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Unemployment rate falls to 7.4%

As Congress prepared to head home for a five-week recess, Obama sought to calm jittery Democrats, assuring them that they are “on the right side of history” despite problems with the law’s launch.

Republicans have stated openly they plan to use the slow economic recovery and the health care law to attack Democrats in the 2014 congressional elections.

But Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, a Republican, said GOP governors could get blamed next year, even if they worked to meet its requirements, a situation that could be aggravated by Republicans in the U.S. House who continue to hold votes to attack it.

“My approach is not to complain about things, but to get it done best we can,” said Branstad, who has been a

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added 162,000 jobs in July, a modest increase and the fewest since March. At the same time, the unemployment rate fell from 7.6 percent to a 4½-year low of 7.4 percent.

The rate fell because more Americans said they were working, though some people stopped looking for a job and were no longer counted as unemployed.

Friday’s report from the Labor Department pointed to a less-than-robust job market. It suggested that the economy’s subpar growth and modest consumer spending are making many businesses cautious about hiring.

The government said employers added a combined 26,000 fewer jobs in May and June than it previously estimated.

Americans worked fewer hours in July, and their average pay dipped. And many of the jobs employers added last month were for lower-paying work at stores, bars and restaurants.

For the year, job growth has remained steady.

The economy has added an average 200,000 jobs a month since January, though the pace has slowed in the past three months to 175,000.

Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, called the employment report “slightly negative,” in part because job growth for May and June was revised down.

Scott Anderson, chief economist at Bank of the West, said it showed “a mixed labor market picture of continued improvement but at a still frustratingly slow pace.”

The reaction from investors was muted. Stock averages closed with modest gains. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.6 percent from 2.71 percent — a sign that investors think the economy remains sluggish and might need continued help from the Federal Reserve.

The Fed will review the July employment data in deciding whether to slow its $85 billion a month in bond purchases in September, as many economists have predicted it will do. July’s weaker hiring could make the Fed hold off on any pullback in its bond buying, which has helped keep long-term borrowing costs down.

Beth Ann Bovino, senior economist at Standard & Poor’s (NYSE:MHP) , said she thinks Friday’s report will make the Fed delay a slowdown in bond buying.

“September seems very unlikely now,” she says. “I’m wondering if December is still in the cards.”

Still, it’s possible that the lower unemployment rate, along with the hiring gains over the past year, could convince the Fed that the job market is strengthening consistently. Job growth has topped 140,000amonthfornearlyayear.

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Make a stop in Rhode Island It only takes about an hour to drive across Rhode Island, which is wedged between Massachusetts and Connecticut and straddles picturesque Narragansett Bay, but its pleasures are many. It boasts stunning wide, sandy beaches and architecture that goes back to Colonial times. Newport and other communities became a summer playground for the rich during the Gilded Age, but you don’t have be a Vanderbilt to enjoy the Ocean State. Many of its most interesting spots don’t cost a thing.

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Former NFL wide receiver and Troy native Cris Carter high-fives Canton McKinley High School football players on his way to the stage during the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony Saturday in Canton.

Football heaven

Troy native Carter enters Hall of Fame

By JOSH BROWN Sports Editor

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TROY — Surrounded by the largest gathering of the greatest living players ever to see the field in the National Football League, Cris Carter was honest about what the moment meant to him.

“We have the greatest Hall of all the Halls,” Carter said. “And to be able to join these men on this stage in football heaven, it’s the greatest day of my life.”

Carter — a Troy native who was second only to Jerry Rice in career receptions and touchdowns when he retired — was finally inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame Saturday in Canton, in his sixth year of eligibility.

After being passed over for induction for five years, he entered the Hall during its 50th anniversary celebration, and in elite company, also.

Also entering the Hall on Saturday were offensive linemen Larry Allen and Jonathan Ogden and defensive lineman Warren Sapp — all first-ballot selections — two-time Super Bowl-winning coach Bill Parcells, defensive linemen Curley Culp and linebacker Dave Robinson.

Carter, who was born in Troy in 1965, played 16 seasons in the NFL and was selected to the Pro Bowl eight times — third-most all time amongst wide receivers. He finished with 1,101 career receptions and 130 touchdowns, which put him at second on the all-time list in both categories when he retired. He currently sits in fourth on the all-time list in both. He also finished his career with 13,899 receiving yards, which is ninth all-time.

Carter joined the league in 1987 as a Philadelphia Eagle and played there for

three seasons. In 1989, though, coach Buddy Ryan cut him in the preseason for reasons unknown at the time.

He gave an odd bit of criticism of Carter at the time, saying “all he does is catch touchdown passes” — a line that stuck with Carter throughout the rest of his career.

Later on it was revealed that Carter had substance abuse and drug addiction problems, and Carter credits Ryan with helping him realize where he was headed and turn his life around.

The Minnesot a Vikings picked up the troubled receiver in 1990, paying only a $100 waiver fee.

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All Carter did for the Vikings was become the franchise’s all-time leader in receptions (1,004), yards (12,383) and touchdowns (110).

All eight of his Pro Bowl selections also

came during his time with the Vikings — and all in consecutive seasons, also, from 19932000.

Carter finished his career with one season with the Miami Dolphins in 2002. He was also the only inductee Saturday not to win an NFL championship during his career.

“I may not have won a championship, but I’ve played for a lot of great teams,” Carter said.

“And the first team I’d like to thank is my family members. You’ve all meant the world to me.”

Parcells, the first NFL head coach ever to take four different teams to the playoffs, won Super Bowls with the New York Giants in 1986 and 1990. He finished with a career record of 183138-1 coaching for the Giants, New England Patriots, New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys.

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Dem. governors nervous about health plan MILWAUKEE (AP) — Democratic governors say they are nervous about getting the new federal health care law implemented but add they will be better positioned in next year’s elections than many of their Republican counterparts who have resisted the farreaching and politically polarizing measure.

Several of the 12 Democratic governors shared that sense of nervousness-veiled-by-optimism at the National Governors Association meeting Saturday in Milwaukee.

“There’s some angst, and you can see that from the decision the administration made a couple weeks ago,” said Delaware Gov. Jack Markell.

“There’s a lot of work to do.”

By next Jan. 1, most people will be required to have insurance.

States have to set up exchanges by Oct. 1, when uninsured individuals can start buying subsidized private

health coverage that would go into effect Jan 1, and businesses with more than 50 employees working 30 or more hours a week were supposed to offer affordable health care to their workers or risk a series of escalating tax penalties.

But businesses said they needed more time, and on July 2, President Barack Obama’s administration abruptly extended the deadline one year — to Jan. 1, 2015.

That caused some Democrats in Congress to worry the program would not be ready on time, as states are building online platforms for their residents to use to comply with the law. Although the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act in June 2012, the Republican-controlled House has voted 40 times since Obama signed the law in 2010 to repeal, defund or scale it back, most recently Friday.

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“While July itself was a bit disappointing, the Fed will be looking at the cumulative improvement,” said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics. “On that score, the unemployment rate has fallen from 8.1 percent last August to 7.4 percent this July, which is a significant improvement.”

The government uses a survey of mostly large businesses and government agencies to determine how many jobs are added or lost each month.

That’s the survey that produced the gain of 162,000 jobs for July.

It uses a separate survey of households to calculate the unemployment rate. That survey captures hiring by companies of all sizes, including small businesses, new companies, farm workers and the selfemployed.

The household survey found that 227,000 more people said they were employed last month.

And 37,000 people stopped looking for work and were no longer counted as unemployed.

The number of self-employed jumped 241,000, or 2.6 percent, to 9.7 million — the most

in eight months. This group includes freelance workers, construction contractors, lawyers and other professionals with solo practices and farmers and ranchers.

Combined, those factors explain why the unemployment rate declined from 7.6 percent to 7.4 percent.

More than half of July’s job gain in the survey of big companies and government agencies came from lower-paying industries, extending a trend that is limiting Americans’ incomes and possibly slowing consumer spending. Retailers, for example, added nearly 47,000 jobs — the biggest gain for any industry last month.

Restaurants and bars added 38,400.

One Atlanta-based retailer, Cellairis, which sells mobile phone accessories, says it hired about 75 employees last month to meet growing demand. The company has 650 U.S. outlets, nearly all of them mall kiosks.

It plans to add 45 walk-in stores this year.

“People are willing to spend more now to protect and personalize their devices,” said CEO Taki Skouras.

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By contrast, employers in higher-paying industries, like Stripmatic, a steel parts maker in Cleveland, remain wary.

Stripmatic hasn’t hired anyone since adding five workers in the first three months of the year.

Revenue has been 10 percent below projections this year.

The company’s exports have picked up a bit in Mexico and Brazil but remain flat in Asia.

Company President Bill Adler says he’s concerned that slower growth in China could hamper his overseas sales this year.

Low-paying industries have accounted for 61 percent of jobs added this year, even though they represent only 39 percent of U.S. jobs overall, according to Labor Department numbers analyzed by Moody’s Analytics.

Mid-paying industries have accounted for fewer than 22 percent of the jobs added.

Some job gains were made in higher-paying fields last month.

Financial services, which includes banking, real estate and insurance, added 15,000.

Information technology added 4,300, accounting 2,500. And manufacturing added 6,000 jobs, though that figure was offset by an equivalent loss in

construction.

One growing source of better-paying jobs is local governments. They’ve now added jobs for five straight months and have helped offset job cuts by state and federal governments.

The result is that governments overall are much less of a drag on hiring than they were in the first three years of the economic recovery, which began in the summer of 2009.

All told, they’ve shed 39,000 jobs in the 12 months that ended in July. That’s down from a loss of 137,000 in the 12 months that ended in July 2012.

Most of the hiring by local governments has been for teachers and other jobs related to education. Local property tax revenue, a key source of funding for counties and cities, fell after the recession but has begun to recover in some communities. Nationwide, home prices have risen steadily, a trend that typically leads to higher property tax revenue.

More broadly, many of the jobs added in July are only part time. The number of Americans who said they were working part time but would prefer full-

time work stands at 8.2 million — the highest since last fall.

Part-time jobs accounted for 65 percent of the jobs added in July and 77 percent of those added this year.

The government defines part-time work as being fewer than 35 hours a week.

The percentage of adult Americans either working or actively looking for work dipped in July to 63.4 percent.

This is called the “labor force participation rate.” The participation rate has been generally declining since peaking at 67.3 percent in 2000. That’s partly the result of baby boomers retiring and leaving the workforce.

Job gains are being slowed by the economy’s tepid growth.

It grew at an annual rate of just 1.7 percent in the AprilJune quarter, the government said this week. That was an improvement over the previous two quarters, but it’s still far too weak to rapidly lower unemployment.

Recent data suggest that the economy could strengthen in the second half of the year.

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“It’s our responsibility.”

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, the governors’ host and a possible 2016 Republican presidential prospect, said Obama delayed the employer (OOTC:EPLI) mandate out of fear that voters would blame Democrats in the 2014 elections if the economy suffered as a result of the new law.

“A cynic would be right to say the reason they pushed back the employer mandate had little to nothing to do with policy and everything to do with politics,” Walker said.

Most of the two dozen governors from both parties gathered at the conference expressed confidence that their states would be ready on time, especially Democrats, although they said the work is daunting.

“Any time you go and make this much change in this short a period of time, it does cause headaches,” Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said.

But with that pain comes p ro g re s s , Hickenlooper and others argued. And those Republicans who have resisted or delayed taking action will pay the price.

Long before election day, the philosophical

debate over the bill will have turned into a practical reality for millions of newly insured voters.

“Choosing ideology over jobs and affordable health care is a false choice, and it’s an example of the differences between Republicans and Democrats,” Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, said.

Among the challenges states are encountering are the technological requirements to allow buyers to search for insurers, rates and benefits on the exchanges. Others are training state employees to administer the program and marketing it to millions of Americans, all during a time of strained state budgets. Marketing employees were often among the first to lose their jobs.

Despite the headaches, the alternative to the status quo is far worse, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said.

“Nothing could be more complicated than doing what we were doing before, which was to throw away more and more money on more expensive care for worse results,” said O’Malley, a Democrat also mulling a 2016 White House run.

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tree of coaches branching off of himself. Bill Belichik, Tom Coughlin and Sean Payton — all of whom were assistants under Parcells — all went on to win Super Bowls as head coaches themselves.

“There’s other guys that deserve this more than me,” Parcells said, speaking to the Hall’s selection committee. “But there’s no one else that appreciates this honor more than I do. I’d just ask one thing from them: when they put my bust in the Hall, please put it near Lawrence Taylor’s, so I can keep my eye on him.”

Robinson was a linebacker for the Green Bay Packers during the Vince Lombardi era, winning NFL championships in 1965, 1966 and 1967 as well as Super Bowl I and II in 1966 and 1967. He played from 1963-1974 and had 27 career interceptions.

“I have friends and family that live 20 minutes from here. But it took me 38 years to get here,” Robinson said.

“And it was worth it every step of the way.”

Culp won a championship with the Kansas City Chiefs, winning Super Bowl IV in 1969. His career spanned 1968-1981, playing defensive tackle for the Chiefs, Houston Oilers and Detroit Lions. He amassed 68 quarterback sacks, 14 forced fumbles and 10 fumble recoveries during his career.

“Hopefully our stories, preserved forever in the Hall of Fame, will remind us all what hard work and teamwork can produce,” Culp said.

Sapp played from 1995-2007, winning a Super Bowl title with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2002. The seven-time Pro Bowler finished his career with 573 tackles, 96.5 sacks,

19 forced fumbles and four interceptions.

“My grandma told me ‘never forget where you came from.’ I stand before you, a humble country boy,” Sapp said. “I never played this game to get into the Hall of Fame. I love this game. This game took me from a dirt road to heights I never dreamed of.

And now a gold jacket.”

Ogden was the first Baltimore Raven to play his entire NFL career, from 1996-2008, with the franchise, winning a Super Bowl with the team in 2000. He was selected to the Pro Bowl a whopping 11 times. He was also the team’s first-ever draft pick, ahead of even Ray Lewis.

“Talent isn’t enough,” Ogden said.

“A lot of people have talent but don’t live up to it. If you strive for perfection, maybe, just maybe, you can become great.”

Allen, also an 11-time Pro Bowl selection, played from 1994-2008, spending 12 years with the Dallas Cowboys and winning a Super Bowl with them in 1995. He finished his career playing two seasons with the San Fransisco 49ers, but he signed a one-day contract with Dallas in 2008 so he could retire from the league as a Cowboy.

“When I was younger, I got in a fight protecting my little brother, and I got beat,” Allen said. “Went home, and my mom said, ‘I ain’t raisin’ no punk. You fight him until you win.’

First day, I lost. Second day, I lost.

Third day, I finally won. That’s one of the most valuable lessons I ever learned. Never back down from anybody.” jbrown@civitasmedia.com

Stomach bug in 2 states linked to Mexican farm WASHINGTON (AP) — An outbreak of stomach illnesses in Iowa and Nebraska has been linked to salad mix served at local Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants and supplied by a Mexican farm.

The outbreak of cyclospora infections has sickened more than 400 people in 16 states.

The Food and Drug Administration says it is still working to determine whether the salad mix is the source of illnesses in the other 14 states.

“It is not yet clear whether the cases reported from other states are all part of the same outbreak,” the agency said in a statement. “The investigation of increased cases of cyclosporiasis in other states continues.”

Both Olive Garden and Red Lobster are owned

by Orlando-based Darden Restaurants. In a statement, Darden spokesman Mike Bernstein said the FDA’s announcement is “new information.”

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son to be concerned about the products we’ve received from this supplier,” Bernstein said.

The FDA said it traced illnesses from the restaurants in Nebraska and Iowa to Taylor Farms de Mexico, the Mexican branch of Salinas, Calif.based Taylor Farms. The company, which provides produce to the food service industry, said its facility located about 180 miles north of Mexico City in San Miguel de Allende is the only one of its 12 sites to be connected to the cases.

In an email, the chairman and CEO of Taylor Farms, Bruce Taylor, said the Mexican plant produced 48 million servings of salads for thou-

sands of restaurants in the Midwest and eastern U.S. in June, the month the outbreak started. He said the facility has an extensive water testing program.

“All our tests have been negative and we have no evidence of cyclospora in our product,” Taylor said.

“We are working closely with the FDA to continue this investigation.”

Taylor said Taylor Farms de Mexico does not supply Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants in Texas, the state with the second most illnesses in the outbreak.

According to CDC, 113 of the illnesses reported so far were in Texas. Iowa has had 146 illnesses and Nebraska 81.

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In an additional statement on the company’s website, Taylor Farms says the Mexican facility is “state of the art and has an exceptional food safety record.” The statement said the product is out of the food supply.

The FDA said it had audited the Mexican processing facility in 2011 and found “no notable issues,” according to the agency. The agency said it would increase surveillance efforts for green leafy products imported from Mexico.

The most recent known illness in the two states linked to the infected salad was in Nebraska a month ago. The typical shelf life for a salad mix is up to 14 days.

There have been more recent illnesses in other states. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the most recent illness was July 23 but centers did not specify a location.

The agency said its investigation has not implicated any packaged salad sold in grocery stores.

Charles Bond

Date of birth: 8/5/63 Location: Tipp City Height: 6’0” Weight: 195 Hair color: Brown Eye color: BOND Green Wanted for: Violation protection order

Julio DeLeon

Date of birth: 12/30/92 Location: Troy Height: 6’0” Weight: 160 Hair color: Brown Eye color: DELEON Brown Wanted for: Violating a protection order

William Fugate

Date of birth: 1/13/78 Location: Tipp City Height: 5’9” Weight: 178 Hair color: Brown Eye FUGATE color: Blue Wanted for: Unauthorized use of property

Alexander Lambroff

Date of birth: 2/23/79 Location: Uknown Height: 6’1” Weight: 215 Hair color: Black Eye color: Brown LAMBROFF Wanted for: Trafficking drugs

Tyrone McQueen

Date of birth: 10/20/65 Location: Dayton Height: 6’2” Weight: 196 Hair color: Black Eye MCQUEEN color: Brown Wanted for: Non-support

• This information is provided by the Miami County Sheriff’s Office. These individuals were still at-large as of Friday.

• If you have information on any of these suspects, call the sheriff’s office at 4406085.

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TODAY guests are encouraged to bring their grand• HONEY HARVEST: Come enjoy the children to the meet for lunch, games and felsweet taste of summer presented by the Miami lowship. For more information, contact Donn Valley’s Beekeepers Association at 2 p.m. at Craig, vice president, at (937) 418-1888.

Brukner Nature Center. Come escape the heat • SUPPORT GROUP: The Miami County in the air-conditioned Heidelberg Auditorium Troy Alzheimer’s Support Group, affiliated and learn all about the process of beekeeping with the Miami Valley, Dayton Alzheimer’s from setting up the hive to processing the Association and the National Alzheimer’s honey for your table. Enjoy a taste of this Association, will meet from 3-4:30 p.m. season’s hard work, courtesy of the honey bees at Senior Active Adult Services, 2006 W. at Brukner Nature Center.

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OFFERED: The American Civic agendas Legion Riders, Post 586, • The Elizabeth 377 N. Third St., Tipp Township Trustees will City. will present an allmeet at 7 p.m. in the you-can-eat breakfast for township building, 5710 $6 from 8-11 a.m. Items Walnut Grove Road, Troy. available will include eggs • The village of West your way, bacon, sausage, Milton Planning Board biscuits, sausage gravy, will meet at 7:30 p.m. in CONTACT US home fries, waffles, pancouncil chambers. cakes, toast, french toast, THURSDAY Call Melody fruit, cinnamon rolls and • COMMITTEE Vallieu at juices.

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The 100th Schaefer-Hoss • DISCOVERY WALK: Reunion will be at Troy Community Park, A morning discovery walk for adults will be Shelter No. 13 (north end). The meal will be at from 8-9:30 a.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, 1:30 p.m. Corn hole, bingo and surprises will 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. Tom Hissong, be part of the celebration. Attendees are asked education coordinator, will lead walkers as to bring a covered dish or two to share and they experience the wonderful seasonal changtheir own beverage, table service, lawn chairs es taking place. Bring binoculars. and famiy pictures. For more information, call Aug. 9-11 Pru Schaefer at 335-8647.

• TRUCK SHOW: The 24th annual • PRAIRIE WALK: A tallgrass prairie walk International Scout Light Truck Nationals & will be at 2:30 p.m. Experience a bit of Ohio’s Swap Meet will be held at the Historic WACO rich natural heritage on a naturalist led explo- Field, 1865 S. County Road 25-A, Troy. More ration of Aullwood’s prairie. Learn about prai- than 200 trucks and diesels from the 1950s will rie plants and animals, and the importance of be on display, along with field trials, demontallgrass ecosystems. strations and WACO biplane rides. Admission MONDAY is $8 per day of $15 for the whole weekend.

• CRAFTY LISTENERS: The Crafty Aug. 9 Listeners will meet from 1-2:30 p.m. at the • FRIDAY DINNERS: Dinner will be offered Milton-Union Public Library. Participants lis- from 5-8 p.m. at the Covington VFW Post ten to an audio book and work on various craft 4235, 173 N. High St., Covington. Choices projects. will include a $12 New York strip steak, • PULLED PORK: The American Legion, broasted chicken, fish, shrimp and sandwiches, Post 586, 377 N. Third St., Tipp City, will all made-to-order. offer pulled pork sandwiches with chips from • TACO BAR: A taco bar will be offered 6-7:30 p.m. from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Pleasant Hill VFW Post Civic agendas 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls. The • Monroe Township Board of Trustees will meal will be offered from 6-7:30 p.m. for $7. meet at 7 p.m. at the Township Building.

Aug. 10 • The Tipp City Council will meet at 7:30 • BIKE NIGHT: The Troy Applebees will p.m. at the Government Center. feature its annual bike night beginning at 1 • The Piqua City Commission will meet at p.m. The event will includ live music from 7:30 p.m. at City Hall.

Monocle at 9.m., a corn hole tournament • The Troy City Council will meet at 7 p.m. and prizes for the best bike categories. The in the meeting room in Council Chambers.

Bud Light and Miller Light girls will make an • The Staunton Township Trustees will appearance and food, including hamburgers, meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Staunton Township pulled pork and hot dogs will be available building. for purchase. Donations will benefit Honor • Covington Board of Public Affairs will Flight for Korean War veterans to see the meet at 4 p.m. in the Water Department office memorial in their honor in Washington, D.C. located at 123 W. Wright St., Covington.

• FISH FRY: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post • The Potsdam Village Council will meet at 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, 7 p.m. in the village offices. will offer an all-you-can-eat fish fry and TUESDAY smelt dinner with french fries, baked beans • LITERACY COUNCIL: The Troy Literacy and applesauce for $8 from 5-7 p.m.

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John William and Goldie Mae Wray are • ADULT HIKE: The Miami County Park invited to a family reunion at SpringMeade District will hold an adult exploration hike on HealthCare Center, 4385 S. County Road August 6th at 9 a.m. The hike will be at Stillwater 25-A, Tipp City, at The White House. Social Prairie Reserve Rangeline Road access, 7790 hour will be at 4 p.m. and dinner at 5 p.m.

Rangeline Road, north of Covington. Join a nat- For more information, call Jean Plunkett uralist or volunteer leader as they head out to Stout at (614) 582-1118 or Jeanonranch@ explore nature. Walks are not strenuous or fast- yahoo.com. paced. They are held the first and third Tuesday • MEET AND GREET: Enjoy free refreshof every month. Register for the program online ments from 2-3 p.m. at Aullwood. The event at www.miamicountyparks, email to register@ is a causal and informal activity under the miamicountyparks.com or call (937) 335-6273, pine trees at the nature center. When you Ext. 104. arrive, ask the front desk volunteer to direct • BOOK GROUP: The Just-a-Little you to the refreshments.

Inspiration book discussion group will meet at • BLOOD DRIVE: Ginghamsburg Church 11 a.m. at the Milton-Union Public Library to will host a blood drive from 8 a.m. to noon in discuss “Secrets of the Heart” by Al Lacy. For the south campus chapel, 7695 County Road information about joining a group, call (937) 25-A, Tipp City. Everyone who registers to 698-5515. donate will be automatically be entered into • BLOOD DRIVE: The annual Troy a drawing to win a Harley Davidson Road National Night Out will host a blood drive King Classic motorcycle, and will receive from 3:30-7:30 p.m. at the CBC Bloodmobile at a free “King of the Road Summer Blood Hobart Arena, 255 Adams St., Troy. Everyone Drive” T-shirt. Donors are encouraged to who registers to donate will be automati- schedule an appointment to donate online cally be entered into a drawing to win a Harley at www.DonorTime.com.

Davidson Road King Classic motorcycle, and • FISH AND FLIES: Pat Rice, Aullwood’s will receive a free “King of the Road Summer outdoorsman, will help participants discovBlood Drive” T-shirt. Donors are encouraged er basic warm water fly fishing techniques, to schedule an appointment to donate online how to properly cast and rig your fly rod, at www.DonorTime.com. make their own flys and where to use them Civic agendas in the Miami Valley from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 • The Concord Township Trustees will meet p.m. Reservations are required. Class fee for at 10 a.m. at the Concord Township Memorial non-members is $60. Call Aullwood at (937) Building, 1150 Horizon West Court, Troy.

890-7360.

WEDNESDAY Aug. 10-11 • PERI LUNCH: The Miami County Chapter • SKIRMISH SET: The 110th OVI Skirmish of the Ohio Public Employee Retirees will meet will be at the VFW Post 6557, 7578 W. at 11:30 a.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 248 Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls. Hamburgers will Wood St., Piqua. Lunch is $10, payable at the be available on the range from 11 a.m. to 3 door. Reservations due July 31 by calling Beth p.m. Saturday. Breakfast will be served both at 335-2771. The speaker will be a health care Saturday and Sunday from 6:30-10 a.m. representative. The meeting is open to any curAug. 11 rent or retired Ohio public employee.

• BREAKFAST OFFERED: Breakfast will • CHILDREN’S CARNIVAL: The children’s be offered at the Pleasant Hill VFW Post 6557, summer reading program carnival will be 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, from 8-11 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Milton- a.m. The breakfast is made-to-order ane everyUnion Public Library. Celebrate the end of the thing is ala carte.

Summer Reading Program with games and • ANNUAL REUNION: The 83rd annual prizes. The carnival is for all participants who Algernon Sidney Plunkett reunion will be held have finished the SRP requirements.Plan to at The White House at SpringMeade, 4385 S. join one of these times.

County Road 25-A, Tipp City. Fellowship will • KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis Club begin at noon, followed by the meal at 1 p.m. of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Participants are asked to bring a meat and side Troy Country Club. Grandparents’ Day hosted dish, along with a salad or dessert to share and by president-elect Kim Meier. Members and personal drinks. Tableware will be provided.

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TIPP CITY — The Downtown Tipp City Partnership recently received a grant from the Paul G. Duke Foundation.

The grant is being directed to manpower, web support, and equipment for the organization’s innovative Tippecanoe Incubator Project.

“We are so grateful to the Duke Foundation, not just for their support of the Partnership but for everything they do in Miami County,” said partnership director Tara Dixon Engel.

Engel said this is the second grant from the Duke Foundation for TIP. “They helped us launch the project and must have been happy with the results because they approved our request for additional funding,” she said, pointing to the Partnership’s success in providing information, marketing materials and merchant assistance during the 2013 Streetscape project.

“Our goal was, and is, to help our downtown make it through the construction with everyone intact and moving forward. Thanks to our original grant, we funded merchant meetings and brainstorming sessions that spawned the Shop Hop promotion, advertising, and web content,” Dixon Engel said. “We also created a variety of educational materials on-line and we assisted merchants in developing promotional materials at no cost. We are working to help businesses, non-profits, and local organizations see the impact of pro-active marketing, especially during challenging times.”

