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By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Davis Love III thinks he's playing as well as he did earlier this year before pulling a rib muscle at Bay Hill. Now the U.S. Ryder Cup captain is eager to see just how much he might do.
Love III shot his third straight 2-under 68 on Saturday to join Nick O'Hern and John Merrick atop the leaderboard at the windy St. Jude Classic. Asked what his first PGA Tour win since 2008 would mean, the 48-year-old Love had a quick answer.
"Be a lot of Ryder Cup points," Love said.
With a win, Love is projected to jump from 63 into the top 30 in the Ryder Cup standings. Love started off this year excited about how he was playing before injuries slowed him down. He wound up not playing at all for about six weeks after withdrawing on the final day at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in late March before returning at The Players Championship.
Love tied for 16th at the Memorial last week, then played 36 holes in Columbus, Ohio, to qualify for his 23rd U.S. Open. He committed late to play in Memphis, making sure he was healthy enough to use this event as a final tuneup.
Love had three birdies and only one bogey Saturday to match O'Hern and Merrick at 6- under 204, the highest 54-hole lead on tour this year. O'Hern had a 67, and Merrick shot 69. The man with 20 career PGA wins said obviously there's a lot of pressure and he wants to win. He has only two wins since winning four times in 2003.
"Is it a big huge deal in my career that I have to win this week? No. But when you get up there at the top ... the old feeling kicks in. You concentrate better, you focus better and my routines of the day were coming down those last four, five holes. And I missed a couple putts, but I felt like I was right in like old times ... focused and playing and enjoying it," Love said.
"So it would mean a lot to win for sure. Anytime you win out here is important. But it's fun to be in it."
Rory McIlroy, who will try to defend his U.S. Open title next week at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, had a one-stroke lead when he teed off. He shot a 2-over 72 in a round that featured six bogeys and four birdies to drop in a tie at 5 under.
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Pat Valaika tripled in the fourth inning to help spark UCLA's attack.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Konner Wade tossed a six-hitter and Arizona earned its first trip to the College World Series since 2004 by beating St. John's 7-4 on Saturday to complete a two-game sweep.
A three-time national champion, Arizona (43-17) earned a share of the Pac-12 championship for the first time since 1993 and is headed back to Omaha for the 16th time after finishing off the Red Storm.
The Wildcats rallied from five runs down to win the first game of the super regional on Friday and jumped on St. John's (40-24) early in Game 2, scoring three runs in the first inning off Sean Hagan (8-3).
Wade (9-3) allowed four runs, and Bobby Brown had two RBIs to set off raucous celebration at Hi Corbett Field.
Arizona had a dramatic win in the series opener Friday, fighting back from the big deficit and down a run in the 10th inning to win 7-6 on Trent Gilbert's game-ending RBI single.
The Wildcats got out to the early lead this time, thanks to a mistake by Danny Bethea.
With two outs in the first inning, the St. John's catcher was called for interference when his glove got in the way of Robert Refsnyder's swing on a grounder up the middle. Instead of going off with the third out, St. John's had to stay out and watch Seth Mejias-Brean, Brown and Joseph Maggi each hit run-scoring singles that put Arizona up 3-0 before the Red Storm came to bat for the first time.
Mejia added a run-scoring single in the second inning after Joey Rickard worked a walk for the second straight at-bat, giving Wade a nice early cushion.
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Astronaught Shannon Walker of NASA and astronaut David Saint-Jacques of Canada test moving a probe in the waters off Key Largo, Florida. The program, part of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) is meant to test equipment and man's reactions for a human rendezvous with an asteroid.
Astronaught Shannon Walker of NASA and astronaut David Saint-Jacques of Canada test moving a probe in the waters off Key Largo, Florida. The program, part of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) is meant to test equipment and man's reactions for a human rendezvous with an asteroid.
NASA may have retired its shuttles, but it has its sights on sending astronauts deeper into space than ever before.
These voyages are years away but on Monday, astronauts are heading underwater to take part in a simulation that will help them figure out how they might explore one possible new destination: A near-Earth asteroid.
Astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger flew on one of the last space shuttle missions. She even helped prepare Atlantis for its final launch.
"It was a very bitter sweet time," says Metcalf-Lindenburger, who really wants to get to space again. But in the meantime, she's commanding a four-person crew that's putting on scuba gear instead of space suits.
She says we all have to move on.
