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Campus officer arrested, resigns

Police detain Reffitt at Taco Bell after waving knife at strip club CHRISTOPHER STEPHENS CHIEF REPORTER | castephens@bsu.edu A Ball State police officer was arrested Wednesday and handed in his resignation Thursday.

Eric Reffitt, 30, was arrested at 1:43 a.m. Wednesday at the Taco Bell on South Madison Street. He was charged with criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon, intimidation and public intoxication.

Reffitt tendered his resignation Thursday after an internal process, said Joan Todd, a uni- ERIC REFFITT versity spokesperson. He joined became UPD the University Police Depart- officer in April 2008 ment in April 2008.

The off-duty officer is accused of cutting a friend, Curtis A. NORMAL DAY Westfall, early Wednesday when AT JOKERS WILD he waved a knife inside Jokers Strip club Wild, according to the probable manager talks cause affidavit. Reffitt was at the about fights strip club for a bachelor party + PAGE 3 but stayed after his friends left, saying he would find another ride home.

Later in the night, Reffitt took out a large folding knife when he thought someone was trying to take money from him, according to witnesses in the affidavit.

Westfall had a long scratch on his abdomen from the knife, which cut through two shirts. Westfall told police that the cut was an accident and that he did not want Reffitt to get in trouble.

After leaving Jokers Wild, Reffitt arrived at Taco Bell and “showed up outside the business and was knocking on the outer door that was locked and making a ruckus,” Taco Bell Manager Abrianna Cochran told police.

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Children participate in the children’s march at the Festival on the Green at the Arts Terrace. The march was developed to get kids involved in the festival Saturday.

SIGHTS OF SUMMER Annual festival attracts families, artists, Muncie community BREANNA DAUGHERTY MULTIMEDIA EDITOR

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riendly chatter and laughter surrounded the Arts Terrace for the annual Festival on the Green.

On Saturday evening, families brought food and alcohol for picnics. Children danced to the music as their parents watched.

The free event included booths with artwork, jewelry and crafts.

Some booths taught children how to play instruments and offered an upclose encounter with a snake.

symphony events to become the night out for students, for faculty, for staff, for anybody in Muncie or outside of Muncie.

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Kristine Freyer of Freyer Woodland Whimsy creates art by carving wood and painting with watercolors. Her work primarily focuses on animals and antiques.

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Ball State hid fraud cases from public Prosecutors recommend silence on investigation of $13M losses ASHLEY DYE NEWS EDITOR, COPY CHIEF | news@bsudailynews.com For nearly three years, Ball State kept quiet about being a victim of two multi-million dollar frauds.

Since learning in September 2011 of a $8.165 million fraud, the university did not speak about it because of an investigation by federal law enforcement authorities, according to The Associated Press. In fact, federal documents referred to Ball State as a public university in the Midwest.

That investigation led to the June 20, 2013, arrest of Seth Beoku Betts on a charge of wire fraud for operating a scheme to defraud the university.

The complaint said Betts, 38, misappropriated approximately $8.165 million of investor funds from the university. Recently in a Manhattan federal court, he received a sentence of 51 months in prison for defrauding Ball State.

In 2008, Betts approached Ball State and told an official that he would use the university’s money on its behalf to buy collateralized mortgage obligations then sell them to other buyers for profit, according to the FBI. He had told the director of cash and investments for the university that he was principal of Betts and Gambles Global Equities LLC. The Star Press identified this official as Gale Prizevoits.

Prizevoits issued three contracts with Betts, dated in 2008 for July 3, July 24 and Dec. 9, according to the federal complaint.

George Branam, a pathologist at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital, conducts a piece from “Water Music” for 30 seconds at the Festival on the Green. Branam won the Muncie Symphony Orchestra’s Super Conductor contest.

Noah Raymond, 6, plays the trumpet at the instrument petting zoo at the Festival on the Green. The Muncie Symphony Orchestra hosted the “petting zoo.”

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MILITANTS PUT UP GRAPHIC PHOTOS OF IRAQI MASSACRES

TODAY DENVER (AP) — Incidents underscore a growing dilemma: While a pot plant in the basement may not bring criminal charges in many states, the same plant can become a piece of evidence in child custody or abuse cases.

“The legal standard is always the best interest of the children, and you can imagine how subjective that can get,” said Jess Cochrane, who helped found Boston-based Family Law & Cannabis Alliance after finding child-abuse laws

have been slow to catch up with policy.