Developed in 2010, the TIP concept is non-traditional in that it does not

simply nurture new business but also helps existing businesses access local resources and master areas that may not be their strong suits.

“When I was a small business owner, I was very good at my chosen work, but when it came to things like bookkeeping, accounting, inventory management … yikes. Not my strengths.

Small business owners must wear many hats and some of them don’t fit so well,” Engel said. “Part of the TIP goal is to connect our merchants with local mentors and resources who can help build their competency in key areas.

Another goal is to generate marketing initiatives.

Those, in turn, feed our mission to create a thriving downtown.”

Engel says “local” is key to the project.

“Yes, there are federal agencies that perform similar missions, but no one knows your challenges and audience better than someone who lives and shops in your town. I have rarely seen a federal agency do something better and more efficiently than it can be done by local stakeholders,” she said.

She said the partnership has worked communicating innovative ways to attract downtown foot traffic, even during the construction work.

“The best way to get people downtown is to show them the diverse array of shops and merchandise.

It truly is amazing, and even long-time Tipp residents express surprise at everything they find in our downtown shops,” Dixon Engel said, adding that the

newest promotion involves making coupons and fliers for downtown businesses available at the DTCP booth at the weekly Marketplace, held Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon at 3rd and Broadway streets.

“We’re starting to get repeat traffic from people who want to see what coupons are available this week,” she said. “This project has spawned an idea for a winter market that will feature cottage industry businesses as well as booths from local merchants and will create mentoring relationships with high school students and young business professionals who can run the booths for sales experience.”

The partnership is looking for local business professionals, active or retired, who want to donate a few hours a week to providing mentoring support to local businesses. If you are interested, please contact Tara Dixon Engel at TEngelDTCP@ woh.rr.com. Over the past year, the DTCP has received grant funding from the Tipp City Area Foundations, the Troy Foundation, the Paul G. Duke Foundation and the Miami County Foundation. Engel hopes to bring corporate supporters on board as well.

Additionally, businesses and individuals are encouraged to become partners, at levels ranging from $25 to $2,500.

“When you invest in this organization you invest in progress and results,” Engel said. “And the more investment we receive, the more progress and results we’ll have.”

Black Ohio lawmakers oppose bill COLUMBUS (AP) — A group of black lawmakers in Ohio has started circulating petitions to help keep a stand-your-ground proposal from being passed in the state.

The bill would allow people to use force to defend themselves without having a duty to retreat first.

The legislation goes beyond Ohio’s current castle doctrine law, which gives people the right to defend themselves with force in their homes, vehicles or vehicles of immediate family members.

Debate over such measures has increased since the recent acquittal of George Zimmerman in the 2012 shooting death of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin in Florida. Martin’s family say Zimmerman, who identifies as Hispanic, racially profiled Martin as a potential criminal and wrongly followed him. Zimmerman says Martin attacked him.

At least 21 states have laws similar to the one in Florida, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The laws generally eliminate a person’s duty to retreat in

the face of a serious physical threat.

Civil rights leaders, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, have said they would push for repeal of the laws. The Ohio Legislative Black Caucus wants to keep the idea from moving forward in the Republicandominated General Assembly.

State Rep. Terry Johnson, a McDermott Republican, introduced the bill in June.

It’s had one House hearing.

More than a dozen lawmakers back the proposal, which also would ease restrictions on carrying concealed weapons.

Johnson told an Ohio House committee in June that lawful gun owners shouldn’t have to turn their backs on an assailant to try to flee if they are in a place where they have a right to be.

“If I was out with my family and we were attacked, I would want to be able to defend them and exercise my constitutional right to do so,” Johnson said in written testimony.

He noted that people would still need to prove in court that they were acting in

self-defense.

Rep. Alicia Reece, president of the black caucus, said the group is trying to draw attention to the bill while state lawmakers are on summer break. They want constituents to tell the governor and legislative leaders that the measure isn’t wanted.

“At a time like this, why would we be trying to bring something similar and the state of Ohio?” said Reece, a Cincinnati Democrat.

Johnson said he sees his bill as being a benefit to all, and he hopes he can find common ground with the black caucus on other parts of the bill.

Self-defense related bills failed in at least three states this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. And several proposals that would have amended circumstances for allowable use of force also didn’t advance in state legislatures last year.

Reece said at least 1,000 people signed a petition opposing the bill during a Cincinnati rally after the Zimmerman verdict. She said Ohio already has sufficient self-defense laws.

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CONTACT US David Fong is the executive editor of the Troy Daily News. You can reach him at 440-5228 or send him e-mail at dfong@civitasmedia.com

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EDITORIAL ROUNDUP

Star-Ledger, New The Seattle Times on Jersey, on cutting off all Univision’s window on military aid to Egypt: America: Last weekend’s mass shooting of demonstrators in Cairo, which Human Rights Watch denounced as showing a “criminal disregard for people’s lives,” only underscores what we knew already: This military takeover is not a re-boot of democracy. It’s a bloody coup.

How quickly the crowds that cheered the ouster of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi have been replaced by angry protesters, shouldering the bodies of their slain relatives. Many were shot straight through the head or chest, in clearly targeted killings, as Islamists and other Morsi supporters staged peaceful sit-ins and rallies.

Yesterday, the European Union’s top foreign policy official visited Cairo to reiterate that the military must deliver on its pledge to transition to a civilian government that includes the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies. But like the United States, the EU has no imminent plans to rethink its aid to Egypt.

Why should we expect Egypt’s generals to heed our advice, if we put no muscle behind the message?

Our first priority must be to stop these killings of civilians in the street. That means signaling that we are serious by suspending our $1.3 billion in military aid, which represents the bulk of U.S. assistance to Egypt. We can continue to provide economic aid, but we cannot be the bankrollers of an increasingly brutal regime.

This isn’t just a moral issue. It’s a national security danger. Think about it. …

Rather than continue to provide millions to the military in the hope the generals will listen, the United States should cut off aid now, and restore it only in the event of a peaceful transition through a democratic election.

The continued slaughter of protesters further illustrates the insincerity of General Sisi, chief of the Egyptian military, who claimed his forces would stay out of politics.

He is looking more and more like a despot, along the lines of former dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser. And we must act now, to ensure that history of repression doesn’t repeat itself.

America’s consumer choices, voting trends and viewing habits help fill in the mosaic of this big economically, politically and socially diverse country.

Last week the Nielsen company, which tracks television audiences, announced the Spanish-language Univision network was tops with viewers aged 18-45 for the month of July.

Univision passed NBC in February, but that was dismissed as a one-time win over a struggling network. To beat Fox, CBS, ABC, NBC and others in Nielsen’s July time frame speaks to Univision’s appeal and the size of the demographic it drew upon.

Univision offered the same types of music, sports and programs to attract young viewers and were not the usual summer reruns on the other networks.

Nielsen reports the median age for Univision viewers is 37. Over at CBS, NBC and ABC the median age is into the mid-50s.

Univision’s triumphal full-page ad in The New York Times that “Numero Uno is the New Number One,” is a bit of corporate hype, but the power of a diverse demographic has found a very traditional expression.

Dr. Luis Fraga, University of Washington associate vice provost and political science professor, says Univision has built its viewing audience with news coverage and programming content and story lines that put U.S. current events in a useful context for Latino viewers.

One Univision effort, titled “This is the Moment,” promoted education, college preparation and enrollment for families and a growing segment of a growing demographic. The White House recruited Univision to promote the new health-care plan.

Eyes on TV screens reflect who we are and what we watch, and advertisers and pollsters pay attention.

Political strength is found in numbers. How those numbers reveal themselves beyond Election Day can be as routine as noticing who watches which network.

THEY SAID IT “I was speechless to be honest.”

— Miami East High School student Colin Gump, on his market lamb being named grand champion at the Ohio State Fair

“I’ve never shown at the Ohio State Fair, so I really wanted to give it a try this year.

I wanted to get more experience at a higher competition level.”

— Miami County Fair Pork Queen Emily Oldham, on representing the Miami County Fair at the Ohio State Fair

“It’s a great festival.

There will be lots of food, entertainment and dancing.”

— Miami County Festival of Nations Chairwoman Mallory Mercer, on this year’s festival

WRITE TO US: The Troy Daily News welcomes signed letters to the editor. Letters must contain your home address and a telephone number where you can be reached during the day. Letters must be shorter than 500 words as a courtesy to other writers. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. MAIL: 224 S. Market, Troy, Ohio, 45373: E-MAIL: editorial@tdnpublishing.com; FAX (937) 440-5286; ONLINE: www.troydailynews.com (“Letters To The Editor” link on left side.)

Fish won’t be missed in gaming industry Any creative person in the public eye has to deal with varying levels of hate.

And it’s a sad time when the vitriol from random outside sources becomes too much to bear and chases talented people from their chosen method of expression.

The tale of Phil Fish is not one of those times.

Fish, an independent video game developer recently featured in “Indie Game: The Movie” and an extremely polarizing personality in the industry, threw one apparently-final tantrum on Twitter last week after taking offense to some harsh yet accurate criticism from a gaming journalist, lashing out and cancelling his current project and leaving game development.

I’m not going to begrudge anyone that likes Fish or his game, “Fez.” But I, for one, won’t miss him.

“Indie Game: The Movie” chronicled three separate developers/development teams as they each struggled to put out a game without the support of a major publisher. And while the others featured were generally good people, Fish came off as

an unlikeable, egotistical, pre- own broken work. tentious and thin-skinned cryThen came Microsoft’s XBox baby who wanted to quit at every One announcement, specifismall setback. He had a fall- cally that it would not allow ing out with his partner, “Fez” indie developers to self-publish was — and, oddly enough, still on the console. Again, Fish had is — horrifically buggy to plenty to say, the leastthe point of being broken profane quote being “With and incomplete, and any Microsoft, they’ve made it tiny amount of criticism painfully clear they don’t was met with an overkill want my ilk on their platamount of retaliation. form.”

Apparently, not much Recently, though, came changed after the movie’s news that Microsoft was Josh release. not only reversing that Brown Once the oft-delayed Sunday Columnist policy, but also would not “Fez” was released on charge indie developers Microsoft’s XBox Live fees to patch Xbox Live Arcade, it was pretty clear that Arcade games. So, naturally, it had needed more work. Fish gaming journalists went to Fish released one patch for the game, looking to hear what he thought but that “fix” in turn ruined of the changes. Because, you many players’ save files and know, it’s their job. And it made needed to be fixed again. Instead complete and total sense given of do that, though, Fish com- his history, both with Microsoft plained about Microsoft’s policy and with his mouth in general. of charging fees to developers Fish refused to comment. for releasing patches. A major Marcus Beer didn’t appreciate game developer with a publish- Fish’s stuck-up behavior, so he er’s backing wouldn’t have many lobbed quite a few insults his issues with that, but a small way on a GameTrailers podcast. indie developer just may not “Hipster” was pretty much the have that kind of cash. He was only one fit to print here, but very, very vocal about the policy they all were legitimate.

— and never bothered to fix his Fish responded by attacking

anyone and everyone on Twitter — Beer directly, the gaming media as a whole, gamers that didn’t like “Fez.” If they’d ever said anything negative about Fish, they were getting a tweetful. He even went as far as to suggest that Beer commit suicide, tweeting “compare your life to mine and then kill yourself.”

Right. Because that’s a proven to win those detractors over.

Creative people are often full of themselves — sometimes even rightfully so. But for someone whose only creation thus far is so mediocre and riddled with technical flaws that make it difficult or even impossible to enjoy to be that way? And then to suggest that anyone that calls him out on it is beneath him and should kill themselves?

Good riddance, Phil Fish.

Maybe you can learn the guitar and play in an ironic hipster band that sings songs about how you’re better than everyone else.

We’ll all be busy playing quality games made by people that know how to code properly.

TDN Sports Editor Josh Brown appears Sundays. At least most Japanese developers release games without a billion bugs. Maybe

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OBITUARIES DONNA CORNELL DIXON

TROY — Donna Cornell Dixon, 89, of Troy, Ohio, died Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, at her home.

She was born Oct. 1, 1923, in Toledo, Ohio, to the late Frank and Emily Cornell.

She married William M. Dixon on Dec. 22, 1947; and he survives.

Other survivors include her sons, W. McGregor (Greg) Dixon Jr. of Troy and Gary C. Dixon (Nancy Hesz) of Yellow Springs; grandchildren, Teckla (Tim) Patterson, McGregor Dixon III, Carey Dixon, Rosa Dixon, Emily (Jared) Drury and Melissa Gall; greatgrandchildren, Ava and Jett Drury; sister, Faye Lawson; and son-in-law, J.T. Gall.

In addition to her parents, Mrs. Dixon was preceded in death by her daughter, Christine R. Dixon; and brothers, Charles and Harry Cornell.

She graduated from Miami University with a bachelor of arts in English, and was a member of the Chi Omega Sorority.

She volunteered as both a Cub Scout and Girl Scout leader, and participated in many school functions. She was active in numerous civic and environ-

MICHAEL ‘HARV’ BRUMBAUGH

SIDNEY — Michael “Harv” Brumbaugh, 58, of Sidney, formerly of Troy, died at 7:36 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, at Upper Valley Medical Center, Troy.

He was born March 26, 1955, in Piqua, to the late Bernard Brumbaugh and Catherine (Todd) Brumbaugh. His mother survives in Sidney.

Mr. Brumbaugh is also survived by five sisters, Vickie Anderson (Martin Veltkamp) of Sidney, Tracy Brumbaugh (Winston Scott), Rebecca DeLong, Sandra Reynolds and Christina (Donald) Brown, all of Piqua; numerous nieces and nephews and great-nieces and great-

mental endeavors, and was active in the Miami University Alumni endeavors.

Mrs. Dixon was a 50-year member of the First Presbyterian Church in Troy.

She was one of the first two women in the church’s history to be ordained. She also held an honorary life membership in the Presbyterian Women’s Association.

Mrs. Dixon enjoyed working in the garden with her flowers, bird watching, cooking and baking, and doting over her grandchildren.

A memorial service will be at 4: p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, at the First Presbyterian Church, Troy, Ohio, with the Rev. Dr. Richard B. Culp officiating. Friends may call on the family from 3-4 p.m. Sunday at the church.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Christine Rae Dixon Memorial Scholarship Fund c/o Troy Foundation, 216 W. Franklin St., Troy, OH 45373.

The family extends many thanks for the loving care by all private caregivers, Vitas Hospice staff and nurses, longtime caregiver Charity Branscomb, and especially Ducky.

Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

EDWIN LEE NOLL JR.

brothers and sisters-in-law, Chris and Debbie Noll of Pleasant Hill and Jeff and Jaqui Noll of Covington; grandchildren, Austin, Kyle, Emma and Caleb; many nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews.

Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, at Mountain Top VFW Post No. 6557, 7571 Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls. Pastor Gene Oburn will officiate.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the family to assist with funeral services.

Online memories may be left for the family at www.jackson-sarver.com

PATRICIA ANN JOHN

Tiana Brock and Robert Ashworth III; and step daughter, Clarienda Crafton of Mooresville, Ind. She formerly worked at General Telephone Co., Cambridge City, Ind., was an operator at Ford-Philco in Connersville, Ind., and retired from B.F. Goodrich, Troy.

Funeral services will be at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, at the HaleSarver Family Funeral Home, 284 N. Miami St., West Milton, with Pastor Chris Barhorst officiating. Family will receive friends from 4-7 p.m. Tuesday prior to the service at Hale-Sarver.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Hospice of Dayton, 324 Wilmington Ave., Dayton, OH 45420.

WEBSTER — Edwin Lee Noll Jr., 60, of Webster, passed away Wednesday, July 31, 2013, at Upper Valley Medical Center.

He was born Sept. 4, 1952, in Piqua, Ohio, to his parents Edwin and Barbara Noll.

Ed is survived by his loving wife, Diana Noll; daughter and son-in-law, Zonell and Clint Reichert of Minster; sons, Justin Noll of Webster and Brennen Noll of Webster; sisters and brothers-in-law, Pam and Jack Coate of Pleasant Hill and Glee and Scott Knoop of St. Paris;

WEST MILTON — Patricia Ann John, 83, of West Milton, passed away Friday, Aug. 2, 2013, at Hospice of Dayton.

She was born Nov. 16, 1929, in Cambridge City, Ind. She was preceded in death by her parents, Horace Edmund and Eva Mae (Scott) Hubbard; beloved husband, Charles F. John; and brother, Scott Hubbard.

She is survived by her loving family, including her daughter, Teri Linn Ashworth of Greenville; son and nephews; and many, many friends. daughter-in-law, Gary Lee and Sandra Harv attended Piqua City Schools and Moore of Madison,Tenn.; grandchilhad worked for Cassano’s and Nittsu dren, Chris Wolfe, Chealie Schricker, Shoji.

He enjoyed fishing, science fiction books and movies, and rock and roll music.

• VIRGINIA TURLEY A service to honor his life TIPP CITY — Virginia Turley, 90, of will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Tipp City, passed away Friday, Aug. 2, Wednesday, Aug. 7, at Highland 2013, at The Laurels of Huber Heights.

Cemetery, Covington, with Chaplain John Shelton officiating.

Arrangements for the family are being handled through Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home, Piqua.

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

FUNERAL DIRECTORY

Funeral services will be at noon Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, at Frings and Bayliff Funeral Home, 327 W. Main St., Tipp City.

Obituaries also availible online at www.troydailynews.com

Fort Hood, the rarity of military executions

DALLAS (AP) — Hundreds of unarmed soldiers, some about to deploy to Afghanistan, were waiting inside a building for vaccines and routine checkups when a fellow soldier walked in with two handguns and enough ammunition to commit one of the worst mass shootings in American history.

Maj. Nidal Hasan doesn’t deny that he carried out the November 2009 attack at Fort Hood, Texas, which left 13 people dead and more than 30 others wounded. There are dozens of witnesses who saw it happen. Military law prohibits him from entering a guilty plea because authorities are seeking the death penalty. But if he is convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that starts Tuesday, there are likely years, if not decades, of appeals ahead.

He may never make it to the death chamber at all.

While the Hasan case is unusually complex, experts also say the military justice system is unaccustomed to dealing with death penalty cases and has struggled to avoid overturned sentences.

Eleven of the 16 death sentences handed down by military juries in the last 30 years have been overturned, according to an academic study and court records. No active-duty soldier has been executed since 1961.

A reversed verdict or sentence on appeal in the Hasan case would be a fiasco for prosecutors and the Army. That’s one reason why prosecutors and the military judge have been deliberate leading up to trial, said Geoffrey Corn, a professor at the South Texas College of Law and former military lawyer.

“The public looks and says, ‘This is an obviously guilty defendant. What’s so hard about this?’” Corn said. “What seems so simple is in fact relatively complicated.”

Hasan is charged with 13 specifications of premeditated murder and 32 specifications of attempted premeditated murder. Thirteen officers from around the country who hold Hasan’s rank or higher will

Nidal Hasan

serve on the jury for a trial that will likely last one month and probably longer. They must be unanimous to convict Hasan of murder and sentence him to death. Three-quarters of the panel must vote for an attempted murder conviction.

The jury will likely hear from victims and relatives of the dead. A handful of victims still carry bullet fragments in their body. Others have nightmares.

“It never goes away — being upset that it’s taken so long for this trial to come,” said Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, who was shot in the head, stomach and upper body. “So now’s the day of reckoning, which is positive — very positive.”

The trial’s start has been delayed over and over, often due to requests from Hasan.

Any of the hundreds of decisions large or small could be fair game on appeal. The entire record will be scrutinized by military appeals courts that have overturned most of the death sentences they’ve considered.

“A good prosecutor, in military parlance, would be foolish to fight only the close battle,” Corn said. “He’s got to fight the close battle and the future battle. And the future battle is the appellate record.”

Hasan has twice dismissed his lawyers and now plans to represent himself at trial. He’s suggested he wants to argue the killings were in “defense of others” — namely, members of the Taliban fighting Americans in Afghanistan. The trial judge, Col. Tara Osborn, has so far

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Staff Sgt. Joy Clark of the 467th Combat Stress Control Detachment takes a moment to run her fingers over the engravings of the names of her fellow soldiers at a ceremony commemorating the one-year anniversary of the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military base, in Fort Hood, Texas.

denied that strategy.

Hasan has grown a beard while in custody that he says expresses his Muslim faith, but violates military rules on decorum. After a military judge ordered him forcibly shaved, an appeals court stayed that order and took another judge off the case.

The last man executed in the military system was Pvt. John Bennett, hanged in 1961 for raping an 11-year-old girl. Five men are on the military death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., but none are close to being executed.

An inmate was taken off death row just last year.

Kenneth Parker was condemned for killing two fellow Marines in North Carolina, including Lance Cpl. Rodney Page. But Parker was given life without parole last September by an appeals court. The court found his trial judge should have not allowed him to be tried for both murders at the same time, nor should the judge have allowed testimony that the appeals court said was irrelevant to the crimes.

Parker’s accomplice in the

killings, Wade Walker, was also sentenced to death, only for the sentence to be overturned.

Examples abound of other death sentences set aside.

They include William Kreutzer Jr., who killed one soldier and wounded 18 others in a 1995 shooting spree at Fort Bragg, N.C.; James T. Murphy, who killed his wife in Germany by smashing her head with a hammer; and Melvin Turner, who killed his 11-month-old daughter with a razor blade.

Part of the problem, experts say, is that death penalty cases are rare in military courts.

A study in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology identified just 41 cases between 1984 and 2005 where a defendant faced a court-martial on a capital charge. Meanwhile, more than 500 people have been executed since 1982 in the civilian system in Texas, the nation’s most active deathpenalty state.

While lawyers and judges in Texas may get multiple death penalty cases a year, many military judges and lawyers often are on their first, said Victor Hansen, another former

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prosecutor who now teaches at the New England School of Law. The military courts that are required to review each death-penalty verdict are also more cautious and likely to pinpoint possible errors that might pass muster at a civilian court, Hansen and Corn said.

Hansen compared the military’s conundrum to small states that have a death-penalty law on the books, but never use it.

“You don’t have a lot of experience or institutional knowledge,” said Hansen, who compared it to “the reinventing of the wheel every time one is done.”

If Hasan is convicted and sentenced to death, his case will automatically go before appeals courts for the Army and the armed forces. If those courts affirm the sentence, he could ask the Supreme Court for a review or file motions in federal civilian courts.

The president, as the military commander in chief, must sign off on a death sentence.

“If history is any guide, it’s going to be a long, long, long time,” Hansen said.

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Mostly Mostly A few Showers/ A.M. Partly Today's Highlight in History: clear clear showers T’storms showers cloudy On August 4, 1944, 15-yearHigh: 75° Low: 56° possible High: 83° High: 81° High: 80° old diarist Anne Frank was arLow: 68° Low: 69° Low: 63° High: 83° rested with her sister, parents and Low: 60° four others by the Gestapo after hiding for two years inside a building in Amsterdam. (Anne died the TODAY’S STATEWIDE FORECAST following year at Bergen-Belsen.)

Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013 On this date: In 1830, plans for the city of AccuWeather.com forecast for daytime conditions, low/high temperatures Chicago were laid out.

In 1916, the United States MICH. reached agreement with Denmark to purchase the Danish Virgin IsCleveland lands for $25 million.

Toledo 63° | 70° In 1936, Jesse Owens of the 57° | 77° U.S. won the second of his four gold medals at the Berlin Youngstown Olympics as he prevailed in the 54° | 72° long jump over German Luz Long, who was the first to congratulate Mansfield PA. him.

TROY • 59° | 70° In 1977, President Jimmy 75° 56° Carter signed a measure establishing the Department of Energy.

In 1993, a federal judge sentenced Los Angeles police officers Columbus Dayton Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell 61° | 75° 55° | 72° to 2½ years in prison for violating Rodney King's civil rights.

Ten years ago: California Gov. Gray Davis asked the state Cincinnati Supreme Court to delay his Octo63° | 81° ber 7 recall election until the following March (the recall went ahead as originally scheduled).

Portsmouth West African forces arrived in Liberia to oversee the departure 64° | 77° W.VA. of President Charles Taylor.

Chung Mong-hun, a top executive KY. of South Korea's Hyundai con© NATIONAL FORECAST glomerate embroiled in a scandal over a historic 2000 summit between the two Koreas, committed suicide.

Five years ago: President George W. Bush signed legislation Forecast highs for Sunday, Aug. 4 Sunny Pt. Cloudy Cloudy allowing the State Department to settle all remaining lawsuits against Libya by American victims of terrorism. In a brazen attack just days ahead of the Beijing Olympics, two men from a mainly Muslim ethnic group rammed a truck and hurled explosives at jogging policemen in western China, killing 16.

One year ago: Michael Phelps ended his career with another gold as the United States won the medley relay at the London Olympics; Phelps left the sport with a record 18 golds and 22 medals overall.

Today's Birthdays: Singer Frankie Ford is 74. Actress-singer Tina Cole is 70. Actor-comedian Richard Belzer is 69. Football Hall-of-Famer John Riggins is 64.

Former Attorney General Alberto Fronts Pressure Gonzales is 58. Actor-screenCold Warm Stationary Low High writer Billy Bob Thornton is 58.

Actress Kym Karath ("The Sound of Music") is 55.

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Christine Swidorsky carries her son and the couple’s best man, Logan Stevenson, 2, down the aisle to her husbandto-be Sean Stevenson during the wedding ceremony on Saturday in Jeannette, Pa. Logan stood with his grandmother, Debbie Stevenson, during a 12-minute ceremony uniting Logan’s mother and his father. The boy has leukemia and other complications. The Stevensons abandoned an original wedding date of July 2014 after learning from doctors late last month that their son had two to three weeks to live.

The couple wanted Logan to see them marry and to be part of family photos. Logan, who was born Oct. 22, 2010, was diagnosed shortly after his first birthday with acute myeloid leukemia. He has Fanconi anemia, a rare disease that often leads to cancer.

Dying 2-year-old is Pa. couple’s best man JEANNETTE, Pa. (AP) — Looking dapper in a tiny tan pinstripe suit and orange shirt, a 2-year-old boy with only weeks to live served as the best man Saturday afternoon for his parents’ Pennsylvania wedding.

Christine Swidorsky carried Logan Stevenson on her shoulder at the Saturday afternoon wedding in Jeannette, a suburb of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh TribuneReview reported.

Logan stood with his grandmother, Debbie Stevenson, during a 12-minute ceremony uniting Logan’s mother and his father, Sean Stevenson. The boy has leukemia and other complications.

“We’re married,” Swidorsky exclaimed joyously after kissing her groom to applause from family and friends.

After a whirlwind week, the Jeannette couple tied the knot in a hastily arranged backyard ceremony that formalized their union and celebrated Logan’s life, which doctors say will be cut short soon by cancer.

The Stevensons abandoned an original wedding date of July 2014

after learning from doctors late last month that their son had two to three weeks to live. The couple wanted Logan to see them marry and to be part of family photos.

Logan, who was born Oct. 22, 2010, was diagnosed shortly after his first birthday with acute myeloid leukemia. He has Fanconi anemia, a rare disease that often leads to cancer.

He endured a stem cell transplant in July 2012.

Last March, he underwent surgery to remove a kidney ravaged by a tumor.

During a Make-A-Wish trip to Disney World in June, Logan fell ill.

He was hospitalized in Florida before he was flown back to Pittsburgh.

During a trip to the emergency room last month, a test revealed a mass in his remaining kidney, which led to his terminal prognosis. Logan is spending his remaining days at home, where he is showered with attention from family members.

Swidorsky’s daughter, Isabella Johns, 13, served as bridesmaid and the couple’s 1-year-old daughter, Savannah, was her parents’ flower girl.

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carrying out “a cell-by-cell review to find out what happened.”

