Gwinnett Daily Post - June 2, 2016

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UGA student hurt in wreck out of coma Crash survivor not yet fully conscious, friends say

BY JOSHUA SHARPE

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On April 27, a haze fell over Agnes Kim as her car collided with another.

She suffered a brain injury and fell into a coma as metal wrenched

and four of her friends and fellow University of Georgia students began to die. As news spread from the lonely Oconee County road, people all around Georgia and beyond began to pray for the souls of the lost young women, for peace for those who loved

them, for Kim to wake up.

This week, the 21-yearold Snellville resident did.

Friends announced the milestone Wednesday morning. Kim is recovering at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, undergoing constant monitoring.

“She is not yet fully

conscious but definitely awake and alert!” friends posted on a website detailing her progress.

The news doesn’t mean she’s “emerged,” the word Shepherd Center staff uses for a fully conscious state, the friends wrote, “But we know she is no longer

Agnes Kim

ly/1OhVI3f) said Kim will continue speech, occupational and physical

NEW DIGS

Gwinnett County is a big, growing county and that growth will soon lead to it having the largest population in the state.

That, in turn, has led to a growing demand for assistance from the county’s Department of Family and Children Services office, according to state DFCS

Director Bobby Cagle. He added that as the department’s resources in the county have grown to meet that demand, staff has become spread across three offices in the county, which lead to logistics issues.

“Administrators in particular have to be in the place where their employees are,” Cagle said.

“Often times what we have to do is shuttle between buildings here in Gwinnett County.”

See KIM, Page 7A

BY KEITH FARNER keith.farner@gwinnettdailypost.com

State consolidating Gwinnett DFCS, child support offices curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

therapy.

“Please pray for her body and mind to continue healing, for her to regain (full) consciousness, and for her continued strength in order to persevere during this difficult time,” the post said, closing with a verse from the book of Micah: “But as for me, I

Need to earn a high school diploma? Go to the library

Georgia Division of Family and Children Services Director Bobby Cagle addresses attendees at the groundbreaking for the state’s new Gwinnett County Human Services facility in Lawrenceville on Wednesday. At top, an illustration shows what the state’s new Gwinnett County Human Services facility in Lawrenceville will look like when it is completed. (Staff Photos: Curt Yeomans)

BY CURT YEOMANS

in a coma or unconscious.”

The post on the YouCaring.com page (http://bit.

MORE ONLINE Visit gwinnettdailypost.com for photos and video of the event.

Georgia Department of Human Services officials gathered in Lawrenceville on Wednesday to break ground on a new $35 million, 100,000-square-foot facility that they hope will solve that logistics issue.

The new Gwinnett County

Human Services facility will bring together the three Division of Family and Children Services offices and one Division of Child Support Services office under a single roof. Department of Human Services Project Manager LeSharon Johnson said it is expected to open in June 2017 at 95 Constitution Boulevard, next to the Gwinnett See DFCS, Page 7A

There’s now an opportunity to earn a high school diploma by going to the library.

Gwinnett County Public Library this week announced that people who qualify can earn an accredited high school diploma and credentialed career certificate through Career Online High School, a program brought to public libraries by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. Career Online High School is specifically designed to re-engage adults into the education system and prepare them for entry into post-secondary career education or the workforce.

“Earning a high school diploma is a life-changing achievement,” GCPL Executive Director Charles Pace said in a press release. “With Career Online High School, we’re empowering our residents to seek new opportunities and transform their lives.

Gwinnett is the first library system in the state to offer this program.

GCPL will award scholarships to qualified learners looking to earn a high school diploma and advance their careers. Once enrolled, each student is paired with an academic coach, who assists with developing an individual career plan, offers ongoing guidance and encouragement, evaluates performance and connects the learner with the resources needed to demonstrate mastery of the course material.

Classes are supported by boardcertified instructors and students have 24/7 access to the online learning platform. Coursework begins in one of eight high-growth, high-demand career fields — across a wide spectrum from child care and education to certified transportation — before progressing to the core academic subjects.

Students can graduate in six months by transferring in previously earned high school credits but are given up to 18 months to complete the program.

Residents can learn more about Career Online High School and take an online self-assessment by visiting www.careeronlinehs.gale.com/gcpl.

Generations Expo caters to aging population “So many times people have anxiety about life after 50,” coordinator Noreen Brantner said. “This year, The Generations Expo we want them to be happy, in Duluth on Saturday be proud and embrace it. will encourage adults and Accept getting older and seniors to get reinvigorated get all the community during life after retirement. resources the event has to Family, friends, caregiv- offer.” ers, people with disabiliThe Daily Post will presties and others interested ent the expo at the Infinite in issues involving older Energy Forum at 6400 people can stop by the Sugarloaf Parkway from event, which will focus on 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. lifestyle, health and active Free medical advice, aging. prescription counseling,

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memory examinations, vision testing, blood pressure checks and more will be available from more than 20 health screening providers.

More than 75 exhibitors will share details on matters including housing options, travel, leisure and community resources.

For the first time, the expo will feature bestselling author and AARP columnist Armon B. Neel Jr. as the keynote speaker presenting

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‘Construction worker’ robs Norcross bank of $2.5K By eriKa Wells

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A man dressed as a construction worker got away with more than $2,500 from the Wells Fargo bank at 6155 Buford Highway in Norcross at about 2 p.m. Tuesday.

The suspect is a black man between 55 and 60 years old, stands 5-foot10 and weighs 170 pounds, according to a Gwinnett County Police Department press release.

He walked into the bank, waited in line several minutes until

officials say a man dressed as a construction worker robbed a Wells Fargo bank on Buford highway in norcross on tuesday. (Special Photo)

he reached a teller and passed a note that said he was committing a robbery.

“The suspect then placed his hand under his shirt to give the impression that he was armed,” Cpt. Deon Washington said in the press release.

“He also told the teller, ‘Don’t do anything stupid!’”

He asked for all $100 and $50 bills before he left the branch.

If anyone has information to share in this case, contact the Robbery Unit at (770) 513-5300. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at (404) 577-TIPS (8477) or visit www.crimestoppersatlanta.org.

Woman drives car up a telephone pole

By Joshua sharpe

joshua.sharpe @gwinnettdailypost.com

Cops — and maybe scientists — will no doubt be studying this one for a while: Somehow, someway, a woman drove her car up a telephone pole outside Norcross.

Up, as in vertical. Vertical, as in, bumper on the ground, headlamps pointing toward the heavens.

The sedan didn’t fall. It stayed there, with its underside resting against the pole until crews came to remove it.

The wreck happened Wednesday morning off Old Norcross Road, which was closed for a time between Whistle Stop Drive

a woman drove her car up a telephone pole outside norcross on Wednesday morning.

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and Ingram Road before reopening around 1 p.m.

No one was hurt.

The Gwinnett County Police Department released a photo of the car, driver’s-side door flung

open. The driver, a woman, was arrested, police said.

Her identity and information on the charges wasn’t immediately available from the police department.

Gwinnett, Buford schools score high in climate ratings PCOM establishes $5M fund focusing on primary care

By Keith Farner

keith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com

School climate Star ratingS the star ratings are below, according to the school climate index: ‘5-star’ schools ranked excellent: Grayson High, Mill Creek High, Trickum Middle, Benefield Elementary, Parkview High, Brookwood High, Berkeley Lake Elementary, Craig Elementary, Creekland Middle, Crews Middle, Freeman’s Mill Elementary, Osborne Middle, Sweetwater Middle, Five Forks Middle, Fort Daniel Elementary, Hull Middle, Ivy Creek Elementary, Dacula Middle, Cedar Hill Elementary, Riverside Elementary, Jones Middle, McConnell Middle, Sycamore Elementary, Duluth Middle, Gwinnett School of Math, Science and Technology, Lawrenceville Elementary, Peachtree Elementary, Lilburn Elementary, Couch Middle, Mountain View High, North Gwinnett Middle, Twin Rivers Middle, Archer High, Bethesda Elementary and Snellville Middle.

‘4-star’ schools ranked above average: Rock Springs Elementary, Norcross High, Head Elementary, Richards Middle, Chattahoochee Elementary, Dacula Elementary, Walnut Grove Elementary, Collins Hill High, Harbins Elementary, Meadowcreek Elementary, Corley Elementary, Mulberry Elementary, Lanier Middle, Lovin Elementary, Knight Elementary, Beaver Ridge Elementary, Shiloh Middle, Brookwood Elementary, Minor Elementary, McKendree Elementary, Shiloh Elementary, Nesbit Elementary, Sugar Hill Elementary, Mason Elementary, Gwin Oaks Elementary, Arcado Elementary, Pharr Elementary, Simonton Elementary, Jackson Elementary, Partee Elemen-

More than 100 Gwinnett schools received “fours” or “fives” in the most recent School Climate Star Ratings the Georgia Department of Education announced on Wednesday.

The survey results and data are from the 2014-15 school year and reflects the culture of a school, such as the quality and character of school life.

GaDOE spokesman Matt Cardoza said the rating system helps determine whether a school is on the right path to improvement.

Thirty-five schools in Gwinnett received a “five,” while 70 schools in GCPS received a “four.”

Triggered by a state law passed in 2012, the ratings system is another way state leaders and education officials can measure how a school is performing based on a survey and data. The system is designed to measure student achievement, achievement gap and progress.

Each school in Georgia received star ratings on a five-point scale, with five stars representing an excellent school climate, and one star representing a school climate most in need of improvement.

All of the Buford schools received fours or fives. Buford Academy, Buford Elementary and Buford Middle received fives, while Buford High received a four.

The system is an informational tool for schools, administrators and parents; they do not affect the school’s College & Career Ready Performance Index score.

Cardoza added that youth development and a sustainable, positive student learning, which school climate fosters are essential elements for

tary, Puckett’s Mill Elementary, Simpson Elementary, Kanoheda Elementary, Taylor Elementary, Trip Elementary, Cooper Elementary, Patrick Elementary, Parsons Elementary, Peachtree Elementary, Alcova Elementary, Bay Creek Middle, Ferguson Elementary, Roberts Elementary, Jenkins Elementary, Anderson-Livsey Elementary, Burnette Elementary, Lanier High, Dyer Elementary, Lilburn Middle, Rockbridge Elementary, Alford Elementary, Starling Elementary, Moore Middle, Northbrook Middle, Duncan Creek Elementary, Winn Holt Elementary, White Oak Elementary, Level Creek Elementary, Radloff Elementary, Chesney Elementary, Woodward Mill Elementary, Grayson Elementary, Harmony Elementary, Mountain Park Elementary, Harris Elementary, Camp Creek Elementary, Summerour Middle, North Gwinnett High, Suwanee Elementary and Duluth High.

‘3-star’ schools ranked average: Centerville Elementary, Shiloh High, Phoenix High, Annistown Elementary, Hopkins Elementary, Norton Elementary, Stripling Elementary, Berkmar Middle, Rosebud Elementary, Magill Elementary, New Life Academy of Excellence, Berkmar High, North Metro Academy of Performing Arts, South Gwinnett High, Britt Elementary, Central Gwinnett High, Dacula High and Norcross High.

