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High Point Council OKs ordinance change to allow sandwich boards

BY PAT KIMBROUGH ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

HIGH POINT – The City Council on Monday agreed to an ordinance adjustment that proponents argued will enhance the revitalization efforts under way in the Uptowne High Point area of N. Main Street.

During its meeting, the council adopted an amendment to the development ordinance to allow for A-frame signs – commonly known as sandwich board signs – in the Uptowne and furniture market showroom district areas.

The City Project and representatives of Uptowne merchants requested the city change its regulations to allow for the signs after they were shown to be an effective way to ad-

vertise things such as restaurant dinner specials to pedestrians.

“Uptowne has really been the first focus area for The City Project, and we’ve been involved with trying to make it into a more pedestrianfriendly, walkable area,” said Jay Wagner, the group’s vice chairman.

“A lot of people have invested in these signs.”

The council approved the amendment after proposed requirements for sign owners to provide proof of insurance that would indemnify the city against liability for injury to people or property related to the signs were removed.

Councilman Latimer Alexander proposed removing this requirement from the amendment, but Councilwoman Bernita Sims said she

thought it was necessary to have insurance language included because of the possibility the signs, which are portable, could cause damage to a passing vehicle if, for example, they got knocked into the street. She was the lone council member to vote against the amendment. Councilmen Bill Bencini and John Faircloth did not attend the meeting.

“I just think this opens up the city” to lawsuits, Sims said. “We live in a litigious society.”

City staff will look into further revisions of regulations to allow the signs in other parts of the city.

“To me, this is a little discriminatory to businesses in my ward and further up Main Street,” said Councilman Chris Whitley.

The maximum size of the signs is

6 square feet per side and 3 feet in height. They can be placed on private property or a public sidewalk as long as they allow at least five feet of clear passage between the sign and the curb on the sidewalk. The signs, which cannot be attached to permanent fixtures, must be removed from the sidewalk or area outside a business each night. They also cannot have things such as balloons attached to them.

They can be used in the central business zoning district only for market showroom uses.

The signs are not permitted during market in the showroom district because of concerns that they could pose sidewalk obstructions.

Sara Barker received the 2010 Distinguished Civitan Award from the Silver Valley Civitan Club in Davidson County.

The honor is given for service to the club and community.

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Corporate Compliance Officer Venus Allen (center) talks with job-seeker Jeff Neill while Gracie Hopkins fills out an application.

Behaviorial health firm holds job fairs

BY PAUL B. JOHNSON ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

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Life Enhancement Services is holding job fairs 11 a.m.-2 p.m. today through Friday at its office at 665 N. Main St. in High Point. For more information, call the firm at 882-2122.

The company provides case management services to clients with mental disorders, developmental disabilities and behavioral disorders.

The firm offers services in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Louisiana.

HIGH POINT – A provider of mental and behavioral health care services for children, adolescents and adults is holding job fairs this week to recruit applicants for its High Point office and other operations in its network.

Life Enhancement Services LLC launched its job fairs Monday.

The job fairs will continue 11 a.m.-2 p.m. today through Friday at the Life Enhancement

Services office at 665 N. Main St. The openings include licensed or provisional therapists, substance abuse and peer support specialists, nurse practitioners and other professionals.

The firm wants to add at least seven positions in High Point but also would consider applicants for its other offices if candidates are willing to relocate or commute, said Corporate Compliance Officer Venus Allen. Based in Lumberton in eastern North Carolina, Life Enhancement Services operates other North Carolina loca-

tions in Charlotte, Fayetteville, Asheville, Durham and Yanceyville.

The company is expanding its High Point work force because Life Enhancement Services received the authorization to provide additional services, Allen said.

“Our agency has been around for five years, but we’ve been open in High Point for four.

Now we’re applying to become a comprehensive behavioral health agency,” she said. pjohnson@hpe.com | 888-3528

Thomasville OKs alcohol sales at farmers’ market events

BY DARRICK IGNASIAK ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

THOMASVILLE – Nonprofits will be allowed to sell alcohol at the Thomasville Farmers Market.

The Thomasville City Council on Monday night voted 6-1 to approve new rental rules for the farmers’ market. The rules allow for the sale of alcohol by only nonprofits, but those selling alcohol must abide by a list of guidelines.

Councilman Raleigh York Jr. was the lone member to vote against the rules.

“All of you are well aware of my personal convictions,” York told the City Council. “Of course,

they preclude me of supporting this item. Beyond that, I am concerned as a council member of endorsing an activity that in our discussion in committee was seen as possibly opening us up for liability.”

The rules state the sale of malt beverages and unfortified wines only are allowed by nonprofits with proper North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Division permits. A certificate of liability insurance must be provided to the city prior to any event where alcohol is to be sold.

City Manager Kelly Craver said the sale of alcohol would primarily be at events at the adjacent

PACE Community dividual events at market not during hours. He said the

Park or inthe farmers’ its operating city also has

Councilman Raleigh York Jr. was the lone member to vote against the rules. an ordinance that allows the sale of alcohol at city-owned Winding Creek Golf Course and HiToms baseball games at Finch Field.

The Rev. David W. Hedrick, pastor of Promise Baptist Church,

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spoke against the sale of alcohol during the public forum section of the City Council’s meeting. He said his church holds alcoholics anonymous meetings each Tuesday night.

“When I see the word alcohol, it boils something in my blood,” he said. “I see what alcohol does. ... The mayor took time to explain to me that this would kind of be in an controlled area where they come in and drink in the fence.

I was under the understanding that they could go in and buy and go on. I’m still against it.”

Councilman David Yemm said

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A car is lifted out of the North Edisto River in Orangeburg, S.C., Monday. The bodies of two toddlers were recovered Monday from the car submerged in the river and their mother was charged with leaving the scene as authorities investigated whether it was an accident. Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said the boys, ages 1 and 2, were recovered from the river after the car was found near a rural boat landing.

Bodies of 2 toddlers found in car in SC river ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) – After the bodies of two toddlers were pulled Monday from a car submerged in a South Carolina river, their mother was arrested and authorities were investigating how it happened – and whether it was an accident.

The two were recovered from the North Edisto River after the car was found near a rural boat landing, Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said.

County Coroner Samuetta Marshall identified them as 18-monthold Ja’van T. Duley and 2-year-old Devean C. Duley, both of Orangeburg. She would not speculate on a cause of death until autopsies are completed today.

A jail official identified the boys’ mother as 29-year-old Shaquan Duley, who was being held Monday on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. It was not immediately clear whether she had a lawyer.

Williams said the Highway Patrol was notified about 6:15 a.m.

Monday about an accident and a woman who needed help getting her children out of the car.

The children were still strapped in their child seats when divers

Authorities were investigating how it happened – and whether it was an accident. found them and recovered their bodies about 45 minutes after being called to the scene. “Early in the investigation, the state patrol felt there was not enough indicators to substantiate that there was an automobile accident,” Williams said. “We are looking into all possibilities as to what happened.”

The woman, who did not have a cell phone, had walked some distance down the country road by the boat landing and flagged down a passing motorist to call the Highway Patrol. “She showed some emotion, but I can’t say she was overly distraught,” the sheriff said. “Through her statements, there are some things we think are not believable.”

Williams said authorities were attempting to contact the children’s father, who did not live with the family.

The incident was reminiscent of the deaths of two other toddlers in South Carolina. In 1994, in a case that made headlines worldwide, Susan Smith left her 3-year-old and 14-month-old sons strapped in their car seats as she rolled her car into a lake in Union County in the northwest part of the state.

She was convicted in their deaths and is serving a life prison term.

Lorillard says it’s not liable for smoker’s addiction BOSTON (AP) – A Boston judge delayed ruling Monday on Lorillard Tobacco Co.’s request to reject a lawsuit that accuses the nation’s third-largest tobacco company of targeting black youth in its cigarette marketing.

Judge Linda Giles of Suffolk Superior Court

told lawyers for both sides she wanted to review the case filings as well as previous court cases before ruling on Lorillard’s request for a favorable decision without going to trial. “I have reviewed your submissions,” Giles told the lawyers. “I have not digested them.”

The 2004 lawsuit was filed by Will Evans, the son of Marie Evans, who died of lung cancer in 2002 at age 54. Lawyers for the family say the Greensboro-based company should be held responsible for Marie Evans’ exposure to cigarettes from the time she

was 9 and for her eventual addiction to tobacco.

Attorneys for Lorillard argued at Monday’s hearing that the family has not presented enough evidence to prove at trial that the company is responsible for Marie Evans’ 40-year smoking addiction.

RALEIGH (AP) – Looking for a new pursuit after taking the state lottery from zero to $1.4 billion, the first and only executive director of the North Carolina Education Lottery said Monday he’s leaving to take a job in the gaming industry’s private sector.

Tom Shaheen, who arrived in November 2005, will become a vice president for Linq3, a New York-based startup company that’s creating ways to expand automated lottery sales machines, such as through ATMs. “It’s a new challenge and I’m a challenge-type of person,” Shaheen, 57, said in an interview.

Shaheen was hired from the New Mexico lottery and helped organize the North Carolina lottery from scratch before the first tickets were sold in March 2006. Today, a matured North Carolina lottery has more than 6,200 retailers that generated $1.4 billion in ticket sales last year from numbers games and scratch-offs and almost $420 million for education initiatives.

Shaheen, who has worked in state lotteries for more than 22 years, called the North Carolina job “one of the greatest experiences of my life.”

“I’m proud of everything about this organi-

Tom Shaheen helped organize the North Carolina lottery from scratch before the first tickets were sold in March 2006. zation,” he said. “We’ve seen that the money is being used to help enhance education in the state.”

Alice Garland, the lottery’s deputy executive director for legislative and corporate communications, began her role Monday as acting executive director. Shaheen said he’ll remain an adviser until his last day Sept. 17.

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he brought up the idea of allowing the sale of alcohol at the governing body’s retreat earlier this year.

“My intent on it was that we got the new amphitheater. There’s towns all over that would have events and have a controlled environment with responsible sellers there, providing alcohol with beer and wine or what-

ever,” Yemm said. “It’s a good step for us.”

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Tractor trailer crash closes I-77 FORT MILL, S.C. (AP) – At least one person has died after a fuel tanker crashed and caught fire, shutting down Interstate 77 near the North Carolina-South Carolina state line for several hours.

Highway Patrol Lance Corporal Billy Elder said the driver of a tractor trailer died in Monday’s

crash and two women in a car that collided with the truck were taken to a local hospital for treatment. None of those involved in the crash were identified.

The tractor trailer was traveling in the southbound lane, but both sides of the road were closed.

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Plastic jar removed from Florida bear cub’s head OCALA, Fla. (AP) – A black bear cub in Florida affectionately known as “jarhead” can finally enjoy a good meal.

A clear plastic container was removed from the 6-month-old cub’s head after being stuck for at least 10 days. The cub poked its head into the jar when digging through trash in a neighborhood in central Florida.

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Friend testifies Laurean gave away bloody crowbar

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GOLDSBORO (AP) – The yellow crowbar that dropped with a thud on a courtroom table Monday still had a dried blood droplet that led a man to suspect that a former friend who gave it to him used the tool to kill a pregnant fellow Marine.

Dennis Ward testified at the first-degree murder trial of Cesar Laurean, 23, of Las Vegas. Laurean was expelled from the Marines after being charged with killing Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, 20, of Vandalia, Ohio, who had

accused Laurean of rape.

He has pleaded not guilty and faces life in prison if convicted.

Ward said Laurean, a fellow corporal stationed at Camp Lejeune, gave him the crowbar two days after Lauterbach disappeared in December 2007. Ward told Laurean months earlier that he’d like the surplus tool.

Laurean didn’t offer it to Ward until the two wrapped up an excursion to a home improvement warehouse where Laurean bought a dishwasher and

a collection of concrete blocks for a backyard firepit, Ward said. Laurean began digging the firepit as soon as they returned from the store, Ward said.

After news reports the following month that Lauterbach’s body was unearthed from under the firepit, Ward said he grew more suspicious about what appeared to be a dried blood drop on a sticker affixed to the crowbar. “It didn’t add up to me. I was there when the firepit was built. There was the sticker or label on the

crowbar. That’s when I told my wife we’d better go to the sheriff’s department,� Ward said.

Lauterbach died from a blow to the head, and a DNA sample taken from a crowbar was her blood, District Attorney Dewey Hudson said last week. Hudson declined Monday to describe the yellow crowbar introduced in court as the weapon used to kill Lauterbach.

Prosecutors are trying to weave together details – including computer records, investigator testimony, DNA tests, and

spattered blood – into a series of facts that point to Laurean as the killer. “This is going to be a case of circumstantial evidence as most murder cases, and that’s what we’ve been showing the past couple of days,� Hudson told reporters Monday.

State Bureau of Investigation investigator Steven Combs testified that during a search of Laurean’s garage, he found sprinkles of blood on the ceiling, an infant’s swing, on pegboard along the wall, a paint can, and a child’s pool raft.

Soldier faces murder charge after crash FORT BRAGG (AP) – A North Carolina-based paratrooper is being charged with murder after a fatal head-on collision with a fellow soldier who was driving a motorcycle.

Fayetteville police said Monday 21-yearold Spc. Jason Gregory Taft has been charged

with second degree murder. The wreck happened early Saturday morning. Police say after Taft lost control of his vehicle, crossed the center line and hit 27-year-old Pfc. Felipe Ramirez head-on.

Investigators have blamed speed and alcohol for the crash.

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GREENSBORO – A man, arrested after allegedly breaking into a local Red Lobster overnight to steal cash and liquor, is also believed to have cooked pizza and eaten cake at the restaurant.

Greensboro police responded to Red Lobster at 4415 W. Wendover Ave. at 6:49 a.m. Monday, according to a news release.

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Inside, they found 32-yearold Bradley Dwight Michael, who had broken through the front door of the restaurant in an attempt to steal liquor and cash, according to arrest warrants. He also is charged with smashing computers, benches, liquor bottles and more, causing an estimated $30,000 in damage, court records state.

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Jamestown faces big decision for its future We citizens of Jamestown have an historic opportunity. Our town manager is retiring. We now find ourselves searching for a proven town administrator to lead us forward.

Jamestown pays an exceptional salary for a manager who oversees a $6.5 million budget and 30 employees. Nearby communities with larger budgets and far more staff do not pay as well as Jamestown. An open and professional search should reveal a deep, competent and experienced pool of applicants.

We should encourage current employees to apply for the manager’s position as well. We are in the wonderful position of being able to select the very best. This type of opportunity does not come often to a town such as ours. We must not waste it!

If you are a citizen of Jamestown, please let each and every Council member know that we deserve to select a manager who proves to be the finest from among all candidates. We need a thorough and open search for the position.

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YMCA, YWCA compromise their Christian backgrounds In response to July 22, Your View “YMCA logo change just doesn’t make sense” and July 20, Lifestyle “Wine Down.”

These are just more examples of the atheistic world’s attempt to remove God and Christ from public buildings and from prayer by means of the ACLU and other servants of hell. “Because in Christ Jesus are hid [stored up] all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:3).

used to it. We are here to stay.

I tried to tell people they were voting in a Muslim president. He will use the authority people here gave him to see that the Muslim religion is here to stay and see it grow. I could see this from the start. We are being taken over by everyone but the ones who are connected to our founders. This change is slowly growing and now not only are we getting mud thrown in our face, we are letting outsiders rub it in.

CARL TYSINGER Trinity

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“…and Christ is both the power and the wisdom of God.” (I Corinthians 1:24) The farther you are removed from Christ, the easier you are deceived. The changing of the logo is to rid it of “Christian” (Christ like) and change is to “Y.” Young what? Atheists?

Also, the YWCA has compromised the very principles on which it was founded as a Christian organization by sponsoring a “Wine Down,” a wine tasting (drinking) event, promoting the sales and use of alcoholic beverages in celebration of its 90th birthday. “These wineries have women in leadership. That ties in nicely with the YWCA,” says Heidi Majors, executive director of the YWCA (they need a new director).

The devil would say, “I have brought you a long way, baby.

Don’t look back to what you used to be, a young women’s association.” Romans 12:2 states, “Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Philippians 2:15 says, “In the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom ye [the YWCA should] shine as lights in the world.” “But if the light that is

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ome members of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, including Vice Chairman Steve Arnold of High Point, want county officials to begin studying the feasibility of combining some county departments.

Arnold and these others may well be onto something.

However, before any such reorganization should take place, commissioners must clearly identify the purpose of the action. Would such an endeavor be aimed at improving service to the public, reducing the taxpayers’ cost of government or perhaps a combination of the two?

Earlier this year when the idea came up during a board retreat, commissioners decided to focus efforts on just combining and streamlining intake services for the county’s public health, social services and mental health agencies. On Saturday, the Enterprise reported that the county has been working toward that end.

But the notion of actually combining those human service agencies has arisen again, and we see examining the feasibility of combining those as a practical thing to investigate. Surely, it seems, consolidation of at least some services if not entire departments could bring about a savings to taxpayers in administrative expenses and the costs of each agency.

Also, some experts on such matters have told commissioners that improvements in service to the public can result from consolidation. That question, however, would be one of the most important ones. We surely wouldn’t advocate for changes that would make it harder for deserving county residents to receive services they need. But we do suspect efficiencies could be achieved and services improved because of a reorganization of services.

County commissioners may consider – perhaps as early as Thursday – whether such an inquiry should be undertaken. We urge them to do so.

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in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” (Matthew 6:23).

“As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion” (Proverbs 11:22).

CLAYTON L. PROCTOR SR. Trinity

Suppose we tried to build a church in a Muslim country Let’s talk about the Islamic Center (mosque) in New York.

Suppose America built a big Christian church honoring God and his son Jesus in a Muslim country, what would happen.

Suppose we told Africa they couldn’t fly a flag that millions had died for (similar to the Confederate flag). Suppose we watched them like a hawk and waited for them to say something so we could sue and intimidate them.

Suppose we went to Mexico and had illegitimate children so they could be citizens for our benefit and told the Mexicans we weren’t going anywhere.

Plus, we took our drugs and warlords and told Mexico to get

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What can Oak Hollow Mall do to entice you to shop there more often instead of going to malls or shopping areas in other cities?

In 30 words or less (no name, address required), e-mail us your thoughts to letterbox@hpe.com.

Here are two responses: • Sidewalks to and from surrounding neighborhoods, such as HPU. Drugstores would attract older folks to walk from neighborhoods if sidewalks were there.

Also a grocery store.

• The anchor stores need to have a bigger selection of clothes and other items like Four Seasons and Hanes malls.

Was the decision to allow construction of a mosque near the World Trade Center attack site correct? In 30 words or less (no name, address required), e-mail us your thoughts to letterbox@ hpe.com. Here is one response: • It’s insensitive to those who suffered at ground zero. Find another place for the mosque.

Would we be able to build a church of our faith anywhere in their countries?

cent were. (The change was not statistically significant, so it would be best to say there was no progress.)

North Carolina can no longer afford to tolerate mediocrity. While our OPINION economy demands educated workers, the most John compelling rationale Hood for state government’s ■■■ involvement in education isn’t economic. Today’s students are tomorrow’s voters. A self-governing republic can thrive only to the extent that its citizens possess basic knowledge – about science, history, and civics – as well as the skills to learn more about the problems facing their families and communities.

North Carolina needs real education reform. Its elements aren’t hard to outline: • Adopt higher academic standards and independent, reliable tests of student performance.

• Of the nearly $10,000 spent per pupil in our public schools, devote a higher percentage to classroom instruction, particularly our best teachers.

• Ensure that most North Carolina parents exercise greater control over their children’s education by promoting public-school choice, charterschool expansion, tax relief for family investment in education, and scholarship assistance for low-income families.

“When a wheel turns over we call it a revolution, which is a big name for a little thing,” Hillyer wrote in his Child’s History. “When a country turns over we also call it a revolution, which is a big name for a big thing.”

It’s time for a revolution in North Carolina education.

JOHN HOOD is president of the John Locke Foundation and publisher of CarolinaJournal.com.

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N.C. needs reading revolution in education very passionate reader has a first literary love – that first book that captured your attention and inspired your desire to explore and understand.

For me, it was a true classic: A Child’s History of the World. First published in 1924, the book was the product of the innovative mind of Virgil Hillyer, the Harvard-trained headmaster of the Calvert School in Baltimore.

After many years at the helm of the school, Hillyer realized that there were many children whose families couldn’t afford tuition but who would benefit from high-quality instruction. So he convinced Baltimore booksellers to sell his curriculum directly to families.

Hillyer thought that most children could learn far more than commonly thought. They simply needed to be challenged, and to be presented material in an engaging way. His work reflected that sentiment, as do most successful instructional programs.

Unfortunately, North Carolina has had little success improving the reading program in its public schools. Too many teachers (and teachers of teachers) remain wedded to discredited practices. Too many lawmakers devote too many tax dollars to pointless exercises in political theater. And too many families allow kids to do everything except sit down to read.

You can see the results in the data.

Since the mid-1990s, when North Carolina launched its latest flurry of highly touted and expensive “reforms,” the state’s performance on independent math tests has improved significantly, particularly from 1996 to 2003.

The same can’t be said for our reading performance. Among North Carolina eighth-graders, for example, the average reading score on the National Assessment of Education Progress was 264 in 1994 and 260 in 2009. Only 29 percent of our eighth-graders were proficient readers in 2009. In 1994, 31 per-

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Stoning defendant won’t get pass to Brazil TEHRAN, Iran – Iran will not send a woman who had faced death by stoning on an adultery conviction to Brazil, which has offered her asylum, the president said in a TV interview broadcast Monday.

The stoning sentence for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, has been lifted for now after it prompted an outcry from the United States.

Lightning kills 7 school children in Darfur KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudan’s state news agency says lightning has struck a religious school in the country’s western Darfur region, killing seven children.

The report quoted a local official as saying the children, ages 10-13, were attending a Quranic school in the remote village of Sarguilla in southern Darfur.

Iran details plans for new nuke sites TEHRAN, Iran – Iran said Monday it has decided where to build 10 new uranium enrichment sites inside protected mountain strongholds and will start construction on the first in March, defying international efforts to curb its nuclear program.

Enriched uranium can create fuel for power plants but can create weapons too.

American, 16, arrested in mother’s death JAIPUR, India – Joncarlo Patton, a teenage American, has been arrested on suspicion of killing his mother in a tourist resort in western India, police said Monday.

The woman, identified as Cindy Iannarelli, of Cecil, Pennsylvania, was found with her throat slit in the historic town of Osian last Thursday.

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‘Miracle’ in Colombia 130 survive crash of 737 jetliner in thunderstorm; 1 dies BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – A Boeing 737 jetliner carrying 131 people crashed in a thunderstorm and broke apart as it slid onto the runway on a Caribbean island on Monday. The region’s governor said it was a miracle that only one person died.

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On Facebook: Israeli soldier posed with bound Arabs JERUSALEM (AP) – A former Israeli soldier posted photos on Facebook of herself in uniform smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners, drawing sharp criticism Monday from the Israeli military and Palestinian officials.

Israeli news websites and blogs showed two photographs of the woman.

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Farmers bear brunt of Pakistan’s deadly floods SUKKUR, Pakistan (AP) – For generations, the Indus River was a lifeline. Now it has turned destroyer, ripping up rice, wheat and sugar cane crops and leaving behind bloated corpses of cows and goats.

When the floodwaters recede, millions of farmers who used the Indus to irrigate their crops – and propel Pakistan’s economy – face an uncertain future.

The United Nations warns that unless farmers in hard-hit Punjab and Sindh provinces manage to plant their winter crop of wheat in mid-September as normal, there might be food shortages in the region and the nation as a whole.

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Last year, cherries, peaches and apricots in the Swat Valley rotted on the trees because of an army operation against Taliban militants.

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BAGHDAD (AP) – A Sunni-backed coalition that won the most seats in Iraq’s parliamentary election said Monday it would cease power-sharing talks with the nation’s incumbent Shiite prime minister, accusing him of turning political bickering into a sectarian issue.