A contingent of 70 soldiers and police was sent to guard the Hospital Escuela in Tegucigalpa, where injured gang members were taken, for fear that the gang would try to rescue their comrades.

“We have detected cars with armed men inside passing by the hospital and for this reason we are increasing

security measures to avoid a tragedy,” Martinez said.

The riot and militarization of the prison comes a day after the release of an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights report that said that inmates control Honduras’ 24 prisons because the state has abandoned its role in rehabilitating people convicted of crimes.

The commission said that one consequence of the state’s abandonment of the prisons is the rise of so-called systems of “self-governance” that are headed by inmates known as “coordinators.” The coordinators are picked by the inmates and set rules for the prison, including disciplinary measures.

The report said that some prisons are so poorly guarded that the inmates could escape if they wanted to, but they don’t because they don’t want to upset the balance.

The commission conducted the report following a fire last year at the Comayagua prison that killed 361 inmates.

The government says there are 12,263 people incarcerated in Honduras even though its prisons can only hold 8,120 inmates. Killings, riots and corruption are common.

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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduran President Porfirio Lobo ordered the militarization of the country’s main prison on Saturday after a riot there left at least three gang members dead and three guards injured.

The aim of the measure, which involves putting soldiers in charge of the prison’s security, is to “end the rein of criminals in our prison system, which has done so much damage to our society,” Lobo said in a statement.

Police spokesman Miguel Martinez said members of the 18 gang clashed with common criminals Saturday in Honduras’ National Penitentiary, which houses 3,351 inmates and is located 10 miles (15 kilometers) north of the capital, Tegucigalpa.

Three gang members were killed in the violence and nine injured, director of penitentiaries Simeon Flores said in a press conference, adding that three guards were wounded by gunfire.

Oscar Triminio, a spokesman for the fire department whose ambulances took away the dead and wounded, said he didn’t know if there were more victims inside the prison.

Flores also didn’t discount the possibility that the death toll could rise because authorities were still

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Marijuana ijuana, up 11 percentage business of growing, selling for legal pot businesses in points just since 2010, and distributing marijuana the U.S. While the federal governon a large scale are subject recommended decriminalize according to Pew. hunkers down, Sixty percent think to potential prosecution for ment prohibition to a more laisSunday, August 4, 2013 Page A7 Miami Valley Sunday News • www.troydailynews.com Colorado and• Washington Controlled shouldn’t violations of the sez-faire approach without Washington enforce federal laws against Substances Act even in state are moving forward on full deliberation.

“It’s a remarkable story marijuana in states that states that have legalized their own with regulations covering everything from medical use. historically,” he says. “But as have approved its use.

There’s a political calcu- how plants will be grown to Where California led the a matter of public policy, it’s charge on medical marijua- lus for the president, or any how many stores will be a little worrisome.”

More than a little worri- na, the next chapter in this other politician, in all of allowed.

Tim Lynch, director of some to those in the anti- story is being written in this. libertarian Cato Younger people, who the Colorado and Washington drug movement.

Project on tend to vote more Institute’s “We’re on this hundred- state.

Policymakers there are Democratic, are more sup- Criminal Justice, predicts mile-an-hour freight train to legalizing a third addic- grappling with all sorts of portive of legalizing mari- “the next few years are tive substance,” says Kevin sticky issues revolving juana, as are people in the going to be messy” as states Sabet, a former drug policy around one central ques- West, where the libertarian work to bring a black-market industry into the sunadviser in the Obama tion: How do you legally reg- streak runs strong.

Despite increasing public shine. administration, lumping ulate the production, distriCalifornia’s experience marijuana with tobacco and bution, sale and use of mar- acceptance of marijuana ijuana for recreational pur- overall, politicians know with medical marijuana alcohol.

Legalization strategist poses when federal law bans there are complications that offers a window into potencould come with commer- tial pitfalls that can come Ethan Nadelmann, execu- all of the above?

The Justice Department cializing an addictive sub- with wider availability of tive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, likes the began reviewing the matter stance. Opponents of pot are pot.

Dispensaries for medical direction the marijuana after last November’s elec- particularly worried that smoke is wafting. But tion. But seven months legalization will result in marijuana have proliferated knows his side has consider- later, states still are on their increased use by young peo- in the state, and regulation ple. has been lax, prompting a own. able work yet to do.

Sabet frames the conun- number of cities around the Both sides in the debate “I’m constantly reminding my allies that marijua- paid close attention when drum for Obama: “Do you state to ban dispensaries.

In May, the California na is not going to legalize Obama said in December want to be the president that “it does not make sense, that stops a popular cause, Supreme Court ruled that itself,” he says.

Eighteen states and the from a prioritization point of especially a cause that’s cities and counties can ban District of Columbia have view, for us to focus on recre- popular within your own medical marijuana dispenlegalized the use of marijua- ational drug users in a state party? Or do you want to be saries. A few weeks later, Angeles voters na for medical purposes that has already said that the president that enables Los since California voters under state law that’s youth drug use that will approved a ballot measure have ramifications down the that limits the number of made the first move in 1996. legal.” pot shops in the city to 135, Rep. Jared Polis, a road?”

Voters in Colorado and Marijuana legalization down from an estimated Washington state took the Colorado Democrat who next step last year and favors legalization, predicts advocates offer politicians a high of about 1,000.

This isn’t full-scale approved pot for recreation- Washington will take a rosier scenario, in which al use. Alaska is likely to hands-off approach, based legitimate pot businesses buyer’s remorse, but more a vote on the same question in on Obama’s comments. But eager to keep their operat- course correction before the 2014, and a few other states he’s quick to add: “We would ing licenses make sure not inevitable next push for fullon legalization in the state. are expected to put recre- like to see that in writing.” to sell to minors.

AP Photos “Having a regulated sysGrowing support for The federal government ational use on the ballot in Crowds gather along the riverfront to watch the WaterFire art installation in Providence, R.I. The work by Barnaby Evans centers on a series of 100 bonfires that blaze just above the tem is the only way to legalization doesn’t mean already has taken a similar 2016. surface of the three rivers that pass through the middle of downtown Providence.

Nearly half of adults approach toward users in ensure that we’re not ceding everybody wants to light up: have tried marijuana, 12 states that have approved control of this popular sub- Barely one in 10 Americans percent of them in the past marijuana for medical use. stance to the criminal mar- used pot in the past year.

Those who do want to see It doesn’t go after pot- ket and to black markeyear, according to a survey by the Pew Research smoking cancer patients or teers,” says Aaron Smith, marijuana legalized range grandmas with glaucoma. executive director of the from libertarians who Center.

By MICHELLE R. SMITH the riverway, watching fire Fifty-two percent of But it also has made clear National Cannabis Industry oppose much government dancers or gazing at the adults favor legalizing mar- that people who are in the Association, a trade group intervention to people who

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Rhode Island — from art to beaches flames from the shore.

The schedule for the rest of 2013 includes lightings scheduled for Aug. 10, Aug. 24, Sept. 7, Sept.

21, Sept. 28, Oct. 5, Oct. 12 and Nov. 9. Details at http://waterfire.org/ schedule/2013-waterfireevent-schedule/ .

THE PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM With roots dating back to 1753, this private library is one of the oldest in the country.

It is housed in a Greek Revival-style granite building that neighbors Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Edgar Allan Poe courted poet Sarah Helen Whitman here, and legend has it she called off their wedding within the Athenaeum’s walls. You don’t need a membership to browse, and just as interesting as the books are the surroundings, which include a skylit central room surrounded by stacks.

The Athenaeum is closed to the public from Aug. 4 through Aug. 18, but otherwise open Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.7 p.m., Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m.-1 p.m. From September to May, it’s open Saturdays until 5 p.m. as well as Sundays 1 p.m.-5 p.m.

BENEFIT STREET On the doorstep of the Athenaeum is historic Benefit Street, a mile-long (1.6 kilometerlong) stretch of notable buildings. The brick sidewalk will take you past Colonial, Federal and Greek Revival-style homes, Rhode Island’s Old Statehouse and the white stone First Unitarian Church, built in 1815.

You’ll also pass alongside the First Baptist Church in America, a congregation founded by colonist Roger Williams, champion of the separation of church and state, an idea

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Many of its most interesting spots don’t cost a thing.

CLIFF WALK A walking trail that dates back centuries is one of Rhode Island’s most impressive attractions. It runs alongside the Atlantic Ocean and some of Newport’s most beautiful mansions, known as “summer cottages” to the families that built them in the 1800s. Around two-thirds of the 3.5-mile (5.6-kilometer) trail is currently closed because of damage from Superstorm Sandy, but the most heavily traveled parts are still open. The walk runs along private property, so stopping for extended periods is not allowed.

But there is a seating area along the trail outside The Breakers mansion, built for the Vanderbilts, and it’s the perfect spot to eat a picnic lunch.

WATERFIRE This simple concept, lighting bonfires in the rivers of downtown Providence, has become a wildly successful public art project, drawing tens of thousands of people to each lighting. It runs more than a dozen nights a year, and on some nights stages are set up that feature free live music or dancing.

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DATES TO REMEMBER Rage Control Group for adult TODAY males, 7-9 p.m., Miami County • DivorceCare seminar and support group will meet from 6:30-8 p.m. at Piqua Assembly of God Church, 8440 King Arthur Drive, Piqua. Child care provided through the sixth-grade.

• AA, Piqua Breakfast Group will meet at 8:30 a.m. at Westminter Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The discussion meeting is open.

• AA, Troy Trinity Group meets at 7 p.m. for open discussion in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy.

• AA, open meeting, 6 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. Alley entrance, upstairs.

• AA, Living Sober meeting, open to all who have an interest in a sober lifestyle, 7:30 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Winner’s Group, will meet at 5 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., Troy. Open discussion .

• Narcotics Anonymous, Poison Free, 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 202 W. Fourth St., third floor, Greenville.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Never Alone, Never Again, 6:30 p.m., First Christian Church, 212 N. Main St., Sidney • Teen Talk, where teens share their everyday issues through communication, will meet at 6 p.m. at the Troy View Church of God, 1879 Staunton Road, Troy.

• Singles Night at The Avenue will be from 6-10 p.m. at the Main Campus Avenue, Ginghamsburg Church, 6759 S. County Road 25-A, Troy. Each week, cards, noncompetitive volleyball, free line dances and free ballroom dance lessons.

Child care for children birth through fifth grade is offered from 5:45-7:45 p.m. each night in the Main Campus building.

For more information, call 6671069, Ext. 21.

• A Spin-In group, practicing the art of making yarn on a spinning wheel, meets from 2-4 p.m. on the third Sunday at Tippecanoe Weaver and Fibers Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp City. All knitters are invited to attend. For more information, call 667-5358.

• Baseball bingo will be offered from 7 p.m. until games are complete at Sunset Bingo, 1710 W. High St., Piqua. Refreshments will be available. Proceeds help the youth baseball organization, a nonprofit.

MONDAY

• Dollar menu night will be from 6-8 p.m. at Troy Eagles, 225 N. Elm St. Dollar menu items include hamburger sliders, sloppy joe, hot dog, grilled cheese, french fries, onion straws, cup of soup, ice cream and more for $1 each.

• Come join an Intermediate Contract Bridge game at the Tipp City Public Library every Monday at 1:30 p.m. Beverages and relaxed company provided.

Sign up is required, either in person at the circulation desk, 11 E. Main St., or by phone at (937) 667-3826, Ext. 216.

• Students in grades sixth through 12 can get together with their friends at 3 p.m. at the Tipp City Public Library and make something original.

Registration is required by stopping in at 11 E. Main St., or calling (937) 667-3826.

• Christian 12 step meetings, “Walking in Freedom,” are offered at 7 p.m. at Open Arms Church, 4075 Tipp Cowlesville Road, Tipp City.

• An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs.

• AA, Big Book discussion meeting will be at 11 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy, in the 12 Step Room. The discussion is open to the public.

• AA, Green & Growing will meet at 8 p.m. The closed discussion meeting (attendees must have a desire to stop drinking) will be at Troy View Church of God, 1879 Old Staunton Road, Troy.

• AA, There Is A Solution Group will meet at 8 p.m. in Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church, County Road 25-A, Ginghamsburg.

The discussion group is closed (participants must have a desire to stop drinking).

• AA, West Milton open discussion, 7:30 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, rear entrance, 1209 S. Miami St. Non-smoking, handicap accessible.

• Al-Anon, Serenity Seekers will meet at 8 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. The discussion meeting is open. A beginner’s meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.

• Alternatives: Anger/

Shelter, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues.

• Mind Over Weight Total Fitness, 6-7 p.m., 213 E. Franklin St., Troy. Other days and times available. For more information, call 339-2699.

• TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, 11 N. Third St., Tipp City. New members welcome. For more information, call 335-9721.

• Troy Noon Optimist Club will meet at noon at the Tin Roof restaurant. Guests welcome. For more information, call 478-1401.

• Weight Watchers, Westminster Presbyterian, Piqua, weigh-in is at 5 and meeting at 5:30 p.m.

• Parenting Education Groups will meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Learn new and ageappropriate ways to parent children. Call 339-6761 for more information. There is no charge for this program.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Hug A Miracle, will meet at 7 p.m. at the Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy, use back door.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• Sanctuary, for women who have been affected by sexual abuse, location not made public. Must currently be in therapy. For more information, call Amy Johns at 667-1069, Ext. 430 • Miami Valley Women’s Center, 7049-A Taylorsville Road, Huber Heights, offers free pregnancy testing, noon to 4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. For more information, call 2362273.

• Pilates for Beginners, 8:30-9:30 a.m. and 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 6678631 or Celeste at 669-2441.

• NAMI, a support group for family members who have a family member who is mentally ill, will meet from 7-8:30 p.m. the third Monday at the Stouder Center, Suite 4000, Troy. Call 335-3365 or 3395393 for more information.

• The Ex-WAVES, or any woman who formerly served during World War II, will meet at 1 p.m. the second Monday at Bob Evans in Troy.

• Next Step at Noon, noon to 1 p.m. at Ginghamsburg South Campus, ARK, 7695 S. County Road 25-A, one mile south of the main campus.

TUESDAY

• Double deck pinochle is played at the Tipp City Public Library, 11 E. Main St., every Tuesday at 1 p.m. Come enjoy the relaxed environment with beverages provided by the library. Sign up is required, either in person at the circulation desk or by phone at (937) 667-3826, Ext. 216.

• Deep water aerobics will be offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln Community Center, 110 Ash St., Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs.

• Hospice of Miami County “Growing Through Grief ” meetings are at 11 a.m. and are designed to provide a safe and supportive environment for the expression of thoughts and feelings associated with the grief process. All sessions are available to the community and at the Hospice Generations of Life Center, 550 Summit Ave., second floor, Troy, with light refreshments provided. No reservations are required. For more information, call Susan Cottrell at Hospice of Miami County, 335-5191.

• A daytime grief support group meets at 11 a.m. at the Generations of Life Center,, second floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. The support group is open to any grieving adults in the greater Miami County area and there is no participation fee. Sessions are facilitated by trained bereavement staff. Call 573-2100 for details or visit the website at homc.org.

• A children’s support group for any grieving children ages 6-11 years in the greater Miami County area will meet from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Generations of Life Center, second floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. There is no participation fee. Sessions are facilitated by trained bereavement staff and volunteers. Crafts, sharing time and other grief support activities are preceded by a light meal.

• Quilting and crafts is offered from 9 a.m. to noon every Tuesday at the Tipp City Seniors, 320 S. First St., Tipp City. Call 667-8865 for more information.

• A Fibromyalgia Support

group will meet from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Troy First United Methodist Church, 110 W. Franklin St., Troy, in Room 313. Enter from south parking lot. The support group is free.

For more information, contact Aimee Shannon at 552-7634.

• The Concord Township Trustees will meet at 10 a.m. at the township building, 2678 W. State Route 718.

• The Miami Shelby Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Greene Street United Methodist Church, 415 W. Greene St., Piqua. All men interested in singing are welcome and visitors always are welcome. For more information, call 778-1586 or visit the group’s Web site at www. melodymenchorus.org.

• Divorce Care, 7 p.m. at Richards Chapel, 831 McKaig Ave., Troy. Video/small group class designed to help separated or divorced people. For more information, call 3358814.

• An adoption support group for adoptees and birthmothers will meet. Call Pam at 335-6641 for time and location.

• The Mental Health Association of Miami County will meet at 4 p.m. in the conference room of the Tri-County Board of Recovery & Mental Health, Stouder Center, 1100 Wayne St., Troy. Use the west entrance to the fourth floor.

• AA, women’s meeting, 8-9 p.m., Dettmer’s Daniel Dining Room.

• AA Tuesday night meeting, 7 p.m., Troy Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy.

• AA, The Best Is Yet To Come Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. The discussion is open.

• AA, Tipp City Group, Zion Lutheran Church, Main and Third streets at 8 p.m.

This is a closed discussion (participants must have a desire to stop drinking).

• Al-Anon, 8:30 p.m. Sidney Group, Presbyterian Church, corner North and Miami streets, Sidney.

• AA, 7 p.m. at Troy Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. Open discussion.

• An Intermediate Pilates class will be from 9-10 a.m. and 6-7 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 6678631 or Celeste at 669-2441.

• Women’s Anger/Rage Group will meet from 6-8 p.m.

Tuesdays at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues. Call 339-6761 for more information.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Just For Tuesday, will meet at 7 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., Troy. This is an open discussion.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Unity Group, 7 p.m., Freedom Life Ministries Church, 9101 N. County Road 25-A, Piqua.

Open discussion.

• Public bingo, license No. 0105-28, will begin with early birds at 7 p.m. and regular bingo at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge No. 833, 17 W. Franklin St., Troy. Use the Cherry Street entrance. Doors open at 5 p.m. Instant tickets also will be available.

• Public bingo — paper and computer — will be offered by the Tipp City Lumber Baseball organization from 7-10 p.m. at the West Milton Eagles, 2270 S. Miami St., West Milton. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and concessions will be available.

Proceeds will benefit the sponsorship of five Little League baseball teams. For more information, call 543-9959.

• DivorceCare will be every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Troy Church of the Nazarene, State Route 55 and Barnhart Road, Troy. The group is open to men and women. For more information, call Patty at 4401269 or Debbie at 335-8397.

• Christian 12-Step, 7-8:30 p.m. at Ginghamsburg South Campus, ARK, 7695 S. County Road 25-A, one mile south of the main campus.

WEDNESDAY

• The Miami Valley Veterans Museum will have free coffee and doughnuts for all veterans and guests from 9-11 a.m. at the museum, located in the Masonic Lodge, 107 W. Main St., Troy, on the second floor.

• Come join the Experienced Contract Bridge game at the Tipp City Public Library, played every Wednesday at 11:30 a.m., beverages and relaxed company are provided.

Sign up is required, either in person at the circulation desk, 11 E. Main St., or by phone at (937) 667-3826, Ext. 216.

• Skyview Wesleyan Church, 6995 Peters Road,

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Tipp City, will offer a free dinner at 6:15 p.m. Bible study will begin at 7 p.m.

• An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs.

• The “Sit and Knit” group meets from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Tippecanoe Weaver and Fibers Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp City. All knitters are invited to attend. For more information, call 667-5358.

• Grandma’s Kitchen, a homecooked meal prepared by volunteers, is offered every Wednesday from 5-6:30 p.m. in the activity center of Hoffman United Methodist Church, 201 S. Main St., West Milton, one block west of State Route 48.

The meal, which includes a main course, salad, dessert and drink, for a suggested donation of $7 per person, or $3 for a children’s meal. The meal is not provided on the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s.

• The Miami County Troy Alzheimer’s Support Group, affiliated with the Miami Valley, Dayton Alzheimer’s Association and the National Alzheimer’s Association, will meet from 3-4:30 p.m. at Senior Active Adult Services, 2006 W. Stanfield Road, Troy, the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Respite care will be provided. Caregivers may call 335-8800 for more information.

• The Kiwanis Club will meet at noon at the Troy Country Club, 1830 Peters Road, Troy. Non-members of Kiwanis are invited to come meet friends and have lunch.

For more information, contact Bobby Phillips, vice president, at 335-6989.

• The Troy American Legion Post No. 43 euchre parties will begin at 7:30 p.m.

For more information, call 3391564.

• AA, Pioneer Group open discussion will meet at 9:30 a.m. Enter down the basement steps on the north side of The United Church Of Christ on North Pearl Street in Covington. The group also meets at 8:30 p.m. Monday night and is wheelchair accessible.

• AA, Serenity Island Group will meet at 8 p.m. in the Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The discussion is open.

• AA, 12 & 12 will meet at 8 p.m. for closed discussion, Step and Tradition meeting, in the 12 Step Room, Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• AA, open discussion, 8 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. Use the alley entrance, upstairs.

• Al-Anon, Trinity Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• Men’s Anger/Rage Group will meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues. Call 339-6761 for more information.

• A Domestic Violence Support Group for Women will meet from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16. E. Franklin St., Troy. Support for battered women who want to break free from partner violence is offered. There is no charge for the program. For more information, call 339-6761.

•Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• Children’s Creative Play Group will be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Schoolage children will learn appropriate social interactions and free expression through unique play therapy. There is no charge for this program.

More information is available by calling 339-6761.

•Narcotics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Spirit of Recovery, Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy.

• Overeaters Anonymous will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 9100 N. Main St., State Route 48, between Meijer and Samaritan North. For other meetings or information, call 252-6766 or (800) 589-6262, or visit the Web site at www. region5oa.org.

• Miami Valley Women’s Center, 7049-A Taylorsville Road, Huber Heights, offers free pregnancy testing, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 236-2273.

• A Pilates Beginners group matwork class will be from

5:30-6:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 6678631 or Celeste at 669-2441.

• Safe People, 7-8:30 p.m., Ginghamsburg Church, SC/DC 104. Find guidance for making safe choices in relationships, from friendships to co-workers, family or romance. Learn to identify nurturing people as well as those who should be avoided. Call Roberta Bogle at 667-4678 for more information.

• Boundaries, 7-8:30 p.m., Ginghamsburg Church, ARK 200. A 12-week video series using Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend.

Offers practical help and encouragement to all who seek a healthy, balanced life and practice in being able to say no. For more information, call Linda Richards at 667-4678.

• The Temple of Praise Ministries will serve hot lunches from noon to 2 p.m. at 235 S. Third St., Tipp City.

• A free employment networking group will be offered from 8-9 a.m. each Wednesday at Job and Family Services, 2040 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. The group will offer tools to tap into unadvertised jobs, assistance to improve personal presentation skills and resume writing. For more information, call Steven Kiefer at 570-2688 or Justin Sommer at 440-3465.

• The Tipp City Seniors offer line dancing at 10 a.m. every Wednesday at 320 S. First St., Tipp City.

THURSDAY

• The Upper Valley Medical Center Mom and Baby Get Together group will meet from 9:30-11 a.m. on Thursdays at the Farm House, located northwest of the main hospital entrance and next to the red barn on the UVMC campus.

The meeting is facilitated by the lactation department. The group offers the opportunity to meet with other moms, share about being a new mother and to learn more about breastfeeding and the baby. For more information, call (937) 4404906.

• Deep water aerobics will be offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln Community Center, 110 Ash St., Troy. Call 3352715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs.

• The Generations of Life Center of Hospice of Miami County will offer a friendship luncheon at local restaurants on the second Thursday of each month at 11:30 a.m.

Locations vary, so interested parties can call the office at 573-2100 for details. This is a social event for grieving adults who do not wish to dine out alone. Attendees order from the menu.

• An open parent-support group will be at 7 p.m. at Corinn’s Way Inc., 306 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• Parents are invited to attend the Corinn’s Way Inc. parent support group from 7-8:30 p.m. each Thursday. The meetings are open discussion.

• Friendship Luncheons are offered the second Thursday at different locations in the county. The luncheons are casual dining experience that allows adults to come together for food and fellowship. Call the Generations of Live Center at 335-5191.

• Tipp City Seniors gather to play cards prior to lunch every Thursday at 10 a.m. at 320 S. First St., Tipp City. At noon will be a carry-in lunch and participants should bring a covered dish and table service. On the third Thursday, Senior Independence offers blood pressure and blood sugar testing before lunch. For more information, call 667-8865.

• Best is Yet to Come open AA meeting, 11 a.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• AA, Tri-City Group meeting will take place 8:30-9:30 p.m. in the cafeteria of the former Dettmer Hospital. The lead meeting is open. For more information, call 335-9079.

• AA, Spirituality Group will meet at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, Troy.

The discussion is open.

• Health Partners Free Clinic will offer a free clinic on Thursday night at the clinic, 1300 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. Registration will be from 5:30-7 p.m. No appointment is necessary. The clinic does not accept medical emergencies, but can refer patients to other doctors and can prescribe medication. Call 332-0894 for more information.

• Narcotics Anonymous, NAIOU, 7:30 p.m., Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy.

• Preschool story hours will be from 10-11 a.m. and again at 6:30 p.m. at the Bradford Public Library, 138 E. Main St., Bradford.

• Weight Watchers, 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, Tipp City. For more information, call 552-7082.

FRIDAY

• An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs.

• A “Late Night Knit” meeting will be from 7-10 p.m. on the first and third Friday at Tippecanoe Weaver and Fibers Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp City. All knitters are invited to attend. For more information, call 667-5358.

• The Tri-County Suicide Prevention Coalition will meet at 9 a.m. the second Friday in the conference room of the Tri-County Board of Recovery & Mental Health, Stouder Center, 1100 Wayne St., Troy.

Use the west entrance to the fourth floor.

• AA, Troy Friday Morning Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. The discussion is open.

• AA, open discussion, 8 p.m. in the Salvation Army, 129 S. Wayne St., Piqua. Use parking lot entrance, held in gym.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Clean and Free, 8 p.m., Dettmer Hospital, 3130 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. Open discussion.

Fellowship from 7-8 p.m.

• A Pilates Intermediate group matwork class will be held from 9-10 a.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call TippMonroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 6672441.

• Weight Watchers, 1431 W. Main St., Church of the Brethren, Troy, at 10 a.m. For more information, call (800) 374-9191.

• A singles dance is offered every Friday from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. at Christopher Club, Dixie Highway, Kettering, sponsored by Group Interaction. The dance is $6.

For more information, call 6403015 or visit www.groupia.org.

• Christian Worship Center, 3537 S. Elm Tree Road, Christiansburg, hosts a Friday Night Bluegrass Jam beginning at 7 p.m. each Friday.

Homemade meals are available beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Participants may bring instruments and join in. A small donation is requested at the door. For more information or directions, call 857-9090 or 631-2624.

SATURDAY

• The Miami County Farmers Market will be offered from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. behind Friendly’s restaurant.

• The West Milton Church of the Brethren, 918 S. Miami St., West Milton, will offer a free clothes closet from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the second Saturday. Clothes are given to those in need free of charge at this time. For more information, call (937) 698-4395.

• Weight Watchers, 1431 W. Main St., Church of the Bretheren, Troy, at 10 a.m. For more information, call (800) 374-9191.

• Recovery Too Al-Anon meetings are offered at 8:30 p.m. at Ginghamsburg Church, main campus, Room 117, S. County Road 25-A, Tipp City.

• AA, Men’s Meeting will meet at 8:30 a.m. at the new First Lutheran Church, corner of Washington Road and State Route 41. The meeting is closed (members must have a desire to stop drinking).

• AA, Troy Winners Group will meet at 8:30 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy for discussion. The meeting is open.

• AA, Troy Beginners Group meets at 7 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. This is an open discussion meeting.

• Weight Watchers, Westminster Presbyterian, Piqua, meeting at 9 a.m., weigh-in at 9:30 a.m.

• Pilates for Beginners (Introduction), 9:15-10:15 a.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 6678631 or Celeste at 669-2441.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Saturday Night Live, 8 p.m., St. John’s Lutheran Church, 120 W. Water St., Sidney.