‘2-star’ schools ranked below satisfactory: Meadowcreek High and GIVE East.

‘1-star’ schools ranked unsatisfactory: GIVE West and Gwinnett Online Campus.

academic success, careerskill improvement and overall quality of life.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC CITY OF SUWANEE, GEORGIA PUBLIC HEARINGS ON THE PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2017 BUDGET The public is hereby notified that the City Council of Suwanee is scheduled to adopt a budget for Fiscal Year 2017, which runs from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017, during the City Council Meeting to be held on Tuesday, June 21, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers of Suwanee City Hall, 330 Town Center Avenue, Suwanee, Georgia, 30024.

Before adoption, the City of Suwanee will conduct two public hearings on the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2017 at the City Hall, 330 Town Center Avenue, Suwanee, Georgia 30024 on:

• Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 5:30 p.m.

• Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 6:30 p.m.

All interested citizens may present written or oral comments and ask questions regarding the proposed uses and budget. The preliminary budget document is available at the Suwanee Library, 361 Main Street, Suwanee, GA 30024. Additional information, including the preliminary budget document, is available for public inspection at City Hall during regular business hours from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Consideration of adoption of the Fiscal Year 2017 Budget is scheduled for Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at the 6:30 p.m. regularly scheduled City Council Meeting.

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By Keith Farner

Investments from across the country will be considered, with a focus on the Philadelphia and Atlanta A college with a campus metro areas. in Suwanee has made a “The osteopathic philosseven-figure commitment ophy focuses on prevention to fund innovation and and maintaining wellness, entrepreneuship in health and seeing the patient as a care. whole person — not just The Philadelphia Coltheir symptoms,” Jay S. lege of Osteopathic Medi- Feldstein, president and cine recently announced CEO of PCOM, said in a it’s committed through press release. “Through the its foundation the allocaPrimary Care Innovation tion of $5 million to a new Fund, PCOM can extend venture capital fund with a that philosophy by investspecific focus on primary ing in innovative opportucare. nities nationally to improve The Primary Care Inand maintain patients’ novation Fund is the first quality of life.” such endeavor in the colThe people running lege’s 117-year history and the fund hope it provides will invest in companies benefits for the college’s with established products students, faculty, staff and and services that are health alumni to those who have a care-related and focused product or service approon primary care. PCOM is priate for funding, and conthe first osteopathic medi- necting those individuals cal school to establish such to learning and networking a fund. opportunities within the The fund will focus on investment community. producing financial returns Michael Cassidy, presiand will offer the college dent and CEO of the Geora potential revenue stream gia Research Alliance, will that is not tuition-based. represent Georgia on the

fund’s advisory board. The GRA is a not-for-profit organization that expands university research capacity and by seeding and shaping startup companies around inventions and discoveries.

Dean Miller, a private equity and venture capital investor, will manage the fund. Miller is president and CEO of the Philadelphia Alliance for Capital & Technologies and partner at Evergreen Industries LLC. An advisory board of physicians and business operators from Philadelphia and Atlanta will assist Miller in determining the feasibility and market demand for each potential investment.

“The primary care clinician is the point person for chronic conditions that patients face,” Miller said.

“To that end, it is a natural fit for PCOM to lead the way in promoting innovation within primary care by investing in companies that can address and prevent those conditions.”

By Curt yeomans

7:05 p.m. on a call about a small and a haze of smoke in a home on the 3039 block of Tiller Trail.

Rutledge said crews found no signs of a fire or smoke, and it was not a working fire. He added crews were checking for a possible electrical issue though.

The lone actual fire reported by officials came at 6:47 p.m., when crews were called to a report of a small blaze at a home on the 4800 block of Winters Chapel Road in unincorporated Doraville. Rutledge said the caller told the dispatcher a service line was down on the home and a fire in the attic.

The small-smoldering fire was confirmed by firefighters, who quickly put it out. There were no injured, according to Rutledge. He added it is not clear if the weather was a factor in any of the three fire calls.

keith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com

Officials report six incidents of possible storm damage assistance.

In unincorporated Lilburn, crews were dispatched at 6:58 p.m. on Gwinnett County a call about a tree or tree firefighters responded to limb hanging on a power several incidents of posline at a home on the 4300 sible storm damage, most block of Bending River of which involved downed Trail. Nearly an hour betrees, Wednesday night fore that, crews were called as storms moved through to a possible electrical fire Gwinnett County. on the 4600 block of MatMost of the incidents terhorn Drive near Lilburn happened in southern 6:07 p.m.

Gwinnett, around Lilburn Firefighters could not and unincorporated Stone find signs that a fire was Mountain and Doraville. taking place, Rutledge However, there was one said. report at 6:32 p.m. of a tree Meanwhile, crews were falling on a roof at a home dispatched at 6:22 p.m. to a on the 5300 block of Little call about a tree that fell on Mill Road in Buford and the roof of a home on the taking power lines with it, 5100 block of Rockbridge according to Capt. Tommy Drive in unincorporated Rutledge.

Stone Mountain. No one Rutledge added there was injured and crews were were no injuries and crews able to secure utilities. were able to secure utilities Elsewhere in unincorat the home, while request- porated Stone Mountain, ing the power company’s crews were dispatched at

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Viburnums are a fascinating group of plants Gardening in Gwinnett

Of the many plants that grow in our landscape, those in the viburnum family may not be especially familiar to homeowners. Many species exist, and they range from small shrubs to moderately sized trees. Viburnums have many uses such as hedges, specimen plants and foundation shrubs, among others.

They are adaptable to many site conditions and have attractive features.

Viburnums grow at a moderate to fast rate. They form a dense mass of vegetation, although some have a more open growth pattern.

Deer avoid browsing in them. The thick, leathery foliage comes in various shades of green and has a velvet appearance. In fall, the leaves develop a red to purple color. The flowers are white to pink with varying degrees of fragrances and

viburnums are deciduous and are native. Their leaves resemble maples, and they have white blooms in early spring. The plants are common to forests and other natural areas. The Chinese snowball viburnum grows up to 20 feet in height, and it produces 6- to 8-inch white flower clusters in the spring.

Tim Daly Sometimes it will bloom again later in the season. are favored by butterflies.

The Double File viburnum The blossoms have a flat to is one of the most attractive dome shape, and their brilviburnums, producing 2- to liantly colored fruits are at- 4-inch white blossoms with tractive to wildlife and birds. a laced-cap appearance. The They prefer slightly acidic, plant, when in flower, refertile, well-drained soil. sembles the layered pattern Some species of viburnums of dogwoods. The fall foliprefer full sun while others age is bright red. It prefers can tolerate shade. Once part shade and moist soils established, they require with organic matter. The minimal maintenance and European cranberry bush visuffer from few pests. burnum has multi-stemmed Some viburnums are arching branches, clusters deciduous. Maple leaf of small flowers, and grows

up to 15 feet. The plant is excellent for mass plantings and seasonal interest, and there are several varieties available. Black haw viburnums are native and have an upright, rounded growth pattern. They produce multiple suckers from their roots and can form large dense shrubs.

Several species of viburnums are evergreen or semi-evergreen. The David viburnum is a small growing shrub which has dark blue to green leaves that are 6 inches long and narrow in width with noticeable veins.

It prefers semi-shady sites and can suffer in full sun.

The Leatherleaf viburnum has a strong upright growth pattern. It has long dark green leaves. The plant prefers sites that are moist and shady. In fact, they are the most shade tolerant of viburnums. Sweet

viburnums reach 20 feet in height. Their white flowers are conical and form clusters that are three to six inches in shape. The Prague viburnum is an upright, rapid-growing oval shaped shrub that can reach the height of 15 feet. The plant is an excellent choice for those who want rapidlygrowing plants for use as a screen.

The viburnums discussed are just some that can add beauty and interest to the home landscape. They have many excellent ornamental features and are hardy plants that thrive under a multitude of growing conditions.

Consider planting some so you can enjoy their attractive qualities.

Most of us have planted our summer vegetable gardens which can provide us with a buffet of deli-

By Kate Croxton

and bait provided while supplies last. Demonstrators will be available to assist in baiting hooks and removing fish. A fishing license is not necessary and there is no registration required.

The first 350 children will receive a gift including a RealTree baseball cap provided by O’Neill Williams from O’Neill Outside. District 2 Commissioner Lynette Howard will be at the Hook a Kid on Play area for arts and crafts. Children can get their “First Fish Certificates” and enjoy brats, hot dogs and drinks while supplied last.

Participating groups include REI, Gwinnett

U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall, R-Ga., told constituents on Tuesday that he hopes the Water Resources and Development Act of 2016 passed by the House Transportation Committee last week will lead to better governance of water ways and infrastructure.

Woodall, a member of the committee, called the $5 billion bill a step toward passing a water infrastructure bill once every two years. He said that frequency is needed to provide oversight of projects while stopping obsolete projects and ensuring “more responsible stewardship” of tax payer dollars.

“This bill is a positive step for Georgia, and for several reasons it’s also a positive step for Congress,” Woodall said in a newsletter to constituents. “First of all, it restores the biennial process of approving a water resources bill.

“For years, the needs of America’s harbors, ports, dams and other infrastructure were mired in the same gridlock that consumes much of Washington.”

The House version of the bill is several billion dollars smaller than the $9.4 billion bill passed by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. That is reportedly due to the fact that the Senate committee has broader jurisdictional powers to tackle issues, such as the Flint water crisis, that the House Transportation Committee lacks the authority to handle.

Johnson unveils addiction resources guide for families U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., has released a resources guide that is designed to help families deal with situations involving relatives who have heroin and opioid addictions.

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highlighted at a fundraiser to support the legislators next week.

The fundraiser will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. on June 7 at Gordon Biersch, 848 Peachtree St. in Atlanta.

Guests are asked to RSVP in advance to georgiacapitolevents@gmail.com. Brockway, who is facing Democrat Curt Yeomans Karen Ridgeway in November, invited supporters to attend the event by posting a diction Resources Toolkit was published on Johnson’s link to a MailChimp letter on his Vote For Buzz Facebook congressional website, hankjohnson.house.gov. The page.

“For the first time since information includes help on drug treatment, recovery 2010, I have opposition,” Brockway wrote in the letter. support and how to prevent “This time my opposition addiction. is from a member of the “By providing this comDemocratic Party. While prehensive guide, we hope families will find the support my district is one a Repubthey need to deal with these lican should win (Romney received 59 percent of the issues,” Johnson said in a vote in 2012), the district is statement. “So many of our changing. families have been affected “Additionally, as you’ve by this epidemic — and all observed, this is a most many don’t know where unusual political year. to turn. I hope this guide can be a small step to begin Consequently, I’m taking nothing for granted and am healing.”

The congressman’s office planning on working hard to secure victory.” said the toolkit was asThe event is also supsembled by top experts in dealing with addictions and porting Reps. Shaw Blackmon, R-Bonaire, Jodi Lott, addiction policies.

