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Building new history Couple restoring Piqua structure designed by Thomas Edison

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STAFF REPORTS PIQUA — Angel Kooken, 29, who was injured in a Fourth of July ATV crash on Country Club Road, near Piqua, remains listed in critical condition at Miami Valley Hospital on Friday afternoon.

Kooken was reportedly riding an ATV on Country Club Road when she failed to make a turn into a driveway and rolled the vehicle at an estimated 30 miles per hour. Reports indicate that Kooken was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.

CareFlight was initially called to respond but was unable to fly due to weather conditions.

Kooken was initially taken to Upper Valley Medical Center by the Piqua Fire Department rescue squad and later transferred to Miami Valley Hospital.

Briefly Incarceration facility to hold open house TROY — The Miami County Incarceration Facility will begin accepting inmates into alpha pod later this month after being closed for 3 and ½ years due to the economic downturn which caused budget cuts.

Bravo pod will likely open later this fall as the hiring and training process for new staff concludes. Each pod can house a maximum of 60 inmates.

The Miami County Sheriff ’s Office was budgeted to open two of the four pods this year. After B pod is opened the downtown jail will fall back to a population not to exceed 55 to be in compliance with minimum state jail standards.

The recent average population at the downtown jail has been 115.

In anticipation of the facility being re-opened and after receiving inquiries from residents to be able to tour the facilitywill be offering tours to the public from 1-5 p.m.

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PIQUA — A few years ago, Troy residents Keith and Lisa Bowman decided that, as a plan for their future retirement, they wanted to buy a property and eventually start a business, anything from a potential general store to a restaurant or cafe.

And that’s when the Bowmans got the bright idea to purchase the property located at 114 E. Water St. (along with the parking lot), which, as it MIKE ULLERY/STAFF PHOTOS turns out, is an Edison Il- Above, Keith Bowman discusses the restoration project on the former Weaver Paint Store at 114 E. Water luminating Company St. in Piqua. Bowman, and his wife, Lisa, purchased the building and the adjoining parking lot and have building designed by begun restoring the more than century-old building. Below, Lisa Bowman uses a magnifying glass to bring Thomas Edison himself out detail in an 1885 image of a canal boat crew passing by their Water Street building. for the purposes of bringing electricity to the city of larly close attention to brook Ford dealership and restoring the building most recently as Weaver’s Piqua.

After keeping an eye on back to its original specifi- Paint Store. cations.

But it’s the building’s the locaK e i t h , history as it relates to Edition for awhile, t’s been a real 50, an engi- son himself that truly inat trigued the Bowmans. t h e history lesson neer Wright“The thing that caught B o w as we dig Patterson, our attention wasn’t the man’s closed through all of the and Lisa, history of the sheet metal 46, a folks or Hardenbrook on the teacher at Ford, but it being an Edisite last layers.

G r a h a m , son building,” Keith said.

J u l y said they “As far as it being an Edia n d —Keith Bowman fell in love son building … and being have a with the an engineer, Edison was large b u i l d i n g the engineer of all engit a s k and its rich neers. It’s been a real hisawaitwhich includes tory lesson as we dig history, ing them as the couple hope to fully renovate the once housing a sheet building, paying particu- metal shop, a HardenSee Building/Page 2

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Troy woman pulled from trunk of car Police seek man for questioning

BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@civitasmedia.com TROY — Miami County Sheriff’s Office is investigating why a Troy woman was pulled from the trunk of a car Friday afternoon at the Railroad Restaurant.

According to Miami County Sheriff ’s Office Deputy Robert Morando,

witnesses say they saw a white male open the trunk of a silver Mercury Marquis sedan and pull Jessica Gillespie, 31, of Troy, out of the trunk in the parking lot. He then fled on foot.

Morando said Gillespie’s mother works at the bar Railroad Restaurant, located at 629 S. Crawford St., Troy. Gillespie was treated at the scene and transported by Troy medics to Upper Valley Medical Center, where she is being treated for undetermined injuries and substance abuse.

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Building Continued from page 1 through all of the layers.”

The Bowmans are trying to learn as much about the site as they can, and learned a little bit more information about the site after reviewing some online materials obtained through Rutgers University concerning the Edison Illuminating Company.

But they are hoping to learn more.

In fact, they are encouraging anyone who may have information or photographs about the structure’s history to get in contact with them. Keith said the photographs are especially important because he hopes to restore the buiding back to its original state.

Those who might have such information or photographs should contact the Bowmans at (937) 3358900.

“Each time we do a little more work we find a little bit more information about it,” Keith said.”We are trying to find older pictures, but we can find many of them. What did this place look like in 1884 when it opened up?”

What the Bowmans have learned thus far is that Piqua’s Edison Illuminating Company structure was approximately the 15th one built in the country, and of the four that were located in Ohio

the Water Street location in Piqua is believed to be the only one standing.

Also, the Bowmans said their research shows that the intersection where the building is at was the site of some of the first settlers in the Piqua area and noted how log cabins were once built at that location.

The Bowmans have reviewed several photos of the building from the mid to late 1900s, but are having a hard time finding photographs of what the building looked like in 1884.

One aspect of the building that Keith really finds interesting is a car lift he and his son discovered underneath the carpet from the time the building served as the Hardenbrook Ford dealer.

Depending on what the Bowmans do with the building after it’s fully restored, Keith said he would love to incorporate the car lift and maybe place an old automobile on it as a business centerpiece.

Keith estimates that in the upstairs alone he and other family members hauled out tons and tons of materials. The items and materials hauled out of the building were either sold to scrap yards or donated to area organizations, like Habitat for Humanity, the Bowmans said.

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PIQUA — Gerald E. “Jerry” Hausfeld, 73, of Piqua, died at 8 : 3 2 a . m .

Friday, July 5, 2013, t a Upper Va l l e y Medi c a l HAUSFELD Center.

He was born March 14, 1940, in Maria Stein, to the late Albert and Bernadine (Wendeln) Hausfeld.

He married Mary Ann Bohman on Nov. 23, 1964 in Osgood; she survives.

Mr. Hausfeld is also survived by three children, Jeffery Hausfeld of Chillicothe, Ann (George) Curtis of Piqua and Mark (Amy) Hausfeld of Cincinnati; five grandchildren, Michael (Jessica) HausDeath notice feld, Jerry Curtis, Abigail Elle Hausfeld, Hausfeld, WEST LIBERTY — Steven Lee Robbins, 45, of West Liberty, passed away Friday, July 5, 2013, at his Peter Hausfeld; two brothers, Walter Hausfeld of residence.

Arrangements are pending at Gehret Funeral Celina and Anthony (Cathy) Hausfeld of Fort Home, Fort Loramie.

Wayne, Ind.; and a sister, Alfreda “Fritz” Albers of Maria Stein. He was preceded in death by a Policy: Please send obituary notices by e-mail to editorial@dailycall.com or by fax to (937) 773-4225. brother, Cyril Hausfeld; Deadlines: Notices must be received by 6 p.m. and two sisters, Mary Ann Sunday and Tuesday-Friday, and by 4 p.m. on Monday Depweg and infant Rose for Tuesday’s online edition.

Hausfeld.

Questions: Please call Editor Susan Hartley at Jerry was a 1958 grad(937) 773-2721, ext. 207 if you have questions about uate of St. John’s High obituaries.

School in Maria Stein and WEST MILTON — Kathleen S. Vance, 66, of West Milton, passed away peacefully on Friday, July 5, 2013, at Hospice of Dayton. She was born Sept.

24, 1946, in Dayton.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Carl C. and Charlotte E. (Lehwald)) Vance, West Milton and a stillborn unnamed infant sister.

She is survived by her beloved sister, Carol Jean Vance, also of West Milton; and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins, many who reside in other states.

Kathy had a federal service career that lasted more than 30 years beginning at Defense Electronics Supply Center (DESC) and ending at WPAFB in 1998. She had a great love for animals and one special Sheltie, Wyatt, will

miss her dearly. Kathy loved gardening, the outdoors and all types of crafts. She also enjoyed traveling, but home was always her happiest place.

Her smile, sense of humor and loving spirit will be sorely missed by her only sister and one special friend, Mitzi Larsen. May God welcome Kathy into his Kingdom and his love comfort those who mourn her.

Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, at Polkgrove Cemetery, Vandalia. If so desired, contributions may be made to Hospice of Dayton, 324 Wilmington Ave., Dayton, Ohio 45420, or any local Humane Society.

Arrangements are being handled by Hale-Sarver Family Funeral Home, West Milton.

served in the U.S. Army. He was a member of St. Boniface Catholic Church and the Piqua Eagles, Moose, a life member of the Amvets, and the Miami County Board of Realtors. He worked as a barber and real estate broker, and owned Hausfeld Barber Shop and Jerry Hausfeld Realty of Piqua.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday, at St. Boniface Catholic Church, with the Rev. Fr. Angelo C. Caserta and the Rev. Fr. Thomas Bolte concelebrating. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Cemetery, where full military honors will be conducted by the Veterans Elite Tribute Squad. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Monday at the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Boniface Catholic Church, 310 S. Downing St., Piqua, OH 45356; Piqua Catholic Schools, 503 W. North St., Piqua, OH 45356; or Lehman Catholic High School, 2400 St. Marys Ave., Sidney, OH 45365.

Guestbook condolences and expressions of sympathy, to be provided to the family, may be expressed through jamiesonandyannucci.com.

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Continued from page 1 the Railroad Restaurant at 4:24 p.m. after several people witnessed the male pull Gillespie out of the trunk and leave the area.

“A young lady was pulled from the trunk of a car in the bar parking lot,” Morando said. “The person who pulled her from the car fled on foot.”

Morando said they are waiting for Gillespie to cooperate with officials, because they believe she knows the person who placed her in the truck of the car.

“It looks as if this is likely going to be someone she knows,” Morando said. confirmed Morando that Gillespie was under the influence of some type of illegal substance at the time of the incident.

The car involved in the incident did not belong to Gillespie.

If you have information about the whereabouts of the white male of average height and build, contact the Miami County Sheriff ’s Office or call (937) 440-9911.

SW Ohio public transit systems face challenges DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Four public transit systems serving parts of southwest Ohio are grappling with how to best meet the needs of their patrons.

The Dayton Daily News reports that the four systems in the Dayton area are experiencing growth challenges because of uncertain funding, a need to extend service or increased ridership.

The systems include the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority, Greene CATS Public Transit, Miami County Public Transit and Warren County Public Transit. They provide more than 11.8 million one-way rides annually. The combined cost for the bus rides is $67.1 million.

A study recently prepared for Dayton's transit authority included recommendations that called for expanding the routes on major corridors throughout Montgomery County, among other changes. Implementing the recommendations would cost an estimated $64 million over 20 years.

BY ANDREW WELSHHUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS (AP) — asInmate-on-inmate saults nearly doubled in two years at a north-central Ohio prison, higher than the statewide average, according to a new report that also notes an increase in disturbances and low morale among guards.

The prison, Mansfield Correctional Institution, also has one of the largest inmate segregation populations in the state, and has also seen a jump in the number of payouts given to inmates because of lost property, according to the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee.

The CIIC report was issued just days before convicted rapist James Myers escaped from the prison Wednesday night, only to be recaptured 24 hours later. The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction hasn’t said how the escape happened.

The report notes the prison has “a challenging inmate population” with frequent gang-related incidents and numerous inmates transferred in because of discipline problems.

Myers was housed in a pod where inmates receive

more privileges than those in a set of other, more restrictive pods, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said in an email Friday.

Overtime costs at Mansfield an indicator of staffing shortages fell significantly in 2012 but are still above the statewide average, according to the CIIC, a nonpartisan legislative committee that researches prison issues in Ohio.

Despite the assault rate and other problems, the CIIC concluded that conditions are improving under Warden Terry Tibbals, with Mansfield the only Ohio correctional facility of its kind to reduce its total violent incident rate two years running.

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The union representing prison guards said the report attempts to paint too rosy a light at Mansfield and questioned the way some statistics such as inmate-on-staff assaults were calculated.

“The prison remains a very dangerous place to work,” said Christopher Mabe, president of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association.

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In Brief Free concert at United Methodist

Local family-owned dealership Gover Harley-Davidson invites the public to stop by the dealership to fill out one of these postcards expressing support and gratitude to the 165 men and women of the Piqua-based 1487th Transportation Company. The 1487th has been deployed in Afghanistan since November 2012 and is scheduled to return home this fall.

PIQUA — Gover Harley-Davidson invites the public to participate in a program to send poscards to those who are serving in the armed forces.

The 165 men and women of the 1487th Transportation Company out of Piqua have been deployed to Afghanistan since November 2012, and is scheduled to return home this fall.

The unit’s previous deployment was to Iraq in 2004.

This past spring,

Gover Harley-Davidson asked Sgt. William Lee, the unit’s Rear Detachment Readiness NCO, what the public could do to assist the deployed soldiers. “Notes from home go a long way with the soldiers,” Lee said. So in conjunction with Western Ohio Graphics, Gover HarleyDavidson provided the printing cost of the postcards.

The first set of completed postcards left for Afghanistan in June to arrive to the unit by the Fourth of July. The post-

cards were meant to be notes of thanks and support to troops from the local community.

Students from local day care facilities and camps completed postcards, as well as members of the community.

The public is invited to stop into Gover HarleyDavidson to complete one or more postcards for the unit between now and Saturday, Aug. 3.

The completed postcards will be mailed to the 1487th Transportation Company to arrive in mid-September, about a

BRADFORD — A free concert sponsored by Bradford United Methodist Church will be held from 5-8 p.m. Saturday, July 13, at Iddings Park, Bradford. Music will be performed by the Sojourners, Still Blessed and Tommy Renfro.

There will be food available for purchase from the 7:11 BUMC Youth. Bring lawn chairs or a blanket to sit on.

Council meeting set BRADFORD — Bradford Council will conduct a special meeting at 6 p.m. July 11, prior to the regular session. The purpose of the meeting is to review sanitary sewer study and discuss with Grandview Estates residents.

A public hearing will be held at 7:15 p.m. July 11, for the purpose of reviewing and discussion of the proposed 2014 estimated tax budget.

month or two prior to their homecoming.

Look for Hero Day at Gover H-D on Saturday, Sept. 14, which is being planned to further honor the men and women who PHS class of ‘50 to meet have risked their lives PIQUA — Members of the Piqua High School class for freedom and thank of 1950 will meet for lunch at noon on Thursday, July those who have served 11, at China East in Piqua. Partners and friends are the nation. welcome to attend.

Gover Harley-Davidson is located one halfmile east on Ash Street, Route 36, Piqua.

