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After some years of discussion and delay, Senate Bill 81, the anti-illegal immigration law, was implemented four months ago.
One of the requirements of the law was that all government employers must use an employment verification program, such as E-Verify. This law was designed to assist in enforcing federal law against hiring "unauthorized" aliens. An additional requirement was that all businesses being awarded contracts by public entities must also verify legal employment -- proof of U.S. citizenship or a valid work visa.
An Oct. 29 report of E-Verify users, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, indicates that only four of 29 county governments have registered to use E-Verify. Further, only 30 percent of Utah school districts have signed up and the number of municipalities is minuscule. Utah currently has about 80,000 employers. The DHS report indicates that around 1800, or barely 2 percent, are now using the program. Even before the effective date of SB 81, about 900 companies were using the program.
While it is reassuring that more companies have decided to use the verification option, if government entities are not using E-Verify, it can be reasonably assumed that enforcement of awarding contracts to E-verify companies is also being ignored.
It is possible that some public entities may be using SAVE or other employment verification programs. SAVE was instituted in 1987 after the last amnesty to preclude another mass of illegal influx. It obviously had little effect. SAVE charges a fee for the information, whereas E-Verify has no user fees.
Why is verification important? Federal law specifically prohibits the hiring of unauthorized immigrants. The Utah Legislature passed the state law in an attempt to stem the ever-increasing costs of services provided to those ineligible to reside in this country that, in some cases, are required to be provided with services.
In particular, by law, all children residing in this country must be provided with a K-12 education paid for with taxpayer money. A 2007 Utah legislative audit reported the education costs for undocumented children at $85 million. That estimate was probably low and has undoubtedly risen. Many studies have reported other costs that can be attributed to unauthorized or illegal immigrants. Utah is one of the few states to offer in-state tuition rates to illegals, in violation of federal law.
A similar California law was declared in violation of federal law and required California to refund the excess tuition paid by U.S. citizens. The issue is now before the California Supreme Court and if upheld will cost Utah millions of dollars in repayment of excess nonresident tuition to those U.S. citizens who attended Utah colleges.
E-Verification is a step in instituting the policy of "attrition through enforcement" in reducing the presence of unauthorized immigrants. Simple enforcement of current state and federal immigration laws will solve the supposed problem of having to round up all the illegals for deportation. Restricting employment, benefits and other enticements will facilitate the process of self-removal.
Without jobs and benefits, unauthorized immigrants will tend to return to their respective homelands. Self-deportation would allow them to retain the earnings they may have accumulated and to use the education, experience and learning they may have attained to, hopefully, correct the problems of those home countries.
Law enforcement, and government in general, should also be ensuring compliance with federal law against aiding, abetting and encouraging or inducing "an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing ... that such ... residence is or will be in violation of law." Many actions in Utah seem to clearly defy this law.
"Attrition through enforcement" could cause millions of jobs to become available to those now unemployed due to the current economic downturn, and allow eager and able U.S. teenagers to get jobs and learn to work.
Utahns for Immigration Reform and Enforcement calls on local government officials to comply with SB 81 and for citizens to encourage their local governments to do so. We also encourage law enforcement and attorneys to insist on such compliance and the Utah Legislature to audit SB 81 compliance.
Robert Wren is chairman of UFIRE, Utahns for Immigration Reform and Enforcement.


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Game Recap 9/20/11
Braves 4, Marlins 0
The Braves entered their tilt with the Marlins with a 2.5 game lead in the Wild Card, but with their play of late, one would swear they are trailing the Cardinals. If it weren't for the Red Sox attempting to do the same thing, there would almost certainly be more press about the Braves' swoon. As it is, the lead is only two games in the loss column, so while they are still heavy favorites to hold on, they've got to start winning some games.
Thankfully the Constanza infatuation appears to be over, and the Braves are giving themselves the best chance to win by putting out their best lineup, if not in the most optimal order. It was a promising start with the Braves getting runners to second and third with no one out in the first, but yet again they failed to score. That's getting old. Alex Gonzalez led off the second with a home run to continue his resurgence, Heyward and Bourn doubled, and Prado singled to give the Braves a 3-0 lead.
Randall Delgado threw five shutout innings though he did use 92 pitches to do it. We should see some more efficiency and a few more strikeouts as he adjusts to this level. Freddie Freeman led off the sixth with his twentieth homer to make it 4-0. The bullpen took over at that point, and Cristhian Martinez again did excellent work with two perfect innings. Anthony Varvaro followed it up with two perfect innings of his own to close it out.
What better way turn things around than a shutout? The Braves were able to get to Anibal Sanchez enough to take some pressure off of the staff, and hopefully the first half Javier Vazquez shows up tomorrow so the Braves can make it two in a row. If that's not enough to interest you, tune in at 7:10 EST to see how much Derek Lowe can sweat in the Miami heat.

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Victorian Christmas
Dec 13, 2012 - Dec 14, 2012 December 13 & 14, 2012, Thursday & Friday, 6 PM - 10 PM
Downtown Thomasville, Georgia
26th Annual Victorian Christmas, December 13 & 14, 2012, Thursday and Friday, 6:00 – 10:00 pm
Journey into the past as this turn-of-the-century downtown ushers you into the spirit of Christmas long ago. Tantalizing aromas drift from street vendors offering scrumptious seasonal delicacies. Carriage rides with jingle bells, twinkling lights and elegant strollers in their Victorian finery set the stage for a truly unforgettable experience. Carolers sing traditional favorites while colorful characters capture your imagination with street theater. Event favorites include a Victorian Museum, Live Musical Entertainment, Carriage Rides, Live Nativity, Victorian Craft Village and a Winter Wonderland for children! Visit www.thomasvillega.com for more information.
Thomasville Visitors Center, 229-228-7977


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The coming-down process after a show is an interesting time for an actor. The first few days are filled with exhilaration - it's wonderful not to have to do the show, one can begin to eat again at normal times, life begins to adopt a normal pace and you catch up with all the things you had to leave because of being so busy. But a sort of depression and anticlimax eventually sets in, and one never knows whether it's best to stay at home during this period or to go away.
At the end of last Christmas's run of Peter Pan at the Festival Hall, I decided to go away... all the way to Australia.