R-Evans, Brian Strickland, Contributing agencies R-McDonough, and Sam and organizations included Teasley, R-Marietta. the Community Anti-Drug Upcoming Coalition, the National The United Tea Party of Council, National Association for Children of Alcohol- Georgia will meet at 7:30 ics, Shatterproof, Faces and p.m. tonight at Flying Machine Restaurant, 510 BrisVoices of Recovery, Legal Action Center, National Dis- coe Blvd. in Lawrenceville.

Lanier Tea Party President trict Attorneys Association, Hank Suillivan is expected Fraternal Order of Police, National Governors Associa- to address the group on the national debt and Libertartion, Hazelden Betty Ford, ian U.S. Senate candidate National Institute of Drug Allen Buckley and former Abuse and the Office NaRepublican U.S. Senate tional Drug Control Policy.

Fundraiser for Brockway, candidate Derrick Grayson other legislators set for are also expected to visit the group.

June 7 Political Notebook apState Rep. Buzz Brockpears in the Thursday and way, R-Lawrenceville, is one of five Republican state Sunday editions of the Gwinnett Daily Post. representatives who will be

cious, healthy vegetables.

However, the gardens are continually being attacked by pests. Gwinnett County Extension will offer two classes on controlling pests in vegetable gardens. One will be held on Monday, June 13, from noon to 1 p.m. in the second-floor conference room of the Gwinnett County Government Annex Building, 750 South Perry St., Lawrenceville, GA 30046. The next one will be held on Thursday, June 16, 7 to 8 p.m., at the Lanier Community Garden located at 2601 Buford Dam Rd, Buford, GA. The classes are free of charge, but please preregister by contacting the Extension office.

Timothy Daly is an Extension Agent with Gwinnett County Extension. He can be contacted at 678-3774010 or tdaly@uga.edu.

Gwinnett County Parks and Woodall: Water resources Rec hosts Kid’s Fishing Day bill a ‘positive step for Ga.’ kate.croxton @gwinnettdailypost.com

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In conjunction with National Fishing and Boating Week, Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation is inviting the community to a free fishing event Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The fishing will take place at Jones Bridge Park, which is located at 4901 East Jones Bridge Road in Peachtree Corners.

The Buford Trout Hatchery will stock over two thousand rainbow trout on the morning of the event. There will be fishing for all skill levels from beginner to advanced and a fishing rod

County Department of Water Resources offering adopt a Caddisfly Larvae craft, Gyotaku fish painting and Tiny Tots fishing

by GCPR staff. The event is in partnership with Kiwanis of AlpharettaJohns Creek, Duluth, Johnsonville, Bass Pro Shops, Trout Unlimited and Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

Children ages 16 and under are invited to fish and must be accompanied by an adult. Life jackets are recommended for safety reasons. All ages are welcome to participate.

For more information, call 678-277-0906 or visit www.gwinnettparks.com.

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Pros and cons of physician concierge Dear Dr. roaCH: The physician group I go to recently sent out letters to their patients that they are going to a partial concierge format. Each doctor will accept 150 patients, in addition to his or her regular patient base, for $2,500 each. They sent a list as to why one should consider this, including an annual “in-depth” lengthy exam, a special office hotline to get same-day or next-day appointments, and the cellphone of your doctor, should you need him ASAP. There is no way I could afford to join the selected group of elite patients.

I would like your opinion.

— S.F. aNsWer: Concierge practices have the potential for both good and bad, and there are clear ethical issues with the practice. In this case, the important point seems to me to be what happens to the patients who choose not to pay the concierge fee. If they continue to get the same care, which it sounds like you are not complaining about, then this may be an ethical way for the doctors in the practice to allow greater access for a limited number of patients.

However, my experience is that physician time is highly limited, and I worry that increased access for some may lead to decreased access for the rest, making them feel (and be) secondclass.

The American College of Physicians has written a position paper noting that: “Physicians in all types of practices must honor their professional obligation to provide nondiscriminatory care, serve all classes of patients who are in need of medical care, and seek specific opportunities to observe their professional obligation to care for the poor.

“Physicians who are in or are considering a practice that charges a retainer fee should consider the effect that such a fee would have on their patients and local community, particularly on lower-income and other vulnerable patients, and ways to reduce barriers to care for lower-income patients that may result from the retainer fee.”

I agree with the college, and feel that these are important ethical principles that should guide physicians.

I think you need to watch carefully what happens to your care and your relationship with your doctor.

Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@ med.cornell.edu or request an order form of available health newsletters at 628 Virginia Dr., Orlando, FL 32803. Health newsletters may be ordered from www. rbmamall.com.

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Nottely

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Oconee

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Burton

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Seminole

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Sinclair

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Chatuge

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Thurmond

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Harding

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Tugalo

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Hartwell

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Walter F. George(188.0) ... 187.85

Jackson

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West Point (635.0) ........ 631.18

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1886, President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom, becoming the only president to marry in a White House ceremony.

In 1924, an act of Congress granted American Indians U.S. citizenship.

In 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

In 2012, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the deaths of hundreds of protestors during a 2011 uprising.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), author/politician; Pope Pius X (1835-1914); Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), poet/novelist; Edward Elgar (1857-1934), composer;

Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984), swimmer/actor; Charlie Watts (1941- ), drummer; Marvin Hamlisch (19442012), composer; Dennis Haysbert (1954- ), actor; Wayne Brady (1972), actor/comedian; Zachary Quinto (1977- ), actor; Dominic Cooper (1978), actor; Justin Long (1978- ), actor; Morena Baccarin (1979- ), actress; Fabrizio Moretti (1980- ), musician.

TODAY’S FACT: The White House has hosted 21 weddings, nine of which were for children of sitting presidents.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1935, baseball legend Babe Ruth retired after 22 seasons, finishing his career with seven World Series titles and 714 home runs.

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Child of mentally ill mom feels effect Dear amy: How do you tell someone you love that they are ruining your life?

My mother has dealt with mental illness, addiction and depression for most of her life. This came to a climax when I was in high school, resulting in legal trouble, divorce, rehab and losing the people closest to her.

I was very angry at her but have now grown to realize that she is a victim of an illness and I need to support her.

With that being said, it has gotten to the point (10 years later) where I am basically her parent, therapist, bank, chauffeur, etc.

She tells me about how she wants to die, how unhappy she is and how everything is everyone else’s fault while she sits around with no job (and no intention to get one) and does nothing to improve her lifestyle.

She makes no effort to make herself happy while complaining to me every day how miserable she is.

Everyone else in the family has shut her out but I feel too guilty to do something like that, and because I am worried she may actually take her own life.

I suffer from bad bouts of anxiety and panic attacks and honestly struggle to keep myself in a positive frame of mind day-to-day.

I don’t know how to tell my mom that all of her

services for yourself. You have a duty to try your very hardest to be healthy, in order to create boundaries with your mother. Taking good care of yourself may necessitate that you keep some distance from her. You should take these important steps guided by a counselor, and also Amy Dickinson attend Al-Anon (or another support group) meetings, constant negativity is rewhere you can learn about ally bringing me down and creating and maintaining piling on my own mental healthy boundaries. illnesses. I have tried to Dear amy: A few express this to her but it years ago I was boarding a does not seem to work. I full airport shuttle bus with understand she is dealing my mom, when three men with serious issues, but she immediately stood up and is taking a toll on my own offered their seat to her. I happiness. took note of their courteous — DAC behavior and hoped to be Dear DaC: Talking like them someday. to your mother about her Fast-forward a few years behavior’s impact on you and I am a college student would have a limited imat a large university. I often pact in terms of getting her utilize the free buses to get to change. around campus. The bus is If she is depressed and often full. suffering from other mental Being a male collegeand emotional challenges, aged student, am I expected she may not be willing or to give up my seat to a feable to make big changes male peer? If not, what age for your sake. (or for what situation) do I I hope you will instead give up my seat? I have yet concentrate on yourself. to see any other man give You have been a very good up his seat on a campus bus and loyal child, but at this and am afraid the woman point you have become part would be weirded out (or of your mother’s illness. just say no) if I tried. Your Because you are functionopinion? ing for her, she has no — Curious incentive to even try to Dear Curious: You function for herself. are not expected to give up You must seek proyour seat to a female peer. fessional mental health What you should do is give

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up your seat to any person (regardless of gender) who is carrying a child, pregnant, who has heavy packages, who struggles with the bus steps or with their balance, or who seems particularly road weary on that day.

You should rise and offer your seat, and the person you are offering it to may thank you and demur. This offer should be received graciously, regardless of the circumstance.

Dear amy: “Furious Mom” was upset that her son was a lazy slob. It is wrong to blame the parents.

The kid has a serious problem — basically he is a slob. This is not the parents’ fault. Stop blaming parents for everything! Kids need to take responsibility.

— Roz Dear roz: In this letter, the parents laid out a very neat path, leading from their parenting style directly to their son’s horrible habits. Their refusal to do anything other than complain about their son is lazy parenting.

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.

Don’t let yourself be influenced by the actions of others. You should base decisions on facts and your specific needs.

Change is heading your way, but to ensure that it is in your favor, you need to play it safe and make sure your information is reliable.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Don’t let other people limit you. If you do your own thing, you’ll bring about the changes that are in your best interest. Don’t follow the crowd or give in to peer pressure.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Be brave and show off your unique nature. Do what works best for you.

Move things around until your living space accommodates your lifestyle. An emotional request will be fulfilled.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Don’t let anyone play mind games with you.

Stick to the truth in order to deter anyone trying to guilt you into doing something you don’t want to do.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Knowledge and experience will work in your favor. Set up a meeting, interview or an important talk with someone you need on your team. Don’t give in to selfish demands.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Plan to have some fun. A brief trip or a change to your surroundings will give you a new lease on life. Don’t let anyone pressure you into doing something unsafe.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Your kindness, generosity and unusual insight will pay off. If you volunteer to help, it will lead to a better position. Apply for a job that intrigues you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Keep your life simple and avoid getting into a dispute with someone looking for a fight or trying to make you look bad. Focus on self-awareness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Don’t feel pressured to make an impulsive move. Use your intelligence, integrity and experience, and follow through with your plans at your own speed.

Home improvements are favored.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Pay attention to matters concerning your home, family and personal life. Make physical changes that will add to your confidence and make your domestic situation more convenient and comfortable.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — If you share your ideas with a former colleague, you will get the necessary help to turn your dream into a reality. A romantic situation will disappoint you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Take on a challenge that will motivate you to get in shape and aim for a healthy lifestyle. A commitment to making personal improvements will lead to happiness and reduced stress.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Get involved in talks that will bring about change at work or in your community. Being a participant will put you in a good position both socially and professionally.

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world Besieged town in Syria gets first aid since 2012

world&nation NYC, Trump at odds over atrium

By Jonathan aLLen

Reuters

NEW YORK — A showdown between New York City and Donald Trump over one of the most potent symbols of Trump’s candidacy, the glitzy atrium of Trump Tower, intensified Wednesday as the mayor’s office criticized his closing of the tower’s public space for campaign events.

Lined with pink marble and indoor waterfalls and a popular tourist attraction, the atrium has become a favorite event backdrop for Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for the U.S. presidency, who frequently boasts to voters of his wealthy lifestyle and his success as a building developer.

