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Answers few in deadly Snellville party shooting Victim’s funeral to be held Sunday afternoon

By Joshua Sharpe

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Jahlah Branch was 17 years old, a running back on his high school team, with flowing dreads and enough speed that spectators compared him to the Tasmanian Devil. Football is what he wanted to

Investigators haven’t said if Branch was indo with his life. He was people were crammed in volved in the dispute or training, dreaming. People the two-story for a party on a bystander. They have believed in him.

Aviator Circle, off Center- reportedly been following Now, they can’t believe ville-Rosebud Road. leads, but by Wednesday, he’s gone.

Police said the crowd few answers were publicly Gwinnett County police scattered after an arguavailable and no suspects found him dead on the ment led to multiple people had been named. kitchen floor of a home producing guns and firing.

“There are no updates outside Snellville early Branch, who went to at this time,” Cpl. Deon Saturday morning. Before Hapeville Charter Career Washington said in an officers arrived, authorities Academy in College Park, email. believe possibly 100 young was shot in the head.

Meanwhile, Branch’s

family is planning the funeral.

It’s set for 2 p.m.

Sunday in the chapel Jahlah at Divine Branch Mortuary, 5620 Hilandale Drive, Lithonia. A visitation is planned beforehand, at noon.

Efforts to reach Branch’s family for interviews weren’t immediately successful Wednesday.

But on a fundraising site (www.gofundme. com/2etf6mny) created to help with expenses, messages were posted in memory of the boy and defending him against those who would judge him for

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New GGC provost not planning on changes

By Keith Farner keith.farner@gwinnettdailypost.com

Officer Jimmy Inlow leads the casket of K-9 Officer Eiko at his funeral in Oak Rest Pet Gardens in Bethlehem on Wednesday.

(Photo: Cole McCauley)

A friend’s farewell

Police lay K-9 officer Eiko to rest in Bethlehem

By Erika Wells

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A large crowd lined up at a small chapel in Bethlehem to say its final goodbyes to another member of law enforcement Wednesday.

Each person entered a showroom where they paid their respects to a German Shepherd who seemed to peacefully rest in his casket.

The family and friends of Lawrenceville Police K-9 Officer Shawn Humphreys mourned the loss of Holland Di Casa Sintiago — better known as Eiko — who died July 14.

“He was one of the truest forms of a real police officer,” Humphreys said at the ceremony.

Members of law enforcement from across the state, other officials and the community attended funeral service at Oak Rest Pet Gardens at Deceased Pet Care on Harbins Road.

Eiko recently fought a short battle with an aggressive malignant cancer of the blood vessels and had to be taken out of service. This is the second K-9 unit partner Humphreys has lost. Last June, Andor, a German Shepherd, also was buried at the pet gardens.

Humphreys said in the five years of Eiko’s service, his K-9 unit partner always put forth his best effort.

LAWRENCEVILLE — Growing up on a farm near Paducah, Ky., T.J. Arant found his future on a rainy day visit to Vanderbilt University.

The track and football athlete previously figured to pursue athletics, possibly at area schools like Murray State University, Western Kentucky University or the University of Tennessee-Martin. That changed when he was introduced to Vanderbilt.

T.J. Arant Arant said his parents told him he could be anything he wanted to be, but he needed to get an education.

Arant’s family ran a subsistence farm with his two uncles, but had tobacco as a cash crop and some hogs. He said Vanderbilt “scholarshiped” him up pretty good.

Despite it raining sideways, Arant’s introduction to Vanderbilt included a meeting with a dean who explained to him what the school offered. And that changed his outlook after he previously figured to be a jock on campus. It set him

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Committee to pick projects for SPLOST

By Curt Yeomans curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

Services were held for a German Shepherd named Eiko, a Lawrenceville Police Department K-9 officer who died July 14. A ceremony was held at Oak Rest Pet Gardens at Deceased Pet Care in Bethlehem on Wednesday. (Special Photo)

“He never gave up and never got upset even when he was working and was punched, kicked or thrown or even when someone tried to hurt me,” Humphreys said.

Eiko was born in the Netherlands on May 16, 2008.

Humphreys said although the public may have assumed Eiko was mean, he was a playful protector of his family — Humphreys’ wife Michelle and son Evan.

When he was not playing with his favorite rubber toy, Eiko anxious to serve his

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He was involved with more than 100 arrests and community. assisted local, state and Each year, Eiko would cer- federal agencies detect tify for the American Workdrugs, resulting in the largest ing Dog Association, The heroin bust in Georgia, acNational Narcotic Detector cording to the police, where Dog Association, and he also 38 kilograms were found, earned a certification through police said. the International Forensic Humphreys has to conResearch Institute. tinue to protect the commuEiko, who joined the nity without his partner but department in May 2011, he said Eiko will be “sorely helped gather evidence and missed and never forgotten.” more online

Now that Gwinnett County leaders have agreed to hold a referendum this fall on a proposed six-year, $950 million SPLOST, they need the public’s help to figure out what transportation projects will be included in tax program.

The proposed 2017 SPLOST is expected to lean heavily toward transportation projects, although several other areas are expected to be included in the proposal.

Alan Chapman Transportation projects planned by the county make up $486.3 million of the proposed SPLOST proceeds. Cities throughout Gwinnett are planning separate transportation projects of their own.

That is where the SPLOST proposal crosses paths with the county’s ongoing comprehensive transportation plan update.

County Transportation Director Alan Chapman sent an email letter to residents on Wednesday, calling on them to attend an organizational meeting next month

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Books-A-Million planning ‘Potter’ release party

By Curt Yeomans

at a job in the Ministry of Magic, according to Books-A-Million’s description.

Hold on to your hipThe child referenced pogriffs Hogwarts fans in the title is implied to because a new Harry Potter be Harry’s youngest son, book is heading to stores at Albus. the end of this month.

Fans of the popular “Harry Potter and the book series can purchase Cursed Child Parts I and a voucher for the new II� will hit shelves on July book at Books-A-Million 31. It is actually a script in advance or during the book from the West End celebration. The book play by the same name to is already available for be exact. pre-order for $17.99 on Although the play is booksamillion.com/harbeing staged in London, rypotter, but any copies Harry Potter fans in Gwinordered for home delivery nett County will get to will not be sent until July celebrate the script book 31. on July 30 during a release In addition to the party at the Books-Afestivities taking place Million at Sugarloaf Mills, earlier in the day on July 5900 Sugarloaf Parkway, 30, the store will begin a Suite 321, in Lawrencevcountdown party at 9 p.m. ille. The festivities will Attendees are encouraged begin at 2 p.m. with activito wear their best Harry ties such as Harry PotterPotter cosplay gear — themed trivia contests, including the Hogwarts wand crafts and scavenger Books-A-Million is offering pre-order vouchers to customers who want to get the first copies of ‘Harry Potter and the robs, brooms and wands Cursed Child Parts I and II� at midnight on July 31. The book store will host a 10-hour release party celebrating all — because the party will hunts based on the Mathings Harry Potter on July 30, leading up to midnight. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans) rauder’s Map. include costume contests.

It all leads up to midThere will also be sortnight when patrons who Child’ release is undoubt- devoted fans of all ages, occurrence with the seven years after the events of ing hat ceremonies where have special pre-order edly the biggest book and to once again revel in books that were released “Deathly Hallows,� and attendees will be sorted vouchers will be able to launch of the year,� Books- the literary magic of Harry in the series, which had it is based on a new story into one of Hogwarts four get their first copies of the A-Million Senior Book Potter.� previously ended with the

by Harry Potter author houses and attendees will script book.

Buyer and Vice President This marks the first time release of “Harry Potter J.K. Rowling. Although receive swag bags “filled “With an extensive com- of Merchandising Sandra in nearly a decade that and the Deathly Hallows�

Harry Potter was a child with spellbinding goodmunity of multi-generation Wilson said in a statement. Harry Potter book, with the in July 2007. in the previous seven-book ies,� according to Booksfollowers since the series’ “We’re looking forcharacters name in the title, “Cursed Child� conseries, this story has him A-Million officials. start in 1998, the ‘Harry ward to celebrating the has been released. Release tinues the story of Harry as an adult with three kids “Wicked,� as Ron WeasPotter and the Cursed monumental debut with parties were a common Potter and company 19 of his own and working ley would say. curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

Certain flowering plants will thrive in the shade Many homeowners have trees on their property that provide shade, which is advantageous in that it helps keep their homes cooler during the summer. However, the shade can present a challenge to growing garden plants.

Many plants require full sun such as marigolds or lantana, and they would deteriorate in shade.

However, many thrive in sites that receive minimal sunlight.

One of the most common shade loving annuals are impatiens. They come in a variety of colors and brighten a shady location.

However, they have suf-

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Tim Daly fered extensively in recent years due to impatiens downy mildew, a fungal disease that causes the plants to lose their leaves and perish. Many nurseries no longer carry them.

Several alternatives exist.

The closely related New

Guinea impatiens is not affected by the fungus.

They have flowers similar to the standard impatiens, but their foliage is not as dense, and the leaves are larger and sometimes have yellow to red coloration.

Wax leaf begonias also tolerate shade. They produce colorful flowers, and their leaves range from green to burgundy.

The wishbone flower is a small annual that produces abundant flowers in shade. The blossoms have a blue color with deep purple lips, and the interior is yellow. Pinching young plants will produce a bushier habit.

Numerous flowering perennials also tolerate shade. Lenten roses or Helleborus bloom in the winter and early spring.

The plants can reach a height of 15 inches with flowers that are white, pink, red, yellow and dark purple with coarse textured foliage. They produce abundant seeds that germinate in the following spring. The seedlings can be transplanted. The bleeding heart flower or Dicentra has a red to pink heart shaped flower with green to silver fine textured foliage and can grow up to three feet in height.

Astilbe produced fern-like

foliage and flower spikes with a feathery texture.

Their blossoms come in many colors. It prefers moist, well-drained soils with plentiful organic matter.

Several familiar larger flowering shrubs thrive in the shade. Azaleas and rhododendrons come in many species and cultivars that are all sizes and flower colors. The Japanese camellias, which bloom in the winter, grow up to 15 feet in height and have many varieties. The closely related sasanqua camellias do well in shade but are more tolerant of full sun. The common hy-

drangeas that produce colorful red to blue blooms need shade or semi-shade or they will suffer. These plants require supplemental water during dry spells.

Even if you have trouble with excessive shade on your property, you can still have plants that produce attractive, colorful blossoms. Consider planting some and see how they brighten up you home landscape.

Timothy Daly is an Agricultural and Natural Resource Extension Agent with Gwinnett County Extension. He can be contacted at 678-377-4010 or tdaly@uga.edu.

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Bridges Peachtree Corners is hosting a community picnic from 4:30 to 7 p.m. on Saturday.

