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Cops: Man sets fire, stabs wife, kids

BY JOSHUA SHARPE

Police were called shortly after midnight on Wednesday to 5298 Santee St. in unincorpoA 44-year-old man is rated Stone Mountain. in the Gwinnett County Before officers arrived, jail, accused of setting the suspect, Jamie Bernal his home on fire and Gomez, jumped from stabbing his wife and a window, fled on foot teenage children, sending and was seen attacking them all to area hospitals, a parked car, said Cpl. police said Thursday Michele Pihera, spokesmorning. woman for the police dejoshua.sharpe @gwinnettdailypost.com

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Officers learned the man, apparently drunk and possibly high on Jamie someGomez thing, had just stabbed his wife and their son, 16, and daughter, 15, Pihera said.

“Thankfully, all the victims are expected to survive,” she said.

Capt. Tommy Rutledge, spokesman for the fire department, said the victims were outside the home, which still had the fire burning inside when emergency personnel arrived. He also said their Police say a Gwinnett County man set a fire in his home

early Wednesday morning and stabbed his wife and kids.

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Champions Tour brings exposure to Gwinnett

BY KEITH FARNER keith.farner@gwinnettdailypost.com

Thousands of fans, golfers, volunteers and media will gather this weekend for a Champions Tour golf tournament, and that is the main attraction for many visiting Gwinnett or tuning in on the Golf Channel.

But the event is more than simply a golf tournament, in part because of the international exposure to some 250 countries around the world, said Stan Hall, executive director of the Gwinnett Sports Commission, which is putting on the Mitsubishi Electric Classic

See GOLF, Page 8A Debbie Clark, right, greets the Gwinnett Braves players prior to Thursday night’s home opener against the Norfolk Tides at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Karl L. Moore)

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Past champions are on display behind the 18th green at TPC Sugarloaf as play begins today in the Champions Tour’s Mitsubishi Electric Classic. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner)

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Details emerge in mom’s trial for ’08 murder of daughter, 2

BY DAVID FRIEDLANDER

LAWRENCEVILLE — Opening night is an exciting time for any baseball team at any level.

So it was no surprise that the atmosphere was quite festive Thursday night as the Gwinnett Braves opened up the 2016 home schedule, their eighth season at Coolray Field, against the Norfolk Tides.

How long that sense of excitement lasts throughout the season remains to be seen, especially given how much the team has struggled at the gate since arriving in Gwinnett County in 2009.

They’ve averaged just 4,771 fans per game and ranked in the bottom three in the International League in attendance each year over the previous seven seasons.

However, there was definitely a sense of optimism among Thursday’s opening night crowd of 5,172 fans that things could be much different this season for the G-Braves — both on the field, where they haven’t made the playoffs since their first season in Gwinnett, and at the box office.

And several fans pointed to the number of the top prospects the Atlanta Braves have

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Alex Corbin, 4, enjoys the first home game of the season at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville on Thursday evening. (Photo: Taylor Botta)

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sent here to stock their TripleA affiliate for 2016.

“It’s fun watching the kids — the future (Atlanta) Braves,” said Lawrenceville resident Steven Roberts, a Gwinnett season ticket holder since the inaugural season in 2009 and an Atlanta Braves season ticket holder for 20

years. “Watching these young players develop and grow, and also the visitors. … We know these players (this season), and we don’t know (most of) the Atlanta players.”

Though some of those prospects have already been called up to the big club in Atlanta, there will be plenty of opportunities to see some of the organization’s highestrated prospects throughout the 2016 campaign, including Thursday’s starting pitcher,

Aaron Blair.

That possibility has other fans — like Grayson resident Brent Parham, who was at Thursday’s game with friends Pete Garmon and Marsha Bailey of Snellville — even more excited about the Gwinnett team than its parent club, especially given the 5-2 start by the former an the 0-9 start by the latter.

“Let’s just hope they’re See G-BRAVES, Page 8A

LAWRENCEVILLE — “I need to find out what happened to your little girl,” the detective told the mother.

The interview was back in 2008, shortly after Gilberto Lorenzo, now the sergeant over internal affairs with Gwinnett County police, found 2-year-old Prisi Vasquez’s body in the attic of a Lawrenceville apartment. It had been Amy Ruiz there 16 months, wrapped in four black trash bags, hidden under insulation.

Amy Ruiz’s taped response, which prosecutors played during the long-awaited murder trial Prisi Vasquez Thursday, did little to answer Lorenzo’s question.

“I don’t know exactly, exactly what happened,” the defendant, now 28, said.

She was speaking from somewhere in Mexico, where she and her husband fled

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Cops seek armed robber of Subway in Norcross

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

Gwinnett County police are looking a man who walked into a Norcross Subway two months ago and took $200 — and a sandwich — during an armed robbery.

Cpl. Deon Washington said the man, who may have also robbed a Dunkin’ Donuts near Sugarloaf Mills earlier in the day, walked into the restaurant at 1241 Indian Trail Road on Feb. 6, and initially acted with a calm demeanor. The police spokesman said the man appeared to be planning to buy a sandwich.

The man then pulled a semiautomatic handgun on the cashier at the end of the transaction and demanded all of the money in the register.

“After the employee handed him $200, the suspect took his sandwich and walked out calmly,” Washington said in a statement.

Police released several surveillance camera photos of the suspect. He

Gwinnett County police released this surveillance video image of a suspect who robbed a Subway in Norcross in February, taking $200 and a sandwich from the restaurant. (Special Photo)

is described as a black man between 5-foot-5 and 5-foot-8 in height, and weighing between 140 and 165 pounds.

Washington said he had a trimmed beard and was wearing a blue knit cap, blue sweatshirt and camo cargo pants.

The description matches that of a man who robbed the Dunkin’ Donuts three hours earlier, Washington added.

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the suspect, or who may know him and his whereabouts, is asked to call the police department’s Robbery Unit at 770-5135300, or Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477. They can also visit crimestoppersatlanta.org. The case number is 16-11700.

Tipsters whose information leads to an arrest and indictment can be eligible for a reward of up to $2,000 from Crime Stoppers.

whom he called a “Muslim terrorist,” in the yard on July 28, 2014, the Joseph Brent Gwinnett Harvill County District Attorney’s Office announced late Wednesday. The defendant was found guilty of attacking Senad

Ramic with a stick, before getting a baseball bat when Ramic blocked the stick.

“He again tried to attack Ramic, but he was able to dodge the swinging bat,” Dan Mayfield, chief assistant district attorney, said in a news release. “The bat ended up damaging Ramic’s vehicle.”

The case was prosecuted by Chris Lewis.

Man convicted in attack on his neighbor with bat

BY JOSHUA SHARPE joshua.sharpe @gwinnettdailypost.com

A 53-year-old Lilburn man has been convicted of assaulting a man who lives next to his parents’ home, where the defendant lives in the basement.

Joseph Brent Harvill is set to be sentenced on April 22 for attacking the neighbor, a Bosnian man

BOC approves construction of Centerville Senior Center

BY CURT YEOMANS

Support Services Director Angela Parham told commissioners on Tuesday that the Centerville’s elderly 8,500-square-foot residents are getting a structure will be built new place to play in their next to the existing golden years.

Centerville Community Gwinnett County Center and Centerville commissioners approved library branch, which plans to begin construcare near Snellville on tion of a new Centerville Bethany Church Road.

Senior Center earlier this She said it is expected week. The governing to include a warming body awarded a $2.24 kitchen, dining room, million contract to Hogan multipurpose space and a Construction Group LLC billiards room. for the project, which Officials later said in is being paid for with a statement that it will money from the 2014 also have staff offices and SPLOST. support space, as well as

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serve as a nutrition site where seniors can receive healthy meals. The county also plans to offer social activity programs that focus on healthy living and diversity at the center.

“This is the first time funding from the voterapproved SPLOST has been allocated specifically for capital projects that benefit our senior population,” commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash said in the statement. “I can’t wait to get this new senior center up and running to serve senior residents in southern Gwinnett County.”

GCPS, Gwinnett Medical to offer baseline concussion tests

BY KEITH FARNER

p.m. on April 23 by personnel from Gwinnett Medical Center’s Concussion Institute. High schools that Athletes and their famiwill serve as hosts include lies across Gwinnett are Discovery, Grayson, Lanier, invited to the second annual Mill Creek, Mountain View, baseline concussion testing Norcross, North Gwinnett, event at 10 schools around Parkview, Peachtree Ridge the county. and South Gwinnett.

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‘Manna drops’ help fight food insecurities in rural areas

BY LAUREN BAGGETT EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series of articles about health care in Southwest Georgia, an area of the state that has great health needs and challenges, but also some innovative approaches to such problems. The series is the product of a collaboration between Georgia Health News and the health and medical journalism graduate program at UGA Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, a partnership made possible by the Ford Foundation and Grady College.

A shrill beeping, made by a panel truck being put in reverse, signals Gary Martin’s arrival at Lakeside Assembly Church of God in Moultrie. After an hourlong drive from Valdosta, he maneuvers the truck up to the rear door of the church’s gymnasium.

Once the vehicle is in place, Martin wrestles pallet after pallet of its contents into the gym.

Each is heavy with food donated by retail grocers and other suppliers across Southwest Georgia and it has reached Moultrie through a mobile food pantry network serving rural people in need.

It’s late on Thursday afternoon and Lakeside church members will soon sort the food into plastic bags so families in need can pick it up the next day.

The Saturday events are known locally as “manna drops,” after the biblical accounts of nourishment known as manna falling from heaven.

“I needed [the manna drop] before I’d ever heard about it,” said Jean Merritt, who is 54 and lives with her husband,

Bobbie Thompson, left, and Rita Causey help organize food for a “manna drop.”

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son and the son’s friend in the small community of Hartsfield, northwest of Moultrie.

Merritt is the full-time caregiver for her husband, who is disabled by severe heart and lung disease.

She’d like to have a job outside the home, but given her husband’s condition, that’s not feasible.

The family relies on his monthly disability check and on what used to be called food stamps.

Thanks to the manna drops, Merritt can keep food on the table all month long instead of running short.

Her situation is not unusual. An estimated 26 percent of Southwest Georgia people live with uncertainty about where their next meal will come from.

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That reality goes against the rosy stereotype of farm country as a “breadbasket,” but food availability is not a simple matter. Many residents of Southwest Georgia are poor and spread out across thousands of square miles of small towns, farmland, forests and empty fields.

Addressing this kind of food insecurity “is vastly different than dealing with hunger in an urban setting,” said Eliza McCall, chief marketing officer for Second Harvest of South Georgia.

Second Harvest works with more than 400 partner agencies — local food pantries, churches and other organizations — to coordinate and distribute food for the manna drops across 30 counties in Southwest Georgia. By trucking food closer to people who need it, the drops help overcome the lack of transportation that causes many families to go to bed hungry.

Basic travel is a problem for poor people in an area like Southwest Georgia. There is little if any public transit and those who cannot afford a vehicle face difficult choices.

Older adults and young children are especially hit hard. “You’re looking at groups who are not

likely to be able to walk two miles, or in a rural area like this sometimes five miles, 10 miles to get to their closest source of food,” McCall said.

Jean Merritt is lucky in this regard. She has a car, but she still has to drive 13 miles into Moultrie to reach the nearest grocery store.

Colquitt County Forty percent of Colquitt County’s children live in poverty, which far exceeds the 26 percent figure statewide, according to County Health Rankings. More than 8 percent of adults are unemployed, higher than the national and state averages, and 28 percent are uninsured.

Lakeside Assembly is located near some of Moultrie’s lowest-income communities. “We just saw a great need. It’s a pretty depressed area economically,” Pastor Donnie Lewis said. So the church partnered with the Healthy Colquitt Coalition to fund their manna drop 13 months ago. Now a delivery arrives at the church gym on the last Friday of every month.

A chance at a full table Lewis is waiting at the gym when Gary Martin backs the truck up to the door. As soon as one pallet hits the floor he uses a pocket knife to cut away the shrink-wrap cocooning the boxes of food.

Lewis packs the sticky

plastic into a ball and lofts it toward the trashcan before zipping on to the next pallet.

What’s on the pallets depends on what items retail grocers need to move off shelves before they expire. Produce, breads and baked goods are mainstays. Some boxes are surprises. One recent drop featured a whole pallet of cranberry sauce; this last, a pallet of cranberry juice concentrate.

The third one Lewis unwraps is stacked with Greek yogurt and various types of fresh milk.

(There were no dairy products the month before.) The fourth reveals boxes of greens, blueberries, apples and cheese.

The last pallets are piled mostly with bread and sweet baked goods. In all, there is enough food to feed around 70 families.

Merritt says the manna drops have helped her tremendously. The $78 per month the family receives in supplemental nutrition assistance benefits doesn’t always cover the food they need. Without the drop, Merritt said, “It wouldn’t be full meals.

That’s for sure.”

She’s very grateful for the shipments, but admits that sometimes she wishes for things that just aren’t available.

“Tonight, I would have loved to have had a salad to go with the spaghetti that we had, you know.”

Members of Lake-

side’s congregation understand what it’s like to go without. Many of the volunteers who sort through the pallets Friday are financially eligible to take the same food home on Saturday, said Belinda Moody, a parishioner and manna drop organizer.

So far, Moody estimates the church has given food to around 700 families in a little over a year. “We’re helping people who really need help,” Moody said.

Many of these people, Moody said, have jobs but don’t earn enough to feed their families for the whole month. Poverty is a pervasive reality for the residents of Colquitt County and Southwest Georgia, and people who can’t afford adequate nutrition are drained of energy and sometimes ambition.

That’s why Lewis believes the manna drop at the church does more than silence a grumbling belly. “It’s really a matter of getting into people’s lives, investing in those people and in many cases seeing the change in those people.”

Merritt said her life has been touched by the Lakeside volunteers. “The ministry they do while you’re there is outstanding.” Volunteers converse with everyone who comes through the door and they offer to pray with them.

One woman among the volunteers, Merritt said, always offers a smile and a big hug to the locals.

Merritt doesn’t know the woman’s name. But she does know how this visitor’s simple gesture can lift her spirits when she’s having a dark day.

“And sometimes all a person needs is a hug.”

Lauren Baggett is a health and medical journalism graduate student at UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, where she also received her bachelor’s degree in magazine journalism in 2009. For five years she managed the sales and marketing team for a local Athens company, but her growing interest in health, food and mental wellness motivated her to return to journalism.

She hopes to write about the intersections of health and culture in the future.

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Patients still have a choice Dear Dr. roacH: I have a question regarding medical providers. In the past, when I have made an appointment to see my physician, I have seen the physician. Lately when I make an appointment to see my physician, I am seen by a physician assistant. The problem for me is that I have built up a relationship with my physician. I have no relationship at all with the physician assistant. The other problem I am having is that I pay a lot of money for health insurance to be able to see my physician, not the physician assistant. I have told them before that I prefer to see the physician, but I am still seen by the physician assistant.

Am I being overly sensitive on this issue, or should I start looking for another physician?

— C.J. ansWer: In my experience, physician assistants provide excellent care, and I note that you are not dissatisfied with the quality of the care you are receiving.

Several studies confirm that both PAs and nurse practitioners provide a quality of care comparable to physicians.

To me, your concerns are similar to seeing a different physician in your physician’s group when you want to see the provider who knows you and with whom you have built a relationship (hopefully) based on trust.

There are many reasons that a physician or other provider might not be available on a given day, such as medical emergencies and personal issues. The reason I am concerned is that you have asked to see your physician and your wishes have not been respected. It is entirely reasonable for you to want to see your own doctor.

If that’s not possible, then I would recommend you find a new practice where it is.

Dear Dr. roacH: I am an 80-year-old woman. I have been seeing a neurologist for blockages in my carotid arteries.

The past several months, I feel and hear a pulsing in the left ear, especially at bedtime, when it’s quiet.

When I told the neurologist about it, he didn’t seem to be concerned. I saw an ENT, and although he removed some ear wax and a hearing test showed some hearing loss, he gave me no reason for the pulsating. Can you tell me what causes this, and what I can do? — V.S. ansWer: A pulsing noise in the ear is called pulsatile tinnitus, and always deserves an evaluation, since it often represents an abnormality of the blood vessels of the head and neck. These include arteriovenous shunts (abnormal connections directly between an artery and vein), vascular tumors near the ear and blockages in the arteries.

Since you have had what sounds like a pretty extensive evaluation and have a known cause (a blockage in the carotid), I think it’s very likely that the blockage in the left carotid artery is causing the noise and sensation. It isn’t the degree of stenosis — the narrowing of the artery — but where the blockage is that makes it more likely to be noticed.

It’s also more likely to be noticed at night, when as you said, all is quiet.

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1896, closing ceremonies for the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens.

In 1912, the R.M.S. Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg.

In 1923, insulin became available to the general public for the treatment of diabetes.

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Best friend worries about his roommate Dear amy: My best friend and I live together in a house. We are both in our early 20s, but have different lifestyles. I am active, have a full-time job and serve on our local school board. My best friend helps his dad farm and in his spare time just likes to stay home and party. For the most part we make great roommates, but recently he has been drinking a lot.

This past weekend he got so drunk that he was stumbling and tripping everywhere. He also has been inviting “questionable” people over.

I am afraid he is becoming a bad alcoholic, as the drinking has been going on for quite a while and has recently become a real problem.

I don’t want to kick him out because we are still best friends and I really care about him, but I also don’t know how long I can put up with this. I have tried speaking to him about his drinking and he just becomes upset with me.

What should I do?

— Best Friend Dear Best FrienD: First this: Understand that you may not be able to have a significant impact on your friend’s drinking.

However, you have the right to live in a household that is peaceful and safe.

Secondly, it will help if you realize that your friend will definitely be upset with any suggestion that

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Amy Dickinson his drinking is a problem.

Being upset and lashing out at those trying to help are two weak weapons that alcoholics use to deflect the impact of their drinking. So — stop caring if your friend gets upset.

Simply expect it.

The next time he is drunk and crashing around the house, capture some of his behavior on video.

Then, during a sober moment when you think he might be able to pay attention, send or show the video to him and say, “Dude — this is you.”

You should tell your friend that you really care about him, but you don’t want to live like this. If his behavior is extremely disruptive or dangerous, you shouldn’t live together. Best friends tell one another the truth, even when the truth is very hard to hear.

Dear amy: Our 10-year-old daughter has been taking piano lessons since she was five. She’s quite good, but to say she hates it would be the

understatement of the year.

She protests every time we ask her to practice, openly tells us she doesn’t want to play anymore and is now beginning to give her piano teacher a hard time.

She has started playing the flute in school and seems to have taken to it quite easily (thanks to her ability to understand music due to five years of piano playing). She’s a straight-A student, is on a competitive gymnastics team and is an otherwise near-perfect child.

We feel that knowing how to play music will benefit her greatly down the road. Seriously, she literally kicks and screams over playing, but then I envision her as an adult one day thanking us for making her play.

How long should we make her keep taking piano lessons?

— Dad-D-Flat Dear DaD: I shared your question with Alexandra Scott, a professional musician in New Orleans, who teaches piano to children your daughter’s age.

Here’s her reply: “Let her stop. If she’s had five years of piano, she’s developed a solid understanding of the instrument and probably of basic theory that will serve her well in later life. Clearly she likes music, since she wants to play the flute; but forcing her to play an instrument she doesn’t want to play could

easily make her turn away from music altogether.

“I’m also a strong believer in the power of giving someone some space, which is to say, with a few months or a year off from piano lessons, she might actually find that she misses them and wants to play again. BUT if she doesn’t, I’d strongly encourage you to allow her to follow her choice.”

My additional advice is that you see your daughter not as “near-perfect” but “alreadyperfect,” just as she is.

Dear amy: “Recovering” is a private person who doesn’t want to explain her skin cancer scar to colleagues.

Not wanting to explain a burn on my chin from a mishap with my hot electric curling iron, I responded to questions from the men I work with using this simple explanation: “I cut myself while shaving.”

We had a laugh and this ended the queries.

— Recovered Dear recovereD: Great answer.

You can contact Amy Dickinson via email: askamy@tribpub.com.

You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or “like” her on Facebook.

Amy Dickinson’s memoir, “The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter and the Town that Raised Them” (Hyperion), is available in bookstores.

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You’ve got the necessary moves, so don’t let anyone stand in your way. Step up and do your thing. If you are responsible, proud and gracious, no one will deny you what you deserve.

Put your personal life in order and make a commitment to bring about positive change. Love is highlighted.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Socializing, brief vacations and business trips look promising.

Someone from a different background will give you an interesting perspective on an old concept.

Romance will change your personal direction.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You must be cautious when dealing with emotional issues. Someone will not see things your way, leading to an unexpected decision that will alter your plans.

Retreat to rethink your next move.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Don’t let anger take charge. Use your energy to take care of physical chores. If you hold a garage sale, you’ll make a little money and get rid of clutter.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Impulse is the enemy. Take precautions around anyone who appears confused or unpredictable. Don’t give in to someone for love’s sake if it’s not in your best interest.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Look for adventure.

Embrace a challenge and make romance a priority. Plan a fun-filled weekend with people who offer the mental and physical stimulation you crave.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Use your head and put your plans in motion, even if you have to do so alone. Your practical, no-nonsense attitude will help you reach your destination and impress someone worth knowing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Follow your heart and make a commitment that will keep you heading in the direction that makes the most sense to you. A romantic celebration will be just what the doctor ordered.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Share your ideas and plans. Your vision will interest someone who has the qualities you require to reach your goal. Don’t give too much away. Make a fair offer.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Don’t hide your feelings or plans.

If someone doesn’t like what you are doing, it would be best to address his or her concerns openly so that you are free to move forward without interference.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Do what you can to help others, but don’t get involved in joint ventures, make donations or lend cash or possessions. Offer advice, direction and helpful connections, nothing more.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Check out the job market. Getting together with people you have worked or played with in the past will spark an interest in something you have to offer.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — A partnership will give you the edge you need to get a project up and running. If you share your ideas and are open to suggestions, success will be yours.

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world Quake hits Japan; nuclear plants safe, two dead TOKYO — An earthquake of magnitude 6 hit southwestern Japan on Thursday, bringing down some buildings, killing at least two people and injuring hundreds, local media said, but the nuclear regulator reported no problems at power plants.

The initial tremor struck 7 miles east of the city of Kumamoto, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

It said the magnitude was 6.2 but later revised it down.

There was no tsunami warning, but one person was killed after being crushed by a collapsing building, and the other by a fire that broke out after the quake, with at least 400 people being treated at local hospitals, public broadcaster NHK said.

NHK showed footage of firefighters tackling a blaze in a building in Mashiki, a town of about 34,000 people near the epicenter of the quake.

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Microsoft sues government Claims constitutional violation over data requests

By Sarah McBride Reuters

people Judge weighs bid to dismiss child sex abuse claim against Cosby

SANTA MONICA, Calif.