Fortunately, I enjoy flying, so it's with some sense of relief and release that I climb aboard the plane to take me to the Antipodes. I spend the hour-long stopover in Singapore doing a speed walk around the airport, not just to get my circulation going but to get my appetite up for the next meal.
The Park Hyatt is my chosen hotel in Sydney. I have often admired this small, three-storey building, just tucked under the Harbour Bridge. The back door of the hotel opens directly on to the harbour, and the rooms have magnificent views of the Opera House. Added to that is the attraction of a swimming pool on the roof. It turns out to be a happy choice - the service is excellent and I am able to make use of the ferry on my doorstep to visit friends and explore the harbour.
I am walking back to the hotel around lunchtime when there, standing outside the back door of the Hyatt, quite alone, is the Australian prime minister, John Howard, talking on a mobile phone. We catch each other's eye and, as I enter the hotel, I notice his security guard. "Is he talking to George W again?" I ask. The bodyguard doesn't acknowledge my little joke; he looks at me with a blank expression, which seems to say, "Move on, or you're a dead man."
Fly to Adelaide. South Australia produces more than 70% of the country's wine and is a paradise for visitors with a passion for tasting the glorious liquid. I am driven to the home of Petaluma wines at Bridgewater Mill and am taken through the production of Croser, their sparkling wine, which, had I not known, I would have placed as a champagne of very high quality. Lunch at the Brewhouse Restaurant is superb (they don't do dinner) and is well worth a visit.
On returning to Adelaide, I notice that the streets are empty - it's Australia Day weekend, but the reason for town being deserted is that the temperature has hit 44C. Breathe in and your lungs feel scorched. Walking takes a bit of concentration and makes me feel like a zombie, so I scamper back to the cool of the hotel pool.
Take the wine train to the Barossa Valley and meander through the gently undulating hills while sampling some of the local vintages. South Australia is the only state that was established by free settlers and they are very proud of their non-convict heritage. The Barossa Valley is made up of charming, unspoilt villages and hamlets with an old-world feel, as well as wineries - a sort of 15-degrees-proof Dorset.
Met off the train by John Baldwin in his 1962 Daimler Majestic Major limousine. Brought over in the 1960s for the Queen's state visit, there are only six of these vehicles left in Australia. John is a wine expert and takes me round some of the Barossa's many famous vineyards; each one has a cellar door where you can taste to your heart's content. Margaret Lehman talks me through the history of the famous winery. The region is rich in the production of riesling grapes - a wine I wouldn't normally think of drinking, but I was impressed by the character and taste of the ones that I sampled in the valley.
Sample another fine riesling at St Hallett Wines and lunch late at Salters Restaurant in Angaston - a true example of "New Australian" cooking.
Kangaroo Island is Australia's third largest island and you can get there by sea or air. I fly in on Emu Airways for a day trip and wish I could stay longer. Thirty per cent of the island is made up of protected conservation areas, a completely unspoilt naturalist's paradise. The roads are quiet and lined by natural bush.
Seal Bay Conservation Park is the home of the largest sea lion colony in the world; they say there can be up to 500 there at any one time, but I lose count at 50. Under supervision, you can get really close to these beautiful creatures, which don't seem to take any notice of the small groups of people tip-toeing along the beach. The island abounds in small boarding houses of a very high quality and is ideal for camping. If you are after the quiet life and into flora and fauna, this is the place to be.
I spend my last day in Adelaide touring the city, a graceful place of wide, elegant streets and much more genteel than Sydney - life has a slower, more civilised pace and is much friendlier.
My guide, Sandy Pugsley, and I breakfast in the Central Market at Lucias, an old Italian coffee house which does great cooked breakfasts. The market is a riot of colourful produce from all over the world and well worth a visit (only open Tuesdays and Thursday-Saturday).
I take a quick tour around the magnificent Festival Theatre and buy a little picture at the Aboriginal Arts Centre (the artist was working in public so it's hard to walk by without buying, even though it means I break my own rule of buying only living Scottish painters).
Adelaide has a wealth of museums and caters for all the arts well - it even has a free bus that takes you around the major landmarks.
Back in Sydney, I have dinner at The Iceberg, the latest "in" restaurant, which sits on the corner of Bondi Beach. The Park Hyatt fails to produce a banana this morning. Call me faddy but I always like one banana plus one slice of wholemeal toast for breakfast, and I was worried when I read recently that this splendid fruit was in danger of extinction. Come to think of it, the hotel in Adelaide failed in that department, too.
After an evening at the Opera House, watching a vibrant production of Orpheus In The Underworld, I take one last look at the view; in the gardens surrounding the hotel, there are three Japanese bridal couples, three photographers and three dress-arranging assistants - this at 12.40am. Apparently, the photographic opportunities at the Opera House act like a magnet to young Japanese newlyweds who get married in Sydney simply for the views.
Stop off for a day in Bangkok on the way home in order to break up the journey - stay at the excellent Amari Airport Hotel and, yes, you've guessed it, no bananas there either. This is getting serious!
Way to go
Getting there:
Qantas (0845 7747767, qantas.co.uk) flies Heathrow-Sydney from £677 inc taxes. ITC Classics (01244 355527, itcclassics.co.uk) offers five nights in the Park Hyatt Sydney room only and five nights in the Hyatt Adelaide room only for £1,621pp including all flights and transfers
What to do: For details on the Barossa Daimler Tours visit barossadaimlertours.com.au. For walking tours of Adelaide and the surrounding area with Sandy Pugsley visit touraboutadelaide.com.au. Also see bridgewatermill.com.au
Further information: The South Australian Tourism Commission (0870 9009928, southaustralia.com). Country code: 00 61. Flight time: 21hrs. Time difference: +11hrs. £1 = A$2.25.


