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Department of Corrections officer Patricia Hudson knocks on the window of an offender on probation as officer Gary Rink stands by.
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Department of Corrections officer Gary Rink (right) talks with Thai Bingisser (center) about the terms of his freedom while officer Patricia Hudson (left) inspects his living area for illegal items like drugs or alcohol. Officers Rink and Hudson visit offenders who are on probation throughout Snohomish County to make sure they following the conditions of their release.
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Corrections officer Patricia Hudson chats with Morgan Dotson, who owns a recovery house that provides ex-cons with the accountability they need to get themselves on the right track.
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Department of Corrections officer Patricia Hudson knocks on the door of a offender on probation.
The veteran state community corrections officer then rapped on the door of the run-down Lynnwood apartment unit.
She examined the peephole and studied the closed blinds. There were no ripples.
She still wasn't convinced.
Being skeptical comes with her beat.
Hudson scribbled a note on a business card setting a 4 p.m. deadline for the former inmate to report or face an arrest warrant. She slid the message into the door jamb.
It was one of many stops she would make that August morning.
For the next few hours, Hudson crisscrossed south Snohomish County, knocking on doors of apartments, mobile homes and houses that blended seamlessly into suburbia. She was checking on nearly a dozen offenders on probation. Most were in the system for assaults on family members or girlfriends.
"It really is the most important contact you have," Hudson said, referring to the cold knocks.
These days, Hudson and community corrections officers across the state are using a new tactic to convince felons on supervision to meet the conditions of their release. Approved by the Legislature earlier this year, it's called the "swift and certain" policy and the idea is to impose brief but immediate punishment of up to 72 hours in jail for violators.
State corrections leaders believe that by cranking up accountability with immediate jail time in the first months after release, offenders will be more likely to comply through the remainder of their supervision.
The jail stays amount to adult time-outs for minor violations, such as not reporting to corrections officers, failing drug tests, missing treatment or moving without permission. Harsher penalties are given for more serious behavior, such as violating no-contact orders.
And repeat violators get locked up in county jails until they comply with their conditions.
"I have seen some improvement in compliance with certain offenders on my caseload," Hudson said. "I don't know what the long-term impacts it will have."
Kyle Wilhelm, 30, believes the new policy is a worthwhile tool. He's part of Hudson's caseload, which can vary between 20 and 45 offenders. The Lynnwood man was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the March 17, 2007, shooting of his brother.
A judge found grounds for a low sentence because his brother was drunk and had been hitting his girlfriend. Wilhelm fired a shotgun through a door and the slug killed his brother.
Kyle Wilhelm said it's good the state is keeping a short leash on people on probation.
"It doesn't bother me at all," he said.
Hudson divides offenders she monitors into three groups of roughly equal numbers. The first is naturally compliant, not wanting to make waves. The second doesn't much like jail but needs close monitoring to meet conditions of probation. The final group doesn't seem to care much about going to jail and is willing to take risks.
It is that second group, the ones who need the nudge to do the right thing, that Hudson believes the new law is reaching the most.
Clients who once showed up late to her Lynnwood probation office now appear early, fearing they'll immediately be hauled back to jail if they're tardy.
The shorter, more certain punishments also translate into less time served in county jails, which reins in costs. The average daily cost is $64 for an inmate in Snohomish County. The state Department of Corrections is investing the millions of dollars in savings statewide into alcohol and drug treatment and other programs.
"Seventy-two hours seems to get the attention of an offender," said Karen Adams, who oversees Department of Corrections field offices in seven Northwest Washington counties. "After that, the (jail) time tends to lose its effectiveness. The offender starts to settle in" to the jail routine.
Adams didn't always think that way. When she broke in as a corrections officer in the late 1980s, she wanted offenders to spend as much time as possible in jail for violations.
"You need to balance the amount of time with the seriousness of the violation," she said.
Anna Aylward, assistant secretary of community corrections, said the state is using less than half the jail beds for violators compared with the same period a year ago.
"We know from research that the length of time of confinement (for minor violations) doesn't improve compliance with the offender," she said. "There is no connection. It doesn't decrease recidivism whatsoever."
John Thaler-Sanborn, executive director for the Everett-based New Life Prison Ministry, works with felons who have been released.
They tell him they like the new policy.
"They know what to expect right up front," he said. "They know it's swift. It's immediate. It doesn't linger."
Shorter jail stints give offenders a better chance to keep their jobs and housing, improving their odds of making it on the outside, he said.
They're also less disruptive for offenders in drug and alcohol treatment or in anger management and mental health counseling, officials said.
It's too early to tell how effective the swift and certain policy will be, but it's worth trying, Hudson said.
A community corrections officer for 17 years, Hudson has seen laws and policies come and go.
"Naturally we were a little skeptical, but I think we are on board now," she said. "If this will make a change, we are willing to try it."
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The technologically troubled HealthCare.gov website has been the subject of at least one attempted but unsuccessful cyber attack, according to one of the of the Homeland Security Department's top cyber officials.
"We are aware of one open-source action attempting to perpetrate a denial-of- service attack against the HealthCare.gov site that has been unsuccessful," Bobbie Stempfley, the acting assistant secretary of DHS' Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, testified before the House Homeland Security Committee Wednesday.
