?Voice of the Bulldogs? is three-time winner of prestigious golf tourney

By Bryan Bonato For Sun-Times Media August 3, 2013 10:18PM

Champion Kelly Sine stands next to the plaque in the Bonnie Brook clubhouse that honors all the tourney champs. Her name will be engraved on the plaque for the third time. | SUN-TIMES MEDIA PHOTO

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WOMEN?S CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP

Bonnie Brook Golf Course (Par 72)

Club Champion

Kelly Sine (9 handicap) (Beach Park) 86-81?167

Low Net Over Field

Sally Coffelt (23) (Waukegan) 94-91?185 (139)

Championship Flight

Kelly Sine (9 handicap) (Beach Park) 86-81?167

Beth Weiler (10) (Wadsworth) 83-86?169

Rhonda Johnson (13) (Beach Park) 89-84?173

Debbie Shields (12) (Winthrop Harbor) 84-89?173

Laura Miller (16) (Wadsworth) 88-93?181

June Sine (17) (Gurnee) 99-89?188

Kathy White-Cohen (17) (Waukegan) 97-95?192

Flight A (handicap 18-26)

Low Gross: Sherry Kantola (18) 95-89?184 (148)

Low Net: Terrie Daly (22) 91-93?184 (140)

Low Gross Runner-Up: Kellie Schumacher (19) 95-91?186 (148)

Low Net Runner-Up: Rose Huisel (21) 91-101?192 (150)

Flight B (handicap 27-34)

Low Gross: Sue Krapf (28) 100-101--201 (145)

Low Net: Jan Schroeder (33) 102-106--208 (142)

Low Gross Runner-Up: Carol Sarocka (27) 99-103--202 (148)

Low Net Runner-Up: Kim Witt (32) 106-107--213 (148)

Flight C (handicap 35-over)

Low Gross: June Ulch (37) 112-113?225 (151)

Low Net: Bonnie Ritter (39) 107-120?227 (149)

Low Gross Runner-Up: Bonnie Arion (36) 116-111?227 (151)

Low Net Runner-Up: Sandy Petron (40) 112-117?229 (149)

Updated: August 4, 2013 7:25AM

She has, arguably, the most recognized voice in the entire city of Waukegan.

A teacher in the school district, Kelly Sine?s ?other? job is as the public address announcer for Waukegan High School?s home basketball games.

In that capacity, she literally lets her voice do the talking for her ? a distinctive pitch echoing throughout the Dog Pound as she keeps hoops fans informed of what?s happening on the court.

This past week, however, Sine let her golf skills do the talking for her as she competed in the 36-hole Women?s Club Championship tournament that drew a field of 50 at Bonnie Brook Golf Course in Waukegan.

As the scoreboard suggests, Sine?s golf skills spoke volumes about her ability on the links as she won the championship for the third time in a 25-year span, prevailing by three strokes with a score of 86-81?167.

Sine, who back in the day was a prep star on the links at Waukegan East, also won the Club Champinship in 1994 and 2011.

For the second year in a row, Sine, who lives in Beach Park, and Wadsworth?s Beth Weiler owned the top two spots. Last year, Weiler fired a two-day total of 156 to beat Sine by nine strokes and claim her fourth club championship. This year, Sine trailed Weiler by three strokes after Thursday?s round, but her 81 on Friday was the best 18-hole score of the tournament and good enough to flip the deficit into a two-stroke victory.

On Friday, Sine took a triple bogey on the 129-yard par- third, which presents a tee shot over water, but played the other 17 holes just 6-over-par.

Low net over the field was the 139 posted by Waukegan?s Sally Coffelt.

?I was very steady today. I had one horrible hole on the third hole. I took a triple-bogey. I put in the water, then over the green. It was a mess. After that, I was really steady the rest of the day. I just prayed something good would happen, and it did. I?m very grateful,? she said.

?I just got done playing in another tournament on Monday and Tuesday in McHenry. I was just kind of our there and not hitting anything really well. It was just nice to come back and show that I played golf before.?

The McHenry Invitational was a 36-hole tourney that was won by a college player from Palatine.

On the bag for Sine all week was her fiance (wedding is next summer) Danny McDonald.

?He caddied for me on Monday and Tuesday, so I?m glad he finally got to see my play better today,? Sine said.

