By PAYTON TOWNS IIIA Laurens County man en-

tered a not guilty plea Mondaymorning in the June murder ofa Laurens County woman.Joseph Mack Jones ap-

peared before Laurens CountySuperior Court Judge DonaldGillis, telling the judge that hewas “not guilty” in the murderof Dawn Hammond and theshooting of Gerald Clark.Jones has been charged

with one count of murder,felony murder, burglary, aggra-vated assault, possession of a

firearm during commission of afelony and possession of a

firearm by a convicted felon.The Public Defender asked

Gillis for Jones to be located inone prison. Jones told Gillisthat he had been “bouncedaround” from prison to prisonbecause of the case.“The state doesn’t want me

to get to trial,” Jones said.Deron Laurie Johnson and

Jonathan Michael Cook werealso arrested for their part ofthe murder. Both were chargedwith party of the crime of mur-der, party to the crime of felonymurder, party to the crime ofburglary, and party to thecrime of aggravated assault.

On Sept. 19, both pleadednot guilty.According to a Laurens

County Sheriff ’s Office report,deputies respond to a 911 callat 1:59 a.m. from 2251 BuieRoad on June 15. The callersaid an unknown intruder wasshooting a gun inside thehouse and that her grandsonand a woman had been shot.Deputies arrived and found

that the unknown assailanthad left the scene. Deputies

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Allen said the house was a total loss, and officials are awaiting autopsy results.

Fire Kills East Dublin ManBy PAYTON TOWNS IIIA 23-year-old East Dublin man was

killed in a fire that destroyed the rentalhouse he was living in early Mondaymorning.Kenyardo Breshawn Oneal was killed

in the fire that happened at 1:12 a.m.Monday at 189 Rex Miller Road in EastDublin, said Glenn Allen, representing thestate fire marshals office and aspokesman for Insurance and Fire Com-missioner Ralph Hudgens. Allen said thecause of the fire was undetermined.“Investigators know that the fire origi-

nated in the kitchen,” Allen said. “Theycould not rule out unattended cooking asthe cause of the fire. Investigators areawaiting autopsy results from the state

East Laurens Announces 2012 Homecoming CourtSeniors: Shandricka Davis,

Jmann Bostic, Zhane' Guyton,TaQuevious Rice, Whitney Horton,Ezekiel George, Jordan Mimbs, Tan-ner Free, Erika Morgan, Coty Gra-ham. Juniors: Lauren Brodrick, TylerCooper, Jasmine Copeland, JayTownsend. Sophomores: BriannaMcDonald, Kaleb Tidwell, StaniqueStephens, Quadriquis MitchellFreshmen: Amber Oliver, HalenLoftin (not pictures), Lauren Powell,Austin Scott. Festivities will kick offFriday at 7 p.m. (Special photo)

TeachingSigns OfAbuse

By PAYTON TOWNS IIIMany law enforcement vehicles were in the

parking lot at Marie Baptist Church last Friday.But they weren’t there because of an emergency.Instead, law enforcement officials from the

Dublin PoliceDepartment,Laurens Coun-ty Sheriff ’s Of-fice, EastDublin PoliceDepartment,Dublin Proba-tion, DublinParole, GordonPolice Depart-ment, Tooms-boro Police De-partment andEmanuelCounty Sher-iff ’s Officewere attend-ing the firstLaw Enforce-ment Trainingon DomesticViolence Is-sues in the fel-lowship hall atMarie BaptistChurch.The mainspeaker wasMike Mertz,who operatesC&M Consult-ing LLC and isa former lawenforcementofficer andPOST Certi-fied DomesticViolence in-structor.“We don’thave a lot of

domestic violence training in Georgia,” Mertzsaid while showing a power point presentation.He showed stats from the GBI, adding that thenumber of domestic violent cases have been onthe rise. He expects the number to continue torise this year.

“The number 1stress in any rela-tionship is moneyand financial prob-lems. Along withthat, people havelost their jobs and

they are homemore.”

— Mike Mertz

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OfficialsLearn AboutDomesticViolentSituations

LYL Class Of2013 KicksOff Tonight

By JASONHALCOMBEOrganizers for Laurens

Youth Leadership's Class of2013 will hold an orienta-tion tonight at Dublin Coun-try Club.Slated for 6:30-9:30 p.m.,

LYL head Jennifer Bryantsaid tonight's event is de-signed to introduce the classto each other, as well as pre-pare for upcoming sessionsthat will be capped by agraduation ceremony March26, 2013.Sessions will be held be-

ginning Nov. 6, and will con-tinue each month. Classeswill be from 10 a.m. until 3p.m.The Class of 2013 in-

cludes:East Laurens: Iesha

Baldwin, Trevor Barwick,Ashley Bryan, JoshuaBryant, Emily McDonald,Khadijah Moore, ColePorter, Collin Sellers, Madi-son Tucker, Carria White,Chelsea Williams, LorenWoods.Dublin: Gay Garner,

Katelin McLeod, KristenOliver, Ashley Souza, Des-tiny Martin, Maci Wood.Trinity Christian: Timo-

thy Flowers, Sarah Horne,Wyatt Payne, Carlyn Smith,Holly Veal, May Williams.West Laurens: Brent

Burney, Baylee Bruton,Rachel Clardy, Trevor Deal,Mary-Claxton Gatti, LoganGibbs, Anna Green, HannaHolley, Kate Melvin, Bran-don Poulton, Dalton Touch-berry.

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BY MICHAEL ROIZEN,M.D., AND MEHMET OZ,M.D.What's trending for Jon

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mon autoimmune disease inthe U.S. (affecting more than7.5 million folks). It causesskin cells to multiply at an ac-celerated rate, piling up andcausing patches of dry, itchy,

sometimes painful skin.So here are a few tips for

Kim and Jon -- and anyoneelse with psoriasis -- to keepskin in good shape when chillwinds blow:1. Get a flu shot (only when

psoriasis or eczema is not flar-ing); the flu (or colds) can trig-ger flares.2. Be vigilant about eating

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-- anecdotal evidence says 900milligrams of DHA/omega-3,210 milligrams of purifiedomega-7 or a couple of tea-

spoons of olive oil daily reducethe inflammation associatedwith psoriasis (and eczema).4. If scaly patches get

worse, ask your doc about acortisone cream. A 1,000 IUdaily D-3 supplement issmart, too. Your doctor alsomay try phototherapy and/orbiologic drugs that block im-mune system cells that triggerpsoriasis.5. Use a home humidifier,

and make sure it's bacteria-and mold-free.Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of

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Staying Ahead Of Psoriasis In The Winter

DEAR ABBY: Many womenlike surprises. Most men don't.My wife can't understand that.She recently "surprised" me byinforming me she had madenon-refundable arrangementsfor us to visit a foreign country.She said I had once mentionedthat I'd like to see it. I have norecollection of saying so, but Isuppose it's possible.Abby, I am physically barely

able to endure such travel. Mybalance is bad and walking isextremely painful for my legsand hips. I wish she would havediscussed her plan with me inadvance. It's possible she want-ed very much to go and suspect-ed I'd tell her it would be un-wise for me to do it.Now that we're locked in, I'll

go. But if it becomes too ardu-ous, I'll tell her that we're goingto have to leave the group andreturn home immediately. Per-haps that would help her un-derstand that she should talk tome about a plan that includesme before implementing it. Ab-by, can you comment? -- GOTAN UNWELCOME SUR-PRISEDEAR SURPRISE: What

your wife did was wrong; she'swell aware of your physical lim-itations. Foreign travel isn'tcheap. Before laying out sizablechunks of money, most couplesdiscuss the expense. I thinkyour method of handling thesituation is a good one, particu-larly if no accommodations canbe made for your disability bythe company arranging thetrip.P.S. I'm advising you to get

travel insurance well in ad-vance.

DEAR ABBY: I'm in lovewith a beautiful woman. She'sdivorced with two kids, 15 and17. I believe the 15-year-old boyis feeling threatened by mypresence. He has become very"clingy" to his mother and triesto get between us.I love both of her kids and

treat them like my own. I know

it's a delicate situation and Iwant to do the right thing. Thedisrespect he shows me is be-coming an issue, and I know hismother won't do anything aboutit. I have mentioned it a fewtimes and nothing has changed.I know she would be crushed

if I ended this relationship, be-cause recently she asked me tomove in by Christmas. Mar-riage has been discussed priorto or shortly thereafter. Pleasehelp. -- DISRESPECTED INOHIODEARDISRESPECTED: Do

not move in with this womanunless she first agrees to pre-marital counseling with you toensure that you're both on thesame page regarding parenting,and then family counselingwith her children. As much asyou care about them, you arenot their parent. Because yourladyfriend appears to ignoreproblems when they arise,without counseling nothing willchange. Be warned.

DEAR ABBY: Our son anddaughter-in-law have invitedus for Thanksgiving in anotherstate. We'll fly there with my

husband's mother.Recently my daughter-in-

law mentioned that we may all(11 of us) be going to some sortof buffet instead of making thedinner at their home. We wouldalso end up paying for the meal.I would much rather cook for

them than eat and pay for aThanksgiving meal at a buffetor restaurant. How can we getthis across to our son anddaughter-in-law without hurt-ing their feelings? -- NO BUF-FET FOR US IN LEAVEN-WORTH, KAN.DEAR NO BUFFET: How

about saying it in plain Eng-lish? Tell them you would beglad to prepare the dinner, andif your daughter-in-law wouldhelp you, the task wouldn't beonerous for either of you.P.S. Unless the men are "all

thumbs" in the kitchen, theycould pitch in, too. Multigenera-tional rituals are the glue thatkeep a family together.

Dear Abby is written by Abi-gail Van Buren, also known asJeanne Phillips, and wasfounded by her mother, PaulinePhillips. Write Dear Abby atwww.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.Good advice for everyone --

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Wife’s Surprise Travel PlansThrow Husband For A Loop

DDeeaarr AAbbbbyy

Bobbie HilleBobbie Hill, age 66 of Cony-

ers, went to be with the Lord onFriday, October 5, 2012. Shewas preceded in death by herparents, William F. and RubyPearl Locke, Sr.; brother,William F. Locke, Jr.; sisters,Jean Hendrix and Ann Elder.She is survived by her husbandof 36 years, Sammy Hill;daughters, Kimberly (Todd)Ramsey, Buford, Kristi (Jon)Carter, Conyers; step-sons,Shawn (Jessica) Hill, Snellville,Brett (Carrie) Hill, Easton, MD;sister, Connie (Foster) Daniel,Gray; grandchildren, TiffaniPatterson, Ashli McCone, Gra-cie Carter, Logan Hill, KatieHill; mother-in-law, Odone B.Hill, Conyers, and numerousnieces and nephews. Mrs. Hillwas a loving mother and “thebest wife a man could have”.She was a member of RockdaleBaptist Church where shetaught the SeniorAdult SundaySchool Class and enjoyed serv-ing in the nursery where shecould love on the babies. Mrs.Hill was the first female namedas a Public Works Director inthe state of Georgia, she washead of the Housing Authorityfor the City of Conyers and a re-al estate agent. She also hadserved as Chairman of Clean &Beautiful, Chairman of the Ju-ror Selection Committee, wasinstrumental in the planning ofGa. International Horse Parkand Conyers Botanical Gardensand was a past president of Ki-wanis Club. The City of Cony-ers named a day after her for allof her service to the community.The family would like to thankthe nurses, staff and attendingphysicians at Newton MedicalCenter ICU. Funeral serviceswere held Monday, October 8,2012 at 11:00 a.m. at RockdaleBaptist Church with Rev.Dwayne Jones, Pastor BillyMoss and Pastor Ron Gardnerofficiating; interment followedat Green Meadow MemorialGardens Mausoleum. Thosedesiring may make contribu-tions to Gideon’s International,P.O. Box 686, Conyers, GA30012. Condolences may besubmitted on-line at HYPER-LINK"http://www.scotward.com"www.scotward.com. Scot WardFuneral Services, 699 Ameri-can Legion Road, Conyers,30012, 770-483-7216.