The Department of Health and Human Services, in total, has notified DHS of 16 potential security issues with the system, Stempfley told members of the committee, which focused on potential cybersecurity concerns with the online portal.
That's just a tiny sliver of the overall number of reported attacks and intrusions against all federal systems, which totaled 138,000 in fiscal 2013, Stempfley said.
Still, lawmakers said the consolidation of personal information — such as names, Social Security numbers and immigration status — and the glitch-prone website are cause for concern.
"Even if a system worked properly, the centralization of so much data would create security concerns," said Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas), the committee's chairman. "But in this case HealthCare.gov is so flawed, these concerns are even greater."
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"I think it would surprise many Americans to know that DHS had, effectively, no input into the security of HealthCare.gov despite it being arguably the most significant federal government website ever created," he said. "To be clear, DHS has not participated in any meaningful way in developing, monitoring or ensuring the security of HealthCare.gov."
During development of the website, the only contact between DHS and the agency responsible for building it, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, "consisted of two emails and one phone call," McCaul said.
"In this case, CMS never asked DHS for advice, technical assistance or even a threat briefing," he added.
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But Stempfley said that's not out of the ordinary.
"It is not typical for a department or agency as they're building a specific application to involve DHS," she said.
While it's true that DHS is responsible for conceiving the broad security guidance agencies follow to secure their networks, under the Federal Information Security Management Act regulations, agency leadership ultimately has the responsibility for building, operating and securing specific applications, she said.
In the case of HealthCare.gov, CMS officials first contacted DHS in late August to discuss services it could offer in regard to the new information systems built to implement the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to Stempfley's testimony.
DHS provided CMS a list of capabilities but "has not yet received a specific request from CMS relative to the ACA systems, and has not provided technical assistance to CMS relative to ACA systems," Stempfley said in her testimony.
The tech-troubled launch of the health care website also faced intense scrutiny at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing Wednesday.
Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) went so far as to subpoena federal chief technology officer Todd Park to testify before the committee on how the administration planned to fix the the site's glitches.
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HAVELOCK — Madison Sloan always enjoyed golf. But it wasn't until last year that the Havelock High senior made a serious effort to get competitive. It paid off with an appearance in the state 3A tournament.
She continued to work and made another appearance at the state tournament this season. Now, she's turned that work into an opportunity to play golf in college.
Sloan signed her national letter of intent to play golf at Presbyterian College last week at Havelock High.
"I really like the fact that it was a Division I school and that it was smaller," Sloan said. "When I met the coach, I liked it. It just felt like I belonged there."
Presbyterian is a liberal arts college located in Clinton, S.C., between Greenville and Spartanburg, S.C. The campus has about 1,200 students.
"It's a small town, kind of like here, but 30 minutes away you have some large towns, so you're not completely isolated," she said.
Sloan also considered Belmont-Abbey and the University of Tampa, but her academic future also was key in her decision.
"I'm planning to major in business administration or management, and PC has a really good business program, so that was appealing to me also," she said.
As for the golf program, the Blue Hose compete in the Big South Conference and are in their seventh season with coach Thomas Addison at the helm.
"I really like the coach and I really like his teaching style," Sloan said. "Their golf program is good. They should have a strong team coming up, and I think that with more players, they can win more. I just felt like they have a lot of good courses and good equipment and good technology for their practices."
Sloan completed her senior season at the state 3A tournament, where she shot back-to-back 89s to finish in a tie for 18th in cold, blustery and rainy conditions brought on by Hurricane Sandy.
"The wind was terrible. It was windy and freezing cold," Sloan said. "The first day it rained. It just wasn't ideal conditions. States are always bad conditions. I don't think we've ever had nice weather for states."
Now that her season is over and she has signed to play in college, Sloan said her work is not done if she wants to reach her goals.
"I would really like to be in the top 5 and play in some matches," she said of her freshman season that will start in the fall of 2013. "I really want to play in the tournaments. I am going to work really hard this summer to make sure that I qualify. I really want to work hard to get ready for the college season."
She said her work won't necessarily involve the mechanics of her golf swing.
"I probably need to work better on my scoring," said Sloan, who's low round this high school season was a 77. "I can hit the ball well, but I can't exactly validate that with my scores."
She thanked her parents and coaches for helping her learn to play golf.
"My dad taught me some, and then my coach Nina Foust helped me," she said. "She really got my swing to where it is today. She's really good."


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Tik-Tok of Oz
Tik-Tok of Oz (Hardcover)
Join Tik-Tok, the Shaggy Man, and a host of other friends--both old and new--on an exciting, imaginative journey through the world of Oz.
The fun begins in an isolated corner of Oz, in the small country of Oogaboo. There Queen Ann Soforth musters an unlikely army and sets off to conquer the rest of Oz. Meanwhile, a girl from Oklahoma named Betsy Bobbin and her companion, Hank the mule, are shipwrecked and washed ashore in the Rose Kingdom, a magical land of talking roses. There they meet the Shaggy Man, who is on a quest to rescue his brother from the clutches of the wicked Nome King. Betsy, Hank, and the Rose Princess join the Shaggy Man on his journey, and before long they meet up with Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter; Tik-Tok; and Queen Ann with her army. The rest of Baum's tale is filled with hairbreadth escapes, wild puns, and mystifying magic.