Sine and Weiler have been competitors for many years and probably will be for many more.

?We have a lot of respect for each other?s games. Everybody in our flight has proven sometime this summer that they can play some good golf. I was just lucky to have it going today,? Sine said.

The champ also praised the people at Bonnie Brook, which is a course run by the Waukegan Park District.

?I want to thank (club pro) Tony Tinetti and his assistant John LaFoone for all of their help,? Sine said. ?They?ve been very supportive in letting us run this tournament.?

Among the other winners was June Ulch, who was the Flight C champion. Winning was nice, but it wasn?t her highlight of the season.

Earlier this year, she aces the 114-yard sixth hold at Bonnie Brook.

Source: http://newssun.suntimes.com/21710262-419/voice-of-the-bulldogs-is-three-time-winner-of-prestigious-golf-tourney.html

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Dave Camp?s Senate Flirtation Puts Tax Reform on Ice

Need any more evidence that tax reform is the longest of long shots this fall? Well, look no further than Dave Camp?s decision to consider a run for the open Michigan Senate seat.

The move would require the chairman of the powerful House tax-writing committee to campaign for major stretches of 2014 just when any hypothetical reform package could be debated and voted on in Congress.

?He probably could wait until December to make that decision [to run],? says Ken Kies, a tax lobbyist and former chief tax counsel to the Ways & Means Committee during the last major overhaul of the tax code. ?Clearly, he can?t make that decision until he?s probably concluded that tax reform can?t fly.?

The potential Senate campaign not only hints at tax reform?s slow death. It signals enough of a shift in Camp?s thinking that tax lobbyists say it could drive other lawmakers away from reform legislation.?

It may keep House Democrats, for instance, from voting in favor of any committee mark-up of a tax bill this fall that Camp has promised to unveil. ?Democrats would have little incentive to support Camp?s legislation if it plays into the politics of the 2014 Senate races and hurts their ability to hold the upper chamber.

Already, it?s been a rough summer for tax reform. The Senate Democratic leadership dismissed its top tax writers? efforts to weed through the tax code?s various deductions. Senate Republican leadership told its members to ignore tax reform until both parties agreed that any overhaul not raise additional revenue. ?And, President Obama?s speech about corporate taxes last week put a drag on what little momentum was left when he argued that reform should raise money for? stimulus programs.

?I don?t think they know where they are headed,? says Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., member of the Finance Committee. ?Dave Camp may have some ideas. I?ve talked to enough members of the [Senate Finance] committee to know that there is no consensus. There is no end game that looks likely at this particular moment.?

Still, none of this will stop downtown lobbyists from swarming the Hill this fall, or staying on top of the every incremental move made by the two tax-writing committees, including Camp?s. ?People still think Camp will do something,? says one tax lobbyist. ?Whether or not you ultimately think tax reform will happen, the fact is that there will be paper out there. You need to be part of that game.?

If Camp does run for Senate and turn his tax-reform quest into part-time work, it would mark the end of an era, of sorts. Camp has been one of Capitol Hill?s biggest tax reform evangelists, acting as both a political strategist and a policy wonk. His committee has held more than 20 hearings on tax reform over two years and he and his staffers produced three deep-in-the-weeds policy proposals that outlined the various ways the committee could tweak taxes for international companies, small businesses, and financial products.

He also does the politics well. He formed a bond with his Democratic counterpart in the Senate, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus. The two meet regularly to talk taxes, and together they launched a national tax-reform tour with stops in Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Minneapolis to build support outside of Washington.

In early May, Camp waved off talk of pursuing the Michigan Senate seat because he remained so focused on his committee work.? ?We?re engaged in the day to day of moving the ball down the field,? he then told National Journal about his efforts. ?If you move the ball down the field, you score a touchdown, so that?s what we?re trying to do, but obviously, it?s never easy to do something big.?

Camp?s staff now says the lawmaker?s public contemplation of a Senate seat does not change his role or his agenda.? ?The chairman was always going to be on the ballot next year, and tax reform has always been his goal ? so, this is changes nothing,? says Sage Eastman, senior aide to Camp.