The breakdown is certain to extend a fivemonth political stalemate since the voting, leaving the country without a new government at a critical time – American troops are departing and violence is rising.

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Insurgents assassinated an Afghan government official and a policeman Monday in western Afghanistan, and five civilians died when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb elsewhere in the west, officials said.

Two insurgents on a motorcycle shot and killed the government official in a bazaar in the Gulistan district of Farah province, NATO said. The policeman returned fire, but was killed by the insurgents. NATO did not identify the government official.

In neighboring Herat province, five members of one family were killed and two others were wounded in a blast after their vehicle hit a mine, said Lal Mohammad Omarzai, deputy governor of Shindand district.

Also on Monday, NATO said an al-Qaida operative was among those killed in an airstrike Sunday on a pickup truck that was fleeing the site of a gunfight with police in Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan.

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Democratic Senate leader: Build mosque elsewhere WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate’s top Democrat on Monday came out against plans to build a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, moving away from President Barack Obama on the controversial election-year issue.

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Sen. Harry Reid became the highest profile Democrat to respond to Obama, who last week backed the right for the developers to build a mosque near ground zero. Since his comments Friday, the Democratic president and his aides have worked to explain the statement, which drew

criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike. “The First Amendment protects freedom of religion,� said Jim Manley, a Reid spokesman. “Senator Reid respects that, but thinks that the mosque should be built some place else.�

Critics have said the location

of the mosque is insensitive because the terrorists who struck were Islamic extremists. The plans call for a $100 million Islamic center two blocks from where almost 3,000 people perished when hijacked jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001.

Reid is in a close campaign for re-election. A spokesman for Republican Sharron Angle, Reid’s opponent, said Muslims have the right to worship anywhere, but Obama’s support for construction of the mosque at ground zero “ignored the wishes of the American people.�

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Gates says he plans to retire next year WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in a magazine interview he wants to leave the Pentagon sometime next year, setting off furious speculation as to who might take his place.

His top aides, meanwhile, tried to tamp down expectations that any decision had been made. “Every time Secretary Gates has seriously considered hanging it up for good, he ultimately has decided to keep serving,� said Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell.

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A haul of shrimp and fish is seen Monday on the deck of the shrimp trawler “Miss Nancy Lynn� in Bastian Bay, near Empire, La., on the first day of shrimp season since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

High court upholds ’birther’ sanction

Shrimping season reopens after spill

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has upheld a $20,000 fine against a leader of the movement challenging President Barack Obama’s citizenship.

The high court on Monday refused to block a federal judge’s October 2009 ruling that required California lawyer and dentist Orly Taitz to pay the $20,000 fine for filing a “frivolous� litigation.

The judge said Taitz attempted to misuse the federal courts to push a political agenda.

GRAND ISLE, La. (AP) – Fishermen who spent much of the summer mopping up oil from BP’s disastrous spill got back to work as the fall shrimping season in Louisiana’s coastal waters opened Monday amid anxiety over whether the catch will be tainted by crude and whether anyone will buy it even if it is clean.

Scores of shrimpers headed out at first light, and early reports indicated a plentiful and clean catch. “We’re not seeing any

oil where I’m at. No tar balls, nothing,� said Brian Amos, a 53-year-old shrimper who trawled in his 28-foot skiff, The Rolling Thunder, in a bay near Empire.

It was a step toward normalcy for many coastal towns that have been in limbo in the nearly four months since the spill shut down fishing, an economic linchpin for dock owners, restaurants and many other businesses along the Louisiana coast. Louisiana ranks first in the nation

Petraeus: Time is key for progress in Afghanistan

HOUSTON – Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Monday he always knew a Justice Department probe of his ties to disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff would end without criminal charges being filed against him because he did nothing wrong.

DeLay said he wishes the investigation hadn’t taken six years, but added he isn’t bitter. “I know this is the price of leadership, but it doesn’t have to happen this way,� he said.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The next several months in the Afghanistan war will prove to be a crucial test of President Barack Obama’s politically risky strategy to send tens of thousands more troops to the fight.

Army Gen. David Petraeus says he plans to show by December that the 100,000 U.S. forces are helping to stem a violent insurgency and giving the Kabul government space to grow. Petraeus, the new war commander, said he has already begun to see progress, albeit slowly.

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Gates told Foreign Policy magazine in an interview released Monday.

Last fall, Obama authorized to grow the force in Afghanistan by 30,000 to 100,000 troops – triple the level from 2008.

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Wilson Parker, professor of constitutional law at Wake Forest University School of Law, recently co-authored a book geared toward college students in the state.

“Ignorance Is No Defense, A College Student’s Guide To North Carolina Law” explains more than 100 North Carolina laws that affect college students.

The book is designed as a practical resource for students.

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HIGH POINT – Back-to-school shopping will be a special treat for 13 local kids this year.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Piedmont is teaming up with volunteers from BB&T bank to give 13 local children in the local community an opportunity to shop for school supplies.

“Big for a Day” allows the children and volunteers to develop a one-to-one friendship in a temporary setting, allowing BBBS to help parents prepare their children for school.

Employees from BB&T in High Point will volunteer their time on Wednesday as an employee is matched to one child who is on a waiting list.

The employee will take their child on a shopping spree to purchase items designated by Guilford County Schools for the upcoming year.

They also will enjoy lunch with their matched child, giving BB&T employees an opportunity to get to know them on a more personal level.

The BB&T volunteers are taking part in the company’s second annual Lighthouse Project. The team has selected two projects to assist nonprofit agencies during August and September to make a positive impact on the lives of people in need.

Big Brothers Big Sisters says volunteers, such as those from BB&T, are appreciated by the agency for making an impact on those who volunteer as well as the children in the program. The volunteers also are able to get a glimpse of the rewards of being a Big Brother or Big Sister in a short period of time.

There is always a need for Big Brothers and Big Sisters on an ongoing basis. To volunteer or for more information, contact Melissa Wilson at Melissa@bbbscp.org or Ellen Werner at Ellen@bbbscp. org.

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Donna and Tim Pless look at a Monarch butterfly landing on a piece of cloth with sugar water on it. The Plesses, owners of All-A-Flutter Butterfly Farm, and their neighbor have bought the land surrounding their farm.

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HIGH POINT – Owners of AllA-Flutter Butterfly Farm say a bidding war for land surrounding the farm has come to an end.

According to a Guilford County confirmation order, Donna and Tim Pless, farm owners, and neighboring property owner John Clinard placed a $372,000 bid for 24 acres next to the farm on Aug. 2.

The farm owners and Greensboro-based Oasis Investment Group LLC had been bidding

‘We’re just ecstatic.

We couldn’t be more thankful to our supporters.’

Donna Pless Owner, All-A-Flutter Butterfly Farm against each other for the land since April, but the investment group did not file an upset bid this time.

Donna Pless made the bidding war public last month because she said the investment group was “taking advantage of an unfortunate situation.”

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Third- and fourth-graders from Silver Valley Elementary in Davidson County took a field trip to All-A-Flutter Butterfly Farm.

During his talk about butterflies, owner Tim Pless dressed Bryce Payne up with different parts of a butterfly to illustrate what the different parts do. ard Farms Road, was deeded to Pless and her three siblings, who made the decision to sell after their father died in 2004.

There were several disagreements among siblings, however, regarding when to sell the land and for how much it should be sold.

The property went to public auction through court proceedings earlier this year, where John Clinard placed the sole bid of $200,000 for the land, which was valued at nearly $1.2 million in 2008.

The investment group offered $30,000 per acre in 2008, but the siblings turned the offer down.

After the public auction, the in-

vestment group began placing upset bids.

The Pless’ approached Clinard about splitting the land so they could preserve the area surrounding the butterfly farm.

Pless said one of her biggest fears was that the land would be used to expand TransTech Pharma because Adnan Mjalli, president of the pharmaceutical company, signed the upset bids on behalf of the investment group.

But Mjalli told The High Point Enterprise that he signed the bids for his wife, Helen Mjalli, because she was on an international business trip at the time. Helen Mjalli is the manager of Oasis Investment Group LLC. He declined further comment, and it was never confirmed if the land would be used for a TransTech Pharma expansion.

Such an expansion could disrupt the tranquility of the farm, which is located on three adjoining acres and serves as a safe environment for monarch butterflies, Pless said.

Pless attributes the end of the bidding war to her grassroots efforts to save the farm, which were joined by Rep. Pricey Harrison, D-Guilford, and Rep. Laura Wiley, R-Guilford.

“We’re just ecstatic,” Pless said. “We couldn’t be more thankful to our supporters.

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HIGH POINT – The city’s lead economic development agency keeps racking up honors.

For the ninth year in a row, the annual report of the High Point Economic Development Corp. received an award from one or both of two major economic development organizations.

Today, EDC representatives will accept a 2010 Communications Award at the annual conference of the Southern Economic Development Council in New Orleans. The council is the oldest and largest regional eco-

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nomic development association in North America, with members in 17 states and the District of Columbia.

The annual report – titled “High Point: Celebrating Successes, Tackling Challenges, Investing in our Future” – is a 16-page document highlighting the city’s economic development news, attributes and achievements during last year.

The report, released in March, includes listings of High Point’s largest employers and largest taxpayers.

“The High Point EDC staff members are proud to win an award for the ninth year in a row, showing that our efforts each year to produce an impressive report are being rec-

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EDC staff use the report in recruiting new employers to the city and seeking to have expansions of existing employers take place in High Point.

The EDC is a public-private organization. Its 19-member board of directors is composed of the mayor, a High Point city council member, the city manager, five city council appointees, six High Point Partners appointees, two High Point Chamber of Commerce appointees and the three immediate past EDC chairmen.

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Jones Elbert Dagenhart GREENSBORO – Mr. Jones Elbert Dagenhart, 87, a resident of Greensboro died Sunday evening, August 15, 2010, in Moses H. Cone Hospital.

Mr. Dagenhart was born November 26, 1922, in Alexander Co., a son of Arthur and Verda Mitchell Dagenhart. A graduate of Stony Point High School, he was selected as Most Wittiest in his class superlatives. He was a retired driver for Branch Motor Express and was a member of the Teamsters Retiree Association, local # 391. He was of Baptist faith. Mr. Dagenhart was a veteran of WW II serving in the US Army and was a member of the 97th Recon. He loved to fish and hunt. On April 24, 1952, he was married to the former Nancy Carol Swaim who preceded him in death on May 17, 1991.

He was also preceded in death by his parents; his sister, Evelyn Dagenhart and his two brothers, Purnell and Harvey Dagenhart.

Surviving are one daughter, Carol D. Kittrell and husband Grady of Greensboro; five sons, Neal Dagenhart of Greensboro and friend Pamela Howell, Wayne Dagenhart and wife Heather of Marysville, Ohio, Brian Dagenhart and wife Melinda of Winston-Salem, Richard Dagenhart and companion Teresa Jones of Stokesdale, Joe Dagenhart and wife Cindy of Newport News, Virginia; 12 grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren and special friend, Sarah Hayes.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. in the HanesLineberry Sedgefield Funeral Chapel, 6000 High Point Rd. conducted by the Reverend Kenneth Hayes. Interment with military honors provided by the Randolph County Honor Guard will follow in Guilford Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Hanes-Lineberry Sedgefield Funeral Home on Tuesday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Online condolences can be made at haneslineberryfuneralhomes.com.

Nancy Gupton GREENSBORO – Mrs. Nancy Louise Gupton, 53, died August 16, 2010, at Moses Cone Hospital.

Arrangements are incomplete at Forbis & Dick Funeral Home, Pleasant Garden.

LEXINGTON – Shelby Jean Coble Bean, 74, of Mt. Moriah Manor died August 14, 2010, at Hinkle Hospice House.

Memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. August 17, 2010, at Davidson Funeral Home Chapel, Lexington. Visitation will be held following the service.

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HIGH POINT – Sherry Coltrane Cox, beloved mother & friend, joined the Great Spirit in the Sky; sadly all life must end.

Born Winter Solstice, Dec. 21, 1961, her life full of Spirit, laughter and fun. Passed Aug. 6, 2010; our lives will never be the same again.

Now with friends and family who’ve gone before, in Heaven together, in pain no more.

Life is precious, life is sweet, try to be kind to all you meet.

Candles that burn twice as bright burn half as long – hard to imagine you’re already gone.

Sherry means Cherished, our Nana, our Mother, our Friend; we’ll all miss you dearly until we’re together again.

Surviving: Thomas Cox, loving life mate.

Kara & Charity Cox, daughters of Fate. Alexis, Justus, Camilya & Lotusgrandchildren of love.

Take time to notice the gifts from above. Elsie, Terry, Danny, Sis, Phyllis and James, other family and friends, too many to name.

Our beloved is gone, life forever changed.

A Private Celebration of her Life will be held with family and friends... may we have love to heal and time to mend.

HIGH POINT – Mr. David Lee Wagoner, age 80, resident of Pennybyrn at Maryfield, died August 14, 2010, in High Point Regional Hospital.

Mr. Wagoner was born in Galax, VA on May 16, 1930, to Bruce G. and Ina Jenkins Wagoner.

He served his country in the U. S. Army Air Corps. and was a musician in the Army band. Mr. Wagoner was a 1956 graduate of High Point University, where he was a member of TKE International Collegiate Fraternity, the Panther Club, and was President of H.P.U. Alumnae. He was also a member of the Lions Club, the Jaycees, and the Elks Club. Mr. Wagoner was employed with Wachovia Bank and Trust Company for thirty years until he retired on April 15, 1985. On September 8, 1986 he married Jean Griffith Pons, who survives of the residence.

Mr. Wagoner was an avid sailor and a member of the Peninsula Yacht Club at Lake Norman, where he spent much of his leisure time with family and friends. Some of his favorite times were spent with “The Old Geezers Coffee Club” at Mrs. Winner’s restaurant.

He was supportive of community activities and donated greatly to the ones in which he believed.

He was an inspiration to many because of his positive attitude and determination with his keen sense of humor, gentle manner, and smile. He brought smiles to so many other people, he had a true love for man kind.

Surviving in addition to his wife are his children, Jane Wagoner Johns and husband Mike of Concord, Michael Wagoner of Goodview, VA; Dan Wagoner and wife Grace of Greenville, SC; and John Wagoner and wife Ginger of Cornelius, NC. There are nine grandchildren: Christopher, Matthew, Jack, Blake, Haley, and Heather Wagoner, and Ryan, Robert, and Adam Johns.

A service will be held on Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Maryfield at Pennybyrn with Dr. Thomas Stockton and Father Jim Solari officiating. The family will receive friends following the memorial service at Norcross Square. A private inurnment ceremony will be held at a later date. The family requests memorials may be made to Pennybyrn at Maryfield, 109 Penny Road, High Point, NC 27260 or to High Point University, 833 Montlieu Ave. High Point, NC 27262 or to a charity of one’s choice.

Please share your condolences with the family at www.sechrestfunerals.com.

Willie C. Canady LEXINGTON – Willie Carroll Canady, age 76 of Cedar Lane, Lexington passed away Sunday (August 15, 2010) at Lexington Memorial Hospital.

Funeral service will be 2:00 p.m. Wednesday (August 18, 2010) at Church of God of Prophecy, East Center Street, Lexington with Rev. Bruce Langley officiating. Burial will follow at Forest Hill Memorial Park.

The family will receive friends at Davidson Funeral Home from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. Tuesday.

Willie was born in Sampson County, May 31, 1934 to Willie Canady and Elizabeth Batts Canady.

He was a member of Church of God of Prophecy and a former employee of United Furniture. He was preceded in death by his parents.

Surviving are; his wife Peggy Austin Canady of the home; two daughters, Carla Canady Oldham and husband Jeffrey of Asheboro; Darla Canady Campbell and husband Joel of the home; three sons, Robert Wayne Canady of Cocoa Cocoa Beach, Florida, Christopher Carroll Canady of Archdale and William Charles Canady of the home; eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren; one sister, Mabel Ann Carter of Clinton; two brothers, Joseph Lee Canady of Salemburg and Richard Earl Canady of Roseboro.

Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net.

Jack Holifield LEXINGTON – Jack Holifield, 71, of Cow Palace Road died August 16, 2010, at his home.

Funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at Psalm 91 Church. Visitation will be from 1 to 3 p.m. on Thursday at the church.

Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington, is in charge of arrangements.

Hera Embla Farlow SOPHIA – Hera Embla Farlow, age 82, of Sophia died Sunday, August 15, 2010, at her home.

Mrs. Farlow was born May 1, 1928, in High Point, NC the daughter of William Wesley Bullard and Pearlie Jane Blakley Bullard. Hera was a member of Sophia Christian Church and retired after 29 ½ years as the postal clerk in Sophia. She was the widow of Tunney Farlow.

She is survived by son: Tony Farlow and his wife, Nina of Sophia, NC; daughter: Marsha Haithcock and her husband, Jeffrey of Cedar Falls, NC; grandchildren, Mindy Hankins and her husband, Ronald of Sophia; Wyatt Farlow of Sophia and Josh Haithcock of Cedar Falls; great grandchildren, Cody Richardson and Taylor Hankins; sister: Cherry Crotts of Glenola, NC. The family will receive friends Tuesday, August 17, 2010 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. at Pugh Funeral Home, 600 South Main Street, Randleman, NC and other times at the home of Tony Farlow, 1847 Piedmont Dairy Rd. Sophia. The funeral will be held Wednesday, August 18, 2010, at 1:00 p.m. at Pugh Funeral Home Chapel, 600 South Main Street, Randleman with Chaplain Dwight Ayers officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memorial Park, Asheboro.

Memorials may be made to Hospice Of Randolph, P.O. Box 9, Asheboro, NC 27204-0009.

Online condolences may be made at www. pughfuneralhome.com.

David “Pap” Green HIGH POINT – Mr. David “Pap” Green, 65, of 1722 Gavin Drive, entered eternal rest on Thursday, August 12, 2010, in the Wesley Long Community Hospital, Greensboro, NC. Born June 23, 1945, in Hallsboro, North Carolina, he was a son of the late Ellison and Lucinda Nelson Green.

Survivors are: his wife of forty-one years, Vivian Gibson Green; two sons, David I and Dwayne S Green; a brother, Rev. Earnest Green; three sisters, Christine Ellison of Thomasville, NC, Rena Bell Johnson and Sarah A Green.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, August 18, 2010, at 3:00 p.m., Antioch UME Church, Rimini, SC. Burial will follow in Antioch Memorial Garden Procession will leave at 2:15 p.m. from 3874 Bomar Trail, Pinewood, SC. Online memorial can be send to comfhltj@ sc.rr.cm Community Funeral Home of Sumter is in charge of these arrangements.

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WASHINGTON (AP) – James J. Kilpatrick’s in-your-face, conservative bickering with liberal commentator Shana Alexander three decades ago was famously parodied – and then copied for years.

Kilpatrick died Sunday at age 89, said his wife, Marianne Means.

“He was a hell of a fella,” said Means, 76.

“He cultivated a public image on TV of being a cranky conservative ... but he wasn’t a cranky conservative at home.”

TV watchers in the 1970s knew Kilpatrick as the conservative half of the “Point-Counterpoint” segment of CBS’ “60 Minutes.”

Baby boomers, though, would always know the liberal-conservative pairing is what inspired the “Saturday Night Live” parody featuring Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin.

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HIGH POINT – All-A-Flutter Butterfly Farm owner Donna Pless sent letters and e-mails to many political leaders in her efforts to keep the land around her farm tranquil and conducive to her business.

But one of the most important e-mails she sent was to Rep. Pricey Harrison, D-Guilford, she said. “Pricey couldn’t believe the fact that there is so much land out there,�

Pless said. “So why

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would they want the land around our little farm so much?�

The land battle that Pless refers to took place between she and Oasis Investment Group LLC. The two have been bidding against each other since April for 24 acres that sit next to the farm, but the investment group

recently stopped bidding.

Harrison is known for her efforts to preserve family farmland in Guilford County, but there were other factors that caught her attention in Pless’ case.

Oasis Investment Group LLC is managed by Helen Mjalli. Her husband is Adnan Mjalli, president of TransTech Pharma, who signed the investment group’s upset bids.

Adnan Mjalli said in July he couldn’t confirm why the investment group was interested in the property, but Pless and Harrison said

they expected it was related to a TransTech Pharma project and a possible expansion on the land. “It would be difficult to segregate the wife from the husband’s interests,�

Harrison said.

Carl Wright, the commissioner appointed to sell the 24 acres that was deeded to Pless and her three siblings after they couldn’t reach an agreement on when and for how much to sell the land, said the investment group wasn’t in the wrong by bidding on the property.

After all, another group

could have bid on it as well, he said.

But the fact that TransTech Pharma had received state incentive money to keep its facilities in North Carolina especially caught Harrison’s interest. “I’m opposed to incentives anyway, but in this instance, it seemed the money would ultimately take over a farm and precipitate the demise of a local enterprise,� she said.

According to the N.C. Department of Commerce, TransTech Pharma has been pledged up

to $6.6 million in state incentives. They have met obligations to receive $41,796 so far.

Harrison said she contacted the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Piedmont Land Conservancy and the U.S. Department of Commerce about the matter. She didn’t speak with the Mjalli’s directly, but an upset bid for the land was not placed last week. “I’m just happy this could have a peaceful ending,� she said. phaynes@hpe.com | 888-3617

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RANDOLPH COUNTY – A Trinity man faces drug charges after a raid by Randolph County Sheriff’s Office Vice & Narcotics Unit officers.

Detectives searched a Fairwood Drive home last week and seized five marijuana plants that weighed a total of about 290 grams, according to the sheriff’s office.

Detectives also seized suspected drug paraphernalia and growing materials, as well as a small amount of cash and a firearm. As a result of the search, one person was arrested.

William Andrew Racicot, 46, was

charged with manufacturing marijuana, felony possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, and was assessed a $2,500 bond, according to the sheriff’s office.

Deputies listed his address as the site of the raid.

In an unrelated case, two people were arrested following a traffic stop in Randleman in which sheriff’s deputies assisted police in that city.

Officers who searched the vehicle found the two occupants had about 102 grams of marijuana in their possession. They charged Devin Austin Reeves, 21, of Brown Oaks Road, Randleman, with manufacturing

marijuana, felony possession of marijuana, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, deputies said.

He was assessed a $2,500 bond.

Also charged was Stephen Dale McNeal, 21, of Spruce Road, Greensboro, with manufacturing marijuana, felony possession of marijuana, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, maintaining a vehicle for controlled substances and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to the sheriff’s office.

McNeal was booked into the Randolph County Jail under a $20,000 bond.

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Political groups run ads criticizing NC business environment RALEIGH (AP) – An image of the Legislative Building provides a backdrop of a television commercial after a man in a blue shirt and red tie standing in front of what could be a closed plant laments what he calls

North Carolina’s bad business environment.

The commercial, which began running in several TV markets last week, began an effort funded by more than $500,000 from two Republican-leaning groups and a business to raise the

alarm about recent actions by the General Assembly, which happens to be controlled by Democrats. “Real Jobs North Carolina is not partisan. We hope this message reaches all voters,� said Art Pope, a Real Jobs NC leader and

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ear Abby: I am writing about the letter from “Can’t Believe My Eyes� (June 20), who is bothered by the amount of cleavage women display everywhere. I have heard many negative comments in the workplace regarding women’s tasteless attire. But most of the remarks I hear come from other women in stores while we try to shop for clothes. They are shocked at how little there is to buy that is “decent� to wear. They, as well as I, are tired of having to buy tank tops to wear under shirts or dresses that are cut too low or are too short.

I have three daughters who dress for professional jobs. They, too, express similar frustration at finding clothing that is appropriate to wear.

I am sure some women like plunging, skin-tight clothing, but from what I hear the majority do not.

Store clerks get complaints and have passed them on to the buyers.