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ing in schools across the state by supplying school nutrition directors with healthy recipes using loAnother Gwinnett cal commodities. school was recently Two years ago, Dacula Bridge Park in Peachtree named a Georgia Grown High School was one Corners.

Test Kitchen by the of 10 schools across the Hot dogs, pulled pork Georgia Department of state — the only in Gwinsandwiches and cold Agriculture. nett — to be named to the drinks will be furnished Jordan Middle School program. and those attending are in Lawrenceville was The program, which asked to bring a dish to among five schools across begins this school year in share. the state added recently September, now reaches For more information, for the third year of the students from pre-K call 770-841-6779 or email program. It promotes through high school, and pat@validunlap.com. local and healthy eatit’s designed to help to bridge the gap in the nutritional value and quality of food served in Georgia keith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com

schools, while providing more farm to cafeteria opportunities. “Through programs such as the Georgia Grown Test Kitchen and Feed My School for a Week, we are influencing the buying habits of nutritional directors across the state,� Commissioner Gary Black said in a press release. “We are showing the ease that comes with purchasing local products for school systems, while improving the nutritional value for students. We look forward to working with these schools this

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Perdue, Woodall call for tougher terror stance U.S. Sen. David Perdue and Rep. Rob Woodall, both R-Ga., have renewed calls to go after terrorist groups, including David ISIS, in Perdue the wake of last week’s terrorist attack in Nice, France.

Eightyfour Rob Woodall people died after a Tunisian man drove a truck into a crowd at a Bastille Day crowd in Nice. Hundreds more were hurt during the attack.

Perdue called it an “unconscionable tragedy” in a statement while calling for American solidarity with France.

But he also said attacks such as this one, and simi-

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they need to take on these threats worldwide.”

Meanwhile, Woodall issued similar sentiments on Facebook.

“We are again reminded of an existential threat, and the need to relentlessly pursue the defeat of terrorists wherever we find them,” the congressman said.

lar incidents in Paris and Brussels, must be stopped by going after terrorist groups in the Middle East and stepping up border security.

“President Obama must reevaluate his strategy to defeat ISIS and other extremist groups,” Perdue said in a statement. “But, while we bolster our efforts to combat terrorism abroad, it is equally important that we strengthen our efforts to protect against terrorism here at home.

“This starts with securing our borders and improving our intelligence efforts, as well as providing our troops with what

Gwinnett Democrats holding phone bank The Gwinnett County Democratic Party is asking supporters to visit its headquarters today to call voters and encourage them to back Democrats who are seeking public office.

The party will hold a phone bank from 1-8 p.m. at the headquarters, 535 Indian Trail Road, Suite I, in Lilburn. Officials asked participants to “bring your phone and your smile” while the party provides call lists, snacks and drinks.

“It should take about two hours to complete a call packet, so come when

you can,” officials said in an email to party supporters.

individuals that there is a different way, then you not only save money and lives in the short term, but you also create generational changes. If you can show these offenders that success after incarceration is possible, it will help keep them from becoming repeat offenders.”

“Educational programs funded by Deal touts the lottery criminal justice continue reforms in Cleveland to lay the Gov. Nathan Deal was groundNathan at the Republican National work for Deal Convention this week to Georgia’s talk about his work on evolving and growing criminal justice reforms. workforce,” Deal said in The governor was part Deal announces $1 billion a statement. “Since the of a panel with Oklahoma transfer to education inception of the Georgia Gov. Mary Fallin and from Georgia Lottery Lottery in 1993, a total Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin Georgia schools will of $17.6 billion has been who talked about reform get a big benefit from the generated for educational efforts in their states. state’s lottery system this programs.

“These funds have made Deal’s office released a year after the Georgia Lotit possible for more than link to a video that was tery transferred its fiscal shown during the panel year 2016 profits, totaling 1.7 million college students to receive the HOPE and a list of highlights of $1.09 billion to the State scholarship and more than reform efforts undertaken Treasury this week.

1.4 million 4-year-olds to since 2012, including It was the first time in attend lottery-funded Preexpanded accountability the lottery’s history that K programs. FY 2016’s courts, juvenile justice more than $1 billion has record-breaking profits reform, prisoner reentry been moved from the will continue to help each initiatives and the creation Georgia Lottery Corp. to child in Georgia attain a of the Department of Com- the treasury in a single munity Supervision. year, according to the gov- quality education from “Crime in many parts ernor’s office. The money start to finish.”

Political Notebook of the country, includwas moved to the Lottery appears in the Thursday ing Georgia, is generafor Education account, tional,” said Deal. “If you which is maintained by the and Sunday editions of the Gwinnett Daily Post. break the cycle and show treasury.

Musk to expand Tesla into making electric trucks, buses Reuters

Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk Wednesday unveiled an ambitious plan to expand the company into electric semi trucks and buses, car sharing and solar energy systems.

In a blog post titled “Master Plan, Part Deux,” Musk sketched a vision of an integrated carbon-free energy enterprise offering a wider range of vehicles, and products and services beyond electric cars and batteries. He restated his argument that Tesla should acquire and integrate the operations of solar panel installer SolarCity Corp, where Musk is chairman and a major shareholder.

The plan did not detail how new projects like electric trucks or public transit vehicles would be financed.

Both Tesla and SolarCity are burning cash.

Tesla in May sold about $1.7 billion in new shares, indicating much of that will be used to accelerate development of its new Model 3 car lineup and reach a production pace of 500,000 vehicles a year by 2018, two years ahead of an earlier plan.

Musk summarized the plan saying Tesla aimed to “create stunning solar roofs (for homes) with seamlessly integrated battery storage. Expand the electric vehicle product line to address all major segments. Develop a self-driving capability that is 10 times safer than manual via massive fleet learning. Enable your car to make money for you

when you aren’t using it.”

Musk said he envisions Tesla owners allowing others to use their vehicles through a smartphone application. He indicated there will be a “Tesla shared fleet,” but did not offer details of how that fleet would be managed.

Rival automakers are pursuing some of these goals as well.

“In cities where demand exceeds the supply of customer-owned cars, Tesla will operate its own fleet, ensuring you can always hail a ride from us no matter where you are,” he said. Such a service would put Tesla in competition with ride hailing services such as Uber or Lyft.

Musk said all future Tesla products will have fully self-driving capability, including trucks and buses, which he said would be unveiled next year.

Most major automakers, as well as internet search company Alphabet Inc, are investing heavily in automated driving technology.

Germany’s Daimler AG is working on automated heavy trucks and electric commercial vehicles.

General Motors Co and Toyota Motor Corp are among the auto companies working on car sharing and forging alliances with ride hailing companies such as Lyft and Uber Technologies Inc to break into the growing market for services built around vehicles.

On June 21, Musk proposed that Tesla buy SolarCity. He outlined a combined company that could provide consumers with the tools for

a largely carbon-free lifestyle — electric cars recharged with electricity generated by SolarCity solar panel systems, or stored in the home using battery packs produced by Tesla’s battery Gigafactory under construction near Reno, Nev. Musk owns 22 per cent of SolarCity’s shares, and has outlined plans to offer buyers of Tesla electric vehicles a solar power generation and battery storage system. Tesla on June 22 filed applications to use the Tesla name for solar energy systems and services, such as monitoring solar panels.

Tesla shares rose 1.4 per cent in trading Wednesday, ahead of Musk’s announcement.

SolarCity shares were up 2.6 per cent.

On Monday, SolarCity said it raised $345 million to fund projects, and increased its debt facility by $110 million.

Tesla faces challenges on other fronts.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the safety of the “Autopilot” system that allows Tesla vehicles to guide themselves on a highway with the driver’s hands off the wheel for extended periods.

The NHTSA probe followed a May 7 crash in which the driver of a Tesla Model S was killed when the car drove under a tractor trailer on a Florida highway.

Musk said in a tweet earlier this week that Tesla is working with Robert Bosch GmbH on improvements to the Autopilot system’s radar sensors.

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Mine Drive. A man who lived at the house was trying to stop the fire using a garden hose. Rutledge Gwinnett County firesaid the man had returned fighters battled a fire that home before firefighters damaged the basement of a got there. home in Sugar Hill and left “Fire crews quickly two men without a place to deployed attack hose lines stay on Wednesday. and established a posiCapt. Tommy Rutledge tive water supply from a said crews responded to nearby hydrant to support a call from a neighbor firefighting operations,” at 3:42 p.m., and found Rutledge said in a statesmoke coming from the ment. “Firefighters gained basement of the two-story fast-access inside the wood frame house on the burning home to extinguish 4800 block of Parkview the flames and conduct a

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primary search.”

The fire, which was extinguished around 4:04 p.m., did not leave the basement, but Rutledge said smoke spread throughout the home. He also said belongings of the men were damaged moderately.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation since officials have not yet been able to determine what started it. Rutledge said the American Red Cross was contacted and asked to help the men who lived at the home.

China upset by GOP platform on South China Sea and Tibet REUTERS

In an English-language statement issued via the ofBEIJING — China’s ficial Xinhua news agency Foreign Ministry on Thurs- on Thursday, the ministry day urged the U.S. Repub- said the Republican platlican Party to stop making form contained “accusa“groundless accusations” tions about China on issues against China in its party related to Taiwan, Tibet, platform, which says China trade and the South China practices cultural genocide Sea” and are an interferin Tibet and has ludicrous ence in China’s internal claims in the South China affairs.

Sea. “All political parties in China’s government has the United States should generally avoided making view China’s development direct comments about the in an objective and ratioelection, wary of being nal manner and correctly seen to interfere, though understand the issues that in April Chinese Finance emerge in bilateral ties,” Minister Lou Jiwei called the ministry said.

Republican presidential “We hope relevant parcandidate Donald Trump ties stop their groundless an “irrational type” due accusations against China to his tariffs proposal on and interference in China’s imported Chinese goods. domestic affairs and con-

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The platform, adopted on Monday, says China has been asserting “preposterous” claims to the South China Sea to distract its people from economic problems, practices “cultural genocide” in Tibet and Xinjiang, and reaffirms a commitment to sell weapons to self-ruled Taiwan.

China’s foreign ministry said promoting stable growth in relations serves the interests of both countries and the peace and development of the Asia-Pacific region and the world, and “both sides should adhere to this right direction.”

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How to up vitamin D without upsetting tummy DEAR DR. ROACH: I was wondering if you can give me any advice on dealing with my diagnosis of low vitamin D. I have been plagued by this for years. My problem is compounded by severe GERD, which makes it impossible to take vitamin D supplements. I have tried sublingual drops, gummies, tablets and gel caps with no success. None of my physicians has come up with a solution. Their responses range from “I don’t know” to “just suck it up.” I have been offered 50,000-IU pills, which is the standard treatment for this, but if I can’t tolerate even two tabs at 400 IU, I don’t see how I can take 50,000 IU without any stomach distress.