But running for reelection in his House district and doing the statewide work needed to successfully win a Senate seat are two decidedly different things.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dave-camp-senate-flirtation-puts-tax-reform-ice-060024797.html

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Author Margaret Atwood discusses her creative process in this novel writing speech. Atwood starts out by saying that the urge to write comes naturally, along with a slew of strange ideas. She says that people who want to pursue writing, but don't know where to begin, may not be cut out for this line of work.

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Margaret advises aspiring writers to carry a notebook with them where ever they go, in case a brilliant or bizarre idea pops into their head. Atwood reveals that when she's caught without her notebook, she'll resort to writing ideas on her arms.

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Wako Kungo ? The Minister of Energy and Water, Jo?o Baptista Borges, announced Thursday in Wako Kungo, central Kwanza Sul province, the supply of electricity from Kambambe dam (Kwanza Norte) to Cela commune, as part of the sector's restructuring programme for the local social well-being and sustainable development.

The minister said so in the third Broad Consultative Council of the Ministry of Energy and Water (MINEA), which started on Thursday morning in Cela town in the central Kwanza Sul province.

Jo?o Baptista Borges recognised the farming potentials in Cela town, a reason why the electricity supply will contribute to the development and creation of jobs.

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Oklahoma State football: Cowboys have branded an offense

Oklahoma State runs on to the field during a college football game between Oklahoma State University (OSU) and Texas Christian University (TCU) at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman

Some college football offenses are known for their inventor or the coach who popularized it. Bill Yeoman and the Houston veer. Emory Bellard and the Texas wishbone. Hal Mumme and the Air Raid. Mouse Davis and the Run and Shoot.

Some college football offenses are known for their proficiency at a position. Southern Cal tailbacks, of yesteryear. Miami quarterbacks. Brigham Young quarterbacks. Stanford quarterbacks. Michigan quarterbacks ? yep, Michigan. Look it up sometime.

Some college football offenses are known for their perfecter. Mike Leach?s Air Raid. Urban Meyer?s spread. Paul Johnson?s option.

But Oklahoma State?s offense is reaching the point where it?s just known as the Oklahoma State offense. Its success seems to know no barriers. Quarterbacks change. Coordinators. Heck, even styles change ? the Cowboys rode high with Zac Robinson and Larry Fedora, in a system far different than what?s been run with Brandon Weeden and Dana Holgorsen and Todd Monken and Wes Lunt and J.W. Walsh and Clint Chelf and now Mike Yurcich.

The only constant has been Mike Gundy, and even Gundy hasn?t been a constant. First, he was a student, learning Fedora?s offense, then Gundy was the teacher, as Fedora?s successor, then Gundy was the student again, learning Holgorsen?s offense except Gundy really didn?t pretend to try to grasp the whole thing, even when Monken replaced Holgorsen, except when Monken moved on to Southern Miss last December and Gundy ran the offense in the Heart of Dallas Bowl against Purdue.

?It?s been a number of years since I?ve really been involved in play calling,? Gundy said. ?I have an opinion each week on what I think gives us the best chance to move the ball and score points, and then usually by Monday, I?m out of that room.

?I have a lot of confidence in the coaches on our staff and the decisions they make, and at the end of the day, they?re the ones that have to instill it in the players in meetings and get it across to them on the practice field. They have to get them to perform on Saturday. I have a lot of faith in the guys that are in that room.?

OSU?s offensive success has been remarkable. In scoring offense, the Cowboys were third nationally in 2012, second nationally in 2011, third nationally in 2010 and ninth nationally in 2008. In total offense, the Cowboys were fourth in 2012, third in 2011, third in 2010 and sixth in 2008.

?We?ve been very fortunate that we?ve had good players,? Gundy said. ?We hit on quarterbacks, a couple of them that weren?t very highly recruited who had come in our system and had success. We believe in our work ethic. We believe in the way we handle our players once they walk on campus as freshmen, and we develop them into ? put them in a position to have success on Saturdays in all three phases.?

Only in 2009, when Robinson was banged up much of the year, was Gundy prompted to make a change. Gundy gave up running the offense to hire Holgorsen, and his two offensive coordinator hires since have come with the command to keep Holgorsen?s system largely intact.