For more information about events at Gover Harley-Davidson, call (773-8733 or email dani@goverhd.com.

Piqua Civic Band to perform ‘American as Apple Pie’ PIQUA — The Piqua Civic Band continues its summer concert season on July 11, at Hance Pavilion under the direction of guest conductor, Dr. Kenneth Kohlenberg. The band’s July 11 concert is titled “American as Apple Pie” and features great music by American composers and a saxophone solo performed by Stewart King.

Sinclair Community College Professor of Music Kenneth Kohlenberg conducts the Community Concert Band, the Community Wind Symphony and Youth Wind Ensemble and teaches a variety of music courses.

He also is the conductor and music director of the Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra.

Before coming to Sinclair, Kohlenberg held similar positions at Westmar College, Eastern New Mexico University and Dakota State College. He has also taught in the public schools in Michigan. Kohlenberg received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the

University of North Texas where he studied wind conducting with Eugene Migliaro Corporon. He received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Michigan, a bachelor of music from Michigan State University, and a master of music from MSU where his major was instrumental conducting, studying with Stanley DeRusha.

Featuring music of symphonic bands and wind ensembles, Kohlenberg hosted programs on Dayton Public Radio, 88.1/89.9 FM, from 1990 to 2000. He has contributed more than 30 articles for eight volumes of Teaching Music through Performance in Band, published by GIA. Kohlenberg is a frequent clinician and guest conductor throughout the Midwest.

Stewart King is a longtime member of the Piqua Civic Band’s clarinet and saxophone sections, as well as the Sidney Civic Band and various Big Swing Bands. He is a retired band director and school ad-

ministrator in the Tipp City School District. He was a woodwind instructor at the U.S. Naval School of Music in Washington, D.C. before moving to this area. King is a graduate of Capital University, Columbus and Ohio University in Athens.

King studied woodwinds with Joe Allard in New York City. He is a private music teacher in the Troy area and also performs with the Dayton Philharmonic Concert Band, the Swing Era Big Band and area dance bands. He lives in Troy with his wife, Mary Jean.

Selections will include Grace & Glory, Variations on a Shaker Melody, Persuasion (featuring Stewart King), Hello Dolly!, A Duke Ellington Medley, The Riverboat Rag, and much more.

The concert begins at 7 p.m. and admission is free.

Visit the band’s website at http://piquacivicband.weebly.com for more information.

State Briefs Toddler drowns in hot tub PICKERINGTON (AP) — Authorities say a 2year-old boy has apparently drowned in a hot tub at a suburban Columbus condominium complex.

Police in Pickerington said the toddler was found floating face down in the hot tub at Brookview Condominiums at about 6:30 p.m.

Monday. First-responders tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead later at a hospital.

Police said the boy’s parents and other adults were at the pool at the complex, which doesn’t have a lifeguard. The hot tub is 3 feet deep and located in a fenced-in area just a few feet from the pool.

Study: Lake Erie beaches worst COLUMBUS (AP) — An environmental group says Lake Erie beaches in Ohio were the worst in the national last year for water quality.

The annual report from the Natural Resources Defense Council on coastal beaches ranked Ohio last based on how many times E. coli bacteria posed a health threat to swimmers at Lake Erie's 61 public beaches.

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patch reports that in 2012, E. coli was detected in 21 percent of beach water tests. That put Ohio last. The percentage of 2012 tests that found unhealthy bacteria was down only slightly, from the 22 percent in 2011.

Tessie Pollock, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Health, said sewage overflows, failing home septic systems and feces from geese and gulls contribute to bacteria contamination.

Teenager accidentally shot by child COLUMBUS (AP) — Columbus police say a 15year-old girl was accidentally shot by a 9-year-old family member playing with a gun.

Police said the teen was shot in the leg and taken to a hospital after the Sunday night shooting. The juvenile who shot her was playing with a gun provided by another juvenile.

A police report said charges are pending in the case.

Man finds 50 dynamite sticks LORAIN (AP) — Police evacuated several blocks in a northeast Ohio neighborhood after a homeowner discovered about 50 sticks of dynamite underneath a pool filtration tank.

The Elyria ChronicleTelegram reported the bags of dynamite may have dated back to the 1960s.

It wasn't clear where it came from. Dynamite is illegal to have without a permit.

Lorain police Capt.

Tom Mize tells the newspaper that police used diesel fuel to slowly burn the dynamite in the road on Wednesday. He said given the age of the dynamite, it could have been dangerous to move. A bomb robot prodded the dynamite to make sure it didn't explode.

Area residents were prevented from entering their homes for several hours while the dynamite slowly burned. No injuries were reported.

Medicaid beneficiaries see revamped program COLUMBUS (AP) — Many Ohioans on Medicaid will see a revamped program under new contracts with health plans taking effect this month.

The Medicaid managed care program provides health care services for more than 1.6 million poor and disabled people in Ohio.

The state recently rebid its contracts serving the Medicaid population.

Beneficiaries now can choose from five plans.

They are the Buckeye Community Health Plan, CareSource, Molina Healthcare, Paramount Advantage and United Healthcare.

Under the new contracts, the plans are required to maintain and operate a member service call center in Ohio. The state's Medicaid department says it expects the requirement would lead to almost 1,000 new jobs.

The plans also have to develop financial incentives for hospitals, doctors and other providers that are tied to improving quality and patients' health.

Heroin ODs up in SW city HAMILTON (AP) — First responders in a southwest Ohio city were called to 18 heroin overdoses during the past two weeks, including five in a single day.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that most of the recent overdose victims in Hamilton have survived.

EMS Coordinator Jennifer Mason tells the newspaper that the percent of overdose runs for the department has more than tripled since last June, and more than 90 percent involve heroin.

She says the problem is of "epidemic proportions."

The newspaper reports that budget cuts effective June 1 have lengthened

response times in some areas.

Deputy Fire Chief Troy Pugh says his crew responded to five overdoses by 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. He says emergency workers are seeing both real and synthetic heroin, and it's become a big problem in the community.

Giffords talks gun policies in Cincy CINCINNATI (AP) — A former congresswoman injured in a mass shooting has stopped in Cincinnati as she tours seven states to push efforts aimed at keeping guns away from criminals and the mentally ill.

Gabby Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, joined the Fourth of July parade Thursday after making a public appeal for expanding gun buyer background checks.

Giffords said addressing gun violence will require bipartisanship. The longtime gun owner has been lobbying in recent months for policy changes aimed at reducing gun violence.

Giffords was shot in the head at a meet-andgreet with her constituents outside a grocery store in Tucson, Ariz., in January 2011.

She has undergone painstaking physical and speech therapy, and she

reluctantly resigned her seat in Congress.

Instructors seek unemployment benefits AKRON (AP) — Faculty groups are trying to guide part-time college instructors through state and federal unemployment compensation rules as they seek state aid in between terms.

The Akron Beacon Journal reports that the Akron-based New Faculty Majority and Ohio Part-Time Faculty Association have held "filing parties" and a Web seminar to help steer adjuncts through the process of collecting unemployment over summer.

Adjunct instructors work from term to term.

Many don't get health care through their employer.

The newspaper says it's unclear how many adjuncts are filing for unemployment. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services won't release claim numbers on individual employers, citing privacy rules.

Adjunct instructors at the University of Akron represent about 59 percent of the faculty workforce, which is the highest rate among Ohio's tax-supported universities.

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Is Paula Deen the worst American ever? s practically everyone knows by now,multimillionaire TV chef Paula Deen was yanked from the pinnacle of free-market success after admitting to a lawyer taking a deposition in a racial and sexual harassment lawsuit (already Orwellian) that she had used what is referred to as “the N-word” some 25 years ago.

“The N-word”? Here we give the Victorians a run for their word-mincing money.The offending word,no matter how ugly it is, it is hardly taboo when a quick search of iTunes pulls up 2,000 entries for sale featuring the term.

According to the deposition, Deen said the word when telling her husband about the man who had stuck a gun to her head during a robbery at the bank where she worked years ago. She also admitted to using the slur at other non-specific times but said,“It’s been a long time,” adding:“That’s just not a word we use as time has gone on” (unless “we” are in the music business).

So,like President Obama on homosexual marriage, Deen claims to have “evolved,” or at least learned some manners.

Nonetheless, her admission disqualified Deen from further participation in public life — at least according to the titans of corporate America. En masse, they ended their lucrative business relationships DIANA WEST with Deen. Food Network cut Columnist ties with her. Then Smithfield Foods. Major retailers — WalMart, Target, Home Depot, J.C. Penney, QVC -- announced they would no longer sell Paula Deen merchandise. Random House also canceled Deen’s forthcoming cookbook even as it was already,in pre-release,the No.1 top-selling book onAmazon.

Watching Deen’s long fall is almost unbelievable. Judging by these swift,unforgiving actions by corporateAmerica,there is nothing worse than what Deen did (said). That would include, for example, giving aid and comfort to the enemy in NorthVietnam whileAmerican POWs were being tortured by captors in Hanoi, and while other Americans were still fighting and dying during the Vietnam War. This, of course, is exactly what actress Jane Fonda did before amassing her own exercise-based media empire.

I couldn’t help noticing that in the same People magazine issue that features a Deen cover story (“Inside Her Fall”), actress Winona Ryder offers readers a list of her favorite books.

One happens to be“My Life So Far,”a memoir by Jane Fonda.

Ironically,Random House is Fonda’s publisher.Another Ryder must-read is “Scoundrel Time,” a memoir by writer Lillian Hellman,who admired and even shilled for Stalin,the Soviet dictator who killed some 20 million people.

Fonda and Hellman, however, make public-squareapproved bedtime reading. It is Deen who is anathema, now and probably always.Why?Whether she is as far left as Fonda and Hellman, Deen is no conservative -- the most common cause of cultural leprosy.What gives?

The answer lies in the superpowers of the left to shape and guide our responses to all cultural stimuli,something I discuss at length in my new book,“American Betrayal.”

Deen, 66, may have supported President Obama in 2008, butsheisanold,whiteSoutherner,which,ingood,ol’fashioned Marxist-Leninist terms,is still a class of person best defined as “enemy of the people.” Detestable. Expendable. Throw her under the “limousine liberals’” limousine while they, admiring enemies of the Constitution (or U.S. troops), whiz by us in cultural camouflage all the way to the reliably capitalist bank.

And speaking of the reliably capitalist bank, don’t forget Alec Baldwin. The notoriously bad-mouthed actor (and leftwing People for the American Way board member) volcanically erupted on Twitter recently, hurling expletive-laced homosexual insults at a journalist.However,Baldwin,too,remains a public-square-anointed one, apparently secure as pitchman for Capitol One. It gets more ironic.Also out this month is a Town & Country cover story about Armand “Armie” Hammer, the 26-yearold star of a new Lone Ranger movie. The headline is, “Lone Ranger in Love: He’s from an American Dynasty, but for the New John Wayne, Money and Fame Aren’t Everything.”

American dynasty? The new John Wayne? Young Armie, of course,has nothing to do with the formation of said dynasty, and probably less to do with the writing of the glossy headline.

In short,Armie is beside my point,which is this:The Hammer “Dynasty’s” formation was anything but “American” given its deep, twisted roots in Soviet wheeling and dealing.

Armie’s great-grandfather was Armand Hammer (18981990), a legendary Soviet “agent of influence” whose fortune began to accrue while in effect laundering money for Lenin’s nascent Soviet Union -- no fan,of course,of the bourgeois likes ofTown & Country.Then there’s the magazine’s invocation of JohnWayne,a legendary patriot and anti-Communist.So outspoken was Wayne, film historian and Wayne biographer Michael Munn tells us,the actor was actually targeted for assassination by Stalin.

Town & Country’s headline isn’t just an example of tonedeafness. By such discordant chords, our history is written over and forgotten, leaving us oblivious to everything -- except, of course, that Paula Deen is a racist.

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because — and this is a t has officially been hilarious story — I sussix months since tained an incredibly many of you set a egregious hand wound New Year’s resolution, when I was younger. either through the exerMy right, dominant cise of free will or hand became caught, through the sheer force clawed and mauled by a of another. You probably rabid meat cuber. What’s made the declaration to a meat cuber? The short family, friends and even WILL E SANDERS answer is something you co-workers, perhaps Staff Writer never want to get your seeking attention or wsanders@civitasmedia.com hand caught in. praise. But a half-year As funny as all of this removed most of you have probably fallen victim to your vice of sounds, I am, literally, lucky to be typing choice or thrown said resolution to the this sentence right now with the use of a right hand that’s firmly attached to my wayside.

Now all of the family, friends and even body. However, the aspect of having a co-workers you stated your resolution to prosthetic hook for a right hand is not now view you as a feeble-minded fool who without its own charms.

I never play my banjo within earshot or lacks the stick-to-itiveness to stand by your decisions. A lot of you probably eyeshot of the general public unless it’s vowed to quit smoking cigarettes, stop my wife, Christine, and only her because drinking beer on the weekdays, swearing she took a vow to put up with me for the off fast food or calling it cold turkey on the rest of her natural life. That’s because my capabilities at actually playing the banjo caffeine and coffee.

Not me. I’m still doing all of those are vastly outweighed by how annoying a person learning a banjo can be. I mean, things.

Making resolutions never made sense let’s face it the banjo gets about as much to me anyway. Look at me! Do you think I love as bagpipes do.

Banjo hatred seems to span the species need help with setting myself up for failure? No, no, no, I have that covered. But barrier, too — my four felines are terrified late last year I awoke from a lucid fever of the doggone thing. I usually only exclunightmare in a cold sweat and proclaimed sively play my banjo around my kitties as into the darkness these very words: “I will I sing twangy, impromptu kitty songs to them that I make up on the spot. Most of learn how to play the banjo.” the time my four cats scatter in four difThen I threw up on the floor.

A few days later when the fever left I ferent directions. When they do I stalk scraped up 150 bucks and went out and them around house as I play banjo-rebought a hand-me-down banjo. That was lated chase music.

One time my poor banjo rested unatthe easy part. My resolution should have been, “I will buy a banjo.” Buying an in- tended on the couch and I witnessed one strument (or looking at one in befuddled of my kitties, Thumper, walk right up to it and hopeless amazement) is not nearly as and attack it in a fury of furry paw difficult as learning how to play an in- strikes.

So it seems that nobody is thrilled with strument. Let me tell y’all, I am the Earl my banjo except me. But I really have to Scruggs of looking at my banjo.

In theory, I thought the transition from hand it to myself because I made a resoplaying the guitar for the past 20 years to lution and I continue to stick with it.

