Four days after playing in the IPL, AB de Villiers announces sudden retirement from international cricket.
Sa-chin! Sa-chin! That singsong chant that reverberated around the biggest stadia in India was retired along with Sachin Tendulkar, and nothing has replaced that. What did come close, however, was a 35,000-strong Chinnaswamy Stadium crowd yelling A-B-D! A-B-D! to welcome their most loved adopted son. Such was AB de Villiers’ impact in India.
As a modern batting great, de Villiers’ credentials can’t be questioned. South Africa’s fourth highest Test run scorer of all time, their second highest ODI run-getter and owner of the fastest ODI century, off only 31 balls, de Villiers gave cricket 360-degree batting, much in the way Johan Cryuff is known for gifting the world Total Football.
The timing of de Villiers’s announcement will raise eyebrows, especially given how little he has played for South Africa in the recent past. In the last year, de Villiers has featured in eight Tests, 12 ODIs and five Twenty20 Internationals. But his departure has been brewing for some time now.
There was a distinct feeling that de Villiers was only made captain of the South African Test team in 2016 in order to ensure that he was not lost to T20 franchise competitions around the world. As it happened he was barely able to embrace that role.
Today, when de Villiers says, “I am tired”, and gives international cricket away at 34 there will be enough sceptics who suggest he is set to spend the next year or two as a globetrotting T20 batsman, building himself a nice little nest egg. For the moment, de Villiers says this not on the cards.
Critically, de Villiers admitted that his longterm aim of winning a World Cup was something he had to give up on and that putting this ahead of overall availability to his team was not an option. “It would not be right for me to pick and choose where, when and in what format I play for the Proteas. For me, in the green and gold, it must be everything or nothing,” said de Villiers.
The announcement might be a moment for fans to sit back and savour the best of de Villiers, calling up YouTube videos of his best innings, but it has taken Cricket South Africa by surprise. While the South African team is in good hands with du Plessis providing vision and leadership, the hole that de Villiers the batsman leaves will not be filled in a hurry.
When you close your eyes and think of de Villiers, you might see a man on one knee, sweeping a fast bowler out of ground, a fielder who puts spiderman in the shade jumping in the air to pluck a catch or a little man in whites cover-driving with the kind of poise and balance given only to the very best in the world.
Think also though, of the time de Villiers spent nearly six hours at the crease on a dying Ferozeshah Kotla pitch, consuming 297 balls for 43 as South Africa looked to force a draw, almost staging a sit-in in protest to the kind of pitches they encountered on their 2015 tour of India. Think also of the captain who admitted that he got it completely wrong in 2015, in telling Dale Steyn to bowl length to fellow South African Grant Elliott in Auckland. de Villiers wept at the post-match press conference as his team called chokers once more and New Zealand entered their first World Cup final on the back of a penultimate ball six.
As de Villiers moves on, with the world asking why rather than why not, it’s worth putting cynicism aside, willingly suspending disbelief, at least temporarily, and trusting the man when he says: “It’s not about earning more somewhere else, it’s about running out of gas and feeling that it is the right time to move on. Everything comes to an end.” Cricket’s superman has run out of gas, but not before he took the world on the ride of a lifetime with his performances on the field.


What is the purpose of "Universal" in proposals for "Universal Background Checks"?
Is there a common-sensible way to examine statistics of carnage pertinent to the ongoing proposals for "universal" background checks. Yes, but it requires patience.
Let's examine the views of pro-gun-control advocates on the issue of "Universal Background Checks" -- They say: It's time to say "Enough." End this Carnage. Universal Background Checks must be required regardless of the mode of acquisition-- No exceptions, no loopholes and regardless of whether acquisition is by purchase from a retail store, dealer, or distributor or from a wholesaler or private club or organization or by gift from a relative, friend, father, mother, daughter, son, neighbor, domestic partner or spouse. The statistics are grim -- year-in and year out. Watch the video. Pay attention to the statistics. Go to http://PoliSat.Com/Universal-Background-Check.htm.
**A Federal NIH study concluded that firearms were lawfully used in 497,646 instances by homeowners to deter crime in 1994. Those totals reflected only such defensive/preventive use of firearms at home and did not include such lawful uses elsewhere by citizens. A number of subsequent, college-research studies placed the number far higher and included not only lawful uses at home by the firearm owner but also lawful uses elsewhere to either deter, prevent, or stop violent crimes in progress or save lives or both. Desiring to understate, rather than to risk overstating, the annual number of such lawful, defensive/life-saving uses of firearms, not only did I avoid using the probably-more-accurate, much higher numbers found in the post-1994 studies, but I went even further by using 240,000, which is less than half the number reported by the government in 1994 as an annual figure.
Is It More or Less Dangerous to Women for Them to Be Armed With a Gun?
"For every 1 woman using a gun for self-defense, 101 were killed with a gun."
self-defense, 89 are killed with an gun by an intimate acquaintance."
proves the opposite of the position for which they spout it.


Lexys Siebrands of Fort Morgan putts during the Fort Morgan Tournament.
There was golf in Fort Morgan after all.
Weather forced the postponement of Fort Morgan High School's March 12 tournament, with cancellation a possibility. However, maintenance of Fort Lupton's course required rescheduling their tournament planned for Tuesday, April 2.
Fort Morgan jumped at the chance to claim the date.
At the varsity level, ten schools competed at Quail Dunes Golf Course fielding 39 golfers.
The Mustangs have two varsity golfers on the roster. Peyton Smith was unable to play because of injury. Lexys Siebrands played and finished 30 out of 39 golfers, shooting 115 for 41 over.
Eight of the 39 qualified for the team competition. Holy Family had the only two golfers who shot under par: Hailey Schalk and Jessica Mason, both at one under. They were followed by Jessica Zapf of Windsor at one over, rounding out the top three of the tournament.
However it's the top four from each team that determines the team's score. Windsor was able to take the title based on their more consistent scores.
Holy Family's top four golfers averaged eleven over par, while Windsor's top four averaged just seven over. Teams with fewer are not eligible, thus eliminating the Frederick Warriors and Fort Morgan Mustangs.
Twenty-eight junior varsity golfers also competed. While the varsity teams shot eighteen holes, the JV golfers played nine. The junior varsity scores were not grouped into team rankings.
Junior varsity golfers representing Fort Morgan were Citlally Ruedas and Kylie Morford.
Jeff Morford, Kylie's father, is encouraged by and encouraging of her progress.
"She really enjoys it," he said. "She has taken two-week lessons over the last for or five years," with Quail Dunes golf pro Matt Pickering, even though this is her first year of playing on the Fort Morgan team.
Fort Morgan head coach Greg Gotto was pleased the Fort Morgan golfers and with the tournament overall. Still, he considers this season to be one more of development than of contention.
The Tri-Valley League, which now includes Fort Morgan, has last year's state champion (Windsor), the top two teams in the state and five of the state's top ten golfers.
"This being a league tournament, it's tough because it's by far the toughest league in the state," Gotto said. "The girls are getting a lot of experience playing against great players."
The next outing for Fort Morgan will be 9 a.m. on Friday, April 5 hosted by Northridge High School at Boomerang Golf Club in Greeley.


Mark Stoddard, bar manager at The Bitter Bar, makes a Mexican Firing Squad, which includes Corrido silver tequila, pomegranate juice, aromatic bitters, ginger beer and fresh lime juice.
With the first taste of warm weather, it’s hard not to already be thinking of those hot summer days that slink into leisurely evenings.
Time for a proper summer drink, one that pays homage to the season. Fortunately for locals, Boulder’s cocktail scene has gone through a major evolution in the past few years; the quintessential summer drink no longer comes out of a soft-serve margarita machine.
The clear spirits — white rum, gin, vodka, silver tequila — are in their glory, he says, as are citrus juices and seasonal fruits. But just as no chef worth his salt would use prepackaged stock in a soup or garlic powder, bartenders — or mixologists as they’re now called — are eschewing pre-made mixers and turning to fresh citrus juices. Bitters and grenadine are house-made, and mixologists are also raiding the kitchen for fresh herbs and unusual spices.
Here is a sampling of local spots using creative ways to wet your whistle.
At the Bitter Bar, inside Happy in downtown Boulder, cocktails are made with precision. Start with the ice. The bar uses eight to 10 different shapes of ice — all made with purified water — according to how the ice is supposed to behave in the drink.
Bartenders use ice from quickly melting chips, which change the taste of the drink as they dilute it, to spheres, which barely melt at all for as long as 30 minutes. To make the spheres, Stoddard uses a chainsaw to cut up sculpture-quality ice and then places it in a special machine that forms the ice using gravity and friction. The glasses, also, are the proper size and design for the drink.
“We encourage people to savor the drink for 15, 20, 30 minutes,” Stoddard says. To that end, customers are always served a big glass of water, too, so they’re not tempted to knock back that cocktail because they’re thirsty.
What might be in those glasses?
One of Stoddard’s favorite drinks is the Mexican Firing Squad, made with Corrido silver tequila, fresh lime juice, house-made grenadine made from pomegranates, house-made angostura bitters and topped with ginger beer, also made in house.
“We garnish it with a big lime wheel and a slice of ginger,” he says.
At Salt at Pearl and 11th streets in Boulder, Beverage Director Evan Faber says the bar staff takes the same approach as the kitchen does — looking to the farmers’ market for seasonal inspiration.
Those seasonal fruits and herbs might end up muddled in drinks or infused in simple syrups.
“You can create all kinds of things for cocktails,” he says.
He uses sangria as an example. The drink, often tooth-achingly sweet and made with red wine, Cointreau and brandy, can be lightened up with white wine, a spirit such as gin, fresh fruit and lemon grass.
The bar’s menu breaks drinks down into styles and spirits, with some guidance on complementary flavors, and allows the customer to choose a custom cocktail with the help of the server or bartender.
One encouragement to being adventurous: The bar offers a tapas size drink of just a few sips.
At Centro Latin Kitchen, a new menu of drinks called Passport offers cocktails that use ingredients from 15 different Latin countries. In addition to the rum and tequila you might expect, the bar also offers pisco, a South American grape-based spirit, and two sugar cane-based spirits, cachaca and aguardiente. The latter is flavored with honey and anise and is similar to sambuca. Aguardiente is often used where absinthe would be. Cachaca is a fermented cane spirit that is used in the popular in the caipirinha — a drink similar to a margarita.
Bar Manager Devlin Devore says one of her favorite drinks is the Matu Mate, made with mate, the South American herbal beverage that Boulder’s Celestial Seasonings introduced to the American audience in its Morning Thunder tea. The drink is made with white rum, mate, agave nectar, mint, lemon and lavender extract.
Devore says she and the staff help customers try new things based on what they already like. But there’s another way, too.
At Boulder’s Pinyon, which emphasizes craft beers, Bar Manager Dan Mirsky, has been playing around with beer in cocktails.
Mirsky says he takes his cue from the restaurant’s menu, which tweaks classic American dishes, presenting them in unconventional ways.
His favorite current cocktail is a twist on a gin and tonic called Hops not Tonic. As the name indicates, Mirsky uses hoppy IPA as a sub for the bitter quinine in tonic. The cocktail also uses grapefruit juice, as well as the traditional squeeze of lime. Another drink, Cocktail 21, uses Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale and Vodka 14. A simple syrup infused with cardamom picks up the spicy elements in the beer. Lemon juice balances out the cocktail.
If the new cocktail scene seems a little overwhelming, Local Table Tours offers a little education along with a fun afternoon. The company, owned by Megan Bucholz, offers tours to three restaurant-bars.
Typically, tour-goers taste a spirit and learn about how it is made, and then taste small cocktails at three bars, where they also meet the bartender.
The cost for the tour, including tax and tip, is $30.
“I think they’re a pretty good deal for the amount of time you spend with the bartender,” Bucholz says. The tours which start mid-afternoon, allowing patrons to return to a bar for happy hour if they so desire.