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Shirley DykesHand

Funeral services for Mrs.Shirley Dykes Hand, age 79,will be held at 2 p.m. onWednesday, October 10, 2012 atFirst UnitedMethodist Church,with interment to follow atNorthview Cemetery. Dr. JackKey, Rev. Bob Williams, andRev. Thad Haygood will offici-ate.Mrs. Hand was born on June

17, 1933 in Savannah, Georgia.She was the daughter of thelate Collis Belton and Eula MaeSmith Dykes. She was also pre-ceded in death byher daughter,Carla Angel Hand. She haslived in Laurens County for thepast 27 years. She was a mem-ber of the First UnitedMethodist Church. She was aretired school teacher for theCity of Dublin. She also taughtin Griffin, Pembroke, East Lau-rens, Trinity Christian School,Heart of Georgia, First UnitedMethodist Church Kinder-garten where she served asChair Person, and was also anAssessment Coordinator forRESA. Mrs. Hand passed awayon Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012 at Her-itage Health Care following anextended illness.Mrs. Hand is survived by

her loving husband, CarlosHand, of Dublin, a son, TrentMobley, of Gainesville, 2 daugh-

Obituaries ters, Julie Tippins, of Griffin,and Star Hand Tanton, ofWrightsville, 2 sisters, ColleenMaxwell, of Eatonton, andWynonna Roberts, of Eatonton,5 grandchildren, Jenna Wilker-son, Linc Mobley, Jesse Mobley,Ashley Dover, and KatherineTippins, and 3 great grandchil-dren, Charlie Dover, ReeseWilkerson, and Reagan Wilker-son.The family will receive

friends on Tuesday, October 9,2012 from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30p.m. at the funeral home.Stanley Funeral Home and

Crematory/Dublin Chapel hascharge of funeral arrange-ments.To sign the Online Register

Book please visitwww.stanleyfuneralhome.com<http://www.stanleyfuneralhome.com> or call the 24 Hour Stan-ley Funeral Home and Crema-tory Obituary Line at (478) 272-0106 to hear the latest funeralupdates.

———

Jordan KellyMoye

Jordan Kelly Moye, age 81,resident of Frisco, Texas,passed away on October 6, 2012following a long and heroic bat-tle with cancer.Jordan was born in

Wrightsville, Georgia on De-cember 18, 1930 to Robert Sr.and Rosa Mae Moye. He wastheir second child, and a son ofthe Great Depression. Heserved his country statesideduring the Korean War as aQuartermaster Sergeant in theUS Marines.He returned home to marry

the love of his life, Alice RoseArbogast. She was his wife for52 years. Jordan and Aliceraised two gifted sons in thetiny town of Shavertown, Penn-sylvania. He provided decadesof service to his work and hischurch, and he is rememberedfor his kindness, his courage,and his dedication to family.Jordan is preceded in death byhis parents, his sister, Rose-maryMoye Purdue, His brotherRobert Moye Jr., and his son,Gregory Moye.

He is survived by his wife,AliceMoye, his son, BrianMoye(Mary) of Avoca, Iowa, his sis-ters, Jean Garnto (Carl) andLinda Mitchell, his brothersRalph Moye (Frances Jean),Phillip Moye (Linda) andJames Michael Moye, all ofWrightsville, Georgia, his 3grandchildren, Peyton, Jen-nifer and Will Moye and manynieces, nephews and extendedfamily.

He was loved by family andfriends, and will be deeplymissed by all who were fortu-nate to have shared a part ofhis life.

It was Jordan’s wish that, inlieu of flowers, donations maybe made to the First UnitedMethodist Church MemorialFund, 7659 Preston Road,Frisco, TX 75034.Funeral services will be held

at 11:00 A.M. Friday, October12, 2012 at the Richard N.Stanley Memorial Chapel withinterment to follow atWestviewCemetery.

The family will receivefriends from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m.Thursday, October 11, 2012 atthe funeral home.

Stanley Funeral Home andCrematory/Wrightsville Chapelhas charge of funeral arrange-ments. To sign the Online Reg-ister Book please visitwww.stanleyfuneralhome.comor call the 24 Hour ObituaryLine at (478) 272-0106 to hearthe latest updates.

Kenyardo O'nealMr. Kenyardo O'neal passed

away on Monday, October 8,2012. Funeral arrangementsare incomplete and will be an-nounced later. Visitation will beat the home of Ken-neth(Diane)O'neal, 908 RobinHood Road, andCharles(Christine)Stuckey,2811 Claxton Dairy Road.Services by Dudley Funeral

Homewww.sevicesbydudley.com

———Marilyn Odessa

Andrews

Mrs. Marilyn Odessa An-drews of 1819 Highland Av-enue, passed on Saturday, Oct.6, 2012. Funeral arrangementsare incomplete and will be an-nounced later. Visitation will beat the family residence, 1819Apartment 1 Highland Avenue.Services by Dudley Funeral

Homewww.servicesbydudley.com

———

Wannie RinerCordry

Mrs. Wannie Riner Cordry,75, of Wrightsville entered in-to rest October 8th, 2012 ather residence. Mrs. Cordrywas born April 28th, 1937 tothe late Collie D. and JewellKersey Riner.Mrs. Cordry was born and

made her home in JohnsonCounty, and retired from 25years of service as the manag-er of the Johnson County HighSchool Cafeteria. She was amember of the WrightsvilleFirst Assembly of God, the Re-tired Educators Association,and was on the board of theGeorgia School Food ServiceAssociation. She enjoyed hertime as a Junior Girl Scoutleader as well as sponsoringthe JCHS Youth AdvisoryCouncil.Her brother, Jimmy Riner,

and a sister, Colleen Kerseypreceded her in death.Survivors include her hus-

band of 59 years, Ervin Cordryof Wrightsville, GA; one son,C. Milton Cordry (Norma); twodaughters, Sherry C. Brooks(Carl), and Sheila C. Soles(Jeff), all of Wrightsville.Eight grandchildren: MichaelCordry (Ria), Richard Cordry(Marie), Missy Wilson (Way-lon), Tara Meeks (Nathan),Carrie Pope, Hope Brooks,Jennifer Soles and Caleb Soles(Erin); eleven great grandchil-dren, and one brother, CharlesRiner.Visitation will be Tuesday

evening, October 9th, from 6p.m. until 8 p.m. at the Funer-al Home. Services will begin at11:00 a.m. Wednesday at theWrightsville First Assembly ofGod, with Pastors DonnieDaniels and Hugh Spivey offi-ciating. Burial will be at Gum-log Primitive Baptist Churchnear Kite, GA.Pallbearers will be: Richard

Cordry, Caleb Soles, WaylonWilson, Nathan Meeks, SteveHall, and Ronald Walker.Brantley-Powell Funeral

Home of Wrightsville (478-864-2808) has charge ofarrangements.

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assisted Clark in performingCPR on Hammond who lived atthe house with him and hisgrandmother. Hammond wastransported by EMS to a localhospital where she was pro-nounced dead. Clark was trans-ported by EMS and treated fora serious gunshot wound.A Georgia Department of

Corrections Canine unit wasused to ensure a thoroughsearch of the area. LCSO inves-tigators and a GBI crime sceneunit responded to the scene andcontinued further investigation.

This led investigators to fo-cus on Jones and Johnson whoreside on Pond Road in LaurensCounty. Johnson is the motherof Clark, and both she andJones had been involved in a re-cent dispute with him.LCSO investigators, Toombs

County investigators and fugi-tive task force agents foundJones and Johnson around 1p.m. at a location in ToombsCounty. Jones, was wanted for aprobation violation and was im-mediately taken into custody.Further investigation led to

the arrest of Cook.

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Roughly 10 agencies participated in the domestic abuse informational session.

“The number one stress inany relationship is money andfinancial problems,” Mertzsaid. “Along with that, peoplehave lost their jobs and theyare home more.”There is also an increase on

the number of domestic vio-lence situations that have hap-pened in front of children.“Parents are becoming in-

different about things in frontof children,” Mertz said.“There are certainly timeswhen a child is a victim.”Mertz also talked about

stalking, telling his audiencethat stalking “is not normalbehavior.”They also heard from

Dublin Judicial Circuit Dis-trict Attorney Craig Fraser,Chief Judge H. Gibbs FlandersJr., Heather Mullis, ExecutiveDirector for WINGS, TomiekaR. Daniel, Supervising Attor-ney of the Macon Regional Of-fice for Georgia Legal ServicesProgram, and Cheryl A.Banks, senior assistant DA.Banks is also the chairman

of the Dublin-Laurens Domes-tic Violence Task Force chair-man.“Domestic Violence is a big

topic in this area,” Banks said.“The task force wants to putout the word and awarenessthat this month is DomesticViolence Awareness Month.Because of that, we are doinglocal training. Each POST cer-

tified officer is required to getso many hours of training peryear. This will be a seven hourcourse for them and those herewill be certified in domestic vi-olence.”Banks planned to talk

about how they should thinklike a prosecutor.“We’re going to stress to

them what type of evidence weneed to be able to prove incourt,” she said.This is the first time the

task force has hosted a law en-forcement seminar. Many ofthe members were on hand tohelp out.“A lot of people from the

task force have come in tomake sure things were run-ning smoothly,” Banks said.

“We want to lend a helpinghand to make sure the officersare getting their hours and arecomfortable while gettingtheir training.”Banks thanked Marie Bap-

tist Church for opening itsdoors for the seminar.“It’s a wonderful location

for us because they have ameeting hall and nice re-stroom facilities,” she said.“They have a place where theofficers can have refreshmentswhile they listen to the presen-tations. It’s just a wonderfulthing that Marie BaptistChurch has open their doorsand I want to say thank you tothe church’s congregation andpastor.”

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crime lab. At this time, it doesnot appear suspicious.”Allen said the structure

was a total loss. The state firemarshals office was requested

by the Laurens County FireDepartment.The office is working with

the LCFD, East Dublin FireDepartment and the LaurensCounty Sheriff ’s Office, Allensaid.

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Dish, Gannett ReachAgreement Over TV FeesMcLEAN, Va. (AP) — Dish

and Gannett said Monday thatthey have reached an agree-ment in a fee dispute that hadthreatened to leave more than2 million Dish subscribers in19 cities without access to localtelevision stations owned byGannett.The companies didn’t give

further details in announcingtheir long-term agreement.The old deal had expired earlyMonday.Dish Network Corp. had

claimed that Gannett Co. wasasking for a 300 percent in-crease in fees for the right tocarry 22 Gannett stations affil-iated with NBC, CBS, ABCand Fox. Gannett has said itwas seeking a fair deal in linewith market rates.The two sides also fought

over Dish’s new digital video

recorder, the Hopper, which al-lows customers to automatical-ly skip commercials from theprevious night’s prime-timebroadcasts. After consumersswitch on the service, theirplayback of recorded program-ming from the four networkbroadcasters excludes the ad-vertisements that were record-ed. The ad-skipping doesn’twork for live television.Dish has its headquarters

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Lawsuit FiledAgainst District InCharter CampaignATLANTA (AP) — A group

of five Georgia residents is ac-cusing the state’s 180 localschool districts of illegally us-ing taxpayer money to cam-paign against a proposed con-stitutional amendment oncharter schools.The proposal would allow

the state to create a new boardthat could pick private entitiesto run independent schools fi-nanced by taxpayers. Localboards currently control char-ters.The amendment is on the

Nov. 6 ballot.Superintendent John Barge

has led public education offi-cials in opposing the amend-ment. Barge drew the ire ofAtlanta attorney Glenn Delkfor explaining his oppositionusing a state website. Underthreat of legal action, Barge

removed the material.Neither Barge nor the state

Board of Education is namedas a defendant in the suit Delkfiled in Fulton County Superi-or Court on Monday.

