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Mock Trial Team wins regional title The Texas Tech School of Law Mock Trial Team won its third regional championship in four years at the National Trial Competition in Baton Rouge, La. The competition was directed by the Texas Young Lawyers Association and cosponsored by the American College Trial Lawyers, and according to a news release, is the largest mock trial in the nation.

The Mock Trial Team is comprised of second-year law students Josh Avelar from San Antonio, and Jefferson Fisher from Silsbee, and third-year law student Brian Sullivan from Austin, according to the release.

Dick Baker, an adjunct professor and Tech alumnae Melissa Morgan of Mullin Hoard and Brown L.L.P coached the team.

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HSC hosts 3rd annual pre-professional fair

By EMILY GARDNER STAFF WRITER

Students had the opportunity to learn more about pre-professional health programs Thursday in the Student Union Building Ballroom.

Texas Tech Pre-Professional Health Center hosted its third annual West Texas Health Professions fair for students.

Thirty tables were represented at the fair, with four to five student pre-health organizations, said Greg Gellene, director of Pre-Professional Health Careers.

Tonya Ward, adviser for Pre-Professional Health Careers, said 358 people attended the event. Invitations for the event were extended to students from Lubbock Christian University, South Plains College, Tech and Wayland Baptist University, and College of Human Sciences advisers also attended. “(The fair)’s where we bring professional programs from all over the state and some out of state,” she said, “that want to, you know, pretty much recruit our Texas Tech students.”

The fair was meant to allow professional programs to recruit undergraduate students to the programs at the fair, Gellene said, and was started three years ago when Gellene became the director of the program.

The fair has increased in size every year, Ward said. Twenty vendors attended the event the first year, 25 the second and 30 this year.

“We just build every year,” she said, “get new contacts, people hear about it that want to come out that we may not have known before, like Duke. They just contacted me out of the blue.”

Booths including dentistry, medicine, occupational therapy, physical therapy, podiatry and test preparation were at the fair, Gellene and Ward said.

The reason for the event is to provide a service to Tech students, Gallene said.

“There’s two things they can learn from these different people,” he said. “One is they’re going to learn these people are really actively wanting to recruit them, but secondly, they can learn the kinds of things these people are looking for, for

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PATRICK MIDDLETON, AN assistant director at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, talks to Kelby Neider, a junior biology major from St. George, Utah, during the Pre-Professional Health Fair on Thursday in the Student Union Building Ballroom.

Kaufman, No. 14 Lady Raiders head to Arizona

Two personal financial planning students won first place at Arizona Institute’s 2013 Foundation for Financial Service Professionals Industry Issue Competition.

Tyler Chaney and David Wilder, both graduate students, were awarded $5,000 scholarships each for finishing in first place.

According to the release, this is the second year in a row Tech has placed in the top three at the competition.

Sources related to the story were unable to comment Thursday.

Smithsonian.com listed the Museum of Texas Tech’s Lubbock Lake National Historic Landmark as one of the top five places to see evidence of the first Americans.

Along with the Lubbock Lake Landmark, the list comprises locations around the country where people can see preserved pieces of culture left by the early settlers, according to a news release.

Smithsonian.com, the online version of Smithsonian magazine, also highlighted the hiking trails and evolution display at the Landmark.

According to the Landmark’s website, the remnants of human activity and bison fossils have been found in the area, which is located in the meander of the Yellowhouse Draw.

The site continues to be used for geology, soil, radiocarbon dating studies and as well as a field laboratory, according to the website.

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ELIEZER CASTANEDA, A fourth-year medical student from Carrizo Springs, holds out his hand to show off his ring following the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center’s ring ceremony Thursday in the International Cultural Center.

The Texas Tech women’s golf team will play Friday in the Westbrook Invitational in Peoria, Ariz.

Tech coach JoJo Robertson said the team is confident going into the event.

“This is a tournament we played last year and had some success; we finished second,” she said. “Having played the course ahead of time, they know what to expect. We’ve had great practice since we’ve been home from Puerto Rico, so I think everyone is ready to go.”

The tournament, hosted by the University of Wisconsin, is a 54-hole event played through Sunday and Monday at Westbrook Village Golf Club. Senior Kim Kaufman said she believes scoring will be low on the 6,269-yard course.

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Students receive class rings during Health Sciences Center ceremony

By SCOTT MACWATTERS STAFF WRITER

Twenty-one students from the Health Sciences Center gathered to receive their Texas Tech rings at the HSC’s second ring ceremony Thursday in the International Cultural Center.

According to Tech’s website, Tech has been conducting a ring ceremony since 1999.

Jason Chandrapal, a second-year medical student from Houston, and president of the HSC’s Student Government Association, said this is the second year the ceremony has honored HSC students exclusively.

“Last year was the first year we decided to do our own ring ceremony,” Chandrapal said. “Our students who were accepting our rings would take part over at the TTU campus ring ceremony. So this is just kind of our way of trying to put our touches on it and trying to make it a little bit more specific to our students.”

During the ceremony, Chandrapal introduced Dr. Tedd Mitchell, president of the HSC, who spoke about why traditions are important.

“Traditions are the things you can fall back on later when running into folks that are either in your school or not in your school, or maybe somebody you may meet in a career down the road,” he said.

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“Texas has great traditions. We like big hair, we like big corsages and things like that, but we think that at the Health Sciences Center we need to have some traditions that are meaningful for students.”

During his speech, Mitchell said there are not many HSC students who have participated in the ring ceremony, but he hopes the number will grow as the tradition does.

“Last year, when we did this, the first year we did this, we had maybe eight,” Mitchell said. “We hope that every single year is going to grow and grow and grow.”

Following Mitchell and an explanation of what the symbols on the ring mean, Chandrapal began reading off the names of students who were given rings.

A total of 21 students from the HSC received class rings. Along with their rings, students also were given a keychain with a replica ring attached.

Kimberly Kidd, a senior nursing student from Little Elm, received her ring during the ceremony. Kidd said she has been at Tech for three of the four years she’s been studying.

“I’ve been looking forward to it, like, definitely since I’ve been here,” Kidd said. “I wanted to go to Tech freshman year, and I made a stupid choice and didn’t.”

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get and you need to putt well,” Kaufman said on playing Westbrook Village. “It’s kind of a birdie fest out there. We’ve been working a lot on wedges and a lot on putting.”

Among the 13 teams competing, four are ranked in the top 50 of the GolfWeek women’s collegiate rankings, including Tech.

The Lady Raiders enter the contest ranked No. 14 in the country. The host of the tournament, Wisconsin, is No. 44 while Arkansas and Washington are both the top 10.

Kaufman said the team should not be satisfied with its ranking.

“It’s a long season so we’ve got to keep working hard,” she said. “There’s so many other good teams out there too, and we can’t forget that.”