Microsoft will more quickly retire old code in its Windows operating system and other software as a result of the company's four-month-old "trustworthy computing" initiative, the company's lead bug basher said in an interview.
The revelation follows last week's warning that a serious vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer occurred in the software supporting a decade-old protocol that has rarely been used since the World Wide Web became popular.
"A lot of the (coming) design changes are to remove this feature or turn that one off by default," said Steve Lipner, director of security assurance for Microsoft and the man on the ground for the company's trustworthy computing initiative.
He added that when Microsoft is faced with a choice between removing old, possibly insecure code and keeping a feature to please a small fraction of customers, increasingly security is winning out. "Do we think that things will be retired more quickly? Sure," Lipner said.
The acknowledgment that the company is rushing to axe old code comes amid criticism that Microsoft's security initiative has been slow to show results. More than 30 vulnerabilities have been reported by the company since the initiative began, putting it on the same security track as last year.
Even before Windows XP came out, Microsoft said it would sacrifice compatibility in some circumstances to increase performance. However, the recent, unexpected security problems are accelerating the process and prompting the company to remove more code than anticipated. But trying to figure out how to cut potentially problematic code is no easy task.
"The problem is that you are dealing with 50 million lines of code and everything depends on everything else," said Peter Neumann, principal scientist for technology think-tank SRI International.
Microsoft kicked off its trustworthy computing initiative in January, after Chairman Bill Gates urged the company's employees to focus more on security and less on creating new features. Critics of the company have kept watch for signs of any real changes in how the software giant deals with security. Changes in Windows, though, could take awhile, especially in light of how the operating system has grown.
Neumann--who designed the file system for the Multics operating system, the precursor to Unix--stresses that software security starts with good design, using modular components.
"Part of the problem is everything is too convoluted," Neumann said. "It's difficult to have an assurance that everything is going to work." Adding in backward compatibility only increases complexity, he added.
Marc Maiffret, 21-year-old security prodigy and chief hacking officer for eEye Digital Security, doesn't fault old code for security problems. He said that programmers who don't review the code before using it are at fault. Old code may have more security holes in it, but those holes should be caught, he said.
"With a lot of the more recent code, people are smarter about writing secure code," Maiffret said, adding that "there is no problem in having backwards compatibility, except when there is a flaw in it."
That's the problem Microsoft is facing. A feature that allowed Internet Explorer to communicate with servers running Gopher, a pre-Web protocol for hyperlinking information, has a vulnerability that could leave PC users open to attack, a Finnish researcher said last week.
GopherSpace, the name of the network of servers that supports the Gopher protocol, consists of less than 600 computers offering up less than 8 million links, according to a Gopher site maintained at Point Loma Nazarene University. The Web has more than 2 billion pages, according to the Google search engine.
While Microsoft is still analysing the claims, the company's trustworthy computing initiative already had project managers questioning the wisdom of having support for the rarely used protocol, said Microsoft's Lipner.
"Gopher was one of the functions that was flagged for being turned off by default" in the coming Windows XP Service Pack 1, Lipner said. While the disclosure of the apparent flaw beat the company's update, Lipner stressed that the design decision showed the initiative was paying off. "We were asking the right questions," he said.
Lipner wouldn't name other features that would be retired, or break down how much of Windows XP is considered old code and how much is new. Instead, he explained that part of the company's security process involves imagining the worst types of attacks against its code and developing a "threat model." It then searches for any holes in its defenses that would let such attacks through.
"The developers and testers were reviewing code and testing code as prioritised by the threat model," Lipner said.
Lipner said the work is ongoing, adding, "The security push is a big job."


PUTRAJAYA: It all started with a simple bookshelf-building project 10 years ago by three college mates.
They scoured the alleyways and dump sites around Chow Kit and collected wooden pallets and other waste materials to build their furniture.
Today, Rashvin Pal Singh, Azam Hisham and Gurpreet Dhillon’s vision has turned into a profit-making social enterprise called Biji-Biji Initiative, which promotes sustainable living by reusing waste and craftsmanship.
Within two years, Biji-Biji Initiative has since grown and sold enough furniture and crafts to fund its business and has passed down its knowledge to nearly 1,000 youths at its workshops.
“None of us had experience or the skills when we had this idea. But we were determined to do something meaningful,” said Rashvin, 28.
The group has created tables, chairs, shelves, bags and more using discarded items such as pallets, diesel drums, bamboo and even used seat belts.
“You can easily find waste materials. They are cheap. But we ensure quality through good craftsmanship. My advice is action is power. If you have an idea, get a team and just do it,” he said.
Biji-Biji Initiative has been selected as “mentors” under the newly-revamped Rakan Muda programme and its work is showcased at the annual Putrajaya Youth Festival 2015, which ends today.
Power of youth: Khairy posing with youngsters for a wefie at the Youth Festival in Putrajaya.
Other Rakan Muda mentors featured at the three-day festival include traditional dancer January Low, skateboarder Joe Ipoh, sape player Alena Murang and house builders Epic Homes.
“Under the previous Rakan Muda programme, everything is set up by the government and youths will just attend.
“Our new concept encourages youths with talents, be it in arts, crafts or sports, to come to us with their ideas. We can help fund them but they must also demonstrate how their projects can change the society for the better,” said Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, after launching the new Rakan Muda website.
Khairy said about RM10mil had been set aside as funding and successful applicants could get about RM5,000, depending on the size of their project, for youths aged between 15 and 30.
The Putrajaya Youth Festival is an annual event and is organised in conjunction with the Youth Day celebrations.


