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In Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish, Emily Buzzell is helping to rebuild homes wrecked by Hurricane Katrina. A few months ago, she worked at Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota, and before that, she was stationed in Biloxi, Miss.
In Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish, Emily Buzzell is helping to rebuild homes wrecked by Hurricane Katrina. A few months ago, she worked at Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota, and before that, she was stationed in Biloxi, Miss.

COLUMBIA - The Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority is cutting two student loan programs that give lower interest rates to students.
One program MOHELA is cutting gives lower interest rates to students who use automatic withdrawal for payments, and the other lowers interest rates for students studying for public service careers like teaching, law enforcement, or nursing.
After MOHELA announced it would have to cut back on the student loan programs, students like Lauren Nelson, an MU education major with student loans, began to worry.
“As an education major it’s even more stressful because I know I’m going to be doing that in the future,” Nelson said. “These programs taken away are hurting me, and I’m not going to be able to make enough money compared to other jobs anyway. It’s really not fair.”
But financial aid directors at MU and Columbia College are saying their students shouldn’t be too worried.
“This will not affect MU students because MU students have been in the direct lending program,” according to MU Financial Director Joe Camille. “This means the money they have borrowed has come directly from the federal government, not MOHELA.”
According to Colleen Brown, the assistant Financial Aid Director at Columbia College, students at Columbia College will not be affected because the college has maintained a relationship with Sally May instead of MOHELA.
Regardless, these programs create comfort in the minds of some students, and losing them is taking away some of that comfort.
“It stresses me out because I know each year I have to think about how much money I have to take out, so when programs are taken away to help me as a student it’s painful because I have to think about money all the time,” Nelson explained.
Students already under these two programs will continue paying the original lower rates, but MOHELA will close the programs to new borrowers June 1.

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Haute home ideas-PJC courses offer interior design and home entertaining tips
Learn how to repaint, refresh and rejuvenate your home and host talk-of-the-town dinner parties with two new Pensacola Junior College Continuing Education courses.
Home Entertaining is 2 to 4 p.m. Mondays June 9-23. Students learn how to host creative and lively dinner parties with new recipes, decorating ideas, preparation and dovetail tips and how to enjoy the guests.
Interior Design is 6 to 8 p.m. Mondays June 9-23. You learn basic interior design by creating a decorating plan, choosing room colors, arranging furniture, accessorizing, solving space problems, and using what you already have to produce a new look and more.
Both classes are held at the Milton campus and cost $35 each.
Register at any PJC campus or online at www.pjc.edu/ContinuingEducation.
For more information, call 484-1797.
Container gardening subject of last “Digging It” class
The final class in this portion (sixth of 10 class series) of the Navarre Garden Club’s excellent “Digging It” Horticulture Study Series will be given on Saturday, May 31st, at St Augustine’s Episcopal Church, on Hwy 98 in Navarre. The class will consist of a lecture, followed by a hands-on workshop. Participants should bring a container from 6 – 8” in diameter, with a drain hole, and will go home with a completed container garden. Individuals may want to bring small decorative items to place among their plants. (Stones, small pieces of wood, etc) The class begins at 8 am and ends at 12:30. Light morning refreshments will be served.
The series of 10 classes was designed for the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs By horticulture expert and instructor, Tina Tuttle. The first five classes have been very Popular with home gardeners and garden club members in the Navarre area. The remaining four classes will be scheduled later in the year.

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Trinity College started Tuesday hoping to become the first undefeated team in modern N.C.A.A. baseball history. It had to settle for a national championship.
Trinity, based in Hartford, entered the final day of the double-elimination Division III world series in Appleton, Wis., with a 44-0 record. It faced Johns Hopkins and needed to win only one of two games to win its first national title. It could have made history by winning the first game to finish 45-0.
Trinity lost the first game, 4-3, setting up a winner-take-all final a half-hour later. During a wild game in which the lead changed three times in the final innings, Trinity scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth to win, 5-4.
There will be no “0” in their record, but there will be rings on Trinity’s fingers.
“We were most disappointed that we didn’t close it out than about the streak,” said Jeremiah Bayer, who pitched seven and two-thirds innings in the final game. “Obviously it would have been nice, but we wanted to come home with a championship.”
The tying and winning runs of the final game scored on full-count walks. The second was drawn by Guy Gogliettino, a senior third baseman in his first at-bat of the series. He fouled off seven pitches before drawing the final ball.
Trinity finished with a .978 winning percentage, breaking the N.C.A.A. baseball record of .925 set by Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 1985. Johns Hopkins finished 42-8.
Trinity’s going 45-0 would have been one of the most improbable events in the history of high-level baseball, where the dynamics of the sport leave the great occasionally losing to the mediocre, and a hot pitcher trumping all. (Most baseball experts would not bet that the Boston Red Sox would go 45-0 even in the Class A Midwest League.)