• Relapse Prevention Group, 5:30-6:45 p.m. at The Avenue, Room 504, at Ginghamsburg Main Campus, 6759 S. County Road 25-A. • The Next Step, a worship celebration for people on the road to recovery, 7 p.m. at Ginghamsburg Main Campus Sanctuary, 6759 S. County Road 25-A. • Baseball bingo will be offered from 7 p.m. until games are complete at Sunset Bingo, 1710 W. High St., Piqua. Refreshments will be available. Proceeds help the youth baseball organization, a nonprofit.

• The Tipp City Seniors eat out at area restaurants (sign up at the center) at 4:30 p.m.

Card cames will be offered at the center for a $2 donation.

CONTACT US n Sports Editor Josh Brown

(937) 440-5251, (937) 440-5232 jbrown@civitasmedia.com

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TODAY’S TIPS • SOFTBALL: The Shelby County Shock Fastpitch softball program is hosting tryouts for the 2014 season. The tryouts will take place this weekend at Flanagan Sports Complex, 650 Riverside Drive, Sidney.

Tryouts resume today with 10U, 12U and 16U tryouts at 2 p.m. Kids and parents should arrive early for signups. There will also be a parent meeting during tryouts. For more details, go to the Shelby County Shock on league lineupwebsite or contact Jake Shell at (937) 638-7741.

• SOFTBALL: The Miami County Flames fastpitch softball team will be having tryouts for the 2014 season. Tryouts will be conducted at Pittsenbarger Park 1421 South St. in Piqua. The dates for the tryouts are as follows: Wednesday from 6-8:30 p.m. for 10U and 12U, Thursday from 6-8:30 p.m. for 14U, 16U and 18U, and Saturday from 3-6 p.m. for 10U, 12U and 14U, 6:30-9 p.m. for 16U and 18U. • BASEBALL: Registration has begun for the 2013 Frosty Brown Fall Batting Leagues.

There are three leagues to choose from: the original Frosty Brown Fall Batting League for ages 13-18, the Frosty Brown Live Pitching League for high schoolers only and the Frosty Brown Elementary Fall Batting League for ages 9-12. For more information, go to www. frostybrownbattingleague.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/frostybrownfallbattingleague, or contact coach Frosty Brown at (937) 339-4383, (937) 474-9093 or by email at ibrown@woh.rr.com.

• SOFTBALL: Miami County Blaze tryouts for the 2013-14 summer ball teams will be held Aug. 17-18. Times for the tryouts will be as follows: 10u, 12u and 14u, 10 a.m.-noon; 16u, 18u and 23u, 1-3 p.m. There will also be an additional tryout from 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Aug. 11 for 14u and 16u teams. All tryouts will be held at the Lowry Complex in West Milton.

For more details, visit www.miamicountyblaze.com or call (937) 875-0492.

• SOFTBALL: The Cross County Cannons fastpitch softball team will be holding tryouts for the 2014 season today and Aug. 10-11 at Covington High School’s softball field. The times for the different teams are as follows: 8u, 9-10 a.m.; 10u, 10:30 a.m.-noon; 12u, 12:30-2 p.m.; 14u, 2:30-4 p.m.; 16u, 4:30-6 p.m.; 18u, 23u and the fall exposure team, 6:30-8 p.m. To inquire about coaching opportunities or for more information, visit www.leaguelineup.com/crosscountycannons.

• SOFTBALL: Milton-Union fastpitch fall league signups are ongoing for children going into grades 5-7. The deadline to sign up is Aug. 13. For more details, visit www.miamicountyblaze.com or call (937) 875-0492.

• SOFTBALL: Troy fastpitch fall league signups are ongoing for children going into grades 8-12. The deadline to sign up is Aug. 13. For more details, visit www.miamicountyblaze.com or call (937) 875-0492.

• SUBMIT-A-TIP: To submit an item to the Troy Daily News sports section, please contact Josh Brown at jbrown@civitasmedia. com or Colin Foster at colinfoster@civitasmedia.com.

• BASEBALL: Locos Express will be having tryouts for the 2014 13U, 14U, 15U, 16U teams at Simmons Field (home field of Lima Locos) on the following dates: 1-3 p.m. Aug. 11 for 13U, 4-6 p.m. Aug. 11 for 14U, 1-3 p.m.

Aug. 18 for 15U and 4-6 p.m. Aug. 18 for 16U. Locos Express is a non-profit subsidiary of the Lima Locos that is dedicated to the development of youth baseball. The Express select teams will be competing in tournaments and single game schedules after the start of each school’s 2014 spring baseball year. Visit http://www.limalocos.net/locosexpress/tryout-registration to register for tryouts. Registration is required. Email locosexpress@gmail.com with any questions.

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August 4, 2013

Tiger leads by 7 at Bridgestone AKRON, Ohio (AP) — With an elite field chasing the lead, Tiger Woods decided to play keep-away.

Already up by a staggering seven shots through 36 holes thanks to a career-tying best of 61 in the second round, Woods shot a solid 2-under 68 on Saturday in the Bridgestone Invitational to maintain that same seven-stroke lead.

It was as if he was turning around and daring the world’s best players to come after him. No one really could.

“You know, today was

a day that I didn’t quite have it,” said Woods, who was at 15-under 195. “But I scored. And that’s the name of the game, posting a number, and I did today. I grinded my way around that golf course.”

Now he’s only 18 holes away from making even more history in a career of historic accomplishments. He’ll be competing against the record book as much as the elite field.

“It’s kind of tough to pick up seven or eight shots on Tiger around here,” said Henrik Stenson, a distant second after a 67. “It would take

something spectacular on my behalf or any of the other guys around me, and obviously a very, very poor round for him.”

Woods, by the way, is 41-2 when leading after AP PHOTO 54 holes in a PGA Tour Tiger Woods hits from the sand to the seventh green during event. the third round of the Bridgestone Invitational golf tournaA victory would be ment Saturday at Firestone Country Club in Akron. his eighth at Firestone Unlike in a secondCountry Club and in capture his 79th victory the Bridgestone and its on the PGA Tour, draw- round 61 that could easforerunner, the NEC ing him within three of ily have been a 59 or even lower, Woods didn’t Invitational. That would Snead’s record of 82.

“I’ll just go out there recover from all of his match the tour-record eight he already has at and execute my game errant shots. He bogeyed Bay Hill and the eight plan,” he said. “It all starts the ninth, 14th and 16th wins Sam Snead had at with what the weather is holes, failing to bounce the Greater Greensboro doing, and then I build back from wayward shots. it from there. We’ll see Open.

• See TIGER on page A10 Woods also could what I do tomorrow.”

Reds get even

Mesoraco hits pair of HRs in 8-3 win CINCINNATI (AP) — Devin Mesoraco drove in three runs with a pair of homers, and the Cincinnati Reds finally broke out against a St. Louis team that has held them down all season, beating the Cardinals 8-3 on Saturday night to even their series.

The Reds won for only the fourth time in 11 games between the NL Central rivals.

Cincinnati had scored fewer than four runs in each of their last nine games head-to-head.

Left-handed Tony Cingrani (5-1) and four relievers contained an offense that had scored 26 runs in the last two games, allowing four hits.

Jake Westbrook (7-6) gave up five runs — all with two outs — in five innings. Jack Hannahan singled with the bases loaded in the first inning.

Mesoraco’s homer in the fourth made it 4-1.

The catcher hit a solo shot in the eight off Michael Blazek for the first multihomer game of his career. Shin-Soo Choo followed with a two-run homer off Blazek.

The Cardinals ended a sevengame losing streak by beating the Pirates 13-0 on Thursday, then came to Cincinnati and AP PHOTO drubbed the Reds 13-3 on Friday Cincinnati Reds’ Devin Mesoraco (39) rounds the bases past St. Louis Cardinals night. It was the first time since second baseman Daniel Descalso (33) after Mesoraco hit a two-run home run in 2003 that they scored 13 runs in the fourth inning of a baseball game Saturday in Cincinnati. back-to-back games.

They got off to a fast start ter Matt Carpenter drove in row that Westbrook had trouble in the opening inning. He gave against Cingrani, making his runs that cut it to 5-3.

Westbrook threw a five-hitter up four runs in the first inning first career appearance against the Cardinals. Jon Jay opened for a 10-0 win over Cincinnati of a 9-2 loss in Pittsburgh on the game with a walk and came on April 10. He lost his shutout Monday.

Mesoraco’s homer was only around on Carlos Beltran’s right away this time. Westbrook double. Cingrani bounced his gave up a hit and a pair of the fifth that Westbrook has next pitch, letting Beltran walks in the first, including an allowed in his 16 starts this move to third, but that’s all intentional walk to Jay Bruce season.

Westbrook walked five batthe Cardinals would manage that brought up Hannahan with as the left-hander escaped the the bases loaded and two outs. ters in five innings, and three of 30-pitch inning down only 1-0. Hannahan, who was 0 for 4 them scored. Joey Votto got the Cingrani left after the career against Westbrook, lined second of his three walks with Cardinals loaded the bases with a 2-2 pitch to center for a 2-1 two outs in the fifth and came around on Brandon Phillips’ no outs in the sixth. Grounders lead.

by Rob Johnson and pinch-hitIt was the second game in a double.

Buckeyes gear up for start of fall camp today COLUMBUS (AP) — Finally, the focus turns to the field.

After several weeks of questions and controversy, the Ohio State Buckeyes open fall training camp today with concerns like every team, but also with strengths pointing to a run at a Big Ten title and maybe even a national championship.

“I’m going to focus on the positives, positives created by tremendous momentum from last year’s team, to an excellent recruiting class, positive spring practice, and one of the best academic performances in recent history at Ohio State,” coach Urban Meyer said. “A good bunch of guys that are, for the majority, doing the right things, getting themselves ready for the ‘13 season.”

Meyer’s Buckeyes debut a year ago resulted in a surprising 12-0 record that came to an abrupt end because of an NCAA bowl due to infractions committed under former coach Jim Tressel.

“We’re going to go into this

season with more of a chip on our shoulder, just for the simple fact we couldn’t compete for what we wanted to compete for last year,” safety Christian Bryant said. “We had something ripped away from us. We know what we want to do this year and we have the goals set out and we can actually achieve those goals this season.”

Meyer is beginning his 12th year as a head coach (116-23) after stints at Bowling Green, Utah and Florida. He won two national championships with the Gators. But he has also faced withering questions recently about his handling of discipline problems there in the wake of the murder charges against former NFL tight end Aaron Hernandez, a centerpiece of Meyer’s 2008 national title team.

Four players were disciplined in July for brushes with the law. Tailback Carlos Hyde, the team’s leading scorer a year ago, was listed as a person of interest in an assault against

a woman at a Columbus bar, but police eventually dropped the case when the alleged victim declined to pursue charges. Hyde was subsequently suspended for the first three games and faces additional team punishment.

Bradley Roby, a shutdown cornerback and one of the team’s defensive leaders, was charged with misdemeanor assault after an incident in a Bloomington, Ind., bar. The police report says Roby struck a bouncer in the chest. He is awaiting the next step in his legal case and could still face team sanctions.

In addition, two incoming freshmen were disciplined after skirmishes with the law.

All of which prompts questions about the leadership of the team, since two of the team’s top players were involved in the headline-grabbing problems. Leadership was certainly not a problem a year ago.

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Keselowski wins Nationwide race

NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Brad Keselowski took control with 35 laps left to win the NASCAR Nationwide race at Iowa Speedway on Saturday night.

The Sprint Cup driver has won in his last three Nationwide starts, also topping the field at Richmond in April and Kentucky in June.

Points leader Austin Dillon led a race-high 116 laps, but gave up a huge lead following a late caution. Keselowski, the only Sprint Cup driver in the field, took control a few laps later for his second Nationwide win at Iowa.

Sam Hornish Jr. was second, followed by Brian Vickers, Dillon and Kyle Larson.

Keselowski, like every other driver in the field, spent much of the race looking at the back of Dillon’s No. 3 car.

Dillon led all but 43 laps in the first Iowa race back in June, but he finished second to Trevor Bayne.

Dillon again had a dominant car Saturday, taking control a third of the way through the race. This time, a late caution flag changed everything.

Dillon led by as many as 7 seconds — or over a quarter of the 0.875-mile track — before a blown tire by Travis Pastrana drew out the flag and allowed the field to pit with 50 laps left.

Dillon took four tires and fell back to fifth as Bayne took the lead on the restart.

But Keselowski, who won the inaugural Nationwide race on Iowa’s oval in 2009, surged to the front and held off a charging Hornish for his third win of the season.

Drew Herring, in the No. 54 car for Joe Gibbs Racing normally driven by Kyle Busch, was the surprise winner of his first career pole.

Busch has won eight Nationwide races in 15 starts in 2013. But like every Sprint Cup regular except for Keselowski, he stayed in Pocono to prepare for Sunday’s race.

Herring, who was joined on the front row by Regan Smith, gave the lead away after just 27 laps. He also spun out on the 55th lap — drawing a caution to end the longest green-flag start of the season.

The flag did Keselowski no favors, as he was flagged for a tire violation during a pit stop and sent to the back for the restart. The No. 22 car also suffered through an overheating issue halfway through the race.

But Keselowski fought through all of that, posting his first career victory in a race where he was called for a pit row violation.

Ryan Gifford was ninth in his first career Nationwide start.

Bayne, who gave the No. 6 Roush-Fenway Racing car its fourth victory in five tries at Iowa in June, finished 10th.

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Drug suspension will define A-Rod’s career NEW YORK (AP) — On the day Alex Rodriguez was the No. 1 pick in the baseball draft two decades ago, his high school coach predicted a flashy future.

“He has a great work ethic, humility, confidence,” Rich Hofman said. “He’ll be an example for Seattle and Major League Baseball. I hope success will not spoil that.”

Three MVP awards, 14 AllStar selections, two recordsetting contracts and countless controversies later, A-Rod has become baseball’s marked man, the biggest and wealthiest target of an investigation into performance-enhancing drugs that’s likely to culminate with a lengthy suspension Monday.

Instead of following the recordsetting paths of Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron, Rodriguez even faces the outside chance he could wind up in permanent baseball exile along with Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson.

When Rodriguez first admitted in 2009 that he had used PEDs, he apologized repeatedly and called himself “young and stupid” three times.

“I’m in a position where I have to

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In this Feb. 19, 2009 photo, New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez, left, signs autographs during a spring training baseball workout in Tampa, Fla. Three MVP awards, 14 All-Star selections, two record-setting contracts and countless controversies later, A-Rod is the biggest and wealthiest target of an investigation into performance-enhancing drugs, with a decision from baseball Commissioner Bud Selig expected on Monday.

earn my trust back,” he told a news conference at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Fla., back then. “The only thing I ask from this group

today and the American people is to judge me from this day forward.

That’s all I can ask for.”

Now 38, his rise and fall is

water-cooler discussion across America.

Monday’s decision by baseball Commissioner Bud Selig will define A-Rod’s career, overshadowing his 647 home runs, his repeated postseason failures, his October of triumph in 2009 with the New York Yankees, even his romances with Madonna, Kate Hudson, Cameron Diaz and Torrie Wilson.

And it’s not as if he is lacking in labels.

Teammates call him “A-Fraud” behind his back, according to a book by former manager Joe Torre.

Fans at ballparks hold up signs deriding him as “A-Roid” and “Cheater.”

Throughout Rodriguez’s 19 major league seasons, teammates have repeatedly praised his work ethic. He’s the first player on the spring-training fields after daybreak, taking extra grounders, perfecting his craft.

At the same time they roll their eyes at his behavior, which is said to border on obsessive narcissism. He dresses in the back rooms of the clubhouse and emerges only when every hair is

Franklin wins 5th gold Ledecky sets another world record

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Missy Franklin made history at the world swimming championships — and she might not even be the most impressive swimmer on her own team.

The U.S. women’s coach gives his vote to Katie Ledecky.

“She’s not normal,” said Dave Salo, marveling at another world-record performance by the 16-year-old who doesn’t even have her driver’s license yet.

This much is for sure: The future of the American team is in very good hands with these Golden Girls.

Franklin won her fifth gold medal of the championships with a dominating victory in the 200-meter backstroke Saturday, tying the record for most titles by a woman at the every-otheryear world meet.

The 18-year-old Franklin has one event remaining — the 400 medley relay during the final session Sunday — and a chance to join Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz and Kristin Otto as the

only swimmers to win as many as six golds at the worlds or the Olympics.

“That was awesome,” said Franklin, who has already bettered her performance at the London Games, where she won four golds and a bronze.

Ledecky came along next and wrapped up a brilliant meet with her fourth gold medal and second world record, this time in the 800 freestyle.

The youngster really turned it on over the final four laps to win in 8 minutes, 13.86 seconds. Now she can focus on getting that driving permit when she returns home to suburban Washington, D.C. “I just stayed patient throughout the race,” Ledecky said, “and made that move when I knew I had to.”

Powering to the finish as though she was in a sprint, not the last of 16 laps, Ledecky took down the mark of 8:14.10 set by Britain’s Rebecca Adlington at the 2008 Olympics.

Lotte Friis of Denmark set the early pace but simply couldn’t keep up when

perfectly in place for the cameras and the collar of his leather jacket drapes just so.

Has any other athlete been photographed kissing his reflection in a mirror, as A-Rod was by Details magazine in 2009?

He didn’t protest when he was photographed with a stripper at a Toronto hotel or reported to be at a swingers’ club in Dallas and at an illegal poker club in New York.

But he did make fans grouse last year when his awful postseason slump didn’t stop him from chatting up two women in seats behind the dugout at Yankee Stadium during a game.

Since Rodriguez joined the Yankees in 2004, he’s never come to terms with why fans openly adore Derek Jeter and not him.

“Derek has four world championships and I want him to have 10,” Rodriguez said at his introductory news conference.

“That’s what this is all about.”

Once they were pals. But Jeter began to distance himself after Rodriguez was quoted in a 2001 Esquire article saying “Jeter’s been blessed with great talent around him” and “he’s never had to lead.”

Ledecky shifted into another gear, a repeat of their race in the 1,500 where the teenager broke the previous world record by more than 6 seconds.

Friis settled for another silver, and New Zealand’s Lauren Boyle claimed the bronze — the same order as the 1,500.

When Ledecky climbed out of the pool, Friis pointed at the youngster and applauded, certainly a worthy gesture toward someone who is unbeaten in swimming’s two major competitions.

Ledecky won the 800 free at the London Olympics, her international debut, and went 4 for 4 Barcelona, nearly breaking a world record in the 400 free and leading off the U.S. victory in the 800 free relay.

“I exceeded all the expectations I had going into this meet,” Ledecky said.

Franklin matched the record held by Tracy Caulkins of the U.S., who won AP PHOTO five times at the 1978 worlds in Berlin, and Libby Trickett of Australia, who Missy Franklin reacts as she holds the gold medal she won in the did it at her home championships in women’s 200m backstroke final Saturday at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.

Melbourne six years ago.

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n Continued from page A9 Yet he still was good enough to put himself in position for yet another lopsided victory, one that will likely mark him as the player to beat next week in the PGA Championship at Oak Hill.

“Any time you can go into a major tournament or any tournament with a win under your belt, it’s nice,” Woods said. “It validates what you’re working on and you have some nice momentum going in there.”

Of course, Woods has failed to win his last 17 major championships. No longer is it a lock that, with 14, he’ll surpass the mark of 18 by Jack Nicklaus.

Woods began the third round with a seven-shot lead after rounds of 66 and the career-best 61 — the fourth time he has gone that low, also matching the tournament record originally set by Jose Maria Olazabal in 1990.

Jason Dufner was third, eight strokes back after a 67, and Luke Donald (68), Bill Haas (69) and Chris Wood (70) followed at 6 under.

Dufner said Firestone isn’t all that unique because it is just one of a number of places where Woods dominates.

“Yeah, he has a pretty good track record here,” he said. “There’s quite a few events out here that he does really well. Torrey Pines comes to mind, Bay Hill comes to mind, the Memorial. So he obviously feels comfortable on those courses, and it’s our job to try and chase him down if we can.”

Defending champ Keegan Bradley, with a 71, was another shot back along with Miguel Angel Jimenez, who put up a 65. Rounding out the top 10 were 2011 Bridgestone winner and reigning Masters champ Adam Scott and Zach Johnson.

Woods has overwhelmed everyone in a glittering field that includes 48 of the top 50 players in the world ranking.

Much like he did a day earlier, Woods

started out fast. He birdied the first two holes (he had also eagled No. 2 in the second round). He rolled in a 12-footer at No. 1 and then two-putted from 40 feet at No. 2, most likely causing the rest of the players to just shake their heads.

From there, however, he proved merely human. He parred the next six holes and then drove into the sheer face of a fairway bunker and took a bogey at the ninth hole.

He played the back nine 1-under par — including yet another shot for the highlight reel.

At the par-4 13th, he airmailed his iron shot over the green and into heavy, grabby rough. But he got a sand wedge under the ball, popping it straight up. It landed on the green and rolled right to the pin, clanging off it and into the hole for birdie from 40 feet away.

“Certainly, it wasn’t a shot I was trying to make. I was just trying to get it down there where I could get a par and get out of Dodge and dodge a bullet,” he said. “It just happened to go in.”

Of course, the ball often happens to just go in for Woods at World Golf Championship events like the Bridgestone.

He has won 17 times in 41 starts — a success rate of 41 percent — while finishing in the top 10 an amazing 32 times in WGC events.

At Firestone, he’s had winning streaks of four (2005-09) and three (1999-2001), and also has a tie for second and two fourthplace finishes.

Woods looked back on his round and gave it a thumbs-up.

“It ended up being a dead push for the day,” he said about hanging on to the same lead he began the day with. “That’s not too bad, either.”

Not too bad at all.

n Continued from page A9 “The leadership was something I didn’t anticipate and I underestimated that (with) the adversity that we experienced throughout the year,” Meyer said. “(That was) one of the most refreshing groups I’ve been around.”

As far as personnel this time around, the Buckeyes are in pretty good shape.

Star quarterback Braxton Miller should have a better handle on Meyer’s hurryup offense, and will benefit from vast improvement at wide receiver where Corey Brown and Devin Smith have made strides. The line is solid, built around Jack Mewhort, Marcus Hall and Corey Linsley.

“Offensively I feel very strong about where we could be if we have a solid training camp,” Meyer said. “Defense is where the issues are.”

The defense has holes to fill — most of the front seven starters are gone from a year ago and there’s the nagging mystery of Roby to be resolved — but several promising candidates are ready to step in. They include Noah Spence, Adolphus Washington, Michael Bennett and Joel Hale on the line, along with Curtis Grant and Ryan Shazier at linebacker.

The opening of camp is a time for optimism.

“I’m really excited. The guys are in great shape and going into camp and we’re going to set ourselves up for a good season,” Mewhort said. “As you get older, you learn to appreciate camp more. All I can think about is I want to go play football. Lifting weights and running can only take you so far. The young guys might dread it a little bit, but once we’re in there and all together in the hotel and practicing and grinding together, it’s a lot of fun.

And when you come out the other side of camp, there’s nothing like it.”

Of course, a lot of fans have lofty hopes for the Buckeyes. So, apparently, do coaches. They ranked Ohio State No. 2 in their initial poll of the season.

Meyer agrees that his team ought to be good.

“This year’s team has high expectations, riding off the coattails of what those kids did last year,” he said. “It’s very simple that if we get tremendous leadership from our coaching staff, but most importantly our players, then we’ll have a successful season.”

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Hoopin’ in Covington 35 teams in various age divisions competed in the Covington 3-on-3 Tournament Saturday. The event was sponsored by the Covington Police Department and the Noon Optimist Club.

Mike McCool (with ball) backs down Martin Leistner (red) during a game Saturday.

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Jordy Meyer (right) drives against Gene Studebaker (left) during a top men’s division game Saturday in Covington.

Austin Cox goes up for a bucket Saturday in Covington.

Wind suspends 3rd round ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Inbee Park wanted tough conditions at St. Andrews to try to make up an eight-shot deficit in her pursuit of a fourth straight major.

It turned out to be too tough for anyone.

The third round of the Women’s British Open was suspended Saturday by gusts that topped 40 mph and kept golf balls from staying put on the greens. After waiting six hours for the wind to calm, players were told to return Sunday morning for a marathon finish.

Whether that becomes a huge break for the leaders — Na Yeon Choi at 10-under 134 was an hour away from teeing off — won’t be known until Sunday.

“It’s still going to be windy tomorrow — not, hopefully, as windy as it’s been today, but there’s no letup in it,” said Susan Simpson, head of operations for the Ladies Golf Union.

“It’s still going to be very breezy and equally difficult conditions.”

How difficult?

Nine players who completed the third round had an average score of 78.2. Cristie Kerr and Lydia Ko each had a 75, the best of those who finished. Rikako Morita shot 86. The cumulative nine-hole scores for the 20 players who at

least made the turn was 54-over par.

There were 508 holes played, and only 26 birdies.

Park is trying to become the first golfer, male or female, to win four straight professional majors in the same season. Her hope was for a steady round in raging wind and for the leading players to lose ground. Park was 1 under through four holes, making a 30-foot birdie putt at No. 3.

But it was her par on the fourth hole that helped make officials realize it was time to stop. The ball moved from its position from a gust, and Park called for a ruling to make sure she could replace it as long as she didn’t address the ball.

Simpson said it wasn’t Park’s ruling alone.

“The time frame for the balls actually moving was very short,” Simpson said. “We got five calls, all in the space of a few minutes. … So I can’t actually say which one was the last one that made the difference because it all happened so quickly. There was a gust of almost 40 mph, and with that singular gust, all the balls started to move on the five calls that we had. And we suspended play immediately.”

Zach Reichelderfer drives to the hole during a game Saturday.

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BASEBALL Baseball Expanded Standings All Times EDT AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Boston 67 45 .598 Tampa Bay 64 45 .587 Baltimore 61 49 .555 New York 56 52 .519 Toronto 50 59 .459 Central Division W L Pct Detroit 63 45 .583 Cleveland 60 49 .550 Kansas City 55 52 .514 Minnesota 46 60 .434 Chicago 40 68 .370 West Division W L Pct Oakland 64 46 .582 Texas 61 50 .550 Los Angeles 50 58 .463 Seattle 50 59 .459 Houston 36 72 .333 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Atlanta 66 45 .595 Washington 54 56 .491 Philadelphia 50 60 .455 New York 49 59 .454 Miami 43 65 .398 Central Division W L Pct Pittsburgh 65 44 .596 St. Louis 64 45 .587 Cincinnati 61 50 .550 Chicago 49 61 .445 Milwaukee 46 64 .418 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 60 49 .550 Arizona 56 54 .509 Colorado 52 59 .468 San Diego 51 59 .464 San Francisco 49 59 .454

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Away 29-24 29-24 28-26 27-27 22-31

GB WCGB — — 3½ ½ 7½ 4½ 16 13 23 20

L10 9-1 8-2 9-1 4-6 1-9

Str W-7 L-1 W-1 W-1 L-9

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Away 27-26 23-30 28-28 22-33 18-40

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

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

Home 35-19 33-24 29-28 29-28 18-37

Away 29-27 28-26 21-30 21-31 18-35

GB WCGB — — 11½ 6½ 15½ 10½ 15½ 10½ 21½ 16½

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Str W-9 W-2 L-4 L-1 W-3

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Away 28-30 23-31 23-35 27-28 17-35

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L10 5-5 2-8 4-6 4-6 4-6

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

Home 36-20 32-17 33-18 23-32 26-31

Away 29-24 32-28 28-32 26-29 20-33

GB WCGB — — 4½ 4½ 9 9 9½ 9½ 10½ 10½

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

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

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AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday's Games Baltimore 11, Seattle 8 Detroit 2, Chicago White Sox 1 Arizona 7, Boston 6 Miami 10, Cleveland 0 N.Y. Mets 4, Kansas City 2, 11 innings San Francisco 4, Tampa Bay 1 Minnesota 4, Houston 3, 13 innings Texas 8, Oakland 3 L.A. Angels 7, Toronto 5 San Diego 7, N.Y. Yankees 2 Saturday's Games Kansas City 4, N.Y. Mets 3, 12 innings Oakland 4, Texas 2 Seattle at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Detroit 3, Chicago White Sox 0 Boston 5, Arizona 2 Cleveland at Miami, 7:10 p.m Houston at Minnesota, 7:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y.Yankees at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.