— Lawyers for comedian Bill Cosby and a woman accusing him of sexually abusing her as a child faced off in a California courtroom on Thursday over a defense bid to dismiss her lawsuit for reasons related to the statute of limitations.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Craig Kaplan said at the end of the hearing that he would take arguments from both sides “under submission” and render a written decision at an undisclosed date.

Cosby, 78, lost a previous bid to fend off the same lawsuit on similar grounds Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers the keynote address during the Microsoft Build last year.

2016 Developer Conference in San Francisco, Calif., in this March 30 file photo. (ReHis accuser in that case, uters/Beck Diefenbach/Files) Judy Huth, now in her 50s, sued Cosby in December Communications Privacy ernment “has exploited the get the company to write Act, the government is intransition to cloud computsoftware to unlock an iPhone 2014, alleging that he plied her with alcohol and molestcreasingly directing invesing as a means of expanding used by one of the shooters ed her during an encounter at tigations at the parties that its power to conduct secret in a December massacre in the Playboy Mansion in Los store data in the so-called investigations.”

San Bernardino, Calif.

Angeles in 1974, when she cloud, Microsoft says in the Surveillance battle Apple, backed by big was 15. lawsuit. The 30-year-old The lawsuit represents the technology companies law has long drawn scrutiny newest front in the battle be- including Microsoft, had from technology companies tween technology companies complained that cooperating Banderas, Rhys and privacy advocates who and the U.S. government would turn businesses into U.S.: Air strikes Meyers to star in say it was written before the over how much private busi- arms of the state. hit ISIS under ‘Black Butterfly’ rise of the commercial Inter- nesses should assist govern“Just as Apple was the broader rules net and is therefore outdated. ment surveillance. company in the last case and LOS ANGELES — An“People do not give up By filing the suit, Miwe stood with Apple, we WASHINGTON — The their rights when they move crosoft is taking a more expect other tech companies tonio Banderas and Jonathan United States has carried their private information prominent role in that battle, to stand with us,” Microsoft’s Rhys Meyers will co-star out 70 to 80 air strikes in the psychological thriller from physical storage to the dominated by Apple Inc. Chief Legal Officer Brad against Islamic State in “Black Butterfly,” directed cloud,” Microsoft says in the in recent months due to Smith said in a phone interAfghanistan in the three lawsuit. It adds that the gov- the government’s efforts to view after the suit was filed. by Brian Goodman (“What months since U.S. forces Doesn’t Kill You”). were given broader authorAndrea Iervolino and ity to target the militants, Monika Bacardi’s Ambi support to a designated Group and Silvio Muraglia’s a U.S. military spokesman foreign terrorist organizaParadox Studios are financsaid on Thursday. tion, a spokesman for the Trump campaign Before January, the U.S. Attorney’s office said. ing and producing “Black U.S. military could only He faces a maximum of 15 Butterfly.” Marc Frydman is manager won’t also producing while Mikael strike Islamic State in years in prison. be prosecuted Afghanistan under narrow A sentencing date has not Wiren and Alexandra Klim WEST PALM BEACH, are executive producing. circumstances, such as for been set yet.

The movie is based on the Fla. — Republican presiprotection of troops.

More than 80 people Military spokesman French film “Papillon Noir,” dential front-runner Donald have been charged since Brigadier General Charles Trump’s campaign manager written by Herve Korian.

2014 in U.S. federal cases Cleveland said the air Justin Stanley (“Stigmata”) will not be prosecuted in related to Islamic State, strikes had decreased the Florida on a misdemeanor which has claimed respon- and Steve Hilts are adapting capacity of the group in a new screenplay. battery charge involving sibility for the Brussels Afghanistan, where fighters a reporter, Palm Beach Banderas will play a bombings in March that loyal to Islamic State have County State Attorney Dave down-on-his-luck screenkilled 31 people and the emerged to challenge the writer who picks up a drifter Aronberg said on Thursday. Corey Lewandowski, campaign manager for U.S. Repub- Paris attacks in November larger Afghan Taliban in (Meyers) and offers him a Corey Lewandowski, 42, lican presidential candidate Donald Trump, attends a that killed 130. rally in West Allis, Wis., on April 3. (Reuters/Jim Young) place to stay. However, when pockets of the country. was charged on March 29 Islamic State is also Cleveland said about by police in Jupiter with known as ISIS or ISIL and the deranged stranger takes The American Civil Liber- controls territory in Iraq 70 to 80 percent of the air the screenwriter hostage and to a new report released intentionally grabbing and ties Union on Thursday will and Syria. strikes between January forces him to write, their bruising the arm of Michelle Thursday. seek to block a Kansas state and the end of March were Fields, then a reporter for unhinged relationship brings The analysis, from in the eastern Afghan prov- the conservative news outlet venture-backed security risk law that requires people to buried secrets to light.

Lawsuit can ince of Nangarhar. benchmarking startup Secu- prove American citizenship Breitbart. The incident proceed versus rityScorecard, measured the if they want to register to occurred when Fields tried James Cameron vote while applying for a relative security health of to question Trump at a camBushmaster Putin blasts making four driver’s license. government and industries paign event on March 8.

Panama Papers A lawsuit can proceed The civil rights group across 10 categories, includ“Mr. Lewandowski has ‘Avatar’ sequels as ‘provocation’ a reasonable hypothesis of ing vulnerability to malware will ask a federal judge in against the maker of the LOS ANGELES — innocence. There is insuffi- infections, exposure rates of Kansas City, Kan., to issue gun used in the 2012 shootMOSCOW — Vladiing at Sandy Hook Elemen- James Cameron will make cient evidence to rebut these passwords and susceptibility a preliminary injunction mir Putin on Thursday four “Avatar” sequels, promtary School that left 20 pending the outcome of a to social engineering, such defenses,” said Aronberg, dismissed media reports children and 6 adults dead, ising that the films will start as an employee using corpo- lawsuit the group filed in a Democrat, noting that that billions of dollars in hitting theaters in 2018. a Connecticut judge ruled rate account information on February.

Lewandowski had grabbed Panama offshore accounts The creator of the original The ACLU claims Kan- on Thursday. a public social network. the reporter’s arm against might be linked to him as “Avatar,” the 2009 fantasy Bushmaster, manufacEducations, telecommuni- sas is making illegal deher will. epic that remains the all-time a U.S.-backed “provocacations and pharmaceutical mands for additional proof turer of the AR-15 assault Aronberg’s office said tion,” as he told ordinary of citizenship, violating the weapon used in the assault worldwide box office chamindustries also ranked low, it faced a legally higher Russians that the country’s standard than law enforcepion, said that his vision for so-called Motor-Voter Law in Newtown, Conn., had the report found. Informaeconomic crisis will ease a followup has expanded asked a judge to dismiss that Congress passed in tion services, construction, ment. State prosecutor’s next year. over time. the lawsuit, saying it was 1993 to boost voter regisfood and technology were offices must show proof of The leak of confidential a crime beyond a reasonable among the top performers.

He first envisioned two seprotected by a 2005 fedtration for federal elecdocuments from a Panaquels. But after meeting with tions by allowing voters to eral law blocking lawsuits Government agencies doubt and whether there manian law firm earlier a team of four screenwriters against gunmakers when register at motor vehicle have struggled for years to is a reasonable chance of this month has angered the conviction. their products were used in and a group of “some of the departments. keep pace with malicious Kremlin, forcing it to field top artists and designers in the commission of crimes. hackers and insider threats, questions about offshore the world,” he realized that The lawsuit was filed in a challenge that came into Report: U.S. gov’t Minn. man pleads accounts allegedly belong2014 by the families of nine he had too much material for focus after it was disclosed worse than major last year that more than 21 guilty to trying to of the people who were ing to one of Putin’s best just two films. He initially friends. decided on three sequels, industries on million individuals had their join Islamic State killed.

Speaking during a telethen jumped to four.

Superior Court Judge sensitive data pilfered durcyber security vised national phone-in, A Somali-American man Barbara Bellis declined to “So far, what I am seeing ing a breach at the Office of WASHINGTON — U.S. Personnel Management.

Putin dismissed the leak from Minnesota pleaded in pure imagination is far dismiss it, saying the gunfederal, state and local and subsequent media reguilty on Thursday to trying maker, a unit of Madison, beyond the first film,” Camports as part of a shadowy government agencies rank in ACLU asks to join the Islamic State and N.C.-based Freedom Group eron said. He said that very U.S.-backed plot designed last place in cyber security fight for the militant group Inc., had not proven that the few people have seen the court to block to discredit Russian politi- when compared against 17 in Syria, prosecutors said.

Protection of Lawful Com- initial concepts, but a select cians ahead of parliamenta- major private industries, in- Kan. voter ID law Adnan Farah, 20, pled merce in Arms Act stopped few have been left “speechry elections later this year. cluding transportation, retail guilty to one count of con- her from hearing the case. less” by what they saw.

— From wire reports and healthcare, according — From wire reports KANSAS CITY, Kan. — spiracy to provide material — From wire reports SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. has sued the U.S. government for the right to tell its customers when a federal agency is looking at their emails, the latest in a series of clashes over privacy between the technology industry and Washington.

The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in federal court in Seattle, argues that the government is violating the U.S. Constitution by preventing Microsoft from notifying thousands of customers about government requests for their emails and other documents.

A U.S. Department of Justice spokesman declined to comment.

The government’s actions contravene the Fourth Amendment, which establishes the right for people and businesses to know if the government searches or seizes their property, the suit argues, and Microsoft’s First Amendment right to free speech.

Microsoft’s suit focuses on the storage of data on remote servers rather than locally on people’s computers, which Microsoft says has provided a new opening for the government to access electronic data.

Using the Electronic

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Drone hunt for Loch Ness Monster finds its film double Reuters

has been the most detailed to date of the Loch’s icy depths.

LONDON — A high-tech maThe Munin drone is capable of rine drone scouring the depths of nearly 50 years ago after its buoy- mapping vast areas down to 1,500 Scotland’s Loch Ness for one of ant humps were removed. feet and is often used to locate nature’s most elusive beasts has Undeterred, the enthusiastic downed aircraft. found a “monster” — but not the monster-hunters steering the “The vehicle allows sonars to one it was looking for. drone are continuing their twoscan just a few meters from the Rather than the fabled Loch week search for any evidence loch floor, giving resolution sevNess Monster itself, the probe has that might prove the existence of eral orders of magnitude greater discovered a 30-foot replica used “Nessie.” than anything before,” Kongsberg in the 1970 film “The Private Life The survey by Norwegian Maritime engineer Craig Wallace of Sherlock Holmes,” which sank company Kongsberg Maritime said.

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Along with the movie replica, it has also found a 27-foot shipwreck as it maps the Loch floor.

Far from being disappointed by the findings, Steve Feltham, who has been hunting Nessie for 25 years, says the maps will help him in his quest.

“I think the findings are fantastic,” he said. “We now have a more detailed map of the rock bottom than ever before, which will show us the location of every

lump and bump.

“We can send back cameras to look at anything of interest, which could turn out to be the carcass of the animal,” he added. “It’s shown there’s a hell of a lot more to investigate.”

The first written record of a monster relates to the Irish monk St. Columba, who is said to have banished a “water beast” to the depths of the River Ness in the sixth century.

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In GOP, no room for nice WASHINGTON — On the day that Paul Ryan said he really, truly, honestly did not want to be the Republicans’ presidential savior, John Kasich did his best to channel the House speaker. Both undertakings underscored how much trouble the old pro-business, pro-tax-cut conservatism faces.

A cynic might theorize that since absence makes the heart grow fonder, Ryan’s reticence would only make his party hope and pray harder that he would deliver it from catastrophe. But the 46-year-old speaker knows that the 2016 GOP is unlikely to E.J. be the vehicle for the Dionne neo-Reaganite revival he seeks. He’s much better off waiting until 2020.

Kasich, in the meantime, did what he should have done long ago, casting Donald Trump and Ted Cruz (without naming them) as taking the party down the “path to darkness.”

If you like what Sarah Palin once mocked as “that hopey-changey stuff” (and I do), the Ohio governor’s New York speech was a magnificent relief from the horror movie motifs and exclusionary rhetoric that have become the staples of this year’s Republican contest.

“A political strategy based on exploiting Americans instead of lifting them up inevitably leads to divisions, paranoia, isolation and promises that can never, ever be fulfilled,” Kasich declared.

“We have heard proposals to create a religious test for immigration, to target neighborhoods for surveillance. … We have been promised that unpopular laws shall be repealed simply through the will of a strong man in the White House.”

Lest there be any doubt that Kasich had a certain very loud real estate developer in his sights, he offered this: “Some who feed off of the fears and anger that is felt by some of us and exploit it feed their own insatiable desire for fame or attention. That could drive America down into a ditch, not make us great again.”

Kasich urged us toward that most old-fashioned of ideas, national unity. “Fear turns to hope,” he said, “because we remember to take strength from each other.”

All this is lovely, and you can imagine Hillary Clinton, assuming she wins the Democratic nomination, deploying Kasich quotations this fall. One of her new campaign commercials is called “Stronger Together.” It’s a good overall theme for her. We’re stronger when we rise together economically and when we don’t reject each other for reasons of race, ethnicity or religion.

The problem for Kasich involves his solutions.

In his speech Tuesday, he proposed a balanced budget; a freeze on most federal regulations; tax cuts for individuals and businesses; sending “welfare, education, Medicaid, infrastructure and job training” programs back to the states; a guest worker program; and fixes to Social Security that would certainly involve some cuts.

In other words, he reprises the same agenda conservatives were offering in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. It’s an approach that even many in the GOP — particularly working-class Trump supporters — see as inadequate. It also happens to be a variation on Ryanism.

If these policy retreads no longer unify the GOP, they also have little to say about the challenges facing the country in our era.

If you wonder why Republicans have not been able to unite against Trump (or, really, at all), it is because they are divided into increasingly irreconcilable factions.

You can count at least five of them. There are two kinds of social conservatives: those who respond to the religious right’s central concerns, notably opposition to abortion and gay marriage; and those who take a hard line on immigration, race, national identity and, increasingly, free trade.

Libertarian Republicans take a consistently small-government view, which often leads them to favor social tolerance and oppose foreign intervention. The neoconservatives are defined primarily by their support for aggressive American engagement in the world, often of a military sort.

And the business-oriented Republicans for whom Kasich and Ryan speak make low taxes and less regulation their highest priority. While their personal attitudes are often similar to those of libertarians — thus the warm openness of Kasich’s oratory — corporate Republicans have been willing in the past to make concessions to social conservatives to win support for their core goals.

Holding all these groups together amiably is now beyond the capacity of even the most gifted GOP politicians. Ryan knows this, which is why he is sticking to his current job and hoping his party can regroup intellectually. Kasich, bless him, wants Republicans to sound a whole lot nicer. But in the clamor of factionalism that plagues the party, the political base for niceness just isn’t big enough.

E.J. Dionne’s email address is ejdionne@ washpost.com. Twitter: @EJDionne.

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Goodbye to my friend, the nonagerian Lately, I have had an intermittent exposure to a number of nonagenarians, for whom I have engendered deep admiration—especially those who ignore the aging process and live life to the fullest with a sage view and an energized routine that reminds us that learning never stops, unless one becomes compliant with the sedentary lifestyle.

Bill Hale, who died last week at 89, appeared likely to become one of those nonagenarians who scoffed at growing old. I expected Father Time to be kinder to him. Although he had had open heart surgery years ago, he ate healthy and exercised daily — both body and mind. His body, unfortunately, was not as strong as his curious mind which never ceased to encroach on knowledge and was forever questioning.

A mill village alumnus, the G.I. Bill (he was a member of the Greatest Generation) educated him, first with a B.S. from Furman. Later, he earned a doctorate at Florida State.

He was primarily an educator but landed at the Georgia Center in the early 1960s to supervise conferences. He enjoyed connecting UGA faculty with conferees who came to campus for “continuing education.” Later, he ran the university’s public television station.

Hale became a gifted

Loran Smith speaker which offered two enduring benefits — extra compensation which allowed for travel for him and his family and the fulfillment of making audiences enjoy the value of listening to his musings and to become motivated to inquire and question.

Hale grew up in a Southern Baptist environment, where questioning was often considered blasphemy.

He had misgivings about the traditional concepts of heaven and hell and had no reluctance to speak his mind regarding the matter. He had a sensitive appreciation and cogent understanding of the Bible. He knew what most church going folk have missed—there were several books, left out of the Bible.

He spent considerable time trying to learn why?

Something that troubled him was the Book of Revelations. He concluded that John was a troubled old man when he wrote Revelations.

Hale expressed disdain for the last book of the New Testament.

When Gutenberg opened the floodgates to learning in 1439 with the creating of the printing press, more than intellectuals gained opportunity to discourse in theology. Hale was intrigued by theology and gloried in bringing about dissent when two or three or more were gathered together. Never insulting, never dogmatic or over bearing, he was fulfilled when friends made themselves and others “think” and ask questions.

While so many became mentally idle in the company of pure junk that television offers, Hale was finding respite in documentaries, the theater and books — principally biography, philosophy and theology.

As a kid he camped out in the uppermost reaches of a chinaberry tree in his back yard, an on-top-of-the-world experience which made him see the world from a different perspective. He could spy on the neighbors and their gentlemanly or ungentlemanly habits, their peculiarities and daily regimen. This led to imagination and amusement. He found humor and enlightenment in the simplest of exercises.

In his septuagenarian years, he began chronicling his life’s vignettes and stories for his children and grandchildren. His candor and his self-examination were insightful and underscored with wit and

levity. In his octogenarian years, when many of his friends were as inactive as a politician who has twice been caught stealing, Billy Hale became an author and columnist.

He wrote about everyday things, seldom taking umbrage, but always finding the sunny side, the under-the-rock stories; the things that were a staple of his youth; the sentimental and the off-beat tales. His musings were a tonic for the heart and soul. He treasured a stimulating one-liner.

One book made his day, two blessed him with tidy fulfillment; the third one, regrettably, was unfinished when his generous heart played out on him last week.

Living a life with no regrets and sustaining buoyant fulfillment, telling golden stories at the end, is a fitting epitaph for a mill village kid who got to see beyond the horizon that so many of his friends saw as a barrier and never attempted to pass.

Now he has crossed the horizon that mystifies us all.

Unfortunately, he can’t write about it.

I hold the view, however, that if death can offer a positive experience, Bill Hale is enjoying the moment.

Loran Smith is co-host of “The Tailgate Show” and sideline announcer for Georgia football. He is also a freelance writer and columnist.

Time to help for National Volunteer Week This week is National Volunteer Week, sponsored by the Points of Light Foundation, which highlights the benefits of volunteering and encourages people to serve in traditional and untraditional ways. As the Volunteer Coordinator at the Georgia SPCA, a no-kill dog and cat shelter in Suwanee, I’m moved every day by the time and sacrifices freely given by volunteers, whether walking dogs, cleaning kennels, managing our website or social media outlets, or serving as board members.

Research continues to show that volunteering provides as many, if not more, benefits to the person as it does to the organization. My own life story bears that out. Years ago, in my mid-20s … OK, many years ago … I was at a low spot.

Specifics elude me now, but I’m sure a man figured prominently in the saga. Angry, depressed and hyper-focused on my misfortunes, I began to notice friends were slow to return calls. One day I woke up and even I was sick of hearing myself think about myself. In a moment of sanity I decided to find a place to volunteer so that

home, I wondered if volunteering was the answer for my own sadness.

A few days later the other organization called, inviting me to meet with the volunteer coordinator that week.

As I pulled into the agency’s courtyard a van was driving out filled with residents, and Laura Wade one person next to a window looked at me, smiled broadly for a few hours once a week and waved. In that moment a I’d have a respite from obsess- feeling of happiness enveling about myself. oped me; I knew I had found This will date me: Using a home. the Yellow Pages I found two I volunteered at The agencies — a home for chilCenter for 12 years until I dren with AIDS and a facility left Houston in 2000, and it for adults with developmental changed my outlook on life, disabilities (in Houston, Texas, my career and my soul. As where I lived). The first to re- the years passed I took on turn my call was the home for special projects, organized children with AIDS. In those a theater program, sought days there wasn’t a lengthy donations and resources, and background check or orienta- most of all made life-long tion process; I was put to work friends of residents, staff and the very next day. That night I volunteers. The volunteering bathed a girl of 8 who, burned I did there and elsewhere over 80 percent of her body, went on my resume and as a had a blood transfusion during result I changed my job, caskin grafts that resulted in reer, and state of residence. being HIV positive. I vividly I am now the Volunteer remember being awash with Coordinator at the Georgia sadness for her poor burned SPCA. From the coordinabody and what lay in store for tor’s perspective, I now her. After two evenings at the know how keenly orga-

nizations operating on a threadbare budget depend on volunteers to keep their doors open.

Volunteer for a selfish reason — do it to recharge yourself! My first attempt at volunteering wasn’t the right fit for me, but thank goodness there are people who are different and can do what I couldn’t. Over my 12 years at The Center, people sometimes said, “I couldn’t do what you do.” And I’d say, “That’s OK!” Find the organization or need that fills your cup and leaves you full of energy and optimism — don’t give up until you find your niche. You have as much to gain as the organization you will help.

So if you are low, between jobs, or need a pick-meup, come walk a dog one morning every week here at the GASPCA or log on to VolunteerMatch.org and find an organization that can use your unique gifts.

Laura Wade is the volunteer coordinator at Georgia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She can be reached at laura.gaspca@gmail.com.

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Lorenzo pressed the mother on why she didn’t call 911 on a bus the morning after when she came home to find Prisi died.

Prisi “purple,” shaking, with Ruiz, who hasn’t revealed her pupils massive. if she’ll testify, said she She said she was scared wasn’t at the Stillwater Lane the state would take her home when Prisi began to children away. She didn’t die. She said her husband, have legal custody of either Christian Vasquez, told her child at the time; her father the little girl was playing did, because of troubles with her brother when she in the home. She said her suddenly started shaking, but husband told her calling the that’s all he would say. police would get her father Even after they moved to in trouble and make him Mexico, the man, who is be- lose custody of his younger ing tried separately, wouldn’t children. say what happened. He “I just wanted to run outwould get drunk and come side; I didn’t know what to home and start crying, do,” the mother said, crying saying, “My daughter, my on the phone. daughter, my daughter …”

She later said her husband but would avoid questions, took the phone from her, a Ruiz said. statement the prosecution Dr. Carol A. Terry, Gwin- has already called into quesnett’s chief medical examtion as possibly false. iner, testified that the child Lorenzo also asked her had blunt-force trauma to the why she hadn’t told anyback of the head. one Prisi’s body was in the

attic for so many months.

She said her husband was holding her against her will and keeping her from talking in Mexico, that she had just escaped before finally revealing to her father in Georgia that Prisi was dead in the attic.