?We have approximately 35, 45 players or so that have played for our offense each year, each season, and when we?ve lost a coordinator to become a head coach, I felt like it was an advantage to continue to run the offense and keep our terminology,? Gundy said. ?So we would bring in one new coach or two new coaches, and they would learn our system instead of 35 or 40 players trying to learn a new terminology or a new system from the outside.

?For that reason, we?ve had success. So we don?t see any reason to change. Our players have also been recruited there, and we told them that this was the offense we were going to run. We would be up tempo. We would throw the ball. We?d run play action. We?d run the football. We want to be consistent in our recruiting. So the players that are currently on our team will continue to recruit. They?ve always been the best for us, and I know that?s somewhat broad, but those are reasons for staying with the system. It?s difficult to bring a young man in that?s made a commitment to our program for certain reasons, and then a couple years later things change. It can certainly affect him. So we try to stay as consistent as possible in that area.

?It?s never perfect, but by bringing a coach in and having him adjust to Oklahoma State, we?ve had success. So we?ll continue to move in that direction.?

Source: http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2013/08/01/oklahoma-state-football-cowboys-have-branded-an-offense/

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Exhibit recalls Bob Hope, who made troops laugh

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Bob Hope entertained 11 presidents at the White House, hosted the Academy Awards 19 times and told thousands of jokes to some 10 million U.S. troops over the course of four wars.

Now the long life and legacy of the beloved actor and comedian, who died 10 years ago at age 100, is being celebrated at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, where the World Golf Hall of Fame & Museum has brought the "Bob Hope: An American Treasure" traveling exhibition.

More than 160 mementos from Hope's life capture his passion for golf, relationships with presidents, pride in his country and appreciation for military service. The exhibit officially opens to the public Saturday, though a soft opening will be held Friday during regular museum hours.

The exhibit includes vintage photographs of Hope entertaining troops at USO shows overseas, an honorary Oscar statuette and PGA of America money clip. But the highlight is Hope's jokes, which are printed on displays and included in video clips throughout the exhibit.

"It was important to make it funny," said Jack Peter, senior vice president of the World Golf Hall of Fame and Museum, who was in New Orleans for the opening. "That was one of the requests of the family."

And funny it is.

"I left England when I found out I couldn't be king" is the Hope quote in the section of the exhibit about his immigration to America from England as a young boy.

"He was very proud to be an American immigrant, that he was able to come here and succeed, and he wanted to give something back," said Anthony "Tony" Montalto, Hope's longtime accountant, who over the decades became a good friend and remains a trustee of Hope's estate.

There are pictures and jokes of Hope's time spent playing golf with presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon and others.

"He's played golf with more presidents than just about anybody," Peter said.

The exhibit also includes a plaque of Hope's induction into the U.S. Blind Golf Association Hall of Fame and his name tag proclaiming him an "active member."

"When I miss a shot, I just think what a beautiful day it is ... then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That's what gives me the strength to break the club," Hope is quoted as saying.

Jokes aside, the exhibit also captures Hope's appreciation for military service. There are pictures of him shaking hands with injured troops, some who had lost limbs but had smiles on their faces. There are pictures and video of Hope entertaining on stage during World War II, Vietnam and other wars.

"This brings another aspect of the war that we're not always able to tell through our permanent exhibits," said Toni Kiser, the National WWII Museum's curator who put the exhibit together. "It was really important to the troops to get rest and relaxation, and not only did they love to be entertained with music and comedy, it was necessary for them to have that down time, to not be in fight mode the entire time."

Hope, it seemed, knew that.

"I have seen what a laugh can do," he is quoted as saying, in the exhibit space with pictures of him with wounded troops. "It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful."

The exhibit will remain on display in New Orleans through Oct. 31.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/exhibit-recalls-bob-hope-made-troops-laugh-083929990.html

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Surveillance critics face Obama in Oval Office

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Struggling to salvage a massive surveillance program, President Barack Obama faced congressional critics of the National Security Agency's collection of Americans' telephone records Thursday as snowballing concerns made new limitations on the intelligence effort appear increasingly likely.

Obama and Vice President Joe Biden joined lawmakers on both sides of the issue for an Oval Office meeting designed to stem the bleeding of public support and show Obama was serious about engaging. Among the participants were the NSA's most vigorous congressional supporters ? the top Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate intelligence panels ? alongside its most stern critics, including Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado.