Toronto at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.

Sunday's Games Chicago White Sox (Rienzo 0-0) at Detroit (Porcello 8-6), 1:08 p.m.

Cleveland (Kazmir 6-4) at Miami (Eovaldi 2-1), 1:10 p.m.

Kansas City (E.Santana 7-6) at N.Y. Mets (Z.Wheeler 4-1), 1:10 p.m.

Arizona (McCarthy 2-4) at Boston (Doubront 7-5), 1:35 p.m.

Seattle (J.Saunders 9-10) at Baltimore (W.Chen 6-3), 1:35 p.m.

San Francisco (Moscoso 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Ro.Hernandez 6-11), 1:40 p.m.

Houston (Peacock 1-3) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 4-9), 2:10 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 7-7) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 11-6), 3:35 p.m.

Texas (D.Holland 8-6) at Oakland (Griffin 10-7), 4:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 4-9) at San Diego (Kennedy 3-8), 4:10 p.m.

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

Boston at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

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

N.Y. Yankees at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

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

Toronto at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday's Games L.A. Dodgers 6, Chicago Cubs 2 Atlanta 6, Philadelphia 4 Colorado 4, Pittsburgh 2 Arizona 7, Boston 6 Miami 10, Cleveland 0 N.Y. Mets 4, Kansas City 2, 11 innings San Francisco 4, Tampa Bay 1 St. Louis 13, Cincinnati 3 Washington 4, Milwaukee 1 San Diego 7, N.Y. Yankees 2 Saturday's Games Kansas City 4, N.Y. Mets 3, 12 innings Atlanta 5, Philadelphia 4, 12 innings L.A. Dodgers 3, Chicago Cubs 0 Colorado at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

Boston 5, Arizona 2 Cincinnati 8, St. Louis 3 Washington 3, Milwaukee 0 Cleveland at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y.Yankees at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.

Sunday's Games Cleveland (Kazmir 6-4) at Miami (Eovaldi 2-1), 1:10 p.m.

Kansas City (E.Santana 7-6) at N.Y. Mets (Z.Wheeler 4-1), 1:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lynn 12-5) at Cincinnati (Leake 10-4), 1:10 p.m.

Arizona (McCarthy 2-4) at Boston (Doubront 7-5), 1:35 p.m.

Colorado (Nicasio 6-5) at Pittsburgh (A.J.Burnett 4-7), 1:35 p.m.

San Francisco (Moscoso 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Ro.Hernandez 6-11), 1:40 p.m.

Washington (Jordan 1-3) at Milwaukee (Lohse 7-7), 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 8-3) at Chicago Cubs (Villanueva 2-7), 2:20 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 4-9) at San Diego (Kennedy 3-8), 4:10 p.m.

Atlanta(Wood 1-2) at Philadelphia (Cl.Lee 10-4), 8:05 p.m.

Monday's Games Atlanta at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis, 7:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

Saturday's Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Texas . . . . . .001 010 000—2 7 0 Oakland . . . .300 000 10x—4 8 0 Garza and G.Soto; J.Parker, Doolittle (7), Cook (8), Balfour (9) and Vogt, D.Norris. W_J.Parker 7-6. L_Garza 1-1.

Sv_Balfour (29). HRs_Texas, Kinsler (10).

Oakland, Cespedes (17).

Chicago . . . .000 000 000—0 4 0 Detroit . . . . .110 100 00x—3 6 0 Joh.Danks, Lindstrom (8), Veal (8) and Phegley, Flowers; Scherzer, Veras (8), Benoit (9) and Avila. W_Scherzer 16-1.

L_Joh.Danks 2-9. Sv_Benoit (12).

HRs_Detroit, Tor.Hunter (12), Jh.Peralta (11), Iglesias (2).

Arizona . . . .000 100 010—2 6 1 Boston . . . . .000 010 22x—5 9 0 Corbin, W.Harris (7), Thatcher (7), D.Hernandez (8), Sipp (8) and Nieves; Peavy, Breslow (8), Tazawa (8), Uehara (9) and Saltalamacchia. W_Peavy 9-4.

L_Corbin 12-3. Sv_Uehara (10).

HRs_Arizona, Goldschmidt (26). Boston, Victorino (7), Saltalamacchia (10).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Los Angeles 001 002 000—3 10 1 Chicago . . . .000 000 000—0 8 1 Capuano, League (7), Belisario (8), P.Rodriguez (8), Jansen (9) and Federowicz; Samardzija, H.Rondon (7), Guerrier (8), Gregg (9) and Castillo.

W_Capuano 4-6. L_Samardzija 6-10.

Sv_Jansen (16).

Washington .010 011 000—3 7 0 Milwaukee . .000 000 000—0 4 0 Haren, Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9) and W.Ramos; D.Hand, Wooten (8) and Lucroy. W_Haren 6-11. L_D.Hand 0-3.

Sv_R.Soriano (28). HRs_Washington, W.Ramos (7), Ad.LaRoche (15).

St. Louis . . .100 002 000—3 4 1 Cincinnati . .200 210 03x—8 9 0 Westbrook, Maness (6), Choate (7), Blazek (7), K.Butler (8) and Ro.Johnson; Cingrani, Simon (6), M.Parra (6), Hoover (8), Chapman (9) and Mesoraco.

W_Cingrani 5-1. L_Westbrook 7-6.

HRs_Cincinnati, Mesoraco 2 (8), Choo (15).

Midwest League At A Glance Eastern Division

W L Pct. GB Bowling Green (Rays) 27 14 .659 — Great Lakes (Dodgers) 24 16 .600 2½ x-South Bend (D-backs) 23 18 .561 4 Dayton (Reds) 22 19 .537 5 West Michigan (Tigers) 20 18 .526 5½ Lake County (Indians) 19 21 .475 7½ Lansing (Blue Jays) 16 25 .390 11 Fort Wayne (Padres) 14 26 .35012½ Western Division W L Pct. GB Cedar Rapids (Twins) 26 15 .634 — Quad Cities (Astros) 25 15 .625 ½ x-Beloit (Athletics) 21 19 .525 4½ Peoria (Cardinals) 19 21 .475 6½ Clinton (Mariners) 19 22 .463 7 Burlington (Angels) 17 23 .425 8½ Wisconsin (Brewers) 16 24 .400 9½ Kane County (Cubs) 14 26 .35011½ x-clinched first half Saturday's Games Quad Cities 5, Cedar Rapids 2 Kane County 6, Clinton 1 Dayton at West Michigan, 7 p.m.

Great Lakes at Lake County, 7 p.m.

Lansing 5, Fort Wayne 3 Burlington at Peoria, 7:30 p.m.

Beloit at Wisconsin, 7:35 p.m.

South Bend at Bowling Green, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday's Games Dayton at West Michigan, 1 p.m.

Lansing at Fort Wayne, 2:05 p.m., 1st game Beloit at Wisconsin, 2:05 p.m.

Kane County at Clinton, 3 p.m.

South Bend at Bowling Green, 3:05 p.m.

Quad Cities at Cedar Rapids, 3:05 p.m.

Lansing at Fort Wayne, 4:35 p.m., 2nd game Burlington at Peoria, 6 p.m.

Great Lakes at Lake County, 7 p.m.

Monday's Games Dayton at West Michigan, 7 p.m.

Great Lakes at Lake County, 7 p.m.

Lansing at Fort Wayne, 7:05 p.m.

Quad Cities at Cedar Rapids, 7:35 p.m.

Burlington at Peoria, 8 p.m.

Kane County at Clinton, 8 p.m.

Beloit at Wisconsin, 8:05 p.m.

South Bend at Bowling Green, 8:05 p.m.

GOLF PGA-Bridgestone Invitational Scores Saturday At Firestone Country Club (South Course) Akron, Ohio Purse: $8.75 million Yardage: 7,400; Par: 70 Third Round Tiger Woods..................66-61-68—195 Henrik Stenson.............65-70-67—202 Jason Dufner ................67-69-67—203 Luke Donald..................67-69-68—204 Bill Haas........................67-68-69—204 Chris Wood ...................66-68-70—204 Miguel Angel Jimenez..71-69-65—205 Keegan Bradley ............66-68-71—205 Adam Scott ...................73-68-66—207 Zach Johnson...............69-70-68—207 Steve Stricker................71-67-70—208 Rickie Fowler.................67-71-70—208 Richard Sterne .............70-68-70—208 John Merrick .................72-66-70—208 Bubba Watson ..............67-69-72—208 Jim Furyk ......................67-69-72—208 Phil Mickelson...............72-71-67—210 Ian Poulter.....................69-72-69—210

AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV TODAY AUTO RACING 1 p.m. ESPN — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, GoBowling.com 400, at Long Pond, Pa. 2 p.m. NBCSN — IRL, Indy Lights, at Lexington, Ohio (same-day tape) 3 p.m. NBCSN — IRL, IndyCar, Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio, at Lexington, Ohio 7 p.m. ESPN2 — NHRA, Northwest Nationals, at Kent, Wash. (same-day tape) EXTREME SPORTS 3 p.m. ABC — X Games, at Los Angeles 5 p.m. ESPN — X Games, at Los Angeles GOLF 10 a.m. ESPN2 — Women's British Open Championship, final round, at Fife, Scotland Noon TGC — PGA Tour-WGC, Bridgestone Invitational, final round, at Akron, Ohio 2 p.m. CBS — PGA Tour-WGC, Bridgestone Invitational, final round, at Akron, Ohio TGC — Web.com Tour, Mylan Classic, final round, at Canonsburg, Pa. 4 p.m. TGC — Champions Tour, 3M Championship, final round, at Blaine, Minn.

7 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, Reno-Tahoe Open, final round, at Reno, Nev. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1 p.m. FSN — St. Louis at Cincinnati 1:30 p.m. TBS — Arizona at Boston 2:10 p.m. WGN — L.A. Dodgers at Chicago Cubs 8 p.m. ESPN — Atlanta at Philadelphia NFL FOOTBALL 8 p.m. NBC — Preseason, Hall of Fame Game, Dallas vs. Miami, at Canton, Ohio TENNIS 3 p.m. ESPN2 — ATP World Tour, Citi Open, championship, at Washington 5 p.m. ESPN2 — WTA, Southern California Open, championship, at Carlsbad, Calif.

MONDAY CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE 7 p.m. NBCSN — Winnipeg at British Columbia LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Intermediate World Series, championship, teams TBD, at Livermore, Calif.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 7 p.m. ESPN — L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis Justin Rose ...................69-72-69—210 Martin Kaymer ..............74-67-69—210 Rory McIlroy..................70-71-69—210 Ryan Moore ..................66-74-70—210 Hideki Matsuyama........72-68-70—210 Angel Cabrera ..............72-68-70—210 Jamie Donaldson..........70-69-71—210 Harris English ...............70-68-72—210 Kiradech Aphibarnrat ...69-68-73—210 Peter Hanson................70-72-70—212 Matt Kuchar...................72-71-69—212 G. Fernandez-Castano.70-74-68—212 Paul Lawrie ...................69-72-71—212 Bo Van Pelt....................71-73-68—212 Francesco Molinari .......70-70-72—212 Webb Simpson .............64-75-73—212 Charl Schwartzel ..........74-74-64—212 Brandt Snedeker ..........72-70-71—213 Graeme McDowell........71-71-71—213 Lee Westwood..............71-71-71—213 Ernie Els........................71-72-70—213 Michael Thompson.......72-71-70—213 Boo Weekley.................73-70-70—213 Nick Watney..................71-72-70—213 Paul Casey....................70-70-73—213 Thorbjorn Olesen .........73-69-72—214 Richie Ramsay .............73-69-73—215 Matteo Manassero .......71-70-74—215 Branden Grace .............70-75-70—215 Stephen Gallacher .......74-74-67—215 Nicolas Colsaerts .........72-70-74—216 Russell Henley..............72-69-75—216 Dustin Johnson.............72-69-75—216 Sang-Moon Bae ...........73-73-70—216 Brian Gay......................72-70-75—217 D.A. Points.....................73-69-75—217 David Lynn....................71-73-73—217 Sergio Garcia................71-76-70—217 Carl Pettersson.............72-73-73—218 Jonas Blixt.....................70-75-73—218 Ken Duke ......................70-75-73—218 Jason Day.....................74-72-72—218 Martin Laird...................77-70-71—218 Shane Lowry.................72-76-70—218 Mikko Ilonen..................73-73-73—219 Satoshi Kodaira ............70-74-76—220 Scott Piercy...................68-77-75—220 Billy Horschel................74-74-72—220 Derek Ernst...................73-76-71—220 Kevin Streelman ...........76-73-71—220 Tommy Gainey..............74-71-76—221 Brett Rumford ...............76-74-72—222 Toru Taniguchi...............75-73-79—227 Daniel Popovic..............79-77-76—232 Jaco Van Zyl..................73-82-78—233 Champions Tour-3M Championship Scores Saturday At TPC Twin Cities Blaine, Minn.

Purse: $1.75 million Yardage: 7,114; Par: 72 Second Round Tom Pernice Jr. ..................66-65—131 Tom Kite..............................68-65—133 Jay Don Blake....................68-66—134 Rod Spittle..........................68-66—134 Corey Pavin........................65-69—134 Kirk Triplett ..........................71-64—135 John Riegger......................66-69—135 Bart Bryant .........................66-69—135 Mark Wiebe........................64-71—135 Gene Sauers......................70-66—136 Colin Montgomerie ............67-69—136 Jeff Brehaut........................66-70—136 Kenny Perry........................65-71—136 Mark McNulty.....................71-66—137 Jay Haas.............................69-68—137 Bobby Clampett .................70-67—137 Jim Carter...........................69-68—137 Rocco Mediate...................68-69—137 John Cook..........................68-69—137 Mike Goodes......................68-69—137 Chien Soon Lu...................73-65—138 David Eger..........................72-66—138 Craig Stadler ......................72-66—138 Larry Nelson.......................71-67—138 Bill Glasson ........................71-67—138 Jeff Sluman ........................69-69—138 Loren Roberts....................69-69—138 Tom Lehman ......................69-69—138 Steve Elkington ..................68-70—138 Peter Senior........................66-72—138 Jeff Hart..............................72-67—139 Brad Bryant ........................72-67—139 Fred Funk ...........................71-68—139 David Frost .........................71-68—139 John Harris.........................71-68—139 Mark Calcavecchia ............69-70—139 Mark Bucek ........................68-71—139

Gary Hallberg.....................72-68—140 Larry Mize...........................71-69—140 Esteban Toledo...................71-69—140 Wayne Levi.........................70-70—140 Duffy Waldorf......................70-70—140 Russ Cochran ....................69-71—140 Brian Henninger.................69-71—140 Kohki Idoki..........................68-72—140 Bob Gilder ..........................71-70—141 Steve Pate ..........................72-69—141 Mark Mouland....................71-70—141 Jim Thorpe .........................71-70—141 Don Pooley.........................70-71—141 Gil Morgan..........................70-71—141 Scott Simpson....................70-71—141 Hal Sutton...........................67-74—141 Bruce Vaughan...................74-68—142 Steve Lowery......................73-69—142 Willie Wood.........................71-71—142 Joel Edwards......................75-68—143 Blaine McCallister ..............72-71—143 Bob Tway ............................72-71—143 Nick Price ...........................76-69—145 Tom Purtzer........................71-74—145 Roger Chapman ................69-76—145 Hale Irwin............................75-71—146 Gene Jones........................72-74—146 John Inman ........................73-73—146 Dan Forsman .....................77-70—147 Don Berry...........................73-74—147 Brad Faxon.........................73-74—147 Joey Sindelar......................72-75—147 Jim Rutledge ......................70-77—147 Mark Brooks.......................70-77—147 Ronnie Black......................72-76—148 Tom Jenkins .......................72-76—148 Bobby Wadkins ..................71-77—148 Joe Daley............................74-75—149 Dana Quigley .....................73-76—149 Rick Fehr ............................74-76—150 John Huston.......................75-77—152 David Podas.......................78-78—156 Andrew Magee...................81-78—159 Jim Sorenson.....................87-84—171

AUTO RACING NASCAR-Sprint Cup-GoBowling.com 400 Lineup After Friday qualifying; race Sunday At Pocono Raceway Long Pond, Pa. Lap length: 2.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 180.654.

2. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 180.639.

3. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 180.18.

4. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 180.004.

5. (78) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 179.695.

6. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 179.601.

7. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 179.533.

8. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 179.329.

9. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 179.144.

10. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 179.094.

11. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 178.937.

12. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 178.848.

13. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 178.667.

14. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 178.508.

15. (51) A J Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 178.501.

16. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 178.409.

17. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 178.264.

18. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 178.26.

19. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 178.056.

20. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 178.031.

21. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 177.982.

22. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 177.658.

23. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 177.592.

24. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 177.508.

25. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 177.441.

26. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 177.239.

27. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, 177.221.

28. (55) Mark Martin, Toyota, 176.991.

29. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 176.942.

30. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 176.838.

31. (30) David Stremme, Toyota, 176.821.

MIAMI VALLEY SUNDAY NEWS • WWW.TROYDAILYNEWS.COM 32. (7) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 176.267.

33. (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 176.098.

34. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 175.86.

35. (83) David Reutimann, Toyota, 175.743.

36. (36) J.J.Yeley, Chevrolet, 175.179.

37. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, Owner Points.

38. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

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

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

41. (32) Timmy Hill, Ford, Owner Points.

42. (19) Alex Kennedy, Toyota, Owner Points.

43. (33) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

NASCAR Camping World TruckPocono Mountains 125 Results Saturday At Pocono Raceway Long Pond, Pa. Lap length: 2.5 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (6) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 54 laps, 48 points, $49,185.

2. (1) Miguel Paludo, Chevrolet, 54, 43, $25,075.

3. (4) German Quiroga, Toyota, 54, 42, $18,220.

4. (10) Joey Coulter, Toyota, 54, 41, $15,385.

5. (2) Ross Chastain, Ford, 54, 40, $13,860.

6. (21) Ron Hornaday Jr., Chevrolet, 54, 38, $11,535.

7. (5) Darrell Wallace Jr., Toyota, 54, 38, $11,035.

8. (9) Matt Crafton, Toyota, 54, 36, $10,810.

9. (14) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet, 54, 35, $10,760.

10. (22) Brennan Newberry, Chevrolet, 54, 34, $11,960.

11. (7) Todd Bodine, Chevrolet, 54, 34, $10,635.

12. (3) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, 54, 32, $10,510.

13. (17) Max Gresham, Chevrolet, 54, 31, $10,435.

14. (18) Timothy Peters, Toyota, 54, 30, $10,385.

15. (15) Chad Hackenbracht, Toyota, 54, 29, $11,335.

16. (23) Tim George Jr., Chevrolet, 54, 28, $10,160.

17. (12) John Wes Townley, Toyota, 54, 27, $10,060.

18. (20) Dakoda Armstrong, Chevrolet, 54, 26, $9,935.

19. (13) Johnny Sauter, Toyota, 54, 25, $8,585.

20. (11) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 54, 24, $9,160.

21. (8) James Buescher, Chevrolet, 54, 23, $8,385.

22. (29) Kyle Martel, Chevrolet, 52, 22, $7,285.

23. (19) Jeff Agnew, Chevrolet, 52, 21, $7,185.

24. (27) Bryan Silas, Ford, 51, 20, $7,110.

25. (31) Mike Harmon, Chevrolet, 51, 0, $7,225.

26. (25) Sean Corr, Ford, 51, 18, $7,035.

27. (30) Todd Peck, Chevrolet, 51, 17, $7,010.

28. (35) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 50, 16, $6,985.

29. (32) Dominick Casola, Chevrolet, accident, 46, 15, $6,960.

30. (16) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, engine, 23, 14, $7,435.

31. (28) Chris Jones, Chevrolet, rear end, 20, 13, $6,910.

32. (33) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Ford, engine, 13, 12, $6,885.

33. (24) J.J.Yeley, Toyota, vibration, 9, 0, $6,860.

34. (36) Chris Lafferty, Ram, electrical, 4, 10, $6,835.

35. (34) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, engine, 3, 0, $6,810 36. (26) Ricky Ehrgott, Toyota, accident, 2, 8, $6,759.

Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 128.300 mph.

Time of Race: 1 hour, 3 minutes, 8 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 0.270 seconds.

Caution Flags: 4 for 10 laps.

Lead Changes: 9 among 7 drivers.

Lap Leaders: R.Chastain 1-9; R.Blaney 10-24; M.Paludo 25-26; J.Coulter 27-28; D.Wallace Jr. 29-30; T.Bodine 31-46; R.Blaney 47-49; G.Quiroga 50-52; R.Blaney 53-54.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): R.Blaney, 3 times for 20 laps; T.Bodine, 1 time for 16 laps; R.Chastain, 1 time for 9 laps; G.Quiroga, 1 time for 3 laps; M.Paludo, 1 time for 2 laps; J.Coulter, 1 time for 2 laps; D.Wallace Jr., 1 time for 2 laps.

Top 10 in Points: 1. M.Crafton, 429; 2. J.Burton, 377; 3. R.Blaney, 367; 4.

J.Buescher, 365; 5. T.Dillon, 361; 6.

B.Gaughan, 354; 7. M.Paludo, 351; 8.

T.Peters, 350; 9. D.Wallace Jr., 347; 10.

J.Sauter, 345.

NASCAR Driver Rating Formula A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.

The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

FOOTBALL USA Today Top 25 Poll The USA Today Top 25 football coaches preseason poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, 2012 records, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and ranking in final 2012 poll: ...................................Record PtsPvs 1. Alabama (58)..........13-1 1,545 1 2. Ohio State (3).........12-0 1,427 NR 3. Oregon....................12-1 1,397 2 4. Stanford ..................12-2 1,262 6 5. Georgia...................12-2 1,250 4 6.Texas A&M (1)........11-2 1,215 5 7. South Carolina .......11-2 1,136 7 8. Clemson .................11-2 1,047 9 9. Louisville .................11-2 1,010 13 10. Florida...................11-2 930 10 11. Notre Dame..........12-1 872 3 12. Florida State.........12-2 844 8 13. LSU.......................10-3 797 12 14. Oklahoma State .....8-5 726 NR 15.Texas .......................9-4 622 18 16. Oklahoma.............10-3 620 15 17. Michigan .................8-5 589 NR 18. Nebraska ..............10-4 426 23 19. Boise State...........11-2 420 14 20.TCU.........................7-6 400 NR 21. UCLA ......................9-5 202 NR 22. Northwestern........10-3 186 16 23. Wisconsin ...............8-6 172 NR 24. Southern Cal ..........7-6 165 NR 25. Oregon State..........9-4 135 19 Others receiving votes: Kansas State 113; Miami (Fla.) 101; Michigan State 89; Baylor 80; Virginia Tech 65; Fresno State 62; Arizona State 51; Mississippi 32; Vanderbilt 29; Utah State 23; Brigham

Young 20; North Carolina 19; Northern Illinois 19;Tulsa 9; Ohio 8; San Jose State 8; Arizona 5; Cincinnati 3; East Carolina 3; Kent State 3; Mississippi State 3; Washington 3; Central Florida 2; Arkansas 1; Arkansas State 1; Rutgers 1; Tennessee 1; Toledo 1.

2013 NFL Preseason Schedule All Times EDT Sunday, Aug. 4 Dallas vs. Miami at Canton, Ohio, 8 p.m. (NBC) WEEK 1 Thursday, Aug. 8 Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Cincinnati at Atlanta, 8 p.m. (ESPN) St. Louis at Cleveland, 8 p.m.

Washington at Tennessee, 8 p.m.

Denver at San Francisco, 9 p.m.

Seattle at San Diego, 10 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 9 NY Jets at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Miami at Jacksonville, 7:30 p.m.

New England at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

Arizona at Green Bay, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Carolina, 8 p.m.

Houston at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Kansas City at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Oakland, 10 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 10 NY Giants at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 11 Buffalo at Indianapolis, 1:30 p.m.

WEEK 2 Thursday, Aug. 15 Atlanta at Baltimore, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m.

Carolina at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

San Diego at Chicago, 8 p.m.

(ESPN) Friday, Aug. 16 Minnesota at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Oakland at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

San Francisco at Kansas City, 8 p.m.

Tampa Bay at New England, 8 p.m.

(FOX) Saturday, Aug. 17 Dallas at Arizona, 4:30 p.m.

Tennessee at Cincinnati, 7 p.m.

Jacksonville at NY Jets, 7:30 p.m.

Green Bay at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Miami at Houston, 8 p.m.

Denver at Seattle, 10 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 18 Indianapolis at NY Giants, 8 p.m.

(FOX) Monday, Aug. 19 Pittsburgh at Washington, 8 p.m.

(ESPN) WEEK 3 Thursday, Aug. 22 New England at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Carolina at Baltimore, 8 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Aug. 23 Seattle at Green Bay, 8 p.m. (CBS) Chicago at Oakland, 10 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS Saturday's Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned RHP Pedro Beato to Pawtucket (IL).

Recalled RHP Rubby De La Rosa from Pawtucket.

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned INF Hernan Perez to Erie (EL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Sent RHP Felipe Paulino to Northwest Arkansas (TL) for a rehab assignment.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Recalled OF Oswaldo Arcia from Rochester (IL).

Selected the contract of LHP Andrew Albers from Rochester. Sent OF Wilkin Ramirez to New Britain (EL) and OF Darin Mastroianni to Fort Myers (FSL) for rehab assignments NEW YORK YANKEES — Assigned C Gary Sanchez and RHP Diego Moreno from Tampa (FSL) to Trenton (EL), C Jeff Farnham from Trenton to Tampa, and LHP Cesar Cabral from Trenton to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned LHP Tommy Milone to Sacramento (PCL). Recalled RHP Evan Scribner from Sacramento.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Recalled OF Brandon Guyer from Durham (IL) and placed him on the 15-day DL. TEXAS RANGERS — Sent LHP Michael Kirkman to Round Rock (PCL) and RHP Neftali Feliz to the AZL Rangers for rehab assignments.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed OF Melky Cabrera on the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Todd Redmond to Buffalo (IL). Recalled RHPs Neil Wagner and Brad Lincoln from Buffalo (IL).

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Placed C Gerald Laird on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 26. Reinstated OF B.J. Upton from the 15-day DL. Sent OF Jordan Schafer to Gwinnett (IL) for a rehab assignment.

CHICAGO CUBS — Designated OF Julio Borbon for assignment.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Optioned RHP Curtis Partch to Louisville (IL).

Recalled RHP Pedro Villarreal from Louisville.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Released LHP Ted Lilly.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Sent RHP Marco Estrada to Nashville (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

NEW YORK METS — Placed 3B David Wright on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Mike Baxter from Las Vegas (PCL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Placed RHP Jonathan Pettibone on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Monday.

Designated RHP J.C. Ramirez for assignment. Selected the contract of RHP Zach Miner from Lehigh Valley (IL). Recalled RHP Ethan Martin from Lehigh Valley.

American Association GRAND PRAIRIE AIRHOGS — Traded OF Bubba Dotson to Schaumburg (Frontier) for OF Chad Mozingo.

