Voices of Thanksgiving

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T H U R S D AY
NOVEMBER 26, 2015
161st YEAR • NO. 180
CLEVELAND, TN 24 PAGES • 50¢
Family, low taxes, pound cake draw leaders’ thanks
By JOYANNA LOVE
Banner Senior Staff Writer
and
BRIAN GRAVES
Banner Staff Writer
Tom Rowland
Gary Davis
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Janice Casteel
Louie Alford
Deloris Anderson
George Poe
Larry Bowers
Local government officials often find
themselves hearing only the negative
when constituents have problems or
complaints.
But even with that almost daily
onslaught, the Thanksgiving season
Jim Bryant
Leslie Callaway Tiffany Goodwin
causes them to pause and reflect on the
good things.
Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland says
he is thankful for the community he
serves.
“As always, I am thankful for the
great community in which we live.
There is a quality of life here like no
other place. I am thankful that this is a
giving and praying place as many
groups and individuals begin to plan for
a better Christmas for those less fortu-
Pam Green
Vicky Guy
nate,” Rowland said.
“I will share Thanksgiving with family, and of course, I will be making my
popular butterscotch pound cake and
cornbread dressing. I am thankful we
have a Savior whose birth we are getting ready to celebrate,” he added.
Commission Chairman Louie Alford
said at his age he is thankful “just to
wake up every morning.”
See LEADERS, Page 8
Bondy Hackett
Inside Today
Patty Hawkins
Glenda Hickman
Randy Moore
Sheena Meyer
Kathy Payne
Trish Price
Joyce Taylor
William Wright
Voices of Thanksgiving
Newspaper staff members offer their
own perspectives on being thankful
Raiders, Mustangs
open new season
The Cleveland Blue Raiders
and Walker Valley Mustangs
opened the wrestling season
against Georgia’s Dalton and
Northwest Whitfield High Schools
at Jones Wrestling Center at
CHS. Lady Raider Sam DeBien
has been named to the All-State
soccer team. Lee University has
bolstered its golf and baseball
rosters with new signees. See
Sports, Pages 17-19.
Forecast
Today should be mostly sunny,
with a high near 65. Tonight’s forecast calls for partly cloudy skies,
with a low around 47. Friday should
be mostly sunny, with a high near
67. Friday night should be mostly
cloudy, with a low around 50.
Index
Classified.................................22-23
Comics..........................................12
Editorials.......................................20
Horoscope....................................12
NASCAR.......................................21
Obituaries.......................................2
Stocks.............................................4
Sports......................................17-19
TV Schedule.................................13
Weather........................................15
Around Town
Marley Flowers coloring a
beautiful get-well picture for
Lewis Hylton ... Maddie Tran
helping Mom out with the vacuuming ... Kambry Kennedy decorating her Christmas tree and
knowing Santa Claus is just
gonna love it ... Kevin Randolph
enjoying his new ride.
By ALLEN MINCEY
Banner Staff Writer
This is a season where people
express thanks for the good
things in their lives and try to
push any negative thoughts to
another day. Those who work
at the Cleveland Daily Banner
are much the same.
Newsroom reporters, sports
writers, advertising and sales
people, those who put the
paper to computer then to
print, those who work in getting
the newspaper delivered, and
those who work the presses —
almost all have something they
are thankful of this holiday.
“I am glad that we live in a
community that is relatively
safe and secure in the midst of
the chaos going on around the
world,” said Larry Bowers, longtime newsman and presently a
reporter at the Banner.
William Wright, Lifestyles editor, said that he is thankful for
See VOICES, Page 10
By JOYANNA LOVE
Banner Senior Staff Writer
The termination of former
Cleveland Police officer Edwin
Millan has been upheld in the
decision of the independent hearing officer, attorney Mark Travis.
Travis submitted his appeal
hearing decision to the city of
Cleveland this week.
“The undersigned Hearing
Officer, after full, fair and impartial review of the record in this
matter, finds
that the City followed applicable procedures
established by
law and that
there is material
and
credible
evidence to support the City's
Millan
employment
dismissal
of
Edwin Millan for the good of City
service, which dismissal is hereby
sustained and the appeal of
Edwin Millan is dismissed,”
Travis wrote.
The appeal hearing took place
on Oct. 12, following Millan filing
for appeal of his termination. A
decision was delivered within the
expected six-week timeline.
In his letter requesting an
appeal hearing, Millan claims his
termination stemmed from Police
Chief Mark Gibson discriminating
against him because of his race,
and that the move was to gain
political favor.
See APPEAL, Page 10
By LARRY C. BOWERS
Banner Staff Writer
By LARRY C. BOWERS
Banner Staff Writer
Five-year-old Zander Farris, a student at Black Fox School, has
many things to be thankful for on this 2015 Thanksgiving Day.
He is thankful for his family’s new Habitat Home, he is thankful for his first-ever bedroom, his first-ever bed, and for his room
filled with toys.
He also plans to give thanks for his Thanksgiving meal, which
he said Tuesday he hoped would be “Macaroni and cheese with
hot dogs.”
Young Zander’s parents, Emilie and Cottey Farris, will host 15
to 20 family members at their first-ever Thanksgiving Day dinner
and celebration today.
They are one of four families to received new 2015 homes from
Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland. This brings Habitat’s construction total to 124 homes, as the local chapter celebrates its
Case involves
Edwin Millan
Sunset owner,
state agree on
an addendum
Habitat family eager
for 1st Thanksgiving
See HABITAT, Page 10
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Banner photo, HOWARD PIERCE
THANKSGIVING’S featured attraction is the turkey, as seen here with these wild turkeys captured by the camera lens of a Cleveland Daily Banner photographer. However, the holiday is far
more than a celebration of food; it is a time set aside for being thankful, and for expressing it.
Appeal
by fired
police
officer
denied
Banner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS
COTTEY, EMILIE AND ZANDER Farris are enjoying their new
Habitat home on this 2015 Thanksgiving Day. They will be host to
15 to 20 family members as they hold today’s holiday feast. Young
Zander said he is thankful for his first-ever bedroom.
The Tennessee Department of
Commerce and Insurance has
filed an addendum regarding an
earlier consent order against
Cleveland’s Sunset Memorial
Garden, owned by Georgia’s Cecil
L. Lawrence.
The Lawrence Group has
agreed to the orders of the
addendum, and it was signed by
Assistant
Tennessee
Commissioner
Brian
T.
McCormack, Lawrence, attorney
William G. Colvin for the
Lawrence Group, and Tennessee
Assistant General Counsel
Shilina B. Brown.
See SUNSET, Page 8
2—Cleveland Daily Banner—Thursday, November 26, 2015
West Point
bans cadet
pillow fight
after 30 hurt
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) —
Cadet pillow fights like the bloody
one that left 30 injured this summer will be banned and actions
are being pursued against many
of those involved, U.S. Military
Academy
officials
said
Wednesday.
First-year students, known as
“plebes,” organize the annual pillow fight as a way to build camaraderie after a grueling summer of
training. But the pillow fight on
Aug. 20 escalated into a free-forall with plebes being hit from
behind and knocked to the
ground. Injuries included a broken nose, a fractured cheek and
24 diagnosed concussions. One
cadet was found unconscious,
according to a report on the pillow fight released Wednesday.
“While never officially sanctioned, it is now officially banned,
and we will take appropriate
action to ensure that all faculty,
staff, leaders, the Corps of Cadets
and everyone at West Point knows
that it will not be tolerated,” West
Point Superintendent Lt. Gen.
Robert Caslen said in a statement.
There were reports that some
cadets were injured by hard
objects placed in pillow cases
after photos and video of the
melee circulated on social media.
But the Army report said many
injuries were caused instead by
elbows and falls to the ground.
One cadet was identified by military police as striking another
cadet with a hard object in a pillow case.
The report said upper-class
cadets did not take proper control
of the fight to ensure the safety of
plebes. It said that upper-class
behaviors “ranged from throwing
items such as small milk cartons,
water balloons, fruit and glow
sticks from barracks windows to
yelling at plebes and encouraging
them ‘get back into the fight.’”
A number of plebes said they
were hit when they weren’t looking or from behind. Many cadets
wore body armor, which officials
believe may have encouraged
aggressive behavior. One cadet
broke his nose when a blow from
behind caused his combat helmet
to rotate forward, according to the
report.
Caslen said the violence could
have been prevented with better
communication between cadet
leadership and senior military
personnel before the pillow fight.
“I’m troubled by the failure to
mitigate and lead, and by the conduct of those whose actions contributed to this incident,” Caslen
said. “I am taking appropriate
action based on these findings —
to include administrative actions
against senior military members
and cadets alike — to send a clear
message that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated at our
nation’s premiere military academy.”
Though the pillow fight is cited
as a tradition, the report suggests
it dates back no further than
2001. There was no pillow fight in
2013.
Investigators: Jewelry
heist suspects
could be part of ring
ASHVEVILLE, N.C. (AP) —
Federal authorities say a group
of men arrested in an Asheville
jewelry store robbery could be
linked to a string of thefts.
According to The Asheville
Citizen-Times, police say the
men stole an estimated
$500,000 in jewelry and diamonds Nov. 8 at Jared Galleria
of Jewelry.
A federal criminal complaint
says the “smash and grab” tactic has been used in store robberies from Michigan to North
Carolina, and authorities have
examined 50 similar thefts that
occurred in 2014 and 2015.
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Christopher
Graveline
in
Detroit says federal investigators are aware of the Asheville
case and any possible ties are
under investigation.
Five suspects, including a 16year-old boy, each face two
felony charges: robbery with a
dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery with a
dangerous weapon.
Clarification: Kmart
sale begins at 6 a.m.
The Nov. 25 edition contained
an error. Kmart will be holding a
Thanksgiving Day sale starting at
6 this morning with the Black
Friday sale starting at 7 tonight.
www.clevelandbanner.com
OBITUARIES
Mattie ‘Dell’ Anderson
Mattie Adelle “Dell” Anderson,
92, passed away Monday, Nov.
23, 2015, at Signature Health
Care in Cleveland.
She moved to Tennessee in
1993 from Indiana. She attended
Old Salem Baptist Church and
loved her church family. She
loved to crochet, enjoyed working crossword puzzles, was a
fabulous cook and candy maker.
She was preceded in death by
her husband, John Anderson;
parents, John and Essie Mae
Cherry; brother, Edward Cherry;
and son-in-law, David B. Gray.
She is survived by her daughter, Darlyn A. Gray, of Delano;
and
special
stepdaughter,
Catrina Smith of Jacksonville,
Fla.; and her beloved dog who
watched over her, Brady.
Darlyn and Catrina send special
appreciation
to
the
Birchwood Family Opry for loving
their mother.
The funeral will be held at 2
p.m. Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015, at
Old Salem Baptist Church with
the Rev. Herman Jordan officiating.
Interment will follow in the
church cemetery. A white dove
release ceremony will conclude
the service.
The family will receive friends
from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 27,
2015, at the funeral home and
from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov,
28, 2015, at Old Salem Baptist
Church prior to the service.
In lieu of flowers, toys for children will be accepted.
We invite you to send a message of condolence and view the
Anderson family guestbook at
www.higginsfuneral.com.
Higgins Funeral Home of
Benton is in charge of the
arrangements.
Viola Sue Belcher
Viola Sue Belcher, 80, of
Cleveland passed away Tuesday,
Nov. 24, 2015, in a Chattanooga
Hospice facility.
She is preceded in death by
her parents, Mrs. Worth Gentry
Summey and Mr. Henry Mike
“Tobe” Summey; her husband,
Earnest Reed Belcher; five sisters: Lucy McCullough, Zina Mae
Murr, Nellie May Wiseman,
Bernice Lanham and Tracy
Nicole Summey; three brothers:
Henry Summey, Harlis Summey
and
Christopher
Dewayne
Summey.
She was previously employed
with Jack’s Kleen Rite and
Hardwick Stove Company. She
loved to spend time with her family and cook for them, especially
on holidays. She also enjoyed
spending time in her flower garden. She was of the Christian
faith.
Survivors include her four
daughters: Frances Curry and
her husband, Larry, of Cleveland,
Kathy Owenby and her husband,
Wayne, of Cleveland, Joyce
Helton of Benton and Margaret
Green and her husband, Billy, of
Charleston; two sons: Dennis
Belcher and his wife, Krystal, of
Georgetown and J.L. Belcher and
his wife, Brenda, of Cleveland;
four sisters: Marie Atkins and her
husband, Clinton, of Peoria, Ill.,
Sue Summey and Pearlene
Summey, both of Madisonville
and Alma Jean Giles and her husband, Alan, of Vonore; she also
leaves to cherish her memory; 13
grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; and three great-greatgrandchildren.
A Remembrance of Life service
will be held Saturday, Nov. 28,
2015, at 2 p.m. from the
Wildwood Avenue Chapel of Jim
Rush Funeral & Cremation
Services with Pastor Phil Griffin
officiating.
Interment will follow at Fort Hill
cemetery with her grandsons
serving as casketbearers.
from 5 until 8 p.m. Friday, Nov.
27, 2015, at the funeral home.
We invite you to share your
memories and condolences with
the Belcher family by visiting
www.jimrushfuneralhomes.com
Marsha Chickering
McDonald, Larry Stafford and his
wife, Amy, of Wartburg; daughMarsha Chickering, 92, a resi- ters: Debbie Cooke of Knoxville
dent
of
Cleveland,
died and Amy Stafford of Cleveland;
Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2015, at a grandchildren: Kellie Freytag and
local health care facility.
her husband, Matt, Jay Cooke
Survivors and funeral arrange- and his wife, Marissa, Davey
ments will be announced by Stafford and his wife, Ashliegh,
Grissom-Serenity Funeral Home Jake Stafford; a very special
& Cremation Services.
granddaughter, Bryliegh Stafford
and Avery Stafford; great -grandchildren: Jameson Cooke, Anna
Mae Freytag, Cayden Stafford
and Sara Beth Stafford; brothers:
Doyle Stafford and his wife,
Nancy, Donald Stafford and his
wife, Barbara, and Rickey
Stafford and his wife, Pam, all of
Ooltewah; and several nephews.
A Remembrance of Life service will be held Friday, Nov. 27,
2015, at 7 p.m. at the North
Ocoee Chapel of Jim Rush
Funeral and Cremation Services
with Pastor Marvin Carr officiating.
The interment will be Saturday
at 11 a.m. at Corinth Baptist
Church cemetery with Jay
Cooke, Jake Stafford, Matt
Freytag, Jimmy Cooke Jr., Mike
Carroll and Wayne Burgess serving as casketbearers. Honorary
casketbearers will be Tommy
Stafford, Jeff Stafford, Trace
Hogan, Buster Hogan, Larry
Hogan, Mike Burrell, Bill Smith
and Tolbert Bell.
Friday from 4 until service time at
7 p.m. at the funeral home.
We encourage you to share
Catherine Love
your memories and or condoCatherine Louise Love, 63, a lences with the family by going to
resident of Cleveland, passed www.jimrushfuneralhomes.com.
away Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, at
the family residence.
She was of the Baptist faith.
She was preceded in death by
her parents, James Phillip Caylor
and Alfreda Brown Caylor; and
also her former spouse and
father to her children, Thomas
Beck; three brothers: James P. Gary L. White
Gary L. White, 75, a resident of
Caylor, David Caylor and John
passed
away
Caylor; and one sister, Melinda Cleveland,
Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015, in a
Gail Caylor.
She is survived by her two chil- Chattanooga hospital.
He was a veteran of the United
dren: Melinda Beck and Bradford
Beck and his wife, Krista, all of States Navy and was awarded
Cleveland; two grandchildren, the Antarctica Service Medal.
He was preceded in death by
Thomas Beck and Kenneth
Beck; two sisters: Judith A. Fields his parents, Harris Lynwood
and husband, Lee, and Donna S. White and Waneta Daisy Searcy
Sherlin and husband, Wayne, all Morris.
He is survived by his son, Dion
of Cleveland; and a stepson,
White, of Cleveland; four grandFoster Beck.
The funeral will be held at 1 children: Holly Edmonson and
Billy
Edmonson,
p.m. Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, in the husband,
Swafford,
Justin
chapel of Ralph Buckner Funeral Hunter
Home with the Rev. Sammy Malamphy and Chris Tharpe; two
great-grandchildren, Madison
Hooker officiating.
The family will receive friends and Savannah Edmonson; two
Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at sisters, Laura Wells of East
the funeral home prior to the Ridge and Sherry Howard of
Nevada; and a special friend,
service.
We invite you to send a mes- Johnnie Swafford.
There will be a graveside servsage of condolence and view the
Love family guestbook at ice at Hilcrest Memorial Gardens
on Monday, Nov. 30, 2015, at 3
www.ralphbuckner.com.
p.m.
Ralph Buckner Funeral Home
and Crematory is in charge of the
arrangements.
Zona hayes Morrow
Zona Hayes Morrow, 62, of
Georgetown, died Wednesday,
Nov. 25, 2015, at a local health
care facility.
Survivors and funeral arrangements will be announced by FikeRandolph & Son Funeral Home.
To submit an obituary,
have the funeral home or cremation society in charge of
arrangements e-mail the
information to
[email protected] and fax to 423-6146529, attention Obits.
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Cleveland Urban Area Transit
System will be closed today and
Friday for Thanksgiving holidays.
It will reopen on Monday, Nov. 30.
CHURCH
ACTIVITIES
Garey A. Stafford Sr.
Garey A. Stafford Sr., 76, of
Cleveland,
passed
away
Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, in a
Chattanooga hospital.
He was preceded in death by
his father, Lloyd A. Stafford.
He was retired from Cooke’s
Manufacturing with more than 40
years of service, He attended
Amazing Grace Baptist Church.
His hobbies include Stafford
Used Cars business, Antique
Cars, fishing, farming and he
loved to make people laugh.
He was a devoted son, brother,
husband, father, grandfather,
great-grandfather and friend. He
was a Christian who loved the
Lord with all his heart.
He is survived by his loving
wife and best friend of 57 years,
Marie Stafford; his mother,
Thelma Stafford Boring of
Ooltewah; sons: Allen Stafford
and his wife, Melissa, of
Fifth Sunday singing will be
held at Center Point Baptist
Church, Lower River Road,
Sunday, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
Spirit Song will be the guest
singers.
———
Fifth Sunday singing will be
held at Sunrise Baptist Church,
Sunday at 2 p.m. Featured
singers will be Heart String.
IT’S A SPECIAL
DAY FOR ...
Shannon Burrell, Zack Roark,
Jeff Nichols, Elisha Wooden,
Jacob Hoggatt, Virginia Lunsford
and Courtney Jones Pendergrass,
who are celebrating birthdays
today ... Ken and Linda Stephens,
who are celebrating their 55th
anniversary today.
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CBS/Classic Media via AP
ThIS IMAGe provided by CBS shows a scene from the holiday
classic, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” airing Dec. 1 8 to 9
p.m., ET/PT, on the CBS Television Network.
The Grinch, Mariah Carey
join holiday TV festivities
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s that
most wonderful time of the TV year
when we are visited again by the
welcome ghosts of classic holiday
programs past — hello again,
Frosty the Snowman and even
mean old Grinch!
But there are newcomers as
well, with Mariah Carey, Bill
Murray and an “Empire” variety
special among them. Isn’t it greedy
to ask Santa for anything more?
Among the program highlights
(all times EST; check local listings
for encore airings):
ANIMATION:
— “Frosty the Snowman,” 8 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 28, CBS. The
adventures of the snowman (voiced
by Jackie Vernon) with the magical
top hat and jolly soul, which first
aired in 1969, as narrated by
Jimmy Durante.
— “Rudolph the Red-Nosed
Reindeer,” 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1,
CBS. The 1964 special in which
Rudolph and buddies Hermey the
Elf, Yukon Cornelius and the Misfit
Toys rescue Christmas, with narrator Burl Ives’ dulcet tones an
added bonus.
— “How the Grinch Stole
Christmas,” 9 p.m. Wednesday,
Dec. 2, NBC. The Dr. Seuss tale of
a hostile hermit who threatens
Whoville’s joy is narrated by Boris
Karloff, who also voices the dastardly Grinch in the 1966 program.
— “The Little Drummer Boy,” 12
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, ABC Family.
Young Aaron, who can’t afford to
buy a present for baby Jesus, discovers that nothing is better than
the gift of music.
—MOVIES:
— “A Christmas Detour,” 8 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 28, Hallmark
Channel. Candace Cameron Bure
and Paul Greene star as two New
York City-bound travelers rerouted
to a Buffalo airport hotel and into
unexpected territory.
— “It’s a Wonderful Life,” 8 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 5, NBC. Filmmaker
Frank Capra’s holiday fable starring James Stewart and Donna
Reed has been reminding audiences about what’s important in
life since 1946.
— “Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many
Colors,” 9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10,
NBC. Alyvia Alyn Lind plays the
country music legend as a child in
a story inspired by Parton’s family
life in 1950s Tennessee. Jennifer
Nettles, Gerald McRaney and Ricky
Schroder co-star.
— “A Christmas Story,” 8 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 24, TBS. A boy and
a longed-for BB gun make for holiday cheer in writer Jean
Shepherd’s wry 1983 tale that
stars Peter Billingsley, Melinda
Dillon and Darren McGavin.
— “Miracle on 34th Street,” 7
p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, AMC.
Santa Claus goes to court and a little girl stands by his story in the
1947 movie starring Edmund
Gwen, Maureen O’Hara and
Natalie Wood as the young believer
in St. Nick.
— “White Christmas,” 11:30
p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, AMC.
Bing Crosby croons the title song
Brian Douglas/Crown Media via AP
MArIAh CArey portrays
Melissa in “A Christmas Melody,”
directed by Carey. Carey, Lacey
Chabert, Brennan Elliott, Kathy
Najimy
and
10-year-old
Broadway sensation Fina
Strazza star in the holiday special that premieres on Dec. 19,
at 8 p.m. ET/PT, on the Hallmark
Channel.
and Danny Kaye, Rosemary
Clooney and Vera-Ellen add to the
festivities at a struggling Vermont
inn in need of help.
— “A Christmas Melody,” 8 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 19, Hallmark
Channel. Mariah Carey stars in
and directed this story with music
about a single mom (Lacey
Chabert) forced to close her New
York boutique, return to her Ohio
hometown and face a former high
school rival (Carey).
—STOCKING STUFFERS:
— “It’s Your 50th Christmas,
Charlie Brown,” 8 p.m. Monday,
Nov. 30, ABC. A celebration of the
50th anniversary of “A Charlie
Brown Christmas” with performances by Kristen Chenoweth,
Sarah McLachlan and Boyz II Men,
followed at 9 p.m. by the digitally
remastered 1965 animated special.
— “CMA Country Christmas,” 9
p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, ABC.
Kelsea Ballerini, Jewel, Charles
Kelley, Martina McBride, David
Nail, Pentatonix, LeAnn Rimes and
Darius Rucker join the musical celebration, with Jennifer Nettles as
the host and the Grand Ole Opry
House as the setting.
— “A Very Murray Christmas,”
Friday, Dec. 4, Netflix. Bill Murray
tips his hat to the holiday and classic variety shows with help from
buddies including Michael Cera,
George Clooney, Miley Cyrus, Amy
Poehler, Chris Rock and, as director, Sofia Coppola.
— “Taraji and Terrence’s White
Hot Holidays,” 9 p.m. Wednesday,
Dec. 9, Fox. “Empire” stars Taraji
P. Henson and Terrence Howard
host a music and variety special
including performances of holiday
songs by Mary J. Blige, John
Legend, Jamie Foxx and others.
— “Lidia Celebrates America:
Home for the Holidays,” 9 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 11, PBS. Chef and
author Lidia Bastianich explores
the varied backgrounds and holiday traditions of guests including
Christopher Walken, Rita Moreno,
Ann Curry and Padma Lakshmi.
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Sister of slain boy testifies in murder retrial
GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) â€” The
retrial of a man accused in the
December 2006 death of a 5year-old Etowah County boy continued Tuesday with testimony
from the boy’s teenage sister and
other witnesses.
Kevin Andre Towles is charged
with capital murder in the death
of Geontae Glass. Al.com reported that the boy’s 16-year-old sister Shaliyah, said she, her brother and their mother, Shalinda
Glass, were at Towles’ house and
she last saw Geontae alert and
conscious when Towels took him
outside.
Prosecutors have said the boy
was punished for receiving an
evaluation at school that said
his behavior was satisfactory
but needed improvement.
“G has to pay for something,”
Shaliyah Glass said Towels
told her as he took Geontae
outside. She testified that
Towels came back inside, laid
Geontae on the floor of another
room and said he was asleep.
Shaliyah Glass testified that
when she got in her mother’s
car the next day before school,
Geontae was already dressed
and in the car — but was
slumped over and still
appeared to be asleep.
The two stopped at a gas station and left the boy in the car,
she said. The car was gone
when they came out.
Prosecutors
have
said
Towels and the boy’s mother
staged a car theft and kidnapping at the gas station to try
concealing his death.
Shalinda Glass pleaded
guilty to murder in 2012.
Prosecutors have said she wasn’t involved in the boy’s beating. However prosecutors have
said she failed to get medical
care that could have saved the
boy’s life and covered up his
death.
AP Photo
In thIs nov. 26, 2013 photo, Jon Hernandez chooses from several games of online poker from his
home in Roselle Park, N.J., the day after New Jersey began offering Internet gambling statewide. In its
first two years, the industry has been growing in two of the three states that offer it nationwide, but a wave
of hoped-for expansion has not occurred as many states watch the progress of the nascent industry and
weigh its costs.
Growth — but not expansion —
in U.S. Internet gambling market
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) —
Internet gambling is slowly growing — but not expanding — after
2 1/2 years of online betting in
the United States.
Online gambling revenue is
increasing in at least two of the
three states that currently offer it
— New Jersey and Delaware. The
third, Nevada, doesn’t report
Internet revenue separately.
But a hoped-for wave of expansion has not happened as many
states sit on the sidelines and
assess the costs and benefits of
the nascent industry.
“Internet gambling revenue in
Delaware, Nevada and New
Jersey badly missed initial forecasts, which themselves were
overly aggressive,” said Chris
Krafcik, research director for
Gambling Compliance, which
tracks gambling legislation
nationwide.
New Jersey Gov. Chris
Christie’s administration, for
example, had initially estimated
Internet gambling would bring in
$1 billion in its first year. It did
about 12 percent of that.
“The negative P.R. that resulted, fair or not, really took the
wind out of the expansionary
sails,” Krafcik said.
San
Francisco-based
Gambling Compliance predicts
either California or Pennsylvania
will approve Internet gambling
next year, followed by New York
and Mississippi in subsequent
years. In 2016, the group projects, nine states will consider
legalizing it, though not necessarily act to approve it.
The industry still faces some
nagging issues, as well as looming threats — including an effort
in Congress to ban Internet gambling
nationwide.
The
Restoration of America’s Wire Act
has been introduced in both
chambers this year, backed by
billionaire casino mogul Sheldon
Adelson, and could come up for a
hearing next month.
New Jersey began offering
Internet gambling on Nov. 25,
2013, and took in $122 million in
its first full year. Over the first 10
months of this year, the Atlantic
City casinos have already
equaled that total, with their
Internet gambling revenue up
17.6 percent from the same period last year.
Delaware won $1.4 million in
fiscal year 2014; $1.8 million in
2015, and $500,000 so far this
fiscal year, which runs from July
through June.
Nevada stopped reporting
Internet gambling revenue as a
separate item at the end of 2014.
Online poker, the only brand of
online gambling Nevada offers, is
just a drop in the bucket of the
state’s $11 billion gambling market.
Online poker is the most popular form of Internet gambling,
although the small number of
states offering it has kept prize
pools low. New Jersey has sought
to partner with other states that
might legalize it to offer larger,
joint prize pools.
PokerStars, the world’s largest
Internet poker site, will begin
operating in New Jersey in the
first half of 2016, and many
industry executives expect it to
grow the market, though how
much remains to be seen. In
March, Morgan Stanley cut its
estimate of the potential U.S.
Internet gambling market by
nearly half, pegging it at $2.7 billion by 2020, down from an initial estimate of $5 billion.
At first, one of the main impediments to people getting online to
gamble was funding their
accounts. Many credit cards
wary of running afoul of a law
banning banks from funding illegal Internet bets were reluctant
to process transactions, but that
has changed. New Jersey says
MasterCard is approving 70 percent of attempted Internet gambling transactions in the state,
while Visa is at 62 percent.
PayPal also recently agreed to
participate.
From a legal and consumer
protection standpoint, Internet
gambling has proven to be reliable and transparent, said David
Rebuck, New Jersey’s top gambling regulator. Technology to
ensure a player is actually within
the state’s borders have reduced
false rejections — initially a problem — to a negligible issue. And
it’s keeping most outsiders from
gambling illegally: only two people were found to have successfully placed bets from outside
New Jersey since 2013, Rebuck
said. Officials confiscated the
money in their accounts, totaling
about $1,000.
In New Jersey, Internet gambling was seen as a lifeline to
Atlantic City’s struggling casinos.
Less than a year after it began,
four of its 12 casinos went out of
business. But for those that
remain, Internet gambling often
makes the difference between an
up or a down month.
“The market was smaller than
a lot of people predicted, but the
market is growing pretty nicely
now,” said Tom Ballance, president of the Borgata, Atlantic
City’s top casino and its leading
online winner.
Internet gambling has generat-
ed $6 million in earnings for the
Borgata over the first three quarters of this year, Ballance said.
“In Atlantic City, $6 million in
profit is not easy to come by,” he
said. “We’ll take that anytime.”
—Associated Press writers
Michelle Rindels in Carson City,
Nevada and Randall Chase in
Wilmington, Delaware contributed
to this story.
Do not be anxious
about anything, but in every
situation, by prayer and petition,
with thanksgiving, present your
requests to God. And peace
of god, which transcends all
understanding, will guard
your hearts and your minds
in Christ
Jesus.
Philippians 4: 6-8 NIV
Clinton to speak in Montgomery
for Bus Boycott anniversary
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) —
Hillary Clinton will headline an
event commemorating the 60th
anniversary of the Montgomery
Bus Boycott.
Clinton’s presidential campaign
confirmed the appearance at the
Dec. 1 event in Montgomery hosted by the National Bar Association.
The panel will he held on the
60th anniversary of Rosa Parks’
1955 arrest for refusing to give her
bus seat to a white passenger. Her
arrest sparked the 381-day boycott of Montgomery buses by
blacks to protest segregated seating.
Clinton will speak at Dexter
Avenue King Memorial Baptist
Church, the church led by the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr. during the
boycott. The event is titled “The
Role Lawyers Played in the
Montgomery Bus Boycott and the
Civil Rights Movement.”
This is the Democratic frontrunner’s second trip to Alabama.
In October, she spoke to the
Alabama Democratic Conference,
the state’s largest black political
organization. At that stop, she
vowed to be a champion for voting
rights and accused Republicans of
trying to dismantle decades of
racial progress.
Clinton’s appearance at the
church is part of a weeklong commemoration marking the anniversary of the boycott.
A new state historic marker will
be placed on Dec. 1 at the site of
Parks’ arrest.
A message of hope from
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Crematory
Student sues Ga. Tech
after expulsion for
sexual misconduct
tigative report included in court
documents, the woman said Doe
turned off the lights when they
were in his bedroom and began
kissing her. The woman said she
stopped him “and stated that she
wanted to get to know him better.”
She said Doe then touched her
genitals without consent, and
shortly after, she vomited and he
stopped.
Paquette found Doe responsible
for non-consensual sexual contact, non-consensual sexual intercourse and coercion and expelled
him on April 3. Doe’s attorney said
he wasn’t charged criminally.
The lawsuit said that Paquette
didn’t interview most fraternity
members suggested by Doe
because they were present at the
2013 event during his investigation. Doe knew little about the witnesses until 30 minutes before a
final interview with Paquette, the
suit says, which gave little time to
prepare or investigate. It says he
wasn’t allowed to question witnesses and only had summaries of
their conversations with Paquette.
“Mr. Doe was entitled to process
commensurate with the seriousness of the allegations and the
potential discipline, sanctions,
and repercussions he was facing,”
the suit said. “The allegations in
this case resulted in the harshest
sanction available at the
University, will have lifelong ramifications for Mr. Doe, and are
quasi-criminal in nature.”
Georgia Tech updated its policy
on student sexual misconduct in
2014, which the school called part
of a national effort to address sexual violence on college campuses.
The changes eliminated a student
panel that previously heard sexual misconduct cases and transferred that responsibility to
trained administrative staff in the
Office of Student Integrity. The
updates also added expulsion as a
punishment for non-consensual
sexual intercourse.