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ANGEL RAMIREZ, A freshman business major from Dallas, practices football drills Thursday outside the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. Ramirez plans to try out for the Texas Tech football team.

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Officer investigates off-campus sexual assault Today App-a-thon Time: 7 p.m.

Where: Livermore Center So, what is it?

Come build a mobile app to enhance the game, Humans vs.

Zombies.

Sound Encounters Time: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Where: Hemmle Recital Hall So, what is it?

Come enjoy this free concert.

TAB Presents: Battle of the Bands Time: 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Where: Student Union Building, Red Raider Ballroom So, what is it?

Come watch local bands showcase their talent in a glow-inthe-dark-themed battle.

Saturday App-a-thon Time: 7 p.m.

Where: Livermore Center So, what is it?

Come build a mobile app to enhance the game, Humans vs.

Zombies.

Super Saturday Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: Texas Tech So, what is it?

Come bring your child to learn about forensics, mathematics, cooking and more.

Black and Hispanic Knowledge Bowl Time: Noon to 3 p.m.

Where: Human Sciences Building So, what is it?

Come participate in this Jeopardy-style game consisting black and Hispanic trivia questions. $200 cash prize for the winner.

2013 Annual International Arts and Culture Symposium by Sowoon Arts and Heritage Time: 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: Museum of Texas Tech So, what is it?

Come to this ceremony and enjoy performances by Korean traditional stringed musical instrument Geomungo.

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Events will be published either the day or the day before they take place. Submissions must be sent in by 4 p.m. on the preceding publication date.

Group ‘sorry’ Bush wants out of gay-marriage ads DALLAS (AP) — A pro-gay marriage group will replace ads that include former first lady Laura Bush speaking on the topic with a new ad this weekend after Bush said she did not want to be part of its campaign.

The Respect for Marriage Coalition said Thursday that it appreciated Bush’s previous comments, “but are sorry she didn’t want to be included in an ad.”

The national advertising campaign of print, television and online ads that launched this week featured part of a Bush interview on CNN in which she says: “When couples are committed to each other and love each other then they ought to have the same sort of rights that everyone has.”

The coalition made up of more than 80 organizations supporting gay marriage said the ad was part of “a public education campaign that will now move to new and different voices that reflect the depth and breadth of our support.”

The ads that began running

Wednesday also included clips of President Barack Obama, former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Secretary of Defense Colin Powell talking favorably about same-sex marriage.

Bush spokeswoman Anne MacDonald has said that Bush asked to be removed from the campaign after learning that she was being featured.

MacDonald has said Bush “did not approve of her inclusion in this advertisement nor is she associated in any way with the group that made the ad.”

After the coalition released its statement Thursday, MacDonald said Bush would have no further comment.

Cheney, whose daughter Mary is gay, said in a speech at the National Press Club in 2009 that he supports gay marriage but believes that states, not the federal government, should make the decision. The Respect for Marriage Coalition’s ad campaign featured a clip of Cheney telling the National Press Club that “freedom means freedom for everyone.”

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Emily Colarte, a senior exercise and sport sciences major from Saudi Arabia, said she came to the fair to look at graduate schools and internships.

“It’s way better than like looking on the website and like trying to figure it out yourself,” she said.

Stacy Stanford, a junior psychology major from Tampa, Fla., said she came to the fair to get background on the school

injuries, which occurred in the circle drive of the Rawls College of Business Administration.

1:13 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated an alleged assault, without injuries, which occurred on the north side of the Psychology building. A female student said an unknown male grabbed her.

2:18 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated graffiti and criminal mischief, which occurred in Clement Residence Hall. A bulletin board was written on and words were carved

into the board.

3:05 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft, which occurred in the Science building. Prescription medication was taken from a student’s backpack.

4:12 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft that occurred in the Health Sciences Center F-1 parking lot. A black Apple iPad 3 was stolen.

4:36 p.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency, which occurred at the Health Sciences Center. A non-student was having

hallucinations. Emergency Medical Services transported the non-student to Covenant Emergency Room.

The non-student also was issued a criminal trespass warning from all Tech property.

9:41 p.m. — A Tech officer documented an alleged sexual assault, which occurred at an off-campus location. Lubbock Police Department responded and investigated the case.

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of nursing because she just applied, and was told tips on how to make her application better.

Van Johnson, a freshman chemistry major from Johnson City, said he heard about the fair from friends and the Tech website, and felt like it was a good way to learn the basic requirements for entrance into medical school.

Allison Hough, territory manager for the Princeton Review, said this was her first time attending the event for the Princeton Review, but it was not the company’s first time at the event.

“We love talking to students face to face,” she said, “and to be able to give them an idea of how the MCAT is changing, and what we offer to prepare for it.”

Ross Iosefson, assistant director of admissions at New York College of Podiatric Medicine, said he received an email inviting the college to the event, and decided to attend because they had not been to the fair in two to three years.

The fair, he said, was one of the more successful fairs he had attended in the last couple of months, and he saw a range of students from freshmen to seniors.

“I think the fair is a great way to see a large number of schools, some close by, some far away, in a short amount of time,” Iosefson said. “I think engaging admissions officers and potentially students or physicians that are here allows a perspective student to develop a relationship with that school, with that office early, and that could be useful not just in terms of name recognition with their application, but also in getting to know the personalities of the individual schools.” ➤➤egardner@dailytoreador.com

Wal-Mart outlook gives glimpse of economy NEW YORK (AP) — As the fortunes of many Americans go, so goes Wal-Mart, so goes the economy.

Even as the world’s largest retailer on Thursday reported an 8.6 percent rise in fourth quarter profit during the busy holiday shopping season, it offered a weaker forecast for the coming months. The problem? The poor and middle-class Americans Wal-Mart caters to — and who are big drivers of spending in the U.S. — are struggling with rising gas prices, delayed income tax refunds and higher payroll taxes.

Melanie M. Burkhardt, a mother of two teenagers who shops at WalMart, is one of those people. Burkhardt, a Waycross, Ga., resident, said she’s been hit with a double whammy: the payroll tax hike, which has cut her household monthly income by $260, and higher gas prices.

“We had to do a flip on our budget,” said Burkhardt, a legal assistant who plans to cut back on her trips to Wal-Mart. “This is money we used for things like going to a movie or splurging at Olive Garden. Not anymore.”

It’s widely known that Americans in the lower income brackets continue to struggle even as higher earners benefit from improved housing and stock markets, but Wal-Mart’s results signal that matters may be getting worse for the nation’s poor and middle-class. Wal-Mart is the latest in a string of big-name compa-

nies from Burger King to Zale to say those Americans are being squeezed by new challenges. But since WalMart accounts for nearly 10 percent of nonautomotive retail spending in the U.S., it is a bellwether for the economy.

“Wal-Mart moms are the barometer of the U.S. household,” said Brian Sozzi, chief equities analyst at NBG Productions who follows Wal-Mart.

