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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal Takes Courageous Stand Against the Poors
Next time the devil goes down to Georgia, he'd better bring his papers with him. Gov. Nathan Deal don't cotton to any of them illegal alien types, of whom Satan is surely not even the most evil!
Yes, more heinous even then Lucifer himself is the average impoverished Central American migrant farmworker, who works 18-hour days in the Georgia heat with no health benefits to offset, say, the cancers caused by the toxic chemicals he inhales all the livelong day and night. Nor can this selfish brown person count on guaranteed housing, aside from the occasional squalid group of trailers reserved by the farmer for this purpose. Serves him right, for greedily demanding his $2.50/hour from the massa. Isn't there a Starbucks he can get work at back home in Quito, or perhaps one of them Taco Bell/McDonald's combo joints?
Anyhoo, let us reflect on what the brave, rich, conservative white man from Georgia did last week in order to protect his upstanding people from the gross browns…
The law is similar to measures in Arizona and Utah that have drawn legal challenges and economic boycotts. Mr. Deal, a Republican, said he would have preferred a comprehensive immigration overhaul from the federal government.
"Illegal immigration is a complex and troublesome issue, and no state alone can fix it," he said. "We will continue to have a broken system until we have a federal solution. In the meantime, states must act to defend their taxpayers."
Yes, protect them from the murderous abuelas who raise their children now that mammies are out of style, as well as from the busboys who clear away their fancy $20 plate of grits in their enlightened New South restaurants. Congratulations, Nate Deal. You are America's latest and greatest hero.
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Zech VanFleet anchors Tahlequah's 3,200-meter relay team for a reason. He can make up ground in a hurry, and he can blow past anybody once he's side by side with them.
Those were the ingredients VanFleet put together in leading Tahlequah from behind en route to the two-mile relay championship on Friday at the ninth annual Reasors Track Classic.
Running on his home turf at Tahlequah High School, VanFleet chased down runners from both Union and Jenks and out-sprinted them to the finish line to give the Tigers the gold in the first event of the day — before most teams had a chance to set up a solid tented area on the outskirts of the track.
"That last 100, that's why we put him at anchorman," said Tahlequah's Ara Poteete, who runs the third leg of the race. "If (VanFleet) is anywhere near a guy, he's going to kill himself trying to pass the guy, so that's why he's our anchor. He ran 2:01 today, and he's really stepped up for us."
Together, VanFleet, Poteete, Aaron Eversole and Will Carlile charted a time of 8:07.42 to beat out Jenks (8:08.26) and Union (8:08.27) for the 3,200-meter crown. The title also set the tone for Tahlequah the rest of the day.
"This is a date we've been pointing toward for a long time with those kids," said Tahlequah coach Bart Frank, whose team logged 51 points to finish fourth overall. "We're very, very pleased with the results. Coach (Jason) Proctor does an outstanding job with those guys, and we're excited about that group."
The quartet of Poteete, VanFleet, Carlile and Eversole even bested the time set by Tahlequah's 3,200-relay team in 2010, which won the Class 5A state championship at 8:10.80.
"(Friday) was our first time putting it together," said Poteete, who was a member of the 2010 two-mile relay team with Moe Brown, Ben Grant and Rusty Fowler. "I'm ecstatic, and I'm thrilled about the guys who have come and stepped up."
Poteete said the Tigers' first-place finish in the two-mile race set the tone for the rest of the Reasors Track Classic.
"We kind of went off that the rest of the day," said Poteete, whose team finished behind Broken Arrow (151.75), Jenks (149.75) and Union (140) in the team standings. "We used that in every race that we ran. It was awesome. I think we shocked a lot of people today, definitely."
Another boastful performance for Tahlequah came by way of Brandon Conrad in the high jump. The junior standout reeled off a leap of 6 feet, 2 inches to beat Bartlesville's Verdel Smith and Coweta's Tyler Guymon by two inches each.
"This is the first time I've every won a medal here," Conrad said. "I was real proud of that."
The first-place finish is Conrad's second of the season, after totaling 6 feet, 2 inches at the Jenks meet in early March.
"I got 6-6 my first meet last year, so I'm trying to work toward 6-6 right now," Conrad said of his career-high mark.
Secretly, Conrad was rooting for his opponents on Friday, so that he could keep on jumping.
"I kind of wanted them to stay in it, so we could keep going up," he said. "But I'm just happy I won."
Tahlequah picked up only two first-place finishes on the day, but the Tigers were able to pick up points in other events.
Eversole narrowly missed out on the Tigers' third gold when he finished two hundredths of a second behind Jenks' Dallas Elmore in the 800-meter run. Eversole beat his winning time (2:01.64) at last week's Claremore meet and tallied a final result of 1:57.92 this week. Elmore crossed the line at 1:57.90.
In the 1,600-meter run, Poteete led after the third of the four legs of the one-mile race. But Union's Mark Middleton (4:29) and Elmore (4:33.40) passed Poteete on the final lap, sending him to a third-place finish at 4:33.67 — Poteete's personal best.
"After three laps, I took the lead and I went out a little too hard on that third lap," Poteete said. "I just have to sharpen the body up a little bit, because I really wasn't ready to do that on the third lap. I just went out trying to run myself into shape."
Adding to Tahlequah's total were the performances of Sylas Sloan and Eric Garcia in throwing events. Sloan unleashed a discus throw of 136 feet, 5 inches, which was good enough for fourth place. Garcia's toss of 44 feet, 11 inches was good enough for sixth in the shotput.
"Sylas getting fourth, to tell you the truth, he was disappointed. And I'm glad he's disappointed, because he knows he can do better," Frank said of Sloan, who was less than six feet away from second place (142 feet, 4 1/2 inches by Union's Chris Biddle), while Broken Arrow's Bo Farrow set a new meet record at 169 feet, 9 1/2 inches. "Our next best discus thrower (Logan Cook), he was out on a academic trip, so he wasn't here. Our throwers didn't do as well as they're capable, but I don't have to tell them that. They're competitors and they'll rebound and be just fine."
Now Tahlequah will shift its focus to a meet in Fayetteville, Ark., on Friday. After that, the Tigers will be aiming for a Metro Lakes Conference crown on April 25 and qualifying as many athletes as possible for the state meet at a regional meet on May 4 at a site yet to be determined.
"We're going to focus on trying to win the conference and winning the regional," Frank said. "We'll try and get as many guys as we can to the state track meet, and we'll see how it goes from there."