———Man in pirate costumecharged after brawl on

pier

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP)— Police say a man dressed asa pirate faces charges afterthey say he fought with ateenager in a bloody brawl in-volving a knife on a pier overthe Atlantic Ocean.Tybee Island police say 40-

year-old Joe Curtis Chatmanis accused of throwing the 18-year-old from his bicycle andtossing the bike over the sideof the pier early Sunday, dur-ing the annual Pirate Fest.

New Jury System Brings ChallengesAUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) —

Joan Shackelford’s phone isalways ringing.In fact, since July 1, when

Georgia expanded the numberof citizens eligible for jury du-ty, Richmond County’s juryclerk averages 600 calls aweek.“Everything has pretty

much more than doubled,”Shackelford said about the re-sults of a new statewide jurypool.Until this year, Georgia

counties were among the lastin the nation still using the“balanced box” system of ju-rors. The box is demographi-cally representative of eachcounty’s race and sex, but itexcludes a large percentage ofeligible citizens from servingon a jury.The new jury pool, created

by the Jury Reform Act of2011, draws from the Depart-ment of Driver Ser-vices’records and includes justabout everyone with a driver’slicense in Georgia.While it serves the purpose

of creating an inclusive list, itsimplementation has broughtchallenges.Richmond County’s pool of

potential jurors has grownsince July 1 from 20,000 -mostly culled from voting rolls- to about 100,000.Starting the jury roll from

scratch means that all whowere previously exempt be-cause of age or other circum-stances are now receivingsummonses. It also means cit-izens who served on jurieswithin the past two years arereceiving summonses in themail.Another challenge results

because many motorists don’tchange their driver’s licenseaddress, so some people wholive in other counties arecalled to Richmond County ju-ry duty.All of that leads to hun-

dreds of calls and e-mails.“I have all the confidence

that the issues will be re-solved; it will just take time,”Shackelford said.Most counties in Georgia

are facing many of the sameissues as Richmond County,particularly in terms of eras-ing historical data from theold jury pool, said MichaelHoliman, the executive direc-tor of the Georgia Council ofSuperior Court Clerks. Differ-ences in mailing addresses,such as post office boxes andhome addresses, are also com-plicating matters.There are duplicates on the

list, so “it’s not as simple as itsounds,” Holiman said.While the intentions of the

balanced box were noble, theoutdated method came dan-gerously close to being de-clared unconstitutional, saidstate Rep. Alex Atwood, R-Brunswick, who introducedthe House legislation for theJury Reform Act. Creating ablack and white box isn’t ac-ceptable when “we have amore diverse society,” Atwoodsaid.The expanded jury pool

“catches a larger demographicof people,” Atwood said.The ultimate goal of seat-

ing new jurors was accom-plished in at least one Rich-mond County trial in Septem-ber. None of the jurors whoconvicted Gerald Wright in afatal wreck on Laney-WalkerBoulevard had deliberated be-fore.Rodney Quesenberry,

Wright’s attorney, said it’s un-clear what benefit, if any, thedefense might gain from hav-ing novice jurors.He noted that the Wright

jury asked the judge six ques-tions during deliberations.“If anything they might

just be more nervous,” Que-senberry said.Shackelford said she tries

to make jury duty pleasant,including providing jurorswith televisions and Internetaccess. The spacious jury as-sembly room in the new court-house makes that possible,she said.“For the large part it’s . a

huge inconvenience, so I wantthem to feel comfortable here,”she said.

Widow Of Man Slain At Preschool Pleads Not GuiltyDECATUR, Ga. (AP) — The

widow of an entrepreneurgunned down outside a subur-ban Atlanta preschool in 2010pleaded not guilty Monday tocharges related to her hus-band’s death.Andrea Sneiderman ap-

peared at an arraignmenthearing in DeKalb County Su-perior Court, where one of herlawyers entered the not guiltyplea. She faces a variety of

charges, including malice mur-der and criminal attempt tocommit murder.Sneiderman smiled and

spoke quietly with her lawyersbefore Monday’s hearing butdid not address the court.She was arrested in August

and accused of conspiring withher former boss, Hemy Neu-man, to kill her husband, Dun-woody businessman Russell“Rusty” Sneiderman. He was

gunned down in November2010 shortly after dropping offthe couple’s son at preschool.Neuman admitted to the

killing and was sentenced inMarch to life in prison.Prosecutors have alleged

Sneiderman was having an af-fair with Neuman and con-spired with him to kill her hus-band in part to collect $2 mil-lion in life insurance policies.She has denied an affair and

has denied involvement in theslaying.She was released on bond

but placed under house arrestin late August. She has beenliving with her parents inRoswell.DeKalb County Superior

Court Judge Gregory Adamsgave lawyers until Dec. 7 tosubmit motions in the caseand said he would set a trialdate after that.

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Georgians who now makepurchases online have startedto notice something new. Somewebsites are now collectingsales tax on their purchasesthat previously did not.Politicians are quick toremind us that this is not anew tax, and they are correct.Georgia law has long sincerequired purchasers to remittaxes on all purchases madefrom out of state vendors. It’sjust there has been almost noway for the state to monitorthese purchases nor a mecha-nism for the state to collectthem from retailers.

Georgia’s tax reform pack-age passed late last sessionafter little public debatechanged all of that. The mea-sure was opposed by onlineretail giants like Amazon, butfavored by big box retailerssuch as Wal-Mart and HomeDepot. The big box retailerswon for a variety of reasons,among them of course is thestate’s desire for additionalrevenue.

There is also the conceptu-al argument that the old taxpolicy gave an advantage toretailers who were based outof state over those who investlocally, hire Georgians, andpay local taxes in addition tothe sales taxes they generate.The once mighty chain “BestBuy” is perhaps the bestexample of this competitivedisadvantage, as consumersnow use the chain for “show-rooming” – the practice ofgoing to a store to view theproduct, get educated by thestore’s employees, then returnhome to purchase the desiredproduct online. In Georgia,the price advantage for theonline retailer was as much as8%.

Closing the internet taxgets the state out of the posi-tion of helping pick winnersand losers in the retail indus-try. Coming soon another loop-hole will be closed, levelingthe playing field with licensedcar dealers who sell used carsand private individuals who

sell cars on their own. A new“fee” to title cars will beplaced on the sale of all auto-mobiles, new and used, as areplacement for the currentsales tax structure.

Legislators decided to levelthis playing field by extendingthe new tax, though theywould very much prefer youuse their term of “fee,” to pri-vate sales instead of exempt-ing the licensed dealers fromcollecting taxes on used car

sales. This one is harder topass off as closing a loophole,and should be considered anew tax on consumers. Whenthe state choses to get out ofthe business of picking win-ners and losers, one shouldalways remember the statewill certainly not come out theloser.

The battle here in theGeorgia is foreshadowingwhat will soon be part of thebattle to avert the “fiscal cliff”

in Washington. Lawmakers onboth sides of the aisle arequite reluctant to raise taxes,but also realize that there isan immediate need for morerevenue in federal coffers.“Closing loopholes” is nowpart of the debate at the stateand federal level.

Republicans are still quitesure they are “taxed enoughalready” and will not supportincreased tax rates to reducethe national deficit.Democrats, while campaign-ing on the need for “the 1%” topay more, get a bit more quietwhen reminded they had theopportunity to do so in 2009and 2010 when they held bothsides of Congress and theWhite House, as they tooknew the political risks of vot-ing to raise taxes.

Closing loopholes, rightnow, is somewhat of a trickyno-man’s land. It is somethingthat is often supported in pollsbecause the term has negativeconnotations associated withsomeone else getting a special

perk to avoid paying theirproper amount of taxes. Whenactual loopholes are closed,however, such as the oneallowing for collection of inter-net sales tax purchases, manyvoters fail to distinguishbetween “closing loopholes”and “raising taxes”.

In short, closing loopholesare generally fine so long asthey’re closed on someoneelse. Reality is sometimescruel in that it doesn’t alwaysallow us to have our rhetoricand enact it too.

At the state and local lev-els, there will likely not be taxincreases after the next roundof elections. Yet we can allwatch the “loopholes” begin todisappear. And we can allexpect to pay more.

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It was the infield fly rule heard around the world.We’ve seen the highlights and we’ve heard many

opinions. A majority think it was the wrong call. Themajority of America would probably think it was thewrong call. But the only opinion that matters is theumpire who made it and Major League Baseball. They’ve seen it and stand by the call on the field.

Nothing surprising there. MLB has been doing ques-tionable things for years. This was the first year for the one game playoff for

Wild Card teams. This was done to create more dramaand more teams involved in the playoffs. The Braveshad a six game lead on the Cardinals and had beatenthem five out of six times this year.The Braves, who was one of the best fielding teams

in the National Leagues this year, took a lead only togive it back with three uncharacteristic errors.Trailing 6-3 with runners on first and second,

Andrelton Simmons hit a fly ball into left. The out-fielder and shortstop converged on the play, but bothbacked away as the ball hit the ground and the Braveshad the bases loaded with Brian McCann at the plateand one out.Except that umpire Sam Holbrook called for the

infield fly rule, even though it was in the outfield. Thisrule is confusing. Even MLB players will tell you that.Holbrook and MLB officials said after the game

that the shortstop was in position to catch the ball andthat he had made “ordinary effort.” That’s not whatthe replay shows. The umpire also said his callhelped the Braves because Look at the replay again. He called it a few seconds

before it hit the ground. By the time the outfielder gotit, the runners had made it to the next base safely.MLB can say what it wants to about it being the

right call. But popular opinion suggests otherwise. It’s true that the Braves put themselves in that

position. Making three errors is a hard way to stay inthe game or win it. But they had battled back andwe’ll never know what might have happened ifHolbrook’s call wasn’t made. Unfortunately, it’s one we have to live with.

— Payton Towns III

Infield Fly RuleStill Confusing

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Gov. Nathan DealState CapitolAtlanta, Ga. 30334(404) 656-1776

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A Fantastic Fall FairIn the early decades of the

20th Century, there was nomore fun time, no moreimportant time or no moreanticipated time than fairtime. State. District andcounty fairs were the peo-ple's favorite time of theyear. With most of the cropsin the barns and the gins,the rural people, the farmersand the merchants who soldthem goods, could pause fora week, relax, and have agrand of' time. Before it wasover, more than 20,000 peo-ple would come to theautumn festival. Following the 1910

Census, Lauren's Countyfound itself in the 12thCongressional District ofGeorgia. It was the practicein those days for everyCongressional District tostage its own fair, centeredin the largest city within thedistrict. Dublin, being one ofthe largest cities in the statein general, was selected tohost the very first 12thCongressional District Fair,which took place a centuryago this week.Building off the founda-

tion of the county's first fairin 1911, the organizers of the1912 fair set out to show offDublin and Laurens Countyto the entire state. PeterTwitty, Jr., who would go onto become Mayor of Dublinand Georgia's Game andFish Commissioner, servedas President of the 12thDistrict Fair Association.Twitty was aided by Capt.W.B. Rice, J.B. Type, andVivian L. Stanley, whoserved as vice-presidentsalong with other vice presi-dents hailing from theeleven-county district.Newspaperman FrankLawson, gleefully countedthe bulging receipts andcarefully watched theexpenses. Local promotersproudly hailed the fair as thelargest of its kind in thestate with the exception ofthe State Fair in Macon,which took place a few weekslater in October.To draw a crowd, the fair's

organizers planned an abun-dance of events, not to men-tion the $3000.00 in cashprizes. Three things wouldalways produce people; food,

fun and politics. The fair opened on

Tuesday, October 8 withshort addresses by PresidentTwitty and other communityleaders. Farmers, the mainfocus of the fair, were salut-ed on Wednesday, Farmers'Union Day. With the fear ofthe dreaded boll weevil ontheir minds, a large crowdgathered in the LaurensCounty Courthouse to hearaddresses by Lawson E.Brown, State President ofthe Georgia Farmers' Unionand J.A. Evans, a Federalgovernment expert on theboll weevil. CongressmanDudley M. Hughes, ofDanville, a farmer's con-gressman if there ever wasone, disappointed all whenhis schedule didn't allow himto appear before the largethrong of farmers.Thursday, the 10th, was,

well, "Fun Day." Horse racesalong a half-mile straight-away along a major city thor-oughfare were the highlightof the day. The races were sowell attended that the hors-es and their riders werehampered because of thecrowds spilling onto the racetrack. The nucleus of thefair was located on the site ofthe current day FarmersMarket. An all day sing fea-tured the best of localsingers entertained thecrowd. Many of the best fid-dlers in this part of the coun-try gathered and rosined uptheir bows in one of the city'sfirst Fiddler's Conventions.The fun continued on