So steer clear, ladies and gentlemen, for picking and grinning with a new stringed instrument would be a piece of cake. But I have a banjo and I’m clearly not afraid to just like the ancient Chinese proverb pro- use it. claims, you can’t have your cake and eat To contact Will E Sanders email him at it, too.

Hard work, hours of dedicated perse- wille@willesanders.com. To learn more about Will E Sanders, to read past verance and tedious practicing?

Like most people who aren’t immedi- columns or to read features by other Creately good at something, I detest all of ators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at those ideals.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added a robust 195,000 jobs in June and many more in April and May than previously thought. The job growth raises hopes for a stronger economy in the second half of 2013.

The unemployment rate remained 7.6 percent. That was because more people started looking for work in June — a healthy sign.

Once people without jobs start looking for one, they’re counted as unemployed.

An improving job market makes it more likely that the Federal Reserve will slow its bond purchases before year’s end. The bond purchases have kept longterm interest rates low.

Job growth “continues to look more than strong enough to keep unemployment trending down ... and probably more than strong enough to lead to Fed tapering starting in September,” said Jim O’Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics.

Pay also rose sharply last month, the Labor Department’s monthly jobs report Friday showed. Pay has now outpaced inflation over the past year.

Stocks opened higher an hour after the jobs report was released at 8:30 a.m.

EDT. And the yield on the 10-year Treasury note jumped from 2.56 percent to 2.69 percent, its highest level since August 2011.

That’s a sign that investors think the economy is improving.

The economy has added an average 202,000 jobs a month for the past six months, up from 180,000 in the previous six. Hiring and consumer confidence have risen despite higher taxes and federal spending cuts that kicked in this year.

Friday’s report showed the economy added 70,000 more jobs in April and May than the government had previously estimated — 50,000 in April and 20,000 in May. Average hourly pay rose 10 cents to $24.01, 2.2 percent higher than a year ago.

The hotels, restaurants and entertainment industry added 75,000 jobs last month. Retailers added 37,000.

The health care industry added 20,000, construction 13,000. Temporary jobs rose 10,000. But manufacturing shed 6,000.

Many of the new jobs were part time. The number of Americans who said they were working part time but would prefer fulltime work jumped 322,000 to 8.2 million — the most in eight months.

Despite the solid pace of hiring, the economy is growing only sluggishly. It expanded at a 1.8 percent annual rate in the JanuaryMarch quarter. Most analysts expect growth at roughly the same subpar rate in the April-June quarter.

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Del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ Teen gets a distant feeling resurrects the Kaiju film from closest family members

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This film publicity image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows the Gipsy Danger robot in a scene from “Pacific Rim.” “Pacific Rim” fulfills a very basic boyhood fantasy: big ol’ robots and giant monsters slugging it out. The concept to Guillermo del Toro’s “Godzilla”-sized film is about as simple as it gets, but actually constructing such mammoth creations is a far more arduous undertaking.

BY JAKE COYLE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The appeal of “Pacific Rim” isn’t complicated.

Like the kind of boyhood fantasy that delights in flying men and relishes dreams of dinosaurs, “Pacific Rim,” the latest film from director Guillermo Del Toro, is predicated on the simple, childlike thrill of seeing big ol’ robots and big ol’ monsters slug it out.

But while summer spectacles have grown ever larger in recent years, the monster movie — the original citysmashing genre — has mostly ceded the multiplexes to superheroes and more apocalyptic disaster films.

But 14 years after Roland Emmerich’s forgettable “Godzilla” remake, Del Toro’s “Pacific Rim” constitutes a large-scale attempt to bring Japan’s beloved Kaiju movies — their monster films, of which Ishiro Honda’s 1954 “Godzilla” is the most famous — to American shores.

“Monsters have always spoken to a part of me that is really, really essential,” Del Toro, the Mexican director of the Oscar-nominated “Pan’s Labyrinth,” said in a recent interview. “All of my life, I felt out of place. The tragedy of every monster in every movie is that they are out of place. That’s the essential plight of monsters.”

In the 3-D “Pacific Rim,” which Warner Bros. will release on July 12, the 25-storyhigh Kaiju emanate (as is tradition) from the sea one by one, each uniquely grotesque beasts. To combat these monsters and defend the coastlines of the Pacific, equally giant robots called Jaegers are built, each controlled by two brain-connected pilots.

Since he was a child, Del Toro has compulsively drawn monsters, beginning with sketches of the Creature from “Creature from the Black Lagoon” and the Phantom from “Phantom of the Opera.” He’s still an obsessive drawer (he has a book of drawings for every movie he makes), but creating the creatures and robots of “Pacific Rim” meant working in an entirely different scale.

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This blueprint image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows details of the Gipsy Danger robot from the film “Pacific Rim.” While the Kaiju films of Toho studios were a formative influence on Del Toro, he boxed up his DVDs before starting work on “Pacific Rim,” intent on making a movie that wasn’t a mere homage. Instead, he took inspiration less from Japanese monster films than paintings like Goya’s “The Colossus” (which depicts a passing muscular giant, with fists raised, surrounded by clouds) and George Bellows’ visceral boxing paintings of hulking combatants.

“I wanted to bring the awe and spectacle of when you watch something so big that the scale is inhuman,” says Del Toro. “I kept thinking of the Goya painting because it seemed detached from ethical judgment. It’s so beyond human. It’s like watching a tornado and a hurricane clash.”

Del Toro speaks majestically about monsters and robots, which might sound comical if he wasn’t so earnestly heartfelt. With “Pacific Rim,” he sought the operatic grandeur of Goya and Bellows, attempting to capture what he calls “a beautiful monster pageantry.”

Battles would take place in the middle of the sea, with swirling storms and torrents of water. At Comic-Con last year, Del Toro gleefully labeled his movie “robot porn.”

“Guillermo’s approach is to just show his passion,” says visual effects supervisor John Knoll, the chief creative officer of Industrial Light and Magic. “When everyone on the crew sees how much Guillermo loves this stuff, how much it means to him, the enthusiasm is contagious.”

Del Toro, also a producer and co-screenwriter, worked closely with the effects team at ILM to create the battle sequences between the giant robots and creatures that make up much of the film. It was a particularly challenging project because of the scale involved, in addition to the frequent presence of water — long a computer graphics headache.

“We sort of know how to make things look really big: You slow them down, there are other visual cues you can give it to say this thing is 250 feet tall,” says animation director Hal Hickel. “But if everything is moving very

slowly, that could potentially be boring. You don’t want everything to look like it’s in a slow-motion. The trick for us was to move things in a way that suggested their gigantic size and felt kind of realistic-ish, but at the same time was exciting to watch.”

The Kaiju film was birthed as a kind of firebreathing metaphor for nuclear atrocity, with “Godzilla” coming nine years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In 2011, a new kind of nuclear nightmare occurred with the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown following the devastating earthquake and tsunami.

Work on “Pacific Rim” had already commenced before that disaster, but it’s possible a new chapter in the Kaiju film has begun. Legendary Pictures, which produced “Pacific Rim,” is also prepping a new “Godzilla” for 2014, to be released by Warner Bros. There’s also an adaptation of the 1970s Japanese giant robot animated series “Gaiking” in the works.

Knoll says the Kaiju movie is seeing a resurgence.

“They were great, cheesy fun,” says Knoll. “Here was something that was a bit of a love letter to those kinds of films. It was something that really hadn’t been done in the West in any significant way. But it’s something that’s been an enduring part of Japanese culture.”

Legendary is hoping that “Pacific Rim” spawns an enduring franchise, an aspiration some have questioned since the $200 million film was reportedly tracking somewhat poorly with preview audiences. Will moviegoers embrace Del Toro’s grand Kaiju-robot showdown?

“The only robots we get in America are Transformers,” says Del Toro. “What I would love is for a generation of kids to have access to these sort of truly, truly escapist adventure movie. There is not such a thing as reprehensible violence in a Kaiju movie. They are so absolutely anomalous to our reality. You’re not going to see an imitation Kaiju attack because a Kaiju saw a movie and decided to attack a mall. It is so guilt free.”

DEAR ABBY: I’m 14 and for as long as I can remember, my family has never really been “together.” We exist with each other physically, but have never connected in a loving way. I can’t remember my father ever smiling at my mom or being happy. There seems to be an undercurrent of hostility or resentment in our relationships with each other. The lack of love in our house is palpable.

I wonder sometimes what it’s like to eat dinner together at night, and what it’s like to see parents kiss because they love each other — not a stressed, distant, obligated contact.

I finally asked my mother, “Why don’t you ever hug me?” Her answer was, “Because I can’t remember the last time you tried to hug ME.” I’m crying as I write this.

Why doesn’t my mother understand that kindness is necessary and should not be conditional?

— TROUBLED GIRL IN FLORIDA DEAR TROUBLED GIRL: Your mother may have been raised in a loveless home and not know how to easily demonstrate affection. Or her marriage to your father could be so unhappy that she has shut down.

You are a perceptive girl, and it is understandable that you are “troubled.”

But the only person who can answer the question you have asked me is your mother, who appears to need to receive kindness and affection before she will be able to give it. Make an effort to hug her more and the situation may improve. How very sad.

ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

Advice fix this.

I have known her for 20 years and she means so much to me. I want to save our marriage, and for the last year I have expressed repeatedly how sorry I am.

Any advice?

— SORRY IN TENNESSEE DEAR SORRY: Tell your wife (if the divorce isn’t final) that you are willing to do anything to save your marriage, and ask her if she would be willing to go to couple’s counseling with you.

Under the circumstances, her feelings are entirely understandable. If there is any love for you left in her heart, counseling may help to get your relationship back on track.

However, if she refuses, you will have to accept her decision and go on with your life, having learned a very expensive lesson.

DEAR ABBY: I am a 23-year-old gay male who is interested in doing drag.

Due to being unable to find work, I am hoping I can turn performing in drag into a source of income. I am not afraid to perform in front of crowds of people, so this could be a good idea.

Do you think it is?

— POTENTIAL SUPERSTAR IN PHILADELPHIA DEAR ABBY: I’m a 33year-old man who has DEAR POTENTIAL screwed up his marriage. I stupidly had a fling with SUPERSTAR: It’s not a my wife’s 16-year-old bad idea. Your next step is cousin and got in trouble to audition to see if you for it. I never lied about it have the ability and the because I knew it was looks to succeed.

While drag is a narrow wrong, and I am deeply sorry for it. It happened niche of show business, more than a year ago. I some performers have had ended up serving time in successful careers in that area — and you might, too. jail.

I love my wife. She is my You’ll never know if you best friend. We have no don’t give it a try. I wish kids, just some great dogs you luck. and horses. We were very Dear Abby is written by close until I went to jail, Abigail Van Buren, also and the last day I was in there I got served with di- known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her vorce papers.

I can’t blame her for how mother, Pauline Phillips. she feels. She says she Write Dear Abby at loves me but she’s too hurt www.DearAbby.com or P.O. to continue. I love her and Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA I’m devastated that I can’t 90069.

■ Contract Bridge — By Steve Becker

It pays to plan the play

A conscientious declarer starts the play of each hand with the feeling that if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong. He then attempts to guard against every type of misfortune he can think of.

So when South first

views the dummy at four hearts, he takes the somber view that he could lose a spade, a heart and two clubs and go down one. He recognizes that he might not have to lose a trump trick, and that he will lose only one club trick if West has the ace, but he starts by assuming he will be unlucky on both counts.

His next step is to try to overcome this imagined bad lie of the cards. He notes that if the spades are favorably divided, he might be able to establish a spade winner to take care of one of his losing

clubs, and that this possibility can be pursued without relinquishing his other chances for the contract.

Accordingly, he wins the diamond with the king and immediately leads a spade. West follows low, and East takes the jack with the king. Let’s say East returns a diamond to the ace, whereupon South ruffs a low spade.

Declarer now cashes the A-K of trumps, discovering that he does in fact have to lose a trump trick, and then ruffs a diamond with dummy’s ten. When he next trumps another

low spade, West’s ace falls, and the contract suddenly becomes secure. South later discards a club on the queen of spades and winds up losing only a spade, a heart and a club.

Note that if declarer ignores the spades at the outset and instead places his hopes on a favorable trump split or on finding West with the club ace, he goes down. The practice of seeking a way at the outset to offset potential bad luck pays handsome dividends from time to time.

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bridegroom.

The bride-elect earned a PhD from Bowling Green State University and is employed by Miami University. Her fiance earned a PhD from Bowling Green State University, where he also is employed.

A Sept. 14 wedding is planned.

Webster retires from Navy HARLOTTE, N.C. — Mark A. Webster retired from the U.S. Navy on June 1, after serving 22 years.

The son of Nancy Webster of Laura and Tom Webster of Piqua, he is a 1989 graduate of Bradford High School, a 1994 graduate of Ohio Northern University and a 2001 graduate of The Citadel. He accepted Nuclear Propulsion Officer Candidacy in 1992.

After attending Naval Nuclear Power Training Command School, Naval Nuclear Power Training Unit, Submarine Officer Basic Course, he was assigned to the USS Rhode Island (SSBN 740) Gold in Kings Bay, Ga., from 1996-1999.

Commander Webster returned as an instructor at the Naval Nuclear

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eidi L. Nees of Piqua and Michael Carver of Bowling Green announce their engagement.

She is the daughter of Lowell and Janet Nees of Piqua.

George and Vicki Carver of Bowling Green are parents of the

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Power Training Command in South Carolina from 1999-2003, before joining the Navy Reserves in 2003. During his reserve duty he served on the USS Iwo Jima Submarine Advisory ESG, USS Harry S. Truman submarine advisory, and the USS Enterprise Submarine Advisory C2X. Commander Webster was activated to full status from March-December 2008, in Kabul, Afghanistan as the deputy chief of the NATO ISAF CJ9 Afghan Development Policy.

He is currently employed by Duke Energy as an insurance and risk manager in Charlotte, N.C. where he resides with his wife Danielle, daughter, Emi and son, Zack.

Inspiration, information from travel books NEW YORK (AP) — Sure, there are apps and websites — not to mention Facebook posts from all your friends and relatives — to help you decide where to go and what to do on your next trip. But there’s still a place in travel for the oldfashioned book — from lavishly illustrated hardcovers to information-packed guides.

—Lonely Planet’s“BestTrips”series,which includes firstever editions for Italy, Ireland and France ($25 each), along with fully updated second editions for California, New England and the Pacific Northwest ($23 each). Each book includes about three dozen itineraries for road trips. The contents include maps and detailed directions for each itinerary, classic trips with well-known destinations and top activities, ideas for detours to local spots, and recommendations for dining and lodging.