City officials are now investigating whether Trump’s using the atrium for private campaign events without permission is in breach of a long-standing agreement between Trump and the city’s planners.

Trump had agreed to maintain it as a public space as a zoning concession when the tower was built.

A spokesman for Mayor Rail worker strike Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, weighed in on Wedneshalts about half day to register City Hall’s of France’s trains displeasure, which may yet force Trump to find BRUSSELS — Striking an alternative setting for rail workers halted about half his events for the five of French train services on Wednesday in a dispute over working time as a standoff between the militant CGT union and the Socialist government over a proposed Murder-suicide labor law reform escalated. kills 2, closes CGT members voted to UCLA campus start rolling strikes at the LOS ANGELES — A country’s 19 nuclear power plants Wednesday evening to murder-suicide killed two people at the University of press demands to scrap the California, Los Angeles on labor bill, and airline pilots announced a work stoppage Wednesday, shutting down the campus for two hours as late next week in a separate officers in camouflage and dispute over pay curbs.

That would coincide with tactical gear responded to reports of a shooting. the first days of the Euro “A homicide and a suicide 2016 soccer championship in occurred,” Los Angeles France.

Tension mounted between Police Chief Charlie Beck the CGT and the Medef em- told reporters near the scene, ployers’ federation, with the saying a gun was recovered union urging energy workers at the scene.

“It appears to be entirely to cut power supplies to the contained,” he said. “There bosses’ Paris headquarters. are no suspects outstanding and no continuing threat to Government UCLA’s campus.” in Kenya urges Both victims were men, officials said, without offerend to protests ing further details.

NAIROBI — Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta Court revives Pa. and his deputy urged the opposition on Wednesday to abortion buffer end unrest over alleged bias zone challenge in the electoral commission, A federal appeals court but opposition leaders said on Wednesday revived a protests would continue if challenge to a Pittsburgh their demands for dialog ordinance that established a were not met.

15-foot buffer zone around To help defuse tensions, abortion clinics in that city, to Kenyatta on Tuesday had make it easier for patients to talks with his political rival, avoid protesters. the leader of the Coalition By a 3-0 vote, the 3rd U.S. for Reforms and Democracy Circuit Court of Appeals said Raila Odinga, but the rare meeting between the two ap- anti-abortion campaigners seeking to provide “sidewalk peared to have little impact. counseling” to women enterPolice in Nairobi fired ing a Planned Parenthood fatear gas at people leaving cility in downtown Pittsburgh a rally of the Coalition that was fully authorized and had could pursue claims that the 2005 ordinance violates their passed without incident. free speech rights under the The next presidential and parliamentary polls in Kenya U.S. Constitution.

The Philadelphia-based are not due until August 2017 appeals court had rejected a but politicians are already trying to galvanize supporters similar challenge in 2009, but in a country prone to political said a different conclusion was now required after the strife.

— From wire reports U.S. Supreme Court in 2014 GENEVA — The besieged Syrian town of Daraya, a rebel-held suburb of Damascus where President Bashar al-Assad has refused to allow aid to starving Syrians, got its first U.N. aid convoy since 2012 on Wednesday.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said a temporary cease-fire had taken effect from June 1 for 48 hours in the Damascus suburb to allow for the distribution of humanitarian aid to civilians.

In a short statement, the ministry said it had coordinated the “regime of calm” with the Syrian authorities and with the United States “to secure delivery of humanitarian aid to the population.” It took effect from midnight, the ministry said.

Syrian opposition negotiator Basma Kodmani said the aid to Daraya and nearby Mouadamiya was only a first step that had come about as a result of extreme international pressure on the Syrian government, and substantial change was still needed.

people Heard shows photos of bruises allegedly caused by husband Depp

LOS ANGELES — As Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s divorce and the actress’ domestic violence abuse allegations against the actor intensify, People magazine has released a cover story investigating the abuse claims.

This week’s issue features new photos of Heard with facial injuries, including a bruised eye and cut lip, allegedly caused by Depp in a December 2015 fight mentioned during her sworn declaration for A doorman stands as people walk past the Trump Tower in New York recently. (Reuters/ a restraining order in Los Angeles County Court on Carlo Allegri/File Photo) Friday.

“There was one severe months remaining before from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. all of the atrium. incident in December 2015 the November presidential every day.

City officials, whose when I truly feared for my election.

The atrium, opened in investigation was first life,” she wrote in the court “Despite what he may 1983, is one of scores of reported by Reuters on filing in which she also think, the rules and laws of “privately owned public Tuesday, say they have no this city apply to everyspaces” across the city, an evidence of Trump seeking said she “endured excessive emotional, verbal and body, including Mr. Trump. effort to balance the wishes or getting permission to Mr. Trump should honor of developers to build taller close the space for a private physical abuse” during the entirety of their relationhis agreement with the city while preserving pockets of event, which is allowed to ship. to keep the space open to space for New Yorkers in happen up to four times a The People article the public,” Austin Finan, crowded neighborhoods. year. the spokesman, said in a Since launching his Michael Cohen, an exec- doesn’t include additional statement. campaign by descending utive vice president for the details about the altercation, but cites a source close In order to build his an escalator into the atrium Trump Organization, said flagship Fifth Avenue skylast June, Trump has held at on Tuesday he could neither to Depp, who says their relationship was rocky from scraper taller than zoning least half a dozen campaign confirm nor deny if there rules would have otherwise events where Reuters rehad been a violation of the the get-go. allowed, including the pent- porters have seen his secu- agreement while his staff house where Trump lives, rity staff prevent anyone but tried to locate the paper‘Friends’ creator Trump agreed to keep the a few pre-approved journal- work. He did not respond to to be recognized atrium open to the public ists from entering parts or questions on Wednesday.

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LOS ANGELES — Marta Kauffman will receive the 2016 Outstanding Television Writer award at the Austin Film Festival and Writers Conference during the Awards Luncheon on Oct. 15, Variety has learned exclusively.

Kauffman, an Emmyand Golden Globe-winning television writer, producer, and showrunner, is responsible for co-creating series including “Friends,” “Dream State: Archived On,” “The Powers That Be” briefing video and “Veronica’s Closet” with writing partner David deliberately cut Crane.

WASHINGTON — A In 2015, Kauffman started her production and develportion of a U.S. State opment company, OKAY Department briefing video GOODNIGHT, with industhat was archived online try veteran Robbie Tollin was deliberately deleted at and Hannah KS. Their first the request of an unknown person, possibly the day the series, the Netflix dramedy video was made, spokesman “Grace & Frankie,” co-creJohn Kirby said Wednesday ated with Howard J. Morris, debuted its second season after an investigation.

May 6 and is currently in The deleted video segproduction on Season 3. ment dealt with whether a State Department spokeswoman had misled reporters Showtime orders at an earlier briefing about whether U.S. and Iranian of- comedy pilot ficials had directly discussed from Jamie Foxx the Iran nuclear deal.

LOS ANGELES — Kirby said the office of Showtime has ordered a the legal adviser “learned pilot for “White Famous,” that a specific request was a comedy from exec made to excise that portion producer Jamie Foxx and of the briefing. We do not know who made the request “Californication” creator Tom Kapinos, Variety has to edit the video or why it learned. was made.”

Aside from his behind“To my surprise the the-camera duties, Foxx Bureau of Public Affairs will also guest star in a did not have in place any rules governing this type of recurring role.

The half-hour comedy, action. Therefore, we are hailing from Lionsgate taking immediate steps to Television, will focus on craft appropriate protocols a talented, young Africanon this issue as we believe American comedian whose that deliberately removing star is rising, forcing him a portion of the video was to navigate the treacherous not and is not in keeping with the State Department’s waters of maintaining his commitment to transparency credibility as he begins to cross-over toward becomand public accountability,” ing “white famous.” he added.

— From wire reports — From wire reports Jones’ family said it was relieved to learn Raja would face charges for “his reckless act.”

“While we understand that nothing can bring back our son, brother and friend, this arrest sends a message that this conduct will not be tolerated from members of law enforcement,” Jones’ family said in a statement released by an attorney.

A Los Angeles Metro Police officer stands watch on the University of California, Los Angeles campus after it was placed on lockdown following reports of a shooter in L.A. on Wednesday. (Reuters/Patrick T. Fallon)

unanimously struck down a Massachusetts law setting a 35-foot buffer zone.

“The speech at issue is core political speech entitled to the maximum protection afforded by the First Amendment,” Circuit Judge Kent Jordan wrote. “The city cannot burden it without first trying, or at least demonstrating that it has seriously considered, substantially less restrictive alternatives that would achieve the city’s legitimate, substantial and content-neutral interests.”

keep his post as a professor in Baylor’s law school.

“With sorrow, earlier this morning, I announced my resignation effective immediately as chancellor of Baylor University as a matter of conscience,” he said in the interview on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines.”

“We need to put this horrible situation behind us,” he in the interview on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines.”

Ex-cop arrested in fatal shooting Starr steps down of black man as chancellor of TAMPA, Fla. — A Baylor University former Florida police officer AUSTIN, Texas — Former Baylor University President Kenneth Starr resigned as chancellor of the world’s largest Baptist university after being implicated in a report for not doing enough to probe sexual assaults by athletes, he told ESPN in an interview broadcast on Wednesday.

Starr, who rose to prominence for his exhaustive investigation of sex scandals surrounding thenPresident Bill Clinton, told the network in an exclusive interview that he stepped down as chancellor but will

was arrested after a grand jury found he had used unjustified force in the fatal shooting of a black musician waiting for help after his car broke down, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.

Prosecutors charged exofficer Nouman Raja with manslaughter by culpable negligence and attempted first-degree murder following the grand jury’s finding, Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg said at a news conference.

Raja was fired from the Palm Beach Gardens Police after the Oct. 18 shooting of 31-year-old Corey Jones.

Dishes at fast casual eateries have more calories than fast food

By Shereen Lehman

“When we encourage participants in our research studies to reduce their fast food intake, they Main courses served at fast dishes were at the high end of the often ask if these fast casual restaucasual restaurants tend to be higher- calorie range as well. Fast casual rants also count,” said Schoffman, a calorie than traditional fast food restaurants include such chains as researcher with the Arnold School entrees, despite public perception Panera Bread and Chipotle. of Public Health at the University that the offerings at these outlets are “In recent years, there has been of South Carolina in Columbia. healthier, U.S. researchers said. large growth in the fast casual res“We were interested in looking at Comparing more than 3,000 taurant sector, and there is a general the calorie data for entrees at both entrees, they found the average fast perception among consumers that restaurant types to see if they lined casual meal had 200 more calories these restaurants are a healthier and up with these assumptions.” than the average fast food meal. fresher alternative to fast food,” The researchers examined the Overall, more of the fast casual author Danielle Schoffman said. calorie counts of 3,193 entrees

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sold at restaurants representing 24 different fast food chains and 28 fast casual chains, according to the report in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

They found the average fast casual entree had about 760 calories compared to the typical fast food entree with about 560 calories.

