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Spartans move ahead to take on Saint Louis The long march began with Friday’s win over LIU-Brooklyn. Today we’ll see how the Spartans handle Saint Louis. In Sports today — and as long as MSU stays in the battle for the Final Four — Joe Rexrode and the rest of the LSJ sports team will provide complete coverage. You’ll find an insider look at how the basketball team’s staff prepares during the NCAA Tournament. Provided MSU beats Saint Louis today, later this week we will have a special section advancing the Spartans’ run to the Sweet 16 in Phoenix. On the front page today, Laura Misjak reports on the challenge of finding Medicaid-covered dental care. People with untreated dental issues often go to emergency rooms for pain relief. But the problems remain. Getting meaningful dental help can take months to arrange, if it is possible at all. Also today, Matt Miller writes that a bill allowing community colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees — a controversial proposal generally opposed by the state’s colleges and universities — was sponsored and promoted by a Republican state legislator who used to be an administrator at one of the two-year schools that will benefit from the change. And for Lansing Community College, such a change could be mean expanded nursing programs. In our transportation system there is an important niche for what might best be called boutique railroads. They are small with services tailored to their customers’ special needs. In Business Weekly, Will Kangas writes about the Jackson & Lansing Railroad Line which operates on what had been a Norfolk Southern Corp. rail line. The company that operates the Jackson & Lansing is Westland-based Adrian & Blissfield Railroad Co. Its adding employees and locomotives — and customers seem happy. Enjoy the rest of the day. And thanks for reading the Lansing State Journal. Executive Editor

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» A bill that has passed the state House and under consideration by the Senate’s Education Committee would allow community colleges to offer four-year degrees in five areas: Cement technology, culinary arts, energy production technology, maritime technology and nursing.

wants. They are pushing hard in favor of a bill that would allow community colleges to offer fouryear degrees in five specific fields, calling it, in the words of Stephen Siciliano, NMC’s vice president for educational services, “the evolution of our mission” to serve their local communities. And the state’s 15 public universities are pushing back, arguing that the change would be both unconstitutional and inefficient. “This bill will turn the state’s 28 public community colleges into fouryear schools on top of the 15,” said Michael Boulus, executive director of the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan, which lobbies for the state’s public universities. “It’ll be two years, four years, six years down the road, but this will open Pandora’s box.”

In the Legislature The bill, which has passed the state House and stalled in the Education Committee of the state Senate, is hardly broad. It is written in large part for specific institutions. It would enable community colleges to offer baccalaureate degrees in concrete technology, but Alpena Community College is the only school in the state and the only community college in the nation with a degree program in the field. Maritime technology is on the list for Northwestern Michigan College, energy production technology for Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor, which created its program to serve the nearby D.C. Cook Nuclear Plant and Palisades Power Plant. The bill’s sponsor in the House, Livonia Republican John Walsh, began with one program in mind: the culinary arts program at Schoolcraft Community College. Walsh was a Schoolcraft administrator before he was elected to the House in 2008. He had a few titles. One of them was dean of culinary arts, a position he took over not long after Schoolcraft invested millions to build one of the most technologically advanced culinary teaching facilities in the country. But, as more private culinary schools began offering bachelor’s degrees, “what our students were beginning to see is, if they wanted to move up on the line so they can

Lansing Community College has six schools offering bachelor’s degree programs. LSJ FILE PHOTO

have greater and greater grams that train nurses authority, they needed to has bottlenecked on the have more education, and limited numbers of qualthey were struggling to ified faculty and limited find it here in Michigan,” spaces for clinical educaWalsh said. tion. The last two years of “Once I arrived here, I a nursing program don’t thought I’ll pursue this involve much clinical and culinary arts was the work, but offering fouronly one that was on my year programs would remind.” quire, in many cases, that But as community col- community colleges hire lege leaders weighed in more and more-credenon the issue, the list grew, tialed faculty members. and it grew to include one Which is why the field that has raised par- Michigan Nurses Associticular ire from the four- ation, the state’s largest year schools. nurses union, opposes the “Nursing is the one change. that gives probably the “There is already a most people heartburn,” lack of capacity ... in our said Mike Hansen, presi- current programs due to dent of the Michigan the lack of nursing faculCommunity College As- ty, so allowing for foursociation, the lobbying year degrees at commuarm of the state’s com- nity colleges doesn’t necmunity colleges. essarily solve that probCommunity college lem,” said Kenneth leaders give two ration- Fletcher, the union’s asales for wanting to offer sociate executive direcbachelor’s tor for govdegrees in ernmental nursing. One “This bill will relations is the growand outing number turn the state’s reach. of hospitals “You’ll have 28 public that will only more comcommunity hire nurses petition for with bachethe faculty colleges into lor’s dethat’s four-year schools there.” grees. “If the on top of the 15.” But what hospitals are concerns MICHAEL BOULUS only employuniversity executive director of the ing baccaofficials Presidents Council, State laureatemost is the Universities of Michigan trained muddling of nurses, espemissions cially in and the some of these rural com- prospect of spreading the munities, the community state’s higher education colleges are going to have resources more thinly to be able to play in that across a wider range of game,” Hansen said. programs, which is perhaps unsurprising given Nursing issue the cuts in state higher The other involves ac- education funding over cessibility. While public the past decade. The bill wouldn’t university officials note that 10 of the 15 publics change the amount of and nine private schools money the state sends to colleges, in the state offer bache- community lor’s degree completion which doesn’t allay their programs for nurses, the concerns. And so the public unitwo-year schools counter that classroom-based versities have extended programs are inaccessi- an offer of increased colble from some parts of laboration, a pledge to the state, particularly for bring to community coladult students with jobs lege campuses “any new and families, and that on- baccalaureate or degree line programs don’t work completion program for which there is a need.” for everyone. “We will go anyplace But allowing community colleges to offer the in this state to achieve the BSN would create anoth- purposes that the citizens want,” said Thomas er set of challenges. Despite longstanding Haas, president of Grand talk of a nursing short- Valley State University. It was an offer that age, growth in the pro-

Olin Joynton, the president of Alpena Community College, viewed skeptically. Both Saginaw Valley State University and Central Michigan University have started programs on his campus and then closed them. Ferris State offers a program now, he said, but saying it’s on campus would be a stretch. To date, the only classes offered have been online. “With the public universities, the history over the last 20 years has been either come and go, slow to come or refuse to come,” he said.

LCC is ‘comfortable’ Alpena’s experience hasn’t been universal. Stephanie Shanblatt, the provost at Lansing Community College, said, even if the bill were to pass, the college has no plans to offer four-year degrees. She sees no need. LCC has more than 100 articulation agreements and six schools offering bachelor’s programs on campus at its University Center. “We feel that they do a terrific job at baccalaureate education, and we’re very comfortable with preparing our students to transfer there,” she said. The argument that seems to have stopped the bill in the state Senate Education Committee came from Len Wolfe, an attorney hired by the Presidents Council, who told the committee in January that allowing community colleges to offer baccalaureate degrees would violate the state constitution. The constitution doesn’t actually say anything about what sorts of degrees community colleges can offer, but it does make clear distinctions between community colleges and universities, their governing structures, their funding streams. It’s on those distinctions that the argument rests. The community colleges have found attorneys who disagree. Walsh said he believes he’ll get the votes he needs. His colleagues in the Legislature can tell the difference between a narrow bill and one that would open the floodgates, he said.

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Obama urges end to tax breaks President Obama said Saturday that he expects Congress to consider in the next few weeks ending $4 billion in tax breaks for the oil and gas industry. He said the vote would put them on record on whether they “stand up for oil companies” or “stand up for the American people.” “They can either place their bets on a fossil fuel from the last century or they can place their bets on America’s future,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. In the weekly Republican address, Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., said his constituents have been hard hit by an increase in gasoline prices and were “fed up with the way the president is handling this issue, and rightfully so. The most forceful thing the president has done about high gas prices is try to explain that he’s against them.”

BEIRUT —Two suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives in near-simultaneous attacks on heavily guarded intelligence and security buildings in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Saturday, killing at least 27 people. The early-morning explosions struck the heavily fortified air force intelligence building and the criminal security department, several miles apart in Damascus, at approximately the same time, the Interior Ministry said. Much of the facade of the intelligence building appeared to have been ripped away. State-run news agency SANA said a third blast went off near a military bus at the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in Damascus, killing the two suicide bombers. “All our windows and doors are blown out,” said Majed Seibiyah, 29, who lives in the area of one of the blasts. “I was sleeping when I heard a sound like an earthquake. I didn’t grasp what was happening until I (heard) screaming in the street.” The blasts were the latest in a string of mysterious, large-scale attacks targeting the Syrian regime’s military and security installa-

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its fighters are infiltrating across the border to take advantage of the turmoil. Al-Qaeda’s leader called for Assad’s ouster in February. Bassma Kodmani, a member of the opposition Syrian National Council, said she doubted the armed groups trying to bring Assad down by force, such as the rebel Free Syrian Army, have the capacity to carry out such attacks on security institutions in the capital. “I don’t think any of the opposition forces or the free Syrian army has the capacity to do such an operation to target these buildings because they are fortresses,” she said by telephone. The Free Syrian Army has appealed for the international community to send weapons to help it fight the regime, but no countries are heeding the call. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been discussing military aid, but the U.S. and others have not advocated arming the rebels, in part out of fear it would create an even more bloody and prolonged battle. In a separate development, Syria told international envoy Kofi Annan in a letter that it is “keen to end violence” but insists that armed opposition groups give up their weapons first. Annan is sending a team to Damascus today to discuss ending the conflict. He said Friday that if the team makes sufficient progress he will consider returning to Damascus, where he held talks last weekend with Assad.

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Leprechaun leap Celebration in Ireland: Street performers catch some air while participating in the St. Patrick's Day parade Saturday in Dublin. Around the world

Iran leader: Israel won’t attack Iran’s parliament speaker on Saturday compared Israel to a barking dog that won’t dare attack the Islamic republic over its controversial nuclear program. “They make a lot of fuss about it but don’t dare to attack Iran,” Ali Larijani said of Israel. His comments were posted on the parliament’s website. “They are like dogs that keep barking but are not for attacks.” “Israel won’t make the mistake of attacking Iran because it’s not prepared to play with its own destiny,” he added.

Top Libyan arrested in Mauritania Mauritania on Saturday arrested Moammar Gadhafi’s former intelligence chief, accused of attacking civilians during the uprising in Libya last year and the 1989 bombing of a French airliner. The International Criminal Court, France and Libya all said they want to prosecute Abdullah al-Senoussi. Mauritania’s state information agency said in a statement that al-Senoussi was arrested at the airport in the capital Nouakchott upon arrival from the Moroccan city of Casablanca. It said he was carrying a fake Malian passport.

Venezuelans welcome Chávez home Hundreds of Venezuelans rallied on Saturday to welcome President Hugo Chávez home from Cuba, where he underwent cancer surgery to remove a tumor. Chávez waved, blew kisses and raised a fist on a balcony of Miraflores Palace, then took the microphone and sang along with a Venezuelan folk song while a band played below. Chávez spent three weeks in Cuba, leaving many Venezuelans wondering about his long-term prospects and about how his health will evolve ahead of the country’s Oct. 7 presidential election. By Jacqueline L. Salmon with wire reports

Police probe Parliament break-in LONDON — Police are investigating reports of a break-in Saturday at a Parliament office of Britain’s main opposition leader, Scotland Yard and news reports said. The Press Association reported the incident took place at offices used by Labour leader Ed Miliband, though not his personal office. According to the agency, a staff member found a door forced open, but it was unclear if anything was stolen. Police said officers were called to respond to reports of “alleged forced entry to an office in the Palace of Westminster.”

Bus crash in Poland injures 17 WARSAW, Poland — A bus carrying 19 people, most of them teenagers headed to a football match, collided with a small car at an intersection in a Polish village Saturday, injuring 17 people, officials said. Four of them were badly injured, but no one was in life-threatening condition. The wounded were taken to hospitals. The crash involved the bus and a Toyota Yaris and occurred in the early afternoon in Kromolin Stary, a village near the central city of Lodz. The bus was carrying three adults and 16 youths between the ages of 16 and 18, fire department spokesman Arkadiusz Makowski said. — From wire reports

Tobacco as a source of fuel? Batteries to power a car for 500 miles on a single charge? A wave disk engine — the size of a cooking pot — that boosts a vehicle’s fuel efficiency? These ideas are a few of the dozens being funded by the Obama administration as part of a little-known program that encourages “high risk, high value” energy innovation that swings for the fences. They were spotlighted in a recent, gee-whiz showcase, complete with high-powered lasers and microscopic transmitters, hosted near Washington, D.C., by the Department of Energy’s ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy). The program is modeled after the Defense Department’s larger, decades-old DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which says it invented the Internet. Yet the third annual Energy Innovation Summit came amid debate about the federal government’s role in funding clean technology. Critics, including many Republicans, cite the DOE’s halfbillion-dollar loan guarantee to bankrupt solar manufacturer Solyndra and its $10 million L Prize last August to Philips Lighting for developing an “affordable,” efficient, made-in-America LED light bulb — that costs $50. “The government does not have a good track record of funding research for commercial development,” says David Kreutzer, an energy economist at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. He says it should fund only basic research and leave more commercial ideas to venture capitalists. If something is promising enough, such as advanced batteries, he says, the marketplace will take it. Not necessarily so, ARPA-E’s supporters say. Energy Secretary Steven Chu says the program, established by a bipartisan 2007 law, gives small, two- to threeyear grants so researchers can get over the development hump and attract private funding. ARPA-E, which received $400 million in Recovery Act funds and $275 million in fiscal 2012, acts as a sort of matchmaker by introducing scientists to investors and manufacturers. It’s separate from the loan guarantee program that funded Solyndra. Citing the rise in gasoline prices, Chu says innovation is es-

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Gates: Microsoft leader invested in a start-up to create more efficient nuclear power plants. sential for weaning the USA off its dependence on fossil fuels. He says it’s also vital for mitigating climate change. “We’re looking at America’s sweet spot,” Chu told reporters, citing the nation’s strengths in innovation and manufacturing. He touted ARPA-E’s innovations: uLithium batteries. California-based Envia Systems, which received a $4 million grant in March 2010, announced last month that its lithium-ion battery has broken the world’s record for energy density at 400 watt-hours per kilogram — more than double today’s batteries. CEO Atul Kapadia, says Envia has raised $28 million from General Motors and other major automakers to commercialize its product. He expects its battery will cost 50% less than those in today’s electric vehicles. ARPA-E is funding research on other types of lithium batteries, including a metal-air version by Berkeley, Calif.-based PolyPlus Battery that aims to run a car for 500 miles on a single charge — five times that of the all-electric

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Chu: Energy secretary says energy innovation is vital for weaning USA of fossil fuel dependence.

Nissan Leaf. uTobacco fuel. The DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory received in January a $4.9 million, three-year grant to reengineer tobacco plants so they use energy from sunlight to produce fuel molecules in their leaves, which are then crushed so the fuel can be extracted. “Just imagine, if they’re successful, you’d have Big Oil and Big Tobacco coming together to save the world,” ARPA-E’s director Arun Majumdar quipped at the summit. uElectrofuels. Boulder, Colo.based OPX Biotechnologies, which received a $6 million grant in 2010, is engineering bacteria to produce liquid fuel by diverting energy and carbon from its own growth. It says its process is 10 times more efficient than photosynthesis, which is used to produce most existing biofuels. uGrid-scale energy storage. Since wind and solar are intermittent sources of energy, the New York City-based CUNY Energy Institute received a $3 million grant in 2010 to develop a low-

cost battery that can store the power until it’s needed. The institute plans to spin off a start-up to commercialize its room-sized, zinc-manganese oxide batteries. uFuel efficiency. Michigan State University is using a $2.5 million grant to develop a wave disk engine that uses a shock wave to compress fuel and dramatically boost the efficiency of a hybrid vehicle. It says the engine is lighter, cheaper and cleaner. uLaser drilling. Coloradobased Foro Energy Inc. received $9.1 million to develop lasers that could drill through volcanic rock to access geothermal energy. Microsoft’s Bill Gates, speaking at the summit, said the U.S. should double its spending on energy research even though he expects about 90% of the ideas will fail. “We need to be willing to take risks,” said Gates, who’s invested in a start-up to create safer, smaller and more efficient nuclear power plants. He said TerraPower, which he chairs, is looking to build a demonstration plant, and “China is one possible place.”

GOP gearing up for budget battle with Dems The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — After a few months of relative peace on the budget front, Democrats and Republicans are readying for a party-defining, election-year fight over trillion dollar-plus deficits and what to do about them. The focus in the week ahead will be on the conservative-dominated House, where the Budget Committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is fashioning a sequel to last

year’s “Path to Prosperity” manifesto that ignited a firestorm over Medicare. The upcoming debate Ryan gives Republicans a chance to show how they would tackle out-of-control budget deficits and rein in the cost and scope of government. Those are top issues for the conservative supporters counted on by Repub-

licans to turn out in large numbers in the fall to maintain the GOP’s control of the House. President Barack Obama played it safe when he released his spending blueprint last month for the budget year that begins Oct. 1. It calls for tax increases on wealthier earners and modest spending curbs. But it would not address the spiraling costs of Medicare and Medicaid, the health care plan for the poor and disabled.

Last year’s GOP measure proposed replacing Medicare fee-for-service payments to doctors and hospitals with a voucher-like program in which the government would subsidize purchases of health insurance on the private market. Democrats said the subsidies would not keep up with inflation in medical costs and would shift costs to older people, and they accused Republicans of plotting to “end Medicare as we know it.”

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Lansing State Journal • Sunday, March 18, 2012 • 5A

DAR 2012 GOOD CITIZEN AWARDS

23 area students are honored Lansing State Journal

Students from 23 area high schools have been selected to receive the 2012 Good Citizen Award from the Lansing Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The Good Citizen Award began in 1934 and honors high school seniors based on leadership, academic achievement and community service. The students are nominated by faculty members to receive the award. The award winners will be acknowledged at a tea reception at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Eastminister Presbyterian Church, 1315 Abbot Road, East Lansing. The winners are: Rachel McDaniel attends Bath High School. She is the vice president of her class and a member of the National Honor Society. She participates on the softball and volMcDaniel leyball teams and is a member of the school band. She has received academic awards for English, chemistry and physics. Rachel plans to obtain a degree in the social sciences. Jillian Manning attends Charlotte High School. She is active in the drama program, participating in all of her school’s musicals and plays. She also is a member of the Manning Forensics Club and was a state finalist in the Forensics Tournament. Jillian volunteers at the Charlotte Public Library and at Woldumar Nature Center. Her future plans include attending college to obtain a degree in the arts. Addison Price attends Dansville High School. She is her class president and is a member of the National Honor Society. She has played on the varsity softball, volleyPrice ball and basketball teams and has earned a letter in choir. Addison volunteers for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation at their annual run/walk race in East Lansing and volunteers at the Agricultural Exposition. Addison plans to attend Michigan State University and obtain a degree in communications. Lauren Rademacher attends DeWitt High School. Lauren is a member of the Business Professionals of America Club and has been a three-time Rademacher state qualifier and two-time national qualifier in the workplace skills competition. She is

a member of her school’s cross country and track teams and is a member of the National Honor Society. She volunteers at her church and local nursing home, and tutors students in math and science. Lauren’s future plans include obtaining a degree in a field that will allow her to work with children. Amber Campbell attends Eastern High School. She is the president of the Key Club and the National Honor Society. She is a member of the track and cross country teams. Campbell Amber volunteers at Sparrow Hospital and the East Lansing Police Department. She plans to attend the University of Michigan in the fall to major in law enforcement or a medical field. Jacqueline Lane attends East Lansing High School. She is on her school’s varsity soccer and cross country teams. She also is a member of the National Honor Society and has received distinguished scholar and scholar athlete awards. Jacqueline volunteers for many programs with an emphasis on community activities and the environment. She plans to attend college where she will continue to participate in athletics and pursue studies in French language and culture. Anna Archey attends Eaton Rapids High School. She is the president of her class and is the secretary of the National Honor Society for her school. She is on the varsity track and field and cross country teams and is the yearbook editor and photographer. Anna volunteers at the WILDSIDE Rehabilitation and Education Center, for Special Olympics and is a Girl Scout day camp counselor. She plans to attend college in the fall and has not decided on a major. Rosalyn Brummette attends Grand Ledge High School. She is active in the National Honor Society, French Club and Rotary Club at her school. She parBrummette ticipates in school musicals and is active in her church. Rosalyn has won numerous awards at the state and county levels of the 4-H and Future Farmers of America. She is president of the Eaton County Junior Livestock Association and treasurer of the Eaton County Youth Advisory Council. Rosalyn plans to attend Michigan State University and major in agribusiness. Monica Walker attends Haslett High School. She is the co-president of her class and is a member of the varsity tennis team. She participates in her

school’s band and orchestra programs and is a member of Michigan State University’s Spartan Youth Wind Symphony. Monica is Walker a member of the National Honor Society and is on the organizing committees for many school activities. Alexis Kuprel attends Holt High School. She is a member of her school’s lacrosse, forensics and debate teams and has received awards at the state forensics finals. She is active in her church and has volunteered for groups performing community cleanup and homebuilding projects. Monica would like to continue her education in engineering, specializing in computers and graphic design. Hannah Garner attends Laingsburg High School. She is a member of the National Honor Society and participates on her school’s softball, cross country and track and field teams. She participates in marching, concert and jazz band and has received an academic scholarship for college. Monica plans to pursue a college degree in engineering with a focus on renewable energy. Faith Krogulecki attends Lansing Catholic High School. She is the president of her class and has organized fundraising for the Honor Flight program to send World War II Krogulecki veterans to the memorial in Washington D.C. Faith volunteers as a tutor in after-school programs at her school. Nicole Potchen attends Okemos High School. She is a member of her school’s Chamber and Someko choirs. She has received academic awards for physics, Potchen world history and calculus. Nicole actively participates in church activities where she participated in restoration projects on a Native American reservation in Montana. Her future plans including attending the University of Michigan where she would like to study molecular genetics. Earl Reed attends Owosso High School. He is the student body president and is a member of the National Honor Society. He is co-editor of the yearbook and participates in Reed service clubs where he is active in food drives. Earl is a longtime member of the 4-H Club and the

Dairy Holstein Association and spends his summers working on his family’s dairy farm. His future plans include attending college, where he would like to study in the field of education. Amanda Korcal attends Perry High School. She is her class president and the captain of her school’s varsity volleyball and basketball teams. She is the drum major for Korcal the marching band and was the recipient of the Big Ten Drum Major Award at the MSU Drum Major Camp. Amanda volunteers at Sparrow Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. She plans to attend a university and major in psychology or pre-med. John Lehman attends Pewamo-Westphalia High School. He is co-president of his class and president of the Student Athletic Council. He is on the varsity basketball and golf teams and participates in his school’s theater program. John volunteers at athletic camps and with the student council to improve the landscaping at his school. He plans to attend college in the fall and is undecided on a major. Jamie Goering attends Portland High School. She is the vice president and secretary for her class and is a member of the National Honor Society. She is a member of her Goering school’s marching, concert, jazz and pep bands and is president of the Band Council. Jamie is a member of the varsity tennis team which is state ranked. She is a mentor for beginning musicians in the middle school. Jamie plans to major in secondary mathematics education to become a high school math teacher. Tam Thi-Minh Nguyen attends Potterville High School. She is president of her class and Student Council. She is a member of the National Honor Society and is the editor of her school’s yearbook. Tam participates in many volunteer activities including blood drives and food and assistance drives. She also is active in her church. Tam’s future plans are to attend Michigan State University and obtain an engineering degree. Asia Jones attends Sexton High School. She is her class treasurer and participates in volleyball, dance, cheerleading, basketball and track and field. Asia volunteers Jones at her church and at elementary schools helping with carnivals and

ST. PATRICK’S DAY

Irish PM paints Chicago green Jason Keyser The Associated Press

CHICAGO — Chicago dyed its river green, bagpipes sounded on New York’s 5th Avenue, and in Georgia, crowds waited for 30 minutes to buy beer for breakfast before watching Savannah’s 188-year-old St. Patrick’s Day parade. Thousands gathered Saturday morning along the Chicago River, some wearing shamrockshaped sunglasses and others dressed as leprechauns with fake orange beards. Applause erupted as a motorboat sped in circles and a man on board dumped a secret dye in the water, quickly turning it a psychedelic green. The muchloved annual ritual kicked off a day of partying. This year, the guest of honor was Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who took part in the parade of floats, traditional Irish dancers and musicians marching along an avenue near Chicago’s lakefront. Kenny began the day at City Hall with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and both men

Not to be out-piped by their counterparts in Chicago, bagpipers give it their all on Fifth Avenue in New York on Saturday during the city’s 251st annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. MARY ALTAFFER/AP Girls from Trinity Academy of Irish Dance jig along during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in downtown Racine, Wis. In Washington, President Barack Obama paid tribute to his Irish heritage with a visit to the Dubliner Restaurant and Pub. AP

sported green ties and shamrocks in their lapels. The prime minister said he was honored to take part in Chicago’s festivities and praised the city with a large Irish population for being so receptive to

immigrants. “That’s a privilege that I shall remember for a long time,” Kenny said of his role in the festivities. In Savannah, revelers set out folding chairs before dawn to

catch the parade, a tradition that started in 1824 as a procession with religious roots by Irish settlers who immigrated to the Georgia coast. Lines of thirsty patrons were spilling out of downtown bars before the pre-parade Mass wrapped up at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. “It’s ridiculous for still being in the a.m.,” said Timmy Watkins, a utility worker who emerged from Pinkie Master’s Lounge with a beer in each hand after standing in line for 30 minutes. “These are both mine. I waited in line long enough. I figured I’d get two.” On Chicago’s riverfront, 6year-old Elly Weber sat on her father’s shoulders, wearing some bobbly, antennae-like shamrock headgear and marveled at how the river first

sporting events. She plans to attend the University of Chicago to study oncology. Taylor Winnie attends Stockbridge High School. She is the senior class president and treasurer of the Student Council. She is the opinion editor and business Winnie manager for the school newspaper. Taylor is a member of the varsity cheerleading and soccer teams and the cross country team. She has received awards in English and chemistry and is a member of the National Honor Society. Taylor volunteers for the American Red Cross blood drives and at various athletic events for young children. She plans to pursue a degree in medicine. Kristen Patterson attends Waverly High School. She is a band member and plays on her school’s varsity soccer team. She is a member of the National Honor Society Patterson and has won the Girl Scout Gold Award, the Girl Scout’s highest achievement award. Kristen is active in her church and church youth groups. Her future plans include attending a university to study accounting, leading to a Certified Public Accountant certification. Maggie Whitehouse attends Webberville High School. She is a member of the varsity golf team and is the Student Council secretary. She Whitehouse has received awards for academic excellence, social studies, government, Spanish and English. Maggie is a member of the Future Farmers of America and received community service hours for participating in Michigan’s Adopt a Highway program. She plans to attend Central Michigan University in the fall and is deciding on a major. Georgia Bayerl attends Williamston High School. She is a member of the National Honor Society and is a Student Council representative for the senior class. Bayerl Georgia also participates in the Model United Nations and is an officer for the Business Professionals of America club at her school. She has volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and a Lansing soup kitchen.

turned yellow and then, almost immediately, an eye-popping green. Her 3-year-old brother, Sean, was equally stupefied. “It’s getting all green,” he cried out. “Will everything turn green? Why?” A few kayakers couldn’t resist the chance to paddle through the unnatural-looking water. Crowds watching from a bridge roared their approval when one of the paddlers purposely half-capsized his kayak, dunking himself in the green water. In New York, a sea of green, kilts and bagpipes flowed along Fifth Avenue as large crowds gathered for the city’s 251st annual Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, leader of the city’s Roman Catholics, announced before the parade stepped off that iconic St. Patrick’s Cathedral would undergo a $175 million renovation. He said the first phase will involve cleaning the cathedral’s soot-damaged exterior and replacing its windows. Even President Barack Obama paid tribute to his Irish heritage, as one of his great-greatgreat grandfathers on his Kansas mother’s side emigrated from Ireland in 1850. Last year, Obama visited his ancestral home of Moneygall and drank a Guinness at the local pub. This year, he stopped by the Dubliner Restaurant and Pub near Washington’s landmark Union Station for a pint of Guinness, accompanied by Moneygall bar owner Ollie Hayes and Henry Healy, an eighth cousin to Obama and the closest relative still living in Ireland.

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Suspect in Afghan killings struggled He faced family, financial woes, records show Donna Gordon Blankinship The Associated Press

LAKE TAPPS, Wash. — Bypassed for a promotion and struggling to pay for his house, Robert Bales was eyeing a way out of his job at a Washington state military base months before he allegedly gunned down 16 civilians in an Afghan war zone, records and interviews show. A deeper picture emerged Saturday of the Army sergeant’s financial troubles and brushes with the law. While Bales, 38, sat in an isolated cell at the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., classmates and neighbors from suburban Cincinnati, Ohio, remembered him as a “happy-go-lucky” high school football player who took care of a special-needs child and watched out for troublemakers in the neighborhood. But court records and interviews show the 11-year veteran — with a string of commendations for good conduct after four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan — had joined the Army after a Florida investment job went sour, had a Seattle-area home condemned, struggled to make payments on another and failed to get a promotion or a transfer a year ago. Bales’ legal troubles included charges that he assaulted a girlfriend and, in a hit-and run accident, ran bleeding in military clothes into the woods, court records show. He told police he fell asleep at the wheel and paid a fine to get the charges dismissed, the records show.

News crews gather at the home of Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 38, in Lake Tapps, Wash. Bales is accused of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan. He had been bypassed for a promotion and was struggling to pay for his house, records show. TED S. WARREN/AP

Iraq during three separate assignments since 2003.

History buff Robert Bales (left) and other soldiers from the 3rd Stryker Brigade take part in an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., in 2011. AP

Rampage shocks friends Military officials say that after drinking on a southern Afghanistan base, Bales crept away March 11 to two slumbering villages overnight, shooting his victims and setting many of them on fire. Nine of the 16 killed were children and 11 belonged to one family. “This is some crazy stuff if it’s true,” Steve Berling, a high school classmate, said of the revelations about the father of two known as “Bobby” in his

hometown of Norwood, Ohio. Bales hasn’t been charged yet in the shootings, which have endangered complicated relations between the U.S. and Afghanistan and threatened to upend U.S. policy over the decadeold war.

Family troubles His family troubles were hinted at by his wife, Kari, on multiple blogs posted with names like The Bales Family

Shooting spree further strains U.S.-Afghan ties Mirwais Khan

north of Kabul in what President Barack Obama said was a terrible mistake. KABUL, Afghanistan — A week ago, a U.S. solThe massacre of 16 Afghan civilians was a dag- dier allegedly went on a ger to the U.S.-led coali- shooting rampage in two tion’s “hearts and minds” villages in Kandahar campaign, which was alprovince, killing nine chilready in decline after 10 dren, four men and three women and burning some years of war. Coalition forces will of their bodies. After the shooting still help bolster the Afghan government and se- spree, Karzai expressed curity forces in coming exasperation, saying he is at the “end of years, but Afthe rope” over ghans increasrising civilian ingly believe deaths, even America’s only though the Tamission is to liban are releave as soon as sponsible for it can. more. Even Presi“Continudent Hamid ously, I have Karzai, the Karzai told the Amerilong-standing cans to leave U.S. partner in “If these our villages. Afghanistan, incidents You are not has turned toxic. He told the continue, needed in our villages. There U.S. to pull its then the is no terrorism troops out of Afthere,” Karzai ghan villages foreign said during a and said it’s fine mission meeting Friday with him if international will fail.” with the shooting victims’ forces wrap up their combat HAMID KARZAI, families from Afghan president Panjwai district mission early. of Kandahar Afghans alprovince. “If ready were worried about what will hap- these incidents continue, pen when international then the foreign mission troops hand over the lead will fail.” The recent events have combat role to Afghan forces next year. Then, a further complicated efrapid-fire succession of forts to negotiate a U.S.events shattered their Afghanistan partnership trust in America, hasten- document that will outline ing an end to the effort to America’s presence in the win over the Afghan pop- country after 2014. “Is it good for Afghaniulation. In January, a video pur- stan to sign a strategic portedly showing U.S. partnership with these Marines laughing and uri- kinds of things happening nating on the bodies of Ta- to our people?” said Nasuliban fighters surfaced on rullah Sadiqizada, an Afthe Web. In February, ghan lawmaker from Day Muslim holy books were Kundi province in central burned at a U.S. base Afghanistan. The Associated Press

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Adventures and BabyBales. A year ago, she wrote that Bales was hoping for a promotion or a transfer after nine years stationed at Joint Base LewisMcChord outside Tacoma, Wash. “We are hoping to have as much control as possible” over the future, Kari Bales wrote last March 25. “Who knows where we will end up. I just hope that we are able to rent our house so that we can keep it. I think we

are both still in shock.” After Bales lost out on a promotion to sergeant first class, the family hoped to go to Germany, Italy or Hawaii for an “adventure,” she said. They hoped to move by last summer. Instead, the Army redeployed his unit — the 3rd Stryker Brigade — to Afghanistan. It would be Bales’ fourth tour in a war zone. He joined the military two months after 9/11 and spent more than three years in

Bales always loved the military and war history, even as a teenager, said Berling, who played football with him in the early 1990s on a team that included Marc Edwards, a future NFL player and Super Bowl champion with the New England Patriots. “I remember him and the teacher just going back and forth on something like talking about the details of the Battle of Bunker Hill,” he said. “He knew history, all the wars.” Bales exulted in the role once he achieved it. Plunged into battle in Iraq, he told an interviewer for a Fort Lewis base newspaper in 2009 that he and his comrades proved “the real difference between being an American as opposed to being a bad guy.” Bales joined the Army, Berling said, after studying business at Ohio State University — he attended three years but didn’t graduate — and handled investments before the market downturn pushed him out of the business.