—Travel + Leisure’s “100 Greatest Trips” ($35). This collection of stories from the magazine and its international editions features memorable destinations from exotic locales like Zanzibar to driving itineraries in Florida and Texas.

Other stories include shopping in Brooklyn,N.Y.,a beach escape in Mozambique, arts and culture in Milan, outdoor adventures in Costa Rica, and culinary tours of Hawaii, Paris, Singapore and Tasmania.

—”500+ All-American Family Adventures” by Debbie K. Hardin (Countryman Press, $25). The book is designed to help families plan vacations and day trips that are both educational and entertaining, all centered around the American experience. The book has a chapter on every state plus Washington D.C., with listings that range from natural parks like Zion in Utah or Denali in Alaska, to fun activities like surfing in Hawaii or visiting Coney Island in New York.

Also featured are numerous historic sites and museums, from Lincoln’s birthplace in Hodgenville,Ky.,to the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Okla.

BY FRANK ELTMAN Associated Press CHERRY GROVE, N.Y. (AP) — Decades before the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, lesbians and gay men were living freely and openly in a place called Cherry Grove.

The seaside resort on Fire Island, about 60 miles east of Manhattan, was known as far back as the late 1940s as a sanctuary where gay writers, actors and businesspeople from the city and beyond escaped to relax, hold hands and show affection in public.

“It’s probably one of the earliest examples of don’t ask, don’t tell,” Carl Luss said after learning in June that the Cherry Grove Community House and Theater, opened in 1948, added to the National Register of Historic Places. The theater was cited for being the oldest continuously operating gay and lesbian theater in the United States.

“The message is, we have arrived, finally,” said Diane Romano, president of the Cherry Grove Community Association.

“We remember when we could be arrested just for being gay,” Romano said. “To now be applauded and to be allowed to marry and to be recognized by the government for being a gay theater for so many years is just thrilling. It’s thrilling.”

Cherry Grove is one of about 17 hamlets and villages on the 30-mile long barrier island five miles off the southern shore of Long Island.

Virtually obliterated in a 1938 hurricane, the community now has about 250 houses that can sell for $400,000 or more. Two miles of white, sandy beaches facing the Atlantic are accessible via a network of narrow boardwalks. Denizens either walk or get around on golf carts; no cars are permitted in most Fire Island communities.

Cherry Grove and the nearby Pines neighborhood are the predominantly gay communities on Fire Island, although the Pines developed its reputation as a haven decades after Cherry Grove.

“By the nature of its isolation and beauty, it became a safe haven for gay people, where they could not be afraid of repercussions from work, or anger from their families about being gay,” said Thom “Panzi” Hansen, president of the Cherry Grove Arts Project. He and others noted there were occasional raids in which police would enforce laws

prohibiting same-sex dancing or ticket people for lewd behavior, but largely because the island was so isolated from the mainland, they were generally left alone.

Landlords and businesses desperate for cash after the Depression, the 1938 hurricane and World War II generally overlooked their tenants’ sexual orientation in order to fill what were then largely rental properties, locals said.

Every July Fourth, a ferry filled with men in drag travels from Cherry Grove to the Pines in a funloving commemoration of a man in drag being refused service at a bar in the Pines in 1976. The event commemorates the advances of gays, lesbians and transgender people in the ensuing decades.

Notable Cherry Grove visitors and residents have included poet W.H. Auden; playwright Tennessee Williams; author Truman Capote; actresses Nancy Walker, Tallulah Bankhead and Hermione Gingold; comedian Kaye Ballard; and New Yorker journalist Janet Flanner.

Residents sought landmark status for the Community House and Theater to jump-start interest in funding a renovation of the 151seat barn-like structure.

It is only the third gay-rights landmark to get the federal designation, joining the Stonewall, where gays clashed with the New York Police Department for three days in 1969 over harassment, leading to the modern gay rights movement, and the Washington, D.C., home of Dr. Franklin E. Kameny, who became a gay rights activist after he was fired from his job with the Army Map Service in 1957 for refusing to answer questions about his sexual orientation.

The walls of the theater’s basement dressing room feature autographs of many of the performers who called the stage their temporary home. While some were willing to sign their real names, Luss said, others left only initials or aliases, still reticent to out themselves publicly even in a relatively safe atmosphere.

“It was a secret hidden in the open,” said Luss, who wrote the application for landmark status.

“Everybody sort of knew they were all on the same page and as long as there wasn’t you know, ultra behavior, people were satisfied.”

Gay visitors would — and still do — catch a Long Island Rail Road train in Manhattan for the 75-

minute trip to Sayville and slowly begin to relax.

Once they got on a ferry for a 20minute ride across Great South Bay to Cherry Grove, “personalities changed. The uptightness just began to fall off. You would see men start to chat with each other and laugh and smile,” said Jack Dowling, who began visiting Cherry Grove as a teenager in the 1950s and now, at age 80, lives there.

Once on Fire Island, they would hold hands and kiss as they walked through town, Dowling said. Others dressed in drag for celebrations such as an annual baseball game on the beach.

“It was a safety zone,” said Dowling, a painter and writer. Other gay enclaves were beginning to gain popularity in such places as Provincetown, Mass., San Francisco and Key West, Fla., but Cherry Grove “was without question the leading place that was predominantly gay,” he said.

With acceptance of gays and lesbians evolving to the point where the Supreme Court has granted federal benefits to gay couples who are legally married, Romano and others say Cherry Grove — where visitors are greeted by oversize American and gay liberation flags fluttering in the wind — is more than ever seen as a comfortable place for gays and straights to visit for the day, a weekend or all summer long.

“I don’t think we’re getting as many young people as we used to,” Romano said. “Now you can be gay almost anywhere.”

Troy Files, who has been coming to Cherry Grove for about seven years, said people will always be attracted to what he called “a gay and lesbian Mayberry RFD.” “You can be gay in the middle of Pennsylvania and be safe now,” Files said. “But for us, it’s a hidden jewel. We’re all here to have fun.

The theme of Cherry Grove is ‘unity in the community,’ and it truly shows.”

Esther Newton, a University of Michigan women’s studies professor who wrote “Cherry Grove, Fire Island,” predicted that despite social changes, the Fire Island community will remain a gay enclave long into the future.

“In the next 50, 75, 100 years, there will be gay people and lesbians who will want to go to a place like the Grove,” she said. “There’s nothing else like it.”

Budget woes for lesser known

BY JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press PINEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Supporters of a North Carolina museum honoring James K. Polk, America’s 11th president, are learning a lesson that’s hitting home at other monuments to lesser-known American leaders: Government spending on their memorial sites is declining, so private money and grants had better be found quickly.

The small museum on the land where Polk was born is the target of Republican state lawmakers looking for places to cut the budget.

Similar money problems are besetting other sites that honor some of the American presidents least likely to make the historians’ top 10 list. Ohio has been cutting funds for the staterun museums honoring Rutherford B. Hayes,Warren G. Harding and Ulysses Grant.

The North Carolina budget proposal initially removed nearly all the $110,000 needed each year to run the Polk museum south of Charlotte, meaning it would close for all but a few days a year. Now, the House and Senate are trying to reach a compromise plan that makes some cuts, with hopes that private gifts or grants could make up the difference.

However, even the compromise might be a fatal blow to the Polk site, said Ben Pelton, treasurer of the Polk Memorial Support Fund, which has also morphed into a group called Keep Polk Open in the fight to save the site.

“We are not structured to raise money.We’re a support group. How are we going to find $110,000 a year quickly?” Pelton said. “How can the state shut down the birthplace of a president? How many other states have one of those?”

Just 21 states can claim a presidential birthplace. More than half of those birthplaces are in four states: Virginia, Ohio, New York and Massachusetts.

Presidential birthplaces and museums are a patchwork of national historic sites, state run facilities and private museums. Many have cut back the days and hours they are open. For lesser known presidents like Franklin

Pierce, Chester Arthur or Martin Van Buren, tourists have to visit during the summer because they aren’t open for most of the year.

The state-owned President James K. Polk State Historic Site in Pineville includes 21 of the 150 acres that Polk’s parents owned, farmed and lived on when he was born in 1795.The site has a museum and two buildings renovated to look like a home and a kitchen from the period.They are not the Polks’ home — those were torn down a long time ago. Instead, officials moved similar buildings from that era to the land in the late 1960s when they decided to build the museum, said site manager Scott Warren.

The Polk site had 16,100 visitors last year, including more than 2,800 thirdgraders on field trips from Charlotte areas schools. The small museum also includes a short film on the president who went to war with Mexico and cut a deal with Great Britain over the Pacific Northwest that led to America stretching from sea to shining sea — a man many historians consider the country’s most successful one-term president, or its least-known great president.

Polk’s family moved from North Carolina when he was 11, and he is much better known as a Tennessean.

The federal site dedicated to Polk is at his adult home in Columbia, Tenn.

That location also has Polk’s presidential papers.

North Carolina’s Polk site is just beginning to deal with what some other presidential sites across the country have already handled when Great Recession swallowed funds for museums and historical sites.

Ohio, home to seven presidents, has cut funding to its presidential museums. The home of Warren G. Harding ended up in Ohio’s hands in the late 1970s when the private organization overseeing it ran out of money.The museum is now open just five days a week and only in the afternoon, said Sherry Hall, site manager for the Harding Home President Site.

Harding is a tough president to sell.

His administration was tainted by the Teapot Dome oil bribery scandal and several of his appointees went to jail.

But he also supported women’s right to vote and advocated for educational and economic opportunities for blacks — a progressive stance in the 1920s.

“We’re not one of the big guys either.

But I like not being one of the big guys,” Hall said. “People think they know everything about Lincoln, Washington or Jefferson. They often don’t know a lot about Harding, or what they know is wrong. I like being able to teach them something new.”

The people who run the home of fellow one-term president Rutherford B. Hayes in Fremont, Ohio, don’t work 40hour weeks any more to save money.

Back in 2002, the site got $700,000 from Ohio taxpayers. This past year, state money made up just $281,000 of the center’s $1.4 million budget, executive director Christie Weininger said.

The museum started closing one weekday and cut hours to save money.

Sometimes Weininger feels like she spends more time figuring out ways to make money than how to tell the story of the president who abandoned Reconstruction in the South after a disputed election and championed civil service reform.

“Our mission is not to raise money.

Our mission is to provide wonderful educational, programs,” Weininger said.

“But you are always looking at your events, wondering, how can we make money off of this?”

Weininger thinks governments can’t abandon museums and historical sites because they create a vital link to the past.

“Presidential history is incredibly important to our history and to the understanding of ourselves. We can’t be ignorant of our own history and expect to properly prepare of the future. That doesn’t make sense. You have to understand where you came from,” Weininger said.

The chance to see living and breathing history is what appealed to 11-yearold Luke Protasewich as he recently walked around the Polk site with his mom and another home-schooled family. In the brilliant sunshine, he could imagine a young farm boy running around that same patch of land and growing up to be president.

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CINCINNATI (AP) — Aaron Harang pitched six innings in the ballpark where he still holds the strikeout record, and Nick Franklin and Michael Saunders homered on Friday night, leading the Seattle Mariners to a 4-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.

Harang (4-7) limited his former team to a pair of runs and six hits, including Joey Votto's 15th homer.

Oliver Perez struck out the side in the ninth for his second save.

Franklin hit a two-run homer off Mike Leake (74), who had his start pushed back one day by a rainout. Saunders had a solo homer and a sacrifice fly off Leake, who lasted five innings.

The Mariners are making their second visit to Cincinnati and their first to Great American Ball

Park, which opened in 2003. In their other trip, they swept a three-game series at Cinergy Field in 2002. The Mariners are 91 all-time against the Reds.

Seattle and Cincinnati will always have one notable baseball connection: Ken Griffey Jr., who grew up in Cincinnati, developed into one of the majors' best with Seattle, and returned to his hometown in a trade before the 2000 season. Griffey finished his career in 2010, when he retired from the Mariners.

Harang pitched for the Reds from 2003-10, starting five season openers.

He holds the record for most career strikeouts at Great American Ball Park with 598, including his four on Friday night.

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"We were lined up 1-2-3 when I broke and Kyle broke shortly after that," said Kenseth. "Our plate stuff has been really fast this year. Qualifying doesn't always mean a lot at a QUOTED superspeedway, but it's “I've ate Oreos and nice to start up front.

I've chased them with Hopefully we can keep it up and stay in front of any coke, but I can't say potential trouble." that I've done a lot of Clint Bowyer qualified second and Michael Waldunking."

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as Toyota drivers took four of the first five spots.

MWR team co-owner Michael Waltrip was seventh.

It was a strong showing for the Toyota drivers, who have battled various engine woes all season as manufacturer Toyota Racing Development has struggled to find the right balance of speed and durability.

Kenseth was pleased with the showing.

"They are always looking to get more power and you are always trying to get better reliability," Kenseth said. "A huge part of our success all year has obviously been our engines and TRD. They are a very important piece not only to our success at Joe Gibbs Racing but also Michael Waltrip Racing."

Bowyer then interrupted Kenseth.

"It's not really fair.

Yours was better than mine," Bowyer said of being outqualified by the JGR duo.

Kasey Kahne prevented a Toyota sweep by wedging his Chevrolet in at fourth. He's had terrible results at plate tracks this year because he was wrecked in the Daytona 500 and at Talladega by Busch.

On Saturday, Kahne will start in the row behind Busch. But Busch wasn't expecting intentional payback.

"That's a real legitimate question?" Busch said when asked if he was concerned about Kahne. "I think we know that Kasey is a lot better than that.

No, it doesn't have any worry or concern on me."

Paul Menard was sixth in a Chevrolet, and MWR co-owner Michael Waltrip was seventh in another Toyota.

Daytona 500 winner Jimmie Johnson was eighth, followed by rookie

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Becca Stiefel gets ready for hot laps at Waynesfield Motorsports Park.

Stiefel records another top 10 at Waynesfield Piqua driver back in action tonight

On Saturday night, Becca Stiefel traveled to Waynesfield Raceway Park to compete in the 1000cc mini sprint class in her Dick's Paint and Body Shop, KB Machine and Tool, Aesthetic Finishers, Automotive Armature Works, J and T Photos, Ham Signs, Rieck Services, AMSOIL-Doug Mertz, Richard Donnelly, Colors by Barr, Mark Knupp Muffler and Tire backed sprinter.

Stiefel would find mother nature making a visit to the track delaying things for about an hour but she would leave and things would get under way.

For the first time this year, Stiefel had a good pill draw setting her on the pole for the second heat race.

Stiefel would bring the second heat race to the green and find herself battling for second down the back stretch.