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Bath coach Toby Booth is hopeful that Horacio Agulla's imminent arrival will hand the club a "much-needed boost".
The Argentinean winger signed the West Country side in the summer after leaving the Leicester Tigers but he is yet to make an appearance for Bath due to international commitments. Agulla started all six of Argentina's games in the Rugby Championship but failed to cross the line.
He will provide an additional option for Bath on the flank when he arrives with Tom Biggs and Kyle Eastmond currently the starting wingers for the Aviva Premiership club. And Booth is relishing utilising the extra dimension that Agulla will bring.
"It will provide us with a much-needed boost," Booth told the BBC. "We need to bolster our squad size and numbers as we're a little bit thin. He'll provide positive pressure for people to perform.
"We want players to be under pressure to be selected because that's how you get the best out of people."
Bath have also been without Francois Louw who has appeared in just one Premiership game for the club this term - their season opener against Worcester. Booth admits that while Louw's absence is a blow for the club - with the flanker turning out in the Rugby Championship - the fact that Louw has been playing for the Springboks reflects well on Bath's standing.
"It's a frustrating thing from a Bath perspective," said Booth. "But I know all the supporters, and the club internally, wish Flo all the best. He represents Bath and represents success by being included. We want Bath to be connected with success and it will reflect well on everybody."
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An earlier version of this story misstated the day of the fall in financial shares. The story has been corrected.
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Asian stock markets were rocked by another day of hefty losses Monday as Standard & Poor's historic downgrade of U.S. government debt raised fresh concerns about the global economy and pushed investors to sell risky assets.
Roland Randall, strategist at TD Securities, said the U.S. downgrade was "another tick in the box for the long-term bears, and that's the real concern — that it makes people a bit more pessimistic on the long-term economic outlook."
China's Shanghai Composite Index /quotes/zigman/1858913/delayed CN:000001 +1.12% , South Korea's Kospi /quotes/zigman/1652118/delayed KR:SEU -0.31% and Taiwan's Taiex each fell 3.8% to finish at 2,526.82, 1,869.45 and 7,552.80, respectively.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index /quotes/zigman/1653884/delayed AU:XJO +0.18% /quotes/zigman/1653884/delayed AU:XJO +0.18% gave up 2.9% to 3,986.10 and Japan's Nikkei Stock Average /quotes/zigman/5986735/delayed JP:NIK -0.16% closed down 2.2% at 9,097.56, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index /quotes/zigman/2622475/delayed HK:HSI +0.10% shed 2.2% to finish at 20,490.57.
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The European Central Bank signaled it would buy up Spanish and Italian bonds on a large scale.
"Rising risk premium/risk aversion due to what's going [on] in the U.S. and Europe" was behind the sharp sell-off in China over the past few days, said Jim Chen, investment manager of Baring Asset Management's Greater China Fund.
Monday's performance marks another day of heavy losses in Asia. Last week, Taiwan's Taiex sank more than 9% and the Kospi lost 8.9% in Seoul. Also last week, Japanese shares had dropped more than 5%, Hong Kong shares fell almost 7% and Australian shares lost in excess of 7%.
While the latest trigger for the tumble came from Standard & Poor's downgrade of U.S. debt to AA+ from AAA, worries that European sovereign debt troubles were spreading have also grabbed investor attention for several weeks now. Read more on S&P downgrade.
The losses came even as financial and monetary officials from the Group of Seven major economies released a statement late Sunday, saying they were "committed to addressing the tensions stemming from the current challenges on our fiscal deficits, debt and growth." Officials from the Group of 20 also issued a similar statement Monday, without detailing specific actions. Read report on G-7 statement after S&P's U.S. downgrade.
Meanwhile, the European Central Bank also said late Sunday that it "will actively implement" its bond-buying program, indicating it will likely buy Spanish and Italian government bonds in an effort to prevent sovereign-debt contagion taking hold in some of the region's largest economies. Read more on ECB statement.
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Banking, insurance and other financial stocks lost more ground during the session on Monday, with HSBC Holdings PLC /quotes/zigman/13834/delayed HK:0005 -0.12% /quotes/zigman/13843/delayed UK:HSBA -0.92% falling 1.5% and Bank of China Ltd. /quotes/zigman/35803/delayed HK:3988 -0.27% /quotes/zigman/529024/delayed/quotes/nls/bachy BACHY -1.16% sliding 3.6% in Hong Kong.
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As benchmark Nymex crude-oil futures traded around $84 a barrel with investors concerned about the outlook for demand, energy stocks lost ground, with JX Holdings Inc. /quotes/zigman/575591/delayed JP:5020 -0.37% down 2.7% in Tokyo and Cnooc Ltd. /quotes/zigman/29647/delayed HK:0883 -0.57% /quotes/zigman/274848/delayed/quotes/nls/ceo CEO +0.28% down 4% in Hong Kong. PetroChina Co. /quotes/zigman/257868/delayed/quotes/nls/ptr PTR +0.59% /quotes/zigman/21986/delayed HK:0857 -2.49% shed 3.1% in Hong Kong as well as Shanghai.
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By LARRY HYPES
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Although I love being a high school English teacher, storing up a treasure trove of fantastic facts has always been one of my favorite hobbies. As a child, "Ripley's Believe it or Not!" was for me a true delight — the biggest, strongest, weakest, oldest, etc., was very appealing. I was never the strongest but the onset of years has propelled me closer to being the weakest. If I am fortunate enough to have a few more birthdays I might even secure that "oldest" title. Nevertheless, unusual information remains delightful.
For instance, for more than a generation it has been my privilege to broadcast high school football games for Adventure Radio and then translate the information into stories for the Daily Telegraph a few minutes later so that many of you can read more about the games the next day. Sometimes I get a bit loud, especially when those Bulldogs make a big play. However, the mammoth blue whale, which can reach a length of almost 100 feet and weigh an estimated 150 tons, has the loudest voice of any living creature. A jackhammer is louder, but not by much when the big mammal sends out a bellow into the sea.
We are far removed from any large body of water, and after the holidays are over many of us might only concentrate on the effort it might take to "float" a serious loan to pay for the merriment. Teachers are forever reminding students that school is about money, after all. Grades are the first pay day but their accumulation will eventually result in a diploma which is the ticket to the future. Better education almost always translates into more impressive paydays. Someone said once that just about any of us can make money but keeping it is the challenge. How long we keep it, at least in the United States, has been charted. A $1 bill will last about four years, on average, while a $20 has a life expectancy of six seasons and one of those precious $50 bills often survives for nine to 10 years.
