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The job fairs will continue 11 a.m.-2 p.m. today through Fri- day at the Life Enhancement Services office at 665 N. Main St. The openings include licensed or provisional therapists, sub- stance abuse and peer support specialists, nurse practitioners and other professionals. The firm wants to add at least seven positions in High Point but also would consider ap- plicants for its other offices if candidates are willing to relo- cate or commute, said Corpo- rate Compliance Officer Venus Allen. Based in Lumberton in eastern North Carolina, Life Enhancement Services oper- ates other North Carolina loca- tions in Charlotte, Fayetteville, Asheville, Durham and Yanc- eyville. The company is expanding its High Point work force because Life Enhancement Services re- ceived the authorization to pro- vide additional services, Allen said. “Our agency has been around for five years, but we’ve been open in High Point for four. Now we’re applying to become a comprehensive behavioral health agency,” she said. [email protected] | 888-3528 COMPANY – Life Enhancement Services is hold- ing job fairs 11 a.m.-2 p.m. today through Friday at its office at 665 N. Main St. in High Point. For more in- formation, call the firm at 882-2122. The company provides case manage- ment services to clients with mental disorders, developmental dis- abilities and behavioral disorders. The firm offers services in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Louisiana. SIDEWALK SIGNS BY PAT KIMBROUGH ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER HIGH POINT – The City Council on Monday agreed to an ordinance adjustment that proponents argued will enhance the revitalization ef- forts under way in the Uptowne High Point area of N. Main Street. During its meeting, the council ad- opted an amendment to the develop- ment ordinance to allow for A-frame signs – commonly known as sand- wich board signs – in the Uptowne and furniture market showroom dis- trict areas. The City Project and representa- tives of Uptowne merchants request- ed the city change its regulations to allow for the signs after they were shown to be an effective way to ad- vertise things such as restaurant dinner specials to pedestrians. “Uptowne has really been the first focus area for The City Project, and we’ve been involved with trying to make it into a more pedestrian- friendly, walkable area,” said Jay Wagner, the group’s vice chairman. “A lot of people have invested in these signs.” The council approved the amend- ment after proposed requirements for sign owners to provide proof of insurance that would indemnify the city against liability for injury to people or property related to the signs were removed. Councilman Latimer Alexander proposed removing this requirement from the amendment, but Coun- cilwoman Bernita Sims said she thought it was necessary to have in- surance language included because of the possibility the signs, which are portable, could cause damage to a passing vehicle if, for example, they got knocked into the street. She was the lone council member to vote against the amendment. Council- men Bill Bencini and John Faircloth did not attend the meeting. “I just think this opens up the city” to lawsuits, Sims said. “We live in a litigious society.” City staff will look into further re- visions of regulations to allow the signs in other parts of the city. “To me, this is a little discrimina- tory to businesses in my ward and further up Main Street,” said Coun- cilman Chris Whitley. The maximum size of the signs is 6 square feet per side and 3 feet in height. They can be placed on pri- vate property or a public sidewalk as long as they allow at least five feet of clear passage between the sign and the curb on the sidewalk. The signs, which cannot be attached to per- manent fixtures, must be removed from the sidewalk or area outside a business each night. They also can- not have things such as balloons at- tached to them. They can be used in the central business zoning district only for market showroom uses. The signs are not permitted dur- ing market in the showroom district because of concerns that they could pose sidewalk obstructions. [email protected] | 888-3531 SONNY HEDGECOCK | HPE Corporate Compliance Officer Venus Allen (center) talks with job-seeker Jeff Neill while Gracie Hopkins fills out an application. RECRUITING CAMPAIGN High Point Council OKs ordinance change to allow sandwich boards Thomasville OKs alcohol sales at farmers’ market events BY DARRICK IGNASIAK ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER THOMASVILLE – Nonprofits will be allowed to sell alcohol at the Thomasville Farmers Market. The Thomasville City Council on Monday night voted 6-1 to ap- prove new rental rules for the farmers’ market. The rules allow for the sale of alcohol by only non- profits, but those selling alcohol must abide by a list of guidelines. Councilman Raleigh York Jr. was the lone member to vote against the rules. “All of you are well aware of my personal convictions,” York told the City Council. “Of course, they preclude me of support- ing this item. Beyond that, I am concerned as a council member of endorsing an activity that in our discussion in committee was seen as possibly opening us up for liability.” The rules state the sale of malt beverages and unfortified wines only are allowed by nonprofits with proper North Carolina Al- cohol Law Enforcement Division permits. A certificate of liability insurance must be provided to the city prior to any event where alcohol is to be sold. City Manager Kelly Craver said the sale of alcohol would primar- ily be at events at the adjacent PACE Community Park or in- dividual events at the farmers’ market not during its operating hours. He said the city also has an ordinance that allows the sale of alcohol at city-owned Winding Creek Golf Course and HiToms baseball games at Finch Field. The Rev. David W. Hedrick, pas- tor of Promise Baptist Church, spoke against the sale of alcohol during the public forum section of the City Council’s meeting. He said his church holds alcoholics anonymous meetings each Tues- day night. “When I see the word alcohol, it boils something in my blood,” he said. “I see what alcohol does. ... The mayor took time to explain to me that this would kind of be in an controlled area where they come in and drink in the fence. I was under the understanding that they could go in and buy and go on. I’m still against it.” Councilman David Yemm said ALCOHOL, 2A Councilman Raleigh York Jr. was the lone member to vote against the rules.
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YOUR COMMUNITY. YOUR NEWSPAPER.YOUR COMMUNITY. YOUR NEWSPAPER.
INFOCirculation 888-3511Classifi ed 888-3555Newsroom 888-3527Newsroom fax 888-3644
August 17, 2010
127th year
TUESDAYSAFE LANDING: Butterfl y farm land battle appears over. 1B
READY FOR CLASS: Nonprofi t, bank give students shopping spree. 1B
RUFFIN READY: McNeill expects big things from ECU football. 1D
WHO’S NEWS----
Sara Barker re-ceived the 2010 Distinguished Civitan Award from the Silver Valley Civitan Club in Davidson County.
The honor is given for service to the club and community.
INSIDE----
EDC AWARD: Local agency recognized 9th year in a row.
Behaviorial health fi rm holds job fairsBY PAUL B. JOHNSON
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT – A provider of mental and behavioral health care services for children, ado-lescents and adults is holding job fairs this week to recruit applicants for its High Point of-fi ce and other operations in its network.
Life Enhancement Services LLC launched its job fairs Mon-day.
The job fairs will continue 11 a.m.-2 p.m. today through Fri-day at the Life Enhancement
Services offi ce at 665 N. Main St.The openings include licensed
or provisional therapists, sub-stance abuse and peer support specialists, nurse practitioners and other professionals.
The fi rm wants to add at least seven positions in High Point but also would consider ap-plicants for its other offi ces if candidates are willing to relo-cate or commute, said Corpo-rate Compliance Offi cer Venus Allen. Based in Lumberton in eastern North Carolina, Life Enhancement Services oper-ates other North Carolina loca-
tions in Charlotte, Fayetteville, Asheville, Durham and Yanc-eyville.
The company is expanding its High Point work force because Life Enhancement Services re-ceived the authorization to pro-vide additional services, Allen said.
“Our agency has been around for fi ve years, but we’ve been open in High Point for four. Now we’re applying to become a comprehensive behavioral health agency,” she said.
COMPANY–Life Enhancement Services is hold-ing job fairs 11 a.m.-2 p.m. today through Friday at its offi ce at 665 N. Main St. in High Point. For more in-formation, call the fi rm at 882-2122.
The company provides case manage-ment services to clients with mental disorders, developmental dis-abilities and behavioral disorders. The fi rm offers services in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Louisiana.
SIDEWALK SIGNSBY PAT KIMBROUGH
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT – The City Council on Monday agreed to an ordinance adjustment that proponents argued will enhance the revitalization ef-forts under way in the Uptowne High Point area of N. Main Street.
During its meeting, the council ad-opted an amendment to the develop-ment ordinance to allow for A-frame signs – commonly known as sand-wich board signs – in the Uptowne and furniture market showroom dis-trict areas.
The City Project and representa-tives of Uptowne merchants request-ed the city change its regulations to allow for the signs after they were shown to be an effective way to ad-
vertise things such as restaurant dinner specials to pedestrians.
“Uptowne has really been the fi rst focus area for The City Project, and we’ve been involved with trying to make it into a more pedestrian-friendly, walkable area,” said Jay Wagner, the group’s vice chairman. “A lot of people have invested in these signs.”
The council approved the amend-ment after proposed requirements for sign owners to provide proof of insurance that would indemnify the city against liability for injury to people or property related to the signs were removed.
Councilman Latimer Alexander proposed removing this requirement from the amendment, but Coun-cilwoman Bernita Sims said she
thought it was necessary to have in-surance language included because of the possibility the signs, which are portable, could cause damage to a passing vehicle if, for example, they got knocked into the street. She was the lone council member to vote against the amendment. Council-men Bill Bencini and John Faircloth did not attend the meeting.
“I just think this opens up the city” to lawsuits, Sims said. “We live in a litigious society.”
City staff will look into further re-visions of regulations to allow the signs in other parts of the city.
“To me, this is a little discrimina-tory to businesses in my ward and further up Main Street,” said Coun-cilman Chris Whitley.
The maximum size of the signs is
6 square feet per side and 3 feet in height. They can be placed on pri-vate property or a public sidewalk as long as they allow at least fi ve feet of clear passage between the sign and the curb on the sidewalk. The signs, which cannot be attached to per-manent fi xtures, must be removed from the sidewalk or area outside a business each night. They also can-not have things such as balloons at-tached to them.
They can be used in the central business zoning district only for market showroom uses.
The signs are not permitted dur-ing market in the showroom district because of concerns that they could pose sidewalk obstructions.
Corporate Compliance Offi cer Venus Allen (center) talks with job-seeker Jeff Neill while Gracie Hopkins fi lls out an application.
RECRUITING CAMPAIGN
High Point Council OKs ordinance change to allow sandwich boards
Thomasville OKs alcohol sales at farmers’ market eventsBY DARRICK IGNASIAK
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
THOMASVILLE – Nonprofi ts will be allowed to sell alcohol at the Thomasville Farmers Market.
The Thomasville City Council on Monday night voted 6-1 to ap-prove new rental rules for the farmers’ market. The rules allow for the sale of alcohol by only non-profi ts, but those selling alcohol must abide by a list of guidelines.
Councilman Raleigh York Jr. was the lone member to vote against the rules.
“All of you are well aware of my personal convictions,” York told the City Council. “Of course,
they preclude me of support-ing this item. Beyond that, I am concerned as a council member of endorsing an activity that in our discussion in committee was seen as possibly opening us up for liability.”
The rules state the sale of malt beverages and unfortifi ed wines only are allowed by nonprofi ts with proper North Carolina Al-cohol Law Enforcement Division permits. A certifi cate of liability insurance must be provided to the city prior to any event where alcohol is to be sold.
City Manager Kelly Craver said the sale of alcohol would primar-ily be at events at the adjacent
PACE Community Park or in-dividual events at the farmers’ market not during its operating hours. He said the city also has
an ordinance that allows the sale of alcohol at city-owned Winding Creek Golf Course and HiToms baseball games at Finch Field.
The Rev. David W. Hedrick, pas-tor of Promise Baptist Church,
spoke against the sale of alcohol during the public forum section of the City Council’s meeting. He said his church holds alcoholics anonymous meetings each Tues-day night.
“When I see the word alcohol, it boils something in my blood,” he said. “I see what alcohol does. ... The mayor took time to explain to me that this would kind of be in an controlled area where they come in and drink in the fence. I was under the understanding that they could go in and buy and go on. I’m still against it.”
Councilman David Yemm said
ALCOHOL, 2A
Councilman Raleigh York Jr. was the lone member to vote against the rules.
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Carolina Cash 5: 2-12-16-18-31Plastic jar removed from Florida bear cub’s headOCALA, Fla. (AP) – A
black bear cub in Flori-da affectionately known as “jarhead” can fi nally enjoy a good meal.
A clear plastic con-tainer was removed from the 6-month-old cub’s head after being stuck for at least 10 days. The cub poked its head into the jar when digging through trash in a neighborhood in central Florida.
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A car is lifted out of the North Edisto River in Orangeburg, S.C., Monday. The bodies of two toddlers were re-covered Monday from the car submerged in the river and their mother was charged with leaving the scene as authorities investigated whether it was an accident. Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said the boys, ages 1 and 2, were recovered from the river after the car was found near a rural boat landing.
Bodies of 2 toddlers found in car in SC river
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) – Af-ter the bodies of two toddlers were pulled Monday from a car sub-merged in a South Carolina river, their mother was arrested and au-thorities were investigating how it happened – and whether it was an accident.
The two were recovered from the North Edisto River after the car was found near a rural boat landing, Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said.
County Coroner Samuetta Mar-shall identifi ed them as 18-month-old Ja’van T. Duley and 2-year-old Devean C. Duley, both of Orange-burg. She would not speculate on a cause of death until autopsies are completed today.
A jail offi cial identifi ed the boys’ mother as 29-year-old Shaquan Duley, who was being held Mon-day on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. It was not immediately clear whether she had a lawyer.
Williams said the Highway Pa-trol was notifi ed about 6:15 a.m. Monday about an accident and a woman who needed help getting her children out of the car.
The children were still strapped in their child seats when divers
found them and recovered their bodies about 45 minutes after be-ing called to the scene. “Early in the investigation, the state patrol felt there was not enough indica-tors to substantiate that there was an automobile accident,” Wil-liams said. “We are looking into all possibilities as to what hap-pened.”
The woman, who did not have a cell phone, had walked some distance down the country road by the boat landing and fl agged down a passing motorist to call the Highway Patrol. “She showed some emotion, but I can’t say she was overly distraught,” the sher-iff said. “Through her statements, there are some things we think are not believable.”
Williams said authorities were attempting to contact the chil-dren’s father, who did not live with the family.
The incident was reminiscent of the deaths of two other toddlers in South Carolina. In 1994, in a case that made headlines worldwide, Susan Smith left her 3-year-old and 14-month-old sons strapped in their car seats as she rolled her car into a lake in Union County in the northwest part of the state.
She was convicted in their deaths and is serving a life prison term.
Authorities were investigating how it happened – and whether it was an accident.
– At least one person has died after a fuel tanker crashed and caught fi re, shutting down Interstate 77 near the North Caro-lina-South Carolina state line for several hours.
Highway Patrol Lance Corporal Billy Elder said the driver of a tractor trailer died in Monday’s
crash and two women ina car that collided withthe truck were taken toa local hospital for treat-ment. None of those in-volved in the crash wereidentifi ed.
The tractor trailer wastraveling in the south-bound lane, but bothsides of the road wereclosed.
1st, only NC lottery director leaving
RALEIGH (AP) – Look-ing for a new pursuit after taking the state lot-tery from zero to $1.4 bil-lion, the fi rst and only executive director of the North Carolina Educa-tion Lottery said Monday he’s leaving to take a job in the gaming industry’s private sector.
Tom Shaheen, who ar-rived in November 2005, will become a vice presi-dent for Linq3, a New York-based startup com-pany that’s creating ways to expand automated lot-tery sales machines, such as through ATMs.
“It’s a new challenge and I’m a challenge-type of person,” Shaheen, 57, said in an interview.
Shaheen was hired from the New Mexico lottery and helped organize the North Carolina lottery from scratch before the fi rst tickets were sold in March 2006. Today, a ma-tured North Carolina lot-tery has more than 6,200 retailers that generated $1.4 billion in ticket sales last year from numbers games and scratch-offs and almost $420 million for education initiatives.
Shaheen, who hasworked in state lotteriesfor more than 22 years,called the North Carolinajob “one of the greatestexperiences of my life.”
“I’m proud of every-thing about this organi-
zation,” he said. “We’veseen that the money is be-ing used to help enhanceeducation in the state.”
Alice Garland, the lot-tery’s deputy executive di-rector for legislative andcorporate communica-tions, began her role Mon-day as acting executive di-rector. Shaheen said he’llremain an adviser untilhis last day Sept. 17.
Tom Shaheen helped organize the North Carolina lottery from scratch before the fi rst tickets were sold in March 2006.
Lorillard says it’s not liable for smoker’s addictionBOSTON (AP) – A Bos-
ton judge delayed ruling Monday on Lorillard To-bacco Co.’s request to re-ject a lawsuit that accuses the nation’s third-largest tobacco company of tar-geting black youth in its cigarette marketing.
Judge Linda Giles of Suffolk Superior Court
told lawyers for both sides she wanted to review the case fi lings as well as previous court cases be-fore ruling on Lorillard’s request for a favorable decision without going to trial. “I have reviewed your submissions,” Giles told the lawyers. “I have not digested them.”
The 2004 lawsuit was fi led by Will Evans, the son of Marie Evans, who died of lung cancer in 2002 at age 54. Law-yers for the family say the Greensboro-based company should be held responsible for Marie Evans’ exposure to ciga-rettes from the time she
was 9 and for her eventu-al addiction to tobacco.
Attorneys for Loril-lard argued at Monday’s hearing that the fam-ily has not presented enough evidence to prove at trial that the company is responsible for Marie Evans’ 40-year smoking addiction.
he brought up the idea of allowing the sale of alcohol at the governing body’s retreat earlier this year.
“My intent on it was that we got the new am-phitheater. There’s towns all over that would have events and have a con-trolled environment with responsible sellers there, providing alcohol with beer and wine or what-
ever,” Yemm said. “It’s agood step for us.”
The approved rules alsomandate that nonprofi tshire a minimum of twooff-duty police offi cers atany event where alcoholwill be sold. The fi nal de-cision on the issuance ordenial of the rental con-tract is done by the citymanager.
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Police: Suspect made dinner during break-in
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GREENSBORO – A man, arrested after allegedly break-ing into a local Red Lobster overnight to steal cash and li-quor, is also believed to have cooked pizza and eaten cake at the restaurant.
Greensboro police re-sponded to Red Lobster at 4415 W. Wendover Ave. at 6:49 a.m. Monday, according to a news release.
Inside, they found 32-year-old Bradley Dwight Michael, who had broken through the front door of the restaurant in an attempt to steal liquor and cash, according to arrest warrants. He also is charged with smashing computers, benches, liquor bottles and more, causing an estimated $30,000 in damage, court re-cords state.
According to the res-taurant’s manager, all the destruction made
the suspect hungry. “He pretty much trashed the din-ing area, liquor bottles, beer and things,” manager Tom Brown said. “He also cooked pizza and tasted some cake. It looks like he sat down and ate.”
Michael was charged with breaking and entering, damage to real property and larceny after breaking and entering. Michael was in-toxicated, according to war-rants.
Friend testifi es Laurean gave away bloody crowbarGOLDSBORO (AP)
– The yellow crowbar that dropped with a thud on a courtroom table Monday still had a dried blood droplet that led a man to suspect that a former friend who gave it to him used the tool to kill a preg-nant fellow Marine.
Dennis Ward testifi ed at the fi rst-degree murder trial of Cesar Laurean, 23, of Las Vegas. Laurean was expelled from the Ma-rines after being charged with killing Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, 20, of Vandalia, Ohio, who had
accused Laurean of rape.He has pleaded not
guilty and faces life in prison if convicted.
Ward said Laurean, a fellow corporal stationed at Camp Lejeune, gave him the crowbar two days after Lauterbach disappeared in December 2007. Ward told Laurean months earlier that he’d like the surplus tool.
Laurean didn’t offer it to Ward until the two wrapped up an excursion to a home improvement warehouse where Laurean bought a dishwasher and
a collection of concrete blocks for a backyard fi repit, Ward said. Laurean began digging the fi repit as soon as they returned from the store, Ward said.
After news reports the following month that Lauterbach’s body was unearthed from under the fi repit, Ward said he grew more suspicious about what appeared to be a dried blood drop on a sticker af-fi xed to the crowbar.
“It didn’t add up to me. I was there when the fi rep-it was built. There was the sticker or label on the
crowbar. That’s when I told my wife we’d better go to the sheriff’s depart-ment,” Ward said.
Lauterbach died from a blow to the head, and a DNA sample taken from a crow-bar was her blood, District Attorney Dewey Hudson said last week. Hudson de-clined Monday to describe the yellow crowbar intro-duced in court as the weap-on used to kill Lauterbach.
Prosecutors are trying to weave together details – including computer re-cords, investigator tes-timony, DNA tests, and
spattered blood – into aseries of facts that pointto Laurean as the killer.
“This is going to be a caseof circumstantial evidenceas most murder cases, andthat’s what we’ve beenshowing the past couple ofdays,” Hudson told report-ers Monday.
State Bureau of Investi-gation investigator StevenCombs testifi ed that dur-ing a search of Laurean’sgarage, he found sprinklesof blood on the ceiling, aninfant’s swing, on pegboardalong the wall, a paint can,and a child’s pool raft.
Soldier faces murdercharge after crash
FORT BRAGG (AP) – A North Carolina-based paratrooper is being charged with murder after a fatal head-on col-lision with a fellow sol-dier who was driving a motorcycle.
Fayetteville police said Monday 21-year-old Spc. Jason Gregory Taft has been charged
with second degreemurder. The wreckhappened early Satur-day morning. Police sayafter Taft lost controlof his vehicle, crossedthe center line and hit27-year-old Pfc. FelipeRamirez head-on.