No data exist to show how often pot use comes up in custody disputes or how often child-welfare workers intervene in homes where marijuana is used.

But in dozens of interviews with lawyers and officials who work in this area, along with activists who counsel parents on marijuana and child endangerment, the consensus is clear: Pot’s growing acceptance is complicating the task of determining when kids are in danger.

4. GOP’S STRENGTH COULD BE 2016’S PROBLEM DENVER (AP) — Republican strength in this year’s House and Senate races could, strangely enough, hurt the party’s presidential chances by stalling the changes in style and policy advocated after Mitt Romney’s defeat in the 2012 presidential campaign.

GOP officials and strategists said it’s hard to persuade party leaders to adjust the political recipe when they feel increasingly upbeat about adding Senate control to their solid

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House majority this fall. This optimism, numerous GOP strategists said, makes looking past the party’s loss of the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections easy.

Citing the party’s nationwide reliance on older white voters, Joel Sawyer, a former South Carolina GOP official who advises campaigns in several states, said the GOP needs “to start modernizing now to become relevant to younger voters and nonwhite voters.”

2. BRAZIL HONORS LEGEND, OPENS PELÉ MUSEUM 5. DNR EXPECTS MORE STATE PARK VISITORS

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including trophies, jerseys and images of him with world leaders and celebrities.

Considered by many to be the greatest footballer ever, Pele rose to stardom at Santos FC, where he played between 1956 and 1974. During that period, he led Brazil to three World Cup titles.

Pele rode into the ceremony on a tram and was greeted by wild applause. Visibly emotional, he said the museum was a “dream” and that he was proud to represent the city and his country.

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BAGHDAD (AP) — As the Iraqi government bolstered Baghdad’s defenses Sunday, the Islamic militant group that captured two major cities last week posted graphic photos that appeared to show its fighters massacring dozens of captured Iraqi soldiers.

The pictures on a militant website appear to show masked fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, loading the captives onto flatbed trucks before forcing them to lie face-down in a shallow ditch with their arms tied behind their backs. The final images show the bodies of the captives soaked in blood after being shot.

The grisly images could further sharpen sectarian tensions as hundreds of Shiites heed a call to take up arms against the Sunni militants. ISIL has vowed to take the battle to Baghdad and cities further south housing revered Shiite shrines.

While the city of is not in any immediate danger of falling into militants’ hands, Sunday’s bombings could raise tensions.

SANTOS, Brazil (AP) — The city where Pelé rose to fame honored its favorite son Sunday, celebrating the life and career of the Brazilian football great while his country hosted the World Cup. Hundreds of dignitaries were on hand in the port city of Santos to toast the 73-year-old Pelé at the official opening of the Pelé Museum — a 4,000 square meter complex inside the city’s old town that cost about $22 million and houses more than 2,500 items related to his career,

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Department of Natural Resources expects more people to visit state parks this summer after a harsh winter.

The Indianapolis Business Journal reports reported that projection is based, in part, on revenue from year-long passes being up about 8 percent this year through May compared to the same time last year.

One-day admissions also are up by 20 percent over last year, as they

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reeled in about $1.06 million between January and May. DNR parks and reservoirs division business services program director Christie Sorrells said the sales have spiked in the past four to six weeks after a slow start.

The spike happened much more suddenly this year after unusually cold weather lasted well into spring.

New Castle’s Summit Lake State Park and Anderson’s Mounds State Park are the closest state parks to Ball State.

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Hoosier support Indiana receives A for ACA growing in manufacturing Health care law sees widespread approval in many key areas PAYNE HORNING STAFF REPORTER | prhorning@bsu.edu Hoosier support for the Affordable Care Act is growing, according to a new study.

Although residents remain divided on the law, the Ball State study found there is widespread support for its key elements.

“Breaking it down to its components, you can see people really do support and consistently support many elements of health care reform,” said Carolyn Shue, lead author of the study and an associate professor of communication studies.

Those elements included making coverage affordable, ensuring coverage for everyone, mandating that pre-existing conditions be accepted by insurance companies, providing coverage for children until age 26 and the individual mandate, which requires people to purchase health insurance. Each of these elements received large support, with the individual mandate receiving the lowest amount of support at 63 percent.

