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Norcross ordinance draws concern Critics question effects of limiting extended hotel stays

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Norcross officials say they are adopting stricter rules for how long someone can live in an extended stay motel in the city because they want to

improve the health and safety of those hotels.

Other people are concerned the move will have a different result.

The Norcross City Council adopted an overhauled hotel and motel ordinance that sets new limits on how long indi-

viduals and families can continuously stay at one of the city’s 14 hotels earlier this month. The new rules say no one can stay in a hotel or motel continuously for more than 15 days at a time, but there is a higher 30-day limit for extended stay hotels.

Family Promise of Gwinnett’s Chuck Ferraro said it could have far-reaching implications for families who call those hotels home.

“I’ve spoken with the director of the Lawrenceville Housing Authority and somebody with the county

(and) we are anticipating a migration from Norcross to other cities in the county and outside the county, particularly inside the county,” Ferraro said.

The ordinance’s adoption has lead to some backlash from residents and concerns from organizations that offer assistance to Gwinnett’s homeless population.

There have been protests at school bus stops this week, and residents and leaders of assistance groups plan on attending the City Council’s next meeting to address the issue.

Among the concerns opponents have about the ordinance is how it will

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Land next to Coolray Field approved for senior housing

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

The Gwinnett Braves are about to get some new neighbors who are looking for a place to live out their golden years.

Gwinnett County commissioners approved a rezoning and two special use permit requests from Mansions Senior Living for a 19.21-acre piece of lane between Coolray Field and a nearby Publix grocery store on Buford Drive on Tuesday. Mansions plans to build a retirement community and assisted living facility on the site.

“As we think about as we grow older the idea of aging in place has become quite popular,” Mansions Senior Living representative Doug Dillard said. “This particular development encourages that and provides a place for single-family detached (homes), townhomes, independent living in a multifamily environment and assisted living all within a 20-acre campus.”

The county has given Mansions Senior Living permission to build a 272-unit residential development next to the stadium, with the plans including a two-story, 95-unit assisted living facility; a four-story, 130-unit independent living facility; 17 town homes and 30 single-family homes for senior citizens.

The development, which would be called The Mansions at Gwinnett, would be similar to a project Mansions Senior Living recently did in Alpharetta, according to Dillard. He showed an artist’s rendering from the Alpharetta See HOUSING, Page 7A

This illustration shows a Mansions Senior Living development in Alpharetta.

The company is planning to build a similar senior living community next to Coolray Field on Buford Drive. (Photo Courtesy of Mansions Senior Living)

Merry and bright

From left, Bryan Wooldridge high-fives his son, Brandon, 1, who sits on Santa’s lap at the Mall of Georgia on Wednesday. (Staff Photo: Erika Wells)

Children make last-minute visits to see Santa

BY ERIKA WELLS

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A Gwinnett dad was lucky enough to avoid having a permanent memory of a miserable child visiting Santa as he and his son visited the Mall of Georgia ahead of Christmas.

Bryan Wooldridge took his 1-year-old son, Brandon, to the mall early Wednesday morning for a photo shoot with the jolly ol’ man from the North Pole.

Unlike a lot of babies his age, the little guy took to it like a champ.

“I’m so happy to have a happy baby,” Wooldridge said. “I’m glad I don’t have

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I just love to see children smile and that sparkle in their eyes. It’s all about the children. It’s such an honor to be part of all these children’s lives; it’s really a blessing and a privilege.”

— Santa Claus at the Mall of Georgia

to deal with a cranky one sitting on Santa’s lap.”

Wooldridge smiled as he high-fived his bright-eyed son, who wore a cozy beige sweater while taking pictures with Santa.

The new dad enjoyed the special moments without his wife, Anita, who was away undergoing chemotherapy. She was diagnosed with stage four Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of can-

cer that attacks the immune system. She’s in remission and halfway through treatment. Wooldridge’s mother was with his wife during the session.

Wooldridge’s mom has been paying their expenses during the cancer treatment. Wooldridge’s mother asked the couple not buy her a Christmas gift, but the couple decided to give her photos of her grandchild

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visiting Santa this year.

“She may not get them before Christmas, but I know she’s going to like them when she does get them,” he said.

Each family that visits Santa at the Von Maur court has a different story, but they all do so to brighten their holiday season.

“I just love to see children smile and that sparkle in their eyes,” Santa said. “It’s all about the children.

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Gwinnett Tech alumna wins second duck recipe contest

BY KEITH FARNER

service business segments, including restauA Gwinnett Technical College rants, catering, alumna is now a two-time winner college/univerin a national duck recipe contest. sity, healthcare This time as a professional. and education Executive Sous Chef Eljesa competed for the Eljesa Haxhiu won the grand prize and prize money.

Haxhiu $10,000 for her winning recipe The contest of Mole Duck Taco with puffed was for original appetizers or rice, avocado cilantro puree and first course dishes featuring pineapple radish salsa. She beat Maple Leaf Farms duck prodout 284 entries in the annual con- ucts. The theme was to broaden test put on by Maple Leaf Farms. recipes beyond duck as a main Professional chefs and culicourse meal, and create duck nary students from various food applications that fit into a local

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bistro, a brew pub or on a tasting menu. Recipes were judged on flavor, creativity and originality, accuracy of recipe and methodology.

Haxhiu two years ago won a similar contest as a student with her citrus-seared duck breast with herb goat cheese. That gave her $2,500 and Gwinnett Tech’s culinary program $1,000 in Maple Leaf Farms duck products.

Haxhiu is the only competitor to win in the student and profes- Gwinnett Tech Culinary Arts graduate and Executive Sous Chef Eljesional divisions. sa Haxhiu won a grand prize in a recipe contest with Mole Duck Taco

with puffed rice, avocado cilantro puree and pineapple radish salsa.

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Local Buffalo’s Cafes offering Man wanted in credit card theft free meal for law enforcement

By Cailin O’Brien

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form or show their police identification badges. The offer lasts from Dec. 26 to New Year’s Eve. Local law enforcement “They serve us every will be allowed to get some day, now we want to serve chicken wings for free next them,” Dalrymple said in a week in a sign of apprecia- statement. “It’s just our way tion from some local Bufof saying ‘Merry Christfalo’s Cafe locations. mas.’”

The chain’s Hamilton The offer allows officers Mill, Grayson and Suwanee to get a dine-in or take out locations are among a lunch or dinner meal, and group of five local locations a non-alcoholic drink, for owned by Paul Dalrymple free. Family members dinthat will offer free meals to ing with the officers can get law enforcement officers 30 percent off their meals, who either show up in uni- as well. The discount does curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

not cover alcohol, though.

A statement from the five participating locations said there is no limit to how many meals an officer can get for free next week.

The three participating Gwinnett locations are located at 3450 Braselton Highway in Dacula, 1365 Grayson Highway in unincorporated Lawrenceville and 991 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Suwanee.

The other two participating locations are Dalrymple’s Acworth and Flowery Branch restaurants.

Gwinnett County police are looking for a man who may have used credit cards stolen from a car to shop at a Walmart in Buford.

A woman reported her car was broken into in the Gold’s Gym parking lot in Dacula on Dec. 5 at about 8 p.m. while she was working out. Her driver’s license, social security card, two credit cards and a debit card were stolen, along with the purse.

Surveillance cameras

Police are looking to question this man about credit cards stolen from a car in the Gold’s Gym parking lot in Buford on Dec. 5. (Courtesy: Gwinnett County Police Department)

at the Walmart at Sardis Church Road in Buford captured pictures of a black man wearing a black beanie, jeans and a gray hoodie who may have used the stolen cards.

He’s wanted for questioning, according to a press release.

Anybody with information on the case should call Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477.

Police: Man bought computers Survivor IDs Aaron Hernandez in Buford using stolen identity as killer in 2012 shooting deaths By lawrenCe CrOOk iii

By Cailin O’Brien

used to buy two Apple lapcailin.obrien tops at a Best Buy in Buford @gwinnettdailypost.com Aug. 2 around 12 p.m.

The card was also used to Gwinnett County police make an ATM withdrawal at are looking for a man who a Buford QuickTrip, where stole an out-of-state woman’s officers were able to find identity to buy two Apple surveillance photos of a white laptops. man dressed in sunglasses The suspect stole the wom- and camoflauge using the an’s identity and used it to card. Police estimate he’s open a Citibank Mastercard anywhere from 45 to 60 years under the name Karen Buck- old. ley, who supposedly lived in Anybody with information Lawrenceville, according to in the case should call Crime a police report. The card was Stoppers at 404-577-8477.

car carrying the victims and open fire at a stoplight.

A survivor identified Hernandez, who is imprisoned former New serving a life sentence England Patriots player after being convicted Aaron Hernandez as the of the 2013 killing of person who shot and killed semipro football player two men inside the same Odin Lloyd, has pleaded car in which he was riding. not guilty to two counts Prosecutors allege that of first-degree murder an accidental dance floor in the deaths of Daniel bump and a spilled drink de Abreau and Safiro at a Boston club in July Furtado.

2012 agitated Hernandez, Raychides Sanches tescausing him to follow the tified Tuesday at a pretrial

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Gwinnett County police are looking for this man, who used a credit card opened with a stolen identity to take money out at a Buford QuikTrip. (Photo Courtesy of Gwinnett County Police Department)

hearing that he was riding in the back seat of a vehicle with four others after leaving the Boston club.

The men were listening to music and talking when they pulled up to a stoplight. Sanches testified that an SUV pulled up and a man leaned out and yelled, “What’s up, negroes?”

The shooter then allegedly opened fire. Sanches described being “panicked, screaming, crying, crazy.”

Gwinnett police getting new equipment for dealing with hazards

By Curt yeOmans

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Gwinnett County police are partnering with the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency to get new equipment to help deal with hazardous devices and materials.

The county’s Board of Commissioners voted to approve a memorandum of understanding that lets the agency, also known as GEMHSA, buy $153,500 worth of equipment for the Gwinnett County Police Department’s Hazardous Devices Unit on Tuesday.

The funding will come

from the Homeland of the Security Grant Program, hazardous according to a copy of the devices agreement. unit,” Po“This MOU authorizes lice Chief the Georgia Emergency Butch Management and HomeAyers told land Security Agency to commisButch Ayers purchase various types sioners. of equipment, such as “This portable X-Ray equipment equipment will be purand disruptors, on behalf chased by GEMHSA and

will enhance and maintain the unit’s capabilities with regards to hazardous device responses.”

The commission also voted to accept a $46,000 grant from the agency that will be used to buy equipment and supplies for the police department’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and

Explosives, or CBRNE, Team.

“The grant funds will used to purchase CBRNE suits, breathing filters, individual decontamination kits, gloves and boots that will enhance and maintain the team’s capabilities regarding CBRNE responses,” Ayers told commissioners.

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Unterman co-files bipartisan dental hygienist bill State Sen. Renee Unterman, R-Buford, is one of three state legislators who filed bipartisan legislation to address dental hygiene care on Tuesday.

Unterman; Sen. Valencia Seay, D-Riverdale; and Rep. Sharon Cooper, R-Marietta, are working together on the legislation, which will set new requirements that dental hygienists must meet for licensing qualifications “It is an honor to have everyone here today to announce bipartisan legislation that will take

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oral care to those who do not have access to it.

“We must think Renee about those Unterman that have been left behind and ensure Curt Yeomans they are not forgotten.”

Among the bill’s care of the most vulnerable provisions is language citizens in our state,” Unthat states what a denterman said in a statement. tal hygienist must do to “This is simple, common qualify to provide cleansense legislation that will ing and fluoride treatment give a basic necessity like to patients at so-called

BY JENNY CATHERALL AND CAMILLE PENDLEY Georgia Health News

46 certified in film at Gwinnett Tech keith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com

Gwinnett Technical College got in on the ground-floor of the film industry boom in Georgia, and now the Lawrenceville school is producing qualified production workers.

Gwinnett Tech announced on Wednesday that it’s awarded 46 certificates to people who completed work at the Georgia Film Academy.

Earlier this year, Gwinnett Tech was one of three schools that helped Georgia Film Academy pilot this program, which has since expanded to nine colleges in Georgia.