Living up here in Four Seasons Country gives us a first hand experience with some grand mountains and their influence can certainly affect our money. We all tune in to find out what the weather is doing at least once a day during the winter and elevation always affects that sort of thing.
According to the meteorologist (the entertainment artist formerly known as the weatherman/woman) rain turns into snow when the temperature is below freezing and the altitude is more than 2,500 feet. My hometown of Tazewell has an elevation of 2,516 feet on Main Street, I believe, so there is quite a bit of the white stuff this time of the year. Just up the road on Route 16, the Tazewell County version of Stoney Ridge (Bluefield has one, too!) tops out at an impressive 2,822 feet.
If you can stay on Route 16 some 60 miles over into Grayson County, the lofty Mount Rogers climbs more than 5,700 feet into the Virginia sky and is the state's tallest peak. Far above the swirling waters we have created some impressive structures of our own. As a student of American history, I often have to remind myself that greatness has not always been confined to the United States. Around these parts, one long-standing symbol of greatness in the coalfields that has been in place for 90 years is the great West Virginian Hotel (now known as West Virginia Manor). Did you know it stands 12 stories high and is the tallest building in the state south of Charleston?
As impressive as the West Virginian was/is, it would have a hard time comparing to the Great Pyramid in Egypt. The huge pyramid rises more than 42 stories above the desert floor and covers some 13 acres of ground.
That alone would cover just about any city or town in our region. I am not quite sure just how much stone it took to build our local hotel but there is enough rock in the Great Pyramid to build a wall 10 feet high around the whole country of France. Engineers estimate there are nearly three million stones in the structure and some weigh as much as 15 tons. Architect Alex Mahood designed many great buildings including the West Virginian, but the Egyptian engineers gave him a run for the money. That pyramid is almost a perfect right angle in every corner and each one faces exactly toward the four points of the compass.
Of such stuff legends are made, said the poet, and the people who have come and gone through both the West Virginian Hotel and the Great Pyramid have often been notable. Although I took the elevator (yes, Virginia, there was an operator) to the top floor, some folks insist on climbing buildings.
Take George Polley, for instance, who climbed to the top of more than 2,000 structures in the early decades of the 20th century. Polley grew up in Richmond, Va, but climbed buildings all over the country.
He became famous, was arrested, once got a free suit for standing on his head after climbing one Chicago skyscraper, and charged a fee of $200 for climbing up the outside of buildings after he became known as the "Human Fly."
If heights make you a little uneasy, you might reach for the Dramamine. Certainly, the late Samuel Jessop would have no trouble taking a few of the pills. Jessop lived in England and was well known as a hypochondriac. During one 21-year period, he swallowed an incredible 226,934 pills — about 10,806 annually or 29 per day, while at the same time drinking more than 40,000 bottles of medicine.
Surely "Booney" Bovenizer or "Bus" McNeer or Angelo Monaco, those late, great Bluefield area pharmacists, have loved to have Jessop as a customer.
Larry Hypes is a teacher at Tazewell High School and a columnist for the Daily Telegraph.


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I learned a good bit last week about what's wrong with government.
First, I went to my opponent's 75-minute "education issues forum." I heard two sentences about education (my opponent likes charter schools, by the way). The other 74 minutes and 45 seconds were spent talking about some guy from New York who donated $50,000 to a House campaign in Landrum last spring.
Then, I got a bizarre e-mail falsely accusing me of "digging for dirt" on my opponents' 9-year-old son.
A group of us wanted to respond to Sheila Bickford's letter attacking Mick Mulvaney – and the rest of us – for helping mow the grass recently on U.S. 521.
This was not a campaign "stunt." The idea was brought up at our weekly Indian land Rotary group, of which Mick is a member. Rotary was planning to pick up trash on the road, but could not because the grass was too high. Several folks commented that mowing the grass would improve safety for kids and parents, especially around the school, and would also make our community look better.
On Aug. 20, two of my best friends and I were in a wreck. Gregory A. Summers, features editor, wrote about the wreck in his article,"Seatbelts protect teens in crash."
I would just like to thank him so much for that article. It meant a lot to have the paper waiting for me to read when I got home from the hospital two weeks later.
I can't remember much from the wreck. Most of what I know is from the article and told to me by my parents, my friends and their parents.
On Nov. 4, we have the opportunity to elect a fine Christian woman, Mandy Powers Norrell, to the S.C. Senate. Mandy has written several guest columns for the paper sharing with us glimpses of her life.
She has told us of her more than 200 years of ancestry in Lancaster County, her heartfelt concern for the present generation and her vision for the future.
I have been impressed by Mandy's overwhelming concern for those in our community whose lives and livelihoods have been diminished by our recent economic problems.
I just returned from changing a flat tire for my wife – a common enough event, for certain.
What is bothersome about this particular incidentis that she sat in a busy parking lot with a 2-year-old and 4-year-old inthe carfor over an hour and only one person offered assistance and that was just a couple of minutes before I arrived from 30 miles away.
No doubt about it, this is going to be a historic election year. Nationally, we are going to have the first black president or the first female vice president.
Locally, we're going to have either the first female representative from Lancaster County in the S.C. Legislature, or the first black representative since the Reconstruction Era.
We could also have the first female state senator from Lancaster.
I am writing regarding the situation of the American public. We hear each day about the big money business pitfall. But their problems become our problems. How can the government come up with $700 billion to bail out the big guys? And we – the unemployed workers and our families – also need a bailout. There are no jobs. No one is hiring. We're the ones who need to be bailed out. If we don't have jobs and money to survive, how are the banks supposed to have money?
Our government needs to start from the bottom, not the top. We the people make up the latter.
The potential of a "good problem" exists. A "good problem" is like having too much of a good thing and deciding just exactly what to do to make a situation work well.
In football, a "good problem" occurs when a team has two strong quarterbacks, but the coach has to decide which one to play to best benefit his squad.
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The Convention's objective is to protect children from discrimination, neglect and abuse. It is the principal children's treaty, covering a full range of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. It grants rights for children in peacetime as well as during armed conflict, and provides for the implementation of those rights. The Convention serves as both a rallying point and a useful tool for civil society and individual people, working to protect and promote children's rights. In many ways, it is an innovative instrument.
Key Provisions
The Convention is the first legally binding international treaty to give universally-recognized norms and standards for the protection and promotion of children's rights in a single text.
It is the most rapidly and widely ratified international human rights treaty in the world. This unprecedented wide participation clearly shows a common political will to improve the situation of children.
