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No sign of Washington bailing out Detroit

BY TOM RAUM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — During the bleakest days of the Great Recession, Congress agreed in bipartisan votes to bail out two of Detroit’s biggest businesses, General Motors and Chrysler.

Today, however, there seems little appetite from either Democrats or Republicans in Washington for a federal rescue of the birthplace of the automobile industry. Detroit now

stands as the largest American city ever to file for bankruptcy protection.

Such a bailout would be huge, perhaps as much as $20 billion. Federal resources are strained, with the national debt at $16.7 trillion and the federal government struggling under the constraints of automatic spending cuts that took effect in March.

President Barack Obama has had a hard enough time getting his present proposals though Congress, where Democ-

rats hold a narrow majority in the Senate and Republicans are in firm control of the House.

“I think it would be a waste of the president’s time to even propose it.

His plate is so full and throwing Detroit into the mix is the last thing in the world he’d want,” said Ross Baker, a political science professor at Rutgers University who specializes in Congress. “I think the era of big government bailouts is over.”

Political leaders in

Washington haven’t pushed for a bailout of Detroit, which was the nation’s fourth-largest city in the 1950s but since has had a declining population, accelerated by hard times for the auto industry during and right after the punishing 2008-2009 recession.

Congress is still in neargridlock territory. Opportunities for spending vast sums of money on a bailout for Detroit seem severely limited. The White House is taking a

wait-and-see approach, but clearly exhibiting little enthusiasm for another big bailout.

“Can we help Detroit?

We don’t know,” Vice President Joe Biden said in a response to a reporter’s question about a possible federal rescue. Presidential spokesman Jay Carney, when asked directly if a bailout was a possibility, appeared to rule out such assistance.

“We will, of course, as we would with any city in this country, work with

that city and have policy discussions with leaders in the city, and make suggestions and offer assistance where we can,” Carney said. “But on the issue of insolvency … that’s something that local leaders and creditors are going to have to resolve.

But we will be partners in an effort to assist the city and the state as they move forward.”

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A trio of hovercraft negoiate a course on the Great Miami River in Piqua on Saturday during the International Hovercraft Championship races held this past weekend.

Carolyn and Randi Pearson load a canoe with trash items, including a discarded fiberglass shower enclosure, along the Great Miami River in Piqua on Saturday. The Pearsons were volunteering for the annual P.O.W.W. river cleanup event.

A number of car enthusiasts turned out at Fountain Park on Saturday for the annual city car Gary Williams of Lima pilots his Titan X-50, 600 series helicopter at the Upper Valley Fun Fliers Fly-In on Saturday. show.

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Kids find courage at bereavement camp

BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@civitasmedia.com MIAMI COUNTY — Learning how to drive through the pain of losing a loved one isn’t easy, but Hospice of Miami County counselors and support staff are behind the wheel, steering Camp Courageous participants guiding them through the bereavement process.

This week more than 30 campers participated in the 18th annual Camp Courageous camp sponsored by Hospice of

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Chaplain Ed Ellis answers questions with children in regard to death and why it is good to pray. About 50 campers participated in the bereavement camp hosted by Hospice of Miami County.

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BY CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) Helen Thomas, the irrepressible White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history to grill 10 presidents and was not shy about sharing her opinions, died Saturday. She was 92.

Thomas, who died at her apartment in Washington, had been ill for a long time, and in and out of the hospital before coming home Thursday, according to a friend, Muriel Dobbin.

Thomas made her name as a bulldog for United Press International in the great wireservice rivalries of old, and as a pioneer for women in journalism.

She was persistent to the point of badgering.

One White House press secretary described her questioning as “torture” and he was one of her fans.

Her refusal to conceal her strong opinions, even when posing questions to a president, and her public hostility toward Israel, caused discomfort among colleagues.

In 2010, that tendency finally ended a career which had started in 1943 and made her one of the best known journalists in Washington. On a videotape circulated on the Internet, she said Israelis should “get out of Palestine” and “go home” to Germany, Poland or the United States. The remark brought down widespread condemnation and she ended her career.

In January 2011, she became a columnist for a free weekly paper in a Washington suburb, months after the controversy forced her from her previous post.

In her long career, she was indelibly associated with the ritual ending White House news conferences. She was often the one to deliver the closing line: “Thank you, Mister.

President” four polite words that belied a fierce competitive streak.

Her disdain for White House secrecy and dodging spanned five decades, back to President John Kennedy. Her freedom to voice her peppery opinions as a speaker and a Hearst columnist came late in her career.

The Bush administration marginalized her, clearly peeved with a journalist who had challenged President George W. Bush to his face on the Iraq war and declared him the worst president in history.

After she quit UPI in 2000 by then an outsized figure in a shrunken organization her influence waned.

Thomas was accustomed to getting under the skin of presidents, if not to the cold shoulder.

“If you want to be loved,” she said years earlier, “go into something else.”

There was a lighter mood in August 2009, on her 89th birthday, when President Barack Obama popped into in the White House briefing room unannounced. He led the roomful of reporters in singing “Happy Birthday to You” and gave her cupcakes. As it happened, it

was the president’s birthday too, his 48th.

Thomas was at the forefront of women’s achievements in journalism. She was one of the first female reporters to break out of the White House “women’s beat” the soft stories about presidents’ kids, wives, their teas and their hairdos and cover the hard news on an equal footing with men.

She became the first female White House bureau chief for a wire service when UPI named her to the position in 1974. She was also the first female officer at the National Press Club, where women had once been barred as members and she had to fight for admission into the 1959 luncheon speech where Soviet Premier Khrushchev Nikita warned: “We will bury you.”

The belligerent Khrushchev was an unlikely ally in one sense.

He had refused to speak at any Washington venue that excluded women, she said.

Thomas fought, too, for a more open presidency, resisting all moves by a succession of administrations to restrict press access.

“People will never know how hard it is to get information,” Thomas told an interviewer, “especially if it’s locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they’d stamp TOP SECRET on the color of the walls.”

Born in Winchester, Ky., to Lebanese immigrants, Thomas was the seventh of nine children. It was in high school, after working

on the student newspaper, that she decided she wanted to become a reporter.

After graduating from Detroit’s Wayne University (now Wayne State University), Thomas headed straight for the nation’s capital. She landed a $17.50-a-week position as a copy girl, with duties that included fetching coffee and doughnuts for editors at the Washington Daily News.

United Press later United Press International soon hired her to write local news stories for the radio wire. Her assignments were relegated at first to women’s news, society items and celebrity profiles.

Her big break came after the 1960 election that sent Kennedy to the White House, and landed Thomas her first assignment related to the presidency. She was sent to Palm Beach, Fla., to cover the vacation of the president-elect and his family.

JFK’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, complained that he learned of his daughter Luci’s engagement from Thomas’s story.

Bigger and better assignments would follow for Thomas, among them President Richard M. Nixon’s breakthrough trip to China in 1972.

When the Watergate scandal began consuming Nixon’s presidency, Martha Mitchell, the notoriously unguarded wife of the attorney general, would call Thomas late at night to unload her frustrations at what she saw as the betrayal of her husband John by the president’s men.

were the lessons he had taught her including: how to fish, always be nice to everyone, how to work hard and to look both ways before crossing the street.

Activities such as the cardboard cars, memory stones and pillow cases and quilts with memory messages were part of the memorializing activities of the camp.

Susan Adkins, the director of the camp through Hospice of Miami County, said she enjoys see the children connect with the more than 35 staff and nursing students from Edison State Community College during the week-long camp. Four former campers came back this year as counselors.

“It’s great to see those who used to be campers, come back as counselors and share their stories and experiences,” Adkins said.

Maggie Steineman, 20, of Troy, was a Camp Courageous participant after losing her father at the age of 11. Now, Steineman said she’s a nursing student and came back to the camp to help children through the process.

“I still have the cement stone I made at camp, it’s at (my father’s) grave,” Steineman said. “I still have my pillow too.”

Steineman also said she feels like she can connect with the campers who have lost a loved one at a young age.

“I thought I could relate to the kids a little bit better,” she said. “I know the feelings that they are going through.”

Heather Skaggs, 20, of Troy, came to Camp Courageous after losing her father at the age of 13.

“I know what it was like to lose a parent or loved one so I wanted to come back to relate to them like

no one else can,” Skaggs said. “It was really cool to come back and help these kids because I’m still dealing with it.”

It was the second year to attend Camp Courageous for Ryan Strunk of Sidney.

The 10 year-old said he liked being at a place where other children his age have experience loss.

“I met a couple people that also lost their dad,” Strunk said. “So they know what I mean when I told them about my dad. I like that there are other people know what I mean when I talk about him.

Qurri Tucker, 13, of Piqua said he liked making a memory stone in honor of his grandfather.

“We liked to fish just because it was fun,” Tucker said. “I’ve met a whole bunch of new people and I’m having a lot of fun.”

aren’t clamoring just yet for a federal bailout. “We just need to step back and think about it,” said Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich.

The city’s emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, says that for now, Detroit will stay open, bills will be paid and city services provided.

But the bankruptcy case could take years to resolve. Ahead of the filing, the city’s two pension funds sued to block a bankruptcy. Bankruptcy could change pension and retiree benefits, which are guaranteed under state law. The impact on current city workers is unclear.

President Gerald Ford, after threatening in 1975 to veto any bill that would bail out New York City, went along with a $2.3 billion rescue loan that had strings attached.

More recently, the federal government threw a financial lifeline to both General Motors and Chrysler (the Ford Motor

Company didn’t request the aid) and acted to protect major Wall Street and banking institutions from insolvency. Federal stimulus spending and rescue loans started in the final year of the George W. Bush administration and extended through the Obama presidency.

Now, with the economy slowly recovering, most of the direct government anti-recession aid has ended although the Federal Reserve continues to provide financial stimulus by keeping short-term interest rates extremely low while buying $85 billion a month in government and mortgage bonds to keep mortgage and other longterm rates low.

“The chances of a federal bailout are remote” given partisan gridlock in Washington, said Bruce Katz, a former official with the Department of Housing and Urban Development who now is director of the metropolitan policy program for the

Washington-based Brookings Institution.

“But I don’t think the federal government is off the hook,” Katz said. “It is a substantial investor in Detroit. Whether it’s community development block grants or federal contracts or assistance to nongovernmental recipients, there’s a substantial amount of federal money that goes into Detroit.

There’s a role for the federal government. And it needs to make its resources more flexible than today and align them with the priorities of Detroit.”

“A lot of this could be done administratively, but in the end it will have to have some congressional engagement. This is almost like a Hurricane Sandy situation,” Katz said.

Norman Ornstein, an expert on Congress with the American Enterprise Institute, said that “despite the great success with the bailout of the auto industry,” such rescues by the government “are going to

Camp Continued from page 1 learn how to honor and remember loved ones that have passed on.

A new craft this year were large cardboard cars, big enough for some campers to take naps inside, which attach meaning to each part of the “car.”

Volunteer Laura Jackson explained that the wheels of the car have lessons they’ve learned from their loved ones, bumper stickers for memories and finally a steering wheel to symbolize “to drive off in the future.”

Keara Stace, 7, of Fletcher said her favorite activity at the camp was making the cardboard cars.

“They are just fun to make,” Stace said. “I like sitting in it.”

On the wheels of Stace’s car, her father David passed away last summer,

Detroit Continued from page 1 bailout after the city filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection Thursday, and Republican Gov. Rick Snyder isn’t, either.

“People should not expect bailouts at either the federal or the state level,” Snyder said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We’ve been very diligent about this. We want to be a supportive partner at the state level.

I believe the federal government does (too).”

Detroit’s bankruptcy could last at least through summer or fall 2014, when Snyder is expected to ask voters for another term.

“I deeply respect the citizens of Detroit,” he said.

“They along with the other 9 million people in our state hired me to do this job. They’re my customers. This was a tough step, a difficult decision, but it’s the right decision.”

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Obituaries

Wilford L. ‘Wimpy’ Roof COVINGTON — Wilford L. “Wimpy” Roof, 85, of Covington, went home to be with the Lord at 5:58 p.m. on S a t u rd a y , J u l y 2 0 , 2013, at Covington C a r e Center, Covington. He ROOF w a s born in Wheelersburg on Aug. 3, 1928, to the late Albert and Josephine (Mitchell) Roof. On Oct. 18, 1952, in Wheelersburg, he married Patricia “Pat” Dutiel. She survives.

Wimpy is also survived by one son and his fiancé: Stanley Bruce Roof and Cindy Dobbs, Piqua; two sisters: Bertha Adkins, Portsmouth, and Anna Mae Cartee, Franklin Furnace; one brother: Harold Roof, Dayton; and two grandchildren: Bryce R. Roof and Tori Nix, both of Piqua. He was preceded in death by five sisters and four brothers.

Wimpy was a member of Piqua Freewill Baptist Church, Piqua. He was

also a member of Covington VFW, Covington AM Vets and was on the AM Vets Firing Squad of TriVillage. Wimpy proudly served his country as a member of the U.S. Navy for 2 years and the U.S. Army for 5 years. He worked for Benning Construction for 20 years and for Roy Howard Construction for 15 years. He retired in 1993.

Funeral services will be Wednesday at noon at Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, Piqua, with Pastor Dennie Cantrell officiating. Burial will follow in Miami Memorial Park, Covington, with full military honors by the Tri-Village Honor Guard. Friends may call Wednesday from 10 a.m.-noon at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Miami County, P. O. Box 502, Troy, OH 45373 or Piqua Freewill Baptist Church, 1500 Clark Ave., Piqua, OH 45356.

Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.melcher-sowers.com.

Caroline C. Shafer COVINGTON — Caroline C. Shafer, 95 of Covington, passed away Sunday, July 21, 2013 at Heartland of Piqua. Caroline was born in Laura on Feb. 2, 1918, to the (late) Edward and Gertrude (Jones) Mears; and retired from Decker’s Meat, Piqua.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Clyde A. Shafer Sr., in 1980; son, Clyde A. Shafer Jr.; five sisters, Irene, Katie, Opal, Jackie, and Marie; and brother, Charles.

Caroline is survived by her four grandchildren, Carl and Melissa Shafer of Covington, Carol and Lloyd Boyer of Rockford,

Phyllis Shafer of Bradford and Peggy McGraw of Piqua; daughter-in-law, Kathy Shafer of Covington; eight great-grandchilfive dren; g r e a t - g r e a t grandchildren; nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Funeral service will be at noon Wednesday at the Bridges-StockerFraley Funeral Home, Covington.

Interment Miami Memorial Park Cemetery, Covington. The family will receive friends 10 a.m. Wednesday until time of service. Condolences may be left for the family at www.stockerfraley.com.

Peggy Hahn CHRISTI, CORPUS Texas — Peggy Hahn, 68, of Corpus Christi, succumbed to lung cancer a n d d i e d Friday, J u l y 1 9 , 2013, j u s t after m i d night in Kind r e d HAHN Hospital in Corpus Christi.

She was born July 6, 1945, the daughter of Richard and Mary Welbaum, who both preceded her in death. She married Bill Hahn and he survives in Corpus Christi.

She is also survived by

two sons and a daughterin-law, Johnie Burton, and Dalbert and Angel Burton, all of Troy; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Kim and Paul Jacobs of Lockington, Miracle and Doug Couchot of Findlay, and Shawn Freeman, of Piqua; 11 grandchildren; and a sister, Ruth Evans of Covington.

She was preceded in death by her parents, late of Casstown; a sister, Barb Massie, late of Troy; and a son-in-law, Bobby Freeman.

Peggy had worked at the Speedy Stop 7/11, at Webber and South Padre Island drives in Corpus Christi.

A private memorial service will be held for the family.