Students expelled or otherwise
punished by schools after sexual
assault allegations have filed
similar lawsuits around the
country, often arguing that their
right to due process was violated. One count by the Foundation
for Individual Rights in
Education found more than 50
suits.
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia
Tech student expelled in April
after a sexual misconduct investigation has filed a lawsuit alleging
that the review was unfair and violated his rights.
The lawsuit said the university’s
Office of Student Integrity found
the student, identified as “John
Doe” in the suit, responsible for
non-consensual sexual and intercourse and coercion against a
female student at an October
2013 event where they had been
drinking. Doe received little information about witnesses’ statements and couldn’t defend himself, the lawsuit said.
The male student wants a judge
to allow him to take spring classes
and complete his degree on
Georgia Tech’s Atlanta campus
while the suit is argued. The suit
seeks unspecified punitive and
compensatory damages and a jury
trial.
The suit names the school’s
president, the dean of students
and Director of the Office of
Student Integrity Peter Paquette
as defendants along with a board
that oversees public colleges in
Georgia.
University System of Georgia
spokesman Charlie Sutlive and
Attorney General Sam Olens’
spokesman Nick Genesi on
Wednesday declined to comment
on pending litigation.
According to the lawsuit, Doe
invited a female student identified
only as “Jane Roe” to an event on
Oct. 10, 2013 at his fraternity
house. The two drank and socialized on the main floor and later
went into a room to join others
playing drinking games.
Doe said the woman followed
him into his bedroom where she
almost immediately felt sick and
began vomiting. Doe says he went
to get a sober member of the fraternity, who came back upstairs,
and both men helped the woman
downstairs to meet two friends
picking her up.
The woman filed a complaint in
February with the Office of
Student Integrity, later telling staff
that she tried to forget what happened until she participated in a
sexual assault awareness campaign during the spring semester
in 2014.
According to Paquette’s inves-
Caesars appeals court ruling
that opens it up to $364M claim
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Casino
giant Caesars Entertainment is
appealing a bankruptcy court
ruling that could put it on the
hook for nearly $364 million.
That’s the amount a pension
fund wants Caesars to pay in
installments for 20 years after
the company’s largest subsidiary
filed for bankruptcy protection
in January.
The National Retirement
Fund, which manages pensions
for 400,000 unionized workers
from a variety of employers,
wants to oust Caesars, forcing it
to cover the cost of promised
pensions.
The fund has estimated
Caesars would need to pay nearly $6 million each quarter, or
$24 million a year for 20 years.
Caesars has been the largest
fund contributor, paying $13
million annually, according to
the court’s ruling.
a reception was held on Lee’s campus to honor the iMASS Scholars. From left, front, are Dr. Blayne Carroll, Dr. Sherry Kasper, Peer
Mentor Dani Lin, Lauren Wood, Jessica Mitchum, Amy Carpenter, and Peer Mentor Brett Buckner; back, Genevieve Ellison, Loren Garcia,
Lydia Brown (alternate), Alexis Wright, and Dr. Sarah Schlosser. Not pictured are iMASS scholar Jesus Torres, Jr., and Rachel Williams
(alternate).
Foundation awards grant for Lee STEM students
The
National
Science
Foundation recently awarded Lee
University a $600,000 grant that
will provide scholarships and
educational opportunities to Lee
students majoring in science and
mathematics. The award was
made through the federal
agency's
Scholarships
in
Science,
Technology,
Engineering & Mathematics (SSTEM) program. This grant will
fund a new Lee program which
will be called “iMASS Scholars.”
The iMASS Scholars program
is for rising second-year students
in the sciences and mathematics
who are both academically talented and financially qualified.
Scholars will receive a total of
$20,000 in scholarships over
three years. The goal of the program is to increase the number
of exceptional students who earn
a bachelor's degree in biology,
chemistry and mathematics.
These students will be prepared
to enter competitive graduate
programs or employment in
STEM-related fields.
Five
cohorts of scholars will be supported over the course of the
grant program.
The new Lee program will also
offer intensive faculty and peer
mentoring and direct exposure to
research opportunities and
internships. Student will work
with regional research institutions and STEM-related industries in collaborative teams of
math and science students.
The iMASS Scholars program
was designed and is directed by
three Lee University faculty: Dr.
Sherry Kasper, associate professor of biology; Dr. Blayne Carroll,
professor of mathematics; and
Dr. Sarah Schlosser, assistant
professor of chemistry.
“The iMASS Scholars program
will be invaluable to our science
and mathematics majors by
allowing them to focus on their
academics and offering them
opportunities which will greatly
improve their chances of placement into a graduate program,”
said Kasper.
This year’s participants are
Amy Carpenter, a mathematics
major; Genevieve Ellison, Loren
Garcia, Jessica Mitchum, and
Jesus Torres, Jr, all biology
majors; Lauren Wood, a mathematics major; and Alexis Wright,
a biochemistry major.
Industry partners that have
signed on to support the project
include Bayer Health Care, the
Chattanooga
Zoo,
Lonza,
Manufacturers Chemicals, and
Wacker Polysilicon. Institutional
partners are Oak Ridge National
Labs, the University of Tennessee
Industrial
and
Systems
Engineering
Program,
the
University
of
Tennessee
Graduate School of Genome
Science and Technology, and
Vanderbilt University’s Center for
Neuroscience Drug Discovery.
“These partners will provide
opportunities for iMASS participants to learn more about STEMrelated careers and programs,
including guest speakers on
campus, site visits, shadowing
experiences and internships,”
said Lee Director of Grants
Vanessa
Hammond.
“Collaboration with these partners will enhance educational
opportunities for all STEM students at Lee University.”
The NSF is an independent
federal agency created by the
National Science Foundation Act
of 1950. Its aim is to promote
and advance scientific progress
in the United States. The
Foundation is also committed to
ensuring the nation's supply of
scientists, engineers, and science
educators.
For more information about
the iMASS program, contact
Kasper at 423-614-8659.
Conn named Alumnus of the Year for Lee’s BSS Dept.
Dr. Jeff Conn was recently
named the 2015 Distinguished
Alumnus of the Behavioral and
Social Sciences Department at a ties.
breakfast held during Lee
Conn currently serves as a
University’s Homecoming festivi- professor of pharmacology at
Vanderbilt University and is the
founding director of the
Vanderbilt
Center
for
Neuroscience Drug Discovery.
His current research is focused
on the development of novel
treatment strategies for schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease,
and other serious brain disorders.
Conn earned his doctorate in
pharmacology from Vanderbilt,
and a bachelor of psychology
from Lee University. He pursued postdoctoral studies at
Yale
before
joining
the
Department of Pharmacology at
Emory University. After 12
years, he moved to the position
of senior director and head of
the Department of Neuroscience
at Merck and Company in West
Point, Pa.
“Dr. Jeff Conn is a talented
researcher whose work is benefitting the lives of many,” said
Dr. Jeffery Sargent, chair of
Lee’s Department of Behavioral
Dr. Jeff Sargent, left, presents Dr. Jeff Conn with the and Social Sciences. “We are
Distinguished Alumnus Award for the Department of Behavioral and proud to call him one of our own
Social Sciences at Lee’s Homecoming department breakfast.
and to honor him with this
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award.”
Conn has served as associate
editor and editor-in-chief of
Molecular Pharmacology and in
editorial positions with multiple
other international journals. He
has served on the scientific
advisory boards of multiple
foundations and research institutes.
He served as chairman of the
Neuropharmacology Division of
the American Society for
Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics, as Fellow of the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and on
multiple national and international committees.
He has received numerous
awards, including the NARSAD
(National Alliance for Research
in Schizophrenia and Affective
Disorders), Essel Distinguished
Investigator Award, and the
ASPET (American Society for
Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics) Astellas Award in
Translational Pharmacology,
among others.
Conn has also been named to
Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Most-Cited Scientists in
Pharmacology and Toxicology.
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more tHan 4,500 items were donated
and packed as part of the RFK Project —
Care Packages for the Homeless. This is a
community service project founded by Jack
Burke. “The goal of our first event was to
focus on the homeless encampments in our
area, which many residents may not know
exist. The RFK Project was able to create
awareness of this sad reality, while generating an opportunity for both adults and children to come together in a community effort
to help combat this issue,” Burke said. The
RFK Project is not affiliated with any political organization. For more information, go
to www.therfkproject.wix.com/getinvolved.
At left is Burke with young volunteer Tyee
Crisp.
NEW YORK (AP) — The holiday
season is upon us. Here’s what
shoppers can expect if they’re
heading out to stores at any point
during the holiday shopping season:
NO FIGHTING OVER
MUST-HAVE GIFTS
Yet again, trend experts say
there’s no single item that’s
emerging as a must-have for the
holiday season.
Sure, in the world of toys, anything “Star Wars” is faring well as
well as a slew of robotic pets like
robotic toy bears from Mattel’s
Fisher-Price and an interactive
unicorn from Hasbro. But there’s
no runaway hit.
In fashion, jeans are making a
comeback this holiday season,
which should help perk up teen
retailers’ business, and athleticinspired clothing like yoga pants
remain popular. But overall,
there’s nothing that’s making
shoppers run to stores.
“You have a democratic influence. Nobody dictates trends,”
said Bill Taubman, chief operating officer at Taubman Centers
Inc., which operates more than 20
malls in the U.S.
IT’LL BE CHEAP
TO STAY WARM
Heavy sweaters and winter coats
are piling up at department stores
and specialty chains heading into
the Black Friday weekend.
Unseasonably cool weather and
a shift in changing shopping habits
toward experiences like spas have
limited shoppers’ appetite for such
clothing. So plenty of stores like
Macy’s, Nordstrom and Dick’s
Sporting Goods say they plan to
further mark down excess goods.
Tom Clarke, managing director
at AlixPartners and co-head of the
retail practice, expects retailers
will step up discounting this
weekend beyond what’s planned
to take advantage of the crowds in
the stores.
That’s good news for shoppers,
but bad news for stores whose
profit margins will be squeezed. In
fact, fourth-quarter profits are
expected to be up 1. 4 percent on
average for the 119 retailers
Retail Metrics LLC tracks. That’s
down from the anticipated 3.7
percent growth just a month ago.
But many are left with no
choice but to discount.
As Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren
recently told analysts; “We’re not
selling lumber so I can’t carry the
lumber over to 2016 and sell it at
the same price next year. We’re
selling fashion apparel, so we’re
going to mark that inventory
down.”
TOYS WILL BE PRICEY
Prices are climbing for toys as
manufacturers pack lots of technology into them. Deborah
Weinswig of the Fung Business
Intelligence Center says in a
recent report that prices of what
the company considers the top 20
expected toys was nearly 36 percent higher than last year, with
the average price of $64.99.
And there are plenty of toys
that cost $100 or more, observed
Toys R Us CEO Dave Brandon. He
cited Fisher-Price’s Smart Bear,
which has a suggested price of
$99.99, as an example.
Jim Silver, editor-in-chief of
TTPM, an online toy review site,
says there’s a limited selling window for the pricier toys. Parents
save the most expensive ones as
gifts and buy them in December.
Bryant Feliz, the father of a
five-year-old girl, says he likes
the diverse assortment of toys in
the stores, but he doesn’t like the
prices.
“At what costs should we be
paying for our own kids’ enjoyment?” he said.
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Lee students carry out ‘Random Acts of Service’
On the morning of Oct. 31, students from Lee’s political science
department gathered for “Random
Acts of Service” day.
“Random Acts of Service” occurs
once every semester and is open to
any student interested in participating. According to Dr. Ana
Alves, assistant professor of political science at Lee, the purpose of
this day is to “serve the surrounding community and to bring students together in the name of service.”
“Serving together is a great way
to build lasting and meaningful
friendships,” said Alves. “It is also
a great way for students to feel a
part of the community and give
back.”
This semester 50 students participated in and around the
Cleveland community. The students helped rake leaves, mow
lawns, trim trees and bushes, and
more.
“I’ve participated in ‘Random
Acts of Service’ every semester I’ve
been at Lee and each experience
has been totally different,” said
Lee student Moriah Vincent.
“Service is so central to the
Christian life, and I think it’s really important for college students
to get out and serve the community. Serving always reminds me of
the reality that there is so much
more happening outside of Lee
and in the lives of people around
me.”
After completing their tasks the
students return, share a meal, and
reflect on their time spent serving.
For more information about the
event, you can check out the
department’s
website
at
https://leepoliticalscience.wordpress.com/ or call the political science department at 423-6148137.
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All year long, we help families and
loved ones celebrate the joy of memories.
This holiday, our wish for you is
that you cherish the time with your
loved ones and make memories worth
celebrating. As you gather around the
table, be sure to give thanks and count
every moment as a blessing.
Lee students participated in “Random Acts of Service” day.
Shown distributing mulch are, from left, Kyle Elliot, Lauren Wood and
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ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — A homeless man has been jailed in
Pennsylvania on charges that he
stiffed a cabbie out of a $325 fare
for driving him nearly 140 miles
from Harrisburg to Altoona.
The Altoona Mirror reports 28year-old Scott LeComte faces a
preliminary hearing Dec. 2 on
theft charges.
Altoona police say the cab driver called LeComte’s mother, who
allegedly said she’d pay the fare
when he arrived. She denies that,
however, saying only that she
spoke to the driver but didn’t
promise to pay him. The woman
told police her son is homeless.
In any event, the driver agreed
to take LeComte from Harrisburg
to his parents’ house in Altoona.
But police say LeComte jumped
from the cab and ran away when
they arrived Sept. 4.
Police filed the charges on
Monday. Online court records
don’t list an attorney for
LeComte.
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middle class buoys
U.S. consumer sentiment
New-home
sales rebound
in October
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of
new homes recovered in October
after suffering a steep drop in
September, returning to this
year’s trend of an improving market for real estate developers and
builders.
The Commerce Department
said Wednesday that new-home
sales climbed 10.7 percent last
month to a seasonally adjusted
annual rate of 495,000. This
rebound followed a 12.9 percent
plunge in the sales rate during
September.
Americans recovered much of
their appetite for owning new
homes this year. Purchases have
surged 15.7 percent year-to-date,
benefiting from the solid hiring
gains and low mortgage rates.
“We still see new homes sales
consistent with a moderate and
sustained recovery in the housing
market,” said Blerina Uruçi, an
analyst at Barclays.
The new-home sales report
tends to be volatile from month to
month. Downward revisions lowered home sales reported in
September, August and July by a
combined 40,000.
The October figures reflected
some geographical extremes.
Home-buying surged 135.5 percent in the Northeast, while rising
less aggressively in the Midwest
and South. Sales dropped slightly
in the West.
But prices dipped last month
despite other industry reports
indicating that real estate prices
have eclipsed income growth. In
October, the median new-home
sales price fell 8.5 percent from a
year ago to $281,500.
The real estate sector is still
healing from the bursting of the
housing bubble and the 2008
financial crisis. Sales of new
homes remain below the 52-year
historic average of 655,200.
There are other signs that the
sales gains of the past year are
levelling off after improvements in
prior months. Sales of existing
homes began to slow last month,
a sign that rising prices are creating affordability problems for
many would-be buyers.
The National Association of
Realtors said Monday that sales
of existing homes fell 3.4 percent
in October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.36 million.
Despite that monthly decline,
existing- home purchases have
increased 3.9 percent from a year
ago. The sales improved even
though potential buyers face slim
picking as the number of listings
on the market has dropped 4.5
percent.
Low mortgage rates have eased
some home sales. But rates have
started to rise ahead of a
December Federal Reserve meeting, where Fed officials are
expected to raise short-term rates
for the first time in nearly a
decade.
The average, 30-year fixed
mortgage rate was slightly under
4 percent this week, compared to
3.79 percent a month ago,
according to mortgage buyer
Freddie Mac.
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TAshAlee RodRiguez, of Boston, uses a smartphone app while shopping at Macy’s in downtown
Boston. For the first time, analysts predict more than half of online traffic to retailer sites will come from
smartphones than desktops during the busy Black Friday holiday shopping weekend. And though it’s still
a small fraction of online revenue, mobile sales are jumping too. Larger phone sizes, improved retailer
apps, more online deals and shoppers’ increasing comfort with shopping online are driving the trend.
Smartphones have overtaken
desktops for holiday shopping
NEW YORK (AP) — If the
beginning of the holiday season
is any indication, it could be a
merry mobile Christmas for
shoppers.
For the first time, there’s
expected to be more people visiting retailers’ web sites through
their smartphones than on
desktop computers or tablets
during the first weekend of the
holiday shopping season that
begins on Thanksgiving Day.
Mobile traffic during the fiveday start to what is typically the
busiest shopping period of the
year is expected to reach 56.9
percent of total traffic, up from
48.5 percent last year, according to IBM Watson.
And even though everyone
who “window shops” on their
phones isn’t going to buy,
mobile sales are jumping too.
Mobile sales are expected to
account for 36.1 percent of
online sales, up from 27 percent
last year, according to IBM
Watson Trend.
The bumps in traffic and
sales come as retailers try to
make the mobile shopping experience easier by improving their
mobile apps and adding
coupons and other deals.
Shoppers also have gotten more
comfortable browsing retailers’
web sites as smartphone screen
sizes have gotten bigger, making
it easier for them to see photos
of the items they want to buy.
Digital wallets and apps that let
shoppers store payment information are helping too.
“It’s very convenient,” said
Seth Reineke, 25, an insurance
worker from Iowa City, Iowa,
who plans to peruse Amazon’s
weekend deals from his phone.
“It allows me to keep track of
time-sensitive sales without
being tied to a computer or having to leave a holiday event or
get-together.”
Overall spending this season
is expected to be somewhat
muted. The National Retail
Federation, a trade group for
storeowners, expects industrywide sales to be up 3.7 percent
in November and December,
less than the 4.1 percent of last
year’s holiday season.
But online spending figures
are stronger. Forrester predicts
online sales will rise 11 percent
to $95 billion. And mobile sales
are becoming a bigger piece of
that pie. Forrester expects them
to account for 35 percent of ecommerce this year and 49 percent in five years. That compares to 29 percent in 2014.
Adobe, which measures 80
percent of online sales from the
top 100 U.S. retailers, predicts
40 to 45 percent of all retail
traffic during November and
December will come from
mobile devices, up from 37 percent last year. Mobile sales are
expected to total 20 to 25 percent of total online sales, up
from 16 percent last year.
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest
retailer, expects that 75 percent
of U.S. traffic to its website will
come from mobile devices this
holiday shopping season. That’s
up from 50 percent two years
ago. Likewise, eBay says it
expects mobile sales during the
holidays will be “significantly”
higher than the 41 percent
mobile sales made up of total
revenue in the third quarter.
Thanksgiving and the day
after the holiday known as
Black Friday are expected to be
particularly
mobile-friendly
shopping dates because people
can use their phones to take
advantage of limited-time offers
wherever they may be. Adobe
predicts mobile will drive the
majority of shopping traffic, 51
percent, for the first time on
Thanksgiving Day.
Vermont university’s mascot costume turns up
CASTLETON, Vt. (AP) — A university in Vermont says the costume for its green-caped Spartan
mascot has been found
unharmed in the football stadium after it was reported missing.
A spokesman for Castleton
University says Sparty’s costume
was found Monday during an
inspection of Spartan Stadium.
The costume disappeared from
the
Student
Government
Association offices between late
September and the middle of
October.
The association bought the
mascot for $1,700 last year to
replace one that was showing its
wear.
University spokesman Jeff
Weld said Monday that the
school suspects that “Sparty just
needed a break” after entertaining more than 6,000 people on
homecoming weekend in late
September.
He says the matter is considered closed by university officials.
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“There’s a lot of opportunity
to do ‘shopping under the table’
on Thanksgiving Day,” said
Tamara Gaffney, director of
Adobe Digital Index. “In
between cooking, watching football and in general hanging
around family and friends,
there’s down time to glance at
the iPad and smartphone and
do some shopping.”
Take Danyell Taylor, 34, a
writer in Washington, D.C. who
likes the “easy access” of smartphone shopping. Taylor plans to
start looking for holiday deals
on Wednesday and continuing
through the weekend, specifically for Converse shoes and
Kate Spade home accessories.
“I’m going to sit on my couch
with my phone and my laptop
and buy from there,” she says.
“I don’t plan on going into the
store at all.”
Mobile shopping still has its
problems, including security
concerns, sluggish apps and
hard-to-navigate mobile web
sites. And much of mobile traffic doesn’t translate into sales.
But for shoppers, the convenience factor is hard to beat,
says Forrester Research analyst
Sucharita Mulpuru.
“While retailers may lament
their low conversion rates and
slow download speeds on
mobile devices, shoppers still
keep shopping on those
devices,” Mulpuru says, adding
that shoppers “appear to have
greater tolerance for imperfection, much like in the early days
of desktop.”
Jill Markiewicz, 38, a personal shopper in New York, says
she shops frequently on her
iPhone 6s on Saks Fifth Ave and
J.Crew’s mobile web sites.
“I’m typically on foot running
around a lot ... don’t get a whole
lot of desk time,” Markiewicz
says. “You can go from email to
checkout cart in a matter of
minutes.”
WASHINGTON
(AP)
—
Americans were more optimistic
about their incomes and personal finances this month, particularly among lower and middle-class households, lifting
consumers’ outlook.
The University of Michigan’s
consumer sentiment index,
released Wednesday, rose to
91.3 in November from 90 in
the previous month. That is
close to the average for the past
six months of 91.6.
Steady hiring and rising
wages and salaries are slowly
lifting Americans’ confidence in
the economy, though it remains
muted by historical standards.
The modest increase suggests
consumers could spend more
over the coming holiday shopping period.
Among lower and middleincome households, 38 percent
expect their personal finances
to improve in the coming year,
compared with just 29 percent
of higher-income households.
The outlook for wealthier families appears to have been tempered by recent swings in the
stock market.
The report included some
cautionary signs for retailers as
the winter holiday shopping
season gets under way.
Consumers at all income levels
appear intensely focused on
discounts and bargains.
“The insistence of consumers
on discounts in prices has
rarely been greater in the more
than half-century history of the
surveys,” Richard Curtin, chief
economist of the survey, said.
The data “indicate the indelible
impact that the Great Recession
has had in making consumers
more cautious spenders.”
The University of Michigan
survey conflicts with data from
the Conference Board, released
Tuesday, that showed a sharp
drop
in
confidence
in
November. The Conference
Board’s consumer confidence
index dropped to 90.4, from
99.1, its lowest level since
September 2014.
“Consumer sentiment and
confidence indices have been
erratic in recent months, but
they remain at comparatively
healthy
levels,”
Joshua
Shapiro, chief economist at
MFR Inc., said in a note to
clients.
Still, job growth has been
healthy and there are signs
wages have begun to pick up.
Employers added 271,000 jobs
in October, the most this year,
and the unemployment rate fell
to 5 percent from 5.1 percent.
Consumer spending has
increased at a healthy pace of 3
percent or above in the past two
quarters, though it slowed in
October, according to government data released Wednesday.
Yet that also pushed up the
savings rate to a healthy 5.6
percent last month. That suggests consumers are in better
shape to boost spending over
the holidays.
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Police: Teen charged in stabbing
at Baltimore high school
BALTIMORE (AP) — Police say
a 17-year-old Baltimore high
school student has been charged
as an adult with attempted murder in a classroom stabbing that
left a schoolmate critically
wounded.
Police announced the charge
against Donte Crawford in a
news release Wednesday morning, a day after the midday stabbing at Renaissance Academy
High School. Police say the
wounded teen made it through
surgery but remains in critical
condition. Police say Crawford is
awaiting a bail hearing.
Police spokesman T.J. Smith
said Tuesday that Crawford, a
10th-grader, went into an occupied third-floor classroom,
stabbed a 17-year-old 11th-grader and ran away. Smith said
Crawford was arrested a short
time later at home, but it wasn’t
clear what prompted the attack.
Students are attending classes
at another site Wednesday.
Veteran soap actor David
Canary dies at age 77
WILTON, Conn. (AP) — “All My
Children” star David Canary has
died at age 77.
Paul Pyrch of the Bouton
Funeral Home, in Georgetown,
Connecticut, said Wednesday
that the Daytime Emmy Award
winner died Nov. 16 of natural
causes at his home in
Connecticut.
Canary’s career spanned more
than five decades, appearing in
the films “Hombre” and “Saint
Valentine’s Day Massacre” before
earning recurring roles on
“Peyton Place” and “Bonanza.” It
was his role as twin brother
Adam and Stuart Chandler on
“All My Children” that brought
Canary his greatest fame, and
five Daytime Emmy Awards.
The role allowed him to play
both a bad and a good guy.
The actor is survived by his
wife, two children and a grandchild.
N.Y. declares victory in
Alzheimer’s drug antitrust suit
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New
York’s attorney general is dropping a lawsuit against a drug
manufacturer after blocking
what he said was an attempt to
switch Alzheimer’s patients to a
newer patented drug.
Attorney
General
Eric
Schneiderman (SHNEYE’-durmuhn) had sued Allergan PLC to
prevent the company from withdrawing Namenda, a popular
Alzheimer’s treatment, a few
months before lower-cost generic
drugs became available.
Schniederman’s office argued
the move was timed to force
patients onto a new patented
drug Namenda XR instead of the
generics.
A federal judge agreed, requiring Allergan to continue distributing the older drug until generics were available.
Schneiderman said Wednesday
the lawsuit has been resolved
now that patients can choose
between the new drug and generic alternatives.
Allergan, previously known as
Actavis, confirmed the settlement. The company agreed to pay
$172,000 in legal fees.
Woman ordered to pay $600 for
throwing rock at drone
HARWICK, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania woman has
been ordered to pay $600 for
hurling driveway gravel at her
next-door neighbor’s drone.
Mark Shock says he was finishing up a flight in Harwick on
Aug. 30 when Martina Wlodarski
hurled a stone and hit the
remote-controlled aircraft.
A video shows the drone going
haywire after being hit. Shock
says two blades flew off and
nearly hit him in the face.
Wlodarski says she was frightened by the 3.5-pound aircraft
and acted in self-defense.
Criminal mischief charges
were dropped on Monday as the
neighbors agreed that Wlodarski
would pay Shock restitution.
Students rally for staff members
facing potential job loss
MARTIN (AP) — Dozens of students and staff members from
the University of Tennessee at
Martin rallied on Tuesday in support of maintenance employees
who could potentially lose their
jobs.
Gov. Bill Haslam has said that
no decision has been made on
whether to pursue privatization
of facilities management for state
buildings and parks, the Jackson
Sun reported.
If such a proposal moves forward, universities under the
Tennessee Board of Regents and
University of Tennessee systems
could lose some staff positions.
UT Martin senior Amber
Sherman said losing those staff
members would mean losing a
connection to the family culture.
“It’s people I know, who clean
my room, who do my maintenance, who I talk to every single
day,” Sherman said.
Randy Pigg, a university technician, said the students’ support for their staff meant a lot to
the three-person electrical crew.
“They don’t want anybody else
here. They want us here,” Pigg
said.
Tim Nipp, director of the university’s physical plant, which
houses all the electrical and
maintenance crews, said employees are hoping against the privatization of the staff.
“Of course, I don’t want it to be
outsourced. We enjoy working for
the university and we take a lot of
pride in what we do,” Nipp said.
Governor’s office spokeswoman Jennifer Donnals said no
decisions have been made
regarding privatizing staff at universities in the state. Donnals
said facility management efforts
have saved approximately $12.9
million in the past two years and
have improved maintenance by
10 percent.
“The state is exploring whether
there are similar opportunities
elsewhere in its real estate portfolio,” Donnals said. “No decision
has been made, and there is no
timeline for a decision from the
governor’s office.”
Voltaggio denies accusations
made by cooks in lawsuit
BALTIMORE (AP) — Attorneys
for prominent Maryland “Top
Chef” Bryan Voltaggio and
restaurateur Hilda Staples are
denying accusations that their
clients improperly paid workers.
The Frederick News-Post
reports the attorneys said in a
response filed Monday in U.S.
District Court that the plaintiffs
were trying to “smear” the defendants’ reputations.
Voltaggio owns Volt in
Frederick, as well as eight other
restaurants in the region. Three
former Volt line cooks sued in
September, saying they were
required to arrive early for shifts,
but were not allowed to clock in
until their scheduled time.
In their response, the defendants’ attorneys say the workers
were paid what they were owed.
Voltaggio rose to prominence
as a finalist in the sixth season of
the Bravo TV show “Top Chef” in
2009.
Remains found near Houston may
be teen missing for 25 years
WHARTON, Texas (AP) —
Sheriff’s officials say they have
discovered human remains
believed to be those of a 15-yearold girl missing for 25 years, after
receiving a tip from the family of
a man considered a suspect in
her death.
Wharton County authorities
said during a news conference
Wednesday that the tip led them
to property owned by the suspect’s family about 70 miles
southwest of Houston, where the
remains were found.
Officials believe the remains
found Tuesday are those of
Rosemary Diaz, who went missing in 1990 from the general
store where she worked. A ring
was found that Diaz’s family
believes belonged to her.
Georgia sheriff revels in
‘politically incorrect’ sign
HAMILTON, Ga. (AP) — The
Harris County sheriff has posted
a sign outside his department
that says his county is politically
incorrect, and anyone who has a
problem with that can leave.
Media outlets report Sheriff
Mike Jolley installed the sign
Tuesday in front of his Hamilton
department. The sign which
reads: “Warning: Harris County
is politically incorrect. We say:
Merry Christmas, God Bless
America and In God We Trust. We
salute our troops and our flag. If
this offends you. leave!”
Jolley says he paid for the sign
himself and wanted to give voice
to what he considers to be a
“silent majority.”
Jolley says he has received
overwhelming support from the
community and plans to install
more of the signs around the
county, with some residents having offered to pay for them.
Thousands of children crossed
U.S.-Mexico border in October
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — U.S.
Customs and Border Protection
statistics show nearly 5,000
unaccompanied immigrant children were caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in
October, almost double the number from October 2014.
Immigration experts say the
numbers, released Tuesday,
show that the flow of immigrants
from Central America has
remained high at a time of year
when it usually drops.
Urban farmers find that success leads to eviction
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — After four
years of growing and selling produce in the heart of Omaha, Ali
Clark has become expert at
yanking out her black raspberry
bushes and replanting them at
another site.
It’s a prickly chore Clark
loathes but one she can’t avoid
as her Big Muddy Farm has had
to move from one vacant lot to
another even though the business was thriving.
Urban farms like Clark’s are
being evicted from center cities
across the nation where they’ve
become a much-remarked-on
driver of urban revival in recent
years, having brought healthy
food, commerce and eye-pleasing
greenery to dreary neighborhoods. During the recession,
downtown landowners and leaders offered up plots for free to get
new vitality on empty streets.
Now the thriving farms are
being routed by another urban
phenomenon: the hordes of people moving back downtown to
live, which is turning green
spaces into prime real estate.
Plots where low-income residents
raised vegetables, where community groups trained at-risk youth
and where small garden businesses took root are being
snapped up for construction of
new apartments and townhouses.
“You have to plant as if you’re
going to be there 10 years, even if
you know it probably won’t work
that way,” said Clark, a cofounder of Big Muddy Farm. She
added, “It stinks to put in the
time in an investment that
doesn’t last.”
The evictions are sad but
inevitable, said Amy Brendmoen,
a City Council member in St.
Paul, Minnesota, which recently
booted an urban farm from city
land to make way for housing
construction. Even the most
robust farms can’t earn enough
to compete with a real estate
development.
“You couldn’t help but smile
when you went by,” she said of
the ousted Stones Throw farm.
“They were working so hard. You
could see the harvest. It was
incredible.”
No estimates exist on the number of urban farms, but their
popularity soared in the past
seven or eight years. Many started as community projects.
It’s unclear how many will survive. Big Muddy’s partners are
hoping to hold onto their main
farm, a series of raised beds and
unheated greenhouses on three
empty lots between a nonprofit
theater and houses dating to the
early 1900s.
But in Denver, Lisa Rogers last
month closed her Feed Denver
organization, which promoted
urban farming in the booming
city. The fact that the farms’
beautifying effect actually helps
endanger them is a bitter pill to
swallow.
“Developers will call and say,
‘We have a piece of land, can you
pretty it up for two years?’ Rogers
said. “As available land gets
squeezed and prices go through
the roof, like in Denver, it’s nearly impossible to find land and
stay there.”
Even public property isn’t safe.
Recently, a 6,000-square-foot
nonprofit farm called GreenLeaf
was evicted by the Denver
Housing Authority so the land
could be sold to a private housing developer. At-risk high school
students worked at the farm,
which is now moving next to a
middle school.
“We’re going to have to look for
new customers, and our old ones
are going to have to look for a
new produce source,” said Cody
Meinhardt, the nonprofit group’s
Homeowners group
won’t sue man over
Christmas lights
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An
Idaho homeowners association
has backed down from threats to
sue a man whose extreme
Christmas light display last year
bothered neighbors.