Friday, when all kids got outof school to attend the festiv-ities. Of course, their par-ents came too. And, ofcourse, the parents were thetargets of the politicians.Thomas E. Watson, a peren-nial Populist presidentialaspirant, told the gatheringjust what they wanted to

hear. State SchoolSuperintendent, M.L.Brittain was there topromise everyone that hewould make all the schoolsin the state better and soon. John M. Slaton, a former

appointed Governor ofGeorgia, appeared in hopesof being elected in the fol-lowing election. Slaton waselected, but saw his politicalcareer collapse when he par-doned Leo Frank, who wascoincidentally was repre-sented by law partner.To top off the next to the

last day of the fair when anestimated 5,000 peopleswarmed all over the city, allof the prize winners wereannounced. By far and with-out a doubt, the best jellymaker was Mrs. J.W. Horne,who proudly walked awaywith four blue ribbons in allfour jelly making categories.Mrs. B.H. Rawls claimed thetitle as Queen of Condimentsfor her zestiest catsup andbriniest pickles. Mrs. E.H.Langston and Mrs. S.H.Cook were the superiorseamstresses of the fair.Agricultural exhibits and

competitions were integralparts of fall fairs for decades.The Emanuel County BoysCorn Club walked away withthe grand prize with theirrecord of 57 bushels of cornproduced per acre at a hand-some profit of $40.97 peracre.There were poultry and

livestock exhibits and ofexhibits of nearly every cropone could imagine. Mostexhibits were allowed free ofcharge. But in order to helppay the bills, a charge of 10cents per chicken and 50cents for hogs, sheep, goatsand cattle, and $1.00 forhorses, mules and muleswere levied. W.W. Robinsonand D.W. Gilbert displayedthe finest in agricultural

equipment and implementsfrom their respective hard-ware stores. It will beremembered that it wasGilbert, who created the ideafor the county's first fair in1911. Each county in thedistrict put on display show-ing off what was best in theircommunities. HoustonCounty walked away withthe Grand Prize of the 12thDistrict Fair. Baseball fans in the

crowds were treated to playby play, inning by inningreports at the TelephoneExchange as the Boston RedSox, jumped out to 3-1 gamelead over the New YorkGiants, Interestingly, thesecond game of the seriesresulted in a 6-6 tie, causingan 8-game World Series.To make the atmosphere a

lot livelier, Dublin's highlyheralded brass band, freshfrom the magnificent perfor-mances representingGeorgia at the previous twoNational ConfederateReunions, entertained thecrowds daily.The District Fair came to

a climax on Saturday,October 12, on Dublin andLaurens County Day. Theday was set aside for one lastgreat day of fun on the BigMidway.Although an aero plane

could not be secured, thrillseekers were treated to sev-eral balloon ascensions. Ayoung and somewhat fear-less daredevil leaped fromthe balloon, pulling his para-chute at the last possiblemoment.The fair came to end with

a dazzling fireworks show.The crowds went home,counting the 360 days untilthe fair of 1913, which wouldbe even better. But, it was in those days,

in the twelfth year of the20th Century, when theenvious eyes of the citizensof Georgia were focused onthe 12th District Fair, ourfair, a century ago thisweek.

No New Taxes, But We Will Pay More

For more history ofLaurens County go to thedigital edition of theCourier Heraldor see my blog atwww.dublinlaurenscountygeorgia.blogspot.com.

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•Dublin Kiwanis Club at 12:15 p.m. at The Dublin Coun-try Club.•Senior Bridge at 1 p.m. at Dublin-Laurens Senior Activi-ty Center•Dublin Ladies Golf Association at Dublin Country Clubbeginning at 10 a.m.•AA I Am Responsible Group Contact, 272-5244 or 275-8259, 1515 Rice Ave., 5:45 p.m. and 8 p.m.•NAWe Surrender, Contact 275-9531, 629 Broad Street,East Dublin, 6:30 p.m.•Unity House (Family Recovery Support Group) at John-son Lane on VA Grounds, Bldg. 8; 6-8 p.m. Contact: Dublin-Laurens County Chamber of Commerce (478) 272-5546 orLinda Bailey at CSB of Middle GA (478) 272-1190.•Overeaters Anonymous meet at 6:45 at 912 BellevueAve. Contact 279-3808.•Laurens County Democratic Party meetings are heldevery 2nd Tuesday, beginning at 6:45, p.m. Location : Du-Bose Porter’s office 113 South Jefferson St. Attendance en-couraged.

Wednesday•Dublin Lions Club at noon at the Dublin County Club.•AA I Am Responsible Group Contact 272-5244 or 275-8259, 1515 Rice Ave., 5:45 p.m. and 8 p.m.•NAWe Surrender, Contact 275-9531, 629 Broad Street,East Dublin, 6:30 p.m.•Laurens County Duplicate Bridge Club 11 a.m.Dublin County Club for reservations call (478) 272-1190.•Civitan Club every Wednesday at noon at the GoldenCorral.

ALMANACToday in HistoryBy The Associated PressToday is Tuesday, Oct. 9, the 283rd day of 2012. There are

83 days left in the year.On this date:In 1936, the first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam

began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.In 1940, rock and roll legend JohnLennonwas born in Liv-

erpool, England.In 1946, the Eugene O’Neill drama “The Iceman Cometh”

opened at the Martin Beck Theater in New York.In 1987, author, politician and diplomat Clare Boothe Luce

died in Washington at age 84.Ten years ago: Aman was shot to death at a gas station

nearManassas, Va., in the latest sniper shooting in theWash-ington, D.C., area. Aileen Wuornos, who killed six men alongFlorida’s highways in 1989 and 1990, was executed by injec-tion.Five years ago: Two Armenian Christian women were

shot dead in Baghdad by security contractors working forAustralian-owned Unity Resources Group. France’s AlbertFert and German Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prizein physics for a discovery that lets computers, iPods and oth-er digital devices store reams of data on ever-shrinking harddisks. Actress Carol Bruce died in Woodland Hills, Calif., atage 87.One year ago: At least 27 people were killed and more

than 200 injured during massive clashes in downtown Cairoin theworst sectarian outburst since the February revolution.Today’s Birthdays: Actor Tony Shalhoub is 59. Actor

Scott Bakula is 58. Musician James Fearnley (The Pogues) is58. Actor John O’Hurley is 58. Writer-producer-director-actorLinwood Boomer is 57. Pro and College Football Hall ofFamer Mike Singletary is 54. Actor Michael Pare is 54. Jazzmusician Kenny Garrett is 52. Actor Randy Spelling is 34.Christian hip-hop artist Lecrae is 33.Actor Brandon Routh is33. Actor Zachery Ty Bryan is 31. Actress Spencer Grammeris 29.Thought for Today: “There is nothing harder than

the softness of indifference.” — Clare Boothe Luce(1903-1987).

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“National Active andRetired Federal Employ-ee (NARFE) meeting, Oct9, 11:30 a.m., CloverleafRes. Guest speaker, KeithFields, Executive Director,Advocates for Alzheimer’sCare Inc, The Lighthouse.”The 57th annual Harri-

son Family Reunion willbe held on Sunday, October14, at New Home BaptistChurch near Wrightsville.DLCRA's October

events for the communitycalendar: October 16, Se-nior Classic Movie, 6:30 p.m.Theatre Dublin free, Octo-ber 20 DLCRA Rum-mage Sale 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.,Southern Pines Ag & Expo$5 per booth, October 22,Time Management Class 6-7p.m. Southern Pines Class-room, free.October 20, 3rd Annual

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,Inc. Breast Cancer: Walk forthe Cure Fairview ParkHospital Track at 9 a.m. –12 p.m. For questions or topre-register Call: 478-998-3236 or 478-290-6381.Teams encouraged to

start fund raisers now!Team totals will be an-nounced the day of the walk.The Dublin-Laurens

Alumnae Chapter ofDelta Sigma Theta Soror-ity, Inc. is fighting back

with a walk to raise aware-ness and funds designatedfor research to find a curefor this disease. A 3 MileWalk for the Cure atFairview Park HospitalTrack on October 20 at 9a.m. Registration fee of $15per person or $55 per groupsof four. Please register forthe walk no later than Octo-ber 6, to ensure that you getyour T-shirt. Pre-registra-tion was held at Wal-Marton September 29, (1 p.m. – 3p.m.); at the Dublin Mall onOctober 6, (1 p.m. – 3 p.m.)and October 13, (10 a.m. – 2p.m.). Please contact BobbieLowther at 478-998-3236 orLillie Hobbs at 478-290-6381 for questions or con-cerns.TAGS Educational Ser-

vices are currently lookingfor volunteers to assist stu-dents after school, withhomework and small groupinstruction. If interestedcontact Toni Marie Sampson595-7295.Pet Food Drive Drop

off location at Bliss Salon2032B Veterans BlvdDublin. In the Ivey placeshopping plaza, 478-272-6001.An account as been set

up for Phyliss Neuwirth atMorris Bank, on VeteransBlvd. who has been diag-

nosed with terminal cancer.TOPS (Take Off Pounds

Sensibly) is a non-profitweight loss support groupthat has been helping men,women and teens successful-ly lose weight for more than50 years. TOPS meets everyTuesday at Pine ForestUnited Methodist Churchfrom 6-7 p.m. First time vis-itors are welcomed free ofcharge. For more informa-tion call 697-2601.The Dublin Service

League will meet on thedates listed below.All retired members are in-vited to join us for lunch.Please contact Kelli Christ-ian at 272-0529 or christian-jkcc@bellsouth.net to makeyour reservations by theTuesday prior to the meet-ing you wish to attend.Dublin Service League 2012- 2013 Meeting dates Octo-ber 11, 2012, November 1,2012, January 10, 2013,February 14, 2013, March14, 2013, April 11, 2013 andMay 2, 2013.Dublin High C/O 2002

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As a Republican, I de-mand better schools, betterpolice protection, betterroads and bridges, strongerimmigrations laws,stronger military and lesstaxes.

Way to go East Laurens,you finally beat those littleleprechauns. I'm reallyproud of you!

It is all of the taxpayers'business if someone is sell-ing their food stamps.

The Tell It! column surelet's you know that peoplein Dublin have too muchtime on their hands. Get alife!

The Braves lost againthis year but it was becauseof the umpires. I think theycheated. Go Braves!

They want to put HoneyBoo Boo in to all of the hol-idays, but they want to takethe Good Lord out of every-thing else.

Thirty years ago I was onthe team that WL beat forthe first time, but we nevergave up. We went with vic-tories, beating the #1 stateranked teams. I wish ourteam could get that samedrive.

The best thing about EastLaurens' victory Fridaynight was that they weresupposed to win and theydid. Congratulations Fal-cons!