Death notice LAURA — Harry Bare Jr., 80, of Laura, passed away Friday, July 19, 2013, at his residence. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Wednesday, at the Church of the Transfiguration, West Milton with Father John MaQuarrie as Celebrant, withentombment to follow at Calvary Cemetery Mausoleum. HaleSarver Family Funeral Home,West Milton, is in charge of arrangements.

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be hard to come by in the future.”

As to extending a helping hand for Detroit, Ornstein said it would be hard to get any federal aid package past House Republicans, “who I just can’t imagine have any interest in doing anything for Detroit.” The city is heavily Democratic.

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Age: 2 Birthdate: July 20, 2011 Parents: Jon and Jodi McGraw of Piqua Siblings: Bella and Reed Grandparents: Bob and Christa Black of Piqua and Janet McGraw of Piqua Great-grandparents:: Elinor Gattshall of Piqua and Bob and LaVera Black of OLIVIA LYNN Zephyrhills, Fla. MCGRAW

Age: 2 Birthdate: July 20, 2011 Parents: Jon and Jodi McGraw of Piqua Siblings: Bella and Olivia Grandparents: Bob and Christa Black of Piqua and Janet McGraw of Piqua Great-grandparents:: Elinor Gattshall of Piqua and Bob and LaVera Black of REED PATRICK Zephyrhills, Fla. MCGRAW

Meyer to join Lehman Hall of Fame SIDNEY — The Lehman Catholic High School Alumni Association has announced the school’s seventh annual Lehman Hall of Fame Induction. This year’s inductees include four distinguished individuals – Leesa A. Baker, Betty Hemmert, Clifford Hoying, and Robert J. (Pete) Meyer — who will be honored at the Lehman Catholic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies on Saturday, Aug. 3.

Since beginning this tradition, the Hall of Fame Committee has sought to honor not only alumni but outstanding faculty and supporters of Lehman Catholic. The Hall of Fame ceremonies will begin with Mass at 5:15 p.m. in the Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Chapel on campus.

Cocktails will be served at 6 p.m. with dinner to follow at 6:30 p.m. in the Harriett J. Frantz Gymnasium.

Inductee Robert J. (Pete) Meyer was a mem-

MEYER ber of the 1963 Holy Angels High School graduating class. Holy Angels High School (Sidney) consolidated with Piqua Catholic High School to form Lehman in 1970.

After graduating from high school, Meyer worked for two years at the Stolle Corporation before enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1965. Soon after his marriage to Nancy Manger of Botkins, Robert left for a tour of duty in Vietnam.

He never returned. He

died on January 14, 1967, five days after he was wounded during a search and destroy operation conducted by his platoon near Duy Nuyen province.

Lance Corporal Meyer is listed on Panel 14E Line 029 of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C. At Holy Angels High School, Robert (nicknamed Pete by his classmates) was treasurer of his class and a member of the basketball team. He was handsome and popular, the typical student athlete of his generation.

“Pete was athletic, he had intelligence, and he had that smile,” said Keith Coffman in his letter of nomination. “There was just something about him that made everybody like him. He was a patriot too.

He and I raised the flag every morning at school and then he gave his life for his country. He is very deserving of the Hall of Fame honor because he made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.”

Meyer is one of two men connected to Lehman’s history who died in Vietnam – one a Sidney Holy Angels graduate and the other a Piqua Catholic graduate. Charles Marion Koon of the Piqua Catholic class of 1968 was killed in action from multiple fragment wounds in Cambodia on May 12, 1970. He was inducted into the Lehman Hall of Fame in 2007. Now it is Pete Meyer’s turn to be recognized with the Hall of Fame honor.

Meyer’s induction to the Hall of Fame will be tied into the Holy Angels Class of 1963s 50th class reunion. “We’ve heard from people all over the country,” said Coffman. “We are anticipating a great turnout for Pete.”

Tickets for the Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony are available by contacting the Lehman Catholic Development Office. The deadline for ordering tickets is July 29.

Age: 9 Birthdate: July 23, 2004 Parents: Chris and Abby Hatley of Troy Grandparents: Vicki Kenworthy of Piqua, Dennis Trapp of Sidney and Brandall and Lisa Hatley of Camden, Tenn.

Great-grandparents: David and Phyllis Kenworthy of Covington, Jack and Frances CHRISTOPHER Trapp of West Milton WAYNE HATLEY II and Helen Hatley of Camden, Tenn.

Cohen R.W. Brown Age: 6 Birthdate: July 22, 2007 Parents: Dustin and Amanda Brown of Piqua Grandparents: Ken and Jean Heath of Piqua and Don and Beverly Brown of Piqua Great-grandparents: Joan Kelley of Piqua and Dick and COHEN R.W. BROWN Pat Stanford of Rushsylvania

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s the Senate headed for a showdown this week over a Democratic threat to erode the filibuster rule, a senior Republican was musing about the party leaders he’d known over his long career.

It should never have come to this, he said sadly. Previous leaders — like Republican Howard Baker and Democrat Robert Byrd — would have found a compromise long before the entire Senate came within hours of blowing itself up. Their counterparts today — Democrat Harry Reid and Republican Mitch McConnell — barely speak to each other, except to hurl insults.

Fortunately, the crisis was averted because Republican John McCain and Democrat Chuck Schumer — who also helped craft the bipartisan immigration bill — again acted like grown-ups and saved the day, brokering a deal that forced both sides to bend a bit. Republicans released most of the president’s nominees they’d been stalling; Democrats pulled back on their challenge to the rules.

During critical negotiations, the official leaders were largely sidelined. As the Washington Post reported, “left to their own, Reid and McConnell could not have reached this pact,” and their “treacherous relationship ... leaves the Senate in a dangerous position going forward on critical legislative negoti- STEVE AND COKIE ROBERTS ations.”

This whole incident reColumnist inforces the point made by our Republican source.

The Senate suffers today from a profound failure of leadership — in both parties. McConnell said recently that if Reid changed the rules he’d “be remembered as the worst leader of the Senate ever.” Reid surely thinks the same damning description would apply to McConnell as well.

The poisonous connection between the two leaders lacks both affection and trust, and with good reason.

Both accuse the other of going back on his word and both have legitimate grounds for complaint.

Under McConnell, Republicans have badly abused the filibuster, blocking numerous nominations and requiring 60 votes on even minor issues. Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico is right when he argues, “Let’s not let the tyranny of the minority continue.”

But it was Reid who provoked the latest standoff, advocating changes in a rule he had ardently defended during the Bush administration when Republicans complained that Democrats were unfairly blocking the president’s judicial choices. His insistence on pushing the Senate to the brink of disaster was irresponsible and unnecessary.

The two leaders, however, are also shaped and shackled by the lawmakers they try to lead, and the composition of the Senate is changing rapidly. For the worse.

Eight years ago, a bipartisan “Gang of 14” forged a compromise that defused the confrontation over Bush’s judges. Only five of those 14 remain in the Senate today.

Some senior lawmakers have died in office (Democrats Robert Byrd and Dan Inouye) or retired voluntarily (Republican John Warner). Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski, herself the daughter of a senator, told the Post that the chamber sorely misses those “senators who carried with them the sense of the history and the traditions of the Senate.”

Moderates in both parties have found life on Capitol Hill increasingly uncomfortable and unproductive. Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine quit with a blast of frustration: “What I like to call the sensible center has now virtually disappeared in Washington.” Democratturned-Independent Joe Lieberman also retired, estranged from his party after losing a primary to a left-wing challenger who derided him for working with Republicans like McCain.

Dealmakers need partners, and the center of the Senate has hollowed out. Still, leadership can make a difference. As that senior Republican told us, McConnell and Reid have forgotten the lessons preached

by Howard Baker, who served as Republican leader in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.

In 1998, at a convocation celebrating his career, Baker recalled that during his tenure he often found himself “engaged in fire-breathing passionate debate with my fellow Senators” about incendiary issues from Watergate to the Panama Canal.

“But no sooner had the final word been spoken and the last vote taken,” he said, “than I would usually walk to the desk of my most recent antagonist, extend a hand of friendship, and solicit his support for the next issue for the following day.”

“People may think we’re crazy when we do that,” Baker conceded. “Or perhaps they think our debates are fraudulent to begin with. ... But we aren’t crazy and we aren’t frauds.” These rituals are “as natural as breathing here in the Senate” and validate Lincoln’s adage: “We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies.”

Like many politicians in Washington today, Reid and McConnell are enemies, not friends. They should listen to Baker. And Lincoln.

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No gloating, maximum dignity trend — perhaps the This place has come to norm — because the two gridlock,” complete parties are moving at said Sen. Mary Lanwarp speed away from drieu of Louisiana. “Somethe middle of American thing has to change.” politics. It’s not that senSenator Landrieu’s ators felt Obama’s nomistatement is the most sucnees were incompetent. cinct -- and most telling -None so far has morally summary of what comDONNA BRAZILE embarrassed themselves pelled the U.S. Senate to or their loved ones. meet in private for nearly Columnist Instead, increasingly four hours this week.

Something, indeed, had to change. The ideological senators felt their interests irony is that only the threat of a change overrode the process of self-government. greater than ending gridlock could force For instance, the people’s elected representatives, in response to the financial the change.

Turns out, what terrified the senators crisis, chose to create a Consumer Fiwas Senate Majority Leader Harry nancial Protection Bureau. But some ReReid’s threat to change the Senate’s publican senators didn’t like it. And so rules so that instead of requiring a they’ve filibustered Obama’s appoint“super-majority” (60 votes) to end a fili- ments to head the agency for over two buster, a simple majority (51) could do it. years.

The first appointee, Elizabeth Warren, (Another irony: It was Vice President Richard Nixon who argued, in 1957, that was unable to take office because of the the Senate’s presiding officer could make filibuster. She then ran for -- and won -this change.) If Harry Reid hadn’t really a seat in the Senate; now she could cast meant he would change the Senate rules her support for a person to head the by majority vote, the Senate would still agency alongside the same senators who be embracing gridlock of Obama’s nomi- wouldn’t permit a vote on her. The agency’s acting director, Richard Cornees.

Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Ten- dray, has finally been confirmed, thanks nessee said, “This may be one of those to Reid. It took only two and a half years.

This isn’t the way Hamilton, Jeffermoments ... where the Senate actually acts in a spontaneous way and does son, Madison, Monroe and the founding something.” Well, “spontaneous” only if a fathers intended the Senate to work. In mad scramble resulting from senators fact, the Senate pretty much worked the realizing Reid really meant what he said way they envisioned until the 1990s. can be defined as “spontaneous.” It was Since then, it seems the minority must more like, “OMG, Harry, you actually get its way in all things. (That used to be want the Senate to get something done?! called “blackmail.”) Both parties have filibustered judicial appointees, proposed What’s the least we can do?”

Some of my conservative colleagues laws, Cabinet heads, budgets -- everywarned that any changes in the rules thing.

According to Reid, Mitch McConnell that govern Senate procedure could ruin whatever “comity” existed. My response: used the filibuster 420 times. McConnell Really? I think many of us would argue doesn’t deny it. While majority leader, that few things have more fundamen- Lyndon Baines Johnson contended with tally threatened the institutions of our exactly one filibuster. The filibuster is government than the Senate’s abuse of supposed to be a safeguard, a tool for a its own procedures over the last two minority of one (if need be) to stop a headstrong public push to disastrous acdecades.

Previously, Senate procedure was to tion. Instead, the filibuster has become use the filibuster sparingly. From 1789 a tool for legislative tyranny.

Reid found a way, if only for seven onward, senators felt that a president should (by and large) have the people he nominees, to stop the gridlock and halt wants to run the executive branch. No the filibuster madness. He was willing to one thought of holding up the people’s use the “constitutional” (aka “nuclear”) business by stopping Cabinet heads or option and set a new precedent. The Senimportant governmental bodies from ate panicked. Better to temporarily abandon gridlock and obstruction than doing their jobs.

The change began during the 1990s consider efficiency, compromise or legisunder the Clinton administration, when lating to “promote the general welfare.”

But don’t think the filibuster is dead. nine of Clinton’s appointments were filibustered. Seven of President George W. In 2005, rule change was a hot topic, but Bush’s appointees were filibustered. So nothing happened. In 2013, the topic refar, 16 of Obama’s appointees were turned. Yes, this time the senators stopped from taking office. As Obama’s avoided the “nuclear option.”

But if the Senate doesn’t change its second term began, the number was proways and play by centuries-old procejected to go as high as 28.

There were no filibusters of executive dures, Reid promises to use it.

You go, Harry. branch nominees throughout the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Donna Brazile is a senior Democratic Ford and the elder Bush. None, zip, nada, zilch. During Carter’s and Rea- strategist, a political commentator and gan’s presidencies, two each of their ap- contributor to CNN and ABC News, and a contributing columnist to Ms. Magapointments were filibustered.

Filibustering nominees has become a zine and O, the Oprah Magazine.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The investigator who wrote a scathing report about the Internal Revenue Service targeting tea party groups says he is “disturbed” the agency withheld newly released documents showing progressive groups may also have been singled out for additional scrutiny.

IRS Inspector General J. Russell George told a congressional panel Thursday the IRS did not provide the documents to his office during a yearlong audit. George said he just received the documents last week.

George issued a report in May that said IRS agents in a Cincinnati office improperly singled out groups with “tea party” and other conservative labels for additional scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 elections.

George’s report blamed ineffective management for allowing the practice to continue for more than 18 months, delaying hundreds of applications for more than a year.

Since the revelations were made public, three congressional committees and the Justice Department launched investigations and much of the top leadership was replaced, including the acting commissioner.

“The reason the report focuses on the terms‘tea party,’ ‘patriots’ and‘9/12’ is that the IRS provided us a document at the beginning of our audit that shows these were the terms they used to select the potential political cases,” George told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Last month, the IRS provided documents to Congress that suggested some liberal and progressive groups may have been singled out for additional scrutiny as well — information that was not included in George’s May report. Some Democratic lawmakers said this was proof that George’s report was one-sided.

“The committee has obtained new documents that raise serious questions about the inspector general’s report, his testimony before Congress and his subsequent assertions in letters to members of Congress,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the oversight committee.

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Beach house is no picnic for this stressed-out wife

RUNNING: DEAR Leaving your husband is not the solution. Telling the individuals who are taking advantage of your hospitality that the rules have changed is. Set rules before guests arrive. If it’s not convenient for you to entertain, speak up and say so when the relatives call to say they’re coming. Make it clear that they will be doing their own laundry, buying their own groceries, etc.

And while you’re at it, understand that the reason this has gotten out of hand is partly your husband’s fault. He’s retired; he can lend a hand.

The Good Lord gave you the gift of speech. For the sake of your sanity and your marriage, I’m suggesting you use it.

DEAR ABBY: Seven years ago, I was in a relationship with a man I thought was my soul mate.

(I’ll call him Louis.) We were together for two years and had planned on getting married right after college.

Louis ended up breaking the engagement and six months later married another woman. I was shocked and heartbroken.

We went our separate ways.

Louis contacted me recently. He apologized for the past and said he was out of his mind for losing me. He also said he was recently divorced and wants to see me to “catch up.”

I have healed from the heartache and moved on, but I am not currently in a relationship. I am content with my life. The problem is, my curiosity and my

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Advice heart are tripping me up.

I’m wary of falling back in love with Louis and don’t want to reopen any old wounds.

What do you think, Abby? Should I meet him and see what happens, or let the past stay where it is?

— OVER HIM? IN NEW YORK DEAR OVER HIM?: Louis may be a cad — or he may have become more mature in the last seven years.

Because you are curious, I think you should go. But if he starts wooing you again, do not get serious unless you have had couples counseling. It’s important that you clearly understand what went wrong in your romance the first time so it doesn’t happen again.

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BOSTON (AP) — A state police sergeant who released striking photos of the capture of the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings faces a hearing to determine if he will be suspended until an internal investigation is complete.

Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said the agency didn’t authorize Sgt. Sean Murphy to release the photos to Boston Magazine and won’t release them to other media.