But the buyers say there is not much else available. – Frustrated Shopper in West Virginia Dear Frustrated: I empathize with your frustration. The feedback from readers on this subject has been abundant, and many agree with you. Read on: Dear Abby: As the mother of a well-endowed 13-year-old daughter, I agree with “Can’t Believe My Eyes.� I hate shopping for clothes with my daughter. It’s not because she is difficult, but because the styles are so revealing. My daughter

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We use tank tops and hidden safety pins to keep “the girls� under wraps. The problem is not lack of modesty of the wearer, but the clothing designers and manufacturers. I can’t wait until the styles change, but for now we are doing our best to cover up. – Oklahoma Reader Dear Abby: Hooray for “Can’t Believe’s� comments on cleavage at businesses and schools, but I’m more disturbed by the number of women – young and not so young – who show way too much in church.

I’m a guy who appreciates God’s handiwork, but please, ladies, don’t showcase it in the pews. – Distracted In Rome, N.Y. Dear Abby: In your answer you stated there was also a lot showing “south of the border.�

In Mexico? What about Louisiana? I’d like to go there! – Bruce in Hawaii Dear Bruce: Oh, come on! I didn’t mean that kind of geography.

Dear Abby: Why do people feel the need to dictate the standards of appearance for everyone else? If it doesn’t harm

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I’m a 54-year-old guy who looks and dresses conservatively. My dentist has spiky hair with purple streaks and looks young enough to be in high school. My mechanic has a hole in his earlobe you could shove a quarter through.

My electrician has tattoos on his face. But they all do great work, and I wouldn’t trade ’em. Why force everyone into one narrow description of what’s “acceptable�? I’m for ability over appearance. – Open-minded in Phoenix Dear Abby: I’ve been in banking for 30 years and have seen many changes, especially after casual dress days started. Many younger women in the office didn’t understand what that meant. Memos went out, but nothing changed until a female division manager was brought in to address the problem.

I’ll never forget what she said: “Look at yourself in the mirror before you leave for work and ask yourself if you look like you’re going to ‘get lucky.’ If the answer is yes, then you need to change your clothes.�

Abby, we never had a dress code problem again. – Rhonda in The Southwest DEAR ABBY is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

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xygen is the most crucial of all elements in the body.

It is an oxidizing agent that forms new compounds that release energy into the body. People can survive without food for days, but a lack of oxygen for only a couple of minutes will cause death.

Without the proper oxygen flow throughout the entire body, organs begin to operate less efficiently, leading to health problems.

Breathing purifies the blood stream and leads to a healthier body and mind. Improper breathing leads to premature aging, a decrease in vitality and the onset of disease. Lack of oxygen results in mental sluggishness, negative thoughts and depression.

Breathing becomes modified and restricted in various ways, not just momentarily, but habitually.

We develop unhealthy habits without being aware of it. We tend to assume slouched positions that diminish lung capacities and take shortened breaths. We also live in social conditions that are not good for our respiratory system.

Some people require extra oxygen due to low blood oxygen caused by numerous pulmonary diseases.

Learning proper breathing techniques is particularly important for these people.

Many pulmonary patients use accessory muscles to aid breathing; however, this is actually causing them to work harder and waste oxygen. Through proper techniques, these patients can breathe more efficiently.

Breathing exercises are also important for people who have sedentary jobs.

Their brains can become oxygen-starved, and their bodies are just getting by.

They feel tired, nervous and irritable and are not productive. Many sleep badly at night, resulting in a bad start to the next day, continuing the cycle.

Lack of oxygen also lowers the immune system, making people susceptible to colds, flu and other diseases.

Slow and deep breathing produces a stimulating effect of the parasympathetic nervous system. This leads to a heart-rate reduction and allows muscles to relax, sending signals of relaxation to the brain.

This extra flow of oxygen to the brain leads to a more normal brain function, which reduces anxiety.

Our breathing is too shallow and quick. We are not taking in sufficient oxygen or eliminating sufficient carbon dioxide.

We need to breathe more slowly and deeply. Quick shallow breathing results in oxygen starvation, which leads to reduced vitality, premature aging, poor immune system and many other factors.

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Answer: You are correct in thinking that proper pruning at the correct time of the year will result in better production of raspberries the next year.

Soon after the last raspberries have been picked, the canes that produced berries should be

growing, you can then tie the new shoots loosely to the trellis.

With black raspberries, the new canes often grow too tall, becoming weighted down by the heavy tip foliage which will bend the canes almost to the ground, causing them to break off during a strong wind.

The tip growth can be cut back in the mid summer so shoots reach 18 to 24 inches, as this will lessen the chances of damaging the canes. It is sometimes necessary to do this more than once. This will cause the lateral growth to start. In winter before

removed by cutting them back to ground level. This encourages the growth of new shoots the following year. Removing and destroying the fruitedout canes will also help eliminate the spread of any insects and diseases present on these canes.

Remove only the canes that fruited. The canes that grew this summer, but did not bear fruit, are the ones that will bear next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fruit. It is also preferable to thin new shoots in mid-summer, leaving three to four canes per foot of row. Depending on the type of raspberry you are

new growth starts, cut back side branches, leaving tow to six buds per cane.

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MASTER GARDENERS will answer questions on horticultural topics. Karen C. Neill, an urban horticulture extension agent, can be contacted at the N.C. Cooperative Extension, 3309 Burlington Road, Greensboro, NC 27405-7605, telephone (336) 375-5876, e-mail karen_neill@ ncsu.edu, on the web at www.guilford gardenanswers.org.

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HIGH POINT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Back to School Kick Off Party will be held 1-4 p.m. Saturday in Kaleidoscope Youth Gallery, Theatre Art Galleries, 220 E. Commerce Ave. Sponsored by the galleries, the workshop is for children entering grades K-5. Children will make items for school, such as book covers, bookmarks, pencil boxes and bags.

Cost is $25. For information or to register, call Abby Adamson at 887-2137, e-mail education@ northstate.net. Registration forms are online at www.tagart.org.

Jeremy Walter Keiser was promoted to sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps July 1 at ceremonies at Beaufort Naval Air Station. He has been a member of the MaKeiser rines since September 2006.

He is the son of Jill and Kenneth Keiser of High Point.

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The park is a $300,000 project, using $150,000 raised through SciWorksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; SciVision Capital Campaign added to the IMLS grant. The project will begin this month and is set to open in spring 2012.

NEA announces grant recipients TRIAD â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County and the city of WinstonSalem received a $200,000 matching grant from The National Endowment for the Arts. Action Greensboro received $100,000.

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It’s a very fast and very irregular heartbeat. High blood pressure, plugged heart arteries, deformed heart valves, excessive alcohol use and an overactive thyroid gland are some of its causes.

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chances for a permanent reversion to a normal heartbeat are best when HEALTH fibrillation has been Dr. Paul present for Donohue less than ■■■ 48 hours.

Medicines can bring the beat back to normal. Two such medicines, and there are many others, are flecainide and amiodarone. If they don’t work, some patients have to settle for drugs that yield a slow but irregular beat. Tenormin and digoxin are two examples. A person often can do quite well with a slowly but irregularly beating heart.

Ablation is a technique in which a doctor introduces a catheter into the heart from a surface blood vessel. The catheter is specially equipped to deliver radio waves to the heart. The waves inactivate the sites in the heart that are responsible for generating the abnormal rhythm. It’s a very involved process requiring a highly specialized heart doctor.

Dear Dr. Donohue: I read in one of your columns about how a surgeon handling the intestines during an operation can cause adhesions to form. I have

an inguinal hernia for several years and repeatedly push the protrusion back into place. What damage can result from this?

Three of my doctors told me that many people do not have hernia surgery. I have had no success with different hernia belts. – S.A. What you do and what a surgeon does are two different things.

Surgeons have to push organs and intestines to one side to get to the place where they must operate. That can lead to adhesion (scar tissue) formation. You are pushing the abdominal covering (the hernia) back into the abdominal cavity. That doesn’t produce adhesions.

Surgery is the only way to correct a hernia.

If the hernia isn’t large, isn’t painful and can be pushed back into the abdomen without trouble, then immediate surgery isn’t necessary.

Many people go through life without surgical correction. The belt you used is called a truss. It works for some, but not for all.

DR. DONOHUE regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475

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Neil Patrick Harris (left) and David Burtka pose with Mickey Mouse at Paradise Pier in Disney California Adventure in Anaheim, Calif., on Saturday.

Neil Patrick Harris: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to be a dad â&#x20AC;&#x201C; twice NEW YORK (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Neil Patrick Harris and his partner, David Burtka, will become parents of twins this fall.

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at Graceland, marking 33 years since the American icon died.

Elvis admirers from around the world descended on Elvisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; former home Sunday night to attend an annual candlelight vigil and procession that ran into Monday morning. Presley died at age 42 at his Graceland mansion on Aug. 16, 1977. Memorials started the following year.

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Elvis Presley fans view his grave at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn., on Monday. in through the gates.

Flowers and photos lined the entrance to the grave site, which also is the resting place of Presleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father Vernon, his mother Gladys and grandmother Minnie Mae. Some wiped away tears as they walked past the graves.

Harvard pulled ahead of Ivy League rival Princeton in the latest edition of the influential U.S. News & World Report university rankings, while a stronger emphasis on graduation rates drove other changes in the Top 10.

The nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest university and traditionally one of its most selective, Harvard has topped the list two of the last three years.

Last year, the two elite schools shared the top ranking.

Yale was the No. 3ranked university this year, followed by Columbia, and Stanford and Penn tied at No. 5.

Williams College in Massachusetts was ranked the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top liberal arts school.

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Gibsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2008 Maserati careened off southbound Malibu Canyon Road on Sunday evening, the

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Some of Rhen Henry’s drawings, such as “Improvisation,” were inspired by John Coltrane and the jazz ensembles he often joined.

Drawn to Coltrane When a High Point artist learned of the jazz great from her hometown, she couldn’t get enough

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IGH POINT – Artist Rhonda “Rhen” Henry, High Point born and bred, sheepishly admits she knew almost nothing about John Coltrane – one of High Point’s most famous former residents – until five years ago.

That’s when she met someone from Philadelphia, the city the late jazz musician moved to when he left High Point in 1943.

“When he realized I was from High Point, he got real excited because I was from Coltrane’s hometown, and he thought I knew everything there was to know about Coltrane, which was totally the Henry opposite,” recalls Henry, whose collection of Coltrane-inspired paintings is on exhibit this month at Yalik’s Modern Art. “I had heard of him years ago through my mom. We went to the dedication for the Coltrane plaque and she told me a little about him, but I don’t remember learning about him in school, so my knowledge of him was very minimal.”

Henry’s limited knowledge of Coltrane startled her new friend.

“It was almost as if I didn’t know God,” she says.

Five years later, though, Henry is a Coltrane connoisseur.

“My friend gave me my first CD, ‘A Love Supreme,’ and I was just fascinated,” Henry says. “After ‘A Love Supreme,’ I started listening to some of his earlier music, and I just fell in love with him. I started reading about him and was almost obsessed with him – or possessed by him.”

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Rhonda “Rhen” Henry’s Coltrane-inspired artwork is currently on exhibit at Yalik’s Modern Art, located at 1113 E. Washington Drive.

The exhibit will continue through Aug. 29.

Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays, 1 to 6 p.m.

Sundays, and other hours by appointment – (336) 989-0047.

For more information about the artist, visit www.rhenart. com.

Eventually, the music inspired Henry – a graphic designer by trade – to put Coltrane’s masterpieces to canvas. Specifically, she recalls it was Coltrane’s “Alabama” – a piece written in response to the 1963 racially motivated bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. – that moved her

’I started listening to some of his earlier music, and I just fell in love with him.’

Rhen Henry Artist to tears and inspired her to begin a series of Coltrane paintings.

“I just felt so inspired, I had to reach for the brush,” she says.

Henry received a grant from the High Point Area Arts Council to do a series of paintings depicting the works and life of Coltrane. Titled “God Breathes”

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“Falling Notes” shows the Twin Towers as Rhen Henry believes Coltrane would have seen them on Sept. 11, 2001.

– a phrase taken from the liner notes of “A Love Supreme” – the collection now numbers more than 30 pieces, predominantly oils. Several of the paintings have been sold, Henry says.

Henry listens to Coltrane’s music as she paints, and she believes her artwork accurately reflects his music.

“The paintings go from realism to abstracts,” she says.

“Coltrane always experimented in different styles of music, so I try and experiment in different styles of painting. It’s more of an expressionist kind of painting.”

One of Henry’s favorite pieces, for example, is “Falling Notes,” a surrealistic depiction of New York City’s Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001.

“It shows musical notes falling from the Twin Towers,” she explains. “I was trying to see through Coltrane’s eyes what he would’ve seen that day with people jumping from the Twin Towers

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to their death. He would’ve seen them as musical notes, because he believed everything had rhythm and vibration, even death.”

Another painting, “Alabama,” captures the mood Coltrane’s song of the same title evokes, depicting a vase of four dead flowers, representing the four young girls who lost their lives in the infamous church bombing.

Other paintings, though, are less somber, depicting Coltrane playing his saxophone, either solo or in an ensemble setting.

“People have told me they can feel the music and can almost hear him playing when they look at my paintings, and some have said the paintings were almost spiritual for them,” Henry says.

“I’m not about painting pretty pictures. If it doesn’t mean anything to anybody – if they don’t feel something – I’ve not done what I’m supposed to be doing.” jtomlin@hpe.com | 888-3579

On Sept. 25, 12 local museums, galleries and organizations will participate in the 2nd Annual Greensboro Museum Day – an event that celebrates the city’s rich culture, history and arts.

The celebration is one of several annual collaborative events between Greensboro’s museums, historical attractions, science centers, art galleries and cultural organizations.

On Greensboro Museum Day, families and individuals are encouraged to visit a museum they’ve never seen before, check out an exhibition at a local gallery or venture downtown to the Greensboro Cultural Center. Most of the participating area attractions will offer free or reduced admission, special programs and events.

There are currently more than 10 museums, art galleries and cultural attractions in Greensboro that offer free admission on a daily basis.

A few special events happening Sept. 25 include free tours at The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro Historical Museum, Green Hill Center for NC Art and fun gardening activities at the Greensboro Children’s Museum.

Participating organizations include African American Atelier, Blandwood Mansion, Brock Historic Museum at Greensboro College, Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum, David Caldwell Historic Park, Green Hill Center for NC Art/Art Quest!, Greensboro Children’s Museum, Greensboro Historical Museum, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park Museum, International Civil Rights Center & Museum, Natural Science Center, Sebastian Medical Museum and Weatherspoon Art Museum.

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Donnie Wahlberg, 41; Don McKellar, 47; Sean Penn, 50; Robert De Niro, 67 HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Focus on home, family and getting things accomplished. Sticking to a budget and cutting corners will help to ease your stress. Once you get into the routine of what you can and cannot do, you will find it easy to reach your goals and to maintain what you have already accomplished.

Common sense coupled with practical application will be your saving grace. Your numbers are 2, 8, 20, 24, 27, 30, 44 ARIES (March 21-April 19): There is lots going on behind the scenes and, although you may not be aware of the opportunities heading your way, you will be soon. A problem with government, taxes or an institution will leave you feeling uncertain. Just ride out the storm. ★★★★★ TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may need to spend a little to make a little but don’t go overboard.

Use discretion and stick to the financial guidelines you set. Talk matters over with colleagues. There is a lot to learn from working alongside someone with experience. ★★★ GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Social networking will pay off. Consider ways to make improvements that will capture attention, boost your ego and help whatever presentation you display. Love is highlighted but will also entail some sort of commitment. ★★★ CANCER (June 21-July 22): Work from home if possible and you will avoid disruptions as well as an aggravating situation. Put together a plan that will help you be successful. Moderation will be the key to accomplishing what you set out to do. ★★★ LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your ability to draw interest in whatever you pursue will lead to your success.

Communicating with people who have the potential to positively influence your future will mark the beginning of an interesting relationship. Love is apparent. ★★★★★ VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t let someone’s emotions challenge you or cost you financially. Not everyone will agree with you right now but eventually your decision will prove positive. An alteration at home will help you out financially. ★★ LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t stifle your emotions when you need to clear the air about what’s bothering you. It’s impossible to move forward if you don’t know where you stand. Be creative in your approach but don’t skirt important issues. Promises made must be kept. ★★★★ SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Expect things to change rapidly. Before you get settled, look for alternate ways to approach what needs to be done. The ability to make last- minute changes will separate you from any competition you face. ★★★ SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your ability to speak and react from the heart will get you the greatest mileage, not trying to impress by using false information. Stick to basics and, professionally and personally, people will join in and help you with whatever you pursue. ★★★ CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You may want to keep your thoughts to yourself when it comes to love.

Traveling should be kept to a minimum. Focus more on important financial matters or contractual deals that can alter your future. ★★★ AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Time, money and advancement should be highlighted. There is nothing you cannot do if you try. Being adaptable will add to your success. Don’t allow anyone to take advantage of your good nature or your desire to help a cause. ★★★★ PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’ll be tempted to overreact and to be impulsive with regard to decisions that can make or break a partnership. Think before you do or say something you may regret.

There is plenty of time to figure out what you should or can do. ★★

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They say faith can move mountains, but only hard work will put a tunnel through.

In today’s deal, South won the first diamond and led a club to dummy’s king. East played low, and South returned a club to his queen. He was putting his faith in a 3-2 club break, but when West discarded a spade, South faced a mountain he couldn’t move – or tunnel through: He lacked the dummy entries to set up and cash the fifth club.

Actually, South could still have succeeded if he saw all four hands, but he led a spade to dummy and tried a heart to his jack.

West took the queen, and South won only two tricks in each suit.

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You hold: S K 5 3 H 6 2 D 7 5 3 C K J 9 4 2.

The dealer, at your left, opens one spade. Your partner doubles, and the next player passes. What do you say?

South needed to work a little harder. He can use the clubs if he starts by leading the queen. If East ducks, South leads a second club to dummy’s nine.

East wins with the ten and returns a diamond, but South wins and leads his last club to force out the ace. He can later reach dummy with the king of spades to take two good clubs, assuring the contract.

ANSWER: A response of two clubs would not be a bad mistake, but a better move is to aim toward the most likely game contract: 3NT. Bid 1NT, promising six to nine points, balanced pattern and at least one trick in spades. Another problem with a bid of two clubs is that it shows no strength at all.

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ONE STAR: It’s best to avoid conflicts; work behind the scenes or read a good book. Two stars: You can accomplish but don’t rely on others for help. Three stars: If you focus, you will reach your goals.

Four stars: You can pretty much do as you please, a good time to start new projects. Five stars: Nothing can stop you now. Go for the gold.

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Lilly Allicks, 5, from Wyanet, Ill., learns how to milk a cow in the Dairy Barn at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Ill. The fair will run through Aug. 22.

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Exp Leather/Fabric Sewers.

Welping/Piping Exp. Locally Owned, A/C Factory. To apply: ESC Office, Job #5222844 Experienced Automotive Tech and General Service Tech needed; must have NC Inspection License and 3 years Experience. Apply at Quality Tire 900 Randolph Street Thomasville, NC 27360 EXPERIENCED ONLY NEED APPLY. Exp Flexo 8-c Press Operator. Fri-Sun, 5am-5pm.

Wayne Trademark, Ph #336-887-3173 Ext #236 Local Furniture Comapny seeking a skilled Outsider & Nail Head Person. Apply in person: 2224 Shore St.

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Trucking

Furniture Movers/Drivers, Experience Required Thomasville Call 336-476-5757

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A new mattress setT$99, F$109, Q$122, K$191. Can Del. 336-992-0025

3 BR Homes-Very Clean $585-Rotary/Westchester area $685-N. Centennial, 2 Bath Sec 8 ok, No dogs, 882-2030

Washer & Dryer Set for Sale.

Washer makes noise when spinning. $100 cash or best offer. Call 336-472-4680

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Computer

SCOOTERS Computers. We fix any problem. Low prices.

476-2042

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Lawn & Garden Equipment

2007 Yardman Mower/MTD, 16hp, 42" cut. Automatic. $500, Call 336-475-0288

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Furniture

6 DR Chiars w/Caster.

Uph Floral Pattern.

Wood off White Color Call 336-889-3249

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Misc. Tickets

CAROLINA PANTHER Tickets 8/21 & 8/29 games. $54 each.

Call 336-471-6041

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Wanted to Rent/ Buy/Trade

QUICK CASH PAID FOR JUNK CARS & TRUCKS. 434-1589.

BUYING ANTIQUES Pottery, Glass, Old Stuff 239-7487 / 472-6910 Cash 4 riding mower needing repair or free removal if unwanted & scrap metal 689-4167 Top cash paid for any junk vehicle.

T&S Auto 882-7989

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Misc. Items for Sale

SAM KINCAID PAINTING FREE ESTIMATES CALL 472-2203

Two cemetery plots at Floral Garden. Asking $4,500. Call 823-2810 or 823-2811.

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0610

Unfurnished Apartments

1 Room Studio Apt, Non Smoker, No Pets. $100 Sec, $300 Mo. Call 336-454-0254 1br Archdale $395 2BR Archdale $495 Daycare $3200 L&J Prop 434-2736 2Br Apt. Archdale. 122A Marshall St. Quiet, Clean, A/C, Refrig, Stove, W/D Hookups. $435/mo. Call 434-6236 2BR, 1 1/2BA Apartment. Thomasville. Cable TV, Appls Incld. $450 mo. 336-561-6631 2BR, 1 1/2BA Apartment. Thomasville. Cable TV, Appls Incld. $450 mo. 336-561-6631 2BR, 1BA avail. 2427 Francis St. Nice Area. $475/mo Call 336-833-6797 2br, Apt, Archdale, 302 Goodman, Cent. A/C Heat, W/D hook up, Refrig/Stove $495/mth. 434-6236 3 ROOM APARTMENT partly furnished.

476-5530 431-3483 Clositers & Foxfire $1000 FREE RENT! 885-5556 1 & 2 BR, Appls, AC, Clean, Good Loc. $380-$450 431-9478 Spacious All Electric. 1 Level, 1Br Brick Apt. W/D Conn.

Stove, Refrig. 883-7010 WE have section 8 approved apartments. Call day or night 625-0052.

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A-1 ROOMS. Clean, close to stores, buses, A/C. No dep.

803-1970.

Archdale, Nice 2BR, $450 mo.

Call 336-431-7716 916 Ferndale-2BR 1124 Wayside-3BR 883-9602 Lovely 2BR home. Hdwd flr.