From 2010-2012, the number of Indiana residents who said they favored the reform law as a whole increased from 36 percent to 44 percent. The number of Hoosiers with unfavorable views decreased to 42 percent in 2012.

The three-year study, “Health Care Reform: Understanding Individuals’ Attitudes and Information Sources,” conducted the poll over cellphones and landlines with 600 individuals surveyed each year. The study used data from the Ball State Bowen Center for Public Affairs’ annual Hoosier Survey, a poll of Indiana residents 18 and older on public policy issues.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010, but portions of the bill have only recently begun to take effect. Shue said she believes that attitudes will grow more favorable toward the law as people become more informed on the legislation and how it will affect them.

But for now, she attributes the discrepancy in support for the Affordable Care Act’s and its individual components to its politically charged nature.

She said the nickname for the law, “Obamacare,” comes with a political image.

“Those words that we use are so emotionally charged,”

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“Reffitt was placing his police credentials up against the glass and yelling something about being a cop,” Cochran said in the affidavit.

After police arrived at Taco Bell, Reffitt “became extremely belligerent and started acting out toward officers,” and was placed in restraints and detained.

He originally refused to take a blood alcohol test, but then agreed to take one after his Ball State Police captain arrived at the scene. Reffitt had a BAC of 0.23, according to the affidavit.

On Wednesday, Reffitt was released on a $5,000 bond.

Shue said. “When people start talking about it as Obamacare, then people don’t think about it in the actual factors, they think about it from their political position.”

An equal portion of respondents in the survey identified themselves as Republican, Democrat and Independent.

“It continues to be volatile,” said Joseph Losco, co-director of the Hoosier Poll and chairperson of the Ball State political science department.

Losco attributes the negative uptick to the law’s poor rollout.

In 2013, the Obama administration was plagued with technical issues as Healthcare.gov experienced crashes, delays and other glitches. And later on, the president issued an apology to Americans who were losing their insurance policies after repeated assurances that they could keep their plans.

However, Losco said the tide is turning in favor of the law, citing the declining number of people arguing for it to be repealed. The 2013 Hoosier Survey found that 51 percent of residents wanted to repeal the law.

“Major insurers who were first opposed to it are now scrambling to make sure they are among the providers that are in the online marketplace,” he said. “... In the long run, I think you will see general acceptance, even among the political clashes we are seeing now.”

The study also found equivalent percentages of insured and uninsured respondents going to the ER at least once during the past 12 months. In 2011, 29 percent of insured residents visited the ER versus 30 percent of the uninsured, up from 27 percent and 29 percent in 2012, respectively.

“The one myth it does tend to bust, though, is that utilization of the emergency room will decrease when you have more numbers of insured people,” Losco said. “That was the hope by some people in proposing some elements of the ACA.” The study also found that insured residents were 30 percent more likely to visit a doctor in a year’s time than their uninsured counterparts. Shue said with these findings, the debate could focus on the costs of the law, since visiting a physician is a cheaper access point to health care than expensive procedures in the ER. “So now, hopefully, if more people have access, they are going to take advantage of those primary care services and we’re going to have a healthier country,” she said.

However, Shue said with more

HOOSIER VIEWS ON AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

A recent Ball State study found that Hoosiers have widespread support for key elements of the Affordable Care Act. While the key elements found more favorable views, the overall support is still low. However, this number of favorable views has risen in the past three years.

2010 OVERALL LAW VIEWS Don’t know: 13%

Unfavorable: 48%

Mixed: 3%

Favorable: 36%

2011 OVERALL LAW VIEWS Mixed: 1%

Don’t know: 13%

Unfavorable: 51%

Favorable: 35%

2012 OVERALL LAW VIEWS Don’t know: 12%

Mixed: 2%

Favorable: 44%

Unfavorable: 42%

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insured people, the country needs to figure out if it will have enough resources for people’s access to health care.

“So it opens up a lot of questions that we still have to grapple with as people move forward with implementation of the policy,” she said.

Those questions are pivotal, especially ahead of the midterm elections this fall, where the Affordable Care Act is estimated to be a significant factor in many races.

But Losco estimated that the debate on the merits of the law will give way to how best it should be implemented, similar to the change of course in Indiana from failed attempts to expand Medicaid in the state.

A current Gov. Mike Pence campaign wants to pass an alternative to Medicaid, Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0, which would be funded primarily with federal dollars.