Gwinnett Tech was the first technical college in Georgia to award these certificates to students that look to launch careers in filmmaking.

“Breaking into the film industry is not easy,” Rebecca Alexander, interim vice president of academic affairs at Gwinnett Tech said in a press release.

“On-set film workers need very specific training. The film industry is fast-paced and time is money. Film producers want skilled workers that can hit the ground running from day one. At Gwinnett Tech, we’re committed to ensuring our Georgia Film Academy graduates are equipped and ready to fill these high-demand jobs.”

The work is covered during a 32-week program that offers hands-on training and experience in major film and television productions. It’s an 18-credit hour program made up of two courses specifically designed to provide students with onset film production skills.

The first course combines classroom instruction and hands-on

over yet, state officials believe fireworks won’t present a fire hazard for now.

“The insurance and safety fire commissioner has determined that increased precipitation in recent weeks has diminished the threat posed by consumer fireworks and has requested the prohibition against the ignition of consumer fireworks be lifted,” Deal said in an executive order.

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The face and politics of Medicaid expansion

Graduates from the first Georgia Film Academy program show off their new GFA Production Certification cards that validate their training and credentials in the film industry. (Special Photo)

BY KEITH FARNER

“safety net” locations, such nounced as dental offices where this week dentists are not present, that he is nursing homes and hospice lifting the centers. prohibiThe bill would limit tion on the dentists to assigning four ignition of dental hygienists on his or fireworks Nathan her staff to perform cleanjust in time Deal ings and fluoride treatment for the arunder the dentist’s supervi- rival of 2017. The governor sion. issued a ban on the use of fireworks last month as Deal lifts fireworks ban persistent drought condiIt turns out New Year’s tions led to wildfires in Eve celebrations will be al- north Georgia. lowed to go off with a bang Since then, the state has after all next week. seen the rain return and Gov. Nathan Deal anwhile the drought isn’t

experience with industry standard equipment. The second is a semester onset, where students learn and hone their craft while working with the crew of a professional production.

The program prepares students for entry-level positions both on set and in production offices.

Students can earn credits towards their degree. A stand-alone certificate is also offered to non-creditseeking students.

Gwinnett Tech’s 46 Georgia Film Academy students completed their on-set internships on 11 television and movie productions, including “The Walking Dead,” “SpiderMan,” “Krystal,” “Finding Steve McQueen,” Adult Swim, “Stan Against Evil,” “Life of the Party” and “Step Sisters.” Some also worked with equipment and studio rental companies like Cineverse and MBS. Many students have already landed industry jobs.

There are currently more than 40 television shows and feature film projects in production in Georgia. By June, an estimated 1,100 students are slated to graduate from the Georgia Film Academy. Industry growth over the next five years is projected to generate nearly 5,000 new jobs in Georgia, most of which are on the set. The average earnings in those jobs is $84,000 a year.

With a GFA certification, some of the jobs or duties available are set production assistant, office PA, set dressers and props, hair/makeup/wardrobe procedures, sound mixer, boom operator, utility, camera operator and assistants, on-set lamp on-set dolly grips, location manager, craft services, script supervisors and video assistants.

Kay Rogers had been a bus driver in Georgia for several years when she had a heart attack in 2012.

She was suffering from congestive heart failure, a chronic illness that meant eventually she couldn’t keep working the same number of hours. She was terminated from her job.

Unemployed, uninsured and weakened by a chronic illness, Rogers applied for disability benefits. She was denied. She appealed that decision, but was denied again. Now her illness has progressed so far that she is unable to work a full-time job.

To compound her problems, Rogers, 52, finds herself in what is known as Georgia’s “coverage gap.” That means she doesn’t qualify for Medicaid under the state’s current eligibility rules, and she doesn’t make enough money to get discounted coverage through the health insurance exchange. So she’s left uninsured.

Hundreds of thousands of other low-income Georgia adults are in the same predicament.

This gap came about through a combination of circumstances. The 2010 Affordable Care Act (also known as the ACA or Obamacare) overhauled the U.S. health system, adding the insurance exchanges and other new features and expanding the Medicaid rolls by making more people eligible. But Medicaid is a federal-state program, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that individual states didn’t have to accept expansion.

As of now, 19 states have rejected Medicaid expansion, and Georgia is one of them. Here, people like Rogers are not eligible for Medicaid, though it was the intent of the ACA that they would be covered by it.

Gov. Nathan Deal and legislative leaders have opposed Medicaid expansion from the start, saying it would eventually hurt the state’s budget, and the General Assembly’s Republican leadership has never taken up the proposal. That began to change somewhat this year, with GOP lawmakers under the Gold Dome showing interest in some form of expansion, aided

Kay Rogers, 52, finds herself in what is known as Georgia’s “coverage gap,” That means she doesn’t qualify for Medicaid under the state’s current eligibility rules, and she doesn’t make enough money to get discounted coverage through the health insurance exchange. (Special Photo)

by a Georgia Chamber of Commerce task force that has endorsed increasing coverage for low-income people.

A wild card in the debate Of course, recent election results dramatically changed the equation on health care policy, even in the 31 states where Medicaid has already been implemented.

On Nov. 8, Donald Trump won the presidency while his fellow Republicans kept full control of Congress. That means the GOP’s longtime goal of scrapping the ACA is suddenly a real possibility, though not a certainty.

“Repeal and replace” is the standard phrase for Republican opponents of Obamacare, but some have mentioned “amending” it, and the presidentelect has said he supports keeping a few popular parts of the law.

What all this will mean for Medicaid — in Georgia or nationwide — is impossible to say.

Still, some GOP governors and some members of the powerful Senate Finance Committee have expressed interest in preserving expanded Medicaid coverage.

An overburdened system States’ decisions not to expand Medicaid have had a major impact on the size of America’s population without health coverage — more than half of the nation’s 29 million uninsured people live in states that have not expanded Medicaid. Georgia had the third highest number of uninsured last year. “(Medicaid is) designed to really address the health care access of people who are really poor and very needy,” says Eric Wright, a public health and sociology professor at Georgia State University.

“I think the idea, at least originally under the ACA, is by providing more poor people with access to Medicaid, they could then perhaps reduce the utilization of emergency rooms and community health clinics — give them a little more choice, a little more access to health

care, and might actually ultimately help them get out of poverty.”

The doctor’s connections at Piedmont allowed him to arrange for her admission to an intensive Grady Memorial care unit, where a team of Hospital doctors was able to moniGrady Memotor her condition. When rial Hospital is Atlanta’s part of her heart stopped working that Saturday, the overstretched safety-net team conducted a procehospital, serving thousands of people who have dure to get it going again, saving her life. no insurance.

The treatment would “We certainly saw a have cost $30,000 if the number of people that hospital had not decided would have benefited to waive the charges. from health insurance,” (Still, Rogers says she says Charlene Turner, regularly receives calls former director of social from collection agencies.) services at Grady, where But her congestive she worked for decades heart failure persists, and before retiring recently.

Rogers works diligently Turner says she was to maintain a diet and lifelooking forward to the style that keeps her heart enactment of the ACA, functioning. thinking that it would She’s terrified that more provide insurance for the palpitations will come, many poor and uninknowing that if they do, sured people the hospital served. “Well, that didn’t she will be dependent on the mercy of physicians, happen,” she says. hoping they will step in “If you have no job, once again to provide the you get turned down automatically,” Turner says. lifesaving care she cannot afford.

“That leaves out a fairly Right now, the medilarge number of people cations she has to take who have these chronic multiple times a day make illnesses that keep them her very drowsy, and from going to work on a regular basis, so they end she’s unable to operate a up being unemployed and vehicle or machinery, she then have no health insur- says.

Rogers says it’s difficult ance.” for her to believe that for her and others like her, The kindness there’s no system in place of strangers to care for them after Kay Rogers relies they’ve been longtime on nonprofit clinics for taxpayers. regular primary care and “You give so much treatment.

Unable to work, Rogers when you’re working, but then if … something has only one source of goes wrong, and you have income: the food stamp nothing to give anymore, assistance she receives it’s like nobody cares,” from the state. She has exhausted the savings she she says.

“I just find it hard to accrued from her long believe that you would alcareer, and she lost her low people to actually die home in 2014. rather than to allow them She stays in a friend’s spare bedroom in Atlanta, to have Medicaid.”

Jenny Catherall and with her boxed-up belongCamille Pendley, both ings around the bed.

Atlanta natives, are comNow Rogers relies on mitted to telling pressthe chance of generosing and underreported ity at facilities such as Piedmont Atlanta Hospital stories in a responsible and inclusive way. Jenny, to receive high-quality a filmmaker based in New care fast, when her life York, documents untold depends on it. stories about marginalLast year, at a routine ization, discrimination, appointment, a clinic and human rights abuse physician gave her some as a freelance shooter stark news. He told her that her heart was in such and editor. Camille is a freelance journalist based poor condition that, if it in Atlanta and focuses was left untreated, she soon would have a stroke on social and criminal justice issues. and die.

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Surgery up to reader’s discretion Dear Dr. roacH: I am 66 and am generally healthy, with a pacemaker. I started to feel a small, very mild pain in my right side, under my ribs. My doctor checked my liver, and it was normal, with diffusely increased echogenicity (diffuse hepatic steatosis).

Then I was sent to imaging, where they checked my gallbladder. My gallbladder functioned only 18 to 30 percent. It was recommended that I remove my gallbladder. That was two months ago, and since then I hardly feel a pain, just sometimes a very small one. My question: Do I still have to remove the gallbladder if it isn’t bothering me too much?

— P.K. ansWer: It sounds like you are describing functional gallbladder disorder, a condition of recurrent abdominal pain, similar to the pain that comes from gallstones, but without gallstones being seen on an ultrasound.

The diagnosis is made more likely by an HIDA scan, a nuclear-medicine study where the ability of the gallbladder to squeeze is measured after stimulating it with a hormone called CCK (I bet that’s what you had to get the gallbladder function number). Your result suggests that you have functional gallbladder disorder. However, other conditions, especially stomach ulcers, reflux disease and heart disease, can have very similar symptoms and should be excluded before considering this diagnosis. The HIDA scan is not definitive.

The most effective treatment for functional gallbladder disorder is removal of the gallbladder; surgery makes the pain go away completely in the vast majority of people.

When considering any surgery, one always has to weigh the risks against the benefits. Gallbladder surgery is relatively simple and safe, but if you are hardly ever having pain, I can understand your reluctance. It all depends on how frequent and severe your symptoms are and whether there is an alternative explanation. I think it’s worth discussing with a surgeon.

Dear Dr. roacH: I had a chest X-ray, which showed I have an enlarged right hilum. The doctor never explained what that means. I have had cancer two different times, so I worry about it. Could you explain a little more?

— D.B. ansWer: The hilum of the lung is where the blood vessels (artery and veins) and the airway enter the lung. Lymphatic vessels and nodes also are prominent in the lung hila.

Enlargement of the hilum generally means there is an enlarged structure in the area. The pulmonary artery may be enlarged in pulmonary hypertension, while the pulmonary veins are enlarged in someone with congestive heart failure or valvular disease. However, in someone with a history of cancer, there is always the concern about enlarged lymph nodes. This does not mean cancer is present, as lymph nodes can become enlarged in infectious or inflammatory processes.

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), composer; Connie Mack (1862-1956), baseball manager; Peggy Ashcroft (1907-1991), actress; Lady Bird Johnson (1912-2007), first lady; Barbara Billingsley (1915-2010), actress; Steve Carlton (1944- ), baseball player; Diane Sawyer (1945- ), journalist; Maurice Gibb (1949-2003), singersongwriter; Robin Gibb (1949-2012),

singer-songwriter; Ralph Fiennes (1962), actor; Ted Cruz (1970- ), politician; Anthony Jeselnik (1978- ), comedian; Jordin Sparks (1989- ), singer; Meghan Trainor (1993- ), singer-songwriter.

TODAY’S FACT: The five Great Lakes hold about 21 percent of all the fresh water on Earth.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1971, the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Baltimore Bullets 127-120, winning their 27th straight game and breaking the record for consecutive wins in professional sports.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” — Lady Bird Johnson TODAY’S NUMBER: 33 — consecutive games won by the Lakers during their record-setting 1971 winning streak before they lost 120-104 to the Milwaukee Bucks on Jan. 7, 1972.