The Convention highlights the spirit of complementarity and the interdependence of human rights by combining civil and political rights with economic, social and cultural rights. It calls for a holistic approach in analysis, and recognizes that the enjoyment of one right cannot be separated from the enjoyment of others.
It creates a new vision of the child, combining provisions aimed at protecting the child through positive action by the child's country, parents and relevant institutions, with provisions that recognize the child as a holder of participatory rights and freedoms.
In this way it creates rights in areas not covered by previous international treaties, such as the right of the child to freely express views and have those views taken seriously, and the right of the child to a name and nationality from birth. The Convention also creates standards for such issues as alternative care, the rights of disabled and refugee children; and the administration of juvenile justice. It also stresses the need for recovery and social reintegration of a child victim of neglect, exploitation or abuse.
While stressing the country's duty to help families care for and protect the child, the Convention acknowledges the primary role of family and parents in this task. It calls for positive action by institutions and the State or parents.
It serves as a useful tool for advocacy and greater awareness of the new understanding on children's rights, and attaches special importance to international cooperation and assistance as ways of protecting children's rights.
The Convention rests on a foundation of four general principles that express its philosophy and offer guidance to national programs for putting that philosophy into effect.
Key provisions focus on:
Article 43 of the Convention establishes the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Committee is a monitoring body of ten experts who examining the progress that countries party to the Convention have made in realizing its provisions.
| An "International Bill of Rights For Children"
1. Convention on the Rights of the Child
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THOMASVILLE — A memorial service for Dinah Jo Singletary Evans, of Ochlocknee, is at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013 at Barnetts Creek Baptist Church. The Rev. Paul Blough will officiate. Ms. Evans passed away Dec. 1, at her residence. Born Nov. 30, 1962, in Cuthbert, Ga., she was the daughter of Shelton and Rhetta Ray Singletary both whom survive of Ochlocknee. Other survivors include a son, Wayne Gaines and wife Erica of Thomasville; grandchildren, Macy and Charlie Gaines of Thomasville; daughter, Annie Evans of Thomasville; a son, Rodger Douglas Evans III of Thomasville; sister Sharon Wingo and Husband Mike of Columbia, S.C.; brother "Roddy" Singletary of Thomasville; sister, Amy Connelly and husband Mike of Thomasville; brother "Jay" Singletary of Destin, Fla.; grandmother, Alice S. Davis of Thomasville; and a number of nieces and nephews. Other survivors include her mother-in-law Charlotte Howard; sister-in-law, Cindy Canfield; and a brother-in-law, Robert Carter. Mrs. Evans was preceded in death by her husband Roger Douglas Evans Jr. Visitors may sign the register book online at www.whiddonshiverfuneralhome.com. — Whiddon-Shiver Funeral Home
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Congressman Stephen Fincher, R-Tenn., is championing the fight to reduce the government's food stamp program. And he has his religious faith to guide him. When an opponent of the reductions pointed out that Jesus specifically stressed that we should feed the hungry, Fincher, who was elected in the Tea Party boom of 2010, countered with a verse from the Book of Thessalonians: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat." Apparently the Congressman thinks people on food stamps deliberately avoid work so as to draw the average $132.20 per person per month shelled out by the SNAP program in his state of Tennessee. This is similar to the amounts paid in most states.
Explaining his position on food stamps, Fincher said "The role of citizens, of Christians, is to take care of each other,but not for Washington to steal from those in the country and give to others in the country."
Of course, if you steal from the country and give it to Fincher, that's a different matter. As the second largest recipient of farm subsidies in the United States Congress, he has looted -- I mean collected -- $3.48 million from the American taxpayers in the 13 years from 1999 to 2012. In the last year of that period, he drew one direct payment of $70,000. The average Tennessee citizen getting SNAP benefits in that same year drew $1586.40 worth of "food stamp" credit. The gluttons!
The difference in the USDA food stamp program and the USDA crop insurance program, which Fincher is decidedly in favor of, is not just the vast difference in the amounts Fincher and many of his more deprived fellow Tennesseans got from the government. A huge difference is the fact that food stamp benefits go only families with low income. Fincher-type loot goes without restriction, mostly to the most profitable farms in the country. There are farmers in this country who every year receive more than $1 million in subsidies from the government. You can bet they are not farmers sweating every day on a tractor or a combine. In many cases, they don't even live on a farm. They are smart people who know how to game the system, using the telephone and the lobbyist, not cultivators and harvesters.
It's understandable then, from a purely rational, and incredibly greedy, point of view why Congressman Fincher is pushing hard to cut more than $20 billion from the food stamp program while also pushing to expand crop insurance subsidies by $9 billion over the next 10 years.
I am not suggesting that the USDA food stamp program is without blemish. Any government program bears watching and can be modified, improved, even reduced. Wherever a government program involving funds exists, there is an irresistible impulse for some to commit fraud. This is usually taken as a reason to stamp out the fraud, not to starve the participants in the program.
Like the food stamp program, agricultural subsidies are also not without fault. Both Democratic and Republican administrations have recognized this fact and have committed to cut the fat, reduce the bloat, and aim farm support at farmers, not at wealthy manipulators. Somehow, though, it never quite seems to work out that way. Whatever is reduced seems to pop back up, perhaps under a different title, like a whack-a-mole. And, like hogs pushing the young pigs out of the way to slurp up, undeserved, most of the food in the trough, a few greedy politicians yank subsistence from the mouths of the poor while fattening themselves.
It makes you want to slap Congressman Fincher across his smug, well-fed face and send him to bed without supper. For a year. Just so he'll know what it feels like for thousands of his fellow Americans.
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On Sunday, Oct. 21, Julia Plawker, 11, from Westfield, and Christopher Holder, 10, from Watchung, earned first place titles in their divisions in The Battle of Baltimore, a national-ranked martial arts tournament featuring hundreds of competitors who represent the "best of the best" in karate from around the country. For both Julia and Chris, who are karate students from Westfield dojo Karate N Motion (KNM), this was their first national-level tournament. They have previously competed in tournaments in the surrounding N.J./N.Y. area.
"I'm very proud of the hard work, patience, perseverance and persistence of KNM's karate competitors," said Grand Master Alan Simms, 10th degree black belt, head instructor and owner of KNM. "Our dojo sent six competitors down to Baltimore and all reached the finals, and/or won their events."
Julia, a sixth-grade student at Roosevelt Intermediate School in Westfield was awarded a first-place title in sparring.