Amazingly, no one had noticed the body before Ruiz’s father told authorities it was there.

The owner of the duplex told police another set of tenants moved in after Prisi’s family left, before the owner himself moved in.

Lorenzo found the man cutting grass on June 20, 2008, and told him why he came by.

“He gave me a bewildered look like he didn’t believe what I was telling him,” the sergeant said.

Inside, Lorenzo and other authorities recognized an odor. Capt. Ray Rawlins, a

former medical examiner’s office investigator, who has since moved to campus police at Georgia Gwinnett College, testified there were stains in the ceiling of the kitchen under the body.

As it turned out, police had also been there while Prisi was in the attic, just a few days after her death.

Ruiz’s father reported the family missing when no one would come to the door. But police didn’t know the child was dead.

Officers found the apartment in disarray and noticed several bottles of hydrogen peroxide and black trash bags. The items were shown in the crime scene photos Thursday.

One picture stood out.

It was of the children’s bedroom. There were two beds. One still had a colorful blanket bunched up on top.

The other was bare.

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Charles T. Bell Charles T. Bell, age 65 of Snellville, GA, passed away April 12, 2016. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company” Snellville Chapel, 770-979-3200, www. wagesfuneralhome.com

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Samuel Brooks Samuel (Buddy) Logan Brooks, age 86 of Snellville, Georgia passed away on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Barbara Brooks, son Stephen Brooks and wife Sabrina, daughter Karen Adams, grandchildren, Matthew Brooks and Chandler Brooks. He was retired from television and film sales and last worked for Barris Industries. He was a member of the Joy class at Lawrenceville First United Methodist Church. A memorial service will be held at 5:00 PM Saturday, April 16th in the sanctuary at Lawrenceville First United Methodist Church with Rev. Sheri Smith officiating. The family will receive friends in the church parlor from 4:00 to 5:00 PM. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the Lawrenceville Food Bank. Arrangements by Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel (770) 277-4550 express condolences at www.wagesandsons.com.

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F. Leon Juhan F. Leon Juhan age 90 of Snellville, GA, passed away Tuesday, April 12, 2016. He was preceded in death by his parents, James Crawford and Nancy Ford Juhan; and son, Joe Juhan; siblings, Gloria Odum, Crawford Juhan and Arthur Juhan.

He is survived by his wife, Euthemia Juhan; son and daughter in law, Jimmy and Sandy Juhan of Flowery Branch, GA; sister, Charlotte Sullivan of Snellville, GA; and brothers in law, Wayne Odum of Snellville, GA., and Bill and Rex Green both of Grayson, GA. Leon was the owner of Leon Juhan Auto Sales and a partner with his brother Crawford Juhan in Juhan Motors. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Snellville, Ga. He served as a former member of Snellville City Council.

The Funeral Service to Honor and Celebrate the Life of F. Leon Juhan will be held on Saturday, April

16, 2016 at 3:00 PM at Tom M. Wages Snellville Chapel. Burial will follow at Snellville Historical Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Friday, April 15, 2016 from 5:00 PM until 9:00 PM at the funeral home. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.wagesfuneralhome.com. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company, Snellville Chapel 770-979-3200 has been entrusted with the arrangements.

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Brian Key Brian Paul Key, age 44, of Gainesville passed away Wednesday, April 6, 2016.

Michael and Ally Adams and Carson and Spencer Southard. She was preceded in death by her father, James T. Lewis, and her grandparents.

A celebration of Donna’s life will be held on Friday, April 15, 2016, at 2:30 pm at the Central Congregational United Church of Christ, 2676 Clairmont Road, NE, Atlanta 30329.

The family will sit shiva at the Lewis-Jacobs home on Saturday, April 16, beginning at 6 pm, with a service at 7 pm and on Sunday, April 17, beginning at 1 pm, with a service at 6 pm.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Ovarian Cancer Institute, 960 Johnson Ferry Road, Suite 130, Atlanta, Georgia 30342. ovariancancerinstitute.org HOSCHTON

Jose Legra Jose Legra, age 85 of Lawrenceville, GA, passed away April 13, 2016. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company” Snellville Chapel, 770-979-3200, www. wagesfuneralhome.com

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Donna Lewis Donna Kay Lewis, of Decatur, Georgia, passed away on April 13, 2016.

A life-long resident of the Atlanta area, Donna graduated from Henderson High School, the University of Georgia and Emory University School of Law, from which she obtained her law degree in 1986.

Donna was a loving wife, mother, daughter and sister, and she was an inspiration to women in the often difficult world of corporate law, having been a partner in her law firm for almost a decade.

While Donna was a hard and dedicated worker committed to her practice, she also lived her life to the fullest. She was the Lucy to her beloved wife Jill’s Ethel, she was a joy and a comfort to her family and friends, and she could always be counted on to share her wisdom, her kindness, and her beautiful soul. Donna left her imprint on every life she touched.

Donna’s greatest love was her family. She is survived by her wife, Jill Jacobs, by her children, Jack, Seth and Sarah, by Barbara Jacobs, Dr. Adam Jacobs, Virginia Lewis, Linda Adams, Laura and Darin Southard, and by her nieces and nephews,

Bobby Penland Bobby Penland, age 78, of Hoschton, GA passed away on Thursday, April 7, 2016. He is survived by his wife, Ruth M. Penland, Hoschton, GA; daughter and son in-law, Rebecca Penland Bruce (Mike), Hoschton, GA, son, Michael Scott Penland, Hoschton, GA; granddaughter and grandson in-law, Christina Bruce (Michael Crow), Braselton, GA, granddaughter, Lora Bruce, Hoschton, GA; nieces, nephews and cousins; two aunts and one uncle. Mr. Penland was born on April 21, 1937 in Hayesville, NC. He was retired from General Motors after thirty-five years of service. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and a sports fanatic, especially Georgia Tech. He was a member OF Prospect United Methodist Church in Lawrenceville, GA. Funeral services will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 17, 2016 at Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Richard Moeller officiating. The family will receive friends on Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. until time of service. In lieu of flowers, donation can be made to Prospect United Methodist Church in memory of

the worst.

Two other children, wounds didn’t appear ages 10 and 8, and the wife’s mother, 60, were life-threatening. in the home, but were “The family was not harmed. displaced due to the Police reportedly damage,” he said. “The found the suspect family dog, a large lying in a neighbor’s German shepherd, was yard, a knife nearby. found deceased inside the home by firefighters He had cuts on both wrists, was stunned during a primary with a Taser when he search.” wouldn’t comply with According to police, officers, and was taken Gomez set a fire in the to Eastside Medical bathtub of his home, Center for evaluation which his wife tried before the county jail, to put out, causing the police said. husband to stab her The mother and “numerous times.” son were transported “Their two teenage to Gwinnett Medical children attempted to Center, the girl to help their mother,” Children’s Healthcare Pihera said. “As they of Atlanta — Egleston. were trying to assist Gomez faces 10 her, the suspect stabbed charges, including both of them.” arson and cruelty to The 16-year-old’s injuries were said to be children.

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Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan, Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133. (770) 932-1133.

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Virginia Scott Virginia “Jenny” Scott, age 79 of Buford, GA passed away on April 13, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan, Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Chris Sexstone, age 68, of Duluth, Georgia, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Wednesday, April 13, 2016, after a courageous battle with cancer. He is survived by his devoted wife of 41 years, Angela Simpson Sexstone; son & daughterin-law, Bryan & Julie Sexstone of Dacula, GA; daughter, Shera Roebuck of Stone Mountain, GA; daughter & son-in-law, Allison & Josh Nicoson of Armstrong, IA; daughter & son-in-law, Erin & Alex Stroud of Dacula, GA; 10 loving grandchildren, Kyle, Taylor, Liam, Logan, Shelby, Gaby, Ben, Faith, Koty and Addie; two great grandchildren, Adam & Savannah; two sisters, Carol McNair and Martha Smith (Cliff) all of Buffalo, NY; two brothers, Rev. Fr. James Sexstone of Roswell, GA; Joe Sexstone (Sharon) of Syracuse, NY; brother-inlaw, Ken Simpson (Laura) of Cullman, AL; numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and a host of many friends. Chris was preceded in death by his parents, James & Doris Sexstone; and father & mother-in-law, Frank & Carolyn Simpson.

Chris was born in Canandaigua, New York on March 24, 1948. He graduated from Pittsford High School in New York and attended Gwinnett Tech. He was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps serving six years with one tour of duty in Vietnam. Sgt. Sexstone received the Presidential Unit Citation 2nd Award, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, and Vietnamese Campaign Medal. Chris worked with Scientific Atlanta for 16 years, Hayes Micro Computer, Parson’s ACE Hardware, and

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retired after 6 years with Lowe’s. He enjoyed gardening, fishing, and being with his beloved family, especially his grandchildren. Chris was a devoted member at Duluth First United Methodist Church for over 25 years, and most recently was a member at Sugarloaf United Methodist Church. Youth Work and Missions were special areas that Chris focused on during his life.

During his days of cancer treatment, it was important to Chris to be productive during that time, so he started making Hand-Held Crosses that were given to other cancer patients to keep their spirits going during their battle with cancer. This kind, gentle man will be deeply missed by his adoring family and many friends.

The Service Honoring the Life of Chris Sexstone will be held Sunday, April 17, 2016, at 2:00 P.M. at Sugarloaf United Methodist Church, 1795 Old Peachtree Rd., Duluth, GA 30097 (770-814-2050) with Rev. Dr. Matthew Mitchell officiating.

Interment will follow at Gwinnett Memorial Park in Lawrenceville with Military Honors. The family will receive friends on Saturday from 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. at Tom M. Wages Lawrenceville Chapel. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Missions at Sugarloaf UMC in memory of Chris Sexstone. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.wagesfuneralhome. com. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company”, 120 Scenic Hwy., Lawrenceville, GA 30046 (770-9632411) has been entrusted with the arrangements. .

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Dagnelli, Roanoke Rapids, NC; grandchildren, Jody Smith, Suwanee, GA, Laura Anderson, Roswell, GA, Landon and Misty Smith, Nicholson, GA, Zachary and Jessica Smith, Hendersonville, NC and Jeremy Smith, Charlotte, NC; greatgrandchildren, Emma Grace Anderson, Gavin Smith and Owen Smith; sisters-in-law and brotherin-law, Lillian Mullinax, McDonough, GA, Margie Hitt, Buford, GA, Mary Martin, Cumming, GA, Brenda and Tommy Estes, Ball Ground, GA; brothers-in-law and sisters-inlaw, Jerry and Geraldine Stewart, Ranger, GA, Jackie and Arlene Stewart, Canton, GA and Garston Green, Cumming, GA; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Mr. Smith was born September 12, 1928 in Buford, GA. He graduated from Sugar Hill School, Sugar Hill, GA and was retired from SKF Bearings Company.

He was a Charter Member and Deacon of New Hope Baptist Church in Sugar Hill. Funeral services will be held Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Jackie Stewart, Mr. Jody Smith and Rev. Mark Akins officiating. Interment will follow at Broadlawn Memorial Gardens, Buford, GA. The family will receive friends on Friday, April 15, 2016 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home.

To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www.flaniganfuneralhome.com. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan, Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Virginia Thrasher

Roger Smith Mr. Roger M. Smith, age 87, of Sugar Hill, GA passed away on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. He was preceded in death by his wife of sixty-five years, Louise Stewart Smith, daughter, Melissa Smith, parents, Loyd H. and Lizzie Samples Smith, twin brother and sister, Lonnie and Flonnie Smith, brother, Jerome Smith, and sister, Charlotte J. Smith. He is survived by his sons, Garry and Tricia Smith, Sugar Hill, GA and Larry and Tina Smith, Murphy, NC; daughter, Ginger and Tony

Virginia Lee Thrasher, age 89 of Decatur, GA passed away April 13, 2016. Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel 1031 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville GA, 30046 770-277-4550.

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Dorothy White Dorothy “Dot” White, age 74 of Snellville, GA, passed away April 11, 2016. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company” Snellville Chapel, 770979-3200, www.wagesfuneralhome.com

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BUSINESS BRIEFS Mall of Georgia announces July 4 festivities

•From Page 1A ward on a 70-foot screen in the parking lot located across from Dick’s Sporting Goods.

The mall is located at 3333 Buford Drive in Buford.

doing better than the (Atlanta) Braves,” joked Parham, who said he goes The Fourth of July at the to about eight to 10 GwinMall of Georgia will be a nett Braves games a year. blur of shopping, patriotism, “I’m hoping they’ll help music, games, fireworks and National the big Braves downtown, a movie about people trying and maybe some of these to overthrow their dystopian Compressor guys, if they can get on a government.

Exchange coming winning streak, they’ll get The mall announced the to go (up to the big league to Norcross plans this week for its 14th team).”

A leading supplier of reannual Star Spangled Fourth While the game of event, which will begin at 5 manufactured and certified baseball itself was reason air conditioner compresp.m. on July 4. This year’s enough for many fans to sors is moving into the event will be presented by head out to Coolray Field AutoNation Mall of Georgia neighborhood in Norcross. on a cool April evening, National Compressor and Children’s Healthcare of others cited the lure of the Exchange Inc. recently Atlanta. minor league game as a announced it is opening a Among the highlights of specific attraction. new facility in Norcross, this year’s celebration will “Oh yeah, we love the on the heels of its decision young Braves,” Garmon be the fireworks, a viewing to enter a joint partnership said. “We like minor of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2” and per- with Fraschold, which is league ball. We go to (ball the world’s second largformances by Ants Trippin, parks) like Chattanooga est OEM compressor The Woodys and Mallory and Greenville. But we manufacturer. As part of Green. Mall officials said love the Gwinnett Braves.” the agreement, National they plan to have children’s Of course, there is more ride and inflatables, and food Compressor will handle than just baseball that service center re-manufac- keeps other fans coming and beverage concessions.

Ants Trippin will begin at 5 turing operations in North back to Coolray Field to America and carry Frap.m. and The Woodys will watch the G-Braves. schold compressors at its go onstage at 7:30 p.m.

While Buford resident facilities.

Green will sing the Sharon Harrington and her The new Norcross national anthem before the family are big fans — and, facility is located at 6185 fireworks begin at roughly like Garmon and Bai9:35. The movie will then be Jimmy Carter Blvd. ley, travel to other minor — From staff reports league parks around the shown immediately after-

Jake Hewell of Locust Grove receives an autograph form Rio Ruiz before Thursday’s opening game at Coolray Field. (Photo: Sean Hackney)

South, like the Braves’ lower affiliates in Rome and Pearl, Miss. — other factors make a G-Braves game an event.

“My kids are two years apart, and it’s like a family thing to do,” said Harrington, who has had G-Braves season tickets for two years and Atlanta season tickets for three. “I

actually like the hot dogs, too. … It’s close to home.

It’s fun. My 13-year-old, I like to see his face when he gets an autograph. … We also like when the players that are here go up (to the majors). Now, that’s a big thing. We even went to spring training to see (some of) the Gwinnett Braves.”

And the family atmo-

sphere is what Roberts says is the big difference in his mind between a Gwinnett game and an Atlanta game.

“It’s a great experience,” Roberts said. “The fans here in Gwinnett are different from Atlanta. I don’t know how (else) to say that. We’re like a community, like a family here.”

Hall said they’re heavily involved from a hospitality standpoint to entertain clients and customers.

Some of those fans could be drawn to a field of professional golfers that is consistently strong. It draws a strong field that includes past major champions because of where it sits on the calendar, said Rod Terrette, the volunteer chairman of the tournament. Because fewer than 10 Champions Tour

players typically play in the Masters, the last time most would have played would have been at least two weeks ago in Biloxi, Miss. Terrette said most players prefer to play every other week or three out of six.

As that continues and it becomes more established in the community and nationally, Elissa Dooman, the tournament director, said it is moving up into the top tier of all Champions Tour events.

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“I think it’s important for people who may not have any interest in golf to know that it does so much more than golf,” Hall said. “It brings attention to our area.”

The Duluth tournament at TPC Sugarloaf, in its fourth year, is broadcast live today, Saturday and Sunday, and Hall said this kind of event is unparalleled.

“I don’t think there’s

another event that we have in Gwinnett County that puts us on the national and international map,” Hall said.

The numbers organizers use to promote the event and base its business model off of are the nearly $500,000 in donations it’s given to local charities and the $10 million in annual economic impact. And while the entire week brings a range of people to the area, from people looking

to grow their small businesses, to an executive women’s seminar to pro football players, there is room to grow.

The first three years of the tournament, formerly called the Greater Gwinnett Championship, never put together three straight days of clear, sunny weather. Last year’s final round, for example, was rained out.

Hall also said that when the new Marriott hotel opens, the tourna-

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ment would be able to reach more sponsors.

Construction near the Infinite Energy Center is expected to begin later this year for the hotel, which is expected to be about 12 stories tall and connect to the convention center and the arena.

The nature of golf is that sponsorships come from companies that don’t necessarily want their logos advertised on promotional materials and around the course.

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MEDICAL MERGER MADNESS?

State document hints at downside to insurance consolidation in Georgia

group” or small employer market, and 35 percent of the Medicare manTwo pending megaaged care population mergers, if approved, in Georgia, if its deal would tighten an already is approved. The effect compressed health insur- would be more modest ance market in Georgia, among the large employer a state insurance departmarket. ment document suggests.

Anthem’s purchase of The combination of Cigna would increase Aetna and Humana would Blue Cross member have the greater impact numbers in the state, of the two deals, accord- according to the August ing to a letter that a state letter from Trey Sivley, a insurance official wrote state insurance official, to a law firm. to a Chicago law firm.

The other merger But the effect would be awaiting regulatory apless pronounced than the proval is the acquisition other merger, according of Cigna by Anthem, the to the state figures. parent company of Blue The Georgia departCross and Blue Shield of ment of insurance said Georgia, the state’s larg- Wednesday that the memest insurer. bership figures in the letThe letter, based on ter do not include people 2014 figures, states that a covered in self-insured health insurance market employer plans, used by is “highly concentrated’’ large companies. if 75 percent of that Department officials business is controlled are currently reviewing by four or fewer insur2015 market share numers. The Georgia insurbers for health insurers, ance markets selling to said agency spokesman individuals, to small and Glenn Allen. He added large businesses and to that Sivley has recently Medicare beneficiaries left the agency. already fit that category, The American Medieven without the procal Association, meanposed mergers. while, said Wednesday The Aetna/Humana that Georgia is one of the merger would give the states that will be most combined company 58 affected by the two mergpercent of the individual ers. policy market in Georgia.

Anthem, through its Anthem has another 27 Blue Cross of Georgia percent, and with Cigna, company, currently has that total would increase about one-third of the to 29 percent. small employer and Aetna would control Medicare markets, and almost half of the “small half of the larger employ-

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(A merged Aetna and Anthem) would control nearly 90 percent of the individual health insurance market in Georgia, the kind of monopoly that undermines our free market system.”

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— The Medical Association of Georgia

er business in the state.

The mergers have drawn opposition from the Medical Association of Georgia.

The two merged companies — the bigger Aetna and Anthem — “would control nearly 90 percent of the individual health insurance market in Georgia, the kind of monopoly that undermines our free market system,” MAG says.

In addition, the two merged companies “would hold dominant positions in the smallgroup, Medicare and large-group markets,” said Dr. John Harvey, president of MAG. Earlier this year, Florida became the 10th state to approve Aetna’s $34 billion purchase of Humana. Florida regulators did not require any divestitures as part of their review, but Aetna acknowledged that “it is possible that the (U.S.) Department of Justice will require divestitures in some geographies, which is a standard tool as part of its approval processes,” FierceHealthPayer reported in February.

Federal regulators often try to address the

anti-competitive effects of mergers through divestitures, requiring spinoffs of assets to other firms where there are overlaps.

Aetna says it now has half of the state approvals needed for the transaction to be completed. It also needs the federal Justice Department approval.

The Connecticut-based insurer said in a statement to GHN on Wednesday that “we believe the combination of Aetna and Humana will improve the health care system and offer consumers more choices and greater access to higher-quality, more affordable care.

“Our proposed transaction is primarily about the Medicare marketplace, where there is robust competition and choice. We are confident that our transaction will receive a fair, thorough and fact-based review from the Department of Justice and the states,” the Aetna statement said.

A CNBC article in February reported that Anthem’s $54 billion acquisition of Cigna has been approved by four states — Alabama, Tennessee, Nevada and Montana.

Competition and the consumer The consumer group Georgians for a Healthy Future said Wednesday that insurance mergers tend to limit choice for consumers and lead to higher premiums.

“As consumer advocates, we are very worried that consumers will face higher costs without experiencing better quality if these mergers are approved,’’ said the group’s executive director, Cindy Zeldin.

“Given the movement towards narrow provider networks, fewer plan choices for consumers also raises concerns about access to care,’’ Zeldin said.

She urged regulators to “hold the merging companies’ feet to the fire in terms of cost, access and quality for consumers.”

But insurance industry leaders have said that hospital consolidation in Georgia and elsewhere has tilted the playing field in favor of medical providers, adding to their clout when they negotiate payment deals with insurers.

Hospital consolidation is certainly a trend in the state. WellStar Health System recently acquired the five Tenet Healthcare hospitals in Georgia (all of which are in the Atlanta region), cementing WellStar’s place as the biggest health system in the state.

And the board of Memo-

rial Health in Savannah approved a strategic partnership agreement with North Carolina-based Novant Health.

“Any time that two health plans are involved in a potential business transaction, there’s rigorous review at the state department of insurance,’’ said Graham Thompson, executive director of the Georgia Association of Health Plans, an industry trade group. Consolidation of medical providers, such as hospitals and doctors, “would benefit from the same rigorous review,’’ he said.

The Georgia insurance department has not set a hearing date on either deal.

GHN reported last year that Aetna would roughly double its size by taking over Humana.

Aetna has about 700,000 Georgia members in its health plans, while Louisville, Ky.-based Humana covers 692,000 in Georgia, GHN reported last year.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, with about 3 million members, will remain the leading health insurer in the state whether or not the AetnaHumana merger deal is completed.

The Aetna combination would have less effect on metro Atlanta — where there are more insurance options — than on other areas of the state, insurance experts have said.

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Women’s Health Expo on April 30

Ladies from across Gwinnett County will be able to get a checkup for free in two weeks when Gwinnett Medical Center and the Gwinnett Women’s Pavilion host a Women’s Health Expo in Lawrenceville.

The event will be held from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m., at Lawrenceville First Baptist Church’s Fellowship Hall, 165 S. Clayton St. The event will include community vendors, door prizes, free health screenings and breast cancer assessments. Dr. Spencer Rozin will deliver the keynote speech on steps to better health and the importance of screenings for medical conditions.

There will also be breakout sessions covering heart health, diabetes, tips for care givers, how essential oils can affect hormones or menopause, pediatric care and access to affordable care.