Cent. heat/air. Nice Fireplace 882-9132

Sporting Goods

300 lb. Olympic barbell set w/spring collars, squat rack/ bench w/lat pull down. Inclds inclining bench w/leg ext attachment. $250 Call 870-4525

Homes for Rent

2BR/1BA 1112 Richland St, $395 336-434-2004 1 Bedroom 217 Lindsay St.................$400 2 Bedrooms 709-B Chestnut St...........$350 713-A Scientific St...........$375 309 Windley St................$395 2405 Fala.........................$400 318 Monroe Pl.................$400 3117-A&B Bowers Ave...$435 203 Brinkley Pl................$475 1217-B McCain Pl...........$475 210-C Oakdale Rd...........$550 607 E. Lexington Ave......$600 5928 W. Friendly Ave......$675 3 Bedrooms 302 Ridgecrest.................$500 1108 Adams St................$525 4 Bedrooms 533 Vandever St.............$600 Call About Rent SpecialsFowler & Fowler 883-1333 www.fowler-fowler.com 1604 Boundary 2br 340 209 Murray 2br 315 415 Cable 2br 325 804 Forrest St. 2br 375 HUGHES ENTERPRISES 885-6149

Homes for Rent

4 BEDROOMS 1220 Pennywood...........$1095 1124 Meadowlawn.........$995 809 Doak.........................$775 3 BEDROOMS 1209 N. Rotary...............$1100 3603 Grindstaff..............$1195 2457 Ingleside................$1050 1312 Granada..................$895 2709 Reginald..................$700 1420 Bragg Ave..............$695 1122 Nathan Hunt...........$695 112 Hedgecock................$675 2713 Ernest St.................$675 2109 Friends....................$649 222 Montlieu....................$625 1205 Fifth.........................$595 726 Bridges......................$575 1020 South.......................$550 701 Habersham..............$550 2507 Dallas......................$550 2208-A Gable Way...........$550 507 Hedrick......................$525 601 Willoubar...................$525 324 Louise.......................$525 637 Wesley......................$525 409 N Centennial............$500 2207 Gable Way..............$500 1016 Grant.......................$475 2543 Patrick.....................$475 919 Old Winston..............$525 1220-A Kimery.................$500 2219 N. Centennial..........$495 836 Cummins..................$450 913 Grant........................$450 502 Everett......................$450 410 Vail...........................$425 328 Walker......................$425 322 Walker......................$425 609 Radford.....................$400 914 Putnam.....................$399 1303-B E Green...............$395

2 BEDROOM 495 Ansley Way..............$750 6117 Hedgecock #1A......$750 1720 Beaucrest...............$675 1111 N. Hamilton.............$595 1540 Beaucrest...............$525 119 Scott.........................$525 101 #13 Oxford..............$525 903 Skeet Club...............$500 204 Prospect..................$500 808 Virginia....................$495 120 Kendall....................$475 1610 Brentwood............$475 905 Old Tville Rd............$450 509 North.........................$450 1101 Pegram..................$450 215 Friendly....................$450 1198 Day........................$450 205-D Tyson Ct..............$425 700-B Chandler..............$425 1501-B Carolina..............$425 324 Walker....................$400 2306 Palmer..................$400 611 Paramount.............$400 305 Barker......................$400 713-B Chandler.............$399 204 Hoskins..................$395 622-B Hendrix..............$395 1704 Whitehall..............$385 609-A Memorial Pk........$375 601-B Everett.................$375 2306-A Little..................$375 501 Richardson..............$375 1227 Redding.................$350 1709-B W. Rotary..........$350 129 Pinecrest...............$350 311-B Chestnut...............$350 1516-B Oneka.................$350 309-B Griffin...................$335 900-A W. Kearns..............$335 12109 Trinity Rd. S.........$325 4703 Alford......................$325 301 Park..........................$300 313-B Barker...................$300 1116-B Grace...................$295 1717-B Leonard...............$285 1515 Olivia......................$280 1700 A & B Brockett........$275

1 BEDROOM 1123-C Adams...............$450 620-A Scientific..............$375 508 Jeanette..................$375 1119-A English...............$350 910 Proctor.....................$325 305 E. Guilford................$275 309-B Chestnut...............$275 1103-A S. Elm.................$275 502-B Coltrane................$270 1317-A Tipton..................$235 CONRAD REALTORS 512 N. Hamilton 885-4111 AVAILABLE RENTALS SEE OUR AD ON SUN, MON, WED & FRI FOR OUR COMPLETE HOUSING INVENTORY

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Misc for Rent

Mobile Homes & Lots Auman Mobile Home Pk 3910 N. Main 883-3910 4 BEDROOMS 101 Havenwood.............$1300 3 BEDROOMS 145 Greenhaven............$1000 317 Washboard................$895 330 W. Presnell................$790 1704 Azel.........................$600 2209 B Chambers...........$600 603 Denny.......................$600 524 Player.......................$565 1014 Grace......................$575 281 Dorothy.....................$550 116 Dorothy.....................$550 1414 Madison..................$525 1439 Madison..................$495 920 Forest.......................$450 1711 Edmondson............$350 2 BEDROOMS 1100 Westbrook..............$650 606 Liberty.....................$650 1114 Westbrook..............$600 3911 C Archdale............$600 500 Forrest.....................$510 931 Marlboro..................$500 285 Dorothy...................$500 532 Roy............................$495 112 A Marshall................$450 816 E. Guilford...............$450 410 Friddle......................$435 10721 N Main..................$425 500 Lake.........................$425 600 Willowbar..................$400 283 Dorothy...................$400 304-A Kersey...................$395 412 N. Centennial............$385 1418 Johnson.................$375 1429 E Commerce..........$375 802 Barbee.....................$350 10812 N. Main................$350 215-B & DColonial...........$350 417 B White Oak..............$350 1223B Franklin.................$295 1 BEDROOMS 3 1 3 A & B Kersey..................$350 203 Baker.......................$325 205 A Taylor....................$285 909 A Park.....................$250 KINLEY REALTY 336-434-4146

0665 Vacation Property MB Condo. (2) 2BR/2BA, Shore Dr. Call for Special Fall Rates 887-4000

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Business Places/ Offices

1000 SF retail space close to new 85. $595/month. Call day or night 336-625-6076 1100 sf Retail $600 2,500 sqft $650 T-ville 336-362-2119

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Condominiums for Sale

Forced Sale - Less Than Rental. Good Location 1BR Condo. Price $15,000. $3000 Down. $158 Mo. For 10 Years or $255 for 5 Years. Figures Adjusted to Meet Your Needs.

For Details Call 336-880-1771

0734

Lots & Acreage

207 Villa Ave. (Off Old Thomasville Rd) 1/2 + acre lot.

Zoned Heavy Industrial. $18,000 Firm. Call 442-1623 for information

1000 SF OFFICE The Best Deal In Town!

Good location, beautiful ground floor, good parking in front. Special price $510/mo.

Henry Shavitz Realty 882-8111 Office 615 W English 4300 sf.

Industrial 641 McWay Dr, 2500 sf.

Fowler & Fowler 883-1333

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Mobile Homes for Rent

2 bdrs available, Silver Valley/Tville area, Sm. Pets only. $325-$385/mo. No Dep. with proof of income. Police Report Req'd., Call 239-3657 Clean 2BR, 1BA, water incl.

NO Pets. $200 dep. $90 wkly.

472-8275 Mobile Home for rent Archdale & Thomasville area. Weekly or monthly. Call 883-8650

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0710

Homes for Sale

Thomasville 3BR. Just renovated. Will finance for the right Buyer. $74,900.

Call 704-807-4717

0864

Pickup Trucks for Sale

05 Chev. Suburban, 4X4, Loaded, Leather, DVD, Onstar. $19,000. 884-8737 / 882-2293 06 Chev. Silverado, 2500 HD Crew, 4X4, Loaded, Lthr, DVD. Onstar, Heated Seats, Long bed. $22,000. 884-8737 / 882-2293

0754 Commercial/Office 1,000 sq. ft retail space near new 85. Reasonable rent & terms. Phone day or night 336-625-6076.

70,000 ft. former Braxton Culler bldg. Well located. Reasonable rent. Call day or night.

336-625-6076 Almost new 10,000 sq ft bldg on Baker Road, plenty of parking. Call day or night 336-625-6076 Houses $295-$495 in High Point Area. Phone day or night 336-625-6076 1800 Sq. Ft. Davidson County Conrad Realtors 336-885-4111

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Monuments/ Cemeteries

1 Plot at Holly Hill Cemetery in the Front Sec. Will Sell Cheap!

336-491-9564 or 472-0310

1972 Chevy C20 Pickup. 350, 3spd. Long Bed. Rebuilt Motor. $1800. 880-8282 1985 GMC 2500 Pickup. 350, 4spd. With Utility Bed. Runs Good. $1000. Call 880-8282

RANSPORTATION

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Recreational Vehicles

'90 Winnebago Chiefton 29' motor home. 73,500 miles, runs good, $11,000.

336-887-2033

04 Cedar Creek Fifth Wheel. 2 slide outs. Good condition. $26,500 neg. Tow vehicle available. 336-431-4054

0820 Campers/Trailers 06 Fifth Wheel Cardinal. 30' w/2 Slideouts. Immaculate. $26,500. Must Sell. 474-0340

0824

Motor Homes

'01 Damon motorhome. 2 slides, 2 ACs, 10k, loaded.

36ft. Very good cond., $52,000. Back-up camera.

431-9891

0832

Motorcycles

00 Harley Davidson Fatboy, 1,900 miles, extras, Must See!. $11,000. 884-8737 / 882-2293 06 HD Road King. 3700 miles.

Always Garaged. $1000's of Chrome front to back. $15,500. Call 431-9473

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Sport Utility Vehicles

'88 Bronco II XLT, 4wd, well taken care of. Must See!. $3500. Call 336-431-1222 95 Toyota 4-Runner, 145K miles, Exc Cond. $5,200. Call 336-687-8204

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Vans for Sale

Ruth Elaine T. Rainey and Gary Wilbur Thornton co-Executors of the Mary Ruth Thornton Estate Schell Bray Aycock Abel & Livingston PLLC P.O. Box 21847 Greensboro, NC 27420

03 Taraus, 90K, Excellent Condition. $2,900 Call 431-6020 or 847-4635 04 Malibu Classic, Auto, Cold Air, 80K, Very Nice. $3500.

Call 431-6020 or 847-4635 06 Ford Mustang GT 22,000K Miles. $17,000 Call 336-882-0973

2008 Kia Sportage, LX, 5spd , 4cyl. Burgundy. 33K miles. $11,000. Call 336-880-5146

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Ruth Elaine T. Rainey and Gary Wilbur Thornton having qualified as Co-Executors for the Estate of Mary Ruth Thornton, Deceased, late of Guilford County, North Carolina, do hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned, at the address indicated below, on or before November 17, 2010 or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to said estate should please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

03 Cadillac STS, Silver w/Gray Int. Excellent Condition.

71,500 miles. $10,500. Call 336-687-6408

2 Plots side by side w/vaults sec. aa Floral Gardens $2100/ea plot, $800/ea vault 885-7790

4 Plots, Floral Garden Cemetery. Sec AA, Clost to Rotary Dr. Will Sell 2 or 4. $3000/ea.

Call 336-431-2459. Will Negotiate.

NOTICE OF CO-EXECUTORS TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS

Cars for Sale

2007 Impala, 68K miles. Serviced & Very Clean. $9900. Call 336-869-9417

4 Grave Plots Floral Garden.

Current value $9900. Make offer. Call 336-882-1930

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2 Burial Plots, Holly Hill Cemetery, Tville. Section SD2B, $3,500. Call 336-687-2353 or 476-0886

8000 SF Manuf $1800 168 SF Office $250 600 SF Wrhs $200 T-ville 336-561-6631 Large bar behind Home Depot on N. Main Street. Reasonable rent. Call day or night 336-625-6076.

Vans for Sale

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Large Comm. Van, '95 Dodge Van 2500, new motor & trans., 883-1849 $3000 neg

AT Quality Motors you can buy regardless. Good or bad credit. 475-2338 MAZDA 626 '95. Good car, air, new tires, trans. slips. $700 firm. Call 431-3173

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Amy H. Kincaid SCHELL BRAY AYCOCK ABEL & LIVINGSTON PLLC 230 North Elm Street Suite 1500 Greensboro, NC 27401 August 17, 24, 31 and September 7, 2010 NOTICE OF SALE Downtown Self Storage 215 N. Centennial St., High Point, NC 27260, Will sell various items of personal property at public sale, pursuant to the assertion of a prossessor lein for past due rental charges, on Monday, August 23, 2010 at 10:00am.

August 17 & 20, 2010

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NOTICE OF SALE TO SATISFY THE LIEN OF $11,008.44 ON A 2005 TOYOTA TUNDRA VIN# 5TBDT44165S494865 WITH 76,325 +/- MILES, REGISTERED TO PHYLLIS KEY WINFREY & TIMOTHY DALE WINFREY, 116 LINDSAY DR., ARCHDALE NC. VEHICLE WILL BE SOLD AS, WHERE IS (NO EXPRESS, IMPLIED gUARANTEE - NO WARRANTY) AT 11:00AM AUGUST 20, 2010 AT VANN YORK AUTO MALL BODY SHOP (LIENOR), 422 EASTCHESTER DRIVE, HIGH POINT NC.

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2003 Dodge Caravan SXT, Light Green, 72,500K. Non=Smokers Car. VGC. $7,500. Call 841-5195

NORTH CAROLINA GUILFORD COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION 09 JT 88 IN THE MATTER OF: Alfred Togba A Male Child born on or about March 19, 2009, in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina.

NOTICE OF SERVICE BYPROCESS OF PUBLICATION TO: “Manny” Or the unknown father of the above named juvenile

Tville, Hasty/Ledford Schl 3BR/2BA House. No Pets. $700/mo. 475-7323/442-7654

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Rooms for Rent

A Better Room 4U. HP within walking distance of stores, buses. 886-3210 or 883-2996 LOW Weekly Rates - a/c, phone, HBO, eff. Travel Inn Express, HP 883-6101 no sec. dep.

2BR, carpet, blinds, appli. gas heat, $500. mo. 883-4611 Leave mess.

Private extra nice. Quiet. No alochol/drugs 108 Oakwood 887-2147

2BR/1BA Home for rent. Large Fenced Back yard. $400/mo & $400/dep. Call 336-629-3388

AFFORDABLE Rooms for rent.

Call 336-491-2997

TAKE NOTICE that a Petition to Terminate Parental Rights was filed on August 2, 2010, in the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court, Juvenile Division, Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina.

You must answer this Petition within forty (40) days of August 17, 2010, exclusive of that date. You are entitled to attend any hearing affecting your rights. You are entitled to attend any hearing affecting your rights. Attorney Charlene Armstrong has been appointed to represent “Manny”, and can be reached at 336/517-2431. Upon your failure to so answer, the Petitioner will apply to the Court for the relief requested.

This the 12TH day of August 2010. ________________________ Moshera Mills, Esq. DSS Attorney P.O. Box 3388 August 17, 42 & 31, 2010

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315 S. Elm St, High Point Commercial Building for Sale $499,000

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2300 + Square Foot, 5 Bedroom, 3 Bath, Living Room, Dining Room, Eat-in Kitchen, Laundry Room, Gas Heat with a/c, completely remodeled, large backyard, $98,900

Call 336-689-5029 OPEN HOUSE

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3930 Johnson St.

398 NORTHBRIDGE DR.

Contact us at Lambâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Realty- 442-5589.

3BR, 2BA, Home, 2 car garage, Nice Paved Patio Like new $169,900 OWNER 883-9031 OPEN HOUSE MOST SAT. & SUN. 2-4

A Must See! Beautiful home set on 3 acres, New cabinets, corian countertops, hardwood, carpet, appliances, deck, roof. Home has 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, formal living room, dining room, great room. $248,900.

6 Bedrooms, Plus 3 Home OfďŹ ces Or 8 Bedrooms - 1.1 Acre â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Near Wesley Memorial Methodist â&#x20AC;&#x201C; - Emerywood area â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tell your friendsâ&#x20AC;? $259,900. Priced below Tax & appraisal values. Owner Financing

Call 336-886-4602

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HENRY SHAVITZ REALTY 882-8111

8 Unit Apartment Building Available

All Brick Exterior Built 1987. Paved Parking. Each unit 2BR, 1BA (Approx. 750 square Ft.) Electric Heat & Air Conditioning.

Many Upgrades and new appliances, ďŹ&#x201A;oor coverings, cabinets, paint. Public water & sewer (individual meters).

Convenient to public transportation and downtown.

Asking price $350,000.00.

For additional information call (336)833-6797.

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Beautifully remodeled brick home at 502 Birchwood 3bedrooms, 2 updated baths, new windows, new appliances, countertops and kitchen ďŹ&#x201A;oors. Completely remodeled, this is like new. Call for appointment. PRICE CUT $132,750.

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Quality construction beginning at $169,900! Eight Flexible ďŹ&#x201A;oorplans! - Three to seven bedrooms - 1939 square feet to 3571 square feet - Friendship/Ledford Schools - Low Davidson County Taxes - Basement lots Available. No City Taxes, No Slab, All Crawspace Construction MORE INFO @ PattersonDaniel.com Marketed Exclusively by Patterson Daniel Real Estate, Inc.

Debra Murrow, Realtor New Home Consultant 336-499-0789

2 Bedroom/ 2 Bath Condo. Excellent High Point location convenient to Winston-Salem and Greensboro. Apprx.

950 square feet.

Spacious bedrooms and closets. Garden tub in the master bath.

Tray ceilings and crown molding in the living room. Private balcony overlooking a wooded area. Includes: Refrigerator, dishwasher, stove, microwave and washer/dryer connection MOTIVATED SELLER. New Lower Price $79,900!

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189 Game Trail, Thomasville Enjoy living in a quiet, distinctive neighborhood with no through trafďŹ c.

3 BR 2.5 BA, 2300 sqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, open ďŹ&#x201A;oor plan, vaulted ceilings & lg. windows, Oak ďŹ&#x201A;oors & carpeted BRs, marble tiled bathrooms, lg. large master bath with separate shower, double ďŹ re place in master BR & LR w. gas logs, kitchen w. granite counter tops, double oven, stereo system. 2 car garage, large patio overlooking a beautiful back yard. Low taxes. $299,800 $321,000 Visit www.forsalebyowner.com/22124271 or call 336.687.3959

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Wendy Hill 475-6800

336-475-6279

Like quiet neighborhoods? ...backyard privacy? ...secluded living yet near everything? ...downsizing a priority? ...home ready to move into?

then...657 Sonoma Lane is for you!

4 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms. Large Rooms.

East Davidson Area.

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This 1343 s/f, 3br, 2ba townhome is perfectly maintained and features 9â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings w/crown mouldings, custom drapes and blinds, heat pump, gas logs and water heater, Whirlpool appliances and mature plants. Upgrades include: privacy fence, water puriďŹ er, glass enclosed sun room and brick patio. All exterior maintenance through homeowners assn. $169,900.

336-491-9564 or 336-472-0310

Call 336-869-4040 or 336-471-3900 to visit.

125 Kendall Mill Road, Thomasville

1812 Brunswick Ct. Chestnut Oaks High Point, NC TOWNHOUSE One Level w/front porch 1760 SQ Ft, 2 BR w/ walk-in closets 2 BA, Laundry RM, All Appliances, Eat-In Kitchen w/ lots of cabinets, Large Dining & Family RM w/ Fireplace & Built-In Storage & Bookcases, Private 2 Car Garage w/storage RM, Large Deck $154,900.

Located at 1002 Barbee St, High Point 4 Bedroom, 2 Bath Fireplace, New Vinyl, Completely Remodeled.

Garage & Storage. $89.900.

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Rock-solid training The Ledford cross country team worked out recently at the school. Part of the time they utilized rocks gleaned from along the drive to the stadium. Don’t miss a preview of the Panthers’ cross country team as well as tons of other area prep teams in our special section that will be inserted in Friday’s edition of The High Point Enterprise. This section features previews, schedules, photos and much, much more.

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) – The entire Steve Smith package was back Monday morning.

The three plates and up to 20 screws in his left arm?

Y o u ’ d n e v e r h a v e guessed Smith t h a t w h e n Carolina’s four-time Pro Bowl receiver made an acrobatic, leaping catch in his first practice since he broke his forearm for the second time in six months.

Determined to play in the regular-season opener?

You bet, but while Smith declared himself pain-free, he also still hates the preseason, saying, “I don’t really care if I play or if I don’t – emphasis on hopefully don’t,” when asked if he’ll play in an exhibition game.

Pirates kick off new era GREENVILLE (AP) – For a guy with precious little head coaching experience in college, Ruffin McNeill doesn’t seem rattled by taking over a program that has won two straight conference championships.

Back home at alma mater East Carolina, the folksy McNeill instead talks more about being a father figure for a bunch of adoptive sons. If anything, the guy players call “Papa Ruff” figures doing a good job at that will help ease the Pirates’ transition in a change-filled year.

“I think with kids, and with anyone, it’s ’show me’ on a daily basis,” McNeill said. “The saying is I’d rather see a sermon than hear one. I think they hear me, but then they’d rather see it and they’ve seen how I am. It’s not interview talk or media talk. I mean it. I do love them, and I want them to do well.”

McNeill, 51, knows there are high expectations after the way Skip Holtz rebuilt the program into a two-time Conference USA champion that has reached four straight bowls and beaten bigname teams like Virginia Tech and West Virginia. When Holtz left for South Florida, McNeill – who played defensive back here from 1976-79 – was eager to jump at what he called “my destination job.”

He also knows all about the program’s unique challenges, from fighting for headlines in a state dominated by Atlantic Coast Conference programs like North Carolina and N.C. State to a pe-

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East Carolina football coach Ruffin McNeill meets the press during media day in Greenville in this Aug. 7, 2010 photo. McNeill has hit the ground running in his first season at the Pirate helm. rennially challenging nonconference schedule.

“We’re able to go out there and put everything on the line for this man because he knows what he’s talking about,” linebacker Steve Spence said. “It’s a matter of trust and just having faith in what this guy’s talking about. He’s leading us in the right direction because he’s a Pirate himself.”

The more pressing challenge is working with a roster with only seven returning starters on offense and defense.

McNeill had spent the past 10 seasons as an assistant to Mike Leach at Texas Tech, then served as interim coach when Leach

was suspended and ultimately fired before the Red Raiders’ win against Michigan State in the Alamo Bowl – his only game as a collegiate head coach. He’s bringing that pass-happy spread offense as well as a defensive philosophy that’s heavy on blitzing to Greenville.

McNeill says simply he is who he is. He says what’s on his mind and doesn’t worry about being polished his words. At a recent preseason football event with area coaches, McNeill proudly told the audience, “I’m as country as a dozen eggs.”

McNeill knows he has a versatile threat in receiver Dwayne

Harris, who had seven touchdown catches, ran for five scores and returned three kickoffs for TDs. He could thrive in offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley’s attack – provided, of course, that the relatively unproven set of quarterbacks can get the ball to him.

Walk-on Brad Wornick entered training camp atop the depth chart, while Boston College and junior college transfer Dominique Davis missed spring drills when the offense was installed and is trying to catch up enough in camp to start against Tulsa on Sept. 5.

The defense, however, lost nine starters and could struggle if the offense fails to sustain drives.

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ere’s hoping that the image of Chipper Jones limping off the field in Houston will not be the final one we see of the Braves’ star third baseman, Jones suffered a season-ending knee injury last week in a game against the Astros. He tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and will need surgery. The 38-year-old superstar faces several months of intense rehab if he plans to be ready for opening day 2011.

Considering Jones stated he was considering retirement after this season prior to this severe injury, Chipper may

have played his final big-league game.

I hope that’s not the case.

I’d prefer seeing Chipper go out on his own terms instead of forced into retirement by injury.

He’s been the face of Atlanta’s franchise for a stellar career that’s spanned 17 big-league seasons – so far.

But if this is the end for Chipper, it’s been an amazing ride.

Jones sparked the Braves to 10 consecutive division titles, three National League pennants and the 1995 World Series crown.

He’s a six-time All-Star with the 1999 NL

MVP award and the 2008 NL batting title under his belt.

Statistically, Jones’ numbers speak for themselves. He’s a career .306 hitter with 436 homers, 493 doubles, 2,490 hits, 1,505 runs, 1,491 RBIs and 1,404 walks in 9,654 at-bats over 2,261 games. He sports a .405 on-base percentage and a .536 slugging percentage to go with 147 stolen bases.

There is no question Chipper will be a Hall of Famer someday.

It’s merely a matter of when.

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Former Buffalo Bills linebacker Aaron Schobel is retiring, saying he lost his hunger for playing last year.

The Bills released Schobel on Aug. 4 after nine seasons. Schobel was a two-time Pro Bowl selection and his 78 career sacks rank second in Buffalo history behind Hall of Famer Bruce Smith.

Schobel mulled his options for two weeks, and his decision to retire on Monday was first reported

by FoxSportsHouston.com. He said in a phone interview with The Associated Press that he had been leaning toward retirement since the end of last season.

“I really didn’t have a lot of fun playing last year,” Schobel said. “The passion wasn’t there, so it was time. I took as much time as I felt like I needed to make the decision, and I think I made the right one.”

Schobel, 32, lives in Columbus, Texas, about 70 miles west of Houston, and the Texans contacted Schobel about continuing his career close to home this season.