“Right now, they’re afraid of higher taxes and inflation.”

Indeed, while wealthier households have seen their stock portfolios grow, poor and middle-class Americans have struggled to regain their financial footing since the recession ended more than 3 ½ years ago.

Stocks have roughly doubled since June 2009. Dividends and capital gains from stocks, which disproportionately benefit higher-income Americans, are taxed at lower rates compared with ordinary income And while incomes for most Americans have failed to keep pace with inflation since the recession, that’s been particularly true for middle and lower-income earners.

Median household income, adjusted for inflation, fell 1.5 percent to $50,054 in 2011 compared with 2010, the latest periods for which figures are available, according to the Census Bureau. That was down 8.1 percent from 2007, just before the

recession began. (The median is the point halfway between the highest and lowest levels.)

But lower and middle-income households fared worse: The share of overall income earned by the bottom 80 percent of households shrank in 2011, while the income for the top 20 percent grew. And in 2012, inflation-adjusted hourly pay barely rose, inching up 0.3 percent.

Another hurdle for lower- and middle-income Americans has been the jump in gas prices since midJanuary. The average price for a gallon of gas rose 47 cents in the past month to $3.78 on Thursday, according to AAA. Tax changes also have hit the nation’s lowest earners especially hard.

On Jan. 1, Social Security payroll taxes rose 2 percentage points after a temporary tax cut expired. That sliced about $1,000 from the take-home pay of a household earning $50,000.

Since the Social Security tax is levied against income only up to $114,000, it disproportionately affects middleand lower-income households.

An even larger challenge for many lower-income Americans has been the government’s delay in processing income taxes and paying refunds. That’s because income tax rates weren’t set until a last-minute deal between the White House and Congress on Jan. 1. So the IRS

pushed back the start of tax-filing season to Jan. 30, two weeks later than usual.

As a result, by Feb. 14 the government had paid only $55 billion in refunds, down from $77 billion at the same time last year, according to an estimate by UBS. That drop of $22 billion is more than twice the impact of the higher payroll tax.

Refunds have accelerated recently and will eventually be paid out, but the impact still can be felt by many taxpayers: About 78 percent of taxpayers receive refunds, and the figure rises to 82 percent for those reporting income below $50,000.

Wal-Mart, based in Bentonville, Ark., said while its business has been volatile since December, the month of February, in particular, has been “slower than planned” largely due to the tax refund delay. The company said that resulted in Wal-Mart customers cashing about $1.7 billion in income tax refunds year to date, compared with $3 billion for the same period a year ago.

Bill Simon, president of WalMart’s U.S. namesake division, said shoppers used their refund money last year to buy TVs ahead of the Super Bowl. This year, the retailer said it isn’t sure how customers will use the additional money when they get it, but some analysts say the most likely scenario is that they’ll save it.

Texas executes man who lit ex-girlfriend on fire

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HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire was executed in Texas on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused his final appeal.

Carl Blue, 48, was convicted of the September 1994 death of Carmen Richards-Sanders, 38, at her apartment in Bryan, about 100 miles northwest of Houston. Blue also tossed gasoline on a man in the apartment, but he survived and testified against Blue, who claimed the attack was a prank gone wrong.

In his final statements, he greeted victim’s daughter, Terrella Richards, as she entered the death chamber viewing area by telling her he loved her.

“I never meant to hurt your mama,” Blue said while strapped to a gurney in the state’s death chamber.

“If I could change that, I would. ... I forgive you. I hope you can forgive me.”

He also told his parents, watching through another window, that he loved them.

“I did something wrong, and now I’m paying the ultimate justice,” he said. “It may be crooked justice but I forgive those people.”

“Hang on,” he told them. “Cowboy up. I’m fixin’ to ride and Jesus is my vehicle.”

He took about a dozen breaths as the lethal drug began taking effect, said he could “feel it,” then slipped

into unconsciousness. Blue was pronounced dead at 6:56 p.m.

Blue’s death was the first execution this year in the nation’s most active death penalty state.

Prosecutors said Blue walked seven miles from his home to a convenience store and had been drinking malt liquor and smoking crack behind the store when he bought 50 cents’ worth of gasoline he put in a “Big Gulp” cup.

Court records said he waited outside Richards-Sanders’ apartment, then rushed in when she opened the door, telling her: “I told you I was going to get you.” He doused Richards-Sanders and ignited her.

She was trying to start her life over after the couple broke up months ear-

lier, “and Carl wasn’t part of that, and that was a problem for Carl,” Shane Phelps, a prosecutor at Blue’s punishment trial, said before the execution.

When Blue discovered Larence Williams at the apartment, he threw what was left of the gasoline on Williams, setting him on fire.

“He had only one true love in his life ... and here she was with another guy,” recalled John Quinn, the lead defense attorney at Blue’s 1995 trial.

Hours later, Blue turned himself in to police.

“When I went to knock, she snatched the door open and had a cigarette,” Blue told police in a taperecorded statement played at his trial.

“I wasted gas on both of them. And she caught on fire, and he caught on fire, and I took off running ... I was scared, man.”

Blue’s present appeals attorney, Michael Charlton, argued in appeals this week it was a conflict of interest for one of Quinn’s co-counsels to represent him in appeals because he likely wouldn’t contend his previous work was deficient. The conflict “resulted in valuable and worthwhile claims not being presented to any court,” Charlton said.

The Texas Attorney General’s office said the federal appeals were meritless because Blue had waived his right to a different lawyer, negating the conflict claim.

Five years after his conviction, his death sentence was among about a half-dozen in Texas overturned by a federal judge who ruled it was improper for a former state prison psychologist to testify that the black man’s race could indicate a propensity for violence.

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Kidd said she was given a replica ring on a keychain when she was a freshman, similar to the one handed out during the ceremony.

“I got this little keychain freshman year, and I still have the first one,” she said. “So them handing it out was just like a reminder of, when you first get here, this

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is what you expect to get when you’re done. It’s a prelude to what’s going to happen. You’re going to graduate and you’re going to get this ring, and I’ve always been really excited for that day.”

Kidd said she thought there could have been more people participating in the event, but she knew several of the people there.

“All of my really close friends were here, so it was really cool to kind of get this experience

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Eliezer Castaneda, a fourthyear medical student from Carrizo Springs, said the ring symbolized the hard work he put into his time at Tech.

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Actress, Holland Taylor plays ‘the thrill of a lifetime’ NEW YORK (AP) — Don’t you dare bring Holland Taylor a vodka martini.

What she wants is gin and vermouth, preferably in a threeto-one proportion, “as they were designed.” Oh, and not stirred.

She wants them “shaken brutally.”

“I, of course, am doing it right,” she says with equal parts humor and certainty, and perhaps a dash of brutal honesty. Like the cocktail, she’s refreshing and charming.