Do you know of any other alternatives to oral supplements? I have tried 10,000 IU of a topical cream, which was not successful. I was tested after one month of this regimen. I am 67 years old and in fairly good health. I could feel better, since I have fatigue and a lot of aches, especially at night and upon waking.

— P.B. ANSWER: I occasionally hear from people who are unable to take medications due to side effects, such as the stomach upset you get from taking vitamin D. It sometimes needs a creative approach.

I can think of three possibilities. The most direct would be to use an injection of vitamin D. A recent research paper showed that an injection of 300,000 units of vitamin D led to much higher blood levels at three and six months.

The second would be to let your body’s own system work. Your skin can synthesize very large amounts. It’s estimated that by exposing a large area of skin, such as your back, to direct sunlight, you can make between 10,000 and 25,000 units of vitamin D in the time it takes your skin to turn a light pink color.

Repeated sun exposure increases risk of skin cancer, however.

Third, I don’t know how your GERD is treated, but most people can get excellent relief with a combination of lifestyle changes and medication.

A very, very few are treated surgically. I wonder if your GERD is not being adequately treated.

Finally, I often have mentioned the placebo effect, where people take a medication that they think will help and get relief, even if the medication is ineffective (such as a “sugar pill”).

There is a similar phenomenon called the nocebo effect, where people get side effects from a medication if they are convinced it will cause side effects. This happens even if the medication shouldn’t cause any.

I don’t know if that is the case in you.

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22-Jan. 19) — Think about the past and use your findings to help plan for the future. You are facing a changeable Dear Amy: I have asking for forgiveness. that in this situation, it time, and you should Ask Amy been married to my husMany marriages recover seems a bridge (and a box) use this opportunity to band for 10 years. Our from cheating episodes; too far to ask friends to do explore new possibilities. marriage has gotten better this can only be done one the heavy lifting.

AQUARIUS (Jan. with each passing year. day at a time, with both Several people pointed 20-Feb. 19) — Learn I consider him a good parties committing every to the possibility of midfrom those around you. husband, father, and my day to walk toward integri- dle-aged amateur movers If someone makes a best friend. About a month ty and forgiveness together. getting injured handling scene, don’t get involved ago my stepdaughter told I think you are wise to be furniture. in the furor. A change me that she found text skeptical concerning your When you get to a ceryou make will bring messages between my husband’s willingness to be tain stage in life, it’s time you good fortune and a Amy Dickinson husband and her mother faithful in a relationship. to hire professionals. brighter future. (his ex-wife), in which he This is a “trust, but verify” But here’s the thing: It’s PISCES (Feb. says that he still loves her, his parents with the kids. I situation. not necessarily “inappro20-March 20) — Don’t misses her and suggests had no idea.

Dear Amy: A friend priate” for them to ask for make your choices that they meet for sex.

I don’t know if I can and her husband recently help. Anybody can ask for based on what others The messages were on trust what he says about sold their modest home anything. It’s up to the inhis ex-wife’s old phone the affair, and I do consider and bought a much larger, dividual to make their own do or say. Do your own thing, negotiate on your that she had given to my it an affair. I don’t know if newer home. They are both choice, as you did. own behalf and draw up stepdaughter for her own I can get past the betrayal. in their early 40s and wellDear Amy: Thank you contracts that suit you. A use.

I don’t know if I can or established in their careers. for pointing out that men When I confronted him should forgive him. He They chose not to hire can be victims of relation- take-charge attitude will bring good results. he initially denied it, but seems remorseful, but he is professional movers. ship abuse, as described ARIES (March 21-April now admits he has spent very good at lying (obviInstead, they asked friends in the letter from “Mom/ 19) — Keep your money the last six months sexting ously). and family to help them Grandma.” in a safe place. Don’t with his ex-wife (includWhat should I do? move. I did not offer to This is often seen as a ignore medical issues. ing pictures), with plans to — Lost and Confused help with the heavy lifting, problem that affects only Focus on your needs and hook up.

Dear Lost: I would though I did go over one women. My son was in a He has moved into a seriously question your day for a couple of hours highly violent and abusive self-improvement. Love and romance are on the separate bedroom. We are husband’s assertion that he and helped with “little” marriage. Part of the pain rise and will help stabigetting along most of the would never meet up with things. for us was the idea that time. He maintains that he his ex in person. These two Here’s my question: At others didn’t take his situ- lize your life.

TAURUS (April 20did it for the “thrill” and have a history together; what point is it inapproation seriously. — Been May 20) — Complaints that he only told her that why wouldn’t they meet? priate to ask friends and There he loved and missed her to And yes, I agree that family to help you move, Dear Been There: will get you nowhere. If something needs doing, manipulate her into sexting what he did was cheating. offering pizza and beer as a The stigma surrounding with him. He said he would The secrecy, intimate con- thank you? relationship violence needs do it yourself. You only get out what you put in. never meet her in person. tact, exchanges of sexual I feel that if you to change.

Don’t wait for someone I know he cheated on his and loving comments — have the resources, you You can contact Amy ex-wife when they were this is cheating. shouldn’t be asking others Dickinson via email: aska- else to make the first together, but I told myself The burden is now on for free labor. my@tribpub.com. You can move.

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world&nation World Turkey prepares emergency measures after post-coup purge ISTANBUL — Turkey will announce emergency measures on Wednesday to try to shore up stability and prevent damage to the economy as it purges thousands of members of the security forces, judiciary, civil service and academia after an abortive coup.

One of the ruling AK Party’s most senior figures, Mustafa Sentop, a close ally of President Tayyip Erdogan, said the constitution allowed for a state of emergency to be declared, though he said he did not know if such a step would be taken.

Speaking live on broadcaster NTV, he said any state of emergency would last up to six months and would not affect citizens’ lives. He also called for the restoration of the death penalty for crimes aimed at changing the constitutional order.

Kerry warns of new challenge in securing Iraq after Islamic State WASHINGTON — The battlefield momentum in Iraq and Syria has shifted against Islamic State, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday, but the international community must now also confront the challenge of stabilizing newly liberated areas.

“The momentum has shifted,” Kerry told an international conference to raise funds for Iraq at a critical juncture in the military campaign. “The new challenge that we face is securing and aiding for the recovery of a liberated area.”

Lise Grande, the United Nations’ humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, warned that without addressing the needs of Iraqis displaced by the conflict, military victories will prove transient.

Trump, Pence display solidarity

By Emily Stephenson Reuters

Freshly minted as his party’s choice for the White House, Republican Donald Trump made a display of solidarity on Wednesday with his running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, a social conservative who is at odds with Trump on many issues.

Pence, the keynote speaker on the third day of the Republican convention in Cleveland, has been well received by people in the party’s social conservative wing, who have been skeptical of Trump’s commitment to opposing abortion and same-sex marriage but who trust his running mate.

But joint appearances between the two men have been awkward. Trump and Pence shared the stage only briefly on Saturday when Pence publicly agreed to be Trump’s running mate, and their first televised interview together, on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” was not smooth.

For example, asked about Pence’s support for the Iraq war while he was a U.S. lawmaker, Trump responded, “I don’t care,” saying Pence was allowed to make occasional mistakes. When the interviewer asked if Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should get the

‘Pretty Woman’ director Garry Marshall dies at 81

LOS ANGELES — Garry Marshall, who created some of the 1970s’ most iconic sitcoms including “Happy Days,” “The Odd Couple,” “Laverne and Shirley” and “Mork and Mindy” and went on to direct hit movies including “Pretty Woman” and “The Princess Diaries,” died Tuesday in Burbank, Calif. of complications from pneumonia following a stroke. He was 81.

Marshall went from being a TV writer to creating sitcoms that touched the funny bones of the Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump, right, greets vice presidential 1970s generation and nominee Mike Pence after arriving for an event on the sidelines of the Republican Na- directing films that were watched over and over: tional Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday. (Reuters/Carlo Allegri) “Happy Days” helped start a nostalgia craze same wiggle room on her election.

John McCain, and memthat has arguably never own vote for the war when Anti-Trump delegates at bers of the Bush family abated, while “Mork and she was a U.S. senator, the gathering on the shores have stayed away from Mindy” had a psycheTrump said, “No.” of Lake Erie disrupted the Cleveland in a show of delically goofy quality In an echo of Trump’s convention on Monday displeasure at Trump and that catapulted Robin unorthodox journey from to shout their displeasure his rhetoric against illegal businessman and reality and Tuesday’s session was immigration and free trade. Williams to fame and made rainbow suspendTV star to party standardintended to focus on the Several convention ers an icon of their era. bearer, the choreography economy, but few speakers delegates called Trump’s “Pretty Woman” likewise of the convention has been hewed to the theme. choice of running mate a cemented Julia Roberts’ uneven, contrasting with Allegations that a speech step toward uniting a bitstardom, while “The Prinwhat is generally a smooth- by the nominee’s wife, Me- terly divided Republican ly coordinated display of lania, plagiarized passages Party and working to build cess Diaries” made Anne Hathaway a teen favorite. support for a party presifrom a Michelle Obama bridges with the party’s dential candidate. Trump, address in 2008, have establishment. Pence’s who is trailing Clinton in dominated media coverage. performance on WednesTwitter cracks opinion polls, was formally Republican grandees day, and his public rapport down after anointed on Tuesday evesuch as the party’s previous with Trump, could help to ning as the White House two presidential nominees, sell hesitant Republicans at actor complains nominee for the Nov. 8 Mitt Romney and Senator home on the duo. about abuse

Parents of boy killed by alligator at Disney resort will not sue

Nation Lynch: Police feel under siege after attacks

WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday that American police officers were feeling under siege following the recent attacks in Dallas and Baton Rouge and that the Justice Department was offering training as one way to help.

Asked what she thought was the cause of the attacks on police officers, Lynch French lawmakers said “we see a number of different causes.” She noted extend state of that a police captain in Kansas City, Kansas, had been emergency after killed on Tuesday while reNice attack sponding to a call, the kind PARIS — French of work police everywhere lawmakers approved a do daily. six-month extension of “We have also seen, as emergency rule on Wednes- you are aware, situations day after last week’s truck where officers have been attack on holiday crowds directly targeted and amin Nice, the third deadly bushed,” she added, referassault in just 18 months ring to the Dallas and Baton for which Islamist militants Rouge attacks, which left have claimed responsibility. eight police officers dead.