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Delicate rescue saves stranded U.S. satellite The Associated Press

DENVER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Air Force ground controllers delicately rescued a $1.7 billion military communications satellite last year that had been stranded in the wrong orbit and was at risk of blowing up â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all possibly because a piece of cloth had been left in a fuel line during manufacture. During the 14-month effort, the satellite had to battle gravity and dodge space junk while controllers improvised ways to coax it more than 21,000 miles higher to its planned orbit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This rescue effort was definitely a very sophisticated and highly technical masterpiece,â&#x20AC;? said Col. Michael Lakos, chief of the Military Satellite Communications Division at Peterson Air

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Army women battle men in cage fighting For those denied combat roles, sport an outlet David S. Cloud Tribune Washington Bureau

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Whap. Whap. Army Staff Sgt. Jackelyn Walker is snapping left jabs at Pfc. Greg Langaricaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head. She doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like his smirk. She lunges for his midsection, slams him down and locks him in a chokehold. Langaricaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face goes crimson. His smirk is gone. The 1,000 or so spectators in the Army gym howl with glee. The Army still bars women from fighting in combat units. But some women are trying to break that barrier far from the front lines â&#x20AC;&#x201D; by battling male soldiers in chain-link cages against a backdrop of strobe lights, thumping music and swirling smoke. The slugfests resemble ultimate fighting, a staple of pay-per-view television, right down to the black wire cages and throat-constricting holds with names like â&#x20AC;&#x153;the guillotineâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;the rear naked choke.â&#x20AC;?

The Army says the eight-sided enclosure simulates fighting in a small room and helps develop skills that soldiers sometimes need to subdue foes rather than kill them.

A growing trend The brawls are an outgrowth of mixed martial arts training that began in all-male Ranger units in the mid-1990s and soon spread to the rest of the Army. Tournaments were started on mats and in boxing rings at bases around the country. Elaborately staged cage fights â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including some pitting women against men â&#x20AC;&#x201D; started in 2008, in part because commanders realized they helped with recruiting. In the most recent cage-fighting competition, more than 300 men and 25 women â&#x20AC;&#x201D; up from five last year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; competed over four days in February at Fort Hood in Texas. One woman made it to the finals. But at least three female fighters were carried out on stretchers. Others limped to a green canvas tent that served as a first-aid station. One fighter burst into tears, upset that a referee

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Army Staff Sgt. Jackelyn Walker and Pfc. Gregory Langarica battle it out at the Fort Hood Combative Championships in Killeen, Texas. JOSE M. OSORIO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE/MCT

wars of the last decade showed that women faced considerable danger even in the support jobs to which they were limited. In Iraq, 109 female service members have died, mostly in ambushes and firefights, and 29 have died in Afghanistan, even though they were truck drivers, civil affairs advisers or in other ostensibly noncombat jobs.

As a result, many male soldiers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as well as women â&#x20AC;&#x201D; now consider the ban on women in combat roles to be outdated. Spc. Dariana Chesser, 24, decided to join the cage fights last year after serving on a security squad for a senior officer in Afghanistan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to transfer to a combat job,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think this helps us prove

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Nationally, the lack of dental care for these people led to more than 800,000 trips to the emergency room for dental pain in 2009 — a 16 percent increase from 2006, according to a recent report from the Pew Center on the States. Some officials estimate that figure is now as high as 100,000 visits per year in Michigan, with more than 1,000 hospitalizations annually for preventable dental problems. And it’s a problem with no easy solution. Long waits are in store for those who can find care, said Dr. Timothy Zielinski, director of CareFree Medical’s Dental Clinic in Lansing, one of a handful of local organizations that offer options for the underinsured and uninsured. He said the solution lies in more dentists volunteering their time or accepting the reimbursements offered by Medicaid.

Years without care “Most of the patients we see haven’t had dental care in probably 10 to 15 years,” Zielinski said. “The population we see ... are below the poverty level. They are waiting until the problem is very painful before seeking help.” In Ingham County, at least 1,500 trips are made to hospital emergency rooms annually for toothaches that could have been treated with proper preventive care. Sometimes, those trips turn into weeklong hospital stays if an infection has spread. In Ingham County alone, 51 longer-term hospitalizations for preventable dental problems were recorded in 2008, with patients averaging a stay of 2½ days at a cost of $19,074, according to the latest data available from the Michigan Oral Health Coalition. The more common ER trips also are costly and don’t fix the cause of the problem. A typical emergency room visit can cost more than $200 and take several hours. Doctors there can treat the pain, but they can’t perform extractions or root canals, and they aren’t trained in dental care. They prescribe pain medication and antibiotics, and refer patients to more affordable local dental options, where patients may have to wait weeks to see a dentist.

Dr. Stephen Pittel, a dentist at the Ingham County Health Department’s dental clinic, and assistant Nancy Holley examine Nancy Madden last week at the clinic. GREG DERUITER/LSJ

2½ days Length of average hospital stay for dental-related health problems.

51 Hospitalizations for preventable dentalrelated health problems in 2008 in Ingham County.

Online Download the full Dr. Stephen Pittel reviews a patient’s X-rays last week at the clinic.

Sometimes the patient winds up back in the emergency room days later for continued pain.

Snyder weighs in The problem is so prevalent Gov. Rick Snyder cited it in a health and wellness message to the public and legislators in September. “Poor oral health results in school absences and inappropriate use of emergency rooms,” he said. Stories from dentists who do provide care to underinsured area residents are striking. One man, a recovering meth addict in his 30s, had to have all of his teeth pulled at a local clinic due to the drug and the sugar binges and teeth

grinding that often accompany the addiction. Another man had gone to the emergency room several times, racking up nearly $10,000 in hospital bills, before stopping by the county health department for help. Fewer than 10 dentists regularly volunteer at CareFree’s clinic, usually working about a half-shift every other week, Zielinski said. The waiting list at CareFree is 700 people long, he said. To help pay the support staff, patients pay about $15 to $20 for tooth extractions, $30 for wisdom teeth extractions. The wait to see a dentist could be alleviated if more dentists volunteered their time, Zielin-

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ski said. There’s also a wait of about three to four months to get into the Ingham County Health Department’s dental clinic for a regular appointment, which has a sliding cost scale that begins at $10, said Dr. Stephen Pittel, a clinic dentist. But emergency cases can get into both clinics earlier than a standard appointment, officials said. “Not everybody qualifies for Medicaid, and often the first thing to be dropped (in employerprovided health care benefits) is optical and dental benefits,” Pittel said. “People are making concessions, people are working several part-

time jobs, gas is up, food is up, so it makes sense it goes off the radar.” Medicaid has about a 30 percent to 40 percent reimbursement rate for basic dental care, an increase from 2009 when there was no Medicaid dental coverage in Michigan, said Tom Kochheiser, spokesman for the Michigan Dental Association. About 95 percent of Michigan dentists said in a recent survey they would not participate in Medicaid with a reimbursement rate of less than 50 percent, according to the MDA. And of the 6,715 dentists in Michigan in 2010, only 1,666 accepted Medicaid for adult patients.

Avoiding ER Despite the coverage issues, local officials say, making an appointment for just a regular checkup is important. “It’s worth us finding the problem,” Pittel said. “The best thing is to come here and inquire. It could be lifesaving.” Pittel, a member of the National Guard, said he’s given lessons to emergency room doctors and surgeons on the basics of dental care because of the demand there, and some of those doctors report as many as 25 percent of their emergency room patients come in for dental-

related cases. At McLaren-Greater Lansing, the hospital owned by Flint’s McLaren Health Care Corp., about 700 dental-related emergency room visits are made per year, said Dr. Ryan Jones, physician director of the emergency department there. “Obviously it’s not the ideal place for anybody with dental problems,” Jones said. “There’s not a dentist in the ER, so it’s only, at most, temporarily treating some of the symptoms.”

‘Broken system’ At Sparrow Hospital, part of Lansing’s Sparrow Health System, an average of three to five patients and sometimes as many as 10 seek dental care help each day, said Dr. Tony Briningstool, executive director of emergency services at Sparrow. He said patients are often referred to CareFree or the county health department or even a private dentist who may have cared for them in the past, before benefits or finances were a problem. The clinics “have done a great job of trying to fill the need in the community, but what they can provide does not come close to meeting the need,” Briningstool said. “ ... The cycle exists because of a broken system.” There are statewide efforts to provide dental care to the low-income, and children do have more coverage for preventive care, Kochheiser said. Those include the Donated Dental Services program for disabled patients, the chronically ill and elderly. Lansing Community College also provides a low-cost dental hygiene clinic for preventive care. “The emergency room is not the answer, it just increases costs,” Kochheiser said.

Occupy movement hits 6 months Protesters mark milestone with march on Wall Street The Associated Press

Occupy Wall Street protesters march Saturday near Zuccotti Park in New York. JOHN MINCHILLO/AP

NEW YORK — Chanting and cheering down Wall Street on Saturday to mark six months since the birth of the Occupy movement, some protesters applauded the Goldman Sachs employee who days ago gave the firm a public drubbing, echoing the movement’s indictment of a financial system demonstrators say is fueled by reckless greed.

“I kind of like to think that the Occupy movement helped him to say, ‘Yeah, I really can’t do this anymore,’ ” retired librarian Connie Bartusis said of the op-ed piece by Goldman Sachs manager Greg Smith, who claimed the company regularly foisted failing products on clients as it sought to make more money. Carrying a sign with the words “Regulate Regulate Regulate,” Bartus-

sis said the loss of governmental checks on the financial system helped create the climate of unfettered self-interest described by Smith in his piece, although Goldman’s leadership suggested he had not portrayed the bank’s culture accurately. “Greed is a very powerful force,” Bartussis said. “That’s what got us in trouble.” On Saturday, six

months after the protesters first took over Zuccotti Park near the city’s financial district, the protesters gathered there again, drawing slogans in chalk on the pavement and waving flags as they marched through lower Manhattan. With the barricades that once blocked them from Wall Street now removed, the protesters streamed down the sidewalk and covered the steps of the Federal Hall National Memorial.

Police: Fla. couple kept boy, 12, locked in closet The Associated Press

TITUSVILLE, Fla. — A Florida couple locked up an extremely malnourished boy inside a closet as punishment for stealing food they were keeping from him, according to a police report. The 12-year-old boy — weighing just 40 pounds — also had been strapped to a bed or locked in a bathroom for days or weeks at a time over the past year, the police report said. He was treated at a hospital for malnutrition and dehydration. Jail records show Michael Marshall, 38, and Sharon Glass, 48, have been charged with three counts of aggravated child abuse. Both are being held without bond. It wasn’t

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. — First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

State must solve dental care puzzle Better access for needy M patients is crucial

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ichigan needs creative minds figuring out how to increase access to dental care for the state’s low income and uninsured residents. That’s one reason that improved access to oral health care is part of Gov. Rick Snyder’s vision for improving Michiganders’ health and wellness. As reporter Laura Misjak notes in today’s LSJ, too many people are relying on hospital emergency rooms for treating dental problems. That’s a costly and often a short-term fix. An ER doctor cannot do root canals or tooth extractions. They prescribe pain killers and/or antibiotics and refer patients elsewhere, often to the county’s two low-income dental clinics. Some patients will return to the ER before they can get in to a lowor no-cost dentist. That’s not all. Those whose dental problems go untreated for too long can end up hospitalized. In Ingham County, the Michigan Oral Health Coalition reports that there were 51 longer-term

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hospitalizations for preventable dental problems in 2008. The typical stay was 2.5 days at a cost of $19,074; that equates to nearly a $1 million in hospital costs for problems that may have been avoided if patients could access basic preventive dental care. It’s not an easy problem, though, and money is an issue. A 2010 report done for the Michigan Dental Association says that the state’s Medicaid reimbursement rate for dentists is about 41 percent of the cost of service; about 95 percent of

dentists said they need reimbursement of at least 50 percent to participate. The MDA says, though, that in 2010 about 25 percent of the state’s 6,715 dentists did participate. Still, the number is low. The state has made strides with its Healthy Kids Dental initiative. Run on a contract with Delta Dental, it pays dentists a higher rate than Medicaid would. But there’s not enough money to run it statewide. Other solutions are being pursued. One would increase preventive services that dental hygienists and assistants can provide. Other efforts look for new models of service. In Calhoun County, a program gives dentists funds for training or equipment if they contract to see lowincome patients; the patients “pay” by performing community service. As with so many issues, spending money on prevention will save money in the long run. Michigan must must move access to dental care higher on its priority list.

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Increasing renewable energy standard will transform state Raising Michigan’s renewable energy standard to 25 percent by 2025 will transform Michigan economically and environmentally. The RES ballot proposal will create more than 44,000 jobs that cannot be outsourced. It also reduces our dependence on out of state and foreign energy. Relying on foreign and out of state energy has cost Michiganders more than $1.16 billion every year. Moreover, relying on foreign energy means unforeseeable price changes controlled by unstable regimes in the Middle East. On the other hand, homegrown renewable energy is independent and cost-steady. Renewable energy is also cleaner than coal and fossil fuel. Wind and solar power systems reduce pollution, which reduces the number of people effected by asthma and lung diseases. Furthermore, cleaner air and water will protect our Great Lakes. Raising Michigan’s RES to 25 percent will make Michigan the leading state in renewable energy like the automobile manufacturing icon it is. Kousha Adhami Lansing

End overly frequent, costly updates of construction codes By law, every three years Michigan’s Construction Code is updated and state and local governments and the construction industry must purchase expensive new code books. In 2009, this cost Michigan more than $13 million — even though there were only minimal changes made. Builders must buy this book to keep their license. House Bill 4561 provides a fix and protects public safety by giving the state the flexibility to adopt a new code every three or six years as needed. The private out-of-state corporations who make millions writing and publishing code books object to HB 4561 because they would lose profits. I would love a sweet deal that gives me a monopoly to create a product, force my customers to buy my product at whatever price I decide to charge, force my customers upgrade to a new, more expensive version when I want them to and, if they don’t buy my product, take away their ability to earn a living. Let’s put good government ahead of the special interests. Tell your state senator to support

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Media coverage adds to the upward spiral of gas prices Hey media! Don’t you know that by predicting high gasoline prices you are conditioning the consumer to expect your high predictions? The gasoline sellers then raise their prices up to your predictions! Spend your lip service telling the consumers how we are being ripped off and the sellers are reaping the huge profits as a result of your stupid predictions! Come on media! When you are about to blab your smiling high predictions, do us a favor and — shut up! Barry Bristol Lansing

Be more analytical when writing math calculations, LSJ LSJ should seriously consider a “fact checker” with some mathematical skills. The recent news article regarding the train company in Mason stated that it took $100,000 to fuel a train engine, according to the company spokesperson. Even if the train had to pay the fuel taxes for highway vehicles, that would be $4 a gallon, which computes to a train engine holding 25,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Twenty-five plus years ago when doing spill work for CSX, their large engines held 3,000 to 3,500 gallons of fuel. A fairly large tank car designed to carry fuel will hold roughly 20,000 gallons. I see the train engines in Mason and they don't look large enough to hold 25,000 gallons of fuel. Edward Everett Webberville

Here’s another idea to revamp Bowl Championship Series Concerning the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), how's this: Take the top four ranked teams. Give them a bye. Then play your four BCS-ers using number five on up, the usual automatics and hit-or-miss. Perhaps give an automatic to five

and six or maybe five through eight. This collection, even chopping off seven and eight, should satisfy most. This would be the first round. Then you play the winners against the seeded elite, this would be the second round. And then third and fourth, just like pro football. Or not, after all they’re just college kids. Steve Gochberg Lansing

Seeing more grocery store scanner errors than ever With the new laws that eliminated individual pricing on items at the grocery stores, I’ve been overcharged at least four times. If the error isn’t caught at the store, I have to decide if it is worth the $4 a gallon in gas to go back to the store to get the money back (the scanner law is still in effect — you get the difference that you overpaid, plus 10 times the difference, not to exceed five dollars). There have been times when I let the overcharge go, as it is not worth the gas it takes to run back and make the correction. It’s pretty sad that Gov. Rick Snyder had this as one of his top things to do upon taking office. I am overcharged more often now than ever before. Keep your eyes on the prices on the shelf, and make sure the cashier/scanner charges correctly! Beverly Hynes Lansing

There are more important stories than Rush Limbaugh Recently, the news media has put out a lot of fodder. Rush Limbaugh has said something, even though a few people might think the same thing. He has apologized for the statement, but was still criticized. However, Bill Maher has also said some things, but he is known for having a garbage mouth. I have yet to understand his humor because he only has a 25 word vocabulary. It is hopeful that a few people will wake up and say to themselves that there are more important things to worry about. I have shown these comments to others and they agree. Richard Skinner Lansing

Sal DiCiccio says he’s sorry. It is, he says, no excuse that the complex labor contracts that he, as a member of the Phoenix city council, voted to ratify for city employees were presented to the council less than a week before the vote. He says he should have seen that the contracts contain some indefensible, not to mention unconstitutional, provisions, such as those pertaining to “release time.” Read on, and then find out if similar things GEORGE are occurring in your WILL community. They probably are. The “gift clause” in Arizona’s Constitution and similar provisions in some other states are supposed to prevent state or municipal governments from conferring special benefits on “any individual, association, or corporation.” The proscribed benefits include gifts, loans of state credit, donations, grants or subsidies. This clause has been largely vitiated by Arizona courts’ decisions allowing entanglements of government and private interests that supposedly serve a “public purpose” or provide a “public benefit.” These are loopholes large enough to drive a truck through — a truck carrying $900,000. That is the estimated value of the release time taxpayers are funding just for the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, the police union. The $900,000 pays union officials to work exclusively performing undefined union business, including lobbying, on the city’s time and the taxpayers’ dime. Officials of the six other public employees unions also have full-time city jobs. The annual bill for 73,000 hours of release time is $3.7 million. In 2007, voters backed a sales tax increase to pay for more police and firefighters. DiCiccio, who is working for better contracts, knows that few voters knew about the existence, let alone the costs, of release time. Other states and local governments have release time provisions in contracts with public employees, as do some federal contracts. The unions, and their partners and enablers in government, insist that release time activities improve government employees’ morale and efficiency and they receive the release time benefit in lieu of higher wages and benefits. But how could that be demonstrated? Release time provisions have existed for 40 years. What is new is a willingness to call attention to them and contest them, a willingness born of the pressure the recession has put on municipal budgets. Just as a recession has the benefit of making private enterprises more conscious of efficiencies, it makes governments less cavalier about expenditures. As a percentage of the workforce, private-sector unionization peaked in 1954. Now, thanks to events here and in Wisconsin, Indiana and elsewhere, and thanks to officials like DiCiccio, public-sector unionization may have passed its apogee. What do you think? Write George Will, Washington Post Writers Group, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071.

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Don’t legislate to allow discrimination Forty years ago this month — on March 7, 1972 — East Lansing became the first city in the United States to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. As we mark this historic milestone, NATHAN I am troubled that rather than build on TRIPLETT East Lansing’s exis mayor pro tem of ample, our state LegisEast Lansing and a lature is considering member of the legislation that would Michigan Municipal void our landmark League Board of nondiscrimination Trustees. policy. State Rep. Tom McMillin, R-Rochester Hills, has introduced a bill to ban communities from adopting nondiscrimination ordinances more inclusive than the state’s ElliotLarsen Civil Rights Act, which does not prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. In East Lansing, and in at

least 17 other Michigan cities, McMillin’s bill would legalize discrimination against gay and lesbian Michiganders. Set aside the fact that McMillin’s bill is an affront to Michigan’s long-standing tradition of local control. Set aside that this bill is nothing more than the latest in an unfortunately long line of thinly veiled legislative attacks on LGBT families. As Michiganders, we should all be deeply concerned about the lasting negative impact anti-gay legislation like McMillin’s bill will have on our ability to compete in a global economy. Governor Snyder has spoken frequently about the economic imperative of attracting and retaining talent in Michigan. The fact that respect for diversity is vital to economic development is well established. In his groundbreaking book The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida argued that the presence of technology, talent

and tolerance were each essential for economic development. Florida specifically noted the importance of LGBT people in dynamic creative economies. Lou Glazer, the president of Michigan’s Future, has likewise made the case that “building a culture that is welcoming to all” is vital to attracting and retaining talent. Not only does McMillin’s bill not contribute to the cultivation of a creative economy, it actively undermines the work being done by cities like East Lansing to make Michigan an attractive place for talented people to locate. Republican legislators like McMillin are quick to extol the virtues of running government like a business, but in this case personal bias appears to have trumped best practice. Eighty-six percent of Fortune 500 companies have adopted policies banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. Michigan firms that prohibit discrimination

Early education is vital Success will impact Michigan's future

Early, childhood, investment, economic, development, efficient, results, accountability. When used together these words define a key component of Michigan’s future and economic revitalization. Why? Because leading business executives and organizations, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, agree that investment in early DAN childhood development is a signifiDEGROW cant economic develis superintendent opment tool. of the St. Clair Investing in the County Regional health, emotional Education Service well-being, and eduAgency and served cation of children in the Michigan before they enter Legislature from kindergarten pays 1981-2009, massive dividends including as due not only to assurMajority Leader of ance of a high-quality the Senate from workforce, but also 1999-2009. because of the enormous long-term savings realized by reduced costs to education and the social welfare and criminal justice systems. Investment, however, is only one side of the equation. Results are what matter. By focusing on efficient public-private partnerships, system accountability, and expecting solid returns on investment, Michigan has become a nationwide leader in the area of early childhood development. The Early Childhood Investment Corp. is leading the effort. The Early Childhood Investment Corp. is a hybrid organization — part public, part private. The ECIC sits at the nexus of Michigan early childhood efforts, including 54 local leadership groups called Great Start Collaboratives working on early childhood efficiencies in their communities; 70 Great Start Parent Coalitions, made up of more than 25,000 parents who want to talk about the importance of early childhood investment Gov. Rick Snyder’s new Office of Great Start; and a score of other public and private programs, innovations and stakeholders. The Early Childhood Investment Corp. was created to alter the status quo, not be part of it. It looks at existing funding and figures out how to efficiently get more out of every dollar in order to solve problems and

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produce results. Moreover, the Investment Corporation brings accountability to the myriad of groups that administer program spending. Efficiency, results and accountability are not words often associated with government programs, but they’re the very words that make the Early Childhood Investment Corporation successful and yield a return on investment for Michigan taxpayers. I served in the state Senate for 20 years, and most of that time was chair of the Senate K-12 Appropriations subcommittee. I understand well the pressures that arise during budget time at the Capitol. Cost-benefit analy-

sis needs to be applied to ensure Michigan realizes clear benefit from expenditure of tax dollars by government agencies and programs. The Early Childhood Investment Corp. falls firmly on the benefit side of any analysis. I commend Gov. Snyder and state legislators for their continued commitment to early childhood development focused on results, accountability, and a brighter future. They’re helping send a message about our state that we all want portrayed — that the Michigan of both today and tomorrow is, and will be, a world-class place to live, work, and do business.

TALK ABOUT IT THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: In light of the fact that the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament generates billions for the NCAA and broadcast networks, should the student athletes be paid?

Set up trust funds Division I student athletes generate considerable cash for their colleges and coaches. Yet, most of them never reap any significant personal financial benefit from their participation. True, a few enter the lucrative ranks of professional sports, but many more suffer injuries that plague them for the rest of their lives. Let’s stop pretending that these are amateur athletes. Set up trust funds using a percentage of the sports’ proceeds, which accrue to the students once they complete college. William L. Brown, Mason

Modest pay should be included Many football and basketball teams are major sources of revenue and prestige for their universities. Some athletes use college sports to prepare for careers as professional athletes. Athletes who are recruited to play major university sports should receive modest pay plus room and board for four years. They should also receive disability insurance and not have to take classes. But, if they want, they should receive free tuition plus expenses until they earn their degree. Jim Waun, East Lansing

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No pay for student athletes Call me old fashioned, but I believe that students should not be paid to play sports. Athletes do work hard, and I think they should have scholarships to cover room, board and tuition — if they keep a decent grade point average. Allowing students to be paid professionals is just taking the focus off the game, the sport of it, and propelling these young people into being employees of a big machine. I think this would lead to more corruption. The job of a university is to educate their young people and prepare them to go on and have careers that will contribute to the good of our society; it is not to broker professional deals using student athletes as pawns. Therese Dawe, Lansing

Paying them is bad idea No, no, no! Players accept scholarships worth thousands of dollars which provide them with an opportunity for a college education. If they excel, they also have a venue to display their talents and possibly attract professional teams. At a minimum, they receive a college education. Paying players would be a slippery slope. Schools would compete for ath-

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Education, housing has value Student athletes are already being paid, at least those on scholarship. They receive a college education, housing, some meals, books and lab fees. They get personal fitness training and access to exercise equipment you would normally only find in the most expensive athletic clubs. Their medical care is provided for. All they have to do is play a sport well and pass academic classes by the barest of margins. Most of them, it is true, will not go on to play their sport professionally, but after four or five years, the more diligent athletes will have a college degree, along with the cachet of having been a college student athlete. I think those perks overall are sufficient compensation. Michael Kavanagh, Lansing

Consider a loan program What do you mean, “should they be paid?” — they are paid! They get a free ride for a college education. I regularly talk to students who incur $40,000 to

against gay and lesbian employees include GM, Ford, Chrysler, Kellogg, Whirlpool, Dow Chemical, Meijer and Steelcase, to name but a few. If legislators believe government should run like a business, then Michigan should welcome talented LGBT employees and their families with open arms, not try to run them out of town. Forty-years ago, East Lansing put Michigan on the map as a leader in the movement for fairness and equality. Twenty-one states, the District of Columbia and over 140 cities across America have followed in our footsteps by banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. Now is not the time to turn back the clock. Instead, Michigan should embrace our history and our diversity, reject Rep. McMillin’s discriminatory bill and work to make our state a magnet for the world’s best and brightest.

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World has put Tehran on notice The end-game in the Iranian nuclear crisis is rushing forward. The differences between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Iran, principally questions of timing and tactics, have been well publicized. But last week Obama stated more explicitly than ever that the two nations share the objective of ensuring that Iran does not acquire nuclear weapons capability. Specifically, Obama told an interviewer that he was willing to use a “military component” against Iran as a last resort if talks and persuasion don’t work. “I don’t bluff,” he added. This is tough talk for a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize leading a war-weary nation. The upcoming talks with Western nations represent Iran’s last chance to show it is a rational nation-state whose leaders realize they’ve exhausted the patience of law-abiding countries. For years, the ayatollahs have played a dangerous game, using subterfuge, double-talk and bluster to build a secret nuclear program while reassuring suspicious critics of their peaceful intentions. Why should anyone believe them? The regime has nurtured terrorist movements around the world. It has refused to cooperate with international arms inspectors. Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regularly threatens harm to Iran’s critics. A steady U.S. naval buildup around the Persian Gulf, coupled with sanctions that make it harder for Iran to refine its oil and stay connected to the world financial system, has put pressure on the regime. This approach has persuaded other nations to join a united front against Iran. The clearest example lies in France’s change of attitude. It famously refused to join the invasion of Iraq. This time French President Nicolas Sarkozy was the first among leaders of the six powers negotiating with Iran to push for tighter sanctions on Iranian oil and finance. His foreign minister says Iran continues to be “two-faced” and insincere. Translation: We won’t be fooled again. Iran cannot say it has not been warned. Miami Herald, March 11

$50,000 of debt in student loans while getting their degree. I would propose that getting a college education at no cost is payment enough. As far as all the money tournaments generate, doesn’t Gardin it support all the nonrevenue sports (which also provide free educations) and provide opportunities for untold numbers of young people to attend college. I would rather make available, to those students with pro-athletic potential, a loan program that they could draw against for spending money, which would have to be paid back when they started their pro careers. Kind of like a reverse mortgage. John Peterson, Holt

Pay will corrupt college sports I don’t believe student athletes should be paid. They should be awarded enhanced scholarship packages. They should not be employed at all. To protect the integrity of college basketball, pay shouldn’t be on the table. College basketball should continue to be a feeder system for the NBA, not a competition about wages. This is an opportunity not only for building skills but character also, and money can corrupt that process. Diane Gardin, Lansing “Talk about it” features comments from the LSJ Community Panel. Their views appear weekly. This is a selection of responses. See more comments online at www.lsj.com.

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Iowa woman bakes fudge for U.S. troops overseas Andrew Potter The Associated Press

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Six thousand pounds of

fudge in two months. Sounds like the effort of a chocolate factory? No, just the amount of the sweet stuff Marshalltownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vicki Hansen makes in her kitchen during the holidays every year. Hansen began making fudge to send to troops when her children were serving overseas, and it has grown through the years to where she sends them to troops all over the world. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good thing, and I have fun doing it,â&#x20AC;? Hansen said. She has made 30,000 pounds of fudge from her grandmotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recipe since 2000 and has sent her delectable creations to American troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, France, England, Germany and Italy, as well as military bases domestically. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t defend our country, but I can make fudge,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? Hansen said. She typically makes the fudge during November and December, but that has been extended to more times during the year as word has spread, and requests keep coming in. Her made-fromscratch fudge is known for its moist, fresh, homemade taste. She is so busy in the kitchen that she rarely sleeps during her peak months of production and doubles her electricity usage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People call me the hidden angel because no one knows I do this,â&#x20AC;? Hansen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do it because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only thing I know how to do.â&#x20AC;?

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Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll often contact chaplains at the overseas bases who will end up picking up her fudge at the airport to keep it in good condition before it is enjoyed by the troops. This past holiday season, a box of fudge was making its way around the Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany when, by chance, it was noticed by Chief Petty Officer Eddie Carder of the U.S. Navy. Carder is a native of Van Cleve, southwest of Marshalltown. He noticed the ZIP code and couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe the package came from Marshalltown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was blown away,â&#x20AC;? said Carder, who is based in Virginia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been home for the holidays for a few years now and actually chuckled to

the fact that I had to travel to Germany to get some homemade fudge from the Marshalltown area.â&#x20AC;? In a letter to Hansen, Carder wrote: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Please never think what you are doing is in vain. I may only be one person, but I truly appreciate what you do.â&#x20AC;? Hansen was just as blown away to receive a thank-you letter from Carder, and she said she was glad she was able to make his holiday away from home brighter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was totally shocked,â&#x20AC;? Hansen said. The two now have become pen pals and contact each other regularly. Hansen is always looking for tins to use for her shipments or for some help to cover the cost of postage on the shipments.