Murphy told Boston Magazine he released the photos because he was furious over a Rolling Stone cover photo he believes glamorizes suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He said his photos show “the real Boston bomber, not someone fluffed and buffed for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.” The music magazine hits the shelves this week, and some retailers have said they won’t sell it.

Procopio said Friday that Murphy has been relieved of duty for one day and there will be a hearing to decide if he will be suspended until the internal investigation is complete.

He did not say when the hearing will be.

Murphy has not returned calls from The Associated Press. No one answered the door Friday at the blue cottage along the coast in Biddeford, Maine, where neighbors said he spends weekends.

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“Talk to the state police, they violated the rules when they did it,” he said in response to a question from a reporter.

Asked if he was concerned the release of the photos would compromise the investigation of Tsar-

naev, Patrick again referred questions to the state police.

An aide to the governor later said Patrick was only referring to the individual officer who released the photos, not any other members of the state police.

Internet shows its muscle by making Emmy history

BY LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Emmy Awards are television’s biggest celebration of itself, but this year’s ceremony will face an intruder: “House of Cards,” the first online series to nab a top nomination with its best drama series.

Netflix’s triumph on Thursday, which includes nods for its revival of “Arrested Development,” is putting a further squeeze on the broadcast networks that already have lost substantial Emmy ground to cable. New network offerings were almost completely shut out and, like last year, no network drama made the nominations cut.

Kevin Spacey, the nominated star of the political drama “House of Cards,” reveled in its impressive nine bids and role as a groundbreaker.

It’s “really, in many ways, kind of a new paradigm,” he said. “It’s just a great, great thing for all of us.”

The major networks, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, likely have a different viewpoint.

Cable channels over the year have sharply eroded their share of the audience, and now the Internet is nibbling

away and will only become more robust as viewers turn increasingly to computers and other devices to consume video.

A 6-year-old TV academy rules change allows online entries to compete with cable and broadcast programs, but until Thursday online shows popped up only in lower-profile categories.

“It’s really groundbreaking,” said Ted Sarandos, chief content officer for Netflix.

“It’s beyond our most bold expectations. We were thinking a single nomination would be a win... It’s as much a win for Internet television as it is for the content creators.”

Networks still field the most-watched series — such as top-rated series “NCIS” and the 20 million-plus viewers it delivers weekly to CBS — and enjoy the rich opportunities they represent.

“There’s nothing more profitable than having a big broadcast television hit that can be exploited on multiple platforms,” including syndication and online, said Garth

variably won with dummy’s jack. Declarer then took a heart finesse, losing the queen to West’s king. West returned a spade, ruffed by East, who exited with a trump to declarer’s ace. South then led a club and finessed the ten, putting East on lead

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is the swords-and-fantasy show’s most-ever and includes a best drama series nod and three acting bids, including one for Peter Dinklage.

Recognition went to a number of other primarily big-screen actors who have migrated to TV for powerhouse projects, with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon for “Under the Candelabra” among them.

Joining “House of Cards” and “Game of Thrones” in the best drama series category are “Breaking Bad,” ‘’Downton Abbey,” ‘’Mad Men” and last year’s winner, “Homeland.”

“Mad Men,” which last year missed out on the best drama trophy that would have been its record-setting fifth, eclipsing fellow fourtime winners “Hill Street Blues,” ‘’L.A. Law” and “The West Wing,” gets another shot this year.

“Mad Men” and its creator failed to receive any writing nominations for the first time in the series’ six-year history.

Besides “American Horror Story: Asylum,” others nominated in the miniseries or movie category are “Behind the Candelabra,” ‘’Phil Spector,” ‘’Political Animals,” ‘’Top of the Lake” and “The Bible,” which was a hit for the History channel and is getting a sequel on NBC. Hot British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who gained fame in “Sherlock” and played the villain in “Star Trek Into Darkness,” is nominated as best lead actor in the movie and miniseries category for “Parade’s End.” In the comedy series category, nominees are “The Big Bang Theory,” ‘’Girls,” ‘’Louie,” ‘’Modern Family,” ‘’Veep” and “30 Rock,” recognized for its final season. Another outgoing comedy, “The Office,” didn’t receive a best series nod.

Joining Spacey in the contest for best drama series actor are Hugh Bonneville, “Downton Abbey”; Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”; Jeff Daniels, “The Newsroom”; and Damian Lewis, “Homeland,” last year’s winner.

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But when the Emmys are presented this fall on CBS, it will surely be irritating to serve as a promotional vehicle for the competition. The ceremony rotates among the big four broadcasters who, with the exception of basically flat NBC, saw their number of Emmy bids decline this year.

Besides the showing by Netflix, the leading number of nominations went to a cable miniseries, FX’s “American Horror Story: Asylum.”

HBO fielded the next top nominees: “Game of Thrones” with 16 nods and the Liberace biopic “Behind the Candelabra” earned 15 nominations.

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” came in with 15 as well, but it, outgoing “30 Rock” (also NBC, 13 bids) and “Modern Family” (ABC, 12 nominations) had the only impressive tallies for broadcast.

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Gov. Deval Patrick appeared reticent on the issue Friday as he walked quickly back to his office after an event in the Statehouse.

This deal occurred in the 1975 London Sunday Times Invitational Pairs.

At five of the nine tables where South got to four hearts, the play followed identical lines.

West led a spade, in-

reached, East returned a low diamond. Declarer played low and had no trouble making the rest of the tricks. But at one table, East (Peter Weichsel, partnered by Alan Sontag, the winners of the event) returned a club. As a result, South had to lose a diamond trick and go down one.

It is truly astonishing that in such a high-caliber field, four Easts could make the same error. The play to this point indicated that declarer had started with exactly three spades, five hearts and in this position: two clubs, leaving him At four of the five tables with three diamonds. A where this position was club return, even though

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I have been a fool for putting up with everyone having a carefree vacation at my expense. I’m so angry I’m ready to leave my husband with his dream. The last three years have been hell. When friends and family ask why I left, should I tell them, or keep my mouth shut and build a peaceful life by myself?

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In a photo from July 18 a new surveillance system that displays on the rear view mirror in police cars automatically sounds a chime, locks the doors and rolls up the windows if it detects someone approaching the car from behind. It was developed by Ford engineer Randy Freiburger who works with police and ambulance customers to make sure the company’s vehicles are meeting their needs. pany’s vehicles are meeting their needs. He got the idea last August while accompanying Yoon Nam, a deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Nam was asked to respond to a report of a possible drug offense in a gritty area of Compton, Calif. She told Freiburger to stay in the car and radio for help if he needed it while she went to talk to the suspect. When the suspect took off running and Nam followed him, Freiburger found himself alone, with another suspect approaching him.

Nam tried not to lose sight of Freiburger, and she radioed for help. Both

Technology officer Sean Collier was also killed in his cruiser, allegedly by the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings.

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BY DEE-ANN DURBIN the day and at night, when work alone when she was officers are often the most on patrols. When she was AP Auto Writer vulnerable. It can be making traffic stops, or DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) turned off if officers are in had a suspect detained in — Police could soon be get- high traffic areas with a lot her vehicle, the suspect’s ting some extra backup — of pedestrians. friends or family members from their cars.

InterMotive sells Surwould frequently approach Ford Motor Co. has a veillance Mode for $248.33 her car. “We’re trained to new surveillance system as a stand-alone option. It’s look up and look around at for police cars that auto- $75 when part of a package all times, but having that matically sounds a chime, of other options, including extra feature in the vehicle locks the doors and puts up a dimmer for interior lights would help,” she said. the windows if it detects if the officer doesn’t want Police are already helpsomeone approaching the to be seen and a system ing improve the system. car from behind. The sys- that automatically turns Ellison says InterMotive tem — which Ford is down the radio if a call plans an upgrade that will patenting — make the is the first of brake lights its kind. automatically “It’s like inGeneral Motors may be come on when %QORCP[ January through June, surance. You gaining ground on 5RQVNKIJV which puts it on pace for someone is sales of around 9.7 Toyota. The Detroit you hope approaching million for the year. automaker sold 9.3 million cars never need it.

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The first artificial satellite was passing overhead.

And it wasn’t just man-made, it was Soviet-made.

Beach ball-sized Sputnik touched off a space race and stoked big fears that American students might not be up to the challenges of the Cold War. Calls to improve science and technical education led President Dwight Eisenhower to establish a lowinterest college loan program through the National Defense Education Act of 1958. The loan dollars came directly from the government. ___ Then came Lyndon Johnson’s “war on poverty.”

Student loans got a major boost in 1965 as part of the president’s Great Society initiatives. The Higher Education Act expanded loans as well as grants to help needy students, contributing to the era’s college boom. It also changed the way the federal loan program was financed. Instead of using government money directly, the loans would be made by bankers.

But the government guaranteed that if students defaulted, the U.S. government would cover the tab.

Lawmakers liked that approach because outstanding loans wouldn’t show up on the government’s books as red ink. ___ And that led to the birth of Sallie Mae. In 1972, President Richard Nixon spearheaded creation of the Student Loan Marketing Association — known by the nickname Sallie Mae — to help get more money to college students.

Sallie Mae was a “government-sponsored enterprise.” It got help from the U.S. Treasury to buy up banks’ student loans, freeing up the banks’ money and encouraging them to do more federally insured lending.

Sallie Mae was fully privatized in 2004 and is now a corporate giant of the private student loan and college savings businesses. ___ Taxpayers took the risk; bankers got the rewards.

Using private companies to handle governmentbacked loans proved to be more complicated and expensive for taxpayers than direct federal loans. So President Bill Clinton sought to switch back to a direct-loan system more like the one in the Sputnik days.

But many Republicans opposed direct loans as a government takeover. And private lenders didn’t want the feds moving in on their lucrative market.

Congress compromised by phasing in some direct federal loans while keeping guarantees in place for the bank loans.

For more than a decade, the banks appeared to be winning the battle against direct loans. Colleges largely decided which kinds of loans to offer their students, and the aggressively marketed private loans were more popular than the lesser-known government alternative. ___ The 2008 financial crisis changed everything.

With chaos on Wall Street and credit markets in a tailspin, private student loan money started drying up. To keep money flowing to college students, Congress gave the Education Department power to step in and buy loans from cash-strapped lenders.

Meanwhile, with fewer banks offering loans to students, the number of colleges turning to direct federal loans shot up.

The shine was off private lenders. ___ In 2010, Uncle Sam took over.

Private lenders waged an intense lobbying campaign to hang onto the government-backed student loan market. But in the end, Congress approved President Barack Obama’s plan to give commercial banks the boot.

Now, the entire federal student loan program belongs to Washington.

Banks and other private lenders still loan money to students on their own, without a federal guarantee. Some students need the outside help to fill in the gaps as college costs keep climbing.

And many people are still paying off student loans they got through private lenders under the old Federal Family Education Loan program before it ended on July 1, 2010. ___ Under today’s system, direct federal loans are considered the better deal for students.

The government loans generally have lower interest rates than bank loans. And the feds offer flexible payment options for people who have trouble with their bills after graduation.

Also, students who qualify for subsidized Stafford loans, based on financial need, don’t rack up interest charges while they’re in school. Students who go into public service careers such as teaching can have their loans forgiven or discounted. And graduates who work in exceptionally low-paying professions stand to have their loans completely forgiven after 25 years.

Students with federal loans are at the mercy of Congress and its bickering, however.

A messy standoff has temporarily doubled interest rates on new subsidized Stafford student loans this summer. But a bipartisan compromise promises to head off that rate hike before students sign up for loans in the fall.

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Fracking chemicals didn’t taint water

BY KEVIN BEGOS Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press.

After a year of monitoring, the researchers found that the chemical-laced fluids used to free gas trapped deep below the surface stayed thousands of feet below the shallower areas that supply drinking water, geologist Richard Hammack said.

Although the results are preliminary — the study is still ongoing — they are a boost to a natural gas industry that has fought complaints from environmental groups and property owners who call fracking dangerous.

Drilling fluids tagged with unique markers were injected more than 8,000 feet below the surface but were not detected in a monitoring zone 3,000 feet higher. That means the potentially dangerous substances stayed about a mile away from drinking water supplies.

“This is good news,” said Duke University scientist Rob Jackson, who was not involved with the study.

He called it a “useful and important approach” to monitoring fracking, but he cautioned that the single study doesn’t prove that fracking can’t pollute, since geology and industry practices vary widely in Pennsylvania and across the nation.

The boom in gas drilling has led to tens of thousands of new wells being drilled in recent years, many in the Marcellus Shale formation that lies under parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia. That’s led to major economic benefits but also fears that the chemicals used in the drilling process could spread to water supplies.

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An environmental activist sits atop of tripod made of trees as other demonstrators loiter during a protest outside of the Momentive resin plant July 8 in Morganton, N.C. Dozens of environmental activists blocked a chemical plant Monday to protest against the company’s sale of products used in the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

The mix of chemicals varies by company and region, and while some are openly listed the industry has complained that disclosing special formulas could violate trade secrets.

Some of the chemicals are toxic and could cause health problems in significant doses, so the lack of full transparency has worried landowners and public health experts.

The study done by the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh marked the first time that a drilling company let government scientists inject special tracers into the fracking fluid and then continue

regular monitoring to see whether it spread toward drinking water sources.

The research is being done at a drilling site in Greene County, which is southwest of Pittsburgh and adjacent to West Virginia.

Eight Marcellus Shale wells were monitored seismically and one was injected with four different man-made tracers at different stages of the fracking process, which involves setting off small explosions to break the rock apart. The scientists also monitored a separate series of older gas wells that are about 3,000 feet above the Marcellus to see if the fracking fluid

reached up to them.

The industry and many state and federal regulators have long contended that fracking itself won’t contaminate surface drinking water because of the extreme depth of the gas wells. Most are more than a mile underground, while drinking water aquifers are usually within 500 to 1000 feet of the surface.

Kathryn Klaber, CEO of the industry-led Marcellus Shale Coalition, called the study “great news.”

“It’s important that we continue to seek partnerships that can study these issues and inform the public of the findings,” Klaber

said.

While the lack of contamination is encouraging, Jackson said he wondered whether the unidentified drilling company might have consciously or unconsciously taken extra care with the research site, since it was being watched. He also noted that other aspects of the drilling process can cause pollution, such as poor well construction, surface spills of chemicals and wastewater.

Jackson and his colleagues at Duke have done numerous studies over the last few years that looked at whether gas drilling is contaminat-

ing nearby drinking water, with mixed results. None has found chemical contamination but they did find evidence that natural gas escaped from some wells near the surface and polluted drinking water in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Scott Anderson, a drilling expert with the Environment Defense Fund, said the results sound very interesting.

“Very few people think that fracking at significant depths routinely leads to water contamination. But the jury is still out on what the odds are that this might happen in special situations,” Anderson said.

One finding surprised the researchers: Seismic monitoring determined one hydraulic fracture traveled 1,800 feet out from the well bore; most traveled just a few hundred feet. That’s significant because some groups environmental have questioned whether the fractures could go all the way to the surface.

The researchers believe that fracture may have hit naturally occurring faults, and that’s something both industry and regulators don’t want.

“We would like to be able to predict those areas” with natural faults and avoid them, Hammack said.

Jackson said the 1,800foot fracture was interesting but noted it is still a mile from the surface.

The DOE team will start to publish full results of the tests over the next few months, said Hammack, who called the large amount of field data from the study “the real deal.”

“People probably will be looking at the data for years to come,” he said.

On Friday, DOE spokesman David Anna added that while nothing of concern has been found thus far, “the results are far too preliminary to make any firm claims.”

Fertilizer industry grows despite safety concerns

BY DAVID MERCER AND RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI Associated Press TUSCOLA, Ill. (AP) — In years past, Brian Moody’s efforts to bring economic development to his small Illinois town focused on modest projects: merging an old hardware store whose owner was retiring with another shop to preserve 30 jobs or pointing artists to a vacant downtown building.

