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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 3, 2009, Winnipeg, Manitoba C m y k Page b1 1 877 958 7333 wow. Outlook financial. Com 4 .60 % 5 year Gic get your Chance in 5 Days. A guaranteed millionaire executive & professional search City & business City editor Paul Samyn 697 7292 City. Desk free press. My. Ca i Winnipeg repress. Com saturday january 3, 2009 b 1 countless people make new years resolutions and quickly forget them. But Sharon Desrosiers has a family tradition that helps them remember. They write Down their resolutions stick them in a Box wrap it and stash it away with the rest of their Christmas decorations not to be looked at for the rest of the year. Well take them out and have a Good laugh and we say of i forgot about that or i cant believe i kept that a Desrosiers said. Desrosiers 51, started her family is tradition six years ago because she wanted to teach her six children about goal setting. Its just kind of a fun family thing. We All work towards bettering ourselves one Way or another Desrosiers said. People often resolve to better themselves by exercising More quitting smoking or sticking to a Post Christmas party pledge towards Temperance. The resolutions Start out Bright and hopeful but most fade away As the year wears on. Marci manness runs fitness Edge for women. She said Many women sign up for personal training around this time but drop off after awhile. Six weeks is usually when they Start to fade. Manness said Many people have unrealistic expectations and Are discouraged when they dont reach their goals quickly. June Slobodian is a Winnipeg based counsellor and hypnotherapist. She uses hypnosis to treat people for a number of disorders and addictions. She said people seek her help with keeping their resolutions because they see hypnosis As a faster and easier route to reaching their goals. I get More people around this time of year especially for smoking she said. A study of More than 3,000 people in 2007 by u. K. Based science website qui Kology. Com found that although 52 per cent of people were confident that they would keep their new years resolutions Only 12 per cent actually achieved their goals. People often fail to achieve their new years resolutions because they dont set out Small measurable goals along the Way said life coach Rosalie Garde. Many people also a vent carefully thought out Why they want to reach these goals. You should always stick to your personal values Garde said. She recommends that people have a supportive person to whom they can express their goals and set measurable targets with rewards for reaching them. Last year in order to help them remember their resolutions Desrosiers decided that her family would revisit them in the summer. But they forgot. So that was a failed Resolution she said. W Winnipeg police Are warning against vigilante Justice after a 21 year old Man was beaten by a group of new years eve revellers who allegedly caught him trying to break into a vehicle in st. Boniface took pictures of his bloodied face and hands As he Lay on the ground and posted them on the internet. Police confirmed that they went to the scene in the 400 Block of Horace Street around 2 a. M. New years Day after receiving Calls about a suspicious person in the area. Initial reports indicated that people in the area believed he May have been trying to scope out cars to damage or possibly steal. Const. Jason Michalyshin said that on arrival at the Home officers found a 21 year old Man who was clearly Hurt. He had some injuries Michalyshin said adding police reports show he was quite drunk when officers picked him up. The victim was taken in for questioning and released into the custody of a family member after being cautioned but he was not charged with any offence. Michalyshin said the Man did not require a trip to Hospital to treat his injuries. Police Are aware of the website on which the pictures were posted and whats alleged to have happened. The pictures of the victim who is aboriginal Are accompanied by racist comments. Michalyshin said police wont tolerate vigilantes. We certainly dont condone individuals taking things into their own hands if thatus what happened Here he said. Michalyshin said the investigation would also look into allegations made on the website that officers who arrived on the scene praised the group for assaulting the would be thief. I question it but we have to investigate it he said. Speaking with a reporter while scanning the web forum and its racial slurs Michalyshin questioned the reliability of anyone who would say such things. The Guys credibility goes out the window he said. Police have committed to re interview witnesses and the officers at the scene to determine what actually happened. Supervisors Are Well aware and Well be looking into this theress no question. Sel Burrows chairman of the Point Douglas residents committee whose work has earned Praise for decreasing crime rates in North Point Douglas said he was absolutely disgusted that anybody would assault another person for attempting to steal property. Were not the u. S. Theress no room for vigilante Justice in Canada. We have the responsibility to Call the police he said. Burrows also took Issue with the alleged use of racial slurs against the beating victim. Anybody who singles another person out for their race is guilty of offence against the hate Laws. Canada does not put up with that language. Anytime we glorify hating somebody for where they were born or what they look like is demeaning ourselves. Its not Canadian he said noting criminals come from All ethnic backgrounds. Despite a significant drop in the number of Auto thefts in Manitoba in 2008, the province still retained the dubious distinction of being the car theft capital of Canada for the 11th year in a Row according to a statistics Canada report released last month. There were still More than 3,600 thefts in 2008 and another 3,400 attempts in Winnipeg according to the Cit yes crime stat website. Both figures were Down about 45 per cent from More than 6,500 thefts and 6,100 attempts in 2007. Geoff. Kirbyson free press. My. Ca James. Turner free press. My. Ca revellers turn into vigilantes Post pictures of their bloodied Young victim on internet by James Turner and Geoff Kirbyson resolutions in Box till Christmas then family opens it up to see if pledges kept by Cameron Maclean a former Security guard who allegedly beat a convicted car thief with a baseball Bat is now being sued by the still recovering victim court documents say. Stanley Ross says in a statement of claim that on Jan. 7, 2007 then Security guard Samir Salihovic and his Boss Kadir Khaledi beat him unconscious with a baseball Bat after Saliho vacs patrol car collided with a stolen vehicle allegedly driven by Ross. Ross claims he was then handcuffed to a vehicle and repeatedly kicked in his head. He was later rushed to Hospital and put into a medically induced coma to be treated for a severe head injury. He remained in Hospital until March 9. Ross had a prior record for Auto theft and was linked to a City Street gang but he was not changed with any offences in connection with the Jan. 7 stolen car. However Salihovic then 19, was charged with aggravated assault. His Case remains before the courts and is therefore considered innocent. Khaledi was later handed a $ 500 Fine under the private investigators and Security guards act for not doing a proper criminal background Check before he hired Salihovic. Salihovic was facing drug Possession charges at the time. In the statement of claim Ross says he temporarily lost the ability to speak and still suffers from memory and hearing loss dizziness and severe headaches. He also had permanent scarring from the beating and required brain surgery. He is suing Salihovic and Khz Aleiss s. K. Security services for unspecified damages. A statement of defence has not been filed yet. The Case won headlines at the time As some members of the Public and Media publicly praised Salihovic for his attack on Ross citing a growing frustration with the provinces Auto theft problem. Staff sex Security guard sued Over beating website photo shows battered victim of new years eve revellers in st. Boniface. The shots were posted along with racist slurs. Web poll vote online at Winnipeg repress. 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