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BELFAST BETS ON THE TITANIC Jill Lawless The Associated Press

To most of the world, the name Titanic means tragedy, spiced with romance, sacrifice and luxury. But in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where it was built, the doomed ship was a triumph of industry, enterprise and engineering. The city hopes the rest

The Titanic leaves Southampton, England, on her maiden Atlantic Ocean voyage to New York. AP

â&#x20AC;&#x153;What happened to the Titanic was a disaster,â&#x20AC;? said Tim Husbands, chief executive of Titanic Belfast, a $160 million visitor attraction due to open March 31, in advance of the 100th anniversary of the shipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sinking. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the ship wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.â&#x20AC;? Colin Cobb, a Titanic expert who leads walking tours of the docks and slipways where the great ship was built a century ago, puts it even more succinctly: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tragedy plus time equals tourism.â&#x20AC;? Celebrating the ship and its builders is the aim of Titanic Belfast, a shiny new â&#x20AC;&#x153;visitor experienceâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t call it a museum â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whose four prow-like wings jut jauntily skyward beside the River Lagan on the site of the former Harland and Wolff shipyard. Titanic, then the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest, most luxurious ocean liner, left this spot on April 2, 1912, eight days before its maiden voyage from England to New York. The vessel touted as â&#x20AC;&#x153;practically unsinkableâ&#x20AC;? hit an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and sank in the early hours of April 15, 1912. More than 1,500 of the 2,200 people on board died. Belfast mourned â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and then, for decades, kept quiet about its link to the tragedy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When she sank, it was a huge shock for the city,â&#x20AC;? said Susie Millar, whose great-grandfather Thomas Millar was a deck engineer who died aboard the Titanic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For years and years it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t discussed. But now, coming up to the 100th anniversary, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve rediscovered that pride in the ship and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sharing those stories again.â&#x20AC;? Belfast is banking on the global reach of the Titanic name, a fame given new momentum by James Cameronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hit 1997 movie, which set Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s starcrossed love story aboard the doomed

Top: A visitor peers at 3D projections of the inside of the doomed ship at the new Titanic attraction. AP

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when news organizations promote open government and freedom of information. WASHINGTON — The Citing the law, The Ashunt for Osama bin Laden sociated Press asked for took nearly a decade. It may take even long- files about the raid in er to uncover U.S. govern- more than 20 separate rement emails, planning requests, mostly submitted ports, photographs and the day after bin Laden’s more that would shed death. The Pentagon said light on how an elite team this month it could not of Navy SEALs killed the find any photographs or world’s most wanted ter- video taken during the raid or showrorist. ing bin Laden’s Ten months body. It also after that elecsaid it could not trifying covert find any immission, an adages of bin ministration Laden’s body that has on the Navy pledged to be aircraft carrithe most transer where the alparent in AmerQaida leader’s ican history is Sen. James body was taken. refusing to reThe Pentalease docu- Inhofe said gon said it could ments about it he favors not find any under the Freedom of Informa- making some death certifition Act. cate, autopsy The records less graphic report or recould provide photos public sults of DNA insight into how identification to dispel bin Laden died, tests for bin how the U.S. ver- doubts that Laden, or any ified his identity maOsama bin pre-raid and how it decidterials discussed to bury him at ing how the govLaden is sea, as well as ernment dead. photographs planned to distaken during pose of bin Ladand after the May 2011 en’s body if he were killed. raid on his compound in It said it searched files at Abbottabad, Pakistan. the Pentagon, U.S. Special Government officials Operations Command in have openly discussed de- Tampa, Fla., and the Navy tails of the mission in command in San Diego speeches, interviews and that controls the USS Carl television appearances, Vinson, the aircraft carribut the administration er used in the mission. won’t disclose records The Defense Departthat would confirm their ment said in late February narrative of that night. that it could not find any The Obama administra- emails about the bin Ladtion has not said even en mission or his “Geroniwhere in Washington’s bu- mo” code name that were reaucracy all of the docu- sent or received in the ments might be stored. year before the raid by William McRaven, the Request hits wall three-star admiral at the Requests for bin Laden Joint Special Operations materials were among the Command who organized most significant of any and oversaw the mission. It also could not find filed last year under the open-records law, which any emails from other compels the government senior officers who would to turn over copies of fed- have been involved in the eral records for free or at mission’s planning. It found only three such little cost. Anyone who seeks in- emails written by or sent formation under the law is to then-Defense Secregenerally supposed to get tary Robert Gates, and it unless disclosure would these consisted of 12 hurt national security, vi- pages sent to Gates sumolate personal privacy, or marizing news reports afexpose business secrets ter the raid. Under the FOIA, even or confidential decisionmaking. The law has been if a document contains sethe focus of extra atten- crets about national secution since Sunday, the rity, the government can start of Sunshine Week, censor those passages but The Associated Press

Residents and media gather outside the the compound where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was killed during a Navy SEAL raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011. Efforts to find U.S. records on the mission have been thwarted. AP FILE

This photo, taken by a local resident in May 2011, shows the wreckage of a helicopter next to the compound where officials said Osama bin Laden was shot and killed. AP FILE

must release anything else in the document that is “reasonably segregable.”

Conflicting accounts The information blackout means the only public accounts of the mission come from U.S. officials who have described details of that night. In the hours and days after bin Laden’s death, the White House provided conflicting versions of events, falsely saying bin Laden was armed and even firing at the SEALs, misidentifying which of bin Laden’s sons was killed, and incorrectly saying bin Laden’s wife died in the shootout. President Barack Obama’s press secretary attributed the errors to the “fog of combat.” Since then, no authoritative or contemporane-

ous records have been made available. For the Obama administration, the book on bin Laden appears to be closed. The Pentagon is refusing even to confirm or deny the existence of helicopter maintenance logs and reports about the performance of military gear used in the raid. One of the stealth helicopters that carried the SEALs to Abbottabad crashed during the mission, and its wreckage was left behind. People who lived near bin Laden’s compound took photos of the disabled chopper as it straddled one of the high walls surrounding the building. The photos showed a unique tail rotor that aviation experts said was designed to avoid radar detection. On the AP’s request for the helicopter records

and equipment reports, the Defense Department invoked what is known as a “Glomar response.” The reference dates to the 1970s, when the CIA refused to confirm or deny the existence of the Glomar Explorer, a ship the agency used in the attempted salvage of a sunken Soviet submarine.

Battle continues The AP is appealing the Defense Department’s decision. The CIA, which ran the bin Laden raid and has special legal authority to keep information from being made public, still has not responded to AP’s request for records about the mission. The CIA has photographs of video recordings of bin Laden taken during the operation. In the days after the raid, select U.S. lawmakers were

invited to visit a secure room at CIA headquarters to view more than a dozen of the images, including pictures of bin Laden’s body. They were not allowed to take copies of the photos back to Capitol Hill. Sen. James Inhofe, ROkla., a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he viewed one photo that showed bin Laden’s wounds. Inhofe said others were taken as the body was being prepared for burial at sea. He said Thursday that he favors making at least a few of the less graphic photos public to dispel any doubts that bin Laden is dead. “There are probably still people out there who don’t think he was killed,” he said. Federal courts have upheld the government’s use of the Glomar response, which is often cited in national security cases or is used to protect an individual’s privacy. It’s a tough legal claim to beat in court. The former director of the Justice Department’s Office of Information and Privacy, Dan Metcalfe, said the Pentagon overplayed its position. Citing Glomar in AP’s case means the fact that the military performs maintenance on helicopters or that it prepares reports about weapons performance is itself classified, he said. The Pentagon’s claim is so broad that it “collapses of its own weight,” Metcalfe said.

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WASHINGTON — In his final days, Osama bin Laden schemed over an effort to kill President Barack Obama and other top U.S. officials, documents recovered from his compound show. A senior administration official confirmed the existence of a bin Laden proposal to assassinate Obama and Gen. David Petraeus, first reported Friday by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. The official said the documents show bin Laden spent much of his time brooding and offering guidance that went unheeded and that he was extremely concerned with improving al-Qaida’s public image, going so far

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ants, including one letter in which he proposed changing the name of alQaida “because of the group’s declining public image,” the official said. In the months since the operation that killed bin Laden last May, government analysts have been poring over letters, documents, video and other items taken from the compound. Officials are preparing to declassify the material and make some of it public, according to the official, who declined to release the documents or make them available for inspection. Ignatius said in his column that a senior administration official showed him the documents, in which bin Laden said that “Obama is the head of infidelity.”

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Historic ruling on health care law looms proposal, which put the burden on employers. All four GOP presidential candidates now promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which they call â&#x20AC;&#x153;Obamacare.â&#x20AC;? Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum calls it â&#x20AC;&#x153;the death knell for freedom.â&#x20AC;? So much for compromise.

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WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Death, taxes and now health insurance? Having a medical plan or paying a fine is about to become another certainty of American life, unless the Supreme Court says no. People are split over the wisdom of President Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health care overhaul, but they are nearly united against its requirement that everybody have insurance. The mandate is intensely unpopular even though more than 8 in 10 people in the U.S. already are covered by workplace plans or government programs such as Medicare. When the insurance obligation kicks in, not even two years from now, most people wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to worry or buy anything new. Nonetheless, Americans donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like being told how to spend their money, not even if it would help solve the problem of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than 50 million uninsured. Can the government really tell us what to buy?

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James Cameron exits a submersible during testing in Jervis Bay, south of Sydney, Australia.

Real final frontier “It’s the last frontier for science and exploration on this planet,” Cameron said. “It’s to draw public attention to the oceans and continued need for exploration as well as stewardship. It would be a good thing if we understand the oceans before we destroy the life that’s in them.” Cameron plans to spend at least six hours on the bottom in his cramped, almost form-fitting sub, Deepsea Challenger. He plans to film an undersea documentary with his partner National Geographic, including 3D footage. Craig McLean, chief of research for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, calls Cameron a hero.“This is an awakening for the public on how little we know about our planet,” McLean said. “We don’t have to look up in the sky to find what’s out there. We’ve got it in our oceans.”

ed and caused a dust-up in the fine flat oatmeal-colored bottom, he could see nothing. “It was like staring into a bowl of milk,” said Walsh, who is in Guam with the Cameron expedition. Cameron won’t be alone in trying to follow Walsh. But the next up is likely to be Branson. His company last year bragged that it’s been to all seven continents and is going into space, so a $17 million sub venture is the next logical step. Google founder Schmidt is helping fund a $40 million effort by California-based DOER Marine to work on a more science-oriented human deep sea sub that is at least two years away. Also said to be in the hunt is Triton Submarines in Florida, a firm that has no celebrity connections. While some people call this “a race to the bottom,” DOER Marine’s president Liz Taylor said this is far more collegial. “What we really have is a race against time in terms of what humans are doing to the oceans,” she said. Oceans provide most of the world’s oxygen. “Basically it’s our planetary life support system at stake,” she added, “and we’re treating it as a supermarket and sewer at the same time.”

Cameron’s submersible starts its first test dive off Papua New Guinea. His venture is the first time in more than 50 years that man has dared dive to the deepest depths. PHOTOS BY M.THIESSEN/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Andy Bowen, director of the deep sea sub lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, remotely guided the unmanned Nereus to the same sea floor for 13 hours in 2009. He calls the pitch dark, icy cold place “the most hostile, most remote environment on the face of the planet.” McLean said the 16,500 pounds-per-square inch pressure isn’t bone-crushing, “it’s obliterating.” Cameron said if there were a leak, the pressure would crush him so fast he couldn’t even cry out.

But getting to that dangerous place, Bowen said, “is frankly intoxicating.”

Majestic depths Cameron already feels the majesty and he hasn’t been quite that deep yet. Last week, on a test dive for his 12-ton, 25-foot vertical sub, Cameron went to a different trench 5.1 miles down. That set a record for the deepest solo sub dive and he was mesmerized by deep sea anemones that looked like hanging gardens, tube worms and jellyfish that pulsed by.

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Spain, Portugal desperate for rain Daniel Woolls The Associated Press

of wheat, barley and oats. And not all regions are as bad off as Huesca, a northern province where the Pyrenees lie and where Luna is president of a chapter of the ASAJA farmers association.

ROBRES, Spain — Fernando Luna, a burly Spanish farmer, yanks a barley sprout from a field as dry as powder. He examines its roots, which are mostly dead, then tosses the Could be lean year But the March forecast is not stunted shoot away in disgust. “Worthless! This is worth- good for farmers — just more blue skies, says Fermin Elizaga less!” he shouts. Spain is suffering through its of the national weather service. driest winter in more than 70 “Out in the countryside, the sityears and bailed-out Portugal uation is probably going to get next door is in similar straits. worse,” he says. A key concern is how full Thousands of jobs and many Spain’s reservoirs millions in agriculwill be for watertural output are in ing the lucrative jeopardy. Both nafruit and vegetable tions are desperSpain got crops that are the ately short of so less than 30 pride and joy of the much: tax revenues, bank credit, percent of its country’s $52 billion agriculture jobs, hope for the normal and livestock infuture. Now, it dustry. won’t even rain. precipitation Nationwide, resThe landscape in northern Spain is from December ervoirs are at an average 62 percent a palette in shades through of capacity — not of ugly. Pale brown February. so bad — but in fields without Huesca they’re crops or pasture just 20 percent. stretch into the distance. A pond for watering That means farmers get just 20 sheep has shriveled into a dust- percent of the water normally bowl. An irrigation canal down allotted for irrigation and must the road holds only stagnant wa- leave much of their land idle. ter, murky from so much sedi- ASAJA estimates this will cost Huesca province about $1.7 bilment and so little flow. Luna waves this way and lion in lost revenue from drastithat, distraught over fields he cally smaller harvests of peachsays are doomed to yield zero es, cherries, almonds and harvest. “Imagine, the color of grapes. In a good year, 6,000 people vinegar! They should be green, green, green,” he says of the work in the Huesca harvest and barley fields that lack shoots. another 2,000 in canning, packStalks should be reaching half- aging and related services. It could be a lean year for them, as way up the shin at this point. it will be for much of Spain, with An arid winter its nearly 23 percent jobless Spain got less than 30 per- rate — the highest in the 17-nacent of its normal precipitation tion eurozone — and an econofrom December through Febru- my expected to slip into its secary. There is a slim window of10 ond recession in three years. In Galicia, Spain’s lushly days or so for it to rain and help farmers like Luna salvage at green northwestern corner least part of their winter crops where it usually rains all the

At left, Farmer Jose Manuel Allue adjusts irrigation sprayers as he waters his barley crops in Robres. If the crop fails, he has a herd of 1,100 pigs to fall back on.

The terrain in Robres is parched, as is much of Spain and Portugal. PHOTOS BY EMILIO MORENATTI/AP

time, pastures have no grass this year. Farmers there and elsewhere are being forced to ship in fodder for sheep and cattle at a cost of $2.6 million a day, said ASAJA national spokesman Gregorio Juarez. Being so used to plentiful rain, Galicia and other parts of northern Spain have fewer reservoirs, so they are less prepared than the often blazingly hot south, where places like Andalusia and Extremadura on the border with Portugal catch every drop of precious rain. In Huesca, one reservoir built in the 1950s is now so low you can see the ruins of a submerged village, Mediano. At the best of times, the tip of its 16thcentury church belltower peeks out of the water and boaters row up and touch it. These days, the water is so low you could walk into the church itself if the front door were not sealed up. In Portugal, Joao Dinis, a spokesman for Portugal’s National Farms Confederation,

said the drought has added to hardships caused by the country’s acute financial crisis, which forced it to ask for a $102 billion bailout last year, making credit scarce.

‘Very difficult’ period Farmers are enduring “a very, very difficult” period, with cereal crops badly hit and grazing land in short supply. The weather service classifies almost half of Portugal as being in severe drought. “It’s the worst situation in living memory,” Dinis said. Portugal’s Farm Ministry on Thursday announced seven new emergency measures — including a cut in social security contributions — to help farmers and ranchers. Farm Minister Assuncao Cristas said the measures were equivalent to $52 million in aid. In Robres, a speck of a village in Huesca, barley farmer Jose Manuel Allue is taking the rare step of watering his crop,

grains like wheat and barley that are normally fed by rain alone. And he is blowing his entire irrigation quota in just two days, using 6-foot-high sprinklers to soak a piece of land as big as 40 football fields. “After that is gone, it is just a matter of looking to the sky and hoping,” he said, taking long drags on a strong, thick Spanish cigarette as the earthy smell of a pig farm wafts by. Seconds later, something does appear in the sky, but it’s not clouds: three water-dumping fire planes returning from a mission further north. Forest fires — a staple of Spanish summers — have broken out in recent weeks because of the dry conditions, very early in the year for such blazes. Ditto for Portugal. Allue checks the weather forecast on the Internet or TV first thing each morning but he has a herd of 1,100 pigs to tide him over if his barley crop proves worthless.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Even by Alaska standards, this winter is unusual for the hardy residents of the state’s largest city. Near-record snowfall buried Anchorage neighborhoods, turning streets into canyons with walls of snow on each side. The snow’s weight collapsed the roofs of some buildings. Moose are fleeing into the city to get away from too-deep snow. And the city dumps are close to overflowing with snow that may not melt entirely before next winter. Love or hate it, some residents are hoping for more, at least another 3.3 inches. Then they could say they made it through the winter when the nearly 60-year record of 132.6 inches was broken.

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‘Extreme events’ Global warming could also be a factor because it is supposed to increase weather extremes, climate scientists say. “When you start to see the extreme events become more common, that’s when you can say that it is a consequence of global warming,” University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver said. Nearly 11 feet of snow has fallen on Anchorage this winter, forcing the city to haul away at least 250,000 tons of snow — or around 500 million pounds — to its six snow disposal sites. The sites are close to overflowing. Nick Wiederholt is sick of snow and cold and can’t wait for the long, warm days of summer. But first, he’s bracing for the mess ahead when the snow melts.

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NASA is watching Baumgartner tested the same pressurized capsule and full-pressure suit that he will use in a few months for a record-setting free fall from 120,000 feet. The extra protection is needed because there’s virtually no atmosphere at such heights. That’s nowhere near space but high enough to grab NASA’s attention. Engineers working on astronaut escape systems for future

Felix Baumgartner prepares to jump during the first manned test flight Thursday for Red Bull Stratos 13 miles above Roswell, N.M. AP

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ties and salaries. "I won't work for the governor. I won't work for that financial team of nine people. I work for people in the city of Detroit because they voted me in to do this," the mayor declared. "We didn't vote the governor or Lansing or these nine people to run the city of Detroit, and they shouldn't." Snyder countered that the mayor and City Council still would be responsible for setting See SNYDER, Page 2B

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EAST LANSING — Outside of Case Hall at Michigan State University, students drifted through the dusk in their St. Patrick’s Day best. Inside, in a classroom on the third floor, Rachel Manela was reading, aloud and with feeling. "It can never be, sir; it does not sound likely. Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale — a daydream." This was the 24th chapter of Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre,” a scene in which the heroine, having received a proposal of marriage, questions her good fortune. Manela and a shifting group of fellow students and professors from the university’s James Madison College had been reading the book to one another for nearly 11 hours. They had just begun its second half. “It’s looking to go pretty late,” said Manela, a sophomore. She had no intention of leaving. “To experience it out loud with other people from beginning to end is just an amazing experience. It’s otherworldly.” Begun eight years ago, marathon readings are an annual tradition at Madison. The first novel was “Moby-Dick.” It took more than 22 hours. By the 18th hour, Madison professor Eric Petrie painted his face to look like Queequeg, the novel’s copiously tattooed harpoon thrower. Students followed suit. “Twenty hours into it, people really wanted to see that damn whale dead,” said Rod

MSU student Dolores Sinistaj takes her turn reading "Jane Eyre" on Saturday with a group of James Madison College students and professors. For more photos, visit www.lsj.com. ROBERT KILLIPS/LSJ

Phillips, another Madison professor who has been involved from the start. In the years that followed, there were novels that worked well — Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” for instance — and those that worked less well. Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” had to be broken up into two days, undermining the ex-

perience of a long, slogging read. The humor in Kurt Vonnegut’s “SlaughterhouseFive” kind of fell flat. Phillips said patterns have emerged. Books that involve quests work better than those that don’t. Books that can be read in eight or 10 hours aren’t as satisfying as those that take 18 or 20 hours. “There has to be kind of a feeling of a rite of passage for

it to really succeed,” he said. “There has to be some suffering involved.” And there is a payoff. “With marathon readings, you change the rules of book reading,” said Ansel Courant, a sophomore who held out through the full 18.5-hour reading of Frank Herbert’s “Dune” last year. “It makes it a See MARATHON, Page 5B

A simple plan for success in bracket racket JOHN SCHNEIDER jschneider@lsj.com 377-1175

ample, a baseball guy and his hipster L.A. daughter. Oh, well; let them munch their sour grapes; I’ll monitor the tournament, fingers crossed, no ego on the line, my mind free of burdensome basketball minutiae. Do I care that, for some reason in every tournament a Number 12 seed (whatever that means) always beats a Number 5 seed? Do I care that the last eight champions have had the color blue in their uniforms? Please, don’t confuse me with facts. Wait a minute ... this is sup-

posed to be a general interest column; let me back up a little ... Many of you, when you hear the word “bracket,” think “book shelf.” That was me not too many years ago. Generally speaking, Detroit boys growing up in the 1950s and ’60s tended not to cultivate a taste for college basketball. Now that I’m more educated, I can tell you that the non-book shelf bracket involves a bunch of college basketball teams playing numerous games in a short period of time, until only one team remains undefeated. The technical term for it is “March Madness.” As with the tournament, there can only one bracket team left standing when the final buzzer buzzes. Now, I’m going to reveal the strategy my daughter and I have ridden to

the top. Twice. In both cases we, a) picked the higher seeds in all the games, and, b) rode the Spartans longer than anybody else. That, my friends, is how we became Cinderella. See? It’s not that hard.

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’ll get right to the point here, in headline form: Proven NCAA bracket pool winners pick Spartans to go all the way. That would be my daughter and me, who, inexplicably, have won the whole shebang twice in recent years, in a pool infested with college basketball junkies and assorted other contestants who, unlike us, have a firm grasp of the business at hand. That’s why I used the word “winners,” not “experts,” in my introduction. Nowhere, I’m told, is the distinction between knowledge and success more disparate than in this bracket racket. I know basketball guys who refuse to participate for that very reason. They just can’t face the prospect of getting out-maneuvered by, for ex-

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COMMUNITY SUPPORT WAS OVERWHELMING The Mason Band Boosters want to express their sincere thanks to all individuals and organizations who have provided financial support this year. The Boosters would like to especially thank the Igle family and Monsanto Corp.,for their generous donation. The Boosters are grateful to the Mason Optimist Club for the very successful fund-

as a former professional basketball player who started his own steel supply company and other businesses after 12 Hall of Fame seasons in the National Basketball Association. Both took steps to erase their respective governments' deficits and get concessions from public employee unions. Snyder attended Bing's State of the City speech last year, and they later shared courtside seats at a basketball game at the University of Michigan, Snyder's alma mater. "Every once in a while, you've got to have fun," Bing, a former Syracuse University and Detroit Pistons star, said at the time. "Our jobs are very demanding, and very seldom do we get a chance to do this, so when he invited me, I was honored to come." Even then, the pair had differences over how much financial help Detroit should get from the state. When Bing was elected in a May 2009 run-

raiser that will help band students go to Disney World over spring break and march in a Disney Parade. And, finally the Boosters are touched by the grant from the Capital Region Community Foundation. It is so heartwarming to know that even during these financially challenging times that the Mason community is 100 percent behind the students in the Mason Band program. Anne DeVitto, Mason Band Booster secretary

off for mayor, he inherited a $330 million budget deficit and an office reeling from the extra-marital shenanigans of ex-mayor and now convicted felon Kwame Kilpatrick. He has trimmed the city's deficit, but steep drops in population and housing values have made it hard for the city to arrest the downward spiral. Bing and City Council members say they could balance the city's budget through union concessions and cuts to services if the state would give the city $200 million eliminated under then-Gov. Jennifer Granholm. "I'm not asking for a bailout," Bing said. "Whether it's me and my staff, whether it's an emergency manager that comes in here or whether it's this consent agreement, without some additional funds nothing is going to get done." Snyder says the city's problems go much deeper than a one-time fix to keep the city from going broke in coming months.

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DEATHS&FUNERALS Gladys Eva Dicer Baumgartner

East Lansing Gladys Eva Dicer Baumgartner (Glad), 94, died peacefully on March 10. Glad was born in Port Huron MI, December 14, 1917, the youngest child of William and Estella Little Dicer. She graduated from Denison University in Ohio where she met her husband, Robert Reed Baumgartner. They were married June 20, 1942 and made their home in Detroit following WWII. Glad taught fifth grade in Keego Harbor and history at Port Huron High School as well as directed senior plays. She later worked at Michigan National Bank. A devout Christian, she taught Sunday School for many years, was an elder in the Baptist church, frequently spoke at conferences, and volunteered as Chaplain’s Assistant at Detroit Receiving Hospital. She was a member of Ward Evangelical Presbyterian Church. In 2002, Glad moved to East Lansing, residing at The Marquette and later at Burcham Hills Retirement Center. Glad loved classical music and played the piano until very near the end of her life. Glad was preceded in death by her husband Robert, brothers Maurice and Norm and sister Needra, daughter Sue Ann, and granddaughter Kristin Joy Grafius. She is survived by daughters Ellen (Ed) Grafius of East Lansing and Mary (Ron) Wallen of Farmington; grandchildren Brandon (Shantana) and Darren Grafius; Michelle, Whitney, Kailey Joy, and Darrell Wallen; great grandsons Fenton and Reece Goerge Grafius; niece Carol Jolly and nephews Alan, Gary and Morrie Dicer. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. on Monday, March 19 in Hess Chapel at Ward Evangelical Presbyterian Church, 40000 6 Mile Rd, Northville, MI 48168, with visitation at 10 a.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the Robert R. and Gladys D. Baumgartner Scholarship Fund at Northern Seminary, 660 E. Butterfield Rd. Lombard, IL 60148. The family is being served by Gorsline Runciman Funeral Homes, East Lansing. On line condolences may be made to www.greastlansing.com

Elder Tom "Thomas" C. Bryant, Sr.

Age 83, was born on August 2, 1928 in Joan, AR to John and Varlee Taylor-Bryant and transitioned to his heavenly home on March 13, 2012. Elder Thomas was the second of seven children. Elder Bryant accecpted Christ at and early age and proving faithful to his calling, he was ordained as an Elder, under St. Paul COGIC. Elder Bryant was Lansing resident for 62 years.. He also worked several positions with GM/Fisher Body, Lansing for 31 years, until his retirement. After retiring, he was involved with jail and prison ministries, as well as ministering to hospitals and nursing homes. Elder Bryant was a member of New Life Community COGIC, Lansing, MI. Elder Bryant was no stranger to anyone and enjoyed sharing the word of God with anyone he met. Elder Bryant was preceded in death by: his three children, Barbara Ann Bryant, Oliver Paul Bryant and Frances Mildred Bryant; parents, John and Varlee Taylor-Bryant; sister, Elsie Bryant-Harris; and brother, Osie (Jack) Bryant. He leaves to cherish his memory: his loving wife, Erma Jean Bryant: 6 sons, Tom "Thomas" C. (Valerie) Bryant, Jr. of Duncanville, TX, Ralph (Tina) Bryant of Lansing, David H. Bryant of Lansing, Ronald (Virginia) Bryant of Jackson, TN, Edward N.(Ethel) Bryant of Katy, TX, and Bennie (Shirley) Bryant of Phoenix, AZ; 18 grandchildren, 16 greatgrandchildren; 2 great-great-grandchildren; 2 brothers, Oliver Dean Bryant of Virginia and Gary Bryant of Lansing, and 3 sisters, Clementine Stuart of Oakland, CA, Mary Crosby of Lansing, and Martha Dunlap of Virginia; and a host of other devoted family members, church family and friends. Friends may visit Elder Bryant Sunday, March 18, 12 - 6 p.m., at the Riley Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held Monday, March 19, 1 p.m. at Tabernacle of David Church, 2645 W. Holmes Rd. The family will receive friends 30 minutes prior to the funeral.

David M. Ross Okemos Born December 30, 1952, in Lansing to Richard and Muriel Ross, passed away March 14, 2012 at the age of 59. David was the owner of Ross Violin Repair in Okemos which serviced customers worldwide. He was an accomplished musician, performing on mandolin, guitar, fiddle and voice. Dave was an alumnus of the legendary Lost World Stringband, Stringtown Trio, Jive at Five and Midnight Shift. He played in venues such as the Wheatland Festival, The Prairie Home Companion Radio Show, The Improv Club in New York City and many more. Dave taught at the MSU Community School of Music. Dave is survived by his wife, Rita Marsala; daughter, Natalie Grace Marsala Ross; parents, Richard and Muriel Ross of DeWitt; brothers, Tim Ross, Philip (Polly) Ross, Mike (Mary) Ross and Jim Ross; sister, Anne (Doug) Winkel and numerous nieces and nephews. A Memorial Service will be held on Sunday, March 25, 3 p.m. at Gorsline Runciman Funeral Homes, 1730 E. Grand River Ave, East Lansing with visitation 1 hour prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Dave’s name to Hospice House of Mid-Michigan, PO Box 30480, Lansing, MI 48909 or St. Jude Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1942. On line condolences may be made at www.greastlansing.com

Roy Michael Jones Lansing Roy Michael Jones was born January 17, 1956 in Memphis, TN; the son of Walter & Ruth Jones. Roy Michael moved to Detroit, MI in 1969; there he received his High School education and later attended Michigan State University, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha PSI Fraternity. He retired in 2007 from General Motors. Throughout his life, Roy loved his family, entertaining people, and Bible reading. The greatest joy of Roy’s life was found in coming to know Jehovah God and helping others to do the same. Knowing and trusting the promises of his loving Heavenly Father, gave Roy hope and peace during his final days. Roy Michael was preceded in death by his father, Walter and sister, Sandra Ann. Roy Michael leaves to cherish his memory his faithful & loving wife, Meesha, his devoted mother, Ruth Jones; his sons, Joshua, Koree, Eliaz; daughter, Courtney; 4 grandchildren, Jaylen, Kyla, Jayde, & Jordan; sisters, Phyllis Edwards, Susan (Walter) Mcknight and Karen Jones; brother, Walter (Tanya) Jones and a host of aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, and dear friends. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 pm, Saturday, March 24, 2012 at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 3611 W. Jolly Rd. in Lansing. Condolences can be sent to the family at www.palmerbush.com.

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Dr. Rolland E. Bethards

East Lansing Dr. Rolland "Buck" Bethards, beloved husband, father, grandfather and retired physician, joined our Lord and Savior on March 12, 2012 at the age of 78. Buck graduated with Honors from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1958. After completing his internship and residency in Radiology, he moved his family to East Lansing, Michigan. Buck became a member of Sparrow Hospital’s Department of Radiology in 1965, serving for many years as Medical Director, and was elected to the Sparrow Hall of Fame in 2006. He was also past President of Ingham County Medical Society and served on the board of the Capitol Region Community Foundation. Buck was a member of Eastminster Presbyterian Church and enjoyed vacationing in Harbor Springs with family and friends, where he earned Class III Snipe Hunter accreditation. Buck is survived by his wife, Miriam (Mim); two daughters, Christi (Scott) Fabian and Leslie (Paul) Friedrich; two sons, David (Crisi) and Bruce (Karen) and 7 grandchildren, Alex, Mike, Ben, Jake, Zach, Jack and Grace. His extended family included 4 step-grandchildren, Ryan, Eric, Curt and Sarah. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, May 12 at Eastminster Presbyterian Church. In lieu of flowers, please make contributions to Capital Region Community Foundation, 300 N. Washington Sq., Ste 104, Lansing, MI 48933, the Sparrow Foundation, PO Box 30480, Lansing, MI 48909 or Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 1315 Abbot Rd, East Lansing, MI 48823 to celebrate the life of a great man with an amazing soul! On line condolences may be made at www.greastlansing.com

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Carol Joyce (Parks) Edwards

Carol Joyce (Parks) Edwards, 78, beloved wife, sister, mother, and grandmother, passed peacefully into eternal life on March 8, 2012 after a brief struggle with cancer. An avid quilter and skilled accountant, she will be greatly missed by her family and friends. Carol was born on January 8, 1934 in Lansing, Michigan, where she spent the first third of her life. An art graduate of Michigan State University, Carol continued her work in ceramics while starting her family before moving to Fremont, California. After earning her Masters in English at San Jose State University, she taught high school English before becoming an accountant. Carol was an active member of American Business Women of America until she and her husband retired to Texas for the final third of her life. While in Texas, Carol combined her crafts background with her love of sewing as an avid quilter. A long-time member of the Hill Country Quilt Guild, Carol designed and pieced numerous quilts, many of them for charity. Her eye for color and ear for language will be missed by her surviving family: her husband, Sinclair L. Edwards, Jr., her brother, Gilbert D. Parks of Grand Ledge, MI, her children, Katherine Edwards of Brighton, CO, Rebecca Edwards of Pasadena, CA, and Douglas Edwards of Vacaville, CA, and her grandchildren, Brandon and Darrin Edwards of Vacaville, CA. She was predeceased by her beloved parents, Ernest B. Parks and Helen D. (Graves) Parks. In lieu of flowers, donations are requested to the Carol J. Edwards’ Scholarship Fund, established by the Northern Hills Homeowners Association of San Antonio, of which she was treasurer for many years. The mailing address is "Carol J. Edwards’ Scholarship Fund," c/o Northern Hills Homeowners’ Association, P.O. Box 34792, San Antonio, TX 78465-4792.

