IT HAS been a week of frustration for Sussex after they lost at Lord's against Middlesex in the LV> County Championship, before seeing their CB40 clash with Unicorns washed out due to the weather.
Sussex fell to a crushing 10-wicket defeat at the home of cricket last week, with Middlesex requiring only 18 runs in their second innings to win the match.
Batting first, Sussex were bowled out for 283, with Ed Joyce (77) and Ben Brown (70) the only two of the top seven batsmen to score more than 15 runs.
Contributions from Sussex's lower order helped push them to a respectable first innings score, but in reply, Middlesex amassed a huge 491 in their first innings.
Five batsmen scored half-centuries, with opener Chris Rogers falling just two short of his century.
Chris Nash claimed three wickets for Sussex (3-45), while James Anyon and Steve Magoffin picked up two wickets each, with Luke Wright, Monty Panesar and Naveed Arif Gondal each taking one.
Sussex were then bowled out for 225 in their second innings, with Brown (53) the only Sussex batsman to register a half-century.
That left Middlesex with the relatively simple task of scoring 18 runs to win, which they did in just 3.5 overs.
The result left Sussex in sixth place in Division One, while Middlesex cemented their position in fourth.
Meanwhile on Sunday, Sussex were left frustrated after rain saw their CB40 clash with Unicorns at Southend abandoned without a ball being bowled.
This ruined Sussex's 100 per cent record in the competition, and the Sharks were knocked off top spot on Monday, when Warwickshire thrashed Derbyshire.
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Sussex officials debate state, federal fair-housing laws - Delaware Wave
GEORGETOWN -- Sussex County officials reacted with skepticism to a briefing on the lengths to which landlords must go to accommodate disabled tenants under state and federal fair-housing laws.
"We're not going to like hearing what you're saying. Just tell us all these things and maybe we can keep our mouths shut," Sussex County Councilman George Cole told representatives from the Delaware State Housing Authority and the Division of Human Relations. "It makes us all madder and madder that we're living under these terms."
Ines Hungria, a Division of Human Relations investigator, walked officials from the County Council, the zoning board and the Board of Adjustment through the strictures of fair housing laws this week.
Most of the questions dealt with animals. The law is clear: Landlords who don't want pets in their rental apartments must still allow people with service or companion animals to rent from them, Hungria said. And landlords can't say no to a companion animal like a pit bull merely because people feel threatened by it, she said, invoking a hypothetical pit bull, Zeke, a companion animal to a tenant suffering from depression, and a neighbor girl, Sarah. Unless Zeke were to bite Sarah, Hungria said, the dog can't be kicked out.
"So I can't prevent someone from renting with a pit bull if their spouse says they need a pit bull to combat depression?" Sussex County Councilman Vance Phillips said. That's correct, Hungria said, although she said it's usually a doctor's note that justifies the dog. "What if Sarah's doctor certified that the dog is causing her to be depressed?" Phillips retorted.
It was one of several times officials played devil's advocate to illustrate strange conclusions fair-housing laws could lead them to draw.
"Everybody should run to the doctor, and everybody in the whole place should have a dog," Councilman Sam Wilson suggested.
Others at the meeting wondered if the law meant their zoning laws couldn't limit where group homes for the disabled could be built.
"If you deny it, have very good reasons," was Hungria's advice.
Fair and affordable housing advocates in Delaware have complained that some Sussex municipalities have discouraged poor people from renting apartments. A 2002 report from the Sussex Housing Group complained about a "tightening of code enforcement on housing occupied by minority groups, especially Latinos," in Selbyville and Georgetown.
Today, Hungria said, she and her colleagues get 50-60 complaints of housing discrimination a year, and they have formal investigations opened on about 15 of them at any one time.
Robert Wheatley, chairman of the county's Planning & Zoning Commission, said the training was important to make sure government officials and landlords knew the ins and outs of the law. He said he asked questions about the rules to make sure "there is some safeguard against people who might try to game the system."