"Like in all things. I just had my daughter finish up her last day of preschool before she goes off to kindergarten. We have to shut chapters and begin new chapters and we had to do that in the space program too," Metcalf-Lindenburger says.
Her crew will spend two weeks working underwater, which is the best approximation on this planet of what it would be like to operate in the zero gravity of an asteroid.
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Nanovis LLC, an orthopedic/neurosurgical company, announced that a patent covering nano-scale dimensions and production methods used for creating nano-surfaced surgical implants has been allowed in Canada.
Annies is the new name for the craft and nostalgia media division of DRG. The name unites the family of companies including Annies Attic, House of White Birches, The Needlecraft Shop, Clotilde and American School of Needlework.
Bethlehem Woods Nursing and Rehabilitation received a deficiency-free survey by the Indiana State Department of Health.
RezFX reached a deal with Southern Comfort for a national advertising campaign titled Lingo Cops.
Dirig Sheet Metal won the HVAC/ductwork contract for Southeast Fountain Elementary School in Veedersburg.
Kosciusko County Farmers Market recently had a ribbon-cutting celebration for its grand opening at its downtown Warsaw location on Center Street between Buffalo and Lake streets. For information, call 574-253-1102.
B.A. Romines Sheet Metal Inc. won the contract to furnish labor, material and equipment to install the HVAC ductwork at Eastside Jr./Sr. High School.
Stoops Freightliner-Quality Trailer of Fort Wayne recently celebrated its new designation as a Daimler Elite Support location. Elite Support classifications are reserved for dealers meeting the most stringent criteria for quality assurance, rapid diagnostics, exceptional turnaround time and consistent communications.
One Lucky Guitar won the HOW Promotion Design Awards sponsored by HOW magazine for projects for Fort Wayne Trails, Arts United and The Good Ones Clothing Company.
Vera Bradley has introduced hardshell and silicone iPhone cases at more than 1,000 Verizon stores, on http://www.verizonwireless.com, at Vera Bradley stores and at http://www.verabradley.com.
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What did we do before iPhones? They entertain us in waiting rooms, allow us to get the perfect, spontaneous photo and never let us truly escape the office. In addition to these uses, the iPhone truly shines during vacations.
There are a ton of great vacation apps, from better-than-Google GPS to old standbys such as Yelp. iExit is a great app that gives you a heads-up about restaurants, hotels and gas stations organized by interstate exit. The apps newest update lets you know in real time as you drive down the highway, allowing you to plan for a stop and not miss your favorite restaurant. You can also designate your favorite stops so that iExit knows to highlight them.
The deals tab alerts you to any promotions running for specific brands, making your road trip affordable as well as organized. iExit is only 99 cents in the iTunes store, and free for Android users.
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It looks as if Augusta will be getting a Francescas Collections at the mall, a really cool store that Ive visited in other cities. On the Augusta Malls and Francescas Web sites, job postings are up for part-time and full-time positions for an Augusta store.
Francescas sells clothing and accessories for women, geared toward a younger demographic. Prices are reasonable, and the quality is nothing to sneeze at.
My favorite thing about this store is that, as a boutique, it buys in very small quantities, so you and your friend showing up with the same dress from Francescas is unlikely.
The inventory is updated frequently, and the store runs great sales and promotions. Check it out at http://www.francescascollections.com.
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ANTIOCH -- They were Dozier-Libbey Medical High's first students to struggle through a rigorous medical-themed curriculum, figure out how to make wearing scrubs a fashion statement and make the daily drive down a long two-lane road to the secluded campus.
Now the school's first graduating class is about to embark on their next pathway.
The 127 seniors at the Antioch magnet school finished their time as student trailblazers Friday afternoon, receiving their highly sought diplomas.
Just before the tassels were turned to the left and caps thrown into the air, Alexa Gordon spoke about how her class was a group of pioneers.
"We've been living in a fish bowl, being judged and surveyed. The way of the pioneer is tough, but we beat the odds," Gordon said.
"It's been really great, just to be that class that kind of sets the tone and a high standard," senior Seth Martinez said during Thursday's graduation practice.
"At times we felt like the guinea pigs, but I think it's definitely prepared us for college."
Added senior Raymond Maciel: "There is definitely more of a drive here, to strive to get into a college."