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Facebook photo-sharing lands Granny in a fix Dear amy: My mother-in-law has recently started a Facebook account. There are three of us sisters-in-law and we all find this a great way for her to keep up with the grandkids. However, she shares every single photo we post.

The aunt is widowed and has been speaking to men over Facebook and one of these men shared a photo of my daughter to his Facebook friends! This was truly alarming.

I immediately asked this person (whom I’ve never met) to take the photo down. After a day I was still so shaken that I deleted my account. My mother-in-law was heartbroken.

Facebook photo-sharing is tricky with relatives.

There is no specific setting to not allow people to share photos (you can only restrict an audience).

I don’t want to restrict family members from photos. I just don’t want them shared. Until Facebook develops this feature, how do I respectfully explain to my mother-in-law I don’t want her sharing so many pictures, because others in her circle seem to think that by her sharing, they are welcome to do that as well?

Outside of an honest conversation with my mother-in-law, is it appropriate to make a disclaimer in the description of the photo (or status) to ask for my permission before sharing?

definitely post a request along with the photo: “Please don’t share this or any other photo without permission.”

I often cringe when I see photos and videos of young children on social media, knowing where they could end up.

This episode is a reAmy Dickinson minder that the only real control resides with you.

— Media Mom Dear amy: I have Dear mom: Until received a gift with a note, Facebook gives people a which reads, “I’m passway to lock down their ing items on to family and own photos, you can try friends this Christmas, and to at least control who thought you might enjoy sees them by customizing this lovely book, originalyour settings, restricting ly given to me by a dear who sees your photos to pal many years ago.” only “friends” or a family Is this something new group. This means that that I have missed out on? even if your mother-in-law Will it be all right for (or aunt) shares a photo, it me to “re-gift” someone won’t actually be seen by with the ugly gravy boat anyone outside your desI received as a wedding ignated circle. You should present 40 years ago? also use the FB tools for The original donor tagging, so you will be passed away long ago. notified whenever your — Just Wondering child is tagged.

Dear Just However, it is important WonDering: The to remember that anyone person who re-gifted can take a screenshot of a this book to you went to photo and share it freely. the trouble of choosing, Explain to your mother- wrapping and (perhaps) in-law why social media shipping it to you, along sharing is not like running with a note. The giver was into a friend and showing also transparent about the them a cute picture of the origin of the gift. grandkids. Understand Some (mainly older) that this is a typical rookie people start winnowing mistake. It is basic FB their possessions by passetiquette to always ask ing things along to others. permission to share some- Sometimes this is because one else’s material. they have run out of ideas If you decide to hop or resources, and yet still back on Facebook, when- want to celebrate the ever you post a photo holiday. You can see this you don’t want shared, as “re-gifting” — or as

Ask Amy

simply “giving.” The spirit you bring to the transaction will dictate how it goes for you.

I think it’s a great idea to pass along your gravy boat. The only thing you need to do is to find a recipient who might like it — and who is also kinder and more tolerant than you are.

Dear amy: “Jaded” wondered why his executive recruiter was so offended when he tried to negotiate his salary for a new position.

I’ve worked in executive search, staffing and HR for many years. I would recommend he reach out to the manager after the discussion with the recruiter. Why? Sometimes recruiters and managers aren’t always in sync with regard to realistic salary expectations.

Contacting the manager directly wouldn’t be a bad thing.

— Experienced Dear experienceD: Thank you. I agreed with “Jaded” that he should not be rebuffed for negotiating. Thank you for offering an additional suggestion.

You can contact Amy Dickinson via email: askamy@amydickinson. com. Readers may send postal mail to Amy Dickinson, c/o Tribune Content Agency, LLC., 16650 Westgrove Drive, Suite 175, Addison, TX 75001.

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Listen carefully and think about what’s being said. Making snap decisions will lead to regret and could leave you in an awkward position. Put more effort into making personal and spiritual gains instead of relying on what others say or do. Stick to simple and straightforward solutions.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Moderation will be important.

Whether shopping, socializing or engaging in robust conversation, keep in mind that life is simple until one opts to make it complex.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — A personal or physical change will turn out better than anticipated. Make preparations that will help you head in the best direction possible. Express your feelings with affection.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — You can mix business with pleasure in order to form better alliances with your peers. Engaging in open discussion and familiarizing yourself with what others like or expect will help you advance.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Make romance and your health and children priorities. Your actions will be what count when it comes to your personal life. Don’t take on responsibilities that don’t belong to you.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Don’t feel the need to take on too much responsibility over the holiday season. You owe it to your family to spend some downtime with them. Set your priorities straight.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Tie up unfinished business. Stay focused on building strong relationships with the people who can influence your future. Make romance a priority. A commitment or an offer looks promising.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Socializing with friends is encouraged, as long as you aren’t indulgent. A discussion with a personal or professional partner will turn sour.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Express your feelings and do something special. Make travel plans or engage in something unique that will enlighten you and bring you closer to making an important decision.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Take care of any year-end tasks that an older relative is having trouble doing. It will end up being fulfilling for you, and the thanks you receive will be worth your while.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Keep your life simple and refuse to overspend just to appease someone. You cannot buy love or forgiveness. Truth, affection and genuine concern will be what win someone over to your side.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Offering your time to help a cause you believe in is fine, but don’t feel you have to pay for others’ problems or mistakes. Charity begins at home.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Make changes at home that will add to the year-end festivities. Aim to bring joy to the people you love through gestures of kindness and small offers of gratitude.

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world&nation world Russia skeptic on Turkey’s Gulenist claim in shooting of ambassador The Kremlin has pushed back against Turkey’s allegations that a movement led by exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen was behind the assassination of Russia’s ambassador to Ankara.

“We need to wait for results of a joint investigative group. You shouldn’t be in a rush to make conclusions until the investigation identifies who was behind the murder of our ambassador,” Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov said Wednesday.

Russian and Turkish investigators are trying to learn more about the assassination of Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov, who was gunned down Monday evening while speaking at the opening of an art exhibit in Turkey’s capital.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that there are “leads regarding the foreign connections” of the shooter, who has been identified as Mevlut Mert Altintas.

U.S. returns land it’s held since WWII to Japan The U.S. military will hand over 9,909 acres of Okinawan land to Japan today in the largest return of U.S.-occupied land since 1972.

But there’s a catch.

As part of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the two countries, the United States is granted the right to certain defense facilities. In exchange for the land, the Japanese government built several new helipads for the U.S. military to use on its southernmost island of Okinawa.

Yet the handover has done little to assuage the ire of activists, who’ve campaigned for decades to remove U.S. bases altogether from Okinawa.

Fireworks explosion toll up to 32 By sara siDner anD Catherine e. shoiChet CNN

This market has become a graveyard.

A day ago, families wandered through rows of stalls at San Pablito, searching for fireworks to launch during the holiday season.

Now, forensic teams are combing through the charred rubble, searching for victims’ remains.

At least 32 people were killed and dozens more were injured in a massive series of explosions Tuesday at this market north of Mexico City, officials said.

The deadly blasts sent huge plumes of smoke billowing into the sky and shook the ground in neighboring towns.

A day later, the smell of fireworks, charred buildings and burned plastic still fills the air.

As investigators search the site, bodies lie side by side on the ground, covered in dust and ash.

The San Pablito market is in Tultepec, a city about 25 miles north of Mexico City that bills itself as the country’s fireworks capital.

An explosion at the same fireworks market in 2005 injured a large number of people and caused enormous damage. Another fire tore through part of the market in 2006. Since then, officials have touted security improvements at the market

nation Trump calls Berlin rampage ‘attack on humanity’

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday called the attack on the Christmas market in Berlin earlier this week “an attack on humanity.”

The president-elect, in his first public comments on the Berlin attack that left at least 12 people dead, emerged from his Mar-aLago residence in Florida 7-year-old Syrian on Wednesday before meeting with incoming National girl Alabed meets Security Advisor Michael Turkey’s president Flynn and said, “What’s going on is terrible.”

Bana Alabed, the 7-yearTrump said in a writold Syrian girl who brought ten statement Monday in the plight of Aleppo’s the wake of the attack that victims to the world, wrote “ISIS and other Islamist terthe latest chapter in her rorists continually slaughter extraordinary story by meet- Christians in their commuing Turkish President Recep nities and places of worTayyip Erdogan in Ankara. ship as part of their global The meeting at the jihad.” presidential palace in the But asked Wednesday capital was captured on about the focus on an attack camera and appears to show against Christians, Trump Bana thanking Erdogan in asked, “Who said that?”

English, saying: “Thank you and proceeded to qualify it for supporting the children as “an attack on humanity.” of Aleppo and help us to get “It’s an attack on humanout from war. I love you.” ity. That’s what it is, it’s an Her story caught the atten- attack on humanity and it’s tion of Erdogan and Turkish got to be stopped,” Trump Foreign Minister Mevlut Ca- said before heading back vusoglu, who spoke with the inside. child on Twitter and encouraged her to stay strong.

Suspect named in Bana took to Twitter pot of gold theft during the siege of eastern The NYPD is after him Aleppo to share her experiences, which were written and his lucky charms. by her mother, Fatemah, an The suspect caught on English teacher. camera stealing a pot of She has nearly 360,000 gold in midtown Manhattan followers on the social is Julio Nivelo, a 53-yearnetwork and tweeted after old believed to be in the the meeting of how happy Los Angeles area, police she was to meet with the said Tuesday.

President.

Video of the alleged — From wire reports theft, which shows a man

people Schumer buys back family farm

Amy Schumer just bought back her dad’s old farm.

“We lost the farm when we lost everything else,” the comedian wrote on Instagram on Monday. “But today I got to buy it back for him.”

In a video posted alongside the announcement, a grade-school Schumer walks through a field of cornstalks as tall as her, pouting and whining to her filming father.

At least 32 people were killed Tuesday in an explosion at a fireworks market in Tultepec, In another post on Mexico, according to local authorities with firsthand knowledge of the search-and- Monday, Schumer smiles rescue effort. (Special Photo: CNN) as she FaceTimes with him.

The caption reads, “Today I bought my father’s farm and described it as a much Video of Tuesday’s blasts to determine whether 12 safer place to buy and sell showed flashes of fire and people reported missing are back.”

Schumer, who often posts pyrotechnics than the clanwhat appeared to be fireamong the dead or being photos of her dad on social destine workshops in some works exploding. treated at local hospitals. media, told the New York local homes.

The area is densely popu- Sixty people were injured Times in 2013 that her famAfter the 2005 blast, lated, and witnesses from in the blasts, officials said ily went bankrupt when she officials separated stalls at surrounding neighborhoods Wednesday, and dozens was 9. the market in an effort to captured the huge volume remain hospitalized. prevent fires from spreading. of smoke that billowed into One man told CNN en Local government officials the sky.

Español he was visiting ‘Hidden Figures’ last week described it as The explosions have left his children when they all cast speaks on “the safest market in Latin people shaken in Tultepec, went to the market to buy film’s message, America.” In a statement, where the economy depends fireworks.

Mexican Pyrotechnics heavily on the fireworks His kids went one way; John Glenn Institute Director Juan Igindustry. he and his granddaughter “Hidden Figures” may nacio Rodarte Cordero said There’s a 200-year tradi- took another route. When he be set during the space race the market had “perfectly tion of manufacturing pyro- heard the explosion, he ran of the early 1960s, but its designed stalls with enough technics in the city, which looking for his loved ones. themes of hope and incluspace so that there is no hosts a huge fireworks festi- He found them all, except sion are as timely today as chain reaction fire in case of val every year that’s drawn for one, the baby. Soon, they were during the incepa spark.” international attention. panic set in. tion of the space program.

Authorities haven’t said After Tuesday’s explo“We have called the amThe film, which stars what caused Tuesday’s exsions, frantic family membulance, the Red Cross and plosions. Out of the market’s bers searched for missing no one has any information,” Taraji P. Henson, Octavia roughly 300 stalls, about 10 loved ones. he said as he wept. “No one Spencer and Janelle Monáe, details the true story of how buildings are still standing.

