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A panel discussion co-organised by Finland on comprehensive sexuality education during the UN Commission on Population and Development was a great success. Participants from all over the world heard MP Jani Toivola speak about challenges of discovering one's identity as an adolescent in between cultures.
Permanent Missions of Finland, Norway and Kenya in collaboration with IPPF organised a well-attended panel discussion on comprehensive sexuality education during this year's Commission on Population and Development at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
In the panel, speakers shared information and good practices on sexuality education and participated in a lively debate on triumphs and trials of comprehensive sexuality education. Particularly inspiring was the intervention of Jani Toivola, who shared a personal story on how parents should discuss and support young people to discover one's identity and to learn to accept diversity. Also much appreciated was the presentation by Kenyan Ambassador Josephine Ojiambo describing the progress made in the field of reproductive health policy in her country and the challenges of building new practices. Sadaf Nasim, a youth delegate from Pakistan, gave a strong statement on young people's need to have more evidence-based information on sexuality and reproductive health.
Comprehensive sexuality education is a human rights and equity based approach on sexuality as an integral part of human being's life. Sexuality education needs to be comprehensive and responsive and not only focused on biology or sexually transmitted infections. The goal of comprehensive sexuality education is to empower young people to make informed and responsible decisions about their own sexuality and develop skills to assist them in decisions over their sexuality and relationships. These skills will also help them to avoid risks.
The event was organised by the Permanent Missions of Finland, Norway and Kenya to the United Nations in partnership with International Planned Parenthood Federation during the 45th session of Commission on Population and Development. The panel was moderated by Ambassador Morten Wetland, Permanent Representative of Norway, and consisted of Ambassador Josephine Ojiambo, Deputy Permanent Representative of Kenya; Jani Toivola, Member of the Finnish Parliament; Doortje Braeken, IPPF and Sadaf Nasim, Rhanuma family planning association in Pakistan. The event was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 25 April 2012.
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The moment was one they all needed.
The coaches who helped save Tommy Lucero's life March 5 at the end of practice, as well as the teammates who alerted them to their fallen teammate.
At first, laying out in right field at Constantz Field, Lucero was gasping for air. Then he wasn't breathing. He remembers everything going black, then waking up in Children's Hospital in Aurora.
He needed Friday, too. He walked back onto the field and greeted his teammates. The fear they all felt two weeks earlier was replaced by smiles and laughter. Then they all went into the school and shared pizza over more laughs, the type of things teenagers and teammates are supposed to do.
"It's like my Christmas," Lucero said. "It's the greatest Christmas I've ever had. I needed this a lot. It's like a family that we have as a baseball team. Everything in this school is like a family. Nobody gets left out here."
The 14-year old who is currently more worried about his NCAA brackets (he's leading, he said) and is back to playing Xbox, admitted it is all still sinking in for him.
He collapsed on the field after a warm-down jog after practice. He had had his heart checked before, but nobody knew the danger that lurked inside his chest, that he was born with the rare condition of AAOCA, a congenital abnormality that develops in the womb. Symptoms don't appear until the teen years, and many times when it's too late, when exercise induces the attack, many of which are fatal.
Unless immediate attention is taken, which was the case that day. Teammates D.J. DeWaard and Brandon Freed alerted the coaches. Jay Denning, the head coach who also teaches the First Aid, CPR and AED class at Thompson Valley, dialed 911 and called for the school's AED machine. Chad Raabe, the 'C' team head coach who had worked at Thompson Valley EMS for 10 years, started performing CPR while talking to the dispatcher.
The first responders were there quickly — Capt. Mike Larson, paramedic Sarah Schwartz and EMT Julie Griffith of TV EMS, as well as R.J. Varner, Shelby Vrem and Jason Tanner of Loveland Fire and Rescue Authority — helping to create a happy outcome for Lucero and his family.
As his mother, Julia Kruit, reiterated in the library Friday, the cardiologist said without the work of the coaches and first responders, her son would have died.
Instead, he had surgery a week after the attack. Lucero will return to school Monday, and by the time summer rolls around, he hopes to be playing baseball again with his teammates.
Now, both of Lucero's parents are working with the city and the school district to try to raise money to have enough AED machines on hand for all district athletic fields. Kruit is also spreading the word on the importance for everybody to know CPR.
"Really more than anything, we feel blessed," Kruit said, "that everything happened so perfectly. That he was still with us. That happened just to give us the ability to have the surgery. God's hands, the prayers of the community, all helped save our boy."
Lucero is very aware of how circumstances aligned in his favor, putting Denning and Raabe on the same field. Without last summer's floods, Raabe would have been alone with the C team down at Centennial Field, a good three blocks from the school. Instead, all three TVHS programs were at Constantz Field for practice — all the players, all the coaches.
"It's amazing seeing him here," Freed said. "When it happened, I was speechless, besides calling the coaches. From the moment it happened until the moment he left, I was clueless as to what was going on. No one did."
The day gave Lucero and his family another chance to say thanks to those who helped him, including the first responders who could be on hand. He hugged Raabe, and his mother hugged them all. A representative of Louisville Slugger was there to present special bats to Denning and Raabe for their actions that day, making a save like no one expects in the game of baseball. Lucero received one, too, and the team was given a top-of-the-line bat to use in games.
Both of Denning and Raabe are products of the program they now guide, both coached by Jay's father, Ron. They love their jobs, and while it was a day they were both trained to react to properly, it was one they never envisioned.
It's proven to be a moment they can't escape.
"All the time. I mean, maybe now that I see him, see him back to himself, now we can get back to normal," Raabe said. "The training definitely helps, but the part nobody ever talks about, it was dispatch too. They were making sure everything was going right. Without them, we couldn't have done this.
"The last time I saw him, I didn't know we'd have this day. It's good seeing him get razzed by his buddies and see him normal again."
For Lucero, normal can't come soon enough. That will mean a return to the fields, be it for football or baseball. He still has tests to go through, and when he returns to school, he won't be able to lift more than 5 pounds, leaving friends and family to tote his books for him.
But soon after, his goal is to choke up on a bat and unleash another swing.
"So much. It's like 1,000 percent," he said. "I so want to get out there."
But for the meantime, Friday's celebration of life was a great first step. Denning feels the smiles and laughter of the day are a great first step in moving from what might have been to what lies ahead.
"It's an amazing feeling. Like I said, it filled a hole for me," Denning said. "Still, since it's happened, there's been periods where it's, 'is he OK, how is he doing?' even though we've been texting. To see that almost closed the chapter on now he's going to be OK.
"There's no doubt. The sounds. The flashes of his face, what he looked like is still there, almost hourly. Again, this will hopefully start to replace those pictures with the ones we're seeing now. It makes my day, makes my week."
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TAMBON MAIKAO: A motorbike taxi driver, stopped yesterday at a police checkpoint because he looked suspicious, was found to be carrying 200 amphetamine (yaba) pills in the lining of his helmet. Police, who set the checkpoint at Tambon Maikao near Thalang said the 30-year-old man admitted he had bought the drugs in his home town in Phlypraya District in Krabi Province for 70 baht a pill, and intended to sell them to fishermen in Phuket for 150 baht each. He was charged with possession of drugs with intent to traffic.
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Alleged Greek murderer of Phuket beautician remains at large
PHOTO: Dimitrios 'Dim' Chairopoulo, wanted and believed to be living in Greece
Local Phuket police are yet be informed of the latest in an international hunt for a Greek alleged murderer Dimitrios Chairopoulos. He remains wanted as a suspect in the murder of local beautician 43 year old Niramon 'Bea' Aewkaew in Phuket during February.
Cherng Talay police say they want an Interpol Red Notice issued so that they can track down and arrest 42 year old Dimitrios 'Dim' Chairopoulos, wanted for the murder. Bea and Dim were seen leaving their accommodation on February 11. It was the last time Bea would be seen alive.
Mr Chairopoulos was recorded as clearing Immigration at Phuket International Airport to board a flight to Dubai in the hours after Ms Niramon was last seen alive. He boarded an Emirates flight EK0379 to Dubai, departing Phuket at 2am. Police also confirmed that he arrived in Dubai on the same day.
"If he comes back to Thailand he will be arrested," said Chief Col Sen Kwannimit of the Cherng Talay Police.
A request for a Red Notice was submitted with the Foreign Affairs Division of the Royal Thai Police on February 19 but, for now, no formal international's notice has been published..
Cherng Talay Police confirmed that Dim was seen leaving the room at a guesthouse in Bang Tao where Ms Niramon's body was found on Saturday, February 16.
In the days leading up to her murder her family had been desperately trying to contact her.
'Bea' was the eldest of 5 children from Phatthalung province and had been working in Phuket as a beautician at the time.
One of her sisters, May' was contacted on February 15 by one of Bea's workmates trying to locate her.
Neither May or Bea's other sisters, relatives or friends were able to contact her. Bea had just moved to a new house so nobody knew where she was living. Another sister, Pichy, spoke to friends and was able, using Google Maps, to locate the guesthouse she was staying.
The owner of the room told the family that the air-conditioning was on in the room but there was no response. When the owner returned with a key he informed the family that Bea was found on the bed with a black cloth stuffed in her mouth and her hands and feet bound.