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- Start of Business
- Social Security Amendment (Student Income Support Reforms) Bill 2011
- Higher Education Support Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2011
- Migration Legislation Amendment (Offshore Processing and Other Measures) Bill 2011
- Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Significant Incident Directions) Bill 2011
- Consumer Credit and Corporations Legislation Amendment (Enhancements) Bill 2011
- Tax Laws Amendment (2011 Measures No. 7) Bill 2011
- Clean Energy Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Tax Laws Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Fuel Tax Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Excise Tariff Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment Bill 2011, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Shortfall Charge—General) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge—Auctions) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge—Fixed Charge) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (International Unit Surrender Charge) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Charges—Customs) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Charges—Excise) Bill 2011, Clean Energy Regulator Bill 2011, Climate Change Authority Bill 2011, Steel Transformation Plan Bill 2011
- Queensland Natural Disasters
- Finance Minister of the Year Award
- Beaudesert Show Society
- Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- National Rural Health Alliance
- Queensland Natural Disasters
- Disability, Small Businesses
- South Adelaide Football Club
- Carbon Pricing
- F1 in Schools Program
Global Economy
(Burke, Anna, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP)
Asylum Seekers
(Bishop, Julie, MP, Gillard, Julia, MP)
(Smyth, Laura, MP, Gillard, Julia, MP)
Asylum Seekers
(Morrison, Scott, MP, Bowen, Chris, MP)
Carbon Pricing
(Ripoll, Bernie, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP)
Asylum Seekers
(Van Manen, Bert, MP, Gillard, Julia, MP)
Mount Isa: Social Problems
(Katter, Bob, MP, Gillard, Julia, MP)
National Security
(Danby, Michael, MP, Bowen, Chris, MP)
Asylum Seekers
(Jones, Ewen, MP, Gillard, Julia, MP)
(Champion, Nick, MP, Smith, Stephen, MP)
- Global Economy
- Slipper, Peter, MP
- Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign
- Defence Procurement
- Unemployment
- Dementia Awareness Week
- Wright Electorate: Young Liberal-National Party
- Chifley Electorate: Pricing Discrimination
- Housing Affordability
- Sapper Jacob Moerland Memorial Skate Park
- Grey Electorate: Mouse Plague
- National Dementia Awareness Week
- Asylum Seekers
- Youth Allowance
Main Committee
- Start of Business
- Papua New Guinea: HIV-AIDS
- Page Electorate: Awards
- Hasluck Electorate: Luke Adams Foundation
- Australian Public Service
- Regional Development Australia
- Gippsland Electorate: Gippsland Lakes and Catchments
- Agriculture
- Scoresby Football and Social Club
- Corio Electorate: Northern Futures
- Melbourne Ports Electorate: Caulfield Village
- Jull, Hon. David Francis
Broadband (Question No. 389)
(Fletcher, Paul, MP, Albanese, Anthony, MP)
Emergency Services and Alerts Systems (Question No. 445)
(Fletcher, Paul, MP, Albanese, Anthony, MP)
Dawson Electorate: Alligator Creek Phone Coverage (Question No. 448)
(Christensen, George, MP, Albanese, Anthony, MP)
Broadband (Question No. 451)
(Fletcher, Paul, MP, Albanese, Anthony, MP)
Tourism Australia: Board of Directors (Question No. 476)
(Baldwin, Bob, MP, Ferguson, Martin, MP)
Tourism Australia: Membership (Question No. 479)
(Baldwin, Bob, MP, Ferguson, Martin, MP)
Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy: Senior Executive Service (Question No. 561)
(Briggs, Jamie, MP, Albanese, Anthony, MP)
- Broadband (Question No. 389)
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Mr SLIPPER (Fisher—Deputy Speaker) (12:18): I am pleased to have the opportunity to participate in this debate on this group of bills in relation to the carbon tax. It will not be a matter or surprise for other honourable members to know that my constituents on the Sunshine Coast do not want me to support these bills. In this parliament I will be voting against these bills for the reason that I do not believe that they are good for our economy or our nation.
There is no doubt that there is respectable public opinion and respectable scientific opinion both in favour of and against the various positions on man's involvement in climate change. What is not disputed is that climate has always been changing. The reality is that climate will continue to change and that many people believe that the impact of man has accelerated that climate change in a way that is adverse.
While I accept that there are contradictory scientific points of view points of view out there, I am quite happy personally to give the environment the benefit of the doubt and, if there is something that we collectively as a world can do to repair what we have collectively created, then that is a step very much in the right direction. I believe there should be a world solution to a world problem. The difficulty I have with this legislation is that the rest of the world is not following suit. We will suffer economically to a very great extent as a nation if this package of bills becomes law and these bills are not repealed after the next election. Sure, it will make us as a country feel good. We will have this nice, warm inner glow believing that we are doing something to repair the world environment, but the reality is that we will suffer and inflict on ourselves the most incredible amount of pain while we will not be providing the world environment any particular benefit. So it is a question of all pain and no gain.
I am advised that, were this legislation to be implemented, the impact on the world environment would be minimal. We are committing a form of national economic suicide; essentially, in a political and economic sense, we are slashing our national wrists. We are exporting jobs. We are making it less viable for us to export items, and the result is that we will damage our economy and yet we will not improve the world environment.
I think all of us need to make sure we do whatever we can in a personal sense to improve our environment and to help the planet so that the future of the planet is brighter than it would otherwise be. At home, my wife, Ingrid, and I do the best that we can with respect to the little things that all households can do to help our environment. For instance: we have a solar system on the roof, we recycle as best we can, we mulch our garden, we have planted extra trees—we have an acreage block so there is plenty of room for trees—and we mulch around them. These are all small efforts that collectively, if everyone did similarly, would have an impact. I know that many people take the same approach.
As I said, Australia is clearly part of the problem and we should be part of the solution. The difficulty with the carbon tax proposed by the government is that it is not a solution. It will result in significant cost increases for individuals, couples, families and seniors across Australia, yet these cost increases will not be accompanied by any substantial reduction in emissions and they will not have any noticeable impact on the environment. While the government is correct to say that many people will be compensated for the impact of the carbon tax, there is a very significant minority of the community which will not be compensated, and those people will certainly be worse off.