TIMKEN � Hunter 5-6-17, Walton 1-0-2, Brunner 4-0-8, Oree 4-2-10, Laceg 1-0-3, King 1-0-2. Totals: 25-68 15-22 67.
JACKSON � Dillon 1-0-2, Walker 1-2-4, Bailey 4-6-15, Carlin 0-2-2, Griffin 9-10-30, Johnson 1-2-5, Smith 1-0-2. Totals: 17-46 22-27 60.
3-point goals: Griffin 2, Bailey, Johnson, Laceg, Hunter. Fouls: Tim., 22-18. Rebounds: Tim., 43 (House 10); Jac., 40 (Carlin 4, Bailey 4). Turnovers: Jac., 19-15.
CHIPPEWA (6-8, 3-7) � Downs 2-4-9, Epling 3-3-9, Hazard 2-0-4, Purdy 1-0-2, Reeves 7-2-16, Vasilatos 1-1-3, Zahn 2-0-4. Totals: 18-48 7-10 47.
DALTON (12-2, 9-1) � Hammer 2-0-5, Masters 4-0-8, Moyer 4-0-9, Troyer 9-3-21, Metzger 2-0-4, Bowe 3-2-8. Totals: 24-42 5-17 55.
3-point goals: Reeves 2, Hammer, Moyer, Downs, Vasilatos. Fouls: Chi., 19-12. Rebounds: Chi., 30 (Epling 11); Dal., 22 (Troyer 7). Turnovers: Chi., 16-13.
BOARDMAN (3-11, 1-7) � Hammond 7-6-20, Irving 1-2-4, Steverson 3-2-8, Passas 1-3-5, DiIanni 0-2-2. Totals: 12-15-39.
HOOVER (9-5, 4-4) � Iero 8-2-23, Maciag 1-0-3, Moore 2-4-8, Schick 1-2-4, Veldhuizen 1-1-3, Grandjean 1-0-2, Blackledge 1-3-5, Herb 5-0-10. Totals: 20-12-57.
3-point goals: Iero 5, Maciag. Fouls: Boa., 20-16. Rebounds: Hoo., 30 (Moore 7, Blackledge 7); Boa., 26 (Hammond 6). Turnovers: Boa., 19-18. JV score: Hoover, 62-42.
GLENOAK (5-9) � Pendleton 0-2-2, Robinson 4-0-8, Shori 1-0-2, Merrell 1-3-5, Hronec 5-2-14, Worstel 3-0-7, Bungo 4-0-9. Totals: 15-8-47.
NORTHWEST (7-6) � Riley 3-1-7, Brotherton 4-0-8, May 7-0-19, Freeman 1-1-3, Schultz 1-0-2, Stover 0-1-1, LeBron 4-0-9. Totals: 20-3-49.
3-point goals: May 5, Hronec 2, Bungo, LeBron, Worstel. Fouls: Nor., 16-11. Rebounds: Nor., 26 (Riley 7); Gle., 22 (Worstell 8). JV score: Northwest, 55-38.
STVM (8-6) � Brantley 1-0-2, Blanks 4-1-9, Bickley 1-0-2, Hargrove 7-0-15, Cugini 5-7-17, Wells 6-3-15, Pierce 1-0-2, Bushner 1-0-2. Totals: 26 11-20 64.
BUCHTEL (7-4) � Graise 1-0-2, Jones 3-0-6, Ruffin 3-0-6, Cosey 4-2-10, Bell 9-1-20, Hicks 1-4-6, Rucker 1-0-2. Totals: 22 7-10 52.
3-point goals: Hargrove, Bell. Fouls: 15-15. Rebounds: STVM, 40 (Cugini 17); Buc., 30. Turnovers: STVM, 22-19. JV score: St. Vincent-St. Mary, 59-57.
NORMANDY � Nemet 2-7-11, Schmook 0-1-1, Schulk 2-0-4, Stacho 1-0-3, Tayeh 1-1-3, Vorell 5-3-14. Totals: 11-12-38.
WRA � Bryant 3-2-8, Fetterman 2-1-5, Kollat 6-5-18, Saucier 4-3-11, Widowski 2-0-4. Totals: 17-11-45.
3-point goals: Stacho, Vorell, Kollat.
Buchtel at Firestone, 7 p.m.
Ellet at East, 7 p.m.
North at Garfield, 7 p.m.
PADUA (5-10) � Coesel 1-0-2, Ford 3-2-8, Ripepi 3-2-8, Clint 3-4-10, Harrison 3-0-6, Baird 1-0-2. Totals: 14 8-13 36.
HOBAN (15-1) � Griffith 2-2-7, Feaster 6-6-18, Bender 1-0-3, Corrigal 1-0-2, Dickos 3-0-6, Horning 2-1-6, Roop 1-0-2, Donohue 4-1-9. Totals: 20 10-19 53.
3-point goals: Griffith, Bender, Horning. Fouls: Pad., 19-16. JV score: Hoban, 39-24.
COPLEY (2-13, 1-11) � M. Schreiner 1-0-2, C. Schreiner 3-0-7, Blachaniec 1-0-2, Fish 2-0-4, Preston 4-0-8, Drake 6-1-13, Smith 1-0-2. Totals: 18-38 1-6 38.
CLOVERLEAF (8-9, 5-6) � Baughman 4-1-10, Polchek 1-0-2, Piper 1-0-2, Ploucha 2-0-4, Yuhas 3-1-7, Dearth 8-2-21, Burgos 0-1-1, Civittolo 3-0-7. Totals: 22-36 5-8 54.
3-point goals: Dearth 3, Baughman, Civittolo, C. Schreiner. Fouls: 10-10. Rebounds: Cop., 19; Clo., 24 (Yuhas 7, Simpson 7). Turnovers: Clo., 24-21. JV score: Cloverleaf, 51-46.
STREETSBORO � Blondeaux 0-1-1, Densmore 1-2-4, Julian 0-1-1, Kolke 3-4-11, Oliver 0-1-1, Targosky 7-0-14, Williams 1-0-2, Woods 1-0-2. Totals: 13-9-36.
COVENTRY � Angeletti 1-2-4, Baird 3-2-8, Cerepak 2-1-6, Magestro 0-1-1, Moore 3-2-9, Morisak 4-2-11. Totals: 13 10-22 39.
3-point goals: Kolke, Moore, Morisak, Cerepak. Fouls: Str., 19-16. Rebounds: Str., 36; Cov., 24 (Angeletti 8). JV score: Coventry, 34-30.
SPRINGFIELD (3-11, 1-10) � Pratt 2-2-6, Alcorn 0-2-2, Slider 1-0-2, Karas 1-1-3, Lucco 3-1-7, Hedrick 2-4-8, Holman 0-1-1. Totals: 9 11-21 29.
CRESTWOOD (9-7, 5-6) � H. Hoffman 1-4-6, Nuti 1-0-2, S. Hoffman 0-1-1, Chiller 0-3-3, Vaught 2-0-5, Phillips 8-1-17, Johnson 3-4-10, Forareto 0-2-2, Kulla 0-1-1. Totals: 15 16-31 47.
3-point goals: Vaught. Fouls: Spr., 20-18. JV score: Crestwood, 36-33.
BRUSH (2-12, 2-4) � Howard 1-0-3, Williams 5-2-13, Welch 1-0-2, Stewart 2-1-5, Sharp 2-2-7. Totals: 11-44 5-13 30.
CUYAHOGA FALLS (9-6, 5-1) � Neumann 2-1-6, Gilbow 2-0-4, Eaker 0-7-7, Scourfield 0-4-4, Townsend 3-1-7, Breehl 5-3-13. Totals: 12-43 16-26 41.
3-point goals: Neumann, Howard, Williams, Sharp. Fouls: Bru., 16-10. Rebounds: Bru., 27 (Welch 7); Cuy., 45 (Breehl 22). Turnovers: 15-15. JV score: Cuyahoga Falls, 43-25.
CVCA � Silk 1-1-3, Shanaberger 0-1-1, Mallard 2-1-6, Wesky 1-2-4, Wilson 9-3-21, Tyna 0-4-4, Maresh 2-1-5, Foley 4-2-11, Letner 2-3-7. Totals: 21 19-32 60.
BUCHTEL (5-9) � Dent 4-2-10, McGuire 5-3-13, Clayton 1-0-2, Ulmer 2-0-4, Diamond 2-0-6, McMillan 1-0-2, El-Amin 0-1-1. Totals: 16 5-15 38.
3-point goals: Diamond 2, Foley, Mallard. Fouls: Buc., 25-18. Rebounds: CVCA, 32; Buc., 23 (Dent 6). Turnovers: Buc., 27-14.
DALTON (13-3, 8-3) � M. Beatty 3-2-9, Briceland 1-0-2, C. Beatty 2-1-5, Metzger 10-1-22, Merriman 0-8-8, Ketler 1-0-2. Totals: 17-47 12-19 48.
HILLSDALE � Austin 1-1-3, Cutlip 2-1-5, Moore 5-4-15, Willis 1-2-4, Moffett 3-1-7, Bookman 6-0-12. Totals: 18-9-48.
3-point goals: M. Beatty, Metzger, Cutlip, Moore. Rebounds: Dal., 32 (Metzger 10). JV score: Dalton, 28-24.
WINDHAM (8-7) � Hagan 1-0-2, Heller 2-2-6, C. Isler 2-0-4, J. Isler 3-2-9, Schnider 5-0-10, Viasati 0-1-1. Totals: 13-8-35.
EAST CANTON (7-8) � Butler 3-0-7, Clapper 2-0-4, Dunbar 5-4-14, Gothard 2-0-4, Hatchett 1-0-2, Payne 3-0-7, Truex 4-2-12, Wolfe 1-0-3. Totals: 21-6-53.
3-point goals: Truex 2, Payne, Butler, Wolfe, J. Isler. Fouls: Win., 15-15. Rebounds: Win., 25 (Schinder 6); EC, 41 (Payne 12).
HIGHLAND (11-5, 7-4) � Esteffas 3-9-15, Petek 9-3-21, Roddy 2-2-6, Kirchner 5-1-12, Weincek 3-0-6. Totals: 21 15-28 56.
REVERE (5-11, 4-7) � Harbath 4-5-14, Pantich 5-5-15, Klein 2-3-7, Serpentini 1-0-2, Sawka 2-0-4, Vitez 1-6-8. Totals: 15 18-26 50.
3-point goals: Harbath, Kirchner. Fouls: Rev., 18-17. Rebounds: Rev., 20 (Pantich 6). Turnovers: Rev., 19-15. JV score: Highland, 38-33.
HUDSON (13-2, 4-2) � Wade 5-1-11, Drohan 5-0-12, Zullo 1-1-3, Gough 3-2-9, Mummey 4-4-12, Boesinger 4-0-8. Totals: 22 8-22 55.
STOW (10-5, 2-4) � A. Shaver 9-4-22, Lawson 1-2-5, Vaughn 1-0-3, S. Shaver 3-0-6, Magnani 2-0-5, Iwanski 1-0-2, Stefanov 3-2-8. Totals: 20 8-12 51.
3-point goals: Drohan 2, Gough, Lawson, Vaughn, Magnani. Fouls: Stow, 20-15. JV score: Stow, 39-33.
KIDRON CENTRAL (4-8) � Coblentz 11-0-24, Eckenrode 3-0-6, Haven 4-0-8, Mast 6-0-12, Miller 3-1-7, Sleutz 3-1-7, Swift 1-1-3. Totals: 31-67 2-8 67.
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY (8-2) � Doane 1-0-2, Hales 3-0-6, Stewart 1-2-4, Varisco 2-2-6, Willis 4-5-13. Totals: 12-49 9-18 33.
3-point goals: Coblentz 2. Fouls: KCC, 16-12. Rebounds: KCC, 43 (Eckenrode 11); CC, 35. Turnovers: CC, 26-20.
NORTHWEST (4-11) � Smith 2-2-6, Booth 4-0-8, Boecker 1-0-2, Saudmann 0-5-5, DeGuia 2-9-14, Worden 0-1-1, Serb 5-5-15, Martin 2-2-6. Totals: 17-22-57.
BARBERTON (7-9) � Wright 2-1-5, Ford 1-1-3, Berlin 1-0-3, Frost 5-2-16, Sykes 1-0-2, Wilsno 2-4-8, Nilsson 1-0-2. Totals: 13-8-39.
3-point goals: Frost 4, Berlin, DeGuia. Fouls: Bar., 26-21. Rebounds: Nor., 30; Bar., 19. Turnovers: Bar., 30-19. JV score: Barberton, 44-23.
NORTHWESTERN (12-3, 9-2) � Moore 2-1-5, Bell 7-1-16, McKeane 5-6-19, Markley 1-0-2, Forbes 1-2-4, Altendarger 4-3-11, Acres 2-0-4. Totals: 22-13-61.
CHIPPEWA (8-7, 4-7) � Zacour 0-1-1, Ab. Richmond 4-1-11, McEndree 2-5-10, Williams 0-1-1, Farmwald 1-0-2, Storad 1-0-2, Stiles 4-0-10, Am. Richmond 3-4-10, Petit 2-0-6. Totals: 17-12-53.
3-point goals: McKeane 3, Stiles 2, Petit 2, Ab. Richmond 2, Bell, McEndree. Fouls: Nor., 22-21. JV score: Northwestern won.
NORTON � Paridon 1-0-3, Cook 3-4-10, Weber 0-1-1, Kraus 4-2-11, Fortner 4-6-18, Balckert 2-0-4, Hlas 2-2-6. Totals: 16-15-53.
FIELD � Peahey 1-0-2, Spaller 2-0-4, Spalding 2-0-5, Ricketson 7-1-15, Mortimer 10-1-23. Totals: 22-3-49.
3-point goals: Fortner 4, Mortimer 2, Kraus, Spalding, Paridon. Rebounds: Fie., 26-16. Turnovers: Fie., 22-12.
RITTMAN (1-13, 0-11) � Berger 3-3-9, Stefanica 1-0-2, Emerson 1-0-2, Dotterer 3-6-12, Rufener 1-1-3, Lurch 1-0-2. Totals: 10 10-17 30.
NORWAYNE (6-8, 5-6) � Kent 1-0-2, Grier 7-9-27, Steiner 0-4-4, Booth 1-0-2, Craig 2-0-4, Holcomb 2-6-10. Totals: 13 19-23 49.
3-point goals: Grier 4,. Fouls: Rit., 19-18. Rebounds: Rit., 26; Nor., 35 (Grier 6). Turnovers: Nor., 18-14.
OPEN DOOR (5-7) � Camera 3-9-17, Rodgers 6-3-17, Werley 3-0-6, Miksa 1-0-2, Turner 1-0-2. Totals: 13-12-44.
ELMS (9-6) � Frew 12-0-24, Haneline 5-3-14, Morse 2-5-9, Coruy 1-0-2, Albertino 2-1-5, Tustin 1-0-2, Schmidt 0-1-1. Totals: 23-10-62.
3-point goals: Camera 2, Rodgers 2, Haneline. Fouls: 14-14. Rebounds: Elms, 29 (Coruy 7); OD., 20 (Edwards 4).
RAVENNA (15-0, 11-0) � J. Fortson 1-4-6, A. Fortson 2-0-5, Smith 5-1-11, M. Gibson 3-6-13, Plaso 0-2-2, D. Gibson 3-3-9, Schwab-Davis 1-0-2. Totals: 15 14-22 48.
KENT ROOSEVELT (10-5, 8-3) � Coyne 1-1-4, Rice 0-2-2, Keener 2-5-10, Gray 3-2-8, Wemhoff 2-0-5, Olesh 3-4-10. Totals: 11 14-23 39.
3-point goals: Wemhoff, Keener, Coyne, A. Fortson, M. Gibson. Fouls: Kent, 25-22. Rebounds: Kent, 25 (Olesh 5, Greer 5, Gray 5). JV score: Kent Roosevelt, 42-31.
WATERLOO � Willis 7-3-21, Wyse 3-7-13, Wareham 5-0-13, Forney 0-0-0, Brannon 0-0-0. Totals: 15-14-47.
ROOTSTOWN � Pickens 7-7-21, Hartung 3-2-11, Myers 0-1-1, Miracle 8-3-19. Totals: 18-13-52.
3-point goals: Willis 4, Wareham 3, Hartung 3. Fouls: Wat., 16-13. Rebounds: Roo., 33-32. Turnovers: Roo., 24-17. JV score: Rootstown, 44-21.
SOUTHEAST � Butcher 1-1-3, Fesemyer 0-2-2, Harsh 7-1-16, McCullough 2-1-6, White 10-7-27. Totals: 20-12-54.
MOGADORE � Barker 4-3-12, Lange 1-0-2, Pollock 3-0-9, Porter 3-0-6, Reilly 4-2-10, Watson 1-0-3, Williams 4-0-8. Totals: 20-5-50.
3-point goals: Pollock 3, McCullough, Harsh, Watson, Barker.
STVM � Jack 6-2-16, Ka. May 1-0-2, Korinek 4-0-8, Jakubick 2-0-4, Dave 5-6-16, Ki. May 6-1-16, Hubbard 3-2-8, Bratton 3-0-6, Skora 1-0-2. Totals: 31 11 78.
GARFIELD (8-7, 6-4) � Yovanovich 1-0-2, Stac. Heller 6-0-13, Star. Heller 3-1-7, Wright 1-2-4, James 6-0-12, Smith 1-0-2. Totals: 18 3 40.
3-point goals: Ki. May 3, Jack 2, Stac. Heller. Fouls: Gar., 14-10. JV score: STVM, 50-15.
NORDONIA � Andrasic 6-5-17, Mitchell 3-0-6, Carpenter 1-3-5, Blaha 1-0-3, Ciocca 1-0-2, Mislosky 1-0-2, Woodall 1-0-2. Totals: 14-49 8-15 37.
TALLMADGE (11-5, 6-5) � Congrove 6-0-15, Makuch 7-0-14, Allen 4-0-8, Rice 2-4-8, Vassalotti 1-3-5, Lightel 1-3-5, Ryan 1-2-4. Totals: 23-44 12-20 59.
3-point goals: Congrove 3, Blaha. Fouls: Nor., 16-13. Rebounds: Nor., 32 (Andrasic 9); Tal., 29 (Makuch 7). Turnovers: Nor., 21-9. JV score: Nordonia won.
TWINSBURG � Dunnigan 1-0-2, Fechko 5-1-11, Gatewood 3-0-6, A. Howard 8-5-22, B. Howard 1-2-4, Morrissette 6-0-13, Reid 2-2-6, Shirilla 1-0-3, Smith 1-0-2. Totals: 28-10-69.
MENTOR (5-9) � Dawson 1-3-5, Gabor 3-1-7, Garbiso 0-1-1, Hull 0-1-1, Miller 3-0-6, Pachinger 2-1-5, Stefancin 4-0-10, Zdanowicz 1-3-5. Totals: 14-10-40.
3-point goals: Stefancin 2, Morrissette, A. Howard, Shirilla.
WADSWORTH (13-3, 11-0) � Gearhart 3-4-11, Parsons 1-1-3, Booth 4-0-9, Cingel 3-0-6, Long 3-0-7, Goddard 0-3-3, Robinson 1-0-2. Totals: 15 8-12 41.
GREEN (10-5, 8-3) � Rector 0-3-3, Black 1-0-3, Guyton 1-1-3, Corle 4-2-11, Marciniak 1-0-3, Sadler 1-0-2. Totals: 8 6-9 25.
3-point goals: Marciniak, Corle, Black, Gearhart, Booth, Long. Fouls: 15-15. Rebounds: Wad., 35 (Cingel 7); Gre., 20 (Corle 8). JV score: Wadsworth, 55-32.
ND-CL (4-11, 0-5) � Hyland 1-0-2, Miller 0-1-1, Jordan 1-0-2, Castrataro 2-0-4, Brandt 4-2-12, Susinskas 1-0-2, Evans 2-0-4, Zbinavec 0-2-2. Totals: 11 5-8 29.
WALSH (12-4, 6-0) � Napolitano 1-5-7, Gilberto 2-3-7, Keough 0-2-2, Hall 2-3-7, Iacobacci 5-0-10, Piper 7-1-15, Pla 1-0-2, Bandwen 2-2-6, Sheppard 1-0-2, Reeves 4-5-13, Simone 0-2-2, Sedlak 1-0-3. Totals: 26 23-31 76.
3-point goals: Brandt 2, Sedlak. Fouls: ND-CL, 20-13. Rebounds: ND-CL, 22 (Ruff 5); Wal., 45 (Piper 10). Turnovers: ND-CL, 23-17. JV score: Walsh, 36-29.
WEST BRANCH (13-1, 9-1) � Bryte 0-4-4, Trimmer 4-0-10, Loiselle 2-2-6, Linhart 1-0-2, Zets 4-1-10, Carlton 4-1-9, Heath 4-0-8, Hahn 4-0-8. Totals: 23 8-12 57.
SALEM (4-12, 4-7) � Lehwald 3-2-10, Foster 1-3-5, Dolphin 1-0-2, Trybend 4-0-8, Maher 2-0-4, Davidson 1-2-4. Totals: 12 7-9 33.
3-point goals: Trimmer 2, Lehwald 2, Zets. Fouls: WB, 12-11. Rebounds: WB, 25 (Heath 7); Sal., 23 (Foster 6). Turnovers: Sal., 15-13. JV score: West Branch, 44-31.
WOODRIDGE (15-0, 11-0) � Brooks 4-2-10, Wilkinson 7-0-14, LaPrinzi 2-3-7, Watson 1-2-4, Thompson 7-0-17, Riddick 1-0-2. Totals: 22 7-18 54.
GARRETTSVILLE � Love 1-0-2, Kaiser 1-2-5, Kenesky 1-0-2, Tabor 3-2-9, Kirk 1-1-3, Bright 1-0-2. Totals: 9 5-10 23.
3-point goals: Thompson 3, Kaiser, Tabor. Fouls: 13-13. Rebounds: Woo., 34 (Wilkinson 12). JV score: Garrettsville, 43-21.
YOUNGSTOWN CHRISTIAN (8-7) � Brown 5-1-11, Harris 7-0-14, Hoelzel 2-2-6, Klumpp 1-0-2, Moyer 4-1-9, Snyder 1-1-4. Totals: 21-52 6-11 49.
LAKE CENTER (9-4) � Floyd 1-2-4, Guyer 2-0-4, Harvey 3-6-14, O. Myers 0-2-2, Penvose 0-2-2, Raymondi 2-8-13, Rostedt 1-1-3. Totals: 9-49 21-32 42.
3-point goals: Harvey 2, Raymondi, Snyder. Fouls: You., 20-12. Rebounds: You., 34 (Brown 10); LCC, 26 (Floyd 11). Turnovers: 21-21. JV score: Lake Center Christian, 18-14.
Buchtel at Garfield, 6:30 p.m.
East at Firestone, 6:30 p.m.
North at Kenmore, 6:30 p.m.
Team Results: 1. Wadworth 504.5; 2. Oregon Clay 477.5; 3. Warren Howland 410.5; 4. Hilliard Darby 334.0; 5. Ryle 328.5; 6. North Canton Hoover 287.5; 7. GlenOak 278.0; 8. Olentangy Liberty 270.5; 9. Southeast 259.5; 10. Sandusky 202.5; 11. Garrettsville 193.5; 12. John Adams 168.5; 13. Ellet 98.0; 14. University 98.0; 15. Lakewood 86.0; 16. Valley Forge 85.0.
06: McNutt (Oregon Clay) dec. Gibson (Southeast), 1-0. 113: Adams (Ryle) pin Valentl (Darby), 2:56. 120: Perry (Howland) maj. dec. Zollinger (Wadsworth), 11-1. 126: Ruschell (Ryles) dec. Streplock (Oregon Glay), 3-1. 132: Squire (Wadsworth) dec. Conine (Oregon Clay), 9-3. 138: Ryan (Olentangy Liberty) dec. Amenta (Oregon Clay), 3-1. 145: Baughman (Wadsworth) tech. fall Klose (Howland), 17-2. 152: Gordon (Wadsworth) maj. James (Southeast), 18-10. 160: Daniels (Olentangy Liberty) dec. Edwards (Wadsworth), 7-3. 170: Bowens (Darby) pin. Lindesmith (GlenOak), 0:29. 182: Stock (Garrettsville) pin Parker (Darby), 1:23. 195: Guenot (GlenOak) pin Anderson (Garrettsville), 0:52. 220: Gray (Oregon Clay) dec. Cuenol, 3-1. 285: Tavenello (Wadsworth) dec. Brown (Sandusky), 3-0.
106: Fagan (C) dec. Valore, 7-2. 113: Shields (C) dec. George, 9-6. 120: Gunter (C) pin Edwards, 1:15. 126: Davis (C) pin Finegan, 5:05. 132: Lake (C) won by forfeit. 138: Cropper (C) tech. fall McCaffrey, 18-5. 145: Pavlich (C) pin Seal, 0:48. 152: Rang (C) dec. Massey, 8-1. 160: Mongold (C) dec. Planicka, 9-5. 170: Steiger (S) pin Davis, 3:12. 182: Headrick (C) dec. Finnegan, 9-4. 195: Light (S) pin Ethington, 1:11. 220: Fry (C) won by forfeit. 285: Gosnell (C) won by forfeit.
106: Cheek (E) won by forfeit. 113: Michel (E) pin Scianna, 3:01. 120: Howard (E) won by forfeit. 126: Staley (E) won by forfeit. 132: Peterson (R) dec. Chambers, 7-0. 138: Majoy (E) maj. dec. Smith, 14-5. 145: Coffman (E) dec. Roose, 8-6. 152: Burns (E) pin Lehman, 1:55. 160: Rutherford (E) maj. dec. Khatib, 10-2. 170: Mancuso (E) pin Fetzer, 2:41. 182: Cole (E) maj. dec. Suglio, 13-1. 195: Berry (E) won by forfeit. 220: Totten (R) won by forfeit. 285: Roman (R) pin McLaughlin, 1:38.
106: D. Brunner (NO) won by forfeit. 113: McCraw (NO) dec. Scianna, 11-5. 120: Flynn (R) maj. dec. Biggs, 13-5. 126: Forster (NO) won by forfeit. 132: Peterson (R) dec. Winston, 8-2. 138: Smith (R) dec. Matzek, 14-13. 145: B. Brunner (NO) maj. dec. , 15-5. 152: Riolo (NO) dec. Lehman, 9-7. 160: Shoman (NO) maj. dec. Khatib, 16-4. 170: Fetzer (R) pin Jones, 4:48. 182: Suglio (R) pin Belaia, 5:28. 195: Abdelhad (NO) won by forfeit. 220: Totten (R) pin Al-Najjar, 3:39. 285: Roman (R) won by forfeit.