Investigators haveblamed speed and alco-hol for the crash.
AP
Rough ridePassengers disembark from a Charlotte-bound Amtrak train after it struck a large truck at an intersec-tion in Morrisville Monday. No injuries were reported, and passengers were taken to their destination by bus.
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Former Marine Cesar Lau-rean listens during his trial in Goldsboro.
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We citizens of Jamestown have an historic opportunity. Our town manager is retiring. We now fi nd ourselves searching for a proven town administrator to lead us forward.
Jamestown pays an exceptional salary for a manager who over-sees a $6.5 million budget and 30 employees. Nearby communities with larger budgets and far more staff do not pay as well as James-town. An open and professional search should reveal a deep, competent and experienced pool of applicants.
We should encourage current employees to apply for the man-ager’s position as well. We are in the wonderful position of being able to select the very best. This type of opportunity does not come often to a town such as ours. We must not waste it!
If you are a citizen of James-town, please let each and every Council member know that we deserve to select a manager who proves to be the fi nest from among all candidates. We need a thorough and open search for the position.
PAT MATTERNJamestown
YMCA, YWCA compromise
their Christian backgrounds
In response to July 22, Your View “YMCA logo change just doesn’t make sense” and July 20, Lifestyle “Wine Down.”
These are just more examples of the atheistic world’s attempt to remove God and Christ from public buildings and from prayer by means of the ACLU and other servants of hell. “Because in Christ Jesus are hid [stored up] all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:3).
“…and Christ is both the power and the wisdom of God.” (I Corin-thians 1:24) The farther you are removed from Christ, the easier you are deceived. The changing of the logo is to rid it of “Chris-tian” (Christ like) and change is to “Y.” Young what? Atheists?
Also, the YWCA has compro-mised the very principles on which it was founded as a Chris-tian organization by sponsoring a “Wine Down,” a wine tasting (drinking) event, promoting the sales and use of alcoholic bever-ages in celebration of its 90th birthday. “These wineries have women in leadership. That ties in nicely with the YWCA,” says Heidi Majors, executive director of the YWCA (they need a new director).
The devil would say, “I have brought you a long way, baby. Don’t look back to what you used to be, a young women’s associa-tion.” Romans 12:2 states, “Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Philip-pians 2:15 says, “In the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom ye [the YWCA should] shine as lights in the world.” “But if the light that is
in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” (Matthew 6:23). “As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion” (Proverbs 11:22).
CLAYTON L. PROCTOR SR.Trinity
Suppose we tried to build a
church in a Muslim country
Let’s talk about the Islamic Center (mosque) in New York.
Suppose America built a big Christian church honoring God and his son Jesus in a Muslim country, what would happen. Suppose we told Africa they couldn’t fl y a fl ag that millions had died for (similar to the Confederate fl ag). Suppose we watched them like a hawk and waited for them to say something so we could sue and intimidate them.
Suppose we went to Mexico and had illegitimate children so they could be citizens for our benefi t and told the Mexicans we weren’t going anywhere.
Plus, we took our drugs and warlords and told Mexico to get
used to it. We are here to stay.I tried to tell people they were
voting in a Muslim president. He will use the authority people here gave him to see that the Muslim religion is here to stay and see it grow. I could see this from the start. We are being taken over by everyone but the ones who are connected to our founders. This change is slowly growing and now not only are we getting mud thrown in our face, we are letting outsiders rub it in.
CARL TYSINGERTrinity
What can Oak Hollow Mall do to entice you to shop there more often instead of going to malls or shopping areas in other cities? In 30 words or less (no name, address required), e-mail us your thoughts to [email protected]. Here are two responses:
• Sidewalks to and from sur-rounding neighborhoods, such as HPU. Drugstores would attract older folks to walk from neigh-borhoods if sidewalks were there. Also a grocery store.
• The anchor stores need to have a bigger selection of clothes and other items like Four Sea-sons and Hanes malls.
Was the decision to allow con-struction of a mosque near the World Trade Center attack site correct? In 30 words or less (no name, address required), e-mail us your thoughts to [email protected]. Here is one response:
• It’s insensitive to those who suffered at ground zero. Find another place for the mosque. Would we be able to build a church of our faith anywhere in their countries?
YOUR VIEW---
E very passionate reader has a fi rst literary love – that fi rst book that captured your attention and
inspired your desire to explore and understand.
For me, it was a true classic: A Child’s History of the World. First pub-lished in 1924, the book was the prod-uct of the innovative mind of Virgil Hillyer, the Harvard-trained headmas-ter of the Calvert School in Baltimore. After many years at the helm of the school, Hillyer realized that there were many children whose families couldn’t afford tuition but who would benefi t from high-quality instruction. So he convinced Baltimore booksellers to sell his curriculum directly to families.
Hillyer thought that most children could learn far more than commonly thought. They simply needed to be challenged, and to be presented mate-rial in an engaging way. His work refl ected that sentiment, as do most successful instructional programs.
Unfortunately, North Carolina has had little success improving the read-ing program in its public schools. Too many teachers (and teachers of teach-ers) remain wedded to discredited prac-tices. Too many lawmakers devote too many tax dollars to pointless exercises in political theater. And too many fami-lies allow kids to do everything except sit down to read.
You can see the results in the data. Since the mid-1990s, when North Caro-lina launched its latest fl urry of highly touted and expensive “reforms,” the state’s performance on independent math tests has improved signifi cantly, particularly from 1996 to 2003.
The same can’t be said for our read-ing performance. Among North Caro-lina eighth-graders, for example, the average reading score on the National Assessment of Education Progress was 264 in 1994 and 260 in 2009. Only 29 percent of our eighth-graders were pro-fi cient readers in 2009. In 1994, 31 per-
cent were. (The change was not statistically signifi cant, so it would be best to say there was no progress.)
North Carolina can no longer afford to tolerate mediocrity. While our economy demands edu-cated workers, the most compelling rationale for state government’s involvement in education isn’t economic. Today’s
students are tomorrow’s voters. A self-governing republic can thrive only to the extent that its citizens possess basic knowledge – about science, his-tory, and civics – as well as the skills to learn more about the problems facing their families and communities.
North Carolina needs real education reform. Its elements aren’t hard to outline:
• Adopt higher academic standards and independent, reliable tests of stu-dent performance.
• Of the nearly $10,000 spent per pupil in our public schools, devote a higher percentage to classroom instruction, particularly our best teachers.
• Ensure that most North Carolina parents exercise greater control over their children’s education by promot-ing public-school choice, charter-school expansion, tax relief for family investment in education, and scholar-ship assistance for low-income fami-lies.
“When a wheel turns over we call it a revolution, which is a big name for a little thing,” Hillyer wrote in his Child’s History. “When a country turns over we also call it a revolution, which is a big name for a big thing.”
It’s time for a revolution in North Carolina education.
JOHN HOOD is president of the John Locke Foundation and publisher of CarolinaJournal.com.
S ome members of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, including Vice Chairman Steve Arnold of High Point, want county offi cials to be-
gin studying the feasibility of combining some county departments.
Arnold and these others may well be onto something. However, before any such reorganization should take
place, commissioners must clearly identify the purpose of the action. Would such an endeavor be aimed at im-proving service to the public, reducing the taxpayers’ cost of government or perhaps a combination of the two?
Earlier this year when the idea came up during a board retreat, commissioners decided to focus efforts on just combining and streamlining intake services for the county’s public health, social services and mental health agencies. On Saturday, the Enterprise reported that the county has been working toward that end.
But the notion of actually combining those human service agencies has arisen again, and we see exam-ining the feasibility of combining those as a practical thing to investigate. Surely, it seems, consolidation of at least some services if not entire departments could bring about a savings to taxpayers in administrative expenses and the costs of each agency.
Also, some experts on such matters have told com-missioners that improvements in service to the public can result from consolidation. That question, however, would be one of the most important ones. We surely wouldn’t advocate for changes that would make it harder for deserving county residents to receive ser-vices they need. But we do suspect effi ciencies could be achieved and services improved because of a reorgani-zation of services.
County commissioners may consider – perhaps as early as Thursday – whether such an inquiry should be undertaken. We urge them to do so.
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OUR VIEW---
THOMAS SOWELL: Assault on the Constitution began years ago.
TOMORROW
Jamestown faces big decision for its future
Examine consolidation
feasibility
N.C. needs reading revolution in education
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‘Miracle’ in ColombiaBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – A
Boeing 737 jetliner carrying 131 people crashed in a thunder-storm and broke apart as it slid onto the runway on a Caribbean island on Monday. The region’s governor said it was a miracle that only one person died.
Colombian Air Force Col. Da-vid Barrero said offi cials were
investigating reports the plane had been hit by lightning before crashing at 1:49 a.m. (3:49 a.m. EDT) on San Andres Island, a resort area of 78,000 people about 120 miles east of the Nica-raguan coast.
San Andres Gov. Pedro Gal-lardo said 125 passengers and six crew members had been
aboard Aires Flight 8520, but the only person killed was Amar Fernandez de Barreto, 68.
“It was a miracle and we have to give thanks to God,” that only one person died, said Gallardo.
Offi cials said 119 people were treated or checked at local clin-ics and fi ve of them were seri-ously injured.
BAGHDAD (AP) – ASunni-backed coalitionthat won the most seatsin Iraq’s parliamentaryelection said Monday itwould cease power-shar-ing talks with the nation’sincumbent Shiite primeminister, accusing him ofturning political bicker-ing into a sectarian issue.
The breakdown iscertain to extend a fi ve-month political stale-mate since the voting,leaving the countrywithout a new govern-ment at a critical time– American troops aredeparting and violenceis rising.
Iraqi rivals break off
power-sharing talks
On Facebook: Israeli soldier posed with bound Arabs
JERUSALEM (AP) – A former Israeli soldier posted photos on Face-book of herself in uniform smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners, drawing sharp criticism Monday from the Israeli military and Palestinian offi cials.
Israeli news websites and blogs showed two pho-tographs of the woman. In one, she is sitting legs crossed beside a blindfold-ed Palestinian man who is slumped against a con-crete barrier. His face is turned downwards, while she leans toward him with
her face upturned. An-other shows her smiling at the camera with three Pal-estinian men with bound hands and blindfolds be-
hind her. The incident was a reminder of the fraught relations between Israeli soldiers and the West Bank Palestinians.
Iran details plansfor new nuke sites
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran said Monday it has decid-ed where to build 10 new uranium enrichment sites inside protected mountain strongholds and will start construc-tion on the fi rst in March, defying interna-tional efforts to curb its nuclear program.
Enriched uranium can create fuel for power plants but can create weapons too.
Stoning defendantwon’t get pass to Brazil
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran will not send a woman who had faced death by stoning on an adultery conviction to Brazil, which has offered her asylum, the president said in a TV interview broadcast Monday.
The stoning sentence for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, has been lifted for now after it prompted an outcry from the United States.
Lightning kills 7 school children in Darfur
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudan’s state news agency says lightning has struck a religious school in the country’s western Darfur region, killing seven children.
The report quoted a lo-cal offi cial as saying the children, ages 10-13, were attending a Quranic school in the remote village of Sarguilla in southern Darfur.
American, 16, arrested in mother’s death
JAIPUR, India – Jon-carlo Patton, a teenage American, has been ar-rested on suspicion of kill-ing his mother in a tourist resort in western India, police said Monday.
The woman, identifi ed as Cindy Iannarelli, of Cecil, Pennsylvania, was found with her throat slit in the historic town of Osian last Thursday.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – In-surgents assassinated an Afghan government offi cial and a police-man Monday in western Afghani-stan, and fi ve civilians died when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb elsewhere in the west, offi cials said.
Two insurgents on a motor-cycle shot and killed the gov-ernment offi cial in a bazaar in the Gulistan district of Farah province, NATO said. The po-liceman returned fi re, but was killed by the insurgents. NATO did not identify the government offi cial.
In neighboring Herat prov-ince, fi ve members of one family were killed and two others were wounded in a blast after their ve-hicle hit a mine, said Lal Moham-mad Omarzai, deputy governor of Shindand district.
Also on Monday, NATO said an al-Qaida operative was among those killed in an airstrike Sun-day on a pickup truck that was fl eeing the site of a gunfi ght with police in Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan.
Insurgents kill Afghan
offi cial
SUKKUR, Pakistan (AP) – For genera-tions, the Indus River was a lifeline. Now it has turned destroyer, ripping up rice, wheat and sugar cane crops and leaving behind bloated corpses of cows and goats.
When the fl oodwa-ters recede, millions of farmers who used the Indus to irrigate their crops – and propel Pak-istan’s economy – face an uncertain future.
The United Nations warns that unless farm-ers in hard-hit Punjab and Sindh provinces manage to plant their winter crop of wheat in mid-September as normal, there might be food shortages in the region and the na-tion as a whole.
In the north, where the fl oods began near-ly three weeks ago, fruit farmers are also hurting.
Last year, cherries, peaches and apricots in the Swat Valley rotted on the trees be-cause of an army oper-ation against Taliban militants.
Farmers bear brunt
of Pakistan’s deadly fl oods
130 survive crash of 737 jetliner in thunderstorm; 1 dies
AP
A plane that crashed lays in pieces along the runway at the airport on San Andres Island in Colombia, Monday. The Boeing 737 crashed on landing after departing from Bogota around midnight.
AP
Eden Aberjil poses in front of blindfolded men identi-fi ed in the Israeli news media as Palestinian prisoners.
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Democratic Senate leader: Build mosque elsewhereWASHINGTON (AP) – The
Senate’s top Democrat on Mon-day came out against plans to build a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, moving away from President Barack Obama on the contro-versial election-year issue.
Locked in a tight race, Nevada
Sen. Harry Reid became the high-est profi le Democrat to respond to Obama, who last week backed the right for the developers to build a mosque near ground zero. Since his comments Fri-day, the Democratic president and his aides have worked to ex-plain the statement, which drew
criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike.
“The First Amendment pro-tects freedom of religion,” said Jim Manley, a Reid spokesman. “Senator Reid respects that, but thinks that the mosque should be built some place else.”
Critics have said the location
of the mosque is insensitive be-cause the terrorists who struck were Islamic extremists. The plans call for a $100 million Is-lamic center two blocks from where almost 3,000 people per-ished when hijacked jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001.
Reid is in a close campaignfor re-election. A spokesmanfor Republican Sharron Angle,Reid’s opponent, said Muslimshave the right to worship any-where, but Obama’s support forconstruction of the mosque atground zero “ignored the wish-es of the American people.”
Shrimping season reopens after spillGRAND ISLE, La. (AP)
– Fishermen who spent much of the summer mopping up oil from BP’s disastrous spill got back to work as the fall shrimp-ing season in Louisiana’s coastal waters opened Monday amid anxiety over whether the catch will be tainted by crude and whether anyone will buy it even if it is clean.
Scores of shrimpers headed out at fi rst light, and early reports indicat-ed a plentiful and clean catch.
“We’re not seeing any
oil where I’m at. No tar balls, nothing,” said Bri-an Amos, a 53-year-old shrimper who trawled in his 28-foot skiff, The Rolling Thunder, in a bay near Empire.
It was a step toward normalcy for many coast-al towns that have been in limbo in the nearly four months since the spill shut down fi shing, an economic linchpin for dock owners, restaurants and many other busi-nesses along the Loui-siana coast. Louisiana ranks fi rst in the nation
in shrimp, blue crab, crawfi sh and oysters, and the state’s seafood indus-try overall generates an estimated $2.4 billion a year.
Also Monday:• Retired Coast Guard
Adm. Thad Allen, who is overseeing the oil-spill crisis for the govern-ment, said it will take at least a week to perma-nently plug the well with mud and cement once he gives the go-ahead for the “bottom kill.” He said he is not sure when that will happen, because sci-
entists are working on ways to perform the kill without further damag-ing the well.
• The Obama adminis-tration announced it is requiring environmental reviews for all new deep-water oil drilling.
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WELEETKA, Okla.(AP) – An 8-year-old boy who smelledsmoke and got out ofbed while alarms rangthroughout his homeearly Monday was un-able to roust anyoneelse in the house. Bythe time fi refi ghtersarrived, they were un-able save six others,including four chil-dren.
“It smelled like gaso-line. I had to fi ght toget out,” Tavis South-ern said near thecharred home, wear-ing a sooty orangeWWE T-shirt that hehad on when the fi rebroke out shortly after5 a.m. on Monday. “Itwas scary.”
Weleetka PoliceChief Hub Pangle saidthat it appeared anelectrical fi re was toblame.
Oklahoma house fi re
kills 6, 4 children
Petraeus: Time is key for progress in AfghanistanWASHINGTON (AP) –
The next several months in the Afghanistan war will prove to be a crucial test of President Barack Obama’s politically risky strategy to send tens of thousands more troops to the fi ght.
Army Gen. David Pe-traeus says he plans to show by December that the 100,000 U.S. forces are helping to stem a violent insurgency and giving the Kabul government space to grow. Petraeus, the new war commander, said he has already begun to see progress, albeit slowly.
Adding to the optimism this week is Defense Sec-retary Robert Gates, who suggested he might re-tire next year after the “surge” of troops has had a chance to work.
“I think that by next year I’ll be in a position where, you know, we’re going to know whether the strategy is working in Afghanistan,” Gates told Foreign Policy magazine in an interview released Monday.
Last fall, Obama autho-rized to grow the force in Afghanistan by 30,000 to 100,000 troops – triple the level from 2008.
DOT wants seat belts installed in new motorcoaches
WASHINGTON (AP) – New motorcoaches would for the fi rst time be re-quired to have lap-shoul-der seat belts under a pro-posal announced Monday by Transportation Secre-tary Ray LaHood.
The plan affects large, tour-style buses, not city buses or school buses, which are state-regulated. The mo-torcoach industry, which transports 750 million pas-sengers a year, has 90 days to respond to the proposal.
Gates says he plansto retire next year
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in a magazine interview he wants to leave the Pen-tagon sometime next year, setting off furious speculation as to who might take his place.
His top aides, mean-while, tried to tamp down expectations that any decision had been made.
“Every time Secre-tary Gates has seri-ously considered hang-ing it up for good, he ultimately has decided to keep serving,” said Pentagon Press Secre-tary Geoff Morrell.
High court upholds ’birther’ sanction
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has upheld a $20,000 fi ne against a leader of the movement chal-lenging President Barack Obama’s citi-zenship.
The high court on Monday refused to block a federal judge’s October 2009 ruling that required Califor-nia lawyer and dentist Orly Taitz to pay the $20,000 fi ne for fi ling a “frivolous” litigation. The judge said Taitz at-tempted to misuse the federal courts to push a political agenda.
DeLay: Not surprised by probe results
HOUSTON – Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Monday he always knew a Justice Department probe of his ties to disgraced ex-lob-byist Jack Abramoff would end without criminal charges being fi led against him because he did nothing wrong.
DeLay said he wishes the investiga-tion hadn’t taken six years, but added he isn’t bitter.
“I know this is the price of leadership, but it doesn’t have to happen this way,” he said.
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High Point EDC keeps earning awardsENTERPRISE STAFF REPORT
HIGH POINT – The city’s lead eco-nomic development agency keeps racking up honors.
For the ninth year in a row, the annual report of the High Point Economic Development Corp. re-ceived an award from one or both of two major economic develop-ment organizations.
Today, EDC representatives will accept a 2010 Communica-tions Award at the annual con-ference of the Southern Eco-nomic Development Council in New Orleans. The council is the oldest and largest regional eco-
nomic development association in North America, with members in 17 states and the District of Co-lumbia.
The annual report – titled “High Point: Celebrating Successes, Tackling Challenges, Invest-ing in our Future” – is a 16-page document highlighting the city’s economic development news, at-tributes and achievements dur-ing last year.
The report, released in March, includes listings of High Point’s largest employers and largest taxpayers.
“The High Point EDC staff members are proud to win an award for the ninth year in a row, showing that our efforts each year to produce an im-pressive report are being rec-
ognized,” said EDC President Loren Hill.
EDC staff use the report in re-cruiting new employers to the city and seeking to have expan-sions of existing employers take place in High Point.
The EDC is a public-private organization. Its 19-member board of directors is composed of the mayor, a High Point city council member, the city man-ager, five city council appoin-tees, six High Point Partners appointees, two High Point Chamber of Commerce appoin-tees and the three immediate past EDC chairmen.
ON THE WEB–The annual report of the High Point Economic Development Corp. is available through the city agency’s website (www.highpointedc.com) by follow-ing the link on the homepage or at the EDC offi ce, High Point Municipal Building, 211 S. Hamilton St., suite 200.
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HIGH POINT – Back-to-school shopping will be a special treat for 13 local kids this year.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Piedmont is team-ing up with volunteers from BB&T bank to give 13 local children in the local commu-nity an opportunity to shop for school supplies.
“Big for a Day” allows the children and volunteers to develop a one-to-one friend-ship in a temporary setting, allowing BBBS to help par-ents prepare their children for school.
Employees from BB&T in High Point will volunteer their time on Wednesday as an employee is matched to one child who is on a waiting list.
The employee will take their child on a shopping spree to purchase items designated by Guilford County Schools for the upcoming year.