KREM-TV
in
Spokane,
Washington, reports that the
West
Hayden
Estates
Homeowners Association Board
in October had threatened the
lawsuit if Jeremy Morris went
ahead with the sequel to last
year’s extravaganza, which
included hundreds of lights, a live
camel, carolers and Santa Claus.
The HOA board’s vice president
says the organization is opposed
to the extra traffic and noise
Morris’ decorations bring to the
neighborhood, not the decorations themselves.
Morris says his first Christmas
display in the Hayden neighborhood raised hundreds of dollars
for local children’s charities.
This year’s event is expected to
be held in the five days before
Christmas.
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Big Muddy FArMs, an urban farm in northern Omaha, Neb. is
seen amongst residential homes. Urban farms and community gardens have been a celebrated trend for years, but as more people
look to live and work in central cities, growers says it’s harder to find
and remain on land now sought by developers.
executive director.
In many center cities, residents are lamenting the disappearance of the farms, or their
move to the suburbs.
Laura Staugaitis regularly
bought produce-filled boxes from
a local farmer near Denver, but
said she can’t justify the 45minute trip the purchase now
requires.
“The drive made it a negative
experience rather than an
enriching experience,” she said.
The pressure for urban land is
especially intense in the fastest
growing cities like Houston.
In 2008, neighbors in a financially and racially mixed area
just southwest of downtown
signed a $1 a year lease with a
property owner to turn an overgrown lot into the Midtown
Community Garden.
“My goal was to get people out
of their homes and apartments
so they could relate to each
other, and we did that,” said resident Scott Harbers, who helped
set it up.
But attempts to get local government to acquire the site as a
public space failed, and last year
it was sold for nearly $1 million
to a housing developer.
Some urban farm promoters
are pushing local officials to
begin setting aside plots for
urban agriculture because of the
health and community benefits.
In the Seattle area, officials have
designated portions of parks and
other public land. In Los Angeles,
community groups are working
to encourage developers to have
farming and green space
designed into housing projects,
including on rooftops.
“The vacant lot story is cool,
but it’s also short term,” said
Jesse Dubois, a leader in the Los
Angeles urban farming effort.
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County schools system director urges literacy support
By CHRISTY ARMSTRONG
Banner Staff Writer
Bradley County Director of
Schools Dr. Linda Cash expressed
her thankfulness for a supportive
community
during
a
Thanksgiving week meeting of the
Cleveland Rotary Club.
As she did, she urged her audience to help local students continue to succeed.
Cash explained the best thing
the community can do for local
students is to promote reading,
something the school system is
already doing with a program
called Read 20.
She called the U.S. illiteracy
rate “a major problem” and said
everyone should do what they can
to help students struggling with
reading.
“We must either lift them up or
drag them along with us,” Cash
said.
She shared some statistics on
illiteracy, speaking to the costs of
not being able to read.
A student who is not able to
read at his or her grade level has
been found to be nine to 10 times
more likely to drop out of high
school, Cash said.
Illiteracy can also come with
some literal costs in the form of
lost wages due to the potential
employee lacking the ability to
read, an important job skill.
Cash said it has become such a
problem that law enforcement
agencies are now using literacy
statistics to estimate crime rates
and prison populations. She
shared another statistic which
said some 70 percent of prison
inmates are illiterate, and about
80 percent of juvenile offenders
are illiterate.
While she said schools will do
what they can to help students,
Cash pointed out part of the
problem lies at home.
Some 61 percent of low-income
households with children do not
have any children’s books in the
home, Cash said.
Low-income parents have also
been known to have less time to
be able to spend reading and
speaking to their children, resulting in those children having
vocabularies that are less developed than those of their more
affluent peers.
“When I go into schools and
speak to kindergarteners, it’s
obvious who has been spoken to
the most,” Cash said.
She applauded the local Rotary
Club’s ongoing tradition of promoting literacy by visiting local
schools each year to give each
third-grade student a copy of a
dictionary to keep.
However, she said the school
system is now placing much of its
efforts on making sure students
learn to read before they hit the
third grade.
While all the students in a class
will receive instruction at school,
Cash said some students arrive to
school on the first day of kindergarten having already fallen
behind, because they were not
read to or spoken to as much at
home.
“They’re often coming in two
years behind —
or even three
years behind,”
Cash
said.
“Some require
multiple interventions just to
keep up.”
While one
student may
very quickly
take to reading, Linda Cash
while another
may not because he or she is less
familiar with spoken or written
language. That doesn’t even
account for students whose families do not speak English as their
first language at home.
She added that most high
school students who may find
themselves wanting to drop out
may have been struggling for a
long time.
“Most of the kids [thinking of
dropping out] will tell you they’ve
struggled since the second or
third grade,” Cash said.
Wanting to focus on the importance of reading outside school
has inspired Bradley County
Schools to join the statewide Read
20 initiative this year.
The idea is simple. Students
are asked to read or have something read to them for 20 minutes
each day. Whether the student is
a kindergartener or an 18-yearold high school senior, this daily
reading practice is said to help
students better succeed.
The Read 20 idea is going to get
an extra boost with a special event
taking place on Jan. 14 at First
Baptist Church. The “Readers Are
Leaders Community Celebration”
will
have
Tennessee
Commissioner of Education Dr.
Candice McQueen speaking to the
community about the importance
of helping students grasp reading.
While local schools are trying to
get the word out about the importance of providing children with
books and reading with them,
Cash said the county schools
have already embraced the cause.
“We’re also pushing back into
the homes,” Cash said.
Students’ families are being
tasked with doing whatever they
can to make sure they read with
students or give them opportuni-
ties to read on their own.
While many students who can
already read are willing to read on
their own at home, Cash said
some students simply do not have
books of their own.
As part of the Read 20 program, the county school system is
promoting the installation of Little
Free Libraries on local school
campuses.
A Little Free Library is a freestanding cabinet filled with books
which can be accessed at any
time — even over the summer
break. Using the honor system,
students are able to take, return
and exchange books at will,
ensuring they can read books at
home on their own time, with no
due dates.
One
school,
Waterville
Community Elementary, already
has one on its campus, and the
goal is to build and install more.
In addition to helping with
efforts to provide children with
reading resources, she said elementary schools are continually
trying to recruit volunteers who
would like to visit and read stories to children.
“It takes a huge amount of people. ... What I want is to have you
involved,” Cash said. “If we don’t
intervene, we’re going to have a
society of illiterate workers.”
Reading “changes lives” and
presents students with opportunities they would not have otherwise, she added.
She also joked about how she
has told Sheriff Eric Watson she
would like “to put him out of business” by helping so many students succeed that none will want
to turn to lives of crime.
The Rotarians then talked
through specific ways they may
be able to help. Someone asked if
they could help provide Little Free
Libraries for schools that do not
have them.
Cash said there is a possibility
students in the cabinetry program at Bradley Central High
School may be able to begin
building Little Free Libraries for
practice. If that happens, a local
group may be able to sponsor
one, covering the cost of the necessary building materials and
perhaps a supply of books.
Rotary Club President Nicholas
Lillios, who is also a member of
the Bradley County Board of
Education, said when introducing
Cash that supporting local children’s education is “one of the
most important things” a community can do.
He added he is pleased with
how Cash has been doing since
she became the director over the
summer, calling her “humble,
hard-working and driven.”
Sunset
From Page 1
The cemetery owner has
waived the right to a hearing and
appeal under the Cemetery Act
of 2006.
State cemetery authorities
have received, and reviewed, 217
citizen complaints containing
allegations about the conditions
at Sunset.
Those complaints included
allegations regarding odors in
the mausoleums, service and
merchandise issues, upkeep of
gravestones and mausoleum
crypt plates, and unmaintained
grounds of the cemetery.
Conclusions of the state are
that the cemetery owners have
not properly maintained the
cemetery
grounds
and
gravesites, which constitutes a
continuing failure of violations
listed in an earlier consent
order.
The state commissioner has
ordered the Lawrence Group to
provide written responses within
75 days to all allegations in each
of the citizen complaints, including a description of its action to
repair, remediate, and resolve all
meritorious allegations stated in
each of the complaints.
The Lawrence Group, the
respondent, has agreed that if
the public’s complaints are not
addressed and resolved, this
may result in the opening of
additional formal complaints
regarding those unresolved
issues.
This could result in further
disciplinary action against the
Georgia firm, including the
assessment of civil penalties
and/or other lawful disciplinary
action.
The state emphasized that
time is of the essence in complying with the order.
All provisions of the previous
consent order are included in
this filing, which will remain in
full force and effect.
The Lawrence Group also
agreed that the Pennsylvania
firm Ensure-A-Seal, with which
it has contracted (or any other
party it agrees to) shall inspect
the mausoleums once monthly
in May, June, July, August and
September in the years 2016
through 2020.
The Lawrence Group also
must arrange with Ensure-ASeal, or a similar party, to remediate all issues found as a result
of any inspection, within seven
business days.
If no issues are found, The
Lawrence Group may request a
reduction of future inspections.
The cemetery owners also
agree that upon a three-hour
oral notice to Cecil Lawrence, or
Colvin (his Chattanooga attorney), the state may perform
inspections in 2016 and 2017.
State officials claim this consent order represents the complete and final resolution of, and
discharge with respect to all
administrative and civil claims,
demands, actions and causes of
action by the Commissioner
against The Lawrence Group for
violations of the 2006 Cemetery
Act alleged by its Burial Services
Section.
The state also said it believes
this consent order is in the public interest of all parties
involved, and binding to all parties.
Contributed photo
Contributed photo
THE ENSURE-A-SEAL company of Pennsylvania filed a number
THIS PHOTOGRAPH, by Ensure-A-Seal of Pennsylvania, disof photographs related to Cleveland’s Sunset Memorial Gardens with plays a glass shutter which covers the front of a crypt at Sunset
a report to the state. This is the main mausoleum.
Memorial Gardens.
Contributed photo
THIS IS A VIEW showing a casket which has been sealed in an
Contributed photo
AN EXAMPLE of improvements and corrections at Sunset
Ensure-A-Seal protective cover. The owners of Sunset Memorial
Gardens in Cleveland have been ordered to improve the mausoleum Memorial Garden is this Ensure-A-Seal photograph of a resealed
shutter.
and cemetery grounds.
Leaders
From Page 1
“I’m thankful to live in Bradley
County,” Alford quickly added. “I
think we have a wonderful place
to live and bring up children. I
hope it stays as nice as it is
right now.”
Cleveland Vice Mayor George
Poe expressed gratitude for feeling relatively safe from terrorists.
“We all have to look to God
and keep praying, because we
have got it good here. I hope (a
terrorist attack) will never happen here,” Poe said.
Poe said his extended family
will be coming to his house for
the holiday.
“We take time out of our
schedule and we take three days
for Thanksgiving,” Poe said.
“Every year as I try to
cook our turkey, I am
thankful for my mother,
who cooked it for years.
You become more and
more appreciative when
that responsibility falls
on you.”
— Janice Casteel
He said it is a special time of
sharing stories, memories and
giving thanks.
“We sit and talk about how
blessed we are living here, versus places we hear about,” Poe
said.
City Manager Janice Casteel
said she is thankful for her family, especially her grandchildren.
“Every year as I try to cook
our turkey, I am thankful for my
mother, who cooked it for years,”
Casteel said. “You become more
and more appreciative when that
responsibility falls on you.”
County Mayor D. Gary Davis,
always one to extol the county’s
low tax rate, added that to his
list of things for which he is
thankful.
“I am thankful for my family
and all the good health we have
right now,” Davis said.
But, he adds with a large grin,
“I’m also thankful the County
Commission was one vote short
of raising my taxes this year.”
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PAulA Swedeen, a forest policy specialist for the Washington Environmental Council, poses for a
photo as she walks through forest land adjacent to Mount Rainier National Park on Monday near Ashford,
Wash. The land is part of a new project of 520 acres on private timberland that allows the private nonprofit Nisqually Land Trust to sell so-called “carbon credits” to individuals and companies — including
Microsoft Corp. — who are hoping to offset their carbon footprints.
Washington project ensures
forest stores carbon for decades
SEATTLE (AP) — Half a small
forest still standing near Mount
Rainier faced clear-cutting before
an effort in Washington state
saved the decades-old trees and
allowed Microsoft to help finance
the project to offset its carbon
footprint.
The effort by two environmental groups keeps 520 acres of
Douglas fir and western hemlocks intact so the trees can store
carbon dioxide for an additional
100 years.
These types of projects, which
can range from wind farms to
projects that capture methane
from landfills, allow companies
and individuals to buy credits to
offset the amount of greenhouse
gas they send into the atmosphere.
“We think forests play a huge
role in combating climate
change,” said Paula Swedeen,
forest policy specialist for the
Washington
Environmental
Council, which partnered with
the Nisqually Land Trust on the
project.
For every metric ton of carbon
dioxide that the forest stores, for
example, project developers can
sell a certificate for the same
amount to willing buyers to help
finance the conservation and
restoration of the forest.
Redmond-based
Microsoft
Corp. agreed to buy the vast
majority of the first round of
credits. It has agreed to buy
roughly 35,000 credits as part of
its own initiative to be carbonneutral in its data centers,
offices, software development
labs, and employee air travel.
“We were excited to be able to
do something in our home state,”
said Rob Bernard, chief environmental strategist at Microsoft,
which employs more than 42,000
workers in Washington.
The credits from the Nisqually
Carbon Project represent a drop
in the bucket for the software
company, which has offset more
than 1.5 million metric tons of
carbon dioxide equivalent from
projects around the world since
2012. Bernard said Microsoft
wanted to make a significant
impact on a local project.
But some critics worry
whether offset projects deliver
the benefits they claim. The project’s developers said they chose
to verify it to California’s rigorous
carbon offset standards, which
require long-term monitoring
and reporting, so there would be
very few questions about its
validity.
“To have a project that’s at
home that you can see and walk
around is a real breakthrough,”
said Joe Kane, executive director
of the Olympia-based Nisqually
Land Trust, which will use proceeds from the sale of the credits
to finance long-term stewardship
of the land.
Neither Microsoft nor the trust
would disclose what the software
company agreed to pay.
Credits are issued based on
the number of metric tons of carbon stored in trees that is above
what would be stored if the commercial timberland had been
logged as usual.
“It was definitely worth our
while to do it,” Kane said, who
added that it was risky because
the land is expensive to buy and
it took two years to get the project verified through a third party.
The trust, which owns the
land, will use the money from
the sale of credits to manage the
forest for ecological restoration.
Younger trees that were previously harvested will be allowed
to grow, along with older trees
that are between 50 and 100
years.
The property, purchased from
Hancock Timber Resources
Group, is also important habitat
for endangered spotted owls and
marbled murrelets, a tiny seabird
that nests in old-growth trees.
Officials say the project also
Suit seeks to restore parental
rights in lost baby case
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Fifty years
after a St. Louis gospel singer
said she was told that her daughter died at birth — a claim disputed by authorities — and
months after the 76-year-old
woman learned that her daughter was still alive, a judge is being
asked to restore the birth mother’s parental rights.
Attorney Albert Watkins
announced the petition Tuesday
in St. Louis Circuit Court in
which Melanie Diane Gilmore
seeks to invalidate her 1983
adoption and re-establish Zella
Jackson Price as her legal mother.
Gilmore was born prematurely
on Nov. 25, 1965, at Homer G.
Phillips Hospital, which mostly
served black residents until it
closed in 1979. Price said a nurse
told her that her daughter had
died, but she was not allowed to
see the deceased infant and
never received a death certificate.
She said she was stunned earlier
this year when she learned that
her daughter was very much
alive. DNA testing confirmed with
near 100-percent certainty that
they are mother and daughter.
But authorities questioned
Price’s claim and now believe she
abandoned the baby. U.S.
Attorney Richard Callahan said
in August that medical and adoption records showed discrepancies in Price’s story. He said there
is no evidence that the baby was
stolen.
Price did not respond to an
interview request.
Watkins said Price has never
wavered from her story, and he
stands by her. He said medical
records from 50 years ago are
inconsistent and incomplete.
“The ambiguities contained in
the discovered medical records
are beyond the pale and cannot
be reconciled with facts,” he said.
Watkins said giving parental
rights back to Price would allow
Gilmore to be an heir to Price’s
estate. It also gives him, as
Gilmore’s attorney, legal access
to more details about her birth.
But the suit was necessary
beyond pragmatic reasons, he
said.
“This is, on an emotional level,
something really important to
both of them,” Watkins said.
Price’s baby-stealing claim
prompted concern that other
black women from that era were
perhaps also victims of baby
theft. The St. Louis Department
of Health urged any women with
concerns to come forward, and
more than 300 did.
Many of those women made
similar claims: They were told
their children had died at Homer
G. Phillips, often by a nurse
instead of a doctor, and were not
allowed to see the bodies or provided death certificates. Watkins
suspected that a baby theft ring
was operating at the hospital,
preying primarily on young, poor
black women, with the stolen
babies sold for illegal adoptions.
But there have been no substantiated claims of baby theft.
Gilmore was living in
Springfield, Oregon, when her
daughter sent a Facebook message to Price that led to the
reunion.
protects the landscape. The site
is above the town of Ashford and
can be seen from the road on the
main route into Mount Rainier
National Park.
NEW YORK (AP) — Which toys
will warm the hearts of parents
and kids for the holiday 2015
shopping season?
Holiday toys hit the shelves in
recent weeks. And so far, just as
in the past few years, there’s no
single hot toy emerging. But anything “Star Wars,” life-like robotic
pets and remote controlled toys
should drive sales.
As the holiday shopping season
kickoff starts over Thanksgiving
weekend, toy sales will heat up.
The Associated Press has compiled a list of some of this year’s
expected hot toys and trends for
2015:
“STAR WARS”
— The Black Series Kylo Ren
Force FX Lightsaber by Hasbro:
toy weapon makes light and
sound effects. $199.99.
—BladeBuilders Jedi Master
Lightsaber set from Hasbro: system allows kids to customize
weapons. $49.99.
—The Force Awaken’s BB-8
Droid by Sphero: remote-controlled robot that connects to an
app. It changes expression and
even perks up when given voice
commands. $149.99.
— Star Wars Millennium
Falcon RC Quad by Spin Master:
remote-controlled version of the
iconic ship. $140
ROBOTIC PETS
—Little Live Pets CleverKeet
from Moose Toys: interactive,
singing and talking bird. He
responds to voice. $59.99.
—Imaginext Ultra T-Rex from
Mattel’s Fisher-Price: robotic
dinosaur that has sound effects,
walks, stands and fires projectiles. $99.99.
— FurReal Friends StarLily My
Magical Unicorn from Hasbro:
robotic unicorn with a horn that
lights up. Also can spread and
flutter her wings. It connects to
an app. $119.99.
— Smart Toy Bear from
Mattel’s Fisher-Price: plush bear
that connects to an app and customizes based on the child’s preferences. $99.99.
—Bright Beats Dance & Move
BeatBo: Press BeatBo’s tummy or
any of the buttons on his feet to
activate fun songs. Parents or the
baby can record a phrase that can
be remixed into a song for lan-
guage and communication skills.
$39.99.
FAST AND FURIOUS:
—Nerf Rival from Hasbro: latest
blaster under Nerf that has a
trigger lock and high-impact
rounds. $49.99 (1200 blaster)
$24.99 (700 blaster)
—Marvel
Avengers
XPV
Remote Control Hulk Smash
Vehicle from Jakks-Pacific:
remote-controlled Hulk that
smashes, flips and does wheelies.
$69.99.
—Anki Overdrive robotic car
set: radio-controlled car set that
works with an android or iPhone
device. $149.99.
— Paw Patroller from Spin
Master: toy truck inspired from
Nickelodeon’s animated series
“Paw Patrol” features a working
elevator, a functional Command
Center inside and sound effects.
$59.99.
Hot to trot for some shopping? It’s here!
By BRIAN GRAVES
Banner Staff Writer
If shoppers still have the energy to
get some holiday shopping done after
the turkey and pie are gone, the
opportunities will be there.
Several of the major retailers with a
Bradley County presence have
announced they will open their doors
tonight as they begin the holiday specials.
Walmart and Target plan to open at
6 p.m. on Thanksgiving evening, and
remain open all night. Kohl’s will also
open at 6 p.m. and stay open through
the night through Friday.
Kmart will be holding a Thanksgiving
Day sale starting at 6 a.m. with the
Black Friday sale starting at 7 p.m.
Thursday.
Sears will open at 6 p.m. and
remain open until 2 a.m. A representative said the store will reopen at 5
a.m. Friday.
For the different kind of shopper,
Staples and Home Depot will open
their doors at 6 a.m. Friday morning.
Gamestop will be closed today, but
will open Friday at 5 a.m.
RadioShack will be open today
from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m., and then
reopen on Friday at 8 a.m.
Michael’s will be open today from 4
p.m. until 2 a.m, then reopen at 6
a.m. Friday.
The Cleveland/Bradley County
Chamber of Commerce already has
their “elf” out and about to help local
shoppers shop local.
The “Selfie With the Elfie” campaign began Nov. 1, when the
Chamber Christmas Elf, a custom
bobblehead of Chamber board chairman Robert Bradney, began its holiday visits to 14 Chamber members.
Shoppers are encouraged to take a
“Selfie With the Elfie” and then post
their pictures on the chamber’s social
media outlets (Facebook, Twitter and
Instagram) by mentioning the chamber with @CLEchamber and using the
hashtag #CLEChamberElf.
One post per outlet, with a maximum of three per location, equals one
entry into a grand-prize drawing for
$500. The grand-prize drawing will
take place at noon on Monday, Dec.
21, at the Chamber of Commerce in
the Village Green Town Center.
“The grand prize will give some
local shopper an extra $500 to spend
just in time for those last-minute
Christmas gifts,” said Aaron
Weatherford, Chamber membership
director. “And all you have to do is
take a picture with our Christmas Elf
to be qualified to enter.”
Each participating business also
will have a separate drawing for a
$25 gift certificate to their business
for those who take a selfie at their
business location. That drawing will
take place at the retailer after the Elf
moves to the next location.
“Support local businesses and shop
in Cleveland and Bradley County,”
Weatherford urged. “Then post your
‘Selfie With the Elfie.’ It’s a fun way
to earn extra holiday cash and shop
early for your Christmas gifts.”
The chamber is at the forefront of
encouraging shoppers to “stay local”
as they shop during the holiday seasons.
According to the chamber, as much
as 70 cents of every dollar spent in
Bradley County stays in the community through sales taxes, payroll and
other expenditures.
Voices
From Page 1
FIVE-YEAR-OLD Zander Farris has plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. He and his parents are
now living in a new Habitat home in Southgate Hills Subdivision on South Lee Highway.
Habitat
From Page 1
25-year anniversary.
The Farris family has faced
substantial challenges over the
past few years, and approval of
their Habitat home application
was a tremendous boost for the
couple’s outlook on life.
There have been challenges
with Cottey’s continual employments situations, and there was
Emilie’s serious challenge to a
difficult birth of Zander. The
youngster also struggled with
early health problems.
Both parents emphasize their
ability to get a Habitat home has
been a godsend.
Emilie was born in Illinois,
but her family moved to
Cleveland when she was 12. She
attended Cleveland High School,
where she met Cottey, a
Cleveland native.
After high school, the two
2007 graduates were married
while Cottey was attending college. He started at Cleveland
State Community College, and
later transferred to Lee
University.
The two lived with his parents
for a short while, then were able
to get a small apartment when
he obtained a temporary position in customer service with
Whirlpool.
It was at this time that some
of the challenges began.
Emilie had problems with her
pregnancy and was rushed to
the hospital. Doctors induced
labor, and it turned out young
Zander was not quite as small
as they expected, coming into
the world at 5 pounds.
During this period of time,
Cottey was forced to decide
whether or not to stay by his
wife’s side during her pregnancy
difficulties, or go to work.
Friends advised him to stay
with Emilie, and as a result he
was released from temp employment.
This proved to be the start of
a series of employment difficulties for the father of the household.
He was employed at the corporate offices of Check Into
Cash for a while, but left to take
a position at a pawnshop while
he attempted to return to school
and obtain his associate degree.
He had previously studied
psychology, but switched to
accounting.
The pawnshop then cut back
and he was limited to two work
days. He then returned to Check
Into Cash, but only for a limited
time.
These on-again, off-again
employment situations continued during the period the couple
applied for a Habitat home, and
Cottey also had some medical
problems.
They said they first became
aware of the Habitat opportunity
when Cottey worked at
Whirlpool. But, like many young
people in similar situations, they
felt they would not qualify, and
skipped the possibility.
his health following heart
bypass surgery in 2013, but
mostly thankful for his family
— wife, Linda, and granddaughter India — “and glad to know
the true God Jehovah and his
son, Jesus Christ.”
Pam Green, an advertising representative, said she’s very
appreciative of her boyfriend,
whom she describes as having a
“gentle soul” for loving her
unconditionally and making it
easier for her, “even when life
gets harder sometimes.” Her
boyfriend recently had a stroke,
and is now home and getting better, and she is thankful for that.
“And, I’m thankful to God,
my parents, my family, my
sons, my granddaughter, as
they are my foundation and
always there for me,” Green
said.
Most all who related what
they are thankful this holiday
season mentioned family and
friends and their health.
“I am so thankful that we will
have a large group of family
and friends for Thanksgiving
dinner,” said Sheena Meyer of
the advertising department.
She said she is making a
pineapple dish because her
son, who is coming in from
Washington, D.C., likes pineapple casserole.
While Meyer has family coming in, several are thankful for
new family.
CDB General Manager Jim
Bryant said that while he is
thankful for family, friends and
co-workers, he is especially
thankful for his new greatgrandson, Sawyer Spence, and
how much he favors his greatgranddad.
Many said they were proud to
be Americans and live in this
country.
“I am thankful for family,
employment, and living in the
United States,” said Trish Price
of the advertising department.
“God bless the USA ... oh, and,
Go Vols!”
“I am thankful for my heritage that taught me about the
importance of family, faith, others and patriotism,” said Office
Manager Joyce Taylor.
Classifieds Manager Vicky
Guy also said that she is
thankful for living in the United
States.
“I, like most, take daily blessing for granted — health, family, friends, a life beyond poverty,” she said. “Also, the freedoms we do not even acknowledge as being freedoms anymore, but were granted by a
power beyond us, and that
power also allowed our country
to fight and prevail in keeping
those freedoms.”
Several employees were not
only appreciative of family and
friends, but for other special
presences in their lives. Bondy
Hackett said she is thankful for
her Airdale terrier, Buffalo
Babe, while Glenda Hickman is
thankful for her poodle, Bubba.
Both also said they are thankful for church family and all of
their blessings.
Leslie Callaway of the ad
department said she is thankful
for being blessed by God, and
Deloris Anderson, who works
on the computer system to put
the paper together, added she is
also thankful to “the good Lord
for all blessings on my life, family, friends, health, job and
freedom.”
Family and friends continued
to be a constant of most everyone at the Banner.
Tiffany Goodwin said she is
thankful for family and good
friends, while Randy Moore said
his thanks are for family,
friends and good health. Both
Goodwin and Moore work in the
advertising department.
Patty Hawkins, who also
works on the computer to put
the paper together, said that
she is very thankful for her
family’s health. “Nobody in the
family is sick this year,” she
said.
And receptionist/ad taker
Kathy Payne said she is grateful
for her many blessings, for family, friends and co-workers,
days off and sour pickles. She
added “Roll Tide!” but would
not come out and say she was
thankful for Lane Kiffin.
All-in-all, the staff at the
Cleveland Daily Banner said
they are thankful to work in a
great environment, to help the
people in the community know
what is happening, and to have
family and friends around for
the Thanksgiving holiday.
2, "Commission of a Felony"
(Class
A
Violation)
and
Disgraceful personal conduct.
Millan had been indicted by
the grand jury for conspiracy to
commit insurance fraud of over
$10,000 in connection to the disappearance of his personal vehicle. He was also charged with filing a false report with the police,
saying his vehicle had been
stolen.
When Millan filed the report
about his allegedly stolen vehicle,
Gibson asked the district attorney to get involved.
“Gibson testified that he contacted the district attorney by
phone shortly thereafter, and
referred the matter to the DA's
Office
for
investigation.
According to Gibson, this referral
to an outside agency was made
in order to ensure neutrality in
the investigation regarding a
potential crime involving an officer's property, and that he had
made this type of referral in other
cases involving officers in the
past,” Travis wrote.
“During his call with the district attorney, Gibson requested
that he be allowed to refer the
matter to the Bradley County
Sheriffs Office, and the district
attorney also told him that he
would have his office's investigator, Calvin Rockholt, monitor the
investigation. Gibson also stated
that the Tennessee Highway
Patrol often becomes involved in
matters of this type,” Travis
wrote.
Millan was later indicted in a
separate incident on conspiracy
to commit insurance fraud of at
least $1,000 in connection with
the disappearance of a motorcycle, fraudulent insurance claims
of at least $1,000, official misconduct and tampering with evidence to help the motorcycle
owner commit fraud. According
to previous reports, Millan also
faces charges in Georgia, where
his car was found. Investigation
indicated that it had been purposely set on fire.
None of these charges have
gone to trial and Millan was
released on a $20,000 bond.
Since he has not been convicted, Millan said he should not
have been terminated.
“Based on the fact that the policy does not require conviction
prior to discipline, and essentially exempts that requirement by
its terms, and further in view of
the fact that indictment is sufficient material evidence of reasonable cause for termination,
this argument is without merit,”
Travis wrote.
Millan also argued his appeal
should have been handled under
the previous policy because the
new policy was put into effect
after he had been terminated.
Travis stated this argument is
“without merit.”
“There is no evidence that the
City's policy regarding grounds
for dismissal were in any way
altered or amended during the
pendency of this matter, but
rather the process by which an
individual could appeal a decision was amended. Notably, this
process provided employees such
as Millan greater protections
from summary dismissal than
the previous policy,” Travis
wrote.
Travis also addressed Millan’s
claim that Gibson fired him for
political gain in order to be
appointed the police chief from
his then position of interim chief.
“The record shows the Gibson
was appointed Police Chief on
Sept. 21, 2015, and the dismissal was recommended on
Sept. 29, and approved by (City
Manager Janice) Casteel on Sept.
30. For obvious reasons, this
argument is without merit,”
Travis wrote.
“Finally, Millan argues that his
termination was on improper
and/or illegal grounds based on
his status as a racial minority.
He alleges that he had been
called ‘Mexican’ by Gibson and
others and that he had received
disparate treatment in the imposition of discipline regarding an
incident with his supervisor. This
argument is unsupported by the
evidence,” Travis wrote.
He further states that Millan
did not file a complaint with the
city regarding any mistreatment.
Millan was initially put on paid
leave, and then on unpaid leave
pending his appeal.
Appeal
From Page 1
WHEN ASKED what he wanted for today’s Thanksgiving Day
meal, Zander Farris quickly displayed a box of macaroni and cheese.
He said he’d also like some hot dogs.
The Habitat discussion came
up again in 2013, and they said,
“Why not?”
Earlier, Emilie had worked for
Zaxby’s restaurant, but after her
delivery difficulties she decided
to be a stay-at-home mom for
awhile.
The couple lived in a small,
one-bedroom apartment, in a
less-than-desirable neighborhood. They were concerned
about security and the safety of
their young son.
This was when they decided
to file an application with
Habitat, and the opportunity to
own a home. “We were looking
for a more stable environment,”
Emilie said.
During this period of Cottey’s
inconsistent employment, Emilie
did babysitting to earn extra
money for the family. She then
decided to return to Zaxby’s,
and has since been promoted to
shift manager.
Their application with Habitat
was accepted and they were
scheduled for an interview. At
this meeting they were informed
of Habitat’s requirements of
need, partnership, and pay, and
that they were being considered
as serious candidates for a
home.
When they were notified that
they had been approved for a
new home, “We were beyond
excited,” said Emilie.
And, even though there have
been continued family challenges since that 2013 notification, Emilie said, “I was determined that we were going to get
this house ... for me, for Cottey,
and for Zander.”
Emilie has continued her
employment with Zaxby’s during
a time when Cottey has endured
medical problems, but recently
he found new employment in
customer service with
Assemblers Inc., a Chattanooga
delivery-assembly firm.
He also plans to attend night
school and work toward his
associate’s degree. He believes it
will take less than a year to
complete (with previous credits),
and he should be able to get his
bachelor’s degree in two to three
years.
For now, the future is looking
very bright for the Farris family.
And, it appears today will be a
very thankful Thanksgiving.
Emilie is the daughter of
Maria and Ed Cardona, and she
has nine siblings. Cottey’s parents are Karen and Wallace
Farris, and he has three brothers and a sister.