Mason Alexander Irvin Imlay lost his battle with Alzheimer’s disease and died March 16, 2012 in Lansing, MI at the age of 78. He was born on November 29, 1933 to Peter and Opal (Notestine) in Detroit, MI. Alexander was an avid hunter and fisherman. He enjoyed all sports and was an exceptional athlete himself. He was the Most Valuable Player in both football and baseball in school and played baseball on a U.S. Marines team, while serving proudly the country he loved. He was a certified bricklayer and welder. He helped to build the smokestacks at Michigan State University. He was a man who could build anything with his hands. He said that he lived the American dream because he was loved by his wife, admired by his children and was able to obtain and work his own farm for many years. Alexander is survived by his loving wife, Betty; daughters Michelle (Paul Wagner) Imlay, Heather Imlay; sons, Alex (Cathy) Imlay, Eric Imlay; grandchildren Peter Imlay, Jennifer Imlay, Olivia Pospiech; brother, Ted Imlay, and sisters, Ellen (John) Bullifant, Josie (Arnie) Cox, Minella Imlay and Carmella (Mark) Psujek. A Memorial Service will be held Monday, March 19, 1:00 p.m. at Gorsline Runciman Funeral Homes, 621 S. Jefferson, Mason, Michigan. Family will receive friends two hours prior to the service. Contributions may be made to the Wounded Warrior Project, 4899 Belfort Rd. Ste. 300, Jacksonville, FL 32256 or Alzheimer’s Association, Capital Area Region, 5303 S. Cedar St. Building 1, Lansing, MI 48911 in memory of Mr. Imlay. The family is being served by Gorsline Runciman Funeral Homes, Mason, MI. On line condolences and memories may be shared at www.grbdmason.com

Perry Born March 30, 1922 in Caledonia, MI, the daughter of Fred and Minnie Newman, passed away March 15, 2012 at the age of 89. Ardith worked in the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office for 17 years, before retiring in 1983. She loved music, and as a member of West Locke Wesleyan Church, she would play piano while singing duets with her husband Dale. She also enjoyed camping with her family. Ardith was preceded in death by her husband of 65 years, Dale F. Bickford in 2008; daughter-in-law, Mary Bickford; former son-in-law, Gail Taylor; brothers, Ray Newman (Helen), Paul Newman (Marjorie), Wayne Newman (Marion) and Morris Newman (Zelona). She is survived by daughter, Kay Taylor of Perry, and son, Dale Bickford Jr. also of Perry; grandchildren, Debbie Colpaert (Kent), Denise Jones (Anthony) and Douglas Taylor (Melissa); greatgrandchildren, Spencer and Austin Colpaert, Molly, Christopher and Emily Taylor. A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, March 19, 2012 at West Locke Wesleyan Church, 2652 Haslett Rd., Williamston. Visitation will be Sunday from 2-4 and 6-8 at Gorsline Runciman Funeral Homes, 205 E. Middle St., Williamston. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to American Cancer Society (Breast Cancer), 3100 West Road - Bldg. B, Suite 110, East Lansing, MI 48823 or West Locke Wesleyan Church, 2652 Haslett Rd., Williamston, MI 48895. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at www.grwilliamston.com

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(June 11, 1948 - March 15, 2012) Perry Jackie A. (Hudson) Russell, age 63 of Perry, passed away on Thursday March 15, 2012 at McLaren Regional Hospital in Lansing. A memorial service will be held at Watkins Brothers Funeral Home in Perry on Wednesday March 21, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. Pastor John Schlaack will officiate. The family will receive friends at the funeral home one hour prior to the service. Jackie was born in Fayette, OH on June 11, 1948, the daughter of Jack & Elizabeth (Harter) Cavanaugh. She worked at the Haslett School system as a cook and later in the janitorial dept. She is survived by her husband, Dan, 3 sons: Robert Cozik of FL, Kevin (Michelle) Cozik of Laingsburg, Matt (Serena) Cozik of Laingsburg, daughter Michelle Hudson of Boston, 6 grandchildren, brothers Jack Cavanaugh of Phoenix, AZ and William Dockstader of Fowerville. She was predeceased by her parents, sister Sandra Godoert and brother Richard Dockstader. Memorials are suggested to the Eli Fund for pets. Online condolences may be sent to www.watkinsfuneralhomes.com

Jack A. Schmits Lansing Age 79, passed away Sunday, March 11, 2012. Jack was born on June 1, 1932, and he was a retired New York Life Insurance agent. Survived by his wife of 52 years, Marcia; 1 daughter, Cyndi; 3 sons, Walt, Dave, and Jeff; 1 granddaughter, Therese; 5 grandsons, Jeff Jr., Patrick, Benjamin, Adam and Jake; 2 brothers in Wisconsin, Bob and Dick, and many special friends in the U.S. and Canada. Burial will be in Northern Wisconsin at a later date. Contributions in memory of Jack may be made to Sr. Mary Kay Drouin, Resurrection Home Inc., P.O. Box 528, Beattyville, KY 41311. Arrangements by Tiffany Funeral Home, Lansing. Friends may visit the guest book at www.tiffanyfuneralhome.com.

Mildred "Millie" M. Vietzke East Lansing Mildred passed away at home surround ed by family March 13, 2012 at the age of 79 after a long battle with cancer. Mildred was born in Lansing on June 13, 1932 to Otto and Lola Musolf. Millie served as Secretary to many Superintendents of Bath Schools for 22 years. She was also a life-long member of the Chapel Hill Methodist and Okemos Community Churches. When not traveling abroad, Millie was an avid quilter who enjoyed classical music, the performing arts, and playing card games with friends and family. She is survived by her husband of 60 years, Warren Vietzke; two sons and daughters-in-law, Lynn and Rose Vietzke of Bath, MI and Les and Mary Vietzke of Ada, MI; two daughters and sons-in-law, Laurel and Craig Cheyne of The Woodlands, Texas, and Leanne and Peter Vigliano of Montclair, Virginia; brother and sister-in-law, Fred and Marlene Musolf; sister and brother-in-law, Laurel and John Headley; 11 grandchildren; four great grandchildren; and many beloved friends. A memorial service is planned and will be announced at a later time. Donations may be made in Millie’s name to Hospice Services, Sparrow Foundation, PO Box 30480, Lansing, MI 48909, Okemos Community Church, 4834 Okemos Rd, PO Box 680, Okemos, MI 48805 or a charity of your preference. The family is being served by Gorsline Runciman Funeral Homes, East Lansing. On line condolences may be made at www.greastlansing.com.

Ardith R. Bickford

Fort Myers, FL Formerly of DeWitt & Roscommon Born November 13, 1916 in DeWitt Township to George and Elfrieda Bliven, passed away March 14, 2012 at the age of 95. Mildred moved to Roscommon Township in 1971 and then to Fort Meyers to be with her son. She loved the outdoors, especially fishing and hunting with her family. She was the hunting camp cook during those outings. Mildred was loved by the staff at Health Park Care Center and made many friends while there. She was a great homemaker and loved her family dearly. Mildred was preceded in death by her husband, Benjamin "Dick"; daughter, Barbara; son, George; 2 sisters and 2 brothers. She is survived by her son, Gene (Lorraine); 13 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren and greatgreat-grandchildren. Mildred is also survived by her sister, Myrthe Belbeck and numerous nieces and nephews. A Funeral Service will be held at Gorsline Runciman Funeral Homes, 205 E. Washington, DeWitt, Michigan on Monday, March 19, at 1:00 p.m. The family will receive friends on Sunday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the chapel. Interment will take place on Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. at DeWitt Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 3100 West Rd, Bldg B, Ste 110, East Lansing, MI 48823 in Mildred’s memory. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at www.grdewitt.com

Leslie C. Patterson Whitehall Leslie C. Patterson, age 69, died March 15, 2012. She was born April 14, 1942, in Lansing, to Charles W. and Margaret (Miles) Harrison. A graduate of Grand Valley State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, Mrs. Patterson was married to Alan Patterson on November 12, 1970. She taught for a time in Holton Public School District. Mrs. Patterson was preceded in death by her parents and a son, Brian Patterson. FAMILY: Her husband, Alan; 3 sons, Greg (Theresa) White of Brighton, Rick White of Brighton, and David White of Muskegon; a grandson, Derek Bruckner of Whitehall; a sister, Margo (Jim) Clyma of PA; mother-in-law, Marget Patterson of E. Lansing; a sister-in-law, Carol Patterson of E. Lansing; 2 brothers-in-law, Charles (Mary Jane) Patterson of Haslett and Ron (Debbie) Patterson of E. Lansing; nieces & nephews. SERVICE: Private services have been held. DONATIONS: National Kidney Foundation of MI, 1169 Oak Valley Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48108.

John Rodney Clark Holt Age 76, died March 15, 2012. John was born June 23, 1935 in Berrien Springs, MI, a son of Donald R. and Dortha May (Washburn) Clark. He was a navy veteran and a retired truck driver. John was preceded in death by his wife, Marilynn Ruth (Treadwell) Clark; sister, Lois Warfield and infant brother, James Edward Clark. Surviving are three sons, Russell E. (Deborah) Clark of Stockbridge, Ronald E. (Terri) Clark of Olivet and Rodney E. (Candes) Clark of Holt; 15 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Leona F. (Melvin) Wolford, Betty Money of Leslie; numerous nieces and nephews. Services 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 5301 W. Holt Rd., Holt with interment with military honors following at Maple Ridge Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at Field & Leik Funeral Home, Dimondale, and one hour prior to the service at the church.

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Charlotte » Hale, Etta M, 87, of Charlotte, died Saturday. Visitation 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday at Barker-Leik Funeral Home, Mulliken.

Delhi Township » Tischer, Ila E., 72, of Delhi Township, died March 11. Memorial services 5 p.m. March 25 at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witness, Lansing. Arrangements by Palmer, Bush and Jensen Family Funeral Homes, Holt Chapel.

Dimondale » Crouch, Dennis R., 68,

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Elizabeth J. Austin Grand Ledge Mrs. Elizabeth J. Austin, 92, passed away peacefully on March 13, 2012 in Grand Ledge, MI. She was born December 14, 1919 in Mason, MI, daughter of Charles and Nelle (Hamilton) Hammell. Elizabeth was retired from Michigan Millers Insurance Co.; a very talented crafter, enjoyed sewing, quilting, knitting and crochet, and her greatest enjoyment and devotion were her family. She is survived by her daughter Sally A. Clark of Grand Ledge; son David L. (Colleen) Austin of Fort Myers, FL; 3 granddaughters: Pam Thurman of Battle Creek, June (Mason) Storm of Florida, and Mary Jo (Terry) Mitchell of Grand Ledge; 1 grandson Paul (Julie) Austin of Grand Rapids; 10 great grandchildren and 5 great greatgrandchildren. She is predeceased by her husband of 50 years, Floyd; great granddaughter Jennifer Briscoe; brother Charles Hammell, and sisters Charlotte Bridenbaugh and Helen Bjorkman. Memorial services will be announced at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions made to Cystic Fibrosis or McLaren Visiting Nurse & Hospice will be greatly appreciated. Online condolences may be made at www.petersandmurrayfuneralhome.com .

Josephine Mae Edwards

Josephine Mae Edwards, originally of Grand Ledge, MI, went home to her Lord on March 10, 2012. She was 75 years of age. Josephine was the daughter of the late Earl and Lila (Burman) Edwards of Grand Ledge, and is preceded in death by brother Leo and sisters Virginia and Wilma. She is survived by daughters Amy J. Armstrong, Annie Armstrong, and Susan Armstrong (David Hoyt) all of Richmond, Va., grandchildren Nicole Lambert and Dustin Taboada of Richmond, Va., great grand kids Michael Poglese, Gavin Hoyt, Maddyn Taboada, and Jayce Lambert, brothers Paul (Alice) Edwards of Grand Ledge MI, Jim (Audrey) Edwards of California, Gayle Edwards of Mississippi, Gerald (Faye) Edwards of Texas; sisters Marge Collins of Belleville MI, Joyce Lott of Grand Ledge MI, and many nieces and nephews. Josephine will rest in eternity overlooking the beloved mountains that brought her solace. She will be greatly missed by those who loved her so well.

Daryl Oliver Basil Dienhart Eaton Rapids Daryl peacefully ascended into Heaven on March 16, 2012 surrounded by his two daughters and his wife. He fought a courageous battle with cancer. Daryl always saw the best in everyone through his beautiful blue eyes and his gentle nature. He was strong, sensitive and wise. Daryl had a deep love for the Lord. Daryl was a proud and dedicated employee and Vice President of Jackson Automatic Sprinkler and D&H Fire Protection. Daryl will be dearly missed by his loving wife, Anne; daughters, Gina (Kevin) Dunn, Corrie (Joe) Majinska; son, Joel Dienhart; sisters, Cheryl (Steve) Hobson, Marlene (Steve) Phillips, Janelle Dienhart; brothers, Wayne (Margie) Dienhart, Darwin Dienhart; father, Max Dienhart; and several nieces and nephews, and numerous friends. A very special place in our hearts go to our Dear Friends, Matt and Julie O’Donnell, and Dave and Linda Leathers. Memorial services will be at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at the First Baptist Church of Eaton Rapids 9220 Kinneville Rd. Eaton Rapids. For those desiring, memorial contributions may be made to Eaton Community Palliative Care at 2675 S. Cochran Rd. Charlotte.

Eagle » Pauley, Leida (Schreiner) (Burnham) "Joyce," 79, of Eagle, seamstress, died Friday. Visitation 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Holihan-Atkin Funeral Home, Grand Ledge.

Eaton Rapids » Dienhart, Daryl, 56, of Eaton Rapids, Jackson Automatic Sprinkler and D&H Fire Protection vice-president, died Friday. Memorial services Saturday at First Baptist Church. Arrangements by Skinner Funeral Home, Eaton Rapids. » Marvin, Melvin Dean, 78, of Eaton Rapids, retired General Motors line worker, died March 11. Services will be held at a later date. Arrangements by Palmer, Bush and Jensen Family Funeral Homes, Holt Chapel.

Elsie » Baese, Dolores Jeanne, 83, of Elsie, former Village Inn Restaurant (Elsie) manager, died Thursday. Services 11 a.m. Tuesday at Elsie United Methodist Church. Arrangements by Keck-Coleman Funeral Home, St. Johns.

Fowlerville » Palmerton, Adeline C., 89, of Fowlerville, died Friday. Services 11 a.m. Monday at Niblack Funeral Home, Dillingham Liverance Chapel, Fowlerville.

Grand Ledge » Grice, Jerry A., 63, of Grand Ledge, factory worker, died Thursday. There will be no services. Arrangements by Field & Leik Funeral Home, Dimondale. » Horstmansof, Clare T., 46, of Grand Ledge, state computer programmer analyst, died in 2011. Visitation 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at Peters & Murray Funeral Home, Grand Ledge.

Haslett » Pryer, Caroline Mary (Deneka) "Carol," 75, of Haslett, retired General Motors technical layout engineer, died Friday. Arrangements by Tiffany Funeral Home, Lansing.

» Rice, Phyllis, 83, of St. Johns, musician, died Thursday. Services 11 a.m. Tuesday at Osgood Funeral Home, St. Johns.

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Elsewhere » Butler, Thomas F., 78, of Gregory, farmer, died Saturday. Services 11 a.m. Thursday at Niblack Funeral Home, Dillingham Liverance Chapel, Fowlerville. » Hurley, Michael E., 57, of Flushing, formerly of Grand Ledge, former custodial worker, died Wednesday. Services 4 p.m. today at Rossell Funeral Home, Flushing. » Sirrine, Mary Louise, 82, of Virginia Beach, Va., formerly of St. Johns, died March 10. Memorial services 2 p.m. Saturday at Church of the Holy Apostles, Virginia Beach, Va. Arrangements by Family Choice Funerals, Virginia Beach, Va.

Births Lansing » Bauer: To Kevin Bauer and Kaylan Highley, a daughter, Aubree Baylen Bauer, at Sparrow Hospital, March 9. » Alaniz: To Daniel Alaniz and Aimee Alaniz, a daughter, Mia Isabelle Alaniz, at Sparrow Hospital, March 13.

Bath » Larue: To Tyler Larue and Kimberly Blankenship, a son, Hunter Jacob Larue, at Sparrow Hospital, Feb. 20.

Bellevue » Ward: To Brian Ward and Lauren Riddle, a daughter, Aliesha Ward, at McLaren Greater Lansing, March 6.

Charlotte » Lewis: To John and Liz Lewis, a daughter, Kylie Ann Lewis, at McLaren Greater Lansing, February 9.

East Lansing » Osman: To Khaleel Khadedah and Sheraz Hasan, a daughter, Loreen Khaleel Osman, at McLaren Greater Lansing, March 13.

EVENTS CALENDAR SUNDAY, MARCH 18

MONDAY, MARCH 19

FISHING

CLUBS AND MEETINGS

Gander Mountain First Cast Event - Lansing, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. March 18. Gander Mountain, 430 N. Marketplace Blvd., Lansing. At these seminars, novice and expert anglers can learn all the tips and tricks from knowledgeable staff on what it’ll take to be successful on the water this season. In addition, a full net of discounts, sweepstakes and shopping sprees will be offered for guests who participate in the event. Info: 6225700, www.gandermountain.com/modperl/storelocator.cgi?r=storeDetails&storeID=173. Cost: Free.

MUSIC

Mid-Michigan Bluegrass Association Concert, 2-7 p.m. third Sundays through April 18. Woldumar Nature Center, R.E. Olds Rotary Barn, 5739 Old Lansing Road, Lansing. Come out and enjoy the music in a beautiful setting. If you’re a musician please feel free to bring your instruments. Info: 322-0030, www.woldumar.org. Cost: $4 per person, $2 for seniors. American Guild of Organists Members Organ Recital, 4 p.m. March 18. Ascension Lutheran Church, 2780 Haslett Road, East Lansing. Info: 3379703. Lansing Symphony Chamber Concert, 3 p.m. March 18. First Presbyterian Church, Molly Grove Chapel, 510 W. Ottawa St., Lansing. Info: 487-5001. Cost: $15, $10 for students. Senior Choir Day, 3:30 p.m. March 18. Pennsylvania Avenue Original Church of God, 3500 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Lansing. All are welcome to join us for this annual celebration. Info: 8824114.

SHOWS AND SALES

Home and Garden Show, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. March 18. MSU Pavilion, Michigan State University campus, East Lansing. Seminar stages, a flower show, hundreds of exhibits and more. Info: www.showspan.com/LHG. Cost: $8, $4 for kids 6-14, free for children 5 and younger. Thrifty Sparrow Re-Sale Shop"March Gladness" fundraiser, 8 a.m.-noon Mondays and 8 a.m.-2 p.m. first and third Wednesdays and 2-5 p.m. Fridays through March 19. Sparrow Hospital, St. Lawrence campus, Outpatient Building, lower level, 1210 W. Saginaw St., Lansing. Featuring a large variety of winter clothing at bonus prices with specials such as buy one, get one free. Most winter clothing and shoes priced at $1 or less. Other items include housewares, collectibles, books, jewelry and more. Donations welcome during shop hours. Proceeds benefit Sparrow Hospice Services. Info: 364-7185.

SPECIAL SERVICES

Lenten Worship series , 10:30 a.m. March 18. University United Methodist Church, 1120 S. Harrison Road, East Lansing. "A Season of Prayer: "Blessing Overflow." Info: 351-7030, www.uumc-msu.org.

Former Kresge docents meeting, 10 a.m. March 19. East Lansing Public Library, Community Room, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing. Info: 206-9039.

LIBRARIES

Character Visit: Clifford the Big Red Dog, 4-5 p.m. March 19. DeWitt District Library, 13101 Schavey Road, DeWitt . Families can meet and greet Clifford and join in Clifford-themed activities. Info: 669-3156, www.dewittlibrary.org. Cost: free.

MUSIC

12th Annual Cello Plus ... Chamber Music Festival, 7:30 p.m. March 19. MSU Music Building Auditorium, West Circle Drive, East Lansing. Russian Gems, including Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich. Preview lecture held 45 minutes prior. Info: 355-3345, www.music.msu.edu. Cost: $10 general admission, $8 senior citizens, free for students.

TUESDAY, MARCH 20 CLASSES

Landscaping with Native Plants class, 7 p.m. March 20. Harris Nature Center, 3998 Van Atta Road, Okemos. Learn how to design and maintain a native garden. Instructor: Vern Stephens of Designs by Nature. Email harriscenter@sbcglobal.net for more information. Info: 349-3866, www.meridian .mi.us. Cost: $15.

CLUBS AND MEETINGS

Call for Capital Area Conservatives Precinct Delegates, 7 p.m. March 20. Delhi Cafe, 4625 Willoughby Road, Holt. Guest speaker: Norm Shinkle, Ingham County Republican chairman. Topic: "Precinct Delegates and Their Duties." Email inghamcountyteapartypatriots@gmail.com for more information. Zonta Club of Michigan Capital Area, Zonta Clubs of Lansing, Meridian East and East Lansing Annual InterCity Dinner, 5:30 p.m. March 20. Country Club of Lansing, 2200 Moores River Drive, Lansing. Program on "Human Trafficking: What’s Next?" with guest speakers Rachel Becker and Jan Smith. Entertainment by Donna Green, pianist and vocalist. Call or email Carol Towl at cowl@comcast.net to RSVP. Info: 882-4391. Cost: $35.

COMMUNITY

Breaking the Cycle of Incarceration — Part 3, 6 p.m. March 20. Dart Auditorium, Lansing Community College, 500 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing. A conversation between youth, family, the community and current female inmates at Huron Valley Correctional Facility. Sponsored by Capital Area Prisoner ReEntry with the Michigan Department of Corrections, Lansing Police Department and Capital Area Michigan Works. Register online, at the door or by calling 492-5574. Info: 4831488, Cost: Free.

Holt » Edith, Ann Eichelberger, 67, of Holt, died Wednesday. Graveside services 11 a.m. Tuesday at Forest Lawn Gardens, Dimondale. Arrangements by Gorsline Runciman Funeral Homes, Lansing Chapel. » Houseman, Keith R., 82, of Holt, retired General Motors employee, died Monday. Memorial services 11 a.m. Saturday at Palmer, Bush and Jensen Family Funeral Homes, Holt Chapel. » Rey, Marianne Clara, 90, of Holt, died Saturday. Visitation 11 a.m. to noon with services following at noon Tuesday at Estes-Leadley Funeral Homes, HoltDelhi Chapel.

St. Johns In loving memory

and Smith & Tannar Grain Elevator (Fowlerville and Webberville) co-owner, died March 13. Services 11 a.m. Tuesday at Fowlerville First United Methodist Church. Arrangements by Niblack Funeral Home, Dillingham Liverance Chapel, Fowlerville.

» Hrabal, Nancy Susan, 69, of St. Louis, died Friday. Services 11 a.m. Tuesday at Mount St. Joseph Catholic Church, St. Louis. Arrangements by Smith Family Funeral Homes, St. Louis Chapel.

Webberville » Tannar, Kenneth A., 92, of Webberville, retired real estate appraiser

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social experience.” And a somewhat loopy one, at that, at least in the final hours “as people lose some degree of their regular sanity.” Madison professor Ron Dorr also would argue that there are legitimate intellectual reasons to experience the entire sweep of a novel out loud and in a single sitting. In “Moby-Dick,” for instance, the puns and ironies came through more clearly, he said. “If you have a good reader, there are pauses and emphases that you don’t pick up reading it by yourself,” he said. “If you’re just reading it, every word is equal.” What came through in Bronte’s novel was the humor, the piquancy of the dialogue, the wryness of the narrator.

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» Christy, Dorothy Ann, 79, of Lansing, retired Lansing Public Schools nurse, died Wednesday. Memorial services 11 a.m. Monday at Plymouth Congregational UCC Church. Arrangements by Gorsline Runciman Funeral Homes, Lansing Chapel. » Debnar, David A., 52, of Lansing, retired General Motors inspector, died Wednesday. Services 11 a.m. Monday at St. Casimir Catholic Church. Arrangements by Palmer, Bush and Jensen Family Funeral Homes, Lansing Chapel. » Geyer, Peggie J., 80, of Lansing, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Estes-Leadley Funeral Home, Greater Lansing Chapel. » Kyser, Charles Ellis, 68, of Lansing, retired GM supervisor, died March 7. Services 11 a.m. Monday at Redeemer United Methodist Church, DeWitt. Arrangements by Tiffany Funeral Home. » Ohmen, Shirley J., 88,

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of Lansing, retired Michigan Bell employee, died Friday. Arrangements by Tiffany Funeral Home. » Smith, R.J., of Lansing, died Friday. Arrangements by Swanson Funeral Home, Flint. » Springer, Gertrude A., 85, of Lansing, died Thursday. Graveside services 2 p.m. Monday at Glendale Cemetery, Okemos. Arrangements by Gorsline Runciman Funeral Homes, Lansing Chapel.

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MID-MICHIGAN’S FIVE-DAY FORECAST Today Partly sunny, showers/storms, high near 80, low in the upper 50s.

Marquette 73/51

Sault Ste. Marie 66/50

60s

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Escanaba 67/49

Monday Mostly sunny, high near 80, low in the upper 50s.

Traverse City 76/53

Tuesday Mostly sunny, high in the low 80s, low in the upper 50s. Mostly sunny, high in the upper 70s, low in the mid-50s.

Grand Rapids 79/58

Thursday

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78 78 79 61 65 65

Low

48 57 37 39 48 39

SKYWATCH New Thursday

First March 30

Full April 6

Last April 13

Lansing 79/59

Kalamazoo 80/60

Cloudy, storms likely, high in the upper 70s, low in the low 50s.

Lansing’s high and low temps over the last week:

St. Thomas Aquinas School: Kindergartner Luke Fochtman drew this picture of a sunny spring day.

Lansing’s record temperatures March 18 75 in ■ HIGH 1894

■ LOW

-3 in 1885

Sources: National Weather Service, Associated Press, Weather Underground

SUN Rise: 7:44 a.m. Set: 7:49 p.m. MOON Set: 4:11 p.m. Rise: 5:58 a.m. Monday

SKI REPORT » Black Jack: 20”, machine groomed. » Caberfae Peaks: 22-34”, machine groomed. » Indianhead: 6-24”, spring.

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Alpena 75/50

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McLaren’s upcoming health events Are You at Risk for Colorectal Cancer? March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month If you are 50 or older or have a family history of colorectal cancer, you need to get tested. When it comes to colon cancer, don’t take a chance. For your free screening kit, call toll-free 1 (855) 552 KNOW or visit mclaren.org/cancer.

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FemaleIncontinence&OveractiveBladder Wednesday, March 21, 6 p.m. Presented by Eric Stockall, MD Join Dr. Stockall, urologist, as he reviews the causes of female incontinence and overactive bladder. He will discuss a variety of treatment options, including the latest in minimally invasive procedures and the da Vinci surgical system. McLaren’s Dawe Auditorium* Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Why Won’t This Wound Heal?

PAD: Heart Attack and Stroke Risks

Monday, March 19, 6 p.m. Presented by Leslie Searls, DO

Tuesday, March 27, 6 p.m. Presented by Joseph Cotroneo, MD

Join Dr. Searls, wound care physician, as he discusses the most common wounds that may have delayed healing and the latest treatments, with a focus on hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Tour the Wound Care Center after the presentation to see Lansing’s first hyperbaric oxygen chambers.

One in 20 Americans over age 50 has PAD (peripheral arterial disease), but unfortunately, many people with PAD do not have symptoms. Join Dr. Cotroneo, a cardiovascular surgeon, as he discusses how early diagnosis and treatment of PAD can improve your quality of life, reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke, and save your life!

McLaren Orthopedic Hospital - Classroom F 2727 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Visitor Entrance Take elevator to ground floor, follow signs. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

McLaren’s Dawe Auditorium* Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

All events are free and open to the public. To register, please call (517) 975 6600 or email Jessica.Nevins@mclaren.org. *Lectures held at Dawe Auditorium take place on McLaren–Greater Lansing’s Greenlawn campus, located at 401 W. Greenlawn Ave. Use the patient entrance to the Chi elevator to ground ﬂoor, turn right, room G042.

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7C Hollywood stars read to you Dustin Hoffman is part of an all-star cast of actors who have signed on with the Audible.com to bring classic novels to life for a fast-growing population of audiobook fans worldwide. Other participants include Samuel L. Jackson, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet and Nicole Kidman.

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The return of “Mad Men” on March 25 after a hiatus of 1½ years is cause for celebration, and there’s no better place to raise your glass than in Manhattan at one of Don Draper’s favorite haunts. While many of the places name-dropped in “Mad Men” no longer exist , there are plenty that do, among them P.J. Clarke’s, the Roosevelt Hotel and Sardi’s.

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Mike Vial and Natalie Burg are having their wedding with Michigan-made products including Michigan wines. They are holding Michigan made McClure's products that they will using along with Michigan beers. GREG

Couple focus on local products for nuptials Tricia Bobeda tvbobeda@lsj.com

atalie Burg and Mike Vial of Howell are such avid Michiganders that they decided their wedding should be Michiganthemed. The couple are using local vendors and Michigan-based businesses for everything from the invitations to her dress for their wedding in early August.

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Follow along at mymitteninyours.wordpress.com to find out more about the Michigan vendors and products Burg and Vial will include in their wedding.

In hopes of inspiring other wedding planners to think local, they’re writing about their experiences in a blog. “My Mitten in Yours” chronicles their progress. Posts include the search for the perfect Michigan reception band, which is key for Vial, 30, as a local musician. They’re plotting every last detail, including which locally made pickles to serve in Bloody Marys at the bar. Bride-to-be Natalie Burg, 29, explained why the hand-shaped state is so close to her heart that she’s willing to make it a co-star on her wedding day.

What made you decide to blog about your wedding planning experience and its Michigan theme? “The idea of sharing it was initially to highlight all our Michigan vendors. Sometimes See WEDDING, Page 5C

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Idea of home inspires dance show Kate O’Neill For the Lansing State Journal

Three choreographers have created four works for the 2012 Repertory Dance Concert at Michigan State University. Yet a central theme runs through all of them. “Each choreographer has created a distinct dance statement, but each statement probes notions of finding, defining and then redefining a sense of home,” says Sherrie Barr, MSU dance professor and director of “Dance Is the Answer.” She has choreographed one of the dances,

which will be performed in two parts as the opening and closing works of the concert Other dances on the program are by guest artists Heather VaughanSouthard, a Lansing-area dancer, choreographer and teacher, and by Peter DiMuro, long known for his work as choreographer, director, and teacher in the District of Columbia. DiMuro worked for many years with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, a company known for innovative dance projects that involve community

outreach. He has come to the MSU campus several times for a residency supported by a Special Projects Grant from the MSU College of Arts and Letters. DiMuro choreographed his dance “The 13 Steps: A Search for Home” in the late ’90s. At MSU he’s been committed to reconstructing the dance and conducting creative process workshops associated with the work. And the process of creation is the focus of “Dance Is the Answer.” “It’s not about the artifact,” says Barr. “Peter’s

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original dance was about what makes home home. As a leader of community dance workshops, he talked with various groups about, ‘What’s your take on the idea of home?’ ” Barr, too, has been See DANCE, Page 5C

» The show: “Dance Is the Answer,” 2012 MSU Repertory Dance Concert » The venue: RCAH Auditorium in Snyder-Phillips Hall, MSU campus » The times: 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. March 25 » Post-show discussion will be held Thursday on collaborative dance making. » Preshow discussion is March 25 at 1:15 p.m. with artistic director and production designer. » Tickets are $13, $11 for seniors, $10 for students at 432-2000 or www.whartoncenter.com.

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proceeds to benefit the Williamston, Okemos and Haslett foodbanks. Info: 468-3316. Cost: $7 for adults; $4 for children 5 to 11; kids under 5 free.