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Six years after spill, new offshore oil safety rules set

By Valerie Volcovici

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The new standards come nearly six years after a WASHINGTON — The deadly explosion and fire Obama administration on on the Deepwater HoriThursday unveiled new zon oil rig off the cost of oil well control rules to Louisiana, which led to the prevent the kind of blowworst oil spill of all time. out that happened six years The Macondo well blowago on a BP Plc rig in the out and the fire on April 20, Gulf of Mexico.

2010 killed 11 workers.

The Interior DepartInterior Secretary Sally ment’s Bureau of Safety Jewell told reporters the and Environmental rule took six years to comEnforcement announced plete because the agency the finalized regulations, wanted to understand the which include more strinroot cause of the disaster. gent design requirements “There are a number of and operational procedures things that went wrong,” for offshore oil and gas she said. “It was important Reuters

that we understood those things and the evolution of technology.”

The Interior Department said it took into account industry and other stakeholder feedback since it first proposed the rule last April.

To improve the “culture of safety” on oil rigs and prevent future spills or blowouts, the new rule tightens requirements for blowout preventers, well design, well control casing, cementing and sub-sea containment.

It also calls for real-time monitoring, third party

reviews of equipment, regular inspections and safe drilling margin requirements.

The agency estimates the new rule would cost the industry $890 million over a 10-year period but would yield $1.5 billion in benefits.

Republican Louisiana Senator David Vitter slammed what he called an “overarching” rule that would “kick our oil and gas industry while it’s down.”

Industry lobby group the

Regulator to allow Fannie, Freddie to cut loan balances

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for the relief, the agency said.

Homeowners have to WASHINGTON — The meet certain criteria to regulator of Fannie Mae and qualify, including having Freddie Mac said Thursday an outstanding principal it would allow the governbalance of more than ment-controlled mortgage $250,000 and being more finance companies to cut than 90 days delinquent on loan balances for thousands mortgage payments as of of U.S. borrowers who owe March 1. more than their homes are “The national housing worth. market has significantly The Federal Housing improved in recent years, Finance Agency said the but there are still areas of principal reduction program the country where home would be a one-time offervalues have not recovered ing for seriously delinquent and negative equity remains borrowers to help them with a real problem,” said FHFA what the agency director Director Mel Watt. said “could well be their The program will “allow final opportunity to avoid an opportunity for delinforeclosure.” quent, underwater borrowAbout 33,000 borrowers ers in these areas to avoid are expected to be eligible foreclosure and save their Reuters

homes,” he said.

The FHFA previously developed other policies to help homeowners who were underwater in mortgage payments, including allowing Americans to buy back Freddie- or Fannie-backed foreclosed homes at their current market value.

The agency on Thursday unveiled other changes designed to minimize foreclosures, including modifying rules for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to sell defaulted loans.

The companies must now instruct their debt buyers to evaluate borrowers for loan forgiveness or principal reduction options. Also, debt purchasers can no longer release and walk away from possessed, vacant properties.

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Baker, a member of their order who committed suicide in 2013.

HOLLIDAYSBURG, The first witness, a Pa. — Pennsylvania pros- 30-year-old man identiecutors on Thursday prefied only as Witness #1, sented church records and described how Baker a witness they said showed molested him repeatedly that three former leaders beginning at age 13 and of a Roman Catholic order continued through high endangered hundreds of school and college. He said boys by putting them in he remembered complaincontact with a cleric they ing only once. knew was a sexual preda“He was yelling and tor. screaming,” the witness The three Franciscan said at a hearing intended friars, Giles Schinelli, to establish whether 73, Robert D’Aversa, 69, prosecutors have enough and Anthony Criscitelli, evidence to make the three 61, face felony charges of friars face trial. “He was a endangering the welfare of big guy.” children and conspiracy by The witness, a former enabling the sexual preda- student athlete at Bishop tions of Brother Stephen McCort High School in Reuters

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Johnstown, Pa., said that Baker, who was working as an athletic trainer, would put him on a table in the guise of a massage and then fondle his genitals.

Prosecutors also showed a series of letters and meeting minutes they said showed each of the three defendants knew Baker was an active pedophile but continued to assign him to jobs where he had contact with adolescents.

D’Aversa, according to documents introduced by Deputy Attorney General Daniel Dye, removed Baker from the athletic trainer job because of an abuse allegation but assigned him to recruit young men to the Franciscan order.

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American Petroleum Institute said it is still reviewing the document, but said technical problems in the initial proposal could cause unintended consequences if they remain.

Offshore drilling has seen at least 1,066 injuries, 496 fires and explosions, 22 losses of well control, 11 big oil spills and 11 fatalities since the Deepwater Horizon accident, according to the Interior Department.

Jacqueline Savitz, vice

president of the ocean protection advocacy group Oceana, said the new standards were “a significant improvement over the status quo” since Congress has not passed legislation to improve offshore drilling safety but are “absolutely not sufficient to protect our oceans.”

Earlier this month, a federal judge in New Orleans approved BP’s $20 billion settlement, paving the way for Gulf restoration to begin.

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Momentum, history on Langer’s side at TPC Sugarloaf

By Christine Troyke christine.troyke@ gwinnettdailypost.com

DULUTH — Bernhard Langer has gone over his final round at Augusta many times in the last few days.

The evergreen 58-yearold entered Sunday just two shots off the lead before fading to a tie for 24th.

“With the position I was

GOLF What: PGA Champions Tour Mitsubishi Electric Classic When: Friday through Sunday Where: TPC at Sugarloaf, Duluth TV: Golf Network

in, I wanted to win,” said Langer, who has twice donned the coveted green

jacket. “I didn’t want to finish fifth or eighth or whatever. To do that, I had to be very aggressive. With my length, I had to go and take my chances.

“I took a chance right away on No. 1 and on No. 3 and didn’t pull it off. Got punished. I was three over after three holes, and that’s not what I needed. From that point on, it was an uphill battle.”

Langer still finished

ahead of several of this generation’s top players, including Bubba Watson and Adam Scott, and the good news is much of that momentum can be carried into this week’s Champions Tour event in Duluth.

“The way I competed with the very best in the world — half my age and less at times — that’s a lot of positives,” Langer said. “On a golf course where I really shouldn’t

be competitive because of my length, I was still right there. So I take a lot of positives away.”

TPC at Sugarloaf plays similarly to Augusta, and it’s no surprise Langer has faired well here over the year, too. He won the inaugural Mitsubishi Electric Classic in 2013 and has been runner-up the last two years.

“The golf course is looking good,” Langer

said. “Hopefully, we don’t get a lot more rain. It’s starting to dry out, and it’s playing nice. Fairly long, still, but it is a slightly longer course than most that we play.

“I personally love it.

I’ve had some very good success here. It reminds me of Augusta — the hills, the same type of grass, lot of uneven lies and pretty

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Gwinnett Braves starter Aaron Blair (52) throws home during Thursday night’s home opener against the Norfolk Tides at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Enka Lawson)

Pitching, Ruiz bomb powers G-Braves past Norfolk 5-0 in home opener

By David Friedlander

six of his innings but was solid with the remainder of his 97 pitches on the night, 57 of which went LAWRENCEVILLE for strikes.

— After a successful road Aided by two of the trip to open the season, the three double plays turned Gwinnett Braves opened by the G-Braves’ infield the home portion of their on the night, the 6-foot-5, schedule in grand style 230-pound right-hander Thursday night. never allowed a base runAaron Blair threw six ner past first base until the effective innings, folsixth. lowed by a solid inning Even then, Blair was each from three different able to wriggle out of relievers, and Rio Ruiz trouble by inducing belted a home run to help Francisco Pena to ground the G-Braves break open out to second to leave the a close game in the eighth bases stranded. inning before closing out a “Whenever you’ve got 5-0 win before an opening a guy on first base, you’re night crowd of 5,172 at always one pitch away Coolray Field. from a groundball double Gwinnett Braves Rio Ruiz is greeted at the plate by Ronnier Mustelier (25) after hitting Blair scattered five play, and I was able to a home run during Thursday night’s home opener against the Norfolk Tides at Coolray hits over six innings and do that a couple times Field. (Photo: Jim Lacey) struck out six, while Rob (Thursday), which was Wooten, Kanekoa Texeira — to help the G-Braves “(Blair) was really turn the bat loose really huge,” Blair said. “With and Brandon Cunniff each (6-2) maintain a one-game good,” G-Braves manger good and went out in the the two walks (in the pitched a scoreless inning lead on Durham in the In- Brian Snitker said. “We’ve field and made a good sixth) inning, I was getting — the former two on the ternational League’s South been playing good deplay (in the ninth).” a little too fine. I got away same day they were actiDivision a week into the fense. … And it’s good to Blair (2-0) allowed at See G-BRAVES, Page 5B vated off the disabled list season. see Rio jump out there and least one baserunner in all

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Tradition, community to remain the focus at Grayson

By Chris Stephens Staff Correspondent

LOGANVILLE — Tradition and community are two of the marks that Mickey Conn instilled into Grayson’s football program. And for new head coach Jeff Herron, that status quo will remain the same as he had his official meet and greet with players and parents Thursday

at the high school. “(Grayson) has such a community feel to it,” Herron Jeff Herron said. “It’s almost like a small-town atmosphere and that really excites me.

I didn’t really expect that in Gwinnett County. The

really good teams over the last few years have had really good parent support, community support and booster support. It takes everybody. You don’t just do it without all of those parts. It takes everybody. A credit to Coach Conn that they built that here.”

Herron inherits a program from Conn, who resigned to take a position on Dabo Swinney’s staff

at Clemson, that has won 97 games since 2007. It’s a tradition that Grayson principal Dana Pugh wanted to be maintained with a new coach.

“Tradition is everything at Grayson,” Pugh said.

“The blueprint has been laid and is something we’re confident in Coach Herron continuing.”

Sophomore defensive end Justin Scola said that

upon hearing of Herron being tabbed as the new head coach, he and his teammates got excited.

“We knew what he brought to the table,” Scola said. “We knew that the tradition would be upheld.”

The pedigree that Herron brings to the table is 273-51 career record in 26 seasons as a high school coach in Georgia, including a 31-6 record over the

last three years at Prince Avenue Christian. Herron also brings with him four state titles, including three at Camden County (2003, 2008, 2009) and one at Oconee County in 1999.

“You can’t help but look at the pedigree and the success he’s had over his career,” Pugh said. “He’s the type of coach we wanted to

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DULUTH — Last weekend’s 17-10 win over the Colorado Mammoth didn’t just snap a five-game losing streak for the Georgia Swarm, it put them back in control of their destiny in the race for a playoff spot.

Georgia (5-9) is one game behind Rochester (6-8) for the third and final playoff spot in the NLL’s East Division with Buffalo (10-4) and New England (9-5) already clinching playoff berths.

The Swarm have four games remaining, including two crucial match ups this weekend. Today the Swarm will host New England at 7:35 p.m., before traveling to Rochester on Saturday for a 7:30 p.m. start.

“Since last game, we’ve been looking at the season as playoffs, do-or-die,” Randy Staats said after the win over Colorado. “I think we’re going to carry that mentality into the next weeks.

We’ve got two big games against two very good teams. We have to bring it for another four quarters and hopefully the result ends up the same.”

Georgia has dropped both games against the Black Wolves this season, including a 16-15 loss in February.

Johnny Powless tied the game with 32 seconds remaining, but New England’s Kevin Crowley found the back of the net with just four seconds left for the win.

Offensively, Shawn Evans leads the Black

Georgia Swarm goalie Brodie MacDonald makes a save last weekend against the Colorado Mammoth at the Infinite Energy Arena. (Photo: Paul Sasso)

Wolves with 102 points (second-most in the NLL) on 43 goals and 59 assists.

“Every team in this league is a challenge,” Swarm head coach Ed Comeau said. “Some are a little more. Certainly New England with Shawn Evans, he’s a real quarterback out there and he’s the guy that even when you do pay a lot of attention to him he seems to have seven or eight points. He’s an effective player and he’s working real well with the guys he’s got there. We know we’re going to have to give him a lot of attention and hopefully make some plays on them.”

While Georgia has a potent offense of its own, its defense will be the key down the stretch.

In the Swarm’s five victories this season, goalies Brodie MacDonald and Zach Higgins have averaged 35 saves in those games.

“Part of it is always your goal tending,” Comeau said. “Making some big saves at key times. But I think defensively, us being consis-

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After shaking up the league landscape in January with a move from St. Louis, the Los Angeles Rams shook up the 2016 NFL draft on Thursday, acquiring the No. 1 overall pick from the Tennessee Titans in a blockbuster deal.

The Rams are expected to use the pick to draft a quarterback, either Jared Goff of Cal or Carson Wentz from North Dakota State, to fill a standing need at the position.

The trade is the first involving the No. 1 overall pick since 2004, when the New York Giants acquired Eli Manning from the San Diego Chargers. The No. 1 pick has been traded seven times since 1990.

“It is not often that you have the number one

overall pick and we hope to not be in this position again, but we tried to use that pick as currency to work the draft and maximize player acquisition,” first-year Titans general manager Jon Robinson said. “We now have the ammunition to work the draft and acquire players that are good for this football team.”

With last year’s second overall pick, Oregon’s Marcus Mariota, entrenched at quarterback, the Titans were not in the running for the top passers in the draft. With several holes to fill, including left tackle, Robinson went for quantity over quality. Among the top left tackles in the 2016 draft, Robinson could find two or three of the top five still available at No. 15, the first-round pick acquired

tent and really avoiding letting teams get on prolonged runs of goals — that’s really demoralizing. Games we’ve been successful in, we’ve been able to kind of settle up, and if a team gets a couple goals, we’ve been able to answer them, and that’s pretty important.”

With the Knighthawks, the Swarm have split the season series with the road team winning the first two matchups.

Georgia closes the season April 23 at New England and at home on April 30 against Vancouver.

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Tennessee will send the top pick and its fourth(No. 113) and sixth-round (No. 177) picks this year to the Rams in exchange for Los Angeles’ first-round pick (No. 15), two secondround selections (Nos. 43 and 45) and a third-round pick (No. 76) in 2016. The Titans also will get the Rams’ first- and thirdround picks in 2017.

The Rams made a similar trade in 2012, but they were on the receiving end of the bounty of picks from the Washington Redskins, who wanted the No. 2 overall pick to draft Robert Griffin III. Three years later, the Rams still had a need at quarterback and the Redskins released Griffin, who is now a member of the Cleveland Browns.

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BASEBALL

Today

6 p.m. — Berkmar at Dacula 6 p.m. — Lanier at Gainesville 6 p.m. — Mill Creek at Norcross 6 p.m. — Mountain View at Collins Hill 6 p.m. — North at Duluth 6 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Meadowcreek 6 p.m. — White Co. at Buford 7 p.m. — Brookwood at Shiloh 7 p.m. — Central at Grayson 7 p.m. — Parkview at Archer

LACROSSE

5:30 p.m. — Parkview girls at North 6 p.m. — Riverside Military boys at Meadowcreek 6:30 p.m. — Grayson girls at Mountain View 7 p.m. — Collins Hill boys at Archer 7 p.m. — Collins Hill girls at Mill Creek 7 p.m. — Parkview boys at Parkview

SOCCER

5 p.m. — GAC at Wesleyan 5:30 p.m. — Archer at Berkmar 5:30 p.m. — Discovery at Hebron 5:30 p.m. — Grayson at Shiloh 5:30 p.m. — Lanier at Peachtree Ridge 5:30 p.m. — Lumpkin Co. at Norcross 5:30 p.m. — Madison Co. at Buford 5:30 p.m. — Meadowcreek at Tri Cities 5:30 p.m. — South at Central 5:45 p.m. — Dacula at Marietta 6 p.m. — Parkview at Brookwood

TENNIS

11 a.m. — Region 8-AAAAAA third-place match 1 p.m. — Region 8-AAAAAA championship match Saturday

BASEBALL

2 p.m. — Lovett at GAC 2 p.m. — Wesleyan at Holy Innocents’

GOLF

2 p.m. — Brookwood Invitational at Summit Chase Gwinnett

LACROSSE

• Buford boys at Benedictine 11 a.m. — Buford girls and South Forsyth at West Forsyth 3 p.m. —Buford girls at West Forsyth

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AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL

2:30 a.m. (Sat.) — AFL Premiership Football Brisbane Lions vs Gold Coast Suns FS1

AUTO RACING

11 a.m. — NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: Food City 500, Practice FS1 12:30 p.m. — NASCAR XFINITY Series: Bristol 300, Practice FS1 3 p.m. — NASCAR XFINITY Series: Bristol 300, Final Practice FS1 4 p.m. — NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: Food City 500, Qualifying FS1 3 a.m. (Sat.) — Formula One: Chinese Grand Prix, Qualifying NBCSP

COLLEGE BASEBALL

7:30 p.m. — Oklahoma State at Baylor FSSO 8 p.m. — Oklahoma at Texas Christian FS1

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

8 p.m. — Jordan Brand Classic: East vs. West. From Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. ESPN2

MLB

7 p.m. — Atlanta at Miami FSSE

NHL

8 p.m. — Chicago at St. Louis, Game 2 NBCSP 10:30 p.m. — Nashville at Anaheim, Game 1 NBCSP

SOCCER

3 p.m. — UEFA Europa League Liverpool FC vs Borussia Dortmund FS1

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BASEBALL

Ongoing through June 1: I9 Sports of Northwest Gwinnett County offers summer baseball and T-ball programs for boys and girls ages 3 to 18 at E.E. Robinson Park. Summer season starts in June. Register by April 15 for extra savings. For more information or to register, go to www.i9sports.com or call 678472-2142.

May 2, 4: Team Elite Southeast 2016 summer final tryouts for 15-and-under through 18-and-under will be May 2 and 4 beginning at 6 p.m. at Johnson High School. For more information, call 770-714-4774 or email to abranden6@gmail.com.

BASKETBALL

April 18: Lawrenceville Youth Association will host a meeting for the upcoming basketball season. The meeting will include filling new board member positions.

Ongoing through June 1: I9 Sports of South Gwinnett County offers summer basketball leagues for boys and girls ages 4 to 12 at Lenora Park in Snellville. Summer season starts in June. Register by April 25 for extra savings. For more information or to register, go to www.i9sports.com or call 404551-2036.

Ongoing through June 1: I9 Sports of Northwest Gwinnett County offers summer basketball programs for boys and girls ages 3 to 18 at Lanier and Discovery High Schools. Summer season starts in June. Register by April 15 for extra savings.

For more information or to register, go to www.i9sports.com or call 678-472-2142.

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Buford grad Lexi Overstreet, in the middle of a big offensive season, leads the Tennessee softball team into a series against Georgia in Athens this week. (Photo: Tennessee Athletics/Craig Bisacre)

Overstreet enjoying senior season at UT

By Will Hammock will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Each inning of softball means another tedious equipment change for catchers. The gear goes on, then the gear comes off.

Again and Lexi again and Overstreet again.

Foul tips and errant pitches bring the occasional pain, too. It’s far from glamorous, but Lexi Overstreet relishes it.

The Tennessee senior has been firmly entrenched as the starting catcher this season, returning to her favorite position full-time and making sure she’s involved in every play when the Volunteers are on the field.

“I love it, catching is my favorite position,” said Overstreet, whose team visits Athens this week to play Georgia.

“I’m really happy with it. I love catching every single game.”

This comes from someone who knows the other positions pretty well, too.

During her college career, the Buford grad has played games and practiced at every position in the field except pitcher and shortstop.

“I think that’s pretty crazy,” Overstreet said.

The fun part of her season isn’t limited to her catcher duty, either.

Overstreet is enjoying the best offensive season of her college career, even though her previous two years were impressive.

After playing sparingly as a freshman for a senior-laden team that finished as Women’s College World Series runner-up, Overstreet became a key part of the lineup as a sophomore (.303 average, eight home runs, 31 RBIs) and as a junior (.295, eight home runs, 32 RBIs). She’s hitting .364 this year with nine homers and 45 RBIs. She’s also 11-for-11 on stolen bases after stealing just four bases her first three seasons.

“A big part of softball is the mental game,” Overstreet said. “When you’re in the box, it’s just you and the pitcher, and mentally you have to be strong. In the offseason, I definitely worked on having a strong mental game and it definitely has shown this year. Just learning to flush pitches, learning to make adjustments during at-bats and after at-bats with different pitchers. It really has impacted my season on the

field and off the field.”

Tennessee also has been playing well of late with victories in 10 of its past 12 games, including a sweep last weekend over 10th-ranked Texas A&M. The Volunteers are 31-10 overall and 10-5 in the SEC, with hopes of another run to the WCWS. They have made college softball’s showcase two of Overstreet’s first three seasons.

“We’ve talked a lot about (goals) as a leadership group and with our coaches, what we need to do in order to get to where we want to be at end of season, which is obviously the College World Series,” Overstreet said. “Right now our word is ‘one’— one pitch at a time, one game at a time, one practice at a time. We’re not worried about other things looking forward and putting stress on ourselves. We’re just focusing on one at a time and being tough, having a lot of fight.”

Overstreet and the Volunteers hope to keep things rolling this weekend in Athens in front of family and friends.

“I’m excited, not just because I’m playing in Georgia and I live in Georgia and a lot of my family lives there,” she said. “But also they’re a great team and it’s another opportunity for us to sweep or win a series against a top-ranked team.”

After college softball, Overstreet plans to give pro softball a shot and get into coaching at the college level.

“I’ve been back and forth (on a career),” said Overstreet, who graduates in May with a sociology degree. “I thought about going to law school, but as I continued with school and softball, I realized softball is my love. I just think I’m better off helping players, even younger players, even if I just give lessons, teaching them the game and helping them. I was very fortunate to receive lessons from people growing up and that definitely helped me get to where I am today and I wanted to help other young players with that.”

time in school history and just behind former NCAA champion Kineke Alexander’s 51.35.

“We challenged Elexis to get her ready for the Big Ten Championships,” Iowa director of track and field Joey Woody said in a school release. “She ran the 4x1, the 400, the 200, both were PRs, and then the 4x4, so it was an extremely tough day for her to do all of that in a short amount of time, especially with the performances that she had. She’s made her mark in the Big Ten, but she knows she needs to continue to improve to be a finalist at the NCAA Championships. That’s on her mind, and she’s determined to do that this year.”

Guster also finished second in the 200 at the meet (23.38). She has won three Big Ten titles in the 400 and has earned second-team All-American honors in that event.

BASEBALL Lewis picks up honors Shiloh grad Kyle Lewis, a junior at Mercer, picked up two awards in the past week.

The outfielder was named to the D1Baseball. com and Perfect Game Midseason All-American Teams last weekend, shortly after being named the Southern Conference Player of the Month.

Lewis leads the conference in RBIs (43) and ranks second in batting average (.414) and home runs (12). He also ranks among the nation’s leaders in on-base percentage (.547), slugging percentage (.820), total bases (91) and walks (34).

of the week on Monday.