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BOSTON (AP) — Combinedresults from two studies of anexperimental Alzheimer’s drugsuggest it might modestly slowmental decline, especially in pa-tients with mild disease.

Taken separately, the stud-ies missed their main goals tosignificantly slow the mind-rob-bing disease. But pooled resultsfound 34 percent less decline inmild Alzheimer’s patients com-pared to those on a dummytreatment for 18 months.

Doctors say the results donot seem strong enough to winapproval of the drug now. Butthey show researchers are onthe right track by trying to clearthe sticky deposits that clog pa-tients’ brains.

The drug is being developedby Eli Lilly & Co. and is calledsolanezumab (sol-ah-NAYZ-uh-mab). Results were reportedMonday at an American Neuro-

logical Association conference inBoston.

About 35 million peopleworldwide have dementia, andAlzheimer’s is the most com-mon type. In the U.S., about 5million have Alzheimer’s. Cur-rent medicines such as Ariceptand Namenda just temporarilyease symptoms. There is noknown cure.

Solanezumab is one of threedrugs in late-stage testing thatseek to alter the course ofAlzheimer’s. The two studieseach had about 1,000 patients,about two-thirds with mild dis-ease and one-third with moder-ately severe Alzheimer’s, in 16countries. Their average agewas 75.

The main measures weretwo tests, one reflecting lan-guage, memory and thinkingand the other, ability to performdaily activities such as eating

and grooming. The combinedresults on the mild disease pa-tients showed a nearly 2-pointdifference in the roughly 90-point score on thinking abilities.

“It’s a small difference,” saidDr. Rachelle Doody of BaylorCollege of Medicine. She headsa nationwide research networkfunded by the National Insti-tute on Aging that did an inde-pendent analysis of Lilly’s re-sults on the studies and pre-sented them Monday at the con-ference.

Still, “you slow the decline”with the drug, she said.

Independent experts agreed.“It’s certainly not the home

run we all wanted, but we’revery encouraged by these re-sults,” said Maria Carillo, se-nior director of medical and sci-entific relations for theAlzheimer’s Association, whichhad no role in the research.

Alzheimer Drug Shows SomePromise In Mild Disease

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Jeremy Gillis and Katy Foltz will be married October 20,2012 in Cumming, Georgia.Katy is the daughter of Richard Foltz of Roswell, Georgia and

Marcia Foltz of Alpharetta, Georgia. She graduated from Geor-gia Southern University in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree inBusiness Administration. She is a licensed REALTOR® withKeller Williams Realty in Cumming, Georgia.Jeremy is the son of Melvin and Annette Gillis of Dublin,

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Amanda Kee Harris and Taylor Joseph Winge were marriedApril,7 2012, at The Old Bracewell Farm in Dublin, Ga. TheRev. Ron Bracewell officiated.The bride is the daughter of Jim and Anita Harris of Tulsa,

OK. She graduated from Holland Hall School and summa cumlaude from the University of Oklahoma. She is an academic co-ordinator with Cultural Homestay International.The bridegroom is the son of Lorraine and Jake Dean of

Rentz, Ga. and Monty and Yulie Winge of Kathleen, Ga. Hegraduated with honors from West Laurens High School inDublin, Ga. He is a staff sergant with the Elite IntelligenceForce of the United States Military.Honor attendants were Summer Watkins and Wesley Hobbs.

Bridesmaids were Sarah Brown, and Kelsey Pete and brides-men were Anup Bharani and Wyatt Schmitz. Groomsmen wereTrevor Winge, Chris Baldwin, Owen Bracewell, and Brian Fyfe.George Winge was the ring bearer.After honeymooning in Peru, visiting Machu Picchu, the cou-

ple reside at Beale Air Force Base in California.

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Miss Harris And Mr.Winge Married April 7

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) —Say it’s your birthday oryou’ve just had a baby, maybegot engaged or bought yourfirst house. If you’re like manyAmericans, your friends aretexting their congratulations,sending you an e-card or click-ing “Like” on your Facebookwall.But how many will send a

paper greeting card?“I’m really, really bad at it,”

said Melissa Uhl. The 25-year-old nanny from Kansas City,Mo., hears from friends large-ly through Facebook. “Maybe,”she said, “an e-card from mymom.”Once a staple of birthdays

and holidays, paper greetingcards are fewer and fartherbetween — now seen as some-thing special, instead of some-thing that’s required. The cul-tural shift is a worrisome chal-lenge for the nation’s top cardmaker, Hallmark Cards Inc.,which last week announced itwill close a Kansas plant thatmade one-third of its greetingcards. In consolidating itsKansas operations, KansasCity-based Hallmark plans toshed 300 jobs.Pete Burney, Hallmark’s

senior vice president whooverseas production, says“competition in our industry isindeed formidable” and that“consumers do have moreways to connect digitally andonline and through social me-dia.”Over the past decade, the

number of greeting cards soldin the U.S. has dropped from 6billion to 5 billion annually, byHallmark’s estimates. TheGreeting Card Association, anindustry trade group based inWhite Plains, N.Y., puts theoverall-sold figure at 7 billion.Brian Sword, 34, of Kansas

City, said he’s “definitely” buy-ing and receiving fewer print-ed cards than he did a decadeago, though he still prefers tosend them to — and receivethem from — a small group ofclose friends and family.“I do think there are a lot of

benefits and it does say morewhen it comes in a paper cardformat than when it comeseven as an online greetingcard,” Sword said. “There’sjust something about receiv-ing that card in the mail andopening it up and having it bea physical card.”Even the paper cards peo-

ple buy have changed. Manypeople now use online photosites to upload images andwrite their own greetings.High-end paper stores are at-tracting customers who designtheir own cards, sometimesusing graphics software onceavailable only to profession-als.“What Hallmark started

with met the needs of the con-sumers in that early 20th cen-tury period to mass producethese personal greeting cardswith art and poems and theonly way you could communi-cate was by mail essentially,”said Pam Danziger, who ana-lyzes the industry as presi-dent of Stevens, Pa.-basedUnity Marketing. “It’s no sur-prise that in the 21st centurywith so many other communi-cation vehicles available thatthe old idea of a greeting cardbeing sent by mail just doesn’twork anymore.”According to a U.S. Postal

Service study, correspondencesuch as greeting cards fell 24percent between 2002 and2010. Invitations alonedropped nearly 25 percent justbetween 2008 and 2010. Thesurvey attributed the declineto “changing demographicsand new technologies,” addingthat younger households “bothsend and receive fewer piecesof correspondence mail be-cause they tend to be earlyadaptors of new and fastercommunication media.”While Hallmark says it’s

committed to the paper greet-ing card, it has made changesover the years. It has aniPhone app, for example, thatlets people buy and mail cardsfrom their phones. It alsopartnered with online card

service Shutterfly to share de-signs that consumers can useto build specialized cards on-line.Its chief rival, Cleveland,

Ohio-based American Greet-ings, actually went from trim-ming costs and jobs amid therecession to announcing in Au-gust that it’s adding 125 work-ers to an Osceola, Ark., plant.It’s part of an expansion thatwill allow customers to designtheir own cards — online, ofcourse.Judith Martin, author of

the syndicated Miss Mannerscolumn, says she thinks themove away from mass-pro-duced sentiment isn’t all bad.“The most formal situa-

tions still require somethingwritten,” she said. “The leastformal are easily taken care ofwith texting or email, which isterrific. The idea that it has tobe all one or all the other andthat one method is totally outof date and the other onetakes over until the next thingcomes along just impoverishesthe ways that we can use

these different things.”Amanda Holmboe, a 25-

year-old power plant qualitycontrol worker from Portland,Ore., has mixed feelings aboutthe rise of digital communica-tions. She said her friendsemail, text or post somethingon Facebook when somethingbig happens in her life.“More people know about

my life and what’s going on. Ihear from more people, so insome ways I’m connected tomore people, but it’s a less per-sonal connection,” she said.But Holmboe isn’t giving

up on cards.“I love sending cards,” she

said, adding that she mailssome from the cities where shetravels for work. “I thinkthey’re fun, and I like beingable to write a personal noteto somebody because I likegetting mail, so I guess I justthink everyone likes gettingmail.”———Associated Press writer

John Hanna in Topeka, Kan.,contributed to this report.

Social Media Among ThreatsTo Greeting Card Makers

(NAPSI)—Can’t decide whatto make for dessert? Why nottry two fabulous favorites inone with a Brownie BitsCheesecake—what’s not to lovewhen a chocolaty brownieserves as a classic cheesecake’scrust, stir-in and topping?Start with a packaged

brownie mix to save time whenmaking the brownie crust andstir-ins. Once baked andcooled, the brownie “crust” iscovered with a creamy cheese-cake batter—but better, be-cause it’s filled and topped withdecadent brownie bits.

Brownie Bits Cheesecake

Crust:2 packages (about 16 oz ea.)

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pare mixesFilling:3 packages (8 oz. ea.) cream

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Preheat oven to 350° F.Spray 9-in. springform pan and8x2-in. square pan with veg-etable pan spray.In large bowl, prepare one

brownie mix following packageinstructions. Spread into bot-tom of prepared square pan.Prepare remaining browniemix following package instruc-tions. Spread into preparedspringform pan. Bake bothpans together for 35−40 min-utes or until toothpick insertedin center comes out clean. Coolcompletely. Turn oven down to325° F.Cut approximately half of

the brownies from the squarepan into ¾-in. pieces (about 1½cups); set aside. Reserve re-maining brownie for snacking.For filling, beat cream

cheese and sugar with electricmixer at medium speed inlarge bowl until smooth andcreamy, about 5−10 minutes.Beat in sour cream and eggs.Add vanilla and almond ex-tracts. When filling is smooth,gently stir in ½ cup of the cutbrownies. Pour over cooledcrust. Sprinkle remaining 1cup cut brownies over cheese-cake batter; lightly press intobatter. Place cheesecake inmiddle of oven. Fill a large pan

with hot water and place onrack underneath cheesecake.Bake 1 hour, 25 minutes or

until cheesecake is firm on topbut mixture is still jiggly whengently shaken. Turn off oven;leave cheesecake in closed oven30 minutes to cool down slowly.Remove cheesecake from ovenand cool on cooling grid 1 hour.Refrigerate covered at least 4

hours or overnight.Makes about 12 servings.This delicious dessert duo

serves a crowd, making it justright for entertaining or forany family celebration. Sinceit’s made ahead of time andchilled, there’s less time spentin the kitchen and more timeenjoying the festivities.

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Hunt Coordinator Leon Morris (DLCRA) chats with Disabled Sports-man Mark Buchweitz from Valkaria, FL and hunting guides Doug andDusty Veal.

Steve Brown welcomes the crowd, providing an overview for the week-end as well as safety instruction. Local banquet sponsor DeWayne Jef-fers and hunt volunteer David Jones look on. (Photos by Malisa Sanders)

Pictured are Mark Bennett and Kyle Kitchens from Macon. This wasMark's first year hunting at the Disabled Sportsmen's Weekend at River-bend WMA.

Pictured is Jo Ann Hyde and her husband Brian from Rutledge. Thiswas their second hunt. Jo Ann took a buck on her first hunt at Riverbendin 2011 with the adaptive eqipment (shown) provided by Middle GeorgiaBuckmasters.

Food and fellowship go a long way towards the success of any MiddleGeorgia Buckmasters sponsored event. There 20 participants and theirfamiles...18 hunters were from Georgia with four local and two fromFlorida. Five first-time participants. 40 volunteers including food plotpreparation, registration, meal sponsors, cooks, servers, entertainmentand those assisting the Disabled Sportsmen with transportation to andfrom stands as well as game retrieval and processing.

First year participants David Morgan from Wrightsville and DavidMcHone from Griffin.

Leslie "Spider Monkey" Youngblood of Adairsville with a spike bucktaken shortly after lunch on Saturday.