Another lure to Houston was defensive line coach Bill Kollar, who worked in Buffalo for three seasons before joining the Texans in 2009. The two are close friends, but Schobel felt retiring was still the right decision to make.

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New York Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore

W 72 72 67 62 41

L 45 46 52 55 77

Pct .615 .610 .563 .530 .347

Minnesota Chicago Detroit Cleveland Kansas City

W 68 65 57 49 49

L 50 53 60 69 69

Pct .576 .551 .487 .415 .415

Texas Los Angeles Oakland Seattle

W 67 60 57 46

L 50 59 59 72

Pct .573 .504 .491 .390

Atlanta Philadelphia New York Florida Washington

W 69 66 58 57 51

L 49 51 59 60 67

Pct .585 .564 .496 .487 .432

Cincinnati St. Louis Milwaukee Houston Chicago Pittsburgh

W 67 65 55 51 50 40

L 51 51 64 65 68 78

Pct .568 .560 .462 .440 .424 .339

San Diego San Francisco Colorado Los Angeles Arizona

W 69 67 61 60 47

L 47 52 56 59 72

Pct .595 .563 .521 .504 .395

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division GB WCGB — — 1/2 — 6 5 1/2 10 9 1/2 31 1/2 31 Central Division GB WCGB — — 3 7 10 1/2 14 1/2 19 23 19 23 West Division GB WCGB — — 8 12 1/2 9 1/2 14 21 1/2 26 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division GB WCGB — — 2 1/2 — 10 1/2 8 11 1/2 9 18 15 1/2 Central Division GB WCGB — — 1 1/2 12 1/2 12 15 14 1/2 17 16 1/2 27 26 1/2 West Division GB WCGB — — 3 1/2 — 8 1/2 5 10 1/2 7 23 1/2 20

AMERICAN LEAGUE Sunday’s Games Cleveland 9, Seattle 1 Tampa Bay 3, Baltimore 2 Detroit 13, Chicago White Sox 8 Kansas City 1, N.Y. Yankees 0 Minnesota 4, Oakland 2 Texas 7, Boston 3 Toronto 4, L.A. Angels 1 Monday’s Games Detroit at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Seattle at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay 6, Texas 4 Toronto at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Detroit (Verlander 13-7) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 15-5), 7:05 p.m.

Seattle (French 1-3) at Baltimore (Millwood 2-12), 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 11-7) at Boston (C.Buchholz 13-5), 7:10 p.m.

Texas (Tom.Hunter 9-1) at Tampa Bay (Garza 11-7), 7:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Danks 12-8) at Minnesota (S.Baker 10-9), 8:10 p.m.

Cleveland (J.Gomez 3-0) at Kansas City (Greinke 7-11), 8:10 p.m.

Toronto (Morrow 9-6) at Oakland (Braden 78), 10:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Texas at Tampa Bay, 1:10 p.m.

Toronto at Oakland, 3:35 p.m.

Detroit at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Seattle at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

——— NATIONAL LEAGUE Sunday’s Games Cincinnati 2, Florida 0

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Florida 000 100 000 — 1 Pittsburgh 200 004 10x — 7 DP—Florida 1, Pittsburgh 2. LOB—Florida 6, Pittsburgh 3. 2B—Morrison (6), N.Walker (18), G.Jones (24). HR—A.McCutchen (10).

SB—A.McCutchen (25). SF—G.Jones.

IP H R ER BB SO Florida Volstad L,6-9 5 5 5 5 2 2 Tankersley 0 2 1 1 0 0 Sanches 2 2 1 1 0 2 Nunez 1 0 0 0 0 1 Pittsburgh Ja.McDnld W,2-2 7 3 1 1 2 6 Resop 1 0 0 0 2 1 Hanrahan 1 2 0 0 0 1 Volstad pitched to 3 batters in the 6th.

Tankersley pitched to 2 batters in the 6th.

HBP—by Volstad (N.Walker).

T—2:37. A—13,396 (38,362).

Braves 4, Dodgers 3 Los Angeles ab Pdsdnk lf 3 Theriot 2b 4 Ethier rf 4 Loney 1b 4 Blake 3b 4 Kemp cf 3 JCarrll ss 4 Ausms c 3 Blngsly p 2 RJhnsn ph 1 Kuo p 0 Dotel p 0 Totals

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E—Conrad (4). DP—Los Angeles 1, Atlanta 1. LOB—Los Angeles 4, Atlanta 6. 2B—Ethier (27), J.Carroll (10), Conrad (9). 3B—Infante (1). SB—J.Carroll (10), Conrad (5). CS— Kemp (14). SF—Heyward.

IP H R ER BB SO Los Angeles Billingsley 7 5 1 1 1 8 Kuo L,3-2 H,18 11⁄3 2 3 3 1 1 Dotel BS,6-27 0 1 0 0 1 0 Atlanta Hanson 7 5 1 1 1 3 Venters 1 1 2 0 1 1 Moylan W,4-2 1 0 0 0 0 0 Dotel pitched to 2 batters in the 9th.

WP—Kuo. T—3:13. A—20,414 (49,743).

South Atlantic League Northern Division W L Pct. x-Lakewood (Phillies) 30 19 .600 Hickory (Rangers) 26 22 .542 Greensboro (Marlins) 24 25 .490 West Virginia (Pirates) 24 25 .490 Kannapolis (White Sox)23 26 .469 Delmarva (Orioles) 20 30 .400 Hagerstown (Nationals)20 30 .400 Southern Division W L Pct. Asheville (Rockies) 29 20 .592 Greenville (Red Sox) 29 20 .580 Augusta (Giants) 26 22 .542 Charleston (Yankees) 26 24 .520 Lexington (Astros) 24 25 .490 x-Savannah (Mets) 22 28 .440 Rome (Braves) 21 28 .429 x-clinched first half Monday’s Games West Virginia 5, Lexington 3, 1st game Savannah 1, Kannapolis 0, 1st game Charleston 5, Hickory 0 Augusta at Rome, 7 p.m.

Delmarva 4, Lakewood 2 Asheville 4, Greenville 3 Lexington 7, West Virginia 1, 7 innings Hagerstown 8, Greensboro 1 Savannah 9, Kannapolis 3, 2nd game Today’s Games Rome at Charleston, 7:05 p.m.

Hagerstown at Delmarva, 7:05 p.m.

Hickory at Kannapolis, 7:05 p.m.

Asheville at West Virginia, 7:05 p.m.

Augusta at Savannah, 7:05 p.m.

Greenville at Lexington, 7:05 p.m.

Greensboro at Lakewood, 7:05 p.m.

Str L-1 W-3 L-1 W-1 L-2

Home 37-20 37-24 34-23 32-26 24-34

Away 35-25 35-22 33-29 30-29 17-43

L10 8-2 3-7 4-6 3-7 3-7

Str W-4 L-2 W-2 W-1 W-1

Home 36-20 35-24 38-24 26-33 25-31

Away 32-30 30-29 19-36 23-36 24-38

L10 5-5 6-4 4-6 6-4

Str L-1 L-1 L-3 L-1

Home 39-23 33-27 34-24 29-32

Away 28-27 27-32 23-35 17-40

L10 7-3 7-3 4-6 4-6 3-7

Str W-2 W-2 L-2 L-4 W-1

Home 42-16 36-19 36-22 29-30 31-27

Away 27-33 30-32 22-37 28-30 20-40

L10 7-3 6-4 5-5 4-6 3-7 2-8

Str W-3 L-2 L-1 W-3 W-2 W-1

Home 36-26 39-20 28-31 30-31 27-32 27-30

Away 31-25 26-31 27-33 21-34 23-36 13-48

L10 7-3 5-5 5-5 4-6 6-4

Str W-1 L-1 W-1 L-2 L-1

Home 36-22 37-23 38-20 36-24 28-32

Away 33-25 30-29 23-36 24-35 19-40

Monday’s Games Pittsburgh 7, Florida 1 Atlanta 4, L.A. Dodgers 3 N.Y. Mets at Houston, 8:05 p.m.

San Diego at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Florida (Nolasco 13-8) at Pittsburgh (Duke 511), 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Zito 8-6) at Philadelphia (Oswalt 7-13), 7:05 p.m.

Washington (Olsen 3-4) at Atlanta (Minor 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (J.Santana 10-6) at Houston (Figueroa 3-1), 8:05 p.m.

San Diego (Garland 11-8) at Chicago Cubs (R.Wells 5-10), 8:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Bush 5-10) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 10-5), 8:15 p.m.

Cincinnati (Arroyo 12-7) at Arizona (D.Hudson 3-0), 9:40 p.m.

Colorado (J.Chacin 5-8) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 10-7), 10:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

San Diego at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

Florida at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Houston, 8:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

Carolina League

Texas 000 000 220 — 4 Tampa Bay 000 020 04x — 6 DP—Tampa Bay 3. LOB—Texas 7, Tampa Bay 5. 2B—B.Molina (3), Dav.Murphy (17), B.Upton (30). 3B—J.Arias (1), Cantu (1).

CS—Andrus 2 (14). S—Zobrist.

IP H R ER BB SO Texas Cl.Lee L,10-6 72⁄3 9 6 6 1 10 1 Ogando ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Tampa Bay Price 6 5 2 2 5 8 Qualls BS,1-1 1 2 1 1 1 0 Choate 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 Wheeler ⁄3 2 1 1 0 0 1 Cormier W,4-3 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 R.Sriano S,34-36 1 0 0 0 0 2 Price pitched to 2 batters in the 7th.

Qualls pitched to 1 batter in the 8th.

Choate pitched to 1 batter in the 8th.

T—3:02. A—18,319 (36,973).

Florida

L10 5-5 5-5 5-5 6-4 6-4

Washington 5, Arizona 3 Atlanta 13, L.A. Dodgers 1 Houston 8, Pittsburgh 2 Chicago Cubs 9, St. Louis 7 Colorado 6, Milwaukee 5 San Diego 8, San Francisco 2 Philadelphia 3, N.Y. Mets 1

Rays 6, Rangers 4 Texas

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GB — 1 3 ⁄2 6 6 7 101⁄2 101⁄2 GB — — 1 21⁄2 3 ⁄2 5 1 7 ⁄2 8

Northern Division W L Pct. GB Potomac (Nationals) 28 20 .583 — Wilmington (Royals) 27 22 .551 11⁄2 x-Frederick (Orioles) 24 26 .480 5 Lynchburg (Reds) 22 26 .458 6 Southern Division W L Pct. GB Salem (Red Sox) 24 24 .500 — 1 Myrtle Beach (Bravs) 25 26 .490 ⁄2 1 x-Win-Salem (WhSx) 24 25 .490 ⁄2 Kinston (Indians) 22 27 .449 21⁄2 x-clinched first half Monday’s Games Wilmington 8, Frederick 4, 11 innings Kinston 2, Potomac 1 Salem 4, Winston-Salem 3 Myrtle Beach 7, Lynchburg 4 Today’s Games Potomac at Kinston, 6 p.m., 1st game Wilmington at Frederick, 7 p.m.

Salem at Winston-Salem, 7 p.m.

Myrtle Beach at Lynchburg, 7:05 p.m.

Potomac at Kinston, 7:35 p.m., 2nd game

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World Golf Ranking

Through Aug. 15 1. Tiger Woods USA 9.57 2. Phil Mickelson USA 9.08 3. Lee Westwood Eng 8.87 4. Steve Stricker USA 7.37 5. Martin Kaymer Ger 6.70 6. Jim Furyk USA 6.69 7. Rory McIlroy NIr 5.98 8. Ernie Els SAf 5.64 9. Paul Casey Eng 5.60 10. Luke Donald Eng 5.32 11. Ian Poulter Eng 5.03 12. Hunter Mahan USA 4.84 13. Graeme McDowell NIr 4.82 14. Anthony Kim USA 4.61 15. Zach Johnson USA 4.44 16. Retief Goosen SAf 4.34 17. Robert Allenby Aus 4.18 18. Padraig Harrington Irl 4.16 19. Louis Oosthuizen SAf 4.11 20. Sean O’Hair USA 3.98 21. Edoardo Molinari Ita 3.89 22. Matt Kuchar USA 3.88 23. Justin Rose Eng 3.88 24. Dustin Johnson USA 3.87 25. Camilo Villegas Col 3.74 26. Bubba Watson USA 3.74 27. Tim Clark SAf 3.72 28. Ross Fisher Eng 3.70 29. Robert Karlsson Swe 3.55 30. Henrik Stenson Swe 3.53 31. Nick Watney USA 3.53 32. Charl Schwartzel SAf 3.48 33. Lucas Glover USA 3.47 34. Rickie Fowler USA 3.37 35. Y.E. Yang Kor 3.35 36. Geoff Ogilvy Aus 3.27 37. Stewart Cink USA 3.22 38. Francesco Molinari Ita 3.19 39. Miguel A. Jimenez Esp 3.16 40. Bo Van Pelt USA 2.97 41. Kenny Perry USA 2.96 42. Angel Cabrera Arg 2.94 43. Alvaro Quiros Esp 2.86 44. Ryan Moore USA 2.86 45. Adam Scott Aus 2.83 46. Jeff Overton USA 2.80 47. Ben Crane USA 2.77 48. K.J. Choi Kor 2.69 49. Peter Hanson Swe 2.66 50. Scott Verplank USA 2.53 51. Sergio Garcia Esp 2.47 52. Rhys Davies Wal 2.46 53. J.B. Holmes USA 2.44 54. Ryo Ishikawa Jpn 2.36 55. Jason Day Aus 2.27 56. Kevin Na USA 2.21 57. Yuta Ikeda Jpn 2.17 58. Heath Slocum USA 2.14 59. Thongchai Jaidee Tha 2.11 60. Liang Wen-Chong Chn 2.10 61. Ricky Barnes USA 2.08 62. Ryan Palmer USA 2.07 63. Oliver Wilson Eng 2.06 64. Bryce Molder USA 2.04 65. Kim Kyung-Tae Kor 2.01 66. Jason Dufner USA 2.00 67. Brian Gay USA 1.99 68. Michael Sim Aus 1.99 69. Hiroyuki Fujita Jpn 1.94 70. Simon Dyson Eng 1.91 71. David Toms USA 1.90 72. Stephen Marino USA 1.87 73. Tetsuji Hiratsuka Jpn 1.86 74. F. Andersson Hed Swe 1.85 75. Soren Kjeldsen Den 1.85

Four earn sports in Wyndham GREENSBORO – The 2010 PGA Tour Wyndham Championship qualifying event was Monday at Forest Oaks Country Club. The following golfers shot a five-under-par 67 to tie for first place and claim the last four spots for this week’s Wyndham Championship: Eric Shriver, Durham Jerry Richardson, Cary Brian Duncan, Mount Pleasant, S. C. Arjun Atwal, Windermere, Fla.

2010 Ryder Cup points At The Celtic Manor Resort Newport, Wales Oct. 1-3, 2010 United States Final x-clinched berth 1. x-Phil Mickelson 6,095.06300 2. x-Hunter Mahan 4,095.62080 3. x-Bubba Watson 3,894.31884 4. x-Jim Furyk 3,763.64283 5. x-Steve Stricker 3,697.97509 6. x-Dustin Johnson 3,573.80511 7. x-Jeff Overton 3,533.14783 8. x-Matt Kuchar 3,415.85287 9. Anthony Kim 3,274.68428 10. Lucas Glover 3,052.87453 11. Zach Johnson 3,051.89647 12. Tiger Woods 2,902.58100 13. Bo Van Pelt 2,662.23400 14. Stewart Cink 2,644.83281 15. Ben Crane 2,629.79637 Europe Through Aug. 15 World Points 1. Lee Westwood (Eng) 422.01 2. Rory McIlroy (NIr) 316.95 3. Martin Kaymer (Ger) 285.42 4. Graeme McDowell (NIr) 249.35 5. Luke Donald (Eng) 231.16 6. Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 218.41 7. Ian Poulter (Eng) 211.24 8. Padraig Harrington (Irl) 204.97 9. Justin Rose (Eng) 195.74 10. Francesco Molinari (Ita) 172.51 European Points 1 Lee Westwood (Eng) 3 446 137 87

FORMAT: Throw out all par 5’s and subtract one-half handicap WINNERS: Louise Joyce won with 55 OF NOTE: Beth Smith birdied Nos. 7 and 10 Jacksonville Tennessee

TRIVIA QUESTION

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Q. Which man captured the Masters and the U.S. Open golf titles in 1941?

2. Martin Kaymer (Ger) 2,638,282.58 3. Rory McIlroy (NIr) 2,368,205.11 4. Graeme McDowell (NIr) 2,307,041.47 5. Ian Poulter (Eng) 2,238,874.06 6. Ross Fisher (Eng) 1,708,614.67 7. Francesco Molinari (Ita) 1,612,747.78 8. Miguel Angel Jimenez (Esp) 1,499,775.38 9. Paul Casey (Eng) 1,487,776.86 10. Padraig Harrington (Irl) 1,486,529.63

5th Carolinas Pro-Junior Old North State Club, New London Monday Final Results Andrew Decker of Greenville teamed with golf professional Mike Cato of Winterville to win the 5th Carolinas Pro-Junior at the Old North State Club. Decker, a rising high school senior, lost in a playoff two weeks ago in the Dogwood State Junior Championship.

Decker and Cato played the 6,684 yard par 72 in a tournament record round of nine under par 63. Playing in a modified alternate shot format, Decker and Cato recorded an eagle, eight birdies and a lone bogey to win by three shots over 2009 champions Luke Smith and Chad Cox, both of Charlotte. Jack Fleissner of Hickory and Ben Dietrich of Conover finished in third place. Local golfers Ben Miller and Davis Womble tied for fifth at 34-33–67.

Adam Bowles of Winston Salem and Camden Weis of High Point tied for 23rd at 33-38–71.

PGA Tour FedExCup leaders Through Aug. 15 Rank Name Pts Money 1. Ernie Els 1,846 $4,097,761 2. Steve Stricker 1,697 $3,192,735 3. Jim Furyk 1,691 $3,308,872 4. Phil Mickelson 1,629 $3,409,233 5. Justin Rose 1,593 $3,241,081 6. Jeff Overton 1,536 $3,301,181 7. Hunter Mahan 1,528 $3,283,479 8. Bubba Watson 1,498 $2,954,761 9. Matt Kuchar 1,437 $2,894,798 10. Tim Clark 1,409 $3,101,881 11. Dustin Johnson 1,362 $2,767,397 12. Ben Crane 1,304 $2,513,750 13. Bo Van Pelt 1,272 $2,554,508 14. Anthony Kim 1,216 $2,554,896 15. Camilo Villegas 1,213 $2,615,598 16. Zach Johnson 1,191 $2,384,868 17. Robert Allenby 1,169 $2,519,867 18. J.B. Holmes 1,153 $2,172,438 19. Rickie Fowler 1,147 $2,250,256 20. Carl Pettersson 1,142 $1,876,573 21. Rory McIlroy 1,101 $2,469,905 22. Luke Donald 1,089 $2,145,984 23. Ryan Palmer 1,071 $2,239,245 24. Retief Goosen 1,068 $2,315,839 25. Br. de Jonge 1,035 $1,843,144 26. Paul Casey 992 $2,257,194 27. Jason Day 988 $1,916,639 28. Bill Haas 984 $1,648,820 29. Nick Watney 984 $1,868,817 30. Stuart Appleby 957 $1,904,162 31. Ricky Barnes 947 $1,761,842 32. Adam Scott 940 $1,772,402 33. Jason Bohn 926 $1,817,241 34. K.J. Choi 922 $1,572,912 35. Ryan Moore 893 $1,791,323 36. Sean O’Hair 858 $1,748,438 37. Vaughn Taylor 824 $1,521,393 38. Geoff Ogilvy 815 $1,593,795 39. Scott Verplank 786 $1,622,665 40. Brian Davis 781 $1,490,842 41. Fredrik Jacobson 768 $1,432,327 42. Kevin Na 756 $1,374,056 43. Bryce Molder 748 $1,353,083 44. Charles Howell III 746 $1,116,746 45. Brandt Snedeker 735 $1,153,140 46. Ian Poulter 733 $1,793,864 47. Heath Slocum 722 $1,408,427 48. Brian Gay 714 $1,269,008 49. Marc Leishman 690 $1,205,981 50. Charlie Wi 690 $1,140,230 51. Y.E. Yang 678 $1,246,521 52. Stewart Cink 678 $1,213,151 53. Pad Harrington 662 $1,361,623 54. Lucas Glover 653 $1,324,750 55. Matt Jones 647 $1,115,911 56. Steve Marino 635 $1,259,363 57. Spencer Levin 633 $727,564 58. Rory Sabbatini 618 $1,172,988 59. Paul Goydos 597 $1,059,092 60. Shaun Micheel 595 $973,560 61. Vijay Singh 588 $1,032,464 62. Jason Dufner 583 $971,987 63. Steve Elkington 571 $938,494 64. J.J. Henry 564 $995,780 65. Greg Chalmers 558 $839,350 66. Kenny Perry 555 $953,661 67. Jimmy Walker 554 $920,399 68. Kris Blanks 553 $1,008,949 69. D.J. Trahan 551 $1,088,296 70. Chad Campbell 551 $805,894 71. Stephen Ames 548 $849,393 72. Charley Hoffman 546 $840,700 73. D.A. Points 544 $935,823 74. Pat Perez 534 $790,317 75. Angel Cabrera 524 $1,033,115 76. Boo Weekley 513 $844,706 77. Blake Adams 510 $918,468 78. Tom Gillis 505 $740,320 79. John Rollins 500 $834,386 80. Alex Prugh 500 $798,901 81. Kevin Sutherland 499 $699,732 82. Alex Cejka 489 $904,253 83. Derek Lamely 486 $939,233 84. Davis Love III 475 $1,049,517 85. Tim Petrovic 474 $739,064 86. Matt Bettencourt 472 $836,176 87. Chad Collins 472 $747,805 88. Chris Couch 472 $813,146 89. Aaron Baddeley 468 $660,584 90. John Senden 467 $536,663 91. Jeff Maggert 463 $783,354 92. Sergio Garcia 461 $936,845 93. Garrett Willis 460 $759,173 94. Jerry Kelly 459 $866,284 95. Joe Ogilvie 454 $631,128 96. Josh Teater 453 $813,992 97. Bill Lunde 449 $1,044,734 98. David Toms 448 $622,598 99. John Merrick 446 $573,630 100. Ryuji Imada 445 $686,997 101. Martin Laird 443 $727,557 102. Michael Sim 440 $853,663 103. J.P. Hayes 439 $767,548 104. Briny Baird 437 $666,530 105. Chris Riley 434 $786,322 105. Dean Wilson 434 $678,030 107. Corey Pavin 433 $839,193 108. Tiger Woods 431 $872,086 109. Justin Leonard 422 $602,704 110. Ben Curtis 416 $732,537 111. Nathan Green 414 $553,780 112. Cam Beckman 414 $989,316 113. Troy Matteson 412 $664,521 114. Kevin Streelman 412 $644,227 115. David Duval 404 $745,247 116. Webb Simpson 401 $493,397 117. Kevin Stadler 394 $750,801 118. Woody Austin 394 $668,072 119. Graham DeLaet 393 $589,240 120. Bob Estes 391 $650,903 121. Jonathan Byrd 381 $546,877 122. Robert Garrigus 381 $690,239 123. Andres Romero 377 $721,135 124. Chris Stroud 369 $611,069 125. Michael Letzig 366 $452,374 126. Mike Weir 360 $559,092 127. Jeff Quinney 344 $415,480 128. George McNeill 338 $518,293 129. Brett Quigley 336 $399,822 130. Tom Pernice, Jr. 331 $512,411 131. James Nitties 331 $474,496 132. Matt Every 322 $438,517 133. Henrik Stenson 321 $662,070 134. Mark Wilson 316 $513,491 135. Billy Mayfair 314 $622,831 136. Michael Connell 313 $481,562 137. Troy Merritt 311 $656,348 138. Aron Price 310 $529,555 139. Michael Bradley 306 $352,245 140. Scott Piercy 303 $443,403 141. James Driscoll 300 $417,672 142. Scott McCarron 296 $499,820 143. Chris DiMarco 285 $333,648 144. Nich Thompson 284 $510,648 145. Paul Stankowski 283 $487,421 146. Lee Janzen 280 $517,526 147. Jay Williamson 279 $385,808 148. Rod Pampling 275 $299,264 149. Rich S. Johnson 275 $500,098 150. Steve Flesch 272 $421,905

PGA Tour schedule-winners Jan. 7-10 — SBS Championship (Geoff Ogilvy) Jan. 14-17 — Sony Open in Hawaii (Ryan Palmer) Jan. 20-24 — Bob Hope Classic (Bill Haas) Jan. 28-31 — Farmers Insurance Open (Ben Crane)

Feb. 4-7 — Northern Trust Open (Steve Stricker) Feb. 11-14 — AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am (Dustin Johnson) Feb. 17-21 — WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship (Ian Poulter) Feb. 18-21 — Mayakoba Classic at Riviera Maya-Cancun (Cameron Beckman) Feb. 25-28 — Waste Management Phoenix Open (Hunter Mahan) March 4-7 — Honda Classic (Camilo Villegas) March 11-14 — WGC-CA Championship (Ernie Els) March 11-14 — Puerto Rico Open (Derek Lamely) March 18-21 — Transitions Championship (Jim Furyk) March 25-29 — Arnold Palmer Invitational (Ernie Els) April 1-4 — Shell Houston Open (Anthony Kim) April 8-11 — The Masters (Phil Mickelson) April 15-18 — Verizon Heritage (Jim Furyk) April 22-25 — Zurich Classic of New Orleans (Jason Bohn) April 29-May 2 — Quail Hollow Championship (Rory McIlroy) May 6-9 — THE PLAYERS Championship (Tim Clark) May 13-16 — Valero Texas Open (Adam Scott) May 20-23 — HP Byron Nelson Championship (Jason Day) May 27-30 — Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial (Zach Johnson) June 3-6 — the Memorial Tournament (Justin Rose) June 10-13 — St. Jude Classic (Lee Westwood) June 17-20 — U.S. Open Championship (Graeme McDowell) June 24-27 — Travelers Championship (Bubba Watson) July 1-4 — AT&T National (Justin Rose) July 8-11 — John Deere Classic (Steve Stricker) July 15-18 — The Open Championship (Louis Oosthuizen) July 15-18 — Reno-Tahoe Open (Matt Bettencourt) July 22-25 — RBC Canadian Open (Carl Pettersson) July 29-Aug. 1 — The Greenbrier Classic (Stuart Appleby) Aug. 5-8 — WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (Hunter Mahan) Aug. 5-8 — Turning Stone Resort Championship (Bill Lunde) Aug. 12-15 — PGA Championship (Martin Kaymer) Aug. 19-22 — Wyndham Championship, Greensboro, N.C. Aug. 26-29 — The Barclays, Paramus, N.J. Sept. 3-6 — Deutsche Bank Championship, Norton, Mass.