CCTV footage shows the couple leaving the room in the afternoon of February 11, the last time that Bea was seen alive.
Dimitrios 'Dim' Chairopoulos with his daughter from another relationship
What we know about the alleged murderer?
Dimitrios 'Dim' Chairopoulos, who remains at large and thought to be in Greece, worked as security in a night club in Athens. He already had a daughter to another woman in Greece.
During his relationship and marriage with Bea he was said to be 'controlling' and 'jealous' by members of Bea's family. A close family friend told The Thaiger that the family had concerns for Bea's safety and were 'uncomfortable' with her ongoing relationship and marriage with Dim.
"We tried to get to know him at family functions but he was not easy to know and seemed very possessive of Bea," said one of the close family members who asked not to be named.
"He did threaten to kill her if she ever left him and Oh, another of her sisters, went with Bea to file a report of the threats at the Cherng Talay police station at the time," they explained.
That report was made to police in 2016. A year later the pair married and were still married at the time of the murder.
"He would drive past the beauty shops that Bea worked at and spy on her."
The family claim that, apart from his own possessions, he also stole Bea's phone before he headed to the Phuket International Airport on the evening of the murder.
So where is Dimitrios Chairopoulo?
At this stage the Greek Embassy has made no comment about the case or followed up with Greek Police about the pursuit for the fugitive man.
There are currently approximately 58,000 valid Red Notices worldwide of which only 7,000 are public. An Interpol Red Notice has not been issued to alert international police or Immigration officials to be on the look-out for Dim.
For now, the alleged murderer of Bea – an innocent Phuket beautician, beloved sister and family member – remains at large, most probably in Greece.
If anyone has any information about Dimitrios 'Dim' Chairopoulo's whereabouts or information that may lead police to arrest him, please send a confidential message to The Thaiger.
Hermès opens its first store in Phuket at Central Floresta
Hermès has opened of its first store in Phuket at Central Floresta, the newly opened lifestyle shopping destination in the heart of the island, opposite Central Festival.
As Hermès' first venture outside the Thai capital, the new Hermès Phuket store makes a significant statement of expansion and confidence in the market. The new address in this world-renowned island will allow the growing population of local residents, along with domestic and international tourists, to discover the abundant variety of Hermès métiers and savoir-faire.
Designed by the Parisian architecture agency RDAI, the elegant 172 m² retail space is located by the shopping centre's main entrance and benefits from a double exposure with an exterior and an interior façade.
A bamboo claustra follows the line of the mall's exterior glass, filtering the daylight that bathes the indoor space, and further illustrates Hermès' high regard for local craftsmanship. The interior façade is composed of a refined lacquered metal, featuring a large window display, complemented by four recesses with illuminated silk scarves.
Upon entering the store, visitors are welcomed by the House's ex-libris and signature Grecques lights, designed for Hermès in 1925. The store is decorated with natural and local materials – bamboo floors and claustra, cognac toned Cherrywood walls, toffee coloured silk and fibre fabrics – tastefully blending various elements of Thai culture and modern architecture. The soft colour palette evokes the sand and the sun in their various shades, providing a delightfully serene and convivial atmosphere.
The overall volume is divided into two main areas by the feminine silk grid facing the entrance. The first one, with the iconic Faubourg pattern mosaic floor, allows guests to explore the silk, fashion jewellery, fragrance, art of living, and equestrian departments.
Opposite the leather goods display, an intimate space invites guests to uncover the watch and jewellery collections. Further along, one can discover the women and men's universes. A sand coloured carpet on the floor outlines the area dedicated to the shoe collections, enriched by a delicate custom-made bamboo light module as the ceiling centrepiece.
Red car 'gun flasher' arrested in Phuket
Phuket police have arrested and are questioning the driver of a red sedan following Friday's incident on Thepkasattri Road in Srisoonthorn where he appeared to wave a gun out of his driver's window (video in the link below).
Manop Sangpal was tracked down by police but they've confirmed that Mr Manop's 'gun' was just a BB gun, not a firearm.
The video of the man driving the red sedan and waving the 'gun' out of the driver's window spread around social media on Friday afternoon after a driver following recorded the incident and posted it.
Read the story and see the video below…
Police hunting for driver who threatened others with a gun on Phuket road – VIDEO
On the video the red Ford sedan cuts in front of the car with the dashcam then veers to the left lane while the driver waves the gun out of his window near Wat Srisoonthorn.
Police say Mr Manop was arrested at lunchtime yesterday (Saturday) in a workers camp in Soi Sukapibal where he lives with his Burmese wife and family.
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FAIRBORN, Ohio (WKEF/WRGT) – A man more than 500 days into recovery from using heroin thanked first responders who gave him a second chance at life Wednesday.
Fairborn graduate and former Ohio State student Richard Matteoli credited local paramedics with saving his life on four different occasions.
When he was younger, he excelled in football and math, and never expected his life to take a very different turn.
"This is what I looked like when I was out there at the end," Matteoli said. "I was down to about 121 pounds. And I'm 6-foot-2. Now, I'm about 240."
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Sioux Falls Man Arrested for DWI, Animal Abuse after Kicking Dog
Police say a Sioux Falls man is facing a list of charges after an incident that began with a neighbor reporting a barking dog late Monday night.
Captain Greg VandeKamp says officers were called shortly before midnight to Redbird Place, but the first officer found a man with a Jack Russell Terrier at West Third Street and North Valley View Road.
"The officer did observe this individual kick [the] dog a couple times. The individual then got into his SUV, at which time the officer made contact with him. As he was waling up to the car there was another incident where this guy slammed the dog into the passenger door of the vehicle."
VandeKamp says the officer noticed the man had been drinking, and after a brief physical altercation the man was arrested. He says 47-year-old Howard Wright of Sioux Falls was arrested for DWI-second offense, inhuman treatment of an animal, driving with a suspended license, resisting arrest, obstructing an officer and having an open container.
The dog was placed in protective custody.


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Saturday, February 18, 2006
Oriental salmon with honey, mustard and soy sauce
The recipe is from an Australian guy Emlyn, one of the first friends I made when I arrived in Edinburgh back in 1998. It is effortless and easy and a wee bit different, successfully combining the sweetness of the honey, the warm heat of the ginger, the saltiness of soy sauce, the kick of the mustard and the sharpness of the garlic. Very tasty indeed.
Oriental salmon á la Emlyn
(Idamaine ahjulõhe mee, sinepi ja sojakastmega)
Serves 4, can be easily halved
Photo and post updated in December 2008.
4 skinless salmon fillets, á 125-150 grams
For the marinade:
2 Tbsp mustard (I use Coleman's English mustard, but any strong mustard would do)
2 tsp minced fresh ginger or a teaspoon of ground
1-2 garlic cloves, minced
4 Tbsp runny honey
2 Tbsp Kikkoman soy sauce
Mix all the marinade ingredients in a small oven dish. Add the fish fillets, turn to cover and leave to marinate for 20 minutes to 1 hour.
Bake in a pre-heated 200˚C oven for about 20 minutes, until the fish is cooked, but still nicely rosy pink in the middle.
Serve with boiled basmati rice and sliced courgettes sautéed in butter and olive oil and a bit of garlic (add one whole clove to the pan), with a generous handful of chopped fresh basil thrown in at the end. Season with salt and pepper. I can't really explain why, but whereas I usually prefer my vegetables still a bit crunchy, then this courgette side dish I like to be almost mushy (texture-wise, not look-wise).
20 comments:
- Jasmine said...
Hi Pille
Thanks so much for visiting my little blog :)
I lurk around your blog from time to time and I like it.
I'll have to try the salmon dish: any suggestions for an alternative to salmon (I'm allergic to it).
- 7:30 am, February 19, 2006
- Thredahlia said...
Lihtsalt suu paneb vett jooksma. Külmikus just seisab pool forellifileed ja mitte ei suutnud otsustada, mida sellega teha. Nüüd siis tean. Mõte oli lihtsalt tilli, või ja tsipa sidruniga fooliumisse keerata, aga seda on juba nii palju tehtud, et ära tüütab :).
Enne hommikusööki seda pilti ja retsepti näha - kõht lööb pilli.
(Loodan, et eestikeelsedki kommentaarid on teretulnud :P)
- 11:36 am, February 19, 2006
Looks simply delicious & easy enough to do for a group. I look forward to trying the marinated salmon soon.
- 7:07 pm, February 19, 2006
- Dagmar said...
Pille, the fish sounds delicious!
- 8:37 pm, February 19, 2006
- ku E said...
greetings frm malaysia!
i found my way here thru my blog-hopping. i like it, interesting ;)
- 1:33 pm, February 20, 2006
- sha said...
whoa asian/pacific style cooking eh.. good for you pille
oi the Swiss are getting their gold too ;-)
- 2:42 pm, February 20, 2006
- domestic cat said...
I cook salmon often Pille and always with the broccolo salad aside. But I never tried marinating this way. You gave me the idea to cook it on the grill outside using the same marinade. Why, it's 19 degrees outside today! Thanks for the recipe. Greetings
- 4:46 pm, February 20, 2006
- Zoubida said...
This looks just delicious.