There are several new state statutes that took effect on January 1st, and one of them is a real sleeper that will impact every home or condo owner in Wallingford and the rest of Connecticut. It has to do with addressing the terrible and growing problem of crumbling house foundations in northeastern and north central Connecticut.
There are three huge areas of concern with this legislation: it is a small fraction of the money needed, it is advertised as ending in 2029, and it will end up covering far more than originally intended.
First of all, in the five years of bonding and eleven years of homeowner’s insurance surcharges, a total of $199 million will be raised. After deducting administrative expenses, one million dollars will be sent to New Haven to address their sinking soil problem, and 15 percent more will be diverted to residential lead abatement. That will leave around $170 million to address the crumbling foundations problem up through 2029.
However, the financial implications of the Crumbling Concrete Foundation problem (as it’s called) dwarfs the remittances to this fund. The Hartford Courant reported that the state estimates the presence of pyrrhotite in the concrete foundations of 34,000 dwellings, and that the remediation (i.e., replacing the foundation) will average $185,000 per home. That computes to — are you ready? — $6,290,000,000. That’s $6.3 billion. Even the more realistic CRCOG.org website estimate of 4,774 affected homes carries an estimated price tag of $783,924,000, meaning the legislation as passed will fund only 22 percent of the money ultimately required.
Secondly, note that the bonding ends after five years and the insurance policy surcharge after eleven. Even using the most conservative estimate, this leaves the Healthy Homes Fund over $600 million short of solving the problem.
Yet the legislation was crafted to end in 2029. This legislation is the poster child for one of economist Milton Friedman’s most famous quotes: “There is nothing so permanent as a temporary government program.” This 2019 legislation will be amended and the “sunset provision” eliminated sometime in the ensuing years, the hope being that we will not notice and our memory that this law had such a provision will fade with time.
Furthermore, the pressure to keep raising this innocuous $12 levy will be overwhelming. The State of Connecticut is so far in the hole that bonding its way through this crumbling foundation problem will be impossible. Before long, this $12 number will grow and grow, and the people who passed this law know it. Twelve dollars per year is just the opening bid. Bet on it.
Thirdly, the legislature hung an extra ornament on this Christmas tree: money for lead abatement. Now the original bill stated that it was for “funding a program … to reduce health and safety hazards in residential dwellings in Connecticut, including, but not limited to, lead, radon and other contaminants or conditions …” [emphasis added]. The final bill limited it to “lead removal, remediation or abatement.” I do not believe for one minute that this restriction will remain in future years. The pressure from the industries involved in radon “and other contaminants or conditions” will be relentless. And the state government as it is presently constituted will be happy to oblige.
The problem that is the subject of this column needs a solution, and the size and complexity of the problem demands a government solution. The homeowners involved do not have the means, and the problem is not of their doing. The private insurance market clearly delineated that this problem would not be covered. Our Congressional delegation is too encumbered with Trump Derangement Syndrome to be able to secure any federal financial or legislative assistance whatsoever.
We the people of Connecticut will have to step up and solve this unfortunate problem for ourselves. The very least that we should expect from our state elected officials is to give us the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The legislation that this column discussed does nothing of the sort. It is not the solution to this vexing problem. It is merely a beginning masquerading as the solution. We got conned … again.