Schoffman said the study team was surprised by the overall results and by finding a greater proportion of fast casual restaurant entrees exceeded the median of 640 calories.

“This means that if a customer walks into a fast causal restaurant, there are more entree choices that are above this median of 640 calories than there would be at a fast food restaurant,” she said.

It’s important to note there were many high-calorie options at both types of restaurant, Shoffman said.

The study looked only at calorie counts and didn’t compare nutritional value of the meals, something that Schoffman said she hopes to do in the future.

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Socialism for the uninformed Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric and start looking at hard facts that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster.

While throngs of young people are cheering loudly for avowed socialist Bernie Sanders, socialism has turned oil-rich Venezuela into a place where there are shortages of everything from toilet paper to beer, where electricity keeps shutting down, and where there are long lines of people hoping to get food, people Thomas complaining that Sowell they cannot feed their families.

With national income going down, and prices going up under triple-digit inflation in Venezuela, these complaints are by no means frivolous. But it is doubtful that the young people cheering for Bernie Sanders have even heard of such things, whether in Venezuela or in other countries around the world that have turned their economies over to politicians and bureaucrats to run.

The anti-capitalist policies in Venezuela have worked so well that the number of companies in Venezuela is now a fraction of what it once was. That should certainly reduce capitalist “exploitation,” shouldn’t it?

But people who attribute income inequality to capitalists exploiting workers, as Karl Marx claimed, never seem to get around to testing that belief against facts — such as the fact that none of the Marxist regimes around the world has ever had as high a standard of living for working people as there is in many capitalist countries.

Facts are seldom allowed to contaminate the beautiful vision of the left. What matters to the true believers are the ringing slogans, endlessly repeated.

When Sen. Sanders cries, “The system is rigged!” no one asks, “Just what specifically does that mean?” or “What facts do you have to back that up?”

In 2015, the 400 richest people in the world had net losses of $19 billion. If they had rigged the system, surely they could have rigged it better than that.

But the very idea of subjecting their pet notions to the test of hard facts will probably not even occur to those who are cheering for socialism and for other bright ideas of the political left.

How many of the people who are demanding an increase in the minimum wage have ever bothered to check what actually happens when higher minimum wages are imposed?

More often they just assume what is assumed by like-minded peers — sometimes known as “everybody,” with their assumptions being what “everybody knows.”

Back in 1948, when inflation had rendered meaningless the minimum wage established a decade earlier, the unemployment rate among 16-17-year-old black males was under 10 percent. But after the minimum wage was raised repeatedly to keep up with inflation, the unemployment rate for black males that age was never under 30 percent for more than 20 consecutive years, from 1971 through 1994.

In many of those years, the unemployment rate for black youngsters that age exceeded 40 percent and, for a couple of years, it exceeded 50 percent.

The damage is even greater than these statistics might suggest. Most low-wage jobs are entry-level jobs that young people move up out of, after acquiring work experience and a track record that makes them eligible for better jobs.

But you can’t move up the ladder if you don’t get on the ladder.

The great promise of socialism is something for nothing. It is one of the signs of today’s dumbed-down education that so many college students seem to think that the cost of their education should — and will — be paid by raising taxes on “the rich.”

Here again, just a little check of the facts would reveal that higher tax rates on upperincome earners do not automatically translate into more tax revenue coming in to the government. Often high tax rates have led to less revenue than lower tax rates.

In a globalized economy, high tax rates may just lead investors to invest in other countries with lower tax rates. That means that jobs created by those investments will be overseas.

None of this is rocket science. But you do have to stop and think — and that is what too many of our schools and colleges are failing to teach their students to do.

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

Policing takes more than an algorithm CHICAGO — It’s hot in my city, and expectations are that the rate of violent crimes, especially shootings and murders, will go up along with the mercury.

Following a parallel track are the rising concerns of residents alarmed not only by the danger of falling prey to criminals but at being targeted by the city’s new algorithm-based policing strategy.

Eddie Johnson, superintendent of the beleaguered Chicago Police Department, recently announced that the force will be leaning ever more heavily on a computer-generated hot list of people likely to be involved in shootings based on their arrests, prior involvement in gun violence, affiliations with gang members and other variables.

Chicagoans have reason to be wary about such a list. In April, a police-accountability task force determined that the department’s own data “gives validity to the widely held belief the police have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color.

Stopped without justification, verbally and physically abused, and in some instances arrested, and then detained without counsel — that is what we heard about over and over again.”

But before we decide the plan is a bust, we need some background on what a data-

program.

“The community should be informed about what’s in that data and in the algorithm that triggers an intervention,” said Serpas. “Sure, there are some small items of information that should be kept back for purposes of effective police work.

Esther But pretty much everything Cepeda should be open: the names of significant suspects, the names driven policing strategy could of victims, numbers of arrests, be, in a best-case scenario. For convictions and exclusions — that, I reached out to Ronal because if you’ve been arrested Serpas, current chairman of the and found innocent, obviously, advocacy group Law Enforce- that shouldn’t be held against ment Leaders to Reduce Crime you. And yes, if you want to and Incarceration, and a former know if you’re on the list, sure, police chief. you ought to be told, if you’re “When we started these asking.” programs in New Orleans and Unfortunately, some of Chiin Nashville in the mid-2000s, cago’s local activists say they we were successful in figurhaven’t seen anything like what ing out the people we needed Serpas describes. to spend attention on,” Serpas Writing on the blog of said. “Through the data analy- The Black Star Project — a sis, we were able to identify a Chicago-based nonprofit orgavery small number of people nization that strives to improve — through their behavior, the quality of life in black and observations, arrest records — Latino communities by closing and present the individuals with racial academic achievement opportunities to do the right gaps — founder and executive thing or let them know that if director Phillip Jackson railed: they were involved in crime, “Chicago police officials they would be very likely to be claim to have a list of docuconvicted.” mented gang members. I want However, Serpas said, the to see that list. How many key was the community educa- young black men who have tion, buy-in and cooperation changed their lives for the that preceded implementabetter remain on that list? How tion — and the transparency long does a young black man’s that was an integral part of the name stay on this list and what,

besides death, are the criteria for getting off the gang-member list? Am I on that list?”

Jackson hasn’t gotten any answers. He told me, “We consider ourselves to be an important community organization, one that is connected with the community and wants to connect with the police. But we’ve extended many invitations to the police department and it doesn’t happen. I don’t know of any African-American-led organization that has been able to connect with the police on this issue.”

“You’re talking to a man who understands the need and wants good policing,” Jackson continued. “But what the police superintendent and what people don’t understand is that in the communities where the violence is the worst, people don’t join gangs, the gangs claim people based on where they happen to live. To say the police are targeting people who have had contact with gang-members is to say they are targeting all our children and all of us.”

The moral of this story: Maybe algorithms can make policing more effective. But if such programs are to work for the people they’re supposed to protect, meaningful community outreach must be prioritized over computing power.

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

United states were once a great notion OXFORD, Md. — It was such a marvelous idea: The United States of America.

Obviously, we’ve never really pulled it all together under one hat, but it has always seemed that at least we were striving for a more perfect union.

No more. Something changed — and quickly, as history goes. Actually, everything did.

Massive immigration has changed the face of the nation in more than metaphorical ways. Globalization has made us seem or at least feel less unique among nations. Our hyperpartisanship augmented by incessant media coverage tied to ratings and greed has reduced politics to a parking lot brawl.

Demographic slicing and dicing is essential to elections, of course. Analysts and operatives are especially attached to the segmented sets of individuals, the better to objectify them into manageable parts and, thus, to predict or win elections.

This much is understood and has been so much discussed and written about that we’re nearly out of oxygen and ink.

Less well-understood is how these ceaseless reductions affect the whole. How do we sustain our unity when our division is relentlessly articulated and shrewdly used

Kathleen Parker to turn one against the other?

Uniting 50 states is hard enough without the many variables that combine to make up an individual, group, class, community and, ultimately, a voting bloc.

One nation, indivisible, my eye.

Every now and then, the Ad Council, Benetton or some other group will remind us that we’re all one people. “I am an American,” says a gentleman sporting a sombrero. “I am an American,” says a woman wearing a nun’s habit. Or a rainbow row of children wearing adorable togs will make us want to adopt the world.

They make us smile. We feel good. America rolls along.

Or do we? Such ads are propaganda by any other name, idealized versions of what we’re supposed to be. But there’s nothing multicultural about what Donald Trump is selling.

And though he may have pots of gold, rainbows run away when The Donald’s dark scowl

appears.

In fact, Trump and his minions don’t want a united nation. What they want is their country back, or, in the slicker slogan, to “make America great again.” Translation: They want their majority-white, Anglo-Saxon, Judeo-Christian country back.

This is never going to happen, and yet Trump never admits it. He isn’t going to round up 11 million people and send them back whence they came. He isn’t going to block Muslims from entering the United States. But it seems to please his base for him to say so, and it doesn’t seem to bother Trump that he’s fibbing.

What anyone seeking to become president at these dicey times must answer is how do we adapt to our changed world to become a united nation once again? With so much stridency and drama, it’s hard sometimes to remember what this election is about. Exhausted by the car alarm of politics, one wishes only for peace and quiet.

Then along comes a moment that feels real and good and true — Memorial Day in Oxford, a tiny town at the end of the road on the Eastern shore of Maryland, where about 125 friends, neighbors and strangers gathered in a tight circle around a small stone monument in the town park. Umbrellas aloft, all listened intently as a retired Navy

captain, an Episcopal priest, and the town’s police chief took turns reading the names of those who have fallen since last Memorial Day. As the bugler played taps, veterans in our small group saluted while others covered their hearts. It was a tender moment of reverence — all too rare and nothing like the cacophony of the public square.

As the priest said a final prayer and the color guard passed, I felt profoundly sad, not just for those who had died and their families but for the nation known as the United States of America. I’m not alone. People write. Friends call to talk about what’s to come. Sitting on my stoop in Washington, a neighborhood gathering spot on any given afternoon, my fellow “stoopers” speak more seriously than they used to. Life is less fun as the future seems more ominous.

Democracy, freedom, civilization — it all hangs by a thread. America was always just an idea, a dream founded in the faith that men were capable of great good. It was a belief made real by an implausible convention of brilliant minds and the enduring courage of generations who fought and died. For what?

Surely, not this.

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

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will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.”

News that Kim had woken up, even if there is still work to do, was welcomed by many.

“Never met Agnes Kim ever but that’s the best news I’ve heard all day long,” Twitter user Rev. Berry Black XVI wrote.

Kim, who was given her diploma from UGA while in a coma last month, has been described by friends as a faithful young woman dedicated to helping others. She worked with a ministry in Athens to help teenagers transition to adulthood. She promoted charity events.

“Everybody likes her,” former Brookwood High State and local officials toss the ceremonial first patches of dirt at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Georgia Department of Human Services’ classmate Cameron Grassnew Gwinnett County Human Services facility in Lawrenceville on Wednesday. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans) myer said last month.

Information on the wreck remains limited.