About half of the Dozier-Libbey graduates are attending four-year colleges, while the rest are enrolled in two-year colleges, entering trade schools or enlisting in the military. Additionally, over 80 percent of the seniors earned the Dozier-Libbey Certificate of Excellence, a distinction given to students
Principal Nancie Castro is excited for the graduates' futures but sad to see the kids go. It was just five years ago when the district broke ground on a former cow pasture for the school, she said.
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In her first three games this month, the Chicago Sky's Epiphanny Prince has produced one of the best strings of scoring performances in WNBA history. She's also been one of the buzzer-beating heroes during a franchise-best start.
Prince will try to set a league mark by scoring 30 or more points in a fourth consecutive game and lead the Sky to a team-record fifth straight victory Sunday against the resurgent New York Liberty.
Prince's run started with 31 points against Washington on June 1, and she had 13 of those during the final 1:44 of a 65-63 victory.
Sylvia Fowles hit a last-second layup to secure that win, but it was Prince who banked in a tying 3-pointer at the end of regulation and scored a career-high 33 points during a 94-92 overtime win over Atlanta the next day.
Prince, averaging a league-best 25.2 points, did it again against Tulsa on Friday when the Sky (5-1) used her buzzer-beating shot to force the extra period and her 32 points to down the Shock 98-91. That fourth straight win matched the franchise's longest streak from May 27-June 5, 2010.
"Sometimes she struggles with not wanting to take over," coach Pokey Chatman told the team's website. "I have to tell her, 'Please, just take over.' Only Epiphanny can stop Epiphanny."
Cynthia Cooper is the only other player in WNBA history with three consecutive 30-point games, doing so for the Houston Comets in 1997.
The Liberty (3-5) will try to end the Sky's run and slow down Prince while matching their longest win streak since a four-game run July 1-13.
Cappie Pondexter scored 25 points as her team held on for the latest of its victories, 76-70 in Washington on Friday.
Pondexter has averaged 25.3 points during New York's three straight wins after failing to top 20 in each of New York's franchise-worst five consecutive losses to open the season. Leilani Mitchell has also made 11 of 18 shots (61.1 percent) from 3-point range.
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Three students of Liberty University’s Department of Biology and Chemistry earned first-place awards at the Virginia Academy of Science annual meeting at Norfolk State University May 23-25.Lynchburg, VA (PRWEB) June 10, 2012 Three students of Liberty University’s Department of Biology and Chemistry earned first-place awards at the Virginia Academy of Science annual meeting at Norfolk State ...
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A tip from a purported psychic that led to a search for a mass grave at a Liberty County home and a subsequent media frenzy that reached all the way to Australia have prompted a lawsuit by the couple who lived on the property.
Joe Bankson and Gena Charlton have filed a lawsuit against the Liberty County Sheriff's Office, the woman who first called in with a tip, and a number of media outlets that allegedly reported that dozens of bodies, including those of children, had been discovered without confirmation.
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There was no merit to the tip. By the next morning, news reports focused on how local sheriff's deputies had been led on a wild goose chase. But attorney Andrew Sommerman said the damage had already been done.
"They could not go home again," Sommerman said of the couple. "Legally, they could, of course. But if something is said about you, even if it's taken back later, people look at you with suspicion or with a cloud over your head."
Sommerman, who filed the suit Tuesday in state district court in Dallas, said the couple's long-haul trucking business was damaged by the reports linking them to a potential crime.
"The media owes a duty to the public to make sure that what they report is true," Sommerman said. "One of the things that scares me is that information is coming out so quickly. It's all about beating a deadline, being the first to get something out. It's only an excuse to say we don't have time to investigate."
Besides the sheriff's office, defendants include the "Jane Doe" tipster, Houston television station KPRC, CNN, ABC News, the New York Times, the Thompson Reuters news service, and Dallas-based Belo Corp., which owns a number of broadcast outlets.
The suit alleges negligence and defamation on the part of the woman who called with the tip and charges the media defendants with defamation. It accused the sheriff's department of negligence in alerting the news media about the report and in the way it conducted its investigation.
Liberty County Attorney Wesley Hinch was unable to be reached for comment about the lawsuit, which asks for unspecified damage.
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Why did Rand Paul forsake his dad Ron Paul for Mitt Romney?
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The Olympic torch is visiting both the Orkney and Shetland Islands, as it continues its journey through Scotland.