It is interesting that in a radio interview earlier this year the government's own climate commissioner noted:
If the world as a whole cut all emissions tomorrow, the average, the average temperature of the planet's not going to drop for several hundred years perhaps as much as a thousand years …
Figures suggest that Australia contributes only about 1.2 per cent to 1.5 per cent of global emissions. That is a fairly insignificant figure—though it is not a figure that we should be proud of—and it is important, given the fact that we are a relatively low emitter, that we do not introduce measures that will create a cost burden for Australians and the economy but not have any impact on the area it is supposedly designed to improve. The very real threat is that the carbon tax, which is a $9 billion new tax, will lead to an increase of 10 per cent in electricity prices in the first year alone and that household budgets will also be adversely affected by such things as a nine per cent increase in gas prices for—I repeat—no substantial positive benefit for the environment.
While the government tells us that only big polluters will pay, the tax will have a flow-on impact on all areas of household spending, including on groceries. It will impact on the spending habits of Australians in general. Their life will become more difficult, and it will be harder for young and not-so-young people to get a job. Areas such as the Sunshine Coast, which I am privileged to represent in this place and which is heavily dependent on tourism and construction, will be amongst the areas most badly affected.
There have been suggestions that the carbon tax will have an impact of at least $515 a year on the cost of living of households. It is worth remembering that the price increases brought about by the carbon tax will follow closely on the coat-tails of massive rises in household costs in recent years. Like the rest of us, Madam Deputy Speaker Livermore, you run a household, so you would be aware that in the past four years electricity prices have risen on average by 51 per cent, gas prices have risen on average by 30 per cent, water and sewerage costs have increased by around 46 per cent, health costs have increased by an average of 20 per cent, school fees and other education costs have increased by around 24 per cent, and rent has increased by about 20 per cent.
I know that it is not popular to quote Lord Monckton—I can see the Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Mr Dreyfus, who is at the table, indicating by his smile—
Mr Dreyfus: I'm agreeing with you.
Mr SLIPPER: that he does not think it is a good thing to quote Lord Monckton, and I recognise his interjection. I am a great admirer of the parliamentary secretary—I think he has been given a really difficult job in having to sell this unsaleable tax, but if anyone can do it he certainly can. However, I suspect that, given the feedback from my community, even the parliamentary secretary's competence will be inadequate to turn people's opposition to the carbon tax—which will devastate our economy—into support. I am told that Lord Monckton suggests that, if the Labor government's plan is introduced and omissions are cut by five per cent by 2020 in line with the plan, carbon in the atmosphere will be reduced by just 0.013 parts per million: from 412 parts per million down to 411.987 parts per million. The government is focusing, quite appropriately, on the need for the world to do something about climate change; however, the plan the government has introduced will not achieve what the government wants it to achieve, and at the same time it will make the very existence of many Australian families so much more difficult than it already is.
I mentioned earlier that the Sunshine Coast is heavily dependent on tourism and construction. Tourism is among the industries that are most vulnerable to a carbon tax and the associated impact on prices. It is potentially a big victim of the carbon tax because it depends so much on the spending power of visitors. Madam Deputy Speaker, I know you have been to the Sunshine Coast, so you would be aware that we boast wonderful beaches, a relaxed way of life and modern conveniences. I know that the area you represent also has wonderful beaches—though the surf there is nowhere near as good!
The Sunshine Coast has many unspoiled attractions for families. We have our coastline, national parks and walking tracks, camping grounds and caravan parks for reasonably priced family holidays. We have modern and luxury unit complexes. We have Australia Zoo—which is run so effectively by Terri Irwin, whom I greatly admire—Aussie World, the Ettamogah Pub, Underwater World and the Big Kart Track as well as the natural attributes of the coast and hinterland and much more. These attractions help to directly and indirectly provide employment for many people who in turn provide for many families. The survival of these attractions depends on the many visitors who come to our area, yet all these visitors will have their lives disrupted by the imposition of the carbon tax and the associated increases in costs.
Households, families, individuals and the elderly around Australia have been finding things extremely difficult, and it is wrong to impose on Australians an additional tax that would see costs rise further—and dramatically—without the tax having any impact on pollution. I have been advised that costs will rise considerably after three years, when the government's initial set price of $23 per tonne for carbon will no longer be fixed but instead become a floating figure out of control of government and at the mercy of market forces. Households will bear the cost and be forced to cut back in yet further areas. The government says that the carbon tax is estimated to rise to $29 per tonne in 2016, but the Centre for International Economics suggests that the figure will be closer to $49 per tonne. The government's figures suggest the price will rise to $37 per tonne in 2020 and to more than $350 per tonne in 2050. All of these prices are significant, and I just hate to think what the impact of this carbon tax is going to be like for families in the future if it is not rejected by the parliament or repealed by an incoming government. As I said, the Sunshine Coast has benefited from its construction industry—the building of homes, unit complexes and commercial premises. They have all catered for our growing population and brought visitors to our region.
It really is unfortunate that the government has decided to proceed with the carbon tax legislation. It is obvious that the community is not in support of this proposal. The government really ought to recognise that it has no mandate for this tax. After all, it was the Prime Minister who, prior to the last election, said that there would be no carbon tax under any government she led. I consider that, if the Prime Minister has changed her mind—and, if she has, I certainly respect that—she should do what Prime Minister Howard did in 1998 when he changed his mind on the introduction of a GST.
Mr Bruce Scott interjecting—
Mr SLIPPER: As the member for Maranoa points out, the Prime Minister of the day said: 'Circumstances are different. While I did say that I would never, ever introduce a GST, it is now necessary for the economy.' But he gave the people of Australia the opportunity to vote for that change of policy at an election. If the government feels strongly about its carbon tax legislation, and I suspect that it does, it should say, 'This is the legislation which we plan to bring in if we are returned by the Australian people at the next poll.' It is wrong, in my view, to say one thing before an election and then change one's mind and one's policy and bring in a contrary policy after the election.
This legislation cannot be described as good legislation. It will encourage businesses to manufacture offshore. It will encourage people to holiday offshore. It will make it more difficult for young Australians and older Australians to obtain work. I just think that it is a very heavy price for us as a community to pay—bringing in this tax so that we all feel good but ultimately destroying our economy, reducing our competitiveness and assisting countries which are worse emitters than us to profit in the international marketplace at our expense. It is not too late for the government to withdraw this legislation. It would be in the national interest for it to do so.


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Previous literature on FHE only considered semi-honset circuit privacy.