The Mount Pisgah grad hit .400 with four home runs, a double, a walk, 10 RBIs and five runs scored. He hit three home runs with six RBIs, including a two-run, walkoff homer, last week in a 9-8 win over Sewanee and followed it up with a 3-for-4 game with a grand slam in a 6-2 victory over Sewanee.

Celata leads the SAA in home runs (nine), RBIs (34), doubles (17) and slugging percentage (.791), and is second with a .403 batting average.

TENNIS Serdinia earns Georgia College award Georgia College junior Hannah Serdinia, a North Gwinnett grad, was named her school’s Bobcat Athlete of the Week last week.

Serdinia earned the award after going 3-0 in singles and doubles the previous week. She won doubles matches against West Alabama and Francis Marion, then won her singles match against Francis Marion’s Anilu Barraza Araiza 7-5, 5-7, 10-6.

MISC.

Locals feted at Georgia State banquet A number of Gwinnett products were honored Monday at Georgia State’s Golden Panther Awards, a season-ending event to honor the best in the school’s athletics program.

North Gwinnett’s Kristina Stinson was named the volleyball team’s MVP, as well as its Academic MVP as the program’s top student.

Archer’s Madison Newby also was a double-winner, Curry ends lengthy game with homer earning the women’s Mill Creek’s Jerad basketball team’s MVP Curry, a senior at Armand freshman of the year strong State, snapped a tie awards. in the top of the 16th inOther Gwinnett grads ning with a game-winning who earned awards were home run in a recent 10-9 Brookwood’s Mandy win over Montevallo.

Blackwell (Academic MVP, softball), Grayson’s It was the third solo home run of the game for Sydney Davis (freshman of the year, women’s Curry and ended a game track and field), Collins that lasted 16 innings, Hill’s Reagan Morgan matching the longest (freshman of the year, Peach Belt Conference softball), Peachtree game in school history.

The game took nearly six Ridge’s Nick Gatewood (freshman of the year, hours. Junior Ryan Patterson, a South Gwinnett baseball), Greater Atgrad, also homered in the lanta Christian’s Deidra TRACK AND FIELD Bohannon (Senior Citizen game for Armstrong.

Award, volleyball) and Curry is hitting .331 Berkmar’s Guster posts Buford’s T.J. Shipes (Seone of nation’s top times with 10 home runs and nior Citizen Award, men’s 28 RBIs this season.

Iowa junior Elexis basketball).

Patterson also has a .331 Guster posted the No. 2 Gwinnett Grads is a average with five homers time nationally this seacolumn that spotlights and 24 RBIs. son in the 400-meter run achievements of past last weekend at the Jim Click Shootout in Tucson, Celata gets SAA award Gwinnett standouts.

Duluth resident Adrian Coaches and parents are Ariz. urged to send suggestions The Berkmar grad won Celata, a sophomore at via email to will.hamthe 400 in 51.85 seconds, Oglethorpe, was named her personal best by near- the Southern Athletic As- mock@gwinnettdailypost. ly a second and the No. 2 sociation baseball player com.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2016 • 5B

Braves remain winless after 6-2 loss GGC wins NAIA

By David Driver

season and hit only three.

The Nationals have gone deep eight times while giving up just three homers.

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WASHINGTON — Bryce Harper smashed a grand slam for his 100th career homer, Wilson Ramos had a homer and two RBIs and Stephen Strasburg allowed just two runs as the Washington Nationals beat the winless Atlanta Braves 6-2 on Thursday to complete a four-game sweep.

Harper, the reigning National League MVP, crushed a 1-0 pitch from Braves starter Julio Teheran (0-2) off the second deck in right field with two outs in the third inning. At 23 years and 181 days, Harper became the eighth-youngest player to reach 100 homers, just 20 days shy of Johnny Bench and four days ahead of Albert Pujols.

Harper’s third homer of the year gave the Nationals a 4-1 lead and led to a short curtain call from the dugout in the last game of the homestand. It was the first career grand slam for Harper, who hit 42 homers last season.

The Braves are 0-9 this season and have lost their last 14 games at Nationals Park. Washington (71) is 27-9 against Atlanta

Notes: The Braves entered the game ranked next-to-last in many offensive categories in the National League, including hitting (.199), runs (22), total bases (71) and homers (three). … Atlanta 1B Freddie Freeman got the day off Thursday as he entered play hitting .080 in 25 Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Julio Teheran (49) throws at-bats with nine striketo the Washington Nationals during the first inning at Na- outs. … Washington 2B Daniel Murphy reached tionals Park. (Photo: Brad Mills-USA TODAY Sports) base in 17 of his first since June 21, 2014. handed reliever Felipe 28 plate appearances Ramos hit a solo homer Rivero to cut the margin and was second in the in the fourth to give to 6-2. league in hitting at .500 Washington a 5-1 advanTeheran allowed six through Wednesday. … tage and his RBI double runs and six hits in seven The Braves start a series in the sixth made it 6-1. innings and fell to 3-3 in in Miami on Friday with His double drove in hot13 career starts against Atlanta RHP Williams hitting Daniel Murphy, Washington. Strasburg Perez (0-0, 7.71) slated who had doubled. was originally slated to to face Marlins LHP The Braves assumed pitch Wednesday, but his Wei-Yin Chen (0-0, a 1-0 lead in the third start was pushed back a 9.00). … The Nationals’ on a RBI single by Nick day because of illness.

6-1 start was the best Markakis off starter Washington has won beginning to a season Stephen Strasburg (2-0), five in a row overall and in D.C. baseball history who gave up four singles seven straight dating to since the 1951 Senators, and two runs in 7 2/3 in- last season against the who also began 6-1. … nings with seven strikeBraves, who have been Nationals manager Dusty outs. outscored 55-23 this Baker was drafted in the Markakis had his secseason.

26th round in 1967 by ond hit, an RBI double, The Braves have althe Braves and played in the eighth off leftlowed 13 homers this eight seasons in Atlanta.

•From Page 1B good greens. So I feel pretty comfortable here.”

The hilly course with the same type of grass as Augusta and similarly tricky greens sets up for a big Sunday finish on the 18th hole.

“You’ve got the theater where people can see from the second shot and onwards,” Langer said.

“You’ve got a very exciting green with water and bunkers. It’s a risk-reward type of hole. Some guys will make eagle, even double eagle, and some guys can make a double bogey. A lot can happen. It all depends which way the wind blows and how far you can get your tee shot down there.”

Langer sits atop the Champions Tour money list with Duffy Waldorf, who holds the Sugarloaf course record, second and Esteban Toledo third.

Scott Dunlap, a Duluth resident, is fourth and Miguel Angel Jimenez jumped up 46 spots with a win last week in Mississippi to round out the top five. Jimenez won the 2014 event at Sugarloaf.

All five are among a deep field for the Mitsubi-

From Staff Reports

of Alyona Vasileva and Chiara Di Salvo collected GAINESVILLE — The GGC’s second win of second-ranked Georgia the afternoon with an 8-2 Gwinnett women’s tennis victory over Maya Mamteam defeated sixth-ranked metgulyyeva and Rebecca Brenau (Ga.) 8-1 in an Pijls (8-2) while Valeria NAIA Top 10 showdown Podda and Sophie Feller on Thursday afternoon, wrapped up the 3-0 sweep capturing its 12th win of at No. 1 doubles, defeatthe 2016 season. ing Fatyha Berjane and Patricia Recalde Pacua 8-1.

“The women played Pinones-Haltenhoff gave very well today. An 8-1 the Grizzlies the 4-0 lead win over the sixth-ranked in singles play, winning the team in the nation is very No. 6 spot in straight sets impressive,” sGGC head coach Chase Hodges said. (6-0, 6-0) against Cohron.

Di Salvo clinched Georgia “Our doubles play today was key as we established Gwinnett’s 12th win with a 6-1, 6-0 victory at the No. a 3-0 lead at the break 4 spot over Pacua. which made things relaDohnalova (6-2, 7-5) tively simple for the rest of and Vasileva (6-3, 6-0) the match.” also picked up points for The Grizzlies (12-2) have now won two straight the Grizzlies, winning matches, collecting six vic- at the No. 3 and No. 5 spots, respectively. GGC’s tories against ranked opponents in the NAIA with eighth and final point of the match came at the No. four of the wins coming 1singles post. Podda, who against Top 15 programs.

Georgia Gwinnett swept is the NAIA’s top-ranked singles player, defeated doubles play to go up fifth-ranked Berjane 7-5, 3-0 at the break. The duo 5-7, 10-5 to conclude the of Klara Dohnalova and Helga Pinones-Haltenhoff match.

Brenau’s lone win of picked up the first Grizzly the match came at No. 2 victory of the afternoon, defeating Brenau’s Kirsten singles where Pijls won a Dickins and Kelley Cohron tiebreaker against Feller 8-1. The third-ranked duo (4-6, 6-4, 10-4).

G-Braves

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from what I was doing the first five innings, but I was able to settle down and throw strikes and get the groundball (from Pena).”

Meanwhile, Norfolk starter Nick Additon (0-1) was doing some good damage control of his own, keeping the GBraves off the scoreboard despite giving up at least one baserunner in every inning he pitched, stranding six total in his six innings of work.

But Gwinnett got to the 6-foot-4, 220-pound lefty in the bottom of the fifth, when Sean Kazmar led off with a single and came all the way around to score when Emilio Bonifacio doubled into the left field corner to put the G-Braves up 1-0.

In the eighth, the Gwinnett offense finally began to get going off former G-Braves pitcher Pedro Beato, plus a little help from a Norfolk error and a little hustle by Ronnier Musteller.

The 31-year-old designated hitter hustled down

Top-10 showdown

Sean Kazmar, Jr. (9) gets a hit during Thursday night’s home opener against the Norfolk Tides at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Enka Lawson)

the first base line to beat the throw and stay out of what would have been an inning-ending double play, allowing Matt Tuiasosopo to come home with a big insurance run to extend the Gwinnett lead to 2-0.

And with the inning extended, it didn’t take long for Ruiz to cash in, jumping on a first-pitch breaking ball and driv-

ing it into the right field bullpen for his first homer at the Triple A level that pushed the G-Braves’ lead to 5-0.

“I was just trying to keep it simple that at bat,” said Ruiz, who finished the night 2-for-4 with the homer and three RBIs. “(Beato) was throwing a lot of sliders to a lot of guys. He was throwing

them down, but I knew as long as I got (a pitch) up and I saw it well, then I could put a good swing on it. He threw me a firstpitch slider. … I jumped on it, saw a pitch up and put a good swing on it.”

Like Ruiz, Bonifacio finished the night 2-for-4, while Xavier Avery led the Norfolk offense by going 3-for-4.

Langer MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CLASSIC TEE TIMES At TPC Sugarloaf Yardage: 7,259 Par: 72 Duluth Purse: 1.8 million

12:40 p.m. — Jerry Haas, Peter Senior, Miguel Angel Martin 12:50 p.m. — Scott Parel, Jeff Hart, Brandt Jobe

First Round Friday Tee No. 1 10:40 a.m. — Jay Don Blake, Dan Forsman, Carlos Franco 10:50 a.m. — Corey Pavin, Gene Sauers, Mark Brooks 11 a.m. — Scott McCarron, John Huston, Bobby Wadkins 11:10 a.m. — Willie Wood, Bob Gilder, Glen Day 11:20 a.m. — John Inman, Steve Pate, Scott Simpson 11:30 a.m. — Rod Spittle, Loren Roberts, Stephen Ames 11:40 a.m. — Jerry Smith, Kirk Triplett, Mark Wiebe 11:50 a.m. — Lee Janzen, Marco Dawson, Mark Calcavecchia Noon — Tom Lehman, Brad Faxon, Sandy Lyle 12:10 p.m. — Joe Durant, Woody Austin, Larry Nelson 12:20 p.m. — Paul Goydos, Wes Short Jr., Fred Funk 12:30 p.m. — Jay Haas, Tom Pernice Jr., Roger Chapman

Tee No. 10 10:40 a.m. — Kevin Sutherland, Todd Hamilton, Mike Goodes 10:50 a.m. — Tom Byrum, Mike Springer, Larry Mize 11 a.m. — Brad Bryant, Tommy Armour III, Jesper Parnevik 11:10 a.m. — Craig Parry, Steve Lowery, Joey Sindelar 11:20 a.m. — Brian Henninger, Scott Verplank, Andy North 11:30 a.m. — Bob Tway, Grant Waite, Tom Purtzer 11:40 a.m. — Duffy Waldorf, David Frost, Jeff Sluman 11:50 a.m. — Billy Andrade, Kenny Perry, Olin Browne Noon — Bernhard Langer, Tom Watson, Miguel Angel Jimenez 12:10 p.m. — Colin Montgomerie, Craig Stadler, Rocco Mediate 12:20 p.m. — Esteban Toledo, Mark O’Meara, Scott Dunlap 12:30 p.m. — Michael Allen, Bart Bryant, Ian Woosnam 12:40 p.m. — Greg Bruckner, Mike Grob, Doug Garwood

shi Electric Classic, which also includes eight-time major winner Tom Watson, along with Hall of Famers Colin Montgomery and Mark O’Meara.

Olin Browne is the defending champion, winning in a rain-shortened

36-hole tournament.

“It’s a strong field,” Langer said. “There’s not many missing, which is wonderful to see.”

The tournament begins today with the first groups teeing off on No. 1 and 10 at 10:40 a.m. Weather pre-

dictions are favorable with only a small chance of rain for today and a sunny weekend with temperatures in the mid-70s.

Day passes start at $20 and can be purchased online at mitsubishielectricclassic.com.

Gwinnett Braves Aaron Blair and catcher Ryan Lavarnway walk into the dugout prior to Thursday night’s home opener against the Norfolk Tides at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Karl L. Moore)

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Grayson

“I’ve always believed that when these kids have for this program.” are finished, they are a Although Herron said better person than when he is excited about the they started,” he said. “I challenges at Grayson, it want them to learn to win still didn’t make leaving and be winners because Prince Avenue any easier. I think that helps them be successful. If they’re “Make no mistake better people when their about it, it’s been an emotional time,” he said. seniors than when they were as ninth-graders, “The kids at Prince are then I’ve done my job.” great kids. They bought The task in 2016 into everything I asked won’t be easy for Herron them to do. You feel and the Rams, despite like you’re walking out returning a loaded team on them and that part is that includes multiple hard. I had some time Division I prospects. In to spend with them. But addition to facing in-state then when you get here and you meet other kids, powers McEachern and who their coach is gone, Archer, the Rams will also face IMG Academy and now you’re their and Deerfield Beach out coach. It’s kind of the of Florida, as well as circle of life.”

Ramsay and Hoover out As far as what he wants the student-athletes of Alabama.

We have the talent to get out of the program, and the ability to get the winning is up there, but job done,” Scola said. more importantly, Her“We’re just excited for ron said he wants them spring and to get this to come out as better thing going.” people.

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North girls tennis wins second straight region tourney

By Will Hammock will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

DACULA — Thursday was doubly nice for North Gwinnett.

The Bulldogs won their second straight Region 7-AAAAAA Tournament in girls tennis and completed a sweep of the region championships after their boys team won the day before. North defeated Norcross 3-1 in the finals, improving to 19-1 on the season.

“What’s so great about team tennis is that different people in each of the matches were the ones who came through big,” said North coach Forrest Wood, whose team defeated Mill Creek earlier Thursday in the semifinals. “We had singles players and doubles players do well. It’s been that way all year long. This is a special group. They love each other. That’s what makes it so special is that they love each other and get along with each other.”

North took a 2-1 lead in the championship match, held at Hamilton

Above, North Gwinnett’s Jada Tijani returns a shot during her No. 2 singles match in Thursday’s Region 7-AAAAAA Tournament at Hamilton Mill. Top right, North Gwinnett poses with the trophy after defeating Norcross. Bottom right, Laura Klaft, right, and doubles partner Lillian Zhang celebrate a point (Staff Photos: Will Hammock)

Mill, with wins at No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles. Jada Tijani earned the first singles point with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Norcross’ Jessie Lackey, while the Bulldogs’ Vanessa Eusebio and Elle Hammond won 6-3, 6-1 in doubles over Megan Craig and Maya Tannenbaum.

Amber Lackey scored the Blue Devils’ only point with a 6-3, 6-3 win at No. 1 singles over Emma Fleming.

Brianna Olps then scored the clinching third point at No. 3 singles, topping Anna Michael 6-2, 6-1. The No. 2 doubles match between North’s Laura Klaft and

Lillian Zhang and Norcross’ Lindsay Baker and Calista Rogers had just begun when Olps sealed the victory.

The region repeat was the expectation for North entering the season, though the finals match figured to be a test for the Bulldogs, who edged Norcross 3-2 in the

teams’ regular-season meeting.

“If we hadn’t have won this, I would have been disappointed,” Wood said.

North now enters the state tournament as a No. 1 seed with home-court

advantage, just like the boys team, which also defeated Norcross in the final. Both Norcross teams will be No. 2 seeds in the state playoffs.

“We hope to see how far we can go with this (at state),” Wood said.

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Timm sets Providence career shutout record in 5-0 win over George Walton From Staff Reports MONROE — Goalkeeper Alex Timm set a new school career mark for shutouts with his 16th as Providence Christian rolled past George Walton Academy 5-0 on Thursday.

Henry Kim and Carter Swain both scored twice for the Storm (4-9, 3-3), while Josh Jones added another goal in the win.

BOYS BOYSSOCCER SOCCER Norcross 8, Mountain View 1 LAWRENCEVILLE — Divin Moke had a hat trick to lead Norcross to an 8-1 win over Mountain View on Thursday.

Victor Munoz scored twice, while Alan Mejia, John Soto and Alexis Garcia each added a goal for the Blue Devils (123, 5-2).

GIRLSSOCCER SOCCER GIRLS Norcross 3, Mountain View 2 (OT) LAWRENCEVILLE — Ashley Lewis and Cynthia Arackle scored in regulation for Mountain View before the Bears fell to Norcross 3-2 in overtime Thursday.

Lewis also had an assist for Mountain View (5-10-1, 1-6).

Providence 4, George Walton 0 MONROE — Providence Christian had four different goal scorers in a 4-0 win over George Walton Academy on

Thursday.

Bekah Henry, Caroline Robinson, Kelsey Hoskins and Sydney Hendricks found the back of the net for the Storm (4-8, 3-3).

BASEBALL BASEBALL Holy Innocents’ 9, Wesleyan 0 PEACHTREE CORNERS — Playing the second of three straight games against each other, Holy Innocents’ prevailed 9-0 over Wesleyan on Thursday.

Wesleyan won the first game and has an opportunity to clinch the region title Saturday in the rubber match.

Cole Mannion had two hits and Jake McCleskey had a double for the Wolves (17-5, 8-3). Andy Archer (5-2) was the tough-luck loser on the mound.

Prince Avenue 4, Providence 0 LILBURN — Providence was held to three hits in a 4-0 loss to Prince Avenue on Thursday.

Carey Spratlin took the loss with four strikeouts, two hits and four runs (one earned) over three innings. Andy Weisgerber pitched three scoreless innings of relief for the Storm (10-14, 7-7).

Keegan Tranum was 1-for-2 with a walk, while Mitchell Miller and Jake Mattix were each 1-for-3.

BOYSLACROSSE LACROSSE BOYS Mill Creek 17, Brookwood 6 HOSCHTON — Bailey Williams’ eight-goal outburst led Mill Creek to a 17-6 win over

Brookwood on Thursday.

Eddie Grieco had three goals and eight assists for the Hawks (11-3).

Joseph Schureck and Diego Lyons each had a pair of goals for the Broncos (5-8). Noah White and Lee Collier also scored for Brookwood.

Wesleyan 11, Peachtree Ridge 10 (2OT) SUWANEE — Wylie West scored the game-winning goal in double overtime as Wesleyan beat Peachtree Ridge 11-10 on Thursday.

Hayden Koch, Rawley Smith and William Schneider each had two goals for the Wolves (10-3).

Payne Durham scored seven goals for Peachtree Ridge and Chris Dominguez added two goals for the Lions (3-8).

GIRLSLACROSSE LACROSSE GIRLS Duluth 15, SW DeKalb 3 DULUTH — Three seniors scored three goals each as Duluth rolled past Southwest DeKalb 15-3 on Thursday.

Calla Edwards, Samantha Gentry and Mary-Mikell Botting each had a hat trick for the Wildcats (9-3). Goalkeeper Payton Roos finished with eight saves in the win.

Buford 16, North Springs 9 BUFORD — The Buford girls lacrosse team picked up a second-straight win on Thursday night as it defeated North Springs 16-9.

MacKenzie Wehunt and Macey Higgins led the way with four goals apiece for the wolves (3-9). Aiflyn Kimbro added three goals.

BOYS GOLF GOLF BOYS Dacula defeats Brookwood SNELLVILLE — The Dacula boys golf team defeated Brookwood 161-176 in nine holes on Thursday at Summit Chase Country Club.

The Falcons were led by a 33 from Hunter Fry.

GIRLS GIRLS GOLF GOLF Buford girls win region title CLEVELAND — The Buford girls golf team claimed the Region 8-AAAA title at Mossy Creek Golf Course on Thursday afternoon.

The Wolves shot a 257, 20 strokes better than runner-up North Oconee. Junior Briana Walton was the low-medalist with 83. Fellow junior Hope Mumme shot an 85. It’s the first region title for Buford since 2013.

GIRLS GIRLSTENNIS TENNIS Pace 3, Wesleyan 1 PEACHTREE CORNERS — The Wesleyan girls tennis team fell 3-1 to Pace Academy in the Region 8-AA finals on Thursday at the Wesleyan School.

Sophia Strickland was the Wolves’ lone winner at No. 1 singles.

Mill Creek 3, Collins Hill 1 DACULA — The Mill Creek girls defeated Collins Hill 3-1 in the Region 7-AAAAAA thirdplace match on Thursday at Hamilton Mill.

The Hawks got victories from Kayleigh Hahn at No. 1 singles, Kirsten Nichols at No. 3 singles and at No. 2 doubles the duo of Sarabeth Jordan and Callie Franklin.

FANS CHOICE MALE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Who: Thomas Prince School: Lanier Class: Sophomore Sport: Baseball Highlights: Had two hits and two RBIs in the Longhorns’ 3-2 victory over Flowery Branch, in addition to earning the save in a 6-2 win over Apalachee Coach Jonathan Wyman’s take: “Thomas is an incredible ball player. The story of this season for him is like something out of a movie. Thomas started the season as a JV player, but through a variety of events and opportunities, Thomas’ number was called for varsity. Thomas made an instant impact from his first at-bat and hasn’t looked back. Thomas has now played in 18 of our 23 games and he is hitting just over .400 as a sophomore. Thomas’ attitude, work ethic and effort are second to none. He’s the kind of player you have to turn the lights off on him to get him to leave. His success this year is a true testament to the type of young man he is.