It will travel from Inverness in the Highlands, to Stornoway on the Western Isles, and will be carried on the islands by 40 torchbearers, chosen for their contributions to sport and their communities.
The flame will arrive at Kirkwall Airport in the Orkney Islands, and will be carried through the town by 20 torchbearers, including an appearance at the community celebration at The Pickaquoy Centre.
The first torchbearer will be Inga Kemp, 22, from Orkney, who will start with the flame in front of St Magnus Cathedral. Inga was nominated for her work in netball and hockey youth development coaching.
The torch will then be flown to Sumburgh Airport in the Shetland Islands, where a further 20 torchbearers will carry it through the town of Lerwick.
Among the torchbearers there will be Chris Rocks, 24, a fencer from Shetland who in 2010 won the Scottish Open Championship.
During its visit to Shetland, the torch will be taken across Clickimin Loch by boat by Matthew Cox, 42, from Shetland, before making a visit to the town's community festival, and then leaving by helicopter.
The flame will also be taken to John O'Groats - regarded as the most northern point of mainland Britain, before arriving at Stornoway airport on the Western Isles in the early evening.
The Olympic torch is now more than a third of the way through its journey.
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John J. Donahue's job is to grow Brentwood-based Cogent HMG.
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Q&A with John J. Donahue: Cogent CEO is on quest to optimize health care
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - It sounds like a silver lining. Even if the Supreme Court overturns President Barack Obama's health care law, employers can keep offering popular coverage for the young adult children of their workers.
But here's the catch: The parents' taxes would go up.
That's only one of the messy potential ripple effects when the Supreme Court delivers its verdict on the Affordable Care Act this month. The law affects most major components of the U.S. health care system in its effort to extend coverage to millions of uninsured people.
Because the legislation is so complicated, an orderly unwinding would prove difficult if it were overturned entirely or in part.
Better Medicare prescription benefits, currently saving hundreds of dollars for older people with high drug costs, would be suspended. Ditto for preventive care with no co-payments, now available to retirees and working families alike.
Partially overturning the law could leave hospitals, insurers and other service providers on the hook for tax increases and spending cuts without the law's promise of more paying customers to offset losses.
If the law is upheld, other kinds of complications could result.
The nation is so divided that states led by Republicans are largely unprepared to carry out critical requirements such as creating insurance markets. Things may not settle down.
"At the end of the day, I don't think any of the major players in the health insurance industry or the provider community really wants to see the whole thing overturned," said Christine Ferguson, a health policy expert who was commissioner of public health in Massachusetts when Mitt Romney was governor.
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WHEELING - The strength and fitness of a new health care reform law in America is on the examining table this month as the U.S. Supreme Court reviews its overall constitutionality.
On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. The measure mandates comprehensive health insurance reforms that roll out through the end of 2014.
The high court is expected to rule on its constitutionality later this month. At issue is one provision of the new law requiring all Americans to obtain health insurance - or face a penalty. The provision goes into effect at the start of 2014.
The court's ruling should result in one of three scenarios, according to Jim Forbes, spokesman for Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va.
First, the court could rule the entire bill unconstitutional. Second, the court could deem only the "insurance mandate" clause illegal, and keep the rest as it is. Lastly, justices could rule the entire measure is constitutional.
The law in its current form would decrease the federal deficit by $210 billion by 2021, according to figures compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The new system is expected to cost $604 billion over the next decade, while also generating $813 billion in additional revenues attributed to new taxes and fees, according to the CBO.
And health care reform already is providing very real benefits to West Virginians, according to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.
"In the last year alone, seniors have saved about $23 million on their prescription drug costs and 4,200 small businesses got a 75 percent discount on their premiums last December as a direct result of health reform," he said. "Consumers are better protected, seniors have more support and there are new tools to put the brakes on runaway health spending. Yes, controlling our spending is important, but we cannot shift that burden onto seniors and low-income West Virginians."
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, believes medical malpractice reform should be part of any health care system overhaul.
"Such common-sense reform would lessen the wasteful practice of defensive medicine, save the federal government billions of dollars and reduce health care costs passed on to employers," he noted.
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By MARYSHEDDEN | The Tampa Tribune
Published: June 10, 2012
TAMPA - Revamping of a Hillsborough County health plan for poor people remains in limbo as local leaders wait for a U.S. Supreme Court decision on national health care reform.