President Francois Hol“Certainly law enforcelande’s Socialist government is feeling under siege ment, accused by political because of these incidents opponents of doing too and they are tragic,” Lynch little to avert the attack that told a news conference, killed 84 and hurt hundreds, encouraging the public to also said it would step up be as supportive of police as strikes against Islamic State possible. in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

Possible Dem A year from elections, VP picks push Hollande is under intense pressure as opponents acfor strict payday cuse his administration of loan rules police failings over the tragedy. A Tunisian man was WASHINGTON — able to drive a 19-ton truck Two Democratic Senators along a packed sea-front mentioned as possible vice promenade, mowing down presidential picks, Sherrod people in the Bastille Day Brown and Elizabeth Warcrowd, before he was shot ren, on Wednesday said a dead by police.

U.S. proposal to crack down — From wire reports on payday loans does not go

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U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announces the filing of civil forfeiture complaints seeking the forfeiture and recovery of more than $1 billion in assets associated with an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB in Washington on Wednesday. Lynch said Wednesday that police feel under siege after recent attacks in Dallas and Baton Rouge. (Reuters/James Lawler Duggan)

far enough.

Last month the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unveiled a proposal to restrict payday lending.

The industry is accused of preying on desperate consumers with high-cost loans but is also viewed as a last-ditch source of money.

The CFPB proposal would require lenders to use a “full-payment” test to determine whether borrowers can afford the loans and would bar lenders from taking auto titles as collateral.

Brown, of Ohio, and Warren, of Massachusetts - who frequently push for tighter financial regulation - sent a letter to the CFPB along with more than two dozen other Democratic Senators, questioning the analysis of borrowers’ ability to repay the small-dollar, short-term debts under the proposal.

They took issue with allowing lenders to make six loans to a single borrower as long as they meet set conditions, and with leaving out “certain problematic long-term loans, which may include high origination fees,” from the analysis.

Writer takes the fall for ‘chaos’ over Melania Trump speech

CLEVELAND — A writer took responsibility on Wednesday for the “chaos” caused by a speech given by the wife of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that drew accusations of plagiarism and cast a shadow over the party’s convention this week.

Meredith McIver, a staff writer for the Trump Organization, apologized and offered an explanation that contrasted with two days of efforts by the Trump campaign to deny there had been a problem with Melania Trump’s speech on Monday night.

The Republicans’ convention in Cleveland, which formally anointed Trump on Tuesday as the party nominee for the Nov. 8 presidential election, was meant to be an occasion for the party to rally around its unorthodox White House candidate after a bitterly divisive primary campaign.

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter Inc. late Tuesday permanently suspended a number of user accounts for harassment, vowing to redouble its efforts to quickly thwart abusive behavior and block repeat offenders from the social media site.

The move appeared to be a response to abuse and harassment that “Ghostbusters” actor Leslie Jones, who is black, said Monday had become so severe that she was quitting the service.

Among those banned was Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative who has been a provocative figure on Twitter for years and was accused by Jones and other Twitter users of feeding the abuse.

The parents of a twoyear-old boy drowned by an alligator at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida last month “are broken” but will not sue over the incident, the couple said in a statement on Wednesday.

Lane Graves was playing at the edge of the Seven Seas Lagoon at the Walt Disney World’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa on June 14 when he was snatched by an alligator and dragged into the water. His parents rushed to save their child but failed to pry him free from the predator’s grip, as a second alligator attacked ‘Star Trek Beyond’ during the rescue attempt. warps toward $55 Graves, whose family was vacationing from million debut Nebraska, was found by LOS ANGELES — It’s divers a day later at the been a rough few months for bottom of the manmade Paramount Pictures. lake.

The company’s CEO Philippe Dauman is selling a Wal-Mart names minority stake in Paramount, eight chemicals a move that controlling shareholder Sumner Redto be removed stone and his daughter Shari from products Redstone, oppose. So things Wal-Mart Stores Inc. must be a little awkward on said on Wednesday it the lot. was pushing suppliers to But help, or at least a remove eight hazardous Starship Enterprise-sized chemicals from products distraction, is on the way. including household clean- The studio is bringing “Star ing, personal care and Trek Beyond” into theaters, beauty items. launching the third film in The chemicals include the rebooted sci-fi series formaldehyde, a caracross 3,800 locations, cinogen found in wood including 391 Imax venues. products and building The latest in the long-runmaterials; butylparaben,v ning franchise is expected to used as a preservative in pull in a solid $55 million, cosmetics; and triclosan, with some analysts projectwhich is used in toothpaste ing it could hit $60 million. for treating plaque.

— From wire reports — From wire reports

On anniversary, U.S. and Cuba cite progress toward closer ties

By Sarah Marsh and Matt Spetalnick

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HAVANA/WASHINGTON — Marking the one-year anniversary of the renewal of U.S.-Cuban diplomatic ties, the former Cold War foes said on Wednesday they were working hard on further deepening their detente this year, as the clock ticks down on the Obama administration.

Cuban and U.S. representatives will meet this week in Havana to sign a deal on fighting drug trafficking and hold further talks later this month in Washington on their countries’ property claims against one another, a senior U.S. State Department official said.

“Normalization is a long term process … but we are

making slow and steady progress,” the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters on a conference call.

While much remains to be done, the neighbors have made historic progress in forging closer ties over the past year that both sides were at pains to underscore on Wednesday.

They reopened embassies a year ago after more than five decades of estrangement and have since agreed on matters

of common concern such as the resumption of direct mail service and U.S. commercial flights to Cuba.

U.S. President Barack Obama also made a historic trip to the island in March.

Yet the mood on the street in Havana was downbeat on Wednesday. The detente has raised Cubans’ expectations yet their economic reality has worsened.

President Raul Castro

warned Cubans earlier this month they would have to tighten their belts due to lower oil assistance from key ally Venezuela and a cash crunch as lower commodities prices hurt exports.

“I expected more since Obama’s visit, but salaries are still low, the economy is blocked and more and more young people are choosing to emigrate,” said Ricardo Fernandez, 34.

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The dumbest idea around If there were a contest for the most stupid idea in politics, my choice would be the assumption that people would be evenly or randomly distributed in incomes, institutions, occupations or awards, in the absence of somebody doing somebody wrong.

Political crusades, bureaucratic empires and lucrative personal careers as grievance mongers have been built on the foundation of that assumption, which is almost never tested against any facts.

A recent article in the New York Times saw as a problem the fact that females are greatly underrepresented among the highest rated chess players. Innumerable articles, TV stories Thomas and political outcries Sowell have been based on an “under-representation” of women in Silicon Valley, seen as a problem that needs to be solved.

Are there girls out there dying to play chess, who find the doors slammed shut in their faces? Are there women with Ph.D.s in computer science from M.I.T. and Cal Tech who get turned away when they apply for jobs in Silicon Valley?

Are girls and boys not allowed to have different interests? If girls had the same interest in chess as boys had, but were banned from chess clubs, that would be something very different from their not choosing to play chess as often as boys do. As for chess ratings, that is not subjective. It is based on which players, with which ratings, you have won against and lost to.

Are women and men not to be allowed to make different decisions as to how they choose to spend their time and live their lives?

Chess is not the only endeavor which can take a huge chunk of time out of your life, and unremitting efforts, to reach the top. If you want to become a top scientist, a partner in a big law firm or a top executive in a major corporation, you are very unlikely to do it working from 9 to 5, or taking a few years off, here and there, to have children and raise them.

Applying the same unsubstantiated assumption to differences in “representation” between different racial and ethnic groups likewise produces many loudly expressed grievances, political crusades, and millions of dollars from lawsuits charging discrimination — all without a speck of evidence beyond numbers that do not match the prevailing assumptions.

People who base their conclusions on hard facts often reach very different conclusions than those who base their conclusions on the preconception that outcomes would be even or random in the absence of somebody treating somebody wrong.

Something as simple as age differences among groups can doom any assumption of even or random outcomes.

If every 20-year-old Puerto Rican in the United States had an income identical with the income of every 20-year-old Japanese American — and identical incomes at every other age — Japanese Americans as a group would still have a higher average income than Puerto Ricans in the United States. That is because the median age of Japanese Americans is more than 20 years older.

People with 20 years more work experience usually make higher incomes. And age difference is just one of many differences between groups.

You can study innumerable groups in countries around the world today, or over centuries of recorded history, without finding a single example of the even or random outcomes that are used as a benchmark for determining discrimination.

Nevertheless, courts of law — including the Supreme Court of the United States — use something that has never been found anywhere as a norm to which current realities are to be compared. Billions of dollars, in the aggregate, have changed hands as a result of individual lawsuits charging discrimination.

Life is undoubtedly unfair. But that is not the same as saying that the unfairness occurred wherever the statistics were collected. The origins of this unfairness often go back to different childhood environments for individuals or different geographic or cultural settings for groups and nations.

These differences between nations, as well as differences between individuals and groups, reflect the fact that the world “has never been a level playing field,” as economic historian David S. Landes put it. Renowned historian Fernand Braudel said, “In no society have all regions and all parts of the population developed equally.”

How long will we continue to take something that has never happened, and never had much chance of happening, as a norm?

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

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Imitation is flattery until the cover-up CLEVELAND — Imitation may be the highest form of flattery, but plagiarism, not so much.

This is especially so if you’re Melania Trump on opening night at the Republican National Convention.

Or, is it? By the reaction, both within and without the campaign, you’d have thought the woman had lifted Lady Macbeth’s “Out, damned spot,” or, say, Hillary Clinton’s “What difference, at this point, does it make?”

Instead, Melania Trump — or one of her speechwriters — lifted nearly 60 words from Michelle Obama’s speech at the 2008 Democratic convention.

The lines in question fall squarely in the category of boilerplate.

Banal, in other words, such that one wonders why anyone would bother.

This isn’t to disparage Michelle Obama’s speech, which was original to her and benefited from the ring of authenticity and the future first lady’s passion.

Repeated by Melania, it was as inspiring as a fortune cookie platitude.

Whatever the reason or whoever was responsible for the obvious duplication, it was, just to be clear, plagiarism — someone else’s thoughts and words presented as one’s own.

A couple of words were moved, perhaps to make the plagiarist

of the episode has become the story. If we opened another fortune cookie, it might read: “Denial and cover-up are often worse than the crime.” Here’s another: “Always tell the truth as soon as possible.” Trump, the man who frequently says, “Believe me” and “trust me,” may Kathleen need to tweak his message.

Parker Moreover, isn’t the view from Trump Tower that denyfeel better, but the result was to and-cover is Hillary Clinton’s ruin what otherwise was a rather template? If for no other reason, sweet, if not quite triumphant, Trump’s people should have presentation by the foreign-born fessed up to, yes, horrors, wife of presumptive nominee mistakenly using some of Mrs. Donald Trump. Was anyone Obama’s speech. We’re so sorry. really expecting more?

Forgive this inadvertent display How simple it would have of admiration for her speech, been the day after to say “oops” which we studied without inand move along. tending to copy.

