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CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART 12, ST. LUKE'S 4: Sacred Heart kept on winning, beating St. Luke's 12-4. |
Alli Sciarretta scored six goals for the Tigers and Ali Kenney and Taylor Ryan added two apiece. |
"It was a good game," Tigers coach Courtney DePeter said. "We came out and had some nice transitions and finished well." |
Maddie Pillari had nine save for the Tigers, who will take on Holy Child Monday at 4 p.m. |
Greenwich beat Bassick 11-0 in a make up game from Wednesday. |
David Berdoff got the win for he Cardinals (6-7, 6-6 FCIAC). |
Taylor Olmstead had two triples, a double and two RBI with two runs scored, Cameron Fennell went three for- five with two RBI and Stephen Monick was three for five with two doubles. |
The Cardinals will travel to New Canaan for a key FCIAC showdown Friday at 4 p.m. |
The Greenwich girls tennis team beat Danbury 7-0 to remain undefeated. |
The Cardinals picked up wins from Jen Deluca, Sam Stone, Audrey Villemure and Hannah Kratky on the singels side and the teams of Michelle Voght and Anna Sweeney, Katie Hopper and Lauren Daccache and Jordana Cepelewicz and Melissa Graham. |
The Cardinals (12-0) take on Trumbull Tuesday and have a showdown with Darien Tuesday. |
GREENWICH ACADEMY 7, TAFT 0: The Gators continued their strong season with Wednesday's win played on Taft's indoor courts. GA's top three singles players -- Sammy Berenblum, Katie Grant and Maddie Lupone -- each won their singles matches in straight sets. |
The Gators swept their doubles matches as well. Alex Yorke and Eliza Lupone won their pro set match at No. 1, 8-5. Olivia and Lara Nosseir were 8-4 winners at No. 2 and Megan Duff and Tara Simonsen were victorious at the third spot, 8-6. |
"All three pairs are looking solid in the midseason and we are looking forward to taking on Hopkins Saturday at home," GA coach Suzie Pierrepont said. |
The Greenwich boys golf team remained unbeaten, defeating Fairfield Ludlowe and Fairfield Warde at the Griffith E. Harris Golf Course. |
Greenwich finished with a 155, Warde shot a 171 and Ludlowe finished with a 181. |
Stephen Pastore shot a 37 on the par 36, Tommy Halpern shot a 38, Dany Guise a 39 and Noah Henderson and Paul Pastore each shot a 41 as the Cardinals improved to 12-0. |
The Cardinals will take on Trinity at Sterling Farms in Stamford at 3:15 p.m. Monday. |
The Greenwich boys tennis team beat Danbury 5-2. |
The Cardinals got singles wins from Andrew Blumberg, Blake Pastore and Mark Chien and doubles wins from the teams of Alex Torelli and Will Beneson and Lucas Seigmund and Phil Goransson. |
The Greenwich girls golf team won again on the road, beating Danbury 185-204. |
Brooke Nethercott was the medalist, shooting a personal bets 41 on the par 35 Richter Park Golf Course in Danbury. |
Troone Marchak birdied the last hole to finish with a personal best 41, Emma Lunder shot a 54 and Courtney Enright shot a 50 for the Cardinals (8-2, 6-2 FCIAC). |
"The wind really picked up today and was quite a factor," Greenwich coach Marie Shimchick said. "They played really well and it was tough out there but they did a nice job." |
Greenwich will host Trumbull Tuesday. |
GREENWICH ACADEMY 3.5, SACRED HEART 1.5: At Fairview Country Club Wednesday, Greenwich Academy defeated FAA rival Sacred Heart 3.5 to 1.5. |
Camilla Vik and Rachel Oates both won their matches giving GA (12-0-1) an early lead, Hope Matthews earned a winning point with a 5 and 4 win over her opponent and Christina Rokholt also picked up a win for the Gators. |
Alexa deAlessandrini was the lone winner for Sacred Heart, winning her match 1 up. |
Scoring: CSH: Alli Sciarretta (6g), Ali Kenney (2g), Taylor Ryan (2g, 1a), Megan Cincotta (1g,1a), Mo Leitner (1g), Emily Hatton (2a). STL: Hannah Shaw (1g), Hannah Butman (1g), Allie Young (1g), Caroline Parsons (1g). |
Scoring GHS: Emily Johnson (2g); Brooke Swift (2g); Emily D'Erasmo (1g, 3a); Tori Dunster (1g); Emma Christie (1g); Hayden Stein (1g); MacKenzie Nocek (1g); Shannon Colligan (1g). DHS: Hannah Morgan (3g); Cat Chattilon (2g) Marykate McNulty (1g, 1a); Julia Miller (1g); Kara McHugh (1g). |
Goalies: GHS Hannah Jeffrey (10); DH Christy Forrest (13). |
Batteries: G -- David Berdoff (W, 4-0), Ryan Marks (5) and Cameron Fennell. B -- Jonathan Lopez (L) and Angel Ramirez. |
Singles: Jen Deluca (G) def. Lindsey Post 6-3, 6-3; Sam Stone (G) def. Gina Atanasoft 6-1, 6-2; Audrey Villemure (G) def. Siri Chillara 6-4, 6-1; Hannah Kratky (G) def. Katie Peachman 6-1, 6-1; Michelle Voght/Anna Sweeney (G) def. Gabby Buzaid/Melissa Hawley 6-2, 6-0; Katie Hopper/Lauren Daccache (G) def. Caroline Pact... |
GHS: Brooke Nethercott 40, Troone Marchak 41, Courtney Enright 50, Emma Lunder 54; DHS: Rima Antous 42, Andrea Hodge 54, Jen Bischoff 56, Liz Tena 52. |