More than 13,000 Hillsborough residents participate in the 20-year-old health insurance of last resort. But those numbers likely will rise or fall once the high court decides whether President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act is constitutional.
For months, the Hillsborough County Health Care Plan Advisory Board has hesitated in making changes to the local plan, with meetings focusing on a lot of "what ifs" about who qualifies for its primary care, specialists, out-patient treatment and prescription coverage.
Once the national debate about "Obamacare" is clarified, local leaders say, they will know how many people will need help from the local plan. To prepare, the advisory board already has identified which aspects of the plan it needs to evaluate for cost effectiveness and impact.
"We'll be ready for either pass or fail," said county Department of Family and Aging Services Director Gene Earley, who serves as the staff administrator for the advisory board.
The urgency to streamline and improve health services for residents was behind last week's request by Hillsborough County Commissioner Sandy Murman to re-evaluate the local plan. Murman said she didn't know the advisory board was making plans to do the same.
She pulled the request after speaking with Earley.
"This is the best time to be doing this and be ahead of the curve," Murman said.
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On June 18, Paulsboro resident Sharon Byrne will embark on a health outreach mission to Haiti with her family nurse practitioner students from Drexel University.
Im the track director for the family nurse practitioner program at Drexel in addition to my clinical practice at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, said Byrne. Theres been a major push for our students to get involved in the community and do health outreach, and I was approached by someone in the Philadelphia-based organization Explorers Sans Frontieres. Basically, theyre a very reputable non-profit organization that has been doing outreach for a number of years in Haiti, Senegal and more. Theyve done 18 missions to Haiti thus far.
Byrne said she was approved by Drexels international studies office for the experience for her students in their final semester.
This is our first outreach program for the masters nursing department, she said. We will be there for five days running a one-day well child clinic at a school near Port-au-Prince, coordinating a full-day womens health clinic and spending three days in Port-au-Prince addressing chronic and acute health care needs of anyone from infant to older adult.
Five nurse practitioner students will accompany Byrne, as well as Drexels director of international studies, a representative from ESF and several other medical professionals and volunteers. The group has received donations from pharmacies and medical supply companies for the mission.
Basically, Haiti is still very lacking in routine health care, and thats one of the major things we want to address, she said. Many of their health needs revolve around issues that we also face here like diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol. A lot of what well be doing is addressing those needs and doing preventative health education with patients and some of the providers there.
Byrne said she and her students are looking forward to the trip because they feel there are still a lot of under-served people in Haiti who have health needs that have not been recognized since the earthquake.
The students are not only getting some clinical practice, but theyre getting the chance to go on a humanitarian type of mission, said Byrne. Just to work with people from other cultures and learn sensitivity is a great opportunity. They can become liaisons for health care and the United States. We hope to let people in Haiti know that we are still genuinely interested in their health and well-being.
Contact reporter Jessica Driscoll at jdriscoll@southjerseymedia.com.
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Both candidates for the U.S. House in the 13th Congressional District have faced the fear associated with having a spouse with cancer. But they still have radically different views on how the nation should mold healthcare policy.
David Gill, an emergency room physician from Bloomington, the Democratic candidate, lost his first wife of nearly 20 years Polly -- to cancer in 2007.
Rodney Davis of Taylorville, the Republican candidate, is thankful that surgery following discovery of colon cancer in his wife, Shannon, in 1999, has left her cancer-free.
The new 13th includes part of Springfield. Davis was recently appointed to replace U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson, R-Urbana, who won the primary, but dropped out of the Nov. 6 election.
Davis and Gill both have mentioned their families when discussing health care during the campaign.
With the extensive bureaucracy of Obamacare, Im not too sure wed have that same result today, Davis told Sangamon County Republicans when he appeared before committeemen last month.
He thinks the health care plan signed into law by President Barack Obama, officially the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, should be replaced with what Davis calls a market-based healthcare safety net. Included would be greater use of government-backed clinics to avoid the high cost of emergency rooms for minor ailments.
Gill advocates a national healthcare system he calls improved Medicare for all, which would cut insurance companies out of the health-care process. Gill has been a member of Physicians for National Health Care since long before Polly became ill.
Her illness didnt impact where Im at on the issue, Gill said in an interview. That said, she was another example of the types of difficulties that Americans face because of the way we finance our health care here.
Gill and his daughter Tally, 19, who just finished her freshman year at the University of Illinois, appeared in a campaign video about Polly and her illness.
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