Instead, campaign manEnd of story. As you know, ager Paul Manafort denied the this isn’t the way things went plagiarism Tuesday morning. and an entire day of news In a matter of hours, several coverage (and now this column) revisions and amendments to was devoted to the plagiarism the denial were added. Melania followed by the deception. wrote the speech herself. No, Again, few seem to care as she had speechwriters. Does the much as the media do in part truth really hurt so much? because reporters and writIt is doubtful that anyone ers are necessarily attuned to beyond the media (or the Trump the risks and consequences of campaign) cares much about plagiarism. Otherwise, most this scandalous affront to intelpeople recognize that leaders lectual property (cough, cough). and CEOs have to rely on staff Half the country watching Mrs. and speechwriters to get things Trump’s speech likely weren’t right. Sometimes they screw up. paying close attention to her In a high-profile case such as words, given the visual distrac- this, they’re usually fired and the tion of her physical presence. ship sails on.

But, as always, the handling But Trump’s campaign made

it known Tuesday that no one would be fired, leaving people to wonder what really happened. Manafort’s denial and aggressive dismissal of anyone questioning the speech’s origins suggests that the never-wrong narcissism of the boss is either contagious — or Trump likes to surround himself with mirror images.

Then again, maybe he’s protecting the boss’ wife.

The truth is, Melania probably didn’t write her speech, though as is typical, she worked with speechwriters, one of whom said Wednesday she inserted some words resembling parts of Obama’s speech. It’s too bad because Trump could have used this episode as an opportunity for compassion and perhaps even a sympathetic narrative: Melania is an immigrant and a retired model. She’s not a professional writer. To prepare for her debut, she wanted to see what other first ladies have said in their speeches. She was so moved by Mrs. Obama’s speech that she wanted to offer some of those same thoughts.

She just doesn’t understand the rules about “borrowing” others’ words.

They coulda made lemonade.

Instead, poor Melania was left holding the lemons.

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

What a menu says about educational divide CHICAGO — As they select schools for their children, should well-off Americans consider their college decisions a moral act?

Has the race for luxury amenities at top-tier universities made a full-tuition-paying family’s decision to send their children to a college with less swanky room and board an act of social justice?

Malcolm Gladwell thinks so.

The star journalist and author of the blockbuster hits “The Tipping Point,” “Blink” and “Outliers” has turned his considerable talents at interweaving social sciences with good storytelling to audio. His latest project is a weekly podcast called “Revisionist History,” which is about events or issues that have been overlooked, misunderstood or forgotten.

Since premiering the show on June 15, Gladwell has looked into the story of a famous English painting called “The Roll Call,” investigated a top-secret research project the Pentagon ran in an old villa in downtown Saigon during the Vietnam War and analyzed why smart people sometimes do dumb things.

The episodes have all been marked by Gladwell’s trademark deep research, his intelligent and soothing voice and, at times, the deep passion he brings to a topic.

This is especially apparent in a three-part miniseries, under-

Esther Cepeda way on “Revisionist History,” on educational attainment for the neediest in our country. It started with an episode — a moving, infuriating, heartbreaking 40 minutes — titled “Carlos Forgets” that illustrates why, even though so many universities are trying to recruit highly intelligent kids from poor areas, most never make it to colleges appropriate to their talent. The third, yet-to-be-aired piece is about educational philanthropy.

The second, just-released episode, is about the trade-offs that universities have to make as they attempt to recruit both the low-income students they want to educate and the full-freightpaying students who subsidize the grants that make it possible.

The episode, “Food Fight,” compares the cafeteria food at Vassar College and Bowdoin College — two small, elite, Northeastern liberal arts colleges — that do vastly different jobs at both providing luxury for the full-freight kids and admitting students on full rides.

According to Gladwell’s

numbers, 23 percent of Vassar’s undergraduate students are low-income, making it “the most open and accessible private school in the land,” while Bowdoin has only 13 percent of such students.

The other significant difference?

Vassar spends about $62,000 on each of its low-income students to room, board and educate them — and skimps on fancy dorm rooms and better food in the dining hall. Bowdoin’s housing, on the other hand, is ranked second best in the nation. Bowdoin’s cafeteria is run like a Michelin-starred restaurant and has been named to various lists of colleges with the best-tasting and healthiest food in the nation.

Again, the problem is that, in effect, students who are used to living in such opulence at home and who demand it when they leave for college help pay for the kids who couldn’t afford to attend unless on full scholarship. If Vassar can’t entice more full-tuition-paying students to apply, fewer highly talented low-income kids will have the opportunity to study there.

Thus, the decision to eat like a king or a pauper at college dining halls can be seen as a moral question.

Gladwell’s answer is: “If you’re looking at liberal arts colleges … don’t give your money to Bowdoin or to any

other school that serves amazing food in its dining hall. Because every time you support a school that spends its money on amazing food, every time you cast a vote for eggplant parmesan pancakes and lobster bakes and venison during deer season, you’re making it harder and harder for someone like [Vassar College President] Catherine Hill to create opportunities for poor kids.”

I’ve not done this quote anywhere near the justice it deserves — it warrants a listen — and, obviously, Bowdoin officials didn’t take this well.

They posted an angry response on their website (you should read it: http://ow.ly/JbA7302oJzM) suggesting that Gladwell didn’t treat them fairly.

Maybe. Maybe not. You decide.

What cannot be ignored is that, even when adjusted for inflation, college is both further out of reach to middle and lower classes than ever before and more crucial to lifetime economic success.

The debate about college access vs. luxury has been an increasing point of contention for the past decade. As America focuses more on the growing gulf between the haves and the have-nots, it’s an issue that deserves far more attention and consideration.

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

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GCT has plans for expansion, upgrades Administration is paying 80 percent of the cost, but the county is putting up a 20 percent local match Gwinnett County officials ($461,641) to cover the rest are planning several efforts of it. to improve the services proThe next largest cost is a vided by Gwinnett County $1.66 million contract with Transit, and county comArchimetric Design and missioners took steps to turn construction Inc. for the those ideas into reality on expansion of the park and Tuesday. ride lot at Sugarloaf Mills.

The plans include buyPlans include redesigning ing new paratransit buses the express bus passenger and clean diesel buses, and loading lane so another bus expanding the park and ride lane and a fare building can lot at Sugarloaf Mills Mall. be added.

Commissioners approved Officials also want to add contracts for those projects turn lanes, sidewalks and this week. a new traffic signal. All of “Some of these items go the work will be paid for toward keeping our fleet through a combination of in good repair,” Commisstate GO TRANSIT! Capital sioner Lynette Howard said Program funding, $60,000 in a statement. “Other items in local funds and federal address our goal of imfunding. proved and increased transit Commissioners also apservice.” proved a $533,351 contract The largest contract was with National Bus Sales $2.3 million for the purchase to buy seven 25-foot-long, of five 40-foot clean diesel 14-passenger replacement buses. The purchase is part paratransit vehicles. of plans, approved at the Eighty percent of the beginning of the year as part money that will be used to of the county’s 2016 budget, buy the buses is coming from to expand Gwinnett County the federal government, That Transit to include new is because commissioners routes. agreed to accept a Surface The contract was awarded Transportation Block Grant to Gillig LLC through use of that was made available by the Heavy Duty Transit Bus working with the Atlanta Construction Consortium, Regional Commission. according to county docuOfficials said the county’s ments. The Federal Transit portion will be $106,670.

By Curt Yeomans

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County hires firm to fix bridges

By Curt Yeomans

rehab contract every year,” CommisGwinnett County ofsioner ficials will spend nearly Tommy $500,000 to give several Hunter bridges around the county a said in a Tommy face lift. statement.

Hunter The bridge work, re“This is ferred to by county officials both to ensure our bridges as rehabilitations, is part of are up to Georgia DOT an annual contract. Georstandards and to extend the gia Bridge and Concrete useful life of the strucLLC received the $482,000 tures.” contract after it submitted The affected bridges the lowest of four bids on include Peachtree Industhe project. The repairs are trial Boulevard at Suwanee being paid for with money Creek, Lester Road over collected as part of the Jackson Creek, Sugar2014 SPLOST. loaf Parkway over a CSX “We (issue) a bridge Railroad, Annistown Road

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Clara Bowers Clara Edna Bowers, age 64 of Auburn, GA, passed away on July 19, 2016.

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Audrey Hutchinson Audrey Theresa Hutchinson age 68 of Snellville, GA passed away July 9, 2016. Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel 1031 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville GA, 30046 770-277-4550.

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Adult Literacy Barrow participants have been The Barrow County awarded scholarships and Sheriff’s Office have a earned U.S. citizenship, suspect in a case regarding according to the organipossible financial fraud zation. The program is involving an adult educaheld at Lanier Technical tion program, officials College, Winder-Barrow Campus at 89 E. Athens St. announced Wednesday. in Winder.

The board of directors The sheriff’s office of Adult Literacy Barrow The board of directors for Adult Literacy Barrow contact- shared few details because contacted the sheriff’s office about the suspected ac- ed the sheriff’s office about possible financial fraud in they have been in contact tivity, Capt. Ryan Sears, a its program in Winder, officials announced Wednesday. with the suspect, according to the release. sheriff’s office spokesman, (Special Photo) Sears said the sheriff’s said in a news release. office plans to speak with The program, formerly Barrow Coalition for Adult includes GED preparathe district attorney’s office. known as the Winderand Continuing Education, tion, English as a Second

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Max Mount, Sr. Max Mount, Sr., age 75, of Lawrenceville, GA, passed away July 23, 2016. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company” Snellville Chapel, 770979-3200, www.wagesfuneralhome.com

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Jack Ray Norman Jack Ray Norman age 71, of Suwanee, GA passed away on July 19, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Raymond Trice, Sr. Raymond Earl Trice, Sr. age 85 of Dunwoody, GA passed away July 19, 2016. Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel 1031 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville GA, 30046 770-277-4550.

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Administration Center, 75 Langley Drive in Lawto form a Citizens Project renceville.

Selection Committee. The Chapman explained committee will sift through in his letter that Gwina list of short-term projects nett County residents who generated through the CTP attend the meeting will update process to prioritize select representatives of projects for the proposed 11 interest groups to serve SPLOST. on the committee, as well “Knowing how important as alternates. The comthese choices are to the mittee will be made up of future of Gwinnett county one representative of each and the impact projects will commission district, as have on the community for well as representatives of years to come, the Gwinthe business community, nett County Department of schools, environmental Transportation would like groups, civic organizations, to invite you to participate young professionals, senior in the project selection citizens and the freight and process,” Chapman wrote manufacturing sector. in the letter.

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representatives must reside within the applicable commission district,” Chapman explained.

Attendees are asked to bring photo identification with them because that will be needed to prove their residence in case they are put forward to serve on the committee. Only Gwinnett County residents will be allowed to serve on the committee.