They also will enjoy lunch with their matched child, giv-ing BB&T employees an op-portunity to get to know them on a more personal level.
The BB&T volunteers are taking part in the company’s second annual Lighthouse Project. The team has select-ed two projects to assist non-profit agencies during Au-gust and September to make a positive impact on the lives of people in need.
Big Brothers Big Sisters says volunteers, such as those from BB&T, are appreciated by the agency for making an impact on those who volun-teer as well as the children in the program. The volunteers also are able to get a glimpse of the rewards of being a Big Brother or Big Sister in a short period of time.
There is always a need for Big Brothers and Big Sisters on an ongoing basis. To vol-unteer or for more informa-tion, contact Melissa Wilson at [email protected] or El-len Werner at [email protected].
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Butterfl y farm owners, neighbor will acquire surrounding land
BY PAM HAYNESENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT – Owners of All-A-Flutter Butterfl y Farm say a bidding war for land surround-ing the farm has come to an end.
According to a Guilford County confi rmation order, Donna and Tim Pless, farm owners, and neighboring property owner John Clinard placed a $372,000 bid for 24 acres next to the farm on Aug. 2.
The farm owners and Greens-boro-based Oasis Investment Group LLC had been bidding
against each other for the land since April, but the investment group did not fi le an upset bid this time.
Donna Pless made the bid-ding war public last month because she said the invest-ment group was “taking ad-vantage of an unfortunate situation.”
The land, located on Clin-
ard Farms Road, was deeded to Pless and her three sib-lings, who made the decision to sell after their father died in 2004.
There were several disagree-ments among siblings, how-ever, regarding when to sell the land and for how much it should be sold.
The property went to public auction through court proceed-ings earlier this year, where John Clinard placed the sole bid of $200,000 for the land, which was valued at nearly $1.2 million in 2008.
The investment group offered $30,000 per acre in 2008, but the siblings turned the offer down. After the public auction, the in-
vestment group began placing upset bids.
The Pless’ approached Clin-ard about splitting the land so they could preserve the area surrounding the butterfl y farm.
Pless said one of her biggest fears was that the land would be used to expand TransTech Pharma because Adnan Mjalli, president of the pharmaceuti-cal company, signed the upset bids on behalf of the invest-ment group.
But Mjalli told The High Point Enterprise that he signed the bids for his wife, Helen Mjalli, because she was on an international business trip at the time. Helen Mjalli is the manager of Oasis Invest-ment Group LLC.
He declined further com-ment, and it was never con-fi rmed if the land would be used for a TransTech Pharma expansion.
Such an expansion could disrupt the tranquility of the farm, which is located on three adjoining acres and serves as a safe environment for monarch butterfl ies, Pless said.
Pless attributes the end of the bidding war to her grass-roots efforts to save the farm, which were joined by Rep. Pricey Harrison, D-Guilford, and Rep. Laura Wiley, R-Guil-ford.
“We’re just ecstatic,” Pless said. “We couldn’t be more thankful to our supporters. We’ll be expanding the farm now.”
Donna and Tim Pless look at a Monarch butterfl y landing on a piece of cloth with sugar water on it. The Plesses, owners of All-A-Flutter Butterfl y Farm, and their neighbor have bought the land surrounding their farm.
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Third- and fourth-graders from Silver Valley Elementary in Da-vidson County took a fi eld trip to All-A-Flutter Butterfl y Farm. During his talk about butter-fl ies, owner Tim Pless dressed Bryce Payne up with different parts of a butterfl y to illustrate what the different parts do.
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HIGH POINT – Mr. Da-vid Lee Wagoner, age 80, resident of Pennybyrn at Maryfi eld, died August 14, 2010, in High Point Re-gional Hospital.
Mr. Wagoner was born in Galax, VA on May 16, 1930, to Bruce G. and Ina Jenkins Wagoner. He served his country in the U. S. Army Air Corps. and was a musician in the Army band. Mr. Wagoner was a 1956 graduate of High Point University, where he was a member of TKE International Collegiate Fraternity, the Panther Club, and was President of H.P.U. Alumnae. He was also a member of the Lions Club, the Jaycees, and the Elks Club. Mr. Wagoner was employed with Wachovia Bank and Trust Company for thirty years until he retired on April 15, 1985. On Sep-tember 8, 1986 he married Jean Griffi th Pons, who survives of the residence.
Mr. Wagoner was an avid sailor and a member of the Peninsula Yacht Club at Lake Norman, where he spent much of his lei-sure time with family and friends. Some of his favorite times were spent with “The Old Geezers Coffee Club” at Mrs. Winner’s restaurant. He was supportive of com-munity activities and do-nated greatly to the ones in which he believed.
He was an inspiration to many because of his posi-tive attitude and determi-nation with his keen sense of humor, gentle manner, and smile. He brought smiles to so many other people, he had a true love for man kind.
Surviving in addition to his wife are his children, Jane Wagoner Johns and husband Mike of Concord, Michael Wagoner of Good-view, VA; Dan Wagoner and wife Grace of Greenville, SC; and John Wagoner and wife Ginger of Cornelius, NC. There are nine grand-children: Christopher, Mat-thew, Jack, Blake, Haley, and Heather Wagoner, and Ryan, Robert, and Adam Johns.
A service will be held on Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Maryfi eld at Pennybyrn with Dr. Thom-as Stockton and Father Jim Solari offi ciating. The family will receive friends follow-ing the memorial service at Norcross Square. A private inurnment ceremony will be held at a later date. The family requests memorials may be made to Pennybyrn at Maryfi eld, 109 Penny Road, High Point, NC 27260 or to High Point Univer-sity, 833 Montlieu Ave. High Point, NC 27262 or to a char-ity of one’s choice.
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Jones Elbert Dagenhart
GREENSBORO – Mr. Jones Elbert Dagenhart, 87, a resident of Greens-boro died Sunday eve-ning, August 15, 2010, in Moses H. Cone Hospital. Mr. Dagenhart was born November 26, 1922, in Al-exander Co., a son of Ar-thur and Verda Mitchell Dagenhart. A graduate of Stony Point High School, he was selected as Most Wittiest in his class su-perlatives. He was a re-tired driver for Branch Motor Express and was a member of the Teamsters Retiree Association, local # 391. He was of Baptist faith. Mr. Dagenhart was a veteran of WW II serv-ing in the US Army and was a member of the 97th Recon. He loved to fi sh and hunt. On April 24, 1952, he was married to the former Nancy Carol Swaim who preceded him in death on May 17, 1991. He was also preceded in death by his parents; his sister, Evelyn Dagenhart and his two brothers, Purnell and Harvey Da-genhart.
Surviving are one daughter, Carol D. Kit-trell and husband Grady of Greensboro; fi ve sons, Neal Dagenhart of Greens-boro and friend Pamela Howell, Wayne Dagen-hart and wife Heather of Marysville, Ohio, Brian Dagenhart and wife Me-linda of Winston-Salem, Richard Dagenhart and companion Teresa Jones of Stokesdale, Joe Dagen-hart and wife Cindy of Newport News, Virginia; 12 grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren and special friend, Sarah Hayes.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. in the Hanes-Lineberry Sedgefi eld Fu-neral Chapel, 6000 High Point Rd. conducted by the Reverend Kenneth Hayes. Interment with military honors provided by the Randolph County Honor Guard will follow in Guilford Memorial Park Cemetery. The fam-ily will receive friends at Hanes-Lineberry Sedge-fi eld Funeral Home on Tuesday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Online condolences can be made at haneslineber-ryfuneralhomes.com.
Sherry Coltrane Cox
HIGH POINT – Sherry Coltrane Cox, beloved mother & friend, joined the Great Spirit in the Sky; sadly all life must end.
Born Winter Solstice, Dec. 21, 1961, her life full of Spirit, laughter and fun. Passed Aug. 6, 2010; our lives will never be the same again.
Now with friends and family who’ve gone be-fore, in Heaven together, in pain no more.
Life is precious, life is sweet, try to be kind to all you meet.
Candles that burn twice as bright burn half as long – hard to imagine you’re already gone.
Sherry means Cher-ished, our Nana, our Mother, our Friend; we’ll all miss you dearly until we’re together again.
Surviving: Thomas Cox, loving life mate. Kara & Charity Cox, daughters of Fate. Alexis, Justus, Camilya & Lotus-grandchildren of love. Take time to notice the gifts from above. Elsie, Terry, Danny, Sis, Phyl-lis and James, other fam-ily and friends, too many to name.
Our beloved is gone, life forever changed.
A Private Celebration of her Life will be held with family and friends...may we have love to heal and time to mend.
Hera Embla FarlowSOPHIA – Hera Embla
Farlow, age 82, of Sophia died Sunday, August 15, 2010, at her home.
Mrs. Farlow was born May 1, 1928, in High Point, NC the daughter of William Wesley Bul-lard and Pearlie Jane Blakley Bullard. Hera was a member of Sophia Christian Church and retired after 29 ½ years as the postal clerk in So-phia. She was the widow of Tunney Farlow.
She is survived by son: Tony Farlow and his wife, Nina of Sophia, NC; daughter: Marsha Haith-cock and her husband, Jeffrey of Cedar Falls, NC; grandchildren, Min-dy Hankins and her hus-band, Ronald of Sophia; Wyatt Farlow of Sophia and Josh Haithcock of Cedar Falls; great grand-children, Cody Richard-son and Taylor Hankins; sister: Cherry Crotts of Glenola, NC.
The family will receive friends Tuesday, August 17, 2010 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. at Pugh Funeral Home, 600 South Main Street, Randleman, NC and other times at the home of Tony Farlow, 1847 Piedmont Dairy Rd. Sophia. The funeral will be held Wednesday, Au-gust 18, 2010, at 1:00 p.m. at Pugh Funeral Home Chapel, 600 South Main Street, Randleman with Chaplain Dwight Ayers offi ciating. Burial will follow at Randolph Me-morial Park, Asheboro.
Memorials may be made to Hospice Of Ran-dolph, P.O. Box 9, Ashe-boro, NC 27204-0009.
Online condolences may be made at www.pughfuneralhome.com.
Jack Holifi eldLEXINGTON – Jack Ho-
lifi eld, 71, of Cow Palace Road died August 16, 2010, at his home.
Funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at Psalm 91 Church. Visitation will be from 1 to 3 p.m. on Thursday at the church.
Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington, is in charge of arrangements.
Nancy GuptonGREENSBORO – Mrs.
Nancy Louise Gupton, 53, died August 16, 2010, at Moses Cone Hospital.
Arrangements are in-complete at Forbis & Dick Funeral Home, Pleasant Garden.
Ann SinkLEXINGTON – Patricia
Ann Gardner Sink, 66, of Calvin Sowers Road died August 15, 2010, at For-syth Medical Center.
Funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Bethesda United Meth-odist Church. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 tonight at Davidson Funeral Home Lexington Chapel.
Shelby Jean BeanLEXINGTON – Shelby
Jean Coble Bean, 74, of Mt. Moriah Manor died August 14, 2010, at Hinkle Hospice House.
Memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. August 17, 2010, at Davidson Fu-neral Home Chapel, Lex-ington. Visitation will be held following the ser-vice.
David “Pap” Green
HIGH POINT – Mr. David “Pap” Green, 65, of 1722 Gavin Drive, entered eternal rest on Thursday, August 12, 2010, in the Wesley Long Community Hospital, Greensboro, NC. Born June 23, 1945, in Hallsboro, North Caro-lina, he was a son of the late Ellison and Lucinda Nelson Green.
Survivors are: his wife of forty-one years, Vivian Gibson Green; two sons, David I and Dwayne S Green; a brother, Rev. Earnest Green; three sis-ters, Christine Ellison of Thomasville, NC, Rena Bell Johnson and Sarah A Green.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, Au-gust 18, 2010, at 3:00 p.m., Antioch UME Church, Rimini, SC. Burial will follow in Antioch Memo-rial Garden Procession will leave at 2:15 p.m. from 3874 Bomar Trail, Pinewood, SC.
Online memorial can be send to [email protected] Community Funeral Home of Sumter is in charge of these ar-rangements.
Willie C. CanadyLEXINGTON – Willie
Carroll Canady, age 76 of Cedar Lane, Lexington passed away Sunday (Au-gust 15, 2010) at Lexing-ton Memorial Hospital. Funeral service will be 2:00 p.m. Wednesday (Au-gust 18, 2010) at Church of God of Prophecy, East Center Street, Lexington with Rev. Bruce Langley offi ciating. Burial will follow at Forest Hill Me-morial Park.
The family will receive friends at Davidson Fu-neral Home from 6:00 un-til 8:00 p.m. Tuesday.
Willie was born in Sampson County, May 31, 1934 to Willie Canady and Elizabeth Batts Canady. He was a member of Church of God of Prophe-cy and a former employee of United Furniture. He was preceded in death by his parents.
Surviving are; his wife Peggy Austin Canady of the home; two daughters, Carla Canady Oldham and husband Jeffrey of Asheboro; Darla Canady Campbell and husband Joel of the home; three sons, Robert Wayne Ca-nady of Cocoa Cocoa Beach, Florida, Christo-pher Carroll Canady of Archdale and William Charles Canady of the home; eight grandchil-dren and six great-grand-children; one sister, Ma-bel Ann Carter of Clinton; two brothers, Joseph Lee Canady of Salemburg and Richard Earl Canady of Roseboro.
Online condolences may be made at www.da-vidsonfuneralhome.net.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – James J. Kilpatrick’s in-your-face, conser-vative bickering with liberal commentator Shana Alexander three decades ago was fa-mously parodied – and then copied for years.
Kilpatrick died Sun-day at age 89, said his wife, Marianne Means. “He was a hell of a fella,” said Means, 76. “He cultivated a public image on TV of being a cranky conservative ... but he wasn’t a cranky conservative at home.”
TV watchers in the 1970s knew Kilpatrick as the conservative half of the “Point-Coun-terpoint” segment of CBS’ “60 Minutes.” Baby boomers, though, would always know the liberal-conserva-tive pairing is what inspired the “Saturday Night Live” parody fea-turing Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin.
The “60 Minutes” seg-ment’s popularity was not lost on Kilpatrick: “People love to watch other people go at it. It does make for good en-tertainment,” he com-mented in a 1981 Wash-ington Post story about a similar program.
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Current fashions offer women little that’s decentD ear Abby: I am
writing about the letter from “Can’t
Believe My Eyes” (June 20), who is bothered by the amount of cleavage women display every-where. I have heard many negative com-ments in the workplace regarding women’s tasteless attire. But most of the remarks I hear come from other women in stores while we try to shop for clothes. They are shocked at how little there is to buy that is “decent” to wear. They, as well as I, are tired of having to buy tank tops to wear under shirts or dresses that are cut too low or are too short.
I have three daughters who dress for profes-sional jobs. They, too, ex-press similar frustration at fi nding clothing that is appropriate to wear. I am sure some women like plunging, skin-tight clothing, but from what I hear the majority do not. Store clerks get com-plaints and have passed them on to the buyers. But the buyers say there is not much else avail-able. – Frustrated Shop-per in West Virginia
Dear Frustrated: I empathize with your frustration. The feedback from readers on this sub-ject has been abundant, and many agree with you. Read on:
Dear Abby: As the mother of a well-en-dowed 13-year-old daugh-ter, I agree with “Can’t Believe My Eyes.” I hate shopping for clothes with my daughter. It’s not be-cause she is diffi cult, but because the styles are so revealing. My daughter
wants to dress trendy while I want her to stay cov-ered up.
I have the same problem when I shop for myself. We use
tank tops and hidden safety pins to keep “the girls” under wraps. The problem is not lack of modesty of the wearer, but the clothing design-ers and manufacturers. I can’t wait until the styles change, but for now we are doing our best to cover up. – Oklahoma Reader
Dear Abby: Hooray for “Can’t Believe’s” comments on cleav-age at businesses and schools, but I’m more disturbed by the number of women – young and not so young – who show way too much in church. I’m a guy who appreci-ates God’s handiwork, but please, ladies, don’t showcase it in the pews. – Distracted In Rome, N.Y.
Dear Abby: In your answer you stated there was also a lot showing “south of the border.” In Mexico? What about Louisiana? I’d like to go there! – Bruce in Hawaii
Dear Bruce: Oh, come on! I didn’t mean that kind of geography.
Dear Abby: Why do people feel the need to dictate the standards of appearance for everyone else? If it doesn’t harm
you, it’s none of your business. If you don’t like the employees where you shop, go somewhere else.
I’m a 54-year-old guy who looks and dresses conservatively. My dentist has spiky hair with purple streaks and looks young enough to be in high school. My mechanic has a hole in his earlobe you could shove a quarter through. My electrician has tat-toos on his face. But they all do great work, and I wouldn’t trade ’em. Why force everyone into one narrow description of what’s “acceptable”? I’m for ability over appear-ance. – Open-minded in Phoenix
Dear Abby: I’ve been in banking for 30 years and have seen many changes, especially after casual dress days started. Many younger women in the offi ce didn’t understand what that meant. Memos went out, but nothing changed until a female division manager was brought in to address the problem. I’ll never forget what she said: “Look at yourself in the mirror before you leave for work and ask yourself if you look like you’re going to ‘get lucky.’ If the answer is yes, then you need to change your clothes.” Abby, we never had a dress code problem again. – Rhonda in The Southwest DEAR ABBY is written by Abi-gail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.Dear-Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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Farm owner: Lawmaker played role in conserving landBY PAM HAYNES
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT – All-A-Flut-ter Butterfl y Farm owner Donna Pless sent letters and e-mails to many po-litical leaders in her ef-forts to keep the land around her farm tranquil and conducive to her business.
But one of the most im-portant e-mails she sent was to Rep. Pricey Harri-son, D-Guilford, she said.
“Pricey couldn’t be-lieve the fact that there is so much land out there,” Pless said. “So why
would they want the land around our little farm so much?”
The land battle that Pless refers to took place between she and Oasis Investment Group LLC. The two have been bid-ding against each other since April for 24 acres that sit next to the farm, but the investment group
recently stopped bidding.Harrison is known for
her efforts to preserve family farmland in Guil-ford County, but there were other factors that caught her attention in Pless’ case.
Oasis Investment Group LLC is managed by Helen Mjalli. Her husband is Adnan Mjalli, president of TransTech Pharma, who signed the invest-ment group’s upset bids. Adnan Mjalli said in July he couldn’t confi rm why the investment group was interested in the property, but Pless and Harrison said
they expected it was relat-ed to a TransTech Pharma project and a possible ex-pansion on the land.
“It would be diffi cult to segregate the wife from the husband’s interests,” Harrison said.
Carl Wright, the com-missioner appointed to sell the 24 acres that was deeded to Pless and her three siblings after they couldn’t reach an agree-ment on when and for how much to sell the land, said the investment group wasn’t in the wrong by bidding on the property. After all, another group
could have bid on it as well, he said.
But the fact that Trans-Tech Pharma had re-ceived state incentive money to keep its facili-ties in North Carolina especially caught Harri-son’s interest.
“I’m opposed to incen-tives anyway, but in this instance, it seemed the money would ultimately take over a farm and pre-cipitate the demise of a lo-cal enterprise,” she said.
According to the N.C. Department of Com-merce, TransTech Phar-ma has been pledged up
to $6.6 million in state in-centives. They have metobligations to receive$41,796 so far.
Harrison said she con-tacted the U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture, thePiedmont Land Conser-vancy and the U.S. De-partment of Commerceabout the matter. Shedidn’t speak with theMjalli’s directly, but anupset bid for the land wasnot placed last week.
“I’m just happy thiscould have a peacefulending,” she said.
RANDOLPH COUNTY – A Trinity man faces drug charges after a raid by Ran-dolph County Sheriff’s Offi ce Vice & Narcotics Unit offi cers.
Detectives searched a Fairwood Drive home last week and seized fi ve marijuana plants that weighed a total of about 290 grams, according to the sheriff’s offi ce.
Detectives also seized suspected drug paraphernalia and growing ma-terials, as well as a small amount of cash and a fi rearm. As a result of the search, one person was arrested.
William Andrew Racicot, 46, was
charged with manufacturing mari-juana, felony possession of marijuana and possession of drug parapherna-lia, and was assessed a $2,500 bond, according to the sheriff’s offi ce.
Deputies listed his address as the site of the raid.
In an unrelated case, two people were arrested following a traffi c stop in Randleman in which sheriff’s depu-ties assisted police in that city.
Offi cers who searched the vehicle found the two occupants had about 102 grams of marijuana in their pos-session. They charged Devin Aus-tin Reeves, 21, of Brown Oaks Road, Randleman, with manufacturing
marijuana, felony possession of mari-juana, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, deputies said. He was assessed a $2,500 bond.
Also charged was Stephen Dale McNeal, 21, of Spruce Road, Greens-boro, with manufacturing marijuana, felony possession of marijuana, pos-session with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, maintaining a vehicle for controlled substances and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to the sheriff’s offi ce.
McNeal was booked into the Ran-dolph County Jail under a $20,000 bond.
Political groups run ads criticizing NC business environmentRALEIGH (AP) – An
image of the Legisla-tive Building provides a backdrop of a television commercial after a man in a blue shirt and red tie standing in front of what could be a closed plant laments what he calls
North Carolina’s bad business environment.