Both of those attributes are lately being poured into a role Taylor calls “the thrill of a lifetime” — playing Ann Richards, the late Texas governor and hero to the left.

Taylor, perhaps best known for playing the feisty grandmother on the CBS sitcom “Two and a Half Men,” wrote and stars in “Ann,” a one-woman play about Richards that debuted on Broadway this month after years of traveling and reshaping.

“I was compelled to write the play, and I was compelled to have it run my life for almost six years,” Taylor says over a bunless burger before the appearance of said martini. “I mean, I literally have almost no life. I left everything behind for some later day.”

The silver-haired, silvertongued Richards, a one-term governor, was a longtime champion of women and minorities in government. She died in 2006 at

age 73 after battling cancer.

She electrified the 1988 Democratic National Convention with a keynote speech in which she joked that Republican presidential nominee George H.W. Bush had been “born with a silver foot in his mouth.”

Richards’ death left Taylor mournful for a long time, and the actress was mystified about why.

They had met once, but it was as if a favorite aunt had died. “Then I realized she had had an effect on me that was really profound,” the Emmy Award winner recalls.

“That’s when I started to want to do something creative with it.”

Taylor considered making a TV movie or a film but none of it was gelling until one day driving to work, it struck her: a stage play.

Taylor pulled her car over to the side of the road and the details of how it would work washed over her. She speaks about it in almost religious terms.

“I feel like a vessel,” she says. “I AM the vessel.”

Taylor, born and raised in Philadelphia, has taken the work to various theaters in Texas, as well as Chicago and The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. It has eaten up her life, and no detail of Richards’ life is left to chance.

The actress and first-time playwright — “a first and last-time playwright, baby, I can promise you,” she insists — spoke to people

who knew the former governor, watched TV clips, listened to private recordings to perfect the accent and routinely emails former Richards associates to ask if a piece of proposed dialogue sounds right.

She’s studied what kind of rock was used in the Texas governor’s mansion. She’s asked how Richards would have pronounced the name of the city of Brownsville.

She’s even managed to reproduce the style of doodles that Richards left on her office blotter.

“My curiosity about her as a person has not ebbed at all,” she says. “It never lets up and it never lets up because it’s become passionately interesting to me.”

She recently realized the apartment that producers rented for her near Lincoln Center happens to be in the same building where Richards lived after she left office.

“They didn’t know that but I knew it,” she says with a wink.

Benjamin Endsley Klein, who directs the play, credits Taylor with sharing many of the attributes that Richards was known for, namely perseverance, humor and a neversay-die attitude.

“I admire her hugely because we all know so many people in this world that say, ‘I’ve got this idea for this thing.’ And then you see them again in two years and they say, ‘I’ve still got this idea for this thing.’” he says. “She’s created this out of thin air practically.”

Cruise lawsuits are in, but Carnival has advantage MIAMI (AP) — Lawsuits are already filed in this month’s disastrous Triumph cruise ship voyage, but the legal deck is stacked in parent company Carnival’s favor, mainly because of the restrictive terms of vacationers’ tickets, governing who can sue and where.

Cases involving the Triumph — which was disabled Feb. 10 by an engine fire that stranded thousands of passengers onboard for days in the Gulf of Mexico — and other Carnival Cruise Lines ships must be filed in South Florida federal courts, near the company’s Miami headquarters. The ship left from Galveston, Texas, for Mexico and eventually was towed to port in Mobile, Ala., after the fire.

Passengers traveled from around the country for the trip.

Maritime law experts said Thursday that passengers could win despite the limitations if they can show that the cruise line was negligent in letting the ship sail despite past engine problems and that their mental suffering was so severe they had to seek medical or psychological care.

“I think there is a good case of liability against Carnival. The issue really comes down to the damages,” said Robert Peltz, a maritime lawyer not involved in any Triumph-related cases.

Still, other attorneys cautioned it won’t be easy because of the way Carnival and others craft their cruise tickets — which are considered legally binding contracts often running several pages of fine print.

“If the ship breaks down, consumers are dependent on the goodwill of the cruise lines, which drafted iron-tight terms and conditions which protect them from virtually all bad experiences,” said Jim Walker, a Miami maritime attorney and author of a blog called www.cruiselaw.com.

Three passenger lawsuits were filed as of Thursday, one seeking class-action status for more than 3,000 passengers aboard the Triumph when the engine fire cut off all power and left them at sea for five days. Passengers say they endured terrible conditions on board, including food shortages, raw sewage

running in corridors and tent cities for sleeping on deck.

The lawsuit filed by passengers Matt and Melissa Crusan of Oklahoma says they “were fearful for their lives” aboard the 14-story ship. They said they and other passengers suffered nausea, headaches, insomnia and nightmares, made worse by Carnival’s decision to tow the Triumph to Mobile rather than to a closer port in Mexico.

“This decision was motivated solely by financial gain and Carnival’s convenience,” says the lawsuit, filed by Miami attorney Michael Winkleman.

The Carnival tickets for the Triumph cruise include a clause stating that class-action lawsuits cannot be filed against the company. But the Crusans’ lawsuit argues that the clause should be ignored because Carnival was negligent in letting the ship sail despite incidents in January that affected Triumph’s engines and propulsion.

The other two lawsuits filed so far make similar claims but seek to represent individual passengers, both from Texas.

Carnival spokeswoman Joyce Oliva said Thursday in an email that the company does not comment on pending litigation. But she confirmed that Carnival did not require Triumph

passengers to sign lawsuit waivers once in Mobile in exchange for refunds, a future cruise credit, reimbursement for some shipboard expenses and $500 per person.

Those benefits would likely be deducted from any damages an individual passenger wins in a lawsuit.

Maritime lawyers said there are three main legal hurdles passengers in a class-action case would have to clear: —A judge must decide the validity of Carnival’s class action waiver on its tickets. Courts typically uphold the terms of cruise line tickets, but not always.

— Whether a class action is proper at all, given that injuries or illnesses are not the same for each person.

— Whether, under maritime law, the passengers were legitimately concerned about being physically harmed and whether they had some physical signs of emotional distress. An extreme example would be a stress-related heart attack, but also could include psychological counseling.

Ultimately, Carnival could simply choose to settle the Triumph lawsuits.

If the cruise line fails to get the lawsuits dismissed on based on its ticket restrictions or other grounds, most attorneys say that’s the likely outcome.

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Fallen ‘Idol:’ TV show winner held in Dominican Republic SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A winner of the TV talent show “Latin American Idol” who was once loved by thousands in her native Dominican Republic was charged with drug smuggling after police found heroin stuffed in the heels of her platform shoes, authorities said Thursday.

Martha Heredia was arrested late Wednesday as she was about to board a plane to New York, said Frank Duran, the National Drug Control Agency’s director for the city of Santiago.