Now he has a bigger prospect. Cronus Chemicals wants to build a $1.2 billion plant on a nearby cornfield that would manufacture nitrogen-based fertilizer, a staple of the corn and soybean farms that fill the landscape around Tuscola, a community of 4,500 people about 160 miles south of Chicago.

Similar projects are being proposed across the nation, driven by booming demand for corn and newly abundant supplies of natural gas, a major component in fertilizer production. The plants promise thousands of jobs during construction and hundreds of full-time spots once they’re up and running. And most of them would go in small, rural towns where economic development isn’t easy.

“It’s equally time-consuming and frustrating,” Moody said, explaining that such promising job-creating opportunities are rare.

The wave of potential expansion comes with concerns. An explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant in

April killed 15 people in the community of West, highlighting the dangers of such facilities and how loosely they’re regulated.

But in communities like Tuscola, local officials say they’re prepared to handle those risks.A large chemical plant already stands near the proposed fertilizer site.

“The fact is that whether these plants are going to be here or not, we have three major railroads that go right through the middle of this community,” said Steve Hettinger, chief of the Tus-

cola Fire Department.

“Those railroads on a daily basis move all kinds of threats.”

Experts say conditions are ripe to bring fertilizer production back to the United States after an exodus to the Caribbean and elsewhere a decade or more ago, when high domestic natural gas prices drove many manufactures away.

Since then, new methods of finding natural gas — hydraulic fracturing, which uses high-pressure water and chemicals to break

dense layers of rock, and horizontal drilling — have set off energy booms in parts of Pennsylvania, Texas and other states.

“It shouldn’t be a surprise that there are a lot of people investing in the fertilizer business right now,” said Pat Westhoff, an agricultural economist at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Like Tuscola, most of the sites being considered are already home to other chemical facilities, which were drawn by the same

rail lines and other industrial infrastructure that are attractive to the fertilizer industry.

Over the past two years, the trade publication Argus FMB North American Fertilizer has tracked about 20 proposed fertilizer projects in the United States and Canada, said Lauren Williamson, an Argus editor.

Potential new plant locations include Indiana, Iowa, Illinois and North Dakota.

Existing factories in Iowa, Louisiana and Oklahoma could be expanded.

Fertilizer is big business, especially in agricultural regions where farmers rely on nitrogen-based products.

Profits for publicly traded fertilizer producers have averaged 20 percent or more over the last decade, according to Gary Schnitkey, an agricultural economist at the University of Illinois, about 25 miles north of Tuscola.

The plant proposed by Cronus Chemical promises about 2,000 short-term construction jobs and 150 permanent positions.

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‘Bridezillas’ comes to an end Fear not ‘Marriage Boot Camp’ spinoff

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This image from video released by WE TV shows Kirsten Walker, a bride showcased on the sixth season of the popular wedding series “Bridezillas.” Walker was a theater actor before hitting the show with enough drama for an Oscar, warring with her band, lamenting that her dress had been cut too short and sobbing on her wedding day. “Bridezillas” is ending its decade-long run, having morphed from a relatively sane look at stressed-out, spendy New York brides into a hit for WE tv featuring off-the-hook couples from all walks of life around the country.

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Hence the heavy drinking for oh so many bridezillas. Kirsten Walker of Season 6 was among the thirsty.

She was a theater actor before hitting the show and demonstrating Oscar-worthy drama, warring with her band, lamenting tearily that her dress had been cut too short (“It’s called math!”) and sobbing “My tan is running” on her wedding day.

Leigh Edwards, a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee, said “Bridezillas” and her TV kin put a tangle of cultural anxieties on the line.

“At stake is a larger cultural debate about the status of the family as a social unit, i.e. expanded definitions of what counts as a family, questions about whether the household will replace the family as a social unit, questions about how central family is as a social unit at this point in American culture,” said Edwards, who wrote “The Triumph of Reality TV: The Revolution of American Television.”

Walker and husband Seth also landed on “Marriage Boot Camp,” noting at the start that they no longer slept in the same room most nights. They now have a 2year-old daughter who Walker happily dresses in tutus.

“I think that every bride has a bridezilla in her,” she said from Dunedin, Fla., outside Tampa. “The people they put on ‘Bridezillas’ just happen to maybe get a little bit crazier than some of the others in the world.”

Crazy is one thing. (Hello Jeanine of Season 9 and your in-law hating infamy.)

But made crazy by the wedding process is another.

Alpha-bride Calisse Latta of Season 3 did the proposing to hubby De’Andre.

As her DIY wedding approached, she threatened a dress seller with a punch and a lawsuit when he gave her the wrong size for a flower girl. She fell seriously apart when her father went missing the day before the wedding and melted down on her sister for defying her over the timing of a rehearsal just hours before the ceremony.

Then the rings went missing, prompting her mad dash around town only to realize she had them all along at the church.

“They don’t coach you or tell you to do anything. My husband was like, this is all you in your natural form.

You see this? This is you,” Latta laughed.

Happily married with two sons, what’s the rage level these days for this bridezilla alum in Los Angeles?

“I try not to get so upset or angry, but it’s taken time to implement,” Latta said nearly seven years after her episodes aired.

And was she fairly portrayed? “Yes, unfortunately.”

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Minnich Classic hits 25 years

Austin wins PGA tourney MADISON, Miss. (AP) — Woody Austin won the Sanderson Farms Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour victory since 2007, beating Cameron Beckman and Daniel Summerhays with an 8-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff.

The 49-year-old Austin is the eighth oldest winner in PGA Tour history and the oldest since Fred Funk won at 50 in 2007.

Austin came into the final round two shots behind Summerhays and Nicholas Thompson, but made up ground with a 5under 67 to finish at 20under 268.

Beckman and Summerhays both birdied No. 18 to match Austin, and Beckman missed a 5-foot putt that would have forced a second playoff hole.

Beckman shot 67, and Summerhays had a 69.

Austin was making his fourth PGA Tour start of the year.

He has four career victories.

Summerhays and Thompson started the day tied for the lead, two shots ahead the pack.

Recari outlasts Creamer by one

Event honoring former fire chief closing in on $100,000 raised

BY ROB KISER Call Sports Editor rkiser@dailycall.com It seems fitting that the Dick Minnich Charity Golf Classic will be played for the 25th time Aug. 13 at Shelby Oaks Golf Course.

For those not fortunate enough to have known Minnich, which would be virtually no one who grew up in Covington in the second half of the 20th century, his life was all about helping others.

The former Covington fire chief, who died in 1988, touched the lives of too many to count during his life — and must be looking down and smiling as he continues too with the annual golf outing.

“We passed the $96,000 mark last year (in money raised since the tournament’s inception),” Jay Meyer, who is turning over the reigns of tournament director to Andy Johnson this year, said. “He (Dick Minnich) was just one of those guys who was always helping people and the schools. A real selfless guy. He was a guy who meant so much to the community. Dick always did a lot for the youth of the community, so the money has

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always going to organizations of all kinds that benefit the youth. Lately, it has been scholarships and the PLUS organization.”

When Minnich died, a group of his friends knew something needed to be done.

“A bunch of us were talking at the Optimist on a Wednesday about wanting to do something annually to honor him,” Meyer said. “It started out See MINNICH/Page 11

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Dick Minnich would be smiling about the success of the Charity Golf Classic that was started 25 years ago to honor him.

Bucs avoid sweep

SYLVANIA (AP) — The head-to-head duel between Beatriz Recari and Paula Creamer in the final round of the Marathon Classic on Sunday was great theater.

Don't be surprised if there's a sequel.

Recari rolled in a 12foot birdie putt on the 14th hole to take the lead for good and hung on to hold off Creamer for her third LPGA Tour title.

They started the day tied and spent most of the day trading the lead — as if it were match play.

The duel in the heat in suburban Toledo might have been foreshadowing for when both players participate in next month's Solheim Cup at the Colorado Golf Club, Recari for the European side and Paula Creamer for the United States.

"Back and forth, back and forth," Recari said of their Sunday showdown.

"It totally felt like the Solheim Cup."

Locke shuts down Reds

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Cincinnati pitcher Homer Bailey fires a strike Sunday against Pitsburgh.

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many Q: How major championships has golfer Phil Mickelson won?

CINCINNATI (AP) — Jeff Locke broke into a grin before taking any questions.

"Happy to be back," the lefthander said.

No one's happier than the Pittsburgh Pirates, who used their formula from a highly successful first half — great pitching, just enough scoring — to salvage the final game of their series with Cincinnati Reds on Sunday. Locke allowed only an infield single through six innings of a 3-2 victory.

Second-place Pittsburgh left town with a three-game cushion See REDS/Page 11

Cleveland inks first-round pick Mingo gets $16 million deal

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QUOTED “I want to go out and get it. And today, I did.”

—Phil Mickelson after shooting 66 in the final round at the British Open

Barkevious Mingo is in camp and ready to go, and now everybody at 76 Lou Groza Boulevard is excited and upbeat about training camp.

The Browns first-round draft pick signed a fouryear contract early Sunday worth about $16 million, including a signing bonus for about $10 million.

The contract is fully

guaranteed.

Mingo will be on the practice field Sunday with the other draft picks and undrafted rookies. The first full-squad workout is 4 p.m. Thursday. That is the first practice open to the public.

The Browns are counting on Mingo to add some bite to their pass rush.

He produced only 4.5 sacks at LSU last year, but says that was a product of the system more See MINGO/Page 10

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Mickelson charges to British Open title Shoots 66 to win Claret Jug GULLANE, Scotland (AP) — One of the greatest final rounds in a major. Two of the best shots he ever struck with a 3-wood. The third leg of the Grand Slam.

Phil Mickelson never imagined any of this happening at the British Open.

No wonder he never took his hand off the base of that silver claret jug as he talked about the best Sunday he ever had at a major. Five shots out of the lead, Mickelson blew past Tiger Woods, caught up to Lee Westwood and Masters champion Adam Scott, and won golf's oldest championship with the lowest final round in his 80 majors.

With four birdies over the last six holes, Mickelson closed with a 5-under 66 for a three-shot win over Henrik Stenson.

No longer is he mystified by links golf, and he has his name etched in that jug to prove it.

"This is such an accomplishment for me because I just never knew if I'd be able to develop the game to play links golf effectively," Mickelson said. "To play the best round arguably of my career, to putt better than I've ever putted, to shoot the round of my life ... it feels amazing to win the claret jug."

Introduced as the "champion golfer of the year," he held the oldest trophy in golf over his head to show it off to one side of the massive grandstand lining the 18th green at Muirfield, and then the other. An hour earlier, they gave the 43year-old Mickelson the loudest ovation of the week as he walked up the

final fairway.

He drained an 8-foot birdie putt and thrust his arms in the air, hugged caddie Jim "Bones" Mackay and whispered to him, "I did it." After signing for the lowest final round ever at Muirfield, Mickelson huddled with his wife and three children — back from a quick holiday to Spain — for a long embrace and waited for the others to finish.

Westwood, who started the day with a two-shot lead, fell behind for the first time all day with a bogey on the par-3 13th hole and never recovered, closing with a 75.

Scott took the outright lead with a 4-foot birdie on the 11th, and then closed as sloppily as he did last year when he threw away the Open at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. He made four straight bogeys starting at the 13th, and a final bogey on the 18th gave him a 72.

At least he has a green jacket from the Master to console him.

Woods, in his best position to win a major since the crisis in his personal life, stumbled badly on his way to a 74 and was never a serious challenger.

"We know that he goes for broke, and if that's how he was feeling and pulling it off, he's got the ability to do that," Scott said about Mickelson. "And he's gone and won an Open easily.

So every credit to him."

At the end of a roughand-tumble week along the Firth of Forth, Mickelson was the only player under par at 3-under 283.

In his four other majors — three Masters and one PGA Championship — he had never started the final round more than one shot behind.

"I don't care either way how I got this trophy — I got it," Mickelson said.

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Phil Mickelson celebrates after his final putt.

"And it just so happened to be with one of the best rounds of my career, which is really the way I've played my entire career.

I've always tried to go out and get it. I don't want anybody to hand it to me. I want to go out and get it.

And today, I did."

Westwood, whose only other 54-hole lead in a major ended with Mickelson winning the Masters, paid tribute to Lefty for what will go down as one of the great closing rounds in a major.

"When you birdie four of the last six of a round any day, that's good going," Westwood said. "With a

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decent breeze blowing and some tough flags out there, it's obviously a pretty good experience.

When you do it in a major championship, it's an even better experience."

But this major? Phil Mickelson?

He had only contended twice in two decades at golf's oldest championship. One week after he won the Scottish Open in a playoff on the linksstyled course of Castle Stuart, Mickelson was simply magical on the back nine of a brown, brittle Muirfield course that hasn't played this tough since 1966.

Tied for the lead, Mickelson smashed a 3-wood onto the green at the par5 17th to about 25 feet for a two-putt birdie, and finished in style with a 10foot birdie putt on the 18th to match the lowest score of this championship.

"Those two 3-woods were the two best shots of the week, to get it on that green," Mickelson said.

"As I was walking up to the green, that was when I realized that this is very much my championship in my control. And I was getting a little emotional. I had to kind of take a second to slow down my walk and try to regain composure."

Mickelson figured a par on the 18th would be tough for anyone to catch him. When the ball dropped in the center of the cup, he raised both arms in the air to celebrate his fifth career major, tying him with the likes of Seve Ballesteros and Byron Nelson.

"Best round I've ever seen him play," said his caddie, Jim "Bones" Mackay.

His final surge was right about the time Westwood and Scott began to fold.

Scott, trying to join an exclusive list of players who have won a green jacket and a claret jug in the same year, made a remarkable recovery from the dunes right of the par3 13th hole, only to miss the 7-foot par putt. He took three putts for bogeys on the next two holes — from long range on the 14th, and from 20 feet on the 15th — and found a bunker on the next.

Westwood started to lose his grip on the jug with bogeys on the seventh and eighth, and failing to birdie the

downwind, par-5 ninth.

Presented with birdie chances early on the back nine, his putting stroke began to look tentative.

Westwood and Scott tied for third with Ian Poulter, who played a fourhole stretch in 5-under around the turn and closed with a 67. At 1-over 285, he canceled a flight home in case of a playoff.

Moments later, with Mickelson pulling away, the outcome was clear.

Jack Nicklaus said on Twitter, "Phil's round was incredible. After his bad break on 16 and to then get up and down showed a lot of guts. And the two great shots at 17 ended the tournament." this even Making sweeter for Mickelson is that just one month ago he lost out on yet another chance to win the U.S. Open, the missing link of a career Grand Slam.

Mickelson twice made bogey with wedge in his hand on the back nine at Merion and had his record sixth runner-up finish.

Woods, Nicklaus, Gary Player, Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen are the only players to win all four professional majors. Mickelson figured it would be the British Open that would hold him back. Now he has the jug, and he never took his hand off it during his press conference.

"I think that if I'm able to win the U.S. Open and complete the career Grand Slam, I think that that's the sign of the complete, great player," Mickelson said. "And I'm a leg away.

And it's been a tough leg for me."

For now, Mickelson takes his place among an elite list of winners at Muirfield, which is considered the fairest of the links on the British Open rotation.

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Tour has real champion this time PARIS (AP) — I won't let you down like Lance Armstrong. This Tour de France champion is for real.

That, in so many words, is the promise Chris Froome made as the newest winner of cycling's showcase race so badly hurt over the years by riders who doped to win it.

Because of their deceit, Froome faced a series of questions as he dominated rivals over three weeks of racing, all centered on the same key concern: Can we believe in you?