In a race that would go green to checkered Stiefel would settle for fourth.

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version set her on the pole for the "A" main.

Stiefel and her crew would go to work knowing this could be the night and the track conditions in their favor made adjustments to the car and she would lead the full field of 20 cars to the green.

The first start would be called back for picking up the pace to soon but the second start would go green and Stiefel would waste no time setting a fast pace and pull away from the field.

With five laps in Stiefel was pulling away and leading over the second place car by about six car lengths and now starting to work in lapped traffic.

As Stiefel would close in on the 19th-place car on lap seven down the front stretch she would go high for the pass in turn one only to have the lap car shoot up the track and drive in the side of her spinning her and now sending her to the tail.

Stiefel now in the 20th spot was determined to use what was left to get back to the front and she

was able to make it back to ninth place with there only being one caution before the end of the race.

"That's the best car I have had here, my crew adjusted on the car and it was on rails, the lap car was running a low line so I went high and next thing I know he's all over me at the top of the track,” Stiefel said after the race.

“I'm frustrated. I thought that tonight may be our night but wasn't meant to be but I got back up to ninth. So another top 10, after I got hit it didn't turn as well, so we got a little work to do — it got into something.

“With the rain we had, the track was throwing mud and in the heat race I kind of had a problem with the tear offs on my shield.

“It got a little difficult to drive with mud on the shield, but turns out it was the place to finish with the inversion number they pulled tonight."

Stiefel returns to Waynesfield Raceway Park tonight, with hot laps at 6 p.m. and racing at 7.

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Matt Every chips onto the ninth green Friday.

‘Every’ chance at Greenbriar Unfamiliar names at the top SULPHUR WHITE SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — The first page of the Greenbrier Classic leaderboard is filled with golfers who'll get to do something they're unaccustomed to lately: Playing on the weekend.

Matt Every shot an 8under 62 on Friday for a one-stroke lead over five other players midway through the Greenbrier Classic.

Every needed just 26 putts during his best round of the year and is at 9 under for the tournament on the Old White TPC course.

He missed four putts inside 12 feet that could have made his bogey-free second round even more special.

"I played really well tee to green, finally made some putts," Every said. "I haven't made anything all year and it just finally happened today. Been waiting for it."

Every has been in this position before, leading after the first round of the 2012 Texas Open and tying for the third-round lead at the 2012 Sony Open, yet the 29-year-old is still looking for his first PGA Tour victory.

"I know I can win out here," he said.

One stroke behind him at 8 under are Russell Henley (65), Bill Lunde (66), Daniel Summerhays (67), Steven Bowditch (67) and first-round co-leader Johnson Wagner (70).

Four others are two shots behind at 7 under.

Ben Curtis and Greg Owen each shot 66, Jonas Blixt had a 67 and firstround co-leader Tommy Gainey a 71.

The posh Greenbrier resort is in a small town named for its hot spring waters that the locals have touted for centuries for their healing qualities.

It seems as though the Greenbrier Classic is doing wonders for some golfers, too.

Prior to this week, Wagner went seven straight tournaments without advancing to the third round. Other streaks that were broken this week were five straight for Lunde, four for Bowditch and three for Summerhays.

Every had missed cuts in four of his last five tournaments, and Owen and Curtis had in three in their last four. Gainey made the cut for only the 10th time in 23 tries.

"It's coming down to the end of the year," Every said. "It's a big week for a lot of people. If you play good it can change your life."

Henley is an exception with one missed cut in his last four tournaments, which includes a sixthplace finish at the Memorial.

He's 16th in the FedEx Cup points standings.

Every (104th) and Summerhays (123) are the only other players within two shots of the lead who are in the top 125 in the FedEx Cup standings.

The playoffs are less than two months away.

"It's crunch time," Wagner said. "We've got to make these playoffs. It's a short year. Fortunately I'm exempt for next year due to my win at the (2012) Sony Open, but I still want to finish in that top 125 and have a chance to win the FedEx Cup. “I'm sure a bunch of guys up there are kind of in the same position I am — really needing to have some good weeks to extend our years."

The tournament could be shaping up for another close finish.

It has been decided by playoffs the last two years.

SAINT-QUENTIN-ENYVELINES, France (AP) — Fabrizio Zanotti of Paraguay shot a 3-under 68 Friday to lead by one stroke after the second round of the French Open.

Zanotti made four birdies and a bogey for a 6-under total of 136.

Ranked 391st in the world, the Paraguayan has three runner-up finishes in his career and finished 40th at last year's French Open.

"On a course like this, I think that you have to accept everything," Zanotti said. "It's playing very tough and the greens are getting hard, so it's going to be very hard.

“Like I said, keep patient and have fun. There is no other way, I think."

The Albatross course of Le Golf National will host the Ryder Cup in 2018.

Richard Sterne (69) of South Africa and Danish pair Thomas Bjorn (69) and Soren Kjeldsen (68) were a shot back in a tie for second.

Bjorn could have taken sole possession of the lead but he bogeyed his last two holes.

The Dane went into this tournament on the back of runner-up performances at the Lyoness Open last month in Austria and at the BMW InOpen in ternational Munich.

Kjeldsen has no top-10 finish yet this year but credited an improved mindset for his two good rounds of golf in France.

"In the beginning of the year, I was putting too much pressure on myself," Kjeldsen said. "Recently, I've just taken the top away from that, so it seems like I'm enjoying it a little bit more and staying a little bit more patient."

Graeme McDowell (69) of Northern Ireland, Stephen Gallacher (70) of Scotland and English duo Simon Dyson (68) and Graeme Storm (68) are two shots off the pace.

McDowell is rediscovering his form after missing the cut of the three previous tournaments he played.

"It's been a rough couple months for me," McDowell said. "Not really been playing the kind of golf I'd like to play, and the key this week was to come and try to get myself in the mix for the weekend and get some of the juices flowing again."

Rising star Thorbjorn Olesen of Denmark, defending champion Marcel Siem of Germany and past winners Thomas Levet of France and Pablo Larrazabal of Spain missed the cut.

Overnight leader Anders Hansen of Denmark quickly slipped down the leaderboard.

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Peter Sagan crosses the finish line ahead of John Degenkolb Friday.

Sprint finish gives Sagan win at ‘Tour’ Impey holds on to overall lead ALBI, France (AP) — Slovakian rider Peter Sagan won the hilly seventh stage of the Tour de France in a sprint finish on Friday, and Daryl Impey kept the overall race lead.

Sagan held off a challenge from John Degenkolb of Germany to clinch his first stage victory in this year's Tour and extend his lead in the contest for the sprinters' jersey. Italian green sprinter Daniele Bennati was third.

"I have to say my team did all the work today, they did an incredible job," the 23-year-old Sagan said through a translator.

"They showed that they are perfectly capable of doing their job and they did a remarkable job. I'd like to thank them."

Impey began the day as the first South African rider to wear the yellow jersey, but he will likely relinquish it after Saturday's first of two difficult days of climbing in the high mountains of the Pyrenees.

"Very hot, hard day," Impey said. "The whole country really knows about me now, so a lot has changed."

Impey, who leads Norwegian sprinter Edvald Boasson Hagen by three seconds overall and his Orica Greenedge teammate Simon Gerrans by five seconds. None are even close to being Tour challengers.

Keen to get Sagan in a good position to attack, the Cannondale team increased the pace considerably near the end. Three of them almost fell near the end as they mistimed a corner and their bikes wobbled, but their expert handling and reflexes res-

cued them.

"This a victory for the whole team, not just for me," said Sagan, who is now in a great position to defend his green jersey.

Sagan's stage win moves him 94 points clear of German rider Andre Greipel and he is already more than 100 points ahead of his archrival Mark Cavendish — the 2011 green jersey winner — who was left behind and could not even challenge for the stage win.

The average speed picked up considerably in the fourth hour, jumping up to nearly 30 mph in temperatures again well into the 90s for the 128mile hilly leg from Montpellier to Albi.

In fact, there has hardly been a drop of rain so far — perhaps unsurprising given that the race started on the picturesque island of Corsica before jumping over to Nice on the French riviera, and then down to Marseille and Montpellier.

With 25 miles remaining, the front three of Belgian rider Jan Bakelants, Frenchman Cyril Gautier and Spaniard Juan Jose Oroz led the yellow jersey group surrounding Impey by 45 seconds and then by 20 with 6 miles left.

Veteran American rider Christian Vande Velde pulled out after being caught up in an early crash — one of several that have marred a nervy start to the 100th edition of the showcase race.

Norwegian sprinter Edvald Boasson Hagen, Colombian rider Nairo Quintana and Michael Schar of Switzerland were among those to also fall about 69 miles into the stage.

They rejoined the race, but the 37-year-old Vande

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Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and his Roush-Fenway Racing teammate Greg Biffle as the highest-qualifying Fords.

Danica Patrick wound up 11th in in her return to Daytona, where she became the first woman to start from the pole in the season-opening Daytona 500.

"Wind definitely plays a factor even from qualifying here at the beginning of the year for the 500 when we were on the pole there was certain spots that I gained and lost on that lap," Patrick said.

AP PHOTO "We kind of figured it was Cincinnati pitcher Mike Leake fires a strike Friday night. probably a wind thing."

35-year-old pitcher had pitched at Great American since he left the Reds as a free agent.

Leake originally was scheduled to pitch on Thursday against San Francisco, but got pushed back a day because of a rainout. Leake had allowed only nine earned runs in his last nine starts, going 5-1 with a 1.31 ERA. That stretch of fine pitching ended quickly.

Brad Miller, batting leadoff for the first time, hit Leake's third pitch for a triple to right-center. Franklin homered on the next pitch.

Saunders led off the second inning with his fifth homer. He hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth for a 4-0 lead, the most runs Leake had allowed in a game since May 8.

Miller also tripled down the right-

Velde — who hurt his back in a crash earlier in the race — was unable to continue.

It is the third time the American has failed to finish the Tour.

In 2001, Vande Velde crashed out during a wet team time trial stage and three years ago he had to abandon after falling in a mass pile-up on stage three.

There have been several multi-rider crashes in what has been a nervy Tour so far.

On the first stage, there was a big crash close to the end after Tour organizers caused anxiety in the peloton by changing the designated finish line because a team bus was stuck on the line, before changing their minds again moments later.

The fifth stage featured two separate crashes, the second right on the finish line, and the sixth stage claimed British sprinter Mark Cavendish among the fallen.

Early into stage 7, German veteran Jens Voigt, who is riding in his 16th Tour, and Frenchman Blel Kadri were part of six riders who broke away soon after the start, but four of them were caught to leave only the 41-year-old Voigt and Kadri alone in front.

But any dreams Voigt had of becoming the oldest stage winner since Pino Cerami in 1963 melted in the sun.

Riders faced a tough weekend in the Pyrenees, where race favorites like Chris Froome and Alberto Contador are likely to attack on Saturday's climb up the famed Col de Pailheres, which winds upward for 9 tortuous miles at a gradient of eight percent.

field line in the fifth but was stranded at third. He's the first Mariner to have two triples in one game since Carlos Guillen in 2003 and the 13th overall, according to STATS LLC. Seattle slugger Raul Ibanez extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a single.

NOTES: The Reds honored Homer Bailey on the field before the game for his second career no-hitter on Tuesday night against San Francisco. Jim Maloney, who also threw two no-hitters for the Reds, joined in the festivities and threw a ceremonial pitch to batterymate Johnny Edwards. ... Franklin's homer gave Seattle 20 in the first inning this season, most in the majors. ... Saunders had been out of the lineup the last six games with a finger injury.

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Djokovic wins ‘marathon’ Faces Murray in title match LONDON (AP) — Novak Djokovic might win Wimbledon this year.

Juan Martin del Potro will not.

No matter how it ends, both men will always have their spot in one of the most memorable matches in the storied history of the All England Club.

Slugging back and forth over a semifinal-record 4 hours, 43 minutes of backbreaking tennis Friday, top-seeded Djokovic emerged with a 7-5, 4-6, 76 (2), 6-7 (6), 6-3 victory to move one win away from his seventh major title.

"One of the most epic matches I've played in my life," Djokovic said.

On Sunday, Djokovic will play second-seeded Andy Murray, who defeated No. 24 Jerzy Janowicz 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 to make his second straight Wimbledon final and move one win away from becoming the first British man in 77 years to capture his country's home tournament.

This will be their third meeting in the last four Grand Slam finals. Murray won at the U.S. Open last year and Djokovic won in Australia this year.

On Murray's mind every bit as much, however, will be his 7-5, 7-5 win on Centre Court last year in the Olympic semifinals.

"I'll take that thought to my head when we play on Sunday," Murray said.

With skies starting to darken, the Murray match was interrupted for a halfhour while the roof was closed over Centre Court.

Murray protested the delay, saying there was still sunlight left. He had other reasons, too. He had just rolled off five straight games to close out the third set after falling behind 4-1.

"It's a tough situation," Murray said. "There were probably 45 minutes of light left. I'd like to think this is an outdoor event and you try to play as much as you can outdoors.

But I managed to regain focus. I took a shower, talked to the guys a little bit and got back to it."

The late finish came courtesy of what had been billed as the undercard, but turned into something much better. Del Potro and Djokovic played the longest semifinal in Wimbledon history. The match came up only five minutes short of the 2008 five-set final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal that's generally considered the greatest match played on Centre Court — and perhaps anywhere.

Djokovic and del Potro spent the entire, sundrenched afternoon exchanging huge groundstrokes, long rallies and even a few laughs during their marathon, which covered five sets, 55 games, two tiebreakers and 368 points.

"I think this match is going to be memory for a few years," del Potro said.

"We play for four hours and a half on a very high level. We didn't make too many errors. I don't know if the rest of the players can play like us today."

Eighth-seeded Del Potro, back in a Grand Slam semifinal for the first time since winning the 2009 U.S. Open, saved two match points in the fourth-set tiebreaker, then won the final four points to take it 8-6.

Shortly after, the match hit the 4-hour mark, guaranteeing it would surpass the 1989 match between Boris Becker and Ivan Lendl — a 4-hour, 1minute affair — as the longest semifinal in Wimbledon's long history.

It's not the first time Djokovic has been involved in one of these. His

2012 Australian Open victory over Nadal lasted 5 hours, 53-minutes. Only a month ago, Nadal outlasted Djokovic at Roland Garros in a semifinal that went 4 hours, 37 minutes.

"When you feel good physically, when you know you're fit and you don't feel a huge fatigue, that gives you mental confidence, obviously," Djokovic said.