Capturing all the fun are twelve color plates and nearly eighty black-and-white drawings by Oz artist John R. Neill, as well as a facsimile of Neill's full-color map endpapers of Oz and the enchanted realms that surround it--the first maps of Oz ever published!
Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth Oz novel and the first to bring a girl other than Dorothy to Oz. Now, in this beautiful reproduction of the rare first edition, a whole new generation can discover the enchantment and joy that have made the Oz series such an enduring favorite."Join Tik-Tok and friends on an exciting, imaginative journey through the thrilling world of Oz, complete with hairbreadth escapes, wild puns, and mystifying magic....An enduring favorite."--School Library Journal. This lavish reproduction of Oz.
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Jim Dandy's Black Oak Arkansas returns to Rooster's Blues House March 10
OXFORD TOWN – James "Jim Dandy" Mangrum (pictured here) returns to Rooster's Blues house this Saturday (March 10) for an acoustic performance of the songs that have defined the band since the mid-1960s. Don't miss this rare chance to catch the timeless fusion of two rock 'n' roll legends – Black Oak Arkansas and Jim Dandy. Page 7 in this week's issue of Oxford Town (No. 969) has details of the FREE show that'll send us all into a major Spring Break bliss. (March 8, 2012, Page 7)
'Jim Dandy To The Rescue'
OXFORD TOWN – Still rocking our world, Black Oak Arkansas makes a one-night stop at Rooster's Blues House tonight (Thursday, Dec. 22) for an acoustic show of songs that have defined them since the mid-'60s. And, this very special show at Rooster's is FREE. Don't miss this rare chance to see a rock 'n' roll legend in action at one of Oxford's favorite venues — Black Oak Arkansas and Rooster's Blues House. Page 5 in this week's issue of Oxford Town has more information on the band you ALMOST forgot about … but not quite. (December 22, 2011, Page 5)


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September 14, 2007
|Falcons Lose in 5 to Mt. Olive
|Friday, 14 September 2007
|MOUNT OLIVE , N.C. – Mount Olive weathered a Pfeiffer comeback for a 30-24, 30-28, 21-30, 21-30, 15-10 win in Conference Carolinas women's volleyball Friday at Kornegay Arena.
Mount Olive (6-8 overall, 2-1 Conference Carolinas) built a 26-17 lead in game one and held on after Pfeiffer (7-5, 1-2) pulled within five points.
Pfeiffer controlled most of game two, building a 25-15 lead. A Pfeiffer hitting error capped the 10-point run as the Trojans tied the game 25-25. The game was tied 28-28 when Bartley recorded a kill and an ace to give Mount Olive a two-game lead.
In the third game, Petra Lubicic helped spark Pfeiffer to a late run as the Falcons broke away from a 17-16 lead to get the win and stay in the match.
Aces by Lubicic and Brittany Dickens in game four helped stake Pfeiffer to a late 11-point lead and the Falcons were able to force a fifth game.
Mitchell served back-to-back aces in the fifth game to give Mount Olive a 12-6 lead. Pfeiffer pulled within 13-10, but after a side out gave the Trojans match point, Alicia Mote put home her 10th kill to close out the win.
Lubicic led four Pfeiffer players in double figures with 16 kills, while Lauren Spiotta finished with 14 kills and Dickens and Gabby McKinley added 10 kills apiece. Morgan Liebert recorded 55 assists, while Lubicic and Dickens each served three aces.
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Draft Status: Great cover corners, especially ones who can defend the run, tackle and with great ball skills are rare in every draft, but especially so in this one. I suspect if he declares(and why wouldn't he?) he's the first CB off the board, and when you consider the drop in talent after him, he'll end up in the top 15, and the next corner not until the end of the round.
Final Analysis: I entered the season with a list of 4 corners I expected to have as first round grades. Haden wasn't one of them, and that's my bad. Haden is a superb athlete, and a great football player. There's very little he needs to improve in his game, other than possibly play recognition and his assignments in a zone defense. Of course his physical style of coverage will probably cost him a flag or two early but the number of big plays he will make will far outnumber those.
Reminds me of: Terrance McGee, CB Buffalo Bills-Both with short stout frames, and are super physical in coverage and in run support.and is an even better blitzer. Haden has a chance to be a special player in this league, just like McGee is.
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Our Fourth of July feast wouldn't be complete without this cool, old-fashioned potato salad. It's my grandma's treasured recipe. —Sue Gronholz, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
- 6 pounds medium red potatoes
- Water
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup butter, cubed
- 1/4 cup white vinegar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 4-1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 3/4 cup Miracle Whip
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 2 green onions, sliced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 3 hard-cooked eggs, sliced
- Paprika
- Place potatoes in a stockpot and cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and cook for 15-20 minutes or until tender. Drain. When cool enough to handle, peel and slice potatoes; cool completely.