Yes, he insisted. The sport is changing, he argued. He handled the scrutiny politely and adroitly. He said he understood the skepticism. And on the podium in Paris, his wiry frame wrapped in his canary yellow jersey, Froome asked the guardians of the 110-yearold race and all those who love it to trust him.

"This is one yellow jersey that will stand the test of time," he said.

In two years, Britain has had two winners: Bradley Wiggins in 2012 and now Froome, a cooler, calmer, more understated but no less determined character than his Sky teammate with famous sideburns.

Froome rode into Paris in style: Riders pedaled up to him to offer congratulations; he sipped from a flute of champagne; a Tour organizer stuck an arm from his car window to shake Froome's hand. He dedicated his victory to his late mother, Jane, who died in 2008.

"Without her encouragement to follow my

dreams I would probably be at home watching on TV," he said.

Froome took the race lead on Stage 8 in the Pyrenees, never relinquished it and vigorously fended off rivals whose concerted challenges turned this 100th Tour into a thriller. Froome and his Sky teammates linked arms as they rode for the line.

"This is a beautiful country with the finest annual sporting event on the planet. To win the 100th edition is an honor beyond any I've dreamed," he said.

Five-time winners Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain joined Froome on the podium.

Missing, of course, was Armstrong.

Stripping the serial doper of his seven wins tore a hole in the Tour's roll of honor as large as that left

by World War II, when the race didn't take place from 1940-46.

None of the 100th edition's podium finishers — Froome, Nairo Quintana and Joaquim Rodriguez — have ever failed a drug test or been directly implicated in any of cycling's litany of doping scandals.

That is an encouraging and notable departure both from the Armstrong era and many other Tour podiums before and since.

"In a way, I'm glad that I've had to face those questions. That after all the revelations last year and just the tarnished history over the last decade, all that's been channeled toward me now," Froome said. "I feel I've been able to deal with it reasonably

well throughout this Tour, and hopefully that's sent a strong message to the cycling world that the sport has changed — and it really has."

"The peloton's standing together, the riders are united and it's not going to be accepted anymore."

The spectacular nighttime ceremonies, with the Eiffel Tower in glittering lights and the Arc de Triomphe used as a screen for a flashing lightshow, capped what has been a visually stunning Tour.

It started with a firstever swing through Corsica, France's so-called "island of beauty," before veering through the Pyrenees to Brittany and then across France to the race's crescendo in the Alps — 2,115 grueling miles in total.

Because of the unique late-afternoon start for the final Stage 21, the riders raced on the cobbles of the Champs-Elysees as the sun cast golden hues over the peloton and shadows lengthened over the dense, cheering crowds.

Marcel Kittel won the final sprint on the avenue, the German's sprinter's fourth stage win of this Tour.

French Air Force jets in formation trailed red, white and blue smoke in the skies. The riders circled like a necklace around the Arc de Triomphe in their bright colored team jerseys.

After setting off from the magnificent Versailles Palace, the riders were granted the privilege of meandering through the chateau's manicured gardens.

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Mingo Continued from page 9 than a decline in talent.

He registered eight sacks as a sophomore in 2011.

Mingo weighed 237 pounds at the rookie symposium last month in Berea. His current weight, according to the Browns release announcing the signing, is 240 pounds.

Mingo indicated he doesn’t want to be any heavier than that for now because he doesn’t want added pounds to take away from his quickness.

“I’m just looking forward to it, being able to come out here, put the pads on for the first time and actually measure up to the older guys and see where I am and see what I have to do to get better,” Mingo said at the symposium. “I haven’t been able

to hit in a long time - since January, really. I’m just excited to come out here ready to compete.

“That’s what it’s all about. It’s about competing for a job and playing football.”

Mingo’s sack numbers dropped off at LSU because his assignment as a defensive end included playing more contain to make sure the quarterback, or running back, did not get outside going north while he was rushing south, nostrils flaring, to get a sack.

The Browns want to attack under the guidance of defensive coordinator Ray Horton, but this defense won’t leave the secondary naked as the one used by former defensive coordina-

tor Rob Ryan often did in 2009 and 2010. In other words, Mingo won’t just be rushing the quarterback on every play here, either.

“It’s very disciplined,” Mingo said. “Everybody has to do their job.

“If you don’t do your job, you’re putting stress on another teammate, and that’s what we don’t want to do. We want to take as much stress off as possible and obviously make the play.”

Mingo said he has a goal for sacks in mind, but won’t say what it is.

Mingo totaled 84 tackles with 12.5 sacks, three forced fumbles and one fumble recoveries in two seasons at LSU. He started 10 of 13 games last year.

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MLB Standings September, when they play each other six times in the last nine games.

Both hope they have a lot at stake when they get back together — the Reds trying for a second straight NL Central title, the Pirates trying to end their 20-year streak of losing records and reach the postseason for the first time since 1992.

They came away from their weekend series bunched a bit closer in their chase of divisionleading St. Louis.

Bailey threw the first of his two no-hitters last Sept. 28 in Pittsburgh, a 1-0 win over a team he has dominated during his career. He threw his second no-hitter on July 2.

Since then, he's started three games — two on the road — and gone 0-3 with a 5.50 ERA. Locke's performance was encouraging for the Pirates, who have stayed in contention despite injuries in the rotation.

Shin-Soo Choo's infield single in the first inning extended his hitting streak to a career-high 15 games.

Locke walked a pair and threw a wild pitch that let in a run in the fifth inning. He lowered his ERA to 2.11.

"What did he leave with, one hit?" manager Clint Hurdle said. "That's good stuff."

The Reds got another run in the eighth when Joey Votto grounded into a double play with the bases loaded against Mark Melancon, ending the reliever's streak of 15 scoreless innings. It was Cincinnati's best chance to pull off the three-game sweep.

"It hurts when you have opportunities like that," manager Dusty Baker said.

Minnich Continued from page 9 with Pastor Steve Kimm and myself. And Scott Johnson (Andy’s father, who died in 2002) and Bob Huelsman got involved.”

In the beginning, they were more focused on getting the tournament off the ground.

“Shelby Oaks has been great friends to us and tremendous to work with,” Meyer said. “But, for the first one, they told us they needed 80 golfers to make it worth their while. For the first one, we were just hoping to get the 80 golfers.”

It just took off from there.

“When we started out, it wasn’t like it is now, where there are two or three scrambles a week,” Meyer said. “It was one of the first of its kind. Dick was one of the my dad’s (Joe Meyer) best friends.

We started out with a mailing list of all his friends. But, really it is the whole community that has made it happen and supported it.”

Which is what makes the annual event so special.

“To be able to keep it going, especially with the economy in the state that it is, really says something,” Meyer said. “One of the big things is the sponsorship. We still have over 20-25 sponsors every year.

We have enough door prizes for everyone.

“It is just a lot of fun.

We may not raise as much money as some scrambles, but it is a community event. It has become a tradition. I think we had about 100 golfers the first year and by the mid 90s, we had 200 golfers. We had to use all three nines at Shelby Oaks.”

One person, who apparently knew it would be a long running event was

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Continued from page 9 over the NL Centralrival Reds, who won the first two games.

"There's still a lot of games left, but to get this final game is big," said Garrett Jones, who homered off Homer Bailey.

"Every game matters."

Locke (9-2) and the majors' second-stingiest bullpen limited the Reds to three singles, but issued seven walks and let a run score on a wild pitch.

Jason Grilli worked the ninth for his 30th save in 31 chances. His only blown save came in Cincinnati on June 19.

Locke had to miss his last scheduled start and couldn't pitch in the AllStar game because of a sore back. There were no problems when he got back on the mound.

"The back was great," Locke said.

Bailey (5-9) struck out a career-high 12 but remained winless since his no-hitter against San Francisco at Great American Ball Park this month.

Jones hit his second homer in two games, and the Pirates added a pair of runs in the seventh.

"That was the best I've ever seen Bailey," Jones said. "His velocity was up, his cutter was nasty and he was hitting his spots well."

The Pirates hit six homers during the series, all solo shots. It underscored their main concern as trade talks intensify: Can they score enough runs to make the playoffs?

"I'm just one of the pieces that need to pick it up," said Jones, who has 10 homers after hitting a career-high 27 last year. "I had a slow first half and this is the time to hit and be productive and help your team win."

The Ohio River rivals don't meet again until

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Huelsman, who came up with the huge trophy the winners names go on each year.

“Bob’s dad made it (the trophy) from scratch,” Meyer said. “I was looking at it this year and there is probably room for 35 more years.

“So, Bob must have known it would go on for a long time when he came up with the trophy.”

Another key element was Andy Johnson getting involved in helping Meyer run the tournament — and now he is ready to take it over.

“He has been my righthand man,” Meyer said.

“He is a young, energetic guy. It makes me feel good to know I have someone I can pass it on to.”

Andy Johnson has been involved in the event since his dad’s death.

“I didn’t know Dick (Minnich) — I was two years old when he died — but, it shows you what a special guy he was and it say something about the people of Covington to keep this going for 25 years,” Johnson said. “It shows you how they are committed to a good cause.

“You have to remember, when this thing started, golf courses didn’t like scrambles, then things started to change in the 1990s. Jay and my dad got the tournament started after Dick died. After my dad died in 2002, I started doing little things like sending out information and collecting players entries. I have started doing more and more. I guess you could say I am kind of taking it over.”

And continuing the annual tradition at 11 a.m. on the second Tuesday in August at Shelby Oaks — with Minnich smiling from up above

Major League Baseball At A Glance All Times EDT National League East Division Atlanta Philadelphia Washington New York Miami Central Division St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago Milwaukee West Division

W 55 49 48 43 35

L 43 50 50 51 61

Pct .561 .495 .490 .457 .365

GB — 6½ 7 10 19

W 59 57 55 43 41

L 37 39 43 53 56

Pct .615 .594 .561 .448 .423

GB — 2 5 16 18½

W L Pct GB Arizona 51 47 .520 — 50 47 .515 ½ Los Angeles Colorado 48 51 .485 3½ San Francisco 45 52 .464 5½ 43 56 .434 8½ San Diego Saturday's Games N.Y. Mets 5, Philadelphia 4 Chicago White Sox 10, Atlanta 6 Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 4 L.A. Dodgers 3, Washington 1, 10 innings Milwaukee 6, Miami 0 San Diego 5, St. Louis 3 Colorado 9, Chicago Cubs 3 San Francisco 4, Arizona 3 Sunday's Games N.Y. Mets 5, Philadelphia 0 Pittsburgh 3, Cincinnati 2 L.A. Dodgers 9, Washington 2 Chicago White Sox 3, Atlanta 1 Milwaukee 1, Miami 0, 13 innings St. Louis 3, San Diego 2 Arizona 3, San Francisco 1 Colorado 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Monday's Games Pittsburgh (Morton 1-2) at Washington (Haren 4-10), 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 7-3) at Toronto (Jo.Johnson 1-5), 7:07 p.m.

Atlanta (Teheran 7-5) at N.Y. Mets (Gee 7-7), 7:10 p.m.

San Diego (Cashner 5-5) at Milwaukee (Gorzelanny 13), 8:10 p.m.

Miami (Koehler 1-5) at Colorado (Pomeranz 0-3), 8:40 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Garza 6-1) at Arizona (Skaggs 2-1), 9:40 p.m.

Cincinnati (Arroyo 8-7) at San Francisco (Lincecum 59), 10:15 p.m.

Tuesday's Games Pittsburgh at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at San Francisco 7:05 p.m., 1st game L.A. Dodgers at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

San Diego at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

Miami at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Cincinnati at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m., 2nd game American League East Division Boston Tampa Bay Baltimore New York Toronto Central Division Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota Chicago West Division

W 59 58 55 52 45

L 40 41 43 45 52

Pct .596 .586 .561 .536 .464

GB — 1 3½ 6 13

W 53 52 45 41 39

L 44 46 50 54 56

Pct .546 .531 .474 .432 .411

GB — 1½ 7 11 13

W L Pct GB Oakland 57 41 .582 — 54 43 .557 2½ Texas Los Angeles 46 50 .479 10 Seattle 46 52 .469 11 33 64 .340 23½ Houston Saturday's Games Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 3 Chicago White Sox 10, Atlanta 6 N.Y. Yankees 5, Boston 2 Minnesota 3, Cleveland 2 Kansas City 6, Detroit 5 Seattle 4, Houston 2 Baltimore 7, Texas 4 L.A. Angels 2, Oakland 0 Sunday's Games Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 3 Chicago White Sox 3, Atlanta 1 Cleveland 7, Minnesota 1 Detroit 4, Kansas City 1 Seattle 12, Houston 5 Oakland 6, L.A. Angels 0 Baltimore at Texas N.Y. Yankees at Boston Monday's Games N.Y. Yankees (Nova 4-2) at Texas (Darvish 8-4), 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 7-3) at Toronto (Jo.Johnson 1-5), 7:07 p.m.

Tampa Bay (M.Moore 13-3) at Boston (Workman 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Feldman 1-1) at Kansas City (W.Davis 4-8), 8:10 p.m.

Detroit (Scherzer 13-1) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 68), 8:10 p.m.

Oakland (Milone 8-8) at Houston (Keuchel 4-5), 8:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Deduno 5-4) at L.A. Angels (Blanton 2-12), 10:05 p.m.

Cleveland (U.Jimenez 7-4) at Seattle (Harang 4-8), 10:10 p.m.

Tuesday's Games L.A. Dodgers at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

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

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

Oakland at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

Minnesota at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Reds Boxscore PIRATES 3, REDS 2 Pittsburgh

Cincinnati ab r h bi ab r h bi 3 0 2 0 SMarte lf 5 0 0 0 Choo cf Snider rf 4 0 0 0 Heisey lf 3 0 0 0 McCtch cf 4 0 0 0 Votto 1b 3 0 0 0 PAlvrz 3b 4 0 0 0 Phillips 2b 4 0 0 0 GJones 1b 3 1 1 1 Bruce rf 3 0 0 0 GSnchz 1b 0 0 0 0 Frazier 3b 4 0 1 0 McKnr c 4 1 2 0 Cozart ss 3 1 0 0 Mercer 2b 3 1 1 1 CMiller c 1 0 0 0 Barmes ss 2 0 1 0 Paul ph 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 N.Soto ph 1 0 0 0 Locke p Tabata ph 1 0 1 1 Mesorc c 1 0 0 0 Watson p 0 0 0 0 HBaily p 1 0 0 0 Morris p 0 0 0 0 Hoover p 0 0 0 0 JuWlsn p 0 0 0 0 DRonsn ph 0 1 0 0 Melncn p 0 0 0 0 Partch p 0 0 0 0 Inge ph 1 0 0 0 Grilli p 0 0 0 0 Totals 33 3 7 3 Totals 27 2 3 0 Pittsburgh 010 000 200—3 Cincinnati 000 010 010—2 DP—Pittsburgh 1. LOB—Pittsburgh 7, Cincinnati 6.

2B—McKenry (5). HR—G.Jones (10). CS—Choo (8). S— Barmes, H.Bailey.

IP H R ER BB SO Pittsburgh Locke W,9-2 6 1 1 1 4 6 Watson 0 0 0 0 1 0 Morris H,1 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 Ju.Wilson H,8 1-3 0 0 0 0 1 Melncon H,26 1 1 1 1 2 0 Grilli S,30-31 1 1 0 0 0 1 Cincinnati H.Bailey L,5-9 6 1-3 7 3 3 1 12 Hoover 1 2-3 0 0 0 1 2 Partch 1 0 0 0 0 2 Watson pitched to 1 batter in the 7th.

HBP—by Partch (Mercer). WP—Locke, H.Bailey. PB— C.Miller.

Umpires—Home, James Hoye; First, Bob Davidson; Second, Jim Reynolds; Third, John Hirschbeck.

T—3:18. A—40,824 (42,319).