Sliding on the grassturned-dirt behind the baseline, doing the occasional splits and, at one point, diving for a shot, then laying on the ground, face-down in despair, Djokovic put on a stellar show, filled with 80 winners but also lots of counterpunching, always making his 6-foot-6 opponent hit one more shot.

Despite the pressure of the match, both players took it for what it was: sports entertainment at its finest. Del Potro played to the crowd and also exchanged a few fun backand-forths with his opponent. In the sixth game of the fourth set, the Argentine chased down a drop volley and flicked a forehand down the line.

His momentum carried him to the other side of the court and the shot was called out.

Should he challenge?

"He asked me, What's going on?' I said, 'Listen, if I was you, I would challenge,'" Djokovic recounted. "He said, 'No, but you know it's out and don't waste my challenge.'

I said, 'OK, you decide whatever you want. But truly, I'm not lying to you.'"

All this was done with smiles on their faces. Del Potro opted against the challenge but won the fourth set anyway, putting his 4-6 lifetime record in five-setters against Djokovic's mark of 18-7.

Djokovic's fitness played a big role in landing him the decisive break in the fifth set.

It came with del Potro serving behind 4-3. With the score 15-all, Djokovic hit a drop shot-lob combo to close out a breathtaking 22-shot rally. Del Potro dropped his hands onto his knees and clearly hadn't regained his wind on the next point, when he sliced an easy backhand into the net. Two points later, Djokovic had the break, and the 5-3 lead.

He saved a break point in the final game by hitting an off-balance drop shot winner off a del Potro serve return that clipped the net cord. Two points later, Djokovic had his 53rd career win on grass — 24 more than del Potro.

"You can see I played my best tennis ever on grass court," del Potro said, "but was not enough to beat the No. 1 in the world. I was so close."

It was quite a taxing stay at Wimbledon for del Potro, who came into the semifinal with his left knee heavily taped, a victim of two nasty slips that sent him tumbling earlier in the tournament. The second fall came two days earlier, on the fifth point of his quarterfinal against David Ferrer. Del Potro said the trainer gave him a couple of "magic pills" — anti-inflammatories — and that kept him going in his straight-sets win over the No. 4 seed.

Against Djokovic, del Potro showed few signs of an aftereffect.

Tested throughout by a variety of Djokovic drop shots, del Potro got to most. More than once, the Argentine did his impression of a lanky golden retriever — chasing the tennis ball from wide of the court on the forehand side to wide of the court on the backhand side.

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Record Book Auto Racing

Coke Zero 400 Lineup NASCAR-Sprint Cup Coke Zero 400 powered by Coca-Cola Lineup After Friday qualifying; race Saturday At Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Fla. Lap length: 2.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 193.723 mph.

2. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 193.299.

3. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 193.158.

4. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 193.154.

5. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 193.129.

6. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 193.075.

7. (55) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 193.058.

8. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 193.009.

9. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 192.984.

10. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 192.947.

11. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 192.93.

12. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 192.901.

13. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 192.876.

14. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 192.864.

15. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 192.802.

16. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 192.798.

17. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 192.724.

18. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 192.715.

19. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 192.715.

20. (21) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 192.583.

21. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 192.522.

22. (78) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 192.489.

23. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 192.448.

24. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 192.439.

25. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 192.197.

26. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 192.152.

27. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 191.877.

28. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 191.755.

29. (7) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 191.546.

30. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 191.306.

31. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, 190.795.

32. (36) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, 190.735.

33. (51) A J Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 190.726.

34. (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 190.375.

35. (30) David Stremme, Toyota, 190.202.

36. (95) Scott Speed, Ford, 189.853.

37. (35) Josh Wise, Ford, Owner Points.

38. (34) David Ragan, Ford, Owner Points.

39. (32) Terry Labonte, Ford, Owner Points.

40. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, Owner Points.

41. (83) David Reutimann, Toyota, Owner Points.

42. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, Owner Points.

43. (33) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

Baseball

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

W 49 43 41 35 32

L 36 42 45 47 52

Pct .576 .506 .477 .427 .381

GB — 6 8½ 12½ 16½

W 52 50 49 36 34

L 32 34 36 47 50

Pct .619 .595 .576 .434 .405

GB — 2 3½ 15½ 18

W L Pct GB 44 41 .518 — Arizona Colorado 42 44 .488 2½ Los Angeles 40 44 .476 3½ 40 46 .465 4½ San Diego San Francisco 39 45 .464 4½ Thursday's Games Washington 8, Milwaukee 5 Arizona 5, N.Y. Mets 4, 15 innings San Francisco at Cincinnati, ppd., rain Philadelphia 6, Pittsburgh 4 Boston 8, San Diego 2 Oakland 1, Chicago Cubs 0 Miami 4, Atlanta 3 Colorado 9, L.A. Dodgers 5 L.A. Angels 6, St. Louis 5 Friday's Games Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs Atlanta at Philadelphia San Diego at Washington Seattle at Cincinnati N.Y. Mets at Milwaukee.

Miami at St. Louis Colorado at Arizona L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco Saturday's Games Miami (Eovaldi 1-0) at St. Louis (J.Kelly 0-3), 2:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Morton 1-1) at Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 410), 4:05 p.m.

San Diego (Marquis 9-4) at Washington (Zimmermann 12-3), 4:05 p.m.

Seattle (Bonderman 1-2) at Cincinnati (Latos 7-2), 4:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Maholm 9-6) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 7-5), 7:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Fife 3-2) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 85), 7:15 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Marcum 1-9) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 6-8), 7:15 p.m.

Colorado (Pomeranz 0-1) at Arizona (Miley 4-7), 10:10 p.m.

Sunday's Games Seattle at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Philadelphia, 1:35 p.m.

San Diego at Washington, 1:35 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.

Miami at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.

Monday's Games Oakland at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

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

Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Colorado at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

American League East Division Boston Baltimore New York Tampa Bay Toronto Central Division Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota Chicago West Division

W 53 48 46 46 41

L 34 38 39 40 44

Pct .609 .558 .541 .535 .482

GB — 4½ 6 6½ 11

W 46 45 40 36 34

L 38 40 42 46 48

Pct .548 .529 .488 .439 .415

GB — 1½ 5 9 11

W L Pct GB 50 36 .581 — Oakland Texas 49 36 .576 ½ Los Angeles 41 44 .482 8½ 37 48 .435 12½ Seattle Houston 31 55 .360 19 Thursday's Games Boston 8, San Diego 2 Chicago White Sox 3, Baltimore 2 Kansas City 10, Cleveland 7 N.Y. Yankees 9, Minnesota 5 Tampa Bay 7, Houston 5, 11 innings Oakland 1, Chicago Cubs 0 Detroit 11, Toronto 1 Texas 5, Seattle 4 L.A. Angels 6, St. Louis 5 Friday's Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees Detroit at Cleveland Minnesota at Toronto Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay Seattle at Cincinnati Houston at Texas Oakland at Kansas City Boston at L.A. Angels Saturday's Games Baltimore (Tillman 10-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Pettitte 5-6), 1:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Pelfrey 3-6) at Toronto (Dickey 8-8), 1:07 p.m.

Oakland (J.Parker 6-6) at Kansas City (E.Santana 5-5), 2:10 p.m.

Detroit (Ani.Sanchez 6-5) at Cleveland (Carrasco 0-3), 4:05 p.m.

Seattle (Bonderman 1-2) at Cincinnati (Latos 7-2), 4:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Sale 5-7) at Tampa Bay (M.Moore 11-3), 7:15 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 4-5) at Texas (Darvish 8-3), 7:15 p.m.

Boston (Dempster 5-8) at L.A. Angels (Undecided), 10:05 p.m.

Sunday's Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

Seattle at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay, 1:40 p.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.

Houston at Texas, 3:05 p.m.

Boston at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Monday's Games Detroit at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Kansas City at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Oakland at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

Texas at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

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

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

Boston at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

MLB Leaders TODAY'S MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING—YMolina, St. Louis, .351; Cuddyer, Colorado, .343; Craig, St. Louis, .325; Segura, Milwaukee, .323; Votto, Cincinnati, .323; MCarpenter, St. Louis, .320; FFreeman, Atlanta, .313.

RUNS—CGonzalez, Colorado, 65; MCarpenter, St. Louis, 63; Holliday, St. Louis, 60; Votto, Cincinnati, 58; Choo, Cincinnati, 55; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 54; SMarte, Pittsburgh, 54.

RBI—Goldschmidt, Arizona, 69; Craig, St. Louis, 66; Phillips, Cincinnati, 63; CGonzalez, Colorado, 62; DBrown, Philadelphia, 60; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 56; Bruce, Cincinnati, 56; FFreeman, Atlanta, 56.

HITS—Segura, Milwaukee, 108; YMolina, St. Louis, 106; MCarpenter, St. Louis, 104; Votto, Cincinnati, 103; Craig, St. Louis, 102; GParra, Arizona, 100; CGonzalez, Colorado, 97.

DOUBLES—YMolina, St. Louis, 26; Bruce, Cincinnati, 25; MCarpenter, St. Louis, 25; GParra, Arizona, 25; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 24; Rizzo, Chicago, 24; Posey, San Francisco, 23.

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, 23; DBrown, Philadelphia, 22; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 21; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 20; Beltran, St. Louis, 19; Bruce, Cincinnati, 18; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 16.

STOLEN BASES—ECabrera, San Diego, 31; Segura, Milwaukee, 26; SMarte, Pittsburgh, 23; Revere, Philadelphia, 20; Pierre, Miami, 18; CGomez, Milwaukee, 17; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 17.

PITCHING—Zimmermann, Washington, 12-3; Wainwright, St. Louis, 11-5; Lynn, St. Louis, 10-3; Corbin, Arizona, 9-1; Lee, Philadelphia, 9-2; Marquis, San Diego, 9-4; SMiller, St. Louis, 9-6; Maholm, Atlanta, 9-6.

STRIKEOUTS—Harvey, New York, 141; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 126; Samardzija, Chicago, 120; Wainwright, St. Louis, 117; Lee, Philadelphia, 115; HBailey, Cincinnati, 111; Latos, Cincinnati, 109.

SAVES—Grilli, Pittsburgh, 28; Kimbrel, Atlanta, 23; RSoriano, Washington, 22; Mujica, St. Louis, 21; Chapman, Cincinnati, 20; Romo, San Francisco, 19; Papelbon, Philadelphia, 17; Cishek, Miami, 17.

AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—MiCabrera, Detroit, .364; CDavis, Baltimore, .327; Pedroia, Boston, .325; Machado, Baltimore, .319; DOrtiz, Boston, .319; HKendrick, Los Angeles, .318; Loney, Tampa Bay, .317.

RUNS—MiCabrera, Detroit, 65; CDavis, Baltimore, 61; Bautista, Toronto, 58; AJones, Baltimore, 57; Trout, Los Angeles, 57; Ellsbury, Boston, 54; Encarnacion, Toronto, 54; DeJennings, Tampa Bay, 54.

RBI—MiCabrera, Detroit, 85; CDavis, Baltimore, 83; Encarnacion, Toronto, 66; Fielder, Detroit, 65; NCruz, Texas, 61; AJones, Baltimore, 59; DOrtiz, Boston, 59.

HITS—MiCabrera, Detroit, 119; Machado, Baltimore, 118; Pedroia, Boston, 108; Trout, Los Angeles, 107; Ellsbury, Boston, 104; AJones, Baltimore, 104; HKendrick, Los Angeles, 103.

DOUBLES—Machado, Baltimore, 38; CDavis, Baltimore, 26; Mauer, Minnesota, 25; Trout, Los Angeles, 25; Pedroia, Boston, 24; Seager, Seattle, 24; 8 tied at 22.

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

HOME RUNS—CDavis, Baltimore, 32; MiCabrera, Detroit, 26; ADunn, Chicago, 23; Encarnacion, Toronto, 23; Ibanez, Seattle, 21; Cano, New York, 20; NCruz, Texas, 20.

STOLEN BASES—Ellsbury, Boston, 33; McLouth, Baltimore, 24; RDavis, Toronto, 21; Trout, Los Angeles, 20; Kipnis, Cleveland, 19; AlRamirez, Chicago, 19; Altuve, Houston, 18; LMartin, Texas, 18.

PITCHING—Scherzer, Detroit, 13-0; Colon, Oakland, 11-3; MMoore, Tampa Bay, 11-3; Tillman, Baltimore, 10-2; Masterson, Cleveland, 10-6; Buchholz, Boston, 9-0; Verlander, Detroit, 9-5; Sabathia, New York, 9-6.

STRIKEOUTS—Darvish, Texas, 151; Scherzer, Detroit, 139; FHernandez, Seattle, 130; Masterson, Cleveland, 125; Verlander, Detroit, 119; Sale, Chicago, 114; DHolland, Texas, 107; Shields, Kansas City, 107.

SAVES—JiJohnson, Baltimore, 29; Rivera, New York, 28; Nathan, Texas, 28; AReed, Chicago, 22; Frieri, Los Angeles, 21; Balfour, Oakland, 21; Perkins, Minnesota, 20.

Tennis

Wimbledon Results Wimbledon Results Friday At The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club London Purse: $34.9 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Grass-Outdoor Singles Men Semifinals Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Juan Martin del Potro (8), Argentina, 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-7 (6), 6-3.

Andy Murray (2), Britain, def. Jerzy Janowicz (24), Poland, 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3.