- For dressing, in the top of a double boiler or metal bowl over barely simmering water, heat water, butter and vinegar until butter is melted. In a small bowl, beat eggs; add sugar and cornstarch. Add to butter mixture; cook and stir for 5-7 minutes or until thickened. Transfer to a large bowl; cool completely.
- In a small bowl, beat cream until stiff peaks form. Stir Miracle Whip into cooled dressing mixture; fold in whipped cream. Stir in onion, green onions, salt and pepper. Add potatoes; toss lightly to combine. Refrigerate, covered, until chilled.
- To serve, top with hard-cooked eggs; sprinkle with paprika. Yield: 24 servings (3/4 cup each).
Originally published as Grandma's Potato Salad in Taste of Home June/July 1994, p12
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"I didn't actually try this recipe. My sister did, and she isn't a very good cook, so she didn't know the difference. The ingredients alone should give you a clue. It was awful! This is absolutely NOT grandma's potato salad."
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Republican Eileen Kowall of White Lake is the current state representative for the 44th District of the Michigan House of Representatives serving her first term.
Rep. Kowall attended Wayne State University from 1970 to 1972; the University of Detroit from 1972 to 1974, where she obtained a degree in Dental Hygiene. Eileen Kowall has been married to Michael Kowall for 35 years. They have two children: Marissa and her husband Tom, and Stephanie. They have one granddaughter Madeline.
Previous offices held
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Key votes of 2009-2010
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- Super Speedway, Lawmakers voting on whether TO EXTEND A SPECIAL TAX PERK for a super speedway.
- Driver Responsibility Fees, Lawmakers voting on whether TO IMPOSE 'driver responsibility fees.'
- Crony Capitalism, Lawmakers voting on whether TO RESTRICT THE RIGHT of shareholders to sell their own stock.
- Right to Work, Lawmakers voting on an amendment SUPPORTING RIGHT-TO-WORK zones.
- Dept. of State Cost-Saving, Lawmakers voting on whether TO SLOW DOWN PROGRESS ON THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S COST-SAVING CONSOLIDATION PLAN.
- Golf Carts, Lawmakers voting on whether TO SUBSIDIZE the production of electric vehicle batteries.
- Home Court Disadvantage, Lawmakers voting on whether TO GIVE MORE TAXING POWER to local government in Kalamazoo so it can finance a taxpayer-subsidized sports arena.
- Fire Safe Cigarettes, Lawmakers voting on whether TO BAN the sale of cigarettes that are not "fire safe."
- Balancing Act, Lawmakers voting on a budget to CUT REVENUE SHARING PAYMENTS to local governments as a way to balance the state budget without raising taxes.
- Balancing Act 2, Lawmakers voting on a cut of less than 3 percent to K-12 school aid payments so as to balance the state budget without tax increases.
- A Good Tax Gone Bad?, Lawmakers voting on the Michigan Business Tax.
- It's From the Children, Lawmakers voting on whether to RAID $90 MILLION from the Michigan Higher Education Student Loan Authority.
- Left Behind, Lawmakers voting on whether TO FINANCE "No Worker Left Behind" with a 59.9 percent increase in general fund spending in the 2009 DELEG budget.
- First Class Schools, Lawmakers voting on whether to keep Detroit Public Schools' "first class" status even though the district no longer meets the population standard.
- Politically Correct Capitalism, Lawmakers voting on whether to INCREASE SUBSIDIES for plug-in traction battery packs used in electric cars.
- Politically Correct Capitalism 2, Lawmakers voting on whether to GIVE SUBSIDIES for Michigan film production.
- Politically Correct Capitalism 3, Lawmakers voting on whether to INCREASE ELECTRIC CAR SUBSIDIES for a subsidiary of a Korean battery company.
- Secret Ballot, Lawmakers voting on whether to keep a SECRET BALLOT for union elections.
- Property Taxes Assaulted Again, Lawmakers voting on whether to allow public schools to EXPAND THE USE OF SINKING FUND property tax spending.
- Sneak Attack, Lawmakers voting on whether to allow public schools to EXPAND THE USE OF SINKING FUND property tax spending.
- Grapes of Wrath, Lawmakers voting on whether TO BAN home shipment of beer and wine to Michigan consumers.
- Subsidize Manufacture of Electric Cars, Lawmakers voting on whether to authorize a refundable Michigan Business Tax credit for makers of plug-in traction battery packs used in electric cars.
- Authorize Special Tax Breaks for Ethanol Gas Stations, Lawmakers voting on whether to authorize a non-refundable Michigan Business Tax credit equal to 30 percent of the costs incurred by a gas station to convert existing pumps and tanks, or acquire new ones that deliver E85 ethanol or biodiesel fuel.
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Committee Assignments, 2009-2010
Kowall is the Republican candidate who ran for re-election to the District 44 Seat in 2010. She defeated Rick Gutowski in the August 3 Republican primary. He faced Phil Fabrizio (D) in the general election on November 2, 2010.