They don’t anticipate all of the
extended family at today’s
Thanksgiving dinner, since some
live out of town. But, it still
should be a gala celebration.
Most of all, it’s their first major
holiday in their new home, after
taking occupancy in mid-July.
“Habitat was great,” Emilie
said of the move. “They walked
us through the home, and made
sure everything was in working
order.”
Perhaps the greatest thanks
today will be coming from young
Zander, thanks that he no
longer has to sleep in the same
bed with his parents.
There’s also the matter of his
hopes for macaroni and cheese,
and hot dogs.
“I would like to state formally
that I have not committed a
crime,” Millan wrote. “I have only
been indicted on charges pending the outcome of the trial.
Thus, the assumption that I,
Officer Millan, violated the
‘General Rules and Regulations
Policy,’ as well as the ‘City
Personnel Manual,’ is a personal
assumption by the CPD that the
charges equate to the guilt of a
crime.”
The Cleveland City Council
established having an unbiased
third party hear the appeal to
bring the city into compliance
with a recent order by Bradley
County Chancellor Jerri Bryant.
Bryant ruled having the city
manager as a part of the termination decision and a part of the
appeal was “unlawful.”
During the hearing, the city
argued that since Millan was an
at-will employee, “Millan's termination was proper and essentially non-reviewable.”
“Although Millan was an
employee-at-will, the basis for
his termination is subject to
review according to the Appeals
Process set forth in City's
Personnel
Rules
and
Regulations. To rule otherwise
would render that process meaningless. It would be inherently
inconsistent to provide that an
employee can be terminated atwill, and then provide a procedure by which the termination
can be reviewed in order to determine whether the City followed
‘the procedures established by
law,’” Travis wrote.
“There is nothing in the
Appeals Process which establishes a "just cause" standard to be
applied so as to require something in the nature of clear and
convincing evidence, only that
the hearing officer is to make a
final decision based on whether
the City followed the procedures
established by law. The grounds
for dismissal in the City's
Personnel Rules and Regulations
simply provide that an employee
may be dismissed for ‘good of the
City service.’”
Gibson stated his decision to
terminate Millan was due to
"Unlawful Conduct,” Subsection
THURSDAY
LifestyLes
William Wright
Lifestyles Editor
Phone 472-5041 or fax 614-6529
[email protected]
Visit the North Pole, courtesy of Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
Chattanooga — Now through
Dec. 26, families can hop
onboard vintage rail cars to visit
the North Pole. The Tennessee
Valley Railroad Museum is offering day and evening trips as part
of its iconic North Pole Limited
event.
“We offer something for everyone,” said Steve Freer, museum
spokesperson. “Some families
enjoy the lights and sparkle of
the nighttime trips, while others
find that the daytime trips fit better into their schedules.
Whatever time of day, the fun
and magic is always there.”
North Pole Limited trips are
offered on select days at 11:30
a.m., 1:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 5:30
Hints
from
Heloise
Efficient decorating
Dear Readers: HAPPY
THANKSGIVING! Gobble, gobble,
and let the football begin! You may
be entertaining now, later on or for
the new year. Here are a few
Heloise hints to help save money
and enjoy the event, too:
— Make your centerpieces and
buffet decorations from fresh, colorful fruits, vegetables, nuts and
greenery. I love decorative gourds.
— There are plenty of free
music-streaming services online,
on cable and satellite. I tune in to
a radio channel that plays holiday
music all day. I keep it low in the
background for just the right
touch.
— Try to shop with a plan. Who
gets what, who might like what, or
gee, let’s see what we can find for
Uncle Ted.
— An easy and low-cost way to
have guests over is a hors d’oeuvres drop-by between 5-7 p.m., or
just desserts from 7-9 p.m.
— Using several slow cookers is
a simple way to simmer and serve!
— If you hate cleanup, stock up
on holiday plastic- and paperware.
No one will bug you — it’s your
event.
— Heloise
It’s free! It’s yours!
Dear Heloise: I can dispose of
almost anything by placing it curbside. Put the item you want to get
rid of on your curb with a note: “It
Works! It’s Free!”
It will literally disappear. I read
your column daily in the O.C.
(Orange County) Register. — Keith
N., Costa Mesa, Calif.
Keith, how right you are! We
once (over 30 years ago) put a
HUGE (the size of a chest of drawers) copy/memo machine outside
of the gate. I wrote “FREE TO A
GOOD HOME ... broken, but has
lots of good parts.”
Someone pulled up in a pickup
truck and loaded it, and it was
gone before noon. — Heloise
Frantic Friday
Dear Heloise: Tomorrow is one
of the biggest shopping days, and
these are some hints that help me
and friends save a lot of money:
Planning is critical. I scour websites and print advertising looking
for big savings a day or two before.
Electronics usually are deeply discounted.
I get up super early, and pack
snacks of fruit, nuts and pretzels
to keep my energy up throughout
the day. — J.C., via email
It can be a hectic, stressful day.
On the other hand, there are those
who make a sport of it! — Heloise
Writing nice notes
Dear Heloise: I cut out articles,
with the source and date, too. In a
nice, big mug, I keep scissors, a
glue stick and tape, pens, correction fluid, stamps, address labels,
paper and envelopes. I like to write
letters the old-fashioned way, and
include articles of interest! —
Lynne in New York
Me too! I cut out cute or funny
comics and slip them in a get-well
card or note. — Heloise
Send a money-saving or timesaving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box
795000, San Antonio, TX 782795000, or you can fax it to 1-210HELOISE or email it to
Heloise(@Heloise.com.
© 2015 by King Features Syndicate Inc.
p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets start
at $24 per passenger, age 1 and
up.
The holiday magic aboard the
North Pole Limited includes storytelling, child-friendly refreshments, unique gifts and a visit by
Santa. Guests on the nighttime
rides also enjoy lighted
Christmas displays as they leave
Grand Junction on their way to
the North Pole.
This year, “The North Pole
Limited: A Story About the First
Christmas Train,” a customized
Christmas children’s book written and illustrated by local professionals, will be read during
your trip and will be for sale after
the ride.
The Tennessee Valley Railroad
Museum is an educational, nonprofit organization whose mission is to preserve railroading
history for future generations.
The museum is the Southeast’s
largest operating historical railroad and is celebrating more
than 53 years in business.
The museum is located at
4119 Cromwell Road in
Chattanooga. For more information or to purchase tickets for
North Pole Limited, visit
tvrail.com or call 423-894-8028.
tina’s Groove
CROSSWORD
By Eugene Sheffer
Baby Blues
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ASTROLOGY
Snuffy Smith
by Eugenia Last
FRIDAY, NOV. 27, 2015
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS
DAY: Alison Pill, 30; Jaleel White, 39;
Fisher Stevens, 52; Kathryn Bigelow,
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Hagar the Horrible
by Steve Becker
Dilbert
Garfield
Beetle Bailey
Dennis the Menace
64.
Happy Birthday: Handle partnerships with kid gloves. Don't take anything or anyone for granted. Make a
By Ned Classics
By Conrad Day
point to know what others are doing and
you'll avoid being blindsided by someone who is only looking out for his or her
own interests. Sincerity is encouraged,
and communication is a must if you
want to maintain good relationships.
Your numbers are 4, 9, 15, 21, 32, 35,
46.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Plan a
trip that will ease your stress. Set up an
interview that involves an institution or
educational facility. Revisit your spending and budget your personal finances
to suit your current living arrangements.
Make romance a priority.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Arm
yourself with the knowledge and experience required to reach your goals. Don't
sit back waiting for things to come to
you. Start the ball rolling by using your
skills to forge into the future. Upgrade,
update and explore new territory.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Deal with
partnership issues before it's too late. If
someone has been withholding information or you have been keeping secrets,
it's best to clear the air so you can move
forward with a clear conscience.
Romance is on the rise.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Keep a
level head, especially when it comes to
nutrition and exercise. You can't be too
careful when it comes to your health and
well-being. Take measures at home that
will ensure your family is happy and
your property is protected.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Take a jaunt
to your local mall or to a place that will
motivate you to spruce up your looks or
improve your living quarters. Sign up for
a course that will teach you something
you can incorporate into your everyday
routine.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Help
someone in need, but don't let anyone
take advantage of you. Set boundaries
that ensure you will gain respect and
feel satisfied with your efforts. Problems
at home will be caused by taking on too
much.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Do your
best to convey to your family and friends
how important your goals and projects
are to you. You will make an impact and
gain the support you need to follow
through with your plans. Personal
changes look promising.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You can
make a difference. Share your ideas
and don't be afraid to do things in your
own unique fashion. That's what will
separate you from the crowd and put
you in a position of leadership. Be a
forerunner, not a follower.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Make plans to entertain at home or to
bring about positive changes to the way
you live. An intellectual approach, as
well as discipline and hard work, will
bring results that will exceed your
expectations. Keep your emotions in
check.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Steer clear of emotional manipulators.
Make decisions based on what you can
afford and what you do best. Falling for
someone else's hard-luck story will
interfere with your success. Put yourself
first.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You
will be given more responsibility, but
with it will come improved status, reputation and clout. Wear whatever
nametag you are given with pride and
you will advance quickly and connect
with the people who can change your
life.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You'll
have trouble sticking to what you say
you are going to do. Don't lead anyone
on or you will end up looking bad. Put
more effort into helping others and using
your unique ideas to improve your relationships.
Birthday Baby: You are unique and
optimistic. You are helpful, encouraging
and playful.
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Nightly News Entertainment Inside Edition Football
NFL Football Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers. (N) ’ (Live) Å
News
Tonight Show-J. Fallon
John Hagee Mark Jeske Jesus of Nazareth
Bless Lord
Graham
Potters
Trinity Family Joel Osteen Prince
Hillsong TV ›› “The Hiding Place” (1975) Julie Harris, Eileen Heckart.
Holy Land
Around Town
Body
Southern-Fit God’s Lighthouse
First Baptist Church
Perry Stone Around Town Around Town Texas Music Around Town
Around Town Around Town
Judge Mathis ’ Å
Friends ’
Friends ’
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Family Feud Family Feud The Middle
Whose Line Whose Line Whose Line Whose Line Tosh.0 Å
Fifth Quarter Hollywood
Crazy Talk
Anger
Paid Program
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Odd Squad
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Aging Backwards-M. Esmonde-White
Doc Martin -- Seven Grumpy Seasons ’
Dr. Fuhrman’s End Dieting Forever! ’ Å
Healing ADD With-Amen
Kennedy
Bill Winston Mission
Reflections
Guillermo
Creflo Dollar Jewish Jesus John Hagee Rod Parsley Give Thanks 2015
Blessed Life M. Chironna New Level
Kenneth
Life Today
Joyce Meyer
Dr. Phil ’ Å
News
News
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World News Wheel
Jeopardy! (N) The Muppets Fresh-Boat
The Middle
Goldbergs
Last-Standing Dr. Ken ’
News
(:35) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (:37) Nightline
Nature Cat
Odd Squad
Wild Kratts
Wild Kratts
World News Business Rpt. PBS NewsHour (N) ’ Å
Alice’s Restaurant 50th Anniversary
History
American Experience Details about the arrival of pilgrims.
Charlie Rose (N) ’ Å
(3:30) ››› “The Birdcage” (1996) Robin Williams. Å
›› “Canadian Bacon” (1995, Comedy) Alan Alda. Å
›› “Extract” (2009) Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis. Å
›› “Kingpin” (1996, Comedy) Woody Harrelson. Å
“It’s a Mad Mad World”
NFL
NFL Football Carolina Panthers at Dallas Cowboys. (N) (Live) Å
Big Bang
Life in Pieces (:01) Mom (N) 2 Broke Girls Elementary (N) ’ Å
News
Late Show-Colbert
Corden
(3:00) Susan Graver Style
Must-Have Gifts The season’s hottest gifts.
Great Gifts
Electronic Gifts (N)
Key Capitol Hill Hearings ’ Key Capitol Hill Hearings Speeches. ’
Key Capitol Hill Hearings ’
Funniest Home Videos
America’s Funniest Home Videos Finalists vie for the prize. Funniest Home Videos
How I Met
How I Met
Practical Presents (N)
Electronics Biggest Thanks. Football Fan Shop Gifts (N) Football Fan Shop Gifts (N) Electronics Biggest Thanks. Electronics Biggest Thanks. Electronics Biggest Thanks. Great Gifts (N)
Electronics Biggest Thanks.
Kardashian
Kardashian
Kardashian
›› “Maid in Manhattan” (2002) Jennifer Lopez. Å
››› “Ever After: A Cinderella Story” (1998) Drew Barrymore. Å
›› “Maid in Manhattan” (2002) Å
American Ninja Warrior ’
Uncorked Å
Uncorked Å
Uncorked “Chefs Club”
››› “Wag the Dog” (1997) Dustin Hoffman. Å
››› “Wag the Dog” (1997) Dustin Hoffman. Å
Spotless Å
“The Road to Christmas” (2006) Jennifer Grey. Å
“All She Wants for Christmas” (2006) Monica Keena. Å
››› “The Muppet Christmas Carol” (1992) Å
(:02) “Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow” (2015) Å
“Muppet Christmas Carol”
Who Do You Think You Are? Cake Boss: Dear Buddy ’
Cake Boss
Cake Boss
Cake Boss
Cake Boss
Broadway/White House
Christmas Light Fight
Amer. Dad
Amer. Dad
Amer. Dad
Amer. Dad
Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy 2 Broke Girls 2 Broke Girls Big Bang
Big Bang
2 Broke Girls 2 Broke Girls Conan Å
2 Broke Girls Conan Å
(2:30) ›› “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” (2012)
›› “Clash of the Titans” (2010) Sam Worthington.
› “Wrath of the Titans” (2012, Fantasy) Sam Worthington.
(:15) ›› “John Carter” (2012, Science Fiction) Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins. Å (DVS)
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
Mod Fam
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(3:00) “Despicable Me 2”
››› “Despicable Me 2” (2013) Voices of Steve Carell.
College Basketball
SEC Storied Å
30/30 Shorts SportsCenter College Football South Florida at Central Florida. (N) (Live)
SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å
SportsCenter (N) Å
Basketball
College Basketball: NIT Season Tip-Off
College Basketball: DIRECTV Wooden Legacy
SportsCenter College Basketball: AdvoCare Invitational
First/Re-Take College Basketball
Bundesliga Soccer
Golf Life
ACC Access ACC Gridiron Live ’
UEFA Champions League
Red Bull X Fighters
UFC
World Poker Tour
World Poker Tour
UFC Unleashed
(3:00) College Football Idaho at Auburn.
SEC Inside
SEC Film Rm Good/Team College Football From Nov. 29, 2014. Å
College Football From Nov. 28, 2014. Å
SEC Film Rm SEC Inside
(2:00) PGA Tour Golf Emirates Australian Open: First Round.
Golf Central (N) (Live)
PGA Tour Golf Emirates Australian Open: Second Round. From the Australian Golf Club. (N) (Live)
UEFA Europa
College Basketball Richmond vs. West Virginia. (N) Å
College Ftball College Football Texas Tech at Texas. From Darrell K. Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas.
FOX Sports Live (N) Å
College Basketball
NBA Basketball
Buddy Pough Jim McElwain Outdoors
C-USA Show. Driven
Driven
Driven
Driven
Driven
Driven
Fat Guys in the Woods
Think You’d Survive?
The Profit “Da Lobsta”
Shark Tank ’ Å
Shark Tank ’ Å
Shark Tank ’ Å
Shark Tank Å
Shark Tank ’ Å
Shark Tank ’ Å
Shark Tank ’ Å
Shark Tank ’ Å
Lockup: Savannah
Lockup: Savannah
Lockup: Savannah
Lockup: Savannah
Lockup: Raw
Lockup: Raw
Lockup: Raw “Rock Bottom” Lockup: Raw
Lockup: Raw
CNN Newsroom Live (N)
Anthony Bourdain Parts
To Be Announced
To Be Announced
Forensic File Forensic File Forensic File Forensic File Anthony Bourdain Parts
Your World With Neil Cavuto The Five (N)
Special Report
Greta Van Susteren
The O’Reilly Factor (N)
The Kelly File (N)
Hannity (N)
The O’Reilly Factor Å
The Kelly File
Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Å (DVS)
Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Christmas- Decades
(12:01) Pawn Stars ’
Carbonaro
Carbonaro
Carbonaro
Carbonaro
Carbonaro
Carbonaro
Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Billy-Street
Billy-Street
Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers
The First 48 “Ultimate Price” Nightwatch “Officer Down”
Nightwatch ’ Å
Nightwatch ’ Å
Nightwatch: After Hours ’ Nightwatch: After Hours (N) (:01) Nightwatch: After Hours (:02) Nightwatch ’ Å
Nightwatch: After Hours ’
Naked and Afraid ’ Å
EAT: The Story of Food
Saints & Strangers: Part One The first Thanksgiving.
Saints & Strangers: Part Two Alliances are tested.
Saints & Strangers: Part One The first Thanksgiving.
Food Paradise Å
Food Paradise Å
Food Paradise Å
Food Paradise Å
Mysteries at the Museum
Contessa
Contessa
Pioneer Wo. Trisha’s Sou. Chopped “Take Heart”
Chopped
Chopped “Amateurs’ Brawl” Chopped “Judges’ Face-Off” Chopped (N)
Chopped
Chopped “Judges’ Face-Off”
Fixer Upper Å
Fixer Upper Waco, Texas.
Rehab Addict Rehab Addict Rehab Addict Rehab Addict Rehab Addict Rehab Addict Rehab Addict Rehab Addict Hunters
Hunters Int’l Hunters
Hunters Int’l Rehab Addict Rehab Addict
To Be Announced
To Be Announced
To Be Announced
To Be Announced
To Be Announced
(3:45) ››› “Monsters, Inc.” (2001) Billy Crystal
››› “Ratatouille” (2007, Comedy) Voices of Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm.
(:45) ›› “Planes” (2013) Voices of Dane Cook, Stacy Keach. Premiere.
The 700 Club ’ Å
“Holiday in Handcuffs”
Bunk’d Å
(:35) Bunk’d Liv-Mad.
Liv-Mad.
(:10) ››› “Despicable Me” (2010) ’ ‘PG’ Å
Bunk’d Å
Austin & Ally Liv-Mad.
Jessie Å
K.C. Under. Bunk’d Å
Girl Meets
Liv-Mad.
Good-Charlie Good-Charlie
Bella
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Bella
Talia, Kitchen Henry Danger Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn Fresh Prince Fresh Prince › “Billy Madison” (1995) Adam Sandler. Premiere. ’
Friends ’
Friends ’
Friends ’
(:33) Friends
Gumball
Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Advent. Time Advent. Time Advent. Time Advent. Time Teen Titans Teen Titans King of Hill
Cleveland
Amer. Dad
Amer. Dad
Family Guy Family Guy Chicken
Aqua Teen
Facts of Life Facts of Life Facts of Life Facts of Life Facts of Life Facts of Life Facts of Life Facts of Life Facts of Life Facts of Life Raymond
Raymond
Raymond
Raymond
King
King
King
King
(1:00) ›››› “The Godfather, Part II” ‘R’
›››› “The Godfather” (1972, Drama) Marlon Brando. A mafia patriarch tries to hold his empire together. ‘R’ Å
›››› “The Godfather, Part II” (1974, Crime Drama) Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton. ‘R’ Å
National
(:45) ››› “Lassie Come Home” (1943)
(:15) ››› “The Phantom Tollbooth” (1969, Fantasy) Å
››› “Desk Set” (1957) Spencer Tracy, Gig Young.
››› “Woman of the Year” (1942) Katharine Hepburn.
››› “State of the Union”
“Once Upon a Holiday” (2015, Romance) Briana Evigan.
“I’m Not Ready for Christmas” (2015, Drama) Alicia Witt.
“12 Gifts of Christmas” (2015) Katrina Law. Premiere.
“Northpole: Open for Christmas” (2015) Lori Loughlin.
“Northpole” (2014, Fantasy)
Sex-City
Sex-City
Sex-City
Sex-City
Sex-City
Sex-City
Sex-City
Sex-City
››› “Mean Girls” (2004, Comedy) Lindsay Lohan. Å
››› “Mean Girls” (2004, Comedy) Lindsay Lohan. Å
Sex-City
Sex-City
“America’s Sweethearts”
››› “In Her Shoes” (2005) Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette.
›› “Cheaper by the Dozen 2” (2005) Steve Martin.
›› “Cheaper by the Dozen 2” (2005) Steve Martin.
››› “In Her Shoes” (2005) Toni Collette
“The World Is Not Enough” ›› “Die Another Day” (2002, Action) Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens. Å
WWE SmackDown! (N) ’ Å
Haven “A Matter of Time”
Z Nation Å
Haven “A Matter of Time”
›› “The Mummy Returns” ›› “The Scorpion King” (2002, Adventure) The Rock. ’
››› “The Mummy” (1999, Adventure) Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah. ’
›› “The Mummy Returns” (2001, Adventure) Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz. ’
Jeff Dunham Christmas
Jeff Dunham: All Over the
Jeff Dunham: Unhinged
Jeff Dunham Christmas
(7:58) South Park “The Black Friday Trilogy” ››› “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” (2005) Steve Carell.
(:45) ››› “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”
›› “Kicking & Screaming” (4:50) ›› “Bruce Almighty” (2003) Jim Carrey. ’
(:10) ›› “Along Came Polly” (2004) Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston. ’
Ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
South Park
South Park
Dirty Dancing (:16) ›› “Sixteen Candles” (1984) Molly Ringwald. ’
››› “Breakfast Club” (1985) Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald. ’ Å
››› “Back to the Future” (1985) Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd. ’
(:38) ››› “Back to the Future Part II” ’
Last-Standing Last-Standing Last-Standing Last-Standing Last-Standing Last-Standing Last-Standing Last-Standing I Love Kellie I Love Kellie I Love Kellie I Love Kellie I Love Kellie I Love Kellie ››› “Spanglish” (2004) Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni. Å
House/Payne House/Payne House/Payne House/Payne House/Payne House/Payne Movie
Movie
The Westbrooks
MythBusters ’ Å
MythBusters ’ Å
MythBusters ’ Å
MythBusters ’ Å
MythBusters ’ Å
MythBusters “Flu Fiction”
MythBusters “Food Fables” MythBusters ’ Å
MythBusters “Flu Fiction”
Together
Key Capitol Hill Hearings ’ The Pentagon’s Brain
Ramos on Smokejumper
(:45) Wil Haygood on Showdown ’
Book Discussion on Pacific Somewhat United States
Preservation and Purpose
The Age of Clinton
Donut Man
Animated St. Savoring
Vocation
Extraordinary Family Dinner Daily Mass - Olam
The World Over (N)
Happiness
Holy Rosary Candidate Conversations
Defend Life Women of
Daily Mass - Olam
Blue Bloods “Silver Star” ’
Blue Bloods ’ Å
Blue Bloods ’ Å
Blue Bloods ’ Å
Blue Bloods “Cellar Boy” ’
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Blue Bloods “Mercy” Å
Blue Bloods “Friendly Fire”
Blue Bloods ’ Å
Phineas and Ferb
Yo-Kai Watch Star-For.
Wander
Wander
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Phineas, Ferb Star-Rebels Gravity Falls Gravity Falls Gravity Falls Gravity Falls (12:15) Phineas and Ferb
Deal or No Deal ’ Å
Idiotest
Idiotest
Idiotest
Idiotest
Idiotest
Idiotest
Idiotest
Idiotest
Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Chain Rea.
Chain Rea.
Suppers
Suppers
Suppers
Suppers
Suppers
Suppers
Suppers
Suppers
Suppers
Suppers
Suppers
Suppers
Rev Run’s Thanksgiving
Good Eats
Good Eats
Suppers
Suppers
(3:30) ›› “Legally Blonde” (2001)
›› “Monster-in-Law” (2005) Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda.
›› “Last Holiday” (2006, Comedy) Queen Latifah, Gérard Depardieu.
›› “Last Holiday” (2006, Comedy) Queen Latifah, Gérard Depardieu.
El Chavo
El Chavo
El Chavo
El Chavo
El Chavo
El Chavo
El Chavo
El Chavo
La Familia
María
Vecinos
Familia Diez Durmiendo
La Familia
Hotel Todo
Noticiero Con Joaquin
Familia Diez
María Celeste
Caso Cerrado Caso Cerrado Decisiones
Noticiero
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“Holy Family” (2006) Tony Umez, Chika Anyanwu. ’ (SS)
Al Rojo Vivo Titulares
“Holy Family” (2006) ’ (SS)
El Gordo y la Flaca (N)
Primer Impacto (N) (SS)
Hotel Todo
Noticiero Uni. Muchacha Italiana Viene
Antes Muerta que Lichita (N) Pasión y Poder (N)
Yo No Creo en los Hombres Impacto
Noticiero Uni Contacto Deportivo (N)
(2:00) Mecum Auto Auctions The National Dog Show ’ Å
The National Dog Show ’ Å
Diagnose Me ’ Å
Diagnose Me ’ Å
Diagnose Me ’ Å
Diagnose Me ’ Å
Diagnose Me ’ Å
Diagnose Me ’ Å
Diagnose Me ’ Å
Diagnose Me ’ Å
Diagnose Me ’ Å
Thursday Best Bets
9 a.m. on (WRCB)
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
In many households across America, it simply isn’t the holiday unless this event is on
the television screen. “Today’s” Matt Lauer,
Savannah Guthrie and Al Roker assume
their traditional duties as hosts as the 89th
annual edition of the gala is broadcast from
New York — capped by the appearance of
Santa Claus. Before he arrives, the parade
route will be filled with floats, marching
bands, musical performances and the everpopular character balloons.
9 a.m. on (WDEF)
The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS
This network’s tradition is to showcase festivities from across the country, and it holds
to that plan — but expect much coverage
of the event that largely symbolizes such
Thanksgiving events, the Macy’s Parade in
New York. Wayne Brady, “Star Trek” icon
George Takei and model Taylor Hill are
slated to appear as Kevin Frazier (“Entertainment Tonight”) and Keltie Knight (“The
Insider”) host. Justin Bieber and Broadway’s
“Jersey Boys” cast perform.
8 p.m. on (WTCI)
Alice’s Restaurant
50th Anniversary Concert
The original Massachusetts eatery immortalized by the song has morphed into another business, but it remains legendary from
folksinger Arlo Guthrie’s tune, performed in
its entirety in this new special on the 50th
anniversary of the events that led him to
write it. The son of iconic musician Woody
Guthrie, Arlo is joined by his own son Abe
among the performers who accompany him.
“City of New Orleans” is among the other
selections included in the program.
8 p.m. on (HALL)
Movie: 12 Gifts of Christmas
Struggling to pay her bills, Anna (Katrina
Law, “Arrow”) accepts a temporary job as
a personal Christmas shopper for Marc, an
uptight executive. As the holidays throw
them together, Marc begins to realize that
the amount of money spent on a gift is far
less important than the amount of thought
that goes into the purchase. Anna, meanwhile, discovers she might find success
as an artist in an unexpected way. Aaron
O’Connell and Donna Mills also star in this
2015 romantic comedy.
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Haven
In a new episode called “A Matter of Time,”
Dave (John Dunsworth) struggles in vain to
free himself from the lethal grasp of Croatoan. Elsewhere, Audrey and Duke (Emily
Rose, Eric Balfour) try to save Nathan (Lucas Bryant) from the Void.
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Nightly News Entertainment Inside Edition The National Dog Show ’ Å
Dateline NBC (N) ’ Å
News
Tonight Show-J. Fallon
Seth Meyers
John Hagee Dr. Chris Hill ›› “Facing the Giants” (2006, Drama) Alex Kendrick.
Supernatural! Potters
Trinity Family Hal Lindsey Harvest
Perry Stone “One Night With the King” (2006, Drama) Tiffany Dupont.
F.K. Price
God Came...
Around Town
Body
Southern-Fit Game of the Week
Around Town Around Town
Judge Mathis ’ Å
Friends ’
Friends ’
Mod Fam
Family Feud Family Feud The Middle
Grandma Got Run Over
Panda
Madagascar Tosh.0 Å
Crazy Talk
Hollywood
Paid Program Anger
Paid Program
Nature Cat
Odd Squad
Wild Kratts
Wild Kratts
PBS NewsHour (N) ’ Å
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Paris attacks boost popularity
of France’s Tricolor flag
AP photo
BelgiAn Army soldiers and Belgian police patrol a shopping street in the center of Brussels on
Wednesday. Students in Brussels have begun returning to class after a two-day shutdown over fears that
a series of simultaneous attacks could be launched around the Belgian capital. Underground transport
in Brussels is also slowly starting up again after a four-day closure.
As border checks return in
Europe, economic costs loom
LONDON (AP) — Queues, bottlenecks and security checks —
their return in Europe could have
a sizeable economic impact if
they become entrenched in the
wake of the attacks in Paris and
the unprecedented flow of
refugees from conflict zones like
Syria.
The European Union’s top official is even warning that a permanent return of border checks
could seriously hobble Europe’s
single currency, the euro.
Although the ditching of border checks across large swathes
of Europe over the past couple of
decades has prompted concerns
over immigration levels in some
countries, they have also
enriched Europeans by facilitating trade and tourism. Thanks to
the
so-called
Schengen
Agreement, more than 400 million Europeans can travel hasslefree between 26 countries when
conducting business or for spontaneous weekend jaunts.
The controls that have recently
been put up by France, Germany
and Hungary, among others,
apply to people rather than to
goods moving around Europe’s
single market. Still, there will be
economic costs.
Dane Davis, a Wall Street analyst who last year co-authored a
study into the economic effects of
the Schengen area, warned that
a permanent return of borders in
Europe would be very costly.
“It’s quite logical to say that
the end of the Schengen agreement would lead to reduced
trade,” he said. “When you add
up the net effect for Europe as a
whole, it would run into the billions.”
Some of the impact will be
direct, such as traffic queues at
borders that can cost companies
money. That’s a particular concern for the EU, which still
depends on roads to transport
around 50 percent of its goods
within the 28-nation bloc against
a negligible 0.1 percent by air.
This week, after reinforced
checks on the France-Belgium
border to deal with the security
threats that also saw Brussels in
effective lockdown for four days,
traffic jams were up to one hour
long at rush hour — just one
indication of the potential difficulties ahead.
“Delays will invariably incur
costs,” said Tina Hindsbo, a
spokeswoman for Denmark’s
DSV, one of Europe’s leading
road freight operators.
Britain’s
Road
Haulage
Association has also warned that
tougher checks when crossing
the Channel between Britain and
France could drive many businesses to the wall. Although the
U.K. isn’t part of the Schengen
free-travel area, transportation
has been disrupted in recent
months as large numbers of people have tried to smuggle themselves aboard trucks and trains
bound for Britain.
Research
from
Moody’s
Analytics shows that countries
like Germany, the Netherlands
and France, which rely heavily on
internal EU trade, will face higher costs, but that proportionally
the impact will be greater in
smaller countries in central and
eastern Europe, such as Slovakia
and Hungary, where intra-EU
trade represents a higher level of
their GDP.
Slovakia’s exports to other EU
members equated to around 70
percent of its annual economic
output in 2014, compared with
little more than 20 percent for
Germany, according to Moody’s
Analytics.
“A breakup of the Schengen
zone would cripple the EU’s single market and throw its longterm viability into doubt,” said
Anna Zabrodzka, a Prague-based
economist for Moody’s Analytics.
Zabrodzka said the deadly Nov.
13 attacks in Paris mean that the
imposition of border controls
may not be as temporary as previously thought and that the
“economic costs have risen.”
There could be other effects
that are more difficult to quantify. If the labor market becomes
less mobile, for example, that’s
likely to be a detriment to both
jobseekers and businesses. And
many European countries are
seeing their workforce age, meaning limits to immigration could
pinch future economic potential.
The re-imposition of passport
checks and border guards is not
new in the Schengen era. It’s
actually allowed temporarily for
national security reasons. France
brought them back after London
suffered attacks on its public
transport in July 2005 that killed
52 people, while Portugal and
Germany did so as part of their
security measures for hosting
football’s
European
Championship in 2004 and the
World Cup in 2006.
But they were temporary
measures, so had little impact
economically.
Now, all indications are that
some changes will become permanent — not ideal for a region
that’s struggled to grow economically for years.
The return of border controls
across the 26 countries, mostly
from the European Union, that
make up the Schengen area,
would also be a setback for proponents of an “ever-closer
union.”
Jean-Claude Juncker, the
head
of
the
European
Commission, acknowledges that
the Schengen area is facing acute
difficulties and urged those who
believe in the concept of a unified
Europe to fight for one of the
“main pillars” behind the
European project.
“The Schengen system is partially comatose,” he told
European
lawmakers
Wednesday. “If the spirit of
Schengen leaves our territories
and our hearts, we would lose
more than Schengen. A single
currency doesn’t make sense if
Schengen falls.”