Camilla Vik (GA) def. Michelle Peng (CSH) 4 and 3; Rachel Oates (GA) def. Christie Huchro (CSH) 2 and 1; Christina Rokholt (GA) halved with Faith Morley (CSH); Hope Matthews (GA) def. Guilia Campana (CSH) 5 and 3; Alexa deAlessandrini (CSH) def. Phoebe Morrison (GA) 1 up. |
Singles: Andrew Blumberg (G) def. Tommy Inaye 7-6, 6-4; Sean Inouye (D) def. Ben Meisel 0-6, 6-1, 6-1; Michael Kiselak (D) def. Phil Straessle 6-3, 6-4; Blake Pastore (G) def. Jacob Riech 6-3, 6-2; Mark Chien (G) def. Matthew Ziegler 6-0, 6-1. Doubles: Alex Torelli/Will Beneson (G) def. Justin Sullivan/Chris Marin 6-0,... |
Scoring: FP -- Connor Kelly (1 g, 1 a); Harry Cotter (2 g); Kevin Brown (1 g, 1 a). G -- Eric Foote (3 g); Stephen Dodd (2 g); David Dickson (1 g, 3 a); Alex Moeser (1 g, 1 a); Pete Cabrera (1 g, 1 a); Jason Sands (1 g); Adam Sands (1 g); Andrew Feeney (1 a); Fritz Waine (1 a). Goalies: FP -- Mike Seelye (8 saves); G -... |
Records: Fairfield Prep 7-3; Greenwich 6-4. |
GHS baseball @ New Canaan, 4 p.m. |
GHS softball vs. New Canaan, 4 p.m. |
GHS boys volleyball @ Danbury, 5:30 p.m. |
Brunswick baseball vs King 3 p.m. |
IT is not the modern American Dream: four months at sea, ankle deep in sewage, rioting for food - all for the right to owe smuggling rackets years of indentured servitude in sweatshops and restaurants. |
Yet rural Chinese immigrants are putting up several generations of earnings in pursuit of that dream, and crowding onto boats bound for the United States. |
China blames Western asylum laws for luring its people overseas, and says it is powerless to stop the trade without international cooperation. |
"Some of those people who have illegally entered other countries' territory have asked for so-called political asylum, and countries have even granted it," says Foreign Ministry spokesman Wu Jianmin. "This truly hampers our efforts to combat the smuggling." |
The world might be blind to the traffic if ships had not begun dumping their human cargo just off popular New York City beaches, as the Golden Venture did June 6, or under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, as the Pai Sheng did last month. |
The 100,000 illegal Chinese arriving in the US every year vanish into Chinatowns throughout the country. There they take menial jobs until they can return the $30,000 in travel costs to "snake heads," leaders of the syndicates that smuggled them out. |
The average Chinese peasant makes around $150 a year; most find only squalor in the US, but still make the journey, with dreams of sending dollars to family back home. |
"A few years ago people sneaked into the US and the Immigration and Naturalization Service didn't send them back ..." says a professor at Beijing's People's University, who has conducted research in the coastal area where most trips begin. "Everybody knows those stories. People believe US immigration policy is more len... |
With reason. In 1989, the Bush administration offered asylum to Chinese who claimed to have been persecuted for breaching China's strict population control policy that allows couples only one child. Most of the Chinese apprehended have requested asylum under the guidelines, and 80 percent have reportedly been allowed t... |
HINA says US policy enacted under President Bush acts as a lure. The Hong Kong-based Ta Kung Pao, a pro-Beijing daily, said in a stinging editorial: "The United States has asked China to cooperate against alien smuggling, but conversely the US must first improve its immigration laws and should quickly and strictly repa... |
China cannot solve the problem itself, officials say. |
"It's pretty clear that to load 500 people into a ship and cross the ocean isn't just one guy putting on a show," says a Western diplomat in Beijing. "It's a large criminal organization, so it must be treated like a large crime activity, involving Interpol and conversations between different police organizations in the... |
He did not add what joint steps might be taken, saying only that talks are under way. But he was pessimistic about China's prospects of busting smuggling syndicates within its borders. China's economic reforms have produced an increasingly mobile population, and people can slip onto trawlers virtually unnoticed. |
"They can't control the movement of people anywhere near the extent they could at one time," the diplomat says. "That leads to the increase in illegal immigration." |
While the efficacy of China's public security is in doubt, its propaganda machine is starting to churn. Official news media reported June 11 that 26 people involved in smuggling had been sentenced in Fujian Province. Twelve smugglers received prison terms of up to five years, and 12 would-be emigrants face up to three ... |
China insists it has stepped up coastal patrols and increased a document check at border points, as well as "educating local residents on the law." |