On November 04, 2008, Eileen Kowall ran for District 44 of the Michigan House of Representatives, beating Mark Venie. [1]
Eileen Kowall raised $119,048 for her campaign.[2]
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|Eileen Kowall (R)
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In 2008 Eileen Kowall collected $119,048 in donations. [3]
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Companies cut dividends when they either expects that business would deteriorate to an extent where all cash might be needed to sustain the business or because they cannot afford to pay the dividend. When management expects losses that would drain cash in the near future, they are very likely to cut distributions. When dividends are cut, stock prices typically nosedive as the last investors who have held on hoping for better news leave the sinking ship. As a rule, I always sell when a company announces that it would be cutting dividends.
Over the past three years I have had four situations, where I have had to deal with dividend cutters and eliminators. In 2008 American Capital (ACAS) suspended its dividend payment. In 2009 General Electric (GE) and State Street (STT) also cut distributions, in the middle of the financial crisis. In 2010 oil giant British Petroleum (BP) suspended distributions, amidst pressure from the US Government to hold onto its cash in order to be able to pay for the oil spill it had created. In all but one of the situations, I would have been better off simply holding on, without selling.
The reason why I typically sell after a dividend cut is that as a group, companies that cut and eliminate dividends have underperformed the market since 1972 according to a study by Ned Davis Research.
Another reason why I sell is that with dividend cutters and eliminators you have the risk that the company might be on the brink of collapse. If your strategy was to buy companies after cutting dividends, you would probably realize a lot in gains when times are favorable, like in 2009. However, during severe bear markets, such as the one between 2007 and 2009 investors buying after a dividend cut might experience losses that could lead to total loss of principal. And once investors lose their capital, they are no longer in the game. If you had a 50% chance for an opportunity to make a 100% gain in one year, along with a 50% chance for an opportunity to lose 100% of your capital you should clearly stay away from this investment. The goal of successful dividend investing is not only generating a rising stream of income, but also ensuring that principal grows over time as well.
Investors who purchased General Electric (GE), State Street (STT) and BP after the cut were plain lucky. Investors who purchased Citigroup (C) , Bank of America (BAC) and American International Group (AIG) after the cut suffered severe losses. But those losses were nothing in comparison to investors who purchased Lehman Brothers, General Motors or Washington Mutual.
The moral of the story is that in order to be successful in investing, one needs to be able to find a strategy that offers some edge and some positive expectancy. It is also important to stick to that strategy and to only exit the position when a predetermined condition at the time of position initiation is triggered.
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England's South African-born-flank Hendré Fourie wants to make a statement against the Boks, writes GAVIN MORTIMER in SA Rugby magazine.
You know Hendré Fourie is well on his way to becoming a fully-fledged Englishman when he starts salivating at the mention of fish and chips and Yorkshire puddings. And he's also partial to a pint of warm beer.
It's been five years since the 31-year-old Fourie packed his bags and headed to England, taking up the offer of a part-time contract with Rotherham, a Yorkshire club then in Division One. Two years later he joined Leeds – becoming a full-time professional in the process – and what has happened since has been, in Fourie's own words, 'a fairytale'. He was first selected for the England A team in February 2010 and his ball carrying and fierce defence then earned him a call-up to the senior squad for the June tour to Australia and New Zealand.
'It was a complete shock,' admits Fourie. 'Me and the missus had gone to the cinema in the evening and halfway during the film I saw my phone flashing. I didn't answer it because I didn't want to disturb people but I looked at the number and didn't recognise it. As we left the cinema I said to my wife, "What are the chances it's [England manager] Martin Johnson?" Then I listened to the message and it was him, congratulating me on making the England squad.'
Unfortunately for Fourie things didn't quite go according to plan once in Australia. A niggling calf injury flared up during the first game – England's 28-28 draw with the Australian Barbarians – and he was replaced at half-time to play no further part in the tour. But it wasn't all doom and gloom.
'I probably played some of the best rugby I've ever played in that first half against the Baa-Baas,' he says.
Johnson clearly agreed with Fourie's assessment because when he announced his 32-man elite playing squad in July, Fourie had made the cut. He won his first Test cap against New Zealand two weeks ago, and nothing would give him greater pleasure than to line up against the Springboks next Saturday.
'That would be special,' he says with a laugh. 'And if I could be involved in scoring the winning try it would be even better as it would show South Africa they were wrong to let me go.'
The words are spoken in jest but one senses that Fourie, by nature a cheerful, easy-going man, stills feels the bitter pang of rejection by South Africa. Born in Burgersdorp and educated at Free State University, he played for Shimlas before representing the Free State Cheetahs in the Vodacom Cup. When he missed out on selection for the Vodacom Cup squad in 2005, Fourie decided to try his luck in England.
Reflecting on that difficult period of his life (Fourie considered quitting rugby and putting his degree in software development to better use), he says: 'I think South Africa could improve the way they go about identifying talent at an early age. I appreciate that there's a vast pool of talent in the country but I feel I never got a chance to prove myself and I know there were many others like me.'
Fourie's other disadvantage was his size. At 1.83m and 108kg he's not the biggest flanker in world rugby and though the likes of Neil Back, George Smith and Serge Betsen have all proved to be world-class openside flankers, the tradition in South Africa is to select players who are 1.90m plus.