Circuit-private FHE schemes have direct applications to computing on encrypted data. In that setting, one party (a receiver) holding an input $x$ wishes to learn the evaluation of a circuit $C$ held by another party (a sender). The goal is to make receiver\'s work sublinear (and ideally independent) of $\\mathcal{C}$, using a 2-message protocol.
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I am redoing our sports tipping script, for one of our sites. So before we started doing the background code, I thought I would get some feedback as to your thoughts regarding our UI.
Constructive feedback appreciated please ( this is a sample ) it is actually coded, but not dynamic as yet.
No worries guys, we completed it without any UI advice, all totally dynamic. I am totally happy with the outcome, and some of the UX features we managed to shoe horn in.
I have updated the image ( see first post ) to actual finished version. Always open to criticism though, as front end stuff is always evolving and has room for improvement. However, I am more than happy with our efforts.
Looks good. I can think of just one small suggestion:
I believe you're using fixed width for the page number elements. It looks cramped for numbers over 10.
I am not actually, but it is the one ui issue i couldnt think on how to accomplish better and cleaner. Due to the width of the content div. I serched high and low , even looked at scrolling effects, and just simple hrefs, but couldnt find anything quite as clean and easy to use. The width of each ( button ) element is handled by padding.
Up for suggestions tho. I will try and apply an align text fix for numbers over 10
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LOVE this kit from Swirlydoos! The colors are amazing and the embellishments are gorgeous!!! Perfect for this sunny pictures from an afternoon at the Fort Tryon Dog Park. The pages are loaded with Prima yumminess!
I love using packaging in creative ways. This clock was cut from Prima packaging. I then distressed it and inked it up. Look at your packaging-from your crafty supplies & other things around your house. I love running cardboard through my Big Shot. Those little cardboard things from around your Starbucks coffee cup…perfect! Run that through the Big Shot-it is even already textured.
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Updated 1:16 p.m. ET
Mitt Romney rejects a reported plan by a Republican super PAC to possibly revive an attack on President Obama that reminds voters of his ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his former minister.
BLOG: GOP donor wants to revive Wright attacks
In an interview with townhall.com, a conservative website, Romney used some of the same words and themes that his campaign manager did this morning regarding the proposed Obama attacks, as described in The New York Times.
The presumptive GOP presidential nominee also used his response to swipe Obama's campaign.
"I repudiate the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they've described," Romney said. "I would like to see this campaign focus on the economy, on getting people back to work, on seeing rising incomes and growing prosperity -- particularly for those in the middle class of America. And I think what we've seen so far from the Obama campaign is a campaign of character assassination."
The New York Times reported on the plan commissioned by GOP donor Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, to possibly run ads linking Obama to some of Wright's controversial statements on race. Obama broke ties with Wright during the 2008 campaign and denounced his ex-pastor's comments.
Brian Baker, president of the Ending Spending Action Fund, said the Wright-based attack ad is only a proposal and that it has been rejected for use. He said Ricketts has no intention of financing the plan.
Romney's campaign manager, Matt Rhoades, issued a statement this morning about the Times story:
Unlike the Obama campaign, Gov. Romney is running a campaign based on jobs and the economy, and we encourage everyone else to do the same. President Obama's team said they would 'kill Romney,' and, just last week, David Axelrod referred to individuals opposing the president as 'contract killers.' It's clear President Obama's team is running a campaign of character assassination. We repudiate any efforts on our side to do so.
We have full coverage in our sister blog, The Oval. USA TODAY's political team will have more in Thursday's editions.
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
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The third member of Seymore Butts' crew of 'Tushy Girls,' Porn Star Halli Aston continues the tradition started by Alisha Klass and Samantha Stylle. Namely, she's a stunningly beautiful young woman whose love of backdoor romping knows no bounds. So far, Halli Aston's only appeared in a couple of features for Butts, but Halli Aston promises to be one of the biggest starlets in the business before too long.
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Still not sure how I felt when I saw this, Amazed because for a country with citizens living under $1 we sure do have misplaced priorities. So the presidency is planning to run an airline or what? Cos that would be the only logical explanation for having ten air crafts in its fleet.
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Last month I told you about Virtue, a Christian fragrance. This weekend I came across Holyland Perfume and Cologne, which makes such olfactorily ambiguous scents as King David Cologne and Essence of Jerusalem Purse Spray. According to the company, the bottles were crafted to resemble ancient perfume bottles dug up by archaeologists in Israel, and the scents were inspired by flowers and plant essences mentioned in the Bible. I will concede that Rose of Sharon smelled delicious, but how do you feel about smelling Biblical?


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Hi there!
I just got a new computer and it's got the Windows Vista Ultimate on it.
I've never used it before so I hope this post makes sense.
It's got software already installed, including the "Windows Media Center". I
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1. I can't play my DVD's
The software can play a DVD if it's on disk, but all my family movies are on
my hard drive. The new computer has a lot of disk space so I don't want to
put them on to a DVD. When I click the button 'Play DVD HD' it only comes up
with my DVD drive. I have a folder C:\DVD and have added it to the library,
but they don't show up. I followed the instructions on a previous post
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The woman also took her top off while in the shop.
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Werkendam, The Netherlands (AFP) Dec 12, 2007
For centuries the low-lying Netherlands has fought to reclaim land from water by creating polders. Now, with flood risk increasing thanks to climate change, it is giving the land back.
As politicians and experts from around the world gather in Bali this week to discuss climate change and the problems of projected rising sea levels and extreme weather, the Dutch are already changing the way they manage water.
The Noordwaard polder in the south-western part of the Netherlands looks like any polder: a wide, flat tract with grassland and barren fields and a few farms behind a high dike that shields it from the Merwede river.
In 2015, large parts of this polder land will be left to flood.
"When we had flooding here in 1993 and 1995, it dawned on us that the climate was changing and we needed measures to increase security," Ralph Gaastra, in charge of a project to de-polder the Noordwaard, told AFP.
"Then we started seeing that you cannot continue indefinitely to level up dikes, we needed to look at other solutions."
In the Noordwaard polder the protective outer dike will be lowered by two meters (6.5 feet) so that the area will flood when the water level in the Merwede, a tributary of the Rhine river, is too high. In addition four channels will be dug to allow water to flow over into the polder.