A slightly disrobedLeslie (due to the hotweather) and personalhunting guide Shelbieproudly display hissecond buck of thehunt, taken about anhour after his first.

12th Annual Disabled SportsmensWeekend Hunt Held At River Bend

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Master BlasterBy Rick NolteSports Editor

Taye Brantley has developed into EastLaurens' version of Babe Ruth.The senior is the Falcons' home run

hitter.Brantley blasted a few Friday night

against Dublin to help East to a 46-17 vic-tory. The running back/kick returner ranfor 174 yards and a touchdown on 12 car-ries, and returned a kickoff 74 yards foranother TD to help the Falcons earn theirfirst win in the 21-year county rivalry.For the effort, Brantley has earned

Courier-Herald Player of the Week hon-ors."He's a home run threat at any time he

touches the football," East Coach GaryMorton said. "By him being that threat, itopens up a lot of doors (offensively)."It's the second weekly honor for

Brantley. He previously earned the dis-tinction in the Falcons win againstHoward on Aug. 30 when he had 147yards and three touchdowns rushing and

81 yards and a score receiving.Friday's game was the third straight

sparkling performance for the 6-foot, 180-pounder. He had 125 yards and a TD in awin at Irwin County, and 86 yards andtwo touchdowns at home against Josey.Running mate Kato Manner, a senior

fullback, had 96 yards andtwo scores against Josey, andfollowed that up with 70yards and a touchdown run-ning, and a touchdown andconversion receiving."Kato being productive

allows Taye to be a little moreproductive and vice versa,"said Morton, whose team is 4-2 overall and 2-0 in GHSA region 3-AA."By both being productive allows otherthings to open up."In addition to his 51-yard touchdown

run, Brantley also ripped off runs of 51,29, and 34 yards to key East scoring pos-sessions. He showed his individual abilityon each of those runs, stepping out oftackles, juking other defenders into grab-

bing air, and simply outrunning pursuit.He showcased it all on the kickoff

return. After fielding the a bouncing ballnear the right sideline, he slipped a coupleof tackles, retreated and headed to the farsideline where he motored untouchded tothe end zone."They basically give up a third of the

field by kicking to the hash mark,"Morton said. "If you make it back overthere, you can go a long way. Of course,you have to be fast enough to do that, andhe has the speed."Brantley's effort just topped a handful

of fine performances for the Falcons. Inaddition to his and Manner's, J-maanBostic returned an interception 36 yardsfor a touchdown and ran 34 yards foranother touchdown.Also, quarterback Terrell Roberson

passed for a touchdown and ran for anoth-er.Elsewhere, Trinity Christian's Steph-

on Johnson ran for 204 yards and a touch-down on 36 carries and added seven tack-les in a 21-14 win at Brentwood.

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Taye Brantley claimed his second Player of the Week honor afterrushing for 174 yards and a touchdown, and returning a kickoff 74yards for another score in East Laurens’ 46-17 victory at Dublin.

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Friday’s Games

Brantley Becomes East Laurens’ Long Distance Hitter

Harlem at East Laurens, 7:30p.m.Memorial Day at TrinityChristian, 7:30 p.m.Dublin at Josey, 7:30 p.m.Johnson County atMontgomery County, 7:30p.m.Bleckley County at MaconCounty, 7:30 p.m.Dodge County atWheelerCounty, 7:30 p.m.Treutlen at ECI, 7:30 p.m.Wilkinson County at HancockCentral, 7:30 p.m.

Manner

ELKato Mannerran 7 times for70 yards and atouchdownand caught apass for anoth-er TD.

Roberson

ELTerrell Rober-son ran forone touch-down andpassed foranother.

Johnson

TrinityStephonJohnson ran 36times for 204yards and atouchdown.

AP Photo

Mike Smith has the Falcons at 5-0 for the first time.

Brantley

Bostic

ELJ-maan Bosticran for atouchdownand returnedan interceptionfor anothertouchdown.

Sustaining Success Is Falcons Aim

Asssociated Press

ATHENS — Mark Richtinsists his confidence in hisGeorgia players and assistantsremains firm after a lopsidedloss to South Carolina left theBulldogs in a hole in the SECEast.Georgia has an open week

before it plays at Kentucky onOct. 20. The No. 14 Bulldogs(5-1, 3-1 SEC) trail two unde-feated teams, No. 3 SouthCarolina and No. 4 Florida, inthe Eastern Division aftertheir 35-7 loss to the Game-cocks on Saturday night.The loss was complete in all

phases. South Carolina took a21-0 lead in the first quarter,and the rout was on.Georgia scored more than

40 points in five straight winsbefore being shut down bySouth Carolina. The defensecouldn’t stop Connor Shaw,who passed for two touch-downs, or Marcus Lattimore,who ran for 109 yards and atouchdown.Richt conceded South

Carolina “just physicallywhipped us.” He said that’s noreason to panic.“I’m definitely

not losing confi-dence in this teamat all or our coach-ing staff or any-thing like that,”Richt said Sunday.“That’s the worstthing you can doand that’s whatteams do when they panic,they tend to fall apart. Georgiais not going to fall apart. We’regoing to go ahead and get backto work and just get better atwhat we do and if we’ve got tomake changes, we’ll do that.”Richt said his players can

look back to the 2011 seasonfor a lesson on remaining confi-dent. Georgia opened last sea-son with back-to-back losses toBoise State and SouthCarolina before winning 10straight games to earn a trip tothe SEC championship game.“A year ago we were 0-2 and

everybody wants to decide thesky has fallen and it’s over forGeorgia,” Richt said. “What didwe do? We stayed firm. Webelieved in each other. Webegan to bang away and beforewe know it we won the EasternDivision.”The 2011 team ended 10-4.The loss to South Carolina

was devastating, but Richtsaid “It’s one day, it’s onegame.”“It’s unfortunate it came out

the way it did with so much atstake, but there’s still a lot atstake as the season comesalong,” he said. “The sun didcome up and we’ve got to getback to work.”Last year’s 10-game win-

ning streak ended with a 42-10loss to LSU in the SEC cham-pionship game. Richt saidSouth Carolina might comparewith recent SEC championshipteams.“You know what, they

looked that way,” Richt said.“It will be interesting to see.They’ve got a couple gamesaway from home where theywill have to see if they can con-tinue that type of momentumand that type of emotion andthat type of execution. I thinktime will tell. There are stillsome mighty big tests for themas there are for all of us in our

Richt StillConfidentIn ’DogsChances

TechDumpsGroh

Associated Press

ATLANTA — With GeorgiaTech’s season falling apart,coach Paul Johnson knew hewould have to make a changeat defensive coordinator.He decided not to wait.Former Virginia and New

York Jets coach Al Groh wasfired Monday by the YellowJackets, who had lost threegames — all of them while sur-rendering more than 40 points,the first time that’s happenedin school history.The stretch included an

embarrassing 49-28 home lossto Middle Tennessee.With Johnson hearing plen-

ty of griping himself fromGeorgia Tech fans but figuringthere’re still time to salvagethe season, he decided to dumpGroh during the off week.“It’s really disappointing

and frustrating,” Johnson saidat a hastily called news confer-ence. “You never want to do it.But, to me, that’s part of beinga leader. Sometimes you haveto do hard things. I still have agreat deal of respect for Al. In

my mind, he’s hada very good career.Maybe he will stillcoach. I don’t knowwhat the futureholds. It just was-n’t working here.”

Johnson hasnever fired anassistant during

the season, but felt he had todo something to show he was-n’t already looking ahead to2013. The move was made twodays after the Yellow Jackets(2-4, 1-3 Atlantic CoastConference) lost 47-31 to No.16 Clemson.“To me, it was inevitable,”

Johnson said. “I didn’t want togive up on the rest of the sea-son. I still think we can comeback and have a good season.That’s why I did it now.”The Yellow Jackets have one

of the nation’s worst defenses— ranked 89th in pointsallowed (30.2), 90th in totaldefense (431 yards per game)and 103rd in third-down effi-ciency. That latter figure mightbe most troubling to Johnson,whose team has allowed oppo-nents to convert nearly 48 per-cent in those situations andwas especially poor againstClemson.The Tigers were 13 of 19 on

third down, keeping GeorgiaTech’s potent offense on thesideline.The defense has been espe-

cially leaky in the second half,squandering a 17-point lead toMiami and allowing VirginiaTech to kick a tying field goalafter going ahead of the Hokieswith less than a minuteremaining. Both times, the Yel-low Jackets lost in overtime.The 68-year-old Groh was

hired by Johnson in 2010 afterbeing fired by Virginia, wherehe went 59-54 in eight seasons.Before returning to his almamater, he went 9-7 in his loneseason as an NFL head coachwith the Jets. Groh also went26-40 in six seasons as WakeForest’s coach in the 1980s.He issued a statement

through Georgia Tech sayinghe understood the decision,also thanking the players andhis assistants for their hardwork.“The institute has decided

Associated Press

FLOWERY BRANCH — The AtlantaFalcons are in uncharted territory.Then again, this is starting to feel

downright routine.Since Mike Smith took over as head

coach in 2008, the Falcons are tied for thesecond-most wins in the regular season,their 48-21 record surpassed only by theNew England Patriots (51-18). WithAtlanta (5-0) off to the best start in fran-chise history, Smith is just one victoryaway from tying Dan Reeves as the win-ningest coach in team history.

The Falcons host the Oakland Raiders(1-3) on Sunday.“We want to sustain this not just from

game to game, but season to season,”Smith said Monday. “We want to be a rel-evant football team in the months ofDecember and January. That’s what wereally want to do as an organization.”When it comes to constructing the ros-

ter, the credit goes largely to general man-ager Thomas Dimitroff, who also cameaboard in 2008. He is already recognizedas one of the league’s top personnel gurus,having relied mainly on the draft torebuild the Falcons but supplementing

his picks with some timely free-agentsignings and trades.Once they take the field, the Falcons

take on the personality of their coach.Smith is steady as can be during theweek, instilling a sense of calm and pur-pose in his team, but he can turn fiery onSundays.The team seems to feed off his energy.“During the week, we try to be even-

keeled,” Smith said. “You’ve got to gothrough your preparations as a coachingstaff and as a team. Then, you go play

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San Diego 3 2 0 .600 124 102Denver 2 3 0 .400 135 114Oakland 1 3 0 .250 67 125Kansas City 1 4 0 .200 94 145

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W L T Pct PF PAPhiladelphia 3 2 0 .600 80 99N.Y. Giants 3 2 0 .600 152 111Dallas 2 2 0 .500 65 88Washington 2 3 0 .400 140 147

SouthW L T Pct PF PA

Atlanta 5 0 01.000148 93Tampa Bay 1 3 0 .250 82 91Carolina 1 4 0 .200 92 125New Orleans 1 4 0 .200 141 154

NorthW L T Pct PF PA

Minnesota 4 1 0 .800 120 79Chicago 4 1 0 .800 149 71Green Bay 2 3 0 .400 112 111Detroit 1 3 0 .250 100 114

WestW L T Pct PF PA

Arizona 4 1 0 .800 94 78San Fran 4 1 0 .800 149 68St. Louis 3 2 0 .600 96 94Seattle 3 2 0 .600 86 70

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St. Louis 17, Arizona 3Sunday

Baltimore 9, Kansas City 6Atlanta 24, Washington 17Pittsburgh 16, Philadelphia 14Indianapolis 30, Green Bay 27N.Y. Giants 41, Cleveland 27Miami 17, Cincinnati 13Seattle 16, Carolina 12Chicago 41, Jacksonville 3San Francisco 45, Buffalo 3Minnesota 30, Tennessee 7New England 31, Denver 21New Orleans 31, San Diego 24Open: Dallas, Detroit, Oakland, TampaBay

MondayHouston 23, N.Y. Jets 17

ThursdayPittsburgh at Tennessee, 8:20 p.m.