JUST ANOTHER NIGHT AT JOKERS WILD Early Wednesday morning was just “another day on the job,” a Jokers Wild manager said.

The club, offering topless dancers on a small mainstage pole and other topless waitresses walking through the dimly lit, cramped building, is located on the south side of Muncie and advertised by a small, neon sign directly off the road.

Eric Reffitt, a Ball State off-duty officer, is accused of cutting a friend at the strip club around 1 a.m. Wednesday.

“People get drunk and people do stupid s---,” said the manager, who wished to remain anonymous. “Just because [an off-duty officer has] a badge and they come in here, they are just another patron.”

The manager said when clients do disrupt business, the staff tries to resolve the situation without police intervention.

“We do our best to get things out the door,” he said. “If we can get everyone out the door peacefully, we are all for peacefully. It is better for everyone.”

Fights and arguments don’t occur at Jokers Wild only, said the bouncer working that night.

“You are always going to get the drunk a--hole or two,” he said. “You know it’s liquid courage, so you get [patrons] in the situation where they are showing off for their buddies or partying with their friends and want to show off.”

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Report ranks states in several spheres for overall climate ALAN HOVORKA CHIEF REPORTER | afhovorka@bsu.edu Indiana’s manufacturing industry’s health continues to receive A-level ratings for the sixth year in a row and continues to outperform its neighbors in most areas, a new report shows.

“We have a long history of manufacturing,” said Michael Hicks, director of Center for Business and Economic Research. “Today, I think we just have a very good tax and business climate that makes it easy for businesses to relocate here.”

Indiana corporate tax rate is 7.5 percent compared to neighboring Illinois’ 9.5 percent.

The Conexus 2014 Manufacturing and Logistics report, conducted by Ball State’s CBER, is a national report that examines areas key to the development of manufacturing and logistics. In order to ac-

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curately rate each state on its overall climate for those industries, the report looks at several areas.

These areas are manufacturing industry health, logistics industry health, human capital, worker benefit costs, tax climate, expected fiscal responsibility gap, global reach, sector diversification and productivity and innovation.

Indiana’s lowest score was a C- in human capital, with four areas scoring an A. Surrounding states Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan received a C, a D, a C and a D, respectively, for human capital.

Indiana is one of nine states that received a grade of A in manufacturing health.

Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada, Montana and New York received Fs in this area.

“For Indiana, manufacturing remains very strong,” Hicks said. “Unless human capital scores improve, the future is less bright than it should be.”

Indiana’s human capital score suffers because of the aging baby boomer population, the report said. Approximately 16.8 percent of the

manufacturing workforce is approaching retirement age, causing a shift in the workforce, the report said.

The report is used to show businesses how Indiana compares to others in some aspects of its economy that deal with manufacturing and logistics.

In Indiana, about one in five workers work in manufacturing and logistics, the report said.

The Star Press that the loss was not taken from donor funds. Instead, it came from long-term reserves for future projects.

“Worse than misrepresenting how he would invest the university’s money, Betts made few investments at all — other than in luxury goods for himself,” George Venizelos, FBI assistant director in charge, said in a statement in 2013.

“You can’t take someone’s money to invest in mortgages and spend it on Maseratis.”

Betts used $325,000 from the university to buy a Ferrari and a Maserati on Dec. 10,

2008, according to the FBI. A week later, he put $1,545,000 in an attorney trust account toward buying a home in Boynton Beach, Fla. The FBI report said he spent at least $455,000 more on himself — $150,000 of that going toward car payments.

According to Palm Beach County records, Betts received the warranty deed Jan. 22, 2009, for the $1.2 million Florida house. On Dec. 11, 2013, the 4,662-square-foot house sold for $1,050,000, according to a listing by Karen Kennedy of Lang Realty.

CONEXUS 2014 MANUFACTURING AND LOGISTICS REPORT

The report ranks states in areas that deal with the success of manufacturing and logistics in the economy. Ball State’s Center for Business and Economic Research conducted the report.

INDIANA’S SCORES

Manufacturing industry: A Logistics industry: A Human capital: CWorker benefit costs: C Tax climate: A Expected fiscal liability gap: C Global reach: A Sector diversification: C Productivity and innovation: C+

FRAUD: University fired involved official | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Betts never returned money to the university. Instead, he made purchases to benefit himself.