He said police found 2.9 pounds (1.3 kilograms) of heroin in the heels of three pairs of shoes packed in her suitcase. Police also ordered Heredia to undergo X-ray tests to determine whether she had any drugs hidden inside her body, but none were found.

Duran said police are interrogating Heredia to determine whether she was working as a mule for a drugtrafficking organization.

Prosecutor Luisa Liranzo said Heredia does not yet have an attorney.

If found guilty, she could face more than 10 years in prison.

The 22-year-old had become a star in the Dominican Republic after she won the final “Latin American Idol” contest in 2009. The show, which ran for three years, was a Spanish-language version of the popular British “Idols” franchise.

On the night Heredia vied for the title, thousands of Dominicans gathered in public plazas to watch her sing on huge TV screens, and then-President Leonel Fernandez urged Dominicans to vote for her.

The country was paralyzed as Dominicans watched the show, prompting Fernandez to quip, “It was said the country came under curfew

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Miguel Vargas, president of the main opposition party at the time, had donated thousands of prepaid phone cards the night of the final contest so citizens could vote for their compatriot.

“Martha’s tenacity and creative capacity are an example, and the least we can do is support her efforts,” Vargas said at the time.

Dozens of fans greeted Heredia when she returned to the Dominican Republic after her win, and Fernandez invited her to the National Palace. In February 2010, he gave her the National Youth Award.

“The politicians are lucky you’re not running for president because you would beat them all,” he said at the time.

But Heredia, nicknamed “La Baby” because of her penchant for calling people “baby”, disappeared shortly after all the fanfare, drawing speculations including that she was pregnant.

Then her name was back in the news for different reasons.

In December 2010, Heredia hit and killed a teenage Haitian boy with her car as he tried to cross a highway by foot. She was later ordered to pay his family some $275,000 as part of a lawsuit. The boy’s relatives were angered that she did not meet with them to offer her condolences.

“That’s not right,” Elvys Vandredi, the victim’s father, told a local TV station in a 2011 interview for a feature on Martha Heredia called “What happened to Martha Heredia?”

The TV station also featured an interview with Heredia, who said she granted the interview because she

was tired of the rumors surrounding her disappearance from the local show business industry.

Heredia blamed her manager at the time for not scheduling concerts or public appearances.

“I need a person who barely sleeps, someone who is constantly connected to social media,” she said.

In late 2011, she produced her first album titled “Lose or Win,” which she recorded in Mexico under the Sony Music label. The first single did not do well.

Heredia’s name disappeared once again and resurfaced last month when she filed a domestic violence complaint against her husband, Manuel Varet Marte, a hip-hop singer known as Vakero. He was ordered held in prison for three months as police investigate the case.

General Prosecutor Francisco Dominguez issued a statement saying Heredia’s situation was unfortunate.

“It’s very sad that young people who have so much promise, who were bestowed by life with all the grace in the world and an unquestionable talent, because of ambition, bad advice or simply to obtain money see themselves in situations like this,” he said.

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Minimum wage, a necessary evil for most P

resident Barack Obama called for the federal minimum wage to be raised to $9 per hour during his State of the Union address. Minimum wage is, like most federal ideas, divisive.

Those who are for minimum wage want it because they feel workers should be compensated reasonably for even menial work, especially if the company is profitable.

Those who are against minimum wage are against it because they believe owners of businesses who have put in the stakes for the company and have everything to lose should decide compensation and be able to keep more for themselves.

Both sides have a point; how we compensate people for doing jobs is important to how society flows. How money is dispersed is important to the economy, a higher minimum wage causes some prices to go up.

At the same time, we want people to have jobs where they don’t have to be subsidized by the

Jordan Sigler government in order to survive via food stamps, etc. It is a mockery that people believe capitalism should have people working multiple jobs and still not have enough money to take care of themselves and family. I think it’s insane when I hear people who are against minimum wage say there should not also be government handouts.

People who are willing to work should be able to adequately support themselves.

At the same time, we don’t want to force companies to lay people off, or go out of business simply because they cannot support positions because of forced wages.

In some cases minimum wage at $9 per hour is not even enough.

According to a study by The

Center for Economic Policy and Research in 2012, the minimum wage would be $21.72 if it had kept up with average worker productivity since 1968.

With the current minimum wage at $7.25, the amount is almost a third of what it should be. $9 is not likely to do very much to boost the average minimum-wage worker’s life, given that often some prices will rise as a result of the increase. The increase will be a burden on the middle class also because prices will increase.

I understand the federal government is trying to help the lower class. Economics, and especially money disbursement, are absurdly difficult to manipulate correctly and efficiently. Wage increases lead to a correlation of price inflation naturally because the system is based on scarce resources, or basic supply and demand.

So in a sense, if the increase does go into effect, the $9 per hour wage worker will be earning the same amount of buying power, only the figures will have changed.

Look at Santa Fe, N.M. It has the second-highest minimum wage rate in the country at $10.29. The New Mexican, a local Santa Fe newspaper, quoted a written document given to local reporters and elected officials commonly referred to as a white paper, which was written by two Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce members. They asked for the minimum wage not to increase because the outcome of the previous hikes caused the cost of living to increase in Santa Fe. At the same time unemployment went up as the hours went down for those still employed.

However, some rate of minimum wage needs to be enforced or else there would be a lower standard of living for the lower class by companies who do not necessarily care for their workers.

Still, government intervention is probably not going to fix the problem completely. The American people are going to have to come up with a better way of running our economy. While still having an efficient economy, we

are going to have to get over the problem of greed.

Earning a larger buying power by working hard for better products, or for luxuries, is not a problem. This, naturally, will incentivize a more productive working input. The greed that is a problem is when people like a Bob Cratchit, from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” needlessly suffer at the hands of someone who is selfish.

The scary problem today is, if Cratchit were around, he might not even have a job. Ebenezer Scrooge may have given his position to an able-bodied person in a foreign country.

Is the best system humanity can come up with a system that has trash bins full of spoiled food, while lower class families and children who are innocent of their parents shortcomings go hungry?

We are better than that. We should not have a high unemployment rate, forcing people to live in hotels, or tent-cities, with few resources around to make shelter.

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Instead of putting every business into a box, the government and business owners should look at businesses as individual enterprises. Some businesses should have a minimum wage at a federal level because their enterprise doesn’t make enough money to support higher paid employees.

Business with larger surpluses should look to pay their employees as close as they can to the $21.72 true worker output or have a minimum wage reflective of the company’s profits. If people are willing to work, and we have ample resources, they should be able to live at the very least sufficiently.

Watching our economy fall, with plentiful resources and unemployed workers looking for jobs is equivalent to dying from oxygen asphyxiation, playing the fiddle while Rome “burns,” with no real fire.

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have no idea to whom it belongs.