LAREDO LEMURS — Signed LHP Jacob Douglas.

Can-Am League NEWARK BEARS — Released INF Nathan Tomaszewski. Signed INFs Jonny Kaplan and Seaon O'Hare and C/INF Sandy DeLeon. Traded RHP Kyle Morrison to St. Paul (AA) for a player to be named.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed WR Terrell Sinkfield.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed TE Leonard Pope to a one-year contract.

Waived TE Brody Eldridge.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Resigned OL Dominic Alford. Released LB Adrian Moten.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed OL Rokevious Watkins. Released OT Mike Tepper.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released OL Elvis Fisher and WR Lavasier Tuinei.

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QUESTIONS & ATTITUDE Compelling questions ... and maybe a few actual answers

SPEED FREAKS

A couple of questions we just had to ask — ourselves

Getty Images/CHRIS GRAYTHEN

Dirt roads are a fun diversion, but not where NASCAR will make its living.

Did the truck race at Eldora look like something NASCAR should try again?

GODSPEAK: I do believe the truck series has found a magic wand. Expect to see at least two dates on dirt in 2014. The other series will stay tied to asphalt.

KEN’S CALL: In a perfect world, yes, there’d be a couple of dirt races in every series.

But the world isn’t perfect.

Did Ryan Newman win a new contract with his victory at the Brickyard?

GODSPEAK: Newman is too good not to have a ride.

Something will turn up and it will be good. When one window closes, another opens and all that kind of stuff.

KEN’S CALL: Not much chance of Ryan Newman being out of a job. But he might’ve just escaped a potential Plan B ride for next year.

ONLINE EXTRAS

HOT TOPICS: 3 ISSUES GENERATING A BUZZ

Class of 2002 Every generation produces a special class of rookies who grow into champions. The previous top class was 1979 which included Harry Gant, Terry Labonte and Dale Earnhardt. They combined for nine NASCAR Cup Series championships and well over 100 victories.

Enter the Class of 2002, which is following a similar track. Jimmie Johnson and Ryan Newman entered the cage at the same time and have been toe-to-toe ever since.

Johnson had three wins his rookie year, while Newman nabbed one and the Rookie of the Year honors. Through the years, Johnson has seen greater success – five championships and 64 wins. Newman has finished top-10 in points six times and won 17 races.

Which is why winning Sunday’s Samuel Deeds 400 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis was extra- special-sweet for Newman. Not only did he win on his “home” track – Newman was born and raised in Indiana – but he beat Johnson, who finished second. The margin of victory was basically the time difference in their last pit stops.

“There is definitely disappointment there, but this is racing, that stuff happens,” Johnson said. “Ryan was fast all day long. I can’t take anything away from him.”

Sunday’s race from inside the team hauler. Matt McCall, a team engineer, sat on Burton’s pit box during the race.

The team said Lambert had an eye ailment that made him sensitive to light.

And then there was the garage stall of Jimmie Johnson’s No. 48 Chevrolet. In somewhat of a first, the stock car could not be seen because it was surrounded by partitions. NASCAR, which has always had an “open garage” policy, allowed the No. 48 to keep the partitions up through the weekend.

Finally, Newman became the second “lame duck” driver to win this season. Newman was pink-slipped

by Stewart-Haas Racing — when the 2013 season ends. Kevin Harvick is the other duck in the pond.

He is leaving Richard Childress Racing at the end of ‘13. Where is he going? To take Newman’s place on the Stewart-Haas driver roster.

Fundamental four

Jeff Gordon, Jeff Burton, Mark Martin and Bobby Labonte have a special bond that has survived at least one more season. They are the only drivers who have started every Brickyard 400 since its 1994 inception.

Gordon stands out among this elite group with four victories and finished in the top-10 Sunday at Indianapolis. Labonte won it in 2000 but was 36th Sunday. Martin said his No. 55 Toyota was “ill” all day and finished 23rd. Burton, who was running at the finish, brought up the rear of the field.

Gordon and Burton will return based on their current driving contracts; not so sure about Martin and Labonte.

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Newman will hit the bricks later, but first a smooch.

How much horsepower is a pink slip worth?

They’ve yet to develop a dyno to measure such things, but apparently there’s nothing that lights a fire under a racer like pending unemployment or, at least, the fear of losing that multiyear contract. Through the years, it’s been common to see a racer find a burst of speed when he’s rumored to be on thin ice or, in Ryan Newman’s case, playing out the string on his current contract and hoping for another elsewhere.

Will Newman’s Brickyard burst carry over to Pocono and beyond?

The best guess here: Don’t bet on it. For whatever reason, his team found the combination to Indy, and Newman is obviously a capable driver who can cash in on such finds. But usually there’s a reason a team has been underperforming all season, so don’t look for long-range glory here. Meanwhile, let’s assume Newman is heavily courting his primary sponsor – Quicken Loans – since both he and crew chief Matt Borland were quick to thank Quicken during post-victory TV interviews.

Biggest news of the week?

That Ricky Stenhouse is a boarder. He’s a full-time Sprint Cup driver, and we learned last week that he rents a room at his accountant’s house near Charlotte. Renting a room? Even an ARCA rookie would have his own place. But an ARCA rookie wouldn’t have Danica Patrick rooming with him every now and then. And an ARCA rookie wouldn’t have Danica’s Chicago apartment as his other option.

Ken Willis has been covering NASCAR for The Daytona Beach News-Journal for 27 years. Reach him at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com

Indy oddities

Indianapolis is known for intense racing and weird stuff happening around the track. For instance, Jeff Burton’s crew chief Luke Lambert monitored

FEUD OF THE WEEK

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SPRINT CUP POINTS STANDINGS (after the Brickyard, race 20 of 36)

Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

JOHNSON

Ryan Newman vs. Jimmie Johnson: These two have bumped heads since they were rookies in 2002. Newman got the best of it at Indy.

Driver Points Jimmie Johnson — Clint Bowyer -75 Carl Edwards -85 Kevin Harvick -92 Dale Earnhardt Jr. -124 Matt Kenseth -125 Kyle Busch -130 Greg Biffle -175 Kasey Kahne -176 Jeff Gordon -181 Tony Stewart -182 Martin Truex Jr. -186 Brad Keselowski -187 Kurt Busch -194 Jamie McMurray -203 Ryan Newman -206 Aric Almirola -211 Joey Logano -216 Paul Menard -220 Jeff Burton -241 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. -245 Marcos Ambrose -272 Juan Montoya -280 Casey Mears -320 Denny Hamlin -352 Danica Patrick -376 David Gilliland -377

Godwin Kelly gives his take: “Beating Johnson at Indy was a super-sweet, satisfying moment for Newman.”

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He had the crown for a day, but Jimmie Johnson remains King of the Class of 2002.

GODWIN’S POCONO PICKS Godwin Kelly is the Daytona Beach News-Journal’s motorsports editor and has covered NASCAR for 30 years. Reach him at godwin. kelly@news-jrnl.com

WINNER: Clint Bowyer REST OF THE TOP FIVE: Tony Stewart, Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin, Dale Earnhardt Jr. BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Jimmie Johnson

DARK HORSE: Danica Patrick FIRST ONE OUT: Michael McDowell DON’T BE SURPRISED IF: Bowyer wins one of these next few Cup Series races in a big way.

WHAT’S ON TAP? SPRINT CUP: GoBowling.com 400 SITE: Long Pond, Pa. SCHEDULE: Friday, practice (Speed, same- day delay at 1 p.m.), qualifying (Speed, 3:10 p.m.).

Saturday, practice (Speed, 11:30 a.m.). Sunday, race (ESPN, coverage begins at noon; green flag at 1:19 p.m.)

TRACK: Pocono Raceway (2.5-mile triangleshaped) RACE DISTANCE: 160 laps, 400 miles NATIONWIDE: US Cellular 250 SITE: Newton, Iowa SCHEDULE: Saturday, race (ESPN2, 8 p.m.)

TRACK: Iowa Speedway (.875-mile oval) RACE DISTANCE: 250 laps, 218.8 miles

WEEKLY DRIVER RANKINGS — BASED ON BEHAVIOR AND PERFORMANCE JIMMIE JOHNSON Still giving sideways looks at crew

KEVIN HARVICK Hopes Newman leaves some horsepower

MATT KENSETH Loves that Pocono nightlife

CARL EDWARDS Finishes fourth at Pocono this week

CLINT BOWYER In a rare mini-slump

KYLE BUSCH Nod knowingly toward this week’s Pocono winner

TONY STEWART Coming off big ownership week

JUNIOR EARNHARDT Lots of points, no trophies

RYAN NEWMAN Severance package included a brick

KASEY KAHNE The Cute One returns to our top 10

INDIANAPOLIS REWIND

Stewart loses race, but wins Indy Tony Stewart, the driver, lost the Samuel Deeds 400 at the Brickyard, finishing fourth.

Tony Stewart, the car owner, won the race with driver Ryan Newman at the wheel of the No. 39 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet. After the race, Stewart talked to the media about wearing two hats at the track.

It’s been quite a week for you.

“I don’t know how you could ask for a better week on our side. The first half of the week was great. (Saturday), Ryan going out, last car out,

getting the pole, then being in the race today, watching the battle he and Jimmie (Johnson) had all day, just was impressive to watch. We were fortunate enough we were pretty much a top-five car all day, just weren’t good enough to be up there with Jimmie and Ryan.”

You said earlier this week, winning as an owner would be as good as winning as a driver. Is it?

“Yes.”

Can you talk about how it feels different as an owner?

“It doesn’t feel different. I’m ecstatic. Right there is a big reason why, too. Ryan is such a good friend. I didn’t think it would feel this good as an owner. Because it’s Ryan and a good friend of mine, that’s the gratifying part. Seeing Greg (Newman’s father), Ryan’s mom, Krissie and the kids out there, just knowing we’re a part of it with him, that’s something that’s pretty special to us.”

You’ve won this race twice. I wonder if

you ever had any conversations with Ryan where he shared with you that dream, “Man, I want this because.”

“We’ve kind of swapped stories. I mean, I want to know what it was like to win a Daytona 500. The one that I lost, he went motoring by about five miles an hour faster than me with a push. He’s wanted the same thing.

“Now I got questions for him about the differences between the two. I want to know what he feels like. I can’t wait for that conversation.”

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FDA defining “gluten free” on packages WASHINGTON (AP) — A label that reads “gluten free” will now mean the same thing for all food, regardless of which kind you buy.

After more than a six-year delay, the Food and Drug Administration has set a new standard for labels that will make shopping easier for consumers on gluten-restricted diets. Until now, the term “gluten free” had not been regulated, and manufacturers made their own decisions about what it means.

Under an FDA rule announced Friday, products labeled “gluten free” still won’t have to be technically free of wheat, rye and barley and their derivatives. But they will have to contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten.

That amount is generally recognized by the medical community to be low enough so that most people who have celiac disease won’t get sick if they eat it.

People who suffer from celiac disease don’t absorb nutrients well and can get sick from the gluten found in wheat and other cereal grains. Other countries already have similar standards.

Celiac disease affects up to 3 million Americans. It causes abdominal pain, bloating and diarrhea, and people who have it can suffer weight loss, fatigue, rashes and other long-term medical

problems. Celiac is a diagnosed illness that is more severe than gluten sensitivity, which some people self-diagnose.

Only a very small number of people wouldn’t be able to ingest the amount of gluten that will be allowed under the new rule, FDA officials said.

“Adherence to a gluten-free diet is the key to treating celiac disease, which can be very disruptive to everyday life,” FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg said. “The FDA’s new ‘glutenfree’ definition will help people with this condition make food choices with confidence and allow them to better manage their health.”

The new FDA rule also would ensure that foods with the labels “no gluten,” ”free of gluten,” and “without gluten” meet the definition. Manufacturers will have a year to comply, though the FDA urged companies to meet the definition sooner.

Ten years ago, most people had never heard of celiac disease. But awareness and diagnosis of the illness has exploded in recent years. It’s not entirely clear why — some researchers say it was under-diagnosed; others say it’s because people eat more processed wheat products like pastas and baked goods than in past decades, and those items use types of wheat that have a higher gluten

NEW YORK (AP) — Uncle Sam isn’t as easy a customer to land as he used to be.

Even before $85 billion in federal budget cuts went into effect this spring, small business owners who contract with the government were finding that the cost of going after federal contracts had spiked.

On average, small businesses spent more than $128,000 in labor costs and other expenses in 2012 to pursue government contracts, according to a survey by American Express. (NYSE:AXP) That’s up 49 percent from 2010.

Now that many of the budget cuts are in place, it’s become even harder and more expensive for small businesses to compete for contracts, which they often count on to generate a significant portion of their revenue.

Ken Anderson usually goes to 20 or more trade shows a year to meet with hundreds of Department of Defense employees who are interested in buying the technology made by his company, Universal Synaptics. But federal agencies’ travel budgets were slashed in the socalled sequestration cuts that took effect March 1, so many of the shows were canceled. Now Anderson is spending more time and money flying to meetings at government facilities. Instead of going to one show, he has to make as many as 10 trips.

“One might be in Warner Robbins, Ga.; Cherry Point, N.C.; Patuxent River, Md., or Jacksonville, Fla.,” says Anderson, vice president of business development at Universal Synaptics, which makes diagnostic equipment for military aircraft.

“Instead of one trip to a show in Atlanta, now I’ve got to go all over the place.”

Anderson says the extra trips he’s making aren’t guaranteed to result in a new contract for his Roy, Utah-based company. Meanwhile, his travel costs are up between 25 percent and 30 percent this year.

“You spend more time and money and energy in your business development and

the process takes longer,” he says. “As a taxpayer I say, this is really fantastic. But as a business owner, I say, this is tough and I have to figure out a way through it.”

The cost of bidding on a federal contract can exceed 3 percent of the total amount of the contract, according to the House Small Business Committee. So on a contract worth $100,000, a business might spend more than $3,000 during the bidding process. Companies seeking federal contracts typically lay out costs for travel, product development and writing up proposals. That’s money spent up front, with no guarantee that a bid will be successful.

The extra trips that Shep Brown and his staffers are making to meet with defense employees translate into an enormous time and monetary expense, says Brown, CEO of Howell Instruments, a Fort Worth, Texas, maker of testing and monitoring equipment for airplanes. They too used to attend trade shows where they could meet with a lot of people at once.

“It takes a month to do what I did in three days,” says Brown, “Our manpower costs go up 200 percent.”

The Small Business Administration, the government agency that advocates for small companies in other parts of the government, said it had anticipated that small businesses would get fewer contracts and fewer contract dollars because of the budget cuts.

“From the beginning, we have been clear that sequestration would have severe impacts across the government and for small business,” says Emily Cain, a spokeswoman for the SBA. “We know that the economic uncertainty created by sequestration prevents small businesses from moving forward and pursuing new orders or opportunities to expand.”

Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., the chair of the House Small Business Committee, declined to comment for this story.

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content.

Many companies that market glutenfree foods already meet the standard.

But Andrea Levario of the American Celiac Disease Alliance said the federal guidelines will cut down on painstaking shopping for those who suffer from celiac disease.

Levario said that wheat must be labeled on food packages but that barley and rye are often hidden ingredients in food. The standard will also ensure that companies can’t label products “glutenfree” even if they are cross-contaminated from other products made in the same manufacturing facility. She said shopping can be like “playing Russian roulette” for people who have celiac.

“This will eliminate confusion for the consumer and will cut down on calls to companies to try and determine whether their products are safe and gluten free,” she said.

Michael Taylor, FDA deputy commissioner for foods, said the rule originally proposed during the George W. Bush administration was delayed because the agency was evaluating what standard was correct.

“We wanted to do a careful scientific assessment of the data and the range of sensitivities,” Taylor said.

Congress originally directed the FDA

to set the standards in 2004 as part of a larger law that required food packaging to list major allergens. Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., originally introduced a bill calling for the standards in 1999.

She praised the FDA rules and called them “a long time coming.”

In the decade since Congress considered the standards, gluten-free foods have become big business. Millions of people are buying the foods because they say they make them feel better, even if they don’t have celiac disease.

Americans spent more than $4 billion on gluten-free foods last year, according to the American Celiac Disease Alliance, and a major manufacturing survey issued this week suggested that the niche industry is giving an economic boost to the food industry overall.

One of the largest manufacturers of gluten free foods, Boulder Brands, said it has been seeing double-digit growth in sales and is looking at expanding into bigger markets. The company’s brands, Glutino and Udi’s, already meet the new standards.

“We expect the new regulations to impact sales in a positive way as consumers can feel more confident in their gluten free choices,” said T.J. McIntyre, executive vice president of the company.

Man makes nearly anything a pen GREEN OAK TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Name it, and Joey Schmidt has turned it into a pen.

Coffee beans. Done.

Abalone shell. Completed.

Denim. Next. Even a buffalo head nickel, wood and aluminum foil.

“I haven’t used a garden gnome yet,” the 18-year-old Green Oak Township joked to the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus ( http://bit.ly/19v2YmH ), but he’s probably thought about it.

Standing inside the 4-H Building at the Fowlerville Fairgrounds, Schmidt wore a T-shirt that said, “I’ll turn anything into a pen.” It showed a garden gnome in a lathe, which is one of the tools he uses to create his unique pens.

Schmidt, who is homeschooled, began making pens a few years ago. He used to create wooden bowls, but he became hooked on pens.

“I saw a demonstration and thought it was one of the coolest things I’ve seen,” he said.

His first pen fell apart because it didn’t have threads. He figured out the problem, and his next pen was an improvement.

It’s a process he has repeated numerous times.

“You mess up and figure out what works,” he said.

Schmidt throws the failed pens into a box.

“I do get frustrated a lot, but I concentrate on learning from it,” he said.

At the Fowlerville Family Fair recently, he won first place for Best Leadership/ Education/Citizenship for his book that explained what he learned making and selling pens. He has developed skills in marketing, math, chemistry and prototyping. He sells his pens on Facebook and Etsy.

In 2012, he earned first place for turning wooden bowls.

He also raises pigs and brings them to the fair. He will attend Washtenaw Community College in the fall.

The family has horses, goats, alpacas, pigs and ducks. Schmidt, his mother, Joann Schmidt, and his sisters Esther and Grace, camp out on the fairgrounds during the event.

Joanne Schmidt said the family is very proud of Joey. He works on his pens in a shop above the barn. The couple has six children.

“If he gets his homework done, he can go up there,” Joann Schmidt said.

“He just focuses,” she said.

She said her son purchases all the materials himself, and her husband, Robin Schmidt, helps him a lot and has taught him safety with power tools.

The pens sell for $20 to $100.

Esther Schmidt buys the pens at cost and gives them away when she sells her ducks. She also uses the pens.

“I really like them,” she said, adding its cool what her brother can do.

“I love my coffee bean pen,” she said.

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Natalie Zeitz (holding her lion head rabbit), plays a game of Go Fish with Nicki Zeitz, Nick Brown and Hailey McPherson (not pictured) inside the Rabbit/ Poultry Barn during the 2012 Miami County Fair.

The four said they are with “A Bunch of Hair” 4-H Club.

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A planned af-fair

Annual week long event offers bounty of fun for families

By Melody Vallieu Staff Writer mvallieu@civitasmedia.com

Miami County Fair president Mike Jess believes the fair will rock this year — both literally and figuratively.

Besides some new events and the usual line up of midway fun and fare, the Sunday night concert has been switched up to include a little rock ‘n’ roll instead of the typical country up-and-comer.

Jess said the board landed on Hinder, best known for its 2005 hit — “Lips of an Angel” — in response to comments from the public. He said every year the fair committee asks for public input about how they can improve the fair. He said for several years now, quite a few fair patrons have left comments asking the board to switch the concert up a little — and it aims to please.

Tickets for the 8 p.m. Aug. 10 show are on sale at the county fair office at the fairgrounds, or online at the fair website at www.miamicountyohiofair.com.

Other fair mainstays, including the Friday tractor pulls, petting zoo, pony rides and much more also will return for the 2013 event, according to Jess.

The Sunday pig and calf scramble, which also is returning, now will be even more meaningful to 4-H participants, he said. Jess said those 4-H participants who chose to write an essay and turn it in prior

“It’s just a fun way to spend the day.

You can come to the fair and eat your way through.” — Mike Jess, fair board president to the deadline, were qualified to participate in a scramble where they will be rewarded with their 2014 livestock project. Those selected include five cattle, seven pigs, five sheep and nine goats. The 4-Her will get to choose his or her project from suppliers contracted with the fair board.

“The 4-H kids who turned in an essay on time will get to participate and the kid with the fastest time gets to pick first for a project for 2014,” said Jess, who said many fairs offer a similar event. “That way they will know they 100 percent picked out their project themselves.”

Dynamic Pro Wrestling again will be a featured attraction beginning at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10 at the grandstands, said Jess, who said the event is free with paid admission.

For more information on them, visit www.dcuprowrestling. com.

Jess said the midway will again offer the usual smorgasbord of food vendors — plus a few new.

“The main staples, the guys that have been coming for a

Demetria Woods, 4-H extension educator, offers crafts reflecting the different shows during 4-H Cloverbud Fun Time at the Duke Lundgard Youth Assembly building during the 2012 Miami County Fair. Here Woods and 4-H adviser Denise Burkett of Tipp City, assists children including Thomas Burkett, 11, Drake Burkett, 4, James Burkett, 3, and Jordan Pratt, 10, in creating crafts. “It’s fun and it makes it more affordable for the kids,” Denise Burkett said. Thomas Burkett is a part of Button Buddies 4-H Club.

long time, will all be back this year, too,” Jess said.

Jess said lots of familiar acts also will be returning to the entertainment tent during the week, including Rum River Blend, Rock Island Plow Co. and more.

“There will be lots of good bands there,” he said, reminding that there will be a Gospel Fest t 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11.

Several new events have been

added to the schedule for the 2013 event, Jess said, in order to always keep the event entertaining for fair-goers.

Mixartial arts cage fighting — instead of a demolition derby — is being offered in the Thursday night slot this year, he said. Jess said falling participation over the last few years at the derby have pushed the board to try something a little different.

“We just went to that because the number of cars went down over the last couple years, so we’re just looking for something new to offer,” Jess said.

The mixed martial arts will be offered at 7 p.m. Aug. 15 at the stadium and the UFC’s Matt Brown and Jason Edwards already are on the ticket for the event. Tickets are $40 for VIP seating and $20 for stadium • See FAIR on page B2

Larry Boze, who has been a grange member for about 30 years, works on a display for Cove Spring Grange at the 2012 Miami County Fair. According to Boze, having a display gives exposure to each of the grange halls in the area and allows people to see who they are and the community service they’re involved in. “I am a jack Members of the Renegade Cowgirls, an equestrian drill team, perform precision moves at the Horse Arena at the 2012 Miami County Fair. of all trades when it comes to grange,” Boze said.

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Look for summer’s purple hinge W hen August rolls exactly understood their meanaround a lot of ing. folks flipping to the So would my great-greatnew month’s page great-great-grandfather, who on their favorite calendar are followed Boone down the nardismayed to suddenly realize row Wilderness Road in the summer is now half-way over. late-1700s and settled beside Of course this waypoint the Licking River in what was is never news to those who then territory in the newlytake their seasonal cues from formed state of Virginia, only nature. later becoming part eastern Long before the first rudiKentucky. That old soldier, mentary calendar ever graced who fought in both the French one of mankind’s mud-daubed and Indian, and Revolutionary walls, the tough-stemmed wars, certainly knew primogenitors of the tall ironweed and could ironweed plants in that interpret the seasonal fallow meadow just up significance of the the road were dutifully magenta-purple blooms. tracking the seasonal Those purple blooms progression. And when are just as reliable today. the ratio of post-solstice Why? Because seasons sunlight waned to preare like doors — they Jim cisely the right degree, open and close, wax and with perhaps minor influ- McGuire wane. And at their midContributing dle — the swingpoint — ence from the effects of Columnist recent rains and nightlies a hinge. time temperatures, that For me, and for a ancient ironweed dutifully lot of outdoor-minded folks I registered and processed those know, ironweed acts as sumimmutable events — aftermer’s visible hinge…the point wards proclaiming the season’s at which the season’s opening passage with magnificent ceases and things start swingroyal-hued bouquets, for all to ing back the other way, closing witness. up prior to another season takEons later, yet still a huning the stage. dred years before the first Of course there are arguEuropean set foot on the ably dozens of other blooming continent of North America, plants you could employ in members of the Shawnee, the same fashion. Goldenrod Wyndot, Delaware, Mingo and springs to mind. Yet view Miami tribes living in what is from a moving vehicle, it’s now Ohio would have noted often hard to differentiate one ironwood’s purple blooms and yellow-gold from the next.

European Skipper Ironwood

Especially when looking at what might be a 40-acre sea of yellow-gold — mixed blooms of rosinweed, ox-eye, sunflowers, wingstem, coreopsis, Jerusalem artichoke and coneflowers.

Moreover, most years the goldenrod hereabouts seems to begin showing bronzy-yellow blooms a tad later than midsummer’s point on our modern calendars.

Of course there are always a few jump-the-gun ironweed blooms, too. Precocious or perhaps overly-eager specimens which insist on being the first in the field to show off their color. But like those friends you have who always

arrive 45-minutes early for church or a movie, you soon realize their ways and learn to make allowances.

In the corner of an old field near my home are two or three ironweeds which have already been in bloom for going on two weeks. I recognize and expect them to be in their place. They’re the same plants which bloom prematurely every summer; plants whose appearance I simply classify as the Advanced Guard … heralds of those accurate ranks of on-time brethren I count on to inform me when summer begins its downhill slide toward autumn.

An entomologist friend who

A perfect combination

This publicity image released by A24 Films shows Shailene Woodley, left, and Miles Teller in a scene from “The Spectacular Now.”

Singer-songwriter teams up with Cracker Barrel for latest CD Jim Davis

Civitas Media jdavis@civitasmedia.com

Clint Black didn’t take too long to make up his mind when Cracker Barrel brought up the idea of collaborating on an album.

He loved the idea from the get-go.

“They asked and I said ‘yes’ right away,” said Black, who will release “When I Said I Do” Monday exclusively in Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores. “I had this collection of love songs that I had been interested in releasing before and thought that this would be a good thing to record.

And I had been working on new music, too, so this is a great chance to get some of it out.”

Black — whose resume includes 21 No. 1 hits and more than 20 million records sold — rerecorded some of his biggest hits and personal favorites for the CD, which includes three brand new songs among the 14 tracks.

“I started out looking at the love songs that I rerecorded, and then for the new songs I kept it limited to that theme of love songs,” he said. “There are a couple songs about love between a father and a daughter, and also songs about what a guy will do because he’s in love with a woman.”

Black chose one of his biggest hits — “When I Said I Do” — to lead off the album. The chart-topping song, which he sings

with his wife of 22 years, Lisa Hartman Black, was honored by the Academy of Country Music as its Vocal Event of the Year in 1999.

The New Jersey native said he had a good feeling about the song when he wrote it years ago, but he has been pleasantly surprised at it’s enduring popularity.

“I chose ‘When I Said I Do’ for this CD for obvious reasons,” Black said. “I thought it would endure (when I recorded it). There’s a feeling I get with some songs that ‘country music fans are going to like this.’ I really thought it was going to resonate and hold up over time, but it’s done more than that.”

The singer songwriter pointed to a couple of other personal favorites that he said he enjoyed rerecording.

“I think ‘My Imagination’ is one of my best records.

I love what it says and I love the melody,” he said.

“And ‘You know it all’ is a special song. It’s another challenging song to sing that I felt good about.”

The album also includes a second duet with his wife — “Easy For Me To Say” and a collabora-

tion with Carolyn Dawn Johnson on “Our Kind of Love,” as well as Black’s 1996 hit “Like The Rain.”