We all saw it. How could you look away?
There was Jonathan Papelbon pumping in fastball after fastball against the Los Angeles Angels in the ninth inning of Game 3 of the American League Division Series. He threw 26 straight at one point, and the Angels were either letting them pass outside the zone or spoiling them until they got one they liked.
In a flash they had reached Papelbon for three runs and confirmed the closer’s worst fear. If he could not find a way to get hitters out with secondary stuff, particularly the split-fingered fastball, he would become predictable. With predictability came a closer who, for a day, was no longer a sure thing in October. With the splitter in his back pocket, Papelbon was a one-trick pony.
"I’ve got to make some adjustments," Papelbon said earlier this spring when asked about reducing the use of his fastball.
The success of those adjustments may mean the difference between October glory and October misery, both of which the 29-year-old has now experienced.
In reality, the trend began to take shape much earlier than that fall afternoon.
In 2009, Papelbon threw his fastball a career-high 81.5 percent of the time, the fourth straight year that percentage had increased. He threw the splitter — which gives him an out-pitch in certain counts and keeps hitters from keying in on the fastball — a career-low 9.3 percent of the time, less than half as often as he did in 2006.
"Until I got hurt with it, which was a big part of the season, I went with it," he said of the fastball. "Hindsight’s 20/20 now, but obviously I’m going to take that into consideration, try to be a little more selective with my pitch."
One reason for the fastball reliance lied in the fact that the splitter was missing its mark too often. Papelbon walked more men in 2009 (24) than he did the previous two years combined as many hitters were letting the splitter fall from the zone, rather than flail at it as they often did in the past. As the walks piled up so too did the fastballs and the book on Papelbon had changed.
It became a bit of an easier read, at least for the Angels.
Refinement of the split-fingered pitch is one thing. Papelbon has also committed to using a slider more often. It is a pitch he has used sparingly in past years, but threw nearly as often as splitters in 2009. If the splitter remains less of a weapon, improvement of another secondary pitch could help.
The Jonathan Papelbon who mixed things up and used his fastball with impunity mowed through lineups in October appearances from 2005 to 2008. The one who could use just the fastball due to a lack of confidence or lack of effectiveness in his other pitches had a postseason flameout for the ages.
Rediscovering the more varied repertoire of his early days is imperative to the Red Sox’ success in 2010.
March 29: Beat teams they are supposed to beat.


Send–Ghana, a research and advocacy organization with support from Oxfam has organized a day’s workshop for the Association of Central Regional Queen mothers in Cape Coast with a call on them to support smallholder women farmers to acquire and own farm lands.
It was aimed at increasing spaces for enhanced accountability and political commitment to guarantee land tenure security for women and other small-scale women farmers in the face of land ownership and other land security issues in Ghana.
The workshop which brought together more than 80 queen mothers in the Central Region was on the theme “Strengthening partnership with traditional authorities for increased women’s access to agricultural lands”.
Madam Lois Aduamoah, Programmes Manager of Women in Law and Development for Africa (WILDAF) who took the participants through ‘land access and control, a gender perspective in Ghana’ said majority of women in Ghana had properties but did not have proper rights to those properties.
She said the cultural practice where landowners expected women to bring their husbands along to serve as witness whenever they wanted to buy lands must be critically reviewed as the men often end up taking the lands from the women.
She said most of the time many women felt comfortable farming with their husbands and therefore become so ignorant that they did not see the need to own land saying that, it was the major reason women farmers do not have access to lands.
She urged the queen mothers to help women farmers in their respective areas to have easy access to farm lands and also encouraged them to register any land that they may acquire.
Mr. Daniel Adotey, Programmes Manager at Send-Ghana, noted that 70 per cent of women living in rural areas were engaged in farming, but only one percent had their own farmlands, a situation he described as pathetic.
He also indicated that providing secured land tenure for smallholder farmers in the rural areas was a major tool to promoting economic growth, social development and alleviating poverty in those communities.
Nana Ama Amissah III, the Paramount Queen Mother of Mankessim and the President of the Central Regional Queen Mothers Association, charged the queens to carry the message received to their respective communities and ensure its compliance.
Some of the participants who spoke to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) said they had been enlightened by the workshop and prayed that such programmes are organized regularly.


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"The motion simply was you'll go to veterans affairs, It's lower on the totem pole so to speak, but the other thing was that you know there was a struggle to over where he would put the new rights portfolio and Jody rightfully wanted it in the Attorney General's office, Trudeau made a decision to give it to Carolyn Bennett, and it's died now, nothing's happened since that took place", said Wilson-Raybould's father.
"Her treatment, it disgusts me, nobody should be treated this way, and especially somebody who is a representative, whether she wants to be or not, of aboriginal people being treated and kicked in the face the way we always have been by his father, now by him and by the conservatives and all of the other governments", said Bill Wilson.
That glaring omission, plus the prime minister's terse statement announcing Wilson-Raybould's resignation, which did not include the traditional thanks for her service, re-enforces the feeling that there is a huge rift between the PM and his minister.
The simple way to handle this would be for our feminist, indigenous-empowering prime minister to stop keeping the country's first indigenous attorney general under his thumb.
Three years ago, when Trudeau appointed Wilson-Raybould to the AG's role, he boasted about the gender parity in his cabinet, saying: "Because it's 2015".
"I am in the process of obtaining advice on the topics that I am legally permitted to discuss in this matter", she said, adding that she retained a retired Supreme Court justice as legal counsel.
Wilson-Raybould was the epitome of Brand Trudeau-the daughter of a First Nations politician, she was a lawyer whose sterling career as Crown Prosecutor and Regional Chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations paved the way to her becoming justice minister.
Tourism and Official Languages Minister Mélanie Joly takes the stage at a mid-morning event hosted by the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Québec, where she will, as per the notice from her office, "focus on the upcoming federal tourism strategy and how to unlock the full potential of tourism in Canada, including in Québec".
Canada's former justice minister has quit Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet amid allegations Trudeau's office pressured her to avoid prosecuting a major Canadian engineering firm.
The fact that he won't is telling.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh called on the Liberals to support a push at the House of Commons justice committee to look into the allegations that appear to have led to Wilson-Raybould's resignation. "All we have to go on is his word".
Mr Trudeau has said he welcomes the examination. But he agrees there should be more clarity.
So with the government's legitimacy swaying in the balance, the whole country is waiting for Wilson-Raybould to finally tell her side of the story.
For most of this week Conservatives have been musing that the Liberals will simply block the attempts to get to the bottom of this.
Until Wilson-Raybould's demotion and resignation, the Liberals had done a good job of selling themselves as a "sunny ways party", he opined.
With so many employees around the world, including thousands in Canada, the company is considered by some to be vital to the economy.
The Montreal-based firm is facing accusations that its former executives paid millions of dollars in bribes to win contracts in Libya under Muammar Gaddafi's rule, which collapsed in 2011.
But there is one fly in the ointment.
SNC-Lavalin has declined to comment on any of the reports.


The minister said that it is better to delay the procedure than to take corrective measures afterwards.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Das Munshi has said that private FM stations will not be allowed to broadcast news and current affairs programmes for at least two to three years.
He said that a fresh look will be taken on the issue after observing the content being broadcast by these channels.
"Let us first wait and see what content would be offered by these stations for the next two to three years and then we will think about the next step," Munshi said.
"It is better to delay it so that nothing wrong goes on air rather than trying to control the damage afterwards," he added.
He said that news broadcast on radio is considered to be the last word and has unmatched credibility. Therefore, it has to be seen that the news is correct and does not provoke any section of the society.
"We cannot compare ourselves with any other country in the world when it comes to radio. Nowhere in the world do we have radio channels in so many languages and dialects," the minister said.
Asked how would the content on private FM stations be monitored, Das Munshi said that a content monitoring mechanism will be evolved for the private stations.
This will not be done by the government, but instead would be handed over to the players themselves, and government will step in only if there is a violation of the mechanism.


Tampa police boast of political spying at 2012 RNC protests | Fight Back!
Tampa, FL - According to an August 3 report in the Tampa Bay Times, Major Marc Hamlin, the head of Special Operations for the Tampa Police Department, is boasting about the political spying carried out at the 2012 Republican National Convention.
Over 1000 people rallied and marched in the streets of Tampa, August 27, 2012, to demand good jobs, affordable education, healthcare, equality and peace. Although the Republicans canceled the first day of their convention due to Tropical Storm Isaac, organizers with the Coalition to March on the RNC went through with their promise to march to the site of the convention.
A number of smaller protests also took place during the course of the Tampa RNC.
“Government spying and repression targeting protests has long been a standard feature at conventions of the major political parties,” stated Mick Kelly, of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, who helped to organize the mass marches at the 2008 RNC in Saint Paul and again in Tampa in 2012.
Kelly relates that in the run -p to the 2008 RNC protests, a police officer going by the name of “Karen Sullivan” came into the Anti-War Committee, one of the of the core organizations in Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War. Sullivan stayed on after the convention where she, along with another agent, prepared the groundwork for the Sept. 24, 2010 raids, when over 70 FBI agents simultaneously invaded the homes and served grand jury subpoenas to prominent anti-war and international solidarity activists in Minneapolis, Chicago, and the Michigan city of Grand Rapids.
Kelly was among those whose home was raided by the FBI.
In total, 23 activists were summoned to a grand jury investigating trumped up ‘material support of terrorism’ charges. None those subpoenaed testified, but ongoing investigation led to arrests, on trumped up charges, of veteran Los Angeles Chicano leader Carlos Montes and the Chicago-based Palestinian American leader Rasmea Odeh.
The attempt to jail Montes was defeated, and he was one of the main speakers at the 2012 protest in Tampa. A national effort is currently underway to prevent the imprisonment and deportation of Odeh.
According to the Tamp Bay Times article, “Organizing for the undercover operations began as soon as police began planning for the Republican convention, which took place the last week of August 2012.
Sol Márquez, who was a spokesperson for the Coalition to March on the RNC in 2012 stated, “We marched for good jobs, health care, affordable education, equality and peace, and undercover police carried out all kinds of surveillance. This is type of country we live in, and the struggle must continue. I would organize against the RNC all over again and plan on being present at the next one!"