MLB Leaders TODAY'S MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING—YMolina, St. Louis, .336; Craig, St. Louis, .332; Cuddyer, Colorado, .329; MCarpenter, St. Louis, .325; Segura, Milwaukee, .325; Posey, San Francisco, .323; Votto, Cincinnati, .317.

RUNS—MCarpenter, St. Louis, 75; CGonzalez, Colorado, 71; Choo, Cincinnati, 68; Votto, Cincinnati, 68; Holliday, St. Louis, 64; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 62; JUpton, Atlanta, 61.

RBI—Goldschmidt, Arizona, 78; Phillips, Cincinnati, 78; Craig, St. Louis, 77; DBrown, Philadelphia, 69; Bruce, Cincinnati, 66; CGonzalez, Colorado, 66; FFreeman, Atlanta, 64.

HITS—Segura, Milwaukee, 125; MCarpenter, St. Louis, 120; Craig, St. Louis, 120; Votto, Cincinnati, 114; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 112;YMolina, St. Louis, 112; CGonzalez, Colorado, 110; DWright, New York, 110.

DOUBLES—MCarpenter, St. Louis, 31; Bruce, Cincinnati, 28; YMolina, St. Louis, 28; Posey, San Francisco, 28;

Rizzo, Chicago, 28; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 27; GParra, Arizona, 27.

TRIPLES—CGomez, Milwaukee, 9; SMarte, Pittsburgh, 8; Segura, Milwaukee, 8; Span, Washington, 7; CGonzalez, Colorado, 6; Hechavarria, Miami, 5; DWright, New York, 5.

HOME RUNS—CGonzalez, Colorado, 26; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 24; DBrown, Philadelphia, 24; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 21; Beltran, St. Louis, 19; Bruce, Cincinnati, 19; Uggla, Atlanta, 19.

STOLEN BASES—ECabrera, San Diego, 34; Segura, Milwaukee, 30; SMarte, Pittsburgh, 28; Revere, Philadelphia, 22; CGomez, Milwaukee, 21; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 21; CGonzalez, Colorado, 18; Pierre, Miami, 18; EYoung, New York, 18.

PITCHING—Wainwright, St. Louis, 13-5; Zimmermann, Washington, 12-5; Corbin, Arizona, 11-1; Lynn, St. Louis, 11-5; ClLee, Philadelphia, 10-4; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 10-6; 12 tied at 9.

ERA—Kershaw, Los Angeles, 2.01; Locke, Pittsburgh, 2.11; Harvey, New York, 2.23; Corbin, Arizona, 2.35; Wainwright, St. Louis, 2.44; Fernandez, Miami, 2.75; TWood, Chicago, 2.79; Leake, Cincinnati, 2.79.

STRIKEOUTS—Harvey, New York, 157; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 148; Wainwright, St. Louis, 137; Samardzija, Chicago, 134; HBailey, Cincinnati, 133; Latos, Cincinnati, 132; ClLee, Philadelphia, 131.

SAVES—Grilli, Pittsburgh, 30; Mujica, St. Louis, 28; Kimbrel, Atlanta, 27; RSoriano, Washington, 25; Romo, San Francisco, 23; Chapman, Cincinnati, 23; Papelbon, Philadelphia, 20.

AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—MiCabrera, Detroit, .359; DOrtiz, Boston, .322; Trout, Los Angeles, .321; Mauer, Minnesota, .320; Loney, Tampa Bay, .314; ABeltre, Texas, .313; Pedroia, Boston, .313; CDavis, Baltimore, .313.

RUNS—MiCabrera, Detroit, 75; CDavis, Baltimore, 71; AJones, Baltimore, 68; Trout, Los Angeles, 67; DeJennings, Tampa Bay, 65; Bautista, Toronto, 63; Encarnacion, Toronto, 61.

RBI—MiCabrera, Detroit, 96; CDavis, Baltimore, 94; Encarnacion, Toronto, 74; Fielder, Detroit, 70; NCruz, Texas, 69; AJones, Baltimore, 69; Cano, New York, 67.

HITS—MiCabrera, Detroit, 134; Machado, Baltimore, 131; Trout, Los Angeles, 122; ABeltre, Texas, 120; AJones, Baltimore, 120; Pedroia, Boston, 120; Ellsbury, Boston, 117.

DOUBLES—Machado, Baltimore, 39; Mauer, Minnesota, 31; Trout, Los Angeles, 29; CDavis, Baltimore, 28; JCastro, Houston, 26; JhPeralta, Detroit, 26; Pedroia, Boston, 25; AlRamirez, Chicago, 25.

TRIPLES—Trout, Los Angeles, 8; Ellsbury, Boston, 7; Drew, Boston, 6; Gardner, New York, 5; DeJennings, Tampa Bay, 5; LMartin, Texas, 5; Kawasaki, Toronto, 4; HKendrick, Los Angeles, 4.

HOME RUNS—CDavis, Baltimore, 37; MiCabrera, Detroit, 31; Encarnacion, Toronto, 26; ADunn, Chicago, 24; Ibanez, Seattle, 24; Bautista, Toronto, 22; NCruz, Texas, 22.

STOLEN BASES—Ellsbury, Boston, 36; RDavis, Toronto, 25; McLouth, Baltimore, 25; Altuve, Houston, 21; Kipnis, Cleveland, 21; Trout, Los Angeles, 21; AlRamirez, Chicago, 20; Rios, Chicago, 20.

PITCHING—Scherzer, Detroit, 13-1; MMoore, Tampa Bay, 13-3; Colon, Oakland, 13-3; Tillman, Baltimore, 11-3; FHernandez, Seattle, 11-4; Masterson, Cleveland, 11-7; CWilson, Los Angeles, 10-6; Verlander, Detroit, 10-7.

ERA—FHernandez, Seattle, 2.43; Colon, Oakland, 2.52; Kuroda, New York, 2.65; Sale, Chicago, 2.85; AniSanchez, Detroit, 2.85; Lackey, Boston, 2.95; Iwakuma, Seattle, 2.99.

STRIKEOUTS—Darvish, Texas, 157; Scherzer, Detroit, 152; FHernandez, Seattle, 147; Masterson, Cleveland, 145; Sale, Chicago, 131; Verlander, Detroit, 128; DHolland, Texas, 127.

SAVES—JiJohnson, Baltimore, 35; MRivera, New York, 31; Nathan, Texas, 30; Balfour, Oakland, 25; AReed, Chicago, 25; GHolland, Kansas City, 24; Frieri, Los Angeles, 24; Rodney, Tampa Bay, 24.

Golf

British Open Scores British Open Scores Sunday At Muirfield Gullane, Scotland Purse: $7.8 million Yardage: 7,192; Par: 71 Final P. Mickelson (600), $1,442,826 69-74-72-66—281 Henrik Stenson (330), $832,106 70-70-74-70—284 Ian Poulter (160), $428,776 72-71-75-67—285 Adam Scott (160), $428,776 71-72-70-72—285 Lee Westwood (160), $428,776 72-68-70-75—285 Zach Johnson (101), $249,377 66-75-73-72—286 Hideki Matsuyama, $249,377 71-73-72-70—286 69-71-72-74—286 Tiger Woods (101), $249,377 Hunter Mahan (85), $175,582 72-72-68-75—287 Francesco Molinari, $175,582 69-74-72-72—287 Angel Cabrera (75), $142,756 69-72-73-74—288 Brandt Snedeker (75), $142,756 68-79-69-72—288 Miguel A. Jimenez, $121,381 68-71-77-73—289 Justin Leonard (66), $121,381 74-70-74-71—289 Keegan Bradley (56), $95,043 75-74-70-71—290 Eduardo De La Riva, $95,043 73-73-75-69—290 Harris English (56), $95,043 74-71-75-70—290 74-73-72-71—290 Matt Kuchar (56), $95,043 Charl Schwartzel (56), $95,043 75-68-76-71—290 Danny Willett, $95,043 75-72-72-71—290 Rafael Cabrera Bello, $72,218 67-74-76-74—291 Darren Clarke, $72,218 72-71-76-72—291 Stephen Gallacher, $72,218 76-70-76-69—291 75-73-68-75—291 Sergio Garcia (48), $72,218 Richard Sterne, $72,218 75-75-68-73—291 Jonas Blixt (43), $56,873 72-78-73-69—292 72-75-76-69—292 Stewart Cink (43), $56,873 Jason Dufner (43), $56,873 72-77-76-67—292 Ernie Els (43), $56,873 74-74-70-74—292 81-69-70-72—292 Paul Lawrie, $56,873 Steven Tiley, $56,873 72-75-73-72—292 Bud Cauley (34), $39,251 74-75-71-73—293 75-74-73-71—293 Fred Couples (34), $39,251 Jason Day (34), $39,251 73-71-72-77—293 74-71-71-77—293 Jamie Donaldson, $39,251 Oliver Fisher, $39,251 70-78-77-68—293 Thongchai Jaidee, $39,251 79-71-71-72—293 Dustin Johnson (34), $39,251 68-72-76-77—293 Martin Kaymer (34), $39,251 72-74-72-75—293 Shane Lowry, $39,251 74-74-75-70—293 72-70-72-79—293 Ryan Moore (34), $39,251 Bubba Watson (34), $39,251 70-73-77-73—293 Y.E. Yang (34), $39,251 78-70-73-72—293 77-73-72-72—294 Mark Brown, $24,641 K.J. Choi (23), $24,641 76-74-71-73—294 Tim Clark (23), $24,641 72-76-76-70—294 Freddie Jacobson (23), $24,641 72-75-75-72—294 Shingo Katayama, $24,641 73-77-69-75—294 Martin Laird (23), $24,641 70-71-81-72—294 75-75-72-72—294 Geoff Ogilvy (23), $24,641 Jordan Spieth (23), $24,641 69-74-76-75—294 Bo Van Pelt (23), $24,641 76-73-77-68—294 73-76-73-72—294 Matthew Fitzpatrick, $0 Gonzalo Fdez-Castano, $20,95570-79-73-73—295 Marcus Fraser, $20,955 73-74-76-72—295 Pad. Harrington (16), $20,955 73-75-77-70—295 Carl Pettersson (16), $20,955 74-76-70-75—295 Tom Lehman (11), $20,077 68-77-75-76—296 Graeme McDowell (11), $20,07775-71-73-77—296 Mark O'Meara (11), $20,077 67-78-77-74—296 Richie Ramsay, $20,077 76-74-72-74—296 Johnson Wagner (11), $20,077 73-72-73-78—296 Boo Weekley (11), $20,077 74-76-71-75—296 Gregory Bourdy, $19,085 76-70-74-77—297 74-71-80-72—297 Ben Curtis (4), $19,085 Ken Duke (4), $19,085 70-77-73-77—297 Branden Grace, $19,085 74-71-77-75—297 73-70-77-77—297 Webb Simpson (4), $19,085 Bernd Wiesberger, $19,085 71-74-75-77—297 Chris Wood, $19,085 75-75-75-72—297 George Coetzee, $18,398 76-71-75-76—298 Gareth Wright, $18,398 71-78-75-74—298 Thomas Bjorn, $17,864 73-74-72-80—299 Todd Hamilton (1), $17,864 69-81-70-79—299 Russell Henley (1), $17,864 78-71-75-75—299 Shiv Kapur, $17,864 68-77-83-71—299 K.T. Kim, $17,864 73-76-77-73—299 Jimmy Mullen, $0 71-78-75-75—299 Mikko Ilonen, $17,253 72-78-76-74—300 Peter Senior, $17,253 74-76-73-77—300 Kevin Streelman (1), $17,253 74-71-82-73—300 Josh Teater (1), $16,947 72-77-75-77—301 Graham DeLaet (1), $16,795 76-72-76-79—303 Sandy Lyle (1), $16,642 76-72-80-79—307

Sanderson Scores PGA Tour Sanderson Farms Championship Scores At Annandale Golf Club Madison, Miss.

Purse: $3 million Yardage: 7,202; Par: 72 Final Round (x-won on first playoff hole) x-Woody Austin (300), $540,000 69-65-67-67—268 D. Summerhays (135), $264,000 63-67-69-69—268 Cam. Beckman (135), $264,000 72-64-65-67—268 Ni. Thompson (80), $144,000 69-65-65-71—270 Billy Andrade (63), $114,000 73-66-67-65—271 Kyle Reifers (0), $114,000 65-69-67-70—271 Bill Lunde (53), $96,750 67-67-68-70—272 Chad Campbell (53), $96,750 67-69-65-71—272 Jason Bohn (38), $75,000 73-68-66-66—273 Chris Stroud (38), $75,000 69-70-68-66—273 Billy Mayfair (38), $75,000 72-62-71-68—273 Chris Kirk (38), $75,000 69-65-70-69—273 Jim Herman (38), $75,000 66-69-68-70—273 Jonathan Randolph (0), $54,000 66-69-70-69—274 Seung-Yul Noh (31), $54,000 69-68-67-70—274 Brendon Todd (31), $54,000 72-64-66-72—274 Steven Bowditch (28), $36,667 67-68-73-67—275 Russell Knox (28), $36,667 69-69-69-68—275 Peter Lonard (28), $36,667 67-67-72-69—275 Stuart Appleby (28), $36,667 73-67-69-66—275 Glen Day (28), $36,667 70-69-71-65—275 Troy Matteson (28), $36,667 67-67-70-71—275 Paul Stankowski (28), $36,667 66-68-70-71—275 Rory Sabbatini (28), $36,667 68-68-67-72—275

Vaughn Taylor (28), $36,667 Chris Riley (23), $20,417 Ryan Blaum (0), $20,417 Steve LeBrun (23), $20,417 Brandt Jobe (23), $20,417 William McGirt (23), $20,417 Scott Langley (23), $20,417 Martin Flores (23), $20,417 Brad Fritsch (23), $20,417 Charles Howell III (23), $20,417 Cameron Percy (20), $14,790 Ken Looper (0), $14,790 Fabian Gomez (20), $14,790 Scott Gardiner (20), $14,790 Matt Every (20), $14,790 Brian Harman (17), $11,400 Lee Williams (17), $11,400 Heath Slocum (17), $11,400 Ben Kohles (17), $11,400 Michael Bradley (17), $11,400 Will Claxton (17), $11,400 Joe Ogilvie (13), $7,905 Tag Ridings (13), $7,905 David Mathis (13), $7,905 Brendon de Jonge (13), $7,905 Andre Stolz (13), $7,905 Kevin Sutherland (13), $7,905 Jeff Overton (13), $7,905 Davis Love III (13), $7,905 Eric Meierdierks (10), $6,870 Skip Kendall (10), $6,870 Darron Stiles (10), $6,870 Joe Durant (10), $6,870

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Marathon Classic LPGA-Marathon Classic Scores Sunday At Highland Meadows Golf Club Sylvania, Ohio Purse: $1.3 million Yardage: 6,512; Par: 71 Final a-amateur Beatriz Recari, $195,000 Paula Creamer, $120,655 Jodi Ewart Shadoff, $77,618 Lexi Thompson, $77,618 Angela Stanford, $49,544 Jacqui Concolino, $49,544 Meena Lee, $31,543 Stacy Lewis, $31,543 a-Lydia Ko Jennifer Johnson, $31,543 Chie Arimura, $31,543 Se Ri Pak, $22,476 Haeji Kang, $22,476 Brittany Lang, $22,476 So Yeon Ryu, $22,476 I.K. Kim, $18,144 Mo Martin, $18,144 Chella Choi, $18,144 Amelia Lewis, $15,220 Danah Bordner, $15,220 Ayako Uehara, $15,220 Dewi Claire Schreefel, $15,220 Hee Young Park, $15,220 Kristy McPherson, $13,102 Cindy LaCrosse, $13,102 Heather Bowie Young, $13,102 Moira Dunn, $11,032 Mika Miyazato, $11,032 Candie Kung, $11,032 Brooke Pancake, $11,032 Eun-Hee Ji, $11,032 Gerina Piller, $11,032 Karine Icher, $8,315 Na Yeon Choi, $8,315 Natalie Gulbis, $8,315 Katherine Hull-Kirk, $8,315 Sun Young Yoo, $8,315 Inbee Park, $8,315 Amy Yang, $8,315 Alison Walshe, $8,315 Lizette Salas, $6,474 Ji Young Oh, $6,474 Mariajo Uribe, $6,474 Morgan Pressel, $6,474 Momoko Ueda, $5,417 Sarah Jane Smith, $5,417 Michelle Wie, $5,417 Paige Mackenzie, $5,417 Sandra Changkija, $5,417 Jennifer Rosales, $4,437 Ilhee Lee, $4,437 Ryann O'Toole, $4,437 Irene Cho, $4,437 Jane Rah, $4,437 Katie Futcher, $4,437 Lisa Ferrero, $3,897 Vicky Hurst, $3,897 Paola Moreno, $3,402 Kelly Jacques, $3,402 Maude-Aimee Leblanc, $3,402 Inhong Lim, $3,402 Stacy Prammanasudh, $3,402 Jessica Shepley, $3,402 Jenny Shin, $3,006 Jin Young Pak, $3,006 Nicole Jeray, $3,006 Jennie Lee, $3,006 Becky Morgan, $2,841 Wendy Ward, $2,774 Katie M. Burnett, $2,708 Rebecca Lee-Bentham, $2,643 Laura Davies, $2,610

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Cycling

Tour de France Results Tour de France Results Sunday 21st (Final) Stage At Paris An 83-mile, largely ceremonial ride from the Chateau of Versailles to the Champs-Elysees in Paris 1. Marcel Kittel, Germany, Team Argos-Shimano, 3 hours, 6 minutes, 14 seconds.