Authorities are trying knows anything.”

African-American women at NASA helped get the first Americans into space. thorities say.

Henson, who plays geTartaglione, 49, pleaded nius mathematician Kathernot guilty to a five-count ine Johnson, told CNN the indictment charging him story of “Hidden Figures” with the four murders and is especially relevant in the conspiracy to distribute currently divisive American cocaine, according to US climate.

Attorney Preet Bharara’s “It’s very now,” Henson office. The former upstate said. “I think it’s a reminder New York police officer that humans are in this could face life in prison if together. It doesn’t matter found guilty. your race, color or who you Tartaglione’s attorney, sleep with at night. This Mark DeMarco, could not Julio Nivelo, 53, is believed to be the suspect who stole be reached for comment. movie is a reminder of what an 86-pound aluminum bucket full of gold flakes valued made America great in the at $1.6 million from the back of an unattended truck in first place.”

Accused bomber midtown Manhattan on Sept. 29, according to the NYPD. Monáe, who plays engi(Special Photo: CNN) pleads not guilty neer Mary Jackson, added that the country wouldn’t grabbing the 86-pound was not dangerous. in New Jersey have been able to achieve bucket of gold flakes out Now, a few months later, An attorney for Ahmad something “as extraordiof the back of an armored water in this Louisiana nary as sending our first truck in September, was cir- town of about 1,000 shows Rahimi, who is accused of planting bombs that Americans into space” if culated widely in the media high amounts of lead in detonated in New York they allowed race and genand online after the NYPD some samples, and it may and New Jersey, pleaded der to get in the way. released it last month. be dangerous.

“I think ‘Hidden Figures’ not guilty Tuesday on his That led to multiple tips On Dec. 16, Louisiana made from the tri-state area Gov. John Bel Edwards de- client’s behalf to charges in is so hopeful,” she said. identifying Nivelo as the clared a public health emer- connection with the shoot- “That when we do come together and realize that suspect, an NYPD spokes- gency in the town after two out with police that led to we all pee the same color, his capture. man said. of 13 site samples the day we all bleed the same color Rahimi was arrested on Nivelo is described as a before showed elevated Sept. 19 after the shootout blood, once we continue 5-foot-5 inch Hispanic male levels of lead, which was to remember that and keep with dark hair. absent from water samples with New Jersey police, that in the forefront, that’s which left him injured.

The loot he allegedly at the start of the year. when we start changing the Two police officers were made off with in September also injured in the shootout. world. That’s when we’re at is valued at $1.6 million.

Ex-cop accused our greatest.”

Rahimi limped into court of killing four One of the major events and was helped into his Health emergency during drug deal seat Tuesday. His attorney, that takes place in the film declared in La. state public defender Peter is the space flight of John Glenn, who became the Liguori, waived a formal town of St. Joseph A retired police officer allegedly caught in a drug first American to orbit the reading of the indictment.

Each week for months, deal gone bad was charged Rahimi faces five counts Earth.

Janet Thornton has spent with quadruple murder in Glenn, who is played by of attempted murder of a $20 to buy drinking water Orange County, N.Y., on Glen Powell in the film, law enforcement officer, for her husband and herMonday. multiple counts of second-, died earlier this month. self.

Four bodies were found “John Glenn represents third- and fourth-degree “We don’t have a lot of Tuesday buried on property aggravated assault, second- the best of who we are as money,” she said, “so we belonging to Nicholas Tardegree unlawful possession Americans,” said Spenjust boil the water on the taglione, the former officer, of a weapon, secondcer, who plays Dorothy stove for our dogs. No one according to the Chester Vaughan, NASA’s first degree possession of a has told us if that’s OK.” Police Department. The African-American manweapon for an unlawful This past spring, the property is about an hour purpose and fourth-degree ager. “This is a love letter town of St. Joseph was north of New York City. to him as well as all the possession of a high-cadealing with “not aesThe bodies have not been pacity magazine, according women who contributed to thetically pleasing” brown identified but are believed to to a press release from the the space program.” water running through be the four people, last seen New Jersey Union County “Hidden Figures” lands residents’ faucets. State in April, whom Tartaglione Prosecutor’s Office. in theaters on January 6.

— From wire reports health officials said then it is accused of killing, au— From wire reports

No, last night wasn’t the darkest night in 500 years

By Doug Criss anD JuDson Jones CNN

This is definitely a case of the facts getting in the way of a sexy headline.

You probably saw it pop up Wednesday morning in your social media feeds: “Tonight will be the darkest night in 500 years!”

Wow, how exciting! Yes,

Must read except for the part where none of it is true.

The internet claimed it would be the darkest night in centuries because it’s the winter solstice, which is the start of winter and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and because there was going to be a lunar eclipse tonight that

would shut off the moon’s light.

So solstice + eclipse = longest, darkest night.

But the biggest flaw with all this is that there wasn’t a lunar eclipse. A quick check with NASA reveals this year’s two lunar eclipses have already occurred.

“There is no eclipse tonight,” Dr. Noah Petro, a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told CNN

Wednesday. “These things don’t just pop up; we know when these things will happen. The moon will be out tonight. So it will not be completely dark. It’s going to rise about midnight in Boston where I am tonight. And it will be a crescent moon. It will not be a ‘dark moon.’ The darkest night we have is when we have a new moon.”

In a new moon, there is no moon to light up the night sky.

And even if there was a lunar eclipse, it would still be far from the darkest night we’ve seen in our lifetimes. Petro said during a lunar eclipse, the moon still reflects some of the sunlight. This light that is being reflected is light traveling through the earth’s atmosphere, and that is why the moon appears red. It’s like watching the sunset and sunrise reflected on the moon.

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The fraud of ‘diversity’ Nothing so epitomizes the politically correct gullibility of our times as the magic word “diversity.” The wonders of diversity are proclaimed from the media, extolled in the Academy and confirmed in the august chambers of the Supreme Court of the United States. But have you ever seen one speck of hard evidence to support the lofty claims?

Although diversity has become one of the leading buzzwords of our time, it has a history that goes Thomas back several genSowell erations. In the early twentieth century, the principle of geographic diversity was used to conceal bias against Jews in the admission of students to Harvard and other leading academic institutions.

Because the Jewish population was concentrated in New York and other east coast communities at that time, quota limits on how many Jewish students would be admitted were concealed by saying that Harvard wanted a diverse student body, consisting of students from around the country.

Therefore some highly qualified Jewish applicants could be passed over, in favor of less qualified applicants from the midwest or other regions of the country.

My own first encounter with the idea of geographic diversity occurred more than half a century ago, when I was an undergraduate at Harvard, and worked as a photographer for the university news office, in order to help pay the bills.

The instructions I was given were to concentrate on taking photos of students from other parts of the country, rather than from the east coast, from which Harvard already received more than enough applicants. The idea was to encourage applications from places that would produce a geographically diverse student body.

It struck me as an odd idea at the time, but I was being paid to take pictures, not make university policy. Moreover, I had no idea how such a policy had originated and, by the 1950s, it might have been continued from inertia, for all I know. Meanwhile, I could enjoy seeing publicity photos I took appearing in newspapers in Chicago and elsewhere beyond the east coast.

Fast forward to today. It is common, at colleges and universities across the country, for the test scores of Asian American students who have been admitted to a given college to be higher than the test scores of whites or of blacks or Hispanics.

That may not seem strange, since that is true of test scores in general. But at any given institution, applying the same standards to all, the test scores of students at a particular institution would tend to be similar. More Asian Americans would be admitted to higher ranked colleges and universities, however, if the same standards were applied to all.

In short, something very much like the quota limits that were applied to Jews in the past are now being applied to Asian Americans — and, once again, are being justified by diversity.

But what justifies diversity? Nothing but unsupported assertions, repeated endlessly, piously and loudly.

Today, as in the past, diversity is essentially a fancy word for group quotas. It is one of a number of wholly subjective criteria — such as “leadership” — used to admit students to colleges and universities according to their group membership, rather than according to their individual qualifications.

This is not something new. Nor is it something confined to the United States. Very similar patterns were found more than a decade ago, when doing research for my book “Affirmative Action Around the World.”

In India, the courts’ attempts to rein in some academic quotas were met by a proliferation of new, and wholly subjective, admissions criteria. Individuals from groups that were not as qualified by objective criteria were simply ranked higher on subjective criteria and admitted.

In the United States, the Supreme Court itself has long been part of such game-playing when it comes to affirmative action. Back in 1978, an opinion by Justice Lewis F. Powell banned racial quotas with one hand and created “diversity” as a criterion with the other.

In other words, colleges were told in effect that they can have racial quotas, but they just can’t call them racial quotas.

According to the Constitution, “We the People” are supposed to decide what laws and policies we live under. But not if we can be so easily fooled by courts using slippery words like “diversity.”

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell. com.

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Penning a letter to Donald Trump WASHINGTON — You won. Welcome to hell.

And to think, I thought you’d become president when hell froze over.

Now that the election is finally behind us, may I ask a tiny question: Why did you want this job? Was it on your bucket list? After so many square miles of golf courses, trophy wives, gilt mirrors and crystal chandeliers, was there nothing left to mess with?

I wasn’t surprised, by the way, when you said you’d spend half your time in New York. I mean, it’s New York!

And the White House is a tad bourgeois in an Epcot-ty sort of way. All that marble, heavy drapes and selection of new china. Why do we treat incoming presidents and first ladies like they just got married? And who needs a balcony overlooking the National Mall when you’ve got a four-corner office in your own tower overlooking Fifth Avenue?

Don’t worry about all the whining from Mayor de Blasio about the high cost of security. It’s just like a Democrat to want the feds to pay for it, right? All de Blasio has to do is tax facelifts on the Upper East Side and he can build a Trump Armory.

Anyway, I’m writing to say congrats, despite my having done everything in my limited

Kathleen Parker power to block you. When I wrote column after column about why you were unfit to be president and wouldn’t do half of what you were promising, I was serious. And of course, I was right.

But being a businessman, you know how we say things.

It’s not personal. It’s not like you were waking up to a dead chicken in your bed. Besides, I’m pretty sure you didn’t care when I (and many others) called you a con man, a carnival barker, a bully and a snake oil salesman. Admit it.

You were thinking: So what?

I’m winning!

And so you did. Win. The reason I knew you wouldn’t do most of what you promised is, one, my B.S. detector is from the same Queens DNA as yours (via my paternal grandmother, who was quite a dame, by the way). Two, you logically or legally can’t do much of it. Three, you’re Donald Trump, which is synony-

mous with “whatever works.”

So the anger was a ruse.

The promises were slogans.

The nasty rhetoric was juice for the base. Not your best moment, Mr. President-elect.

And, frankly, not your best timing. You may have missed the coincidence, but the very day that the Electoral College officially affirmed your victory, the world exploded. One after another, whether connected or not, possible terrorists staged attacks in three countries.

In Ankara, a Turkish cop assassinated Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, shouting “Remember Aleppo.” In Berlin, a commercial truck crashed through the Christmas market, killing at least a dozen people and injuring dozens more. In Zurich, a gunman entered a Muslim prayer center attended mostly by Somalis and opened fire, wounding at least three people.

Naturally, you immediately characterized the attack in Ankara as being perpetrated by a “radical Islamic terrorist,” which may be likely given his shout of “Allahu akbar,” but you do realize that as president, you’re going to have to wait for the facts before commenting?

Meanwhile, cue media, the assassination is being characterized as a prompt for the U.S. and Russia to form an alliance in the fight against terrorism.

Voila. Just what Putin and Trump have been angling for.

Anyway, you can now start hanging with Putin. Just don’t look into his eyes, which, apparently, can make you think he has a soul. (It’s an old KGB trick.) You’ll have to figure out how to handle the Vlad and his other pal, Syrian President Bashar Assad, since the two of them have been mass murdering the very same people of Aleppo invoked by the assassin. I’m not feeling the love triangle here, but you’re the magician.