Go to Cairo Pille, you'll love it and come back with your selection of recipes and stories to share, we'll live that trip vicariously through you with great pleasure for sure.
- 5:50 pm, February 20, 2006
- Antti said...
Totally food-unrelated, but I really, really miss the picture of you wearing the white apron :) Always brought a smile on my face :)
- 10:52 pm, February 20, 2006
- Kalyn said...
Hey, I like the new photo, although I have to say you looked pretty great in the old one too. Change is good though.
- 4:54 am, February 21, 2006
- J said...
hi pille, this looks so delicious -your guests must have enjoyed themselves tremendously with such a lovingly prepared feast! kikkoman soy sauce rocks (we go through an inordinate number of bottles for a small household of two). have you tried their teriyaki marinade before? - it makes whipping up teriyaki salmon a really quick and fast affair
- 9:32 am, February 21, 2006
- Pille said...
Jasmine - so now you've delurked:) I guess trout would do, though I'd marinate and cook it for less time?
Thredahlia - muidugi võib eestikeelseid kommentaare jätta! Kas tegin soja-mee-sinepiforelli? Kuidas maitses? Kuigi tilli-või-sidruniga on forell imemaitsev muidugi..
Pene - you are right, it's very easily doubled (or halved for that matter), so perfect for entertaining.
Dagmar - it tastes delicious as well:)
PS Glad to see you've finally moved and can start blogging more regularly again!
Ku e - thanks for popping by and I'm glad you like what you see!
Sha - oddly enough, the very Mediterranean garlic-basil courgette side dish goes really well with the oriental fish.
Does the Swiss gold mean that you're celebrating a lot in your household these days?
Tülin - glad to have inspired you! And of course, you can always use this marinade for grilled fish as well. 19 degrees? Am envious!
Zoubida - considering that I've already got quite a few trips lined up for this year, I'm not sure I can squeeze Kairo into 2006. But you never know how things work out. It's definitely on my list now.
I read Colette Rossant's "Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes" recently, and she wrote about life in Kairo so beautifully, that I'm really looking forward to visiting that part of the world.
Antti - I'm blushing now:) Well, you have to do with the current avatar for a while - I decided the blog needs to have more food and less Pille for a while. Maybe it's the flu bug and huge red nose that makes me want to keep lower profile for a while..
Kalyn - I'm quite photogenic apparently. How the real-life me translates into nice pictures remains a mystery to me:)
J - thanks! They did finish their plates (and helped themselves to seconds), so I guess they were pleased:)
I have indeed a bottle of Kikkoman Teriyaki sauce in my cupboard, totally unopened. Thanks for reminding me!
- 6:39 pm, February 21, 2006
- Thredahlia said...
Tegin forellist ja tuli tõesti imemaitsev. Küpsetusaega täpselt ei jälginud - see käis rohkem kõhutunde järgi.
Põltsamaa sinep oli kodus olemas, aga "runny honey"... selleks tuli oma kristalliseerunud tee-mett natuke soojendada.
PS! Kikkomani sojakaste on tõepoolest kõigist seniproovitutest parim, aga oh seda hinda. Teistega võrreldes mitmekordne.
PPS! Tore, et su blogi leidsin - nii võib veel heast söögist sõltuvusse sattuda :D.
- 8:52 pm, February 21, 2006
- Pille said...
Tore, et maitses, Thredalia! Mul oli ka mesi kristalliseerunud - panin kõik marinaadiained ahjuvormi ja siis jätsin vormi gaasipaagikapi peale soojenema. Mesi sulas kenasti ära:)
Mul on see väike Kikkomani sojapudel kapi peal, hea mugav kasutada, kuna kork on väikese tilaga. Hiina toidupoest ostan aeg-ajalt suure pudeli asemele ja siis täidan väikest vastavalt vajadusele. Olulist hinnavahet ei ole. Vist:)
Ja vahva, et blogi meeldib:)
- 9:00 pm, February 21, 2006
- Paz said...
Yum! I'm copying this recipe.
Love you pic in the about me section!
- 4:16 am, February 22, 2006
- valentina said...
I love salmon and fell for your recipe. I'm going to give it a go. It looks so yummy!
- 2:14 am, February 23, 2006
- Pille said...
Thanks, Paz - I thought a bit of change was in order:)
Valentina - glad you liked the recipe - let me know what you thought about it.
- 11:55 am, February 23, 2006
- keiko said...
Looks delicious, Pille! Do you know that you can't find fresh salmon very often in Japan? I don't know why but they tend to sell salt cured one, so I've been happy to have fresh one here :)
Oh and I love your new profile picture, lovely and sweet :)
- 5:01 pm, February 24, 2006
- Matthew said...
Tried this, using the recipe as given as a "rough" guide, and it turned out - AWESOME. Added a little bit of sesame oil.
Very, very good and so easy!
- 4:32 am, April 25, 2010
- jade said...
Ever since I was a kid I love salmon. Your recipe is so dear to me, love the plating and look of it, so yummy.
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Loans to the private sector fell 0.7pc from the same month a year ago, European Central Bank data showed.
The monthly flow of loans to non-financial firms fell €22bn in December after falling by €7bn in November. The monthly flow of loans to households showed a drop of €3bn after a rise of €6bn in the previous month.
The cheap funds the ECB is pumping through the monetary system are still not reaching households and businesses evenly across the euro zone as some countries struggle to get their stricken economies back on track, though progress has been made.
On a country-by-country basis, the data showed a €22bn drop in private-sector lending in Spain, the largest monthly fall since July. In Portugal, private-sector lending fell by €2.6bn, the biggest drop in a year.
"Although euro zone banks' liquidity positions improved during 2012, it is clear that this has had little effect in boosting private-sector lending," said Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global Insight.
Italy, however, posted a healthy rise of €12.6bn to €1.757 trillion in private-sector loans.
The central bank has taken some of the heat out of the euro zone crisis by announcing a new, as yet unused, bond-purchase programme, but the bloc's economy remains weak and is expected to have shrunk in the final months of 2012.
ECB President Mario Draghi noted in early January some economic indicators had stabilised at low levels and financial markets' confidence had improved, which along with the ECB's accommodative policy should lead to a recovery later this year.
Mr Draghi even spoke of "positive contagion" in financial markets, with Monday's data already pointing in that direction with consumers and firms' deposits in banks in troubled euro zone member states rising in December.
But it might still take some time before this filters through in better loan availability, analysts said.
"The much more positive sentiment about the euro zone future that has prevailed in financial markets so far this year will probably take some time to materialise in greater credit availability and economic growth," Oxford Economics' Marie Diron said.
Euro zone M3 money supply - a more general measure of cash in the economy - slowed to annual growth of 3.3pc in December from 3.8pc in November, just below the consensus of 3.9pc from analysts polled by Reuters.


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who is that never seen that person around.
I've never seen that person either.Anyways, Steve will choose someone in the next little while. He's probably not in to much of a hurry, as LadyM and Oviraptor are doing great right now as it is.
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Yes, I left the Spore forum long before you or that other guy came around. Most likely.
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text: Congress Unlikely to Finish Farm Bill This Year December 5, 2013 03:19 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Boyce Thompson AgWeb Email But Rep. Mike Conaway is optimistic a compromise deal can be reached for vote in January. It's looking more and more like conferees meeting to hash out competing versions of a farm bill will lose their race against time and fail to complete their work this year. Nevertheless, they might agree to a bipartisan blueprint for a deal that could be put to a vote in January. That's the view of Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), chair of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management, who spoke at the Farm Journal Forum 2013 conference this morning. Conaway is a member of the farm bill conference committee. Click here to read Pro Farmer's analysis: Conaway Optimistic About Farm Bill Completion Joking that he'd thrown out his "other speech" about the chambers being at "loggerheads," Conaway said that House and Senate leaders have made substantial progress toward compromise in recent days. "But there's still a whole lot of work before we can put this thing to bed." Conaway said that the House leadership is committed to getting a bill passed and "hasn't been drawing a bunch of hard lines. We're willing to talk about [the Senate's] shallow-loss approach. We aren't firing off letters trying to kill the Senate bill....There will be quid pro quo." Conaway said that the House will show flexibility on food stamps. The House bill would chop $39 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over 10 years; the Senate bill would cut only $3.9 billion over the same period. At the same time, Conaway voiced support for requirements that recipients make an attempt to find work. He called that "sound policy." The congressman gave few details about the provisions likely to emerge from conference committee. But he said conferees are likely to find compromise on regulatory issues and the dairy program. The chambers took different approaches to the commodity title. The Senate plan is geared toward revenues while the House approach is more about production costs. Both would pay farmers based on what they actually plant, not the "base acre" formula used for direct payments. This has created fear that all government aid will be decoupled from planted acres to avoid World Trade Organization complaints. The Senate bill continues current price-support policy by making payments based on 85% of historical plantings. The House bill takes a new approach, paying on 85% of planted acres, ostensibly to better-align payments with producer risk. Both bills in effect authorize farmer payments to cover "shallow losses" not covered by crop insurance. The Senate bill covers losses once a 12% revenue loss is realized. The House bill uses a 15% trigger. (To gain the support of rice and peanut farmers, who opposed the Senate's 2012 farm bill; the latest version increases target prices for those commodities.) In the Senate bill, farmers can select payment at either the county or farm level and also take advantage of price supports. The House bill only provides revenue protection at the county level, and the program is not available in conjunction with price supports. With direct payments gone, both bills increase spending levels for the $9 billion crop insurance program. The Senate-passed version, however, provides means testing. It reduces crop insurance premium subsidies (which averaged 62% in 2012, according to the Government Accounting Office) by 15% for producers with average adjusted gross income greater than $750,000. Another related issue is whether producers who receive federal farm insurance benefits should be required to comply with government conservation standards. The Senate bill contains such a provision, which is opposed by Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. Conaway said there's also room for agreement in the dairy program. The current program, he said, doesn't work. "When prices are really low, dairymen provide more milk. When prices are really high, dairymen provide more milk. The current version ... isn't doing what needs to be done when prices collapse." Both farm bills combine dairy subsidies with a new program that pays participating dairy producers when margins fall below $4 per hundredweight. The Senate bill also subjects participating producers to a separate program that reduces incentives to produce milk when margins are low. Because the new program has no eligibility constraints, its costs are expected to be up to three times higher than continuing 2008 farm bill dairy laws. The Senate program, according to the Food Policy Research Center, would reduce the cost of 2013 farm bill dairy programs by 5% to 30%, compared to standalone margin insurance Back to news


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James Quinn-Hawtin needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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We are overhauling the BrisbanePhotography.com website and need a new, contemporary, stylish logo to suit the new website
BrisbanePhotography.com is an online forum for photography enthusiasts in Brisbane, Australia. We have approximately 600 regular users (they've logged in within the past month) at the moment.