Soha Ali Khan posted on Instagram, "It feels right when you hug me so tight #HappyHugDay"
Actress Soha Ali Khan and Kunal Kemmu are giving us major couple goals. The Ahista Ahista actress posted a sweet picture on her Instagram and wrote, "It feels right when you hug me so tight #HappyHugDay." The couple's photo reminds us that the Valentine day is just around the corner. The couple also keeps us updated about their love through several cute pictures and videos. Remember, when Kunal shared this stunning photograph of the two on his Instagram and captioned it: "The sunshine and miss sunshine #throwback #croatia #traveldiaries"?
Sohal Ali Khan and Kunal Kemmu got married on January 25, 2015, after the latter proposed her on their trip to Paris. She announced the news of her wedding on Twitter with this picture and wrote: "I married my best friend today."
The couple welcomed their first child - daughter Inaaya Naumi Kemmu - on September 29, 2017. Kunal introduced Inaaya Naumi to the world on the occasion of Children's Day, "Wishing all the children everywhere and my little munchkin a very happy children's day. May your innocence continue to inspire us to be better people #happychildrensday," he wrote on Instagram.
Kunal was last seen in Rohit Shetty's Golmaal Again, also starring Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra and Tabu. He currently has Go Goa Gone 2 in the pipeline. Soha, who was last seen in Ghayal Once Again, will be next seen in Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster 3. She recently launched her book called The Perils of being Moderately Famous.


People who enjoy working with children might choose careers in human development.
1 What Qualities Make a Good Developmental Psychologist?
2 What Are Some Jobs Dealing With Children?
The study of human development involves examining issues related to growth, development and behavior during the entire lifespan, from birth until old age. Many people who work in the field of human development choose to specialize on specific stages of development, such as old age, adolescence or early childhood. Depending on your level of education and experience, you may be able to choose from a variety of human development careers that emphasize working with children.
Child protective services workers usually have at least a bachelor's degree in human development or a related field. They are almost always employed in government-run child protective services agencies. Child protective services workers offer support and counseling to abused or neglected children and their families. They also help arrange for concrete services, such as temporary housing and foster care. They may decide when children should be removed from or reunited with their families. The Child Welfare League of America reports that there is a significant shortage in the number of qualified child welfare workers in the U.S.
School psychologists are master's- or doctoral-level practitioners who specialize in child and adolescent development. They work in elementary and secondary schools to help children and adolescents throughout their educational careers. They provide academic, emotional and social support and try to remove barriers to learning. They also consult with teachers and parents to provide advice about behavioral, social or emotional problems. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the demand for school psychologists is expected to increase at a higher rate than the national average for other occupations from 2010 to 2020.
Early childhood educators generally work with children between the ages of three and five. They may have just a high school diploma if they work in private schools, but most public schools require at least a bachelor's degree in early childhood education. Early childhood education degrees include coursework in human development, educational theories and other relevant areas. Early childhood educators help prepare children for kindergarten and teach skills related to development, such as social or language skills. The demand for early childhood educators is expected to increase faster than the national average for other occupations from 2010 to 2020, according to the BLS.
People who wish to pursue a career in human development but do not have any post-secondary education might decide to become childcare workers. Although some childcare workers may have degrees in early childhood education, many just have high school diplomas. Childcare workers tend to children when their regular caregivers are unavailable. They play with children, take care of their basic needs, like feeding or diaper-changing and ensure the safety of children in their care. The BLS reports that the demand for childcare workers is expected to grow faster than the national average for all other occupations from 2010 to 2020.
Miller, Ashley. "Career in Human Development With a Child Emphasis." Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/career-human-development-child-emphasis-19393.html. Accessed 21 April 2019.


PORTLAND, ORE.-There are few sure things in this world, but here’s one of them: If you go to Portland, you will eat well.
With a winning combination of fertile farmland, a year-round growing season and proximity to both the Pacific Ocean and eastern Oregon ranchland — along with the pioneering attitude of its citizens — this riverside city has been quietly living the farm-to-table lifestyle long before it was cool.
With more than 20 farmers markets within the city limits, it’s easy for chefs to pick up seasonal ingredients to ignite their creativity — and craft dishes that can only be tasted in Portland.
Oregon has no sales tax, and shipping costs are low within the state because the growing zones are so close to each other (Portland has strict rules on urban sprawl, to protect local farmland), which means customers can taste top-notch cuisine at a fraction of what it would cost in other major U.S. cities.
Access to affordable produce is also one of the reasons food carts started popping up all over empty Portland parking lots in the mid-2000s — proprietors were able to produce tasty finger food at an affordable price and take it straight to the people.
To work within the rules, food vendors wheeled carts to deserted downtown lots, turned their window towards the sidewalk, hooked into whatever power source they could find, and began serving the ravenous lunch-break crowd everything from bulgogi beef tacos to handmade ice-cream sandwiches.
There are now upwards of 600 food carts at any given time, grouped in dozens of “pods” in different neighbourhoods throughout the city, each dishing out their own creations while serving a civic — and economic — need. But it wasn’t just low produce prices that spurred this surge.
That industrious, can-do way of thinking weaves its way through the kitchen and behind the bar in Portland, with more breweries than any other city in the world — the number sits at around 70 — and a new crop of artisanal distilleries coming up behind.
Vancouver/Toronto writer Emma Yardley (info@byemma.ca ) was hosted by Travel Portland and Travel Oregon, which didn’t review or approve this story.
Get there: Air Canada offers a seasonal direct flight from Toronto to Portland International Airport (PDX) and many airlines — including Air Canada, United and Alaska Airlines — have easy connecting flights year-round with return tickets starting in the $350 range.
Get around: Portland has a comprehensive public-transit system using a combination of MAX light rail, Portland Streetcar and TriMet bus systems, so exploring the city on a $2.50 (U.S.) (2.5 hours) or $5 (all day) ticket is really easy. There is also a train that goes straight from the airport into the city — the first of its kind on the west coast — making getting from PDX to Portland a cinch.
When to go: Portland is predictably temperate: warm sunshine in summer and early fall, rain showers in winter and early spring. On average there are 144 sunny days and 130 partly cloudy days, but it rarely goes below freezing so a fleece, umbrella and waterproof shoes is usually all you’ll need to face the wintertime weather here.


Cesar Sayoc expected to plead guilty in pipe bomb mailing spree that targeted critics of President Donald Trump and prominent Democrats.
NEW YORK — Pipe bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc is expected to plead guilty today to mailing explosive devices to critics of President Donald Trump and prominent Democrats including Hillary Clinton and George Soros in Westchester, a court filing shows.
Sayoc, a 56-year-old Florida resident, initially pleaded not guilty during a November federal court arraignment in Manhattan on allegations he used weapons of mass destruction in a domestic terrorism spree that raised fear and jangled nerves across the nation last year.
However, after prosecutors and defense lawyers held a Friday telephone conference with U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, a new court docket entry disclosed that a pretrial hearing scheduled for March 21 "is now a plea" session. Sayoc is due in court at 4 p.m.
The filing did not disclose which charges would figure in the expected guilty plea. Sayoc is charged in a 30-count criminal indictment. If found guilty on the most serious charges, he could face life in prison.
Additionally, convictions on a combination of some of the criminal counts could require the judge to impose a sentence of life behind bars. Sayoc's attorneys may use the expected guilty plea to seek a lighter sentence and give Rakoff discretion over the penalty.
The terror spree erupted in October with suspicious mailings across the United States.
Packages that allegedly contained improvised explosive devices were mailed to former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of Chappaqua, billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros in Bedford, actor-director Robert De Niro and other prominent Trump critics.
Authorities captured Sayoc in Plantation, Florida, on Oct. 26, 2018. They tracked him down through evidence from FBI laboratory tests that allegedly linked him to 11 of the 16 mailing packages.
Sarah Baumgartel, one of three federal defenders assigned to represent Sayoc, signaled during the November hearing that she might explore a court disposition that could resolve the charges before trial. She declined to comment on the case after the hearing.


Defense Secretary James Mattis recently stated that North Korea must completely and verifiably de-nuclearize as a condition for American assistance.
Much ink has been spilled regarding where or not North Korea will or even should de-nuclearize. It is unrealistic and naive to expect Kim to forgo his nuclear weapons.
We can want Kim to de-nuclearize but it is not likely.
What is likely is an increase in cooperation in making North Korea more Capitalist. We should expect a more Vietnam and Chinese style thawing of relations. The U.S. will be permitted to invest in developing franchise establishments like KFC, McDonald's like has happened in other Communist countries.
What North Korea should do is learn from the Soviet Union's mistake. Anthony D'Agostino argued that it was Glasnost that undermined the Soviet Union.
Glasnost was Gorbachev's program to increase freedom and not increase capitalism and decrease freedom. It will be China's example that China will support in a North Korean model of future international relations.
Another analog would be German reunification with some major differences. North Korea is unlikely to allow itself to come under the political control of the South Koreans.
There will remain two distinct states. The goal should be to sign a peace treaty ending the war, disarm the Demilitarized Zone and increase cross-border travel and commerce.
North Korea could follow the USSR's model wherein the major state industries are given to a few top officials thereby creating an oligarchy.
These are examples of what has happened in the past. The future of North Korea will probably be a permutation of those outcomes.


Not if the government orders them to stay hush and denies its existence, on penalty of endangering national security. Recall that the F-117 was "black" for quite some time. What's to say a working quantum computer wouldn't be kept hush-hush as well?


Beyonce fans have proven they are nothing but loyal, after calling out Tamera Mowry for saying she once flirted with Jay-Z.
She may have only asked him for gum. It may have only been 17 years ago. And it may have been way before even Bey and Jay-Z were a thing, but that didn’t stop the Bey Hive from coming for her.
Tamera was seen talking about the rapper while on US show The Real and was saying how she was left starstruck and totally wrapped up in Jay-Z’s charm after bumping into him at a premiere.
‘I found myself strangely asking for gum,’ she confessed. ‘It’s so weird, no, I swear, my sister and I were at a premiere of Nutty Professor and he walked by.
Her co-host Loni Love was quietly stirring her tea as Tamera recalled her story and quizzed her on where her husband Adam had been.
Point is, it’s not. It was just a little bit of low-key flirting, but that didn’t stop Queen Bey’s following from calling out Tamera for talking about the Grammy Award-winning couple.
‘@tameramowrytwo gal i love you…don’t make me hate you. just leave Jayz outa your mouth okay? Alright… (sic),’ wrote another Bey supporter.
‘Through beyhive or whatever they call themselves need to chill. There was no harm in what Tamara said about Jay-Z. She was young, this was way before Beyonce, and all she did was ask the man for gum.
‘She was just being a star struck fan. All really need to chill cause it’s not the serious,’ another said.


Develop, evolve and execute a cross-functional business model in partnership with Director, Merch Process that aligns to stakeholders' strategic direction and priorities. Define, develop and implement activities to be performed and recommend responsibilities for those activities by position. Partner to evolve processes in strategy, planning and execution phases of work to support integration end to end and across merchandising capabilities.
Act as a process liaison for project workstreams. Collaborate with Process, Operations, Strategy, and Technology teams and cross-functional partners to transform, optimize and integrate overall end to end merchandising processes in support of Target's transformation and priorities.
Understand both Merchandising and Center of Excellence strategies and processes to ensure overall optimization of collective business objectives.
Align and partner with other project working teams to ensure roadmaps are aligned and timing allows for the effective and efficient execution of prioritized deliverables.
Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the process and infrastructure changes and drive for continuous improvement and clarity.
5+ years of experience in merchandising in a retail environment, with a successful track record. Experience managing National and Owned brand and digital business preferred.
Strong process development, project management and innovation skills.
Outstanding communication, active listening and presentation skills.
Experience in a collaborative work environment.
Team leader/player with ability to interact with multiple levels of the organization.
Strong understanding of systems development and technology.