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In the end, it all came down to a passed ball.
Trinity College, putting its 41-game streak up against the 38-game winning streak of the State University of New York-Cortland, came away victorious, 2-1 last night at the NCAA Division 3 Baseball Championships in Grand Chute, Wis., when Trinity’s Matt Sullivan came home on a passed ball with one out and bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth.
With the score tied at 1 and one out, Sullivan singled to left and moved to second on Tim Bourdon’s single. Chandler Barnard drew a walk to load the bases, but Ryan Hooper’s pitch got by catcher Mike Zaccardo, giving Sullivan the chance to score.
Tim Kiely (11-0) earned the win for the Bantams. Trinity will play Linfield College, which defeated Wisconsin-Whitewater, 5-1, tonight at 7:45.
Vermont 5, UMBC 1 - Lefthander Eric Thompson’s five-hitter lifted the Catamounts over the Retrievers in the second round of the America East Baseball Championship in Farmingdale, N.Y.
Thompson walked two and struck out four and gave up one unearned run in the first inning of his fifth complete game, his first to go nine innings.
The Catamounts move on this afternoon in the double-elimination tournament to play Binghamton, a 1-0 loser to Stony Brook, last night.
Division 1 - Northwestern will vie forits fourth consecutive NCAA championship after defeating Syracuse, 16-8, in a semifinal at Towson University.
In the second game, Rachel Manson’s goal with 42 seconds left in the second overtime gave second-seeded Penn a 9-8 victory over Duke (13-8).
The Quakers (17-1) advanced to their first title game and are the only team to beat Northwestern this season.
Division 2 - Southern Connecticut State’s Letecia Taylor qualified for the finals in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles with a seventh-place finish in New Haven. Taylor’s time was 1 minute 1.58 seconds. Teammate McNeil Johnson finished sixth overall in the preliminaries of the 400 meter hurdles to advance to today’s finals.

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BERKELEY, CALIF. - The No. 20-ranked University of California baseball team, 33-19-2 overall and 12-12 in the Pac-10, has received an at-large berth into the 2008 NCAA Baseball Tournament and will compete in the Long Beach, Calif. Regional, hosted May 30-June 2 at Blair Field in Long Beach.
The Golden Bears enter the Long Beach Regional as the No. 3-seeded team and will face No. 2-seeded and No. 7-ranked University of San Diego (41-15) at 2 p.m. on Friday May 30. The other two teams in the Long Beach Regional include No. 1-seeded and No. 22-ranked Long Beach State (37-19) and No. 4-seeded Fresno State (37-27). Those two teams will play at 6 p.m. on Friday.
If Cal wins on Friday, it would play the winner of the Long Beach State-Fresno State game at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 31. The tournament is a double-elimination format with the championship game scheduled to be played on Sunday, June 1 at 5 p.m.
The Bears have a 6-0 record this season against the Long Beach Regional field. Cal defeated the University of San Diego, 5-0, on Mar. 2 in San Diego during the University of San Diego Tournament. The Bears are 2-0 against Fresno State, defeating the Bulldogs, 14-4, on Feb. 28 at the University of San Diego Tournament, and, 5-4, Apr. 2 at Evans Diamond. Also at Evans Diamond, Cal swept then No. 5-ranked Long Beach State - 6-1, 10-6, 4-3 - Mar. 28-30.
The Bears, under head coach David Esquer and led by senior second baseman Josh Satin, junior first baseman David Cooper and junior right-hander Tyson Ross, among others, are making their first NCAA Regional appearance since 2001 when they went 1-2 at the Baton Rouge, La. Regional. This will be Cal’s 10th regional appearance all-time where it owns a 22-11 record. The Bears have also qualified for the College World Series nine times, most recently in 1992 under coach Bob Milano. Cal captured the first CWS title in 1947 and also won the national championship in 1957.

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“Ugly Betty” has always been a major-network variation on the Spanish-language telenovela, equal parts soap opera and saucy satire. Yet when it returns today from the hiatus brought on by the writers’ strike at the head of a new ABC Thursday on WLS Channel 7, it finds itself out of whack: too much soap, and not enough satire.
Then again, “Ugly Betty” was already staggering a bit before the strike. When it debuted last season, it came across as a whimsical, stylish fashion lampoon, with America Ferrera as the enchanting title character, a well-meaning nerd trying to make it in a land of scheming fashionistas. As it got more sexy in an attempt to expand its audience, and the sex got more kinky — complete with Rebecca Romijn joining the cast as a transsexual — it alienated much of its family audience in the 7 o’clock hour.
This season it has remained stylish and sharp to look at, but it can’t seem to figure out how risque it wants to be, not with the sexcapades of Eric Mabius’ Daniel Meade and Vanessa Williams’ Wilhelmina Slater pulling the show in one direction, and the underdog Betty pulling it in another. Tonight finds the series refocusing on Betty and her love life, befitting its leadoff slot in the so-called family hour, but the only thing the writers can come up with to complicate the drama is to bring back the pregnant girlfriend of Betty’s would-be beau Henry, played by the equally nerdy Christopher Gorham. Yet they already leapt that obstacle last season.
The writers return from a 100-day hiatus, and the only thing they can come up with is a boilerplate reheating of last year’s story line? I call that disappointing.
In any case, in tonight’s episode, “Twenty-Four Candles,” Betty has literal dreams of a carriage-driven, fireworks-filled birthday with Henry, but when he has to cancel out it opens the door for Freddy Rodriguez’s Gio. Choosing between the two should occupy Betty for the remainder of the season, while Daniel and Wilhelmina tangle over his budding relationship with her sister, Renee, played by Gabrielle Union.

