

The group said in a statement they erected the tents to “establish facts on the ground,” using a phrase often applied to Israeli settlement building, in a key area known as E-1.

The E-1 settlement would block East Jerusalem from its West Bank hinterland —

both territories captured by Israel during the 1967 Mideast war.

The Palestinians want those areas, along with the Gaza Strip, for a future state.

Critics say the E-1 settlement would be a major blow to Palestinian statehood hopes.

Police said the activists were informed they were trespassing.

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U.S. agency reprimand raises a stink Jessica Gresko The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A U.S. gover nment agency did more than wrinkle its nose at an employee’s flatulence problem, issuing an official reprimand after months of malodours. But the agency said Friday that it has since retracted the rebuke.

The reprimand letter, which runs four pages and is dated Dec. 10, charges the employee of the Social Security Administration, which

administers pensions, with “conduct unbecoming a federal employee” and “creating a hostile work environment” because of the repeated gas passing.

It says coworkers didn’t want to work with the person because of the problem, which the employee seems to have attributed to lactose intolerance. The letter also contains a chart documenting 60 instances of flatulence, nine on one day in September.

The letter was originally posted on The Smoking Gun

website with names blacked out.

Social Security Administration spokesman Mark Hinkle said Friday in a two-sentence email that the reprimand was rescinded a week after it was issued “when senior management became aware of the reprimand” and that the agency, which has its headquarters in a suburb outside of Baltimore, could not comment further because of “privacy concerns.” He declined to say the employee’s gender or where the person worked.

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Therapy, anger a year after shipwreck

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Survivors told to avoid ceremony

Paola Flores The Associated Press

Nicole Winfield THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME — One can’t stand being in a mall: It feels too much like the ship, with no visible exits. Another dreams she’s walking on a tilt — a memory of having crawled up walls as the cruise liner rolled onto its side. A four-year-old boy talks obsessively about the meal he had to leave behind when plates started to fly across the dining room.

As if the nightmares, flashbacks and anxiety weren’t enough, passengers who survived the terrifying capsizing of the Costa Concordia off Tuscany have come in for a rude shock as they mark the first anniversary of the disaster on Sunday: They’ve been told they aren’t welcome at the weekend’s commemorations.

Ship owner Costa Crociere SpA, the Italian unit of Miami-based Carnival Corp., sent several passengers a letter telling them they shouldn’t bother coming to the anniversary ceremonies on the island of Giglio where the hulking ship still rests.

Costa says the day is focused on the families of the 32 people who died Jan. 13, 2012, not the 4,200 passengers and crew who survived.

“We are sure that you will understand both the logistical impossibility of accommodating all of you on the island, as well as the desire for privacy expressed by the families at this sorrowful time,” Costa chief executive Michael Thamm wrote in the letter obtained by The Associated Press.

He expressed sympathies to the survivors and said he trusted that their thoughts and prayers “will help lead us to a brighter future.”

While some survivors said they understood that the families who lost loved ones deserved particular

The Associated Press photo

The cruise ship Costa Concordia leans after running aground near the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, last January. Ship owner Costa Crociere SpA sent several survivors a letter telling them they weren’t welcome at the incident’s anniversary ceremonies on Giglio. Costa says the day is focused on the families of the 32 people who died, not those who survived. attention, many said the letter added insult to their injuries — both physical and psychological. Some speculated that the letter was more about keeping disgruntled passengers, many of whom have taken legal action against Costa, away from the TV cameras.

The letter has been a focus of discussions on the closed Facebook group that sprang up in the aftermath of the disaster, where survivors from around the world swap news articles and their personal ups and downs.

“This to our family has not settled well at all,” said Georgia Ananias of Downey, Calif., who along with her husband and two daughters was among the last off the ship. “We’re trying to deal with this day, and to get something as insulting as this — that there’s no room for you there?”

Costa attorney Marco De Luca said it only made sense to limit the numbers on the island, which opened its doors to the 4,200 shipwreck

victims who came ashore that frigid night. “The presence of thousands and thousands of people would create logistical problems — good sense would say you take note of that,” he said.

The Concordia slammed into a reef off Giglio on Jan. 13 after the captain took it off course in a stunt to bring the ship closer to the island.

As it took on water through the 70-metre gash in its hull, the Concordia rolled onto its side and came to rest on the rocks off Giglio’s port, where teams are still working to remove it.

Survivors recounted a harrowing and chaotic evacuation, with crew members giving contradictory instructions and the captain delaying the evacuation order for a full hour after impact, until the ship was so far tilted on its side that many lifeboats couldn’t be lowered. Thirtytwo people died. Two bodies were never recovered.

The captain, Francesco Schettino, remains under house arrest, accused of

multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and leaving the ship before all passengers were evacuated.

He hasn’t been charged.

Survivor Claudia Urru says she wouldn’t have gone to the ceremony even if she’d been invited. Urru, her husband and two sons haven’t left their home island of Sardinia in the year since the grounding: They’re still so terrified of boats that they won’t go near the ferry that connects Sardinia to mainland Italy.

Urru sees a therapist each week, takes sleeping pills to get through the night and anti-anxiety medicine to calm her nerves during the day. Since the disaster, her four-year-old has insisted on sleeping with her and her husband, and their 13-yearold regularly wakes at night.

The older child refuses to speak of the disaster, even with his psychiatrist.

The toddler, on the other hand, insists on recounting his memories to anyone who will listen. Repeatedly.

“He always wants to tell how he was eating risotto alla Milanese, and how he couldn’t finish because we had to yank him from the table to escape because everything was turning upside down,” Urru recalled in a telephone interview.

Maria Papa has another sort of flashback trigger: She was in her church in Wallingford, Conn., one day last spring when she looked around at the pews and “all I saw were people’s heads and life jackets” — a memory of the scene inside Giglio’s church where she, her daughter and hundreds of other survivors spent the night after the evacuation.

Sunday’s commemorations, which are being organized by the Giglio municipal government with Costa’s support, begin shortly after dawn. The huge rock that pierced the Concordia’s hull and remained embedded in its mangled steel is being returned to the reef where it belongs, along with a plaque.

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Evo Morales’ global crusade to decriminalize the coca leaf, launched in 2006 after the coca growers’ union leader was first elected president of Bolivia, has finally attained a partial, if largely, symbolic victory.

A year ago, Bolivia temporarily withdrew from the 1961 UN convention on narcotic drugs because it classifies c o c a l e a f, the raw material of cocaine, as an illicit drug.

It has Evo now reMorales joined, with one important caveat: The centuries-old Andean practice of chewing or otherwise ingesting coca leaves, a mild stimulant in its natural form, will now be universally recognized as legal within Bolivia.

To press for coca’s decriminalization, Bolivia’s first indigenous president has chewed it at international forums, bestowed coca-leaf art on such figures as former U.S. Secretary of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and promoted the leaf as a “nutritional” ingredient fit for school lunches.

Bolivia’s condition for rejoining the convention met resistance from 15 countries, including the United States and the rest of the G8 group of industrial nations, according to UN spokeswoman Arancha Hinojal. But the objections received by the United Nations ahead of Thursday’s midnight deadline fell far short.

In order to block Bolivia’s return to the convention a full third of its signatories — or 63 — needed to object.