CALL FOR Call for Nominations for Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame, Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame, 213 W. Malcolm X St., Lansing, deadline for submissions is March 21. Nomination forms are available online at http://www. michiganwomenshalloffame.org/pages/ nomination.htm. Call or email info@michiganwomen.org for a printed version. Info: 484-1880. Scrap Metal Drive, Friedland Industries Inc, 405 E. Maple St., Lansing, ongoing. A fundraiser for The Resolution Services Center of Central Michigan. Donations can include any type of metal and almost anything containing metal, from old appliances and computers, to scrap aluminum siding, cars and car parts. Info: 485-2274, www.rsccm.org.

HEALTH Michigan Abstinence Program, South Side Community Coalition, 2101 W. Holmes Road, Lansing, 6-8 p.m. March 20. The Michigan Abstinence Program invites youth ages 10-15 to learn about the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from early sexual activity. Info: 882-3772, www.southside communitycoalition.org. Quit-Tobacco Workshop, Ingham County Health Department, 2nd Floor: Conference Room C, 5303 S. Cedar St., Lansing, 8:30-10:30 a.m. March 22. One-time, two-hour workshop. Attend, make a play. Learn how addiction works in the brain and what helps the most. Info: 887-4315. Cost: Free.

CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES Easter Egg Hunt, Watertown Charter Township, Behind the township gym, 12803 S. Wacousta Road, Grand Ledge, 10-10:30 a.m. March 24. Please bring a basket or a bag to collect the surprise filled eggs. Weather permitting, the eggs will be hidden outside, so dress accordingly! Info: 626-6593, ext. 207. Cost: Free. Elementary Math Circle, East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing, 10-11:30 a.m. March 24. For children in second through fourth grade to make new math discoveries and play fun reasoning games. Info: 351-2420, www.elpl.org. Cost: free. Middle School Math Circle, East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing, noon-1:30 p.m. March 24. Students in grades 5-8 are invited to come make new math discoveries and play fun reasoning games. Info: 3512420, www.elpl.org. Cost: free. One World, Many Stories program: “Good Night, World,” Red Cedar Elementary School, 1110 Narcissus Drive, East Lansing, 5:30-7:30 p.m. March 23. Pizza and pajama party. Blankets, bears and pajamas welcome. Info: 351-2420, www.elpl.org. Cost: free. Spring Break Nature Camp, Woldumar Nature Center, 5739 Old Lansing Road, Lansing, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. April 4-8. For children ages 5-12. Join us for one day or all week as we investigate the changing plants and animal habits with a new theme each day. Daily before and after care available. Call or go online for more information and to register. Info: 322-0030, www. woldumar.org. Cost: $135 for members, $170 for nonmembers for full week; $30 for members, $40 for nonmembers for single day.

CLASSES Adult and youth swim lessons, Waverly East Intermediate Pool, 3131 W. Michigan Ave., Lansing, ongoing. Eight levels of youth lessons, two levels of adult lessons and private lessons available. Classes are Tuesday and Thursday evenings starting March 27. Call for times and prices and to register beginning March 20. Info: 484-5600, www.deltami.gov/parks. English as a Second Language, East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing, 7-8 p.m. Tuesdays. All-ages program. Info: 351-2420, www.elpl.org. Landscaping with Native Plants class, Harris Nature Center, 3998 Van Atta Road, Okemos, 7 p.m. March 20. Learn how to design and maintain a native garden. Instructor: Vern Stephens of Designs by Nature. Email harriscenter@sbcglobal.net for more information. Info: 349-3866, www. meridian.mi.us. Cost: $15.

Native plants fill Rayner Park's garden. Learn to landscape with native plants on Tuesday at Harris Nature Center in Okemos. LSJ FILE PHOTO Sew Creative, 214 S. Bridge St., Grand Ledge, 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays, April 3-May 1. Learn to make your own Victorian skirt and shawl. Patterns provided. Call to register by March 28. Info: 627-1100. Cost: $75 for 5 classes.

CLUBS AND MEETINGS 7th Michigan, Volunteer Infantry, Co. B Club Meeting, Robbins United Methodist Church, 6419 Bunker Road, Eaton Rapids, 1-5 p.m. March 18. We conduct public discussions, demonstrations of living history, Civil War battle re-enactments, military drills, parades, memorials, ceremonies and other related public portrayals of historically accurate Civil War era military and civilian lifestyles and activities. Info: 592-4063, www.7thmichigan.us. Asian American Pacific Women’s Association sushi making class and fundraiser, Presbyterian Church of Okemos, 2258 Bennett Road, Okemos, 10:30 a.m. March 24. Learn how to make your own sushi rolls and enjoy lunch with the class. Space is limited. Call or email sparrow48823@yahoo.com to RSVP by March 19. Info: 371-5358. Cost: $28. Former Kresge docents meeting, East Lansing Public Library, Community Room, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing, 10 a.m. March 19. Info: 206-9039. Foster Parent Information Meeting, St. Vincent’s Catholic Charities, 2800 W. Willow St., Lansing, 6-8 p.m. March 20. This is an informational meeting for individuals and couples that are interested in becoming licensed foster parents through St. Vincent Catholic Charities (STVCC). The meetings are informal and generally last two hours. Info: 323-4734, www.stvcc.org. Cost: Free. Greater Lansing Network Against War & Injustice: Reflecting on Nine Years of Working to End War in Iraq, Central United Methodist Church, second floor conference room, 215 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing, 6:45-9 p.m. March 19. Evening of remembrance and reflection. Gather at 6:45 p.m. on the sidewalk outside the Capitol building, then walk silently to the 7 p.m. meeting at CUMC. Public welcome, especially those working for peace and justice. Info: 410-1243, www.GLNAWI.org. Ingham County MSU Extension: Growing Vegetables on a Small Budget, Ingham County Human Services Building, Room 10, 5303 S. Cedar St., Lansing, 6:30-9 p.m. March 20. Space is limited. Call to RSVP. Info: 676-7207. Cost: $5. Meridian Garden Club Meeting,

For complete calendar listings, go to www.lsj.com/events Painting Class: All Levels, Bailey Community Center, Room 302, 300 Bailey St., East Lansing, 2-4 p.m. March 22. This class — for artists working in oil, acrylics or pastel will focus on the principles of working in color and the painting techniques of oil and pastel with a strong emphasis on the understanding of color use, blocking and composition. Call to register. Info: 333-2580, ext. 0, www.cityofeast lansing.com/classes. Cost: $110. STEP (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting) parenting class, Mint City Free Methodist Church, 409 S. Whittemore St., St. Johns, 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays, April 10-May 22. Class explores effective and enjoyable ways parents can meet the challenges of raising children today. Child care provided. Call (989) 224-5305 for more information and to register. Info: (989) 224-3349. Cost: free. Victorian-oriented knitting classes, Sew Creative, 214 S. Bridge St., Grand Ledge, Mondays, March 19-April 9. Fingerless glove knitting classes for the experienced knitter. Call to schedule the times that work best for you. Info: 627-1100. Cost: $65 for 4 classes. Victorian-oriented sewing classes,

To have your meeting, class, fundraiser, etc., listed in the calendar, mail or bring it to: Community Calendar, Lansing State Journal, 120 E. Lenawee St., Lansing, MI 48919, by 5 p.m. Friday for the Apri 1 calendar. You also can submit information online at www.lsj.com or email it to events@lsj.com. For ongoing events, please send separate notices for each week.

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Meridian Township Hall, 5151 Marsh Road, Okemos, 8:30 a.m. March 19. Public is welcome. Info: 853-4888, www.meridiangardenclub.org. Cost: Free. Monthly strum, Elderly Instruments, basement, 1100 N. Washington Ave., Lansing, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. March 24. Mid-Michigan Ukulele Group Strum (MMUGS). All skill levels welcome. Beginner classes available. Info: 3727880. Cost: $3 donation, $10 donation for beginner lesson. Scandinavian Society of Greater Lansing, Faith United Methodist Church, 4301 S. Waverly Road, Lansing, 2-5 p.m. March 18. Re-election of officers and a DVD on vikings will be followed by a potluck dinner. Info: 4828357 or 321-2674. Cost: $2 per person. The HELO Club: New members welcome, East Lansing, ongoing. The HELO Club is a social/philanthropic organization for women new to the area or newly retired. We offer a way to meet new friends, monthly luncheons with speakers and many activities (book clubs, walking group, bridge, etc) in which to participate. Info: Laurie at 339-0482. Wild Ones Red Cedar Chapter Meet-

ing: “The American Chestnut in Michigan,” Fenner Nature Center, Lower Level Classroom, 2020 Mt. Hope Ave., Lansing, 7-9 p.m. March 21. Chestnuts for propagation will be available free for all who attend. Everyone is welcome. Info: 887-0596, www.wildoneslansing.org. Cost: Free.

COMMUNITY Breaking the Cycle of Incarceration Part 3, Dart Auditorium, Lansing Community College, 500 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing, 6 p.m. March 20. A conversation between youth, family, the community and current female inmates at Huron Valley Correctional Facility. Register online, at the door or by calling 492-5574. Info: 483-1488, www.camw.org/calendar. Cost: free. Forum on Working Together to Improve Corrections, St. Stephen’s Community Church, 1007 Kimberly Drive, Lansing, 8:30 a.m.-noon March 24. Presentations and discussion on Michigan’s current corrections system and volunteer opportunities to work with prisoners and returning citizens. For more information and to register, contact Frank Dennis at 3325181, fdennis@msu.edu. Cost: free.

FOOD AND DRINK Pancake Breakfast, American Legion Post 269, 1485 Haslett Road, Haslett, 9 a.m.-noon Sundays through April 1. Pancakes, eggs, potatoes, American fries, bacon or sausage and a beverage. Info: 339-9018. Cost: $5, $3.50 for seniors 65 and older and children 6 and younger .

FUNDRAISERS Annual Geranium Sale, Mason area. Baskets and 3-gallon and 4½-inch plants are available in a wide range of colors. E-mail gardenclubofmasonn@gmail.com to place orders through April 1. Benefit Dinner for Peter Kurncz IV, St. Joseph Catholic School, Gymnasium, 201 E. Cass St., St. Johns, 4 p.m.- midnight March 24. Dinner, silent auction, 50/50 raffle drawing, other raffles, children’s supervised activities, music and adult beverages. T-shirts, bracelets and baked goods for sale the entire evening. See websites for more information. Info: 896-6779, www. fundly.com/peterkurnczcancerfund. East Lansing Sunday Soup fundraiser, Scene Metrospace, 110 Charles St., East Lansing, noon-2 p.m. March 18. Enjoy soup, listen to creative proposals and award an artist with a portion of the door charge at the end of the event. Info: 319-6832, www.elsunday soup.tk. Cost: $5 includes meal and a vote. Mason Madness Extravaganza, Ingham County Fairgrounds, 700 E. Ash St., Mason, 7 p.m. to midnight March 24. Adult only event hosted by the Mason Public Schools Foundation. Heavy hors d’oeuvres, DJ entertainment, live and silent auctions and cash bar. Space is limited. Purchase tickets online. Info: www.mpsf.blogspot.com. Cost: $30 per person. Okemos Derby: A night at the races, Country Club of Lansing, 2200 Moores River Drive, Lansing, 7 p.m. March 24. Proceeds to benefit Okemos athletic teams. See website for ticket information. Info: Okemosschools.net. Cost: $50. Spring Flea Market & Bake Sale, VFW Post 7309, 1243 Hull Road, Mason, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. March 24. Jewelry, crafts, Avon, purses, linens, housewares, books, records and tapes and more. Bake sale includes cookies, brownies, cupcakes, breads and more. Refreshments available. Proceeds to benefit veterans and families. Info: 676-3282. Taco/wet burrito buffet style dinner, Okemos Masonic Center, in back of building, 2175 Hamilton Rd., Okemos, 4-6:30 p.m. March 24. Tacos and wet burritos with all the fixings along with homemade cookies and punch. All

LIBRARIES Author Visit: William Murphy, East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing, 7 p.m. March 19. Author of “Grace and Grit: Motorcycle Dispatches from the Early Twentieth Century Women Adventurers.” Info: 321-4014, ext. 4, www.elpl.org. Cost: free. Baby Story Time, DeWitt District Library, 13101 Schavey Road, DeWitt, 11:30 a.m. March 21. For babies 6-24 months of age and their adult caregiver. Short stories, bouncy rhymes, freeplaytime for babies and a social time for caregivers. Info: 669-3156, www. dewittlibrary.org. Cost: free. BabyTime, East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing, 10:3011 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. Beginning story time for babies younger than 2. Each baby must be accompanied by an adult; no siblings, please. Info: 351-2420, www.elpl.org. Cost: free. Baby Time, Delta Township District Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing, 10:30-11:15 a.m. March 21. For children under 2 years with a parent/caregiver.Enjoy books, songs, music, and play time with other babies and parents. Info: 321-4014 ext. 3, www.dtdl.org. Cost: free. Character Visit: Clifford the Big Red Dog, DeWitt District Library, 13101 Schavey Road, DeWitt, 4-5 p.m. March 19. Families can meet and greet Clifford and join in Clifford-themed activities. Info: 669-3156, www.dewittlibrary.org. Cost: free. Clifford Storytime, East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing, 11 a.m. March 24. Clifford the big red dog is coming to the library to visit. For ages 4 and older. Info: 351-2420, www.elpl.org. Cost: Free. “Crafternoons,” Capital Area District Library Haslett Branch, 1590 Franklin St., Haslett, 1 p.m. Tuesdays. New weekly informal gathering for those who wish to share craft projects and learn from others. Bring a craft you are working on. Coffee provided. Info: 339-2324. DTDL Book Club, Delta Township District Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing, 6-7:30 p.m. March 21. Read and discuss “Hold Love Strong” by Matthew Goodman. Info: 321-4014, ext. 3, www.dtdl.org. Game On!, Delta Township District Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing, 3-5 p.m. March 20. All ages. Visit the library after school for game time! A variety of board games and video games will be available. Info: 321-4014 ext. 3, www.dtdl.org. Cost: free. Homework Help, East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing, 5-7 p.m. Mondays. Free drop-in tutoring for grades K-8. No registration required. Info: 351-2420, www.elpl.org. Cost: free. Hunger Games Party, Delta Township District Library, 5130 Davenport Drive, Lansing, 6:30-7:30 p.m. March 21. Ages 12-18. Step into the arena and compete for survival with games, trivia, snacks, and prizes. May the odds be ever in your favor. Info: 321-4014 ext. 3, www.dtdl.org. Cost: free. Impact of Animal Factories in Michigan, East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing, 7-9 p.m. March 22. The Central Michigan Group of the Sierra Club will present Lynn Henning, one of six international grassroots activists to receive the Goldman Environmental Prize for her work exposing the polluting practices of livestock factory farms in rural Michigan. Info: 351-2420, elpl.org. Kids Reading to Dogs, Capital Area District Library Okemos Branch, 4321 Okemos Road, Okemos, 4 p.m. March 19. Children of all ages are welcome to come visit and read aloud or pet our library-loving dogs. Info: 347-2023, www.cadl.org. Cost: free. Literacy Celebration Stage Show, Hannah Community Center, Albert White Auditorium, 819 Abbot Road, East Lansing, 1-4 p.m. March 18. Featuring the Merry Music Maker and Ms.

Karrie as the storyteller. Info: 351-2420, www.elpl.org. Cost: free. One-on-one technology help, East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing, March 18. For those who need a little help using their new ereader, tablet or other electronic device. Call to set up an appointment. Info: 351-2420 ext. 104, elpl.org. Cost: Free. Practice Your English, East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing, 7-8 p.m. Wednesdays. Community members can join conversations and practice speaking and listening to English. Children welcome. Info: 3512420, www.elpl.org. Special Needs Play Hour, Capital Area District Library Holt-Delhi Branch, 2078 Aurelius Road, Holt, 4 p.m. March 23. For special needs children of all ages. Read stories and play adaptive games in a friendly and welcoming environment where noise is not an issue. Registration required. Info: 694-9351, ext. 3, www.cadl.org. Cost: free. StoryTime, East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, East Lansing, 10:3011:15 a.m. Tuesdays and 10:30-11:15 a.m. Fridays. Stories, rhymes and crafts for ages 2-5. Two-year-olds must be accompanied by an adult. Info: 351-2420, www.elpl.org. Cost: free. Teen after-school program, All Saints Episcopal Church, 800 Abbot Road, East Lansing, 3-6 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays except on half-days or during holiday break. Middle school and high school students are invited for after school gaming, outdoor activities, computer access and more. No programs on half-days or during holiday break. Info: 351-2420, www.elpl.org. Cost: free.

NATURE Astrophotography Imaging Nights, Fox Park Public Observatory, 3979 E. Gresham Highway, Potterville, 8 a.m.-11:30 p.m. March 18. Bring your camera and work with experienced photographers to capture photos of the night sky. To register or for more information, email Jason Blashka at dasakjason@sbcgloblal.net. Info: 6277351, www.eatoncounty.org. Cost: $5 per person. Build Your Own Worm Bin, Fenner Nature Center, 2020 Mount Hope Ave., Lansing, noon-2 p.m. March 24. “Vermicomposting” (worm composting) is a great way to recycle kitchen scraps and reduce waste. Participants will construct their own worm bin and learn how to create fertilizer for houseplants and outdoor gardening. Info: 483-4224, www.mynaturecenter.org. Cost: $30 for Lansing residents, $35 for nonresidents, includes supplies. Observatory public viewing nights, Fox Park Public Observatory, 3979 E. Gresham Highway, Potterville, 8 a.m.11 p.m. March 24. Featuring the moon, Orion and his entourage. Event is weather permitting and will not be held on nights with more than 30 percent cloud cover. Call the observatory for more information. Info: 6456666, www.eatoncountyparks.org. Cost: $2 per person or $5 per family.

SPECIAL EVENTS 2012 Travelogue series: “Gems of Southern Italy,” Foster Community Center, 200 N. Foster Ave., Lansing, 7 p.m. March 23. Info: 483-4233. Cost: $2 donation requested. Homeownership Seminar/Workshop, Center for Financial Health, 230 N. Washington Sq., Lansing, 9:30 a.m.5 p.m. March 24. Learn what steps to take when purchasing a home. Info: 708-2550, www.centerfor financialhealth.org. Cost: free. Mom/Son Speedway Spectacular, Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, East Lansing, 7-8:30 p.m. March 21. For elementary and middle school-aged children and a parent or other adult guardian. Entertainment, snacks, games, dancing and a race car souvenir. Both boys and girls invited. Advance ticket purchase required. Info: 333-2580, ext. 0, www.cityofeastlansing.com.

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» Emotions run hot and will be hard to keep inside, which is a good thing, because bottled up emotions are a leading cause of illness. It will help you to have a handful of communication strategies in your bag of tricks now as a conjunction of Mercury and Uranus in Aries lines up, an aspect that will have continued influence until midweek.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)

» Giving to someone in need is so easy for you that you’d hardly call it charitable. True charity is giving when your need is just as grave as the other person’s.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)

» As soon as you’re able to forgive, you’ll unclench your jaw, and the laughter and lightness will come back into your life.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 21)

» You’ll be open to hearing different points of view and slow to forming your own. Don’t worry about being absolutely right about anything.

CANCER (JUNE 22-JULY 22)

» What you think is a weakness is really just a skill that doesn’t come naturally to you. That doesn’t mean you can’t learn it, though.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)

» You’ll do what you can to help a loved one, including backing off and giving this

person plenty of room to solve the problem independent of you.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)

» Your finances are getting better, largely due to your increased optimism and the way you let it move you into action.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 23)

» Not everyone can get a hold on emotions the way you can. You’ll set an example for others and turn a difficult situation around.

SCORPIO (OCT. 24-NOV. 21)

» There are many who need and want something from you now. Is it the same “something” you want to give? Maybe. Either way, you certainly won’t starve for attention.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)

» If you could share one piece of advice that you knew others would heed, what would it be? Living that piece of advice today is lucky.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)

» There are many factors that govern your path, and not all of them are in your control.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)

» There will be a handful of tasks on your mental agenda that you just don’t feel like doing.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)

» You wonder why you do things you don’t like. Life is not so simple for you now. — Holiday Mathis

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steel 113Antitoxin 114Morse or penal 115Neck part 119Tokyo, formerly 120Purple gemstone 123Ravenous 125Grassland 126Stair part 128Rental contract 129Stuff 130Chimp’s relative 132A little wet 133Rescuer 134Something of value 135Flinch 136Interlock 137Abrasive material 138Suspicious 139Printer type DOWN 1 Washbowl 2 One of the Muses 3 De Mille or Moorehead 4 Beseech, formerly 5 Word 6 Alms 7 Heavy rolling sound 8 Soap plant 9 Writer — Grey 10 School subj. 11 Sea cow 12 Takes on 13 Off, mentally 14 Gaelic 15 Perceived 16 Treat with

contempt 17 Business abbr. 18 Flavorless 19 Wraparound garment 24 Dandelion, e.g. 31 Tolerate 32 Legatees

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33 Sailors’ saint 36 Pitcher 38 “The — Bunch” 40 Earned as profit 42 Crone 43 Intone 44 Rhythm in verse

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79 Fax predecessor 81 Santa’s reindeer 82 House of — 84 Cringe 85 Ripple pattern 86 Moved very slowly 88 Sampled 89 Flock 90 Save for later 93 Steering mechanism 94 Warning signal 98 Doozy 99 Certain tree 100Deer 101Trumpet 103Bring to light 104Salon service, for short 105Kind of school 106Restless 108Old Faithful, e.g. 109Eel 110Microbe 111Verbal expression 112— the Riveter 113Cut closely 114Malediction 116Ladd and Alda 117Pound parts 118Avid 121If not 122Animals in harness 123Flexible pipe 124Caterwaul 127Curve shape 129Lassie 131Estuary

‘World’s ugliest dog’ dies in California at 15 The Associated Press

When a beloved pet dies, good manners usually dictate saying something nice about the departed companion. For Yoda, it was a compliment to say she sure was ugly. Yoda won the 2011 World’s Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma Marin Fair in California for her short tufts of hair, protruding tongue and long,

seemingly hairless legs. The Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix died in her sleep Saturday. She was 15. The 1.8-pound pooch had lived a rough life before Terry Schumacher found her abandoned behind an apartment building and initially mistook her for a rat. The dog bagged $1,000 and a trophy 15 times her size when she won the contest last June. Yoda

and Schumacher became famous, appearing on national TV. Contest producer Vicki DeArmon said Yoda will keep the title until a new ugliest dog is crowned in June. Schumacher, of Hanford, Calif., said she will miss Yoda’s “funny little ways.” But she said she was “comforted knowing she will be joining my Mom and Dad, who loved her so much. Her memories will live on forever.”

A judge evaluates Yoda in the 2011 World's Ugliest Dog Contest. She won. AP

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Alder on Bridge The Senior Life Master was ready to start a new season of lessons, now that the snow had melted. “Bridge contains so many suit combinations that no one knows them all. Let’s start with one that inexperienced players often get wrong.” The SLM asked his students to study the first declarer-play problem on the sheets he had handed out. (They were looking at only the North and South hands in today’s diagram.) South is in four spades. West cashes two diamond tricks, then shifts to the club jack. How should South plan the play? While they were thinking, the SLM discussed the bidding. Note South’s sequence. A simple overcall, especially in spades, has an upper limit of about 17 high-card points. With 18 to 20 points, South makes a takeout double, then bids his suit on the second round. North, who might have jumped to two hearts, immediately raises to game. South can afford one trump loser but not two. And, interestingly, the right play is the same even when the opponents have not bid. South has 18 points and the dummy eight. That leaves 14 for the opponents. West surely has the spade

king. The best play is to cash the spade ace first. Here, the king drops and South can gain an overtrick. But if the ace collects only the two and five, South should cross to dummy with a club and lead toward his spade queen, basing his play on East’s. If East plays the jack, cover with the queen. If he wins with the king, play low. If he shows out, groan because you could not have made the contract. — by Phillip Alder

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Rain barrels easy way to go green in garden Melissa Kossler Dutton The Associated Press

Robin Blair does what she can to help her plants thrive. She plants them in good soil and keeps the weeds away. She also waters them regularly with rainwater captured in barrels in the yard of her Shrewsbury, N.J., home. Collecting the water is easy, she says, and good for her plants and the environment. “Rainwater is void of chemicals. It’s kinder to plants and landscaping,” said Blair, who has two rain barrels and a cistern. “Water is a precious

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people said, “Oh gosh, isn’t it going to be hard?” when we told them the theme, and their reaction was that we were going to be limiting ourselves. We felt the opposite — that this is going to be opening a lot opportunities for us. “Being a writer, it never takes a whole lot to convince me to write about something. We decided that we would start the blog as our piece by piece testimony of all the talents and creative vendors in Michigan. “What we’re finding is that putting together a wedding is kind of a collection of talents. Every single facet of that from the catering to the dresses to the flowers are all readily available here.”

How did you choose the venue? “A lot of (Vial’s) family is from the Metro Detroit area. A lot of my family is at this point spread all over the United States, but I come from a small town Up North. Half the town is coming (to the wedding). “It was kind of nerve-wracking going into it. We decided that we would pick the place that worked best for us and people who were going to come instead

of it being in one of our hometowns. “We put a lot of weight on picking the right place. We knew we wanted a place in a downtown, in a historic downtown building with the right look and feel. That was one thing we were not willing to compromise on. In the back of our minds we had The Crofoot (in Pontiac). “It was a place we’d been before, and it was kind of the model as we looked at other places that were closer to where our families are located or friends are located but didn’t find any place that was as perfect. “We live in a historic downtown loft with the exposed brick and the big windows and the downtown look, and we feel like we’ve found a place that feels like home to us (at The Crofoot).”

How do you balance using friends’ skills with making sure they can enjoy your wedding as guests? “My best friend from childhood is an incredibly talented graphic designer, so she did the design for the website and will work on the invitations. “Part of our inspiration for relying on Michigan talent and knowing it’s here is that a lot of it was

found within our own circle of friends. “We certainly don’t want our musician friends to have to be working at our wedding. My friend who took our engagement photos is an incredibly talented photographer, but she’s in the wedding party, so she certainly can’t be taking pictures that day. So we’ve been using (friends’) talent on the front end.”

You’re piecing together a registry of local products — is that challenging? “That’s the part I’m most worried about, not because I don’t think it’s a great idea and very possible, but man, it’s a lot of work. Where are you going to find Michigan-made bath towels? The idea is to pick out individual items from independent stores and adding them to the online registry. “We thought at first maybe we won’t register at all, and just ask people to use their discretion and shop local and we realized we’d probably end up with 150 crystal vases. We’re going to have to take a few days to work on it. We have made a complicated choice for ourselves in that way. But I couldn’t bear to think of having this authentic Michigan-themed wedding and then saying, ‘We’re registered at Target and Macy’s.’ ”

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conducting movement workshops in the community; during the past year she has gone with her students to Peckham Industries (a Lansing organization that employs individuals with various handicaps). “The students did a great job in investigating the concept of home before I got to the campus,” DiMuro recalled in a phone interview from D.C. last weekend. On his several visits to MSU during the past fall and winter, DiMuro held workshops that produced the choreography for a new work titled “The Thirteenth Step: La Fin Du Film Noir.” In a program note DiMuro takes credit for the concept and direction of the work, but says, “The creative processes that mined movement and ideas and the subsequent metaphor and imagery that appear on stage are due to collaborative efforts … (of) all involved — dancers, community, designers … ” After many discussions with DiMuro, Barr made the concept of home the theme for the entire concert, a theme that both she and Vaughan-Southard could also explore in the dances they were choreographing. Like DiMuro, they spent many rehearsal hours with the student dancers, “finding, and

then defining and redefining … (the concept of home) to uncover the feelings of belonging and trust at its heart,” Barr recalls in her program note. Vaughan-Southard used various prompts as she worked with the students to create her piece, “2 x 5 by 3,” asking them to consider the physical structure, the relationships in families, and how the concept of home changes as they move through different phases of life. Barr’s dance is in two parts: “I was interested in what would happen if I did the same dance for two couples; then it evolved into something different.” She ended up

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ty: Many of the establishments that turn up on the show retain a classy, retro vibe in real life and can offer a fun, sophisticated setting for drinks or a meal. Judy Gelman and Peter Zheutlin, authors of “The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook,” provide “A Handy List of Mad Men Haunts” in their book along with recipes from them. “Some of these places just never go out of style, like the Grand Central Oyster Bar,” Zheutlin said. “It’s such a classic and bustling place.” “Mad Men” aficionados know the Oyster Bar at the landmark train terminal was not mentioned by name on the show, but it’s believed to be the place where Don takes Roger Sterling for a martini-and-oyster lunch. P.J. Clarke’s, at Third Avenue and 55th Street, manages to appeal to a trendy 21st century sensibility while channeling the classic cool that got

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;DUST TO DUST: A MEMOIRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; By Benjamin Busch (Ecco, $26.99)

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew very early that I was a solitary being. I longed for the elemental. As a child I was drawn into the wilderness, the reckless water of oceans, rivers and rain, the snow and ice floes, the mountains of rock, stones and sand, the forests and the ruins left vacant by human decline, neglect and tragedy. The places we had given up or could not take were what attracted me.â&#x20AC;?

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Âť From Amazon.com: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In elementalthemed chapters â&#x20AC;&#x201D; water, metal, bone, blood â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Busch weaves together a vivid record of a pastoral childhood in rural New York; Marine training in North Carolina, Ukraine, and California; and deployment during the worst of the war in Iraq, as seen firsthand. But this is much more than a war memoir. Busch writes with great poignancy about the resonance of a boyhood spent exploring rivers and woods, building forts,

and testing the limits of safety. Most of all, he brings enormous emotional power to his reflections on mortality: in a helicopter going down; wounded by shrapnel in Ramadi; dealing with the sudden death of friends in combat and of parents back home.â&#x20AC;?

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wireâ&#x20AC;? and has appeared on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Homicide,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The West Wingâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Generation Kill.â&#x20AC;? He lives on a farm in Michigan with his wife and daughters.

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Âť Busch will give a talk and signing at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Schuler Books and Music at Meridian Mall in Okemos. Info: 349-8840 or www.schulerbooks.com.

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Dustin Hoffman (shown here in the HBO series â&#x20AC;&#x153;Luckâ&#x20AC;?) is among an all-star cast of actors who have signed on with Audible.com to bring classic novels to life for audiobook fans. HBO

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When it came to reading a book out loud, Dustin Hoffman was a bit rusty. The last time he had done something similar was in New York City in the late 1960s, right after filming â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Graduate.â&#x20AC;? A local radio station had recruited 30 or so people, including Hoffman, to read â&#x20AC;&#x153;War and Peaceâ&#x20AC;? on air, around the clock, until it was done. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was the only other time I had done something like that, and it was wonderful,â&#x20AC;? recalls Hoffman, explaining why he recently agreed to perform the novel â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being Thereâ&#x20AC;? by Jerzy Kosinski, a Polish writer and an old, now-deceased friend, for Audible.com as part of the audiobook companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new â&#x20AC;&#x153;A-List Collection,â&#x20AC;? which was launched Thursday. Hoffman is part of an all-star cast of actors who have signed on with the 17-year-old Amazonowned company to bring classic novels to life for a fast-growing population of audiobook fans worldwide. Other participants include Samuel L. Jackson performing â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Rage in Harlemâ&#x20AC;? by Chester Himes; Susan Sarandon performing â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Member of the Weddingâ&#x20AC;? by Carson McCullers; Kate Winslet performing

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Therese Raquinâ&#x20AC;? by Emile Zola; Nicole Kidman performing â&#x20AC;&#x153;To the Lighthouseâ&#x20AC;? by Virginia Woolf; and many more. Jackson, Sarandon and Winsletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts are part of the initial release, along with Anne Hathawayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.â&#x20AC;? Additions to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;A-Listâ&#x20AC;? series will roll out on a regular basis indefinitely.

A growing market The high-powered nature of the celebrities involved makes this one of Audible.comâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most high-profile projects. The idea was conceived by the company thanks to the success of one-off readings by famous actors in the past, including Kenneth Branaghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heart of Darkness.â&#x20AC;?