Maybe you can convince them that it’s better to kill terrorists than children. Maybe you and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim can cut an immigration deal and build a succulent, spiny hedge along the southern border. And just maybe, you and China can renegotiate a trade deal — maybe swap a few resorts for Smithfield Foods, Ingram Micro, General Electric Appliance Business, to name a few of the top American companies Chinese firms now own.

Good luck with all that. As I said, welcome to hell. And, since you’ve said it’s OK, Merry Christmas. (P.S. Stop tweeting!)

Peace/KP Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@ washpost.com.

Finding the joy of diversity in food CHICAGO — It was like an object lesson from a training film about cultural competency: There I was, sitting on a fluffy rug in my classroom surrounded by 20 native Spanishspeaking first-graders. I’d just read aloud the English version of “Too Many Tamales,” Gary Soto’s children’s story about mischievous Maria’s secret angst after having lost her mother’s diamond ring in a batch of corn dough.

“Did you ever lose your ring when making the Christmas tamales, Ms. Cepeda?” asked one of my students.

“No, I don’t eat tamales,” I responded, “But I did lose my wedding ring in the broccoli bin at the grocery store once.”

Mic drop.

“You don’t eat tamales?” the children asked incredulously.

“Nope. Don’t make them, don’t eat them — I don’t like them. Not everyone does, you know,” I told the gawking crowd of youngsters.

I almost added my other fun cultural/culinary fact — that I’ve never eaten a burrito — but I figured I’d blown their minds enough for one day. I went on to explain that I grew up with my father’s family from Ecuador and in our house, for the Christmas meal, the assembly lines of women were dedicated to making empanadas, the deep-fried turnovers that are filled with

would absolutely adore pumpkin pie tamales just as he loves each dish in its original form).

Several years ago I would have tsk-tsked at the insularity of a PR firm assuming that because I have a Hispanic-sounding name, I would naturally be interested in helping shill Esther “tamale steamers.”

Cepeda But in our ethnic foodie culture such thinking is backward savory or sweet fillings.

— blatant commercialization This warm memory of of ethnic dishes and flavors teaching first generation imis not only the norm, but a migrants that even in Hispanic welcome and tasty way that the communities there is diversity American melting pot works in how we celebrate and eat its magic. recently came to mind when I These days not only can you got the following pitch from a find countless recipes for tamapublic relations firm: les in variations from authentic “The holidays are the perfect (in traditional pork, chicken time for friends and family to and sweet corn permutations) gather and celebrate the festo gourmet (vegan spinach zuctive season, but cooking for a chini or mushroom and roasted crowd can often be difficult. garlic) but also “AmericanThis year, skip the hassle and ized” versions, such as the prepare tamales for all of your recipe for “Tamale Pie” I found guests using an IMUSA Taon Martha Stewart’s website male Steamer! … With recipes (“Tamale pie is a holdover like George Duran’s Pumpkin from America’s first flush of Pie Tamales, Aaron Sanchez’s romance with Mexican cuisine.

Tamales de Mole Amarillo The love affair hasn’t let up — and Cheesy Sun-Dried Tomato not with the lure of cornbread, Tamales, your guests are sure cheese, and chili, even when to find a flavorful option to made with turkey.”). enjoy.”

Not only that, but you can Pumpkin pie tamales? make “homemade” tamales Bleccchhh, I don’t even like even if you’re too busy to go actual pumpkin pie, much less through the hours-long rigmasuch a consumer-driven culrole of mixing corn flour with tural mash-up (but I’m a picky lard, letting it rest, etc. eater — my white husband Last week while I was at an

Albertson’s grocery store way outside the city, near the Wisconsin border, I saw pre-mixed dough for tamales (“Gluten Free”!) in four holiday flavors: Original, Chile Pepper, Pineapple and Strawberry.

If your local supermarket isn’t quite as cosmopolitan as this, never fear, the good folks at Chicago-based food distributor La Guadalupana (“La Casa de la Masa”) will mail you two 5-pound buckets of dough for under $20.

La Guadalupana’s website says that Pedro and Lucy Castro arrived from Mexico in 1945 and set up shop. In 1992, their son Rogelio moved production to a USDA-approved plant and started expanding.

How’s that for achieving the American dream?

I wonder if Pedro and Lucy ever imagined a world where tamales are so mainstream that their ready-to-wrap dough sits next to frozen apple pies and scalloped potatoes for holiday revelers to take and make.

Alas, even ease of preparation cannot sway me to the charms of the tamale. My sons’ Christmases have involved the toil of making sugar cookie dough from scratch and stamping out festive shapes — someday we may even graduate to empanadas.

Esther Cepeda’s email address is estherjcepeda@ washpost.com.

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Lilburn woman dies after being run over by garbage truck

By Cailin O’Brien

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A Lilburn woman was killed Wednesday morning after she walked

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behind a garbage truck that was backing up.

Lidia Riveas-Martinez, 41, was walking home after taking her elementary-school aged child to a bus stop on Burns Road

at about 7:26 a.m. when she ended up in the path of a garbage truck driving in reverse.

Riveas-Martinez was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrencev-

Housing

to some uses (for the stadium overlay) that project to Gwinnett com- didn’t really quite fit,” missioners to show them Dillard told the planning what the company had in commission earlier this mind. month.

“What we’re sugIt was then the subject gesting here is not only of a lawsuit against the a community that will county, with Roberts arblend in with the area, guing that Brand had the but will also be an asset,” county rezone the land Dillard said. without their knowledge The location of the and that they were having proposed facility is trouble selling it as a resignificant because the sult. A Gwinnett County land belongs to Garland Superior Court judge and Shirley Roberts and ruled last year that the has been the subject of an county had violated the ongoing saga for years.

Roberts’ constitutional The land was put under rights in doing that. contract by Brand PropThat led to the request erties nearly a decade ago to develop it for senior to be developed as part of housing. the Coolray Field proj“It’s been awhile since ect, with some suggested we tried to find a use uses including a hotel that really would fit this and parking deck, but property, and fit what’s that fell through. After going on around Coolray Brand backed out, a later Field,” Dillard told planproposal to develop it as ning commissioners on apartments was denied by Dec. 7. the county in 2012.

This time, however, the “They were zoned Roberts family’s plans to

let it be redeveloped for senior housing had the backing of county staff and the Gwinnett Planning Commission as their request went before the Board of Commissioners.

“The unified plan policies for the county encourage expanding housing opportunities for all groups of people, including seniors,” county planning manager Jerry Oberholtzer told commissioners on Tuesday.

“Given its location along a major roadway, and the neighboring commercial, civic and multifamily uses, both staff and the Planning commission recommend approval with conditions.”

In the end, the request also had the backing of county commissioners.

“I know it’s been a long, hard road to get here, and congratulations,” commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash told Dillard.

One-year-old Brandon Wooldridge gets his first photo taken with Santa at the Mall of Georgia in Buford on Wednesday. (Staff Photo: Erika Wells)

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Santa

“I just hope they don’t get too close to “It’s such an honor to Rudolph,” he said with be part of all these chila laugh, referring to the dren’s lives; it’s really a red-nosed reindeer guidblessing and a privilege.” ing his sleigh.

Popular requests this Although Christmas is year include collectible a few days away, Santa Shopkins figures, Lego isn’t worried about his bricks, merchandise from annual trip around the the animated TV series world. His No. 1 concern “Paw Patrol” and Hatchi- is saving room for the mals surprise toys. treats that will await him Quite a few children at each home. have asked for drones “About 24 hours beor drone-hunting eagle fore Christmas, I don’t devices to attack them, eat any cookies; I know Santa said.

I’ll have my fill,” Santa

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The cost is $10, which will go toward the purchase of the photo package during the visit with Santa.

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ille where she died of her injuries.

There is reportedly no indication that alcohol or druges were involved in the accident and police do not anticipate charging

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•From Page 1A effect families who have children in Gwinnett schools.

“A lot of these hotels fill up school buses with children, so it’s going to affect them in that respect,” Ferraro said.

“Where do the families go?”

Although there are 30-day limits on continuous stays for people in extended stay hotels, the ordinance allows city officials to grant waivers of up to 90 days to people who would otherwise become homeless. On Wednesday, the city said the waivers can also be granted in cases where families have children enrolled in local schools.

Opponents are concerned it’s not enough of a guarantee.

Norcross resident Kathleen Allen, who led the protests at the bus stops, said she supports some parts of the ordinance. She’s concerned, though, about the lengthof-stay restrictions, whether the ordinance was rushed and if it could lead to lawsuits.

She called it a “meat cleaver solution” to the city’s homeless issue.

“We need a better solution to low income housing in Norcross,” she said. “I am afraid this ordinance was passed because it was a quick and dirty way to shut these places down, run them out of town as a nuisance for having people stay too long without addressing the need of what do we do with these low income people who are stuck here.”

Although the new rules for hotels and extended stay motels were approved earlier this month, the city doesn’t plan to

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food and affirmed her commitment to a culinary career.

Now Haxhiu works at Gwinnett Tech under her mentor, Chef Kerri Crean.

“Chef Crean has been a great mentor to me,” she said. “Honestly, she’s a wonderful teacher, but having the opportunity to come back and work alongside her is a blessing. I still learn so much every day. It’s nice to have someone that believes in me and encourages me to push myself to be better all the time.”

Hotels begin enforcing them until an unspecified date in the spring. That would give officials time to meet with hotel owners and explain what will now be required of them.

City officials point to the move as an effort to target crime in the city. In a statement, the city said 183 major crimes have taken place at hotels in Norcross this year. The city also argued that one in three major crimes that have taken place in the city this year occurred at hotels and extended stay motels.

In addition to setting limits on how long a person or family can stay at the hotels, the new rules mandate hotel owners install working video surveillance systems and keep extensive records on who is staying in their businesses. Guests would also be banned from backing their cars into parking spaces because officials want their license plates to be visible.

“With rising crime rates at area hotels, we are deeply concerned about the safety and wellbeing of our citizens and guests staying at hotel, motel and extended-stay hotels,” Norcross Police Chief Bill Grogan said in a statement. “The ordinance was put into place to help deter crime, ensure legitimacy of guests and provide requirements that are enforceable for hoteliers.”

In a Nov. 30 letter to city leaders, Grogan said police have been called to hotels in the city 5,800 times over the last two years.

“Many incidents involved serious bodily injury to include shootings, armed robberies, rapes and aggravated assaults,” Grogan wrote

in the letter. “Others were for stolen vehicles found in parking lots, loitering for sex, drug transactions, wanted persons, businesses being run out of rooms and parking complaints.”

Ferraro and Allen said that rather than solving those issues, however, the new rules could instead just send them to Norcross’ neighbors in Gwinnett and other counties.

“It seems like they’re just trying to eliminate their problem without any idea about what problems it’s going to create for anybody else,” he said. “I’m concerned other cities are going to do the same thing (as a result).”

Allen said that although she generally supports the Norcross police department, there’s no guarantee the new ordinance will lead to a decrease in crime in Norcross.

“All you’re doing is taking a problem and moving it outside the city limits, and I don’t think that guarantees crimes aren’t going to be committed in Norcross,” she said. “They may not be committed at extended stays within the city limits, but two-thirds of (major) crimes in Norcross don’t happen at these places.”

Grogan said in his letter to city leaders that police tried to talk with hotel owners about the burden that responding to the high volume of calls from hotels places on the police department, and began sending them letters whenever a crime happened at their hotel.

“Our hope was that putting them on notice would decrease crime,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, it has not been successful.”

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ant Grove, Alabama. She graduated from Ensley Tricia Hyzer High School in may of Tricia Hyzer, age 46 1974. Susan was preceded of Grayson, GA, passed in death by her parents away on December 19, and younger brother, Gary 2016. Tim Stewart Funeral Kierce. She is survived Home: 300 Simonton by her son; Jason Kierce Road SW Lawrenceville, (Anne) of Madison, WisGeorgia 30046. 770consin. Her grandchildren; 962-3100. stewartfh.com Wilson Daniel Kierce and Lola June Kierce. Her niece; Randi Riley (Rick) in Pelham, Alabama. Her Aunt; Bettye Adams in Anniston, Alabama. Her PLEASANT GROVE, AL cousin; Marilyn Ford Susan Khodadad (David) in Anniston, Alabama and her uncle; Ms. Susan Diane Khodadad, 60, passed away on Stanley Kierce (Shirley) in Andalusia, Alabama. Susan December 19th, 2016 at was a devoted Christian.