2. Andre Greipel, Germany, Lotto-Belisol, same time.

3. Mark Cavendish, England, Omega Pharma-QuickStep, same time.

4. Peter Sagan, Slovakia, Cannondale, same time.

5. Roberto Ferrari, Italy, Lampre-Merida, same time.

6. Alexander Kristoff, Norway, Katusha, same time.

7. Kevin Reza, France, Team Europcar, same time.

8. Yohann Gene, France, Team Europcar, same time.

9, Daniele Bennati, Team Saxo-Tinkoff, same time.

10. Murilo Fischer, Brazil, Francaise des Jeux, same time.

11. Daryl Impey, South Africa, Orica GreenEdge, same time.

12. Matt Goss, Australia, Orica GreenEdge, same time.

13. Ruben Perez, Spain, Euskaltel-Euskadi, same time.

14. Lars Ytting Bak, Denmark, Lotto-Belisol, same time.

15. Juan Jose Lobato, Spain, Euskaltel-Euskadi, same time.

16. Koen de Kort, Netherlands, Team Argos-Shimano, same time.

17. Boy van Poppel, Netherlands, Vacansoleil-DCM, same time.

18. Samuel Dumoulin, France, AG2R La Mondiale, same time.

19. Jose Joaquin Rojas, Spain, Movistar, same time.

20. Egoitz Garcia, Spain, Cofidis, same time.

Also 31. Roman Kreuziger, Czech Republic, Team Saxo-Tinkoff, 10 seconds behind.

35. Alberto Contador, Spain, Team Saxo-Tinkoff, same time.

39. Andrew Talansky, United States, Garmin-Sharp, same time.

48. Nairo Quintana, Colombia, Movistar, same time.

51. Joaquin Rodriguez, Spain, Katusha, same time.

72. Brent Bookwalter, United States, BMC Racing, same time.

106. Tom Danielson, United States, Garmin-Sharp, :34.

128. Chris Froome, England, Sky Procycling, 80 hours, :53.

149. Tejay Van Garderen, United States, BMC Racing, 1:18.

Final Overall Standings 1. Chris Froome, England, Sky Procycling, 83 hours, 56 minutes, 40 seconds.

2. Nairo Quintana, Colombia, Movistar, 4:20.

3. Joaquin Rodriguez, Spain, Katusha, 5:04.

4. Alberto Contador, Spain, Team Saxo-Tinkoff, 6:27.

5. Roman Kreuziger, Czech Republic, Team Saxo-Tinkoff, 7:27.

6. Bauke Mollema, Netherlands, Belkin Pro Cycling, 11:42.

7. Jakob Fuglsang, Denmark, Astana, 12:17.

8. Alejandro Valverde, Spain, Movistar, 15:26.

9. Daniel Navarro, Spain, Cofidis, 15:52.

10. Andrew Talansky, United States, Garmin-Sharp, 17:39.

11. Michal Kwiatkowski, Poland, Omega Pharma-QuickStep, 18:59.

12. Mikel Nieve, Spain, Euskaltel-Euskadi, 20:01.

13. Laurens ten Dam, Netherlands, Belkin Pro Cycling, 21:39.

14. Maxime Monfort, Belgium, RadioShack Leopard, 23:38.

15. Romain Bardet, France, AG2R La Mondiale, 26:42.

16. Michael Rogers, Australia, Team Saxo-Tinkoff, 26:51.

17. Daniel Moreno, Spain, Katusha, 32:34.

18. Jan Bakelants, Belgium, RadioShack Leopard, 35:51.

19. Richie Porte, Australia, Sky Procycling, 39:41.

20. Andy Schleck, Luxembourg, RadioShack Leopard, 41:46.

Also 45. Tejay Van Garderen, United States, BMC Racing, 1:38:57.

60. Tom Danielson, United States, Garmin-Sharp, 2:05:28.

91. Brent Bookwalter, United States, BMC Racing, 2:45:05.

INTERNATIONAL Vet returns to NKorea for 1st black Navy aviator 12

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Monday, July 22, 2013

BY JEAN H. LEE Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Two years after he made history by becoming the Navy’s first black pilot, Ensign Jesse Brown lay trapped in his downed fighter plane in subfreezing North Korea, his leg broken and bleeding. His wingman crash-landed to try to save him, and even burned his hands trying to put out the flames.

A chopper hovered nearby. Lt. j.g. Thomas Hudner could save himself, but not his friend.

With the light fading, the threat of enemy fire all around him and Brown losing consciousness, the white son of a New England grocery-store magnate made a promise to the black son of a sharecropper.

“We’ll come back for you.”

More than 60 years have passed. Hudner is CHARLES KRUPA/AP PHOTO now 88. But he did not forthis July 12 photo, retired U.S. Navy Capt.Thomas Hudner, who was awarded the Medal of Honor by PresIn get. He is coming back. ident Truman, poses on the porch at his home in Concord, Mass. ___ Hudner, now a retired Navy captain, heads to Pyongyang on Saturday with hopes of traveling in the coming week to the region known in North Korea as the Jangjin Reservoir, accompanied by soldiers from the Korean People’s Army, to the spot where Brown died in December 1950.

The reservoir was the site of one of the Korean War’s deadliest battles for Americans, who knew the place by its Japanese name, Chosin. The snowy mountain region was nicknamed the “Frozen Chosin,” and survivors are known in U.S. history books as the “Chosin Few.” The Battle of the Chosin Reservoir lasted for 17 brutal days. Some 6,000 Americans were killed in combat, and thousands more succumbed to the cold. Brown and many others who died there are among more than 7,910 Americans still missing in action from the war.

Though the fighting ended with an armistice signed 60 years ago July 27, North Korea and the U.S. remain technically at war. Efforts to recover remains have come in fits and starts, with little recent progress.

Next week’s mission is to pick up where search teams have left off by locating the exact spot of Brown’s crash. Armed with maps and coordinates, they hope to work with North Korean soldiers to excavate the remote area, a sealed site controlled by the North Korean military.

Approval for the unusual journey comes as North Korea prepares for festivities marking the upcoming armistice anniversary.

Pyongyang is expected to use the milestone to draw international attention to the division of the Korean Peninsula as well as to build unity among North Koreans for new leader Kim Jong Un. Hudner does not plan to stay for a massive military parade expected on July 27. But he said he hopes his visit will help to foster peace and reconciliation on the tense Korean Peninsula. ___ Japan occupied Korea for decades, until the end of World War II. Then the Soviets and the Americans moved in, backing rival fledgling governments and dividing the country halfway at the 38th parallel.

War broke out in June 1950, with the communist North Koreans marching into Seoul. They were countered by U.S.-led U.N. forces that charged north, taking Pyongyang and continuing up the peninsula.

By November, U.S. Marines had dug in around the Chosin reservoir and in Unsan County to the west. The plan was to push north as far as the Yalu River dividing Korea from China.

What they didn’t know was more than 100,000 Chinese ground troops had slipped across the Yalu to fight for the North Koreans. They boxed in 20,000 U.N. forces, mostly U.S. Marines.

Hudner and Brown were members of Fighter Squadron 32, dispatched to the region deep in North Korea’s forbiddingly mountainous interior to support the trapped ground troops and carry out search-and-destroy missions.

Theirs was a close-knit squadron. But the two men, both in their 20s, came from completely different worlds.

Hudner, of Fall River, Massachusetts, was a privileged New Englander who was educated at prep school and had been invited to attend Harvard.

Brown, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, broke the Navy’s color barrier for pilots in 1948, months after President Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the U.S. armed forces.

It wasn’t an easy role for Brown to take on, Hudner recalled. “People who didn’t know him gave him a hard time just because he was black.”

But those who got to know Brown grew to respect the serious, unfailingly considerate young man who impressed his peers with his dedication to flying — and his gentle sense of humor.

“The squadron, almost to a man, protected him any way they could,” Hudner told The Associated Press before his departure, his pale blue eyes sparkling. “He was a friend who, I’d say, was beloved by almost everybody who knew him. A very special person.”

Late the afternoon of Dec. 4, 1950, Brown and Hudner were part of a sixplane formation over the Jangjin Reservoir, one like dozens of missions in the months previous.

This time, ground fire struck Brown’s plane, forcing him to land behind enemy lines. When Brown waved for help from his crumpled, smoking cockpit after slamming into the mountainside, Hudner acted quickly.

“I thought: ‘My God, I’ve got to make a decision,’” he said. “I couldn’t bear the thought of seeing his plane burst into flames.”

Hudner crash-landed his plane in high winds and snowy rocks about 100 yards from the downed fighter. As flames engulfed

Brown’s plane, and still under the threat of attack, Hudner scrambled to pack the fuselage with snow, burning his hands in the process. He took his cap off and pulled it over Browns’ ears, then radioed for help Brown remained as trapped in the cockpit, bleeding heavily, his leg crushed and his body temperature dropping in the subzero conditions.

A Marine helicopter arrived, but the pilot and Hudner could not extract Brown from the wreckage.

Before losing consciousness, his thoughts turned to his wife, whose name he whispered in his last command to Hudner: “If I don’t make it, please tell Daisy I love her.”

Hudner reluctantly got into the rescue helicopter.

Brown is believed to have

tinguished naval career and later served as Massachusetts’ commissioner of veterans’ services, eventually settling in the revolutionary town of Concord, Massachusetts.

A few years ago, he was contacted by author Adam Makos about doing a book on his wartime heroics. It was Makos, Hudner said, who suggested returning to the crash site. Hudner hadn’t thought it possible, given the abysmal state of U.S.-North Korean relations.

They enlisted Chayon Kim, a South Korean-born U.S. citizen who had been involved in the campaign to build a Korean War Memorial in Washington, and who took the Harlem Globetrotters and former NBA star Dennis Rodman to North Korea earlier this

if they do find the remains, and they can convince me that it is his remains, we would want a full military funeral at Arlington Cemetery.

“He deserves that,” she said, speaking to AP at her home in Hattiesburg, where a picture of Brown’s plane sits on the mantle over the fireplace. “That would give him a final resting place.”

Hudner, who turns 89 next month and is in frail health, is bracing himself for what he knows will be difficult journey. There are few paved roads outside Pyongyang, and the route to the region where Brown died is a steep mountain path, treacherous even in good weather.

“I won’t be at the bar boozing it up for very long when I get there,” he joked.

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who consider the posting of 28,500 U.S. troops across the border in South Korea to be an “occupation” of the Korean Peninsula.

Hudner is due to arrive at a time known in North Korea as the “anti-American period,” a month devoted to recounting the atrocities allegedly perpetrated by U.S. soldiers during the Korean War and leading up to July 27.

Since this is the 60th anniversary of the armistice, it is all the more prominent.

Posters show North Koreans with eyes blazing as they attack American soldiers with bayonets.

“Sweep away the imperialist American aggressors,” they read. Students file through exhibition halls that lay out the alleged toll: More than 1.2 million soldiers and civilians killed.

More than 54,000 American military personnel died in Korea fighting as part of the U.S.-led U.N. forces, including the nearly 8,000 never accounted for, according to the U.S. Defense Department.

For decades, the families of missing U.S. soldiers have pressed the government to search for their remains.

The first joint U.S.North Korea searches began in 1996. Teams uncovered 229 sets of remains, but in 2005, with Washington and Pyongyang locked in a nuclear standoff, the U.S. government suspended the searches, citing security concerns.

Last year, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command prepared to resume the search. But those plans were scrapped following North Korea’s decision to launch a long-range rocket — widely seen as a test of missile technology.

Additionally, the search

U.S. NAVY, FILE/AP PHOTO

In this undated file photo from around 1950 provided by the U.S. Navy, Ensign Jesse Brown, who died in December 1950 after his plane crashed in North Korea, sits in a cockpit of his plane. Two years after he made history by becoming the Navy’s first black pilot Brown lay trapped in his downed fighter plane in subfreezing North Korea, his leg broken and bleeding. His wingman crash-landed to try to save him, and even burned his hands trying to put out the flames. A chopper hovered nearby. Lt. j.g. Thomas Hudner could save himself, but not his friend. Hudner heads to Pyongyang on July 20 with hopes of traveling in the coming week to the region known in North Korea as the Jangjin Reservoir, accompanied by soldiers from the Korean People’s Army, to the spot where Brown died in December 1950. died soon after. The next day, U.S. military planes dropped napalm on the wreckage to keep the enemy from getting his body.

Hudner was awarded the Medal of Honor, the U.S. military’s highest award, for trying to save Brown. Brown posthumously received the Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross.

“He was a leader,” Hudner said. “He had great promise had he not been so tragically killed.” ___

year.

She agreed to take Hudner, fellow Korean War veteran Dick Bonelli, and their group to North Korea. Kim, who says she has built ties over the years with the North Korean military, asked the army to supply soldiers to help with the search.

Hudner hopes to bring Brown’s remains home to the aviator’s 86-year-old widow, Daisy, and their daughter, Pam Knight, who was a toddler when her father died.

“I think it would add some peace and maybe some closure,” Brown’s Hudner went onto a dis- widow said Thursday. “But

The political complications may be greater still.

The Koreas remain divided by the world’s most militarized border, and Washington and Pyongyang lack diplomatic relations.

Diplomatic forays have sputtered over the years, stalled by a standoff over North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. Earlier this year, Pyongyang threatened to launch a nuclear war if provoked; Washington sent bombers into the region in what defense officials acknowledged was meant as a warning.

America is still Enemy No. 1 to North Koreans,

program itself has been criticized as “inept” and “dysfunctional” in an internal Pentagon study recently obtained by the AP. Hudner and the team don’t know if they’ll find Brown’s remains or the wreckage of the two planes.

But Makos, who intends to make the trip the last chapter of his book about the two men, said Brown’s place in history makes it especially important to make the attempt.

“He’s a Jackie Robinson in many ways. He’s a Joe Louis,” he said. “He’s a historic figure, yet he’s lying on a Korean mountainside.”

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TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) For the next six weeks, your attention will turn to home and family.