“We need representation from all segments of the County, so we’re sending emails, talking to the media and sharing information through all the County’s communications channels, including the website,” Commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash said in a statement.

Shooting •From Page 1A attending a party where gunfire erupted.

“He was just out enjoying a summer night at a party with friends,” the summary of the site said.

“No beef ... no hate ... just fun ...”

Branch’s brother, Shahiem, said he felt media coverage has portrayed the 17-year-old as a “thug.”

“Don’t believe ... that for a second,” he wrote.

“He did not live like that ... From the bottom of my heart my brother was a great dude.”

Keoyne Symister, Jahlah’s sister-in-law, said Branch was working hard and recruiters had been taking notice.

“You were doing great things,” she wrote to the boy’s memory. “We were

rooting for you, and will continue to do so.”

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Industrial to fill voids and replace dirt that has been washed away.

At the same time, the Old Norcross Road bridge will get a raised curb and a handrail on the westbound side of the road. The Martin Nash Road bridge will get reinforced concrete encasements around the base of steel piles which will also be cleaned and painted. Other work includes repairing cracked and chipping concrete under the bridge structure on Brooks Road and extending the headwall at the Alpine Drive bridge and pouring four inches of 3,000 psi concrete on top.

By Erika Wells

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84 of Duluth, GA passed away Tuesday, July 19, 2016. Bob was a member of Mt. Tabor Baptist Church for 20 years, spent 28 years in the U.S. Air Force as a CMSGT and was a loving husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother and son who enjoyed golf, fishing (really loved fishing) and loved to tell lies and kill flies. He is preceded in death by his parents, Jess and Annie Little; son Robert W. Little and is survived by his wife of 56 years, Eula M. Little; son, Ronald C. Chesser (Patty); daughters, Terry L. Whitaker (Les) and Katherine A. Hess (Larry); sisters, Ruth Poarch and Mary E. McFarland; 10 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 4:00 pm on Friday, July 22, 2016 at Crowell Brothers Funeral Homes & Crematory. The family will receive friends on Thursday, July 21, 2016 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his name to Mt. Tabor Baptist Church or the Alzheimers Disease Research organization.

On-line condolences can be made at www. crowellbrothers.com. Arrangements by Crowell Brothers Funeral Homes and Crematory, Norcross/Peachtree Corners, Georgia. 770-448-5757.

over the Yellow River, Old Norcross Road over the Yellow River Martin Nash Road over Turkey Creek, Ronald Reagan Parkway over Webb Ginn House and Five Forks Trickum roads, Alpine Drive over Pounds Creek and Brooks Road over the Alcovy River.

Deck joints will be replaced at the bridges on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Lester, Brooks and Annistown roads and Sugarloaf and Ronald Reagan parkways, according to county documents. Officials also said concrete grout will also be used under the approach to the bridge on Peachtree

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on a path that’s turned into a lifetime in higher education in such roles as college president, chief operating officer, chief academic officer and provost.

“It changed everything,” said Arant, who earned a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University in 1977, a master’s degree in English in 1981 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a doctorate in English in 1991 from Duke University. “The idea that this place is dedicated to that kind of work really appealed to me.”

That philosophy led him to Georgia Gwinnett College, where on July 1 he became the third provost in the 11-year history of the institution. Arant was announced in the fall to the new position after 16 years of experience in leadership positions at schools across the country. He’s responsible for guiding and directing areas such as faculty and staff develop-

ment, research, advancement goals and activities and budget and resource allocation.

Arant replaced Lois Richardson, who was also the charter dean of the School of Liberal Arts at GGC. President Stas Preczewski was in the position before Richardson.

“The thing that attracted me immediately was the notion that it doesn’t matter where you are, we meet you where you are and we will help you be successful,” Arant said. “That’s the reason I got into higher education.”

Arant most recently served in an interim role as chief academic officer on a one-year assignment at York College in Pennsylvania. He was in a similar role the previous year at Misericordia University, also in Pennsylvania.

At Friends University, a private school in Wichita, Kan., Arant was president, and at Mount Olive College, a private school in North Carolina, he was

executive vice president and provost.

If the GGC position hadn’t materialized, Arant figured he might find short-term positions to solve problems and build a bridge to the next person, which he did twice elsewhere.

“If they know you’re not staying, nobody ever doubts your motives,” he said. “They just figure you’re trying to do the right thing. I like that. I like solving problems and helping people to figure out what they need to do.”

At GGC, though, the expectation is to continue momentum the school has built since its rapid growth as an access institution in the last decade.

“It’s been a lot of fun to be kind of a problem solver and to make change,” he said. “… It’s not change that’s needed here. What’s needed here is to sustain momentum. … I’ve gone other places to fix things.

I’ve come here to build something.”

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Longing for more

Lanier linebackers Tyler Taylor, above, and Juwuan Jones, below, pose for portraits at Lanier High School last year.

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Lanier D aims to maintain high level of play

By Will Hammock will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

An efficient, at times dominating, defense has been at the core of the Lanier football team’s success the past three seasons.

It’s no coincidence that the defensive work has translated into a 30-5 record during that span, including 21-2 the last two years. Only five of the Longhorns’ 12 opponents last season scored in double figures.

A huge factor in that unit was big defensive lineman Derrick Brown, the state’s top recruit in the Class of 2016 and now a freshman at Auburn.

Two other linebackers who graduated off last year’s team are playing in college, Shaun Hunter at Birmingham Southern and Devin Miller at Hutchinson Community College (Kan.), where he likely will earn offers from highlevel, four-year colleges.

Despite those losses, the Longhorns don’t expect a defensive drop-off this season.

“We’ve been pleased with how we’ve played defensively the last couple of years,” Lanier head coach Korey Mobbs said. “The chore is continuing that success and getting better.

We want to reload. We feel like that’s the mark of a team that competes every year.”

It doesn’t hurt that defensive coordinator David

Willingham has the talent again for another stingy unit.

Another loaded group of linebackers is at the forefront, headed up by returning starters and top college prospects Juwuan Jones and Tyler Taylor.

Jones has a still-growing offer list that includes Wisconsin, Southern Miss and others, while the highly recruited Taylor has a final list of favorites that features Auburn, Georgia, Alabama, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.

“Juwuan’s gotten us lined up really since the first game he ever played as a sophomore,” Mobbs said. “He’s so smart. And Tyler has really come on.

He’s a guy who wasn’t very vocal when he first came to us but he has just continued to blossom. It really is a great story of just stay committed and (colleges) are going to find you. In today’s world of recruiting, he was kind of a late bloomer. But it’s great to see that film doesn’t lie. If they like

your film, they’ll find you.”

Kameron Brown, a 6-foot, 230-pound sophomore and Derrick Brown’s younger brother, steps into the starting lineup at linebacker this season, as does junior Erick Turner.

They will play behind a front that is missing one giant U.S. Army AllAmerican, but one that does return two starters, noseguard Peyton Bergman and end Michael Allen, another top Division I prospect. The secondary also is an experienced group with reutrning starters C.J. Burress and Ethan Wilson at safety, along with Morgen Kent at cornerback.

“We really like our two safeties returning,” Mobbs said. “C.J. Burress has several FCS and D-I, mid-major offers. You talk about leadership and him and Juwuan on defense are our leaders. C.J. leads by being vocal and playing the right way. He’s the hardest worker in the weight room.

He’s the guy who gets us going defensively.”

The defense gets a few different challenges this season with its new region, 8-AAAAAA. The Longhorns will join Dacula in the region that also includes Apalachee, Gainesville, Habersham Central and Winder-Barrow. The non-region schedule features games with Northview, South Gwinnett, Northside-Warner Robins, Lambert and St. Pius.

Hawks’ Janowski bounces back from gruesome injury Mill Creek’s offensive line group ran through drills and workouts in the blazing heat Monday at the Elite Line Camp, working hard at the right times and joking around at others.

It looked like a typical, tight-knit group of linemen, even more so because they all were similar, big and physical. That Collin Janowski prompted a lineman from another team to ask, “What are they feeding those Mill Creek boys?”

With all those similarities, it was tough to distinguish one player from the next upon a quick glance.

Offensive guard Collin Janowski fits that description, too, but talk with the Mill Creek coaches and they will tell you why the rising senior is slightly different — because he’s a little happier to be back on the football field with his close friends than most.

Janowski, not overly outspoken, prefers to blend in with his teammates, but how he handled a gruesome injury last season has drawn praise from teammates and coaches alike.

“You talk about earning respect, he earned respect (from the injury),” Mill Creek offensive line coach Josh Lovelady said.

“Didn’t cry. Didn’t yell.”

“I saw how bad it looked and Collin’s acting like it’s no big deal. … that showed how tough he is,” Mill Creek head coach Shannon Jarvis said. “All our kids know how tough and painful that injury was, but Collin never made a big deal about it. He just went back to work.”

Janowski suffered his injury, a dislocated hip, back on Oct. 9 in the Hawks’ 42-0 win at Mountain View. After completing a block, Janowski ended up on the ground with his knee positioned close to his chest. At that moment, a Mill Creek running back crashed into his back and popped his hip out of its socket.

Visually, it was grotesque. The kind of injury seen on TV replays that make people whip their heads away from the TV to relieve the sick feeling in their stomachs. Those who saw Janowski on the field said it looked like a

Will Hammock small pillow, or a rolledup towel, was inside the hip of his pants where the femur and femoral head (the ball in the hip’s ball and socket joint) jutted out.

“It was probably one of the worst injuries I’ve seen on the field,” Jarvis said.

Doctors and trainers couldn’t put Janowski’s hip back in place on the field because of the proximity to the femoral artery.

Instead he was carted off to the hospital, where he was put under sedation before six people put the 6-foot-2, 260-pounder’s hip back in place.

The good news for Janowski was that the pain ceased pretty much immediately. The bad news was that he couldn’t play any more last season, watching Mill Creek’s best-ever season from the sidelines. He didn’t get to compete as the Hawks finished off an unbeaten regular season, won the Region 7-AAAAAA title clincher and made the state semifinals.

But he worked on rehabilitation, grinding out knee pulls, leg lifts, hip flexor stretches and whatever else he needed to do. He was cleared at 100 percent in mid-February.

“It feels normal now,” Janowski said during a camp break Monday. “You wouldn’t even know it happened. It was a freak injury, a one in a million thing. It would be pretty difficult to do again.”

Janowski confirmed his health in spring practices and offseason lifts, allowing him to blend back in with his fellow linemen in workouts and events like the Elite Line Camp.

He is eager now for the next step, an anticipated state semifinal rematch with Colquitt County in the Georgia Dome for the Aug. 20 Corky Kell Classic.

“I’m excited for the season,” Janowski said.