'When I left school I was told I wasn't big enough to play flank,' Fourie explains. 'So I spent three years as a hooker. Eventually in about 2002 I reverted to playing flank but there's definitely a trend in South Africa to pick big opensiders. I was delighted to see Heinrich Brüssow break through last season and show what he can do despite being smaller than me [Brüssow is 1.81m and 105kg].'
At Leeds Fourie has come under the wing of one of the great opensiders of recent times, Neil Back, another small man but one whose heart lacks nothing in size. Nor does his brain, and already Fourie says he's learnt a great deal from the 66-Test veteran.
'He's done so much to improve my game,' Fourie says. 'He gives me small tips, little things you might not think are that important, but they are and they've made me so much better as a player. But it's also his advice on my lifestyle – from what I eat to how I prepare for games – that has helped.'
The respect is mutual and at the start of the English Premiership season Back declared that he was expecting great things from Fourie this year.
'For me, Hendré was the standout openside flanker in the Premiership last season,' says Back. 'He was doing everything slightly better than some great players in the Premiership … if he plays as well as he can this season, he can get that starting role with England.'
Far from heaping pressure on Fourie's shoulders, the assessment has given him a greater incentive to force his way into the England team.
'When a player like Neil Back says that about you it can only give you a boost because if he believes it, you must be doing something right. I certainly believe I can do it [play for England]; my armoury is good enough and if I play well for Leeds every week I don't see why I can't play for England. It should be the ambition of every player to be No 1 in his position and I'm no different.'
When Fourie returned home from the cinema with Johnson's message still ringing in his ears, one of the first things he did was phone his dad in South Africa.
'He was so proud he was almost in tears,' recalls Fourie. 'All my family have been supportive of me and when I was back in South Africa in July for a few weeks my friends were congratulating me. I've had nothing but positive feedback.'
It's unlikely that Fourie's dad will make it to Twickenham in November (getting a visa at short notice is difficult – even for the father of an international rugby player) so he'll have to content himself with watching the matches on TV. But Fourie believes his dad will see an England side coming to the boil just in time for next year's World Cup.
'The balance of youth and experience is now there in the squad,' says Fourie. 'Martin Johnson has shown faith in the players and that's given us the confidence to go out there and play the way we can. If players feel they have the support of the coach it makes them much more secure and that will show in the way they play.'
England's results on their mid-year tour to Australia and New Zealand were mixed: played five, won two, drew one, lost two, but the most significant result was the 21-20 victory in the second Test against Australia, only their third Test win Down Under in 47 years of trying.
'I wasn't surprised by the win,' says Fourie, 'because even though we'd lost the first Test there was a positive attitude running through the squad and we knew it was just a question of making the odd tweak here and there.'
England's win against the Wallabies was more than South Africa managed in Australia in this year's Tri-Nations, but Fourie doesn't believe that there's too much wrong with the Springboks.
'I wouldn't be too worried,' he says. 'The margins in Test rugby are so narrow that one missed tackle – as happened against New Zealand [in Soweto] – and the game is lost. South Africa beat New Zealand three times in 2009 and this time it's the other way round.'
Fourie has been impressed by what he's seen of the All Blacks this season, though a wry smile escapes his lips as he lavishes praise on Richie McCaw and his boys.
'They have been awesome, haven't they? But then they were like this the year before the previous World Cup and then they faded come the tournament. It's all looking a little bit familiar.'
As befits a man of Fourie's positive outlook, he's quite happy to state that he has every intention of playing in next year's World Cup – particularly as his family would have time to get visas – but he knows there's a lot of work to be done between now and then. First he needs to get a good season under his belt at Leeds, one of the Premiership's smallest clubs in terms of finance and resources. This year they'll be bolstered by the presence of one of John Smit's great adversaries, England's World Cup-winning hooker Steve Thompson, and at lock there's the formidable bulk of Marco Wentzel, the former Blue Bull.
'Marco is the best lineout technician I've ever seen,' says Fourie. 'Last year he got the most steals in the Premiership and the work he puts into organising attack and defence moves in the lineout is amazing.'
The calf injury that forced Fourie's withdrawal from the tour to Australia has been fixed and he's eager to impress now that the season has started. The English winter is already on its way so it won't be long before Fourie's knee deep in mud in the teeth of a raging gale. All a long way from his days playing for the Cheetahs, but he wouldn't have it any other way. After all, Bloemfontein's not known for the quality of its Yorkshire puddings …
– This article first appeared in the November issue of SA Rugby magazine. The December issue is on sale next week.


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My dog has been going apeshit ALL day like Lassie-knows-theres-a-child-who-fell-down-the-well and she wasn't happy until I followed her outside...where she led me to a rabbit nest dug up and three baby rabbits scattered through the bushes. I'm uncertain as to whether my dog actually dug them up or not--I'm fairly certain from her anxiety about all of it that she actually didn't and her Border-Collie (or Bodhisattva?) instincts were making her freak out until she could get help from the grownups.
Anyway two were still okay and I put them back in the hole and covered it with the upturned bedding again. The third seemed dead, was covered in maggots and flies, however, when I went to bury it it was moving.