Current website: http://www.brisbanephotography.com (yuck)
We are designing a new website that improves the look & feel and that extends the functionality to incorporate a news feed (via a blog) and a members gallery.
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The new mockup features a quick placeholder logo.
- The logo should be bold and use colour. I like the http://www.blurb.com logo because it is simple, bold and alludes to the shape of a book (which is what blurb.com makes)
- The logo should have a graphical component that alludes to photography in some way and/or Brisbane's Story Bridge (our main city icon) as per the old BP logo
- It should include "BrisbanePhotography.com". We don't have any preference as to capitalisation but it would be good for Brisbane and Photography to be separate in some way (perhaps by different colours).
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Celine Balitran -- the French law student who became famous for dating George Clooney around ten years ago and then disappeared back into obscurity -- was spotted alive and well on Thursday. Who the hell breaks up with Clooney?!
The 33-year-old beauty was snapped at a holiday event in Paris, looking tres magnifique. By George, I think she's still got it!
Before Sarah Larson, Lisa Snowdon and Krista Allen, Celine was the first of Clooney's girlfriends to garner fame by association. Since her breakup with the The George in '99, Celine, like many celebudates, went on to star in a reality show; Celine's was a French one called "La Ferme Celebrites."
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Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN extended its broadcast rights agreement with the Southeastern Conference for all sports to 2034, what the network said is the longest such contract in sports.
The conference and network, during a news conference in Atlanta, also announced the formation of the SEC Network, which will go on the air in August 2014.
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Terms weren't disclosed, but here is a pretty in-depth Q and A posted today on the conference's website:
1.When will the SEC Network launch?
The Network will launch in August 2014.
2.What will the Network be called?
The Network will be called the "SEC Network." The formal name is the "SEC ESPN Network."
3.How is this different than other conference or single-school networks?
This collaboration between the SEC and ESPN will bring together unparalleled content from one of the most competitive conferences in the country with the highest quality, most innovative production partner in the sports industry.
4.Will the Network look similar to ESPN channels?
The Network will have the highest quality production value and a look and feel consistent with ESPN's other networks.
5.Where will the Network be located?
The production home will be in Charlotte, N.C. This location will provide for efficient use of ESPN's existing production facility in Charlotte and it will have support from all of ESPN's resources in Bristol, Conn.
6.Why is Charlotte the Network's home especially since there are no SEC teams in N.C.?
ESPN already have a state-of-the-art facility in Charlotte that is easily accessible from across the SEC footprint.
7.Will each campus (or the SEC Offices) have upgraded television facilities?
Each campus is being assessed for its capabilities and level of content integration from each of the school campuses. We anticipate some level of connection and integration with each institution's facilities so we can produce and deliver content in an efficient manner.
8.How many people will work for the SEC Network?
We anticipate more than 100 full-time staff for the Network across ESPN.
9.Will the SEC Network be 24 hours a day, seven days a week?
The SEC Network will have 24/7 programming; it's a dedicated channel for all things SEC.
10.What kind of shows will I see on the SEC Network?
At the outset, the Network will offer SEC sports and sports-related studio programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week. More than 1,000 live events will be available in the first full year across the television Network and its digital extensions. This will include approximately 45 football games, more than 100 men's basketball games, 60 women's basketball games and events from across all 21 SEC-sponsored sports.
11.How will the SEC Network enhance the SEC fan experience?
More than 1,000 live events will be available. The SEC Network will provide more than 450 live games each year. An additional 550 games will be distributed digitally. The Network will bring football, basketball, baseball, and all SEC campus sports to SEC fans. These outlets will provide more in-depth content to fans across the country than ever before. Fans will be able to access content on a range of devices. Also, there will be programming dedicated to news and analysis surrounding the events.
12.How many football games will be aired on the Network?
The Network will televise approximately 45 football games per season.
13.How many basketball games? Baseball? Women's sports? Olympic?
At least 450 events will be televised on the Network each year. Of the 450 events, there will be more than 100 men's basketball games, 60 women's basketball games and 250 Olympic sports on the Network. More than 550 additional sporting events will be available on our digital platforms. The digital platform will include an outlet, similar to ESPN3, for the other 550 games and a live linear stream of the television network. This content will be available to Network subscribers across a range of devices.
14.Will each school have a block of time to program as they see fit?
This is a conference-wide network. The goal is to provide equitable exposure for each of the SEC member institutions. The Network will achieve this goal without each school having its own block of time to program.
15.Will the Network show breaking news or investigative pieces about the conference similar to ESPN?
The Network will cover and report on sports news and information in an objective manner, but the basic premise is the Network will represent the conference and its member institutions. The Network has created a Content Board which has equal representation from the SEC and ESPN. The Board will work collaboratively on the programming and presentation. The Network, along with its digital extensions, will serve SEC sports fans and sports fans more broadly.
16.Will there be academic programming?
We have 16 months between now and the launch. We will continue to build out the full scope of the Network which will include content beyond live events. The Content Board will continue to build out the programming schedule for the Network and its digital extensions.
17.What access and programming is each school obligated to provide to the SEC Network?
Outside of the rights in the existing CBS and ESPN agreements, each school provides the rights and access to all other live events for the SEC Network.
18.Will the SEC Network air high school football games?
19.Will the SEC Network be able to re-air games shown on other ESPN networks? CBS?
20.Will the conference staff be on air or have any regular shows?
21.Will the SEC Network air bowl games? SEC Conference Championships?
There are no current plans to air bowl games on the Network. The Network will televise the SEC Championships for all sports other than football.
22.Will there be fewer games available to me now that there is a Network?
The Network will provide more than 1,000 live events per year for SEC fans and sports fans across the country. These games will also be available online on a range of devices to allow for widespread access that is not currently available.
23.Will the Network include new personalities or use existing ESPN personalities for the games and studio shows?
A mix of both existing ESPN personnel and new on-air staff will be present on the Network.
24.How can I get the SEC Network in time for the August 2014 launch?
An agreement is already in place with AT&T U-verse to distribute the Network. ESPN is working hard to ensure that the Network will be available via cable, satellite and telco distributors (such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV, DISH Network, AT&T U-verse, Cox and Verizon FiOS). ESPN will continue negotiating with the other distributors in the coming months. Your cable, satellite, or telco provider makes programming decisions based on customer requests. As a fan of the Southeastern Conference, please support the SEC Network by calling your cable, satellite or telco provider and requesting the SEC Network.
25.Are there currently any carriage agreements?
Yes. An agreement is already done with AT&T U-verse, the fastest growing multi-channel distributor in the country.
26.How do I get the digital part of the Network?
Provided you are a customer who receives the Network from your cable, satellite or telco provider, you can contact that provider and get a username and password which will allow you to access the content on computers, tablets, mobile phones and other consumer devices like Xbox.
27.What is the best way for fans and alumni who want to make sure their cable company carries the Network?
Please visit www.GetSECNetwork.com to show your interest in the Network and provide some general contact information.
28.What's the expected reach of the Network outside the SEC footprint and on what level of service will distributors carry the Network (Expanded basic? Tier?)
The Network will have strong appeal and interest beyond the 11-state SEC footprint. While this is all subject to negotiation, carriage will be sought on broadly distributed packages.
29.Will I be able to watch the Network on my mobile phone or similar device?
Yes. The SEC Network will be available on computers, tablets, mobile phones and other consumer devices like Xbox to fans who receive their video subscription through an affiliated provider. The aim is to make this content available to fans anytime, anywhere, similar to how the WatchESPN application works today.