Although this controlled flooding means most of the arable farms and some families living in the Noordwaard will have to move, it will ease the pressure on other more populated areas and lower the risk of flooding elsewhere.
For the Netherlands, the 2006 government plan called 'Room for the river' is a big turnaround. Instead of fighting to keep the land painstakingly away from water, the decision was made in 2005 to sacrifice certain areas to keep the rest safer from floods.
"Since 1850 you see on maps that we have been taking more and more land from the rivers, 'Room for the river' is the first step in reversing that movement," Wino Aarnink, the project's manager at the Dutch ministry of Transport and Water Managment, explained.
The Netherlands has 26 percent of land below sea level but some two-thirds of the country would flood regularly without the dikes and other flood protection.
"The Netherlands is the best protected delta area in the world and our ambition is to keep it that way, but also to minimize the effects when something does go wrong because it's never 100 percent safe," Aarnink said.
The so-called "de-polderisation" of the Noordwaard is expected to achieve a 30-centimeter (12-inch) drop in water levels at nearby Gorinchem.
In the Noordwaard area there are currently 26 farms and 49 houses. Gaastra said that roughly about a third of the houses will be demolished and most of the farms will have to move elsewhere because the land will no longer be suitable for arable farming, just for keeping livestock.
"One of the reasons the Noordwaard was chosen was that the people here wanted to cooperate and it was sparsely populated. In a more built-up area we couldn't afford buying everybody out," Gaastra said.
For the whole of the 'Room for the river', the ministry calculates that some 150 people will have to be moved to protect four million inhabitants.
Although most people living close to a river agree that new protective measures must be taken, it is a typical 'not-in-my-backyard' project, Aarnink said.
"Many people in the delta area are supportive, they remember the 1995 floods when 200,000 people had to be evacuated, but once we start demolishing houses in their area it's different."
To get the public behind the new approach, the Dutch ministry for transport and water management works with inhabitants to encourage them to come up with alternative solutions. It also launched a two million-euro a year advertising campaign to promote the turnaround in water management along the coast and in the rivers.
On a special website called the "The Netherlands lives with water", the ministry is emphatic: "We have to give water space now, if we don't the water will claim the space later".
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It should have been another great year as Apple [AAPL] emerged from mourning the loss of its great leader, Steve Jobs, equipped with a raft of exciting new product ideas -- but sadly 2012 became Apple's annus horribilis.
In the spotlight
Apple's new CEO, Tim Cook, is an operations man who 'gets' the importance of good product design, but don't hold that against him: he's absolutely committed to the company he now leads, but even he must be feeling the weight of 12-months of negative publicity thrown at the firm.
Even this morning the company's mapping service is under fire as Australian police warn that its inaccuracies can place lives at risk. That's after months of criticism for the service's problems, criticism which led to the ouster of iOS chief, Scott Forstall and a series of public apologies by Cook.
Most recently, the company faced criticism for its decision to make it near impossible to upgrade the RAM inside its newly introduced 21.5-inch iMac.
Litigation between Apple and Samsung continues, with Apple winning one major victory against its foe -- but even that win went wrong, as Samsung quickly challenged the objectivity of the jury foreman, bringing the case back to the court as it attempted to cast the verdict as invalid.
In the UK, Apple was aghast at a court decision that insisted it publish an advertisment that basically said Samsung didn't copy its product designs. Apple was reluctant to engage in this, but the judge came down hard on the company, forcing it to eventually comply.
Attempts to abandon the relationship with Samsung proved more challenging than anyone had expected. Component supply problems reportedly delayed the release of some products, as Apple worked with others to replace its Korean foe across the chain. Samsung continues to manufacture the processors used inside Apple's mobile devices, but this relationship seems set to change.
Apple's supply chain problems didn't end there. Following months of reports detailing poor labor practises across its Asia-Pacific manufacturing partners, the company eventually bowed to the criticism and took major steps to address these problems -- even publishing more transparent data on working conditions than available from anyone else in the industry.
In future, of course, the debate will matter less as people are replaced with robots -- but then, who gets paid? Ask This American Life.
Cynical response
The reaction? Many condemned Apple's real (and expensive) moves to improve conditions as nothing more than a PR attempt. A similar cynical response also emerged on last week's news that the company intended restarting Mac production in the US -- another step it took in face of criticism of its use of manufacturing partners in other territories.
Of course, the chain of poor publicity continues to damage company reputation. A recent Strategy Analytics report claimed iPhone users are becoming slightly less loyal than before.
Some good news: iPhone 5 has held to family tradition and quickly become the world's biggest-selling smartphone. This isn't enough -- Android market share now utterly eclipses that of iOS on phones.
Even iPad 3 ("the new iPad") went wrong: the first Apple product to support 4G would only support that standard in North America, causing many consumers in international territories to complain and Australian regulators to slam a fine on the company.
Some of Apple's planned products didn't hit the deadline. Plans for the Apple television appear to have been slowed down by problems negotiating content deals with TV producers and distribution deals with cable firms who don't want a television revolution realized.
Similarly, plans for an iTunes radio service have also been delayed as the company tries and so far fails to reach distribution agreements with major labels. Problems continued, Apple even had to delay release of iTunes 11 by a full month -- even the iBook service ended up in the courts, as Amazon fought to protect its business.
Fighting back
Looking ahead, Apple's strategy will be to maintain its focus on products. As iPhone releases reach two a year and it accelerates launches across its range, we can safely assume an NFC-toting iPhone 5S with biometric authentication; new model iPads, and the long awaited Mac Pro update.
However, as the company status changes from that of media darling to media whipping boy, its public profile is under attack, giving its many competitors a little breathing room. And slashing its stock values.
What will it do?
It is difficult to predict what any beleaguered force might do when it finds itself trapped in confined space. I suspect Apple will continue to become more transparent in many ways, while becoming even more secretive concerning future product plans: it will play to its strengths and continue to innovate. It will fight.
"Our North Star is to remain focused on making the world's best products," Cook has often said.
The challenge for him and his company is to remain focused on that vision even as the slings, arrows and critics of outrageous fortune assail it from all sides.