Black wraps up the album with three new songs: “Samantha,” “Only a Woman” and “She Won’t Let Go.” The latter pays tribute to military personnel and their families and is based on a photograph fellow songwriter Frank Rogers showed Black in 2010. The image shows a little girl standing with her father before he’s deployed overseas, her hand up to her face as if to wipe away tears.

“Frank showed up at the house to write one day and set that photo down on the table and said ‘Do you want to write that?’”

Black recalled. “If that doesn’t get to you, go see the heart doctor. I knew there was enough there.

So writing the song, making it a story and giving it the happy ending we all wanted, it really came together and felt like a traditional country song with an edge to it.

“For me, this family holds a special place in my heart. and writing this for this family really moved me. I’ve been able to connect with them,” he said, adding that he eventually got to meet the soldier and his family. “The soldiers do something for us that we can never thank them enough for, so I feel great having a song that speaks to the sacrifices that the troops and their families make.”

studies singing insects keeps telling me I need to learn the calls of various crickets, katydids, grasshoppers, leafhoppers, cicadas, and aphids.

“Once you’ve mastered the songs of local species,” he says, “you’ll be able to track the season with incredible precision — day or night, from late-spring to the first hard frost.”

“Hmm,” I replied when he recently repeated his view, “I’ve listened to those CDs you loaned me. Nevertheless, the cacophony I hear through my open bedroom window still sounds like the scratchy pops, crackles, and one-note whirrs from an old Victrola with a worn-out needle, playing a dusty LP recording of one fellow on a handsaw accompanied by another clacking spoons. No offense, but I’ll take visual beauty over noisy bugs.”

Which is the final point … beauty. For an ironweed in bloom is truly exquisite — whether as a single plant or a whole purple-spattered field.

One more reason why ironweed remains my favorite seasonal midpoint indicator — as it does for everyone who regularly passes a few overgrown old fields and can recognize their distinctive blooms.

Why bother with calendars?

Instead, keep on the lookout for summer’s lovely purple hinge.

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‘Spectacular Now,’ a gem of a teen romance “Live in the moment.” It’s a pat piece of advice we all get at some point in our lives, usually when we’re being anxious or obsessive about something we can’t control.

But living in the moment can be overrated — especially when everyone else is suddenly looking to the future. That’s the predicament addressed in “The Spectacular Now,” a pure gem of a teen romance graced with sparkling acting by its young leads, Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley, as highschool seniors falling awkwardly in love.

Teller, the lesser known of these two young stars, is a revelation as Sutter Keely, a witty, fast-talking, happy-go-lucky guy who oozes a sweet and cocky charm.

Always ready with a quip or a glib excuse, he sounds something like a younger Vince Vaughn. (Others may recall John Cusack in his teen-flick days.) Sutter doesn’t work too hard in school, but he’s OK with that.

“This is our time,” he says happily at one point. “Live in the now.” The spectacular now.

We first meet Sutter just as he’s been dumped by his hot girlfriend, Cassidy. As usual, he resorts to self-medicating with alcohol. He ends up passed out on a lawn, and when he wakes, he’s looking into Aimee’s eyes.

Aimee, brought to life in a stunningly fresh, unaffected performance by Woodley,

is everything Sutter isn’t. She’s studious, thoughtful, hard-working, bashful — definitively NOT a cool kid. So when Sutter starts hanging with her, even asking her to the prom, we’re instantly worried. We know he’s gonna drop her, and soon.

But this is where the film, directed with a sure and sensitive touch by James Ponsoldt, breaks refreshingly with teenromance formula. Every time we think Sutter, who’s still pining a bit for sexy Cassidy, is going to turn into the cad we think he is, he surprises us.

These little surprises make for wonderful scenes as Sutter and Aimee move slowly toward romance. Try not feeling a tug in your heart when the two first kiss, awkwardly but touchingly. Kudos to writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for finding just the right tone here — romantic, but not too sweet.

And that kiss leads soon to one of the best scenes in the movie — the sex scene. Normally, virginity-losing scenes in teen films fall into one of two extremes: disastrous (often comically), or gauzy, accompanied by music and a fade-out.

Rarely are they simple, real and raw, as the scene is here. You may feel awkward watching, because first sexual experiences ARE awkward — but they can be nice, too.

Here, it’s both.

Fair n Continued from page B1 Cindy Bach from the Miami County Solid Waste District, along with Lucky the Ladybug, hands out material to children during Kid’s Fun Day at the 2012 Miami County Fair.

FYI:

The annual Miami County Fair will be offered from Aug. 9-15 at the Miami County Fairgrounds, 650 N. County Road 25-A, Troy.

Admission is $5 per person at the gate for those 8 and older.

For more information, visit www.miamicountyohiofair.com or call (937) 335-7492

seating. Visit the fair’s website at www.miamicountyohiofair. com for more information and an updated schedule.

A woodcarver — P ro g re s s i v e E d ge s Woodcarving — also will be a new feature to the fair in 2013. The woodcarver will be making pieces throughout the week long event, and items will be auctioned off.

Tiger Talks, a circus-like act of tigers also will be performed daily — three times a day on the weekend and twice daily during the week, Jess said. This act will replace the former pig races of last year, he said.

Another big change to this year’s fair is Kid’s Fun Day moving from Wednesday to Monday, Aug. 12.

“Monday is kind of a slow-

er day, so we thought we could get more people out on Monday by moving Kid’s Fun Day,” Jess said. “With the volunteers that help, it is easier to get them here on Monday than on Wednesday, too.”

Two car shows also will be going on simultaneously on Sunday. An antique car show will be on the north end of the fairgrounds from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., offered by the Piqua Antique Car Club. The Miami Valley Kruzers also will have a cruise-in — with approximately 45 units — and the south end from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“We have the south end area roped up on Saturday for the dog show, and it just sits empty on Sunday, now we can make use of that space,” Jess said.

Jess said the record-breaking crowd of approximately 114,000 would be welcome again this year.

“That’s the highest year we’ve had since 2008,” Jess said. “It was a great year last year. If we could get the good weather this year we had last year, that would be great.

We couldn’t have had better weather.”

And, Jess said, what better entertainment could a family ask for for only $5 a person (for those 8 and older).

“It’s cheap family fun and entertainment to come out the fair,” he said, pointing out the livestock expositions, merchant building and midway offerings.

“It’s just a fun way to spend the day,” Jess said. “You can come to the fair and eat your

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26. Keypad glyph 27. Seating area 29. Tex-Mex fare 30. Tatting 31. Singing voice 32. Unleavened bread 33. Signet anagram 36. Bel — 37. Bungalows 41. Fairgrounds stall 42. Onetime hit: 2 wds.

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‘Smurfs 2’ is a largely unwarranted sequel LOS ANGELES (AP) — Time flies when you’re not wondering about the welfare of the Smurfs, those diminutive, animated blueskinned forest-dwellers. Turns out they’ve been just fine since their 2011 big-screen outing, but there’s trouble brewing in their new adventure-comedy that will require their curious blend of wide-eyed optimism and goofy enthusiasm to peacefully resolve.

A sequel largely unwarranted other than for box office and promotional purposes, the unimaginatively titled “The Smurfs 2” should have little trouble scaling stratospheric heights similar to its predecessor with undiscriminating young audiences and their chaperones, weary from nearunrelenting summertime caregiving.

The occasion of Smurfette’s (Katy Perry) birthday presents the opportunity for her to recall her conflicted origins — rather than a “true-blue” Smurf, she was actually created by the hapless, wannabe evil sorcerer Gargamel (Hank Azaria), who now intends to kidnap her from her enchantedforest home to obtain the formula for the magical Smurf essence that Papa Smurf (Jonathan Winters) used to originally bestow her with blue-skinned bliss. Once he has the secret, Gargamel plans to power up a host of Naughties, Smurf-sized creatures he’s created, to help him take over the world.

So he dispatches his Naughty daughter Vexy (Christina Ricci) to drag Smurfette through a magic portal and into the real world where he can more effec-

This publicity image released by Sony Pictures Animation shows a scene from the film “Smurfs 2.”

tively manipulate her inherent identity issues. Papa Smurf and his mismatched extraction team consisting of Grouchy (George Lopez), Clumsy (Anton Yelchin) and Vanity (John Oliver) will have to portal to the live-action world to reunite in Paris with the sympathetic young family of Patrick (Neil Patrick Harris) and Grace (Jayma Mays) Winslow, their live-action counterparts from the original movie, if they’re to have any chance of rescuing Smurfette.

Returning the movie to the European locale of the Belgian Smurfs comic-strip originator Pierre Culliford adds some visual interest, with Paris as the backdrop for the Smurfs’ rescue mission, but beyond the classic cityscapes, there’s little innova-

tive in this formulaic follow-up.

The Smurfs director Raja Gosnell (“Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” ”Scooby Doo”) has built his career with cute-critter pics and other family fare, and his middlebrow track record remains unblemished with the Smurfs’ big-screen return. With a primarily impressionable young target audience, the returning screenwriting team of J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Jay Scherick and David Ronn, along with Karey Kirkpatrick (“Charlotte’s Web,” ”Chicken Run”), has no problem frequently repeating lines, gags and life lessons to near-numbing effect. Beyond a few chuckle-worthy one-liners and some amusing visual comedy, there’s not much to engage adults, although the wee ones should be distracted

enough.

In his final film role, Jonathan Winters reprises the beneficent Papa Smurf with the requisite twinkle in his voice, but takes a backseat to Perry’s bewildered, wounded and ultimately outraged Smurfette. Harris and Mays, as the parents of a young boy appropriately named Blue (Jacob Tremblay), acquit themselves good-naturedly enough, although it’s Brendan Gleeson as Patrick’s well-intentioned but misunderstood stepfather, Victor Doyle, who really shines in an all-out turn that gleefully showcases his considerable comic gifts. Azaria is equally antic as the incompetent wizard beset by the uneven, if unrelenting, team of Smurf rescuers featuring Lopez, Yelchin and Oliver.

“ The Highway” (Minotaur), by C.J. Box S ixteen-year- old Gracie Sullivan is booksmart and resourceful, but her 18-yearold sister, Danielle, is impetuous, self-involved and boy-crazy.

As “The Highway” opens, they’re driving crosscountry from their divorced mother’s home in Colorado to celebrate Thanksgiving with their dad — until plans change.

Over Gracie’s strenuous objections, Danielle detours toward Helena, Mont., to woo her boyfriend, Justin Hoyt, who doesn’t want her to come. Ronald Pergram, a long-haul trucker and sexual predator who calls himself the Lizard King, trails them through Montana in his Peterbilt semi. His “fun,” as he calls it, has been discovered by a couple of creeps who want to get in on the action.

When Danielle and Gracie vanish on their trip through the mountains, Justin calls his dad, Cody Hoyt, whom we first met as a swashbuckling, rule-breaking lawman in Box’s 2011 thriller, “Back of Beyond.” But when Justin reaches him, Cody is on a drunk after being fired from the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff’s Department for planting evidence.

Alarmed by Justin’s call, Cody quickly sobers up, and with the help of his ex-partner, a feisty but inexperienced investigator named Cassie Dewell, he sets out to track down the girls.

The result is a violent, tension-packed, well-written thriller spiced with Box’s vivid portrayal of the Western landscape that he loves.

Along the way, Box also drops in surprising insights about the itinerant lives of long-haul truckers.

Box’s previous thrillers, most of them featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, have all featured strong, toughtalking male protagonists, but the heroes of this one are the underestimated Cassie, who proves to be both tough and resourceful, and the courageous Gracie, who keeps her head when her flighty sister falls apart.

“The Highway” is the second new thriller this year from the prolific Box, who seems to get better with every book.

The week’s best sellers in fiction Associated Press

1. “The Cuckoo’s Calling” by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) 2. “Inferno” by Dan Brown (Knopf/ Doubleday) 3. “The English Girl” by Daniel Silva (Harper) 4. “Divergent” by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books) 5. “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green (Dutton Children’s) 6. “And the Mountains Echoed” by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)

7. “Hidden Order” by Brad Thor (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) 8. “Second Honeymoon” by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little, Brown) 9. “First Sight” by Danielle Steel (Random House) 10. “Light of the World: A Dave Robicheaux Novel” by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster) 11. “The Casual Vacancy” by J.K. Rowling (Little, Brown) 12. “Gone Girl: A Novel” by Gillian Flynn (Crown)

13. “The White Princess” by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone) 14. “Pulse” by Gail McHugh (Gail McHugh) 15. “Bombshell” by Catherine Coulter (Putnam Adult) 16. “City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare (Margaret K. McElderry Books) 17. “The Silent Wife” by A.S.A Harrison (Penguin) 18. “Insurgent” by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books) 19. “Time for Love” by Marie Force (Published via Amazon digital Services)

20. “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card (Tor) 21. “Entwined with You” by Sylvia Day (Berkely) 22. “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”

by Phil Robertson and Mark Schlabach (Howard Books) 23. “The Witness” by Sandra Brown (Grand Central Publishing) 24. “Proof of Heaven” by Eben Alexander (Simon & Schuster) 25. “Friends Forever” by Danielle Steele (Dell)

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Navy always makes beautiful waves. It gracefully sets off every finish in your decor, like leather, silver, — Average rates on U.S. fixed mortgages ticked up brass and pottery, and any garden furniture.

rary home, or with cream if the home is traditional.

When you cover your furniture in a solid navy fabric, you have free rein to take it casual or formal, contemporary or traditional. Navy is one of the best neutrals for sofas because it’s timeless, forgiving enough to handle

pets, kids and husbands and versatile enough to look great with a rainbow of colors.

I redid the cushions on my outdoor furnishings this summer, swapping out light cream for cobalt blue, which just feels like a more electric shade of navy to me. To

this week but are still low by historical standards, a trend that has helped the housing market recover.

Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) said Thursday that the average on the 30-year loan rose to 4.39 percent from 4.31 percent last week. Rates are a full percentage point • See NAVY on page B5 higher than in early May.

pop things up a bit more, I pulled together pillows in citron, white and blue fabrics for a crazy mix of classic and contemporary.

2. Perk things up with navy pillows.

If you don’t have any navy in your home but

The average on the 15-year fixed loan increased to 3.43 percent from 3.39 percent last week.

Rates spiked in June after the Federal Reserve indicated it could slow its bond purchases later this year, which have kept long-term interest rates low.

But on Wednesday the Fed hinted it might hold • See MORTGAGE on page B5

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For as long as I can remember, I’ve been head over heels in love with the color blue. Cobalt?

Be still my beating heart.

Robin’s egg? Divine.

Turquoise? Makes me swoon. But when it comes to navy, I have a personal weakness that borders on obsession.

Navy has it all. It’s a no-fail neutral that looks perfect paired with practically everything, from white and cream to coral and citron. It gracefully sets off every finish in your decor.

The timeless classic will never go out of style.

And, because it’s not overused by designers, it feels fresh and new. Other colors will come and go in my home, but navy is here to stay, in a big way.

Here are six ways you, too, can weave a little navy into your interior decor.

1. Embrace navy’s softer side with furniture.

One of navy’s many wonderful attributes is that it is a fabulous tool for high-contrast decorating. I really like it paired with white when I’m designing a contempo-

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Having an acre and Simple rules, if a half that is woodyou have recently ed presented many purchased a home; early mornings and change the locks. frustration. Both Try not to pass out for us and for our keys for entry to teenage children, your home. Change who had to wake your security code at 6AM (that’s our frequently (if you policy), to clean it Robin have children up as we were quite Banas please note: they certain our adult Contributing may like to give friends would not Columnist this code to their be out at 2AM dec“besties”). Make orating our trees sure your locks are sufwith dollar store TP. Yes, ficient and working prophome security. erly.

It means something Green monsters. More different to everyone. For specifically, natural me and my husband, at growth around your that time, it went beyond home. Trim it back so the home security systhat criminal minds cantem. It went to motion not hide behind (or use lights throughout the the shadows they cast) yard and strategically for cover. placed security cameras.

Sliding issues. Sliding Think we went overdoors in particular board? Try being a neat are cause for concern. freak with TP strung in Often the locks are not a 75-foot oak tree. It’s adequate — use a steel torture! bar to fill the gap to help While the goal of prevent entry. capturing a TP Bandit No peeking! Window with a hand full of TP is cover is important. If a personal goal of mine criminal minds can see in and the impetus for your home they can find much outdoor lighting out a lot about you and there are other, arguably more important, reasons • See BANAS on page B5

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Financial considerations for homebuyers over 40 LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s often the most daunting and emotionally taxing item on one’s financial to-do list: Buying a home.

Most people wade into homeownership for the first time in their 20s and early 30s, when they still have the bulk of their working years ahead of them and a long runway to build equity — a key asset for eventually moving up to a bigger home.

But what if you’ve reached midlife and still envision buying a home one day? Tackling that first home purchase after

40 can be easier in some ways than when you’re just staring out in your career, but it also brings its own set of financial factors.

“It’s important to consider the financial work you have left,” says Eleanor Blayney, consumer advocate for the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards based in Washington D.C. “The financial hurdles you still have over the rest of your life and how homeownership and debt in particular are going to impact that.”

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A National Association of Realtors survey of people who bought a home between July 2011 and June 2012 showed that nearly 80 percent of firsttime homebuyers were 32 years-old or younger.

In the next age bracket, those age 33-47, 36 per-

cent were first-time buyers; between the ages of 48 to 57, only 19 percent were first-time buyers.

The rates of first-time homeownership generally declined as buyers got older, according to the survey, which featured 8,500 respondents.

Even so, the last decade’s economic downturn and housing crash has forced many to put off that first home purchase.

Here are some things to consider if you’re over 40 and eyeing homeownership:

LENDING RULES DON’T CHANGE FOR OLDER BUYERS Good news: Being closer to retirement age than someone in their 20s and 30s can’t legally be held against you by a lender • See OVER 40 on page B6

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would like to add a bit, try working it in with accent pillows.

Since navy works with so many colors, it’s easy to plug in to just about any color palette.

Your bedding ensemble is an ideal place for navy because you don’t typically redo it very often.

Pick colors you won’t grow tired of soon.

3. Let navy dishes add drama to your table.

Long ago I invested in a set of blue-and-white transferware dishes, and I have used them constantly since. When you add lots of pattern, this simple color combo is really exciting on a table. But I also like to pop it up for spring and summer by weaving in apple green. In fall, you’ll see these same dishes on my table paired with orange. During

the holidays, I use a leather or silver charger as a base for a more formal place setting. It’s amazing how versatile these dishes are. Just because blue-and-white transferware is classic doesn’t mean you can’t make it feel fresh and new.

4. Make a room more dramatic with navy paint.

While I like to constantly switch out decorative elements, some things will never change. One is the color of my dining room walls. I can’t imagine them being anything but Twilight, a rich navy blue. I forced myself to try a new color once, painting the walls a chocolate brown. But it just felt wrong, and before long I was back to my navy. Like a good navy blazer, they go with anything.

5. Use navy pottery for arrest-

ing accents.

If you have read my blog, syndicated column or books for long, you know I love blue-and-white pottery, and have used it all over my home for the past few decades.

We’re seeing a real resurgence of Chinese porcelain in a blue-andwhite color palette. More people are working this classic look in with their modern furnishings for a design that’s full of contrasts.

6. Let navy rugs pull your room together.

Navy is a great color for area rugs because it refuses to show dirt. You can find flat weave rugs — my new go-to because they are so affordable — in an assortment of contemporary patterns. Like something more traditional? Navy is a frequent star in lovely wool rugs.

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off because the economy remains sluggish. And it noted for the first time that mortgage rates, which have fueled home sales, “have risen somewhat” from record lows.

Mortgage rates tend to follow the yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which has also jumped on speculation that the Fed could slow its stimulus.

Despite the increases, mortgages are still a bar-

gain for those who can qualify. And low rates are helping boost home sales in most markets and driving home prices up.

Home prices jumped 12.2 percent in May compared with a year earlier, according to the latest Standard & Poor’s/CaseShiller 20-city index released Tuesday. That’s the biggest annual gain since March 2006.

To calculate average mortgage rates,

Freddie Mac surveys lenders across the country on Monday through Wednesday each week.

The average doesn’t include extra fees, known as points, which most borrowers must pay to get the lowest rates. One point equals 1 percent of the loan amount.

The average fee for a 30-year mortgage was 0.7 point this week, down from 0.8 point last week.

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also declined to 0.7 point from 0.8 point.

The average rate on a one-year adjustablerate mortgage dipped to 2.64 percent from 2.65 percent. The fee was unchanged at 0.4 point.

The average rate on a five-year adjustable mortgage rose to 3.18 percent from 3.16 percent. The fee declined to 0.6 point from 0.7.

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Temptation items.

Hopefully you know and trust everyone who enters your home, but simple steps can be taken to prevent theft of — or harm from — your prescription drugs, weapons, alcohol and/or valuables. Lock them up. Many items are on the market now to protect these items from theft and/or use by an unauthorized person.

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Conjure up color to create yard magic Associated Press

Color is a great equalizer. It’s a disguise for things not quite beautiful. For some creative souls, color is a sacrament. For those unwilling to think outside the box, it is a necessary evil. When it comes to your backyard, you can make magic with color. Adding accent color to doors, trim, walls, sheds and fences can turn drab to dynamic in a single weekend.

Color can make spaces feel larger or smaller, warmer or cooler. Paint your back door, and it goes from dull and worn to something fresh and new.

Spread that hue around the window trim to give it more interest. Be bold, be inventive, but above all, make sure that color works.

Here’s a tip from pro designers: Light colors make a structure seem larger by advancing in space. To play down that element so it’s less oppressive, use darker colors that make the structure visually retreat farther into the background. This is how color can solve spatial problems if you think things out ahead of time.

Light is vital to how the human eye perceives color, so evaluate color in natural

light before you make the final choice. Architects favor testing paint color on a sunny wall to determine how much natural light influences its ultimate appearance. The pros select a few very similar candidates, then paint a square of each one on the wall to study how subtle differences are affected by variable light during the course of a day. In the late afternoon, warm hues will literally glow while neutrals will remain flat.

Blues that might otherwise be bleached in direct sun prove their most iridescent under high overcast.

Try to play off your interior color palette. Because the backyard landscape is often viewed from indoors through windows and glass doors, the exterior becomes part of the interior and vice versa. You don’t want a sudden change as you pass through a door to the patio.

Instead, aim for similar colors to transition easily, so muted interior colors match stronger hues reserved for outdoors.

Remember, it’s not essential SHNS Photo that the interior and exterior A side-yard gate painted vivid royal blue makes it stand out amid plants and colors be identical; they simply flowers. must be harmonious.

Many well-known architec- are the result of centuries of style originated. To obtain the tural styles favor a well-estab- architecture and building mate- same look and feel, it’s essenlished color palette. These hues rials in the regions where the tial to thoroughly understand

the color palette. For example, if you have a Spanish-style home and want those coveted hot Mexi-colors, you must have a good feel for this palette.

Mediterranean architecture likes sunset hues. Likewise, the cool palette of saltbox homes along the New England coast is quite uniform. Failing to choose the right palette for your style will leave you with a vague sense of unease.

In regions of intense UV exposure, colors should be bright and bold, because all of them inevitably fade with time. Beware colors used in the shade. Whether it’s natural forest or old shade trees, your color will not appear as bright in shade as it will on a fully exposed site. The good news is it won’t fade as quickly, either.

Color also can save energy dollars. When painted with lighter colors, a wall or structure will reflect heat. Dark colors absorb heat and hold it.

Color is so powerful that a single paint job in your yard can substantially change the way spaces feel there. Be creative, experiment and take risks, because paint is forgiving. If you’re not happy with the result, just paint it another color next weekend.

Whole-house fan cools the old-fashioned way Q: I have a whole-house fan at the landing of my second floor. It’s great at cooling the house in the evenings. But, when I run the A/C during the day, the metal louvers radiate a lot of heat. Is there any way to put a second damper in the attic? Any other options? — Hot in Santa Rosa, Calif.

A: A whole-house fan is great for cooling without using the air-conditioning system. But, as you

have discovered, there is nothing between you and the heat of the attic except those small strips of metal in the fan’s shutters.

In the past, homes built with the integrated fan also had a wood covering to shield the fan from the attic heat. The box was lowered and raised using a rope-and-pulley system often found inside a nearby closet. Because the wooden box was so

heavy, it was difficult to open and the rope would often break and have to be replaced.

You can construct a box of ordinated strand board (OSB) to fit around the fan housing and then line the box with rigid foam insulation. The lid can be opened and closed using the old-fashioned ropeand-pulley system. When constructing the box to cover the fan, you can either line the box with rigid foam insulation or

glue the insulation to the box’s exterior. If the insulation is to be inside the box, make the box at least 6 inches wider and longer than the fan housing to allow for thickness of the insulation.

Secure the box to the rafters or fan housing using L-shaped metal garage-door track hangers and screws.

The lid will need a set of hinges and an eyebolt for attaching the rope.

If you want to install a

whole-house fan, choose one that has an automatic insulated cover that opens and closes depending on the fan’s operation.

Remember, the fan can only pull in as much air as it can push out through the attic vent system. Determine the cubic feet per minute (CFM) the fan can pull and divide that number by 750. This will give you the number of square feet of free venting the attic

will need for the fan to work properly. To determine how much free venting you have, determine the number and size of the soffit vents or canned vents on your roof.

A 12-by-12-inch soffit vent has only 6 square inches of free venting because it is slotted and not fully open. Canned roof vents are the same.

A ridge vent can have anywhere from 10 to 20 square inches of venting per lineal foot.

ate your projected earnings from Social Security, retirement accounts, dividends on investments and other sources.

CONSIDER BENEFITS OF PAYING OFF LOAN Most banks operate under the assumption that even a 30-year fixed mortgage will be swapped out for another loan within eight years, if not sooner. That’s because many homebuyers often end up refinancing, or moving for work or due to family considerations.

But paying off a home and owning it free and clear by the time one retires is a smart play, particularly as the cost of housing is a significant expense for a person relying on a fixed income.

That can be tougher for someone who puts off that first home purchase two decades into their prime working years, assuming they haven’t saved up money to make a hefty down payment — think at least 30 percent.

But it’s doable.

Blayney recommends that even older borrowers who take on a 30-year mortgage take steps to pay off the loan or lower the monthly payment significantly by the time

they retire.

That could mean making extra payments during the early years of the loan, or putting up more than the minimum down payment so the borrower is financing a smaller amount. A 15-year mortgage, which typically translates into lower interest, but higher monthly payments, is another route to a quicker loan payoff.

LOOK INTO FIRST-TIME BUYER ASSISTANCE One of the biggest obstacles to homeownership is coming up with a down payment to qualify for a loan.

Federal and state housing agencies offer assistance for first-time homebuyers, including in many cases former homeowners who haven’t owned a home for at least three years. You can find a list of some programs by state at www.hud.gov .

Remember though, while some loan programs allow homebuyers to make a down payment of as little as 3.5 percent of the purchase price, experts say you’ll need to save enough for at least a 20 percent down payment in order to get the

lowest interest rate and avoid having to pay private mortgage insurance, or PMI. And they can come with hefty fees and restrictions.

ASK YOURSELF IF THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME TO BUY? You may want to own a home, but are you financially ready to take on the financial commitment that comes with a home loan?

Experts recommend borrowers consider the implications of buying a home in their later years, as well as taking on a large loan “This isn’t the situation where if you happen to time your purchase incorrectly when you’re 25 and you buy at the top of the market, you still have most of your life left to recover financially,” says Rick Sharga, executive vice president at home auction site Auction.com.

CONSULT WITH A FINANCIAL PLANNER Buying a home in midlife or beyond has direct implications on retirement.