30.Will I be able to watch the Network on a device other than my TV (online? tablet)
Provided you are a subscriber of an affiliated provider (a cable, satellite or telco partner), you will be able to access the content with your existing login credentials, which will allow you to access the content on computers, tablets, mobile phones and other devices like Xbox.
31.How will you decide what games to televise early in the Network's existence?
The SEC has great depth in all major sports so the Network will have top-tier matchups each week to serve viewers and those distributors that choose to carry the network.
32.Can I pay to subscribe to the network online, Pay-Per-View or via ESPN3 if I can't get it on TV?
No. The games will be exclusive to the Network and its digital extensions. However, once a subscriber has access to the Network via an affiliated provider, that subscriber will have access to the content on computers, tablets, mobile phones and other consumer devices like Xbox. The aim is to make this content available to fans anytime, anywhere.
33.How will this impact my cable bill?
ESPN negotiates for license fee payments from its distributors and has no control over retail pricing. Retail prices are determined by each distributor.
34.Will all SEC campuses carry the network?
Campuses served by an affiliated provider will have access to the Network.
35.I live in [state outside SEC footprint]. Are you working to make sure we are able to see the Network too?
Yes. Our interest is in delivering this content in broadly distributed packages across the country.
36.Right now, I see all my favorite team's games online at the [SEC school athletics] site. Will I still be able to see all those games?
The Network is for media rights to all sports across our 14 member institutions. Any games produced by the schools will have an outlet, either the SEC Network or its digital extensions, where fans can watch.
37.Who will sell sponsorship for the Network?
ESPN will sell advertising and sponsorship on behalf of the Network. ESPN will also represent the SEC's Corporate Sponsor Program.
38.Where can I apply for a job at SEC Network?
You can apply online at ESPNcareers.com. Job openings for the SEC Network positions will be posted in late Spring 2014.
39.Will the Network have an internship program?
ESPN has a SEC internship program already in place. The Network will source candidates from the existing process and pool. Information about where to apply is forthcoming.
40.How will money from the Network be used on campuses?
Each member institution has control and discretion on how they use any proceeds from their media rights.


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FRANKFORT, Ky. (November 21, 2012) – Kentucky needs a new plan to provide a secure retirement to its workers, lawmakers agreed yesterday at the final meeting of the Kentucky Public Pension Task Force.
The task force approved 11-1 an eight-point proposal aimed at paying down pension debt and creating a new pension plan for future employees.
The proposal's first recommendation is that the Commonwealth pay more into the pension system.
Currently, the state is paying only a portion of the actuarially required contribution (ARC). Legislation passed in 2008 increased the ARC payment incrementally over time. The proposal is calling for a full ARC payment by fiscal year 2015.
Each time the full ARC is not paid, additional unfunded liabilities and higher costs are incurred by the state, committee Co-chair Rep. Mike Cherry, D-Princeton, said.
To provide immediate short-term relief to city and county budgets, the proposal suggests resetting the amortization period for payment of the unfunded liability from 26 years to 30 years.
Other recommendations included in the proposal would repeal the current cost-of-living adjustments provided to retirees and would prohibit public employees from being reemployed with the state for up to two years after retirement.
Under the proposed plan, pension benefits for new hires would be calculated in a hybrid cash balance plan. New employees would be guaranteed a four percent annual return on contributions.
According to David Draine, Senior Researcher of public sector retirement systems with the Pew Center on the States, the hybrid cash balance plan is more predictable and sustainable than the current plan.
Overall, the proposal is a result of bipartisan compromise, Cherry said. "What we [ended] up with is… something we all can agree on," he said.
Committee Co-chair Sen. Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown, said he and Cherry plan to pre-file a bill for the 2013 legislative session that includes the recommendations set forth in the task force's final report.
"It really is one step along the way of what I hope will be significant, serious and substantive reforms that really affect all 4.3 million Kentuckians more than just about any legislation that we will consider in the next session of the General Assembly," Thayer said.
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Think about all of the half-arsed repairs we can already do with duct tape. Imagine what it would be like if embedded LEDs were thrown into the mix? We're talking half-arsed upgrades here.
In other words, you could use duct tape to actually pimp something out as opposed to simply keeping it together. That must be what designer Keywon had in mind when he came up with a prototype called Sculpt-a-Light. By rolling the tape and connecting the ends, you complete the circuit. Of course, you would need a smaller and more effective power source before anything like this could actually be considered for the mass market, but it is an interesting idea nonetheless. [Keywon via Architectradure via OhGizmo]


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Have another drink – this round is on Highspots.
The Naturals are the subjects in Highspots' second Full Case of Tales DVD in which Andy Douglas and Chase Stevens talk (and occasionally rant) about their wrestling careers over mixed drinks and beers.
The tag team partners come across like a couple of buddies from work chatting, griping and ribbing each other over drinks at a bar. (Except in this case, the venue seems to be a warehouse filled with wrestling merchandise -- who gave them a lift home afterwards?)
If the alcohol doesn't help the interview, it sure doesn't hurt. For much of the first half of the segment, Stevens does most of the talking as he recounts his time in an out of the ring, staying up all night drinking and carousing, and getting in parking lot brawls. Douglas gets a few words in edgewise, but mostly giggles, sounding eerily like Butthead.
By hour two, Douglas seems a bit perturbed by being left out, especially when Stevens interrupts him as he tries to answer a question posed to him.
"No, go ahead -- take my part too. I haven't talked at all yet anyway," Douglas says with resignation.
Either the alcohol or a change in subject finally loosens up Douglas, and in a big way. One of his biggest beefs is with the poor job the TNA office did in booking The Naturals on the independents, either getting them dates at below their asking price or pawning off other talent at their expense.
Both Stevens and Douglas don't spare the whip in beating on their former employer TNA, taking turns berating the organization not only for how their own tenure came to an end, but for focusing too much on copying the WWE, and sacrificing and underpaying home-grown talent in favour of luring high priced big names.
The $19.99 three-disc DVD set is a good value but you wouldn't necessarily know that from reading the back of the case, which drastically underestimates the running time at a mere two hours. Not including the 13 bonus independent card matches, the interview itself goes on for three-and-a-half hours.
Highspots spent a couple of years in following up its First Case of Tales series with Terry Funk and
Harley Race but couldn't find anyone willing to open up in a boozy environment. But then The Naturals came along and they don't disappoint.
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Prologue: The Early Years
Judge Hugh R. Jones fondly recalled his pre-Court years as "prologue" and his post-Court years as "epilogue."1 The story of the Jones family in America began in the 1860s, when Hugh R. and Jennie Jones emigrated from Wales and ended their long journey in Emporia, Kansas. After Hugh died in a horseback riding accident in 1875, Jennie moved her three small children (including Hugh R., Judge Jones' father) eastward from the frontier to the Welsh community in Prospect, New York. Employment opportunities for single mothers remained grim in those days, and she supported her young family by working in a cheese factory and taking in laundry.
Hugh Richard Jones was born on March 19, 1914 at the family homestead Brynsaeth in New Hartford, near Prospect and Utica in central New York's Oneida County. He attended the New Hartford public schools and graduated as valedictorian of New Hartford High School in 1931. Then he distinguished himself as a student-athlete at nearby Hamilton College, where his A.B. degree in 1935 came with honors in mathematics, recognition in intercollegiate debate, and varsity letters in basketball and tennis. Law school appeared on the horizon, but first he spent a year teaching mathematics and coaching tennis at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Judge Jones married Jean McMillen on July 3, 1937 at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Middleville, New York, home of her maternal grandmother. In 1939, he graduated from Harvard Law School, where academic excellence earned him election to the school's Board of Student Advisors. He was admitted to the New York Bar early the following year and practiced as an associate at Burke & Burke in New York City until the outbreak of World War II. On July 1, 1942, he was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy and, after duty stateside, was assigned to a naval task force that provided cover for numerous Pacific Theater light cruiser landing operations in New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, Halmehara, the Philippines, and Borneo. Across the miles, the Jones family bond remained strong because daily, he and Jean would each read the same Biblical passage according to a schedule of passages they had drawn up together before he was sent overseas.
Lt. Commander Jones won a commendation for outstanding performance during the landings at Leyte, was released with a Bronze Star Combat V shortly after V-J Day, and remained in the Naval Reserve until 1954. The young Navy veteran returned home to Jean and their three small children in New Hartford, and joined the Utica law firm of Miller, Hubbell & Evans, where he became a partner of it and successor firms. He found the collegiality of small-town law practice appealing, and said for the rest of his life that "a lawyer's reputation is his principal asset" and that "a lawyer's good word defines his reputation."2 Personal hours meant tennis, golf, and cross-country skiing with his growing family, and pursuit of his lifelong passion for woodworking. Family gatherings meant evenings of storytelling about family lore and the experiences he and Jean had enjoyed together. He also delighted in entertaining family and friends with magic tricks, which remained a hobby that would make him a hit at his grandchildren's birthday parties a generation later.