SundayOakland at Atlanta, 1 p.m.Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.Indianapolis at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at Cleveland, 1 p.m.Detroit at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.St. Louis at Miami, 1 p.m.Dallas at Baltimore, 1 p.m.Buffalo at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.New England at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.N.Y. Giants at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.Minnesota at Washington, 4:25 p.m.Green Bay at Houston, 8:20 p.m.Open: Carolina, Chicago, Jacksonville,

New OrleansMonday, Oct. 15

Denver at San Diego, 8:30 p.m.

DIVISION SERIES(Best-of-5; x-if necessary)

American LeagueDetroit 2, Oakland 0

Saturday: Detroit 3, Oakland 1Sunday: Detroit 5, Oakland 4Today: Detroit (Sanchez 4-6) at Oakland(Anderson 4-2), 9:07 p.m.x-Wednesday, Oct. 10: Detroit (Scherzer16-7) at Oakland, TBD (TBS or MLB)x-Thursday, Oct. 11: Detroit (Verlander17-8) at Oakland, TBD (TBS)

New York 1, Baltimore 0Sunday: New York 7, Baltimore 2Monday: Baltimore 3, New York 2Wednesday: Baltimore at New York(Kuroda 16-11), TBD (TBS or MLB)x-Thursday: Baltimore at New York(Hughes 16-13), TBD (TBS)x-Friday: Baltimore at New York, TBD(TBS)

National LeagueCincinnati 2, San Francisco 0

Saturday: Cincinnati 5, San Francisco 2Sunday: Cincinnati 9, San Francisco 0Today: San Francisco (Vogelsong 14-9)at Cincinnati (Bailey 13-10), 5:37 p.m.x-Wednesday: San Francisco atCincinnati, TBD (TBS or MLB)x-Thursday: San Francisco at Cincinnati,TBD (TBS)

Washington 1, St. Louis 0Sunday: Washington 3, St. Louis 2Monday: Washington (Zimmermann 12-8) at St. Louis (Garcia 7-7), 4:37 p.m.(TBS)Wednesday: St. Louis at Washington,TBD (TBS or MLB)x-Thursday: St. Louis at Washington,TBD (TBS)x-Friday: St. Louis at Washington, TBD(TBS)

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

American LeagueAll games televised by TBS

Saturday: Oakland-Detroit winner atNew York OR Baltimore at Oakland-Detroit winnerSunday: Oakland-Detroit winner at NewYork OR Baltimore at Oakland-DetroitwinnerTuesday, Oct. 16: New York at Oakland-Detroit winner OR Oakland-Detroit win-ner at BaltimoreWednesday, Oct. 17: New York atOakland-Detroit winner OR Oakland-Detroit winner at Baltimorex-Thursday, Oct. 18: New York atOakland-Detroit winner OR Oakland-Detroit winner at Baltimorex-Saturday, Oct. 20: Oakland-Detroitwinner at New York OR Baltimore atOakland-Detroit winnerx-Sunday, Oct. 21: Oakland-Detroit win-ner at New York OR Baltimore atOakland-Detroit winner

National LeagueAll games televised by Fox

Sunday: Cincinnati-San Francisco win-ner at Washington OR St. Louis atCincinnati-San Francisco winnerMonday, Oct. 15: Cincinnati-SanFrancisco winner at Washington OR St.Louis at Cincinnati-San Fran winnerWednesday, Oct. 17: Washington atCincinnati-San Francisco winner ORCincinnati at St. LouisThursday, Oct. 18: Washington atCincinnati-San Francisco winner ORCincinnati at St. Louisx-Friday, Oct. 19: Washington atCincinnati-San Francisco winner ORCincinnati at St. Louisx-Sunday, Oct. 21: Cincinnati-SanFrancisco winner at Washington OR St.Louis at Cincinnati-San Fran winnerx-Monday, Oct. 22: Cincinnati-SanFrancisco winner at Washington OR St.Louis at Cincinnati-San Fran winner

WORLD SERIES(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)All games televised by Fox

Wednesday, Oct. 24: at NL, (n)Thursday, Oct. 25: at NL, (n)Saturday, Oct. 27: at AL, (n)Sunday, Oct. 28: at AL, (n)x-Monday, Oct. 29: at AL, (n)x-Wednesday, Oct. 31: at NL, (n)x-Thursday, Nov. 1: at NL, (n)

AP Top 25Rec Pts Pv

1. Alabama (60) 5-0 1,500 12. Oregon 6-0 1,435 23. South Carolina 6-0 1,359 6

4. Florida 5-0 1,265 105. West Virginia 5-0 1,260 86. Kansas St. 5-0 1,217 77. Notre Dame 5-0 1,176 98. Ohio St. 6-0 1,053 129. LSU 5-1 938 4

10. Oregon St. 4-0 873 1411. Southern Cal 4-1 812 1312. Florida St. 5-1 800 313. Oklahoma 3-1 756 1714. Georgia 5-1 733 515. Texas 4-1 711 1116. Clemson 5-1 657 1517. Stanford 4-1 587 1818. Louisville 5-0 494 1919. Mississippi St. 5-0 450 2020. Rutgers 5-0 331 2221. Cincinnati 4-0 205 NR22. Texas A&M 4-1 153 NR23. Louisiana Tech 5-0 129 NR24. Boise St. 4-1 114 NR25. Michigan 3-2 82 NR

Others receiving votes: Ohio 79,Baylor 62, Iowa St. 54, TCU 50,Michigan St. 49, Arizona St. 39,Washington 39, NC State 17, Nebraska5, Arizona 4, Duke 3, Tennessee 3,Texas Tech 2, Tulsa 2, Northwestern 1,Penn St. 1.

USA Today Top 25

Record Pts Pvs1. Alabama (58) 5-0 1,474 12. Oregon (1) 6-0 1,411 23. South Carolina 6-0 1,345 64. West Virginia 5-0 1,296 75. Kansas State 5-0 1,216 86. Florida 5-0 1,165 117. Notre Dame 5-0 1,152 108. LSU 5-1 961 39. Southern Cal 4-1 940 12

10. Oklahoma 3-1 872 1411. Florida State 5-1 819 412. Georgia 5-1 761 513. Clemson 5-1 759 1514. Oregon State 4-0 691 1715. Texas 4-1 663 916. Louisville 5-0 628 1617. Stanford 4-1 577 1818. Mississippi State 5-0 558 1919. Rutgers 5-0 410 2120. Cincinnati 4-0 365 2321. Texas A&M 4-1 208 NR22. Boise State 4-1 197 2523. TCU 4-1 194 1324. Louisiana Tech 5-0 131 NR25. Iowa State 4-1 73 NR

Others receiving votes: Arizona State61; Baylor 52; Michigan 33;Northwestern 31; Michigan State 27;Ohio 23; Nebraska 18; Texas Tech 11;Duke 10; Wisconsin 8; WesternKentucky 7; Louisiana-Lafayette 6;North Carolina State 6; Oklahoma State5; San Jose State 4; Louisiana-Monroe3; Nevada 2; Toledo 2.

FCS Coaches Poll

Rec Pts Pvs1. North Dakota St. (26) 5-0 650 12. Montana State 6-0 622 23. Old Dominion 5-0 594 44. Wofford 5-0 558 55. James Madison 4-1 526 66. E. Washington 4-1 524 77. Ga. Southern 4-1 484 88. Sam Houston St. 3-2 449 99. Youngstown State 4-1 441 3

10. Lehigh 6-0 424 1011. Stony Brook 5-1 374 1312. Appalachian St. 4-2 340 1413. New Hampshire 4-2 304 1714. Cal Poly 5-0 284 1915. McNeese State 4-1 251 1816. Illinois State 5-1 236 1117. Central Arkansas 4-2 201 2018. Northern Arizona 4-1 195 2119. Towson 2-3 193 1220. Tennessee State 6-0 170 2421. Harvard 4-0 144 2322. Delaware 4-2 114 1523. Eastern Kentucky 4-2 86 1624. Albany 5-1 73 —25. Alabama A&M 6-0 40 —

Others receiving votes: South DakotaState 29, Samford 28, Northern Iowa 26,The Citadel 22, Montana 19, Jackson-ville State 16, Indiana State 10, Maine9, UT Martin 6, Bethune-Cookman 2,Sacramento State 2.

Top 25 ScheduleAll Times EDTSaturday

No. 1 Alabama at Missouri, 3:30 p.m.No. 3 South Carolina at No. 9 LSU, 8p.m.No. 4 Florida at Vanderbilt, 6 p.m.No. 5 West Virginia at Texas Tech, 3:30p.m.No. 6 Kansas State at Iowa State, NoonNo. 7 Notre Dame vs. No. 17 Stanford,3:30 p.m.No. 8 Ohio State at Indiana, 8 p.m.No. 10 Oregon State at BYU, 3:30 p.m.No. 11 Southern Cal at Washington, 7p.m.No. 12 Florida State vs. Boston College,5:30 p.m.No. 13 Oklahoma vs. No. 15 Texas,NoonNo. 18 Louisville at Pittsburgh, NoonNo. 19 Mississippi State vs. Tennessee,9 p.m.No. 20 Rutgers vs. Syracuse, NoonNo. 21 Cincinnati vs. Fordham, 7 p.m.No. 22 Texas A&M at No. 23 LouisianaTech, 9:15 p.m.No. 24 Boise St. vs. Fresno State, 3:30p.m.No. 25 Michigan vs. Illinois, 3:30 p.m.

Dublin Instructional LeagueFriday's Games

Hurricanes 0, Panthers 0Statistics: Calvin Williams 7 rushes 57yards, Darrell Smith 4-43; TylerStrickland, Tyrian Wright INTs; TyerionCarey, Michael Espinoza fumble recov-eries.Slamrocks 19, Mafia 0Scoring: (S) Gregory Jones 16 run,Jaswain Bell 4 run, Dontavius Sailem 6run (Sumner pass from Sailem).Statistics: Dayreontan Foster, SailemINTs.

Monday's GamesHurricanes 14, Mafia 6Scoring: (H) Tyerion Carey 1 run, NigelCannon 9 run (Ka'Sabian Mitchell run);(M) Jordan Curry 1 run).Panthers 20, Slamrocks 0Scoring: Jamal Whipple 26 run, DarrellSmith 5 run (Jaquez Evans pass fromTerrell Harris), Evans 1 run.

BASEBALLNational League

MILWAUKEE BREWERS—PromotedEduardo Brizuela to director of LatinAmerica operations/scouting and MannyBatista to director of Latin Americascouting.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

NFL—Suspended N.Y. Giants S Will Hillfour games for violating the NFL’s policyon performance-enhancing substances.CINCINNATI BENGALS—Placed RBBernard Scott on injured reserve.Reinstated LB Dontay Moch from sus-pension.DALLAS COWBOYS—Signed RBLance Dunbar from the practice squad.Signed WR Raymond Radway to thepractice squad.NEW YORK GIANTS—Reinstated STyler Sash from suspension.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

DETROIT RED WINGS—Reassigned FTomas Tatar from SHK 37 Piestany(ExtraLiga-Slovakia) to Grand Rapids(AHL).

American Hockey LeagueABBOTSFORD HEAT—Assigned FMitch Wahl, F Gaelan Patterson, F RyanHowse, F Bryan Cameron, D NickTuzzolino and D James Martin to Utah(ECHL).CHARLOTTE CHECKERS—Assigned FJustin Shugg, F Brody Sutter, D TommiKivisto, D Beau Schmitz and G JohnMuse to Florida (ECHL). Returned DAustin Levi to Plymouth (OHL).Released F Leigh Salters from his tryout

NFL

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Dublin BasketballBoosters Meet Oct. 15

The Dublin High School basket-ball boosters club will meet Oct. 15at 6 p.m at the school gym

Trinity Seeks CoachFor Middle Soccer

Trinity Christian School in Dublinis in need of a soccer coach for itsmiddle school boys teams thisspring. Anyone interested in theposition should contact AaronGeorge at (478) 272-7699.