“I’m so excited. It’s senior year. I’m ready to get out there.”

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

Offensive line part of a total evaluation for Archer this summer

By Paul Thomas

camp on Friday, FCA team camp on Friday, and that will be a big time for us to continue to develop our With a senior class of 31 offensive linemen and see players gone, and two more who the five are going to star players lost to transfers be. It’s still up in the air.”

(Jamyest Williams to GrayThe Tigers will have at son and Isaiah Pryor to minimum four new starters IMG Academy) this spring along the offensive line and summer have been a this fall. While Dyer said long evaluation process for it’s an open competition Archer head coach Andy across the board, he’ll Dyer and his staff. be depending on seniors The Tigers have just one Mason Hardin, Dylan Rose returning starter on offense Archer head coach Andy Dyer talks to his team against and Chandler Evans to step in tackle Adam Brown, up and earn starting spots Central Gwinnett last season. (Photo: Jim Lacey) and three on defense in along with Brown. linebacker Quinn Miller, where,” Dyer said. “We’re Line. So those guys will The fifth offensive defensive end Sam Wright evaluating every single kind of be anchoring the lineman likely to crack and defensive end Will spot. Obviously Quinn front. We’ve got a lot of the starting lineup is Josh Choloh.

Miller is back at linebacker big shoes to fill obviously. Ezuedu. The 6-foot-4 “We’re growing everyand Will Choloh on the D We’re heading to team junior is coming off a paul.thomas@ gwinnettdailypost.com

knee injury suffered in the spring, but should be ready for Archer’s opener against McEachern in the Corky Kell Classic.

“We expect those guys to step up and answer the bell,” Dyer said. “Obviously each year is a whole new different deal, and as a coach you know kids are going to step up. It’s just a matter of who it is and when they decide they’re going to do it. That’s what we’re looking forward to.”

Archer will also have a new starter under center with the graduation of Will Beardern. Junior Dillon Waye has taken the majority of the snaps this summer at quarterback and

looks to be the guy.

Sophomore Braylen Weems, a likely starter in the secondary as well, will also get some work at QB this summer for the Tigers.

Despite the inexperience of the team as a whole has, Dyer said he’s happy with where the team is heading into the fall.

“They’ve been working their tails off in the weight room and in our running program,” he said. “They’re a good bunch. They’re low maintenance. They show up and kind of get their lunch pale and go to work.

We’re very pleased with their work ethic and just kind of the attitude and demeanor of our kids.”

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Through July 31: All Sports Youth Camps will be held all summer at Bogan Park, Collins Hill Park and George Pierce Park. Training in a variety of sports is offered. For more information, go to www.allsportsyouthcamps.com or call coaches Daniel Stencil or James Clanahan at 770289-0899.

In Brief Former UGA, Peachtree Ridge DB Chad Clay finds a new home After being dismissed by the University of Georgia in June, Peachtree Ridge grad Chad Clay has found a new home for the fall.

The former Lions defensive back is headed to Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kan. Clay enrolled at UGA in January but was arrested twice once in Athens. The first arrest was for an incident with a BB gun in a campus dorm and property damages. The second arrest was for allegedly stealing a $30 pair of Apple iPhone headphones. He was dismissed after the second arrest by Georgia head coach Kirby Smart.

Lynx too strong for Dream Seimone Augustus scored 19 points and Sylvia Fowles added 14 as the Minnesota Lynx posted an 8365 victory over the Atlanta Dream on Wednesday at the Target Center in Minneapolis.

Collins Hill grad Maya Moore was held to four points on 1-for-9 shooting from the field for the Lynx (20-4).

But Minnesota had too many weapons on offense in addition to Augustus and Fowles. Rebekkah Brunson recorded a double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds. Renee Montgomery came off the bench to pour in 12 points.

Atlanta’s leading scorer, Angel McCoughtry, struggled for the fourth straight game. She was held to eight points on 2-for-8 from the field. In the past four games, McCoughtry is 13-of-41 from the field.

Layshia Clarendon was the only Dream (12-12) player in double figures with 11 points.

Falcons to host youth football coaching clinic at Meadowcreek The Atlanta Falcons and Under Armour will host a free coaching clinic for youth football coaches at Meadowcreek this Saturday.

The free clinic, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., will provide coaches with the knowledge and skills to improve the youth football experience for their programs. The day will consist of a series of sessions that will discuss various youth football topics ranging from offensive and defensive schemes to program management.

Speakers leading the sessions include former Atlanta Falcons linebacker and USA Football master trainer Buddy Curry, Georgia Tech football assistant coach Lamar Owens, local high school head coaches and members of the Positive Coaching Alliance and Growing Leaders organizations. Former Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Terance Mathis will provide opening remarks as the keynote speaker.

The clinic is open to all youth football coaches. To register, go to www.atlantafalcons.com/coachingclinic.

Mill Creek, Norcross rugby players help USA Rugby South to title The USA Rugby South Panthers, featuring eight players from Georgia and three from Gwinnett, won the Rugby Americas Championship last weekend with a 25-10 victory over Mexico.

Mill Creek’s Sean O’Driscoll and Jean Roberts, both in their second year with the Panthers, contributed to the championship, as did Norcross’ Cristian Calvillo.

O’Driscoll and Roberts play for Titans United Rugby Club and Calvillo plays for Phoenix Rugby Club.

The other Georgians on the roster are Josh Inglis, Shea O’Hanlon, Muhamed Abdullah, Michael Curran and Nikolas Koumandarakis. Three of the four Panthers coaches also were from Georgia — Titans United’s Stevie Roberts, Rugby Georgia’s Daniel Pretorius and Lassiter Rugby Club’s Randall Joseph.

— From staff and wire reports

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Drivers now more aware of concussions

By Don Coble

Staff Correspondent

Ricky Rudd was so defiant and determined to race just days after suffering a concussion during a 1984 all-star race at the Daytona International Speedway, he taped his eyelids open so he could see.

The whites of his eyes were bloodshot after barrel-rolling and flipping end-over-end nine times during the Busch Clash.

His eye sockets were swollen and he was diagnosed with a concussion.

Instead of getting out of the car, he attached duct tape to each eyelid and attached the tape to his forehead.

Eight days after the horrific accident, he started on the pole and finished seventh in the Daytona 500.

A week after that he won at Richmond International Raceway.

“It was one of these deals where you do what you have to do,” Rudd said.

Years ago, drivers were required to compete in every race to be eligible for the championship and to receive appearance money.

NASCAR learned five months later Rudd knew he had a concussion and injuries to his ribs, so the sanctioning body stepped in to require drivers to get medical clearance following a hard crash.

But given the recent information about chronic traumatic encephalopathy that’s caused, in part, by concussions, drivers now have taken the leading role in protecting their health — both now and in the future.

After suffering with balance issues and nausea for days, Dale Earnhardt Jr. brought more attention — and proved how times have changed — to concussions when he sat out last week’s race at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway while he recovers from a third concussion.

“I put my health and quality of life as a top priority, and I’ll always do that,” Earnhardt announced Sunday night through his podcast, “Dale Jr. Download’s Dirty Mo Radio.”

“So, I’m going to take this slow and strictly follow the advice of my doctors and try to learn as much as I can to be smarter and be wiser.”

He joins Camping World Truck and ARCA series driver John Wes Townley, who put himself on the sidelines a week earlier following a vicious crash July 7 at the Kentucky Speedway.

Earnhardt’s now had at least three concussions in crashes. The first came in 2002 at California Speedway, but the son of seven-time champion Dale Earnhardt waited five months to make the injury public. He struggled

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. (88) waves to the fans during driver introductions prior to the Quaker State 400 presented by Advance Auto Parts at Kentucky Speedway. (Photo: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA Today Sports)

most of that season, so he decided he didn’t want his fans — or NASCAR — to blame poor finishes on the concussion.

Earnhardt later admitted he wish he had taken a break from driving to get proper treatment.

Earnhardt then missed two races with a concussion in 2012 after being involved in a hard crash at Talladega Superspeedway.

His most-recent problems were the result of crashes at either the Michigan International Speedway on June 12 or at Daytona International Speedway on July 2. It’s also possible the current condition is the result of both accidents.

“The real danger is when you get another concussion before the first one is healed,” Townley said.

“That can be serious. You have to let it heal.”

Doctors told Townley, who complained of dizziness and confusion after he lost the brakes on his truck before slamming into the first turn wall, to rest his brain.

“You can’t concentrate on things,” he said. “If I’m watching television, I have to get up and take a break every 15 minutes. You don’t want to think too hard about anything.”

Townley will miss Wednesday’s truck race at the Eldora Speedway, but he plans to return for the truck race at the Pocono Raceway on July 30.

Earnhardt has yet to announce any timetable for his return. If he’s not cleared by Wednesday, Hendrick Motorsports will bring Jeff Gordon out of retirement to drive his No. 88 Chevrolet at Sunday’s Crown Royal 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Rudd’s generation of drivers didn’t have such options.

“I never told them I was uncomfortable,” Rudd said. “I went and got a roll of duct tape. So I just kind of took all the extra skin

and taped it to my eyelid and taped it up to my forehead and put my helmet on and went on.”

Rudd retired after the 2007 season. He now spends a lot of his time riding his bicycle – far away from racing.

Others who raced before and during Rudd’s era weren’t as lucky.

Fred Lorenzen is suffering with dementia. He lives in an assisted living home and his condition has deteriorated so badly, he wasn’t able to attend his induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2015.

His daughter, Amanda Lorenzen Gardstrom said his dementia was the result of racing with concussionlike symptoms. “He never stopped to heal,” she told AP. On Sunday, the family said Lorenzen will donate his brain for study to the Concussion Legacy Foundation after his death. Less than three months before his newest concussion Earnhardt Jr. said he too was donating his brain for research.

The NFL’s $1 billion concussion settlement revealed the league now believes 30 percent of its players are likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease or moderate dementia as a result of multiple concussions.

NASCAR is paying attention.

Now that Earnhardt is dealing with a third concussion, car owner Rick Hendrick said Sunday he doesn’t believe the current setback to be career-threatening because he was quick to receive treatment.

Retired drivers Ricky Craven, Bobby Allison, Ernie Irvan, Sam Ard and Jerry Nadeau all continue to suffer with brain injuries sustained in racing accidents long after their careers ended.

Craven had a hard impact with the fourth-turn wall at the Texas Motor Speedway in 1998. Now

an analyst with ESPN, he said he continues to have problems with his vision.

“There’s a fine line between playing hurt and prolonging an injury,” Craven said. “Things make a lot more sense the older you get, but you still have questions. I’ve come to realize I may never know. I want to blame it on getting older, but you don’t know.”