Homeownership can bring stability to one’s monthly housing costs, versus rental housing, as well as tax benefits, but it also carries with it a trove of costs, including property taxes, insurance and maintenance.

A good way to evaluate all the ways buying a home, whether in cash or through financing, will affect one’s retirement finances is to enlist a financial planner to go over one’s retirement goals.

“You have to sharpen your pencil, sit down and do all the math,” Blayney says. “There’s no one answer.”

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Banks generally look back two years to establish a borrower’s income history and also look to evaluate the likelihood that the borrower will continue to make the same level of income for at least another three years.

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TRANSACTIONS TROY Stefanko Builders Ltd. to Stefanko Properties LLC, one lot, $0.

U.S. Bank N.A., successor to Nilson Nicohlich, one lot, one part lot, $28,500.

Denlinger and Sons Builders Inc. to Michael Fay, Susan Fay, one lot, $421,500.

Scott Investments of Troy LLC to Melinda Schultz, Michael Schultz Sr., one lot, $240,000.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Lerner, Sampson & Rothfuss, attorney in fact to Ted Mitchell, 0.029 acres, $46,400.

Beth Craycraft, Ronald Craycraft to Douglas Maynor, Tiffany Maynor, one lot, $375,000.

Richard Ramby, Stephanie Ramby to Nicholas McMillen, Stephanie McMillen, one lot, $155,800.

Carmen Klinger, Carmen Miller, Robert Miller to John Pennywitt, one lot, $82,500.

Francis Vore, Mabel Vore to Randy Compton, one lot, $43,200.

Jean van Schaik to Joel Macleod Jr., one lot, $160,000.

Mark Iiames, Nicole Iiames to Barbara Jones, Daniel Jones II, one lot, $165,000.

Cwalt Inc., Bank of New York Mellon, trustee, Bank of America, successor, ect. to Patrick McDonald, one lot, $47,000.

Adam Reinking, Amy Reinking to Elizabeth Svelund, Steven Svelund, one lot, $99,700.

Dale Leinbach, Edith Leinbach to Leanna Green, one lot, $160,000.

Tabitha Mumford to Chad Mumford, one lot, $0.

Abdelaziz Aboulkassim, Michelle Aboulkassim a.k.a.

Michelle Chitwood to Patrick Yu, one lot, $168,000.

Carlisle, McNellie, Rini, Kramer and Ulrich Co. LPA Attorney in fact, Federal National Mortgage Association to John H. Donnelly, Pamela Donnelly, one lot, one part lot,

$53,000.

Harlow Builders Inc. to Lonnie Todd, Sue Todd, one lot, $167,400.

Matthew Jones, Nicole Jones to Leib Lurie, one lot, $108,000.

Estate of Joyce Rietz to Charles Rietz, one lot, $0.

PIQUA Security Lending Ltd., SL Man Inc. to Arthur Workman, $11,000.

Angela Satterfield, Graydon Satterfield a.k.a. Angela Smith to Jonathan Allen, one lot, $123,000.

George Henderson to Park National Bank, Unity National Bank, one lot, $38,000.

Catherine Weaver, Gary Weaver to Anna Barnes, Donald Barnes, one lot, $106,000.

Fannie Mae a.k.a. Federal National Mortgage Association to Benanzer Development III, Ltd., a part lot, $11,200.

TIPP CITY Donald Tomlinson, Mary Ann Tomlinson to Nathaniel Mendenhall, one lot, $114,000.

Armentrout Management LLC to Lindsay Hefner, two lots, $80,900.

Lisa Benedict, executrix, Estate of Phyllis Kinnison to Lauryn Bayliff, two part lots, $128,800.

Maria Abboud, trustee, to Rochelle Bednarczuk, Ryan Bednarczuk, one lot, $874,500.

June Burnside to Denise Marlow, attorney in fact to Paul Schiml, one lot, $65,000.

UpNorth Homes Inc. to Jessica Best, Patrick Best, a part lot, one lot, $126,900.

Mary Crank, Steven Crank to Lisa Willis, Simeon Willis, one lot, $193,400.

Ursula Pierron, trustee, Gerard Pierron, trustee, W. Gerard Pierron and Ursla Pierron Revocable Living Trust to Brian Pierron, cotrustee, Pierron Family irrevocable Trust, Kimberly Ritter, co-trustee, $0.

Rosewood Creek LLC to Denlinger and Sons Builders Inc., one lot, $61,900.

WEST MILTON Cheryl Herkins, Mark Herkins to Beverly Abney, Paul Abney, one lot, $121,900.

Cathy Hammond, Douglas Hammond to Dawn Gilmore, Brian Hawkins, one lot, $114,500.

Kellie Antonides, Jason Taylor, Kellie Taylor to Megan Ward, a part lot, $103,500.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation to Gregory McGhee, Lindsay McGhee, one lot, $52,900.

U.S. Bank, N.A. to secretary of housing and Urban Development, a part lot, $0.

Craig Poe, Marcella Poe to Craig and Marcella Poe Joint Irrevocable Trust Agreement, one lot, $0.

Edwin Craig, Ruth Ann Craig to Paul Stepp, one lot, $0.

CASSTOWN Marsha Windle to JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., one lot, $38,000.

COVINGTON Michael Cook to Marilyn Helman, one lot, one part lot, $51,500.

Donna Weikert, William Weikert to Sarah Harshbarger, four part lots, $105,000.

Janice Drieling, a.k.a. Janice Folkerth, Mark Folkerth, Jerry Gibboney, Michael Gibboney to Kristine Gibboney, one lot, $0.

HUBER HEIGHTS Inverness Group Inc. to Susan Heiman, Theodore Heiman, one lot, $269,100.

Inverness Group Inc. to Michelle Brown, Kevin Paragin, one lot, $226,800.

NVR Inc. to John Fields, one lot, $214,700.

BETHEL TWP. Betty Sanford, Charles Sanford to Lori Morgan, trustee, Sandford Family Preservation Trust, 0.836 acres, $0.

Jo Ann Lee Irrevocable Trust, Penelope Lee, trustee to Bryan Ogletree, $100,000.

Darrell Lochtefeld, Diane Lochtefeld to Cheryl Hussong, Kylene Hussong, $215,000.

BROWN TWP. Joel Moyer, Rachael Moyer to David Hicks, Erica Palma, 0.717 acres, $57,500.

Susan Taylor to Brent Clark, Jenna Clark, 5.0036 acres, 11.9824 acres, $85,500.

CONCORD TWP. Amy Buroker, Mark Buroker to American Homes 4 Rent Properties Five LLC, one lot, $177,000.

Brian Echols, Jessica Echols to Laura Ayres, Rodney Ayres Jr., 1.25 acres, $143,500.

Nancy Vance to chase Home Finance LLC, JP Morgan Chase bank, N.A., 0.717 acres, $82,000.

James Siegel, John Siegle, Pam Siegel, Sharon Siegel to Richard Brinkman, co-trustee, James Siegel, co-trustee, John Siegel, co-trustee, 160 acres, 40 acres, 80 acres, .50 acre, $0.

NEWBERRY TWP. Joseph Angle, Shana Angle to Sara Diehl, trustee, Ellen Douglass, trustee, Marion Douglass, trustee, Marion Douglass and Ellen Douglass Revocable Living Trust, 1.7686, $0.

Danny Lee Padgett, Debra Padgett to Bruns Construction Enterprises Inc., 10.2495 acres, $79,500.

Sara Diehl, trustee, Ellen Douglass, trustee, Marion and Ellen Douglass revocable Living Trust to Duane Burns, 1.7686 acres, $100,000 Gerald Stull, Marilyn Stull to Mary Peters, Rodney Peters, 11.291 acres, $84,700.

Mary Peters, Rodney Peters to Mary Peters, Rodney Peters, 31.657 acres, $0.

NEWTON TWP. Tipp Properties LLC to Troy Infinity LLC, $0.

David Hesley to Sarah Addington, Thomas Addington, one lot, $125,000.

Estate of Jerol Coate to Kathleen Coate, 6.8156 acres, 8.103 acres, $0.

MONROE TWP. Nora Thompson to Leanna Newton, Bryan Thompson, Nora Thompson, 2.137 acres,

$0.

Scott Kizer, et al to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., a part lot, $32,000.

Cynthia Obara, David Obara to Buckeye Property resources LLC, one lot, $83,000.

Christopher Hallumm, Lynn Streetz Hallum to Diahann Blair, Jaydee Blair, 3.003 acres, $145,000.

Darla Peck, Ronald Peck to Gerald Prather, Mary Prather, .976 acres, $187,500.

SPRINGCREEK TWP. Derek Fink, Jenna Fink to Karl Fletcher, 5.5043 acres, $144,000.

Michael Fay, Susan Fay to Kari Baker, Matthew Baker, 8.00 acres, $302,000.

Bessie Lachapelle, Paul Lachapelle to Robert Gibbs, 2.039 acres, $115,000.

Suess Enterprises LLC to Angela Satterfield, Graydon Satterfield, one lot, $174,900.

STAUNTON TWP. Ben Crumrine, Brandi Crumrine to Cathryn Hood, William Hood, 1.502 acres, $28,300.

UNION TWP. Heather Daley, Sharon Daley, Todd Daley to Heather Daley, Todd Daley, one lot, $0.

Preston Mote, Sandra Mote to Debra Cress, Henry Cress, two part lots, $0.

Arlene Barton, co-executor, Donn Ingle, deceased, Melody Lowe, co-executor to Debra Cress, Henry Cress, three part lots, $30,000.

Michael Walton, Yolanda Walton to Michael Walton, Yolanda Walton, 0.717 acres, $0.

Linda Dieperink, trustee, Helen Kauffman trust to Linda Dieperink, 19.274 acres, $63,000.

Linda Dieperink, trustee, Helen Kauffman trust to Linda Dieperink,4.422 acres, 13.715 acres, 13.715 acres, $58,500.

Linda Dieperink, trustee, Helen Kauffman trust to Linda Dieperink, 15.223 acres, $49,100.

Martinus Dieperink to Linda Dieperink, 15.223 acres, $0.

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Berkus joins fantasy dog parks team LOS ANGELES (AP) — Interior designer Nate Berkus has been adding fantasy to homes for 16 years, inspiring people with just the right creative touch. But he’s been a dog-lover even longer, and he’s turning his design expertise to a halfmillion-dollar fantasy dog park.

Berkus, 41, has joined the creative team for the 2014 Beneful Dream Dog Park Contest. Contestants have to answer one question: “If you had $500,000 to create a Dream Dog Park where you and your best buddy can play together, what would you do?”

In Lancaster, Pa., the answer included a doggy amusement park with a tennis ball tree and a 40-foot roller coaster bridge. The park there — the third contest winner — opens Aug. 6.

The first park was built in Johns Creek, Ga., with a family destination theme and includes a bone-shaped bridge, two splash pads, tunnels, rubberized mulch paths and shade trees. The second park in Alabaster, Ala., has synthetic turf, agility rings, a walking trail, a fetch football field, fire hydrant goalposts and a mulch adventure path with tunnels, said Brent Gleckler, brand director for Beneful dog food.

“There is nothing I love more than being with my dog,” Berkus said of sidekick Tucker, a black mutt.

Together, they visit a dog park nearly every night.

The parks in Alabaster and Johns Creek have been tourist magnets.

In Georgia, the city had to make 72 new parking spaces next to the park to accommodate visitors.

In Alabama, people take good care of the park, but the city does a walkthrough once a day, sprays it down twice a week and uses a biodegradable chemical once a month, city parks director Tim Hamm said.

The dog park is part the city’s flagship Veteran’s Park, with a ball field complex, 2.5-mile walking trail, eight pavilions with picnic tables, two playgrounds, a skateboard park and veteran’s memorial, Hamm said.

Every day, they get calls from tourists asking about

hours and directions.

“The more people that come to our city, the more people will stop, eat and buy gas. We are all for that. Out-of-town users are great,” Hamm said.

“Anybody who wants to come, we more than welcome them in town.”

Beneful has some requirements — large dogs must be separated from small dogs; the park has to be fenced for offleash play; and it has to be a public or nonprofit park, open to the public at no charge.

“A park is a place for a community to come together. These parks are specifically designed for pet owners and their dogs, but everyone is welcome,” Berkus said.

“We’re really looking at it from the dog’s perspective. We will use smart materials that will last a long time, and make sure we factor in pet behaviors and create not only beautiful fun places but intelligently laid out places as well.”

At Alabaster, the dog rules are typical of most dog parks: The off-leash area is for dogs, their handlers and those accompanying them, dogs have to be vaccinated, puppies and adult females in heat are banned and everyone has to clean up after their own dog.

Hamm said except for a few minor fights, there has been no trouble at the park. If there is a fight on your watch, the park has that covered too: A sign tells visitors “How to Break Up a Dog Fight.”

Berkus, who has an upcoming NBC show called “American Dream Builders,” is teaming up with contractor Jason Cameron, host of the DIY Network’s “Man Caves,” and Arden Moore, founder of fourleggedlife.com, for the latest contest.

So if Berkus were asked to design a $500,000 park for Tucker, what would he do?

“I would probably spend $495,000 bringing in squirrels because that’s what Tucker likes. He’s pretty simple. The sky is really the limit. It’s an enormous budget and an enormous contribution to the communities where these parks are built and it really is meant to be a fantasyland.”

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Send resume to: Dept. 124 Sidney Daily News 1451 North Vandemark Rd Sidney, OH 45365

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Full time positions Troy Area Basic computer Knowledge Clean background/ drug test

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Must have 3 years experience in electrical trades. Day shift. No travel. Applicant must pass background check, drug screening. 60 day review temp to hire.

Medical/ life insurance benefits, retirement package.

MAINTENANCE ASSOCIATE NEEDED

Apply in person to: Dale Mansfield/Dave Knapp Ford 500 Wagner Ave Greenville, OH 45331 Auctions

Full-Time and Part-Time Positions available. No experience necessary, will train right candidate, Benefits available for Full-Time, competitive pay.

Apply within: Residence Inn 87 Troy Town Drive Troy, OH

Real Estate Auction

BARE LAND SALES 3 Farms - 163 Acres Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 9:30 A.M. Location: Sale to be geld at the "End Zone", 601 Broadway, Covington, Ohio FARM #1: Patterson Rd., Shelby County; Parcel #22-25-28-100-002, 80 Acres Bare Land, Approx. 73.24 Acres Tillable.

FARM #2: W. Miami-Shelby Rd., Miami County, Parcel #M40-000005, 51.105 Acres Bare Land, Approx. 50.534 Acres Tillable.

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OWNER: John Levering FARM #3: W. State Route 36, Piqua, Miami County, Parcel #M40-005500, 32.77 Acres Bare Land, Approx. 32 Acres Tillable.

OWNER: Barbara F. Aras & Mark C. Aras

For information call: Mike Havenar/Auctioneer/Realtor 937-606-4743 mike@mlh56.com/auctionzip.com #4544 W. A. Shively Realty No Co-Op

Auctions Holobaugh

TERMS: 10% down on the day of sale. Balance due in 30 days or on delivery of deed. Buyers to have financing approved prior to the sale date: Owners have the right to accept or reject any or all bids. 2013 farm proceeds go to sellers. Farms to sell in the order above

Antiques & More!

Home Furnishings Outdoor Items

SIDNEY, OHIO At 309 Ironwood. From I-75 at the north edge of Sidney, take Exit 94 south on Co Rd 25 & then west on Ironwood to sale site.

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Have you been looking for a position in sales that really rewards you for your efforts? Could any or several of the following words be used to describe you or your personality? Fast paced, competitive, decisive, persistent, eager, bold, forceful, and inquisitive. How about assertive? Do you like to meet new people? Are you good at multi-tasking? Do you work well with others and with the public? If you answered yes to many of these questions, you may be the person we are seeking.

Civitas Media is looking for a Business Development Specialist to sell online and print advertising for our Newspapers. Position will be based in our Sidney, Ohio, office. These are full time salary positions with a generous commission program.

Benefits include Health insurance, 401K, vacation, etc.

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SECURITY OFFICERS

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Business Development Specialist

This June 15, 2011, photo released by Beneful shows Grand Prize Winner of the 2010 Beneful Dream Dog Park Contest, Pat McNeely and Koda, at the unveiling of their Dream Dog Park in Johns Creek, Ga . The dog park offers water splash pads, a 3-D dog bone bridge and crawl tunnels.

Help Wanted General

If interested send resume to Becky Smith at bsmith@civitasmedia.com

MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2013

TIME: 3:00 PM

ANTIQUES: Very nice walnut knock-down wardrobe; mixed wood cupboard w/ glass doors; oak dining rm table w/ 5 bulbous ribbed legs; oak lamp table; 2 rockers; oak commode stand w/ towel bar; white wicker sewing stand; oak combination high chair/stroller; Seth Thomas Adamantine case shelf clock; kitchen clock w/ embossed lion & Ansonia humpback mantle clock; ornate brass floor lamp; 2 brass oil lamps w/ white shades; White Cedar cylinder churn; copper wash boiler; 3 gal crock; crock pitchers; coffee grinder; granite coffee pot; CI gypsy pot; Bye-Lo baby doll; nice selection of china & glassware; lg set of Pfaltzgraff American stoneware w/ accessories; 3 Roger Haas & 1 Don Ernest watercolor paintings; Texas Star quilt; etc.

HOME FURNISHINGS: Hickory Hill light green couch; mint green recliner; oak glider rocker w/ foot stool; serpentine front silverware chest w/ brass inlay; Tiffany style & other table lamps; embossed rose milk glass GWTW lamp; curio table w/ glass top & 2 drws; Toshiba, 2010, 32” flat screen TV; white wicker futon or day bed w/ trundle; 11 pc of natural wicker sun room furniture; oak pedestal, round dining rm table & 4 chairs; Henkel Harris Virginia Galleries 5 pc Solid Wild Black Cherry bedroom suite: QS poster bed w/ extra thick mattress, armoire chest, dresser w/ mirror & 2 night stands; maple pineapple post dbl bed & other bedroom furniture; Studio Model 360 knitting machine & accessories; fountain w/ pedestal base; books; games; doll house; 8 dolls; children’s rockers; soft goods; Eureka SP & Rainbow w/ carpet cleaner vacuums. OUTDOOR ITEMS: Edge Hog edger; lawn, garden & hand tools; Kennedy metal machinist’s chest; Murray Valiant lady’s city bike; etc. NOTE: The settlement of this estate offers a very nice selection of antiques, collectibles & home furnishings. Please plan to attend.

Estate of Dolly M. Holobaugh

Co-Exectors, Randall Holobaugh & Susan DeNoyer

Joseph Chrisman, Attorney for the Estate - Shelby Co.

Civitas Media LLC is a growing company offering excellent compensation and opportunities for advancement to motivated individuals.

Civitas Media has publications in NC, SC, TN, KY, VA, WV, OH, IL, MO, GA, OK, IN and PA.

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This July 12, 2012, photo released by Beneful shows a dog in the custom-designed splash pads in a $500,000 Beneful Dream Dog Park renovation that was unveiled last summer in Alabaster, Ala. The dog park, with a fetch football field, an exercise path and tunnels, is part the city’s flagship Veteran’s Park, with a ball field complex, 2.5-mile walking trail, eight pavilions with picnic tables, two playgrounds, a skateboard park and veteran’s memorial.

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Trucks / SUVs / Vans

COOPER’S BLACKTOP PAVING, REPAIR & SEALCOATING DRIVEWAYS PARKING LOTS

937-875-0153 937-698-6135

1 & 2 Bedroom Units in Troy & Piqua Variety of Floor Plans Please call (937)339-0368 TROY 1 bedroom, all utilities paid, $140 a week $500 deposit (937)339-7028

TROY 3 bedroom, 1 bath, upstairs, $600 includes water (937)203-3767

TROY, 3 bedroom, stove/ refrigerator, water paid, no pets, no washer/dryer hookup, $545 month, (937)829-8999 Condominiums 1 BEDROOM, Condominium, Tipp City, first level, all appliances, Great location, close to downtown/ I-75. No pets.

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(937)609-0500 Houses For Rent TROY, 2 bedroom, new carpet, A/C, 2.5 car garage, no smoking or pets, $700 (937)838-2807 Pets CATS, 1 & 2 Year old male cats, neutered, other pet friendly, utd on shots, free to good homes, (937)541-3697 FREE DOG, small white female to approved home, needs thyroid medicine (937)339-7682 FREE KITTENS to a good inside home. Ryan's Bait Shop 2017 South County Road 25A (937)335-0083 Piqua Dog Club will be offering Obedience classes beginning August 19th, at the Piqua Armory, Bring current shot records, But no dogs first night, CGC testing available, www.piquadogclub.com, (937)773-5170

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(937)726-0273

We haul it all!

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FRIGIDAIRE REFRIGERATOR, 20.4 cu ft, off white, $200 (937)638-5524

Person will be responsible for maintenance and repairs to semi trailer refrigeration units. Must have ability to diagnose and repair units, perform preventative maintenance and install new units. Prior experience on Thermo King and/or Carrier units required with a preference on having certification.

Both positions are day shift.

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Furniture & Accessories

•Refrigerators •Stoves •Washers & Dryers •Dishwashers • Repair & Install Air Conditioning

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SERVICE / BUSINESS DIRECTORY

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Call or Text Richard at:

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Roofing Windows Kitchens Sunrooms

Or call Mark at 800-497-2100

Demolition

RIVERSIDE CEMETERY, two lots, current price $600 each, both for $1000. (937)878-3358

Help Wanted General

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Apply in person at: Continental Express Inc. 10450 St Rt 47 Sidney, OH 45365

You Call

Appliances

PUPPIES, Yorkie Poos, ShihTzus, Morkies, Shih-Chons, Yorkies, Mini Poodles, $195 and up. Call (419)925-4339 or (419)305-5762.

SHIHTZU puppies. 1 female, brown & white, do not shed. Great lap dogs & great with kids. $350 (419) 305-6539

875-0153 698-6135

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COOPER’S GRAVEL

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Visit us Mon, Wed, Fri 8:30am-5pm

Primary responsibility will be overseeing work being done by Mechanics on semi trailers including; preventative maintenance, DOT inspections, general repairs and new trailer preparation. This will be a hands-on, working supervisor position. Person must have working knowledge and experience on tractor trailers.

Prefer someone with prior supervisory or leadership experience.

REFRIGERATION TECHNICIAN

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* Now accepting applications for 1 Bedroom apts. * Designed for senior 62+, handicap, disabled. * Newly remodeled kitchen and bathrooms. * HUD subsidized makes us affordable!

MECHANIC SUPERVISOR

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Contact: (937)492-1430

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Roofing & Siding

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2005 MERCURY MONTEGO PREMIERE one owner, 150,000 miles, $7000

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PRINCETON VILLAGE APARTMENTS

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DODD RENTALS Tipp-Troy: 2 bedroom AC, appliances $550/$450 plus deposit No pets (937)667-4349 for appt.

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2 BEDROOMS, upstairs duplex, includes appliances, convenient location, no smoking or pets. $450 plus utilities.

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2 BEDROOM, upstairs, sweet area, Won't last, appliances furnished, $445 includes water, no pets! (937)335-5440

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Call (937)773-4587

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2 BEDROOM upstairs in Tipp City, garage, deck, appliances, w/d hook-up, pets allowed. $650. (937)339-3961.

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Sunday, August 4, 2013

MARRIAGE LICENSES Scott David Copen, 41, of 670 Banyon Tree Way, Tipp City to Mary Louise Crawford, 35, of 2749 Walnut Ridge, Troy.

Aaron Vincent Devenport, 21, of 10047 N. Hetzler Rd., Piqua to Ashley Jennifer Everett, 21, of 6315 E. Snodgrass Rd., Fletcher.

Michael Dennis Turley, 48, of 8 Clark Circle, Tipp City to Jeanette Fay Sadler, 50, of same address.

Keith Michael Bousquette, 36, of 334 Garfield Ave., Troy to Jaynie Lynn Richard, 41, of same address.

Vincent Michael Saulnier, 28, of 2711 Fairmont Court, Apt. B, Troy to Allison Arlene Schmidt, 28, of same address.

Anthony William Rader, 19, of 8295 N. McMaken Rd., Covington to Jade Elizabeth Overman, 17, of same address.

Jerry Allen Flora, 29, of 2185 E. State Route 55, Troy to Rebekah Dale Meyer,

WEDDING

CHAMBER

Kresses’ 65th anniversary

Kate A. Shellenberger and Michael R. Moder, both of Troy, wed on July 15, 2013, at Clearwater Beach, Fla.

ANNIVERSARY

Robert Dean and Etta Marie (Willis) Kress of Fletcher are celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary.

There were married July 3, 1948, at United Missionary Church, Piqua, by the Rev. Lawrence Fry and the Rev. Russell Sloat.

The couple are parents of three children, Phil Kress of Tipp City, band Jim Dail and Janel Judy and Eric Watson and her husband Bob if Kincardine, Ontario, Carr; and two grandchil- Canada, and the late Ron dren, Sydney and Mason Dail; and special friend, Karen Mason.

Kress.

They have eight grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. He served as a Sergeant with the U.S. Army in World War II and retired May 30, 1991, from Goodrich Aircraft Wheels and Brakes. He also farmed for 27 years, retiring in 1986.

She worked as a dental technician for Dr. Taubman and as a secretary at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Fairborn.

Fairchilds celebrating 50th

EXPO 2013

CHRISTIANSBURG — Bill and Evelyn Fairchild are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.

They were married in Christiansburg United Methodist Church on Aug. 3, 1963.

They have made their home in Christiansburg for the past 50 years.

They will be celebrating this special occasion with their two daughters, Stephanie are her hus-

Thursday,

August 8th showcasing 2013 the Shelby County

Business Community

at Sidney Middle School 980 Fair Rd. Sidney, OH (One mile east of I-75 at exit 90)

OPEN to the PUBLIC 3:00 P.M.-7:00 P.M.

ANNIVERSARY

Shellenberger, Moder wed

25, of same address.

Jeremiah Lee Hale, 30, of 1116 Scudder St., Piqua to Vashti Marie Taylor, 30, of same address.

Brandon Alexander Asher, 24, of 1112 Skylark Dr., Troy to Ashley Nicole Miller, 24, of same address.

Mathew Lawrence Thornburg, 28, of 9898 Whippoorwill Lane, Mason to Jamie Nicole Lamp, 28, of 5411 Scarff Rd., New Carlisle.

Brent Forrest Jackson, 27, of 3365 Redbud Drive, Apt. D, Troy to Brittany Danielle Moore, 26, of 1090 Chevington Chase, Tipp City.

Tod Henry Long, 19, of 766 N. Johnson Rd., Pleasant Hill to Cassie Allanda Boettcher, 19, of same address.

Tyler Robert Beard, 22, of 8686 Casstown Fletcher Rd., Fletcher to Jennifer Lynn Tron, 22, of 1800 N. State Route 201, Casstown.

Sidney-Shelby County Chamber of Commerce

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ANNIVERSARY

Weavers celebrating 65 years

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graduate of Bowling Green State University.

She is an account executive at Conway Freight.

Her fiance is a graduate of Washington College.

He is a home builder for Wickersham Custom Homes.

A September 2013 wedding is planned.

Clare Raymond and Georgiana (Abbott) Weaver 0f Pleasant Hill were married Aug. 14, 1948, in Lawton, Mich.

The couple have three children, James (Meggan) Weaver of Sidney, Patricia (Mark) Passwaters of London, Ohio, and Barbara Weaver of Hazard, Ky. two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Clare is a member of the

Kiwanis and United Church of Christ.

He is a retired engineer for BFGoodrich.

Georgiana is a member of Beta Sigma Tau sorority and the United Church of Christ.

She is retired as the Pleasant Hill town clerk.

She also was a former volunteer for Newton Local Schools and volunteer at Upper Valley Medical Center.

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