Grady Memorial Hospital She enjoyed crocheting, in Atlanta, Georgia. She collectables and art. She was born on September loved flowers, helping oth21, 1956 in Birmingham, Alabama to Daniel Kierce ers and spending time with people she loved. Susan and Helen Kierce. Susan and her mother shared the also loved visiting flea same September birth date. markets and finding a great deal! Susan spent many Susan grew up in PleasGRAYSON

Christy Wentzell told the Daily Post it didn’t appear Rivas-Martinez was on the phone or wearing earbuds at the time, since neither were found on the scene.

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week later learned I was the overall winner. It was “It feels good to win such an awesome mothe professional category ment.” because when I was a Cooking was an imstudent, I was told that portant part of Haxhiu’s my student recipe could childhood. A native of have won the professional Kosovo, it was tradition category then, but since I to prepare and share large was a student that wasn’t meals with extended possible. That’s why I family. had to try again,” she said While a culinary stuin a press release. “It was dent at Gwinnett Tech, a great feeling to win this she worked as an intern at time under the profesFive and Ten in Athens, sional category, but very where she studied under nerve-wracking. I first Chef Jason Zygmont. It got the call that I was a was that internship that top five finalist, then a fueled her passion for

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the driver. The Georgia Motor Carrier Compliance Division came to the scene and found the truck’s safety equipment was functioning properly.

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years in the legal profession, specializing in real estate, where she excelled.

Susan’s wish was to be laid to rest aside her parents at Oakland Cemetery in Birmingham, Alabama. A memorial gathering will be held at a later date. Condolences may be left on Susan’s online guest book at http://www.pattersonfuneralhomes.com/index. php?page=guestbook/index COMMERCE

Judith Ann Pristello Judith Ann Pristello, age 61, of Commerce passed away Saturday, December 3, 2016.

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Beatrice Varnum Mrs. Beatrice Holder Varnum, age 89 of Jefferson, Georgia who entered into rest Saturday, December 17, 2016.

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Raymond Young Raymond Eugene Young, age 85 of Kennesaw, GA formerly of Buford, GA passed away on Tuesday, December 20, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Bronco boys set to defend title in 25th Deep South

By Will Hammock

will.hammock@gwinnettdailypost.com

Brookwood’s Donald Parham (3) shoots against Grayson’s Austin Dukes (3) during the second half of Wednesday’s Region 8-AAAAAA tournament at Central Gwinnett High School in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

Point production Parham thrives in new role for Brookwood

By Will Hammock

and Nate Hamilton.

He already has two games over 30 points (31 vs. Heritage Bubba Parham’s ever-chang- and 36 vs. Central Gwinnett), ing role with the Brookwood and he has scored in double boys basketball team includes figures in every game except more new duties this season.

Norcross, which limited him to A spot-up shooter his sopho- nine points. more season, he morphed into “(Parham’s) been playing a more versatile scorer last great,” Brookwood boys coach season in the two-guard role.

Daniel Bowles said. “He’s been Now a senior, he has taken shooting it well. Teams are over as the Broncos’ starting starting to key on him, but he’s point guard, filling a major void still getting shots off. … He’s when Micah Kinsey graduated the first guy in the gym every off the 2015-16 team. day and the last guy to leave.

“It’s going good,” Parham He’s a really great kid with a said. “That’s been my natural supportive family, the kind of position my whole life except kid you like to see succeed.” for the last two years.”

College recruiters wanted to Kinsey was less of a scorer see Parham succeed at the point and more of a distributor at guard position because he had a point guard, leading Gwinnett limited sample of results at the County in assists at 7.1 per position, thanks to bad luck and game. He averaged 11.6 points, the Broncos having Kinsey. A which Parham has nearly doubroken leg kept him from AAU bled in his first varsity season at basketball as a freshman, then the position. a toe injury did the same his Before Wednesday night’s sophomore season. An ankle game with Walton, Parham had sprain slowed him some in averaged 22.9 points, 3 assists, AAU this year.

2.2 rebounds and 1.9 steals.

“He never really played much He continues to be a threat as a AAU (because of the injuries),” 3-point shooter — his 37 made Bowles said. “His name just 3-pointers put him on pace to hasn’t been out there. There was break Brett Huckle’s singlealways the question of whether season school record of 90. or not he can be a point guard.

His eight 3-pointers in a We had Micah, so he didn’t have game last week tied a school to. But he’s shown this year he record he now shares with can be (a point guard). … He Channing Toney, Brent Martin just went into this year and a lot will.hammock@gwinnettdailypost.com

of people just didn’t know who he was. But it’s going to work out for him. With the work he puts in, it’s going to work out.”

College interest already has spiked greatly of late for Parham, who is a target for plenty of NCAA Division II programs and some junior colleges, who offer the opportunity to prove himself as a point guard to possibly set up NCAA Division I offers in the future.

“Coaches say they want to see me play point,” said Parham, who is closing in on 1,000 career points. “That’s what I’m going to play in college. Last year Micah was point guard, so I could play off the ball. This year I’m playing a lot more point in that role.”

Brookwood has leaned on Parham for scoring from that position, though he can create opportunities for his teammates, too.

“We don’t want to (have to rely on Parham for so much scoring),” Bowles said. “It’s one of those things, it’s kind of where we are. It’s been something he takes on and he’s been okay with it. It’s a lot of pressure. A couple of games, against Norcross, he didn’t score much against them. Actually you did see a little pressure on him that game. But he relishes it. And the other part is he doesn’t have to score to be

helping us. Against Parkview the other day he didn’t take a shot in the first quarter and we still scored 19 or 20. It wasn’t like that two years ago. Now he’s helping us do other things, helping us defensively.”

The changes from his sophomore season to now are obvious to Parham, too.

“My defense has gotten a lot better,” the 6-foot guard said.

“As far as offense, my sophomore year I’d say I was just a shooter. I never really took it to the basket. It was always if I’m open, then I shoot the 3. Now I’m more creating my own shot, getting to the basket, getting to the free-throw line.”

Against one of the state’s toughest schedules, Brookwood got off to a slow start in the wins column. But it entered the week with two wins in the last three games, improving at the right time with its own Deep South Classic and heavy region play coming up.

Parham was at his best in last year’s Deep South tourney, picking up MVP honors. The Broncos will rely on him just as much in this year’s tournament, just in a different role.

“I’ve been scoring the ball well, but it hasn’t been enough since we’ve been losing too much,” Parham said. “But I’ll keep working to make us better.

I’ll do all I can.”

The Deep South Classic turns 25 next week, and the Brookwood boys basketball team hopes to add another championship in its own tournament.

The Broncos have won the annually tough event five times, including last season. They also won in 2012, 2008, 2000 and 1995.

“It’s going to be fun, it’s going to be good and it’s going to be competitive,” Brookwood boys head coach Daniel Bowles said.

“Everything now has gone to showcases (instead of bracketed tournaments). We like this because it’s a legitimate tournament. You’ve got to move on. You lose and you’ve got to come back. How do you respond?

“That’s what it’s like in the region tournament. If you lose in the region tournament and have to come back and play in the third-place game, how do you respond?”

Brookwood didn’t face that scenario last year in the Deep South, reeling off three straight wins for the title.

Reigning tournament MVP Bubba Parham, who had 17 points in last year’s title-game win over Greater Atlanta Christian, is back for his senior season.

He also scored 27 in last season’s Deep South OT win over Johns Creek.

“We’re looking forward to working hard and preparing for (the Deep South),” Parham said.

“We won it last year so we want to protect our home court and bring home the championship. We want to bring home the championship every year.”

Brookwood opens the boys bracket Dec. 28 with a first-round game against North Cobb. Mill Creek, coached by former Brookwood assistant David Allen, faces Alpharetta in the opener.

The other boys matchups are Mountain View vs. Brunswick and Walton vs. Oletangy Liberty (Ohio). Brunswick’s head coach is Central Gwinnett grad Chris Turner, who is assisted by veteran head coach David Boyd. Boyd coached Berkmar to a pair of state titles in 2000 and 2001.

Brookwood’s girls team, which lost in last year’s semifinals to Northwest Whitfield, faces North Forsyth in the first round at 6 p.m.

Dec. 28.

The Broncos, led by Texas A&M recruit N’dea Jones, are on the same side of the bracket as Franklin County and Woodward Academy. Franklin is led by longtime Gwinnett head coach Tony Watkins.

The other girls first-round games are Mountain View-Lambert and Gulliver Prep (Fla.)-Hillgrove.

Lambert’s head coach is South Gwinnett grad Jaime Kruppa.

The Deep South semifinals will be Dec. 29, followed by the title games at 6 and 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 30.

DEEP SOUTH CLASSIC When: Dec. 28-30 Where: Brookwood High School First-round schedule: Dec. 28 3 p.m. — Franklin County vs.

Woodward Academy girls 3 p.m. — Walton vs. Oletangy Liberty (Ohio) boys 4:30 p.m. — Gulliver Prep (Fla.) vs. Hillgrove girls 4:30 p.m. — Mill Creek vs.

Alpharetta boys 6 p.m. — Brookwood vs. North Forsyth girls 6 p.m. — Mountain View vs.

Brunswick girls 7:30 p.m. — Mountain View vs.

Lambert girls 7:30 p.m. — Brookwood vs.

North Cobb boys

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ondeck Prep Schedule

BASKETBALL

Today

• Duluth boys in McDonald’s Classic at Tift County • Norcross girls in Crescom Bank Invitational in Myrtle Beach, S.C. • Parkview girls in Crusader Christmas Classic in Tampa, Fla. • Wesleyan girls in Crescom Bank Invitational in Myrtle Beach, S.C. 2 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge girls at Brookwood 8 p.m. — Mill Creek boys and Campbell at Lambert

WRESTLING

• Buford, Mountain View in Coastal Clash in Charleston, S.C. 9 a.m. — Duluth, Grayson, Lanier in Eric Hill Memorial Tournament at Loganville 9 a.m. — Kyle Maynard Duals at Collins Hill 9 a.m. — Wesleyan, Parkview in Hurricane Duals at Monroe Area

BASKETBALL

Friday

• Duluth boys in McDonald’s Classic at Tift County

WRESTLING

• Buford, Mountain View in Coastal Clash in Charleston, S.C.

The Home Teams

Gladiators

Hawks

Falcons

Georgia

Tech

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Greenville at South Carolina Fri, 7:30 p.m.

Tue, 7:05 p.m.

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at Denver at Minnesota Fri, 9 p.m.

Mon, 8 p.m.

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at Carolina New Orleans Off Sat, 1 p.m.

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vs. Kentucky# Off Dec. 31, 11 a.m.

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On TV

Today

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

6:30 p.m. — UNC-Greensboro at Georgetown FS1 7 p.m. — Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic, San Diego State vs. Southern Mississippi ESPN2 8:30 p.m. — Wyoming at DePaul FS1 9 p.m. — UNC-Asheville at Ohio State ESPN2 9 p.m. — Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Oklahoma State FSSE 11 p.m. — Missouri State at USC FS1

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Frerking off to fast start at Auburn

By Will Hammock

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The two most highprofile Gwinnett products playing women’s basketball in the Southeastern Conference have put together good seasons, but they haven’t been the most productive among locals.

That honor goes to Wesleyan grad Katie Frerking.

The 6-foot-1 Auburn senior was one of the SEC’s most versatile players last season, and she’s stepped up even more this season for the Tigers (8-3). She ranks in the league’s top 10 in six categories, and also ranks 11th in two more categories.

Frerking had one of her best games last week in a 76-66 win over Louisiana Tech, scoring a career-high 30 points to go with 11 rebounds for her fourth double-double of the young season. She made 9 of 14 field goals (5 of 9 from 3-point range) and all seven free throw attempts.

“Just unbelievable,” Auburn women’s coach Terri Williams-Flournoy said of Frerking’s Louisiana Tech game performance in a school release. “A great night. And what’s amazing is that she didn’t have a steal. Katie shot the ball early and it wasn’t falling, but shooters have to keep shooting. She did a great job attacking the basket, then going 7-for-7 at the free-throw line.”