Change
is
afoot.
The
Commission has been asked to
make some changes by early next
year. The main one is on the outside borders, so that Europeans
— as well as all foreigners — have
their travel documents checked
against a security database. At
the moment the ID of Europeans
isn’t scanned, just checked visually by a border official.
Four EU countries, including
Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus and
Romania, are waiting to join
Schengen.
The question is, what exactly
will they be joining?
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PARIS (AP) — A young Parisian
who once might have stopped
and stared in distaste now walks
nonchalantly past a large
Tricolor flag flapping in the
November rain on a home in
Paris’ 8th district.
Flying the French flag in a garden — for decades considered
bad taste or a symbol of ultranationalism — is now back in favor
with the French after the deadly
attacks on Paris.
The famed blue, white and red
stripes are ubiquitous — dangling from Parisian balconies,
lining avenues, plastered across
shop and restaurant windows.
Printers are buckling under the
demand and even running out.
Paris’ main flag-maker has
recorded a 500 percent increase
in Tricolor sales since the Nov.
13 attacks, claimed by the
Islamic State group, that killed
130 people and left hundreds
wounded.
“It normally means, you know,
you’re ultra-rightwing. But since
the attacks, it’s become a symbol
for solidarity with the victims,”
said 23-year-old Lucas Leblanc,
one of millions who shaded his
Facebook profile photo in tricolor
in remembrance of the victims.
“Why should our flag have all
these negative connotations,
anyway?” he asked.
A poll taken last week suggests
that almost two-thirds of French
now see it as a positive thing to
fly a flag outside a home or in a
garden. Until now, flags were
mostly raised on official buildings or flag poles — not on private residences.
“It’s incredible. There has only
been two other times in French
history that the flag has been
popular on this scale. One was
(when France won) the World
Cup in 1998. The other, the end
of the second World War,” Herve
Burg, director of flagmaker Paris
Drapeaux, told The Associated
Press.
Burg says he received so many
orders that the factory ink
machine ran out.
French President Francois
Hollande is adding to the flag
comeback.
On Wednesday, he asked
French citizens to fly the Tricolor
at their homes for Friday’s official
commemoration ceremony for
Paris attack victims at the
Invalides monument.
Hollande said it would be a
way for people who can’t attend
to pay tribute to those who lost
their lives in the worst attacks in
France in recent times.
The French flag — known as
the Tricolor from its “blue, white
and red” bands — first appeared
in 1794 after the French
Revolution did away with the
monarchy.
The white band in the middle
represented royalty and the red
and blue the city of Paris, or the
people. But the original meaning
of republican unity gradually
eroded in the late 20th century.
“There’s always been the pow-
erful revolutionary meaning
behind France’s flag, but since
the 1970s, it was, like in Britain,
taken over by the far right,” said
Robert Gildea, historian at
Oxford University.
Jean Dolande, a 50-year-old
artist, said he would have never
dreamt of hoisting a Tricolor in
his garden, but he did so following January’s attacks on the
satirical newspaper Charlie
Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in Paris that killed 20 people,
including the three attackers.
“It always meant the love of
our country. But it got re-appropriated and had fascist connotations,” Dolande said. “This year
was a game-changer.”
In the aftermath of the Paris
attacks, many famous landmarks, including the Eiffel
Tower, were illuminated in the
colors to honor the victims, as
were monuments elsewhere,
such as Berlin’s Brandenburg
Gate.
But not all are convinced this
flag-bearing is a good thing.
Some believe it will boost French
National Front leader Marine Le
Pen and her anti-immigration
policies in December’s regional
election.
“The resurgence of the French
flag is going to benefit one person: Le Pen. She’s up 10 percent
in the polls since last week,” said
architect Jean-Francois Daures.
“The flag waving encourages
racism and intolerance and is a
step back into the past.”
Polish minister: Country against
further gas emission cuts
WARSAW, Poland (AP) —
Poland’s new environment minister said Wednesday he is against
further cuts in carbon gas emissions, a key topic during climate
talks next week in Paris.
Minister Jan Szyszko told a special parliament commission that it
is “not very much in Poland’s
interest to adopt any high reduction obligations” and that Poland
will have its own position at the
high-level talks during the U.N. climate conference that opens
Monday. He did not specify the
position, but hinted that Poland
does not feel obliged to stick to the
European Union guidelines
because it signed the international
climate protection agreements as a
separate, non-EU country.
He said he wants to use the
talks as a tool for “mitigating the
negative effects of the climate
package for Poland.”
He did not specify how, but said
the EU’s legislation on the matter
is inconsistent and leaves room for
negotiation.
“The climate package does not
need to be harmful to Poland’s
economy,” Szyszko told the envi-
ronment commission.
He noted that Poland has
already achieved a 30 percent
reduction in its carbon gas emissions, while maintaining one of the
highest economic growth rates in
Europe.
The reduction was largely the
result of closing a lot of Poland’s
communist-era heavy industry.
Szyszko said he is not sure if
other participants in the climate
talks, especially major polluters
like the U.S. or Russia, will be
ready to accept new, ambitious
goals of raising the emission cuts.
Brazil: It will take months to study
damage left by burst dam at mine
AP photo
PoPe FrAncis greets traditional dancers on his arrival at the airport in Nairobi, Kenya on
Wednesday. Pope Francis left Wednesday for his first-ever visit to the continent, a whirlwind pilgrimage
to Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic, bringing a message of peace and reconciliation to
an Africa torn by extremist violence.
Pope urges Kenyans to work for peace
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) —
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Brushing
aside security concerns, Pope
Francis arrived in Kenya on
Wednesday on his first-ever trip
to Africa and urged Kenyans to
work for peace and forgiveness
amid a wave of extremist violence
on the continent that threatens
to disrupt his trip.
Francis was received upon
arrival at Nairobi’s airport by
President Uhuru Kenyatta and a
throng of traditional dancers and
singers at the start of a six-day
pilgrimage that will also take him
to Uganda and the Central
African Republic, a country
wracked by fighting between
Christians and Muslims.
Asked en route if he was concerned about his own safety,
Francis responded with his typical wry humor: “I’m more worried
about the mosquitoes.”
But he sounded a far more
serious note in his speech to
Kenyatta and the country’s diplomatic corps at Nairobi’s State
House, urging all Kenyans to
work for peace and forgiveness to
heal ethnic, religious and economic divisions.
“Experience shows that violence, conflict and terrorism feed
on fear, mistrust and the despair
born of poverty and frustration,”
he told the audience, which
applauded
him
warmly.
“Ultimately, the struggle against
these enemies of peace must be
carried on by men and women
who fearlessly believe in, and
bear honest witness to, the great
spiritual and political values
which inspired the birth of the
nation.”
Francis didn’t refer explicitly to
the April 2 attack by Islamic
extremists that left 150 people
dead at a mostly Christian university in Garissa. But he is likely
to insist on the need for interfaith
dialogue Thursday when he
meets with Christian and Muslim
leaders, and later with young
Kenyans struggling to live their
faith amid the menace of the
Somalia-based
al-Shabab
extremist group responsible for
the Garissa attack.
Kenyatta didn’t refer to alShabab either, but spoke generally about the threat posed by
Islamic extremists, who on
Wednesday struck Tunisia after
attacks in recent days in Mali
and Paris.
“As we fight this war, recent
events around the world have
indeed taught us that we must
do even more to bring unity and
understanding between faiths,
between ethnicities, between
races but also between nations,”
he said.
Francis is aiming to bring a
message of peace and reconciliation to Africa, but is also stressing some issues close to his heart
including the need to fight poverty, protect the environment and
encourage good governance.
Thousands of people lined his
motorcade route, snapping photos as he whizzed by with their
cell phones.
Francis urged Kenya’s political, social and economic leaders
to work with “integrity and transparency” for the common good, a
clear reference to Kenya’s poor
record
with
corruption.
Transparency
International
ranked Kenya a lowly 145 out of
174 countries in its 2014 corruption perception index, and
Kenyatta this week described
corruption as a national security
threat to East Africa’s largest
economy.
“I ask you in particular to
show genuine concern for the
needs of the poor, the aspirations
of the young, and a just distribution of the natural and human
resources with which the Creator
has blessed your country,”
Francis said.
Kenyatta, for his part, said
corruption was the major challenge facing the country. His rule
has come under criticism for a
lack of high-level prosecutions of
officials accused of corruption.
On the eve of Francis’ arrival,
he replaced six ministers who
vacated office after they were
accused of corruption.
“Kenya’s future depends on
upholding the highest standards
of integrity in governance, in
inclusivity and in the protection
of peace,” Kenyatta said.
After
visiting
Nairobi’s
Kangemi slum Friday, Francis
heads to Uganda where he’ll pray
at the shrine to the country’s
famous martyrs and celebrate a
Mass.
Some uncomfortable issues
may arise: The church’s opposition to condoms as a way to fight
AIDS, and its support of local legislation criminalizing homosexuality are chief among them.
But on the whole, the pope’s
visit to Africa is meant to tell the
African church that it matters,
said the Rev. Robert Dowd, professor of political science at the
University of Notre Dame. “It has
a crucial role to play in promoting justice and peace in societies
where governments are not
always accountable or responsive.”
The Vatican has long looked to
Africa as the future of the
church, given the proportion of
Africans in the world population
of Catholics increased from 7
percent to 16 percent between
1980 and 2012, according to a
report this year by the Center for
Applied Research in the
Apostolate, a research center
affiliated with Georgetown
University in the United States.
Francis, though, may also
issue some tough love words to
local clergy, who tend to let missionaries get their hands dirty
working with society’s outcasts
while diocesan priests and bishops live somewhat removed from
the hardships of daily life.
The Vatican has also long
fought to keep its African clergy
celibate.
The pope is due to arrive
Sunday in Bangui, Central
African Republic, for the most
delicate part of the trip.
The country has been highly
volatile since early 2013, when
Muslim rebels overthrew the
president
of
a
decade.
Unprecedented sectarian violence followed and has continued
to flare despite the presence of
more than 11,000 peacekeepers
and police.
AP photo
Prince FeisAl Al-Hussein, brother of Jordan's King Abdullah II, speaks during an interview with
The Associated Press in Amman, Jordan, on Wednesday. Al-Hussein says extremist Islamic ideologies
pose a global challenge, but can’t be eradicated by military force alone.
Mere force won’t defeat IS, says Jordan prince
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) —
Extremist Islamic ideologies pose
a global challenge, but can’t be
eradicated by military force alone,
a brother of Jordan’s king said
Wednesday.
Prince Feisal al-Hussein, who
heads Generations For Peace, a
grassroots group that promotes
tolerance, told The Associated
Press that a drawn-out battle lies
ahead.
“We are in this for the long
haul,” he said in an interview. “I
don’t think this type of ideology is
going to disappear overnight.”
He said military force has its
place but that “if you only rely on
that, then the problem is not
going to go away.”
Jordan’s King Abdullah II, the
prince’s older brother, is a crucial
Western ally. Jordan has
assumed a high-profile role in a
U.S.-led military coalition against
the Islamic State group, which
controls large areas of neighboring Syria and Iraq.
Jordan is also seen as vulnerable to the spread of militancy,
with lack of jobs and opportunity
for many of the country’s young
people providing a potential
breeding ground for radicalism.
The prince suggested Jordan is
at no greater risk than other
countries, saying extremism is a
global problem.
“You are finding people are
being radicalized all over the
world,” he said. “We only have to
look at what is happening,
whether the attacks in Paris ...
the attacks in Beirut or even in
Mali. This is not something that is
isolated to the Middle East.”
His grassroots group is teaching young people about tolerance
and resolving conflicts without
violence, often using sports to
spread the message. The prince
said Generations For Peace has
reached closed to a quarter of a
million people in 50 countries on
three continents in the past
decade.
Turning to sports, the prince
said he backs a decision by the
International Olympic Committee
last month to suspend Kuwait’s
national Olympic committee to
protect it from what was
described as undue government
interference.
It is Kuwait’s second suspension in five years, barring its athletes from participating in next
year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Feisal said he hopes Kuwait
reverses policies that led to the
suspension. He said that “it is
unfair that they will have potential athletes that can’t compete
under their own flag because of
what the government is doing.”
The prince also gave a shoutout to a brother, Prince Ali, who is
one of five candidates to replace
FIFA president Sepp Blatter in
February elections.
Asked about Ali’s chances, he
said Ali is a “fantastic candidate,”
but that the decision is up to
FIFA.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It
could take months to evaluate the
extent of damage to a river left
choked with mud when a dam
burst at an iron ore mine, Brazil’s
environment
minister
said
Wednesday.
Izabella Teixeira said that rains
could further complicate the task
of recuperating the Doce River,
which filled with huge quantities
of mud unleashed by the Nov. 5
dam burst in the southeastern
state of Minas Gerais.
“We will have to wait until the
end of the rainy season to evaluate what is going on,” Teixira said
on state-run television, referring
to the country’s December to
March rainy season. “We are going
to monitor the concentration of
mud that keeps arriving.”
The flood of mud unleashed by
the dam burst at the Samarco
mine all but erased a nearby hamlet, with eight deaths directly
attributed to the disaster, another
four bodies yet to be identified
and another 11 people still missing.
The wave spilled into the Doce
River, where it has devastated fish
and other wildlife and compro-
mised the source of drinking
water for hundreds of thousands
of people.
The destruction spread over the
weekend into the ocean as the
plume of mud reached the
Atlantic, hundreds of kilometers
(miles) from the site of the accident.
The plume has spread many
kilometers out to sea, tinging the
sapphire waters the color of
chocolate milk and threatening
marine life there.
The area of coastline, in the
north of the Espirito Santo state,
encompasses the Comboios
Biological Reserve, a spawning
area for the critically endangered
leatherback sea turtles. It’s the
peak of the animal’s reproductive
season.
In a statement over the weekend, Samarco, the mining company behind the dam burst, said it
was installing “9,000 meters of
barriers along both banks of the
Doce River and at some islands in
the estuary, with the objective of
protecting the fauna and flora
which inhabit these regions.”
However, aerial photos of the area
show the brown waters bleeding
through the barriers.
Samarco is jointly owned by
two mining giants, Brazil’s Vale
and BHP Billiton of Australia.
The Brazilian government has
already handed Samarco a fine of
around $260 million, though
environmentalists say the damage
amounts to many times that sum.
In a statement Wednesday, two
United Nations independent
experts on environment and toxic
waste took the companies and the
government to task on their handling of the disaster.
“The steps taken by the
Brazilian government, Vale and
BHP Billiton to prevent harm were
clearly insufficient,” the statement
quoted UN Special Rapporteur on
human rights and the environment, John Knox, and the Special
Rapporteur human rights and
hazardous substances and
wastes, Baskut Tuncak, as saying.
“The scale of the environmental
damage is the equivalent of
20,000 Olympic swimming pools
of toxic mud waste contaminating
the soil, rivers and water system
of an area covering over 850 kilometers,” Knox is quoted as saying.
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At funeral for slain Minneapolis man
Protesters vow to continue rallies
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In thIs nov. 23 Photo, a crowd gathers around one of five protesters shot near the site of an ongoing protest over the fatal shooting
of a black man by a police officer in Minneapolis. Police, who haven’t
commented on a motive for the attack on the protesters, said three
people were in custody. The injuries were not-life threatening.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A steady
stream of mourners entered a
north Minneapolis church on
Wednesday to pay their respects
to a man whose death in a confrontation with police sparked
more than a week of protests.
Meanwhile, charges were pending against three men suspected
in a melee that left five protesters
with gunshot wounds.
A picture of a smiling Jamar
Clark adorned the program for
his funeral at Shiloh Temple
International Ministries. Inside,
his obituary said the 24-year-old
man “liked to swim, fish, listen to
music, play basketball, be with
family and take trips to
Charlotte, North Carolina.”
Clark, who was black, died
Nov. 15 in what police say was a
scuffle with officers responding
to an assault of a woman in
which he was a suspect. Some
community members who say
they saw the incident allege
Clark was handcuffed when he
was shot, which police have disputed. A state criminal investigation and a federal civil rights
probe are underway.
Protesters have rallied nightly
outside the 4th Precinct police
station near the scene of his
death. On Tuesday, police arrested three white men — ages 26,
23 and 21 — on suspicion of
shooting five Black Lives Matters
protesters after some of them
tried to get the men to leave the
site late Monday night.
The shootings spurred a massive march Tuesday evening,
with a racially mixed crowd
marching more than 2 miles to
City Hall and back. Hundreds of
demonstrators milled quietly
around portable fire pits to share
coffee, pizza and doughnuts as
music played.
But the shootings have
prompted safety concerns.
Clark’s family has asked for protesters to end the 4th Precinct
encampment, out of concern for
their safety, and U.S. Rep. Keith
Ellison said it would be wise to
“start thinking about an exit
strategy” and what to do next.
Steven Belton, interim president of the Minneapolis Urban
League, echoed those sentiments
on Wednesday, saying protesters
had achieved most of what they
wanted, including the federal
investigation and the names of
the officers involved.
Belton said the vigil should
end to “restore order” to the community, which he said has
endured open gunfire, traffic and
service interruptions, smoke
from the protesters’ fires and
hours of helicopter noise.
That likely won’t happen, said
Jayme Ali, a pastor at God of All
Truth Church.
In brief remarks outside the
church where Clark’s funeral
was being held, as mourners
streamed past, she said another
rally was planned for Wednesday
afternoon. Protesters have
demanded investigators release
video of the Clark shooting, and
Ali noted it took more than a year
before the city of Chicago on
Tuesday released video of the
fatal police shooting of a black
teenager.
“We are not going nowhere. We
are there until we get justice for
Jamar Clark,” she said. “Fourth
Precinct, start taking donations
for a new building, because we
are not going anywhere.”
Police haven’t given a suspected motive for the shootings of the
protesters. But they followed several racially disparaging comments about the protests that
had been posted on social media
in recent days. One video showed
a white man brandishing a gun
while claiming to be on his way
to the protests. Police had issued
a warning Friday night, asking
demonstrators to be vigilant and
report any suspicious behavior to
authorities.
Signs of steady U.S. economy: Rising pay and solid job market
WASHINGTON
(AP)
—
Americans’ pay is up, fewer people
need unemployment aid, more are
buying new homes and business
spending is rebounding.
A flurry of data released
Wednesday signaled that the fundamentals of the U.S. economy
remain solid, if unspectacular,
three weeks before the Federal
Reserve will likely begin raising
interest rates.
Consumers appear relatively
confident in the economy and may
be poised to spend a decent chunk
of their rising incomes during the
holiday shopping season. In addition, businesses are stepping up
their investment in machinery and
equipment, removing a persistent
drag on the economy.
The steady consumer and business demand in the United States
is powering the economy through
economic pressures from overseas, which jolted financial markets during August and
September and raised doubts
about global growth.
With the U.S. job market on
solid footing and wages beginning
to rise, the Fed is widely expected
to raise short-term rates in midDecember for the first time in nine
years.
Wages and salaries jumped 0.6
percent in October, the Commerce
Department said Wednesday, and
data for the spring and summer
was revised substantially higher.
U.S. paychecks were 4.9 percent
higher in October than they were a
year earlier, a sizable gain. By contrast, in the first four years after
the Great Recession ended in
2009, paychecks typically rose
only about 2 percent to 3 percent.
“The extra growth in wage
income is good news for retailers
hoping for a strong holiday shopping season,” said Jim O’Sullivan,
chief U.S. economist at High
Frequency Economics.
O’Sullivan forecasts that the
economy’s annual growth rate
could reach 2.7 percent in the
final three months of the year,
from 2.1 percent in the third quarter.
Consumer spending rose only
0.1 percent in October, though
that weak showing occurred partly
because the month was unusually
warm and Americans paid less for
heat. In the second and third
quarters, consumer spending
topped 3 percent, a historically
robust level.
With incomes revised higher,
the savings rate jumped last
month to 5.6 percent, the highest
since 2012.
“History tells us that a chunk of
that savings will eventually get
spent,” said Stephen Stanley, chief
economist at Amherst Pierpont.
Measures of consumer confidence have been mixed but generally paint an optimistic picture.
According to Gallup, Americans
plan to spend on average $830 on
holiday shopping this winter —
the most since 2007, just before
the recession officially began.
And consumer sentiment ticked
up this month, according to a survey by the University of Michigan.
Lower
and
middle-income
Americans were more optimistic
about their personal finances in
the coming year than higherincome households were, the survey found.
Still, a separate measure of
consumer confidence from the
Conference Board, a business
research group, fell in November
to its lowest point in more than a
year. It found that fewer
Americans expected their incomes
to rise.
Even so, Americans are
unleashing pent-up demand for
big-ticket items such as homes
and cars. Sales of new homes
jumped last month and have
increased 15.7 percent through
the first 10 months of 2015.
Home sales have been bolstered
by strong hiring and low mortgage
rates. Sales of existing homes are
on track to reach their highest
level since 2007, even though rising prices are sidelining many
potential buyers.
Separately, U.S. factories in
October received more orders for
long-lasting goods, including
steel, machinery and computers.
The increase added to other evidence that manufacturing is
recovering after a generally brutal
year. A higher-valued dollar has
made U.S. goods more expensive
overseas.
And factory output has also
been held back by low oil prices,
which forced oil and gas drillers to
slash orders for steel pipe and
other equipment.
Now, though, those drags
appear to be fading.
Consistent hiring has underpinned most of the improvement
in the economy this year.
Employers added 271,000 jobs in
October, the most since last
December, and the unemployment rate reached 5 percent, the
lowest level since the spring of
2008.
Solid job gains are likely to continue, at least judging from how
few people are losing jobs. The
number of people seeking unemployment benefits, which generally mirrors the pace of layoffs, fell
to nearly 40-year lows last week.
Year-over-year inflation, which
had remained stubbornly below
the Fed’s target rate, has now
reached 1.7 percent according to
a measure compiled by the
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
That’s not far from the Fed’s 2
percent target.
And Americans expect slightly
higher inflation in coming months,
according to the University of
Michigan’s survey. That could bolster the case for the Fed to raise
rates at its next meeting.
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Lee University photo
LADY FLAMES GOLF COACH John Maupin has signed
Anne Hedegaard, from Aalborg, Denmark, to play for the Lee
University team next season.
Maupin brings Denmark
golf star to Lady Flames
From LEE SPORTS INFORMATION
Lee University women's golf
coach John Maupin is bringing in Anne Hedegaard from
Aalborg, Denmark, to play for
his team next fall.
“We found out about Anne a
little bit later in the recruiting
process, but it was very evident from the beginning that
she would be an asset to our
program,”
commented
Maupin. “We have gotten great
reviews on Anne's game from
people that have a great eye
for talent, but Anne's scores
also spoke for themselves. She
has great experience in team
golf, and that is something
that we really place a lot of
value on.
“Additionally, Anne has
worked very hard to get to this
point, both in the classroom
and on the course,” the Lee
coach added. “I feel like when
you combine her work ethic
with her physical potential it is
clear that she has a lot of great
golf ahead of her.
“Another thing that really
stuck out about Anne was her
desire to be at Lee University.
Once we started recruiting her
she took a strong interest in
our school and program. It's
important to us too add people
that understand what a special place Lee is. We can't wait
for Anne to join us next fall.”
Hedegaard took time to
answer some questions:
LU: What other schools
were you considering?
AH: “I was also considering
Harding
University
and
Lander University.”
LU: What stood out to you
the most about Lee, or what
led you to choose our university?
AH: “The coach and the girls
on the golf team had a big
influence on me. The coach is
very nice and after I talked to
him the first time, I knew it
was the right place for me.
Everybody has been very helpful and kind during the
process. The girls have been
very friendly from the beginning and the fact that everybody is so nice really makes
me want to go to Lee
University even more. I can't
wait”
LU: What are you most
looking forward to about your
upcoming time at Lee?
AH: “I look forward to
becoming a part of the golf
team and to play on behave of
Lee University. I also look forward to live on campus and to
meet a lot of new people.”
LU: What things do you
hope to accomplish during
your time at Lee
AH: “I really hope that I will
be able to improve my golf
game during my time at Lee.
And I am looking forward to
experience the academic level
here in the US.
I also hope to get a lot of
good memories and to have a
lot of fun.”
I also hope to get a lot of
good memories and to have a
lot of fun.”
Career Accomplishments:
n 2013 — Winner of Junior
Cup nationals U17
n 2013 — Honor: Sports
talent of the year (in Denmark)
n 2015 — Winner of Taylor
Made Open
n 2015 — Jaegerspris Open
Runner-up
Banner photo, RICHARD ROBERTS
BLUE RAIDERS WRESTLER Titus Swafford, top, battles Dalton Cougar Uriel Fraire in the heavyweight bout as referee David Hixson
looks on during wrestling action at Cleveland High School, Wednesday.
Cleveland wrestlers start strong
in tri-meet with Walker Valley
By TYLER WICKMAN
Banner Sports Writer
The blue-and-white mats were
rolled out at the Jones Wrestling
Center and the headgear was
thrown on in Wednesday’s
shared mat time with Walker
Valley as the Blue Raiders and
Mustangs took on the Dalton
Catamounts and the Northwest
Whitfield Bruins out of Georgia.
Cleveland came into the dual
with a preseason ranking of No. 2
in the state. It was expected the
Raiders would have zero problems in beating either school,
and that was the case in their
matches, as they won both by a
combined 93 points.
Banner photo, RICHARD ROBERTS
WALKER VALLEY WRESTLER Nick Barnett works against
Northwest Whitfield’s Jamarey Hull in the 152-pound match
Wednesday, at Cleveland High School.
The first dual for the Raiders
took place against Dalton starting at 152 pounds.
The match started off with two
forfeits by the Catamounts, at
152 and 160. Action finally started when Harrison Hicks pinned
his opponent to increase
Cleveland’s lead to 18-0.
After Dalton came away with
its first points of the day with a
Joseph Reese decision, it was
back to domination by the
Raiders, who went on another
21-point spree to increase their
lead to 21-18.
In that 21-point run, Bryce
Pond came up with a huge win in
the 106-pound match, pinning
Dalton’s Ethan Leach.
Never once did it look as if
Cleveland was going to lose a
match off a fall to lose six points.
Jayce Mullins got things going
again with a pin after Harrison
Hicks lost a 7-1 decision at 113.
No. 1-ranked Triston Blansit
(126) was up next, and it didn’t
take him long to live up to the
preseason hype. Blansit had an
easy pin and the Raiders led 516 with only three matches to go.
Colton Landers was up next on
the mat, but it didn’t last too long
as he won by fall. Landers came
into the match ranked No. 2 at
132.
Austin Sweeney and Caleb
Eachus rounded out the match
by both collecting six points to
give Cleveland a 69-6 win.
Cleveland coach Jake Yost was
pleased with the overall opening
performance, and he didn’t really
see any disappointing things
happen that can’t be worked on.
“We had a lot of good effort
today, but we are not in our best
shape yet, which is fine, because
it’s the first match of the year. We
have some technical things to
work on, and some things that
we haven’t even worked on yet
that I could tell we were struggling with, which is fine because
this is why we do this,” Yost
explained.
“I thought, overall, it was a
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Bears’ Carpenter heads list of Lee Flames 2015 baseball signees
Lee University head baseball coach
Mark Brew has announced his 2016
fall signing class.
“Coach (Justin) Dedman, with the
assistance of coaches (Drew) French
and (Chris) Torgerson, has done another phenomenal job identifying studentathletes who fit the culture of our program/university and will be great additions on the field,” said Brew.
“Each young man brings unique
skill sets to complement our returning
players for the 2017 season and continue our program on the track of being
a top-tiered program annually in the
rugged Gulf South Conference. They
are all quality people and I look forward
to watching this group develop in the
future, both on and off the field,” said
Brew.
Outfielder Tyler Carpenter
6-foot-0, 200 pounds
Bats right, throws right
Current school: Bradley Central
High School
Hometown: Cleveland
Awards: Academic Honors, Team
Captain, “Mr. BCHS”
2015 Spring Stats: .310 batting
average, 393 on-base percentage, 460
slugging percentage, 6 doubles, 2
triples, 2 home runs, 21 RBIs, 15
stolen bases
Carpenter said: “Growing up and
going to school at Ocoee Middle School,
I would see the Lee players and it
inspired me to work hard. I hoped that
one day I would be as good as them.
The campus is astonishing. Lee also
has a winning tradition and that’s
something I want to be a part of. I am
very excited to get to Lee and be with
the guys working towards excellence.”
Bradley Central head coach Travis
Adams said: “Tyler is one of the hardest-working kids I have ever coached.
He is a true competitor and great teammate. He will bring great energy to Lee
baseball and will be an added weapon
in Lee University’s already strong arsenal.”
Dedman said: “Tyler is a dynamic
athlete and aggressive competitor. He
had an outstanding career as a wide
receiver at Bradley Central, and that
athleticism and agility translates very
well for him on the baseball field. Tyler
has very good bat speed and a consistent swing that showed improved
power this summer. Tyler is an infectious young man with terrific character
and values. He possesses leadership
skills and a work ethic that will quickly
accelerate his already strong skill
level.”
RHP pitcher Joe Parete
6-2, 180
Current school: South Georgia
State College
Hometown: Jacksonville, Fla
2014 Spring Stats: (Redshirt in
2015): 17 games, 1 save, 35.1 innings
pitched, 39 hits allowed, 13 walks, 16
strikeouts, 4.08 ERA
Parete said: “I am very excited to be
joining the Lee University baseball program. I’m anxious to find my role within the team and contribute to the program’s success. I chose Lee because of
the great coaching staff and the unique
characteristics of the campus. I can’t
wait to be a Lee Flame.”
South Georgia State College head
coach Jeff Timothy said: “Joe is a talented right-handed pitcher with a
three-quarter-arm slot, a very quick
arm and a plus slider. He has been a
two-sport athlete in high school (football) and college (cross country) and is
a very humble kid that understands
how to get knocked down and pick
See CARPENTER, Page 19
DeBien named soccer All-State
By TYLER WICKMAN
Banner Sports Writer
For the second time in her
high school tenure, forward Sam
DeBien was named to the 2015
AAA all-state team.
DeBien and Anna Lanter from
Soddy-Daisy were the only two
area players mentioned in the
press release.
It is a great honor for any soccer player to receive the award,
especially if the athlete is moving
on to the next level. DeBien will
be attending Middle Tennessee
State University next fall to continue and showcase her extraordinary soccer abilities in front of
the Division I realm of soccer. In
the meantime, there isn’t any
downtime for the on-field capFile photo, GEORGE NORKUS
CLEVELAND’S SAM DEBIEN has been named to the AAA All-State soccer team for the second time tain, as she is currently playing
club soccer with FC Alliance.
in her high school career.
“I'm obviously very honored to
receive that award, I am very
grateful for it and I honestly
couldn't have done it without all
my teammates, my coaches, my
parents, and God,” DeBien stated.
Getting recognized for your
talent can be reassuring, which
may come in handy when
DeBien leaves the familiarity of
hometown coaches and teammates.
“Yeah, it gives you a boost of
confidence to go into that (offseason), so that you have some type
of expectation.”
Cleveland High School girls
soccer coach Andy Byrd, didn’t
have a hard time finding the
words to describe his phenom
player.
“Anytime coaches in the area
or state recognize the quality of
player someone is, it's an honor.
I'm excited to see Sam move on
to the next level of play, I think
she will make an impact at that
level (Division I). Sam is one of
the most versatile and athletic
kids I have ever coached.”
When someone is presented
with a distinguished achievement, it can sometimes have an
effect on more than just the
recipient.
“Anytime you have a leader on
the field and they step their
game up and receive an award
like this one, everybody is going
to step up.
“She has stepped up and done
things for the program that you
hope to have (done). Like I said,
she has been an incredible player for me, and I am just happy
for her and her family,” Byrd
said.
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SCOREBOARD
Sharpe signs with Lee Golf
Lee University golf coach John
Maupin recently announced the
signing of Bill Sharpe II during
the NCAA fall signing period.
Sharpe comes to Lee from
Albany, Ga.
Said Maupin: “Last spring
Hunter (assistant coach Hunter
Vest) and I had a chance to
watch Bill play in a tournament,
and we walked away very
impressed. He has very sound
fundamentals and we really liked
the way he carried himself on the
course.
“Once we had him on his campus visit we felt like he was
someone that would fit in very
well with our team. We definitely
feel like we are getting one of the
best players in the state of
Georgia. Bill has proven himself
against top competition many
times, and he has the type of
game that will translate very well
to the next level.”
“Bill has a bright future ahead
here, and will have the opportunity to have an instant impact on
our team — we are excited to
have him on board.”
Q&A with Sharpe
Lee University: What other
schools were you considering?
Sharpe: “Texas
State
University, Marshall University,
Valdosta State University”
LU: What stood out to you the
most about Lee University, or
what led you to choose Lee
University?