The push behind it was bolstered by healthy growth in the audiobook market, a $1 billion industry, according to Audio Publishers Association, the trade group that tracks sales and advocates for audiobook publishers. The APA has 68 publisher members, including such independent companies as AudioGo, Blackstone, Brilliance and Tantor audio. The total number of audiobooks published annually doubled from 3,073 in 2007 to 6,200 in 2010. And although downloads have grown 300 percent by dollar volume in the last five years, the CD format still represents the largest single source of dollars, although it declined slightly in 2010 to 58 percent of revenue (down from 65 percent).

Audible.com does not release its sales numbers publicly, but founder and CEO Donald Katz says the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s member base has grown well over 40 percent annually for the past seven or eight years and that its customers are in the millions.

Stars want in â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew the program was a success because a couple of months ago when the recording started, I was at an event with Annette Bening, and she said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I hear youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re signing up all my friends and not me,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? Katz says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And then she went in and did oneâ&#x20AC;? (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mrs. Dallowayâ&#x20AC;? by Virginia Woolf). The actors usually choose a book from a list provided by the company. Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance of the classic 1960s novel â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Rage

in Harlemâ&#x20AC;? runs nearly 5Â˝ hours â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a midrange length (which explains why Audible.com books are popular with people who spend a lot of time in the car). â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were fascinated by the fact that I got through it so fast,â&#x20AC;? says Jackson, who portrayed Himes in a play at Rutgers University years ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was excited to get Chester Himesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work into the world so that people would know him as a writer and see how he described Harlem.â&#x20AC;? Jackson, who spent a great deal of time reading alone as an only child â&#x20AC;&#x201D; calling it his â&#x20AC;&#x153;major escapeâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; says the experience of reading an audiobook is quite different from that of performing in a film or doing a voice for animation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not so sure I got directed as opposed to them allowing me to go into the booth and have as much fun as I could finding the characters and their voices,â&#x20AC;? says Jackson.

Different from acting Hoffman agrees, adding that reading an audiobook is â&#x20AC;&#x153;a specific kind of talent.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m good at it. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it comes easily,â&#x20AC;? says Hoffman, who had to stop reading after three hours each day because the task of visualizing the story a step ahead of vocalizing it made him tired. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With acting, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working off of other people. With this, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very different.â&#x20AC;?

Local author melds faith and travel tales in book K aren Stilson Armour loves traveling around the

world. But sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not your average tourist, going to museums and fancy urban shopping areas â&#x20AC;&#x201C; she likes more obRAY scure WALSH places, in Africa, Books Central raywalsh@ America voyager.net and the South Pacific. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not likely to find her with groups of other tourists either; the Haslett resident likes to travel alone, which provides a wide variety of

interesting experiences. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Traveling Solo: Faith Not Fearâ&#x20AC;? (Xulon Press, $14.99 Kindle $7.49) is a well-produced, slim, self-published paperback thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full of many travel anecdotes and numerous intriguing photographs. Subtitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fearless Faith by Trusting God,â&#x20AC;? Armour intertwines her religious viewpoints in a unique book that also explores conquering fear utilizing spiritual insights. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an unusual mixture: Armour noted that there were many current books on traveling solo and lots of books on building relationships with God, but none that combined the best aspects of both areas. Armourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deftly relates her vivid travel

MEET THE AUTHOR

Karen Stilson Armour will be discussing her writings and signing books 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 31 at First Church of Christ, 585 E. North St., Owosso.

recollections of her solo adventures, offering a memorable mixture of humorous and amazing personal experiences. She methodically lists 10 reasons why traveling solo is advantageous, including unexpected discoveries, more free time, greater casual conversational and personal encounters and additional time for people watching. Additional expense is the major disadvantage; costs can be significantly

higher without accompaniment. Armour covers an assortment of other travel aspects, including destination choice, health concerns, attire, safety, traveling light and the challenges of pre-packaged tours. The author includes a wide variety of relevant travel quotes from famous people such as Mark Twain, Margaret Mead and Khalil Gibran; related biblical verse quotes are interspersed through parts of the text. The remarkable photographs are quite striking, with great images that the average tourist is not going to be able to capture. Photos include snake charmers in Morocco, the camel market in Egypt and interesting Tanzanians, as well as lions, giraffes, zebras and a rhino. Armour stresses the importance of her beliefs that trusting God is the way to conquering fear;

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Georgetown (24-8) vs. N.C. State (23-10) (12:15 p.m.) Michigan State (28-7) vs. Saint Louis (26-7) (2:45 p.m.) North Carolina (30-5) vs. Creighton (29-5) (5:15 p.m.) Florida (24-10) vs. Norfolk State (26-9) 6:10 p.m. South Florida (22-13) vs. Ohio (28-7) (7:10 p.m.) Xavier (22-12) vs. Lehigh (27-7) (7:40 p.m.) Kansas (28-6) vs. Purdue (22-12) (8:40 p.m.) Florida State (25-9) vs. Cincinnati (24-10) (9:40 p.m.)

Michigan State senior Lykendra Johnson is comforted by coach Suzy Merchant after Johnson fouled out in the closing minutes of her final game as a Spartan on Saturday. Johnson had to sit out much of the game in foul trouble and the Spartans struggled to adjust in a 67-55 loss. GAIL BURTON/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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MSU’s game prep starts with team of managers Work behind the scenes is critical Joe Rexrode jrexrode@lsj.com

Gonzaga's Robert Sacre (0) and Sam Dower (35) walk off after the Zags’ 73-66 loss to Ohio State. AP

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — With one blown whistle, Michigan State saw its chances of upsetting seventh-seeded Louisville and advancing to the second round of the NCAA tournament go up in smoke. Klarissa Bell led the10th-seeded Spartans with12 points, seven rebounds and four assists but she didn’t get nearly enough help as Louisville raced out to a huge halftime lead and held on for the 67-55 win Saturday at the University of Maryland’s Comcast Center. “I feel bad for our seniors,” Michigan State coach Suzy Merchant said. “It probably wasn’t their best performances and that’s never how you want to see them end their careers, but I’m very proud of what they accomplished this season.” Becky Burke scored 14 points INSIDE and added four rebounds, three as» EMU sists and three women steals as four Carrouted, reached roundup, 4B dinals double figures. Louisville’s press took Michigan State out of its comfort zone, but the Spartans may have dug their own grave before the first television timeout. Michigan State had opened with an early 5-4 lead and it looked like a promising day for seniors Porsche Poole, Taylor Alton and Lykendra Johnson. Poole scored the first basket of the game on a layup after spending 10 seconds tying her shoe as her backcourt mate Kiana Johnson dribbled down the shot clock. Forward Lykendra Johnson followed with a free throw and Alton hit a jumper on a nifty out of bounds play. Less than three minutes later with Louisville in the midst of a 7-0 run, Lykendra Johnson picked up her second foul and the whole complexion of the game changed for both teams. With 15 minutes still remaining in the first half and without their

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Moments after the buzzer sounded Friday on Michigan State’s 89-67 win over LIU-Brooklyn, MSU video coordinator Jordan Ott grabbed the team’s walkons for a brisk mile walk back to the team hotel. It was time to get ready for Saint Louis. While MSU’s coaches and primary players showered and prepared for media obligations, the team’s student managers created a basketball halfcourt in one of the Renaissance Downtown’s meeting rooms with duct tape.

TODAY’S GAME MSU (28-7) VS. SAINT LOUIS (27-7)

» When: 2:45 p.m. » TV/Radio: CBS/WJIM 1240AM, WMMQ 94.9-FM » At stake: The winner will advance to the Sweet 16 and the West Regional semifinals Thursday in Phoenix to play the winner of Saturday night’s Louisville/New Mexico game. » Inside: Saint Louis has many similarites to Wisconsin, 2B

Assistant video manager and former Sexton head coach Doug Herner paced out the measurements, and a 3-point line, foul line,

baseline and sidelines appeared on the carpeted floor. By the time Tom Izzo and his team arrived around 12:45, the walk-ons were ready to rehearse several plays of the Saint Louis offense at walking speed, with the regulars going through their defensive assignments. Then it was 1:15, bed time for the players and time for the coaches to really dig into some strategic nuances that might push No. 1 seed MSU (28-7) past No. 9 seed Saint Louis (26-7) in today’s NCAA Tournament thirdround game at Nationwide Arena. Also, it was Ruffles time for Izzo. He had a hankering for his favorite potato

MSU’s director of basketball operations Kevin Pauga (center) and video coordinator Jordan Ott (right) oversee the Spartans’ team managers. LSJ FILE

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For MSU, Billikens look familiar Saint Louis grinds like Wisconsin, also similar to Spartans Joe Rexrode jrexrode@lsj.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio — “Wisconsin with a Michigan State flavor.” That’s how MSU assistant coach Mike Garland described Saint Louis, today’s challenger for a spot in the West Regional semifinals in Phoenix. “Xavier on steroids.” That’s how Saint Louis senior forward Brian Conklin described Michigan State, a nod to one of the top programs in the Atlantic-10 Conference. Garland sees a big, physical team like Wisconsin, but with a complex offense of set plays like MSU. Conklin sees a wellrounded team with firepower inside and outside. Everyone sees the potential for a brawl — within the rules, of course — between the No. 1 seed Spartans (28-7) and No. 9 seed Billikens (26-7) at Nationwide Arena. “We’re going to muck up the game like we did (Friday) and play dirty basketball,” said Conklin of Saint Louis’ grinding 61-54 win over Memphis, during which the Billikens took away the Tigers’ transition game. “I don’t think it will be that big of a challenge for us if they want to play dirty or come out and try to make it a physical game,” said MSU senior forward Draymond Green, whose matchup with Conklin should be worth watching. “That’s how we play all summer. That’s what we built our program around. “The one thing I think which helps us out a lot is the schedule we play all year. We’ve played teams who like to play tough,

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chip, so student manager T.J. Hurley bolted the hotel in search of ridged relief. No stores were open in the immediate vicinity, so he had to settle for a box of homemade potato chips from a restaurant across the street. “It worked out OK,” Hurley said. And the machine kept humming. If MSU beats Saint Louis, it will have 10 Sweet 16 appearances in 15 years and will remain alive for its seventh Final Four in 14. The Spartans are 16-3 under Izzo in the second game of an NCAA weekend, well-documented success that has been attributed to Izzo’s exhaustive system for preparation. An unsung key to that system, those within the program say, is the unpaid labor. In fact, MSU’s student managers — nine undergraduates, two grad students — may be as involved in the performance A. Kruse of their basketball team as any managers in the country. And yes, that goes well beyond food runs. “They’re probably the C. Kruse most valuable and most underappreciated people in our program,” said Ott, whose duties include hiring and directing the managers. “EvHurley eryone wants to talk about our video stuff, but if the managers don’t do what they do, we have no chance. And that’s not me talking to a reporter, that’s real.”

Resume building Ott was a graduate manager at MSU from 2006-08, after serving as a student manager at Penn State. During college, his manager duties involved “showing up for practice,” he said. At MSU, junior manager Chris Kruse figures, it’s 40 hours a week during the season. It’s far more during the postseason. Towels, water, errands and all the traditional manager duties are involved. But MSU also

Saint Louis senior Brian Conklin (14) is a 6-foot-6, 235-pound power forward who leads the Billikens in scoring average at 14.0 points per game. JAY LAPRETE/ASSOCIATED PRESS

some teams who play dirty-ish and some who (play finesse).” After winning 89-67 Friday over No. 16 seed LIU-Brooklyn and its small, quick lineup, the Spartans will take on an opponent with more size, less speed and much more defensive capability. That’s to be expected for a team coached by Rick Majerus. “His teams are always tough, well-disciplined,” said MSU coach Tom Izzo, who came back to beat Majerus and Utah in the second round of MSU’s 2000 run to the national

counts on its managers to record and dissect games of potential opponents — breaking them up into categories such as zone defense, man defense, made 2-pointers, missed 3pointers, etc., and handing them off to Ott and the coaches for analysis. “We talk to managers from other teams and they don’t do nearly as much as we do, but it’s almost like they don’t feel part of the program,” Hurley said. “I’d much rather feel a part of something big.” Ott takes a month each fall to decide on his hires, for jobs that are not advertised. He wants people who are trustworthy, enthusiastic and hardworking. Love for basketball is a must. “You get to see one of the best coaches in the country, behind the scenes,” said Alex Kruse, Chris’ twin brother. And there are rewards beyond that. The Kruses are finance majors who would like to get involved in the business side of sports. Hurley and many others who work as MSU managers aspire to coach or be involved directly in the game in some way. For both routes, working in Izzo’s program has helped. Since 2001, 28 former MSU student managers have been hired for 54 sports-related jobs, said Kevin Pauga, MSU’s director of basketball operations. “We’ve almost built this monster from a reputation standpoint,” said Pauga, an MSU manager from 2000-04 and video coordinator from 2004-08. Video coordinators at Indiana, Missouri, Alabama and Oklahoma are former MSU managers. Several are college basketball assistants, several work in the NBA, several work in TV and Luke Brown is the head coach at Eaton Rapids High. When Auburn had a video opening a few years ago, its people called Pauga and asked which MSU managers didn’t have jobs. “That became their entire candidate pool,” he said. “The biggest compliment to those guys,” MSU assistant coach Mike Garland said, “is that when an NBA or college team has an opening, they always call MSU first. ‘Who you got?’ ”

A different time Another former MSU basketball manager with a pretty good job is the school’s athletic director, Mark Hollis. He was a

title. “They don’t make a lot of mistakes. They don’t beat themselves. They’re very solid and fundamental, and their post players are as fundamental as anybody in the country.” Conklin is a 6-foot-6, 235pound power forward and the team’s leading scorer (14.0 points per game). He starts next to center Rob Loe (6-11, 235), and 6-8 Cody Ellis comes off the bench. Two days after Green got a triple-double (24 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists), Derrick Nix scored a career-high 18

points and Adreian Payne tied a career high with 16, MSU likely will face more resistance around the basket. “Their bigs can play defense,” Nix said. “And all of them can step out and shoot the 3, so it’s gonna be tough to defend them. They’re gonna give us a run for our money.” » MUTUAL ADMIRATION: Izzo remembers meeting Majerus in the 1970s when Izzo was fresh out of college and Majerus was an assistant for Al McGuire at Marquette. Majerus said that when he was an ESPN analyst a few years ago, Izzo ran the “second-best” practice Majerus saw while traveling. “I respect Izzo because he’s a self-made coach,” Majerus said. “He was with (Jud) Heathcote all those years. He’s demanding. He’s fair. His players really like him. And he loves the game. “He’s a guy you could get together with to talk ball. Nowadays (a lot of coaches) talk shoe contracts, radio show revenue. Who knows.” Majerus would not say who ran the best practice he saw. » VERY STUDIOUS: Payne has been sporting extremely large glasses during the NCAA Tournament, similar to the ones MSU football players Johnny Adams and Will Gholston wore during post-game interviews this season. He’s taking a lot of ribbing for it, but Payne did just win MSU’s Student-Athlete Award for his academic performance this semester. And no, that’s not why he’s wearing the glasses. But yes, he was thrilled to earn the award. “I’m really proud about it, for me to be able to come out and be consistent in class like that. My grandma would be really proud,” said Payne, who lost his grandmother, Mary Lewis, in August.

NCAA TOURNEY TIPOFF

NO. 1 SEED MSU VS. NO. 9 SEED SAINT LOUIS » Where: Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio » When: About 2:45 p.m. today » TV/Radio: CBS/Spartan Sports Network radio, including WJIM 1240-AM and WMMQ 94.9-FM » Records: MSU is 28-7; Saint Louis is 26-7. » Series: Saint Louis leads 1-0, beating MSU in the 1989 NIT. » Coaches: MSU — Tom Izzo is 411168 in his 17th season, all with the Spartans. Saint Louis — Rick Majerus is 517-215 in his 25th season overall and 95-68 in his fifth with the Billikens.

PROJECTED LINEUPS MSU Pos. Name PPG C (5) Adreian Payne (6-10) 7.2 F (23) Draymond Green (6-7) 16.3 G (30) Brandon Wood (6-2) 8.6 G (13) Austin Thornton (6-5) 5.3 G (11) Keith Appling (6-1) 11.3 Saint Louis Pos. Name PPG C (51) Rob Loe (6-11) 5.2 F (14) Brian Conklin (6-6) 14.0 G (21) Dwayne Evans (6-5) 7.9 G (11) Mike McCall Jr. (6-0) 7.0 G (3) Kwamain Mitchell (5-10) 12.4 » MSU update: The Spartans are going for their 10th Sweet 16 appearance in 15 years. If they win, they will play Thursday in Phoenix against the winner of Saturday’s late game between No. 4 seed Louisville and No. 5 seed New Mexico. MSU had a tough time guarding LIU-Brooklyn for stretches of Friday’s 89-67 win, leading by just four points early in the second half. But MSU’s interior offense overwhelmed the Blackbirds, with 62 points in the paint and 34 points between Payne and Derrick Nix. Green became the third player with multiple triple-doubles in the tournament (and the first since the NCAA started counting them officially in1987), joining Magic Johnson and Oscar Robertson. » Saint Louis update: The Billikens finished second in the Atlantic-10 this season, one game behind Temple. Saint Louis lost to Xavier in the semifinals of the A-10 tournament. The Billikens went 4-3 against NCAA Tournament teams this season, going 2-1 against Xavier, beating St. Bonaventure and Vermont, and losing to New Mexico and Temple. This is a methodical team with an athletic point guard in Mitchell. Saint Louis ranks eighth in the nation in scoring defense (57.4 points a game) and has held 10 opponents under 50 points. The Billikens also rank 11th nationally with a plus-3.4 turnover margin. So yes, this team is much like Wisconsin, which fell three times to MSU this season. Saint Louis isn’t great on the boards and doesn’t put up huge offensive numbers, but five Billikens can shoot the 3-point shot and the team makes 36.8 percent overall.

MATCHUPS Backcourts Mitchell scored 22 points on Memphis in the opening round, nailing four big 3-pointers and showing enough athleticism to get into the lane often. He’s an obvious matchup for Appling, who has played well in the postseason. Evans is a versatile player who leads Saint Louis with 7.4 rebounds a game, and McCall can hit the 3-point shot. MSU won’t just have its way inside, so Thornton and Wood will need to hit shots. » Edge: MSU

Behind-the-scenes preparation is a big part of MSU’s success defensively in the NCAA Tournament. ROD SANFORD/LANSING STATE JOURNAL

manager under Jud Heathcote from 1980-85. Hollis can give the current managers some walking-barefoot-to-school-in-snow stories from his days, when there were four managers and an assistant taking care of things that now go to administrative employees — booking flights and figuring out tickets, for example. There were no DVD players for film study. “There was no videotape,” Hollis said. “We actually had to splice the film together.” In Hollis’ final two years, Izzo was the assistant in charge of the managers. It was Izzo who convinced Heathcote to focus more on video scouting, and the Spartans have been ahead of most of their peers in that area during his tenure. MSU spent about $200,000 in the offseason for a new system that enables faster scouting and for MSU coaches to send video clips to the players’

phones. “With Izzo’s connection to (Steve) Mariucci, he’s really brought NFL film into college basketball,” Hollis said. “What we do is phenomenal and cutting edge. And I think our managers have really separated themselves.” Three of MSU’s nine undergraduate managers stayed in East Lansing this weekend, taping every NCAA Tournament game and getting data ready on every team. If the Spartans win today, the coaches will be delving into the next opponent on the flight home. The six who came to Columbus were in the hotel thinking about Saint Louis on Saturday while many their age were outside reveling in St. Patrick. The managers did have a bit of down time before MSU’s afternoon practice. “You know what,” Hurley said, “I think I’m gonna go buy a few bags of Ruffles.”

Frontcourts Conklin and Green are the leaders, best players and spokesmen for their teams. Conklin is not as versatile as Green, he stays mostly around the basket, but he has great toughness and is a physical player. Loe is more of a finesse player, hitting 33 3-pointers this season. Payne must get out to him, and Loe will be challenged to check Payne in the post. » Edge: MSU Benches Cody Ellis brings more size off the bench (6-8, 235). He leads the Billikens with 68 3-pointers and is third with 10.2 points a game. Another challenge for MSU’s bigs. Jordair Jett brings depth to the backcourt. Majerus mostly went with seven players against Memphis, though nine get regular minutes. Nix, Travis Trice and Brandan Kearney all played well for MSU in the opener. » Edge: MSU » Prediction: Saint Louis will check MSU and run some good things offensively to get shots. But Appling will attach himself to Mitchell, and Green is simply a better player than Conklin. If those two can’t make a big difference, the Billikens are going to have a tough time pulling off this upset. » Make it: MSU 68, Saint Louis 59 — Joe Rexrode

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As Friday shows, tourney great as is Second day had all the elements we love

omewhere out there have been voices saying the NCAA Tournament has it all wrong. Were they watching Friday? Never mind, so the theory goes, the guaranteed reservations for conferences of strange names and unknown faces. College basketball’s Outback. Just invite the 68 highest rated teams, and let the games — not to mention the endless TV timeouts — begin. But Friday was a tour de force in tumult. A day that proved, again, why such an exclusionary idea would be the true March Madness. After all that, the tournament went to bed groggy, and woke up Saturday, ready for more. Gonzaga chased Ohio State into the final minute Saturday

afternoon. And the white knuckles went on. The Sweet 16 is a serious affair, and the Final Four is show business. For much of America, these early rounds are the best of times for basketball. Why do we love this weekend so? Let us count the ways. Blown leads and bad calls. Free throw moving violations became the flavor of the month MIKE for the officials, LOPRESTI and some of the replays have not Gannett been kind to the mlopresti@ whistle-blowers. gannett.com Opposites meeting in the night. Lehigh coach Brett Reed, has a PhD in instructional technology. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski has a PhD in March. Reed won. When peo-

ple talk about one-and-done, this is not what they have in mind in Durham. The process of discovery, with teams never thought about before. "That's the beauty of it," Norfolk State's Pendarvis Williams was saying of the sneak attack his team pulled on Missouri. "They don't know anything about us." The roars inspired by upstarts, and the giants’ loud thuds. No. 15 seeds had won four games in 27 years. They won two more Friday inside of two hours. Nine double-digit seeds survived Thursday and Friday, meaning the third round was 28 percent genuine underdog. Fear the fearless. The South Regional bracket included five schools with national championships from the past 25 years. Three did not last past one game. But Norfolk State, never before in

the tournament, did. We like to see the big boys lose, or at least sweat. Michigan State brings some of the nation’s most ferocious rebounding brutes. LIU-Brooklyn started two guys 5-10 and another 6-1. But at halftime Michigan State’s Tom Izzo was the coach telling his players, “We’re in trouble.” Turns out they weren’t, but how he’d know his opponent wasn’t Lehigh in disguise? On the first night of the tournament in Dayton, Western Kentucky fell behind by 16 points, BYU by 25. Both won. Colorado had a 20-point lead cut to two. Cincinnati a 19-point lead erased. VCU a 13-point lead sliced to one, Purdue an 11-pointer wiped out in the last four minutes. All advanced. Alabama led by 11 points, St. Bonaventure by 10, South Dakota State by 12. None survived. South Florida, missing 24 of

27 shots in the first half, hit 34 percent for its game and won. Missouri shot 52.7 percent in its game and lost. Lehigh’s C.J. McCollum was once a 5-2 high school freshman. He grew a foot in three years, and Friday night, he gunned down Duke. The early round games were not that close as a group. Of the first 36 games, 17 were won by double figures and only five by three or fewer points. But the fallen favorites made it seem much more dramatic. “The game is a great game,” Krzyzewski said, his Duke team ousted. “I’ve been in it for 37 years and it takes you to incredible highs. And it also takes you to incredible lows.” Friday did that, and then some. Today, the Norfolks, Ohios and Lehighs of the world tee off again. And the first weekend of such annual delights rolls on. It would be criminal to ever touch it.

Future looks bright for U-M, despite bad finish Tie for Big Ten title was big step ahead Noah Trister The Associated Press

ANN ARBOR — All season long, Michigan's goal was to win a Big Ten title — the school's first in the regular season since 1986. Once the Wolverines accomplished that, they didn’t last long in the postseason. Fourth-seeded Michigan was upset in its NCAA tournament opener Friday night, losing 65-60 to 13th-seeded Ohio. It was an abrupt finish for a team that looked capable of making an extended run in its fifth season under coach John Beilein. Instead, the Wolverines can only look ahead to a future that still seems bright for the rebounding program. “Most teams do end with a loss, whether it's first round or the fourth round,” Beilein said. “We thought we could play for a while.” Michigan tied Michigan State and Ohio State for the conference title, but the Wolverines were blown out by the Buckeyes in the semifinals of the league tournament before their season ended against Ohio. They finished 24-10, making the NCAA Tournament for the third time in four seasons and earning their highest seeding since1998. But that acclaim was of no use against Ohio, which was in control most of the night. “I think we knew that the op-

Michigan coach John Beilein looks down during the second half of Friday night’s loss to Ohio. LAWRENCE PEART/AP

ponent we had in front of us was very good,” senior Zack Novak said. “They had talent and we just — we knew it was a tough team.” The Wolverines will have to replace Novak, who averaged 9.2 points per game, and fellow senior Stu Douglass, who made 17 starts in the backcourt. But there's plenty of talent coming through Michigan these days. Point guard Trey Burke was terrific as a freshman, leading the team in scoring with a 14.8point average, and sophomore Tim Hardaway Jr. averaged 14.6 points despite erratic outside shooting. Burke took over the point guard duties right away, replacing Darius Morris, who left for the NBA after leading Michigan to the NCAA tournament in 2011. The 5-foot-11 Burke hurt opponents with his

quickness and was also a threat from 3-point range. Sophomore Evan Smotrycz was outstanding during the nonconference season, but his performance dipped after that. He kept Michigan in the game against Ohio, though, scoring 15 points on 6-of-7 shooting. The 6-foot-9 Smotrycz often appears more comfortable on the perimeter, but 6-8 sophomore Jordan Morgan provided a presence inside, shooting 62 percent from the field. Morgan might have some help soon. Michigan has signed 6-10 Mitch McGary of Brewster Academy in New Hampshire, who should be able to add some bulk to the lineup next season. Forward Glenn Robinson III, son of the former Purdue star with the same name, is also part of that recruiting class.

Wisconsin defense stymies Vanderbilt to reach Sweet 16 Advances to face top seed Syracuse Arnie Stapleton The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Wisconsin Badgers are riding the nation’s stingiest defense — and admittedly a bit of luck — back to the round of 16. The Badgers held the Southeastern Conference’s two leading scorers in check Saturday night and Ryan Evans grabbed a crucial rebound with 2.1 seconds left to help Wisconsin fend off Vanderbilt 60-57 in the third round of the NCAA tournament. The Badgers held John Jenkins (20.1) and Jeffery Taylor (16.3) to 13 and 9 points, respectively in advancing to face top-seeded Syracuse in the East Regional in Boston. Jenkins got just one good look at the basket all night, and it came on a wide-open 3-pointer in the final seconds. With the Commodores trailing 5957, Jenkins created some space between him and Jarred Berggren, but like so many of his other shots on this night, it was long. “That was as wide open a shot as we gave up the whole game,” Badgers coach Bo Ryan said. “It just didn’t hap-

Wisconsin guards Jordan Taylor, right and Ben Brust celebrate after the Badgers defeated Vanderbilt. MATT YORK/AP

pen to go down.” Evans grabbed the rebound among a mash pit of bodies pushing and shoving underneath the basket, corralling the ball and drawing the foul with 2.1 seconds left. “It was a pretty good look,” Jenkins said. “I felt like I got a good chance of having it going in, just like a lot of looks I had today. It just didn’t drop for me.” Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings desperately wanted a

whistle on the Badgers but didn’t get it. If the Badgers didn’t get away with a foul, they know they got away with a rare defensive breakdown. “He’s one of the best scorers in the country, one of the best shooters in the country,” Badgers point guard Jordan Taylor said. “So when you see a guy get a look like that, your heart kind of drops. I know my mom already bought tickets to Boston, so I was hoping that it didn’t go in. Berggren would get another chance to come up big for the Badgers, and he did. Evans sank the first free throw but after a Vandy timeout, he missed the second and the Commodores called another timeout with 1.3 seconds left to set up the full-court play for a chance to send it to overtime. Berggren got his right hand on Lance Goulbourne’s overhand heave, however, and the Badgers, celebrated a return trip to the Round of 16, where they lost last year to Butler. The fourth-seeded Badgers (26-9) were led by Jordan Taylor’s 14 points and also got 12 from Berggren, 11 from Evans and reserve Ben Brust and 10 from Mike Bruesewitz. Ezeli led the Commodores with 14 points.

Indiana’s Remy Abell celebrates after VCU’s final shot falls short, propelling the Hoosiers to a berth in the Sweet 16. DON RYAN/AP

Indiana ends VCU’s Cinderella story Hoosiers rally for spot in Sweet 16 The Associated Press

Indiana’s Will Sheehey made a 15-footer from the baseline with 12.7 seconds left after a shot was blocked right to him for the winning basket in fourth-seeded Indiana’s 63-61 victory over 12th-seeded Virginia Commonwealth. Rob Brandenberg got a great look at a potential winning 3pointer but it rimmed off at the buzzer, ending the Rams’ bid for another surprising March run. Indiana advanced to the round of 16 for the first time in a decade and just four years after Tom Crean inherited a decimated program. The Hoosiers (27-8) did it by rallying from down 59-53 with 6 minutes remaining, including Victor Oladipo’s driving three-point play with 46.5 seconds left that tied it at 61. » No. 1 Kentucky 87, No. 8 Iowa State 71: Freshman Marquis Teague scored a careerhigh 24 points and top-seeded Kentucky put together another complete performance with a dominating second-half run the third round of the NCAA tournament. Freshman Anthony Davis had 15 points and 12 rebounds, senior Darius Miller added 19 points and Doron Lamb finished with 16. The Wildcats (34-2) move on to South Regional semifinals in Atlanta and will face fourth-seeded Indiana on Friday. Royce White scored 23 points and had nine rebounds before fouling out with 4:32 left for Iowa State (23-11), which beat defending national champion Connecticut on Thursday night. » No. 1 Syracuse 75, No. 8 Kansas State 59: Scoop Jardine had16 points and eight assists to lead Syracuse over Kansas State in the third round of the East Regional. James Southerland added 15

points for the Orange (33-2), who didn’t wait until the final minutes to seal the win as they did in the second round against 16th-seeded North CarolinaAsheville. Syracuse plays Wisconsin in Boston on Thursday night in the regional semifinals. » No. 2 Ohio State 73, No. 7 Gonzaga 66: Jared Sullinger scored 18 points, including two big baskets in the final 3 minutes to lead Ohio State past Gonzaga and into the round of 16 for the third straight year. DeShaun Thomas also scored 18 for the Buckeyes (29-7), while Aaron Craft added 17 points and 10 assists. Ohio State will play Florida State or Cincinnati in the East Regional semifinals Thursday in Boston. Gary Bell Jr. led Gonzaga (26-7) with 18 points. No. 4 Wisconsin 60, No. 5 Vanderbilt 57: Ryan Evans scored 11 points and grabbed a crucial rebound in the closing seconds. John Jenkins took a 3-pointer that would have given the Commodores the lead, but it bounced high off the rim and Evans pulled down the rebound and was fouled with 2.1 seconds left. He made the first free throw to make it a three-point game. After a Vanderbilt timeout, he missed the second and the Commodores called time with 1.3 seconds remaining. » No. 3 Marquette 62, No. 6 Murray State 53: Jae Crowder scored 12 of his 17 points in the second half, and Marquette used a late run to overcome Murray State. Trailing 46-41 with 7:43 to play, Marquette went on a 14-2 run. While Crowder and Davante Gardner took care of the offense, scoring all but two points during the spurt, the Golden Eagles used their size and strength to wear down the pesky Racers. Isaiah Canaan scored 16 for Murray State, (31-2) which is still looking to get out of the first weekend of the tournament.