The Georgia State Patrol •From Page 1A construction officials who the staffs together will allow 100,000 county residents hasn’t released further years, our staff has doubled participated in the ceremony. there to be more effective details since early last who rely on the state agency and the work we do has Justice and Administration “It’s a new facility, a betuse of resources and it will month, when troopers said for child welfare programs, doubled, and this facility Center. ter facility for us to provide also give us one place for economic assistance and will be the first that we have they didn’t suspect speed Cagle and Georgia Deservices here in Gwinnett, people to come and receive help with child support had in many years that is ad- or alcohol were factors. partment of Human Serboth for the residents of services.” orders. equate in size, but also more More information won’t be released until the invesvices Commissioner Robyn Gwinnett and for our staff,” By bringing those of“As the population of importantly is user friendly Crittenden led a slew of Crittenden said. fices together, the center is Gwinnett County has for both our staff and for the tigation is finished, GSP said. state officials, architects and She later added: “Bringing expected to serve more than doubled over the last 20 public,” Cagle said.

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is doing of this size in the county.” interactions, avoiding Prizes and giveaways will deadly side effects and be offered throughout the how to be healthier with day with entertainment from fewer drugs. the Atlanta Korean Cultural A new speaker will take Center’s drum team. the stage every 30 minutes General admission is $3 and seminars will offer per person at the door and information on topics inonline. To save $1, use the cluding retirement planning, online code GENEXPO1. health care and staying VIP tickets are $20 each active. with a $5 discount with onAnother addition to the line code GENEXPOVIP. expo will be Community A limited amount of VIP Club Zones for visitors tickets are available. The to explore local clubs and package includes a gift card volunteer groups. and other items from VIP “This is not just about package sponsors. senior life; it’s so much For information, visit more,” Brantner said. “It’s www.GenerationsExpo. not something anyone else com.

Attendees meander through vendors during an earlier Generations Expo at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth.

This year’s event is Saturday at Infinite Energy Forum. (Staff Photo: David Welker)

obituaries LOGANVILLE

Rachel Brinkley Rachel Waldrip Brinkley, age 81 of Loganville passed away on Tuesday, May 31, 2016. Funeral services will be held at 2 PM on Friday, June 3, 2016 in the Lawrenceville Chapel of Tim Stewart Funeral Home. Dr. David Poe, Pastor Rodney Massey, & Pastor Pat Kilby will officiate.

Interment will follow at Gwinnett Memorial Park. Mrs. Brinkley was a member of Sunrise Baptist Church, Lawrenceville.

She is preceded in death by her loving husband: Paul Vernon Brinkley, Sr. Mrs. Brinkley is survived by her sons & daughtersin-law: Paul Brinkley, Jr., Loganville; John & Debbie Brinkley, Winder; daughters & sons-in-law: Sandra & Tony Born, Dacula; Teresa & Bubba Haney, Lawrenceville; brothers: Don Waldrip, Lawrenceville; Luther Waldrip, Lawrenceville; sister & brother-in-law: Louise & R. L. Porter, Loganville; 6 grandchildren; 4 step-grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; 2 step-great grandchildren; several nieces &

nephews. The family will receive friends from 2-4 PM & 6-8 PM on Thursday June 2, 2016 at Tim Stewart Funeral Home: 300 Simonton Rd SW Lawrenceville GA 30046.

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Don Brock Mr. Don Edward Brock, age 77, of Nicholson, Georgia, who passed away on Sunday, May 29, 2016.

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Griffin Brooks Griffin Brooks, age 84, of Lawrenceville passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family after a courageous 3 1/2 year battle with cancer on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 PM on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 in the Lawrenceville Chapel of Tim Stewart Funeral

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Mr. Brooks received a BA in Sociology from Mercer University, a Masters in Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and a Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling from UGA. He taught Old Testament Theology at Mercer University and pastored 4 churches in Mississippi and Georgia. He was preceded in death by; Parents: Emmett Hillard & Mary Ellen Brooks; Brother: Charles Brooks. He is survived by; Wife: Kathy Brooks of Lawrenceville; Daughters & Sons-in-law: Sandra & Greg McCravy of Lawrenceville, Michelle “Missy” & Jeff Russell of McDonough; Son & Daughter-in-law: Mike & Molly Brooks of Lawrenceville; Sister: Geneva Garmon of Bold Springs; Sister-in-law: Harriette Brooks of Bold Springs; Grandchildren: Derek & Johnathan McCravy, Morgan & Zach Lee, Sarah-Kate Brooks, Justin, Michael & Ashley Russell; Special Nieces & Husbands: Charlotte & Sam Wheeler, Mary & Chuck Keen; Host of Family & Friends. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: UGA Fastbreak Club: P.O. Box 1472 Athens, GA 30603, www. georgiafastbreakclub. c

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Marvel Kent Marvel Kent, 90, of Lawrenceville, GA passed away on May 16, 2016 after a brief illness. She is survived by daughter Mary Kay Anderson and husband Joe, son Elgin Aeschliman and wife Fran, and her sister Faye Johnson - along with grandchildren Christine Forrester and husband Mike, Jared Anderson, Jenny Anderson, and greatgrandson Will Forrester.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 11:00am at C

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John Rogers John Rogers, age 74, of Winder passed away on Monday, May 30, 2016.

Funeral Services will be held at 12:00PM on Thursday, June 2, 2016 in the Stateroom of Tim Stewart Funeral Home.

Pastor Kenneth Kuykendall will officiate. Mr. Rogers was preceded in death by; Wife: Donna Rogers; Mother: Margarie Rogers. She is survived by; Daughter: Tracy Blake of FL; Daughter & Son-in-law: Tammy & Nathan Still of Bethlehem; Brother: Timothy Sewell of Bethlehem; Granddaughter: Ashley Terrell of Lawrenceville; Step Son & Daughter-in-law: Jerry & Brittanie Sewell; Mother-in-law: Shirley Janette Sorrells; Several: Grandchildren & GreatGrandchildren. The family will receive friends from 11:00AM- 12:00PM on Thursday, June 2, 2016 at Tim Stewart Funeral Home 300 Simonton Road S.W. Lawrenceville, GA 30046. 770-962-3100.

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Bradley Price Bradley Wayne Price, age 41, of Sugar Hill, GA passed away on June 1, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Regina Weeks Regina Ann Webb Weeks, age 58, of Loganville, GA passed away on May 30, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Another tough break for Duluth’s Victoria Oglesby In almost 20 years with the Daily Post, I’ve witnessed, written about or heard about more bad knee injuries than I can count, particularly in girls sports.

Some are more heartbreaking than others, like a senior who misses her final high school season. Or someone who tears the ACL again shortly after recovering. Or what recently happened to Victoria Oglesby.

After working the long hours of heavy rehab on a torn ACL in her left knee last year, she tore the ACL in her right knee last week.

surgery.

Now she doesn’t get a trip to the national camp.

She also will be in rehab for her junior season of high school basketball at Duluth after already sitting out her sophomore year. As of now, she has played just one high Will school season, as a freshHammock man at Collins Hill.

The good news is that It was a devastating blow Dayton, where the sharpthat kept her from this sum- shooting guard has commer’s USA Basketball U-17 mitted, is sticking with her, National Team Trials, an the family said. And she event she looked forward to also knows exactly what as a milestone after recovthe next year or so will look ering from her first knee like since she’s just been

through it once.

“Her spirit is high and she knows what the journey ahead looks like,” said her father, Perry Oglesby.

Surgery is planned for June 10. Let’s all hope for the best for her, and that this is the last time she has to deal with an ACL tear.

Busy summers It seems these days that young football players, particularly at the high school level, could go to a camp every day of the summer.

The Atlanta area, and Gwinnett in particular, is loaded with options. In

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addition to the usual local camps, prominent camps like Football University (at Peachtree Ridge), Sound Body Sound Mind (at Greater Atlanta Christian) and Georgia Select (also at GAC) pass through the county this month.

That’s in addition to insanely popular college football satellite camps, first banned and then recently approved by the NCAA. They allow college coaches and in many cases entire college staffs, to work camps around the country.

Many colleges have a

jam-packed calendar of events, and Gwinnett high schools Buford, Central Gwinnett and Collins Hill will host satellite camps with well-known college coaches. Alabama, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Tennessee and others are scheduled to be at Buford, Penn State and Mississippi State are planned for Collins Hill and Ohio State is headed to Central.

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

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Rain cut short Wednesday’s Cobb-Gwinnett Underclassmen All-Star Game at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville. Below, players pull the tarp on the field as the rain rolls in. (Photos: Kyle Hess)

Weather cuts short Cobb-Gwinnett All-Stars; seniors to reschedule

By David Friedlander david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com

LAWRENCEVILLE — Thunderstorms put a premature end to one of the high school All-Star baseball games scheduled for Wednesday at Georgia Gwinnett College — and washed out the other before it even got started.

There was little figurative lightning or thunder in the Cobb-Gwinnett Underclassmen All-Star Game, as pitching dominated the first 3 1/2 innings before the literal elements brought play to a halt with two outs and a runner on as Team Gwinnett batted in the bottom of the fourth with a 1-0 lead.

And after lightning had kept the players off the field for nearly an hour, the heavy rain prompted organizers to simply end the game where it was, while the Gwinnett Senior All-Star Game that was scheduled to follow was postponed altogether.

“We got a few innings in, and that was really fun,” said Providence Christian’s Adam Cantrell, who shared the co-head coaching duties for Team Gwinnett with Mountain View’s Jason Johnson. “Gwinnett was able to scratch one run across, though Cobb had more hits than we did.

So, it was probably going to be a nail-biter down to the end if we’d been able to get it all in.”

True, Team Cobb did have four hits through its first four at bats, compared to just three for Team Gwinnett.

However, Team Gwinnett pitchers Davis Sharpe of Mill Creek, Michael Cherwenka of Dacula, Jake Brace of North Gwinnett and Caleb Mitchell of Parkview were able to pitch around those hit, as well as a pair of errors, to keep Team Cobb off the scoreboard in an inning of work each.

The quartet also combined to strike out five through four innings, with Sharpe fanning two in his inning.

“Yes, the fact that they only had to pitch one inning, they’re going to have a little bit of an advantage,” Cantrell said of the pitchers. “But at the same time, most of them are working with a catcher they’ve never thrown to before. There’s a little bit of a disadvantage there, too.”

Meanwhile, Team Cobb pitchers Tristan Dobbs of North Cobb, Larry Meisner and Sidney

Ross of McEachern and Zach Williams of Sprayberry also did a solid job against Team Gwinnett hitters.

But in the second, Team Gwinnett broke through after Sharpe blooped a one-out single to left-center before Archer’s Donald Perteet took his place at first base after Allatoona’s Skyler McPhee made a diving stop on a grounder in the hole and turned it into a force out at second.

Lanier’s Nick Tanner then lofted a liner to left that eluded the dive of Kennesaw Mountain’s Will Corey and rolled all the way to the fence.

Tanner was eventually thrown out at third trying to stretch the hit into a triple to end the inning, but his double brought Perteet home with what turned out to be the only run of the game.