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When Scottsdale Unified School District administrators presented a facility use plan to the community in March, governing board and community members noticed something missing in the suggestion to close one school and consolidate two others: any mention of closing or changing nonschool buildings.
Now, district officials are starting to discuss bringing more money into the district by changing other facilities. And one building in particular is on several governing board members’ and administrators’ radar: the Education Center, housing most of the district’s administrators.
The district owns four nonschool facilities. In addition to the Education Center, there are two bus yards and a storage facility dubbed the Warehouse.
Two other locations exist on school campuses: the Mohave District Annex, a building at Mohave Middle School housing many of the district’s special-education staff, and a dirt tract near Tavan Elementary School used as a storage area for old furniture.
All four of the nonschool facilities are cheaper to run than the schools, ranging from a little more than $77,000 for a vehicle maintenance facility to $181,000 for the Education Center.
Schools, on the other hand, range from $1.6 million in operating costs for Copper Ridge Elementary School to $7.5 million for Desert Mountain High School. The one school not in that spectrum is Sierra Vista Academy, the district’s alternative school, which costs $762,000 a year.
Even though closing a nonschool facility wouldn’t save as much money as closing a school, board member Molly Holzer said she likes that option because a site could be rented out to bring additional revenue into the district.
Plus, conversations have come up about moving the Education Center, anyway.
At 44th Street south of Indian School, the district office isn’t in a convenient place for many residents of the district, which runs from McKellips Road to Pinnacle Peak Road, Holzer said. And since it’s at the extreme western edge of the district in Phoenix, it’s not even in the city the district is named for.

eastvalleytribune.com

COOKEVILLE — It was a session of “reasoning together” as area church leaders and other interested individuals gathered for Tennessee Bible College’s 13th annual Leadership Day on Feb. 23 in Cookeville.
The theme was “Come Let Us Reason Together,” and a variety of topics was addressed by speakers, exceeding the expectations of TBC President Malcolm Hill and others taking part in the event.
“The lessons delivered were in the best of spirit — very inspirational and very enlightening,” Hill said. “I believe we had the greatest interest and some of the best material ever presented at Leadership Day. The crowd overflowed the chapel.”
Speakers included Kerry Duke of Cookeville, dean of TBC, who discussed “Small Things Which Divide”; Mac Deaver of Denton, Texas, who addressed “Divine Providence, Prayer and the Holy Spirit”; and David Hill of Cookeville, director of public relations and missions at TBC, who spoke on the college’s upcoming mission plans. A question-and-answer panel was held afterward with panelists Glenn B. Ramsey, TBC vice president, Clarence Deloach and panel chairman Malcolm Hill, all of Cookeville.
Audio files of the sessions are available on the TBC web site, www.tn-biblecollege.edu.
The first speaker of the program, Kerry Duke, shared his thoughts about his discussion on “Small Things Which Divide.”
“My topic was about small issues that divide the church,” Duke said. “Sometimes we lose sight of things that are more important, and brother Hill wanted me to speak on how we know which things are more important and which things are less important, according to the Bible.”
Up next was Mac Deaver, who spoke on “Divine Providence, Prayer and the Holy Spirit.”
Hill said of the lesson: “Brother Deaver showed that there is tremendous power in the prayers of faithful Christians. His discussion on providence was excellent as well. He explained that God is still working in the world today — not through miracles, but through providence. It was a tremendous encouragement to us to trust in God and know He’s with us.”

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UCLA’s Darren Collison (2) scores on a layup as Stanford’s Robin Lopez defends during the first half of the championship game of the Pac-10 Conference at the Staples Center in Los Angeles Saturday, March 15, 2008. Collison finished with 28 points and UCLA won 67-64. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
LOS ANGELES —- UCLA may have a champion’s portfolio, but it has an underdog’s heart.
Behind 28 points from Darren Collison, the Bruins defeated Stanford 67-64 in the championship game of the Pac-10 Conference tournament on Saturday before 17,534 at Staples Center.
It was the second tournament title in the last three years for UCLA (31-3), which has won three consecutive conference titles and made back-to-back Final Fours. And it was the kind of victory that plays better in Peoria, Ill., or Allentown, Pa., than Hollywood, because it was anything but pretty.
With one starter, Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, already out with an ankle injury, the sight of star freshman Kevin Love clutching at his back in obvious pain just over two minutes into this one was cause for concern. Love left the game twice in the first eight minutes, and admitted to being in pain after the game. UCLA defeated Stanford (26-7) three times this season.

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