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Gamecocks end E. Michigan run Eagles commit 17 turnovers in loss Michael Marot The Associated Press

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Tavelyn James put Eastern Michigan on the women’s basketball map. She just couldn’t get them to the next spot. South Carolina’s suffocating defense limited James, the nation’s second-leading scorer, to 11 points as it rolled to an 80-48 victory in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Without James’ points, the Mid-American Conference champions just weren’t themselves. “I think it would have opened up things a lot more for some of our other players,” coach AnnMarie Gilbert said. “We missed a lot of easy baskets inside. They need to make those baskets to free Tavelyn up a little bit. We didn’t make those, and Tavelyn didn’t make hers on the outside, which made for a terri-

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dominant post player — Johnson averaged 11.0 points 8.7 rebounds a game this season — Michigan State was in trouble and Louisville knew it. “We were very fortunate to get Johnson in some early foul trouble, and I think that really took away some of the things that Michigan State wanted to do,” Louisville coach Jeff Walz said. Without Johnson patrolling the post, the Cardinal post players began dominating on both the offensive and defensive end. Louisville forward Shawnta’ Dyer (13 points, four rebounds) came off the bench to score seven first-half points and starting forward Asia Taylor (10 points, two rebounds) had six as the Cardinals took at 39-23 lead at the half. To make matters worse, Michigan State couldn’t get their outside game going either. The Spartans hit just 3 of 16 shots from three-point range, with two makes coming in the final three minutes when the game was out of reach. “They just didn’t fall tonight,” and emotional Alton said. “It happens sometimes and unfortunately for us, it was today.” Poole had eight points on 3for-10 shooting and Alton had four points, shooting 2-for-8 from the field. Jasmine Hines came off the bench to provide some relief down low with eight points and five rebounds. Johnson never got her game going, finishing with five points — her lowest output in two months — and three re-

Eastern Michigan guard Tavelyn James chases after a loose ball against South Carolina. SANDRA DUKES/US PRESSWIRE

ble combination.” Eastern Michigan (23-9) shot just 26.7 percent from the field, had 17 turnovers and trailed by

25 or more for most of the second half. For James, it certainly wasn’t the ending she envi-

sioned after the most productive career in school history. The senior had her second-lowest point total of the season, leaves with 2,461 career points, the MAC player of the year award, the league tourney’s most outstanding player award and one unforgettable NCAA appearance. Paige Redditt led Eastern Michigan with 14 points, giving her 1,001 in her career, while Natachia Watkins finished with 10 points and 12 rebounds. “I would say they will need a leader, because the two leaders are leaving,” James said when asked what it would take to win in the tourney. “So somebody else on the team needs to step up to make sure things that me and Paige try to get done, get done.” South Carolina (24-9) had plenty of players stepping up Saturday. Markeshia Grant had 12 points, Charenee Stephens finished with 11 and Ashley Bruner came off the bench to add 10 for South Carolina.

bounds. She fouled out with 1:30 remaining and received a long hug from Merchant. Bell, one of the few bright spots on a disappointing day for MSU, is only a sophomore. She will return next season with greater responsibility and more of a leadership role. She got an early preview of that role in the tough loss. “Coach Merchant looked at me during the first half when I was on the bench and told me I can’t be passive if I want to be out on the court,” Bell said. “So I went out there during the second half and started scoring. But you can have a great game, but if you lose, it doesn’t really matter.”

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LOUISVILLE (23-9) Player Min FG FT Rb A F PTS Taylor 18 5-5 0-0 2 1 4 10 Vails 14 1-4 0-0 2 0 1 2 Burke 38 3-10 6-6 4 3 0 14 Smith 31 4-7 2-2 6 4 2 10 S. Schimmel 38 3-13 0-0 6 6 1 8 Harper 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Slaughter 16 1-6 0-0 4 0 1 2 Hammond 20 1-3 5-6 9 1 0 7 Dyer 20 6-10 1-3 4 0 0 13 J. Schimmel 4 0-1 1-2 0 0 0 1 TEAM 3 Totals 200 24-59 15-19 40 15 9 67 3-Point Goals: MSU 3-16 (Poole 1-4, Pickrel 2-2); LOU 4-15 (Burke 2-6, S. Schimmel 2-7) Steals: MSU 7, LOU 9. Blocked Shots: MSU 3, LOU 4. Turnovers: MSU 14, LOU 12. Halftime: LOU 39, MSU 23. Technical Fouls: None. Attendance: 5,624. Officials: Bryan Enterline, Maj Forsberg, Rod Creech

MSU’s Porsche Poole (3) is pressured by Louisville's Antonita Slaughter during the first half. GAIL BURTON/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Home crowd spurs Wolverines glad to be Gonzaga to victory back in tournament Bulldogs prove too much for Rutgers Nicholas K. Geranios The Associated Press

SPOKANE, Wash. — Gonzaga coach Kelly Graves wondered how his team would respond to the physical play of Rutgers in the first round of the NCAA tournament. He needn’t have worried. Fueled by a boisterous home crowd, 11th-seeded Gonzaga jumped on No. 6 seed Rutgers early in an 86-73 victory on Saturday. The Bulldogs led 20-4 after 10 minutes. “Sometimes we try to outscore people early and get tough late,” Graves said. “Tonight we focused on being tough early.” Rutgers made several comeback efforts in the second half, but never got close. “Every time they made a run it seems like we had the answer,” Graves said. “You get that when you play tough.” Kayla Standish scored 23 points and Haiden Palmer added 21 for Gonzaga (27-5). Palmer also had four assists and five steals. “Once in a while she goes ‘Dwyane Wade’ on us,” Graves said. “She’s an amazing player.” Standish said the Zags were

helped by the crowd noise. “It was very loud in there,” Standish said. “It only helps with our momentum.” Erica Wheeler scored 28 points for Rutgers (22-10), which shot 29 percent in the first half to fall behind. Gonzaga got 14 points from Taelor Karr and 13 points and 10 rebounds from Kelly Bowen. The Bulldogs made 9 of 19 3-point attempts to keep Rutgers at bay in the second half. Wheeler shot 10 of 22 and made six 3-pointers. Khadijah Rushdan added 16 points and 11 rebounds for Rutgers. Down 15 at halftime, the Scarlet Knights’ shooting woes continued early in the second half as Gonzaga built a 48-30 lead. Both offenses started slow. Rutgers missed its first seven shots and was scoreless until Rushdan hit two free throws more than 4 minutes in. The Scarlet Knights had only one field goal in the first 10 minutes as Gonzaga took a 16-point lead behind a pair of 3pointers by Karr. Sykes was 1-for-10 in the first half. The Scarlet Knights settled for too many poor shots early in the game, coach C. Vivian Stringer said. Stringer is now 11-3 in NCAA opening-round games at Rutgers.

Huskies roll over Prairie View Purdue moves on, tops S. Dakota State

LOUISVILLE67, MICHIGAN STATE 55 MSU (20-12) Player L. Johnson Alton K. Johnson Poole Bell Thomas Hines Pickrel Schiffuaer Mills TEAM Totals

Connecticut’s Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis (left) is fouled by Prairie View A&M’s Jeanette Jackson on Saturday. JESSICA HILL/AP

Michigan ends 11-year absence The Associated Press

NORMAN, Okla. — Kevin Borseth didn’t know what to say. His team gathered at his house two years in a row to watch the NCAA women’s tournament selection show, eagerly waiting for Michigan’s name to pop up on the bracket. It never happened. When it came time for the 64-team field to be announced this year, he chose a different location — not only to take advantage of a new player development center but to avoid any bad luck from the usual arrangement. Finally, the Wolverines (2011) broke an 11-year NCAA drought by squeaking in as one of the last three teams picked. Michigan holds the lowest seed for an at-large team, along with fellow No. 11 seeds Kansas and Gonzaga. “It makes it even sweeter just that we were so close the past couple seasons and we weren’t able to get in,” senior Courtney Boylan said. “We’re just extremely excited to play.” Beyond putting them in the bracket, the tournament committee didn’t do the Wolverines any favors with their draw. They’ll face a road game

TODAY’S GAME

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against tournament regular Oklahoma (20-12) in tonight’s opening round. The subregional also features third-seeded St. John’s (22-9) against Missouri Valley champion Creighton (20-12). “It’s an extremely, extremely tough challenge that we’re faced with. They’re constantly in the Final Four,” Boylan said. “I’ve seen Oklahoma on TV a lot. Obviously, we’re in a different situation. We haven’t been here in 11 years. ... To be able to be a part of the NCAA tournament, I think that’s something that we’ve been yearning for for a while now.” For Borseth, starting out on the road is nothing new. While leading Green Bay to the NCAA tournament seven times, he had to play on an opponent’s home court for five games — at Connecticut, Texas, UCLA, Old Dominion and Maryland — and lost all five. The Sooners are 7-1 all-time on their home court in the NCAA tournament and 9-1 in the state of Oklahoma.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Connecticut freshman Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis had a stellar NCAA tournament debut. Mosqueda-Lewis scored 21 points to help top-seeded UConn beat Prairie View A&M 83-47 on Saturday in the opening round of the NCAA women’s tournament. She matched the school record set by Jamelle Elliott in 1993 for points by a Huskies player in her first tournament game. “I know Coach Jamelle. She’s awesome,” Mosqueda-Lewis said. “She recruited me while I was in high school and to share this with her and to know her personally is really awesome. It’s definitely pretty special. To play this well as I did in my first game as a freshman is awesome. It feels good.” UConn coach Geno Auriemma was expecting his phone to light up with messages from Elliott, a longtime assistant with the Huskies before leaving to coach Cincinnati. He was impressed by Mosqueda-Lewis’ play. “She’s pretty efficient with her shots,” Auriemma said. “She doesn’t need a lot of shots and that’s one thing that maybe helps her score a lot of points quickly. She takes advantage of the opportunities she gets. Going forward, if she plays like this every night, we have a chance.” Bria Hartley added 18 points and Stefanie Dolson had all 15 of her points in the first half for the Huskies (30-4), who will face eighth-seeded Kansas State in the second round Monday night. The Wildcats beat Princeton 67-64. Latia Williams scored 20 points to lead Prairie View (1716). » NO. 4 PURDUE 83, NO. 13 SOUTH DAKOTA ST. 68: At West Lafayette, Ind., Courtney Moses scored 29 points and set a first-round NCAA women's tournament record by making nine 3-pointers, helping Purdue pull away from pesky South Dakota State. It sure wasn’t easy. The Boilermakers (25-8) thought they had taken control midway through the second half with a 16-point lead, but it took a late 12-3 run to put it away. Jill Young had 19 points and Jennie Sunnarborg finished with 17 as Summit League champion South Dakota State (24-9) lost again in the first round. <PS.FRT7.187> NO. 8 KANSAS STATE 67, NO. 9 PRINCETON 64: At Bridgeport, Branshea Brown scored a career-high 22 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead Kansas State past Princeton (24-5). Janala Childs added 15 points for the Wildcats (20-13). » NO. 2 KENTUCKY 68, NO. 15 MCNEESE STATE 62: At Ames, Iowa, Keyla Snowden scored 11 points, Azia Bishop added 10 and Kentucky squeaked by McNeese State (26-8). SEC Player of the Year A'dia Mathies had just six points for the Wildcats (26-6), who struggled to put away the Cowgirls until late in the second half. » NO. 7 GREEN BAY 71, NO. 10 IOWA STATE 57: At Ames, Lydia Bauer and Sarah Eichler each scored 16 points for the Phoenix (31-1), who’ll take on secondseeded Kentucky in the second round Monday night. Hallie Christofferson had 12 points for Iowa State (18-13), which committed 30 turnovers. » NO. 3 MIAMI 70, NO.14 IDAHO STATE 41: At Spokane, Wash., Shenise Johnson scored 20 points and added four assists. for Miami (26-5), which will play Gonzaga on Monday night. Ashleigh Vella led Idaho State (24-8) with 12 points. » NO. 2 TENNESSEE 72, NO. 15 TENNESSEEMARTIN 49: At Rosemont, Ill., Meighan Simmons scored 20 points for Tennessee (25-8) over coach Pat Summitt’s alma mater Tennessee-Martin (23-9). » NO. 7 DEPAUL, NO. 10 BYU: At Rosemont, Anna Martin led a balanced attack with 17 points for DePaul (23-10) over BYU (26-7). » NO. 2 MARYLAND 59, NO. 15 NAVY 44: At College Park, Md., Alyssa Thomas had 17 points and 10 rebounds to lead Maryland (29-4) past in-state foe Navy (18-14). The Terrapins will play Louisville on Monday. » NO. 6 ARKANSAS 72, NO. 11 DAYTON 55: At College Station, Texas, Quistelle Williams scored 15 points as Arkansas (24-8) rallied from an early doubledigit deficit to defeat Dayton (23-7). » NO. 3 TEXAS A&M 69, NO. 14 ALBANY 47: At College Station, Tyra White scored 18 points in her return from injury and defending national champion Texas A&M (23-10) used a big second half run to pull away from Albany (23-10). » NO. 1 STANFORD 73, NO. 16 HAMPTON 51: At Norfolk, Va., Nnemkadi Ogwumike scored 22 of her 28 points in the first half and Stanford pulled away before halftime to beat Hampton (26-5). The Cardinal (32-1) extended their school-record winning streak to 29. » NO. 8 WEST VIRGINIA 68, NO. 9 TEXAS 55: At Norfolk, Taylor Palmer scored 13 of her 18 points in the second half and West Virginia (24-9) held on against Texas (18-14).

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WMU wins first CCHA title since 1986 Broncos hold back U-M’s comeback, 3-2 From wire reports

DETROIT — Chase Balisy and Dane Walters had a goal and an assist each to lead Western Michigan to a 3-2 win over Michigan in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association championship game on Saturday. Ian Slater, Walters and Balisy scored to give the Broncos (21-13-6) a 3-0 lead heading into the third period. Goalie Frank Slubowki made seven of his 27 saves in the third period to make sure that lead held up, giv-

ing Western Michigan its first CCHA title since 1986. Michigan (24-12-4) came back midway through the third period to make a game of it. Kevin Clare scored short-handed at 8:01 and Lee Moffie scored on the power play at 14:02. Shawn Hunwick made 22 saves for the Wolverines. Senior captain Slater got Western Michigan on the scoreboard with 6:34 left in the first period. Bronco senior forward J.J. Crew fired a slapshot from the point that kicked hard off the pad of Hunwick and right to Slater’s stick. The Broncos went up 2-0 midway through the second period on a power-play goal by ju-

nior forward Walters, who poked the puck by Hunwick during a scramble in front of Michigan’s net. Late in the second, Walters passsed the puck in front to sophomore Shane Berschbach, who then slid a touch pass to Balisy on the back post for the score. The Wolverines successfully killed off the major penalty while scoring a short-handed goal on a set of crafty dekes by Clare. The sophomore defeseman danced around a Bronco defender before flipping a backhand shot past Slubowski. Slater then picked up a fiveSee CCHA, Page 12D

Western Michigan’s Dane Walters hoists the Mason Cup after defeating Michigan 3-2 on Saturday for the CCHA Tournament title. CARLOS OSORIO/AP

Dominant Wieber back DeWitt teen claims Pacific Rim crown The Associated Press

EVERETT, Wash. — This was more like it for Jordyn Wieber. Two weeks after winning the American Cup with a so-so performance, the world gymnastics champion from DeWitt was back to her dominating self Friday night. Wieber rolled to yet another allaround title at the Pacific Rim championships, beating U.S. teammate Kyla Ross by almost two points and setting the tone as the Americans won the team title in commanding fashion. “I was pretty happy that I hit four solid events,” 16-yearold Wieber said. “It has been a couple of competitions since I hit four solid routines without major mistakes, and I’m glad I did that. I came into this meet wanting to make improvements from the American Cup, and I feel like I did that.” Wieber finished with 61.05 points. Ross, a two-time U.S. junior champion who was making her senior debut, had 59.20. Canada’s Christine Lee, who competed in the first of Friday’s two sessions, was third. “Jordyn was in much better shape than at the American Cup. I liked her energy level,” national team coordinator Martha Karolyi said. “I think she is very much in the right track in her preparation.” Gabby Douglas, who caused a stir two weeks ago with her dazzling performance at the American Cup, had a rough night, falling on both vault and balance beam. She did post the highest score

See WIEBER, Page 13D

Young raises average to .519 From wire reports

DeWitt’s Jordyn Wieber, competing on the vault, finished first with 61.05 points at the Pacific Rim championships in Everett, Wash. JOE NICHOLSON/US PRESSWIRE

Grand Haven dedicates win to hurt classmates The Associated Press

EAST LANSING — Even after an extraordinary victory, the Grand Haven Buccaneers had their minds elsewhere. One day after five students were injured in a major crash, Shar’Rae Davis’ layup with nine seconds left gave Grand Haven a 54-53 victory over Grosse Pointe South in the Class A championship Saturday. During the celebration, one

Raburn slugs Tigers to win

of the Buccaneers held up a sign asking for prayers for their classmates. Friday “was certainly a devastating, emotional day,” coach Katie Kowalczyk-Fulmer said. “There were a lot of tears, but eventually we had to get the girls to focus on the only things we could control.” Abby Cole, who led Grand Haven with 18 points, eight rebounds and eight blocks, See BUCCANEERS, Page 12D

LAKELAND, Fla. — Prince Fielder had three hits, incluidng an RBI triple that scored Miguel Cabrera, as the Tigers beat the Cardinals, 10-3, in an exhibition Saturday. Delmon Young hit his third home run of the spring, a three-run shot, in the fifth inning. Ryan Raburn, playing second base, hit his fifth homer of the spring with one out in the seventh. Young also had an RBI double and raised his average to .519 this spring. Brennan Boesch drove in two runs and Raburn also had two hits. Adam Wilk, vying for the fifth spot in the rotation, gave up all three of St. Louis’ runs (all earned) on six hits and two walks in three innings. Matt Holliday hit a two-run homer off Wilk in the first inning. Wilk was lifted in favor of Andy Oliver, who pitched two inings and allowed just one hit. Drew Smyly pitched the final four innings and gave up two walks while striking out four. Oliver, also a candidate for the back end of the rotation, hasn’t allowed an earned run in nine innings. He has only seven major league starts, but has allowed only two hits all spring. He will start Wednesday in Lakeland against Minnesota. “(Oliver) threw an outstanding breaking ball and has great composure,” said manager Jim Leyland, who has hinted that the fifth starter he is looking for is already in Tigers camp. “There’s a pressure cooker to find a fifth starter.” St. Louis starter Jaime Garcia cruised through the first three innings, then surrendered three runs in the fourth. He was on a pitch count, but he asked Cardinals manager Mike Matheny to try to get into the fifth. “Hey, they can hit,” Garcia said of the Tigers. “I wanted to work all my pitches. They have a lineup that

The Grand Haven Buccaneers celebrate their Class A championship on Saturday in East Lansing. JARRAD HENDERSON/DETROIT FREE PRESS

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DETROIT — Quarterback Shaun Hill has signed a new deal with the Lions to remain Matthew Stafford’s backup, and left tackle Jeff Backus also signed a two-year deal to stay with the team. Financial terms were not available for either player’s contract. Hill signed a two-year contract, according to an NFL source. As of now, Hill is the Lions’ only backup after former Michigan State quarterback Drew Stanton signed a free-agent contract Friday with the New York Jets. Backus, entering his 12th season with the team after being drafted in the first round of the 2001draft out of Michigan, has started176 consecutive games for the Lions. He tore his right bicep in the Lions’ playoff loss to the Saints in January but has begun his rehab work at the team training facility in Allen Park. Hill visited the St. Louis Rams overnight Thursday. The Lions had been trying to retain him as their No.2 quarterback while he weighed options to leave for a similar position closer to his Missouri home in Lake of the Ozarks.

CINCINNATI — Michigan State catcher John Martinez drove in the game-winning run with a two-out RBI single in the top of the 14th inning to give the Spartans a 5-4 victory over Cincinnati on Saturday. Cincinnati put two runners with one out in the bottom of the 14th, but MSU reliever Tim Simpson earned his first save. Ryan Martin got his first win of the season. MSU junior Andrew Waszak pitched seven innings and allowed two runs on five hits with four strikeouts. Martinez had a pair of hits and two RBIs, while Ryan Jones had three hits and scored twice for the Spartans (9-7). Anthony Cheky added a leadoff home run. MSU and Cincinnati (8-8) conclude their three-game series at 1 p.m. today at Marge Schott Stadium.

— From wire reports

QB Shaun Hill (14) and offensive tackle Jeff Backus (76) have agreed to re-sign with the Detroit Lions. GETTY IMAGES FILE

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Big Reds have terrific trio H

ad Sexton’s boys basketball team not lost 81-80 to Detroit Pershing during the regular season, the Big Reds would be in position to finish off perhaps the greatest season in state history. Sexton has a 24-1 record heading into Tuesday’s class B quarterfinal at Chelsea against Dearborn Heights Robichaud. All of Sexton’s victories have been by double digits and the Big Reds have romped through the state tournament. Sexton’s key seniors — Denzel Valentine, Anthony Clemmons and Bryn Forbes, have played in three quarterfinals and may well play on back to back state championship teams. All are headed to Division I schools next season and I can’t remember such a threesome in greater Lansing history that has been as prolific. Sexton coach Carlton Valentine says he'll return to coach next season amid speculation he might step down and watch his sons play in college — Denzel at Michigan State and Drew at Oakland. He’s unsure of his future job status considering the TIM Lansing school system’s STAUDT possible future closing of a high school. But he Staudt thinks the Big Reds will on Sunday be a powerhouse again next winter and so do I. » Stolz family affair: It will be a family affair at Eastern’s Don Johnson Fieldhouse Tuesday when Okemos faces Rockford in the class A quarterfinal. Okemos coach Dan Stolz gets the support of his dad, Stan, whom he played for as a former Chieftain himself. Stan, who now lives in Arizona, led Okemos to back-to-back state titles in 1981-82 and is returning to Michigan to follow the last week of the tournament, hoping Okemos can keep its Cinderella run going. Dan’s uncle Denny, Stan’s brother, will also be in attendance. Denny was head football coach at Michigan State following Duffy Daugherty’s reign from 1973-75. It's hard to believe Okemos is now 17-8 and three wins from a state title considering the Chiefs lost back-to-back games late in the regular season at Holt and at home to Eastern by a com-

bined 45 points. » Documentary cameo: Many have commented to me about my cameo in ESPN’s movie “The Announcement” which is now airing about Earvin Johnson’s acquisition of the HIV virus in November, 1991. His career was well documented and the scene depicted video of a postgame interview we did after the old WJIM-TV aired the district opening game at Don Johnson Fieldhouse in 1977 between Everett and Eastern. The two had just played a regular season game in front of 10,500 fans in Jenison Fieldhouse so the demand for tickets was high for the tournament rematch. It was the first game high school ever televised live by a local station. Everett won 63-41 and we had time to kill after the game — Johnson was brought to a makeshift studio behind the west backboard on the second floor which is still in use today. That interview has been used countless times over the years by documentarians about Johnson's career and no I still do not wear that yellow and blue plaid sportcoat. » Start Women’s NCAA Tournament earlier: The Women’s NCAA Tournament would be wise to pattern itself after Michigan’s girls state tournament — begin one week earlier than the men’s event. The Women’s NCAA Tournament gets lost in the week long hub bub of the men’s tournament which has become one of America’s most popular sporting events. Michigan State’s women played Saturday — exactly two weeks after its previous game when interest had to have fallen off from its fans. If the Women’s NCAA Tournament began a week earlier and had a selection show prior to the men’s, I'll bet interest would increase dramatically in a variety of different ways. Michigan’s girls state tournament semifinals and finals had no conflict from the boys this weekend. The boys begin a week later and neither tournament plays games against each other on the same night. » Saturday title game: And the Big Ten men should play their championship game on Saturday. Michigan State's win over Ohio State last Sunday was in the limelight for exactly twenty minutes before the NCAA selection show aired and dominated the head-

lines the rest of the night. If a champion was crowned on Saturday at least the winning team and fans could enjoy it overnight before moving on to the NCAA tournament's focus. » MSU hockey likely dancing: The NCAA hockey selection show is at noon today on ESPNU. I'll guess that Michigan State makes the 16-team field for the first time since 2008. It's amazing that MSU’s seniors have never won a playoff game in their Spartan careers, but maybe they'll get a chance yet. MSU issued a release this week listing 10 teams in league playoffs this weekend to root against and eight more to root on to victory — combinations that would help the Spartans earn a bid. » Future hinges on Krug: MSU's hockey future? In some measure it depends on junior captain Torey Krug’s not turning professional. If he returns, he anchors a solid MSU defensive unit with decent goaltending. But MSU only scored 110 goals in 38 games — that's less than three goals per game and Krug, a defenseman, scored the most goals — 12. As a whole college hockey could use more offense to win over new fans, but the Spartans definitely need incoming recruits with size and speed and offensively skilled shooters who can turn power plays into goals. Only then will MSU return to its glory years that MSU coach Tom Anastos experienced as a player in the early 1980s. » Hall induction: Potterville’s Paul Davis is among 14 to be inducted next Saturday into the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame. The festivities begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Ann Arbor Sheraton and Michigan coach Brady Hoke is the guest speaker. Tickets are $35 apiece with information at 269-983-0865. Davis has coached 33 years at three schools with a record of 175-119-1. » Champion rec teams: Rick and Nancy Yeager own Art’s Bar and have supported many local teams in recreational basketball leagues for years. Art’s has two teams in the Masters Division this season (50 and older), in the Lansing City League and both won championships this season in separate divisions.

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FISH REPORT Anglers should remember that walleye, pike and muskie season on the Upper Peninsula Great Lakes, inland waters and the St. Marys River as well as the Lower Peninsula inland waters is closing Thursday, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources says. High water levels in certain areas are making it difficult for anglers, the DNR said in its weekly fishing report. It said water temperatures in the rivers were still on the cold side, but the warm weather was making way for open water fishing. SOUTHEAST LOWER PENINSULA Lake Erie: A few walleye have been caught in Ohio waters near the Maumee River when trolling crank baits. Pike and panfish were caught near the Metro Park Marina. Huron River: Is producing some bigger steelhead as well as walleye near Flat Rock. Try small jigs with hair or twister tails. Detroit River: Boat anglers are looking for the walleye run to start but few have caught fish. Some are fishing between Wyandotte and the Edison Plant. A few pike and perch were caught in and around the Gibraltar. Lake St. Clair: Wind and rain has muddied up the waters. The ramps are open but the docks were not in so launching or retrieving a boat will be difficult. Lexington: Guys with waders were launching boats and catching a mix of lake trout, coho and brown trout. The near shore waters were a bit murky from all the wind. Harbor Beach: The Edison Plant has been off-line so no fish have been drawn into the discharge channel. Saginaw Bay: Shore anglers are taking some perch from the cut at the end of Palmer Road but a lot of sorting is necessary. Females are still green, so perch spawning is not yet under way. Boats trolling for walleye off Linwood had fair success in 14 to 18 feet of water with husky jerks. Bright colors like fire-tiger, pink or white worked best. Those fishing for walleye need to look for clear water and stay away from the murky water coming out of the Saginaw River. A few perch were caught at the Linwood Marina, the State Park Drive Bridge over the Kawkawlin River and out from the Quanicassee River. Many were small but some keepers ranging 9 to 11 inches were caught off Quanicassee. A few walleye were caught out by Spoils Island but the action was far from red-hot. Bay Port had slow fishing. Saginaw River: Boat anglers were catching walleye however they really had to work in the high muddy water. Most of the fish caught have come near the confluence to the Shiawassee and Tittabawassee Rivers however the water coming out of the Shiawassee was not as muddy. The fish are scattered and while some did manage to catch a couple fish others got skunked. Those with experience fishing the river have done best. Those fishing near the Independence Bridge caught small walleye. Boat anglers inside the Bay Harbor Marina basin caught some nice perch. Tittabawassee River: Water levels were high and still rising at Midland. Sebewaing River: Had good perch fishing but anglers will need to do a lot of sorting to get some 8 to 11 inch keepers. SOUTHWEST LOWER PENINSULA Anglers are finding bluegill and black crappie on the inland lakes. Most ramps are open but it may be a few weeks before all docks are in place. Dowagiac River: Has good steelhead fishing. St. Joseph River: Steelhead fishing has been good especially down near the Berrien Springs Dam. Quite a few fish are moving through the fish ladders. With the warmer water temperatures, the run will most likely peak soon. Suckers are also starting to show up. Kalamazoo River: Has good steelhead fishing but the peak of the run could come sooner than later so anglers will want to get out there this week. Grand River at Grand Rapids: Has very good steelhead action and fresh fish have moved up into the river. A few walleye were caught and the suckers are moving in. Grand River at Lansing: A few walleye and steelhead were caught over at Moore's Park. Water levels here were good however Ionia was under a flood advisory until next week. With the higher water levels, look for more steelhead to move up closer to the Lansing area. Maple River: Continues to have high water levels. Muskegon River: Has high water levels which will not only bring fresh fish into the river system but will also make steelhead fishing a little more difficult. NORTHEAST LOWER PENINSULA Ice on the inland lakes will not hold up with the warm temperatures. Water temperatures in the rivers were not above 40 degrees yet. Fishing has been good one day and slow the next. Thunder Bay River: Is producing some steelhead. The boat ramps are ice free and open for use. There should be some walleye to be had off the mouth. As water temperatures edge above 40 degrees steelhead fishing will improve. Au Sable River: The best steelhead fishing has been upstream of Oscoda, below the Foote Dam. Look for walleye off the mouth. The boat ramps are ice free. Higgins Lake: Ice fishing is pretty much done for year as the shoreline ice is melting rapidly and any remaining ice on the lake will not be safe. Tawas Bay: Ice in the Bay is officially gone. Pier anglers at the State Harbor are picking up a few lake trout on the outside and sorting through perch from the inside. Tawas River: Was producing some steelhead in the lower river and those surfcasting were starting to catch walleye off the mouth. Au Gres: A few boats are starting to troll for walleye in the cleaner waters. Au Gres River: Is high and muddy including Whitney Drain so steelheaders should probably go upstream to find cleaner water. The river is a Class 3 water from M-55 downstream and there should be some steelhead along the entire length of the river. Rifle River: Reported high water levels upstream of Omer. It could be Monday or so before the river drops to fishable levels. NORTHWEST LOWER PENINSULA Ice fishing is done in this area. Even though the lakes still had some ice, the rain and warm temperatures will deteriorate conditions rapidly. Anglers should stay off any remaining ice from here on out. Betsie River: Steelhead fishing is starting to pick up. Lake Cadillac: Rain and warm temperatures are not going to help ice conditions. The crappie bite was on however it may be a good idea to fish in shallow waters only. Manistee River: Steelhead fishing is starting to pick up as fresh fish move in. Anglers are reminded that the Little Manistee River is closed to fishing until April 1st. Pere Marquette River: Had higher water levels near Scottville. Steelhead fishing should only get better in the next few weeks.

— The Associated Press

AGINAW — As most slightly more-

than-casual anglers know, walleye season on the inland waters of the Lower Peninsula closes every year on March 15 and reopens the last Saturday in April. That means last Sunday was the last weekend day I (or anyone else) could fish for ‘eyes on the Saginaw River system for roughly seven weeks. Don’t suppose I have to tell you where I was on Sunday, do I? I wasn’t alone in that thinking. By the time my partner Greg Sochocki and I arrived at the Rust Avenue launch ramp at about 10 a.m., it was a struggle to find a parking spot. You’d have sworn they were giving away free beer. There’s a reason for that, of course. The Saginaw River system (and its tributaries, especially the Tittabawassee River) constitutes one of the finest walleye fisheries anywhere in America. There are walleyes to be caught there year-round, for sure, but by late winter, when the bulk of the fish have made the journey BOB from Saginaw Bay to the GWIZDZ spawning grounds, there can be so many fish in Outdoors there it’s almost not fair. bobgwizdz@ Because of the nearly sbeglobal.net non-existent winter of 2011-’12, the fishing has been good nearly non-stop since late fall. (I last went with Sochocki the day after Christmas, but he’s been a handful of times since with results ranging from meh to zounds!) “To tell you the truth, I picked my days and actually did pretty well almost every time,” he said. We’d actually planned to go a week earlier, but a rain event — don’t you just love how weather people talk? — muddied our plans. The effects of the rainfall were still evident when we launched; the water had that not quite coffee-with-cream look to it and the current was ripping. We went downstream a couple of miles and started fishing an area where there seemed to be a little break in the current and the bottom ranged from about 10 to 20 feet. A few anglers around us caught a fish now and then, but it wasn’t hot and heavy. Sochocki and I noticed a fair number of minnow buckets — we were fishing with soft plastics — and wondered if we’d bet wrong. It was more than an hour before we hit, but it was more of bunt than a home run; Sochocki hauled one in on a jig tipped with a blue Sexy Shad that might have measured 13 inches. But it was a walleye. Fifteen minutes later, Sochocki connected again, this time righteously. I slipped the net under a fat four-pounder and made my partner hold it for a photo. This is the point in the story where I’d like to tell you that it was like flipping a switch. It wasn’t. It was another hour before Sochocki added another

Greg Sochocki shows off a nice Saginaw River walleye he caught with a jig tipped with a plastic trailer. BOB GWIZDZ/FOR THE LSJ

throwback and then another 30 minutes before he put another keeper in the boat. I’d had one bite and fumbled it like a rookie. It was a kite-flying kind of day, warm and windy with gusts strong enough to make boat control (something that Sochocki is good at) a chore. We were using heavier than usual jigs to keep contact with the bottom. But it was slow. We moved a mile upstream, drifted over a 15-foot flat that suddenly dropped off to 20 and we both caught short fish. We saw other guys catching a few, too. So had we found fish or did they just turn on? That’s one of those unanswerable questions that makes fishing what it is: a mystery. We drifted past a trio of anglers who said they had 10. Then we watched them catch No. 11. The guy who scored offered that he was doing best on white trailers (though his partners looked like they were using minnows). So we switched, too, and added stinger hooks as we’d missed a few bites.