The commercial, which began running in several TV markets last week, be-gan an effort funded by more than $500,000 from two Republican-leaning groups and a business to raise the
alarm about recent actions by the General Assembly, which happens to be con-trolled by Democrats.
“Real Jobs North Caro-lina is not partisan. We hope this message reaches all voters,” said Art Pope, a Real Jobs NC leader and
longtime Republican ac-tivist whose family com-pany has given $100,000 to the effort. Personally, Pope said he believes “the Democratic parties at the national level and at the state level have in effect destroyed jobs.”
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BY CHRISTINE ALFORD
O xygen is the most crucial of all ele-ments in the body.
It is an oxidizing agent that forms new com-pounds that release energy into the body. People can survive without food for days, but a lack of oxy-gen for only a couple of minutes will cause death. Without the proper oxygen
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Breathing purifi es the blood stream and leads to a healthier body and mind. Improper breathing leads to premature aging, a decrease in vitality and the onset of disease. Lack of oxygen results in men-tal sluggishness, negative thoughts and depression.
Breathing becomes modifi ed and restricted in various ways, not just mo-mentarily, but habitually. We develop unhealthy habits without being aware of it. We tend to assume slouched positions that diminish lung capaci-ties and take shortened breaths. We also live in social conditions that are not good for our respira-tory system.
Some people require ex-tra oxygen due to low blood oxygen caused by numer-ous pulmonary diseases. Learning proper breathing techniques is particularly important for these people. Many pulmonary patients use accessory muscles to aid breathing; however, this is actually causing them to work harder and waste oxygen. Through proper techniques, these patients can breathe more effi ciently.
Breathing exercises are also important for people who have sedentary jobs. Their brains can become oxygen-starved, and their bodies are just getting by. They feel tired, nervous and irritable and are not productive. Many sleep badly at night, resulting in a bad start to the next day, continuing the cycle.
Lack of oxygen also low-ers the immune system, making people susceptible to colds, fl u and other diseases.
Slow and deep breathing produces a stimulating ef-fect of the parasympathetic nervous system. This leads to a heart-rate reduction and allows muscles to relax, sending signals of relaxation to the brain. This extra fl ow of oxygen to the brain leads to a more normal brain function, which reduces anxiety.
Our breathing is too shallow and quick. We are not taking in suffi cient oxygen or eliminating suffi cient carbon dioxide. We need to breathe more slowly and deeply. Quick shallow breathing results in oxygen starvation, which leads to reduced vitality, premature aging, poor immune system and many other factors.
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Today’s Bible question: How did a slain lamb represent Jesus?
Q uestion: This is the fi rst year I have actually got-ten a decent crop of rasp-
berries, and I want to make sure that I am pruning and caring for them appropriately so they will do well again next year. When is the best time to prune them?
Answer: You are correct in thinking that proper pruning at the correct time of the year will result in better production of raspberries the next year.
Soon after the last raspber-ries have been picked, the canes that produced berries should be
removed by cutting them back to ground level. This encour-ages the growth of new shoots the following year. Removing and destroying the fruited-out canes will also help elimi-nate the spread of any insects and diseases present on these canes.
Remove only the canes that fruited. The canes that grew this summer, but did not bear fruit, are the ones that will bear next year’s fruit. It is also preferable to thin new shoots in mid-sum-mer, leaving three to four canes per foot of row. Depending on the type of raspberry you are
growing, you can then tie the new shoots loosely to the trel-lis.
With black raspberries, the new canes often grow too tall, becoming weighted down by the heavy tip foliage which will bend the canes almost to the ground, causing them to break off during a strong wind. The tip growth can be cut back in the mid summer so shoots reach 18 to 24 inches, as this will lessen the chances of dam-aging the canes. It is sometimes necessary to do this more than once. This will cause the lateral growth to start. In winter before
new growth starts, cut back sidebranches, leaving tow to sixbuds per cane.
N.C. Cooperative Extensionhas a pamphlet on growing rasp-berries that can be accessed atwww.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/pdf/hil-8204.pdf.
MASTER GARDENERS will answer questions on horticultural topics. Karen C. Neill, an urban horticulture extension agent, can be contacted at the N.C. Coop-erative Extension, 3309 Burlington Road, Greensboro, NC 27405-7605, telephone (336) 375-5876, e-mail [email protected], on the web at www.guilford gardenanswers.org.
Back to School Kick Off Party set HIGH POINT – Back to School Kick Off Party will
be held 1-4 p.m. Saturday in Kaleidoscope Youth Gallery, Theatre Art Galleries, 220 E. Commerce Ave.
Sponsored by the galleries, the workshop is for children entering grades K-5. Children will make items for school, such as book covers, bookmarks, pencil boxes and bags.
Cost is $25. For information or to register, call Abby Adamson at 887-2137, e-mail [email protected]. Registration forms are online at www.tagart.org.
SciWorks receives $150,000 grantWINSTON-SALEM – SciWorks received a $150,000,
two-year grant from the federal Institute of Mu-seum and Library Services.
The grant will be used for a new Outdoor Sci-ence Park. An 18-month project, the park is de-signed to expand outdoor learning opportuni-ties and provide interactive ways for visitors to explore and experience scientifi c principles at work. Five exhibit areas are intended to demon-strate basic principles of light, sound, color, mo-tion and energy.
The park is a $300,000 project, using $150,000 raised through SciWorks’ SciVision Capital Cam-paign added to the IMLS grant. The project will be-gin this month and is set to open in spring 2012.
NEA announces grant recipientsTRIAD – The Arts Council of Winston-Salem
and Forsyth County and the city of Winston-Salem received a $200,000 matching grant from The National Endowment for the Arts. Action Greensboro received $100,000.
Grants are from the NEA’s Mayor’s Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Grant pro-gram, which supports creative place-making projects that contribute to the livability of com-munities and help transform sites into lively, beautiful and sustainable places with the arts at their core.
The grants range from $25,000 to $250,000 and were awarded to 21 communities.
MILITARY NEWS---
Service updatesJeremy Walter Keiser
was promoted to sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps
July 1 at ceremonies at Beaufort Naval Air Station. He has been a member of the Ma-rines since
September 2006.He is the son of Jill and
Kenneth Keiser of High Point.
Keiser
RECOGNITION---Scott Clark of High
Point is a member of Special Olympics Team North Carolina, and he participated in the aquat-ics events at the 2010 Spe-cial Olympics USA Na-tional Games held July 18-23 in Lincoln, Neb.
He received the fol-lowing awards: 100-yard Freestyle – Gold Medal; 50M-yard Freestyle – 4th Place Ribbon; 4 by 50 Freestyle Relay – Silver Medal.
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Treatments for atrial fi brillation are many
D ear Dr. Donohue: Will you answer some questions on
atrial fi brillation? I have been electrically cardio-verted twice. Is there a procedure, a medicine or a device that ensures my heart stays in normal rhythm? I know other people who have atrial fi brillation and have the same questions. – B.D.
Atrial fi brillation is one of the most common heartbeat disturbances. It’s a very fast and very irregular heartbeat. High blood pressure, plugged heart arteries, deformed heart valves, excessive alcohol use and an over-active thyroid gland are some of its causes.
Atrial fi brillation pres-ents two problems. One is the rapid heartbeat, which exhausts the heart and the patient. The second is the irregular beat. One of its dangers is stagnation of blood in the atria, the upper heart chambers. Stag-nant blood clots. Pieces of those clots can be swept in the circulation to brain arteries, where they obstruct those arter-ies and cause a stroke. This is the reason people with atrial fi brillation take blood-thinning medicines. A fi brillating heart cuts down on the heart’s pumping ability, and that can produce fatigue.
A brief electric shock sometimes can establish a normal heartbeat. The
chances for a per-manent re-version to a normal heartbeat are best when fi brillation has been present for less than 48 hours.
Medi-cines can bring the beat back to normal. Two such medicines, and there are many others, are fl ecainide and amio-darone. If they don’t work, some patients have to settle for drugs that yield a slow but irregular beat. Tenor-min and digoxin are two examples. A person often can do quite well with a slowly but irregularly beating heart.
Ablation is a technique in which a doctor intro-duces a catheter into the heart from a surface blood vessel. The cath-eter is specially equipped to deliver radio waves to the heart. The waves inactivate the sites in the heart that are respon-sible for generating the abnormal rhythm. It’s a very involved process re-quiring a highly special-ized heart doctor.
Dear Dr. Donohue: I read in one of your columns about how a surgeon handling the intestines during an operation can cause adhesions to form. I have
an inguinal hernia for several years and repeat-edly push the protrusion back into place. What damage can result from this?
Three of my doctors told me that many peopledo not have hernia surgery. I have had no success with different hernia belts. – S.A.
What you do and what a surgeon does are two different things. Surgeons have to push organs and intestines to one side to get to the place where they must operate. That can lead to adhesion (scar tis-sue) formation. You are pushing the abdominal covering (the hernia) back into the abdominal cavity. That doesn’t pro-duce adhesions.
Surgery is the only way to correct a hernia. If the hernia isn’t large, isn’t painful and can be pushed back into the abdomen without trouble, then immediate surgery isn’t necessary. Many people go through life without surgical correction. The belt you used is called a truss. It works for some, but not for all.
DR. DONOHUE regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475
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FAMOUS, FABULOUS, FRIVOLOUS---
Neil Patrick Harris: I’m going to be a dad – twiceNEW YORK (AP) – Neil
Patrick Harris and his partner, David Burtka, will become parents of twins this fall.
A representative for Harris confi rmed Mon-day that Harris made the
announcement in a Sat-urday Twitter posting.
The 37-year-old actor says he and Burtka are “super excited/nervous/thrilled.” He did not say whether they were adopt-ing or using a surrogate.
Gibson uninjured in car crashLOS ANGELES (AP)
– Mel Gibson was unin-jured after crashing his sports car into a Malibu hillside, the California Highway Patrol said.
Gibson’s 2008 Maserati careened off southbound Malibu Canyon Road on Sunday evening, the
a g e n c y said.
The 54-year-old ac-tor-director was alone in the car. Authorities do not sus-
pect alcohol was involved.
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Neil Patrick Harris (left) and David Burtka pose with Mickey Mouse at Paradise Pier in Disney California Ad-venture in Anaheim, Calif., on Saturday.
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at Graceland, marking 33 years since the Amer-ican icon died.
Elvis admirers from around the world de-scended on Elvis’ for-mer home Sunday night to attend an annual candlelight vigil and procession that ran into Monday morning. Pres-ley died at age 42 at his Graceland mansion on Aug. 16, 1977. Memori-als started the following year.
Elvis ballads like “If I Can Dream” and “Fools Rush In” played as par-ticipants solemnly fi led
in through the gates. Flowers and photos lined the entrance to the grave site, which also is the resting place of Presley’s father Ver-non, his mother Gladys and grandmother Min-nie Mae.
Some wiped away tears as they walked past the graves.
Vigil marks 33 years since Elvis’ death
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Harvard pulled ahead of Ivy League rival Princeton in the latest edition of the infl uen-tial U.S. News & World Report university rank-ings, while a stronger emphasis on gradua-tion rates drove other changes in the Top 10.
The nation’s oldest university and tradi-tionally one of its most selective, Harvard has topped the list two of the last three years. Last year, the two elite schools shared the top ranking.
Yale was the No. 3-ranked university this year, followed by Co-lumbia, and Stanford and Penn tied at No. 5.
Williams College in Massachusetts was ranked the nation’s top liberal arts school.
Harvard regains spot
atop U.S. News rankings
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Elvis Presley fans view his grave at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn., on Monday.
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local museums, galleries and organizations will participate in the 2nd An-nual Greensboro Museum Day – an event that celebrates the city’s rich culture, history and arts. The celebra-tion is one of several annual collaborative events between Greensboro’s museums, histori-cal attractions, science centers, art galleries and cultural organiza-tions .
On Greensboro Museum Day, families and individuals are encouraged to visit a museum they’ve never seen before, check out an ex-hibition at a local gallery or venture downtown to the Greensboro Cultural Cen-ter. Most of the participating area attractions will offer free or re-duced admission, special programs and events.
There are cur-rently more than 10 museums, art galleries and cul-tural attractions in Greensboro that offer free admission on a daily basis.
A few special events happening Sept. 25 include free tours at The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro His-torical Museum, Green Hill Center for NC Art and fun gardening activities at the Greensboro Chil-dren’s Museum.
Participating organizations include African American Atelier, Blandwood Mansion, Brock Historic Museum at Greensboro College, Char-lotte Hawkins Brown Museum, David Caldwell Historic Park, Green Hill Center for NC Art/Art Quest!, Greens-boro Children’s Museum, Greens-boro Historical Museum, Guil-ford Courthouse National Military Park Museum, International Civil Rights Center & Museum, Natural Science Center, Sebastian Medi-cal Museum and Weatherspoon Art Museum.
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Drawn to ColtraneWhen a High Point artist learned
of the jazz great from her hometown, she couldn’t get enough
BY JIMMY TOMLINENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
H IGH POINT – Artist Rhonda “Rhen” Henry, High Point born and bred, sheepishly
admits she knew almost noth-ing about John Coltrane – one of High Point’s most famous former residents – until fi ve years ago.
That’s when she met someone from Philadelphia, the city the late jazz musician moved to when he left High Point in 1943.
“When he realized I was from High Point, he got real excited
because I was from Coltrane’s hometown, and he thought I knew everything there was to know about Coltrane, which was totally the opposite,” recalls Henry, whose
collection of Coltrane-inspired paintings is on exhibit this month at Yalik’s Modern Art.
“I had heard of him years ago through my mom. We went to the dedication for the Coltrane plaque and she told me a little about him, but I don’t remember learning about him in school, so my knowledge of him was very minimal.”
Henry’s limited knowledge of Coltrane startled her new friend.
“It was almost as if I didn’t know God,” she says.
Five years later, though, Henry is a Coltrane connoisseur.
“My friend gave me my fi rst CD, ‘A Love Supreme,’ and I was just fascinated,” Henry says. “Af-ter ‘A Love Supreme,’ I started listening to some of his earlier music, and I just fell in love with him. I started reading about him and was almost obsessed with him – or possessed by him.”
Eventually, the music inspired Henry – a graphic designer by trade – to put Coltrane’s master-pieces to canvas. Specifi cally, she recalls it was Coltrane’s “Alabama” – a piece written in response to the 1963 racially motivated bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Bir-mingham, Ala. – that moved her
to tears and inspired her to begin a series of Coltrane paintings.
“I just felt so inspired, I had to reach for the brush,” she says.
Henry received a grant from the High Point Area Arts Coun-cil to do a series of paintings depicting the works and life of Coltrane. Titled “God Breathes”
INTERESTED?----Rhonda “Rhen” Henry’s Coltrane-inspired artwork is currently on exhibit at Yalik’s Modern Art, located at 1113 E. Washington Drive.
The exhibit will continue through Aug. 29.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays, 1 to 6 p.m. Sundays, and other hours by appointment – (336) 989-0047.
For more information about the artist, visit www.rhenart.com.
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Some of Rhen Henry’s drawings, such as “Improvisation,” were inspired by John Coltrane and the jazz ensembles he often joined.
– a phrase taken from the liner notes of “A Love Supreme” – the collection now numbers more than 30 pieces, predominantly oils. Several of the paintings have been sold, Henry says.
Henry listens to Coltrane’s music as she paints, and she believes her artwork accurately refl ects his music.
“The paintings go from realism to abstracts,” she says. “Coltrane always experimented in different styles of music, so I try and experiment in different styles of painting. It’s more of an expressionist kind of painting.”
One of Henry’s favorite pieces, for example, is “Falling Notes,” a surrealistic depiction of New York City’s Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001.
“It shows musical notes fall-ing from the Twin Towers,” she explains. “I was trying to see through Coltrane’s eyes what he would’ve seen that day with peo-ple jumping from the Twin Towers
to their death. He would’ve seen them as musical notes, because he believed everything had rhythm and vibration, even death.”
Another painting, “Alabama,” captures the mood Coltrane’s song of the same title evokes, de-picting a vase of four dead fl ow-ers, representing the four young girls who lost their lives in the infamous church bombing.
Other paintings, though, are less somber, depicting Coltrane playing his saxophone, either solo or in an ensemble setting.
“People have told me they can feel the music and can almost hear him playing when they look at my paintings, and some have said the paintings were almost spiritual for them,” Henry says.
“I’m not about painting pretty pictures. If it doesn’t mean any-thing to anybody – if they don’t feel something – I’ve not done what I’m supposed to be doing.”
’I started listening to some of his earlier music, and I just fell in love with him.’Rhen HenryArtist
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“Falling Notes” shows the Twin Towers as Rhen Henry believes Coltrane would have seen them on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Como 34 Prisoner 36 Trampled 37 Insects
that pes-ter dogs
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Yesterday’s Puzzle SolvedTuesday, August 17, 2010CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Donnie
Wahlberg, 41; Don McKellar, 47; Sean Penn, 50; Rob-ert De Niro, 67
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Focus on home, family and getting things accomplished. Sticking to a budget and cutting corners will help to ease your stress. Once you get into the routine of what you can and can-not do, you will fi nd it easy to reach your goals and to maintain what you have already accomplished. Common sense coupled with practical application will be your saving grace. Your numbers are 2, 8, 20, 24, 27, 30, 44
ARIES (March 21-April 19): There is lots going on behind the scenes and, although you may not be aware of the opportunities heading your way, you will be soon. A problem with government, taxes or an institution will leave you feeling uncertain. Just ride out the storm. ★★★★★
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may need to spend a little to make a little but don’t go overboard. Use discretion and stick to the fi nancial guidelines you set. Talk matters over with colleagues. There is a lot to learn from working alongside someone with experience. ★★★
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Social networking will pay off. Consider ways to make improvements that will capture attention, boost your ego and help whatever presentation you display. Love is high-lighted but will also entail some sort of commitment. ★★★
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Work from home if possible and you will avoid disruptions as well as an aggravating situation. Put together a plan that will help you be successful. Moderation will be the key to accomplishing what you set out to do. ★★★
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your ability to draw inter-est in whatever you pursue will lead to your success. Communicating with people who have the potential to positively infl uence your future will mark the be-ginning of an interesting relationship. Love is appar-ent. ★★★★★
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t let someone’s emotions challenge you or cost you fi nancially. Not everyone will agree with you right now but eventu-ally your decision will prove positive. An alteration at home will help you out fi nancially. ★★
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t stifl e your emo-tions when you need to clear the air about what’s bothering you. It’s impossible to move forward if you don’t know where you stand. Be creative in your approach but don’t skirt important issues. Promises made must be kept. ★★★★
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Expect things to change rapidly. Before you get settled, look for alter-nate ways to approach what needs to be done. The ability to make last- minute changes will separate you from any competition you face. ★★★
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your ability to speak and react from the heart will get you the greatest mileage, not trying to impress by using false information. Stick to basics and, professionally and personally, people will join in and help you with whatever you pursue. ★★★
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You may want to keep your thoughts to yourself when it comes to love. Traveling should be kept to a minimum. Focus more on important fi nancial matters or contractual deals that can alter your future. ★★★
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Time, money and advancement should be highlighted. There is noth-ing you cannot do if you try. Being adaptable will add to your success. Don’t allow anyone to take ad-vantage of your good nature or your desire to help a cause. ★★★★
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’ll be tempted to overreact and to be impulsive with regard to deci-sions that can make or break a partnership. Think before you do or say something you may regret. There is plenty of time to fi gure out what you should or can do. ★★
ONE STAR: It’s best to avoid confl icts; work behind the scenes or read a good book. Two stars: You can accomplish but don’t rely on others for help. Three stars: If you focus, you will reach your goals. Four stars: You can pretty much do as you please, a good time to start new projects. Five stars: Nothing can stop you now. Go for the gold.
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They say faith can move mountains, but only hard work will put a tunnel through.
In today’s deal, South won the fi rst diamond and led a club to dum-my’s king. East played low, and South returned a club to his queen. He was putting his faith in a 3-2 club break, but when West discarded a spade, South faced a mountain he couldn’t move – or tun-nel through: He lacked the dummy entries to set up and cash the fi fth club.
Actually, South could still have succeeded if he saw all four hands, but he led a spade to dummy and tried a heart to his jack. West took the queen, and South won only two tricks in each suit.
SECOND CLUBSouth needed to work
a little harder. He can use the clubs if he starts by leading the queen. If East ducks, South leads a second club to dummy’s nine.
East wins with the ten and returns a diamond, but South wins and leads his last club to force out the ace. He can later reach dummy with the king of spades to take two good clubs, assuring the contract.
DAILY QUESTIONYou hold: S K 5 3 H
6 2 D 7 5 3 C K J 9 4 2. The dealer, at your left, opens one spade. Your partner doubles, and the next player passes. What do you say?
ANSWER: A response of two clubs would not be a bad mistake, but a bet-ter move is to aim toward the most likely game contract: 3NT. Bid 1NT, promising six to nine points, balanced pattern and at least one trick in spades. Another problem with a bid of two clubs is that it shows no strength at all.
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Got milk?Lilly Allicks, 5, from Wy-anet, Ill., learns how to milk a cow in the Dairy Barn at the Illinois State Fair in Springfi eld, Ill. The fair will run through Aug. 22.
