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The Rockland County Office of Consumer Protection has forwarded complaints about Premier Fitness' sudden closure to the New York Attorney General's Office.
Terry Grosselfinger, the consumer protection office's director, said Monday that his office sent eight written complaints from customers unhappy about useless memberships.
Premier Fitness in Nanuet closed Jan. 24.
Grosselfinger said consumer protection officials' next step will be to verify if Premier Fitness had the proper bond in place to give refunds.
On its Facebook page after the closure the gym's management apologized to members and promised that current memberships will be cross-honored at an unnamed gym, but as of Monday the Facebook page and the company's web site appear to have shut down.
Premier Fitness' owner Ellen Goneconti declined to comment on the closure. Goneconti and her partner faced financial setbacks in the past year.
On June 6 the state Supreme Court awarded Nicholas Miele of New City a $313,000 judgment against Goneconti and Brian Fahrenfeld.
In a Dec. 7, 2012 letter from Goneconti filed in court records, she told Miele's attorney that the economy caused severe cash flow problems for the gym and it was unable to pay its debt to Miele.
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FANS of the long-running British program Antiques Roadshow might have spotted a familiar figure around Canberra on Saturday.
Auctioneer, antiques expert and television personality Tim Wonnacott was on a visit to film in Australia's capital, and stopped in at the National Museum to visit one of his more unusual finds.
After getting his start in television on Antiques Roadshow, Wonnacott now hosts the popular Bargain Hunt game show, in which contestants aim to buy antiques and sell them for a profit at auction.
Filming the program at an antiques fair in Leicestershire, Wonnacott came across an envelope containing four tiny pieces of gold, with a brief note on the outside addressed to a Mrs Thornycroft, with a reference to Emu Creek in Australia.
''I thought it was so unlikely for this thing to be discovered in a wet tent in England that it had to be not a fake or a fabrication - no one would fabricate a location in Australia and call it Emu Creek without there really being an Emu Creek,'' he said.
It is thought the nuggets were sent during the early gold rush at Grenfell in NSW, which was called Emu Creek for a short time, and the National Museum of Australia has since bought them for its collection.

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The winemaking is done at their nearby Paso Robles winery. To make the reds the fruit is gently crushed to retain 60-70% whole berries, and then fermented in open topped fermentors where the resulting "cap" is punched down by hand three or four time per day during the month long fermentation process. The finished wines are generally bottled unfined and unfiltered to retain the full flavor and complexity of the fruit.
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Should Nonprofit Hospitals Have To Meet Thresholds For Community Benefit Spending To Retain Their Tax Exemptions?
Medical Spending On Obesity Reaches $147 Billion Annually
Obesity Now Accounts For Nearly 10 Percent of All Medical Spending
Bethesda, MD -- Medical spending on conditions associated with obesity has doubled in the past decade and could reach $147 billion a year, say researchers in a new study published today on the Health Affairs Web site. Researchers from RTI International, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality warn that U.S. obesity rates grew 37 percent between 1998 and 2006. This rise accounted for 89 percent of the increase in obesity spending, or another $40 billion a year. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.28.5.w822
Obesity now accounts for 9.1 percent of all medical spending, up from 6.5 percent in 1998. If lawmakers are serious about cutting health care spending, study authors say, they should be focusing on ways to reduce obesity and its related risk factors since it is increasingly imposing a heavy burden on both private and public payers.
Today, more than 25 percent of Americans are obese, up from 18.3 percent in 1998. The researchers point to the increase in the prevalence of obesity and the medical problems it triggers as the culprit that is driving increases in total medical spending.
"The medical costs attributable to obesity are almost entirely a result of costs generated from treating the diseases that obesity promotes," said lead author Eric Finkelstein, Ph.D., director of the North Carolina-based RTI's Public Health Economics Program. "Obesity will continue to impose a significant burden on the health care system as long as obesity prevalence remains high," he added.
The CDC will discuss the study findings along with new recommendations designed to prevent and reduce the impact obesity has upon communities at the "Weight of the Nation" conference, a three-day meeting of public health experts, policy leaders, and researchers being held today in Washington, D.C.
Finkelstein and colleagues based their analysis on data from the 1998 and 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys and data from the National Health Expenditure Accounts. They define obesity as body mass index greater than 30.
They report that per capita medical spending for obese people was $1,429 higher per year (42 percent) than for someone of normal weight. Spending on prescription drugs was the largest cost driver. Costs for an obese Medicare beneficiary on prescription drugs was $600 more per year than for prescriptions used by a normal-weight beneficiary.
Although private payers bear a large portion of costs associated with spending on risks related to obesity, public-sector spending remains substantial. Medical spending linked with obesity accounts for 8.5 percent of Medicare expenditures and 11.8 percent of Medicaid expenditures.
Bariatric surgery and other treatments for obesity, while increasing in popularity, are not where the dollars are being spent, according to the researchers. Rather, spending associated with obesity is almost entirely tied to costs generated from treating the diseases that obesity promotes such as diabetes. For example, excess weight is the single greatest predictor of developing diabetes, a disease that costs $191 billion a year.
"If not for obesity, these costs would be much lower, as would costs for other conditions caused by excess weight," the authors say. "The connection between rising rates of obesity and rising medical spending is undeniable," they conclude.
After the embargo lifts, you can read the article by Finkelstein and coauthors at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.28.5.w822
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CLEVELAND (AP) -- An autopsy shows a 3-year-old Cleveland boy allegedly killed by his mother died of blows to the head, body and limbs.
The autopsy was done last week and the cause of death was released Tuesday by the Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH'-guh) County medical examiner. Prosecutors disclosed earlier that Emilliano Terry had suffered a skull fracture.
His mother had claimed the child went missing during an outing to a park. Twenty-year-old Camilia Terry was subsequently charged with aggravated murder. She's been held with a $2 million bond.
The medical examiner says the boy died around Thanksgiving Eve.