Thomas is the type of friend every teammate wants and has the character and integrity every coach wants in their players. Thomas lives our motto every day, be humble, stay hungry, always hustle. This is an awesome honor for Thomas and the Lanier community. We look forward to what the future holds for him.”

FANS CHOICE FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Who: Isabel Eigenbauer School: Mill Creek Class: Junior Sport: Soccer Highlights: Scored three goals in the Hawks’ 8-1 win over Carolina Forest (S.C.) Coach Vince Hayes’ take: “Izzy is a tremendous player who has worked hard to perfect her abilities. She is a skillful and creative midfielder who can dynamically change a game. She has really put the work in this year to be a leader as a captain and become an offensive threat, scoring 10 and assisting nine goals. She, like her teammates, shows tremendous heart and character representing our school well.”

SPORTS AT A GLANCE Baseball Major League Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division

W L Pct GB L10 Washington............. 7... 1..875..... —... 7-1 Philadelphia............ 5... 5..500.......3...5-5 Miami...................... 3... 4..429....3.5...3-4 New York................. 3... 5..375.......4...3-5 Atlanta..................... 0... 9..000.... 7.5...0-9 Central Division

W L Pct GB L10 Chicago................... 7... 1..875..... —... 7-1 Cincinnati................ 5... 3..625.......2...5-3 St. Louis.................. 5... 4..556....2.5...5-4 Pittsburgh................ 5... 5..500.......3...5-5 Milwaukee............... 4... 5..444....3.5...4-5 West Division

W L Pct GB L10 San Francisco......... 6... 4..600..... —...6-4 Colorado................. 5... 4..556.......5...5-4 Los Angeles............ 5... 4..556.......5...5-4 Arizona.................... 3... 6..333....2.5...3-6 San Diego............... 3... 7..300.......3...3-7 Tuesday’s Games Arizona 4, L.A. Dodgers 2 Washington 2, Atlanta 1 Philadelphia 3, San Diego 0 Miami 2, N.Y. Mets 1 San Francisco 7, Colorado 2

Golf PGA Tour RBC Heritage ParScores Thursday Hilton Head, SC Purse: $5,900,000 h — Harbour Town Golf Links (par 71, 7,099 yards) First Round Luke Donald..............34-32... —... 66...-5 Branden Grace..........32-34... —... 66...-5 Jason Day..................34-33... —... 67...-4 Tony Finau.................33-34... —... 67...-4 Matt Kuchar...............34-33... —... 67...-4 David Lingmerth........ 31-36... —... 67...-4 Kevin Chappell...........33-35... —... 68...-3 Fabian Gomez...........36-32... —... 68...-3 Charley Hoffman........32-36... —... 68...-3 Si Woo Kim................34-34... —... 68...-3 Spencer Levin............34-34... —... 68...-3 George McNeill..........35-33... —... 68...-3 Scott Pinckney...........35-33... —... 68...-3

Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Mets 2, Miami 1 Washington 3, Atlanta 0 Philadelphia 2, San Diego 1 Chicago Cubs 9, Cincinnati 2 Milwaukee 6, St. Louis 4 Colorado 10, San Francisco 6 L.A. Dodgers 3, Arizona 1 Thursday’s Games Philadelphia 3, San Diego 0 St. Louis 7, Milwaukee 0 Colorado 11, San Francisco 6 Washington 6, Atlanta 2 Cincinnati (Iglesias 1-0) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 0-0), late Arizona (Ray 0-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Stripling 0-0), late Today’s Games Colorado (Bettis 1-0) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 1-0), 2:20 p.m.

Milwaukee (Nelson 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Locke 0-0), 7:05 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia (Hellickson 1-0), 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Perez 0-0) at Miami (Chen 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Melville 0-0) at St. Louis (Martinez 1-0), 8:15 p.m.

San Francisco (Bumgarner 1-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 1-0), 10:10 p.m.

Arizona (Greinke 0-2) at San Diego (Shields 0-2), 10:40 p.m.

Johnson Wagner........32-36... —... 68...-3 Stuart Appleby...........35-34... —... 69...-2 Zac Blair....................33-36... —... 69...-2 Graham DeLaet.........35-34... —... 69...-2 Tommy Gainey...........33-36... —... 69...-2 Bill Haas....................35-34... —... 69...-2 Charles Howell III......35-34... —... 69...-2 Patton Kizzire.............35-34... —... 69...-2 William McGirt...........34-35... —... 69...-2 Francesco Molinari....33-36... —... 69...-2 David Toms................34-35... —... 69...-2 Blayne Barber............36-34... —... 70...-1 Bronson Burgoon.......35-35... —... 70...-1 K.J. Choi....................34-36... —... 70...-1 Bryson DeChambeau.34-36... —... 70...-1 Morgan Hoffmann......35-35... —... 70...-1 Jerry Kelly..................36-34... —... 70...-1 Ben Martin.................38-32... —... 70...-1 Bryce Molder.............36-34... —... 70...-1 Chez Reavie..............36-34... —... 70...-1 Vaughn Taylor............35-35... —... 70...-1 Boo Weekley..............33-37... —... 70...-1 Tyler Aldridge.............34-37... —... 71....E Aaron Baddeley.........35-36... —... 71....E

INTERLEAGUE AT NATIONAL LEAGUE Wednesday’s Game Detroit 7, Pittsburgh 3 Thursday’s Game Detroit 7, Pittsburgh 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division

W L Pct GB L10 Baltimore................. 7... 1..875..... —... 7-1 New York................. 4... 3..571....2.5...4-3 Boston..................... 4... 4..500.......3...4-4 Toronto.................... 4... 5..444....3.5...4-5 Tampa Bay.............. 3... 6..333....4.5...3-6 Central Division

W L Pct GB L10 Chicago................... 7... 2..778..... —... 7-2 Kansas City............. 6... 2..750.......5...6-2 Detroit..................... 6... 2..750.......5...6-2 Cleveland................ 4... 3..571.......2...4-3 Minnesota............... 0... 9..000.......7...0-9 West Division

W L Pct GB L10 Los Angeles............ 5... 4..556..... —...5-4 Texas....................... 5... 5..500.......5...5-5 Oakland................... 4... 6..400.... 1.5...4-6 Houston................... 3... 6..333.......2...3-6 Seattle..................... 3... 6..333.......2...3-6 Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 3, Toronto 2 Baltimore 9, Boston 5 Tampa Bay 5, Cleveland 1 Ricky Barnes............. 37-34... —... 71....E Scott Brown...............35-36... —... 71....E Chad Campbell..........36-35... —... 71....E Brendon de Jonge.....36-35... —... 71....E Derek Fathauer..........35-36... —... 71....E Andres Gonzales.......36-35... —... 71....E Adam Hadwin............36-35... —... 71....E Hiroshi Iwata.............. 37-34... —... 71....E Zach Johnson............35-36... —... 71....E Whee Kim..................35-36... —... 71....E Jason Kokrak............. 37-34... —... 71....E Marc Leishman..........36-35... —... 71....E Ryan Palmer..............35-36... —... 71....E Carl Pettersson..........36-35... —... 71....E Rory Sabbatini...........35-36... —... 71....E John Senden............. 37-34... —... 71....E Vijay Singh................. 37-34... —... 71....E Shawn Stefani............35-36... —... 71....E Chris Stroud...............33-38... —... 71....E Camilo Villegas.......... 37-34... —... 71....E Ernie Els....................35-37... —... 72.. +1 Matthew Fitzpatrick....36-36... —... 72.. +1 Lucas Glover.............36-36... —... 72.. +1 Jason Gore................35-37... —... 72.. +1

Kansas City 3, Houston 2 L.A. Angels 5, Oakland 4 Texas 8, Seattle 0 Wednesday’s Games L.A. Angels 5, Oakland 1 Seattle 4, Texas 2, 10 innings Toronto 7, N.Y. Yankees 2 Boston 4, Baltimore 2 Cleveland 4, Tampa Bay 1 Chicago White Sox 3, Minnesota 0 Kansas City 4, Houston 2 Thursday’s Games Chicago White Sox 3, Minnesota 1 Cleveland 6, Tampa Bay 0 N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 0-0) at Toronto (Stroman 1-0), late Baltimore (Tillman 1-0) at Texas (Hamels 2-0), late Kansas City (Kennedy 1-0) at Houston (Fister 1-0), late Today’s Games Seattle (Karns 0-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Severino 0-1), 7:05 p.m.

Toronto (Dickey 1-1) at Boston (Porcello 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Sale 2-0) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 0-1), 7:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Worley 0-0) at Texas (Perez 0-1), 8:05 p.m.

Detroit (Pelfrey 0-1) at Houston (Keuchel 1-1), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 0-2) at Minnesota (Milone 0-1), 8:10 p.m.

Chesson Hadley........36-36... —... 72.. +1 James Hahn..............36-36... —... 72.. +1 David Hearn............... 37-35... —... 72.. +1 Russell Henley........... 37-35... —... 72.. +1 Jim Herman...............35-37... —... 72.. +1 Chris Kirk...................36-36... —... 72.. +1 Kevin Kisner...............34-38... —... 72.. +1 Russell Knox.............. 37-35... —... 72.. +1 Danny Lee.................33-39... —... 72.. +1 Steve Marino..............35-37... —... 72.. +1 Seung-Yul Noh........... 37-35... —... 72.. +1 Geoff Ogilvy............... 37-35... —... 72.. +1 Carlos Ortiz...............35-37... —... 72.. +1 Greg Owen................36-36... —... 72.. +1 Ian Poulter.................36-36... —... 72.. +1 Kyle Stanley............... 37-35... —... 72.. +1 Robert Streb.............. 37-35... —... 72.. +1 Daniel Summerhays..35-37... —... 72.. +1 Justin Thomas...........36-36... —... 72.. +1 Tyrone Van Aswegen.37-35... —... 72.. +1 Harold Varner III.........36-36... —... 72.. +1 Steve Wheatcroft........ 37-35... —... 72.. +1 Will Wilcox..................33-39... —... 72.. +1 Mark Wilson...............36-36... —... 72.. +1

Kansas City (Volquez 1-0) at Oakland (Hill 1-1), 10:05 p.m.

INTERLEAGUE AT AMERICAN LEAGUE Tuesday’s Game Detroit 8, Pittsburgh 2 Today’s Game N.Y. Mets (Colon 0-1) at Cleveland (Anderson 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto.................. 56.. 26..... .683....... — Boston................... 48.. 34..... .585.........8 New York............... 32.. 50..... .390.......24 Brooklyn................ 21.. 61..... .256.......35 Philadelphia.......... 10.. 72..... .122.......46 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Miami.................... 48.. 34..... .585....... — Atlanta................... 48.. 34..... .585....... — Charlotte............... 48.. 34..... .585....... — Washington........... 41.. 41..... .500.........7 Orlando................. 35.. 47..... .427....... 13 Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland.............. 57.. 25..... .695....... — Indiana.................. 45.. 37..... .549....... 12 Robert Allenby........... 37-36... —... 73.. +2 Stewart Cink..............39-34... —... 73.. +2 Chad Collins..............36-37... —... 73.. +2 Jon Curran.................35-38... —... 73.. +2 Brian Gay...................36-37... —... 73.. +2 Brian Harman............35-38... —... 73.. +2 Mark Hubbard............35-38... —... 73.. +2 Colt Knost..................35-38... —... 73.. +2 Justin Leonard........... 37-36... —... 73.. +2 Luke List....................36-37... —... 73.. +2 Davis Love III.............35-38... —... 73.. +2 Will MacKenzie..........38-35... —... 73.. +2 Jeff Maggert...............34-39... —... 73.. +2 Peter Malnati..............38-35... —... 73.. +2 Kevin Na....................35-38... —... 73.. +2 Webb Simpson..........36-37... —... 73.. +2 Brandt Snedeker........ 37-36... —... 73.. +2 Nick Taylor.................38-35... —... 73.. +2 Jason Bohn................36-38... —... 74.. +3 Ben Crane.................38-36... —... 74.. +3 Ken Duke...................36-38... —... 74.. +3 J.J. Henry................... 37-37... —... 74.. +3 Billy Horschel............. 37-37... —... 74.. +3 Sung-Hoon Kang.......36-38... —... 74.. +3

Detroit................... 44.. 38..... .537....... 13 Chicago................. 42.. 40..... .512....... 15 Milwaukee............. 33.. 49..... .402.......24 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio........... 67...15..... .817....... — Dallas.................... 42.. 40..... .512.......25 Memphis............... 42.. 40..... .512.......25 Houston................. 41.. 41..... .500.......26 New Orleans......... 30.. 52..... .366.......37 Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Oklahoma City...... 55.. 27..... .671....... — Portland................ 44.. 38..... .537....... 11 Utah...................... 40.. 42..... .488....... 15 Denver.................. 33.. 49..... .402.......22 Minnesota............. 29.. 53..... .354.......26 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State......... 73.... 9..... .890....... — L.A. Clippers.......... 53.. 29..... .646.......20 Sacramento........... 33.. 49..... .402.......40 Phoenix................. 23.. 59..... .280.......50 L.A. Lakers............ 17.. 65..... .207.......56 NBA Playoffs Saturday’s Games Indiana at Toronto, 12:30 p.m.

Houston at Golden State, 3:30 p.m.

Boston at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Oklahoma City, 9:30 p.m.

Jamie Lovemark........34-40... —... 74.. +3 Graeme McDowell.....38-36... —... 74.. +3 Jeff Overton...............35-39... —... 74.. +3 Wes Roach................39-35... —... 74.. +3 Paul Casey................38-37... —... 75.. +4 Roberto Castro..........39-36... —... 75.. +4 Michael Kim...............40-35... —... 75.. +4 Sean O’Hair...............36-39... —... 75.. +4 Ryan Ruffels..............35-40... —... 75.. +4 Jason Dufner.............35-41... —... 76.. +5 Justin Hicks............... 37-39... —... 76.. +5 Thongchai Jaidee......35-41... —... 76.. +5 Matt Jones.................34-42... —... 76.. +5 Kelly Mitchum............ 37-39... —... 76.. +5 Sam Saunders...........36-40... —... 76.. +5 Brendan Steele..........38-38... —... 76.. +5 Brett Stegmaier..........35-41... —... 76.. +5 Hudson Swafford.......33-43... —... 76.. +5 Brendon Todd............ 41-35... —... 76.. +5 Harris English............38-39... —... 77.. +6 Kyle Reifers................39-38... —... 77.. +6 Erik Compton............. 41-40... —... 81.+10 Mike Weir......................WD... —... 78.. +7

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Getting To Know … Allison Boes After serving as a varsity assistant and junior varsity coach for Duluth’s volleyball program last season, Allison Boes was promoted to serve as the Wildcats’ new varsity head coach last month.

The Ohio native recently spoke with staff writer David Friedlander about a variety of subjects, including the challenges of her new job, adjusting to live in Georgia and teaching.

DF: So, you’re from Ohio originally and played college volleyball at Georgetown College in Kentucky. What brought you to Georgia?

AB: I actually came through (the) Teach Through America (program). I was placed in (metro) Atlanta, and so I was placed in DeKalb (County), and I got my first job at Cross Keys (High School).

DF: And having gotten into volleyball at an early age, is coaching something you’ve wanted to do for a while?

AB: Yes. I’ve always wanted to coach — ever since I was in high school. I’ve always felt it was something I could do well.

DF: Volleyball has grown in Georgia over the years, but it’s still a different culture than in other states in which the sport is more popular.

With Cross Keys having been your first job in Georgia, was that difference noticeably stark from where you grew up in Ohio?

AB: It is, but I think coaching at Cross Keys gave me an opportunity to learn how to coach

AB: I love teaching.

I’m really passionate about it. I think that in the future, I could see myself in administration one day, but that’s way down the road. Honestly, I’ve also started considering college coaching. That might be something I’d be interested (in, in the future).

DF: Well, coaching high school, and especially the club level, would certainly give you the contacts.

AB: I know some (local college coaches) just through club (tournaAllison Boes has been promoted from assistant to head volleyball coach at Duluth ments), but I’ve not really talked to anyone about it High School. (Staff Photo: David Friedlander) yet. fundamentals really well of different experiences. playing because none of first, and then the strategy I coached at the 14(-U) DF: Now that you my friends played, and I stuff came later. I think mention it, how difage level, the 15s and the wanted to do something that helped a lot because 18s. So I’ve kind of been different. My first season, ferent is the culture it helped me learn how to all over. around club volleyI really fell in love with talk to girls about what to ball from high school the sport. I played club do and how to do it. programs? I’d think it DF: Have you nothrough my junior year DF: I have to think would be a little more ticed more of the girls and loved it. that experience also intense. at Duluth playing club helped you as teacher.

AB: It is. It’s more volleyball since you’ve DF: So I guess trying AB: Oh yeah, that’s for been here? about the whole athlete. new or different things sure.

AB: This past year, we is not a big deal for you, That’s a big difference actually had 12 players then. I mean, you played from having to think DF: What do you about what kind of play club, which is the a different sport than teach, by the way? expectations we want bemost we’ve ever had. your friends as a kid.

AB: I teach Algebra haviorally and grade-wise The majority of them You weren’t hesitant I. I also teach a resource are from my JV team and all that other stuff. about coming to a part class. I teach special But what’s important to that I coached last year. of the country you’d education. It’s kind of me is the girls find someSo, I think it’s going to never been to before. appropriate because it’s thing that they love and make a huge difference.

AB: Yeah. For volcombing (teaching) funWhen we’ve been doing leyball itself, I wanted to that they feel like they’re damentals with (the class conditioning, they are part of something that’s do something different. subject). bigger than themselves. definitely in better shape. But the reason I came to So I hope it will make a Georgia was I was just DF: So, between DF: Finally, what are difference. I know that really passionate about your tenure at Cross the biggest challenges our region is going to be education. I felt like you Keys you spent four you think you have very tough, but I’m con- could tell (Gwinnett) years away from high before you as you head fident our team will be a was a good combination school volleyball while towards the summer lot better. of a really good school teaching middle school system and … really good and into next season? before coming to Duluth AB: I think just workDF: So, you started administration, but also last year. But you still playing volleyball at a having (students in) need. ing on strategy a lot. coached volleyball on We’re not going to have young age. What made the club level with Ata lot of height this year, you choose it as your DF: You’re only 27 lanta Extreme, right? but we’ve got a lot of resport? years old. Have you AB: Oh yeah. My ally good passers. So it’s AB: I started playthought about what club has offered a lot of going to be a lot of that ing in middle school, your long-term career coaching clinics and a lot and honestly, I started kind of work. goals are?

Tubby Smith hired by Memphis The Sports Xchange Memphis landed a basketball coach with 18 NCAA Tournament appearances as it announced Thursday that Tubby Smith has been hired to replace Josh Pastner.

Smith, 64, spent the past three seasons at Texas Tech. He has a career mark of 557-276 and won the 1998 national title at Kentucky.

Smith received a fiveyear contract valued at $15.45 million, according to a university press release. His deal is worth $2.8 million in 2016-17, 2.9 million the following season and $3.25 million in each of the next three seasons.

“Tubby Smith is one of the finest collegiate basketball coaches and is a man of tremendous character,” Memphis athletics director Tom Bowen said in a statement. “Nationally, he is highly respected as a leader of young men and as a teacher of the game. I am honored that Coach Smith has agreed to become the next head men’s basketball coach at the University of Memphis.”

Texas Tech went 19-13 this past season and reached the NCAA Tournament, allowing Smith to join Lon Kruger as the only coaches to take five different teams to the tourney.

Smith also has served as head coach at Tulsa, Georgia and Minnesota.

Pastner departed Memphis to take over the Georgia Tech program.

FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2016 PUBLIC HEARINGS

PUBLIC HEARINGS

STATE BOARD MEMBER TO HOLD PUBLIC HEARING April 26, 2016 Mike Royal to Host State Board of Education Seventh District Public Hearing The State Board of Education will hold a public hearing for citizens in the Seventh Congressional District on Tuesday, April 26, 2016.

The meeting will be held from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. at South Forsyth High School, 585 Peachtree Parkway, Cumming, Georgia 30041.

The purpose of the hearing is to hear comments from interested citizens and educators within the congressional district regarding the performance and problems of public education. Persons wishing to speak should sign in upon arrival. For more information, please contact Mrs. Debbie Caputo at 404657-7410.

The Georgia Department of Education does not discriminate on the basis of disability in admission to, access to, or operations of its programs, services or activities. Individuals who need assistance or auxiliary aids for participation in this public forum are invited to make their needs known to Mrs. Debbie Caputo at (404) 657-7410, no later than 72 hours before the scheduled event.

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NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE 1999 LEXUS RX 300 VIN: JT6HF10V2X0085712 The above automobile was initially removed and presently stored at 4757 Buford Hwy, Norcross, Ga 30071, in possession of Tran’s Auto Repair. Attempt to locate the owner(s) of this vehicle’s have been unsuccessful. The vehicle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A.40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia law.

928-412482, 4/8,15 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Housing Authority of the City of Norcross has developed its Public Housing Agency Plan in compliance with the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998.

The Board of Commissioners for the Norcross Housing Authority will conduct a Public Hearing on JULY 11, 2016 at 7:30 A.M. at the Housing Authority office, 19 Garner Street, Norcross, GA 30071 for the purpose of discussing the Agency Plan and the C

Capital Fund Grant Program to invite public comment regarding the plan and Grant Program. A draft copy of the Plan is available for review April 18-22, 25-29 and May 2-6, 16-20, and June 1-3 FROM 9:00 A.M. until 12:00 Noon at the Housing Authority Office. For additional information concerning the public hearing, please call 770-448-3668.

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PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE THESE VEHICLES WILL BE SOLD FOR PUBLIC OUTCRY FOR CASH AT STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCATED AT 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA AT 10:00 A.M. ON APRIL 16, 2016. THE FOLLOWING VEHICLES ARE DECLARED ABANDONED AND FORECLOSED VEHICLES PURSUANT TO OCGA 40-11-5.