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Davis Furniture Industries, a leading high-end office furnituremanufacturer, seeks an individual for the position of Plant Man-ager in our seating plant. Qualified applicants will have experi-ence in cut and sew upholstery operations, along with the as-sembly, packing and shipping of high-end furniture. Excellentcommunication and computer skills are a necessity for this po-sition. A college degree or appropriate technical training arepreferred.
We offer competitive pay and benefits in an excellent,drug-free working environment. Qualified applicants may for-ward their resume to [email protected] apply in per-son to:
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FOUND: Female Yellow Lab.No Collar. Very Sweet. FoundSunday 8/8 in the HastySchool Area in Thomasville.Call to Identify 336-848-3942
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EMPLOYMENT
0208 Sales$300 to $1500+ per week
Selling cemetery property atFloral Garden Memorial Park.Full time, No travel, Paid train-ing, Benefits, 401k, Top com-missions. Must have vehicle,clean driving record and Nocriminal background.
For confidential interviewCall Clay Cox, 336-882-6831
0232 General HelpMAKE Extra $$ Sell Avon tofamily, friends & work861-6817 Independent Rep.
Needed Transportation to andfrom Southwest Middle & HighSchool. From Johnson St/OldMill Intersection. 3-4 days perweek. Call 336-885-7168
NOW accepting applicationsfor F/T - P/T. Salary plus com-mission positions available forSales Associates. Requires:HS diploma or GED, customerservice skills, bondable, reli-able transportation. Spanishspeaking a plus. Hiring for forboth locations. Apply to FirstNational Pawn, 110 East Fair-field or Pawnway, 1185 E.Lexington Ave. Call (336)434-7296 or (336) 883-7296.
Supervisor Needed in Knittingfor Fine Line Hosiery, Inc.Must be able to fix and makestyle changes on Ultra-S Ma-chines. Call Lisa Elliott @336-498-1600 for more infor-mation
Wanted Housekeeper to helpw/family 2x's/wk. Live in/out.Must Drive. Non Smoker.Good for Retired Person. Call472-7901 between 6-9pm
0232 General Help
We are currently interviewingexperienced applicants withexcellent work records for thefollowing positions.
*Buffer: Must have 3-5 yearsof experience buffing steel andaluminum furniture parts.*Machine Room: Must be ex-perienced in setting-up andrunning various woodworkingmachines (drill press, router,boring machine, moulder, etc).Experience in frame buildingand sanding also required.*Metal Fabricator: Must have3-5 years general metal fabri-cating experience to includewelding, cutting and machin-ing.
We offer comptitive pay andbenefits in an excellent,drug-free working environ-ment. Qualified applicantsshould apply in person to:
Davis Furniture Industries2401 S. College DriveHigh Point, NC 27261
Experienced Automotive Techand General Service Techneeded; must have NC In-spection License and 3 yearsExperience. Apply at QualityTire 900 Randolph Street Tho-masville, NC 27360
Local Furniture Comapnyseeking a skilled Outsider &Nail Head Person. Apply inperson: 2224 Shore St.
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0264 Child CareIn Home Licensed 3 Star Day-care has openings for 2 chil-dren, beginning 8/23. Lake-wood Forest off Welborn Rd,Trinity. Hopewell ElementarySchool Area. 336-861-5564 or336-870-5299
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Alfred TogbaA Male Child born on or about March 19, 2009, in Greensboro,Guilford County, North Carolina.
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TAKE NOTICE that a Petition to Terminate Parental Rightswas filed on August 2, 2010, in the Office of the Clerk of Supe-rior Court, Juvenile Division, Greensboro, Guilford County,North Carolina.
You must answer this Petition within forty (40) days of August17, 2010, exclusive of that date. You are entitled to attend anyhearing affecting your rights. You are entitled to attend anyhearing affecting your rights. Attorney Charlene Armstrong hasbeen appointed to represent “Manny”, and can be reached at336/517-2431. Upon your failure to so answer, the Petitionerwill apply to the Court for the relief requested.
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0640 Misc for RentMobile Homes & Lots AumanMobile Home Pk 3910 N. Main883-3910
4 BEDROOMS101 Havenwood.............$1300
3 BEDROOMS145 Greenhaven............$1000317 Washboard................$895330 W. Presnell................$7901704 Azel.........................$6002209 B Chambers...........$600603 Denny.......................$600524 Player.......................$5651014 Grace......................$575281 Dorothy.....................$550116 Dorothy.....................$5501414 Madison..................$5251439 Madison..................$495920 Forest.......................$4501711 Edmondson............$350
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1 BEDROOMS3 1 3 A & BKersey..................$350203 Baker.......................$325205 A Taylor....................$285909 A Park.....................$250
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1100 sf Retail $6002,500 sqft $650
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0734 Lots & Acreage207 Villa Ave. (Off Old Tho-masville Rd) 1/2 + acre lot.Zoned Heavy Industrial.$18,000 Firm. Call 442-1623for information
0754 Commercial/Offi ce1,000 sq. ft retail space nearnew 85. Reasonable rent &terms. Phone day or night336-625-6076.
70,000 ft. former Braxton Cul-ler bldg. Well located. Reason-able rent. Call day or night.336-625-6076
Almost new 10,000 sq ft bldgon Baker Road, plenty of park-ing. Call day or night336-625-6076
Houses $295-$495 in HighPoint Area. Phone day or night336-625-6076
1800 Sq. Ft. Davidson CountyConrad Realtors336-885-4111
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August 10 & 17, 2010
0955 Legals
NOTICE OF CO-EXECUTORS TO
CREDITORS AND DEBTORS
Ruth Elaine T. Rainey andGary Wilbur Thornton havingqualified as Co-Executors forthe Estate of Mary Ruth Thorn-ton, Deceased, late of GuilfordCounty, North Carolina, dohereby notify all persons, firmsand corporations havingclaims against said estate topresent them to the under-signed, at the address indi-cated below, on or before No-vember 17, 2010 or this Noticewill be pleaded in bar of theirrecovery. All persons, firmsand corporations indebted tosaid estate should pleasemake immediate payment tothe undersigned.
This 17th day of August, 2010.
Ruth Elaine T. Rainey andGary Wilbur Thornton
co-Executors of theMary Ruth Thornton Estate
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Downtown Self Storage 215 N.Centennial St., High Point, NC27260, Will sell various itemsof personal property at publicsale, pursuant to the assertionof a prossessor lein for pastdue rental charges, on Mon-day, August 23, 2010 at10:00am.
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TuesdayAugust 17, 2010
WHO’S NEWS---
Former Buffalo Bills linebacker Aaron Schobel is retiring, saying he lost his hunger for playing last year.
The Bills re-leased Schobel on Aug. 4 after nine seasons. Schobel was a two-time Pro Bowl selec-tion and his 78 career sacks rank second in Buffalo history behind Hall of Famer Bruce Smith.
Schobel mulled his options for two weeks, and his decision to retire on Monday was fi rst reported by FoxSports-Houston.com. He said in a phone interview with The Associated Press that he had been leaning to-ward retirement since the end of last season.
“I really didn’t have a lot of fun playing last year,” Schobel said. “The passion wasn’t there, so it was time. I took as much time as I felt like I needed to make the deci-sion, and I think I made the right one.”
Schobel, 32, lives in Columbus, Texas, about 70 miles west of Houston, and the Texans contacted Schobel about continuing his career close to home this season.
Another lure to Houston was de-fensive line coach Bill Kollar, who worked in Buffalo for three seasons before joining the Texans in 2009. The two are close friends, but Schobel felt retiring was still the right decision to make.
INDEXSCOREBOARD 2DPREPS 3DBASEBALL 3DBASKETBALL 3D GOLF 4D NFL 4D COLLEGES 4D BUSINESS 5DSTOCKS 5DWEATHER 6D
2:30 p.m., FSN – Soccer, UEFA Champions League
7 p.m., Sport-South – Baseball, Nationals at Braves
7 p.m., ESPN2 – Little League Softball, Little League World Series semifi nal
8 p.m., FSN – Soc-cer, UEFA Champi-ons League
9:30 p.m., ESPN2 – Little League Softball, Little League World Series semifi nal
TOPS ON TV---
BUNKERED OUT: Johnson’s penalty remains hot topic. 4D
OFF TO EUROPE: Team USA ready to hoop it up in worlds. 3D
SWAP SPOTS: China overtakes Japan as the world’s No. 2 economy. 6D
H ere’s hoping that the image of Chipper Jones limping off the fi eld in Houston will not be the fi nal one we see of the
Braves’ star third baseman,Jones suffered a season-ending knee injury
last week in a game against the Astros. He tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and will need surgery. The 38-year-old superstar faces several months of intense rehab if he plans to be ready for opening day 2011.
Considering Jones stated he was con-sidering retirement after this season prior to this severe injury, Chipper may
have played his fi nal big-league game.I hope that’s not the case.I’d prefer seeing Chipper go out on his own
terms instead of forced into retirement by injury.
He’s been the face of Atlanta’s franchise for a stellar career that’s spanned 17 big-league seasons – so far.
But if this is the end for Chipper, it’s been an amazing ride.
Jones sparked the Braves to 10 consecutive division titles, three National League pen-nants and the 1995 World Series crown.
He’s a six-time All-Star with the 1999 NL
MVP award and the 2008 NL batting title under his belt.
Statistically, Jones’ numbers speak for themselves. He’s a career .306 hitter with 436 homers, 493 doubles, 2,490 hits, 1,505 runs, 1,491 RBIs and 1,404 walks in 9,654 at-bats over 2,261 games. He sports a .405 on-base percentage and a .536 slugging percentage to go with 147 stolen bases.
There is no question Chipper will be a Hall of Famer someday.
It’s merely a matter of when.– MARK MCKINNEY
ENTERPRISE SPORTS EDITOR
HIT AND RUN---
DON DAVIS JR. | HPE
Rock-solid trainingThe Ledford cross country team worked out recently at the school. Part of the time they utilized rocks gleaned from along the drive to the stadium. Don’t miss a preview of the Panthers’ cross country team as well as tons of other area prep teams in our special section that will be inserted in Friday’s edition of The High Point Enterprise. This section features previews, schedules, photos and much, much more.
Pirates kick off new eraGREENVILLE (AP) – For a guy
with precious little head coach-ing experience in college, Ruf-fi n McNeill doesn’t seem rattled by taking over a program that has won two straight conference championships.
Back home at alma mater East Carolina, the folksy McNeill in-stead talks more about being a father fi gure for a bunch of adop-tive sons. If anything, the guy players call “Papa Ruff” fi gures doing a good job at that will help ease the Pirates’ transition in a change-fi lled year.
“I think with kids, and with any-one, it’s ’show me’ on a daily basis,” McNeill said. “The saying is I’d rather see a sermon than hear one. I think they hear me, but then they’d rather see it and they’ve seen how I am. It’s not interview talk or media talk. I mean it. I do love them, and I want them to do well.”
McNeill, 51, knows there are high expectations after the way Skip Holtz rebuilt the program into a two-time Conference USA champion that has reached four straight bowls and beaten big-name teams like Virginia Tech and West Virginia. When Holtz left for South Florida, McNeill – who played defensive back here from 1976-79 – was eager to jump at what he called “my destination job.”
He also knows all about the pro-gram’s unique challenges, from fi ghting for headlines in a state dominated by Atlantic Coast Conference programs like North Carolina and N.C. State to a pe-
rennially challenging nonconfer-ence schedule.
“We’re able to go out there and put everything on the line for this man because he knows what he’s talking about,” linebacker Steve Spence said. “It’s a matter of trust and just having faith in what this guy’s talking about. He’s leading us in the right direction because he’s a Pirate himself.”
The more pressing challenge is working with a roster with only seven returning starters on of-fense and defense.
McNeill had spent the past 10 seasons as an assistant to Mike Leach at Texas Tech, then served as interim coach when Leach
was suspended and ultimately fi red before the Red Raiders’ win against Michigan State in the Alamo Bowl – his only game as a collegiate head coach. He’s bringing that pass-happy spread offense as well as a defensive phi-losophy that’s heavy on blitzing to Greenville.
McNeill says simply he is who he is. He says what’s on his mind and doesn’t worry about being polished his words. At a recent preseason football event with area coaches, McNeill proudly told the audience, “I’m as coun-try as a dozen eggs.”
McNeill knows he has a versa-tile threat in receiver Dwayne
Harris, who had seven touchdown catches, ran for fi ve scores and re-turned three kickoffs for TDs. He could thrive in offensive coordi-nator Lincoln Riley’s attack – pro-vided, of course, that the relative-ly unproven set of quarterbacks can get the ball to him.
Walk-on Brad Wornick entered training camp atop the depth chart, while Boston College and junior college transfer Dominique Davis missed spring drills when the offense was installed and is trying to catch up enough in camp to start against Tulsa on Sept. 5.
The defense, however, lost nine starters and could struggle if the offense fails to sustain drives.
AP
East Carolina football coach Ruffi n McNeill meets the press during media day in Greenville in this Aug. 7, 2010 photo. McNeill has hit the ground running in his fi rst season at the Pirate helm.
S P A R T A N B U R G , S.C. (AP) – The entire Steve Smith package was back Monday morning.
The three plates and up to 20 s c r e w s in his left arm? Y o u ’ d n e v e r h a v e g u e s s e d t h a t w h e n
Carolina’s four-time Pro Bowl receiver made an acrobatic, leaping catch in his fi rst practice since he broke his forearm for the second time in six months.
Determined to play in the regular-season opener?
You bet, but while Smith declared him-self pain-free, he also still hates the pre-season, saying, “I don’t really care if I play or if I don’t – emphasis on hopefully don’t,” when asked if he’ll play in an exhibition game.
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TRIVIA ANSWER---A. Craig Wood.
TRIVIA QUESTION---Q. Which man captured the Masters and the U.S. Open golf titles in 1941?
West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwaySan Diego 69 47 .595 — — 7-3 W-1 36-22 33-25San Francisco 67 52 .563 3 1/2 — 5-5 L-1 37-23 30-29Colorado 61 56 .521 8 1/2 5 5-5 W-1 38-20 23-36Los Angeles 60 59 .504 10 1/2 7 4-6 L-2 36-24 24-35Arizona 47 72 .395 23 1/2 20 6-4 L-1 28-32 19-40
AMERICAN LEAGUESunday’s GamesCleveland 9, Seattle 1Tampa Bay 3, Baltimore 2Detroit 13, Chicago White Sox 8Kansas City 1, N.Y. Yankees 0Minnesota 4, Oakland 2Texas 7, Boston 3Toronto 4, L.A. Angels 1Monday’s GamesDetroit at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.Seattle at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.Tampa Bay 6, Texas 4Toronto at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.Tuesday’s GamesDetroit (Verlander 13-7) at N.Y. Yankees (Sa-bathia 15-5), 7:05 p.m.Seattle (French 1-3) at Baltimore (Millwood 2-12), 7:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 11-7) at Boston (C.Buchholz 13-5), 7:10 p.m.Texas (Tom.Hunter 9-1) at Tampa Bay (Garza 11-7), 7:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Danks 12-8) at Minnesota (S.Baker 10-9), 8:10 p.m.Cleveland (J.Gomez 3-0) at Kansas City (Gre-inke 7-11), 8:10 p.m.Toronto (Morrow 9-6) at Oakland (Braden 7-8), 10:05 p.m.Wednesday’s GamesTexas at Tampa Bay, 1:10 p.m.Toronto at Oakland, 3:35 p.m.Detroit at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.Seattle at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.L.A. Angels at Boston, 7:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.Cleveland at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.———NATIONAL LEAGUESunday’s GamesCincinnati 2, Florida 0
Washington 5, Arizona 3Atlanta 13, L.A. Dodgers 1Houston 8, Pittsburgh 2Chicago Cubs 9, St. Louis 7Colorado 6, Milwaukee 5San Diego 8, San Francisco 2Philadelphia 3, N.Y. Mets 1
Monday’s GamesPittsburgh 7, Florida 1Atlanta 4, L.A. Dodgers 3N.Y. Mets at Houston, 8:05 p.m.San Diego at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.
Tuesday’s GamesFlorida (Nolasco 13-8) at Pittsburgh (Duke 5-11), 7:05 p.m.San Francisco (Zito 8-6) at Philadelphia (Os-walt 7-13), 7:05 p.m.Washington (Olsen 3-4) at Atlanta (Minor 0-0), 7:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets (J.Santana 10-6) at Houston (Figueroa 3-1), 8:05 p.m.San Diego (Garland 11-8) at Chicago Cubs (R.Wells 5-10), 8:05 p.m.Milwaukee (Bush 5-10) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 10-5), 8:15 p.m.Cincinnati (Arroyo 12-7) at Arizona (D.Hudson 3-0), 9:40 p.m.Colorado (J.Chacin 5-8) at L.A. Dodgers (Ker-shaw 10-7), 10:10 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesMilwaukee at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.San Diego at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.Florida at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.San Francisco at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.Washington at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets at Houston, 8:05 p.m.Cincinnati at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.
FOOTBALL---NFL preseasonAMERICAN CONFERENCE
East W L T Pct PF PAMiami 1 0 0 1.000 10 7New England 1 0 0 1.000 27 24N.Y. Jets 0 0 0 .000 0 0Buffalo 0 1 0 .000 17 42South W L T Pct PF PAHouston 0 1 0 .000 16 19Indianapolis 0 1 0 .000 17 37
MOTORSPORTS---NASCAR Sprint Cup
leadersThrough Aug. 15
Points1, Kevin Harvick, 3,400. 2, Jeff Gordon,
3,107. 3, Denny Hamlin, 3,047. 4, Tony Stew-art, 3,020. 5, Jimmie Johnson, 3,014. 6, Carl Edwards, 2,986. 7, Jeff Burton, 2,986. 8, Kyle Busch, 2,975. 9, Matt Kenseth, 2,961. 10, Kurt Busch, 2,935.
11, Greg Biffl e, 2,913. 12, Clint Bowyer, 2,755. 13, Mark Martin, 2,720. 14, Ryan New-man, 2,652. 15, Jamie McMurray, 2,650. 16, Kasey Kahne, 2,629. 17, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 2,626. 18, David Reutimann, 2,590. 19, Juan Pablo Montoya, 2,582. 20, Martin Truex Jr., 2,548.
Money1, Kurt Busch, $5,040,741. 2, Jamie Mc-
Murray, $5,031,514. 3, Jimmie Johnson, $4,793,777. 4, Kevin Harvick, $4,782,698. 5, Kyle Busch, $4,159,035. 6, Jeff Gordon, $3,971,520. 7, Denny Hamlin, $3,846,058. 8, Tony Stewart, $3,674,976. 9, Matt Kenseth, $3,673,945. 10, Kasey Kahne, $3,647,752.
11, Carl Edwards, $3,587,935. 12, Jeff Burton, $3,519,452. 13, David Reutimann, $3,471,736. 14, Juan Pablo Montoya, $3,459,955. 15, Greg Biffl e, $3,451,162. 16, Dale Earnhardt Jr., $3,392,003. 17, Joey Logano, $3,333,263. 18, Ryan Newman, $3,311,039. 19, A J Allmendinger, $3,132,096. 20, Clint Bowyer, $3,025,554.
WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBz-Seattle 25 6 .806 —Phoenix 14 17 .452 11Los Angeles 12 19 .387 13Minnesota 12 19 .387 13San Antonio 12 19 .387 13Tulsa 5 26 .161 20z-clinched conference
Sunday’s GamesWashington 80, Seattle 71Indiana 79, Connecticut 66Minnesota 84, San Antonio 78
Monday’s GamesNo games scheduled
Today’s GamesChicago at Atlanta, 7 p.m.Tulsa at Connecticut, 7:30 p.m.Indiana at New York, 7:30 p.m.Washington at San Antonio, 8 p.m.Minnesota at Seattle, 10 p.m.Phoenix at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Conradt, Hurley, Keady to get Lapchick Award
NEW YORK (AP) — Hall of Famers Jody Conradt and Bob Hurley Sr. and former Pur-due coach Gene Keady have been chosen as this year’s recipients for the third annual Lapchick Character Awards.
The three will be honored at luncheon at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 18, it was announced Monday.
The award, started by a group including Joe Lapchick biographer and former player Gus Alfi eri, recognizes coaches who have shown the character traits and coaching skills of the Hall of Famer who coached St. John’s and the New York Knicks.
Conradt was one of the pioneers of the women’s college game. She led Texas to an undefeated national championship in 1986, and three Final Fours. In her 31 years at Texas, 99 percent of her athletes earned their degrees. She was the second women’s coach inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in 1998.
Hurley, who was inducted into the Nai-smith Memorial Hall of Fame last week, was fundraiser, custodian and coach in turning Saint Anthony, a small parochial high school in Jersey City, N.J. into one of the most suc-cessful high school programs ever.
Keady’s teams won six Big Ten titles and made 17 NCAA tournament appearances at Purdue, reaching the round of eight twice. His players at Purdue had an almost 90 percent graduation rate and seven of his players were selected academic All-Americans.
The award is sponsored by Nike, D’Agostino Supermarkets and HHI Hotels.
49ers trade Balmer to Seahawks
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Defensive lineman Kentwan Balmer was traded to the Seattle Seahawks on Monday after a mysteri-ous absence from the San Francisco 49ers over the past week.