Ball State fired Prizevoits in 2011 for violating university policy, according to the AP. She had altered the financial documents to keep the university from finding out about the Betts investments, which do not show up in the university’s audit reports. The Star Press found that Prizevoits invested an additional $5 million, a case she hid from the university.

President Jo Ann Gora told

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SIGHTS OF SUMMER

Children dance at the Festival on the Green at the Arts Terrace. There were activities Saturday for children, including painting, petting a snake and walking in the march. The event was free.

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “My parents liked antiques, so that’s kind of a way to keep that going,” she said.

Freyer had learned about artwork being presented at the festival last year when she came for the symphony. This year, she decided to host a booth.

“It was very nice to be able to set up in a beautiful place under the trees,” she said.

JEWELRY

For the fourth year, Noël Keith set up a booth for NK Designs.

The high school student at Wapahani High School started NK Designs when she was in fifth grade.

Her interest in making jewelry started after she got her ears pierced. After expressing that she wanted football earrings, her mother bought her supplies to start crafting.

The first pair she made was for her teacher. She then branched out to making jewelry for her family, friends and others.

Keith also sells her work at

other local craft shows and donates a portion of her proceeds to charity.

CRAFTS

One booth, sponsored by Cornerstone Center for the Arts, gave children the opportunity to paint craft fireworks made out of forks.

“It kind of lifts your spirits a little bit to see all the little kids running around,” Roseanne Hughes, a Muncie resident, said.

ORCHESTRAS

The Youth Symphony Orchestra of East Central Indiana, a student ensemble sponsored by the university, performed in pairs of two or three at a booth.

To end the Festival on the Green, the Muncie Symphony Orchestra played summer-related pieces.

“The community really loves this event, and that is why we keep doing this,” said Alena McKenzie, executive director of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra.

The orchestra also hosted its picnic contest with a beach theme, accounting for many

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Hawaiian leis and T-shirts.

SUPER CONDUCTOR

Along with the picnic contest, the orchestra hosted its annual Super Conductor contest.

Three contestants from the community participated: Cheryl Crowder, events director for the Muncie Downtown Development Partnership; Steve Lindell, vice president and director of operations at Woof Boom Radio; and George Branam, a pathologist at the IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital.

Festival attendees voted on the contestants by donating money.

The contest raised $9,608 to help pay for free events for students to attend on campus.

Branam won the title of Super Conductor 2014 and helped the Muncie Symphony Orchestra perform George Frideric Handel’s “Water Music.”

“We want the symphony events to become the night out for students, for faculty, for staff, for anybody in Muncie or outside of Muncie,” McKenzie said.

A member of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra performs at the Festival on the Green on Saturday at the Arts Terrace. This was the 34th year for the annual event.

Kasem was island of calm in music ‘ORANGE IS THE NEW Legendary radio host, BLACK’ EPISODE 3 voice of Shaggy, dies the songs, anecdotes about interactions with fans or tales about how stars got their starts.

Seldom was heard a discouraging word, unless it was a starting point for a narrative about | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS coming back from hardship, the LOS ANGELES — In pop cul- darkness before the dawn.

At the end of the show would ture, Casey Kasem was as sweet and dependable as a glass of come Kasem’s signature words warm milk and a plate of choco- of advice: “Keep your feet on late chip cookies, which only the ground, and keep reaching made the ugliness of his last few for the stars.”

On the first “American Top 40” years of life seem more bizarre in July 1970, Kasem counted and tragic. down to Three Dog The radio host of Night’s “Mama Told Me “American Top 40” and Not to Come” at the No. voice of animated tele1 spot. vision characters, like Kasem was of LebaScooby-Doo’s sidekick nese descent, born in Shaggy, died Sunday Detroit as Kemal Amin morning at a hospital Kasem, and he spoke in Gig Harbor, Wash. out on issues promotHe was 82. He suffered ing greater underfrom a form of demen- CASEY KASEM standing of Arab-Amertia, and his three adult died at a icans throughout his children from his first Washington life. He made his name wife fought a bitter le- hospital after gal battle with Kasem’s having dementia as a disc jockey, and when his career blossecond wife, Jean, over control of his health care in his somed in the Los Angeles area, he took on other voice work. He final months.

“American Top 40,” with Kas- once said his work on “Scoobyem’s soft, homey voice counting Doo” would outlast anything he down the hits, was a refuge from did.

He was succeeded at “Amerishock jocks or the screaming bigcity radio voices. It was depend- can Top 40” in 2004 by Ryan able, broadcast on some 1,000 Seacrest.