ESTOS VEHICULOS SERAN VENDIDOS AL PUBLICO POR DINERO EN EFECTIVO EN STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCALIZADO EN 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA A LAS 10:00 A.M. EN 16 ABRIL 2016 . LOS SIGUIENTES VEHICULOS AN SIDO DECLARADOS ABANDONADOS Y CERRADOS DE ACUERDO A OCGA 40-11-5 NUEVA LOCALIZACION 770-381-1140 www.swsatlanta.com 1999 CHRYSLER CIRRUS 1C3EJ56H1XN687410 1997 DODGE DAKOTA 1B7FL26P0VS187009 1996 NISSAN MAXIMA JN1CA21D2TT137082 1998 JAGUAR VANDEN PLAS SAJKX6240WC837055 1995 MITSUBISHI DIAMANTE JA3AP47HXSY031360 1996 JETSKI TRAILER 1LG13AJ15T1005813 1995 HONDA ACCORD 1HGCD565XSA050520 *** REBUILT *** 1998 GMC SONOMA 1GTCS1445W8506752 2003 CHEVROLET CAVALIER 1G1JH12F237383772 2003 CHEVROLET CAVALIER 1G1JC52F437291911 2000 SATURN LS2 1G8JW52R1YY666349 2001 HONDA ACCORD 1HGCF86631A100192 1996 SATURN SL1 1G8ZH5282TZ127343 1996 CHEVROLET BLAZER 1GNCS18W7TK121663 1997 CHRYSLER SEBRING 4C3AU52NXVE170958 2002 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN 1B4GP34342B561628 2002 CHEVROLET MALIBU 1G1ND52J82M533425 1998 HONDA ACCORD

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1HGCG5659WA211453 1995 HONDA ACCORD 1HGCD7250SA036272 2000 FORD EXPLORER 1FMDU63E9YZB60641 1989 CADILLAC SEVILLE 1G6KS515XKU800992 1996 LAND ROVER RANGE ROVER SALPV1244TA324775 2001 HONDA ACCORD 1HGCG56661A109612 2006 DODGE MAGNUM 2D4FV47T06H362422 1998 MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS 2MEFM74W6WX692473 2003 BMW 325xi WBAEU33443PF59850 1997 NISSAN MAXIMA JN1CA21D5VT852375 1993 CHEVROLET C1500 1GCEC14Z2PE131164 2007 CHEVROLET IMPALA 2G1WC58R779378004 2000 FORD EXPEDITION 1FMPU18L0YLB13881 1995 TOYOTA COROLLA 2T1AE09B4SC118331 2003 INFINITI G35 JNKCV51E53M000786 2001 MITSUBISHI GALANT 4A3AA56H11E022022 1996 BUICK REGAL 2G4WF52K8T1497095 2002 MAZDA 626 1YVGF22C325299371 2005 SCION xB JTLKT324754008764 1999 ACURA 3.2 TL 19UUA5640XA008949 1997 HONDA ACCORD 1HGCD5662VA131377 2000 TOYOTA 4RUNNER JT3GN86R9Y0157630 2006 TOYOTA COROLLA 1NXBR32E76Z572303 929-412112, 4/8,15

PUBLIC AUCTION Pleasantdale Storage of Doraville shall conduct an online auction at www.storagetreasures.com to conclude on Monday, April 18th, 2016 at 9:30am Unit # 438 – Katrin Zalewski - Unit is said to contain: Flat Screen TV. Boxspring.

Bucket Seats. Car Stereo.

Ladder. Mirror. Lamp. 10 (ten) boxes/totes/bags.

929-412464, 4/8,15

interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of AUCTION DATE: Tuesday, APRIL 26, 2016 at 10:30 AM Space No. C u s t o m e r Name Inventory 3197 Patrick N. Dow Jr. Household Goods/ Furniture; Tools/Appliances.

929-412050, 4/8,15

PUBLIC SALE There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Eagle Towing, located at 115 Arcado Rd. , Lilburn , GA , 30047 , 770-279-1646. Saturday April 16th , 2016 @ 3:00 pm. The following vehicles, declared abandoned and foreclosed vehicles pursuant to OCGA Section 40-11-5 as follows: 2003 Ford Expedition VIN: 1FMEU15W33LB04607 Tag: KGX 2856 GA 2002 Isuzu Axiom VIN:4S2CE58X624612605 Tag:PKN 1516 GA 2000 Ford Explorer VIN: 1FMZU63X0YZC00306 PCQ 6359 GA 2003 Nissan Maxima VIN:JN1DA31D13T501406 NO TAG 1999 Acura 3.0CL VIN:19UYA2250XL009117 Tag: PXK 8238 GA 2001 Honda Accord VIN:JHMCG56421C020474 Tag:AVY 3119 GA 1999 Toyota Solara VIN: 2TCF22P2XC128466 NO TAG 1998 Chevrolet 1500 VIN:1GCEK19M5WE160351 NO TAG 929-412170, 4/8,15

PUBLIC SALE In accordance with the provisions of State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at Uncle Bob’s Self Storage located at: 2655 Langford Rd. Norcross, Ga. 30071, 770-2420468; And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on TUESDAY, April 26, 2016, @ 10:00 AM. SPACE NO.; CUSTOMER NAME; INVENTORY 037 Eve Sturdivant- Household Goods/Furniture 312 Gregory AndersonHousehold Goods/Furniture, 439 Jeff Collins- Tools/Appliances/Other; Countertops 483 Debra Gattone- Office Furn/Machines/Equip.

543 Eve Sturdivant- Household Goods/Furniture, Office Furniture/Machines/Equipment 546 William Munoz- Household Goods/Furniture, Tools/Appliances 553 Debra Gattone- Household Goods/ Furniture 929-410829, 4/8,15 PUBLIC AUCTION UNCLE BOB’S STORE #413 PUBLIC SALE In accordance with the provisions of State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at Uncle Bob’s Self Storage located at: 875 Marathon Parkway Lawrenceville, GA 30046, 678-242-1441; And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an i

NOTICE OF SALE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC DATE OF AUCTION MAY 6, 2016 AT 11:00AM According to the lease by and between: Unit 35 Sherry Bauldwin Unit 76 Stephen Sanderson Unit 206 Frederick Fussell Unit 215 Rishonda Robertson Unit 335 Jason Nunnally Unit 510 Charles Washington Unit 601 Michael Asumda and TKG-StorageMart, DBA StorageMart #701, and its related parties, assigns and affiliates. In order to perfect the lien on the goods contained in the storage unit the manager has cut the lock on their units and upon a cursory inspection the units were found to contain table, entertainment center, bed, box springs, end tables, clothes, mirror, wicker basket, bar stools, guitar, love seat, sofa, clothes dryer, tv, jewelry box, shoes, totes, trash can, deep fryer, bakers rack, home décor, books, hair dryer, sofa, bed, recliner, luggage, vacume cleaner, artificial plants, lamps, shoe rack, toys, wheel chair, kitchen table, dining table and chairs, fans, baby crib, area rug,ladder, shelving and many other items used in and around the home.

ITEMS WILL BE SOLD OR DISPOSED OF AT THIS SITE ON, May 6, 2016 AT 11:00 AM AT THE ADDRESS LISTED BELOW TO SATISFY OWNERS LIEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATE STATUTES. TERMS OF SALE ARE CASH ONLY, NO CHECKS WILL BE ACCEPTED. ALL GOODS ARE SOLD IN “AS IS” CONDITION. TAX MUST BE PAID OR RESALE NUMBERS FURNISHED. BUYERS MUST PROVIDE THEIR OWN LOCKS IF NEEDED. SELLER RESERVES THE RIGHT TO OVERRIDE ALL BIDS. ALL ITEMS OR SPACES MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE ON DATE OF SALE. StorageMart 701 794 Scenic Highway Lawrenceville, GA 30046 770-236-9260 929-412481, 4/8,15

ZONINGS NOTICE GWINNETT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2016 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 THE FOLLOWING REZONING, CHANGE-INCONDITION, SPECIAL USE PERMIT AND OTHER ITEMS OF BUSINESS, LOCATED WITHIN UNINCORPORATED GWINNETT COUNTY, ARE SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS AS STATED ABOVE. SITE PLANS, LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER INFORMATION ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE OF THE PLANNING DIVISION, 446 WEST CROGAN STREET, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA. OFFICE HOURS ARE 8:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. CIC2016-00014 – APPLICANT: B. J. ALAN COMPANY; OWNER: WELLS FARGO BANK; CHANGE IN CONDITIONS OF ZONING; DISTRICT 6 LAND LOT 231 PARCEL 135; 2200 BLOCK OF PLEASANT HILL ROAD; 8.39 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/ BROOKS P&D PC/BOC 5-3 & 5-24 Time Lapse Cases 934-413663, 4/15

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Friday, April 22 • Lessons I’ve learned — The Kudzu Art Zone at 116 Carlyle St. in Norcross hosts a member exhibition through June 22. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Call 770-840-9844 for more information.

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for people 13 and up. Children 12 and under are free.

• Stone Mountain Village ghost tours — The ART Station will host ghost tours of a variety of historic spots around Stone Mountain, including the Wells Brown House, Stillwell House and the Andrew Johnson Home. Admission is $25 for adults and $18 for children 14 years old and younger.

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6. “Bare Necessities,” The Jungle Book, 1967 7. “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” Toy Story, 1995 8. “I Wan’na Be Like You,” The Jungle Book, 1967 9. “Part of Your World,” The Little Mermaid, 1989 10. “Some Day My Prince Will Come,” Snow White, 1937

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Bare Bones Steakhouse on Buford’s East Main Street has a natural specialty: steak. (Staff Photos: Joshua Sharpe)

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Open Since: Dec. 22 Owner: Buddy Maughon and wife Gaye Baldwin Maughon Location: Bare Bones Steakhouse is located on East Main Street west of Buford First United Methodist Church, in part of the old Bona Allen tannery operation.

Hours: 5 to 10 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays. Bar opens at 4 p.m.

Atmosphere: The restored, rustic space, with exposed rafters and hardwood floors, used to house part of the Bona Allen tannery operation.

Here, the mighty company, which famously had the likes of Roy Rogers and Trigger among its customers, made leather harnesses and saddles.

Today, the building deals with a different part of the cow.

It’s home to Bare Bones Steakhouse, which opened in December, bringing to fruition a 40year dream of 77-yearold Buddy Maughon.

Long in the meat business, he always dreamed of opening his own such restaurant. He and wife Gaye decided to finally give it a shot because, well … Buddy is 77.

They happened upon the Main Street relic during the search for where to set up shop. The couple already was interested in Buford history.

“We bought one of the historic homes back in 2012 and began to learn about the history of the city,” Gaye said. They “fell in love” with the space “and wanted to bring it back to as original a state as possible.”

Buddy said he also wanted to make a “common man’s steakhouse,” where the prices are manageable and aver-

ON THE MENU Battered and Fried Onion Rings: Tempura-battered golden onion rings with SarVecchio cheese and Georgia honey. $8.99 New York S trip: A fresh-cut steak weighing in at 16 ounces. $23.99 Bacon Wrapped Filet Mignon: A fresh-cut steak at nine ounces. $24.99 Grown Up Banana Split: Banana split with homemade ice cream and “booze fruit,” which comes from the restaurant’s work infusing vodka with peaches and pineapples. $8.99

The tempura-battered onion rings, pictured above, are wildly popular at Bare Bones Steakhouse, management says. Another popular dish at Bare Bones Steakhouse is the restaurant’s take on shrimp and grits, pictured at bottom right. Bare Bones Steakhouse, above right, is located on East Main Street, west of Buford First United Methodist Church, in part of the old Bona Allen tannery operation.

age folks can come more often than big occasions.

The resulting establishment has a casualenough feel, with a spacious layout and an at once antiquated and modern style. Unpretentious music plays.

In frames on the walls, painted cowboys ride their horses. Rusted tools also hang. The hardwood floors are glossed to shine. Pamphlets with the history of Buford, which can’t be told without the history of the tannery, sit on tables.

At the front door, there’s an antique metal horse, the kind kids once rode in front of shops.

General Manager Clay Bailey fits in well with the western atmosphere

with a sharp handlebar mustache and dress suit.

Menu: The menu has much of what one would expect: steaks, and just a few kinds of them. “Ain’t but four steaks in a cow,” Buddy joked. It’s largely the quality of meat that makes a steak special, he said, which is something his place has going for it.

Bare Bones offers a New York Strip ($24.99 for the 16-ouncer), bacon-wrapped filet Mignon ($24,99 for nine ounces), rib eye ($25.99 for 16 ounces) and more.

There are also cuts available for sharing.

Other fare also fits in with the steakhouse motif. Case in point: the onion rings. But these are not just any onion rings,

Bailey made clear.

They’re jumbo onion rings in tempura batter, with SarVecchio cheese, Georgia honey and a bit of chili flake. “The best onion ring you’ve had in your life,” the general manager said. “I’m not kidding. If we have 100 tables, we’ll sell 80 (orders of) onion rings.”

Gaye said you can watch people’s eyes follow the plates being taken to other tables.

She imagines the people thinking, “Whatever that is, that’s what we want.”

Then there is the matter of the Grown Up

Banana Split, an $8.99 desert complete with “booze fruit” and homemade ice cream. “Booze fruit,” Bailey explained, comes from the restaurant’s work infusing vodka with peaches and pineapples to make its signature martini, the BBtini. They use the fruit to make a sauce, which is drizzled over the banana split, completing the growing up process.

They also have Bare Bones Brew, the restaurant’s own beer.

Other favorites are the kale Caesar salad, the

pimiento cheese with homemade saltines and the Bare Bones take on shrimp and grits.

Something You Might Not Know: “I think one of the unique things about us,” Gaye said, “is the kitchen is adamant that everything is made from scratch.” So adamant is the kitchen that only the bread and cheesecake aren’t made in house, she said.

Buddy also hand-cuts every steak. They even makes something called B.1. sauce, instead of A.1.

GWINNETT TASTES A selection of local eateries recently featured in the Gwinnett Daily Post: Oni Japanese Steakhouse Oni offers many staples of Japanese culture and has a general peaceful atmosphere, with laid back music playing so that, even when the chefs are cooking on the hibachi grills, people who come by to eat in a small group can easily talk to each other without having to raise their voices to be heard. Some of the popular items on the menu include miso soup, filet mignon hibachi dinner, dishes with salmon, spring rolls and sushi rolls that have salmon or yellowtail.

2944 Rosebud Road, Loganville, 470-299-8350, onisteakhouse.com Naya’s Cafe The small cafe has seating for about 30 people, including table and lunch counter seating. Naya’s Cafe offers a wide range of dishes from which to choose, including salads, burgers, appetizers, seafood and grilled and fried chicken. Some popular dishes include Clucks in a Tux, which is chicken and fries arranged to

look like a tuxedo, and grilled chicken and turkey tips. One of the most popular items served at the restaurant is a dish that can’t be found on the menu: fish tacos.

3153 Sugarloaf Parkway, Suite 101, Lawrenceville, 773-557-5651, www.facebook.com/Nayas-Cafe-122295131450829/ Pub Ten Popular with the after-work crowd, Pub Ten is an American casual gastropub with the feel of a traditional Irish or English pub, in part because of its popularity where people congregate, socialize and share laughs together. The restaurant mixes old-school and modern elements in its design, and popular dishes include the crab salad, the Glenn’s (Upside Down) Wonton Nachos with Pulled Korean BBQ Brisket.

5270 Peachtree Parkway, Suite 118B, Peachtree Corners, 404-4313478, www.facebook.com/Pubten Sugar Hill Subs Sugar Hill Subs is a locally owned sub shop offering patrons a fast-casual dining experience with a warm,

inviting atmosphere. Sugar Hill Subs offers a selection of subs, salads and soups. A customer favorite is the gyro made with traditional beef/lamb gyro meat, lettuce, onion, tomatoes, Tzatziki sauce, hummus and cucumber served in a warm pita.

4450 Nelson Brogdon Blvd., Suite A8, Sugar Hill, 770-831-7540, www.facebook.com/Sugarhillsubs-452988704712504 Taqueria del Mar Taqueria del Mar offers a casual dining atmosphere that’s perfect a variety of occasions, from friends looking to meet up and a catch up over some specialty tacos to families wanting to get out of the house and enjoy a meal together. Taqueria del Mar offers a selection of specialty tacos and true to it’s name del mar, which means from sea, there is a focus on seafood.

5075 Peachtree Parkway, Suite 105 A, Peachtree Corners, 678-8209836, www.taqueriadelmar.com Hog and Ale Smokehouse The smokehouse has a casual, neighborhood barbecue joint feel

with wood-lined walls, a selection of house-made sauces on each table and country music subtly playing in the background. Hog and Ale offers a selection of slow-smoked meats — including beef brisket, pork butt and chicken — smoked over red and white oak and hickory, as well as homemade sides.

5450 Peachtree Parkway, Peachtree Corners, 678-585-1514, www.facebook.com/HogandAleSmokehouse Sugo Sugo is a family-run restaurant that offers customers a warm, inviting atmosphere and a casual, yet upscale dining environment. Sugo offers a fusion menu inspired by Castelluci’s Greek and Italian heritage with a slight twist of chef Ricardo Soto’s Spanish heritage. A house specialty is the Meatball Al Sugo — made with roasted tomatoes, caramelized onions, dates and tomato basil sauce — which was featured by the Food Network.

10305 Medlock Bridge Road, Johns Creek, 770-817-8000, www. sugorestaurant.com

The Magnolia Place Restaurant The Magnolia Place Restaurant is located in a picturesque, white Antebellum-style home with columns and a large front porch offering a couple of rockers, benches and a wicker chair for seating. The Magnolia Place Restaurant offers a buffet of homecooked Southern fare, which includes old-fashioned staples such as baked chicken, madefrom-scratch macaroni and cheese, buttermilk biscuits, chicken tenders, country fried steak and green beans.

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Matt Hudson enjoys a sample of cheese at last year’s Big Cheesy Festival in Suwanee.

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There will also be an artisan market where visitors can buy unique cheeses and cheese-based Bill Lawyer helps his daughters Reagan and Rylan build a cheese sculpture at last products, including grilled cheese doughnuts, breads, year’s Big Cheesy Festival in Suwanee. (File Photos) olive oils, locally-produced including “cheesy Journey was Edam grate event last tastings to cooking demhoney and cheeses. Some tribute band, Departure” — year,” Suwanee Events onstrations to Departure’s participating vendors and food trucks.

Manager Amy Doherty performance — it’s going include Tom + Chee, “Suwanee Big Cheesy said in a statement. “From to be a gouda time, any Freckled and Blue food

truck, Caly Road Creamery, Cheeses and Mary, Crave Pie, Java Genesis coffee, Savage Jerky and Mussengang.

Other activities will include children’s games and activities, an amateur cheese carving contest and demonstrations from Operation Homebrew on how to make mozzarella.

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Suwanee will go gaga for goat cheese — as well as feta, Swiss, American, cheddar and a whole host of other cheeses — this weekend.

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had always been in need of money, and upon his death, Mozart had not completed the “Requiem” although he had been paid for half of it. Desperate to receive the second half of the commission, his wife Constanze would concoct an elaborate façade to ensure the work was finished and that she Holley Calmes was paid.

This led to half truths few works have fascinated about who actually finished generation after generation the piece and whose ideas of musicians and musicor influences it was based lovers and, at the same time, upon. Mozart commented produced so much contrastfrequently from his deathbed ing emotion and controversy. that he was writing it for his The work in question could own funeral. be none other than Mozart’s Although the story is sad, the music is magnificent and Requiem — its origins has remained one of Moshrouded in mystery, legend and almost sensational The Gwinnett Symphony Orchestra rehearses in a photo taken from the perspective of zart’s greatest accomplishments. violinist Anne-Majlis Anderson. (File Photo) theories.”

For more information Fans of the movie “Amaabout the Gwinnett Symphodeus” will have a different Countess Anna Walsegg who held twice weekly mu- Stupach in July of 1791, ny Orchestra, visit its website memory of the story, but the zu Stupach tragically dies sicals in his home featuring a very busy period for the at www.gwinnettsymphonytruth lies in another direction. at only 21 years of age. music anonymously created composer. He would begin orchestra.org.

The “Requiem” could be Her husband, an amateur by some of the greatest com- on the funeral mass only Holley Calmes is a viewed, however, as tribute musician, decides to honor posers of the day. Unfortuin November, and shortly freelance writer and public to Mozart’s own death. the memory of his deceased nately, Stupach passed these thereafter contracted the relations consultant specialEmerson says, “The story wife by commissioning a works off as his own. mysterious disease that izing in the arts. Email her at of this ‘Requiem’ begins Requiem.”

Mozart received the would kill him at the age hcalmes@mindspring.com. on 14 February 1791, when Stupach was an eccentric Requiem commission from of 35. The Mozart family

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“Requiem” is a work filled with haunting beauty, tragic origins, and fantastic misrepresentations. One of the most beautiful and well-known of Mozart’s works, it is also one shrouded in mystery and symbolic of the death of the great composer.

The Gwinnett Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will present Mozart’s “Requiem Mass in D minor, K. 626” on Saturday, 7 p.m. at the First Christian Church of Atlanta, 4532 LaVista Road in Tucker. The concert is not ticketed but donations are gratefully accepted.

Soloists are Soprano: Alla Clancy, Alto: Shanna Cochran, Tenor: Billy Vanlentine, and Bass: Brandon Graham. Conducting will be GSO Chorus’ Artistic Director and Conductor Rick Smith. The organist will be Jose Manuel Garcia.

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STANDOUT PERFORMANCE

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Pass: Melissa McCarthy (as Michelle Darnell) has had stronger scripts to work with in the past, but she does make the most of the material here. The costumer has put her in some fabulously complex and layered outfits (featuring her character’s signature tops with oversized turtlenecks).

Her makeup is always striking and her hair (a fiery red wig) always flawless.

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Fail: The film’s final third is somewhat of a let down. The plot has nowhere to go, and the jokes turn more vulgar (and unnecessarily so). I would have raised its 2.5 star rating had the ending been stronger.

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Kristen Bell plays the straight man in most of the jokes here, and she does a good job of portraying a young single mother.

Several scenes with her daughter and prospective boyfriend are sweet and funny. Kathy Bates’ appearance is a glorified cameo role. She wears a shockingly white wig and curses like a sailor.

Peter Dinklage has a supporting role and spends much of his screen time mugging for the camera. Watch out for SNL and MadTV actors in a couple of small roles as well.

For fans of McCarthy, you’ll enjoy seeing this one with a full theater of folks laughing along with you.

If you are not as into McCarthy’s brand of comedy, just wait for the DVD.

This won’t be a huge hit like Bridesmaids or even the more recent Spy, but I think enough fans will flock to the theaters to keep this one around awhile.

The pacing is good, from the opening choreographed song and dance number to the revelation of the plot and the complications that ensue. There are many laughs and even a moment or two of poignancy before the train goes off the tracks. Because of the low brow humor and crass language, however, this movie is best-suited for the high-school crowd and up.

Oddly enough, Ella Anderson, who plays the main child in the movie, turned in a more heartfelt and sincere performance than any of the adult actors, who seemed to be phoning it in.

Although it pales in comparison, it’s in the same vein as “Bridesmaids.” Also anyone who still enjoys Adam Sandler would most likely enjoy this movie.

Absolutely wait for the DVD or Blu-Ray. It’s a Redbox rental for sure.

While there’s no arguing that Melissa McCarthy is a talented actress, it’s time she chooses something better than this.