Frerking, who has made 71 starts in 106 games through three-plus college seasons, averaged 11.7 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 2.5 steals as a

Wesleyan grad Katie Frerking, an Auburn senior, ranks in the SEC top 10 in six categories this season. (Photo: Anthony Hall/Auburn Athletics)

junior, leading the SEC in swipes. All of her numbers have jumped up a level this season.

She averages 15.7 points (10th in the SEC), 8 rebounds (seventh), 3.3 assists (10th) and 2.9 steals (second). She is 11th in the league in field-goal percentage (44.6) and ninth in free-throw percentage (78.4), while ranking sixth in made 3-pointers (20).

Her 3-point percentage (36.4) is 18th in the SEC. Gwinnett’s other two prominent players in the SEC have fared pretty well, too.

Norcross grad Diamond DeShields averages 15.3 points, 6.4 rebounds and 3.2 assists for Tennessee. Buford’s Kaela Davis averages 14.4 points, 5

rebounds and three assists.

points, 13 rebounds, 13 assists and eight steals. “It is an understatement to say BASKETBALL Zach Landis played well in this one,” Life coach Keith Fast break Adkins said. “He finished Georgia College junior Alyah McGriff posted her with a triple-double and third career double-double was two steals away from a quadruple-double. It was Monday in a 62-34 win just a very complete game. over Flagler. The Duluth grad had team highs of 20 He has played so well points and 11 rebounds. … lately. Over the last couple North Gwinnett’s Ahmad of weeks he has emerged as a guy we can count on Caver had a team-high for a lot of different roles.

16 points and grabbed six rebounds, helping Old Do- He has done a little bit of minion to a 58-46 win over everything.”

Gwinnett Grads is a Georgia State last Suncolumn that runs on Thursday. Collins Hill’s Devin Mitchell scored 11 to lead days spotlighting achievements of past Gwinnett Georgia State. … Mill Creek’s Zach Landis had standouts. Coaches and a triple-double recently in parents are urged to send suggestions via email to Life University’s 78-64 will.hammock@gwinroad win over Edward Waters. The junior had 12 nettdailypost.com.

Losing Simpson bittersweet for Buford

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

7 p.m. — Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Idaho vs. Colorado State ESPN

NBA

8 p.m. — Los Angeles Lakers at Miami TNT 10:30 p.m. — San Antonio at Los Angeles Clippers TNT

NFL

8:20 p.m. — New York Giants at Philadelphia NBC

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Friday

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

2:30 p.m. — Auburn at Connecticut ESPN2 4:30 p.m. — Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic, First Semifinal ESPN2 6:30 p.m. — Rutgers at Seton Hall FS1 8 p.m. — Harvard at Houston ESPN2 8:30 p.m. — Las Vegas Classic, 3rd Place FS1 10 p.m. — Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic, Second Semifinal ESPN2 11 p.m. — Las Vegas Classic, Final FS1

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

1 p.m. — Popeyes Bahamas Bowl, Eastern Michigan vs. Old Dominion ESPN 4:30 p.m. — Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl, Louisiana Tech vs. Navy ESPN 8 p.m. — Dollar General Bowl, Ohio vs. Troy ESPN

NBA

9 p.m. — Atlanta at Denver FSSE

RUGBY

2:30 p.m. — Premiership Northampton vs. Sale NBCSP

Sports Calendar

RUNNING

Jan. 28: The seventh annual Norcross Blue Devils Run, a Peachtree Road Race qualifier, will feature a 5K and 1-mile fun run at Pinckneyville Middle School in Peachtree Corners. 5K starts at 8 a.m. and fun run starts when 5K finishes.

Early registration is $25 and race-day registration is $30. Proceeds from the student-led event will benefit the high school’s cross country and track and field programs. For more information or to register, go to bluedevilsrun.wixsite. com/norcross or run signup. com/BlueDevilsRun. Feb. 4: Meadowcreek will host its fourth annual Stampede in the Park 5K Trail run Feb. 4 at Yellow River Park. The course covers soft surfaces and

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paved trails. All proceeds benefit the high school’s cross country program.

Registration is available at active.com, and more information is available at stampedeinthepark.wix. com/5k1kfunrun. Email stampedeinthepark@gmail. com with any questions.

SOCCER

Ongoing through Jan. 14: Atlanta Fire United youth soccer has opened online registration for its spring recreational season at www.atlantaunitedsoccer.com. Walk-up registration also will be held Jan. 7 at George Pierce Park in Suwanee and Jan. 14 at Bunten Road Park in Duluth. Registration ends Jan. 15. First games are March 4 and practices start Feb. 20.

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There was an eerie feeling in the halls at Buford High School last Friday.

Jess Simpson had just told his players of his resignation as head football coach, seizing an opportunity to coach defensive line at the college level for Georgia State. The faces of players, teachers and coaches showed mixed emotions, reflecting the way Simpson felt himself.

“Bittersweet would be the word to use (to describe Friday),” Simpson said.

Somber faces monopolized the day with a few smiles mixed in. Most were sad by the news that their good friend, coach, teacher and mentor was leaving Buford. That led to a good number of tears, though the emotions were matched by the pride in Simpson reaching one of his life goals — to coach college football.

“Most of my emotions are (being proud) because he’s like a son to me and I’m just proud of him,” said Buford athletic director Dexter Wood, Simpson’s longtime mentor and his former high school coach at Marietta. “It’s one of his dreams and the logistics work out really, really well for him. I’m really proud for him. I’m trying to focus on that. But there’s a big hole and that hurts.”

Big hole is an understatement.

Simpson coached the Wolves to 10 of their 11 state championships, the last seven as head coach.

He also won three state titles as the high school’s

Jess Simpson talks with reporters Friday morning about his departure as Buford’s head football coach to become defensive line coach at Georgia State. (Photo: David McGregor)

defensive coordinator under Wood, helping the Wolves win a state-record 47 consecutive games.

Since taking over as head coach, Simpson’s winning percentage is a stunning 93.2 with a 16412 record. Remarkably, Buford has played in 10 straight state championship games, including this season’s title-game loss to Rome.

It will be tough to replace a head coach who put up those type of numbers, and who also is widely underrated. Outsiders assume Buford wins titles on talent alone, but Simpson is one of the best coaches in Georgia, regardless of classification.

He also had the perfect demeanor to handle a stressful job with ultrahigh expectations. State championships are the standard at Buford, but they don’t come as easily as they seemingly did in the past.

Buford now plays in Class AAAAA, where the teams are more talented and deeper throughout the playoffs. Buford’s first nine state titles from 20012013 were won in AAA or below, including six in AA. In most of those years, the Wolves rolled through the state playoffs with one, maybe two, close games.

In a bigger classification, the tight games will be more frequent.

Who will replace Simpson as head coach?

That question may linger for a bit. Does Buford go with an in-house candidate with years of experience in the program, like a Bryant Appling? Does it hire a proven head coach or promising assistant from outside the program?

There will be no shortage of applicants, given Buford’s football success, its small-town community and award-winning school system.

Out of that uncertainty comes a great story, though.

Simpson gets a chance to coach a college football team — on the field. Offthe-field analyst jobs are the rage these days, with major colleges filling their support staff with proven high school coaches. They help the program behind the scenes, breaking down game tape and scheming, but they don’t get to do what they love the most, working closely with players.

Major colleges have pursued Simpson in the past for those analyst jobs, but he held out for an onthe-field position. He also got the job at an ideal time, just after his youngest son Jake finished his Buford football career.

“I’m a football coach,” Simpson said. “I always tell everybody the best part of my day is 3 to 6 when I

get to be on the grass and not at a desk. To be able to make the jump to a program in the Sun Belt (Conference), at the Division I level, and be able to have my own group, my own room, to pour into another group of guys and do it at that level. It’s going to be a huge challenge. But it’s certainly invigorating and I’m excited about doing it.”

Wood expects Simpson will be a star at the college level, too. He knew Simpson had something special when he was a high-schooler at Marietta — that “it factor” — and has watched him develop that gift for nearly three decades.

Because Wood has worked alongside Simpson for so long, 26 of Wood’s 42 years in education, the Buford athletic director was one of the most emotionally conflicted folks at the high school last Friday. His face expressed sadness, but his words projected pride and excitement. “(Simpson’s) shaped me a whole lot more than I’ve shaped him,” Wood said.

“He’s the most brilliant coach. In terms of an X’s and O’s schemes coach, I’ve never been around one more brilliant, that can prepare a football team by breaking down tape. …

He’s totally brilliant in his understanding of the game of football and managing it from the sidelines and at practice.

“The biggest mark (he leaves Buford) is on the person he is, just the way he poured into these kids, shaped them. The intangibles of this program. What he did for his kids is so much more than football.

That’s what lasts forever.

That’s what’s empty right now. I don’t know if it can be filled.”

Will Hammock can be reached via email at will. hammock@gwinnettdailypost.com. His column appears on Thursdays.

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Lanier’s length too much for Panthers at Philips

By Paul Thomas

In the third quarter the Longhorns matched their first-half total with 14 points to take a three-point ATLANTA — After lead after trailing by five at trailing at the half, the the half. The surge continLanier boys basketball ued in the fourth quarter as team used a strong second Lanier controlled the glass half to pull and its size gave Parkview away from fits.

Parkview “I think our length,” head 45-38 on coach Jeremy Huckaby Wednessaid of what allowed his day after- team to pull away. “Obvinoon. ously the 1-3-1 (zone) The really helped us. I thought Adrian game was we did a good job on the Martin played at boards. We played them Philips Arena as part of the last year and really got beat Atlanta Hawks Court of up on the boards and that Dreams program, and both was an emphasis coming schools were able to stay in. It wasn’t pretty on the for the nightcap in which offensive end, but defenthe Hawks hosted the Min- sively is where we’re hangnesota Timberwolves. ing our hat right now and it

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got us through today.”

Adrian Martin led all scorers in the game with 20 points for the Longhorns (5-5). The 6-foot-3 junior, whom Huckaby refers to as “Gwinnett’s best-kept secret” knocked down a pair of second-half treys.

He had six of the Longhorns’ 14 first-half points.

He also pulled down four rebounds and had two steals in the win.

“I felt great out here,” Martin said of playing on the Hawks home court. “It was a first-time experience.

The big lights, the bright lights, I pray one day I can make it out here and play in the NBA one day. So it was great. A great team win. We all played hard and we had fun.”

Parkview (6-7) took a 19-14 lead into the half behind six first-quarter points from Ahmir Langlais.

In the third quarter Lanier closed the gap and took its first lead of the game on a Tyler Taylor layup with 5:13 left in the quarter.

It was his lone basket of the game, but the 6-foot-4 forward pulled down nine rebounds and had two assists. Juwuan Jones had four points and eight rebounds, while Isaiah Lewis had five rebounds and Mike Allen four to give the Longhorns a decisive rebounding edge.

Parkview momentarily regained the lead on a pair of free throws from Truitt Spencer, but Martin turned the tide back in the Long-

horns’ favor for good with a pair of free throws at the other end for a 24-23 lead.

Lanier opened the fourth quarter with a 10-3 run. Edmund Ruiz scored eight of his 13 points in the final quarter. Parkview sophomore Cam Chavers knocked down two 3s late to give him a team-high eight points in the loss, but Parkview never got closer than seven points in the final seconds.

It was the fifth straight loss for the Panthers, which started the year at 6-2.

“We stopped scoring,” Parkview head coach Nick Gast said. “We’re just really struggling to score and that’s on me as a coach.

I’ve got to figure out some ways for us to get the ball

in the basket. We went through a little scoring drought there and they picked it up there in the third quarter.”

Both teams emptied out their benches early in the game so the full rosters could experience playing in an NBA arena. Nine different Panthers scored in the game. Behind Chavers’ eight points, Spencer and Langlais each added seven points.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience, which is why we did it,” said Gast, who set up the game with the Hawks. “I’m really glad we did. I wish we would have played better, but it’s cool for the guys and cool for all of us and our fan base too.”