Hard feelings being what they stations at its peak, so if you were driving in Connecticut or Kansas, are, it’s difficult to imagine the California or Kentucky, you could fight between the people Kasem always take a measure of the is leaving behind will simply end with his death. Kasem, at pop charts with Casey.

Kasem weaved stories around least, is at peace.

at 82 in Washington

KASEM’S TOP 3

Counting down the top three things you might not know about radio personality Casey Kasem, the founding voice of “American Top 40,” who died Sunday: in 1969, 3 Beginning Kasem voiced the

character Shaggy for the animated series “ScoobyDoo: Where Are You!” He continued to voice the long-haired hippie in TV, film and video games until 2009. He also gave voice to characters on “Sesame Street” and the 1986 “Transformers” movie, along with voicing Robin on “Super Friends.”

Arab-American 2 Anactivist, Kasem called

for a fairer balance between heroes and villains in the 1994 Disney Aladdin sequel, “The Return of Jafar.” But he added, “We’re not out there just to be so picky that we become a pain in the neck. We’re there to do what we can to call attention to the sensitivity of not only Arab-Americans, but to any ethnic group.”

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“Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars.” — The radio signoff Kasem used throughout his fivedecade career.

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RATING: HHHHI Last season, I was left wanting more of “Crazy Eyes.” The show started her out as a distant and strange character, but in doing as “Orange Is the New Black” does best, she became more fleshed out.

Gone is the degrading, if slightly true, moniker of “Crazy Eyes.” Her name’s Suzanne, and ONLINE she is a human and this is part of her story.

Just like the previous episode, the show reveals some of Suzanne’s past without focusing on the reason she’s in Litchfield. While these flashbacks show scenarios that many children deal with, they’re amplified by her mental illness.

We see a young Suzanne, who was adopted by an To read the next affluent white couple, struggle to accept her baby review in the sister. Her mother is determined to make sure Su- series go to, zanne fits in, and by doing this, makes her go to a bitly. sleepover with her sister years later. As she’s four com/1lxO6sz years older than the others and hard to adjust in social situations, the girls ridicule her. Her stage fright appears at her high school graduation as she’s practically forced on stage.

These scenes aren’t meant to completely explain Suzanne and luckily, they don’t pinpoint her personality on just one moment in her childhood. It’s a culmination of these events, and it shows that her parents’ effort to ensure Suzanne would be normal drove her anxiety, focused around her skin color in a sea of white, to something more.

That’s not to say her parents were evil. They just wanted their daughter to fit in, to overcome the difficulties she faced in society.

Sadly, her struggles were seen as typical issues and not addressed as they should have been.

The high school stage fright flashback is spliced in with a flashback of last season’s Christmas pageant, an obvious parallel of the situations.

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NATAL, Brazil — Jurgen Klinsmann speaks with pragmatism. He books his airline tickets with hope.

The U.S. coach caused a stir in the lead-up to soccer’s championship when he said that “I think for us now, talking about winning a World Cup is just not realistic.”

But on the eve of the Americans’ opener against Ghana, he revealed this: “I booked my flight after the final.”

The U.S. has never advanced after starting with a loss, and it is grouped with the 37th-ranked Black Stars along with No. 2 Germany and No. 4 Portugal.

A two-day downpour has flooded some streets in this northeastern Brazilian beach town. While the skies started to clear a bit Sunday, the forecast was unsettled for tonight’s game, when the Americans try to avenge losses to Ghana that knocked them out of the past two World Cups.

When Colin Kaepernick agreed to a sixyear, $126 million extension with the San Francisco 49ers, the $61 million guaranteed to the quarterback became the most money ever guaranteed in a NFL contract.

That’s a lot of money to give to Kaepernick.

And while this is not an attack on the quarterback or the 49ers’ organization, I do have some concerns about the extension the two sides recently agreed upon. I feel it’s time to ask, “When will the size of these contracts be enough?”

I am choosing to focus on this deal as it is simply the most recent in a long list of ridiculous sport’s contracts. And honestly, I don’t think his performance warranted a contract containing the most guaranteed money in the history of the sport.

The man who just signed a recordsetting deal finished ranked 20th in the league with 3,197 passing yards, 31st in completion percentage with 58.4, 17th with 21 touchdown passes and 32nd in passing yards per game with 200, according to the 2013 NFL regular season statistics provided by ESPN. Can someone please explain how that big of a contract comes from a season that produced less passing yards than the Jacksonville Jaguars’ Chad Henne?