His mother says he disappeared while on an outing to a park Nov. 25. One day later, the mother's version of what happened changed and his body was found in the trash.


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Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions when he plans to publish the White Paper on leasehold reform; and if it will contain the draft Bill. [123660]
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Mr. Mullin: As was announced in the Gracious Speech given on 17 November 1999, Official Report, columns 4-7, we intend to publish a draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill for consultation during this session.
Mr. Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions which sites in the UK are under consideration for building new incinerators. [123713]
Ms Beverley Hughes: My Department does not keep a central record of sites under consideration for new incinerators. However, it is the responsibility of individual local planning authorities to consider planning applications for incinerators and they will keep their own records.
Mr. Chaytor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if the Government's procurement policy will include a commitment to buying timber and timber products from certified legal and sustainable sources. [123165]
Mr. Mullin: The Government's model policy statement for greening Government operations includes a commitment to purchase sustainably produced timber and timber products by, for example, requiring suppliers to provide documentary evidence that the timber has been lawfully obtained from forests and plantations which are managed to sustain their biodiversity, productivity and vitality, and to prevent harm to other ecosystems and any indigenous or forest-dependent people.
Sir Peter Emery: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will increase the level of Standard Spending Assessments of local authorities in respect of costs specific to provision of services in rural areas. [123915]
Ms Armstrong: Standard Spending Assessments already include elements that recognise that there are additional costs in providing services in rural areas. In the White Paper, "Modern Local Government--In Touch With The People", we said that we did not expect to make fresh changes to the method of calculation of Standard Spending Assessment while we conduct a review of the system of grant distribution.
Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what statistics relating to the responsibilities of his Department are collated by parliamentary constituency, indicating the dates covered in each case. [123843]
Ms Beverley Hughes: The Department's statistics are not compiled routinely by parliamentary constituency.
Mr. St. Aubyn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1) what plans he
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has to commission a third party to undertake independent verification of the abnormal indivisible loads notification system, with particular reference to evaluating the robustness of the software to analyse the strength of bridge structures; [123022]
(3) on what date software was due for final delivery under Highways Agency tender no. 3-276 (Abnormal Indivisible Loads Notification System Trial); and if the software was delivered by that date. [123024]
Mr. Hill: I have asked the Chief Executive of the Highways Agency, Mr. Peter Nutt to write to the hon. Member.
Letter from Peter Nutt to Mr. Nick St. Aubyn, dated 25 May 2000:
I refer to the recent questions you asked The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions regarding progress of the Abnormal Indivisible Loads Notification System which is being developed for the Highways Agency under tender number 3/276. The Secretary of State has asked me to provide you with a detailed reply since it concerns an operational matter for the Highways Agency.
The contractor (W. S. Atkins) has yet to appoint the independent checker to evaluate the structural software associated with the system. However this remains a contractual requirement and will be undertaken prior to the completion of the trial. This element of the system is subject to the Highways Agency's Technical Approval procedures. Consequently, the appointment of the independent checker will be subject to the agreement of the Highways Agency as the Technical Approval Authority.
It was envisaged that the internal trial of the Abnormal Indivisible Loads computer system would be carried out (in Highways Agency Maintenance Area 2) following a six month development period, and once the system had been checked and validated to the satisfaction of the Highways Agency's Designated Officer. The contract was awarded on 11 October 1999 and is scheduled to run for a period of twelve months. However, amendments to the contract programme agreed by the Highways Agency have resulted in the validation testing being delayed from 10 April 2000 until 10 July 2000 with a start revised date for the internal trial of the 1 August 2000. Final delivery of software was originally due 12 months after contract award, following the development and trial phases. It is now programmed for 11 January 2001.
A programme for external application (in other Highways Agency Maintenance Areas) of the automated abnormal load system has yet to be finalised. This will depend on the outcome of the trial and agreement between other interests responsible for dealing with abnormal loads including DETR, local highway authorities and other bridge owners.
I hope this provides you with the information you require. However, should you wish to discuss the project further, our Designated Officer for the contract, Martin Lynch, would be pleased to hear from you. He can be contacted on Tel: 0117 987 8560.
Mr. St. Aubyn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1) which (a) countries and (b) sections of the European Commission his Department consulted before announcing the change in its hydrofluorocarbons policy, referred to in DETR Climate Change Programme-HFC Policy Change; [123025]
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(3) which (a) engineering bodies, (b) industry bodies and (c) manufacturers in the United Kingdom air conditioning and refrigeration industry his Department consulted before announcing the change in its hydrofluorocarbons policy, referred to in DETR Climate Change Programme-HFC Policy Change. [123027]
Mr. Meacher: My Department did not hold any formal consultation before the Government's new HFC policy was announced in the draft climate change programme, which was published for consultation on 9 March 2000. However, officials have been involved in meetings that have taken place at international and European level between technical experts, industry representatives, officials from other countries and officials from the environment and enterprise sections of the European Commission on the use and projected trends in emissions of hydrofluorocarbons.
In addition my Department commissioned a report in 1998 from March Consulting Group to provide updated annual UK emissions data for HFCs, PFCs and SF 6 in each user sector. This also covered projects to 2020 and assessed the costs and benefits of options to reduce future emissions. In compiling their report, March Consulting Group consulted many companies within the UK air conditioning and refrigeration industry, and industry was given the opportunity to comment on the report.
My Department has not formally consulted other countries about the new HFC policy. However, several countries such as France, Italy, Germany and Finland indicated initial broad support at official level. Other countries will be considering their policies on HFCs as part of their development of programmes to deliver their Kyoto targets, but few have yet made clear statements on their position. The Danish Government have recently announced their new HFC policy, which would ban the use of HFCs in many applications.
Mr. Keith Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many laptop computers used by Ministers, officials and special advisers in his Department have been (a) lost and (b) stolen since May 1997. [123735]
Ms Beverley Hughes: Since May 1997 seven laptop computers have been stolen and one has been lost in transit.