PREP ROUNDUP

Coombs scores 1,000th point in Wesleyan win From Staff Reports MYRTLE BEACH — Mikayla Coombs on Wesleyan hit a milestone on Wednesday night with her 1,000th point as the Wolves went on to top Ferguson 65-45 in the Crescom Bank Holiday Invitational.

Coombs finished the night with 25 points and 13 rebounds, while Jameson Kavel buried seven 3-pointers to finish with 21 points. Natalie Armstrong led the team in rebounds with 11.

Wesleyan (10-1) will face neighboring Norcross this morning at 10:45 for fifth place in the tournament.

GIRLS BASKETBALL GIRLS HOOPS Norcross 77, Lake Highlands 59 MYRTLE BEACH — Norcross stretched its record to 13-1 with a 77-59 win over Lake Highlands Prep on Wednesday night in the Crescom Bank Holiday Invitational.

Tehya Lyons led the Blue Devils with 21 points and three steals, while Taylor Mason scored 11 points. Vanessa Blagmon also chipped in with nine points, seven assists and seven rebounds.

Up next for Norcross will be a spot in the fifth-place game at 10:45 a.m. against Wesleyan.

Brookwood 48, Walton 25 SUWANEE — Brookwood used a strong defensive effort to knock off Walton 48-25 on Wednesday night in the Lambert Holiday Classic.

N’dea Jones led the Broncos (7-4) with 15 points, 16 rebounds, five blocks and five steals, while Kiki Adams helped out with 14 points, six rebounds

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and four assists.

Brookwood will play today at 3:30 p.m. against Lambert.

BOYS BASKETBALL BOYS HOOPS Brookwood 68, Walton 53 SUWANEE — Donald Parham was 7 of 13 from 3-point range and poured in 29 points to lead Brookwood to a 68-53 victory over Walton on Wednesday at Lambert High School.

Trae Higginbotham racked up another 18 points for the Broncos (4-8), who have won thee of their last four games. Markus Smith was also in double figures with 10 points.

Shiloh 67, Dawson Christian Acad. 62 STOCKBRIDGE — Brian Coffey’s 19 points led Shiloh to a 6762 win over Dawson Christian Academy on Wednesday.

Greg James scored 15 points for the Generals (7-4) and was named to the all-tournament team, while T.J. Massenburg added another 10 points.

Dacula 92, North Oconee 59 DACULA — Mekhail Bethea and Arusha Hunter of Dacula each scored 23 points Wednesday night as the Falcons ran away with a 92-59 win at home over North Oconee.

Bethea also finished with 11 assists and five steals, while Hunter added four steals.

Justin Goodson also had 15 points, five steals and four assists for Dacula (7-3) with Shayne Buckingham adding 10 rebounds, five blocks and five points.

GAC 66, Mount Pisgah 47 NORCROSS — Greater Atlanta Christian improved to 9-2 on the season with a 66-47 win at home over Mount Pisgah on Wednesday night.

Three Spartans hit for doubledigits in points, led by 16 from Hunter McIntosh.

Charlie O’Briant followed with 14 points, while Chris Hinton scored 10.

Branden Harris also helped by scoring eight points.

Minnesota guard Ricky Rubio (9) and Atlanta’s Dennis Schroder (17) battle for the ball during the first half Wednesday at Philips Arena. (Photo Dale Zanine-USA Today Sports)

Timberwolves take down Hawks Dennis Schroder had 21 points and seven assists as the Hawks (14-15) lost for ATLANTA — The the sixth time in their past Atlanta Hawks won at seven home games.

Oklahoma City without Paul Millsap, who Dwight Howard, but they started at center with couldn’t manage a repeat Howard sidelined by back at home against the Mintightness, had 18 points, nesota Timberwolves two nine rebounds and seven days later. assists. Mike Muscala Karl-Anthony Towns, scored 16 points off the taking advantage of the bench, hitting his first six absence of the 6-foot-11 shots.

Howard, had 17 points Wiggins broke a tie at and 17 rebounds as the 80 with a 3-point play Timberwolves defeated midway in the fourth the Hawks 92-84 on quarter and Gorgui Dieng Wednesday night for their clinched it for the Timberfirst consecutive victories wolves on a basket with this season.

42.3 seconds left.

Andrew Wiggins Muscala had 11 points scored 19 points and Zach in the third quarter and LaVine had 17 points for the Hawks led 69-67 goMinnesota (9-19) as the ing into the final period Timberwolves followed up thanks to a dunk by Kent a home victory on MonBazemore in the closing day against Phoenix. seconds.

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The Hawks jumped to a quick 10-point lead at Oklahoma City with a small lineup, but they trailed 12-2 against the Timberwolves before inserting the 6-foot-11 Muscala to help Millsap inside.

Although Atlanta went on a 14-0 run shortly afterward, Minnesota was up 28-26 after the first period and 49-44 at halftime.

Towns had 12 points and 10 rebounds in the first half, assuring a ninth straight double-double.

Millsap had 12 points and seven rebounds to lead the Hawks.

Hawks guard Tim Hardaway Jr., who averages 11.7 points per game off the bench, suffered a groin strain in the first quarter and didn’t return after playing just 63 seconds.

Notes: Although Hawks C Dwight Howard said that his tight back “continues to get better,” he missed a second consecutive game.

The decision to hold out Howard wasn’t made until about an hour before tipoff against the Timberwolves.

“It’s something we want to be on top of and maybe even ahead of,” coach Mike Budenholzer said of Howard’s back issue. … The Hawks and Timberwolves play again on Monday in Minnesota. … The Timberwolves won both games last season, with F Andrew Wiggins scoring 33 points in a 117-107 victory at Atlanta. …The Hawks are at Denver on Friday. … Atlanta rookie F DeAndre Bembry will be assigned to the NBA Development League for a third time and play today for Salt Lake City.

SPORTS AT A GLANCE Orlando 136, Miami 130, OT Cleveland 114, Milwaukee 108, OT Boston 112, Memphis 109, OT San Antonio 102, Houston 100 L.A. Clippers 119, Denver 102 Golden State 104, Utah 74 Sacramento 126, Portland 121 Wednesday’s Games Cleveland 113, Milwaukee 102 Minnesota at Atlanta, late Memphis at Detroit, late Washington at Chicago, late Oklahoma City at New Orleans, late Sacramento at Utah, late Houston at Phoenix, late Dallas at Portland, late Today’s Games Boston at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Orlando at New York, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Miami, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

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Saturday, Dec. 24 Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Washington at Chicago, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at New England, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.

San Francisco at Los Angeles, 4:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at Houston, 8:25 p.m.

College Bowl Glance Dec. 17 Air Force Reserve Celebration Bowl Grambling 10, N.C. Central 9 Gildan New Mexico Bowl New Mexico 23, Texas-San Antonio 20 Las Vegas Bowl Presented by Geico San Diego State 34, Houston 10 Raycom Media Camellia Bowl Appalachian State 31, Toledo 28 AutoNation Cure Bowl Arkansas State 31, Central Florida 13

R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl Southern Mississippi 28, LouisianaLafayette 21 Dec. 19 Miami Beach Bowl Tulsa 55, Central Michigan 10 Dec. 20 Boca Raton Bowl Western Kentucky 51, Memphis 31 Dec. 21 San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl BYU vs. Wyoming, late Dec. 22 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Idaho vs. Colorado State, 7 p.m.

Dec. 23 Popeyes Bahamas Bowl Eastern Michigan vs. Old Dominion, 1 p.m.

Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl Louisiana Tech vs. Navy, 4:30 p.m.

Dollar General Bowl Ohio vs. Troy, 8 p.m.

Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl Hawaii vs. Middle Tennessee, 8 p.m.

Dec. 26 St. Petersburg Bowl Miami (Ohio) vs. Mississippi State, 11 a.m.

Quick Lane Bowl Maryland vs. Boston College, 2:30 p.m.

Camping World Independence Bowl North Carolina State vs. Vanderbilt, 5 p.m.

Dec. 27 Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl Army vs. North Texas, 12 p.m.

Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman Temple vs. Wake Forest, 3:30 p.m.

National Funding Holiday Bowl Minnesota vs. Washington State, 7 p.m.

Motel 6 Cactus Bowl Boise State vs. Baylor, 10:15 p.m.

Dec. 28 New Era Pinstripe Bowl

Pittsburgh vs. Northwestern, 2 p.m.

Russell Athletic Bowl West Virginia vs. Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Foster Farms Bowl Indiana vs. Utah, 8:30 p.m.

AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl Texas A&M vs. Kansas State, 9 p.m.

Dec. 29 Birmingham Bowl South Florida vs. South Carolina, 2 p.m.

Belk Bowl Arkansas vs. Virginia Tech, 5:30 p.m.

Valero Alamo Bowl Oklahoma State vs. Colorado, 9 p.m.

Dec. 30 AutoZone Liberty Bowl Georgia vs. TCU, 12 p.m.

Hyundai Sun Bowl Stanford vs. North Carolina, 2 p.m.

Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl Nebraska vs. Tennessee, 3:30 p.m.

Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl South Alabama vs. Air Force, 5:30 p.m.

Capital One Orange Bowl Michigan vs. Florida State, 8 p.m.

Dec. 31 Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl LSU vs. Louisville, 11 a.m.

TaxSlayer Bowl Georgia Tech vs. Kentucky, 11 a.m.

College Football Playoff Semifinal at Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl Washington vs. Alabama, 3 p.m.

College Football Playoff semifinal at Playstation Fiesta Bowl Ohio State vs. Clemson, 7 p.m.

Jan. 2 Outback Bowl Florida vs. Iowa, 1 p.m.

Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic Western Michigan vs. Wisconsin, 1 p.m.

Rose Bowl Game Presented by Northwestern Mutual USC vs. Penn State, 5 p.m.

Allstate Sugar Bowl Auburn vs. Oklahoma, 8:30 p.m.

Jan. 7 NCAA FCS Championship James Madison vs. Youngstown

State, noon

Transactions BASEBALL National League PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Designated RHP Brady Dragmire for assignment. Signed RHP Daniel Hudson to a two-year, $11 million contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS—Activated WR Bralon Addison from the practice squad. Cut C Cornelius Edison.

CINCINNATI BENGALS—Cut LS Tyler Ott. CLEVELAND BROWNS—Activated DB Trey Caldwell from the practice squad. Waived DB Trae Elston.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Placed LB Justin March on IR/Designated for Return.

LOS ANGELES RAMS—Cut DB Steve Williams.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Activated QB Jacoby Brissett from the IR/Designated for Return list. Waived DL Woodrow Hamilton.

NEW YORK JETS—Activated DT Brandin Bryant from the practice squad. Activated T Donald Hawkins from the practice squad. Added C Kyle Friend and TE Jason Vander Laan to the practice squad. Cut LB Arthur Brown. Placed LB Mike Catapano and G Brian Winters on IR. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS—Signed G Andrew Gardner. Waived G Josh Allen.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Cut RB Kelvin Taylor. Placed DE Damontre Moore on IR. Signed RB Terrence Magee.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS—Activated WR Bernard Reedy from the practice squad. Added WR Kendrick Ings to the practice squad. Placed WR Donteea Dye on IR. TENNESSEE TITANS—Activated DB D’Joun Smith from the practice squad. Placed DE Karl Klug on IR.

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EHO • $175,900 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com FARMS, LOTS & ACREAGE FOR SALE CONYERS, GA 30094 3604 Sand Hill Drive

BRING ALL OFFERS! .51 Acre Beautiful Lot Which Has Privacy Fence On Each Side and Chain Link Across The Back.

Previous Home Burned Down But This Lot Has Gas, Sewer, Water, Phone, and Electric.

Access To Honey Creek Clubhouse & Amenities Available For Additional Fee $19,500 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

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GORGEOUS LAKE LOT! Beautiful Shaded Lake Lot With Hardwoods With Great Views of Lake Oconee.

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Send resume to clinicalrecruiter@ advantagebhs.org or call 706-389-6777 Ext. 1138 • EOE

DRASTICALLY REDUCED! Brick Front 2-Story On Huge .66 Corner Lot • New Carpet • Formal Living / Dining Rooms • Open Kitchen • Family Room • 2nd Kitchen in Finished Basement EHO • $229,900 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

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