S: “The coaches, the program's
commitment level, the campus.
It just felt right.”
LU: What are you most looking
forward to about your upcoming
ON AIR
Sports on TV
All Times EST
Thursday, Nov. 26
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Noon
ESPN2 — AdvoCare Invitational, quarterfinal ?1, Xavier vs.
Alabama
1 p.m.
ESPN — Battle 4 Atlantis, semifinal ?1,
Gonzaga/Washington winner vs. Texas/Texas A&M winner
2 p.m.
ESPN2 — AdvoCare Invitational, quarterfinal ?2, Wichita St.
vs. USC
ESPNU — NIT Season Tip-Off, quarterfinal ?2, Georgia
Tech vs. Arkansas
3:30 p.m.
ESPN — Battle 4 Atlantis, semifinal ?2,
Connecticut/Michigan winner vs. Charlotte/Syracuse winner
4 p.m.
ESPNU — Wooden Legacy, quarterfinal ?1, Boise State vs.
UC Irvine
4:30 p.m.
ESPN2 — NIT Season Tip-Off, semifinal ?2, Villanova vs.
Stanford
5 p.m.
FS1 — Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational, West
Virginia vs. Richmond, at Las Vegas
6:30 p.m.
ESPN2 — Wooden Legacy, quarterfinal ?2, Boston College
vs. Michigan State
ESPNU — AdvoCare Invitational, quarterfinal ?3, Notre
Dame vs. Monmouth
9 p.m.
ESPN2 — AdvoCare Invitational, quarterfinal ?4, Dayton vs.
Iowa
ESPNU — Wooden Legacy, quarterfinal ?3, Providence vs.
Evansville
9:30 p.m.
CBSSN — Great Alaska Shootout, Middle Tennessee vs.
Alaska-Anchorage
11:30 p.m.
ESPN2 — Wooden Legacy, quarterfinal ?4, Arizona vs.
Santa Clara
11:59 p.m.
FS1 — Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational, California
vs. San Diego State
CBSSN — Great Alaska Shootout, Drexel vs. UNCAsheville
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
7:30 p.m.
ESPN — South Florida at UCF
FS1 — Texas Tech at Texas
GOLF
7:30 a.m.
GOLF — European PGA-Sunshine Tours, Alfred Dunhill
Championship, first round, at Mpumalanga, South Africa
8 p.m.
GOLF — PGA Tour or Australasia, Emirates Australian
Open, second round, at Sydney
NFL FOOTBALL
12:30 p.m.
FOX — Philadelphia at Detroit
4:30 p.m.
CBS — Carolina at Dallas
8:30 p.m.
Lee University photo
BILL SHARPE II, from Albany
Ga., has signed to play golf with
the Lee University Flames.
time at Lee?
S: “I'm really looking forward
to getting to know my new team,
as well as being a part of one.”
LU: What things do you hope
to accomplish during your time
at Lee?
S: “To have success in the
classroom and improve as a
golfer.”
Sharpe’s Career Highlights:
n Top 15 finishes at the 2014
and 2015 Georgia Boys
Championship
n Fourth place — 2015 AJGA
E-Z-GO
Vaughn
Taylor
Championship — (67-73-76)
n Sixth place — SJGT Orchard
Hills (68-71)
n AJGA Bluegrass Junior(71-71-76)
n Numerous top 5 finishes in
junior tour events.
NBC — Chicago at Green Bay
SOCCER
10:50 a.m.
FS1 — UEFA Europa League, Borussia Dortmund at FC
Krasnodar
1 p.m.
FS1 — UEFA Europa League, Tottenham at Qarabag FK
FS2 — UEFA Europa League, APOEL Nicosia at Schalke
04
3 p.m.
FS1 — UEFA Europa League, Girondins de Bordeaux at
Liverpool
FS2 — UEFA Europa League, Ajax at Celtic
ON TAP
Friday, Nov. 27
BASKETBALL
Holiday Inn Express Tournament
Game 1: Bradley Central vs. Lakeview Academy
(Gainesville, Ga.), 11 a.m.
Game 2: David Crockett vs. Heritage (Ga.), 12:30
Game 3: Hamilton Heights vs. Spring Hill, 2
Game 4: Morgan Park (Ill.) vs. William Blount, 3:30
Game 5: Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, 6
Game 6: Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 loser, 7:30
Maryville Heritage Thanksgiving Tournament
Walker Valley participating, TBA
Valdosta State Classic
Lee University vs. College of Coastal Georgia (Men), 6
Saturday, Nov. 28
BASKETBALL
Holiday Inn Express Tournament
Game 7: Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner, 10 a.m.
Game 8: Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner, 11:30 a.m.
Game 10: Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner, 3:30
Game 12: Championship game, Game 7 winner vs. Game
8 winner, 6:30
Maryville Heritage Thanksgiving Tournament
Valdosta State Classic
Lee University vs. Palm Beach Atlantic University, 2
WRESTLING
Hixson Duals
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W
L
Pct
Toronto
9
6
.600
New York
8
7
.533
Boston
7
7
.500
Brooklyn
3
11
.214
Philadelphia
0
15
.000
Southeast Division
W
L
Pct
Miami
9
4
.692
Atlanta
10
6
.625
Charlotte
8
6
.571
Washington
6
5
.545
Orlando
6
8
.429
GB
—
1
1½
5½
9
GB
—
½
1½
2
3½
Central Division
W
L
Pct
GB
11
3
.786
—
9
4
.692
1½
9
5
.643
2
7
7
.500
4
6
8
.429
5
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W
L
Pct
GB
San Antonio
11
3
.786
—
Dallas
9
6
.600
2½
Memphis
8
7
.533
3½
Houston
5
9
.357
6
New Orleans
3
11
.214
8
Northwest Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Oklahoma City
9
6
.600
—
Utah
6
7
.462
2
Minnesota
6
8
.429
2½
Denver
6
9
.400
3
Portland
6
10
.375
3½
Pacific Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Golden State
16
0
1.000
—
L.A. Clippers
7
7
.500
8
Phoenix
7
7
.500
8
Sacramento
5
10
.333
10½
L.A. Lakers
2
12
.143
13
Wednesday’s Games
New York at Orlando, 7 p.m.
Washington at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Cleveland at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Miami at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at Boston, 7:30 p.m.
Atlanta at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Sacramento at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
Memphis at Houston, 8 p.m.
Brooklyn at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
Dallas at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.
New Orleans at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
Utah at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
No games scheduled
Friday’s Games
Milwaukee at Orlando, 7 p.m.
Cleveland at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Washington at Boston, 7:30 p.m.
Miami at New York, 7:30 p.m.
Atlanta at Memphis, 8 p.m.
Detroit at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
Philadelphia at Houston, 8 p.m.
Chicago at Indiana, 8 p.m.
San Antonio at Denver, 9 p.m.
Golden State at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m.
Minnesota at Sacramento, 10 p.m.
New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
NCAA
Top 25 Fared
Wednesday
1. Kentucky (5-0) did not play. Next: vs. South Florida,
Friday.
2. Maryland (4-0) vs. Rhode Island. Next: vs. Cleveland
State, Saturday.
3. Michigan State (4-0) did not play. Next: vs. Boston
College, Thursday.
4. Iowa State (3-0) did not play. Next: vs. Virginia Tech,
Friday.
5. Kansas (3-1) vs. No. 19 Vanderbilt. Next: vs. Loyola
(Md.), Tuesday.
6. Duke (4-1) vs. Yale. Next: vs. Utah State, Sunday.
7. Oklahoma (3-0) did not play. Next: vs. Wisconsin,
Sunday.
8. Villanova (4-0) did not play. Next: vs. Stanford, Thursday.
9. North Carolina (5-1) did not play. Next: vs. No. 2
Maryland, Tuesday.
10. Gonzaga (3-0) beat Washington 80-64. Next: vs. No. 25
Texas A&M or Texas, Thursday.
11. Arizona (4-0) did not play. Next: vs. Santa Clara,
Cleveland
Chicago
Indiana
Detroit
Milwaukee
Thursday.
12. Virginia (4-1) vs. Lehigh. Next: at Ohio State, Tuesday.
13. Indiana (4-1) vs. UNLV. Next: vs. Alcorn State, Monday.
14. California (4-0) did not play. Next: vs. San Diego State,
Thursday.
15. Miami (5-0) did not play. Next: vs. Northeastern, Friday.
16. Purdue (5-0) did not play. Next: vs. Lehigh, Saturday.
17. Notre Dame (3-0) did not play. Next: vs. Monmouth
(N.J.), Thursday.
18. UConn (3-0) vs. Michigan. Next: vs. Charlotte or
Syracuse, Thursday.
19. Vanderbilt (5-0) vs. No. 5 Kansas. Next: vs. Detroit,
Wednesday.
20. Wichita State (2-1) did not play. Next: vs. Southern Cal,
Thursday.
21. Oregon (4-0) vs. Arkansas State. Next: vs. Fresno State,
Monday.
22. LSU (3-2) did not play. Next: at College of Charleston,
Monday.
23. Xavier (4-0) did not play. Next: vs. Alabama, Thursday.
24. Cincinnati (5-0) did not play. Next: vs. Nebraska, Friday.
25. SMU (3-0) did not play. Next: vs. Brown, Sunday.
25. Texas A&M (4-0) vs. Texas. Next: vs. No. 10 Gonzaga
or Washington, Thursday.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
All Times EST
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
W
L
T Pct
New England
10
0
0 1.000
Buffalo
5
5
0 .500
N.Y. Jets
5
5
0 .500
Miami
4
6
0 .400
South
W
L
T Pct
Indianapolis
5
5
0 .500
Houston
5
5
0 .500
Jacksonville
4
6
0 .400
Tennessee
2
8
0 .200
North
W
L
T Pct
Cincinnati
8
2
0 .800
Pittsburgh
6
4
0 .600
Baltimore
3
7
0 .300
Cleveland
2
8
0 .200
West
W
L
T Pct
Denver
8
2
0 .800
Kansas City
5
5
0 .500
Oakland
4
6
0 .400
San Diego
2
8
0 .200
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W
L
T Pct
N.Y. Giants
5
5
0 .500
Washington
4
6
0 .400
Philadelphia
4
6
0 .400
Dallas
3
7
0 .300
South
W
L
T Pct
Carolina
10
0
0 1.000
Atlanta
6
4
0 .600
Tampa Bay
5
5
0 .500
New Orleans
4
6
0 .400
North
W
L
T Pct
Green Bay
7
3
0 .700
Minnesota
7
3
0 .700
Chicago
4
6
0 .400
Detroit
3
7
0 .300
West
W
L
T Pct
Arizona
8
2
0 .800
Seattle
5
5
0 .500
St. Louis
4
6
0 .400
PF
323
244
234
205
PA
182
227
208
249
PF
224
208
211
182
PA
248
228
268
233
PF
266
236
226
186
PA
186
191
249
277
PF
222
257
240
213
PA
183
198
259
282
PF
273
221
229
190
PA
253
253
229
228
PF
299
250
236
255
PA
191
214
254
315
PF
249
211
214
185
PA
198
184
251
274
PF
336
228
179
PA
216
192
199
San Francisco
3
7
0 .300 139 252
Thursday, Nov. 26
Philadelphia at Detroit, 12:30 p.m.
Carolina at Dallas, 4:30 p.m.
Chicago at Green Bay, 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 29
New Orleans at Houston, 1 p.m.
Buffalo at Kansas City, 1 p.m.
Oakland at Tennessee, 1 p.m.
St. Louis at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.
Minnesota at Atlanta, 1 p.m.
N.Y. Giants at Washington, 1 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.
San Diego at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.
Miami at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.
Arizona at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.
New England at Denver, 8:30 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 30
Baltimore at Cleveland, 8:30 p.m.
NCAA
Top 25 Schedule
All Times EST
Friday
No. 3 Iowa at Nebraska, 3:30 p.m.
No. 7 Baylor at No. 15 TCU, 7:30 p.m.
No. 16 Navy at No. 21 Houston, Noon
No. 18 Oregon vs. Oregon State, 4 p.m.
No. 20 Washington State at Washington, 3:30 p.m.
No. 24 Toledo vs. Western Michigan, Noon
Saturday
No. 1 Clemson at South Carolina, Noon
No. 2 Alabama at Auburn, 3:30 p.m.
No. 4 Notre Dame at No. 13 Stanford, 7:30 p.m.
No. 5 Oklahoma at No. 9 Oklahoma State, 8 p.m.
No. 6 Michigan State vs. Penn State, 3:30 p.m.
No. 8 Ohio State at No. 12 Michigan, Noon
No. 10 Florida vs. No. 14 Florida State, 7:30 p.m.
No. 11 North Carolina at N.C. State, 3:30 p.m.
No. 17 Northwestern vs. Illinois at Chicago, 3:30 p.m.
No. 19 Mississippi at No. 23 Mississippi State, 7:15 p.m.
No. 22 UCLA at Southern Cal, 3:30 p.m.
No. 25 Temple vs. UConn, 7 p.m.
Football Championship Subdivision
All Times EST
First Round
Saturday, Nov. 28
Western Illinois (6-5) at Dayton (10-1), Noon
Fordham (9-2) at Chattanooga (8-3), 1 p.m.
The Citadel (8-3) at Coastal Carolina (9-2), 2 p.m.
Southern Utah (8-3) at Sam Houston State (8-3), 3 p.m.
South Dakota State (8-3) at Montana (7-4), 3 p.m.
Colgate (7-4) at New Hampshire (7-4), 3:30 p.m.
Duquesne (8-3) at William & Mary (8-3), 3:30 p.m.
Eastern Illinois (7-4) at Northern Iowa (7-4), 5 p.m.
Second Round
Saturday, Dec. 5
The Citadel-Coastal Carolina winner at Charleston
Southern (9-2), 1 p.m.
Colgate-New Hampshire winner at James Madison (9-2), 1
p.m.
Duquesne-William & Mary winner at Richmond (8-3), 1 p.m.
Western Illinois-Dayton winner at Illinois State (9-2), 2 p.m.
Fordham-Chattanooga winner at Jacksonville State (10-1),
2 p.m.
South Dakota State-Montana winner at North Dakota State
(9-2), 3:30 p.m.
Southern-Sam Houston State winner at McNeese State (100), 7 p.m.
Eastern Illinois-Northern Iowa winner at Portland State (92), 10 p.m.
Quarterfinals
Friday, Dec. 11 or Saturday, Dec. 12
TBD
Semifinals
Friday, Dec. 18
TBD, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 19
TBD, 4 p.m.
Championship
Saturday, Jan. 9
At Toyota Stadium
Frisco, Texas
Semifinal winners, Noon
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W
L
OT Pts GF GA
Montreal
22 16
4
2 34 78 50
Ottawa
21 11
5
5 27 68 61
Detroit
21 11
8
2 24 49 52
Boston
20 11
8
1 23 66 59
Tampa Bay
22 10
9
3 23 53 50
Florida
21
8
9
4 20 55 56
Toronto
22
7
10
5 19 51 62
Buffalo
21
8
11
2 18 44 57
Metropolitan Division
GP W
L
OT Pts GF GA
N.Y. Rangers
21 16
3
2 34 66 38
Washington
20 14
5
1 29 62 44
Pittsburgh
20 12
8
0 24 45 46
New Jersey
20 11
8
1 23 50 50
N.Y. Islanders
21 10
8
3 23 59 53
Philadelphia
21
7
9
5 19 38 60
Carolina
21
7
10
4 18 42 61
Columbus
22
8
14
0 16 55 71
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W
L
OT Pts GF GA
Dallas
22 17
5
0 34 78 57
St. Louis
22 14
6
2 30 59 53
Minnesota
19 11
5
3 25 57 51
Nashville
20 11
6
3 25 53 51
Chicago
21 11
8
2 24 57 55
Winnipeg
22 10 10
2 22 58 69
Colorado
21
8
12
1 17 60 62
Pacific Division
GP W
L
OT Pts GF GA
Los Angeles
21 13
8
0 26 54 46
San Jose
21 13
8
0 26 59 51
Vancouver
22
8
8
6 22 64 60
Arizona
20 10
9
1 21 55 59
Anaheim
22
8
10
4 20 43 58
Calgary
22
8
13
1 17 53 80
Edmonton
21
7
13
1 15 55 64
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Wednesday’s Games
Nashville at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Columbus at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Montreal at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Washington, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.
Boston at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Los Angeles at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
Anaheim at Arizona, 9 p.m.
Ottawa at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.
Chicago at San Jose, 10 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
No games scheduled
Friday’s Games
N.Y. Rangers at Boston, 1 p.m.
Nashville at Philadelphia, 3:30 p.m.
Winnipeg at Minnesota, 4 p.m.
Chicago at Anaheim, 5 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Washington, 5 p.m.
Carolina at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Montreal at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
N.Y. Islanders at Florida, 7:30 p.m.
Vancouver at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Calgary at Arizona, 9 p.m.
Falcons’ promising season in freefall after 3rd loss in row
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) to STATS.
But Atlanta’s once-comfortable
— A team that wins its first five
games almost always makes the position is now threatened after
three losses by a total of seven
NFL playoffs.
The Atlanta Falcons are in dan- points, the latest a 24-21 setback
to the Indianapolis Colts in which
ger of bucking that trend.
Now, rookie coach Dan Quinn the Falcons squandered a pair of
two-touchdown
has to make
leads. Two other
sure a season
teams, Seattle
that began with
“The bear is not loose
and Tampa Bay,
such promise
here inside the building.
have climbed
doesn’t spiral
I want to make sure
within a game of
totally out of
we’re really clear on
Atlanta for the
control.
that. We’ve got a really
second NFC wild
After losing
talented team and a
card.
three straight
coaching staff that really
Winning the
and four of their
believes in these guys.”
division
is
past five, the
unlikely with
F a l c o n s
— Atlanta Falcons
Carolina on top
returned to their
coach Dan Quinn
at 10-0.
training complex
At the beginMonday for a
series of meetings, trying to figure ning of the season, the Falcons (6out what went wrong. If there’s 4) were winning all the close
any sense of panic, Quinn and his games. But they’ve slipped to 3-3
in contests decided by four points
players won’t acknowledge it.
“The bear is not loose here or less, largely because of puzzling
inside the building. I want to breakdowns on the offensive side
make sure we’re really clear on and, more specifically, the strugthat,” Quinn said. “We’ve got a gles of quarterback Matt Ryan.
In Sunday’s loss, Matty Ice
really talented team and a coaching staff that really believes in threw a crucial interception from
his end zone that was returned 6
these guys.”
When the Falcons began 5-0, yards for a tying touchdown by
they looked like a lock for the linebacker D’Qwell Jackson. The
playoffs. Since the 1970 NFL-AFL Colts won 24-21 on Adam
merger, 66 of 72 teams — a stag- Vinatieri’s 43-yard field goal with
gering 92 percent — have gone on 52 seconds to go.
The Falcons, who host
to the postseason after getting off
to such a strong start, according Minnesota next Sunday, jumped
to leads of 14-0 and 21-7 with
three drives covering at least 80
yards. After that, it looked like a
totally different offense.
Atlanta had only 52 yards over
its final seven possessions, with
as many turnovers as first downs
(three each). Two of the drives
were snuffed out on their very first
play, one by Tevin Coleman’s fumble, the other by Ryan’s devastating interception.
There’s no chance of the
Falcons making a change at quarterback. Not with Sean Renfree as
the top backup.
So it all rests with Ryan.
“If there’s decisions to be made
in terms of where to go (with passes), how to feature him, we’ll do
that,” Quinn said. “But there’s a
lot of things he’s doing well, too. It
kind of gets overlooked sometimes
when an interception of that magnitude takes place.”
Indeed, Ryan threw a seasonhigh three touchdown passes
against the Colts, two of them to
little-used
fullback
Patrick
DiMarco. Overall, the quarterback
has 15 touchdown passes and is
on pace for the most prolific
yardage season of his eight-year
career.
But that doesn’t excuse some
huge blunders.
Against the Colts, Ryan squandered a scoring chance early when
he overthrew Roddy White in the
end zone, allowing Dwight Lowery
ATLANTA FALCONS quARTERbACK Matt Ryan throws an interception from his own end zone in
the second half against the Indianapolis Colts, in Atlanta.
to make a diving interception.
Then, looking like a rookie instead
of a veteran who prides himself on
preparation, Ryan was totally
fooled by Jackson with the
Falcons backed up inside their 1yard line in the fourth quarter.
The linebacker faked as though he
was coming up to stuff the run,
then dropped back into pass coverage.
Ryan threw it right to the Colt,
who returned it for a touchdown
in the blink of an eye.
“It’s a throw he just should not
have made, one he could’ve easily
checked down into the flat,”
Quinn said. “Those are the decisions we count on him like crazy
for us. For all those things he did
in the game very well, that’s one
he’d like to have back.”
The loss ruined DiMarco’s
career day. The fourth-year play-
er had only one career touchdown coming into the game; in
fact, he’d never scored two touchdowns in a game at any level of
football.
He had both balls in his locker
Monday and plans to get them
engraved. But the moment was
overshadowed by the bitter defeat.
“I wish we would have won,”
DiMarco said. “It would have
made things a lot more sweet.”
Georgia teams have already been
in action for about a week, and
that showed when Walker Valley
took on the Bruins in their first
duel.
The Mustangs’ first match in
the dual tri-meet took place at
152 pounds where Nicholas
Barnett lost a long, but close,
decision by a 16-12 count.
Mikel Gregory (160) recorded
the first pin for the Mustangs
which was followed up by a close
decision won by Walker Valley’s
James Ratcliff (170).
Jaylon Martin came out fired
up and put the Bruins’ 182pound wrestler on his back to
record the pin, giving the
Mustangs a 15-3 lead.
It was back-and-forth for the
next four matches and Walker
Valley won three out of the four
matchups. Two of them were won
by forfeits. The other came by pin
courtesy of Mustang heavyweight
C.J. Schwark.
After those three wins,
Northwest Whitfield ran the table
by collecting three pins, two decisions and one technical fall. With
that, Walker Valley ended up losing the battle 38-33.
Walker Valley coach Al Morris
was happy to get the first dual
out of the way to find out what
the team needs to work on as a
whole.
“We didn’t look like we would
like to look right now, but it’s a
good measuring stick to show the
guys areas of weaknesses [where]
we need to do better. We were
gassing out early in our matches,
and we know we still got a lot of
work to do,” he said.
“I was proud of my heavyweight C.J. Schwark, who is one
of my team captains, and he got
out there and got after it with
some big boys. Overall, there are
a lot of things that we’ve got to
work on technique-wise and [in
the area of] conditioning.”
Walker Valley will be looking to
make improvements when the
Mustangs wrestle on Saturday at
the Hixson Duels.
Landers (C) pinned Revon Hill; 138 — Austin
Sweeney (C) pinned Jorge Arevalo; 145 — Caleb
Eachus (C) win by forfeit; 152 — Seth Eachus (C)
win by forfeit; 160 — Greg Wilson (C) win by forfeit;
170 — Jack Hicks (C) pinned Daniel Valdez; 182 —
Joseph Reese (D) dec. Riley Stevison, 10-4; 195 —
Dylan Jones (C) win by forfeit; 220 — Seth Garcia
win by forfeit; 285 — Titus Swafford (C) dec. Uriel
Fraire, 5-3.
CLEVELAND 48, NORTHWEST WHITFIELD 18
(Match started at 160)
106 — Bryce Pond (C) win be forfeit; 113 — Phillip
Freeman (C) dec. Tommy Davis, 8-4; 120 —
Michael Whiteside (C) pinned Jacob Splawn; 126
— Triston Blansit (C) win by dec., 4-0; 132 —
Colton Landers (C) pinned Matt Angeles; 138 —
Cody Matthews (C) dec. Coty Carlock, 9-4; 145 —
Dylan Pittman (NW) dec. Caleb Eachus, 4-2; 152
— Seth Eachus (C) dec. Jamarey Hull, 6-0; 160 —
Henson Gibbs (NW) dec. Steven Wilson, 8-7; 170
— Robert Hicks (C) pinned Hunter Painter; 182 —
Riley Stevison (C) pinned Bryan Eades; 195 —
Jordan Lewis (NW) pinned Dylan Jones; 220 —
Samuel Garcia (C) win by forfeit; 285 — Michael
Robles (NW) pinned Michael Lewis.
NORTHWEST WHITFIELD 38,
WALKER VALLEY 33
106 — Chandler Davis (WV) win by forfeit; 113 —
Tommy Davis (NW) tech fall Gatapun Jur, 19-2; 120
— Jacob Splawn (NW) pinned Cameron Dwyer;
126 — Bryan Gemble (NW) dec. Zane Smith, 6-2;
132 — Matt Angeles (NW) pinned Joseph
Vecchione; 138 — Coty Carlock (NW) pinned
Robert Varner; 145 — Dylan Pittman (NW) dec.
Dillan Clarck, 6-4; 152 — Jamarey Hull (NW) dec.
Nicholas Barnett, 16-12; 160 — Mikel Gregory
(WV) pinned Henson Gibbs; 170 — James Ratcliff
(WV) dec. Hunter Painter, 5-3; 182 — Jaylon Martin
(WV) pinned Bryan Eades; 195 — Jordan Lewis
(NW) pinned Skyler Swafford; 220 — Dylan
Rutherford (WV) win by forfeit; 285 — C.J. Schwark
(WV) pinned Michael Robels.
WALKER VALLEY 61, DALTON 15
106 — Chandler Davis (WV) pinned Ethan Leach,
0:25; 113 — Gatapun Jur (WV) pinned Miguel
Guzman, 2:54; 120 — Ethan Carroll (D) dec.
Cameron Dwyer, 4-2; 126 — Zane Smith (WV) win
by forfeit; 132 — Joseph Vecchione (WV) pinned
Devon Hill, 4:54; 138 — Robert Varner (WV) major
dec. Jorge Arevalo, 11-2; 145 — Dillan Clarck (WV)
win by forfeit; 152 — Nicholas Barnett (WV) win by
forfeit; 160 — Mikel Gregory (WV) win by forfeit;
170 — Daniel Valdez (D) pinned James Ratcliff;
182 — Joseph Reese (D) pinned Jaylon Martin;
195 — Skyler Swafford (WV) win by forfeit; 220 —
Dylan Rutherford (WV) win by forfeit; 285 — C.J.
Schwark (WV) dec. Uriel Fraire, 7-3.
Tri-Meet
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good effort from everybody. We
definitely have a few key areas to
work on, but they are really just
things we haven’t gotten to yet.
Everything that we have been
working on, we have done well.”
Cleveland will go to Walker
Valley on Dec. 3, where both the
Raiders and the Mustangs will
take on Cookeville.
Raiders 48
Bruins 18
TENNESSEE HEAD coach Butch Jones talks with Missouri
head coach Gary Pinkel, right, before their game Saturday, in
Columbia, Mo. Tennessee won, 19-8.
SEC coaches face pressure
in result-oriented business
(AP — LSU’s Les Miles won’t
read papers or watch TV this
week prepping for Texas A&M.
Everyone else will, trying to
see if Miles’ 11-year run with
the Tigers is finally over.
Coaching is a result-oriented
business, and maybe more so
than anywhere else in college
football,
pressure
from
Southeastern Conference fans
and administrators is rooted in
“What have you done for me
lately?”
Prior successes are often forgotten, and no one is exempt.
Not Nick Saban or Steve
Spurrier. Miles has re-discovered that now.
The one-time national championship coach had the Tigers
rolling and ranked No. 2 in the
initial College Football Playoff
rankings early this month.
Three straight losses later and
Miles’ hold on the program
seems all but done.
“I don’t want to go there,” the
coach said earlier this week. “I
would be not doing my job as
the head coach at LSU, one that
I’ve enjoyed doing.”
And Baton Rouge isn’t the
only place a successful leader’s
hold on the job has been challenged.
Georgia coach Mark Richt
seems to be under constant
scrutiny, and it has intensified
since the Bulldogs (8-3) were
knocked out of the title chase by
rival Florida.
Richt fended off questions on
his future this week, the normally affable coach threatening
to end his press conference.
“Are you going to ask the
same one?” Richt asked of a
reporter. “We can end this thing
as fast as you want. I’m here to
talk about the game” against
Georgia Tech on Saturday.”
That tact doesn’t make the
uncertainty go away.
Spurrier didn’t stick around
to take such questions, quitting
in mid-October with his
Gamecocks 0-4 in the SEC.
Things have not improved much
under interim coach Shawn
Elliott; the Gamecocks (3-8)
have lost four straight and face
No. 1 Clemson on Saturday.
The only SEC jobs currently
open are Spurrier’s and Gary
Pinkel’s at Missouri. Pinkel
resigned for health reasons.
SEC Network commentator
Paul Finebaum was in
Columbia, South Carolina, for
the Gamecocks’ 23-22 loss to
Football
Championship
Subdivision opponent Citadel —
their first loss to a lower division
club in 25 years.
“I heard some things on the
way to my car in the parking lot
(from fans) that made me think
Spurrier, if he had not stepped
down, wouldn’t have made it
back to his car,” Finebaum said.
Wins in college football are
frequently taken for granted by
SEC fans accustomed to the
league’s decade of dominance.
Saban pointed out after a loss to
Mississippi this year that some
wrote off his Alabama program.
The Crimson Tide was part of
the SEC’s seven straight national crowns from 2006 through
2012, forging a standard of success that lures top recruits to
the conference— but a standard
that also can weigh like an anvil
around a failing coach’s neck.
Gene Chizik was the toast of
Auburn after the Tigers’ 2010
national championship, yet was
out of the job by the end of
2012.
Will Muschamp led Florida to
an 11-2 season in 2012. He, too,
was let go two years later.
“You sign up to be a coach,
that’s part of the deal,” said
Muschamp, Auburn’s defensive
coordinator. “You want to be at
a place where there are high
expectations. That means
you’ve got a chance to win a
championship.”
Money is rarely an object to
parting with a coach.
Chizik, North Carolina’s
defensive coordinator, was owed
$7.5 million by Auburn and
Muschamp $6.3 million by
Florida. Miles’ contract calls for
a buyout of $15 million, a mindblowing sum to pay someone
not to coach.
“I don’t think it’s always been
like this,” Finebaum said.
SEC coaches typically got the
chance to develop recruits over
four or five years before the
pitchforks came out from fans,
Finebaum said.
Blogs and social media sites,
Finebaum believes, have shortened a coach’s shelf life. The
immediacy of a fan base’s fury
spreads so quickly and deeply
that administrators must listen.
“There are no filters, no
checks, no balances,” Finebaum
said.
In Cleveland’s tilt against
Northwest
Whitfield,
Riley
Stevison, Michael Whiteside,
Landers, and Hicks all won by
pins. Samuel Garcia (220) and
Pond all won by forfeit. Phillip
Freeman (113) won his match by
an 8-4 decision.
Blansit did not get the pin like
he did in the first match against
Dalton, but still collected three
points for his team in a 4-0 decision.
Cody Matthews (138) won by
decision, 9-4 and Seth Eachus
(152) ended the match with a win
for the Raiders at the 152-pound
weight class with a 6-0 decision.
Mustangs come out even
after season debut
Walker
Valley
Mustang
wrestlers started their season off
at the Jones Wrestling Center on
Wednesday along with Cleveland
High School.
The two teams both faced the
Northwest Whitfield Bruins and
the Dalton Catamounts. Both
Mustangs 61,
Catamounts 15
The second match was a different story as Walker Valley got
a big win against Dalton.
Only two Mustangs got pins —
Chandler Davis (106) and
Gatapun Jur (113). Walker Valley
picked up six forfeits in the
match. Gregory (160), Skyler
Swafford (195), Dylan Rutherford
(220), Zane Smith (126), Dillan
Clark (145) and Nicholas Barnett
(152) all walked off the mat
unchallenged. The two decisions
came from Schwark (285) with a
score of 7-3, and Robert Varner
(138) who won by major decision,
11-2.
CLEVELAND 69, DALTON 6
106 — Bryce Pond (C) pinned Ethan Leach; 113 —
Miguel Guzman (D) dec. Parker Hicks, 7-1; 120 —
Joye Mullin (C) pinned Ethan Carrol; 126 — Triston
Blansit (C) pinned Saxon Wells; 132 — Colton
Carpenter
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himself up. He’s a big-time team
player and a pleasure to coach.
Joe has a very high ceiling due
to his arm strength and athleticism. I think his best years are
ahead of him.”
Dedman said: “Joe is a talented right-handed pitcher who
has matured well and made a
jump on the mound this fall. He
has been up to 92 (mph) but sits
comfortably at 87 to 90 with a
78 to 81-plus slider. He played
football in high school and currently runs cross country at
South Georgia, so he understands the value of hard work.