Both teams confi rmed the swap Monday and the Seahawks say they will send an un-disclosed 2011 draft pick to the Niners. Balm-er left the 49ers last Monday for what coach Mike Singletary called personal reasons.
Balmer, the team’s fi rst-round draft pick in 2008 out of North Carolina, missed his fi fth straight practice Friday before the team trav-eled to Indianapolis for its exhibition opener against the Colts. Balmer’s absences had been unexcused since Wednesday. Balmer met Wednesday night with Singletary, but still was a no-show at training camp.
The 23-year-old Balmer is entering the third year of an $8 million, fi ve-year deal he signed as a rookie. He has yet to start a game and has recorded no sacks in his fi rst two NFL seasons. He has 11 career solo tackles and has combined on eight others in 27 games.
South W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta 1 0 0 1.000 20 10Carolina 0 1 0 .000 12 17New Orleans 0 1 0 .000 24 27Tampa Bay 0 1 0 .000 7 10
North W L T Pct PF PAMinnesota 1 0 0 1.000 28 7Chicago 0 1 0 .000 10 25Detroit 0 1 0 .000 7 23Green Bay 0 1 0 .000 24 27
West W L T Pct PF PAArizona 1 0 0 1.000 19 16San Francisco 1 0 0 1.000 37 17Seattle 1 0 0 1.000 20 18St. Louis 0 1 0 .000 7 28
Sunday’s GamesSan Francisco 37, Indianapolis 17Cincinnati 33, Denver 24
Monday’s GameN.Y. Giants at N.Y. Jets, late
Thursday’s gamesIndianapolis at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.New England at Atlanta, 8 p.m.
Friday’s gamePhiladelphia at Cincinnati, 8 p.m.
Saturday’s gamesBaltimore at Washington, 7 p.m.Pittsburgh at N.Y. Giants, 7 p.m.Miami at Jacksonville, 7:30 p.m.St. Louis at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m.Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.N.Y. Jets at Carolina, 8 p.m.Houston at New Orleans, 8 p.m.Oakland at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.Dallas at San Diego, 9 p.m.Detroit at Denver, 9 p.m.Green Bay at Seattle, 10 p.m.
Sunday’s gameMinnesota at San Francisco, 8 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 23Arizona at Tennessee, 8 p.m.
GOLF---World Golf Ranking
Through Aug. 15 1. Tiger Woods USA 9.57 2. Phil Mickelson USA 9.08 3. Lee Westwood Eng 8.87 4. Steve Stricker USA 7.37 5. Martin Kaymer Ger 6.70 6. Jim Furyk USA 6.69 7. Rory McIlroy NIr 5.98 8. Ernie Els SAf 5.64 9. Paul Casey Eng 5.6010. Luke Donald Eng 5.3211. Ian Poulter Eng 5.0312. Hunter Mahan USA 4.8413. Graeme McDowell NIr 4.8214. Anthony Kim USA 4.6115. Zach Johnson USA 4.4416. Retief Goosen SAf 4.3417. Robert Allenby Aus 4.1818. Padraig Harrington Irl 4.1619. Louis Oosthuizen SAf 4.1120. Sean O’Hair USA 3.9821. Edoardo Molinari Ita 3.8922. Matt Kuchar USA 3.8823. Justin Rose Eng 3.8824. Dustin Johnson USA 3.8725. Camilo Villegas Col 3.7426. Bubba Watson USA 3.7427. Tim Clark SAf 3.7228. Ross Fisher Eng 3.7029. Robert Karlsson Swe 3.5530. Henrik Stenson Swe 3.5331. Nick Watney USA 3.5332. Charl Schwartzel SAf 3.4833. Lucas Glover USA 3.4734. Rickie Fowler USA 3.3735. Y.E. Yang Kor 3.3536. Geoff Ogilvy Aus 3.2737. Stewart Cink USA 3.2238. Francesco Molinari Ita 3.1939. Miguel A. Jimenez Esp 3.1640. Bo Van Pelt USA 2.9741. Kenny Perry USA 2.9642. Angel Cabrera Arg 2.9443. Alvaro Quiros Esp 2.8644. Ryan Moore USA 2.8645. Adam Scott Aus 2.8346. Jeff Overton USA 2.8047. Ben Crane USA 2.7748. K.J. Choi Kor 2.6949. Peter Hanson Swe 2.6650. Scott Verplank USA 2.5351. Sergio Garcia Esp 2.4752. Rhys Davies Wal 2.4653. J.B. Holmes USA 2.4454. Ryo Ishikawa Jpn 2.3655. Jason Day Aus 2.2756. Kevin Na USA 2.2157. Yuta Ikeda Jpn 2.1758. Heath Slocum USA 2.1459. Thongchai Jaidee Tha 2.1160. Liang Wen-Chong Chn 2.1061. Ricky Barnes USA 2.0862. Ryan Palmer USA 2.0763. Oliver Wilson Eng 2.0664. Bryce Molder USA 2.0465. Kim Kyung-Tae Kor 2.0166. Jason Dufner USA 2.0067. Brian Gay USA 1.9968. Michael Sim Aus 1.9969. Hiroyuki Fujita Jpn 1.9470. Simon Dyson Eng 1.9171. David Toms USA 1.9072. Stephen Marino USA 1.8773. Tetsuji Hiratsuka Jpn 1.8674. F. Andersson Hed Swe 1.8575. Soren Kjeldsen Den 1.85
2010 Ryder Cup pointsAt The Celtic Manor Resort
Newport, WalesOct. 1-3, 2010United States
Finalx-clinched berth
1. x-Phil Mickelson 6,095.06300 2. x-Hunter Mahan 4,095.62080 3. x-Bubba Watson 3,894.31884 4. x-Jim Furyk 3,763.64283 5. x-Steve Stricker 3,697.97509 6. x-Dustin Johnson 3,573.80511 7. x-Jeff Overton 3,533.14783 8. x-Matt Kuchar 3,415.85287 9. Anthony Kim 3,274.6842810. Lucas Glover 3,052.8745311. Zach Johnson 3,051.8964712. Tiger Woods 2,902.5810013. Bo Van Pelt 2,662.2340014. Stewart Cink 2,644.8328115. Ben Crane 2,629.79637
EuropeThrough Aug. 15
World Points 1. Lee Westwood (Eng) 422.01 2. Rory McIlroy (NIr) 316.95 3. Martin Kaymer (Ger) 285.42 4. Graeme McDowell (NIr) 249.35 5. Luke Donald (Eng) 231.16 6. Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 218.41 7. Ian Poulter (Eng) 211.24 8. Padraig Harrington (Irl) 204.97 9. Justin Rose (Eng) 195.7410. Francesco Molinari (Ita) 172.51
European Points1 Lee Westwood (Eng) 3 446 137 87
PGA Tour FedExCup leaders
Through Aug. 15Rank Name Pts Money 1. Ernie Els 1,846 $4,097,761 2. Steve Stricker 1,697 $3,192,735 3. Jim Furyk 1,691 $3,308,872 4. Phil Mickelson 1,629 $3,409,233 5. Justin Rose 1,593 $3,241,081 6. Jeff Overton 1,536 $3,301,181 7. Hunter Mahan 1,528 $3,283,479 8. Bubba Watson 1,498 $2,954,761 9. Matt Kuchar 1,437 $2,894,798 10. Tim Clark 1,409 $3,101,881 11. Dustin Johnson 1,362 $2,767,397 12. Ben Crane 1,304 $2,513,750 13. Bo Van Pelt 1,272 $2,554,508 14. Anthony Kim 1,216 $2,554,896 15. Camilo Villegas 1,213 $2,615,598 16. Zach Johnson 1,191 $2,384,868 17. Robert Allenby 1,169 $2,519,867 18. J.B. Holmes 1,153 $2,172,438 19. Rickie Fowler 1,147 $2,250,256 20. Carl Pettersson 1,142 $1,876,573 21. Rory McIlroy 1,101 $2,469,905 22. Luke Donald 1,089 $2,145,984 23. Ryan Palmer 1,071 $2,239,245 24. Retief Goosen 1,068 $2,315,839 25. Br. de Jonge 1,035 $1,843,144 26. Paul Casey 992 $2,257,194 27. Jason Day 988 $1,916,639 28. Bill Haas 984 $1,648,820 29. Nick Watney 984 $1,868,817 30. Stuart Appleby 957 $1,904,162 31. Ricky Barnes 947 $1,761,842 32. Adam Scott 940 $1,772,402 33. Jason Bohn 926 $1,817,241 34. K.J. Choi 922 $1,572,912 35. Ryan Moore 893 $1,791,323 36. Sean O’Hair 858 $1,748,438 37. Vaughn Taylor 824 $1,521,393 38. Geoff Ogilvy 815 $1,593,795 39. Scott Verplank 786 $1,622,665 40. Brian Davis 781 $1,490,842 41. Fredrik Jacobson 768 $1,432,327 42. Kevin Na 756 $1,374,056 43. Bryce Molder 748 $1,353,083 44. Charles Howell III 746 $1,116,746 45. Brandt Snedeker 735 $1,153,140 46. Ian Poulter 733 $1,793,864 47. Heath Slocum 722 $1,408,427 48. Brian Gay 714 $1,269,008 49. Marc Leishman 690 $1,205,981 50. Charlie Wi 690 $1,140,230 51. Y.E. Yang 678 $1,246,521 52. Stewart Cink 678 $1,213,151 53. Pad Harrington 662 $1,361,623 54. Lucas Glover 653 $1,324,750 55. Matt Jones 647 $1,115,911 56. Steve Marino 635 $1,259,363 57. Spencer Levin 633 $727,564 58. Rory Sabbatini 618 $1,172,988 59. Paul Goydos 597 $1,059,092 60. Shaun Micheel 595 $973,560 61. Vijay Singh 588 $1,032,464 62. Jason Dufner 583 $971,987 63. Steve Elkington 571 $938,494 64. J.J. Henry 564 $995,780 65. Greg Chalmers 558 $839,350 66. Kenny Perry 555 $953,661 67. Jimmy Walker 554 $920,399 68. Kris Blanks 553 $1,008,949 69. D.J. Trahan 551 $1,088,296 70. Chad Campbell 551 $805,894 71. Stephen Ames 548 $849,393 72. Charley Hoffman 546 $840,700 73. D.A. Points 544 $935,823 74. Pat Perez 534 $790,317 75. Angel Cabrera 524 $1,033,115 76. Boo Weekley 513 $844,706 77. Blake Adams 510 $918,468 78. Tom Gillis 505 $740,320 79. John Rollins 500 $834,386 80. Alex Prugh 500 $798,901 81. Kevin Sutherland 499 $699,732 82. Alex Cejka 489 $904,253 83. Derek Lamely 486 $939,233 84. Davis Love III 475 $1,049,517 85. Tim Petrovic 474 $739,064 86. Matt Bettencourt 472 $836,176 87. Chad Collins 472 $747,805 88. Chris Couch 472 $813,146 89. Aaron Baddeley 468 $660,584 90. John Senden 467 $536,663 91. Jeff Maggert 463 $783,354 92. Sergio Garcia 461 $936,845 93. Garrett Willis 460 $759,173 94. Jerry Kelly 459 $866,284 95. Joe Ogilvie 454 $631,128 96. Josh Teater 453 $813,992 97. Bill Lunde 449 $1,044,734 98. David Toms 448 $622,598 99. John Merrick 446 $573,630100. Ryuji Imada 445 $686,997101. Martin Laird 443 $727,557102. Michael Sim 440 $853,663103. J.P. Hayes 439 $767,548104. Briny Baird 437 $666,530105. Chris Riley 434 $786,322105. Dean Wilson 434 $678,030107. Corey Pavin 433 $839,193108. Tiger Woods 431 $872,086109. Justin Leonard 422 $602,704110. Ben Curtis 416 $732,537111. Nathan Green 414 $553,780112. Cam Beckman 414 $989,316113. Troy Matteson 412 $664,521114. Kevin Streelman 412 $644,227115. David Duval 404 $745,247116. Webb Simpson 401 $493,397117. Kevin Stadler 394 $750,801118. Woody Austin 394 $668,072119. Graham DeLaet 393 $589,240120. Bob Estes 391 $650,903121. Jonathan Byrd 381 $546,877122. Robert Garrigus 381 $690,239123. Andres Romero 377 $721,135124. Chris Stroud 369 $611,069125. Michael Letzig 366 $452,374126. Mike Weir 360 $559,092127. Jeff Quinney 344 $415,480128. George McNeill 338 $518,293129. Brett Quigley 336 $399,822130. Tom Pernice, Jr. 331 $512,411131. James Nitties 331 $474,496132. Matt Every 322 $438,517133. Henrik Stenson 321 $662,070134. Mark Wilson 316 $513,491135. Billy Mayfair 314 $622,831136. Michael Connell 313 $481,562137. Troy Merritt 311 $656,348138. Aron Price 310 $529,555139. Michael Bradley 306 $352,245140. Scott Piercy 303 $443,403141. James Driscoll 300 $417,672142. Scott McCarron 296 $499,820143. Chris DiMarco 285 $333,648144. Nich Thompson 284 $510,648145. Paul Stankowski 283 $487,421146. Lee Janzen 280 $517,526147. Jay Williamson 279 $385,808148. Rod Pampling 275 $299,264149. Rich S. Johnson 275 $500,098150. Steve Flesch 272 $421,905
PGA Tour schedule-winners
Jan. 7-10 — SBS Championship (Geoff Ogilvy)
Jan. 14-17 — Sony Open in Hawaii (Ryan Palmer)
Jan. 20-24 — Bob Hope Classic (Bill Haas)
Jan. 28-31 — Farmers Insurance Open (Ben Crane)
PGA Tour statisticsThrough Aug. 15Scoring Average
1, Ernie Els, 69.68. 2, Matt Kuchar, 69.71. 3, Steve Stricker, 69.75. 4, Justin Rose, 69.78. 5, J.B. Holmes, 69.84. 6, Retief Goos-en, 69.85. 7, Phil Mickelson, 69.88. 8, Jim Furyk, 69.89. 9 (tie), Shaun Micheel and Bo Van Pelt, 69.94.
Driving Distance1, Robert Garrigus, 318.2. 2, Bubba Wat-
son, 309.0. 3, Dustin Johnson, 307.7. 4, J.B. Holmes, 307.3. 5, Graham DeLaet, 306.9. 6, Brett Wetterich, 306.2. 7, Angel Cabrera, 304.5. 8, John Daly, 304.2. 9, Charles War-ren, 302.6. 10, Phil Mickelson, 300.8.
Driving Accuracy Percentage1, Omar Uresti, 75.70%. 2, Joe Durant,
74.82%. 3, Brian Gay, 73.97%. 4, Craig Bowden, 73.13%. 5, Tim Clark, 72.94%. 6, Zach Johnson, 71.68%. 7, Ben Crane, 71.38%. 8, David Toms, 71.35%. 9, Heath Slocum, 71.33%. 10, Skip Kendall, 70.94%.
Greens in Regulation Pct.1, Kevin Sutherland, 71.67%. 2, John
Senden, 70.70%. 3, Troy Matteson, 70.65%. 4, Kris Blanks, 70.28%. 5, Brendon de Jonge, 70.24%. 6, Matt Kuchar, 70.22%. 7, Adam Scott, 70.09%. 8, Rickie Fowler, 70.05%. 9, John Merrick, 69.97%. 10, Tom Pernice, Jr., 69.95%.
Total Driving1, Hunter Mahan, 87. 2, Kenny Perry, 89.
3, Mathias Gronberg, 93. 4, Charles Warren, 98. 5, John Rollins, 101. 6, John Merrick, 102. 7, Chris Couch, 103. 8, Graham DeLaet, 105. 9, J.J. Henry, 106. 10, Joe Durant, 107.
1.715. 3, Carl Pettersson, 1.723. 4 (tie), Steve Stricker, Paul Stankowski and Matt Betten-court, 1.736. 7, Shaun Micheel, 1.738. 8 (tie), Chris Couch and Aaron Baddeley, 1.742. 10, Matt Jones, 1.743.
Birdie Average1, Bubba Watson, 4.15. 2, Paul Stankows-
ki, 4.05. 3 (tie), Steve Stricker and Chris Couch, 4.04. 5 (tie), Tom Gillis and Nick Wat-ney, 4.00. 7, Bo Van Pelt, 3.96. 8 (tie), Phil Mickelson, Rory Sabbatini and Kevin Streel-man, 3.95.
Eagles (Holes per)1 (tie), Harrison Frazar and Dustin John-
son, 79.2. 3, Matt Bettencourt, 86.6. 4 , Adam Scott, 93.6. 5, John Daly, 98.0. 6, Bubba Watson, 99.8. 7, Paul Casey, 108.0. 8, Martin Laird, 109.6. 9 (tie), Phil Mickelson and Scott Piercy, 111.6.
Sand Save Percentage1, Luke Donald, 69.05%. 2, Carl Petters-
All-Around Ranking1, Matt Kuchar, 264. 2, Ben Crane, 331. 3,
Robert Allenby, 356. 4, Bubba Watson , 357. 5, Chris Couch, 359. 6, Steve Stricker, 360. 7, Brendon de Jonge, 377. 8 , Jeff Overton, 397. 9 (tie), Charley Hoffman and K.J. Choi, 404.
PGA TOUR Offi cial Money Leaders1, Ernie Els (16), $4,097,761. 2, Phil Mick-
elson (16), $3,409,233. 3, Jim Furyk (18), $3,308,872. 4, Jeff Overton (22), $3,301,181. 5, Hunter Mahan (20), $3,283,479. 6, Justin Rose (18), $3,241,081. 7, Steve Stricker (15), $3,192,735. 8, Tim Clark (19), $3,101,881. 9, Bubba Watson (18), $2,954,761. 10, Matt Kuchar (21), $2,894,798.
Champions Tour Charles Schwab Cup leaders
Through Aug. 8 Points Money 1. Bernhard Langer 2,390 $1,726,795 2. Fred Couples 1,993 $1,607,092 3. Tom Lehman 1,134 $859,335 4. Nick Price 1,079 $1,080,852 5. John Cook 960 $919,563 6. David Frost 798 $732,541 7. Corey Pavin 790 $685,938 8. Dan Forsman 747 $949,902 9. Tommy Armour III 713 $778,61310. Tom Watson 631 $608,90111. Mark O’Meara 600 $627,25112. Larry Mize 588 $651,95713. Loren Roberts 576 $830,98114. Peter Senior 480 $585,19215. Joey Sindelar 446 $505,87515. Chien Soon Lu 446 $469,97817. Russ Cochran 441 $536,78118. Fred Funk 409 $443,74119. Olin Browne 396 $476,58520. Tom Kite 388 $466,61421. Jay Don Blake 379 $267,79622. David Peoples 372 $448,14123. Michael Allen 338 $380,24824. Jay Haas 277 $403,75925. Mike Reid 241 $391,60726. Jeff Sluman 240 $440,89226. David Eger 240 $400,86428. Bill Glasson 228 $184,40829. M. Calcavecchia 215 $296,14630. Ronnie Black 211 $353,57831. Brad Bryant 197 $330,94932. Tom Pernice, Jr. 167 $182,650
Four earn sports in Wyndham
GREENSBORO – The 2010 PGA Tour Wyndham Championship qualifying event was Monday at Forest Oaks Country Club. The following golfers shot a fi ve-under-par 67 to tie for fi rst place and claim the last four spots for this week’s Wyndham Championship:
Eric Shriver, DurhamJerry Richardson, CaryBrian Duncan, Mount Pleasant, S. C.Arjun Atwal, Windermere, Fla.
5th Carolinas Pro-Junior
Old North State Club, New LondonMonday
Final ResultsAndrew Decker of Greenville teamed with
golf professional Mike Cato of Winterville to win the 5th Carolinas Pro-Junior at the Old North State Club. Decker, a rising high school senior, lost in a playoff two weeks ago in the Dogwood State Junior Championship. Decker and Cato played the 6,684 yard par 72 in a tournament record round of nine under par 63. Playing in a modifi ed alternate shot format, Decker and Cato recorded an eagle, eight birdies and a lone bogey to win by three shots over 2009 champions Luke Smith and Chad Cox, both of Charlotte. Jack Fleissner of Hickory and Ben Dietrich of Conover fi n-ished in third place. Local golfers Ben Miller and Davis Womble tied for fi fth at 34-33–67. Adam Bowles of Winston Salem and Camden Weis of High Point tied for 23rd at 33-38–71.
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Florida 000 100 000 — 1Pittsburgh 200 004 10x — 7DP—Florida 1, Pittsburgh 2. LOB—Florida 6, Pittsburgh 3. 2B—Morrison (6), N.Walker (18), G.Jones (24). HR—A.McCutchen (10). SB—A.McCutchen (25). SF—G.Jones. IP H R ER BB SO FloridaVolstad L,6-9 5 5 5 5 2 2Tankersley 0 2 1 1 0 0Sanches 2 2 1 1 0 2Nunez 1 0 0 0 0 1 PittsburghJa.McDnld W,2-2 7 3 1 1 2 6Resop 1 0 0 0 2 1Hanrahan 1 2 0 0 0 1Volstad pitched to 3 batters in the 6th.Tankersley pitched to 2 batters in the 6th.HBP—by Volstad (N.Walker).T—2:37. A—13,396 (38,362).