But the Ministry of Public Security will not elaborate on steps being taken. |
As long as the hope of successful passage exists, Chinese will continue packing onto boats. Entire villages often pool resources to send a son or daughter overseas in hopes that precious repatriated dollars will make the investment worthwhile. |
NEW YORK (JTA) — Though deep in the winter of North America, we American Jews allow our hearts to warm slightly as we mark Tu b’Shevat — the “New Year of Trees,” when the earliest fruits in the Land of Israel begin to form on the trees. |
Tu b’Shevat, the 15th of the month of Shevat, began as a technical date on the rabbinic calendar, the day that divided the fruits that would be tithed with those of the prior year and those that would be tithed during the coming year. But the day has developed into a Jewish Arbor Day, a holiday celebrating the gifts of... |
This Tu b’Shevat, which falls on Jan. 21, I am reflecting on the current state of our trees and how they have changed over my lifetime. When I was in grade school, Halloween meant that leaves on trees in the greater New York area had already changed their colors from green to orange, yellow and red, and then to brown. ... |
But today, I walk along the promenade in Riverside Park and the trees are still filled with leaves well into November. On the other end of the cycle, when I was young, Passover was always, even in late April, still part of the cold, muddy spring, with the branches of trees still completely bare. Today the first flowers... |
Climate change has led to shorter winters and longer, warmer summers, and the developments in this direction will not slow under present conditions. This was confirmed in the landmark report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was released in October, which brought the immediate conse... |
That leads me back to Tu b’Shevat. I propose that we abandon Tu b’Shevat and replace it with “Aleph b’Shevat” — the first day of the month of Shevat, the day that was long ago proposed as the tithing boundary by the School of Shammai, when the School of Hillel suggested Tu b’Shevat. |
Why make such a change? Because a date marking a new season 2,000 years ago can no longer reasonably be claimed to mark the same natural event today. On account of climate change, the seasons have already changed sufficiently that we must change our way of counting them. |
Isn’t it true that, with rare exception, the halakhah (Jewish law) follows Hillel against Shammai? Yes, that is true. But that would make the shift of celebration to the first of Shevat that much more powerful, for it would represent a countercultural move and therefore an act of protest. Those who mark the new beginni... |
I confess that this seems a relatively minor symbolic act. But symbols are important, and they have the power to change minds and hearts. Those who ask why some Jews are disrupting the Jewish calendar would get a direct answer: because we have neglected the trees we claim to be celebrating, and we must do something abo... |
Those who mark the day on a date when others before them did nothing would be reminded of what we are experiencing, and of our responsibility to act. Tu b’Shevat is not a biblical holiday; its date is not determined in heaven. This means that we — humans — who fixed it on the calendar can change the calendar to reflect... |
Reflecting, as it does, our concern for the future of trees — and of everything else in nature, including ourselves — Aleph b’Shevat would be a worthy new Jewish occasion. |
It's that time of year again. Time to start wondering whether President Bush will give federal employees extra time off during the holidays. |
If you're a gambler, bet no. |
First of all, the president never gives federal employees a free holiday on the day after Thanksgiving. It's just not done, according to Office of Personnel Management records. |
When presidents give federal workers extra time off, it's usually near Christmas: on Christmas Eve when Christmas itself falls on a Tuesday and on Dec. 26 when Christmas falls on a Thursday. For example, in 2001, Christmas fell on a Tuesday and President Bush gave federal workers Monday off (Christmas Eve). In 1997, wh... |
When Christmas falls on a Friday, workers sometimes get a few extra hours off on Christmas Eve. When Christmas was on a Friday in 1998, for example, President Clinton gave workers a half-day off on Christmas Eve, Thursday, Dec. 24. |
This year, Christmas falls on a Wednesday. When Christmas is on hump-day, federal workers are usually expected to come to work the rest of the week or take vacation time. |
But not always. In 1946 and 1957, Christmas fell on a Wednesday. In each of those years, the president gave federal employees a half-day off on Christmas Eve. |