“After red-shirting his sophomore year, he is fully healthy
and had a strong fall at South
Georgia. We are very high on
Joe’s character and energy. He
will be a terrific teammate and
one of our top arms.”
Catcher Micah McClellan
6-1, 185
Bats right, throws right
Current School: Stewart’s
Creek High School
Hometown: La Vergne
Awards: National Honors
Society, High School Scholar,
TBCA
All-Region,
Team
Tennessee, Royals/Mets Scout
Team
2015 Stats: .351 batting
average, 434 on-base percentage, .453 slugging percentage,
11 doubles, 3 triples, 1 home
run, 18 RBIs, 27 runs scored
McClellan said: “I chose Lee
because I feel it is a great environment for me to succeed in
academically, while also giving
me the opportunity to play base-
ball and develop my skills on
and off the field. I am very excited to get to attend Lee and show
what an asset I can be to the
program and what a credit I can
be to the university.”
Stewart’s Creek head coach
Mike Bartlett said: “Micah has
been an integral part of our program’s leadership the past two
years. On the field he has been
the quarterback and has hit in
the middle of our order. Micah’s
Christian walk is evident. His
hard work in the classroom,
weight room and at the field
have paid great dividends and
we are proud of him and his
signing with Lee University. He
will make great contributions as
he continues his education and
baseball career.”
Dedman said: “Micah is a talented catcher and hitter with a
bright future. He possesses
tremendous confidence and
toughness, and has good bat
speed and arm strength. He has
a chance to become a significant
source of power in our lineup.
Micah also has the tools to be a
very good receiver and leader
behind the plate. He is an excellent student and a passionate
young man who is not afraid to
serve others through ministry.”
Pitcher Lance Hamilton
6-3, 180
Throws left, bats left
Current school: Clinton
High School
Hometown: Clinton.
Awards: National Honors
Society, 3-A All-District
2015 spring stats: 7 wins, 2
defeats, 2 saves, 2.68 ERA, 64
innings pitched, 14 walks, 64
strikeouts
Hamilton said: “From the first
time I visited Lee, I instantly fell
in love and knew this is where I
wanted to be. I’m beyond
blessed to have the opportunity
to continue my baseball career
at Lee University. I know the
baseball program is going to
train me to be the best athlete
and person that I can possibly
be, and I’m looking forward to
these next four years.”
Clinton head coach Brad
Collette said: “I am very proud
of Lance as a young man. He
has dedicated himself not only
athletically but also academically to achieve his goals. Lance
will be a great addition for the
Flames. He is well-rounded
young man and has a great family surrounding him. He will do
great things at Lee!”
Dedman said: “Lance is a
quick armed, strong framed lefthanded pitcher who grew several inches in just the last year.
He is a strike thrower at 80 to
84 (mph) with a big curveball,
and has solid changeup he can
throw for strikes. He has recently added a slider that we believe
can also be a good pitch for him.
“Lance’s current ability and
skill set are just the tip of the
iceberg for him; he has only
been in his current frame for a
few months and is still learning
how to use his new athletic
frame. He is a worker, an energy
giver, an excellent student and
loves the game. He is going to be
a very good pitcher in our program and we are excited to find
out just how good he can be.”
Auburn can add
luster to season
against Alabama
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Auburn
coach Gus Malzahn says
Alabama’s likely the most talented team in the country, has the
nation’s best defensive front
seven and one of the top running backs.
Without question, all that
adds up to an enormous challenge for the Tigers going into
Saturday’s Iron Bowl against the
second-ranked Crimson Tide.
The upside? A chance to ease a
bitterly disappointing season
with a big upset against
Auburn’s chief rival and improve
middling bowl prospects.
“It’s football and you’re not
going to win them all,” Tigers
offensive tackle Avery Young
said Tuesday. “It’s just understanding that anything can happen in any game. We understand how the season went and
how certain games went. We
play our hardest and do what
we’ve got to do and it will play
itself out.”
The Tigers (6-5, 2-5
Southeastern
Conference)
became bowl eligible with a 5634 win over Idaho, a game in
which they were outgained 479460 in total yards.
Christmas charities launch drives to help others
Three Cleveland charities that focus
on helping children and families at
Christmastime merged their more than
130 years of combined experience into
a new partnership this year.
It is designed to eliminate duplicate
fundraising and overlapped services,
thus expanding to better serve the families and children involved each year.
Christmas Party for Children in its
70th year, Empty Stocking Fund in its
40th year, and Creating Christmas
Memories in its 20th year, merged their
programs not long ago.
This Monday, from 6 to 9 a.m., My
Mix 104.1/WCLE Radio will broadcast
“live” from the International
Headquarters of The Church of God on
Keith Street. It begins a two-week
fundraiser to support the merged programs. It concludes Dec. 11, during a
“live” broadcast from Life Care Centers
of America on Keith Street from 6 to 10
a.m. Please listen and give to this event
to help us assure area children receive
gifts and clothing this Christmas. You
OUR CITY
Cleveland
Mayor
Tom
Rowland
can stop by or call in to make a donation.
Funds will be used to host a gigantic
party for children later in December.
Children, ages 5 to 11, will be treated
to a fun atmosphere of games, prizes,
fun and music. Parents and/or
guardians will pick up wrapped gifts
that have been shopped for according
to a “wish list” submitted by the children and parents. They can place gifts
in their cars and hold them to put
beneath the family tree at Christmas.
Children in the household who are
under the age of 5 and over 11 will
receive gifts as well. Over 1,000 will be
served this year.
This is the first year for the merger,
but it is designed in hopes of better
focusing on these organizations:
1. The Christmas Party for Children,
created in 1947 by the late Rev. and
Mrs. M.E. Littlefield of Faith Memorial
Church. The program continued
through the leadership of the
Littlefields’ grandson, Steve Hartline,
and his wife, Jennifer.
2. The Empty Stocking Fund, created in 1975 by me, my wife, Sandra,
and the late George R. (Bobby) Taylor,
benefited area foster children. A few
years ago, the Empty Stocking Fund
merged with the Christmas Party for
Children to help streamline overlapping
services.
3. Creating Christmas Memories
Foundation, begun in 1995 by Brenda
Lawson and family, allowing area
school children in need to take part in
a one-day shopping spree.
This new program is more in keeping with what the late Rev. Littlefield
began 70 years ago. He wanted chil-
dren to have an enjoyable and memorable event. He wanted the true meaning of Christmas to be the focus — the
birth of Jesus. His grandson, Steve,
who owns WCLE Radio and My Mix
104.1, continues the tradition with an
Empty Stocking fundraiser beginning
Nov. 30 through Dec. 11 on air. The
event this year will fund all three programs and eliminate three separate
fundraisers in the community.
Cleveland is a “giving” community
and it is our hope the merge will allow
all three charities to combine their
financial resources and their volunteer
manpower, and streamline the process
so children will have gifts beneath their
own trees on Christmas morning.
In the past, children shopped early,
played with their toys and then on
Christmas morning nothing was under
their tree. We hope this will create better Christmas memories for the entire
family, allowing parents to be the gift
givers on Christmas Day.
There are many other worthwhile
programs going on in this community.
Bradley County Sheriff Eric Evans
continues, for the 15th year, collecting
new and gently used coats for children
and adults. These are distributed as
needed throughout the year. They are
collected through various drop-off locations including the Bradley County
Justice Center.
The William Hall Rodgers Basket
Fund continues through the Cleveland
Daily Banner, and a wide range of
community and church volunteers, to
provide food baskets to families.
There are many other organizations
doing things as needs arise. Individual
church congregations also reach out to
families in their respective communities.
There are numerous opportunities to
“give back” this season.
We hope you can join us on Monday,
Nov. 30, or on Friday, Dec. 11, for the
My Mix 104.1/WCLE Drive as “The
City With Spirit” reaches out in the
true “spirit” of Christmas giving.
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Editorials
A hometown Thanksgiving
in a down-home way of life
O
n
this
glorious
Thanksgiving Day, an
untold
number
of
Americans from coast to coast
and corner to corner of our
magnificent land are gathering
to share in the blessing of
togetherness and to bask in the
comfort of family.
For those able to treasure
these special times, we urge all
to cherish their memory, to
honor their place in tradition
and to never forsake their
meaning to all that breeds love,
spreads warmth and anchors
unity.
As we wrote in this same editorial space last year, and in the
same Thanksgiving Day edition,
for those unable to share such
moments because of time or
place or distance, we pray for
renewed chance and another
day.
That’s because Thanksgiving
isn’t just a holiday. It isn’t just
an event. It isn’t just a thing. It is
an experience.
Thanksgiving is not just a
slice of sweet potato or pumpkin pie; it is a heaping portion of
America.
Thanksgiving is not just afternoon football and the Detroit
Lions; it is a reunion of spirit
and a commitment to hope and
to assembly.
hundred ways to cook a bird; it
is a thousand cries to pay tribute to a simpler side of life.
Thanksgiving is not just
mashed potatoes, cornbread
dressing and all that crowds a
festive table; it is a bond among
those who have shared a life and
shined a light of love for all to see.
Thanksgiving is not just a day
off work and a full day of retail;
it is a chance to spend time
together with those whose lives
have made a difference in our
own.
Thanksgiving is not just time
on the couch or naps in a big
chair; it is moments of reflection
and catching up on lost days.
Thanksgiving is not just pots
and pans and clutter of people
and clatter of dishes; it is hugs
and kisses in a kitchen of
embrace.
falling leaves and brisk autumn
air; it is a walk in the woods,
kids in the park and halftimes of
football in a backyard of play.
Thanksgiving is not just leftovers by night and passthrough snacks by day; it is
recipes from the heart and a
stove top of goodwill.
Thanksgiving is not just feeding the appetites of those who
have; it is remembering the
hunger, the loneliness and the
despair of those who have not.
Thanksgiving is not just the
laughter of the family within; it is
stepping up to ease the pain of
the family without.
crowded matinee; it is an
unseen and unheard workforce
— a station of firefighters, a law
enforcement patrol, a group of
paramedics and a busy wing of
hospital providers of care.
Gray Thursday, a Black Friday,
a Small Business Saturday or a
Cyber Monday; it is an unspoken chance to make a difference in a community of good
that is sometimes hounded by
an hour of bad.
laughter of children and the
smiles of their day; it is a soft
moment to dry a tear or to
reverse a frown.
Thanksgiving is not just celebrating all that we love about
life; it is finding a way to share
that love with those who have
struggled in a life unseen.
showing up late for a family dinner of ample spread; it is arriving early with a bountiful smile
and stories to tell.
deciding which meal to accept;
it is committing to deliver a meal
to a forgotten old man or an elderly homebound widow who is
alone and afraid.
Thanksgiving is not just being
the life of the party; it is being
the keeper of light for all who
live in a world of dark.
catching up on undone chores;
it is taking stock of unfinished
affairs of the heart and unspoken hurts of the spirit.
casual exchange with the everyday cousin; it is a long-distance
call to a faraway loved one
whose age and distance and
unknown ways have made him
a stranger in a family of neglect.
launch of a shopping list for
Christmas; it is the keeping of a
list of wants and needs and
wishes for those we love and
those whose lives we rarely
touch.
Thanksgiving is not just gaining pounds from a life of plenty;
it is gaining the experience of
life through acts of kindness.
Thanksgiving is not just filling
a refrigerator with unclaimed
morsels; it is filling the heart of
another through gentle words
and personal time and prolonged visits.
Thanksgiving is every piece
of life that is good and pure and
whole. It is a seasoned slice of
humanity and a generous helping of all that is right.
May all in Cleveland and
Bradley County mellow today in
this down-home Thanksgiving.
By the calendar, it comes but
once a year.
By the heart, its bounty
comes with every touch of the
sun.
We are blessed in this community. We could count the
ways. But such a list would
surely exceed the allotted
space given for this editorial’s
length.
In keeping with such truth, let
us simply offer, “Happy
Thanksgiving!”
It is a season prone to many
indulgences.
Let love be the first.
———
(About this editorial: This is a
partial reprint of an editorial first
appearing in the Nov. 27, 2014,
edition of the Cleveland Daily
Banner.)
TODAY IN HISTORY
(AP) — Today is Thursday,
Nov. 26, the 330th day of 2015.
There are 35 days left in the year.
This is Thanksgiving Day.
Today’s Highlight in History:
Nov. 26, 1789 was a day of
thanksgiving set aside by
President George Washington to
observe the adoption of the
Constitution of the United
States.
On this date:
In 1825, the first college social
fraternity, the Kappa Alpha
Society, was formed at Union
College in Schenectady, New
York.
In 1864, English mathematician and writer Charles Dodgson
presented a handwritten and
illustrated manuscript, “Alice’s
Adventures Under Ground,” to
his 12-year-old friend Alice
Pleasance Liddell; the book was
later turned into “Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland.”
In 1933, a judge in New York
ruled the James Joyce book
“Ulysses” was not obscene and
could be published in the United
States.
In 1941, a Japanese naval task
force consisting of six aircraft
carriers left the Kuril Islands,
headed toward Hawaii.
In 1942, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt ordered nationwide
gasoline rationing, beginning
Dec. 1. The motion picture
“Casablanca,”
starring
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid
Bergman, had its world premiere
at the Hollywood Theater in New
York.
In 1950, China entered the
Korean War, launching a counteroffensive against soldiers from
the United Nations, the U.S. and
South Korea.
In 1965, France launched its
first satellite, the 92-pound
Asterix, into orbit.
In 1973, President Richard
Nixon’s personal secretary, Rose
Mary Woods, told a federal court
that she’d accidentally caused
part of the 18 1/2-minute gap in
a key Watergate tape.
In 1975, President Gerald R.
Ford, having previously opposed
a bailout of New York City,
announced he would ask
Congress to provide a temporary
line of credit, citing progress
made by the city in putting its
financial affairs in order. A federal jury in Sacramento, California,
found Lynette Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, guilty of
trying to assassinate President
Ford. (Fromme, sentenced to life,
was paroled in 2009.)
In 1986, President Ronald
Reagan appointed a commission
headed by former Sen. John
Tower to investigate his National
Security Council staff in the
wake of the Iran-Contra affair.
In 1990, Japanese business
giant
Matsushita
Electric
Industrial Co. agreed to acquire
MCA Corp., owner of Universal
Studios, for $6.6 billion.
In 2000, Florida Secretary of
State Katherine Harris certified
George W. Bush the winner over
Al Gore in the state’s presidential
balloting by a 537-vote margin.
Ten years ago: Four members
of the Chicago-based aid group
Christian Peacemaker Teams —
an American, a Briton and two
Canadians — were taken hostage
in Iraq. (The American, Tom Fox,
was later killed; the others were
released.) Stan Berenstain, who
with wife Jan wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bear books,
died in suburban Philadelphia at
age 82.
Five years ago: Nineteenyear-old Somali-born Mohamed
Osman Mohamud was arrested
by federal agents in Portland,
Oregon, culminating an elaborate sting operation in which
Mohamud was led to believe he
would be detonating a van of
Low fuel costs mean cuts
for Mississippi Power bills
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) —
Thanks to lower natural gas
costs, Mississippi Power Co. is
planning to cut customer bills
early next year.
Pending approval by the state
Public Service Commission, the
company said Monday that bills
for a residential customer who
uses 1,000 kilowatt-hours per
month is likely to fall from $144
to $130.
The unit of Atlanta-based
Southern Co. is asking to cut
bills because it’s been charging
more for natural gas than it’s
been paying. Under state law,
utilities get to recover their fuel
costs, but aren’t supposed to
make a profit.
Spokesman Jeff Shepard says
Mississippi Power has charged
roughly $70 million too much for
natural gas, because last year it
projected higher gas prices than
it has paid. The company will
refund that over-collection as
part of the rate cut.
explosives during the city’s
Christmas tree lighting ceremony. (Mohamud was later sentenced to 30 years in prison.)
President
Barack
Obama
received 12 stitches in his upper
lip after taking an errant elbow
during a pickup basketball game
with family and friends visiting
for the Thanksgiving holiday.
One year ago: Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
had a heart stent implanted,
reviving talk about how long the
81-year-old liberal jurist would
be staying on the court. (As of
November
2015,
Justice
Ginsburg remains on the bench.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Impressionist Rich Little is 77.
Singer Tina Turner is 76. Singer
Jean Terrell is 71. Pop musician
John McVie is 70. Actress
Marianne Muellerleile is 67.
Actor Scott Jacoby is 59. Actress
Jamie Rose is 56. Country singer
Linda Davis is 53. Actor Scott
Adsit is 50. Blues singer-musician Bernard Allison is 50.
Country singer-musician Steve
Grisaffe is 50. Actress Kristin
Bauer is 42. Actor Peter Facinelli
is 42. Actress Tammy Lynn
Michaels Etheridge is 41. Actress
Maia Campbell is 39. Country
singer Joe Nichols is 39.
Contemporary Christian musicians Anthony and Randy
Armstrong (Red) are 37. Actress
Jessica Bowman is 35. Pop
singer Natasha Bedingfield is 34.
Country singer-musician Mike
Gossin (Gloriana Rock) is 31.
Ben Wysocki (The Fray) is 31.
Dear Annie: A while back you
printed a letter from “Desperate
Times,” a disabled single mother of
two. She said her parents offered to
buy her a house, but her sister
tried to block it, even though she
was married and well-off.
I have two sisters and a brother.
My brother had a heart transplant
25 years ago. He had four children
and was inundated with medical
bills. Our parents bought a house
for our brother and his family to
live in.
As our parents grew older, I suggested they give the house to my
brother now, not as part of his
inheritance later. Mom said it
wouldn’t be fair to the rest of us.
She explained that a few years
before, she and Dad wanted to give
our brother $1,000, but didn’t feel
it fair unless they gave the same
amount to all of us. I remember
how grateful I was, since it took two
years off of our very young mortgage.
I reminded Mom that they had
always been there for each one of
us kids when we needed them, and
each one of us needed them in different ways. That’s what fair is. My
sisters agreed that my brother and
his wife should have the house.
When our parents died and we
had to divide up their belongings,
there was no greediness or resentment. It became part of our dealing
with the grief we also shared. How
thankful I am not to have selfish,
jealous siblings. — Grateful Sister
and Daughter
Dear Grateful: Your letter is a
good fit for Thanksgiving Day, when
we all should take a look at our
blessings. Here’s a poem we have
printed in the past that might
remind everyone of these things:
‘Things to Be Thankful For’
(Author Unknown)
Be thankful for the clothes that
fit a little too snug, because it
means you have enough to eat.
Be thankful for the mess you
clean up after a party, because it
means you have been surrounded
by friends.
Be thankful for the taxes you
pay, because it means that you are
employed.
Be thankful that your lawn
needs mowing and your windows
need fixing, because it means you
have a home.
Be thankful for your heating bill,
because it means you are warm.
Be thankful for the laundry,
because it means you have clothes
to wear.
Be thankful for the lady who
sings off-key behind you in church,
because it means you can hear.
Be thankful people complain
about the government, because it
means we have freedom of speech.
Be thankful for the alarm that
goes off in the early morning hours,
because it means you’re alive.
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QUESTIONS & ATTITUDE
Compelling questions... and maybe a
few actual answers
A deserving
champion?
SPEED FREAKS
A couple questions
we had to ask — ourselves
Will Kyle Busch be a worthy
champ?
GODSPEAK: Don't know,
but he will be the most
well-rested, since he
missed 11 of the 36 Cup
Series races.
KEN'S CALL: It helps to
have a guy who likes to
talk, and he does like to
talk. But NASCAR might
not always like what he
says.
After Year 2 with this Chase
format, is it a keeper?
GODSPEAK: I believe conceptually speaking, yes.
Is this the final, final, final
format? No, you will see
tweaks down the road.
KEN'S CALL: You kidding
me? Nothing is a “keeper”
in modern sports entertainment. This is the
fourth format since the
2004 Chase birth. Expect
more.
Any chance Tony Stewart
runs as well as Jeff Gordon
did in his going-away
season?
GODSPEAK: Absolutely. He
makes the 2016 Chase.
KEN'S CALL: Doubtful.
Stewart's late-career
slide has become more
than just a slump. Gordon
never experienced anything like that.
3 THINGS WE LEARNED
AT HOMESTEAD
1. Good timing
Well, now, that's the thing about
this two-year-old Chase format.
You don't have to be the best over
the long haul of those 10 races,
just good enough to survive. Then
you need to "carry the mail" at
Homestead and you get the biggest
trophy. Remember, if not for the
Joey Logano-Matt Kenseth mess,
Kyle Busch likely wouldn't have been
a Final Four competitor at Homestead. In terms of determining a
champ, there are a ton of variables
with this Chase.
2. Gordon wanted it
Jeff Gordon wanted that
fifth Cup Series championship in the worst way.
Unfortunately, he didn’t
have enough car to get the
job done. Still, the 44-yearold retired by finishing
third in final points, making
a record 797 consecutive
starts and scoring 93 wins.
One of the sport’s greatest
careers.
And Jeff Gordon?
Kyle Busch had never won a Chase race dating back to his first season
(2005) in the NASCAR Cup Series. He stomped that streak at Homestead on Sunday. SEAN GARDNER/GETTY IMAGES
3. With a whimper
Racing will cease operations this week. Roberto
Duran said it best: "No
mas."
Ragan finished two laps
down in 27th, while teammate Clint Bowyer crashed
out on Lap 45. Waltrip
Michael Waltrip Racing
went down without much
of a fight at HomesteadMiami Speedway. David
— Godwin Kelly, [email protected]
Along with his 93 career wins,
people rightly celebrate Gordon's four championships, all won
between 1995-2001 under the old
season-long-points format. His team
was clearly the best those years.
If the Chase had been in effect his
whole career, he might've won four
more championships. Or he might've
won none at all. That's the weird
thing.
Ken Willis has been
covering NASCAR for
The Daytona Beach
News-Journal for 27
years. Reach him at ken.
[email protected]
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GODWIN’S PICKS FOR 2016 CUP SERIES
DARK HORSE: Tony
Stewart
DON’T BE SURPRISED IF:
Keselowski completes
the up-and-down-andup-again cycle and
returns to the head table
after a three-year hiatus.
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— Godwin Kelly, [email protected]
CHAMPION: Brad
Keselowski
REST OF TOP 5: Jimmie
Johnson, Denny Hamlin,
Kevin Harvick, Jamie
McMurray
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR:
Chase Elliott
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offseason. There could be
some big crew-chief changes
announced in the coming
weeks. Any top-tier driver who
didn’t make the Chase could
have a new guy on the pit box
in 2016. Take Richard Childress
Get
Fresh!
Actually, don’t be surprised
to see a wholesale shuffle
of team talent during the
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Nobody brought it up at
Homestead-Miami Speedway, but you have to wonder
if some drivers were put off
by Kyle Busch capturing the
championship on 25 starts.
The other three drivers he
battled for the crown made all
36 starts. NASCAR chairman
and CEO Brian France gave
Busch an exemption because
Busch was injured. Will these
exceptions to the rule become
the norm?
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2. Surprise, surprise
3. Any complaints?
Why is this man smiling? Maybe
because Carl Edwards likes the
new rules package that will be
used in NASCAR Cup Series racing
in 2016. JEFF ZELEVANSKY/GETTY
Dillon
CLINT BOWYER VS. TY DILLON: Bowyer
crashed out early and said, “Ty kind
of got squirrely and I tried to stay off
of him, and my car got loose and I just
couldn’t catch it.”
GODWIN KELLY’S TAKE: For the most part,
everybody played nice at Homestead.
This will be a distant memory at Budweiser Speedweeks.
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Racing, for example. That
three-car team hasn’t won in
two seasons. Crew chiefs are
like football coaches. They
come and go.
1. Rule changes
Sprint Cup drivers will be
racing different stock cars
in 2016. They will look the
same on the outside, but the
sanctioning body plans to
reduce the downforce of these
cars and make them harder
to handle. Drivers who like
to slide around in cars, such
as Carl Edwards and Jimmie
Johnson, will have a definite
advantage. The rules package
will affect races at 1.5- and
2-mile ovals. This could be
interesting.
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From an overall Chase
perspective?
As a member of the Chase
field, Kyle Busch had
never scored a victory in
the NASCAR Chase since
joining the tour in 2005.
He smashed that streak
Sunday like Gallagher
sledge-hammers watermelons. Not only did he win his
first race as a Chaser, but
that victory earned him a
forever spot in the record
book as 2015 Cup champ.
ONLINE EXTRAS
1. Kyle Busch
2. Kevin Harvick
3. Jeff Gordon
4. Martin Truex Jr.
5. Carl Edwards
6. Joey Logano
7. Brad Keselowski
8. Kurt Busch
9. Denny Hamlin
10. Jimmie Johnson
11. Ryan Newman
12. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
13. Jamie McMurray
14. Paul Menard
15. Matt Kenseth
16. Clint Bowyer
17. Aric Almirola
18. Kasey Kahne
19. Kyle Larson
20. Greg Biffle
21. Austin Dillon
22. AJ Allmendinger
23. Casey Mears
24. Danica Patrick
25. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
26. Sam Hornish Jr.
27. David Ragan
28. Tony Stewart
29. Trevor Bayne
30. Justin Allgaier
If you're talking specifically
about Sunday's
finale at Homestead, there's no
doubt. When you The shower of chamlook at the acrepions. ASSOCIATED
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put between his
car and Kevin Harvick's after that
final restart, it's obvious who was
thoroughly dominant when it mattered most.
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NASCAR for 30 years.
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Dec. 2-4: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Champion’s Week, Las Vegas
Jan. 22: NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Charlotte, North
Carolina
Feb. 13: The Sprint Unlimited, Daytona
International Speedway
Feb. 14: Daytona 500 pole qualifying,
Daytona International Speedway
Feb. 18: Can-Am Duel at Daytona
(Daytona 500 qualifying races), Daytona International Speedway
Feb. 19: NextEra Energy Resources
250 (Camping World Truck Series),
Daytona International Speedway
Feb. 20: PowerShares QQQ 300 (Xfinity Series), Daytona International
Speedway
Feb. 21: Daytona 500, Daytona International Speedway
NASCAR
WEEKLY DRIVER RANKINGS — BASED ON BEHAVIOR AND PERFORMANCE
KYLE
BUSCH
KEVIN
HARVICK
The format
13 runner-up
1
2
JOEY
LOGANO
JEFF
GORDON
BRAD
KESELOWSKI
JIMMIE
JOHNSON
MARTIN
TRUEX JR.
DENNY
HAMLIN
JUNIOR
EARNHARDT
Best overall year of
anyone
Happy trails
No Cup, but
another good
year
Lost the mojo
mid-season
Mr.
Over-Achiever
Mr. UnderAchiever
Finished with
a clunker
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
SPRINT CUP SCHEDULE AND RESULTS
Feb. 14 — x-Sprint Unlimited (Matt Kenseth)
Feb. 19 — x-Budweiser Duel 1 (Dale Earnhardt Jr.)
Feb. 19 — x-Budweiser Duel 2 (Jimmie Johnson)
Feb. 22 — Daytona 500 (Joey Logano)
March 1 — Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 (Jimmie Johnson)
March 8 — Kobalt 400 (Kevin Harvick)
March 15 — CampingWorld.com 500 (Kevin Harvick)
March 22 — Auto Club 400 (Brad Keselowski)
March 29 — STP 500 (Denny Hamlin)
April 11 — Duck Commander 500 (Jimmie Johnson)
April 19 — Food City 500 (Matt Kenseth)
April 25 — Toyota Owners 400 (Kurt Busch)
May 3 — Geico 500 (Dale Earnhardt Jr.)
May 9 — SpongeBob SquarePants 400 (Jimmie Johnson)
May 15 — x-Sprint Showdown (Greg Biffle and Clint Bowyer)
May 16 — x-NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race (Denny Hamlin)
May 24 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C. (Carl Edwards)
May 31 — Dover 400, Dover, Del. (Jimmie Johnson)
June 7 — Axalta “We Paint Winners” 400 (Martin Truex Jr.)
June 14 — Quicken Loans 400, Brooklyn, Mich. (Kurt Busch)
June 28 — Toyota-Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif. (Kyle Busch)
July 5 — Coke Zero 400, Daytona Beach (Dale Earnhardt Jr.)
July 11 — Quaker State 400, Sparta, Ky. (Kyle Busch)
July 19 — New Hampshire 301, Loudon, N.H. (Kyle Busch)
July 26 — Brickyard 400 (Kyle Busch)
Aug. 2 — Pennsylvania 400, Long Pond, Pa. (Matt Kenseth)
Aug. 9 — Cheez-It 355 at The Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y. (Joey
Logano)
Aug. 16 — Pure Michigan 400, Brooklyn, Mich. (Matt
Kenseth)
Aug. 22 — Irwin Tools Night Race, Bristol, Tenn. (Joey
Logano)
Sept. 6 — Bojangles’ Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. (Carl
Edwards)
Sept. 12 — Federated Auto Parts 400, Richmond, Va. (Matt
Kenseth)
Sept. 20 — MyAFibStory.com 400, Joliet, Ill. (Denny Hamlin)
Sept. 27 — Sylvania 300, Loudon, N.H. (Matt Kenseth)
Oct. 4 — AAA 400, Dover, Del. (Kevin Harvick)
Oct. 10 — Bank of America 500, Concord, N.C. (Joey Logano)
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Oct. 18 — Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas City, Kan. (Joey
Logano)
Oct. 25 — Alabama 500, Talladega, Ala. (Joey Logano)
Nov. 1 — Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500, Ridgeway, Va. (Jeff
Gordon)
Nov. 8 — AAA Texas 500, Fort Worth, Texas (Jimmie Johnson)
Nov. 15 — Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500, Avondale,
Ariz.
Nov. 22 — Ford EcoBoost 400, Homestead (Kyle Busch)
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Criminal justice issues showing up in presidential race
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the
campaign trail, among candidates of both parties, the idea of
locking up drug criminals for life
is a lot less popular than it was
a generation ago.
The 2016 presidential race
has accelerated an evolution
away from the traditional toughon-crime
candidate.
A
Republican Party that’s long
taken a law-and-order stance
finds itself desperate to improve
its standing among minority voters. Democratic candidates are
also being drawn into national
conversations on policing, drug
crimes and prison costs.
With criminal justice issues
intruding into election season,
the “Just Say No” message of the
Reagan administration and the
“three strikes” sentencing law
developed a decade later under
President Bill Clinton have given
way to concerns over bloated
prison costs, the racial
inequities of harsh drug punishments and how police interact
with their communities.
But even among those in both
parties who support changing
the criminal justice system,
there’s no consensus on how to
do it and candidates are scrambling to differentiate themselves
on what law and order means.
“You don’t have everyone saying they’re tough on crime,” said
Inimai Chettiar of the Brennan
Center for Justice in New York,
which advocates reducing
prison populations. “Instead,
you have people offering different policy solutions.”
The Paris attacks have at least
temporarily thrust national
security to the forefront of the
presidential race, but criminal
justice issues have been periodically popping up, particularly
among Democrats, in a year of
tumult in U.S. cities. In the
Republican field, Kentucky Sen.
Rand Paul has been out front in
seeking to “break the cycle of
incarceration for non-violent exoffenders.”
The push to rethink sentences
for drug offenders is coinciding
with the Black Lives Matter
movement and its debate about
police treatment of minorities, a
heroin crisis that’s brought
Sanders outlines
plan to overhaul
immigration laws
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Democratic
presidential
candidate Bernie Sanders
vowed Tuesday to create a
“humane” immigration system and said if elected he
would
expand
upon
President Barack Obama’s
executive actions within the
first 100 days of assuming
the presidency.
The Vermont senator said
he would allow all undocumented immigrants who
have been in the United
States for at least five years
to stay in the country without fear of being deported.
He said nearly 9 million
people would be covered by
his actions.
“We have an obligation to
enact policies that unite
families, not tear them
apart,” Sanders said in a
statement announcing the
plan.
Immigration has taken a
leading
role
in
the
Democratic
presidential
campaign
as
Hillary
Rodham Clinton, Martin
O’Malley and Sanders have
appealed to the party’s
growing segment of Latino
voters. The candidates have
suggested the Obama
administration has been too
aggressive in deporting people living in the U.S. illegally.
Sanders’ proposal came
days after the Obama
administration filed an
appeal to the Supreme
Court to review its plan to
shield from deportation
millions of immigrants who
are in the country illegally.
The Obama executive
actions were aimed at protecting and giving work
permits to as many as 5
million immigrants but federal courts have blocked
the executive actions following a lawsuit by a group
of mostly Republican-led
states.
The senator’s proposal is
rooted in pursuing executive actions without waiting
for Congress to overhaul
the nation’s immigration
system, steps his campaign
said would provide relief to
nearly 9 million immigrants
living in the U.S. illegally.