Discussions with a parent could be significant. Redecorating projects are likely.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Fasten your seatbelt! In the month ahead, your daily pace will accelerate. Short trips, shopping, conversations with others, busy errands and increased reading and writing will keep you hopping.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Money, money, money! This will be your focus in the coming month, because finances, cash flow and earnings suddenly are foremost in your mind.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) The Sun is in your sign now to stay for a month, giving you a chance to recharge your batteries for the rest of the year. It also will attract people and favorable circumstances to you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Work alone or behind the scenes for the next few weeks to plan what you want your coming year to be all about. (Your personal year is ending, because your birthday is a month away.)

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) The next six weeks are popular! Accept all invitations. Enjoy schmoozing with others. Join classes, clubs and associations.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) This is the only time all year when the Sun will be slowly crossing the top of your chart. This acts like a spotlight on you; furthermore, the light is flattering.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You are the traveler of the zodiac. In the next six weeks, grab every opportunity to go somewhere because you need a change of scenery. You want adventure!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Mortgages, loans and shared property will be a strong focus for you in the next month. You also might have to deal with the values of others (which differ from yours).

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Because the Sun is as far away from you as it gets all year, and the Sun is your source of energy, you will need more sleep in the next month. Respect this need.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) In the next six weeks, you're gung-ho to get better organized. Give yourself the right tools to do a great job. After all, you want good results, don't you?

YOU BORN TODAY Basically, you're a traditionalist with conservative roots. However, at times, you're not sure; you vacillate. You love history.

One other thing is certain: You are compassionate and kind. Life is such that you often retreat into a protective shell. This year you might give up something you've been involved with for nine years in order to make room for something new.

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The Aurora shootings: a year later CLLASSIFIEDS ASSIFIED ASSIFIEDS DS ASSOCIATED PRESS AURORA, Colo. (AP) — It is not a small club, the survivors of the shootings at Theater 9.

The Century 16 auditorium was packed 421 men, women and children who had turned out for a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises.” When a bizarre figure, helmeted and clad in black, appeared before them in a cloud of smoke, they reacted with bemusement and amazement, shock and confusion and finally horror.

Twelve people died, 70 were injured, and more than 300 fled into the night and into the arms of loved ones.

A year later, the survivors cannot forget their terror, or the injuries they suffered, or their losses. But they search for meaning, and sometimes find it: the victims whose faith has strengthened; the father who lost his son but found a cause; the couple who believe that the anniversary of a hateful act can be transformed by love. ___ Pierce O’Farrill was sitting a few rows up on the right side of the theater when he saw a tear gas canister fly in front of the movie screen, followed by the silhouette of the gunman and a green laser shining from the scope of one of his weapons.

“My heart just kind of stopped,” O’Farrill said. “I can still in my head hear the (gunman’s) footsteps. Everything went quiet for me.”

A blast from a shotgun hit him in the chest and the left foot as he tried to take cover.

Moments later, the gunman came closer and shot him with a .40-caliber pistol, shattering his left arm. The shot barely missed a nerve that controls hand function, doctors told him.

O’Farrill, 29, still has shotgun pellets in his chest and a bullet lodged in his arm. It aches when he exercises or when a storm is approaching.

Still, he said, as a devout Christian a worker for the Denver Rescue Mission he forgives the man charged in the shootings.

O’Farrill said he saw James Holmes for the first time in the hospital, on television news.

“When I saw him, I saw a lost soul,” he said. “I saw a guy who was lost and the darkness got him.

“Everybody deserves a chance to be forgiven.”

O’Farrill said he hopes Holmes, if convicted, spends the rest of his life in prison but that he would even like to meet him one day to see if he is remorseful.

“I would want him to know that there are people in this world that do not hate him,” he said. “I want to tell him there is hope in this world, even in the darkest place where he is going to live the rest of his life.”

That hope and a lot of counseling drive O’Farrill forward and make him stronger.

He has begun to play basketball and lift weights again, and now he has bigger goals on his horizon. O’Farrill got engaged July 2 and plans to get married sometime next year. Children, he hopes, will follow.

He feels incredibly lucky to be alive. “The last year’s been a blessing,” he said.

By Thomas Peipert ___ When word of the shootings spread, Tom Sullivan rushed to the staging area at the high school parking lot. His son Alex had gone to see the new Batman movie to celebrate his 27th birthday, two days before his first wedding anniversary.

When he learned that Alex was gone, Tom cried out and embraced his wife and daughter a moment captured in a photo that ran on dozens of newspaper front pages and websites.

Weeping in the parking lot, Sullivan realized he had no regrets about his relationship with his son. Each knew how much he was loved by the other.

They went on guys-only Super Bowl trips to Las Vegas, celebrating craps wins with Jameson whiskey and cigars. When Alex turned 18 and wanted to get a tattoo, Tom got one too, even though he admitted the experience left him a little pale and sweaty.

“There were no unspoken words,” said Sullivan.

He laughs easily when remembering his son. He’s drawn comfort over the past year from talking about Alex, and the lesson he had learned: We must

appreciate what we have.

He also has testified in favor of gun control laws at the state Capitol and went to the reopening of the Aurora movie theater, an event many other victims’ families boycotted, including Alex’s widow. His son loved going to the movies and the theater is part of the community a place where people come together, where kids can ride to on their bikes.

Sullivan has been back to the theater about a half dozen times, sometimes watching movies in the revamped auditorium where his son was killed.

He sits in the seat and row where he believes Alex was sitting and leaves an empty seat for him.

It hasn’t always been easy.

Each Friday and the 20th of each month have been a reminder of loss. His wife Terry, a school bus driver, didn’t want summer vacation to come even as the children around her grew more excited.

“Some days we’re not moving forward, some days we’re just making it through,” he said.

July 20 has been a day Tom Sullivan has celebrated his whole life his mother’s birthday, and then Alex’s. This year, he’ll probably participate in some of the public events marking the event, though he said he won’t be going for his own sake. He wants to show people that he’s OK and that they, too, can try to go back to normal life.

And he’ll probably have some Jameson and cigars, to remember Alex.

By Colleen Slevin ___ As the sun rose over the beach at South Padre Island, on the last day of an April vacation, Eugene Han asked Kirstin Davis if she would be his wife and she said yes.

He followed with another idea: They should be married on July 20.

“It took me a second. I didn’t understand where he was coming from,” Davis said.

Their wedding would take place on the anniversary of the night when they and their friends went to the Century 16 theater. Davis and Han were just kids when they met at church in Aurora; they had been dating for two years. Now, they settled into the second row to watch the feature.

Han, sleepy from work, spotted someone entering through an exit door near the screen.

He saw that two guns were strapped to the intruder’s body, and he dropped from his seat and pulled Davis to the floor: “All I was thinking was, if anything, I could put myself between her and the bullets.”

Both were injured Han seriously. He was shot at close range in his hip and leg. Davis had bullet fragments in her back. A friend also was shot in the leg, which had to be amputated.

Han spent five days at a hospital and the next three months bedridden, his parents and brother tending to him. A year later, his right leg is marked by purplish, coin-size scars.

Davis recovered from her wounds and started a job as a teaching assistant at an elementary school. Then came the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn., which “sent me over the edge.”

She eventually quit her job.

These days, she is sleeping better, but she fears big crowds.

Someday, the 22-year-old Davis sees herself once again working with children. Han, 21, wants to return to college, write a book and let the shooter know he forgives him.

Their wedding is scheduled for Saturday. Three friends who survived the Aurora shootings will take part; the idea is to make July 20 a happy day, at least for one couple.

“Someone has to be the first person to take the first step to make it a better day,” Han said.

By Catherine Tsai ___ Marcus Weaver said he thinks God had a plan for him that night.

He was sitting in the fifth row next to his friend Rebecca Wingo when the shooting began — “so loud, and you could see the white spray of the gun, and that’s the image that is the one that is hard to get out of my head,” he said.

Weaver was hit in the right shoulder by shotgun pellets.

Wingo, a 32-year-old former Air Force linguist, was killed.

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Aurora, Colo., theater shooting victim Pierce O'Farrill points to scars on his chest. A blast from a shotgun hit him in the chest and the left foot as he tried to take cover. Moments later, the gunman came closer and shot him with a .40-caliber pistol, shattering his left arm.The shot barely missed a nerve that controls hand function, doctors told him.

Weaver, 42, of Denver, described trying to grab his friend, and plunging through a horrific scene of bodies blocking the rows and aisles of the theater.

“In the 30 days after the shootings, every morning I got up and I prayed about it. And the Lord kept bringing people my way that would help,” he said.

It was that faith, Weaver said, that helped him cope with the loss of Rebecca and to decide to forgive James Holmes, the man charged in the shootings.

“There’s a lot of pain, a lot of hurt for him to execute something like that,” he said. “And my whole thing was, if I carry that same hate and that same pain around for the rest of my life because of what he’s done, then I’m going to be just like him. And my faith was telling me to just let it go.”

Weaver also said that a few days after the shooting he read a passage in the Bible that explains how to be a light in the darkness.

“I thought, man, the darkness of the theater. How can I be a point of light?” he asked.

So Weaver began to speak to youth groups, students and prisoners about his story.

“It seemed the more I told it, the more it would help people,” he said. “So I realized that God started using me as a point of light. …

“Is God using me for a higher purpose? Absolutely.”

— By Thomas Peipert ___ Jerri Jackson tried to return to her job as a trucking company claims adjuster a few weeks after her son, Matthew McQuinn, was killed. But the pain was too much to bear. She

has yet to return to work. Getting out of bed and out of the house to buy groceries is hard some days.

“I just don’t want to be around people,” Jackson said in a phone interview from her home in Springfield, Ohio.

McQuinn, 27, was sitting with his girlfriend, Samantha Yowler, in the first row of the second level of the theater’s stadium seating when the firing began.

As Jackson tells it, McQuinn said “Ow, that hurts,” before he jumped on Yowler to shield her from gunfire.

Yowler survived. McQuinn didn’t.

Jackson remembers a conversation she had with her son, hours before the shooting. He talked about plans to move back to Ohio to work at a car parts factory near St. Paris; perhaps he would marry Yowler. He was homesick after struggling for a year to find full-time work in Colorado. Jackson offered to let him live with her to get started.

Then McQuinn said he had to go. He was going to the movies.

“I told him, ‘Be careful,’” Jackson said. “He said, ‘I know. … I’ll talk to you later, mom. I love you.’ And that was it.”

Now, she keeps close at hand the blanket in which she wrapped Matthew when he was a baby — she found it in his apartment, among his things.

After he died, she bought a Mitsubishi Eclipse because her son had wanted one. “I tell people that the car belongs to my son, but I get to drive it,” Jackson said.

Painted on the rear of the car is the legend, “Real Heroes Don’t Wear Capes.” And: “Matt McQuinn RIP.” And the letter “M” — Superman-style.

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Newspaper Knowledge Have a race through the newspaper to find as many geographical words as you can, like “hill”, “river”, “lake”, “plateau”.

Find examples of as many of them as you can on a map of the state.

Words To Know Military Hunting Defeat Skilled Trapper Talent

Frontier Settlement Ambush Woodsman Hunting

Interesting Facts about Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone became one of America’s first folk heroes. His exploits as a woodsman were legendary. He was an expert hunter, marksman, and tracker. He led the exploration and settlement of Kentucky.

Where did Daniel Boone grow up?

-Daniel likely never attended school. He learned to read and write at home. However, he enjoyed reading and often took books with him on the trail.

Daniel grew up in a Quaker home in Pennsylvania. His father was a farmer and he had eleven brothers and sisters. Daniel worked hard on his father’s farm. He was chopping wood by the time he was five years old and was taking care of his father’s cows by the time he was ten.

-When Daniel was still just fourteen years old, he spotted bear tracks near his father’s herd. He tracked the bear down and killed his first bear.

Daniel loved the outdoors. He would do anything not to be cooped up inside. While watching his father’s cowherd, he would hunt small game and learn to find their tracks in the woods. He also became friends with the local Delaware Indians. They taught him a lot about surviving in the woods including tracking, trapping, and hunting. Daniel soon began to dress like

-Boone’s rifle was given the nickname the “Ticklicker” because it was said that he could shoot the tick off of a bear’s nose.

the Indians.

American explorer and frontiersman Daniel Boone was born on November 2, 1734, in a log cabin in Exeter Township, near Reading, Pennsylvania. His father, Squire Boone, was a blacksmith and a weaver who met his wife, Sarah Morgan, in Pennsylvania after emigrating from England.

Daniel, the couple’s sixth child, received little formal education. Boone learned how to read and write from his mother, and his father taught him wilderness survival skills. Boone was given his first rifle when he was 12 years old. He quickly proved himself a talented woodsman and hunter, boldly shooting his first bear when most children his age were too frightened. At age 15, Boone moved with his family to Rowan County, North Carolina, on the Yadkin River, where he started his own hunting business.

In 1755, Boone left home on a military expedition that was part of the French and Indian War. He served as a wagoner for Brigadier General Edward Braddock during his army’s calamitous defeat at Turtle Creek, near modern-day Pittsburgh. A skilled survivor, Daniel Boone saved his own life by escaping the French and Indian ambush on horseback. In August 1756, Boone wed Rebecca Bryan, and the couple set up stakes in the Yadkin Valley. The couple would bear six children. At first Boone found himself content with what he described as the perfect ingredients to a happy life: “A good gun, a good horse and a good wife.” But adventure stories Boone had heard from a teamster while on march ignited Boone’s interest in exploring the American frontier.

In 1767, Daniel Boone led his own expedition for the first time. The hunting trip along the Big Sandy River in Kentucky worked its way westward as far as Floyd County.In May 1769, Boone led another expedition with John Finley, the teamster Boone had marched with during the French and Indian War, and four other men.

Under Boone’s leadership, the team of explorers discovered a trail to the far west though the Cumberland Gap. The trail would become the means by which the public would access the frontier. Boone took his discovery a step further in April 1775. While working for Richard Henderson’s Transylvania Company, he directed colonists to an area in Kentucky he named Boonesborough, where he set up fort to claim the settlement from the Indians. That same year he brought his own family west to live on the settlement and became its leader.

Local Shawnee and Cherokee tribes met Boone’s settlement of the Kentucky land with resistance. In July 1776, the tribes kidnapped Boone’s daughter Jemima. Luckily, he was able to release his daughter. The next year, Boone was shot in the ankle during an Indian attack, but eventually recovered. When 1778 rolled around, Boone was himself captured by the Shawnee. He managed to escape and resume protecting his land settlement, but was soon robbed of Boonesborough settlers’ money while on his way to buy land permits. The settlers were furious with Boone and demanded he repay his debt to them; some even sued. By 1788, Boone left the Kentucky settlement he had worked so hard to protect and relocated to Point Pleasant, in what is now West Virginia. After serving as lieutenant colonel and legislative delegate of his county there, Boone pulled up stakes again and moved to Missouri, where he continued to hunt for the remainder of his life.

- One of his nicknames was the Great Pathfinder.

In 1784 a book was written about Daniel called The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon. It made him a folk hero (even though his last name was spelled wrong).

Getting Married Daniel returned to North Carolina and married a girl named Rebecca. They would have 10 Children together. Daniel met a man named John Findley who told him about a land west of the Appalacian Mountians called Kentucky, which he would soon explore.

Fun Project!

Log Cabin

Boone lived in a log cabin and famously built his secluded home far from other settlers.

Make a simple log cabin by cutting off the top of a 1- or 2-liter milk carton so there are only 5 inches of carton. Cut off the very top of the carton that is glued together, then cover the cut area with tape to make it look like the roof of a cabin. Cut several 12-inch pieces of newspaper. Wrap them around a pencil and secure them with a little glue at the end, then remove the pencil and allow to dry. These will be your logs. Paint each with brown paint, then allow to dry. Glue each “log” to the sides of the milk carton, trimming if needed. Your log cabin is now complete, unless you wish to further embellish it by adding windows or doors made of construction paper and glued to the cabin.

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