The lawmakers departed the rainy White House grounds without speaking to reporters. But in interviews later, they said there was a consensus that the surveillance efforts are suffering from perception problems that have undercut trust among the American people.

"There is openness to making changes," said Rep. C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, top Republican on the Senate's intelligence panel and a strong NSA defender, said Obama and the lawmakers didn't agree to take specific steps but brought up a number of proposals that will be fleshed out over the August congressional recess.

"A lot of ideas were thrown out," Chambliss told The Associated Press. "Nothing was concluded."

Wyden, in an interview, said he and Udall had sought to convince Obama of the urgency of addressing rising concerns. He said he proposed strengthening the government's ability to get emergency authorization to collect an individual's phone records, so that pre-emptive collection of everyone's records would no longer be necessary.

"I felt that the president was open to ideas ? and we're going to make sure he has some," Wyden said after returning to Capitol Hill.

Wyden and two Senate colleagues also unveiled legislation Thursday to overhaul the secret federal court that oversees the programs, which critics decry as largely a rubber stamp. The senators aim to make the court created under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, more adversarial by creating a special advocate who could argue for privacy during closed-door proceedings and appeal decisions. A companion bill would diversify the court's bench by ending the chief justice's sole authority to pick its judges.

"These bills do not compromise national security, but they put a necessary opposing view in the FISA court and assure ideological diversity of judges," said Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. Another of the bill's sponsors, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said the Obama administration was receptive to the ideas, although White House officials declined to comment.

Debate over the line between counterterrorism and invasion of privacy has been heating up since former government contract systems analyst Edward Snowden leaked classified documents exposing the NSA's monumental capability to sweep up data about phone and Internet use, including programs that store years of phone records on virtually every American. Snowden's revelations have prompted a national rethinking over government surveillance powers that have grown since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Russia decided on Thursday to grant temporary asylum to Snowden, who has been in a Moscow airport hotel for more than a month, despite America's insistence that the fugitive be sent home to face prosecution on espionage charges.

In Washington, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said he stressed to Obama the role Congress must play in ensuring that U.S. spying isn't infringing on Congress' intent or on civil liberties. He said his committee would further probe the issue, including in a classified hearing he's hoping to hold in September.

Extending its efforts to defend the programs to the public, the White House pledged to help Americans understand as much as possible about how they work, even as it staunchly defended their efficacy in keeping a post-9/11 America safe.

"That process will continue," said White House spokesman Jay Carney. "But I don't think that we can sensibly say that programs designed to protect us from terrorist attack are not necessary in this day and age."

The more information about the programs the government has released, the more it has fed even greater concerns about the scope of the surveillance and whether Obama's national security team has been truthful in describing it publicly in the past.

After the administration on Wednesday declassified more documents about an email mining program, Wyden said they showed the government had "repeatedly made inaccurate statements to Congress" about the effectiveness in countering terrorism. And new details released about the phone records program created new fodder for critics by confirming for the first time that, when investigating one suspected terrorist, the government can also examine records of people who called people who called the targeted individual ? netting millions of people's records in a single request.

Meanwhile, the head of the NSA openly clashed with lawmakers including Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., over the agency's statements that telephone and email data collection helped foil 54 terror plots.

Rising tensions have stoked concern at the White House that surveillance programs Obama considers crucial will soon be undermined or even dismantled ? despite the fact that many Democrats and Republicans in Congress have come to the NSA's defense.

Leahy, the Judiciary Committee chairman, has threatened to seek to end the phone records program if it's not proven effective. And Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., signaled Thursday that unless an agreement is reached on releasing more of the secret court's opinions, he would push Congress to use its "power of the purse" to compel their disclosure by withholding funding for certain programs.

Even some staunch advocates for a tough national security stance have become outspoken critics, including Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., who helped write the USA Patriot Act but now says the phone records collection goes far beyond what he envisioned and may not be renewed. Sensenbrenner was among the lawmakers who shared concerns in the session Thursday with Obama and top officials, including Biden, National Security Advisory Susan Rice and White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler.

The White House also was spooked by a House vote last week to dismantle the program, which failed by a narrow 217-205 margin.

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Associated Press writers Donna Cassata and Richard Lardner contributed to this report.

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