Golf

Greenbriar Classic Greenbrier Classic Scores¢ Friday At The Greenbrier Resort, The Old White TPC Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Purse: $6.3 million Yardage: 7,287; par 70 Second Round Matt Every 69-62—131 Daniel Summerhays 65-67—132 66-66—132 Bill Lunde Steven Bowditch 65-67—132 Russell Henley 67-65—132 62-70—132 Johnson Wagner Ben Curtis 67-66—133 Greg Owen 67-66—133 62-71—133 Tommy Gainey Jonas Blixt 66-67—133 Jimmy Walker 69-65—134 65-69—134 Tag Ridings Brendon de Jonge 66-68—134 James Driscoll 66-68—134 67-67—134 Jordan Spieth D.H. Lee 66-68—134 Kenny Perry 68-67—135 70-65—135 D.A. Points Ted Potter, Jr. 69-66—135 Brian Davis 67-68—135 67-68—135 Kevin Chappell Chad Campbell 69-66—135 Matt Jones 69-66—135 70-65—135 Rory Sabbatini Louis Oosthuizen 67-68—135 Bill Haas 68-67—135 65-71—136 Neal Lancaster Brendan Steele 66-70—136 Morgan Hoffmann 69-67—136 71-65—136 Martin Flores Jeff Overton 68-68—136 Pat Perez 71-65—136 69-67—136 Erik Compton Ben Crane 66-70—136 Jason Kokrak 66-71—137 David Lingmerth 71-66—137 Brian Stuard 71-66—137 Davis Love III 67-70—137 Scott Stallings 70-67—137 Bubba Watson 68-69—137 George McNeill 66-71—137 Tom Watson 68-69—137 Alistair Presnell 68-69—137 Peter Hanson 66-71—137 Webb Simpson 64-73—137 Tim Petrovic 69-68—137 Jin Park 64-73—137 Richard H. Lee 68-70—138 John Senden 70-68—138 Charlie Wi 73-65—138 Dicky Pride 72-66—138 Brian Harman 68-70—138 Luke List 71-67—138 K.J. Choi 71-67—138 Scott Brown 66-72—138 Justin Leonard 68-70—138 Tom Gillis 67-71—138 Bryce Molder 71-67—138 Gary Christian 71-67—138 Robert Streb 69-70—139 Andres Romero 68-71—139 D.J. Trahan 70-69—139 Shawn Stefani 70-69—139 Carl Pettersson 69-70—139 Billy Horschel 69-70—139 Ryan Palmer 68-71—139 Cameron Percy 71-68—139 Andres Gonzales 71-68—139 Jim Herman 72-67—139 Michael Kim 70-69—139 Brad Fritsch 68-71—139 James Hahn 72-67—139 Chez Reavie 70-69—139 Fabian Gomez 70-69—139 Gary Woodland 69-70—139 Nick Watney 72-67—139 Cameron Tringale 73-66—139 Graham DeLaet 69-70—139 William McGirt 69-70—139 Troy Matteson 69-70—139 Brad Adamonis 68-71—139 Failed To Qualify Chris DiMarco 71-69—140

Woody Austin Robert Karlsson Michael Bradley Sean O'Hair Ryo Ishikawa David Mathis J.J. Henry Roberto Castro Justin Bolli Ryan Blaum Bobby Gates Scott Piercy Jeff Maggert Will Claxton Colt Knost Luke Guthrie Henrik Norlander Andrew Svoboda Stuart Appleby Charles Howell III Brian Gay Casey Wittenberg Josh Teater Bob Estes Michael Letzig Ben Kohles Donald Constable Rod Pampling Lucas Glover Phil Mickelson Mark Silvers Jason Bohn Ricky Barnes Jason Gore Mike Weir Patrick Reed Aaron Watkins Scott Gardiner Vijay Singh Nicholas Thompson Seung-Yul Noh Si Woo Kim Ken Duke Charlie Beljan Greg Chalmers Vaughn Taylor Billy Mayfair Dan Obremski Robert Allenby Trevor Immelman Aaron Baddeley Boo Weekley Kyle Stanley Joey Snyder III Scott Langley Doug LaBelle II Lee Janzen Jonathan Byrd Wes Short, Jr. David Hearn Eric Meierdierks Kevin Shields Stephen Ames Bud Cauley Lee Williams Darron Stiles Scott Verplank Paul Haley II Pat Carter Jeff Gove Ryan Zylstra Jesper Parnevik Steve LeBrun John Daly

68-72—140 70-70—140 70-70—140 70-70—140 73-67—140 66-74—140 68-72—140 70-70—140 74-66—140 71-69—140 70-70—140 72-69—141 71-70—141 72-69—141 76-65—141 73-68—141 68-73—141 71-70—141 70-71—141 69-72—141 69-72—141 68-73—141 72-69—141 67-74—141 67-74—141 70-71—141 72-69—141 72-70—142 72-70—142 74-68—142 71-71—142 70-72—142 70-72—142 73-69—142 72-70—142 70-72—142 72-70—142 72-70—142 73-70—143 72-71—143 72-71—143 71-72—143 69-74—143 72-71—143 73-70—143 71-72—143 71-72—143 71-73—144 74-70—144 72-72—144 77-68—145 74-71—145 77-68—145 71-74—145 73-72—145 74-71—145 70-75—145 75-70—145 75-71—146 76-70—146 75-71—146 73-73—146 74-72—146 74-72—146 72-74—146 77-70—147 77-70—147 74-73—147 75-73—148 72-77—149 74-76—150 74-78—152 76-79—155 75—WD

Open de France Scores Alstom Open de France Leading Scores Friday At Le Golf National (Albatross) Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France Purse: $3.91 million Yardage: 7,331; Par: 71 Second Round Fabrizio Zanotti, Paraguay 68-68—136 68-69—137 Thomas Bjorn, Denmark Soren Kjeldsen, Denmark 69-68—137 Richard Sterne, South Africa 68-69—137 70-68—138 Simon Dyson, England Stephen Gallacher, Scotland 68-70—138 Graeme McDowell, N. Ireland 69-69—138 70-68—138 Graeme Storm, England Eduardo De La Riva, Spain 72-67—139 Richard Green, Australia 69-70—139 69-70—139 Scott Jamieson, Scotland Felipe Aguilar, Chile 68-72—140 Alejandro Canizares, Spain 71-69—140 70-70—140 Jamie Donaldson, Wales David Howell, England 69-71—140 Richie Ramsay, Scotland 69-71—140 72-69—141 Kristoffer Broberg, Sweden Chris Doak, Scotland 71-70—141 Scott Henry, Scotland 73-68—141 69-72—141 James Morrison, England Matthew Nixon, England 68-73—141 Gareth Shaw, Northern Ireland 72-69—141 Lee Slattery, England 71-70—141 69-72—141 Marc Warren, Scotland Bernd Wiesberger, Austria 70-71—141 Also 75-67—142 Soren Hansen, Denmark Matteo Manassero, Italy 73-69—142 Luke Donald, England 71-73—144 66-78—144 Anders Hansen, Denmark Martin Kaymer, Germany 68-76—144 Ian Poulter, England 73-71—144 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, Spain74-71—145 Miguel Angel Jimenez, Spain 69-76—145 Matt Kuchar, United States 70-75—145 71-74—145 Francesco Molinari, Italy Missed cut Thongchai Jaidee, Thailand 71-75—146 76-70—146 Chris Wood, England Alex Noren, Sweden 70-77—147 Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark 78-70—148 78-70—148 Marcel Siem, Germany Thomas Levet, France 76-73—149 Mikko Ilonen, Finland 76-76—152 77-78—155 Jose Maria Olazabal, Spain Pablo Larrazabal, Spain 80-77—157 Brett Rumford, Australia 78-79—157

Cycling

Tour de France Results Tour de France Results Friday At Albi, France Seventh Stage A 127.7-mile rolling ride from Montpellier to Albi, with a Category-2 and two Category-3 climbs 1. Peter Sagan, Slovakia, Cannondale, 4 hours, 54 minutes, 12 seconds.

2. John Degenkolb, Germany, Team Argos-Shimano, same time.

3. Daniele Bennati, Italy, Team Saxo-Tinkoff, same time.

4. Michal Kwiatkowski, Poland, Omega Pharma-QuickStep, same time.

5. Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway, Sky Procycling, same time.

6. Francesco Gavazzi, Italy, Astana, same time.

7. Tony Gallopin, France, RadioShack Leopard, same time.

8. Arthur Vichot, France, Francaise des Jeux, same time.

9. Manuele Mori, Italy, Lampre-Merida, same time.

10. Sylvain Chavanel, France, Omega Pharma-QuickStep, same time.

11. Ramunas Navardauskas, Lithuania, Garmin-Sharp, same time.

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

13. Juan Antonio Flecha, Vacansoleil-DCM, same time.

14. Alexis Vuillermoz, France, Sojasun, same time.

15. Simon Gerrans, Australia, Orica GreenEdge, same time.

16. Bram Tankink, Netherlands, Belkin Pro Cycling, same time.

17. Philippe Gilbert, Belgium, BMC Racing, same time.

18. Wouter Poels, Netherlands, Vacansoleil-DCM, same time.

19. Davide Malcarne, Italy, Team Europcar, same time.

20. Christophe Riblon, France, AG2R La Mondiale, same time.

Also 21. Tejay Van Garderen, United States, BMC Racing, same time.

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

40. Thomas Danielson, United States, Garmin-Sharp, same time.

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

Christian Vande Velde, United States, Garmin-Sharp, withdrew.

Overall Standings (After seven stages) 1. Daryl Impey, South Africa, Orica GreenEdge, 27 hours, 12 minutes, 29 seconds.

2. Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway, Sky Procycling, :03 behind.

3. Simon Gerrans, Australia, Orica GreenEdge, :05.

4. Michael Albasini, Switzerland, Orica GreenEdge, same time.

5. Michal Kwiatkowski, Poland, Omega Pharma-QuickStep, :06.

6. Sylvain Chavanel, France, Omega Pharma-QuickStep, same time.

7. Chris Froome, Britain, Sky Procycling, :08.

8. Richie Porte, Australia, Sky Procycling, same time.

9. Nicolas Roche, Ireland, Team Saxo-Tinkoff, :14.

10. Roman Kreuziger, Czech Republic, Team Saxo-Tinkoff, same time.

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

12. Michael Rogers, Australia, Team Saxo-Tinkoff, same time.

13. Andrew Talansky, United States, Garmin-Sharp, :22.

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Sunday, July 7, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Enjoy this exciting day that's full of wonderful, unexpected opportunities -- not the least of which is love at first sight.

Accept invitations to party or attend sports events, musical performances, movies and playful times with children.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Surprise purchases that will make your home more attractive could please you today. Many of you will spontaneously entertain others where you live. "Come on in!"

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) New faces, new places and new ideas make this a thrilling day. Schmoozing with others makes you feel younger as well. Carpe diem! (Seize the day.)

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Look for unexpected ways to make money, because you can discover them today. Similarly, surprise impulses to purchase high-tech toys or modern art are likely.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) You might shop for wardrobe items today and buy something a little different -- something unusual that makes you feel younger and more "with it."

"Look at me!"

VIRGO Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Behind-the-scenes surprises will catch you off guard today. No worries. Your entire day has an undercurrent running through it that is full of anticipation and excitement.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You might meet someone new today who is unusual or "different." Alternatively, someone you know might shock you by doing something unusual. Be open to rethinking some of your future goals.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Relations with authority figures will surprise you today. They might say something unexpected, or in turn, you might surprise yourself what you voice. ("Did I just say that?")

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Unexpected opportunities to travel, as well as opportunities to get further learning or take a course, will fall in your lap today. Because your window of opportunity is brief, act quickly!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Gifts, goodies and favors from others will come your way today. Keep your pockets open, because you can benefit from the wealth and resources of others.

(Oh yes.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) A friend or partner might demand more freedom in a relationship today. Quite likely, someone will say something that catches you off guard. Stay off your heels.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) The introduction of new technology or new staff members will make your job exciting and different today. Others will discover new ways to approach better health. (There's always room for improvement.)

YOU BORN TODAY You are creative and delight in discovery -- and especially sharing your discovery with others. You seek the truth, even if it means you must reveal secrets or be a whistleblower. You have high standards for yourself and others, and you always are truthful. Your focus in the coming year will be primarily on close friendships or partnerships. Enjoy.

Birthdate of: Kirsten Vangsness, actress; David Eddings, author; Marc Chagall, artist. (c) 2013 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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PUBLIC RECORD/NATION 11 Experts: Expect bigger, fiercer wildfires in West PIQUA DAILY CALL • WWW.DAILYCALL.COM

BY ALICIA CHANG AND SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) — There’s a dangerous but basic equation behind the killer Yarnell Hill wildfire and other blazes raging across the West this summer: More heat, more drought, more fuel and more people in the way are adding up to increasingly ferocious fires.

Scientists say a hotter planet will only increase the risk.

More than two dozen wildland fires are burning from Alaska to New Mexico, fueled by triple-digit temperatures and arid conditions. In the Arizona mountain town of Yarnell, a blaze apparently sparked by lightning killed 19 members of an elite firefighting squad who had deployed their emergency shelters Sunday when erratic monsoon winds sent flames racing in their direction.

While no single wildfire can be pinned solely on cli-

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mate change, researchers say there are signs that fires are becoming bigger and more common in an increasingly hot and bonedry West.

“Twenty years ago, I would have said this was a highly unusual, fast-moving, dangerous fire,” said fire history expert Don Falk at the University of Arizona at Tucson, referring to the Yarnell Hill fire. “Now unfortunately, it’s not unusual at all.”

Wildfires are chewing through twice as many acres per year on average in the United States compared with 40 years ago, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell told a Senate hearing last month. Since Jan. 1, 2000, about 145,000 square miles have burned, roughly the size of New York, New England, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland combined, according to federal records.

A draft federal report released earlier this year said climate change is stressing Western forests, making them more vulnerable to fires.

What’s happening now “is not new to us,” said climate scientist Don Wuebbles of the University of Illinois, one of the main authors of the federal report. “We’ve been saying this for some time.”

Communities nestled next to wilderness are used to girding for fire season, which typically occurs in the summer. Compared with decades past, however, the traditional fire season now lasts two months longer and first responders sometimes find themselves beating back flames in the winter.

Rising temperatures all over the West, for one, have created dangerous, dry conditions.

Over the past 35 years, Arizona has seen dramatic warming, with the state’s 10-year average temperature jumping from 59.1 degrees Fahrenheit in 1977 to 61.4 degrees last year — an increase of 2.3 degrees. By comparison, the entire continental U.S.’ 10-year average temperature jumped only 1.6 degrees

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during the same period.

Experts say every little spike in temperature makes a big difference.

“Even a degree or so warmer, day in day out, evaporates water faster and that desiccates the system more,” said fire ecologist Steve Running of the University of Montana.

In Arizona, where a drought has persisted for nearly two decades, the manzanita, evergreen, mount mahogany and oak in the Yarnell area were so crispy Sunday that a nearby state fire-monitoring station recorded a near-maximum level of potential fuel in area vegetation.

In many places, decades of aggressively snuffing out wildfires also have led to a buildup of fuel ready to ignite. On top of that, more people are living in fire-prone areas near forests, grasslands and shrub lands, which complicates firefighting logistics.

Over the past years, firefighters on the front

lines have complained about how flames “go berserk in ways they never used to see,” Running said.

Though the Yarnell Hill Fire, at 13 square miles, was not considered huge compared with previous fires in Arizona, its ferociousness caught many off guard. Investigators said it appeared the Granite Mountain Hotshots were overrun by flames fanned by erratic winds.

At one point, the fire raced four miles in just 20 minutes, fed by the dry brush and 41 mph winds that suddenly switched direction, said Yavapai County Sheriff’s Capt. Jeff Newnum.

Climate scientist Jonathan Overpeck of the University of Arizona said unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed, huge, fierce wildfires will become the norm.