Adjustment makes difference It seemed to make difference. The next drift Sochocki — who was fishing two rods — hauled in a fish in the fivepound class. The next drift he added

another bruiser. We noticed that the velocity of the current seemed to have slowed. Some old pier pilings along one shoreline indicated the river had dropped at least a foot over the course of the day. Perhaps it had put the fish on the bite? Over the next 90 minutes or so we put four more keepers in the boat. The temperature had climbed to 65 degrees. All was pretty much right with the world. It was getting toward dinner time. (I was beginning to wonder how State had fared in the conference tournament championship game.) Sochocki asked what I thought. I offered that if we wanted, we could probably stay a little longer and finish out our limit, but I saw no need to do so. He agreed. We’d fished a little more than seven hours and put eight keepers — and at least that many throwbacks, not to mention one needle-nosed gar that surprised the both of us — in the boat. Not gangbusters, but not bad for a day with challenging conditions at a time when there might have been a foot of snow on the ground. We agreed to meet up again in 48 days — as we have so many times over the last 20 years — to see if there are any fish left for the opener. I can hardly wait.

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IN BRIEF HORSE RACING Secret Circle claims Rebel Stakes victory

meet for the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title today.

fielder Fabrice Muamba was â&#x20AC;&#x153;critically illâ&#x20AC;? at a hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart attack unit on Saturday night after collapsing during a match at Tottenham that was subsequently abandoned. The Zaire-born England under-21 international fell face-down to the pitch near the halfway line without any players near him. Medics rushed onto the pitch with a defibrillator and treated the 23-yearold Muamba, pumping his chest for around six minutes of treatment before he was rushed to hospital. When Muamba collapsed in the 41st minute of the FA Cup match, Bolton manager Owen Coyle shouted from the touchline: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just collapsed.â&#x20AC;? Former Arsenal teammate Johan Djourou wrote on Twitter that he had visited Muamba on Saturday night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just left the hospital,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Love you so much man! Keep fighting. Everybody please pray for him heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an amazing man and friend.â&#x20AC;?

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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Secret Circle battled for a three-quarter length victory Saturday, turning back a challenge from Optimizer in the $500,000 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park and giving Bob Baffert his third consecutive victory in the Grade II race. Secret Circle finished the 11â &#x201E;16 miles in 1:44.5, though co-owner Karl Watson said it remains to be seen where the horse will run again. The Rebel is a prep for the $1 million Grade 1 Arkansas Derby on April 14. Watson said he felt confident after Baffert sent him a text message earlier in the week saying Secret Circle was â&#x20AC;&#x153;breathing fire.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not one to overpromise,â&#x20AC;? Watson said of Baffert, who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the trip to Arkansas for the race.

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Titans GM: Manning ‘looked comfortable’ Spurned Dolphins go after Matt Flynn The Associated Press

Peyton Manning worked out for Tennessee on Saturday in Knoxville, Titans general manager Ruston Webster said. The GM said he thought Manning “looked comfortable throwing the ball and we had a good visit.” “This is another important step in the process,” Webster said. Manning spent eight hours meeting with Tennessee executives on Wednesday. Webster was joined at Saturday’s workout by Titans head coach Mike Munchak, chief operating officer Mike Reinfeldt, offensive coordinator Chris Palmer, quarterbacks coach Dowell Loggains and strength coach Steve Watterson, a person familiar with the session told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team has not released details of the workout. Saturday was Manning’s third workout for teams this week. On Friday, the four-time NFL MVP worked out at Duke for Denver. Tuesday night he worked out at the Blue Devils' facilities for San Francisco. Manning has been rehabbing in North Carolina following a string of neck surgeries. And the quarterback is getting good reviews.

After throwing for Hall of Fame QB turned Broncos executive John Elway and Denver coach John Fox in a workout that lasted a little under two hours. When it was over, Elway seemed convinced that Manning is still Manning “We enjoyed visiting with Peyton today in N.C.,” Elway wrote on his Twitter account. “He threw the ball great and looked very comfortable out there.” Manning, who turns 36 on March 24, missed the 2011 season with the neck injury, which led to him being released by Indianapolis. Duke football coach David Cutcliffe said Manning looks good. Cutcliffe — Manning’s offensive coordinator at the University of Tennessee — said Saturday morning that Manning has been throwing at “game pace.” » DOLPHINS: Former Green Bay Packers backup quarterback Matt Flynn is being courted by the Miami Dolphins. Flynn visited the Dolphins on Saturday after they were eliminated from consideration by Peyton Manning. Flynn was a backup the past four years for Green Bay, where his offensive coordinator was Joe Philbin, the Dolphins’ new head coach. Flynn has only two career NFL starts, but in last year's regular-season finale he set franchise records with 480 yards passing and six touch-

downs to help the Packers beat Detroit 45-41. He visited Seattle earlier this week. » EAGLES: Guard Evan Mathis and the Philadelphia Eagles have agreed on a five-year contract, the latest key player the team has locked up. A person familiar with the negotiations says Mathis’ deal is worth $25.5 million with $7 million guaranteed. » COLTS: Three days after bringing in one ex-Ravens free agent, the Colts added another by signing safety Tom Zbikowski. Details of the contract were not immediately available, though the team confirmed the move in a news release. Zbikowski could emerge as the Colts’ most aggressive hitter since former NFL defensive player of the year Bob Sanders. » SEAHAWKS: Seattle added needed depth on the defensive line by agreeing to terms with free agent defensive tackle Jason Jones. Terms of the deal were not announced, but Jones’ agent, Mike McCartney, said on Twitter the deal is for one-year. Jones has spent his first four seasons with the Tennessee Titans where he had 15½ sacks. » CHIEFS: Kansas City signed veteran tackle Eric Winston to shore up an aging and ineffective offensive line. Terms of the contract were not announced. The team planned a conference call for Monday to discuss the deal.

Tigers starting pitcher Rick Porcello, who is entering his fourth season, still feels like he is getting his baseball education. DOUG BENC/GETTY IMAGES

Phillies’ Utley inches closer to return From wire reports

LAKELAND, Fla. — Growing up in the New York metropolitan area, Rick Porcello rooted for the Mets, not the Yankees. If he ever felt some nostalgia when he faced the Mets as a pro, it has worn off. “I don’t even think twice about it now,” Porcello said before pitching four scoreless innings, allowing four hits and a walk and striking out three against the Mets on Friday. Porcello lives in his native New Jersey in the off-season. He says he doesn’t keep up with the Mets’ hot-stove news (which hasn’t been really good the last few years). It was mentioned to Porcello that his distancing from his once-favorite team perhaps indicates a milestone: He has become a veteran. “I wouldn’t say I’m a veteran,” Porcello immediately replied. He is going into his fourth big-league season. But he’s 23, and he won’t turn 24 until December. “I feel like I still have a lot of baseball I need to play before I get to that point,” Porcello said with a chuckle. “I still have a lot of stuff I need to learn.” » ORIOLES: Baltimore center fielder Adam Jones wants to get better. He was voted the Orioles’ most valuable player in 2011, but that’s not good enough for the 26-year-old. “I need to get better,” Jones said. “I don’t have a choice. In baseball, you can’t take steps back. I’ve worked my tail off this offseason. I’ve worked my tail off this spring.”

Ever since Jones was acquired by the Orioles from Seattle in early 2008, the team has been hoping that he’d be a star. Each year, he’s gotten better. An All-Star in 2009, Jones took a step forward in 2010 — especially after the August arrival of Buck Showalter as manager. Last year, he set career highs in games played (151), home runs (25) and runs batted in (83). He’s convinced he can do better. “I’m a year older. All that stuff matters,” Jones said. “Each year you get better and better mentally. The physical stuff handles itself. I’ve just got to get better mentally and understand the game better — learn to take what they give me.” » PHILLIES: Chase Utley still hasn’t played in a game for the Philadelphia Phillies this spring because of a chronic knee condition that forced him to miss the first 46 games last year. He’s not participating in team fielding drills or taking grounders during batting practice, but is hitting. Utley, however, may be getting closer to seeing action, though he wouldn’t use those words. “I’d like to play in a game next week,” Utley said Saturday. The tight-lipped second baseman hadn’t spoken to reporters since his first week in camp.Utley gave a slight update on his progress Saturday. Asked if he could be ready for the season opener on April 5, Utley said: “That’s the goal.” As for infield work, he’s hopeful to do that soon. “I’m making progressions to get to that point,” he said. “I’d like to do that at some point next week.” Utley said it was his decision to back off after playing in the field when camp opened.

NFL

CB Lacey wouldn’t mind calling Detroit his home Free agent would fill a Lions’ need Dave Birkett Detroit Free Press

DETROIT — Cornerback Jacob Lacey has made just one visit since the Indianapolis Colts decided not to tender him a contract as a restricted free agent — with the Detroit Lions on Thursday night and Friday — and the three-year vet sounds like he’d be OK if it stayed that way. “Ain’t nothing final yet, but I really like it around here, from the city to the coaches to the facility,” Lacey said. “It’s a great place, and I wouldn’t mind calling this home for next year. “I still want to consult with some of my people before I sign anything, but I could definitely call them the front-runner.” The Lions have a glaring need at cornerback after losing Eric Wright to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers earlier this week. Wright started every game last season, played inside and out, and finished second on the team with four interceptions. Lacey played primarily left cornerback in the Colts’ Cover 2 defense, but he said he's not the system cornerback many would believe. “I’m a tackler, and I’m going to play physical, and I can cov-

Free agent cornerback Jacob Lacey visited with the Detroit Lions on Thursday and Friday. ANDY LYONS/GETTY IMAGES

er,” he said. The Colts made a mildly surprising decision to non-tender the 24-year-old Lacey before the opening of free agency. He has been a part-time starter in each of his three NFL seasons, and cornerback is an in-demand position in the NFL. “It is what it is over there,” he said. “I couldn’t really say I was surprised, because they had a whole new coaching change, (general manager) change and all that. They might want to go a different direction with the team.” The Lions have just four cornerbacks under contract: starter Chris Houston and backups Aaron Berry, Alphon-

so Smith and Don Carey. They are expected to add at least one veteran in free agency and a rookie in the draft. Lacey said his highlight of his trip to Detroit was a 20-minute meeting with defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham this morning. “I had a good time with Gunther,” he said. “I like the fire he brings. I’m used to coaches like that, and I definitely think we can jell a little bit.” Note: Linebacker and coverage specialist Tim Shaw, who played high school football at Livonia Clarenceville and spent the last two seasons with the Tennessee Titans, will visit the Lions on Monday.

Tigers Adam Wilk gave up all three of St. Louis’ runs on six hits and two walks in three innings. DERICK E. HINGLE/US PRESSWIRE

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can light you up if you make mistakes, so I am happy. I feel good where I am right now.” Both teams wore green uniform tops and hats in honor of

St. Patrick’s Day. Doug Fister will start for the Tigers today against the Nationals. Fister, who hasn’t allowed a run in10 innings this spring, will be followed by Duane Below, Daniel Schlereth and Jose Valverde. Former Tiger Edwin Jackson will start for the Nationals.

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12D • Sunday, March 18, 2012 • Lansing State Journal

NBA ROUNDUP

Robak, Doetsch lift Our Lady to repeat Lakers win 3rd title in a row in Class D The Associated Press

EAST LANSING — Ava Doetsch and Lexie Robak have three state championships in three years at Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes. So far, it isn't getting old. “People ask me why it is still exciting, because we've been here every year,” Doetsch said Saturday. “I just keep telling that I'm winning state titles with my best friends. What's better than that?” Robak and Doetsch combined for 25 points as the Lakers won their third straight Class D state title, beating Athens, 5337. “I just told them how I proud I am of them winning three straight titles,” Lakers coach Steve Robak said. "I don't think they quite understand it yet, but there aren't too many teams that have ever accomplished anything like that in this state.” Sierra Stevens led Athens

(21-6) with 15 points. Tori Duffey added 13 for Our Lady (23-4). » CLASS C, MORLEY-STANWOOD 61, GROSSE POINT UNIVERSITY LIGGETT 57: Alexis Huntey scored 27 points and Bailey Caimduff added 18 as Morley-Stanwood beat Grosse Pointe University Liggett . The Mohawks overcame 42 points from Liggett senior Madison Ristovski, Michigan's newly crowned Miss Basketball. Ristovski made 15 of 29 shots and put up the second 40-point game in state finals history, but her teammates made just five of their 30 shots. Ristovski also had three assists, meaning she was directly involved in 18 of Liggett's 20 field goals. » CLASS B, GOODRICH 60, GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN 53: The Martians beat Grand Rapids Catholic Central to cap a perfect season in which they beat the three previous state champions.Aketra Sevillian added 13 points and six steals for the Martians. Tiesha Stokes had 19 points for the Cougars (24-4).

New York’s Jeremy Lin defends Indiana guard Paul George in the second half of the Knicks’ 102-88 win on Saturday. TOM STRICKLAND/AP

Knicks improve to 3-0 after D’Antoni departure Rose-less Bulls too much for Sixers The Associated Press

Jeremy Lin scored 19 points to help the New York Knicks defeat the Indiana Pacers 10288 on Saturday night and improve to 3-0 under interim coach Mike Woodson. Lin also had seven rebounds and six assists. Carmelo Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire each scored 16 points and J.R. Smith added 11 for the Knicks, who won on the road for just the eighth time this season. The Knicks have won all three games by an average of 23.7 points since Woodson took over for Mike D’Antoni. New York defeated the Pacers 115100 on Friday in New York. » BULLS 89, 76ERS 80: C.J. Watson scored 20 points and Joakim Noah added 13 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Bulls to a win over the Philadelphia. The Bulls overcame an early 14-point deficit without Derrick Rose, who missed his third straight game with a strained groin. Even with the reigning MVP missing 13

games this season, the Bulls still have the best record in the NBA at 37-10. The Bulls are 9-4 without Rose. » HORNETS 102, NETS 94: Chris Kaman scored 20 points, including a key 23-foot jumper with a second left on the shot clock and 45 seconds left in the game, giving visiting New Orleans a win over the Nets. With the Hornets leading 95-94, Kaman made his jumper and then Marco Belinelli sealed the win with a fall-away 3-pointer with 16.8 seconds left, also with the shot clock down to a second. » BOBCATS 107, RAPTORS 103: D.J. Augustin scored 23 points and had 11 assists and the host Bobcats held off the Toronto Raptors. Gerald Henderson added 24 points, Corey Maggette had 21 and Tyrus Thomas had11or the Bobcats, who overcame a 15point deficit in the second quarter to win for the second time in their past four games. Charlotte, which still has the league’s worst record at 736, went on to lead by as many as 16 points with less than 4 minutes remaining. But the Raptors rallied, pulling within

105-103 on Jerryd Bayless’ 3pointer with 11.7 seconds left. Augustin hit two free throws with 9.9 seconds left to put the Bobcats up by four points, and DeMar DeRozan missed a long 3-point attempt with 2 seconds remaining. » CLIPPERS 95, ROCKETS 91: Chris Paul finished with 23 points, including a go-ahead layup with 24.6 seconds left, leading the Clippers to a win and putting them within 2½ games ahead of the idle Lakers in the race for first place in the Pacific Division. Blake Griffin had 18 points and eight rebounds before fouling out with 4.9 seconds remaining. Courtney Lee led Houston with a season-high 25 points despite a strained tendon in his left middle finger. » CAVALIERS: Cleveland waived veteran forward Jason Kapono on Saturday, two days after he was acquired from the Los Angeles Lakers. The Cavs also signed guard Manny Harris for the remainder of the season. Harris, a former Michigan star, signed two 10-day contracts with the club, most recently on March 11. He has appeared in three games.

NHL ROUNDUP

Bruins snap skid in shootout Penguins get 11th consecutive win The Associated Press

BOSTON — Tim Thomas only needed to make one more save to snap the Boston Bruins’ four-game losing streak and keep the defending Stanley Cup champions from falling even further down the Eastern Conference standings. After the first five skaters in the shootout all scored, Thomas turned aside Danny Briere as the Bruins recovered after blowing a two-goal lead to beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Saturday. Tyler Seguin scored in regulation and in the shootout, and Patrice Bergeron had an assist and the game-deciding goal for Boston. “Sometimes when you lose in a shootout, you take it personally. But if you win you feel real good,” said Thomas, who made 27 saves in regulation. “That was a hard, 65-minute effort today.” » PENGUINS 5, DEVILS 2: Matt Cooke scored two goals, Evgeni Malkin added his 40th of the season and Sidney Crosby had three assists to lead vis-

iting Pittsburgh to its 11th straight win. With the surge, the Penguins have 93 points — two behind the Eastern Conferenceleading New York Rangers. Their winning streak is the longest in the NHL this season. » BLUES 3, LIGHTNING 1: Jaroslav Halak made 22 saves, Jaden Schwartz scored his first NHL goal, and the St. Louis Blues beat the host Lightning and became the first team to clinch a playoff spot. » PANTHERS 3, SABRES 2: Dmitry Kulikov returned from a knee injury and scored the winning shootout goal as the host Panthers beat Buffalo. John Madden and Mikael Samuelsson scored in regulation for the Panthers. Jose Theodore made 24 saves. Derek Roy and Tyler Ennis scored goals for the Sabres, and Ryan Miller stopped 15 shots. » ISLANDERS 3, CANADIENS 2: Josh Bailey scored the shootout winner to lead the Islanders past host Montreal. Mark Streit and Frans Nielsen scored in regulation for the Islanders, who snapped a fivegame losing streak. Al Montoya stopped 28 shots. Aaron Palushaj scored his

first NHL goal and Louis Leblanc added another one for Montreal. Peter Budaj made 36 saves. » HURRICANES 5, WILD 3: Tim Brent and Brandon Sutter scored in a 48-second span of the third period and the Carolina Hurricanes rallied past the host Wild. » MAPLE LEAFS 3, SENATORS 1: Phil Kessel had a goal and an assist and James Reimer made 29 saves to help the Maple Leafs beat the host Senators. Tim Connolly and Dion Phaneuf also scored for Toronto. Reimer won his second straight to improve to 4-0 at Scotiabank Place, allowing only Colin Greening’s goal. Ben Bishop, making his sixth straight start, faced just 18 shots in his first regulation loss. » AVALANCHE 3, RANGERS 1: Colorado rookie Gabriel Landeskog broke a second-period tie, and Semyon Varlamov made 41 saves to lift the visiting Avalanche over the sliding Rangers. Landeskog gave the Avalanche the lead, and Varlamov made it stand up as playoffhopeful Colorado finished a 20-1 Eastern road trip.

Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes junior Ava Doetsch looks to shoot against Athens in the Class D state final Saturday. JARRAD HENDERSON/DETROIT FREE PRESS

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agreed with her coach. “We had to go out and play, but we wanted to win the game for them,” Cole said. “The news sounds better today. It’s going to be a long recovery, but we’re hoping they will all be OK.” The Blue Devils (23-4) led by as many as 18 in the third quarter before the Buccaneers (27-1) rallied for the dramatic win. South led 44-32 as the fourth period opened. The Buccaneers, however, took advantage of turnovers, and six straight points from Abby Cole cut the lead to four with seven minutes left. Cole’s running hook made it 50-49 with 2:23 left, and Carmen Engel’s free throws gave Grand Haven the lead with1:10 left. After another turnover — South’s seventh of the quarter — Jordan Keefe split a pair of free throws. “There’s no question that the turnovers really hurt us down

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minute major and a game misconduct for a late hit on Michigan sophomore defenseman Mac Bennett. U-M took advantage of the power-play opportunity, cutting the deficit to 3-2 on Moffie’s goal. Slubowski won the tournament’s Bill Beagan Trophy for Most Valuable Player. » MIAMI (OHIO) 4, BOWLING GREEN1: Reilly Smith had a goal and two assists to lead Miami of Ohio to a 4-1 win over Bowling Green on Saturday in the CCHA third-place game. Smith scored his 30th goal of season in the third period for

the stretch,” South coach Kevin Richards said. “In our last few games, we’ve had trouble with pressure, and today it caught up with us.” Cierra Rice answered with a three-point play with 16.3 seconds, putting South back in front, but Davis beat the defense down the floor for the winner. “I got down the floor so fast that I didn’t even see any of my teammates,” she said. “My goal was to get to the rim, and when I did that, I knew I was either going to get fouled or score.” With all of the last-minute scoring, Davis had lost track of the score and didn’t realize what had happened when Rice’s desperation shot hit the bottom of the backboard at the end of the game. “For some reason, I thought the game was tied,” she said. “I saw Abby jump, saw the shot miss, and then I heard the horn and everyone was running at me. I had to look at the scoreboard to realize we had won. I’m still not sure I believe it.”

the RedHawks (24-14-2), who got 21 saves from Cody Reichard. Cameron Sinclair scored for Bowling Green (14-25-5), which got 29 saves from Andrew Hammond. » NORTH DAKOTA 4, DENVER 0: At St. Paul, Minn., Brock Nelson and Carter Rowney scored 46 seconds apart in the first period for North Dakota in a 4-0 victory over Denver (2513-4), giving the Fighting Sioux their third straight WCHA playoff championship. Michael Parks added a power-play goal in the second period for North Dakota. Aaron Dell made 22 saves for his ninth career shutout to improve to 6-0 in WCHA playoff games over three seasons with the Fighting Sioux (24-13-3).

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Lansing State Journal • Sunday, March 18, 2012 • 13D

GOLF ROUNDUP

Goosen, Furyk tied atop Transitions Calcavecchia leads Champions event The Associated Press

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Retief Goosen felt so much pain in his lower back that he decided to pull out of next week’s tournament and get treatment. One day later, he found himself atop the leaderboard in the Transitions Championship. Goosen ran off three straight birdies late in his round Saturday for a 6-under 65, giving him a share of the lead with Jim Furyk with more than just another PGA Tour victory at stake. Sunday is Goosen’s last chance to qualify for the Masters. Furyk, coming off his worst season since he was a rookie, hit a 6-iron to 3 feet for birdie on the par-3 15th hole and had the lead to himself until a three-putt bogey up a steep slope on the 18th. He had a 66. The two past champions at Innisbrook were at 11-under 202, with plenty of others behind them. Goosen started the third round five shots behind Jason Dufner, who had a 70. Going into the final round, there were 26 players within five shots of the lead on a Copperhead course that allows birdies early, and demands close to perfection down the stretch. Sang-moon Bae found that out the hard way. Bae, a rookie from South Ko-

Retief Goosen ran off three straight birdies late in his round Saturday for a 6-under 65, giving him a share of the lead with Jim Furyk. CHRIS O’MEARA/AP

rea, had the lead to himself for most of the back nine until Furyk caught him at the 15th. On the next hole, Bae drove into the trees to avoid the water running down the right side of the fairway, pitched out, then flew the green and three-putted for a triple bogey. He birdied the 17th and salvaged a 68. He was one shot behind, along with Dufner.

Goosen has a bulging disk and a degenerating disk in his lower back, which forced him to miss two majors last year. Kicking a soccer ball with his son last month caused it to flare up again, and the pain has been getting worse. He plans to get a protein injection in his disks on Wednesday in Virginia. » LPGA: Ai Miyazato birdied

three straight holes on the back nine and finished with a 6-under 66 for a share of the lead with Yani Tseng in the LPGA Founders Cup at Phoenix. Miyazato, the ninth-ranked Japanese player who has seven LPGA Tour victories, birdied Nos. 14-16 and closed with two pars for a bogey-free round in partly cloudy, breezy conditions

at Wildfire Golf Club. The weather is expected to a big factor Sunday, with the temperature plunging into the 50s and rain and strong wind forecast. Tseng had a chance to take the outright lead on the par-4 18th after hitting to10 feet out of the right fairway bunker, but her birdie putt rolled just past the left edge. The top-ranked Taiwanese star settled for a 67 to match Miyazato at 14 under. » CHAMPIONS TOUR: Mark Calcavecchia shot his second straight 4-under 67 in rainy conditions to take a two-stroke lead in the Toshiba Classic at Newport Beach, Calif. Calcavecchia, the 13-time PGA Tour winner who won the Boeing Classic last year for his lone victory on the 50-and-over tour, had six birdies and two bogeys on the Newport Beach Country Club course. Fred Couples, the 2010 winner, was a stroke back along with Loren Roberts. Couples shot a 69 in the round delayed about two hours because of the rain. Roberts had a 70. » EUROPEAN PGA: Spain’s Eduardo De la Riva shot a 4-under 68 to take a one-stroke lead at 12-under 204 after the third round of the Andalucia Open at Marbella, Spain. Eighteen-year-old Italian Matteo Manassero (68) and England’s Simon Khan (66) were tied for second. Tournament host Miguel Angel Jimenez (69) was anither stroke back along with David Lynn (68) and Henni Otto (68).

AUTO RACING

SPRINT CUP

Confident Sadler picks up 2nd Nationwide win

Busch hopes to end streak of bad luck

He holds off Kahne, Keselowski at finish

Driver is ranked 29th in standings Jenna Fryer

Jenna Fryer

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on uneven bars, a 15.50. The U.S., which has won the Pacific Rim meet every time since it became a biennial event in 2000, finished with 239.25 points and posted the highest score on all four events. China was second with 220.65, despite not sending its top gymnasts, and Canada third with 219.00. “Coming here, we were not thinking about winning or not winning,” Karolyi said. “We knew that the team is strong, but the main importance of everything this year is how we prepare for the Olympic Games.

» When: 12:30 p.m. » Where: Bristol, Tenn. » TV: Fox

The Associated Press

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Elliott Sadler went 14 years without a victory in the Nationwide Series. Now, he has two in the last three weeks. Sadler picked up his second victory of the season Saturday when his crew chief left him out on the track on old tires during the final caution at Bristol Motor Speedway. The call put Sadler in the lead on the final restart, with 28 laps remaining, and he easily held off Kasey Kahne and Brad Keselowski. Prior to his win two weeks ago at Phoenix, Sadler had not won in the Nationwide Series since Oct. 31, 1998, at Rockingham. That also was the last season he won multiple races in the Nationwide Series, and the year he scored his only other win at Bristol in the second-tier series. “To win two of the first four races is awesome, and we’ve got to keep adding to them. There’s blood in the water,” said Sadler, the Nationwide Series points leader. “After what I’ve been through the last couple of years in racing, this damn sure feels good.” Sadler raced to his first career Sprint Cup victory at Bristol in 2001, when he stayed out on old tires and pulled off an improbable victory. Crew chief Luke Lambert was a senior in high school watching that 2001 race from the grandstands, and he decided Saturday to borrow that strategy. Kyle Busch brought out the final caution of the race with 38 laps to go, and most everyone headed to the pits. Lambert left

TODAY’S RACE

BRISTOL, Tenn. — If

Elliott Sadler waves the checkered flag after winning the Ford EcoBoost 300 on Saturday in Bristol, Tenn. RUSSELL LABOUNTY/AP

Sadler on the track, even as Sadler protested the decision. “That was a great call by Luke. He reminded me I won a race here in 2001 by doing the same thing, staying out,” Sadler said. “I wanted this one worse than anything because I love this race track so much.” Kahne finished second and was followed by Brad Keselowski, who praised Sadler’s Richard Childress Racing car. “I am sure a lot of people will make a lot about Elliott staying out there, but he had a fast car,” Keselowski said. “He drove by me under green there, right before the yellow came out, and I think he was legitimately running the fastest lap times. “He had a fast car. You can’t say he won that in strategy in my mind. He’s been doing a good job.” Kahne, who was teammates with Sadler in the Cup Series, said Sadler is driving with a renewed confidence. “I watch Elliott right now, and I see him, he’s as happy as he’s been,” Kahne said. “He’s a

“Most of the girls lived up to expectations tonight,” Karolyi added. “And even when there were some mistakes, we’re learning from it.” Australia’s chances at a topthree finish took a hit when senior competitor Georgia Simpson took a nasty fall on her first tumbling run on floor exercise. She was taken to a local hospital, and Australian officials later said she had dislocated her left ankle. Australia wound up fourth with 214.500. Katelyn Ohashi, who is too young to compete at this summer’s London Olympics, led a 12-3 U.S. finish in the junior competition. Ohashi finished with 60.00 points, and her 15.85 on balance beam was the highest score of the day on any event.

good racer and right now he has a lot of confidence and a lot of momentum. He’s walking around smiling, and he’s confident with his car and his team. “I am happy for him. I am glad he’s running well. He ran great last year in the Nationwide Series and I think he’s doing a good job this year. Off to a couple wins early. I think he’ll get a shot to run some more Cup races as time goes on.” Sadler, who ran 12 full seasons in Cup and made the Chase for the championship in 2004, ran the season-opening Daytona 500 for RCR. Michael Waltrip Racing then announced a limited deal for Sadler to drive the Cup races Mark Martin sits out, but the plug was pulled on that shortly after his win at Phoenix marked him as a strong Nationwide title contender. Sadler ran for the Nationwide title last season, but went winless and finished second to Ricky Stenhouse Jr. of Roush Fenway Racing in the final standings.

Kurt Busch had any doubt he’s stuck in a run of bad luck, it was probably confirmed when he hit a bird in one of the final practices for the Daytona 500. “It was like hitting a sixpound bowling ball,” he grimaced Saturday. Alas, there was more to come for Busch, who suffered through a horrendous SpeedWeeks at Daytona. He was wrecked in practice for the exhibition opening race, and his new Phoenix Racing team had to thrash to put a seat in his backup car. The backup was then wrecked with two laps remaining in the race. Kurt Busch He was flagged for speeding on pit road in the Daytona 500 qualifying race, hit the bird in practice the day before the race in a collision that caused so much damage his team had to change the engine, and was leading when he was part of the last-lap wreck in the Nationwide Series race. Then, after sitting through the 36-hour rain delay for the main event, he was caught in an accident on the second lap of the Daytona 500. The next race at Phoenix wasn’t so bad, but last week in Las Vegas, his hometown, was a disaster: Busch had four different issues and his race ended with a hard crash after he ran over debris on the track. He goes into today’s race at Bristol Motor Speedway ranked 29th in points — the lowest Busch has been in the standings a month into the season since his 2001 rookie year.

“I’m walking down pit road and people are looking up at the sky, hoping they don’t get hit by the same lightning,” Busch said. “That’s just my life in general, (stuff) just keeps happening.” All the while, the public watches and waits for some sort of meltdown from Busch. His ranting and raving over his in-car radio was notorious, and reached an all-time low last season. There were a handful of other public outbursts, and he and Penske Racing decided to part ways at the end of last season. Busch believed he needed a fresh start, which he got with James Finch’s low-budget Phoenix Racing, and he went into this year determined to “put the fun back in racing.” But Busch’s history made it easy to believe a fast-moving rumor last Sunday that Busch had reverted back to his old ways following the accident at Las Vegas. Both the driver and team representatives say Busch threw a water bottle at a chain-link fence as he exited the infield care center, but, like an old wives tale, the story has morphed into an alleged major meltdown. “So I threw the water bottle at a chain-link fence. Nobody was around. The mouse that’s underneath the infield care center didn’t even see it.” When Denny Hamlin threw a water bottle at his race car two seasons ago at Phoenix, an act of frustration caught during the live telecast, there was no outrage. When Busch does something similar, people seemingly want his head. Busch starts 27th in today’s race, and that’s about where he ran in Saturday’s two practice sessions.

Jordyn Wieber, 16 from DeWitt, waves to the crowd after winning the gold medal in the all-around title at the Pacific Rim championships Friday night in Everett, Wash. JOE NICHOLSON/US PRESSWIRE

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