Sept. 9-12 — BMW Championship, Lemont, Ill. Sept. 23-26 — THE TOUR Championship, Atlanta Sept. 30-Oct. 3 — Viking Classic, Madison, Miss.

Oct. 1-3 — Ryder Cup, Newport, Wales Oct. 7-10 — McGladrey Classic, St. Simons Island, Ga. Oct. 14-17 — Frys.com Open, San Martin, Calif.

Oct. 21-24 — Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals Open, Las Vegas Nov. 11-14 — Children’s Miracle Network Classic, Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

PGA Tour statistics Through Aug. 15 Scoring Average 1, Ernie Els, 69.68. 2, Matt Kuchar, 69.71.

3, Steve Stricker, 69.75. 4, Justin Rose, 69.78. 5, J.B. Holmes, 69.84. 6, Retief Goosen, 69.85. 7, Phil Mickelson, 69.88. 8, Jim Furyk, 69.89. 9 (tie), Shaun Micheel and Bo Van Pelt, 69.94.

Driving Distance 1, Robert Garrigus, 318.2. 2, Bubba Watson, 309.0. 3, Dustin Johnson, 307.7. 4, J.B. Holmes, 307.3. 5, Graham DeLaet, 306.9.

6, Brett Wetterich, 306.2. 7, Angel Cabrera, 304.5. 8, John Daly, 304.2. 9, Charles Warren, 302.6. 10, Phil Mickelson, 300.8.

Driving Accuracy Percentage 1, Omar Uresti, 75.70%. 2, Joe Durant, 74.82%. 3, Brian Gay, 73.97%. 4, Craig Bowden, 73.13%. 5, Tim Clark, 72.94%.

6, Zach Johnson, 71.68%. 7, Ben Crane, 71.38%. 8, David Toms, 71.35%. 9, Heath Slocum, 71.33%. 10, Skip Kendall, 70.94%.

Greens in Regulation Pct. 1, Kevin Sutherland, 71.67%. 2, John Senden, 70.70%. 3, Troy Matteson, 70.65%.

4, Kris Blanks, 70.28%. 5, Brendon de Jonge, 70.24%. 6, Matt Kuchar, 70.22%. 7, Adam Scott, 70.09%. 8, Rickie Fowler, 70.05%. 9, John Merrick, 69.97%. 10, Tom Pernice, Jr., 69.95%.

Total Driving 1, Hunter Mahan, 87. 2, Kenny Perry, 89.

3, Mathias Gronberg, 93. 4, Charles Warren, 98. 5, John Rollins, 101. 6, John Merrick, 102.

7, Chris Couch, 103. 8, Graham DeLaet, 105.

9, J.J. Henry, 106. 10, Joe Durant, 107.

Putting Average 1, Brandt Snedeker, 1.713. 2, J.P. Hayes, 1.715. 3, Carl Pettersson, 1.723. 4 (tie), Steve Stricker, Paul Stankowski and Matt Bettencourt, 1.736. 7, Shaun Micheel, 1.738. 8 (tie), Chris Couch and Aaron Baddeley, 1.742. 10, Matt Jones, 1.743.

Birdie Average 1, Bubba Watson, 4.15. 2, Paul Stankowski, 4.05. 3 (tie), Steve Stricker and Chris Couch, 4.04. 5 (tie), Tom Gillis and Nick Watney, 4.00. 7, Bo Van Pelt, 3.96. 8 (tie), Phil Mickelson, Rory Sabbatini and Kevin Streelman, 3.95.

Eagles (Holes per) 1 (tie), Harrison Frazar and Dustin Johnson, 79.2. 3, Matt Bettencourt, 86.6. 4 , Adam Scott, 93.6. 5, John Daly, 98.0. 6, Bubba Watson, 99.8. 7, Paul Casey, 108.0. 8, Martin Laird, 109.6. 9 (tie), Phil Mickelson and Scott Piercy, 111.6.

Sand Save Percentage 1, Luke Donald, 69.05%. 2, Carl Pettersson, 66.41%. 3, Mark Wilson, 61.90%. 4, Trevor Immelman, 61.64%. 5, Greg Chalmers, 61.39%. 6, Mathias Gronberg, 61.02%.

7, Chad Collins, 60.33%. 8, Ryuji Imada, 60.19%. 9, K.J. Choi, 59.57%. 10, Brandt Snedeker, 59.52%.

All-Around Ranking 1, Matt Kuchar, 264. 2, Ben Crane, 331. 3, Robert Allenby, 356. 4, Bubba Watson , 357.

5, Chris Couch, 359. 6, Steve Stricker, 360. 7, Brendon de Jonge, 377. 8 , Jeff Overton, 397.

9 (tie), Charley Hoffman and K.J. Choi, 404.

PGA TOUR Official Money Leaders 1, Ernie Els (16), $4,097,761. 2, Phil Mickelson (16), $3,409,233. 3, Jim Furyk (18), $3,308,872. 4, Jeff Overton (22), $3,301,181.

5, Hunter Mahan (20), $3,283,479. 6, Justin Rose (18), $3,241,081. 7, Steve Stricker (15), $3,192,735. 8, Tim Clark (19), $3,101,881.

9, Bubba Watson (18), $2,954,761. 10, Matt Kuchar (21), $2,894,798.

Champions Tour Charles Schwab Cup leaders Through Aug. 8 Points Money 2,390 $1,726,795 1,993 $1,607,092 1,134 $859,335 1,079 $1,080,852 960 $919,563 798 $732,541 790 $685,938 747 $949,902 713 $778,613 631 $608,901 600 $627,251 588 $651,957 576 $830,981 480 $585,192 446 $505,875 446 $469,978 441 $536,781 409 $443,741 396 $476,585 388 $466,614 379 $267,796 372 $448,141 338 $380,248 277 $403,759 241 $391,607 240 $440,892 240 $400,864 228 $184,408 215 $296,146 211 $353,578 197 $330,949 167 $182,650

1. Bernhard Langer 2. Fred Couples 3. Tom Lehman 4. Nick Price 5. John Cook 6. David Frost 7. Corey Pavin 8. Dan Forsman 9. Tommy Armour III 10. Tom Watson 11. Mark O’Meara 12. Larry Mize 13. Loren Roberts 14. Peter Senior 15. Joey Sindelar 15. Chien Soon Lu 17. Russ Cochran 18. Fred Funk 19. Olin Browne 20. Tom Kite 21. Jay Don Blake 22. David Peoples 23. Michael Allen 24. Jay Haas 25. Mike Reid 26. Jeff Sluman 26. David Eger 28. Bill Glasson 29. M. Calcavecchia 30. Ronnie Black 31. Brad Bryant 32. Tom Pernice, Jr.

33. Mike Goodes 34. Keith Fergus 35. Hale Irwin 36. Joe Ozaki 37. Scott Hoch 38. Trevor Dodds 39. Bob Tway 40. Andy Bean 41. Robin Freeman 41. Andy Oldcorn 43. Mark Wiebe 44. Gene Jones 44. Wayne Levi 46. Don Pooley 47. Hal Sutton 48. James Mason 49. Ian Woosnam 50. Mark James 51. Phil Blackmar 51. Bobby Clampett 53. Kirk Hanefeld 54. Bob Gilder 54. Tim Simpson

161 145 143 136 115 114 113 111 108 108 106 102 102 99 93 90 86 79 75 75 67 66 66

$403,105 $314,595 $258,599 $302,526 $115,200 $109,052 $285,096 $241,831 $89,840 $54,000 $245,009 $204,112 $191,576 $193,646 $228,692 $174,432 $52,500 $173,612 $173,591 $155,891 $137,308 $239,972 $197,692

TRANSACTIONS

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BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Placed RHP Jason Berken on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Rick Vandenhurk from Norfolk (IL).

CLEVELAND INDIANS—Agreed to terms with RHP Kyle Blair and C Alex Lavisky.

DETROIT TIGERS—Recalled LHP Daniel Schlereth from Toledo (IL). Optioned OF Jeff Frazier to Toledo (IL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Agreed to terms with OF Brett Eibner and RHP Jason Adam. Assigned Eibner to Idaho Falls (Pioneer) and Adam to Surprise (Arizona).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Agreed to terms with INF Kaleb Cowart.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Activated OF Conor Jackson from the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Travis Buck from Sacramento (PCL). Optioned INF Jeff Larish and OF Chris Carter to Sacramento.

TAMPA BAY RAYS—Reinstated 1B Carlos Pena from the 15-day DL. Placed OF Gabe Kapler on the 15-day DL. TEXAS RANGERS—Placed OF Nelson Cruz on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Aug. 15.

Activated INF Joaquin Arias from the 15-day DL. Named Jay Miller senior vice president, effective Aug. 30. Agreed to terms with RHP Justin Grimm and RHP Luke Jackson .

TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Agreed to terms with LHP Zak Adams and RHP Myles Jaye.

National League COLORADO ROCKIES—Agreed to terms with RHP Peter Tago.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Signed SS Drew Maggi, RHP Stetson Allie and 1B Jared Lakind.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS—Signed OF Gary Brown and OF Jarrett Parker.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Agreed to terms with RHP A.J. Cole, LHP Sammy Solis and LHP Robbie Ray. Midwest League QUAD CITIES RIVER BANDITS—Announced RHP LaCurtis Mayes has been transferred from Batavia (NYP).

American Association WICHITA WINGNUTS—Signed C John C. Martin.

Can-Am League BROCKTON ROX—Signed LHP Bill Lee. SUSSEX SKYHAWKS—Released RHP William Hassett and RHP Jimmer Kennedy.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS—Signed 1B Jonathan Waltenbury. Released 1B Corey O’Neill.

FLORENCE FREEDOM—Released INF Maxwell Moya and OF Andrew Passerelle.

GATEWAY GRIZZLIES—Traded RHP Eric Blackwell to Traverse City and INF Tyler Rogers to Oakland County for players to be named. Signed RHP Adrian Garza.

KALAMAZOO KINGS—Placed C Jett Ruiz on the suspended list. Signed C Kent Wright.

Traded RHP Josh Whitlock to Gateway for a player to be named.

LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS—Signed INF Jake Krause. Released 1B Adam Amar.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS—Placed INF Jacob Dempsey on the retired list.

United League AMARILLO DILLAS—Acquired C Kevin Butler from Coastal Bend for a player to be named.

LAREDO BRONCOS—Signed DH Jose Canseco.

SAN ANGELO COLTS—Placed C Trey Carter on the inactive list. Activated RHP Caleb Rodgers. Signed C Mike Horn and placed him on the inactive list.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CLEVELAND CAVALIERS—Signed F Samardo Samuels.

DETROIT PISTONS—Signed G-F Tracy McGrady to a one-year contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL—LB Aaron Schobel announced his retirement.

BUFFALO BILLS—Signed RB Andre Anderson and WR Aaron Rhea. Placed LB Ryan Manalac on the waived/injured list.

CAROLINA PANTHERS—Activated WR Steve Smith from the physically-unable-toperform list.

CLEVELAND BROWNS—Signed WR Taurus Johnson. Placed WR Johnathan Haggerty on the waived/injured list.

DETROIT LIONS—Signed LB Lee Campbell.

HOUSTON TEXANS—Placed DE Tim Bulman on injured reserve. Signed DE James Wyche.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS—Signed RB Brian Westbrook. Traded DT Kentwan Balmer to Seattle for an undisclosed 2011 draft pick.

ST. LOUIS RAMS—Signed CB Marcus Brown. Released K Sean Suisham.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS—Re-signed D Nick Boynton to a one-year contract.

PHOENIX COYOTES—Named Jim Brewer vice president of marketing and communications.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Named Al Murray director of amateur scouting. Acquired G Cedrick Desjardins from Montreal for G Karri Ramo.

American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS—Announced the resignation of medical therapist Rob Snitzer.

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE—Signed G Joe Fallon.

LACROSSENational Lacrosse League CALGARY ROUGHNECKS—Signed D Bruce Codd to a one-year contract and G Kurtis Wagar to a two-year contract.

SOCCER Major League Soccer SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES—Signed M Geovanni.

COLLEGE SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE—Named Shannon Sieg communications/media services intern.

COLGATE—Named Fernando Canales men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach.

DELAWARE—Named David Boler tight ends coach.

FLORIDA—Announced S Jordan Haden has left the football team and intends to transfer.

GOUCHER—Named Jeremy Field assistant sports information director and Catie Ditmore and Jamie Leventry assistant volleyball coaches.

LA SALLE—Named Jessica Bonkoski compliance assistant and Krista Hutz athletic communications assistant.

PENNSYLVANIA—Named Jack Wyant squash coach.

PEPPERDINE—Named Kristen Dowling and David Johnson women’s assistant basketball coaches.

FOOTBALL

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NFL preseason

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Miami 1 0 0 1.00010 New England 1 0 0 1.00027 N.Y. Jets 0 0 0 .000 0 Buffalo 0 1 0 .000 17 South W L T Pct PF Houston 0 1 0 .000 16 Indianapolis 0 1 0 .000 17

PA 7 24 0 42 PA 19 37

0 1 0 .000 27 0 1 0 .000 18 North W L T Pct PF Baltimore 1 0 0 1.00017 Cleveland 1 0 0 1.00027 Pittsburgh 1 0 0 1.00023 Cincinnati 1 1 0 .500 40 West W L T Pct PF Oakland 1 0 0 1.00017 San Diego 1 0 0 1.00025 Denver 0 1 0 .000 24 Kansas City 0 1 0 .000 10 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Philadelphia 1 0 0 1.00028 Washington 1 0 0 1.00042 Dallas 1 1 0 .500 25 N.Y. Giants 0 0 0 .000 0 South W L T Pct PF Atlanta 1 0 0 1.00020 Carolina 0 1 0 .000 12 New Orleans 0 1 0 .000 24 Tampa Bay 0 1 0 .000 7 North W L T Pct PF Minnesota 1 0 0 1.00028 Chicago 0 1 0 .000 10 Detroit 0 1 0 .000 7 Green Bay 0 1 0 .000 24 West W L T Pct PF Arizona 1 0 0 1.00019 San Francisco 1 0 0 1.00037 Seattle 1 0 0 1.00020 St. Louis 0 1 0 .000 7 Sunday’s Games San Francisco 37, Indianapolis 17 Cincinnati 33, Denver 24 Monday’s Game N.Y. Giants at N.Y. Jets, late Thursday’s games Indianapolis at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.

New England at Atlanta, 8 p.m.

Friday’s game Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s games Baltimore at Washington, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at N.Y. Giants, 7 p.m.

Miami at Jacksonville, 7:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m.

Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Carolina, 8 p.m.

Houston at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Oakland at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Dallas at San Diego, 9 p.m.

Detroit at Denver, 9 p.m.

Green Bay at Seattle, 10 p.m.

Sunday’s game Minnesota at San Francisco, 8 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 23 Arizona at Tennessee, 8 p.m.

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49ers trade Balmer to Seahawks SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Defensive lineman Kentwan Balmer was traded to the Seattle Seahawks on Monday after a mysterious absence from the San Francisco 49ers over the past week.

Both teams confirmed the swap Monday and the Seahawks say they will send an undisclosed 2011 draft pick to the Niners. Balmer left the 49ers last Monday for what coach Mike Singletary called personal reasons.

Balmer, the team’s first-round draft pick in 2008 out of North Carolina, missed his fifth straight practice Friday before the team traveled to Indianapolis for its exhibition opener against the Colts. Balmer’s absences had been unexcused since Wednesday. Balmer met Wednesday night with Singletary, but still was a no-show at training camp.

The 23-year-old Balmer is entering the third year of an $8 million, five-year deal he signed as a rookie. He has yet to start a game and has recorded no sacks in his first two NFL seasons. He has 11 career solo tackles and has combined on eight others in 27 games.

MOTORSPORTS

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NASCAR Sprint Cup leaders

Through Aug. 15 Points 1, Kevin Harvick, 3,400. 2, Jeff Gordon, 3,107. 3, Denny Hamlin, 3,047. 4, Tony Stewart, 3,020. 5, Jimmie Johnson, 3,014. 6, Carl Edwards, 2,986. 7, Jeff Burton, 2,986. 8, Kyle Busch, 2,975. 9, Matt Kenseth, 2,961. 10, Kurt Busch, 2,935.

11, Greg Biffle, 2,913. 12, Clint Bowyer, 2,755. 13, Mark Martin, 2,720. 14, Ryan Newman, 2,652. 15, Jamie McMurray, 2,650. 16, Kasey Kahne, 2,629. 17, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 2,626. 18, David Reutimann, 2,590. 19, Juan Pablo Montoya, 2,582. 20, Martin Truex Jr., 2,548.

Money 1, Kurt Busch, $5,040,741. 2, Jamie McMurray, $5,031,514. 3, Jimmie Johnson, $4,793,777. 4, Kevin Harvick, $4,782,698.

5, Kyle Busch, $4,159,035. 6, Jeff Gordon, $3,971,520. 7, Denny Hamlin, $3,846,058. 8, Tony Stewart, $3,674,976. 9, Matt Kenseth, $3,673,945. 10, Kasey Kahne, $3,647,752.

11, Carl Edwards, $3,587,935. 12, Jeff Burton, $3,519,452. 13, David Reutimann, $3,471,736. 14, Juan Pablo Montoya, $3,459,955. 15, Greg Biffle, $3,451,162. 16, Dale Earnhardt Jr., $3,392,003. 17, Joey Logano, $3,333,263. 18, Ryan Newman, $3,311,039. 19, A J Allmendinger, $3,132,096.

20, Clint Bowyer, $3,025,554.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct Indiana 21 10 .677 New York 19 11 .633 Washington 19 12 .613 Atlanta 19 13 .594 Connecticut 15 16 .484 Chicago 13 18 .419 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct z-Seattle 25 6 .806 Phoenix 14 17 .452 Los Angeles 12 19 .387 Minnesota 12 19 .387 San Antonio 12 19 .387 Tulsa 5 26 .161 z-clinched conference Sunday’s Games Washington 80, Seattle 71 Indiana 79, Connecticut 66 Minnesota 84, San Antonio 78 Monday’s Games No games scheduled Today’s Games Chicago at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Tulsa at Connecticut, 7:30 p.m.

Indiana at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at San Antonio, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Seattle, 10 p.m.

Phoenix at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

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Conradt, Hurley, Keady to get Lapchick Award NEW YORK (AP) — Hall of Famers Jody Conradt and Bob Hurley Sr. and former Purdue coach Gene Keady have been chosen as this year’s recipients for the third annual Lapchick Character Awards.

The three will be honored at luncheon at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 18, it was announced Monday.

The award, started by a group including Joe Lapchick biographer and former player Gus Alfieri, recognizes coaches who have shown the character traits and coaching skills of the Hall of Famer who coached St. John’s and the New York Knicks.

Conradt was one of the pioneers of the women’s college game. She led Texas to an undefeated national championship in 1986, and three Final Fours. In her 31 years at Texas, 99 percent of her athletes earned their degrees. She was the second women’s coach inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in 1998.

Hurley, who was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame last week, was fundraiser, custodian and coach in turning Saint Anthony, a small parochial high school in Jersey City, N.J. into one of the most successful high school programs ever.

Keady’s teams won six Big Ten titles and made 17 NCAA tournament appearances at Purdue, reaching the round of eight twice. His players at Purdue had an almost 90 percent graduation rate and seven of his players were selected academic All-Americans.

The award is sponsored by Nike, D’Agostino Supermarkets and HHI Hotels.

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Warriors, Panthers roll in openers ENTERPRISE STAFF REPORTS

TENNIS WHEATMORE 9, SW RANDOLPH 0 FARMER – Wheatmore opened the season in smashing fashion, sweeping Southwestern Randolph 9-0 on Monday.

Ashton Allen, Jessica VanLeuvan, Heather Griffin, Lane Vecellio, Mary Vecellio and Brook Herring netted singles victories for the Warriors.

Griffin-ValLeuvan, Allen-L. Vecellio and Herring-M. Vecellio prevailed in doubles.

Wheatmore looks for a 2-0 start today at West Davidson. Match is set to start around 4:30 p.m.

LEDFORD 7, CENTRAL DAVIDSON 2 WALLBURG – Ledford cruised past Central Davidson for a 7-2 victory in the season opener for both teams n Monday.

Kathryn Stroup, Elona Jones, Katherine Sullivan, Brielle Anthony and Logan Allen won in singles for the Panthers. Stroup-Drew Sapp and JonesAllen prevailed in doubles.

Ledford travels to Trinity on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.

ASHEBORO 9, HIGH POINT CENTRAL 0 ASHEBORO – High Point Central fell 9-0 at Asheboro in the season opener for both teams on Monday.

The Bison try to even their record today at Southern Guilford. Match is scheduled for a 4:30 p.m. start.

VOLLEYBALL ASHEBORO DEF. HIGH POINT CENTRAL ASHEBORO – High Point Central dropped a 2515, 25-15, 25-22 decision at Asheboro in the season opener for both teams on Monday night.