"I was nervous but very excited to compete against schools from around the country," said Julia. "This was a great experience and overall a great day. I'm also very happy for my dojo friends who all represented KNM well."
Christopher, a fifth-grade student at Green Brook Middle School in Watchung, also won first place in sparring. "The competition was really tough and impressive," said Chris. "I just kept telling myself to stay cool and stick to my strategy. That's what our KNM teachers tell us to do – and it worked."
Also placing in their respective divisions at the The Battle of Baltimore were:
· 9-year-old Meredith Rosenthal, from Jefferson School in Westfield, who took 2nd place in sparring,
· 10-year-old Sean Canavan, from McKinley School in Westfield, took 2nd place in weapons,
· 11-year-old Joey Echols, from Terrill Middle School in Scotch Plains, took 3rd place in weapons, and
· 12-year-old Tristan Challis, from Lincoln School in Garwood, also took 3rd place in sparring in his division.
Many of KNM's karate students train five or six days a week with national karate champions as their instructors. "Sensei Alan" as he's known to his students, a member of both the World and International Black Belt Halls of Fame, is a frequent guest lecturer and presenter on many martial arts related topics. He holds a 9th Degree Black Belt in Karate and a 10th Degree in Jiu Jitsu, from the Japan Aiki-Bujutsu Federation. Sensei Alan has owned Karate N Motion since 2000.
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Sharon Cantu Morgan passed away Nov. 13, 2012, in a Fort Worth hospital.
She was born Nov. 7, 1991, in Weatherford, to Frank and Benita Cantu Morgan. She was a Catholic.
Survivors include her two sons, Evan and Eric Mandez of Colorado City; parents, Frank and Benita Cantu Morgan of Weatherford; sisters, Teresa Rand and husband, Raul, and Sara Cantu all of Colorado City, Jennifer Cantu of Granbury, Lisa Morgan of Stillwell, Okla., Lasiha Morgan of Vancouver, Wash.; brother, Johnny Salazar and wife, Linda, of Weatherford; grandparents, Mary Salazar of Weatherford and Paul and Linda Brundage of Stillwell, Okla.
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EC decision to block Chinese clothing is bad for development, says Oxfam
Brussels, Belgium: The European Commission's announcement today of plans to stymie the apparent increase of Chinese clothing into the EU market threatens China's progress in poverty reduction, Oxfam International said. The increase in China's sales follows the abolition on 1st January 2005 of the European quota system for textiles and clothing imports.
"European industry had more than a decade to prepare for the end of quotas. They decided not to. China should not be penalized because Europe maintained most of the quotas until the last minute instead of having a managed phase-out," said Phil Bloomer Head of Oxfam's Make Trade Fair Campaign.
The Chinese economy has grown fast over the last 20 years but average income is still only one twenty-fifth that of France and there are over 100 million people living in absolute poverty.
Two weeks ago, domestic protectionist lobbies prevented the EU from reducing tariffs imposed on textiles and clothing from India, which is much poorer even than China.
"Europe had ten years to prepare for this change in trade rules, and chose to sit on its hands. Oxfam repeatedly warned against this tactic. China and India's development should not be blocked by Italy and France because Europe has been negligent." said Bloomer. "This trade is vital to millions of poor people." he added.
Because of European negligence will bring an unnecessary shock to European industry, generous funds should be made available to assist European workers in the adjustment.
Some European countries claim that putting the brakes on China's exports will help smaller developing-country exporters, but these same European countries have been refusing to improve market access for Sri Lanka, which was badly hit by the Asian tsunami, and for the world's 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Bangladesh and Cambodia, for example pay duties on over half their exports to the EU, despite the promises of the "Everything But Arms" initiative.
Oxfam, along with trade unions, is concerned that working conditions can be poor in Chinese factories. "But this is no justification for blocking Chinese clothing exports, which would hurt poor workers, particularly the millions of women employed in this sector", said Bloomer.
"The EU says it is committed to ensuring that the current WTO trade negotiations benefit development but any increase now in European protectionism against China and other poor countries' exports will give the lie to this claim, and risk paralyzing the talks," concluded Bloomer.
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Sunday, October 16, 2005Jill Dierberg (Saint Louis, Mo./Lutheran South H.S.) won the consolation draw of the B Flight on Sunday morning and teamed with Rachel Janssen (Fort Wayne, Ind./Dwenger H.S.) to win a pair of doubles matches as the Crusaders wrapped up play at the Windy City Invitational.
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When most people think of Barbera, I suspect their first inclination would be to recall examples from Alba. Perhaps rightfully so, as more producers make wine from that commune than from any other Barbera zone. And many writers, this one included, have often extolled the virtues of Barbera d'Alba over the others. It's often slightly more complex, and a bit fuller in body. However, as with any generality, there are exceptions to the rule. And the subject of today's article is one such example.
Cantina Oddero is a classic producer of a wide array of Piedmontese wines. In fact, not too long ago on these very pages, I reviewed their Barbera d'Alba. Today, their example from Asti.
The 2010 Oddero Barbera d'Asti Superiore is a bright, dark ruby color. That brightness seems to transcend through the entire experience, for the nose and palate of this wine seem to jump with just that sort of vibrancy. The aroma is full of bright cherry, spices and a hint of sweet tobacco. On the palate, the one aspect of Barbera d'Asti that I find problematic (higher acidity) is very well balanced in this wine. The juicy cherry fruit is well toned, with lots of fennel, spice, sweet tobacco and minerals that add complexity. Everything is in the right proportion and very elegantly put together and the wine shows slightly more body than the average Barbera from Asti. This owing to the Superiore designation, which mandates an additional year of aging prior to release.
This is delicious wine and may be the best Barbera d'Asti I've ever tasted. It may not be cheap enough to treat as a "House Red" but it's definitely worth grabbing a few and enjoying them over the next 3-5 years. Well done indeed. 93 points, about $22.
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Work has stopped to dig up waste contaminated with plutonium at Hanford after two incidents earlier this month.
Problems related to the incidents included hazards not being adequately identified and responsibilities of workers not matching their training or qualifications, said Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board staff in a weekly report just released.
"Worker and management responses demonstrated a failure to implement lessons learned" from previous problems encountered by other Hanford contractors, the safety board report said.
CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. has been digging up transuranic waste, typically waste contaminated with plutonium, that was temporarily buried after 1970. Then Congress said transuranic waste must be sent to a national repository, but until the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico opened, the waste was buried for later retrieval.
Much of the transuranic waste retrieved so far was in drums and boxes neatly stacked in holes dug in central Hanford and then covered with dirt.