Ms Oona King: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will make a statement about the programme for transferring existing organisations or parts of organisations to the Greater London Authority, London Transport Users' Committee, Transport for London and the London Development Agency. [124187]
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Mr. Hill: The transfers of existing bodies takes place on four main dates. As I announced in response to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, Central (Mr. Davies) on 1 April 2000, Official Report, columns 420-21W, the London Ecology Committee, London Planning Advisory Committee and London Research Centre were abolished, and their staff, assets and liabilities were temporarily transferred to the Secretary of State.
On 8 May these staff, assets and liabilities (other than those relating to a small number of London Research Centre staff who will transfer later to Transport for London) transferred to the Greater London Authority (GLA), along with a small number of planning staff from the Government Office for London, and the GLA Transition Team and staff newly recruited for the GLA.
Transfers to Transport for London (TfL) and the London Development Agency (LDA), and to the London Transport Users Committee (LTUC), will take place on 3 July. On that date the following will transfer to TfL:
the Traffic Control Systems Unit;
the staff, assets and liabilities of the Traffic Director for London;
the Docklands Light Railway;
the part of the Highways Agency dealing with London roads;
certain roads from London boroughs and the City of London;
certain roads in Docklands from the Commission for the New Towns;
the Public Carriage Office;
a small number of staff from the Government Office for London, and from the centre of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
some staff from the Government Office for London, together with staff newly recruited for the LDA.
Most of the above transfers will be achieved through transfer schemes prepared under powers in section 409 of the GLA Act. In preparing their transfer schemes, predecessor bodies are identifying which of their property, rights and liabilities, such as buildings, contracts, staff or other assets, will transfer to the GLA's functional bodies and which will remain with the predecessor body itself or be transferred elsewhere. Among other things, they will need to consider whether existing contracts can transfer in their existing form or whether changes will be needed to meet the needs of the functional bodies.
In addition, those predecessor bodies, such as the Highways Agency, which are designated as Public Records bodies under the Public Records Act 1958 will need to review those records which are intended to transfer to the functional bodies to see whether particular records are worthy of preservation in the national archive. Predecessor bodies will also need to identify whether all of their existing records are appropriate for transfer to the functional bodies, on the basis that all relevant records should transfer, unless
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they identify any papers, such as advice to Ministers of the present and previous administrations, which would be inappropriate for transfer. We expect that each predecessor body will identify very few, if any, papers which are unsuitable for transfer. In conducting this exercise they will need to ensure that they take full account of existing and proposed freedom of information legislation and the openness regime under which the GLA and functional bodies will operate.
Budgets for the GLA, TfL and LDA are as set out on 17 February 2000, Official Report, column 637W.
To permit the GlA, TfL and LDA to start functioning immediately on their respective start dates, orders to facilitate the transition have been made under powers in sections 405 and 406 of the GLA Act. These enable the new organisations to make arrangements for their financial operations and, where necessary, to prepare standing orders for their initial meetings. In addition temporary appointments of certain statutory office holders in the GLA, TfL and LDA have been made by the Secretary of State using powers in section 407 of the GLA Act.
To remove any doubts about the application of the Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 to transfers of staff to the new organisations, an order has been made applying the 1981 Regulations to all transfers of staff by means of transfer schemes or orders under the GLA Act powers. A further order added the new organisations to the list of bodies eligible to be members of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
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Soaring Phoenix Area Home Prices Finally Slow Down
Phoenix-area home prices, which had been sharply and steadily rising since last September, finally went down a little this summer. A new report from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University reveals the numbers for Maricopa and Pinal counties, as of July: The median single-family home price dropped slightly between June… Read More →
Phoenix-Area Home Prices Continue To Soar
Phoenix-area home prices have been zooming up for months, and the streak continued in May. However, a new report from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University takes a closer look at the short supply of available houses, an increase in foreclosures, and a possible leveling off of skyrocketing home prices… Read More →
Short Supply, Rising Prices In The Phoenix Area Housing Market
Are we actually seeing the start of a housing shortage in the Phoenix area? A new report from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University reveals some surprising information for Maricopa and Pinal counties, as of February: Housing supply was down a huge 42 percent from the year before. Foreclosures were… Read More →
Cactus League Baseball Is Back In Arizona
February in Arizona means two things – gorgeous weather and spring training baseball. What initially began as minor league exhibition game in the early 1900's has evolved into Major League Baseball's conglomerate of Spring Training stadiums within the Phoenix area. A long-standing tradition for the Grand Canyon State, MLB's Spring Training begins again later this month as the Cactus League kicks off… Read More →
Median Price Not Full Story For Phoenix Market
The median price for resale homes in the Phoenix area has been edging up for several months. Does this signal that the market is approaching normalcy? Jay Butler, associate professor of real estate and author of the Realty Studies report from the W. P. Carey School of Business, talks about the factors affecting median price,… Read More →
Nation's Unemployment Rate Holds Steady
The nation's unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.6 percent after the economy lost 54,000 jobs in August. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today that government employment fell as a result of shedding 114,000 temporary workers hired for the Census. Private-sector payroll employment rose by 67,000. "The August jobs report, albeit tepid, does… Read More →
Local First Arizona Champions Buying Locally
Today, people generally recognize the importance of shopping locally and supporting our region's independently owned and operated businesses. But that wasn't always the case. As recently as seven years ago, the concept was nearly unheard of in Arizona. But in 2003, Kimber Lanning, of the independently owned and operated Stinkweeds music store, started Local First… Read More →
GPEC Profile: Craig Robb, Executive Vice President And Director Of Finance And Administration, National Bank Of Arizona
Craig Robb Executive vice president and director of finance and administration, National Bank of Arizona With a 17-year career in land development prior to joining National Bank of Arizona seven years ago, Craig Robb was a natural to become an active member of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council. Robb, executive vice president and director of… Read More →
The Valley's Health Care Industry Held Its Own During The Recession And Looks Toward Expansion In The Recovery
In an economic downturn that has plunged Arizona into its worst financial crisis in decades, one sector of the state's economy that remains vibrant and growing is the health care industry. Consider recent developments driven primarily by population growth: the Creighton University partnership with St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center; the newly opened Cardon Children's… Read More →
The Economic Recovery Begins In 2009, But It Will Be Slow Going
The national and state economies are expected to start feeling the effects of a recovery during the last quarter of 2009. However, the recovery over the next year will be slow, with unemployment continuing to rise and economic growth anemic at best. Meanwhile, the state's expenditures are rising, even as revenue continues to fall, setting… Read More →
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Dulles Drive Bridge Repair to Take Two to Three Months
If you travel down Dulles Drive near Westgate Rd in Scott you will have to wait even longer to use to use that roadway as repairs to the damaged bridge is expected to take two to three months.