Kaepernick also owned a lower completion percentage than a quarterback in Matt Schaub, who was basically run out of Houston, and he was sixth to last out of qualifying quarterbacks in passing yards per game.

It’s not as if Kaepernick suddenly got hot in the playoffs and led the 49ers to a Super Bowl title, either.

In fact, the last time he was on the field in the NFC Championship, Kaepernick had a fumble and two interceptions in a loss to the Seattle Seahawks and in his

Klinsmann sounded just chartered two Boeing 767s like the U.S. Postal Service. from Houston that brought “It’s raining. If it’s snowing. 530 fans to Brazil, and the If it’s — what else? — thun- U.S. Soccer Federation said der or lightning ... field wet, it sold its official allotment field dry, heat, humidity, of about 2,000 tickets. whatever,” he said Ghana beat the Sunday. “We’re not MUST-SEE Americans by idenworried about that UPCOMING tical 2-1 scores in stuff at all.” the final group-stage Natal’s City Hall de- MATCHES game at Germany clared a flood alert GERMANY VS. in 2006 and in the and evacuated doz- PORTUGAL second round at ens of residents as Group G South Africa four Noon a precaution in the Today years ago. The U.S., Mae Luiza neighborappearing at its sevVS. hood in the city’s GHANA enth straight World UNITED STATES west.

Cup and 10th overGroup G Still, the field ap- 6 p.m. all, has never lost to peared firm during Today a team three straight workouts Sunday at BRAZIL VS. times in the tournathe new Arena das MEXICO ment.

Dunas. The forecast Group A Teams that won calls for a tempera- 3 p.m. their openers have ture of about 80 de- Tuesday advanced 85 percent grees, high humidity SPAIN VS. of the time since the — Natal is 400 miles CHILE 32-nation format south of the equa- Group B began in 1998. Just 3 p.m. tor — and a slight Wednesday 9 percent of nations chance of showers. starting with a loss “The weather is what it advanced. is, and as players that’s not “This is just an awesome something we can control,” moment because that’s the midfielder Michael Bradley biggest stage you can have, said. “You get to this point, where you kind of want to you’re not worried about show that you improved, and little details.” nothing better than against Thousands of U.S. fans are the team that beat you the expected. The American last two World Cups,” KlinsOutlaws supporters group mann said.

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Now, it’s not up to me what the 49ers choose to pay their players, but looking at the stats is important when discussing how high future contracts could get.

Where I have an issue with the $61 million guaranteed is that when more deserving players — say, Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers, Russell Wilson of the Super Bowl winning Seahawks or the Indianapolis Colts’ Andrew Luck — sign their new deals, all will receive more than Kaepernick without a doubt.

Based off their career stats, and accomplishment in Wilson’s case, each one would “deserve” to be paid higher, but where will it end?

Again, while I understand and appreciate the capitalist society that has helped make this country what it is, I have to ask when the salaries professional athletes are allowed to make will reach a tipping point.

When there are rookies who have been “forced” to pay team dinner bills upward of $55,000, and you read in the comment section of the article that it’s not a big issue because these players make that much in a few days, I think there is a problem.

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Postpone a trip. Take on a new responsibility. Teach by example. Prioritize homework over socializing. Guard against over-indulging. It could lead to conflict.

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Don’t make assumptions. Stay patient with a resister.

Use your own good judgment regarding a controversy. It all works out.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7. Listen to intuition and share the load. Send someone ahead. Take things slow, and clean up as you go. Explain your view to a skeptic. Save money and energy. Don’t be too critical.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is a 6. Make a date for something you don’t get to do often. Take it easy on yourself. Tempers could get short. Don’t make expensive promises. No need to confront authority. Get comfortable and gentle.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Today is a 7. Allow someone an insider advantage or backstage pass. Follow advice from an experienced elder. Make a good impression without spending a lot. Use forgotten resources. Don’t gamble with the rent money.

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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is a 7. You can make your promises and deadlines. Upgrade workplace technology if needed. Support from your family helps.

Set realistic goals. Use common sense in a clash with authority. A social invitation could get expensive.

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It doesn’t matter who’s right or wrong. Love trumps money.

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Clean, file and repair things.

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