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Essex County farms could qualify for emergency loans - Press Republican
PLATTSBURGH — Some Essex County farms could qualify for disaster funding, due to crops destroyed by frost after March 1.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued federal agriculture disaster declarations for several New York counties. The original proposal championed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand had included Clinton County as well, but it was not included in the disaster declaration made by USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack on Wednesday.
“Farmers across New York who were still recovering from last year’s natural disasters risk losing an entire season worth of crops again,” Gillibrand said in a statement. “These disaster declarations are a good first step to open up access to federal resources so these farmers can get back to business and keep New York’s agricultural industry on the move.”
After a winter of record-high temperatures, many crops on New York farms blossomed earlier than usual. Many of these crops were then exposed to early spring freezing temperatures and were destroyed as a result.
Federal agriculture disaster recovery programs provide tools to assist farmers in overcoming the challenges they can face as they work to recover from production and physical losses on their farms and rebuild their business. Help includes financial assistance to compensate for farm losses, low-interest emergency loans and assistance in rehabilitating farmland.
The Farm Service Agency said disaster emergency loan assistance is available effective June 5 for those who lost at least 30 percent of their production. Farmers may be eligible for production loss loans of up to 100 percent of their actual loss, the operating loan amount needed to continue business or a maximum principal balance outstanding of $500,000, whichever is less.
Eligible farmers must be unable to obtain credit from private commercial lenders. The interest rate on the loans is 3.75 percent.
Applications will be accepted until Feb. 5, 2013.
The Farm Service Agency office is located at 2530 State Route 40, Greenwich, NY 12834. The phone number is 692-9940, Ext. 2.
Source: pressrepublican.com
Kent County Cricket Club to go without second overseas star for T20 campaign - Kent Online
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By Glenn Pearson
Kent have revealed they will begin their Friends Life T20 campaign on Tuesday against Sussex Sharks at Tunbridge Wells with just one overseas player.
The county have been on the lookout for an addition to West Indies batsman Brendan Nash for the 20-over competition, but have been priced out of the market by international stars more akin to Indian Premier League wages.
With a sizeable squad to pick from this season, which has seen the likes of Mike Powell and Charlie Shreck yet to feature in one-day cricket, it’s felt there are enough resources to choose from.
Kent chief executive Jamie Clifford (pictured) said: “We have looked everywhere and trawled through the options and, like our recruitment in the winter, we were very thorough, but concluded we couldn’t see anything that caught the eye.
“There are some silly prices out there, especially for just five home games. It means they would have to bring a hell of a lot of bums on a hell of a lot of seats to justify that price.
“There is a lot of experience in that dressing room, with several players having won it, others making it to finals day, so I would expect them to have another good run this year and use the resources we have.”
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Sussex v Surrey at Horsham: Play abandoned - wscountytimes.co.uk
Sussex have struggled to 90-6 on a rain affected second day of their County Championship match against Surrey at Horsham.
Resuming on 81-2, having dismissed the away side for 124 yesterday, Sussex were soon in trouble when Mike Yardy fell to the first ball of the day, fending a short Stuart Meaker ball into the hands of Mark Ramprakash at gully.
Joe Gatting soon followed, clean bowled by Meaker in his second over of the day, the Surrey paceman uprooting Gatting’s off-stump for two. That was the final action before a 40 minute rain-break, and upon the resumption Luke Wright last five balls before he feather a catch behind to Steve Davies off Murali Kartik. Surrey wicketkeeper Davies had been called into the England squad, but rushed back to Horsham this morning after Matt Prior was passed fit to play in the Third Test against the West Indies at Edgbaston.
The last action of the day saw Ben Brown (1) trapped LBW by the lively Meaker, before the rain arrived to force the teams off before lunch. With the Cricketfield Road outfield now sodden, play has now been abandoned until tomorrow morning
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