Quite frequently, though, they know that the coat they are taking is not theirs. A friend of mine once had her coat stolen only to realize that the person who took it had removed her phone and Dartmouth ID from the pocket and left them out on a table. Clearly, this person knew quite well that the jacket was not his or her own but still made the conscious decision to go home in it.

I don’t know if the people who take jackets that don’t belong to them ever wear them again. I’d assume some do, but just as many are unable to. A number of the stolen pieces have names of high school sports teams, summer camps or even last names on them.

I don’t understand why anyone would hold on to such a jacket.

You cannot possibly wear it around campus without risk of being dis-

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The fact that Murphy’s Law dictates my life was as clear to me as ever on the night last fall when my favorite sweatshirt was stolen.

It was the day after I had bought a “fracket” at a thrift store in West Lebanon, and I promised myself it would be the very last night I wore my sweatshirt out before switching over to the new coat.

Of course, that promise would be my downfall.

As usual, I tied one arm of the sweatshirt to a table leg at a fraternity and the other to a string of my friends’ jackets. When I returned later, someone had taken my sweatshirt. Graciously enough, however, they had taken the time to retie the next coat in the line back to the table leg.

Why is it that at a school for

which our parents pay potentially more than $60,000 a year, we have to worry about our coats being stolen? Why is it that every weekend, the Class of 2016 Facebook group is flooded with posts about lost jackets, often with valuable possessions left in the pockets? Why should I have to worry about having to walk home in freezing temperatures in the early morning hours because another member of this community took something that belongs to me?

Most times, the answer is alcohol. Drunk students grab the first jacket that even remotely resembles their own — though sometimes they don’t even attempt to find something similar — and don it as they move on the next part of their night.

Often they think they are going home with their own coat, only to discover the next morning when they have sobered up that they

covered.

So instead you are keeping apparel in your room that means nothing to you but likely holds great sentimental value for its owner.

I realize that often people are too embarrassed or lazy to track down the rightful owner, but they could at least turn in the jacket to Safety and Security.

Still, some of the blame must lie with the victims.

There are students who repeatedly lose jackets

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or have them stolen at parties, but continue to wear expensive North Face and Patagonia ones each time they go out. I have trouble mustering sympathy for these students. It is relatively easy to go to a thrift store or Wa l - M a r t a n d p u rchase the cheapest coat available. When I go out, the only fear I have in regards to my jacket is that I’ll have to walk

Why is it that at a school for which our parents pay potentially more than $60,000 a year, we have to worry about our coats being stolen?

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home cold, because I’ll only be out 15 bucks at most. Of course, I will never, nor have I ever, taken someone else’s jacket in such a situation.

One proposed solution that I have heard is to create a “stolen jacket exchange.” Whether held by a willing Greek house or organized independently, this event would be an opportunity for students to drop off any coats or other articles of clothing they may have taken throughout the year, no questions asked. In turn, people could search and see if their missing things were returned. There would be no judgment, because we all understand that sometimes these things just happen. But to leave what are likely hundreds of coats sitting unused in the wrong students’ rooms makes absolutely no sense and is a waste of perfectly good goose feathers.

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Tech softball to compete in Texas Shootout

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said she is confident Tech will con- total bases, slugging percentage and tinue to progress before conference walks during the 2011 season, acplay begins. cording to Tech Athletics website.

“I think slowly but surely Talley said Fox will be familiar throughout this whole spring we with her opponent because she have gotten a little better every knows the Red Raiders’ game plan weekend,” she said. “I think this is backward and forward, Talley said. going to be our “ S h e weekend to knows us up come out and and down,” show what we she said. “She can do.” knows what Tech will we are going face a familiar to do, so that opponent this will be excitweekend when ing. I know they play Texeverybody is as-Arlington. excited to see Kristie Fox, her too.” who was on Hays said the Red Raider he also is lookBRITTANY TALLEY coaching staff ing forward to TEXAS TECH JUNIOR for three seathe matchup PITCHER sons, coaches with his forthe Mavericks. m e r u n d e rDuring study, saying Fox’s tenure on the coaching staff, that she will be fun to coach the Red Raiders set records for hits, against.

Although many of the Red home runs, runs, grand slams, RBIs,

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The Texas Tech softball team heads to San Marcos today to compete in the Texas Shootout where it will face non-conference teams from around the state.

The Red Raiders play their first game at 3:30 p.m. Friday against Texas State.

Tech is coming off four consecutive victories from the Troy Cox Classic last weekend. The Red Raiders nearly had a perfect weekend, outside of losing their first game to Colorado State, 6-4.

“It was a good week,” Tech coach Shanon Hays said. “We started off slow and I thought we dropped a game that we should have won, and I think we came back strong.”

Tech started its season against non-conference opponents with a 7-3 record, and will hope to add to the win column after the upcoming weekend.

Junior pitcher Brittany Talley

I think slowly but surely throughout this whole spring we have gotten a little better every weekend

Raider players look forward to their matchup with Texas-Arlington, they have other games to play in during the weekend, including Texas State, who defeated Tech last year in nonconference play.

Because the season is at an early age and conference play has not started, freshman pitcher and infielder Gretchen Aucoin said the Red Raiders enter must-win games against opponents from out of conference.

“These are games we need to win, we should win,” she said. “We should have it in the bag.”

Despite starting the season with more than double the amount of wins than losses, Hayes said there is room for improvement from his team.

“We are still a work in progress,” he said. “ I am anxious to see where we are at here in about six weeks.”

After the Red Raiders return from San Marcos, they will have a week to prepare for the Tech Invitational, which will take place at 3:30 p.m.

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TEXAS TECH PITCHER Brittany Talley throws the ball down the line during the Red Raiders’ 10-2 victory against Midwestern State on Tuesday at Rocky Johnson Field.

Houston Rockets stand firm as trade deadline passes HOUSTON (AP) — Houston general manager Daryl Morey expected the Rockets to stay quiet leading up to Thursday’s trade deadline, until he saw opportunities to land rookie big man Thomas Robinson and a 2013 draft pick.

Once that was done, the Rockets made no more moves on Thursday after reshaping the roster with two deals on Wednesday night.

Houston traded forward Patrick Patterson, center Cole Aldrich and backup point guard Toney Douglas to Sacramento for Robinson, the No. 5 pick in last year’s draft, and forwards Francisco Garcia and Tyler

Honeycutt. The Rockets also dealt forward Marcus Morris to Phoenix for the Suns’ secondround draft pick this summer.

“Our goal is to both improve our team now and to be a championship contender,” Morey said Thursday.

The 6-foot-10 Robinson is the big prize, the No. 5 pick in last year’s draft and last season’s Big 12 player of the year at Kansas. With the Kings, though, he’s averaged only 4.8 points and 4.7 rebounds in 16 minutes per game. His most notable NBA moment might have come when he elbowed Detroit’s Jonas Jerebko in the neck during a game in No-

vember and served a two-game suspension.