Alabama AJGTEvent Oct. 20-21

The Arrowhead Junior Golf Tourwill make a stop in Point Clear, Ala.,Oct. 20-21 at Lakewood Golf Club.

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College Football

to go in a different direction,which I respect,” Groh said. “Iaimed to give the best that Ihad every day. It’s been anhonor to be a part of the legacyof Georgia Tech football. I feelpositive that this is a good timein life to move on to a new sit-uation.”The time to move on has

been building for a while.Johnson’s discontent with

Groh goes back to last season,when the Yellow Jackets lostfive of their last seven games,capped by a 30-27 overtimeloss to Utah in the Sun Bowl.The Utes scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns to tie thegame, then won in overtime.This year, more of the same.“I was hopeful as we start-

ed, this being the third year. Iwas hopeful we would see someimprovement,” Johnson said.“I was encouraged at the firstof year, but it became apparentthat was short-lived. The lastthree games was a carry-overof the last six games a yearago.”

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with emotion on game days.The guys do a really good jobof that.”After cruising through

their first three wins, theFalcons have showed plentyof resiliency the past twoweeks with second-halfcomebacks. They beatCarolina on a last-secondfield goal and knocked offWashington 24-17 behindanother big game from quar-terback Matt Ryan, who islooking more and more likethe early favorite in the MVPrace.Smith traditionally lets

his players take Monday offwhen they win, but he esti-mated that at least 80 per-cent of the team turned up atthe training complex afterbeating the Redskins.“They’re visiting with

their coaches and wanting totalk about certain things,more about the things theydid poorly than the thingsthey did good,” Smith said.“When you have guys doingthat, it takes care of itself.We have great leaders in thelocker room who make surewe focus on the task at hand.Right now, it’s just a start.Yes, we may be 5-0 for thefirst time in franchise histo-ry. But it’s just a start.”Ryan is the league’s sec-

ond-rated passer, behind SanFrancisco’s Alex Smith, andno one has been more impor-tant to their team throughthe first five weeks. TheFalcons quarterback is com-pleting more than 68 percentof his attempts, accountingfor 1,507 yards with 13touchdowns and only threeinterceptions.

league.”It was difficult to find a

bright spot for Georgia in theugly loss.Quarterback Aaron

Murray completed only 11 of39 passes for a career-low 109yards.Freshman tailback Todd

Gurley, who rushed for morethan 100 yards in four of hisfirst five games, had only 39yards on 13 carries. KeithMarshall, the team’s otherfreshman, had only 37 yards.Ken Malcome led Georgia

with 45 yards rushing. Hescored the team’s only touch-down with less than 2 min-utes remaining.“After watching the film,

some of it we just flat-out

weren’t blocking well enough,but I think a couple of timeswe could have gotten a couplebig runs if we had hit it justright,” Richt said. “I think wemissed a couple here andthere.”Murray learned after the

game his father, DennyMurray, was to have surgeryon Monday in Tampa for thy-roid cancer. Murray tweetedMonday the surgery was suc-cessful.Murray and his roommate,

senior linebacker ChristianRobinson, returned to Athenslate Saturday night to discov-er their home had been eggedand littered with toilet paper.“Probably the worst 12

hours of my life,” Murray saidon his Twitter accountSunday.

Associated Press Reports

The St. Louis Cardinalsenjoyed a typical high-outputday against Jordan Zimmer-mann. The bats came alivewhen they needed it most.Allen Craig and Daniel

Descalso homered early tobuild a nice cushion andCarlos Beltran added two longshots in a 12-4 rout over theWashington Nationals onMonday night that evened thebest-of-five series at a gameapiece.“If we get things going, we

feel like we can carry theteam,” Craig said. “As yousaw tonight, we put a lot ofgood swings on the ball andreally drove the ball. It was alot of fun.”The Cardinals chased

Zimmermann after threeinnings, his shortest outing ofthe season, and took care ofbusiness in what could be thefinal home game of the sea-son. A day after managing just

three hits, there was no carry-over.“You’ve got to be confident,”

third baseman David Freesesaid. “We’re one of the fewteams left. They still thinkthey can take the series, andso do we.”Johnson said Zimmer-

mann, pitching on eight days’rest, relied too heavily on out-side fastballs that theCardinals were able to time.The right-hander’s next-shortest outing this year alsowas against the Cardinals,when he coughed up a four-run, first-inning cushion andwas chased after yieldingeight runs in 3 2-3 inningsduring a 10-9 loss at home.He’s 0-2 with a 9.45 ERA in

five career regular-seasonstarts against St. Louis,which was 3 for 5 with run-ners in scoring positionagainst a pitcher who led themajors in holding opponentsto a .160 average in that cate-gory.

In the American League,The New York Yankees nowmust grudgingly acknowledgethat these aren’t the sameBaltimore Orioles they usedto knock around with merci-less ease.Rookie Wie-Yin Chen out-

pitched 40-year-old AndyPettitte, and the resilientOrioles beat the Yankees 3-2Monday night to even theirbest-of-five AL playoff seriesat a game apiece.Baltimore fell apart in the

ninth inning of the openerSunday, allowing five runs ina 7-2 defeat. Instead of wiltingunder the pressure of havingto come from behind againstthe mighty Yankees on, theOrioles stood strong.“I think that’s been big for

us all year, the fact that we’vebeen able to put our lossesand obviously our low pointsbehind us, really learn fromthem and bounce back,” saidright fielder Chris Davis, whohad two RBIs.

Youth FootballContinued from 1b

TechContinued from 1b

Submitted photos

At left, Tyler Strickland steps in front of Darrell Smith to knock down a passduring Friday’s play at The Shamrock Bowl. At right, Armond Richardson goesup to pull in a pass during play on Monday. Results in Sportscene

Cardinals, Orioles even Series

AP photo

New York’s Ichiro Suzuki slides safely across the plate ahead of the tag ofBaltimore catcher Matt Weiters. The Orioles evened the series with a 3-2 win.

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NEW YORK (AP) —Anyone hoping to communewith Christopher Columbus onColumbus Day will bedisappointed: He’s bookedsolid. Monday’s tickets to theconceptual art installationthat surrounds a 13-footstatue of the explorer with awell-appointed living roomhave all been snapped up.

The exhibit, “DiscoveringColumbus” by Japanese artistTatzu Nishi, has become amust-see cultural attraction inNew York since it opened Sept.20. Some 20,000 people havemade the walk up six flights ofstairs for the up-close view ofColumbus, as well as theunique views of MidtownManhattan and Central Park.

“Living room in the sky? Ithought ‘Cool. Check it out,”’said business analyst BriannaGoodman, who visited thispast week. “I would neverhave thought to build a livingroom around a statue, but itmade it like an intimatesetting. And then the viewfrom up there!”

Artist Martha Bone saidthe walk up and down thestairs was well worth it. “Itwas one of the bestinstallations I’ve ever seen. ...It’s my city. I like to knowwhat’s going on in it.”

The exhibit is beingpresented by the city’s PublicArt Fund, and free timedtickets can be reserved atwww.publicartfund.org.

Another 80,000 are slatedto see the exhibit before itends Nov. 18.

“What I have beenabsolutely thrilled about isthat I think the project hasreally captured theimagination of New York,”said Public Art Fund directorNicholas Baume.

Living RoomBuilt AroundNYC ColumbusStatue A Hit

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Dec. 21): Home improvements, a moveor investments will all turn out well foryou. There is money to be made, butalso to lose if you don’t take what youreceive and put it in a safe place. “Easycome, easy go” will lead nowhere. 5stars

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.19): Don’t hesitate to answer ques-tions. Keeping your thoughts out in theopen will lead to better relationshipswith others and greater possibilitieswith regard to love, money andprospects for the future. Consistencywill be required. 3 stars

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18): You’ll be at a loss if you let some-one take control. Be creative and find a

way to call the shots when it comes tothe way you want things done at homeor with regard to finances. Speak yourmind compassionately. 3 stars

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):Gains and losses are both prevalent.Think before you make a move that iscostly. A love relationship may be excit-ing, but it mustn’t be allowed to put youinto the poorhouse. Make plans thatdon’t break the bank. 3 stars

Birthday Baby: You are en-tertaining and progressive. You are un-predictable and adaptable.

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GOREN BRIDGETuesday, October 9, 2012

WITH TANNAH HIRSCH©2012 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

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In the good old days, whenever theLos Angeles Dodgers came into NewYork, Charles Goren and Lee Hazenwould go to the ballpark to play a fewrubbers with Dodger manager WalterAlston and first baseman Wes Parker.

All-star catcher and present-dayannouncer Tim McCarver is also anavid bridge player. He sat East on thisdeal from a National Championshipevent some years ago.

Bruce Keidan, West, knew hispartner would have sound values forhis takeout double, so he doubled twospades for penalties and attackedwith a fourth-best diamond.McCarver won with the ace andshifted to the three of hearts,declarer’s queen winning.

Declarer took a losing club finesse,and back came another diamond onwhich declarer discarded a heart asWest won with the king. A heart wasreturned to declarer’s ace, but thedefenders were ahead in the game.They already had three tricks in thebank and with the way the trumpspots were situated, there was no wayto prevent the defense from takingthree more tricks.

Down 200 was worth a tie for topscore on the board.

(Tannah Hirsch welcomes readers’responses sent in care of this newspaperor to Tribune Media Services Inc., 2010Westridge Drive, Irving, TX 75038. E-mail responses may be sent togorenbridge@aol.com.)

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CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY:Brandon Routh, 33; Scott Bakula, 58;Tony Shalhoub, 59; Sharon Osbourne,60.

Happy Birthday: Aggressivebehavior will be your downfall. Offersuggestions, but don’t take over. Focusmore on what you can do to make per-sonal improvements instead of trying tochange those around you. A unique ap-proach to the way you develop yourtalents will pay off. Your numbers are 7,9, 16, 22, 28, 33, 47.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):Mingle, take part in functions and net-work. Indulge in projects geared to-ward using your creativity. Change is inthe stars, but you have to take the firststep. Make things happen and you willexcel. A financial gain is apparent. 5stars

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):Personal problems will affect your workand productivity. Keep your personaland professional lives separate, andavoid making a rash decision that willalter the dynamics of your family andyour household. Protect and nurturewhat you have. 2 stars

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):Don’t let disappointment slow youdown. Use your ingenuity and adapt-ability to move forward with or withoutthe people you thought you couldcount on for help. Get out, interact andmake new friends. Surround yourselfwith people who share your goals. 4stars

CANCER (June 21-July 22):You can make a difference if you shareyour knowledge and experience withothers. Friendship is on the rise, andthe opportunity to get involved person-ally or professionally with someonewho shares your concerns will lead to arelationship. 3 stars

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Sizeup your situation and prepare to takeaction or expect to be criticized for notdoing your part. Emotions will be closeto the surface, and problems with olderindividuals or those you live with willdevelop if you aren’t patient. 3 stars

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):Interacting with others will lead to newendeavors and friendships. What youlearn now will help you make wiserchoices regarding the people you asso-ciate with and the types of indulgencesthat tempt you. Talks will lead to ro-mance and opportunities. 4 stars

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):Emotional decisions will end up beingcostly. Overspending on somethingyou don’t really need must be avoided.Focus on what you can learn from peo-ple who come from different back-grounds and you will find a way to getwhat you want. 2 stars

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):You have to work diligently if you aregoing to maintain your position and bein the running to advance. Don’t shareyour ideas or someone will surpass youand take credit for what you are tryingto do. Make home improvements. 2

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