The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival is about to get underway and so are a number of street closures.
King Street between Bannatyne Avenue and William Avenue will be completely closed to all vehicle traffic from 6 p.m. on Friday, July 15 until 6 a.m. on Monday, July 18.
King Street between Bannatyne Avenue and William Avenue will be completely closed to all vehicle traffic from 6 p.m. on Friday, July 22 until 6 a.m. on Monday, July 25.


Former Manchester United striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been appointed as the club’s caretaker manager until the end of the 2018/19 season following the dismissal of Jose Mourinho.
United fired Mourinho Tuesday with the club languishing in sixth place in the English Premier League, 19 points behind leaders Liverpool after Sunday’s insipid 3-1 defeat at Anfield.
Solskjaer, who recently signed a new deal as manager of Norwegian club Molde, will take charge of his first match on Saturday, against Cardiff City — a club he previously managed without much success.
Mike Phelan, a coach at United during Alex Ferguson’s managerial reign, returns to the club as assistant manager.
In a statement, United’s chief executive Ed Woodward said: “Ole is a club legend with huge experience, both on the pitch and in coaching roles.
Nicknamed the “baby-faced Assassin,” Solskjaer scored 126 goals in 366 appearances for United during Ferguson’s trophy-laden years, coming off the bench in the Champions League final in 1999 to secure a dramatic victory for United in the dying moments of the match.
In 2008, he started his coaching career as United’s reserve team manager before becoming boss of Molde.
His sole experience of managing in the English Premier League was unsuccessful. The Norwegian was in charge of Cardiff when the Welsh side was relegated to English football’s second tier in May 2014.


As part of this ‘co-create and co-own’ partnership, BCCL will license ‘Femina Flaunt’ to Shoppers Stop, to design, develop, and retail the brand, exclusively across Shoppers Stop stores.
Radhakrishnan, who has seen the sector emerge from naught, talks about the emergence of cable TV in India, the first satellite channel, the emerging music sector and more.
He is is slated to join Grey India as chairman and MD if sources are to be believed.
The former Times Television Network CEO, will be responsible for the day-to-day operational, strategic and financial management of the general news network.


Michael Anthony "Mike" Porter Sr.
Michael (Mike) Anthony Porter, Sr., of Fort Myers, FL passed away unexpectedly on Monday, December 4, 2017. Originally from Syracuse, NY, he was born on October 6, 1961.
Mike was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, beloved brother, uncle & cherished son, whose absence will leave a place in our hearts that will never be filled.
Mike is survived by his loving spouse, Ronda Burson and their children, Amanda Porter (Jimmy Flint), Michael Porter, Jr. (Katy), Chrissy Carter (Jacob), Andrea Poulton (Ben), and Casey Byrus (Greg), as well as 7 grandchildren, Peyton, Ethan, Shyla, Brixton, Keegan, Burson, and Waylon. He is also survived by parents, Frank & Mary Rose Porter, his brother Steven Porter (Celia Wagner), as well as countless friends and relatives whom he loved.
He was preceded in death by his sister, Leah.


It's easy to lose track of the news. So at the end of the week, it's good to keep an eye on some of those things which shouldn't go unnoticed.
If you spot something you think should be included next week, send it to us using the form at the bottom of the page.
1. Frying pan fumes can kill canaries, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature.
2 Bill Clinton sent just two e-mails while he was president.
3. Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, has got solar panels fitted on the roof of his Cricklewood home.
4. Whales can explode - a dead sperm whale this week exploded in Taiwan, showering blood and body parts on passers-by. Marine biologists blamed it on a build-up of gases inside the whale.
5. More than a quarter of UK households have no savings, according to statistics revealed this week.
6. Pets will be eligible for frequent flier points on Japanese airline JAL from March. The points will be exchangeable for cage rentals on board, as well as gifts.
7. The man who invented Ctrl+Alt+Delete retired on Friday. David Bradley, 55, spent five minutes writing the computer code that has helped bail out millions of PC users, while working for IBM in the 1980s. "I may have invented it, but Bill Gates made it famous," Bradley said.
8. 70% of mobile phone owners in the UK have pre-pay models.
9. Cunning bargain hunters are roaming Ebay looking for misspelled goods which attract hardly any bids because they don't turn up in text searches. One man bought three Compaq laptops at a pittance simply by asking for "Compacts" instead.
10. Brits drank 35% more champagne in bars and pubs in 2003 than in the year before.
If you see something you think should be included next week, let us know using the form below. Thanks to John Clare and Bob Smit.


Three blue Dodge pickups were pulled over by police officers, and Kincaid was stopped in the southbound lane in the 1500 block of 26th Street West in front of a couple of white frame houses.
The stop happened in front of 53-year-old Kathy Kitterman’s home. The sirens distracted her from watching television.
Kincaid pulled a gun on the officers during the traffic stop while he was still sitting in the driver’s seat, Tokajer said. He also had another pistol on him, he said.
“The officers saw the threat, fired on the individual and shot him in the arm,” Tokajer said.
According to the accounts of several neighbors, Kincaid was told to put his hands up and get out of the truck before shots were fired. None of the neighbors said they saw a gun.
Fran Misselli, 49, who lives just across the street from where Kincaid was stopped, watched detectives and street crimes unit officers go by. She said she hopped on her bike to get a closer look.
Misselli said Kincaid had snow white hair and appeared to be in his 60s.
Two officers were involved in the shooting. Two shots were fired with one bullet striking Kincaid in his arm and upper chest area, Tokajer said.
Kincaid exited the vehicle and was taken to the ground, where officers administered first aid until paramedics arrived.
The identity of the two officers involved in the shooting was not disclosed by police. Both officers will be on administrative leave with pay while the department conducts an investigation, Tokajer said.
Bank employees called police after they watched a man wearing overalls and T-shirt walk up to the door.
He had latex gloves on his hands, a bandanna covering part of his face and a baseball cap covering his head, said Cindy Denison, group vice president for Gateway Bank.
Only Kincaid never made it in the door.
The bank’s doors are magnetically locked. All customers have to be let into the bank via remote by a bank employee, Denison said.
Aside from Kincaid’s suspicious appearance, bank employees recognized him as matching the description of the man who robbed the First Bank branch in the 3000 block of 53rd Avenue East on May 18.
In that hold-up, the suspect was wearing overalls and fled in a pickup truck, authorities said. Investigators at Manatee County Sheriff’s Office also said Kincaid is a suspect in another bank robbery from fall 2008.


A rendering of the T3 Bayside building on the Toronto waterfront.
Danish architects, I was warned by a publicist with the country’s consulate, are sometime a bit tongue-tied when asked to describe how they incorporate sustainability principles into their projects. Seems it’s just a thing they do.
Reframed for a Canadian audience, the question tracks a bit like asking Toronto Maples Leafs star Auston Matthews what it’s like to play with a hockey stick.
Maybe so, but Toronto’s development and design sector will – or should – be soaking up a lot from Danish approaches in coming years. Earlier this month, the international developer Hines revealed that it had selected 3XN, another Copenhagen firm, to design a two-building tall-timber office complex for a property on the south side of Queen’s Quay East, in Bayside. It will be 3XN’s second commission in the area, the first being a Hines/Tridel Corp. residential project announced in 2016, also for Bayside.
Danish firms also push past regulatory requirements or even green-building certification standards, such as LEED.
These firms, according to their principals, take a broad-ranging approach to sustainable architecture, one that incorporates all the predictable elements (that includes passive design, low-carbon materials and energy efficiency), but also pushes past regulatory requirements or even green building certification standards, such as LEED.
3XN, for example, sees buildings as “material banks,” so its architects look for opportunities to work with components that can be easily re-used in the future. The 120-person partnership also operates a 20-employee green R&D subsidiary called GXN that has developed up-cycled building products, including LED light fixtures fashioned from discarded nylon fishing nets.
Senior partner Kasper Guldager Jensen, who heads GXN, says the goal is to weave these and other sustainable design ideas into a broader framework that incorporates the social and financial viability of their projects. “If we talk about sustainability, we have to talk about value creation,” he explains, noting that such projects last longer, improve surrounding urban streetscape, cost less to maintain and therefore see their value grow more significantly than ordinary buildings.
A subsidiary of Copenhagen-based architectural firm 3XN has developed up-cycled building products, including LED light fixtures fashioned from discarded nylon fishing nets.
Such approaches are nothing if not timely, given the increasingly dire predictions about climate change. Owing to their energy requirements and the nature of carbon-intensive construction materials such as concrete, buildings are estimated to account for about 40 per cent of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions, and thus represent a critical front in the fight to mitigate climate change.
Recent changes to Ontario’s building code have boosted energy performance requirements, and the City of Toronto tightened up its Green Standard last May. For all that, Canada’s building sector lags well behind its northern European counterpart. In some cases, that’s due to strict code requirements. Mr. Nielsen notes one rule that caps that amount of window area on a building to just more than a fifth of the overall floor space or compels the builder to install triple-pane thermal glass.
Ontario’s building code has no such requirement and allows workarounds that have produced high-rise buildings clad mainly in glass, with many south and west-facing units suffering from chronic temperature control problems. On a recent visit, in fact, Mr. Nielsen took particular note of a common practice: concrete balcony slabs connected directly to the concrete interior floors, a construction short-cut, he says, that virtually guarantees heat loss and condensation.
Air quality. To explain the importance of aligning sustainability with the experiential aspect of design, Mr. Guldager notes that in a typical day, an adult will consume a kilogram of food, three kilograms of liquid and 15 kilograms of air. That insight has prompted 3XN to encourage its clients to rely on natural interior materials, such as wood or gypsum, rather than chemical-intensive products (for example, area carpets made of synthetic fibre). Natural materials may also be better for capturing and distributing heat and cooling.
German green standards. Instead of the often contentious LEED standard, Cebra aims for a more far-ranging certification developed in Germany, known as DGNB. A life-cycle standard that looks beyond a building’s environmental and energy performance, DGNB has become an increasingly popular certification method internationally, but especially in Germany. A recent U.S. Green Buildings Council study showed that DGNB certified more than 1000 buildings there, compared with just 57 LEED projects for 2017.
This article is the first in an occasional series about recent advances in sustainable design and construction.


July 18, 2016, 9:30 p.m.
Even if it's the mid-range entrant, the Honor 5C is not to be underestimated as it packs in pretty updated specs.
Honor 5C Unboxing Even if it's the mid-range entrant, the Honor 5C is not to be underestimated as it packs in pretty updated specs.