Grayson’s Oscar Serratos led off the fourth for

team Gwinnett by legging out an infield single and was still there two outs later with Sharpe coming back up before play was halted when lightning was detected in the area.

And with the rain that followed, the decision was made to forgo the rest of the game, though Cantrell said an effort will be made to reschedule the second game that was to follow involving the Gwinnett Senior AllStars. The time and place of that make-up game should be determined sometime before the end of the week, perhaps as soon as today.

“Rain does happen,” Cantrell said. “It didn’t happen as much this spring as it normally does. We were fortunate then, and unfortunately it just hit us (Wednesday).

We’ll get (the Senior All-Star Game) in somewhere, sometime, somehow.”

things like that. Just the pre-snap things.”

TEMPE, Ariz. — Even Nkemdiche, who figures to see plenty of action his without pads, Arizona rookie season after being Cardinals rookie Robert taken with the 29th overall Nkemdiche is making a pick in draft, admits he’s mark during Organized still got a lot to learn.

Team Activities (OTAs).

“Honestly, it’s just The Grayson grad was learning the plays, really,” so active during the first he said. “There’s a lot of series of offseason workplays to learn and a lot outs, in fact, that coach of different terms for the Bruce Arians had to pull him off the field and scold same exact same deal, so you really just have to lock him for knocking down a in and figure out what you handful of offensive linedo every single play. You man. really just have to slow Arians playfully even things down and just get threatened the big defenused to it.” sive tackle with a fine.

It’s coming along fast “That got his attention enough thanks to his teamreal quick,” Arians said. mates on the defensive Since then, Nkemdiche front. Nkemdiche said he’s has buried his head in been seeking advice from the playbook, has been a all of them and filing all sponge around the esthe information away. tablished players on the “It’s amazing how Calais team’s defensive line and has participated in on-field (Campbell), Corey (Pedrills with as much energy ters), X (Xavier Williams), and jump as anyone on the Ed (Stinson), Josh (Mauro), everybody — they’re roster. all great people — they all “It’s going great,” he said Tuesday. “I’m just tak- want to see me succeed. ing it day by day, trying to They help me daily and do get better and getting used everything possible to help to the plays. But it’s good.” me be the greatest player I can be.”

Even without pads and Make no mistake: Being the allowance to hit somethe best is what motivates body?

“You can still get the job Nkemdiche, who knows he could have been a potential done,” Nkemdiche said.

Top 5 pick in the draft had “You can’t get physical, it not been for some offbut you can still make it the-field issues. work. You can on tech“It’s my goal to be the nique, hand placement, most physical person on work on your moves. the field, the most aggres“I want to improve on sive and bring the most the technical things like energy,” he said. hand placement, hip flex,

Arizona Cardinals defensive tackle Robert Nkemdiche (90) hits a tackling dummy during rookie minicamp at the Cardinals Training Facility. (Photo: Mark J. Rebilas-USA Today Sports)

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GAC’s Lawrence leads title-hungry Wolverines to softball World Series

By Will Hammock will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Michigan’s softball team nearly won the NCAA title last year, falling in the decisive third game of a best-of-three championship series to Florida.

Going one spot up from national runner-up is the Wolverines’ goal this week in the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City, and they can draw on last season’s successes with a number of the same players returning.

That group includes senior Sierra Lawrence, a Greater Atlanta Christian grad and one of Michigan’s top players.

“It’s great to have experience,” said Lawrence, in her third WCWS in four college seasons. “It’s great that a lot of us have been here before and we know what it takes. It also helps with nerves. People know what to expect and I think that’s a great advantage.”

Lawrence has done her part to get Michigan back in the WCWS, hitting a career-high .440 with 11 home runs, 45 RBIs, 36 walks, 20 stolen bases and a .553 on-base percentage.

Those stats are comparable to the first three seasons of

Former Greater Atlanta Christian standout Sierra Lawrence, a senior at Michigan, swings against Indiana in 2015. (Photo: University of Michigan)

her college career, except for batting average.

The outfielder hit .314 as a freshman, then .351 and .346 the next two seasons.

But this year has seen her average soar nearly 90 points better than her previous season best.

“It’s been a good year,” Lawrence said. “I’ve been really confident. I’m just kind of staying relaxed.

I think being relaxed has really helped me the most.

I’m not stressing too much about whether I’m doing well or not at the plate.

Just knowing I know how to hit the ball and going back to basics. … My goal every time at bat is hit the ball hard. If something good comes out of it, then great.”

Michigan, which opens the WCWS today at 9:30 p.m. against LSU on ESPN2, has relied heavily on Lawrence the past four seasons, and she has delivered throughout her career.

She has started every game the past three seasons, as well as most of her freshman year, with 243 starts in her 246 career games.

She has 41 home runs, 201 RBIs, 43 doubles, 72 stolen bases and 132 walks as a Wolverine.

The production has given her some interest in a softball career beyond college, but she isn’t sure if she will pursue a career extension.

“I was going to be done with it when this season’s over,” Lawrence said.

“Here in a couple of weeks

I have some options I’ll check out and make a decision then.”

Regardless of what happens in softball, Lawrence plans to finish up the final few electives she needs for her general studies degree this fall, then take the LSAT and apply to law schools.

“Originally, that’s want I wanted to do, go to law school,” Lawrence said. “I switched to a million different things and now I’m back at law school again.”

That future won’t be in her mind for the next week or so while the Wolverines pursue the title that narrowly eluded them last season. Win or lose, Lawrence is thrilled to play her final college softball games in the sport’s top showcase.

“It’s a really special season, especially to be able to end my career in Oklahoma City,” Lawrence said. “Every year it’s our goal to go back there, so I’m excited to go back there again. …

It’s a great atmosphere.

There are a ton of fans there. It’s a great feeling to step on the field with your teammates and play in front of all those people.

Michigan has a great fan base so it’s fun to look up in the stands and see who traveled there.”

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PARIS — Novak Djokovic had 100 million reasons to celebrate reaching the French Open quarterfinals on Wednesday — albeit two days later than expected — as players finally cleared the fourth-round backlog created by the fickle Parisian weather.

After relentless rain washed out all but two hours of play over the previous two days, under-fire Roland Garros organizers said such conditions had not been seen since 1873 as they frantically tried to play catchup by staging 12 singles matches — instead of just four quarterfinals as is the norm — on day 11 of the sodden championships.

That allowed world No. 1 Djokovic to become the first tennis player to bank $100 million in prize money after his 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 7-5 win over Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut tipped him over the magic number.

Having won a match that was originally scheduled for Monday, begun on Tuesday and completed on Wednesday, the 29-year-old Serb will have to play four days in succession if he is to reach Sunday’s title showdown.

June 6-10: The Wesleyan Girls Basketball Camp with head coach Jan Azar will be held at the Peachtree Corners private school from 9 a.m. to noon. For more information, go to www.wesleyanschool.org or email to jazar@wesleyanschool. org.

June 6-9: The Buford Lady Wolves Basketball Camp will be held at the high school from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Girls in grades 1 to 8 may attend.

Cost is $70. Campers can register online at www. ladywolvesbasketball. teamsitesnow.com or by emailing to gene.durden@ bufordcityschools.org.

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IN BRIEF GGC men’s soccer names Magennis an assistant coach LAWRENCEVILLE — Georgia Gwinnett College announced on Wednesday that Stephen Magennis has been named an assistant coach for the men’s soccer team.

Magennis joins the Grizzlies after serving as the assistant coach for the Lander University (S.C.) men’s soccer program for three seasons. During his coaching tenure with the NCAA Division II Bearcats, Magennis helped guide Lander to the regular season Peach Belt Conference Championship in 2012. Prior to coaching at Lander, Magennis was a member of the Bearcats’ soccer team, where he was an integral part of Lander’s 2009 Peach Belt Tournament Championship squad.

“I’m honored to be part of such a fantastic program,” Magennis said. “Coach (Steve) DeCou is not only a great coach, but a great person. I look forward to supporting our Grizzlies in their successes both on and off the field.”

Norcross’ Blagmon commits to South Florida women’s basketball Vanessa Blagmon, a rising senior at Norcross, made a commitment to the South Florida women’s basketball program Tuesday night.

The 5-foot-8 guard helped the Blue Devils to a 25-5 record as a junior, earning second-team All-Region 7-AAAAAA honors. She averaged 8.1 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.9 assists, which tied for fourth-best in Gwinnett County.

MaxPreps ranks Grayson No. 2 in the nation in preseason poll MaxPreps.com released its high school football top 50 preseason rankings on Tuesday. Grayson rankes No. 2 in the nation on the inital list, with St. Thomas Aquinas (Fla.) sitting at No. 1.

Mill Creek is the only other Gwinnett team on the list at No. 43. Colquitt County is the the third Peach State team to be ranked at No. 38.

— From staff reports

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Novak Djokovic of Serbia slides to hit a shot in French Open play against Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain. (Photo: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters)

“I have the feeling I played three matches against him,” a grinning Djokovic told the crowd after donning a yellow rain hat during his victory speech.

“Yesterday the match was interrupted three times and it wasn’t easy coming here at 9 a.m. and leaving at 7:30 or 8 p.m.

“So that’s the reason why we should have the roof here,” added the Serb, who joined the likes of golfer Tiger Woods and boxer Lennox Lewis in the $100 million club.

However, rather than getting worked up about the French Open not having any court cover like the other three majors, it was the organisers’ decision to

make the players compete in misty rain on Tuesday that overshadowed Wednesday’s on-court action.

Serena Williams, who like Djokovic was bogged down in the fourth round for more than 48 hours, booked her place in the quarterfinals by walloping Ukrainian 18th seed Elina Svitolina 6-1, 6-1. She will next face Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva.

In the bottom half of the men’s draw, Andy Murray doused some early fireworks from Frenchman Richard Gasquet to win 5-7, 7-6(3), 6-0, 6-2 to set up a blockbuster semifinal against holder Stan Wawrinka. The Swiss beat Albert Ramos (Spain) 6-2, 6-1, 7-6(7).

But the hot topic of the

day remained what the organisers did, or did not do, on Tuesday.

Djokovic’s victim Bautista Agut said officials had “pushed us to play two hours yesterday” — the threshold needed to avoid reimbursing money to ticket-holders — while Venus Williams labelled the conditions “really bad” after being ambushed 6-2, 6-4 by Switzerland’s Timea Bacsinszky.

“The conditions were not playable yesterday. It’s hard to see. The balls are wet, the courts are wet,” said the American, whose defeat ended hopes of an all-Williams semifinal.

French Open director Guy Forget defended the tournament’s actions.

“I understand that not refunding spectators …. has caused frustration and anger,” he said.

“If what we are being accused of were true, it would have been in our best interests to stop play before the one-hour, 59-minute mark as our insurer would have been responsible for ticket reimbursement.

“However … our aim was to play for as long as possible, even if that meant being criticised for playing in difficult conditions.”