The Bison play host to crosstown rival T.W. Andrews today.

SOCCER

Braves score three in ninth, beat Dodgers 4-3

EAST DAVIDSON 5, DAVIE COUNTY 5 THOMASVILLE – Nick Lopez booted four goals as East Davidson battled Davie County to a 5-5 tie in the season opener for both teams on Monday night.

Jose Gonzalez had a goal for the Golden Eagles, while Bryan Payne dished two assists and Travis Luck had one.

Zack Sheppard served in goal for East.

East visits Randleman on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

ESPN will have another full day of hoops BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) – For the second straight year, ESPN will mark the start of the college basketball season with 24 consecutive hours of live game coverage.

The schedule was announced Monday and three teams from last season’s Final Four will be part of the marathon that begins Nov. 16 at midnight EST. National champion

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Tampa Bay catcher Kelly Shoppach (10) tags out Texas’ David Murphy at home plate as he tries to score from second base on a third-inning single by Elvis Andrus on Monday night in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Duke hosts Miami of Ohio. National runnerup Butler is at Louisville. Michigan State, which lost to Butler in the Final Four, is home against South Carolina.

Also on the schedule is the debut of St. John’s coach Steve Lavin, an ESPN analyst the last seven years. The Connecticut women enter the season on a 78-game winning streak.

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NEW YORK (AP) – Villanova, Tennessee, Wake Forest and UCLA will serve as the regional hosts for the 2010 NIT Season Tip-Off. The first-round pairings for the 16-team tournament were announced Monday.

The first- and second-round games will be played Nov. 15-17 with the winners advancing to Madison Square Garden for the semifinals on Nov. 24. The championship game is Nov. 26.

The North Regional will have Villanova hosting Marist and George Washington against Boston University. In the South Regional, Belmont will be at Tennessee while Missouri State faces Arkansas State.

The East Regional has Hampton at Wake Forest and Virginia Commonwealth against Winthrop.

UCLA hosts Pepperdine in the West Regional and Nevada faces Pacific.

The consolation games will be played Nov. 22-23 at sites to be determined.

Duke, which went to win the national championship, beat Connecticut to win last year’s NIT Season Tip-Off.

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ATLANTA – Melky Cabrera’s two-run single off Octavio Dotel with the bases loaded in the ninth inning capped a three-run rally that lifted the Atlanta Braves to a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night.

Dotel took over for HongChih Kuo (3-2), who failed to protect a 3-1 lead. Kuo gave up two singles and a walk to load the bases.

Dotel walked pinch-hitter David Ross to force in a run.

Cabrera then lined the gamewinning single past shortstop Jamey Carroll. Scott Podsednik charged the ball in left field but it skipped past his glove, ending any chance for a potential play at the plate.

The first-place Braves moved 21⁄2 games ahead of Philadelphia in the NL East.

PIRATES 7, MARLINS 1 PITTSBURGH – James Mc-

Donald pitched seven sharp innings, Garrett Jones and Pedro Alvarez each drove in three runs and the Pittsburgh Pirates snapped a seven-game skid with a 7-1 win over the Florida Marlins on Monday night.

Making his third start with the Pirates since being acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers in a deadline day trade, McDonald (2-2) pitched more than six innings for the first time in his career. He gave up a run and three hits, striking out six and walking two in improving to 2-1 with Pittsburgh.

Andrew McCutchen hit his 10th home run and stole his 25th base for Pittsburgh, which returned from a winless six-game road trip for the third time this season.

Dan Uggla went 3 for 4 with an RBI for the Marlins, who fell three games under .500 and nine games behind in the National League wild-

card race. McCutchen homered for only the second time in the past month, to center field leading off the seventh.

Uggla drove in Logan Morrison with a groundout in the fourth to account for the Marlins’ run.

RAYS 6, RANGERS 4 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Carlos Pena hit a tiebreaking single during a four-run eighth inning and the Tampa Bay Rays rallied to beat Cliff Lee and the Texas Rangers 6-4 on Monday night in a potential playoff preview.

Lee outlasted David Price in a marquee matchup of AllStar aces and was given a late lead when Texas scored twice in the top of the eighth to go up 4-2. But Carl Crawford hit a run-scoring grounder and Evan Longoria tied it with a single before Pena, just off the disabled list, made it 5-4.

Ben Zobrist added an RBI single that chased Lee (10-6).

RAGSDALE FALLS AT MT. TABOR

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WINSTONS A L E M – Ragsdale opened its boys soccer season with a hard-fought 1-0 loss at Mount Tabor on Monday night.

Bobby Kroma scored for the Tigers off an assist

by Mark Zibguao. Brad Davis finished with 12 saves in goal for the Tigers.

Ragsdale returns to action today at 7 p.m. at Grimsley.

U.S. expects tough road to worlds NEW YORK (AP) – LeBron James and his teammates boasted of bringing an “us against the world” mentality to the Olympics two years ago.

It wasn’t necessary.

Where they were going, people cheered U.S. players.

That was in China, playing before fans who adored the NBA superstars that led the Americans to the gold medal. The crowds were just as accommodating in 2006 in Japan.

“In Asia, those two summers, the world championships and the Olympics, we were greeted warmly,” U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “There wasn’t any hostility. Outside of the Chinese teams, we were probably the most favored team.”

The lesser-known American players who make up the roster for this year’s world championships know things will be a lot harder.

So the boos might be coming back – and maybe the losses, too.

“It’s going to be different,” guard Derrick Rose said. “They’re calling us the ’B team,’ so we know that there’s going to be a lot of stuff going on. But we’ve got to withstand it and go out there and play anyway.”

The Americans left Monday for Madrid, a day after beating France 86-55 in their lone home exhibition game. They will play three quality opponents before they arrive in Turkey for the world championships that begin Aug. 28.

Stephen Curry played on the un-

der-19 U.S. team that won a silver medal in Serbia in 2007, making him one of the few on this roster with experience playing in front of “hostile” European crowds.

“They were pretty much 100 percent against us every time we played,” he said. “That was a different experience going over there.”

The tour wraps up against Greece in Athens, where there was little love for the U.S. players during the 2004 Olympics. Lamar Odom, who has a bronze medal from those games, argues that the venom directed toward the Americans was due to “different times” in the world.

Some of the obstacles of playing in Europe remain for his muchyounger teammates.

Mets’ Rodriguez has torn thumb ligament, out for season HOUSTON (AP) – Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez has a torn thumb ligament in his pitching hand sustained during a fight with his girlfriend’s father at Citi Field and will need surgery that will sideline him for the rest of the season.

The Mets announced the injury before Monday night’s game at the

Houston Astros. They said the reliever didn’t travel to Texas with the team. Mets manager Jerry Manuel didn’t dispute that Rodriguez will miss the rest of the season but said he didn’t know how much longer beyond that it will take for the reliever to recover.

Rodriguez was suspended for

two days without pay following the fight outside a family room at the ballpark last Wednesday.

The 28-year-old reliever was arrested and charged with third-degree assault and second-degree harassment. He was released on his own recognizance and is due back in court Sept. 14.

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Young team means tough training camp for Panthers SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) – Carolina Panthers left tackle Jordan Gross sees positives and negatives to being on the third-youngest team in the NFL. “We haven’t had, knock on wood, a whole lot of big injuries this camp.

Maybe that comes from healthier, younger bodies,” Gross said Monday. “We’ve had a lot of reps and a lot of full-padded days and that probably comes from youth and inexperience, too. The coaches wanting to make sure we know what we’re doing and can see who’s tough and who isn’t out there, so we’ve been tested that way.”

Gross, Carolina’s first-round pick in 2003, thinks this is one of the toughest training camps

he has been in under coach John Fox. After shedding numerous veterans in the offseason, practices have lasted longer.

The Panthers even had a full-contact period at the end of Sunday’s workout, a rarity this late in camp.

I would say it’s a tougher camp than we’ve had since we’ve changed to this schedule,” Gross said. “When I first got here, we used to do two (practices) every day.

That was harder. But since we’ve moved to the new schedule we’ve done the last four or five years it’s the toughest camp we’ve had.”

Gross said with so many young players and so many open starting spots, the competition has been intense.

Texans rookie RB Tate done for season HOUSTON (AP) – Houston Texans rookie running back Ben Tate is out for the season because of a fractured ankle.

Coach Gary Kubiak said Monday that Tate will be placed on injured reserve and undergo surgery this week.

The 5-foot-11 Tate hurt his right ankle in Saturday’s 19-16 preseason loss to Arizona and was carted off the field. Kubiak said Sunday that the injury was “pretty severe.”

Kubiak said team doctors expect Tate to fully recover.

The Texans selected the former Auburn star in the second round of the draft. He was competing for time at running back with Arian Foster, Steve Slaton, Chris Henry and Jeremiah Johnson.

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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) – Logan Thomas has won Virginia Tech’s backup quarterback job.

Coach Frank Beamer says the 6-foot-6, 245-pound redshirt freshman beat out Ju-Ju Clayton for the spot behind starter Tyrod Taylor. He says Clayton will be the No. 3 quarterback.

Thomas is among the most athletic players on the Hokies roster, having been measured for a 391⁄2inch vertical leap during the summer.

He was one of the nation’s top prospects at tight end coming out of Brookville High School in Lynchburg and was voted the team’s top offensive newcomer after spring practice.

Bubba takes PGA playoff loss in stride SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) – You’d never know Bubba Watson had just lost the PGA Championship.

Watson insisted he was more thrilled to earn a spot on his first Ryder Cup team than disappointed at coming up short against Martin Kaymer in a three-hole playoff at Whistling Straits on Sunday.

“I’m as happy as can be,” Watson said. “I made the Ryder Cup, that’s all I care about.”

Watson was one of the more unlikely players to wind up in the playoff, beginning the day six shots off the lead. But he overpowered the back nine – and everyone in his way – with his booming tee shots. When Dustin Johnson missed a par putt on 18 that would have given him a victory – until the rules officials got involved, that is – Watson had a spot in the playoff.

He struck first with a massive drive to just short of the par-4 10th green and a pitch to 4 feet for birdie, and Kaymer responded with a birdie on 17.

When they got to 18, Watson imploded. He drove into the right rough and, instead of playing it safe from a tough lie 210 yards out, he went for the green.

And landed in the water.

“I was trying to win a golf tournament, trying to make a good score,” Watson said. “Came up short.”

He took his penalty drop, then flew the green into a bunker. His bunker shot hit the flag, and he tapped in for double bogey. Kaymer, meanwhile, two-putted from 15 feet for a bogey and the win.

“I went for the win.

And I’d do it over again, just like I did earlier in the day,” Watson said.

“I went for the win on 17 and 18, and just hit bad shots.”

Majors are what define the greatest of golfers, and some players never recover from finishing second.

Not Watson.

When he said afterward that losing didn’t matter because he’d made the Ryder Cup, he meant it. This, after all, is a guy who has learned the hard way over the last year that there are more important things than the game of golf.

His father is battling cancer and wife Angie had a scare of her own at Christmas. Doctors initially feared her enlarged pituitary gland was a tumor. A talk with his longtime caddie and friend Ted Scott reminded him that golf was supposed to be fun, a lesson Watson has taken to heart.

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Dustin Johnson hits his second shot on the 18th hole during the final round of the PGA Championship on Sunday at Whistling Straits in Haven, Wis. Johnson was later assessed a two-stroke penalty for grounding his club in the bunker on the hole. That penalty knocked him out of a playoff for the title, won by Germany’s Martin Kaymer.

PGA has bunker mentality on Whistling Straits

BY DOUG FERGUSON AP GOLF WRITER

MILWAUKEE – When the PGA Championship returns in five years to Whistling Straits the rules on playing the countless bunkers may still be in place.

The golf world was still reeling Monday over the two-shot penalty given to Dustin Johnson on the final hole. He grounded his 4-iron in the sand to the right of the fairway, not aware he was in a bunker.

Johnson had a one-shot lead when he teed off on the 18th. He missed a 7-foot par putt and seemed to slip into a playoff. But when he learned he had let his club touch the sand during his preshot routine, Johnson added two shots to his score and tied for fifth.

Asked if there was any consideration to change the unusual local bunker rule for 2015, PGA of America president Jim Remy said, “Not at this point.”

“Obviously, it’s the day after,” Remy said. “I’m sure (championship director) Kerry Haigh will do his due diligence. He made the decision not to do it from 2004 to 2010. My guess is that probably the way we’re leaning is to leave it that way.”

It wasn’t the first time someone paid for the bunker rule at Whistling Straits.

When the PGA Championship was first played there in 2004, Stuart Appleby was penalized four shots late in the third round for removing a dead piece of grass (two shots) to the right of the 16th hole and touching the sand on a practice swing (two shots).

That didn’t cost him a major championship, though.

What never will be known is how Johnson would have fared in the three-hole playoff, which Martin Kaymer won over Bubba Watson.

It was the most shocking finish involving rules at a major since Roberto de Vicenzo signed for a 4 when he had made a 3 on the 17th hole of the final round in the 1968 Masters. He had to accept the higher score and finished one shot behind Bob Goalby.

Johnson said he didn’t look at the rules sheet that had been posted all week in the locker room and on the first tee throughout the week, explaining that every bunker was a hazard, even if they were outside the ropes where the gallery had been standing.

“It was unfortunate for Dustin. I feel bad for him. He’s a PGA member, just like I am,” said Remy, the general manager of Okemo Valley Golf Club in Vermont. “I feel sad for him the way it all unfolded. But that’s the rules of golf. Those things happen in sports, and nobody feels good about it.”

Remy said he didn’t see a a practical solution for 2015, or in 2020 for the Ryder Cup. “Do you mark 900 of them not as bunkers and 300 as bunkers? How do you ever mark them?” he said.

“Clearly, with this happening, players will be more aware of it in the future. And we didn’t have any other infractions during the week.”

Players continued to weigh in on both sides.

“In light of PGA finish, Augusta just announced new seating for patrons available in right greenside bunker by 18 green,” Stewart Cink joked on Twitter.

PGA Tour rookie Kris Blanks,

who missed the cut at the PGA, posted a picture of a child’s sandbox and suggested that would be considered a bunker at Whistling Straits.

Johnson tied for fifth, still enough for him to easily make the Ryder Cup team.

The only way he would have failed to finish among the top eight qualifiers would have been to sign his card for a bogey and learn of the bunker gaffe later. Then, he would have been disqualified for signing an incorrect score.

“The one thing that I will remember from this more than anything is the way Dustin handled himself,” Pavin said. “He was very mature. I couldn’t imagine a player handling it any better than he did. He played beautiful golf on Sunday, put himself in position to win the tournament. I think it was the proper ruling. It was an unfortunate situation.”

Among the questions raised was whether the marshals should have done a better job clearing out the gallery around Johnson, which might have made it clearer to him that he was on the edge of a bunker.

Johnson thought it was grass that had been trampled all week by foot traffic.

The PGA rules official didn’t remind Johnson that he was in a bunker – if he even knew – although Paul Goydos pointed out that a rules official’s job is not to remind players of the rule, rather to interpret them if a player asks.

Goydos is not sure he would change the bunker rules for 2015.

“You’ve either got to say they’re all bunkers or they’re not bunkers,” Goydos said.

Pavin says Tiger ‘high on his list’ for Ryder Cup MILWAUKEE (AP) – Tiger Woods remained No. 1 in the world ranking Monday, though not even close to that on two lists – the Ryder Cup and FedEx Cup – that mean much more these days.

Woods failed to qualify for the Ryder Cup for the first time – he had led the standings every other time since 1997 – and now must rely on U.S. captain Corey Pavin spending one of four wild-card picks on him.

In a hotel conference room Monday, Pavin sat at the head table between two poster boards, each showing the final standings for the eight American qualifiers. Woods’ name was nowhere to be found between Phil Mickelson at No. 1 and Matt Kuchar at No. 8.

Pavin would only say that Woods is “high on my list” and will be a “big consideration” when he announces his selections Sept. 7.

Woods should have at least one more tournament to make an impression. While he wound up No. 12 in the Ryder Cup standings, equally troublesome is that Woods is No. 108 in the FedEx Cup standings. The top 125 are eligible for The Barclays next week at Ridgewood Country Club in New Jersey, the start of the PGA Tour playoffs.

Only the top 100 in the standings advance to the second round.

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Homebuilder confidence sinks WASHINGTON (AP) — Homebuilder confidence dropped for the third straight month in August as the struggling economy and a flood of cheap foreclosed properties kept people from buying new homes.

The National Association of Home Builders said its monthly index of builders’ sentiment about the housing market fell to 13, the lowest reading since March 2009. The index is adjusted for seasonal factors.

Readings below 50 indicate negative sentiment about the market. The last time the index was above 50 was in April 2006.

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Kia probe centers on steering problems WASHINGTON – The government has opened an investigation into possible loss of steering control in the 2010 Kia Soul, a boxy vehicle aimed at appealing to urban motorists.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in a posting Monday that it has received one complaint alleging complete steering loss. The complaint said the steering shaft also interfered with the driver’s ability to hit the brakes.

Pump prices fall as crude declines NEW YORK – There were some smiles at the gas pump on Monday as the average price of a gallon of unleaded regular dropped by a couple of cents across the country.

On Monday benchmark crude for September delivery fell 29 cents to $75.10 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange in midday trading. The contract lost 35 cents on Friday to settle at $75.39 a barrel, its lowest level in a month.

Recovery concerns weigh on markets LONDON – European stocks recovered earlier losses to trade little changed for the session Monday as the recent selling pressure eased.

In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 2.01 points at 5,277.45 while Germany’s DAX rose 0.1 percent to 6,118.53. France’s CAC-40 was 0.2 percent higher at 3,604.89.

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Fewer people are buying new homes, even though prices have stabilized in the past year and those who have good credit can qualify for the lowest mortgage rates in decades. The market is struggling because jobs are scarce and credit is tight. And many analysts predict home prices are likely to drop again in the fall.

“Buyers just aren’t stepping up to the plate,” wrote Mike Larson, real estate analyst with Weiss Research. “Unless and until the job market improves, we are simply not going to get any traction in the housing market.”

Another key reading

of housing activity will come Tuesday when the Commerce Department releases its report on home construction in July. Construction plunged in June to the lowest level since October.

Builders say consumers are worried about the weak recovery and job market. Among those who are buying, many are opting for deeply discounted foreclosed properties. The industry had received a boost in the spring when the federal government offered tax credits of up to $8,000.

But those expired in April and the market has struggled since.

Lowe’s profit rises 10 percent NEW YORK (AP) – People bought more air conditioners and grills at Lowe’s Cos. in early summer, boosting second-quarter net income 10 percent, but overall spending was hurt by hot weather and the weak economy, the home-improvement retailer said Monday.

The No. 2 home improvement retailer joined a long line of companies in sounding a cautious note about consumer spending and cut its yearly revenue guidance as worries grow about a stalling economy.

Lowe’s CEO Robert Niblock said in an interview Monday with The Associated Press that Americans are responding to programs such as the federal cashfor-appliances rebates and sales but says 2010 is a “bouncing along the bottom” year.

“We view 2010 as a year of transition for the home improvement industry and we

don’t expect consistent improvement in core demand until the fundamentals of the labor and housing markets improve,” said Lowe’s CEO Robert Niblock in a call with analysts.

Spending remained marginally positive overall. Revenue from stores open at least a year rose 1.6 percent.

Revenue at stores open at least a year is a key indicator of a retailer’s performance because it excludes growth at stores that open or close during the year.

But Americans remain cautious, spending on carpets or kitchen cabinets, but not as much as they would have a few years ago, COO Larry Stone said.

“We do see some movement in kitchen cabinet sales, albeit not as strong as we would like to see it,” Stone said in a call with analysts.

Carpet sales were strong, but not as strong as in prior years, he said.

Survey: More teens save for college OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Saving money to help pay for college is a priority for many teenagers today.

About 66 percent of the teens who responded to a survey TD Ameritrade paid for say they are saving for college. That’s up from last year, when 62 percent of teens in the survey said the same thing.

TD Ameritrade’s Stuart Rubinstein says teenag-

ers might be more willing to help pay for college after seeing their families or friends struggle financially during the recent recession.

Infogroup conducted the phone survey of 772 adults and 363 teenagers in July for TD Ameritrade. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points for adults and plus or minus 5 percentage points for teens.

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200-day Average

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0.12%

16.18

16.40

AMERICAN FDS BOND FD OF AMERICA 12.42 0.04

0.32%

12.25

12.06

CAPITAL INCOME BUILDER CL A SHS 47.01 0.13

0.28%

46.29

46.70

AMERICAN FDS CAPITAL WORLD GROW 31.98 0.09

0.28%

31.62

32.32

AMERICAN FDS EUROPACIFIC GROWTH 36.61 0.14

0.38%

36.35

36.62

AMERICAN FDS FUNDAMENTAL INVS A 31.63 0.02

0.06%

31.72

32.52

AMERICAN FDS GROWTH FD OF AMERI 26.19 0.06

0.23%

26.39

27.18

AMERICAN FDS INCOME FD OF AMERI 15.43 0.02

0.13%

15.25

15.41

AMERICAN FDS INVESTMENT CO OF A 24.70 0.02

0.08%

24.80

25.57

AMERICAN FDS NEW PERSPECTIVE A 24.65 0.09

0.37%

24.64

25.03

WASHINGTON MUTUAL INVS FD CL A 24.12 - 0.01

- 0.04%

23.97

24.56

DAVIS NEW YORK VENTURE FUND A 29.62 0.04

0.14%

29.96

30.86

DODGE COX INCOME FUND 13.42

0.30%

13.27

13.18

DODGE COX INTERNATIONAL STOCK 30.94 0.16

0.04

0.52%

30.63

31.05

DODGE COX STOCK FUND 91.58

0.08

0.09%

92.73

96.90

FIDELITY CONTRA FUND 57.11

0.08

0.14%

57.65

58.49

FIDELITY DIVERSIFIED INTERNATIO 26.20 0.14

0.54%

26.06

26.59

FIDELITY FREEDOM 2020 FUND 12.50 0.03

0.24%

12.47

12.63

FIDELITY GROWTH CO FUND 67.70 0.22

0.33%

68.26

70.13

FIDELITY LOWPRICED STOCK FUND 32.21 0.06

0.19%

32.49

33.31

FIDELITY MAGELLAN 59.73

0.05%

61.17

64.11

TGIT TEMPTON INCOME FUND CLASS 2.57 0.01

0.03

0.39%

2.54

2.58

HARBOR INTERNATIONAL FUND INSTI 52.41 0.50

0.96%

52.05

52.31

PIMCO FUNDS TOTAL RETURN FUND C 11.51 0.04

0.35%

11.33

11.12

PIMCO FUNDS TOTAL RETURN FUND A 11.51 0.04

0.35%

11.33

11.12

PIMCO FUNDS TOTAL RETURN FUND I 11.51 0.04

0.35%

11.33

11.12

VANGUARD 500 INDEX FD ADMIRAL S 99.64 0.02

0.02%

100.12

103.37

VANGUARD INDEX TRUST 500 INDEX 99.62 0.02

0.02%

100.11

103.35

VANGUARD GNMA FUND ADMIRAL SHS 11.09 0.00

0.00%

11.04

10.86

VANGUARD INSTITUTIONAL INDEX 98.99 0.02

0.02%

99.47

102.68

VANGUARD INSTITUTIONAL INDEX FU 98.99 0.02

0.02%

99.47

102.68

VANGUARD MID CAP GROWTH FUND 15.17 0.03

0.20%

15.27

15.66

VANGUARD PRIMECAP FUND 56.44 - 0.01

- 0.02%

56.51

58.61

VANGUARD BOND INDEX FD TOTAL BO 10.88 0.04

0.37%

10.74

10.56

VANGUARD TOTAL INTERNATIONAL ST 13.83 0.09

0.66%

13.66

13.81

VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET IND 26.77 0.02

0.07%

26.96

27.85

VANGUARD WELLINGTON INCOME FUND 28.85 0.09

0.31%

28.61

28.99

VANGUARD WELLINGTON FD ADMIRAL 49.83 0.15

0.30%

49.41

50.08

Stocks eke out gain NEW YORK (AP) – Stocks managed to break a four-day losing streak Monday by the slimmest of margins. Investors had no change of heart about the economy, however, and again poured money into the safety of U.S. Treasurys.