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Smash cakes! The little cake that usually comes free with your Baby's one year birthday cake. The little cake they get to go to town on. Frosting and cake everywhere, their face shoved in like a pig eating from it's trough! Cake in their hair, their eyes, their ears, frosting up their nose!
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The Thomas More Law Center, the organization taking on New Rochelle over the removal of a "Don't Tread on Me" flag from the former armory calls itself "the Christian response to the ACLU."
The center, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., the center says on its website that it "defends and promotes America's Judeo-Christian heritage and moral values, including the religious freedom of Christians, time-honored family values, and the sanctity of human life."
The New Rochelle United Veterans Memorial and Patriotic Association has retained the center, which does not charge for its services, in the matter.
The veterans hoisted the bright yellow Gadsden flag with its coiled snake under the slogan, on March 21. They had asked the city's permission to replace an aging American flag, which they did, but had not told the city they would be raising the second banner.
City Manager Charles Strome III told the veterans it would be taken down a week late rafter polling council members.
The issue is the lead story on the Thomas More Law Center's website, saying that the city "confiscated" the flag. Peter Parente, president of the New Rochelle veterans organization, said veterans were refused when they asked for the flag from city employees removing it. But the city later said they were free to pick up the flag at the Department of Public Works.
City Council members who asked that it be taken down said that, while they recognize the flag's role in the nation's history, the banner is also used prominently by the right-wing Tea Party. Parente and other supporters of keeping the flag – including the Thomas More Law Center – say that it is a historical banner, not a political statement.
Parente touched on the history in a statement.
"The Gadsden Flag was the first flag of our Nation…the Navy and Marines fought the American Revolution under that flag, and we will stand under it and fight again if we must."
A look at the Tea Party website shows that the group has adopted the flag and its imagery in several ways. In one current campaign, the party encourages people to fax Washington a "special Tea Party Flag" that is an adaptation of the Gadsden banner in which the coiled snake is the "e" in "Tea."
The Thomas More Law Center "defends and promotes America's Judeo-Christian heritage and moral values, including the religious freedom of Christians, time-honored family values, and the sanctity of human life."
The top photo shows the Gadsden flag when it flew at the former armory in New Rochelle, from the SAVE the Armory Facebook page.
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At first glance, this would appear to be a book about the design and building of furniture, in particular a pair of chairs. But it is actually a book about memory and love, about the passage of time and the passing of one generation to the next.
Frances and Spencer Shapiro are twin siblings, born May 16, 1996. In "Two Chairs" their father Saul explores his journey through woodworking and his experience as a father watching his children grow. He offers advice gleaned from his life as a woodworker. It is a story of inspiration, learning, beauty and pride. It is their story writ in wood.
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Despite his children's assertions to the contrary, Saul Shapiro was once a child as well. He was born June 23, 1956 to Florence and Seymour Shapiro of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY After his father passed away in 1961, Florence took the family to the nearby village of Dobbs Ferry, where Saul and his older brother Mitchell lived their formative years. Saul graduated with honors from Dobbs Ferry High School in 1974. His academic training includes materials science (Brown), manufacturing engineering and management (MIT) and he dropped out of architecture school (Harvard) after one year. Through all of this, he learned one thing; "If it doesn't fit one way, turn it around." He gets the most joy from spending time with his children, Frances and Spencer.
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Youngsters also got the chance to display their creative talents as they competed to write the best review of the shows.
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Justin Barnes will airbrush intricate designs on bobsleds that were prepped by the college's Auto Body students, who also will get the opportunity to paint the sleds. The bobsleds were built by the Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project, an initiative started by NASCAR driver Geoff Bodine. After learning the U.S. Olympic Bobsled Team was struggling with bobsleds modeled after European designs, Bodine got involved in 1992, applying his racing knowledge to design bobsleds that helped the team win four Olympic medals.
The bobsleds that will be painted at Hudson Valley will be used in the second annual Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge, held in Lake Placid on Jan. 5 through Jan. 7, 2007. NASCAR drivers will race the bobsleds, raising money for the non-profit Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project to defray costs of building future bobsleds for the U.S. Olympic Team. The students' and Barnes' work on the bobsleds, and the competition, will appear on taped segments for ESPN2 and SPEED.
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Hi Yaron! For the WordPress-like blog engine, look at Catable [github.com], which Altreus [github.com] and I started working on. It's written in Perl 5 using Catalyst, Template Toolkit, DBIx-Class, etc., has several tests and it is MIT/X11L. It's still not ready for deployment, but we're making progress, and we'd love to have more contributors. Feel free to fork the github repository, and hack on.
I'd like to work on it more intensively in the near future, because I'd like to move my blogs to blog.shlomifish.org, where I can have
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Great initiative!
The Perl Foundation just funded a Wx documentation grant.
Maybe I sounded too one-sided. Lack of documentation of Wx (which - YES, OH YES - is coming) is perhaps a turn-off for working or contributing to Padre.
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Ethan Hawke Set For Cymbeline
More Shakespeare with Hamlet's Michael Almereyda
When Ethan Hawke and Michael Almereyda got together last time, it was moider! Because they were making Hamlet, and that's an unavoidable part of the plot. Now the director and actor are reuniting for more Bard offerings, as they're planning a modern-day take on Shakespeare's lesser-known play Cymbeline.
The original story is full of the Bard's trademarks, including sexual deception, duelling, disguises, treachery and royals behaving badly. Almereyda has written a script that updates it all to modern-day America and fills the basic structure full of dirty cops and a drug-dealing biker gang. So very much, as the Hollywood Reporter puts it, a blend of Sons Of Anarchy (itself a take on Hamlet) and Baz Lurhmann's Romeo + Juliet.
Cymbeline's cameras will start rolling on August 19 in New York. Hawke was last seen in horror tale The Purge, relationship threequel Before Midnight and has crime thriller Getaway set for release here on October 4. He's currently at work on sci-fi pic Predestination.


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London, UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2016
Xinjiang Goldwind Science and Technology overtook Vestas Wind Systems as top global producer of wind turbines in 2015, managing to install 7.73 Gigawatts (GW), thanks to its stable development in the Chinese wind power sector and the rising demand for turbines, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData.