But CH2M Hill has begun work on Trench 11, where the waste was dropped in helter-skelter.
On Feb. 1 an excavator with a bucket was being used to remove some dirt that had been piled up at the trench when it unexpectedly hit a glove box that was close to the surface of the ground.
The excavator bucket knocked the cover from one of the ports where gloves would once have been attached to reach into the glove box and do work with radioactively contaminated items. At first workers did not know that a glove box was hit and only knew that dirt was falling into a hole in the ground, which turned out to be the opening of the glove box.
They regrouped and took radiation surveys to determine it was a glove box, said Patrice McEahern, CH2M Hill vice president of safety, health, security and quality.
What had been categorized as a radiological buffer area became a high contamination area, the safety board report said.
Work resumed days later. The safety board representatives said work resumed before lessons learned from the incident were identified, but CH2M Hill disagreed.
On Feb. 4 there was another unusual event.
An excavator bucket hit and broke a buried pressurized container, resulting in two jets of odorous gas and soil, the defense board report said.
However, CH2M Hill said samples have been taken and there is no evidence that a pressurized container was hit. It does not know if there was a container in the soil or a pocket of gas.
The excavator operator stopped because he hit something and workers noticed the smell of propane, but the operator may have hit a rock, McEahern said.
The safety board reported that workers did not call 911 and did not request help from a hazardous materials team for two hours.
The response could have been better, but the incident did not meet emergency criteria that would require a 911 call, McEahern said. Workers did call the Hanford Fire Department to see if some of its equipment could be used, she said.
As a precaution, work was stopped to retrieve transuranic waste after the second incident, she said. Work on about five trenches was being planned or was under way.
CH2M Hill may continue to work through the issues raised for several weeks yet, including making sure it knows as much as possible about what to expect in the trenches.
Before work resumes, DOE wants a recovery plan and briefings to DOE managers on the issues, causes and corrections made to ensure safe operations, said a letter sent Friday from DOE to the contractor.
The halt to work came during a two-week review by a 23-member DOE team to verify CH2M Hill's Integrated Safety Management System. As a new contractor, it needed to have the system certified to guarantee it can perform work safely.
It had been working on the system for 18 months, including training 3,400 workers on the system and providing safety leadership training to 850 managers.
The verification team found that the safety system processes and procedures were "satisfactorily implemented at the company level," but not at the waste retrieval project, according to the DOE letter.
After CH2M Hill makes progress in making corrections, DOE will re-evaluate the safety system at its waste retrieval program, DOE said.


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2013 Draft: Yankees sign 18th round pick Dustin FowlerBy
Via K. Levine-Flandrup: The Yankees have signed 18th round pick Dustin Fowler to an over-slot $278k bonus. Since he was drafted after the tenth round, any bonus money in excess of $100k counts against the draft pool, so his "pool hit" is $178k.
Fowler, 18, is a high school outfielder out of West Laurens High School in Georgia. The left-handed hitter and thrower is a raw, toolsy type who has some pop in his bat and plenty of speed. He is also a strong defender in center field. Fowler quit wrestling and playing football not too long ago and is still baseball raw. He also stands out for his very hard-nosed style of play. Dustin is not related to Dexter Fowler, in case you're wondering.
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Sam Ellis, from Nottinghamshire, is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the UK Youth Parliament and has been involved with the UK Youth Parliament since 2003 in various roles. Sam is a previous member of the the UK Youth Parliament and holds a degree in Modern World History from the University of Central Lancashire. He likes make sure he blogs on a variety of subjects to politics, youth issues... And Britain's Got Talent or the X-Factor
What made you decide to start blogging?
To be fair, I think I was trying to do anything to avoid doing university coursework. I knew that there were blogs out there and I decided to give it a go.
What is your best blogging experience?
For me that was when I got to blog about the UK Youth Parliament being allowed to sit in the House of Commons Chamber. I'm looking forward to being able to blog after the actual event later this year.
And your worst?
I'm not sure I've got one to be honest. I haven't had any comments that have needed deleted so I think I'm been quite lucky.
What do you regard as your best blog entry?
For me my best blog entry had to be one I wrote about a planning application for a wind farm near my village, http://samuelellis.blogspot.com/2009/04/yes-to-wind-farms.html My reason for choosing that one is because of the mini debate it produced in the comments section. I also think that's my entry with the most comments!
Favourite blogs?
There are three blogs I read daily. Tom Harris MP, Iain Dale and the blog that's written by my old housemate at uni, Matt Newman (www.fetlersblog.co.uk)
What inspired you to go into politics?
As corny as it sounds, it's because I wanted to make a difference I got involved with politics when I was 15 and it was at a time when no one had heard about the UK Youth Parliament. It was important for me to make sure an organisation like that was heard. As time has gone on I've discovered more and more that its exciting to be a part of the process.
How did you get involved with the UK Youth Parliament?
I got involved with the UK Youth Parliament back in 2003, when I was elected as a Member of Youth Parliament when I was 16. I heard about it from a Youth Worker from Nottinghamshire County Council that my Mum knew. It's probably a lot harder to get elected to the UK Youth Parliament now as we have record number of young people standing in every local authority throughout England.
Is there evidence that the Parliament fosters fresh interest amongst young people, as opposed to attracting those who are already interested in politics?
When I've met Members of Youth Parliament at our events throughout the country I've been amazed at the young people who attend. Not all of the members are die hard party political supporters, and I think a lot of them want to be involved because of their local experiences, They are fed up with the contest negative image that young people get.
Is there anywhere abroad which you haven't been to, that you would like to visit?
As crazy as it sounds, I'd love to visit North Korea as it's so mysterious. Realistically though, I would like to visit Japan.
Is there anywhere abroad you have visited, that you would love to revisit?
Australia without a doubt. I spent 4 weeks there back in 2002 and it wasn't nearly enough time to even do Sydney, let along anywhere else!
Who, excluding the present leader and Prime Minister, do you regard as the best British Prime Minister, and if different, the best Labour leader?
Clement Atlee without a doubt. I think the National Health Service has to be best service ever created by any government, not just in Britain but worldwide, that any country has brought in.
Which political figure has been your greatest inspiration?
I wouldn't call him an inspiration as such but I greatly admire John Prescott. This has a man who hasn't let his public image ever stop him. He's taken a lot of flack but he's always worked hard and only used his own merits to raise from the ships to become Deputy Prime Minister.
Favourite Bond movie?
eek... I'm not a Bond fan
Favorite Doctor Who?