Today’s GamesPotomac at Kinston, 6 p.m., 1st gameWilmington at Frederick, 7 p.m.Salem at Winston-Salem, 7 p.m.Myrtle Beach at Lynchburg, 7:05 p.m.Potomac at Kinston, 7:35 p.m., 2nd game
Monday’s GamesWest Virginia 5, Lexington 3, 1st gameSavannah 1, Kannapolis 0, 1st gameCharleston 5, Hickory 0Augusta at Rome, 7 p.m.Delmarva 4, Lakewood 2Asheville 4, Greenville 3Lexington 7, West Virginia 1, 7 inningsHagerstown 8, Greensboro 1Savannah 9, Kannapolis 3, 2nd game
Today’s GamesRome at Charleston, 7:05 p.m.Hagerstown at Delmarva, 7:05 p.m.Hickory at Kannapolis, 7:05 p.m.Asheville at West Virginia, 7:05 p.m.Augusta at Savannah, 7:05 p.m.Greenville at Lexington, 7:05 p.m.Greensboro at Lakewood, 7:05 p.m.
Braves 4, Dodgers 3Los Angeles Atlanta ab r h bi ab r h biPdsdnk lf 3 1 0 0 Infante 2b 4 1 1 0Theriot 2b 4 1 1 0 Heywrd rf 3 0 0 1Ethier rf 4 0 2 1 AlGnzlz ss 4 1 1 0Loney 1b 4 0 0 0 McCnn c 4 0 3 0Blake 3b 4 0 0 0 Hicks pr 0 1 0 0Kemp cf 3 0 0 0 Glaus 1b 4 0 0 0JCarrll ss 4 0 2 0 Conrad 3b 2 1 1 0Ausms c 3 0 0 0 Ankiel cf 3 0 1 0Blngsly p 2 0 0 0 D.Ross ph 0 0 0 1RJhnsn ph 1 1 1 0 MeCarr lf 4 0 1 2Kuo p 0 0 0 0 Hanson p 2 0 0 0Dotel p 0 0 0 0 Venters p 0 0 0 0 M.Diaz ph 1 0 0 0 Moylan p 0 0 0 0Totals 32 3 6 1 Totals 31 4 8 4
Los Angeles 100 000 020 — 3Atlanta 000 001 003 — 4One out when winning run scored.E—Conrad (4). DP—Los Angeles 1, Atlanta 1. LOB—Los Angeles 4, Atlanta 6. 2B—Ethier (27), J.Carroll (10), Conrad (9). 3B—Infante (1). SB—J.Carroll (10), Conrad (5). CS—Kemp (14). SF—Heyward. IP H R ER BB SO Los AngelesBillingsley 7 5 1 1 1 8Kuo L,3-2 H,18 11⁄3 2 3 3 1 1Dotel BS,6-27 0 1 0 0 1 0 AtlantaHanson 7 5 1 1 1 3Venters 1 1 2 0 1 1Moylan W,4-2 1 0 0 0 0 0Dotel pitched to 2 batters in the 9th.WP—Kuo. T—3:13. A—20,414 (49,743).
TRANSACTIONS---BASEBALL
American LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES—Placed RHP Ja-
son Berken on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Rick Vandenhurk from Norfolk (IL).
CLEVELAND INDIANS—Agreed to terms with RHP Kyle Blair and C Alex Lavisky.
DETROIT TIGERS—Recalled LHP Daniel Schlereth from Toledo (IL). Optioned OF Jeff Frazier to Toledo (IL).
KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Agreed to terms with OF Brett Eibner and RHP Jason Adam. Assigned Eibner to Idaho Falls (Pio-neer) and Adam to Surprise (Arizona).
LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Agreed to terms with INF Kaleb Cowart.
OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Activated OF Conor Jackson from the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Travis Buck from Sacramento (PCL). Op-tioned INF Jeff Larish and OF Chris Carter to Sacramento.
TAMPA BAY RAYS—Reinstated 1B Car-los Pena from the 15-day DL. Placed OF Gabe Kapler on the 15-day DL.
TEXAS RANGERS—Placed OF Nelson Cruz on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Aug. 15. Activated INF Joaquin Arias from the 15-day DL. Named Jay Miller senior vice president, effective Aug. 30. Agreed to terms with RHP Justin Grimm and RHP Luke Jackson .
TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Agreed to terms with LHP Zak Adams and RHP Myles Jaye.
National LeagueCOLORADO ROCKIES—Agreed to terms
with RHP Peter Tago.PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Signed SS
Drew Maggi, RHP Stetson Allie and 1B Jared Lakind.
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS—Signed OF Gary Brown and OF Jarrett Parker.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Agreed to terms with RHP A.J. Cole, LHP Sammy Solis and LHP Robbie Ray.
Midwest LeagueQUAD CITIES RIVER BANDITS—An-
nounced RHP LaCurtis Mayes has been transferred from Batavia (NYP).
American AssociationWICHITA WINGNUTS—Signed C John
C. Martin.Can-Am League
BROCKTON ROX—Signed LHP Bill Lee.SUSSEX SKYHAWKS—Released RHP
William Hassett and RHP Jimmer Kennedy.Frontier League
EVANSVILLE OTTERS—Signed 1B Jona-than Waltenbury. Released 1B Corey O’Neill.
FLORENCE FREEDOM—Released INF Maxwell Moya and OF Andrew Passerelle.
GATEWAY GRIZZLIES—Traded RHP Eric Blackwell to Traverse City and INF Tyler Rogers to Oakland County for players to be named. Signed RHP Adrian Garza.
KALAMAZOO KINGS—Placed C Jett Ruiz on the suspended list. Signed C Kent Wright. Traded RHP Josh Whitlock to Gateway for a player to be named.
LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS—Signed INF Jake Krause. Released 1B Adam Amar.
WASHINGTON WILD THINGS—Placed INF Jacob Dempsey on the retired list.
United LeagueAMARILLO DILLAS—Acquired C Kevin
Butler from Coastal Bend for a player to be named.
LAREDO BRONCOS—Signed DH Jose Canseco.
SAN ANGELO COLTS—Placed C Trey Carter on the inactive list. Activated RHP Ca-leb Rodgers. Signed C Mike Horn and placed him on the inactive list.
BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association
CLEVELAND CAVALIERS—Signed F Sa-mardo Samuels.
DETROIT PISTONS—Signed G-F Tracy McGrady to a one-year contract.
FOOTBALLNational Football League
NFL—LB Aaron Schobel announced his retirement.
BUFFALO BILLS—Signed RB Andre An-derson and WR Aaron Rhea. Placed LB Ryan Manalac on the waived/injured list.
CAROLINA PANTHERS—Activated WR Steve Smith from the physically-unable-to-perform list.
CLEVELAND BROWNS—Signed WR Taurus Johnson. Placed WR Johnathan Hag-gerty on the waived/injured list.
DETROIT LIONS—Signed LB Lee Camp-bell.
HOUSTON TEXANS—Placed DE Tim Bulman on injured reserve. Signed DE James Wyche.
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS—Signed RB Brian Westbrook. Traded DT Kentwan Balmer to Seattle for an undisclosed 2011 draft pick.
ST. LOUIS RAMS—Signed CB Marcus Brown. Released K Sean Suisham.
HOCKEYNational Hockey League
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS—Re-signed D Nick Boynton to a one-year contract.
PHOENIX COYOTES—Named Jim Brewer vice president of marketing and com-munications.
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Named Al Mur-ray director of amateur scouting. Acquired G Cedrick Desjardins from Montreal for G Karri Ramo.
American Hockey LeagueGRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS—Announced
the resignation of medical therapist Rob Snitzer.
SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE—Signed G Joe Fallon.
LACROSSENational Lacrosse LeagueCALGARY ROUGHNECKS—Signed D
Bruce Codd to a one-year contract and G Kurtis Wagar to a two-year contract.
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33. Mike Goodes 161 $403,10534. Keith Fergus 145 $314,59535. Hale Irwin 143 $258,59936. Joe Ozaki 136 $302,52637. Scott Hoch 115 $115,20038. Trevor Dodds 114 $109,05239. Bob Tway 113 $285,09640. Andy Bean 111 $241,83141. Robin Freeman 108 $89,84041. Andy Oldcorn 108 $54,00043. Mark Wiebe 106 $245,00944. Gene Jones 102 $204,11244. Wayne Levi 102 $191,57646. Don Pooley 99 $193,64647. Hal Sutton 93 $228,69248. James Mason 90 $174,43249. Ian Woosnam 86 $52,50050. Mark James 79 $173,61251. Phil Blackmar 75 $173,59151. Bobby Clampett 75 $155,89153. Kirk Hanefeld 67 $137,30854. Bob Gilder 66 $239,97254. Tim Simpson 66 $197,692
FORMAT: Throw out all par 5’s and subtract one-half handicap
WINNERS: Louise Joyce won with 55
OF NOTE: Beth Smith birdied Nos. 7 and 10
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Mets’ Rodriguez has torn thumb ligament, out for seasonHOUSTON (AP) – Mets closer
Francisco Rodriguez has a torn thumb ligament in his pitching hand sustained during a fi ght with his girlfriend’s father at Citi Field and will need surgery that will side-line him for the rest of the season.
The Mets announced the injury before Monday night’s game at the
Houston Astros. They said the re-liever didn’t travel to Texas with the team. Mets manager Jerry Manuel didn’t dispute that Rodri-guez will miss the rest of the season but said he didn’t know how much longer beyond that it will take for the reliever to recover.
Rodriguez was suspended for
two days without pay following the fi ght outside a family room at the ballpark last Wednesday.
The 28-year-old reliever was ar-rested and charged with third-de-gree assault and second-degree ha-rassment. He was released on his own recognizance and is due back in court Sept. 14.
AP
Tampa Bay catcher Kelly Shoppach (10) tags out Texas’ David Murphy at home plate as he tries to score from sec-ond base on a third-inning single by Elvis Andrus on Monday night in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Warriors, Panthers roll
in openersENTERPRISE STAFF REPORTS
TENNIS
WHEATMORE 9, SW RANDOLPH 0FARMER – Wheatmore opened the season in
smashing fashion, sweeping Southwestern Ran-dolph 9-0 on Monday.
Ashton Allen, Jessica VanLeuvan, Heather Grif-fi n, Lane Vecellio, Mary Vecellio and Brook Her-ring netted singles victories for the Warriors.
Griffi n-ValLeuvan, Allen-L. Vecellio and Her-ring-M. Vecellio prevailed in doubles.
Wheatmore looks for a 2-0 start today at West Da-vidson. Match is set to start around 4:30 p.m.
LEDFORD 7, CENTRAL DAVIDSON 2WALLBURG – Ledford cruised past Central David-
son for a 7-2 victory in the season opener for both teams n Monday.
Kathryn Stroup, Elona Jones, Katherine Sulli-van, Brielle Anthony and Logan Allen won in sin-gles for the Panthers. Stroup-Drew Sapp and Jones-Allen prevailed in doubles.
Ledford travels to Trinity on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.
ASHEBORO 9, HIGH POINT CENTRAL 0ASHEBORO – High Point Central fell 9-0 at Ashe-
boro in the season opener for both teams on Mon-day.
The Bison try to even their record today at South-ern Guilford. Match is scheduled for a 4:30 p.m. start.
VOLLEYBALL
ASHEBORO DEF. HIGH POINT CENTRALASHEBORO – High Point Central dropped a 25-
15, 25-15, 25-22 decision at Asheboro in the season opener for both teams on Monday night.
The Bison play host to crosstown rival T.W. An-drews today.
SOCCER
EAST DAVIDSON 5, DAVIE COUNTY 5THOMASVILLE – Nick Lopez booted four goals as
East Davidson battled Davie County to a 5-5 tie in the season opener for both teams on Monday night.
Jose Gonzalez had a goal for the Golden Eagles, while Bryan Payne dished two assists and Travis Luck had one.
Zack Sheppard served in goal for East.East visits Randleman on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
U.S. expects tough road to worldsNEW YORK (AP) – LeBron
James and his teammates boast-ed of bringing an “us against the world” mentality to the Olympics two years ago.
It wasn’t necessary.Where they were going, people
cheered U.S. players.That was in China, playing be-
fore fans who adored the NBA su-perstars that led the Americans to the gold medal. The crowds were just as accommodating in 2006 in Japan.
“In Asia, those two summers, the world championships and the Olym-pics, we were greeted warmly,” U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “There wasn’t any hostility. Outside of the Chinese teams, we were probably the most favored team.”
The lesser-known American players who make up the roster for this year’s world championships know things will be a lot harder. So the boos might be coming back – and maybe the losses, too.
“It’s going to be different,” guard Derrick Rose said. “They’re calling us the ’B team,’ so we know that there’s going to be a lot of stuff go-ing on. But we’ve got to withstand it and go out there and play any-way.”
The Americans left Monday for Madrid, a day after beating France 86-55 in their lone home exhibition game. They will play three quality opponents before they arrive in Turkey for the world champion-ships that begin Aug. 28.
Stephen Curry played on the un-
der-19 U.S. team that won a silvermedal in Serbia in 2007, makinghim one of the few on this rosterwith experience playing in front of“hostile” European crowds.
“They were pretty much 100percent against us every time weplayed,” he said. “That was a differ-ent experience going over there.”
The tour wraps up againstGreece in Athens, where therewas little love for the U.S. playersduring the 2004 Olympics. LamarOdom, who has a bronze medalfrom those games, argues that thevenom directed toward the Ameri-cans was due to “different times”in the world.
Some of the obstacles of playingin Europe remain for his much-younger teammates.
ESPN will have another full day of hoops
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) – For the second straight year, ESPN will mark the start of the college basketball season with 24 consecutive hours of live game coverage.
The schedule was an-nounced Monday and three teams from last season’s Final Four will be part of the marathon that begins Nov. 16 at midnight EST.
National champion
Duke hosts Miami of Ohio. National runner-up Butler is at Louis-ville. Michigan State, which lost to Butler in the Final Four, is home against South Carolina.
Also on the schedule is the debut of St. John’s coach Steve Lavin, an ESPN analyst the last seven years. The Con-necticut women enter the season on a 78-game winning streak.
Braves score three in ninth, beat Dodgers 4-3THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA – Melky Cabre-ra’s two-run single off Oc-tavio Dotel with the bases loaded in the ninth inning capped a three-run rally that lifted the Atlanta Braves to a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night.
Dotel took over for Hong-Chih Kuo (3-2), who failed to protect a 3-1 lead. Kuo gave up two singles and a walk to load the bases.
Dotel walked pinch-hitter David Ross to force in a run. Cabrera then lined the game-winning single past shortstop Jamey Carroll. Scott Podsed-nik charged the ball in left fi eld but it skipped past his glove, ending any chance for a potential play at the plate.
The fi rst-place Braves moved 2 1⁄2 games ahead of Philadelphia in the NL East.
PIRATES 7, MARLINS 1PITTSBURGH – James Mc-
Donald pitched seven sharp innings, Garrett Jones and Pedro Alvarez each drove in three runs and the Pitts-burgh Pirates snapped a sev-en-game skid with a 7-1 win over the Florida Marlins on Monday night.
Making his third start with the Pirates since being ac-quired from the Los Angeles Dodgers in a deadline day trade, McDonald (2-2) pitched more than six innings for the fi rst time in his career. He gave up a run and three hits, striking out six and walking two in improving to 2-1 with Pittsburgh.
Andrew McCutchen hit his 10th home run and stole his 25th base for Pittsburgh, which returned from a win-less six-game road trip for the third time this season.
Dan Uggla went 3 for 4 with an RBI for the Marlins, who fell three games under .500 and nine games behind in the National League wild-
card race. McCutchen hom-ered for only the second time in the past month, to center fi eld leading off the seventh.
Uggla drove in Logan Mor-rison with a groundout in the fourth to account for the Marlins’ run.
RAYS 6, RANGERS 4ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
– Carlos Pena hit a tiebreak-ing single during a four-run eighth inning and the Tampa Bay Rays rallied to beat Cliff Lee and the Texas Rangers 6-4 on Monday night in a po-tential playoff preview.
Lee outlasted David Price in a marquee matchup of All-Star aces and was given a late lead when Texas scored twice in the top of the eighth to go up 4-2. But Carl Crawford hit a run-scoring grounder and Evan Longoria tied it with a single before Pena, just off the disabled list, made it 5-4.
Ben Zobrist added an RBI single that chased Lee (10-6).
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FIELD FOR 2010 NIT SEASON TIP-OFF---NEW YORK (AP) – Villanova, Tennessee, Wake
Forest and UCLA will serve as the regional hosts for the 2010 NIT Season Tip-Off.
The fi rst-round pairings for the 16-team tourna-ment were announced Monday.
The fi rst- and second-round games will be played Nov. 15-17 with the winners advancing to Madison Square Garden for the semifi nals on Nov. 24. The championship game is Nov. 26.
The North Regional will have Villanova hosting Marist and George Washington against Boston University. In the South Regional, Belmont will be at Tennessee while Missouri State faces Arkansas State.
The East Regional has Hampton at Wake Forest and Virginia Commonwealth against Winthrop. UCLA hosts Pepperdine in the West Regional and Nevada faces Pacifi c.
The consolation games will be played Nov. 22-23 at sites to be determined.
Duke, which went to win the national champion-ship, beat Connecticut to win last year’s NIT Season Tip-Off.
RAGSDALE FALLS AT MT. TABOR---
WINSTON-S A L E M – Ragsdale opened its boys soccer season with a hard-fought 1-0 loss at Mount Tabor on Monday night.
Bobby Kro-ma scored for the Tigers off an assist by Mark Zi-bguao. Brad Davis fi nished with 12 saves in goal for the Tigers.
R a g s d a l e returns to action today at 7 p.m. at Grimsley.
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Dustin Johnson hits his second shot on the 18th hole during the fi nal round of the PGA Championship on Sundayat Whistling Straits in Haven, Wis. Johnson was later assessed a two-stroke penalty for grounding his club in thebunker on the hole. That penalty knocked him out of a playoff for the title, won by Germany’s Martin Kaymer.
PGA has bunker mentality on Whistling Straits
BY DOUG FERGUSONAP GOLF WRITER
MILWAUKEE – When the PGA Championship returns in fi ve years to Whistling Straits the rules on playing the countless bunkers may still be in place.
The golf world was still reeling Monday over the two-shot penalty given to Dustin Johnson on the fi -nal hole. He grounded his 4-iron in the sand to the right of the fairway, not aware he was in a bunker.
Johnson had a one-shot lead when he teed off on the 18th. He missed a 7-foot par putt and seemed to slip into a playoff. But when he learned he had let his club touch the sand during his preshot routine, John-son added two shots to his score and tied for fi fth.
Asked if there was any consider-ation to change the unusual local bunker rule for 2015, PGA of Amer-ica president Jim Remy said, “Not at this point.”
“Obviously, it’s the day after,” Remy said. “I’m sure (champion-ship director) Kerry Haigh will do his due diligence. He made the decision not to do it from 2004 to 2010. My guess is that probably the way we’re leaning is to leave it that way.”
It wasn’t the fi rst time someone paid for the bunker rule at Whis-tling Straits.
When the PGA Championship was fi rst played there in 2004, Stu-art Appleby was penalized four shots late in the third round for re-moving a dead piece of grass (two shots) to the right of the 16th hole and touching the sand on a prac-tice swing (two shots).
That didn’t cost him a major championship, though.
What never will be known is how Johnson would have fared in the three-hole playoff, which Martin Kaymer won over Bubba Watson. It was the most shocking fi nish involving rules at a major since Roberto de Vicenzo signed for a 4 when he had made a 3 on the 17th hole of the fi nal round in the 1968 Masters. He had to accept the high-er score and fi nished one shot be-hind Bob Goalby.
Johnson said he didn’t look at the rules sheet that had been posted all week in the locker room and on the fi rst tee throughout the week, explaining that every bunker was a hazard, even if they were outside the ropes where the gallery had been standing.
“It was unfortunate for Dustin. I feel bad for him. He’s a PGA mem-ber, just like I am,” said Remy, the general manager of Okemo Valley Golf Club in Vermont. “I feel sad for him the way it all unfolded. But that’s the rules of golf. Those things happen in sports, and nobody feels good about it.”
Remy said he didn’t see a a prac-tical solution for 2015, or in 2020 for the Ryder Cup.
“Do you mark 900 of them not as bunkers and 300 as bunkers? How do you ever mark them?” he said. “Clearly, with this happening, players will be more aware of it in the future. And we didn’t have any other infractions during the week.”
Players continued to weigh in on both sides.
“In light of PGA fi nish, Augusta just announced new seating for pa-trons available in right greenside bunker by 18 green,” Stewart Cink joked on Twitter.
PGA Tour rookie Kris Blanks,
who missed the cut at the PGA,posted a picture of a child’s sand-box and suggested that would beconsidered a bunker at WhistlingStraits.
Johnson tied for fi fth, still enoughfor him to easily make the RyderCup team.
The only way he would havefailed to fi nish among the top eightqualifi ers would have been to signhis card for a bogey and learn of thebunker gaffe later. Then, he wouldhave been disqualifi ed for signingan incorrect score.