Djokovic will be hoping

NBA FINALS GAME 1: CLEVELAND AT GOLDEN STATE, TODAY 9 P.M.; TV: ABC

Curry ready for rebuilt Cavs in rematch The Sports Xchange

year, Kevin Love’s left arm was in a sling and Kyrie LeBron James, playing in Irving was wearing a knee his sixth consecutive NBA brace. The roster was so Finals, said the Cleveland shredded by injuries that Cavaliers are constructed James now concedes he for the rematch against didn’t even appreciate what the defending champion was his fifth consecutive Golden State Warriors. shot at a championship.

Golden State will host One year later, all of that the Cavaliers in Game has changed.

1 of the NBA Finals on Now the Cavaliers and tonight at Oracle Arena in Warriors are back where a rematch of a series the they were expected to be all Warriors won last year in along. And this time, both six games. teams are relatively healthy.

The teams took far differGolden State was ent paths to get back here. fighting health issues this James is confident in the time when reigning Most Cavs’ chances that would Valuable Player Stephen end the city of Cleveland’s Curry went down with knee championship curse that and ankle injuries in this dates back to 1964. postseason. Suddenly the “We’re better built to Warriors looked vulnerable start the Finals than we despite winning an NBAwere last year,” James said. record 73 games during the “Doesn’t matter who it’s regular season. They fought against. I mean, that’s not a back from a 3-1 deficit to headline. It’s obvious.” beat the Oklahoma City By the time the Cavaliers Thunder in the Western reached the NBA Finals last Conference finals and earn

the right to defend their championship.

“This whole playoff run has kind of been a rollercoaster ride for me specifically, but for our team,” Curry said after closing out the Thunder. “We never lost confidence, and every game just played with fearlessness and that confidence that we could get back to the Finals however we had to get it done. Now we’re four wins away from our goal, and that’s a pretty special accomplishment.”

Cleveland’s major tests occurred during the regular season. The Cavs fought chemistry issues and fired coach David Blatt, replacing him with his top assistant, Tyronn Lue, despite the best record in the East under Blatt. The Warriors swept the season series from the Cavs, including a 34-point win at Cleveland in January.

Blatt was fired less than a

week later.

These Cavs have rarely been tested in the playoffs, enjoying lengthy rest periods between each series.

They swept their way through the first two rounds, setting records for their 3-point shooting in smashing the Atlanta Hawks in the conference semifinals. The Toronto Raptors pushed them to six games in the conference finals, but the Cavaliers — not the Warriors — have been the most dominant team of this postseason.

Now they’re four wins from Cleveland’s first major pro sports championship in 52 years.

Having Love and Irving back healthy is crucial to their chances. While James still leads the Cavs in scoring, he has taken a more secondary role at times in this postseason while the Cavs played through their other stars.

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By Mark Lamport-Stokes

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Golf fans can expect a week to savor at the Memorial tournament in Dublin, Ohio, where the game’s Big Three of Jason Day, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy will each be bringing winning form to the leafy Muirfield Village layout.

World No. 1 Day clinched his third PGA Tour victory of the season at the Players Championship last month, second-ranked Spieth triumphed at the Colonial tournament on Sunday and third-ranked McIlroy won the European Tour’s Irish Open 10 days ago.

The heavyweight trio heads a typically powerful field in the prestigious event hosted by Jack Nicklaus, where seven of the world’s top 10 will be competing this week, but McIlroy is wary of too much emphasis being placed on the socalled Big Three. “We’re at the top of the rankings and we’ve won a few majors between us, but I think it’s just unfair to focus on us,� the Northern

Jason Day, left, shakes hands with Jordan Spieth, right, and Branden Grace, middle, after completing the first round of the 2016 Players Championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass — Stadium Course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (Photo: Jason Getz-USA Today Sports)

Irishman told reporters on Wednesday while preparing for Thursday’s opening round. “You’ve got the likes of Rickie Fowler, Patrick Reed, Dustin Johnson, Hideki Matsuyama, Justin Thomas, who we’re playing with tomorrow, Brooks Koepka ‌ there’s so many great young players out there. “Obviously, we’re working to keep it that way and try to be No. 1, but at the same time, there’s a lot of

guys just behind us. If we slip, they want to take that place.�

McIlroy has been paired with Americans Spieth and Thomas in a young gun grouping for the first two rounds.

Spieth has always relished playing at Muirfield Village where the heavily tree-lined layout is in immaculate shape for a PGA Tour event that enjoys major-like status. “Mr. Nicklaus does a great job in creating just a

great environment for us, on and off the golf course,â€? the 22-year-old said. “Arguably the best greens of the year, fastest and purest. “It’s also just such a challenging course ‌ if you strike the ball well, shoot something in the mid-60s, (you can) make up a lot of ground. But if you’re off, I have shot in the 80s here before, so I’ve seen it all at this track in three short years.â€?

Ohio-based Day, refreshed after a two-week break following his Players victory, hopes to finally produce good form at a venue he regards as his home course. “This has been a tough tournament for me,â€? said the Australian. “My best finish is tied for 27th or something like that, which is horrific. “But I’m looking to change that this week. I feel good about my game, and I feel good about the preparation going into this week ‌ coming in with a little bit of confidence, which is nice.â€?

Swede David Lingmerth defends the title he won last year in a playoff with Englishman Justin Rose.

PGA moves event from Trump’s course

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Donald Trump confirmed that the PGA Tour will move the annual World Golf Championship in South Florida from Trump National Doral to Mexico in 2016.

The event, held for the past 55 years at the highly acclaimed Doral course nicknamed the “Blue Monster,� will now be played at Club de Golf Chapultapec outside

Mexico City. The move confirms rumors that began to swirl in December after the presumptive Republican presidential nominee made inflammatory remarks toward Mexicans and immigrants and called for a temporary ban on Muslims from entering the United States. “It is a sad day for Miami, the United States and the game of golf, to have the PGA Tour consider moving the World Golf

Championships, which has been hosted in Miami for the last 55 years, to Mexico,� Trump said in a statement released Wednesday. “No different than Nabisco, Carrier and so many other American companies, the PGA Tour has put profit ahead of thousands of American jobs, millions of dollars in revenue for local communities and charities and the enjoyment of hundreds of thousands of

fans who make the tournament an annual tradition.

This decision only further embodies the very reason I am running for President of the United States.�

The Golf Channel’s Tim Rosaforte broke the story Wednesday following Trump’s appearance on Fox New’s “Hannity� the previous night in which Trump said he had just learned the PGA Tour was going to move the event to Mexico.

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to an appeal in this matter and accept the suspension,�

Cleveland Indians outByrd added.

Byrd becomes the secfielder Marlon Byrd was ond Cleveland player this suspended for 162 games

by Major League Baseball season to be hit with a drug suspension. Center fielder on Wednesday after he tested positive for a banned Abraham Almonte was hit with an 80-game ban substance a second time. for testing positive durThe suspension, which will include the remainder ing spring training for the steroid Boldenone. of the current campaign During 15 seasons in and the start of next seathe major leagues the well son, could mark the end of the 38-year-old’s major traveled Byrd played for league career, which began 10 teams; Texas Rangers, in 2002 when he broke into Chicago Cubs, Washington Nationals, New York Mets, the league with the PhilaSan Francisco Giants, delphia Phillies.

Pittsburgh Pirates, BosByrd, who served a 50ton Red Sox, Cincinnati game suspension in 2012 Reds, Phillies and Indians, for using the banned subslamming 159 homers and stance Tamoxifen, tested driving in 710 runs. positive for the growth This season Byrd was hormone secretagogue hitting .270 with five home Ipamorelin. “Today, I have accepted runs, 19 RBIs in 34 games.

Mariners place a one-year suspension by Hernandez on the DL Major League Baseball,�

The Seattle Mariners Byrd said in a statement placed starting pitcher released by the MLB Felix Hernandez on the Players Association. “In 15-day disabled list with 2012, I tested positive for the medication Tamoxifen, a strained right calf and recalled left-hander James which I was using on the advice of a physician for a Paxton from Triple-A Tacoma. medical condition resultThe move is retroactive ing from surgery, and I to May 28, making Heraccepted my suspension nandez eligible to return without challenge. from the DL on June 12. “Since that time, I have Paxton replaced Hernandez paid close attention to the substances that are banned in the rotation and start Wednesday night’s game by the Joint Drug Agreeagainst the San Diego ment, as I had no intenPadres in Petco Park. tion of taking any banned Hernandez, 30, did not substances.�

Byrd denied knowingly make the road trip with the taking a banned substance team after he was examined Wednesday morning saying that after his own in Seattle by team orthopeinvestigation the positive test was likely the result of dist Dr. Edward Khalfayan, using a tainted supplement. who diagnosed the calf strain. In 10 starts this sea“I alone am responson, Hernandez has a 4-4 sible for what I put in my body, and therefore, I have record with a 2.86 ERA in 63 innings. decided to forgo my right

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FORD FREE STAR LIMITED VAN, 2004.

Automatic sliding doors, rear camera, DVD. Extra clean. $3395.

Call 770-616-7399.

MISC. FOR SALE

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GERMAN SHEPHERDS WHITE RARE. AKC, shots & dewormed.

Happy & healthy. Avail.

5/10. $750. Text/call 706-975-4486 pics/info.

LABRADOR RETRIEVER PUPPIES: Black, 3 pups, 8 weeks, all shots, AKC registered.

Awsome pedigree. 770-561-3843

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NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5S, 2002. Silver, 1 owner, 127k mi, auto., AC, PS, PW. Runs beautifully, clean, well maint. $3700 OBO. 770-883-2340

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MERCEDES BENZ 560 SL ROADSTER, 1987: Low Miles. $8,000 just spent on new custom burgandy paint & new tan german leather. 2 Tops.

Babied & Beautiful.

Best Car Fax possible. Hagerty & Nada values these cars at $22,200-$42,200.

Super Collector Car. Will probably be the fastest appreciating 80’s collector cars over the next 5-10 years.

Only $13,700 770-873-2627

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HYUNDAI ELANTRA SEDAN SE, 2015 Monaco White, Stk#8559 $13,900 877-698-5030

GRILL CHARBROIL ELECTRIC GRILL With cover. Like new.

Cost $200... Yours for $125. 678-765-7778

LOST DOG $200 Reward, Male, Yorkie Schnauzer mix, 11yrs old, grey & tan, 20lbs.

Last seen in Falcon Ridge neighborhood off Grayson Parkway, Grayson.404-934-0753

TOYOTA RAV4, 2002 AWD, automatic, 122K miles, no accidents, everything works. $3400, Silver color, clean title, 2.0 L Engine.

Interested? Call at 813563-3879

MOTORCYCLES

HARLEY DAVIDSON, 2012 IRON 883 Excellent Cond., 1000 miles, garaged, have title, helmets, rain suit, saddle bags incl. $5000 OBO. Social Circle. 770-787-7098 YAMAHA V STAR 1100, 2008. Custom Cruiser, Black, 13K Miles, Garage Kept, windshield, saddle bags, brand new tires. Runs Great. $3900. 770-255-4741 CAMPERS/RVS TRAVEL TRAILER, 2006, 31 Foot In Length, Sleeps 6, 1 Slide Out. $9500.00 CALL 770-337-0346

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