The Dow Jones industrial average fluctuated along with the other big market indexes throughout the day. The Dow closed down just over a point, but the other indexes had slight gains. There were more winners than losers on the New York Stock Exchange.

Investors were dealing with more downbeat economic news, but it wasn’t bad enough to set off significant selling. A report on manufacturing in New York state fell short of forecasts and Japan became the latest country to show signs of slowing growth. The reports raised investors’ concerns about the pace of the global economic recovery.

Analysts said Monday’s short buying spurt was a pause following four days of losses that sent the Dow down almost 400 points.

“The market is really being controlled by (short-term) traders,” said Mike Rubino, CEO at Rubino Financial Group in Troy, Mich. “The longterm investor doesn’t appear to be anywhere in sight.”

STOCKS OF LOCAL INTEREST Name AT&T Aetna Alcatel-Lucent Alcoa Allstate AmEx AIG Ameriprisel Analog Devices Aon Corp.

Apple Avon BB&T Corp.

BNC Bancorp BP Bank of America Bassett Furniture Best Buy Boeing CBL & Asso.

CSX Corp.

CVS Caremark Capital One Caterpillar Inc. Chevron Corp.

Cisco Systems Inc. Citigroup Coca-Cola Colgate-Palmolive Colonial Prop.

Comcast Corp.

Corning Inc. Culp Inc. Daimler AG Deere & Co. Dell Inc. Dillard’s Inc. Walt Disney Co. Duke Energy Corp Exxon Mobil Corp FNB United Corp.

FedEx Corp.

First Citizens Bank of NC Ford Fortune Brands Furniture Brands Gap Inc. General Dynamics General Electric GlaxoSmithKline Google Hanesbrands Harley-Davidson Hewlett-Packard Home Depot Hooker Furniture Intel IBM JP Morgan Chase Kellogg Kimberly-Clark Krispy Kreme La-Z-Boy LabCorp Lance

Symbol

Last

T 26.65 27.86 AET ALU 2.69 AA 10.6 ALL 27.94 AXP 41.54 AIG 35.96 AMP 42.54 ADI 28.36 AON 36.74 AAPL 247.64 AVP 29.48 BBT 23.8 BNCN 9.78 BP 38.4 BAC 13.19 BSET 4.9 BBY 33.05 BA 64.4 CBL 12.38 CSX 50.28 CVS 28.7 COF 38.93 CAT 68.49 CVX 77.71 CSCO 21.91 C 3.87 KO 55.88 CL 76.17 CLP 15.47 CMCSK 16.66 GLW 16.55 CFI 10.64 DDAIF.PK 51.2 DE 65.59 DELL 11.96 DDS 19.34 DIS 33.66 DUK 17.03 XOM 59.88 FNBN 0.62 FDX 80.98 FCNCA 177.52 F 11.99 FO 43.84 FBN 4.98 GPS 17.63 GD 60.42 GE 15.46 GSK 38.05 GOOG 485.59 HBI 26.39 HOG 25.92 HPQ 40.55 HD 27.38 HOFT 10.04 INTC 19.47 IBM 127.77 JPM 37.69 K 50.93 KMB 65.11 KKD 3.76 LZB 7.15 LH 74.86 LNCE 22.24

Chg. -0.07 -0.28 -0.02 -0.04 -0.16 -0.19 -0.71 0.34 0.29 -0.17 -1.46 0.08 -0.03 -0.02 -0.53 -0.04 -0.06 -0.09 -0.44 0.1 -0.11 0 0.11 0.48 0.31 0.55 -0.01 0.15 -0.22 0.11 -0.12 -0.32 0.13 1.21 0.74 -0.05 -0.51 -0.02 0.02 -0.03 -0.08 0.18 -3.27 -0.16 -0.49 -0.02 -0.04 -0.25 0.08 -0.09 -0.76 0.03 0.35 0.1 0.07 -0.23 0.32 -0.1 0.19 0.29 0.3 -0.03 0.04 -0.15 0.14

High 26.71 27.99 2.73 10.69 27.97 41.96 36.5 42.86 28.44 36.96 250.01 29.52 23.85 10 38.85 13.29 4.96 33.28 64.93 12.67 50.64 28.8 39.5 68.98 77.83 22.12 3.91 55.93 76.31 15.72 16.86 16.76 10.7 51.6 66.33 12.08 20.09 33.75 17.04 60.25 0.84 81.5 180.93 12.15 44.18 5.07 17.93 60.7 15.49 38.35 489.87 26.61 26.11 41.09 28.07 10.63 19.56 128.23 37.82 50.94 65.11 3.79 7.27 75.12 22.45

Low 26.48 27.55 2.64 10.5 27.64 41.28 35.51 41.74 27.72 36.52 246.62 28.97 23.5 9.75 38.15 13.09 4.75 32.61 63.65 12.08 49.73 28.4 38.53 67.06 76.37 21.22 3.85 55.12 75.51 15.2 16.55 16.39 10.45 50.66 64.16 11.8 19.26 33.11 16.76 59.25 0.62 79.88 176.7 11.88 43.55 4.83 17.46 59.75 15.15 37.93 480.5 26 25.25 40.35 27.28 9.93 19.11 126.96 37.28 50.23 64.29 3.7 7 73.76 21.83

Name

Symbol

Last

Chg.

High

Low

Legg Mason Leggett & Platt Lincoln National Lowe’s McDonald’s Merck MetLife Microsoft Mohawk Industries Morgan Stanley Motorola NCR Corp.

New York Times Co. NewBridge Bancorp Norfolk Southern Novartis AG Nucor Old Dominion Office Depot PPG Industries Panera Bread The Pantry J.C. Penney Pfizer Pepsico Piedmont Nat.Gas Polo Ralph Lauren Procter & Gamble Progress Energy Qualcomm Quest Capital RF Micro Devices Red Hat Reynolds American RBC Ruddick Corp.

SCM Micro Sara Lee Sealy Sears Sherwin-Williams Southern Company Spectra Energy Sprint Nextel Standard Micro Starbucks Steelcase Inc. SunTrust Banks Syngenta AG Tanger Targacept Inc. Target 3M Co. Time Warner US Airways Unifi Inc. UPS Inc. VF Corp.

Valspar Verizon Vodafone Vulcan Materials Wal-Mart Wells Fargo Yahoo Inc.

LM LEG LNC LOW MCD MRK MET MSFT MHK MS MOT NCR NYT NBBC NSC NVS NUE ODFL ODP PPG PNRA PTRY JCP PFE PEP PNY RL PG PGN QCOM QCC RFMD RHT RAI RY RDK INVE SLE ZZ SHLD SHW SO SE S SMSC SBUX SCS STI SYT SKT TRGT TGT MMM TWX LCC UFI UPS VFC VAL VZ VOD VMC WMT WFC YHOO

27.99 19.68 22.25 19.7 71.79 34.97 38.83 24.5 45.11 25.7 7.81 12.39 7.79 3.66 54.55 50.59 38.42 36.02 4 66.51 75.66 19.74 19.56 16.03 65.43 27.18 79.78 59.77 42.72 38.64 1.52 4.18 31.02 56.66 49.14 33.75 1.52 14.77 2.54 66.23 68.27 35.87 21.06 4.3 19.49 23.82 6.97 24.36 47.27 44.25 19.94 50.72 83.43 30.7 9.21 3.94 64.65 76.61 29.9 29.96 24.13 38.25 50.41 25.68 13.79

0.21 0 -0.44 0.11 -0.1 -0.03 -0.73 0.1 -0.15 -0.2 0.17 0 0.08 -0.14 -0.13 0.4 0.33 0.43 -0.12 0.2 1.5 -0.08 -0.26 -0.05 -0.13 0.07 -0.58 -0.05 0.02 0.69 -0.01 0.14 0.09 0.29 -0.01 0.08 0.12 0.22 -0.04 -0.32 -0.83 0.03 -0.21 -0.18 -0.04 -0.17 0.01 -0.03 0.43 0.3 0.33 -0.09 -0.58 -0.11 0.07 0.04 0.21 0.1 -0.55 -0.07 0.18 -0.07 0.01 -0.16 -0.04

28.21 19.82 22.75 20.37 72.12 35 39.41 24.61 46.04 26.1 7.86 12.56 7.89 3.74 54.79 50.74 38.58 36.75 4.17 66.78 75.82 19.97 19.9 16.17 65.5 27.31 80.6 60.2 42.79 38.89 1.54 4.25 31.06 56.69 49.21 33.96 1.52 14.87 2.6 67.12 68.8 35.92 21.22 4.5 19.8 24.15 7.07 24.46 47.63 44.45 20.29 50.92 83.96 30.97 9.33 3.98 64.94 76.96 30.3 30.15 24.29 38.3 50.57 25.91 13.9

27.5 19.28 22.07 19.58 71.54 34.59 37.87 24.3 44.42 25.56 7.58 12.24 7.62 3.6 53.99 50.36 37.83 35.12 4 65.45 72.83 19.54 19.44 15.85 64.8 26.57 79.23 59.32 42.25 37.45 1.52 4 30.29 55.8 48.73 33.39 1.4 14.37 2.52 65.85 67.89 35.6 20.91 4.28 19.29 23.67 6.88 24.02 47.05 43.52 19.5 50.35 82.33 30.32 8.95 3.85 63.73 75.25 29.54 29.72 23.81 37.68 50.06 25.52 13.68

METALS PRICING NEW YORK (AP) – Spot nonferrous metal prices Monday: Aluminum -$0.9716 per lb., London Metal Exch.

Copper -$3.2653 Cathode full plate, LME. Copper $3.2515 N.Y. Merc spot Fri. Lead - $2065.00 metric ton, London Metal Exch.

Zinc - $0.9212 per lb., London Metal Exch.

Gold - $1223.50 Handy & Harman (only daily quote).

Gold - $1214.90 troy oz., NY Merc spot Fri. Silver - $18.435 Handy & Harman (only daily quote).

Silver - $18.097 troy oz., N.Y. Merc spot Fri. Platinum -$1535.00 troy oz., N.Y. (contract).

Platinum -$1526.20 troy oz., N.Y. Merc spot Fri.

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WEATHER, BUSINESS 6D www.hpe.com TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2010 THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE

High Point Enterprise Weather Today

Wednesday

Mostly Cloudy

92º

Thursday

Scat'd T-storms

74º

89º

Isolated T-storms

73º

91º

Saturday

Friday

91º

Kernersville Winston-Salem 91/73 91/74 Jamestown 92/74 High Point 92/74 Archdale Thomasville 92/73 92/73 Trinity Lexington 92/74 Randleman 91/73 92/73

Partly Cloudy

Mostly Sunny

71º

Local Area Forecast

90º

72º

71º

North Carolina State Forecast

Elizabeth City 92/72

Shown is today’s weather.

Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Asheville 85/68

High Point 92/74

Denton 92/75

Greenville 93/73 Cape Raleigh Hatteras 95/74 88/78

Charlotte 92/73

Almanac

Wilmington 89/75 Today

Wednesday

Hi/Lo Wx

Hi/Lo Wx

mc t s pc pc t mc t pc mc pc t pc pc mc t pc

91/73 85/67 88/75 85/75 92/73 76/66 93/72 85/68 91/72 93/72 87/77 82/65 92/73 92/74 94/72 85/70 93/73

t t t t t t t t t t t t mc mc t t mc

Weather (Wx): cl/cloudy; fl/flurries; pc/partly cloudy; ra/rain; rs/rain & snow; s/sunny; sh/showers; sn/snow; t/thunderstorms; w/windy

Across The Nation Today

City

Hi/Lo Wx

ALBUQUERQUE . . . .92/66 ATLANTA . . . . . . . . .92/73 BOISE . . . . . . . . . . . .95/62 BOSTON . . . . . . . . . .85/67 CHARLESTON, SC . .89/75 CHARLESTON, WV . .89/71 CINCINNATI . . . . . . .86/64 CHICAGO . . . . . . . . .81/65 CLEVELAND . . . . . . .83/63 DALLAS . . . . . . . . .100/80 DETROIT . . . . . . . . . .85/65 DENVER . . . . . . . . . .85/57 GREENSBORO . . . . .92/74 GRAND RAPIDS . . . .80/59 HOUSTON . . . . . . . . .98/79 HONOLULU . . . . . . . .89/72 KANSAS CITY . . . . . .76/65 NEW ORLEANS . . . .88/81

Wednesday

Hi/Lo Wx

pc 92/62 pc t 92/74 t s 88/57 pc s 82/65 s pc 90/77 pc t 83/69 t s 87/66 t s 81/66 pc s 84/64 mc s 101/80 s s 85/67 mc pc 87/60 s mc 90/73 t s 82/61 pc t 96/79 t s 88/74 s t 87/71 pc t 93/80 t

Today

City

Hi/Lo Wx

LAS VEGAS . . . . . .104/87 LOS ANGELES . . . . .87/65 MEMPHIS . . . . . . . . .94/75 MIAMI . . . . . . . . . . . .91/80 MINNEAPOLIS . . . . . .78/62 MYRTLE BEACH . . . .90/76 NEW YORK . . . . . . . .90/68 ORLANDO . . . . . . . . .94/77 PHOENIX . . . . . . . . .105/86 PITTSBURGH . . . . . .83/62 PHILADELPHIA . . . . .91/71 PROVIDENCE . . . . . .86/65 SAN FRANCISCO . . .65/54 ST. LOUIS . . . . . . . . .86/67 SEATTLE . . . . . . . . . .85/56 TULSA . . . . . . . . . . . .92/72 WASHINGTON, DC . .89/71 WICHITA . . . . . . . . . .81/68

Today

Wednesday

Hi/Lo Wx

t ra s s pc s sh sh s s

UV Index for 3 periods of the day.

8 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Noon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Hi/Lo Wx

pc 105/85 s s 84/64 s mc 93/77 t t 90/82 pc s 81/65 mc s 89/76 t s 83/70 t t 94/78 t mc 107/87 pc s 82/62 t pc 85/69 t s 83/64 pc mc 65/54 s mc 88/71 mc s 74/55 pc t 95/75 pc t 83/69 t t 94/73 s

Full 8/24

Last 9/1

First 9/15

New 9/8

0-2: Low The higher the UV 3-5: Moderate index, the higher the 6-7: High need for eye and 8-10: Very High skin protection.

11+: Extreme

Lake Levels & River Stages Lake and river levels are in feet. Change is over the past 24 hrs.

Current Level Change Flood Pool High Rock Lake 655.2 653.5 +0.3 Badin Lake 541.1 540.1 -0.1 Flood Stage Current Level Change Yadkin College 18.0 3.26 +1.66 Elkin 16.0 2.64 -3.51 Wilkesboro 14.0 2.99 +0.48 High Point 10.0 0.68 -0.15 Ramseur 20.0 1.44 -0.36

Pollen Forecast

Hi/Lo Wx

ACAPULCO . . . . . . . .86/76 AMSTERDAM . . . . . .66/59 BAGHDAD . . . . . . . .120/93 BARCELONA . . . . . .82/67 BEIJING . . . . . . . . . .87/73 BEIRUT . . . . . . . . . . . .100/82 BOGOTA . . . . . . . . . .64/50 BERLIN . . . . . . . . . . .67/57 BUENOS AIRES . . . .68/49 CAIRO . . . . . . . . . . .100/78

a.m. p.m. p.m. a.m.

Wednesday

Around The World City

Statistics through 6 p.m. yesterday at Greensboro

UV Index

Sunrise . . . . . . . . . . . .6:40 Sunset . . . . . . . . . . . .8:08 Moonrise . . . . . . . . . .3:13 Moonset . . . . . . . . . .12:10

85/77 66/57 120/89 83/69 79/70 99/81 64/50 68/58 72/52 101/77

t pc s pc t s sh ra pc s

Today

City

Hi/Lo Wx

COPENHAGEN . . . . .70/62 GENEVA . . . . . . . . . .74/56 GUANGZHOU . . . . . .93/80 GUATEMALA . . . . . .76/61 HANOI . . . . . . . . . . . .89/77 HONG KONG . . . . . . . .87/81 KABUL . . . . . . . . . . .90/69 LONDON . . . . . . . . . .65/57 MOSCOW . . . . . . . . .82/64 NASSAU . . . . . . . . . .90/82

mc sh t t t t s cl pc t

Wednesday

Today

Hi/Lo Wx

City

68/60 75/57 93/80 77/62 88/78 88/75 91/69 67/56 92/63 90/81

PARIS . . . . . . . . . . . .69/59 ROME . . . . . . . . . . . .85/65 SAO PAULO . . . . . . .67/50 SEOUL . . . . . . . . . . .87/74 SINGAPORE . . . . . . .86/76 STOCKHOLM . . . . . . .69/61 SYDNEY . . . . . . . . . .62/43 TEHRAN . . . . . . . . . .95/79 TOKYO . . . . . . . . . . .89/81 ZURICH . . . . . . . . . . .67/56

sh pc t t t t s s pc t

Hi/Lo Wx pc s s pc t sh s s t sh

Wednesday

Today: Low

Hi/Lo Wx 69/56 86/64 70/49 86/74 85/76 69/60 68/43 96/79 88/79 69/55

pc s s t t ra pc s t pc

Pollen Rating Scale

ALBEMARLE . . . . . .92/72 BREVARD . . . . . . . . .84/68 CAPE FEAR . . . . . . .89/75 EMERALD ISLE . . . .84/77 FORT BRAGG . . . . . .95/74 GRANDFATHER MTN . .76/64 GREENVILLE . . . . . .93/73 HENDERSONVILLE .85/68 JACKSONVILLE . . . .92/72 KINSTON . . . . . . . . . .93/72 KITTY HAWK . . . . . . .86/77 MOUNT MITCHELL . .82/66 ROANOKE RAPIDS .94/74 SOUTHERN PINES . .95/73 WILLIAMSTON . . . . .93/73 YANCEYVILLE . . . . .90/72 ZEBULON . . . . . . . . .95/73

Precipitation (Yesterday) 24 hours through 6 p.m. . . . . . . .0.00" Month to Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2.77" Normal Month to Date . . . . . . . . .1.90" Year to Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29.84" Normal Year to Date . . . . . . . . .27.74" Record Precipitation . . . . . . . . . .1.72"

Sun and Moon

Around Our State City

Temperatures (Yesterday) High . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88 Low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74 Normal High . . . . . . . . . . . .86 Normal Low . . . . . . . . . . . .67 Last Year’s High . . . . . . . .89 Last Year’s Low . . . . . . . . .68 Record High . . . . .99 in 2007 Record Low . . . . . .52 in 1979

Air Quality

Predominant Types: Weeds

Today: 40 (Good) 0-50: 51-100: 101-150:

100 75

151-200: 201-300: 301-500:

50 25 0

12 0

1

Trees

Grasses

Good Moderate Unhealthy (sensitive) Unhealthy Very Unhealthy Hazardous

Air quality data is provided by the Forsyth County Environmental Affairs Department.

Weeds

0: Absent, 1-25: Low, 26-50: Moderate, 51-75: High, >75: Very High

BUSINESS

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PTIA looks for turnaround MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

TRIAD – The poor economy is the reason that the number of passengers flying out of Piedmont Triad International Airport continues to nosedive, according to officials at PTIA. Ted Johnson, the executive director of the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority, said there are simply not as many people flying now as there were before the downturn in the economy.

“All over the system, the airlines have cut out thousands of seats to try to get airplanes to the point where they’re making a little bit of money,” Johnson said.

In the first half of this year, there were 386,664 boardings at PTIA. The airport currently has 65 daily nonstop flights to 16 destinations. That puts the air-

port on track for its second straight year of less than 1 million passengers. It plummeted below 1 million last year, with 863,745 riders, a number it will struggle to match this year.

PTIA isn’t the only airport that has been affected by the economy. RaleighDurham International Airport has 190 daily nonstop flights to 35 destinations, about the same number of flights it had this time last year.

“We did see a decrease in flights in 2008 and some in 2009, but between 2009 and this year we’ve been holding around 190,” said Mindy Hamlin, a spokeswoman for RDU. According to statistics on Charlotte Douglas International Airport’s website, the airport’s number of daily nonstop flights has fluctuated the past two years.

Trading group bans Zimbabwe diamonds HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) – In what’s being hailed as an unprecedented move that will boost buyer awareness of blood diamonds, a global diamond trading network vowed Monday to expel any member who knowingly trades gems from two Zimbabwe mines where laborers have been killed and children enslaved.

The announcement by the U.S.-based Rapaport Diamond Trading Network, an industry diamond price and in-

formation provider, comes after international regulators declared the stones from the Zimbabwe mines conflict-free, backing off a ban they imposed in November and allowing 900,000 carats of diamonds to be auctioned last week.

“This is the first time that we’ve heard of a large group like the Rapaport group actually taking such a strong stand,” said Tiseke Kasambala, a Zimbabwe specialist with Human Rights Watch.

BRIEFS

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Intel to buy cable modem chip business

AP

Tourists stop at a clothing shop in Tokyo on Monday.

China overtakes Japan as No. 2 economy TOKYO (AP) – Japan lost its place as the world’s No. 2 economy to China in the second quarter as receding global growth sapped momentum and stunted a shaky recovery.

Gross domestic product grew at an annualized rate of just 0.4 percent, the government said Monday, far below the annualized 4.4 percent expansion in the first quarter and adding to evidence the global recovery is facing strong headwinds.

The figures underscore China’s emergence as an economic power that is changing everything from the global balance of military and financial power to how cars are designed.

It is already the biggest exporter, auto buyer and steel producer, and its

global influence is expanding.

World stock markets mostly fell Monday on Japan’s second-quarter figures. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index fell 0.6 percent, hovering close to a 13-month low. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 0.6 percent while France’s CAC-40 fell 1 percent. Germany’s DAX, however, was up 0.1 percent.

In early morning trading on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 60.02, or 0.6 percent, to 10,242.83.

China has been a major force behind the world’s emergence from deep recession, delivering much-needed juice to the U.S., Japan and Europe. Tokyo’s latest numbers, however, suggest

that Chinese demand alone may not be enough for Japan or other economic giants.

“Japan is the canary in the gold mine because it depends very much on demand in Asia and China, and this demand is cooling quite a bit,” said Martin Schulz, senior economist at Fujitsu Research Institute in Tokyo. “This is a warning sign for all major economies that just focusing on overseas demand won’t be sufficient.”

China has surpassed Japan in quarterly GDP figures before, but this time it’s unlikely to relinquish the lead.

China’s economy will almost certainly be bigger than Japan’s at the end of 2010 because of the huge difference in each country’s growth rates.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.

– Intel says it’s buying a Texas Instruments unit that makes cable modem chips, which it intends to combine with its own processors for smarter modems and cable set-top boxes.

The companies did not reveal the terms of the deal in the Monday announcement.

Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. has supplied Motorola, Arris and Cisco’s Scientific Atlanta unit with chips for cable modems, representing much of the U.S. market.

Santa Clara-based Intel Corp. says all employees of the TI unit have been offered positions. It expects the deal to close in the fourth quarter.

China Bank confirms world’s largest IPO SHANGHAI – The Agricultural Bank of China says it raised a world record $22.1 billion in its initial public offering last month, despite a tepid reception from investors, after exercising an overallotment option for its Shanghai share sale.

The bank, China’s main rural lender, sold an additional 3.34 billion shares at the IPO price of 2.68 yuan ($0.39) per share as part of the overallotment, as expected, according to a notice Monday on the Web site of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

The extra 8.94 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) raised pushed the dual Hong Kong-Shanghai IPO to $22.1 billion , surpassing the previous record.

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