Lafayette Consolidated Government City Engineer Mitch Wyble said that after a thorough inspection, it was determined two panels of the concrete driving surface need to be replaced, one guardrail must be replaced and the other repaired, and repairs need to be done underneath the bridge.
These repairs are needed due to the incident on April 18 in which a crane truck went off the bridge and fell into a ditch.
Wyble said he's in the process of having a manufacturer build the concrete slabs and other parts needed to fix the bridge. The project is out for bids and he hopes to authorize the job by the end of next week.
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(4/22/2010) By JAN ELLEN SPIEGEL
WHEN the Arts Council of Greater New Haven began searching for a vehicle to transport arts programs around the city, it ran into a problem. �We didn�t have any money for the vehicle,� said David Brensilver, a council spokesman.
The solution was Exact Change, a once-a-year event that uses CT Transit in New Haven � the public bus system � as the vehicle, literally, for arts performances. This year, its third, Exact Change will be held on May 8, with performances along five regular bus routes that end at the New Haven Green. There is no charge above the normal $1.25 bus fare.
�The program, if it has a mission, is to create more access for an audience who otherwise might not enjoy the same exposure as others, but it also creates opportunities for artists,� Mr. Brensilver said. �And, I would add, it�s fun.�
Performing on a bus, however, has its challenges. Carlos Hortas, a performance poet who, with musicians, participated two years ago, recalled that he needed to time poems between stops and that he had to shout to be heard over street noise. Some riders, he said, were thrilled; others found it an intrusion.
None of that, however, is keeping him from performing again this year. �It goes with my philosophy of art being experiential and hands-on,� he said. �An in-the-moment kind of thing.�
An all-women�s barbershop quartet called Noteworthy, part of the bigger all-women�s barbershop chorus Silk�n Sounds, is participating this year for the first time.
�One of the great things about barbershop is you have no instrument other than your voice, so you can take it places,� said Therese Bennett, a baritone. �It won�t be the first time we�ve sung on a bus. When we travel for competition, we sing the whole the way there.�
But David Chevan and his group, Afro-Semitic Experience � also first-time participants � are doing some adjusting. The group will trim down to four performers instead of its usual six or seven to present its amalgam of black and Jewish music.
Mr. Chevan will forgo his customary instrument, the bass, for a much smaller, three-stringed African bolon, made from a gourd. He said he has jammed on a bus with friends, played on barges and other boats and even on a carousel. He is grateful that he is not prone to carsickness, but noted that a city bus has its risks.
�We have to be very careful, which is why we�re emphasizing the percussive end,� he said, explaining why the group will go heavy on the drums, though Will Bartlett, another member of the group, will have his clarinet.
�If we hit a pothole just right,� Mr. Chevan said, �That clarinet could end up in Will�s nose.�
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On 6/3/05, Chris Van Vorous <m0unds at speakeasy dot net> wrote:
> Well, I removed the firewall and NAT rules that dealt with the PPTP traffic,
> and instead of getting a blocked GRE protocol message in the firewall, I get
> this:
> 08:38:02.216056WANIP.IP.IP.IP, port 50681IP.IP.IP.IP port 1723TCP
> 08:37:59.203420WANIP.IP.IP.IP, port 50681IP.IP.IP.IP, port 1723TCP
> 08:37:56.692952WANIP.IP.IP.IP, port 50681IP.IP.IP.IP, port 1723TCP
> What do you think would cause the migration from blocking GRE traffic to
> blocking TCP traffic across that port? I was under the impression that
> m0n0's default ruleset was to deny all.
It is, but enabling PPTP automatically opens GRE and 1723 TCP on the
WAN IP with hidden rules (you can see the full ruleset on status.php).
Look at status.php and you should see rules like the following (just
do a search for 1723 to find them quickly):
@1 pass in quick proto gre from any to wan.ip/32 keep state group 200
@2 pass in quick proto tcp from any to wan.ip/32 port = 1723 keep
state group 200
With PPTP enabled, blocked 1723 should be impossible. You see those
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More than 500 former Penn State student-athletes have added their names to statements in support of a lawsuit the family of Joe Paterno filed to overturn NCAA sanctions against the school.
The initial complaint in Centre County Court listed the family of the late Penn State football coach, as well as several university trustees, faculty members, coaches and former football players as plaintiffs in the suit, which also seeks damages and legal costs. Shortly afterward, more than 300 former university athletes issued a statement in support of the suit.
The student-athletes who have signed letters of support for the lawsuits span seven decades of play and 17 sports, group spokesman Brian Allen said.
The NCAA imposed sweeping sanctions against Penn State last summer in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, including $60 million in fines, a multi-year ban on bowl play, a reduction of scholarships and the removal of more than 100 Penn State wins.
Critics said the NCAA acted in haste and violated its own guidelines when it punished Penn State days after the controversial Freeh Report was released. The university-commissioned report was critical of the actions by Paterno, who died of lung cancer in January 2012, in response to the Sandusky scandal.
New Penn State athlete-alumni adding their support to the Paterno family's lawsuit are 1973 Heisman Trophy winner John Cappelletti, All-Americans Ed O'Neil, Charlie Getty, D.J. Dozier, Ki-Jana Carter and Michael Mauti, two-time national champion and Olympic wrestler Kerry McCoy and national soccer Player of the Year Christine Welsh.