Hugh R. Jones' professional vision extended beyond New Hartford, and his record of public service would inspire any lawyer seeking a career compass. He joined the New York State Bar Association in 1947 and remained active in its affairs until he served as its president a quarter-century later. While maintaining his law practice in the 1950s, he served as president of three organizations instrumental in promoting community aid for troubled families - the Family Services Association of America, the New York State Welfare Conference, and the New York State Association of Community Chests and Councils. Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller named him to the New York State Board of Social Welfare in 1959, and appointed him chair five years later. The Governor also named him a trustee of the State University of New York. The young lawyer also found time to chair the fundraising campaign for the State Bar Building, serve a year as president of the Oneida County Bar Association, and become a trustee (and later a life trustee) of his alma mater, Hamilton College.
Judge Jones' service extended beyond the law. He was a Baptist in his early childhood, but chose his mother's denominational preference and became an active Episcopal layman when his father died in 1927. Judge Jones remained active in his church at the parish, diocesan and national levels for the rest of his life. He served as Chancellor (legal advisor) and confidant to three Presiding Bishops of the National Episcopal Church and five Bishops of the Diocese of Central New York. In 1974, the General Theological Seminary in Manhattan awarded him a Doctor of Divinity degree.
In 1971, Governor Rockefeller named Hugh R. Jones chair of a special commission that examined the state prison system and recommended reforms after the bloody Attica uprising. The experience left an immediate impression. "The vital interest of the public and the constitutional rights of those charged with and those convicted of crimes," the future judge wrote, "Ademand immediate, forceful, effective attention. There is neither time nor any disposition to point fingers at the failures of the past." He urged state leaders to "move vigorously, boldly and above all without delay to the design and execution of crash remedial programs."3
When Hugh R. Jones assumed the presidency of the New York State Bar Association late in 1971, America was fighting a divisive war after a decade of protest, assassinations and change. With lawyers and legal institutions challenged, the new bar president responded with challenges of his own. "Our license to practice law," he told the state's lawyers, "is a privilege, not a right. It may be withdrawn by the same society by which it is granted. . . . The people have a right to demand that our profession provide reasonable solutions for the felt necessities of our times. . . ."4 This right, he stressed, resided in all the people, regardless of their station: "[O]ur responsibility is as servants of society, to make our professional competences readily available for the benefit of our communities and all their members."5
The new bar president challenged lawyers to be "ever more sensitive and more responsive to the legitimate demands of society for change and reform. We must not be buffeted by the winds of passing fancy," he warned, "but we must respect the aims of youth, of the minorities, of women, and the changing rights of those accused of crime. . . . There can be no justice without law and order. . . . [T]here can be no law and order without justice."6
The Court Years
In November of 1972, Hugh R. Jones was elected to the Court of Appeals with Republican endorsement in one of the last elections for seats on that bench. Elected with him were two other Republicans, Domenick L. Gabrielli and Sol Wachtler. Judge Jones was a newcomer to politics, but he crisscrossed the state during the campaign. He felt frustrated, however, because the canons of judicial ethics kept him from speaking about substantive law and answering voters' questions about his views. The campaign solidified his personal support for choosing Court of Appeals judges by merit rather than election. After the rancor of that contested partisan election and another in 1974 for two Court seats, merit selection became a reality in 1977 when voters amended the state constitution to provide for gubernatorial nomination to the Court from a list recommended by the Commission on Judicial Nomination, subject to state Senate approval.
Judge Jones had not aspired to judicial office, and service on the Court of Appeals became his first and only judicial position. He joined the Court's deliberations with vigor, hearing more than 7,500 appeals and writing 293 signed majority, concurring and dissenting opinions during his twelve years on the bench. Selecting from among such an imposing array necessarily suffers from risk of omission, but two of Judge Jones' best-known opinions, Codling v. Paglia and People v. Onofre, demonstrate his respect for common law decisionmaking and his abiding concern for civil liberties.
The Court heard oral arguments in Codling barely a month after Judge Jones ascended to the bench. Four months later, his majority opinion adopted the rule holding the manufacturer of a defective product strictly liable to any person injured or damaged, provided the product was used for its intended purpose and the injured party could not have avoided injury or damage by exercising reasonable care.7 The landmark decision toppled the "citadel of privity," which the Court's common law adjudication had fashioned and then eroded incrementally in response to social and economic change for more than century and a half.8 After tracing the common law pedigree of the privity doctrine and its proliferating exceptions, Judge Jones concluded that "[a] developing and more analytical sense of justice" demonstrated the need for a broad principle of strict products liability grounded in the realities of modern manufacture, production, and distribution.9
In 1980, in People v. Onofre, Judge Jones wrote the majority opinion holding that criminalizing private sodomy between consenting adults violated the rights to privacy and equal protection guaranteed by the federal Constitution.10 Public discourse about the morality of private consensual sodomy would continue, the lay Episcopal leader and Doctor of Divinity recognized, but the dispositive issue on appeal was constitutionality. The courts had heard no evidence demonstrating that private consensual sodomy harmed its participants or society generally, and "it is not the function of the Penal Law in our governmental policy to provide either a medium for the articulation or the apparatus for the intended enforcement of moral or theological values."11
Onofre drew a vigorous dissent by two Judges, but twenty-three years later the United States Supreme Court reached the same outcome in Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down that state's private consensual sodomy statute for violating Fourteenth Amendment due process.12 By that time, Texas remained one of only a handful of states with such statutes because several other states had joined New York by constitutional decision or statutory repeal. Judge Jones was a prodigious, selfless worker. "Prodigious" because during each two-week Court session in Albany for twelve years, he would be at his desk in chambers every morning by 7:00 and would work past midnight writing opinions and preparing for the next day's arguments. Lunch was at his desk, and dinner was with the other judges. "Selfless" because he did not mind that many of his opinions never found their way into the New York Reports. His colleagues acknowledged him as "the master of the internal dissent,"13 which he would frequently circulate early in the Court's deliberations, sometimes even before the draft majority opinion made its rounds. Publication was not his goal. His internal dissents sometimes sought to persuade the majority, but often sought merely to sharpen the majority's thinking and thus produce a more incisive opinion of the court, perhaps even a unanimous one. Judge Jones recognized that the soundest appellate decisions emerge from a solid foundation of spirited debate among colleagues rather than from more fragile early unanimity. "What we see as his opinions in the Official Reports," Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye disclosed years later, "are only a fraction of the writings of this remarkable jurist."14
Judge Jones left his imprint not only on the substance of the Court's decisionmaking, but also on its style. He thrived on the meticulous preparation required to fulfill the mission of a "hot" court, and he relished the intellectual excitement of oral argument, which "always sharpened my comprehension of the argument after I had read the briefs."15 He became known for his precise, respectful questioning of counsel, always to hone and refine the core legal issues, but never to embarrass or insult. "Many times I thought of coming off the bench to give a sympathetic hug to lawyers at the other end of a Hugh R. Jones cross-examination," Chief Judge Kaye recalled. "I was deterred only by the fact that they were undoubtedly enjoying these probing exchanges every bit as much as Judge Jones."16
Years later, Judge Stewart F. Hancock, Jr. said that Judge Jones' "beautifully crafted opinions stand out in the New York Reports as models of scholarship, clarity of thought, and lucid graceful wordsmanship."17 They were "clear, crisp powerful writings," Chief Judge Kaye added, "not a spare or careless word in them."18 Draft opinions left Judge Jones' chambers only after he and his clerks had reviewed every sentence for clarity and content. His decades in law practice reminded him too that practicing lawyers are ultimate consumers of the Court's opinions. His opinions for the Court invariably opened with "We hold that . . . " or a similar recitation, followed by a succinct statement of the holding grounded in the facts and law presented in the ensuing paragraphs. Judge Jones also avoided string citations that, while perhaps winning personal attention for the author, obligate practitioners to devote their time (and the client's resources) to examine each cite for possible meaning in later cases.