I was pretty disturbed and to be totally blunt it was really gross and upsetting. Anyway, I mustered the best aspiration I could that I would prevent it from suffering anymore in this life and by this action may we be bound together and both realize enlightenment. Although I felt pretty cowardly about my hesitation in doing so, I mustered the resolve to do what I thought was the only realistic choice available to me at that moment...and I buried it in a hole full of water while repeating the 100 syllable mantra and then prayed it would be reborn in a pure land and that all its ill karma would ripen solely in me.
I wanted to confess whatever aspect of this was deluded or harmful, to the general sangha here...and I also wanted ask what people think about euthanesia in general? I haven't had to deal with it since we put our dog down in 2008. Personally if I were really suffering a lot of pain with no chance of survival, I'd want to just go forth into the bardo rather than agonize for hours/days...but then I would never want make that choice for others who didn't feel the same. Nevertheless, I feel like Buddhism puts way more emphasis on "taking life" than "causing pain..." and I personally think that torture, for example, should be seen as a much heavier Karmic act than murder.
I've also been taught that, other than the 3 negative actions of mind, the Bodhisattva must not be afraid to break the 7 other precepts in order to benefit beings--in fact we must. However, I realize there were other options I could have taken in this situation--they just would have been much more difficult and complicated. Also, I realize fully that much of my urge to end the poor thing's suffering was tainted by my own discomfort with seeing it, not wanting to see it suffer, etc.
There is an older thread, I read it: viewtopic.php?f=101&t=6682&hilit=mercy+killing
I felt justified in starting a different one mainly because...I already did the deed as opposed to the OP by Inge, who was querying Dharmawheel about their recommendations.


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Louise Fountain Koonce, 105, and Vallie Rhodes Williams, 100, share more than just a residence at the facility. Not only do they have a common love for bingo, Activities Director Catherine Wilde said that the two ladies have great personalities and a history and share a similar childhood growing up in farming families in Richlands.
"Vallie told me a few weeks ago she wanted a husband," Wilde said. "Both of them are very active in bingo."
The residents were recently honored with a special dinners on their birthday with community friends and family attending.
Koonce was one of two children born to Sallie and Peter Fountain on
"She's the oldest in the family and we're very proud of her," her great nephew Bobby Miller said. Miller, who lives in
"She was all dressed up and smiling the whole time for her birthday," Miller said. "I wanted to see a smile on her face and they did that."
In 1925, she married Bishop Arthur Koonce, the vice moderator of Baptist General Conference, a 33rd degree Mason and pastor of numerous churches. Koonce was a long time treasurer for Bloominghill Free Will Baptist Church and one of the founding members of The Order of Eastern Star Chapter in the Richlands community. Miller said that his aunt, who was also known as "Doobie," was a great at gardening, quilt making and taking care of children. Koonce only had one child, who died shortly after birth.
"Aunt Doobie was always good with children and she helped raised me when my mother was working," Miller said. "I would always tell people I had two mothers."
Williams was one of 10 children born to Addie and Jule Rhodes on
"We raised sugar cane, cotton, corn and beans," Williams said. "We were raised wealthy, and two of us made it to college. Everything we asked our father for, he worked hard and got it for us."
Williams received her education in a one-room school up to seventh grade. She married Ivy Williams in 1930 and the couple had five children before divorcing in 1944. As a single mother, Williams made her living as a housekeeper before starting her career as a nurse.
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Nobody becomes a runner on a Tuesday night, or at least not enough people to matter. People become runners on Saturdays and Sundays, watching their friends or family or neighbors do something they'd previously considered impossible, and thinking, Hey, maybe I could do that.
"If you want someone to adopt running as a lifestyle," says Mary Wittenberg, CEO of the New York Road Runners, "you want them running year-round. Races provide the opportunity to set and meet goals, to go out and meet other people, and they provide structure for training."
These new runners have a lot of discoveries ahead of them, some pleasant, some physically painful, but these days, one of those discoveries might be that they can't afford to enter many of the races that drew them into their new sport.
There's growing consensus that the U.S. has a significant obesity problem. Running advocates claim, with justification, that running can be part of the prescription for addressing that problem. Obesity, however, has a negative correlation with socioeconomic status: The more affluent you are, the less likely you are to be obese. Cheap food tends to make you fat; just look at a McDonald's menu board. (On second thought, don't.)
If the people who need running most are the people who can least afford it, how does the running community make its case?
When Stephen Tierney started Up and Running Again in 2010, he planned to use the process of training for and completing a half marathon to motivate homeless adults and at-risk youth to envision a better future for themselves. In February, he entered the Surf City Half Marathon in Huntington Beach, Calif., with 45 new runners from the Orange County Rescue Mission and several youth programs in the area. Tierney's program provides shoes for its participants once they're able to run 30 minutes continuously, and also pays the race entry fee.
"The race gives us a discount [off the $95 entry fee], which we are grateful for," Tierney says, but he adds that their total cost for getting a new runner to the finish line is approximately $200. "The price tag is a barrier to my participants entering the sport," he continues. "The first barrier is getting them to try running. Once they get over that, the second barrier is the cost."