But Morey expects Robinson to have a major impact in Houston.

“Thomas Robinson has a lot of upside for the bigger goal of getting back to being a contender,” Morey said.

The newly acquired players were scheduled to join the Rockets in New York, where they’ll play Brooklyn on Friday night. Morey also jumped at the chance to nab a pick in the upcoming draft — Houston didn’t have one before dealing Morris.

“We can’t go without being in the draft,” Morey said.

“I think the moves hopefully made sense, given what we’re trying to do.”

It was still a tough call for Morey, shipping off four players when the Rockets hold the No. 8 spot in the Western Conference. Morey says the moves shouldn’t jeopardize Houston’s chances of making the postseason, because the Rockets have developed depth at the positions where they lost players.

Patrick Beverley, signed last month, will step into the backup point-guard role behind Jeremy Lin, and Greg Smith and Donatas Motiejunas will take up the minutes left by the departures of Patterson

and Morris.

“It’s a testament to our staff and the coaching staff that we felt good about who’s going to come in and play,” Morey said. “While it’s tough to lose Patrick’s defense and professionalism, we feel like the guys who are stepping in can step in. And then when the coaches feel Thomas is ready, then unleash him.”

The Rockets finally landed that elusive, top-tier star just before this season when they acquired James Harden in a trade with Oklahoma City.

Harden was the third overall pick in the 2009 draft and he’s the league’s fifth-leading

scorer (26.5 points per game).

He scored a career-high 46 in a 122-119 win over the Thunder on Wednesday night.

Morey thinks he may have picked up another cornerstone player in Robinson, even though he’s been a bust in the NBA so far. Robinson averaged 17.7 points and 11.9 rebounds in his final season at Kansas.

“He comes in as a tremendous rebounder,” Morey said. “My guess is our coaches are going to him and say, ‘Look, on the floor, rebound and defend and you’re going to play.’ And he’ll do it.

He’s excited to be here. He’s a big-time athlete with big-time energy. He can really help us.”

Atlanta Hawks keep Josh Smith, trade Anthony Morrow to Dallas Mavericks ATLANTA (AP) — Hawks general manager Danny Ferry gave a simple explanation why he turned down the chance to trade Josh Smith on Thursday.

“We value Josh,” Ferry said.

It wasn’t the only time Ferry used those words. Smith, 6-foot-9 forward who leads the team in scor-

ing, is an important defender with his steals and blocks, contributes big in assists and rebounds but will be an unrestricted free agent after the season.

Ferry confirmed the Hawks entertained offers for Smith leading up to Thursday’s trade deadline. Ferry ultimately preferred to keep Smith

even while accepting the risk he could lose the 27-year-old forward in free agency with no return for the team.

“We weighed the positives and negatives of each of our opportunities and at the end of the day we felt like the best decision was to stand pat based off some of the things we

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Morris twins united after Suns, Rockets make trade PHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Suns again have a set of twins on their roster after making a trade to bring Marcus Morris from the Houston Rockets.

The move, officially announced by the Suns on Thursday, unites Marcus with identical twin brother Markieff in Phoenix.

Only once before in NBA history have twins played for the same team, when Dick and Tom Van Arsdale were together with the Suns in 1976-77.

The Suns sent a 2013 secondround draft pick to Houston to get Marcus Morris, who was the 14th pick in the 2011 draft. Markieff was the 13th pick overall

by Phoenix. The twins played together at Kansas, and on the same team through all their other levels of basketball until reaching the pros.

To make room for Marcus Morris, Phoenix waived forward Luke Zeller.

Not surprisingly, the brothers were elated with the developments.

“Can’t explain this feeling!!!”

Markieff said on twitter shortly after the trade was made official.

On Wednesday night, when news of the trade broke from unnamed sources, Markieff talked about the joy that the reunion will bring.

“I’m super excited,” Markieff said after the Suns lost at Golden State. “It can’t get no better for me. This is what I definitely wanted from the beginning, to be the same as college. I’m just excited to be able to play with him again. Honestly, all of this has been a dream to me. God is blessing it to be better and better for me and him.”

Marcus was considered to be the better of the two coming out of college but the Suns chose Markieff because he’s a bit bigger — 6-foot-10 and 245 pounds — and fit their need for a power forward. In Houston, meanwhile, Marcus — 6-9 and 235 pounds — had to adjust to playing small forward.

This season, Marcus appeared in 54 games for Houston, 17 as a starter, averaging 8.6 points, 4.1 rebounds, 21.4 minutes per game, and 38-percent from 3-point range. He had a career-high 29 points against Oklahoma City on Dec. 29. Markieff has had an up and down two seasons in Phoenix. This season, he’s averaging 7.3 points and 4.2 rebounds per game. Markieff is seven minutes older than Marcus.

“We have been intrigued for quite some time about the potential synergy from having both Morris twins on our team,” said Lon Babby, Suns president for basketball operations, in a news release announcing the trade.

“So we are excited to have the opportunity to welcome Marcus to the Suns.”

In another move, the Suns sent point guard Sebastian Telfair to the Toronto Raptors for center Hamed Haddadi and a second-round draft pick. The pick either be Sacramento or Toronto’s selection, whichever comes later in the round.

Telfair lost his job as backup to Goran Dragic when the Suns parted ways with coach Alvin Gentry and interim coach Lindsey Hunter opted for rookie Kendall Marshall. It will be the seventh team for Telfair since he came to the NBA directly out of high school in 2004.

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Snow stops first round at Match Play MARANA, Ariz. (AP) — Bundled in a winter jacket in a chilly tent near the snowcovered driving range, Mark Russell was asked where the opening day of the Match Play Championship ranked among his bizarre weather experiences.

“It’s right there,” said Russell, the PGA Tour’s vice president of competition.

And Russell has been on the job for more than 30 years.

First-round play in the World Golf Championships event was suspended Wednesday when rain that came down sideways quickly gave way to snow from a winter storm that dumped close to 2 inches on Dove Mountain in about an hour. The temperature plunged to 33 degrees at the cactus-lined layout 2,800 feet above sea level.

“I’ve seen snow on the course when I was a kid, but nothing like that on any of the tours.

It was crazy,” said top-ranked Rory McIlroy, one of 20 players in the 64-man field who never even made it to the first tee at the Ritz-Carlton Club.

Tiger Woods also was in one of the 10 matches that didn’t start. He will begin play Thursday against Charles Howell III, while McIlroy will face Shane Lowry.

Barring a likely frost delay, play was scheduled to resume

at 8:30 a.m., with the secondround set to start early in the afternoon. The field is cut in half after each round and, with sunshine in the forecast the rest of the week, it shouldn’t be difficult to get caught up.

“We’ve got a lot of possibilities with this small field,” Russell said.