Expected adjustments to the wind energy Feed-in Tariff (FiT) in China have boosted development in this sector, resulting in Xinjiang Goldwind's increased revenue over the year, and its move up from third place in the wind production rankings. The company also witnessed a considerable rise in the number of operational wind farm projects, which has further boosted the sale of wind power produced by these projects.
Ankit Mathur, GlobalData's Practice Head for Power, says that: "Other companies have also been benefitting from the increased interest in wind power, and are not far behind Xinjiang Goldwind in terms of installations. Vestas installed 7.35 GW in 2015, and its revenues increased by 22% when compared to 2014, leaving it ranked highly in second place despite being knocked off the top spot.
"The company's increased activity levels and earnings were due to the steady implementation of wind turbine and servicing order books that witnessed continuous growth because of favorable market environment. A strong global footprint also enabled the company to attain profitability in both mature and emerging markets."
GlobalData also says that GE Power's acquisition of Alstom's renewable energy business unit has allowed the company to diversify its wind portfolio, with its presence in the European and Latin American regions. It installed 6.27 GW in 2015.
Subsequently ranked manufacturers in 2105 included Siemens AG with 5.03 GW, Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica with 3.1 GW, and Enercon GmbH with 2.92 GW. Siemens is another company which was ousted from its 2014 ranking, moving from second to fourth, while Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica moved up from eighth to fifth.
Mathur concludes: "All of these companies are making their mark in the wind turbine market with a number of different activities, including the introduction of innovative new turbine models, investment in international wind growth, and M and A activity."
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It is pretty great... can get it out of the fountain at ZAXBY's.
Which Zaxby's? I never go there but for this sweet nectar I just might.
The only place I have found teh Fanta is Subway and Johnny Burrito's under the Atrium.
at least the galleria one but I think I've seen it at other ones.
Squirt says hai.
It's pretty much the only reason I ever go to Zaxby's
i may have to try this cherry fanta you speak of. i've always passed it by...probably due to fear that it will turn my mouth red and i'll look like a kid.
is it better than cheerwine?
If it doesn't mix with Jack.....then I'll have to bypass that one on the drink isle.
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|Lady Cats improve to 12-3 with win over Quitman
|Bobby "Butch" Burney | News-Telegram Sports Editor
Dec. 12, 2006 - It took a while for the Sulphur Springs Lady Cats to find their defensive energy on Monday, but when they did, it came at just the right time.
The Lady Cats held Quitman without a field goal for the final nine minutes of the game, and Jessica Savage and Stephanie Conley each came up with a key steal in overtime to give Sulphur Springs a 44-40 victory.
It was the second time SSHS and Quitman met this year and each time the game into overtime with the home team winning by four points. Who knows how long they would play if they met on a neutral court.
"Last time, we were walking away with long faces," said SSHS head coach Tina Carrillo. "This time, we were on our home court and we were able to give our fan base something to smile about."
The Lady Cats were all smiles after the game as they improved their record to 12-3 by outscoring Quitman 4-0 in the four-minute overtime period.
The overtime was scoreless for almost three minutes before Savage cut into the passing lane near midcourt and stole a Quitman pass. She was fouled as she drove in for a lay-up with 1:09 to play and made both free throws to give SSHS a 42-40 advantage - only their third lead of the game.
Conley then stole the ball on Quitman's next possession. Though the Lady Cats weren't able to turn that into points, they did run the clock down to 10 seconds before Quitman could foul them three times to send them into the bonus.
Junior forward Starkeisha Wright, who scored 23 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, added two free throws with nine seconds remaining to seal the victory. Wright continued her stellar play, scoring in double figures for the fifth consecutive game by hitting 10-of-17 shots from the field.
"Starkeisha, we're seeing her play superb," Carrillo said. "Offensively, she's hard to stop right now. It's good to see her having another great game, another double-double. She's playing well for us, and she carried us tonight offensively."
Playing their seventh game in six days, the Lady Cats had a reason to be sluggish at the start. Junior Stephanie Conley grabbed an offensive rebound for a putback basket that gave them a 4-3 lead three minutes into the game. They didn't lead again until the end of the third period.
They were kept alive by Wright and by holding Quitman star point guard Shadawndra McNeal to 12 points, four steals and four assists.
Sulphur Springs fell behind by as many as nine points early, but tied the game at 17-17 midway through the second quarter on seven straight points started by a Wright bucket, followed by a putback from Cresha Hubbard and then a Savage 3-pointer. Hubbard finished with four points and three assists, while Savage had five points, four rebounds and three steals.
In the third quarter, the Lady Cats tied the game at 27-27 on a steal and bucket from senior Emily Bouyear, then went ahead on a jumper by Mackenzie Cross with 25 seconds remaining. Bouyear and Cross both scored five points. Cross also had four assists, three steals and three rebounds.
In the fourth quarter, the Lady Cats held Quitman to one point over the final 4:42 of regulation, while SSHS didn't score after Wright tied the game at 40-40 with 2:42 left on a jump hook.
"We still need to work on our situations at the end of the game, but a win's a win," Carrillo said. "We came out sluggish. We didn't come out with our full tenacity on defense, and it showed in the score. We weren't getting easy baskets. Late in the game, and especially in overtime, I saw a little bit of that tenacity.
"When we had to make the big plays we did, and we turned up the heat on defense."
SSHS Subvarsity 44, Quitman 23
The Sulphur Springs JV and freshmen had to combine for the game since Quitman's freshman team was playing elsewhere.
Stevie Moore scored 17 points and Stephanie Pruitt added 14 to lead the Lady Cats. Moore also had eight rebounds, while Pruitt had nine boards and three steals.
Erika Garrett added two points, two steals and two assists, and Alyssa Burney had seven rebounds and two steals.
For the freshmen, Justine Hatley scored four points, while Daci West added three. Ashanti Ivery led the ninth-graders in rebounds with six.
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PETA Member Seeks Ban on Salt Lake's Horse-Drawn Carriages
The owners -- of a horse, that collapsed while pulling a carriage in Salt Lake -- says the animal was suffering from an abdominal condition.
But a PETA member is jumping on the incident, to proclaim all horse-drawn carriages should be banned from the city.
The 13-year-old horse that collapsed Saturday is being treated for colic and abdominal pain.