Michael Mauti, a criminal justice graduate wrote: "I signed on because I have faith in justice and due process. I spent the last year fighting for it in the media, and I'll continue to fight for it with the men who built the program we all love. We all want what's best for our program."
Sandusky, a retired football coach who was convicted of abusing boys in and around the Penn State campus, is serving a 30-60 year prison term.


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Throughout the season, Music Producer Elliot Lurie will be taking us through the process by which each episode's music is chosen. This week's episode was a fun challenge. The script didn't indicate a song playing over the ending, but once I saw the rough cut, I felt the right song could really add.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. For a guy whose profession is to be in a hurry, Tyson Gay has needed patience.
Though he owns the world's fastest times in the 100 and 200 meters this year, Gay, 25, has yet to win a medal at a world championships or Olympics. Bad luck with weather cost him a world record in the 100 this spring.
Gay's patience may pay off as he could emerge from this week's world track and field championships as the next great American sprinter. Based on international scoring tables that assign a point total to times, he already is the best sprinter to run the 100-200 combination in history, ahead of Michael Johnson, Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene.
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After winning U.S. championships in the 100 and 200 this summer, he's a favorite in both events at the world championships Saturday through Sept. 2 in Osaka, Japan.
Only two men — Greene in 1999 and Justin Gatlin in 2005 — have won the 100-200 combination in 10 previous world championships. Gatlin is serving a drug suspension.
For Gay, the next time he'll be on an international stage as big could be next summer's Beijing Olympics if he makes the U.S. team. He missed the 2004 Athens Games after a fifth-place finish in his 100 semifinals heat at the Olympic trials.
This time there's little doubt Gay is primed to become one of the USA's top young stars in a sport tarnished by drug suspensions and scandals.
"He's an exceptional talent, one of the best we've seen in the last decade, counting Maurice Greene," says Olympic gold medalist Jon Drummond, who trained with Greene and has worked with Gay to improve his starts. "He's the evolution of the 100 meters.
"Where he has Maurice beat is that he's not just an impressive 100 runner. He's an extremely impressive 200 runner."
Not that Gay's impressed by what he's done this season, running 9.84 seconds in the 100 and 19.62 in the 200, the second fastest time in history to Johnson's world record of 19.32.
"It doesn't mean that much to me," Gay says. "I guess maybe if I had a record or medals, but right now I'm just kind of 'that fast guy.' Everyone's wants to know: 'Is he going to get a medal or is he going to choke? Is he going to get a record?' "
In June at a meet in New York, he ran 9.76 — the world record is a 9.77 — with a nullifying tailwind that was barely over the allowable 5 mph. He also ran a wind-aided 9.79 in May.
Coming close to the record hasn't put more pressure on him, Gay says.
"Right now I'm not overwhelmed or anything like that," he says. "I'm just a guy who is running fast times. What's important with track and field is records, medals and consistency."
That's typical for the understated Gay, whose humility and reserve is atypical for most world-class sprinters. He's given to long periods of silence, even among friends.
"He's not your cocky, pull-your-shirt-off kind of guy," says John McDonnell, the track coach at Arkansas, where Gay won an NCAA individual title in the 100 and helped the Razorbacks to two consecutive NCAA team titles. "He has a quiet sense of confidence. Sometimes sprinters can be arrogant, in your face. He doesn't do that. He doesn't have to do that."
Born and reared in Kentucky, Gay comes from a family that values good manners.
Gay once got a call from his grandfather, concerned that he detected disrespect in comments Gay made about Jamaica's Asafa Powell, who holds the world record in the 100.
"I wasn't (talking trash)," Gay says. "I've never been a trash talker or real cocky. Well, maybe in video games. If I'm beating my friend, I might talk a little, but that's it."
Gay won't talk about how good he is, but others don't hold back.
"He's built to sprint. He's tall with little feet," says Drummond of Gay, who's 5-11 and 165 pounds. "You can't beat that. That's like Pirelli tires."
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Gay has produced an impressive season despite a difficult coaching situation. Lance Brauman, who coached Gay at Barton County (Kan.) Community College and Arkansas, reported to federal prison in November to begin serving a sentence for embezzlement and other charges.
Brauman first spotted Gay at a national prep meet in 2001, when Gay was a senior at Lexington Lafayette High School. Gay took fifth in the 100, but Brauman was impressed with his closing rush and a frame that looked like it could carry more muscle without losing speed.
When Brauman later bumped into Gay, his stepfather and grandfather in a parking garage during a rain delay, the coach was taken by Gay's humility, attentiveness plus his athletic and academic ambitions. Brauman's wife, Kim, recalls him saying, "I think I may have found a great one today."
Gay enrolled at Barton, where in 2002 he won the junior college 100 title as a freshman. He spent much of the next season injured after Brauman left to become an assistant coach at Arkansas. He followed Brauman to Fayetteville and was eligible to run the 2004 outdoor season.
Brauman was indicted in 2005 on charges of mail fraud, embezzlement and theft during his 1995-2002 tenure at Barton. Seven coaches and the athletics director were charged in the scandal, which involved fraudulent use of the federal work-study program and falsifying academic records.
Prosecutors said Gay received payment for hours he didn't work at a campus job and credit for courses he didn't take. Gay, called to testify against Brauman, says he was unaware of any wrongdoing.
"Honestly, it wasn't real difficult," Gay says of testifying. "I guess the reason it wasn't is that (Brauman) talked to me and told me: 'You need to be as honest as possible. This is a federal case. They're not playing games. If they think you're lying, you could lose your (adidas) contract.' "
The federal case also unearthed NCAA violations Brauman committed while at Arkansas in 2003. The school self-reported the infractions and instituted penalties, including scholarship reductions, and is awaiting word whether the NCAA will impose additional sanctions. The violations included Gay accepting impermissible transportation and lodging.