“We owe it to the men and women who put themselves in harm’s way to do everything we can to make their firefighting jobs safer,” Overpeck said

in an email.

Governments also need to rethink the way they deal with fires, which could mean just letting some burn rather than sending fire crews into increasingly intense and unpredictable situations, said University of Montana fire scientist and elite firefighter Carl Seielstad.

“I think it’s inevitable,” he said. “We’re going to have to accept defeat when we’re defeated.”

As residents across the West learn to cope, scientists point to the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which in 2007 predicted that warmer summer temperatures were expected to increase fire risk.

Six years later, “we keep seeing more and more amazing fire dynamics,” the University of Montana’s Running said. “And there’s just no reason to believe overall that this is going to go back ... We better be ready for more of it.”

Odd news Ohio sinkhole swallows car; driver climbs ladder TOLEDO (AP) — A northwest Ohio sinkhole has swallowed a car traveling down a street and briefly trapped the driver, who climbed out after authorities gave her a ladder.

Toledo police Sgt. Joe Heffernan says a water main break beneath the road may have caused the sinkhole Wednesday. The hole is estimated to be at least 10 feet deep.

Police say driver Pamela Knox didn’t appear hurt but was shaken up and was taken to a hospital as a precaution.

Heffernan says Knox saw the vehicle in front of her start to slip into the hole but drive beyond it. He says Knox couldn’t avoid it.

Officials used a crane to pull the car from the hole. Repairs to the road are expected to take days.

TOLEDO, OHIO FIRE AND RESCUE DEPARTMENT, LT. MATTHEW HERTZFELD, FILE/AP PHOTO

This photo provided by the Toledo Fire and Rescue Department shows a car at the bottom of a sinkhole caused by a broken water line in Toledo, Ohio on Wednesday, July 3, 2013. Police say the driver, 60-year-old Pamela Knox of Toledo, was shaken up and didn’t appear hurt but was taken to a hospital as a precaution.

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lot, $162,900.

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Fervent foes devote their lives to fracking fight

BY MARY ESCH Associated Press

for anti-fracking candidates. But in her county and others in the border region where drilling is most likely to start if Cuomo gives it the green light, all were defeated.

“I have two petitions, the road petition and the ban petition,” Rapp said.“I knock on doors, I go to farmers markets and the rail trails. I don’t think of myself as an activist or an environmentalist; this is just something I have an enormous commitment to.”

In contrast, Scroggins relishes the label of activist.A short, stocky woman with long silver hair and loose T-shirt, Scroggins is a scrappy, in-your-face videographer and self-appointed guide to the gas patch of northeastern Pennsylvania, where she lives in a singlewide trailer near a lake.

She has given tours to state and local politicians, community groups, and anti-fracking celebrities such as Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Susan Sarandon. Several days a week, she drives people around to show them drilling sites, pipelines, compressor stations, and truck-worn roads. She introduces them to residents of Dimock and Franklin Forks who believe their well water was ruined by drilling operations — even though state and federal investigators couldn’t confirm all the complaints. She records the tours on video. She records the tours on video.

She also records town board meetings, often raising the ire of people who’d rather not be in the videos she posts online by the hundreds.

“Basically what I show is, ‘Do you want this near your home?’” Scroggins said, standing on a road beside a well site with a rumbling compressor station, tanks, pipes, and other equipment. There are 700 gas wells in Susquehanna County; 38 percent of the county is under lease, and gas companies indicate a potential of 3,000 drilling locations.

Gas industry bloggers have mocked Scroggins, but she clearly relishes her notoriety. On a recent tour, she flagged down the SUV of a gas company’s new security guards and introduced herself.

“I’m the tour guide. I’m sure you’ve heard about me,” Scroggins said.When the guards said they hadn’t, Scroggins told them about her frequent tour groups and said she’s often tailed by security details and shooed away from

drilling sites.

Many of the farmers and other landowners who are getting royalty checks from the gas wells on their land don’t welcome the self-appointed guide to the gas patch. Some have signs in their yards saying “Our water’s fine” and “My gas well pays my mortgage.”

Scroggins takes it in stride. Rolling slowly down the road, she waved and smiled at a woman glowering in a front yard. “She hates me,” Scroggins said.

Victor Furman, head of a pro-gas landowners’ group in New York’s Chenango County, said Rapp and Scroggins are part of a “fringe group” that relies on emotion rather than science to build opposition.

“They hold meetings that are full of lies and misinformation,” said Furman, a retired technical writer for IBM. “They do have some legitimate concerns, but they don’t want to talk about the mitigations to address those concerns,” such as storing fracking wastewater in closed tanks instead of open ponds and requiring multiple layers of well casing to protect ground water.

The industry-funded Energy In Depth sometimes sends its own camera-toting representatives to tail Scroggins’ tours and rebut what she says. The group posted video on its website of Scroggins shouting personal insults and obscenities at Phelim McAleer, a pro-fracking filmmaker who tried to talk to Ono and Sarandon during their January tour. McAleer tried to tell them the Environmental Protection Agency had determined the drinking water in question was safe, not contaminated by drilling.

“I admit that I lost it that day,” Scroggins said. “It wasn’t my finest hour.”

Yet, she posted her own video of the encounter online.

While drilling hasn’t come to New York, Rapp said the industry has already changed community life.

“They’ve fractured our communities,” she said.“You can’t go to the grocery store or anywhere else without everybody knowing where everyone stands. It’s not the same place anymore and we don’t even have drilling yet.”

“You get ostracized, maligned,” Scroggins said. “But I’m dealing with all that.”

VESTAL, N.Y. (AP) — Big energy companies have been trying for five years to tap the riches of the Marcellus Shale in southern New York, promising thousands of new jobs, economic salvation for a depressed region, and a cheap, abundant, clean-burning source of fuel close to power-hungry cities. But for all its political clout and financial prowess, the industry hasn’t been able to get its foot in the door.

One reason: Folks like Sue Rapp and Vera Scroggins are standing in the way.

Rapp, a family counselor in the Broome County town of Vestal, in the prime shale gas region near the Pennsylvania border, is intense and unrelenting in pressing her petitions.

Scroggins — a retiree and grandmother who lives across the border in hilly northwestern Pennsylvania, where intensive gas development has been going on for five years — is gleefully confrontational. She happily posts videos of her skirmishes.

The anti-fracking movement has inspired a legion of people like Rapp and Scroggins— idiosyncratic true believers, many of them middle-aged women, who have made it the central mission of their lives to stop gas drilling using high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus region that underlies southern New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

They are not necessarily popular; they have been shunned by former friends who support drilling and the economic benefits it brings. Their opponents accuse them of distorting the truth about fracking’s impacts by insisting that their communities and surrounding countryside will be transformed into a polluted industrial wasteland if natural gas interests have their way.

But many of those same opponents acknowledge that Rapp, Scroggins and others like them have been effective.

“There’s no denying that their actions have had an impact,” said Jim Smith, spokesman for the Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York. “If they weren’t doing what they’re doing, we would have been through with this a long time ago.

They’re wrong on the facts but they’re very loud and very vocal, and that gets noticed for political reasons.”

Their cause is amplified by an extensive coalition — including deep-pocketed environmental groups, New York City lawyers, organic farmers, doctors, paid professional activists and highprofile celebrities — that has waged a relentless campaign urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to ban fracking. The 2012 Kia Soul !

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More government oversight needed Says advocates of medicaid managed care

BY JENNI BERGAL Kaiser Health News When the federal government recently gave Florida the green light to vastly expand its experiment with privatizing Medicaid,patient advocates quickly raised an alarm.

They cited serious problems with the state’s fivecounty pilot managed care program and urged close monitoring of the companies that run private Medicaid plans to ensure that they don’t scrimp on care.

Advocates and experts say that the need for oversight is growing nationally as states have increasingly contracted out the huge state-federal program for the poor to insurance companies, aiming to control costs and improve quality through close management of patient care.

About 30 million people are in these plans now. Under the federal health law that launches Jan. 1, eligibility will be expanded and about 7 million more will be covered by Medicaid. Many will be placed in managed care.

States are required by the federal government to establish quality standards for Medicaid plans and monitor their compliance, but there’s no uniformity. This has resulted in a patchwork of contract requirements and data collection that experts say makes it difficult to compare states and assess whether patients' health has actually improved.

“The quality of the monitoring and the quality of the managed care really varies from state to state,” said Joan Alker, a co-executive director of the Center on Children and Families at Georgetown University who studies health policy.“This is important because we want to have accountability for our taxpayer dollars. These are very vulnerable populations and sometimes not getting the services they need is a matter of huge import.”

Advocates are especially worried that more than 20 states are moving frail elderly, mentally ill and people with disabilities into managed care for long-term services. They have especially complex needs.

Some states have also cut back staffing of their Medicaid offices, raising concerns about their ability to hold plans accountable. The federal government,in turn,has

been criticized for failing to fulfill its duty: ensuring that states do what’s needed to oversee the plans.

Thirty-six states and the District of Columbia have enrolled some or all of their Medicaid population in private health plans.The states give the plans a fixed amount per member each month. Last year, the states and federal government paid managed care plans about $108 billion out of the $435 billion spent on Medicaid.

States are supposed to set rates, monitor contracts and enrollment practices, make sure that plans have sufficient networks of doctors, oversee quality and performance and ensure consumer protections for members.But how they each go about doing it is up to them.

For example, federal rules don’t say how many doctors a plan must contract with or how often state officials need to review the adequacy of the plan’s network of doctors.

Seventeen states require Medicaid health plans to be accredited by a national organization, which sets specific quality standards.Other states use some of those standards, but don’t require accreditation. Each state chooses its own approach.

States also must arrange for an external group to independently monitor the plans’ quality of care every year. But the federal requirement doesn’t specify how that monitoring should be done either.

“If you want to collect data about screening people for obesity, Minnesota may collect it, but Louisiana may not,” said Sarah Somers, a managing attorney for the National Health Law Program, a nonprofit legal services group for low-income people. “If you want to do a systematic comparison across the states, it’s not really doable.”

A July 2012 Urban Institute study of Medicaid managed care in 20 states found “tremendous variation” in the kind of quality monitoring conducted by states and health plans and in how they ensure the plans’ networks of doctors are adequate. The maximum number of patients per doctor,for example, varied from 750 in Michigan to 2,500 in Tennessee. In rural areas, primary care doctors had to be located within 10 miles of patients in California, but within 45

miles in Ohio.

Embry Howell, a senior fellow who co-authored the study, said that while states don’t necessarily need to use all of the same quality measurements, there should be a way to compare them stateto-state and plan-to-plan.

“Otherwise the data is going to be apples and oranges,” Howell said. “This is important. It’s the accountability side of it.”

Even the health plans themselves are frustrated with the hodgepodge of state quality measures.“It adds an additional level of complexity for plans that operate in a dozen or more states,” said Joe Moser, executive director of Medicaid Health Plans of America, an industry trade group. “We do support more federal standardization.”

Matt Salo,executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, said states may oversee quality and access differently, but that he’s “not aware of anyone doing it badly.”

Salo pointed out that in traditional Medicaid, with states focused on paying doctors and hospitals for each service they provide, there is little monitoring and oversight, other than for financial fraud and abuse.

“The irony about quality is that consumer advocates say we’re not sure there’s a proper focus on quality. But where are the quality measures for fee-for-service Medicaid?” he said.

Some state Medicaid offices have taken a hit in recent years because of budget cuts – Washington state’s program lost more than 200 positions since 2009. And oversight isn’t always a priority, says Carolyn Ingram, a former New Mexico Medicaid director who is senior vice president of the Center for Health Care Strategies, a nonprofit health policy center.

Ingram said Medicaid directors who are getting pressured by governors and legislatures to expand managed care often end up focusing on “bright and shiny” new initiatives. “Oversight of our managed care plans is less bright and shiny,” she said. “The day-to-day monitoring of managed care plans goes kind of on the back burner. That’s where you put your newer staff, your green staff.”

Florida’s experience with

managed care underscores the importance of close monitoring. After the state launched a pilot program in 2006, doctors were unhappy about delayed payments and administrative obstacles, patients complained about being denied access to services and data on the quality of care was lacking. Several insurers dropped out because they couldn’t make enough money.

State officials say those problems have been fixed. In 2011, the federal government approved an extension of the pilot and in June agreed to allow Florida to expand it statewide.

But Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute has been critical of Florida’s pilot program. “Little data is available to assess whether access to care has improved or worsened,” it reported in 2011, noting there is no “clear evidence” the program is saving money and if it is, “whether the savings came at the expense of needed care.”

Advocates say access problems remain and Florida’s oversight is inadequate. “The state is supposed to be overseeing all of this.

They haven’t done a good job of that,” said Laura Goodhue, executive director of Florida CHAIN, a statewide health care advocacy group.

Experts caution that even in states that devote lots of

resources to oversight, many of the quality standards they use are aimed at figuring out whether services were provided, not the effect on patients’ health – what they call “outcome.”

“Even if there’s an intent to aggressively monitor, you have to figure out whether and how they’re doing it.And measuring quality is really, really tough,” said Michael Sparer, a Columbia University professor of health policy.

“We can say immunization rates have gone up or waiting times are down…But measuring whether outcomes have changed substantively is very elusive and difficult to get at.”

In a few states, legislators have tried to beef up oversight.

In Kansas, which in January moved nearly all of its 380,000 Medicaid members into plans run by three commercial plans, the legislature decided to do its own oversight. It unanimously passed a bill in March that would establish a joint legislative committee to monitor the state’s Medicaid managed care program. The governor signed it in April.

“We need to make sure they’re adhering to contractual arrangements, that they’re providing the services they committed to provide, that our Medicaid clients have access to services and are actually getting them,”

said Kansas State Sen. Laura Kelly,aTopeka Democrat.

In Kansas and several other states, consumer advocates worry that officials are rushing too quickly to move vulnerable elderly, mentally ill and physically disabled people into Medicaid managed care for long-term services, such as home health and personal care. They say states don’t have systems in place to properly monitor quality of care or the plans’ performance. A 2012 study

by Truven Health Analytics estimated that the number of states with these programs will grow from 16 to 26 by 2014.

"It's a Medicaid managed care stampede of states.

That's what it feels like," said Mitzi McFatrich, executive director of Kansas Advocates for Better Care. “It’s too quick."

In the District of Columbia, more than 150,000 people are enrolled in Medicaid managed care, including mentally ill adults. A federally-mandated group that makes recommendations about Medicaid policy in Washington created a subcommittee to track the impact of managed care on mental health. Its report, issued last year, concluded that the program was poorly administered, with minimal oversight and insufficient data available.

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