A seven-year-old boy and his 44-year-old mother were seriously injured at the Ayia Napa amusement park on Friday night after their swing collided with another ride, police said.
According to authorities, at approximately 10:30pm the mother and son, who were on holiday from Russia, were on a ride at Parko Paliatso, when part of the swing on the Star Flyer carousel they were on hit into the pole of another ride. The carousel was reportedly going too fast, making the swing take on too wide an angle and taking it too close to the next ride.
The boy suffered an exposed fracture on his right leg, while the mother lacerated her left knee, broke her right hand and suffered concussion.
The mother and son were taken to a private clinic in Ayia Napa, but due to the severity of their condition they were transferred to a private clinic in Limassol, where doctors managed to save the boy’s leg from being amputated.
Police spokesperson for Famagusta Andreas Constantinou said that the pair are in serious condition, but not in danger.
He added checks were being run on the ride, and that the ride had recently been examined.
The park has all the required licences, Constantinou said, adding that they were taking witness statements about the incident.
In a statement, Parko Paliatso said that they were upset by the incident, but insisted they follow all safety regulations. They said initial investigations suggested the accident was a result of human error.
It said a team was put to together to investigate the accident as soon as it happened.
“We are obliged to emphasise that from initial investigations, it seems to have occurred from a human error in [the ride’s] use,” the park said.
The statement said that the park had taken on all the medical costs for the pair.
“Our company follows and faithfully applies the safety rules set by TUV NORD (Technical Inspection Association), a widely recognised German authority for security controls and product certification. TUV NORD inspects our company and our equipment on an annual basis,” the statement said.
Police are continuing their investigations in conjunction with the Labour Inspection department, to see exactly how the swing could have hit into another ride.


Individuals with type 1 diabetes must inject themselves with the required dose of insulin daily to manage their condition. In the future, injections may no longer be necessary; scientists are developing a viable way of delivering insulin in pill form.
Researchers have developed a pill for the oral delivery of insulin, and they hope that it will eventually be made available to patients.
Type 1 diabetes is a less widespread form of the disease that, unlike type 2 diabetes, is often hereditary and non-preventable.
In type 1 diabetes, the immune system wrongly attacks and damages the cells of the pancreas that produce insulin, a hormone that is key to regulating blood sugar levels.
Unmanaged, type 1 diabetes could cause many health problems due to the unregulated blood sugar levels.
To prevent complications and keep the condition under control, people diagnosed with this type of diabetes must receive daily doses of insulin delivered into the bloodstream through either injections or insulin pumps.
But these methods are cumbersome, and multiple daily injections are disruptive and unpleasant — especially to individuals who may have needle phobia.
Administering insulin orally, in pill form, would be a preferable alternative. But unfortunately, insulin quickly deteriorates when coming into contact with gastric acid, or digestive enzymes.
And, researchers have so far been unsuccessful in their attempts to develop a coating that would safely carry insulin beyond the obstacles of the digestive system and into the bloodstream.
Recently, however, a team of specialists from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Cambridge, MA, have come up with a pill that, they say, is able to do this job.
"Once ingested, insulin must navigate a challenging obstacle course before it can be effectively absorbed into the bloodstream," says senior study author Samir Mitragotri.
Mitragotri and team describe their research, and the insulin-delivering pill they developed, in an article now published in the journal PNAS.
The researchers created a complex pill coating, designed to shield the insulin from gastric acid and the enzymes of the small intestine and also be able to penetrate the intestine's protective barriers.
In this pill, insulin would be inserted in an ionic liquid that contains choline and geranic acid, itself encapsulated in enteric coating, which is resistant to gastric acid.
The enteric coating protects the rest from the acidic environment of the stomach, only dissolving in the small intestine. Here, the ionic liquid would resist the digestive enzymes, shielding the insulin against them.
Type 1 diabetes is a non-preventable condition. Or is it? Researchers investigate.
"When a protein molecule such as insulin enters the intestine," says first author Amrita Banerjee, "there are many enzymes whose function is to degrade the proteins into smaller amino acids." However, she adds, "the ionic liquid-borne insulin remains stable."
And the combination of choline and geranic acid is then able to pierce both the mucus that lines the small intestine, and the dense cellular wall of the intestine itself.
"Our approach is like a Swiss Army knife, where one pill has tools for addressing each of the obstacles that are encountered."
The scientists also note that the pill is easily manufactured, that this process would be more cost-effective than the other therapies, and that the pill is not readily perishable — it can be safely kept for up to 2 months at room temperature — surviving longer than some of the injectable insulin that is distributed at present.
After so many instances of trial and error when it came to finding a way of delivering insulin orally, other specialists now praise the researchers involved with the new study for their achievement.
"It has been the holy grail of drug delivery to develop ways to give protein and peptide drugs like insulin by mouth, instead of injection," explains Mark Prausnitz, Regents' Professor and J. Erskine Love, Jr. Chair in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
"This study shows remarkable results where insulin given by mouth in combination with an ionic liquid works about as well as a conventional injection. The implications of this work to medicine could be huge, if the findings can be translated into pills that safely and effectively administer insulin and other peptide drugs to humans," he adds.
Insulin delivered orally, the researchers explain, would reach the blood in a way that is more similar to the natural release of insulin by the pancreas. Also, this method may lessen the adverse effects associated with receiving repeated insulin injections.
Mitragotri explains that the next step from here will be to conduct further studies in animal models and make sure that the pill they designed is completely safe for ingestions, though the scientists are fully optimistic.
They say that choline and geranic acid are already considered as safe compounds, and they hope that this will help to smooth the path toward clinical trials in humans.


Entertainment ideas in and around Marion County.
LIGHT UP OCALA: The city's big holiday party runs 4 to 9 p.m. in downtown Ocala, from Citizens' Circle to the square to Marion Theatre, where Whoville will be set up. The Light Up Ocala parade will include local dancers, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cup Scouts, a marching band and Santa. Light Up Ocala will conclude with the lighting of the square. Also: Opening in conjunction with Light Up Ocala is Let's Skate Ocala, the seasonal skating rink in Tuscawilla Park. The rink will be open through Dec. 30.


Rick Perry’s new Web-only anti–Mitt Romney advertisement includes a photograph of Barack Obama staring at himself in the mirror. It’s a great shot, and one we immediately recognized from the dozens of seconds we spent Photoshopping Chris Christie into the glass (oh, fine, but we’re not running for president).
Governor Perry does not enjoy the same liberties with Pete Souza’s photograph, which appears to have been slightly doctored: according to the official White House Flickr page, the image “may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.” Perry’s ad, however cinematic, certainly still qualifies as political material. If Rick Perry is abusing the privileges of Flickr, would he, as president, abuse the privileges of the Constitution as well?


Apple has refreshed the MacBook Pro line with minor upgrades of the processor, a small price cut to the aged non-Retina model, and additional RAM for the least-expensive Retina configurations.
The updates - the first since October 2013 -- were expected, as some of the pricing and component changes had leaked over the weekend from China.
Apple gave minor performance increases to the Retina MacBook Pro with slightly faster Intel Core i5 and i7 processors in the 13-in. and 15-in. models, respectively, and boosted the stock system memory of the entry level 13-in. notebook from 4GB to 8GB, matching the configurations of the other two laptops in that screen size.
For the 15-in., Apple increased the RAM of the least-expensive model from 8GB to 16GB, again to sync with the higher-priced notebook.
Prices of the 13-in. and 15-in. Retina MacBook Pros stayed the same: The three smaller laptops started at $1599 and climbed to $2199, as the solid-state drive (SSD) increased from 128GB to 512GB. Likewise, the $2499 and $2999 prices of the two 15-inch models did not change. Those configurations sport 256GB and 512GB SSDs, respectively.
The only price change was to the entry-level MacBook Pro. That model, the only one without a Retina-quality screen, has not been refreshed for more than two years. It is also the sole model with a traditional platter-style hard disk drive, and the only that sports an optical drive.
In a press release, Apple claimed that the low-end MacBook Pro was "a very popular system with Windows switchers," perhaps because the sticker shock as they looked at the higher-priced models was even more stunning: The average Windows notebook costs hundreds less than Apple's cheapest.
Apple will probably refresh the line again in 2015 when quantities of Intel's next-generation "Broadwell" architecture are available. Those processors, made using the 14-nanometer fabrication process, are designed to be even more power efficient than the current "Haswell" Core CPUs, which power the current line of Apple notebooks. The Broadwell chips have been delayed again, and won't be widely available in laptops and desktops until early next year.
In the June quarter, Apple sold 4.4 million Macs, a record for the period and an 18% increase over the same three-month stretch the year before. Industry analysts cited the popularity of the lighter and thinner MacBook Air line as the biggest reason for the sales boost.
Apple last revamped the MacBook Air in April, when it dropped prices by $100 on all four stock models. Last month, the Cupertino, Calif. company launched a new, lower-priced-but-slower iMac all-in-one desktop computer.
The refreshed MacBook Pros are available now at Apple's online store, its chain of brick-and-mortar outlets, and at some of its authorized resellers.
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A dozen local dancers recently competed in the Triangle Open Ballroom Competition held at N.C State University in Raleigh.
The dancers are part of a group taught by championship competitors John and Penny DeFino at Rivertowne Ballroom in New Bern.
Nine of the dancers took the competition floor for the first time.
The local dancers included Bernie Mallon, Ania LeRoy, Mark and Kandy Caccio, Paul Hager, Gayle Watson, Calvin and Ruth Long, Joy Carawan, Candace Grove and Lynette Pearsall.
�They had outstanding results in two days of competition while dancing waltz, foxtrot, tango, quickstep, Viennese waltz, Cha Cha, rumba and swing,� said Joyce Price of Rivertowne Ballroom.
The students were part of a new competition program at Rivertowne.
The DeFinos, the instructors, were divisional second place winners in the 2012 national championships.
Rivertowne Ballroom first opened its doors in downtown New Bern in 2002 and provides ballroom dance lessons to students from the beginner to advanced levels.
The ballroom is home to Stanly Hall, the historic 3,600-square-foot ballroom located in the upstairs space over the dance studio.
The dancers are now preparing for the Carolina Fall Classic competition, a national qualifying event to be held in Charlotte in October.


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LOS ANGELES (Sporting Alert) — Five Los Angeles Clippers players scored in double figures, but the team almost blew a big lead in their 102-93 victory over the Boston Celtics at STAPLES Center on Monday evening.
Blake Griffin shot 50-percent from the field in scoring 22 points, while pulling down nine rebounds and dishing out six assists for the LA Clippers (28-14), who were 47.6 percent as a team from the floor.
DeAndre Jordan had 19 points, 12 rebounds and six blocks, with J.J. Redick and Jamal Crawford each contributing 16 points in the win,.
Brandon Bass led the Celtics with 17 points off the bench, Marcus Thornton hit 3 of his 6 three-point attempts to add 15 in a reserve role as well, while Marcus Smart, who went 4-of-7 from 3-point range ended with 14 points and seven assists in the defeat.
Los Angeles Clippers raced out to an 11-2 lead early in the first half and went into the halftime break ahead 47-37.
The hosts then extended their advantage to as many as 23 points with 4:13 left in the third quarter, but Boston made a run in the fourth quarter to cut the gap to just three points with 3:49 left before Doc Rivers’ side held on for the win.
Star point guard Chris Paul, who was limited to just nine points and six assists in the game, was happy with the win, but disappointed with the way the Clippers allowed Boston back into the game.
Meanwhile, Boston also got useful contributions as well from Jared Sullinger, who scored 14 points and eight rebounds.
Evan Turner contributed a double-double of 10 points and 10 boards for the Celtics (13-26), which dropped three straight and five of the last six.
“We can’t be down by that much. We took a lot of contested shots in the first half, and that’s not good,” Celtics coach Brad Stevens said after the defeat.
Boston was losing for the fourth time in the last five matchups with the Clippers, who improved to 4-1 against them during the series.
Clippers will play host to the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night, while the Celtics are at the Portland Trail Blazers on the same night.