"Tyson was an innocent bystander in all this — he didn't know all the rules," McDonnell says. "Lance is to blame there. It's too bad Tyson got involved in all that."
Before reporting to Texarkana (Texas) Federal Correctional Institution, Brauman gave Gay and his other world-class sprinters, Wallace Spearmon and Jamaica's Veronica Campbell, notebooks with workouts for the rest of the year.
Gay talks to his coach weekly and visited him in prison recently. After Brauman's sentence ends Sept. 27, Gay says he plans to continue working with him in Orlando.
A fresh approach
Gay, a notoriously poor starter since high school, approached Drummond for help in March. Gay liked that Drummond was an outstanding starter and trained with Greene, a former world-record holder in the 100.
Drummond revamped Gay's start in sessions in Grand Prairie, Texas, a Dallas suburb where he has a speed-conditioning business.
"The bottom line is that the start has to be comfortable for the runner, and he needs to be in a position where he can explode," Drummond says. "It's body positions, positions that when he came to me his body wasn't strong enough to maintain. We had to work on those things.
"We've done a lot of things different from what he's done in the past. Trade secrets."
Drummond, nicknamed the Clown Prince of Track & Field, is influencing Gay's technique but not his personality. Gay doesn't play to the crowd as did Drummond and Greene.
"We were loud-mouthed, chest-banging, rip-your-shirt-off kind of people," Drummond says.
Those antics wouldn't earn the approval of the sprinter's mother, Daisy Gay Lowe. "My entire family is old-fashioned, and I'm not saying that in a bad way," Lowe says.
"We were reared to always be respectful to adults and not talk back."
Lowe believes adversity has helped mold her son's character: never winning a Kentucky prep title in the 200, starting out at community college, failing to make the 2004 Olympic team.
And most important, losing races to his older sister, Tiffany. Gay was 14 when he finally beat her.
"His sister was just another tool to keep him humble," Lowe says. "Not everything was given to him at once. He didn't get serious about school until late. He's had to work extra hard at everything. All those things helped shape him."
His family still inspires him to compete.
Gay's daughter Trinity, 6, who lives with her mother in Lexington, was part of a large contingent of Gay's supporters at the national track and field championships in Indianapolis in June. Gay's mother and her husband, Tim Lowe, plan to be in Osaka to watch Gay run at the world championships.
"I don't know how, but my mother has the answer to everything," Gay says. "When my mom comes to meets, she makes them a lot easier to run. I love making my parents proud, my family proud."
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Billabong said in a statement yesterday that Mr Kunkel will stand down between October and February next year. However, it is believed that shareholders will agitate for the former Foster's chief executive to leave straight away.
"We will push for Ted's resignation earlier," said one major shareholder. "They sold half of Nixon a few months ago to avoid a dilutive raising. They now have sold half of their best brand and are going through a dilutive raising. They have shot themselves in both feet."
Shareholders also questioned new chief executive Launa Inman's role as a director of Commonwealth Bank of Australia. They believe she has her hands full steering Billabong through a major restructure as retail conditions remain depressed in Australia, Canada and Europe.
The Gold Coast-based surfwear company claimed to have avoided an equity rasing four months ago when it sold half of its top watches brand, Nixon, to private equity firm Trilantic Capital Partners for $US285 million.
"It's hard to see how you are asking from shareholders for $225 million with no clear strategy," said Credit Suisse analyst Grant Saligari. "I know you are stuck dealing with sins of the past but there is nothing in the presentation that would suggest investors are going to get a return on that."
Another major shareholder said it's a "trust me" statement from Billabong that is not appealing, given the company's history. But given the offer price at just $1.02 – a steep 44 per cent discount to its last closing price of $1.83 – they might participate in the equity raising.
Billabong downgraded earnings for 2011-12 and now expects earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation to be in the range of $130 million to $135 million compared with a previous estimate of $157 million.
Billabong is the latest company with a stretched balance sheet to tap investors for additional funds. Ten Network and Echo Entertainment have raised capital in recent weeks. Founder and major shareholder
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Ms Inman, who has been in the top job only six weeks, defended the company, saying it had "some outstanding brands", the most important of which was Billabong.
"That brand has been in decline for the past few years," she said. "What we need to do is reinvigorate it and that is why we are doing an entire assessment of the brand and then I will be able to give you more details on 24 August. What we need to do now is to stabilise the balance sheet."
She highlighted a newly created position of head of retail will be appointed from July who will assess Billabong's retail stores globally, everything from the locations through to the merchandise mix. This person will report directly to Ms Inman.
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The same survey ranked the 25 best US imports, with The Simpsons, Dallas, MASH, 24 and The Larry Sanders Show leading the pack.
Baywatch, which starred Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff, ran from 1989 to 2001 and was once ranked the world's most popular program, with viewers in 140 countries.
Broadcast magazine's poll of about 20 program buyers from British terrestrial, cable and satellite channels acknowledged the appeal of a "series about a muscular lifeguard and his crew of pneumatic young helpers with raging hormones", but condemned Baywatch for scripts "of mind-numbing predictability: beachgoer is saved from drowning".
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A high resolution marine pollen record from site GeoB1023, west of the northern Namib desert provides data on vegetation and climate change for the last 21 ka at an average resolution of 185 y. Pollen and spores are mainly delivered to the site by the Cunene river and by surface and mid-tropospheric wind systems. The main pollen source areas are located between 13°S and 21°S, which includes the northern Namib desert and semi-desert, the Angola-northern Namibian highland, and the north-western Kalahari. The pollen spectra reflect environmental changes in the region. The last glacial maximum (LGM) was characterised by colder and more arid conditions than at present, when a vegetation with temperate elements such as Asteroideae, Ericaceae, and Restionaceae grew north of 21°S. At 17.5 ka cal. B.P., an amelioration both in temperature and humidity terminated the LGM but, in the northern Kalahari, mean annual rainfall in the interval 17.5-14.4 ka cal. B.P. was probably 100–150 mm lower than at present (400–500 mm/y). The Late-glacial to early Holocene transition includes two arid periods, i.e. 14.4–12.5 and 10.9–9.3 ka cal. B.P. The last part of the former period may be correlated with the Younger Dryas. The warmest and most humid period in the Holocene occurred between 6.3 and 4.8 ka cal. B.P. During the last 2000 years, human impact, as reflected by indications of deforestation, enhanced burning and overgrazing, progressively intensified.