Yet it's hard to see where race directors would feel pressure to keep entry fees down. For one thing, their costs have skyrocketed. One I spoke to said their event's entry fee had gone up 300 percent, but their fixed costs in the same time had gone up 1,500 percent. Meanwhile, demand is stronger than ever. Just to choose one example, the Chicago Marathon reached its entry limit in six days in February despite a $150 entry fee. Demand is clearly exceeding supply, and basic economics would suggest that entry fees should keep going up until that trend is reversed–a point which the current running boom doesn't seem in any danger of reaching.
In fact, the current running community is a pretty affluent bunch, a fact borne out by the annual Running USA runner survey, as well as subscriber studies of Running Times and Runner's World. According to Running USA's survey, 70 percent of female runners and 76 percent of male runners have an annual household income over $75,000, and more than three-quarters of both groups have a college degree; both statistics are notably higher than the national average. Many of the participants who registered for Chicago (and other expensive "destination races") will come in from out of town, so their cost for the weekend will include plane or train tickets, hotel rooms and meals, and apparently most can afford it.
"The demand leaves little incentive to bring the price down," says John Conley, race director of the LIVESTRONG Austin Marathon and Half Marathon in Austin, Texas, and a member of Running USA's board of directors. "I'm not sure that registers for a lot of race directors." Conley sees this as a problem in the making, and his organization hopes to be ready before the problem becomes serious. "I haven't seen evidence of entry-level races like 5Ks and 10Ks pricing themselves out of the market," he says, "but there is certainly a social stratification, where pricing serves a gatekeeper function, like country club dues or greens fees."
Conley and his organization have been taking steps to keep their races, in particular the half marathon, accessible to certain populations in the Austin area. The marathon has arrangements for comped or discounted entries with three area a high schools. They sponsor both of the wellness programs operating in low-income East Austin, a "food desert" where fast food is easier to find than fresh groceries.
One of these wellness programs was offered by a church and drew 28 people out of a congregation of 3,000 for a 120-day 5K challenge. "All 28 were female and morbidly obese," says Conley. Twenty-three made it through the program, and Conley invited all of them to the VIP spectator section at the finish of the Austin Marathon. "The marathon atmosphere is contagious," he says. "It's like a graduation–you're uplifted by the end result, especially if you've never run one. The hope is that it generalizes to other areas of their lives."
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LECOM Bradenton joined forces with the Pittsburgh Pirates for a day at the ballpark.
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Under sun-drenched skies, LECOM Bradenton students and staff participated in Pirate-fest prior to the Pirates-Astros spring training game at McKechnie Field.
Pirate-fest is an annual street fair held outside of McKechnie Field that gives local organizations the opportunity to disseminate information to the public.
LECOM Bradenton first-year osteopathic medical students Miciah Jones, Kyle Stevenson, Jonathan Von Koenig and Case Newsom answered questions about LECOM Bradenton's programs.
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ELON — Breydan Gorham pitched a complete game, giving up four hits, striking out seven, and allowing no unearned runs as Western Alamance outlasted Northern Guilford 5-1 in Mid-State 3-A Conference baseball Friday night.
The victory moves the Warriors (12-3 overall, 11-3 Mid-State 3-A Conference) into a three-way, first-place tie with Northern Guilford and Eastern Guilford.
Cole Weaver led the offense for Western Alamance, notching two hits and scoring a run. His double led off the fifth inning in which the Warriors scored all of their runs. Kevin Burns smacked a two-run single in the same inning. Brock Deatherage had two hits and two stolen bases.
McMichael fell to 5-10, 3-8.
Alex Durham started on the mound and struck out 10, lasting into the sixth inning for
■ CARRBORO 6, GRAHAM 3: At Carrboro, Joe Hartnett and Delijah Pettiford had two hits apiece, but the Red Devils fell to the host Jaguars in a Mid-State 2-A Conference game. Hartnett drove in a run and also scored, while Lee Deal added a hit and scored a run for Graham (4-9, 2-5).
Carrboro improved to 5-5, 4-3.
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Jack Ellington scored two goals and Barrett Fennelle recorded two assists to lead Williams High School in a 9-2 defeat of visiting Southern Alamance at Burlington Memorial Stadium. The Bulldogs (9-4, 7-3) outshot the Patriots 34-4.
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Jaret Eaton, Jacob Rudd and Gabe Turcotte chipped in a goal apiece for
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Tessa Faucette, Emma Patterson and Megan Hawn chipped in two hits apiece for the Patriots (10-2, 7-0). Patterson had three RBI and three runs while Faucette drove in two runs.
■ NORTHERN GUILFORD 1, WESTERN ALAMANCE 0: At Elon, Caitlyn Ray drove in Kayla Ryals with the only run and Northern Guilford held on to defeat host Western Alamance in a Mid-State 3-A Conference game.
Emerson Hunt had two hits for the Warriors, who threatened with two base runners in the seventh. Courtney Rudd struck out 11 for
■ GRAHAM 14, CARRBORO 2, 5 innings: At Graham, Sydney McCann was 3-for-3 with a home run and five RBI, and Graham cruised past Carrboro in a Mid-State 2-A Conference game. McCann pitched a one-hitter and struck out six in picking up the victory on the mound for the Red Devils (6-5, 5-2).
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