I still must be the only person who doesn't watch Doctor Who... Sorry!
Chocolate, vanilla, or mint?
Mint... Unless I had the option for all three in the same bowl!
Which Band, past or present, would you most like to see in concert?
The greatest band to have ever lived, The Beatles.
In terms of visiting for the weekend, Oxford, Cambridge, or Barsby, Leics..?
I've never been to Cambridge so I'd choose there.
Favourite national newspaper?
I tend to read two, The Daily Mirror and The Guardian
What would you say your hobbies were?
When I cane I like to go to the theatre (though it's been a while). I also enjoy reading and want to try and get back into Badminton which I played at uni, but have since stopped. I also like to try and expand my random knowledge of the railways.
And what would you say were your three favourite songs and three favourite books (Bar the Bible and The Complete Works of Shakespeare)?
My three favourite songs would be;
-Let it be (The Beatles)
-Faith (George Michael)
-Home (Michael Buble)
My three favourite books are;
-Notes from a Small Island (Bill Bryson)
-Notes from a Big Country (Billy Bryson)
-The Sound of Laughter (Peter Kay)
All very lighthearted and makes me laugh.


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BAQUBAH, IRAQ — Abu Mujahid brags that he bombed a U.S. Army Humvee and wounded two American soldiers just last month. Now he's stumping for Sunni candidates and talking matter-of-factly about the importance of safety as Iraqis head to the polls today.
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My House Testimony on the Endangered Species Act
On Tuesday, I testified before the House Committee on Natural Resources about one of our nation's greates conservation laws: the Endangered Species Act.
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Lisa Jo Bezner, Adjunct Professor. Courses taught: Composition and Journalism. Masters in Divinity, Boston University, 2008; B.A. in Creative Writing, College of Santa Fe, 2001. After 14 years working in production and editorial departments of daily newspapers in California, New Mexico and Nebraska, Bezner left to enter the ministry in the United Methodist Church. During seminary she worked in the communications department of the UMC's public policy agency in Washington, D.C.
Special areas of research: literatures of oppression, practical and liberation theologies, and "Shakespeare, Scripture and Social Justice."
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Martin Christiansen, Adjunct Professor. Courses taught: Composition and Business Writing. M.A. in English/Literature, Central Michigan University, 1988. Martin teaches the full range of English and Humanities courses at SUNY Delhi and Morrisville State College at the Norwich campus, as well as Composition and Literature at SUNY Oneonta. He also serves as book production editor for one international theological publishing organization and as webmaster for another.
Eva Davidson, Adjunct Professor. Courses taught: Intro to Creative Writing, FYS "Scarcity." B.A. Sarah Lawrence College, 1983; M.F.A. Warren Wilson College Program for Writers, 1988. A practicing poet, Eva Davidson has collaborated on several operas and choral works with her sister, composer Tina Davidson. Her poems have been adapted as lyrics and premiered in the operas Billy and Zelda (OperaDelaware 1998) and Summer of the Swans (Capitol Opera, Harrisburg 2009). She has co-written a screenplay, Crossing, and has two working manuscripts of poems, Soon It Will Be Dark, and Dawn Birds. A third opera, Pearl, is in development with author Mary Gordon.
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Alice Lichtenstein, Adjunct Professor. Courses taught: Intro. to Creative Writing, Fiction Workshop. B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., Boston University. Alice Lichtenstein was named the Boston University Fellow in Creative Writing. She has received a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in Fiction and has twice been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony. She has taught at Boston University, Wheaton College, Lesley College, and the Harvard University Summer School. Her first novel, The Genius of the World (Zoland Books, 2000), a Booksense 76 selection in paperback fiction, was favorably reviewed in The New York Times Review of Books and on National Public Radio; her new novel, Lost, was published by Scribner in March 2010. Lichtenstein has published short stories in several literary journals. Her story "Dead Friends" appears in the current issue of Post Road (Winter 2010); "White Ladies," will appear in Short Story this summer.
Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr., Adjunct Professor. Course taught: Composition. D.A. in Humanistic Studies (English and Film Studies), SUNY Albany, 2008; M.A. in Media Culture, College of Staten Island, 2001; B.A. in Film Studies, Brooklyn College, 1997. Prof. MacLeod has been teaching composition courses at Hartwick College for just over two years. His scholarly interests include composition studies, literary studies, film studies, media studies, and communications. He has published multiple book and film reviews in several different journals, including Film and History: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television, Scope, and Southwest Journal of Cultures. Currently, Dr. MacLeod is working on several more book reviews and is expecting his entry on the movie Big to be coming out later this year in a movie and popular culture encyclopedia published by ABC-CLIO.
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B.A in English and American Literature, Manchester University, 1973. M.A. in American Literature, Manchester University, 1975. Accepted into Ph.D. program at Manchester, 1976. McManus was Arts Editor of the New Manchester Review in the late1970's before joining the Manchester Guardian as Northern Art and Theatre Critic in 1981. She also wrote full-length features for the Guardian. After meeting her Californian sculptor husband Walter Dusenbery, she lived in Tuscany, Italy, 1986-8, before becoming a permanent upstate New Yorker in 1988.
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Jo Mish, Adjunct Professor. Courses taught: Creative Writing and Letterpress Printing & the Book Arts.
B.A. in Sociology and Russian Literature, Hartwick College, 1971. Mish has taught at Hartwick College for over 30 years. His courses include Creative Writing, Letterpress Printing & the Book Arts and International Folkdance. He also works extensively in the local (K-12) Arts In Education Program and edits two (K-12) literary and art magazines covering the works of students from 30 area schools. He was an editor and printer at Swamp Press and now holds that same position at Serpent & Eagle Press. These presses produce fine, handset and hand printed editions of poetry and art. He has five boks of poetry and short stories to his credit.
Danny Pelletier, Adjunct Professor. Courses taught: Composition and Into. to Creative Writing. M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Goddard College, 2009. A central New York native, Danny Pelletier graduated from Hartwick with an Individual Student Program in creative writing for the page, stage, and screen. As a student he sold one unproduced screenplay and a won third place in the drama category at the Theodore Case Short Film Festival. More recently, his short fiction has appeared in Quarterly West, Monkeybicycle, and Night Train. In 2009, he was awarded a Wesleyan Scholarship to the Wesleyan University Writers Conference, and in 2010 his short fiction was nominated for the Million Writers Award. He often contributes arts and entertainment articles to the local culture magazine, Upstate Life. E-mail: email@example.com
Carol Silverberg, Adjunct Professor. Courses taught: Composition and Advanced Acting. B.A. in Theatre, Pace University, 1989; M.A. in Theatre, Binghamton University, 1995; Ph.D. in English, Binghamton University, 2009.