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The Keeper of Lawudo
By Merry Colony
In my years of going to Lawudo Gompa in Solo Kumbu, 14,000 feet up in the mountains of Nepal, I have seen people arrive from every direction and at all hours. Many get lost on the long climb to the gompa, which vanishes from sight regularly from either the steep incline or from the clouds swallowing it up. When visitors finally do make it to what they hope is the right place they find the heavy double wooden doors to the courtyard locked from within. This is to keep the cows in and unwelcome yaks out, but they don't know that! Another 10 minutes finding a way over the stone wall and they are in, the gompa's window curtains fluttering a tune for the stoic peaks beyond. It is a lovely scene and the trials of the climb are invariably forgotten upon entry. It usually takes no more than a minute to be ushered into the kitchen and given tea.
For most, the source of comfort and well-being at this place that can otherwise appear quite stark and isolated is Anila Nawang Samden, elder sister of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and manager of Lawudo since its beginning in 1972. To fully appreciate Anila's humor, generosity and selfless service to Lawudo one would really need to make the trek oneself and then spend many hours sitting with her by the fire. But as not all will have that opportunity, I will do my best to describe a woman who has in her life gone beyond conventional concepts of rest, comfort or need for personal care.
Born the third day of the third month in 1942 she was given the name Pura Puti by her father. Her next brother, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, was born 3 years later. He left home when he was only 6 to study the Dharma with his uncle who then brought him to Tibet. Next born was a sister Chokyi who died when she was 10. One month after her father died in 1948, her youngest brother Sangye was born. So, at the tender age of 6, having lost her father, Nawang Samden had to help her mother take care of 3 younger children of a poor Sherpa family in the mountains of Nepal.
Of this time all she can remember is the work: collecting firewood, carrying water, cooking, portering Tibetan salt from her native village of Thami, 1,000 feet below Lawudo, to a market in Karikola 4 days down the valley. This she did unquestioningly, to help her mother feed the children.
In 1967, after 3 months of being very sick and near death, Nawang Samden went for advice to Cherok Lama, known for his very accurate divinations and strong Dharma practice. She was told that she should become a nun, practice Dharma and change her name if she wanted to get well and that she should take initiation from Trulshik Rinpoche. This she did, receiving her ordination name of Nawang Samden from him as well as nyön-dro and Chöd instructions. For a few years, Anila lived unencumbered, moving about as a Chöd-pa with only her small tent, bell, dorje, damaru and thigh bone trumpet. Memories of this period are always shared in a voice that is nostalgic and at the same time pragmatic. Things change (though her Chöd drum and thigh bone hang waiting near her bed).
In 1972 Lama Zopa – who had in the meantime been to Tibet, escaped to India and met Lama Yeshe – returned to his native village for the first time since his departure as a child. It was his intention to build a monastery as the fulfillment of his previous life's vow to build a school for the local children. Lama Zopa's mother, known as Amala, and Nawang Samden were to be instrumental. They moved to the place called Lawudo, or "Radish Store," whose cave, when not being used as a storehouse for the local people's radish crop, had been the meditation place of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's previous incarnation.
With hard physical labor in near extreme conditions, Lawudo Gompa was built. Though she worked tirelessly carrying stones and cooking endless meals in nothing but four stone walls, Anila remembers this time with great joy; there were so many people (Kopan's Lama Lhundup, Lama Pasang and Lobsang Nyima were there), so much activity, and most of all her long-lost younger brother was with them again. And they were building a gompa, one of the most karmically powerful things one could do with one's life.
The building completed, Mount Everest Center was established housing a small community of monks whom Nawang Samden continued to cook and care for. But 3 years of commuting to Kathmandu (a 10-day walk in those days) for the winter and back to Lawudo for the summer, proved to be too arduous and expensive for the monks, so they moved permanently to Kopan Gompa in Kathmandu. From then on Lawudo Gompa became known as a retreat center within the ever-growing network of FPMT centers. Nawang Samden stayed as Lawudo's manager. There was no one else to do the job.
With no formal education whatsoever and not a day of English class on her record, she found herself from that time on as the primary caretaker of the hundreds of Westerners who would come to Lawudo over the years for retreat. The English expressions she has adopted in that time are akin to those of Lama Yeshe, highly original and humorous, almost never grammatically correct, yet conveyed with such confidence and masterful gesticulation that the meaning is usually understood. Even when the intended meaning is lost, the laughter and tea that accompany her stories are always such a delight that it hardly matters anyway. For this is the company of a woman who has lived a life of service, and her tales are bountiful, often heart rending and almost always tinted with a humor that laughs fully at the trials that have been placed on her life's path.
For the entire decade of the '80s, besides caring for retreaters, Anila took special care of her aging mother. Though Amala was tough to the point of almost being weatherproof and would never admit to weakness, she required constant care. When Anila wasn't boiling up some special tsampa concoction for her to eat, she was distilling her daily cup of rakshi or preparing the butter lamps that Amala would offer daily in the cave.
She lost her mother in 1991. "For 50 years until Amala died, we together all the time. Always since born until death, we together." She cried every day for more than a year. The hole in her life left by her mother's passing was deepened when, a year later, Thubten Drolkar, the Sherpa girl whom she had rescued from an abusive father 15 years earlier, left to become a nun at Kopan.