However, 1957 was the last year in which workers got extra time off when Christmas fell on a Wednesday. |
Christmas also fell on a Wednesday in 1963, 1968, 1974, 1985, 1991 and 1996. In each of those years, federal workers had to come to work on Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas. Based on 40 years of tradition, the overriding precedent for President Bush this year is to keep the government open every day but Wednes... |
That's the bad news for this year. The good news is that, thanks to leap year maneuvering of the calendar, Christmas won't fall on a Wednesday again until 2013. |
In 2003, Christmas is on a Thursday, and there's much more precedence for an extra day off then. |
What About New Year's Eve? |
Usually, the only time federal employees get the day off on New Year's Eve is when New Year's Day falls on a Saturday. Then the federal government celebrates New Year's Day on Friday, which is, of course, New Year's Eve. |
Federal workers almost never get extra time off at New Year's. The last time they did was in 1973, when President Nixon gave employees a full day off on Dec. 31. Christmas and New Year's Day both fell on a Tuesday that year. Federal employees got half days off on New Year's Eve in 1957, when New Year's Day, 1958 was on... |
Will federal workers get extra time off this New Year's Eve, which falls on a Tuesday? Bet no. |
Here are some fun facts about federal holidays. |
Usually there are 10 federal holidays. Sometimes, federal workers get an 11th holiday, most often when Christmas falls on a Tuesday or Thursday. Federal employees who work in Washington, D.C., Montgomery and Prince Georges counties in Maryland, Arlington and Fairfax counties in Virginia and the cities of Falls Church a... |
The official name of King Day is "Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr." Official names of federal holidays are spelled out in Title 5, Section 6103(a) of the United States Code. King was born on Jan. 15. The federal government celebrates his birthday on the third Monday of January each year. The first Martin Luther King ... |
The official name of Presidents Day is "Washington's Birthday." Previously celebrated on Feb. 22 each year, the holiday was moved to the third Monday in February in 1971. Most people refer to it as Presidents Day, however, and most schools use the occasion to teach students about all presidents, or at least about Washi... |
Four holidays are set by date: New Year's on Jan. 1, Independence Day on July 4, Veterans Day on Nov. 11 and Christmas Day on Dec. 25. Veterans Day was moved to the fourth Monday in October in 1971, but moved back to Nov. 11 in 1978 after veterans groups protested. Nov. 11 marks the end of World War I, and veterans lon... |
When the four date-governed holidays fall on a Saturday, the federal government celebrates them on the preceding Friday. When those holidays fall on a Sunday, they are celebrated on the following Monday. That goes for Veterans Day, as with the three others. |
Five holidays always occur on Monday: King Day on the third Monday of January; Washington's Birthday on the third Monday in February; Memorial Day on the last Monday in May; Labor Day on the first Monday in September; and Columbus Day on the second Monday in October. Washington's Birthday and Memorial Day were moved fr... |
Thanksgiving is always on the fourth Thursday in November. Though the federal government doesn't give the next day as a holiday, some state governments, including those of California, Texas and Maryland give their employees time off the day after Thanksgiving. |
Officially, New Year's Day has an apostrophe. Veterans Day does not. |
Reuters quoted two of Russia’s biggest mining companies as saying that they were investigating rouble-based payments schemes, amid calls from Moscow to reduce the role of the US dollar in Russian trade and so limit the impact of US sanctions. The Kremlin said that Russia favoured bilateral trade with all countries in t... |
Russia’s Norilsk Nickel, which vies with Brazil’s Vale SA to be the world’s biggest nickel producer and is the world’s top palladium producer, said on Wednesday it was discussing the possibility of settling payments in roubles with foreign customers that had signalled their readiness for such an arrangement. |
Russian miner Alrosa, the world’s largest producer of rough diamonds in carat terms, also said on Wednesday it was testing a mechanism to settle payments in Russia’s currency. |
The Shanghai branch of Russia’s VTB bank facilitated Alrosa’s first rouble-based deal with a Chinese client. |
In July, the Moscow Exchange said it was launching more currency pairs, including trading the rouble against sterling, the Chinese yuan and the Turkish lira, facilitating trade in national currencies. |
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