“The one thing that I will re-member from this more than any-thing is the way Dustin handledhimself,” Pavin said. “He wasvery mature. I couldn’t imagine aplayer handling it any better thanhe did. He played beautiful golf onSunday, put himself in position towin the tournament. I think it wasthe proper ruling. It was an unfor-tunate situation.”
Among the questions raised waswhether the marshals should havedone a better job clearing out thegallery around Johnson, whichmight have made it clearer to himthat he was on the edge of a bun-ker.
Johnson thought it was grassthat had been trampled all week byfoot traffi c.
The PGA rules offi cial didn’tremind Johnson that he was ina bunker – if he even knew – al-though Paul Goydos pointed outthat a rules offi cial’s job is not toremind players of the rule, ratherto interpret them if a player asks.
Goydos is not sure he wouldchange the bunker rules for 2015.
“You’ve either got to say they’reall bunkers or they’re not bun-kers,” Goydos said.
Pavin says Tiger ‘high on his list’ for Ryder CupMILWAUKEE (AP) – Tiger Woods
remained No. 1 in the world rank-ing Monday, though not even close to that on two lists – the Ryder Cup and FedEx Cup – that mean much more these days.
Woods failed to qualify for the Ry-der Cup for the fi rst time – he had led the standings every other time since 1997 – and now must rely on U.S. captain Corey Pavin spending one of four wild-card picks on him.
In a hotel conference room Mon-day, Pavin sat at the head table between two poster boards, each showing the fi nal standings for the eight American qualifi ers. Woods’ name was nowhere to be found be-tween Phil Mickelson at No. 1 and Matt Kuchar at No. 8.
Pavin would only say that Woods is “high on my list” and will be a “big consideration” when he an-nounces his selections Sept. 7.
Woods should have at least onemore tournament to make an im-pression. While he wound up No.12 in the Ryder Cup standings,equally troublesome is that Woodsis No. 108 in the FedEx Cup stand-ings. The top 125 are eligible forThe Barclays next week at Ridge-wood Country Club in New Jersey,the start of the PGA Tour playoffs.Only the top 100 in the standingsadvance to the second round.
Bubba takes PGA playoff loss in stride
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) – You’d never know Bubba Watson had just lost the PGA Champion-ship.
Watson insisted he was more thrilled to earn a spot on his fi rst Ryder Cup team than disappointed at coming up short against Martin Kaymer in a three-hole playoff at Whistling Straits on Sunday.
“I’m as happy as can be,” Watson said. “I made the Ryder Cup, that’s all I care about.”
Watson was one of the more unlikely players to wind up in the playoff, beginning the day six shots off the lead. But he overpowered the back nine – and everyone in his way – with his boom-ing tee shots. When Dustin Johnson missed a par putt on 18 that would have given him a victory – until the rules offi cials got involved, that is – Watson had a spot in the playoff.
He struck fi rst with a massive drive to just short of the par-4 10th green and a pitch to 4 feet for birdie, and Kay-mer responded with a birdie on 17.
When they got to 18, Watson imploded. He drove into the right rough and, instead of playing it safe from a tough lie 210 yards out, he went for the green.
And landed in the wa-ter.
“I was trying to win a golf tournament, trying to make a good score,” Watson said. “Came up short.”
He took his penalty drop, then fl ew the green into a bunker. His bunker shot hit the fl ag, and he tapped in for double bogey. Kaymer, meanwhile, two-putted from 15 feet for a bogey and the win.
“I went for the win. And I’d do it over again, just like I did earlier in the day,” Watson said. “I went for the win on 17 and 18, and just hit bad shots.”
Majors are what de-fi ne the greatest of golf-ers, and some players never recover from fi n-ishing second.
Not Watson.When he said after-
ward that losing didn’t matter because he’d made the Ryder Cup, he meant it. This, after all, is a guy who has learned the hard way over the last year that there are more important things than the game of golf.
His father is battling cancer and wife Angie had a scare of her own at Christmas. Doctors initially feared her en-larged pituitary gland was a tumor. A talk with his longtime cad-die and friend Ted Scott reminded him that golf was supposed to be fun, a lesson Watson has tak-en to heart.
Texans rookie RB Tate done for season
HOUSTON (AP) – Houston Texans rookie run-ning back Ben Tate is out for the season because of a fractured ankle.
Coach Gary Kubiak said Monday that Tate will be placed on injured reserve and undergo surgery this week.
The 5-foot-11 Tate hurt his right ankle in Satur-day’s 19-16 preseason loss to Arizona and was cart-ed off the fi eld. Kubiak said Sunday that the injury was “pretty severe.”
Kubiak said team doctors expect Tate to fully re-cover.
The Texans selected the former Auburn star in the second round of the draft. He was competing for time at running back with Arian Foster, Steve Sla-ton, Chris Henry and Jeremiah Johnson.
Young team means tough training camp for Panthers
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) – Carolina Pan-thers left tackle Jordan Gross sees positives and negatives to being on the third-youngest team in the NFL.
“We haven’t had, knock on wood, a whole lot of big injuries this camp. Maybe that comes from healthier, younger bodies,” Gross said Monday. “We’ve had a lot of reps and a lot of full-padded days and that probably comes from youth and inexpe-rience, too. The coaches wanting to make sure we know what we’re do-ing and can see who’s tough and who isn’t out there, so we’ve been tested that way.”
Gross, Carolina’s fi rst-round pick in 2003, thinks this is one of the toughest training camps
he has been in under coach John Fox. After shedding numerous vet-erans in the offseason, practices have lasted longer.
The Panthers even had a full-contact period at the end of Sunday’s workout, a rarity this late in camp.
I would say it’s a tough-er camp than we’ve had since we’ve changed to this schedule,” Gross said. “When I fi rst got here, we used to do two (practices) every day. That was harder. But since we’ve moved to the new schedule we’ve done the last four or fi ve years it’s the toughest camp we’ve had.”
Gross said with so many young players and so many open start-ing spots, the competi-tion has been intense.
THOMAS WINS NO. 2 QB JOB FOR HOKIES---BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) – Logan Thomas has won
Virginia Tech’s backup quarterback job.Coach Frank Beamer says the 6-foot-6, 245-pound
redshirt freshman beat out Ju-Ju Clayton for the spot behind starter Tyrod Taylor. He says Clayton will be the No. 3 quarterback.
Thomas is among the most athletic players on the Hokies roster, having been measured for a 39 1⁄2-inch vertical leap during the summer.
He was one of the nation’s top prospects at tight end coming out of Brookville High School in Lynch-burg and was voted the team’s top offensive new-comer after spring practice.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Homebuilder confi -dence dropped for the third straight month in August as the struggling economy and a fl ood of cheap foreclosed prop-erties kept people from buying new homes.
The National Associa-tion of Home Builders said its monthly index of builders’ sentiment about the housing market fell to 13, the lowest reading since March 2009. The index is adjusted for sea-sonal factors.
Readings below 50 indi-cate negative sentiment about the market. The last time the index was above 50 was in April 2006.
Fewer people are buy-ing new homes, even though prices have sta-bilized in the past year and those who have good credit can qualify for the lowest mortgage rates in decades. The market is struggling because jobs are scarce and credit is tight. And many analysts predict home prices are likely to drop again in the fall.
“Buyers just aren’t stepping up to the plate,” wrote Mike Larson, real estate analyst with Weiss Research. “Unless and until the job market im-proves, we are simply not going to get any traction in the housing market.”
Another key reading
of housing activity will come Tuesday when the Commerce Depart-ment releases its report on home construction in July. Construction plunged in June to the lowest level since Octo-ber.
Builders say consum-ers are worried about the weak recovery and job market. Among those who are buying, many are opting for deeply dis-counted foreclosed prop-erties. The industry had received a boost in the spring when the federal government offered tax credits of up to $8,000. But those expired in April and the market has struggled since.
Lowe’s profi t rises 10 percent
NEW YORK (AP) – People bought more air conditioners and grills at Lowe’s Cos. in early summer, boost-ing second-quarter net income 10 percent, but overall spending was hurt by hot weather and the weak economy, the home-improvement re-tailer said Monday.
The No. 2 home im-provement retailer joined a long line of companies in sounding a cautious note about consumer spending and cut its yearly revenue guidance as worries grow about a stalling economy.
Lowe’s CEO Robert Niblock said in an in-terview Monday with The Associated Press that Americans are re-sponding to programs such as the federal cash-for-appliances rebates and sales but says 2010 is a “bouncing along the bottom” year.
“We view 2010 as a year of transition for the home improve-ment industry and we
don’t expect consistent improvement in core demand until the fun-damentals of the labor and housing markets improve,” said Lowe’s CEO Robert Niblock in a call with analysts.
Spending remained marginally positive overall. Revenue from stores open at least a year rose 1.6 percent.
Revenue at stores open at least a year is a key indicator of a retailer’s performance because it excludes growth at stores that open or close during the year.
But Americans remain cautious, spending on carpets or kitchen cabi-nets, but not as much as they would have a few years ago, COO Larry Stone said.
“We do see some move-ment in kitchen cabi-net sales, albeit not as strong as we would like to see it,” Stone said in a call with analysts.
Carpet sales were strong, but not as strong as in prior years, he said.
Survey: More teens save for college
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Saving money to help pay for college is a prior-ity for many teenagers today.
About 66 percent of the teens who responded to a survey TD Ameritrade paid for say they are sav-ing for college. That’s up from last year, when 62 percent of teens in the survey said the same thing.
TD Ameritrade’s Stuart Rubinstein says teenag-
ers might be more willing to help pay for college af-ter seeing their families or friends struggle fi nan-cially during the recent recession.
Infogroup conducted the phone survey of 772 adults and 363 teenagers in July for TD Ameri-trade. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points for adults and plus or mi-nus 5 percentage points for teens.
Kia probe centers on steering problems
WASHINGTON – The government has opened an investigation into possible loss of steering control in the 2010 Kia Soul, a boxy vehicle aimed at appealing to urban motorists.
The National High-way Traffi c Safety Administration says in a posting Monday that it has received one com-plaint alleging complete steering loss. The com-plaint said the steering shaft also interfered with the driver’s ability to hit the brakes.
Pump prices fall as crude declines
NEW YORK – There were some smiles at the gas pump on Monday as the average price of a gal-lon of unleaded regular dropped by a couple of cents across the country.
On Monday bench-mark crude for Septem-ber delivery fell 29 cents to $75.10 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange in midday trading. The contract lost 35 cents on Friday to settle at $75.39 a bar-rel, its lowest level in a month.
Recovery concerns weigh on markets
LONDON – European stocks recovered ear-lier losses to trade little changed for the session Monday as the recent selling pressure eased.
In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 2.01 points at 5,277.45 while Germany’s DAX rose 0.1 percent to 6,118.53. France’s CAC-40 was 0.2 percent higher at 3,604.89.
METALS PRICINGNEW YORK (AP) – Spot nonferrous metal prices Monday: Aluminum -$0.9716 per lb., London Metal Exch.Copper -$3.2653 Cathode full plate, LME.Copper $3.2515 N.Y. Merc spot Fri.Lead - $2065.00 metric ton, London Metal Exch.Zinc - $0.9212 per lb., London Metal Exch.Gold - $1223.50 Handy & Harman (only daily quote).Gold - $1214.90 troy oz., NY Merc spot Fri.Silver - $18.435 Handy & Harman (only daily quote).Silver - $18.097 troy oz., N.Y. Merc spot Fri.Platinum -$1535.00 troy oz., N.Y. (contract).Platinum -$1526.20 troy oz., N.Y. Merc spot Fri.
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AMERICAN BALANCED FUND, CLASS A 16.30 0.02 0.12% 16.18 16.40 AMERICAN FDS BOND FD OF AMERICA 12.42 0.04 0.32% 12.25 12.06 CAPITAL INCOME BUILDER CL A SHS 47.01 0.13 0.28% 46.29 46.70 AMERICAN FDS CAPITAL WORLD GROW 31.98 0.09 0.28% 31.62 32.32 AMERICAN FDS EUROPACIFIC GROWTH 36.61 0.14 0.38% 36.35 36.62 AMERICAN FDS FUNDAMENTAL INVS A 31.63 0.02 0.06% 31.72 32.52 AMERICAN FDS GROWTH FD OF AMERI 26.19 0.06 0.23% 26.39 27.18 AMERICAN FDS INCOME FD OF AMERI 15.43 0.02 0.13% 15.25 15.41 AMERICAN FDS INVESTMENT CO OF A 24.70 0.02 0.08% 24.80 25.57 AMERICAN FDS NEW PERSPECTIVE A 24.65 0.09 0.37% 24.64 25.03 WASHINGTON MUTUAL INVS FD CL A 24.12 - 0.01 - 0.04% 23.97 24.56 DAVIS NEW YORK VENTURE FUND A 29.62 0.04 0.14% 29.96 30.86 DODGE COX INCOME FUND 13.42 0.04 0.30% 13.27 13.18 DODGE COX INTERNATIONAL STOCK 30.94 0.16 0.52% 30.63 31.05 DODGE COX STOCK FUND 91.58 0.08 0.09% 92.73 96.90 FIDELITY CONTRA FUND 57.11 0.08 0.14% 57.65 58.49 FIDELITY DIVERSIFIED INTERNATIO 26.20 0.14 0.54% 26.06 26.59 FIDELITY FREEDOM 2020 FUND 12.50 0.03 0.24% 12.47 12.63 FIDELITY GROWTH CO FUND 67.70 0.22 0.33% 68.26 70.13 FIDELITY LOWPRICED STOCK FUND 32.21 0.06 0.19% 32.49 33.31 FIDELITY MAGELLAN 59.73 0.03 0.05% 61.17 64.11 TGIT TEMPTON INCOME FUND CLASS 2.57 0.01 0.39% 2.54 2.58 HARBOR INTERNATIONAL FUND INSTI 52.41 0.50 0.96% 52.05 52.31 PIMCO FUNDS TOTAL RETURN FUND C 11.51 0.04 0.35% 11.33 11.12 PIMCO FUNDS TOTAL RETURN FUND A 11.51 0.04 0.35% 11.33 11.12 PIMCO FUNDS TOTAL RETURN FUND I 11.51 0.04 0.35% 11.33 11.12 VANGUARD 500 INDEX FD ADMIRAL S 99.64 0.02 0.02% 100.12 103.37 VANGUARD INDEX TRUST 500 INDEX 99.62 0.02 0.02% 100.11 103.35 VANGUARD GNMA FUND ADMIRAL SHS 11.09 0.00 0.00% 11.04 10.86 VANGUARD INSTITUTIONAL INDEX 98.99 0.02 0.02% 99.47 102.68 VANGUARD INSTITUTIONAL INDEX FU 98.99 0.02 0.02% 99.47 102.68 VANGUARD MID CAP GROWTH FUND 15.17 0.03 0.20% 15.27 15.66 VANGUARD PRIMECAP FUND 56.44 - 0.01 - 0.02% 56.51 58.61 VANGUARD BOND INDEX FD TOTAL BO 10.88 0.04 0.37% 10.74 10.56 VANGUARD TOTAL INTERNATIONAL ST 13.83 0.09 0.66% 13.66 13.81 VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET IND 26.77 0.02 0.07% 26.96 27.85 VANGUARD WELLINGTON INCOME FUND 28.85 0.09 0.31% 28.61 28.99 VANGUARD WELLINGTON FD ADMIRAL 49.83 0.15 0.30% 49.41 50.08
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NEW YORK (AP) –Stocks managed to breaka four-day losing streakMonday by the slimmestof margins. Investors hadno change of heart aboutthe economy, however,and again poured moneyinto the safety of U.S.Treasurys.
The Dow Jones indus-trial average fl uctuatedalong with the other bigmarket indexes through-out the day. The Dowclosed down just over apoint, but the other index-es had slight gains. Therewere more winners thanlosers on the New YorkStock Exchange.
Investors were deal-ing with more downbeateconomic news, but itwasn’t bad enough to setoff signifi cant selling. Areport on manufactur-ing in New York statefell short of forecasts andJapan became the latestcountry to show signsof slowing growth. Thereports raised investors’concerns about the paceof the global economic re-covery.
Analysts said Monday’sshort buying spurt wasa pause following fourdays of losses that sentthe Dow down almost 400points.
“The market is re-ally being controlled by(short-term) traders,”said Mike Rubino, CEO atRubino Financial Groupin Troy, Mich. “The long-term investor doesn’t ap-pear to be anywhere insight.”
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PTIA looks for turnaround
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TRIAD – The poor econo-my is the reason that the number of passengers fl y-ing out of Piedmont Triad International Airport con-tinues to nosedive, accord-ing to offi cials at PTIA.
Ted Johnson, the execu-tive director of the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority, said there are simply not as many people flying now as there were before the down-turn in the economy.
“All over the system, the airlines have cut out thousands of seats to try to get airplanes to the point where they’re making a little bit of money,” John-son said.
In the fi rst half of this year, there were 386,664 boardings at PTIA. The air-port currently has 65 daily nonstop fl ights to 16 desti-nations. That puts the air-
port on track for its second straight year of less than 1 million passengers. It plum-meted below 1 million last year, with 863,745 riders, a number it will struggle to match this year.
PTIA isn’t the only air-port that has been affected by the economy. Raleigh-Durham International Air-port has 190 daily nonstop fl ights to 35 destinations, about the same number of fl ights it had this time last year.
“We did see a decrease in fl ights in 2008 and some in 2009, but between 2009 and this year we’ve been holding around 190,” said Mindy Hamlin, a spokes-woman for RDU.
According to statistics on Charlotte Douglas In-ternational Airport’s web-site, the airport’s number of daily nonstop fl ights has fl uctuated the past two years.
Trading group bans Zimbabwe diamonds
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) – In what’s being hailed as an unprec-edented move that will boost buyer awareness of blood diamonds, a global diamond trading network vowed Monday to expel any member who know-ingly trades gems from two Zimbabwe mines where laborers have been killed and children enslaved.
The announcement by the U.S.-based Rapa-port Diamond Trading Network, an industry diamond price and in-
formation provider, comes after international regulators declared the stones from the Zimba-bwe mines confl ict-free, backing off a ban they im-posed in November and allowing 900,000 carats of diamonds to be auctioned last week.
“This is the first time that we’ve heard of a large group like the Ra-paport group actually taking such a strong stand,” said Tiseke Kasambala, a Zimbabwe specialist with Human Rights Watch.
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Tourists stop at a clothing shop in Tokyo on Monday.
China overtakes Japan as No. 2 economy
TOKYO (AP) – Japan lost its place as the world’s No. 2 economy to China in the second quarter as receding global growth sapped momentum and stunted a shaky recovery.
Gross domestic product grew at an annualized rate of just 0.4 percent, the gov-ernment said Monday, far below the annualized 4.4 percent expansion in the first quarter and adding to evidence the global recov-ery is facing strong head-winds.
The fi gures underscore China’s emergence as an economic power that is changing everything from the global balance of mili-tary and fi nancial power to how cars are designed. It is already the biggest exporter, auto buyer and steel producer, and its
global infl uence is expand-ing.
World stock markets mostly fell Monday on Japan’s second-quarter fig-ures. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index fell 0.6 percent, hovering close to a 13-month low. In Eu-rope, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 0.6 percent while France’s CAC-40 fell 1 per-cent. Germany’s DAX, how-ever, was up 0.1 percent.
In early morning trad-ing on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial av-erage fell 60.02, or 0.6 per-cent, to 10,242.83.
China has been a major force behind the world’s emergence from deep reces-sion, delivering much-need-ed juice to the U.S., Japan and Europe. Tokyo’s latest numbers, however, suggest
that Chinese demand alone may not be enough for Japan or other economic giants.
“Japan is the canary in the gold mine because it depends very much on de-mand in Asia and China, and this demand is cooling quite a bit,” said Martin Schulz, senior economist at Fujitsu Research Insti-tute in Tokyo. “This is a warning sign for all major economies that just focus-ing on overseas demand won’t be suffi cient.”
China has surpassed Ja-pan in quarterly GDP fig-ures before, but this time it’s unlikely to relinquish the lead.
China’s economy will almost certainly be bigger than Japan’s at the end of 2010 because of the huge dif-ference in each country’s growth rates.
BRIEFS---Intel to buy cable modem chip business
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Intel says it’s buying a Texas Instruments unit that makes cable modem chips, which it intends to combine with its own processors for smarter modems and cable set-topboxes.
The companies did not reveal the terms of the deal in the Monday announcement.
Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. has sup-plied Motorola, Arris andCisco’s Scientifi c Atlanta unit with chips for cable modems, representing much of the U.S. market.
Santa Clara-based In-tel Corp. says all employ-ees of the TI unit have been offered positions. It expects the deal to close in the fourth quarter.
China Bank confi rms world’s largest IPO
SHANGHAI – The Agricultural Bank of China says it raised a world record $22.1 billion in its initial public offeringlast month, despite a tepid reception from investors, after exercising an overal-lotment option for its Shanghai share sale.
The bank, China’s main rural lender, sold an ad-ditional 3.34 billion shares at the IPO price of 2.68 yuan ($0.39) per share as part of the overallotment, as expected, according to a notice Monday on the Web site of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
The extra 8.94 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) raised pushed the dual Hong Kong-Shanghai IPO to $22.1 billion , surpassing the previous record.
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