AP Photo
in thiS APRil 28 file photo, police stand in formation as a curfew approache in Baltimore, a day
after unrest that occurred following Freddie Gray’s funeral. On the campaign trail, among candidates of
both parties, the idea of locking up drug criminals for life is a lot less popular than it was a generation
ago. The 2016 presidential race has accelerated an evolution away from the traditional tough-on-crime
candidate. A Republican Party that’s long taken a law-and-order stance finds itself desperate to improve
its standing among minority voters while Democratic candidates are also being drawn into national conversations on policing, drug crimes and prison costs.
renewed attention to addiction
and a homicide spike in some
big cities. Sometimes that mix of
issues defies consistency.
Republican Chris Christie,
the New Jersey governor and a
former federal prosecutor, has
preached treatment rather than
prison for drug addicts and spoken sympathetically of a law
school friend who died from a
painkiller habit. But when it
comes to discussing policing, he
accuses President Barack
Obama’s administration of
“allowing lawlessness to reign”
and tells law enforcement “I’ll
have your back,” suggesting
that Obama doesn’t.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a fellow
Republican, criticizes harsh
mandatory minimum sentences
for drug offenders. But last
month he voted against legislation that would make nonvio-
lent drug offenders eligible for
shorter prison sentences, saying he was concerned it could
also benefit violent felons.
And while Florida Sen. Marco
Rubio has endorsed a review of
the criminal code and decried
“selective enforcement” of the
law, he wrote in an essay for a
Brennan Center book this year
that drug laws had helped
restore “law and order to
America’s cities” and that
shorter drug-crime sentences
should be approached with caution.
Support for more lenient sentencing from Republican members of Congress and wealthy
conservative backers such as
the Koch brothers has made it
easier for budget-minded presidential candidates to support
sentencing policy changes. It’s
not clear, though, how much
benefit candidates gain from
pressing the issue with average
voters, said Fergus Cullen, former chairman of the New
Hampshire Republican Party.
Some leading candidates
such as Donald Trump hardly
mention the issue on the campaign trail, and Ben Carson, the
sole Republican participant in a
recent candidate forum on
criminal justice, said he was
still waiting to see evidence of
racial bias by police.
“The Republican primary voters are not a soft-hearted
bunch when it comes to criminal justice issues, and I don’t
think there are a lot of voters to
be had,” Cullen said.
Democratic candidates are
more unified in their embrace of
the Black Lives Matter movement and of overall change to
the criminal justice system.
After Baltimore’s riots in April,
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the
Democratic front-runner whose
husband promoted a more conventional
tough-on-crime
stance, called the criminal justice system “out of balance” and
urged an end to “mass incarceration.” More recently, she proposed lifting restrictions on getting marijuana for medical studies and said it should be reclassified by the government to
allow
federally
sponsored
research into its effects.
Her rival, Vermont Sen.
Bernie Sanders, has called for
accountability for police officers
who “kill people who are
unarmed” and suggested moving
forward with marijuana legalization.
It’s all a big change from a
generation or two ago.
“The threat of someone waging a ‘tough on crime’ campaign
as their calling card is, I think,
very much diminished from
what we might have seen 20
years ago,” said Marc Mauer,
executive director of the
Sentencing Project, which advocates sentencing policy changes.
The “reform movement” has
strong enough support, Mauer
said, “that it would make it difficult for a candidate to try to
make hay out of it.”
It’s not clear how rising homicide rates in some cities will
affect efforts to remake the criminal justice system, especially
since there’s no consensus
about what’s caused the trend
or whether it will last. FBI
Director James Comey said
recently that if the trend continued, “we will be back to talking
about how law enforcement
needs to help rescue black
neighborhoods from the grip of
violence.”
“All lives matter too much for
us to let that happen,” he said.
It also remains to be seen how
campaign-trail rhetoric will
translate into policy or how committed a future president will be
in pushing for sentencing
changes. But issues of criminal
justice that in many ways were
once considered local concerns
are, at least for now, in play on
the national level.
Rubio finesses abortion stance criticized by Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) — When
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio staked out a
hard-line position on abortion
in the first GOP debate, Hillary
Rodham Clinton took notice.
The Democratic front-runner
said Rubio’s assertion that he
did not support abortion exceptions for victims of rape and
incest was “offensive and troubling.” At Clinton’s Brooklyn
campaign headquarters, aides
saw echoes of the controversial
abortion comments by other
GOP candidates that hurt
Republicans with women voters
during the 2012 election.
Since then, Rubio has been
finessing his statements. In an
interview with The Associated
Press, Rubio said he unequivocally backs abortion exceptions
when the life of the mother is in
danger. He said he also would
back legislation with allowances
for cases of rape and incest —
even though he personally
doesn’t support those exceptions.
“I, as president, will sign a
bill that has exceptions,” he
said. “I’ve supported bills that
have exceptions.”
“I do not personally require a
bill to have exceptions — other
than life of the mother — in
order for me to support it,”
Rubio added. “But I will sign a
bill as president that has exceptions.”
While Rubio’s policy position
remains the same, his tone and
emphasis in the interview were
notably different than in the
August GOP debate, when he
bristled at a question suggesting he supported allowing
women to end pregnancies that
resulted from rape or incest.
“I have never said that,”
Rubio said at the time. “And I
have never advocated that.
What I have advocated is that
we pass laws in this country
that say all human life at every
stage of its development is worthy of protection.”
Rubio’s advisers deny there’s
been a conscious effort to make
his views on abortion more
palatable to a general election
audience.
“We really do welcome a
debate on life in both the primary and general election,” said
Alex Conant, Rubio’s communications director.
Clinton’s campaign welcomes
the discussion, too.
“Marco Rubio joins much of
the Republican field in opposing
a woman’s right to control her
AP Photo
RePuBliCAn PReSidentiAl candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, RFla., speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in
Orlando, Fla. When Rubio staked out a hard line position on abortion
in the first GOP debate, Hillary Rodham Clinton took notice. Since
then, Rubio has been finessing his statements. In an interview with
the AP, Rubio said he unequivocally backs abortion exceptions when
the life of the mother is in danger. He said he also would back legislation with allowances for cases of rape and incest, even though he
personally doesn’t support those exceptions.
own health care decisions, even
in the case of rape and incest,”
said
Christina
Reynolds,
Clinton’s deputy communications director. “No attempt to
mislead on his record will
change the fact that his agenda
on women’s health is dangerously out of touch and out of
date.”
An
August
Quinnipiac
University poll showed that 78
percent of registered voters said
abortion should be legal in
cases of rape or incest, and 85
percent said it should be legal
to save the life of the mother.
The same poll showed 65 percent of registered voters said
they could support a presidential candidate that holds a different position than they do on
abortion.
Democrats’ early focus on
Rubio’s abortion position
underscores the party’s view
that he would pose a formidable challenge to Clinton in the
general election. The 44-yearold son of Cuban immigrants
has a compelling life story and
optimistic campaign message.
He’s been casting the 2016
election as a generational fight,
a strategy aimed not just at his
older Republican rivals, but
also at Clinton.
Rubio has supported legislation making allowances for
abortion, including a 2013 bill
than banned abortions after 20
weeks, with exceptions for
rape, incest and the health of
the mother. Still, the senator
has a perfect rating from the
National Right to Life organization. During his 2010 Senate
campaign in Florida, he
repeatedly called for overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark
Supreme Court decision that
legalized abortion.
While it’s unlikely abortion
will overtake the economy or
national security as the top
priority for voters, the issue
was briefly in the political
spotlight this fall after videos
surfaced showing Planned
Parenthood officials discussing
retrieving fetal tissue. Next
year, as the general election
kicks into high gear, the
Supreme Court is expected to
rule on a challenge to a Texas
abortion law seen as one of the
strictest in the nation.
Both parties can also point
to recent electoral examples
where using abortion and
women’s health as wedge
issues worked in their favor.
During the 2012 presidential
campaign, Democrats aggressively linked GOP nominee Mitt
Romney to controversial statements about rape and abortion
made by Republican candidates in statewide races.
Romney lost women voters by
10 points to President Barack
Obama.
Democrats tried to use a similar strategy during the 2014
Senate race in Colorado, a crucial swing state in presidential
elections. Sen. Mark Udall ran
numerous ads trying to cast his
Republican challenger Cory
Gardner’s anti-abortion stance
as extreme. But the singleissue focus backfired, and
Gardner handily defeated the
incumbent Democrat.
Rubio says he sees an opportunity to turn the abortion
debate around on Clinton in a
general election. He cast her as
the one out of step with most
Americans because she has
been more permissive of abortions and did not vote for a partial birth abortion ban when
she was in the Senate.
“Hillary Clinton basically
believes there should be no
restrictions on abortion,” Rubio
told the AP. “Those are radical,
out of touch views that she has
and I relish the opportunity to
expose her radicalism.”
Bill Clinton opening fundraising
spree for wife’s campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former
President Bill Clinton is going on
a fundraising swing reminiscent
of his presidential campaigns of
the 1990s. But this time he’s
doing it for his wife.
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign has scheduled
more than a dozen December
events featuring the former president as her team prepares for an
end-of-year finance deadline
ahead of the first contests in Iowa
and New Hampshire.
The fundraising blitz represents Bill Clinton’s most aggressive stretch of the year. It shows
how Hillary Clinton’s campaign
can multiply her money largesse
with the help of her husband,
one of the Democratic party’s
most prolific rainmakers.
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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE
Default having been made in the terms, conditions,
and payments provided in a certain Deed of Trust
dated MAY 26, 2010, executed by DONALD L LAY
AND REBA J LAY, HUSBAND AND WIFE, to TITLE
INSURANCE COMPANY Trustee, of record in BOOK
1975 PAGE 601, for the benefit of MORTGAGE
ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC. AS
NOMINEE FOR UNITED COMMUNITY BANK, D/B/A
UNITED COMMUNITY MORTGAGE SERVICES, INC.,
EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF STATE OF GEORGIA, P.O. BOX 670, BLAIRSVILLE, GA 30514, in the
Register's Office for BRADLEY County, Tennessee
and to J. PHILLIP JONES AND/OR JESSICA D.
BINKLEY, either of whom may act, appointed as
Substitute Trustee in an instrument of record in
the Register's Office for BRADLEY County, Tennessee,
to
secure
the
indebtedness
described;
WHEREAS, the said Deed of Trust was last assigned
to TENNESSEE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AGENCY,
the entire indebtedness having been declared due
and payable by TENNESSEE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AGENCY BY AND THROUGH ITS SERVICER
AND AUTHORIZED AGENT, U.S. BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, being the present owner/holder or
authorized agent, designee or servicer of the
holder/owner of said indebtedness, has requested
foreclosure proceedings to be instituted; and as
provided in said Deed of Trust, I, J. PHILLIP
JONES/JESSICA D. BINKLEY, will by virtue of the
power and authority vested in me as Substitute
Trustee, on THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2016 AT
1:00 P.M. (LOCAL TIME) AT THE MAIN DOOR OF
THE BRADLEY COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 155 NORTH
OCOEE
STREET
IN
CLEVELAND,
BRADLEY
COUNTY, TENNESSEE, sell to the highest bidder for
cash, free from the equity of redemption, homestead, and dower, and all other exemptions which
are expressly waived, and subject to any unpaid
taxes, if any, the following described property in
BRADLEY County, Tennessee, to wit:
PROPERTY LOCATED IN COUNTY OF BRADLEY,
TENNESSEE:
TAX MAP AND PARCEL NUMBER
073B-A-003.01
LOCATED IN THE FIRST CIVIL DISTRICT OF BRADLEY COUNTY, TENNESSEE:
THE WEST ONE HUNDRED (100) FEET OF LOT
THREE (3) L.B. BROWN SUBDIVISION AS SHOWN
BY PLAT OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK 2, PAGE 152
IN
THE
REGISTER’S
OFFICE
OF
BRADLEY
COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
BEING THE SAME REAL ESTATE CONVEYED TO
DONALD L. LAY AND WIFE, REBA J. LAY BY WARRANTY DEED FROM JIMMIE MAX BROWN DATED
MAY 26, 2010 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 1975,
PAGE 599 IN THE REGISTER’S OFFICE OF BRADLEY COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
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TO
ANY
GOVERNMENTAL
ZONING
AND/OR SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE OR REGULATION IN EFFECT THEREON.
SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS, CONDITIONS, RESERVATIONS, EASEMENTS AND STIPULATIONS AS
SET FORTH IN INSTRUMENT OF RECORD IN PLAT
BOOK 2, PAGE 152 IN THE REGISTER’S OFFICE OF
BRADLEY COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
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THE NOTICE OF THIS FORECLOSURE IS BEING
GIVEN TO THEM, AND THE SALE WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE APPLICABLE GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES RIGHT TO REDEEM THE PROPERTY, ALL AS
REQUIRED BY 26 U.S.C. 7425 AND T.C.A.
67-1-1433. THE NOTICE REQUIREMENTS OF T.C.A.
35-5-101 ET SEQ. HAVE BEEN MET.
THE RIGHT IS RESERVED TO ADJOURN THE DAY
OF THE SALE TO ANOTHER DAY, TIME AND PLACE
CERTAIN WITHOUT FURTHER PUBLICATION, UPON
ANNOUNCEMENT AT THE TIME AND PLACE FOR
THE
SALE
SET
FORTH
ABOVE.
THE
TRUSTEE/SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE RESERVES THE
RIGHT TO RESCIND THE SALE
IF YOU PURCHASE A PROPERTY AT THE FORECLOSURE SALE, THE ENTIRE PURCHASE PRICE IS
DUE AND PAYABLE AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE
AUCTION IN THE FORM OF A CERTIFIED/BANK
CHECK MADE PAYABLE TO OR ENDORSED TO LAW
OFFICE OF J. PHILLIP JONES. NO PERSONAL
CHECKS WILL BE ACCEPTED. TO THIS END, YOU
MUST BRING SUFFICIENT FUNDS TO OUTBID THE
LENDER AND ANY OTHER BIDDERS. INSUFFICIENT
FUNDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. AMOUNTS RECEIVED IN EXCESS OF THE WINNING BID WILL BE
REFUNDED TO THE SUCCESSFUL PURCHASER AT
THE TIME THE FORECLOSURE DEED IS DELIVERED.
OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: TENNESSEE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND
ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR
THAT PURPOSE.
This is improved property known as 202 BROWN
RD SE, CLEVELAND, TN 37323.
J. PHILLIP JONES/JESSICA D. BINKLEY, SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE
1800 HAYES STREET
NASHVILLE, TN 37203
(615) 254-4430
www.phillipjoneslaw.com
www.auction.com
F15-0969
November 19, 26, 2015; December 3, 2015
30. Help Wanted - Full Time
$$$ GREAT way to earn extra
$$$ Community Options is currently hiring Direct Support Professionals for our Chattanooga,
Tn area group homes. must be
willing to work weekends consistently! Direct Support Professionals are responsible for performing tasks that are essential to
helping adults with developmental
disabilities and significant behavioral challenges be as independent
as possible, lead safe and satisfying lives and be active members of
their community. Candidates who
have experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities or HHAs/ CNAs encouraged to
apply. High school diploma/ GED,
satisfactory Criminal Background,
current drivers license and vehicle
insurance and drug test are required.
$8.30
hour.
(phone)
423-892-0022 (fax) 423-892-7910
or [email protected].
E O E.
AUTOmOTIVE DEALERSHIP has
an opening for a full time Cashier/
Receptionist. mandatory hours are:
monday- Friday 8:30am-5:30pm. Additional hours may be required occasionally. Applicant must have cashiering and good phone skills, also
required parts and service's reconciliation. Please contact Belinda at
Larry Hill Ford 423-472-5454 to fill
out application or email resume to:
[email protected].
CAR WASH help needed. Apply at
917 Keith Street. No phone calls
please.
CLEVELAND ROOFING Co, Inc. is
looking for Roofers and Laborers. A
drivers license is a plus. must be
able to pass a drug test. Hourly pay
is based on experience. must apply
in person at 307 Industrial Way SW,
Cleveland, TN 37311. NO CALLS
PLEASE.
DELIVERY DRIVER needed. Box
truck experience helpful. Apply in
person at Scotts Furniture Company
1650 South Lee Highway, Cleveland.
EARN THOUSAND$ from home. Be
careful of work-at-home schemes.
Hidden costs can add up, and requirements may be unrealistic.
Learn how to avoid work-at-home
scams. Call the Federal Trade Commission. 1-877-FTC-HELP. A message from Cleveland Daily Banner
and the FTC. Or visit our Web site at
www.ftc.gov
ESTABLISHED mEDICAL practice
is accepting resumes for a full time
Certified Clinical medical Assistant.
Excellent benefit package. Please
fax resume to 423-472-1890 attn:
Practice manager.
FULL TImE Sign/ Lighting Technician needed. Drug free work place.
No experience necessary. must not
be afraid of heights. Apply at 2009
Blythe Avenue SE Cleveland TN
37311, 8am-2:30pm.
ExPERIENCED CAREGIVERS and
CNAs who are available to work
2nd, 3rd, or weekends. Please apply
in person at 60 25th Street NW #3,
in Cleveland. monday- Friday from
11am-5pm.
NOW TAKING applications for experienced lead men, welders, painters,
crane operators (must have CDL).
100% Drug Free. Background check
required. Great benefits! Insurance,
vacation/ holiday pay. minimum 3
years experience. must have valid
drivers license. Apply in person at
6789 Georgetown Road nW. No
phone calls, please. 423-472-4365.
Beaty Fabricating, Inc.
PALLET HANDLERS, General
Cleaners and Recyclers: Full time/
days or nights. must maintain work
area and follow all safety procedures, monday- Friday and every
other weekend, $8.50 to start. Call
Jamie 423-598-0634.
STARS, INC. is hiring Personal Assistant,
wage
$8.50.
Call
423-447-2590 ext. # 1
31. Work Wanted
ExPERIENCED CARE Giver with
references, bonding & background
check, looking to stay with seniors in
their home. 423-572-0157.
33. Business Opportunities
InvESTIGATE BEFORE
YOU InvEST!
Always a good policy, especially for
business opportunities and franchise. Call TN Division of consumer
Affairs at (800) 342-8385 or the Federal Trade Commission at (877)
FTC-HELP for free information. Or
visit our Web site at www.ftc.gov
PROCESS mEDICAL claims from
home? Chances are you won’t make
any money. Find out how to spot a
medical billing scam. Call the Federal Trade Commission,
1-877-FTC-HELP.
A message from
Cleveland Daily Banner and the
Federal Trade Commission. Or visit
our Web site at www.ftc.gov
34. Money To Lend
NEED CA$H fast but can’t get a
loan? Don’t pay for the promise of a
loan. Call the Federal Trade Commission at 1-877-FTC-HELP to learn
how to spot advance-fee loan
scams. A message from Cleveland
Daily Banner and the FTC. Or visit
our Web site at www.ftc.gov
LEGAL PUBLICATION
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE
Default having been made in the payment of the
debts and obligations described in and secured by a
certain Deed of Trust executed by PHILIP JUSTIN
HOOPER and wife, MELISSA ANN HOOPER to Cleveland Abstract, Trustee, recorded April 1, 2009 in
Bradley County Register's Office at Book 1898 Page
393 Inst#09004576 and the beneficial interest of
said Deed of Trust is owned by CARRINGTON
MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC, and the undersigned
having been appointed Successor Trustee by instrument recorded in said Register’s Office, this is notice that the undersigned will on December 8, 2015
at 1:00 PM local time, at the Bradley County Courthouse, Cleveland, Tennessee will proceed to sell at
public outcry to the highest and best bidder for
cash the following property located in Bradley
County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call
bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and
encumbrances of record.
Described property is in the 4th Civil District of
Bradley County, First Ward of the City of Cleveland,
Tennessee, being Lot 1 and the North 35 feet of Lot
2, Block D, Country Club Estates, per Plat Book 1,
Page 116. Being the same property conveyed to
Philip Justin Hooper, unmarried, recorded April 1,
2009, at Book 1898, Page 393, Inst#09004576, in
the Register’s Office of Bradley County, Tennessee.
Property Address: 1100 Club Drive SW, Cleveland,
TN 37311
TAX ID: 057B B 003.00 000
Current Owner(s) of Property: PHILIP JUSTIN
HOOPER and wife, MELISSA ANN HOOPER
The street address of the above described property
is believed to be 1100 Club Drive SW, Cleveland, TN
37311 but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the
event of any discrepancy, the legal description referenced herein shall control.
SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION.
If applicable, the notice requirements of T.C.A.
35-5-117 have been met.
Other Interested Parties:
Southeast Tennessee Orthopedics
All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said
Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good,
but the undersigned will sell and convey only as
Substitute Trustee. The right is reserved to adjourn
the sale to another day, time and place certain
without further publication, upon announcement of
the time and place for the sale set forth above. If
you purchase the property at the foreclosure sale,
the entire purchase price is due and payable at the
conclusion of the auction in the form of certified
bank check made payable to Solomon Baggett, LLC
Escrow Account. No personal checks will be accepted. You must bring sufficient funds to outbid
the lender and any other bidders. Insufficient funds
will not be accepted. Amounts received in excess of
the winning bid will be refunded to the successful
purchaser at the time the foreclosure deed is delivered. This property is being sold with the express
reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation
by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded
by the Substitute Trustee at any time.
THIS LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR
AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT
PURPOSE.
Robert J. Solomon
Substitute Trustee
Solomon | Baggett, LLC
40 Technology Parkway South, Suite 202
Norcross, Georgia 30092
(678) 243-2512
Our File No. CMS.00695
11/12/15; 11/19/15; and 11/26/15
November 12, 19, 26, 2015
40. General Services Offered
* GOT leaves? Call for removal
423-716-5259.
Prompt
service.
Reader's Choice Winner.
DANNY'S TREE SERVICE: Tree removal, shrubbery trimmed and
planted. Senior Discounts. 30 years
experience. 423-244-6676.
PROFESSIONAL TREE Work, free
estimates. Nothing too tough. Call
423-584-7994.
REPLACE/ REmODEL your roof
with Best Roofing! Warranty certification. Certified Tennessee Roofer/
Bonded
423-595-1798.
bestroofing.biz
45. vacation Rentals
2 RIVERS CAmPING: RV Park,
Cabin Rentals, directly on the river
at junction of Hiwassee and Ocoee
Rivers. 423-338-7208.
BEAR PAW COTTAGES- 2, 3 bedrooms, $75- $85. mountains, fireplace, serenity. 423-476–8480.
46. Storage Space For Rent
CALFEE'S mINI Warehouse for rent:
Georgetown Pike, Spring Place
Road and Highway 64. Call
476–2777.
TEmPSAFE STORAGE
Climate Controlled
& Outside Units
Downtown Location
& Georgetown Road
614-4111
2 BEDROOm DUPLEx APARTmENT, stove, refrigerator, water furnished, washer/ dryer hookup. 1875
Green Drive. No pets, no smoking.
$550 monthly, $275 deposit. Call between noon and 5pm. 423-310-0742
50. Mobile Homes For Rent
2 AND 3 bedrooms starting at $110
weekly, plus deposit.
monday
through Sunday 423-790-7141.
COLLEGETOWN
mOBILE
ESTATES: Two bedrooms nice and
clean. 472–6555.
52. Sleeping Rooms
$149 PLUS tax weekly special, 1
person with ad, HBO/ ESPN.
423-728–4551.
ExTENDED STAY Suites. 550
square feet, furnished, cable, internet, utilities, kitchen. 423-584-6505.
53. Houses For Rent
$1,300: 3- 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 2
car garage, central heat/ air, large
deck on back overlooking a duck
pond. 423-472-4000 or
www.jonesproperties.biz.
$800: 3 Bedroom, 1 bath, close to
Bradley High School, fenced back
yard. 423-472-4000 or
48. Office Space For Rent
NORTH KEITH Street: First month
free rent with acceptable application
and paid deposit. Owner/ Agent
STONY
BROOKS
REALTY
423-479-4514.
OFFICE AVAILABLE. multiple sizes,
423-991-4984.
OFFICE/ RETAIL Space Available,
short and long term lease. Several
locations, priced from $300 up. Call
Jones
Properties
423-472-4000
49. Apartments For Rent
$1,800: LUxURY Apartment, fully
furnished, utilities paid. Located on
quiet side street. Contact Jones
Properties 423-472-4000
www.jonesproperties.biz
$495: 2 Bedroom, 1 bath, wood
floors, new paint, water included.
PROVISION REAL ESTATE AND
PROPERTY mANAGEmENT, LLC
423-693-0301.
$550: 2 Bedroom, 1 bath on
Georgetown Road. 423-472-4000 or
$600: 2 Bedroom, 1.5 bath with
basement/ garage. 423-472-4000 or
$680 mONTHLY: 2 Bedroom townhome, 1,200 square feet, 1170
Weeks
Drive.
No
pets.
423-961-3699 Agent/ Owner.
PUBLISHER'S NOTICE: All real estate advertised in this newspaper is
subject to the Federal Fair Housing
Act of 1968 and the Tennessee Human Rights Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference,
limitation or discrimination based on
race, color, religion, sex, or national
origin, handicap/ disability or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination."
This newspaper will not knowingly
accept any advertising for real estate
which is in violation of the law. Our
readers are informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper
are available on an equal opportunity basis. Equal Housing Opportunity, m/F.
3 BEDROOm, 2 full baths, large
kitchen with island, wood flooring
down stairs, large yard, laundry
room, all appliances. Great house!
$950 plus deposit. 423-298-2833 or
423-478-3717.
3 BEDROOmS, 2 baths, small
kitchen, family room, living room,
laundry room. 22nd Street NE. $800
monthly, lease, deposit. No smoking/
No pets. 423-284-8448.
ADORABLE: 2 Bedroom with laundry off Spring Place $599 monthly.
423-650-5027.
mOUNTAIN BROOK Subdivision: 3
Bedroom, 2 bath, clean, will consider
short term, references required,
$1,500 monthly, plus deposit.
423-336-8479.
56. Houses For Sale
PUBLISHER'S NOTICE: All real estate advertised in this newspaper is
subject to the Federal Fair Housing
Act of 1968 and the Tennessee Human Rights Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference,
limitation or discrimination based on
race, color, religion, sex, or national
origin, handicap/ disability or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination."
This newspaper will not knowingly
accept any advertising for real estate
which is in violation of the law. Our
readers are informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper
are available on an equal opportunity basis. Equal Housing Opportunity, m/F.
1 OR 2 bedroom available. No pets,
no smoking in house. For more information call 423-227-9146.
2 BEDROOm, 2.5 bath, living room,
kitchen, great location. Quiet area,
secluded street, close to all amenities. Approximately 1,600 square
feet, $900 monthly. Please call
210-316-3232.
BEST PLACE for living! 2 Bedroom,
$645, with bonus room $680.
423-667-4967.
BLYTHEWOOD- STEEPLECHASE
APARTMEnTS- 1 Bedroom with
utilities furnished ($369- $559); 2
Bedroom ($429- $599). Appliances
furnished; duplexes. 423-472–7788.
BRICK TRI-PLEx, 2 bedroom,
washer/ dryer hook-up, appliances,
convenient northwest area. 1 year
lease. $425 monthly, $225 deposit.
No
pets.
423-476-4476
or
423-310-2205.
CLEAN, SPACIOUS, 2 bedrooms,
2.5 baths, covered parking, lease,
deposit. 423-479-5451.
CONDO: FOR sale by owner in
Ocoee Place. 2 bedroom, 2 full bath,
open floor plan, lots of extras, gated
community,
$204,500.
423-718-2173.
mOUNTAIN HOmE surrounded by
Cherokee National Forest. Outdoorsman dream! within a few miles
of Parksville Lake, Ocoee & Hiwassee Rivers, also amazing trail systems. 2 bedrooms 1 bath, 928
square foot fixer upper with alot of
potential. Beautiful pasture & creek
views right from the covered front
porch. Sits on 1.5 acres with a covered stone patio in the back. 2 out
buildings & a spring that runs
through the property. $56,000.
423-240-8443.
ATTEnTIOn
FOR SALE BY OWnERS
I HAvE A BUYER THAT IS
LOOKInG FOR A
3- 4 BEDROOM, 2- 3 BATH
HOME In THE EDGEWOOD
SUBDIvISIOn, OFF OCOEE In
CLEvELAnD Tn WITH An In
GROUnD POOL.
IF YOU HAvE SUCH A HOME
CALL OR EMAIL ME FOR
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CELL: 423-593-1508
OFFICE: 423-478-2332
62. Boats & Marine Equipment
PONTOON BOAT, 2001 Sylvan Elite
Fish and Cruise. 50 horsepower
Honda, excellent condition. Retail
$7,700; will take $6,750 until Christmas. 423-476-4194.
RENFRO CHARLESTON, LLC
KNITTING SUPERVISOR
7 P.M. TILL 7 A.M.
ROTATING DAYS
Renfro, Charleston, LLC, locate in Cleveland,
Tennessee has an immediate opening for a night shift
Knitting Supervisor.
Key Responsibilities
• Quality, waste, labor costs, sock count, efficiency
levels & attendance
• Assist management with team development, cost
reduction program & cross training
• Daily and weekly data feedback
• Employee assignment, hiring & training new
employees
• Safety program
Qualified candidate will ensure the proper execution of
all job elements of the employees, create a positive
perception of self to employees, other management and
to the community.
Please apply online at jobs4tn.com or in person at:
4405 Michigan Avenue Road
Cleveland, TN 37323
EOE/AA: Minorities/Females/Disabled/Vets
AP Photo
A JEwish MAN reads the Torah at La Ghriba, the oldest synagogue in Africa, on the Island of Djerba,
AP Photo
A toUrist visits La Ghriba, the oldest synagogue in Africa, on the Island of Djerba, southern Tunisia.
southern Tunisia. The Jewish community in the resort island of Djerba traces its roots all the way back
to Babylonian exile of 586 B.C., and is one of the few communities of its kind to have survived the turmoil Beneath intricate tile walls bearing blue and yellow geometric shapes that would not seem out of place
around the creation of Israel, when more than 800,000 Jews across the Arab world either emigrated or at a mosque. The synagogue’s name can be translated as “strange” or “miraculous.”
were driven from their homes.
Ancient Jewish community endures on Tunisian isle
DJERBA, Tunisia (AP) — When
school lets out, the streets
around the ancient synagogue on
this Tunisian island fill with
rambunctious boys wearing
Jewish kippahs and girls in long
skirts, shouting to each other in
Hebrew, Arabic and French.
The Jewish community in the
resort island of Djerba traces its
roots all the way back to
Babylonian exile of 586 B.C., and
is one of the few communities of
its kind to have survived the turmoil around the creation of
Israel, when more than 800,000
Jews across the Arab world
either emigrated or were driven
from their homes.
Here the faithful pray at the La
Ghriba synagogue — widely
believed to be Africa’s oldest —
beneath intricate tile walls bearing blue and yellow geometric
shapes that would not seem out
of place at a mosque. The synagogue’s name can be translated
as “strange” or “miraculous.”
The surrounding streets
include a kosher butcher, a bakery that sells a traditional tunafilled pastry known as “brik” and
schools that teach lessons in
Hebrew, French and Arabic.
During the annual Lag BaOmer
festival, the streets throng with
Jewish pilgrims who venerate
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a second-century mystic.
“We’re almost 1,500 now
across the country, maybe fewer
than residents of a building in
New York,” says Jacob LaLoush,
55, the owner of Mamie Lily, a
popular kosher restaurant in the
capital, Tunis. “But we have a
perfect Jewish life: schools, synagogues, and kosher shops. Even
if they are not many.”
Tunisia’s Jewish population
has dwindled from 100,000 in
1956, when the country won
independence from France, to
less than 1,500, mainly as a
result of emigration to France
and Israel. But unlike in much of
the rest of the Arab world,
Tunisian Jews have seen little
direct persecution and have only
rarely been targeted by extremists.
LaLoush says their situation is
“completely different from other
Arab countries, where there were
laws and policies that forced the
Jewish communities out.” But he
says there have been times when
they were “not pushed out of
Tunis, but were shown the
doors.”
A suicide truck bombing carried out by al-Qaida outside the
Djerba synagogue in 2002 killed
19 people, mainly German
tourists. To this day the neighborhood and the synagogue are
heavily guarded by police.
“We have coexisted with our
Muslim friends for a long time.
We share food, music and tradi-
tion,” said Ariel Houri, who
works in his father’s furniture
shop in Djerba. As to the occasional friction, “it’s mostly the
hot-headed youth, they get
affected by the news. But the
older ones are still sitting in
cafes, sharing drinks every
day.”
Here is a series of photos by
Associated Press photographer
Mosa’ab Elshamy.
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A stAr of dAvid is seen outside the Synagogue of the Kohanim
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Prosecutors said Cameron Carl
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prompting security to evacuate
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