In 1979, Judge Jones delivered the prestigious Cardozo Lecture at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and his Cogitations on Appellate Decision-Making became an immediate "mainstay for appellate judges."19 The Lecture advanced four basic tenets of principled, selfless appellate judging in a collegial state court of last resort.20
The first tenet was neutrality because judges must apply "knowledge, wisdom and human compassion" with "no predetermined destination" and "no prior commitment to [a case's] outcome." The sole concern remains "the best result available, consistent with a proper view of the facts, the prescriptions of statute, the impact of precedential authority, the persuasion of reason and, where applicable, the perception of policy considerations, all subject, of course, to recognition of constitutional mandate."21
Judge Jones' second tenet called for "objective rigorous analysis" of fact and law to "reduce the risk of result-oriented decision-making."22 The third tenet was respect for gradual "case-by-case evolution and refinement" of the common law because "judges lack the competence or clairvoyance to anticipate the implications and ramifications of broad announcement as well as the wisdom to formulate them."23
The fourth tenet was selfless regard for the Court as an institution. "[M]y responsibility to the Court as an institution," Judge Jones told his audience, "commands the subordination of my personal interests." "The coordinates by which I make choices in individual instances as to how I shall participate in the disposition of a matter before the Court are those of the best interests of the Court and of the public perception of the institution as I understand them."23
Perhaps the keystone of the Cardozo Lecture was Judge Jones' call for restrained use of the power to dissent. "[T]he determination whether to dissent in the particular case," he argued, "should be made with principal awareness of its impact on the court," with "considerations of personal interest . . . consciously subordinated."24 "[B]ecause a judge does not dissent it should not necessarily be understood that the majority opinion expresses his preferred view of the case. By failing to dissent he does represent that the opinion expresses the decision of his court, that he accepts that decision and, if he is in disagreement, that he has concluded that no sufficiently useful purpose would be served by a public disclosure of his disagreement."25
In 1982, Judge Jones' tenth anniversary on the bench, the New York Times called him the "intellectual leader of the court."26 Two years later, he turned seventy and mandatory retirement beckoned. In the Judge's final days on the bench, a leading criminal defense lawyer lauded his "unbeatable intellectual prowess" and called him "a man of letters" who "provided . . . a new standard of intellect in the art of decision making."27 Judge Matthew J. Jasen praised his colleague's "creative talent and unusual energy," and his "comprehensive knowledge of the law, . . . vigorous precision and . . . abiding fidelity to the judicial role."28 Speaking about the Court, former Chief Judge Charles D. Breitel was more direct. Judge Jones, he said, was "one of the best minds we've ever had."29
Judge Jones' December 19, 1984 farewell to the Court was marked by the same grace that had marked his tenure. "His bearing, as always was erect and dignified - he was the very picture of a High Court Judge."30 The farewell told much about the man. Transcripts of retirement ceremonies, with their final opportunity for public reminiscence and outlook, are published in the New York Reports. Judge Jones concluded his remarks that day by thanking Court personnel by name - not only the other Judges, but also the clerks, secretaries, librarian and support staff. Many of these people had devoted their entire adult lives to the Court's service, and now they were immortalized in the Reports because someone in a high position thought to pause and remember.31
Less than two weeks after the retirement ceremony, drama accompanied Judge Jones' final hours on the Court. Five lower court judges had filed suit challenging the state constitution's mandate that specified judges, including Court of Appeals judges, retire on the last day of the year in which they turn seventy. The contention was that the mandate violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the federal Constitution. The trial court struck down the constitutional mandate on December 18, and the Appellate Division reversed on December 28. To avoid confusion in the state court system with at least twenty-two judges slated for mandatory retirement, the Court of Appeals heard the expedited appeal in a rare Saturday session in Albany on December 29.32 Among the twenty-two were Judge Jones and Chief Judge Lawrence H. Cooke.
Both Court of Appeals judges had announced that they would step down regardless of the Court's decision because the people had elected them with the expectation that the State constitution would control their retirement. "It is inevitable that this day would come," Judge Jones explained. "[I]t has and it should."33 The Chief Judge recused himself because the Office of Court Administration was a party, but Judge Jones joined the Court's decision upholding the constitutional mandate. 34The Court handed down the decision late in the afternoon on New Year's Eve, and Judge Jones drove home to New Hartford in time to usher in the new year with his family a few hours later.
Epilogue: After the Court
Judge Jones' retirement was a constitutional command but, for more than a decade, not a practical reality. He called the Court years "the climaxing happiness of my professional life,"35 but he perceived his departure from the Court as a new beginning at a time of life when many lawyers wind down their affairs. He and Jean found time for world travel and the grandchildren, but he did not truly retire from the law until well into the 1990s.
Within days after he left the court, Judge Jones became resident counsel (or, as he sometimes put it, "resident oracle") at the Syracuse-based firm of Hiscock & Barclay. He announced that he would not personally argue a case in any New York court because he believed that avoiding personal appearance on a client's behalf "is better as a matter of taste even though there is no ethical bar." But until 1992, he drove the 100-mile round trip from New Hartford each day to advise partners and associates and to conduct commercial arbitrations. He also testified around the world as an expert witness on various questions of New York law and remained a fellow of the American Law Institute and an Advisor to the Restatement, Restitution 2d, a position he assumed in 1981 while still on the bench. When Judge Jones lectured to law school audiences, he connected with his young listeners, who sensed mutual respect. After his 1985 Norris Lecture at Fordham Law School, a student approached and gave him a reprint of the law review article the student had just published about a recent Court of Appeals decision. Judge Jones thanked the student, talked with him about the thesis, and then asked him to sign the front cover. "I couldn't believe it," the student said later. "He was a Court of Appeals judge, and he asked for my autograph."
As Judge Jones passed eighty, he continued to answer the call to statewide public service. Two new terms - "Jones Commission" and "Jones Committee" - reached the headlines regularly. Governor Mario M. Cuomo (himself a former clerk to a judge of the Court) named him chair of the Commission on Judicial Nomination, which fashions the panels from which the Governor fills Court of Appeals vacancies. But that was not all. Judge Jones also chaired the Fourth Department Judicial Screening Committee; the Temporary State Commission on Executive, Legislative and Judicial Compensation; the New York State Bar Association's Special Committee to Review the Code of Professional Responsibility; the Special Committee on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Compensation; and the Governor's Advisory Commission on Liability Insurance.
The years passed. At a reunion of his clerks to celebrate his eightieth birthday, Judge Jones told them that if he could live his life over again, he would not change anything because it had been "a glorious life - varied, active, challenging, satisfying." He was a deeply religious man whose concerns about the end of his life were not about death, but about his dying. He had been actively involved professionally and personally in protecting the right of individuals to die with dignity, and he had carefully examined the complexities of decisionmaking at the end of life. He was a member of the Society for Death with Dignity, and had numerous conversations with immediate family members about his wishes for end-of-life care. Twelve years before his death, he had drafted comprehensive Advance Directives and assigned Health Care Proxies to insure that his wishes would be carried out.
By the mid-1990s, Judge Jones and his family had lived nearly his entire adult life in Brynsaeth, the home in which he was born. Recognizing the march of time in 1997, he and Jean moved into a comfortable Utica retirement community, where he died peacefully on March 3, 2001, two weeks before his eighty-seventh birthday. He was survived by Jean, his wife of 63 years, their five children and their spouses, thirteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Judge Jones is buried a few miles from Brynsaeth in the Hamilton College Cemetery next to Jean, who died on November 19, 2002 at the age of 91.
Judge Jones had "loved his life, filled it to the brim, enjoyed it immensely, and directed that there be absolutely no sadness on his passing."36 His sense of humor had warmed family, friends, colleagues and staff. The Hugh R. Jones "epilogue" closed with praise from all corners of the state for more than a half-century in law, public service, and jurisprudence. The New York Times called him an "intellectual giant," one "whose precise, logical analysis greatly influenced his colleagues and the law."37 Chief Judge Kaye called him "one of the outstanding lawyers, judges and humanitarians of our time."38 Judge Hancock called him "one of the great jurists to have served on the Court of Appeals . . . [,] a role model, not only as a Judge but as a selfless, public-spirited citizen - one who devoted the better part of his life to serving his country, his state, his community, his church, and his fellow lawyers."39
"From his humble beginnings," the Utica Observer-Dispatch editorialized, "Judge Jones' commitment to God and community set him apart [as] a role model for family, friends and neighbors."40 Hamilton College remembered its distinguished alumnus this way: "Proud of his Welsh heritage and firm in his religious faith, Hugh Jones combined integrity with a compassionate approach to justice. Dignified in demeanor and erect in posture, he was impressive in both physical and mental stature. In more private moments, he loved to sing (off key, it is said) and play golf, and one of his favorite pastimes was working with wood. A devoted family man and an inveterate optimist, he was known to those close to him as sensitive and caring, and imbued with great humility as well as a keen devotion to duty."41
The New York State Bar Association, which had awarded Judge Jones its Root-Stimson Award in 1978 and the Gold Medal (its highest honor) in 1985, now created the Judge Hugh R. Jones Defender of Freedom Award, which would be presented annually for exceptional accomplishments by bar members to uphold the nation's freedom. The Oneida County Bar Association created the Hugh R. Jones Award, presented annually to the lawyer in the county who excels in knowledge of the law, and displays the highest level of honesty, integrity, and devotion to public service. Hamilton College created the Hugh R. Jones Moot Court Competition for undergraduates nationwide, and Fordham Law School created the Hugh R. Jones Prize in Law and Public Policy. Judge Jones was inducted into the Mohawk Valley Hall of Fame.
To promote research and writing on issues affecting the judiciary, the Fund For Modern Courts endowed the Hugh R. Jones Memorial Lecture at Albany Law School. The annual lecture has been delivered by sitting or former members of the Court, whose knowledge and insights have enhanced scholarship and thought about the New York court system and the judicial process.
With Judge Jones' passing, his staff lost "a teacher, mentor, and role model" but retained his lessons about personal and professional character.42 The Judge's longtime secretary remembered that despite the Court's heavy workload, he never gave her a new project late in the afternoon. He would wait instead until the next morning so the project would not weigh on her mind as she spent the evening with her family. She also remembered typing his opinions manually, unaided by word processing and other technology developed in later years. The Judge would invariably parse every word until he circulated an opinion, but he tried to make later changes by counting words on the line so his secretary could erase or cut-and-paste without having to retype the entire page.