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Companies need to be careful about lavishing their leaders with pay that's far out of whack with what their other employees get, said Charles Elson at the University of Delaware.
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Dana Herbert, a 1998 UD graduate and winner of TLC reality TV show "Next Great Baker" has opened a new bakery on Kirkwood Highway in Newark.
967 students from PA, NJ, and DE who took the personal-finance course developed by UD, "Keys to Financial Success," on average, increased their personal-finance knowledge by more than 60 percent
Article explores a story on the health of JP Morgans CEO. Charles Elson, UD said, "These folks came out quickly and they did exactly what they were supposed to do."
Charles Elson, Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, discussed the entanglement of the company's founder with the brand's identity.
Charles Elson, Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, discussed "golden parachutes." (Link does not go directly to story. Use the site's search function to locate.)
Op-ed includes comments from Charles Elson, Lerner, on CEO pay.
Op-ed by Sheldon Pollack, accounting and MIS, on tax reform efforts.
Charles Elson, Lerner, discussed the decision by American Apparel's board to terminate the company's founder.
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It was by a fluke of timing that the We Belong Together delegation was in Georgia speaking out against that state's SB 1070 copycat legislation on the same day that neighboring Alabama announced that large parts of its copycat legislation survived a legal challenge. But now that parts of Alabama's strict immigration law have been upheld, the countdown towards implementation begins. In other words, the time has come for the wave of fear that has been building across the country to come crashing over Alabama's growing immigrant population.
And this fear is warranted: on its face, the law aims to lock up immigrants or drive them out of the country, or at least the state. Short of driving the immigrant population out, the law may effectively drive immigrants into the factories and the fields as it tries to ensure that they are uneducated, impoverished, and easily exploitable. As the We Belong Together delegation highlighted, Arizona's concerns have become those of Georgia, and it is now clear that these concerns are very real in Alabama, too.


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The Tigers closed out the 54-hole event with a team score of 1116 in the 21-team field. Longwood captured the team trophy with a 912, outdistancing second place St. John's by 10 strokes.
Harris carried the Towson banner for the second straight round with another 84 to finish with a 54-hole total of 264, one stroke off her collegiate low for a three-round tournament.
"We needed Chelsea to shoot in the low 80's," said Tiger coach Kate Stepanek. "She led the squad today and she did that very well."
Harris tied for 87th in the field of 110 golfers.
Sophomore Carley Stenger was second into the clubhouse for Towson with an 88 that placed her 94th. Her 54-hole total of 271 is her collegiate low.
Freshman Francesca Ruscio carded an 88 too that tied her for 98th. Freshman Victoria Frasco finished in 105th place.
Senior Airielle Dawson, who had to withdraw early in the second round after posting an opening round 81, did not compete due to a recurring injury.
Towson is back on the links again April 2-3 when they compete in the Lady Hoya Invitational hosted by Georgetown.


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Jefferson City Helias Catholic should arrive in Webb City brimming with confidence, Cardinal coach John Roderique suggested on Sunday.
"I'd say they will come in mentally ready," Roderique said of today's 7 p.m. game at Cardinal Stadium. "They (the Crusaders) have been very resilient in coming from behind the last two games."
Helias (7-4) and top-ranked, defending champion Webb City (11-0) are meeting in the sectional round of the MSHSAA Class 4 football playoffs.
Helias, a perennial force, rallied to win 29-19 at Bolivar to secure a first place in district play. The Crusaders then rallied to beat visiting Carthage 20-17 last Wednesday night in a regional.
Webb City defeated Helias 35-21 in Jefferson City at this juncture of the 2010 playoffs.
Helias, in its first season under former assistant Phil Pitts, also will bring a hot quarterback — 6-foot-1, 167-pound senior Aaron Vossen — to Webb City, Roderique said. Vossen has thrown for some 600 yards and six touchdowns on 46 of 67 the last two games.
"Vossen is a two-way threat," Roderique said after Sunday's practice. "He's solid with a good arm and also runs well. They love to run the ball and Vossen makes good decisions.
"They have quality receivers and they spread the ball around," Roderique said. "Anthony Woodruff (6-1, 172 junior) and Andrew Stiles (5-10, 158 senior) are outstanding receivers.
"Woodruff (perhaps joining Vossen as the leading Helias heroes at Bolivar) is very good," Roderique said. "He has great speed and great hands. Stiles has good hands and blocks well.
"They have a good running back in No. 30 (5-10, 165 senior Brendan Roberts)," Roderique said. "He runs very hard and has good speed.
"Helias probably will line up in a 4-3 as its base defense," Roderique said. "Their down linemen are strong, physical and aggressive.
"It's supposed to rain (on Monday) and obviously we could get it during the game," Roderique said. "We had that experience (gusting winds and heavy rain) against Bolivar on Wednesday night. It didn't rain during the game at Jefferson City."
The Webb City-Helias survivor — the Cardinals travel if they win — faces Springfield Hillcrest or Union in the quarterfinals at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Cardinal leaders: Junior Phoenix Johnson, who has 162 points, has rushed 126 times for 1,239 yards and 25 touchdowns. Jamison Cady, a senior, has carried the ball 120 times for 731 yards and eight TDs. Senior quarterback Breckin Williams has completed 66 of 121 passes for 1,213 yards and 13 TDs. Leading receivers include senior Jarvis Jones (29 receptions, 657 yards, seven touchdowns) and junior tight end Kohl Slaughter (20-280-4). Junior Alex Easley has kicked four field goals and 58 extra points. ... Leaders in defensive tackles are junior outside linebacker Nate Brown (67 total), junior inside linebacker Dalton Humphrey (63), junior free safety Logan Williams (48) and senior inside linebacker Wyatt Johnson (45).


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After a one-week closure that saw Paradise receive more than 6.5 feet of snow, Mount Rainier National Park crews are working to get the road to the popular destination open.
The park posted on its Twitter feed Saturday morning that the opening of the 11-mile stretch of road between Longmire and Paradise will be delayed as crews clear snow. All vehicles will be required to carry chains.
Due to icy roads/sanding, the opening of the gate at Longmire will be delayed. All vehicles are required to carry tire chains. tks
— MountRainierNPS (@MountRainierNPS) February 22, 2014