LeeRoy Yarbrough, who in 1969 became the only driver to win the sport’s three premier races — the Daytona 500, Coca-Cola 600 and the Southern 500 — in the same year, died in 1984 a Florida mental hospital. He suffered two serious concussions in racing accidents and was institutionalized after reportedly attempting to choke his mother.

Earnhardt wants to avoid such tragedy by being proactive in his own health.

“I think just in knowing Dale Jr. and some of his past that he knew it was the right thing to do,” Ryan Newman said.

“I think he has been in that position before and wished that he hadn’t done it. I think we all kind of know that.”

Tony Stewart, 45, started his career when drivers worked through injuries.

Now that he’s retiring at the end of the season, he’s glad the sport has moved into a different mindset.

Part of that is baseline testing on each driver’s brain before the season.

“The era that I came in, you had to race to make a living. You had to race to pay your bills,” he said.

“If you could get up and you could drive yourself to the racetrack, and there were days that my hand was broken, we taped my hand to the steering wheel.

That’s just the era that I grew up in. That was our job. That’s how we lived.”

And too often, that defiant determination has turned into a lifetime of pain.

Gordon to replace Earnhardt for two races The Sports Xchange

driver for the Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 car at Retired driver Jeff the end of last season and Gordon will return to the now works as a NASCAR racetrack for this weekanalyst for FOX Sports. end’s Brickyard 400 to He will replace Earnhardt replace Dale Earnhardt, in the No. 88 Chevrolet who continues to battle for the next two races. concussion-like symp“I think Jeff will do toms. well,” team owner Rick Hendrick Motorsports Hendrick said Sunday made it official Wedneswhen talking about the day that the 44-year-old possibility of Gordon’s Gordon will take the return. “He’s won that wheel and return to Sprint race a lot of times. He’s Cup racing for the next been out of the car this two weekends. Earnhardt year. I expect if he gets has not been medically in the car, he might be a cleared to drive in Sunlittle bit rusty, but we’ve day’s race at Indianapolis got a lot of practice time Motor Speedway. and I don’t think it’ll take Earnhardt, who sat Gordon long to get back out last Sunday’s New in the groove.”

Hampshire 301, also will Gordon, a four-time miss the following race at Sprint Cup Series chamPocono on July 31. pion, retired following Gordon retired as a a 23-year career with full-time Sprint Cup 93 wins in 797 starts.

Gordon, an equity owner in Hendrick Motorsports, has run in every Brickyard race since the inaugural event in 1994, winning a record five times —1994, 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2014.

Gordon was on vacation in France last week when he received the call from Hendrick asking him to fill in for Earnhardt if he wasn’t able to race.

Alex Bowman took the reins of the No. 88 from Earnhardt at New Hampshire Motor Speedway last Sunday, finishing 26th.

Hendrick said it has yet to be determined whether Gordon continues to drive for Earnhardt if needed.

“Jeff’s a team player,” Hendrick said in a news release Wednesday. “I

know he’ll be ready, and I know Dale has incredible trust in him. It’s going to be an emotional weekend (at Indianapolis) with Dale not being there and seeing Jeff back behind the wheel.

“Our focus is giving Dale all the time he needs to recover. There’s nothing we want more than to see him back in the race car, but we’ll continue to listen to the doctors and follow their lead. What’s best for Dale is what’s best for Hendrick Motorsports and everyone involved with the team.

We’re all proud of him and looking forward to having him racing soon.”

Earnhardt missed two races in 2012 for concussion-related issues after a wreck at Talladega Superspeedway.

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Reds blast Braves 6-3 in finale

By Jeff Wallner The Sports Xchange

CINCINNATI — Anthony DeSclafani is a silent assassin.

It never seems like the Reds right-hander is dominating a game, until you look up at the scoreboard.

“He just keeps throwing strikes,” said catcher Tucker Barnhart. “It’s overwhelming for hitters.

He doesn’t give them a chance to breathe.”

DeSclafani allowed two runs over eight innings, and Barnhart and Joey Votto homered, lifting Cincinnati to a 6-3 victory over the Atlanta Braves in the finale of a three-game series on Wednesday afternoon at Great American Ball Park.

DeSclafani (5-0) recorded his fifth straight quality start allowing two runs and eight hits with no walks. He is undefeated since being reinstated from the disabled list on June 10.

“He’s 5-0, which is great,” said manager Bryan Price. “But it’s the quality of the starts. He does nothing to bring attention to himself, except give his team a chance to win. He has a calming influence on the rotation.”

Freddie Freeman’s 17th home run, a solo shot to the opposite field in left, put the Braves ahead 1-0 in the first. But DeSclafani was in control from there.

Freeman’s blast was only the fifth homer allowed by DeSclafani in 43 innings. Four of them were solo shots.

“I didn’t feel that great,” DeSclafani said. “They put a lot of balls in play.

I didn’t have a strikeout pitch to put guys away. I still feel like I have a lot to

Cincinnati Reds catcher Tucker Barnhart hits a two-run home run against the Atlanta Braves during the sixth inning at Great American Ball Park. (Photo: David KohlUSA Today Sports)

prove.”

Atlanta appeared to have DeSclafani on the ropes when Nick Markakis doubled after Freeman’s homer. But, Adonis Garcia flied to right ending the inning.

“Outstanding,” Price said. “He limited it to one (run), then ends up rolling through eight innings.”

Cincinnati threatened in the first inning against Braves right-hander Lucas Harrell who was facing them for the seventh time in his career, fifth as a starter. But Harrell retired the three straight batters to strand runners at first and second.

The Reds didn’t threaten again until the fifth when Harrell got Votto to fly to left, again stranding runners at first and second.

Atlanta led 2-0 after Erick Aybar doubled and scored on Chase d’Arnaud’s single in the fifth.

But Cincinnati finally broke through against Harrell in the sixth when Jose Peraza singled with runners on second and third driving in two runs to tie

the score 2-2.

Braves catcher A.J. Pierzynski claimed he applied the tag before Eugenio Suarez’s hand swiped home plate with the second run. But a replay review lasting three minutes and 10 seconds confirmed the safe call.

Barnhart crushed his fourth home run of the season into the right field seats moments later to put Cincinnati ahead 4-2.

“The wheels came off right there,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. “He did his job and kept us in the ballgame for five innings. Obviously I stayed with him too long. If I knew then what I know now, it would be different.”

Barnhart’s blast made Price’s decision making with DeSclafani much easier, and he chose to allow the right-hander to bat for himself with a two-run lead.

“If Tucker doesn’t hit the homer, I might have to take him out,” Price said.

Harrell (1-2) allowed four earned runs and seven hits in six innings.

Votto hit a two-run homer off Ian Krol in the seventh inning to increase the Reds’ lead to 6-2. It was Votto’s 16th homer this season.

“It’s a different place,” Snitker said of Great American Ball Park. “We knew that. Every ball that goes in the air, you think it’s going to go out.”

Krol allowed two runs and four hits in an inning of work.

Braves third baseman Adonis Garcia homered for the third straight game with his seventh of the season leading off the ninth inning against Ross Ohlendorf. It was the 19th homer allowed by the Reds’ bullpen this year.

But the Braves failed to rally and DeSclafani maintained a clean slate.

“I still feel like I have a lot to prove,” DeSclafani said. “By now, other guys have a lot of starts under their belt. I’m trying to play catch-up.”

Notes: Reds RHP Anthony DeSclafani improved to 3-0 with 1.93 ERA in four starts this season at Great American Ball Park. … Braves 1B Freddie Freeman now has homered in 22 different parks. … Reds RHP Keyvius Sampson is expected to start Saturday’s game against the Diamondbacks. … Reds manager Bryan Price said if all goes well with his next one or two rehab starts, RHP Homer Bailey could return to the rotation by the end of the month. … Braves C A.J. Pierzynski started behind the plate on Wednesday. Anthony Recker started the first two games of the series. … Reds LF Adam Duvall was given a day off. Jose Peraza started in left field.

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Infante’s hit propels G-Braves to victory From Staff Reports SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Omar Infante’s two-out, two-RBI single in the top of the ninth inning propelled the Gwinnett Braves to a 3-2 win over the Syracuse Chiefs on Wednesday afternoon in the finale of the three-game series at NBT Bank Stadium.

With the win, the GBraves (42-56) ended a season high eight-game losing streak.

Gwinnett went into the ninth trailing 2-1, but took the lead off reliever Erik Davis out of the Syracuse bullpen. Blake Lalli led off the inning with a walk and was replaced by pinch-runner Sean Kazmar Jr. After pinch-hitter Rio Ruiz struck out, Daniel Castro singled to right to put runners on first and third. Reid Brignac was hit by a pitch to load the bases with one out.

Emilio Bonifacio then grounded to first, forcing Kazmar Jr. at home for the second out, but reloading the bases. Infante then stepped up and dropped a 0-1 pitch from Davis into left field for the eventual game-winning hit.

The bottom of the ninth had plenty of drama as the Chiefs loaded the bases with one out against G-Braves’ reliever Jose Ramirez, but the righthander got Caleb Ramsey to hit into a 4-3 double play to end the game.

Syracuse (46-51) had taken early lead off Gwinnett starter Chris Ellis as former Georgia Tech star Matt Skole led off the fourth with a solo home run, his 13th of the season, to break a scoreless tie. The Chiefs plated another run in the fourth on

a bases-loaded sacrifice fly to right by Jhonatan Solano.

Trailing 2-0, Gwinnett scored its first run in top of the sixth when Mel Rojas, Jr. crushed a one-out, solo homer to right to make it 2-1. It was Rojas Jr.’s sixth home run with Gwinnett, all of which have come in his last 13 games played.

Ellis allowed two runs on four hits and three walks over five innings while striking out three. Brandon Cunniff worked two innings of relief with a strikeout.

Matt Marksberry (W, 3-2) struck out one over an inning to pick up his third win of the season and Ramirez yielded three baserunners in the ninth to earn his sixth save.

Hill yielded only one run over seven innings for the Chiefs, while giving up five hits and a walk. He struck out three. Matt Grace (H, 4) held the G-Braves’ in the eighth inning before Davis (BS, 3) (L, 6-4) blew the save and suffered the loss in the ninth.

At the plate, the G-Braves were led by Bonifacio who was 2-for-5. Infante’s lone hit was his two-RBI single and Rojas’ only hit was his homer.

The Chiefs were paced

by Matt den Dekker who was 2-for-3 with a run.

The G-Braves road trip continues tonight in Buffalo, N.Y., with the first of a four-game series at CocaCola Field. Right-hander Aaron Blair (3-3, 4.84) will start for Gwinnett against lefty Scott Diamond (6-9, 3.62) for Buffalo. First pitch is set for 7:05 p.m. and Tony Schiavone will have the broadcast of the game beginning at 6:35 p.m. on 97.7 FM.

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