The eight law clerks remembered that "[a]bove everything else, . . . a Hugh R. Jones clerkship taught that to be a good lawyer, one must first be a good person":
"Whenever someone walked into the Judge's office while we clerks in the outer chambers were attending to other matters, his greeting gave no hint whether the visitor was the Chief Judge or the janitor who emptied the wastebaskets; Judge Jones gave everyone the same warm welcome. He answered every letter he received, even ones from prisoners whose convictions the Court had affirmed or left undisturbed. On the rare nights when clerks outlasted the Judge, he went home only after first making the rounds to say good night to each of us. Even his most ordinary requests were punctuated with 'please' and 'thank you.' He treated clerks with such unfailing courtesy that we were not surprised a few years ago when Mrs. Jones said she had never heard him raise his voice in the sixty-plus years she had known him."43
"Judge Jones' most enduring lessons," his clerks concluded, "were unrelated to doctrine. He taught us how to perceive law and its place in human experience. He taught us how to think and reason. Most important, he taught us how to live."44
Judge and Mrs. Jones are survived by their five children, Hugh R. Jones, Jr. and his wife Sara (Weston, Massachusetts), Anne Jones McHugh and her husband Tom (Baileyville, Maine), Thomas McMillen Jones and his wife Penny (Morris Plains, New Jersey), Jean Jones Morris and her husband Tom (Remsen, New York), and David Bourne Jones and his wife Betty-Jane (Libertyville, Illinois).
Judge and Mrs. Jones are also survived by 13 grandchildren, Hugh R. Jones III and his wife Robin, Allison Payne Jones Elvekrog and her husband Jon, C. Clift Jones and his wife Bryn Zeckhauser, and Daniel Garrison Jones and his wife Paola; David Charles McHugh, Kelly Jean McHugh and Thomas Richard McHugh; Margaret McMillen Jones and her husband Filomeno (Luter) Sousa de Ahzinaga, and Anne Axtell Jones; Adam Thomas Morris and Emily MeeRye Karen Morris; and Elizabeth Carlyn and David McMillen Jones. The Jones family also includes five great-grandchildren, Hugh R. Jones IV, Tucker McMillen Jones and Jon Payne Elvekrog, Austen Sara Elvekrog and Tenley Elizabeth Clift Elvekrog.
"Cogitations on Appellate Decision-Making" By The Honorable Hugh R. Jones [PDF]
This biography appears in The Judges of the New York Court of Appeals: A Biographical History, ed. Hon. Albert M. Rosenblatt (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007). It has not been updated since publication.
Sources Consulted
Abrams, Clerking With Judge Hugh R. Jones, 14 Ford Urb LJ 521 (1986).
Abrams and Crowley, Remembering Judge Hugh R. Jones, 65 Alb L Rev 9 (2001).
Crowley, Reflections of a Law Clerk, 48 Syr L Rev 1473 (1998).
Hancock, Jr., Meeting the Needs: Fairness, Morality, Creativity and Common Sense, 68 Alb L Rev 81 (2004).
Jones, Cogitations on Appellate Decision-Making, 34 Rec Ass'n B City of NY 543 (1979),
reprinted in 52 NY St BJ 189 (Apr. 1980).
Jones, The President's Page, 43-44 NY St BJ (1971-72).
Kaye, A Tribute to the Honorable Hugh R. Jones, 65 Alb L Rev 1 (2001).
Kaye, In Memoriam: Honorable Hugh R. Jones, 95 NY2d xxi (Mar. 20, 2001).
Krouner, Remembering Judge Hugh R. Jones: A Professional and Personal Inspiration, 65 Alb L Rev 5 (2001).
Levine, Hugh R. Jones Lecture at Albany Law School, 67 Alb L Rev 1 (2003).
Remarks at Ceremony Marking Retirement of Associate Judge Hugh R. Jones (Dec. 19, 1984), 63 NY2d xiii (1984).
Sterk, The New York Court of Appeals: 100 Years of Leading Decisions, 48 Syr L Rev 1391 (1998).
Wesley, Hugh Jones and Modern Courts: The Pursuit of Justice Then and Now, 65 Alb L Rev 1123 (2002).
Younger, Reflections on the Life and Work of the Honorable Hugh R. Jones, 65 Alb L Rev 13 (2001).
Published Writings Include:
The President's Page, 43-44 NY St BJ (1971-72).
The Responsibility To Discriminate, Hamilton Alumni Rev 5 (1974).
Cogitations on Appellate Decision-Making, 34 Rec Ass'n B City of NY 543 (1979), reprinted in 52 NY St BJ 189 (Apr. 1980).
Arbitration From the Viewpoint of the Practicing Attorney: An Analysis of Arbitration Cases Decided By the New York State Court of Appeals From January 1973 to September 1985, 14 Ford Urb LJ 523 (1986).
A Tribute To Judge Matthew J. Jasen, 35 Buff L Rev 1 (1986).
Introduction to Report of the Special Committee to Consider Sanctions for Frivolous Litigation in New York State Courts, 18 Ford Urb LJ 1 (1990).
Appellate Advocacy, Written and Oral, 47 J Mo Bar 297 (June 1991).


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With Toll Gate trailing by 18 points late in the first half of Tuesday's game at Warwick Vets, Titans' head coach Tom Rayko knew his team just needed to settle down to get back in the game.
The Titans took it a step further. They certainly settled down, and then they blew the 'Canes out of the water.
Toll Gate scored 53 of the game's final 61 points, turning a 30-12 deficit into a 63-38 victory. In the second half, the Titans outscored Vets 43-8.
"I'd have to say it probably was (one of the best halves of the year)," Rayko said. "They just definitely put their foot on the gas pedal and never turned around."
Toll Gate improved to 11-1 in Division III with the win, while Vets fell to 3-9.
For the majority of the first half, the 'Canes looked poised for the upset in front of a big crowd against their city rival. They went down 5-0, but then went up 8-7 on a 3-pointer from Brandon McGuire and controlled the play from there.
McGuire hit three 3-pointers in the half, and Dom Malaga and Greg Bennett each added one as well. The Titans, meanwhile, turned the ball over 10 times before halftime.
"It's always a battle when we go at it," Vets head coach Chris LeBlanc said. "It's a shame that Pilgrim is in the other division, because that's a fun game, too. But we're always ready for whoever we play."
As the first half wound down, Toll Gate seemed to find its footing. Trailing by that 30-12 score, the Titans scored the final eight points of the half to make the score at the break a very manageable 30-20.
"I told them at halftime, 'That's all you need to do in the second half,'" Rayko said. "'That same controlled pressure, both offensively and defensively, and we should climb right back into the game. Hopefully, we'll get a win.'"
Rayko didn't have to hope for very long. Toll Gate quickly started to dominate.
Jevonta Gonsalves began the half with a shot from beyond the arc, and Austin Abramson converted a layup following a Vets turnover to cut the deficit to five.
Will Remak got the 'Canes back on track with a three-point play, but that marked the last time Vets had anything to cheer about for a long time.
With Vets up 33-25, Toll Gate went on a 25-0 run over the next eight minutes.
Ben Mann started the stretch with one free throw, and Tyler Inkley and Gonsalves each scored on layups to get the Titans within three. Abramson added a layup, and a putback by Colin Stamps with 10:23 remaining gave Toll Gate a 34-33 advantage, its first lead since 5-3.
"Once we did slow down and work our big guys, utilize our guards better, we were definitely able to settle in and control the game," Rayko said.
But it didn't stop there.
The 'Canes went 12 more consecutive possessions without scoring. Toll Gate, on the other hand, seemed to score at will. Abramson led the way with nine points during the Titans' 25-point surge, while Stamps scored six and Gonsalves and Inkley each added five.
By the time Vets scored again – at the 5:55 mark, on two free throws from McGuire – Toll Gate was leading 50-33 and the game was well out of hand.
Starting when the 'Canes held that 30-12 lead, they scored a total of three points over the next 12:34 of game time, and they were outscored 38-3.
Vets made a total of two field goals after halftime.
"We couldn't score in the second half, that was the bottom line," LeBlanc said. "I think we got the same looks we did in the first half, they just didn't go in."
The 'Canes never got back into the game, as 15 points was the tightest margin the rest of the way.
"I thought it was one of our typical games," LeBlanc said. "We can't string together 32 minutes of good basketball. I think a lot of that has to do with experience issues. But we're going to keep going out there and doing the best we can."
Abramson led the Titans with 14 points, while Gonsalves and Mike Reyes each scored 11. Inkley had eight points, Stamps had seven and Nick Carr added five.
Ethan Dujon, Toll Gate's leading scorer at 15.1 points per game, battled foul trouble the whole night and barely played in the second half. He finished with just four points.
But, as it turned out, the Titans didn't need him.
"He picked up two early fouls, then we sent him out and he picked up his third foul," Rayko said of Dujon. "Then he picked up that fourth foul early in the second half. Guys stepped up. Ben Mann stepped up, Tyler Inkley stepped up. They did a wonderful job."
McGuire had a game-high 16 points for Vets, and Malaga added nine points – all in the first half. Remak had seven.
Vets has now lost two games in a row after winning two in a row prior to that. It has a chance to get back into the win column today, though, when it travels to winless Our Lady of Fatima for a 7 p.m. start.
Toll Gate earned its seventh consecutive win since losing to undefeated Prout on Jan. 6. It will be off until Monday, when it hosts 9-3 Juanita Sanchez at 7 p.m. Fatima will then come to Toll Gate on Tuesday for a 6 p.m. game.


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