Sergio Garcia, in the leadoff match, had just holed a 10-foot par putt to win the 15th hole and go 2 up over Thongchai Jaidee when play was suspended.

Ian Poulter’s only other tournament this year was on Maui for the Tournament of Champions, where it took four days just to get started because of high wind.

“I can’t believe it. When have we ever seen that?” he said, taking off his rain gear in front of his locker. “The two events I’ve attempted to play this year have been three days of 50 mph wind and 2 inches of snow in an hour. It’s absolutely, flippin’ unbelievable.”

What does that say for the rest of the year?

“Can’t get worse,” he said.

“Just incredible. Bizarre. Have you ever seen it? Especially where we are.”

Maybe he should consider himself lucky. At least he didn’t play Torrey Pines, where fog wiped out an entire round Satur-

day and Woods had to wait until Monday to polish off his 75th career victory. There were frost delays in the opening rounds at Phoenix.

But snow?

“I remember one year in Vegas in a collegiate tournament it was sleeting,” said Webb Simpson, who played one shot.

“We all charged toboggans to our coach in the pro shop and he wasn’t too happy about it.

This is crazy weather. But we’ve got a great forecast for the weekend, so hopefully, it will melt tonight.”

Poulter was cold from the start, rubbing his hands together and jumping in place to keep warm in the morning chill.

The Englishman had a 3-up lead over Stephen Gallacher through 12 holes, then left the course plotting revenge after European Ryder Cup teammate Peter Hanson hit him with a snowball.

“I’m like an elephant,” Poulter said. “I will not forget.”

In only 3½ hours of golf, there was some impressive play.

Bo Van Pelt, who took three shots to get out of a bunker early against John Senden, won six straight holes — only two of them with birdies — to build a 5-up lead through 12. Jason Day was 6 up through 10 holes against Zach Johnson, Matt

Kuchar was 3 up over Hiroyuki Fujita through 14, and defending champion Hunter Mahan was 4 up at the turn against Matteo Manassero.

“It’s hard to keep your hands warm,” Mahan said. “You’re feeling of everything just isn’t quite there. By the last three shots we hit, it was unbelievable, crazy.”

The best competition might have come after play ended.

Rickie Fowler wound up and fired snowballs from the parking lots. The caddies spent an hour having a snowball fight, though most of the players stayed inside.

That included Carl Pettersson, a guy who tries to see the glass half-full.

“This is one time I have the advantage of being fat,” Pettersson said.

With delays like this, he might have company.

“It seems like every rain delay — or snow delay — that we have, you just seem to sit there and eat dessert,” Day said.

“And there’s a bunch of yummy chocolates in there.”

This was the second time in three years that wintry weather interrupted the Match Play Championship. Light snow covered everything but tee boxes and greens the morning of Luke Donald’s victory over Martin Kaymer in the 2011 championship match.

Huberdeau leads Panthers to 5-2 win over Flyers PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jonathan Huberdeau and Peter Mueller each had two goals to help the Florida Panthers snap a five-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night.

Tomas Kopecky also scored for Florida, which was 0-2-3 since a 3-2 shootout victory in Philadelphia on Feb. 7. Scott Clemmensen, who backs up Jose Theodore, stopped 32 shots to earn his first win since April 7.

Luke Schenn and Jakub Voracek scored Philadelphia’s goals in the third period.

The Flyers came out flat one night after a wild 6-5 win at Pitts-

burgh. It didn’t help when they learned before the game that center Matt Read will miss six weeks because he tore rib cage muscles when hit by the Penguins’ Chris Kunitz.

Read leads Philadelphia with seven goals and is a key contributor on the power-play and penalty-kill units.

The Panthers, who came in with the third-fewest points in the NHL, quickly took advantage of Philadelphia’s emotional letdown. Mueller and Kopecky scored 29 seconds apart in the first period to give Florida a 2-0 lead.

Huberdeau set up the first goal by threading a give-and-go pass between two defenders to Mueller, who fired a shot over goalie Ilya

Bryzgalov’s shoulder. A bad turnover by the Flyers then led to a breakaway for Kopecky, who wristed a shot past Bryzgalov.

Things didn’t get better for the mercurial Bryzgalov after coach Peter Laviolette called a timeout.

Huberdeau, who scored the winning goal against Bryzgalov in the shootout win two weeks ago, had a breakaway moments later. The 19-year-old rookie got yanked down from behind by Kimmo Timonen, setting up a penalty shot. He scored on a nifty backhander to make it 3-0.

Bryzgalov wasn’t too happy after allowing the goal. While sitting on the ice, Bryzgalov tossed his stick over the net and off the glass. He

didn’t get a reaction from teammates or the crowd.

Huberdeau ended Bryzgalov’s night midway through the second period when he scored a power-play goal to give Florida a 4-0 lead.

Brian Boucher replaced Bryzgalov, who threw his stick down the tunnel after he left the ice.

Fans were so eager to cheer for something that they chanted “Boosh” after Florida’s Tomas Fleischmann missed the net on a breakaway shot.

Schenn snapped Clemmensen’s shutout bid with 6:08 left. After Mueller netted his second goal, Voracek scored his fourth in two games to cut the Flyers’ deficit to 5-2.

Kovalchuk, Elias lead New Jersey Devils past Washington Capitals 3-2 WASHINGTON (AP) — Ilya Kovalchuk scored the tiebreaking goal on a 5-on-3 power play with about 8½ minutes left to complete the New Jersey Devils’ 3-2 comeback victory Thursday night over the Washington Capitals, who have yet to beat any of the Eastern Conference’s elite teams.

Washington led 2-1 entering the third period, thanks to power-play goals by Mathieu Perrault and Mike Ribeiro.

Andrei Loktionov made it 2-all midway through the last period, and Kovalchuk dropped to a knee as he let the puck fly to put New Jersey ahead for the first time off Patrik Elias’ assist.

Elias had scored a short-handed goal in the second period.

The East-worst Capitals dropped to 0-7-1 against the conference’s top six teams. They will get another chance Saturday when they host New Jersey again.

It is the first time the Capitals will play consecutive games — both at home — against one opponent since April 5-7, 2006, against the Carolina Hurricanes.

Thursday’s loss dropped the Capitals to 5-10-1. With only 11 points, Alex Ovechkin’s team entered the day with the fewest in the Eastern Conference and the second-fewest in the 30-team NHL, ahead of only the Columbus Blue Jackets.

New Jersey, meanwhile, began the day with 22 points, tied with the Pittsburgh Penguins for the most in the Atlantic Division and trailing only the Montreal Canadiens’ 23 in the East.

Devils goalie Martin Brodeur finished with 17 saves. Washington’s Braden Holtby had 34.

New Jersey outshot Washington 13-4 in the first period, an accurate reflection of the way the Devils tended to control the run of play.