Today when one finds Anila at her home in Lawudo she is most likely cooking or milking. Ostensibly she keeps her small mixed herd of cows, dzo and yak for the milk they provide. But I, for one, believe the reason for her daily feeding, milking and herding ritual to be more than the pitiful bit of milk she receives. This is Nawang Samden's family now. On many occasions I have seen her pass a sleepless night while caring for a sick calf, feeding it from her own mouth if there is no mother. She has pujas done for their better rebirth and puts colored strips of cloth in their shoulder hair to indicate that their lives will not be taken for meat. When it is cold, they are given the warmest room in the house (below her own sleeping place), and when there is no grass left on which to graze, they are fed a very costly variety of tobacco plant, which warms them. And each year, her herd grows as she cannot bear the thought of giving the babies to an owner who may not take such loving care of them as she. For those who do go, there are tears shed.
When asked about her view of her life now and if she would like to go anywhere else, Anila replies in a characteristic manner that indicates her weariness with work and harsh conditions while at the same time her love of her home: "I like to go other place, but my karma strong. I always thinking Lawudo. Die in West maybe no good, visit okay. Me no knowing how die, when die. After good coming, no good coming I no knowing. Now me old, but karma no finish. Easy coming difficult."
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Guide dog helps champion blind golfer stay the course
Zohar Sharon can count on having the company of two others when he takes to the golf course — his caddy and his guide dog.
"She is always there for me," he said of Venus, a yellow Labrador/golden retriever cross. "She comes with me to play golf every day. She's simply great."
That's important because Sharon, 60, is the world's reigning champion in blind golf.
A veteran of the Israel Defense Forces, Sharon lost his sight over time following an incident more than 30 years ago that occurred while he was protecting Israel's nuclear reactor in the Negev.
Today, Sharon holds four world championships, dating back to 2003, when he entered his first professional tournament, and is considered a celebrity in Israel. (He's been asked for his autograph in the United States as well, but that was a case of mistaken identity. His "fans" thought he was singer Harry Belafonte; Sharon signed anyway.)
But things didn't always look like they would end up this way. Sharon sustained more injuries fighting in the 1973 Yom Kippur War and was completely blind by the time he turned 28. He took up painting at one point, but the resident of Moshav Aviel, who has been married three times, said he owes his current career as a golfer to his second divorce.
"I went to meet with my ex-wife's attorney. Her attorney and I became great buddies. He asked me if I've ever played golf. I told him I didn't, and he took a shoe box and punched a hole in it, got a club and a ball and showed me how to golf right there," Sharon recalled as he sat on the balcony of his Beverly Hilton Hotel room during a recent visit to Los Angeles. "Later, at home, I started practicing by placing an empty cup on the floor and a radio next to it, so I'd know which direction to hit the ball, and I got the hang of it."
Still, he almost gave up golf altogether before he met Shimshon Levy, who became his loyal caddie and close friend.
"With Shimshon, I have a special connection. We spend 16 hours a day together, 10 of them on the golf field," Sharon said. "Two years after I started practicing with him, I took my first championship, in [2003]."
Together, the two have traveled the world, going from one tournament to the next. His first win was at the World Invitational blind golf tournament in Scotland.
"We are like a married couple but without the sex," joked Sharon, who is the father of three and grandfather of two. "Without him, I wouldn't have been able to do it."
Levy directs Sharon to the position of the ball and its distance from the hole; he also gives a sense of whether the ball needs to be hit strongly or softly, according to the specially designed golf club he selects.
Caddy Shimshon Levy, blind golfer Zohar Sharon and guide dog Venus hit the links.
The two arrived in Los Angeles in October for several events on behalf of the Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind (israelguidedog.org). That's where Sharon's 5-year-old dog was trained.
The center was founded in January 1991 to help blind people in Israel get a guide dog that would not only help them get around, but would also serve as their companion and connection to the world around them.
"By having a dog with them, they are more approachable. People come over to them to pat their dog, instead of moving out of the way when they walk down the street with a stick," said executive director Michael J. Leventhal of Warrington, Pa., who accompanied Sharon during his L.A. visit.
The center, which is located 20 minutes south of Tel Aviv, spends $40,000 on training and facilities for each of its guide dogs. It receives 8 percent of its funds from the Israeli government, but most of its funds come from donations, Leventhal said.
"Since 1991, we have partnered 468 dogs with blind people, both civilians and soldiers," he said. "The blind don't have to pay a dime. We train the dogs for two years; when [the dogs] are ready, the blind people move in with us at the center for three weeks, where we work with them and the dog. We continue working with them at their hometown for an additional week, teaching them how to go to the grocery store, get on the bus with their dog and so on."
The dogs work with their blind partners for eight years, at which point they retire and are replaced by a new guide dog.
After retiring, the guide dog can stay at the home as a pet, go to a family member of the blind person or go back to the original puppy raiser. Or a suitable home can be found by the center, which has a long list of potential adopters, Leventhal said.
Lisa Korbatov of Beverly Hills hosted a Shabbat dinner and meet-and-greet for Sharon during his October visit. She said that she came away impressed by the guide dog organization and the golfer.
"To live in darkness is a huge, huge trauma and burden to not only the blind person but the whole family," she said. "Zohar was inspiring. When he talked about Venus, his whole face changed … huge smiles ear to ear."
Sharon, who calls Venus his best friend, said it could have been easy for him to get depressed — or rather, stay depressed — about his disability. He still remembers the day when his then-6-year-old daughter came home crying about how her classmates were walking around like blind people, mocking her father.
"I decided right there and then that I'll never give her any reason to be ashamed of me just because I'm blind. I'll go to the extreme in anything I'll do and be the best I can so she'll be proud," he said.
"I'm a fighter, and I never run away from anything. I don't believe that God has to help me, but that I need to help God help me," Sharon said. "I never give up. When people ask me what's the secret of my success, that's what I tell them — you can't make excuses, nobody cares why you lost, why you were not able to accomplish something. The results speak for themselves. If you set your mind to do something, do it, without any excuses. It's true for golf, and it's true for anything else in life, whatever it may be."