Even with the addition of Kristen Bell and Peter Dinklage, the movie feels like an idea that was scratched out on a napkin and never really formulated. It can’t tell if it wants to be raunchy or sweet — and unfortunately fails at both. It has its moments, but if you’re really in need of a Melissa McCarthy fix, pick up “Identity Thief” or “Spy” and save your money on this one.

Melissa McCarthy does a very good job as Michelle Darnell, a billionaire CEO who is busted for insider trading and later has to pull herself up by the bootstraps.

The shame is, McCarthy is a really talented actress whose physical comedy is on par with the late Lucille Ball, but she continues to let herself be typecast as a foul-mouthed, boorish woman who is more of an object of derision and scorn. Kristen Bell (TV’s “Veronica Mars”) is wasted in her role as Darnell’s ex-assistant who later becomes her business partner; her character is little more than eye candy. Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”) is downright embarrassing to watch as Darnell’s former lover Renault, who is now her archenemy.

Those who enjoyed McCarthy’s breakout role in “Bridesmaids” and her subsequent movies will enjoy “The Boss.” However, her shtick really wears thin in this flick.

Neither. I’d rather prep for a colonoscopy than have to sit through this flick again.

Except for some witty lines and falling-down-stairs pratfalls, “The Boss” is largely a waste of time and money.

Even McCarthy’s skills on the screen can’t save this dog. “The Boss” should have never been hired to begin with, and should be terminated without any golden parachute or severance pay.

★★★★ Pass: The film does have its moments, and when it’s not being over the top, Melissa McCarthy proves why she’s such a popular actress. She manages to deliver a few sincere moments of acting without the slapstick.

Fail: Unfortunately, the plot is ridiculous and clichéd, and probably the most ridiculous example is the girl scout gang fight, clearly an homage to “Anchorman,” which fails miserably. It only goes further downhill from there.

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★★★★ Pass: Some very funny physical comedy scenes; good acting by star Melissa McCarthy.

Fail: Most of the movie is surprisingly dull; lame and uninspired scripting; the latter half of the movie makes no sense whatsoever.

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COMING SOON TO OWN • “The Revenant” (April 19): The recent Oscar winner for best actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and director (Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu) is an early-19th-century frontier survival story. (R) • “Haven: The Final Season” (April 19): Alternate dimensions and William Shatner play big roles in the wrap-up to the Stephen Kinginspired series. (Not rated) • “Krampus” (April 26): A youngster (Emjay Anthony) disappointed at the holidays conjures up a Christmas demon; Toni Collette also stars. (PG-13) • “Ride Along 2” (April 26): Kevin Hart and Ice Cube reunite as their characters team with a female cop (Olivia Munn) against a drug dealer.

NOW SHOWING Recently reviewed films by movie critic Michael Clark now playing in metro area theaters.

• The Boss (R) — 2 stars Again in full recycle, autopilot mode, Melissa McCarthy plays the title character, an abrasive, crude, profane queen of industry who, after a stint in the slammer for insider trading, attempts

a comeback by peddling brownies. It’s just a tad better than “Tammy.”

• Demolition (R) — 4 stars Recalling “American Psycho” and “Fight Club” minus the carnage, “Demolition” starts Jake Gyllenhaal as a Wall Street executive not too upset over his wife’s recent death who attempts to hit

rock bottom in order to shake himself free from his lifelong malaise.

• I Saw the Light (R) — 2 ½ stars In a movie that does almost everything wrong, lead Tom Hiddleston (Loki in the Marvel movies) as country music legend Hank Williams gets everything right. Channeling rather than imitating,

Hiddleston’s rendering is inspired and heartbreaking.

• Midnight Special (PG13) — 2 ½ stars The fourth film from Arkansan Jeff Nichols is his first for a major studio and comes with big growing pains.

Rather than another low-key Southern Gothic drama a la “Sling Blade,” Nichols goes sci-fi Steven Spielberg with

(PG-13) • “The 5th Wave” (May 3): Though aliens continue to unleash attacks on Earth, a young fugitive (Chloe Grace Moretz) is determined to save her brother.

(PG-13) • “Joy” (May 3): Jennifer Lawrence plays Miracle Mop inventor and marketer Joy Mangano in director David O. Russell’s comedy-drama, also reuniting the actress with Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper.

(PG-13) • “Lou Grant: The Complete First Season” (May 24): Edward Asner carried his “Mary Tyler Moore Show” character into this drama series, which made Grant a Los Angeles newspaper editor. (Not rated) • “Anomalisa” (June 7): The animated Oscar nominee focuses on an author (voice of David Thewlis) who gains a renewed appreciation of his life and family. (R)

highly mixed results.

• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (PG-13) — 2 stars Overlong, stilted, largely humorless and rampant with CGI pyrotechnics, “BvS” in the first of the DC Comics collective superhero flicks which follows competitor Marvel’s game plan almost to the letter with the same results.

• Eye in the Sky (PG-13) — 2 ½ stars This military/political thriller containing elements of “Dr. Strangelove” and “Good Kill” has great production values and a superb first half which is unfortunately offset by a second half top-loaded with political correctness and a potent liberal bias.

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‘The Jungle Book’ a spectacular film that caters to all It was common practice in the ’60s (some say still) for Disney to “white bread” stories to insure the widest possible audience net 4/4 stars and never was that clearer

BY MICHAEL CLARK than with their first “Jungle Movie Critic Book.” Bringing with it only a whiff of danger and/ Of all the major studios, or social commentary, Disney has been the most the movie serviced Baby careful and picky when it Boomer children well. This comes to remakes. They did edition will do the same and so twice with Lindsay Lohan then some for those Boomas the lead (“Freaky Friday,” ers, their grandchildren and “The Love Bug”) and last beyond. year with “Cinderella.” All Right out of the gate we three more or less worked, can tell director Jon Favreau but with “The Jungle (“Elf,” “Iron Man”) is strivBook,” Disney has set a new ing for genuine, unsanitized gold standard not only for thrills and to look highly remakes but also technology realistic in a world that is — as it applies to filmmaking. save for one human characAhead of its time at the ter — completely computertime it came out but now generated. The “man-cub” dated, “The Jungle Book” Mowgli (the confident and from 1967 was a bouncy, assured newcomer Neel standard issue, hand-drawn Sethi) is running through animated feature that the forest trying to escape a seemed in no way of needpack of wolves determined ing an overhaul, unless it be to make him that day’s meal. would in adhering closer to The wolves miss their mark, author Rudyard Kipling’s but the panther Bagheera original collection of short (Ben Kingsley) pins Mowgli stories. Among several down, making this just the other comic book, TV and first of many superb set film adaptations is a second pieces ending in a way we Disney live-action version don’t expect. from 1994 that — while a How Mowgli came to live commercial and critical suc- amongst the jungle creatures cess — strayed far from the is cleverly explained in a source material. later flashback scene that

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Ben Kingsley as Bagheera and Neel Sethi as Mowgli in “The Jungle Book.” (Special Photo: Disney)

makes it understandable why he would be reluctant to leave the only life he’s ever known to be with his own kind. Things change for the worse with the arrival of Shere Khan (Idris Elba), a Bengal tiger who is bent on taking out Mowgli at any cost. Think of Khan as a more imposing incarnation of Scar from “The Lion King.”

In another passage, Mowgli encounters the sweet-talking python Kaa (Scarlett Johansson) and, in the third act, a King Kongsized simian named Louie (Christopher Walken) which takes place in temple ruins that suggests Mel Gibson’s brutal “Apocalypto” by way of Walken’s turn in “True Romance.” Other portions bear close resemblance in both content and style to “Avatar” and “Life of Pi.”

Right about now you might be asking yourself, “Why on Earth would I consider taking my child to see such a harrowing story?”

— and your concerns would be valid and justified. Even though the movie is rated PG, it certainly isn’t suited for toddlers or perhaps preteens easily spooked by peril or violence. The film really should have been given a PG-13.

Offering much needed counterbalance to the scary bits is an equal number of others rich in easy, unforced humor and life-affirming warmth. The former mostly comes courtesy of Bill Murray as the bear Baloo who befriends Mowgli while he’s trying to evade Khan.

Beyond lazy, Baloo cajoles Mowgli into some rather taxing grunt work and — while certainly tempting

— Murray resists his usual droll and sarcastic tone for something much lighter and kid-friendly.

Voicing the crucial role of the wolf Raksha (also Mowgli’s adopted mother) is Lupita Nyong’o and her rendering is astonishing.

Although many may scoff at the suggestion, Raksha easily qualifies as one of the most endearing and possibly enduring maternal characters in the history of the movies.

She is concerned without being overbearing, protective without being smothering and recognizes there are times when silence provides far more wisdom and comfort than words. High praise needs to be lavished on screenwriter Justin Marks for covering a near-impossible amount of emotional and narrative terrain here.

It’s worth noting that this

film is mostly based on just the first four chapters in Kipling’s collection, which contains 14 in total. If you surmised that this might open the door for sequels, you’d be right. After impressive box office numbers in several foreign markets over the past few weeks, Disney greenlit a follow-up tentatively slated for a 2019 release. Also on the horizon is yet another version featuring motion capture genius Andy Serkis (“The Lord of the Rings,” “Planet of the Apes”) which he’s also directing coming out in October 2018.

Favreau, Marks, the extraordinary cast and the myriad technical geniuses have crafted one of the most impressive fantasy films of all time. It is a classic in every sense of the word.

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‘Criminal’ goes light on logic, heavy on high-octane action Criminal (R) CRIMINAL (R) ★★★★ 2/4 stars

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Rashad (Common) and Calvin (Ice Cube) share a laugh in “Barbershop: The Next Cut.” (Special Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures)

Between laughs, ‘Next Cut’ offers up social commentary Barbershop: The Next Cut Barbershop: The Next (PG-13) Cut (PG-13) ★★★★ 3/4 stars

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It’s been a dozen years since Hollywood made an appointment in Calvin’s Barbershop in South Chicago, where owner Calvin Palmer’s (Ice Cube) problems have gone from worrisome to deadly as he strives to keep his fledgling business alive.

Gone are the days when he dealt with a pesky loan shark who wanted to turn his shop into a strip club in 2002’s “Barbershop” or when he withstood the opening of a national chain known as “Nappy Cutz” opening across the street in 2004’s “Barbershop 2: Back in Business.”

Now, Palmer’s issues are much bigger than shady businessmen and settling debates among his stylists whether President Obama has a mistress.

His shop has become a front-row seat to gang violence, where arguments end with gunshots and the number of crimes happening outside the store outnumber the customers inside it.

But what’s going on in the streets isn’t the only major change in the

third installment of the “Barbershop” franchise.

Calvin’s once male-oriented shop has gone co-ed, as his financial situation forced him to share space and chairs with a beauty salon run by Angie (Regina Hall). Cube’s cube of humor and haircuts is no longer the man’s world it once was, where women were objectified and seemingly no joke was off limits, including those that proclaimed the AfricanAmerican D.C. sniper as the “Jackie Robinson of crime,” as was the case in “Back in Business.”

The men versus women dynamic breathes some much-needed life into the next chapter after “Back in Business” didn’t live up to the expectations of its predecessor. Though Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer remain dominant, the arrival of Nicki Minaj (Draya) and Hall — paired with the return of Terri (Eve), the shop’s once lone female stylist — creates some witty dialogue that serves as ammunition in this war of the sexes.

“Barbershop” and “Barbershop 2” were comedies that shed light on some of society’s ills, most notably the corporations that are swallowing smallowned businesses. “The Next Cut” is no different, except its target provides a much darker tone.

“It’s a comedy, but it’s a story that has heart and with all the violence that’s going on in Chicago, and the gun violence that’s going on around America,” rapper Common, who plays Rashad, one of the shop’s barbers, told “The Hollywood Reporter.” “It feels good to be part of a movie where families can go and feel some inspiration, feel some empowerment.”

And some humor. The additions of Anthony Anderson and Common provide some muchneeded spice for a franchise that had become bland. The constant trash talking between the male and female stylists carry the film, as their back and forth banter makes moviegoers feel as if they’re in the shop.

When “Barbershop” debuted by making more than $77 million worldwide on a $12 million budget in 2002, a sequel was imminent. However, “Barbershop: Back in Business” wasn’t nearly as good, and it showed at the box office when the film generated nearly $66 million off a $30 million budget.

“Barbershop: The Next Cut” is worth making an appointment, even if it’s just for the jokes, which are much more memorable than its plot.

(Warner Bros. Pictures)

While not in any way brilliant or even close to original, the concept of “Criminal” is (in the realm of kooky sci-fi-flavored espionage action-thrillers) somewhat plausible. If you reread that first sentence, it sounds (on purpose, mind you) like the ultimate success of the film is completely contingent on everything going exactly right and is top-loaded with excuse clauses.

This thing must have looked great on paper.

London-based CIA agent Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds — uncredited — not a good sign) meets his demise (via a cattle-prod to the mouth) administered by an Alan Rickman/”Die Hard” Euro trash-flavored cyber villain from Spain named — really — Hagbardaka Heimbahl (Jordi Molla) and his bad red dye-job, leather-clad hench-girl (Antje Traue). All of this takes place in the first 10 minutes.

Pope (not quite) died while in the middle of a deal to capture a mopey, emo-ish computer nerd named “the Dutchman” (Michael Pitt) who is working in tandem with the Spaniard. Only Pope knew the particulars, so his boss Quaker Wells (Gary Oldman, seemingly operating on crack and Red Bull for the entirety) summons Dr. Frank (Tommy Lee Jones, behaving like a wounded puppy) to facilitate a Dr. Frankenstein-type operation by — wait for it — transferring Pope’s memory brain cells into the blank slate grey matter of the major stone-cold, sick puppy convict Jericho Stewart (Kevin Costner).

Hold the phone here.

Quaker? Jericho? The nonSpanish name of a Spanish dude that could probably be better pronounced if one was sloppy drunk? Also included are characters with the (nonslang) names Shoo Shoo and Greensleeves. Were screenwriters Douglas Cook and

Ryan Reynolds stars as Bill Pope in “Criminal.” (Photo Credit: Jack English)

David Weisberg under the impression that using sillysounding names somehow added to the story’s mystique?

With five clicks to the left or five to the right, “Criminal” could have either been an Austin Powers or a Jason Bourne installment; that’s how much leeway is in play here. Obviously none of this occurred to Israeli director Ariel Vromen who presents all of it as if it were “Face/ Off” by way of “The Hunt for Red October.” If “Criminal” is ever the subject of a parody it will fall short. This movie itself is self-mocking.

And the title. Seriously?!

“Criminal?” What’s wrong?

Were “Action,” “Cyber Crime,” “Explosions,” “Bad Guy,” “Far-Fetched” and “Psychopath with Drill Holes in his Head” already taken? Absolutely anything would have worked better than “Criminal.”

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Costner (let’s admit it, he’s the main draw here) hasn’t been this good in a while. He doesn’t often play villains (or even bad boys) but his Jericho is “Silverado,” “Mr. Brooks,” “A Perfect World” and maybe even a little bit of “3000 Miles to Graceland” all rolled into one. Wisely recognizing he’s no longer a pretty-boy heartthrob, he is able to

expand on the niche of a still-attractive social misfit, Costner approaches his role here with unhinged abandon and unabashed gusto.

Jericho is full-tilt psycho and Costner sells him perfectly. With a voice that sounds like it was marinated in gravel, rock salt and battery acid, Costner slips into full-senior citizen, characteractor, “Taken” mode while still retaining something that feels like romantic leading man. Crazy, right?

Not so much when considering Jericho’s interaction with Bill’s widow Jill (Gal Gadot, the new Wonder Woman) and her daughter.

Enough of Bill’s personality traits start oozing out of Jericho to get his widow and child to begin developing soft spots for him and gets the narrative to take an emotional up-swing. But it’s far too little too late.

If you’re one for which logic, consistency and a well-crafted story take a back seat to explosions, chase scenes, jittery camera angles and cut ’n’ slash editing, then “Criminal” might be worth your time and money. The same goes for any and all dedicated Costner fans; the fact he did such a good job in such a bad film will make many reconsider his talents as an actor. For everyone else: stay far away.

(Summit Entertainment)

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A deadly contagion breaks out in Atlanta, forcing health care professionals and government officials into overdrive as they try to stop its spread in a medical thriller series premiering this week.

In “Containment,” which debuts Tuesday on The CW, that bug is called H7N2, and its symptoms are ugly: fever, headaches, swollen lymph nodes, bleeding from multiple orifices and, finally, death within a few days — and it is fatal in 100 percent of cases. After it kills a Syrian refugee, his doctor, her boyfriend and others they came into contact with, a quarantine of a portion of the city is declared, forcing those trapped on the inside to fight for their lives.

That includes Katie (Kristen Gutoskie, “Rookie Blue”), an elementaryschool teacher under lockdown with her class and young son; pregnant teen Teresa (Hanna Mangan Lawrence, “Spartacus: War of the Damned”) and Dr. Victor Cannerts (George Young, “Casualty”), a government researcher who made the call on the cordon and is now trying to find a cure.

On the outside, Dr. Sabine Lommers (Claudia Black, “Farscape”) heads the government’s efforts to contain the outbreak, and she enlists well-respected police officer Lex Carnahan (David Gyasi, “Interstellar”) to help enforce the cordon in the face of deteriorating public trust. His job is made more difficult by the journalist (Trevor St. John, “The Mentalist”) with a conspiracy theory to prove and the fact that

his girlfriend (Christina Moses, “The Invention of Lying”) and best friend (Chris Wood, “The Vampire Diaries”) are trapped inside.

And then, of course, there is the vial of mysterious white powder found in the belongings of the Syrian — aka Patient Zero — which suggests possible bioterrorism.

As order descends into chaos on the inside, those on the outside race to find a cure.

“It’s a good opportunity for science to win,” Black said to a recent gathering of TV critics in Pasadena, Calif. “As in the film ‘The Martian,’ you know, it’s a big win for science when he says at the end of the film — not a spoiler — ‘You just have to work the problems, and if you work enough of them, you get to go home.’ So this is a similar environment. Whether the truth or not is going to save more lives comes into question in the series.

“But also, one of the major aspects of containing a virus is contact tracing,” she continues, “and that will determine, as far as an epidemiologist is concerned, how much people will survive.

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To ensure the series’ medical facts were solid, the producers and actors spoke with scientists and physicians and also consulted with state and federal health officials to make sure they had their government protocols straight.

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BY GEORGE DICKIE

10C • Friday, april 15, 2016

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Q&A with ‘Empire’ star Jussie Smollett TV Link

Q: Last year you came out as gay, like your “Empire” character, on “Ellen.” Do you embrace being a role model?

A: Here’s the thing.

Everybody’s journey is different. My journey is to (convey) a sense of, “You’re good. You’re not alone.” I’ve gotten so many letters, had so many people come up to me and say, “You make me feel a little bit less alone.” That’s something I’m really proud of.

When we can do something like that, it creates a ripple effect. I gladly accept that responsibility.

Q: Did you have a role model like that when you were younger?

A: I had the full support of my family, but I remember when (openly gay actor) Wilson Cruz did “My SoCalled Life.” I never saw that show, but I remember reading an article about him in a teen magazine that my family also had been in be-

Jussie Smollett plays Jamal Lyon on Fox’s “Empire,” whichair s at 9 p.m.

Wednesdays.

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cause we were on the same network that season. I was inspired by him, because he just seemed so comfortable, and this was 1995, when I can remember being scared of anyone even seeing me reading that article.

Q: Your “Empire” character is based on series creator Lee Daniels.

Does that put extra pressure on you?

A: I wouldn’t call it pressure, but I definitely felt a strong sense of responsibility. The day before “Empire” started filming, I cried the entire day. I’m a Cancer, so I’m already an emotional wreck. In the two months from casting to filming, Lee and I had built a bond that I had never had with someone like him before. He became a mentor, a father figure, so quickly, and I would look at him and think, “If this is me at 55 years old, I’m going to be good with my life.”

And I don’t even mean the career success he has had, I just mean the honest and truthful person that he is.

Hugh Laurie stars in “The Night Manager,” a miniseries premiering Tuesday on AMC. (Special Photo: Your TV Link)

Le Carré spy caper comes to AMC

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(Tom Hiddleston, “Midnight in Paris”) is thrust. Pine, an Iraq War veteran who has At first blush, Richard retreated from life as a night Roper seems like the type of manager at a Cairo hotel, is man you’d wish could run recruited by intelligence opfor president. erative Angela Burr (Olivia Erudite, genteel and phil- Colman, “Broadchurch”) anthropic to a fault, this bil- to infiltrate Roper’s inner lionaire British businessman circle and get at the heart of is the very image of somehis vast empire. But he must one in whom you would first withstand the interroentrust the greater good. gations of Roper’s suspiBut get beneath the cious chief of staff Major surface and another picCorkoran (Tom Hollander, ture emerges — one of “Pirates of the Caribbean: At a self-interested wheeler World’s End”) and resist the dealer who built his empire wiles of his gorgeous trophy selling illegal arms to the girlfriend Jed (Elizabeth highest bidder and buying Debicki, “Everest”). And a few souls in the process. worst of all, he himself must As played by Hugh Laurie become a criminal. (“House”), he’s the devil in The series, based on a designer threads.

John le Carre espionage novIt is into this man’s lavish el, is set after the Cold War world in “The Night Manand was filmed in locations ager,” a six-part miniseries ranging from Switzerland that premieres Tuesday, and England to Morocco April 19, on AMC, that exand the Spanish island of British soldier Jonathan Pine Majorca.

“What I found fascinating about Jonathan Pine in John le Carre’s novel and

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in the adaptation is there is a tension between a very calm exterior and a turbulent and chaotic interior, that he’s someone who actually has a great amount of vulnerability and a huge amount of doubt. Le Carré describes him as a self exiled creature of the night and a sailor without a destination,” Hiddleston said to a recent gathering of TV critics in Pasadena, Calif. “And Angela Burr, played by Olivia Colman, compels him to make a commitment, and she lights a spark within him that impels him to act and to follow through on that commitment, which is to take down Richard Roper. And I think all the way through Susanne (Bier, an executive producer and director) always encouraged me to lean into the tension between his obligation to be very, very calm and very passive on the surface while he’s actually on fire beneath that, and that tension I enjoyed playing very much.”

As for Roper, Laurie describes him as a psychotic who operates in an almost medieval fashion outside the boundaries of society.

“There’s a sort of Colonel Kurtz aspect to it, I think,” he says, alluding to the unhinged character played by Marlon Brando in the 1979 war drama “Apocalypse Now.” “He has surrounded himself with people whose livelihoods depend on his good opinion. That’s always likely to drive somebody psychotic, as any studio head will attest. It’s not good for one’s sanity, I think, to be able to operate unopposed.

“I love everything, every word le Carré ever wrote, but this is a story that, in particular, I found incredibly compelling. Right back when the book was first published, I was three chapters in, and I tried to option it. I never optioned anything in my life before or since, but that’s how compelling, how romantic and how powerful I found this story to be.”